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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
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Tho prospectus of Hamline University
10 before US. This candidate for the
favor Of the educational public, Is one
that will command wide attention. Min.
nesota Methodism Is a power, and the
church has put its whole energies to the
support Of this one institution. This
fact alone will give Hsmline University
deserved prominence. But the eligabili.
ty Of its location, and the complete
equipment of the university itself, are
other strong points in Its favor. Its
course Of study is equal to that Of the
best known of our Universities, and in
all essentials, it is we'll provided with
the best, The Rev. D. c. John, D. D.,
is the president, who Is we'll and favor.
ably known in this part Of the State,
and to him all letters of inquiry should
be addressed. Now let the friends of
Methodism in the Minnesota Valley give
their University cordial support.
Taxable Property Of the Cttv and
County.
The total value Of real property in the
county, as returned by the assessor, is
$4,ss4, ga, and of personal 81 $50, 9sl-
total, $,4s7,575. The county and State
boards of equalization will undoubted-
ly increase this total, before they get
through with their duties.
Of the real property, the city Of Man
kato returns nearly one-fourth, $780,.
460. Of the personal, we return $780,
s07-over one third.
Tho average value of land In the coun-
ty Is $7.96 per acre. The average value
in the city. $50.s5: Lake Crystal, 1857;
Msnkato Township, $l1.24; Mapleton
village $1o.07.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

Gen. Bristow positively denies
the truth Of the printed statement
that he had declared his intention to
work and vote for Hancock.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
The Monkeys!

st. Paul Giobo
The papers outside Of the First
District are very generally urging
Dunnell to accept Wards proposition
and 60 into retirement. The post
Office monkeys who run the Dunnell
tread.mill," urge Dunnell not to sac.
ri6ce them by retiring. The "mon-
keys will win.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

Henry Ward Beecher will lecture
at Duluth on Thursday, August 9th,
on The Reign Of the Common PEG.
ple."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

B. Gratz Brown, Of st. Louis, an
nounces himself as a candidate be.
fore the next legislature Of Missouri
for the United States Senate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

The Democrats should devote the
rest Of the campaign to the catching
of fish. What they need is more brain
food.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

Secretary Sherman will speak sew.
en- times in Ohio, and four times in
Indiana, during the campaign.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

The only soldier clamoring for q
" change" Is the Confederate soldier
and he is after his pension.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

Hon. NJ. II. Dunnell will lecture
next winter. Subject, "How to run
political conventions"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

The Republicans are running a
General this year, that never was yet
beaten in political campaign, and
that is General Prosperity.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30

Hancock's backbone Is greatly
stiffened by his corsets.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
Eight toSeven Proposed.

Worthington Advance.
We shall probably have to resort to
an electoral commission to decide who
Is the legitimate nominee Of the Vase
ca conventions.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03
a Solid COmfort. -

A lady in this city noticed her colored
"help chewing pins and needles The
lady, thinking the amusement was n
dangerous one, recommended that she
desist
"No, chile, she said (Tho mistress
was much younger than the servant.
Sin dc slabo times | had heab Of
trouble. | sought comfort in whisky,
but dat glib me headache i'll do mo'nin'.
So tried smokin'. That was de berry
same. Then chawin | tried. But that
was no good. Haply one mo'nin' l
thought oh pins and needles. | puts n
bunch Of pins or needles in my mouf
chaws them, and they gabe me hcNb
oh solid comfort. SO now when ever /
feel wearied oh de de trials OBJ de trials
OF dis wuld I puts pins and needles i'll
my mouf and chHws them You hab no
idee what solid comfort there is i'll pins
and needles
Don't You ever swallow any by &C.
cident?" the lady asked.
"Guess do, chile, guess do; for some
nights 90 to sleep with mouf full, and
they're all gone in de monin "-Cincin-
natl Gazette
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03
Smelling Women's Names.

