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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
A Warning to Tanner.


A very curious example of fasting for
considerable length Of time occurred
some years ago in Paris, and is worth
recalling now in connection with Tan
ner's performance. A French gentle
man, reduced in circumstances, too proud
to beg and too lazy to work, reached the
conclusion that eating and drinking were
all nonsense, and that msn could do
without either If 80 disposed; that he, at
any rate, could live for thirty days at
least without any substance whatever,
His friends, to whom he communicated
his ideas on the subject, wagered 1900
francs that he could not. He accepted
the bet, and some physicians were found
its progress. In this case, unlike that
of DIR. Tanner, total abstinence from
both eating and drinking was required.
The first four days the mans agonies
caused by thirst were almost overpower-
ing, while he bore those of hunger with
the greatest ease. On the eighth day he
was surprised to find that his power Of
vision, as well as that OF hearing, in
creased considerably. The physician at.
tributed tho increased acuteness Of his
senses to the way in which the intestinal
irritation acted on the nervous system.
In this manner he passed twenty -one
days; his brain retained its full vigor
to the last, but his pulse became alarm
ingly weak, and the physicians now in
sisted on his taking some wine. It
came too late. Nature had been COM
pletely exhausted, and the wresched man
died ON the twenty-arst day Of his self
imposed tortures. The record does not
say whether or not those physicians were
arraigned for granddaughter or not. II
they were not they ought to have been.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
Eggs ~ q Diet.
from the London Globe. ]


It is not uninteresting to have the
opinion of popular medical writer in
France upon the merits of II diet of
eggs. After explaining the chemical
composition of u hens egg, and laying
due stress upon the large proportion OF
albuminous matter contained i'll it, DIR.
Valoureux goes Oh to assert that some
prudence should be exercised in indulg-
ing an appetite for eggs. OF all the 600
different modes of preparing them for
the table, the most wholesome is that of
simply boiling them as the French
phrase has it. But it is necessary even
in accepting this rule to qualify it by
adding that the eggs should not be boil
ell too much, as in such cases it becomes
very much less digestible. Anothe in
struction is that the eggs should not De
eaten without taking some wine or other
liquid Mt the same time; and the doctor
recounts a story of certain modern Blue
Beard who was said to have killed four
or FIVE wives successfully by inducing
them every morning to eat two eggs
without drinking anything at all. More
over, eggs are not to be devoured in
large quantities Mt time, unless the per-
Soh uiuhiuB VIC VApSihhthp "AohS' w
have painful experience of maxim that
an egg is equivalent to quarter of a
pound of meat. Apropos OF this hitter
warming the Frenchman might have adj
ded, if he had known it, a very modern
Devonshire story of laborer who was
ordered by the village doctor to eat eggs,
and whose employer gave him shilling
to enable him to comply with those Or
ders without going to any unwarrantable
expense. A few days afterwrd the
good natured employer called to ask how
the sufferer was. He had followed out
the doctors injunctions with alacrity,
but, instead of being any better, was n
great deal worse; and further inquiries
elected the fact that he had bought
eighteen eggs with his shilling, and had
ut once set to and finished them ut sit
ting.
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was dated on the day after the first. II
was in girls hand, aud said:

think YOU might come and see me, Oh we'll
as To sign papas law papers. Please come;
am pini.g for you, and looking all day long for
the boat. hope you haven't forgotten Your
lJo,pD JEAN.
Having perused this epistle once, Mr..
Warning perIsed it second time, with
IN elderly smile. So Miss Jean Alleyn,
only baby yesterday, was writing notes,
was she, and notes to gentlemen 1t was
true, he was her cousin, and had made
great pet Of her in her childhood on his
visits to The Reeds. For many years
now he had not seen her, but they had
kept mp sort of correspondence. When
n story or a poem i'll periodical amused
him, he sent her the periodical, having
no doubt that she was old enough to
read now; and this Jean reciprocated
10y dispatchiug i'll return such journals
as contained comic or sentimental verse.
Thus their intimacy had remained I'M
broken. and Mr.. Warning reflected with
n certain pleasure that he would see his
childfavorite again. She must be some
what more than child now, as she wrote
sd easily; her age must be-ten? Per-
haps little more, even as much as tif-
teen. Well, ut all events, he would soon
know; she would run to him and kiss
him and perch herself in his lap and tell
him all her secrets, and he would have
IN amusing time ut The Reeds, which
would he rather slow otherwise. II was
interesting to watch the unfolding minds
Of these feminine humming birds. "Lt-
tie Jean" would make him laugh, at
least, and he would come back in good
spirits Ia his city friend.
So, two days afterwarl-he had held
another Il, lightfulintervie with the city
friend-Mr. Warning packed his valise,
and embarked on the Chesapeake boat
which touched Mt the wharf near The
Reeds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
Put Glover On Your Land.

