Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-15
SOMEWHAT STRIKING.

= GENTLEMAN Of Athens. Ca. has 1
|, pigeon that Is trained to, do, almost any
thing he tellsait.. 1t cam play on, the piano
/ waltz, march andorowli like rooster.
THERE issa man, living In Georgia eighty.
one years old who has never taken chew
Of tobacconor smoked Q cigar, never was
drunk, never swore and never married.
"A SWEET girl graduate lin Hemingf ford;
Neb., lecturod last season on 1.-THE Bright
Possibilities, Of the Broom" She made q
grand hit Last week she, was married to
Mr.. Broome:.
MRS. BoorH;, of Washington County;
Tenn died recently in. the log house she
was born in, ninety-eight years ago.. She
had Ina that time never been further
than, five miles from home. .sf q.
CARSON, New, reports. an aerolite weighr
Ing ten tons that is. streaked with horn
silver, and fell upon q race course, narrow
ly missing .: Jockey who was. exercising a
colt there at the time ,.& ,y - ~
PROVIDENCE, r.. L, lately advertised that
he wanted to sell his wife for cash or ex-
change her for q good work-horse;" and
drtherwarranted her to- be: forty one years
old, "and as good as the majority Of church
going geople.''
/ The youngest grcatgrandmother On rec
I'D in this country is Mrs. Mary Ann Wall
acc OF Bagdad, Fla, who was q mother at
eighteen, q grandmother at thirty-four and
now at lily the mother of q grandmother.
PETER BUoKMAN, q younglad Of St. Cloud,
MIMI, breaks bone every time he falls
His bones are so brittle as to snap under
the slightest blow, and, although only six
years old, he has sustained sixteen fractures
Of the arms and legs.
In New York City some time since q little
girl swallowed an open penkife handle first.
1t was found necessary to open the child's
stomach to remove the knife, which opera
ton was successfully performed and the
girls life saved.
A NATURAL soap well has been discovered
| near Buffalo Gap, ID. T. The soap is Skinned
from o boiling spring, and hardens by ex-
posture to the air. It is a mixture Of bo-
rax, alkali and oil. The quality Is excel
lent, and the supply is belie~ ed to be mex
haustible.
A WRITER in the Century tells Of q piece
| Of good fortune coming from the somnam-
bultstic habit A young woman, troubled
| and anxious about a prize for which she was
to compete, involving the writing Of an
| essay, arose from her bed in sleep and
| wrote paper upon subject upon which
che had not intended to write when awake,
and this essay secured for her the prize.
AwoNDERFu1 mechanical figure il tho
cork Of citizen Of Bridgeport, Conn. It's
| about tho size of the average sixteen-year-
old youth. An exhibition Of its ability was
given to number Of New York gentle
men, which included the removal Of watch
from its pocket, and then, after listening
for tho tick the announcement in an audi.
bic tone that sits just $50, gentlemen"
After that the timeplece is returned to the
pocket.
DURING rain and thunderstorm at Fort
Valley, Ca, the other night, lightning
struck negro house in the edge of the town,
drove splinter of wood in a woman's arm,
knocked boy q complete somersault, turned
the cradle over containing the baby, knocked
AL the chickens off the roost, tore tho block
loose from the yard dog, and, strange to
say, there was not any one killed, but no
doubt everything was badly stunned for a
lew minutes.