Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-12-07
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

All Sorts OF Paragraphs.
THE new Russian uniform is said to
be the costliest ever worn by an army.
A NEPHEW of DR.. Livingstone, the
African explorer, has been arrested in
New Bedford for drunkenness.
TRE mother of Hine, the Great Bar
rington bank robber, has become in.
sane in consequence of her sons crime
A COMPANY of Cinnamon have COM
menced drying and smoking wild geese
in Los Angeles for shipment to China1
The value of the direct importation
of dry goods to the Pacific coast is es-
timated at more than 800, 900, 900 an
nually.
A MUSICAL whisky bottle is the latest
combination of art and convenience in
Macon, Ga. Everybody is drinking out
of it and wondering.
CINCINNATI burns soft coal, and is
very smokey. It has just discovered
that the yearly injury to the city from
this cause is So, 600, 600.
Some one asserts that tailor's full
allowance for supper in dull times con-
sists of pinch Of snuff, drink Of Wa
ter, yawn, and go to bed.
DELMoN1co's (or any other man's)
oysters la poulette are anything but
fowl, though they are generally picked
by judicious gastronomists.
ANTHONY TRo1nopE has safely arrived
at Melbourne, having written an entire
novel on the voyage. He will return
to Europe by way of the United States.
A NEW drama, founded upon Charles
| Dickens unfinished novel, is in prepa-
ration at the Surrey, London. It will
be called 1.-THE mystery at Cloister-
! ham,"
ALEXANDER DUMAS, the elder, died
| with only one gold piece in his pocket,
ter is married to one of the wealthiest
landed proprietors in France.
FIVE fashionable and leading New
York clubs have succumbed within the
past four years, which speaks well for
the increase OF domestic virtues and
married felicity in Gotham.
A NEw-YoRK butterfly, giving her Or
ders to her modiste, said !; |'I want
! all the lace on my dress you can get on.
want real lace do not limit you in
price leave you to select it,
NEARLY all the young gentlemen have
their overcoats made with a pocket in
one side, lined with flannel or fur, in
which lady may slip her hand when
walking on cold winters evening.
EDWARD BRYANT was buried at the
bottom of we'll forty feet deep, in St.
Johnsbury, Vt., last Wednesday. His
body was recovered after twelve hours
unceasing toll by large force of neigh
bors.
The young ladies' cooking match for
the $75 silver set, at the Columbus
(Ga. fair, commenced few days ago.
There were number ofentries. and the
young ladies were serving up some ex-
cellent eatables.
The late Mr.. Buckingham Smith,
formerly lawyer in Portlam, but of
late resident Of St. Augustine, Fla,
has bequeathed about $35, 1000 to erect
a hospital for the exclusive use OF col
ored people at St. Augustine.
WM. A. W. WHITE, New York news
boy and bootblack, has just been in
formed by relative, that conseqent
upon the death of his grandmother, at
Mullinavat, ireland, he is the fortu-
nate heir to 223, 1893 or SIG, 400.
A MOVEMENT is in progress in Texas
having for it's object the erection of a
monument to the memory of Deaf
Smith, the celebrated spy, who con-
tributed so much by his endurance and
bravery to secure the independence of
Texas.
The little "rodent" squirrels that
swarm in California, are being turned
to account for glovemaking A COM
pany of French tanners pay fifteen
cents skin. One farmer has trapped
and skinned 80, 900 of the little pests of
the grain fields within the last fifteen
months.
A MAN once went to lawyers Office
and told the legal gentleman that he
had been insulted by man who had
told him to go to -, and desired to
know what he should do. The lawyer
suavely said: "I would not advise you
to go; the law don't compel you"
A LITTLE girl was told to spell ferment
and give its meaning, with a sentence
in Which it was used. The following
was literally her answer: "Ferment.
A verb signifying to work. love to
ferment in the garden"
A LADY, sitting in the same box of an
opera house with French physician
was much troubled with ennui, and
happened to cape. "Excuse me,
ma 'am," said the doctor, 81 am glad
you did not swallow me-" "Give
yousrelf no uneasiness," said the lady.
II am Jewess, and never eat pork"
In advertising his stolen coat, man
of Rochester says that if the party who
took the garment will only return the
contents in the pockets and pay for ad-
vertising the loss, he can have the coat;
or if he will answer the letter which
the owner received from his little
brother, he can have the coat, con-
tents and all, providing the photographs
which were in the pockets are not
palmed off as originals of the thief
A PREACHER, whose business it was
to indulge in very long sermons, ex-
changed with one who preached short
ones. At about the usual time for dis
missing, the audience began to go ont,
uAAOAA ACoAA ~ AA1 AttIA AO1O, "uCu CuO SEA-
ton, who had stood it as long as he
could, walked up to the pulpit stairs,
and said to the preacher in whisper,
"When you have got through, lock
up, will you, and leave the key at my
house next to the church."
The great Illinois river dam at Henry,
Which was completed October 21st, is
a perfect success, and there is now fully
six feet of water on Tree.top Bar, for
many years so serious an impediment
to the navigation of the Upper Illinois
during seaaons of low water. The dam
is feet high. The lock, which is Is
feet wide and 1926 feet long, will soon
be completed. The whole work-the
dam, with it's extensive wings, and the
lock-will cost about $3.50, 600.
The policeman Ballads" or t'War
and the Military" just out in London,
has the following sharp distinctions,
which strike us as being the old story
of Alexander the Great and the robber
versifed:
"By eeneralship's requited
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