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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-08
Austin House,
Corner Of Mill and Jay Streets, Austin, Mimi,
II. KUNRATlG, Proprietor.

This house has been remoddlcd and added to
until it has been made one Of the most CON-
lnodious and comfortable hotels in the county.
Every possible pains always taken to secure
the eos'fo.t "f guests. A large and comforts.
L1e stable on the premises. Terms reasonable
SALOON 10 RENT in tho Austin B"srdink
House, on AjII-street. Inquire on the prem.
lss.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-08
LOCAL MATTERS.
A VALUABLE horse belonging to Il,
p. VanValkcpbsrSh, died last week.

OLD papers for sa]e at this Office at
fifty cents per hundred.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-08

An Odd Fellows Lodge is being or
sanizcd ut Spring Valley.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-08
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE.

CnANDALL l. FRENCH,
43t7 Att'ys for Mortgage, Austin, Min,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-08
THE TRANSCRIPT

THE TRANSCRIPT
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY.
LOCAL. MATTERS.
AUSTIN. NN,.........-.........FEB. 8, 1872.
A VALUABLE horse belonging to Il.
p. VanValkcpbsrSh, died last week.
OLD papers for sa]e at this Office at
fifty cents per hundred.
See splendid cut Of Hopkins 4 Fer
maids on second page. APT
DAY Bios receive their Oysters
twice week by express
Ii YOU wish an assortment Of Canned
Fruits. Don't fail to call at Day Bros.
An Odd Fellows Lodge is being Or
sanizcd ut Spring Valley.
| THAT Few sign Of y. ]. Johnsou's
is neat piece of workmanship.
Mrs. D. W. Craig has returned
from protracted visit in New York
city.
WHEAT and pork have been rather
plentiful on the streets during the week.
Poultry is scarce.
Mr.. +. Is. CRANE has retur red from
the Red River country, and intends to
remain with US until April 6rst.
| e. H.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-08

THAT Few sign Of .. ]. Johnsoui
is neat piece of workmanship.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11
what Folks are Made OF.

The number of bones in human body
is generally estimated at 245, of which
there are reckoned in the skull, head and
face, 81; in the trunk, "a; in the arms and
hands, 60; and in the legs and feet, 60.
The weight of the skeleton is about one
tenth the weight of the whole body.
+ Bone, when used as lever, is 20 times
as strong as sandstone, 81 times as strong
as lead, nearly 2A times as strong as Elm
and Ash, and twice as strong as Box,
Yew and Oak timber qA
The number of muscles in man is $40,
being more than twice the number of the
bones The bulk of the body, upon an
average, is equal to a cube of little more
than sixteen inches on side, and the
amount of water equals cube little
more than fourteen inches on side, or
nearly three-fourths of the body.
An adult drinks about fifteen hundred
pounds of water yearly, and throws of,
through the various waste-gates, nineteen
hundred pounds. The difficulty of ac-
counting for the four hundred pounds
has led some to suppose that the water is
formed in the system by the union Of
oxygen and hydrogen.
The salts that have been enumerated are
found in almost every part of the body.
Common salt Chloride of sodium) is
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11
The Strength and Intelligence OF the
Ant.

