Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11
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Personal.
BLATANT DUNCAN will emigrate to Fl;
rope.
JACK EVANS is known as the Demos.
themes of Texas.
The whereabouts of Gov. Hendricks
vexes the Indiana mind. !
BlcHAr, a distinguished anatomixt,
died at thirty-one
MOZART, the great German musici II,
died at thirty five.
BYRON bad produced his most bril-
liant works at thirty. four.
IF the staff be crooked, the shadow
cannot be straight.
SINCE 1840 the Pope has received
40, O0o, 900 francs in the way of Peters
pence.
PRoF. CHILD, of Harvard, the Chau-
! cer;an scholar, is in England, hunting,
up old unpublished ballads.
GEo. WASHINGTON, at the age OF
; twenty-four years, was cOmmander-in-
chief of all the armed forces of Vir-
ginia.
GRACE, the famous English cricketer,
is going to Australia with a picEe.i
| eleven.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has resigned tic
presidency ct tile Carolina Life Insur.
ance Company. :; ,:.~.::-~
| Troy proposes to give q reception to
Mr.. Francis, Minister to Greece, on his
return next month.
BARNUM has new show with the ss-
tonishlng title of p. T. BIS 'Ma1yel-
lous Drawing-room Aggregation.
SAMUEL Bow1Es, of the Springfield
Republican, is trying his best to for
get Butler, at Old Orchard Beach,
Maine.
Gov: WALKER, of Virginia, has .ac-
cepted an invitation to address the
State Agricultural Society at their fair,
in October.
Miss NE1LsoS has rewarded the zeal
of. London theatrical agent with an
emerald ring. 1t will probably keep
her memory green.
Miss WHITE CLOUD, daughter of the
Indian chief, has confided her hopes
of earthly bliss to a native of lrelvnd
named Pat Mcclure.
ExMA BLACK, of Mississippi, since
she towed a drowning man ashore by
means of her abundant hair, acknovl.
edges herself tow-head.
BENJAMIN YoUxa, an actor, we'll
known as delineator of negro char
acters, particularly in the role of Uncle
Tom, died suddenly in Philadelphia.
SENATOR LEWIS, of Virginia, salary
grabber, has q physiclan's certificate
that he bad better visit California, and
stay there till after the election.
MRs. GENERAL .PEaRAx, once re-
nowned as = beauty and belle, is now
at the head of fashionable young
ladies' boarding school in Baltimore.
THE Countess de Vogue, the wife of
the French Minister at Constantinople,
and her daughter, were recently saved
from drowning in the Black Sea. by a
Mr.. Palmer, an English gentleman.
SERGEANT BATES. the banner fool,
writes to Mayor Medill, of Chicago, fer
permission to go as his substitute in
the Graphic balloon. In momentary
inadvertence the Mayor refused.
THUR1ow WEED is supposed to be in
failing health, for he writes to the
warden of the Sing Sing prison, con-
cerning young Walvorth {" I haven't
the strength to write all the good I
know of him."
THR great antiquity of Bill Allen is
beyond question, as Homer speaks Of
him under the alias OF Stentor. After
Noyes takes some of the wind out of
him, it is said he will be offered q sit
uation to act as fog horn on the Rhode
Island coast.
BERLIN reports state that Captain
Werner, who has made himself SO
widely known by his seizure of the
Spanish iron clads, has been appointed
director of naval constructions at Will
helmshafen, in place of Capt. Ppreze-
wisenski, of the Imperial German navy.
The wealthy Duke of Sutherland,
who is constructing at his own cost the
Sutherland and Carthness railway in
England, is practical engineer, aud
often mounts the locomotive and drives
hiA own cars mp and down the line.
NEBRASKA named town Vanderbilt
and then wrote to the commodore. He
replied that he didn't care d-n, and
the way they changed the name of that
town would have made his hair stand
OIL end.
JESSIE FRE1foNr has posted up, all
over the shores of her husbands Por-
cupine Island, off the coast of Maine,
notices in her own hand writing, for
bidding all persons from landing. This
=. a @nsk~v
a week or two since, set fire to q valu-
able tract of woodland. Gen. Fremont
is himself very i'll in bed.
CAPT. WM. NORTON PERsE, of the
Royal Artillery, was prevented from
entering stall in the Princess Thea
tre, London, because he had not on q
white tie. He naturally made row.
and was, of course, arrested. But
white ties are not hereafter to be re-
Quired for entrance to stalls in the
Princess Theater.
TIE mother of Bou-Mezrag, the
Arb Chief condemned to death for his
share in the last Arab insurrecticn
against the French, arrived in Palis
some days back to solicit the life of
her son. Her efforts have been crown
ed with success, as the President of
the Republic, at the intercession of
Madame MacAfahop, has signed an
order for Communication of the mans
punishment.
An affecting incident occurred recent
" in Paris. Several French cooks,
temtped by high pay, left PARIS for
New York Indeed, when the chef dc
cuisine of the Tuileries departed socie
ty deemed it an irreparable loss. 6 He
was a man of great and uucloudes'
intellect, with acute views as to tie
clearness of soup; fine judge o, gen
eral effect, and, as composer, has
rarely had his equal" g, t..
JOHN RusK1N is very fastidious in bis
ideas about the shape in which his
books are published. The very style
of binding-rich purple calf, with gi!s
edge-is dedicated by him, aud TO
copy is to go forth to the world in az
e.ther shape; while the varieties Il
type and color of the ink have all been
subjects of the most weighty consid-
Grafton.
W. A. GOODYEAR, a graduate of the
Sheffield Scientific School, recently
discovered that the famous Californ'
peak, which has been lately known =:
Mount Whitney, is not the same Pc
A.. ,,,l:~h Al,o ,>~~n~ of Nf,rr$ WhSknnv