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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
WellinrtOu's Veterans,

After the peace Of 1915, the Duke of
Wellington took into his London house
hold several of the veterans of his Pen
insular army, whose habits, being more
in accordance with the battle fields of
Spain than the saloons of Apsley House,
were source of unfailing amusement to
the great Generals fashionable visitors.
One battered old fellow with one eye,
who had figured conspicuously at Orthes
and Toulouse, was installed in the gar
dening department. The duke answer
ing all doubts of his fitness by saying,
decisively: "Well, he dug the trenches
in every vineyard of the south of France;
I SHOULD hope he ought to know. some
thing of gardening after that" Another
veteran, who had been wounded at
Waterloo, was under discussion one
evening at dinner between the duke and
Lord Anglesea, when the subject of the
discourse entered with the measured
step of the parade-ground, carrying a
huge pie. "Now," said Anglesea, "let
facings;"' and turning Suddenly round,
he cried sharply: Attention.! the
old soldier instinctively dropped his
hands, and with them the pie likewise,
which exploded like bombshell over
the rich carpet in a shower of steaming
gravy. The poor fellows look of dis
may at this catastrophe drew smile
s%the Iron Duke. himself; but the
jester shastened to console his victim
with the assurance that no English SOL
der could be blamed for knowing his
drill.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
A Hint to Consumptlves.

"A correspondent of Les Moaades calls
attention to the fact that butchers,
though they may be pale and thin when
they enter on the business, quickly gain
freshness of color, stoutness and q gen
orally comfortable look. It is a pure
fiction, of course, that they put aside
the best portions of the meat for them
selves, and it is known fact that most
of them lose appetite. The correspond
ent attributes the general well-being to
assimilation, through the respiratory
passages, of nutritive juices of the meat
volatilized in the air-a kind of nutri-
ton by affus;on. If this be really a
fact, it is argued that young people, suf-
fering from deficient or impure blood,
and especially children of a weak or
Emphatic constitution, might be SUBJ
jected with advantage to hygienic treat
ment based upon it. A well-known
French physician commends the idea,
and offers the following plan for the
treatment of consumptive persons, in
place of sending them on to distant
places with reputedly mild climates: In
well-ventilated, sun-it and sheltered
room, with southern exposure, he would,
by means of Mousseron brazier, the
high moist heat of which is salutary and
f. favorable to respiration, form for the
patient an artificial climate, like that OF
Nice or Florida, having all the advan-
tages, without the inconvenience, of the
real climate. To aid the antiseptic
action of the warm moist air, rich in
vapors, charged with dissolved carbonic
acid, he would place in one or more cor.
ners of the room an open bottle of water
saturated with sulphurous acid. By
this arrangement he thinks the progress
of the naturalization would be arrested
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
The Greeorian Calendar.

The Gregorian calendar, introduced by
Pope Gregory XIII, towards the close Of
to. h1teepth tentury, was adopted at
ohce by the Eatin and Catholic coun-
tries. Germany, however, chung to the
old style till the year 1902, and England
till fifty-two years later, when statute
of George II. provided that the year
should begin, not on the 25th of March
but on the first of July, and that after
the 3rf Of Eeptember, 1852 the next
ensuing dizzy should be regarded as the
14th, thus dropping out eleven days.
The Russians, in common with the
Serbians and most of the Slavonic people
subject t0 Turkey, retained the Old cal
endar, although Russia has given coun-
tenance to Pope Gregory by reckoning
leap years. 1t is reported now that a
commission will shortly sit in St. Peters
burg to- consider the propriety of giving
up the old system and adopting the
calendar in vogue in other civilized
countries. The World remarks: "Itis,
o. course, desirable that the cars peo-
pie should reckon time as the people of
western Europe do. but it seems to be
suspected that some difficulty will be
experienced from the common people in
in Producing the innovation, who will
think themselves cheated out Of the
number Of days by the proposed refor::l.
When the change was made in England
the populace was greatly excited over it,
and favorite cry, at the hastings was:
tWho stole, the eleven days7 Give us
back the eleven daysl - Some piece Of
folly similar, to this seems to be expected
in Russia if the change shall be made.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
.Piscatorlal..

