Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
BREVITIES.
Kentucky has. 19, ,484 masons

How to overcome your sorrows-
strike one of your own sighs.
---Dofce<ivo gas burners cost london
| 2,5OO,0O0 for waste.
Mine miles were ran, in seven minutes
by train between Macon and Columbus,
Ga. =
In New York city during June, July
and August there were forty:two rainy
days, during which rain fell to the amount
of 1922 inches. >t
New Jersey has published the follow
ing pathetic epitaph:
She was not smart, 'he was no: fair. ~
But hearts with grief for her are swellin';
All empty stands her little chair
She died of eatin' watermelon.
Business men, attention! Said little
four year-old: Mother, father won't be
in Heaven with us, will he?" "Why not,
my childs" Because he cantleave the
store" b''
Henry w., ST France, being told by
his gardener that there were several spots
at Fontainebleau in which rno5vegetable
would grow, requested him to transplant
bed Fl attorneys, for they would flourish
anywhere.
w. K. Wight, of Cambridge, Ill.,, in
digging a we'll, came upon a log eighteen
feet below the surface Of the ground. It
appeared like spruce, and was surmounted
| BY about four feet of black soil, similar to
the surface soil, but packed so hard 1t was
difficult to dig through.
"A bright pauper in Maine handed this
request to the pastor of SkoWhegan
church on recent Sunday: "Mr.-de-
sires prayers for the overseers of the poor,
that they obey the laws of the State and
furnish him decent pair of boots or shoes
to walk to meeting h. ri
"A correspondent has been figuring
up the miles of existing telegraph wires.
II appears there are 100000 miles In
Europe, 10000 in America. $4,000 in
India. 10000 in Australia, and 10000 of
submarine cable. Total 684 900 milee, to
Y hich there are additions being made at
the rate of 100000 miles, per year. At
this rate of increase it will not be many
years till all communications are made by
lightning, and nearly as cheaply as they
were conducted twenty years ago by mail.
-Charlcston, s. G., has citizen who
is blessed with wonderful appetite. He
is very fond of blackfsh, and his mode Of
eating them is commendable for simplicity
and celerity. Taking half pound one in
his fingers, he inserts its teeth in its sides,
and drawing it quickly along, from ono
side of his mouth to the other, he lays
down the denuded back bone-au that 10
left of the fsh-in about two seconds.
When he dimes at hotel, and the bill of
fare is shown him, he eays, "Yes, that Is
what I want" If the waiter asks him,
(which ?" he replies, Why, all of it, to
be hure." All the hotel keepers strive for
his patronage.
AS illustrative Of the character Of
men who come from the South of Europe,
a New Orleans paper notes the fact of q
msn being brought to the police station
severely wounded by cut with knife,
and who refused to tell anything about 1t.
He pretended not to know who cut him,
and scarcely knew his own name. While
lying at the station man visited him and
nursed him with care This stranger actu-
ally sucked the blood from the wound
with his mouth, and when asked his name
answered with shrug Of his shoulders,
saying he did not know the wounded man,
never saw him before; and yet subsequent
events established the fact that he was the
very man who had inflicted the wound.
"A Southern paper gives On account Of
An aged freedman. who, having saved
enough of his earnings to send his boy to
school, concluded that he would get
double return for his money by becoming
in turn pupil Of his son; and by so doing
secure for himself the benefit Of an educa-
ton. Having mastered hiss A. B, @, and
conquered b abs, the old gentleman was
given lesson in words Of three letters.
By this time his enthusiasm for learning
slackened, and he grew. careless. His
thirst for knowledge ceased altogether,
when, upon spelling the word dog, d-o.r-g,
his son, with q we'll seasoned hickory, gave
him tremendous fogging, assuring him
at the same time that such discipline was
indispensable to the requirement of good
education.
On the eastern slope Of Clark Noun
tain. New, near its summit, there is per-
pendicular cliff 25O high. AT about 100
feet from the base Of the!cliff, on its front,
are engraven the characters II L D. The
cross and the letters are of immense size,
being fully sixty feet in height, and cut
into the cliff two and half feet deep-so
that they can be plainly seen at distance
of five miles. BY whom this strange
workmanship was done is unknown. The
fact, however, that the letters are the
Roman character, and are preceded by the
figure of cross, would make it appear
that it was done by the:Jesuit mission
aries, who we're known to have been IN
that region many years ago. The Indians
know nothing of its authors, nor have
they any traditions concerning their origin.
1t has long been believed that the
earth Is composed of q molted n ass en-
veloped in solid crust, but the thickness
of the crust has remained q subject Of
vague conjecture. Professor Thomson,
however, now shows to the British Asso-
citation that no thickness less than 1000
or $500 miles would enable the crust to
resist the tide-gatheriug force of the sun
and moon. A thinner crust, he SAYS,
would be bulged up by tide within the
molten mass like the tide OF the ocean.
Experiments bearing upon this interest
ing point have lately been made during
the operation of sinking q shaft at Wiean,
and in which 1t was found that the tenn
perature of the strata, which at depth Of
l6l yards was 64114 degrees, rose to 93111
at s0s yards. The rise or increase of tenn
perature exhibited in this case was about
one degree Fahrenheit for every 54.67 feet
Of descent into the earth.