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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
How Sages Blunder.
.TGath in the New York Tribune. !


Old men give too much advice for it
all to be sound. Washington, it is said,
once decided that the Erie Canal was not
practicable. Sam Houston thought one.
half the money congress voted to Morse
to build the first telegraph line ought to
be devoted to encourage mesmerism.
Cave johnson, postmaster general, de-
clined to buy the telegraph patents for
the government for 100000 on the
ground that it could not earn expenses.
Ezra Cornell spent two thirds of Morse's
appropriations laying the first poor
starveling telegraph underground in
stead of stretching it like clothes-line.
Timothy Howe was sure 5O-cent tax on
whisky could not collect as much as q
50 tax. Seward thought Is, 600 men
would put down the rebellion. The old
Baltimore merchant to whom Poe's
poems were submitted endorsed them
''Here is man tit for nothing whatever. u
Franklin rather thought the stamp act q
smart recommendation. Commodore
Vanderbilt told his son to buy no rail
road outside of New York state. Old
age is for counsel, but it ought to come
from the ''Amen" benches. All the wis.
dom in Spain and Portugal discouraged
Columbus, bnt pretty woman said to
the sailor: ::
rrs Gas we'll to die and 60,
As die and stay"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
A ".Pojnter" Cat.

One morning recently Mrs. Ennis, OF
Wexford, Conn.,, heard her cat, about
year old, calling very emphatically on
the doorstep. The call not being ans
wered, Tabby renewed her efforts in such
a persistent manner that the curiosity Of
Mrs. Ennis was aroused. Upon going to
the door, there was the cat with flour
bag stuffed full Of papers and rags,
which had been left in the wood-house,
some three rods from the house. This
she had dragged out of the building to
the house, and upon the appearance Of
her mistress endeavored to call her atten.
ton to it. When she succeeded in max
ing herself understood and the bag had
been cautiously approached and shaken,
out jumped huge wharf-rat, much tc
the delight of Tabby, but to the horro,
| of her mistress.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14

trict; approprlating 100000 for finishing and
furnishing the capitol building; authorizing
the organization of fire insurance companies to
do business ON the mutual plan; increasing the
salary of the military store keeper from $500
To 81, 200. Adjourned.
ST. PAUL, February 9.-New bills: To ap-
propliate 81, SO for bridge across the Can
non River at SCOTS mill, County of Rice; to
appropriate $4,000 for bridge across the
Minnesota River ct Beaver Falls; appropr1ating
$1,000 for bridging state road in Carver
County; appropriating 81, 500 for bridge in
Jackson County; appropriating $769.12 to re-
imburse the county of Chippewa for expenses
in suppressing smallpox; to encourage the
establishment of four high schools and appro-
priating not to exceed $500 to each school so
established and maintained for at least four
months in each year; to enable boards Of
underwriters to establish a fire patrol III cities
Of 25, 600 inhabitants and over; to fix the COM
pensation of the auditor of Hennepin County
at 81, 900 and tho county attorney at $4,000,
both to pay their own clerks Bills passed:
Appropriating $4,000 to the board Of health
for suppression of smallpox and other
epidemic diseases; authorizing Minneapolis to
pay to H. T. Weiles $40, 900 for money advanced
to pay bonus to the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railway shops. Adjourned to Tues
6av
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
Quick as a Wink.

from the new YOrK med1cal heV1eW.J
Wen professor of chemistry at Ok
fordSir Benjamin Brodie, was expert
menng on peculiarly explosive fluid
of hi own discovery, and was holding a
sma, bottle OF this fluid between his
eyeand the light. Either through the
tremlous motion or the warmth Of his
han, the fluid exploded with such vio-
lenc as to blow to pieces dust, in
fact-the bottle which contained it; and
his irst thought was, 81 am blinded;
thiglass has been driven into my eyes,
and shall never see again!" Upon put
tins his hands to his eyes, however, he
food that the glass had gone entirely
ito the outside Of his lids, and that bis
yes were perfectly safe. Either the fash
bf light or the explosion (Which occurred
first I do not know had called forth an
instantaneous respondent muscular move
ment, which protected his eyes by the
closure of his eyelids.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
Words, Words, Idle Word.
(F'rom the New York Graphic.]

