Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

PHILADELPHIA Is trying to discourage
the use of coal oil.
AN English lady has been sued fol
breach of promise by farmer.
TIE Lowell Courier asks its exchange!
to quit calling It the slow. Cour."
"A large swarm of bees occupy the
steeple of the German Lutheran Church
in Lancaster, Pa.
THE Mutual Life, of Chicago, is con
ducted in the interest of its policy holders
not to enrich stockholders.
A HOTEL KEEPER in Penn Yam, N. Y.
has sued the Board of Excise OF the village
for $4,000 damages for refusing him Ii
Ccnsc.
A CALIFORNIA politician says the path
ct rtcti'ude has been Travelled so little in
that State OF late years, that it has all run
! to grass.
A DRUGGIST has been sued for damages
in Waverly, N. Y, for selling laudanum to
a mans wife, and the ju.y have awarded
datnascs to the husband.
THE Washington is great public favo.
rite; the increase of business last year
over the year previous was greater than
that OF any other cash company.
THE Rev. A. Folsom, a Methodist cler.
gyman in Raymond, N. H., now seventy.
seven years old, walked to North Salem,
on recent Sunday, u distance of seven
teen miles, and preached three times.
ONE Of the largest hotels in Philadel-
phla Is owned and managed by woman,
and in one store, aAong several large ones
owned by women, a business Of over $780,
600 year is done.
Mrs. BARTON and Mrs. Eldret, two SIS
tiers, at Baldwinsville, N. Y, who had al
ways lived near each other, died the same
day recently, at the ages respectively of
ninety five and eighty sevcn, and ere both
buried at one time and place.
AN awkward young man, while rowing
lady on lrondequoil Bay few days sg0,
fell Overheard. She pulled him INTO the
skift by the hair, put him ashore, and then
rowed away home, leav ny him on the
beach to dry and to lament the results of
his stupidity.
JOHN KING, known as the first tceto-
taller in Great Britain, has reached an old
age of helplessness and poverty, and to
alleviate hl+ position all the tcctotalers in
the three kingdoms are to contribute a
penny each for his benefit. He is now in
his 72I year, living with his fourth wife.
RECENTLY, at an evening service IN one
of the churches in New Haven, the pastor
observed man in the back part IF the
church hltching about in his scat, and,
thinking he was suffering from con
! science that would not be quoted, he said,
docs the brother want to speak," The
man rising said, "No, sir, the brother
wants drink OF water" and then he walk.
ed to the altar and took drink of water,
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vices were proceeded with.
"a THERMOMETER should be placed in
an open space, out of the vicinity of high
buildings OR any object that impedes tie
free circulation of air. 1t should face the
north, to be always in the shade, should
be twelve inches from every neighboring
object, should be about fifteen feet from
the ground, and should be protected
against its own radiation to the sky, and
against the light reflected from heighbor-
ing objects, or the ground ITSELF" So says
Sigpal Officer Singleton, of st. Louis.
ONE of the Oldest if not the oldest
church in the Middle States is an cid P res
byterian pile in Derry Township, Dauphin
County, Pennsylvania. The backs of the
peWs reach past the top of the sitter's
head the communion service wa pres
ent from the house of Hanover, and the
small window panes arc fastened to tie
sash by lead instead OF putty. At an ad.
Joining church in a Dutch quarter, the
| collection is taken up in little black bag
tied at the end Of pole, with bells At
tached to wake the sleepers.
IT is stated that the damage inflicted by
the grasshoppcrs in Maine this year, must
be measured by millions of dollars. An
exchange says: In some places, both on
the Ambrose ggin aid Kenuebec, the
| into their grain fields to pick up what tn ir
arch enemy has left. There are many
square miles of territory where not q
bushel of grain will be raised, though be-
fore the dcsceut of the DESTROYER there
was unusual promise of a crop. Hun
dreds OF farmers who, two weeks ago,
were expecting at least a good crop of
corn, will hardly get an ear.
THE Worcester (Mass.) Spy has the fol.
lowing account of one OF its carriers; "A
novel and most faithful Spy carrier, it ap-
ptars, has been put upon one Of the nor
them routes OF this city, in the person of
an intelligent spaniel dog. This animal,
belons ling to farmer near BARRIERS Cross.
ing, comes to the regularly appointed place
nesr the eros ing every morning before
the passing of the Nashua traiu, and, TAX
l. x the paper in his mouth as it is thrown
out by the expr, ssman, diligently conveys
it to the residence Of his mast:r The
faithful csnine, after receiving his charge,
wat ehes the train with much apparent in,
terest till it is nearly out Of sight,
and then, giving significant wsg of
his TIL, darts for home with Geographic
speed"
L. MARIA CHILD, in writing upon the
az urdities of female fashions, say:
Seven or eight years ago bonnets were
hung on the back OF the head, and slipped
down On the shoulders, instead of buing
perched on the forehead and tipping over
the nose, as they now are. At that time a
bride in the vicinity Of Boston left her
fathers house soon after the marriage cere-
mohy, aud rode seven or eight miles in q
winter evening t. the div ling of h,r
husband. che became so silent curing the
latter part of the ride thatth brlde1 room
was al rmcd, and, there being no house ia
light, he drove as rapidly as possible
Arrived at his own door, he lifted corpse
from The sl.i III. Her bridal bon, ct liza !
afforded 10 protection from the severe
cold, and her brain was froZcn."
A GRAVE MIsTAKE-A queer mistake
occurred recently in burial, by family in
Cincinnati, # a young German woman
who had died at Il pest house, under the
supposition that they were burying their
mother, who was supposed to have died at
that institution. The mistake occurred in
telegraphing death from the pest house
to the Cincinnati Hospital, the patients
n"mbcr being used instead Of her name
The wrong number was given, or taken, in
the sending or rece wing of the message.
and it happened 10 be that of The old lady.
Notice that che had died wss sent to her
relatives. They, withou; caring to ex-
pose the body on eccount of the disease
(smsll-pox) had it turned over % them in
neat burial case, and Immediately burr, d
il. After the usual season of close mourn
ing, they were startled by the announce
ment from the hospital th,t their mother
was in fair way to recover.
The Fly On the Ceiling.
How the fly supports itself in opposition
to the laws of gravitation is one of the
first questions that the juvenile philoso-
pher undertakes to solve. As his small