Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-11-07
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

The Protestants of France number
900, 600.
CorroS is still king in Texas. Itkeeps
ahead of wool.
WIZARDS salary is s., 600 a week be-
sides piokings.
THIRTY California millionaires have
died in ten years.
LAST year 16l 1000 Italians emig1ated
from their native land.
The new Kimball House in Atlanta
will contain 1859 rooms.
Mrs. A. T. STEWART intends to go
into society this winter.
MEMPHIS real estate. in about year,
has advanced 25p per cent.
LORD BACON considers early gray hair
no sign of physical decay.
GAMBLING on Atlantic steamships is
becoming great nuisance.
In 1882, in England alone, 788, OOO
paupers received public relief.
BRAZIL has 100000 slaves, about
one-ffth of whom are Indians.
They are making wrapping paper out
of rice straw and palm leaves in Geor-
gia.
OVER 5000, 5000, 900 feet of long. leaf
pines are now standing in North Caro-
lima.
GOVERNMENT telephone lines have
connected all the chief cities of Bel
GUM.
Nor one third of the lawyers of San
Francisco make enough to pay their Of
fee rent.
MANY rich London people prefer
boarding in hotels to keeping house.
It affords them opportunities of convers-
ing with the clerk.
The trades unions of England have
membership of 600. 900; those of the
United States, 247, 900.
GERMAN subjects crossing the Russian
frontier complain of the severity of ex-
listing regulations. Even children must
have formal passports.
The library of Gen. Sam Houston,
numbering some ATS volumes, has been
presented to the Houston Normal Insti-
tute, at Huntsville, Tex
A PHILADELPHIA bootblack cleared
81, 900 in one year, and has sent enough
money to his parents in Italy to buy
them a comfortable home.
TIE total number of spindles added to
cotton machinery in the United States
last year was $50, 900. of which 100000
were taken by southern states.
CAPITAL punishment on the west coast
of Africa is inflicted by administering
the poisonous bark of the gi.lu tree.
American soap is an effective antilote.
The last dodge of the California muir
derer to escape hemp is to appeal to the
United States supreme court and die q
natural death before decision is evor
rendered.
THREE editors have been selected as
the judges of apple brandy at a Virginia
fair. Of course, the managers will see
that they are wheeled home. Cincinnati
Times Star.
| AMERICAN companies have spent over
$50, 600, 600 in railroads in Mexico, and
completed over 1000 miles of track.
The English lines aggregate 1853 miles,
and the Mexican 635.
A VETERAN New York policeman states
that the first step to be taken in resus.
citating drowning man is to 60 through
his pockets. If there is any life in him,
and any valuables about him that will
fetch him to.
The eleventh annual convention OF the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg AS
ISOLATION, with an exhibition OF dairy
products, implements al d machinery
will be held at Cincinnati on December
4th, fifth and 9Th.
MARY BRIGHT, a New York negress
dieposes of the landlord question in al
original way. She engaged rooms the
other day, and the next M morning disap
peared. She paid her rent, however,
by leaving two newborn and chubby
babies.
The Mormons are building q temple
at Logan, Utah, for which the sum o.
S515, 900 has been raised. The dona
tions tor the temple at Manti amount t.
S476. Gao. The temple at St. Geo1gt
was completed several years ago. WorE
on the temple at Salt Lake City still
progresses.
ABOUT l. 378 papers and periodicals arr
published iu Italy. Lombardy has the
largest number, III, and the Provinct
of Rome comes next with 2lO. Tuscany
Piedmont and Campania have each lit
tie over $50. The other provinces fol
low in declining sclle from one hun
dred downwards.
QU1rE a number of our excharg Of
have Informed their readers that "lht
two. cent postage law has been received
with universal favo~." This, We believe
is contrary to the expectations OF the
general public. It was thought the peo
pie would bold indignation meetings ano
demand restoration of the three cen
stamp. Herald.
A SEA captain who has brought man,
gray parrots from Africa, tells frient
in Hartford that natives bring chem il
from the bush and sell them at eigh
English shillings each. He says tina
parrots do not show the white of the ey,
till they are six months old-so pur
chasers know when they are buyin!
young birds.
The Central Hotel in Berlin, one O
the largest hotels in Germany, paid t
the city water works in 1882 the sum O
16, 900 marks, and owing to its increase
business in 1883 the amount rising 26,
0GO marks, The administration of tn
hotel is now intending to supply it
wants by number of wells (a1tesian
of their own.
The act of putting lead-pencll t.
the tongue to vet it just before writing
which is habitual with many people,
one of the oddities for which it is har
to give any reason-unless it began il
the days when pencils were poorer thai
now, and was continued by example t
the next generation. A lead penc
should never be wet. It hardeDs tn
lead and runs the pencil. This fact
known to newspaper men and steno
gcaphers.
A FRENCH magistrate has been great
perplexed over a case submitted to hin
for adjudication. A butcher was abou
to pay drover 160 francs, when tn
note fell into dish of gravy. The butch
er snatched it up and was waving it il
tho air to dry 1t, when tue drover's do
made spring at it and swallowed tn
precious morsel. The butcher main