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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

Direct. of wind Direct. Of wind
most likely 10 be most likely to be
followed by rain followed by
or snow. clear weather.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

War Department..
Signal Service, U. s. Army.
Division of kilograms and Reports for the benefit
of Commerce. for the week ending March 10, 1879.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

The first thunder shower Of the
season was on Sunday last.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

A. N. Spratt has got in his COM
pliment of logs, 100000.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

Alex. keenan,, who has suffered
so long from illness, died on We'd
nesday night last.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

Pansies were found under the
snow, in blossom, on Monday, in
this city.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

Crowell e. Godfrey have banked
about 100000 feet. of logs.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

The bay is clear of ice to within
about two miles of the mouth of
the river.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-03-12

experience variations in atmospher-
ic electricity, or ozone. There are
thousands of people who are at
their maximum Of strength in the
cold month of winter, who begin to
decline in the spring, who in sum-
mer are at their minimum, who
regularly rally during the autumn.
There are those who almost every
day pass through the tides of feel
ing which correspond to the daily
tides of ozone and electricity in the
air. There exists certain rela-
ton between the variable states of
the system and the variable tides of
the weather. From s to II a. m.
is the golden time for brain work,
as all students know from to 4
p. m. there is frequently q dullness
and lassitude that makes hard toll
a task. Many, even those who
take but lunch in the middle of
the day, are sleepy at that time,
and unless they are kept awake by
are disposed to take nap.
The latter part of the afternoon the
spirit revives, and between 4 and s
Or 8 o'clock is what might be called
he silcer period of the day for all
mental labor. Thunder storms eff
'ect the nervous system of impress
BILE temperaments unpleasantly and
BRING on or aggrivate neuralgia, !
and other pains. Sem j
'itive persons are oftentimes proph- j
It's Of the weather, and without err i
ng, can predict twenty-four hours
'efore hand an approaching storm.
Before a rising thunder-squall they |,
re sometimes excessively miser- +,
BILE. IL is Just before thunder
forms that the atmospheric cleo
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
A MYSTERY Of Years Cleared Un

IT will be we'll remembered by many
in this community that several years
ago the ship Alaska left Burrard Inlet
for China with cargo Of lumber. She
arrived at her destination in safety, and
was announced to have sailed again for
this port to receive q second cargo.
Time rolled on, and at the expiration
of the usual number of days allowed
for the passage from China the good
ship Alaska was announced as IS due. y
She failed, however, to put in an ap.
pearance; but this was not considered
at all extraordinary, % voyages from
China vary in duration - much a. voy-
ages to or from any other place. But
the days she was overdue gradually
crept into weeks and the weeks into
months, and, after she had been re.
ported = missing" for long time. the
conclusion arrived at was that she had
doubtless foundered or had become the
victim Of foul play.
Years passed by and no word came
OF the rescue of any one who had been
on board the ill-fated ship, and at last
the faint Glimmer Of hope, which had
sustained the hearts Of the friends Of
officers and crew died out. The wife Of
the supercargo Of the vessel, who had
been Watching and "waiting'' for
many years, succumbed to the effects
Of the terrible suspense, and was quick
y followed By her only child. The fact
that during the time which would be
necessary Tor the Alaska to make the
passage TO this port there had been no
heavy winds or storms was tho main
reason for the saspicions Of foul play;
and among those who entertained chem
was . gentleman who happened 70
meet drunken sailor n 8 saloon 81
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
An Unlucky Conundrum.

SMITH came down from the West
Side with his girl, last night, and tried
to get her to promenade toward the
park to sec how high the grass was,
but she insisted on Main street as the
proper place to walk. Before they had
proceeded half q block an ice-cream
sign two feet square loomed up as big
as a house to Smith, and attracted the
attention Of the girl. Smiths kneee
knocked together, and he told her q
story of how, once upon time, he had
seen q man stabbed to the heart with q
bowie-knife on the threshold of an ice
cream saloon, and ever since that time
he had an adherence at entering such
places. She told him that he would
haveto overcome his scruples some
time, and he might begin right then.
Tien ne told her about losing be-
loved sister in an ice-cream saloon by
the caving in Of the walls, and the
spoon with which she was eating was
found stuck in her throat.
The story affected her strongly but
she reasoned that the chances were
9ainst q repetition o. such q thing and
she could risk it, and Smith was obliged
to "set 'em up.''
After the bill was settled and the
parental roof was nearly reached,
Smith propounded conundrum. II
last.
BE said, Emmar'
'What, dearP' was the reply.
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
Wonderful Mirage OF Lake Erie.

