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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-04-30
Health Hints.

Warm bread ''packs" the stomach.
Don't eat it.
The best and safest toothwash is tepid
water.
Warmth, abstinence and repose, are
three excellent medicines.
In sleeping don't ''curl'' the body.
Sleep as straight as possible. Avoid
high pillows.
Never sit or sleep with cold feet.
A mixed diet of animal and vegetable
food is the best; the vegetable portion
should predominant.
Regularity of the time in eating has
much to do with the preservation of
health. Do not eat late suppers.
Water standing for some time in q
room becomes impure, by absorbing
noxious vapors from the air.
All sleeping rooms should be
thoroughly ventilated. The bedding
should be often changed and kept we'll
aired.
''Hay fever" may be instantly reliev-
ed by bathing the nostrils and closed
eyelids with spirits of camphor and
warm water.
Whoever eats ''heavy" pie crust or
'.soggy" bread commits a crime against
his physical well-being and must pay
the penalty.
Thoroughly cleanse the cellar. Ven
tilate it from without, summer and
winter. Suffer no decayed vegetables
to remain in it.
Colds are often caught by standing
in an open hall or doorway during cold
weather. The transition of the cold
and warm currents causes the trouble.
An eminent physician thinks that
caused annually by tight lacing.
Wet or damp clothes should be in
stantly removed. "Why?" because
they rapidly chill the surface of the
body, the heat being carried off by
evaporatiOn."
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EQuinOctial Storms.

There is a popular delusion that
three days storm is inevitable when the
sun crosses the line in the latter part of
March and September, and the unset
tied state of the weather at this period,
which usually eliminates in showers of
some duration, is always spoken of as
the "equinoctial storm" According
to Professor Loomis, of Yale College,
however, the equinox has very little to
do with the storms, and excepting that
the weather is generally unsettled by
the changes which are taking place in
the atmosphere, there is no more like
lihood of storm upon the day that
the sun crosses the line than upon any
other day of the year. So much for
one of our popular theories, which, like
our popular superstitions, obtain a
stronger hold upon the public mind
than the strongest facts. In the light
of this truth it is not difficult to ac-
count for the length of -centur-
les, perhaps-which it takes to discover
q popular error or establish scientific
truth !; nor can we measure our indebt-
edness to those men who devote their
lives to discovering facts in nature and
art, and establishing them upon
scientifc-that is, a real and know
able-basis. For it must be remem-
bered that these men are always in a
minority; the mass Of mankind are
content to take the world as they find
it, with all it's errors, supcrstitions and
prejudices, and feel no gratitude to
those who disturb their fond and fool
ish belief in them.
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Homage.

"hHe daisies on the meadow green,
present thy beauteous form to mo;
icacef"l and joyful these are seen,
An" peace and Joy encompass thee.
l watch them where they dance and shine
ana love thenl-for their beautys thine.
hed roses DER the wood anu brook,
Remember me thy lovely face;
80 blushing and 80 fresh its look,
80 wild and shy its radiant grace.
kiss them In their coy retreat,
Aud think Of lips::more soft and swcet.
Gold arrows Of the merry morn :
Shot swiftly over eastern seas.
Gold tasscls Of tho bending corn
That ripple in the August breeze,
Thy wiltlcring smile, thy glorious hair,
And all thy power aud state declare.
White, rcd, and eold-thc awful crown
OF virtue and Of beauty too:- =.
From what height those eyes look down
On him who proudly darcs to sue.
Yet, free from self ~ God from sin
IL love that loves nor asks to win.
V.
Let ME but love thee In the flower,
The waving grass. the dancing wave.
Tho fragrant pomp Of garden bower,
The violet on the namelesa grave;
Sweet dreams by night, sweet thoughts by day,
And time shall tire ere love decay.
VI.
Lot me but love thee In the glow
When morning on the ocean shines,
Or in the mighty winds that blow,
Snow-laden, through the mountain pines
In all that = fair, or grand, or dread,
And all shall die ere love be dead.
-Galaxv.
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A RatSkin Costume.

