Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-02-05
General Items.

General Items.
A11A1ss in Japsn-Tea-caddies.
SWITZERLAND has the epizootic.
VERY, vc,y blonde hair il now called
"the light fantastic tow"
I11-oorrsn wealth il like q conun-
drum. Few like to give it mp.
Bosros has Just shipped bark With
90, 900 worth Of HOLSTERS to London.
WHEAT in portions of Monterey conn
ty, Cal, 10 four inches high.
A usrEz of Edgar A. Poe il in Balti-
more, destitute and .h0meleee.
YoUNa ladies are now creating arti-
fetal dimples BY saczi6sin9 their four
molars.
CAn downriGht good fellow be an
upright mani The experiment il worth
trying.
The business men of Boston have
"pride in their port, if not "de6anoe
in their eye"
The wages of sin were not cut down
during the panic, nor the hours of work
reduced
TIE amount of city taxes paid in
Philadelphia during 1873 was ta,981,-
O44-an increase Of t668, ,914 over 1872.
NEWARK il jealous of Brooklyn, and
sneers At it as the city of church
quarrels.'
THx sophomore class at the Wesley-
m University "smbraoes four young
ladies."
THxrs il not such an incendiary
thing a. 4 wooden or tar-and- gravel
roof in al Paris
WoNRH are now allowed to nit in
the parquets of some of the Paris thea
ties.
AnCHB1sHoP NANx1Ha requests the
Pope to recognize the Good Tenn
plars.
THE total value of the precious met
als produced west of the Missouri dur.
ing 1873 is estimated At 81, ,25a, ,6s9.
Ix England and Wales there are
Is, z63 places of religious worship, oc-
cupied by 131 different denominations.
EMILY FArnFu1L has no hope of the
present generation of women, because
they have been falsely educated.
THrx11 silver bricks, valued at
$4,000, were last week received at .
Denver bank, - the product of one
mine for two weeks.
A GRAND jury in Houston county,
Ca, has indicted . circus company fol
erecting it, tent on Sunday. and tho
railroad that brought the circus to
town ON that day.
OuI of the most venerable qua1rels
now going on in this country 10 that
roRinx between the towns of Glasten-
bury and Wethersfeld, Conn.,, about
boundary line. 1t isl20 years old.
Fu1zzx ladies fled through car in
tho Stamford depot, Ftiday, by .
boy shouting, ':Applesl" vhereupon
every masculine il. the car instinctively
murmured ''Poor Adam!
TIE German proverb says: "Speech
is silver, silence il gold" In general
way it may be remarked that Our cur
rency can easily be made redeemable in
silver and gold Of just that quality.
A CATHOLIC paper urges the
Fourth Of July next - the day upon
which the proposed American pilgrim
aae to the Vatican and other Catholic
shrines in Europe should be started.
Tm French troops swore they never
would wear the German spiked helmet
and now tho idea of introducing il
into the French army has been aban.
doned.
Nm. AxoHolzXu, IN aged lady be-
longing to one of the first families in
Baenos Ayres, died recently, leaving .
property valued at SO, ,000, 900 in gold.
She left the bulk of her money to the
poor. ss 49,. =.
ONR acre Of land in Southern Cali
fornia can be made to yield - great 2
clear profit by semi-tropical nut and
fruit culture, % twenty acres in the
Eastern States devoted 10 ordinary
farming.
VIZ hear that the relatives of some of
the persons lost IN the illfated steam
ship Atlantic are about 70 endeavor to
establish claim for compensation
against the owners. A test case
will probably soon come before tho
courts.
NA1nlAs complain that it il difficult
to geti tian old fashioned, plainly -dres.ed,
| So11 "a -.:oA 3: :.l.1n-to1S. a,>..oia
~a.S aon ~ ;a"I. :"o .'. "a - :. .itoe:ther toc
e.s ~eX, - ~ .sl..tL sientn =
I "'so s"sA coes'J ~ AsS~ e.
ExP1Rl14Ns recently maze IN Eng
land With the Grammar sseam car nave ~
proved 20 sst'sfaeeory that one OF tne
London tramway companies is about
to adopt the nse of it provided the
necessary permission can be obtained.
A coLoRKD individual vas recently
interviewed BY the Mayor OF Matches,
Miss, on . charge Of vagrancy, and
WAS fined $92 which vas "forked
over With degree OF prompaeude
rather inoonslstent with the cha1ge.
On. Of the very few sailors rescued
from the Vile du Havre vent TO work
on reaching aav!e, and had been EN-.
ployed but . lev hours wnen poto n''
legs were terribly broken oy the snap-
ping OF hawser.
A SACRAMENTO dealer in hair oil, who
sold on the principle of "no cure No
pey." has sued ono of his bald-headed
customers. and the latter demands &
bsld- headed Jury, in order that he may
be tried bv his peers
n.-w- nv aen.tor.elec4. viii
nreeentlv resiQn 10 Governor of Mary
{and. And the Legislature will make
oho,ce Of . Governor TO serve until Jan
. nav 1910. The names prominently