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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
A Mysterious Work OF Art.

The editorial correspondence of the
Baltimore American describes one of
the most mysterious works of art, now
exhibiting in Paris, that has ever been
witnessed there. 1t is q diorama of
the siege of Paris, and all Paris is
running Wild to view it. There is some
species of optical illusion in connection
with it that no one seems able to un.
derstand. Although painting, it so
closely resembles nature that on sud.
denly entering the hall the spectator ia
bewildered, and invariably complains
OF dizziness as his eye scans the inter-
vening scenes and the distant horizon
presented to view. The building in
which the diorama is submitted is cir
cular, and about 300 feet in diameter.
with glass dome. On entering it the
visitor passes along dark passage, to
what seems the centre of the buiidino.
and then finds himself on a circular
platform on the top of veritable hill
Of earth, strewn with cannon ball and
shell, the object of the artist being to
place him in the fort of Isay, surround
ed on every side by the incidents of the
siege, with the city of Paris and its
monuments, domes, and steeples in
the distance. Ry closer examination
it could be discovered that the nearer
earthworks of the picture, and even
some of the cannon, for a distance of
30 or 60 feet from the edge of the plat
form, is veritable earth and undoubted
cannon, and real willow gabions and
sand-bags, but the exact spot where
the substantials ended and the canvas
began was not so easily detected. The
whole seems to be piece of ledgerde-
main in art that has never been at
tempted before.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
An Intelligent Monkey.

1IUM t0o new orleans Herald.
At the hall of Hope No. 8 fire engine
is little menagerie, where specimens
Of most animals are kept, from q bear
down to a m0squito-snakes are the
only exception to the rule, but still the
boys insist that these animals are
sometimes found in their boots.
Among the number of the beasts is q
monkey of rare talents and possessing
. most accomplished education. He
is general favorite in the neighbcr.
hood, and walks from house-top to
house-top every morning to see that
the sleepers iii the garrets are all up
In time. He is withal fearf ully and
wonderfully made, and seems to know
it, as he scrutinizes himself regularly
in . mirror, with an evident tickling of
satisfaction, as he combs his hair and
shaves himself with the sharp ends of
his nails. The other day little child,
scarcely able to walk, wandered cut on
the Car track, while the monkey stood
watching it with o vigilant eye, and
manifested some signs of anger that
children should thus be left TO them
selves on On open thoroughfare. Sud.
denly Car came dashing up. In
another moment it would rush over the
child, as the driver had his attention
diverted in some other channel. The
monkey had seen the danger, and,
rushing out on the track, seized the
child, in an instant dragging it away,
just in time to save it from an inev,ta-
BILE death.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
SDicerY.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin.
unawed by the solemn events of the pe-
Rod, INDUCES in the following "spice ~
Parties with decayed teeth are not
always good stump speakers.
Carpenters and frontiersmen depend
on the planes for livelihood.
Gramuatical-If you finh >n,, have
written 2 too's too many, take out / too
to make the sense correct.
Darwinian-Ift the races of men are
descended from monkeys, from what
have horse.races descended2
Neutrality-suspicious. good effect OF
the fire.alarm telegraph has been to
stop the bawls Of "Fire!" in our
streets.
If the Darwinian theory is correct.
would dry goods clerk trace his origin
from the tape.er or the measuring
worm.
There is no foundation for the story
that the houses of one of Boston's real
estate owners are so loaded with mort
cages that he is obliged to put new I'M
derplnnings every day.
While deprecating any exercise OF
wlllful righteousness, we cannot helm
calling attention to the fact than NJ,
old: fashioned penny, large size, pro.
PEELED from second story window, is
able to demolish the strongest glass
framed certificate of the intinerant
organ grinder. 1t is a charitable and
inexpensive experiment.
The polite clerks at q watch and
jewelry establishment we're somewhat
startled the other day by an individual
inquiring if he "couldn't have his
e'stToiIs engraved" on his watcL-case.
After little inward laughter, it was
suggested that the applicants initials
might be put on in monogram.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
Saving Seed Corn.

