Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-11-27
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.


LEATHER. chemically considered, is
the .ox-hi,le Of beef.
The Russian harvest has been fail.
ure this year, "'
JAKE ERIE is The home of thilty-fve
varieties Of fish.
A DAUGHTER of General Rosecrans
has entered a convent.
THE 'embers of the dying year-No-
vember and December.
THE profits of dealers in lard come
to them in the shape of fat dividends.
Wax FLOWERS are used to trim new
winter bcnnets.
IT is suggested that the name OF
Washington should be changed to
Boston.
IT is said that Prussia possesses
valuable coal deposits of enormous
extent.
PARIS is flooded with pamphlets
devoted to Bazaine, his trial and
history.
The prowling wolf is reappearing in
large numbers within the Michigan
borders.
A STREET sewer in Hartford, Conn.,,
has unexpectedly brought to light =
rich vein of coal.
NEARLY all the cider mills of New
England are desc. ted thig' fall on &C >
count OF there being no fall crop of
apples.
DEAF MUTEs, it is now asserted, are
more numerous in mountainous re-
gions than in low countries.
LOUISA MUHLBAcH had five different
books in a more er less forward state
of preparation when she died.
The oldest timber in the world is in
the ancient temples of Egypt: It is
1000 years old and perfectly sound.
The Sultan is about tc send to the
Emperor OF Russia present of several
fine Arab horses of the purest breed.
"THE leopard cannot change his
spots" but the cook changes his pots
many times day.
The advantages of trades unions
were formerly seen in a more striking
light than they are at present.
JONES thinks the man who told him
that buttermiIk was the milk of the
goat, Was trying to fool him.
An old fogy in Rutland thinks some
OF the church singing is done on the
high-drawlic principle.
IT is reported in Rome that the head
establishment of the order of Jesuits
will be transferred to Malta.
A LADY having married Mr.. Wheat
IN Virginia, it is hoped that her path
may be foury, and that she may never
be thrashed by her husband.
Mrs CLoGGERs wishes she was the
wife of member of Congress, because
il would be so pleasant to live in .
city where all the streets were Wash
ington streets.
The Royal Academy has decided to
pay marked tribute to the memory of
the great artist, Landseer. At the
coming winter exhibition, space will be
set apart for the works of the great ami
NAL PAINTER, and those who possess ex-
amples of his art will be invited to con-
! tribute to the collection.
A MEMORIAL CHURCH is to De erected
in the district of Dyer's Hill to the
memory of the late Vicar of Sheffield,
to be called the ''Sale Memorial
Church." About $4,000 has already
been subs cribed toward the project,
including six donations of $500 each.
| Among the earliest subscribers were
Wesleyan and Jew.
A WESTERN paper tells a story of q
country woman VII made her first at
tempt to get in the courthouse yard
through the patent back-action gate.
She opened the gate, went through, as
she supposed, aud shnt, herself ont
on the same side seven times; then,
circulating "Merciful saints - climbed
over the fence.
The expenses of the Indian Bureau
promise to be greater next year, judg-
ing from tie estimates, than they have
been for several years past. The esti-
mates last year were S5,5OO,OOO. For
next fiscal year they are nearly 7,OOO,-
COO. The war aud the interior depart
ments' estimates are also largely In ex=
cess of last year, all of which goes to
prove that the estimates OF the old
fiscal year we're put low for political
effect. Even the last session appropri-
ated $4,000, 600 in excess OF the esti-
mate.
A coUSrRYMAH having applied to the
manager of bank in Glasgow to dis
count a bill which had. three months
and seventeen days to run, the banker,
after carefully looking at both sides OF
Ii, as was his invariable custom, SAID
sit was not usual to take bills OF
longer date than three months Upon
which the applicant, scratching his
lead and looking slyly at the manager,
said: THAT may be your usual way,
sir, but ye ken the days are unco short
at this time of the year!'
A WRITER in the Chicago Tribune re-
| ports that George Eliot, whose maid"
en- name was Marian Evans, and Who
is now the wife of George Henry Lewis,
is very shy by nature and rendered
more 50 by the peculiar circumstance
OF her marriage What is the use of
this sort of covert false statement. The
person spoken of is woman of great
genius, and it is unworthy of her and
her friends to tell anything but the
truth respecting this subject. She is
not married to George Henry Lewis,
but lives with him without marriage.
GRAPE stones are said to be better
substitute for coffee than chickory is.
When roasted and ground, they are
said to possess an aroma very much
like that of East India coffee, and the
beverage obtained therefrom is about
the same as coffee in taste, though in
ferior in quality. The beverage fur
| nishel by many of the restaurants is
very far from being "about the same
| as coffee in taste,' and it is probable
that a decided improvement could be
made on the present article by the use
of grape stones.
One Of the effects of the stringent
times in New York city is large fall
ing off from the usual daily street car
receipts. The falling off is from 5000
to $500 daily in each company. At first
| blush this could seem singular. But
It is perfectly natural The street cars
are used very largely Ivy working peo
pie in going to and returning from
their daily toll. Thousands are now
thrown ont of employment, and have
; no occasion to use the street cars, while
a multitude who must go from place
to place seeking employment cannot
afford to rile.- Cleveland Herald.
Two YOUNG colorei boys recently
passed with credit the usual examina-
| ton for admission to the high school
Of Zanesville, Ohio. The Board of
! Educa;ioa,, however, refused to allow
! them to enter the school, and took re-
f,,rc in the expensive alternative of
hiring new prtceptOr for the sole ex-
| elusive benefit Of these two youths.
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