Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-12

Let the hills rise, let the waves tear the beach,
Ye viii not G bak your ns 1'S.ss tst.ex nos sn he
And well for them whose eager wings have won
But what of them in twilights dun
Who long but have wings for hiRht7
General Items.
The New York Star says that an edi-
ter is subject to as great temptation az
clergyman.
The most original phase of society
life in Washington is the card announce
ment of birth.
PARIS society is more promiscuous
and cosmopolitan in character than II
has ever been.
The Cincinnati Volksbladt styles the
the ladies engaged in the whisky war
"corset Dragons.
The total weight Of the window
weights to the United States Hotel,
Saratoga, is thirty tons. ~
VALUABLE coal mine has been dis
covered in San Benardino county, Call
fornia. -.. ..--:-.s "a
OYSTERS weighing three pounds and
ten inches long have been found at Point
Pinalis, near Tampa, Florida
ACCORDING to recent returns, the total
amount invested in English IailwayS Is
s329, ,O9O, 600, or about 81 GAG, &c., 600.
THERE are only eight gold watches in
Harrisburg, Pa, according to the OIL
cial tax levy. -..~tw
The ladies. God bless 'em, wear so
manv bugles on their dresses that We
fear overtures from them.
A CLUB of farmers in Chesterfield ILL,
takes 800 worth of magazines and news
papers annually go E'sT@ Al'.:sszx
M1ss1ss1pp1 contemplates s11ilroad
tax. The Georgia House of Repre-
sentatives has repealed railroad exemp-
ton privileges. z;
TaE funeral expenses of men killed
in the Hoosac Tunnel, and paid by the
contractors, have amounted to so, 900
in five years.
In Carthage, Ill, boys under the age
Of 16 are by q city ordnance recently
passed, prohibited from Chewing tobac-
The total coinage of the United
States mints for the last fiscal year
amounted to 2,523,670 coins and to
$38, ,698, 1873 in value. ''.sf zig.
The Toledo Blade says that Wild
ducks have already appeared in the bay
at that place, giving promise of the
early opening of spring. +z.< s5s
A BIBLE class and . dancing party
recently had meetings the same eve
ming, at the same hotel, in Binghamton,
THERE are inventors in the country
Who seem to have cigar boxes ON the
brain. The department is deluged with
models. --->, .-.-
The hatred of the Chinese in San
Francisco is thus placarded in cigar
store: "No Cinnamon employed OF
Chinese goods sold here. Established
sixteen years on the principle OF white
labor only" 5F'-s .'s',sEt
IT is said that the new game Law
works well in Michigan. No game is
now to be seen in the Detroit market
except rabbits and squirrels pretty
sure evidence that the hunters are re-
specting the statute.
| A MANAGER in Liverpool, who Last
Christmas advertised for "good- d-lookng
ladies'" to go on in the Pantomlme, re-
ceived 800 replies. One young woman
sent yard of auburn hair as speci-
men of her charms.
Two THOUSAND dollars is pretty
high price to pay for . single rooster.
That Is what Mr.. Davis of Portland has
lust given to Ira Batchelder for . black
Spanish considered the best game
bird in the country, .: 49, ..-
Picture buyers will be interested in
the information (given by The Adver-
tiser) that ga well-known artist IN bos'
ton has D large number of assistants
who do most of the work on his paint
ings. He then finishes them up and
signs them, selling them as his own.
"DFc11xE OF THE DRAMA" is an odd
phrase. when there are 166 theatres in
Great Britain, exclusive of 48 of all
kinds in London alone, to say nothing
of 295 music halls employing 40 pro-
fessionals, including, alas! 248 comic
vocalists! =..- f..s ~.
THERE is very accommodating room
in Randolph, Mass. During the day
boot-making is carried on therein, as
well as cooking for nine persons, and at
NIGHT it serves the Aforesaid nine Tor .
doImitorv. This is all the more credl-
table to the room, as it is only II feet
by Is. .s ...sy ...,1.
THE Conqregationalists Of the far
West have decided to locate their CEN
trail university at Colorado Springs,
Colorado. The institution is already
partly endowed, and subscriptions arc
being vigorously pushed. The asplIa-
ton Of churches is to make this tho
"Harvard of the West. 49,.
GOSSIP assigns two reasons for Presi-
dent Eiot's visit to Europe 10
find successor to Agassiz; the other,
to perfect system of commons 1of tne
new Memorial Hall, With it, projected
$25, 600 kitchen apparatus and 1u9nlsuFe'
equal to feeding six hundred students
at from 81 to q. 50 per week. .,.aa
GEORGIA thieves are growing terribly
audacious, and several instances are re-
lated of their prompt action in relation
to valuables. A day or two ago = man
rang the bell at house in Grimm, seiz
ed the lady who answered il, ooolly DIS
nossessed her of diamond earrings and
other iewelry, and, after lighting ci-
GAP in her presence, deliberately walk
ed off and has not been seen since.
WHEN clergyman of the Church OF
England was about to give dinner to
some of his clergical brethren his but
Ter asked whether the expected guests
were High Church or Low Church. HIS
master said: "Why do you ask that
question:" The butler answered "Be-
cause if they be High Church We want
more wine; but if they be Low Church
we want more wittles." - -
A REMARKABLE rose bush adorns the
cottage of 8. A. Kendall, of Santa Rosa,
California. 1t was planted in 1855, and
is of the Lamarque variety, the most
beautiful of the white roses. Imagine
an immense boquet Of white roses.
twenty-five feet high, TWENTY-FIVE feet
across, beautifully rounded, with
blossoming surface of four hundred
Fsquare feet, with four thousand f1ll.
blown roses and twenty thousand Duds
ApRoPos of Matt Carpenters recent
raid on the reporters gallery, "E =
H." tells the Boston Herald: ne
was sorry as soon as he said It, ana