Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-11
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along the Florida coast.
A LARGE shot-tower is to be erected in
New Orleans by local company who
have abundant means and plenty of ex-
perience. The tower will be the eleventh
in the United States when completed.
THEN you are looking for "a soft
snap" are you, young man? just re-
member one thing, that the men who
enjoy "soft snaps" are those who have
by hard work in times past earned them.
Globe.
A BOOK agent had the misfortune to
break his leg at camp meeting in But
ler, Ca, the other day, and while the
sympathizers we're gathered around as
two surgeons set the limb he sold three
copies Of his book.
The inventor of the celebrated Mack
immon fountain pen is now a poor drug
gist in Dakota. He sold his patent for
triae and for eight years past he
watched the purchasers accumulate for
tunes from the sale of the article.
CHARLES Fl. Bo1Es, of Butte, Mon
tana, died recently from drinking some
Of the syrup in a can of peaches which
had been open and exposed to the air for
two or three days. The action of the air
had caused the vegetable acid to become
impregnated with tin by corrosion, there
by forming deadly poison.
THERE are some evils about which
even a minister of the gospel should
hold his peace. An unmarried Vermont
clergyman found this out after his con-
gregation had dispensed with his SER
vices. He had discoursed learnedly
about the evils arising from the use OF
the style of corsets now in vogue.
THERE was lately discovered a wooden
hand-car hid away among some bushes
near Paris, on the line of railroad north
from Grand Rapids, Mich. The ma
chine when tried made excellent time
and very little noise. It is thonght to
be the property of some burglars, who
make use of it at night to avoid leaving
tracks.
The old metate," or Mexican grist-
mill, has not quite gone out of use in
Los Angeles County, California. They
are made of kind of stone found on the
desert, of volcanic formation and very
porous. It is used to make pinole and
prepare meal for making tamales, a
much priced dish among the native
population.
A CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, bicyclist
foolishly attempted the descent of steep
hill on his vehicle, but it went at such
rapid rate that he lost control of it. At
the bottom of the hill the bicycle struck
deep ditch and the rider, whose name
is Orion Hurlburt, was thrown twenty
feet, alighting on his head and sustaining
fatal injuries.
Two brave little girls in Ballard Coun-
ty, Kentucky, named Neal, found q
negro under the bed, and, calling in the
dog, they armed themselves with brooms
and the trio soon dlslodged the darkey,
Furnishing him severely before he sue
ceeded in escaping. The girls are aged
respectively 10 and 12 years, and were
alone in the house.
A CURIOUS miser was John Birdsall,
of Rush, Ind, who brought $500 in gold
from California twenty years ago, bur-
led it in an iron pot. and told nobody.
His family have of late suffered for food,
and, when absolute starvation threat
ened them, he dug up his treasures and
went off with it, leaving his wife ana
four children to the poormaster.
AN Ashtabula man named Taylor had
some trouble about seats at a circus and
was elected from the tent, receiving
some injuries. He got out legal papers,
followed the show to Warren, O., and
attached the ticket wagon after the af-
ternoon performance. The manager re-
tanned lawyer who assured him the pa
pers we're solid. So they compromised
The matter, Taylor receiving $500.
AN Oregon paper has a saddening
story of a man who Gin twenty-five
years had accumulated through small
business a fortune of many thousand
dollars. His wife concealed the money
in place known only to herself. Last
week she died suddenly, and the strict
est search has failed to reveal the place
of deposit. The husband is distracted
in consequence of his double loss"
ACCORDING to an old steamship cap
tain, ocean steamships, like animals,
lose their speed after few years. An
eight-year old boat will seldom give the
speed she had at two years, and a ship
going home to England will steam faster
than going to America. Some say this
comes from the British fireman, who or
his way home forces the fires more THAI
he does coming out, when speed IS Nc
object to him.
SIX Sandwich Island boys, under
charge of Colonel G. n. Judd, were
among the passengers by the Britannia
from New York for Liverpool recently.
They go abroad to study at the expense
of the Hawaiian Government. Their
destination is Glasgow, where one will
study medicine, three become machinistf
and the others engineering and survey
ing. King Kalakaua contemplates an
other visit to the United States.
| SIXTEEN gentlemen of Wilmington, N
c., in April last, formed pool on the
cotton crop of 1881 1-S2 - the person
whose estimate came nearest to the
actual number of bales reported at the
end of the cotton year to take the spot.
The books were opened in due time, an(
it was found that one gentleman's esti
mate was for crop of 5, ,433, 1888 bales,
while the actual crop as reported bv the
National Cotton Exchange was 5, ,456, O4$
bales.
A FEW days ago a lady residing nea
Chattanooga, Tenn, but across th'
Georgia line, while at work in the gar
den, discovered something sparkling II
the underground and upon closer exam
nation discovered that it was an Eng
lish sovereign. She continued her in
vestigation and soon collected forty
which were strewn promiscuously il
that locality. They we're all dated be
1 tween 1920 and 1927. How they cam
there is amystery.
THE farmers of Nairnshire, in Scot
land, have been greatly annoyed b
rocks and wild pigeons, and earl " in tn
, season formed an association for thei
! destruction. In order to pay the cost {
3 killing these birds they assessed them
selves 2s. 6. per plow, and then offere
r rewards of penny per head for rook
and three farthings for pigeons. 1t
. estimated thatsome four thousand rook
and one thousand pigeons have in col
: sequence been killed by the gamekeepe1
of Nairnshire, = -5,ss-5S@. 80