An Ohio paper says that by clovering
hundreds of farms that were about
worthless have been rescued from dilap-
l9tion and ruin. 1t is an accepted
truism that as long as "clover VII
catch" the farm can soon be restored to
paying fertility, and by II good rotation
even getting more productive and
Profitable; for after some years of such
treatment the laud will bear harder
farming-that il, two or three crops may
succeed good coat of clover before lay
ing down to clover again. Rough new
land should be subdued by the use o.
large clover. Nothing SO effectually
rots out stumps and kills weeds and
sprouts, and prepares the land for the
pillow and good paying crops. Wild,
new lands should always have it sown on
the first grain crop down. 1t saves Il
vast amount of labor, for i'll few years
il so tames the ground and clears it of
enemies to the pillow that it works like
old ground, and is good for full crops.
One great error is often fallen into, and
that is following the old tradition that a
bushel of clover seed will do for eight
acres. That may have been enough to
clover land partially whom it WIS new,
but whoever aims at getting up his land
in speedy and profitable way should
SOW bushel on four acres 80 that his
land may be thoroughly shaded.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
Chinese Treatment OF Animals.

lTravels ON HorseDack IN Manchu Tartary.l
They never punish; hence mule that
in the hands OF foreigner would be not
only useless, but dangerous to every one
about it, becomes in the possession of q
Cinnamon as quiet as q lamb and as
tractable as dog. We never beheld q
runaway, or a jibIng or vicious mule
hut found the same rafting, cheerful
pace maintained over heavy or light
roads, by means of tur-r or cluok-k,
the animal turning to the right or left
and stopping with but hint from the
reins. This treatment is extended to all
the animals they press into service.
Often have admired the tact exhibited
in getting through narrow crowded
streets and alleys by merely having lit
tie boy to lead one Of the quietest Of the
fioak In front. the others steadily follow.
ing, without the aid either from yelp.
ing cur or q cruel goad. Cattle, pigs
and birds are equally cared for.
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with pepper and silt, just little onion;
break over the meat two or three eggs;
add small piece of butter; stir all to.
gether; pour it upon nicely buttered
toast; serve hot; gnrnish with parsley.
MUSHROOM CArsUP.-This il a good
time to make your catsup. Such large
mushrooms ~ are not fit for cooking
alone do very well. Cut them all up fine,
and to every pound of mushroom add a
tablespoonful Of salt; put away for "a
hours in cool place, and drain off the
juice, using pressure; boil this juice
with three cloves, half a dozen
peppercorns, and le' Ill slowly; strain
carefully when col, and add TO each
pint of fluid a wine glassful Of sherry;
must be stopped carefully; If not salt
enough, add SALT
PoT ROAST. Meat of any kind,
chicken, prairie fowl or pigeons, may be
pot roasted. Slice IN onion and a few
slices of pork, and put into the bottom
of kettle. Place on top whatever meat
il to be cooked; add just water enough
to stew it. BE careful not to Use too
much water; it can be easily added il it
cooks away. but it spoils the dish to be
obliged to take out any. Keep turning
the meat, and let it stew or roast slowly
till brown or tender, then take out the
meat, strain and thicken the gravy, pour
over the meat and serve hot.
BAKED CUsTARD.-Beat the yolks OF
four fresh eggs for at least half IN hour;
add five ounces of pulverized sugar; then
stir into the sugar and eggs one quart of
rich new milk, cold. Add teaspoonful
of distilled rose water, or any Havoring
extract you fancy. Fill Your custard
cups and set them III stone pan half
filled with water, which may be warm Mt
| first-not hot. Put the pan i'll u rather
cool oven, and gradually increase to a
moderate heat. In few minutes dip n
teaspoon into one of the custards to AZ
certain il it is firm. Judgment and great
care are needed to attain skill in baking
clistard, for il left in the oven minute
too long, or il the fire is too hot, the milk
will certainly whey.
Ice CREAM CAKE.-Whites of eight
eggs, one cup sweet milk, one cup
butter, two cups sugar, two cups flour,
one cup corn starch, two teaspOonfuls
baking powder, mixed with the flour;
cream the butter and sugar, add the
milk, then the -four and corn-starch, add
the whites beaten very light; bake i'll
cakes about IN inch thick. Icing for be-
tween cakes: Whites of four eggs beaten
very light; forr cups sugar, pour one
half pint boiling water over the sugar
and boil until clear and will candy in
cold water; pour the boiling syrup over
tle beaten eggs, and beat hard until the
mixture is cold and to stiff cream;
add, before it is quite cold, one tea
spoonful pulvedzed citric acid, two tea
spoonfuls extract vanilla; when cold,
spread between the cakes as thick rs the
cakes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
EDUCATIONAL.

