Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
Danburyisnls.

Danburyisms.
From the Daubury News.
time IN trying to make the door shut
than any other woman.
If there are any more cough remedies
invented we will have to 70 to work
lnvcntlng coughs for them.
HE question now arises amonp bova
whether they or the managers Of the
school should furnish cigars at picnics.
A DANBURY boy wants to know if it il
right tor his folks to pay $500 for a
piano for his sister, and make him pick
berries for circus money.
AT the fire on Sunday morning a
Danbury man, in the excitement of The
hour, shouted "Keno" instead of
tire,"' and his wife wants to know
where he was the night before.
10 A NAN who applied to Colonel
Berry tor vietuals, the colonel said,
Haven't you got any money ="
NO." said the man. "Advertise
Them said the colonel; "that is the
way +. L. Barnum made his money"
a HORSE ran away on Liberty street
on saturday afternoon, and a man on
the sidewalk. with wonderful presence
OF mind, threw his hat at the animal.
screamed tire, and Immediately jumped
over fence and disappeared in q Gel.
lar-way.
MEN whose shirts are made at home
are relolced that the hot term is almost
over: A woman never attempts to fit
shirt to her husband only on hot day
and when to make . move almost
stiles him.
PEOPLE may talk and write as they
please against the habit Of early rising,
but in the bracing atmosphere of this
season, we know Of nothing more in
MIGRATING than getting up at four
o'clock in the morning, and going forth,
with lantern in hand, to meet the
rising sun.
ANOTHER and very sure indication of
the departure of city boarders, is the
reappearance of the family cat at the
house, with coat that looks AZ If it
had been used to hold down buzz
saw. by hnt with a hopeful expression in
A:V.0RTER on one of the Pullman
sleeping cars running on the New Ha
ven road, was asked by q rustic-look-
ing passenger in shirt sleeves if he had
q nail handy. He said he found a place
for his coat, but he wanted a nail to
hang up his pants. The porter tainted
dead away.
A FRANKL1N-sTREEr boy found q
pocketbook belonging to q Mill Plain
man, on Saturday, and restored it to
the owner, who gave him a five cent
piece. The boy looked at the coin m
instant, and handing it reluctantly
back, audibly sighed as he said, II
can't change it.
A BIRD flew into the window of q
house on Spring street on Saturday
and SO frightened tho lady that She
swooned away and was quite ill during
the night. In the morning she was
strengthened by the broth and one
wing of the harbinger of death, which
her practical husband had prepared
for her.
A DIVISION street man got up before
dawn on Sunday morning, to see the
sun rise, and was shot at by the exas.
perated owner of melon patch, next
door. In May last he made similar
effort, and was bitten on the heel by q
strange dog. He thinks of hiring q
boy to do the early rising tor his fam
lily.
Mr.. RY1ANDs, of Slawson, was in
Danbury, yesterday, canvassing for
society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals. He drove about until noon.
and then hitched his horse in front of
restaurant while he ate his dinner
and smoked a cigar. Then he jumped
in and drove around I'LL night, and
then went home, very much disappoint-
ed in his humane undertaking. It is
not known how the hose felt.
AN absent-minded smoker named
Yancy undertook to whisper something
of importance in the ear of old Mr..
Reynolds, Saturday, but in his absent.
mindedness neglected to remove his
cigar, the fire end of which was driven
right into the old gontleman's ear.
MI. Reynolds jumped straight up in the
air about six feet, and on coming down
split Yancy's nose by well directed
blow. Yancy picked himself up and
started tor home, declaring in a rage
that he'd be hanged before he'd ten
old Reynolds what he was going to.
THIS is the season of preparation for
fairs. The honest yeomen are picking
out the best grain from several acres to
exhibit as the average yield. The little
girl, twelve years old. who shows such
clear, handsome bread, has been to see
her grandmother about having it made,
and the advantages of agriculture are
further illustrated by impossible angels
fondling improbable poodles in Isle
thread and canvas. Everybody should
take a personal interest in these farm
gatherings, and if he has no horse of
his own, should draw his balance from
the bank, and unhesitatingly plank it
on the races.
The city people are going back home
this month. You can see them load
ing up at the farmhouses and making
for the cars. The bead of the family
wears long linen buster and q tall
white hat with broad black band
about it. He is mainly busy in thrust
ing children into the wagon and run.
ming back to the house after things his
wife has forgotten. She, poor woman,
has taken whole seat to herself, and
between expectations of tie coming
season and dread of something beine
spilled on her clothes, is in about aa
ecstatic state as eau be imagined.
And the little olives are enjoying them
selves, too, rasping each Others chib,
and threatening to fall out and be
crushed to death. But they get of
with the floating of handkerchiefs and
hearty good-bys Of the farmers family,
who Immediately retire to the house
to give thanks. And when the farmers
son returns from the depot, he takes
hold of the grindstone, and the con-
versation that ensues between him and
his sire while the various edge i'm.
plements are being put in shape, call,
for renewed efforts on the part Of home
missions.