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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22
Unaircd Chambers,

The following sensible advice is
given us by a writer in the Country
Gentleman: "I pass some houses in
every town whose windows might as
we'll be sealed in with the walls for any
purpose they have but to let in the
light. They are never opened, summer
or winter. In winter it is too cold in
the summer the flies stray in, or, if
they are netted, the dust Sits through
the nets. Now, can tell person who
inhabits such chambers when 1 PASS
him in the street-there is such smell
about his clothing. always wish for
q sniff of cologne or hartshorn or
burnt feathers, or something of the
sort, to ''take the taste out.' A house
that is never aired has every nook and
corner filed with stale odors of cooked
meats, boiled vegetables, especially
cabbage and onions, which, as the
weeks go by, literally reek in their
hiding places. Who has not wished
sometimes to hang Il new servants
clothing out of doors some frosty night
until it should be thoroughly aired
But have seen the fine Indies come
sweeping into church with their vel
vets and silks, when said velvets and
; silks gave unmistakab!e evidence of
having been housed in just such shut
up chambers. Oh, what a tale that
odor of pork aud cabbage tells alb ,ut
the lady's style of housekeeping! The
very garments of the children tell the
same story of nncleanliness. It is bad
to have unwashed clothes, but there
may be an excuse for it. But what
excuse can there be for unaired
ones, when air is so cheap and
free9 There is death in such
unaired chambers. Better swarm
of flies or cloud of dust, better frost
and snow in room. than these intol-
erable smells. Dear girls, the first
thing in the morning, when you are
rendy to go down stairs, throw open
your windows, take apart the clothing
of your beds, and let the air blow
through it as hard as it can. There is
health and wealth in such a policy. It
helps to keep away the doctors with
long bills. It helps to make your eyes
sparkle and to make your cheeks glow,
and to make others like your presence.
Girls who live in those close, shut up
rooms, can only be tolerated Mt tho
best IN any circle"
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22
Instrument for Testing Color Blindness,

1uSlTUNuclb lUI ACSCAux \,OtOE D1I0U0eSSs
A German has invented an instru-
ment for testing color blindness. It
consists of rotating apparatus, which
moves a disk whose centre is circle.
one-half black, and the other half
white; outside this is ring half red
and half green, and then another ring
of violet and red, then the outside ring
of violet and green. When rapidly
rotated the centre appeared to be color
ed gray-that is, black and white
mixed. To green.blind person the
middle ring will appear gray, that
being the result to him of = mixture of
violet and red. The outer ring will
appear grey to red-blind patient. and
the inner, gray to the violet-blind. By
the use of this most ingenious instru-
ment large number Of patients may
be simultaneously examined for one or
moro kinds Of color-blininess.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22
Salaries Of the Oxford Professors.

Languages and Philogy are repre-
sented at Oxford by one Professor of
Arabic at 81, 500 and another at 81, 500;
one Professor of Anglo-Sax at ST.
500, one of Sanscrit at 81, 500, one OF
Latin at 50, 900, one of Greek at 81, 500.
and one Of Philogy at $4,000; seven
professors, aud SIG, ,25O in stipends.
In the physical aud mathematical
sciences there is a Professor OF Geome-
try at $4,000, one of Astronomy at
s., $50, one OF Botany at about g. 500,
one of Experimental Philosophy at
50, 500, one Of Chemical Medicine at
81, ,O5O, one of ,M,neralogy at $1,2 $50,
one of Geology at $2, 600, one of Chem
istry at $4,000, one of Physiology at
"a, 600, one OF Zoology at 80, 600. and
one of Medicine at about $3.50;
twelve professors and $25. 400 in sti-
pends. Law aud history have one pro-
lessor Of civil law at 500, one of
ancient history at 50, 100, one of Eng
lish law at 81, 1000; one of international
law and one If modern history each ut
about $1,000, one of jurisprudence at
s.. 600, and one of ancient history Mt
$1,000; eight professors and $21, 800 in
stipends. The moral sciences are pro-
vided for by one professor of moral
philosophy at $4,000, one of poetry at
$500, one of political economy at g.
600, one of metaphysics at $4,000, and
one of the fine arts at 81, 800; six pro.
lessor at I'll, 800 in stipend. As against
this array, divinity alone monopolizes
seven professors. who divide between
them some $51,;750--or, in rough
figures, three times as much as is given
for the physical sciences, more than
twice as much as is given for law, aud
about four times as much as is given
for philosophy and morality.
TIE abundance and cheapness of
American petroleum have not seriously
depressed the production of coal oil in
Scotland, There are in that country
68 oil works, which consume in the
year 782, 900 tons shale or bituminous
coal and produce 81, $50, 900 gallons of
oil for lamps, 5000 tons of parafine,
and 600 tons of sn]phate of amonia.
Formerly the coal used yielded 120
gallons of crude oil to the ton, but the
supply of that On lity is exhansed. and
shales are now walked which yield not
more than from IL to IS gallons per ton.
The only feathers in the lava beds
! are those worn by the Modocs,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22

