Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-29
General Items.
OLD folks say this winter is like 1916

General Items.
OLD folks say this winter is like 1916.
B1snor NILES, of New Hampshire,
after many years of Episcopacv, has
Just been na~turalized.
TuE Canadians export four times
as much beef rs they do lumber to
England.
OVEN 200 tons of nitro. glycerine have
from first to Inst been exploded in the
Hoos" Tunnel.
THE captain remarks that steeraRe
passengers ought to be very we'll be-
haved, they have somuch dock 'oer. 'em.
AN effort is to be made to introduce
hippophagy, or the practice of eating
horse flesh, in Boston.
A TwIa sixteen inches lono. contain
ing thirty-two oranges, is one of Los
Angeles boasts.
A SAN BERNARD1No (Cal.) farmer har-
vested 10000 pounds of beans on eight
~acrcs-value, $1,000.
If IN artery is cut, compress above
the wound ; if u vein is cut, compress
below.
PITTsBURG cOrOnerB are accumulat.
ing p%lethoric bank accounts since the
introduction of "the pistol as a toy"
italian immigrants are heading for
England in large numbers, finding tho
United States too poor for fat pick
ngs.
The boot and shoe factory to be
started in Dubuque, Iowa, will turn
out 5000 pairs a day of 200 different
varities.
THEY have become SO particular in
Cincinnati that they won't let a tele-
graph operator chase an expressman
three blocks with q butcher knife.
THERE are now 379 wooden factories
at the South, exclusive of the mills
manufacturing carpets, hosiery or
worsted goods.
'WHEE11Na, W. Va, the largest nail
and glass manufacturing city in the
Union, passed through the late panic
without a single suspension.
AaRAND assembling of Freemasons
from all parts of the world il proposed
in Philadelphia, a. one of the features
of the Centennial.
Tn bustles, holding q gallon of
whisky, a be purchased BY Buffalo
ladies who want to smuggle Canada
liquor.
FIFTY dollars per acre will, in Cali
fornia, all the cost of the produce
ton of tobacco, and the profits are
about $3.50.
The South Bend (Ind.) Woollen 60.
ran Is hours a dav tor several weeks
before the recent holidays. The COM
pany make cassimeres, dannels, &c.
For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing;
dash water in them; remove cinders,
&c., with the round point. of a lead
pencil. '
ACCORDING to the communists, every
man who saves money must be made
to divide with every man who saves
n0ne.
The Saratogian says that over $780,.
600 has already been expended on the
United States Hotel, and that q large
sum of money is, required to complete
it.
SCOOP morning, Mr.. Pecksnif,"
said a printer in search of female COM
p~ositors ; shave You any daughters
who would make good ~type.setters 2"
Ono; but I have a wife who would
make a good devil"
The aggregate yield of corn in five
of the principal Western States, in
1873, was only 514, O00, 900 bushels,
against 756, 000, 600 in 1872, and of
potatoes, %, Q00,0 DOC, against 1900, 600
in 1872. .'"
Nh. Goodwin SMITH, who is now in
England, has been invited by the Fell
lows of All Souls College, Oxford, to
deliver a course of lectures on history.
but has declined, not having the requi-
site time.
The coasting trade in Alaska is rap
idly increasing, and complaints, are
made that there is no correct chart of
the coast. As there are upwards of
49, 900 miles of coast line, the work of
surveying, if undertaken, will necessa-
rily last several years.
The proprietor of hotel located at
| Memtone, Italy, advertises in q late
number of the Swiss Times that he
| has 6 learnt of the art to make buck
wheat cakes and fish balls at the hotel
della Paix, Geneva, in true American
STYLE"
Corn meal, heated and placed in
bags, is recommended as q substitute
for hot water bottles, and such like
appliances, for restoring. warmth to the
sick. It is said to weigh less, retain
heat longer, and does not chill when
cold. go: = ~&..
SIR WALTER ScoTT relates that, whed
some one was mentioned as a " fine DIN
man " to Swift, he exclaimed with VIC.
lence that there was no such thing.
" If the man you speak of had either q
mind or body worth d farthipg they
would have o him out long ago."
A F1RR-PRooF paper Is said to have
been invented in England, consisting
of vegetable fibre, one part asbestos,
two parts; borax,. one-tenth part. and
alum, twentieth of a part. The princi:
pal Ingredients in the ink to bio used
with this incombustible paper is graph
ic.
FIVE Swiss papers have Just been
prohibited from circulation in France.
They are the Patrie, Of Geneva, the
Novelist Vaudois, the National of
Neufonatel, the Progress de Berne,
and the Etats Unis d'Europe. The
Neue Freie Presse of Vienna, and the
Chronique Of Brussels, are also pro-
hibited.
The wreckage tables for 1873 show
that 459 vessels, belonging to or trad
ing to ports III the United States, we're
wrecked in the twelvemonth, against
AT in 1872. This is an increase of ten
per cent, and the gross damage
amounts to from $11, O97, 900 to $11,-
783, 600.
AMONG the treasures of the late Duke
of Brunswick, concealed with . cover
of base metal, has been found the Gel.
ebrated Vase of Mantua." 1t is of
onyx, and q true masterpiece of artistic
workmanship. Its fame is great among
antiquarians, who think it is Of Semetic
production, and the vial used at the
conservation of the Hebrew kings.
A Very Obedient Dog.
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