A s1NGILARLY beautiful mirage was
visible in town last Friday. Soon after
twelve o'clock Mr.. John Cook CHANGED
to look in q southwark direction from
bis house, at the corner of Wellington
and Railway streets, and saw Lake
Erie spread before him with all the
distinctness of reality. After looking
for a few moments he called Mrs. Cook
and his mother-in-.aw to witness the
scene. They were joined by Mr.. Rath-
Won, builder, and by Mr.. Sexton. The
whole party could see the lake as if it
were only q few rods off, and the waves
rolling in regular succession toward
the shore. Three steamers were speed
ing toward the east, the smoke from
their tunnels streaming behind them,
while couple of vessels under sail
were pursuing their steady course.
They could see the lay of the land for 8
considerable distance along the coast,
but it seemed as if some banks inter-
vened to prevent view of Port Stan
ley. The opposite coast of the United
States was SO distinctly visible that
they could perceive the indentations
and formations of the shore, the very
trees, and q town away to the south
eastward, the buildings of which were
plainly discernible. MIR. Cook was of
theppiniOn that the town was Ashta-
bula. The meridian sun was shining
brightly all this time, and an Opaque
cloud, fringed with pink, stretched
along the southern sky from east to
west. Under this cloud the mirage ap-
pcared, and after for some time pre-
senting the scene described, faded, and
gradually dissolved away in the direc-
ton of Buffalo. St. Thomas is about
ten miles from the lake shore.-St.
Thomas (Ont. Journal.
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03

Japan. The old adage, in vino veritas,
was again verified (as will be subse-
quently seen), for the sailor quickly
began to give disjointed narrative
Of mutiny and bloodshed. The gem
tleman kept the narrative in his
memory, and, following up h;s de-
termination to unravel the mystery
surrounding the fate of the ship, en-
compassed the arrest of several sailors
who had been incriminated by their
drunken companion. One Of these
sailors admitted that he had belonged
to the crew of the Alaska, and made q
full confession of the circumstances
concerning her loss. He stated that
when but few days out from Hong
Kong, sailing under light breeze of
she coast Of Japan, the crew mutinied,
and, without q moments warning,
threw overheard the second mate, who
was the only officer on deck at the
time. Hearing commotion, the Cap
tain and first officer rushed up, and
were Immediately murdered and given
to the sea.
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
Wild Texan steers.

A HERD of wild Texan steers broke
loose few mornings ago in Harlem,
n. T.. and were virtually monarchs Of
all they surveyed in the upper part Of
the city for three hours. Twelve ami
mails, wild with fear and maddened by
the attacks Of the police, charged
through the streets in every direction,
driving everything before them. The
reserve force Of policemen was called
out, and they had b hot time of it be-
fore nine Of the enemy were finally
captured and imprisonedin . butchers
yard and the other three were killed.
Il i aw0nder that there were only two
or three casualties. Herman Rosen-
thai was knocked down, and his front
teeth knocked out; William Osborne
was severely injured about the head
and shoulders. There were many ex-
citing incidents and hair-breadth es-
capes. One animal ran down Avenue
4, scattering the crowds at ; lively
rate. Osborne threw . lasso over its
head, when the brute turned, made
savage lunge at the man, tossed him
ton feet In air. and then continued his
Wild career down the street. a young
woman hundling : baby-carriage de-
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
II yON aUish to laaI0h and
JrOtC fat viSit the Georgia
NinstyelS at Union Hall to-
mo,r0av eueni,,g.
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

