Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-29
Miscellaneous Items.

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Mrs. Kelley, the veteran actress, is still alive
and frisky at the age of 70.
Victor Hugo, who recently became indisposed
through fatigue, is now better.
| A 14-year-old girl named Lamb, has driver
the reaper to cut forty acres of wheat in Deer
fold, Mich:
The negroes on Senator Coke's plantation
the eclipse.
| ;As soon as the British garrison had occupied
Cyprus formally, officers and men adjourned t.
a cricket match.
I The Chicago -Nee0S announces wrestling
match between Signor Benjamin. Butlerii and
Monsieur Stanli Mattieus.
The sweet singer of Rhode Island bears the
aristocratic name Of John de Smith, and be
blesses Valley Falls with his presence.
The German society for catching, breeding
[ and preserving fish, are preparing an inter
national exhibition at Berlin for 1874.
The bronze medallions stolen from Mozart
grave, have been found at pawn-shop, and
are soon to be restored to the monument.
Jesse Pomeroys latest trick was to make q
his way out of prison before he was discovered.
! commission is about to be formed for the
purpose of removing the remains of Rossini
| from Paris to the Church of Santa Croce in
Florida.
General Buffers yacht will proceed soon to
Boston harbor for the purpose of accommoda-
ting fishing parties of workingmen, says the
| New York Star.
Mr.. 4. W. c. MITCHELL private secretary to
Secretary schurz, says of the published charges
against him that they are mostly tissue of
| malicious falsehoods.
! DR.. Annie E. Fisher, who has been studying
medicine in Europe, has been appointed lee
turer on diseases of children, at the Boston
University Medical School.
3: Nc mixed; marriage can be celebrated by a
Roman Catholic priest in England without an
express stipulation that all the children shall
be trained up Catholics.
The bite OF u hy caused the death Of Alonzo
Tower, of No. Is North Patterson avenue,
Baltimore, the other day. So reads the death
| certificate at the health Office.
Pope Plus TX. died worth 1897, OO0, 0O0 accu.
mulated in thirty-two years. Remember the
secret of his success-he never started a. daily
| paper to FILL long-felt want
The Russian government lately gave its
sanction to the proposal for founding new
| university in Siberia. Tomsk is the town
| chosen for this new seat of learning.
Cincinnati Commercial: -''There is but one
piano on the island of Cyprus. This may &C
count for the sudden influx from England and
the countries bordering on the Mediterranean.
An old man in the refreshment. trade was
telling some of the boys the other day that he
once knew young lady who missed an offer
of marriage by refusing to partake of ice
cream.
Capt. Francis Witt, of the Austrian navy
| will shortly proceed to Borneo in connection
with the scheme for exploring and, colonizing
the large tract of country in the north of the
! island.
''Phantasmograph'' is the latest. 1t is an
| instrument in process of invention by James
Gresham. of New York, who expects to be able
to pt otograph ship on the high seas 500 miles
distant:
1t waa intended to celebrate the centenary OF
La Scala at Milan by some special performances
! the more prosaic purpose of renovatlng thu
! theatre.
! To testify his love for the deity of the temple
of Neriad, Hindoo enthusiast flayed; boy
alive upon the threshold and devoured hi
entrails. He has been sentenced to imprison
ment only.
| Moses Owens, the well-known poet is al
inmate of the almshouse in Bath, Me-, where
he is in filthy, idiotic condition, his intern
perate habits having separated him from
family and friends.
! A one-armed negro boy at Augusta, Ga, has
saved four persons from. drowning, and Mary
Mcnamara, of Clinton, Mass, has just savec
the third child that fell into the Lancaster
Mills ponds this year.
| The effect of balloon descent was tried on
camp-meeting near Cincinnati lately. Thu
bale on came sailing down in the middle Of
prayer, like an answer from above, but it eff
fectually broke up the meeting.
A restaurant patron was talking somewhat
roughly to a waiter, when the proprietor, step
ping up remarked: Don't talk to him thai
way. He used to be Governor of Florida, anc
such treatment naturally hurts his feelings"
| William Gilmore, of Poland, Pa, IS year,
old, paid $40, 900 cash and decided homestead
worth So, 500 to secure Miss Lendale, his bride
| Of "a summers. At the close of the honey
moon he offered to deed her. back for nothing.
,"Who, sir,'' said a Milwaukee reporter to
Milwaukee statesman, would be the best mar
in Wisconsin to send to the United State.
Senate? ss:By--=,- iii, replied the states
man, Il would be, but the jT fools won't dc
| it,
I Barnum pays his best rider 800 a week
and clowns $3.50 to $175. He adds 1926 to thu
salary of the latter when clown gets off new
! joke, but he has had no occasion to pay the ex
ira 1875. during the whole course Of his life as
Snowman. Co..
most eccentric individual, named Lyman
GrinneAA is, said to live on the outskirts Of
Norwich. He believes that cat flesh is the only
pure meat and has subsisted on. it for foul
years, boys from the: city keeping him supplied
at 40 cents q head.
| A report is in circulation in London thai
Lord Dufferin is likely to be asked to 60 out tt
Asia Minor rs commissioner, or in some othel
official capacity. Lord Dufferin, it will be re-
membered. played memorable part in the &C
cupation Of Syria many years ago.
+. The boss tarantula of the San joaquin val
ley is on exhibition. at; Stockton, Cal. Thi:
curiosity's body is two and three-quarter inches
long, with legs to match, each leg being about
a. long as the body. He is black, with darA
gray hairs and wool covering his body. IT,,
Hundreds Of strange figures beckon to pad
oilers and rowing parties on the lake near St
Augustine; Fla, but when the woods, in tn,
edge Of which. the. phantoms show themselves
is approached, they disappear. The st. Angus
Itiue Press is much excited over the mystery.
k..s One of the most dificuH problems to q minc
of, analytical tendencies is to comprehend :th,
magnitude of prompting cause strong enough
to induce colored man to commit suicide righ
in the middle Of the watermelon season. :. ;Th'
first case of the kind ever recorded occurred il
Alabama last week., ~. 49,. so g.: sr.. '.;~,.
g., The Countess Hona, daughter of the Austrian
1diplomat,. Count ndrassy,w was lately betrothet