Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-05-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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-Fox-hunting not being national
sport In Austria, the animals are habit.
aally shot Over 10000 Of them perish
~ tho gun every year.
The Empire Of Japan has 81, 600, 0o0
inhabitants who are slowly but surely
adopting western customs in dress %
WAL ~ In civilization and methods Of
research.
Tho British War ONCE has decided
that when 1t becomes necessary to hand.
cuff soldier in uniform he must not be
marched through the streets, but Z GOV.
cred conveyance shall DO provided.
Mime. Tucon, tho goyerness of the
King OF Spain, has received the title OF
Countess Of Peralta for her devotion to
her pupil during his recent illness She
Is seventy years old and has been In tho
royal family of Spain for thirty-five
years.
ALL the best sites along the hill
country Of Judea, between Jerusalem
westward and tho sea, have been bought
by Russia, and covered with splendid
Greek temples. The great pilgrimages
Of tho day arc from Russia to Palestine
Evory year about thirty to forty thou.
sand Russian pilgrims visit the Holy
Land.
Small shop-keepers in London often
complain Of being ruined by tho mon.
stor establishments which sell every
thing, and monopolize the trade former
ly shared by their minor neighbors.
The same complaint is raised in Paris,
but tho French Government now pro-
poses to lay additional license duties on
Dig shops, so as to restrict their opera
lions and allow small traders Q fair
chance.
Tho admirers of Prince Bismarck in
Germany are developing plans to found
Bismarck museum in Berlin on the
next birthday anniversary of the Chan.
celor. Collections have been made
already and requests sent out for all
relics pertaining to the Prince or his
family. 1t will, in all probability, DO
arranged somewhat after the style of
the well-known Hohenzollern Museum,
which is one Of the palaces of Frederick
tho Great. The Chancellor is hattered
by the idea.
The latest recipient at the court Of
Constantinople of the Turkish medal
tor art and of the Mejidieh Order is
the mason who lately put up Russian
stove in tho Sultan's palace. The Sui
tan had fallen in love with the stove at
the Russian Consulate at Constantine.
pie, and had similar structure OF
brick and tiles ordered from Odessa.
Tho Russian laborer who was sent with
it to put it up was simple moujik, but
the Sultan was so delighted with the
mans skill that, besides a money pres
snt of $3.50, no conferred this ''distinc-
ton"
In Zurich; Switzerland, the othe
lay one Of the law courts closed novel
case. A beggar who opened the garden
gate in front Of house where he in
tended to ask for relief was attacked by
the watch dog and bitten in the left
arm. Soon afterward he commonwealth
against the owner of the place, calling
tor heavy damages, on the ground that
the wound he had received rendered him
permanently unable to earn his living.
Tho defense was that he could beg just
as we'll as ever, and that the injury in
question, far from being disadvantage,
only increased his chances in his profess
sion. But the court held that the pro-
prietor Of a house is responsible for the
security Of the people who come to visit
him, even when the object of the visit
Is to make on appeal to his generosity;
So the beggar won his suit.