Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-09
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THE duty of the heur-to strike.
| GRANGER hats have been introduced.
lTHE panic kills the Shreveport fund.
AMHERST has got a hundred freshmen.
TRAVEL to the Yosemite is on the
increase.
IcELASpEns resemble scotchmen in
appearance.
BBrr.RoeT sugar is to be manufac-
tuiPd in Ireland..
BUDDHISM has half million levotees.
STAG.HUNT1NG is to he revived in
France.
IRELAND has oyer quarter of mill
ion Of dogs.
CAh1roHslA mosquitoes have gone to
killing horses.
! ARABE1LA GoDDARD is to go to Cal
cntta ii the cold weather.
KENTUCKY worms are chewing moro
than their share of tobacco.
BRIGHAM YOUNG says that any of his
wives can have him any day they wish.
THE Earl and Countess of Dunraven
were at St. Paul Oh Saturday.
A son Of Henry a. Wise is making
speeches against his father in Virginia.
SOMEBODY says that Americans have
a national dread of water. He refers
to the perils of navigation only.
In Montana they pick up gold mug
! gets by the pound, aud throw away the
little ones.
The dedication Of an Indiana church
was postponed on account of the ad.
vent of a circus.
The cholera has superseded the Ger
man army in France, and the people
are better content.
An Oregonian has discovered some
more perpetual motion, and is going to
try it on a boat.
The London Orchestra complains
that this country takes all the shining
| lights of the English stage, and gives
but few in return.
No ACTOR has yet been able to coun-
terfeit that expression of Joy which
man shows when discovering ten-cent
stamp in his paper of tobacco.
A CoUxTRYMAN who cane into Brad
ford, last week, attempted 10 set his
watch b. a steam guage indicating
sixty pounds of steam.
The use and adaptability of banana
fibre in the manufacture of paper is
about to be tested by competent par
ties in Savannah, Ga.
V1cKsBURe nurse girls have taken to
nd hn~
Gently adopted the hurdle system, sew
eral babies have been killed.
THE1 tar the lamp posts and Rulings
in Montgomery, Alabama. in order to
get rid of the loafers, believing that
tarry loafer will tarry no more.
The skull of an Indian of an extinct
tribe has been discovered in an ancient
mound in San Francisco, and the
academy of science is busy discussing
DELAWARE papers give sad reports of
| the condition OF ex-senator Salisbury
health His once robust constitution has
| yielded at last, and is now very much
shattered.
CHINA possesses coal fields to the
extent of over 400, 600 square miles,
one province (Shausi) having no less
than 81, 200 square miles, with veins
from IL to 80 feet in thickness.
CHARLES BRADhAUGH has disguised
"citizens'' of New York, who knew
more about England than he did, by
pronouncing himself decidedly in favor
of law, order and security.
A TEnRE RAUTE man announces that
he has "almost hit upon plan to
"harness gravitation," which, when
complete, will give him perpetual
motion.
Stokes is outriyalled by a prisoner
in one OF the county jails OF Pennsyl-
5 vania, who has been waiting for a
Governor to sign his death.warrant
since 1850.
THERE is great exnltation in New
South Wales, oldest of the British COL
onies in Australia, over the discovery
of coal, in great abundance, within that
vast territory.
AN EDglishman has discovered tho
secret OF the Yankee nasal twang,
which he SAYS came from the English
counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and
Middlesex. -. "
A NEW musical instrument has been
invented-the pyrophone. 1t produces
it's notes by the action of gas burning
in glass tubes, and its expression is
described as 't penetrating, mournful,
poetical and grotesque.
A CALIFORNIA man ran off with wo-
man. They walked fifty miles, were
married, and the next day were both
arrested for stealing a pocket-hand-
kerchiet from the woman's former hus-
band.
The British merchants shipping act,
as amended. provides that in case of q
collision at sea the master of the vessel
infiicting the injury shall stay by the
other long enough to render any assis-
lance that may be required.
AMERICA has obtained only nine
diplomas of honor ont of four hundred
and nineteen conferred at the Vienna
exposition, and out of those nine only
four goes to individuals. The other
five are conferred upon government
institutions.
The Vlceroy of Egypt has sent
Wagner Il, 500 francs for his theatre at
, at Beirut. The Berlin Wagner So
ciety proposes to start journal for the
promotion of the principles and objects:
! Wagner's theatre was rooted on the I'd
inst. with some ceremony.
A Youth of eighteen. who claims to
J he the grandson of the DIXIE of Bluns-
wick, was refused permission to attend
the funeral by the authorities, on the
ground that to accede to the request
would b. to oppose entirely the provi-
sions ei the Dukes will.
LOUISVILLE has unwittingiy commit
ted itself to a grand Temperance reform,
by voting to send drupkards home,
instead ri to the lookup. The worse
cases are cured in this way. The men
come out in day or two with some
what less capillary adornment and a
chastencl look which tells of the rein
ing influences of home.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin has been
revived in Baltimore in the person of
a genius who offers to capture and
Danish from any premises all rats. His
weapons Of determination are three
black-aul tans, six fcrrets, 4 net, and q
small boy. He visits house, sets his
net in chosen locality, sets out on q
foraginS expedition around and
through the house, and when he gets
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