The French government has ordered
that course of teaching in agriculture
be introduced into every primary school
in the country.
HANOVER, the Oldest college in Indiana,
has Just decided to admit young women
TO its instructions on the same terms as
the young men.
The study of national and state con-
stitutions made obligatory in the public
schools of Wisconsin has been attended
with excellent results.
SOME Of the young pupils of the schools
of Rockland, Mass. have organized them.
selves into Natural History Associa-
ton which promises to be full of enter.
tainment as we'll as instruction.
THE salaries of some of the teachers in
the Worcester schools have been slightly
raised. The grammar masters, who have
received lately only 81, 600 year, are to
have again their former salaries OF
81 800.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM T. HARRIS, the
Hegelian philosopher, who has resigned
the superintendency of the st. Louis
schools, has been presented with beauti.
full gold medal with letter of credit fol
81 900 to defray his expenses i'll Europe.
Mr.. H. G. SHELDON, for five years
past assistant professor of practical
theology in Boston university, has just
been promoted to the full professorship.
Caroline E. Hastings, NJ. d., for seven
years lecturer and demonstration in the
University's school of Medicine, has
been made professor of Anatomy.
PRESIDENT NEWELL, of the Maryland
Teachers association, mentioned in
severe terms ut its meeting the other day
the "teachers by accident the meI
who are making the school.room half.
way house to the church or the bar, and
the girls to whom the school-houst
would be prison were it not that il
gives them the means of dressing in Q
more captivating style, and when the
days of hiring are accomplished, to pur.
chase wedding trousseau.
SUPERINTENDENT PEAsLEE, of Cincin-
natl, advocated ut the recent meeting Of
the Ohio teachers the incubation OF
morality in children by means of the
reading and memOrizing of carefully
selected literature in schools. "Here.
tofore," he said, "the boys education
has been no broader than his business
expectations; his happiness as man and
his worth as q citizen have not been
taken into account. These principles
are too narrow for an age that is looking
for good men, as well us good account
ants and grammarians. They are un-
necessarily narrow. They leave broad
fields of noble soil untitled"
AN English writer says wisely con-
corning classical teaching: "Too many
boys have been allowed to 60 through
their school career under the impression
that Greek and Latin were only invented
to worry them with grammars and die
tionaries, and without ever realizing that
these languages were used in daily life
by men of like nature with ourselves,
whose deeds and sayings are of personal
interest to us still. Grammar and idiom
aust be taught, and with strict accuracy,
or n language will never be really
grasped; but u master cannot too soon
begin to draw upon the human interest
of the classics.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
Piute Trout Fishers.

