Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-14
All Sorts Of I'aragraplls.

NONSENSE has been described as
sense that differs from ones own sense.
SIR ELIHU WAsHBuRNK is what Paris
newspapers callon minister to F5ance.
The song of the sewing machine girl
-" Sew say we all of u.s." =
TEACHING has been prohibited TO the
U1suline nuns at Duderstadt~ a..
An International Masonic Congress-
is to be held at Kingston, Canada.
The universal bathing shoe Sand
al Cd on the foot. :. !,
| IRArE party to bus.driver-.tWhy
didn't you attend my hail -.
Bus-driver, with dignity and "pull-
ing team '-"Cause I had my hands
full of rein." .:--.. . .s,:<-
An alien who wishes to become Store
handed :" should be temperate, other
wise he will be bach an (d) alien:
DURING the heated term, the Blieeted
term will also prevail Blankets are
tabooed.
IT seems strange that we should have
drouth in Massachusetts, with SO
many men anxious to reign over us.
A BEAUTIFUL tail is one of the most
attractive features of horse, but it is
not the name thing, however.
MATILDA FLETCHER will deliver the
annual address at the Nebraska State
fair.
A Troy man is spending $4,000 in a
law suit about five and Ole Eighth inch
es of land.
The tobacco dealers of Richmond,
Va, purpose to present bronze foun-
tain to the city. -:
The mayors Of England are arrang-
ing banquet to the Lord Mayor of
London.
The Marquis of Butte has beenlec-
turing in London on 1.-THE Shrines of
the Holy Land"
The wasberwomen of Hillsborough,
N. c., have struck for seventy five cents
and three meals day. -, =. =.
The colored folks of Richmond, Va,
are subscribing money to build a home
for aged colored people.
SENATOR O. P. MORTON will make
only one speech during the Ohio cam
paign.
TAMBER11k has given I, 900 francs for
the relief of an invalid French factor.
Oss1AN E. DODGE is sued fox. 81, 900
by one of his attorneys in his recent
divorce case. -
LIMA D1 MuRsKA, Hungarian gypsy,
is creating q sensation in London iop.
cratic circles.
The health of King John, of Saxony,
is such as to occasion approximations
of dropsy. J.:
PA1M1En1, the italian pianist, eight
years old, played before the Empress
of Russia at Sorrento. ="
MAJOR WALLACE SPEAR, Chief Engi-
necr of the Norfolk (Va.) navy yard,
recently died at Ludlow, Vt.
GERRr1r SMITH hass.given $500 to aid
the Catholics in putting up a new hos
pital building at Utica, n. Y.
Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE will
compete with the dime novel series by
publicly reading stories, instead Of lee
turing. -.
ANTOINE RAvE1, of the famous tRa-
vel Family" 80 popular in America
twenty years ago, died at Tolouse,
France, recently. = l.o-,,,.
IT is probable an interview will take
place at an early date, ut Frankfort,
between the King Of Belgium and sthe
Emperor Of Germany. ,.:.:.
TIE Shah bought g, 800 worth of
paintings when.in--London, but he
could not understand Why . picture of
three donkeYs should be charged $500,
l. II *
uine animals for .S25.. :. 80 -.
A VOTER praising q favorite. ;candi-
date ut late Irish election, said, "He
is as fine a fellow as ever lifted HAT
to = lady or u boot to blschguhrl"
A NEW knapsack has been snpalied
to part Of the Prussian infantry and
is now being practically tried. oc4he
result hitherto is reported to- have been
favorable.
JOHN A. BISaHAM, our new minister
to Japan, will not sail for Yeddo ;as
soon as he intended, in consequence Of
some unfinished. business in theInepart-
ment of State. I'M ill probability he
will not leave this country before o.
tober.
SIXTEEN years ago,a North Carolina
father, who knew. the virtues of the rod,
thrashcl his big boy and sent HIM out
to hoe corn. The first seen of him
since was last week, when he returned
from California with $50, 900 as the
result of his westward ho.ins.
The Papal Nuncio is endcavoring to
obtain from the Shah of Persia con.
ccssions in favor of the. Catholics in
Persia, and he is assisted in this by
the Due de- Broglie.
Chicago expects to have 4 hotel
capacity of five thousand two hundred
and seventy-two rooms, when its forty
one hotels arc all completed. Before
the fro it had thirty hotels, containing
two thousand nine hundred and sixty
five rooms. "
a NEW fac-simile Of the 1893 Folio of
Shakspeare's Plays, under the dinect
supervision of Mr.. Howard Staunton,
will be shortly issued. The fac-simile
is a reproduction of the splendid copy
in the Library of the Earl of Elleemere,
ut Bridewater House, supplemented,
where any pages of that volume are de-
fective, by the fine copy in the Gren-
Vile library in the British Museum.
The Chicago Tribune has been ne-
viewing the new Chicago Directory.
It finds in it 133, O7O names, from which
it reckons that the population of Chi
cngo is 4G5, 745. There are in it
enumerated 2O9 churches, 121 schools,
colleges, and other institutions of learn
ing, 272 lodges and societies, and !, 672
Smiths. >t,:.
EDWIN BooTH is thirty-nine years old,
Maggie Mitchell thirty-nine, Lolita
twenty-ninc, L. P. Barrett thirty-fve
Frank Chaufrau tifty-one, John L.
Owens tifty-four, John Brougham fifty
five, Lester Wallack tifty-three, Bouci-
CAN'T fifty eight, Mrs. Chanfrau thirty
three, Miss Nelson thirty, Joe Jefter-
son forty live, Agnes Ethel thirty-one,
Clara Morris thirty, E. A. Sothern
forty, w. J. Florence, forty, John
Collins seventy five, Ben lie BaE ffty-
eight.
TIE bnlloonists are waking up gen.
orally. Professor s. A. KING Informs
the Buff,lo Press that he is construct
ing III immense balloon, with a capacity
Of 80, 900 cubic feet, in which he will
ascend from that city about September
]. His experience demonstrates that.a
steady current Of air from west to east
does not Exist Mt any height. While
under certain circumstances an mro-
nant might sail over the Atlantic and
lana safely III Europe, he scouts the
! n1.,o THAT snch a n,<n1o IF frunsik 10 70.