Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-22

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"Marricd!" 1 exclaimed. upstarting;
''Married !" murmured with . sigh;
'tThen indeed is this parting,
F0r-my darliDg-sO an i"
All Sorts lof PsragraDhs.
IT is said that there are more than q
hundred women studyiag law in the
United States.
Ex-Gov, CoBURx, of Maine, has pre-
sented Somerset county in that state
with $50, 900 Court House.
The Chicago Times with perturbation
inquiries, Will Sickles lecture7"
EXPERIMENTS with single track ele-
vsted railway have been made in Phila-
delphia, and pronounced successful.
IT is said that the little birds in the
parks conform to the rules of the ring
Only two sparrers go into box at atime.
Ex-MAYoR. MEDI1L, of Chicago, il
seeing what's on the carpet at Brus-
sells.
MR. Owens has sufficiently recovered
from his recent injury to return to the
stage.
The saying, "It's too thin" is not a
vulgarism. Sheridan Knowles puts it
into the mouth of Alasco, in the play of
Rose of Arragon. - 7s'=s=5'
An intelligent voter in Burlington,
Iowa, in scratching the name Of Mrs.
Hager, wrote upon the ballot, 'Doant
want no wummen in Mine.
TIE President of the Swiss Republic
receives three thousand dollars = year
salary. It would pay to import few
of that sort.
A B0sroN shipbailder says that
Noah's ark wasn't much of = ship after
all, being little better than barn with
the crevices csulked up.
Oven two million copies of speeches
were folded and sent out At government
expense between July and November
of last year.
LUTHER McCuTcH1xs, Republican
candi>.s .ste for Governor of New Hamp-
shire, is a farmer and seventy years
TIE Grand Duke Alexis has given
thirty volumes of Russian history to
the library of the University Of Nichi-
gan. - z..-~
Mn. GLADSTONE has replied to the
charge of being Papist and not .
Protestant at heart, that it IL "wholly
and absolutely void Of truth" ''S'"
Mr. LovRDAI, agent for Mr.. Toole,
has come over from England TO arrange
for the appearance of that celebrated
comedian in New York. -...zt
Ok account of i'll health, John g.
yU2,s$&sop H.. AAnls~nI5 k1,n S,>-ka&s4,~ -
prepare poem for the ne1t.Daxtmouth
commencement. g J :--t
SEcR1rARY BE1xMAPs gift TO his
bride was . necklace, brooch, earrings
and spray for the hair, Of diamonds,
the set being valued At $1O,O
An Engiishman hunting buffalo out
west remarks-or, at least, he ought to
that '.sqaav" comes from the word
'tsquall, :" the he'll being dropped -
hentirely superduous.
"PooR Kossu1H, " excleims the Bos-
ton Transcript, :! :.old, inirm, needy:
childless, nearly friendlessl Think Of
his reception in New York . qusrter Of
. century ago, and beware how you
trust popularity" s:s..
"Wou1D that could call her mine!n
exclaim the hopeless suitoEs for the
hand of Lady Caroline Guest, of Eng
land. who has an annual income of
q, ,60Q 600 from her coal mines in
Wales. -. - .-. ...::.:,,.....
A PROPHET OF evil, in the per1on of .
negro named Santee, has turned up in
Louisiana. He predicted the epidemic
in Shreveport . year ago. He might
make = similar prediction every year
for certain places in the South, and not
make failure once in ten times.
GOODWIN Smith is the guest of Hr.
Knightly HoWman, of Bolton Lodge,
Edgbsston, Birmingham. He spent
Christmas at Oxford, and viii be in
London for two months before return
ing to Canada. .....
A NEW society, under the title of the
St. Andrews Society of London, has
recently been formed. The qualifica-
ton for membership is that applicants
shall be natives of Scotland, orborn of
Scottish parents.
CnlARcsAs '5Astuzie Femminili " IL
to be produced at Paris, where the cast
will include Nile. Heilbrop, de Bog
dani and N n. Florini, Zucchini and
Leraz1i. The latter played the tenor
part when the opera was gwen at the
Fondo, in Naples. lis. .-ss.. :e
TRAyRLLRRs in Italy are said to fre-
quently suffer such inconveniences
from finding themselves in poasession
of certain kinds of paper currency
which viii only pas: IN the cities IN
which they are issued. A bill provid
1 -
fore the Italian Parliament.
TEA is now extensively used in Hin
dostan, the export to England In 1917
exceeding sixteen millions of pounds.
Indian teas arc of rare flavor, and arc
used by English shopkeepen 70 mix
with the Chinese. The culture in In.
dia is now carried on BY joint stock
companies, which are now paying. 10 to
20 per cent. dividends. *.-s
NEAL Dow, Who has said . great
many queer things in tho United
States, is saying some very disagreea-
bic things in Scotland. At . temper
anoe meeting in Edinburgh he asserted
that "the Presbyterian Church OF
Scotland was the main bulwazk OF
drunkenness there" Having stood
Sergeant Bates, the Scotch were pre-
pared for Dow.
A MARRIAGE took place in Norfolk,
Va, recently, to which the contracting
parties were q bridegroom of 81 sum
mers and the bride ~. This il his
fourth marriage, the three preceding
yielding the fruits of 50 children, q
Of whom are now living, and he has 10
grandchildren, and yet the end is pro-
bably not yet
TIE new French Minister to the
United States, Jean Francois Charles
Bartholdy. has had q long diplomatic
career. He is lawyer BY profession,
but has served % translator in the De.
partment of Foreign Affairs, Secretary
Of the Legation to Berlin, special
agent to Turin, Vienna and Mexico,
and also a. Secretary to tho French
Embassy at st. Petersburg. He ha.
, been Jealous Bonapartist, but isnow,
we presume, . good enough Republican
forMacM cMahon's purposes.
I CAN testify to the extraordinary
natural gifts possessed by . daughter
of Thalberg, the pianist, whom ]
heard in salon some days ago. Mile