Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP

1t appears that the British army Is
not only the dearest in Europe, but the
worst fed, so far as the rank and file
are concerned.
A curious feature of the theaters
IN Melbourne, remarks a newspaper
writer, is that they are mostly all
equipped with billiard rooms.
Female physicians are allowed to
practlce in Turkestan. but there is so
little demand for their services that
eney pay patients to employ them.
The Emperor of Germany lately
sent to the Emperor Of Morocco fifteen
tine horses in acknowledgment Of pres
ents recently sent from Morocco to
Berlin.
According to D statistical docu-
uent lately published in Paris, there
are in Europe three hundred thousand
blind people, thirty Thousand Of whom
are in France.
Queen Victoria is said to have ac-
qulred a marvellous fuency in Hindoo-
stance, in which language she con-
verses freely with her turbaned Indian
servants.
Women walters are increasing in
the Paris restaurants, much to the dis
gust of the garcons. who have so long
been the real monarchs of the tray and
napkin.
A Hindoo Journal says that one of
the most difficult feats under the sun is
to identify Europeans, because they
are so much alike with their loud,
glaring colors.
A wealthy, though eccentric, no.
tel-keeper Of Ruda-Pesth. Hungary,
was SO pleased at receiving divorce
that he celebrated the event by found
ing a charitable institution.
Last year fifteen Cinnamon were
married in Demonstrations to ma
tive OF the colony, one to u Victorian
native, two to Scotch women, three to
Irish women and eight to English
women.
Bismarck famous dog, the Reichs-
hund or Realm dog. which died re-
Gently at the age OF thirteen. was an
unusually large slate-coloreu Danish
boar hound, called Tyras. Bismarck
cot his first Danish hound when he
was seventeen. and has bad one ever
since.
The Queen OF Madagascar is de-
scribed as a. small. slender. light
brown woman. with sweet smile and
10 end Of Paris gowns. She is twenty
three years o q. has been four Years q
Queen. and is really worshiped by her
people.
The commercial crisis which was
expected TO follow the abolition Of
slavery in Brazil. has not yet appeared.
Exchange has steadily risen. until the
Brazilian paper millreis-three years
ago at a discount OF forty per CENTS
actually selling to-day a little above
par.
1t is dangerous to De gossiping in
Vienna when great personages. dead
or alive, are concerned. i printer S
boy in that town expressed his opinion
very mildly concerning the dead Prince
two anecdotes in support OF his opin-
ion, and was promptly sentenced to six
months 1T hard labor.
In Alsace Lorraine four young
girls were lately formally forbidden to
teach French by the direction of the
district. and were threatened with ex-
pulsion if they transgressed the com,
ma1d. Two others were officially
warned on suspicion, the teaching OF
French being regarded by the author
tiles as al unlawful profession
There are banks at Buenos Ayre<
with capital greater than any in the
United States, and occupying buildings
finer than any banking house in New
York. The Provincial Bank has G
capital Of S33, 900, 900 anl s677, 900. 900
OF deposits. The National Bank has &
capital Of $40, 900, 900.