Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-14
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BREVITIES.
Russia has 1,173,879 soldiers:

BREVITIES.
Russia has 1,173,879 soldiers:
-Austria's army numbers 217,0C0 men
and 81 600 horses.
-Philsdelphia has 1853 lawyers, 1913
physicians, and 2l,535 domestic servants.
What sort ofa person Is the "Swell OF
the Ocean" we have heard 80 much of
"A barber is always ready to scrape an
acquaintance, and often cuts them, too.
"A musk melon five feet long is one Of
the wonders of Los Angeles, California.
I'm time mulberry tree becomes silk
gown-and silk gown becomes woman.
"A Fort Dodge, Iowa, boy has been
made happy to the extent Of his kite
drawing out $500 feet of string.
New jersey has the paragon railway
conductor, who neither smokes, chews,
drinks nor swears.
"A gentleman in Massillon has a Latin
bible 1872 years old. 10 years older than
the one owned in Wooster.
Why do sailors weigh the anchor
every time they leave port? And do they
find it loses or gains,
What is the difference between a coal
bucket and fresh cod fshf One IL a coal
hod, and the other is whole cod.
Mr.. Lawrence Kpickerbocker, aged
sixty, and Miss Abigail Jenkins, aged sew
enty-two, were married at Halcott, Greene
County, N. Y. the other day.
"A dog jumped on the cow-catcher of
locomotive going at thirty miles an hour,
on the Northwestern road, the other day,
aud had free ride for ten miles.
Chief Justice Chase is said to have
recently purchased five acres Of land on
the heights of Narraganset, Rhode Island,
intending to erect q summer residence
there.
The Lake Tahoe and Central Pacific
Railroad Tunnel will be five miles long.
through solid granite, nineteen feet in
height, and twenty.one feet wide.
The rural portions of Rhode Island
complain that Providence has too much
power in their Legislature. 1t is a com.
plant seldom mace in any other State in
the Union.
The number of foreigners, short
time ago computed to be in London was
nearly 100000. OF these $4,000 were
Germans, 10000 French, $4,000 belonged
to the other continental countries, and
10000 were Americans.
-Forty-two of the tradesmen in the
southern part of London were fined, dur
ing a recent week, for having fraudulent
weights and measures. The papers call
the offenders "scurvy knaves," as they
cabbage wretched profits out of the ,or
mans loaf aud the old woman's ounce of
tea.
There are $50 600 miles Of telegraph
wire in Europe, 10000 in America, H.
900 in India, and 10000 in Australia
There are in addition 100 miles of sub
marine cable, and yet telegraphic exten-
sions throughout the world are going on
at the rate Of 100000 miles of wire per
annum.
"A young lady was entertaining some
friends the other evening, when one
she clapped her hands to her head and
found no. hing unslipped. The gentleman
quietly pointed to the braid of her dress,
off and lying on the floor. There was IN
audible grin.
Nitro elycerine explodes 1t q tempera
ture of $40 degrees Fahrenheit, and not at
$50 degrees, as is commonly supposed.
Electricity is without action upon it, and
| those experimenting Upon it are liable $50
says NJ. Champion, Of Paris) its latest and
most thorough investis sator), to headaches,
and very severe ores.
-"This is the 200th application In q
week. Go to the Deuce can't hire every
plaguey fool" That's what they say Mr..
Greeley wrote to man who asked for q
situa ion. The receiver couldn't make it
out, so he took it down to the Tribune
counting room, and the cashier, supposing
it to be an order for $500, paid him that
sum.
"This is nice butter, my boy" said =
storekeeper to twelve. year-old urchin
who had brought pailful of that article
to market" nice butter; III take all your
mother has to SELL" II don't believe
she'll sell any more" said the boy,
"'cause heard her say that she wouldn't
have sold that only rat fell into the
cream, so she didn't want to use it her
self"
Fanny, don't you think that Mr..
Bond is handsome mani" "Oh, no-1
can't endure him. he is homely enough" "
"Well, he's fortunate at all events an old
aunt has just died, and lett him fifty thou
sand dollars" Indeed is it truey Well,
now, come to recollect, there is certain
noble air about him, and he has fine eye
that can't be denied"
"A foreigner who heard of tho Yan.
kee propensity for Dragging, thought he
would beat the natives at their own game
Seeing some very large watermelons on q
market-woman's stand he exclaimed +:
What! don't you raise larger apples than
those in American" The quick witted
woman Immediately replied: Anybody
might know you was foreigner; them's
currants!"
They have great many charitable
institutions-some nine hundred alto
getLer-in London, and there are not a
lew with eccentric names and objects.
One society is called "London by Moon
light" another, the Metropolitan Free
Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough
Association" There is a Dogs Tempo
rary Home" and "Guilt Gardens" be.
sides "Coral Missionary Fund" The
charitably disposed can select "objects "
from wide range.
Bridget Graham, who died in the
f05th y ar of her age, was buried in CAL
vary c. metery, New York, a few days
ago Only her family attended, and fol
lb"eu Hc1 W lDc grave III tWCuSy -dAA &C
full coaches. She had fourteen children
and twenty-six grand chilren, and the
great grand children cannot be counted,
because many Of them are in Ireland, and
| others, numbering forty or fifty, are in
this country She was a farmers daughter
and farmers wife, and for the last thirty
two wears widow. She drank tea twice
day all her life, was hearty eater until
two weeks before her death, and required
watching only the last three nights: TAX
ing tive sons with her, she Joined Father
Mathew Society, Of which she continue
member in Ire Gland for twenty two years.
AS she advanced in years she took s,i,nu-
lants by medicinal prescription. She ate
food such as the rest Of the family, never
having all invalid diet until the last year.
She has been of full habit Of body, but In
extreme old age grew very thin. Her hair
grew abundahtly, and was such rs many
young bellies might envy to the last. She
liked singing, and retained her voice until
six months before her death.
Washington Pastry.