Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-02
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A DAUGHTER Of the hero Of San ia
cinto is poetess Of whom Texas is dis
posed to feel proud. Her name is Net
tic Power Houston.
A WOMAN accused her husband ol
having poisoned her. He protested in
noccnce, and demanded that her bod,
be opened on the spot.
The Gar and his son Alexis. passing
along the line of military cadets during
the recent review at Woolwich, Eng
land, greeted tie cx-Princc Imperia
very cordially.
The difference between muzzling and
muslin is, that when the dogs arr
dressed in muzzling men feel safe
when women are dressed in muslin,
men go mad.
DURING the past years operations OF
the English Shipwrecked Mariners So
ciety, 4, SCI wrecked persons were as
sisted, and IS gold and 228 silver med
ais were granted. The income of the
society was larger than in any previous
year.
FAST horses are at a discount in the
New York market. "Wonder," with =
record of $50, sold for S95 on Satur-
day. A splendid Fearnaught bay geld
ing sold for 500, and the bay gelding
"River Boy" with record of 2:38,
! sold for 1886.
| A MOVEMENT has been set on foot
among the churches of New York to
furnish funds for the Palestine explora-
ton expedition. Thirty thousand q
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 a bee?
When he slept with his fOrefathers.
Why did Job always sleep cold? Be-
cause he had miserable comforters. -
The 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
squealing, whereupon the cat ate them.
The old Nathan mansion in twenty
third street; New York, where Benja-
min Nathan was murdered, having
stood idle and unoccupied 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-
Der next. The team is to consist of
eight and two spare men. The match
will take place about the last week in
September: -
The German museum in Nuremberg
has received from the Sultan two oolos-
sal cannons as a present. They wore
captured by the Turks in one Of their
expeditions to Germany, and date from
about the middle. Of the. fifteenth
century.
IT 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 in hand has capital of 81, OOO, 900,
and lately invited subscriptions to =
bonded loan of 81 800, 600.
A CORRESPONDENT of London paper
calls attention to the fact that the most
valuable library of its kind in 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 woman who systematically
starved her two-year old child TO death.
The unnatural creature was committed
for trial on the charge of willful
murder. szt
An italian journal speaks of the dis
covery of plot to iberate ex-AIarshal
Bazaine from his confinement on the
island of Sainte Marguerite. This ex-
plains the rebuilding of the surveil-
lance that has been lately remarked on
the island, The ex-Marshal has been
confined to his rooms.
AMAS of considerable property named
Cass, committed suicide at Barton, Vt,
the other day, because he had been
sued for $29, and left note saying that
he was perfectly sane, but if he had got
so low that his name WAS not good for
500, he did not want to live any longer.
A YOUNG gentleman of Terre Haute
remarked to his female companion the
other evening: "Ah the most beauti-
full evening in my recollection. Luna
looks p. culiarly 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 1 am present. "
II DON'T believe it rained forty days
and forty nights" said I'll unbelieving
boy 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 il 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 FRIEND" was the answer.
"What do you want ?" "Want to stay
here all night" "Queer taste, amt
it ?, But stop there, by all means, was
the benevolent reply.
A LADY contributes poem to a rural
in which, under the title Of
"My Children" she calls thirteen by
name, and alludcs to their respective
worth. just as 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 turtle in the back
yard Of hotel, when his establishment
knew no bounds. "Oh, mother!
mother - said the child, "comc right
away quick! for here's the uueerest
thing-a great black frog, with a hat Oh
his back, creeping on his knees"
JOSH CLARK, n veteran engineer on
the Buffalo division of the Erie rail
road, last week run his engine 1855
miles, putting in sixteen and half
days time in a single week, and drew
therefor SG6 pay. This is said to he
the biggest engineering feat on the
Erie record.
A VERY good story is circulating in
Washington ut the expense of Mr.. Nor
rill, of Maine. 1t seems that the Sena-
tor was out for u walk, Sunday evening.
In passing leading cOloresl church he
was 50 pleased with the singing that ho
went in. He had been seated but !,
few minutes when a colored dignitary
approached him and said in substance
that the church was for colorcd people
and they preferred to be left undis.
turbed by white people during then