Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
GLEANIN0S.

WHEN anything is weighed in water it
suffers a loss of weight. This is tespec-
tally true in the case of salt.
RUSSIA expects to take the oil trade
away from Pennsylvania within three
years, but Pennsylvania can always fall
back on her coal fields.
PUCK says that at Tammanv banquet
the walters can be distinguished from the
guests only by the sup erior fit of their
swallow tail coats.
1" LOVE men," said Queen Christine
Of Sweden, mot because they are men,
but because they are not women
BOYLE RocH once said in the Irish
parliament: "Mr. Speaker, I would
give the half of the constitution-nay.
the whole of ito preserve the remain
der"
APPRoPos of Secretary Thompson's
long speeches, witty Irishman once re-
marked that for the first four hours
there was not better speaker in the
state, but after that he becamea little
scattering."
W. F. PARKER, of Nashua, n. H.,
puzzles the doctors with an annual at
tack of the measles. For twenty wears
they have broken out upon him, on the
same day of the year and at precisely
the same hour.
1T was lucky that Lucy Jane Patrick
really had strawberry mark on her left
arm. She was stolen from her home in
Alabama when she was baby, and now,
after sixteen years, her parents identify
her in Michigan.
" he died for those against whom he
had fought is the epitaph proposed by
the Memphis Avalanche for the tomb of
the late Rev. c. C. Parsons, who was a
Federal soldier.
A GAME of base ball in Holyoke, Mass.
could be seen free from a brid ge close by,
but the police took up the cause of the
showmen SO zealously that in driving
away the spectators, they pushed boy
into the stream and drowned him.
Two women fired at each other in
Harris, Ca, in very much the style of
-earranged duel. They met by APP
pointment, and exchanged shots, but had
no seconds, and neither was hit. One
was married, and the quarrel was about
her husband.
So perfect were the Egyptians in the
manufacture Of perfumes, that some Of
their ancient ointment, preserved in an
alabaster vase in the museum a. Ain
wick, still retains very powerful: ,,dor,
though it must be between 1000 and
5000 years old.
A VISITOR to the tomb of daniel
OConnell, in the cemetery near Dublin,
says: The number of pilgrims to the
tomb is incredible, and it is touching
sight to see many poor 1rishman, with
his crownless hat, raise his shabby tile
and exclaim Poor DAM"
The Raleigh IN. CO. Ners contains
this cheerful and inspiring advertise
ment: "Parties wishing tombstones of
any description will find it to their in
terest to call and examine Mr.. IS
large and varied selection. He will sell
at cost for the next thirty days, Now
is the time to secure bargains"
A PLATEAU in Cyprus upon Mount
Olympus, 1000 feet above the sea and
an easy distance from the capital, has
been selected as the site of cantonment
for the soldiers. It is very salubrious,
abundantly supplied with water, and
most aromstic with the fragrance of the
pine woods.
! A NAN may sheer at woman all he
will because she cannot sharpen lead
pencil, but she has the smile on him
when he stands holding an unoccupied
suspender button in his hand, and won
dering whether it will hurt less to pull
the needle out of his thumb the same
way it went in, or push it on through.
A FARMER who lives twelve miles out
of Boston drove into the city recently
with a load of hens and chickens in
coops, arriving at market about sunrise,
when he found a row of fowls under the
wagon on a pole connecting the two
axles. They had roasted there the nigh
before, and retained their hold during
the jolting and shaking of the long ride.
A CHICKEN fancier at Springfield,
Mass, recently caught two old rats car
rying off the eggs which he had placed
in q nest for sitting hen. The rat
would run the lower jaw through the
shell, raise the head slightly and carry
the egg off with the greatest ease. The
hen fancier watched until they had
made away with fourteen eggs, when he
interfered.
AT the dedication of the monument to
Lamartine, at Macon, France, the fol-
lowing letter was read from Victor
Hugo: &C I join in the honors rendered to
Lamartine. I admire the grand poet.
honor the great orator. I see him
always such as France saw him-admir-
able in the book, superb in the tribune.
I salute the great shadow"
AT Windsor Locks recently horse
strayed upon the railway track and raced
with freight train. His first mishap
was being knocked sixteen feet over a
cattle guard. He gathered himself up,
and continued the race without episode,
until he met another freight train NOV
ing in the opposite direction. The two
trains confused him, and he lost his head
and three legs, besides being ground up
generally.
SYLVIA: "There 60 Uncle George
and Aunt Mary and the baby! What
fuss about their first-born, and always
have ever since the world began."
Sylvia: 81 don't suppose Adam and
Eve made much fuss about Cain"
Daisy: "Why not?" Sylvia: Well,
they'd never seen a baby before, and
must have thought him quite an IDIOT"
Punch.
In some parts of California the tomato
is perennial. A resident of Los An
gelos gathered ripe tomatoes in February
from the top of a twenty foot ladder.
The plant, twenty-five feet high, was
trained on the sunny side Of the house.
We saw tomato vines several years ago
Or - the ssfsn system," that had reached a
he height s5t Of seven Or tight feet: t., They
were fastened against the west side Of
sos s% fence f run M S 9ith And and
spread of each plant was about six feet
along the fence.
In Rimouski, Quebec, some of the
people gather their harvests with sickles'
hand rakes and one horse carts. The
old fashioned wooden plow is yet used in