Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,
How was Jonah punishedp Whaled.

out of GAG, 100000 posted in 1870.
ACCORDING to tho official report, the
British Museum Of London was visited by
421,2l7 persons in 1870.
WHILE California wasp and tarantula
were fighting, q toad swallowed both and
soon after expired in great pain.
THE Washington Life Insurance Com
pany is increasing more than two thou
sand dollars per day, above all losses and
expenses.
IF you want to eat just such pudding
rs your mother made when you were {.
boy, you must somehow revive boys
appetite and palate.
JOSH BILLINGS says: Adversely has the
same ettckt on \ man that severe training
! duz on the puglist-it reduces him tcw
his fighting weight
A Tlrusv1IA,E oil prince ground lame
soldiers hand organ and collected stamps
the other night realizing $50 for the vet
cram in short time
DIR. RUSSELL. says the reason why Sun
day is the hottest day "f the week is be-
cause people have nothing else to do but
scrutinize the weather.
| How strange that my wife and mother
should oppose life insurance! Death
| comes! A husband and father falls! Then
poverty comes Insure in the Mutual Life,
of Chicago.
The pastor Of the Baptist Church in
Cambridge, Mo, baptized two young
ladies the other day, and then married one
ofthem right there in the church, before
she had time to get dry.
II FEAR" said country minister to his
flock, "whcn l explained to you in my
last charity sermon that philanthrOphy
was the love of our species, you must have
misunderstood me to say specie, which may
account for the smallness of the collcc-
ton. You will prove, l hope, by your
present contribution that you arc no
longer laboring under the same mistake"
A PHILADELPHIA physician writes to
the Post to correct an impression that
blackberries are useful or harmless in
cases where children are convalcscing
from diarrhGa or cholera in(antum He
says that from close observation during
several years, meantime enjoying large
practice he is forced to believe that there
is no other cause so fatal to life in these
complaints as eating blackDcrries.
n RELIGIOUS paper prints the following
paragraph: cit is asked Of all new spn.
pcrs, desiring the spread Of truth and the
destruction of error, that they publish this
request and prayer to Almighty Power,
that on the three first Sunday nights in
October, 1871, there shall appear in the
heavens distinct light in the shape of Il
great Cross" and, furthermore, all good
people are urged to pray earnestly for this
miraculous sign.
A FEW days since a gentleman entered
Photographic saloon in Boston, and ask
Cd the proprietor it it was good dizzy for
taking pictures. The propri. tor looked
carelcssly up and replied that it was.
"Wcll," remarked the visitor, "look at
rue and see if you think you could get y
likeness of me-" The artist this time took
IL good square look, and in few moments
studied out the features of his father,
whom he had not seen for many years.
A NEW BRITAIN pastor was bit care
less the other day, in his selections Of the
to-be omitted portions of the good old
hymn, IN which occur these lines:
'Shall such worthless worm AL
Be found at thy right handY'
The next stanz Was omitted, aud the choir
commenced singing:
"Prcvent It, prevent 1t by Thy grace"
Those who were not using their hymn
books went home with the impression that
there must have been some mistake.
AN English writer has been engaged
in estimating the amount of gold in the
world in bulk He says it could-mclted
in lump-bc contained in cellar twenty
four feet square by sixteen feet in depth.
Says, too, that all the boosted wealth taken
from the gold mines of California and
Australia could be melted and put into an
iron safe nine feet big b and nine f ct square
A small lump, indeed, to cause as much
labor and sacrifice as it has to obtain it.
TIE Montello, (Wis) Express says
Michael Groulkie was walking through
his corn patch one day recently, and found
a large overgrown ear, and supposing it to
be a false or Il smut ear, plucked it and
stripped off the husks, when he found q
of the size and shape of a human hand
with thumb and fingers in their proper
length, and all properly adjusted, only
there aye six fingers instead of four, and
two of them are grown together.
NOT many miles from Boston certain
farmer owned contrary horse. While
driving home with load of hay some
time since, the horse concluded not to
move any further; whereupon the farmer
pulled out small quantity of the hay,
placed it under the horse and set fire to
it. The fire had the desired effect, for it
obliged the horse to move. Hcstarted for
ward just enough to clear the flames, and
the entire load, with the wagon, was de-
stroycd, the farmer having as much as he
could do to clear the horse from the
wagon in season to save his life.
THE inundation of It'll, which swept
away a great part of the old Tyne Bridge,
Newcastle, WAS long remembered and al,
lulcd to with emphasis as 1.-THE flood"
On one occasion Mr. Adam Thompson
was put into tn" witness box at the assizes
The counsel, asking his name, received
for answer, "Adam, sir Adam Thomp-
SON." "Whcre do you livcy" AT Para
disc, SIR paradise is a village about a
mile and half west of Newcastlc.) "And
how long have you dwell in Paradisey'
continued the barrist,r. "Evcr since the
flood, was the reply, made in all simplici-
| ty, and with no intention to raise laugh
l, is needless TO say that the judge asked
for III explanation.
BARON JAMES DE RoTHsCH1LD, during
the Communist period in Paris, was one
morning seated in his cabinet when two
fellows from the ftubourgs, armed to the
teeth, entered and asked to be shown in to
citizen Rothachild. "Gentlcm"n," he said,
"what can do for you?" "Wcl), tins is
| what we have got to say. You have mil
lions Of money, and the people want
bread; so you must share, or if not -
Share? Very well. How many are you in
France?' Perhaps thirty millions -
"And how much money do you suppose
have?" essay hundred and fifty mil,
lions" We'll, then, among thirty mil
lions that makes five france head. You
are two; here are ten francs for you, and
now we are quits :" The men were so
COMPOUNDED by the argument, and by the
rapidity with which the whole incident
occurred, they took the money and disap-
peared.
In the stomach Of q horse which was
accidcntly drowned in Scotland lately, are
said to have been found horse nails,
broken; y round nails from one to- two
inches long, 10 single flooring nails, "a
one and 81 half inch nails, 81 broken nails,
various sizes; 81 one and quarter inch
nails, 1 one inch Zinc nails, - five Fights
to one inch tack nails, II; shoe lacks, 3
slate nails, 4 screw nails. Tic total num-
her of nails was thus 2G9. There were
also common pins one and a quarter
inch long each, I blue b. al, brass but
ton, metal button, 5 metal buttons
marked V. NJ, 25 pieces of galvanized
wire, 3 copper nailhcads, 4 small metal