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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
Optical Delusi0ns.

Some new optical decisions have been
described by DR.. s. P. Thompson.
Those connected with the railroad may
serve to relieve the tedium of travel by
affording an agreeable exercise to the
mind in endeavoring to explain them
When a landscape is observed from q
moving train, all objects to the remote
horizon appear to be passing in the con.
trary direction, those nearest having
the greatest velocity. Consequently ii
the attention be fixed upon any object
at some distance from the line, all oh.
jects beyond will relatively appear to
be moving forward with the train, while
objects nearer appear to be moving back
ward. The combined effect is to make
the landscape appear to be revolving
centrally round whatever point we fix
our attention upon. Rain seen from q
moving train a ways seems to fall oh.
iqueiy Except in a very strong gale in
the direction of the trains motion) in q
direction opposite to that of the motion
of the train. But if another train hap.
pens to pass in an opposite direction, and
We look out at this and follow it with
our eyes, rain.drops falling between the
two trains will seem to be 4 ying forward
with ourselves. If we stand on the
platform of station and watch train
approach, the end of the engine appears
to enlarge or swell as it approaches and
occupies larger area of the field OF
vision. Conversely, the end of the last
car OF q retreating train appears to
shrink down and contract as it dimin.
ishes in apparent magnitude. An OBJ
server. at some slight elevation above a
railroad, seeing two trains pass along
the lines simultaneously in opposite
directions, will receive the impression Of
one long train moving round a circle.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17

d1da so.ey' Spark Realsr, B'.ke' Valentine
o' Rsss %i otase Interior D.p.ltme.tnul.
ss, 5esssss: Ss4sS!. william A Della
81 snditSrss7o n 'i PD6iic Buildins.ZDeu,ter,
Br1*A, Herbert, O. Reilhy, Ford, Fassyshe, YoIu@:
Expenditures of the Department of Justice
bsrsst cazk dnd Thomas, Einstein, shalen-
Ls!ees q t. the Mi,.i.,ipRt Rives-Robe5t,on,
Dunn, Bayne, BOYD, Caswsil, Prescott. =
Rule,-rhe Speaker, Stephens, Blackburn, Gar
Reform in Civil Standardization, Craven,,
House, Kenha. OConnor, Sawyer, Hammond
Hayes, Hazeiton, Batterworth, Richardson.
On State Of the Har Relating to the Election
Evlrg, Loqnsherry, Dunn, orth, Updegraff Iowa.,
VentiSstion Of the Hall of tho House-Kimmel.
Causes Of Depression of Labor-Wriaht, Dickey,
OConDor, Murch, Saerwin, Cowgirl, Martin.
On Epidemic and Contagious Diseases-Youue,
&5SsSn 9 M99P Es;1 9oSas M,ss Smith
Enrolled Bills-Kenna, Coftroth, Ward, Aldrich,
Lbrary-Geddes, Richmond, Claain.
Census-Cox, Hooker, Elan, Finlay, Colerick,
Thompson, Boutwell,, Loring, Pierce, Daggett,
SheIwin.
A vacancy will be created on the com.
mittee on commerce, to be filled by the
appointment of a member from the Pacific
coast, after the California election. The
following vacancies exist, to be filled by
New York: Two on the committee on
education and labor; one on the public
lands committee; one on public expendi-
lures; one on military affairs one on mines
and mining, and one on coinage, weights
and measures. 4.i:-f.- :.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
An En,:aged Female.

"Household Departments" are very
good adjuncts to newspaper in their
way, when edited by a woman, but the
male journalist who dabbles with the
heaven-inspired mysteries of cooking
runs frightful risk. The editor of the
Weekly Petaluma Peaune started 8
column of that kind recently, and few
days afterwards a fierce-looking female
came into the Office, carefully concealine
some object behind her apron.
care you the man that published thai
new and improved way to make currant
cake?'
He said he was.
"You said to mix washing soda with
the flour, and stir in little corn meal
and sweet oil to give it consistencyT'
"I-I-believe So"
"And to add fifteen eggs and some
molasses, and two ounces of gum arabic
and set in a cool place to bake?"
II think that was it?''
"Well, take that thenV and the in
dignant housewife knocked him down
with a weapon that felt like sand club
but which he felt in his heart must have
been a half-baked hunk of cake, con
structed on the Peavine pattern.-San
Francisco Neeos Letter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
A Cat Worsted by Rats.

