Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-08-19
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---Chicago has contracted for tho con-
strnction OF % miles Of sewerage within Il
month.
Boston hns expended e21G, 600 during
the past three months in paving and re-
pairing streets.
Troy has the largest watcr-whecl in
tho world. IT is m ovcyshot, md sixty
feet in diameter.
The Red Stockings who have been so
often Photographed, hay" at last been pho
losraphcd.
An cntcrprieihG Yankee u1yrrti:r for
the lucrative position of undertaken on the
Erie Railroad.
4 handsome blonde at Saratoga wore
tWGnty-unc new dresses last week, with
half her trunks still ,Mluckcd.
= The town OF Ilorschnals, New York,
has Il man, so called, who Offers to cat {.
b'lshcl of cnt hay on II wager.
The Detroit Tribune says the Inothcr
of W. II. Campbell ~ jonrn'yman printer,
is anxious to hear from him.
H. Tilton isn't orthodox enough foi' hi;
patrons, and $3.50, 900 il to start q rival
concern which will Civ" the pure doctrine.
The Chicago Board Of Health have
prohibited the carrying OF oi1al tlrouHi.
the streets except in closely covered carts.
Twenty divorce eases were heard be-
fore the Recorders Court in Chicago on the
ith, and it was a poor day for divorces at
that.
Throwing Cayenne pepper in the eyes
Of Chinese, is said to he popular hpor;
in California. The agony Of the sufferers
gives intense delight.
-Handkcrchiets are nov made in New
Orleans from the ltanpinc plant. The
texture is finer than silk, and the handkcr-
chiefs are quite pretty.
Vice President Colfax writes for the
Hearth and Homo. lie communicates Il
sketch of tho 70 Semitic Valley us the first
paper. Where is Bonner?
Wine in the winc-yrowing regions Of
California is cheaper than milk. In Ana
helm and Los Angeles common Wine i, but
3Oc Il gallon; milk costs soc.
The receipts of internal revenue in
Chicago for July were SGlS,553, of which
$2G5, 1000 were collected on whisky and
beer, and $40, 500 on tobacco.
"A Young man named Lchn is digging
in the lower part of Lawrence county, Pa,
for fortune of 100000, which fortune
teller told him had been buried there.
A Chicago paper gives the following
useful hints: Temperance and regularity
of habits, combined with good conscience
arc conducive to health during the sickly
season.
Moro than dozen Philadelphia
clergymen have united in the determine
ton to attend no moro Sunday funerals
unless the necessity is certified to by q
physician.
An old gentleman Of seventy, I: ing in
M inland town of Massachusetts, w::o had
been deaf for many years. awoko tho other
morning, with his hearing completely re-
stored.
"A deficiency of 81, 55O.43 has been
found in the accounts Of the City Treas1-
rer of Dubuque, and he has asked for timo
which has been grantcd-to straighten
up his books. The treasurer is demo
crat.
Tho fashion reporter of New York
daily paper announces that 'Ida Lewis
wedding has been postponed, and her sis
ter has just effected an engagement with 1da's
fance's brother" The terms are not men
toned.
The Sheriff HIS levied upon certain
real estate in Chicago, belonging to Elisha
Sprague, to satisfy an execution issued in
the late breach of promise case. The
property is to be sold at auction on the
eth.
"A writer in the Washington Herald
| proposes the introduction to the Southern
States of the date palm, the sugar palm,
and the cocoanut palm these palms fur.
nishing fruit, sugar, oil, fibre, &c.
"A. p. Messenger, of New York, chal-
lenges the world in vclocipede race. He
! says he has run 100 miles in seven hours
and twenty minutes, and 500 miles in Il
minutes less than 50 hours.
! -Stetson, of Long Bscncl1, can pick yor
out the Boston man by the manner il
which he holds his knife, the Baltimorenl
by the way he peels his potatoes, and thu
Washingtonian from his eating the whole
of the potato, skin and all.
The principle of woman's right:
achieved partial triumph in the New Yorl
Teachers Association, this week, by the Sc
lection of Mrs. A. T. Randall, of Oswcgo
to be vice president Of the association.
The Yankton Dakotian says: t'Account<
come in from all around us Of big-glori
ously big-crops. One instance of forty
bushel wheat to the acre. All We want now
is a big corn crop. We can beat Illinois
on everything else.'
"A farmer of Terre Coupec, Ind, writes
10 the South Bend Register that - field O.
forty-eight acres of wheat, raised by d. d.
Phillips, on the farm of VIM. buchanan.
Terro Coupee Prairie, will yield thirty five
bushels per acre, or ], 900 bushels from tho
whole field.
| The amount of business transacted il
the Postof1ice in New York may be judged
by the fact that two windows are open fol
the sale Of stamps in sums less than one
dollar The receipts at each of these win
lows average $1,000 per day. Tho daily
consumption of stamps at the office mus
be in all about $50, 900.
An atom of water sometimes makes
most extraordinary difference in the prop
critics of bodies. Thus, to give some mor
familiar illustration, the addition Of an ut
ON of water to starch converts it into su
gar; the subtraction Of an atom Of waite
from alcohol converts it into ether.
Buffalo boasts of a carlton second tx
but one other in the world. Itnumbcrs 4;
bells, and cost about 100000. Tho onl.
other carlton in America is in tho Churcl
of Notre Dame du Lac ut Montreal, ant
numbers only "a bells. Thoro is no othe
in tho United States.
Personal.
The Empress Eugenie visits Constan
tinople in September.
MIR. Roye has been appointed Us U. S
Consul ut Prague.
MIR. Touccy left $4,000 to Trinity Col
legc, Hartford.
|
- Dan Rico is building q barn at Girarl
Penn, which will cost 100000
Hon. John Bigclow, tho editor Of thu
Now York Times, is a Swetlcnborgian.
1t is stated that Henry Keep left to hi
wife and daughter S2,0Oo,0o0 worth O
stock of the Northwestern Ililroatl.
JAS. Griffin, the Eric r. Il. cngincc
charged with causing the Mount Hope dis
aster, has been discharged on bail.
The tallest Yale graduate for 1869 is G
d. McNaughton. q Michigandcr who stand.
six feet five inches in his shoes.
| Major Powell, of Colorado exploring
fame, is native Badger, having been born
in Walworth county in this State.
! Among recently chronicletl arrivals q
San Francisco is those of Isaac Y. Fowler
the dcfaulting New York postmaster.
The Hon. John Morrisscy is SAID to bt
the holder of certain shares of Central rail
road which are now worth half million
moro than he paid.
| Mrs. Senator Ramsey, Of Mimi, who
| is n very beautiful woman. drew the critictt