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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-07
ground backward if ordered to do SO,

ground backward if ordered to do so,
walking in this manner with the ut.
most ease. 1t was extremely fond of
music and danced to all lively tunes,
its wings also moving, and its head
moving backward and forward in cor
| rect time. By Il peculiar working of
the serratures or file which all parrots
have i'll the upper mandible, against
the lower, it diligently strove to imi-
tate the noise made by scissors.
grinder who weekly visited the street;
but finding that this alone did not
quite serve the purpose, it had re.
course to the expedient of strik-
ing it's claws against it's tin.cov-
cred perch, and, accurately observing
the time of the turning of the wheel,
effected so exact an imitation once or
twice day, that the neighbors said
the. man had become a perpetual nuis-
ance.
From the same source with the fore
going we derive the following account
of another parrot. A lady had a gray
parrot of four years old, that learned
new words and sentences every day,
and made surprisingly correct applica-
ton of them. Enjoying perfect free.
dom, he would sometimes indulge in
the expensive luxury of mischief, upon
which his mistress would scold him,
when he would indignantly reply !:
''Not naughty POLL s'Not a bold bad
bird - and reiterate, with stamping
of his right foot and an up-and-down
movement of his body. 81 am not
I am not !" When she praised him, he
would tell her that she was darling,
and that he loved her. He was very
jealous of attentions paid to children,
and when he saw them caressed would
cry: $50 away, bold grill" or "Go
away, bold boy!'' using the terms girl
or boy with accurate discrimination.
J He remembered every name that he
| head, and applied it correctly to the
person. Once seeing visitor without
d dog he was accustomed to have with
him, he called the dog by name and
whistled for him, although neither the
gentleman nor his dog had been at the
house for some two months. He would
mimic a visitor taking off coat or
shawl, as if trying to divest himself of
his wings, and no one laughing more
heartily than himself. He wonld play
with the cats till tired of them, and
then whistle for the dogs to chase
them away. He was often allowed to
be out of doors, and the crows would
fly away in alarm from a tree when he
got upon it, he calling good mornings
after them with great apparent de-
light.
"Let me catch you doing that again!'
called out parrot to some boys who
had given a runaway ring to the door,
bell of a house at Acton. One of the
boys seeing no one but the bird in the
cage, and struck with feeling of awe,
called next day and apoligized to the
owner of the house. AS he was quit
ting the hall, Poll exclaimed, so, then,
you won't do that again.
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Was Farragut Lashed To The Rigging?

A writer for Scribner for February,
who was an eyewitness of the battle
in Mobile Bay, takes the negative of
the above question. We quote part
of the account:
When the fleet had crossed the bar
and was inside of Sand Island, and had
approached to within about one mile
and quarter of Fort Morgan, Admiral
Farragut coolly and deliberately as
cended the starboard main rigging and
halted just beneath the top. Passing
his arm up through the ''lubber's
hole,' he seized the foot of the pilot,
Martin Freeman by name, who was
standing in the maintop, giving orders
to the helmsman. The single quarter
master, in obedience of the orders of
Captain Drayton, took up hammock
flashing to secure the admiral to the
shrouds, so that in case he should be
killed, his body would not fall over
board or on the deck but, by Freeman's
advice, the admiral would not allow it
master returned with his lashing to
the deck and Farragut, the brave,
passed the long line OF torpedoes and
the Confederate forts and fleet I'M.
scathed,-while still clinging to the
foot of his trusty old pilot, Martin
Freeman.
This is the truth which the historj-
an should receive and record, if he
chooses to make note of what was but an
incident in that terrible action. Many
survivors of that day will vouch for the
above account. AS for Martin Free
man, he still lives in the immediate
vicinity of the bay where the battle
was fought-being the principal keep
er OF Horn Island lighthouse, in Mis-
sissippi Sound. Should any one chance
to question this writer's assertion in
regard to the above matter, he is re.
spectfully referred to Mr.. Freeman,
who was probably better acquainted,
at the time, with the movements of
Admiral Farragut than any other indi-
vidual in the heet,-Captain Percival
Drayton, perhaps excepted -and he
is known as the heroic and loyal son
of South Carolina, and feet.captain of
the West Gulf Squadron.
The philosophy of Admiral Farra-
quits chosen position is easily explain
ed.
During the noise of the battle, he
naturally desired to be so stationed
that when no human voice could be
heard aloft, should it be necessary for
him to communicate with the pilot,
by tightly grasping the foot of that
person the signal would be noticed;
and, as a fact, Mr.. Freeman did re-
spond, and, by bending down, lent his
ear to the 'slubbers' hole'' for such
orders as the admiral wished to give
him.
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Crowded to Death.

