Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-09
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The English duty on tobacco amounts
to some S4j, 100000 year.
MORE timber is used under ground in
the Comstock lode than has been en-
ployed in the construction of San Fran
cisco.
The German soldier who would dis
card his helmet and fight in forage cap
would get fortnight's imprisonment,
according to discipline.
SAUSAGE bees are now the fashion in
Kentucky, young men and maidens
gathering to grind neighbor'= scrap
pork into sausage meat.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in California
to drive the big nickel 5-cent pieces out
Of circulation, and put the little silver
half dimes in their place.
A READING, Pa, confectioner has man
ufactured candy elephant weighing $50
pounds. 1t is five feet IN height, seven
and one-half feet in length, and two and
one-half feet wide.
AN old rabbit has lived for years un-
1nolested in a cemetery near BardstoWn,
Ky. The negroes, believing that he rep
resents the spirit Of some evil one, >ay
they would starve to death rather t:.an
eat him.
A YOUNG lady said to her lover,
"Charley, how far is it around the
my darling" replied he, as his arm en-:
circled her waist. She was all the world
to him.-E.c.
MEMPHIS is drowned in debt and has
lad rhn
no money from the city since before the
epidemic broke out, for faithful service
in that trying time, by voting them a
months extra pay from the relief funds
left on hand.
I AT Agen, France, the other night,
farmers wife on going to bed discovered
sitting in the corner Of her bedroom.
near the cupboard, an enormous wolf.
Her husband brought a spit from the
kitchen, and, running it into the ami
mails mouth, pinned it to the wall, while
she beat out his brains with stick.
A BOY in West Chester, Pa, has
young bantam chicken which he has
trained to work in 1arness. He has
small wagon and yoke into which the
chicken puts its head, and draws the
wagon by its breast. The little bantam
goes down to its work in the most earnest
manner: and has drawn as many as six
paving bricks.
A GIRL at Guelph, Canada, while
driving home the COWS in the dusk Of
the evening, noticed some dark objects
about a stack Of corn and went to see
what they were. She Immediately
found herself attacked by six large ra-
coons, but having stick in her nand,
she laid it about so valiaHtly that the
animals fed, leaving TWO Of their num-
Der dead.
A wELL-APPEARISG gentleman walk
other evening, and, protesting to be out
of change, asked the bartender if he
could put his umbrella up for drink.
AT it was good silk one, the security
was agreed upon. The man swallowed
his beverage, and quietly rising his
umbrella, walked out. Jimmy did not
call him back -Rochcster Inion..
An author having quoted l. Chron.,
xiv, Is, in his manuscript, his publisher
wrote to him in this wise: eve have
been obliged to correct your manuscript.
Did you ever hear of such an instru-
ment as 'goins?' We have looked
through all our dictionaries and can
find nothing of it. We have printed it
the sound of a gong in the mulberry
tree,' and that must have been what you
meant
AN old man in Hanover, Penn, lost
his well-illed pocketbook month ago,
and diligent search failed to recover it.
On Saturday morning, however, his dog
was heard barking at the door, and on its
being opened, the pocke1book was found.
The suggestion is made that the old man
dropped it, and his dog, which is always
with him, carried it away and hid it,
and afterwards brought it back to make
the day as pleasant as possible.
A NEWFoUNDLAND dog at Worct ster,
Mass, persisted in inviting some gentle
men to follow him toward pond, till at
last they did so and found another dog
of the same breed in the water with his
the basin, almost exhausted and unable
to get out. The gentlemen rescued the
animal, which, with its companion,
evinced the iveliest gratitude, shaking
gallons of water over the preservers new
overcoats, etc.
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald says:
within the last ten days We have had
to record several deaths of persons inoc-
ulated with that terrible disease, the
murrain, while engaged in skinning cat
tie that were infected. From that we
infer that the murrain must be raging
in northern Texas to a certain extent.
1t is highly infammatory fever, ac-
companied with tumors, carbuncles, ul-
GERS and purulent deposits throughout
the whole body"
SERKYs tea, which gives the frmness
and freshness of youth to the oldest face,
if drank copiously and regularly, is all
the rage in Europe. 1t has the color of
amber, resembles no other tea, is drank
with or without sugar or cream, accord
ing to taste, and is a very agreeable
beverage. Louis X1V.'s physician, who
speaks of it in his travels, says that he
has seen women of seventy, who, having
drank Serkys tea all their lives, did not
seem more than twenty or twenty-five.
A LONDON tailor, who makes costumes
for sportsmen, recently covered all the
floor of his shop that could be seen from
the street with turf. disposed brace Of
patridges and pheasant upon it, and
dropped here and there several pieces of
cloth suitable for fishing or shooting
suits, SO that buyers could judge how
the goods would appear when worn in
the field. This arrangement assembled
a great crowd before the window, if it
did nothing more.
A YOUNG man residing in Bedford,
Va, lately had narrow escape from
most horrible death. He had lost his
way in the Blue Ridge, and night ap-
preaching, he climbed a large chestnut
tree, fearing to sleep on the ground. but
in crawling into the hollow top, where
it had been broken by the wind, the tree
proved to be mere hollow she'll, and he
Tell forty feet into its depths. A small
knothole supplied the prison with air,
and, by picking at the wood, the captive