Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-04
All Sorts Of ParayraDhs.

A WISCONSIN editor speaks of q wind
which just sat on its hind legs and
howled."
AN extra number eff canal boats for
the Erie Canal have been built the
present winter.
ONE-TwENT1ETH of the children in
New York are growing up in idleness
and vagabondage.
PHYSICIANS say that thirty Thousand
people die annuelly in this country
from using tobacco.
BuENos AYREs monkeys suffer from
the genuine yellow fever, and Darwin
lists are delighted.
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS said: A room
hung with picturesi is a room hung with
thoughts.
AT Glasgow, Scotland, one iodine fac
tory uses up 5000 tons of sea weed
every year.
SWIFT thought the fate of q double
dealer was to lose his power and keep
his enemies.
THERE are one hundred and FORTY
Protestant missionaries in the islands
OF the Pacific Ocean.
COMMERCIAL Irregularities are as
abundant and startling in England. +
appears, rs in this country.
EAR-TRuMPETs OF wonderful con-
structlon, by which sounds can he
heard at the distance of mile. are to
be shown at the Vienna Exposition.
A ST. Louis man has been bitten nv
mad dog, had the smallpox and bro.
ken leg since December.
ROMAN antiquities of great value and
interest have lately been discove red on
the banks of the Rhine, at Brigerbucke.
Germany.
A CENTURY sgo, carving was an essen
tlal part of the education of lady.
Now, not one in hundred knows the
first rudiments of the art.
The Pitt palace, at Florence, uu-
doubleday contains the choicest collcc-
ton of paintings in the world-the
pride Of Italy.
The San Diegoans went fishing the
other day, and caught whale the
seventeenth this season-which yielded
rs, 600 gallons of oil.
'SrRAwBERR1Es, pie-plant and new to-
matoes are to be found in the New
York markets. Fifty cents q smell and
dollar bite.
The Rev. Peter Cartwright has not
only recovered from his late alarming
illness, but bids fair to be able to con.
tinue his ministrations.
A BATAVIA Q. w. lady had her arms
and hands poisoned by using *'prep-
aration for cleaning silver ware" which
she had purchased from peddlcr.
Rev. Mr.. BRADY, of the Indianola
journal, gives utterance to the original
remark: "The human face was not
made for a counter on which to measure
religion by the yard.'
The record looks very bad for Eng
lish roads, but makes a good exhibit
for French and Prussian railway man
agement.
THEre are seventeen pneumatic tube
lines in operation in the city of Lon
don, varying in length from $50 wards
20 % yards.
LAST year proved II fatal one for the
Swiss guides. Twelve Of them lost
their lives by casualties which occurred
on the the Alps.
"A FARM of 400 acres in England is
Kept by a woman, to whom the ROYAL
Agricultural Society gave it's highest
premium last season for general cx-
cellence and system.
IT is difficult to believe that we have
been enjoying ~ three weeks of SPRING.
and TINT the sun has once more return-
ed from across the line.
WESTERN papers publish a rumor
that John McDevitt. the billiard plav-
or, who was supposed to have persisted
in the Chicago fire, is in Boise City.
Idaho.
THREE meteoric pebbles have been
transported from Greenland to Copcn-
hagen. They weigh from 10000 to
49, 600 pounds apiece.