He was a middle-aged man when in
1888 he settled near where Portland.
Ore, now is. lie had tried civiliza-
ton and was wearied with it..
He had sold his little proper
ty in the east, and with few horses,
COWS and dogs had threaded the dan
gerous way from the Missouri River to
Oregon, and there, under the shadow
of the Cascades and besides the beau
tiful Willamette, paused at last and
SAID to himself: II can have no more
trouble; I can stay here with my dogs,
my rifle and my own soul for company,
and none will modest me- For awhile
he was entirely happy, but at length
one stranger after another made his
appearance, and one morning the man
who had journeyed so far to be alone
woke up to find that town was being
laid out near his cabin. He called his
dogs, and, remembering beautiful
spot he passed on his journey West, he
retraced his steps, threaded the
mighty canyon of the Columbia, and
built another cabin where the Dalles
now is. Here he felt secure. The dis
turbers who broke up his home on the
Willamette had reached him from the
sea. He said now to himself: SIT
will be years and years before they
find me here.' For good many
years he enjoyed his dream. Game
was plenty, the scenery was glorious.
the soil was rich, and the man, now
grown old, was happy. But one morn
ing as he sat in his hut strange
sound broke the stiffness, and, going
to the door, 10 ! in the great river a
steamer was putting against the cur
rent, and in few days another town
was in course of construction around
him.
Again he moved, and this time did
not pause until he reached the Umpqua
country. This was ian utter wilder
ness, and he told his dogs that at last
they were safe. He built another
cabin and settled down for life. For
year or two he was undisturbed, but
one day some strange men, with strange
instruments, crossed his ground, STOP
ping every few rods, looking through
their instruments and taking notes. It
disturbed the old man little, but at
last he said they were but Government
surveyors should see them no
more for years. But before many
weeks gang of workmen came right
across his favorite field they threw up
an evenly graded road, and within a
fortnight locomotive came screaming
by. Then the old man gave up. His
dogs, too, seemed to understand that
there was no more use in trying. One
after the other died; the game was
driven away, and one morning as the
cabin door of the old man was pushed
open he was found dead, and on the
smoky wall, written with charcoal. was
found this sentence: t'They crowded
me to DEATH" This coast is full of
these men. They tried at first the
fiery competitions of business and fail.
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'.Mr. Blnkenberry," said young Mr..
Lovenot with great earnestness, ''they
say that you have something that will
prevent fellows hair from falling
out. Now I'm afraid I'm losing my
hair. What shall do to keep from
getting bald?' 'sYoung feller,' said
Mr.. Blinkenberry, lowering his voice
to a sympathetic whisper, "Young
Teller, stay SINGLE" Then the good
man sighed, and prevailed upon the
barkeeper to ssset sem up again.
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rage and revenge inspired were new,
or at least such as had not been MOTTO
ed before the exasperated matrons
upbraided, they execrated, they in.
suited, they triumphed. In a word
they never desisted from buffeting
their adversary till they had torn him
in a hundred pieces
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ed, and then, turning to nature as their
only friend, tried to hide from man.
kind. We presume that all new lands
are full of such histories of gentle,
kindly lives, who wearying of and chat
ing at the attritions of civilized life, at
last stole away, to live alone for q lit.
tie while and then go to sleep.
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has been asleep the soul has hoated
away, seen the place, and has that
memory of it which SO surprises us ;?
In a word, how far dual is the life of
man, how far not?
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15
Science and Industry.

