Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-11-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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One can now go from London al
most to the boundary of the Chinese
Empire by rail, by the great Russian
Railway. "
.-Leopld, King of the Belgians, has
never signed death warrant, and, al.
though the statute has never been re-
pealed, capital punishment IS practi'
cally abolished in Belgium.
Guide boards have been growing
numerous in the country towns of New
England for few years past. In some
sections of Massachusetts at every cor
ner are set solid granite posts ten feet
high, to which are bolted iron sign
boards with raised letters.
"A German pastor, DESTROYS of trav.
cling from Constantinople to Berlin
through Russia, was not permitted tc
do so. A recent decree of Emperor
Alexander III. forbids the journeyine
through Russia of any ecclesiastit
other than of the Russo Greek Church.
Prince Bismarck recently gave q
fete to his servants and tenants a.
Friederichsruhe to celebrate the dis.
patch TO Berry of 5000 telegraph poles
cut in his forests. Bismarck has sup
piled Germany with 100000 telegraph
poles during the last ten years.
1t is alleged that recently in Nag.
pore, India, a boy of sixteen was of.
Tered sacrifice to the gods, in accord
ance with superstition that human
sacrifices caused a bountiful harvest.
The head was severed from the body
and offered to goddess, while the
body was rendered to a god.
Cremation is illegal in France,
and bodies have to be taken t6
Italy to be burned. NJ. NORM, dy.
ing recently in Paris, left instruc.
tions that his body should be sent to
Milan to be burned. This was done,
and the cost of the incarceration was but
fifteen shillings. The italian Custom
House, however, levied seventy dol.
lars import duty on the body when it
came into the country, and the same
amount export duty when the ashes
were taken back to France.
People living on the shores of the
Mediterranean are complaining of the
number of sharks that are now infest.
ing those waters. A few years since
the shark was comparatively unknown,
but they have discovered that the Suez
Canal is an easy route from their In.
dian Ocean home to the pleasant waters
of the Mediterranean. They pass
through the canal in great numbers,
and it is impossible to head them off.
! Two young men in France who were
engaged to two sisters qua1 relied over
some trihing matter and agreed to set
tie their dispute by a duel, in which
both should be wounded and one at
least should be killed. The conditions
agreed. upon were that the right foot
Of the one should be tied to the left
foot of the other, and then, each being
armed with a dagger, they were to
stab one another by turns until one
should die. Each of the combatants
received seven wounds before one of
them expired, while still tied to his
antagonist. The other was also re-
moved in a dying state.
| 1t seems that the health of the
British public is in danger from the
germs of disease absorbed by clothing
made in the deadly dens of pollution
IN which British tailors do their work.
A parliamentary commission and pri-
vate medical commission have been
investigating the condition of the
tailors' workshops in. London and
other large cities, and it has been
found to be deplorable beyond imagina-
zion. Even clothing obtained of FASH
.onable tailors is not free from danger.
The Lancet says: 1T does not follow
hat because a customer pays a large
price for his clothes, and orders them
from a tailor of the. best repute, that
;hey will be free from the danger of
contamination. Not only may these
clothes be contaminated, but they may
80 made by sweaters"
1.-THE street rowdies of Chelsea
have invented new torment for the
cyclists who avail themselves of Bat
tersea Park" says the London Pail
Mall Gazette. ''They are not content
with Ticking them with switches and
inserting bits of stick in the delicate
wires of their wheels, but they set on
little boys to run across cyclist with
a view of getting knocked over. Boy
tails PROSTATE, bowling, park-keeper
| hurries up, takes cyclists address, a
crowd soon gathers, compensation is,
! Of course, forthcoming, especially if
| the cyclist is a lady. The wounded
child skips merrily off with a half
| crown, divides the booty, and tries for
another spill in another part OF the
park.
Ancient Marine Heroes.