Many, if not majority, Of the names
Of 800 or 900 girls from the publlc
schools examined for admission to the
normal college gives us the impression
that they belong to mere household pets
rather than to young women who are ap-
preaching maturity, aud who nre en-
gagged in serious work. These girls ap-
parently prefer tho nicknames by which
they are known in the family circle and
to intimate friends, and therefore take
pains to adopt them in their signatures.
In 30 doing, the public school girls are
not exceptional among our young wo-
men, for 1t is quite the fashion nova
days for them to grow 50 cnamorcd OF
their nursery appcllotions that they cling
30 them as their fixed and proper names.
They may even be offended when they
are addressed by their correct names,
which they imagine less pretty than
these pet diminutives; and some grave,
grown-up women will put Hattie or
Gussie, Mamie or Sallie on their cards
US if they were in pinatores still.
The fashion is American; but our pa-
tiotism can not make us grow fond OF
it. The niclnames which appear III 50
largo q share of these public school girl
signatures would do very well for pets ut
Il dog-show. When they are used to ex-
press the aifectionate regard OF near
friends and relatives, they also may be
pretty and appropriate, but they look
very silly in n formal signature, and
surely do not beht the dignity Of woman
hood.
We find for instance among these
800 names scores OF Minnics or NAMES,
and only here and there n Mary, much
more euphonious and dgnitied name.
Jane is transformed usually into Jenny
Caroline into Carrie, Ellen to Ella,
Elizabeth into Lizzie and Bessie, Knth.
crime into Katie, Martha into Matte
Margaret into Maggie, Anne and Anna
into Annie, and Harriet into Hattie
Such absurd Manassas these appear quite
frequently: Chuttic, Lille Mile, Til
lie, Kittic, Rosie, Nettie, Bibbic, A8gle
and Maggie.
The great aim seems TO be to manrlfac
ture name which ends in lie, and in &c
complishing it the finest Applications foi
women who have names renowned III pc
etry and history, and Of sweet and mo
lodious sound are choppedup into child
ish diminutivcs They convey an ide'
of pettiness, and do not belong to girls o
dignity and charactor-girls like thOs
who are going to the normal college, 81
many of whom will have their living t.
earn. And yet these girls think it il
pretty to be known by such pet names
and so discard, MS ugly and d-fashionod
the names by which they are christened
What would they think to see a colleg
register which give the young men
names as Jimmie Billie, Bobbio, Tom
ME, Charlie, Samie and Dickio.
This fashion is extending among wa
men, and girls are even named with nick
names only, rs if they were always to b.
nothing more than nursery pets An
yet this is period when women are con
tending for higher consideration as IA
tional beings, and whom the range o
their occupations outside Of the domesti
circle is constantly widening and grow
ing in importance. Y, San.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03

the following day q goat number visited
the belfry TO see tho curious boll-ringer
II was found that an army Of flying
squirrels had cut tho holo In the lattice
work, and that the wind had forced the
limb Of the neighboring oak through tho
opening. A little prong near the end OF
the limb had caught the clappor near its
point, and 30 the wind made its novel
bell-rinRer. --Phtladelphia Times. .,
cook until the edges curl. Have heated
a tcacupful Of sweet cream or as rich
milk Us you can get, turn into the tureen,
pour in the oysters and serve.
FAyRE BEANS. Boil some white beans
until quite dry md tender. Into four
quart baking dish put an inch layer OF
the beans seasoned with pepper and
salt, strew over minced bits Of salt pork,
cover with layer Of raw oysters,
sprinkle with powdered cracker crumbs
and bits Of butter and cover with another
layer Of beans, thus alternating until the
dish is almost full. The beans should
make the last layer. Pour over pint,
or more, ii the beans were very dry OF
| oyster llqnOr, cover anu DaNo nun III
hour, removing the cover toward the last
that the top may brown
CuUrNEY. One pound salt, one pound
! mustard seed, one pound stoned ralsinS
one pound brown sugar, twelve ounces
garlic, six ounces cayenne pepper, two
quarts unripe gooseborrios, two quarts
best vinegar; the mustard-soed gently
dried and bruised; sugar made into
syrup with pint Of vinegar; gooscbcrries
dried, and boiled in a quart Of the vine
gar; the garlic to be well bruised in a
mortar; whom cold, gradually mix the
whole in Il large mortar, aud with the re,
manning vinegar thoroughly amalganatc
them. To DO tied down close; the Longer
kept the better.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03
Whipped and BridelcsS.

