Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-10
General Items.

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General Items.
A JAcK-1N-A-Box-T captain.
FRIENDS at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
READY MADE sermons, Deatly litll"-
graplic,l, can be bought III London at
two sliIlings dozen.
WITH reference to the literary pilfcr
or, Miss, or Mrs. Emerson-who says
she wrote Mr.. w. Carlct9n's poem
called g Betsy and 1 arc Out''-thc in
teresting fact is stated that SIP was
"born of four generations Of Baptist
Ministers" = -
ACCORDING to the good old Jewish
RothschiId, of Paris, opened his doors
to all corners, and the table was serv-
ed for the 1nendicant as well as for the
man of wealth.
An exchange Saws, "Beautify the
front of churches" Whereupon the
Lebanon Pioneer responds, "Yes, set
out few posts for young men to lean
against while waiting for their sisters. -
The Pope presented the Czarinc of
| Russia, AZ her late visit, with two
mosu'-s, which she has acknowledged
with massive gold chalcc.
The city of Wilmington, Del, has
Just paid $780, for land for fl,
public park
Powers, the sculp: Or, has been
for eighteen months He has the con-
sumption.
One of the most peculiar ard most
fashionable combinations of color is
dark green and light blue.
"THEY put MIN in show case,"w was
the remark of rural lady, who recently
attended a city funeral.
HARVARD COLLEGE opened her gates
to young ladies on Saturday. The ex-
aminations were oral.
THE Shah of Persia's "much mar
ried state is the cause of anxiety to
Lord Sidney, the English Lord Clam
berlain.
DIR. DAVID SKAE, one of the most
distinguished authorities on the sub
ject of mental disease, died recently in
Scotland.
The difference between abstrusc
books and locomotive engineer is
clear enough: The books tax the brain,
and the engineer backs the train.
A Missouri farmer being asked if
raising hemp was a good business,
answered. ~ can't sartin say; hut
tbs surely better than being raised by
it"
! Boy presents a mutilated bill in {,
, Hartford bake-shop. Little girl, who
is acting chief clerk "My father is
! very perpendicular about taking torn
bills"
A DANBrRY man who bought a new
pair of boots Saturday, saysa shipmay
stand on one tack all night if it wants
, to, but he finds all hour and a half to
be an elegant sufficiency.
LEILA ELLIS, a very pretty and tai
ented young actress, who played an
engagement in New York and Brooklyn
year ago, in connection with her
sister, "Sanpho," died recently in In
diana.
KENTUCKY is the eighth state in pop
ulation, the sixteenth in the number
of her foreign-born population and
! the twentieth in the per centage of her
unimproved land compared with her
farms.
Two sharpers have victimized about
800 girls in Middletown, Conn by
selling them cheap pictures for 81 each,
! telling them the proceeds were for (,
Catholic charity, and that the Sisters
! of Mercy would come and frame them.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
journal of Commerce SAYS t"entv-one
national banks, with q CAPITAL OF over
~, 600, 600, had, up to tho tils: Of Jan
nary last, failed. ard all but half
million dollars of their circulation had
been redeemed.
A SEA CAPTAIN, just returned from
long voyage, was told by commission
merchant the sad news that his wife
had died. "Wife diel!" said the Cap
tain, "well, now, do you know / didn't
think she was long-lived. How's
freights2"
TWENTY EIGHT million dollars have
been expended in deepening and other
WISE improving the river Clyde,
Glasgow, by the Trustees of the River
Clyde Navigation Company. The work
is still vigorously continued with SIX
powerful machines, dredging over A.
The World, of San Diego, mentions
an instance where the workmen grading
for hallway near that city came upon
q colony of tarantulas. These venom
Gus spiders attacked the Irishmcn, and
actually drove the men into the water,
the only safe retreat against such prey
ing insects.
The Rev. C. W. Warren, former ly of
Fall River, Mass, but for some time
past resident of Wilmington, N. C.,
has been arrested in that city on the
charge of attempting to obtain valuable
letters from the postofice under fraud
ulent pretenses.
The dome of the capitol ut Washing
ton is hollow sphere of iron of $780,
600 pounds weight, and is 1OS feet
higher than the Washington monument
at Baltimore, e. feet higher than the
Bunker Hill monument, and q feet
higher than the Trinity Church spire
at New York.
A CURIOUS PLACE for birds nest is
that chosen by two songsters that have
(Connecticut) Rail- DAD, III the angle
1OFucu ny TIC cup VI pHc Va e'O 'is''
ties of y bridge and the stringrr upon
which tie rail rests. Ten trains pass
daily over the bridge.
Ku-KLrx have appeared in Massa-
chusctts. Mr.. Henry Weeks, of Mari
on, was called out of his house recent
ly, and when he appeared at the door Il
charge of huckshot was fred ut him,
inflictiEg bad flesh wounds in the legs
The whole affair is enveloped in m,s-
terry.
THE valuation of the real estate in
Ward ), Boston, will be- about the same
:'s last year. Notwithstanding Sl3,OOu
COO, worth Of buildings were destroyed
:; the fire, and it is estimated that the
Increase value of real estate in the city
will be from SIS, 900, 900 to S2D,HW,.
0NN.- Boston -i1rtrtist:.
! \ LATE kcntuckian bequeathcd his
two daughters 81. OOO, AMI left debts OF
only S5S. The administrator prevail. 4!
upon them to put the estate into the
courts, and it came ont last week, after
y two years course, when every cent
Of the $4,000 was found to have been
awallowed up by insatiate justice.
GERMAN newspapers announce that
the dictionary of the German language,
in course of compilation l'y the Broth