Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
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Coal from Westmoreland County,
Pa, is being shipped to the Havana Gas
Company.
ACNc1NNAr1 Judge has decided that if
anybody swears by telephone the COM
pany has a right to remove the instru-
ment.
WHEN Hawthorne WAS buried, his un-
finished romance was placed on his
coffin, and his grave was filed with
flowers.
The author of "See that My Grave is
Kept Green" is in Jail at Indianapolis
not for writing that song, but on charge.
OF forgery.
LEON COUNTY, Florida, tomatoes are
nearly as large as cocoanuts, some of
them measuring fourteen inches in cir
cumference.
RATS are troublesome in the Philadel-
phia Geological Garden. They destroy
the egg of birds and sometimes kill the
birds themselves.
The value of hat blown off the head
OF passenger, as Re was passing from
one car to another, has been demanded
of the Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany.
JAMES GonDoN BENNETT has given
Mrs. De Long $50, 900 in United States
government bonds. Liberal to be sure,
but none too much TO. the loss of good
husband.
A GLASS jar filed with sour milk, SAYS
dynamite experimenter, and kept air
tight for week becomes bomb which
seatters destruction all around if thrown
to the ground.
THE sun shining through a yellow
show-bottle in the window of drug
store in Fulton, N. Y, the other dry,
made a focus on the window curtain
and set it on fire.
AN ancient bowl, or dish, was recently
unearthed near Chattahoochee, Florida.
In quality and color it resembles hard
burned buick, and On its bottom is in
scribed "Desoto, 1870"
A PENNSYLVANIA Judge decided that
when farmer sells potatoes he Is not
obliged to state in advance that thew
have been frozen. He can tell that after
ne has pocketed the cash.
LETTER mailed II years ago was
tonud the other day in the casing of
Car which was undergoing repairs in
Chicago. It was addressed to lady in
Joliet, ILL.,, and, beng forwarded, found
its owner.
The manufacture of gold watch-cases
is an important and growing industry at
Providence, r. l., and the Journal says
that ten thousand cases may be made
there this year, and that the demand is
really ahead of the supply.
In two hundred and fifty-one years
Massachusetts, has had but ffty-tvo diff
ferent governors, including these per-
sons who have been acting governors.
The average term for the whole period
has therefore been nearly five years.
The rancbmen in Russian River val
ley, California, have discovered that the
white owls are destroying thousands of
gophers, the proof of which is in the
skulls and bones found in owls nests
broken from trees and felled for wood.
FIVE firms are engaged in Pittsburg,
Pa, in the sand and cobble stone bus1,
ness, with an invested capital of over
800, 600, employing upward of one hun
dred men. From the beds of the rivers
between 800, 900 and 9OO,O 900 bushels of
sand and gravel are yearly taken. Cob
ble stones are secured about seventy five
miles up the Allegheny River.
A REVENUE posse in Georgia captured
a large still near Elberton the other oay.
and, while lying i'll wait for the owner to
come up, an immense black wolf an
preached one OF the beer stands, and
commenced helping himself. The wolf
could have been shot, but the officers
were too intent on capturing the owner
of the still to modest the animal.
The following rules, laid down in
rhyme for the guidance of anglers, are,
to certain extent, "founded on facts"
.when the wind is from the north,
Then the fish to bite are 10th.
When the wind is from the east,
Then the fishing is the least.
When the wind is from the south,
1t blows the bait in the fsh's mouth,
And when the wind Is in the west,
Then the fishing is the best"
THERE is tree in Chester, N. H., the
circumference of the trunk being seven
teen feet, and the distance from the ends
OF the limbs on one side to those on the
other is ninety feet. The trunk is hol-
low. The tree was planted in 1912, Oh
the Fourth of July. by DR.. West. #
was cut by him for walking stick. aud,
on reaching home he stuck it into the
ground in front of the door.
A Doa-F1aHT of unparalleled brutality
took place recently at Hessville, Ind,
and was Witnessed by l,Ige delegation
Of Chicago sports. The CONTESTANTS
were three-year-old bull pups, aud they
gnawed each other for three hculs, one
tearing au ear from the other. The
weaker made a hundred efforts to flee
from the pit. bnt at last death ended his
torture. The stakes were S75.
A MAN before Cleveland court the
other day, charged with burglary and
larceny, adopted unique line of de-
fence. The prisoner was alleged to have
stolen $40 worth OF Scotch whisky from
q warehouse, and his attorneys sub
p@naed witnesses to prove that whisky
is worse than worthless, and consequent
~ not subject of larceny. The Judge
refused to admit the testimony.
The alteration which Alexander 81.
Stephens neighbors feel for him is illus
trated or ridlculed by an architectural
story told in the region of Crawfords-
vile. It is said that when, several
years ago, Mr.. Stephens altered his
house, every resident of the village, &C.
cept1Dg his amendments as constitutional,
forthwith made needed repairs in or upon
their houses. It is further said that not
another nail has been driven in Craw
fordsville since that year, nor will bt
again until the sound of Mr.. Stephens
hammer is again heard ,.
The pork packers used to figure thu
price of barrel pork at the cost of 3O(
pounds of live hogs. But this arithme
tic is not always infaIlible. Thus, ir
1880 the average price of packing hogs
was 4.12} per 100. Three times that
would have made pork $12.37} per bar
rel. The actual price was $1O.62}. Ii
1881 the average packing hog price was
$5.55. Pork ought to have been SIG. 65
It was very near that figure; the actua
price was $16.62}. In 1882 the average
price is $7.75. Pork ought to be $23. Is
but is only $19. Is. Louis Globe
Democrat. szs.s e z.-@
The best aud largest peach crop eve,
grown in Georgia will be ready for The