Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-11-30
Ali Sorts Of ParagraDhs.


arising in consequence OF the fire.
IT is q mistake to suppose that the
sun is supported in the heavens by its
beams.
TIE government will have to pay
royalty Of two dollars and a half for
every Sibley tent in use in the army.
In Minila $4,000 women and girls
work at cigar-making, at average wages
OF scUcn cents per day.
THE first newspaper issued in Chica-
go was the Chicago Democrat, published
by John Calhoun, Nov 26, 1833
Poultry for the Grand Union Hotel,
in Saratoga, during the year just ended,
cost not less than $25, 900.
The New York Mail says the we'd
dlngs this season are to be quiet. It
says nothing about the honeymoons.
A sHREwD old lady compares her hus-
band to tallow candle; he always
sputtcrs and smokes when he's put out.
THE total amount of Salt manufac-
t1red in the Saginaw and Bay City
regions during October, was SO, 728
barrels.
"SooTHED with the left hand of q
mule " is the way they record the sud-
den demise of four Savannah men.
PARIS has imposed tax on cats of
GO cents per annum. This is as out
rageous as the infamous English bread
tax.
The Norwich Bulletin thinks that
the chief advantage of roasting chest
nuts is the rich and gamey flavor it
gives the worm.
IT is announced that the French gov
ernment pays the Swiss Confederation
2,000,O 900 francs for the maintenance of
Bourbaki's army in Switzerland.
AN Oswego brakesman went to sleep
in church, and electrified the deacon
who took up the collection, by remark
ing, drowsily, "That's all right; I work
on this road"
LOUIS NAPOLEON recently planted, in
the park attached to his English resi-
dence, a young shoot Of weeping viii
low from Longwood, st. Helena.
WHEN Horace Greeley is asked what
kind of music he prefers, he answers,
"The song of the harvest three beats
to the measure.
Down in the secluded wastes of Viii
son county, Tenn, they have sweet
potato. seven feet long, and they DO
talk of raising the tubers for building
purposes.
NATURAL gas wells are becoming very
thick in Painesville, O., and one has
been discovered near the seminary
there which is more than sufficient to
supply that institution with light and
heat.
Mrs. DIANA WICK, aged lis years,
died recently in Williamson county,
Tennessee She WAS twice widow;
both husbands were Revolutionary SOL
diers, and up to the time of her death
she was drawing two pensions from the
government.
SAMUEL +. BUrrERwoRTH, who fig
ured as Daniel E. Sicklcs' chief advis-
er in the killing of Key, and who after
wards betook himself to San Francisco,
where he became wealthy, has turned
up in Paris.
The editor of the New York Journal
of Commerce received the following
note: ''Pleasc find enclosed IS for the
Chicago sufferers from new born baby,
the mother wishing to mark it's entry
into this world by this little act of
charity"
TIE New York Evening Globe has
died again. Though one of the most
sprightly of the New York evening pa
pers, it could not make it's way. Its
death is the ffty-sixth which has over
taken New York daily journals within
brief period.
CALIFORNIA has been unfortunate in
the selection of names for her towns.
She has town which she calls Los
Angeles Ghe City OF the Angles), but
whenever d Celestial shows his face
there, every body turns out to hang
him. .-LouisviUc Courier.
The Emperor William has conferred
the newly-founded cross of merit upon
Baroness Charles dc Rothschild for
meritorious services in tending the
SICK and wounded during the war The
insignia of the order are accompanied
by the autograph letter from the EN-
press Augusta.
"MAY it please your honor" said 3
lawyer, addressing one of the Judges,
81 brought the prisoner from Jail on =
hobcas corpus" "Well," said far
mer, in an undertone, who stood at the
back OF the court, "these lawyers will
say any thing I saw the man get out
of cab at the court door"
A PENNSYLVANIA paper gives the follow
ing direction for useing the new patent
hen pills, "From one to ten boxes of
pills is dose for young fowls; the
best way to give the remedy is to tickle
the chicken under the wings until it
laughs, when the pills can be shot
down it's throat with a musket or horse
pistol
SUNDAY morning an intoxicated man
went into one of the New Haven church.
es and listened intently while the
soprano was singing solo. After she
had finished he got on the seat, and
waving bis hat, shouted, "Bully for
you'll" The CONSERVATION of the audi
ence can be imagined. The fellow was
elected by the sexton.
The dressing room used by the Lydia
Thompson troupe, in Brooklyn, the
other night, was on the basement floor,
and was provided with thick, ground
glass windows, and no shutters. The
consequence was that some two hun
dred spectators on the sidewalk were
treated to a most extraordinary shadow
pantomimc. Many people left good
seats in the house to witness it.
A NEwLY-MARR1ED couple, having oc-
casion to economize by moving to the
poor house in Kentucky, are deeply in
dignant because the keeper thereof as
signed them separate wards of the
establishment, and have brought suit
against him for violating the marriage
ceremony by putting asunder those
whom God has joined.
SAMUEL J. HoGa, editor of the Pine
Plains Herald, was robbed on the
Dutchcss and Columbia railroad be-
tween Bangall and Pine Plains We'd
ncs>lay evening, on his return from a
collecting tour. AS Mr.. Hogg left the
cars mysterious stranger in slouch :
ed hat brushed past him an dropped
ut his feet the missing wallet and hur-
ridly made off, disappearing in the
darkness.
One of the good results of the Chi
cago fire is said to be the destruction
of the fraudulent vouchers, ETC., of the
bogus MOntn war claims, to the amount
Of $S00,000. These were for supplies
furnished at exorbitant prices for
''war' where there was not hostile
Indian. The Evening Post will wager
an antique title that the ''Gallatin VAL
ley" claimants will reappear as lively
as ever, with the original bill and ex-
emplary damages added, as ''Chicago
c,1t1nrorc ,,