Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-02-06

No longer fy thy kite. Lord draw me home.
Thcu puIrst the string through ali tie dis
tance bleak;
Lord, am nearing thee; o Lord. come;
Thy pulls grow stronger and the wind
grows weak.
In thy remodeling hands thou t.k'st thy Kite;
A moment 10 thy bosom holds't me fast.
Thou fiingest me abroad 30! in thy might,
A strons-w;nged bird soar on every blast.
-Sribner's} for February.
General Items.
HoNEsr farmers in Iowa fill ducks
with water, and let them freeze before
taking them to market.
Joxzs had his leg amputated md
then wanted something taken of tho
surgeons bill, because he didn't want
to undergo another pay in-full opera
tion.
NEARLY 2, 7,OOO men and 1000 horses
are gathering ice ON the Hudson, and
it averages eleven inches in thickness.
About 9, 900 tons are gathered a day:
The crop will reach 800 tons; and will
be gathered by the first Of February.
A NAsnvn11 wasbervoman, fnding
in q lot of dirty clothes . new-fash-
ioned shirt opening at the back, sewed
it ur, cut open the bosom, and sewed
ON buttons, to the intense disgust of
her customer. =
An Irish trick-Patrick. - -
SENATOR BoaY pronounces it "Bo-
zhee, with the accent on the first syl-
liable. Ia -..<-=
SHIPMENTS of coal from the Nonon.
gahela river last year amounted to ST.
260, 500 bushels. .-.....
MANY negroes are going from Vir-*
ginia to West Tennessee, where they
secure higher wages.
EARLY on Thursday morning tho
Scheible House st Dayton, Ohio, was
entered and two large cases containing
jewellers material stolen valued at
$500. No clne was obtained of the thief,
for whom large reward is offered.
A DISEASE prevails in Detroit not un-
like the epizootic of last fall. The
symptoms are q copious discharge of
mucous from the eyes and nose, hack
ing cougb, together With sudden pros
tration and disin:lination to move.
IT is proposed to station . steamer
200 or 800 miles east of Sandy Hook,
connecting her by 4 submarine wire
with the Signal Service Station in New
York, so that she could give warning
of approaching storms to inward-b bound
vessels.
A JEWELRY manufacturing establish
ment in Newark. n. j., recently put
new flooring in their workshops, aud
the gold they obtained in burning the
old flooring not only paid for the new
ore, but for putting two coats of paint
on the entire factory.
MISS LEoxoRA MErHuEx. . young
girl of sixteen, residing near Marys-
vile, CAL. took her little gun and .
dog, the other day, and, sallying out,
bravely pursued and slew wild thirty.
pound Wild cat, the destroyer of her
pet lamb.
DE-. PARR, when q boy at Harrow,
had 80 very old face for his age that
one day bis contemporary, Sir William
Jones, said, looking ut him, Parr, II
you should have the good luck to live
forty years You may stand . chance OF
overtaking your face.
Mr. JAMES AsHBuRY has sold his eel
ebrated yacht, the Livonia, to Nh.
Thomas B1assey, NJ. r., taking in ex-
which will be recollected as having
visited. these waters last fall Mr..
Ashbury also threw in his little steam
er Merlin to boot - .. $
SoMHBoDY has recently invented
very valuable trunk. It is made with
an outside covering of cast iron. lined
with nitro glycerine. and when it 10
thrown from . rail:oad car ora baggage
wagon this outside covering is torn to
piece, and the baggage smasher IL
blown into very small fragments.
Rev. SrEPHEx II. T1Ho il about to
edit the working Churchman, which
moves Theodore Tilton to say: "Suo-
cessful ministers often make very stu
eid editors, a. half Of onr denonina-
tional papers show. Somehow the
types refuse to reproduce their tones,
gestures and good looks."
HAR1roRp has . landlords associa-
tion, organized by owners of tenements
for self-protection, which meets an
nually, and the man that moves out and
don't pay, the man that stays in and
won't pay, the drunkard, tho vicious,
the dead beat, are all reported and
placed on record. Any house owner in
Hartford can become . member.
Tn pedestal of the famous colossal
statue of Diocletian, in the Roman Fo-
rum, has been recently dug mp. This
is undoubtedly tho most important dis
covery made in the Eternal City for
many years. It is seven yards long
BY I've vide, and proves that the statue
must have been enormous; it il hoped
that fragments of the colossus itself
will he found in the vicinity of the
pedestal. Although mentioned by
many Roman historians, this statue
has always been considered myth. its
proportions appearing too gigantic tor
truth; but it must have been indeed . :
colossus to require . pedestal seven
yards in length.
A REVELATION of Wall street Smith
and Gould logged along pleasantly and
managed their affair smartly, to the
CONSERVATION and terror of the street.
One day Smith went out of town to
witness the trotting of his favoIite
horse. While he was gone Gould saw
good chance and sold him out. Tho
little trick, IL is said cost Smith half Q
million of money. Smith had his re-
venge. He took the private books OF
bis banking house over to the Erie
Company and placed in the hands Of
his old enemies the proofs of Gould's
speculations that led to the arrest and
the restoration of the $4,000, 900 re-
ferred to.
An ingenious inventor has turned
electricity to new account, but not as
yet with complete success. His object
is to use it as . motive power for the
propulsion of vessels in lieu of steam,
and he tried the experiment the other
day on q yacht named the Miranda,
with the screw detached. The result
was the driving of the shaft at such an
immense velocity that before the ma.
chime could be stopped it had broken
away the fastenings, being too power.
full by half for all the work it had to do.
The inventor of the machine, which il
called the "electro-magnet motor, e.
Inmates the number of its revolutions
at full speed at from 81, 400 to ], 800 per
minute.
IT is suggested that . method en-
ployed in Glasgow for the speedy de-
lection of burglars should be put in
practice elsewhere. Some few years