Mower County transcript., 1890-10-08
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.
old Battersea bridge. the solitary
surviving pile bridge on the Thames, ID
to be pulled down.
--Wedding.rings are not inireq uently
worn by husbands In Germany, and the
custom Is growing in England.
The finest hand.spun Belgian fax,
such as ID used Ii making costly lace, ia
worth from 5000 TO 81, 900 8 ton.
Tho hottest region on the earth is
in the Vicinity Of the Persian Gulf,
where the thermometer Is said to have
been not lower than 100 degrees for
forty consecutive days and nights dur.
ing tho months of July and August
.-Rouen and Havre are making great
efforts to prevent Paris from becoming
a seaport by the deepening OF tho chan
mel Of the River Seine. These flourish
ing seaports realize that their trade
would be gone II Paris should become
port.
Edward Wakefield, in his History of
Now Zealand, estimates that tho intro.
duction Of humble bees into that coun-
try has already proftod tho farmers to
the extent Of $5,000,0 900. Before their
introduction 1t was impossible to grow
red clover seed for lack OF tertilizing
agents.
Tho place to send old stamps is the
Aisle des Billode, Locle, Switzerland.
In 1888 this asylum received over one
million stamps, Of which tho best the
children assorted and sold for S240 to
dealers and collectors, whilo the others
were used for decorative purposes,
rooms being papered with them.
I'm the Russian law court at st. Pc
tersburg, there is now being tried case
which has been in progress for the last
fivc hundred years. 1t Is in regard to
the confiscation by tho municipal au-
tborities Of vast estates belonging to q
Russian nobleman, and the written tes-
timony in the case is said to weigh for.
ty-Ave tons.
Cutting of the noso is favori te
act OF vengeance to intlict on an enemy
or a faithless wife in the Bombay dis
trict OF India, and simultaneously with
the practice has grown tho art of MAX
new noses to replace those sliced away.
Tho injured feature can he mended by
skillful artist so as to leave very lit
tie trace OF dishgurement
On St. Paurs river, in Liberia,
there is homemade steamboat. 1t was
constructed by q negro named Irons,
who was once slave in South Caro-
lima. He built his steamboat in this
way: He remodeled q canoe fifty feet
long, put in the engine of sugar. cane
mill, rigged up paddle wheels and put
in some bits Of iron shafting. The
steamer is not q beauty, but it carries
freight and passengers and does good
work. Its builder has inventive genius,
and should be encouraged.
The magnitude of the Finnish ma
tion is brought into notice by the be-
ginning Of its end at the hands Of tho
Russian Government Finland has
heretofore enjoyed practical independ-
ence in the management of her own.af-
fairs. The native press, and Finland
has twenty.six newspapers of her own,
has been wholly free in dealing with
Finnish matters, but how there comes q
warning, the first ever known, to the
Helsingfors Hufvudstad bladet that ad-
vocating its peoples rights, even in the
most sober manner, must stop. Fin
land must expect to lose all her ancient
privileges.
Tho most absurd superstitions are
rife in Russia. At Serpookhov, near
Moscow, an official announcement was
recently placarded at the street corners.
The common people are unable to read.
They requested man, who looked like
priest to deoipher for them the con-
tents of the bill. He unhesitatingly
and positively declared that it con.
tanned the warning that the city of Ser
pookhov would he swallowed in the
ground. In less than an hour the news
spread throughout the place, and the
people abandoned their work and began
streaming out into the fields in large
crowds, and it was some time before the
frightened crowds were restored to
reason.