Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-02
General Items.

/ General Items.
| A Ct,EAN dollar is now worth only
thirteen cents, but they keep on calling
it !. dollar just for the fun Of the thing
PARIS is to have a cheap first-claNs
theatre, with the best seats 1T forty
, cents, or ten cents extra for having them
reserved.
A DAUGHTER of the hero of San ia
cinto is a poetess of whom Texas is dis
posed to feel proud. Her name is Net
tic Power Houston.
A WOMAN accused her husband of
having poisoned her. He protested in
noccncc, and demanded that her body
be opened on the spot.
TIE Gar and his son Alexis, passing
along the line Of military cadets during
the recent review ut Woolwicll, Eng
! land, greeted TIC cx-Princc Imperial
very cordially.
The difference between muzzling and
muslin is, that when the dogs are
dressed in 1nuzzling men feel safe;
when women are dressed in muslin,
men 60 mad.
DURING the past years operations of
the English Shipwrcckcd Mariners So
ciety, 4,5Gl wrecked persons were as
sisted, and 81 gold and 22S silver med
ais were granted. The income of the
society was larger than in any previous
year.
FAST horses are at discount in the
New York market. Wonder with
record of $3.50, sold for S95 on Satur-
day. A splendid Fearnaught bay geld
ing sold for 500, and the bay gelding
"Rivcr Boy" with a record of 2:39,
sold for 1885.
A MOVEMENT has been set on foot
among the churches of New York to
furnish funds for the Palestine explora-
ton expedition. Thirty thousand a
year for three years are needed by the
American Society to give effect to their
plans.
WHY was Adams first day the
longest? Because there was no Eve.
When did Absalom sleep five in bed?
When he slept with his forefathcrs.
Why did job always sleep cold? Be-
cause he had miserable comforters.
TIE young muskrats who were suck.
led by cat at Newburyport have come
to grief. When they got their eyes open
and saw what a curious creature their
mother was they set up a terrible
squealins, whereupon the cat ate them.
THE old Nathan mansion in twenty
min Nathan was murdered, having
stood idle and rnoccupied since the
tragedy, is now being rapidly demol
ished to give way to another structure
The final arrangements have been
made for the visit of the Irish Rifle
Team to the United States in Septem-
bcr next. The team is to consist of
eight and two spare men. The match
will take place about the last week i'll
September.
The German museum in Nuremberg
has received from the Sultan two oolos-
sal c;,nnons as present. They were
captured by the Turks in one of their
expeditions to Germany, and date from
about the middle of the fifteenth
century.
1t is intended in Paris 10 construct
street railways on nine distinct routes,
making in all about thirty-two miles of
line. The company which has the mat
ter III hand has capital of 81, 900, 900,
and lately invited subscriptions to
bonded loan of 81 100000
A CORRESPONDENT of London paper
calls attention to the fact that the most
valuable library of its aindin the world,
that at the India Office, containing
thousands Of Arabic, Persian, and San
scrit manuscripts, is entirely without
protection from fire.
A STRIKING example of the strictness
with which the English law against
murder is interpreted is shown in the
case of a Wumau who systematically
starved her two-ycar old child to death.
The unnatural creature was committed
for trial on the charge of willful
murder.
An Italian journal speaks of the dis
covery of plot to ibcrate ex-Marshal
Bazainc from his confinement on the
island of Saintc Marguerite. This ex-
plains the rebuilding of the surveil-
lance that has been lately remarked OH
the island. The ex-Marshal has been
confined to his rooms.
AMAS of considerable property named
C:,ss, committed suicide ut Barton, VT,
the other day, because he had been
sued for $40, and left note saying that
he was perfectly sane, but if he had got
so low that his name was not good for
$40, he did not want to live any longer.
A YOUNG gentleman of Tcrre Haute
remarked to his female companion the
other evening: "Ah the most beauti
full evening in my recollection. Luna
looks p clliarly beautiful "Was that
her just went by" quickly asked the
young lady.
Two Princes of Austria entered into
violent quarrel, when one said to the
other, :You are the greatest ass in
Vienna" Just then the Emperor, their
father, entered, and said Indignantly,
"Comc, come, young gentlemen, you
forget that am present.
81 DON'T believe it r:incd forty days
and forty nights" said All unbelieving
hoy to his mother, land that story
about Noah and his ark, how could
Noah bring all the animals and birds
from the four quarters OF the earth, and
not railroad or !, steamboat in the
whole world?"
'.Wno's therc?'' sail jenkins, ono
cold winter night, disturbed in his re-
pose by some one knocking at the street
door. "A fricnd,' was the answer.
'Nhat do YOU want ?" "Want to stay
here all night" ''Quecr taste, amt
it? But stop there, 10y all means, was
the benevolent reply.
\ LADY contributes poem to Il rural
exchange in which, under the title of
Ar Ib;1.lrn,, ~ .1,., I,,11., %h,r%..,,, 1,x~
name, and alludes to their respective
worth. Just rs one begins to wonder
how she finds time to write poetry, the
last of the fourteen or fifteen stanzas
announces that the family has been
born only in the writer's imagination.
A LITTLE boy from Chicago on going
to the sea side, saw Il turtle in the back
yard of Il hotel, when his establishment
knew no bounds. ooh, mother!
mother!'' said the child, "comc right
away quick! for here's the qucercst
thing-a great black frog, with hat Oh
his back, creeping Oh his knees"
JOSH CLARK, Il veteran engineer on
the Buffalo division of the Eric rail
road, last week run his engine 10,
miles, putting in sixteen and a half
days time i'll Il single week, and drew
therefor $Gi pay. This is said to he
the biggest engineering feat on the
Eric record.
A VERY good story is circulating in
Washington ut the cxrrns" of Mr.. Nor
rill, of Maine. 1t seems that the Sena-
tor was out for Il walk, Sunday evening.
In passing a leading cOlore<l church h,
was SO pleased with the singing that Ii,
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