Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-09
General Items.

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General Items.
PEACHES are dollar q pound in San
Francisco.
H.LH. the Gear didn't like England,
and said as much, f''
THE ladies' dress reform question is
now agitating the country to q greater
extent than ever. 5.. - q GO
The Bank of England never reissues
it's notes. As they come in they are
laid aside, kept seven years, and then
burned.
New YoRK, like Boston, is suffering
from "deaconing," by which term is
described the custom, by the dealers in
fruit, of putting layer of good, sound
fruit on top, the rest being frequently
decayed and comparatively worthless.
AH1zoNA has long been anxious to
enter upon the Grange movement, and
is waiting patiently for some missionary
who can bear thither the word and work
of tile Order. g.
THE Prescott (Arizona) Miner says
jack and cotton-tail rabbits have in
creased wonderfully all over. the terri
tory since the government took to feed
ing Indians. and citizens have made it
their sacred duty to kill coyotes
The credulity Of some people is
amusing. A Michigan man put an
awning on his lawn the other day, and
the benighted denizens of that place
though: Il was a circus tent. -.
WILLIAM BucKxE11;, of Philadelphia,
has given 81, 600 to sustain scholar
ship in Worcester, Mass. = academy
for "the most courteous Christian gen
tlman, student in the academy.1 :,
TIE latest novelty IS pistol for. e1-
ploding "parlor matches" It isharm-
less but noisy. The ideaof celebrating
the "Glorious Fourth" by an explosion
of matches is somewhat derogatory to
the day. -~3t4.
RECENT investigations show that the
Dansvillc mastodon was talked to death,
and since this discovery many Of the
people at that place have been trying
to accomplish o like effect upon their
neighbors, but it won't work. ~ '>=.
A FISHING schooner caught one hum
dred and fifty barrels of mackerel in
twenty.six hours ON recent trip be-
tween Plymouth and Boston, yielding
to the captain and crew about 81 , $50 for
their days work. 1855.
A KANSAS boy earned . nice Bible by
committing 800 verses TO memory, and
then he traded his Bible: for ashot gun,
and accidentally shot his aunt In the
leg-a fearful warning to all aunts.e
Ar High Falls, N. r., the other day,
young lady while crossing field was
knocked down by ram, and the next
time the damaged damsel sav: herIloyer
she informed that astonished youth that
he might go about his business, as she
WAS disguised with the sex ~'s
An old lady in Massachusetts being
informed that dam aboye the village
where she lived was likely to give way,
Immediately wished for pair of clean
white stockings, saying, in explanation,
that she once saw q woman struggling
in the waters, and that she doated along
feet upward. :. ~:'@-.
"WHEN was first married I WAS on
my knees before my husband from morn
ing till night. It was q perpetual ad-
| oration, an incessant delirium, an mex
pressible bliss / showered caresses
upon him; I could have eaten him. -
"And now?" asked q friend. ''I'm
sorry I didn't. .; ses c
ALL my own experience in ifeteaehes
me the contempt of cunning, not the
fear. The phrase 'profound cumming"
hoe olvvoxu roo,,>oIa &< MN a
in terms. never new q cunning mind
some points diseased Mrs. Jameson.
LOCAL option has Just been agitating
q lady of Austin, New. Her husband
told her it was "optional with her
whether he should buy her I gilt edged
Bible or a new bonnet. = She vrestled
with the subject three whole days and
then optionated on the b. onnet.
WAGNER, Who is now in his sixty first
year, has been much gratified to hear
of the growing popularity Of his music
in America. he Is living this summer
in his new villa At Biareuth. He has
two new operas fully sketched ont -oae
entitled "Percival, therefore another
Grail subject, and 1.-THE Victory" a
Buddhistic theme. .Yz7s:ss-
.~NEwroRr begins, as. country people
say, "to look something like" The
majority of the habitues known as
cottagers have arrived and the stately
Ocean House opens on Saturday: The
open.air concert and the open-air fir
tations have The turnouts
are numerous and quite as imposing
as ever.
IT was lately reported in Berlin that
the Crown Prince had met with III
accident while driving across the rail
way. The only ground for the report
seems to have been the simple fact that
q gate through which the Prince had
to pass was closed when the train came
in sight and, had it not been opened
in time, the casualty might have
happened. - .. -.
TIE famous, and at the time popular,
hotel, the Danforth House, Pithole
City, Pa. which cost 81, 600. was sold
a few days ago for $40 note; and the
furniture, which cost $1,000, brought
less than $50. Six months after the
city was founded it had seventy -four
hotels and boarding houses, and fifteen
Thousand inhabitants. Now only nine
families remain. a-
Miss FANNIE MAcr1ER Smith, daugh.
ter of the late General Charles r.
Smith, of the United States army, was
married, on the 10th June, to Mr..
Marshall Oliver, of England The we'd
ding was celebrated in ST. James,
Church, Philadelphia, Rev. DR., Morton,
assisted by Hon. and Rev.J. Wentworth
Leigh, of England, being the officiating
clergymen. There was select assem-
blage present at the ceremony, and the
wedding was identified with considers
BILE elegance and brilliancy. Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver, sail for Europe next
week. -,~. 81. <ssss .js.-.
IT'S only love in a cottage for poor
Nellie Grant, after all her White House
magniiccnce. The president and Mrs.
Grant have received several letters
from Mrs. Sartoris. Mr.. Sartoris' only
sister, a married lady, met him and his
bride Mt Liverpool and accompanied
them to London, where, Mrs. Sartoris
writes, she enjoyed herself very much
Her stay, however, was brief in Lon
don, her husband and herself going nj
most Immediately to the Sartoris
country scat, where the bride an(