Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-04
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negotiating for forty thousand acres OF
land in Arkansas.
Mr.. JOHN L. DYsART, of Cartersvil,,
Ga. has fallen heir TO au estate in Ire.
land valued al several million dollars.
NORWOOD, curroway, and verbenas
all grow wild i'll tho southern states aud :
do considerable damage to cultivated
crops.
FORTY miles west Of Wickenburg, A." .
lzona, IS q group OF copper mines for
which 81 900, 600 is alleged to have been
refused.
The confederate flag pole at the
county seat of Early County, Ga, still
stands where it was planted over twenty
one years ago.
The Natal Twin Association, of Nash
vile, Tenn, pays $4,000 to each men-
Der producing certificate of the pater-
nifty OF 4 pair Of twin babies.
NEAR Goldsboro, N. c., wild man,
who for long time has been terror to
tho people, was captured, and proved to
be crazy and an entirely nude negro.
IT has been estimated that the North
American continent is being reduced in
height at the rate of foot in every
$500 years by the erosive action Of
water.
AN English "public analyst" says
that all cheeses should be washed before
using, as custom prevails among
manufacturers of brushing them over
with a solution OF arsenic to keep the
flies away.
EXPERIMENTS in planting pine seeds
have resulted in securing good groves Of
trees in places where transplanted trees
failed to grow. Pines are being intro
duced On many worn~out farms in the
eastern states in this manner.
"BAKER SAM" d wood-hauler of Eu-
reka, New, had put away, buried in
stall, the sum Of $4,000 in 500 gold
pieces, and when he went to gaze upon
his treasure two weeks ago he found to
his utter dismay that all was gone.
JOHN SNYDER, OF Fritztown, Berks
County. Pa, is 80 years old and now
! dangerously ill. At one time he was in
sured on the graveyard plan to the
amount of $3.50, 600, but he survived all
the companies that had risks on him.
A DEcK-LoAD of jackasses arrived in
New York recently, tue importation of
Abel Leonard, OF Mount Leonard, Mo,
who is to take them west for breeding
purposes. They were collected with s.nce
III SPAN, and they stood the VOYAGE
we'll.
The ten thousand young poets who
have just paid return postage on their
own manuscript will curl their lip, in
sad, bitter scorn, over the blindness of
publishers when they read that Tenny-
son received $4,000 for his poem "'Io
Virgil
The name ''Tarheels was first given
to North Carolina troops by General J.
A. Early, at Williamsburg. 1t was on
the occasion of the famous charge M de
by the Fifth Regiment uD,ler Cclo,iel
d. K. McIsae, which lie says equaled if
not eclipsed that of the Old Guard of
France at Waterloo.
THE Blue Grass Region in Kentucky
is proud of a sunfower weighing four
pounds, and forty-two inches in circum-
ference; but Marietta, Ca, steps to the
| front with one which measures four feet
! one half inch in circumference; and
Sandersville, Ga. has one which weighs
eight and half pounds.
THERE are some sixty sassafras-oil dis
| tilleries in Buckingham County, Vir-
ginia, aud they engage three hands at
each mill. They consume each per day
| two thousand pounds OF routs and make
sixty gallons OF oil, worth from 81. SO to
SIS per gallon-$270 to $500 per day, and
for the year from 1854, 900 to 800, 1000
r. BRECKENRIDGE, of Rosenberg,
Ore, has been seriously ill, caused by
| opening the vault of deceased person.
| He was in such position that the gases
from the coffin struck him in the face.
Shortly after he was taken with fever
that for time baf1ed the skill of at
| tending physicians, but he was at lost
accounts likely to recover.
The largest chestnut tree IN Lancas-
| ter County, Pennsylvania, stands within
few hundred yards of the Mannheim
| borough line, on the public road leading
| to Sporting Hill. Its circumference is
twenty three feet six inches, one foot
above the ground. The tree was meas
ured forty-five years ago, when its cir
cumference was twenty-one feet four
inches.
| A C1NC1NNAr1AN has written a pamph-
let recounting the events of "the war
of 1885," between the United States and
Great Britain. The result of the war is
| abe defeat of the United States. The
object of the pamphleteer is to arouse
attention to the fact that the national de-
lenses have been neglected and the army
and navy permitted to become in.
efficient.
AT Wilmington, N. c., party Of
gentlemen discovered large white crane
on the edge of small pond evidently
trying to fly, but could not. They went
to investigate the matter, and ascertained
that one of the birds feet was held bv a
large swapping terrapin. The crane was,
lifted out of the water, but the ter
rapin kept his hold. Both we're cap
tured alive.
| MAURICE WELSH, of Norwich, Conn.
earns his living by manual labor, and is
so willing to do so that he voluntarily
gave up his pension Of 81 month. He
wrote to the pension agent that his
wound, received in the war, had ceased
to trouble him and that he could not con-
scientiously receive any more help from
the government. An agent was sent to
find out whether Walsh was sane. He
was.
A LITTLE girl at Wheeling, W. Va,
while running III play, stumbled and
fell, striking her forehead against solid
, little mound of gravel, producing what
seemed to be a mere stratch on the fore
head, which, at the time, did not attract
special attention. What at first seemed
to be merely a scratch soon encrusted
over, but did not heal, and doctor be-
ing called, triangular pebble, the size
OF compressed pea, was removed from
beneath the skin, where it was firmly
imbedded.