Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-09-15
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

Prof. Simmer, New York Entomolo-
eist, says this has been a poor season
for insects"
Gen. Neal Dow of Maine, IS eighty
two years of age and is campaigning
as vigorously as a mar of forty.
The corporation of Limerick has de-
cided TO present the freedom of the
city to Mr.. Gladstone.
Justice Matthews and his bride are
still at Paris, where they are reported
to be having a very happy time.
They do not vaccinate women in
Burmah, as they are not considere /
worth the trouble and expense.
Ex-Gov. Ames and wife, of Mississippi
pi, have been visiting Mr. Harry Hale
at his home in Haverhill, Mass.
Gill is a member of the Fish Com
mission, and Drum is Acting Secretary
of War. Is there anything in a name?
A Washington Territory Judge de-
cides that the local option law passed
by the last legislature is unconstitu-
tional.
Gen. Guitar is running for Congress
in the Sixth Missouri District. A pun
is possible here, but we never play on
a Guitar.
Col. Charles G. Greene, the founder
of the Boston Post, was born in 1904
and was twenty-seven years old when
he started that paper.
The initial steps have been taken for
establishing a 100, 0O0-acre Interstate
park on portions of the woodland of
New York and New Jersey.
w. J. Simonton, for many years
manager of the Associated Press in New
York city, is on a visit to old friends
and relatives in San Francisco.
Prof. James William Dodd, one of
the principal members of the Faculty
of Vanderbilt University, Tennessee,
died recently at Frankfort, Ky.
England will abandon the Island OF
Port Hamilton, off the coast of Corea,
thinking it's occupation would prove a
sourc of weakness in the time of war.
Ex-Gov. Nathaniel S. Berry, of New
Hampshire, passed his ninetieth birth
day recently, and held a reception on
the occasion at his sons house in Bris-
toll.
It is said that MI. Putnam the head
master of the Franklin Grammar
School, Boston, who recently saw the
sea serpent is a perfe city temperate
mar.
Andrew Carnegie, the wealthy iron
man of Pittsburg, has offered to donate
1925, 900 towards the establishment of
a free library in his native city of
Edinburgh.
c.. L. James, of Eau Claire, Wis.,, son
of G. p. K. James, the novelist, is re-
ported to be an extremely eccentric
man, bent on antagonizing the popu-
lar disposition.
James Russell Lowell has become
the wner of a lot in Ashtield, Mass,
and will build on it soon. He will
have for neighbors Prof. Charles Elliott
Norton and George William Curtis.
Herr Wilhelmj is about to organize
a string quartet for a tour of Europe.
This is the distinguished fiddler who
visited this country a few years ago.
We recognize him by the last syllable
of his name.
An older for five sharp yachts has
been received by Mr.. Murray, of Bur-
lington, VT, all to be modelled after
his famous yacht Burlington. They
are to be finished before the end OF
May next.
And still another newspaper verb. If
an accountant defaults you cannot tell
the O of his c~rookedness until his
books have been ''experted.' Mean
while the defaulter has pro bably Can
adaed.-New York Paper.
The new Alpine observatory on the
Somblick, which rises to a hight of 49,
III feet, is rooted with copper on &C
count of it's electrical advantages. 1t
will probably be unrivaled for the study
of electrical disturbances.
Reports say that John G. Emo does
not enjoy his life in Canada so much
as he might because of his exclusion
from high society circles there; and
this in face of the fact that he out
stole many who visit respectable
families.
Lord Lonsdale, the champion Of
Violet Cameron who is so industriously
adding to his unsavory reputation, is
the patron of forty-one livings of the
English Church. Still he can scarcely
be considered a patron saint.
The late Mr.. Brewster. the banker, of
Boston, left the interest on 81, 300, 900
to marlborough and Tuftonborough,
N. H., for the support of schools and
public libraries and for aiding the poor
of those towns.
Billy Moloney, the fugitive clerk Of
the New York boodle Board of Alder
men, sits weeping across the water be-
cause he dare not return to his ''dear
America There would be many more
tears shed on this side if he should re-
turn.
The authorities OF the University of
New Orleans offered the Presidency of
that institution to Rev. George A. Phin-
ney, of Peabody, Mass, but that gen.
tleman, for personal reasons, has de-
clined and will remain with his own
church.
Harriet and Virginia Washington,
of Berryville, Clark county, Va, said
to be the nearest surviving relatives of
George Washington bearing his name,
are in delicate health and in pressing
need. They are middle-aged, high
minded ladies, who enjoy tho respect
of the community in which they live.
The San Francisco Alta makes this
point, and it is a good one: "Mr.
Henry George writes many books to
prove that property should be held in
common, but we notice that he copy
rights his books so as to retain their
ownership. Henry is strong in precept
but weak in example,"
Judge Blandford, of the Georgia
Supreme Court, is the only manned
Confederate in the State who declines
to draw the pension allowed by the au-
thorities. His arm is off above the
elbow. and he IS entitled to $50 every