Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-25
WlNNOWiNGS,

THERE's forty -pound mud turtle in
captivity at Americas, Georgia.
The United States spend s., 600, 600 a
year upon education.
A GOOD steel trap caught four hun
bred pound bear on Ossipee Mountain,
New Hampshire, recently.
HUBERT H. BANCROFT, the historian
of the Pacific coast, owns reference
library OF IS, 600 volumes.
MANUFACTURED milk is being sold at
El Paso, Tex. The ingredients and the
secret Of manufacture are not known, but
the article is calculated to deceive the
most expert.
AN English artist says that Arab
Pasha is g. q broad, thick chested fellow,
built on the lobster pattern" Arab
will crawl when he reads this description
OF MS form.
THERE are two ways of being happy.
We may either diminish our wants or
augment our means The result is the
same, aud it is for each man to decide
happen to be the easier.
YOUNG man in Western Illinois ad-
vertised for wife; his sister answered
the "ad," and now the young man links
there 10 no balm in advertisements,
while the old folks think it's pretty hard
to have two fools in the family .-Boston
Post.
The ruins of Ophir, New, where ST.
0Oo, 700 We're spent in grist-mllls and
reduction works, will now be utilized
for cheese factory. The grass of the
Wushoe Valley is said to be good for
cheese-makipg, and already there are
$50 COWS Oh the Ophir ranch.
The value of the property Of the
United States is estimated at $50, 0O0,-
100000 and yet you will frd lots Of men
who declare that the country owes them
living. The country should pay its
debts Immediately. - Boston Tran
script.
NEAR Ibervllle, La, singular and
fatal accident occurred. Two boys,
Gabriel Hunter and Jacob Garner, were
gathering lecans, and tue former threw
an iron ramrod up tree and it fell on
the latters head, passing through his
skull and brain down into his throat,
killing him instantly.
A VERDICT Of $4,000 was rendered at
favor OF Florence Steggall VS.. Fred. s.
Plat for damages which she received in
1876 while attending school at Fayette-
vile. Plat threw stick which acct
dentally hit Miss Steggall in the eye and
inflicted permanent injury. The de-
PENDANT, aged about 81, lives in Dakota
and did not appear.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
shipped from Atlanta, Ga, during the
season just past, eight hundred carloads
of watermelons or more than twice the
shipment of any previous season. The
cars averaged ,25O melons each, or over
one million melons. They also brought
better prices and cost less freight than
ever before, netting the grower, it is
claimed, 5000 a car.
A FOUNTAIN in public square of San
Francisco needed painting. An artist
agreed to do it for nothing provided he
could take as much time as he pleased
for the job, and erect fence to protect
him from idle curiosity while at work.
But it seems the painter has sold the
surface OF the fence to advertisers, and
nobody knows how long he will be paint
ing the fountain.
A SWALLOWS nest of remarkable size
at Westerly, r. l.. is attracting the at
tention of bird lovers It is on the
farm of James Babcock, in the northern
part of the town OF Westerly. A fine
grove Of maple trees on swampy ground
is used by the birds. They are the COM
mon white-breasted barn swallow,
although martins are seen among them.
A careful observer estimates that 3. 0OO,-
900 swallows nightly flock to the grove.
A NOVEL question is agitatipg the resi-
dents OF Tucson, Arizona, as to whether
q female who went through the marriage
VOWS with man on his dying bed is
maid or widow. The technical PROPOSE
ton is that the physician exclaimed, Just
as the minister was prononncing them
man and wife: my God, he's dead"
FROM being the dryest and one of the
unhealthiest towns in southwest Geor-
gia, Albany has become, perhaps, the
best-watered town in the state, and while
the country round about is as full of
sickness as ever, it has had very little,
indeed, of the customary sickness. All
this has been brought about simply by
boring two artesian wells.
The glass snake, or "jointer, " is ana
tive of Florida. The reptiles are very
brittle, and break off short when hit.
When cut up into pieces of three or four
inches, each piece shows the greatest &C.
tivity for a long time, although unlike
that Of any other reptile. It is said that
the pieces will come together and the
snake resume it's normal condition.
al
(coloredO, terribly deformed and help
less creature, died at the almshouse in
Staunton recently. He was 40 years of
age, was powerless to move himself,
dumb, and whilst seeming to compre-
bend much that was said to him, was in
capable of making known his slightest
want. His body and limbs were entirely
useless. just before his death he
created much astonishment by speaking
for the first time, when he uttered the
words: mother! OBJ, mother! oh,
mother!"- Vattey Nryinian
The Red River New Mexico)
Chronicle, after suspension Of several
weeks to allow its editor q chance to
drive some cattle over into Texas, ap-
pears again, with this funny announce
ment: "There is considerable discrep-
ancy between the date of our headlines
and the news contained in these columns.
During our editors (Mr. HommeO
absence on account of his trip to Tas-
cOsa, Tex, no paper was issued: but we
can i'll afford the loss of over 500 of
each ISSUE, and have therefore decided to
date the paper baeksto the days when it
ought to have been issued, trying to
catch up in few weeks to the regular
issue day. The headline says Sept. 8,
while our news reaches up to the 30th |
inst. y. s. 49,. Is. ~ Es.,E. j.
In Philadelphia the widow of James
Baird brought suit to have deed of !
trust made By her husband disposing of |
his property TO the benefit Of his chill
dren BY former marriage and cutting |
his wife ont from participation in his es-
tate set aside. Baird inherited property
valued at nearly 500, 900 and executed
the deed Of trust few days before his J