Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-08-01
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ONE OF B9r00m 9 uO0eSSe8 ACCIDENT
ally sonothered her cub st Cincinnati.
! 4 HERD of African goats have Just
arrived in Richmond, Va.
Mn. MICHAEL DICE, of St. Louis,
has . horse which g&mbols and throws
Dice. :. -...,..~
A COOKE FAMINE" in the North of
England is exciting no little uneasi-
| ness.
A x1w town called Greeley has been
established in Missouri on the Platte
river,
"TsAr perennial absurdity" is only
another Damo for the; Congressional
oa0Oe. j'.;,t .ti:,> 7vijU1yr. ~.
THE white glasa gas shades are rap
idly superseding those made Of ground
glass. 3 s':;>. 80 .:3:
A NEW YoRK cemetery vas recently
enllvened by fight between the wives
| of two rival sections.
A WnI1E-oAx tree near Fairburn, Ga,
measured fifteen feet in circumference
fonr feet from the ground.
The construction of tn New York
Underground Railroad is to commence
in 8eptember: I. 49,.
II - estineted that, not less than
2, 25O. 600 stoves viii be manufactured
in this country during che presentyear.
TIM light of'A match Will frighten a
wolf away, it is said. But love-matches
don't always keep the wolf from the
door.
AfwE1vE-foUND piece of silver ore
:wss recently taken from . ninc in Lin
t tsE di:t,ict Utah which sssayed $685.
SEllous disasters have occurred to
the coal fleets: % the Upper Ohio, by
which severai hundred thousand BUSH
els have been lost. ''t' sir
Tine Boston and Providence r. r Go.
have just contracted for . new train
house in Boston, 600 feet long by 126
feet wide. '':.1 80 -:
{ NkvBukrPoxr. Mass, is losing in
population. The asseaeon find 80 per-
sons less than the census of 1870, and
that was 500 less than 1850; -
" Nor less than twenty deaths have
be&a reported from different parts of
Kentucky, during the past month,
from the careless use of coal oil.
II 10 stated that five persons at Tren-
ton, Tenn, died from eating fish that
had fed on "lepidopterous larve."
They ought to have known better.
Tn scientists state confidently that
. large subterrsuean stream runs under
the Colorado desert, and that the
whole region may be reclaimed by
means of arte0iAn WellA "
, SuuDAI services are to be regularly
held in Chicago theatres next winter.
Rev. David Spring will preach from
the stage 7ef a4cViekee'4; and Robert
Laird Cellar in Aiken's theatre.
THx cheese product; of Rutland
county, Vermont, will be much less
than It was last year, because farmers
sold their cows for want of hay to feed
them. So
THE entire value of the stock and
property Of the Catafaugus county,
New Yosk, cheese iattories. - Is. OOO.-
geo, which retu1ns an annual income of
81, SOC, 900. 1911 1';"
. Own thousand women are employ
ed in the decorative departments of the
Leeds ,potteriea. They work nine
hours ! day and get q. 3D., about 60
cents CURRENCY, : week.
TIM Lenox Glass Company, of Pitts
6eld, Mass.. Ids capital Of 5000, 600.
Il CONSUMES fourteen -t6ousaId tons of
coal annually, and pays to Its hands
Go, GOO per month. .r;,,,..1 81;
IDor shingles have been recently
patented. aud are said to be less ex-
pepaive than. slate. They are made
about six inches, by thirteen inches in
MIA and fasten With headless nails.
III 1s71 the totkl quantity 1T tea en-.
tered 1t the Custom Rouse in England
for home consumption, ezoeeded the
enormous number Of one hundred and
wss>y'tthzee nslie.- pounds.
" IT 10 stated Chat Iowa. with her o.
coo squasoe miles of -c0al land, and
Missouri, with q, 600. have together
one-fOurth Of the total smotint of the
bituninoas coal.wneking area of the
United 6tatea. r: ......
A G111Ax banker has bought L.
500. 600 of land on the line Of the St.
Paul and Sioux City railroad, mostly
in The vicinity Of, Window. OF this
amount, Il, OO1 600 worth is for Ger
man colony. -
CHILE still needs civilization. Seven
men recently received 1850 lasbes
each in order to make them confess to
= robbery. One died under the opera
ton, one is lying at the point Of death,
and the others are fearfuly margled.
DR. Sl0ERsoN, m eminent European
savant, has; found in the air exhuled
from the lungs of tea drinkers large
number of microscopic glotiules of
poisonous narcotic oil, which, accord
ing to him, explains Why tea sometimes
makes nervous people coughy.
A ISLANDER which needs only to he
stated to be refuted: A bachelor says
that If You hand lad, = newspaper
with . scrap cut ont of 1t, not a line of
it will be read, bat every bit of inter-
est the paper possesses is centred IN
finding out what the missing scrap con-
tanned.
The following is scale of the aver
age duration Of animal life from the
most celebrated writer's ON natural
history: A hare will live 10 years, =
cat 10, goat 8, a sheep TO- dog from
IA to 20, an OK 70, swine 25, a pigeon
g. = turtle dove ., q partridge ., a
raven 100, an eagle 100, goose 100.
NYsrER'oUs boxes seem to be floating
around New York quite numerOusly Of
late, and they can generally he relied
upon to contain cold c0rpses. On Fri
day last man drove up to 63 Beekman
street and deposited long box, which
WAS directed to the drm doing business
at that place. It was: left upon the
sidewalk, and pretty soon commenced
leaking blood It was opened and
found to coutsin~ the dead body of
man, With nothing which could lead to
indent, tication.
TIE sum of two hundred ard fifty
thousand dollars was appropriated at
the last session of Congress for the en-
largement of the signal servicc The
chief signsl officer of the division of
kilograms and reports for the benefit
commerce and agriculture has all
dressed a circular to the different
boards Of trade and chambers of COM
meroe and agriculture. inviting sugges-
taons which win help to perfect the sy"
tenn now established.