Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-28
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All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
A GREAT object in life-A giant.
PARIS eats nearly 5000 horses every
year.
DUEL1xa will hereafter be capital
r offence in France. =
81 PHlLADELPH1A has ladies' flower
mission.
A GHOST that haunted Massachu.
5 sets house has been ehectually exor-
cBed by means of rat poison
Il A NOVEL sight will be the appearance
| OF the Chinese fleet in European waters,
where it will soon be sent. -
They discourage attempts ct suicide
in Georgia 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. - Chicago
Post. s@.1se = e'~2zs-,t
The amusements and social attrac-
tions at White Sulphur Springs, Va,
mer resort in the country:
THE fashionable dance in London
now is the Russian R0IonAisa 0novelty
introduced in honor Of the Duchess Of
Edinburgh. 5sts7 1.>:siSsE.
THESE are the. days when one envies
Queen Victoria, and would like to be
able to carry King Coffee's famous
Ashantee umbrella. @2@JH1 -"
The entire population in Australia is
estimatedat 2, ,000, 900. / The islsud con-
tinent has an eaalmost IS large as the
whole of Europe. s'ss lA7
A KANSAS girl wouldu'ts be married
without . yellow. ribbon around her
waist, and boy rode eight miles to get
it while the guests waited.
GENERAL FoBREsr is opposed to idle
ness Accordingly he and another gen
tleman have entered into q contract to
haul frewood into Memphis. -
CHARLES II. BRA1sABD has q new lec-
ture: on 9 Raleigh" Gallahefi 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
stutt. :; .s..-s -; .usz %a5G :zGz
You may hear it, soto voce,, any fai,
day on Washington street -o1sly fair
days are little scarce ON Washington
bonnet p -, 80 -.
TIE Duke Of Edinburgh has been
presented with, complete ret Of Bee
thoven's works by q London musical
association. The Duke should reci-
Procate by giving them Bach.-Boston
Post. ...'.... .s.,... =, ,,z1s.,;e
The wheat crop in~the San JOAQUIN
valley, Cal, is already three or four
feet high, and in one locality . field of
900 acres is covered with Waymgg grain
breast high; '.'t.tE
Tm Jenaische Zeitung has jjust COM
pleted it's second century, having first
appeared, on April 26, 1874 Il During
the whole time Il has been the p.opertv
Of the Neuenhahn family, wlD still own
it. .-,...s- n. '...s... :s,x
|.Cnra4Anrso,nY ag,e-.O. ma ma,John-
nys got the urn and is spilling pas
ashes over the hoorr' 80. What a
naughty johnny. .s41Get tie feather
duster, and sweep your poor father
right up TT ga g s!G5I yssz-a ia
y,.A*RoosTER At WindsoE, VI, atsacked
2 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 ! Richmond
mother who has lost her infant when
she says to its mate, ssEou, Jawree
Washington, quick n'splain3 yourself.
chile-stop dat efee2saile-whar you
bin done wi de beby2"= sk; =
TIE London eorrespondeuts Of. the,
Boston Advertiser says that IeraLyt-
ton Owen Mredthli lis ingreat Addiction
through the death 81 his only SURVIVING
son-a splendid boy. His little girl is
also in delicate health. Ef'ss5sssss
- A YOUNG man calling himself Minis
ter JEWELS son has been living verv
handsomely lately in various parts Of
England and z1reland, - and several
tradesmen have sent their. bills to St.
Petersburg. The Minister desires an
first. a@..A' 90 .:s1'
A GERMAN Protestant festival has
taken place in Cincinnati, at which. &C
cording to the introductory headlines
in local paper, dust, charity, peanuts
and hymns, and . crowd of fifty !thous-
and persons; were the principals 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 . white satin ribbon,
on which was written, ''The only bios
som from the nameless and neglected
grave Of Edgar Allan Poe, 1874 Is..s
THERE'S nothing new under the sun.
A writer in 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
of the music BY the fact that
Virginia was settled chiefly by people
from the south of England. sacs ;fs
CAPT. WAITE, who recently died at
Stamford. Conn, was . famous man
among mariners in the days of sailing
vessels. He was taken to sea when
baby, and when nineteen had command
of a ship. He crossed the Atlantic in
sailing vessels more than 16O times,
though he was only sixty-nines years
old when he died.
NJ. COLLADON, the German physicist,
has published an essay on the subject
IF turning poplars into lightning con-
ductors. He proposes TO insert in the
lower part Of the trunk 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 L1szr, the pianist, has, it is
said, left his whole collection of curl
osities, works Of art, ETC., valued at
loo, 900 forms, to the Hungarian ma
lion. Among the curiosities are Bee
thoven's American piano, Haydn's and
MOzart's harpsichOrds, and . number
IF decorations and other articles pre-
,ented to Liszt by his admirers.
A SACRED drama, entitled "Marie
is being performed at one
IF the Paris theatres. It is described
IS being kind of dramatic oratorio,
;he choruses and some of the charac-
ers appearingin appropriate costumes,
while several of the solo singers ap-
oear in evening dress, as at ordinary
LA )
THElawyers of indianapolis are tor
uring their brains over an extraor1ina-
y problem. Some years ago lady of
hat city was married, and four months
hereafter separated from her husband,
vas divorced and remarked in month,
md four months thereafter gave birth
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