An Ingenious individual of Lisheard,
Cornwall, has been exhibiting himself
in dress composed from top to toe of
ratskins, which he has been collecting
for three years and half. The dress
was made entirely by himself. It con-
sists of hat, neckerchief, coat, waist
coat, trousers, tippet, CATERS and shoes.
The number of rats required to com:
plete the suit was $40; and the individ-
ual, when thus dressed, appears exactly
like one of the Esquimaux described in
the travels of Parry and Ross. The
tippet or boa is composed of the pieces
of skin Immediately around the tails of
the rats, and is d very curious part of
the dress, containing about 600 tails,
and these of the shortest.
HANNAFoRD & THOMPSON, Publishers,
Chicago, ILL.,, announce a 18th edition OF
Periam's I" GroundsWcll, or Histo. y Of
the Farmers Movement. " This sale was
made in less than months. The demand
is extraordinary. Agents make money
rapidly with it, spite of hard times.
THERE are 166 theatres in Great Brit
ain, exclusive of 40 of all kinds in Lon
don alone, to say nothing Of 292 music
halls, employing LAO professionals,
including, alas 148 comic vocalists.
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Secondary Habits.

A man may be healthy without being
strong but all health tends, more or
less, towards strength, and NIL diseaso
is weaknees. Now, any ono mny see in
Nature, that things grow big simply by
growing; this growth il constant and
habitual exercise of vital or vegetative
force, and whatever checks or tlininislles
the action of this force-say, harsh
winds or frost-will stop the growth
and stunt tho production. Let the
student therefore bear in mind that sit
ting on a chair, leaning over a desk,
porting over book, cannot possibly DO
the way to make his body grow. The
blood can be made to flow, and the mus
cles to blay freely, only by exercise, and
If that exercise is not taken, Nature
will not be Knocked. Every young stu
dent ought to make a sacred resolution
to move about in the open mir at least
two hours every day. II he does not do
this, cold feet, the clogging of the
wheel of the internal parts of the fleshy
frame, and various shades of stomachic
and cerebral discomfort will not fail in
due season to inform him that he has
been SHINING against Nature, and, If he
does not mend his courses as bad boy,
he will certainly be Aogged, for Nature
is never like some sOft-hearted human
masters, over-mercifuli in her treatment.
But why should student indulge so
much in4he lazy and unhealthy habit
Of sitting? A man may think as we'll
standing as sitting, often not little
better and rs for readingin these days,
when the most weighty books may be
had cheaply, in the ightest form, there
is no necessity why person should be
bending his back, and doubling his
chest, merely because he happens to
have book in his hand. A man will
read play or poem far more
naturally and effectively while walk
ing up and down the room than
when sitting sleepily in chair. Sitting
is, in fact, q slovenly habit, and ought
not to be INDUCED. But when man
does sit, or mnst sit, let him at all events
sit erect, with his back to the light, and
full free projection of the breast. Al
so, when stud ying Languages, orreading
fine passages of poetry, let him read as
much as possible aloud; a practice
recommended by Clemens, of Alexan-
dria, and which will have the double
good effect of strengthening the most
important vital element. the lungs, and
training the ear to the perception of
vocal distinction. There is, in fact, no
necessary connection, in most cases,
between the knowledge which a student
is anxious to acquire and the sedentary
habits which students are apt to cult
vate.-"Oa Self Culture" By Professor
BLQckei.
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A Remedy for Hydrophobia.

A French physician. DIR. Buisson, of
Lyons, claims that he has discovered
remedy for hydrophobia. When a per-
son has been bitten by q mad dog, he
should for seven successive days take a
Russian vapor bath of 1874 to IA de-
grees Fahrenheit. This bath may be
quickly prepared by putting three or
four red-hot bricks into tub of water,
over which the patient must sit in a
cane-bottomedo or willow chair for Is or
20 minutes. After the disease has de-
clared itself, one vapor bath is suffi-
cient, but the patient must be strictly
confined to his room until the cure is
complete. DR.. Buisson says that he
has applied this method of treatment to
more than eighty persons bitten by
mad animals, and that he never lost q
single case. He discovered the remedy
when taking a vapor bath himself for
the purpose of killing himself by suffo-
cation after he had caught the hydro
phobia from the saliva of q patient.
When the bath was at about 81 Fahren-
heit all the symptoms disappeared as if
by magic and never returned.
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Items for H0usekcepofs.

