Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

for locomotive.
A ROBIN in Detroit has been taught t.
whistle Yankee Doodle.
THE Connecticut Legislature has ruiz
limiting prayers to forty minutes.
A PRUDENT man foreseeth the evil ant
hdeth himself Insure in the Mutual Life
of Chicago
TUE reason we don't hear Of girls giving
the mitten now a days they don't learn
to knit.
INSURE your Life in the Washington In
sur"nce Company, of New York, to tho
amount Of the mortgage on your house.
AN attorney observed to brother il
court that he thought whiskers very un
professional. "You are right rcplicc
his friend "a lawyer cannot be too bare
faced"
ONE Of the handsOmcst cottages in New
port is built upon rock, and has al iror
band which goes entirely across the roo
of the house AMI fastens it down securely
A PROVIDENCE merchant saves his um
brelas by ltting small piece out Of tht
handle, which he carries in his pocket
book ready to prove property at any time
B. blunder, the people of Worcest, r
Mass, have been ordered by the city al,
thoritics to renunlbcr their houses with
Roman numerals. The SpY shu(lders al
the thought Of CCCCNLlX over its own
door.
THE nomenclature of Massachusetts,
towns has improved with time. Dudley's
name in its grcencr years was Chargog-
gagoggmanchoggagogg N1arlboros had
even more liquid melody III those days,
OgCuioukOngquamesut.
BUTTERFLIES have been found flying at
sea, six hundred miles from land. Their
bu"yancy is great, and the muscular effort
of flying must be small, while the wind
drives them forward rapidly over great
distances
A CANTON, ILL.,, farmer, says: II was
going out past my corn crib the other
morning when observed large rat car
rying full sized ear of corn in his mouth,
with head erect. At the same time his
tail was wrapped around another, and an
extra large ear, which he was dragging be.
hind him"
THERE were recently thirty-n nine in
mates Of the Illinois State Penitentiary
who are under eighteen years of age -
thirty-two white and seven colored. Six
were sentenced for burglary and larceny !;
fifteen for burglary; nine for larceny two
for rape; two for assault with intent to
kill two for forgery three for robbery.
A Russian nobleman, who received his
degrees from the Universities Of st. Peters
burg and Heidelberg, as thorough student
Of Jurisprudence. and who can read, write,
and speak the Russian, German, French,
italian, English, Latin, and Greek Ian
guages, advertises in Hartford for q situa.
tlOn as cOachman.
For specimen of logical consecution
of ideas we venture to commend this,
from a schoolboys composition: "Tobac
co was invented by man named Walter
Raleigh. When the people first saw him
smoking they thought he was steam
boat and, as they had never seen steam
boat, they were frightened"
In the execution of recent deed by
man and his wife the wife was taken aside,
before the ACKNOWLEDGING was made, by
commissioner, who, in the usual form,
asked, "Do you execute this deed freely.
and without any fear or compromise Of
exclaimed the wife, I've had five hus-
bands, and never was afraid of any of
themw
BLACK bass have got into the Connecti-
cut river accidentally. Two ponds, with
outlets lca,ling to the river at points wide
ly apart, which had been stocked with
black bass At private cost, were carried
away by flood some two years ago, and
the fish swept into the Connecticut, where
they have quietly domesticated themselves.
Last year they hatched large quantity of
young, and this year have reappeared on
their spawning ground.
John ROUSE. why wilt thou do SOP"
said Thomas, Hazard, one of New Bed
f>rd's substantial Quaker merchants sixty
years ago, to Johnny Rouse, negro in his
employ, whom he found before magis-
trate, not for the first time, charged with
stealing. "Why wilt thou do so, thou fool
ish man? thou always gets caught" "Why
Massa Hazard" says Johnny, Il don't get
caught half the time."
ON the streets of Norfolk, Va, on re-
cent Sunday, little girl six or seven years
old was seen leading her drunken father
homeward. Resisting the efforts of all
other persons to take him home, he was
perfectly passive in the hands of his child.
After getting her father to the steps, the
little child threw her arms around his
neck and kissed him. All who witnessed
the scene and the action were affected
some to tears
A GENTLEMAN whose love of order was
largely developed had clerk in his en-
ploy whose habits about the Office were
any thing but orderly. Nothing under his
hand had fixed locality, and every thing
brought out reproof frem the employer,
who, after general lecture on the subj ject
of malarrangements, quoted the old pre-
cept, and said, "Sir, you should have a
place for every thing" II have, sir" re-
piled the janior, "a great many places for
every thing"
THE Bedford Meas says: "a Lawrence
County man planted tree in front of his
house and named it after his wife. Soon
the tree died, and the wife lived but day
or two after. Now you would be surprised
at the number Of men that are planting
trees in front of their domiciles and
naming them after their respective, if not
respected, wives-and the sickliest looking
trees that can be found, too-trees that.
with the tenderest care, cannot possibly
live more than two weeks. The women
see through it, and have resolved not to
die!"
A NOVEL experiment was tried in New
Jersey recently, in the case OF boy who
was drowned in Pen Horn Creek while
bathing Two Canadians, seeing men
dragging the creek for the body, ap.
preached, and told them they would try an
experiment. Accordingly, number of
bottles were filled with quicklime, tightly
corked, and thrown into the creek. In
about an hour one of the bottles burst
with great noise and soon the body rose
The Canadians could not explain the
theory further than by saying that, when
bottle floats directly over a corpse, it will
explode, and the body will rise.
PARENTS and teachers may learn valu-
able lesson from remark once made by
the Duke of Gloucester, the third son Of
the Prince Of Wales, father of George III.
He was dull child, and his mother used
to cause him great distress at times by
jcering him on account of his dullness, in
the presence of his brothers and sisters.
On one particular occasion she told them
to laugh at the fool. The sensitive child
held down its head and said nothing, upon
which the Princess changed her tone, and
accused him Of sulkiness. "No," he said,
81 was not su1ky; was only thinking"
And pray what were you thinking of?''
inquired the Princess, with increasing
scorn in her manner. IL was thinking,8
said the poor child, "how should feel if
bad son as unhappy as you make me"
FoR ten years Thomas Day was a tailor
in Boston. Twenty years ago he retired
from business on account of failing health.
For two or three years past he has suffer
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