Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-26

Up stairs are not ours, to be sure T.
You are just sweet bride in her bloom,
All sunshine, and snowy, ana pure!
As The carriage rolls down the dark street
The little wife laughs and makes cheer
But. Il wonder what day of the week,
Iwonder what month OF the yeari
January Atlantic.
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.
WE1aHs that are dark-seventeer
hundred pounds to the ton.
OYSTERS are becoming very scarce
and expensive in England.
PorAroEs are one cigar and . drinl
of whisky per bushel in Davenport.
PUGET SOUND has = shore line oi
2,OOO miles, which is expected to yield
this year lumber trade of nearly $50.
600, 600 feet.
An abbey in Ireland exhibits two
skulls of Shakspeare-one when he
t was little boy and one when he Was
q man. ..,} ..<.tzse.z~4
A RAD1sH weighing fifteen pounds,
and about the size and appearance of .
female infant, has been dug in . Da-
viss county, Ky, farm.
A CONVICT who hung himself at Dene.
mara, N. Y. the other day, bandaged
his neck with q towel 80 that the rope
wouldn't scratch his skin.
An agent has gone to the North of
Germany in the hope of securing 1000
or more laborers to work IN the Lake
Superior mines.
BESIDES the immense quantity sold
for expectation, over l, 4O, OOO, 600
cigars are annually smoked on the
island of Cuba alone.
A LAW in Pennsylvania makes the
taking of money at the door of thea
ter on Sunday illegal, wherefore it II
invariable taken at the window.
Mr.. LEWIS II. NoE announces his in
tention to appear as q public lecturer
and expose the "foreigner and fraud,
Henry NJ. Stanley"
YOUNG TWEED has succumbed to the
bad odor of his fathers name. The
Metropolitan Hotel, which he persisted
in running long after it ceased to be .
paying concern, has changed hands.
The new proprietors are Breslin, Psr-
cell & Co.
A MAINE Democrat, after vainly scru-
timing the election returns in quest
of gains for his party, expresses the
opinion that Democracy is kind of
onsoddered.
WILLIE COLLINS is soon to reinforce
the number Of reading nozelists on the
Eliot is also said to be sorely tempted
to come hither.
OLD Equestrian "Well, but you're
not the boy I left my horse with !"
Boy: "No, sir; I Just speckilated,
ard bought i'm of t'other boy for nix
cents!"
A PRINTER, in fit of mental aberra-
tion, wandered into shoemaker's shop
and set up several sticks full of shoe
pegs and nails, and took proof of his
matter In boot press before he real
lied his fearful condition. -
ELDER of fourteen-"W Where's baby,
Madge2" Madge-"I In the other room,
think, Emily" Elder of fourteen
"Go directly and see what she's doing,
and tell her she mustn't"
An Indiana man, made uncomforta-
BILE by some sand which had got under
the piece Of scalp which the Indians
had left him when they stood him ON
his head, fifteen years ago, has been
relieved by surgical operation.
A WEsrERN paper has this delicate
personal item: "Those who know old
Mr.: Wilson, of this place, personally,
will regret to hear that he was as
saulted in brutal manner, last week,
but was not killed."
Som live pigs were recently found
in a hollow tree in Kentucky without
any apparent opening whereby they
could have made an entrance. That
beats the toads blasted out of solid
rocks all hollow"
A FRENCH inventor has applied =
screw propeller to the balloon, and car
ried fourteen passengers and total
weight of three and three quarter tons.
The balloon answered the helm, and =
two-horse power engine is being con-
structed to establish and employ the
principle.
II HAVE been thirteen years in the
practice of the criminal law in this
city," says Mr.. John D Townsend, of
New York, land my experience has
led me to the conclusion that there is
no place where the uncertainty of pun
ishment Of crime is greater than in
this city"
The experiment of carrying oysters
from Chesapeake bay to England, last
winter, wes 80 successful that three
large vessels are now ON their way to
this country from European port, to
take cargoes of Baltimore oysters to
London.
The number of females employed in
the United States postal service docs
not exceed 700, of which number 500
are in charge of local Offices, and the
remainder clerks. "...''rs
JAPAN has been placed in telegraphic
communication with the rest of the
world by a new cable which has been
laid in the Inland Sea across the Straits
Of Simonoseki, and communication is
complete between Nagas6 and Tokei,
Yedo. "
THR italian opera season came to 4
close in New York Saturday, after forty
performances, at ten of which Miss
kellogg was the star and Lucca at the
other thirty: The performances at
which Miss Kellogg was the attraction
gave a return Of 81, ,620. and Iucca
was worth $128. 793, making the gross
receipts $15A.413 This exceeds by
nearly $4,000 the sum that Nilsson
brought to the treasury last year.
The following "notis'' is posted in
Lincoln county: t'Ce hear. Eye don't
want enniboddi that has hosses which
has of the cppizutick innhewerza, or
any other infurnel name, to cum thru
this gait under penalty of havin' of
their, the losses, tales cut off cloase
behind their, the hosses, years. Keep
shi. Mountaineer."
The forest of Fontainbleau is to be
desecrated for the benefit of the Ger
man indemnity fund. An order has
been issued to cut down and sell l3. 296
oaks, lao to SEQ years old; 4,22S
beeches of 80 to 200 years, and 1,72O
hectares of coppice. Protests from
artists have poured upon the Admins
trat;on des Foires, but to no avail. Tie
noble trees must be food for the all
devourlng Prussian.
The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says Of
the great Okeechobee lake: ct ID
large enough to float all the navies in
the world. You can there see animals
nowhere mentioned in books on ami.
mated nature. This lake is sixty miles
long and from ten to twenty miles
WIDE. IT. Is far bevon1 the hahi%ak;on