Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-11
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.

A HARVARD man says that he doesn't
know much about spheres, but is willing
to bet that he can blow ring of cigar
smoke that will last while any decent
problem is demonstrated.
"BoY is that licensed dog? 2" ask cd
a Detroit policeman. "No, said the
youngster she's rat terrier dog, and
I'm taking him down to have his teeth
fled" -, .>zr< asss = 80
OLD lady Ito her daughter, who, is
anxiously watching for the boiling Of
the water in the tea kettlerA watched
pot never boils. Daughter disposed to
put on airs)-Does any pot boil
THERE is everything In the way you
put thing. A Massachusetts, editor, of
q humorous turn Of mind and q kmsck Of
twisting expressions, to suit elnergcncieS,
heads the list of births in his paper,
sour Young Folks for May. 800
| "IF save ten cents day from my
drinks" ruminated old -Rednose, " 1t
will be $36. so year, and in fifty years
it will be 81 1926, and then l. can >m1ry
Mary. Dear Mary BsOoklynA ,yus.
"WHY don't you give us a little Grsek
and Latin occaaonally?'. asked conn
try deacon to new minister. tsWhy,
do you understand those. languages %
"No ; but we pay for the best, aud We
ought to have It. J" So
RESTRICTIONS on the Dress have been
considerably relaxed in Russia. A
writer in newspaper of that country
dares to discuss whether the. present
form of government there is best for the
people. ...s.-.l g..
Two colored men in Washington quar-
relied because lady of their own per
suasion was black balled byaa literary
club, and shot-guns we're named rs the
weapons. The police heard Of it, how
ever, and the parties left the city in
charge Of their respective friends.
Fish were never more abundant off the
coast Of Long Island. At Greenpoint,
the other day, porgies weighing two
pounds each were selling at two for the
cent. Meanwhile, shad fishing in the
Delaware, Hudson, and Connecticut is
better than it has been for twenty years.
"M1srHEn misther what have ye
done p said native of Wicklow to an
Englishman who had just tied his horse
to q telegraph pole ON the street.
"Well, Pat, what 3 the matter - Jist
this, yer honor. Ye've hitehed yer
horse to the magnetic telegraph, and
veil be in Dublin in two minutes if ye
don't look out"
The popular superstition regarding
the days on which it is lucky or unlucky
to trim the finger nailsis expressed In al
old rhyme thus :;,s p *1.se~s~.s. p
Cut them ON Monday, cut them for wealth
Cut them OH Tuesday, cut them for health :;
Cut them on Wednesday, cut them for news;
Cut them on Friday, you'll cut them for voc
Cut them on Saturday, a journey to go;
Cut them on Sunday. youN cut them for evil
For all the next week you'll be ruled by the
devil.
A BOY named Parker, aged ten years,
was killed by several schoolfellows at
Burgh, in Norfolk, England, a few days
since. He was thrown by them into q
dyke three or four times and killed. He
was injured so that he could not get
home, and was left lying on the bank Of
the dyke, where he died during the
night. The surgeon who examined the
body said that the had had great and
violent struggle with death, for the
hands were clenched and pieces OF grass
were between his fingers, while his co1ln-
tenance bore an expression of anxiety,
dread, and fear. A wound on the tenn
pie was the cause Of de6th.
SOME specimens of English lnces were
shown at the South Kensington exhibit
ton this year, the thread of which cost
$500 per pound. Much of this thread
has to be wasted, not being sufficiently
perfect. The threads of these and other
laces are so attenuated that the slightest
motion in the air foils the worker, and
even when this is imperceptble, north
wind has the same effect. So gOssamer
like are some of the filaments that the
separate threads arc almost nnd1s'-
tinguishable to tho naked eye nnless
backed by color. p
The affecting story Of the little hatch
ct exerts considerable influence upon the
youth of Pennsylvania. It was only
recently that IL little boy dug big hole.
n his fathers garden, and the parent, u
course, wished to know who did 1t:
Now was the test he hesitated, looked
1T the hole and then ut his father, Il
smile overspread his face, and he yelled
ut the top of his voice, as he disapp eared
from the garden gate, 1t wasn't George
Wasllington!' The boys father did not
act in the same manner rs did the parent
of G. w., however, for yells, and: threats
of infantile vengeance were heard Ill that
locality for some time afterwards.
"AMoSa the most interesting book
varieties Mt Washington" says tho BIB
liotheca Ssscra, sis . qu,arto copy OF
Benoit's edition Of Pin,lar, which be-
longcd toJohn Milton. Themanuscript
contains thirty-fve quotations from Cal,
limachrs, nine from Moschus, and tif-
teen from Tzetzes, OF Lycophro,,'s
'Cassantlra,' Lord Macaulcy says that it
ia the most obscure work III the whole
rangc of ancient literature ; yet Milton,
read it, and made notes OH it, and cltc,l
from it eighteen passages, while he was
reading this Pintlar, at tho age Of Fl.
"Sux comes. moon comes,
Time slips away; :
Sun sets, moon sets,
Love, fix day."
| "A year hence, year hence
| ''We shall both he gray"
| " A month hence, a month hence
| Far, fur away
"A week hence, = week hence"
And that's . long delay"
''Wait little, wait a little,
You shall fix the day"
Tomorrow, love, tomorrow,
And that's an age away"
Il ''Blaze upon hor windows, sun.
And honor all the day. -.-.
The Nevada Journal of April. % II
lates this incident IS Miss Bradford III
} boy in her school who combines kec
, perception with ready speech. TIL
other day, while endcayoring to explai
: the difference inwaterfalls- not the kin
, that make ladies' round sl,ouldered, b,
r the waterfalls of. nature-she gave IL
l class to understand that a large waterfs'
, was q cataract. "Now," said sh
G "what is little waterfall % Exit
ract, blurted out the tow headed youn
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