Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
PAPER CUFFs-Newspaper attacks.

PAPER CUFFs.-Newspaper attacks.
IT does not follow that man who bolt
his food will have the lock; jaw.
A GOOD man provides for his chill
dren. A policy in the Washington Life i
one way to do it.
| A SAVANNAH man was cured Of rheu
matism by the active movements he mad,
to get out of the way Of a mad steer.
TIE Mutual Life, of Chicago, reserves
by the highest standard in the Unitct
States, and gives it members the best Sc
culity.
A SAVINGS bank in New Bedford, Mass.
holds deposits to he aruount of six mill
ion do'lars-a sum larger than the aygrc
, gate banking capital Of the city.
THE Office of tho Waynesboro' (Pa.
Republican was recently robbed by bur
glars of two dollars. and the public wants
! to know if the editor came honestly by al
that money.
The Pittstield (Mass) Times says that
| fifty ' ears ago, man named David Hill
lard disappeared from that town, and nc
trace Of him could be found. A few days
ago he returned. He had been in Maine
and had never seen Il railroad until within
/ year. He left little girl, but she is now
grandmother.
A FULL-BEARDED young grandfather
recently lad his hirsute appendage shaved
of, showing clean lace for the first time
for a number of years. At the dinner
table his three-year old grand daughter
noticed it, "Gazed long with WONDERING
eye" and finally calculated: "Grandiather
who>e head you got on?''
WHEN the Emperors Of Germany and
Austria met at Wells, Francis Joseph in
troduced to William l. his adjutant, u
HUI garian count with only one arm.
"Where did you lose your arm, count "
! asked the German emperor. "At Sadowa,
your majesty" replied the count, "at the
charge OF your cavalry which you led
yourself" This reply effected tho On peror
SO much that no took the iron cross from
his breast and attacked it to that OF the
count.
Mr.. MORRIS PHILLIPS writes to the
Home Journal from Paris: "These who
60 10 Paris with the idea that they can
live CHI apply VII be sadly mistaken Be-
fore the war this may have been true; but
great change has taken place. War is a
costly game, and the lOoser must pay the
price. To help pay the Prussian demand
everything has been neutrality-suspicious.
with other commodities; per conseque nee,
hotel charges a'e high. I'rue, a good din
ner, ta5le dhote, is served with wine for
five francs, and the rate per night for lodg
ing is reasonable, but attendance is charged
separately, and SO are candles; and when
ths traveller gets his bill he is amazed
with items and extras he never dreamed
Of"
A BOsTON gentleman, travelling in
Europe, had his watch stolen from him in
Vienna, and offered a reward equal to fifty
dollars in our money. The wat h did MT
appear, and, when returning toward
America, he left his pane and address,
and the number Of his watch. A year has
since gone, and he gave up all hopes of
ever seeing 1t, when few days ago, his
Watch came to him in Boston, the ony
charge upon it beng one of fifty cents for
express transportation from New York.
The thi.f had been arrested in Vienna,
the watch fund upon him, and forwarded
by the city government of Vienna free of
charge to New York. This shows a de-
sire upon the part of the authorities til; re
to g cure the good wishes of travellers, to
say the least.
A DARING HUNTER.-Louis Kelley is,
perhaps the most daring aud successful
Indian hunter in the great We t. He
travels alone. fights alone, wears COM
plete suit of buckskin, and wears ,urban
around his head when out on the prairie.
He is said to be graduate of college,
and halls from Virginia OF South Carolina.
1t is thought he was Confederate officer
He is about twenty-five years OF age,
handsome, we'll formed and muscular.
The Indians dread him as much as they
ever did Kit Carson or Daniel Boone. He
never misses his mark. An Incian is as
good as dead the moment he draws sight
on him. He will travel weeks at time
through hostile Indians and never express
a thought Of danger. Kelley is now on a
trip to the headwaters of the Yellowstone,
a country never yet visited by any white
man. He is alone. He has been known
to dare dozen Indians on the open prsi.
RE to fight him in body. No Indian
will ever get within reach of his deadly
rife
THE Columbus (Wis.) Democrat says:
One Of the two children of family here
died the night before the circus. 1t be-
came an angel iuopportuneiy. But the
parents did not allow its sudden accession
to happiness to saddcn them Unfortunately.
When the morning looked into the vacan-
cy Of the little face, they had already
strAighten.d the limbs for the grave. 1t
did not hear the uproar of the approach
ing procession, but the bereavcd parents
did, and they left it alone it'll the con.
querar that spares not in ancy, and went
out to enjoy the grand entree of the lions
and monkeys. During their protracted
absence the undertaken came with his
casket He found the doors locked; but
death had entered unpermitted, and his
business is to follow. TIE coffin was de-
posted through the window on the floor.
Some time that day, the sorrow laden
parents found leisure to place the stii.ed
night they hied them forth again to as
suage their grief in the del: gifts Of the
leaving silence ard deser.
ton two careful watchers of their babe
A GRAND fashionable wedding, annourc-
ed to take place few days ago, in New
York, was postponed under peculiar and
trying circumstances. The groom, de-
tanned down town longer than he an'c,-
pated, fastened to hi, home to array HIM
self for the CEREMONY, and found that his
wedding suit had not arrived. He imme-
diately dispatched q messenger for the
MloS4uk SdllntulS, dHu Wditcu VIII WuaL
patience he could summon for his return.
The messenger returned, but not the pan
falcons. The tailor, Spanish professor
OF the art of cutting and IN king, had the
misfortune to have his establishment seiz-
ed for debt, and the wood-te bridegroom's
wedding suit was seized with the stock,
and wasin possession of the 5herlff. Fancy
the situation. 1t was almost the hour for
the Ceremony, and no clothes. The per.
spective Benedict jumped into a carriage
aud dashed wildly through the streets in
search of the myrmidon of the law, but,
when found, he was obdurate-no en-
treaties could move him to yield the wed.
ding garments. The bafflcd and disap.
pointed bridegroom, compelle against his
will to appear laggard in love, had to re-
turn to his home and indite an epistle to
waiting bride, explaining that, as he had
no clothes, thete could be no wedding.
Hydrate Of Choral.
THERE Is great danger that this drug,
Which was introduced 1rt1 than two wears