Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-01-08
OUR HARVEST FIELD.

OUR HARVEST FIELD.
-Messrs. Whittle aud Granular, the Evan
gelists, commenced their labors in Rochester
on Sunday last.
James McLinden, a locomotive engineer
on the s. N. r. r., has struck rich claim In
the Black Hills.
Helen Potter's Pleiades are at Fairbault.
ON Thursday. Owa*onna Friday, and Austin
Saturday. evenings, of this week.
The latest railroad rumor is that the
branch of the Illinois Central, from Waterloo
to Mona, is about to pass into the hands Of tho
c., NJ. s St. P. Co.
"A meeting of the cane-growers of Mime.
sofa will be held in st. Paul January I'D. The
session will be of considerable importance to
the agricultural interests of the state.
In consequence Of recent disclosures the
directors of the North German Lloyd's Steam
portation On their vessels to the class Of heavy
French silks which are so weighted with chem
icals and oils as to cause danger of spontane-
Gus combustion.
The Globe says tho First National Bank Of
st. Paul has more capital than all the banks
in Milwaukee combined, and that the aggre-
gate bank capital Of St. Paul is $2,52SO00,
while the daily deposits are over five millions,
with $45, 600 600 of exchange sold during 1879.
The editor of the Glyndon Ne,ps was pre-
sented with purse of $35 on Christmas. 1t
came from a number of the ladies ofthe place
in appreciation of the editors "efforts in be
half of the public good" The millennium
must be near at hand, when editors labors
are thus appreciated.
An edition numbering 10000 copies Of a
twenty-eight page pamphlet has just been
issued by tho St. Paul 4 Sioux City Railroad
Co. 1t IS description of southwestern Min
nesota, and northwestern Iowa, and desig.
mates this portion of the hemisphere as the
Land of Promise" How is that for the land
of our adoption?
The people Of Appleton, Swift county, q
new point on the Hastings and Dakota divis-
ion Of the c., NJ. & St. P. r. R., are suffering
for want of fuel. The town is located on the
open prairie, and the r. r. Co. refuse trans.
portation to any one wanting to engage In
the wood business. There should be q State
law requiring all railroad companies to haul
wood and coal, as we'll as any other kind of
freight.
DIR. n. S. Tanner, of Minneapolis, has
made an offer to exhibit test of his endur-
ance without eating, in New York. DR.. Tan
ner claims to be able to live in comfort with.
out food for at least thirty days, and that he
has twice publicly submitted to test, each
time maintaining life, consciousness. health,
and the ability to take physical exercise, al
though totally abstaining from food, for the
extraordinary period of forty-two days.
DIR. I. NJ. Westfall, of Rochester, attended
the annual meeting of the Stats Grange, re.
Gently held at Albert Lea. In a letter to the
Record d o., the DR.. says: 1.-The attendance
was not large. but those who believe the
Grange is dead would have had their minds
disab used OF that idea If they could have
ent parts Of the state. There is a stronger
disposition than ever before to perpetuate
the organization, and it is believed by them
1zation than ever before. Those who have
been hoping and trying to create the impress
sion that the organization was dying out, will
year closes that which win astontsh them"
in Cedar County, Iowa, Miss E. E. Frink
woman's capability to do efficient education
al work outside Of the school-room. In Clar
ence. Iowa. Mrs. S. L. Williams has a large
| praCtlcc. In CcQar H8p1QS, MRS. Dennis, al
though the mother of three little ones, il ar
organizer and teacher Of classes in vocal mu
&c. Mrs. pr. Hickock has large and lucra
tive practice. Although the place has thu
reputation of not patronizing lectures, Mis-
Corson has but recently given course upol
cooking TO near 200 ladies'. At Marion thu
Cary Club, society of women devoted tt
! mental Improvement, has ontgrown its long
clothes, and has perceptible influence upOl
the community. Mrs A. B. Ellington, an as
9Oc1ate member of the Illinois Social Sciouc,
Association, Is known as a journalist and ef
hcient In institute work. Mrs. II. L. J.McClel
Ian is the worthy principal of the largest higl
school in the state.
During the recent cold weather the ques
| ton has been often asked as to how low q TEN
perature mercury thermometers are reliable
and at what degree of cold mercury freezes
1t ts commonly said that 40 degrees below re
70 freezes this metal and this is the statmen
IN Webster's Dictionary. But Professor Sill
man, OF Yale College. in his large work o.
thirty-nine and forty-four hundredths deeree
below zero. solidines, and IS then malleable q,
lead. ut Crystalizes In cubes: hoils at 662 de
grees. No other known fluid has such Wild
range(over 700 degrees) between freezing an
only $50 degrees. The common name of mer
Icury Is quicksilver. a Mercury:thermomete
will not correctly indicate a temperature low
er than 50 degrees below zero. Alcohol is tn
only known fluid that can be used in ther
mometers for marking very low Temperatures
| 1t has never been known to freeze, It Is sal,
that the lowest natural temperature ever re
corded was IS degrees below zero. The loves
artificial cold 29O degrees below zero.-Ez.