Rev. W. H. M11RyRN, the blind
preacher, divorced.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22
he Intellieeat Dspsltsr.
(Atlantic National Bank, April IS, 1S7s.l


Break, break, break,
Plundered national bank-ah, mel
How wish that my purse could recover
The cash have placed in tbeel
o well for the dashing cashier.
That he owns he has dabbled in stocks;
o we'll for the marshal band
Who takes him to 1ud1ow street locks.
And the clearing house goes ON
With it, duty under the bill
But o for the moose OF some vanished rope
And pull at the end with Wilt
Break, break. break,
O bank, that's named after sea i;
And my tender trust in fortune ahead
Again has gone back on me!
o human, fate, how vain with thee to :restle
When men ne'er finding what's thy stable
rank,
At sea 20 down with an 'sAtlautic" vessel,
On land go up with an ''Atlantic" bank
-Graphic.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22
ndance and cheapness of

The only feathers in the lava beds
are those worn by the Modocs,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22
SALMON FISHING IN CANADA.
Fun for Sp0rtsMcn-A Mig Eish-Ltvs
lY Work.

Fun for SpOrtsMcn-A Mig Eisl,-Livc-
ly Work.
From an article on Salmon fishing in
Canada, by s. G. Clarke, in tho May
number of Lippincott's Magazine, we
extract the following:
Salmon pools are the places where
the salmon rest in their Journey from
the sea to the headwaters Of tho river.
They are usually in spots where there
is strong but not violent current,
perhaps six or eight feet deep, running
Oft to shoal water on one side of the
river. The pools have been found by
the Indians, who search for them by
night with torches, which shows the
fish as they lie near the bottom, and
they do not differ materially in appear
ance from other parts of the river
where no salmon are to be foand.
The salmon is what is called ana.
dronsous-that is, though IN inhabitant
Of the ocean for. most of the year, it
asoends the fresh water rivers in sum-
mer to spawn. In this function it is
guided by curious instincts. The fe-
male deposits her eggs in swift shallow
water at the heads of streams, in
trenches dug by herself and the male
fish in the gravelly bottom; but it
must not be fresh gravel it must have
been exposed to the action of water for
at least two years, or they will have
none of it; and if freshet should
bring new gravel from the banks, they
will abandon the place, and seek for
new spawning grounds. It is only
when the salmon are resting in these
pools that they will take fly.
It may not perhaps be generally
known that there are two schools
among fly. fishers. The "formalists +"
or entomologists hold that the natural
flies actually on the water should be
studied and initiated by the fly maker,
down to the most minute particulars.
This is the old theory, and whole H.
braries have been written to prove
and illustrate it, from the Boke of
st. Albans," written by the Dame Ju.
llama Berners in 1886, down to the
present day. The number of insects
which we are directed to initiate is
legion, and the materials necessary for
their manufacture are of immense va
riety and difficult to procure. These
teachers are the conservatives, who ad-
here to Old tradition. On the other side
are the "colorists," who think color
everything and form nothing they are
but a section, though an increasing
one, of the fy-fishing community.
Their theory is that all that fish can
distinguish through the watery me-
dunn is the size and color of the fly.
These are the radicals, and they go so
far US to discard the thousand different
flies described in the books, and con-
fine themselves to dozen typical var.
ieties, both in salmon and trout fish
ing. Where learned doctors disagree' !
!, for one, do not venture to decide;
but when I remember that on some
days no fly in my book would tempt
the trout, and that at other times they
would rise at any or all flies, it seems
10 ma that the nrincinal nneation ia |
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22

