Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-18

With rapture a1 the str,
And in my heart ig Summer,
Though III the trees aEe bare.
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
CIVIL service-Good walters
To1LERs of the see-Opticians.
MERE matter of form-FittiDg =
dress.
SIXTEEN railways of England own
8, 400 locomotives.
The Chinese in this country have
been coolie treated.
HIoa1rsoH has fallen foul of TiltOn on
the woman suffrage question.
FLOATING steam fire apparatuses are
common in all the seabOard cities.
How TO preserve dates Enter them
| in book and take care not to lose it.
"A SALOON in Watertown, N. Y, has
conspicuously posted "vitols cooked
here"
DowroN was the only actor who ever
objected to seeing his name in big
type.
4u buttoned gloves are the only
ones considered c0nanae IL fasst for full
dress.
The viaduct railroad from New York
to Harlem is estimated to cost eighty
millions.
ALL that is necessary for the perfect
enjoyment of the fragrant sausage i3-
confidence.
The young lady with speaking eyes
has made them quite hoarse hy over
using them.
"DooroR, how can I expand my
chest r. "By constantly carrying q
large heart in it,"
JAY GOULD makes out that railroad-
ihg is poor business. All the Erie earn
ed Last year over expenses was $780,
600.
CAPT. WILLIAM 01BsoN, q soldier dur
ing Wellington's Spanish campaigns
and q veteran of Waterloo, died in H.
inois the other day, in his inety-fourth
yeaf:
In California theatre, q few nights
since, . large Ted apple fell from the
gallery and struck sqnarely upon the
bald and shining pate Of gentle1aan
in the dress circle, then bounded into
the orchestra and broke fiddle.
No ONE ever sees lady in the streets
nowadays with clean, fresh-looking
dress, the detestable habit of wearing
the dress so long as to sweep the filthy
streets making them look slovenly and
dirty in the extreme.
TIM woman whose mind is contiu-
ually engrossed with fashionable furbe-
lows-whose very ideas are berufded
and founced-whose acme of ambition
il to appear always in the newest style
has no time or thought for better
things.
BR1oaAM You've, it is said, sadly
broken down, and doubtful Of the fu-
ture of his people, has returned to Salt
Lake City distrustful of any permanent
peace With the anti-polygamous people
of the territory. ~.:i...
A 1uE1E boy was recently presented
with toy trumpet, to which he became
greatly attached. One night, when he
was about to be put in his ''little bed,"
and was ready to say his prayers, he
handed the trumpet to his grandmoth-
er, saying, Here, gran'ma, You blow
while I pray !"
The Mutual nine for the coming sea-
son has been selected asfollows: Mills.
catcher; Cummings, pitcher; Start,
first base; Hatfield, second base
Pearce. short; Boyd, third base; Bech-
tel left Eggler, center; MeMullen,
right, and change pitcher. A celebra-
ted catcher is proposed Is substitute
DURING recent thunderstorm in
Dover, England, fash struck tele-
graph wire, and the helix of the electro
magnet was shattered into an immense
number of small pieces, all pointing
from the core outward, producing an
appearance somewhat like that of
wire brush orcleaning lamp -chimneys.
LEW, of the Ninth New York Regi-
ment band, and the best cornet player
in America, has made an arrangement
with the Duke Alexis for the coming
year, and is to be in St. Petersburg by
March Is. He goes to play in the EN-
peror's salon and at concerts, and will
receive GO, 600 francs for the season.
The loss Of cattle in Texas, during
the recent storms, is said to be enor-
mons. Running before the wind till
they were exhausted, hundreds of
them froze to death, standing huddled
together in groups in the ravines. OF
the thousands of cattle which were in
the western part of the State, it is es-
timated that the majority win be to
tally lost before spring. Those which
survived the storms are in such an en-
feebled condition that they cannot en-
dure the winter.
AMoSo Janauschek's Jewels is q dia-
| mond ring valued at $4,000; a dia-
mond cross, with chain, SIS, 900, pre-
sented by the emperor of Russia; dia-
mond earrings from the king of Hol-
land, $2,20O; rubies and pearls from
the queen of Wurtemburg,$ 500; locket
set with diamonds, very valuable;
bracelets from the king of Bavaria, set
with five diamonds, 10000; diamond
cross from an American gentleman,
5000; emeralds from the king of
Greece; carbuncle, diamonds, earrings
and locket from Tufk1sh minister.
Anu1E in Talbot county, Nd, was
affected with q swelling in the legs, and
began to tear off the diseased flesh
with his teeth till it had stripped the
legs below the knees in several places
to the bone. In attempting to rise
from q recumbent posture it broke of
the denuded shanks' ut the knee. It
then hobbled around the stable on the
stumps, apparently in good spirits and
with an excellent appetite, eating what
ever food it could get. 1t then COM
menced to tear of the skin from its
stumps, and had stripped one to the
shoulder, when it was shot out of hu-
manity.
! A SHARP transaction in regard to the
Emma mine has been brought to light
by the appointment of Senator Stew
art on the Retrenchment Committee.
Stewart's company made , show of
negotiating with the other claimants,
creating the impression that they would
submit the case by argument to the
Secretary of the Interior. In the mean
time, Stewart made hurried trip to
Washington, and managed quietly to
get q patent covering the tract in ques-
tion, and had been in Europe operating
tor q month before the discovery of his
little game.
TM Rock Island, Illinois, Argus
claims that ''the largest yield of corn
per acre ever recorded in Scott county
was produced by L. w. Clemens, of
Pleasant Valley township, this year.