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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
y characteristics .NeauRess.

Deacon Richard Smith, of. Cincinnati,
tells two stories illustrating the mesnness
sometimes practsed by churches toward
their pastors. The first 10 the case
Of Presbyterian congregation in Indiana,
whose pastor was unfortunately confined
to the house BY sickness four weeks: = His
salary was small ono, and herfaund it
difficult to support his wife and children.
When, however, The trustees wore called
upon for the Starving salary, they deduct
ed for the four wsskR absence on
account Of tiekness. The second 10, of a
wealthy Presbyterian Church IN, N Ohio
city, but we arc very sure it wss not tho
one in which Deacon Smith of6oiates. The
pulpit was vacant and tho session invited
Q young man, recently graduated, to
preach for them. The young minister
started from homo with $25 in his pocket,
SIS of which was invested in railroad
tickets for the round trip. He remained two
Sabtaths with the congregation, preach.
ing four times When he came 10 take
bis departure be kept his hand ready
to receive tho expected envelope; but he
looked for it in vain. On his way to the
uepVss uOW0Ve1s 1IAouVAy uOOf OponoU,
and he was invited in: The lady ofthe
house thereupon presented him . small
package, which ha was requested to accept
~ small token from tho ladies OF the
congregation. He accepted it with thanks,
felt good, and deposited the precious
package in his carpet sack. Upon enter
ing the car he took back seat, and as
soon Us the train moved out of the depot
he proceeded to examine the package,
and opening it carefully he discovered q
cotton shirt with cotton bosom and old
fashioned collar attached. This was the
present from the ladies Of the congregation,
and this was all he received for two weeks
services and the expenditure Of SIS for
railroad fare. lie returned to his home y
sad young man.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
A Revival Incident.

The pastor of the Slawson Church
sends us the following item. The
church, as will be remembered, is hold
ing series of revival meetings, which
sarelargely attended. Prominent among
the speakers'is Rev. Mr.. Chaffee, of mi.
Last Friday evening the building was
crowded, and Mr.. Chaffee was consid-
erably animated, He was sitting in a
chair at the front, his wonderfully long
legs crossed, and his voice sending forth
volume OF song. The upper leg was
swinging majestically, the motion in
creasing as the singing advanced. They
had just reached that part of the hymn
where it says, ''Then can safely reach
my home, my God, my heaven, my all, -
and Mr.. Chaffee was doing his level
best and had Just got out Then
can safely reach my home," when the
oscillating limb came suddenly in CEN
tact with miserable dog that had in
some way got into the house, and sent
it flying and bowling under one of the
benches. OF course MI. Chaffee was
surprised, but when little woman
popped up in the gallery and shook an
ominous-looking umbrella ut him, and
cried in voice of passion, "You kick
that dog again, you Illinoy giraffe, and
you won't safely reach your home" he
was more than astonished-he was
fairly macadamized. He subsequently
told our informant that che never be-.
fore was so completely fabergasted, so
thoroughly circumbobulatcd," what
ever that means.-D0nbury Ne,Us.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
Street Scenes in Pekip.

In the busy streets of trade the scene
is most animated. Thousands of scar
let signs with gilded inscriptions hang
from oblique poles raised in front of
shops. Carts, palanquins, mules,
camels, coolies, soldiers and merchants
throng the streets, while to add to the
confusion mynads of children play
about your legs, and the old men car
rying their kites toward the walls add
to the singularity of the scene. The
kites, representing dragons, eagles,
etc., are managed with a dexterity
which comes only from lifelong
practice. They are sometimes furnish
ed with seolian attachments which imi
tate the songs of birds or the voices of
men. The pigeons also in Pekin are
frequently provided with very light
kind of @olian harp, which is secured
tightly to the two feathers of their
tails, so that in flying through the air
the harps sound harmoniously. This
curious. indistinct note had excited
the counts attention, and he learned
it's cause from pigeon which fell dead
ut his feet, having in it's fight struck
itself against the cord of one of the
kites. Their use was explained by the
natives as a protection against the
hawks, which are common in Pekin.-
Lippincotts Magazine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
Miss KellO9e's Father.

