Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22

o human, fate, how vain with thee to .:restle
When men ne'er finding what's thy stable
rank, .
On land go up with an ''Atlantic" bank!
! -Graphic.
| General Items. .
BEEF q In mode-ox. ra
| ScARcE-Honest officials.
PLEnTUu1-Applicants for Office.
| LABOR in vein-The work Of miners.
| TonEr-A place where ladies toll
daily. =
Awz11-xHovHc club-house-The police
station. ...- -. .sg.z:... -
DOES the stem Of . vessel support the
boughs3 ...ga : ~ =
ARE the Kaw Indians related TO tb<
crow tfibe5 5szsssEE. - zsss
Rns ehsrries a1s in the San Francis,
CO market.
I A Moa4on church has been estab-
lished in Florida. a=
TIE bridge of "size The Suspen.
sion over Niagara.
S1ns OF Connss1oH-Those Of certain
1 American officials IN .visnn1
9rE1Kza by shs rddzaeoIeu.poa1. !.
ing under the new. postal Law.
Wonx should be employed on rsil-
roads. They can attend switches.
F1Rsr preparations for summer reae-
alton among polticians-Phoe hunt
ing. 1,st. ~. .ses.s
TIE tunnel under the city of Balti-
more, built at cost Of q, ,0O0, ,000, viii
be completed in two months.
"A Co1o.ADo banker has sent brick
to the Vienns Exposition. It II Of solid
gold, and weighs 400 poundA
A MICHIGAN farmer hos oAarod 8 re-
ward Of SIC, 900 for the thiefswho stole
a barrel Of cider from him.
THE May dividends payable in Bos-
ton, as far as declared, aggregate g.
8S7, $50. -. -
CoUzBETis pictures are excluded from
the Vienna Exposition on account of
his political opinions
It will take four entire evenings to
produce Wagner's new opera, The
King Of the Nibelungen, which Is to
appear next year.
TIE Keokuk Northern Packet Com.
pany intend to establish regular line
of packets between st. Louis and Gin
cinnati. -. . *-s. -
CALIFORNIA anticipates Chinese
emigration of IS 900 thisyea and con-
siders it an alarming condition Of
Affairs. -=<-5 p Essssz...s :.
Ar Wethers6eld, Connecticut IN
j" inspector Of lumber and onions'' has
recently been appointed in accordance
with the ancient rule.
TIE Marquis of Lorne's brother.
Lord Campbell, has become . partner
in the London banking house Of Coutts
& Co. -*e.'.5's ;.zs-@.-. z>sz..
TIE Countess Teresa 6prur, in whose
company in 1848 Pope Plus TX Aed
from Rome to Gaeta, died . short time
since at Vienna. ..ss.5a ss5z,.===zs
THx Australian never sues for . di-
vorce. Whea 4 husband gets disoour-
aged he takes his wife to The brow Of
cliff to view the gorgeous sunset, and
over she goes. - ==sss
TH1 schooner Sea Bird has arrived
at Albany, from Jacksonville, Floeida,
with . cargo Of yellow pine. A long
passage. s.=s5s
A FIELD gun has been invested in
France which gives . ten-pound pro-
jectile velocity Of 3 900 feet second.
TIE San Ffancisco gas companies
consolidated and advanced the price
t2.50 per !, 900 in less tine than sixty
days. {.
"a BARa11 of the finest old Bourbon
whiaky, made in 1860, says the Hem
ders0n News, "is4 to represent Ken
tucky in the Vienna Exhibition.
A suMnER resident Of Newport who
has been troubled in seasons past by
the destruction Of his ornamental
shrubs, hss ordered. Soma cast iron
ones from Paris.
Ar Alexandra, Va, one day last
week, 500. 900 herring and IS 600 shad.
besides large quantity Of rock and
perch, were received - the proceeds Of
one Gays catch.
WHmE the Quebec gates were being
removed . slooker-on Suggested that
the nails should be preserved for sale
to American tourists, and they were
bought up At once. ssse#szs -
Tn growing use Of Tho English Ian
guage in japan il shown in . recent
shipment of sixty copies Of Webster's
unabridged dictionary from Spring
field, Mass, to YokohanA
The number Of Americans now visit
ing Paris Is estimated at thirty thou
sand. But when the Vien1a exhibition
gets into full blast there win be .
hegira of pleasure seekers from the
Seine to the :" beautiful blue Danube =
An effort il making to stock the
Thames With trout and aalmon. They
do not grow well, however, and tho
London sportsman has to content him
self with pike and ps1ch. The fault is
LAID to the charge Of voracious swans,
and tha Londoners aay the pike il not
90 bad . fish after all
PzorLE will occasionally revive
stories of the elder Booths broken
nose. This enc is % witty Il cannot
be told too often "A lady onoe re.
marked to him, "Ilike your acting,
MI. Booth but to be frank with You.
I can't get over your nose" :" No
wonder, madam" replied he, 1.-The
bridge is gone" = S'Sszz
A STEAMER is building having six
keels, placed at equal distances on her
fiat bottom, intended - Q Channel
steamer, running between France and
England. Her sides an perpendicu-
lar, without any curvature Being Of
light draught, the keels being only two
feet deep, and rolling under such car
cumstances impossibla sea sickness
will be obviated. Under sail and
steam the passage to be accomplished
in little more than half IN hour.
DEATH from lightning is thought to
be quite painless. Owing to the veloc-
ity with which the electric current
moves, ii 10 believed that person
struck by lightning has NO premoni-
tion of the blow which he receives.
The nervous system requires certain
interval of time to become conscious
of pain. The time of IN electric dis
charge is but small fraction of this
interval hence, as sentient sppara-
tus, the nervous system is destroyed
before consciousness can set in.
A LETTER in the Toronto Globe says
that on one day recently the Silver
1slet mine, Lake Superior, turned out
$8, 600 worth of ore, that is to say, 16
barrels of silver ore, worth $500 each.
The company claim that they viii have
$500, 600 wofth ready for shlpment this
snrinn in nbkor vOrds Q10 fDarrplR of