Alum or vinegar is good to set colors
red, green or yellow.
Sal-sOda will bleach. One spoonful
is sufficient for kettle of clothes.
Save your suds for the garden and
plants, or to harden yards when sandy.
A hot shovel held over vanished fur
niture will take out spots.
A bit of glue dissolved in skim milk
and water will restore old Grape.
Ribbons of any kind should be washed
in cold suds and not rinsed.
If fat-irons are rough, rub them we'll
with salt, and it will make them smooth.
If you are buying carpet for dura-
bility, you must choose small figures.
A bit Of soap rubbed on the hinges of
doors will prevent them from creaking.
Scotch snuff, if put into holes where
crickets run out, will destroy them.
Green should be the prevailing color
for bed hangings and window drapery.
MILK STA1Ns.--Milk stains on serge
dresses may be removed by sleeping
the part in warm water.
WORTH REsEMBERNa.-Keep some
strong spirits of harts.hornin a ground
glass stopped bottle. A teaspoonful in
little water will clean combs and
brushes and restore colors injured by
acids. A weak solution applied to ILL
smelling feet and arm-pits removes the
odor. It removes grease spots from
carpets and clothing. Aweek solution,
in water makes good wash for the
hair and stimulates its growth when i'm
paired by fever, and cleanses the scalp
efectually. A weak solution, scattered
over the leaves of plants, from q soft,
fine, timber brush, gives new life to the
plants. Even if q little is sprinkled
over the earth at their roots, their
growth is invigorated.
CLEANING KNIVES is not generally
known that for securing knives, forks,
spoons and tin ware, the common water
lime such as is used for plastering cis-
terms, cellars, etc., is one of the best
materials. 1t does not scratch and will
not injure your very best silver. Apply
with damp cloth. The more often
such things are cleansed the more easily
they are cleaned.
GINGER W1NE.-This is an excellent
stomachic and is very popular in Eng
land as a cheap substitute for grape
wine Take sugar, IL pounds water,
81 gallons ginger, 4ounces. Boil them
together for half an hour; when cooled
to Is degrees, add the rinds of six lem
ons and some yeast; let it ferment for
ten or fourteen days, then add pint of
brandy, and bottle for use.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-04-30

TO Spaniard Il good cigarette is one
of the necessaries OF life, and SO im-
Portant does it seem to the government
that the army should have good sup
ply OF smoking materials, that an
official announcement has been nude to
the effect that nearly $4,000 pounds of
cigarettes have been grntuitously grant
cd to the military. In order to pay for
this and the other expenses Of the war,
telegrams were to be taxed five Gel
times after the first of April-All Fools
Day,
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" Don't, Charley"
New York Chrietian IIniOn-

Don't Charley" came to my ears in
a sweet, musical tone, while was seat
ed in railway car, last summer. I
should not have heard the soft, touch
ing voice, had it not been very near nae.
I looked to see who it was that spoke,
and saw sweet, beautiful woman upon
the seat in front of me. A half-sad look
rested upon the young face that was all
aglow with love and tenderness. A
young man was seated byher side whose
face wore a restless, dissipated look,
and in q moment I comprehended it all.
His face was flushed slightly, and I
knew why it was thus. He was talk
ing very fast to some one in advance of
him, and once I heard low oath.
"Don't Charley" she said again, in the
same sweet voice. But Charley did not
seem to heed her words, but went on in a
half wild way to the man. Several more
oaths came from his lips; but the
woman remained silent, yet looked so
pleadingly at the erring one that I
thought, If he had been half human, he
would have needed the mild, loving re-
proof that was so visible in her tear
yimmed eyes.
A friend by my side whispered in my
ear, "They have been married just one
dear"
''He is brute" I only said in reply.
At that moment saw the young hus-
band wink slyly to the man, and then
they both arose and went into the bag
gage-car. understood the movement
when I saw bottle protruding from
the husbands coat pocket.
Don't Charley; don'tgo, "the young
wife had pleaded before he got beyond
her reach but he tore himself from her
light grasp, and rushed along. Her
eyes filed with tears, and q low moan
came from her pale lips, and then she
bowed her head and wept silently.
He came back in q few m oments, his
face flushed still more, and his voice
was key or two louder than before.
He brushed rudely past the wife, evil
IDENTIFY to get near tho car window.
"Let me alone, Mag" he said as she
laid her white hand upon his arm.
''Women are always in the way" he
said, again turning to the man in front
of him.
The wife turned away, and I did not
hear her sweet, reproving voice again.
How I pitied that young, loving wife,
and how wonder if her sensitive heart
must suffer and bleed for many long
years I think not; for her tender, low
ing soul, and frail, slender body will
not bear such unkindness. Strange how
soon iquorwillt transform human beings
into unfeeling monsters, and chill the
ardent, loving nature of q tender hus,
band and trusting wife!
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EnbfQiderY Workers.