A practical farmer writes to Mooro's
Rural The time to pick seed corn is
in the fall, as soon as the husk is about
halt ripe. Pull off all the husk, hut
leave enough to tie with another one
then hang them up in a dry, airy place,
leaving them thus until wanted Tor
planting. BY following the above for
several years, have succeeded in i'm
proving my corn far beyond my OK
pectations, and I feel amply repaid for
all my oxertions when see my corn is
now about two weeks earlier than any
of my neighbors who got it on the slip
shod plan of picking seed from the
crib. While they are re-planting am
blowing my corn, because seed saved
in the manner described seldom fails to
grow"
Another farmer writes: "When
husking we select the largest and full
est ears, leaving some of the husks on
these; we braid into punches of q
dozen cnch and hang them up in the
garrett Oh the rafters, where they will
be protected from the cold and wet.
Corn, when preserved in this way, has
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02

tracks just where we told them to look,
and they tracked it o couple of miles
into the woods, then, losing the track,
they came home. A few days after we
heard that neighbor, who lived
several miles away, had shot young
black bear, and I always felt sure it was
the one Alex and I tried to drive home
with the COWS.
Grandma paused, but the children
said, ooh, don't stop, do tell another
story; tell abont tho rattlesnake that
Uncle Alex killed." But grandma
said, mo; no moro this time. Good
night
But Jason was not to be dismissed in
such a summary manner. "Was that
true story, grandma?" he said.
Certainly it was true," grandma
answered; sit happened right here on
this farm, more than fifty years ago,
when I was little g,rl," and grandma
sighed again and wiped her spectacles
thong htfully, remembering that she
was the only living member of the
family who began pioneer life in West
ern New York.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02

II We were asked what, in our opin.
ion, was most needed by the farmers
of Kansas, we should unLesitatingly
answer, more tame g1ass-more blue
grass, orchard grass and timothy, and
more clover. During the months Of
May and June there are probably nc
grasses that will fatten cattle NOR.
rapidly than will the prairie grasses
Indigenous to the eastern half Of Kan
sas, but from July l to November ]
they do not fill the bill.
For dairy purposes, particularly, We
must have rich, nutritious food the
year through. The flow of milk must
be kept up to make the business profit,
able. By seeding to the tame grasses
and to clover, we can have supply al
q reasonable cost. that keeps the cows
at q full flesh. We would recommend
to oil who can do so to make their or.
engagements as early as possible TO,
seeding more or less the coming season
A mixture of two or more varieties is
probably the better plan, but. make 6
start of some land looking towards thf
work. Farmer.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
The Moon and fuel.

The Pail Mall Gazette speaks as fol.
lows Of curious superstition House.
houlders who are laying in their stock
OF coal for the winter will do we'll to
study the moon, which is believed, in
some quarters, to exercise no small in.
fuence on fuel stacked or stored at Ger.
tain seasons TheSkye correspondent OF
the Cornish Telegraph mentions that,
during the fortnight which began on
the 10th of last month, the people of
Skye were busy stacking their peats
anu securing their Winter firing, be-
ing anxious to complete the opera
ton while the moon was waning.
During the fortnight commencing on
the oath of June, when the moon was
crescent, no real Skyeman would stack
his peats for any consideration, be-
!lcving that unless stacked under a wan
ing moon the peats will give neither
light nor heat when burned. ga
.'ower of smoke is all that can be
expected from peats stacked under a
crescent moon. In Skye the crescent
is called "fas," and tie wane "tar-
radh," and under these two terms the
moon not only exercises great influ.
ence over peats, but also over many
other things. In some parts of the
Highlands, sheep, pigs, and COWS arc
only killed in the "fas," as meat made
in the "tarradh" is supposed to be
good for nothing but " shrinking
when in the pot.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
BOWleS and lIis Work.

According to "Gath," who has 70.
Gently been to Springfield, this is the
way Samuel Bowles edits his paper
He breakfasts frugally in bed, and
reads from beginning to end, every
day, when at home, the mornings Re-
publican, marking ont those parts
which he does not need for his weekly
"a development in which he takes
much pride, as it was his fathers paper,
the basis of his daily. At eleven
o'clock he dictates to photographer
answers to personal, political, and
business letters or, on some occasions,
repairs to his office, and meets in
quirers personally. Dictation of edi-
torlal matter follows, and he breakfasts
D second time with his children at their
mid day dinner. At three o'clock he
goes to the Office, and writes editorial ::
and at night, generally speaking, reads
his proofs or paragraphs, or dictates
at home.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
An Old Bible.

