Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-02-12

Is Trusting DAre0
To those who, had We silent came,
Would neer have cared
Save that, mayhap, malicious game
Might worse have Jared.
General Items.
FIVE of Mobiles policemen have onl!
one arm apiece.
| A WILD hog recently shot BY q teams
ter near Muskegon, Mich, weighed n
most 6O8 pounds.
That old dance, the minuet, IL beng
revived by fashionable tsacbors in New
York.
The "Leatherstockjng Tales OF
Fenninore Cooper are to be brought
out in New York theatre.
THE greatest oil we'll ever struck 10
the Evans, on the Dougherty farm near
Petrolia, which produced the first
twenty-four hours 800 bbls.
GR1rT1x, GA., lately received cards
for the Wedding Of . lady of sixty,
and blushing bridegroom OF twenty
one.
A GREAT deal of lace il being bought
this year. It improves With years and
is considered . safe investment, like
the buying of diamonds.
TIE diamonds and point lace voEn
by the wife of the Hon BENZ. Wood,
af the Roman Catholic orphan aeylum
ball at New York, were valued at $lN1-
600.
THr newest French bonnets are tnm-
med almost exclusively With feathels
of three or four different shades. All
kuick.knacks, gilt or steel stars, dag
gers, &C., are ignored.
Tur Californians are making prepa-
rations for having another aquarlum
car sent across tho continent from tho
eastern coast, next spring.
CA1noRH1A lions are inconyenieotly
plenty in the Berryesss valleys and
hills. They make light of such trides
ss,younR colts, calves and lambA
ACCORDING to DR.. Holland, the Az
ersge American, in the sverage Ameri-
can restaurant, eats his dinner n the
average time of six minutes and forty.
five seconds"
ExPRR1e1NIs made in some of the
southern counties of the San Joaquin
Valley, Cal, are no encouraging that
. good deal of land will beplanted in
cotton this year. .-
Tm oppoGtion to the admittsnoe of
colored children to the public schools
in several of the late states il 20 bitter
that threats of closing the schools have
bean freely uttered. s.. :,
TIE st. Louis Globe calls the New
York and Omaha double track air Ene
the mildest-manered subsidy that ever
cut the pocket or scuttled the finances
of q nation. -.......- -
AF1oRm1An heard the other day, for
the first time, the story of David and
Goliah, and he became 20 enthusiasts
that he swung his hat and called out:
" Bully for the fellow with the aiingl
SEVERAL Spiritualists of New Haven
propose to form . co-operative society,
in which all property shall be common
The institution Of marriage viii be pre-
served.
SrAn1n.Aus county claims to be the
greatest wheat producipg county OF
California. OF 26 O09, ,667 bushels Of
wheat produced in the state in 1871.
s, 000, 600 bushels were produced N
Stanislaus county. ..s.--.
BEroRE drowning herself, Ida Wheel
or wrote to the Louisville OouIisrJouI-
nal announcing her intention. Her
grievance was that her father Was going
to send her to . convent for schooling
and Discipline.
A GOOD many Cincinnatia16 are sen.
sitive on the point of Horticulture,
since they were interviewed bye young
man, vho,, after exhibiting delieately
perfumed plant which he called the
Arctic Morning Glory, sold them neat
packages of turnip seed. -.
THr intelligence of Affection is ear-
ried on by the eye only; good breeding
has made the tongue falify The heart,
and act part of continued restraint.
While nature has preserved the eyes to
herself, that she may not be diaguised
or misrepresented. &c.
Ar Bombay, the great cotton pert of
British India, ships have to unload into
lighters, half a mile from shore. This
inoopvenient method is to be done
away with by the construction OF . dock,
whick is to cost three and three quarter
millions of dollars. 3 -
Tn Penang Gazette is the Oldest
journal in the world. It ls printed on
q large sheet of yellow l1k, and ap-
pears in the same form, with shesanae
character. and on the same kind of
material as it did . thousand years ago.
The only change is in the writers-
By the invention of new system Of
hardening steel, it il believed that the
work of piercing the st. Gothard TIM.
mel can be finished . year or two IN nd
vance of the expected date. The
new invention was made by II kneoht,
the engineer Of the tunnel. -.
Tn planters of the Western portion
of Kemper county, 4is2, raised. last
year about 5000 gallons OF soegh1n
snd cane molasses, worth in the neigh
borhood of 44,5O0. To all til]ers at
the soil We say, "Go ye and do Ike
wise." ,.=.- =,
An important discovery Of art OBJ
iects in gold, silver, bronze and lren,
belopeinR to . period previous TO- tho
introduction of Christianity m RusGa.
has been made in Alexandropol, IN the
province Of Erivan; and close 1poo
Alexandropol itself . pagan tenple Of
vast dimensions has come to light.
A NoRR1erowx doctor recently asked
an old lady patient ii she espe9senocda
any relief during the night. She said
she did. First the relief was m one
shoulder and then the other. and then
:peared in her back, but she pat q
mustard plaster between her shouldefs,
and the relief left her, and now she
felt better.
Rmsrp GLASS, for roofs and cellar
windows, is comparatively . recent m
PRODUCTION. The Boston and Lowell
Railroad station at Bostoa II rooted
with IS, 600 feet Of this glass, Weighing
three pounds to the square foot and
the Boston and Providence station has
on its roof IA, 600 feet, weighing four
pounds to the square foot.
TIN city of San Francisco shipped
$75 600 worth of fruit during the -.
son; o1e firm shipped 2028 tons OF
fruit, 800 tons of vegetables, 46 tons OF
seeds, and 80 tons Of dried fruit. Tho
business of drying fruit and canning,
both for home consumption and the
Eastern markets, 10 carried on moro
extensively in San Francisco.
TIE Rev. Charles L. Thompson, of
Chicago, declined q call 70 Louisville.
with : salary of 8. 600, acknowledging
that the offer WAS generous one, and
the feeling which inspired it vae very