Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

| o, love- dear love, it is not hard to die!
MIsCELLANEOUs.
TWENTY-FIVE professional baseball
men have died within year.
FLATS in the best apartment houses
in New York have fallen from 10 to 20
per cent.
AR1zoSA's legislature has appropri-
| ated $25, 900 for a territorial univer-
sity at Tucson.
ALLlGAToRs are said to be devouring
the ducks in the Florida lakes to an
alarming extent.
A MAN named Cleveland, who is not
related to the president, has been found
at Gadsden, Ala.
A LAW was passed by the Montana
Legislature prohibiting the killing OF
Quails for the next six years.
A RESIDENT OF Cambridge, Mass, is
the possessor of meerschaum pipe
| that has been in constant use since
1851.
The only international street rail-
road in the world is in this country.
1t connects Paso del Norte, Mexico,
with Ell Paso, Tex.
THE United States is provided with
over so penitentiaries and 2,4OO jails.
| They contain over fifty thousand GRIM
inals, and their estimated cost is
$500, 100000.
Mr.. RoEBLING, the engineer says
that heavy engines and cars must not
be run over the Brooklyn bridge, as the
cables have on them all the load they
ought to carry.
Those now in London who were here
during the war say that the excite
ment and constant extras, cried some
times up to midnight, recall to
them wildly 1925.
| The Goshen Hole Irrigating Com
pany is the latest and largest ditch
digging corporation in Wyoming. 1t
will dig thirteen bitches, and has a
capital of 81 100000.
THE Boston Transcript says that
the line OF perpetual pie must now be
drawn to include Greeley, COL, where
| they served forty-fve varieties OF the
edible at a dinner lately.
MAD dogs recently became so num-
erous in some parts OF Alabama that
schools in one county were Obliged to
suspend, as it was considered danger
Gus to have the pupils abroad.
THE matches consumed in the
United States require wood to the an
nual value of $3.298, 562; the rail
roads use about $4,000, 900 worth OF
wood for fuel and 81 10000 for ties
each year.
| In Washington there we're erected
last year thirteen hundred buildings,
valued at 81 100000. One OF the
most valuable residences in the city is
that of Bell the telephone man. 1t
cost him Sis, 900.
The inhabitants of the Farce Isles
are reported to utilize the stormy
petrol for illuminating purposes. A
large amount of oil exists in the bird,
gives good light.
THE Winnipeg Sun says that many
of the men who went to Egypt from the
Dominion as voyageurs, were not voy-
ageurs at all, and had no qualifica-
tions for the work which they were en-
gagged to perform.
PRorRACrED drought and extensive
irrigation in the neighborhood have
reduced Tulare Lake, in California,
from length of az miles and breadth
of 22 miles to n length Of 22 miles and
a width of 4 miles.
WHEN the new roads in the Yellow
stone valley are completed, the tour
| ist can then make a circuit OF 40
miles in comfortable coaches running
on good roads, with new glimpses OF
scenery the whole distance.
A DIVER who has had experience in
almost all quarters OF the world dur
, ing n period of twenty-five years says
that fish will seldom attack a man in
+, armor, and that sharks are especially
cowardly when faced boldly.
NEAR Observation-Disclosures Ga, line
of earthworks can still be aeen which
were thrown up by Gen. Jackson (Old
Hickory as a protection against the
Indians, on his march to Florida
through this section in 1918.
The property qualification for vot-
ers in Rhode Island does not apply,
az n requirement, to all citizens, but
only to those OF foreign birth, though
any citizen may qualify by the owner
shi p OF property.-Provit1encc. Journal
DIR. CoAKLEy recently said at a
meeting OF the Buffalo Medical Asso-
citation that during the war opium,
quinine, calomel and whisky consti-
tuted the surgeons matcria medica.
"The soldiers would tolerate opium
largely
THERE is boom in the manufacture
of fine paper. Prices are down but
remain firm. One eleading manufacturer
says that never in the history OF sta
tionery has there been such a demand
for elegant and fine papers at present.
Cheap papers are a drug.
SENATOR EvARTs tells his friends in
Washington who express the hope
that his "daughters, who used to pre-
side over their parents tea things at
the capital" will be with him next
season, that his daughters are "mar-
ried now and busy with teethings in
their own households.
IT may be hard times, it may be
some new rule Of fashion, it may be
something else, says the New York
Times. but some cause seems to be
thinning out New York's livery estab-
lishments at a pretty rapid rate. One
out of every five stables open a year
ago has been closed for good.
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