Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-01
LEFT.
CHIPS.

The Spaniards shout "Oye! oye!
("Hear! hearty when using the tele-
phone.
EGGS are quoted in Montana at ten
cents each; in Georgia at ten cents q
| dozen.
In Porto Rico an outlay of 50 will
clothe an entire family of six persons
for year.
MADISON County, Alabama, has de-
termined to build lis miles of macad-
amized roads.
| SIXTEEN hundred bills were intro
duced in the last session of the, Alaba-
ma LeAsslature.
AN English clergyman recently per-
formed los baptisms and 8 marriages
on one Sunday.
MURFkEEsBoRo, Tenn, last year
! shipped one thousand mules, valued
at 81 100000.
ONE man in Auburn, CAL, is said to
have killed over 1000 quails in the
| last four months.
The vanilla plant has been found
growing on the borders of the Ever
glades Of Florida.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature
passed four bills in eight weeks and
has taken a. rest.
ONLY one American out OF eighty
has perfect teeth; fewer still cut their
eye-teeth properly.
AN HELENA, Ark, man recently
drank one gallon OF beer in three
minutes on a wager.
MAIL bags from Cincinnati were re.
Gently delivered in Berlin in the short
space of eleven days.
THE total membership of the Nor
mon church, according to the census
of 1880, was IS, 1886.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, is excited be-
cause span of horses for the fire de-
partment cost 81 ,O35.
A MACON, Ca, man is trying to de-
wise a method of saving wood by elec-
tricity, of which he dreamed.
A COMMITTEE of tifty-two citizens
has been appointed to draft reform
charter for Knoxville, Tenn.
The cities of Baltimore and Phila-
delphia are declared by medical au-
thority to be ripe for cholera.
The death of Cardinal McCabe
leaves the government only two sup
porters in the Irish hierarchy.
Hot SPRINGS, Ark, has eight thou
sand resident population, and last
year had twenty-one thousand visit
Ors.
NEVADA has l4O post-offices, one OF
which is second class and eight third
class. The remainder are of thefourth
grade.
A NATCHEz Miss negro 20 years OF
age has been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for one year for marrying q
white woman.
On Bayou Fordoche, La, in a neigh
borhood of over one hundred people,
a physician has not been required for
over two years.
A GEORGIA woman boasts that she
has in use, unbroken, q sitter which
she bought when she was married,
sixty-one years ago.
SUIT has just been brought against
the city of Shreveport, La, to compel
the city to pay interest on $780, 900
of repudiated bonds.
A RESIDENT of Alexander, Va, was
awakened by cat tapping on his face
| ~ lcW llIkIO6 SIIISC, tbi1N AOuhN WV WV
enveloped in flames.
THERE are over thirty Mormon
churches in Colorado. In Idaho there
are over sixty; in Arizona about sew
enty.-iSan Francisco Alta.
THERE are twice as many doctors
in the United States as there were ten
years ago. The population has in
creased, perhaps, Is per. cent.
THE gross loss of the Hooking VAL
lev operators in the recent strike was
about 100000; the net loss be-
tween $500, 900 and 100000.
A MEMBER of the Louisville city
council owns and runs the most pala-
tial gambling hell in the South. He il
never interfered with by the police.
THE United States government has
occupied land owned by w. G. Malo-
ney, of Key West, Fla, for over twen-
ty years as burial ground. He now
wants compensation.
ALTHOUGH the Protestant popula-
ton of Great Britain has increased by
SOC, 900 people since 1870, only two
new churches have been built, and the
| few pastors are Over-burdened
A CHINAMAN at La Porte, Cal., is
settling up business preparatory to
returning to the Flowery Kingdom to
enjoy the wealth, said to be $1,000
600, made in mining on the Pacific
coast.
SOME of the citizens of Opelika, Ala,
are dissatisfied with the rule OF the
city commission, and propose to test
it's constitutionality. They want to
exdrcise the right of electing their own
mayor and council.
MRS. f. D. f. n. SoUTHwoRTH is 81
years old, and has just finished her
seventy-frst novel. She is under con-
tract to Robert Bonner to write for
him alone, and on demand, at $1,000
q year.
Mrs. ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER OF
Hartford, sister of Henry Ward
Beecher, has been winterjng III Boston,
and is about to open series OF con-
versatjonal gatherings, promising as
q special attraction that they shall
br latter the fashion of Margaret Fui-
les's," presumably a long way after.
| PHYSICIANS at Nanaimo, British Col
umbia, disagree over the nature of a
disease that has appeared there. One
doctor declared it smallpox, and
hoisted yellow flag, when another
physician followed his examination OF
the case by ordering the flag down and
declaring the patient sick with the
chicken-pox.
THE short round skirt divides hon.
ors with the train skirt, the latter
being essentially adapted for married
ladies. Trains are generally made OF
rich heavy materials such as velvet,
ottoman, brocade, terry velvet, etc.
Plain materials prevail for trains.
Il the Savile correspondence Henry
Savile writes, in 1852, from Paris:
"A substantial banker is to bee hanged
here to-day for making bankrupt. l