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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-15

In the senate, April II, 1879, a resolu-
ton was offered by Mr.. Edmunds that
Union soldiers should not be discharged
from the places they held under the sec
rotary of the senate and sergeant-at-arms
except for specified cause. This resolu-
ton was defeated by the following vote:
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
Novel Rules.

The following "rules are posted up
in store in certain town, and are GER
tainly explicit enough for all practical
purposes
"rhe proprietor is not in; don't know
when he will be
"We have no money to lend, but we
borrow all we can.
"The person who repeats anything
from 'Pinafore' will be bounced.
"Don't want any suspenders got a
loft full up stairs.
"Dont want any lead pencils buy
them by the ton
care not in want of soap
"No shoe-blacking required; we wear
patent feathers
"Cofins provided for book agents and
canvassers.
Bulldogs in tire cellar feed him on
peddlers.
"Office hours for tramps from l | P.
M. to A. NJ.
GAIL beggars are bounced.
"Bouncer goes by steam
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
Skylarks Disappearing.

An enormous decrease in the number
of skylarks in Scotland and northern
England has been complained of recent
ly. Mr.. Edwards, Scotch naturalist,
has published an essay in which he at
tempts to disprove the popular theory
that starlings or meadow-larks cause the
mischief by breaking the eggs in the
nest and bv killing the young. That
the bill of the startling is capable of de-
stroying the eggs he admits, but he rid.
icules the idea of its destroying the
young, and he does not believe thai the
starlings ars to blame. He attributes
the evil chiefly to the increase in cattle
and the taking in of waste ground for
agricultural purposes. GAS rule," he
says, "larks do not breed among nay,
corn or barley. For one. nest | have
known in such places, l have, l may
safely say, found a dozen in meadows
on pasture lands and on waste groun d
Now, for one COW or OK that there were
years ago, there are about a score at
present. Is it not possible that the great
increase of these animals may have some
thing to do with the decrease Of the lark
by tramping on their nests or maltreat-
ing them have myself, while search
ing in clover fields for moths and in
grazing grounds for beetles, come across
numbers in recent years so destroyed.
Pheasants, partridges and other ground
breeding birds also suffer severely. Be
side we have cattle and sheep now, but
more particularly the latter, put into
woods and plantations to cot down the
heritage there" In conclusion, Mr.. Ed
wards protests very earnestly against
the destruction of birds nests and the
trapping of song birds By men and boys,
by which thousands OF birds are destroy
ed every year.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
Most Wonderful Railroad in the
World.

The Callao, Lima, Oroya railroad,
generally known as the Trans-Audine
Line railroad, is probably the most Won
derful railroad in existence. 1t was
contracted by Henry Meiggs in 1869 at
cost of $21,S40,O6O, or $27,000,000
in bonds. Work was begun in January,
1870. When commenced, the English
company had got tine right of way from
Callao to Lima, and he could get no spe-
cial rates for his material. The encr-
nous cost of freighting everything for
his road would make it ruinous to build.
One day there suddenly appeared hun
dreds of men evidently making rail
way from Lima to Callao. The English
company went to see about it, and then
got an injunction to stop the work. Mr..
NJ. calmly asked them whose land the
workmen were on, and then they found
that he had quietly bought up all that
land and was building private road
on his own grounds for his own use.
Leaving Callao, the road is il the finest
condition. Ballasted with cobble stones,
no dust arises; trains every half hour
and the fare is forty cents; four separate
depots to accommodate different parts OF
the city. No one who makes round
trip on the road ever repents it, and sell
dom desires a second. The heights and
distances are so great that few heads are
not affected.
From San Mateo to Anchi the road
passes through the Infermiilos Nearly
perpendicular walls from 1000 to 5000
feet hem in the river Rimac, having a
width of from 200 to 400 feet. AT
first it was proposed to make a cut In
the side Of the mountain, but fearing
the fall of rocks Is was decided. to tun-
mel. Miners were let down with ropes
one-quarter and one-half miles long to
certain indicated points on the rocky
wall every 500 feet or less, ana after
they had entered few feet began work
ing to the right and left, using the en-.
trance from which to throw excavated
material. About midway bend in the
river made it necessary either to make a
dangerous curve or span the chasm.
The latter was chosen, and now bridge
unites the two tunnels about 400 feet
from the bed of the river. Emerging
from the second of these tunnels at An.
chi, the road is recrossed, and the road
follows up the river Blanco few miles,
which it crosses and then enters a noun
tain, where it turns around in curved
tunnel, and emerging few hundred
feet above, recrosses the river and re
turns and passes Anchi and continues up
the river Rimac. At Chicla, a few
miles further, the road passes the town,
returns, crosses its own track and the
Rimac, returns and again doubles on it
self, having passed Chicla more than
five times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
Esep as a Reporter.