u Avn VIZ ASS" AoAA oAnpAAo.l
P.pie love change in everything. This
sortt nonsense took with many because
theyhought it more elegant and stylish.
So ley called their feet "pedal extre-
miti," their clothes habiiiments, "
waite the 'taqueous huid," air the Sat
mos here" the ground "terra-frma, -
the IN the "solar luminary," the moon
the nocturnal luminary," a horse an
"eqine quadruped," an egg an cow
aria, product" bird "winged
bipi," gold the "auriferous metal, :"
silvc the argentiferous metal" ice
the CONCEALED aqueous liquid" the
heal "hirsute appendage," barber
q sronsorial OPERATOR" and a kettle a
"clinary implement. When a man
sea his house on fire and wants help to
pu; itout he sings out " fire." and calls
for vater. When, after the fire is put
out ad learned person is writing about
it, all wants to make the story on paper
lookyrand, he speaks of I" the edihce in
procs of combustion being extinguish.
ed b the free application of the aqueous
elennt"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14

work cause of the q,licksands. and in
order do this great expedition and en-
ergy re required.
Thgork was being conducted at the
bottorof shaft eighty feet below the
groun and in quicksand, making it
not oy unpleasant but perhaps dan
gerouas well. Yet Hoxie went to the
bottoiof the shaft and remained there
for riod of thirty six hours directing
the wk under various parties of men
and nging 1t to a successful termina.
ton. Hoxie is very we'll thought Of
here, nd while he is chiefly known al
the Inland of Winnie Ream. seems t.
be a lrson OF considerable promise il
OtbeUaYs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
Well. Up in the Business.

lCGOAA AeAoo 04AOu8esJ
"What luck did you hab las night?''
asked Aminidab Bledsoe of Whang-
doodle Baxter, two Of the most popular
colored men in Austin, or in this section
of Texas: for that matter. 81 didn't hab
no luck at all. Oar: was no chickens in
reach. I found a lot of shirts hangin'
on q line, but de wedder was so incle-
ment dat de shirts and udder close was
froze to de line so tight couldn't pull
en- Off Maybe de Lawd will temper de
wind to de shorn lamb, and moderate de
wedder, SO I kin pull dem close often de
line eff dey am still out: ter night. .
"Why didn't yer cut de line at bofe
ends and go off wild de line close and
alp" ''Brudder Whangdoodle, next time
I'll be proud ter hab yer 60 along. You
has studied de subject line upon line and
precept upon precept: ;9@ ~ ~ ~ q =,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
A..4man Of Real Pluck;

:, Lieutenant Hoxie, the husband of
Winnie Ream, the sculptress, has re-
Gently shown the stuff of which he is
made: It is q very fashionable amuse-
:ment with some people to abuse army
officers, affirming that they are, of the
kid-glove order and would show the
white feather should any sort of hard
ship come acrosstheir pathway. Hoxie,
however, has dissipated that theory in
regard to himself at least. He is second
in command in charge Of the work Of
constructing the three-mile tunnel under
the live rock which is to carry water to
the new reservoir and furnish water to
the people Of Washington. There is
great trouble ip getting down to this
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
Thought Il Might Be Hereditary,

A West Chester physician was called
in by mother to see her little son, who
was suffering with a slight chill, the
doctor stated. The mother said she was
much relieved upon hearing the result Of
the doctor diagnosis, and said she had
feared hersboy had the smallpox. The.
doctor thereupon inquired whether the
hoy had been, where small pox was,
when came the reply "" No he hadn't
been where the small .pox was, but he
was playing. with . boy that has a cousin
who had the small pox." The doctor
asked if the second boy had been with
his cousin, when the woman replied she
had never seen him, but she thought the
disease might be in the family.
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NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
DAKOTA.