The Meridian Call says: "At the
Adams Express Office is a Bible Of
date 1764, for which an owner is want.
ed: It was sent to Charles Andrews O,
heirs, or heirs next of kin to Elon An.
drews, Meriden. In the family record
in the book it is stated that Elon An
drews died September %, 1884. He
married for his second wife Mrs.
Sarah Hall Johnson, they had but one
child, Elon Andrews-born in Merideu
in 1885, and who died in Utica, New
York, in 1856. Several Of the Andrews
of the city have been consulted a re-
gard the book, but know of none who
can truly claim it. It seems desirable
the work shall be removed from the
express office as soon as possible, mas
much as the boys there have strange
passion for perusing it's pages, and
with what wear and tear it may get
soiled and the leaves worn so the read.
ing will not be legible."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
Symptoms Of Liver Complaint, and of
Some Of the Diseases Produced by II,

A sallow or yellow color of skin, or
yellowish brown spots on face and other parts
Of body: duliness and drowsiness with
frequent headache; dizziness, bitter or bad
taste in the mouth, tlryncss Of throat, and in
ternal heat palpitation, in many cases dry,
teasing cough, with sore thro At, unsteady ap-
petite, raising Of food, aud choking sensa-
tion in threat distress, heaviness, bloated or
full feeling about stomach and sides, pain in
sides, back or breast, or about shoulders !;
collie, pain and soreness through bowels, with
heat, constipation, alternating with frequent
attacks OF diazrhoea piles, flatulence, nervous
ness, co!dness Of extremities. rush Of blood 10
of limbs, especially at night !; cold chills, al.
ternating with hot flashes, kidney and urinary
difficulties :; female weakness and irregulari-
ties, With dullness, low spirits, unsociability,
and gloomy forebodings. Only . few of tho
above symptoms are likely to be present in
any case at one time. All who use DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery tor Liver Com
plant and its complications arc loud in its
praise. Sold by all Druggists everywhere. $50
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
n ais.

Every farmer who has occasion to
drive nail into seasoned oak posts
knows it's liability to bend and break.
IT the point be moistened in the mouth
it will usually drive more kindly. OIL
is still better, but then it is inconven.
lent to dip each nail separately into it.
Another point observed is that boards
become loose eventually from the rust
ing of the nails, which, communicating
to the wood, causes not only an en-.
largement of the nail hole, but the
wearing away of the nail itself, render
ing the fence or the building shaky
and insecure. This may be prevented
by heating any rough grease until it
smokes and then pouring it over the
nails to be used. The grease will peno-
trate the pours of the iron, aud cause the
nails to last, without rusting, an in.
definite period. Besides this no
trouble will then be experienced in
driving them into the hardest wood.
The reason is that the coating of grease
prevents contact by mir, and con-
sequently oxidation. Oxygen is the
great destroyer of iron, and moisture
is the inducing cause. Anything which
is kept from contact with the air is
preserved indefinitely, and if it is kept
dry the effect is immeasureably the
same. Paint upon buildings prevents
the contact of air and moisture. If the
whole fence cannot be painted, the
heads. at least, of the nails should be
touched Herewith.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02

~~AAs 30 + cCUAuA Shceqs
At . recent meeting OF the Farmers
Club in Batavia, Genssee county, N.
T., Mr.. George Burt presented the fol.
lowing definite statistics relative .to
the cost and profit of feeding sheep fol
market:
He paid for 200 sheep for fattenine,
1915; for keeping two months, Gel
eight tons hay, SIG per ton, $128; foul
loads cornstalks, SIC; l48 bushels
corn, 60 cents per bushel, $S8. 60; one
barrel salt, IS; interest on money in
vested, $20:75. Total, $1,227.55.
January 4th he sold III sheep at
cents per pound, 81, 522.4O IS at 81
cents per pound, $171.79; one pelt,
$1.50, total 81, FOG. 60; profit on the 200
sheep, $478.14. Mr.. Burt holds that
sheep in winter should be kept in
small aocks, less rather than more
than IS in a flock, in yards where they
can have free access at all times te
water and they should be kept free
from all disturbing or exciting causes
that open sheds are better for them
than close barn, and thatit is best to
feed grain to them whole.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
PEERLESS CLOTHES WR1NaER.

