Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
--1t Is proposed applying telephones
to the infectious wards of the French
hospitals so as to enable sick people to
communicate with their friends without
danger of conveying the infection.
"A wealthy merchant of Berlin %.
Gently celebrated his birthday by invit
ing number of friends to play nine
pins. When they arrived he began to
throw the balls and pins at their heads,
infioting severe injuries. He had be-
come insane.
The Latin Union, . European
league, is constituted of France, Bel
GUM, Greece. Italy and Switzerland,
and their coins are alike in weight and
fineness, though different in name.
Spain, Servia, Russia. Bulgaria and
Roumania have adopted in part the
same system, but they have not joined
the "Union."
One of the most attractive features
of the Jamaica exhibition in 1891 will be
the industrial village, where a number
of peasantry in model huts will be en-
gagged in their usual occupations, max
ing baskets. wickerwork, casseva, native
pottery, nets, sugar, etc., while the cool.
les will show their methods of weaving.
The mining department of the Ger
man Government has recently taken
steps to esta blish in six different towns
in the principal mining districts free
library specially for tho mining popula-
ton. These libraries are furnished
with all the principal works on geology
and mining, a complete collection of
maps, and all the journals devoted to
mining.
by the thirty-eighth annual report
Of the Ragged School Shoeblack Society
OF England it appears that the weekly
average earnings of each boy is S4.S6.
OF this sum, according to the system of
division, 50 is paid to the boy as wages,
ST. saved up for him in his bank and
81. IL retained by the society, which pro-
vides comfortable home and An even
ing school
butter mas oeen manufactured from
tho meat of the cocoanut for over a
year, in Germany, and it is proving
very satisfactory as substitute for the
genuine article. This product sells
for from thirteen to fifteen cents per
pound, and the poor use it very largely
on their tables, while the more wealthy
employ it for cooking purposes. We are
not informed whether it is sold on its
merits or under the guise of cow-butter.
-Coffee-stealing has become widely
prevalent in some parts of India, owing
to the non-enforcement of the law en-
acted in 1878 to protect the coffee indus
try by collecting passes for all the cof-
fee moved outside the country. Occa-
sionally arrests are made, but the risks
of discovery, under the present working
of tie law, are so slight, and the gains
of the receiver so enormous, that the
stealing steadily continues, to the great
Encouragement of planters.
The scheme of the Hugarian Gov
eminent, already in operation, of buy
ing up taverns throughout the country
and turning them into school houses
will be watched with interest in all
countries. OF course it comprehends
certain paternal measures which could
be practiced only in monarchical coun-
tries, but it is bold and interesting
experiment in social science none the
less. The government evidently buys
up the places for valuation fixed by
commission and then suppresses them.
The endeavor has a noble ring to it,
and was evidently suggested by a hu-
manitarian of most practical turn.
If the sea is making inroads on the
British Empire. at some parts, it is Civ
ing up land at others, for in one of the
rooms of Dungeness lighthouse there is
an inscription setting forth that it was
erected in the year 1892, ON spot dis
tant 100 yards from the sea, in substitu-
ton for an older lighthouse which stood
$40 yards further inland. When this
older lighthouse was built it was on
the marge of the sea. The existing
structure was, as the inscription sets
forth, built 100 yards from the waters
edge. 1t is now fully 500 yards dist IT,
and the sea is receding.