Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-02-12
General ItelnA.

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PrrrsBuRa warns up with animation
as she counts her $50 pudding furnaces.
ONE thousand Mennonites are to set
tie in East Tennessee.
PROSPERITY is blessing to the good,
but curse to the evil.
An interesting discovery of gold has
been made in Bnte, Scotland.
The whole amount expended on &C.
count of the Pennsylvania Constitution
al Convention was $41O, 723. so.
WHY does sculptor die the most
horrible of deaths2 Cause he makes
aces and bxsts.
ALTHOUGH the Dutch are a maritime
people, their navy is said to be in q
wretched condition.
EIGHT ounces of mashed potatoes
were found inside q roll of country
butter by an Albany dealer the other
day.
UPPER has lately received pension.
Some people regret that he has not al.
ways been penshunner.
DELICATE French tinted writing "a
per will take the place of the pure
white stationery hitherto in vogue.
TIE Boston and Maine Railroad can
boast of carrying over 1000, 600 pas
sengers last year, and killing only one7
A PENNSYLVANIA man hung himself
the other day, because he didn't want
to appear in court as witness. Sensi-
tive being.
"SPorTED RED HoRsE is the only
1f %ho 1o<vno ~
he splits wood at Rochester.
IT was a Canadian road, and the
brakeman had called out in a sonorous
voice, Teeswater " when an algu
mentative passenger got up and ex-
claimed excitedly, cts lie I"
MYNHEER, do you know for what we
call our boy Hans 2" do rot, really"
Well, I must tell you der reason dat
we call our boy Hans; dat ish his
name"
LOUISIANA wonders at the Variable
ness of its climate. In little town on
the coast there was snow balling, while
turing, and custom house officer
caught twenty reddish in half an hour.
WHEN the cock and the fox went On
board the ark they had no fear of bag
gage smashers for one had q comb
and the other had y brush, and that
was all the luggage they had between
them.
THERE were manufactured in CalifOr.
mia last year IS, 154,350 cigars, of
which 81, 050, 500 we're shipped to the
Eastern States, and there were i'm
ported into San Francisco during the
same period, 4, $50, 512+
A PRISONER in petty court was ask
ed by the Judge if he had any counsel.
eyes," he said, I had engaged an
old bald-headed fellow to defend me,
but I don't see him round, and I rather
guess he's out for q drink"
GIVING rosebud dinners il q new
freak in fashionable society. The
guests are composed exclusively of
dem oiselles just bursting into woman
hood, to whom everything is couleur de
rose, and Who are about to make their
debut in society.
DURING the past year there were ex-
ported from New York 20, 700 barrels
Of shoe pegs, valued at over $50, 900,
and 1,34O cases of shoe nails, valued at
GIG, 600, while the import of bristles
during the same time amounted to
nearly $1,000.
YOUTHFUL Philadelphians have dis.
covered new and easy way of making
money. They 60 out into the streets
early, and when they sea newspaper
thief pick up copy of the Public Led.
ger they go to the Ledger office and
get twenty-five dollars for their in
formation.
S'rME of the new collars intended for
young ladies' who are weary of the Eliz-
abethan ruff fasten at the throat by a
small gold link with ball pendants.
We have no reason to anticipate that
those new affairs will attain any very
great popularity.
CANADA has vast mines of iron ore
in the Ottawa valley. Last year H.
600 tons of iron ore from the Hull
mines, and $4,000 tons from the
Marmora iron mines, were exported to
the United States. A large quantity
of it was manufactured here and sent |
back
. THE Intelligent compositor, abetted |
by the vieilant proof-reader, has sue
OCS>~S~ 40 SAhoUASIo64 VuAOUku Su0 /
Kansas City Journal, that at Miss !
Phoebe Cozzens' lecture local choir |
would "punish rome SOUP" though
the advertiser declares that he wrote |
" furnish some scngs.''
The Salem (Mass.) Gazette recalls
the fact that the Siamese twins were
arrested at Lynnfield, Mass, in Au-
gust, 1881, for breach of the peace.
While staying for few days at the
hotel. enjoying themselves fishing on
the pond and shooting in the woods,
with young Englishman as an attend
ant, they were much annoyed by The
eager curiosity of visitors, who dis
turl ed their intended secluslon. Col.
Elbridge Gerry and Mr.. Prescott,
OF Stonehan', went: toward them in
field, but were warned IL keep away.
Irritating words followed, and the
twins. after firing blank cartridge,
struck the Co|un,l i'll, the butt Of
gun: They were put under $500
bonds. ]