Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-16
General Itenis.

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General Itents.
NEW ORLEANS papers bewail the de-
cadence of the French opera.
TERRE HAUrE, Indiana, is getting te
be Roman Catholic stronghold.
The new academy of fine arts on
Broad street, Philadelphia, will cos'
$780, 900. -
M1ss ELLA Few, of Leavenworth,
Kansas, is budding out as phenom.
email violinist.
! OHs of Dore's paintings has been re-
jected by serupulous art committee
in Paris. +,
The experiment of stocking the
Schuylkiil with bass has proved an en-
tire succoss. -.
TAE New York seventh regiment goes
into camp on the fourth of July At
Saratoga 5s:,,..' ...,-,--3 -
N. LKsRua, the French minister of
education. has named his three daugh-
ters '' 'Jemappes," "Civilization," aud
Republic" :"
A scHoo1-Bo1, fifteen years old. in
CleaEfeld, Penn, stands six feet two
inches in his stocking feet, and is still
growing.
Dr. FsAxxL1N says that i" every little
fragment of the day should be saved"
The moment the day breaks set your
self at once to save the pieces.
Ar . wedding in Poughkeepsie, not
long ago, the parents of the bride.
groom charged the invited guests nine
ty cents per head for supper. ,.-.,.,;:
In Great Britain and Ireland there
were 1,022 vessels built during 1871.
with capacity amounting in the aggre-
gate to 90, ,058 tons. 81: !:
A LITTLE Rock justice Of. the peace
advertises to perform the marriage
ceremony the first time for twenty-five
cents, and afteewards for ten cents.
Hox. TuoFzx Dawn, ex-member of
Congress, and prominent citizen of
Clayton, 1oWa, died ut his residence in
Gkader on Sunday lar, aged eighty
three years. i
UNDER the new liquor law of Ohio. a
jury has given wife q verdict of s., 600
against'a liquor dealer "t for the loss of
her husbands = md society for over three
Al East Indian millionaire, named
I.ai,Mikro, has been forced to accept
the Temporary hospitality of the Lam
beth poor -house in London while wait
ing for remittance from his home.
"a Tm seor6taxy Of. . total abstinence
society in Alabama acknowledges with
thanks the receipt Of i've gallons of
Whiskey ~ eon4Kbution to the annual
snpper Of; the society. :,.:..
A TRAIN on the Des, Moines Valley
Railroad, the other day, ran into an
immense flook of swan, branct, Reeso.
and other wild fowl and killed many.
The birds were Just about to alieht on
the track. '',''.!':1'' >>;.'s'a'':-.ses: =
i IT 10 said there il = lady in St. Au-
gustine, Fla., who is 50 fascinating that
even the Wild birds of the forest come
auttering to her feet and perch upon
her shouldets.' She declines to make
game of them.
A nusxRAr recently bored a hole
through the dam Of large Massaehu-
setts fish pond, and. let several thou
sand Of the fine trout into the brook
below, where for several days after.
wards there WAS excellent fishing.
THoxAs, Of M4sthy1; in Wales, has
for ., long time sought 10 invent q prac-
tical balloon for serial navigation, and
has at last, he fhinks, succeeded I'M
making one that can tack against any
moderate breez4
Tow 0if!owwop an er,,n.s.r,,n:~~r:h
man, is said to be the largest cattle
owner in Texas. I he does not know ex-
actly how many he has, but the total
will not vary much from 60, 600!
An eccentric Connecticut gentleman,
recently deceased, left to religious in
stitutlons $75. 600, to his cook $3.50, 600,
and TO each Of his i've children $4OO u
piece:; The young people feel confident
that It wasa miss-deal.
DoNN P1Arr says: "a distinguished
diplomat, Who had served some time in
Washington, died the other day in Eu-
rope, and; among his effects they found
love-letters: from beautiful girls in
Warrington"
:: TmRE is . curious Chinese proverb
which says: In . cucumber field do
not stop to tie your shoe, and under
plum tree do not wait to settle your
cap on your head !" which means, if
You do, some one may think you arc
stealing the cueumbers or plums.
AMA1nro1H century plant, forty feet
in height, and weighing over three and
. half tons, has been shipped from near
T. - -
York. The plant Is on the eve of bloom
ing . second time, and is therefore
nearly 200 years old.
w" 4 total population of fifteen
hundred thousand, Iowa does not pos
sess city containing fifty thousand in
habitantA The largest of her cities,
Davenport, has scarcely half that num-
her, and but one other exceeds twenty
thousand.
NoKrH CAROLINA has an old citizen,
aged 1Q& His mind is. 30 sound that
he recollects occurrences which other
people have been studying the histories
to find out about for three generations.
The old fellow has eight children, the
oldest 81 and the baby 81 years old.
LHu1KNANr ConrANDER GRDLE1, of
the United States steamer Michigan,
was married at Erie, Pa, last Friday
evening, to Miss Hattie Vincent, daugh-
ter of the Hon. J. p. Vincent, Pre-
siding Law Judge of the Western Dis.
trict Of Pennsylvania
RoaERs and Ives, the sculptors, have
returned 70 Rome from America, load
ed down with commissions enough to
keep them busy for several years to
come. The italian artists are green
with Jealousy at the unbounded pros
perity of the American stone-cutters.
OswRGo claims the credit of inaugu-
rating new system of medical practice,
which raralyzes alopathy, eclipses
homeopathy and hydropathy. One of
the celebrated physicians of that town
issued prescription, few days ago,
to one of his regular patients with these
significant directions: "Take one tea
spoonful every three years"
The entire length of the canal by
which it il proposed to connect the
Caspian and Black seas would be $50
Russian versts, or 400 miles. It is cal
culated that the work of construction
would take 81 900 latorers six years.
Ansln S~o,>> - ~e 80,