Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-21
BKEVLTIES.
The best cures for sulks, Judy says,

The best cures for sulks, Judy says,
arc silks.
The women of Massachusetts pay
taxes on $132, 600, 000-nearly one-te nth Of
all the taxable property of the State.
Steam engines to the value of e939, OPS
were exported from Great Britain during
the six months ending June 80.
A late traveller In Patagonia says that
the average height of the male inhabitant
is considerably over six feet.
The importation of opium prepared
for smoking during the last fiscal year was
!5,121 pounds, of the value of 81, ,926. .915
Ninety thousand immigrants came
ihto the United States last year from Brit
ish America. Many of these were Euro
pcans, but the majority were Canadians.
The first man in Boston who made
tin milk-can," died recently, aged eighty
six years. He had occupied the same
place of business for more than sixty
years.
According to the official German re-
port tho various French armies lost, dur.
ing the recent war, 445,769 prisoners,
5,SlG cannon, III mitrailleusce, 50 eagles,
and 81 stands Of colors.
"A dead whale, ninety feet long, was
washed ashore at San Francisco the other
day, and sketchcd by Bierstadt, after
which he was cut up into steaks.
Bachelors Toast" Woman-The
morning star Of in fancy, the day star of
manhood, and the evening star of age.
less our stars, and may they always be
k pit at tGlescopic distances!'
The oldest tree on record, in Europe,
is asserted to be the cypress of Somma, IN
Lombardy, Italy. This tree is believed to
baye been in existence al the time OF Julius
Cesar, forty-twO years before Christ. and
is therefore 1911 years old. 1t is 1OG feet
III height, and 20 in circumference at one
foot from the ground. Napoleon, when
laying down his plan for the great road
over the Simp]on, diverged from u straight
line to avoid injuring this tree.
One man in a hundred reads a book ;
ninety nine in hundred reads q newspa'
per. Nearly a century ago, when the
American press, which is now spreading
oak, was in its green twig, Thomas Jeffer-
son said he would rather live in country
with newspapers and without govern
ment than in Il country with government
but without newspapers. The press, in
stead of being the fourth, is the first estate
of the realm.-GoIden Age.
The probable production of pig iron
in the leading countries Of Europe in 1872,
il thus gwen: Great Britain, $500, 900
tons: France, 100000 tons; Germany,
1907 600 tons; Belgium, 526 600; Austria,
3G5 600 tons; Sweden, 293 900 tons; Rus
tia, 100000 tons; and other European
countries, 100000 tons. Assuming that
this estimate is approximately realized, the
production Of pig iron in Europe next
year will be about 9.73} 600 tons. The
actual European production in 1865 was
S,313OCO tons.
some years ago, a fve-year old boy,
after saying his evening prayers, asked !:
" Mother, will father go to heaven when
he dics?" {His father WAS largo man
with great huge frame.) "Yes, I hope
lie will; do not doubt he will. Why do
you ask?' "Oh, only wanted to know"
and for time the subject seemed to have
faded from the child's mind. But 1t soon
dropped out again. "Arc you sure,
mother, that father will 60 to heaven
when he dies y "Yes, my child, do not
doubt it /; why do you ask?' The little
fellow was silent for a moment, and then
burst out with: "Golly what whop.
ping angel he'll make"