Mr.. George Kellogg, the father of
Miss Clara Louise, the eminent singer
so we'll and favorably known to ali
0pera-goers, is a resident of Cold
Spring, N. Y. He has "not lived in
vain" even were he not the father of
the first American operate singer who
was wholly educated in this country
before going upon the stage. He has
contributed several valuable inventions
to the mechanical world. He was
born on June 10, 1872, in Newport,
Comp IN 1887 he graduated from the
Wesleyan University. The same year
in August he married Miss Crosby, of
Middletown, Conn.,, and engaged in
the manufacture of machinery. His
further record is thus stat
cd: "From 1888 to 1871, he
was principal of Sumter Academy,
Sumterville, 8. G.. in 184l, he was
engaged in the manufacture of pins in
Birmingham, Conn. in 1874 he in
vented the jack chain machine, applied
to the manufacture of we'll chain, at the
rate of a yard a minute. Went to
England with jack-chain, hook and
eye. and pin machines, aud established
| ~se~s~.ss~VVAy Va AOOh0 hIu 6yC6 Ill
Redditch. From 1916 to 1866, manu-
featured surgical instruments in Biz.
mingham, Conn. in l849 invented a
dove'tailing machine in 1852 invented
type distributing machine which
distributes one hundred and twenty
types per minute in 1853 invented an
adjustable obstetrical forceps; in 1855
removed to New York city to educate
his daughter in music. From 1856 to
1861 he was merchant and manuiac-
turer of dental supplies; in 1857 de-
PENDANTS expert in the suit of Singer
vs: Grover & Baker and Wheeler &
Wilson. From 1868 to 1866 he WINS
officer of the customs; in 1854 plain
tifi's expert in photographic copyright
suit, Graham va. Pitman. In 1867 and
1868 he was in Europe with his daugh-
ter. Established in London manu-
factory of hats, under the patent of
his brother; in 1869 made All adding
apparatus. Since 1870 he has been
engaged in inventing and making sew.
eral new machines. There have been
three children born to the Kellopoa.
1he first two died very young.-Ex.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
ul,l,llDOllrc kOw.

This resort is full of Americans and
Ensllsh: Many people who only came
Tor day to try their fortune. now
come prepared for longer STAY. and
many Of the Frankfort families have
taken up their summer abode here
Fathers and mothers, with their grown
mp daughters and younger children.
now enjoy the promenade of the Cas;nI,
without having their eyes or ears
offended. Music is given three times
daily in the grounds, the theatre j.
open three times week; balls and re.
unions twice week, grand extra con.
certs, military concerts, illuminations,
and various fctes all tend to make the
time pass merrily. There are also con.
versation, billiard, and reading rooms,
and if the gamblers have disappeared,
the bathers and drinkers of the Spa
waters (muriatic saline springs) have
increased to a remarkable extent. The
purity of the air from the Tannus
mountains, and the excellence of the
water to those who like to drink it,
leave nothing to be desired.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
ny Violet.

From q The Old Cabinet" in Scribners for Sept,
A violet lay in the grass,
tear in it's golden cye;
And issaid, Alas and alas!
The night il over AMI gone,
Another dsy is anis!,,
And am alone, alone!
There is none to care If ,lic,
There is none to be glad that live;
The lovers they pass me bv
y And never n glance they give.
And could love 80 well, 40 wtn!
II ono wonid but tarry aud tell
"a talo that was told to me only:--
My lover might 80 hs ways,
But through all the II ghts anil the days
should never again be lonely!
Then sudden there fell look
Into that violct's heart. ..s
II lifted it's lace with 4 START;
1t arose 1t tremblc AMI shook.
at last, 0 at last! it cried;
Down dropped its head, and 1t died.
Is God in Heaven! Is the light
Or the moons, and the stars, and the suns,
His,-or the Evil Ones!
Is he cruel, or mad, or right!
The pansy that grew by the wall,
It's heart was heavy with bliss.
), y the night i 9aa l l;s.Fs ~ x
fkcn L LOVING wthd did fan
On its breast, and sl,ivcr with gladness
. Ehe n,ornhsg brought lovos madness
10 li:ht,-and the lover fled.
But the eyes that burned in his head
~ hhot hove through each and all,
For the parsy that doomed by the wall
ShOno sweet i'll every place.
In the sky, tho earth, and the air.
And that lover saw never the face
OF my dead violet there.
Hush Hush Let no sorrow be spoken!
Thong" it perish, no pity shall tiout it.
Better to die heart-brOken
or love than to live without it.!
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
Browns Wooden Wedding.
From the Boston Traveller.

