Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-10
General Items.

t;eneral Items.
A JAcK-1N-A-Box-The captain.
FRIENDS at a plnch-tight-lacers.
READY-MADE sermons, Deatly lith"-
grapl,ed, can be bought III London at
two shillings dozen.
WITH reference to the literary pilfcr-
or, Miss, or Mrs. Emerson-whO SAYS
she write Mr.. W. Carlcton's poem
called " Betsy and are Out''-the in
tercsting fact is stated that she was
horn Of four generations Of baptist
Minister'S"
ACCORDING to the good old Jewish
custom, on the late Passover, Baron de
R0thechild, of Paris, opened his doors
to all corners, aud the table WAS serv-
ed for the mendicant as well as for the
man of wealth.
An exchange says, "Bea.tiiy the
front of churches" Whereupon the
Lebanon Pioneer responds, "Yes, set
out few posts for young men to lean
against while waiting for their sisters ~
The Pope presented the Czarine of
Russia. AZ her late visit, with two
mosa;~s, which she has, acknowledged
with = MASSIVE gold chalioe.~
The city of Wilmington, DBL. has
just paid $50, 600 for land for fl.c
public park. -@"s'5
Powers, the sculptor, has been
for eighteen months He has the con-
sumption.
One of the most peculiar ard most
fashionable combinations OF color is
dark green and light blue.
"THEY put MIN in show case, was
the remark of rural lady, who recently
attended city funeral.
HARVARD Co1LEoE opened her gates
to young ladies on Saturday. The ex-
aminations were oral.
The Shah of Persia's smuch mar
ried state is the cause of anxiety to
Lord Sidney, the English Lord Cham
berlain.
DR. DAVID SKAk, one of the most
distinguished authorities on the sub
ject of mental disease, died recently in
Scotland.
! THE difference between abstrusc
books and a locomotive engineer is
clear enough: The books tax the brain,
and the engineer backs the train.
A Missouri farmer being asked if
raising hemp was a good business,
! answered. ~ can't sartin saw: but
tbs surely better than being raised by
it."
I Boy presents q mutilated bill in a
, Hartford bake-shop. Little girl, who
is acting chief clerk ''My father is
very perpendicular about taking torn
A DANBuRY man who bought a new
| pair of boots Saturday, says ship may
stand ON one tack all night if it wants
J to, but be finds an hour and half to
I be an elegant suficiency.
LEILA ELLIS, a very pretty and tai
ented young actress, who played. an
engagement in New York and Brooklyn
year ago, in connection with her
sister, "Sanpho," died recently in III
diana.
KENTUCKY is the eighth state in pop
ulation, the sixteenth in the number
of her foreign-born population and
the twentieth in the per ccntage Of her
unimproved land compared with her
farms.
Two sharpers have victimized about
800 girls in Middletown, Conn by
selling them cheap pictures for 81 each,
telling them the proceeds we're Tor I,
Catholic charity, and that the Sisters
of Mercy would come and frame them.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
journal of Commerce says t,,entv-o one
national banks, with q CAPITAL OF oyer
"a, OOO, OOO, had, up to tho fils: Of Jan
uary last, failed, and all but half a
million dollars of their circulation had
been redeemed.
A SEA CAPTAIN, Just returned from q
long voyage, was told by a commission
merchant the sad news that his wife
had died. "Wife died !" said the Cap
tain, "well, now, do you know didn' t
think she was long-lived. How's
freights2" e~:.<
TWENTY EIGHT million dollars have
been expended in deepening and other
WISE improving the river Clyde,
Glasgow, by the Trustees of the River
Clyde Navigation Company. The work
powerful machines, dredging over a.
DOC, 600 tons every year.
The World, of San Diego. mentions
an instance where the workmen grading
for hallway near that city came upon
q colony of tarantulas. These venom
GUS spiders attacked the Irishmen, and
actually drove the men into the water,
the only safe retreat against such prey
ing insects. .....,:
The Rev. C. W. Warren, former " of
Fall River, Mass, but for some time
past . resident of Wilmington, N. c.,
has been arrested in that city on the
charge of attempting to obtain valuable
letters from the postofice under fraud
ulent pretenses. go:
The dome of the capitol at Washing
ton is hollow sphere of iron of s, ZOO,
600 pounds weight, and is 1OS feet
higher than the Washington monument
ut Baltimore, 6S feet higher than the
Bunker Hill monument, and q feet
higher than the Trinity Church spi1e
at New York. -. =
A CURIOUS PLACE for birds nest is
that chosen Ivy two songsters that have
found q dwelling place on the Derby
(Connecticut) Raib Dad, III the angle
formed by the cap of one of the tres
ties of bridge and the stringer upon
which tie rail rests. Ten trains pass
daily over the bridge. .:,-..,
Ku-KLrx have appeared in N[assa-
chusetts. Mr.. Henry Weeks, of Mari,
ON, was called out of his house recent
ly, and when he appeared at the door a
charge of buckshot vas fired at him,
inflictiEg had flesh wounds in the legs.
The whole affair is euveloped in IN, 5,
terry.
The valuation of the real estate III
Ward ), Boston, will be about the SAINT
as last year, Notwithstanding $4,000,
600, worth of buildings were DESTROYED
-; the fire, and it is estimated that the
Increase value of real estate in the cit y
will BE- from SIS, 900, 900 to S2O, 900,
0M.- Boston -idrcrtisc:.
A LATE Kentuckian bequeathcd his
two daughters Is. O0O, and left debtsso
only $5S. The administrator prevailed!
upon them to put the estate into the
courts, and it came ont last week, after
II two years course, when every cont
Of the IS, 900 was found to have been
awallowed mp by insatiate justice.
GERMAN newspapers announce that
the dictionary of the German language,
III course of compilation hy the Broth
CTS Grimm, will contain more words
than any nthor publication on record.
1t has already reached the number OF
about $4,000, and by the time it is
completed it will comprise ut least
500. 900.