Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-19
General Items.

General Items.
CAprA1sLorr of the Scotia has sailed
across the Atlantic 40 times.
A South CAROLINA legislator has III
troduced "A bill to REFUGE the bounding
dept Of the Staff.
A FASHION writer announces that COT
fins will be more profusely decorated
than ever this season.
The sands Of a woman's life run ont
all the quicker when her waist is shap-
ed like an hour-glass.
THERE is nothing that will change
man 80 much as great grief, unless it
is shaving off his moustache.
DIR. SCHMIDT of the University of
Athens has just completed map of the
moon, ON which he has been at work for
thirty-fou years.
How UScAxxY Scotland is Her
court of sessions has just decided that
women have no right to receive instruc-
tons in her universities.
EVERYTHING has its compensation. In
consequence of the financially hard
winter hundreds of marriages through
out the country have been postponed.
Hor alum water is a recent sugges-
ton as an insecticide. It will destroy
red and black ants, cOckroaches, spl-
ders, chintz bugs, and all crawling
pests.
In Germany great complaints are be-
ing made as to the constant emigration
which drains the country OF its most
valuable hands, and leaves behind So
cialists and agitators.
Mr.. HOWARD PAUL is meeting with
extraordinary success in his present
provincial tour in England. The re-
ceipts at performance given in Glas-
gov last month were over 900.
MoSARcHs are not all useless pieces
of ornamentation. King Oscar Of Swe-
den is the inventor of fire escape ap-
paratus. It was lately tried is Stock
holm and proved valuable invention.
The Duchess of Geneva" the ia
nous $40, 900 COW whose sale caused
such an excitement some months ago,
died at the farm of the Hon. Samuel
Campbell, at New York Mills, recently.
ALDERMAN MUTUALLY of the St. Louis
Council refers with gratitude to the
fact that he has been a member of the
body two years, and has escaped with
out getting black eye.
A GOLDEN eagle was recently cap
tured near Chetowa, Kansas. The
lucky captor was immediately offered
ten dollars liz bank notes for it which
he naturally refused, as he felt entitled
to o premium on it.
The old style of combing the hair
over the ears is revived among the la
dies. What blessing this will be to
those who have homely "organs of
hearing" and what a sacrifice to those
who haven't!
The journalists will have their fun,
as witness the following from a Cincin-
natl paper: "A favorite amusement at
Laramie is slashing off strangers ears.
One blow is sufficient for all except
Louisville ears"
An Aberdeen philosopher has extract
ed the following reply from an advanc-
ed free school lad to the query, "How
is the earth divided:" BY earth
quakes, sir.
The ball recently given by Marshal
McMahon at the Elysee, in Paris, rival
ed the luxurious displays Of the Second
Empire. About 5000 persons were
present, and the cost is roughly estima-
ted at $4,000.
ArroRNEY-G 6cHA1cH, of ia
maica, has died of yellow fever. W. A.
G. Young has been appointed Admins
TRAITOR of the Government, and J. G.
MEG lashan Acting Colonial Secretary.
STEAMSHIP captains say there is alto
gether too much similarity in the style
Of night signals used by the passenger
steamers on the Atlantic. Oftentimes
the colors of the rockets and Roman
candles used are affected by the weather,
and thus confusion is created, and some
times steamer is Incorrectly g spoken"
"OH General Sherman !" exclaimed
a lady recently, II do love to meet you
anywhere, because you always talk
"Well, madam" replied the general,
II can afford to talk, because I have
proved can fight. Now, soldier has
no right to talk unless he can fight, too"
A COUPLE of blacksmiths, formerly
in partnership in Leon, Iowa, have
curious lawsuit. One sues the other
for labor performed and money paid
ont, and the other presents q counter
claim for twelve months checker-play-
ing indulged in by the plaintiff when he
should have been at work
An Englishman writes to one of the
scientific journals stating that he has
discovered new cure for rheumatic
govt. He had suffered tortures from
that disease for several years, but by
Insulating his bed by means OF glass
stands and sockets under each foot he
began to improve Immediately.
A LITTLE girl ran out to meet her
father, as he was on his way home to
dinner yesterday, exclaiming:. Pa,
declare somebody has broken kitty all
to pieces" An examination disclosed
the fact that fourteen little Thomasses
and pussies had been added to the fc-
line family.
"W1FE, what has become of the
grapes - II suppose my dear, the
hens picked them of, y was the bland
| reply. Hens-hens some two-leg-
ged hens, guess" said the husband,
with some impetuosity; to which she
firmly replied, Ny dear, did you ever
see any other kind p
LITTLE e1R1-ss Mamma, I don't think
the people who make dolls are very
pious people" Mamma Why not,
my child?" Little girl-'t Because you
can never make them kneel. I always
have to lay my doll down on her stom-
ache to say her prayers.
A MONUMENT to the memory of French
soldiers who fell in the war with
| Prussia, has been erected at Bourget.
1t bears this inscription "They died
in defending their country. The sword
of France, broken in their valiant
hands, will be forged anew by their
descendants"
A KENTUCKY farmer refused to look at
a sample sewing machine recently, as
he always 'Sewed wheat by hand. y
He is related to the man who did not
want threshingsmachine ON his farm,
"for," said he, "give me harness tug
or barrel stave, and can make my
family toe the mark according to the
law and Scriptur."
The ceremony of cremation was re-
Gently put in practice in England, upon
the body Of Lemontinia Smith, q
famous gypsy oracle. More than a
hundred Roman "chals" attended the
funeral. All the wearing apparel,
trinkets and domestic articles belong
ing to or in any way used by the dead
womauwere so lemnly burnt.
APRoPos of the prevailing custom OF
allowing children to handle firearms
\ ou1 \brookor 70 eboot naoh other with