The Twin Lakes are at present quite o
resort for Piutes, who 60 there for the
purpose of fishing for trout. A company
Of them will sit ON the bank and while
the brave buck hobs for the specified
beauties the faithful squaw is in the i'm
mediate vicinity sewing on a piece Of
calico or waiting on the fishermen. The
favorite bait is ant eggs, and after nest
has been ransacked or its contents the
fun begins The supply on hand is
placed in the mouth and used when re-
quired. The moisture toughens the bait
and makes II more suitable for use. II
the buck Is particularly lazy the squaw
Is used to hold the bait AMI deals It out
as often o. called upon. Sometimes the
native sons of the forest will haul In sew
eral dozen trout during the day, while
on other occasions the result Is not so
encouraging.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
Training Heifers.

1t is very easy matter to train a
heifer to stand quietly to be MIXED, but
it is an easier matter to train them to
Jump, kick and run. The way to teach
them to stand still is to always require
them to do SO. The way to teach them
the contrary is to give them n good OPP.
portunity to for doing so. If there il
naught to hinder wild heifer from run.
ming, and if her fears prompt her to run,
she can and will run. On the contrary,
if she cannot run, i'll short time she
loses her fear, and stands from habit
and habit is one of the most powerful in.
fiuences in this world for either brute OF
man.
If you want to transform q wild heifel
into a well-behaved, well-trained COW,
you must be patient, and exhibit no tenn.
per. Never strike or kick her. She
must firsto all get acquainted with you.
She must learn not to fear you. Ii, in
in winter, it is best to milk in the stable,
make as little fuss and as few alarming
motions AZ possible. Handle her very
gently. Be careful not to pinch the
toats. This is the great source of trouble.
A COW naturally wishes to be rid of her
milk. She stands quietly until some
careless mixer has given squeeze that
h,lrts, when she kicks and runs. by al
lowing such course II few times, the
habit will be confirmed.
The best way to manage if you have
no stable, is to have small, well fenced
yard, and teach your heifers to stand fol-
milking in that; or, next best, to tie
them, using them very quietly.
No man or boy is fit to handle animals
unless he can control them, and control
himself. Neither is it right to chastise
the ignorant.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-30
A Practical Joke.
from the Toronto MALL


The funeral of Miss Clara Bagnall re-
Gently took place from her mothers resi-
dence, Indiantown, +. B. The story of
her sad life should be a warning to prao-
tical jokers. Several years ago, when
the deceased was but girl, a gentleman
of her acquaintance thought he would
play o joke on her, never imagining for a
moment that it would result so seriously
as it did, He arrayed himself In o
diabolical rig, presented himself before
her. She was naturally of weak and
nervous temperament, and the shock
that her n -rves experienced by the
frightful apparation proved too much for
her. She fell into fit, only to awake a
raving maniac. For five or six years
her friends managed to keep her at home,
until her health began to fail, when they
very reluctantly decided upon sending
her to the asylum, She fingered there
for some time until the angel Of death re
lieyed her of her suffering.
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Give stock a Variety Of Food.

1t is u well established fact that sim
gle kind of food. is not enough for the
best growth, health and comfort of ami
mails. Like ourselves, the stock wekeep
does relish II change of diet-thrives
better with change Of pasture, 30 to
speak-and gives fuller returns for the
trouble of providing the variety of foods.
Coarse fodder should be mixed with that
which il of finer nature, and the highly
heterogeneous feed with substances weak
in nitrogen. Some farmers will feed
their sheep corn one morning and barley
or oats the next. and thus keep UP con-
tinual surprise, heightened by lick OF
silt now and then. 1t is the same love
of change which makes colt, COW, and
even the oldest horse, feel glad when
turned into II new field.
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Advertising His Mutton.

