Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-04-23
All Sorts or Paragraphs.
A W1NTER's Thanksgiving.

An Sorts or Paragraphs.
A W1NTER's Thanksgiving.
MARIO is singing in Naples.
M1NNEAro11s claims to be the Giant
City.
HORSE thief detective societies are a
peculiarly Of Illinois civilization.
ANDY JOHNSON is once more in Wash
ington-only on visit, however.
PHILADELPHIA makes over a million
dollars worth of wallpaper annually.
Two heads are better than one-cs-
pecially in barrel
The song of the seamstrcss. Sew
let the wide world" etc.
They are beginning to ''Ho for Rcd
River" in New Orleans.
| A HISTORY of the Ashantec war is to
be written by WinwOod Reade.
WHITTIER is in position to appre
ciate "the importance of one vote.
Nh. PROCTOR is studying astronomy
on the Atlantic Ocean. He sailed from
New York yesterday.
The work on the st. Gothard tunnel
is progressing, but they have got hard
work enough left.
TWELVE street-cars, now building at
Troy, New York, will soon be rafting
through the streets of Bombay.
The press of London continue to cx-
press the admirations of our English
cousins in view of the working of that
very successful Buffalo invention, the
bell punch.
TIE Irish liquor dealers of Port Jer-
Wis, Orange County, have resolved to
abandon the business, if the Americans
and Germans engaged in the same
trade will do Likewise.
The water in the Asylum Hill reser-
voir, at Hartford, having been drawn
off on Wednesday, all the earth and
stone work on the Southwest side fell
in, and it will cost s25, 600 to repair it.
A MANS own religion, though contra
~ to is better than the faith of another,
let itbe ever so we'll followed. It is
good to die in ones own faith, for an
others faith beareth fear.
"a NAN shot in his own house," is
the heading which the western papers
gave to the HcNamars affair; 6pilkins
wants to know If this wasn't case of
hitting man fright where he lived"
IT is proposed to establish steam
ship line between Mobile and Havana
In order to encourage the project a
Cairo, ILL.,, firm offers to send seven
thousand barrels Of -four weekly for
shipment. :-
A RELIC of the ill-fated steamship
Atlantic in the shape of q passengers
ticket printed in German and English,
has been taken from the stomach of
preserved salmon at St. John New
Brunswick. e.
His manuscript ? All, yes; IL
He's come to ask it
Well, look about but stop I guess
You'll find it in the basket
-Richnaond Enquirer.
A ROCHESTER man has invented:a kerr
osene lamp which gives Is bright
light as gas, and uses noglass chimney.
Compressed air is forced around the
flame through the metre and pipeshere-
tofore used for gas. -:
TIE coffee-leaf disease has made its
appearance on q large number of es-
tates in Ceylon, and much anxiety is felt
on the subject by planters. The, origin
and nature Of thedisease are quite un-
known.
AFRExcH paper tells the following as
true: "a man arrived the other even
ing at the Luxembourg Garden just as
the gates were being shut. He said,
I have hurried back I left my:wife in
here on . bench The gate-keener re-
piled, II am very soHy-the garden
will not be open until tomorrow; and
he locked the gate"
| A cUTTLE-H1sH has been caught at
Olympia, Washington Territory, meas
uring eight feet from tip to tip of its
eight long arms. The arms were of
gristle, lined on the under, side, their
entire length, with saucer-shaped suck
ers, varying from the size of pea to
two inches in. diamete1.. This il the
largest cuttle-fish caught ip North Amer
ca Of which there is authehtic record.
LONDON is literally built on a founda-
ton of pipes: In some placessit<ould
be difficult to find room to lay another
pipe. One gas company supplies two
districts With nearly 4O0 miles Of pipes.
Then there are the underground tele-
graph pipes, and $500 miles of drain
pipes, the lead and iron pneumatic
tubes, the sewers, the water pipes, and
the underground railway:
A LITTLE girl, playing in field near
Westminster, Mass, was attacked by a
savage bull. Her brother, aged Is,
climbed over the fence, and bravely
fought the bull with stick. ttRun,
sissy run quick!:' shouted the boy,
and abe saved herself by obeying. The
boy, however, was gored SO terribly
that very likely he will die of the hurt.
The gold mines at Gaysville Vt,
will be extensively worked this sum-
the magnetic iron sand, which is OBJ
tanned in large quantities and has prov
ed, on account of it's remarkable purity,
to be of considerable value. IS
| DURING the most recent meeting of
the anti-zenters Of Charleston and Root,
Montgomery County, it vasagreed that
no Land belonging to Mr.. CLARK, in
those townships, be cultivated during
the year 1874, unless some satisfactory
agreement can be'efbected with him or
his agent It was further agreed that
persons coming into that section and
leasing those farms of Mr.. Clark, be
termed interlopers and nuisances, and
rs such be treated and forbidden enter
ing the business or sscial circles there.
A PHu4ADE1PH1A young lady, who is
now on her travels, cut piece from the
chair of Edward the Confessor in West
minister Abbey, at an expense OF $500,
and at church in Dresden, overturned
and image Of the Virgin in attempting
to appropriate some flowers from the
shrine, and her father had another ittlo
bill of g, 500 to pay. Dear girl!
Ar fire in Poughkeepsie the, other
morning, the foreman of oneOf the hoss
companies rolled his carriage to the fire
alone, made preparations to stretch
hose, which, fortunately, however, wss
not needed, and then, without any as
sistance, took the apparatus hack to
the house again, called the roll, and Gu
tered o fine against every one of the alb
sent members.
| A MEMBER of the Ohio Legislature
recently visited the State penitentiary.