n The Russians claim; that The sterlet,
found in perfection in the Volga and
other streams. tributsr yftg tte.Blackapd
Caspian seasj is IL q Most delicious fsh
that swims. It is Il kind of sturgeon,
and usually com lands SO high a price
that only persons If means can afford to
eat it. The Russian restaurateur keeps
it, as he does other fish, in a tank; his
customes picks out such fish as he ap-
proves; whereupon it is taken out, kill
ed and cooked. Being served fresh, on
which 60 much of it's flavor depends, it
is very appetizing. In the opinion of the
Nea: York Times: ave should do we'll
to initiate the Russians in this particu-
Ian; tor an ordinary fish, iii fresh from
the water, is as good az an extraordinary
fish that is little stale. The finest
caviare is made from the sterlet, and is
counted such a delicacy, and is 80 dear,
that it is generally reserved for the i'm.
perial court. Most of the caviare is
made from the roe of the common stur.
geon. AztrakaA being noted for its pre-
paration. Over 100000 pounds of Ca
Ware have been made in q single year in
the aA6ehery.a-o Fond 19tbsRDs,
1sps there and ii France shd italy:
Shakspeare's phrase, "'Twas caviare to
the general" put into the mouth of
Hamlet, still has significance, for most
persons in England and America have no
more relish for caviare to-day than the
subjects or Elizabeth had in the poets
time. The Anglo-Saxon palate rarely
relishes caviare."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
ton explained how it came into his pot

ton explained how 1t came INTO MS pos-
session.
One evening a prominent Democratic
politician received cipher dispatch
from South Carolina at the telegraph
Office in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He
sat down at table, pulled out his Key.
and made a translation of the cipher.
A few minutes after midnight be has
tily gathered up a few papers and went
out. His translation of the cipher hap
pened to drop on the floor. The operator
picked it up, read it, and Immediately
started for Mr.. Orton's house and rung
up the president of the Western Union.
Mr.. Orion took the paper and told the
operator to go home and never open his
lips to single human being ID re1er-
ence to the incident. He said that my
eyes were the first to see the dApatch
after it came into bis possession"
Mr.. Hewitt was asked what Mr.. Til
den can say.
He can say a good deal. He can
deny having had any knowledge of such
transactions, and I believe he will. In
my dealings with Mr.. Tilden never
saw anything to warrant the suspicion
that he would do anything dishonest or
dishonorable. do not believe he was
! cognizant of any attempt to perpetrate
fraud. 1t was possible for these men to
act without the knowledge Of Mr.. Til
den"
MI. Hewitt said of his present rela-
tions with Mr.. Tilden: "My association
with Mr.. Tilden, as it existed in the last
campaign, has been broken off and Will
novor Ia rev;vod 7 viaitad him once
during the Watterson controversy, but
have not visited him since. He has not
treated me magnanimously. He has not
treated me Justly. A word from him
would have refuted the charge made
against me of having suppressed dis
patches from him"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

AN English court has decided very
important master and servant case. The
landlord Of al inn was sued by a. maid
servant lately; il his employ. for e2 los
SD as wages due She asked permits.
sion to 60 for j. day'5 holiday, which was
first granted, but subsequently with.
drawn This, led to a quarrel, in the
course Of which she said she would
leave g there and then,'' and that the de-
PENDANT could deduct: q months wages
from the amount of six months wages
due to her. ; The defendant. however,
declined to pay her any part of thewages
due. aIhetjudge held that go long as the
plaintiff remained in the defendants
service he had right to, control her &C.
TONS 'and =. -, ct liberty E'pt X withdraw
the permission he had given herr It
might appear rather, hard, that the de-
tendant should get sig months IF her
services for nothing; but it, was 9 vay
good thing to! have some sort Of, hold
upon servants "a pps rently TIE modern
idea ofsservants was that they could.
enter into a contract of service and
break it at pleasure. The plaintiff was
non-suited.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

4 GENTLEMAN in the agricultural de-
partment relates the failure of great
national effort on the part of General
LIE Due to suppress the grasshoppers. It
seems that: he accidentally heard that
rocks would eat them, so he decided to
start a, national rookery,,: He drew on
the contingent fund for; eleven hundred
dollars and on England for one hundred
rocks. Before he got them through the
New York custom house all but eight
died from the ocean voyage and the Gus:
tom house regulations. These reached
Washington alive and were: put in the
rookery: a few days since, through
some mistake in giving them an airing
one chilly day, they all died but one.
He still lives, but the expectation Of
having grasshoppers deyoured next sea-
son are no longer entertained by the
commissioner. II 80 ~. ''' ~#'+'.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