The Bath Times says the Knox and
Lincoln railroad shops there have a
feline, which has been an ottache of the
establishment for nearly six years.
During the time many bloody battles
have been fought between her and the
rodents, victory perching on her banners
in almost every instance. But the most
brilliant general meets with more or less
drawbacks; and the case of the cat has
proved no exception to the rule. Mon
day afternoon large wharf rat came
creeping into the engine room, doubtless
in quest of something to eat, when the
cat spied him and event for him."
After protracted and somewhat san
culinary conflict Tabby succeeded in
gaining the mastery, but before she
could profit by the advantage two addi-
tional rodents appeared upon the scene,
fiercely attacked her, end with the help
of the liberated rat dragged her into a
large hole behind the furnace chimney.
At this iuncture the engineer happened
along, AID went to the rescue of the cat.
He squeezed himself in behind the
chimney sufficiently to reach the con-
testants, and the rats stampeded, but
not until they had nearly killed poor
Tabby.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
The Queens Colors.

The queens colors, which were lost in
the massacre on the Zulu frontier, were
recovered in February. A party OF vol
unteers set out from Rorke's Drift and
followed the Buffalo river until they
reached crossing place were SO many
BIRTHS soldiers had persisted. Saddles,
stirrups, spurs, leggins, charms, and
articles of native dress, lying by the
roaring stream, over huge powders, and
passing between precipitous cliffs COW
cred with bush and aloes, showed the
spot where the rushing torrent and saw
age foe alike overwhelmed many brave
men. About 500 yards below at the
crossing place they succeeded in finding
the queens colors with the pole COM
plete, injured by the action of the
rapid stream, but otherwise untouched.
The gilt lion and crown surrounding
the pole, and also the color case, were
found a few yards lower down. These
colors were borne back at the head of the
little cavalcade in triumph, and when
Rorke's Drift was reached the soldiers,
overjoyed at the sight of their colors,
gave their beartiest cheers for the old
flag and for Major Black and the volun-
teers who had recovered them.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
The ONLY SAFE Profaaaion

The fact that the chef of the Duke de
Noailles has been decoyed into the SER
vice of NJ. Gambetta shows once more
the truth of that well known dialogue
by Hoffman: "Papa, I should like to
have your opinion on the choice of a
profession" "My boy, Ishould advise
you to be a cook" "A cook! But
suppose there is a revolution, and no
more great houses are kept?"' "Revo:
lutions! I have seen more than one.
Kings have been: ,beheaded, princes, no.
blemen and bishops reduced to beggary.
| have never heard of gluttony being at
discount. Believe me, my boy, be q
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.

b A NAIL route has been established in
Carver county from Norwood, via Young
America, to Helvetia. -
The grist and saw mill of Booth &
Burhelda Of Norwood, Carver county,
has been destroyed by fire. 49, e
WELLINGTON K1DDER, a sort of q
wanderer, died in Winona recently. He
was from Boston, where he has son
who is printing-press manufacturer.
THOMAS VERvATr, q we'll known
resident of Houston county, Mimi, died
April 9th, at his residence, about two
miles from the village of Houston, aged
65 years, after an illness of six days.
DURING late thunder storm in the
night time, the barn of Albert Lyon. a
short distance from Spring Valley, was
struck by lightning and entirely con.
sumed, with five horses, several cows
and calves, and quantity of grain.
The register and receiver of the
United States land Office at Detroit,
Becker county, by instructions from the
commissioner of the general land Office,
closed the Office at Detroit on the 18th
inst, and will open it at Crookston,
Polk county, on the 9Th day of May next.
ORToNviLLE, Big Stone county, had
a sensation the other day, all because a
Mrs. E. Craig. who claims to have been
a tenant, refused to give possession of a
hotel to Capt. Cook, the owner. There
was good deal of chin music, flourish
ing of an ak, drawing revolver, etc.,
but nobody was hurt.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, of Burns station.
Brown county, committed suicide on
the I'd. 1t seems he was taken sick, and
some of the family went for physician.
When they returned they found Mr..
johnson lying on the floor with his
throat cut, which had been done with a
razor. Temporary insanity is the sup
posed cause.
RI. Rev. ABBOTT EDELBRoCK has
contracted for the building of a new
church at St. Johns college. The
structure will be of Roman style; dimen-
sions, 1855 by 60; material, brick with
cut-stone facings. The front will be
ornamented with two spires, each 126
feet high. The edifce is to be COM
pleted in two years.-&. Cloud Times.
Mr.. JOAN H1GG1Ns, while out shoot
ing last Sunday, fred at duck. The
ball. after killing the duck, glanced and
hit Nels Emerson, who was across the
creek from, and little above, Mr.. Hig-
gins (neither being aware of the others
presence), striking him in the neck Just
back of the jugglar vein, lodged against
the spinal column, inflicting a wound
which Drs. Gates and McKenna pro.
nounce positively fatal. - Caledonia
Journal.
The Hastings Gazette says: Mrs
strunk, living in Addition thirteen, was
stricken with apoplexy on the 1st inst,
while baking bread, fell over upon the
floor, and remained there until the next
morning, when she was discovered to be
dead. An old man living in the house
saw her about bed time, but, supposing
her to be asleep, placed a pillow under
her head and retired up stairs. She was
about As years of age, ard leaves second
husband and one son.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17

