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If you are in want of we'll
made and stylish Cloaks or Dol
mans for Ladies', Misses, or
Children, all made by Cloak
Taliors and at Popular Prices,
you will find our stock the larg-
est, choicest, and cheapest.
Note a few of our Leading
Styles:
a very handsome Do!man, trimmed with
Passcnlcntcsic AMI Fringe On sleeve, at Sta.
a stylish, Dolmnn, trimmed, Passctncntc-
tic down tho back. Fringe and Passencntc-
ric on the alccvc, double c-b7eastcd, and made
! Of fine Diagonal Dclvcr, at St5.
a fine and stylish DotEran, made OF the
best material, trimmed handsomely in baci:
with Passcment:sic, Silk Ornaments, and
Fringe. Passctncntcric nnd Silk Fringe on
sleeve, only $.s; sold elsewhere at s27.
An elegant Dolman, made Of the best Di-
ngonal Beaver, trimmed with two lows Of
Passcmen.ctic down tho back, Fringc and
Pass:n7cntc1c on the sleeve and collar,
Fringe On the bottom, at Sac; well worth S25.
A fine Diagonal Bcavc! Do!nan, trimmed
| with Damaose Plush around bottom, sleeve,
and collar, at Sac; cannot BE- founi elsewhere
| at the prize. Twenty other styles, $40 each.
An extra fine Cord Diagonal Dolnan, Trim
med, two rows OF Gimp down III: back. fin
| iahcd with Velvet and Ornaments, sleeve
trimmed with Velvet Fringe, Passcnacnte,ic,
| Silk and Satin i oids, also wide Fringe On III !,
bottom, at S2J; can't be beat. Seventeen
other styles at same price.
Also, large stock Of Dolrnans at $7s, $3o.
$33. S35, and $40.
Attention is chilled to o,,r Silk, Dauasse
Brocadf, and C:ci!ian Doin'ans, all pri:cs.
Special attention given to orders in Fine
Goods. Perfect fit guaranteed.
Remember, all are cut by Cloa1: Tailcrs.
Our stock Of listers, Havc1ocks, Sustouss,
Circulars, ctc., is very great.
Chtdrcn's Cloaks ftom 4 years old up, in
immense quantities, ut low prices.
We are prepared to furnish the cloth, and
cut and fit the sam: only, II SO desired.
, 1880-11-03

Tluy tho Improvctl Ilnwr :4cnIvs. BORDEN.
SclIcck l. Co.. Agents, n IAkr street.
, 1880-11-03

The greatest ble4%1flg ever offered to
suffering humanity ts Artntt's kuu,ya*. In tya-
pcrsin En*trits, i,ns1sea sc1lurl debility cs,,,
s'.lnltlnII, etc., It nets Ikea chnrr1., ustrsa.
thti r+,1acc. Appetite sltlu strength retlrI, ~ If
~ n.uRic. ktirnyss Is mt mccine: It Ii Il fi,od
III form Of II pleasant milk wine. 1t represents
nt the elements 0f nutrition in n ritulakcsl und
rnslIy !f4csted firm, n!Mt nnlhing RISE ~ rapidly
ellrlehcs thu GlpM!. Tr.atisc IN k1lnayss sett
free tn nny Htrcss. beware nf limitations
Arc1''s kulHyss Il not sold ~ tln. trl,Ie. TIM
EnnIets supplied directly ttr l.. Arrnll. Chemist
corner Madison street and Fifth Msun1it.
, 1880-11-03

It will be remembered that
CLOAKS and MILLINERY are
our specia!ties, and we defy
competition for desirable
goods at low prices.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19
--Heliotrope is the new color to be in

--Heliotrope is the new color to be in
troduced in spring silks, grenadines,
and wool goods. 1t is defined as a false
purple by the merchants, and is pre-
cisely the rosy purple seen in the newly
blown heliotrope. Next this is coach
mans drab, which includes several of
the light cream brown shades used for
coachman's livery; these shades will be
used in wool suits of a single color and
entirely of one material, made up simply
with surtout and fill skirt for walking
and travelling dresses. Green shades,
such as bronze, olive, and the darkest
bottle green, viii be much used in COM
binztions with figured stuffs; this is al
so true of the japanese blue shades that
are popularity known as peacock and
gendarme, also the turquoise and sap
phire blue tints.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19
A Playful Elephant.

