Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-03
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The white toso ID the favorite
flower in France this summer;
In Ave years e10o, 600 worth OF prop.
erty has boon lett in London cabs
-China's solitary railroad is eighty.
one miles long, and cost 50, 900 q mile
It uses American locomotives.
There are from 30, 900 to 10000 Ger.
man colonists in South Australia, and the
number Of Germantown residents of
South Australia equals the native-born
residents. .@=,x ~
Longevity is no uncommon thing in
Russia. In one year the deaths were
reported of $50 persons between 100 and
los years old; 100 petween 115 and 100
years old; and 8 between $50 and 15e.
A pack of hyenas Is reported by the
Indian papers to have appeared near
Monghyr. The animals are making
great depredations. One night o child
Of about two years of age was carried
away. In the morning the head and
two hands were found.
The most monotonous city in its
buildings is Paris, the houses there be.
ing almost all alike. An attempt is now
being made to vary this by building
houses of the style of the Renaissance
and Louis XII, and hope Is expressed
that the example will be followed gen
orally
The Leaning Tower Of Pisa is 1853
feet high, and is, II the cornice be H.
clnded, Is feot s inches out Of the pet-
pendicular. The walls ut the base are
IS feet thick. 1t is built Of the loc
building stone marble. It probably as.
sumed its position in the course Of cpn-
struction.
During a recent thunderstorm in
Paris, three flashes of lightning are
said to have reached the top of the On
ductor of the Eiffel Tower simultan a.
ously, resulting in a remarkable dis
play and considerable vibration on the
part Of the big iron frame, but no q p
parent damage was done.
The Increase noted in leprosy in the
West Indies is attributed to the fact
that lepers are permitted to walk about
without restraint, to beg, and to mix
with healthy people. In the four years
following 1878 twenty-five deaths from
leprosy were registered there, while
thirty-four deaths occurred in the three
years preceding
"A woman has been arrested in
Liverpool who makes q business of rob-
bling the state-rooms Of Atlantic steam
ers. Her name is Catherine Wood. and
she has crossed the Atlantic twenty
five times. Every crossing has resulted
in misfortune to some passenger, who
has brought up at the end Of the jour
hey short in money or jewels.
The Glove tree was introduced into
Zanzibar about the year 1880, ANA it's
cultivation now forms tho chief Ind u.s.
try Of the islands of Zanzibar and
Pemba. The chief supply Of cloves is
obtained from these islands. Consul
Pratt, who has lately written q report
on the clove-culture of Zanzibar, says
that ten-year-old plantation should
produce an average Of twenty pounds
of cloves to q tree. Trees OF twenty
years frequently produce upwards, Of
ono hundred pounds each. :
In Southwestern France a great
population is supported upon the once
barren, drifting sands, now fixed by
means Of plantations of the maritime
pine. This yields resin and cheap H.
Illuminating oil distilled from it, be-
sides railway tics, pit props, telegraph
poles and fuel. The pit props 60 to
England mainly, 175.000 being the an
nual shipment TO that market The
ties and telegraph poles are mostly used
in France. Considerable Of the young
Pine is sent to England to be made into
paper.
New American ''buyers' in Paris
arc invariably astounded at the SUI
premacy of the French woman in
wholesale business, Monsieur may dis
play the goods and descant on their
virtues and beauty, but, when the sale
is finally to be negotia tod he calls in
madame. Re would not dare to risk
hor certain displeasure by agreeing to
a price on his own responsibility.
Every wholesale millinery house in
Paris and many other branches of the
dry goods business are completely in
the hands of women. They prove
themselves the shrewdest of bargainers
and build up colossal fortunes, like men
merchants of American cities.