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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
Relative Rank Of Cities.

THE cities of New York, Philadelphia
and Brooklyn maintain the same relative
rank as to population that they did in 1860.
There has been considerable shifting of
places, however, among those that now
constitute the remainder of the twenty
foremost cities Of the Union:
During the last decade st. Louis has
ascended the scale from the eighth to the
fourth.
Chicago, in similar proportion, changes
from the ninth to the fifth.
Baltimore, which in 1860 was the fourth,
retrogrades to the sixth.
Boston pursues the same direction, from
the fifth to the seventh.
Cincinnati retires step, from the sew
enth to the eighth.
New Orleans falls back from the sixth
to the ninth.
San Francisco, taking noble forward
leap, vaults from the fifteenth to the tenth
Buffalo lags behind, from the tenth to
the eleventh.
Washington makes a stride from the
fourteenth to the twelfth.
Newark, New Jerseys thriving metrop-
oils, drops, nevertheless, from the eleventh
to the thirteenth.
Louisville, twelfth In rank in 1860, is
now assigned to the fourteenth.
Cleveland, four steps forward, mounts
from the nineteenth to the fifteenth.
Pittsburgh alone retains the same rela-
tive rank now as then, the sixteenth.
Jersey City rises from the twentieth to
the importance of seventeenth.
Detroit recedes from the seventeenth to
the eighteenth.
Milwaukee from the eighteenth to the
nineteenth
Albany, which was, ten years ago, the
thirteenth, now takes the old place of Jer-
sey City as the twentieth.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
Youths Department.
WHICH DO I LOVE THE MOST
BY MRS. z. Z. DCFFEY

BY MRS. E. 3. DuFFEY.
Which do love the most, brides or kitty
Which do love the best, Dolly or Rover
You each seem to ask me- and vet, tits pity,
Which one love most cannot discover.
Beautiful birds, with your bright wings a-autter,
How delight in your jubiant singing!
Loving and sweet are the thanks that you utter
When to your cage your breakfast I'm bringing.
Say do you tire of your narrow dominions,
Fret at tre bars that your freedom SO fetter3
Nay; you fold softly your futtering pinions,
And tell me to etay and be loved Is far better
Better than liberty, better than rowing
all through the world, alone and all lonely;
Ahl you sweet pets. will ever be loving,
Loving and true, though love not you only.
Kitty, my Kitty, so sleek and so glossy,
Say, was there ever a kitten so cunning?
A kitten so merry?-a kitten so saucy?-
such wonderful kitten for friskjng and running
You're so tidy and neat with your gray striped
And snowy cravat, though in truth it is shocking
That when you were dressing, you carelessly pu1
With three nice and white ones, one dirty gray
stocking.
Rover, dear Rover, oh, say, are you thinking
Of the fun and the holics that we've had to-
gee You remember them all by your wink'ng-
The pranks we have played i'll all sorts o
love i You, old dog; you're as true as brother
And we'll do know might look the world over
Before should find for playmate another
As loving, az kiud and as faithful as Rover.
But my own darling dolly, my sweet precious
baby,
My dear little blue.eyed and faxen. hired Mollie
know that love you, and oft think maybe
That you love me too, though you're only {
dolly.
Oh what should do, my sweet precious, without
And what would become of you, dearest. Nov
this is
Tho truth: there is something 20 charming abou
That love you the best; SO give you m,
kieses, -ChiLdren's Hour.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
THE BEST COW IN PERIL.

