Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-26
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

The Waseca Leader is for sale or rent.
Anna Thyng to beat whiskey.--Preston
| Republican.
| An exchange says corn is selling in Eldora,
Iowa, for IA cents bushel.
Minneapolis has a bonded debt of 81, Isl, :
1907, and a school debt Of $10S,00o.
| Assignment notices take the place of
| bankrupt notices in our exchanges now.
| The Cresco Plaindeoler has ''Tea-table
Chit-chat" column, full Of really good things.
| Hon. Alexander Ramsey has given his
valuable private library to the State Historical
Society.
| After paying England that five and half
| millions we shall realize, as never before, that
! the mackerel Is a c. .. d. hsh.-Ctnctnn0tt
Times.
| Every man is miserable sinner in church,
| but out of church it is unsafe to say anything
| about it, except to 4 small man.-SttulUGteT
Lumberman.
Congressman Dunnell will send the agrt-
cultural report for 1877 to any one desiring it
who will make their wishes known via postal
card.
Hon J. P. West, of Wells, has served his
| county two terms in the State Senate, and has
| recently been elected for the fourth term in
| the House.
-Owatonna city is boring for an artesfan
well. The auger is down 24O feet, and no flow
Of water yet. Some of the officials are losing
faith In the enterprise.
1T is written in the Talmud that 1.-THE
world is saved by the breath of school chill
dren. The writer evidently never set In
school next boy who grew fat on garlic
Hal ha! ha! "Uncle Billy Meighen talks
strongly of contesting Dunnell's seat in Con-
gress!' says the Preston Republican. When
will Meighen learn that all his "friends'' are
after is his money, and the sooner he shakes
them of the better for him.
p. A. McGilvra, a brakeman on the s. NJ.
r. r., fell under the cars at Armstrong sta
ton, Dec. 18th, and one Of his legs was so
badly used up that Albert Lea surgeons am
putated it. But the poor man was otherwise
injured, and died in two or three days.
Fannie HOLSTERS pretty Wonder If she is
engaged? we mean If she is engaged to read in
DecOrah again this winter.-Bee.
You need not wonder longer. Mr.. Hood, of
Wisconsin, is the lucky man. Fannie will
probably discontinue reading now, and take
to lect,.rin0.
The small boy that bade goodbye to Sun
day-school just after the picnic is now max
in time for the coming Christmas-tree.-Cresco
P21indeGler.
He made up with 'em, was on the front seat,
and enjoyed himself. He will now take q va
cation till next picnic.
Whenever WI cum akrost man who dis
trusts everybody, yu have found one whom it
ts safe for everybody to distrust.7J0sh Bil-
lia0s.
Did Josh have any resident Of Austin in
mind when he wrote the above? Whether he
did or no, it hits miserable demagogue here
right square between the eyes.
The latest:-song of the medical student:
Ifa body find body
In a grassy dell,
If body hook body
Need body tell?
I'm the caddy hauls the body
To the picklin' shop,
And all the docs they envy me
A carving of him upl
-Ne,o Fork Graphic.
-One of the best things in the world is to be
a boy. Boys have always been 80 plenty they
are not half appreciated: A boy 1s willing to
feeling of a boy toward pumpkin pie has never
been properly considered. A boy furnishes
half the entertainment, and takes twO-thirds
Of the scOlding of the family circle.St. Charles
Times.
Our boy says that's so, you betv'
I'm the Saltwater State prison the report is
that Bob Younger is in good health, but that
Cole and Jim Younger are In the hospital.
Cole is suffering from the ball that lodged
under one of his eyes and has never been re-
moved. In Jim's case some obstruction has
formed in the roof of his mouth, caused by
| the passage of the ball which spattered his
jaw. This interferes with his respiration and
at times he seems on the point OF sufocation.
-Erchange.
The Rev. g. H. Deere, of Rochester, (Un-
iversalist,) preached at Owatonna one Sunday
| evening recently, and left the pulpit suddenly
without waiting to pronounce the benediction.
He was afraid he would mss the train, and
| trains don't wait for prayers or benedictions.
We think, however, If he had pronounced that
benediction, the Lord would have held the
train.
Carleton College, at Mortified, shows an
enrolment this year of 2I students, repre-
senting thirty counties of Minnesota, six dif-
ferent states, ten natiOnaltt1eS, and eight re-
HgiOus denominations. The new astronomical
observatory is now completed; valuable ad-
ditions have been made to the geological cab
met, to the chemical and philosophical appa-
ratus, and also to the ibrary-indicating that
| this young college is in prosperous condi-
tion.-Erchan0c.
The Hokah Blade man wants the reform
members of the Legislature this winter to re-
fuse free passes from the Il. r. companies, or
II they do accept them, to refuse the mileage
fee allowed by the State. We have no objec-