Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-01-30
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I dtncy during this yeaf's idsaaies
FRANCE and Germany are not going
to beat each other any. more, but both
are going into beet-sugar Tremendously.
Tn coronation of Osear II. Of Swe-
den and Norway viii take place ontbe
18th Of next Nay. ,
ADVICE gratis for the close Of the
year-n 4 mans business u entirely
"run down." the best thing he can do
il to wind it up. ... -. =
IT is estimated that four hundred
yards of talle went up the isle on tle
six bridesmaids at . fashionable we'd
ding in New York recently.
A M1cuaAM heifef lately bonneted
herself with . swill barrel, and then
went to the nearest river and drovned
herself.
HENRY WARD BKRCHER SAYS: Don't
whip the children if they snigRer and
laugh during prayers. Ia>nf think Il
hurts prayer to laugh" s--
Mrs. BRooKs, the Florence Nightin-
gale of Massachusetts, was presented
with . handsometestim on Christ
mas by the State Prison convicts.
BARoS JANIS RorHscuMD has left
one million francs, the interest of which
il to be devoted to paying house rent
fol. INDECENT families in Paris.
MRs. VAx Corn, tho Methodist re-
vivalist, is preachingin Massachusetts,.
Mns MARrHA SPmKs IL the name of
. Wholesale pork dealer in Hamilton,
Ohio. @<7'
JoHN WnE, the balloon man, Is con-
strueting . lsrge air vessel IN which he.
proposes to sail across the Atlantzc.,
BRooxI1N is to be presented With
bronze bust OF John Howard Payne, the
author of I" Home Sweet Home.",
Woodruff 4 CLA1Lm have not been
invited to attend theannual convention
of the National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation, which meets in Warrington
February 16. 49,
EDWARD ULxAN, of st. Louis, has
sued Solomon Landeker for t31O. 900.
to cover the failure of Miss Landeker
to we'd as she had promised. He says
the father was the cause of it.
Two AAER1cAx tourists are reported
to be under arrest in st. Petersburg for
defacing works of art in the Imperial
Museum.
Tn Morning Pest Of London lstely
celebrated its first centennial birthday
by devoting half its space to Feminis-
cences of men and things one hundred
years ago.
SACRAMENTO wants help to build =
cooperative distillery in which the
stockholders consume their own man
ufactures, and are buried by the town
when life's ftful fever and ague il o'er.
THE uniform 81 the members of the
"Bachelors' 0erman," " at Washington,
is said to be black silk stockings,
pumpg, and IN opera hat-thelast to be
carried under the arm. -..--...-s.
MISS TAcKBURY, . spirit medium Of
Raleigh, N. c., permits her mouth TO
be sealed before entering her cabinet,
after which hobgoblin voices and blue
lights do their weirdest. ~
"I Wish you would pay little atten-
tion to what I am saying, sir, roared
an irate lawyer at an exasperated WIT
ness. "Well, l am pGying as little -
I can" :" was the calm reply. Z: II -
THKRE were {, ,967 marriage licences
issued in Chicago during the year 1872,
but it will be four months yet before
the authorities can get the ist of di-
vorces granted figured up, and they
are working day and night ct il, too.
A PRINCE, and . son-in.law Of Iss-
bella, e1-Queen of Spain, VAS sum-
moned upon jury in Rome the other
day. He refused, saying he could not
be troubled about such tTihea. The
judge fined him 1000 hre. .-as
A1aERNoN Fnz jams svelled around
the city of Charleston for . month oe
30, borrowed money, danced With the
first society, and was then arrested BY
the sheriff as Dick Brown, charged
With stealing two hundred dollars'
worth Of old copper. - - = r.
i PRoR. BAHR, the Well-known editor
of Herodotus, has died in Heidelberg
Germany. He was seized With apo
plexy while ut banquet given 10 ode
brate the centenary of the birth: Of
Godfrey Hermann, and expired tho
same night = -
A Co1oRADo pig rooted into can Of
nitro-elycerine and devoured twenty
pounds of the frozen mixture. His
owner, by filing his pen With feather
beds, and not permitting anything to
jar his nerves. hopes to keep the porkee
entire until it will be safe to kin him.
RECENTLY at . trial of considerable
interest in Rome, where the court room
was crowded, the pickpockets let loose
q trained bird, which sailed around the
heads of the audience, attracting their
attention, giving ample time for the
plckpockets to relieve the pockets Of
the audience. -
Tar st. Louis journal says: "A
young man came into the Office of this
paper yesterday With = manuscript
poem. 1t began with, The snow, the
snow, the beautiful snow.' His friends
may get the body by applying at the
basement and paying for the dry goods
box containing the remains of the de-
ceased.''
A FAcET1ous chap was arrested for
being noisy and drunk on the street in
Detroit last week. "Were You never
arrested and brought before this court
before e asked the justice. tsNo, sir!
Not If the court knows herself, and she
thinks she do. ;" facetiously replied the
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court knows itself, and fines you SO or
sixty days in the House of Correction" "
The breeding of silk-worms used 10
be quite an extensive business in South
Carolina, but died out while ago. II
has now revived, and some very sue
ceseful experiments have recently been
made near Beaufort. The oocoons
which have been produced are said to
be very fine, and efforts are making to
establish an extensive silk-worm nur-
sery there. "
j The salt mines of Poland, tits stated,
are the most beautiful and on the
largest scale in the world. Visitors
walk over four miles in the long open
galleries, and there are many that have
not been entered for years. These gal
leries undermine a whole town, and are
places of popular amusement where
i,a,,ds play, balls are given, and re-
freshmeu.s OH any scale may be had ut
the buffet A splendid chanel IS fitted
up in one niue, where mass is ceie-
brated once year. The ceiling, walls,
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