Mr.. EDMUND YATES is taking George
Augustus Sala to task for treating lee
ture tour in the United States as dam
gerous, and in doing so elbows vivid
recollection of his own reception in this
country: II lectured," he says, CLIO
times, and travelled $4,000 miles, during
seven months run in the United
States, and had never an hours illness
from the date of my leaving in the
Calabria. Mr.. Dickens, whom G. A. s.
quotes as his example, was considerably
older than Mr.. Forbes, and nothing like
so tough; he went to his work unwilling
ly, and fretted the whole time he was
away. Mr.. Forbes will be warmly vel
coined by the most hospitable people
in the world, and he will have "a good
time.'"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

As q Kansas, City lawyer was going so
his Office the other day he noticed red
saspender lying on the top of some
freshly caved earth. He stopped, to pick
the suspender up, but it stretched and
refused to. come. Digging down with
Of q boy: Much alarmed, he began to
dig with. ! spade, and to his horror un-
earthed the bodies Of to more, who had
been buried alive by the caving in Of
an embankment on which they had been
playing the night before.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
Forei4n.

LONDON, October 1912 80 p. M.-Liver.
pool wheat market opens steadier. Float
ing cargoes about Cd per quarter dearer !;
there is continental demand. On passage
steadier. Good cargoes mixed American
corn off coast at 22s 3D.; good cargoes No. 2
spring wheat of. coast, 3Ss; good cargoes
red winter off coast, 4Os 6d@41s.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

NJ. REMAIN, a French physician, is
convinced that yellow fever is the ex'
elusive result Of drinking waterthat ha,
become corrupted. He considers boiled
water the preventive and remedy.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

GENERAL TOPICS.

PlTHolE is dead. The department
withdrew mail services from the office
October 9th. Pithole was at one time
the third postotfice in the state. Phila-
delphia being first and Pittsburg second.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
Chicago.

CHICAGO, October 1890 p. M.-Flour
Dull. Wheat-Unsettled at 1870; fresh at
80Nc; seller November at 8OAc; seller
ter, S5c bid receipts $4,000 bus: shipments
$1,000 bus. Corn-Easier; 34Nc bid; re-
ceipt' $4,000 bus; shipments 277,000 bus.
Oats-Quiet at 1870; receipts a., 900 bus !;
shipments $4,000 bus. Rye-Quiet at AZ Nc.
Barley-Quiet; No. 2 nominal at $1.02H;
seller December at $1.04. Pork-Very dull;
$7.55 asked; seller December, $500 bid.
Lard-Dull; $G12% bid; seller December,
$6.15 bid. Hogs-Dull and 1910 lower
mixed at $3.1O@325. Freights - Tame;
3Ac on corn to Buffalo.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, October 1880 P. NJ
Flour-Very dull but steady; choice spring
extra $4.25@4 Is; common $3.25@3.56
Whea,-Active and strong; No. held at
Sic; No. sold at S0H@SOXc; November
at Sl]z@S2c; December at 83k@84c; No.
at 69@69Hc. Corn-Dull but firm at 34Hc.
Oats-Quiet at 1870. Rye-Tame at 43c.
Barley-Strong; 96%c cash and 99c seller
November; No. 3 at soc. Pork-Quiet at
$7.65 cash. Lard-Quiet at 6Lc. Hogs
Steady at $3.OO@3.25.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

day, But At last be set But With the, in:
ltormation,Rnd upon hisarrival was,told
that one1f the clerks h6d junt confessed
10 the lbbbery, and that the stslen money
had been found in the exact spot indi-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

TaE most widely-known. churchman
in France, Bishop Dupanloup, died sue.
denly in Paris On the 18th inst. He was
born in 1902, and held various ecclesi-
astical appointments about the court
under the restored Bourbons, bis first
being that of confessor to the young
duke of Bordeaux-now the head of the
family-to which he was appointed in
1927. He became bishop of Orleans in
1919, and had been largely engaged in
controversies with the opponents of the
church. He was at one time a member
of the academy, but resigned in conse.
quence of the election of Littre, 8
positivist philosopher, to chair in that
institution. Since the formation of the
present constitution of France, the bish.
op has been member of the senate.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
THE MARKETS.

