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

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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
source 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 Mr.. Putnam the head
master. of the Franklin Grammar
School, Boston, who recently saw the
sea serpent is a perfe city temperate
Andrew Carnegie, the wealthy iron
man of Pittsburg, has offered to donate
1926, 900 towards the establishment of
a free library in his native city Of
Edinburgh.
G. L. James, of Eau Claire, Wis, son
of G. P. r.. 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 owner of a lot in Ashfield, 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. T.
An oder 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 amount of his ~crookedness until his
books have been '''experted.' Mean
while the defaulter has pro badly Can
adaed.-New York Paper.
The new Alpine observatory on the
Somblick, which rises to a hight of TO-
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 a scarcely
be considered q patron saint.
F. The late Mr.. Brewster. the banker, of
Boston, left the interest On 81, 10000 0
to marlborough and Tuftonboroufh,
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 Doodle 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 o 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 the 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 p. 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 weakin 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 800 every
three years. He drew the first allow
ance. but has never drawn any since.
John A. Logan, jr., son of the Iii
nois Senator, has a real estate ndloan
Office in Washington. Butler Malone,
son Of the Virginia celebrity, is in the
banking business with q o of the late
Henry u. Cooke: John Sherman's
the capital
Prof. Proctor says that earthquakes
are assurances that the earth is not
near death; that hundreds of thousands
of years will still passsbefore the end is
seen in the steady disintegration and
removal of the land, without renova-
ton or renewal by the action Of sub
terranean forces. .~<s
Miss Maud Howe wants to know
why it is that the first instinct of every
woman on arriving at a strange place
is to rush into 3 store and buy some
thing: That question must be filed
away with the ten Thousand other
insOfuble problems relating to the mys-
FERROUS sex.
Robert L.. Taylor, the Democratic
! candidate for Governor of Tennessee,
says: .:Those who expect personali-
ties during the canvass will be. mis-
taken. I love my brother as a man
should love his brother. It will not be
! battle Of brother against brother. 1t
will be ! battle Of ideas, . contest of
principles, . battle Of thoughts" @ !.
Lola, six years old, the daughter Of
William Lowell, Of Wayuesborough,