Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-31
RECENT EVENTS.

A FARMER Of Santa Rosa, Cal, has raised
Japanese cucumber that measured three
feet six inches in length. :
A MAN who died at Flint, Mich, some time
ago wrote his own funeral sermon. the
hymns to be sung at his funeral, the words
OF consolation to his friends and the epitaph
for his tombstone.
A LAKE steamer that was sold to firm in
Honduras lately started from Chicago for
Belize. She went down the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers, and then through the
Gulf OF Mexico to her destination
A QUEER story is told of a Kansas CITY.
woman. She was travelling with her hus!
band, and when the conductor came around
after the fares he found the husband cold
In death and his wife talking to him. She
had been carrying on 9 conversation with
dead man for ct least two hours.
A CITIZEN Of Curtis, Fla, received lot OF
toilet soap for his barber shop. In placing
The cakes on the shelf he noticed that one
Of them was much heavier than well-con,
Quoted soap generally is. Cutting it open;
he found silver dollar of the vintage of
1882. He resolved to continue trading with
the barber.
A REMARKABLE sand-storm prevailed at
Fresno, Cal, one day recently from four to
nix O'Clock in the afternoon. The heavens
were so darkened that one could scarcely
see across the street, complete pail hung
over the city and the gas had to be lighted,
while doors and windows had to be shut "a
keep out the fine dust.
TIE heaviest article which has ever been
carried by an Erie canal-boat passed
through Rochester lately en- route from
New York to Chicago. It was block of
granite eighteen feet square, two and one
half feet thick, and weighing tifty-tive tons.
The pebble was quarried in Maine and was
brought to New York City on steam
barge.
NEAR Espan0la, in the northwestern part
of New Mexico, along the Denver e. Rio
Grande railroad, are situated on the top Of
steep mountains numerous cliff dwellings
which were occupied hundreds of years ago
by an Aztec people. On one Of the highest
points a Mexican lately managed to place q
Cleveland and Thurman flag at the risk of
his life.
A DIXON (Cal.) man lately lost his way
when hunting for his COW, and was three
days without food in a very rough country.
He became so exhausted that he concluded
that he could not live longer, but managed
| to build fire, by which he lay down. BE
was then not over one hundred yards from
VIC AOOoo VI d IauCnmou, VINO saw the 0r0
and went to it, surprised enough to find 9
starving man at his very door.
A LITTLE girl created q sensation on Z
Pullman sleeper the other evening near
Memphis. She got up to get drink, and
then, getting into the wrong berth, lay down
with an old gentleman who she thought was
her papa and went to sleep. Her father and
mother discovered her absence and became
frantic. They found her at last, after rousl
ing the sleeper, and no one in the car was
more surprised than the old gentleman, who
had been sleeping soundly all the time. !;
MAN in Trenton, N. J., was recently
drowned in beer glass. He had been
drinking hard, and was well under alsholie
| influence, when he entered saloon and or
aered glass Of beer, which was brought
him. he sat down at table and fell into
stupor, his head dropping forward into the
glass before him. When the barkeeper
tried to arouse him half an hour later, it was
found that he was dead, his nose being i'm
mersed in the liquor in such way that res
piration was completely stopped.