Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-11-27

We give our best, and couOt that death
Is blessed when suffered for your sake.
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
A &C OF trouble. .'-High G.
A DISTANT relation-Our Aunt-Ti-
podes
HILARIOUS creckery-t.Yhe cup that
cheers. >.
A SLOW match-Weddine after \ long
courtship. 5"' y 's71is''
LEATHER, chemically considered, is
the ,ox-hihe of beef. r.. ,..
The Russian harvest has been = fail
ure this year,
LAKE ERIE is The home OF thtty-fve
varieties of fish,. !. ). ,.,-.s.tss
A DAUGHTER of General Rosecrans
has entered convent.
The 'embers of the dying year-No-
ykmber and December. t~ss =
THE profits Of dealers in lard come
to them in the shape of fat dividends
WAX FLOWERS are used to trim new
winter bonnets. 40 -
f'.rIr Is suggested thst tho name of
Washington should be changed to
Boss-ton.
Il is said that Prussia possesses
valuable coal deposits of enormous
! extent. = ......g ...Izi:,
PARIS is flooded with pamphlets
devoted to Bazaine,, his trial and
history. y" "a: s2;t ~ - ];
THE prowling wolf isareappea1iiDg in
large numbers within the Michigan
| borders.
A STREET sewer in Hartford, Conn,
has unexpectedly brought to.hght .
rich vein of coal. ..-- s5... s.:.E
NEARLY all the cider mills of New
England are dese,te thiiB fall ON &C.
count of there being NO fall crop of
apples
DEAF MurEs, it is now asserted, are
more numerous in mountainous re-
gions than in low countries. ,:=s
:, LOUISA MuHnBAcH hid five different
books in o more er less forward state
of preparation when she died. :,
The oldest timber in the world il in
the ancient temples of. Egypt. It II
1000 years old and perfectly sound.
The Sultan is about to send to the
Emperor Of Russia 1 present Of several
fine Arab horses Of the purest breed.
"THE leopard cannot change his
spots but the cook changes his pots
many times day. .s.''7
The advantages of trades unions
were formerly seen in . more striking
light than they are at present.
JONES thinks the man who told him
that bnttermilk wss the milk Of tho
goat, was trying to fool him.
l. An old fogy in Rutland thinks some
of the church singing is done on the
high-drawlic principle. -
IT is reported in Rome that the head
establishment of the order, of Jesuits
will be transferred to Malta.
! A LADY having married . Mr.. Wheat
IN Virginia, it is hoped that her path
! may be loury, and that she may never
be thrashed by her husband.
Mrs. CnOaaKRs wishes she was the
wife of a member of Congress, because
it would be SO pleasant to live in .
city where all the streets were Wash
ington streets. -:a1 ea
The Royal Academy has decided to
paw a marked tribute to the memory of
the great artist, Landseer. !, At tho
coming winter exhibition, space will be
set apart for the works of the great ami
NAL FAINTER, and those who possess ex-
amples of his art will be invited to con-
tribute to the collection
A MEMORIAL CHURCH is to be erected
in the district of Dyer's Hill to the
memory of the late Vicar of Sheme!d,
to be called the 'tSale. Memorial
Church" About $4,000 has already
been subs cribed toward the project
including six donations OF 45OO each.
Among the earliest subscribenvere .
Wesleyan and Jew.
A WESTERN paper tells . story of .
country woman VII made her fnt at-
tempt, to get in the court house yard
through the patent back-action gate.
She opened the gate, went through, -
she supposed, and shnt he1seH out
on the same side seven times; then,
calculating &c Merciful saints !" climbed
over the fence, - ...tt:s z..t.ts- .s.
The expenses Of the Indian Bureau
promise to be greater next year, lndg-
ing from the estimates, than they have
been for several years past. The esn-
mates last year were s. 900. 600. For
next fiscal year they are nearly $7,OO,-
600. The war aud the interior depart
ments' estimates are also largely in ex=
cess of last year, all of. which goes to
prove that the estimates Of the old
fiscal year were put low for political
effect. Even the last session appropri-
ated $18 OO0, 600 in excess OF the est,-
mate. -
A cousrRYMAN having applied TO the
manager of a bank in Glasgow to dis
count bill which had. three months
and seventeen days to run, the banker,
after carefully looking st'both sides OF
Il. as was his invariable: custom, said
.sit was not usual to take bills OF
longer date than three months" Upon
which the applicant, scratching hls
head and looking slyly at the manaeer'
said: ''That may 90 your usual way,
sir, but ye ken the days are unco SNORT
at this time of the yearl" <=@a@sa
A WRITER in tho Chicago Tribune re'
ports that "George Eliot whose maid
en- name was Marian Evans, and Who
is now the wife of George Henry Lewis,
is very shy by nature and rendered
more so by the peculiar circumstance
of her marriage" What is the use of
this sort of covert false statement The
person spoken of il . woman of great
genius, and it is unworthy of her and
her friends to tell anything bat the
truth respecting this subject. She il
not married to George Henry Lewis,
| but lives with him without marriage.
GRAPE stones are said to be Z better
| substitute for coffee than chickoEy is.
When roasted and ground, they are
said to possess an aroma very much
like that of East India coffee, and the
beverage obtained therefrom il about
the same as coffee in taste, though in
ferior in quality. The beverage fur
lished by many of the restaurants is
very far from being "about the same
rs coffee in taste," and it is probable
that decided improvement could bo
made on the present article by the use
Of grape stones-
One of the effects of the stringent
times in New York city is large fall.
ing off from the usual daily street car
receipts. The falling off is from 900
to $500 daily in each company. At first
blush this could seem singular. But
it is perfectly natural. The street cars
are used very largely by working peo'
pie in going to and returning from
their daily toll. Thousands are now
thrown out of employment, and have
| M OooociOn IN uco thoStFppt CarR. while