Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-25
General Items.

General Items.
F,hu;sIs,, is said t. ]r quite common
in yu,,ng ladies' schools IN Great Brit
ain.
TnsnosEns arc firing Of "hansoms,
and are pleading for an Improvement Ill
their public carriages.
PxorEsrs against rittalism arc benz:
numcro,,sly signed III the various ''pl'-
copal sees Of Great Britain.
GREAT BRITAIN has only 1000 miles
of tclcgraplic lines and llo'ooo n''c'
IF wire.
rur Insurance burdens Of Chicago
arc said to be enormous and growing
intolcrablc.
CouMoponE NUT is to have yacht
If L;s own. It will be about the SIG
! of a Nutshell.
T,1E Bible is said to have h.
lated into Persian verS Zen trans
Of that country. 20 ny native
! WEsroS has
all. md pity Oh New York after
10 tr -..s announced his intention t.,
europe.
TnE tide Of emigration from tic New,
England states westward HAS increased
greatly since 1871.
VERMONT this year turns out 1j,Ws,,-
800 pounds of maple sugar, worth ten
, cents pound.
:SAIIFY EEy il the new minister If
foreign affairs III Constautiuople-such
a nice name to spell.
In life it is difficult to say who do
You the most mischicf-cncnics will,
the worst intentions, or friends with
the best.
A MONUMENTto the memory of Sam uel
Owen "father Of the S wedish steam
fleet and engineering works, " was i,,au-
guratcd at Stockholm on the 18th inst.
In Germany, when the vote Of the
jury stands six against six, the prisoner
j. acquitted. a vote Of seven against
five leaves the decision to the court,
and by vote Of eight against four the
prisoner is convicted.
shows business, now?" inquired
one Nashville merchant Of another, re-
Gently. "Dull, fcarfully dull" WIS
the reply. ''Thc fact is nobody buys
anything just now but provisions and
whisky-the bare necessities of life, as
it were"
IT is positively announced through
the Zurich papers that the Castle Of
Orenburg is to be prepared for thc re-
ception Of the Empress Eugenie and
the Imperial Prince, who shortly i'll
tend taking up a residence there per-
manently.
The Prussian government has bought
mond, at Brussels, for e50,0oo. This
| is very little for the 219 paintings of
one Of tho most celebrated private col
lections in Europe, SO that Parliament
is expected to ratify the purchase forth
with.
A CHINESE shipbuillcr conceived the
idea of constructing vessel whose
paddle wheels should be revolvcd
water-whcel fashion, l,y water let down
on them from above. The water was
to Ike pumped up into tanks by APP
paratus attached to the wheels. An
expensive craft WAS built at Canton
| upon this plan, and the inventor WIS
really surprised and panied when it
wouldn't 80.
THE construction of mountain roads
in the Hinalayas requires skillful en-
gineering, and is extremely difficult.
The roads are in some cases at all elc-
walton Of 200 feet, and in some dis
tricts the annual rainfall has reached
22O inches, of which 40 inches fell in
tho two and MALT months of the rainy
season, and 81 inches in a single hour
ting out from the rock, and in others
1J<>,s ,%1x1
Ar recent English wedding, while
the bridal party were knccling around
the chanccl, the groomsman poked the
groom in the side, he laughed, the
bride laughed, and so did the brilcs-
maids, and the clergyman retired in
high dudgeon from the church ; twelve
o'clock came, after which no marriages
are performed 50 that they had to go
home and sp nd twenty four hours cul-
tivating Il serious frame Of mind.
SINCE the breaking of the Williams
burg dam no fish have becn seen in Mill
river, although it was formerly we'll
stocked with them. After the disaster
many suckers, cells, and small fish wcr',
scattered along the meadows, and such
rs escaped death thus on dry land were
probably killed 10y the filth and poison
GUS qualities of the Shiny deposits which
have been SO many years accommodating
in the numerous mill-dams.
JAS. E.. BAGIEE, a we'll known bridge
builder, recently died at Rutland, Vt.
Probably his most important work Was
the construction of the celebrated
Havre de Grace bridge, 5000 feet long,
across the Chesapeake Bay, between
the town of Havre de Grace and Perry
Vile, Nd; he also built the longest
bridge across the Mississippi river, at
Quincy, ILL.,, erected two bridges on
the Air Line Railway, in Connecticut.
and put up the lower bridge across the
Hudson, at Albany.
ESTHER BLACK, an oldrssnPer woman,
died lately Mt Hove, England. t'r
many Years past she had been receiving
about sixty-two cents v Eek from the
Board Of Guardians. 1t appears now,
however. that she WAS not dependent
upou charity. A will has been found Ill
which she lcqucatl,~ $3.50 to the Sussex
County Hospital, and like amount to
the Brighton Lying In Institution. Al
ter the discharge Of these lcIs,ests, tn:
residue Of her property, which amounts
to $4,000, is left " her nerhcws and
niccrs.
The famous iron gates, on tn" Dan
,,le. are ON the point Of being DESTROYED
Our readers are probably aware that
they ere nothing hut = reef OF rocks,
which, impede the navigation Of the riv~
er, nc;r Orsava, in Transylvania.
These gates have given their nam" Ill
history to several battles, and among
them that III 1l*2, in which Hunyard,
at the head Of 1900 Hungarians. put
to complete route an army OF So,H"
Turks. Under the Romans, they h"rt.
the name IT Pons Anguish (BridG'' OF
Augustus) and in the middle ages they
were called Porte Vaczil.
Vurhk ftv..n il snid to ''c very rich
Lamartinc gained clurm'ts sums ct
money. 50 did Alexandra Dumas, Tue
theatre il, however, the only lucrative
province of literature. While snrh
men rs Sarlou, Mtilhac and Halr'y
are making large fortunes, Tame, w''"
is Il very hard worker, and who lives
with the closest economy, has only sue
cceded in making what must be called
small fortune. About i" not r1c''' AS
lie culy writes novels. and all ms al
tcmpts On tho stnge have been failures
SO were the attempts Of Ihe"rhil'
1autier. with the exception Ut the
librettc Of Il ballet, which probably got
him more money than all MS ''n'A
,,,,,,,s mt together.