''The great center of Swiss embroid-
cry is at st. Gall, and the day on which
the work is brought is q festival.
Early in the morning" says Chambers
Journal, ''the young women arrive
from all parts in their Sunday attire.
After attending service in the church
they collect in large room round q
long table, where each receives q glass
of white wine. They begin to sing one
of their melodies in parts, while the
master goes round the table, examines
the work and pays for it. II herefuses
any, and declines to take it, the dispute
is decided by q syndic, who sits in the
next room. When the examination is
over, the head of the establishment
throws mass of embroidery patters on
the table; each girl chooses the kind
she likes best; it is inscribed in her
book, with the price agreed on, and
the day when it is to be returned.
They are very Industrious; and, by
reason of their great frugality, are
contented with very poor remuneration;
and by slightly sewing their pieces of
work together, can have them washed
at half the cost. In saxony the wages
are so low that it is wonderful how the
women can live upon them; in Scotland,
it is said that many of the children re-
ceive only half-penny q day. A small
number in Nancy, who can embroider
coats-Of-arms and crests, earn three
shillings day; but from ten to twenty
pence is the usual wages. It is q kind
Of work that endangers the sight; and
as fashion reigns supreme, it not un.
frequently happens that a style is
abandoned before the orders are COM
pleted; when the merchant profits by
the smallest pretext to refuse the work
from the manufacturer; and in this way
the loss often falls upon the poor wo-
men, who can scarcely buy bread and
clothes"
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Food and Milk.

The following is an extract from on
address recently delivered by DR.. Vo-
elcker; OF England, on milk and its
authorizations ''"@' 1'0
The influence of food on the quality
OF milk is very striking. A half-stnrve1
COW yields but little milk and moor
milk. On the other hand the l;mr,l
supply of peas or bean-meal. or OIL
cake, and other food rich in nutrition
tells dirtctly, both Oh the quality and
quantity Of the milk. Nothing, there.
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GLAD TmN0s FOR THE SLAVES OF
KING ALcoHoL.-How many q manly
form is palsied how many noble
mind il destroyed how many price,
less soul lost through tho curse of strong
drink To the despairing victims Of
the Satanic tyrant. Alcohol, whose shat
tered nerves, and trembling limbs, and
raking headaches, seem to find no relief
except in the renewed use of the fatal
poison which brings them every day
nearer to their miserable end, We an
nounce glad tidings Of great Joy! DIR.
Walkers VINEGAR Buffers contain not
a single drop of Alcohol in any form,
but are a sovereign remedy for the ills
of drunkenness. They restore tone and
strength to the system, and entirely
eradicate the Pernicious appetite for
liquor. Try few bottles Of VINEGAR
Buffers, and you will never crave
strong spirits again, but find your health
repaired, your mind restored, and be
once more a man in the best sense.
Health is cheap when VINEGAR Brr1Ens
are d bottle.-Com.
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The Sex Of Eg9s.

