Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-12-11
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A MAN cannot sec the point of a Joke
! when he is the butt.
In the small state of Rhode Island
there are no fewer than seven divisions
| of Baptists.
WIZ is person who never lays a
wager as bad as regular gambler :
Because he is no better.
A WOODEN mill at Lineford, Conn.
which cost $23, 600, was sold recently
for SIC, 900.
The building Of the New York State
Capitol at Albany has been suspended
for want of funds.
BETWEEN the LIST and 10Th of last
month, over 200 deer were killed by
sportsmen in Atlantic county, New
Jersey.
IT is estimated that Texas cattle DEAL
ers have taken 100000 into their
State from cattle transactions in Kan.
sas this year.
NEW YORK sportsmen are reioiced at
the increase of partridges in that state,
caused by the rigid enforcement of the
game law.
The coal trade of Birkenhead has of
lated developed SO enormously as to
block the local railways and to incon.
! venience American steamers.
A WASH, consisting of one or two
drschms of hydrochloric acid in about
four ounces OF water, has been recon.
mended as sure cure in case of
chapped hands.
A BEAR caught in trap at Eden, w.,
one day last week, chewed off his i'm
prisoned leg and walked away on the
other three, thus setting humanity an
example how to bear an amputation.
A EANNER's shop was recently exca-
waited at Pompeii, with many of the
tools used by the workmen, which were
present time.
CHOLERA ragged to terrible extent
in Northern India in 1872. The regis
tered deaths due to it was 165, 458.
Among the British soldiers stationed
there the deaths were 615 in number.
Look out for imposters in these hard
times. Last week q man was arrested
for begging in the streets of Newark,
who had his boots stuffed with money,
amount to his credit in savings bank.
Mr.. r. G. MELVILLE, of the East In
dian Civil Service, has become Mo-
hammedan and married native girl,
although he has already Christian
wife. This, it appears. he can do with
impunity in Britieh India.
The city government of Boston are
convinced of the truth of the maxim,
"Charity begins at home" Last year
they spent $4,000 in providing soup
for the poor, and Al, 900 on refresh
ments for themselves.
Gov. FENNER, absenting himself
from church on fast day. was told by
DR.. Wayland that he did not obey his
own proclamation. Eyes, 1 do, }" he
replied j; 1T tell the people to meet in
their usual places of worship. Mine is
at home."
The Popular Science Monthly gives
an account of the finding of an ancient
we'll in Illinois. It was discovered
thirty-two feet beneath the surface, the
OVERLAPPING layer being of muck, and
above that twenty-five feet OF gravel.
the we'll was built of stone, laid in q
uU6 AuU HbuU CVlU0uU3 AAN WU8 COIl@
plete even to the curbstone.
The authorities Of Jaez.bereny, q
Hungarian town, have just had the fol-
lowing notice published to the sound
of the drum: "Seeing that oaths and
blasphemies are the real cause of
earthquakes, every one, no matter who,
is forbidden to swear or to use bad Ian
guage, under penalty of receiving TWEEN
ty-five stripes with rod, and paying
a fine CT twenty-five forms"
A NICE question of taste: Jeweller
What kind of chain would you !
like2 Young MAXWELL, I don't |
X, ov, hardly. What kind Of chain
VI u'd you think I ought to have; that
is, what style would you think would
be the most becoming for young
man what carries groceries to some of
the hest families in town?
The orange harvest seems to be very
abundant jn Southern California.
"At Van Leuven's orchard, near San
Bernardino," says the Gazette of that
place, |.about fifty of the largest trees
will yield an average Of 900 oranges
each, and they are breaking down un-
der the weight of the delicious fruit.
Van Leuven last yeal picked ahundred
that would weigh a pound apiece.
THINGS threaten to be much less
smooth for Bishop Reinkens in the
south OF Germany than IN Prussia.
Bishop Kettelcr, of Mayence, has
drawn up protest against his recog.
milton in Hesse, founded upon an
agreement between the Grand Ducal
government and the Curia, the validity
Of which is not absolutely denied by
his antagonists. In bavaria, on the
other hand, the personal feeling of the
king appears to have placed adifficulty
III the way.
BISHOP Won KErrE1KR of Mainz has
rejoined in the question between the
Emperor William by bold letter to
his Imperial Majesty, in which he chal.
lenges proof of disloyal intrigue and
the consequent punishment due to
treason. The Bishop says: "After
your Majesty has uttered SO frightful
an accusation, ut least allow us to prove
you how ill you have been informed.
It is declared by the Catholics that
second letter has been written by the
Pope, and that tho Emperor, to WHOM
it's addressed dare not publish it, !