Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

can live onr-Warfare.
WHY is the crow brave bird Be
cause he never shows the white feather.
The Washington Life Insurance Com
pany 10 one Of the strongest, safest, most
succe stul and best managed corporations
in New York.
THE new postal rates commence in
England October s. A letter weis hiog
one ounce goes for one penny.
A LETTER was received at the Chicago
Pot Office recently from Iowa, addressed
ITO Env HOesale Book Murchant."
LIBERAL and equitable in all its trans.
acti rs, tre Mutual Life, of Chicago, is
not excclled by any company In the
country.
A PHYSICIAN Of Washington estimates
the numbrr Of cases Of cancer now under
treatment in the United States at 100000,
with al average of 1000 deaths week.
In the Court of Special Sessions in New
York. few da sg', Justice Bowling
found the conductor and driver Of street
car guilty Of cruelty 10 an mas in carry.
Ing III exces i've al Of passengers.
JOSH BILLINGS says: Don't work be-
fore break fast. If it is necessary to toll
before breakf at, eat your breakfast first"
Now, if he cOul fix it 60 that We needn't
Work after breakfast!
THE Juniata County Jail, In Pennsylva-
Mia, has allen into state of dilapidation
through want of use. Recently man was
COL fined In it for some tritling offense, but
he fund his situation 30 ,nesome that
he made u>e of his curved foredneer as
key, uni cked the door and left the place
in disgust.
LOUIS NAPOLEON, now that the cares
Of state trouble him no more, ia develop
: Ing int a hume Gus old gent. On q re-
CENT visit t. Holly Lodge Col eye, the b 'ys
met to cheer him as he left, when he ad
dressed the u, saying that he could not
understand how Englis men could call
the climate Of Great Britain variable
when it rains all the time.
A SINGULAR illustration Of the mutabil-
ity of human affairs is mentioned in the
Massachusetts papers. A gentleman, some
years 40, in his prosper us days gave
square. The square still bears his name,
while he, penniess and friendless, Is an
inmate IF the 'wn almshouse.
A CURIOUS mtdic,l experiment was
tried in Russis no. long since, which illus
trates the Influence of the miod on the
boiy. Some murdcrers were placed, with.
out knowing it, in tour beds where four
persons had died. of the cholera They
did not take the sease. After ward they
were told that they were to sleep in beds
where some persons hal died of malig-
nant cholera; but the beds were, in fact,
new, aud had not been used at ALL New.
ertheless, three of them died of the dis.
ease withip four hours.
SCENE IN A PRINTING OFF1CE.-"Jim,
what are you doing there on the hoOr?"
"Why, sir, I've had shock" "A shock p
eyes, sir" What kind of q shock ?"
"Why, SIR one of your subscribers came
In during your absence and offered to pay
years subscription, which produced such
an effect upon me hat have been peri city
helpless ever since" mo wonder, Jim;
but cheer up; if you survive this you are
safe, as there is little prospect Of another
such catastrophe in this Office"
A WEDDING GIFT
All that have this day is thine,
heart whose faith has yer faltord,
A love that knew no other shrine.
and through all changes lived unalter'd.
Thine ali their love and faith should be-,
Had q thousand years to live
I'D gladly spend them all with thee.
There not a joy in all the world
Like that of love beyond dece wing,
Though bolt on bolt DO at 1t hui led
rhe heart will triumph hen believing.
A joy which but with thee know,
The rapture of first fond love
Which, welded, makes heaven below.
TIE French have story that Sir
Walter Scott once offered his youngest
dug ter her choice between a dowry Of
100 900 francs or "Quentin Durward."
She asked t. read the MS. took it sur.
reptitiously to publisher, found that he
wou give hrr 10000 francs, and dutl.
fully aud meekly told her father that she
wou rath have The MS. than the
money: Sir Walter was deep'y touched
by this mark of f1lial devotion. The
Paris journal which tells the story saws
that French girl would never have done
such thing as that. She would simply
have taken the 100000 francs, and-she
wou have found some way to have got
ten the romance also.
A NAN named David r. Spencer, with
his family, consisting of wife and three
children, arrived in Putnam County, Pa,
few days ago, having moved all their
earthly goods and family from East Ten.
nessee, distance Of five hundred miles.
in wheelbarrow. H. was just twenty five
day 8 on the way. One Of the children, the
youngest, he wheeled the whole distance,
while his wife and the other two children
walked every step of it. The wheelbsr.
row was built according to his own notion,
the wheels being four feet high, and the
body Of the concern standing thir y-four
inches from the ground. HI says he left
Tennessee because he could only earn fifty
cents per day there, and having relatives
living in Putnam County, he just thought
he would strike out for there, which he
di in the above novel manner.
MURDER will out is aud old adape.
and with rare RECEPTIONS has proved true
Often it is very little thing, and one
most unlikely to be thought of, which af
fords cleW to the crime, and fastens it
UPON the guilty party. The fact that re.
Gently certain dentistry work upon the
teeth OF young woman found dead helped
prove tn i'd nifty of the body suggests
case which many years ago greatly excited
the public mind. A pro ess r of q Boston
literary institution murdered DR.. Park.
man, practiciDg physician. In various
ways. by knife and fire, the murderer be.
lieved he had destroyed all trace of his
Wet m. But the ashes OF the furnace in
the tuild ng were examined by the Diet. c.
tlves, and there appeared the ev drnce of
identity and gullt-a set of falsh teeth, on
tn gold of VIII ch was ,mprint. d the name
Pa kmsn." A city dentist recognized
his own work, and this, with other cir
cumstances convicted the murderer.