Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-18
General News Items.

General News Items.
The San Francisco street cars are to
be lighted with gas.
The peach season is six weeks behind
time in Georgia.
HE Yo Semitic Valley is great even {
in it's snow, which is now over forty feet
i'll depth.
TIE prettiest pair OF boots exhibited
at a recent fair in Cincinnati were made
by little German girl, aged 16.
COPPER in great abundance Inns re.
Gently been discovered in P0cahontas,
Ark.
WE are told that over 1000 patents
have been granted for improvements on |
ike sewing mochine in this country.
THERE is IL general movement through
out Georgia looking to the reorganlza-
ton of the old volunteer companies.
IT costs four times us much to run a
train forty miles an hour, rs it does |
twenty miles in the same time.
1t is thought that the book-publish-
ing business was never better i'll this |
country than ut the present time.
PLAIN gold sleeve studs. rounded like |
| a button, and with chasing or monogram,
arc the latest novelty in that line.
SILVER jcwelry is manufactured to a
large extent now, and is quite fashiona-
bic in New York and Philadelphia.
A C"NNEor1cur girl died in conse
quence of being told as an "April
foop' that her lover was dead.
CONSUMPTION carries to the grave
200, 600 persons annually on the North /
American continent.
American hooking birds bring larger !
prices in Europe thar the best of can
aries.
A MILLION dollars is the price of a |
we'll established and successful sugar |
plantation in Cuba.
THERE are but eighteen Shaker soci-
cites now established in the several
states of the Union.
SCIENTIFIC experiment makes the ex-
trem, velocity of wind 10 be ninety !
three miles an hour.
A CRAZY Nevada man swallowed forty
dollars in gold and silver pieces the !
other day. A stomach pump didn't !
fetch them.
The habit of taking light break
fast is said to be one of the greatest |
improvements of the age.
TRENTON, N. j., has startling in
strument in the shape of circular saw
some "a feet in circumference-the
largest in the world.
TH1RTY-oNE New York circuses start
out upon their march of devastation
this month. Picture it, think of it
dissOlute man!
An Alabama hen has laid several
black eggs, causing great CONSERVATION.
They say it is the sign of coming
negro war.
| A W1NDHAN COUNTY, Conn.,, man is
working up saw log, thirty feet long,
into a fife for Glmore's jubilee. 1t will
be blown by nitro-glycerine.
Born Fulton and Morse went to Eu-
rope, studied art with BENJAMIN West,
and came home to make application of
the agents of nature to the concerns of
practical life.
In Boston they do not shake carpets
any more; a new process has been in-
troduced by which they are "sham-
pooned."
JULES OPPERr has discovered that the
Egyptians were nation, and had
records, 1854 years before Christ The
Chaldean system of education, as at
present understood, has an interval of
50, $40 years between the Creation aud
the Deluge.
AT THE Syracuse salt works there are
about 4, 600 watts, sixteen by eighteen
feet in size, for making course salt by
evaporation; 316 blocks where it is
made by boiling, and four large mills
where table and dairy salt is made. The
total capital invested in the business is
about $6,2O0,000.
The English alphabet has 26 letters,
the France Is, the Italian 20, Spanish
81, German 26, Slavonic, AZ, Russian
IS, Latin %, Greek "a as until 4O3 B.
c., when the "a Ionic characters were
introduced), the Hebrew %, the Arabic
%, Persian 80, Turkish, %, Sanscrit A,
Chinese 214.
rocky" says the Boston Bulletin.
ing injured herself by repeated falls
over ledge which projected through
the kitchen floor, he is now engaged in
blasting it, after which he will turn his
attention to a little boulder near the
| GOAtAO utOI0 III GAl0 ptI4OEs
NEWPORT vii be the rendezvous, next
summer, for the Washington diplomatic
corps: At this seemingly premature
period number of cottages have been
rented by foreign ambassadors, and
rooms engaged at the leading hotels
for the innumerable secretaries and
attaches.
AT Frankfort, KY, on Monday, dur
ing the storm, lightning struck the
house OF a man named Martin, killing
his child, and seriously injuring his
wife. Much damage was done to that
vicinity by the great rise in the streams,
washing away saw-mills and bridges.
JAMES LORD, Erie, Pa, writes to the
> Scientific American that he has found
, relief for the sick headache by the use
of bath Of hot water, softened with
, carbonate of soda, taking the bath in a
sitting position, and remaining in ten
to fifteen minutes.
l The vessel that brought home from
, Fort Sumter the party that went there
: to hoist the national flag over the re-
9 covered ruins of the place, was lost in
: the Chinese seas on the 18th ult She
t had been sold to parties in the Japan
I trade, and re-christened the "Suwo
j. NADIA"
Q AMONG the present notablcs of Paris
y is Prince Orlotf, who is winning to wo.
a men and astonishing the men with his
= expenditures and his horsemanship,
IS He wears one jewel OF immense value,
and rides horse from Tartary which
cost 10000 francs, and manages it with
snch ease and grace as to elicit the ad.
miration of all.
It JAPANESE women whose lovers are
a faithless rise at o'clock in the morn.
j. ing and drive nails into sacred trees,
k vowing that when her lover dies she
L will pull them out. She believes that
9 the god, to save his tree, will strike the
II lover dead. This is little worse than
e laying awake nights to hate people,
# COLLINS history of Kentucky, at O
# cost Of 81 per copy, must be placed in
j. all the public schools of Kentucky, by
d order OF the Legislature. Sand now,
a by all means" says Louisville paper;
"let the Legislature, at it's next session,
e order the Louisville directory into the
e public schools. One is about as neces
Is sary and valuable as the other.
l. A Soap Mine.
le From the Pueblo N. N.Y. Chiottain.
a The other day one of our prominent
rs citizens rode out up the mountain tire.
7 or fOur miles on q nroanoo%;nrr +o,,r m: