Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
Pnh and Point.
Nice Is lobster,-of quite dull groom
And hateful aspect VIII: CHI It first is seen:
Bnt seen In salad, dressed in dainty style,
We first receive. thcn e.t II -thon "a sn,i1a


We nrst receive. thcn eat then We smile.
A NEGRO who was suspected of sur
reptiously meddling with his neighbor's
fru't, being caught in q garden by
nonplussed his detectors by
raising has eyes, clasping his hands, and
ploasly exclaiming, "Good Lord dis
ycro darkey can't go nowheres to
pray any more, without being 'sturbed.'
"A San FRANCISCO street cor conductor
Just beginning to collect his fares
placed his hand in the side pocket of
his coat to draw forth his nippers, when
ont camea formidable five-slIooter from
miners hippocket, accompanied with
tho exclamation, Look hear, stranger,
kim from the mountains, but yer can't
get the drop on me-"
STURDY blacksmith of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, attempted to commit suicide the
ether day, and got fellow. workman to
help him: The latter fixed moose
that would unite the moment mans
weight came upon it, and the bulky
blacksmith inserted his head into it
and swung of-only to come down with
fearful force, striking the interior end
Of his spinal column upon the corner of
a big box and causing pain which he
AYERS was "a id sight worse than
hanging"
A FANCY farmer of Scott county, KY.
IS said Georgetown Timesl to have
built Q $1,000 hog pen, which is paint.
ed and grained, furnished with hot and
cold water, warmed with steam, and
lighted with gas. There is fine
Library, where can be found Cobb's
Elementary Works. The Works of
Bacon, Inquiry Regarding the Descend
on the Corn Laws. and the popular it,
tie poem, "Root Hog or Die" The
tronghs are of mahogany, inlaid with
ivory, and furnished with Phelan cush-
ions. Whenever a hog is led out to
execution, chloroform is ad ministered
A PERSON having been mentioned who
had been notoriously unfortunate in
his first marriage relation, and yet had
soon afterwards married again, was ask
ed if it was not rash to embark anew in
an adventure which he had already
found to be so disastercus. "No,'
said the philosopher elevating his
hand, and his countenance glowing with
enthusiasm, sit was tho triumph of
hope over experience"
IT will hardly believed, and yet an
other man actually has written poem
about the Chicago fire, and stretched
it ont into thirty four verses, too. This
is the way he begins:
"Hark! what hellish glare is that see upon
Is that the aurora b0realis that streams .loft
No! it is Che bloody Fire Fiend whose banners
And he "ss williay the proud town low whose in
| habitants the laws of God and man defy.
COMMODORE GREEN, of Savannah,
Ca, lately extended hospitalities to the
delegates o an agricultural convention.
As one member was curiOusly examin'
ing the large and beautiful collection
OF statuary which adorps the palatia.
residence, Mr.. Green, who, it seems, wa.
everywhere and with everybody, tapped
him ON the shoulder and said: "Ah
MIR. Blank, I see You are an admirer O
the beautiful would you not like K
inspect some of the fine arts2" 'tWell,
said the delegate, as he deposited
; well-masticated quid of Virginia wee,
outside the window, It don't care if
do, as 1 am little dry"
A DETROIT man, who had contribute,
handle of his cast-off clothing for tn
relief of the victims of the Minnesot
fire, received from one of the sufferer
: the following note:-
"The committy man Civ me amongs
! other things wat he called a pair o
t pants, and 'twould make me pant sur
l to ware EN-. I found your name q
where you live on one of the pokits
{ my wife LATED 80 when I shode EN- t
her that thot she wood have conit
shun fit. She wants to no If the1
lives and brethes a man who has leg
, no bigger than that. She sed if ther
was he orter to be taken up fur vagrin
> sy for havin no visible means of sup
port. I coldent get EN- ON my oldes
boy, so I used EN- for gun cases. ]
you hav another pare to spare my wifi
wood like to get EN- to hang up by tn
side ov the fire phase to keep the tong
} ill.,"