Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-26
General Items.

A BuMs1ER's bed-Three sheets in the
wind.
STEAM, as fire extingnisher, is tax
ing the place Of water in Germany.
TIE ornaments of the Hindoo women
arc estimated to be worth $500, 000, 900.
WHEN is a captain in his heaviest
attirel When he wears ship.
How can a man see the point of a
Joke when he is the BUTTE
WHAT the young lady said to the
dentist-Draw it mild.
GA CHANCE acqnaintaoce"- poll
cy dealer around the corner.
WHAT did the spider do when he
came out of the ark? He took fly
and went home.
AFTER the LIST of July all packages
weighing over four pounds will he ex-
Guided from the mails.
CHEvAL1ER PrETRo DE MED1CI, the
last of the, illustrious Meil,ci family,
has just died in Paris. -
The suicide of a COW near Mound
Cemetery, in Marietta, Ohio, is re-
corded by the Register of that place.
LAvAcA county, Texas, produces figs
measuring seven and three quarters
inches in circumference.
10 AN incautious use of a 80 called
hair restorative, is attributed the re-
cent death of woman in Paris.
THOUGH an honest merchant is
plain dealer, a carpenter is q deal
palmer.
A NAN could have more happiness as
one turkish Dey than as ever 80 many
English Knights.
CHICAGO has an ear doctor named
Tongue. How much scandal might
arise from having a Tongue busy at
the ear.
PEARL fisheries off the Australian
coasts and adjacent islands in the
Pacific, is becoming an important
branch of industry.
| A MAN named Nixon, formerly q
street beggar in Mobile, has Just died
in Oregon, leaving Il fortune estimated
at half million.
IF the steamer Metis is successfully
raised, it will be great triumph, as
she lies in an estimated depth of 1913
feet. =
A BOY of 10 at Bloomfield, Ind, has
constructed a steam engine the size of
coffee-cup, which makes $50 perfect
revolutions per minute.
CAPT. BURTON, under whose manage
ment the Metis was wrecked, has been
reinstated and placed in command of
the Galatea.
The uniform of the Persian Shah is
covered with diamonds and other
precious stones to the value of 2, 600, 900
roubles.
The largest fleece of wool reported
this season is one of twenty pounds,
clipped in Michigan from a three-year
old sheep of the Hammond breed.
THERE are forty species of spider
found on the island of St. Helena, and,
singularly enough, all the species are
European as regards their form.
No PERMITS for building in the new
burnt district of Boston will be granted
until action is had with regard to
widening the streets in that locality.
A WESTERN paper speaks of a new
paper mill which twill be made of
brick one hundred and seventy five
feet long" They grow immense bricks
out there.
The Duluth Herald gives 1rumor
that the n. P. Company will shortly
begin: the erection Of immense ware.
houses On their docks, east of Rice's
1Rai1c...+..
TINS announcement appeared. 1rcrut =
~ in . Vienna journal: ''Anna Agrikol,
sick nurse, watches dead bodies, re-
, pairs straw chairs, applies ieeches, and
! makes pastry, desserts, and other deli
cacies.
AAoRsE which died in Plymouth one
day last week, was, found to, have in
his stomach some four or five quarts of
wooden splinters, which he had been
vainiy trying to digest; 80,
ONE factory at Castine, Maine, put
up L. $50 cans of Holsters on Saturday.
One schooner which arrived on We'd
nesday brought 35,12O pounds-the
largest single lot ever brought into the
place. -
SEVERAL brass canon, made at b.
gotta in 1788. have been dug up from
Galveston Bay, where they are sup
posed to have lain since they we're lost
by the pirate LATTE in 1918.
A LADY in Reading, Penn, who put
out several pieces of lace ON the grass,
was mystitied by their strange disap
pearnnce. They finally were discovered
| in tree, to which d robin Had carried
them to weave into its nest.
TIE towers of the Cathedral of Col
ogne have reached the height of $50
feet. The construction of the spires,
which are tc bring the total height up
to 600 feet, will be commenced. Six
years more are required for terminating
the work.
A YOUNG GIRL of Norwich, fourteen
years of age, broke into her mothers
money drawer the other day, took all
the money and Jewels she could find,
and started off to "see the world"
She got as for az New London, when
she was arrested.
! A DEALER in gravestones is mention
ed by the Montpelier (Vt) Journal as
having hurriedly sent of a monument
adorned with the legend i" No Graves
There beneath an index finger point
ing heavenward, forgetful of the fact
that the stone was designed to pre-
serve the memory of a man named
"Graves.'
I4nExr experiments in France have
developed a TACT worth the knowing OF
physicians: that the epileptiform con-
WILSON'S excited by essence of worm
wood aud Japan camphor may be al
layed by the use of bromide of potas-
stun. This may be regarded as an
additional evidence of the value of
bromide in cases Of genuine epilepsy.
"IMPALED on an Umbrella is the
title of paragraph in the VALLEJO
(Cal. Chronicle of May "a, descriptive
Of the mishap of fourteen year.old
boy, who tripped while running and
had An umbrella handle driven COM
pletely through his neck and windpipe,
but who is expected to recover, never
theless.
MUCH attention is now being paid in
Germany to the cultivation of fish in
ponds and bitches, and it has been
found, contrary to the GENERALLY re-
ceived opinion in reference: to such
localities, that thcv are more favorable
for the purpose than other large bodies
of water, apparently fresh and pure in
their character.
"A SUCCESSFUL experiment was re-
Gently made in the iron works Mt Thale,
in the Harz, for the purpose of remov-
ing PHOSPHORUS from iron during the
pudding process. The iron was pnd-
died with one and half per cent. OF
flour spar, aud the product was. a
fibrous iron which did not appear in
the slightest degree "cOld short"