Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-08-25
NEWS AND NOTES,

U0IucSS, N. u.
Fred Douglass and Mrs. Douglass
will sail for Europe on Sept. Is.
Owing to rainy weather in Russia
during the past fortnight grain is rot
ting in the fields.
Judge Gresham, formerly Postmas-
ter-General, is in Boston for a season
of seclusion and quiet.
Dolly Page Hosmer, aged 100 years
(the usual Bible record to show for it),
died in Boston last week.
1t is said that Levi p. Morton's new
house at Saratoga will be q palace
among cottages.
Prominent citizens of Washington
are arranging for a national guard
drill contest in that city next May.
H. M. Alden has been with the
Harpers for twenty years, sixteen of
them as editor of Harper's Magazine.
William M. Singerly. of tho Philadel
phia Record, has sixty-six dwelling
houses in course of erection in that
city.
United States Minister Bayless Han
ma has opened elegant apartments in
Buenos Ayres for the American lega-
ton.
The Republique Franchise says it is
certain that diplomacy will effect the
annexation of the New Hebrides Is
lands to France.
Senator Wade Hampton is writing a
paper for the North American Review,
the subject being the industries of
South America.
Ex-Attorney- General Wayne Mac
Veagh was one of the winners at a
tennis tournament at Poland Springs,
Me-, last week.
A despatch from Melbourne, Aus
tralia, says that the import duty on
wooden goods has been fixed at 20 per
cent. ad valorem.
Jay Gould was met at Mount Desert
the other day, by an old farmer, who
exclaimed, "Why, you don't look as
though GU were worth 81, Door,
A Vermont postmaster was recently
banded the following order by young
girl. 1t was from boxholder: post
Master, please give my male to the gal
bear"
On the evening of Aug. 80 the annual
bonfires on the hills in honor of r. S.
Frost, Chelsea, Mass. donor of the IL
brary in Marlborough. N. H., will be
lighted.
The Rev. Edward Hanna, of Buffalo,
has been honorad by the Pope with the
degree of Doctor of Divinity, and was
invested with the ring and cap by Car
dinal Simeoni.
Ida Lewis, famous for her efforts in
rescuing the drowning at Newport, is
the only woman in the world who
holds the position of government
lighthouse keeper.
DGen. Drum thinks it would require q
far greater force to whip Mexico than
it did in the last war. Gen. Drum,
while sure we would give the Mexicans a
good beating, believes it would he rat
thing fight.
Gen. and Mrs. Fremont are still at
work on the Generals memoirs.
Doubtless the old pioneer would rather
undertake to find forty paths over the
Rocky Mountains than undertake to
write one book.
The Philadelphia Silk Culture asso-
citation has received $4,000 from the
United States treasurer to be devoted
to distributing trees, buying cocoons
and aiding auxiliary silk societies
throughout the United States.
At the meeting of the British Medi-
cal Association at Brighton, England,
Surgeon Billings, of the United States
Army, lectured on the death rates in
various diseases among the blacks and
whites in America.
A Mr.. Rowland, of Chicago, imparts
pleasing variety to Saratoga life this
season by driving a four-in-hand team
of mules. So far none of the guests as
sembled there have made a personal
matter of the display.
Nine. Ristori is determined to bid
farewell to the public in pyrotech-
meal style, and to this end is writing
her autobiography, and it will come
out simultaneously in Italian, English,
French and German.
The word ''news" has no distinction
between its singular and plural forms.
.'What is the news?" and 'There are
no news'' are both correct expressions,
the same as ''Have you many sheep?"
and Il have one sheep"
The first number of the Annapolis
(Md. Gazette was issued in 1755: of
the Portsmouth, IN. H.) Gazette in
1856; of the Newport, Or. ~ Mercury
(Benj. Franklin's), in 1853; and the
Hartford Courant in 1854.
Mrs. Eve and Mr.. Adam live in Au-
gusta, Ca, and this leads the Atlanta
Journal to say that it is not claimed
by Biblical scholars that Eden, Ca.
was the original Garden of Eden, what
ever the people there may believe.
Funds are being raised in Texas for
monument to the memory of Gen.
Thomas j. Rusk, who was Secretary
of War, Commander-in-C Chief, and
Chief Justice successfully of the Texa
Republic, and afterwards United States
Senator.
The funeral service over the remains
of the poet and patriot Marochelli,
whose body was recently brought to
Naples, Italy, after forty years inter-
ment in America, took place few
days ago. Several laudatory speeches
were made. The body was afterward
conveyed to Forli for interment.
New York never had q prohibitory
liquor law. The Legislature once
passed an ''illegal, null and void" act,
and this "unconstitutional'' measure
was approved by the Governor, Myron
H. Clark. An attempt TO enforce it
was promptly stopped by the Court OF
Appeals. An act beyond the power of
the enacting body can not by any force
of circumstance become law, even
for one moment.
Washington Flies.
tits with feeling of helplessness
says New York Times writer, that l
approach the subject of the w flashing
ton fly. He is not large, as flies 20,