Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-28
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| All WITTY vi l-dIdSFIpuSs
A GREAT object in lfe-A giant
PARIS cats nearly 5000 horses every
year.
DUELISG will hereafter DO a capital
offence in France
PHILADELPHIA has ladies' flower
mission.
A GHOST that ha,,nt"1 a Nassacl,l-
sets house has been ctfcct'lally cxrr-
cised Ivy means Of rat poison.
A NOVEL sight will be the appearance
Of the Chimes: fleet in European waters,
where it will soon be sent.
They discourage attempts at suicide
in Georgia by making man pound
stone on the street.
New York thinks it is equa!ing Chi
cago III wickcdness, because it too
now has its DAILY "Divorcc. -CAicuy>
Past.
TIE amusements and social attrac-
tlons at White Sulphur Springs, Va,
arc unsurpassed Ivy any place of sum
mcr resort in the country
THE fashionable dance in London
now is the Russian Polonaise, novelty
introduced III honor of the Duchess Of
Edinburgh.
THESE are the days when one cnyics
Queen Victoria, and would like to be
able to carry King Coace's famous
| Ashantee umbrella.
The entire population in Australia is
cstilnatedat 1000 900. The island con-
| tlncnt has an area almost as large as the
whole Of Europe
A KANSAS girl wouldn't be married
without yellow ribbon around her
waist, and boy rode eight miles to get
it while the guests waited.
GENERAL FORREST is opposed to idle
ness Accordingly he and another gen
tlcman have entered into contract to
haul fircwood into Memphis.
CHARLES H. BRA1SARD has new lee
turc on g Raleigh;'' Gallaher 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
stuff.
YoU may hear it, soto rocc, any fai,
day on Washington street-only fair
days arc little scarce on Washington
street just now-"What a fright of
bonnet y
THE Duke of Edinburgh has been
presented with complete set of Bee
thoven's works by a London musical
association. The Duke should reci-
procatc by giving them Bach.-Bost>n
Post.
The wheat crop in the San Joaquin
valley, Cal, is already three or four
feet high, and in one locality field of
4, 200 acres is covered with waving grain
breast high.
The Jcnaischc Zeitnng has Just COM
pleted its second century, having first
appeared on April 2G, 1874. During
the whole time it has been the property
of the NeuenhaLn family, who still own
it.
-. CREMAroHT age" O, ma ma John
ny's got the urn and is spilling pas
ashes over TIC foor!'' go, what
naughty johnny! Get the feather
buster, and sweep your poor father
right up!'
A ROOSTER at Windsor, Vt, attacked
a 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, "You, Jawrge
Washington, quick 'splain yourself,
bin done wi de baby?''
The London correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser says that Lord Lyt-
ton Owen Mredith) is ingreat afniction
through the death Of his only surviving
son-a splendid boy. His little girl is
also in delicate health.
A YOUNG man calling himself Minis
ter JEWELS son has been living very
handsomely lately in various parts of
England and Ireland, and several
tradesmen have sent their bills to St.
Petersburg. The Minister desires an
introduction first.
A GERMAN Protestant festival has
taken place in Cincinnati, at which, ac-
corling to the Introductory headlines
III q local paper, dust, charity, peanuts
and hymns, and crowd of fifty thous-
and persons, were the principal at
fractions.
A WILD daisy blossom was picked off
thegravc of Ed garA. 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
THERE'S nothing new under the sun.
\ 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 ont. He accounts for the
similarity of the music by the fact that
Virginia was settled chiefly by people
from the south of England.
CAPT. WAITE, who recently died at
Stamford. Conn, was famous man
among mariners III the days of sailing
vessels. He was taken to sea when
baby, and when nineteen had command
of a ship. He crossed the Atlantic i'll
sailing vessels more than 100 times,
though he wls only sixty-nine years
old when he died.
NJ. CoLLADoS, the German physicist,
has published IN essay on the subject
of 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 u
chain, SO that the electric fluid cannot
leave the tree to dart at any object
placed within a short distance, which
at present is very often the case.
Franz LIST, the pianist, has, it is
said, left his whole collection of curl
ositics, works of art, etc, valued at
100000 tiorins, to the Hungarian ma
ton. Among the curiosities are Bee
thoven's American piano, liaydn's and
Mozart's harpsichorls, and a number
Of decorations and other articles pre-
sented to List by his admirers.
\ SACRED drama, entitled "Marie
Magdclaine, is being performed at one
of the Paris theatres. 1t is described
rs being kind Of dramatic oratorio,
the choruSes and some of the charac-
ters appearingin appropriate costumes,
while several of the solo singers APP
pear in evening dress, as at ordinary
concerts.
TnElawyers of indianapolis arc tor
turing their brains over an extraor.lina-
~ problem. Some years ago a lady Of
that city was married, and four months
thereafter separated from her husband,
was divorced and remarked in a month,
and four months thereafter gave birth
to II child by her first husband. Quite
recently the second husband prOcure1