Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28

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Wearily watcheth Mabel;
While tears like rain fall on the pane
That lights the ivied gable.
Querytng now, With aching brow,
Whether it were not better
To fail TO find, since oath may bind,
And kings own other fetter.
Family and far, smoke drift and car
With hills and clouds are blended;
Empty beside the valley wide
The summer dream r. ended.
General Items.
OvER $120, 600 capital will be invest
ed in base ball this year.
ON st. Valentines day the people of
Amwel1, Pa, went out and killed $3.50
rats.
STEUBENv1LLE. O., spent $4,000 in
q successful attempt to subdue the
small pox.
Two INDIANS fred salute from an
old iron tube about twelve hours before
their funeral. ~s<"
An enterprising New Englander is
running high pressure steamboat on
the r1ver Ganges.
A CLAY has been discovered in Tay-
lor township, Mich, which makes good
meerschaum pipes.
BEET ROOT sugar is fast excluding
from France all other products of the
saccharine ingredient. z~ -s~-
LITTLE Rock expects to obtain her
coal hereafter from mines just opened
III Pope county, Arkansas.
THK Cunard line have but one side
wheel steamer, all the rest are now
moved by screw propellers.
NATcHRz, Miss, il the only CITY in
the world which has nearly 10. 600 in
habitants and not single hotel
THEI tell of q railway in Kentucky
whereon the locomotives are assisted
up steep grades by yoke of oxen.
A CITIZEN Of Troy, N. T., has been to
the diamond fields in South Africa and
returned home, having had fair success.
AMERICAN oysters are selling in Lon
don for thirty six cents . dozen. Eng
)ish oysters cost seventy-two cents =
dozen.
An invoice of fifty factory girls, i'm
ported from Scotland by the Shetucket
Company, arrived in Norwich on the
9th ult.
PhRUxoN1A has killed seven out of q
family of nine in Camden, Miss, all of
whom were in perfect health last Christ
mas day. -
RHODE Island is the only State winch
has followed the example of Massa-
chusetts in making the ed Of February
legal holiday. ..rs.,= T. -.
GRAss is green in Dakota. From
Knoxville, Tenn, to Dalton, Ga, last
Sunday, the snow lay from ten to
eighteen inches deep.
A CANDIDATE for schoolmarm in
Henry county, Ohio, stated on examin-
alton that Virginia obtained it's name
from the Virgin Mary.
The Stonington steamers Narragan-
sett and Stonington have not lost trip
in four years, and have more than paid
for themselves since they we're built
Mile NILSSON will return to Europe
worth $4OO, 900. She has provel her
admiration of America by investing
nearly al her American profits here. -
The Tredegar iron works in Rich
mond are pulling down nine of their
buildings 10 make room for new car
shops, which will be the finest in the
South.
The manufacture of cotton-seed oil
ut Galveston, Texas, has been abandon
ed, on account of the high price of
transportation of the seed from the
plantations.
A NEW and ingenious advertising
dodge IL to print an advertisement upon
q strip of paper like telegraphic dis
patch, and enclose it in an envelope of
the telegraphic matters. -.
The Duluth Tribune characterizes it
a. burning shame that Duluth has
no cemetery" and the attention of the
Duluth City council is earnestly in
voked to this grave subject.
NILE MARGUERITE BEL1ANGER, who
acquired unfavorable notoriety through
her intimacy with Napoleon I'LL, has
returned to Paris, and has handsome
residence in fashionable street
DURING q recent cold snap at Calves
ton, Texas, Judge Dodge had to adjourn
the Criminal Court until the county
could borrow IS from the Deputy Sher-
i'll, to buy fuel to heat the court room
INSTEAD of flying kites, bringing
down tightening from heaven and max
ing philosophical axiom, Mr.. Benjamin
Franklin. of New Orleans, spends
major portion of his time in stealing
ducks. +..
An experienced butter maker of ver-
mont says the chief trouble with bad
butter 10, that the cream is allowed to
stand too long. His dairy rule is,
"skim early, churn early, and sell
early 4 '--e..s
SOMEBODY tells the Scientific Amer
ican of . way to clear well Of carbonic
acid gas. It is to lower . red-h0t iron
to the water, 80 as to produce little
steam. The vapor instantly absorbs
the gas
A GENERAL impression prevails at the
west that very serious floods are likely
to visit the line of the Union Pacific
Railroad when the warm weather ap-
proaches, The snow is very deep in
the mountains.
TIE favorlte mode of hazing"
practised by the feminine soPhomores
of Michigan University is to seize some
good looking freshman, bind him hand
and foot, and then kiss him in the most
terrible manner.
MRS GoEBE1, of Terre Haute, spent
a rainy afternoon last week in over
hauling venerable clothes-chest, and
found wedged in crevice q gold coin
which she lost when q child, in Ger
many, twenty-five years ago.
Tn opal is . silicate containing
water, and is much softer than quartz.
When the stones become dull they may
be made bright again if they are left
for q month or two in damp cellar,
where they will absorb more moisture.
A PoRr HURON special says: About
two o'clock ON Wednesday afternoon
the saw and Touring mills of Ralph
Waldham, ON Black river. six miles
above that city, were entirely destroyed
by fire. Loss, 5000. Insured for
1000!
An official attached to the British
Court was known as the Kings Cock
Grower, whose duty it was to crow the
hour each night within the precincts
of the palace during Lent, instead OF
calling it out, like an ordinary watch
man. The Office, which in time became
sinecure, has been abolished for some
years.
Ar the present time Great Britain
has six hundred furnaces annually >on-
sumiug upward of II, SOC, 900 tons of
ore, and bringing out product in pig