Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
No gold or silver coins are issued
by the Chinese government.
In France they have applied cleo
tricity 20 the playing OF organs.
The attendants in the Queen of
England's household are on duty only
six months out OF the twelve.
The Madras museum is said now
to possess the skeleton OF the largest
elephant ever killed in India.
The United Kingdom fisheries
employ 100000 persons. The money
value OF fish landed in year is nearly
4S,00O,0O0.
-Beggary has been reduced to an
art as we'll as a profession in Rome.
In a recent case before the police an
old man admitted that he had as many
as fifty lies in daily use.
In the great museum at London is
a small watch, one hundred years old
or more, in the shape of an apple.
The golden outside is adorned with
grains OF pearl.
The Parisians, it is said, are short
~ to have the opera and drama laid
in to their houses, like gas and water.
by the theatrophone. The cables, it is
stated, will pass through the Partisan
sewers.
An American was arrested on the
Austrian frontier for having in his lug
gage unmistakable dynamite bombs
On further investigation they proved
to be cocoanuts, something that the
Austrian authorities had never seen.
The license law of Sweden forbids
any person buying drink without pur-
chasing something to eat at the same
time Brandy is the aational drink,
and it can not be sold in quantity less
than two bottles. As the poor are
unable to purchase drink often in this
way, the law is said to have greatly
promoted temperate habits.
The Queen of Corea belongs to
one of the greatest families in the
country, and her voice is often heard
in the councils of the King. She has
an establishment OF her own inside
the palace grounds, wears fine silks
and beautiful diamonds, and smokes
American cigarettes by the thousand.
During the visit of Emperor Will
lam to Italy there was a review of
forty thousand Italian troops, but they
did not make a favorable impression
on the spectators from abroad. The
marching was very bad, and the troops
appeared to be in all respects greatly
inferior to those of the other great
military nations; nor is their discipline
good.
The French Minister Of War has
decided to place the bicycle On strict
~ military footing. Henceforth, four
metaphysics militaires are to be at
tached to each regiment of infantry in
the French active army, and volunteers
are asked for from among the reserve
and territorial armies. 4 special rate
Of pay will be granted to these veloci-
pedistes. The War Office does not in
tend to provide machines for them to
ride, but expects them to come pro-
vided.
While President Carnot was visit
ing Bethune, during his recent tour
through the north OF France, he OBJ
served that certain society. formed
OF the leading people Of the city. had
prominent place at all ceremonlals
and in the professions The society
is called Les Charitable and its
members wear, on public occasions, a
uniform composed as follows: Black
knee breeches, court coat. with short
mantel and cooked hat. Their princi-
pal function is to act as pail bearers a,
funerals and to bury the dead. The
society was founded in the eleventh
century, and is always recruited
among deputies, lawyers, notaries and
Journalists
Lieutenant Wissmann. the eminen,
German traveller, says that Of late
years a great change has taken place
in the attitude of the Arabs of Africa
toward Europeans. The danger OF
European ascendency has made them
very hostile, defiant and relentless.
They no longer hesitate to show tina,
the right belongs to them of CARRYING
on the slave trade, and that they mean
to exercise it. The slave dealers
charged Lieutenant Wissmann to in
form the English on Lake Tanganyika
that any attempt on their part to in
terfere with the traffic would bring
war upon them. The traveller is con-
vinced that warlike measures against
the Arabs must be resorted to il Sc
cure foundation is sought for the es-
adjustment Of European civilization il
Africa