DAKOTA.
MAp1EroN has nearly completed q
magnificent school building costing $685.
600.
ALL of the Northern Pacific trains
are stocked with several days provi-
sions.
A CHILD has been born near Sioux
Falls which has twelve toes and twelve
fingers.
Nor more than half the wheat raised
in the Red River Valley has been mar
keted.
J. G. DRAKE, of Milbank, has made
an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors.
WILLIAM HAzELToN, farmer, living
a mile out OF Webster, was frozen to
death last week.
CATTLE up in the Niobrara are said to
be in good condition, although the win
ter has been unusually cold.
CITIZENS of Mayville have raised
81, 1000 to expend in efforts to prevent
the legislature from dividing Trail
County.
S. G. DA1RYMP1E, of Casselton, con-
veyed last week to George G. Howe
three sections of land in Cass County
for $4,000.
DIR. JOHN KIRK, popular resident of
Mapletop, died in that city on Friday
from the result of exposure, having been
badly frozen few days before.
LAST Sunday, at Thomas Fletcher's
about eight miles northeast of Elan
dreau, q young man was accidentally
killed by the discharge of revolver
which he had been exhibiting.
A WE'LL has been dug at the Arvilla
elevator which is 107 feet deep and has
fully eighty feet of soft water in it. The
water is as soft as rain water and exceed
ingly pure and palatable, and is still
rising slowly, bubbles constantly CON-
ing up from the bottom.
JOHN MANEN, of Bismarck, found a
little girl baby in box in front of the
Catholic Church while on his way to the
river from town. A ribbon was tied
around the child's neck, to which Was
written: "Take good care OF this child,
and you will be rewarded. Name it
Annie after it's mother, who is too poor
to take care of it." The child is being
cared for.
The Yankton County railroad bond
holders through their attorney, s. W..
Packard, offer to exchange the 8 per
cent. bonds held by them for cash or
for new At per cent. bonds, and to per-
nit the interest due to become part of
the face of the proposed new bonds.
They are willing to take ten-year bonds
at this rate of interest. At the end of
ten years the county can commence pay
ment or permit them to run longer at a
rate of per cent.
Mrs. BARNARD, of Cooperstown,
being caught out in blizzard, threw
her blankets on the snow, covered her.
self with the robes, and began rubbing
her wet and chilled limbs, first freeing
them from the frozen skirts. Soon the
winds of heaven covered her with snow,
thus providing her a covering that as
sisted her in keeping from freezing.
For fourteen terrible hours the courage.
GUS woman fought the elements, and to-
day is able to be about as usual, her
two little fingers being the only part
frozen, having recovered from the nerv-
GUS prostration the fearful ordeal
brought upon her.
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River Steam Boating in Fog.

IL
"Sometimes fog catches us, and then
we go by guess-plain guess. We move
slow and have one hand on the engin-
GERS bell all the time. Wenose up into
the bushes once in while, and back
out and turn around. Oh, it's amusing
what capers boat will cut in a fog.
Why, recall once I was on the Alice
Vivian going up at the foot of the Island,
when fog came up SO dense you had to
brush it aside to see your hand. We
chased around there for q long time,
now into this bank, now into that, when
all at once 1 found we were in pocket
with bank on both sides of us and q
bank little way ahead. Yes, sir, we
were 200 yards up in Three. mile Greek,
having come down the river to accom-
plish this feat. About two years ago I
wasfollowing Capt. Peoples, Of che John
son, in a fog, listening to her escape
pipes and steering we'll into the point.
l thought everything Was going all right,
when the johnson came steaming back,
and learned that Capt. Peoples had
been up the Tensas River and was going
right through to the Atlantic Ocean when
he heard dog bark. Knowing there
was no dog put down on his chart, he
turned back, and came down where
was. Well, we run by dog-barking, by
rooster-crowing, by pig-squeals. These
are reliable signs to run by. Sometimes
we run by the stopping bell and then by
the rudder. You see we ring the bell,
and accordingly as it sounds with faint
or quick echo, we judge how far we are
from the shore. We sometimes stop the
boat ever so often, just to hear the
bell echo and then it is almost the
same thing with the whistle and with
the wheel. When the wheel is grinding
away close in shore she makes an awful
roar, but when we are well out in the
middle of the stream you can scarcely
hear it. The other way of Judging the
run of the boat and her direction is by
the feel of the rudder. When the pilots
wheel turns hard we know which way
she is heading, even when we cannot see
the jackstaff. OF course it is science to
some degree, but. for the most part, pi-
loting in fog is pure guess-work.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14

