Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-03
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

NEWS AND NOTIONS.
-Kasson charges $500 for saloon H.
censes. ~
Flyers Sisters Combination were at
DEBORAH May list.
Spring Valley creamery is now turn
ing out 5000 pounds of butter per week.
Game must be getting scarce in Tex
as. A live editor was shot there the other
day.
Fat girls are coming in fashion again,
and the slender willowy ones-why, they
are decidedly too, too, thin.
How the people do talk about each
other in Albert Lea. If you want to live
in peaceful town, come to Austin.
Drink, says an exchange, weakens
the system. Yes, and weakens the peck
ct, toe, but it strengthens the breath.
Milo White is putting in his spare
time just now looking after the crops"
in the counties of this congressional dis
trict.
Red paraso1s are to he the fashion
again this summer. Where are the So
cieties for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals?
-Beecher asks, where is the christiani-
ty of this country? We give it up. We
know there is none to spare in this part
of the vineyard.
The fool wants to bet in a quarrel,
the brute to fight, but the wise man looks
out of the window, or puts on his hat
and takes walk.
"A New Jersey girl had her scalp
torn by having her hair caught in a re-
volving shaft. Moral, wear false hair
and save your scalp.
The people of Warrenton, Mo-, voted
cane to "the greatest liar in the town."
and instead of an editor bearing off the
prize, it was grocer.
Harrison, the Boy Preacher, COM
menced series of revival meetings in St.
Paul yesterday. He has had wonderful
success in all the large cities of the east.
-Ex-U. S. Senator H. NJ. Rice is Treas
urer of Ramsey county, and it is propos-
ed to make ex-Gov. VIM. r. Marshall
Treasurer of the city of St. Paul. Both
are honest men.
"A telegraph repairer was in the city
this week. He passes along the line with
a railroad velocipede which is constructed
t<>r S1c o< II
It is said a person can propel himself in
this manner from IL to Is miles an hour
with ease.-St. Charles Times.
-Moorhead is being Doomed" by an
enterprising set of real-estate men. The
Pioneer Press contained solid page of
advertising for this town last Saturday,
and the same thing has been repeated
several times lately. Briggs & Elders
occupy one column.
"A recent order of General Merrill, of
the c., Milwaukee & St. P. R. r., is of
considerable interest to sportsmen 1t
authorizes the free transportation of dogs
and hunting equipments, when accom-
panied by their owners, and fOrbids bag
gage men from demanding fees for taking
care of them.-Lansing (Io,oa) Journal.
We hope DR.. Richmond, of St. Joseph,
Mo-, will not forget to pay the several
Minnesota country newspaper publishers
who are running his long advertisements.
If he does not pay, it will take something
besides his own medicine to cure him of
the ''fits" he will get from these unsus-
pecting rural quill
Things go by opposites with the AL
bert Lea Standard. 1t opposed and
abused Farmer for Judge and Dunnell
for Congress. Both of these gentlemen
were elected, and Freedom county gave
them the largest majorities of any coun-
ties in the district. 1t is now doing a
good work for Dunnell which will insure
Freedom county for him again.
Richard Bradley, the foreman of the
St. Paul Press and Pioneer-Press job
rooms for % years, died at his post last
week Tuesday. We remember him well
when working on the Press for a few
months in the winter of '63-4-the first
year of the establishment of the paper by
Gov. Marshall. He was skillful and
faithful artisan.
Williams of the Albert Lea Standard,
is in the letter-writing business. Judge
Stacy publishes a specimen in the Ente.
prise, and he calls it ''blackmailing let
ter" Let the reader judge. Here it is:
ALBERT LEA, MIMI, March 18th, 1882.
E. c. STACY.
sonal attack upon US without cause or provo
cation and in which there was no truth. 1t ia
our turn now, and we propose to charge you
What is more to the point, we are going to
prove it. We intend to do this not wholly be-
cause you abused US, but because we deem it
duty which we owe to the public p 6:
Per W.
-Macaroni is eaten with relish equally
by all civilized European peoples. But
the incident which originally gave it it's
name is known to few of those-even in
Sicily, its birthplace-who hold it in the
highest esteem. Once upon a time a
wealthy Palermitan noble owned a
cook with an inventive genius. One
day, in a rapture of culinary composition,
this great artist devised the farinaceous
tubes which all love so well, and the sue
culent accessories of rich sauce and grated
parmesan, familiar to those who have
partaken of 'macaroni al sugo" in south
ern Italy. Having filled mighty china
bowl with this delicious compound, he
set it before his lord-a gourmet of the
first water-and stood by, in deferential
attitude, to watch the effect of his ex-
pertinent. The first mouthful elected the
ejaculation ''Cari' automatically equiva-
lent to excellent" in English, from the
illustrious epicure After swallowing a
second modicum, he exclaimed Ma,
carl" or Excellent, indeedw Presently,
as the flavor of the toothsome mess grew
upon him, his enthusiasm rose, and he
cried out, in a voice tremulous with JOY
f11l onnnfi0r ono coroniY- ttIndood