Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-07
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

OCR HARVEST FIELD.
! The pcnitcntial season will soon be
over.
Hon. Milo White left for Washing
ton Feb 22d.
The Baptist church membership of
i Minnesota numbers 100.
Somebody has we'll SAID ANXIETY
| is the poison Of human life"
| A Boston child refused to drink milk
after she saw her grandpa squeeze it out
! of cow
Rochester is arranging for Fourth
of July celebration. There's nothing
like being on time.
An English brewer in Ohio, wishes to
know what effect local hoption would
; ave upon the price of ops"
| a New York girl suddenly became
rich through the contents of a kerosene
can-her rich aunt kindled the fire.
| u. S. Senator Sabin left ST. Paul for
Washington last week Wednesday. His
wife accompanied him, and special car
was placed at their disposal.
! The Bishop: when | was your age
it was not thought good manners for lit
tie boys to do all the talking" Small
| boy: Guess that was seventy or eighty
! years ago. We've changed that, YOU bet. y
| A family in York owns part Of a silk
balloon taken from the Confederate gun
| boat Tcascr in 1863. There were about
! twenty different colors and shades in the
/ balloon. This was accounted for in the
! fact that the Southern ladies sent their
silk dresses to be made into wear balloons.
| The Dubuque Times announces that
a large factory will be established in that
city this spring for the manufacture Of
imitation meerschaum pipes. They will
! be made out of potatoes, which excellent
vegetable will be transformed into a hard
and porous substance by sulphurlc acid
and some other chemicals.
A letter addressed to The damdest
lire in Mnasotv' reached the St. Cloud
postotficc last week OF course the letter
was intended for a lawyer, but the post
master, by mistake, threw it into an edi-
tors box, thereby grossly insulting the
! fraternity, which is universally conceded
, to be the honcstcst of all the professions
| -Peck's Sun pcrpctrates the following
! SANDER: A farmer was driving rapidly
out Of Cedar Falls, the other day, when
! he met a cighbor, who hailed him, say
! ing. "Neighbor, what's your hurry:' "Oh
! just took Il =rist to mill, and lacked one
; sack Of having enough to pay the toll,
and am going home after it.
: We have heard similar complaints our
! selves.
/ One of the hest known women in
) this state is Mother Upright, who sent
! rleytn sons to the army during the war.
After the death of her first husband, Mr..
Merchant, she married NJ. J. Upright,
with whom she lived several years. Last
week Mr.. Upright died at his home near
Rockford, leaving the patriotic and
| grand old woman a widow again.-Huson
CHy (Iorn) Rrpublicm.
- ne eultOF VI inc Ct. NlOuN lVS IS Il
married man. yet Il poctrss writes him a
poem entitled: Let me Kiss the Gather
ing Wrinkles from your intellectual
| Brow" and he says he will place the case
| in her hands.-Er.
| Now see here, take a friends advice,
and let out the job We bet a dollar if
you don't, you will find sunthin' deeper
than wrinkles on your intellectual skull,
if Mrs. Times is nigh about
! About one thousand persons visited
St. JoseDh's Roman Catholic church of
! Philadelphia, recently, submitting to the
ceremony of blessing the throat, in &C
cordancc with custom which has cxis
ted for centuries, in honor of St. Blasius.
The ceremony is supposed to protect the
throat from diphtheria and kindred af-
fections, for the space Of a year. and
the expiration Of which the blessing is to
be repeated. The clergy try to impress
upon their subjects that the blessing is
an act of devotion and not an article Of
faith