TLcy don't permit II drunken man to
marry in Odessa. On the contrary, they
whip him and give his bride to another.
An illustration of this occurred, when u
couple appeared in church and request
ed the priest to marry them.
The priest, detecting an unsteadiness
OF gait in tho bridegroom, refused, and
called tie young man n "boozing
swine" Indignant at the untimely in
cbriate, the father of tho drunknrd
seized him by the collar, dragged him
out of the church, and bclaborcd him
with stout cudgel, in the hopo of max.
ing him sober enough to marry.
The brides father, however, took a
more practical Wow of the situation,
and, declaring the engagement oil, said
that any eligible candidate for his
daughters hand might we'd her on the
spot without mourning any expense.
Two nspirlnts came forward, and after
inspection by the bride, and interrogn-
ton as TO their worldly condition, one
was politely dismissed, and the other
took the "boozing swincs" place, and
was made happy husband.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03
Oyer.ExertiOn.

Lonp-continued exertion, without
proper intervals OF rest, is followed by
a peculiar sensation of fatigue, ana
often by tremor or cramp. Fatigue ls
due, in part, to the failure OF contractile
material, and an accumulation OF waste
products, in the muscles, but, III the
main. to the exhaustion OF the nerve cen
tiers that supply stimulus to contraction.
Both tremor and cramp are propaapiy
caused by excessive muscular Hratipn'
ity, the former being due to short, IT.
regular explosions of muscular force, the
latter being prolonged contraction Oh
the muscle. $500,
When over-exertion il confined to
small group of muscles, these, instead
of becoming enlarged and strengthened,
us is the case when exertion and rest are
duly interchanged, suffer chronic ex-
haustion, which shows itself i'll q species
of paralysis--as in palsy, or cramp,, sew
orally peculiar to writer's, telegraphers,
type-setters, violinists, pianists, tallors,
mixers, and men of various trades
whose work is mainly with the hammer
II is computed that the pen-blade
forger, if industrious and disposed to do
full work, delivers nearly $4,000 ac-
curate strokes day, and in ten years
over 88,O00,000, each stroke involving
expenditure of nerve force, both III the
nerves of the brain which calculate the
distance and amount Of force necessary,
! and the nerves of tho muscles engaged
i'll the act.
Another result of over-exertiOn is IL
ratibility of the heart, similarly due to
exhaustion of nerve-force. The heart
may become dilated, so that valves-one
or more-cease fully to close the open
ings, or the valves become thickened
and incapable of ready and complete
action. The elastic tissues Of the great
arteries leading out of the heart may be
weakened by overdistension, and the
walls may, during some strong effort, SC
fnr gave way as to form pouch, or even
TO stretch out into fatal ancurism.
This irritability of heart gives rise
to palpitation, cardiac pain, and RAPID
pulse
1t is estimated that 80 per cent. o.
cases of this affection among our soldiers
during the late civil war were due tC
long and rapid marches, or other form'
of Oyer-eXcrtion. Professional pedeSirl
ans are provcrbially short-livcd
Observation-Disclosures, and persons whC
carry gymnastic or athletic exercises tt
excess, and, especially, laborers who's
work is severe, and who also suffer from
intemperance, foul air and lmprope
diet, are peculiarly liable to heart dis
ease.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03
Early Stcamboating on the Hudson

