Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-11-20
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JOHN HAY is trying to marry father
in.law worth 81, 900, 900.
A RICH old fellow in Georgia pur.
chased two camels of a circus, and is
teaching his children to ride them.
GERR1r SMITH has cent one thousand
dollars to relieve the sufferers by the
fire at Canastota, n. Y.
Mrs. CRANsroS wants So, 900 for SET
tling in Dubuque. She settled in a
mud-hOle as she was descending from
an omnibus.
SWITZERLAND exports $43, ,OOO, 600
worth of manufactured silk annually,
and the manufacture there is rapidly
increasing.
The real name of "Ouida" is Miss
La Rance. She is now building an
other of her highfalutin but brilliant
and fascinating stories.
A GROCER in Quincy, Illinois, has do
mated the city forty-one dozen bad
eggs, to be used in keeping lecturers
beyond the city limits.
Mosr of the mustard sold by grocers
is not genuine. It may contain little
mustard, but is composed mainly of
wheat -four, tumeric, and sometimes
capsicum.
CoLEB1DGE, when lecturing as
young man, was once violently Kissed.
He Immediately retorted, s'When t.
cold stream of truth is poured on red
hiss.
The Cambridge (N1ass.) Flower Mis-
sion has distributed nine Thousand
bouquets and twenty-five bushels Of
fruit and vegetables during the past
year to the sick in that vicinity.
The King of Italy, writing to Bis
marck, signs himself. "Your most af-
fectionate cousin, Victor Emanuel,
The term cousin between kings and no.
blemen is merely friendly style of
address, like "aunty" and "uncle
among the Southern dsrkies.
COMMON spring water owes much of
its pleasant taste to the presence of
carhonic acid and other easses which
it absorbs from the air. When this Wa
ter is boiled, these gases escape, and
it becomes very incipid.
"AH, Jenny" said sympathizing
friend to one who was just too late for
the train, ''you didn' t run fast enough"
"Yes I did," said Jenny; II ran fast
enough, but I didn't start soon
enough"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
American says q certain cure for nose
bleeding is to extend the arm perpen-
dicularly against wall or post, or any
convenient object for q support. The
arm on the side from which the blood
proceeds is the one to elevate.
The richest man in Maine is ex-Goy-
ernor Coburn, of Augusta, who has
several million dollars s:salted down.
most of which he has made in the lum-
bering business. He is now over sew
enty, and bachelor, and rumor says
that he will leave a million of his prop.
erty to Colby University, which has
already received several bequests from
him.
A NEW item in the fashion of ladies'
dress was accidentally introduced in
one OF the churches on Sunday. A
lady wearing an elaborate EGzabethan
ruf-biack silk, lined with sky-blue
satin-wore directly under the chin q
small paper, on which was marked the
price, 81 The unconscious wearer,
timid about setting the fashion, blush
ed at the discovery.
The American-Pale exploration
party were at Damascus in the latter
part of September. About $50 square
miles south of Es-Salt have been sur
veyed by them. Their most important
discovery and identification is that of
Hebo. They do not believe in the
genuiueuess Of the Shapiro collections
of MOablte idols.