Romeo, the elephant, amused himself
in various ways during a recent steam
boat voyage from New Orleans to Gin
cinnati. He made himself quite free
with the freight that was within his
reach, and tumbled boxes, barrels, and
bales promiscuously. At Vicksburg the
haxser, a heavy cable some three inches
in diameter, was used to tie up the boat.
The observing Romeo saw the deck
hands hauled it in once or twice, when
he concluded that he could do it himself
quite as well as the dozen men. As
long thereafter as he was kept on the
forecastle he hauled the hawser, so far,
at least, as hauling it in was concerned.
The deck hands dragged it out and
made it fast, but the moment it was I'M
tied the elephant seized it with his trunk
and hauled it aboard. The bell-wires
runing from the pilot house to the engine
room passed under the cabin floor di-
rectly over his back. He evidently
noticed that when the wires moved the
bell rang. He began to ring the bells
himself by pulling the wires with his
trunk. The first time he jerked the bell
wire the engineer stopped the boat
What's the matterp'' asked the pilot
through the speaking tube. Nothing"
responded the engineer. "What did
you stop her for?" because you rang
the bell" 81 didn't ring" cling
a-ling-ling-ling!" clattered the bell as
if there were spirits in it. The engineer
rushed out just in time to catch Romeo
jerking the wire and the mystery was
explained.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19
Arsenic.

Out in Ohio, at Youngstown, lady
who has been for some time an invalid
has lately died. Just before her death
she declared her belief that she was
poisoned, and asked to be examined
The post mortem shows, surely enough,
plain traces of arsenic. Nobody is sus-
pected, and there is no reason to suspect
any one. The deceased belonged to the
great American army of patent-medicine
dosers, and had been accustomed to
swallowing nostrums regularly for years.
1t is thought that she may have from
these absorbed enough poison to ac-
count for the traces. And before arsen-
ical evidences come to be generally ac-
cepted as proofs of murderous poisoning,
people will have to have more light on
few dark questions, such as how much
poison these panaceas contain; how
much arsenic the system can absorb
from outside how much it can get from
wallpaper, from clothing, etc.; how
much is used in the burial materials;
whether the earth itself is able to impart
arsenic after burial, ETC. All these do
not apply to this Ohio case, but have a
general tendency to throw doubt on
arsenic cases as a class.-Hartford
COaIrdpt.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19
A Public BenefactOr.

"Down at Hornellsville" the tall, thin
passenger remarked, "some of the boys
were telling me about a young fellow
who lost his wife. They took her re-
mains to some remote point, her old
home, l believe, for interment. On
their way back home, the bereaved
husband, accompanied by the physician,
stepped off the train at dining station
for little refreshment. When they
went in they saw a man at the lunch
counter, his elbows squared, and his
jaws working like an electric machine.
When they went in he was standing
about midway between the ends of the
counter. The physician and the mourn
er couldn't help noticing that every
thing on the counter below the man was
gone; cleaned out, devoured; and ev-
cry thing above him was untouched.
Steadily the man worked his devastating
way towards the bountiful end of the
counter, and the other passengers stood
back to see fair play, and give the coun-
ter chance. In time the man worked
his way clear and clean up to the wall !;
he surrounded the last sawdust sand
witch, he wrestled down the last piece of
waterproof mince-pie, he choked little
on the last plaster-paris cast of dough-
nut. but he got it down. Then, with a
profound sigh, gazing along the wreck
strewn counter, he walked away with
the air of a man who had just sacrificed
himself for the good of his fellow-men,
saying in tones of triumphant satisfac-
ton: There by gaul! The next fellow
that comes along here will get something
fresh!' '-Burdette, in the Haa0beye.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19
PITH AND POINT.
SPARE ribs-the sealed wives of Ut

