Mower County transcript., 1890-04-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

--Despite their religious differences,
the Pope and the King OF Sweden are
particularly warm friends. ,.3.L
Thanksgiving is said to divide with
cock-fghting the affections OF those Of
sporting blood among the natives of
Ceylon.
-Nearsightedness is overrunning the
French people as much as the Germans.
Among the senior boys in the different
French colleges more than forty-six per
cont. are nearsighted.
The Gar OF Russia has never worn
tho uniform Of o Russian Field Marshal.
1t is one Of the forty-four uniforms he
possesses, and by family tradition can
only be worn in the field after q victory.
Prince Albert of Monaco is said to
intend to devote the $l50,000 per year
that he gets from the gamblers to the
! completion OF the cathedral and other
public improvements. Ho is very
wealthy himself, and has an enormously
rich vito.
Says tho Sci Kwai Medical Jour-
nal: Apropos Of the suspected influence
Of tho climate Of Japan in the causation
Of rheumatism and neuralgia in resident
foreigners, it is interesting to note that
horses imported into Japan from China
and other countries are soon more or
less disabled by rheumatism.
One of the curiosities Of S.. Peters
burg is the ''Chamber of Mephisto," in
the mansion of Count Schinemetiew.
You enter the supcrbly-furnished room
with the host and seat yourself comfort
ably, when, presto! the floor sinks. and
you find yourself in a aquaintly-ornament-
I'D cellar, surrounded by the choicest
vintages Of Europe.
The performers in an Algiers thea
;er, which closed its doors while the in
luenza ragged, sued their manager be-
cause he deducted the time thus lost
| rom their salaries, claiming that they
we're willing to play righton. The man
tger claimed that the influenza was an
.ct of Providence, and that however
lble the actors may have been to play
The public was incapacitated from attend
ng, and the closing of the theater was
thus necessary through no fault of his.
The court sustained this view Of the
natter.
The latest fad in England is for the
collection of the Victoria crosses given
~ the military authorities to soldiers
tor especial acts OF bravery. The fact
hat such collections we're being made
;ame out through the Indignation of the
! ,>1I ~ ,h1 lot
tsking him what he would sell it for,
md saying that the writer had already
occurred several. The man, like good
2nglishman he was, sat right down and
wrote to the Times all about it.
The Russian mobiles are rushing to
bankruptcy in great numbers. The
! credit bank for lending money to them
IN mortgage of their lands, established
~ the government two or three years
!go, has now no less than 1900 estates
which will have to be sold at public auc-
! ion at the end of this year for non-p pay
nent of interest on loans. The ques-
ion is, who will buy this enormous
mount of property? If neither the
>ank nor the government buys it, there
,
~ an institution which was established
~ the government for their special
! lelp.
The waters of Scotland were pro-
luctive of large revenue last year.
The value of the cured fish is put down
~ the fishery board at FL, 32l, 1872, while
he fresh fish sold for use brought e7l7,-
'57. Shell fish produced return of
I'll, res, making gross total of e2, 49,
81. The value of salmon is estimated
vt e240,01S. making the grand total of
he sea and salmon fisheries of Scotland
s2,253, 175. In the sea fisheries total
| ,ured herrings are credited with e1,-
.74,S15 and fresh haddock with eS33, 13'.
The number of lives lost was SO, against
!56 in 1887, and the loss sustained in
)oats and fishing materials amounted to
e40,S26.