Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-04-21
TALK OF THE DAY.

TALK OF THE DAY.
Empress of Austria that she eats fruit
every morning two hours before break
fast. OF course this comes under the
head of important intelligence.
According to fashionable caterers,
New Workers. are the best gastronom-
ically educated people.
The chef to the Duke of Bedford,
who responds to the name of Suzanne,
has published book in which he de-
scribes POO different ways of cooking
and serving eggs.
The late Finelli, of Philadelphia.
caterer of celebrity, ALWAYS fried oys-
ters in oil, which he declared better
than butter.
An English magazine writer makes
bold so say that table manners are best
disclosed" by observing how one eats
asparagus. orange, artichokes and
grapes.
Mrs. Mary Jewett Telford, recently
elected President of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps, Department Of Colorado,
Wyoming, and New Mexico, was
much loved nurse in the Army of the
Cumberland, - -. -. =
General John A. Logan will deliver
the Grafton on Decoration Day at Riv-
erside Park, New York. His theme
will doubtless be the 1.-The Great Com
mander."
The order of the Sons of Veterans is
growing apace, and the annual en-
campment of the commandery-in-chief
will be an occurrence of great magni-
tude and interest. 1t will be held at
Buffalo, N. Y. Aug. 81 and Sept.
and 2.
Great preparations are being made
to entertain the Seventh New York
Regiment which will visit Washington
in May upon the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of its entry into the National Cap
ital in 1861.
The 0rati0n on memorial day, at
Brandon VT, will be delivered by Bre-
ct Major General l.. A. Grant, who for
merly commanded the ''Old Vermont
Brigade" He is now citizen of
Minneapolis, MINI.
Mr.. Hearst, the new senator from
California says that he first learned of
his appointment from the newspapers.
and he was greatly astonished. as he
did not then know that Senator Miller
was dead.
Senator Ingalls, in proposing tina
April 80, instead of March 4, be made
the day for the Inauguration of
President of the United States, took
his cue, as it were, from the address of
Robert G. Winthrop at the dedication
of the Washington monument. Re-
ferring to the fact that Washington
was inauguated April 80, Mr.. Winthrop
suggested the poetic fitness of select
ing that day for future inaugural
ceremonies.
The newest neckbands, or dog-col-
lars, are so high that they threaten to
cut off a lady's ears.
Gainsboroughs are coming in all
thoir ancient glory.
In Berlin statue of Lessing is to be
| put up at cost of some $4,000.
Miss Geneva Armstrong of Elmira, N.
Y, has patented an adjustable trough
which is said to solve the problem Of
feeding livestock in transit on cars.
| The Philadelphia Times calls atten-
ton to the fact that, in districts where
the birds have been killed extensively
to supply adornments for ladies' bon
nets, insects have increased enor-
mously.
A discovery of Importance to science
has lately been made by Prof. Wink
ler of the Mining Academy at Freiberg,
in SaxonV. He has found new chem
ical element, which he calls Germani-
um. The report does not state wheth-
er it belongs to the metalloids or metals.
Infant mortality in the Bermuda
Islands is something frightful. 1t is
said that AZ per cent of tho deaths oc-
cur in childhood.
''Who is that?'' asked a person, point
ing to Mr.. Howells, the other evening,
at q Washington reception. His name
is Howell; he writes,' was the answer.
''Ah, somebody's private secretary,
presume was the intelligent GEM
mcnt. "But isn't society getting aw-
| IuIIy MlAcu Aele!
The eleventh volume in the Riverside
Aldine Series will be "Democracy, and
Other Addresses by James Russell
Lowell. 1t will comprise seven ad.
dresses, all of which except one, "Books
and Reading,' were delivered in Eng.
land. The others are Democracy
"Garfield," ''Dean Stanley Field.
ing," 'Coleridge,'' and ':Don
Quixote.''
The Rev. George Thomas Bowling,
pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptis,
church, Cleveland, is the author of 9
new novel called "The Wreckers.'
which is said to be social study af-
ter the style of 1.-The Breadwinners.' =
Mr.. w. y. howells will write the lift
of Longfellow for the American Men
of-Letters Series.
The two beautiful volumes of "Dide
rot' have been added to the new edi
ton of John Morley's works which
Macmillan is bringing out.
Prof. Goodwin Smith is at work on al
essay dealing with ''The Political His
tory of Canada It will form repor
No. 6 of the American Historical As
, sociation.
It is said that the first edition of Mr.
Stockton's new novel, ''The Late Mrs
Null,' consisted of 10000 copies. /
seems that some American novels d.
sell even in the absence of an interna
tional copyright.
1t is said that Miss Blanche Wilt
Howard is at work upon a dramatiza
ton of her "Guenn,' which she has un
dertaken at Lawrence Barret's sugges
ton. She is now living at her adopted
home in Stuttgart.
A Great Accomplishment,