Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-09-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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There Is one pauper In every thirty
seven inhabitants In England and
Wales.
81 Powdered wigs on private coachmen
- London are going out Of fashion. Il
III custom kept up 81 very few fami-
liaA S
IAN English plaintin hos recovered
damages and costs for injuries done to
his clothes by barbed-wire fence
while walking along public path after
dark. E.
The International Association for
the suppression Of Gambling OF Monte
Carlo has scored one success BY ! side
movement upon the Casino Of TGngiers.
It has shut It up.
France receives yearly revenue
Of over fifty million dollars from tta
monopoly Of the sale Of tobacco. About
two pounds per inhabitant are con.
sumed yearly there. .
Inquiry made in France in order to
carry out the new law giving certain
advantages to fathers of more than
seven children has elected among thel
things the fact that there arc 1000, 0Ol
households In which there has been nc
child. ..<.~. :......$s
Among the large estates three ad'
vertised for sale in Queensland may be
considered. The first has an area Of
454 square miles Of which the rent Il
81. 800. The second has 64S square
miles, and the third 55a The one most
advantageously situated il ''within 10t
miles OF Z railroad"
TO prevent,a sudden raid upon the
Bank of England, various precautions
are adopted. The doors are 30 delicate.
~ balanced that = clerk, by pressing q
knob under his desk, can close the outer
doors instantly. and they can not be
opened again except by special process.
The bullion departments of this and
other great banking establishments ARE
nightly submerged in several feet Of
water by the action Of the machinery,
Jean Thiery. = rich merchant and
ship-owner in the Rhine provinces, died
in 1870. leaving = fortune Of 50. 600 Louis
dor in Paris and 500. 900 thalers in the
Venice Mint His heirs, for some un'
known reason, did MOI draw the money
from the depository In Venice, so at the
end OF the last century Napoleon found
it still untouched and appropriated i,
to the use OF his army. For the last
thirty years thesdescendants Of Thiery
have been trying to find way of re-
covering the 500, 600 thalers, with inter
est Three weeks ago they all met in
Cologne and resolved to send their law
yers to Paris to move the French Gov
eminent to pay over an indemnity. I,
was said that the French Chamber had
already considered their claims and ad-
vised the government to pay them.
I'm the Fen districts Of Lincolnshire,
England, the rat plague has done q
good deal OF damage. Thousands o.
rats have been killed, but there is nc
appreciable diminution. On some farme
rs many as 100 day have been killed,
and one rat-catcher living 1T Spalding
has destroyed some 1000 Of the rodents
during the past few months. The rat.
catchers, however, declare that the
worst is yet to come, and that in the
winter the rats will swarm in large,
numbers than ever. When In close
quarters the rats are very vicious, and
in some cases they have alta cked PEG
pie. A large number of ducks and
chickens have been killed by the rats,
which have also taken to devourine
large quantities Of corn, mangolds, po
tatoes and the plants in the fields.