Mower County transcript., 1888-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

ssid part of smoke, and send the solid !
ified portion back to the furnace.
The saw-mills of Maine now ship
great quantities of baled sawdust to the
market where it is sold for packing
purposes and for bedding purposes.
Mrs. GrundY bobs up long enough to
say: ''What are wanted in society are
more pocket editions of books that
teach how to appear as ladies and
gentlemen"
Mrs Mary Coy. of Covode. Pa,
during the twelve months last past
wove 1859 yards of carpeting and $40
yards of cloth with an ordinary hand
loom.
Farmers were given y much needed
time to stop and think. Many have be-
gun on more careful methods, and the
thirst after specific knowledge has been
increased.-Prairie Farmer.
The shipment of eheeses from
Canada for the past season amounts to
1.10S,00O boxes, being 212,000 more
than last year. Tue exports of butter
amounted to $4,000 packages, against
the $4,000 Of 1886
"A bit of soft paperis recommended
by an English doctor for dropping
medicine into the eve as being equally
effective As brushes, glass droppers.
ETC., and far less likely to introduce
foreign substances.
You may be one Of the heirs to
vast estate ill Europe, but if you have
reason to suspect that such is the case
keep still about it. If you admit it
you'll be taken for either crank or q
swirdler.-DetroI Free Press.
New York has Girls Endeavor
Club" The woods are full of them.
The girls endeavor to catch husband.
but the club is not used until after mar
riage-and not then, if the husband be-
haves himself. Herald.
A tree that was cut down in the
Little Shookum Valley, near Whatcom,
". T., yielded $1,000 feet of lumber,
which. at $3.50 per thousand. makes
the tree worth 1852. The Whatcom
Rereilk says that the timber lands in
tho county will average ten such trees
to an acre.
While using stove black,ng on her
kitchen range the other day. Mrs. Mar
garet Twibell. Of Montpelier. Ind, got
small quantity of the polish in a cut
on her hand. Blood poisoning ensued.
the hand swelled to great size, aud it
is thought thai it will be necessary to
amputate it.
willie Walters, said the teacher,
which is the shortest day in the year?'
'Twenty-drst OF December" replied
Willie. who was correct as far as the
writer knows land Tommy Tuff may
ten Us which is the longest day. said
the teacher, indulgently. Sunday
shouted Tommy.-Phaadelphia Caro'st-
Gle.
"A drunken laborer named John
Davies, at Dowlais, Eng, on his way
home lay down beside the. railroad
track so close to the rails that, train
coming along, the engine ran over and
cut of the heel of his boot When the
train stopped and backed up the man
was still asleep and was indignant at
being made to get up and 60 home.
A cat in P. Pearson's feed store at
Burlington, Kan, attacked its master
the other day and bit him severely in
the leg. He ran out for assistance and
brought back two men, who charged
the enraged animal, but were routed
and driven out after being badly bitten.
The cat held the premises until the
marshal came along with his revolver
and shot it.
"A New York clergyman, who went
to preach in eighboring city, aston.
ished the congregation by saying: 81
must take the first train home, after tn {
service, as I have wife and three chill
dren there, and have never seen one O.
them.'' The people we're greatly relieved
on learning that the ''one' that thu
clergyman had never seen had been bor1
since ID left home the day before
D. 7. Ledger.
Carefully prepared statistics show
that there are 100000 criminals in th
country. only $4,000 of whom arr
incarcerated OF the 100000 it i
estimated that one-third are unde
twenty years of age, one-half unde
tWenty-one years OF age. ana 1r2ctlOl
under twenty-five years of age, ant
the chances are that all of them viii
continue criminals through the rest o
their lives.
Blacksmith Miller, of Louisville
was shoeing mule the other day, ane
drove nail through the hoof so tha
the point projected an inch and hall
He was about TO twist off the nail an.
elinch it. when the mule gave his hoo
tremendous jerk and the nail caugh
Ailler's arm and completely severe'
the muscles and arteries of the left fore
arm. MilIer's life was saved wit
difficulty.
"A wide traveller declares that th
best cooks in the world are Arab cooks
who perfectly understand how to intro
duee good fruit to hot fire over thei
little furnaces. The next best, he says
are the farmers wives of New England