SPARE ribs-the sealed wives of Utah.
1T is supposed to be smart man who
knows on which side his bread is but
tered, although any body can easily find
out by dropping it.
A VERY brilliant piano player can
work up a Home, Sweet Home'' so
artistically that in the bang and confa-
sion of the playing it can not be distin
guished from sMoses in Egypt. IN.
0. Picayune
How depraved is the literary taste of
youth. Take a hundred boys, aged
about IA each, and it may be safely
wagered that % of them would rather
read a story called cred Headed Jim,
the Assassin of Cabbage Alley" than to
peruse Prof. Goldwin Smiths "Moral
Interregnum.
LONGPHIz is inclined to low spirits at
times. In one of these spells, the other
day, be grumbled: "This is a dreary
world. That's one reason hate doc
tors. They helped to bring me in to it. u
Here he stopped, but, Frightening up a
little moment later, he added:
However, they help us out of it in the
end; SO they are not so bad, after
all"
A woULD-BE joker in a mixed COM
pany remarked: "Now, my friends, l
think Japan is the best place to live in
in the world; l understand that there
are neither Jews nor pigs there" A
diminutive specimen, but with an un-
mistakably Hebrew castof countenance,
replied: "Well, mine friend, l tell you
vat it is. Let's you and me go there
and exhibit ourselves. We could make
our fortune"
BEFORE.
The cheerful fire brightly burns,
The gas bill keeps acruing,
The maiden fair new lessons learn,
The ardent youth neer homeward turns
And onward speeds the wooing.
AFTER.
The Pickering fire feebly burns,
The time has passed for wooing,
The faded wife new lessons learns,
The husband seldom homeward turns,
And onward speeds the ruling.
-Hdckelsdck Republican.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19
RaipfalIS and Forests.


According to paper in POly6tblio1s,
the following are the laws of meteorology
as affected by forests: l. Itrains more
abundantly, under identical circum-
stances, over forests than non-wooded
ground, and most abundantly over
forests with trees in a green condition.
2. The degree of saturation of the air by
moisture is greater above forests than
over non-wooded ground, and much
greater over Pinus sylvestris than over
masses of leaved species. 3. The LEAKAGE
and branches of leafed trees intercept
one-third, and those of resinous trees
the half, of the rain-water, which after
wards returns to the atmosphere by
evaporation. On the other hand, these
same leaves and branches restrain the
evaporation of the water which reaches
the ground; and that evaporation is
nearly four times less under mass of
leafed forest than in the open, and two
and One-third times only under mass
of pines. 4. The laws of the change of
temperature out of and under wood are
similar to those which result from the
observations of M. Matthew. The gen.
eral conclusion seems to be, that forests
regulate the function of water, and ex-
ercise on the temperature, as on the
atmosphere, an effect of 'sponderation"
and equilibrium. g ~ -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19

SWEET AND SOUR CABBAGE.-Takea
cabbage-head and cut it down into eight
pieces and cover it with coarse salt, let
ting it remain in a jar twelve hours !;
take it out, squeeze it and chop it fine
with two onions; put If on the, fire in a
china-lined vessel, covering it with vine
gar and boil for full hour; add to it
then one ounce of turmeric "a teaspoon
full of curry will do instead of turmeric),
one teaspoonful of ground pepper, a
teaspeonful of celery seed, a tablespoon
full of allspice, two tablespoonful of
ground mustard and half an ounce of
white mace, with one-and-a-haf pounds
of brown sugar; cook one hour more.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19

Silk and wool brocaded mixtures of
light quality i'm bright Oriental colors
and designs will be used as parts Of COS
tunes with plain French bunting or light
camel's hair.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-19
The Boy Who Loved His Teacher.

A school boy about 10 years old was
the other day halted by benevolent
minded citizen on Second Street and
asked if he liked to 90 to school,. ~
"No, sir!n was the prompt reply.
"Then you don't love your teacherP'
"N-yes, sir. That is, l didn't until
yesterday, but now l do. l think she's
just bully" Dtr nJEo
Why have you loved her since yes
terday?''
"Well, you know Jack Camp Well,
he's the worst fighter in our room. He
can lick me and two other boys with
one hand tied behind him. Well, he
was going tolick me last night and he
was shaking his fist at me in school and
showing his teeth and getting me all
excited when the teacher saw him."
"Did, eh?''
"You bet she did; and the way she
took him out of that and wolloped him
and humbled him down made me feel
as if she were a mother to mel When
school was out, Jack dasn't touch no.
body. He was wilted down, and when
hit him With hunk of dirt he never
even looked aroundi l guess I'm going
to try and lick him in the morning,
before he gets over feeling humble ~
Detroit Free Press.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-18
A Southern Picture.