The first mention made in ancient his
tory Of the crab is by one Asop, who
was Greek newspaper man, and who
lived about the year 600 B, c. Like
the nan who stuffed tine ballot box, he
is much involved in a great deal Of OBJ
security. Esop heard the paternal an
cestor OF promising young crab, who
was inclined to associate with fast horses
and the like, give the latter some good
advice. Said the old crab "My son,
you are bringing disgrace on the family.
You run around too much, and have
contracted bad habits. You must walk
straight from now on.
"Perhaps | will, governor, if you will
only manage to keep out of the saloons
yourself"
The elder crab grew pensive, and hav-
ing resolved on reformation, never again
was seen to enter a saloon through the
front door. E.sop says he actually over
heard the foregoing conversation, which
only goes to show what kind of a news
paper man 4Esop really was Unfor-
tunately there was no stenographer pres
ent. so -Esop can palm off as many
fables as he pleases on the public
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
Judges who Interrupt

Judicial thinking aloud is one of the
vices OF our modern judicial system. The
vigorous reporter who presents almost
verbatim in the columns Of the Times
the doing g of the court OF Appeal at
Westminster shows very clearly TO what
arguments in courts of law have been
reduced. \ running fire of questions
from three astute judges Is not an ordeal
through which any council ought to be
expected to pass in advocating clients
cause, and we think that the Judges of
half century ago would open their ewes
with amazement il they could peruse a
faithful report of proceedings in any of
our courts of Law The minority of
Judges in the present day have the ia
Guilty of listening The majority utter
their thoughts and their criticisms free
ly as they 20 along. The consequence
must be that arguments become much
inflated without any compensating ad-
vantage. The only consolation ia that
the evil cannot increase in magnitude
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
TOO Hot.

AS a rule Indians do not give oper
Expression to their feelings An excep
|sion, however, such as the following
Rnecdote brings out, occasionally occurs
Naukum, a Plover Bay Indian, in
huch request by ship captains as an in
terpreter, was fellow of indispensable
curiosity, but he made point of never
surprise at anything. The
6rst time he was in the inside of an en-
zine room Of a steamship, all he said,
liter thoroughly examining his surround
pgs, was
"Too muchee wheel, make man too
huchee think"
But he was fated to be astonished
|nce, by having some pepper-sauce intro,
1uced into his food, and owned to hay
hs experienced new sensation, and not
liking it.
"Me stand good deal, he said, "but
he no Stand white man eat fire on his
eat."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
,outbursts of Heat in the Sun

