Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-04

| Thy work is thine Thy single note
| From that deep chord which Hampden smote
| Will vibratc to the doom.
General Items.
The schoolhouscs in Vienna are
among the best in Europe.
| BEARS are becoming quite plentiful
about six miles from Chattanooga.
The snow on the Sierra Nevada is
now deeper than at any time since
1861
IN extensive coppcr-rolling mill is to
be erected at Uoughton, Lake Super
ior.
THE Rev. Mr., Spurgeo1i, it is said,
has received 10 offers of marriage with
III year.
A CAkL's1E, KY, girl disdains to
smile upon any ,7nung man who has not
Grid on the kcers.
| A EEvESGErUL Tennesskan dosed a
neighbor with shot, recently, for call
ing lin liar" ten years ago.
TIE village Of Oran, Brazile, was
r1;iueG by nine successive earthquakes
| last month"; Few lives were lost.
FROM four to FIVE million dollars
worth of precioas stones are smuggled
into New York annually.
| A PECK by measure, of si1reY eoiD
~es collected for missionary purpOses
at Nova Scotia Free Will Baptist Con-
vention.
THERE are on1y thirty telegraph
operators in Cuba, and most of them
are Americans.
IT is noted that the name of every
man sent to the Pennsylvania peniten-
tiary for bigamy begins with B.
TENNESSEE has twenty eight million
acres OF soil, but only cultivates eight
millions Of them.
New YORK has more brass bands than
any two States, and also has twice as
many insane people.
Mrs. A1FnEu FORBES, Of Stanton vt,
recently presented her husband with a
| fine boy. The father Is only 83 years
old.
WM. BEUsr of Liberty, New Jersey,
was burned to death Tuesday in trying
to rescue his child from a burning
house
GENERAL GRANT has just touched the
highest point If all his greatness, A
paper collar has just been named after
him.
AT recent wedding in New York,
the bride was followed to the altar by
twelve little girls, members Of her class
in Sabbath school.
The cultivation Of castor beans in the
Southern countries Of California is be-
coming an industry of sc:ne importance
end attracts the attention c4 those in
terestcd in the trade elsewhere.
MICHIGAN silver mines this year have
yielded about 81 900, 600 worth of ore.
The estimate is that 500, 600 month
can he taken out at cost Of only
sS,O ,OOG
OLIVE LOGAN vas married in New
York, Tuesday morning, to Writ Sykes,
ESQ.,, by Rev. Robert Collyer, and
lectured in the evening at Warwick,
New York.
LABuRNUM is said to be one of the
finest built horses ever seen on the
English turf, and the "prophets all
favor his taking the next Derby
stakes.
AN enterprising Japanese brought
over to California OH recently arrived
steamer an enormous. quantity of tes
plants, which are to be planted ~ m
experi"4r in California. 1z'ss*.
A : style of cloak Is OF velvet,
made y long, over rcn ate Two or
three capes, n1mmed WITH lace ana
sometimes fur. It would seem as if
very strong back were required to carry
such heavy load.
That portion of the old Chicago
court house bell which had not been
carried Off by relic hunters, has been
sold at auction by the board of public
works. The total weight was 1900
pounds, and brought $4,000.
MAX NIuh1ER's publication of the
"Hymn3 of the Rlg-Veda," (original
Sanscrit text, in quarto,) of which four
volumes were issued some years since,
will be completed by the publication Of
the fifth s:n.! sixth volumes early next
year.
IT appears that the International
possesses now in Europe nineteen or
gans, without including those publish
ed in France. Belgium alone has seven,
the others feing at Vienna, Berlin,
PestE, Leipsic. Munich, Dresden, The
Hague, Amsterdam, Geneva, Neufchat-
el Zurich and Barcelona.
A PARIS paper says. "a picture,
celebrated for its size, bright color.
and bad taste, representing America
and which was painted for A. I. Stew
art, of New York, for the modest price
of $23, 900, lies rolled up in store
house. 1t is like the elephant which
the Arab had presented to him.
| PHILADELPHIA has confirmed pyrom-
manaic in the person of colored boy
II yeaas old, named Providence Pow
ers. The boy, after his arrest, denied
all kno ,ledge of the fires alleged to
have been kindled by him, but at last
confessed, giving as his motive fond
ness for ''seeing fires and hearing the
bells ring
THE Okalona (AI,ss.) News takes this
section where it is published: The
cotton and corn crops OF the country
are turning out shoTt-decidedly short
and the meat crop proves to be no
crop at all, and up-country meat can
he had only for cash, and cash is
scarce commodity. 1u this state of the
case the situation appears to be this:
Starve, beg, or steal.
THE New York reporters have adopt
ed the Russian style. Here is asample
item: "A dispute arose yesterday IN
State street vodkisbop between two
tchiuevniks employed i'll the Custom
House with regard to the dismissal of
Tom Murphy. One Of them was rash
enough 10 call the other sabakoutch-
elovek, which led to blows. A bouto-
snik was called in, and by the free use
of his clnb succeeded i'll bringing both
the dura!>s to reason.
HING CHARLES II. paying visit to
DR.. Rus!..v, the doctor is said to have
struttc<! through the room with his hat
on, whit, his majesty walked complac'
entity hciynd him, with bis hat under
his arm. But when he was taking his
leave at the door the doctor thus adj
dressed lie king: 81 hope your ma
iesty will excuse my want of respect
hitherto: but, if my boys were to i'm
aSine there was Il greater man III the
kingdom than myself, should never
be able to rule them"
4 WILD goose was shot at Ceda
Lake, Lake county, in the body of
which the head OF an Indian arrow was
found lust back and under the wings,
the ends projecting on either side.
The arrow head is of bone, six and
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