Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-09-02
sense aud Nonsense.

pies this year.
For the past two months no ffty.ccnt
notes have bceu printed,
New Haven is the home of a girl.burc.
lar about ten years old.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but
how about rolling prairie?
Where arc those silver twenty-ccnt
pieces that the public were to jingle?
Prof. Baird says all the 100000 sl1ad,
destined for the "ocrshadowcd Rhine"
have died On the voyage.
Tramps are organizing in Maine for
fall campaign. They refuse to work for
three dollars u day, but go about frceboot-
ing.
Don't use soap. A Brooklyn editor
says that it communicates disease by be.
ing made of fat taken from dead dogs and
cats.
When a man lives SO far off as the De-
troit Free Press man he isn't afraid to
say: "If Tom Allen won't fight let him
keep STILL"
"If you won't work we can give you
no credit" is the way the retail dealers at
Fall River, Mass, talk to the striking op.
erativcs
! Dr. Rush in hts last will and testament
ap']y and epigrammatically alluded to
| newspapers as "yehiclcs Of uisjointcd
thought.
Miss Emily Faithful thinks that Amer
lean ladies, for beauty and dignity, rank
with the most ghly-cultivated nations Of
the world.
1t may be remarked that, while the sea-
son of college commcngements is just end
ed the season of collie commandments is
but fairly inauguratcd.
A lawsuit is in progress in San Fran
cisco in which one Of the questions raised
on demurrer is wilcather a mud-scow is
steamer, vessel Or boat in the legal &C.
ceptation Of those words.
Old jirs. Boulay, Of Dallas, Tex, found
81 800 in gold under her -four the other
day. 1t had been placed there by her hus-
band, who had neglected to tell her about
it before he died. Boulsy for the old
man.
The boys Of McDonough's school in
Baltimore, annually have the fun of visit
ing the grave Of that deceased millionaire
and covering it with flowers. This is
in accordance with John McDonough's
will.
A sister Of ex-Gov Senter of Tennessee,
fell into trance SO closely resembling.
death that she was prepared for burial.
Upon revival she said she had been
with her father, who hal been dead many
years.
So great is the rapacity of sunfish, bass
and pickerel in Lake George that fisher
men declare that, of the 10000 or $4,000
trout placed in these waters by Seth Green
scarcely one in thousand Will come to
maturity.
The Green Bay (Wis) Gazette was re-
Gently brought into court charged with
| libcling sewing machine agent. The
, Gazette said that his machine wouldn't
; sew, and he wants to prove that he Can
ST e if his machine can'1.
Moe sorrow: all the clock makers in
, Connecticut have agreed to suspend oper-
ations for four weeks 1t would be a prct-
, l., y
; led to get along Who'll" month without its
! regular supply Of clocks.
, There l.; an ominous silence Just now
) regarding that Kecly motor. 1t can
: scarcely be possible that the water has
> given out; there's water gin abundance
. now. Let us hear from Mr.. Kcely, the
: talented Philadelphian-St. Louis Re-
publican.
A $2,000-minor with a $500 gold-leaf
frame is one Of the things that are pointed
out at Saratoga, and yet there are folks
who Will walk right by it without being
a made any happier, unless they see that
{ their dress hangs better than their neigh
o bor's.
5 In Kansas recently, two young ladies,
> having retired early, were awakened with
s an urgent request to attend Il social gath
ering of friends and in Just fourteen min
l. utcs they appeared before their escorts
q completely arraycd in fashionable attire.
This is the best time on record.
, "Rcnts have risen," was the jocose re-
J.. mark Of the astutc small boy when a nail
caught in the previously small tear. in his
coattail and ripped the garment up to his
- neck. subsequently, after all interview
with his parents, he moaned to himself
lie in the woodshed that "lcathcr had fal
len"
After good deal Of figuring the New
York Independent has got together the
degrees conferred by only scventy-nine
out Of the 800 colleges 1t the recent Com
mcncements, footing up 129 d. DIS anC
g ILL., DIS At these strides little care
l.. less calculation will show that when mex
this country has q Centennial every inhab
liant, from the best-preservcd ccDtenaria1
to tlleyoungest babe, will be either D. D
K. an Ii. D.. or both.
"a Although the Es1uimaux are placed, a;
4 race, low down upon the scale Of hu
. manity they are said to have considera
ble inventive and constructive skill. Thei
'A boats arc ingcniously made and their ic'
huts gre arched on correct mathematical
principles. A recent writer describes, toe
cruel but really novel method in us'
among them for killing bears. The!
sharpen the ends of a piece of whale
>. bone foot or more long, then bend i
double'and wrap it closely in fat meat
- which Is exposed to the air till it freezes
}. These treacherous pellets are thrown It