The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-02

The Grange Advance
H. II. YOUNG, EDITOR ANs PRop'R.
REDWING. MINNESOTl
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
How often has it been said and sunf
that "Old Virginia never tires" She wa.
completely ''Tuckcred" in the Uenten
NAL debate in Congress, recently.
No taxation without representation, is
the cry Of Abby and Julia Smith, Of
Glastonbury, Conn. They refuse to pay
their taxes because they cannot vote.
MASSACHUSETTS sternly refuses to rescind
the decree by which Roger Williams was
banished in 1885. Can it be that they
do it simply TO show the world that they
won't be good to Roger!
REV. E. P. SMITH, the late commission
er Of Indian Affairs, has gone to Africa
to inspect and reorganize the mission
airy service of that country.
GEORGIA proposes to exempt from tax
alton persons who have lost leg or an
arm. Wouldn't It be good thing to in.
clude editors and poor, lone widows!
The grasshopper eggs deposited in Mis-
souri, and Kansas last summer are hatch.
ing out under the influence Of the pre-
vailine warm weather, but no sooner does
the ground begin to appear animated
than there comes frost--a chilling frost,
and nips the little pests and they die.
THOUSANDS of Californians will visit the
Centennial next summer. Railroad fares
across the continent are to be put at q
very low figure, and many a New Eng.
land fireside will welcome back those who
left many years ago for the golden land
and have never since been able to return.
New calculations have been made for
the crack Of doomsday. DR.. Cumming
says it will occur some time before Sep
TENDER next. There is much to be done
before this good time Cumming. The
Jews have all to return to Judea and the
Turkish nation must disappear is
what the prophet saith.
How the great Russian Bear would
stare if England should join Germany
and gobhle up Asia to divide between
'em. 1t is asserted that Germany wants
war to save herself; that she IS hard up
financially and public confidence in trade
temporarily destroyed, and some fuss is
needed to start anew the manufactury
wheels Of war.
IF there is any greater meanness than
the sending Of mean valentines to ones
enemies it must be making faces at your
eneny's children. The traffic in these
silly daubs is yearly becoming greater,
and It is astonishing to compare the as.
sentiments on sale with. those twenty
years ago and find no change in subjects,
outlines or coloring.
THE "Oldest Inhabitant'' has been
taken to the insane asylum. The mild.
ness of the present winter has proved too
much for hilr. He told us to expect a
most disagreeable winter with mercury
frozen up away down in the bulb, and
that snow on the level would be deeper
than before known, etc: What wonder
he could not stand it?
BISMARCK has issued pamphlet in which
he chraactcrizes Won Arnim as a bold,
bad man, but Arnim can better afford to
stand that than to return home and be
shot for treason. he made a consider
able row in the German court. and is able
to stand good deal Of Safeguarding for
it, but if he IS wise he will not return
back to his native soil just now.
AND now Missouri has struck lead.
In Macon and Adair counties gold ex-
lists in paying quantities. For distance
of thirty-five miles north and south and
ten miles east and west there is claimed to
be rich drift susceptible of yield of
1926 to the cubic yard. Stock compan-
les have organized, and are building dams