HERE 10 an old and said to be an
excellent, prescription for cholera,
which is also q remedy for ordinary
summer complaints, collie, diarrhea
and dysentery: Take equal parts of
tincture of Cayenne pepper, tincture
of opium, tincture of rhubarb essence
Of peppermint and spirits of camphor.
Mix well. Dose, fifteen to thirty drops
in little cold water, according to ago
and violence of symptoms, repeated
every fifteen or twenty minutes until
relief is obtained.
MANGoEs.-To stuff one dozen man
goes: Take one cup each of white and
black mustard seed; one handful of
horseradish. one teaspoonful each of
cloves. mace, cinnamon, black pepper,
celery seed. and one cup of sugar;
mince small head of cabbage fine,
pour hot vinegar over it and let it
stand half an hour; then drain of, and
when cold, put the mixture together,
adding small beans and cucumbers,
and fill tke msngoes. Place them in
the kettle with steam up, and sca]d
gently with vinegar.
LIGHTNING CAKE.-Persons who
"just drop inn are nuisance in the
opinion of many housewives, who,
nevertheless, will be glad to learn of q
cake of which the making and baking
occupies only fifteen minutes, and
which, therefore, will serve to conceal
the nakedness of the larder when un-
expected guests appear. Take tho
yelks of four eggs, three tablespoon
fuls OF sugar, the same of flour, about
two tablespoonfuls of milk, and the
juice of half q small lemon; the
whites of three eggs are beaten to a
stiff froth and mixed with the yelks,
flour, ETC., the compound then being
put in buttered pan and placed in q
quick oven.
MUsKMELLoN NPREsERvEs.-Take line
muskmelons, remove seeds and peel,
and cut in pieces. Put into a stone lar
and cover with scalding vinegar; let
them stand until the next day and pour
of the vinegar; heat it and pour on
them again. Do the same every day
until the fourth day. Weigh the mel
on. and to every five pounds add three
pounds of white sugar and one quart
OF the vinegar, and spice to suit. Put
all together and simmer till tender.
The next day but one, pour off the
sirup and boil it down SO there will be
just enough to cover the melon. You
may think it will be tiresome Job, but
it you try it you will be well pleased
with it.
CocoANur CAKE.-Five eggs beaten
separately, two cups of white sugar,
one OF butter, and four cups of flour
in which one teaspoonful Of soda and
two of cream Of tartar have been well
beaten. Add the -four to the butter.
sugar and eggs by degrees after they
have been well beaten. with one cup Of
new milk. Flavor with lemon or
vanilla; bake in jelly-cake pans. Get
box of desiccated cocoanut. beat the
whites Of three eggs with one cup Of
sugar. spread the icing on and sprinkle
with the cocoanut, add another layer
Of cake. then the icing and oocoanut:
put two layers Of icing and cocoanut
on the last piece. It & delicious IA
beautiful. resembling . plate Of snov.
snd y often called snoW-cake,
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
An Italians Lucky Drink.

FOUR years ago two young Italians
left Naples for Californis, hoping to
better their fortunes. They arrived
within the Golden Gate with Just
enough money to convey them to the
mines in the interior. They were ad-
vised to 90 to Downieville and seek
work in the Sierra Butts Mine, where
large force was wanted. On their
journey one fell sick by the wayside and
was taken in by kind-hearted farmer.
The other pushed ahead, and finally
reached the end of his journey in safety.
He failed to obtain employment on the
ground that he neither understood
mining nor the English language. After
receiving numerous rebuffs he started
to return to the lower country again.
At q point between Loganville and
DowDieville, and ten miles from the
latter place, he became 50 weary, foot
sore and disheartened that he began
to wish himself back in sunny Italy
once more, among the vines and olives.
He grew feverish thinking over his
trials and tribulations, and stopped at
spring to lave his head and moisten
his parched throat. Cattle had been
that way short time before, and with
their feet stirred up the limpid water
until it became thick with mud. The
Italian scoOped out the basin in one
side of the shallow spring and waited
until the debris should settle to the
bottom, that he might slake his thirst
and bathe his brow. By and by the
water became as clear as crystal, and
he stopped over to quaff it. As he did
30 an astonishing sight burst on his
vision. The bottom of the spring was
strewn with bright yellow particles that
gl;:tered in their watery bed. With all
his ignorance of mining, he knew he
had found gold. He scraped up hand
full of dl.t and took from it 81 or $5
worth of coarse and fine pieces of gold.
With them he rushed excitedly to q
camp where lived some of his country.
men, and offered to give them an inter-
est in his find. He told the story of
his discovery, but they were incredu-
lous, saying that some miner had stop
ped at the spring to drink and lost
what was found from his purse. One
of them, however, who was more kind
hearted, sympathized with the stranger
and volunteered to help prospect tho
claim, although he had no confidence
in developing permanent or protita-
ble one. The first day panned out
$500. Since then thev have worked 1t
constantly and on an extensive scale.
1t has paid handsomely from the first.
Last year they took out $4,000, and
sold one-quarter interest for 500. 900
more. 1t is not yet fully developed.
They work by the hydraulic and drifting
processes. This story reads like q
romance; still there never was q truer
one, as everybody around Downieville
who has taken the trouble to INQUIRE
into it knows.-Nevada City (Cal.)
transcript.
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
Miss I. Westphal

