Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

When is q woman like pistol? When she
goes of with a bang.
Niagara Falls were lighted with electricity
last week, and the effect was beautiful.
Miss Mary Crowell won the literary essay
prize at the Vanderbilt University over III
males.
Many Iowa homes now have storm cave
connected with their cellars to escape the
fury OF cyclones.
The Spring Valley Mercury published a
boom sheet for that busy burg last week that
looked we'll for the place.
Phillip Phillips, 1.-THE sweet singer" has
started for Amsterdam, intending to give
there hundred ''song services during the
Worlds Fair.
The girl who knits her eyebrows will be
one.-Intey- Ocean.
We are surprised at such profanity.
Fred. Douglass being at a meeting of
white clergymen in Boston the other day. was
here merely to give color to the OCCASION
"A lady who bought heavy mourning at
AlgOna, Iowa, explained to the milliner that
her husband was not we'll and might pop of
whf3 st % Tb s5
thought she went on to the undertaker's.
1T is now definitely settled that the I'd reg
iment will encamp at New Ulm from July to
IS: and d the 1st regiment at White Bear from
Capt. c. NJ. Mccarthy. will encamp with the I'd
regiment This will bring about 600 men into
camp at New Ulm.
The circus pavilion of Barnum's show
burned shortly after 2 o'clock, June 5th, in
Chicago. 1t was the largest single canvas in
the world. being constructed on special de-
sign, at cost of $4,000, and covering nearly
six acres of ground. The heavy center poles
when their guy ropes had burned fell with
tremendous force, smashing the seats and
running the elaborate stages which had been
at ces The
gin of the fire is supposed to be explained in
sparks from engines.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has long been considered
one OF the prettiest women in New York
does not look to be more than twenty-eight
Her hair is of golden hue, her complexion
fresh and chang cable, and her eyes of the
purest blue. She has most delicately charm
ing expression, and her figure almost fault
less. Moreover, she possesses an unusually
active and accomplished mind. She writes
Cuban travels, and is q thorough woman Of
| business-all the affairs of the publishing
house being personally. conducted by her
She is omnipotent as well in the literary de
partment as In the counting room. When a.
home in New York. her little dinners are en-
jOyed every week by. some of the brightes
and cleverest artists, authors and public mel
Leslie was awarded by the courts the entir'
and absolute control of her late husband
estate. which, it is estimated. yields her al
| income of about 1000 year.
| st. Petersburg has narrowly escaped los
| ing the most precious of its art treasures
the celebrated Madonna della Staffa of Ra
phael. The picture, which for more thar
Staffa family, was purchased in 1870 by tn
Emperor of Russia for Ell, 400, and was b,
him presented to tho late Empress, who at he
death bequeathed it to the art museum at Her
mitage. The heated air of the gallery in whic
| the picture was hung recently split the sQuar
pine panel ON which Raphael painted his mas
terpiece, and it was feared that the damag
was irreparable. A certain artist nance
matters right. After carefully supporting
the face of the picture with linen backed by
slab of marble, he laboriously rubbed ava
the panel, first with files and afterward witt
powdered glass, aud then succeeded In mount
ing the thin remaining film on canvas In tn
course of this delicate operation it was dis
covered that instead of the book which tn
Madonna in the picture now holds, there wa
infent jesns stretched ont " his h ~i" Wit IT.
childish curiosity.