Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-11
3llutl) in eittlc.
Miscellaneous Items.


--Vermohtis the richest state, per capita,
in the Union.
Louisville las sco2,ooo invested in
school-houses.
Tennessee owes 9,2G4, 2H.55, and
has only 500, 200 in its treasury.
.Slippary Sam" is tho not very tltgniied
ht'c given to tho Bishop Of Oxford.
- 1t IL computed that tho English |
lahgaauo il understood by 100, OOO, 600 pco-
pie.
A new illuminating mixture consists Of
two parts rapc-becd oiland one ofpetrolenm
OIL .: - :: ; :: ~ =. III
Tile result of the great fire in the Dis
NAL Swamp is lake from three to ten feet
locp.
A lato Ere in New Hampshire caused a
neighboring row Of apple trees TO t'ud and
blossom. ..y,.f "
DIR. Cooley, of Kansas City, recently
performed the operation Of removing the.
entire collar bone.
Forty-two murders were committed in
Paris from the Int Of January to the 10th OF
September, 1869.
AT the Boston Mechanics Fair, ATS
100 pounds of humanity were weighed.---
The average WAS l33 pounds.
The recent census of Atlanta, Georgia,
shows tho population of the city proper to
be q, 1866, of whom 13, 1874 are colored.
One hundred head of horses were sto-
len by Indians from the ranches and sta
tions along Canon creek, Montana, in three
days. 49,
| -Four women were elected members 'ot
the School Committee in tho town Of East
ford, Windham county, Conn.,, at the re-
cent election. -;
| "A sleeping car on the Oswego andSyra-
cuse Railroad ran off an embankmenL On
the 3Oth nit. Several were slightly, but
none fatally, injured. ,~., -
An enthusiastic Free Trade meeting
was held at Detroit on Friday evening last
at which Prot. Perry made telling speech.
A Free Trade League Was organized.
! A paper at Elko, on the Pacific Rail-
road, speaks ofsthe apathy Of the highway
| robbers, no outrage having been perpe-
tratea by: them u the last three days.
! Deputy Sheriff Major James FitzwiI-
liams5 Of. Evansville Ind., was shot thro'
the heart in saloon, ~ one If the police
men of the city The murder caused great
| excitement. :~Et r.'.--- ~ ..:;
An. alligator was captured in the river
Of Alton FIJI, last week. IT WAS ~ feet
long, and weighed ,.'175 pounds 1t was
covered with thick ANIMATED scales, and
i was very repulsive and formidable looking:
The castor beap. from which the oil is
made, is becoming IN important industry
in Perry county, Cal. One prominent deal
er received at his warehouse l 600 bushels
in one day, Oaying S3.1S per bushel. 1t
yields more bushels to the acre than wheat
i In 1910 only eleven newspapers were
published in N. H., one Of them being the
New Hampshire Patriot. Five are still in
existence and flourishing. The number
now published is thirty-six, or reckoning
dailies abart from the weeklies in conpec-
ton with which they are issued forty three.
'--Pittsburg, N. H., is much excited oyer
tho prospect of finding gold in .its borders.
The town has been regarded as in the gold
hearing stratum, and the assistant geologist
of the state survey encourages the belief in
the existence Of the precious metal. in the
tract mentioned.
The '.rainy season" of California is
shown by statistics to be q slight shower in
comparison with the recent flood at the
east. The winter of 1SG1-'62 vas very
rainy in California;, but the fall for the
whole season was. only four times that
Of two days in New York week or two
ago. i''':'
"A furiously written epistle was found
posted OH the window Of the San Francisco
, Bank Of California q few mornings since.
J It stated that the writer was ct tho bead Of
700 men sworn to "masicree every China
min and Chinawoman in the city'of Sar
, frisco Il 10 miles Round bout" it they
didn't leave within fifty days. +,
"A lecturer in New York said: Tyran
ny of capital was. the cause Of 1reland's
. wrongs, Of the Revolutionary war, of oul
: late rebellion, and was also the cause o
3 the decentralization of society. To. remed!
these evils the, speaker advised the work
elect none to office but those who Labor
either with tho head or tho hand, 80
--After the recent food in Hartford, CT.
, large pumpkin field in that city presented
, singular appearance. The freshet cover
ed the field with six feet OF water, and the
pumpkins, anchored by their stems, were
, bobbing up and down. e The surface oftwo
acres Of water was completely covered with
them.
The King OF Italy's. four predecessors
all abdicated in favor of their successors,
t. namely: Victor Amadeas l. in 1880, Charles
Emmanuel II. in 1902, Victor Emmanuel
I. in 1881, and Charles Albert in 1919; and
it is rumored that this traditional policy
will also be adopted by the Re Gallantuomo
in favor of Prince Humbert,
If Dr. Livingstone has really discover
ed that one Of the sources of the Nile rises
ten degrees south of the equator, that river
becomes the longest III the world. The
distance from such q southern latitude to
Cairo is about equal, in an air line, to the
distance from the mouths Of the Mississip.
pi to Sitka, in Alaska, or to .Upernavik, in
Greenland, or from the Isthmus of Pana.
ma to the mouth of the st. Lawrence Riv.
er.
At the New Albany (Ind.) Rolling Mill
two bars of railroad iron have been made,
one Of which is SO feet inches long, and
the other 60 feet. The usual length of @
bar of railroad iron is 81 feet, and it re.
quires six men to work the rolls and handle
the levers, tongs &c. In the rolling of the
GO feet bars it requires as many men as can
, well got around it to put it through the
process Of manufacture.