Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In Morocco women who talk scam
dial are punished by having cayenne
pepper rubbed into their lips.
within ton years 100000 acres
of British lands have been tran sformed
into pasturage.
"A Scotchman has started to trun-
do wheebarrow from Glasgow to
Rome. and expects to complete the
job in u year.
The Standard oil men Of Russia
arc tho two Noble brothers. who are
said to be worth $500. 600. 900. Their
income is greater than the Cars.
The Duke of Cambridge, COM
mander-in chief of the British ar,nv.
gets 1888. 600 year. while all Count
Won Moltke, of the German army, re-
ceivcs is $1,000"
Louis Frechette. the Canadian
poet, has been commissioned by the
managers of the Theater Francais,
Paris. to translate King Loar' for
rendition during tho Exposition of
1889.
The Australians are the greatest
botters in the world. Twenty million
pounds changes hands annually over
horse races. In Victoria alone there
are 250 registered book-mako.A It is
computed that f15O. 900 Is annually
bet on football matches.
In Liverpool, England. play en-
titled, who's the Lunatic!' was re-
Gently enacted. Before it was finished
half the people in the audience wero
shouting: THE author, the author"
When ho blushinsly appeared he was
greeted with roars of laughter. and
cries of HIS the lunatic."
"A regular industry in Paris is said
to be the tasting and inspection of
dishes at private houses by profess
sional cooks. He comes when ordered
to tho house where great dinner is
under way. looks. smells. tastes of,
orders Il little salt in this soup,a bit of
sugar in that sauce, a flavor Of onion
in the other salad, and goes off to the
next customer
The manner in which the spruce
and pine forests of Norway are being
exIerminatcd is becoming so serious
tha+ the government is called upon to
put stop. by Legislation, to the de-
forestation of the country. Apart
from the wanton exhaustion of this
commercial wealth. it is maintained
that wholesale telling has the effect of
changing the climate in the forest To-
calities.
The Russian military authorities
are training falcons to fight tho car
ricr pigeons now extensively adopted
by all the European armies for car
rying messages in time of war: At
some recent experiments pigeons sent
up at 4 distance of several miles from
the falcons were speedily ovcrtaken
and killed by the birds of prey, some
of them even bringing the captured
birds to their MASTER
-Gruyere cheese, which had been
made by the farmers of Jura, Swi,zer-
land, under system by which each
in turn made q cheese of the milk of
the whole community given to him
every day, is now made in a factory,
to which all the farmers take their
milk. and the product of which is
common property. instead of each
cheese being the individual property
of the man who made it. This
makes the cheese more uniform and
of better quality, and increases the
farmers profits.
Since the slave trade was abolish
ed in Egypt an asylum for female
slaves has been maintained in Cairo
The slave trade is still carried on sur
reptitously to some extent, and efforts
are especially male to procure inmates
for the harems of the wealthy. II
1886 10 female slaves. intended for
the harems, were rescued and provided
with a home at the asylum. Most of
these women were negresses, but some
of thom were pretty Circassian and
Abyssinian. girls. All these women
are retained at the asylum until they
receive some education. and are fitted
to support themselves by work provid-
ed for them. During the year thirty
slave dealers were found guilty and
sentenced to prison.