Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-03-20

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this talk mot II
elf is classical alIusion,'' said the spider to
the fly.
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.
CohosrL Tom Scorr is said to control
/ $670, 600, 900 worth of railways.
BAYARD TAYLOR and his German wife
will make Germany their home.
! HARRIET BEEc1ER SrowE is still
! anxious to sell her Florida plantation.
PARTRlDGEs and rabbits abound in
the woods of Maine beyond all prece
! dent. -"
CALLER GREEN, of Osseo, Michigan,
has invented machine to extract
shippers from cheese, and secured a
patent on it. =. -:...
T. TIE late French census shovs that
there are 81, 900 more married men
than married women in France II
The mortuary records IT Savannah,
I Ga., show it to be, one of the 1aealtiIiest
citiea in the country.
A D1susED yard at Providence
has been adopted as the site of the
new state-house of Rhode Island.u.
THE veteran artist, George Crnik-
shank, is at work illustrating his own
"reminiscences. -
LADY B1udett Coutts supports an
English sewing school, accommodating
two hundred pupils.
A YOUNG lawyer in North Carolina
was lately paid pound of butter for
legal service. -. =. :.,,.:,:e
TWENTY: FIVE theological students
are learning Spanish to fit them for .
Protestant missionary: enterprise
among the Mormons. 49,. =. ~,
A SECOND. HAND dress and two ,skeins
OF yarn were recently exchanged for
forty acres of ground in Texas county.
Mo.
BER11N's court jeweler is nearly 80
years of age, worth Z million, and lives
III a shanty beyond Charlotteaburg, .
suburb of the. city. ,-!:.,.. t,ar.:7
ALL minds are assured with incapac-
tiles in one direction or another clip
ped away on this side or that; al are
fragmentary. -, .ms
No fewer than 176 almanacs for 1873
Z
running all the way from three sous to
one franc.
JNHS STRAUSS has just been sent to
the Ohio Lunatic Asylum: He went
mad because his s. Magnificent Black
Sea- was not as successful as the 'tBlue
Danube" -
AUGUST HoLrz, ook-koeper in
Lansingburg, tried the experiment of
brushing away chip from buzz
He is satisfied that the best way to
save his thumb is to put it in q jar of
alcohol.
A SUCCESSFUL evasion of the Prus-
sian order forbidding the display of
the tricolor was recently made at Stras-
bourg by three young, ladies. who
walked around the streets, one dressed
in red, another in white, and tho third
in blue.
FRENCH hatred of everything German
goes to the comical length of refusal
by the municipality of Paris to accept
abequest of 81, 900 france by German,
to be applied to the relief OF the
German poor OF Paris.
TEE tobacco growers of the Connecti-
cut valley are using great quantities of
damaged grain for fertilizing purposes.
One dealer at Hartford sold eighteen
cargoes of 200 tons each. Some of it
goes as far north as Brattleboro, Yer
mont.
A FARMERS daughter recently mar
ried wealthy and respectable travel
ing agent, on short acquaintance.
He oas just left her with a note advis-
ing her not to fall in love with strangers
hereafter. That man evidently has
some solid ideas.
IT has been discovered that the city
of New York has been robbed of 10, 600
or Is, 900 copies of extensively, bound
books of the municipal laws and other
documents deemed necessary for the
use Of city of6cials, costing thousands
of dollars, by gang Of thieves who
sold them for waste paper. -'''
The James River and Kanawha Ca
nal, COW partially completed, is to pass
proposed tunnel for the purpose being
over eight miles in length. The en-
gineers estimate the cost of the com.
pletlSn Of the work at thrty-seven
millions of dollars.
The Paris journals state that Gen.
Ulrich, who commanded at,Stua$Durg,
during the late war. has asked permis-
sion to retire from the service. and his
pension Aa. beei fixed 1t 9, 600 francs
per annum. The gallant General il
seventy-one years of age, has been
ffty-three years in the service, and
taken part in sixteen campaigns
WHEN NJ. Gambetta was IN SEitxer-
land, last year, he is said to have yis-
tied NJ. Jules Wales. It is now ascer-
tanned that NJ. Jules Wales, and the
Russian Bakounine, are the principal
of the revolutionary society
in the south of France, against. which
prosecutions are at present. actively
directed.
ANN MARGARET SHIN, late of Nor
folk, Va, recently deceased. bequeAth-
ed hex whole property, after the Fay
ment of. her debts, to the Trustees of
the Philadelphia Eye and Ear Infirna-
~, for the purpose. of establishing .
ward to be known IS the s'Shinn
Ward" The Infrmary will receive
about $4,000 by this bequest. :.
lNlFOhIAl1ONS u IOUAGCO 11O0& A4Au8
is the latest novelty in English trade.
Large arrivals have been received dur
ing the last month It is used in some
as substitute for Turkey,
which it resembles in appearance,
though not equal in quality. The leaf
is quite yellow, and is almost void of
flavor.
The piles of a San Francisco wharf
have been cosed in wood filled in with
gravel, to protect them from the teredo.
The teredo disikes to work its way
densely packed gravel, ana so
limits its ravages to the outer boxes,
which are easily replaced. The wharf
is reputed to be good and firm, while
others, built two years later, have be-
come weak and dilapidated.
The doom of bronze, as = material
for rifed guns, has, says the London
Daily News. been sealed. The manu-.
facture Of 7-pounders in that metal for
and boat service, has beenn
given up, and orders have been issued
for the construction of steel 7-pound-
ers instead. The failure of broaxa has
been a great disappointment to its
advocates, who only a few years ago
we're tull of confidence in the perfection
Of their favorite material. ..-.-
This interesting fact is recorded in
the New Bedford Mercury: "a
shrewd old fellow, who lives not far
from this CITY Gave on SATURDAY. his