Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-07
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| GUIDES in Washington have become
as great a nuisance as Niagara Falls
hackmen.
The authorities of Cleveland. g., are
making an example of peanut. vendors
who use false measures.
Mr.. r. McK1NsrRY, of Hudson, N. Y,
owns the largest apple orchard in the
world-30, 900 trees on 800 acres.
A rARscN in Philadelphia publishes
marriage notice with this addition: "No
fee for the minister; empty envelope
dodge"
| MIR. J. q. PEBLEY, gentleman resi1-
ing on Pensacola Bay, has pecans graft
ed on the common hickory, and all Of
them doing well.
A TORONTO scotsman has sent a large
assortment of Canadian forest tree SEEDS
to Germany, to be used in replenishlng
the German forests.
The bird of the Selma Gala. gun
club, which took place a few days ago,
resulted IN the death of about $500
birds, besides several deer and hundred,
of squirrels.
A GIRL employed as n spinner ia
Lowell mill has taken the first prize Of
fered by the Boston Musical Society for
the best criticism of vocal and instrul-
mental music.
A CITIZEN coming to La Fayette.
Georgia, last week, reported that from u
point seven miles north OF that place he
met 81 one-gallon jugs IN wagons, and
seven on horses, all going to the ''lry
county" of Randolph.
No one ever supposed the prairie dogs
towns to be OF any value in the west uu-
til Yankee besieged one and began to
capture the an! mals for their skins;
which, it is said, can be made into
gloves that rival the finest kid.
A MASSACHUSETTS Yankee is before
congress with patent ballot boxes which
he offers to sell for $50 each. As he es-
Inmates that 500, 900 would be required
to supply all the polling places of the
United States, he would realize very
pretty sum.
The Philadelphia Chronicle man been
around among 'em and discovered that
"atoong the articles used for adulter-
atlng wine are tannip, alum, sugar, log
wood, beef juice, litbarge, and arsenic.
When tannin is scarce they throw IL a
few old boots"
WRAPPED in the stars and stripes, and
carrying pitchfork in his band, Joseph
France, lunatic, walked from West Mid
dletown to Washington, Pa. Society is
divided as to whether he intended to i'm
personate the Goddess of Liberty, or old
Neptune, with his trident.
The overflow of the Mississjpp1.
which cai1sed So much devastation last
summer in Louisiana, apparently was
not an unmixed evil. The sugar aud
cotton crops, planted Immediately after
the waters rrceded. now promise a
greater yield than has been known for
years.
NEAR Pictop, Ont, is remarkable
freak of nature. Two elm trees stand
about twenty feet apart, and Que when
twenty-five feet high bends over and
joins the other, forming perfect aud
magnificent tree. It is then perfectly
round, and extends upwards about
twenty-five feet.
THREE commercial travellers, two in
the grocery and one in the drug line,
from Winnipeg, were caught in biz
zard while driving across a prairie, and
could not escape from it. They put up
for day and night in friendly hay
stack, and consumed all their samples,
including the drugs.
CAPT. PAUL n. DENNIS, Chicago's
weather prophet of nature, who bases his
prognostics upon the instructive move
ments of insects and animals, hits it right
every time. His spiders in September
correctly indicated a long and pleasant
autumn, and bis muskrats in December
warned him of very severe winter.
LAST month there died in a private
lunatic asylum at Bonn, Peter Grass, a
man Of humble origin, selt-made, and
self-taught as painter on glass. He
was very secretive, and many of his
technicalities died with him. A number
of the windows in Cologne cathedral aud
in various famous churches were by
him.
A LARGE portion of the cargo of Cocoa
nuts brought from the West Indies to
Philadelphia in the brig Senorita was
ruined by rats, which gnawed out the
eyes of the nuts to reach the milk.
There were ten cats on board, but
though they were put on short ratious
they seemed Incapable of dealing with
the marauders.
A LIVERY man was sued for damages
at Nebraska City because the horse
which he had hired out to Young
couple for drive ran away and threw
them out of the sleigh; but he proved
by The plaintiffs own testimony that a
struggle for a kiss was the cause OF the
accident, and the jury acquitted the
horse of all blame.
BOYS employed on the New York and
New England Railroad are required to
obtain the signatures of their parents to
contract, by which it is agreed that
they shall not sue for damages in case
their children are killen by an accident.
1t is considered that youths are apt to be
careless, and the company makes the
provision to protect itself.
A MAN in gaping dislocated his jaw.
A surgeon restored the bone to the
proper position aud made his charge.
which the man thought too high, and
refused to pay. The surgeon changed
the conversation and soon told his best
story. The patient laughed so heartily
that the bone became again displaced,
and the surgeon reset it after receiving
payment in advance.
A CURIOUS present was made to Gov
ernor Bate, of Tennessee, on his in
aug,1ration, by an old friend in Texas.
1t vas huge chair, big enough to hold
three or four men-some even say big
enough to hold the President of the
United States senate-and composed of
twenty-four elk-horns. The card of
presentation read: "Governor W. B.
Bate: You take the horns."
A CONSCIENTIOUS member of the legis-
lature of Georgia, who during the ses.
sion obtained five postage stamps from
q clerk in one Of the state departments,
insisted upon paying for them, although
they were to be used for state business.
This looks very commendable in the
legislator, but it is asserted that at the
same time be bad railroad passes in his
pocket, and had used them, and charged
the state mileage both ways. |
TIE fOleign demand for quicksilver