"She'd be delighted with it, am sure
of it," broke in Miss Dolly, with an air
OF conviction, as she darted into tho
kitchen to lift the boiling kettle from the
crane.
But you don't mean that you won't
marry me, Dolly }" pleaded Nj: Wiggin,
anxiously, following to tie door. "I've
been lottin' on seein' you at the head of
things in my house."
" Martha is grand manager" said
Miss Dolly, coolly. "David needn't
think he can buy me with set of new
buildings" added, she mentally, swapping
down the lid of the pug-nosed teapot
mover did have the name of being
cropping!"
"ttcll You, Dolly, I won't have Martha;
l don't like her turn w cried Mr.. Wig
gin, testify, balancing himself upon the
threshold, yet not daring to step over it.
Miss Dolly gave her undivided at:en-
tion to wrineing tho hearth.
" You know you was always the wo.
man Of my choice, Dolly" pursued Mr..
Wiggin, as tonderly Us he could consist
emily with the distance between them,
" And wo wero both young"
"Pshaw" snapped Miss Dolly, scorch-
ing her wing: i" that's beyond the memory
Of mani"
Mr.. Wiggin's position was becoming g
painful. llo grasped door.post in either
hand, looking wretched enough to slay
himself On the spot, after tho fashion of
Samson. Evidently he had not yet touch
cd the right chord as yet. Miss Dolly
,vas MT IN Ia wOn nv the ottr,ct;ons ~
wealth and position, nor even by tender
allusions to the past. lie would appeal
! to her kindness Nf heart.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-05-22


before consciousness can set in.
A LETTER in the Toronto Globe says
that on one day recently the Silver
1slet mine, Lake Superior, turned out
5000 worth of ore, that is to say, 16
barrels Of silver ore, worth $500 each.
The company claim that they viii have
$500, 600 wofth ready for shipment this
spring, in other words, 1,2O0 barrels OF
ore. Pretty good for the product of
one mine during one winter, with only
two dozen men at work. We confess
to some curiosity as to the opinion of
the Portage Lake Gazette ON the fore
going. se5szs "a -
TIE Order of Husband1y has adopt
ed q rallying hymn entitled THE
Hand that Holds the Bread" The
keynote of the organization is ex-
pressed in the following stanza OF the
song: -
Brothers of the ploughl
The power is with you;
The world in expectation waits
For action prompt aud true, -
Oppression stalks abroad, - -
MODopolies abound s#Sss
Their giant hands already clutch ~
The tillors Of the ground.
Chorus-Awake, then awake! .55= zzz=#%=zsS. IS:
The great world must be fed
Aud Heaven g,ves the power -
To the "HaNd that Holds Tie Breed,
-
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-06-23
ct. 9suatns, Sadisn Co., Soma.

etnem sssbrtsn publtium bisnt ,ar an,siss. sa6 In mel.
nfn GtabIiHtmtnt fts cine srpst Guspabl BON pfaeen uus
Baseu tu fnesn, uub fsl6t aud auf 6eafQune yrsHyt uRs
ttate a~neeferttet ptretu.
ale Grttn ron S&miseearteiteu peren rem eeSttsu IT.
tstten btirrst nne ptrs SAM tdsnsct aufmetfarnfni str
Syoratpr an TRhstn. Tdatr unhf esa,str ddtrbdusGa't-
- 3ftn strteud.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-06-23

Dsm putliium ,eiee 10 ersebsnR en-. has ID nsbsu ben
rtensenannten arbeiten, aud aueerbem aas arten 6tr6en.
bertraaeHsn Nrteten Ra& @npfA In fdrteau 6rtf NIB
, 1t auSatu. CiAB ,oe) 9aecb Nbombtre.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-07
AMERICA AT VIENNA.
How Our Country Is Represented at the
Great Exhibition-our Disgrace and
the Cause oft.

