Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
F Emperor William says music i,
unworthy the admiration OF q war
rior. sz:
-''Exourseries" Is new term fol
exhibitions In London. since they ar,
NIL moro or less excuses for the gar
dens and music.
Three Englishmen now have
statues in France-T.ord Brougham q,
Cannes, Jenner at Boulogne-sur-Mer
and Shakespeare in Paris.
The Gear has ordered that hence
forth all the dramatic artists of the
Russ AN Imperial Theater are to wea,
a uniform in public.
Russia, at the same time that she
has been extending her railway sys.
tenn into the heart of Turkestan, has
taken an important step in the work Of
civilizing by the establishment of the
first Siberian University at Tomsk.
King Leopold Of Belgium has
shown himself possessed of almost as
great craze for building as Nine. de
Pompadour, and many new buildings
at Ostend and elsewhere are tasteful
monuments to his love for improve
ment.
"A number of royalist ladies of
Paris have formed themselves into an
association under the name of the Rose
Of France Society. The Countess of
Paris is president of the organization,
which is modelled after the Primrose
League of Great Britain.
"A unique milk cure is established
In Normandy. The COWS, being made
to drink ferruginous water, give medi-
Gated milk which nourishes and
Strengthens the system at the same
time. Milk in France has become the
panacea of all diseases, perpetuating
youth and regenerating age.
Emperor Williams bedroom in
Rome is q beautiful chamber. The
walls are covered with rich silk hang
ings expressly woven for the occasion
white ground, with masses of flowers
In dark red. The bed is of ebony, in
laid with gilt metal and surmounted
with canopy magniicently carved
and lined with light colored silk.
1t appears that the British army
is not only the dearest in Europe, but
the worst fed, so far as the rank and
Gle are concerned. The bread ration
Is the lowest in Europe, being one
pound per day. The allowance of
meat is three-quarters of pound, in
GLIDING bone, whereas continental SOL
diers are given a full pound of solid
meat. The bread and meat are both
apt to be of poor quality, while the
fuel supplied is insufficient.
In Scheberschin, an out-of-the-way
town in Russia, leading Jewish in
habitant died and was buried. A short
time afterward his grave was found
open, and little distance off lay his
skeleton, from which every scrap of
flesh had been removed. The deed
was traced to two men of evil repute,
who finally confessed that with the
flesh cut from the corpse they had
hoped to make an ointment which,
rubbed upon their bodies, would make
them invisible and enable them to COM
NIT crime with impunity.
Eligible women are at a premium
in Dutch India. They are so scarce in
that country that young men who wish
to get married write to friends in Hol-
land to find them wives. The friend
selects willing lady and forwards her
photograph. If all is satisfactory the
would-be husband sends back soiled
left hand glove with power of attorney.
The friend then marries the young
lady as sort of legal proxy and the
marriage is as binding as though the
groom himself were present