Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-04-03
or GENERAL INTEREST,".

- IL TIsgs1ENGnAI, IN 6HEo u
-.Robert Elsewhere' was the book
inquired for by ayoungster at the cir.
,ulating library the other day.
There were 1887, 100, 900 bushels
If corn raised in the United States in
1888, which sold for 1866, 561, $50.
Statistics show that in New En-
gland seven out of ten widows under
;hirty-five marry within two years.
1t is claimed that about five dol
ars worth of dogs have killed $4,000
worth of sheep in Michigan the past
fear.
1T is now given out in Boston that
The cremationists have lost Is per
cent. OF their strength in the last year,
Ind it is believed that another year or
Two will finish them.
"A well-known magazine statisti-
,ian says that America has populac
lion Of over 60, 000,O00 and working
power of one hundred and eighty thou
sand billions of foot pounds per day.
Benjamin Franklin's watch is
owned by Lancaster, Pa, gentleman,
who still carries it and says that it
keeps good time. It is of silver,
shaped like biscuit and has engraved
On It's back: 'Ben. Franklin, 1776,
Philadelphia"
-"Underdonedom' is what N. P.
Willis dubs the brigade of shalf-
dedged masculines who crowd the
1oor-ways and blockade the entrance
20 every ballroom, and are generally
too weary and blase to enjoy any thing
out the supper.
Statistics show that in England
business conditions really regulate the
number of marriages. When wages
are good many more marriages take
place than when they are not, SO that
The marriage rate corresponds closely
with the great changes in trade.
"A resident of Lexington, Ca, has
N his possession the brand that was
ased during the days of slavery for
branding slaves who were guilty OF
murder. It is a rudely constructed
IN" made of iron, which was heated
:ed hot and applied to the person,
sometimes to the cheek, of the one tc
be branded.
"A cat in Lee County. Ca, is SAID
TO have committed suicide on account
Of the loss of her kittens. The young
felines were drowned. In the after.
noon the cat went around in great
grief, and that night ended her life
by placing her head through a large
crack in the crib and moving along
until she got to narrow place an6
then letting go. She was found in the
morning hanging stone dead.
There is a water wheel in use a.
Bowdoinham, Me-, which is probably
the only one of it's kind in existence
1t is twenty-seven feet in diameter
with a foot of it's rim out of water a
high tide; the spokes are wide and Sc
diagonally, like the vanes of a wind
mill. It turns eighteen hours of tn
day by tide power, running one wa,
with the flow, the other way with tn
ebb. With one foot fall of the It'd
this wheel gives about fifty hors
power.
-Bartolo Sepulveda, who was par
doned and released from the peniten
tiary after twelve years of imprison
ment, asked the Legislature to appro
pirate $15, 900 to pay him for his loss Q
time and damages by reason of his i'm
prisonment, says the Los Angelo
Tribune. He proved an alibi afte
twelve years had elapsed. His Grim
was murder and his excuse for wait
ing so many years to prove his inne
cence is that he was drunk when tn
murder was committed and could nc
take care of his interests.
Three years ago John Wright, {
Pike County, Ga, lost his sight, an
the oculists that he consulted agree
that there was no possibility of hi
ever seeing again. The other day a
Mr.: Wright sat on the porch in tn
sunlight his eyes began to itch violent
ly. He rubbed them. and when b
took away his fingers he was consciou
that he could distinguish objects din
ly. During the day his power of visio
increased, and at last account the oil
gentleman was in a fair way to see a
we'll as ever
"A shoemaker of Atlanta, Ga.
finished the largest pair of shoes eve
made for actual use. 1t took a piec
OF leather containing 1,O4O squar
inches to make the uppers, and 1896
to make the soles. This is SEQ
square inches altogether. If tia
leather were cut into two strips a
eighth of an inch wide, and made int
one long string, the string would b
$4,000 inches long. The soles weig
81 pounds. The soles are IA inche
long. 81 wide and 81 inches deer
That doesn't count the heel, whic
would add another inch to the depth
Heavy American Locomotives.