Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Aald Mclean, a ScOtchman, is
Coramander-in-Chie1 of the army OF
the Sultan of Morocco.
Statistics just published show that
there are 2,272 soldiers six feet or over
In height in the British army.
In 1888 the Italians residing in
France numbered almost half a million,
having increased seventy-tive thousand
from the previous year.
Tho Oldest living peer is Lord
Ieynham, who has just completed his
ninety-first year. He entered the army
only a few months after the battle of
Waterloo, and retired more than sixty
years ago.
The Lord Mayor of London's dress
suit for ordinary evenings is of black
velvet, with point lace frill, tights,
silk stockings, diamond buckles in the
shoes and a diamond hiltcd sword.
-Leprosy is increasing in Russia
During the last ten years forty-nine
patients were treated in the St. Peters,
burg hospital, half of whom were
natives of the city. The Baltic prov
inces suffer most from the disease.
Under the present police rule in
Russia an officer can enter any house
at any hour on the excuse that ''he
suspects suspicious person may have
entered there to talk sedition." He can
arrest the whole family, keep them in
prison a year, and then turn them
loose without the slightest apology.
English women are getting into the
habit of smoking tea cigarettes. Only
the choicest brands of tea are used,
and the smokers think they find their
nerves greatly soothed for a time The
inevitable reaction takes place after
ward, however, and they are apt to be
somewhat excited.
The Emperor of China is seldom
disturbed in his sleep. A Pekin paper
announces that ''strict surveillance is
kept by the gendarmcrie around the
palace to prevent the imperial repose
being broken by firing of crackers,
street cries or wrangling voices, the
blowing of horns or noisy marriage or
funeral professions.
The British matron has at last
succumbed to the attractions of her
own music halls. Those most agreea-
bic places Of entertainment, where the
singing of old ballads and new fancies
is SO delightfully."- done, have always
been regarded as highly improper,
with sufficient reason, perhaps. But
now women have begun to go, in the
boxes only. But they are still there,
wives, daughters, and sisters of re-
spectability unquestionablc.
The Queen Regent OF Spain is fond
of game of whist. and frequently in
vites members of her cabinet to pass
an hour Or two in a social rubber.
The Queen plays cavendish, five points
for the game. the play being for stakes
of a quarter dollar a point She al
lows the gentlemen to smoke cigar
cites on such occasions, and endeavors
to soften the royal Spanish etiquette
as far as possible.
One of a recent party of convicts
bound for Siberia was Baroness and
her husband, formerly her footman,
sentenced each to twenty years servi-
tude. The Baroness was married when
young to an old man, and she fell in
love with his footman. She poisoned
her husband and was arrested. but the
footman escaped. She subsequently
escaped from the hospital where she
was confil1ed, sought out her footman
lover, and married him. They settled
in Kovno, and were only recently dis
covered there, living in abject pow
erty.
-ExKing Milan, says a Belgrade
correspondent, is a well-educated man.
He talks French smoothly, German
slowly but almost without mistakes.
He is also rather good in English. but
does not know Russian. Young King
Alexander I. is mentally very devel-
oped. He speaks French, German,
little English, and has learned a good
deal of Russian from his mother, who
always calls him SASHA Ca Russian
Authorization for Alexander). At pres
ent the young King is taught privately
at Belgrade, according to the pro-
gramme of the German gymnasium.