Keeps on hand large an we'll as
sorted stock of MILLINERY, FANCY
GOODS and ZEPHYR WOOL, opposite
the Union Hotel, between Second
and Third North streets.
NEW ULM, -. MINI.
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
WHOLE NUMBER 1O1

Why is a young lady in an ice-cream
saloon like dog with tin pan tied to
his tailp''
81 don't know, lovey,'' said Smiths
girl; "why is she like q dog with q tin
pan tied to his tail?"
$ Because" and Smith made . long
pause to give force to his words" Be-
cause she never knows when to STOP"
Smith now swings on the gate with
another girl who has the toothache
and can't eat ice cream.-Kansas City
Journal,
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03

In refrigeratlng apparatus for domes-
tic use. of course, we stand pre-emi-
nent. But we have arrived at our pres
ent form of appliance only by slow and
gradual changes. The most noted i'm
provement of late years in ice.chests
has been that the food to be preserved
is no longer in immediate contact with
the ice. The reasons are very numer-
GUS why food should not be in imme-
date juxtaposition with ice. We will
only cite two of them. Immediate con-
tact wastes the ice, which, in contin
uOus melting, washes out, more or less.
the savor of the food. The best form,
then, of the apparatus is where tho ice
is placed in chamber apart from the
food, and the temperature is reduced
by radiation. One thing which is often
overlooked by the housekeeper is that
some small amount of ventilation in
certain periods of refrigeration is nec-
essary. Such exhalations as come
from meat or fish, the soluble COM
pounds being carried away by vapor,
invariably condense in the first stages
OF cooling. Very careful lhousekeepers,
when meat is first put in the ice-chest,
do not close down the lid of the safe too
tight. There is some small waste of
the ice, but when the proper time has
come and the chest is closed, there is
Improvement in the flavor of the meat.
It is exceedingly wasteful, under the
ordinary conditions of the old-fashioned
ice-chest, not to envelope the ice in
some wo0len cover, such as q common
blanket. In the newer apparatus,
where there is no immediate contact. it
10 still much more economical to
blanket the ice. The trouble, of course.
is that when ice is wanted TO cool
water, the contents of the safe have to
be disturbed. Even in economical
families, where an expense of over fifty
cents week for ice il not allowed by
the paucity Of the budget, after the
first outlay for an ice-cOoler is made,
its purchase will be paid two or three
times over in the summer by the saving
OF the extra cost of ice. Nothing re-
quires greater care, more constant
s0licitude than an ice-chest. As has
been stated, the cooling process pre-
cipitates those compounds which are
found IN the aqueous vapor. A care
less person will buy ice lavishly for the
ice-chest, and will still have most un-
savory receptacle for food. At least
twice . week the ice-box should be
cleansed. BY wipin2 it out with fresh
water IN 3 cloth, and giving it, at the
end OF . week, thorough scrubbinQ.
There are certain things, such Is milk.
which are very susceptible Of faint. and
will take not only an odor but the dis.
hnct taste from other food. Fish, 70.
New Ulm weekly review., 1879-12-03
Georgia Min strels at UM.
ion Halt to- z1lO1I'OiV 7liQht.

ACCORDING to the census of 1870, the
total valuation of real and personal
property in the United States was over
$3O.OOO, 100000, an increase of $14,-
100000 on the census of 1860. The
census in 1880 will, it is believed, show
. total value of nearly $50, 600, 600, 600.
Recent writer's in England estimate the
total value of property in Great Britain
at $42, ,OOO, 900, 900. While q French
writer claims the widest margin for in
accuracy in these estimates, it is plainly
evident that the United States is al
ready entitled 10 the front rank, if not
the first place among the Nations in
actual wealth.
Household Ice.Chests and How to
Keep Them.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-09-19

