Mower County transcript., 1890-07-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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The total number of marriages upon
Friday in England is only two per cont.
ol tho whole number, showing the or
tent Of superstition in regard to the
day. e
Cigarettes for ladies' smoking"
are sold in London, provided with spe-
cially prepared mouthpieces. They are
perfumed with musk and violet, and
they are said to be enjoying very ex-
tensive sale.
Charles Theodore, Duke of Bavaria,
besides surgically treating thousands ot
poor patients gratis. spends about $780,.
600 year in maintaining his free dts
pensaries and hospitals. He has no
private fortune, but is dependent upon
his annuity from the Bavarian crown.
1t looks very much as if the whole
Australian continent on the other side
of the globe would, at no distant day,
be consolidated and organized into an
Independent republic, making new
United States, somewhat after the
model of the United States OF America.
There is mover ont already among the
Australian colonies looking to this end.
Only born Partisan would have
the cunning to design and the nerve to
appear in wonderful garment recently
worn by titled French beauty at q
wedding fete. It was long, straight
coat made entirely of cleaning copho-
more feathers, with muff to match.
Her bonnet was nothing else but sim
gle bird Of Paradise fnttering over
tulle vail, and the whole. was fastened
to her head with pearl pins.
The telephone must have a new
role of usefulness scored for it. Sir
Humphrey de Trafford, near Manches-
ter, has, perhaps, the finest kennels in
England, the kennelman's house ad-
joining them. From each kennel
telephone arrangement leads to the
kennelman's room, SO that when any
dog is noisy at night, the keeper can
speak to him so as to be heard without
leaving his room.
"A wife was sold for shilling re-
Gently by German workman in Silesia,
though the loving husband stipulated
that she was to return to him in two
years. A year after the bargain was
struck the workman summoned the pur-
shaser to pay fifteen shillings for the
set of false teeth which his wife was
wearing, and which he had forgotten to
include in the contract. Her purchaser
objected and called in the police, who
formally sanctioned the original bar
gain and disallowed the first husbands
claim.
While driving out near Windsor re-
Gently the Queen of England and Prince
Albert Victor of Wales saw two for
signers with a brown bear resting un-
der the shade of the old elms of the
avenue. The Queen ordered the car
riage to be stopped and the men re-
auested to allow the bear to give per
formance. This command was at once
obeyed, the animal dancing with stick
In his paws on the greensward and oc-
casionally hugging its keeper, much to
the amusement of the royal party, who
laughed heartily at its antics. At the
finish Her Majesty gave the men some
money.
"A syndicate Of French Jews has
been formed for the purpose of purchas-
ing for the custody Of the Jews the
copy of the Hebrew Bible which is in
the Vatican. The offer which has been
made for it is 500, 600. But it is stated
that the Pope can not legally sell it
The Jews of Spain, France and Italy
tried to buy it about hundred years
ago, Offering for it more than its weight
| in gold. The Bible is in the original
Hebrew manuscript and the exact time
when it was written has never been
satisfactorily determined, any more
than it came into the possession of the
congregation founded by Pope Gregory
XIV. some three hundred years ago. 1t
| is the most valuable book in existence.