1t has been favorite theory with
many breeders of fowls that the sex of
eggs could be determined. and that a
poultry yard could be made to show the
truth of certain rules by the number of
pu1lets or cockerels it contained. 9th
ers have combatted the idea, and pro-
nounced it ridiculous in theory and
false in practice. Asmany of our readers
are just now especially interested in this
subject, we give the following, which
are worth testing.
r. B. Edwards says in his pamphlet:
"Select only eggs pointed at the ends.
avoiding any that have q tendency to
roundness of form; also examine the
position Of the air cavities in the eggs.
and only retain those that have them
placed directly at the apex Of the blunt
or large end, avoiding all that have them
placed ct all to the side. In this wsv
eight eggs out of ten will produce cock
The following is from correspondent
OF the London Journal of Horticulture
One OF your correspondents revives
the old question about the sex of eggs
l send you my experience. Last winter
an old country poultry-keeper told me
that he could distinguish the sex in
eggs; laughed at him, and was none
the less skeptical when he told me the
following secret: Eggs with the air
bladder on the center of the crown of
the egg will produce cockerels; those
with the bladder ON one side will pro-
duce pullets. The old man was so Ger
tain of the truth of this dogma, and his
Poultry-yard so far confirmed it, that I
determined to make experiments upon
it this year. I have done so, carefully
registering every egg bladder VERTICAL
one in which it was not decidedly one
or the other, as in some it is only very
slightly out of the centre. The follow
ing is the result: 50 chickens were
Matched, three are dead, IL are yet too
young to decide upon their sex of the
remaining A every one has turned out
true to the old mans theory. This. of
course, may be an accidental coinci-
dence, but shall certainly try the ex-
pertinent again. am now trying tie
same theory upon ducks eggs.'
A Westchester, Pa, man gives the
results OF his experiments in the Ohio
Farmer as follows: "Last summer
Matched 1872 chicks from eggs selected
on this principle, 119 of which wero
pullets always select eggs of medium
size, believing them to be the best for
this purpose. I then get large lamp,
and take an egg in my right hand, be.
tween the thumb and two forefineers.
big end uppermost, and hold it as near
to the light as possible, then Law the
little finger of the left hand across the
middle of the egg. This will throw the
light i'll the egg; then turn it around
slowly. and You will perceive q dark
spot the size of a three-cent piece d.
rectly in the centre of the large end. or
on one side. As I raise poultry for eggs
and forthe market, I of course set onlv
eggs for pullets, with a few for cocker
els to replace the cocks of last wear. t.
would b. well for an amateur to break
few eggs, empty out the contents. and
examine the large end, where the mir
chamber in the different positions will
be distinctly secn."
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An Irishman called at a drug store to
get bottle Of Johnson's A,,odyne Linin,ent
for the Rheumatism; the druggist asked him
DE me SOUL" said he, II have it in livery
h0ul aud corner or me.
For loss Of cud, horn all, red water
in COWS, loss Of appetite, rot, or murrain in
sheep; thick wind, broken wind, and roaring,
aud for all distractions Of the kidneysi in horses
use Shernsan's Cavalry Condition Posoders.-
Com
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THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF An
OLD NURSE.

=
OLD NURSE.
NAs WINDOWS SOOTHING e1RUP - TH1 Pm
scRrPrrox Of one Of the best Female Physicans and
Nurses in the United States, and has been used for
thirty years with nevsr-failihg safety and success
BY millions Of mothers and children, from the fes-
bic infant Of week old to the adult It eorrees
atcdtty OF the stomach, relieves wind choie, 1sgu
lates tho bowels, and gives rest, health and com
fort to mother and child. We believe It 70 be the
Bcst and Surest Remedy In the World in all cases
Of DYsHNTERY and D1ARRH0A IN CHILDRIN,
whether IL arises from Teething or from any other
cause. Full directions for using will accompany
eAeh bottle. None genuine unless tho fac simils Q
CURTIS PERKINS 10 ON tho outside Wrapper.
sold ~ ALL M1DIcIxH DEA11Rs.
"NOTHING BETTER" Cutler 1ros., Boston
Dr. John Ware. celebrated VEoB1ADL1
Pu11oxA1Y B11sA1, 1or Colds and Cousumption.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
HOUSE Drains.


Where there is q kitchen sink it is
much better to have the discharge fall
on the surface and there evaporate. than
to have nimperfectd drain that smudges,
and steams, and freezes. doubt the
propriety of underground drainage such
us is usually arranged, and if the pipes
are Jess than four inches in diameter they
will become coated with what looks like
mucous, q white, tough, leathery sub
stance, which, gradually accommodating,
will after time stop the flow altogeth-
er. have seen discharge by q six
inch pipe into pit twelve feet deep,
which seemed to me to work we'll but
then, what effect did it have on the we'll
water? We had better be cautious. /
think that the line of discharge should
be as short as possible; that all deep
pits are to be avoided, and that q shall
low pit lined with brick or board should
be constructed, and into it fresh earth
should be added every day or so for a
deodorizer, and this will make o valua-
BILE compost. 1 find no purifier equal
to fresh earth, but chloride of lime,
copperas, and such chemicals are to be
used where only fluids run. The truth
is, dish-water ought not to be poured
into sink hog should be kept, and
it should be emptied into a swill barrel
to which bran, meal, or other food is
added. This whole subject requires
much closer attention than it has vet
received.