Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-04-16
General Items.

now Sllpp1nR from M1SSOur1 10 france.
STRAWBERRY festivals have come to
pass in New Orleans.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has sent from
Italy to the Atlantic Monthly for May
long poem on the death of Agassiz.
Snow from twenty to thirty feet deep,
and solid az ice, is still lying in various
parts of California. 80 .s-.>
"FAsc1sAr1ox'' is the name of new
perfume about to be, introduced to the
public. '.'
ABOUT 25O, 900 pounds of cotton, the
growth of California last year, have
been marketed in San Francisco.
PHILADELPHIA is about to ship four
teen locomotives to Odessa, Russia.
The freight is 81, 200 per locomotive.
USING cancelled postage stamp cost
man $500 and costs at, Utica, N. Y,
the other day.
Ir is proposed to substitute steel
tubes on English locomotives for the
copper and brass ones now in use.
An old tree was recently felled near
Geneseo, and if the ring theory is true,
it had stood the blasts Of four hundred
and eighty winters.
THOMAS GREENWOOD, q Nunda black
smith, and Mrs. Radclif,, his sister,
have inherited about 800, 900 each By
the death of an English uncle.
An English boy, on being asked the
other day who was Prime Minister of
England, answered without hesitation,
"Mr.. Spurgeon.
-vn,~ u>,.o1 H1:11.. T. Tn~ Al
miles of land on the west side of the
San Joaquin River, in Southern Cali
fornia- It Is said that Miller also owns
half . million acres in addition.
CHURCH is engaged on an important
work, The Mountains of Petrea," for
which he made the studies in Arabia.
"You are little bear, madam" said
our own brute to fashionable belle at
IN evening party: '.sir,," exclaimed
ders, I mean" " smilingly replied he.
II WOULD advise you to put your
head in . dye-tub it's rather red, said
. joker 20 q rather sandy haired girl
81 would advise you to put yours into
m oven, it's rather soft, said Nancy.
A YOUNG lady engaged to be married,
but getting sick of her bargain, applied
to . friend to help her to unite the knot
before it was too late. "Oh, certain
ly," he replied. cts very easy to un-
tie it now, while it is only = beauknot!''
PEACE is preserved in; q shonsehold in
Elkader, Iowa, by long witty raw
hide hung up in the bedroom of the
juvenile portion of the family, bearing
upon its handle this legend. "Boys
please be kind to your mother"
"DocroR," said conceited literary
ass to Homes on the streets Of Boston,
"I am a going to deliver my lecture in
Lowell tonight" II am glad of it I
dislike those Lowell people, ~ retorted
the doctor. ~.s.~ 4,G.z sa
TIE farmers in Southern Utah who
were 30 fortunate as to get their wheat
into the ground before the heavy snow
storm say the SNOW, :. viii prove very
beneficial, and they are assured of an
excellent CROP, ss:::& g
ExPxRMxcED sheep men in different
portions of California are of the opinion
that the losses Of sheep this winter have
been 90 great that Al the increase by
way of lambs viii be required to keep
the numbers good. -.
Anew remedy has been found for
consumption. They kill ! cat, and place
the skin, while WaEm,s over the chest of
the consumptive, and it is said to draw
out the disease. A fresh skin is used
every night. @as- Is. at:Ett ssa:os
TIE Philadelphia Item suggests that
If they would give whisky away, nobody
would care to drink It. This seems
highly probable, and ought to be tried.
Doubtless it is the experience of most
of US that no man is willing to drink,
even by invitation, unless hepays for it.
AsDx1AwAn1 man has been taking
cod liver oil for four years to cure the
consumption, and has jast found out
that he never had my consumption.
He IL the. maddest man I'M, America,
and his children haven't said "boo" in
| q week.
Tn new boot IN Paris is the Pompe-
ian. It is of black velvet, :and very
high, the Logging in front all Venetian
cut work, embroidered with silver cord,
and . pink or Pompeiap red silk stock
ing is thus seen through the open clover
or diamond-shaped design. 'sszl..
A RAW countfyman, gazingat gar
den in the vicinity of Boston, in which
were several marble statutes, exclaimed:
"Just sec what . waste Here's no less
than six scArecrowB in tins ten-foot
patch, and any. of them would keep the
crows from 1ive-acre lot
Iris said that plenipotentiary has
been accredited to the Peruvian Gov
ernment from that of the Buenos Ayres,
on . special and confidential mission.
It was thought that the mission was In
some way connected with the threaten
ed war between the republics of the
River Platte and Brazile. 40
PnKsaDKNr SIXTH denies the report
that tract Of land, worth 500, 600, has
recently fallen to Dartmouth College,
but regards it Is hint that some cash
is forthcoming from certain quarter,
Jonathan E. Sergeant, of the, class o1
1910, Chief Justice Of the New Hamp
shire Supreme Court, has founded 8
scholarship at Dartmouth College.
| ExPERnENTs made upon . healthy
soldier in London 60 to show that alco'
hol is useless in greater quantity than
two ounces daily The same exper-
iments, however, indicated an advantage
in it's use if employed in rousing fee
bic appetite or exciting feeble circula-
tion Of blood. ssx..,s..
A MELANCHOLY accident is reported
from Jubal, in India where Lady Ma
pier and party have been enoamped. 1t
appears that seven of her servants, be-
fore retiring for the night, had made
large charcoal fire. The night being
cold, every opening in the canvas was
closed. The men afterwards fell asleep
six of them were found dead in the
morning, and the seventh has died
since. .z
The influence of forests in. drawing
moisture from the heavens may be
| Judged from the experience of San Di-
| ego, California. Previous to 1865 there
was yearly rainy season, which made
the soil nourishing and productive. In
1868 destructive fire swept over the
greater part of the country, cutting
down the luxuriant chapparel and
blackening the hills. Since then there
has been no rainy season at San Diego
A GREAT deal of irritation and bad
feeling toward Chill has been caused in
Peru by the announcement. that the
statue that is to represent the capital OF
Peru in one of the public parks of San
tiago is in the form or a semi-nude
woman with mirror in one hand and a
bottle of perfume in the other, reclin-
ing in lascivious manner and exposing
her charms literally to the gaze of the
admirer. This is regarded as an official
| insult coming from the authorities at