Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-09-19
HOnOrs at Wholesale.
tFrom the Wall Street News !


It is said that while the Rev. James
Keene, generally referred to by the boys
as Jim Keene, WAS a resident of the Pa
cifc coast, a rough-looking specimen of
the California farmer burst in upon him
one day with:
"Say, Kurnel, my wife has got a
bran-new baby, and we've named it Jim
Keene Thompson"
eyes," slowly answered the rever.
end gentleman, as he passed over 800
gold piece.
In about aD hour another man from
the same neighborhood entered with the
salutation:
"Say, Keene, what do you think?
We have built church up our way and
named it the Jim Keene Chapel.
Can't you come down with a sinner or
two?"
swell, I suppose I'll have to, re-
Piled the Rev. as he shelled out $40
piece.
Thirty minutes had scarcely passed
when in came third man with:
"Good morning, judge. We are
building schoolhouse over the creek to
be called the Jim Keene school. Want
to contribute few?"
eyes," was the reply, as a five was
passed out.
''It wasn't over twenty minutes be-
fore fourth man hustled in and called
out:
"Keene, T discovered a. new canyon
up the country the other day, and I
dedicated it to you."
"Look here" said the reverend gen.
tleman as he turned in his chair; g
want you to go back and hunt up all
the new babies, echoolhouses, churches,
trotting horses, canyons, lunatic asy-
lums, burying- grounds and berry patch
es in your county which are to be Jim
Keened, and come back here and give
me the lot at wholesale, for I'm blanked
If I'm going to fool with the retail busi-
ness any longer! G ,ol-day, sir!"
Mexican Markets.
tAIonteray Cor. Springfield Republican,
The markets are among the most pic
turetque sights in Mexico. Not only
are the tropical fruits and vegetables
and national wares and commodities
strange to us, but the habitants are
stranger stil,. Tue seller, whether man
or woman, sits upon the ground, with
his wares raogel in little piles upon a
blanket or piece OF canvas before him.
Ii mar, he is silent and taciturn, but
never forgetting to cheat you out OF a
cent or two in "change," and wears a
wide old som brero pulled down over his
shaggy bro va, sandals laced with leath-
ern thongs upon his dusty feet, and
huge bright t-husd zarapa Qrug) wrapped
closely about his shoulders, however hot
the day. If woman, she is garrulous
anu coquettisb. her long, black, matted
locks entirely uncovered, a loose chemise
not in the loest diss suising her figure to
the waist, and bare, brown legs .protrud-
iog from her scanty red petticoat. In
every market place is always fountain,
or great stone we'll aid to 1t come Egypt
ian figures-boys with long poles over
their shoulders and pals balanced from
either end, and barefooted women in
short, bright petticoats, in picturesque
attitudes one hand upon the hip and
the great water-jar firmly upon the
shoulder. In the far east, centuries ago.
Rebecca carried just such pottery, in
similar fashion, when Jacob saw her at
the well. In Mexico nobody goes to
market but the servants and sightseeing
tourists. Alady or gentleman of the
better class would no more be seen there
than would you my dear reader, at the
Theater Comique.
The lady with q parasol should en-
deavor to restrain herself So she doee.
SO she does She restraints herself to
the sidewalk kindly allowing other peo-
pie to step off the curb and walk around