Mower County transcript., 1890-12-03
FoRElo ON GOSSIP.

I'm Yokohama, with population Of
1000, the number OF electors 10 under
three hundred. 2
Berlin drank In 1850 269, 247, 100
quarts OF boer--that 10 about $50 quarts
to every man, woman and child. .,
Gambling at Ostend this last season
has been so open and heavy - to excite
general criticism on the continent II
The British authorities ind II very
difhcuA 20 break up sheep stealing In
Cyprus The people do not regard IT as
crime az>zss 355.
Tho motto tho Brazilians have
stamped upon their new 20 ra. bronze
coins is "Vintem poupado, vintem gan.
ho;" cent saved IL = cent earned.
@.sa "A law just passed in Denmark pro.
vides that all drunken persons shall be
taken homo in carriages, at tho OK.
pense Of the landlord who sold them the
last glass. #..s-, .51b5.a
The police force Of India numbers
1900 superior and subordinate officers
and 10000 eonstables, not reckoning
the 1880 police Of Uppor Burmah and
900, 600 village watohmen.
Since January l, sixty-two children,
forty-six boys and sixteen girls, lfave
committed suicide In Berlin. OF this
number twenty-four had attained tho
age Of fifteen, fourteen their fourteenth
year, nine their thirteenth, while seven
were only twelve years of age, and one
had not attained the age of seven. In
most OF the cases the immediate cause
for the not remains o secret, but 1t is
supposed to have been due to excep.
tional severity on the part Of servants
or teachers
In the Government Of Podol the
peasants have no soruples about selling
their children. Instances OF a very re-
volting nature are reported in Mos
COW daily. One peasant sold his daugh-
tor. girl Of eight years, to travelling
nendicants for the sum of six rubles;
another one brought two girls to the
town OF Granova, where he sold the
older, a child OF seven years, for fve
rubles, and the younger, three years old,
for three rubles Such instances have
occurred in many other towns OF the
government
Tho Chinese. who reject scornfully
nearly every application of western
medical science, are. according to the
Governor Of Hong Kong, firm believers
in the advantage gained from vaccina-
tion. and submit to the ordeal with a
cheerfulness and philosophy which are
characteristic of this willy Oriental.
Protection by vaccination Is especially
required in Hong Kong owing. as Sir
William Des Veux points out, to the
frequency with which smallpox is in
troduced by steamers coming from all
parts OF the world, and to its fatal prev
alence when it has once obtained foot
ing.
Tho most remarkable short line of
railway in the world is probably the
submerged railway at Onton, near Bill.
boa. 1t runs down an evenly-slop-
ing shore in double line to q dis
tance of $50 feet, and has been con-
structed by Spanish engineer for the
sole purpose of facilitating the ship
ment Of iron ores. The only car is q
massive iron tower on wheels, in tho
shape of pyramid, rising seventy feet
from the track. Upon the platform of
this tower the ores are placed. and thus
they are conveyed to the vessel The
pyramidal Car, wnoso wheels arc al.
ways under water, returning automatic
ally as soon as its cargo has been me-
chanically shot into the ships hold
English Mechanic. a.