HERE is an account of remarkable
display of both strength and intelligence
by an ant. 1t was sent us by Mr.. Thos.
| s. Collier, of New London, Ct. Watch
the ants as you see them at work. and it
may be you will see something equally
strange and worth telling about. Mr.. G.
writes:
Whilst standing under the arbor near
my residence this morning, was some
what surprised and amused to see COM
! bat between an ant and green worm Or
caterpillar of some kind. The worm had
either been migrating or fallen from the
arbor, and whilst in the path been at
tackled by the ant.
., For awhile the contest was very fierce,
the ant running along the body of it's ad-
versary, and stopping now and then to
give pinch or bite-at least, concluded
such was the case, as it seemed to gather
itself together for some muscular work,
and when it did SO the worm Writhed and
| twisted as if in great agony.
This lasted some three or four minutes,
when the worm grew exhausted and be-
came quiet, and then the ant proceeded
| to drag it along the walk. The worm
gave two or three weak struggles after
this, but made no strenuous resistance.
After dragging the worm some three feet
along level space, the ant came to an
acclivity of about an inch, and finding
its strength insufficient to cope with the
| difficulty, it left the worm and proceeded
toward its hole. When near the entrance
it encountered another ant, and after the
usual manner of interchanging scommu-
nications, by the use of feelers, it return
| ed to the worm, and was shortly Joined
| by the ant it had met @ft
f.; These two, by their united exertions,
managed to drag the worm up the preci-
pice, for such I suppose it was to them.
I Then they conveyed it through patch of
grass, winding in and out among the
spears, as if treading the intricate lab
yrinths of a dense forest. Beyond the
grass they came to clear space, and
here the ant that had come to the assis-
! tance of the cOnqueror of the worm de-
parted on its own business, and the con-
Queror was left to drag its prize along
alone. This it did, until it reached the
entrance of the nest, and the worm disap-
peared. lge ~ n
Now took the tronble to measure the
worm and the ant. The worm was one
inch long, with circumference of three
eighths of an inch; and the ant was one
quarter Of an inch long, and belonged to
the common brown species. The total
space that the worm was carried was
eleven feet, and one ant performed the
greater part of the toll. This, however,
is not as remarkable as the fact of the ant
attacking the worm, and its sagacity in
not leaving it till it was powerless to es-
cape, and its search for and obtaining
help when unable to accomplish task
that came in its way ay.-AmerTc0re Agrscut-
t7L1ISf
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11
H0ss SeEse.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

THERE is nothing that haz been dis
kovered yet that il so skase as good Hoss
sense, about 2S boss power. s9e
/ don't mean race hoss, nor trOtting
hOss sense, that kan run mile in l :2S,
and then brake down; nor trot in 2:13, and
good for nothing afterwards onlyto brag
on ). but mean the allday hoss sense,
that IL good for s miles, an hour, from
rooster growing in the morning, until the
COWS cum home at night, klean tew the
end ov the road. .l os.j, .,r. g gfj
I Ihav seen fast sense, that was like sum
hoses, who could git so far in one day
that it would take them two days to git
back, on litter. I don't mean this kind
nuther.
Good hard pan sense il the thing that
that will wash well, wear well, iron out
without wrinkling, and take starch with
out tracking.
Menny people are hunting after uncom-
mon sense, but they never lind it good
deal !; uncommon sense IL oy the natur OF
genius, and all genius il the gift of God,
and kant be had, like hens eggs, for the
hunting.
Good, old-fashioned common sense IL
one ov the hardest things in the world to
out-wit, out -argy or beat in emmy way, 1T il
az honest az a loaf of good domestik
bread, always in tune, either hot from the
oven or days old. i
Common sense kan be improved upon
by edukashun- genius kan be too, sum,
but not much. - ''''3
Edukashun gauls genius like bad set
ting harness. ea54a
Common sense iz like billed vittles, it is
good right from the pot, and it IL good
mex day warmed up. aut
If every man waz a genius, mankind
would be az bad oph az the heavens
would be, with every star a comet, things
would get hurt badly, and nobody tew
blame. E4ff
Common sense is instinkt, and instinkt
don't make emmy blunders mutch, no more
than a rat duz, in coming out, or going
intew hole, he hits the hole the fust
time, and just fills it.
Genius IL always in advance ov the
times, and makes sum magnificent hits,
but the world owes most ov it's tributes to
good boss sense.-N. Y. Weekly.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11

S0MEB0DYS HAND.


