Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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More than as7, 900 was posted in let
ter boxes in England last year in letters
that bore no address.
The late Augusta left Queen Vic
toria splendid gold bracelet, contain
ing the words "For ever" set in precious
stones. szE@+I
An English woman who married an
Austrian Count and was left widow
has set up in the manicure business in
London, and has q distinguished
patronage. The rank Of the lady and
the riches of her friends enables her to
charge half guinea for her manipula-
tons, and she will not work for less.
. Australian settlers complain that
there is great increase in destructive
insects since the English sparrows ar
rived and drove out the native birds. It
is found by examination that the spar
row is more of q scavenger than an in
sect eater. The birds will not touch in
sects If they can getgrain or other kinds
of food.
Oriental furnishings SO delighted
the German Empress during her late
stay at Constantinople that Her Majesty
intends to fit up some of her apartments
at the Berlin Palace in Eastern fashion.
She has commissioned the German Am
bassador to the Porte to procure for her
large quantities of carpets, hanging d.
vans, etc.
There is no country like France for
starting journals. During 1889 no less
than nine hundred and fifty new news
papers were brought out, of which not
one remains in life. On the other hand,
the Petit Journal now claims q circula-
ton of 1,O95, 900 copies. During the
same period there were printed in
France over fifteen thousand new books,
including 5000 new musical pieces.
ALL suggested remedies for the rab-
bit plague having failed, New South
Wales and Queensland are depending on
rabbit-proof fencing to limit the unwel-
come guests. There are no fewer than
ss7 miles Of fencing constructed, includ-
ing the fence ON the South Australian
boundary line. Meanwhile the rabbits
increase grievously in New Zealand.
The collection of maps destroyed by
the fire of King Leopold's palace in
Laeken was probably the finest in the
world. The library contained 1000 VOL
umes, and included manuscript works
by Sir Walter Raleigh and an editio
princeps in Spanish of the reports OF
Columbus. The maps had been COL
lected during the last thirty years utter
w regardless of expense.
Nine. Bischoffsheim, the Marquis
dHarvey and the Princess Potocka have
always been great skaters, and the
Parisians who gathered to see them
skate-in those days when there used
to be ice on the lake in the Bois-called
them the Three Graces. They wore otter
skins embroidered with gold, and anne
thyst-colored velvet, trimmed with chin
chilla. This season velvet polonaises
and hussar jackets are very fashionable.
From some curious calculations
made bv the Minister of Finance, it ap'
pears that the loans-redeemable and
perpetual-incurred by France since
1916 are thirty-nine in number, repre-
senting in round figures seventeen mill
iards of francs, or $50, 000, 600 sterling.
The second empire borrowed four mill
iards, and bequeathed this debt to the
republic, which, moreover, considers
the empire responsible for the five mill
iards which were needed to liberate the
territory from occupation and the three
milliards to place the army on proper
footing in the matter of war material.