Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-06-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

fool is rare sight.
A BROOKLYN man asserts that near
sighted person cannot hear we'll without
glasses.
The king of Bavaria gets the photo
grapher to make bin look slender, but
he isn't.
II is said that Texas will net $13. $780,
900 from the increase of her sheep farms
this spring.
ANDREW JOHNSON fell in love early.
Exactly the same thing took place with
John Smith:
The Princess Lottise is good house.
keeper. Sheprobably never trusts 1orne
to buy the green's.
IT has been decided to prohibit gospel,
temperance, and other open-air meetings
on Boston common.
SUICIDES and attempted suicides are
plentiful in New York, Notwithstanding
the new law against them.
The Indianapolis Journal defines cy-
clone as ''an escaped earthquake labor
ing under temporary insanity"
A MISSOURI girl, dying to know what
was in dynamite can, lost the ends of
her thumbs and part OF two fingers.
SEATTLE, Washington Territory, has
over sixty practicing.. attorneys, and o
population Gust counted) of 6,645.
THE editor of the Chinese paper in
New York complains that bis newsboys
are cifuliy thumped by the Irish.
Two Brooklyn brothers who married
the same woman axe trying to eend the
poor thing to the penitentiary for big
amy.
ENe11suMEN want to marry their de-
ceased wife's sister, to save Themselves
untried mother.iu-law.
Ar Palouse, Washington Territory,
Me1zook Zelize, native-born African,
filed declaration of intention to become
O citizen of the u tied States.
NEBRASKA has increased it's population
1896 per cent. in twenty years, and its
taxable property l, 1920 per cent. Its per
cent. of iliiteracJ is less than auy other
state or territory.
IT is mentioned in Gotham that
Brooklyn men, row that there is new
bridge, will have to invent new lie to
tell their wives, the story that they were
detained in New York by the fog being
no longer available.
THE New Orleans Presbyterian Synod
has adopted report that the marriage
OF man with the sister of his deceased
| wife is not prohibited by the divine law;
the blood relationship continues, but
that affinity by marriage terminates with
the rupture Of the tie by death.
The foreign exhibition to be held in
Boston next fall runs against a stumb-
ling-block in the new tariff in collecting
the works OF art abroad. French and
Italian artists, INDIGNANT and disguised
with the United States, are refusing
agents of the exhibition even the works
that they promised.
WATERBURY Comm American: A
Chicago editor in Cincinnati hotel
was walked up too late for his train, and
refused to pay for breakfast which he
had not eaten. He was locked i'll his
room by the hotel people, arrested by
the: police. and now the long-suffering
man threatens suit for damages. Ed
tors have very hard time in this wicked
world.
THERE were only seven vOcatlOns Oper
to women when Harriet Maltineau visit
ed this country In 1910, says the Boston
Globe, and they were keeping boarders
setting type, teaching needle work. Ia
Dor in cotton mills. and folding An
stitching in booki,inderies. Now there
are 284 occupations open to women in
Massachuse tts, and over 500, 900 womer
in that state earn their own living.
| TIE Carson (Nev.) Appeal says there
is saloonkeeper in that city who has
two expenslvely -orramented liquor bot
ties which he passes over the counter tt
his customers. Upon one is pasted {
certificate of five hundred shares of Olt
mining stock, and on the other q fi1t
hundred share certificate of Albion min
ing stock. the aggregate cost to him Of
the certificates being over s., 500.
Mr.. WHITTIER, the poet, told G visitor
a few days ago that the recently pub
lished Carlyle correspondence had Sc
strongly affected him that he had set tt
work and destroyed the greater pant o.
his correspondence. covering over fifty
years, lest it should be Published afte,
his death.
Hon. JOSEPH GR1NNEh1, of New Bed
ford, Mass, who was member OF
congress from December 4, 1843, tc
March 8, 1851, is now nirety-fve years
of age and one Of the eldest :x-members
now living. He is in excellent health
and is still performing the duties oil
president of bank at that place.
The Marquis of Lorne will stay il
Canada until the end of October, and
his successor will arrive before the end
| of November. When Lorne reaches
England he will be raised to the peer.
age. The princess will leave about the
end of July for Marienbsd where she
will take advantage of the mineral
waters which helped her i'll 1881.
A LADY residing in upper Oswego
Falls, N. Y, had repeatedly asked her
husband to saw huge limb from an
apple tree that grated harshly against
the house duriog wind storms. The hus-
band promised and promised, but failed
to act. A few days since she borrowed
a saw and mounted the tree, determined
to sever the obnoxious limb. She,
woman fashion, secured seat upon the
limb she was saving, and was half
killed by the fall.
IT seems proper and natural to see
men calmly going about with bald
heads. Nobody questions it. But i'm
agine the uproar it would create if wom-
en- appeared at the opera house, church,
evening parties, or at home with their
heads bald and shiny like ostrich eggs.
It would he utterly impossible for WON
en- to carry about bald heads with the
unruffied serenity and cool indifference
of bald-headed men. It would be un-
bearable to them. So it would be TO the
men. Hartford Times.
"How does man keep warm at the
North Pole?" asked one of the little
Sandpipers, as he came home from
school the other night. II suppose, !"
said the father, grimly glancing toward
the kitchen, "that he marries one of
your grandfather's daughters before he
goes up there" "And even then" said
a shrill female voice from the kitchen,
g he doesn't always have sense enough