Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-11

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General Items.
The Jail of Henderson county, Ky.,
which nine years ago cost @11 200, has
been sold for 328. =!
The Oregon Republican State Con-
vention, On Wednesday, indorsed Grant
and Colfax. :. -.
Two absurd young men want to be
admitted to Vassar College because it
is leap year. -:
ALEXIS rather astonished the Cubans
by proposing - toast "The United
States forever!" 80
An Indiana wife worked four years to
piece a quilt, and then her husband
got drunk and tore it up in five min
utes.
A NEW style of locket is made of . IS
gold piece, which il followed out large
enough TO hold a likeness, and opens
with a spring.
The petroleum springs at San Fer
Dando, in Southern California, are
yielding at the rate Of twenty barrels Of
oil per day. .-~4;Y.
W. 8. GuAa1ss, Of Great Bend Tun
mel, O., killed in his store . mt which
weighed u pounds, and had : tail IA
inches long. ,.,-.. ...~.x
Tn directors of the New Yosk. Mer-
camille Lib1ary are taking vote of the
members on the question Of keeping
open Sundays. ..:.:,
Sm WA1FxR Soo11- said the ,hsttle of
Waterloo created in the British empire
Is, 600 widows. Sad commentary upon
a victory.
TIE UNITED SrArss Marshal of Utah
is doing very proftl able business. He
has now 128 prisoners in his CUSTODY
waiting for trial r:..-..
A JEwxss in Cleveland, name. un.
known, gave birth to six children on
Sunday afternoon, and soon afkerex
pired.: The children all died inanedi-
ately after birth. The: woman resided
on st. Clair street. u -
f. MUncAI boxes are coming into; sfash-
ion aeain, and 10 find them. ooaesaled
in chairs, albums, cigar cases.. work
boxes, and all sorts Of unhea1d of
places. l.: - ~'@5 =s.st@e-s,,;
Nh DE- La Csolx, Of New iberia. ka.,
has planted twenty acres of ramie,
from which he expects, in Hay, to
gather the first of three crops for the
season. .,,..s =. .>,r---
Ar recent Florentine ball q white
armed demoiselle was able to dispense
With al covering over the stoulde1x as
her cunning dress maker had 30 fash.
ioned the waist that it did not need
support from above. -.
The number of persons now residing
at the Vatican, which consists of fifty
separate buildings, with fourteen oeurt-
yards and $4,000 rooms, IL 5000 Il il
town without streets. :. o.-ry =,
ONE of the wives of the Yioeroy of
Egypt is said to be . Boston woman
who belongs to one Of the Afst families
in the commonwealth, and whose an
cestors on both sides came over in the
Maydower. $50 's,.s>
LOUISVILLE il to lose the little
prison-ike bank building crested in
1894 by Basil n. Hobbs. The old land
mark will be replaced by q modern
banking house With q safe deposit
vault. ...,.. -. ,.-:.::.., ,,..-.z-y
AL foreign consuls were ignored ON
the occasion of the Grand Dukes late
visit to Matanzas, and there il oonse-
quently rousine tempest Of indigna-
ton in consular tea pots.
Tn republican clubs Of Great Brit
ain ane not made up of what are tanned
the lower classes of laborers, but con-
sist generally of intelligent and well to-
do artisans, and are rapidly increasing
in numbers- : s.:.,,s.:! ,..s.-y-.: r.~
SoME humanitarian suggests an in
strument that shall kill animals by
driving the death blade deep into the
creatures body, just where the hack.
bone joins the head, which sewers the
spinal marrow, and kills instantly.
An incendiary attempt vas made up
on Harvard Uniyermty, recently. =, The
university hall WAS fred. but the flames
were fortunately discovered and fex-
tinguished before much damage had
been done. = ~..,.-....-..,.. 80.
TIE meerchaum pipes made in Ruhla,
in the Thuringian forest, are sent to
England, France, Denmark, Sweden,
Russia and America very few are sold
in Germany. The war has also cut of
the demand ON the part Of Ftanoe.@>-
Two hunchbaoks calculated their
nuptials in Paris the other day, in the
preeence of thirteen invited guests,
also hunchbackG At the wedding bali
all the musicians Weee humchbacks-
was every dancer. -
In the st. Joseph fruit region the re-
ports from different sections concufs in
the opinion that up to the present tine
the prospects for good peach crop are
better than last year at this time This
IL the report along the Michigan shore.
They have Just discovered in India
that the elephant is too valuable; m
animal to be indiscriminately slangh-
tered, and the government has inter
fered to prevent their extinction. 4e-
nxgerie men and small boys will be
duly grateful -
TIE comparative safety of travel in
different countries may be seen by the
following table, showing the ratio of
killed to the total number Of passen-
gers carried: ;7
British railroads, ono ein............ 490,o00
Massachusetts, railroads, one IN. ..... Il, ,475,0O0
Beleian railroads. ono in. ,o0oOO
Prussian railroads, ono in. ...... 100000
French railroads, one tn.. ,O0O,0o0
PEP1s wrote in his diary two hundred
years, ago, ,"I sent for . cup Of tes q
Chinese drinkl of which never drank
before" Last year the British empire
swallowed an infusion of about l60,-
OOO, coo pounds of this aromatic herb.
IT appears that the st1ifth wheel to q
coach" is no longer supe1Auous. An
inventive genius of Aoand City. NJ,
has devised . fifth wheel attachment
to q buggy, which helps to turn both
horses and carriage ON . space not *
ceeding their length. :,
An amulet in the form of piece of
Limburger cheese, worn - . locket,
has been found . sure protection
against small pox in the west, forae-
much as no infected person viii ap-
proach the wearer near enough to in
part the disease.
JOIN LAY, of Buffalo, arrived from
st. Petersburg two or three days since,
and will return to Russia within week
for the purpose of signing papers giving
to that government the right to manu-
facture his submarine torpedoes, re-
ceiving for the said right the sum of
$3.50, 600.
The life Of young girl in Buffalo,