Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-12
General Items.

General Items.
The New York Star says that an edl-
ter is subject to as great temptation as a
clergyman.
THE most original phase Of society
life in Washington is the card announce
ment of birth.
PARIS society is more promiscuons
and cosmopolitan in character than 1t
has ever been.
The Cincinnati Volksbladt styles the
the ladies engaged in the whisky war
"corset dragons.
The total weight Of the window
weights to the United States Hotel,
Saratoga, is thirty tons.
VALUABLE coal mine has been dis
covered in San Benardino county, Call
fornia.
OYSTERS weighing three pounds and
ten inches long have been found at Point
Pinalis, near Tampa, Florida.
ACCORDING to recent returns, the total
amount invested in English railways is
9329, O9O, 900, or about 81 ,64o, 600, 900.
THERE are only eight gold watches III
Harrisburg. Pa..-according to the Off
cial tax levy.
The ladies, God bless 'em, wear so
many bugles Oh their dresses that we
fear overtures from them.
A CLUB of farmers in Chesterfield ILL.,,
takes 800 worth of magazines and news
papers annually.
MISSISSIPPI contemplates railroad
tax The Georgia House of Repre-
sentatives has repealed railroad exemp-
ton privileges.
The funeral expenses Of men killed
in the Hoosac Tunnel, and paid by the
contractors, have amounted to Slo,ooo
in five years.
In Carthage, ILL.,, boys under the age
of 16 are by city ordinance recently
passed, prohibited from chewing tobac-
CO.
The total coinage of the United
States minis for the last fiscal year
amounted to 80, 523, $40 coins and to
S38, 69S, 1873 in value.
The Toledo Blade says that wild
ducks have already appeared in the bay
at that place, giving promise OF the
early opening of spring.
A BIBLE class and dancing party
recently had meetings the same eve
ming. at the same hotel, in Binghamton,
! THERE are inventors in the country
who seem to have cigar boxes on the
brain. The department is deluged with
models.
The hatred of the Chinese in San
Francisco is thus placarded in cigar
store: "No Cinnamon employed or
Chinese goods sold here. Established
sixteen years on the principle OF white
labor only
IT is said that the new game law
works well in Michigan. No game Is
now to be seen in the Detroit market
except rabbits and squirrels
SIRE evidence that the hunters are re-
speeding the statute.
A MANAGER in Liverpool, who last
Christmas advertised for good-looking
ladies'" to 60 on in the pantomime, re-
ceived 800 replies. One young woman
sent q ward of auburn hair as specl-
men of her charms.
Two THOUSAND dollars is a pretty
high price to pay for single rooster.
That is what Mr.. Davis OF Portland has
lust given to Ira Batchelder for a black
Spanish cock-considered the best game
bird in the country.
PICTURE buyers will be interested IN
the information (given by The Adver-
1 tiser) that ga well-known artist in Bos-
ton has a large number of assistants
who do most of the work on his paint
ines. He then finishes them up and
signs them, selling them as his own.
"DEc11SE OF THE DRAMA" is an odd
phrase. when there are 166 theatres IN
Great Britain. exclusive of 48 of all
kinds in London alone, to say nothing
of 295 music halls employing 40 pro-
fessionals, including, alas! 24S comic
vocalists!
THERE is very accommodating room
in Randolph, Mass. During the day
boot-making is carried on therein, as
we'll as cooking for nine persons, and at
NIGHT it serves the aforesaid nine for q
dormitorv. This is all the more credi-
table to the room, as it is only II feet
by Is.
The Congregationalists of the far
West have decided to locate their cen
trail university at Colorado Springs,
Colorado. The institution IS already
partly endowed, and SUBSCRIPTIONS are
being vigorously pushed. The asp,Ia-
ton Of churches is to make this the
Harvard of the West.
Gossp assigns two reasons for Presl-
dent Eiot's visit to Europe-one, 10
find successor to Agasslz; the otnef'
to perfect a system of commons TOR the
new Memorial Hall, with its projected
$25. 600 kitchen apparatus and furniture,
ennal to feeding six hundred students
at from 81 to & so per week.
GEORGIA thieves are growing terribly
audacious, and several instances are re-
lated of their prompt action IN relation
to yaluables. a day or two ago man
rang the bell at house in Griffin, seiz
ed the lady who answered it, coolly dis.
possessed her of diamond earrings and
other iewelry, and, after lighting CT
gap in her presence, deliberately walk
ed off and has not been seen since.
WHEN clergyman of the Church OF
England was about to give a dinner to
some of his clergical brethren his out
| Ter asked WletucE tlc CAPS~ 80.
we're High Church or Low Church. HIS
master said: "Why do you ask that
question: The butler answered BE
cause if they be High Church We want
more wine; but if they he Low Church
We want more Whites.
A REMARKABLE rose bush adorns the
cottage of S. A. Kendall, of Santa Rosa.
California. It was planted in 1855, and
is of the Lamarque variety, the most
beautiful of the white roses. Imagine
an immense boquet Of white roses,
twenty-five feet high, twenty-five feet
across, beautifully rounded, with
blossoming surface of four hundred
square feet, with four thousand full.
blown roses and twenty thousand BUDS
ApRoros of Matt Carpenters recent
raid on the reporters gallery, " +. -
H." tells the Boston Herald: ne
was sorry as soon as he said 1t, ana
when one of the correspondents went
to him, and said, "Mr. Carpenter. L
have Just had one lead pencil this VIM
ter, and have come to You to pay 1ol
it, he replied, "Now, you boys lnss
keep your shirts on, and don't MAKE -"
fuss we are not agoing to have any
trouble"
TIE fear of. collision IN log some
, times induces ocean travellers to 40 a
variety of strange things. One OF the
3 latest stories is told OF German on !,