Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The negro" Othel]o" company in New
York has gone up.
GoLD'PLATED spoons are the thing in
best New York restaurants.
ANACONDA is the somewhat soul
creeping name OF town in Montana.
PoMEGRANATEs are being cultivated
in the South. They yield 500 per acre.
A CoRsET-MAKER declares that Ameri-
can girls are the worst in the world for
tight lacing.
A RESTAURANT at Coney island has a
large placard on it's piazza announcing:
Eighteen carrot vegetable soup"
DURING the first six months of this
year lib foundings were picked up in
the streets of New York city.
The Free Masons claim to have 1885,
IS lodges distributed throughout the
world, with membership of 14,16O,-
543.
FIVE thousand acres of tobacco will
be raised in Bourbon County, KY, this
year. Ten years ago not ten acres we're
raised.
KANSAS crops are said to be large be-
yond precedent. The finest spring
wheat is now selling at SO cents
bushel.
A BEAUTIFUL white girl, aged 18
years, recently eloped at Staunton, w.
Va, with coal black negro dwarf,
scarcely four feet high.
FRED. GRuENwA1DER's baby, at Am
sterdam, N. Y, has two tongues. Neith-
er can be removed, as the physician
fears the child might bleed to death.
RUSSELL SAGE, the veteran dealer in
"puts" and "calls," has completely re-
covered his health, which was seriously
impaired during the last panic in Wall
Street, and he will soon return to the
"street."
The mahogany trade of Boston has
increased wonderfully in the last three
years. The total amount handled by
wholesale merchants in 1880 is es-
timated at less than one million feet,
while in 1883 over 100000 was dealt
| in.
NEARLY all the handsome dark -colored
door-knobs in use in this country come
from the mountains of North Carolina.
They are made of ivy roots, which are
| dug by the inhabitants and sold at the
| railroad stations for from $40 to $12 a
! ton.
AMERICA exports popcorn by the
thousand barrels. Popcorn was first
made in this country in 1849. Some
medical men recommend it for dyspep-
| on1 poofionfc o% fho
can be seen munching it at all hours of
the day.
THERE is such q tremendous de-
mand now in Paris for Bavarian beer
that the Eastern Railroad Company
runs beer trains from Munich six days
in the week. Paris has now $4,000
beer shops, and the daily sum spent on
beer is estimated at $15o,O0O.
THERE is lake near B Buchanan called
Clear Lake that derives it's name from
the remarkable clearness of it's water,
which is so clear that the bottom may
be seen at a depth of several yards all
the year, except during July and Au-
gust, when it becomes extremely roi]y.
ABOUT forty members of the Paulist
Fathers of New York are at the sum-
J ner home of the order, st. Mary's Mon
astery, Lake George. The order re-
ceived the place as gift from the late
Charles OConnor, who built it espe-
cially for their use.
AFTER lapse of more than twenty
two years the officers and sailors of Ad-
miral Farragut's fleet, or their heirs,
; are about to be paid balance OF 143,-
GA due them as bounty money awarded
for the destruction of Confederate war
vessels at the capture of New Orleans
in April, 1862.
The largest organ in the world has
just been completed by Walck, of Lud-
wigsburg, and placed in the Cathedral
Church of Riga. The instrument
measures 36 feet in. width, 80 feet from
back to front. and is 65 feet high. It
!. contains 6,826 pipes, distributed among
124 sounding stops.
NEW ENGLAND has contributed Just
1904 to the population of Texas. The
rest of the country north of the Ohio
River contributed 60,325, and the older
, Southern States have furnished 556, 1897.
Of the native population Of Texas SO
per cent. is of Southern and per cent.
of Northern extraction.
J THERE is not wax-match factory in
? the states. All those that are used are
imported from England, France, or
3 Italy. An English company is the old
= est match factory in the world, having
3 been started more than fifty years ago.
J Now they make only wax vestas," and
3 employ 24O hands at this alone.
/ The Puget Sound oysters are some
times two, feet in diameter, and weigh,
inclusive Of the shell, as much as sixty
pounds. Two of these gigantic mol
, lusks were lately transported and plant
ed in the south bay. Either the trip or
the new habitat disagreed with them,
as both died few days afterward.
. The manufacture of bufalo-horn
l furniture has become an industry in
: New York. The horns are not those of
/ the bison, as is commonly believed, but
: are from the cattle killed in the abat-
i toirs. They are sold at the slaughter
> houses for little more than what the
. button manufacturers give, are cleaned,
, dried, scraped, and polished. The cost
. of making these horned goods is less
l than that of carved wood, but they
( bring two and three times more than
. the latter. The new industry is almost
. monopolized by Germans from Saxony.
4 The Pittsburg Dispatch, speaking of
9 Jane Gray Swisshelm's work, says that
t before 1848 no married woman in Penn
!. sylvania could hold property IN her own
! right or subject to her control. Never
!. theless the achievements of this lady
9 are, the Dispatch maintains, appre-
Il n:o%o1 o,,6 1..5r h.,