Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-10-14
preuitics.
miscellaneous items.

OF Il brilliant colored: wedding in high life
Thirty five thousand dollars in thirty
minutes was made by one man in WalfSt.,
Oh Friday.
Milbu,n, the blind preacher has pre-
pared lecture entitled, "What blind man
saw in Paris =
Governor Walker, of Virginia, has ap-
pointed nine delegates to tho Southern
Commercial Convention.
The original press used by BENJAMIN
Franklin is said to be In l7C iliffarent
American printing offices.
An Illinois agricultural society offers
premium for the best made white shirt, the
bandlwork OF any of the county girls.
Chicago has called meeting 10 Or
ganize "base ball club to beat the world"
The Tribune says ''this is contamination
devoutly to be wished
"A railroad newsboy in Kentucky ia the
latest favorite of fortune He has fallen
heir to S138, 900 by the death of an uncle
in Europe
--ln the wild beast market an elephant
brings $4,5OO, a giraffe 5000, a hippo
potamus $4,000 a lion or tiger S., 600, u
gnu 81 500, and an ostrich $500
"A Staten Island belle has caught a
yonng English lord Lord Hubert Ainsley
who is visiting this country, and will be-
come Lady Ainsley in November.
There is on file at the Office Of the
Auditor of Missouri bill, one item of
which is: $40 one cartridge expended
on the body of Sam Hildebrand, two and a
half cents"
The coroners jury in the case of Chas
Myers, found dead ut Red Wing recently,
returned verdict that Myers came to His
death on the 10th ult., by means of q pis-
tol shot fired by himself
"A writer, who would probably object
to being called a transcendentalist, says
that the very religion of Boston may be al
most described as ''stressful and over
stimulated exercise of self-consciousness.
The rising generation OF Pigville. a
suburb of Hartford, have lately been dis
covered fastening cats together with fish,
| hooks, and allowing them to fight till one
or'the other was literally torn to pieces.
The Charleston Courier's cotton state
ment for the year places the total product
at 2, 35S, 800 bales. Its estimate Of the rice
! crop in South Carolina, Georgia, North
Carolina and Louisiana, is 81 1915 ierces.
AT Sheridan, Kansas, the vigilance
committee was about to hang half-breed,
when he requested the privilege of hanging
himself, which was granted: He put tho
rope around his neck, got into tree and
jumped, breaking his neck.
| A family which was residing in Lynn,
Mass, at last accounts, has, during the
past Gixteen years, lived in sixteen differ
1 ent towns. and cities, and mas occupied
twenty-eight different houses. During this
moving period the wife has become the
mother of eleven children. u - 49, j.
"A contribution was recently taken in
one OF the churches in Chicago, and on the
day following man who counts his prop
ecty by hundreds of thousands called on
ono of the elders and said: II made mis-
take yesterday, and put into the box ten
cents, when l meant to put in five cents. y
Kentucky is by greatest odds the
largest whisky-producing state in the
Union. There were in bond in that state
July 31st, 7,429,5 Sal gallons of spirits.
| Pennsylvania stands next to Kentucky,
with 2. us, 2l5 gallons in bond.
Alexander Hagner was buried thirty.
one hours by the caving of a we'll in ia.
maica, Long Island, on the 18th inst, and
dug ont alive. After his head had been un.
covered; 1t took six hours to extricate the
body, SO tightly was the earth packed
around him.
Within mile of Palmyra, Harrison
county, Indiana, is lake three-quarters Of
mile long and from one-quarter to one
half mile wide, in some portions Of which
the bottom has pever been sounded. II
has no inlet or outlet, and is filed with OK.
cellent fish.
Chicago is furnishing her Jail with q
library. so that prisoners may pass their
time in reading. Is that the way to pun
ish criminals, by converting jail into q
pleasant reading room Thos, thirstina
for knowledge without the means to grat.
ity it. will find Chicago Jail good place to
60 to.
The liabilities Of Clark Holt, of Rock.
vile, Conn.,, a large manufacturer, and
President and Treasurer of the Tollard
County Insurance Company will reach 6
quarter of a million. Mr.: Hollis wherea.
bouts is unknown. The soundness of the
insurance company is not affected.
-Late advices received from Buenoe
Ayres say: '.It seems that President Lopez
in the evacuation of Assurra moved every
thing, including his guns. During the pur
snit 5000 Allies attacked 1900 Paraguay
ans. The latter fought desperately. TIT
engagement lasted six hours, The Para
guayans lost $500 men and all their arch
ives and specie.
On Saturday last sperm whale wal
driven by the surf aud grounded on tn.
beach near the mouth Of the Kennebet
River, in Maine, where, after some Difficult
ty, he was captured by party of fisher
men. The captors are now engaged il
cutting up the animal, and it is supposed
he will yield some thirty to fifty barrels Of
oil. He was about fifty feet in length.
Mrs. Rebecca Lessig, who died al
Pottsville, Pa, last week, had taken nc
food for forty days. She was born in 1873
near Pottstown, Montgomery county, but
has resided in Scuylkill for the last twenty.
five years. She was left widow in 1907
with six children--thus making her period
Of widewhood sixty-two years, almost q
natural lifetime.
The lists of patents granted in France
contains some curious articles, among them
the following A hat with decorated rim
an umbrella bat; womans hygienic: and
impermeable skirt, called ala Prevoyante; :
stockings with carriers attached; M schan!
OF animals to the guidance Of steam car
riages on ordinary roads. III.
A little girl, twelve years old, named
Gesrgiana McCready, living in Philadel-
phia. was bitten by dog last July, and last
week Tuesday she was attacked by premon-
itions OF hydrophobia. The best known
physicians Of Philadelphia were called to
her aid, and with their sanction and that
Of all to whom the life ofthe child was dear.
her snfferings were stayed by the merciful
interposition Of poison.
A farmer in Hume township, Illinois:
| fQ0anilV 1nof n fno hArS ut
broke into corn-field, and gorged them
selves to such an extent that eighteen died
| from the indulgence. The local paper,
while regretting the farmers loss, congrat.
ulates him on having the largest amount
OF corned beef on hand Of any man in the
country.
Each of the eighteen states into which
China is divided has a separate dialect;
those of one state cannot understand those
OF another. Each state is sub-divided into
ten provinces, and great dissimilarity
often exists between the language spoken
in one province aud that used in another
the accent and pronunciation being diff
ferent.
Mrs. Martha Wilson. OF Providence,
Bureau county, ILL.,, has Chester white
SOW. not yet two years old, which is the
mother of twenty-eight pigs. Nthe eleven
pigs now on hand were sold at the rate of
the previous ones, the amount realized
would be over $780, The sire Of these
| pigs is IL pure Poland, and promises to
weigh, when fully fattened, considerable
over 500 lbs.
A Norwich man has Whitfield with a
pen-knife most curious and perplexing
bottle puzzle. He has taken an eight ounce
vial and set up in its interior perfect key