Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-09-06
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The wealthiest city in the United
States, in proportion to population, is
Portland, Oregon.
"a BUN1oN is spoken of as nobby
thing in low cut shoes.-Nea0 Orleans
Picayune.
A $3.50 goat near San Francisco did
damage to farm that made his owner
subject to verdict for $500.
A YOUNG Virginian has invented ma
chine which turns out $50 cigarettes per
minute. It is on exhibition at Lynch
burg.
A BOY of six and girl of two, at Bal
lardville, Neb., are mated for marriage
by their parents, who have signed an
agreement that the marriage shall occur
in 1897.
A FARMER in Henry County, Ky., has
eighty stalks of large white corn that
"Bessarabia corn," of Russia, and will
make at the rate of forty barrels per
acre.
A NASHVILLE woman who had been
slandered by young man attacked the
youth in the street with butcher knife,
hacked away until he ran, and, says a
local paper, "conducted herself like
perfect lady throughout the affair."
A BNaHAMToN, VT, man distributed
some trough on rats in his yard,
where it was expected to be devoured by
some cats which were making havoc with
his chickens. he succeeded in killing
one cat, eight rabbits, and all of his own
hens but one. t.
A MICHIGAN man who paid out $56 in
fees to the walters of seaside hotel dur
ing the month he was there, came home
under cloud. At a convention of wait
ers, held on the morning of his depart
ure, it was resolved that he was too
stingy to live the year out.
Some boys at Tucson, Texas, under
took to make statue, and their plan for
getting a mold was to covera playmate's
face thickly with mud. They tried it,
giving the subject no breathing holes,
and he was sufocated SO NJ arly to death
that the doctors had great difficulty in
saving him.
In tearing down the porch of dwell
ing-house at Churchville, Hartford
patent for tract of land graatsa s.,;i'i L. =
Frederick. Lord Baltimore, to John
Paca, "of Baltimore County," in che
year 1852. The patent is worn and
soiled by time and the elements, but the
signature of Ho,atio Sharpe, governor
of the province of Maryland, is plainly
seen.
A FLOWING oil we'll at Newhall, CAL,
caught fire the other day, and a column
of smoke and fame rose into the air to
the height of five hundred feet, and
everything near was soon enveloped in
flames. So great was the heat that none
could approach until it had spent it's
fury, and the flow of gas and oil had
stopped for the time.
EVEN the Boston bakers use cotton
seed oil in their cooking. Dougbnuts
fried in it are said to be cooked in "cot-
ton butter" Frenchmen have for long
time resold the oil to us both as pure
olive oil and as a packing for sardines.
An Atlanta authority defies any one to
tell the difference between steak fried
in lard and one fried in cottonseed oil.
GEORGE BENNETT bought dying
horse for SIS, and drove into Maysville,
Va, at slashing pace. After telling
several persons that he had paid 5000
for the beast, which did not show it's
condition to casual observers, he man
aged to get it killed by locomotive.
Then he sued the company for 5000.
The scheme failed, and its protector is
in jail.
LEADvnnE will produce a, 900 tons
of lead this year. Her output was q, 600
tons for the first six months. Utah's
output will be 5000 tons in advance of
last year, or 5000 tons. Nevada will
show falling off, while Missouri is on
the increase. Arizona will also be a
large producer for the last half of this
year. The outlook for an advance In
price is not very brilliant at this time.
AT the funeral of Mrs. George G.
Leidy, in Philadelphia, recently, the
colin was borne by the six adult sons OF
the dead v1man. The youngest of the
sons is twelty-three and the eldest thir-
ty-nine years old. Mrs. Leidy's age
was sixty years. The undertaken said
he had been in business forty-two years
and this was the first time in his expert
ence that he had Witnessed or known OF
such an occurrence.
A DWARF II years old and hardly twen-
ty-five inches in height was sold in
France to Jean Lumeau by his father,
to be exhibited in booth. His pur-
chaser conceived the idea of establishing
miniature menagerie, with the dwarf
as tanner. He caused number of cats
to be painted so as to look like tigers,
and giving the dwarf whip, compelled
him BY kicks and threats to goad the
cats into furious attack. The poor lit
tie fellow was literally torn to pieces by
the infuriated brutes. .5s..s=:.
A FEW days ago Col. G. a: Reed, OF
Salem, Oregon, received letter adj
dressed to him by an old schoolmate
many years ago, who forgot to mail it:
It was laid away in an old fashioned
clock. where it remained till about
month ago, when, on overhauling the
clock, the letter was found. Thnkinglt
would serve as souvenir OF the days
gone BY, it was sent on the Col. Reed.
| The letter was written on February "a.
1874, thirty eight years ago, and as that
| was before the time of envelopes it was
sealed with wafer.
"a REMARKABLE scene was witnessed at
! the Faith Cure Camp-meeting at Old
/ Orchard Beach, Me-, 9 short time since.
1 More than 900 invalids presented them.
selves Is be cured Of their diseases by
PRAYER. One by one they were taken be-
fore Dr.. Charles Cullis, the manager OF
1 the nesting. Dipping 9 finger OF his
rirht hand ii oil, Dr.. Cnllis laid his
4 hand on the head Of each, uttering q
4 Ifervent prayer. Some departed from the q
meeting declaring themselves cured g g