Old Farmer h. ia a stingy man,
10 keeps all he gets and he gets all he can;
By al his friends hc Is said ~ DO
A, .irht as the bark ON young birch tree;
lie goes to church. and ho rents pew, c
But the dimes that he gives to the L"r" are Jew
IT he yels to heaven with the good ana sfc"''
lie will bc let In ut tho smallest gate
Now, Farmer B besides drags and plows,
He makes no butter, but nds by express
The milk to tho ctys thirstihess.
What do the city folk know about milk
They are better judges of cloth and SILK;
Not man who buys, I'll vow, can tell
II water it not or water 1t well
II they do not know, thon where's the sin!
I will put tho sparkling water in"
Thu. talked to himself old Farmer B.;
How mean he IL, young and old can SOC.
one might 1t dark. OH fearfnl1y dark;
The wa Cl do, never cam" out to DARK;
Old Farmer Is in his bed did snOre,
Apd I'd voice % cried ,Ip out. '1 With nasty breath,
9 Your best COW, neighbor, is choking to death! w
Clipping off the end OF rousing snore,
Farmer b. bounded ont on the bedroom floor;
Aud the midnight voice was heard no more.
He pulled on his pants, he kne" not how,
For his thoughts were all on the choking COW;
He aew to the yard like frightened deer,
For his singy soul was filled With fear;
Looking around by his lanterns light,
He found that the cows were there all right.
~ will give dime" cried Farmer B..
"To know who played the trick on me;
MAY the hand be stiff and tn knuckle sore,
That knock. d night on my farm house door"
With scowl on his face. and shaking bead,
Farmer B. again sought his nice warm he'd;
No good thoughts came, they were oil o'erpow'
cred;
The little good nature he had had soured.
When no went to water his milk next day,
The midnight voice seemed again to say,
AS he pumped away with painting breath:
Your best COW, Reghhor, Is choking to death!"
The meaning of this he 500 found out,
For stone was driven In the old pumps spout.
Old Farmer B., when he drives to town,
Now meets his neghbors with savage frown;
They smile, and ask, as they kindly bow.
" How getteth along the best COW now?"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
Poetry.
THE WIDOWS ANSWER.

"An, me. with so many little mouths
What care must a widow feel"
So -aid the deacon, With grief profound
such only Christian can feel
Now the widow wne knittinG Il stocking,
and just rOuLding OIL a. Tie heel
Care, deacon" she murmured, with saint
And gently che shook her head,
Aud turned soft eyes to her merry boys
At play near the garden bca'
Mouths bless 'em, a red rs n cardinal ho"e''
Seven pairs of sweet lips" she said.
Not one too many, the cnrly psates'
Even j Jimmy. thr baby, there! ,,,r,s,
have given them all to the dear L'f" "'''
Trusting in faith and PRAYER; , ,,,
And t;d lie leads them ~ lie Nu. W. ',
! don't know the uI.AIi:s "' ''t'
..N,,Erny thr wcr' tnr, "'no", wloo"!
.nI wnrkir!.. - work you m"st!
No, tuny th,. t, rrhc meaning of care
~ Thni ruts the brain like rurt:"
rrb, ,,ruy haired tie econ doub,1ngly smiled,
Bat take tho lord Oh tr>st.
says the smiling widow; "I'm just az sure,
If my little stock be spent,
And the cruise rim low. and the flour DO gono,
And the money be needed for rent
ThN' lie who krOws when a sparrow falls,
And whittier thou!s t is scNt
"And where the down of the thistle blows,
And the cOur~c Of the tickle wind,
And how the underworld paints the rose,
Without leaving drop behind:
And why there are never two leaves alike,
Though million leaves you find;
~ And why ocean. hound by mighty vii,
Ia vet In it's vastHe-s free
Can. without stint from his bOuLtiful store,
Give to my babies and me,
A that day mus, follow the risen dawn,
"a 'N"' '''''O ''' christian Weekly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
"Don't tell anv one" John whiaoered

"Don't tell any one," John whispered
back, and the boy passed on. A week
passed. A dozen times John found oppor-
tunities to pay off his score with J6e. but
his better nature told him that it would be
more noble and manly to overlook the
matter entirely.
One no iday, John obtained permission
to 60 10 a pond about mile from homo to
skate. When he reached the pond he
saw that Joe Evans was there before him.
He sat down on the bank and commenced
to strap ON his skates. Just as he was
fastening the first buckle, he heard cry
and the sound Of cracking ice, and looking
up, he saw that Joe had broken through q
thin spot and was struggling in the water.
Quickly as possible he sprang to the
rescue, and by means of long pole which
was living on the ice near the scene of the
accident, he succeeded in getting Joe out
safely, though much frightened.
"Oh, John!" cried Joe, shivering with
terror and cold, "if you hadn't helped mo
out should have drowned"
II guess you would" answered John,
quietly.
"And served you in the way I did I"
cried Joe. II rubbed out your problems
the DAY we built the fort!"
81 knew it!' answered John, 81 found
it out next day"
"And you never told of it!' Joe felt
very insignifis ant in comparison with John
Ranger This was new way of revenge.
Don't say anything more about 1t, ~
said John, but hurry home and get some
dry clothes on"
John was satisfied with his revenge.
It was a great deal better than paying
back IN the same kind of coia.-Worh
and Play.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
Pocket MOaey.