At the Church of Great Salkeld, in
Cumberland, this custom prevailed 80 or
40 years ago; I fancy that it has now
fallen through; after the banns were
published for the third time the parish
clerk exclaimed, "God speed them
weel!" Nor was this the only curious
custom in this Parish. As the congrega-
ton were leaving the church after service,
the clerk, taking his stand on "thruff"
in the ehnrchyard ap gqs9 all the
sales by auction which wefS to be held
during the week III the pa4ish, and other
matters ID interest 10 tissaparishioners,
such as On 4 WsdaesaaHipext Willie
rsssssP t S MYIs sas]s r e
glad 10 dispose o. ptd1ft ar I'M mutton TO
his neighbots, his own Hkany not being
equal to whele sheeplotam
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PAHlS.
SIXTEENTH cEHruRY.

sixrkErrh cErruhr.
Down upon the 1eaguered town
With forty thousand men he rode:
The fields were bare, the meadows brown,
The starving cattle family lowed.
But conquering hero he rode down
A. II 10 hawk and bells he rode
While helds were bare and meadows brown
And starving cattle family lowed.
And just thout the rcaquered town
They pitched their tents along the rad,
Or In the fields and meadows brown
Where starving cattle family lowed.
Day after day they stormed the town:
bay after day he laughing rode
Across the fields and meadows brown
where starving cattle family lowed.
One day from ont the 1eaguercd town
There faltered forth along the road,
And 10y the fields aud meadows brown
Where starving cattle family lowed.
wretched thrung. The 1caguered town
Had cast aside its useless load.
And 10y the helds and meadows brown
Whcr, starving cattle family lowed,
They faltcred up, they faltered down,
Half dazed with fea~, along the road.
1hcn, 10y the fields and meadows brown
Mherc starving cattle lowed.
bay after day, and careless rode
bay after day by meadows brown
Whcrr starving cattle family lowed,
With swift sharp strokes came riding down
Alnng the white and dusty road,
TnheedinR still the meadows brown,
The starving cattle rs they lowed.
His face was set beneath frown;
His laughing eyes, that had bestowed
M glance upon the meadows brown
Where starving cattle family lowed.
Now fierce yet sOft Looked shining down
Upon the groups that thrungrd the r'ad.
Blind 10 the meadows barr and brown,
Deaf 20 the cattle AZ they lowed,
His great heart suddenly bore down
The conquerUT's pidC, and hack Ia rode,
Past all the ficlls and meadows brown
Where starNlng cattC family lowed.
He fed the people II tn, town
Thee furnished groups that thrOnged the road
And through the fields and meadows br'wn
He called the cattle ~ they lowed,
And fed them ALL Then from the town
He turned away, and lightly rode
l'asi III the EIDE and nCaavws brown,
With Iacr that shune and eyes that Glowed.
- FIRE Disu " H. cried, "I'l take no town
by faIline's scvurce: a fairCr rad
Must Henry of Navarro ride down
To md his triumph WEI! bestowed"
a., H.,
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Domestic Recipes.

SpIcED FRUITs-To seven pounds of
fruit, take three good pounds of sugar,
one pint Of vinegar, cloves, mace and
cinnamon to suit taste, sprinkle the SUI
gar over the fruit; let itstand over night,
then boil the juice, vinegar and spice fif-
teen minutes. Put in the fruit and boil
ten minutes. .-.
LEMON JuMBLEs, -One egg, one tea
cupful Of sugar, half cup Of butter,
three teaspoonfuls Of milk, one Of cream
tartar, half tablespoonful Of soda, two
small lemons, juice Of both, and grated
rind of one. Mix rather stiff, roll and
cut out with o cake cutter.
DISH FOR LUNcHEoN.-Take pieces OF
cold meats Of any kind, chop fine, season
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GotNa home from church, she remark.
cd To her husband: J"Did you notice
that bald,headed man in front Of us, and
how young he looked2 ! never. saw
any one 90 young before, with o bald
HEIDI" Then he shut her up by reply
ing: "My DEAR was bald-headed be-
fore ives q yearold, "-Svraouse Times.
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OVER 5000 women of this country
have applied for positions as letter-car-
riers, but the government says emo" to
every one.
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