Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-17
CLEANED FROM ABROAD.

COSTA RIGA elects her Presidents for five
years.
Royalty can enjoy extensive and expen-
ive playthings. The Emperor of China has
toy railroad in his grounds three miles
long.
1.-THE Russian cradle is never empty"
As statistical fact, the excess of Russian
births over Russian deaths, annually, is
from million to a million and q quarter.
CHINA recently received it's first importa-
ton of foreign soap. The Chinese soap is
Of alkaline earth, and the material used for
washing the hands is the pods of tree.
A CHURCH organ has recently been con.
structed at Milan whose pipes are con-
'tructed of paper pulp instead of metal It
has ], 400 pipes, and is an instrument of
great lower and sweetness of tone.
RECENT French and English statistics
indicate that, while the average duration OF
life is increasing through the improvement
Of the health of children, the number Of ex.
;remely aged persons is dimin ishing.
THERE are four charming young ladies in
Germany who have been carefully and SEN
sibly brought up, who are accomplished in
al the feminine arts and graces, and yet
nave no conceit or self-sufdciency. They
are the German Princesses, daughters OF
Emperor Frederick III.
The Khedive Of Egypt has, by decree,
taxed land devoted to the growing Of tobac.
90 in his domain $1s7. so an acre, and the
Egyptians have refused to grow tobacco.
The result is that instead Of the usual crop
Of 13,OO0, 900 pounds, not more than 1000,
900 poun DIS are expected this year.
CORRESPONDENTS from Weste INLAND, a
North Sea watering-place, describe the
Queen of Roumania sitting upon tho beach,
with the children around her listening to
fairy tales, which she tells very cleverly,
and receives her reward in flowers and
other gifts within the children's means.
PoTATo whisky is apparently becoming
more popular with the English, to tho great
worriment Of some Of them, who contend
that few forms Of alcohol are SO mischievous
ss it. During the first half of the current
year the importation Of potato whisky by
the United Kingdom increased nearly 400, GOO
gallons .-.... "@s. Z
The Empress OF Austria, though famous
horsewoman, Ia rather nervous about
horses she does not know. Recently at
Lend she questioned the landlord ~ to tho
quietness Of the animal in her vehicle.
"Your majesty has nothing to fear, was the
reply; she has dono this kind Of work for
twenty-four years, and has always been
quite quiet. That is possible" replied
the Empress, g but it is never too late to
bogin.' w
THE discovery of the pool of Bethesda is
announced. Nothing was known of the pool
until quite recently, when certain works
carried on by the Algerian monks laid bare
large tank or cistern cut in the rock to q
depth Of thirty feet. The cistern is fifty.
i've feet long from east to west, twelve and
one-half feet In breadth, and lies under .
ehurch. A sister pool lying sixty feet long
ldjoins the first.
By the law the person Of the young King
Alphonso XIII. Of Spain can be touched
pnly by certain daily appointed persons. The
other day the little fellow undertook to
crawl out of his crib and would have caught
fall which might have resulted in serious
consequences, had not an unauthorized per-
son caught him. But for this act tho per-
son had to be punished just the same,
though he was rewarded in private