Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
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BUTLER wants book keeping taught in
our schools.
A HOG weighing $50 pounds was
slaughtered at the Chicago stock yards
Saturday.
CLOVER grows luxuriaptly in Mime
sofa Wales where it wouldn't sixteen
years ago.
TEXAS exrends s75, 600 year in main
tanning a battalion Of rangers on the
Mexican frontier.
A New YORK firm has engaged a
clothing pattern cutter OF Boston at a
salary Of $4,000 a year.
DR.. CARTER has raised 100000 for
Williams College since he became its
president, two years ago.
J. B. JERMA1S, of Watervliet, N. Y.
sent a New Year card, wrapped in a
SIS, 900 check, to Hamilton College.
A MAN at Auburn, n. Y, has bank
cheek for IA cents signed by VIM. 81.
Vanderbilt Re has been offered $40
for it.
\ BRocroN soldier, who lost toe in
she war, has just been paid $40 for the
h!t AStSI ny TIC government uiteF SIX
teen years delay.
A Syracuse sleigh 100 years old is
driven by a mau OF SIS and pulled by a
horse i'll his 35!h year There's netting
frisky about that turnout.
a COMPANY has been formed at Calves
Ton TO build III iron pier two miles to
deep water, to increase the wharfing
facilities, at a cost OF 81, 900, 900.
CoSNECT1cUT has the champion mean
man. He was worth about 81, 900, 900.
and with sixteen poor lawyers in his
town he went and died without making
Il will.
AT Cazenova, Madison County, n. Y,
she village water is restricted to three
Or four wells, the owners of which are
reapiag a handsome profit during the
famine.
Vanderbilt thinks railroad speed of
forty-tve miles al hour plenty fast
enough for any country to DO business
on, and no roads can stand the racket of
a faster gait
Two package wrappers at Davenport,
Iowa, entered into a contest on the Satur-
day before Christmas. The champion
wrapped $500 bundles, using 1920
yards of tWine,
HENRY CARPENTER, negro OF Bowl
ing Green, Kentucky, who last summer
haG his neck broken, bis skull fractured
and one Of bis legs smashed las resumed
his farming operations.
RECENT tests of yarn made from Diff
fercnt hemps gave the following relative
average strengths: Manila, PAS; italian,
POI; New ZeAlurI l43; Russian, l2S.
Maolla Is evidently the yarn to be hanged
with,
IExAs has 1000, 600 lying idle in her
treasury, but Is unable to apply it to
She reduction of her debt, IS, 200, 900,
because her creditors ask Sl.4O for tie
oonas. and she is unwilling to pay that
premium.
CUSTER COUNTY, Montana, is the
largest comfy Ill the United States.
Cts rrea is &C., 600 square miles. It is
I:.rser tlan the States Of Vermont, New
Hhur shine, Messacl usetts, Delaware
and Rhode Island, all combined.
IL al CID mail car sent to the Will
m'ng7on, Del, shops for repairs WAS
found tho other day bundle of letters
lnn'ltu Twelve wears ago. Que coltaiDed
4 'i:' ok Tor $500, auu smother gu irvi-
'st'oi' 10 ia,ty III January, 1870.
\ MEaBER OF the Indiana legislature,
says correspondent, explained the fact
that cn his salary Of $1,000 he had in
one Session saved $4,000, by saying:
"lts al OWN to my wite's bein'
economical IL not keep'n' d hired girl
that we've saved so much.
FIVE thousand cranberry cuttings from
She east will be planted Oh some marshy
lands in Lane County, Oregon. The
protector OF the scheme is favorably i'm
pressed with the possibilities of this new
industry, and believes Oregon can raise
as good cranberries as New Jersey.
GEORGE SMITH, who lives about FIVE
miles from Watkins, N. Y, was cleaning
a gun the otherday. He poured benzine
Into the barrel to burn out rag, and
then put the breach in he stove to ignite
she benzine. The barrel contained a
charge of powder, which was discharged,
and the rag was driven into Smith S
head GEAR the ear severing the arteries
aid Factoring the skull.
AT Buenos Aytes a married broker
eloped with a young lady of good family,
but in a few days, finding the hunt
after him hot, returned, home, aud, beg
ging his wlte's forbearance, obtaine d
from her promise that she would still
live beneath tie same roof, but sepa-
rated at bed and board. AS for the
young lady, her parents cast her off, and
she is to seek refuge in Montevidean
convent.
LAST summer Charles Cushmau Joined
the Concord School Of Philosophy, and
1ngratiated himself with the MEMBERS;
had himself introduced at bank, and
passed two forged drafts for $3.50 and
s377, first, however, cashing a genuine
one for $3.50. After buying two elegant
suits of clothes and contracting other
debts he disappeared, but LAS just been
arrested ct st. Louis, where be attend
ed medical college under the name Of
Louis Laurence. 1t is believed that he
is the same man who under the alias of
Westphal swindled several persons COLI
nected with the Ohio College one year
ago.
The h1ahwa Tree.
This is one OF the Indian fruit trees,
The slngularity OF the genus consists in
the fact, that not only is the fruit eat.