The Albany Argus has an article on
Hudson rivor boating of early days. 1t
anys
Composition in the earlier days
meant great deal more thnn ut pres
ent. The Captains and pilots OF tho
different lines of boats made it point
of duty TO interfere with the business of
thoir opponents in every possible man
ner and the feelings Of passengers were
frequently enlisted in behalf Of the yes
sci they CHANGED TO be ION. Many sto-
RES arc told OF boats running into each
othor, OF pilots exchanging pistol-shots,
and of other like encounters on the river
between opposition boats and their
crews. Ono of these, occurring in Sep
tombcr, 1885, is related III the ArgtIs OF
! the 22d of TINT month While the
North America was preparing to land its
passengers mt CoXBackio, tho Emerald
came along and colldcd with her, but so
lightly rs to do little damage. After the
! bonta had left CoXsaCkie, however, and
| while. us the officers Of the North Amer
len assert she WINS pursuing her course
quietly, tho Emerald started directly
ncross tho river toward her. She struck
tho North Americas whoelhouse with
her lurboard bow, carrying away side
house, railing, boat-cranks, etc. The
Emoruld's wheel passed over the North
Americas small bont, which was lowered
down, ind stove it to atoms. Az tho
North America slowly cleared from the
Emerald, the Emerald raked her whole
side, from tho whcol-house aft. I'M
mcdiatoly after she cleared cheer was
started at the whecl-houso of the Emer-
aid and responded to by her passengers.
The Directors of the North America
Steamboat Company assert Tint they
had iii their possession n certificate OF
person on board tho Emerald who heard
the Captain and pilot agree to run into
| the North America and do her all the
injury they could, and that in the full
iillment Of this agreement tho boat was
stored directly across the river 30 III to
strike tho North America, and tho pas
sengcrs were requested to go to tho star
board side SO ~ 10 put the Emerald i'll
position to do ny grcut injury Us possible.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03
Inherited Tendencies to DIsease.

The present article is based on Valu-
able paper Wy DIR. j. II, Black, in the
PUpUiur Science MOlthW Seventy
thousand persons in America yearly dio
Of consumption, most Of whom have in
hcritcd the disease. Vast numbers in
hcrit Il tendency TO rheumatism, epllep-
~, insanity, cancer, Indigestion, mi
Rainc, neuralgia asthma, and to early
loss Of sight md hearing. No other
cause Of grief and suffering compares
with that due TO organic defects handed
down from parent TO child. OF our 49,
600, 600 Of people probably 10000, 900
inherit some constitutional defect. But
hitherto little has been done to arrest
those tendencies. Physicians are called
only TO the sick. On the contrary, those
who have inherited tendencies to dis
cusc are generally rs careless Of their
health ~ others, while, in the case
of those who already show the tendency,
their friends arc apt 10 pursue Just tho
course most likely 70 strengthen it. For
instance IL cUnsumptiye is shut up from
| the outdoor mir and gcntlo exercise,
though these nro ms only hope. More
oycr, the whole influence Of our social
life aud practices encourages tho
thoughtess squandcriug Of vital re-
serve.
As II consequence, We are dogenerat-
ing og u people. Tho death-rato and
buth-rwto are steadily opproximatlng,
The difference il already less in New
England than in any country Of Europe,
France alone excepted. Yot there Is no
inherent difficulty in the way of extri-
patinG hereditary disease. Hygiene
care would accomplish it--such care as
can como only from medical expert,
and such as We aro all ready to resort to
in ucuto Diseases. Able physicians have
thus been able to eXtirpato tuborculnr
consumption from themselves, their fam
lies and descendants. -AiethOdiSt.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03

THE British House of Lords will not
last long in its present form, according
to the London Iruth, which says that it
has only existed up to now because there
has never been democratic House of
Commons.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03

DEAR MARIA-I have saw lots Of things senco
cum to Nashville went to the circus, and
to see the man that makes Coussons Lightning
Linimont that cured Jim's sprains. lIo don't
belong to the circus, but his Iinimcnt beats en-
all hollow for curing rhumatiz lame back,
sprains, etc. Yours, Jack For sale by oil
druggists
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03
The Dying Year,

