Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-15
General Items.

General Items.
! For appropriating its items, West
ern paper accuses its contemporary o1
"wholesale pastry"
INDIANA has ''boy preacher" who
challenges twelve neighoring ministers
for the theological championship.
The New Orleans Times thinks Geo
Francis Train ought to be sent in search
of DR.. Ujiji Livingstone.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is Dearly
all out. It is thought 140, 600 to 15O,
600 hogsheads will be the yield.
AMONG the rich men of Boston are
and six IS, ,0OO, 600 each.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE is buying up
Rhode Island. He has already pur-
chased five acres, and is keeping a
sharp eye on the other fifteen.
The saloon-keepers of Leavenworth
have raised 81, 500 to defeat any further
legislation in the Kansas Legislature
unfriendly to the sale of liquor.
AT a trial in Wilkesbarre the other
day, it was testified that a vein Of coal
one foot in thickness will yield one
thousand tons to the acre.
A VERY singular matrimonial case ne:
Gently happened in Essex county, Viz
ginia. A gentlelnan's second wife's two
sons married his third wife's two
daughters.
A PosEY county Qndiana) farmer,
worth $50, 600, came to the post Office
at Cynthiana, the other day. with q
dozen eggs to buy postage stamps with.
The heads of two buffaloes slain by
Alexis have arrived in ST. Louis, and
will be prepared by a ta1idermist for
transportation to st. Petersburg.
| A SOCIETY of cold School Advent
ists," near Chicopee. Mass, have Just
taken q ten years lease of their camp
ground, and bought the trees upon it.
The woman women claim that no in
stance of defalcation by the women in
the Treasury Department can be point
ed out.
| JOSH BILLINGS says: eli a man has
got eighty thousand dollars at interest
and owns the house he lives in it amt
much trouble to be'a philosopher"
One who is, perhaps little too criti-
cal, says that the majority of the coun-
try preachers could burn quite as we'll
as the old religious martyrs they are
so dry.
TIE female seminary of Beirut, in
Syria, in charge of Miss Everett and
her associates, is said to be model of
its kind and has met with large meas
ure of success.
The sheriff broke up q baptism on
the banks of the Ohio, saying that the
water was too cold, and that if the
minister persisted he would prosecute
him for murder.
A CLEVER young girl in Pittston, Pa,
chlorotormed her grandfather, on Mon
day last, and elopcd with the man of
her choice. In this connection may be
mentioned 500.
! A FEW foppish young men in New
York wear overcoats made of seal-skin,
or cloth lined with crimson silk, and
the coat is worn open for ostentatious
display.
The inventor of the new rifle, NJ
; Mauser, has received orders for twenty.
five of his invention, with which ex.
periments will be made at Spandau to
test their utility.
TIE mammoth skeleton of the we'll
known elephant, Hannibal, formerly of
Van Amburgh's menagerie, is now in
Chicago, and is to be "set up" in the
Academy of Sciences.
Ir is remarkably rough on a young
fellow of Frisco to be robbed not only
} of his watch and money, but of his mar
riage license, with which he was hast
ening impatiently to his fancee.
An antiquated bach. says that the
depreciating talk about Greoian bends
has been the ciuse of the ladies getting
their backs up. One who knows better
says newspapers are largely the cause.
TIE Menominee Herald says that
the bottom of the river is SO hard nj
the point where the railroad bridge is
to he built that ninety-three blows OF
the ham mer only sunk pile three feet
four inches.
VIZ are sorry to learn from Hindoo
astronomer that during the present
year blazing meteor will pass by the
earth, and in the short space of twenty
four minutes destroy all vegetation
and kill millions of people.
The Richfeld Springs Mercury says
"In the summer season our citizens
principally subsist on strangers. In
the winter we are obliged to live on one
another. Oh, for summer that would
last the year round"
A SERIOUS conflagration has occurred
at Lemberg, where the colophony manu-
factory of Mr.. Beiser, adjoining the
railway station, has been reduced to
ashes. The flames have not spread
beyond Mr. Beiser's establishment.
IT is dangerous to he "highly spoken
of in Cincinnati. A baby Was left at u
rich mans door, the other night, with q
note, saying, ''Having heard you very
highly spoken Of, and also that you was
extravagantly fond of babies, I have
brought you this treasure"
AMONG the late invention is nose
machine, which, applied to an i'll
shaped proboscls for an hour daily,
|. directs the soft cartilage SO as to pro
duce a model of beauty. 1t is moi
stated whether it also corrects the ir
reglllarities of temper indicated by the
different styles of nasal architecture.
The Alton Telegraph says: 'tSince
1858, the river at point about eight
, miles below this city, has cut into th'
, bank distance of nine hundred ant
, fifty feet, and the abrasion still con
: tinues. The former stone levee of tn
town of Madison is now an island il
the river, nearly quarter of mill
from the shore The abrasion is caused
by the swift current of the Missouri
striking the bank at right angles"
, A PLAN has been devised for warmip,
!, street cars, and is said to be popular il
Germany. Closed iron boxes. two fee
long, four and half inches wide, ant
two and three-fourths inches deep, ar
r fitted with double tops and placed ull
: der the seats. These are partly file.
+. with cakes compounded of charcoal
;. nitrate of potash, and starch, whic
n burn slowly and thoroughly warm til
car ut the expense of about two cent
f per hour.
t An English paper estimates the av
) erage speed of railway trains in tina
e country as not, probsbly, more tha
. 25 miles for all, and 80 miles for thos
: which are regarded as fast trains. Th
, Manchester Express goes from Kentis
l. Town to Leicester, a distance of 81
+ miles, in two hours and eight minutes
the speed being 46 miles an hour, an
the Scotch Express from Kings Gross
at 8: 10, reaches Peterboro, 76s miles
!. in one hour and thirty-seven minutes
= travelling at over At miles an hour.
y SCENE in a grocery store. Enter be-,