If such generosity as that of Mrs. Prim.
rose, who gave each of her girls guinea
to keep in her pocket, but with strict in
functions never to change it, would satisfy
the greedy youngsters Of our generation,
their parents would not object to its exer
else. The children, however, of these
days are provoked by too many ,emp'a-
tions to expense, to be contented with
being made the mere dcpositarics Of mon
ey. They know too well the capabilities
Of dollar to lie satisfied with the ring and
touch of it. 1t is not possible to keep the
young in ignorance of that which tultills
so universal and important a function in
the relations of the world as money. They
must necessarily, from the earliest age, be-
come more or less familiar with its power,
and it is desirable that they should learn,
as soon as possible, how to use it with dis
cretion.
1t is prudent practice, we think, to
give children regular allowance Of mon
ey. This, apart from the opportunity it
supplies Of gratifying their small and in
nocent desires, and thus adding to their
happiness, affords parents and guardians
periodical occasions for inculcalin2 discre-
ton in expenditure, and observing the ef-
feet.
When children are somewhat advanced
in years, it is we'll to make the allowances
of money sufficiently large not only to pay
for the innocent enjoyments which are per-
mitted, but for various articles of need
They thus learn early to discriminate be-
tween necessary and unnecessary expeadi-
ture, and with the not infrt quent good re-
suit of checking the latter.
Parents should be, within certain pru-
dent limits, as generous in their allow
ances of money to children as their means
will permit. Lord Bacon says: "The IL
liberality of parents in allowance toward
their children is harmful error, and
makes them base, acquaints them with
shifts, makes them sort with mean CON-
pany, and makes them surfeit more when
they come to plenty; and therefore the
proof is best when men keep their au-
tho1ity towards their children, but not
their purse"
The tendency of youth to excess must
always be regarded as reasonable motive
for keeping the supply of pocket money
within reasonable limits. No child should
have the means of inordinate indulgence; !;
and as his capacity of stomach for tarts
and sweets is only to be checked by the
emptiness of his purse, it becomes neces-
sary to compensate for the boundlessness
OF the one by the smallness of the other
There is negative advantage in the
pocket-money system which has been
proved in the course of considerable ex-
perience in the discipline Of children.
The withholding of the regular allowance
has been found, like the stoppage of the
sailors ration of grog, or the prisoners
supply of tobacco, an easily applicable and
most effective means of punishment. We
have known many ayoun gster, unterri6ed
by the threats of the rod and tho dark
closet, however imminent. subdued at the
least hint of the possibility of losing his
pocket money.-HdrDer's Bdzar.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
A Word to the Girls.

Girls, take good care Of your health:
Don't think because you are perfectly well
now you can expose yourselves In every
way, and because it never did hurt you,
that it never will. It is no light matter to
trifle with ones health, for it is too often
blessing too little appreciated until lost.
I know how you feel about such things,
for was once thoughtless girl too; and
although had kind mother TO- glye me
advice, which / have elton -~ishadl 7 had
taken, thought then l knew best, and
only found out my mistake when Is was
too late. How often do you do ss1 didr
Change thick and heavy clothing for light
er, and heavy shoes for thin gaiters, to go
sleighing, or to some party or Singing
school. Then have you not come chilled
through, and risen next morning With the
headache, swollen eyes, and q GENERALLY
uncomfortable feeling' Don't doso, g,rl.: .
Don't follow fashions that will make you
sacrifice your health. If you do, you will
be old women at thirty, in spite Of AL tho
embellishments you can give your faces;
for if your health is ruined, you will have
little pleasure in anything else. ,.s:
once knew young girl who was a.
healthy and hearty as one usually sees,
who walked home from party In thin
shoes, through the dewey grass.sz Sho
caught cold which settled On her lungs
and in short time carried her to her grave,
She is not the only one who has shortened
her life by her own carelessness. How
many we see who are killing themselves
by lacing. think it is pitiful sight to
see an unnaturally slender waist, apd eyes
projecting from the head from the COM
preston, while the victims of their own
foolishness are unable to eat, one third as
much as they need, for fear their misery
will be more than they can bear: NO sen:
would if she could only know the suffer-
ing she will have to endure in after years.
Take advice, then; dress so that you feel
comfortable, no matter how others do; and
never expose yourself more than you can
help, and you will stand chance Of enjoy
ing healthy and happy old age-West-
e7aa Rural.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
The Interior of the Earth.