Lately many scientific journals have
contained accounts of the observation Of
new and suspected variable stars. The
more carefully we study the stars the
more evident it becomes to us that a
large proportion Of them undergo and
exhibit changes Of light with certain
degree of regularity. Very few stars
change their brilliancy SO quickly as AL
col, the "winking depion." in Medusas
Head, but there are many that wax and
wane in remarkable manner.
This subject becomes especially inter
,esting remarks a writer in the New
York Sun, when we consider the fact
that reasons have been shown why our
own sun may be regarded as variable
star. Prof. Proctor, in his essay on the
SEND of Many Worlds" suggests that
periodical outbursts of heat in the sun
may account for the curious traditions
running alike through the Indian, Egyp-
tian, Chinese and Greek mythologies,
that the cath at certain epochs under
goes destruction and renovation by fire.
On such supposition the story of
Phaeton becomes the tradition OF an
actual event in the carth's history. Ac-
,cording to the myth, Phaeton persuaded
his father Apollo to let him drive the
car of the sun for a day, lost the road,
and approaching too near the earth, set
Olympus on fire, consumed cities and
whole nations with fame, and turned
the northern end of Africa into a water
less desert.
The cause Of any sudden access of
heat in the sun, or in star, is believed
to be the dowfall upon its surface of a
vast quantity Of meteoric matter whirl-
hint the track of some comet. We have
lords of sudden brightning of the
III in modern times A remarkable
phenomenon of this kind occurred on
September l, 1859, and although it was
of very brief duration, it produced start
ling effects in various parts Of the world.
If there is a mass of meteors rushing
in an orbit that the sun crosses at GER
tain epochs, and which then causes his
fires to burst out with the effects de.
scribed in the ancient traditions, they
have thus far escaped the ken Of the
astronomers. Observation has shown,
however, that if such meteors exist they
are looked for in the wake of comet,
and We can depend upon the astronom
ers to give due notice of the comets APP
pearance.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
A Remarkable Case.

Scarcely less astonishing than DR..
Tanners recent feat of fasting, remarks
the New York Evening Mail, is the
condition of young lady, daughter Of
the mayor of Grambke, village near
Bremen, who is said to have been fast
asleep ever since the second week in
January with the exception OF a few
hours Of semi wakefulness at intervals of
from six to eight weeks. An interest
} ing account of her extraordinary state is
published in the Hanover Courier. 1t
appears that she lies, plunged in pro-
found slumber and entirely unconscious
Of all that goes OH around her, night and
day, reclining on her left side, warmly
covered up and with light gauze
spread over her head. Nourishment,
chiefly in a liquid form, is daily admin
istered to her, which she swallows with
out awaking for a second She is a
pretty, slender girl, pallid complexion,
Sbut she does not lose in weight during
her frances of from 40 to GO days, and
when awake exhibits cheerful DISPOSE
|tion and an eager desire to perform such
small household tasks as her strength
Enables her to fulfill. Her father is q
well-to-do man, who has consulted sew.
0eral eminent medical men in the hope Of
discovering some remedy for. his daugh-
ksr's abnormal condition, which entails
SERIOUS inconvenience and constant anx-
iety upon the other members of the fam
kly, but all efforts hitherto made to keep
he unlucky girl awake have resulted in
total failure.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
The Highland Shepherd.

Tie shepherds of Ross.shire and
Sutherland are physically a fine race.
Many people have a fixed idea that all
Highlanders are tall, strong men; others,
judging probably from the fishermen
they have seen on the east coast, or
from the western islands, imagine them
small, stunted, and red-haired. Of
course, there are some small, poor-look-
ing men, but as rule they will compare
favorably with any race in these islands,
and it would be strange thing if they
did not. Their life is eminently calcu-
lated to make them do so. Their food,
though simple, is abundant; the oat-
meal which, with milk and little NUT
ton and bacon, forms their diet, is well
known for its properties of bone-making.
They breathe air than which there is no
purer in the world, and their hard out.
of-door life insures them sound and
healthy sleep. If to most men the life
of shepherd would appear strange
and almost appalling in its utter loneli-
ness, to some few it has, for this very
reason, a peculiar fascination. 1--WE are
speaking here of the genuine hillman,
not one who is connected with a coast
FARM Some of the straths and glens
are we'll populated-well populated, that
is to say, for that country. There may
be on 20 miles of road two Oh three
shooting lodges, with their attendant
collection of keepers houses, few
small crofts, perhaps an inn, and posi-
bly, kirk, though these two latter are
infrequent, and the average distance be.
tween inns in Sutherland always ex-
cepting a narrow strip on the east COAST
may be set down at from 5 to 30 miles.
Many of the shepherds houses, however,
are long distance off the main road,
and a man, after walking from the
nearest railway station 20 or 80 miles.
and often much further, may have to
turn across the heather for or 6 more
before he gets home, though he is often
a peat track to help him. His most
probable neighbor will be a. keeper, and
keepers and shepherds do not always
pull we'll together, there being knotty
questions about heather-burning, and
sheep straying over marches, (the latter
being especially frequent when the ad-
joining land is under deer), which have
to be settled afresh every year,
and which cause no little amount Of
jealousy and ill-fceling between the two.
Sometimes, however, they are great
friends; and as rule they get on pretty
we'll together; partly, no doubt, for the
sake Of companionship, and partly or
the keepers side at least, from motives
of policy, for he knows well, if he is
worth anything, how essential it is fol
the welfare of his game that he and the
shepherd should be on good terms, and
how great is the power which the latter
| has over it.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
Carson Archery.