Brown, young insurance friend Of ours,
who lives in Cambridge, had the 6fth an.
niversary of his wedding occur about a
week ago, and his friends determined to
celebrate his wooden wedding by . sur
prise party. Brown came in Yesterday
and told rs how they rucceeded. They
commenced by sending = servant around
with q team to take Brown and his wife
out to ride at about seven. They then
began to come with presents and materials
for supper. There was little party oi
five came frat, all laden-hands full.
They all got nicely inside the garden gate,
which shuts with q spring, when Browns
big mastiff; who is always left unchaine /
in his masters absence, came round the
corner and surprised them. Ono woman
stepped ON her dress. and her fall 80 de-
moralized fragile black walnut bookcase
she carried that it was afterwards done
up in bundle and presented as kindling
wood. Another fellow got safely out Of
tho yard, all but part of his pants, while
old Smithers, who weighs two hundred
and twenty pounds, plunged wildly. with
the eight gallon pail of ice cream he car.
ried, through Browns glass hot aouse in
the corner Of the yard, and surprised some
$50 worth Of exolics. Finally they fixed
things up and got into tho house, and 10 il
was about time for Browns return they
commenced laying the supper table. They
got down . tea set OF rare china that q
friend Of Browns in the trade had loaned
him week before, and broke two pieces,
60 that Brown has since been obliged
to mortgage his hen house aud buy the
set; and the comments of Mrs. Brown
when she saw the condition of the CARPET
were sarcastic in the extreme. Finally
40 browning touch, they tried to hang
out Chinese lanterns with the word aWel-
come " on them, on the porch over the
front door. They succeeded in hanging
two lanterns, and when they had saved the
house from the fiery flend, there wasn't
enough porch left to pay for the trouble Of
trying to hang out any more. Then
they eat down and waited for Brown and
his wife to como home. We draw a veil
over; Tho scene that followed their return.
Some scenes are toojoyous to be described
in cold, cold words. -. =; -. :
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
MISGUIDED ECONOMY.
An Effort To Reduce q Gas Bill. 4,
What Followed.
From the New Orleans picavune

An Effort tn Reduce q Gas Bill. and
What Followed.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
A lady down Gu Smith street. read
somewhere that economy was the: sure
road to wealth, and hearing that the gas
bill was cnormous, felt that the gas nigh,
be- economical by turning It IF at the
meter every morning, SO that it would no,
waste through. the brackets. This she
gig, INTENDING to regulated 10 the evening
She went to see her mother, however, and
Biggins having returned about O'Clock
p: NJ, turned up the jet and strsck a
match Nursing it carefully with his
hand no placed it to the bracket; pshaw
1t went out another, md still II would
not light. He thought the informal thing
'nust be broken, and going into the next
room, fell over chair and smashed his
taco. He tried it until his matches were
all gone, and then feeling on the msntel
for more, turned oyer bis ,wife's oil per-
fume bottle, and knew it was ruuniue on
his coat, He swore and started down stairs,
and Just H the hall met Maria. returning
with tho childr.n.a Diggins, Why Is thore
40 liRbt IN the house p = ~ -
AA0 IVAWVoVV4V~ I" 0ApsdSU 'UUb u M
:ase. He was foolish. Tho a. would
Light if no had oaly tried; and. abe
marched into the parlor, her dress catch
ing 10 her cabinet of Chinese cur1osities,
and it falling with q crash. She
tried, and in vain, for besides spelling
her best silk, she trod on tho child with
boils, and mashed her best bonnet,
whom, 10 she remembered what WA the
matter.
Sbe would sooner heve slapped into her
coffin than to the meter, and she tride to
do it quietly, but Biggins saw her and
from that day to this, when she talks
economy, he quietly sniggsrs, Save from
the gas bill"
Her silk dress, her best bonnet and her
Chinese relics were nothing, she whis.
pered to her bosom friend but to have
Biggins once know be war right, it "is
to much" and she always bursts into
tears.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
Pure Iron.

Absolutely pure iron is said to have
been produced by Russian chemist
by means of the galvanic battery. Dur.
ing tho process large quantity of
hydrogen was disengaged from tho
ordinary iron used. The pure iron is q
silver-white metal, very malIeablo and
ductilo, and so soft us to be readily emf
with pair OF scissors. II is very diff
ferent from iron which has hitherto
been supposed to be pure. It oxidizes
very rapidly and water is decomposed
by it by the rapid absorption of oxygen.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04

You must elect your work You
shall take what your brains can, and
drop all the rest. Only so can that
amount of vital force accumulate which
can make the step from knowing to
doing. No matter how much faculty
Of idle seeing man has, the step from
knowing to doing is rarely taken. IT'S
a step out of chalk circle of imbecil
ity into fruitfulness.-Einae son,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
Horse Feed.