MANNIooAAs
A WE'LL thirty feet deep froze at Little
Falls during the cold snap.
MORRIS will soon have national banh
with capital of $4,000.
A DERALED train ran through the de.
pot at Carver, demolishing the fimsy
structure.
Mr.. SHERMAN, yardmaster at Wells,
was run over by a car, recently, receiving
injuries from which he died the same
day.
MICHAEL KELLY, of Morris, was
duped out of $3.50 on Manitoba trai1
the other day by the bogus chez
racket.
The business men of Pelican Rapis
dubbed together and raised $257. 25 or
r. p. Lacey, who was recently buried
out in that town.
The farmhouse of John Boo, in Col
Gnwood, was destroyed with its con-
tents Thursday evening. Sevent4-two
bushels of grain were burned.
The stone hut at Putnam, with has
secured SO much attention from the
local papers, is now said by an Oh hun
ter to be bear-trap he built five years
ago.
ADo1PHUs STEPHENSON died last Mon
day night in Rochester, at the sge of rs,
after sickness of only few days. He
was one of the early settlers, coming to
Olmsted County in 1856.
DURING 1882 there were only nineteen
business failures in Minneapolis. It is
stated that, considering the comparative
size of the city and it's valuation, no
other city in the Union can make SO good
showing.
HENRY HUDseN, of Madelia, had the
Christian fortitude-or perhaps fool
hardness is the best term-to be bap-
tized in hole cut through the ice,
while the thermometer indicated about
80 notches below.
MRS. CHAPMAN, of the town of Echo,
was hooked by COW on Friday, the
horn entering her mouth on the right
side, or rather caught her lip, and pass
ing upward, broke the cheek bone and
laid her face open up to her eye, just
missing that member, and tearing the
skin off above it., making a frightful
wound.
The Cannon Valley road has made
the citizens of Red Wing proposition
to furnish $3.50, 900 of the $3.50, 600 nec-
essary to bridge the Mississippi at that
point. The bridge proposed is to be a
uble-decker, with two wagon ways be-
low and single track above, similar to
the government bridge used by the Rock
Island road between Rock Island and
Davenport.
The henhouse of John Swanson, OF
Dinwood, Anoka County, was visited q
few nights ago by two wildcats, who ap-
propriated thirty mine out Of forty hens
which it contained. The next night
traps were set and gun was fixed in
such position that it would fire when
the thread was touched. One monster
was caught and held fast in trap. The
gun exploded and wounded the other, as
seen Ivy the trail Of blood, but he made
good his exit. ..... -; 49,.
In German family in Carver County,
out Of seven healthy children on the LIST
of December, three died with diphtheria
within ten days. I The other children
were all sent away from home, and after
withdrawing the house, airing the
clothing and cleansing the sick-rooms,
as the parents thought, sufficiently to
destroy all germs of the disease left on
the premises, their suffered their boy of
eleven years to return home on Christ
mas. On New Years day he was at
tackled with the terrible disease and died
in less than forty-eight hours. f.,.,,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14
A Provident Husband:

Mr.. Gougeau, who died recently in
Quebec, provided by his will that his
wife should receive yearly, besides GER
tain lands, the following: Twenty
bushels Of wheat, dry, clean, good and
meshantable; sixty bushels Of good, fine
oats four bushels of split peas; fifty
bushels Of good.totatoes: two hundred
bushels of hay, timothy and clover; one
pig weighing two hundred pounds, with
the suet; one bushel of salt, one pound
of pepper, twelve pounds of candles;
twdve pounds Of good soap; one good
mileh COW; twelve dozen fresh eggs,
and one good maid servant to wait upon
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14

is THE CHEAT CONNECIlNO LINN
Its main line runs from Chicago to CQuncii
gaf son tr RosR ae
Liberty, Iowa City. Marengo Brooklyn, Grinnell,
Drs Mocs tthe capital of Iowa. Stuart, Allan
Tic. ami Avoca with branches from Hnreau
tine. Washington. Fairfield, Eldon, Belknap.
Centrcville. Princeton. Trenton, Gallatin Came
ron. I.eHvcnworth, Atchison: and Kansas City;
viva: kcokuk to Farmington. Bonaparte, Ben
vile. ,,skaloos, Pela Monroe, and Des MONIES;
Newton to Monroe: Des MONIES to indlanoia ana
Avoca 10 iinr'an. This is positively the only
Railroad. which owns, and operates through
line from Chicago INTO the State ct kans :s Dali
man Palace airs attached, are run each way daily
between CHICAGO and PEORIA. KANSAS GaTY,
COUNCIL. BLUFFS, LEAvESWORTH ana ATCHl-
SON. Through cars are also run between M,wa n5
Rock Island Short Line
The Great Rock Island" is magnifcently
equipped. Its road bed is simply perfect, and Its
track is laid With steel rails.
What will please you most will be the pleasure
Of enjoying your meals. while passing over the
beautiful praircs OF Illinois and Iowa, IN one OF
our MAGNIFICENT Dining Cars that accompany aHt al
meal as good as is served in any flrst-class hotel
for seventy tive cents.
Approaching the fact that Il majority o. ehe
people prefer separate apartments Tor oiuerenl
PURPOSES (and the immense passenger business
Of this line warrantng it,, we are pleased y a;l-
nounce that this Company runs Pullman 1onfs
Sleeping Cas- for sleeping purposes, ana Edtoce
PULLslAN FALACE GAPS 8 are r
Tickets viz. this Line, known a. the
all Ticket Agents in the United states
For Information not Obtainable ae y
A. KIMB ALL.
Gen'l Superintendent.
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CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND g. PACIFIC R. R.

