Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-04-25
CHIPS AND SPLINTERS.


LoU1s1ANA's timber lands cover fifteen
million acres.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, has 40 acres
Of public parks.
FIVE boys under 20 years Of age are
in Jail in Portland, Ore charged with
murder.
A NIGHT watchman for firm il Me-
dina, n. Y, has been on duty 415 nights
continuously,
A WEST POINT cadet begins with the
same pay which Prussian captain re-
ceives alter twenty years of service.
The tooth OF performing bear has
been extracted at Ithaca, N. Y, with
the aid of nine ounces OF chloroform.
LOGGING. CAMP teamsters at Coos Bay,
Washington Territory, are scarce, and
command from $50 to $125 per month.
AN old lady in Holland scrubbed her
sitting-room floor until she fell through
it into the cellar. Excess in all things is
wrong.
A MINIATURE wooden horse, cut out
with jack-knife by a man named Hill,
who is 81 years old, is on exhibition at
Salina, N. Y.
AN aged colored man of Portland,
just deceased, was cooks mate on the
Constitution when that vessel carried
Lafayette back to France.
A MAN armed with a flask of whisky
was found dead, caught in O tree near
Northport, Ala. He had been washed
up there by the high water.
WITH 10000 lawyers in this country,
one physician to every thirteen families,
and the colleges in full operation, we
| ought to be able to get along.
A PITCH rine tree on Grant Greek,
Missoula County, NJ. T., is 1875 feet
high and 81 feet inches in circumfer-
ence five feet from the ground.
! THIRTY TWO new desks have been Or
dered by Mr.. Mcpherson to provide for
the additional number Of statesmen who
will sit in the house of the Forty eighth
Congress.
The President has granted permission
to the king of the Sandwieh Islands to
coin his gold and silver at our minte.
The director of the mint is now drawing
up the regulations.
A VERMONT student is puzzled be-
cause biennial means once in two years,
triennial means once in three years and
bi-weekly means once in two weeks,
while tri-weekly means three times a
week.
THERE is in a marble yard at Ander
SOD, S. c., box tomb belonging to a
lady who lives in Abbeville County,
which was ordered and paid for by her
self. It has her name engraved on the
slab, a blank space being left to be filled
with the date Of her death after she dies.
In the town of Cameron, Steuben
County, Ohio, there reside ten farmers
whose farms Join each other. They
have ten babies and there is only three
weeks difference in their ages. Nobody
else can think of moving into the neigh
hood without feeling thrill of horror.
| SAYS the Green County (Ky.) Events:
"Col. Tom Patterson's beautiful COON
skin coat is composed of eighty skins,
the coons having been killed by Col.
Patterson's uncle in Mississippi with q
rifle that formerly belonged to Daniel
Boone. The fur has deepened with age
into glossy brown
THIS paragraph from the Macon Tele-
graph and Messenger does not look
much like diversified agriculture: "In
a ride of 400 miles few days since,
where year ago the land looked like q
green carpet, we did not see oats suf-
icient to promise forage for one mule
during the ploughing season."
New York is great nut-loving COM
munity, and has developed a special
sondness for the peanut. That city is
the center of the trade. and during the
present season has received the bulk of
100000 bushels from Virginia, $780,
600 bushels from Tennessee, and 12O,-
600 carloads from North Carolina.
BENJAMIN MowRER, of Montour, Pa,
who helped to build the first locomotive
ever built in America and manufactured
the first miners pick for mining an
thracite coal, and who saw Washington
and Lafayette, and is the survivor Of
many bloody Indian fight, is still hale
and hearty and works at his forge daily.
The body of John Ryan, vino had
been buried in the Philpot graveyard,
some miles west of Bedford County, In
diana. was disinterred the other day for
the purpose of moving it to another
cemetery. Although it had been buried
but little over two years, it was nearly
petrifed, and weighed about seven hun
dred pounds.
A HALF dime of the coinage of 1904
sold in New York recently at numis-
matte auction for $4O0. A dime of
1896 brought $50; acent of 1893 brought
S23; an inferior specimen of the same
date, $15; and the same price was paid
for specimen of l841. A rare old sill
YER dollar of 1853 and one of 1852
brought respectively $28 and $26.
"GATH" quotes member of the New
York Stock Exchange as saying: The
money of the people has been drained
! from every quarter of the world into
speculative schemes; the rich and solvent
men are loaded up with stocks which
they cannot sell, and the general multi
tude, disgusted with the tricks put upon
them, have turned their backs on all
speculative walks"
, GUNN1soN. Colo., is to be the site OF
big steel works, built by New York and
} st. Louis capitalists, WHO have bought
r 1000 acres of land at Crystal Butte,
/ twenty miles from Gunnison, the trac,
containing large and valuable deposits
of iron and anthracite coal. The iron i
| said to be equal to the best in Missouri,
. and the coal superior to the best In
, Pennsylvania. The mill, when finished
/ is to employ several thousand hands.
, THE other day as a Utica clergyman
and his wife were admiring the size and
beauty of a $40 gold piece which thf
, former had Just received as q marriage Tee
and exchanging condolences as to thu
> best way of investing it, messenger ar
!. rived breathless to say that an uufortunat'
5 mistake had been mad, that $40 was ou
Of all proportion to his means, and tina
he was under the painful necessity Q
4 asking the minister to accept muci
Q smaller sum, ri