Mower County transcript., 1871-12-14
Miscellaneous Items.


Baltimore from Havana on Wednesday
last, were down with the yellow fever.
NAsBY says the first time he lectured
was in Philadelphia, and "to mag
niticent audience of red plush"
PETER NUaENT, an old employe OH
the Burlington and Missouri Road, wa
killed at Council Bluffs, on the 18th
inst, by railroad accident.
EDWIN BOOTH is now sole proprietor
of Booths theater in New York, having
bought out the interest of his partner,
Richard A. Robertson.
BR1cK1AYERs in Chicago are demand
ing Sc per day, or they will quit work.
They recently demanded SIS. SO per day,
and, in most instances, this was acceded
to.
WORTH, the Paris -milliner, has:
moderated his prices, and will get up
for his old customers quite q decent
silk dress now for $500
HASs Christian ANDERsoN has in press
a volume of poems, which he dedicates
g to the memory of Charles Dickens,
the greatest humanitarian Of our age' y
A YOUNG man and woman of Mar
shalltown returned from their bridal
tour last week, and Immediately form
ed q business co-partnership i'll the
photograph line.
A GANG of seven youths, from Is to
II years of age, have been plundering
at Davenport. They were arrested,
and report that they are from Des
Moines, and are travelling as profess
s1onal thieves.
VIM. NJ. TWEED had lively greeting
the other day at Norwalk, Conn. As
soon as be alighted from the train, the
other passengers on the platform set
up cry Of j" stop thief" and kept it
up until he was out of sight.
GEN. SHERMAN, in speech in New
York, said, II go abroad in no official
capacity, and Lieut.. Grant, as we'll as
myself, pays his o,On aUay. Perhaps
this may put quietus upon the talk of
big pay and mileage"
THERE Is crazy negro in Nashville
who imagines that he is in flames and
burning up, and therefore undergoes
the most terrible of mental torture.
Every once in a while he breaks out
with, 80, Lord have mercy upon
mel"
VERDI is described as an odd, puz-
zling character, stiff, abrupt, rough,
icy to mere acquaintances, avoiding
society, never expressing an opinion,
especially about musical matters;
man of untarnished honor and proverb
ial shyness.
A HUGE mastiff used window in
stead of the door through which to
make his exit from an Albany dry
goods stores. The owners gazes at the
spot in his pocket book where $3.50
reposed Git was the largest-sized plate
glass; but which is now gone, and
sagely concludes that it does not pay
to keep $40 dog to do that amount of
mischief.
A LITTLE girl named Anne Martin,
eleven years old, arrived in Meriden on
Tuesday afternoon, on the four o'clock
train, having come all the way from
Ireland alone. Her mother had been
watching every train for week, and
was extremely anxious. There was
joyous group when the little one sprang
to the arms Of her mother and was vel.
coined by waiting friends.
THE latest joke on Mrs. Wotdhull is
that of the Madison Democrat, which
asserts that her vote Was rejected by
the Board of Inspectors because De-
mosthenes, by whom she claims to be
inspired, was neither an American cit
iZen nor had ever declared his inteu-
tions to become such. Naturalization
papers shonld be applied for ut once.
AT Birmingham, near Pittsburg, they
were burning the bedding upon which
man had died of smallpox. when the
old mother of the deceased rushed into
the flames and snatchcd roll Of bills
worth $500 from the mattress. She
had forgotten that the money was con-
cealed in the bedding when she sent it
away.
A GENTLEMAN travelling in Tennessee,
just after the close of the war, over
heard the following conversation be
tween two women OF the country, who
had been to town, and were returning
home on the cars: No. l." What have
YOU in that paper?" No. 2-"Soda.'
No. IT, Soda what's soda 2" No. Q
' Why, don't you know what soda is ?
that ere stuff what you puts in biskit>
that makes 'em get up and hump them
selves.
ONE of the Board of Education, 60
ing his rounds as an amateur, put the
following question to n scholar in
country school: "How do you parse
Mary miiked the cow'?" The last
word was disposed of rs follows: "Cow
is noun, fcmenine gender, singular
third person, and stands for
Mary" Islands for Mary exclaim-
ed he, chow do you make that out2'
" Because" added the intelligent pm
pill, eff the COW didn't stand for Mary,
how could Mary milk her2"
TIE olive crop of the Mediterranean
countries has been very seriously in
jured by protracted drouth. Should
the crop in France also prove failure,
of which there is some apprehension,
the results will be serious. As it is, a
material advance in the value of pure
oil may be expected, and proportion.
ate advonce in the demand for and coet
of the cheaper substitutes, such as cot
ton and other seed oil, which have late
ly been extensively used as salad oils
and for the adultcration of olive oil
both hara oO1 oI>roo.1