outside, but the arrangements for sig
mailing the approach of the steamer by
guns will avoid any surprise.
Notwithstanding the Amser's pro-
testations, General Stewart has, in ac-
cordance with intructions from the
Viceroy, dispatched division of troops
with heavy artillery from Candahar in
the direction of Ghuzni, to maintain
order in that part of the country.
Sir Garnet Wolsley telegraphs from
South Africa that all the important
Zulu chiefs have submitted to the Brit
ish authorities.
The London correspondent of the
Courier announces that Germany will
shortly call fresh Monetary Congress,
to be held in Berlin.
Rev. Rollin III. Neale, d. d., the old
est Baptist minister in New England,
died yesterday morning, aged y years
Messrs. John Mott, L. Radovich and
c. L. Perkins, of California, who went
up to examine the Alaska mines, re-
turned with very favorable report as
to their extent and richness.
A great fire broke out Tuesday last
in Ekatefnazla, South Russia, near the
Danieper. The fire broke out I'M the
most popmloas quarter of the town
The damage is immense.
The Controller General of Georgia
was found guilty on eight articles of
the seventeen preferred against him by
the Court. Sentence will be pronounced
on the Doth. The House decided to-
prefer articles of impeachment against
Treasurer Reafro.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-09-19
DIVISIONS IN BOTH PARTIES IN
NEW YORK.

While there is but one Republican
candidate nominated for Governor of
New York, that party seems to be as
much distracted over the nomination of
Cornell for Governor as the Democrats
are over that of Robinson and Kelly.
Harper's Weekly, which is one of the
most ultra Republican journals pub
hshed, describes the nomination of Cor
aell as exceedingly unfortunate and
grotesque, a. result which it says is due
to the. macbine," and is an additional
proof that the initiative in politics has
passed entirely from the people into the
bands of a special political class. 1t
also remarks that the disposition to up
hold ones party always, and to support
she regular nomination, without regard
To- ltss merits. is the disposition Of a
s,naEy,. not of a man..
Rarper's Weekly is, edited by George
William CARTS, who was member of
commission on. Civil Sevice Reform,
appointed under Grants administration
He served for a while, and endeavored
with apparent good faith. to do that
for which the commission was created.
Finding, his efforts unavailing, he re-
signed. his place on the commission, yet
nevertheless continued to advocate. the
principles of the Republican party. He
now appears, to. be thoroughly Disguised
with machine rule, and with the. evil
dent intention OF boiling the ticket
which, Conkling's. convention nominal
ed, says that che, disposition to uphold
has party always, and to support the
regular nomination without regard to
its merits. sis the disposition of a
funky,. not of a. man." This indicates
that there is, a. strong under current of
disaffeetion in the. Republican party in
New York, and that Independent Re-
publicans in that State, will assert their
manhood at the, ensuing election by
voting against the nominees of the Sar-
atoga. Convention, which all concede
was run and controlled by the machine.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-09-19
THE vExEDp QUESTION. SETTLED.

The vexed question of running Grant
for third term, has,at last been def
nitely and peacefully settled. Hayes
has spoken and decided it in the Mega
tive. Rutherford the Good, as the, late
Harry Mighelb styled him, admits
that Grant was undoubtedly the
greatest general of the war, hut that he
would not be President again This
language, which is given as the exact
words of the great vetoist, it will be
observed, admits Of doubt as, to
Grants great generalship, but is ,emphat.
ic on the third term proposition. This
is excusable whepeit is taken into con-
sideration that the man who expressed
it was also general in the war, yet too
modest to express more than vague
doubt that he was the equal of Grant as
commander. Oathe third term prop
osition, however, he leaves no room for
doubt, but with las much emphasis as if
he'was vetoing lall to restrict Chinese
immigration, or to, remSrsAize silver,
says "Grant will not be President
again" Possibly Hayes has second
term aspirations, his letter of accept
ance to-. the contrary, and now that he
can centres the nominating machinery,
speaks like one having authority sc5fer
az Grant is concerned. He, in common
with every intelligent man in. the
country, knows that he was nottalested
by the people to the Office which he
now holds and he may want their in
dorsemsna IN 1880, that future histo-
naus may say of him that he was once
elected President Of the United States,
IL the manner prescribed by the Con-
stitrtion. Whatever his aspirations
may be, he has settled the question for
Grant. who is to be honored upon his
arrival at home for what he has been;
not for what, in. view of what Hayes
has said, politicians, may expect him to
be candidate for third term.