Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-03-06
General Items.
A FINE thing-$3 and costs.

A FINE thing-$8 and costs.
A WORD TO the wise-Keep 80.
BRAZIL has 2, ,O00, 600 slaves.
PALACE cars are run on street rail-
ways in Sacramento.
KANSAS has 25, ,000, 900 acres Of land
awaiting settlers.
Mr. JExx1xas, the editor of the New
York Times, il going to Europe.
TH1ERs, when at college, was noted
as intelligent, but lnsubordinate.
Mn. BRssKMER says he can produce Z
gun capable Of throwing . ten-ton ball
HERscHEl v. JoAasoris now Geor-
gia Judge. -
P4rzR was invented in China 40
DC. a., p :. =
OxE family have occupied the throne
in Japan for twenty Ave centuries.
| LABoRzss get eleven oentssa day in
Brazil.
UrAn has succeeded III makinga very
fair rquality of raisins. ssa'. - ~
.CANARY birds made of wax adoEn the
parlors Of the wealthy in Gotham.
THE Rev. DR.. Pnsey, the celebrated
English clergyman, h q years old.
TH1 manufacture of silk was brought
from India into Europe, ISL, A. D.
In 1872 Tennessee built only Is miles
of railroad. s'-''
GRxEnu1 county; Kentucky,= has
eight iron furnaces in full blast
Ma. RoDE11 BDouxua il said to
have Withdrawn from society to tiniah
| . new poem. '-5f
VIC. CouGoDo1z OsoooD,a of the
New York Yacht Club, il building .
new yacht. ...--=-
Tm Grand Duke Alexis w.s tho drst
foreigner to see the wife of the 1ikado
of Japan 5f.e
CINCINNATI has had . revival-the
reopening Of her Sunday concert ~
looms.
A YOUNG LADY whipped out IN incip-
lent fire with her stockings, because
she had heard that fremen use hose.
TIE robins are singing cheerily in
Tennessee, and tho blue-b vieg1es
his tail in ecstaey from the fenoe-p posts.
TH1 city of Hioga, Japan, has 200o,-
600 inhabitants, and only ranks num-
Der two at that.
ALoMDoN society has given SEQ 74O
DINNERS to the poor, and the expenses
had only been $3.50 year.
A NEW feature Of photography u .
back ground that can be taken separ-
ately, and used with any negative.
TIE Romans used movable types to
mark their pottery and indorse their
books. j.. q '-*
THKRE was one divorce granted to
every fourteen and half marriages in
Rhode Island in 1871. -
CoxxEor1cuT's name was Moheg1n,
spelled originally Quon-eh-to-cut, si&-
nifying - long river" -. s5.
BupD DoBLE has offered go, 900 for
Governor Latham's pair of black mares
in San Francisco. " -
Kxx1uuKY distIlers consume 1905
bushels of grain daily, and turn opt
Is, 9o4 gallons Of spirits.
sxAKEs get away with $4,000 people
in India every year, and this does not
include the species that arc found in
boots.
E1RvEH new Hungarian banks, it is
reported, are to be formed under gov
ernment concession, with . capital of
$3s, 900, 900. ....s' '-.
TIE vicinity of Buffalo was the late
scene of one Of those acts Of deyilish
lust that merit hanging. Ayoung Aend
of 16 years grossly beat and outraged
little girl of9. a ~. -.
"GAm HAMnaoN - has been i'll for
nearly . month with lung fever, at the
house Of Mn. Blaine, her cousin, in
Washington; but she hes not, % has
been widely printed, been suffering
with small -pox or varioloid.
A CANOE has been built at New Lon
don, Conn, sixteen feet long, mailed
with galvanized iron, and capable of
bolding four men. It il to- be used by
| hunting party next summer on Lake
Champlaln. si y.:,ss..- rs.f ,:s-z:-s- :
ALL the Democratic members Of the
Arkansas Senate hsye united with the
Republicans in q memorial to Con.
gress asking the same bounty to the
colored soldiers. in the var as to the
white soldisrA sss>'.- -.~:;-'>' r,
Axoxo the articles from America to
he exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition
il q log of black walnut, the largest
ever grown, nix feet in diameter. and
eighteen feet long, which Was cut in
Missouri, and weighs seven tons.
r. LKAD1xa horticulturists Of London
assembled at . banquet in that eaty,
the other day, to celebrate the Puhli-
cation of the one hundredth number
of the Gardeners' Magsxine. Mess1s.
Martin Tuppee, Hahn Frnvell, Smiley
; Hibbard and others delivered speeches.
THx Paris Kentuckian tells Of mon
ster mink akin, measuring four feet
, from the tip Of tho nose to the end Of
. the tail. The skin itself measures two
feet two inches in length. The animal
was trapped ON Slate Greek, in Mont
gomery county. So.
In Japan those Who are leaders
among the progIessionists are ashamed
( of the idolatry Of their country, not
: from any personal convictions Of the
:: error of idolatry. but simply because
thev think other nations look down
: upon them for clinging TO meaning 3ess
3 forms and superstitions.
TIE first copper coinage Of the
; United States was made in the year
. 1871, and Connecticut can claim the
distinction. The coppers were made
. smith. Il t6.t time Grcn6y vas Il.
} most wilderness, and money WAS to
be had with great difficulty.
By curious and melancholy eoinci-
} dence two deaths occurred at nearly the
same time and place and ON tho same
train, on the Central Pacific, few
days ago. One passenger died oi
} quick consumption and the other OF
inaammatory rheumatism, which struck
to the heart. %,
Two of the most famous Of the for
> mer daimios Of Japan have left home
for IN American tour. They are gen
tlemen of the old school, descendant.
, of historical houses, and of oourse yeey
much opposed to the innovations Of tht
.. present regime. Still they would seem
: to have an investigating turn of mind
. and bound to Apd out what the new
D civilization that il making such . rum
3 pus at home is like.
!. IT is no secret that Prot. Agassi1 il
3 . strong opponent Of the Dazwiniaz
;. theory of natural selection. Not lone
. ago he was Introduced to & lady whom
he was quite sure of having met before
She told him that he Was mistaken
He laughingly replied: "Wel, "
have known each other, but I presumi
it Was when We were both toads
= Tn Churchman sympathizes some