We make the following extracts from
one of Beyard TaJ lor's Vienna letters to
the \. y. II iJitNe; Our own soyereigns,
now congregated here, arc not so quiet iu
their ways. Impatience ia the exhibitors,
embarrassment IN the Commissio. ..ers.
wrath in the old emotions of every sort
in the 20 or 50 Honararies, and the uu-
speakable modification in the citizen
spectators Of the scene, make Vienna
anything but pleasant to an Amer can,
just Low. | have tried not TO write OF
this, but it is part Of the situs tion, aud
must, at least, be mentioned. The Dir,c-
ton of the Exhibition simply waits, and
is patient. Most Of the representatives
of other countries know little, and prob
ably care less, in regard to the matter !;
even the English, 80 far as my personal
acquaintance extends, maintain cour-
teous silence, the reason of which IL is
easy to feel. But our situation Is none
the less a burning disgrace. Had the
new Commission overcome It's inevitable
embarrassments, were the American De-
parlment In order, aud the rivalry Tor
places among the exhibitors subdued, We
should feel It with equal keenness. The
root of the evil lies behind the "lrregu-
lnritics" " Of this or that Commissioner.
We may say that the chief guilt has been
fixed upon one who Is not au American
By birih,-in fact, a native Of Vienna (;
but what system is inst which sends here,
to represent us before the congreg tied
world, thirteen Executive Commissioners,
only two or three of whose names have
ever been heard by the people of the
United States, five OF whom are Of for
eign birth, and two of the latter Viennesei
Some of the suspended Commissioners
know TO be men of character and honor,
who arc deeply humiliated by their posi-
sef1iccs by t8Hhystem Of rewardiug party
into any plnce-which they must accuse.
will say nothing Of the absurIity Of
Honorary Commissioners, and anywhere
iromthrcc totwenty Commissioners from
each State, for very few Of them have
any specified duties, and none OF them
are rccogulz "a by the Austrian officials.
Those who come with purpose and intel
lgeHce, will quietly accomplish their
! work, while the ignorant and the swag-
gerers among them are stripped of all
authority. The Executive Commission,
however, should have been composed OF
known and honOred individuals, men
fitted by previous study or experience foI
their places, men qualified to meet their
fellow Commissioners from other lands
on an equal ground Of character and IN
lelligtnce. The New York aud Erie
! Rings and the Credit MObiller exposure
have already sufficiently damaged on
national name abroad. But they were
! domestic matters, and not understood
here, or only in a very confused way
| This is n black smutch, thrust directly
! before the ewes of all nations on an Oc
casion when our escutcheon should have
been newly FURNISHED and proudly held
] Every honest and upright Amer can al
home, no matter what his party, Wi
understand our shame; those who maxi
politics trade and office "a bargain, vii
not and cannot.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-07
End Of the Modoc War.
CAPTURE or CAPTAIN JACK AND TUE RE
MAiNDER OF THE TRIBE.

CAPTURE or CAPTAIN JACK AND TUE RE-
MAiNDER OF THE TRIBE.
On Sunday, two troops OF the First
Cavalry, accompanied by the Warm
Sprirg Indians, brought twcnty-,hree
hours scout and the Modoc campaign to
a close bv the capture Of Capt. Jack and
the remainder of his tribe.
The Warm Spring scouts struck the
trail at half past 10 O'Clock, and after a
brief search the Mod0cs were discovered.
Colonel Perry surrounded the Indian re-
treat, and his men were bound to light.
Suddenly a. Modoc shot out from tho
rocks with a white flag. lie met a Warm
Spring Indian and said Jack wanted TO
surrender. Three scouts were sent to
meet Jack. He came out cautiously,
glanced about him a moment, and then,
a. II giving up all hopes, came forward
and held ont his hand to his visitors.
Then twoof his warriors, five squaws and
seven chidreL darted forth and Joined
him In the surrender.
Captain Jack is about forty years old,
five feet eight inches high, and compactly
built. He has a large and well formed
face, full Of individuality. Although
dressed in old clothes, he looks every
inch a chief.
He does not speak to any one. The
Modoes are grouped In field near the
house and surrounded by guard. Spec
tatOrs peer into Jacks face with eager
interest, but he herds them not. He is
] still as statue.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-07

There was an amusing scene on board
the Louisiana mail-boat the other day.
There was the usual conglometation Of
passengers in the cabin just before the
boat landed and amid tie general hub
bub of conversation Il man RENAL ksd
incidentally
Now, in Jersey, where ! live"
Instantly an old man, who sat moodily
and silently pondeTing over the stove for
some time, sprang TO his feet aud ex-
claimed;
Stranger, are you from Jersey ~
eyes"
"And willin' to acknowledge 1t 2"
eyes, sir proud ont"
"Hurrah ! Give us your hand !" cried
the old man, fairly dancing with exulla-
tion. "I'm from New jersey, too but
never felt like declaring itafore. Shakel
I'm an old man. I've travelled long and
far. I'ye been in every city in the West !
steamboated on the Ohio and MISSISSIPPI !
been to Californy, over the plains, and
around the Horn took a voyage once to
Liverpool but, in all my travels, hang
me " this amt the flrst time ] ever hrerd
a man acknowledge that he KUN from
! New jersey"
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-07