BETWEEN The EAS1 q AnA " ~
Dining Cars for eating purposes a, o9 "a sMoKIN
BALLOON where you can enjoy your Havana
at ali hours of the day. .
Magnificent Iron Bridges span me Mlss SIS tPg
line, aud transfers are avoided at Council Bluffs.
Knnsas CITY, Leavenworth, and Atchison, con-
nections being made in Union Dep9 ItSsS.n,o~s m
r HHr ek5N%cffpAAh & io ESE ARE As
At cH!eAeo, with all diversine lines for the
AT At E Eng with the L. 8. MS. and p
AsW4sHiNe7oN HEIGHTS. with F. C. q 81
AZ Ia SALE, with II. Cent. B.
": ill., Mid; and T. p s W. Rds.
At ROCK IstAND, with Mi lN;S { o. H Rda
s P ! y y with the Davenport Division
At WEST Liberty Tith ,t the I b. c. r. H.
A. A. G SEs Mo1Sn Sv WITH Ie B. 81 TT
| AtCoUNC1L BLUFFS with Union Pacific r. r.
At OMAHA, with 3: { No: =; X; 4; in in Nsb J,
AtCoLUMBus JuNGTIoSw ~ iC:a II y: W "
| St. L. Pac.. and G. b. l. .. r. 1;ds;, g..
| At KEOKUK with Tol., feo war; "an:' Gu
Louis Pac and r St Il /, S 8 N T. H. Nas
Atch. Il Neb and Cen. Br. I. 7. r. Rds.
At I.EAvENwoRTH, with Kan. Pac., anu Man,
ARKANSAS CITY, with all lines for the West
and Southwest.
IN through to PEORIA; DIES M01NEs'
Great KcclS Island Esoutc,' arc aold Dy
0ur home ticket Office, address,
Y. ST. JOHN.
Gen'I Tiki. ard passgr r; Agt ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14

A NEWARK, o., editor is known to
weas No. 12} boots. Is this JOURNALISTIC
feat9-Pittsburg Telegraph.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-14

promptly to work and by holding Of morning
and afternoon 3sessionsgot through with ! reas
enable amount Of business, There we're
eighteen bills introduced IN the house, bring
ing the total number to the present time up to
/ The speaker, in accordance with reso
buttons adopted, appointed J. R. Bentley, Jr.,
clerk Of the finance committee, and W. G.. An
derson, clerk of the railroad committee. i. The
bills appropriating 800, 600 for finishing and
furnishing the capitol. and appropriating S.
600 annually for the board Of immigration,
were recommended forpassage in committee
ing: New bills:, APpropfiatins $500 to build
bridge over Skunk Greek. Stearns County;
appropriating $1,000 for four bridges on the
route from Tracy to Curry; appropriating &c.
600 annually for the acknowledgements Of state
teachers Institutes; appropriating 81 100 for a
bridge across the Chippewa, near Benson,
Swift County; appropriating $500 to aid the
vert; authorizing the issue Of $4,000 Of Sonas
Tor jail ahd t6udty buildings Of "BeoEef
County. :. Bills passed: To authorize the
commissioners of Stearns County to adjust
certain claims against the county; allowing
the village of Olivia, Renville County, to issue
bonds for the construction Of county build
ings: to create state board Of charities. ..
The senate bill appropriating $4,000 for ex-
penses incurred in the Grant County scat con-
test was taken from the table, and the mo-
Ntion toareconsideffthe vote which it was
indefinitely postponed voted down, thus ef-
Filling The I'D .ss..Adjourned.
ST. PAUL, February 8.-New bills: Appro-
priating $500 for bridge across Long Lake
u Becker q, County S sppTopsiat1ipg q ,2o2 for
BPa;n5Rrd fqa sss
Island to issue 1900 in bonds for the erection
OF court house. Passed under suspension
Of the. xples: To authorize the county Of. Kama
bee 70 issue $500 III fol, the cotstruc-
tionsofAjail at4ork6, county: asneimorial
to congress for port Of entry at ST. Vincent
and the adjustment Of such port at Pembina.
itsiot attorneyship Of the twelfth judicial dis