At I. Auis, on th, night efSthe 7,h iust.,
four NOR rudely Iaccosted a stranger in
Missouri park. The man drewsa pistol and
in aSsubsequentzmeeting with thu. same
party shot Charles Brayerton fatally. De.
tectlye Eggs reported at police headquarters
in the morning thai: liz had done the sfioot.
ing, believing that he was assaulted by q
gang of robbers. The affair is involved in
mystery.
A negro man and woman, living near
Bolton, Texas, witnesses against Canterbury
and Dobbins, in rape case, were murdered
on the night of the 9Th. The woman lived
till morning. She stated that one of the
assassins said they should not live to appear
against Canterbury and Dobbins.
Dennis Hicl ey murdered his wife, Cath
crime Hickey. at the City Hotel in Warren,
O., on the 9TH inst, by cutting her throat
with butcher knife. Hickey was arrested.
He will not give the motive that prompted
him to the commission of his crime. Their
home is at Kent, o.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
Chicago.


CHICAGO, April 14-1:3O P. M.-Flour-
Quiet but steady; fancy to western spring
extras at $4.00@4 25; fair to choice do at
$4,000 90; choice to fancy Minnesotas at
81 Oo@5 90; common to choice do at $1,000
400: good to fancy Minnesota pat.
ents at $60O@S. 90; choice to spring super
fine at $2.50@3 Is. Wheat-Firm and high
er at SIC for cash; 9l9se bid for seller MAY
9lAc bid for seller June. ,Corn-Firm and
higher at 3lSc bid for cash 35Ac bid for
seller May 3lAc bid for seller June. Oats
--Firmer at 22c for cash: 25Hc for seller
May; 25Ac for seller June. Rye and Bar.
ley-Unchang.d. Pork-Firmer at 5000
for cash $1,000 bid for seller May; $40 42%
bid for seller June. Lard-Firmer at $6.l7X
bid for cash; S. Is bid for seller June
Whisky-At $1.04. Hogs Receipts 5000
head; dull and shade easier at $3.60@3.65:
heavy packing at So 5o@3.65; heavy ship.
ping at $3.70@390.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17

enough electors in the north to elect a
president, and then comes the control of
all departments of the government bv
the men who plunged the nation into the
horrers of civil war. Confederate gen
erals in control of the treasury, of the
navy and war department.! The Unisn
generals and soldiers are to be turned
adrift, and followed with taunts, abuse
and neglect, while the commanders and
soldiers of treason are installed in power
and supported by the money of the peo-
pie. The survivors of the Union army
never expected to witness such specta-
Gle as that; the loyal millions never
dreamed of such a result as among the
possibilities. It is one thing for the
southern communities to elect cOnfeder-
ates as governors and congressman, but
it is another and different thing for the
leaders of treason to govern the nation
they so basely deserted and fought to
destroy. This is to reward with the
highest honors the blacklist crime
ever committed against liberty and
civilization. If these men had expressed
regret or repentance and were now the
advocates of law and constitutional free
dom, wise generosity might find reason
for their welcome back to an equal par
ticipation in national power, but they
have not repented and do not regret but
are proud of their treason, and to-day
are the leaders of southern lawlessness,
and violence, and threaten to stop the
supplies of the government unless their
bulldozers and DULLES can be allowed to
stuff the ballot boxes with false votes
and drive from the polls the majority of
the people. This, at present, is the as
pect of national politics that demands
the attention of all patriotic men. The
burdens and corruptions of past Repub-
lean rule ought not to blind the eyes of
the country to the manifest perils that
threaten the public peace and the in
tegrity of the republic from the combi-
nation of Tammany spoilsmen and the
authors and commanders of the rebel
lion.-Hon. james T. Robinson.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17

