Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-03-13
General Items.

$56s, l55, SOP.
PHILADELPHIA wants the dress, man.
ners and customs of 1776 commemor-
ated in the coming centennial by those
who attend. j: ..., -,
A FURNITURE factory is being built
by q joint stock company, at Grand
Rapids, Michigan, that will cost $780,
900 and employ 500 workmen. :.
The recent Hebrew charity ball in
Philadelphia cleared 1920, which
amount has been distributed among
various Hebrew societies.
'S1x feet in his boots" exclaimed
Mrs. Beeswax. "What will the impu-
dence of this world come to, wonder7
Why, they might as well tell me that
the man had six heads in his hat"
A FRENCH statiscian, wh) vouches
for the facts, states that Paris contains
], $50 hunchbaeks, 1924 individuals
with only one arm, 1,145 with one leg,
ITO cripples, II without noses, and 8
without either arms or legs.
AN inventory taken of the late Edwin
Forests personal estate shows that he
had property valued at 1920, 1856; over
100000 in securities on deposit.
stock, &C.; jewelry, S4,O71; paintings,
$4,000, and 1857 books.
The planting season has fairly CON-
menced in some parts of South Caro-
lima. Large quantities Of fertilizers
have been bought by planters, and the
indications are that their use will be
increased this year above all precedent.
PRESIDENT CHENEY, of Bates College,
at Lewiston, Me-, has secured in Bos
ton subscription of 500, 600 for the
College. The subscription is on the
condition that the friends of the COL
lege increase the sum to 5000, 600 in
five years.
JOHN G. LoR1Na, recently a Boston
dry goods trader, has been arrested
there, at the instance of H. B. Claflin
Il Co., of New York, accused of obtain.
ing credit to the amount of $50. 600 bv
false representations.
The nuisance of being compelled to
pay double rates for deficient postage
is abolished, and the postofficc author.
tiles at Washington have given orders
to so back to the old system and SIM
ply collect what is due.
HE Chinese have an aphorism yerv
similar to our "Man proposes, but
God disposes." It is: +" Jen schwo.
500 tire !! 500 tire! Tien schwo, wei
wei-jau!" Man says, so! so! Heaven
says, no! moi"
The famous race horse Lyttleton, by
bennington, dam Fanny Holton, broke
down in his training on the Magnolia
track, at Mobile, a few days ago. His
racing career is now over. Lyttleton
gave way in one of his fore legs, at the
fetlock joints.
In the absence Of the chaplain of the
Texas Senators are reported to have
stood devoutly during the Clerks read
ing Of the journal, and to have respond.
ed "Amen" when he had finished. new.
er doubling but that it was the same
thing as the customary morning prayer.
The rapidity with which fish will
multiply is illustrated by tho fact that
fourteen years ago fourteen black bass
were placed in the Potomac river as an
experiment, and to day that is the best
stream in the country for black bass
hshing.
The first mule ever taken into the
Hoosac Tunnel was brought up recent
~, after three years. residence in the
bowels Of the earth. He began tokick
vigorously as soon as lie reached the
surface-a thing he was never known
to do before. =:
A NEW daily newspaper has been
started in Salt Lake CITY, Utah. called
the New Endowment. It is indepen.
dent Republican in politics, opposed to
the Union of Church and State, and
devoted to advocating the material
prosperity of the Territory.
PH1LADELPH1A manufacturers en-
ploying in the aggregate 10000 per-
sons, are, the Inquirer says, preparing
to abandon Philadelphia, and carry on
their business in Delaware, in order to
be under lighter taxation. The pro-
prietors of the Pascal Iron Works
have already done so.
A CALIFORNIA blacksmith, who made
bet OF $50 that he could and would eat
nine dozen eggs in one hour, broke
down on the eighth dozen at the eni
OF forty five minutes. He was taken
up III an unconscious condition. and Mt
latest advices his situation was criti-
cal.
EVER since last Christmas millions of
robins have been roosting in the cedars
on the Pickett place, four miles west
of town. Hundreds of people visit the
roost nightly and bag as many as thew
want. Up to this Date thousands of
these birds have been caught. but there
appears to be no diminution in their
numbers -Mur1recs6oro Item, } Nc,os.
A GENIUS in Lawrence, Kansas, SAYS
he has discovered process by which |
he can make Is pounds Of sugar ont of |
bushet of corn. Several other ecien-
tltlc discoveries have been made by
the genius of Kansas. Among them
might he mentioned the science of |
making $95, 900 ont of an indian Agen-
~, the appropriation for which is only
500, 600.
CHARLES BRADhAuGE, the great Eng
llsh republican, Is coming to this coun-
try to lecture next season. He is a
large, powerful man of about forty five.
cross between Henry Ward Ecechcr
md Robert Collyer. with IL ringing
'o'ce and mastery Of oratory unknown
10 any other speaker now living in
dreat Britain. He is mIorcM by his
followers and intensely hatad by s"cic-
y and the government. What i,e knows
lbOUt Ireland md official 1;fo II, Nnr !