Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-24

! where III bleak exile We roam;
Into q joyland above US,
! Where there's a Father to love US
Into ''Our home, sweet home"
Ali Sorts Of Paragraphs.
TIE New York Commercial calls the
Fourth of July "the safety valve OF
our natural cussedness."
The first thing Chicago man asks
when he enters strange city IS,
Where's the tiger!"
Boston South Enders now hold
e'1chre parties on the door-steps, in the
cool Of the evening.
The Memphis policemen are trying
to get a ''back salary grab'' They
have not been paid off for five months.
An old silver mine, worked by some
unknown race of the past, has been
found in SILVER county, Tenn.
A JUSTICE of the peace in Georgia
recently sentenced a man to perpetual
Punishment.
FORTY thousand dollars have been
offered and refused for the English
race horse Doncaster.
"a cAcKLING old newspaper fowl is
the epithet applied by one Sacramento
editor to another in a recent argument.
The gentle curculio has begun It's
ravages among the plum-trees of Penn
sylvania.
A MATCHMAKER has invented musi-
cal instrument uttcring combined
sounds resembling the voices of "a
choir.
AN old western gamester wants to
know if tie rule Of s'no more passes"
adopted by the railroad companies, ap-
plies to railroad euchre.
A HUNGRY wildcat found its way from
the mountains into hennery at Louis
Vile, KY, the other day, and was killed
while dining Oh pullet.
The maddest man in the country is
tho proprietor of a circus, who Just
traded off three camels and a cage of
monkeys for a magnificent diamond,
which experts say is worth $3.50
RECENTLY, the American students in
Bonn, Germany, celebrated the birth
day of one of the professors ty giving
him "surprise party" He was at
first alarmed and called loudly for the
police.
The laborers at a certain Missouri
mining works are discussing tue prob
lem: sought copper dresser, when
the whistle blows for twelve, to empty
his shovel of the sand or throw it back
on the pile?"
The Shah of Persia has received
IF thu 1oo$1, of he IT,
having come Europe to see all that is
to he seen and to study methods of
European enjoyment, lie has postpon-
ed the mourning of his Court until his
return to his own realms.
A BONNET of the period is described
as miniature kitchen garden. 1t is de-
corated with cherries, grapes, black
berries, little carrots, bits of parsley.
long green-beans, sorrel. marjorum and
other vegetables familiar to professors
OF the culinary science.
THEY give degrees to women at
Straight University in New Orleans.
Miss Amanda MelviDa Pc rkins and Miss
Smith have recently been dignified by
the title of NJ. S.: Maids of Sclence.''
Wouldn't "Maids of Science" do more
towards getting them good husbands?
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage has
accepted a call to take charge Of the
editorial department of The Christian
at Work, religious journal of New
York. He will enter upon his duties
as editor abont the middle of August,
on his return from his trip to Colorado,
he will proceed next week.
A WEALTHY and infatuated old lady
in Savannah, Ga, who had paid to a
fortune-teller or a fortune-hunter about
$1,000 in various sums, determined to
consult the police. This consultation
proved more profitable than the others
had been, as portion Of her money
was recovered. 49,: :.~
Tue fruit growers of Delaware held
q meeting at Dover, the other day, at
which the estimate Of, the peach crop
crop of 1873 was given at 2, 1S3, $50
baskets. This estimate is over TOO, 009
baskets more than that of last year,
when. the yield was 500, COO baskets
more than the estimate. With an equal
margin, the crop this year will he very
large.
The first locomotive engine ever
in the colony Of Austria
lia has recently been finished at Bal
larat under contract with the Gov
to supply ten engines for
heavy traffic and fifteen for Light,
at compensation of 1880. its
was honored with public
at Victoria, at which the Min
ister of Railways was present.
Two citizens Of Kansas City, No.,
have invented gun which seems to
surpass any English, French, German.
or American wearon of war. 1t is
lreech- loading rifle, weighs seven
pounds, has a range OF one mile, car
ries ball the size of 4 Minnie bullet,
and can he fired ut the rate of twenty
five rounds per minute. 1t is Il most
weapon rs to effect.
One of the Custom House officials
On the dock yesterday observed wo-
man coming off the boat with Il bundle
in her arms, and rs he thought she
rather sought to cvade him, he followed
her and said please unroll that
bundle it looks rather suspicious"
s. Perhaps it does, replied the woman,
the head and face of bright
eyed baby, but I've got seven NOR,
If EN- on the other side. "-DctroH
Tribune. ~.
CALIFORNIA has thoroughly COTTON
over it's scare about this years wheat
crop, and from lamenting that it would
not amount to over half of last years,
it is now Dragging that it Will he even
bigger. The latest estimates figure up
IL, O0o.O 600 centals, which is calculated
to leave surplus Of 100000 for OK
port, or fully rs much as was exported
last year. In Oregon the season has
been much more even, and there is 4
of an increased crop.
ABOUND was chasing fox near Laurel
Hill, North Carolina, few days since,
when the latter, being tightly pressed,
took refuge in hollow log, entrance
into which it effected Mt knot hole. The
dog coming up, and finding that the
fox had gotten INTO the log, thrust his
head into the knot hole after the fox,
AMI got his head fast therein. Being
unable to extricate himself, the dog
died, and the fox, being cat off from
the only avenue of escape from the log,
likewise persisted, both of them. evil
IDENTITY, having died of starvation.
The Savannah News says: the
shipment of fruits and vegetables from
this port to Boston, New York and
Philadelphia are assuming mammoth
,,or,,ort;.,ns On Saturday last four