THEREs-a soft little hand, with just one or two
rings
There's a dozen of dimples, and some other
things
And the hand is as white, and as pretty, / know,
As the prints of the birds on the new fallen snow.
1t is soft, ,itis warm and its pressure is sweet.
When by chance or design fingers happen tomeet;
Andthe lady who owns It is pretty and free, .s3t
Except in the promise she's just made to me. -
'Tis hand to be fondled, and petted and kissed,
When encased in white kid, on society's list;
'Tis hand to be held, and to be loved with the
rest,
Whenthe gloves thrown aside. and Somebody's
at rest;
'Iis ahand in adversity, sorrow Or care
Whenthe brain burns with fever or chills in the
'Tis hand to smooth wrinkles and Danish the
- pain
When lights are burned low, and life's breath on
the wane.
Tis hand for the death bed, to take the last
When the grave yawns in. waiting, with death at
its edge
With future unknown, and the hungriest sod
Is waiting to hide all that's not gone to God.
'Tis hand for the bridal, to give all the trust
That life has been given, as some time it must
With the heart, and the life, and the faith, and the
name,
And all the fond tribute its owner can claim.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11

that points the hours while my body
strikes them; or, if you like, the soul
strikes the hours which my body indi-
Gates; or, better, my soul is the mirror of
the universe, and my body is its frame.
hope I make myself sufficiently
clear.n a8r 4a t5a
4lf Then spake disciple of Locke. g For
my part do not know how | think, but
/ know that I never derive impressions
except through the medium of my senses.
I do not dispute that there may be imma
terial and intelligent substances, but it
seems to me impossible for thought to be
communicated to matter. reverence the
Great Eternal Power. 1t is not for me to
set bounds to it, I affirm nothing, but
am content to believe there are many
things possible to a supreme intelligence
which it would be impossible for me to
understand"
The giant smiled, yet he thought this
one not the least wise of all the philoso-
pliers. The dwarf would have embraced
the speaker had not his extreme dis
proportion of size prevented such a
cordial manifestation. Unfortunately, a
little fellow in square cap pushed him
self forward, and begged to dissent
from the opinions expressed by the
other philosophical an1malcul@. He
said he knew all about the soul and
all about the universe. He said it
was aksource of unspeakable COM
fort to him to feel (and here he looked the
two celestial visitants deliberately up and
down from top to toe) that they and their
worlds, their suns, and stars, and mighty
systems, had all been created expressly
for the good of mankindl y..fs.r.i .
At this the two travellers became con-
vulsed with that inextinguishable laugh
ter which, according to Homer, is an en-
loyment belonging exclusively to the gods.
They shook with it to that extent that the
vessel tumbled off the Sirian's palm and
fell into his pocket. The two good folks,
after much cropping about, found the
ship, and replacing the little mites on
board set it a1oat again. In bidding them
farewell, Micromega spoke very kindly,
notwithstanding he was not little vexed
to find beings SO infinitely little pulled up
with conceit SO infinitely great. He
promised to write book of philosophy
for their instruction and guidance, assur-
ing them they should therein see the sum
of philosophy and the substance of all
wisdom. s ~
In due course this volume found it's
way to Paris, to the Academy of Sciences; !;
but when the good old secretary opened
it he found nothing but book COM
pletely blankl 4.;.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11
TOO PRESUMLNG.

SAID she, "Pray tell me, if you can,
Why men SO bashful are
They fall in love, and dream, and sigh,
And worship us afar;
But when they strive to tell the tale
They stutter, hesitate-and fail
We ladies like man, you know,
One not afraid to speak"
And here Thought blush appeared
Upon themaidens cheek,
Then to myself / said, "Isee
This maiden's heart belongs to me-
Then out spake: "Oh, lady fair,
My heart, my life is thine
And since 1 boldly speak my love,
Pray wilt thou not be mine -
"No, Sirl' said she, with wondering stare.
. "StFange how presuming some men arer
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11

A RECENT traveller says: sWhat al
ways impresses me more than anything
else in Egypt and Palestine has been the
entire absence of cheerful or exhilarating
music, especially from children. You
never hear them singing in the huts. I
never heard song that deserved the name
in the streets or houses of Jerusalem. One
heavy burden of voiceless sadness rests
upon that forsaken land. The daughters
of music have been brought low. THE
mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noise of
them that rejoice endeth; the joy of the
harp endeth."
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11

s'Driver, are you running on time to-
day?" asked passenger in an omnibus.
No, Sir" was the keen reply; tive are
running for cash.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-10-11

"Oh, intelligent atoms,'' said Micro
mega, 8 in whom the Eternal shows forth
His great power, pure indeed must be
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