Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-21
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

-LanesbOro Touring mill closed. No
wheat. L |
When is girl like pistol? When
she goes off with bang.
The editor of the Chatfield Democrat
is the proprietor of six angel cherubs.
The late stock of boy Gophers are be-
ing named 1'Sabin" after the new Sena
tor.
over half the deaths in Morrison
county for the past year were caused by
diptheria.
1T is announced that DR.. HOLSTER,
of Austin, is booked for Senator Wedges
place.-Preston Republican.
| This nation spends nearly $4,000
year on dolls for its little girls. Fifteen
sixteenths of the dolls and toys come from
foreign countries.
There were only 10000 valentines
sent through the Post Office at St. Paul
in two days last week. 1900 of them
were delivered within the city limits.
Hon. G. A. Pillsbury of N1inneapo-
lis, says that for the ten years past the
counties of Hennepin, Wright and Carver
raised, on the average, more wheat than
any other counties in the state. These
are timbered countless and better for
wheat than prairie.
| Mrs. VIM. Wilson has commenced
suit against D. McMorrow claiming dam
ages in the amount of $4,000 from the
death of her husband by freezing
while under the influence of Intoxicating
liquor. 1t is reported that suits will also
be commenced against other parties on
the same deal.-Mason City Times.
The identical press that Lovejoy had
at Alton, ILL.,, and which was thrown into
the Mississippi at the time Lovejoy was
killed by mob, is said to be printing the
Belmond Qowa) Herald. The editor will
ship the press to the Illinois Historical
Society if they will ship him in return a
new improved power press. Fair enough.
Our boy of all work, after having set
up one line of Agate type, twice, both of
which were spilled in the ''pan," becom~
ing disguised, was heard to exclaim:
This type is too young, hasn't got its
growth, it won't stand up."-.Nason city
| Times
The smaller sizes of type are always
source of great annoyance to the new be-
ginner.
II belong" said Cristine Nilsson to
! st. Louis reporter, 'to the old Lutheran
church, and l never leave my room to
give concert or 60 on the stage for an
opera without dropping on my knees and
praying to God to help me in my effort
to please the people. 1t gives me strength
and confidence to successfully 20 through
! my performance
1t is reported that the Dubuque divi
sion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Haul road is to be done away with and
that in future it will be known as the
River division, extending from Minneap.
oils to Savanna, with headquarters at the
former place. The superintendent will be |
c. w. Case, now manager of the Hastings |
& Dakota division.
Maggie Mitchell, the popular actress,
was in St. Paul last week. In answer to
a reporters question why she looked so |
young" she answered as follows:
Zone reason is that never dissipate, l |
take long walks every day, battle good |
deal in salt water during the summer and
keep peace in the family"
A good recipe, which is just as valua-
bic to an actor as an actress, and we COM
mend it to every one.
It's just as criminal for brick mason
to build defective flue" as it is for an
engineer or conductor to kill people on
railroads through carelessness, or for
physician to give strychnine for salts, or
a surgeon to set fracture wrong side be-
fore, and these defective 1ues are becom-
ing too painfully numerous and frequent.
The defective flue is carrying off property
much as the unloaded shot gun is carry
ing off people. Wasecn Herald
Now, we ha9 never thought of it before
in that light, but here's good sense, "sure
as you are born"
I'm the town of Aastad, MIMI, recent
ly, as couple stood up to be married,
the minister, according to the Lutheran
rites, asked the groom if he was heart free.
he answering in the affirmative, the COM
pany were shocked to hear, "You lie, sir"
from young lady present. Upon an
explanation being called for, letters we're
produced by the lady interrupting, to
prove that she was also engaged to the
young man, and the affair looked rather
critical for the time being. The rejected
sweetheart, however, consented to the
ceremony being performed if the gentle
man would apologize and ask to be for
given, which he humbly did, but the min.
lister had by this time left in disgust, and
q justice of the peace was found among
the invited guests and the fond lovers
were made one according to the laws of
Minnesota.
The Lacrosse club inaugurated
new and interesting feature this evening
in the form of "ladies night" Each +
member will be entitled to bring one or
more ladies. lady attendant will be in
charge OF the cloakreom, no charge will
be made for games on the pool and bill
lard tables and social evening will be
spent in an informal way. The intention
is to make this regular monthly event.
Chronicle.
When the ladies, for amusement, &C.
company the men to their club rooms,
where games of pool" and "billiards"
are the order of entertainment for the
evening, we must say we think their tastes
for amusement on the down grade, The
ladies, we should say, better open their
homes that night, and invite the gentle
men to them, and, with music, reading,
and Rotations intersnerse6 with conver |
sation, teach them better way to spend
their time. What say you, brother edi-
tori
"A New York street car conductor has
a chapter on "street car etiquette" in the
N. Y. Sun. Wepublish the following ex-
tract to show the excessive politeness Of
the gentler sex one toward another:
Men don't give their seats to young
women 50 much as they once did, but