Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-16
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shirt with sand-paper back. One rub
against rail fence cures the worst case.
Detroit Free Press.
Music for the Saratoga hotels will
cost $500 for the season, it is said.
The largest price paid is for the twenty
five musicians directed by Mr.. Lothian.
An AUSTIN (Tex. man three years ago
planted some seed of Malaga grapes. A
few days ago he cut bunch of grapes
from the vines that grew from the seed.
The bunch weighed nearly four pounds.
ANNA DICKINSON, it is said, made a
pat remark when somebody deprecated
her playing the mans part-of /" Ham
let" eyes," said she; "but there are
not three men in the country who can
play it; and it is time the women tried.
LoU1s1ANA's salt mine, which is in
Iberia parish, covers IN area of 40 acres
and is solid deposit of remarkable
purity and excellence. The rock is very
solid and is without assure or seams.
Over l, 200 sacks is thepresent daily out
put.
MARSHAL FIELD, of Chicago, ILL.,, is
the heaviest taxpayer in Spokane
County. By this years assessment roll
he pays taxes on 49, $50 acres, or 49,
305. The land lies in the south and
eastern part of the county.-POrtland
Ore9onSan.
The whole country in Albany County,
New York, within q distance of fully q
mile each side of the West Shore Rail-
road, is stripped of all kinds of weeds,
some of which the lower order of ami
mails will not eat, which the italian
laborers gather and boil for greens.
A YOUNG man named Dan Kieneane,
in Sumter County, Ga, dreamed few
nights ago that he was having a good
time swimming, and he jumped from his
bed headforemost through the window
out into the yard. He was so badly cut
by the broken glass that the physician
pronounced it serious, but not fatal.
"JosH BILLINGS Pulpit " is the name
given by the Rutland, VT, Historical
Society to curiously-rounded knob
of slate rock, some twenty feet
high, at Mason's Point, Lake Bombsee,
and the genial philosopher says he
hopes, some time, to read from it his
lecture on 'The Probabilities of Life"
The five-cent sponges sold by ped
oilers are said to be picked up in the
streets of New York after being used in
the hospitals, and then bleached and dis.
infected with chloride of lime. This is
by far the most disgusting and repre-
hensible method Of sponging living
out of society that has yet come to light.
IT is expected that the four factories
of Montgomery, VT, will turn out four
hundred thousand butter tubs the pres
ent season, of all sizes. A large pro-
portion Of ten, twenty, and thirty pound
tubs are called for than usual. The
material for hoops has become exhausted
i'll that region, and is now brought from
Michigan.
To grow pretty vine from the sweet
potato, put a tuber in pure sand, or
sandy loan, in hanging basket, and
water occasionally. It will throw out
tendrils and beautiful leaves, and climb
freely over the arms of the basket, and
upward toward the top of the window.
Not one visitor in hundred but will
suppose it to be some rare foreign plant.
A NOVELTY in the shape of strawber-
ry bed is to be seen at Westfeld, Mass.
1t is a hogshead filled with loan and
stones, and from it's sides are growing,
from holes bored through the wood into
the loan, over one hundred thrifty
strawberry plants, bearing q profusion
of large luscious fruit. -
LONDON balls, it is said, chiefly differ
from French and American ones by the
total suppression of the sc German" or
cotilion as it is called in France, British
prudery having declared that dance to
be improper. The more probable reason
for its exclusion lies in the fact that Eng
ishmen, as rule, are exceedingly bad
dancers. - Buffalo Commercial. !:
EVEN fish are much better when killed
as soon as caught, by striking the back
of the head sharply with stick or stone.
Some of our fishermen now carry little
clubs or batons for that purpose. All
wounded birds and other creatures
should be killed as speedily as possible,
to prevent injury to the meat. These
facts are well established by scientific
authority.
A WORLD of wisdom is contained in
the following advice to bathers: Imme-
aiately after the first plunge every
bather should take the most vigorous
exercise for about two minutes. Leap
up aud down in the water, or run, until
the blood moves through your veins
with increased rapidity, and you will
feel warmth which will repay your ex-
ertion with a delicious sense of comfort.
TIE last congress ranks among the
notably long ones. That of 1845.46
lasted till August II; that of l847-48 till
August 10. The; longest session was
that Of lS49- so, which held till Septem-
Der 80. The session of ]851.52 lasted
:. till August 81; that of 1854 till August
z; that of 1866 till August 18, and
then congress reassembled on the Dist
of the same month and held until the
3Oth. -..-r 49, y 49,,
A FEW days ago while lady, who re-
sides near Chattanooga, Tenn, but
across the Georgia line, was at work in
her garden, she discovered something
sparkling in the underground. and on
close examination discovered it was an
English sovereign. She continued her
Investigations and soon collected forty,
which were strewn promiscuously in
: that locality. They are all dated be-
tween the years 1920 and 1927. Their
presence there is deep mystery.
ONE Of the curious industries of the
country has its principal homes at New
Berne, N. G. This is the manufacture
Of wooden platters, plates and trays.
The timber used for this purpose is sup
piled BY the neighboring swamps. A
huge log is rounded by q circular plane
and then put into machine, which,
with great accuracy and swiftness, cuts
of thin strips of the wood. When these: