Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-12
General Itens.

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TIE eastern quail'imported ihto Cal
ifornis are doing vel.
SEvERA1 Iowa towns prohibit the
sale of newspapersto on Sunday. -.
TaERE is . great falling OF ii the
amount Of Australian gold sent to
England this year. az#sss.
THREE or four murders PER day il
considered quite = moderate number in
A ScoTcH collier ia said to have lived
twenty-three days in . mine without
food or water. - -. - = ~
!T1xU issA 0eInaN +. Rev Alhany
who earns . livelihood BY having HE
wife take in washing. 49, 2a3 a1af
!THE spnRerfest to bo held at
Dubuque, Iowa, next month, win hsve
Z chorusof ] 900 voices. - Ess:s
81. Looms IL to have nsv paper. to
be called tho Tribune, and to start
with capital of t100 600. 5..z = =...., ~.
Th1 Lenox cheese factory; which
cost q 500 three years aso vss sold Ut
auction on Monday for $40. .asss s7ssEA
Ar Topeka, Kan, corn is worth
twenty cents per bwhel and county
bonds forty cents on the dollar.
GRAssHcPPKR shortcakes and potato
bug pies are plenty in. tho Chinese
restaurants at San Francisco; s.se II.
A sHRxwD Connecticut Yankee is
peddling colored dax seed under the
name Of Bloom of Paradise. y .<;5s57
| THuRRs il the, hero of two luels.
The last one was fought in 1848, when
he was younger than he is nov.
Tn Princess of Wales last infant
lived only = few minutes, and yet 1as
called Alexander John Charles Albert.
On of Barnum's boa constructors,
imported last year from Africa at vast
last ,-,'
Mn. BRsBAN1's invention, the pneu-
matte tube laid from the Capitol to the
Government printing Office, has proved
failure. -. = ...,..s. - -.
A CHARLESTON father gave young
man who had saved his daughter from
drowning, . tvo-year-old steer and .
shot gun. .=.,s1~ .-,sss 81
THE heaviest brain on record was re-
Gently found in the rknll of London
bricklayer who could neither read nor
write. 1t weighed 81 ounces. ,.o-
GOVERNOR LESLIE, of Kentucky, has
rendered the appointment of State Ge-
ologist of that State to Professor n. 8.
Shaler, of Harvard University. -.e .a
A DAvENPokr editor, who went
out for . days sport with the gun and
rod, shot forty-five dollar COW and
caught an old hat with . stone in it. f.
TIE man who mails q postal card
containing obscene language is subject
to a fine Of not less than 800 nor more
than IS, 600 for each and every offense.
A SrAxuoRD, Conn.,, man claims to
have what if left Of the flag that hoat-
and it was carried in the procession on
Decoration Day. -.
Tn late VIM. Phillips, of Boston,
who died at the island of Santa Cruz,
last month, left an estate valued at g..
OO0. 600. There are no public be-
quests. S
6IoNoR 1AR1o made his last appear
ance in England at q concert in London
May 10, for the benefit of Ndllef
CiabattA This WAS his five hundredth
"positively last" = Is; - s.s,.ss
TIE Rhode Island Railway Conmis<
sioner recommends that each passen-
ger car be required to carry FIRE extin-
guishers, axss, and pals, and that
there be increased protection to the
stoves. -. ..@.........e.
CAPrAn A. J. J1Hx1sas, of Eudora,
No., now lAnguishes in the deepest
dungeon beneath the county jail for:
refusing to pay . subscription towards
building the new Methodist church.
;AnorHHs government trial of the Lay
torpedo took place at Newport, r. I,
last Thursday. The torpedo is said
to have made 80 run of two miles in
seven and . half minutes." =: ,zs<@E
But ono cabin remains of the Nor
settlement Of "Hount Pisgah, near
Alton, Iowa, made in The hsgira Of the
Saints from Nauvoo TO Salt Lake. II
Was large community once. z.,s 80
THRK1 New Hampshire brothers re-
Gently married . mother, . daughter
and granddaughter, and it WAS the
Oldest Of the brothers that married the
grand daughter. -.
sncs tho stringent temperance laws
in Aassachusetts, BARRIERS use more
bay rum than ever. It filters through
the scalp. II the average Massachu-
setts head wasn't 20 thick it would be
lovely. ~-...: ~ -...-1 - ss:.-ss:iz
A GE1arAn writer, complaining Of the
difficulties in the pronunciation OF the
English Language, cltes tho word
''Boz, which he says is pronounced
"Dickens. ..,- 80. s...ss..-
Ux1oN Co1L,DaB has received q dona-
ton of CSC, coo from some person Who
10 probably afraid of his legal heirs,
and the poor fellow viii not give his
name,
Jm Fnx's remains will have nnonu-
ment at Brattleboro, Vt. -Four ALE
gorical females w.ll adorn the pedestal,
representing Commerce, the Drama,
the Railway, ard the eteamboak
JosEpH FAaSAn1. the veil known art
ist and the painter of the f2mous
"Nine Muses." died at his residence
on Twelfth street, New YOrk, ON Thurs
day morning, of pneumonia, after an
illness of only three days.
The store of 81. B. Carpenter, in
Pawtucket, r. l., was robbed, on Sun
day night, of 81, 200 worth of plated
knives and forks. The robber dropped
a silver knife marked @tBattery I,
Fourth Artillery" 1. - {
IF you wish to preserve cut flowers,
larrange them in vase or deep plate
titled with water; then cover the same
with glass used in apiaries, having a
small air-hole at the top. They can
thus be kept for ten days.
IT rained the other evening, and
there was was an entertainment. A
young gentleman said to . young lady:
"May 1 have the pleasure of protect
ing you with my umbrella" And, said
she, with her round, expressive eyes
looking full into his, "Put up your
rag." We like to see people sociable.
A Boston writer says that men do
not kill themselves 80 much from over
work as by inattention to the common
: laws of health. They eat at improper
hours, they do not exercise, they neg
lect the prime essential sleep, they
break down, and over.work gets the
blame. A man is like an engine: he
will stand q certain amount OF high
pressure, aud no more. Half the
, quarrels and itigations in the world
, are caused by bad digestion. We think
he is pretty nearly correct
: THE painting of Rembrandt Peale.
''Washington before Yorktown. y valued
/ at SIC, 600, has been presented to the