They grow raw materials which are
sent North and returned manufactured,
selling from 10 To 100 times above the
first cost. They plow with Northern
plows, htched to Northern harness, cut
wood with Northern axes, work lumber
with Northern tools, drive Northern nails
with Northern hammers, and paint houses
with Northern brushes dipped in No th-
ern paint. In short, they rock their chill
dres in Northern made cradles, clothe
them in Northern cloth, and bury their
dead in Northern made collins, which
are lowered into their last resting place
with Nerihern made cord. The remedy
proposed,by the local journal In which we
| lind the substance of the foregoing is to
patronize those who arc manufacturing
at home, 50 that they may accumulate
capital and enlarge their business and
encourage others. The case is mentioned
of a merchant having hOasted Of buying
certain goods extremely cheap in New
York. but on examination the trade mark
of the maker appeared, and he lived with
In less than mile of tue store. Nothing
is more common than for Northern mer-
chants to bring cotton-yarn from North
ern cities, which was made In the South.
This, by the way, cannot be helped, Tor
the same thing is to be said of the North.
since goods made in New-England fac
tories are sold 10 agents in New York,
some OF which come back among general
stocks. Points Of distribution are indis
pensable. But there is no doubt that II
Is the duty of the people of the South te
protect themselves by consuming so mucf
as Is possible Of their productions ant
thereby Increase the demands for farm
produce, and a variety Of fruits and vege
tablss, while employment will b- ofl'rre'
for many young people now growing VI
! in Idleaess.-Nsw York Tribune.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-07
SPRING CLEANING.

The melancholy days have eome-the SAD
nj cieaning peiuf, aud scrubbing floors, and
securing far and noar.
ueaped In the corner Of the room the ancient
Ma, rose ,' up ~ al the fathers tread, nor to the
put now the carpets all are up, and from the
staircase top
Tho mistress calls to man and maid TO WELD
the broom and mop.
where are those rooms, those quiet rooms
the house but now presented,
Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed oil art 80
cosy and contentedf
Alas, they've turned all upside down, that
quiet suite of rooms
with slOps. and suds, and soap, hnu sanu,
aud tubs, and pals and bfOoms.
Chairs, tables, stands, are standing round
al siXea and at sevens,
while wife and hOusemAids fly about like
meteors through the heavens.
The parlor and the chamber fioora were
cleaned u week ago
The cnrpets shook. the windows washed-as
nli the neighbofs know;
But still the sanctum had escaped-the table
piled with books,
Pens Ink aud paper all about, peace In its
very looks
plague on men;
And then they banished all away, books,
papers, ink and pen.
And now when comes the master hOme-as
come he must of nights
To find all things are set TO wrongs that
they have ''set TO rights"
when the sound of driving tHcks is heard,
tho the house is far from still.
And the carpet t-wnman's on the stairs, that
hAthinger Of i'll,
lie looks. for papers, books or bills, that all
were there before,
And siehs to ind them on the desk or In the
drawer no more.
Aud then he gtlmly thinks OF her who set
this fuss anOat,
And wishes she were out at sea In very
lraky boat;
He meets her at the parlor door with hair
aud cap Awry,
With sleeves turned up aud broom In hand,
defiance in her eye,
He feels quite small. and knows full well
there's nothing 10 he said,
So holds his tongue, and drinks his tea. and
enpaka away TO he'd
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-07
a Novel Newspaper Enterprise.

IL Is announced, on what seeing TO be
good authority, that a company has been
organized with a "pail in' capital Of
$1,000 20 furnish Philadrlphians with
the New York morning papers as early
Ia the day as the Philadelphia papers are
served-say z to s O'Clock. Two carsar
to be provided 10 leave Jersey City at
3'25, M, and arrive in Philadelphia at
6. 81, am. On these cars men aud boys
are TO be employed to fold the papers, so
that they may be ready for immediate
delivery, through carriers to be especially
hired for the purpose.
Under the present arrangement, some
ten thousand copies Of New York
journals arc daily sold in Philadelphia !
but, under this new arrangement, that
number may be ireblcd at least. Phila'
delphians will esteem it a treat to have
the Herald, World, Tri5W,s, Times, SUM-
or journal Of Commerce, as they may
choose, served at their dwellings ny carly
breakfast time, or at their counting
houses and offices before business houls.
Il is said also that if the arrangement is
successful, the carly news train will be
continued further south.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-07

Fuss IL like an old setting hen when
she Gums oph from her nest.
Fuss IL like kold water dlopt iuto hot
grease-it sputters, and spulters, and
then sputters again.
Fuss IL hafi-sister to hurry, and neither
ov them kant do emmy thing without git
ting in their own way and stepping on
themstlis.
Thare IL more fuss in this world than
thare IL hurry, ane thare IL a thousand
times more ov them than lhare IL oy
dispatch
Fuss works hard all day, and don't do
emmy thing, goes to bed tired at night,
then gifts up next morning, aud begins
next morning where she left oph,
oh, dear VIII IL this sutch.-Josh
Billings.