Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS lIEASs
THE STONE TO DO Coop TuRN-Th
grind stone.
BEER fills many bottle, and the bottl
many bier.
By tho payment Of annual dividends tn
Mutual Life, OF Chicago, supplies insur
ancc at cost. Insure there.
MAKE friends with life insurance, tina
when you are old it may comfort you
Remember the Washington Life.
THE hair of the OK Empress Charlotte
OF Mexico has turned entirely white. Sh'
Is only thirty one years Of age.
DETROIT has post office clerk nance
Oliver Bedient One of his commenda
lions is that he is always o. Bedicnt
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Hartford
CCurant who has been sailing along the
Massachusetts coast, wonders WY Glou.
cester is spelled the way it is; and if that
is right, why shouldn't lobster be spelled
colchester
THE OK King Of Naples lives in the
same palace with his wife, Queen Maria
but he has not exchanged a w I'd with her
for several yesrs. The Pope some time
since refused to divorce them.
A SPRING looking exceedingly clear and
tempting, but strongly impregnatcd with
arsensc, was recently discovered in
Nevada. A number Of persons were
poisoned before its dangerous character
was known.
the beach, laid her infant on it, and then
went shell hunting; meantime the tide
rose, and when mamma looked around she
beheld baby and shawl floating She
bounded after them, and saved both the
precious articles.
THE Postmaster Of Boston cautions
business men against the practice of open
ing letters In the area Of the Post Office
and throwing the envelopes on the floor
Sharpers turn the practice to their advan-
tage, thus learning the numbers of the
boxes of the firms, and demanding their
letters.
THE following is the inscription on the
tombstone Of" Mary Jane, aged II years
months. in the Cape May Cemetery:
She was not smart, she was not fair,
And empty stands her little chair
She died OF eatin' watermelin."
AN old gentleman took huge volume of
history of a thousand pages, with maps and
illustra ions, into bookstore, few days
ago, and, saying he wished another copy,
offered to lend it to them as long as they
needed it to print another by.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania,
has freshman eighteen years old, who
has secured means, by buying and work
ing with his own hands a farm of eighty
acres near Omaha, to take him through
the cour-e and have his capital left when
he finishes. After that he will return and
show the world what he knows about
farming.
In 1860 the citizens of St. Anthony ap-
pointed committe to meet Mr. Seward
and others who were proposing to visit
the town. BY somo chance the commit
tee did not meet the party until they had
reached their hotel, when the spokesman,
by way Of apology, said: "Mr. Seward,
we are sorry indeed that We did not have
the opportunity of escorting you into
town; but we beg to assure you we shall
Of it,"
A SINGULAR and beautiful incident &C.
CURED at funeral in Cape Ann the other
day. Just at the conclusion Of the SER
vices over the remains, white dove sud-
denly made its appearance, and after max
ing the circuit of the apartment, alighted
upon the head of the rector who had con-
uuNtOA uAO CAOANloCos AACIC ~ Nu1Ct1y TO.
NAMED until removed and properly cared
for. 1t did not belong to the family, but
was the property of neighbor who re-
sided on the same street.
IT appears from statements made in
Parliament short time ago, that the
present system Of shilling kilograms adopt
ed by tho British Government, when it
took charge of the telegraph lines of the
kingdom, is working finely. The lines
are crowded with messages, and from
$4,000 to 49, 900 more are being now
earned than during the corresponding
weeks last year. The question of sixpen-
ny kilograms is under consideration, to be
tried as soon as there is sufficient extern
sion of the lines to accommodate the ex-
pected increase of business.
ONE of the most interesting questions
now discussed By astronomers, is that
which concerns the possibility Of the ex-
istence of central sun. The vast extent
of the range of influence exercised by the
law Of gravitation has suggested the great
probability that in the assemblage of stars
with which our system is connel ted, there
is centre of gravity around which they
revolve. As in the solar system such a
prinipe Is found to exist, the inquiry
naturally propounds itself. why it should
universe, and why, too, there should not be
some point or centre around which every
cluster and nebula may revolve.
THE smallest steam engine In the world
is in possession of John Penn, Greenwich,
England 1t will stand on three penny
piece Its base plate measures three. eighths
of an inch by about three-tenths. A few
minuti@, such as the air pumps, have been
omitted. So small are some of the parts
that they require a powerful magnify ing
glass to see their form. The screws are
one-eigtth of an inch in diameter, and
furnished with hexagonal NUS, loosened
and frightened with spanner. The whole
weight Of the model is less than three
penny piece. 1t works admirably, and its
crank shaft performs twenty to thirty
thousand revolutions in minute.
THE Corinne Journal asserts that, bv
recent chemical analysis, it has been ascer-
tanned that the water of Great Salt Lake is
losing it's saline properties at rate that
IT it continues in the same ratio as the,
last ten years have shown, will freshen it
altogether within the present century A
theory is advanced by one of the ale
men that the salt in the lake has not been
deposited there more than three hundred
and fifty years. and that the changes in
the lake from fresh to salt occurs at periods
Of five to ten centuries 1t is also state d
that alkalies and salts of the basin will in
time give place to another condition
governed by the atmosphere, out of which
tropc luxuriance and giant growth Of tim
Der are to come.
APooR woman named Lalanne, of Epar.
ras village, Upper Pyrenees County,
France, hearing that her son, private in
an artillery regiment, made prisoner in
Sedan, had fallen i'll at Custrine, Prussia,
determined to 60 to see him, and, if pos
sible, bring him home. She set out on
foot, and, despite fatigue and trial of all
sorts, she succeeded in reaching her child
and bringing him back with her. Her
neighbors could not easily express the ad
miration and sympathy felt for her. The
Minister of War, upon hearing of these
circumstances, gave furlough to her son
and sent her money enough to procure
medical assistance and medicines for her
boy.
A FIRM that had agreed to furnish two
hundred tons of coal for the Albany Capt.
tol, after they had finished drawing, pre-.
sented their bill to Colonel Cassidy, the
keeper of the building "That will be all
right" said the Colonel, "when you deliver
twenty six tons more" "What twenty
six toDs?" asked the contractors, in aston