Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-25

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And therefore, reader, let not Truth be blamed,
II, evermore since then.
She hides in corners, BUNDLED and aShanned,
And rarely seen of men.
- ~ - RaragTapAs:.
A GEoRe1A gentleman died from the
effects Of adQg soratch.
HK1xBoLD's property in Philadel.
phia, has been sold at auction.
THH Yosemite trees are full of little
snakes.
THERE are about 10000 Cashmere
goats in California, from one-quarter
to full blood.
The Public Library OF, Chicago will
be able to expend $35, 900 for books the
ensuing year.
4 NEW comic illustrated paper, called
Bizarre, has been started at New Or
leans by Douglass E. Jerrold.
gin in the August number of Harper's
Magazine, is entitled "A Simpleton."
SonE wealthy Hebrews are going to
start .. daily paper in New York, and
have raised $500, 600 for the purpose.
DE-. MARY WALKEs is urging the
Washington auth6Eities 20 furnish the
policemen with umbrella during the
hot term. v>.~,,> =
WHAT . dull world this would be
were the Alabama clsfms finally SET
tied. T. :" t':;T',.,is ~
"a LARGE and shady brick eentle-
mans residence IN the country" is ad-
veztised as good place for summer
board. -. -. ''.5,..i..
MARrM McKKovx, o serIant in the
Metropolitan Hotel 1T st. Paul has
drawn q prize Of $4,000 in the Omaha
lottery. 7"''''' =. i -,
IT is at length announced that the
tenth and last volume of Mr.. George
Bancroft's 80 History of the United
States"-wiu appeaE.shortly.
PBu.ApE1RHA is to have a new
monthly, entitled t'Zell's illustrated
Monthly Magazine and Review, =" to be
edited by, /. Colanee, ,of the :: National
Encyclopedias"
MISS Fox is about to publish a his
tory of Holland House, which will be
Iich in anecdotes of Charles James
Fox, Addison, Rogers, and other noted
persons. = '''.'
CA1HoRS1A contains large number
of foreigners prosestionately than any
other state in. the Union. The census
shows 336. 398 natives and 3O9, $50 for
eign born. .t5 :: ;nt;I y.:1j i
An author selected q. the. title of q
new romance Wrecked in Port His
publisher looked sharply at the au-
thor's red nose and mlttered, "Yes,
either Port or Burgundy. .-.;
BlsGARCK's new coat of arms will be
q double trefoi1, in q shield of silver,
held.by the Two Wild memo the Prus-
sian escutcheon, who hold;in their 9th
er hand the coloIs of Asace and Lor-
raine: ..j- TEES Z :H;;i };',-
The cadets 1t Wet Point are said to
be under greater restrictions this year
than ever, and consequently tnelr lady
friends are rendered miserable. Gen.
Ruger, the supelintendeat;iis iis Z very
sensible and practical man, believing
that military discipline and Irritation do
not 60 we'll together. .t,.E
The secretary of the treasury, at the
request Of the German government, has
fixed the valuation of the mark, the
new unit of accounts, of the German
empire at twenty-thre cents tor custom
purposes. This is just oDe-third the
value Of the old thaler,, whose value
was designated st sixty-nin cents.
S1vExTREk pleasure trips. to the
United States, have Leen arranged in
Germany. The average expense for the
whole trip, including D. ten; days 60
iOurn IN this -Oounfrv il QO0 <h>lo..
Tie visitors Viii aIiivs ID this country
mostly in August They start from
Cologne apd aambuze uxa.
TIE Maine lpmbermen predict that
in five years hence, at the present rate
of destruction, the forests o4that state
will be wholly cleared of sim],er. The
lumber crop this year is estimated at
zoo, O00, 900 feet. OF this amount, the
Penobscot lumbermenE cut 225OOO, 600,
and the Kennebec men over 100 pOO, ,OOc.
A RHETORICAL curiosity has been dug
up in Pennsylvania, in the shape of the
original deed by which VIM. Penn con-
veyed West jersey to certain parties in
Dublin. It is dated in 1867, and has
the autograph signature 'of the benign
ant Quaker, ,stas plain asthough it had
Just besn writtenn s.a g.;
TH much abused Fremont or Mari
p0sa estate in California has now gone
into private hands, and . new and
more economical effort is, being made
to turn its great wealth in gold to &C.
count Its quarts veins are estimated
as amounting to 800 miles in extent on
the whole property. 81 -. n.,.s
BRICK dust obtained BY rubbing two
small bricks together. In, the best
remedy for lice on stock, says cores
pondent of an agricultural paper, that
he ever tried, Sift the dust evenly
over the animal, and work it we'll into
and among thehairs. IL III: o:a1
THE Tarauki iron sand, which is
found abundantly on the beaches of
excellent steel by simple and econom-
lcal process. II il mixed, by an equal
quantity of clay, and of the ordinary
sea sand, which contains a large ad-
mixture of shells. The mixture is
worked mp INTO bricks, and hardened in
kiln, then broken and smelted in an
ordinary furnace: T'*'&e':
A CALIFORNIA paper tells the course
of love as follows :-~''A man and
miners daughter recently stole her
fathers swag and eloped with her lover
to San Francisco, vh>re the deuce
were made acc. Her paternal parent,
who had turned his fOotsteps towards
the capital of the Golden State in pur-
suit cf his ducats, was killed by the
Apaches, SO that now the loving couple
are rs happy as the day is long,
| HERE is paragraph from q foreign
journal which goes to explain the ef-
fectiveness of the German army:
"Sixty young ohicers have been dis
missed from the Prussian army. They
had Obtained their commissions during
the war for bravery in the fiel1, and
without having passed the ordinary ex-
aminations. They are now cashiered
for not having succeeded since in ac-
quiring the necessary qualifications for
passing.'
A LARGE snake of strange species
was killed in Virginia the other day,
which had head in the shape ofa dia-
mond, tapering from the eyes to the
nose and from the eyes back, with
beautiful diamond scales covering the
top of the head, a lorg, pointed tail,
and which, when attacked, made a
kissing or blowing noise that could be
heard Mt q distance: of one hundred
yards. ....:....
The Society of the Cincinnati for the
state of Pennsylvania met at Phlladel-