Mower County transcript., 1889-07-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-lhc skeleton OF the largest ele.
phant ever killed in India has been
found to measure ten feet eix inches
high.
An old bachelor died recently in
Rome leaving the Pope 100000 lire.
10 his sister he left a monthly allow
ance of five lire.
AT a bazaar in Vienna an English
millionaire paid $5, 600 for kiss from
one of the beautiful stall holders-the
Marchioness Pallaviccini.
Sir Conrad Reeves, the Chief JUS
tice Of Barbados, is of slave descent on
his mothers side, and is the first mu-
lattO who has received the honor of
knighthood.
The Sepoys Of India kicked up a
great rebellion about hogs grease. but
their tastes have changed in the last
five years and they now eat American
ham and bacon with as much gusto as
a European.
"A prominent Turkish official in
Constantinople laments the spread of
Christianity among the women of
Turkey, on the ground that it will
soon lead the Turkish ladies to dress
as immodestly as Christian ladies.
Cremation is apparently growing
in favor with the aristocratic classes
in England. One of the great landed
owners of London, and the descendant
Of an illustrious line of dukes (name
not given) is reported to have made a
donation of $4,000 to the Cremation
Society of England, and his body is to
be burned after death.
The total population of Bulgaria
and Rumclia, strangers included, was
ascertained on january 1st, 1888, to be
), l54,575. OF these 1886, 25O were
Bulgarians, 904 900 Turks, and only
SG, 600 Greeks. The Turkish race in
Bulgaria exhibits a singular pred omi-
nance OF females, who number COZ, 900,
and 5000 of the Greeks are females.
Among the Bulgarians and other races
the males are in excess
The Empress O: Russia, like her
sister, the Princess of Wales, mover
wears high-crowned or large-brimmed
hats, which. indeed. would be unsuited
to the delicate type of her beauty.
Every thing must be small and neat
md compact, whether hat or bonnet.
Her fuvorite colors are pale blue and
mauVe.
In the town library of Nuremberg
is preserved an interesting globe, made
by John Schooner, professor of mathe-
mathics in the gymnasium there A. d.
1920. 1t is very remarkable that the
passage through the Isthmus of Pam
anna. so much sought after in later
times, is ON this old globe carefully
delineated.
-Hair-dyeing is becoming general
among the laboring people of En-
gland-not from motives of vanity,
but under the spur of necessity.
Working women, and even men, it ap-
pears. are given to decorating them
selves in this way as a matter of ne
cessity, and in order to earn their liv-
ing. Gray hair looks aged, and sug-
gests inetliciency; Or perhaps it does
not, for some other reason, satisfy the
fancy Of critical customers; conse-
quently it is not in favor with en-
ployers. Hair-dyeing has therefore
become an established custom among
persons seeking employment
From the last report of krupp's
establishment at Essen it appears that
in 1888 there were only nine workmeu,
and in 1913. se"enty-forr. In July,
1888, the establishment employed 20, =
$50 men, of whom 13626 were at
Essen. Including the families of the
workmen they supported population
of 73.969 souls, of whom 24,195 livod
in houses provided by the firm. There
arc at Essen l, 1875 furnaces of various
constructions, 2S6 boilers, ninety two
steam hammers of from 100 to so, 900
kilos, $40 steom engines. with total
of 27,OO0 horsepower, 1,724 different
machines, and 361 cranes OF coal
and coke, 2,735 tons are daily used,
and eleven high furnaces of the latest
constructions produce 600 tons of iron