Twelve hundred manufacturers in
Connecticut are not paying expenses.
The reefs near Key West. Florida,
furnished $4,000 worth of sponges IN
one week lately.
The best ostrich feathers -ome from
Africa, and the trade is almost entirely
monopolized by Jews.
Among the patents recently issued
are several 10 Mr.. Holly, of waterwork
fame, for his system OF warming a city
by steam, supplied, as gas and water are
now, through a series of mains.
"A beautiful marble has been found in
California on the line of the newly built
Southern Pacific Railroad II is of
snowy color and cxiuisitely threaded
with amber-eolored veins. Italian ex-
perts have pronounced il equal to the
finest marbles known.
A forward movement in the inter-
est Of science has recently been made in
France by the foundation of an estab-
lishment for taking photographs of OBJ
jects of natural history or art. For this
purpose the Government viii employ
the best photographers proeurable, and
will place at their command the most
improved apparatus and methods.
BESIDES being valuable as an instru-
meni of warfare, the torpedo promises
TO be of great service in clearing away
sunken obstacles in frequented channels.
4 sunken steamer which has seriously
impeded the navigation of the river
Humber, in England, for u months past
has recently been most cffectually re-
moved by sinking and exploding tor
pedo amidst the wreck. -
A mineral has been found in Kern
County. Cal, which Is puzzling the
biologists, no one knowing what TO call
It. /; is opaque; in color, tin white;
luster, metallic; laminated; soft; Yields
10 the finger-nail; leaves streak the
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


-Bierstadt is among the canyons Of
Colorado, probably with view to an
other picture.
Miss Kate Field will appear in Lon
don next season in a new play written
expressly for her use.
Miss Carlotta Patti, sister to Ade-
lima Patti, is hopelessly i'll with COM
plcation of rnaladies arising from the
diseased h;p-joint which caused her
lameness.
The leading actress in the new Ger
man Theater at Milwaukee, Wis, Miss
Muhlbach, is "a daughter of Louisa
Muhlbach, the well known German
novelist
Miss Jenny Bancroft, recent grad
uate of Syracuse University, has be-
come dean of the Woman's College of
the Northwestern University.
Colonel Richard Realf, John
Browns Secretary of State, is arrang-
ing for the publication of book of
verse in the autumn. lie used to write
poetry for the atlantic Monthly.
The volume of memoirs of Daniel
NtDsltf ltll DN Int lsitc cttI IIdI NeN I,
of Boston, will be published in the fall
Mr.. Harvey signed the preface few
days before his death.
Thomas Ball, the sculptor, is at
work in Florence upon the model of the
proposed statue OF Charles sumner, to
be erected in Boston. The model will
be shipped to the United States this fall.
The author of the old song, ''Lis-
ten TO the Mocking-bird, which has
been sung and whistled and played and
strummed and drummed and banged
and clattered all over the world, with
all possible variations, was not ''Alice
HAWTHORNE, as the title page announc-
ed, but Mr.. Septimus Winner of Phila-
delphia, who took his mothers name as
a nom de plume.
Mr.. James Taylor Innes has in the
fifth supplement of the Popular Science
Monthly an article entitled ''The Trial
of Jesus Christ" which is expected to
make genuine literary sensation. He
reviews the trial from legal stand
point, subjects the evidence TO search
ing cross-examination, and proves that,
judged byIwhat students know of the
old Hebrew law, it was Illegal from be-
giuning TO end.
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15

The regular price of programme
in a London theater is sixpence.
The gifts of pilgrims to the Pope,
during the celebration of his jubilee,
amounted to 1926, ,276 20, of which
81, 200 was in coin.
Mime. Christine Nilsson is to per-
form in st. Petersburgh and Moscow
twice 4 week for three months, receiv-
ing 81 900 for each appearance.
Mr.. Ruskin is about to organize a
number of excursions of working people
to places of interest throughout Eng
land, and will accompany them in the
capacity of instructor.
1t is suggested to English and
American travellers abroad not TO have
their letters addressed 8 Esquire" as
foreign post-ofiices fancy it is name
hence delays and losses of letters.
There is a report that Queen Vic
toria, the Prince of Wales and the Duke
of Argyle are all investigators of Spirit
ualistic phenomena; and furthermore
it is said that Princess Beatrice is a
very fine medium
Throat renovation" is one of the
latest of Partisan novelties. BY the use
of a wonderful lotion, the throat, which
has become wrinkled and discolored by
age or illness. is restored 10 its pris-
tine beauty, and the wearer is enabled,
while the effect lasts, to pass herself OF
for youthful belle.
Paris has it that James Gordon
Bennett has found new love over seas,
and his fiancee is declared TO be a
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15
Odds and Ends.

