Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-20

Sad hearts meet on every side
With q cold " Goodbye"
Just as this old earth Of ours
Parts With all the dropping flowers,
When above, in autumn hours,
Glooms q sombre sky.
wINMowINes.
THERE are about five thousand hab-
itual laudanum drinkers in Philadel-
phia.
A CH1NAMAN has just harvested crop
of excellent ginger on Merced River,
California.
THE explosion of bottle of ginger
pop caused an Augusta, Ga., lady to lose
the sight of both eyes.
A RESIDENT of Tilton, N. H., is spend
ing SIC, 900 or $50, 900 in the erection of
stone triumphal arch as an ornament
to that village.
THB Tecumseh (Ala.) iron furnace
lately blew out, after continuing in blast
over seven years. This is said to be the
longest continuous blast ever made by
any furnace in the United States.
A BUFFALO man who paid 81, 900 for q
painting by Rubens reached home from
Paris to find the same thing owned by
Smith in the tea store on the next street.
Sometimes too much is paid for copies.
MORRISON HEADY, Kentucky blind
man, is fond of chess. He has chess
men with projecting points, so that he
may distinguish by the touch between
them. He is hard to beat.
NEAR Hurricane Springs, Tenn, is
neighborhood of "long boards. There
are ten or q dozen men in the vicinity
with boards ranging from twenty-four to
sixty three and half inches in length.
A New HAMPSHIRE woman spent two
hours cleaning postage stamp which
had done duty once, pasted it on a letter
and walked two miles to mail it, and
then paid Uncle Sam 81 to call it mis-
take.
Mr.. SMART, who strangled to death
patient in the insane asylum at Augusta,
Me-, recently, was the man who built the
tower on Central Park, Old Orchard.
| He went insane soon after the compile
tion of the tower.
A FACTORY for the manufacture of i'm
itation sealskin is to be established at
Holyoke, Mass, by men from Bradford,
England. It is stated that 800, 900 will
be invested, and that 100 men will be
employed in the business.
The work of removing the gusno from
the famous bat cave in Uvalde County is
progressing. A tramway has been con-
structed for some distance in the cave,
over which the deposits are brought out
by means of steam instead of the slow
process of horsepower.
A vA11sE being carried from the cars
to the steamboat in Bedford,
Mass, suddenly burst into flames,
package of matches contained in it hav-
ing become ignited by the jsrring. Some
of the contents were saved, but the
valise was thrown overheard.
As ships meet at sea, moment to-
gether, when words of greeting must be
spoken, and then away into the deep, so
men meet in this world; and think We
should cross no mans path without hail
ing him, and If he needs, give him sup
plies.-Henry Ward Beecher.
| A PEAL of five bells, given Yale Col
leee by Robins Battell and sister, will be
hung in Battel Chapel in few days.
The peal is founded on the major triad
of G. and comes from Belgium. The
heaviest bell weighs 1,475 pounds, aud
is nearly forty-one inches in diameter.
IT is Miss Maud Howe, the daugh ter
of Julia Ward Howe, whom Oscar Wilde
is going to marry, "they say" Maud
Wilde: sounds pretty doesn't it? Much
better than it would be if she should
marry a man named Lynn Bur.
Ha,0k.
A NEW schoolhouse in Philadelphia,
has Just received the name of Elisha
Kent Kane, IN honor of the Arctic ex-
plorer. Other schoolhouses in Philadel-
phia commemorate the names of John
Hancock, George Wolf, Stanton, Binney,
General Mead, Abraham Lincoln, and
|, others.
ONE Of the finest residences in Cleve-
land is big stone structure, surround
;; ed by beautiful grounds, and full of the
costiiest furniture and decorations. But
the owner does not now live there with
his family, having been sent to q retreat
!, for drunkards, where he is confined In
; barred room.
= In recent murder trial at Las Vegas,
N, NJ, the defendants attorney was dis.
gusted with q ruling of the judge, and
= Indignantly rose and left the court room.
8 The Judge sent the sheriff after him,
and, when the attorney was brought
: back, told him that if he did not pro
ceed with the case he would be sent te
t Jail for contempt. The case was con
b tinued.
= AMoNa some relics exhibited at the bi-
: centennial celebration Of Bucks County
8 Pa, last week, were the original bill o.
g sale of Eastern Pennsylvania, by the Si1
IS Nations to William Penn; powder
y horn presented by the Uncas, the las
" of the Delawares, to Black Hawk, II
T. 1857; and q rejecting telescope that wa
once the property of the ill-fated Blen
nerhassett.
THE village of Rookport, Monroe
County, N. T., is probably the larges
market for beans from first hands in tn
country. As many as 120, 600 bushel
4 have been sold there in single season
all the product of neighboring farms
The price of beans at Rockport is gener
ally 10 to 20 cents per bushel hlghe
than in the city of Rochester, som
seventeen miles distant.
A HAMBuRa, Cal, fisherman caught
- fourteen pound trout, inside of whlcl
y was . pellet of tin-foil. The pellet con
y tanned a $40 greenback, dated Washing
! ton, April 10, 1876, and as the objee
y was held in the bladder by q growth 9
skin over it, the fieh must have swa]
lowed it several years ago. Who fixe
" the money thus and threw it away, an
x what for ?-Sd,a Francisco Chronicle
EMonY THOMAS sent to Mary Brown
at jackson, Mich, silk for a dress as
present. He wished to marry her, an
X she was inclined to consent; but whe
- she learned that the silk was part of th
< booty Of burglary, she became tt
principal witness against the wooer, an
he was sent to prison for seven year
But they have become reconclled, ard
few days ago the prison chaplain joine
them in vedlock. . = - - II