A correspondent writing from the
capital of South Carolina to the Owa.
tOnna Journal, Oct. 10, says:
Columbia street seems like one etern-
al Sabbath. There Is none of the
northern, hustle, hurry, and sound of
busy traffic, Offices are not open till
. u. M, closing promptly at 2 o'clock.
There is a languor in the step and
ease of movement which betokens
that the merchant Is already rich or
was born tired and has never "slept
up" the lost time. Columbia bonds
are pay fifty cents OH the dollar. In
curious contrast exchange in New
York is selling decidedly to the AL.
vantage of South Carolina. Still King
Cotton drives his chariot through the
streets and all classes how before his
august majesty. The crop, the
largest since the war, Is now being
picked. Labor is very scarce and the
crop is suffering for want of atten.
ton. The usual price paid for pick.
ing Is forty cents per hundred pounds,
and rations. When the crop is heavy
a good hand can pick two hundred
pounds per day, and thus hundreds
are living and supporting families of
eight or nine, on eighty cents per
day. How such squalOr and wretch.
ednsss can exist, Mr.. Editor, when
80 many broad acres of our western
prairie lie uncultivated, is 4 question
unanswerable, The most amusing
feature of this life Is the negro char.
acter. One must come far South to
see the old time negro Of the slave
holding days. Here is one coming up
the street driving a COW harnessed
like a horse in the shafts of a rickety
cart, drawing his one bale of cotton
to the market. His SLOUGH hat, sans
brim, sans crown. sans nearly every.
thing but holes. the dropping figure,
the glittering white teeth and the
inky blackness of the face, make u
picture for an artist. A bale Of cot.
ton weighs usually $50 pounds, worth
now l04 cents, and represents the
product of from two acres to two and
one fourth acre, depending upon the
quality of the soil.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-18
He Couldn't Help Laugh.

~ had my misgivings, boss" the
waiter said to the landlord, who was
questioning him about his conduct
toward the tall gentleman in blue
clothes, who sat at the door. 81 had
my suspicious when no sat down dat
he was carrying noah whiskey dan
was good for i'm, but he was perfect.
ly quite and behaved himself we'll
enough, an l didn't pay no attention
to it entwell he picked up baked
potato and hole it car'fully over the
aig glass wild his left hand, and begun
to hit de end OF de potato wild his
spoon. lie hit it right hard three or
four times, an den he whack 1t once
or twice Oh de aige Of dc plate, and,
lookin' solemn rs an owl all de time,
he call me up to him and say as p'lite
an dignified as a President, 'Wattah'
he say, Il wish you would ies' fix dis
billed aig for me, If you please; Use
lorse q good deal of sleep las night,
and I'm little narvOus dis mornin','
he says, An ! know hadn't done
ought for to laugh, boss. but I hope
to die ii could help it," The land
lord did not discharge him under the
circumstances.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-18
sixty Miles "a Minute In Il TIN Pan.

Arthur Fitzpatrick, who returned
from Colorado u short time ago, gives
the following account of an occurr.
ancc In the mining districts Of which
he was an eyewitness "a miner
and some companions were crossing
the Continental Divide when it was
covered with snow. Three miles
below them, down u decline of forty
five degrees. deeply covered with
frozen snow, lay the spot they de.
sired to reach. while to go round the
trail waslifteen miles. The miner had
q tin pan, used for washing gold,
spread his blanket over it, got in it
himself in u squatting position on his
launches, tucked the blanket around.
held his rifle and other traps over his
head, and got one Of his companions
To give him a push. He informed me
that he went down ut the rate OF
sixty miles II minute, and shot far out
into the valley at the foot of the
mountain. When he stopped he
found the soldering of his pan
melted from friction, his blanket on
fire. and it was his impression that,
had he gone much further, he would
have burned up, together with all his
traps" -Pittsburg Telegraph.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-18
'ECApITuLATIOS.
4 sinking Continent.