The days are fast coming along when
q man will 60 home to dinner and find
that a paper-hanger has monopolized the
dining-room with his boards and paste,
and the entire female section of the
house in terrible state of excitement
as to whether the figure of the paper
runs up or down. He takes cold pota-
toe in one hand aud a soda cracker in
the other, and sitting on the back door
step, eats his dinner ~ in peace, all the
time inventing new "cuss words for
house decorators in general.-New Haren
REGISTER.
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Love in It's Holiest Garb.

81. Ackaman- Shoemaker" So reads
the sign that swings over the door of q
poor shanty across the way, and have
look at the picture of the old shoemaker
and his wife, that the sunset was sure to
frame in the low doorway, 60 often that
missing it brings pang, for although
the sign still swings over the door the
doorway is vacant-the picture is rubbed
out. l missed the old wife first. All!
the sick poor! Shall I ever forget the
small, bare room, the close, hot air, or
the hard, hot bed On which the old wife
lay? Soashamed of her scanty clothing;
so patient in her pain, and so grateful
too! I think the kisses she left on our
hands after we had bathed her and laid
her between the cool, white sheets we
had brought will keep them fair so long
as we live. my old woman has worked
very hard all her life, and I am afraid
she can't get over this fever" the old
husband said to us. But she did not
die. God had something harder for her
to do. On the third day of her conva.
lescence we heard that the old shoe.
maker had fallen victim to the fever
and had been taken to the hospital. He
never came back. And this is what God
had for the old wife to do that was
harder than dying-to live and hear
"He died last nj ght; he will be buried in
the Potter's field to-day, and you can.
not see him because you are too weak to
walk" Oh! if it is hard for us TO give
our dead with all the comfort of the last
word, the last look and the last clingine
kiss, and the knowledge that the dear
form is clothed in fair garments and will
be laid away by reverent hands in con-
secrated ground, what must have been
the agony of the lonely old soul as
she sat with bowed head. He will be
buried in the poor field to-day, and ]
cannot see him. Do you think they will
be rough with him?" I heard her say tc
a plying neighbor. "Will they put
him away decently? Oh, if my old
knees were strong enough for me to crawl
to his side, so that could put my hand
in his once more, think I would be
more reconciled to give him up. W.
have been married ffty-one years. HI
always slept with my hand in his, but
last night he went to sleep with his poo
old hands empty, empty! Ny poor
lonesome old husband!" Yesterday
the old wife moved away. To-day the
landlord has been fixing up the old house
for a new tenant. There will be othe>
pictures framed in the low doorway
soon. I shall look at them from my
window and like them perhaps, but
never so we'll as I liked the picture oil
the old shoemaker and his wife that has
been rubbed out by the passing hand Of
death.-Nev Orleans Picdyune.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
How They Look at 1t.

There has been good deal of talk among
government officials as to the bill introduced
by Senator Pendleton making cabinet of.
6cers ex.offcio members of the senate and
house of representatives during their term
OF Office. The idea is not new one with
Peudleton, as he introduced the same prop
osition when member of the house. The
bill provides briefly that these officers shall
have the same right to participate in debate
in matters relating to business of their
respective departments, under such rules as
may be prescribed by the senate and house,
and that the secretaries shall attend the sit.
tings of the senate on Thursday and Friday
of each week and the house on Monday and
Tuesday of each week. The members of
the cabinet, as a rule, are opposed to the
bill; they admit that there are many de-
sirable points about it, but fear that state
secrets would be pried into.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17
The Late A. T. Stewards Wit.

