Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-28
CHIPS AND SPLINTERS.

CHIPS AND SPLINTERS.
SHEET IRON nail kegs are something
new.
The tax levy in San Francisco is 81
per $lG0.
A GEORGIA farmer exults in six acres
of cucumbers.
MISSOURI is about to spend $4,000
in geological researches.
The Chinese recently driven out of
Waynesboro, Ga, have instituted suits
for Sl15,000 damages against eighteen
citizens of the place.
The boys in Delaware County, Penn
sylvania, are going for the English spar
rows under the stimulus of reward of
two and half cents per head offered by
the authorities.
A WOMAN at Medina, O., coughcd NOR
or less for nineteen years before she
threw up shirt button and found re-
lief. And 1t might not have come then
had she not fallen down stairs.
The Hagerstown, Maryland, Grand
Army Post has presented to a Baltimore
gentleman fencc-rail with twenty-bul-
let holes in it, taken from the field of
Antietam, where it was in the line Of
fire between the Irish brigade of Rick
ett's division and Jackson's forces.
AN Indiana bachelor regularly cele-
brates bis birthday by presenting each
of his seventeen niecesa and nephews with
a check for $1,000. If the old gentle
man lives few years longer his relatives
expect to put by enough money to get
up very interesting row over his will.
NICKEL is becoming very popular for
small coins, and the Fnench government
has substituted it for bronze. The Mex
lean government has ordered 100000
900 nickel fve-cent pieces to he coined.
It would be we'll for the United States to
withdraw all it's silver fve-cent pieces.
aud make all coins of that value Of nickel.
A YOUNG lawyer named Freeman, OF
Hamilton, Canada, who was drowned
recently IN Burlington Bay. had insur-
ance amounting to $50, 900 upon his life.
The companies. which we're somewhat
exercised at first, investigated the mat
ter, and all, with perhaps one exception,
are reported to have decided to pay the
| claims.
The first instance in America where
lady officiated as clergyman at we'd
ding ceremony waa at Columbus, O.,
few days ago, when Mrs. Lydia G.
Romick, the evangelist, performed the
marriage service for Charles PIN and
Miss Emma Bryant. Both bride and
groom are members Of the Society of
Friends.
some men at Bantas, Cal,. the other
day, we're sent to disinter body in the
graveyard, an7, not knowing the exact
spot where the body lay, commen Led
digging, and came upon a rough box
which held the body of man bearing
evidence OF having been murdered.
Tie sexton was surprised and knew
nothing OF the box or its contents. An
investigation will take place.
The quantity of old whisky in bond is
estimated at eighty million gallons.
This is not what is called the whisky of
commerce. 1t is expected to be used as
a beverage. The average number of
drinks III gallon of whisky is placed at
sky four. The number of drinks,
therefore. in bond, is S, ,l20,000,000, or
1O2 drinks for every man, woman and
child in the United States.
MOBILE outd1d herself for Joy over the
| arrival Of the first man-of.war at her
wharves. Tie military turned out to
fire salute to the old flag that spread
its folds above the vessel, gentlemen of
prominence and the city fathers made an
escort Of themselves to show the officers
the city, while the popping of cham
pagne was only less lively than the mer-
ol, ~
A SERIOUS engineering problem has
been encountered in makig the plans for
the BarthOldi statue to be erected in the
New York ha1bor. There will be a
tremendous wind strain, and cable dis
patch has been sent to French engineers
asking for their views as to the best
means of resisting it. The pedestal will
cost $3.50, 900, of which sum New York
has thus far only raised $S0,OO0.
AN old Hungarian miller is reported
to have given this rule for telling good
milestone: "When about to select a
stoue, take flask of gin and pour it
upo1 the stone; if the stone absorbs the
liquor so that the surface appear dry, it
is good one; but ii the gin remains on
the surface, the stone is good for moth
ing" It is suggested that the same rule
will not apply to the selection Of mil
Ter.
A New HAMPSHIRE lumber merchant
of forty years experience says that in
the year in which the Boston, Concord
! and Montreal Railroad was opened wood
| was worth 81 cord more at the stations
| along its line than it is to-day, and he
| Saws further that in his opinion wood
grows faster than it is used for fuel in
his state. But when the road was
opened not much coal was burned in the
state.
WILLIAM BEACH LAURENCE bought a
farm at Ochre Point, Newport, 40 years
ago, for $l2, 900, which, having been cut
no into lots and sold, has netted the
Laurence family 100000. And yet If
you hail man on the street, and when
he asks you what you want you reply,
"save your money and buy farm, he
doesn't take it as friendly act on your
part, and is likely to retort by suggest
ing trip to you.
MRS. LILLE DEvEREUx BLAKE asks;
eff 20 boys we're brought up in the
same way as gir]s-laced, kept indoors,
taught sewing, embroidery and playing
the piano, what sort Of young men
would they be at 21?" And if 20 girls
were broug ght up in the same way as boys
laced, with strap, allowedssthe run Of
the streets, the saloons, taught the 'ac-
complishments of the masculine life,
what sort of young women would they be
at M ?-Hnrtford Post.
IT has been an uncommonly cold win
ter in Maine, and the nights have been
very scarce on which even the most ar
dent lovers could derive enjoyment from
moonlight sleighride. But for pur-
poses of business, not romance, the win
| ter has been unsurpassed. Horses have
been kept constantly busy in the service
of the teamsters, and even dogs have
been pressed into use. The cost Of
opening country roads has been small
for the snow has drifted very little. and
the lumbermen have never worked with
better facilities, ' ~