Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-10-18
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WINN0WINos.
A YOUNG Virginian has invented ma
chine called the "lung destroyer" L
turns out $50 cigarettes minute.
| NINE hundred terrapins were hatohed
last week at Favre's place in Waveland,
Miss. In three years they will be full
grown.
| ERAsrUs CORNING, OF New York.
owns q collection of orchids which cost
10000; Jay Gould's set is valued al
$50, 900.
The apple syrup works at Albany, N.
Y, started by men from Holland, have
commenced to ship apple jelly in casks
to Holland.
THE nickel church, to be built al
Palestine, Tex, is to be paid for by not
less than 200, 900 persons contributing q
nickel piece.
A GENTLEMAN, who recently came up
the Yellowstone, estimates that one hun.
dred men have been drowned in that
river this summer.
In New York class of sneak thieves
pretend to be employees of the gas com
pany, and gain entrance to the house to
examine the meters.
A FOREIGN PAPER received at the
Chattanooga Tenn. post Office was ad-
dressed: "Henry Jones, southeast coast
OF America or elsewhere"
IT takes thirty-five pounds of sugar
to sweeten the average inhabitant of the
United States year, or about 1850.
DOC, 900 pounds to supply the whole
country for twelve months.
A LOCK TENDER at Cohoes. N, Y. fell
asleep early Thursday morning, and the
water overlooked the banks and rushed
down the streets, filing cellars and doing
considerable damage.
HE explosion of kerosense lamp at
Plymouth, Me-, did not hurt Mrs. Miles
| much, aud the loss of the dress which
she wore was of small account; but in a
burned pocket was $1,000 in paper
money.
A DURHAM COW belonging to a grocer
of Binghamton, n. y, climbed a steep
| stair in her barn ard feasted to repletion
upon tie hay stored in the loft. It was
twenty~ftur hours before she was dis
covered.
ONE duty ef the telegraph ]inemen is
to watch for what are known as ssskin
wires, that is, wires which are put up
without authority. Whenever these are
discovered they are cut down without
further cereAcny.
A CHAP in Canada wanted to explode
two pounds Of powder i'll the water to
kill fish, but after coming down from q
trip over the nearest trees, followed by
the splintels of his skiff, he decided that
The old tish-pole way was the safest.
AMONG recent contributions t., the
fund for monument to the late Senator
benjamin 81. Hill is one of $50 from the
Hon. Jas. G. Blaine. This is said to be
the first subscription to the fund from
any prominent public man in the north.
john JACOB AsroR has plan for the
erection OF the largest apartment house
IN the world. 1t IS to be in the vicinity
of Central Park, will tower au eLtire
city block. end will cost over 81 600, 900.
The original Astor House did not cost
half that sum.
EDWIN Booth has purchased lately
ten acres Of land in Middletown. near
Newport, r. L., and summer house is
now In process of erection on the site.
The style Of the house is Queen Anne,
5Ox55 feet. Irregularity, and every
where fre-P lace s, bay windows, and We
randas are textures.
The port of Guaymas, on the Gulf of
California, is looming up rs a rival to
San Francisco. A through line from
Kansas City will soon be operated by
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
management. The distance by this line
to Australia is sud to be l, 400 miles less
than by the way Of San Francisco.
A CURIOUS old knife has been found
near Hamilton, Tex. The blade proper
is sixteen inches long and about an inch
and Quarter WIDE tapeting to point,
and the plate for lald is three
inches lorg. On one side cf the blade
are the figures "1761," aud on the other
sc. Vard'as, e. F." showing it to be
an old Spanish knife.
At a recent fir in Concord, N, H..
John F. Eurgum exhibited Leedle
book which Was made from dresses worn
by the countess of Rumford at the court
of Bavaria i'll 1892, trimmed with yellow
gimp from her footman's hat-ban.l,
sewed with needles purchased by the
count in 1895, and bound i'll c0vers made
from ala arithmetic published in 1905.
WREs y ;ba S. Yarneli, living thrs
miles west of Montezvma, L., was in
the war, lie received q wound in the
small of the back, the evil effects Of
| which gradually extended to the ut r, t )
of The leg. For six years past be us ed
crutcbts, and last week, nearly twenty
years alter the wound was inflicted, ie
WAS Compelled thereby to have his IL #
leg ampntated six inches above the
knee.
TEARING down the cd wallis of tile
Yturri blilling, on the north lido OF
Main PI"z,, apure copper ball, weighing
four pruL DIS and nine oupces. wss taken
out. 1t had evidently pats"d through
the outer Wall and imbe dded itself ia The
soft rock Vt the second wall. The ball
was fltd III one OF the earlier battles of
the T. xas revolution, prob,bly during
the fight wlen Milan fell at the Vera
meIdi House.-Snn d,at0ni0 ErD<css.
No bald beaded man is taken into the
United States army as recruit. This
rule has ben adopted to concilia.e the
friendly Icdians. Not ing exasperatcs
an ln)i,n SO much as to kill United
States soldier. and then be deprived Of
the satisfaction of scs]ping him. Such
an outrage on the friendly Indians is
calculated to goad them on to war. It
is at the request of the Indians that the
secretary of war issued the order that
none but seal pable recruits should be
received into the army Texas SsG-
ings.
The portieres for Mr.. Cornelius Van
derbilt's new mansion on the corner of
Fifty. seventh Street and Fifth Avenue.
New York, are in the latest style of att
need'cwark; aod one of them, in solid
embroidery on silver cloth, after a beau.
tltul der ign by Lafarge, with the cate
III Roman letters ut the top. and the