Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-25
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F.ot,a1s, il said to bc quite common
in Young ladies' schools in Great bflt-
ain.
T.osnoyE,s are firing Of haalsoms,
and are pleading for an improvement IN
their public carriages.s @sesE sSs
PRorEsrs against rituslism are bang
nnmcrously s;e,,ed in the various Epls-
copal sees Of Great Britain.
GRrAr BRITAIN has only ~, 900 miles
of telegrapllic lines and 1lo'oO Mules
Of wire. g 49,, - .r.z-a
tn. insurance burdens Of Chicago
arc xaid to be enormous and growing
intolerablc. 49,.
ConMoponE NUTr Is to have Z yacht
of his own. It win be aboae tie slze
Of Nutt-shel. 1875 81 &. =ssts&s=zs.s'
TIM Bible IL said % hsvesh~;
lated into a Persian yers sen trans
Of that country. 20 by = native
W1sFoS has - - xsassx.szss,
all. and r.. pity On New York after
90 =, -. - announced his intention Il,
europe. zsSs*zS: =
TnE tide Of emigration from the New
England states westward Mas Increased
greatly since 1871. So
/ Vkk,koxr this year turns out l5,OOo,-
/ go pounds of maple s,gar, worth ten
cents q pound. = -. :.
SARIFY Boy il the, new minister Of
foreign affairs in Constantinop1e-such
a nice name to spe1l.
! In life it is. difficult to say who do
you the most mischicf--nemics with
the worst Intentions, or friends. with
the best. 50 5. 1ssz:
A NoNUlnK1to hememoryof Samuel
Owen "father Of tho s: wedish steam
fleet and engineering works !" was inau-
gurated at Stockholm on the 18th inst.
In Germany, when the vote Of the
| jury stands six against six, the prisoner
Is acquitted. A vote of seven against
Ave leaves tho decision to the court,
and by vote of eight against four the
prisoner is convicted. ~g-,> ~se
shows business, now ?" inquired
one Nashville merchant of another, re-
Gently. "Dull, fearfully dull" WAS
the reply. ''The fact is nobody buys
anything just now but provisions and
whisky-the bare necessities of life, as
1t ware = = &s@sszzsz.s = s=z
IT is positively announced through
the Zurich papers that the Castle Of
Orenburg is to be prepared for tho re-
ception Of the Empress Eugene and
the Imperial Prince; who shortly in
tend taking up = residence there per-
manently. - Ill t-s4: z.s.-,=-z=-.
The Prussian government has bought
the picture gallery of: -Messrs. Suer-
mond, at Brussels, for, ESQ, 600. This
is very little for the 2l9 paintings of
one Of the most celebrated private COL
lections in Europe, SO that Parliament
il expected to ratify the purchase forth
with. ,..sezs. -. = -
A CHINESE shipbuilder conceived the
idea of constructing vessel whose
paddle wheels should be revolved
water-whcel fashion, by water let down
on them from above. The water was
to he pumped mp into tanks BY ap-
par,tus attached to the wheels. An
expensive craft was built at Canton
upon this plan, and the inventor was
really surprised and panied when it
wouldn't go. - - %S,*# -
THE construction of mountain roads
in the Hilnalayas requires skillful en-
gineering, and is extremely difii.:ult.
The roads are in some cases at an ele-
walton of q, 600 feet, and in some dis
tricts the annual rainfall has reached
go inches, Of which I 70 inches fell in
tho two and hAlf neatlnsu f the rainy
season, and 81 inches in q single hour.
In some places galleries are built jut-
ting out from the rock, and in others
galleries are excavated IN the rock.
. AT recent English wedding, wllile
the bridal party were kneeling around
the chaneel, the groonnssns poked the
groom in the side,s hs: l.aghed,s the
bride laughstl, and SO did the brides
maids, aud the Clergyman retired in
high dudgeon from the church twelve
o clock came, after which no marriages
are performed, 20 that they had to go
home and spend tueaty- -four hours cul-
Inviting serious fran,es Of mind.
e SucE tia bpsaking.c q the Williams
burg dem No fish have been seen in Mill
river, although it Was formerly we'll
stocked with them. After the disaster
many suckers, cells, and small fish were
along the meadow, and such
IS esapeas1a611ksA1hneeadry land were
killed by the filth aud poison
BUS qualities Of the Shiny deposits which
have been SO many years accumulntlng
in the numerous mill dams. -
JAS. E. BAa1EE, well known bridge
builder, recently died at Rutland, vt.
Probably his most important work was
The construction of the calculated
Havre de Grace bridge, 5, 600 feet long,
Across the Chesapeake Bay, between
he town of Havre de Grace and Perry
vile, Nd; he also built the longest
bridge across the Mississippi river, at
Quincy, Ill.,, erected two bridges ON
he Air Line Railway, in Connecticut.
md put up the lower bridge across the
at Albany.
ESTHER BLACK, All old pauPer woman,
lied lately at Hove, England: Fer
many wears past she had been resolving
lbout sixty.two cents a week from the
Board of Guardians. It appears now,
however, that she was not dependent
MON charity. A will has been found i'll
which, she beoucaths $3.50 to the Sussex
County Hospital, and = like amount to
Ma Brighton Lying In Institution. Al
Ter the Discharge Of these requests, the
residue of her property, which amounts
10 g, 500, j. left to her nephcws and
l,ieccs. ss.s
TAs famous irou gates. OH the Dan
.be. arc on the point Of being destroyed
Our readers are probably aware that
they are nothing bat . reof OF rocks,
which impede the navigation OF the riv-
Of, nc,I, Orsaya, in Transyivanla.
These gates have given their name Ill
history to several battles, and among
Them that In 1A22, in which Hunyard.
1T the head of $1,000 Hungarians, put
TO complete route an army OF So,VN
Turks. Under the Romans, they bore
The name Of Pons August Bridge OF
Augastus) :. and in the middle ages they
were called Porte Vaczil. ..s...z,
Vtt.tbk ftutsU il said to bc very rich
Lamartine gained enormous s1rl's Of
moncy. 80 did Alexandra Dumns, The
theatre il, however, the only lucrative
province of literature. While. s''ch
men as Sardou, Meilhac and Halcvy
are making large fortunes, Tame, who
is very hard worker, and who ives
With the closest economy, has only sue,
cceded in making what must be called
q small fortune. About il not Iic'l, as
he only writes novels, and all ms at
tempts on the stage have been failures.
10 were the attempts OF IheoPnilc
dautier, with, the exception 81 tnt e
ibretto Of a ballet, which probably gov
him more money than az MS '
3D.