Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-19
General Items.

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General Items. ~ 49,.
A WATERFALL 1900 feet high has
been discovered in British Guinea.
Go1D discoveries have recently been
made in Lake county, California
The people OF Beaver Fallss Penn,
have organized an anti Chinese. league.
THz palm is said to BE- ? very handy
tree. -
Tn. child Who Who cried for s' a. hour
didn't get II. ..1'- ! tr15s=ss8o -
A BLIND Beggar's Money.Box-
The harvest of quiet eye: ~
An old lady says she ,is tirea ef
"hearing about them cerber0 spinal
men in gaiteIs." .s--zs
ANorHEB peril seems to haye broken
out in New York, in the revival Of the
mysterious air-gun.
The Prince of Wales has offended
some of his countrymene by holding q
levee on Sunday at Vienna.
A-DE1EwARE peach grower has con-
tracted with canning company Edf all
his peaches from . large oFchard for
ten years at fifty cents basket
TIE following notice was recently
found posted ON the doors Of the Ar
kansas Senate Chamber: ss Job work
executed with economy and Dispatch -
SAID a woman to . physician who
was weighing two grains of calom0l for
q child. Dinna be so mean VII it, it
is for poor, fatherless BARN"
"THm engine wont work." said a
fireman to the chief of the fire DEPART
ment. No wonder" /" was the reply;
lit was made to play"
TIE ornaments of the Hindoo women
are estimated 10 be worth $500, 100000.
Children that wear nothing else wear
ornaments, and all the girls and women
wear nose rings. 81 - FEE
An engineering college under. the
charge Of competent European teachers
is at once to be established at Yeddo,
the capital of Japan, under the hus- !.
pieces of the Government. of chat
county. .~, :: ..z-, -, .......-
HoRsEs are 80 plentiful in Australia
that they are sold by the pound, at
prices ranging from . sixpenee to a
shilling, and local papers think they
would fetch more if put up in pound
cans for the Paris market. ,as<:..=
An Iowa paper thinks it = curious
state of affairs that the Iowa farmer
must sell two bushels Of ripe corn to
get money enough to buy can of
sweet corn, put up green, and holding
less then quart. -
AKREsTs have taken place in Madrid
in connection with the forged Bank of
Spain notes, the amount of which is
1000, COO reals; but it appears that
none of the persons taken into custody
for presenting the notes for. cash are
implicated in the forgery.
ON many hill slopes in Maine, the
snow still fingers. In Dixmonr, three
feet of snow IL reported in some places.
In many fields in that town, which are
being Plowed, the ground is white with
snow. - % So - = : ;5tsst -
D. B. ABBo11, of Greenvala, Ne, is
losing his cattle by new and fatal dis.
ease. The symptoms are dropping of
head, loss Of appetite, trembkng of
limbs, running at eyes, with discharge
Of bloody water few days before their
death. '.-'z -' : ei-:s-sc ezs:sss
TIE Albany Express estimates that
about $4,000 worth ladies' dresses
have been ruined in that city. during
tho past year by vitriol thrown upon
70 the scoundrels who commit the out
ages. ..:.-.-.
SuE Mason of Madison county, Ill.,,
is described as one of the most beauti-
full girls in the world Four tyoung
men have drank these}veset to death ON
Madison county beer within the last
year ON her account, and nova Mrs.
GaiI es is trying to show that Sue is in
partnership With an Alton tundertaker.
LovEEs Of good eating in Paris have
a fresh blessing in the shape of o new
kind of game. This is the marmot,
the little creature carried about Eu-
rope by Piedmontese showmen. It is.
stated that the marmot has long been
eaten In Italy. The meat is said to
have the flavor of Wild boar, rather
strong, and demanding highly spiced
sauce. = t"@E
A VISITOR was examining q sclassiin a
Sunday school recently, and asked the
question tsWhy did Joseph detain
Simeon. in Egypt until his brethren
should. return With .Beniamin3" A
teacher endeayored to prompt one of
the boys, and whispered to him to
answer s. that he wss detained rs q
hostage" The boy, not catching the
exact sound startled the visitor by
piping ont, "Please, sir, be vas de-
tanned for postage!" ,..,x9 -
A COMPANY of one hundred men is
being organized in st. Louis to locate
aid survey an immense estate Of agri-
cultural and mineral land in Arizona,
and lay of city on the Gila River on
! the line of the Great Southern Railway,
which will be the depot for all north
ern and southern. Arizona, and the
Mexican states of Sonora and Sinalao.
The expedition will set out about the
LIST of July: -'-a.>~~~z~
THR minor details Of the new census :
tables of manufactures contain matter
both instructive and, amusing. We
find, for instance, that all the people of
the United States depend upon one
shop for their homemade. artificial
eyes, and this shop only employs three
hands. Think of the consequences to
one-eyed people if this shop should
burn up. or one or two of these men
should die, or they should all go on
strikel
A xErEoR1c STONE, weighing about
pound and half, was recently found
by young geologist near the Rand
farm, Boston Highlands, Mass. The
specimen has been examined by y
number of geologists, who have pro-
nounced il an serolite. There are
evidences that it was in q partely
molten state when it fell, as one side IS
dattened by striking on the ledge. It
is dsrk-colored stone, somewhat
crumbling, and full of PARTICLES of iron,
possessing sufficient magnetism to affect
the compass 90,
The Lynchburg Va-) Press says:
The amount of tobacco now coming
to this market is almost fabulous;
every inch of space in our vast ware
honses is being filed day after day
with the fragrant weed. At no period
since the war has so large an amount
been brought to this city for sale. and