Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-16
General Items.
MEN of sceDts-Perfumers.

must De worn loosely, poised as lar
back as possible.
THREE of st. Louis's citizens are
worth over SO, O00, coo, and seven have
more than 81, 0OO, 900.
MISS THAcKERAY writes to friend in
this country that she hopes to visit the
United States next year.
THE Russian Mennonites will not
settle in Dakota. They don't like the
country. They are going to Kansas.
The currency of the country now in
actual use, Independent of the precious
metals, is SITS, 00o, 1000.
FLORIDA will have an immigration of
sixty or seventy families of skilled ag-
riculturists from Ireland next spring.
BUFFALO aspires to he known as the
International City," on account of
her intimate relations with Canada.
AUSTRALIA and New Zealand Offer
free passage from England for female
domestics, agricultural laborers and
mechanics.
LAST year the county courts in Eng
land registered TAT orders for the pro-
lection of wives deserted by their hus-
bands.
A TRACT of hematite iron ore has
been discovered in Shropshire, Eng
land, and l, 100 acres have been secured
by certain Stafordshire ironmasters-
JEFF. DAVIS has been quite i'll in
Louisville lately, and day or two his
physicians regarded his condition as
critical.
-'ARvAN1rAK1, the chief of the band
of Greek bandits who massacred the
English travellers at Marathon, has
been killed.
In England there are s57 persons
with annual incomes between $50, 900
and $3.50, 900, and only sixty-eight per-
sons who have larger incomes.
A PRETTY Chinese girl is now under
going trial at Pekin, charged with
being the captain of piraticai craft
recently blown up in one of the Chinese
rivera.
ONE of the buildings burned in Paw
tucket, last week, was the one in which
Samuel Slater .opened-in the year
17990-the first Sunday school in Rhode
Island, if not in the United States.
A PRACTICAL argument Marie,
water :" sNo, sir,' what's the use :
They haven't drunk ur volts in there
yet"
Dm CROSBY, NJ. D., LII. D., for a
long series of years Professor in
Dartmouth College, died at his home
in Hanover, N. H., on Friday after
noon of last week, aged 70 years. He
has been in ill-health for some time.
"NYM CRnxnE," of the World, is
very sweet on Miss Cary. Il can hear
her laugh now while I write" he says;
stand it sounds as if joy were tumbIing
contralto. yoice Is the only one on a
level with our hearts"
The Union and American says that
resident of Nashville beard that ex-
President johnson lost all his money
by the breaking of Washington city
bank. Then, with burst of generos-
| ity, hS;excldimsd: = :::eWell, I'm OLD
.Andy's trend, and I've got five dollars
for him if he needs It'll"
SOMEBODY has been publishing a
school book history of England, and
spelling :-caleudaf ;, With = *, after
the Greek usage, although there were
no Greek kalends: and the Springfield
Republican pertineptly asks if We must
write the . katarscta Of the Nile and
speak, of q. sad s katastrophe7 If not,
why not2 Why render unto c, sir, the
things that never belor ged to G sir "
An old man of Ivry, France, recently
died of Joy. He had been very poor
all his life, when he was suddenly in
formed tlfat he had. fallen heir to
large fortune. The old man was greatly
agitated by the news, and was hasten
ing to the Mayors office to sign some
necessary papers when he fell de"d III
the steeet =
"DocroR, what do you suppose is
the matter with my little boy?"
g. Why, it's only q c0zrustified exegis
.anti.spa medically emanating from
the germ Of the animal refrigerator,
! producing a prolific: source of irrita
bility in the pericanity of the moral
| profundlty." "Ah, that's what's I
told Melinda she lowed it Was
worms" -
The San Francisco Board of SuPervl-
sors have fixed the rate of taxation for
the current fiscal gear at 81 10 on each
500 of assessed value. This is for
municipal purposes only. In addition,
there will be the State tax of 50 CENTS
| on each $780, making the total lax
81. 60, or 10 cents more than was levied
last year. The total assessed valuatis. n
of property i'm San Francisco is $500,
600, 900. The total amount of taxes to
l I ia IN
50, 296, 600.
THEJerusalem pilgrimage, under tic
protection Of thossArchbishop Of Paris,
will leave Marseilles about the middle
of the month. and on the way to Jeru-
salem they will visit Alexandria and
the Isthmus. From Jerusalem excuE-
sions will be made to Bethlehem, Jeri-
cho, the Jordan, the Dead Sea, Mount
Carmel, and other places. The party
will be absent about two months and a
half, and will return home by Smyrna
and Athens..
/ DURING an unusually heavy snow.
storm in Stockholm, which continued
for five or six days, in December, 1871,
Nordenakjold detected, even in those
portions Of the snow which fell latest,
| OIhCh CtSsOOudCcOuo pOWuc1s OA'''s-
with very small spangles of metaiIic
.. iron. He has since found similar sub-
stances in the SHOWS of the Arctic
regions and from the heart of Finl"'"s.
1t will b& curious to learn, remarks the
London AthenBum, from the analysis,
which he has recently promised,
: whether tho iron in this cosmical dust
. is similar to meteoric iron.
!. THIS little scene occurred in street
/ car q few days since: A lady Suddenly
g arose from her seat, observing she 1;''
# gone several rods past her home. and
|. pulled the bell-strap in spltefu!
g manucr, ut the same time saying: 81
1 should thiuk he (the driven was smart
II not to remember where took the cars
- going down. I supposed he knew where
It to stop without my telling him." Blu
Il she wasn't quite 50 bad as the country
?. man, who shouted to one Of the ca
. drivers to "drive your old team ny tt
the sidewalk, 10 I can get on !"