Mower County transcript., 1871-07-20
BREVITIES.

Henry Clays OLD nome, Ashland, mas
been purchased by the University of Ken
lucky for $4,000:
There is a young lady in Camden
studying Latin. She has beau. He
asked her what sic transit gloria naundi
meant. She translated it, Come and see
me on Monday"
"A Hibernian gentleman, when told by
his nephew that he had just entered col
lege with view to the church, said: II
hope that may live to hear you preach
my funeral sermon"
"A party of boys, while playing in a
barn in Bluffton, Ind, found nest full of
eggs, and conceived the brilliant idea of
roasting the eggs in the nest. A new barn
will be built when the owner settles up
with the insurance company.
johnny was telling his ma how he
was going to dress and show off when he
was man. His ma asked, Johnny, what
do you expect to do for living when you
get to be man." well, III get married,
and lodge with my wife's pr"
The reports made to the recent New
York State Sunday School Convention
show an aggregate in the State of 4,123
schools; 64,405 officers and teachers 49,
347 pupils; 14,447 conversions; 726,217
volumes in library, and an expenditure of
$3.50, 1855.
"A Norwich man is very angry with
his wife. He bought an India rubber air
bed. She didn't believe it was healthy to
sleep on mattress that was not venti-
lated, and SO, during his absence, punched
about fifty holes in it. That husband has
lost his faith in woman's ingenuity.
An English chemist has been ex-
perimenting for the purpose of ascertain
ing how much of various kinds Of food
must be eaten in order to make one pound
| OF flesh. He comes to the conclusion that
it requires twenty five pounds of milk,
one hundred of turnips, fifty of potatoes,
| fifty of carrots, nine of oatmeal, seven and
half of barley meal and three and half
of peas or BEANS
The term mo cards" affixed to we'd
ding advertisements do not exclude visits
of congratulation. The gentleman and
lady simply notify thereby to their friends
that they take things as they are, and are
course, no notification of set day, for
such visits of congratulation, and you
should pay your visit after the honeymoon
is over just as an ordinary morning CALL
-Bonner's new stable on Fifty fifth
h,
most beautiful horse palaces in America.
The ground that it stands On is 5OxlOG feet,
! the building being 30x8O feet. The stable
itself is very ornamental building, hav-
ing much the appearance of one of our
modern church edifices. There are ten
box stalls in the building, and the ventil
latiOn and drainage are the most complete
that could be designed.
A., o,,%l,,~ o,cav&. That <l>o
length of mans life may be estimated by
strength to perform. Thus, allowing sew
enty for the common age of man, and sixty
pulses in minute for the common meas
ure of pulses in temperate person, the
number of pulsations in his whole life
would amount to 12,207 SEC, 900; but if,
by intemperance, he forces his blood into
a more rapid motion, SO rs TO give seventy
| five pulses in a minute, the same number
| Of pulses would be completed in fifty six
years; consequently his life would he re-
duccd fourteen years.
"A London matchmaker has construct
ed gold hunting watch which, in1addi-
ton to being time-keeper of the utmoft
precision, with chronometer adjustments,
compensation balance and cylindrical
spring, exhibits on the dial plate the fol-
lowing different indications: First, the
equation OF time; second, the moons age :;
third, the month of the year; fourth, the
day of the month; in addition to the
hours, minutes and seconds, as in an ordi-
nary watch. The mechanism is so con-
trivcd that any one or the whole of the
hands may be set forward or backward at
pleasure without deranging the rest. Ev-
cry movement of this mechanical marvel
is laid down in the strictest proportion,
and based upon calculations of an abso-
lutte scientific character, and the whole is
within the compass Of pocket time
keeper.
The number of dispatches forwarded
by the North-German telegraph offices in
1870 shows an increase on the business
done in 1860 in almost every direction ex-
Ccpt that of France The number ef
from 115,902 to 1907, to Russia from
64,O7} to 71,7s9, to Belgium from IS, ,654
to 57,348, to Denmark from 30,59O to a.
$50, and to Switzerland from 1S,76S to
23,S14. To France, however, only 7O,S74
dispatches were sent, instead Of 106, ,206;
a small part of this loss was covered by
the 15,7O7 dispatches sent to Alsace and
Lorraine. The entire number Of dis
patches forwarded hy the offices in North
crn Germany amounted to 9,129,97O; of
these, 1851 ,4S1 were forwarded from Ber.
lin, 1871 ,040 from Frankfort on. the Main,
1,241, ,567 from Cologne, 964,913 from
Hamburg, 643,629 from Breslau, and 591,-
Gl9 from Dresden.
"A remarkable triumph of surgical
skill is chronicled in the Louisville pa pers.
A few weeks ago boy, six years of age,
while playing on the stairway of the Gait
House, fell distance of seventy feet,
alighting upon stone floor, from which
he was raised apparently Il lifeless, shape
less mass In the course of his fall he
struck the projecting corner Of the stair
case, breaking an inch board across the
grain, and further down he struck and
broke al oak baluster an inch in diameter.
Numerous fractures and terrible scalp
wound were produced by this frightful fall
The right arm was crushed into pieces
above and below the elbow, both legs were
broken at and near the ankle joints, and
innumcrablc contusions were received all
over the body. Notwithstanding these
dreadful injuries, under skilltul surgical
care the child not only recovered, but
now has perfect use of all his limbs.
A POtatO-Bug Parasite.