Natural Decay-prOtcct the Systcln.
The human body ia q machine; and therefore can.
not endure forever but, Ike watch OF = sewing
machine, 1t will last much longer II properly regu-
lated and duly repaired, than II pains were taken
to keep 1t in order. Tho great object Of every one
who desires long and healthy life should be to put
his body in condition to resist the fethreatentne
influences by which wc are all more or less sur
rounded; and no tnvigorant and corrective d
present known 80 effectively answers this purpose
- the WALKING elixir which. under the unpretcnd
ing name OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, has been
for more than twenty years the standard tonic Of
America. In crowded cities, where the atmosphere
II contaminated with the enluvis inseparabIe from
large populations; in marshy regions, where the
soggy soil reeks with miasma; on the prairies and
in the forests where every fall the air tainted with
exhalations from rotting weeds and grasses, or de-
composing lesves-in short, in every locality where
malaria exists, this powerful vegetable antidote II
urgently needed. Fever and ague, bilious fevers
dysenteFy, congestion of the liver, jaundice rheu
matism, and all diseases which arc generated BY
infected air. impure water, or sudden changes Of
temperature, may be averted by strengthening and
regulating the system In advance with Hostettert
Bitters. Autumn is always season of peril, espec
tally to weak, susceptible organizations. Even thu
pressed by the humid atmosphere loaded will
deleterious gases produced by vegetable decay
The fall IL period of the year when tho renovation
and regulation Of the living machine is peculiarl,
important, and the Bitters should therefore b1
taken daily ut this critical season.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Why Potatoes ilun Out.

why 1'Ot0tOcS aSUn Outs
A New York farmer says: "Some
one asks why it is that potatoes so
soon run out. There are two grand
reasons. There are but few potatoes
in q hill that are fit for seed. Some
are overgrown, coarse, rank, and will
not transmit the original quality.
Others are undergrown, and not fully
developed seed. A potato of medium
size, perfect in allits parts, With change
OF ground, will produce it's like al H.
fasts4ne. The other reason, cutting
potatoes between stem and seed end
continually, will demoralize the insti-
tuition. It requires the stem and seed
end to make perfect seed. If cut, cut
lengthwise. Single eyes will run out
any potato. There is no other seed
that will bear n,utilation like the
potato the only wonder is, that it
does not run out completely.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
Feeding Horses.

Warning says: Very much of the
value and availability of the horse de-
ponds upon the equality aud quantity
of his food, and on the manner in
which it is given to him. Too much
food at one time, too little at another.
food OF improper kinds or in bad
state of preparation, is the foundation
of one half the ills that horseflesh is
heir to. There is no worse economy
than the stinting of food, or the ad-
ministration of bad food because it ia
cheap. Also, there is no more waste
full practice than the giving of too
rich and expensive food. Neither is
there any greater source of loss in con-
nection with the keeping of farm hor-
ses than the neglect to which they are
systematically subjected. The horse,
even in the rudest state, is of some
what delicate organization. His pow.
ers are very grcat-greater than il
generally supposed; but in order tc
their development and to their Ions
endurance, it is necessary that he bt
fed with the greatest care and with or
everwatchful judgment. Probably tn.
capital invested in farm horses in thu
United States would 20 twice as far
that is the animals would last in use
ful condition twice as long-if the,
were thoroughly we'll fed and cared for
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
Salt Lake and the MOrmOns to Ike Swat.
lowed In.

