Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-11-16

is located on the old Daniel Webster
farm.
The printing Office of the Sentinel, at
Coldwater, Mich, was destroyed by
fire on Monday night. Loss $1,000.
3'SpELb OK" said teacher to a boy.
"O-n, OK" "No, sir! You must not
annex an e to an OK to spell OK.
A FLUSHING girl dressed herself in
male attire, just for the fun Of flirting
with the other girls.
ONE New Orleans man has squander-
cd So, 900 in lottery tickets and reaped
a silver plated wash dish.
GENERAL THOMAS W. BENNETT of
Indiana, has been appointed Governor
of Idaho, vicc Bowen, resigned.
Ir is said in regard to newspapers,
that young ladies prefer those that
make the most hustle.
NJ. Arajuar. astronomer, of Madrid,
has discovered a new planet, which he
baptized Conception"
SIXTEEN icebergs were counted from
an ocean steamer on late voyage
across the Atlantic.
The Baroness Rothschild supports a
school for Jewish girls in the city of
Jerusalem.
A North CAROLINA lad of eleven
wrote to Napoleon few weeks ago, and
has received an autograph letter in
reply.
THE famous old Pocahontas, belong
ing to Bonner was taken out to Fleet
wood Park on the 18th inst, and paced
her mile in 49,, without training.
In New York they call red hair
Schenectady color'-Schenectady be-
ing, as every one knows, little beyond
"Auburn."
THEY say that to put Cider in kero-
sene barrels, as they do in some places
in Maino, gives the article peculiar
bouquet.
THE police force of New Orleans, ac-
cording to official returns, numbers 500
men, involving all annual expense of
$724, ,460.
MAGGIE MITCHELL PADDOCK had boy
on the 4tl, at her Long Branch cottage.
She has given $500 for the benefit of
Chicago actors.
A MAN named Emanuel Shaffer has
been arrested in Dauphin county, Pa,
for numbering two wives and his hired
man by poison.
THE most fashionable color in gloves
at present is light tan color without
stitching or wristlets, and with four
gilt buttons.
A GEORGIA man, who was bitten by
rattlesnake last week, took three
=,
half bottles Of whisky, and is rapidly
recovering.
In the midst of the Chicago disaster
Joe Jefferson was presented with baby.
Joe, there's your good health, and
your fomily's, and may they live long
and brosber.'
The Vienna Presseha engaged Nine
Marie Secbach, the German actress,
who was lately in this country, to write
fifty letters for that journal on what
she saw and heard in the United States.
CHARYEs FRANCIS ADAMS, John Quin-
cy Adams, Edward Atkinson, George
Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson Will
liam Lloyd Garrison, Longfellow, Sum
ner, and Whipple are members OF the
Golden club, London.
CURT's HAAIBLEToNIAN, one OF the
most valuable horses in Kentucky, was
found dead in his stable ut Richmond,
Ky, last Tuesday. He was the prop
crty of L. Curtis. Esq, of Brooklyn,
N, Y. and was worth $50, 600.
HERR RICHARD WAGNER is preparing
a new edition of his numerous works,
Which will lc -blished at intervals at
Leipsic, and will be completed in July,
1873. His operas are penetrating into
Italy.
HUMAN skeletons, with flesh and hair
alhcring, are frequently found in San
Francisco, sllrmounted with piles OF
cobblestones, and they provoke bnt
little remark. The discoverer common
ly exclaims, "Damchinaman J"
Two Indies were travelling on the cars,
when stranger asked the elder what
relationship she bore the younger.
The answer was quick and pertinent :
''She is my sisters daughter, and my
daughters sister! HOWE
A LETTER from Richmond, Va, says
that city is growing more rapidly than
for years. Large numbers OF buildings
tobacco factories arc at work; the flour
trade of South America is rapidly in
crcasing, and the trade from New York
is immense, the steamers havln more
freight than they can carry. All Of the
manufacturing establishments IN the
city are in full blast, and new ones are
sprlnging up every day.
The latest fashion, at all the large
balls and parties given at private hous-
es. is to build ball room in the back
yard the walls being elegantly decorated
with silk tapestry, and flowers, vines,
and bird cages hung i'll every available
space. A raised platform is placed on
one side for the musicians, enclosed ny
screen Of flowers, and the floor being
waxe.l, it makes a most perfect and do
lightful ball room.
VEGETABLE leather is now extensively
manufactured, the principal materials
being caoutchouc and naptha. The
product is only one third us costly rs
ordinary leather, which it resembles SO
closely that they can be distinguished
only by close inspection, and the veg
ctable leather has the additional advan-
tage of being al entire piece OF fifty
yards in length if desired, and one and
a half yards wide, OF any thickness de-
manded
Russia had new mltrailleuse, invent
ed by General Gorloh, which kills men
twice as fast and twice as far as the
French affair killed them. The latter
was killing enough, ouly the French
didn't know how to work it. After
having invented and manufactured rs
nice an cxterminator as the most ex-
acting conqneror could require they
failed to profit from their ingenuity
and industry because they couldn't
learn how to make its powers etfe tive
ly useful Profting from their o''ser-
vations of French folly, the Russ ans,
it is possible, will teach their m rail
lcusemeu how to do their work, aud 50
scatter their foes.