Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-17
INTERESTING SCRAPS.

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A FARMER living neat Maples1illU,
Ala', has practically demonstrated tie
TACT that tine rice can be grown in Ala
| bama.
"A SYRACUSE quaok doctor induced Au.
gustqs Berrineger to take pink-root and
mandrake to kill tape worm. Berrin-
eyer died.
a AENFUCK1AN's life was saved by his
watca IN New Years day quarrel, a
pistol ball fred at him at short range
lodg lng In it between the cafes.
A MAN in Georgia recently attended d
family gathering of 800 of his descend
ants. He has fifty-three children, and
is now living with his ninth wife.
A SOLDIER who lost his toe in the war.
Solomon F. Beals, of Brocton, Mass.
has been pushing his claim for sixteen
years, and now gets a pension of $40.
NoxUBEE COUNTY, Miss, claims as it
greatest living curiosity pig with we'll
developed horns. The horns are similar
to those OF COW, though not so large.
A MAN found $500 in bonds and
81, 600 In currency buried in Philadel-
phia cellar. He Was detective; and had
already captured the Burglars who lived
there.
The Nebraska man who drove his wife
out on cold night, causing her to freeze
her feet so badly that they had to be
amputated, was tarred and feathered by
bis neighbors.
SOME of the halibut fishermen com
ing into Gloucester are now making up
their profits for the year. A very lucky
vessel will sometimes give to each of her
crew something like 5000.
NEBRASKA men are not at all consist
ent. One of them took dose of Paris
green to end his life because he had lost
$50, and then tiirned abound and offered
doctor 81 900 to save his life:
MIDDLEBUR9, Pa; has the champion
absent-minded man. After milking his
COW he gave the COW the pail of milk,
took up the milking stool and carefully
set it down upon the pantry shelf.
! AN Irishman in Cullacan, Mexico, at
tempted to commit suicide by firing a
piSt6l into his mouth. The ball re-
NAMED near the brain, and tile mans
life has been saved, although he will be
q lunatic.
THREE men Of Reading, Pa, have
been fined $50 each and costs for iDjur-
ing the ice by skating on Union canal.
J. N. Keller had leased the cauaI, in.
tending TO harvest the ice and bad
erected warming to trespassers.
The men employed in one department
Of the Elgin (Ill, } watch factory did pot
strike on the arrival OF young woman
as the FIRST employee of her sex among
them, but received her with speeches OF
welcome and the gift of a toilet set.
! A MAN desired to bury his amputated
leg in Dubuque cemetery but the ST.
perintendent refused to allow it OH the
ground that burial permit was neccs-
sary for every interment and such a
docilmeht could only lie procured for al
entire body.
A PARTY of young men dined sumptu.
ously at q restaurant and each one in.
sisted on paying the bill. To decide the
matter it was proposed to bliudfold the
waiter, and the first one he caught
should pay the bill. He hasn't caught
any of them yet.
A FRENCHMAN and his family living
on scow anchored near the dug dock
at Ton AMANDA, n. Y, narrowly escaped
drowning one night last week. The
scow sunk, carrying with it all the eff,
fects Of the family, barely giving then,
time to reach the dock.
GERMANTowN, Pa, has person who
can eat pound OF soap, half pound Of
candles, and drink pint of lard OIL at 6
single meal. His name is VIM. Manuel
and at one time be filled regular en-
gagement at a saloon giving exhibitions
Of his ostrich-]ike appetite.
| Tue inscription ':Ysnat p" on a jar in
a Philadelphia Indian doctors shop,
puzzled a reporter until he discovered
that it was "Tansy" spelled backward.
With this clue he read the names of
other mysterious medicines with clear.
er understanding than before.
A LATE party of northern excursion.
lists passing through Georgia en- route
for Florida, complain that at Jessut
they were charged twenty-five cents eacf
for the privilege Of standing twenty five
minutes each before fire at second
class hotel while waiting for the train.
1882 will be remembered as witness
ing the largest railroad mileage ever con
structed within any single year Of the
country's history. The number re
ported was 1881 miles and the com
plete returns for December will prob
ably bring total up to about II, zoo
miles.
| HENRY B. CARRIER, one of the victims
Of the famous CARRIER poisoning case al
Norristown, Pa, which still remains {
mystery, has been placed in the Phila
delphia hospital, HOPELESS paralytic
After the wholesale poisoning his life
was saved, but he was left a physicn
wreck.
| The Creighton family took rooms in q
Montreal boarding house for a definite
term, and refused to give them up be-
fore it's expiration, though they quar-
relied with the landlady. She resortec
the expedient of burning Cayenne pep
per where the fumes would go up through
the hot air pipe into the Creighton
apartments. Her right to do this is tc
be tested in court.
| A CALIFORNIA man has acquired a
fortune in singular way. He had 9
/ lot of mining stock OF a nominal value,
and pledged it as collateral for loan.
Then the stock rose very high. The
person to whom it was pledged sold it.
Subsequently it fell again, and he
bought it back, making 1926, 900 by the
transaction. The true owner OF the
stock found out about the transaction,
aud sueu for the 1926, 900 as belonging
to him. The supreme court gives it &c
him, too.
| The ice men OF Maine, with twelve
inches of solid ice on the Kennebec, and
the prospect of a harvest o. 100000
tons from that river alone, are very I'M
happy, for the reason that there is like
ly to be vast sup ly the country over,
and along the Hudson in particular.
Furthermore, there is an unusual guam
tity left over from last years cutting,
and it will take something more than
whistling to keep their courage up to the
point Of expecting good prices and q
! quick demand.
A Lucky Purchase.
A purchaser of land in California al
WAYS stands the chance to finding it turn