New York.
NEW YoRK, October 1873 90 p. M.-Cot
ton-Quiet at 10c for middling uplands
Flour-Steady and rather quiet; receipts
$4,000 bbls; sales $4,000 bbls at $3.55@5.00
Wheat-Quiet; receipts PAL 900 bus; sales
5000 bus No. winter red seller November
at .$1.O3. Rye-Quiet. Confirm and
unchanged; receipts $4,000 bus; sales 10000
bus at 43L@47c for western mixed. Barley
Quiet. Oats-Steady; receipts %, 900 bus
sales 10000 bus at 26@33c for mixed west
ern; 27H@33c for white do. Pork-DuI
at 1886. Lard-Dull at $500. Whisky
At $1.O9. Crude at SC; refined
at 9Hc. Coal-Steady. Leather-Heavya
20@22Hc. Wool-Quiet at 30@42c.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

A SCHEME has just been proposed by
NJ. Emile Pagan, a Belgian, for reach
ing the north pole in balloon. The
aerial machine, which is of a special
form, will be used as sailing vessel as
far as the eighty-fourth parallel. There
he will fill the balloon, of capacity Of
$500 cubic metres, with pure hydrogen,
which he will make in the Arctic 'gions
with $4,000 cubic metres Of suipauric
acid and 5000 Of iron filings. He will
be supplied with boxes of preserved
meats, buiscuits, bottles of brandy, alco-
hol, &C., which he will throw overheard
as he advances toward the pole.
The car will serve him, according to cir
cumstances, as sledge or boat.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

A MOST eccentric will is that left by
the late Allen T. Wilson, of Marin
county, Cal. He leaves some ST., 900 to
his son, but declares it forfeited if he
ever gives any money to Catholic in.
stitution, person or cause. If he uses
any hind of alcoholic liquor after he
reaches the age of ten years, he shall for
felt his rights, or pass month on a diet
Of bread and water for each time he
commits the offense. If he smokes, also,
he shall forfeit his estate, or work stead
lily for a year as common farm laborer
and save one half of his wages.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

FRANCE doesn't need any Rhine, be.
cause she has her Rhone.-Boston Post.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

SIR GARNET Wo1sELEY, ia only forty
five. He has never handled large
army. At school, near Dublin, he was a
close student of engineering. He was
wounded wilhelm the Crimes, and fought
bravely in India He visited the Con-
federate army, and formed the opinion
that Lee was the greatest military genius
since Napoleon, and that he was greater
than the German generals of this genera
ton. For his Ashantee expedition he
was knighted and given 100000.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

CALHOUN was a Virginia infdel. He
wrote a book against Christianity and
peddled it throughout the state. Where
ever campmeeting was in progress
there he was to be found, selling his book
and making speeches. Recently he fell
among the encamped negro Methodists
of Crab Bottom. They set about con-
verting him. They surrounded him,
drowned his voice with prayers and sing
ing, got him on his knees, and finally
brought him to repentance. He burned
his books, and has taken the agency for
Christian publication.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

QUEER people-mothers who try to
marry their daug hters.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
REHABILITATION

TALLAHASSEE, Dec. ,1.-HENRY HAVE.
MRY rs, West Seventeenth street, New
York: May Woolley give hundred thousand
dollars less half for Tilden additional Board
member? Lieutenant. WoOLLEY.
There is not much room to doubt what
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24
hov 81 mi ESmelo6 II plllc(af &lA

gVct0UeI cVuu1slVu equHlS t1lHt Ol tue Bpleu'
did crop of 1870 and exceeds any interven.
ing year. Insect injuries are uuimportant.
With the increased acreage planted the
crop now premises to produce more than
FIVE million bales.
q IT is now officially known that awards to
american exhibitors at the French exposi.
ton number $50: namely; Ten grand
prizes, 80 diplomas of honor, 1874 gold
medals, 200 silver medals, 220 bronze
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

3medsl and 15s.lonorabk mea,,on.. III
ags gate is Layer than " vi tle numbS y
of4merican sShibitors atfhe ! Urls expoas
tion in 1857, ut the visSua exposition Is
1873, ana is 4 larger proportion Of awards to
-. sxhibitogs thap to sny otAsg nation Espks.
sented at this exhibition.
THE Supreme Court Of the United STAGES
met ut Washington on the 14th inst, and in
accordance with usage adjourned to pay
respects to the president, the latter received
the judges in the blue room, where they
pleasantly spent short time in general
conversation. xBefore adjournment for the
day Fred r. Mason, Of Chicago and H. s.
Chaufcrd, of Cincinnati. were admitted to
practice.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