The question whether the South
American continent is sinking or not
is one on which considerable differ
encc OF opinion exists. Prof. Orton
several years ago expressed the be-
lief that the barometic observations
of the heights of the principal noun.
tains, which have been continued
through more than Il hundred years,
afforded evidence Of u. gradual sink.
ing and this opinion has prevailed eX.
tcnsively. Prof. Agassiz believed
that the eastern coast was sinking
while the western cost was rising,
and Darwin infers from the discovery
of an ancient race of civilization on
lands that are now to high for the
of human life that the
lands are raising. DR.. W. Weiss
read a paper before the German Geo.
graphical society at u recent meeting,
in which he advanced the theory,
founded on comparison of obserya.
lions which had been made at the
mouths of rivers. that the continent
is rising. The isthmus of Panama
seems to he rising, and signs Of eleya.
ton are apparent on the north coast
of the continent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-18
Sensible AdmOnitiOMs.

Don't buy "a piano for your daugh.
tiers, while your sons need plow.
Don't let your horses be seen stand.
ing much ut the beer saloon; 1t don't
look right.
Don't give the merchant or printer
q chance to dun you; prompt pay.
ment makes independent men.
Don't leave to memory what should
be written; 1t makes lawsuits.
Don't become security for him who
waits for the sheriff.
Decent, substantial clothing for
your children, makes them think
better of themselves, and keeps the
doctor away.
Teach your boys to look up and be
forward, never backward.
Cultivate the habit Of giving, but
never give up.
Buy a farm wagon before u tine
carriage.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-18
Magnitude of the National Debt.

Charles d. McGuffey, Of Chatta.
nOoga, has been endeavoring to "get
some idea" of the magnitude Of the
national debt ut the close of the war.
He has made the calculation that il
four men were to sit down to pay the
interest, and count u silver dollar q
second and work every second of the
year, they could not keep down the
interest on the original debt, and If
another should sit down at two years
of age to count tho principal at the
same rate, he would be over l07 years
old by the time he had counted the
last dollar, interest on the principal
having ceased from the first moment.
The pile Of silver dollars, moreover,
which he would make In counting
that principal would be four feet
square and fifteen times rs high rs
Lookout Mountain Il 800 feet above
Chattanooga; and If the silver were
conveyed in continuous wagon train,
each wagon carrying Il ton and each
wagon ana team occupying thirty.iive
feet, that train would stretch from
Chattanooga to Columbus.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-18
Minnesota News.

Dresbach coal mine in Winona
county turns out to be rich lead
mine.
The hardware store of Carleton 4
Roberts, in Waterviile, was broken
into on Friday night, and the safe
was blown open and 5000 in money
taken out
On Monday night, as John Kreger,
of this place, was coming home from
John Bones, on the opposite side Of
the river, and when within about a
mile and a half of town, his horse got
frightened, and on looking for the
cause, he saw six large wolves not
far from him. They soon set UP q
howl which convinced him that his
safety depended upon speed. lie.
Seuer Sentinel.
A mail route from Wells to james.
vile will be established July !, 1881.
Threshers In Wabasha county rep.
resent the yield of wheat in some
cases rs not exceeding two bushels to
the acre.
Parties living In kasota have been
ferreted out who have, during the
past year, dropped goods from freight
trains ut or near Ottawa.
In the HarwOod failure the claims
thus far presented In open court
exceed 100000, and more to here
from. The principal claims are In
Minneapolis and New York City.
Mark D. Fowler is to be appointed
supervising inspector Of steamboats,
for the Fiftieth (St. Paul district,
vice Charles L. Stephenson, deceased
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-18
American sheep are steadily gain

American sheep are steadily gain.
ing d reputation abroad. At the
time of the late meeting Of the
National WOol.growers' Association
at Philadelphia, 2 Australian fieeces
and 2 from American sheep were
secured for purposes Of comparison.
The persons in charge Of the securing
had no knowledge Of the nativity Of
the sheep from which the flceces were
shorn. After securing they were
appraised by competent and impartial
judges. The American feeces pro.
duced 81 pounds of cleansed wool,
while the Australian. when secured,
weighed less than ~ pounds. The
Australian fleeces were valued ut
$3.50, while the price set upon the
American was $8.l2. A prominent
sheep breeder OF Melbourne learning
the result visited several noted fiocks
of Merinoes in Vermont and New
York and satisfied himself of the
superiority of our sheep. He there.
fore ordered two rams and two ewes
to be shipped to his home. Some
time ago Mr.. Markham, Secretary of
the N. w. G. Association, sent three
carloads OF American Nerinoes to
Japan.