OF the men who have made their
mark in this generation by the accumu-
lation of large wealth, few are less known
as to their personal peculiarities than the
late A. L. Stewart. He was "money-
getter,' first and foremost, as is we'll
known, but it is not so we'll known that
he had a vein of wit, and was unusually
bright and prompt at repartee. Causeur
learns that some years ago a gentleman
who now holds an honorable and envia-
BILE position as a partner in an old
established Boston dry.goods commits
sion house was in the employ of lob.
bling firm in this city, holding a respon.
sible position and receiving a salary of
$6, 900 year. One day the late James
NJ. Beebe sent for him and said that Mr..
Stewart wanted a reliable, well-informed
man for certain responsible position,
and that he, Mr.. Beebe, had taken the
liberty of suggesting his name. In a
day or two letter came from Mr..
Stewart, asking Mr.. x to come to
New York and see him at his early con-
venience. Mr.. x went on, and was
ushered into the presence of the mer-
chant prince, who received him cor
daily and opened his business at once.
" I want man who has had just your
experience. Il know you will succeed,
and if you want to make change five
years hence it will be no disadvantage to
you to have been in my employ. will
pay you $4,000 a year. What do you
say?" Mr.. X was somewhat taken
aback by the suddepness of the proposal,
and was disposed to interpose some OBJ:
jections. II am a jobber," he said ;~"I
have large'trade and large acquaint-
ance among customers, but these will be
of no use to me in the position you Of
fer" Then he paused and seemed to
be thinking. "What is it?" asked Mr..
Stewart; "what is passing through
your mind?" II was thinking, sir"
answered Mr.. x, "that to take up
with your offer is a good deal like
stepping off plank at sea-" eek
actly," replied Mr.. Stewart, as quick as
a fash and with a twinkle III his eye,
land stepping on the deck of first
class ship" That settled it.-Boston
Trnnac1;71f
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-17

In the average English dairy it takes
from twenty-five to twenty -four pounds
of milk, according to the quality, to
makaone poupd!of butter A COW that
gives from eight to twelve pounds of
butter week during the butter season is
counted an extra animal. Well selected
COWS will produce from 225 to 25O
pounds of butter per year on an average.
The majority of ordinary diaries
throughout the country, however, can
scarcely be averaged higher than 160
pounds per COW per annuu.
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The Situation at Sitka.

The British gunboat Osprey was relieved
from duty at Sitka on the Sd inst, by the
United States ship Alaska. Capt. Brown,
of the Alaska, having informed Collector
Ball OF his intention to remain but brief
period with his vessel, the citizens of the
territory united in an appeal to the presi.
dent for protection. The Indians are
highly incensed at the sending of murderers
below, and massacre is feared, should the
Alaska return home.
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The Back Hair.

False hair having come to be recog-
nized az a necessity of the modern fe-
male existence, it may be of interest to
learn how this constantly increasing
want is supplied. Live hair bought on
foot" to use the technical term of the
trade), constitutes but very small per-
centage of the stock in market, as there
are few women who are willing to part
with their locks for money, and those
who have superfuous locks to spare grow
fewer and fewer year after year. When
secondhand tresses were needed merely
to furnish wigs for few elderly ladies,
agents. found no difficulty in securing q
sufficiency among the peasant maids of
Auvergne and Brittany. The present
demand, however, greatly exceeds the
supply, and it is asserted that Paris
alone uses more than all the available
crop in France, and that Marseilles (the
great centre of traffic in hairy deals with
Spain, the Orient and the two Sicilies,
for 40 tons year of dark hair, of which
she makes upwards of $4,000 chignons
annually. Under the name of "dead
hair" are classed the combings," which
thrifty servant girls save up and sell, the
clippings Of barber shops, faded curls,
worn out switches, etc. The scavengers
of every city, both at home and abroad,
value nothing short of silver spoon
among the refuse 80 much as snarl of
combings, however dirty, as it will find
a ready sale. Such findings are after
ward washed with bran and potash,
carded, sifted, classed and sorted and
then made into the cheap front curls,
pufs and chignons that abound in the
market. Much of this enters into the
cheaper grades of the 100000 "pieces -
annually made in France, of which
enormous trade England is said to be the
best customer, and America almost as
good. Late reports of the commerce of
Swatow, China, show that large export
trade in "dead" hair gathered in the
stalls of BARRIERS, sprang up in 1873, dur
ing which year Is, 800 pounds were ex-
ported to Euprope. In 1875 the exports
of this refuse arose to 124, 1000 pounds,
with commercial value of over $25, 600.
1t is an undoubted fact, too, that pauper
corpses are often despoiled of their hair
to meet this same demand of an increas-
ing commerce. Those, then, who sport
other than their own natural locks, can
never be sure whether these are redolent
of the sepulchre, the gutter or the ser
want girls comb.-Scient;fc American.