Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-23
General Items.

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General Items.
TaE present cost of living in Paris il
said to be nearly twice what it was pre-
vious to the late war.
! Millions of honey bees have been
noticed crossing the Ohio river south
ward, near New Albany.
DURING the winters of 1901, Kan.
sas packed 30,614 hogs. In 1S71-72,
1900 - !,
The gold leaf used for decorating the
interior Of an ordinary sleeping coach
costs $500. ~''.-,:':'-, H.
THE savings banks Of the Uhfted
States contain deposits of 81. .OOO, 600,
600, mainly the surplus earnings of
mechanics and labosing men. IL"
CALIFORNIA consumes .raisins of for
eign importation annually to the value
of 600, 900. and imports sugar to the
amount of 81. .O00, 900. .:G"I
The experimental tunnel to be con-
structed on the English side of the Bri-
tish channel will of itself cost e2,OOO,-
600.
A BuFFALo lady was on Mount Vesu-
vius when it commenced its recent star
performance. She escaped with trifl-
ing injuries. ..
SIXTY thousand skunk skins were re.
Gently sold in Michigan at from 81 for
''prince black" down to 20 cents for
inferior qualities.
! A CUTLERY manufacturing company
in Pennsylvania is said to have made
hve year contract for nix hundred Chin
ese operatives at 30 cents day:
AMERICANS in Berlin have formed the
Columbia base ball club, which uses as
ball ground field accorded them by
the Crown Prince of Prussia.
THE American artists in Paris are lv-
ing southward to Italy and to Spain.
Only q few viii remain in the city after
the close of the salon.
VBrroRs to the British museum are
SHOWN an anvil, very like any other
anvil which is declared to have once
belonged to one of the Pharaohs.
A KNIFE, . razor. some buttons and
some bones, dug out of the ground at
Cabbridgeport, Massachusetts, form
the basis of mysterious case"
DURING 1871 the number of ships
which passed through the Suez canal
was 765, and duringthe first two months
Of 1872, 200 ships passed through.
ANUMBER of young ladies' Of Yonk-
ers, n. T., have decided to organize a
club under the name of Mermaida, with
view OF engaging in aquatic sports.
CONNECTICUT has ninety-four fire in
surance companies and forty life insur-
ance companies, the former having
$75. .e00, 600 in assets and the latter
$220,0 ,00o, 600.
The Springfield Republican has re.
turns from 162 towns In Massachusetts,
of which So are in favor oflicensang tie
sale of ale, beer, &c., and 100 I'M favor
of prohibition.
A DETRoITER has invented machine
which trims wall paper, holds it up
against the wall, puts on the paste and
cuts off and smooths down the strips,
and does the work nicer and faster than
three men.
San fRANc1soo proposes tubular
tunnel across the bay. It is to be 20
feet in diameter, of boiler iron, to be
sunk from % to thirty feet below the
and held in place by it's own
buoyancy and by cables and mushroom
anchors. s:.'&.
Pms have been thought to be . COM
pazatively modern invention; bat the
London Cont Journal says that COL
lection of Is we1l-made pins has been
found in tho subeerranean vaults of
Thebes-showing that the modem pin
is only . reinvention.
The board of water works commits
ioners of Port Huron have awarded
the contract for water works machinery
TO the Holly manufacturing company,
Of Lockport, N. Y. The works are to
be in operation within four months.
SxvERA1 large manufacturing estab-
lishments at Hamilton, Canada, have
locked out their employees rather than
yield 70 the nine-ho1r movement. About
!, 900 hands are locked out.
The best scientific scholars Of the
country say that never before in any
year, has there been such tremendous
Eorce of electricity in the air as has been
noticeable in the last eight or nine
and that the cerebral diseases
now 50 prevalent are caused by the
highly electric atmosphere.
An English lady asked Miss Gather
me N. Sedgwick, while abroad, wheth-
er, they had any fine old trees in Amer
lca, and then, catching herself, added,
'' Oh, beg pardon I forgot at the
moment that your country Was 20 late
y settled r. Do oaks really then grow
in dower.pots9
ACCORDING to q Massachusetts, paper.
he wrecksrs on Cape Cod are becom-
ing almost - wicked as any of whom
re read. They are in the habit of Civ
ing false information to: skippers. and
deceptive signals for the
purpose Of drawing vessels upon the
rocks. ID = ''is .-',s*'2 81 j
SI1GkEs are becoming very numerous
Just now n England. Not only are the
lay laborers striking, but the domestic
are beginning = similar move
ment.. They AK for au increase of
wages, half holiday each week, and every
other Sunday, their working hours to
be from 6 until 10 O'Clock. The buffers
SuO Boutseme0S oo3VAAtc A1eO tA1esaSeA
\ strike. -.
Al interchange of recorded obse1va-
lions between the officers Of the Mel
bourne Observatory and Prof Heis, of
Munster, in Prussia, has disclosed the
fact whenever an aurora display was
seen in Melbourne in the South Pole
Tho aurora bOrealis was visible some-
where in the northern hemisphere. So
says the Melbourne Argus. The stimuli
of magnetic disturbances
in both hemispheres must be regarded
10 established beyond = doubt. -
THn Rev. H. E. Chaplin has long been
m acute sufferer from the gout in his
lower limbs, and more than once has
been unable topreach on account of this
Lately he has been severely
prostrated, and about fortnight since
be came to the church on crutches, but
was unable to mount the pulpit stairs,
md stood at their foot and spoke for
fifteen minutes, when he was soexhaust-
ed ~ to fall back in his seat The
scene was very dramatic, but painful to
his friends.
The story is told in England that
when the Prince of Wales was lowest
during his recent illness, the attending
physicians gave orders that their royal
patient should have whatever he most
desired. No matter what he prayed
for, that he should receive. True to
the national thirst. the ruling passion
strong at the time of his supremest
weakness, he whispered forth his de-
sire for glass of Burton's ale, and
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