Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The late George Surge, Of En-
gland, left more than $1,250,O00 for
various charities.
The Frsooh are acknowledged to
have the tlost guns and projectiles in
Europe. Their Ferminy shell has been
shot through an armor plate twenty
inches thick, and came out with it's
steel point uninjured.
A new French device for applying
perfume is @ pen il, which is rubbed
On the article to be scented. All the
fashionable odors, such as violet,
heliotrope, ETC., ARE now sold in this
form in Paris.
The dog corps in the French army
Is being carefully trained at Belfort.
Large dogs are chosen. Every day
they are shown soldiers in German
uniforms and taught to fly at them on
sight. =,".' b..
There are now published in the
City OF Mexico eight or ten papers de-
voted exclusively to the bull ring. On
the other hand, there are but four or
FIVE papers which serve as organs of
the working people.
The English Government can get
horses suitable for cavalry service in
Canada for esq, and has to pay ETA for
the same animals raised in England.
An attempt is being made to turn the
minds Of English farmers toward
horse-raising.
Lord Dufferin's new viceregal
lodge at Sinla is to be lighted through
out by electricity; nearly 1000 glow
lamps will be employed. 1.-THE circum-
stance is noteworthy, inasmuch as
this is the first Indian palace so
lighted.
The statistics of the working of
the new divorce law in France afford
curious reading. The total number of
petitions filed from 1884 to 1886 ex-
ceeds twenty thousand. Among those
who in 1886 asked for divorce pure and
simple, twenty-four had been married
fifty years.
English etiquette has decided that
unmarried ladies should never use q
crest or any thing-note paper, serv-
ants buttons, brushes Or any other
article. It is usually found that
the people best entitled to crests and
coats-of-arms make the least use and
display of them.
Railway companies in Australia,
after experimenting with various kinds
of ''quick fencing for railways, es-
pecially with a view to keeping out
snowdrifts," have settled upon hedges
of the ''Rose of Providence It is
said that fence six and one-half feet
high and three and one-fourth feet
thick will check snow-drifts. The
blossoms are salable, and so the fence
is profitable.
"A Royal commission appointed by
the King of the Belgians to inquire in
to the condition of labor in Belgium
recommends that in the technical
schools practical lectures be given on
the application of art and science to
industry; that manual dexterity should
be cultivated in the elementary schools;
that the local authorities should intro
duce manual exercises into the primary
schools, and found more technical
schools and schools of design and mod
cling, and that the government should
aid in increasing the facilities by which
workmen would get technical instruc-
ton in subjects suited to their occupa-
ton.
The result of issuing a jubilee
coinage has been to lay up in cabinets,
drawers and what not, something like
half million of gold. Who has ever
seen a IS piece rendered in payment?
Yet the mint issued quarter of mill
ion pounds worth of Is pieces. The
coinage of e. pieces amounted to the
value of nearly 100000. Who has
seen one paid over counter? Sover-
eigns and half-sovereigns will also be
boarded because they were coined in
the jubilee year, so that when we say
that a half millions worth of gold has
been put uselessly by during the last
twelve months we are probably we'll
within the truth.-Shebfetd (Eng.) J
Telegraph.