Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30


yet .tin triumph. As when 1t command
OF Art, Ristori felt the fire TN me,
And gave me Marie Antoinette' a. grand
A II human 80 E-.. IL. -, m
OF earnest souls wsre pulsing 70 her spell!
Such moments AZ restosativus of easo-r:
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General Items. 'zE,:Es~
A GHOST at McKeysport, Pa; runshes
about with . stiletto, shouting g Lovely
creature, you must die.r
BACKWARD, turn backward, oh time!
in your flight. Agassiz has discovered
that oysters used to be . foot in diane.
ter.
The first herds of Texan / tcs.ttle for
the season has arrived at: Ellsworth.
Kan. They are three in number, and
contain !, 600 head each.
SMART, quick boys cut of rats tails.
plant them in flower pots, and sell them
to unsofsticated florists as q new speci-
men Of cactus. ::
A oovEY Of eight or nine partridge
walked gravely and undismayed up the
streets of Jacksonville, Ela.,., about
dark the other. evening.
A WESTERN woman has got out a pa
tent for a new style of billiard table
with combination cushion, which will
make various noted firms in the east
look to their laurels.
The last "infant phenomenon" made
its advent in California eight months
ago, and it knows Shakspeare's plavs
before it has mastered the alphabet.
A CALF was born at Princeton, Ky..
lately, without eyes,. ears, or mouth.
and covered NTH a. hull resembling
that of turtle. / 80, L-a";
NEW YoRK does not seem to bedmak-
ing very marked progress in its. var on
the abortionists. Three fatal cases of
malpractice are now on the books for
investigation. -. il: ~
The owner of American Girl offers to
trot her against any trotter in the coun-
try for $4,000, the match TO come of
before the 30th inst. He would, pre-
fer brush with Lucy or Goldsmith
Maid. *''':-'-t t's5tt
RESIDENTS on the banks of the Bic
Hatchie, in Tennessee, have made the
unpleasant discovery that ,17-year To-
Gusts are coming up out of the ground
in countless numbers, threatening Sc
nous damage to fruit and .frtlit-trees
generally. ~. g,
The monument to Captain Miles
Standish in Duxbury, Mass, viii be
granite tower, 100 feet high, 30 feet in
circumference at the base, and sur
mounted by . statue Of 5tandish, IA
feet in height. al e. tz:;;s ~,
JESSE UDERwooD, 4 famous zmoun-
tain desperate, and one for whose ap-
prehension q reward of $500 is offered,
was killed in Carter county, KY, on
the 7th inst, while in the act of enter
ing another mans stable. s.,. ..5.
r. B. SAn1ABER, the genial inven tor
of Mrs. Parhngton and author of
Knitting Work, !" has written a n ew
volume, in which, 40 TO- reported, the
queer old dame will communicates more
Of her reflections Of life and Affairs.
|. A Masonic lodge is il Contemplation
at Bagdad, in Mesopotsmia; the sup
posed primitive abode of. man, where
there is, already, quite a number of
Freemasons, among whom are some
Persian Mussulmans. z9.;. III: 80.
IT is reported from Block Island
that the cod-fshing is the best and
most successful for years. 1t is not
unusual for one man to take three
hundred pounds in. one day with a
hook.
SCENE: Recitation Ii Metaphysics.
Professor Which ID. tho most delicate
of the senses2 Sen,-The sense Of touch.
Professor-Give an example. Senior
my chum can feel his moustache, but
no one can see it. IL: f.;.ti J.I...:..f..s
;. An affectionate Detroit man sxas sent
for the other day to demonstrate with
his sister, who had been trying TO take
poison; Le Knocked, aher: down and
dragged her round the room by her
hair, and finished by tenderly assuring
her that ssif she didntxo to work and
let the suicide business alone, he would
break her neck for her.
PETER, what are. you doing to that
boy2" said a school-master: :, "He
wanted to know if you take ten from
seventeen how many will remain; SO
I took ten of his apples to show him,
and now he wants me 10 give 'emback. ~
"Well, why don't you do it3"', Coz,
sur, he would forget how many is left
TIE best scientific scholars Of the
country say that never before, IN any
year, has there been such 4 tremendous
force of electricity in the air as has
been noticeable in the last eight or nine
months, and that the cerebral diseases
now so prevalent, are caused, by the
highly electric atmosphere.
The Mechanic Hook and Ladder
Company, of Bainbridge, Ga, claim
the championship of the country. They
say the company ran one hundred wards.
took of three ladders. placed one
against house, man ascended to the
top. descended, and all three ladders
replaced in the short space of thirty
eight and half seconds.
THE proposed Hudson river bridge,
four miles north of Peekskill. will be
one of the largest suspension bridges
in the world. It will be 1.665 feet long
between the towers, and l55 feet above
the Hudson rlver water. 1t is to be
suspended by twenty cables, made of
7N,9R miles of steel wire-weighing,
with the iron and steel in the. bridge,
II, ,O95 tons.
The famous African explorer, Rohlfs,
says that Africa might be turned into
the paradise that some portions of it
were in under the Carthagenians. and
Romans. He declares that Central A.
RIGA is as rich as India, and that a
grand highway to the Kingdom of Sou
dan might be constructed across the
desert from port to be established on
the site of ancient. Carthage.
WATER METERS are used in Chicago,
but are applied only in establishments
where much water is consumed, an d
are not attached to dwelling houses.
In 1869 there were 400 in use, of
various sizes, from fve-eighths of an
inch to four inches, the average being
one inch and two inches. The meters
cost about seventy dollars each, and
the cost of setting is charged to the
user. The average tax for water meas
,,red by the meters in 1869 was fifteen
cents per thousand gallons. The total
receipts from water rents and fs. me-
ters were 1858, IN, Of which SIG, ,525
were TO" water passing throu:'h b the
meters.