Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-17

Has ever been heard
From this silent baby Of ours?
Often she seems to listen
10 something VIC never can know,
Perhaps to the voice Of angels
Who silently come and go;
Making brighter her golden hours
With many a word
That will never DC heard
From this silent baby Of ours.
All, baby! from out your blue eyes
Thc angel OF silence is smiling
Though silvern hereafter your speech,
Your silence il golden begulins
All hearts to this darling OF ours,
Who speaks not word
or all she has heard,
Like the birds, the bees, and the flowers.
General Items.
MINISTER JEWELL was born at Win
chester, N. H.
POSTAL CARDS can he forwarded
to q second Office without additional
postage.
The only free music on Boston Com
mon this summer is that of the hurdy-
gurdies.
PARIS streets are cleaner, aud Paris
gas burns brighter, under the new ad-
ministration. =:
OMAHA has now enacted an ordinance
against lottery enterprises. Rather
late in the day.
DURING June Portland, Nc, shipped
13, 600 barrels of -four to the Canadian
provinces.
A LADY died in Charleston, few
days ago, whose husband, son, brother
and uncle have all been Governor of
South Carolina.
ALEX. CLoK1E was struck by light
ming and instantly killed in Troy, N.
Y, last week.
| A POOR blind beggar at Dayton,
Ohio, recently had his pocket picked
Of 1926.
/ PARsON BR0WNLOw never bought but
one silk hat, and that he has worn
thirteen years without cent for repairs.
An old clap at Oil City, Pa, likely
to die, has burned up SIG, 600, that
there need be nO quarreling over his
will.
The Knoxville Whig is to be resur-
rccted, under the auspices of the
Brownlow family, with Colonel John B.
as managing editor:
Two SUMNER courses of instruction
in science are to be given at Harvard
College this year, one in botany and
one in chemistry.
BUFFALO meat is drug in Phillips
county, Kaasas, and the people will
only coDdescend to accept the choice
parts as gifts.
STAMFORD. Conn.,, has a building as
sociation, the members of which pay
S3 week, and as fast as house is
built draw lots to determine who shall
be the pOssessor.
A STEADY tide of travel has set in the
direction of Switzerland, and the indi
cations are that the season of '73 will
be memorable among guides and hotel
proprictors thereabouts.
A BEAUTIFUL specimen of coral, over
a foot in diameter, was dug out of y
trench at Middletown, Conn.,, the other
day. 1t will ornament the museum at
Wesleyan University.
The shipments of Texas cattle east
from Wichita, Ellsworth, and other
points in Kansas, have commenced.
15O, 600 head on the way to that point
from Texas.
NOTWITHSTANDING the popularity of
the postal cards, no instance has yet
come to light where they have been
used in arranging the preliminaries of
an elopement.
A COUNTERFEIT silver half-dollar has
appeared in California 1t is we'll ex-
ecuted and can only be detected under
the microscope, by chemical test OF by
weighing in delicate scales, its weight
being sc. g grains less than the genuine.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDoR related how
he once met Napoleon walking in the
garden of the Tuileries, and added, in
characteristic Landor style: "The
fellow looked ut me SO insolently that
if had not a lady on my arm 1 should
have knocked him down."
An Atlanta doctor advises persons
afraid of cholera to stand on their
heads for one minute three times day.
He argues that this arrests abdominal
depression, and would be healthful
gymnastic exercise at any time. -
THE Boston Post tells us that ga
Vermont family has lived in sixteen
states, moved thirty times in eleven
years, and seven times in o single year,
and has never stayed in any one place
for more than eighteen months"
The following gem of descriptive
writing was penned by an Illinois re-
porter in his description of a recent
wedding. He says: "Ths Mayor
galooteo up the church aisle swashing
and gyrating like Chinese Joss with
the jim. m.jams."
The total absence of boot-jacks,
pomatum pots, and other household
missiles in the remains of the Swiss
lacustrine villages, leads DR.. Hart
mann, the distinguished ethnOlogist,
to the conclusion that the domestic cat
was unknown 10 prehistoric man.
The Emperor of China, in two Off
cial edicts, announces the degradation
and punishment of the chief of the
eunuchs for handling the dishes
carelessly,' and of the chief OF the
stables "for not being punctual and
having his beasts in bad condition"
The Huugarians are the finest look
ing fellows ut Vienna. says a cOrrespOn-
dent, averaging fully five inches more
III height than the Austrians. Ii mere
length is the criterion, We might send
over Long John Wentworth and that
Iowa gal, who Is seven feet two, and SO
"rag chi all.
Ar Rumney, N. H., two men "went
fishing in Il brook near that town,
and, after seven hours, returned with
seven hundred and forty eight trout.
-Four Boston men tried the same stream
few days before and only caught fifty
fish, the whole not weighing over
pound and half.
A WESTERN rural infant recently at
tractetl the attention of passing COW,
which lowered her head and ran ut the
child, who began to scream. A poor,
lespisea, but noble minded dog,
lying in the shade in the yard, heard
the cry, rushed on the scene and held
the impetuous COW by the nose until
the child WAS rescued. That dog now
wears collar of solid silver.
Ar tho banquet at Langres, France,
the Prince dc Joinville said: "One
day, Mt the height of that terrible crisis
of secession, when the existence OF the
American Republic was most i'll peril. L
asked Mr. Lincoln what was his policy.
I have none, he replied, Il pass my
life in preventing the storm from blow
ing down the tent, and drive IN the
! u.rs ns fast M they are pulled up"