Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-24


Out of life ever lornful,
Out Of the land ever mourntul,
Where in bleak exile We roam;
Into q joyland above US,
Where there's a Father to love us
Into sour home, sweet home.".
All Sorts OF Paragraphs. :.
THE New York Commercial calls the
Fourth of July "the safety valve of
our natural cussedness.
The first thing Chicago man asks
when he enters strange city is,
Where's the tiger2"
BosToN South Enders now hold
euchre parties on the door-steps, in the
cool of the evening.
The Memphis policemen are trying
to- get a "back salary grab" They
have not been paid off for five months.
An old silver mine, worked by some
unknown. race of the past. has been
found in SILVER county, Tenn.
| A JUSTICE of the peace in Georgia
recently sentenced man to perpetual
banishment.
FoRTY thousand dollars have been
offered and refused for the English
race horse Doncaster.
"a cAcKL1ka old newspaper fowl is
the epithet applied by one Sacramento
editor to another in a recent argument.
The gentle curculio has begun It's
ravages among the plum-trees of Penn
sylvania. =. ..>,
A MATCHMAKER has invented musi-
cal instrument uttering combined
sounds resembling the voices of IA
choir.
An old western gamester wants to
know if tie rule of: no more passe3,''
adopted by the railroad companies, ap-
plies to railroad euchre. 49,.
A HUNGRY wildcat found it's way from
the mountains into a hennery at Louis
vile, KY, the other day, and was killed
while dining on pul]et.
The maddest man in the country is
tho proprietor of a circus, who olust
traded off three camels and arcage of
monkeys for a magnificent diamond,
which experts say is worth $3.50 -
RECENTLY, the American students in
Bonn, Germany, celebrated the birth
day of one of the professors hy giving
him q "surprise party" He was at
first alarmed and called loudly for the
police.
The laborers at a certain Missouri
mining works are discussing the prob
lem: "Ought a copper dresser, when
the whistle blows for twelve, to empty
his shovel of the sand or throw it back
on the pilea" .- -
The Shah of Persia has received
news of the death of his mother, bat
having come Europe to see all that is
to he seen and to study methods of
European enjoyment, he has postpon-
ed the mourning of his Court until his
return to his own realms.
A BONNET of the period is described
as a miniature kitchen garden. 1t is de-
corated with cherries, grapes, black
berries, little carrots, bits of parsley,
long green-beans, sorrel, mariorum and
other vegetables familiar to professors
of the culinary science.
THEY give degrees to women at
Straight University in New Orleans.
Miss Amanda Melvina Pc rkins and Miss
Smith have recently been digniiedF by
the title of NJ. S.: Maids of Science"
Wouldn't 'tMaids of Science" do more
towards getting them good husbands2
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage has
accepted call to take charge of the
editorial department of The Christian
at Work, religious journal of New
York. He will enter upon his duties
as editor. about the middle of August,
on his return from his trip to Colorado,
whittier he will proceed next week. '''',
A Wealthy and infatuated old lady
III Savannah, Ga., who had paid to. .
fortune-teller or f0rtune-hunter about
81, 600 in various sums, determined to
consult the police. This: consultation
proved more profitable than the others
had been, as a portion Of her money
was recovered =: -, s:-5e: ;s-.,a-
TIE fruit growers of Delaware held
meeting at Dover, the other day, at
which the estimate ofsthe peach crop
crop of 1873 was given at 9, 1888, 730
baskets. This estimate is over 100, ,00S
baskets more than that of last year,
when: the yield; was 500, coo baskets
more than the estimate. With an equal
margin, the crop this year will be very
large. .t:,,:: 49,. 80:
The first locomotive engine ever
manufactured in the colony Of Austra-
lia has recently been finished at Bal
larat under a contract with the Gov,
eminent to supply ten engines for
heavy traffic and fifteen for light
ut . compensation: of f1, 800 Its
completion was honored will, public
banquet at Victoria, at which the Mn
lister of Railways Was present. 80
Two citizens of Kansas City, NO.,
have invented a gun which seems to
surpass any English, French, German,
or American weanon OF war. 1t is'a
breech. loading rifle, weighs y seven
pounds, has range of one mile, car
ries ball the size of q Minnie bullet,
and can be fired ut the rate of twenty
five rounds per minute, 1t is n most
surprising weapon as to effect.
One of the Custom House officials
ON the dock yesterday observed a wo-
man coming off the boat with a bundle
III her arms, aud as he thought she
rather souehtt to evade him, he followed
her and said: I" Please unroll that
bundle it looks rather suspicious"
" Perhaps it does, replied the woman,
uncovering the head and face of bright
eyed baby, s" but I've got seven more
of 'em on the other side! !"-DctrvH
Tribune. :: @,=.- .n:'~:.
CALIFORNIA has thoroughly cotton
over it's scare about this years wheat
crop, and from lamenting that it would
not amount to over half of last years,
it is now Dragging that it will be even
bigger. The latest estimates figure up
13,OOO.OOO centa]s, which is calculated
to leave surplus Of 10, OOO, 900 for ex-
port, or fully as much as was exported
last year. In Oregon the season has
been much more even, and there is
certainty of an increased crop.
ABOUND was chasing fox near Laurel
Hill, North Carolina, q few days since,
when the latter, being tightly pressed,
took refuge in a hollow log, entrance
into which it effected ut knot hole. The
dog coming up, and finding that the
fox had gotten into the log, thrust his
head into the knot hole after the. fox,
and got his head fast therein. Being
unable to extricate himself, the dog
died, and the fox, being cut off from
the only avenue of escape from the log,
likewise Oerishol1 both of them. eVl