"You have no idea of the force of an
arrow said Carson archer, enthusiast
tically
"Tve seen an Indian shoot one
through a mule, said Congressman Dag
gett.
"Anybody can shoot an arrow through
a mule" said the archer. "Bring on
your mule. and if Perkins or Billy
Lynch don't drive steel pointed
Spauldipg arrow through it I'll pay for
the mule"
"Lensthwise or sidewiseP said Dag
gett.
'Lengthwise, sidewise, diagonally, or
otherwise Isaw Perkins send an arrow
into house and it took three men to
pull it out"
snow let me ask you how three men
could catch hold of an arrow at once"
asked skeptic, triumphantly; "only one
man could grab the arrow; now what did
the other fellows do y
ooh, they held the house. y
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14

1t is said that the scorpion, when sur
rounded by circuit of fire, turns and
stings itself to death Probably it feels
something like the young man after he
Is Tilted, and whose only ambition is 70
get out under the silent stars and kick
himself over fence.
A repeater tried to vote for a dead
man in San Francisco, and little Irish.
man objected. ION what ground r. said
the Judge. because, begorra,' said Pat,
"the man died in the Fourth ward, and
We are after voting him in the Third
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14
Boy Inventors.

Some of the most important inventions
have been the work of mere boys. The
invention of the valve motion to the
steam engine was made by boy. Watts
left The engine in very incomplete con-
dition, from the fact that he had no way
to open or close the valves, except by
means Of levers operated by the hand
He set up large engine at one Of the
mines, and boy was hired to work
these valve levers; although this was
not hard work, vet it required his con-
slant attention. AS he was working
these levers he saw the parts of the en-
CINE moved in the right direction, and
at the exact time he had to open or
close the valves. He procured strong
cord and made one end fast to the
proper part of the engine, and the other
to the valve lever; the boy had the
satisfaction of seeing the engine move
off with perfect regularity of motion.
A short time after the foreman came
around and found the boy playing mar
bles at the door. Looking at the en-
CINE he soon saw the ingenuity of the
boy, and also the advantages of so great
an invention. Mr.. Watts then carried
out the boys inventive genius in prac-
teal form, and made the steam engine
perfect automatic working machine.
The power loom is the invention Of a
farmer boy, who had never seen or
heard of such a thing. He Whitfield
out one with his jackknife and after he
had got it all done, he with great en-
thusiasm, showed it to his father, who
at once kicked it all to pieces, saying he
would not have boy about him that
would spend his time on such foolish
things The boy gathered up the pieces
and laid them away. Soon after this
his father bound him out as an appren-
tice to blacksmith, about II miles
from home. The boy was delighted at
the idea of learning trade, and he soon
found that his new master was kind and
took a lively interest in him. He had
made a loom out of what was left of the
one his father had broken up, which he
showed to his master. The blacksmith
saw he had no common boy as an ap-
prentice, and that the invention was a
very valuable one. He Immediately had
loom constructed under the supervision
Of the boy; it worked to their perfect
satisfaction, and the blacksmith furnished
the means to manufacture the looms, the
boy to receive one-half the profits. In
about year the blacksmith wrote to the
boys father that he should be at his
house at given time, and should bring
with him q wealthy gentleman, who was
the inventor of the celebrated power
loom. You may be able to Judge of the
establishment at the old home when his
son was presented to him as the invent
or, who told him that his loom vas the
same as the model that he had kicked to
pieces but a year before Western
Trade.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14

To detract anything from another, and
for one man to multidly his own con-
veniences of another, is more against
nature than death, than poverty, than
pain, and the rest Of external accidents.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14

