Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-19
DAVIDSON 4 WHEELER, Publishers.

DAVIDSON 4 WHEELER, Publishers.
VARIOUS TOPICS.
THE course of the San Francisco board
of health in regard to the nuisances in the
Chinese quarter, which is nearly in the
centre of the city, will, it is said, result
in its substantial dep0pulation.
The price of quinine is higher than
since the war, and still rising, not, as is
generally supposed, because the Russians
cleared the market for their armies, but
because the South American Indians
who supply the bark are fighting among
themselves, and have shipped none for
eight or nine months.
To get some good out of the Tullis
murder it is proposed in California to
abolish the office of public administrat-
or, on the ground that no one man can
properly settle all kinds of business; and
also to allow wives, like partners, to set
tie the affairs of their husbands, or, in
case man leaves neither wife nor part
ner, that the court shall appoint suita-
bic person to the task.
The cost of the Paris exposition
buildings is set down at SO, 600, 900 francs
and the receipts for the entire show are
estimated at 2l,500,000, but it is calcu-
lated that the government and the mu-
nicipality will indirectly derive a reve-
nue. Of about 100, 100000 francs from it
in the form of customs duties, taxes on
railroads, omnibusses and cabs, stamps
for letters and dispatches, and excise
duties on wines and liquors.
CAPITAL punishment has been abolish
ed in Switzerland, and the punishment
for murder ordinarily amounts to five or
six years imprisonment. As a conse-
quence the most atrocious crimes have
become quite frequent. One of the
latest cases is that of a vagrant Italian,
who brutality murdered an unprotected
woman in her husbands absence, in
order to get her money, which amounted
to about $40.
A CALL is soon to be issued by the
committee of the National Christian
Temperance Union for worlds temper
ance congress, to be held at Old Orchard
Beach about the first of July next, and
lasting about two weeks. 1t is proposed
to invite Canon Farrar, DR.. Richardson
and other prominent English temper
ance workers, President Hayes and
number of the governors of the states,
and leading temperance advocates
throughout the Union.
The Anglo-saxon is destructive ami
NAL wherever you find him. The Nor
wegians are bitterly complaining that
English sportsmen will soon extermi-
nate their reindeer and wild fowl, if
some limitation is not set to their slaugh-
tering procivities. More than fifty rein
deer are now seldom seen on the Har-
danger table-land, where three or four
hundred could formerly be found; and
Professor Friis, the greatest Norwegian
sportsman, says there are only six thou
sand or eight thousand in the whole
country.
ITALY has never been renowned for
newspapers, yet she has led the way in
the invention of mechanical reporter.
In the Italian section of the Paris exhi-
bition is to be seen strange instrument,
the invention Of Signor Michela. It is
not larger than lady's work-box. There
is small keyboard, like that of di.
minutive piano, and reel of paper. A
girl, who is entirely ignorant of steno.
graphy, sits at the little machine and
"plays" aspeech three hours long. She
then reads it as quickly as one can speak,
In fifteen days, without previous knowl
edge or practice, proficiency may be &C.
quired in the working Of the apparatus.
IT now ascertained that hummine
birds are only found on this continent,
in the West India islands, and in two
islands of the Pacific. Those in the
United States pass from their winter
quarters in Mexico as far north as Cana
da, which is is their extreme northern
limit. From Bolivia the proceed as far
as Terra del Fuego, where the officers OF
the British man-of-war Bengle found
them feeding on insects in the blossom oil
the fuchsia when snow was on the
ground, for they do not necessarily de-
mand high temperature, and some spe
cies are found at an elevation of 10000
to $4,000 feet above the sea. The tenn
perate region Of the Andes produces the
greatest variety. Their fight is exces
sively rapid.
A BOSTON workman was sent to s
fashionable residence to make some re
pairs, and Immediately after he left the
building valuable watch and chain
were missed from room which only he
and the mistress of the house had enter
ed. He was charged with the theft, ar
rested and locked up, when the watch
was found, having been removed by thu
woman's little daughter. Every effort
has been made to repair the wrong tt
the unjustly imprisoned man, but he de-
clines all apologies or offers of remunera
ton, and proposes, as he might have
been convicted and ruined by the charge
to have the case go into the court and
receive his acquittal there.
PROF. COLLIER, chemist of the agri.
cultural department., is engaged in some
very interesting experiments, the pur'
pose of which is to demonstrate the
practicability of making sugar from
sorghum and from common corn stalks