Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-29
General Items.

General Items.
Or q 700 cattle herd near Concor-
dia, Kansas, 16O persisted in the April |
storm.
PHEN1xvILLE, Pa, has 6,OOO inhab- |
itants: Its iron works employ about |
2, 900 hands.
JOHN Peterson, who is to be hanged |
in Georgia next month, has, since his
sentence, fallen heir to $50, 600.
The bust of Geo. D. Prentice is to
be placed in the new city hall at Lou
isville.
IT is estimated that the mills in Cali.
fornia consume 81 200 pounds of quick
silver per month.
1T is possible that Miss Nelson will
play Juliet to Edwin Booths Romeo
before her present season ut Booths
closes.
GREAT BRITAIN appropriated $50, 900
for the Vienna Exposition, and the
United States $500, 600. Private enter
prise supplemented British niggard-
liness.
The meanest fishmonger in the
world is one who paints behring's with
red paint and blue spots, and sells
them for speckled trout.
Rev. Mr.. ANCIENT has accepted the
call to an assistant curateship in Hall.
fax, and now only awaits the appoint
ment OF his successor at Terrence Bay
RECENT experiments in England in
dictate that the immersion of iron and
steel In acids lessons the toughness and
increases the weight of those metals.
A STATUE of Buddha, Atty feet high,
copied from bronze statue made 600
years ago, has arrived at Vienna, for
the Exposition, from Japan.
A Boston man rode seven miles in
Aroostook County, Maine, to cut
twig from the tree on which a murderer
was recently hanged by a mob, for
preservation = iii the Boston Museum.
LINCOLN, Neb., is said to have been
selected for the location of large mum.
Der of Jews from Roumania. Fifty
thousand are reported as DESTROYS Of
becoming citizens OF this country.
/ "A STATISTICAL genius in Louisiana has
computed that the loss in cotton:
occasioned by the brutal murder of the
colored laborers in Grant Parish, will
amount to 800 bales, worth over $780,
600.
THERE is q general Ignorance of the
law upon the subject Of sending mer
chandise through the mails. Mer.
chandise is limited to twelve ounces in
weight, and must be wrapped SO as to
permit examination.
A WEsrERN engineer. has invented a
hot-water pump with which to squirt
hot water on deaf persons who walk on
the track. Thus another source of IN
teresting items is ruthlessly cut off by
the inventive genius of the coantry.
EIGHT poems of George Herbert,
hitherto unpublished, have been dis.
covered and will be published at once.
It is said that they throw considerable
light on some of the poets religious
opinions.
A DEFEATED litigant in Wyoming de-
mands that the verdict against him be
set aside, on the ground that there
were thirteen present during the jury's
deliberations; one of the iurywomen
had her baby with her.
A. MACHINE is employed in cleaning
the old bricks in the burnt district Of
Boston, which removes the mortar
from them at the rate of IS to 40 a min.
or about as fast as they can be placed
in position.
A NEW era in the history of Ameri-
can horse-raoing is to be inaugurated
at Long Branch this season. Admis-
sion the field is to be free to the pub.
lie and an admission fee is to be chare-
ed only to the grand stand and quarter
stretch. - -
A NEW style barge is on the tapis.
w. II. Brown, of st. Louis, has lust
completed five model barges Of the
following dimensions: Length, 200
feet; beam, 80 feet; hold. 9 +. ct in the
clear. These barges have a capacity
Of 5000 bushels each.
A CAMEL and an elephant belonging
to Stones circus were tied to a tree
near Fishkill Landing the other day,
when the express train came along.
The camel tainted away, but the ele-
plant started of with the tree: the
camel and the keeper.
BOXING matches in England are now
conducted under ducal patronage.
Recently the Marquis of Queensberry,
peer of the realm and law-maker by
birth, offered prize of $500 for flight
weighted professionally" and several
hundred persons assembled at Graf
ton Hall, Soho, to witness the en-
counter.
Mrs. STANTON has q nice way o.
meeting all objections to the woman
movement. Here is an instance, take,
from one of her recent letters eth,
best interests of men and women are u
essentially the same, that when W,
come to the tug of war the men of on
households will be ready to do ou'
fighting"
A REVOLVING sinai light has been in
vented, to be attached to the rear o
trains, by which engineers behind ca,
tell by the speed of their rotations, a
shown by the succession Of differen
colored lights, at what rate of speed
the trains are moving, and when the.
are at rest.
A BEAUTIFUL young girl was married
in San Francisco last week, and at the
conclusion of the marriage ceremony
she turned to her husband aud said,
"George, kiss me, lam dying" The
husband complied with the request,
and at that moment the young bride
fell dead to the floor.
THE Oldest stove in the United States
is one which warns the hall of the
capitol in Richmond, Virginia. It waa
made in England, and sent to Rich
of Burgesses Tor sixty years, before il
was removed to its present location,
where it has been for thirty years, and
is not yet stove in.
The oysters that they raise near the
Georgia coast are not dlminutive, il
Savannah papers are to be believed.
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