Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS,

The white lead in the White House
is about a quarter of an inch thick.
IT is said that Japanese women
have never seen and do not know the
use of pins.
ABOUT $4,000 gallons of wine are
consumed at the sacrament tables in
the United States every year.
IT is said that Weston, the walker,
found chewing coca leaves great as
sistance in sustaining fatigue.
The twenty-fifth child has been
born to q man and wife in Dillon
township, Tazewell County, III.
OVER three thousand women are
employed in the railroad Offices
in Austria. They get from SIS to $50
a month. Nearly all OF them are wild
ows of men who have died in railroad
service.
SEVERAL young Mexican gentlemen
of the City OF Mexico intend to start
an organization similar to that Of the
Estudiantina Espanola-Spanish stu
dents-though composed Of Mexican
material.
THE commissioner OF education
places the number of medical students
in this country in 1878 at 1851;
in 1883 we had 15,151. The medical
schools during this period increased
from "a to 1874.
ONE of the bills in the California AS
sembly gives to any young man under
26 years of age who learns a trade by
serving an apprenticeship of three
years, and is a moral young man,
$3.50 out of the treasury.
COLORADO SPRINGS claims the honor
OF beating the whole country in the
variableness of temperature, the ther-
mometer there having shown a varia-
tion OF 72 degrees in twenty-four hours
during recent cold wave.
The testimony of all intelligent visi-
tors at the New Orleans Exposition,
is that the exhibition does not ap-
proach that at Philadelphia in '76, in
numbers of attendance, completeness
of arrangements or extent or character
of the display.
The leading bicycle for the following
season will be, according to prophecy,
a 52-inch light roadster weighing
about twenty EIGHT pounds. The fa-
vorite tricycle. will be the one making
two tracks, with IT frame, single driver,
Humber steering and geared level.
THE King of Italy recently appeared
in the witness-box at a police court.
A shop-keeper's horse had run away
and caused some damage, and his maj
esty volunteered his testimony as an
eyewitness. Our own nobility are usu-
ally out of town when wanted at
court.
A GIRL who is teaching in Colorado
writes home as follows: ~ hnvefo forty
scholars of all ages and teach almost
everything, grammar, history, physi-
ology, mathematics, manners, morals,
common sense, personal cleanliness,
fancy work and general civilization"
-B0st0D Times.
AN idea of how quickly gossip flies
may be gained from little incident
that occurred in Birmingham, Ala, re-
Gently, where rumor "gOt out" that
one of the female school-teachers was
to be married, and in a few hours no
less than fifty applications for her
place were made.
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT wrote to q confer
ence of O funeral reform association:
Gas to funerals, our religious society
has always offered Il good example to
other sects and churches and to the
public, but sects and churches and the
public are slow at learning this and
some other matters"
The reindeer-skin suits for the Gree
ly relief expedition we're made in Nor
way, at q cost to this government of
$55 apiece At recent sale specu-
lator of New York City bought them
for $5 apiece, and it is said he has now
sold almost all Of them at from $40
to $5Oapiece. They have been bought
as curiosities, and also to be convert
ed into rugs.
The c]everest man heard of for
some time is he who, becoming bald,
had four wigs made, the hair of one
short, the hair of the next @ trifle
longer, the hair of the third longer
still and the hair of the fourth quite
too long for beauty: He wears each a
week, beginning with the former: The
effect achieved is the same as though
his hair was growing When he gets
to the long one and has worn it g.
week, he changes to the short one
again, and his friends and acqualnt-
ances not in the secret believe he has
visited barber's and has had his
hair cut.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
THE London policemen seem to be
of wonderfully truthful disposition for
men who see 80 much of the worst side
of human nature. One Of them
stopped an American the other day,
because he carried "suspicious-look-
ing' tin box. The officer wanted him
to "swear on his honor" that it did
not contain dynamite. The Ameri-
can "swore" and was allowed to pro-
ceed. Apparently the policeman rea~
soned that man who carried dyna~
mite could not lie about it. Such faith
in the word of a stranger is touching
and chivalrous, but over here such g.
policeman would be considered decid-
edly imeed of salting.-New York 1'ri-