Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-23

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petitors of linen and muslin neck-wear.
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AT Lebanon, O., two men who were
digging a cellar found an iron box and
half killed each other before it was
agreed how they should divide. When
they opened it nothing but old clothes
rewarded them.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Cleveland,
Ohio, especially among the Free Masons,
to raise fund for the care of the graves
of the 800 Confederate soldiers buried
on Johnson's Island, and to erect mon
ument to their memory.
BUSINESS at Winnipeg seems to be
thriving. At late date about 900 car
loads of goods were waiting there for
entry at the custom house, and now the
the number of customs officers has been
increased. The receipts this year at the
sport will reach nearly 81, ZOO, 900.
IT has just been discovered that one
John Rockenstyne, who year ago left
his wife in Albany after telling her he
was going west to seek his fortune, has
been living ever since with another
woman in Greenbush, only mile or two
from his deserted wife.
GENERAL SPINNER is fishing down in
Florida with eminent success. He Just
bats with his signature and the fish
that can distinguish it from the writh-
INCEST kind of worm has to be an ex-
pert Of many years standing.
eye.
The editor of the Kew West Demo-
orat is said to be only forty inches high
and weighs but thirty-fve pounds.
When the man with the club comes in
to interview t'the chap who wrote that
article" the editor of the Democrat
crawls into his paste-pot and pulls down
the lid.
WAD1NG IN southern waters, along the
Carolina coast, involves the risk of being
stung by the I" stingaree." A stingaree
is simply long buggy whip, broken out
with smallpox and filed with steel
springs, aqua FORTS, and needles. When
he hits yor, lockjaw is the mildest pos
sible result.
The committee of the Oneida Histor-
ical Society has adopted plans for the
construction of the monument in COM
memoration of the battle of Oriskany,
and has made contracts for it's compile
ton. It is to be an obelisk about ninety
feet high, with a granite base, lime
stone shaft and granite cap, and is to
cost about SIC, 900 and be finished within
one year.
A PATENT has just been secured on an
invention which will be of great value
to those who are obliged to go through
set on rockers which are faced with a
heavy rubber band. The user thus
moves forward eight feet at step, with
a smooth, even motion, which does away
with the jar experienced with the ordi-
nary crutch.
A YOUNG man was killed by lightning
while sitting alone under a tree in New
Orleans, La, three or four days ago,
and it was some time before any mark
could be found on his body TO estab-
ish the cause of death. Finally, after
close scrutiny, the hair on the left side
of his head was found to be singed,
and just below the hair were two black
spots like powder burns.
The Cinnamon in America has been
slow in finding out the difference be-
tween evaporated apples and steam-dried
shavings; between Zante currants and
dried blue bottle flies. But at last his
eyes have been opened. He now, on the
Pacific coast, buy rs fruit on the parent
stem, gathers it himself and dries lit in
his own peculiar style. Some of the
product finds its way to China.
Miss CoRsoN, the cook lecturer, pub
lished a book, "Fifteen Cent Dinner"
in which she advocated oat meal, rice
and soup as all that the human machine
required for getting up steam. A New
York stone cutter bought the book, fol-
lowed the suggestions, run down in a
month so that he was discharged as unfit
for days work, and has sued Miss Cor
son for damages for leading him into
this era of idleness.
JOSEPH L. LEWIS, of Hoboken, N. j.,
left his whole estate, valued at over a
million and half of dollars, to the United
States, to be applied to the reduction of
the national debt. His natural heirs. of
course, contested the will and endeavored
to prove the insanity of the testator.
The matter has now been compromised,
$685., 589 going to the government, and
the remainder to Lewis two half-sisters
and the children of deceased half-sister.
A MINISTER was travelling along a
country road in Scotland one day in
winter, riding rather long, lean horse,
and he himself dressed in rather an odd
looking cap and large camlet cloak,
when a gentleman came along, riding a
fine horse, which "scared" at the
preacher and his horse. "Well, sir"
said the gentleman, eye wud scare the
vera devil, sir" 'That's nv business.
sir, said the preacher.
A NEW method of reducing corn to
meal is now in operation which, it is
said, seems likely to supersede the old
fashioned mill-stones. The corn passes
over series of cylinders provided with
fine steel points, revolving rapidly
against fixed knives, each set finer than
the ones preceding. The meal produced
is exceedingly fine. there is claimed a
saving of 80 per cent. of power, and the
machinery is said to be less expensive
than burr-stones.
LEw1sTowN, Pa, has a lad nearly 81
years Of age who has never spoken q
word to his father. Heseems to be pos
sessed of natural antipathy to so doing,
and yet says that should he ever be
prompted to address the old man he
shall speak freely. A quarrel which
the parents had during the mothers
pregnancy is said to be responsible for
the strange state of affairs, the mother at
that time having not spoken to her hus-
band for q full year.
The Hawkeye tells Of a woman up in
Michigan who was lost in the woods five
days. nearly starved to death, was frozen
at night, was chased by wolves and
scared by snakes, and when she got out
OF the jungle and reached home at last.
nobody had missed her ssShadow Of
death But she was the maddest
woman. Yes. daughter. Won may inst