Mower County transcript., 1889-11-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
lit costs $l,20o,0oo per annum to
.ieep the streets Of Paris clean.

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Is$S 5.4s SE 5S#5
1t costs 81, 10000 per annum to
ieep the streets Of Paris clean.
The use OF compressed air, In
France, as a motive power for street
railroads is increasing.
China's solitary railroads. eighty
one miles long, and cost $4,000 a mile.
It uses American locomotives. @S
More than one-fifth of I4ondon's
population are paupers, dependent in
some degree upon public charity.
The Duke of Westminster opened
ais London residence oae Sunday after
aoon in August, and 1000 persons
visited it in the course of four hours;
Frances production and consump-
ion of milk amounts every year to L.
$50, ,O0O. 600 gallons, which is three
lines in excess OF the production of
wine. r..
-Thirty-6ve thousand Spaniards last
year emigrated to South America and
10000 to Algeria. The Spanish Gov
srnment tries in vain. to dissuade the
people from leaving their homes.
The constitution of Costa Rica
prescribes hospitality to strangers as
4 sacred duty and declares citizenship
to be forfeited by ingratitude to par
ants, abandonment of wife or children
and neglect of the obligations due to
,he family. " . ~ ~...> *Gss,.' ,
The Paris project of police has
bought a wooden horse. harnessed, and
all candidates for cabmen must show
that they know how to harness and
lnharness him and pass an examina-
lion on whatever other tests the prefect
may propose.
The Emperor OF Japan is allowed
3, 500, 900 year for his household de-
oartment, and his private fortune is
.arge and increasing. He thoroughly
understands business matters and
Keeps himself we'll informed as to his
Investments.
The most monotonous city in its
buildings is Paris, the houses there
being almost alike. An attempt is
aow being made to vary this by build
ing houses of the style of the Renais-
'ance and Louis XI., and hope is ex-
pressed that the example will be fol-
lowed generally.
The French mint will soon replace
The copper sous with nickels. Singu-
larly enough the five and ten centime
pieces will be perforated in the center
after the manner of Chinese coin. This
enables them to be strung and counted
Or handled with great ease.
Queen Victoria was much pleased
while in Wales with the music of the
Welshmen. She especially liked their
singing and their manipulation of the
harp. At one dinner eight harpers
played during the banquet. Six of
them were brothers under tho leader
ship of their father, who appeared in
full bardic costume, with a cap Of an
tique form, blue robes and red gir-
die. One Sunday a fow choristers
were brought thirty-five miles to sing
at the Queens private service.
The Queen Regent of Spain is SIM
pie in her manners and is slowly re-
laxing the rigid etiquette of the Span
ish court. Formerly it was impossible
to smoke before the Queen. At re-
cent court dinner, however, she Or
dered cigars to be produced. Every
body was astonished and no one seemed
inclined to take the first step. The Of
ticer of State next the Queen held the
silver basket containing the cigars,
but did not know what to do with
them. Finally the Queen took one.
lighted it, and said: Pass around the
cigars, gentlemen"
"A remarkable system of carrying
little children as passengers seems to
have been practiced hitherto upon the
Russian railways. The Russian Min
istry of the Interior has just issued an
ordinance to all railway officials pro-
hibiting the further packing of small
children in baskets, to the number of
eight in a basket, and forwarding them
to the foundling houses in the great
towns as and luggage.' This abuse,
says the ministry in the circular, is
no longer to be tolerated, since it in
wolves serious injury Ito the health
of the children, and is also an attempt
to evade the regulations for the car
riage OF passengers by rail.
THE COCkROACH.