Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-03-07
CHIPS AND SPLINTERS.

HUNDREDS of beavers are to be fonnd
in the lakes and bayous of Grant par
ish, La.
A BOY in Mobile, Ala, burned down
two buildings to win two bets aggregat-
ing 81 that there would be two fires in
the city before certain specified dates.
LESS than one-third of the twenty. two
million acres of land in North Carolina
are improved. In some cases, extensive
swamps or mountains account for the ab-
sence of cultivation.
The offer of Boston merchant TO
build coasting track on the common.
after the Russian fashion, was regarded
as a generous act, until the thing was
conspicuously lettered with an ADVERTISE
ment.
A WITNESS in the Toronto Police Court
who was asked by an attorney if his &C.
qualntance IN the city was large imper-
tlnently replied: eyes, my acquaint
ance lies from lawyers up to respectable
men,"
AT her christening in Freehold, N. j..
Mr.. WINS baby girl wore around her
neck some lace that had decorated her
great great great grandmother, Mrs.
Margaret Mccall Swift, of Philadelphia,
in 176O.
A MERCANTILE firm at Hazelhurst,
Miss, recently attempted to Introduce
pennies in that town. It ordered $50
worth of them, but, finding that they
would not take with the people, were
forced te return them.
SOME people in New Hampshire are
boastingly telling of 5-year-old boy
who had this winter cut and split two
cords of hard wood. And his we'll do
father is regarded as man of sound
sense by his townsmen.
THERE are in New York one thousand
rag. pickers, who are making mon Y so
fast that their granddaughters will
doubtless be leaders of society, while
their grandsons will refuse to associate
with people who are So in trade"
The keeper of the life-saving station
is rare thing in those waters. It was
at Amagansett, l.. l., few days
ago, caught a basking shark ten
feet long. The basking shark
shipped to Professor Baird, OF the United
States fish commission, at Washington.
ONE Of the favorite projects of ex-
Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut, was an ex-
haustive history of tue old Charter Oak,
for which he had been collecting mate.
rial. He was the owner of the fine
painting Of the tree by Brownell, and
was having the picture engraved with
the intention Of using the engravings in
connection with his monograph.
IT has been discovered that the loco
motive which "started itself !" in jersey
City the other day and ran off the trestle-
wolk, was actually started by a
wiper" who thought that the fireman
would be discharged for carelessness and
he would get his place. His tracks in the
snow were traced from the locomotive to
his house, which led to his arrest.
PROBABLY the fastest train in this
country is the New York and Philaiel.
pbia express, which makes the run CT
SS.4 miles in l hour and 50 minutes, in
Guiding three steps, or at the rate OF
II. 8 miles per hour. From Jersey City
to Germantown Junction, 81 miles, the
run is made in / hour II minutes, in
Guiding one stop, or at the rate OF sos
miles per hour.
HUMoR1sr BURDErrE, of the Burling-
ton Hawkeye, says he has turned total
abstainer, and tells why: 81 reduced
the matter to figures and found out that
to each man is allotted one barrel of
whisky; and by close calculation I dis
cover that had drunk barrel and
half. In other words, had drunk my
own and half of some other mans bar
rel. 1 am too honest to rob ANYBODY,
especially Of tue whisky we get nova
days, and therefore have quit drinking
whisky entirely"
HENRY G. ROBINSON, of Hartford,
Conn.,, told in recent lecture of visit
that he made to one of the smaller fac
tories in Connecticut, whose owner
boosted that in the year preceding he
had "made" $4,000. Going through
the factory, when he got away up under
the roof he found bobbins tended by
chlldren-boys Of from eight to twelve
years. Their faces we're colorless. Tue
man who "made" 1900 told Mr..
Robinson that these little boys we're
earning fifteen cents day, and that
they worked ten hours day, with twenty