Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In Paris, France, a big company
has the monopoly of the funerals.
This company handles $4,000 bodies
yearly.
In 100 years England has aided
her merchant ships to the amount of
$275, O00,0 900 and her private shipyards
to the amount of $100,000,Oo0.
The Sultan of Turkey, who is a
most tickle man regarding his fads.
has become interested in typewriting
and is practicing the art sedulously.
AT last accounts there were no
fewer than 1,648 newspapers and peri
odlcals published in Paris OF this
number Free Masonry claimed twenty
four.
Recent elections in England and
Wales placed medical men at the head
of the municipal government in the
towns of Hull, Bath, Marlborough,
Wolverhampton, Liskeard, Morpeth,
Godalming, Congleton, Game, New
Rooney and Yeovil.
"A report from Hirschberg, Prus-
STA, states that while reservoir was
being made q subterranean river was
lately discovered in the Riesengebirge.
1t is about eight feet below the surface
of the earth. The river is said to be,
at one spot, four hundred and fifty feet
broad.
The decorations of orders of chiv-
airy which belonged to the Emperor
William are now deposited in the Royal
Schloss at Berlin. They fill a large
rosewood chest, which contains ten
velvet-lined drawers and thirty-two
large cases.
There are three million more wom-
en- in Great Britain than men. More
than one-third of all the women OF
manageable age in England are un-
married. Fully one-half of the women
of the educated middle class, gentle
women, of manageable age are single.
Statistics show that, under the
Divorce Act passed by the British Par
lament some thirty years ago, there
has been very large increase of d.
vorce cases in Great Britain, much
larger than can be explained by the in
crease of population. This does not
tell well for the people, or for the OPP
GRAFTON of the lawn. Y. Independ-
ent.
1t is reported from France that the
Huguenots are very actively engaged
in evangelical work there, having es-
tablished 600>stations or headquarters.
In the American chapel in Paris one OF
their leaders recently said in the course
of an address that the Huguenots could
not be crushed out, but would live and
work until France was spiritually free
if it required another St. Bartholo-
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An enormous wave is reported to
have struck the beach at Baracoa, in
Cuba, recently, and flowed inland for
distance of 400 feet before it retired.
1t destroyed in it's course nearly three
hundred huts and houses, but happily
no lives, as the inhabitants saw it com.
ing and fed to the nearest hill. Curl
ously enough, the wave was neither
tidal nor due to earthquake disturb
ances, but, it is stated. to a north wind
which had blown for three successive
days.
The floating gardens on the rivers
of Cashmere are formed by the long
sedges being interviewer into a mat
earth being superimposed thereupon,
and the stalks finally cut under water
thus releasing them from the bottom
of the lake. They are usually about
twenty by twelve yards in size. A dis
honest Cashmiri will sometimes tow
his neighbours garden away from its
moorings and thus appropriate it,
produce, which generally includes
cucurbitaceous fruits and vegetables
and fine description of grape.
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