People learn wisdom by experience.
A man never wakes up his second baby
to see it laugh.
Sit down and see how fast You can
say: 90 Shoes and socks shock Susan in
an inexplIcable manner, and inexorably
she ceaseth sheathing her shoes"
A good little boy who was kicked
by mule did not say naughty words or
go home crying TO his mother; he Just
tied the mule within five feet of bee
hive, backed him round to it, and let
him kick.
1t is the rule that the young man who
receives $40 a week eats his 35-cent
meal at the restaurant right alongside
the man who earns 800 per week, and
who cautiously turns the check by his
plate to see that it reads 50 Please pay at
the counter-15 cents.''
From his perch in an upper win
dow a cynical bachelor counted ninety
nine women who passed on their way to
church. OF the ninety-and-nine, all
but nine wore new gowns and turned
their heads to look at the "hang and the
fiow' of their drapery as they went
along.
A youngster at the table the other
night asked his mother if sausages were
ripe yet, and was told that sausages did
not grow. 50 Yes they 8o,'' said he
stoutly, "for l saw whole branch of
green ones in fruit store to-day" 1t
was necessary 10 enlighten him with re-
gard to the difference between bananas
and sausages.
Shallow paragraphers may pen
flippant sayings about the much-abused
watermelon and green peach, but these
articles are as cooling doves when COM
pared with the sleep-murderiTg, peace
destroying waffle that has been tanned
on both sides over a slow fire and
tOughened by a systematic sweating
process carried on between two plates.
90 Ladies and gentlemen said the
urbane and cultured Snowman, !" this is
the wonderful anaconda in his native
state-one of the most deadly and fero-
ciOus of his species, but now, under our
tanning process, gentle as pet lamb
and frolicsome as kitten.
He can swallow himself. go through him
self, N Il tf
Comes out with the greatest facility; =
Ties himself in bow-knot and snaps his
tail,
And winks with tine greatest agility"
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15

color of amalgam on the back of look
ing-glasses; il is unchanged by heat
which reduces Hungarian crucible; is
perfectly insoluble in nitric or muriatic
acids or any of their combinations, and
has specific gravity about equal to that
of mispickel.
The latest statistics of the wages of
the European laborer are as follows for
alls of factory operatives: Antwerp
(men), S12S year; Prussia generally
women and mem, from SLIP to SS.75
per week for overseers; Austria, best
hands Sc per week, ordinary SS.75; Ber-
lin. from sl.S7 to 50 per week; France,
spinners 50 cents and weavers % cents
day. Wages in Great Britain are
somewhat higher. In all countries the
condition of mechanic. is little or no bet
ter than that of operatives in factories,
while that of the farm laborer is most de-
plorable and hopeless.
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15

Frenchwoman, resident of the Fau-
bourg st. Germain, owning the blood of
the old nOblesse. The future Mrs. Ben
nett, it is asserted, can not speak word
of English, but he can speak French flu
emily.
The really remarkable man of
France at the present moment is Theirs.
Sixty years ago he had won a reputa-
ton; forty years ago he was Prime
Minister; the first volumes of his his
tory were written fifty years ago. He
and Wellington, and is to-day spoken of
by all France in an aiiectionate way as
"Papa Thiers.'
One of the curiosities of
next years great Exhibition at
Paris will be the building of
the Persian National Palace, which is to
cover not less than 10 square meters,
and is to be erected by Persian archi-
tects and workmen. These have just
arrived in Paris, and are Immediately
to set to work on its construction; the
walls are to be-of course Persian-wise
covered with fdience, and the win
dows are to be of colored glass.
A clever Republican Mayor in a
French commune has been removed.
He received number of documents to
be posted, ,and he posted them in accord
ance with the letter if not with the spir-
it of the Projects instructions. He put
the Marshal's speech at Bourges on the
bulletin-board; pasted the Bulletin des
Communes, detcsted of all Republicans,
over it: pasted the call for the reserv-
lists over that, and the game laws over
that-then went on his way rejoicing.
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15

