Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-17
Generl Items.

The only free music on Boston Com
mon this summer is that of the hurdy
gurdies. 49,.
PARIS streets are cleaner, aud Pari
gas burns brighter, under the new ad
ministration. ~
OMAHA has now enacted an ordinanc.
against lottery enterprises. Rather
late in the day.
DURING June Portland, Me-, shipped
ID, 600 barrels of -four to the Canadian
provinces.
A LADY died in Charleston, q few
days ago, whose husband, son, brother
and uncle have all been Governor O
South Carolina.
ALEX. CLoK1E was struck BY light
ming and instantly killed in Troy, n
T., last week.
A POOR blind beggar at Dayton,
Ohio, recently had his pocket picked
OF $425.
PARsoN BROwNLOw never bought but
one silk hat, and that he has worn
thirteen years without cent for repairs.
AN old CLAP at Oil City, Pa, likely
to die, has burned mp SIG, 600, thai
there need he 10 quarreling over his
will.
The Knoxville Wing is to be resur-
rccted, under the auspices of the
Brownlow family, with Colonel John b.
as managing editor:
Two SUMNER courses of instruction
in science are to be given at Harvard
College this year, one in botany and
one in chemistry. -
BUFFALO meat is q drug in Phillips
county,-KaQs2s,- and the people will
only condescend to accept the choice
parts as gifts.
STAMFORD, Conn.,, has building as
ISOLATION, the members of which pay
s. a week, and as fast as house is
built draw lots to determine who shall
be the possessOr
| A STEADY tide of travel has set in the
direction of Switzerland, and the indi
cations are that the season of '73 will
be memorable among guides and hotel
proprictors thereabouts.
| A BEAUTIFUL specimen of coral, over
a foot in diameter, was dug out of y
trench at Middletown, Conn.,, the other
day. 1t will ornament the museum ut
Wesleyan University.
The shipments of Texas cattle east
from Wichita, Ellsworth, and other
points in Kansas, have commenced.
There are GO, 600 head Mt Wichita, and
$50, 900 head on the way to that point
from Texas. -.
NOTWITHSTANDING the popularity of
the postal cards, no instance has yet
come to light where they have been
used in arranging the preliminaries of
an elopement.
A COUNTERFEIT silver half dollar has
appeared in California. 1t is we'll ex-
ecuted and can only be detected under
the microscope, by chemical test or by
weighing in delicate scales, its weight
being &c. 3 grains less than the genuine.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDoR related how
he once met Napoleon walking in the
garden of the Tuileries, and added, in
characteristic Landor style: "The
fellow looked at me so insOlently that
if had not a lady on my arm should
have knocked him down."
An Atlanta doctor advises persons
afraid of cholera to stand on their
heads for one minute three times day.
He argues that this arrests abdominal
depression, and would be healthful
gymnastic exercise at any time. -
The Boston Post tells us that ga
Vermont family has lived in sixteen
states, moved thirty times in eleven
years, and seven times in o single year,
and has never stayed in any one place
for more than eighteen months -
The following gem of descriptive
writing was penned by IN Illinois re-
porter in his description Of recent
wedding, He says: The Mayor
galootea up the church aisle smashing
and gyrating like Chinese Joss with
the jim
TIE total absence of boot jacks,
pomatum pots, and other household
missiles in the remains of the Swiss
lacustrinc villages, leads DR.. Hart
mann, the distinguished ethnOlogist,
to the conclusion that the domestic cat
was unknown 10 prehistoric man.
The Emperor of China, in two Off
ciA cdicts, announces the degradation
and punishment of the chief of the
eunuchs for handling the dishes
carelessly,' and of the chief of the
stables ssfor not being punctual and
having his beasts in bad condition"
The Hungarians are the finest look
ing fellows ut Vienna. says correspOn-
dent, averaging fully five inches more
IN height than tue Austrians. II mere
length is the criterion, We might send
over Long John Wentworth and that
Iowa gal, who Is seven feet two, and SO
"rag en- all.
Ar Rumuey, N. H., two men "went
fishing in a brook near that town,
and, alter seven hours, returned with
seven hundred and forty eight trout.
Four Boston men tried the same stream
few days before and only caught fifty
fish, the whole not weighing over
pound and half.
A WESTERN rural infant recently at
tractel the attention of q passing COW,
which lowered her head and ran ut the
child, who began to scream. A poor,
despised, but noble minded dog,
lying in the shade in the yard, heard
the cry, rushed on the scene aud held
the impetuous COW by the nose until
Vic cullN WIN IeSCueN. lutt OOS ~"
wears collar of solid silver.
Ar the banquet at Langres, France,
the Prince .lc Joinville said: "One
day, Mt the height of that terrible crisis
of secession, when the existence of the
American Republic was most in peril. L
asked Mr.. Lincoln what was his policy.
l have none, he replied, Il pass my
life in preventing the storm from blow
ing down the tent, and drive IN the
pegs us fast rs they are pulled up.
| A FARMER in Illinois last fall packed
some apples in plaster, filling mp the
interstices with this material. Open
lug the barrels on the l4th Of june, he
found the fruit in tho most wonderfu!
state OF preservation. There was not
an eight has many decaycd ones M III
barrels put up in the ordinary way,
while the fruit was almost Us fresh AZ
when it was gathered.
OLD Mr.. FRANKLIN, of Cattaraugus
County, New York, created vast deal
OF excitement the other day by throw
ing u ploushshare into the river, on
account of his wife's iDcessant scold-
ing. Mr.. Franklin. 1t might he we'll
to add, was attached to the weight by
a rope consequently, Mrs. F. has lost
u husband, u ploughshare, and three
feet of good rope, just through a enron"
ic propensity to wag her tongue!