Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-25
General Items.

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* MAINE woman has swallowed 270
bottles of cherry pectoral and still
lives. -.
"K1xDER fat, with a calico dress"
was all the description a Louisville
woman could give of her lost babe.
Boston has seventy-six hotels and
one thousand one hundred and twenty
one bar-rooms.
The champion Temperance man lives
in Danbury, Conn. He has signed the
pledge eighty three times.
A VIRGINIA town laughs in its sleeve
ct venerable turkey -gobbler, Who has
grown gray in the effort to hatch four
apples.
A CHECK for four urhundred and twenty
four dollars from Hong Kong completes
the circuit of the world charity for Chi
cago.
A SPLENDID new hotel is going up at
Lydecker's Point, on the Palisades.
The building is 230 feet long and four
stories high, and will cost, with grounds
complete and tr1m, $150, 600
The camel coal from the new mine
near Louisville il said to improve in
quality at distance of Ii feet. A great
deal Of gas escapes while distilling, and
there are strong indica&ions of oil
The popular superstition that over
turning the salt is unluckv originated
in picture of the Last supper by Leon
is represented as overturning the salt.
BEEF tea was the favorite beverage
offered to visiting guests on new years
day in Atlanta, Georgia The old men
smacked their lips over the novelty, but
the young men I" couldn't see it. y
| Ar the recent strike of the Telegraph
clerks in England, ten ladies employed
in an Office also struck, and, what il
more, they refused to go in again un-
less their male companions were also
reinstated.
A PENNSYLVANIA has . wen on the
side of his head 20 near the size of his
oo oedi q 11 THAT he snd es Nth h;: S:
body at an angle of Is degrees.
POTTER palmer, the Chicago mil
lionaire, recently remarked to . friend
that Chicago could never be the city
that it was. He didn't think 90 Just
after the fire, but his mind is made up
now.
A NEW invention is An earring made
to fit over diamond ear ring and COM
pletely conceal it, so that lady when
| travelling may wear her diamonds in
her ear. and yet have them completely
hidden from sight.
CELEBRo-sPINAL MKNMoITB is what
they call it now, instead Of emotional
insanity, which has had an extensive
run. That was The trouble nth Ketch-
UNI, according to the testimony of num-
erous learned doctors.
NHw YoHx beaus are horrifed to
learn that many of their lady friends
designated with an asterisk those of
their New Years callers who drank too
much wine. They whose names are On
this black list will receive NO more in
vitations.
TIE Louisville Commercial announ-
ces a revival of the distilling interest.
A new distillery in that city cost $780,
600, and will make fifty barrels per
day. Last week six sour mash distil-
lers resumed work in Owen county.
HAxmroN's ambition is to become
the Birmingham of Canada. Several
of the leading citizens have founded
company to establish boot manufac-
tory ON large scale. It is expected
that 240 hands will be employed when
operations are commenced.
kEv. DR. PEADoDY, in his election
sermon at Boston, the other day, said
The sole reason Why women were un-
derpaid was that women who did not
need work were mean enough to under
bid those who did, and the lowest bid
ruled the market.
| ADEs MONIES girl enjoying buggy
ride with her lover, had her chignon
removed by horse which was driven
up behind. Just rs the thing was done
the driver of the horse whipped up,
and passing the lovers, whirled away,
the chignon dangling from the horses
mouth.
A NAN in Danbu1y discovered that
powder fried with lard was good for
boils. He tried it. The stove cover is
in the second story now, though most
all tho rest of the stove has been COL
lected. He WAS deceived in his lard, he
seya.
A CEMENT of great adhesive power
may be made by rubbing together in .
mortar, two parts of nitrate Of lime, 25
of water and 20 of powdered gum ara
bic, this forming transparent cement
of remarkable strength, and applicable
to wood, porcelain, glass, and stone:
The surfaces to be united are painted
with the cement, and bound together
till the drying il scomplete.e
In January last, lady of the ballet,
Emile Dubois, vas burned to death on
the stage of the Theatre des Galleries,
St. Hubert, Brussels. Her family now
! claim 10000 francs damages of the
manager, NJ. DEVIL. The tribunal has
ordered an investigation to see if the
: precautions taken in the theatre to pre-
serve life from fire were sufficient to
render Mr.. DEVIL irresponsible for any
accident.
TIE New York Commercial Adver-
.. . tiser says: "Donn Piatt says that the
!. humor,st Browne (Artemus Ward) stole
: all his jokes from = real snowman
named Ward, with whom he travelled
:. as door.keeper. Dom Piatt is also .
> humorist, but it will occur to many
.. what pity it is that Dom Piatt
.. hadn't an opportunity to travel as door
', keeper with some equally gifted show
!. man.
The old "Pony -" engine, which has
done faithful service on the New York
Central railroad for % years, 10 at last
"played ont, " and has been to Syrac.
use. It had become wheezy and rheu-
, matte of late. and it is doubtful if it
will pay for any further repairs. This
, il one of the original locomotives on
that line, running at one time between
Albany and Utica
In recognition of her merits as an
artist the King of Sweden lately for.
, varded, through the Swedish Ambas-
sador, to Madame Henriette Nissen
Saloman gold medal with the incrip-
( tion, "Literis ct Artibus." It is worn
: with blue ribbon on the breast. The
. same lady is already member of the
r Swedish Academy Of Music at Stock.
3 holm, besides holding the diplomas Of
the St. Cecilia Society at Rome, and
n the Philharmonic Society at Florehc e
d A NUMBER of non on-commlssioned off
II GERS of the royal engineers have been
I, selected to proceed from the school OF
!, military engineering, Chatham, to Ep
l. hesus, for the purpose of superintend'
q ing the excavations which are in pr ,
l. gress under the direction of MI. Wood
e for the trustees of the British museum,
o to open no the temple of Diana, q c"n'
side.able portion of which has already
been brought to light. The royal ea