Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-26

] How sacred should tnet one NE ever Dc
Ths4 NARROW spapl s-.--.
Day after dav filed tp with blessed toll,
Hour after.hour still bringing in new soil.
General Items.
A BuxnER's bed--Three sheets in the
wind - '' -
STEAM, as a fire extingnisher, is tax
ing the place Of water in Germany.
TaE ornaments of the Hindoo women
arc estimated to be worth $500, 900, 900.
WHEN is a captain in his heaviest
attire2 When he wears . ship.
How can a man see the point of a
Joke when he is the buttl
WHAT the young lady said to the
dentist-Draw It mild.
"a CHANCE eqnaintaace''- 1.-THE poll
cy dealer around the corner.
WHAT did the spider do when he
came out Of the arks He took fly
and went home.
AFTER the list of July all packages
weighing over four pounds will be ex-
cluded from the mails. -.
CHEvA1dRk PrErRo DE MED1M, the
last Of the illustrious Medaci family,
has just died in Paris:
ne suicide of a COW near Mound
Cemetery, in Marietta Ohio, is re-
corded. BY the Register 81 that place.
LAyAcA county, Texas, produces figs
measuring seven and three quarters
inches in circumference.
10 AN incautious use of 30 called
hair restorative, is attributed the re-
cent death of = woman in Paris.
THOUGH an honest merchant is a
plain dealer, . carpenter is . deal
palmer. ...s
A MAN could have more happiness as
one turkish Dey than as ever 30 many
English Knights.
CHICAGO has an ear doctor named
Tongue. How much scandal might
arise from having = Tongue busy at
the ear. -,
PEARL fisheries off the Australian
coasts and adjacent islands in the
Pacific, is becoming an important
branch of industry.
| A MAN named Nixon, formerly a
| street beggar in Mobile, has just died
in Oregon, leaving a fortune estimated
at half q million.
If the steamer Metis is successfully
raised, it will be great triumph, as
she lies in an estimated depth of 1913
feet. 49, r.. ---.:
A BOZ of 10 at Bloomfield, Ind, has
constructed steam engine the size of
a offee-cup, which makes $50 perfect
revolutions per minute.
GAIT. BURTON, under whose manage
ment the Metis was wrecked, has been
reinstated and placed in command of
the Galatea: 49,.
The uniform of the Persian Shah is
covered with diamonds and other
precious stones to the value Of 2, OOO, 600
roubles. ..:.. ..,,e. .
The largest fleece of wool reported
this season is one of twenty pounds,
clipped in Michigan from three-year
old sheep of the Hammond breed.
THERE are forty species of spider
found on the island Of St. Helena, and,
singularly enough, all the species are
European as regards their form.
No PERMITS for building in the new
burnt district of Boston Will be granted
until action il had with sregard to
widening the streets in that locality.
A WESTERN paper speaks of new
paper mill which will be made of
brick one hundred and seventy five
feet long" They grow immense bricks
The Duluth Herald gives a irumor
that th6N. r.: Company will shortly
begin the erection. Of immense ware.
houses on their. docks, east Of Rice's
| Tins announcement xpF,e1oa recent "
~ in . Vienna journal: - Anna Agrikol
sick nurse. watches dead bodies, re-
pairs straw chairs, applies leethes, and
! makes pastry, desserts, and'other deli
cacies.
AaoBsE which died il Plymouth one
day last week, was found to-, have in
his stomach some four or five quarts of
wooden splinters, which he'had been
yAipiy trying to digest =, :-sIs
One factory at. Castine, Maine, put
no 4,89O cans of HOLSTERS on Saturday.
One schooner which arrived on We'd
nesday brought 35l20 pounds-the
largest single lot ever brought into the
place. 49, 80 -
SEvKRAb brass canon, made at b.
gotta in 1758. have been dug up from
Galveston Bay, where they are sup
posed to have lain since they ware lost
by the pirate LATTE in 1876.
A LADY in Reading, Penn, who put
out several pieces Of lace on Ne grass,
was mystifed by their strange disap.
pearance. They finally were discovered
! In d tree, to which robin Ind carried
them to weave into its nest. =
THE towers of the Cathedral of Col
ogne have reached the height of 23O
feet. The construction of the spires,
which are tc bring the total height up
to 600 feet, will be commenced. Six
years more are required for terminating
the work.
A YOUNG Girl. of Norwich, fourteen
years of age, broke into her mother
money drawer the other day, took all
the money and jewels she could find,
She got ~ for a. New London, when
she was arrested.
A DEALER in gravestones is mention
ed by the Montpelier (Vt) Journal as
having huEriedlY sent of monument
adorned with the legend No Graves
There p" beneath an index finger point
ing heavenward, forgetful Of the fac
l. that the stone was designed to pre-
: serve the memory of man named
? i" Graves" - 80 's5"
: - T:ncESr. experiments in France have
n developed TACT. worth the knowing O
: physicians: that the epileptiform con
l WILSON'S excited by essence of worm
wood and Japan camphor may be al
. layed by the use of bromide of potas
t sium. This may be regarded as NJ
: additional evidence of the value o.
, bromide in cases of genuine epilepsy
"IMPALED on an Umbrella" is til,
title of a paragraph in the Valley
(Cal Chronicle of Maya descriptive
I Of the mishap of = fourteen-year-olt
: boy, who tripped while running ant
! had An. umbrella handle driven com
pletsly through his mack and windpipe
;: but who is expected to recover, never
. theless.
= NuCH attention il now being paid il
Germany to the cultivation of fish il
ponds and bitches, and it las bee
= found, contrary to the -geherally ne
ceived. opinion in referepoe;, to sue
; localities, that they are more favorabl
for the purpose than other large bodie
: Of water, apparently fresh and pure i