Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-08-12
NEWS ITEMS.
miscellaneous.

NAw0 4T3N48.
MisccllaMeOus.
Three thousand five hundred papers
arc published in the United States.
"A butting match is to DO ono OF tho
features OF negro tournament i'll Ton
nessee. -
The Hotel Pelham in Boston, weigh
ing 5000 tons, and having walls nearly 100
ioot high, is to be moved by iron rollers
distance Of fourteen feet.
Emma Farristall, n Nevada gymnast,
IL coming eastward. II is said sho makes
u table Of herself, and holds III anvil on
Aer breast long enough for q horseshoe to
be made thereon.
Mrs. Gov. Hoffman was nearly killed
tho other day at West Point by the dis
charge OF the sunset gun, into. which Ill ILL.,
conditioned rullian had put several large
stones.
"A sagacious horse got tired of waiting
for tho forry-boat to push off from tho
Rock Island shore, and pulled tho bell with
his teeth, starting it off ten minutes before
its time
Tennessee contains 81, zoo, 900 acre.; OF
land, valued ut S170, 034 ,054-other prop
erty valued at $37, 959, 1850. The aggre-
cato value of all the property possessed by
the state is $208, O53, 5000.
Many rich silver and copper veins have
been discovered recently in the Battle
Mountain District, in Nevada. These
mines average forty per cent copper, and
III somo instances from Sc to $50 per ton
in silver.
The Rochester Century Plant has been
visited by persons from 90 different states.
and also from several foreign countries, as
shown by tho register of visitors which has
been kept since the LIST of June.
"A woman ut Houghton, Mich, admin
istercd laudannm to her two children, and
then swallowed some herself. Ono of the
children died; the other WAS restored. She
took so much that it acted only MS an
emetic She was arrested and confessed
the crime.
The Ministers to England and France
receive $17, 500 year each; the Ministers
to Russia, Austria, Spain and Mexico S12,-
600 each; the Ministers to Hayti and Libe-
ria, ~ 500; tho Ministers resident in Swe-
den, Belgium, GuataNnala, BoSot,., Dulivia
and Nicaragua, $1,000.
The Union Pacific Railroad bridge
| across the Missouri river ut Omaha will DO
the largest one yet projected over he Mis-
souri, river. 1t will consist of II spans of
$50 feet each, and is estimated to cost,
when completed, nearly two millions of
dollars
"A little girl named Katie Pitt has re-
| ceived premium in Platte county, Mo-,
for committing to memory 13, G57 verses of
| tho Bible. AT last accounts she was still
alive, although it may be doubted whether
| she can survive the IL. OOOth verse.
A convention of American philogists
| will be held i'll Poughkeepsie, beginning
on the 9th inst, and continuing several
| days The names of nearly all the leaders
| of education in this country appear, in the
list Of the committee on organization.
"A citizen of Philadelphia who used a
wash solution Of carbonic acid as o wash to
| ne,ltralize tho Offensive odor arising from a
cancer, discovered That the latter was en-
tirely removed by the application. The
! solution consisted of one fourth of an ounce
Of acid diluted in quart Of water / =:
The Cincinnati Times says the people
of In Crosse complain of the frequency of
robberies and other outrages in that vicin-
| ity. A community which can for years
| withstand tho daily publication Of such a
sheet as the In Crosse Democrat, should
not complain at any ordinary outrage.
-Dcgroat is putting an immense bronze
casting Of scenes in the life of Commodore
Vanderbilt over the entrance to the Hudson
River freight depot in st. Johns Park. 1t
will cost $500, 600, and is the largest cast
ing in the world. The foundation alone
costs $4,000. :
The city of Washington during the
year ending the LIST of July, expended
1920, 3l4 for school purposes, of which about
$61, AIS was for teachers salaries. The
trustees have balance of S41, GAS to their
credit, and the estimates for the ensuing
year amount to $176,2 :.
/ "A man in Hamburg, Pa., bought a
wagon-load of boards about thirty years
ago, and failing to got the price he asked,
determined, not to lose money on them.
Accordingly they are still for sale in his
yard, having never been removed from the
wagon, but team and boards are mostly
rotor wood.
"A new fog trumpet has lately been
erected on Thacker's Island, off Gloucester,
which is operated by All Ericsson caloric
engine, rotates through an arc of 1870 de-
grees, and gives blast of seven seconds
duration ut intervals of forty-three Sec
onds.
The Albany Argus hastens to inform
the public that ''the silly story that barrel
of salt is put into Congress Spring, Sara
gas pipe has given the water additional
reputation, is too ridiculous to receive a
moments serious contradiction" =
The importation of sugar into the port
of Portland from January 1869. to July !,
was 1906 boxes, md 1926 hogsheads
against AZ, 1856 boxes and Al, 33l hogsheads
for tho corresponding period last .year.
The importations of molasses we're J, 1879
hogsheatls against 40, 100 for the same Pc
Rod in 1868,
-Pittsburg claims to have five hundred
and ninety-five furnaces, which work up
ono thousand tons of iron per day, and the
largest factory of plumbers and gas filters
material in tho country. It also boasts of
ono establishment which makes oil kinds of
nails, from the smallest tacks to the largest
spikes, and which has one machine that
turns out 8, GOO shoe brads per minute.
"A Jury Of JUSTICES court in a rural
district OF California decided that the state
law prohibiting persons from carrying con-
cealed weapons is unconstitutional, because
tho Constitution of the United States says
that 'the right of tho people to keep and
bear arms shall not be infringed;" and tho
county judge sustained tho decision.
Tho gold medal given by the Life Snv-
ing BENEVOLENT Association, of New York
was presented to MidshipNan Mason, Of
tho Gucrriore, by the Rey. Henry Ward
Beecher, together with congratnlatory
letter from the Secretary. Mr.. Mason, il
will be remembered, saved the lives Of two
of the crew Of tho Guerrero in the harbor
of Rio Janeiro III February last.
Rats arc great enemies on rico planta-
tions. In java the RICE cultivators have
nearly e4tinguislel tho rats by enconr-
aging their most efficient eGemy, the
snakes; and not long since an entcrrrising
ship Captain brought whole cargo Of
snakes to Honolulu, expecting to find q
ready market for his live stock among the
owners of the rico swamps. In this, how
ever, he was disappointed, for tho author
-itiaa would not permit him to land his
snake1,
There is q man in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, who, while working as a machinist,
has mastered tho French, German and
italian tongues, made himself partially &C
quaintcd with Hebrew, and obtained a
thorough knowledge of botany and geolo-
gy. lie continues to work OH from day to
day at the NAVY yard tencti, spending oil
his nights and moons in study, and h,ts-
banding all his earnings to purchase books,
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