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


STA. The editor says that no advance in
the price of bread will be necessary, and
with their usual importations = neither
man nor beast will suffer for the want of
food.
MRS. MAcKEY has been a great pur-
chaser of jewels at the exhibition in
Paris. She has bought parure of dis-
monds, consisting of diadem, brooch
and pendants, bracelets, ring and ear
rings The parure is ornamented pro-
fusely with blue sapphires and termi-
mates with a handsome pearl. The
center sapphire is valued at 100000
francs, and the entire parure at $4,000
francs. Also q necklace of brilliants
terminating in briolet drop valued at
III, 900 francs.
THE late Hank" Smith, police COM
missioner of New York, in Tweed's
palmy days, and favorite member of
the ring, was supposed to have left an
estate of half million. The recent sale
of his assets shows the way in which his
ill-gotten wealth was sunk. A batch of
notes, whose face value was $500, was
knocked down to the highest bidder for
$3.50. A lot of fancy stocks, whose par
value was $26S, 900, was knocked down
at $40. The "fortunes 50 quickly
made by the old ring generally vanished
almost as quickly.
FARMERS who have plenty of apples
of first class quality this year are out of
sorts because they cannot get any price
for them, while last year when "apples
were apples" they had none to sell, and
there is some discussion of the means of
making trees bear in the old years. One
proposition is to pick all the fruit from
trees as soon as the blossoms set. This
will, it is said, throw the trees into bear
ing next year, and it will then continue
to bear in the odd years. The work of
plucking the fruit from a young tree is
not great.
PRESIDENT WHITE, of Cornell, says
the French exposition is greater sue
cess than most people imagine, but its
most pleasant feature to him was the
American exhibit. He says Americans
and French Republicans were greatly
concerned about the troubles attending
the late presidential election in the
United States, the latter fearing the
effect of second civil strife here would
have on their own republic. He thinks
Bismarck made mistake when he I'M
dertook to suppress Socialism in Ger
many. The better way was to let it die
out of itself.
A New YORK letter to the Buffalo
Courier says Mr.. Charles OConor CLOCKS
quite as well as before his wonderful
battle with death, when the doctors gave
him up and he took the fight entirely
into his own hands. Mr.. OConor was
always delicate in appearance and is 50
still, but as the issue of his contest with
death proved, he has a constitution of
wonderful elasticity and recuperative
power. He is now entirely out of &C.
tive practice, but he occasionally acts a.
counsel in important cases, combining
himself exclusively to an examination
of the law, and never appearing in
court"
An extraordinary explosive called
tonite or cotton-powder, the product oil
gun-cotton and nitric acid, treated in q
peculiar manner, has been recently in.
vented. 1t is cheaper than gun-cotton,
and weight for weight it is thirty pc,
cent. stronger; and it occupies the same
space as dynamite power of which
it surpasses, without its terrible danger
and only two-thirds the bulk of gun
cotton. Yet, strange as it may appear
cartridge of tonite is no mere likely tt
catch fire from flame than a piece Of
soap, which it very much resembles
When actually set. on fire it burns a.
slowly and harmlessly as a torch, it,
great explosive powers being manifested
only by use of illuminate.
THERE will be at the great interna
tional dairy fair at Gilmore's Garden
New York city, commencing December
4, under the auspices of the American
Dairyman's Association, the Northwest
ern Dairyman's Association, and the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg Asso
citation. There will be an extensive ex
hibition of butter, cheese, and all kinds
OF dairy products and implements. Ter
thousand dollars in premiums will b<
awarded for the best butter and chess
exhibited. Any desired information
may be obtained BY addressing Colonel
Z. N. Littler, secretary of the general
executive committee of the international
Dairy Fair, New York city. 7
THEingenuity of the New York liquo,
dealers, in avoiding the law by turning
their places Of business first into "hotels y
and next into pharmacists" having
proved only temporarily successful, they
are at their wits end what dodge to
adopt next. The Philadelphia Time.
suggests that, as the law allows spirits to
be sold for manufacturing purposes, they
next put up the sign Sc factory" and
Plausibly argues: a mill is . factory,
even if it be gin-milL If questions are
asked as to the description Of goods turn
ed out Of such factories the supplement-
81 ngn may be displayed, efDrunkards
=; made here. And if this, should not
prove satisfactory to every critical ob
server, still smother might be erected
to Wit, Samples of our work inside. 80
IF = prize had been offered to the
world Tor the best remedy for hasing in
college, no happier solution of the prob
lem could have been hit on than that re-
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