Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-04-29

Questions Of tho day one I q tyvol I.
sor 9! able or ible ( Z. ii OF u out.
Concerted movement The waving Of ).
baton.
A baby with twenty eight toes has been
born in Stockton, Mo. What character
Of corns he will bel
A little man observed that he had two
negative qualities: he never lay long in
bed and he never wanted : great coat.
St. Louis has ten thousand dogs.
The natives wear : section Of stovcpipe
on each leg during the mad dog season.
How true, as DR.. Johnston says, that
"every man endeavors with his utmost
care to hide his poverty from Others and
his idleness from himself"
We read q good deal in the papers Of
stylish turnouts In Washington. Buffers
turnout, though not stylish, has been
much admired.
When Detroiter was asked the other
day BY traveller If he had ever been in
Brooklyn he FASTENED to reply: do I
look like one Of that sort of men, sir"
A Chicago man thinks that tho worst
speller ought to get the Dictionary, and
the winner should have \ wreath Of sor
REL" or some other garden sass, like them
Greeks"
| When a Western man gets divorce
from crusading and strong. minded wife.
the papers say, Mr.. So-and- so has resign.
ed his position As husband for Mrs. So.
and.so."
Every man who mails package cub.
ject to the new postage rates dropsi 1t into
the hole with the wish that Senator Ham
lin had to sit for two hours on hot show
el.-Detroit Free Press.
The average gorilla Of Central Africa
now points to Stanley and his band Of ex
plorers, and pathetically reminds hi
grand children that lit is what they ma,
OAC Oo} CApcCt ~ CN4Ao ~
Don't call ON me for three days." i
what an Ashland girl posted on the from
gate, and she further added: "I'm going
to cat some onions this week if l neve
have another beau"
Craniums beyond the science Of phre
, nologists-thc heads of newspapers.
Many gifted man, able to conduct tn
movements of an army Of tens of thor
sands, could not, for the life of him, kee]
a single slender column in a ncwspape
r in decent shape.
Newspapers pave the way for natural
cation papers. Reading IF the privilege
r flowing from American citizenship, ever
, foreign emigrant of intelligence desires t
, avail himself of them.
. The despots Of the nineteenth centur
3 do not dread assassination half as muc1
: as they fear the influence of free press
The former may deprive them Of life, tn
latter annihilates their selfish and cru,
system OF government
To bring ones business PROMINENT
i. before the eyes of the world, it is now
;. days necessary to advertise.
Nowadays, when statesmen put o.
feclers in reference to pet and untrie
? policy, and find it indignantly and unive
sally repudiated, they elevate their cyt
brows, thrust their hands deep down int
}. their trowsers' pockets, and softly ejac'
t late-mere newspaper rumor. OF cours
the unpopular plan is shelvcd.
The person who sent an effusion, ent
tied Nothing but Flowers" to . papt
for publication, is on the ragged edge I
modification. The poem appeared a
"Nothing but Fleas." When the con
position was reasoned with, he said i
thought there out to be something livel
about the poem.
A North Carolina editor, who had bee
raced down the street by woman and
cowhide, found himself alluded to in
: rival paper as 'sour racy contemporary"
A Connecticut paper offers "a vel
handsome two-bladcd pocket knife as
premium to subscribers. This is roug
on the chrome dealers.
y A western editor drove off tranps /
offering them fifty cents an hour to res
MS. poctical contributions.
o. Advice to reformers who address new
papers-be sure you are right, and thu
Il write.
Printers are true philosophers, they {
not put much faith in first impressions.
Shakspearc's advice to modern reade
!. of diurnal and hcbdomadal literature
IS ''ncither borrower nor a lender be-"
IL Authors metc to be read-Bacon Al
- Lamb.
The author of "When This Old Il
- =. Was New" was unqucstionably verse
. tile genius.
n How much sharper than q serpent's 2
ID is it to have non.paying subscriber.
r. Whitehall Times.
a. An Oregon paper Offers fifteen cents
lie bushcl for manuscript poems they .
s. ON good paper and written on one side
Of the sheet
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