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

The penitential season will soon DC
over
Hon. Milo White left for Washing
ton Feb. 22d.
The Baptist church membership of
Minnesota numbers 7, 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 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 l 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. "
A family in York owns part uf a silk
balloon taken from the Confederate gun
boat Teaser 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 war balloons.
| The Dubuque Times announces that
large factory will be established in that
city this spring for the manufacture uf
imitation mcerschaum pipes. They will
be made out of potatoes, which excellent
vegetable will be transformed into hard
and porous substance by sulphurlc acid
and some other chemicals.
"A letter addressed to THE damdest
lire in Minasoty" reached the St. Cloud
postotfice 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 honestest 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 neighbour. who hailed him, say
ing. "Neighbor, what's your hurry" "Oh
just took grist 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 best known women in
this state is Mother Upright, who sent
elsutn 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 widow again.-.Kuson
CITY (Ioecn) Republican.
The editor of the St. Cloud Times is a
married man, yet poctcss 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 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.
cordance with custom which has exis
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 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