Some useful information was given,
say the Pail MIL Gazette, in the evi.
dence taken before the Select Parlia
mentary Committee on Horses. 1t ap.
pears that for the last six years oats
have been discarded as food for omni.
bus horses in London. They are fed
entirely on Indian corn aud chat, each
horse receiving seventeen pounds OF
the former and ten pounds of the lat
ter as his daily ration. The corn is
broken just enough t. enable the
horses to eat it conveniently, and
they drive better ON this
than they ever did upon oats. Coach.
men aud dealers resolutely oppose this
change from the old fashioned forage
of oats and hay, as it enables the
owners of horses to exercise a control
over supplies for their stables and pre-.
vent waste and fraud. Nothing can be
more simple than to allow 50 many
POUNDS weight of compound forage
for each horse per day, and to see that
he gets it; whereas isis almost impossi.
BILE to check the consumption Of oats
and hay which are frequently delivered
deficient in weight to tho injury OF
both the horses and the owner, but to
the advantage of tho servant and the
tradesmnn.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
Mosquitoes or the Red River or the
North.

Red River Letter to the New York Times.
Your readers who have tished in Adj
irondack swamps, or lived on New Jer-
sey flats, may fancy they know some
thing of mosquitoes, but it is all a
mistake. These creatures here rise in
cloud; they are terrible to man and
beast; they make sleep uncomfortable
without netting. People carry mos
quito netting in this region in their
pockets, as they do handkerchiets else
where. l saw men digging at road
track, each with his pocket head net,
and thoy could hardly get on with their
work. A gentleman at Duluth told me
they used to be as plenty here (though
they have mainly disappcared),
and that 1t was considered az
much piece of etiquette to
take off your coat and shake it, before
entering friends house, as it would
be now to wipe your feet. Ny excellent
friend, Rev. DR.. Rodgers. undertook to
address a religious meeting recently at
Hawley, in the evening, and both he
and the audience were fairly driven out
by these little pests. heard one
authentic instance of saw.mill being
stopped by mosquitoes. 1t was the
workmen, however, and not the ma
chinery TINT was impcded. Horses arc
not unfreqncntly killed by them. A gen
tleman told nue. yesterday that in hard
and clean tho nostrils of the horse of
these insects, while the hide is black
with them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04

~ CORRESPONDENCE of the P,'cssc has
been able to have a few minutes con
vverSat'on with Marshal Bazaiuc. II,
to'nd the Marsha! calm, but grcatl,
aged, ant! any one can see that the last
SIX months have profoundly affected
the organization of the prisoner FL.
seemed, however, full of confidence ~
to the issue of the trial.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04

The lovers of ga good glass of Port
WINE" will rejoice to hear that the
vintage of 1873 promises to be one Of
the most remarkable that has been
known for many years. We refer to
black currants.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
The Petrihed Fern.
In 4 valley. ccnturies 400

In valley, centuries ago,
Grew little fern leaf, green and slender.
Veining delicate, and fbres tender
Waving when the wind crept down 40 low.
Bashes tall, and grass, and moss grew round It;
But no foot OF man e'cr came that wav:
Earth was young and keeping holiday.
Useless? lost? There came thoughtful man
Searching Natures secrets far and deep.
From assure in a rocky steep
He withdrew = stone on which there ran
Fairy pcnciling, quaint design
Leakage, velning, flowers, clear and fine;
And the ferris life lay in every line.
So, think, God hides some lives away,
Swectly to surprise us the last day.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04

PERSONALLY remarks Massachusetts
paper: 1t seems strange that We
should have drouth in Massachusetts,,
with so many men ANXIOUS to reign
over us.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04

A KIND expression of countcnance
can make the most homcly pleasing
an honest heart and friendly acts makes
! the dullest lovable.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04
San Juan...A Peculiar CITY.