The great Paris dry goods house, Bon
garche, was visited by 64,92l persons
) one day, recently, and the money tax.
n amounted to l,l35,372 francs.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-10-14

Money only makes a spendthrif
poorer.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-30

shows that there has been q decrease 10
our tonnage of l0l, 500 tons in the last
year, and that we have built $500 IONS
less Ia the last year than We built the year
before, The decrease is not large. it ia
true; but the humiliatiDg fact is that
there should be any decrease. Why
should not this important interest which
more than any other impresses foreign
peoples and gives the measure of our
greatness abroad, grow with our growth
and strengthen with our strength? Why
should American shipping decline year
after year. while English, French, German
and Italien shipping increases year after
year? Why, at tlme when the whole
world throbs with the mighty Efforts of
production, and we ourselves are multi
plying railroads. mills. furnaces and
machinery, building new cities, founding
new states, increasing our population and
accommodating wealth-why is it thar our
shipping. instead of participating in the
general growth aud development. dwindles
aud decays till it is able to carry only
one fourth of our commerce, the other
three-fourths being carried on foreign
yssses2 Republican statesmen attempt
to Iexplain the humiliating fact by the
highs price of iron, which enters so largely
| at present into the construction of ships:
but the true explanation is to be sough,
| for in the evil policy which arti6cally in
creases the price of iron and many other
materials that form the basis of industries
and builds up certain kinds of
manufacture at the cost of others
American shipping has been declining ever
since the Republican party came into
power. and lit will probably continue t
decline as long as that party remains IL
power.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-30

A writer in the Atlanta Constitution
speaking of the many cheerful signs of
revived prosperity in Georgia says:
1t has been shown that free labor ia
better than slave labor. and that Georgia
farmers have prospered above any Others
dold mills and coal mines have been es-
tabllshed under various conditions, and all
have paid handsomely. Cotton mills have
been run by water and steam, 10 city aud
country, and their dividends have been
uniformly greater than those of New Eng
land mills. Factories of all sorts have
been put in operation, and we have yet 10
hear of the first one that does not make
dividends. Immigrants have been,planred
here and there in groups, and there is not
one adverse voice in their verdict, which is
bringing hundreds of their countrymen in
TO Georgia,
If there is a single interest 10 the
state that ia langushing-if there is a sim
gle industry that is not prospecting
there is a single department. of trade or
labor within all our borders, in which
there is not activity, expansion and growth
We do not know what it is. If there is a
single intelligent experiment made in The
past ten years in Georgia, that las not
succeeded. or given evidence that success
was possible, we do not recall it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-30
Greatest Remedy Known

r. Kings New Discovery flor Con-
sumption is certainly the greatest
medical remedy ever placed within the
reach of suffering humanity. Thou
sands of once hopeless sufferers. nGw
loudly proclaim their praise for this
wonderful Discovery to which they
owe their lives. Not only does it
positively cure Consumption. but
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Hay Fever, Hoarseness and all affec-
tions of the Throat, Chest and Lungs
Weld at once to its wonderful curative
powers as if by magic. We do not ask
you to buy a large bottle until you
know what you are getting. We
therefore earnestly request yon to call at
your Druggist O. Speideps and get a
trial bottle free of cost which viii con-
vince the most skeptical of its wonder
derful merits, and show you what a
regular one dollar size bottle will do
For sale by c. Speidel.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-30

The total number of votes cast In all the
States for President and Vice President
at the late election was 9l92,5 sos, being
777,7l0 more than were poIled at the
Presidential election in 1876. Garfield re-
ceived 4, 439.4I5; Hancock, 4436, OLA;
Weaver 3O5,729 Neal Dow, 9,644; scat
tering 1898. Garfield lacks 3l7l66 of a
majority of the popular vote. Garfield
received 1882. 566 votes in the Northern
and l.056 $40 in the Southern States.
Hancock received 2 1874 5S7 in the North.
ern and 1856. 42T 10 the Southern States.
The total Northern vote was 9,442.9I8
the total Southern vote was 2T40.G77. As
compared with the vote of 1876. tho North
gained 1922, and the South only 2l,-
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