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

wants to buy Rothermel's Gettysburg
for $25, 900 and present it to the Fair
mount Park Commission.
DISPATCHES state that Wabash COL
lege, at Crawfordsville, Ind, has been
closed on account of the appearance of
spotted fever in q virdlent and most
fatal form in the region round about
that city. ;. -. :,
A NOTED hoop -skirt manufacturing
firm of Bridgeport, Conn.,, having 4 large
and unstable stock on hand, have
chartered . shipload to Dantzie, ex-
pecting to dispose of the same.
The celebrated Purdy colt, of San
Francisco, has been sold to: James
Helm, of Fresno: county, for $1,000.
Although he has never been in race,
his time has been taken in private,
heats: He has made mile, to wagon,
in 2:35. :::-"t
TIE new hotel at Saratoga, not vet
named, has been let to Breslin f. Gil.
sey, of New York, for ten years, for
w. 500 per year. It IL brick, i've stories
high, with $50 rooms, and win be open
ed July 1. ., ~ =
WHAT has been heretofore known as
the Chautauqua lake pickerel ,has been
pronounced by Seth Green to be mus
calonge and the best of its class, equal
to those taken from the st. Lawrence.
In consequence of the rapid con-
sumption Of timber in the Russian
Empire, it is proposed to pass . law
enactlng that no other fuel than coal is
to be used foF heating the engines en-
ployed on railwayA
AN American teacher IN japan writes
to the Albany Evening Journal, under
date Of December II: "I have inst
had ny first Sunday morning Bible
class, i'm this solitude Of heathenism.
xhele Perhape, ;, Bible Bill class xas never
A, Bna1As manufacturer has lust
had = bell cost of alluminium,; and
With good results. It. il, of course.
extremely light, 20 that, though large,
it can easily b.: toned !, il tone is Re.
ported to be. loud and Of excellent
pitch. ALUMINIUM is the most sono-
rous Of all metals, ..;'- ':'*.Is: ::t'1
WV. MCKAY, of Ottsxs Ont. has
obtained .: patent for the manufacture
OF stone from refuse, In moulds, by
chemical agency. He makes pofphyry.
granite, lapis la4ui, sienna, White and
veined marble, and six different kinds
of sandstone. =! >1's.>aF =zasz.i ir;=-7
Bkvx Brothers, .bell manufacturers
OF East Hampton, Conn, have already
made 200, 600 Of the Chicago charm
bells, and are making 1000 weekly.
Some weeks they have made 20, OOO.-
From one pound of metal, u bells are
made. =
OK the, principle Of "set q: thief to
catch thief," Gen. Crook has enlisted
one hundred Indians of the Hualspois
tribe for . campaign against the
Apaches. The. military thns Afforded
will be found useful in case the Hual-
aposis should hereafter have any little
unpleasantness With the Government.
TIE Agricultural Department has
imported from Gambia and distributed
some seeds of the Arbutus unde, OF
strawberry tree, Indigenous on the
mountains Of that Island, adapted to
the New England climate. The fruit
is said to be, with the exception of
shape, precisely similar to tho straw
berry: >,, ~. ~. ri, t,s.' ..,...(
FRANc1s j. ,PARKKR, of, Lewiston,
Me-, = passenger on the steamer Sion,
ington from New York; on Monday
| night. accidentally fell: overheard while
suffering from sea-sickness. The
steamers' engines were promptly re
versed, and boa&s lowered, but owing
to the darkness and drift ice he could
nor be rescued.
:Axosa the relic. destroyed dd o,,;a b, T the
fire at the. 0nAfn.T .Taylor mansioh lin
Clifton. Ohio, vs. the old headquarters
flag Of the Fifteenth Army Corps.
Bullet-marked and powderab1th6d rs
it was. itWaa = valuable relic, and it's
loss will be felt It had done proud
duty in the field from Vicksburx to
Atlanta, and thence in tho march to the
-. i;.2' :.jl: ri: - ,,.rcs:s
A DRAGON in . Connecticut town, one
day last week, discovered big dog
proving round his yard, md thought
he might do some injury to. valuable
plants. So up went the window and
out vent ono of the deacon's best
!" Sundsy-gQ -meekan', boots. The
dog grabbed the boot and disappeared,
and at last accounts neither dog nor
boot had been heard from. lis J.,
:Tm Turkisksa aGoyeruinent recently
ordered Ill impropsr illustrsted works
to be confscated, but LEFT the local au-
thOrities TO- decide what came under
the head of this definition. Whereupon
some OF these enlightened gentlemen
lost no time IN tonfscating school books
with prints illustrative of natural his
tory, disseminated BY, the, American
missionaries, and other works equally
inN0cuous. = -, G.: -
q: An elegant collection of etchinRs of
Roman antiquities has been presented
to the Mercantile Library OF Sam Fran
cisco, Cal, BY Tiburcio Pa1rott, of that
city: The work embfsoes twelve stlas
folos, Of snperb finish and style, bound
In half-Turkish morocco and in the
highest state Of preservation It is the
famous production of Giovanni Battista
Piranesi, the Italian engraveI, designer,
and architect who was born in Venice
lin 172Q, and died in Rome November
Is, 1873. =,
A: PAPER tells how . servant girl
mends her stockings: When hole
appeared in the toe,t Bridget tied a
string around tho stocking above the
aperture, and cut OF the projecting
portion. This operation va repeated
. often - necessary, cash time p0lling
the stocking down little, until ,at last
twas nearly all cut away, when Bridget
sewed on new legs, and thus kept, her
stockings always in repair. ....:s na
An Arkansas paper SAYS that in Law.
renee County, as some persons were
clearing some land, they set 1ire to a
large oak log lying ON the ground,
when they noticed rattlesnake crawl.
ing out from the log. They turned it
over, when they discovered den of
seventy-two rattlesnakes, two green
snakes, and one king snake. Twenty
two of the rattlesnakes had from four
teen to eighteen rattles, and measured
from seven to nine feet in length.
The feet of a horse require more care
than the body. They need ten times
as much, for in one respect they are
almost the entire horse. All the groom
ing that can be done won't avail any.
thing if the horse is forced to stand
where his feet will be filthy. In this
case the feet will become ordered,
and then the legs viii get badly out OF
fix; and with bad feet and bad legs
there is not much else of the horse fit
for anything.
RILEY and John Springer, Of Putnam
county, Ind, are heirs to the Springer
} estate, on which the city of Whining
ton, Del, is situated. It seems that,
generations since, one of the sncestra!