Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-10-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

mISCCAAANIIOOJ EMSa
Omaha has population estimated at
$4,000.
An Iowa orchard contains sixty thous-
and bearing apple trees.
Dexter is 80 Eamed from his habit Of
putting the right foot foremost.
The total receipts of peaches for the
season in Chicago are GOO. 1855 packages.
Some one calculates that ON acre of
buckwheat yields fourteen pounds of honey
daily. 800
There is q school teacher in the employ
of the city of Boston who has served for
over 40 years.
More than s95, 600, 600 worth of boots
and shoes will be manufactured in Massa-
chusetts the present year.
"A lad died in Albany few days since
from paralysis caused by dose of whisky
given to stimulate him while ill.
"A temperance lecturer has started from
Kansas with the declared intention of walk
ing to Augusta, Me-, and delivering lee
ture on temperance every evening while on
his way.
Judge Sawyer, of the District Court of
California, has decided that Chinese testi-
mony is admissible against white men I'M
der the fourteenth amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution.
"A single st. Joseph firm has sold dur
ing the season CSC, 600 quart berry boxes,
80 600 half bushel berry cases, and their
sales Of peach packings will amount to 3d.
600 baskets and 10000 boxes
"A child three years old, of A. P. Sedg-
wick, Of Weymouth, Medina county, Ohio,
swallowed q shingle nail which lodged in
it's throat, and remained there for thirty
two days. In an effort of coughing the
nail was thrown out.
"A Chicago paper says: "a prominent
actor who is not married. and an equally
prominent actress who is married, last Sun
day evening, terminated short though tol
erably brilliant western season by uniting
baggage and eloping."
I'm Boston, the other day, girl dashed
vitriol in young mans face aud complete
ly destroyed his eyes The 1s now An inmate
Of an asylum for the blind}. because he re-
fused to acknowledge himself the father of
her illegitlmate child.
Recently a two-year old colt, in Phil
lips, Me-, was found literally stuck full of
porcupine quilts He was caught, and
seven men With nippers worked upon him
q considerable portion of the day to free
him from his torment. 81 4 N ~
Rich placer diggings have recently
been discovered northwest of Helens, Mon
tana, but the Indians we're so troublesome
that the miners have thus far been unable
to work the new mines, which are said to
be of surprising richness.
Louisa Muhlbach, the novelist, is COM
ing to America next spring, with her daugh-
ters, Theodore and Fredrika Mundt, the
former of whom is an actress of repute and
has been for some time studying English
with the purpose of,appearing on our stage.
The Troy Wing has made calculation
from which it appears that enough rain
fell in Rensselaer, and Albany counties on
Sunday and Monday of last week to supply
every man, woman and child upon the face
Of the earth with two ard half gallons of
water per day for year.
Its dangerous business sparkling the
Maplewood Institute girls at Pittsfeld,
Mass, this fall. Rev. c. Y. Spear. the
Principal, advertises that his grounds are
"protected with powder and ball, and ex-
poets the "cousins" of his fair pupils to
take due warning. =. -
"A party which recently went to the mp
per waters of the Yuba on fishing excur-
sion, not finding the sport with hook and
line sufficiently exciting, exploded small
charge Of giant powder in the water. The
effect was astonishing the fish in the
immediate vicinity, large aud small, being
instantly killed. ~ .9z'.'' :,
! -'sSim," the Chief of the Washoe In
dams, is dead. A newspaper published
among the Rocky Mountains says of him
obituarily: HE was good, though very
dirty red man. He possessed we'll
balanced head of hair, and stomach enough
for all he could get to eat His regard for
the truth was notable = he never meddled
consisted of q pair Of boots" :Hz
The New York Tribune of the 9Th
says: 1T is said that during the past six
weeks 500 head of cattle which arrived in
Jersey City from Texas. and which were Of
aicted With the Spanish fever, have been
sold to farmers throughout the State at 81
lence among all the cattle in their different
localities. The State Society holds Colonel
Black, State Inspector, responsible"
Prince Arthur was, on Friday, made q
Chief of the Mohawks, 1t their village near
Brantford, Canada He was indicted into
the honor by one of the Chiefs of the Six
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Brant HIS older brothers have also been
made Chiefs of this tribe. He was named
''The Flying Sun, because, like the sun,
he is flying from East to Weat over the vast
dominions Of his mother" -:
! The following ''personar' advertise.
ment appears in New York paper
"Should this notice meet the eye Of any
person who has recently been bereaved BY
stock speculatioDs and is tainted with pugil.
istic ability, who feels that his life is moth:
ing to him, and is willing to scalp any one.
in hopes Of retrieving his losses, aud il
necessary enter the prize-ring (as has been
done as o. last resort to raise the wind)
he will learn something to his advantage BY
addressing ]. Mace" 80
An Adirondack correspondent tells {
good story illustrative of the responsibility
Of travellers in that region for introducing
; the vices Of civilization. Agentleman VIII
X had "a good supply of liquor in his CAM
was generous enough to, treat his guide
This unsophisticated forester got 80 furi
ously drunk that his employer was afraii
to stay in camp with him, and essayed t.
get away; but his guide intercepted him
and forced him At thepoint Of the pistol t
row the boat, with the guide as; passenger
all the way TO the next inn. !fs's1
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