A San Francisco Chronicle CORE
spondent has been interviewing the vii
lage of San Juan, in our newly acquir-
ed island possessions of that name. He
gives his impressions "At the place
Of Ian ling We found one street with
about twenty houses and only one fam
lily. The head of this family used one
Of these houses for the eating depart.
ments of hotel, another for the sleep.
ing apartment, another for sheep
pen, another for a grocery, another for
a barn, another for saloon, another
for postofice, another for a chicken
house, and another for his own resi-
dence and rs his family were all fe
males, and he had to run the whole
town all by himself, it was necessary
for him to lock up one institution
while he transacted busineas at anoth-
er. When / informed him that was
a Chronicle correspondent who came to
write up the place, lie Immediately
threw open the whole town to my in
spection, and rendered me the freedom
of the city. He placed my baggage in
the sleeping house, my overcoat in the
postoffice, took me to the saloon tor u
wash, conducted me elsewhere for my
supper, and soon had me thoroughly
distributed through the place"
A scuooL-BoY being asked by his
teacher "of what the German diet was
constituted replied, "Sour-krout,
schnapps, lager beer, and nix.cum-
rous." This lad must be a cousin
German to the boy, who, when shown
q picture of "Luther ut the Diet of
Worms," said, "Papa, 1 zee Luth-
or, but where are the worms that he is
going to cat ~
BEST name for n wood nymph-Addie
Ronlacks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04

BEST name for n wood nymph-Addie
Ronlacks.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-10-10

vN-Irain l does not stop at Boyd farm, shaifer
or MYERS Switch, and stops Only o. sigual at
Boughton ard Iakcvc.
81 rain7 do not Stop 10 Stop on Signal
t) stop for Meals.
! rains and will run daily All other tranis
dtlYfycep Sundrys.
on Sundays train { will run one hour late from
Mnyville to Gil City
Train will stop At Rouceville on Signal for Pas
S9ngeYs gOing North Of l'lIusvillc
Train may leave off Rou1cville Passengers that
wera received Norh of riusyillG,
j. LAWRENCE, Gen. supt.
C. j. HEPBURN, Asst nupi.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-10-10

" advertise 10 lhe REcoEo.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-10-10

d frecisl Dotic es29 csts per line, each insert,on
Advertisements ptyi,his quarteriy III ADVANCE
Inil - -----------------------
=. ,,N. fsct1enaisa n 10. ~
Pack kow, New lock, and Geo. u. koweti q Co.,
Advertising Agents, are the sole agents lor Ae Pc.
rolcnm Centre DAILY RECORD in that city! I'D
IA, rttsels nthat city aIc requested 10 leave then
fa,or- with either o. lnc above houses
sH"COE, WETHhKiAL & co. Advrr-
isThe' 'AGcit-, piilad"lpHa, are uuiJ a.th.rled
,.geiiys Tor the RECORD in thNt city
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-10-10

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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20

Bennington cherishes no memory Of
pleasanter names, and no "reminiscences
more pleasant to recall than the names
aud personal services for scores of years,
Of Doctors Noadiah and Heman Swift and
DR.. William bigelow, of whom and about
which we shall write more ere long. We
mention them now only to give little
anecodote, not only Characteristic but SER
souable: Doctor Noadish. who in his later
life dislike ed and foally refused to be "a call
ed out of nights" had been sent for sew
eral times late, by one of our prominent
families, who could not be restrained from
unwise indulgence in early vegetables.
rne good doctors patience became ex-
nsusted and he felt obliged to issue an
order that he should not be disturbed to
attend any cases of intestinal griping nee
turnally in that family. In daytime cases
Of sef-sacri6ce such as cholera morbus,
cholera infantum. etc., he might be relied
ou /; but if they ,ocGld gorge themselves
WITH premature garden sauce, he should
diseonnect his necessary slumbers from
their unripe indugences, and sleep on
grrpe they never so fearfully. There was
dilemma: Sick, and DIR. Swift sleeping
IN pam and their favorite physician far
away; gr,piug and he gone: Goodness
gracious In fearful terror of such
combined cal amity the good wife propos-
ed to prepare only such food as the
Doctor prescribed or advised, and thu, COM
promised between the appetite of the
fam ly and the attendance cf the physician.
1t were long to recount the sised list; of
the corn aud beans embsrgoed succulent
squashes taboosd peas permitted. likewise
potatoes tomatoes tolerated and also
turnips. On cucumbers came the con-
test and the Doctor, as 6aal settlement
of the vexations difficulty, gave the
following explicit directions which many Of
our elder citizens remember. Gather the
cucumbers at night; pare slice them
thin pour hot water on them then soak
for an hour or two in clear cold water ;
then add as much pepper and salt as you
can spare, let them stand in . cool place
over nigh, and in the morning throw them
into the swlll barrel banner.