Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-18
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MIX 1S Seu1n8 ~ q cent quart IN
some parts of Minnesota 7,r.= ..as:l
=, TIE annual impoEtation; of MONKEYS
and parrots exceeds g. 400.
-NEw OR1EAns sends ship loads of
fishing rods to northern ports 1t,
y, Eucu1Ioss for murder will hereafter
be by shooting in Austria. ...
Two pigeons were among the victims
OF suDstroke at New York. 80 =
BEARS are unusually plenty in the
eastern part of Maine. = ..-,--.f.,.[
:. TIE arrival of locusts by the million
is cbronicled in Indiana.
GoTrENBuRa, Sweden, is to have .
Woman's Medical College,.
A APH1LADE1PH1A florist deals entirely
in bulbs, etc., from Holland.
SEvERAI of the boats on the Erie
canal are owned and run by women.
TH Wabash elevators, have in store
about 060 600 bushels of grain. a
H takes $500 worth of gold leaf to
decorate fzst class sleeping car;%'>-
A 11omIoND man has worn the same
pair of linen Trousers - yearB.
VIENNA furnishes the world With
more ballet dancers than any other
city. :s:..: +: 49, -
Coal is cheaper in, some places on
the Hudson than it has been in ten
years. - 80. H..
Texas il the only state that has seake
lines of; length e1ceedingE fifty mules.
A F1EM1sH army surgeon recon-
mends wooden shoes to prevent rheu-
matism. ,1s''1 s:::-- -,
YosErrrE il 1ull. Some Of the.fash-
ionable trunks that arrive are - big rs
the trees.
I1Lun1xA11Ha in honor Of serensde
was the means of detecting . thief in .
house in Mobile. -.:,.:.;.
THE latest exploit Of the potato in
Georgia il to grow inside !. stout iron
ring and burst it asunder. "-,.; .,:..-
The island of Barbados comprises
an area of 1O627O acres, and has .
population Of 162, ,O2 inhal itants.
Tn Governor of 0natemala has o.
dered the condscatlon of al properly
belonging to the yesults.
The Gar has to support his tele-
graph lines across the 'steppes on bnck
pillars, no wood being available.
TIE London DAILY Nevs pleads for
the abolition, though not by legal
means, of periodical rook shooting.
/ TIE new : International copyright
treaty between England and Germany
will be Of great advantage to British
The presidency of Smith Female
College, at Northampton, has been Of
fered to Prof L. Clark Seelve, of
Amherst. = ;': go j''u : '--ss'''i-!;&j
IRox shingles have; been lately pat
ented, and are said to be less expen-
sive than slate. They are made about
six by thirteen inches in siSe, and fast-
tened with headless nails. , ,ssT;t,~nTi
An author has reason to believe that
whenever the wages of the mechanics
are raised to IS or SO . day the work
men will not come 1t al-they will
merely send their cards.
The following il given as the code Of
. successful butter daiFyman: Skim
early, churn early, and sell early. AK
A co1oREn female reveller at Coying-
ton, KY, recently sentenced to bread
and water fare, bewailing her hard lot
too freely, received the latter part
through the jail hose.
TwKnrY-oN of the Boston ConRre-
gational Churches contributed $90. IN.
n to the American Board Of Foreign
Missions for the year Just closed.
Since Jan. l, II, ,0es, $50 fest Of lum-
Der have been surveyed ~ Bangor,
Maine, a decrease Of ,6O1, CSC -
compared with the same period Last
year: -''.' ,''t'
I 'AlFAcroRY boy in New Hampshire
fell out of . third story window.
Tuesday, but - he struck in . large
tub of water. came out unhurt
The Trustees of Delaware College
(the institution which received New
York's share of tho national donation
of Agricultural College lands) have
resolved, almost unanimously, to al
NIT female students. 80.
A CHICAGO minister told reporter
that he thought himself 1.-The most over
estimated man in America. And that
reporter went off and praised what he
called that minister's excessive mod
esty.
GusrAvE DoRE is coming 70 America
in 1873, aud will probably Try his hand
at sketching the picturesque points ON
this continent.
TIE foreign commerce of New York
for the past week consisted Of $6, ,O66.-
239 in merchandise exports, $A472, ,957
in produce exports, g, ,624, ,8ll in specie
and bullion export. The total imports
since January l are 1880. ia, ,59l tho
exports $111, 1876 in products; and
$39, PIG, 41S in specic-ail bullion.
TWENTY ladies were dropped from
the rolls of the Internal Revenue Office
on Wednesday, there being no money
appropriated to pay their salaries.
MARX TWAIN has been entertaining
Bret Hartc 1T his home in Hartford,
and some one 10 crue& enough to sug-
gcst that they must have been hearty
ttU0in.
IT is whispered confidentially that
We pay the divine Strauss t12, 900 to
como over and delight us. In this Case
our money is not thrown away. There
is but one Strauss.
NuxBERs of tourists are gathering
sea ferns and shells about Key, West,
under the delusion that they are fos-
tering science.
OVER I, 900 acres Of cotton are under
cultivation in the San Joaquin valley,
Cal. The experiment is, 20 far, highly
satisfactory. !;
THERE are at present in Paris several
young Japanese girls who are learning
the dress making business, for the pur-
pose of introducing the art in Japan.
It is considered in Paris great privi.
lege to receive permission to view
these girls at work. ->-~a-->
J. HI. CARNxNY, publisher of the
Overland Monthly, has just closed ne
gotiations with Joaquin Miller for his
great South American poem, for which
the sum Of $4,000 in gold coin is paid.
1t will appear in SERIAL form, commenc-
ing with the September number Of the
Overland. Miller has just arrived in
New York City.