AMONG the various papers recently read
before the British Scientific Association
was report from the Tidal Committee
Of the Society. This paper contained a
number Of curious aud interesting specu-
latlons with regard to the degree of elastic
yi' l'ling which the solid earth experiences
under In: tidegenerating influences OF the
sun and moon. 1t 10 quite certain that the
solid earth does yield to some degree. 1t
has long been fav, rite assumpio with
geologists that the earth consists of shell
of solid rock from twenty to fifty miles in
thickness, inclosing an interior filed with
melted material, lava, metals, etc. This
hypothesis is now shown to be absolutely
untena5le, because, if it were true, the
solid crust would yield with almost as
much freedom, on account of its thinness
and great area, as if it were perfectly
liquid. Thus the boundary of the solid
earth would ri:e and fall under the tide-
generating influences, so as 10 leave no
sensible differences to be marked by the
water rising and falling relatively to the
solid; showing that if the earth as a while
had an average degree of rigidity equa! to
that of a glass. the tides would be very
much diminished from the magnitude
which they would possess on a pcrfectly
rigid globe, with water like our seas upon
it, This consideration, the committee re-
ports, makes it probable that tn. earth has
Considerably nor; average rigidity than
globe of glass of the same size. The
matht matical calculation shows some
what startling result, to the effect that a
globe Of the same size as the earth, if
throughout exactly of the same rigidity as
glass on smaller scalc would yield like
an India rubber ball to the tide generating
influences, thus leaving very little oppor.
tunity for change in the relative heights
of water ard land. The precise agree.
Hcn' If the actual tidal movement with
ea' ''n'ttcs founded Oh the supp'silinn Of o
p"r1','y rigid globe, renders it prob .bIe
.;lsI INC Garth is il ren]ity vastly more
lls a. as u whole Than any specimens of
surface rock thu hHd been experimental
u, on IN any laboratories. DR.. Soule, ten
years ago, in speaking on this subject had
suggested that probably the great pressure
IN the Interior produced in the material,
which might be the same Substance as the
surface rocks, greatly increased ripid,tv
IN positions at grea depths below the sur.
/ lace. This part OF the inquiry ,he com
mi tee propose to make primary object
III the calculation nexI to be taken,
When is Young lAdv "verv ike n
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
THE QUEER OHICKENS.
BY ELIZABETH SILL.

BY ELIZABETH SILL.
Across the barn floor,
And through the barn'door,
Comes the old white hen:
Very proud she feels;
For at her heels
She has brood OF ten.
She is glad to get out,
And pick about;
She Is tired of sitting still;
And now they'll 60
She tells them 50
To the meadow down by the mill.
For there are bugs,
And worms, and slugs,
And grasshoppers, green and brown;
But she says, "Do you heari
Do not 60 too near
To the mill pond, or you'll drown"
Each little fellow
IL dOWny and yellow,
With very queer bill for chick:
They waodle along
The leaves among.
And learn how to scratch and pick.
Just then old White
Catches sight
OF beetle little beyond:
She runs to pin it,
When, in a minute,
The young ones ire Oft to the pond.
In vain she calls,
And scolds, and squalls.
Not one of the ten will stop;
And she's out Of breath,
And frightened to death,
As into the water they pop.
But she opens her eyes
In great surprise
When she sees them swim with Gaze;
And she eaye, II never!-
Now, did you ever
See any such chickens at these?"
And crow In tree.
Who had laughed SO to see,
That he scarcely could stand on bis legs,
Said, IL would recommend,
My very dear friend,
That you don't sit again on ducks' eggs"
The Nursery
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
"A friend of ours has q little hoy Wh

"A friend of ours has little hoy who
is remarkably quick il his answers. One
evening there WAS company i'll the parlrr
a, Il when Charities bedtime came, ht
wanted to stay up. "Crn,e, Char,ie," said
his mamma, "i''s time for you to retire
Always 10 to bid early and you'll grow
up to be \ big man." Yes Charlie" spoke
up one OF the gentlemen visitors, who
was himself a remarkab y small specimen
of manhood; eff you 60 to beu like q
good boy you'll grow up to be great big
man" "W,ll II" sai1 Charley, eyeing
him curionsly. "Well guess you ncvel
went TO bed willingly when you: were q
boy"
-"What would make good leading
article for ME to morrowY" asked wicked
editor of wit. A halter" was the sen.
tentious reply.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28
A Joke on Greeley.