A newspaper correspondent who has
been "doing" Salt Lake for the benefit
Of his influential aud widely circulated
journal-we believe that is the custo-
mary expresslOn-prOpOunds the start
ling theory that the Mormon question,
which has caused our government no
little vexation of spirit, is to he settled
after the fashion of dealing with wick
edness a few thousand years ago, the
difference being that, instead Of a rain
OF forty days and forty nights, there
will be an out-pouring of water from
the lake, which need not last more
than forty minutes to be effectual. One
sensation-monger says there is no
known outlet to the Great Salt Lake,
that over dozen rivers empty into it,
and TINT the water in the lake has risen
twenty feet since the Mormons first
entered the valley. The first few years
of their settlement they used to go in
swimming on Black Rock, and this
rock is now hundred feet from the
shore and surrounded by water fully
twenty feet deep. Over twenty wears
ago the Mormons drove herd of cattle
over to Church Island, which proved
wOAuCAAu4 6AoAAAS S1OOAA. 1u0Y
found ridge extending from the main.
land to the island covered by three feet
of water. To-day the ridge is over
twenty feet deep, and thousands of
wild cattle roam over the valleys and
gorges of the island, none having been
taken to the mainland for years. At
some time, the writer adds, the water
has filed the whole Salt Lake Valley.
A rim or shore.line is visible on the
side of the mountains thousands of feet
above the city. This rim is so plainly
defined that railway could be built
on the side of the range for miles at q
stretch without excavating q ton of
rock. Who knows how soon some con-
vulsion of nature, such as the earth.
quakes so frequent in California, may
suddenly close the subterranean outlet
to the Pacific Ocean, and precipitate
waste OF waters upon the City Of the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
DEAD.

Hor lilo is spent COMO arc my happy days.
Death came the day-star OF my being sank;
The future loses all it's hopeful rays;
Her recollection in my memory proys,
And whelms me in nm ocean wild and decp.
So that my course know not how to keep
True to the chart OF older, happier ways.
Tho bitter winds have swept upon bark
That seemed secure in port tho helmsman
dead,
The masts and shrouds all shivered whilst all
dark
Tho starlcss skies ~ o looming overhead.
My heaven, once 80 bright, without ono
spark
Lfes light-tho only light loved-forovor
fed.
-Iinxley's Magazine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
CHlLDREN'S CORNER.
The Clock Tinker.

BY LUCY LARCON.
Tinker, may learn tho trick
HOW you cure clock that's sick,
Popping in her face behind,
Arc those wheels her brains y to find
Why her pulses do not 80
Regular and sure and slOw2
Tinker, have you learned limos trick
How it is he makes clocks tick2
ls there such thing as knowing
What it was first set them going?
DO you, sir, suppose they had 'em
In their garden, Eve and Adam2
II there, mp among the suns,-
Father of these other ones.-
Some great time-piccc that can show
All the small clocks how to gO2
Arc the stars set right by sOMo
Mighty swinging pendulum?
Tinker, where's tho ioosened screw
That tho juggler Time crecps through
When he slips into his place,
Up behind tho old clocks faco2
Have you ever seen that feat?
Or does Time oven graybeards bcati
" Boy, Ivo tried through limo to SEQ,
hut he played strange tricks with mic.
While gave the wizard chase,
dc was dancing on my face.
Look you like crow he flios;
Here's his track around my oycs."
Our Young Folks.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
S0nnets by Petrarch.
SPRING MEMOII

Fresh from tho murmuring leaves this vornal
air,
Which coolly fans my flushing check above,
Reminds mo Of tho day when early love
flrst greeted mo TN language rich and raro.
seem to 500 onco more that vision fair
That knew no Jealousy or high dislain;
That never caused me then one thrill OF
pain.
sec the glory Of that golden hair
Floating all wild in native loneliness,
,,, Or gathered into many tangled knot;
While from tho magic Of each separate tross
a Spell across my stricken bosom shot,
Filling it now with oldcn memories,
Which only with my life can ever be forgot.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02

| never failed to grow when planted.
Many of our neighbors who took their
seed from the crib last spring were
obliged to re-plant their fields with
corn preserved in this manner, because
their corn was frozen by the severe
cold of last winter; but ours sprouted
and grew nicely and promises to be q
fine CROP"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02

IT is stated in a London paper that a
son of the Khedive of Egypt has enter
ed the Prussian army to learn the
European art of war, but as his majes-
tvs eldest son, Observation-Disclosures by
name, is only ten years old, there is
some doubt about the fact,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-02
An IR1sHMAN called at drug store

An FRESHMAN called at drug store to
get q bottle OF .1ohnson's Anodyne Linin,ent
for the Rheumatism the druggist asked him
in what part Of the body it troubled him most.
Be me SOUL" said he, i" I have it in livery
heul and corner of me-"
For loss of cud, horn all, red water iu COWS,
loss of appetite, rot, or murrain in sheep
thick wind, broken wind, and roaring, and for
all distinctions OF the kidneys in horses, use
Sheridan's Caual,.y Condition Povders.---Com.