IT is a strange thing to see a city chap
at country party, but he was there, and
in his conversation with one of the
prettiest lasses ventured to inquire:
g Were you ever at "a watering-place?"
.'Oh, yes, !" replied she, :" live right at
one.'' Indeed" exclaimed he, grow
ing interested, ''where might it be?''
g Oh, just out here a little way" was
her innocent reply, "my fatker'keeps
the railroad tank!''
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15
Haps and Mishaps.

John Mahoney and Thomas Winn
were killed at Worcester, Mass, by being
crushed under falling wall.
Ira Morgan, aged 10, of Orleans,
Ind, lived just three hours after kindling
the ire with kerosene. His flesh was
burned to a crisp from head to foot.
The fatal thresher: Near Fort
Wayne. Ind, John Dingman had an arm
torn from It's socket while tending a
threshingmachine. Near Mount Eaton.
Ohio, Harry Dill had one leg torn off
close to his body. He died in a few
hours.
-Lightning's victims J. j. Hitler, of
Detroit, Mich, while at work on farm
near Northfield, took refuge from the
Dodge City times., 1877-09-15

| ploraDle anu HOpeless-
School and Church.
Fisk University, at Nashville, Tenn.
has projected a training school for Afri
can missionaries.
Bishop O'Connell, of California
has announced to his diocese that, ac
cording to instructions received from
Rome, no Catholic can participate ir
"round dances" " under pain of mortal
sin.
Pupils of the Partisan schools, who
have obtained prizes in their respective
classes, are TO be sent on pleasant trip
to the seaside at the public expense.
They will go under the direction of men
who will lecture on the places visited.
Samuel Moody was New England
revivalist over hundred years ago. He
wrote book called "The Doleful State
of the Damned, especially such as 90 to
He'll from under the Gospel, aggravated
by their apprehensions of the Saints
Happiness in Heaven
A bronze statue of Robert Raikes,
the founder of Sunday-schools, will soon
be placed in his native town in England
Gloucester. The money has been
raised by a general subscription under
the auspices of the English Sunday
school Union.
The venerable DIR. Suddards, rector
of Grace Church, Philadelphia, is the
oldest Episcopal minister in that city,
and has been settled for 43 years. Fifty
years ago he was pastor OF a primitive
Methodist church in England. The
Doctor is a hearty old gentlemen yet,
and looks as if he might be good for
twenty years more of efficient servihf.
There is in London Ragged
Church and Chapel Union," the object
of which is the holding of religious SER
vices among those whose ragged clothes
keep them from ordinary places of wor-
ship. Last year the Union supplied
one hundred stations. The annual re-
port states that "not only have the very
poor been reached. instructed, and ben
Gifted, but many backsliders from the
fold of Christ have been reclaimed,
many drunkards reformed, and large
additions made to the number of COM
municants in our regular and recognized
places of worship"
The Rev. George K. Kramer was a
Methodist and had charge of the Asbury
Church in Wilmington, Del. He is now
preaching in tent, and has organized
a new church which he calls "The
Church of the Believers. His new no.
tions are to the effect THAT the soul is
only the breath of the body, and at death
returns to God who gave it, loses its
personality, and becomes absorbed in
the divinity. Al the resurrection of the
body God will breathe into it new
soul, Christ will reign on earth with his
saints. and the resurrected wicked will
be east into hell, not to suffer forever.
but to be destroyed as quickly as possi-
BILE, CT, in other words, to be annihilat-
ed" The "Church of the Believers" is
not attracting many.