"My dear" said sentimental maiden
to her lover, "of what do these au-
tumnal tints, this glowing baldrick of
the sky, this blazing garniture OF tine
dying year, remind you?" Pnncakesl'
hc promptly answered. And then she
realized, for the first time. that Two
hearts did not beat ~ ono
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03

MALARIAL fevers can be prevented, also other
miasmatic diseases, by occasionally using DT';
SantOrGS LlUe7 Inutg0rdtOr, the oldest general
Family Medicine, which is recommended as a
cure for all Diseases caused by disordered
liver. Eghty-pago book sent FREQ. Address
Dr. Sanford, iG2 Broadway, Now York.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03

DIR. anarchists Uterine Cathocon will pasititiye.
ly cure Female Weakness, rs Falling OF the Womb
Whites, Chronic Inflammation or Ulcerition Of the
Womb incidental Hemorrhageor Flooding, Painful,
Suppressed and Irregular Menstr uation, &c, An old
and reliable remedy. send postal card for pam
phlet, with treatment, cures and certificates from
physicians and patients to howRrth 4 Ballard,
Utica, N. Y sold by all druggist si.5O per bottle
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03

NEGErlNE great Success OF the Vege-
tine M n cleanser aud purifier Of the blood is
shown beyond II doubt by tho great numbers
who have taken it. and received immediate ro-
lief. with such remarkable cures.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03

DR. o. u. bHORhAEsR, the wen known aafA
vlrgsoa, Of Reading, Pa, offers to send by mail,
free Of charge, a valuable littl' book on deafness
and diseases Of the specially on running
ear and catarrh, and their proper treatment
giving references and testimonials that viii
satisfy the most skeptical. Addres, as abova-
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03
Interesting Statistical Deductions,

Apart from their value to the success
fnI operation of "fricndly societies" as
they are called, i'll England, some
statistical laws recently discovered by
Dr, Farr, Of the Office of the Register OF
births, marriages and deaths, and by Mr..
A. q, Finnlison, the Government Actuary,
have Il direct interest and significance
for everybody connected with life nssllr-
ancc. In the preparation of his we'll
known English mortality table, Dr. Farr
paid considerable attention to the ques-
ton Of the amount Of sickness prevailing,
and finally propounded tho hypothesis
since recognized as Il aw-thut the num-
Der of persons constantly sick iii any
given town is equal to twice the annual
mortality The main feature of Mr.
FinaIlson's inquiry took the shape OF
discriminating between light and heavy
labor, with or without exposure to the
weather, respectively. The results may
be summed mp III II few words. Those
engaged in light labor, while less liable
to sickness, experience, when sick, at
tacks Of greater duration, and die i'll
groatcrproportions. Hence thephysically
weak, probably, Systematically select
light labor. London piper.
THE London city Press, remarking
upon tho amount Of labor and ingenuity
expended upon the production Of Bank
of England notes, states that they are
still mndc us for generations past, from
pure white linon cuttings only-never
from rags that have been worn--and, so
carefully is the paper prepared, that even
the number of dips into the pulp made
by each workman is registered ON dial
by machinery, and the sheets are care
fully counted, and booked to each per-
son through whose hands they pass.
The printing is done by most curious
process-secret of course-within the
bank building; there il also an elaborate
arrangement for providing TINT no note
shall be exactly like any other in exist
encc, consequently there never was
duplicate Of any of tho banks notes,
except by forgery. 1t has been said that
the stock Of paid notes for seven years is
about 9i,00O,00O in number, and that,
placed in pile, the mass would be eight
miles high, or, If joined end to end, would
form n ribbon $1,000 miles long
"SHON, sad Dutchman, "you may
say what you please pout pad neigh
bors; have had t. worst ncighbors rs
never vas. Mine pigs and mine hens
come home NIT dore ears split, and
fodder day two of them come home miss
ing"
THE fund for the new professorships
i'll lIarvmd's divinity school has reached
Sll3.7 700.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-11-03

II you arc coughing or not but feel the pres
once Of Cold In the systom, use DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup and feel immediate relief. Price
rs conts u bottle.