Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-10-21
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
"A hoop skirt surmounts tho spire OF
Methodist Church in Indiana.
"A daughter of Archbishop WhateH
keeps girls school At Cairo, Egypt.
Ninety bushels Of apples have been
gathered from one Tennessee apple tree.
Lieut.. Middleton, of tho English army,
IL c'rcumnavigating the globe in q yacht Of !
three tons and single-handed.
.-Eugenie has invented ''toilet car" III |
which she can beguile the irksomeness of !
travel by continually changing her dress.
The New York Times reportress is
named MILDLY Morgan. and she is an Irish !
lady. Hence her judgment of bulls il re-
liable
Mrs. JohnJ. Aston and her son. VIM.
w. Astor, sailed for Europe on Saturday.
The latter intends tsstudy sculpture in
Rome.
Prince Napoleon's private secretary is
order to get married to beautiful French
| ballet-girl.
Admiral Farragut has been superin-
| tending the construction Of several dwell
| ling houses he il building in Vallejo, Cali
| fornia.
| Madame Rachel is sued again by
lady in London, England for G2, 900 for
having failed to make her customer beauti-
full forever. ...
Fifteen physicians figure in the last
quarterly police report Of Chicago. The
city is SO healthy, they say, that they had
nothing to do.
! Gilbert NJ. Dawson, an old and lead
ing citizen of Saratoga, N. Y. who started
the first newspaper In that town in 1878,
died Thursday,
Sir Charles Dixie will become editor
OF the Athennum on the LIST Of January,
! 1870. The paper will then be enlarged and
otherwise changed.
Bill Pennwealth, an Englishman, living
in Boston, on wager of $50, eat in success
sion three dozen hard boiled eggs without
drinking any liquid whatever. =
Mouse soup is Nevada luxury. 1t is
served up as pleasant surprise, the mouse
not being on the bill of fare, but lurking
privately in the soup kettle.
"A lady fell in Detroit the other day in
an attack of vertigo and nearly
strangled by her artificial teeth falling into
her throat, before the cause was discovered
and removed. .sG.F,a' = .ss
Films J. Crosby, formerly azhighly re-
spected citizen of Dearborn county, Ind,
has confessed to- q charge Of forgery cb1n-
mitted while he was drunk, and gone to
the penitentiary. II! 49,. - 500
\ Prince Arthur isaescrfbed as Slim
breasted youth of 10, with dainty side whit.
kers, worry light hair parted thres. inches
above his left ear, with tho royal nose and
shelving forehead Of the Georges.
-Tupper is out against Mrs. Stowe as
follows:
'No! VIC denounce thee: by that widows bed
Thou safest. meanly: prur1ently pryfngssr~s -
Bribed by scribbler's fee to damn the dead
And blsbthe slsnderous secrets OF The dying.
-Bayard Taylor will retire from tho lee
ture field at tho close of ths coming season,
and devote himself thenceforth exclusively
to literature. He begins his farewell course
at Cincinnati about the beginning of Nov
ennber. '''i'
Some unknown scoundrel cut the hair
from the head of . young lady, in Evans
vile, Ind, thesother night "a She had long
and beautiful locks Of native growth. Sew
:, eral outrages of similar character have
been perpetrated in that city,.
The British princes are great travellers.
A wag mentions that Prince Leopold is
travelling in Scotland, Prince Alfred round
the world, Prince Arthur in Canada, and
tho Prince Of Wales il going to the devil,
all at the expense of the British public.
"A bookseller, who has been twenty-five
years in the business, writes to one Of the
papers to say that he has sold two copies of
Burns to one Of Byron, and forty copies of
Burns to one of Scott. Wordsworth's poe
try and SCOTS, he says, meet with q very
; poor sale.
Mr.. Jabez Bacon, the oldest man in
Winthrop, Maine, aged % years, appeared
on the streets last week with q horse Is
years old, a:waeon As years old, and bar;
ness AZ years old. gentleman engaged
, his attention while his photograph was sur
reptitiously taken.
One hundred and ten thousand pill
grims are estimated to have assembled at
: Mount Ararat in the late Mecca pilgrimage,
or about q, 600 more than in 1868. The
feotly good, both among tho pilgrims and
J in the neighborhoed of Mecca.
Miss Walker, young lady, daughter
, of VIM. Walker, of Orange county, Virgin
10, endeavored on Friday, Sept. 10th, to
wrest q pistol from tho hands Of her father
as he was about to shoot himself, and re-
! she died on Sunday night. %" = -
: California is suffering from the Texas
cattle disease. On one ranch in San Luis,
f Obispo county, fifty head are infected. A
bill for the defense of the grazers was
/ Democrat, who denounced it as penal
measure, got up by Radicals for the punish
. ment of Texas secession! -. -,
Booths theatre netted the management
$25. 600, after paying actors, advertising
! and all incidental expenses. Mr.. jefferson
himself received $4,000 fox the seven
weeks, he having been paid at the rate of
$500 night and one-half the gross receipts
Of the matinee performances. II, II ~
\ "A young woman in one of the rural
! towns of New Hampshire was DESTROYS of
teaching school in . neighboring village,
and got this document from the selectman:
'"This is to certify that lamar Noyes stands
on medium with other girls Of her age
and sex, and for what know ia as good
as folks in general" lamar got the
school. "a. ~ ,....f
William PENIS old family carriage has
come into the possession of tho Michigan
Central Railroad. The relic is over 100
years old. A gentleman of jackson, Mich
: Yan, either purchased or fell heir to it, but
on its arrival he failed to pay express
charges, and so the company took posses
; sion in default.
; Rev. VIM. Fl. Green, the vito poison
er, was found guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree, at Litch6eld, Connecticut. last
week. and on Saturday was taken to the
State prison, where he is sentenced for life.
He was found guilty of murder In tho first
degree, but . new trial was granted in his
; case. E.
New York has commenced the COR
struotion Of state capitol at an estimated
cost Of 81, 600. 700, but it is quite safe to
say that its cost will be double that figure
whom completed. The new court house in
New York city was only to have cost three
! millions, but over seven millions have been
expended.
"A proposition has been made to the
Good Temp]ars Lodge of a town down east,
} by tho liquor dealers. that if they (the
Good Templars) will send list of their
members to each one of the establishments,
they will not sell to any ono whose name
is on the list. They consider this fair, and
if the Good Templars comply, there will