Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-08-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

land. weighs about 100 TONS
PREMIUMS, policies and dividends are
Maid in cash in the Washington Life In
s,1rance Company, Of New York.
Ir il strange that grocers never become
rich, since they always give their goods
weigh.
"REMEMBER, life is but dream; Its
date the intermediate breath We draw"
Insure in the Mutual Life, of Chicago.
A NEW ORLEANS man who tried to
frighten his wife by playing burglar, hopes
to recover, even if they can't find the bali
IT is announced, upon the best medical
authority, that it is easy to see through"
man who has pain in his side.
Two firms in Natick, Mass, annually
consume the skins of two thousand horses
in providing envelopes for the balls used
in the great national game.
A UTICA man sat on his umbrella at q
lecture to prevent its theft. When nc got
up it was gone, and he wants to know
where and how.
AT spiritual meeting the other even
ing gentleman requested the medium to
ask what amusements were most popular
in the spiritual world. The reply was,
Reading our own obituary notices"
A WOMAN in Oxford County, Maine,
eighty-two years old, who worked for
twenty-five cents q day and saved the
money, has just given 1900, her wages for
four years, toward building Universalist
church.
In THE DRESSING RooM-Husban
Mary, dear, aren't you we'll ; why don't
you come down stairs?' Wife-"Oh,
I've got one eyebrow blacker than the
other, and can't find pencil anywhere,
and it won't wash off; don't know what
to do at all"
THREE McCartys, one with baby,
have walked from Indianapolis to Phila.
delphia to look after tract of land be-
longing to Cornelius Titus McCarty, de-
ceased The Philadelphia Press says
they were dusty and bart footed after their
tramp for thirteen weeks. They begged
their food along the route.
greater than that OF the average American
hideous in the single block of tenement
houses bounded by Baxter, Park, Null
berry and Bayard streets Yet nothing
can tempt them from this contracted
scene OF concentrated pestilence and
misery to broad, pleasant and happy
pastures in the West.-New York Tribune.
TUE brigands are again committing
their depredations in Tbessaly. Recently
they captured boy, for whose release the
chiefs demanded from the parents so exor-
bitant ransom that they were only able
to furnish part Of it This part was &C.
ceptcd in part payment, the brigands' mode
of recovering the other part being to mu-
tilate the poor boy before releasing him.
His nose and ears we're cut Oft; and he is
now in q military hospital at Athens.
THE manager of London theater OBJ.
some music, that one of the band was
quiescent, he leant over from the pit in
which he was standing and touched him
on the SHOULDER" Why are you not play.
ing, siry" II have twelve bars rest, sir"
answered the musician. Rest? Don't
talk to me about rest, sir! Don't you get
your salary, sir? I pay you to play and
not to rest, sir! Rest when you've done
your work, and not in the middle of it!''
EXECUTIONS of criminals in Prussia will
hereafter be performed with Oil axe having
q straight edge twelve inches in length
The cuIprits are to be fastened to block,
and their heads are to be buckled in such
a manner as to make it difficult for the
executioner to hit with his axe anything
but the neck. Heretofore, not few exc
cutions resulted in a manner horriying to
the sensibilities of the spectators, owing
to the nervousness of the execu.iOner, and
to the imperfect manner in which the vic
tim had been attach< d to the block.
AN old gentleman living near Newbury.
port, Mass, called for cough medicine at a
drug store the other day. The first dose
stiffened him out as stiff as stake, and he
lay on the floor two hours foam.ng at the
mouth, aud he swelled up as big as two
This he thought the effect Of his disease
and so he took another dose, and says that
it Strengthened him out sitter than before
He lay fOaming at the mouth for three
hours, aAd swelled up as big as three
When he came to himself be took spoon.
full of the medicine and threw it into the
fire, when it exploded with a great flash
and what remained in the bottle he dashed
against the stone wall. Then he went to
the store and found his bottle of cough
mixture all safe, but bottle fly poison
was missing.
A FEW nights since, at late hour, the
speaking tuOe at the Office door Of one OF
New Ravens popular physicians was useG
by some midnight wag, to the followin,
effect: The doctor was in q sound sleep
when he was partially awakened BY ,
"halloo" through the tube, when the fol
lowing dialogue took place: "Well, wha
do you wantr" "Does DR.. Jones liv'
hercr" ayes, what do You want?' CAR
you DR.. Jones?" Eyes" CDR. Simon
Jones?' Yes-yes! what do you want I?
why, how long have you lived here p
"Some twenty years; why2' Why
why don't you nsoUe ?" elf you stay Their,
about ten seconds more you'll Fl I'd | an
moving?" and he bounded out of bed, bu
the "patient" was heard moving" dowl
the street at a rate that defied pursuit.
A NEW and valuable invention has latel,
been made by An engineer on the Eastern
Division of the Erie Railway 1t consists
OF an arrangement by which an engineer
of a locomotive can instantly change hi.
headlight from white TO red light This
is done by means Of levers inside the
headlight, connected with the cab of the
engine by u rod, by which red glass is
drawn over the disc. The " culiar advan
tages Of this light are developed on q
double track. When two trains are ap
pr:achin.; each other On different tracks
and one meets with an accident which en-.
cnmb> rs both tracks with the wreck, the
light Can be instantly changed, thus show.
ing the danger signal Immediately, and
thus saving the three or four minutes nee
essary tor man to run ahead with the
signal.
THE new explosive called lithofracteur
literally stone breaker, has attracted con
siderable attention in Europe. 1t is com
posed of nitro g'ycerine, gun-cotton
CELEBRATES, infusorial earth, and the constiS
uents of gunpoWder The exact proper
tions aud the manipulation in the prepare
ton of the compound are known only tc
the inventor, Professor Eogcls, and the
manufacturers, Gebruder & Krebs, of Col
ogne. 1t is of the Conscience Of sof
putty, and cannot be exploded by concus
sion. When lighted in Ihe open air. il
simply burns without explosion; wher
confined and igni1ed by illuminate, its
ust d it for destroying siege guns after thu
capture of Fort Iesy. tits now used fol
blasting purposes in England. One pound
and one and a half ounces of lithofracteul
fractured twenty six feet of rock, and q
similar quantity Of the explosive brought
down twenty tons of rock and lOosened au
enormous mass behind the bore. This
new compound is gaining ground in Eu.
rope from its non liability to explode in
transportation, by conclusion, or by the
changes in the atmosphere.
AN old farmer went into store in New
Lon ION, Conn, some time ago, and after
purchasing and paying for small GUAM.
,lty OF goods vent out, leaving his pocket,
Dook OPEN on the counter Onc of the
clerks di> covered i. and resolved 70 tam.
per. with it. Visiting one of his ON
pockets, he selc' ted three fifty shin.