=
GREEN C. CHANDLER has been appointed
United States district attorney for the nerthr
ern districtof Mississippi. ! + / 4
The secretary of the treasuary has ap.
pointed special committee to visit the
bond paper manufacturing establishments,
with the view to obtain the fibre paper for
bonds and notes at cheaper than present
rates.
GEN. HOWARD telegraphs from Fort Van.
eouver, that a Umatilla Indian was murder
ed on the 29th ult. by white men, and that
the Umatillas have within three weeks lost
500 horses taken by whites. He asks "Can-
not the United States district attorney be
instructed by the attorney-general to attend
to this and other cold-blooded murders Of
Indians by white men?' A few examples of
justice would do more for peace than 4
whole summer campaign" The foregoing
was endorsed by Gen. Sherman, as follows |:
The UmaAlAa In dians should Be- protect.
ed in their lives and property as far as pos
sible by the civil agents, as also by the
military, but after crime is committed, the
civil courts should try the ease and adjadge
the measure of punishment" The dispatch
thus endorsed was sent by Secretary Me-
Crary to the Indian bureau, and Acting
Commissioner Leeds has referred it to Sec
Rotary Schurz, with the recommendation
that measures be promptly taken to bring
the guilty parties to punishment.
THE October returns to the department
Of agriculture indicates the average of the
cotton crop, the same as September. Com.
pared YitArA cteber, 1917, the grpHink 1fUP
,:hoy &1lSmeI6 II pHo(af I'll
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

CAIRO, ILL., october 1s.-Doctor Ros-
we'll Waldo, surgeon Of the marine hos
pital here, died of yellow fever this
morning. Thfee new cases reported in
the last twenty-four hours.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-24

TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 4.--COL: w. I. fEIr
TON, No. Is, Gramercy park: Proposition
received either giving vote Of Republican of
board. or his concurrence in court action
preventing electoral vote from being cast,
fbt half Hundred best United States docu.
ments. y For 100000 in United States
cOins.1 Es,,:, ~ 81 ,.,gse 80 e., MARBLE. 4
h ITALIA, Fla.,t 4.-HENRY HAvEMEYER, Is
West Seventeenth street, N. r.: Half twelve
may less thirty eleven winning ten addi-
tional seven for give lieutenant sixteen
Russia. 1@ht Z:,s' 10 Fox. /.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-02-08
s'.'s 4 ssr..r,ss.p 1859. ! -. & = A.. !.
Rs. &A.F. LACEY, s4fsorneys-as Lap
sas ssssaA Sired, Haslisssoa, d. o. s


t7s -af-sssseif -, = Iafgscs III ssi9 ii;u
. We procure paienss In al countries. Ne Az
5oRxEY pEns TN ADVANCE. No ehafge unless the
paient = granted. Ee1iecsfors making prelimi-
nary examinations. No additional fees 6or OBJ
tanning and conducting rehearing: Special at
temfion given % Interference Gases before the Pa
tent 0fsa,. Extensions before Congress, Infringe
men tSniis In diiIerens States, and all litigation
appertaining 20 Inventions or PateAts. SzzD
STAMP FDR PAssPHEET GSyrSG FULL fMsfnUcTIoxn.
UxrrxD srAfxs CotRTs 1sD. DErxnfxEsrs
Claims prosecuted IN the Supreme Courtofthe
United States, Court Of Claims, Court Of Com
missioners Of Alabama Claims, Southern Claims
Commission, and all classes Of war claims before
the Executive Departments. - {
! = ARREARS or Par am BousTY. ssu + II
a0vvirxRs, SOLDIERS, and sAltons Of fbeiass war
or their heirs are In many cases entitled to mo-
nsy from the GoseEument Of which they have
no knowledge. Write full history uf service,
and state amount ofpay and bounty received;
Enclose stamp, and fall reply, after exanina-
ton, win be given soa without charge - r
PESsi0ss., @ .itt.c
All orvscEas, soEDIERs, and saIEORs wounded,
returned, or injured in the late war however
slightly, are entitled 70. and can obtain > pen
saon- snzas - ETss -, rIr s1 So
UxrED SrArEs 0kNERAi LAxD Oyyfce.
Contested Land Gases, Privase Land Claims,
Mining prcemption, and Homestead Gases, pros
eeutcd before The General Land ONCE and De-
partment Of the interior.
~ LAED WARRAxfs.
We pay cash for Bounty Land Warrants, and
we invite correspondence with all parties having
any for sale, and give full and implicit instruc-
tons where assignments are imperfect.
We conduct our business In separate Bureaus,
having therein the clerical assistance Of able and
experienced lawyers, and give our closest pers6-
nal supervisors to every importantpape prepared
In each case. Prpmptest attention thus secured 70
all business entrusted Is. Address
,sr R.S.&hp. LACEY, ArrORSrYs
~ WASHINGTON, d. c.:
Any person desiring information as 70 the
standing and responsibility Of the members
the firm viii, On request, be furnished with q
satisfactory reference In his vicinity or Congress
sional district. - - = ~.
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