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


THE most original phase OF srcl'ty
life in Washington is the c"rt announce
1ncnt Of birth.
PARIS society is more pro1hlscu"ns
and cosmopolitan III character than IL
has ever been.
THE Cincinnati Volksbladt styles the
the ladies' engaged i'll the whisky war
"corset Dragons.
TIE total weight of the window
WEIGHTS to the United States Hotel,
Saratoga, is thirty tons.
A VALUABLE coal mine has been dis-
covered in San Hcnard1no county, Gall
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
G329, 900, 900, or about sl,6O'ooo''o.
THERE are only eight gold watches III
Hor,;shurp Pa..-according to the OIL
cial tax levy.
THE ladies, God bless EN-, wear Is"
many bugles on their dresses that we
fear oyertures from them.
A CLUB of farmers in Chesterfield ILL.,,
takes 300 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sentatives has repealed railroad exemp-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,oo
in five years.
Tx Carthage, ILL.,, boys under the age
Of 16 are nv a 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, 523,670 coins and to
s3s, G98, 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 B,D1E class and dancing party
recently had meetings the same eve
ming at the same hotel, III Binghamton,
n. I.
THERE are inventors i'll 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: 'sNo Cinnamon employed or
: Chinese goods sold here. Established
S sixteen years on the principle of white
labor only"
r IT is said that the new game law
> works we'll in Michigan. No game IS
G now to be seen in the Detroit market
, except rabbits and squirrels-pretty
sure evidence that the hunters are re-
speeding the statute.
4 MANAGER in Liverpool, who last
, Christmas advertised for good-looklng
ladies'" to GO on in the pantomime, re-
ceiyel 300 replies. One young woman
sent ward of auburn hair as specl-
men of her charms.
Two THOUSAND dollars is pretty
high price to pay for a single rooster.
That is what Mr.. Davis of Portland has
inst eiyen to Ira Batchelder for black
Spanish cock-considered the best game
bird in the country.
PICTURE buyers will be interested III
. the information (given by The Adver-
tiser) that ga well-known artist in Bos-
ton has 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 l66 theatres III
Great Britain, exclusive OF ~ OF all
kinds in London alone, to say nothing
of 295 music halls employing ,4lo pro
fessionals, including, alas! ~ comic
yocalists!
THERE is a very accommodating room
in Randolph. Mass. During the day
boot making is carried on therein. as
we'll rs cooking for nine persons, and at
NIGHT it serves the aforesaid nine for
dormitorv. This is all the more credl-
table to the room, as it is only II feet
by Is.
The Congregationalists Of the Tar
West have decided to locate thelr cen
trail university at Colorado springs,
Colorado. The institution IS ALREADY
partly endowed, and subscriptions are
being vigorously pushed. The asplIa
ton Of churches is to make this the
"Harvard of the West.
GOSSIP assigns two reasons Tor fresl-
dent Eliot's visit to Europe-one, 10
find q successor to Agassiz; the other,
to perfect system of commons tor the
new Memorial Hall, with its projected
s25 600 kitchen apparatus and furniture,
eonal to feeding six hundred students
: at from 81 to $3.50 per week.
GEORGIA thieves are growing terribly
+ ,udocious. and several instances are re-
: lated of their prompt action IN relation
to- valuables. A day or two ago man
rang the bell at house i'll Griffin, seiz
: ed the lady who answered it, coolly a1',
nossrssel her of diamond earrings ana
ntber iewclrv, and, after lighting CT
r,n in her presence, deliberately walk
ed off and has not been seen since.
WHEN Il clergyman of the Church OF
. England was about to give Gunner 10
some of his clcrgical brethren ms o'''-
Ter asked whether the expected guests
were High Church or Low Churcn. MS
master said: "Why do you ask tnat
question: The butler answered be.
cause ii they be High Church We want
more wine; but if they be Low Ch''rch
We want more whites.
4 REMARKABLE rose bush adorns the
cottage of S. A. Kendall, of Santa Rosa,
California. 1t was planted in 1855, and
is of the Lamarque variety, the most
Y beautiful of the white roses. Imagine
i, an immense boquct Of white roses
t twenty-five feet high, twenty-five fee'
r across, beautifully rounded, with I:
: blossoming surface of four hun1re 81
n square feet, with four thousand 1nli
: blown roses and twenty thousand puos
t ApRoros of Matt Carpenters recen
u raid on the reporters gallery, T. ::
c H." tells the Boston Herald: NJ
). was sorry as soon rs he SAID II, AM
II when one of the correspondents Wen
s. to him. and said, "Mr. Carpenter.
IL have lust had one lead pencil this WIN
y ter, and have come to you to pay 10
n it, he replied, "Now, you boys JUS
e keep your shirts Oh, and don m'N.
n fuss we are not agoing to nave an
1t trouble
l. TaE fear of collision in fog some
t, times induces ocean travellers 10 90
!e variety of strange things. One OF IN
lie latest stories is told of a German on y,
N steamers, who, when the ship was OH u.
+: banks and in the midst of a dense its
1T ar.arcl ON deck with an 1mme"s ~, ~
III horn. which he commenced - w
w x;cor,,sly When ordered to deslst IL
Is ..x7,],;nei rs an excuse for his volunt;
80. i,1".f,>r,,.ncn that he had no conf