Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-04-03

So cast not that receipt away
All, yes; il e'er, in future hours,
When We this bill have all forgot,
They seud it in again-ye Eowers!-
And swear that w have paid It not,
How sweet to know, On such day,
We've never cast receipts away!
| General Items.
! .SoorHsAY1xai is crime in Prussia.
| PAPER Aour.bsrrels arc proposed.
BARRY SULLIVAN is playing in Scot
land.
| A LONESOME place-A pawnbroker's
shop.
CREASED lightnipg-A subsidized
telegraph.
WINNIE REAM is going to the Vienns
Exposition.
The early crops in Virginia are ruined
by bad weather.
! V1oaSE is light woollsa fabric for
spring dresses.
CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN is going abroad
for her health.
The Sutro tunnel is 3,675 feet into
the earth.
The Great American Bird-The bird
in the hand.
FOWLER, the discoverer Of bumps, is
lecturing in England. IS
TIE Omaha opera house has been
made over into q hotel
A DICTIONARY lately completed by NJ.
Littre contains 4, TIC pages. 1it
IT has been discovered that heshets
make the mouths of rivers water.
NoBoDY who uses tobacco can belong
to the colony at Skiddy, Kansas.
GEoRa1A people want to have a na-
tional regatta on the Savannah River.
"YoU don't do that again." as the
pig eaid to tho boy who cut his tail of.
S11Y-sEvKN cheese factories furnish
Vermont with motive power.
DoxBEY AND Son is the title .of an
English tailoring firm.
RICHARD GRANT White is in the New
York Custom House.
DE-. STRONG, of Madison, n. J., is to
lead an exploring expedition to the
Holy Land.
PRINCE NAPoLEoS is said to entertain
the project of starting q cheap newspa-
per in Paris.
Mas. JEAN MARaEREr DAvKNPoRr
LANDER, the tragedienne, is spending
the winter in Rome.
TIE intellect of the Empress Carlot-
ta il said to be becoming clearer as she
draws daily nearer to death.
A ST. LOUIS lady is opposed to fe-
male clerks, because it destroys the TO-
nance of shopping.
A sEAllsTREss in Cincinnati uses q
gray squirrel as motive power for her
sewing ng-machine.
LADIES wear their dresses longer
than they used to, which is good news
for husbands. -
JOAQUIN MILLER il writing g By the
Sundown Seas" to be published in
London in the fall
Mr.. LAwnEScE BARRETT is regarded
in the South ~ the coming representa-
tive American tragedian.
JOSH WARD, the champion oarsman,
has become policeman of Cornwall,
NY.
4 GEoRa1A convict stole the chap
lain's knife the other day, and cut way
to liberty.
THE educated pig has been seized in
Washington for debt, and will be sold
by auction.
TIE Marquis of Butte, We read, will
visit America, this Summer. The Mar
quis, we believe does not lecture.
A CALHoRx1A town boasts of raising
chickens which are black " all the way
through"
The London tramways ran 967, 900
miles durlng the past six months at an
expense of ten and half pence . mile.
TIE recent sale of Theophile Gau-
tiers effects, consisting chiefly of OBJ
jects of art, realized ITO, 900 francs.
Mn. AND MBs. BARxEY WILLIAM arc
in London, after five months tour of
Italy, France, Prussia and Holland.
AQEN. SHERIDAN is about to publish q
military book, with reference to the
late war between France and Prussia.
A NEAT company has been organized
in Texas to can all the beef they raise,
and raise all the beef they can.
HENRY G. Bowen refused $3.50, ,0CO
cash for the Brooklyn Union last week.
Bowen holds it firm ct $500, ,O0O, on
which it annually pays fifteen per cent.
Mr.. JAMES LICK, of San Francisco
has given . valuable lot of land to tho
Academy of Sciences in that city, and
another to the Pioneer Society.
IT is stated by 4 Welsh newspaper
that the Hon. John p. Jones, Senator
elect from Nevada, was born at Hay,
Brecknickshire. South Wales, in 1898
.OHAR1orI1 CUsmlAx gets six thou
sand dollars for her two weeks per-
formapce at Walls Opera House, Wash
ineton. ii :'~'. d:
HENRY WAND BKEcHKR returned
home from his Western tour of seven.
teen lectures with $21, 900 as his net
profits.
A PHYsICIAN in Nuncie, H., Was late
ly injured by the caving- in of . well.
He will hereafter attend to the sick and
let the well alone.-N Y Mail.
AaAssu is described as follows:
His figure il portly. His voice is
full and rich. His smile is geniality
itself. He smiles not with his lips
alone, but with his merry brown eyes,
with his whole kind, expressive, beam.
ing face"
The Rev. Joseph Allen, d. d., late
~ deceased at Northboro,, Mass, was
tho oldest settled Unitarian minister in
the country. He had been for 81
years, pastor of the church in North
boro,. His age was 81. He was good,
able, and useful man.
Ex SENATOR ALFRED IvERsoN of Geor-
eia died ut Macon on the 5th ult. He
vas . United States Senator from 1855
to January, 1861, when he withdrew
to Join the Secessionists, in whose
army he attained the rank of Brigadier-
General ;
"A FRIEND to dogs y writes to an ex-
change to ask: I" Is there no way to
cure hydrophobia in dogs Z" We know
of one cure, but Mr.. Bergh objects to
it. It is to cut. off the tail close to the
head, and throw the pieces away.
A 1M1D resident of Ridgefe!d, Conn,
being Unexpectedly called upon to ad-
dress a Sunday school, rose to his feet
in some confusion, and after several
desperate but vain attempts to say
something appropriate, hoarsely NUT.
tered, Dear children, never fool with
powder"
As1SaunAR railway accident occurred
recently in Italy. The boiler of the
engine burst. tearing the locomotives to