Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The increase of about one million
people IN thirteen years in Spain Is at
tributed In great measure to the sue
cess that has attended the changes In
the hygienic condition OF the largo
cities and towns.
"A rich Italian has purchased tho
Villa Sirio, at San Reno, in which ths
Emperor Frederick was i'll so long be-
fore he went to Berlin 70 be crowned,
and has closed it vigorously against all
visitors
Emperor William conferred 5,1os
decorations and medals last year.
Fourteen new Knights of the Black
Eagle were created, fifteen Of the fe-
male Order of Louise and one Of the
famous Order Pour le Merite.
"A French company is pushing a
scheme for piercing the Faucilles by a
tunnel which would shorten the dis
lance between Paris and Geneva by six
hours. The Swiss Government is
against it because both outlets of the
tunnel would be in French territory.
"A depression has been discovered in
tho Egyptian desert which is all that
remains OF reservoir constructed by
the patriarch Joseph for irrigation pur.
poses when he was Pharoah's Prime
Minister. 1t is proposed to reopen it,
and it has been estimated that this
would add $500, 900 acres to the q, 00O,-
600 acres now under cultivation in
Egypt. The reservoir originally COW
cred $50 square miles, and was $50 feet
deep.
"A rich treasure of more than thou
sand coins Of the eleventh century was
recently found while digging the foun-
dation for new house in the Gier-
strasse, in Bonn, Prussia. The coins
were all in large pot, and, strange to
say, the workmen allowed children and
strollers to take away a considerable
number, and their attempt to sell the
pieces caused the discovery to become
known, whereupon the mayor ordered
the remainder to be taken to the rath-
haus and preserved.
The last official statistics of Rome
show that the city must have lost =
large percentage of its population since
the last census. Although only twenty
houses have been built there in the last
three years, four thousand houses, with
living room for twenty thousand per-
sons, are now vacant. The transient
population is thought to have fallen of
Also Hardly six thousand strangers
went there to see the big carnival this
year, while in former years the numb
was little short of one hundred thou
sand.
The curious French submarine YES
sci, the Gymnote, much interested
President Carnot during his recent visit
to Toulon. The little boat looks mere
ly like submerged rock, causing a
slight ripple in the water, only its look
out apparatus rising above the surface.
1t appeared suddenly by the side of the
Presidents steamer, then struck the
water sharply with its screw and
plunged down to depth of from five to
fifteen meters, reappearing in few
moments at considerable distance.
The Gymnote is manned by one officer,
Lieutenant Darrlens, and SIX men.
The Royal Academy is confronted
with trouble of most novel sort 4
prominent non-member, seeing his
picture placed in the center of the
wall, but above the line. requested that
it should be taken down and returned
to him. That, of course, was impossi
BILE. Such precedent would make the
exhibition liable to be pulled to piece,
Immediately after it was hung. Then
the artist daubed his work all over with
white, by which he nearly killed the
painting below, and wrote sketch" in
black letters in the corner. The pict'
ure is now no longer the picture thai
was accepted by the committee.