Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-01-25
People and Things.

The Chinese New Year commences Feb.
18th. r. !.
The latest report is that Bennett is now
''half seas over
Captain Mares is to be knighted for not
finding the north pole.
Eugene. the cx-Empress Of France. is
called 1.-The Widow Bonaparte.'
"A reward is offered for The man who
isn't an heir to the Vanderbilt or Stewart
estate.
Manton Marble, the gossips say, is soon
to marry half million dollars and
widow.
The California tilibustering expedition
with Mexico wasn't q filibusteIing tx.
petition after all
The Moody and Sankey Tabernacle in
Boston will not be opened TO tho pubic
until January 25,h.
The Rev Mr.. Taylor. a Chicago min
is,er, has been holding revival meetings
at South Bend Indiana.
Chinese soldiers are paid two cents
day. The captains insist that they are
not worth three cents.
| Paris, according to correspondent,
pronounces Albani the first priusa donna
of the world.
Look out for bad spelling for the next
month in the Indiana papers. Josh Bill
lings is coming.
If Weston, the walk;st, keeps on getting
beat in England ut this rate he'll soon BE-
millionaire.
A Providence paper sounds the alarm
of AL oyster famine, and it is we'll the note
comes from Providence.
Ostrich eggs arc quoted at $40 each Al
the Cape Of Good Hope, and the birds
sren'. on a strike either.
Washington has abolished capital pun
lsll,nvnt. At least George Francis Train
is running Il paper there.
Boston is to erect a monument 10 the
memory Of the Norseman who visited
America in the tenth century.
We have had no sun-dogs in Chicago
for a week. Cronin's gone west u the
State with the last great river.
Tcnnessee's peanut crop is 100000, and
has just elected cx. Rebel Harris United
States Senator.
Mrs Henry Ward Reechcr thinks Mon.
iay is the best day in the week for the
thrifty housewife to set apart as wasl, day
An Iowa editor announces that the sing.
ing school in his town will shortly pro.
duce Haydn's divine oratorio Of "rhc
Cremation"
When an East Saginaw (Mich.) man dis.
appears his n"ighb'rs count their chick
ems, and see that their barn doors arc
barred.
Dion Bcueicault, author, actor, trans.
lator, civil engineer, philan,hropist, chem
ist, inventor and traveller, threatens com
ing to Chicago .
The establishment of another large
gold and silver smelling furnace In Chi
cago is prophesied as one of the near
events OF the future. .
An envious young correspondent refers
sneeringly TO his younger brother n liter
allure as 1.-THE alleged poet, Marian Fur.
qul,ar Topper"
The patriots of Kentucky who have an.
swered the call to 60 to Washington are
anxiously inquiring. WHO will pay the
transportation"
Don't you really think this has been as
severe 4 winter, as that Of 1898? Come,
own up to it, even if it does prove you arc
middle aged man. -
The Republican, of New Orleans, truth.
fully remarks about affairs IN Louisiana
that we tive have had too much shotgun
and too little law
An cnterprising Dubuque, (lowa) man
has started saloon on the ice. His drinks
are always cool, whatever may lie said
about their being refreshing.
Ifyou call the Michigan people "Mich-
igan.lers," isn't IN Illinois man IN Hin.
! oyster !"-Harttord Courant. And isn't
a Connecticut man Connccticulter?
It is darkly limited that President Ort-
on's telegraphic revelations will have an
electrical effect on the country in show
ing up some bad characters" and repeat.
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