Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
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The latest car.coupling was mar
riage on . railway train.
N. TIMERS has completed . volume
on the arts in Italy.
The women of Norwich, Conn.,, have
established . free reading room for
ladies only. 7.-~~.~-ee~s-----,~->-z >-z-y~s..
TIE six chief officers of the Erie
Rsilroad divide $50, 900 salary per an
mum.
Cn1oAao has about twenty churches
now building, which will cost about
q, 600. 600!
LEw1sBuno, AK, claims to be the
home of an old lady, who wept over
the graves of ten departed husbands.
CANADA runs trains over wooden
railways at the rate Of thirty-five miles
an hour.
TIE Railroed Committee. of the
Board of Equalization are ssid TO have
determined TO assess the railroad prop.
erty of Illinois at e150, ,O00. 600.
"HAvE you any more than that one
kind of tobacco I" says . customer to
tobacconist yesterday. "Yes, SIR"
"Well, then, give me the other kind"
The Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of
Persia, and the Vioeroy of Egypt are
! Of the same age, the three having been
born in the year 1880
RAISING hogs is now called " susci-
culture. as far - gentlemen farmers
60, but The common farmers are still
"hog growers"
ACCORDING to the st. Petersburg
Gazette, the annual cost Of the Rus
sian navy il from $18. .000, 900 to 49,
coo. 600. %.
NmB-rEx1w of tho ministers of the
country are not - we'll paid as base
ball professionals. But religion II not
the "national game"
IT is rumored that IN own cousin of
Bull Run Russell" 10 living in India
| Ut ynB 1dvanced ago q 1O4 Ana 1a1WSd-
readers of current literature are anx-
iously inquiring if such longevity runs
in the family.
A MARNK monster was pulled out ae
San Francisco, recently, and the aggre.
gated scientific knowledge of that city
and oakland failed to discover his
Species He weighed 500 pounds, and
had shark-like teeth.
LIVING boa-constrictofs can be
bought in AMOS, Brazil, for one dol
lar apiece Tapirs. jaguan and the
like may be procured in the samelocal-
ity upon equally reasonable terms.
PERMISSION has been gfanted . boy
six inches high, 20 years old, and
weighing SO pounds, to exhibit himself
at the Ralaigh, n. c., fair. He ID a
native of Newberry county, South Car
olina.
A GREAT sensation has been produced
in Houston, Texas, by the publication
Of sn article in the Galveston News,
charging that . Houston Alderman
offered to abolish the Houston quaran.
tine against Galveston for. 81 600
| UNFA1rHFuL cashiers are promptly
and severely dealt with in England.
An employe of tho new British Iron
Company, who grabbed 1900, has
been sentenced to five years' penal
servitude.
DRINKING and smoking put . good
deal of money into the treasury. From
July l, 1872, to Nay I, 1879, the gov.
eminent revenue from spirits Of all
KINDS (not including beer) WAS 441,-
81, 1876, and from tobacco in ito various
forms, 81, 176, l8.
Two Indians Of the Peavine Tribe
Of root diggers recently murdered .
girl. About . week ago they were
seized by the tribe and one was lashed
to . sycamore tree and cut in twain at
the waist with . dull hand saw. The
other was tied to . scrub oak and
stabbed and stoned to death.
Ar Southampton, England, recently,
a whale followed = German ship about
. mile up the River Itchen close to
Northambridge. A number of work
men went out in boats and drove it.into
shallow water, where it was harpooned
and killed.
| The handsome sloop Cora, ex Mayor
T. G. Baker, Of Detroit, Mich, viii
leave the yard of the builder, Pamrapo.
n. J., the first of next week for the
home of her owner. That gentleman
arrived in New York on Wednesday
last, and will, with two or three yacht
ing friends, accompany the craft to the
City of the Lakes.
THERE is real Yankee humor in the
top of Mount Kearsargo, announcing
or cut on the structure. II also adds
writing materials and sticks for
whiting will be furnished on applca-
ton at the Office"
TIE Railroad Conductors' Life In
srranoe Company reports that only
fourteen of the accommodating fellows
were killed during the past year. OF
those who died natural deaths, nearly
half had lung disease, caused BY the
use of irrigatlng language while the
trains were under way. 49,.
A RED-Hor serolite same whizzing
down through the trees at Haysville,
Cal, recently, bu1ying itself eight feet
deep in the ground. Il weighed twelve
pounds. and Vas 90 hot, even after an
hour had been spent in digging it mp,
that it set lire to tho cart in which it
was being conveyed to the ground.
THE fortunes of Cornelius Wander
bilt, Alexander T. Stewart and William
B. Astor are now represented at $780,
any one of them has halt - much. As
| tOl UAAy tu1u OUb, VIII III uAO 1AOO0
and leases, to be worth 90, ,00Q, 900;
but Stewart will not be likely to foot
up over 81, 600 600, and Vanderbilt
will be lucky to leave $50 0o0, ,00Q
TH Pail Mall Gazette recommends
the following stan1a from Sir Walter
Raleigh to the consideration OF modern
pilgrims, whose diet it thinks is some
what too luxurious: I" "."r-.' .~-
Give me my scallop- shell Of quiet,
| Nv sta6 Of faith to walk upon,
NY Scrip ofjoy, immortal diet,
| Ny bottle OF salvation,
Ny gown ofglosy (hope's true gage),
And then III take my pilgrimage.
P1ocHE (Cal) jury room scene
First juror-You SAY You are satisded
that this man committed murder, and
yet you object to finding him guilty.
Give us your reason. Second juror
Well, gee here, old felles, we've all
killed our man, and 'spose We kill an
other one, how would We teel if . see
of d Id mean cusseS should convict