A CORRESPONDENT tells the following
joke in connection with the recent visit Of
Mr.. Greeley to the Agricultural Fair at
Lafayette, Ind:
hile looking at the various agricultural
implements on exhibition at the fair, he
was introduced to Mr.. w. s. Lingle, editor
Of the Lafayette Courier Bowing politely,
Mr.. Lingle said he was exhibiting on the
grounds new corn shellef, an invention
of his own, and he asked Mr.. Greeley to
go with him to inspect it. Mr. Greeley
willingly assentcd, and the two started off.
Mr.. Lingle led the way to the pig sites
and showed Mr.. Greeley the meanest look
ing hog in all Indiana. Its nose was two
feet long, and its back as sharp as carv-
ing knife Its lege were like those of q
crane, aud it's tail couldn't have been
curled with the tongs of belle. Mr..
Lingle pointed to this wonderful quadru
ped with infinite pride and said: "Thcre,
sir, is my patent corn shelter. What do you
think Of it?" Mr.. Greeley looked at Mr..
Lingle, and then at the wonderful hog.
Presently broad smile beamed on his
fac :, and he turned away without uttcriDg
a word, feeling, doubtless, con p :ctely
"sold"
There ia a story of TN English tourist
who entcrt restaurant aud by few
scraps # French was able to order q din
nrr He wished some mushrOoms-very
delicious and la9ge Not knowing the
name he demanded sheet of paper and
pencil and sketched one. The waiter un-
dersto ID him in second, disappeared for
ten minutes. and returned with splendid
-umb-eIla.
The aeronaut Wise has made AS sue
Ccssful asceusions.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28

When is young lady every like
Whale?" When she's pouting.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1871-09-28

The aeronaut Wise has made AS sue
Ccssful ascensions.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-09-23
year OF Railroad Murders.

The year so far has been more pro-
ductive of murders by rail in the United
States than any sponding period of
time. The details Of one accident are
hardly chronicled before another is re
ported. From New Hampshire to Texas
the work of slaughter has been going on
until the number Of victims exceeds the
casualties of battle Public indigna
ton as expressed through the press, and
newspaper appeals TO directors and man
ayers, alike fail to achieve any good re-
suits. The virtue Of rigid punishment
ought now to be tried. IF necessary,
let the damages for killing or manning
passengers be fixed at treble the rates
now prevailing in any State. and then the
offending railroad officials should be
punished for manslaughter. 4 road or
two saddled with heavy debts for DANA
ges, and few officers condemned to
bread and water fare, would unquestion-
ably 90 far in seeurfeg the necessary
precautions against railway massacres.
When companies find it is cheaper to
guard against than to pay for accidents,
they will naturally follow the former
course.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-09-23
The BOnaparte Marriage.

From the Newpo IT Mercury, Sept o.
Married, in this city, on Thursday
morning last, at St Mary's church, by
Rev. Philip Grace, assisted by Rev.
Messrs Finnegan and Hughes, Colonel
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, of Paris,
France, and Mrs. Caroline LeRoye Ed
gar, of this city.
Colonel Bonaparte is a son of Jerome
Bonaparte, Jr., of Baltimore, and grand
son of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He was
educated at West Point, and soon after
graduating went to Paris at the soieita-
ton of Napoleon III, and was mem
Der of his family up to the time of the
late revolution. Colonel Bonaparte was
held in the highest esteem by the EN-
peror, who saw in his American cousin
all the attributes of high, toned gentle,
mau.
Mrs. Edgaris the widow of Mr.. New
bold Edgar, who died in 1869 while
visiting Europe. She is the daughter
of the late Samuel Appleton, prominent
merchant of Boston, and granddaughter
Of the late Daniel Webster. She is a
lady Of fine attainments, beautiful in
appearance and sweet disposition, and
competent to fill the highest station IN
woman's sphere