Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-28
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A GREAT object in life-A giant.

All Sorts OF Paragraphs.
A GREAT object in ife-A giant.
PARIS eats nearly 5000 horses every
year.
DUEL1Se will hereafter DO a capital
offence in France.
3 PHILADELPHIA has ladies' flower
mission.
A GHOST that haunted a Massacllu-
sets house has been effectually cxor-
cised by means of rat poison.
A NOVEL sight will be the appearance
of the Chinese fleet in European waters,
where it will soon be sent.
They discourage attempts at suicide
in Georgi ia by making a man pound
stone on the street.
NEW York thinks it is equaling Chi
cago in wickedness, because it too
now has its DAILY Divorce. '-CAicuyo
Post.
THE amusements and social attrac-
tions at White Sulphur Springs, Va,
are unsurpassed by any place Of sum-
mer resort in the country.
THE fashionable dance in London
| III" I'D tI1S leUBS1i4A OAOL14A46n - novelty
introduced in honor of the Duchess of
Edinburgh.
THESE are the days when one cnvies
Queen Victoria, and would like to be
able to carry King Coffee's famous
Ashantee umbrella.
The entire population in Australia is
estimatedat 2, 900, 900. The island con-
tinent has an area almost as large as the
whole of Europe.
| A KANSAS girl wouldn't be married
without q yellow ribbon around her
waist, and a boy rode eight miles to get
it while the guests waited.
GENERAL FORREST is opposed to idle
ness Accordingly he and another gen
tleman have entered into a contract to
haul firewood into Memphis.
CHARLES n. BRA1NARD has a new lee
ture on Raleigh" Gallaher on "Af-
ter Clouds, Clear Weather, and Lillian
Edgarton on "Popular Shams."
GREAT discoveries of quicksilver are
reported in Lake and Sonoma coun-
ties, California. It is found in rock
containing twenty per cent. of the real
stuff.
| You may hear it, soto voce, any fai,
day on Washington street-only fair
days are little scarce on Washington
street just now-"What fright of a
bonnet!'
The Duke of Edinburgh has been
presented with complete set Of Bee
thovens works by a London musical
association. The Duke should reci-
procate by giving them Bach.-Boston
Post.
THE wheat crop in the San Joaquin
| valley, CAL, is already three or four
feet high, and in one locality q field of
| 1000 acres is covered with waving grain
breast high.
The Jenaische Zeitung has Just COM
pleted it's second century, having first
appeared on April 26, 1874. During
the whole time it has been the property
of the Neuenhaln family, who still own
it.
~sCREMAToRY age" O, ma ma John
ny's got the urn and is spilling pas
ashes over the floor!'' 20, what a
naughty Johnny! Get the feather
duster, and sweep your poor father
] right up!''; "a. f., Lsc4--: 3s'
.ARoosrER at Windsor, Vt, attacked
boy four years old the other day, and
knocking him down, gave him five
wounds in the head with his spurs.
The old cock didn't live long to crow
over his exploit, however.
IMAGINE the agony of 4 Richmond
mother who has lost her infant when
she says to its mate, "You, Jawrge
Washington, quick 'splain yourself,
chile-stop dat ~ feoa smile you
bin done wi de baby?'' -:
The London correspondent Of the
Boston Advertiser says that Lord, Lyt-
ton Owen Mredithl is in great addiction
through the death 81 his only surviving
son-a splendid boy. His little girl is
also in delicate health. 5z1T2
A YOUNG man calling himself Minis
ter JEWELS son has been living very
handsomely lately in various parts of
England and Ireland J, and several
tradesmen have sent their bills to St.
Petersburg. The Minister desires an
introduction first.
A GERMAN Protestant festival has
taken place in Cincinnati, at which, ac-
cording to the Introductory head lines
in a local paper, dust, charity, peanuts
and hymns, and q crowd of fifty thous-
and persons, were the principal at
fractions
A WILD daisy blossom was picked off
the graveof EdgarA. Poe, in Baltimore,
lately, by young lady, who sent it to
Tennyson with q white satin ribbon,
on which was written, "The only bios
som from the nameless and neglected
grave of Edgar Allan Poe, 1871,
THERE'S nothing new under the sun.
A writer in a London paper states that
several of the melodies sung by the
jubilee singers were those belonging to
Dorsetshire and Somersetshire, now
fast dying out. He accounts for the
similarity of the music by the fact that
Virginia was settled chiefly by people
from the south of England.
CAPT. WAITE, who recently died at
Stamford. Conn.,, was a famous man
among mariners in the days of sailing
vessels. He was taken to sea when a
baby, and when nineteen had command
of ship. He crossed the Atlantic in
sailing vessels more than 100 times,
though he was only si1ty-nine years
old when he died.
NJ. CoL1ADox, the German physicist,
has published an essay on the subject
of turning poplars into lightning con-
ductors. He proposes to insert in the
lower part of the trunk n metallic rod,
which he connects with the earth by q
chain, so that the electric fluid cannot
leave the tree to dart at any object
placed within short distance, which
at present is very often the case.
Franz LIST, the pianist, has, it is
said, left his whole collection of curl
ositics, works of art, etc., valued at
400, 900 forms, to the Hungarian ma
ton. Among the curiosities are Bee
thoven's American piano, Haydn's and
Mozart's harpsichords, and a number
of decorations and other articles pre-
sented to List by his admirers.
A SACRED drama, entitled Marie
Magdelaine, is being performed at one
of the Paris theatres. 1t is described
rs being kind of dramatic oratorio,
the choruses and some of the charac-
tiers appearingin appropriate costumes,
while several of the solo singers ap-
pear i'll evening dress, as at ordinary
concerts.
THElawyers of Indianapolis arc tor
turing their brains over an extraOrtlina-
ry problem. Some years ago a lady of
that city was married, and four months
thereafter separated from her husband,
was divorced and remarked in month,
and four months thereafter gave birth
to child by her first husband. Quite
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