Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
CURIOUS THINGS.

AT Griffin, Ga, white partridge was
lately caught.
| SOME wasps sting twenty-four hours
after they have been cut in two.
A CoRYDoN, Ind, child seven years
of age, has just cut his first tooth.
! A TABLESPOONFUL of salt in kerosene
oil will make it non.explosive.
A RICHMOND man is the possessor of
John Browns brass-bowed spectacles.
The new ice works in Columbus, Ga,
will furnish ice at one cent pound
cheaper than nature can manufacture it.
| A YOUNG lady in Hartford, Conn, has
been badly poisoned in the face by the
aniline dye in new blue veil.
The largest steel rail mill in the
United States is to be erected at Bald
win, near Harrisburg, Pa.
ENGLISH burglars frequently carry a
bit of coal with them "for luck" The
charm, however, is not always potent.
In Copenhagen there is manufactured
from the blood of cattle a chocolate,
which is said to be the most nutritious
article yet known to science.
The newest design in conch-shell ear
rings is shell, from which bends tiny
nereid trailing her fingers over the brim,
as if trying to wet them in the sea.
| BRASS is merely an alloy made by
mixing one-third Of zinc with two-thirds
copper. Brass was made by the ancients
without discovering zinc.
EVERY pound of cochineal contains
| IN nOn :,~1n%o ballad IN loo%h. nm nm
pounds are annually used for scarlet and
crimson dyes.
A RICHMOND, Va, woman of IS gave
birth to child recently. Her husband
is about the same age. They have four
children, all of whom are grown, and the
youngest fifty years old.
A CAT and dog recently attended a
funeral at Windham, N. r., together,
marching before the procession to the
grave and then leading the way back to
tho house. -, - $3.50
AT loan exhibition in Pittsburg, Pa,
a few days ago, there were exhibited on
q cushion certain Of the bones of the late
Baron de Palm, which were not consum-
ed in the cremation furnace.
A BosToN leather firm, which two
years ago settled with its creditors at SO
cents on the dollar, is paying up the
balance of it's Indebtedness, with interest
to date. =. -
/ A FLOWING artesian we'll, 800 feet
deep, rejoices the citizens of, Fort Worth,
Tex, and the proprietor makes money
/ by i selling the pure clear water from
wagons in the streets. ,,-5 ~....- a.. I'm
=THE Frederick, Md, Times tells of a
hog dug out alive from under straw.
rick, where it had been buried for seven
months and half. The porker had lost
/ 300 pounds In that time, and died soon
I after it was found. .s,r-, ~. ,.ssI,.,
! .GA:cow, the property of J. N. Sawyer,
1 who lives about six miles south of New
ark, Ohio, gave birth to Sc calves One
Of them was fully flnatured and still
lives; the other IS were about the size 81
small kittens, and, with the COW, died.
GEO tHIaa1ksoN, of Lenox, Mass,
has taught his horse the trick of kissing
him, but in performing with him re.
Gently the horse seized Mr.. Higginson',
4 lower lip, and tore it'from the corner OF
his mouth down to the chin. s.E. 81 :: isE'sa
!, i An Alabama darkey, for wager, re-
& Gently exposed His head to the furiou,
assaults of : trained goat. His conf
4 dence was rewarded BY his winning the
money, for. sitter hslf an hours vigor
Gus butting the goat drew Of, utterly teri
discouraged. -