Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-11
General Items.

PARIS has about 1900 artists.
A NEW Georgia paper is called "The
Cat
LONDON has four thousand miles of
Streets ~
OCEAN WAVES rarely exceed fifty feet
in height.
FLORIDA has produced a potato
twenty.six inches 1org.
THEY are nearly through harvesting
wheat in Virginia.
The State debt Of Arkansas is a frac-
ton over I'll, GOO, 600.
A FLORIDA negro, named Rol]instone,
gathers $50 worth of moss every week
A PUBLISHER in London devotes him
self wholly to the publishing of reform
tracts. s''3fiit,:'' :;
The or1inance factory at Liege, in
Belgium, is one Of the largest in the
world.
The washerwomen of Kingston, in
England, insist on three pints Of beer
day.
THz making of iron flask. to contain
quicksilver 10 I Philadelphia enter
P11oo. !. !. = y. ity.u
LACE making is = principal source of
income to many places in the Neither
lands. II:
THERE are seven Indians in San
Diego over one hundred and twenty
years Of age.
THE International is again showingit-
self in force all over the Continent of
Europe. ...l .:as..,.
A TENNESSEE. spider caught snake
by spinning web around the reptiles
head. =. .- r ;,,:
The washerwomen are agbast at the
prospect of the introduction of paper
clothing.
The Queen, the ladies' newspaper in
London, declares the Dolly Warden
dress to be vulgar.
The population of the Republic of
San Salvador, according to the recent
estimates, is 750, 600. 4.
A DETROIT manufacturing establish
ment throws in warm dinners daily to
its employers. -'-'.'l
The; japanese vsitofs to Boston had
their own cook to look after their spe-
cial dishes. -,
'Tnnz is more ,',lh,,a than tiit ons hundred per
cent: profit ON every class of soda water
sold for ten cent.- & .,g,. ~
THE wire7worm is doing much dam
age to the corn, potatoes and wheat
throughout Maine. - - e.;
The average Southern Presbyterian
minister gets 500 ayear-$6O more
than year ago.
The Germans, by Bismarck's direc-
ton. are training carrier pigeons for
military purposes. .
A NEW company has been formed
with capital Of GOO, 600, to bricg Chi
nese labor into the Southern States.
One of the sights of the Island of
Malta is the ancient Palace of the
Grand Masters of st. John, at Medina.
DURlSa the eighteen years since the
Crystal Palace, London, was built, it
has been visited by 80, 0OO, 600 persons.
An Iowa clergyman names the young
est of his four boys. stDoxology" be-
cause he winds up the himA
SUICIDES are again prevailing in Paris
being often of such a fantastic character
as to become Iudiafoqs i'm the extreme.
An editor commenting upon the i'm
portance OF, small things, says he does
not even slight . straw fit has sherry
cobbler at one end -,y,- :~G
The fact that the German emigration
movement, takes away the young and
leaves the old and intfrm, is disagreea-
BILE to the authorities. ,:;,
Missouri claims that she can furnish
enough ore to make 10. .OO0, 900 tons of
iron yearly for 500 years. and $1,000
600 bushels coal for 2, 500 years.
TEE Oregon. inseedl OIL factory at
Salem made last year 120, 900 gallons
Of oil, all Of which found market at
home.
U1rRA-FAsH1oxABnEf people in Bath.
England, areslmitating the fashion of
the last century in the wearing of white
wigs and perukes. :'' -
The total taxable wealthof Missouri.
according to the assessment of 1872,
is 3568, ICE, ,502-an increase of over
t63, ,899, GIT over 1872 te''*';7
IT is said, that one hundred and fifty
thousand copies of Mr.. Summers
speech have been circulated as cam
paign Documents :.9:5 @:';o.
ABr says that the Boston Jubilee 8
attempt to sing ''The Swallows with
twenty thousand voices was 'hymn
book" Humbug, you know.
| CARO- said: I would much rather
that posterity should inquire why no
statues we're erected to me, than Why
they were. -,
AMAN and his wife who died in An
derson, S. c., on Sunday, June 9,
within an hour OF each other, had been
married 20 years. He was nearly 80
years old and she g.. ''-s .
The British Consul at New York
complains that he loses five hundred
pounds year by being the banker of
those "who are expecting remittances
from England, ,.-ti u. .afg;
Or the six states east of the Hudson
river, Vermont is the nearest to raising
its own bread-producing 454, 900 BUSH
els OF wheat in 1869, or a bushel and \
peck to each inhabitant.
A GREAT grandson of Tppoo Sahib
has been admitted member. of the
English bar during Trinity Term, his
intention being to practice in the In
dian courts. ..,.-a1- - II IL.
A SMALL boy arose at aSundayschool
SOAASoAS "iAu OCSuA 4u1Vo kA"y.
certain man went down from Jerusalem
to Jericho and fsu-and fell&,', Here
his memory began to fail him. "And
and fell by the road side, and the
thorns sprang mp and choked him"
IT is said that several of the Indian
warriors, while in New York, rushed
from the rooms in the hotel ut an early
hour one morning with wild cries, and
brandishing their tomahawks. They
had mistaken the yell of milkman for
the warhoop Of hostile tribes.
THESE scientific men sometimes reach
. very philosophical state: of mind in
which they are pleased with the queer
est triflcs. See how easily satisfied
Professor Agassis is! He says, 81 am
satisfied, since have examined the To-
mocaris peircel, that trilohites are not
any more closely related to the phyllo-
pods than to any other entomOstracB
or to the isopods." That would hardly
satisfy an ordinary mortal.
ACCORDING to the German Core
spondent, DR.. Lowenfeld, the biogra-
pher of Alexander von Humboldt, has
succeeded in purchasing for the Uni
versity of Strasburg the whole scientific
apparatus and all the instruments which
belonged to the great scholar aud phi
losopher at the time of his death. The
collection is said to be one OF the most
| valuable that has ever existed.