Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-04-30
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

! a CINCNNAT1 paper says IL Is
needless to comment" and then COM
ments to the extent of q column.
IT is reported that Bret Harte is to
write child's story for the St. Nicholas
magazine.
The Union-square Theatre, New York,
is to be opened next season with q new
play by George Fawcett Rowe.
NB1o's GARDEN is to become the
German Theatre Of New York, and the
old barn in the Bowery will be left to
it's fate.
TIE English papers say that Wilkie
Collins will return to thiscountry rs soon
% he can make arrangements to do so.
AL the French. ministries are once
more installed in Paris, and Versailles
can no longer claim to be the seat of
government.
The Geneva Cross, which became 50
familiar an emblem during the Franco
Prussian var, il again in the field, this
time in Spain. r-s:
TKxx1soH's English publishers are
about to issue . cheap edition of his
works in ten monthly volumes, to be
styled the Cabinet edition.
IT is probable that the principle of
steam navigation of the canals will be
applied in various improved forms
during the coming season.
A ME1HoDmr minister, IN Episoopa-
liam minister, two Congregationalists,
Presbyterian and . Baptist, sst in one
pew at Baptist church in Boston.
IT is now reported that Harry Genet
has been traced to Ottawa, in Canada,
and three detectives are after him.
Mn. DwRAKu is by no means in TO
bust health. He imps noticeably in
walking, andleans heavily on the arm
of his private secretary.
TIE late widow of Col Frederick W.
Lincoln, of Canton, Mass, is reported
to have beqeathed 500, 600 to the Mas
sachusetts General Hospital.
TIE young Prince Louis Napoleon
has already been made the subject of
an abusive pamphlet, which has been
duly seized at Brussels.
IT is understood that George VIII
liam Curtis will deliver an eulogy ON
Charles Sumner before the Massachu-
setts Legislature, about the latter part
of Nay.
An Arkansas lawyer shot and killed
his professional antagonist in the court
room. The Judge got mad, and re-
marked that If that sort of thing was
repeated he'd commit somebody for
contempt of court.
TIE Syracuse Courier asks: 'fWhere
was Mr.. Dueu when the important
votes on the currency were taken on
Thursday and Friday? We do not see
his name among his fellow inflation-
ists."
A NEW engine and boiler are being
put in the iron revenue cutter Gallatln,
at Buffalo, to cost $40, 900. A steel
yacht is also being constructed, which,
It il expected, viii equal the speed of
any English yacht. Her cost Will be
so, 900. -.
JUDGE Parker. of the Indiana su-
preme court, has decided that colored
children are entitled to the privileges
of the public schools, Notwithstanding
the denial of that right by the state
constitution.
CApr. Wm11AME. STEWART, Who died
recently in Syracuse, was one OF the
most popular commanders in the day
of the packet-boats ON the Erie Canal.
He vas elected Mayor of Syracuse
twice, and filed other positions of trust
ably and creditably
Tm Toronto Globe announces the
death at Niagara, Ontario, OF Miss
Margaret Stewart, aged r. grand
daughter of Sir William Johnston: She
had lived many years In lnd1gent clr-
cumstances, but found many kind
friends among the people Of Niagara
where she was born.
Tm Toronto, Ontario, Globe is in
formed that the board Of directors of
the Great Western Railway Company of
Canada. have resigned. The board re-
Gently announced . half-yearly dividend
of three and three quarters per cent,
which they afterwards reduced to two
and half per cent, and the irritation
among the stockholders resulting from
the change led to the resignation.
THx early run of spring salmon up
several English, Irish, and Scotch
rivers has this year been very remark
Able. In many instances, indeed, the
numbers of fresh run salmon which
have been captured by the nets during
the first few weeks of the season have
been unprecedented, while the multi
tudes which have been seen pushing up
stream have been described by various
eve witnesses % somewhat astonishing,
representing vast masses of sllvery
beauties IS actually jostling each other
in their attempts to overcome some I'M
pediment in their upward progress.
A YOUNG artist, Wilhelm Frederick
sen, who committed suicide recently in
California, left . strange letter behind
him. II closes - follows: IF any
minister would humor my friends to
say . few words let it be Unitarian, It
such q man will do the Office of this
kind to such q miserable wretch who
dares take his life. And now in for
the unknown I love to travel,
friends: and when there is the least
hope that I may come to better Place
than the one am al, start with still
greater pleasure.
M1s. HooP1R in the Philadelphia
Press, says: I have heard . great dea!
about the rise in prices in Paris, and
the fact is true as regards provisions,
wine, etc., but dresses appear to me
stationary at about the same prices as
during the last days of the empire: A
very elegant toilet will cost from 7OO to
1000 francs, but very tasteful and
handsome costumes may be procured
at 400 and 500 francs. OF course, ii
one adds lace, the prices may be IN
creased indefinitely, as lace may cost
any price from $8 . yard up to $SOO, or
even more, as witness the celebrated
dress of Mrs. Sprague, of Rhode
Island, the lace on which was said to
be valued at $1,000 yard $$35, 900 for
the single aounoe.
WHAT an excellent practice is becom-
ing common of using note paper with
the owners name and address stamped
in blind in one corner, or printed neat
ly in red ink. Business houses, of
course, have long done this, but if peo-
pie generally knew, what We shall not
tell any one Of them, that they do not
write their names plainly, they would
spare the superintendent much pain
full work at deciphering. It is easy
enough often to read the crabbedly
written letter of man whose name can
be only guessed at, because there is an
association of ideas that helps one in
the letter; but . mans name, 80
precious to himself, is like an arbitrary
s%y'0l %ny in many e''e'' Every &'saT'