Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-08
NEWS AND NOTIONS.
Detroit has opened a night school ft

NEWS AND NOTIONS. /
Detroit has opened a night school for
girls. |
-Goodhue county reports 935 births
during 1881. A proud record.
Another case Of smallpox discover.
ed In Albert Lea last Saturday.
Judge Edgerton will soon remove
his family from Kasson to Dakota.
-Hokah is to be quarantlned. Six
cases of smallpox reported Monday.
Ann ual income to Winona from the
of the normal school and
It's students is about $4,000.
The Steubenville Herald don't think
authorities out west should permit the
Indian Chief Standing Bear to remain
standing all winter in that nude cond,.
ton.
CLERGYMEN, lawyers, physicians, far.
mers, merchants, business men, gentle
men of leisure, and their women folk and
CLilulCE, XII uSC DAO"A . AAoA 0AkSShS' ~
keeps them we'll.
The McGregor Neus has ascer,ained
the use for which some Of the young
mems heads were principally intended.
A hem! ITO keep their neck-ties from
slipping off,
"A Dutchman, repeating an old adage,
gets 1t little mixed, and grinds out the
following: birds nit one fodder goes
nit themselves" Surely, how could
birds NIT one fodder flock togedder.
Albert Lea tires are all bad. Gus
Tyrer, the brother of Theodore, has taken
himself off to parts unknown to avoid
arrest for running off finely matched
team belonging to his brothers. creditors.
Freedom county is getting noted for
forgerles. Last week young man by
the name of Fodness, of Riceland, was
arrested for forging note of $54, which
lie had sold some time previous to H. D
Brown & Co.'S bank.
"A meeting to organize State Dairy
and Creamery association, in Minnesota
will lie held at Rochester, March 7th
9th and 9th; at which time all interested
in the stock or dairy interests Of Mime
sofa are most cordially invited to meet.
"A biddy hen, at Pawtucket, r. I.
was arrested recently for stealing dia
mond pin valued at $500. Nothln!
strange that she should show the natura
desire Of her sex for jewelry. To hid
the pearls securely, she carried them il
her gizzard, where they were found a
a post mortem examination.
-Shakopee is rejoicing in the prospee
that the Car manufacturing and repai
shops Of the Chicago, st. Paul, Mlnneal
r oils g. Omaha will be located at tina
I point.-Er.
, 1t will be better for the health of on
e Shakopee friends not to feel TOO conf
! dent. We know there is such thing a
q relapse, and it is hard on the patien
4 We speak as one having authority.
w. W. Cargill has received from Mi
}. waukee a sample of gum wood, the wei
: known and hitherto desplsed product I
S the lower Mississippi bottoms, which /
I will have polished, and if it meets h
e approval, he will order carload for u
|. in his new residence in La Crosse. IL
;. gum is a dark wood, generally resembllr
e black walnut, but said to be capable
e even a finer polish, and handsomer
t use.
r. The collectors of stamps will be i
e teres,ed in some of the facts brought o
!. by the exhibition of postal and telegra;
o stamps at Vienna, Austria. The exhil
ton is under the direction Of the Phil
teIists, a society Of collectors who regal
the study of stamps as branch Of hi
tory, and who desire to raise it to Il
= level of numismatics. Originals
p, copies Of all tine postage and other STAN
: now in use, or that have been used with
10 the last twenty CT thirty years, are on e
hibition. OF these the United Stat
stamp with the head of Washington
r. pronounced the most beautiful. The
. are 12O styles of postal cards on the lis
and from Austria alone there are 90
r. specimens of stamps. Among the Fren<
q stamps is one which bears the head
e. the Count de Chambord, issued by t
~ Legitimists in 1870 in anticipation Of
>" Bourbon restoration. As envelopes we
s. introduced in 1886 III France. Al
stamped envelopes in Sardinia in 181
is the collection is large, and a history
" itself-Er