Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-07-15
Miscellaneous Items.

An lnc0O0t0 CITY IN O0A4IOFAlH ID A"iueu
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iowa has tho largest school fund Of |
Any state in the Union three million dollars.
The Neurology of Harvard College, for
the past year shows list of fifty-two |
names.
--Farwell Hall, Chicago, has a fan weigh
ing two and half tons. It makes 500 !
revolutions per minute.
Joe Warmold, champion Of England,
Canada for 5000. Il
Tho Omaha Republican says ho.uti-
full ok calf was brought through FROM tho
on tho 25th inst.
The Methodist Church of 'recumseh,
Mich, have expelled a member for betting
on the Presidential election.
- Indiana has decided in court that
man having more white than negro blood
in his veins is entitled to vote in that
State, Lax *
One Cincinnati brewer paid $4,000 a
year for the ice used in his business. This
speaks badly for the temperance Of Porko-
politans.
The New York Sun refers to Andrew
johnson as "The Wandering jew" He
has been interviewed and does not believe
in Grant.
Nine papers have suspended publica-
ton in Missouri within ashort time. Their
seems to be an epidemic among the M =
souri, press.
The New York Democrat recently..con-
tained an article entitled "a Revolution in
Cas-" The Albany Journal thinks it al
1nf1oH "a thu 0oto obi ohon~o g
fee.
1T is reported that, at the recent prize
fight, which took place OH the 22d instant,
women attended and witnessed the brutal
exhibition.
The bowels of the earth have been
heard. from, not by way of volcano,
but by letter. A correspondent writes to
daylight, Pewable mines, Lake Superior"
Judge Whitney, in the United States
Circuit Cont at Detroit. has decided that,
under the liquor law Of Michigan, a con-
trsct for liquor is void, and a note given in
g 81. q such f contract "a is not bona
MI. 81. John, the manager OF the Bos-
ton baby show, will offer premiums for COL
ored babies in a few days, and the exhibl-
ton will take place at Horticultural Hall,
probably on Independence Day. -
"A chap. who replied to an ADVERTISE
ment Offering an article of great use to
those contemplating marriage, ''price 80
dimes, a pocket handkerchief of the coars-
est material. worth about six cents. j ii j
John Martin, editor of the Paducah
kentuckian, challenged John Oberly, adi-
tor Of the Cairo Bulletin, and Mayor Of
Cairo. for the Publicssion by the latter OF
asquib about the former. Oberly declined
the invitation. '''5.'''.t5
"A great number Of American children
attend school in Brussels, where tuition and
board are at q much lower rate than in New
York, and where, moreover. the girls dress
simply, and not, as in our fashionable up
The Union Pacific Railway gives to
the Baptist Home Mission Society lands
on the line of their road for the location of
missions. A delegation of the officers of
the society are now on the route selecting
lots.
|" The Louisville Courier Journal makes
this unkind fling at the hub: 1.-TWO rich
men have recently died in Boston and left
no legacies to Harvard University It is
supposed Harvard win try to break the
The redwood forests in California are
gradually disappearing, and will be gone
entirely in few years. Meantime no
second growth is coming up, and econ.
omists predict an era Of drowth unless
trees are planted to attract clouds and
moisture. - -,
/ The Cincinnati Times publishes copy
of the first mortgage put on record in Ham
ilton County, Ohio. It bears date 1906,
and was given to secure the payment Of
siSty dollars for a parcel of $50 acres OF
land in the to,os of Cincinnati. 49,. ,.
"A St. Louis paper announces that a
leading editor of that city is going to Paris
to marry q widow worth $500, 900; and that
two New Jersey women have recently
swlndled the st. Louis shopkeepers out of
SIC, 00Oaby hiding silks under their petit
coats. - =, -, -
The number of mon organized in the
trade unions Of New York city alone
amounts to 5000, and they have bank
account of SIS, 1869. The average in
crease of wages sinoe 1890, for all trades
represented in the unions, is seventy pei
cent. the least increase being 62 per cent,
| SAA0 SACot0Dt C6s
l. Booths Theatre returns the largest
receipts Of any New York amusement
house for May, $33, 917, closely followed
however by by Wallack's, s31, 657. Thu
:burlesque shops returned as follows: Olym
$14, 2S3; Waverley, $40 064. -
Mass, arose in her sleep few nj lights since
l. And altar AronoSrn hop hoS NIL, ~ 80
most care and precision, walked five mile,
to her home in Tolland, in her night dress
never awakening until just before her ar
rival when she naturally caused quite
sensation.
T A week or two ago young lady o.
Iowa, while on her way to her wedding
was offered IS by another feller'' if sh,
would marry him, and consented. TIL,
disappointed lover was not to be who'll,
cheated out of his matrimony, and there
fore proposed, was accepted by, and mar
Red the sister of the filter on the sam,
day.
The attaches of the New York Demo
crat had magnificent dejeuner on Wednes
day evening, at the Metropolitan Hotel
MIR. @. P. Sykes, the publisher being tn
host on the occasion. There were 'red-hot
times all round, and wine and wit flashed
forth Unfortunately.
: AT an election in Boston, on Wednes
day last, Lizzie Harrison offered to vote
Being told that she could not. as she wa
not on the list, she declared that she had
right to vote, all regulations 10 the con
trary Notwithstanding, deposited her ballo
on the box and sailed out.
: During late hurricane at Shipmou
.. ILL.,, two men were blown over one hundre,
yards and lodged in apple trees, withou
:. sustaining any material damage. A cal
eight months old was likewise transporte,
F into q large locust tree, several hundre
{ feet from where it was quietly and peacea
bly, grazing.
! FASHION AND FAM1NE.-The most notice
. able feature this summer is the preponde,
ance of white and black dresses, both 70
home and street suits.
}. "A new style of skirt called the Ground
= is now fashionable. 1t is a compromise bf
. tween the short dresses and the traine
T. skirt.
> Lace is used as trimming on all sor,
! of materials.
It -Parasols to match the suit worn q,
not such asuccess as they promised to b.
For thin organizes pretty trimmin
is white muslin rufae, box pleated on
. plain inch ribbon the color Of the prevail
7 ing shade of the dress.
-Guipure, now found available for ever
purpose, even for trimming soft wool fall
rics, is from SO to $12 yard, according t
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