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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-07-26
An 0strich'S Nest.

After pairing. the ostrich begins to
make his nest 1t is the male alone
that performs this duty. TO do this it
squats upon the ground, and balancing
itself upon its breast bone, it scratches
up the earth with its legs and throws
the sand behind it. When it has dug
out enough on one side to suit it, it
turns around and begins to dig on
another side, and continues this opera
ton until it has made hole large
enough for it to sit in comfortably.
A few days after the nest is finished
the female begins to lay one egg on
every alternate day for eighteen or
twenty days. She then rests for a
while, which time varies from four to
ten days, and then begins to lay more.
A pair of ostriches yield forty eggs,
This is only the minimum number,
which is always reached. 1t is not un-
usual for a well fed, well kept pair to
yield fifty and even sixty eggs. The
eggs are placed so as to leave no space
between them. They are sat upon at
first for several hours each day, and
finally altogether. The male and the
female brood alternately. At night
the male is always on the nest. as it
possesses greater warmth than the
female. When the birds relieve each
other on the nest the new conner turns
over each egg. in order that the portion
which has lain against the nest shall
receive the warmth of the brooder
These birds perform their duties with
the greatest skill, without any noise or
breakage of the eggs. They squat
down, and with their head and neck
rake up and overturn every one Of the
eggs, one after the other, without neg
lecting single one.
The incubation lasts forty-five days
on an average, sometimes fifty days
but never continues beyond that.
When the chicklings hatch out they
can be heard trying to break the shell
of the egg. Sometimes they succeed in
doing so, but usually the father breaks
the egg under his breast bone, and
seizing with his bill the inside skin,
tears it and frees the chickling. Upon
first reaching the air the chickling re-
mains limp and weak. But the warmth
of the parents soon reVives it, and a
lew hours afterYard it begins to run
about the nest, exercising its long legs,
tottling over at each step, recommenc-
ing again its stumbling journey. Four
days after they are hatched the chick
lings begin to eat. They run after
insects and swallow small pebbles.
The father and mother do not help their
little ones find food
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-07-26
How The Brooklyn Bridge Cables Were
Made.


After the towers had been built and
the anchorages made ready, then came
the strangest work of all. To make
the cables and put them over the tow
ers would be a difficult matter Very
likely it could not be done at all. So
the cables were made just where they
hang, one small wire at a time. The
cables are not chains with links, nor
are they twisted like ropes. They are
bundles of straight wires laid side by
side and bound together by wires
wound tightly around the outside.
They called the work weaving the
cable
At the Brooklyn anchorage was
placed a powerful steam-engine, and
on the top of the anchorage were plac-
ed two large wheels, and with the aid
of proper machinery the engine caused
these wheels to turn forward or back
ward. From each wheel was stretch
ed steel rope to the top of the Brook
lyn tower, over the river, over the 9th
er tower and down TO the New York
anchorage. Here it passed over anOth-
er wheel and then stretched all the
way back again. The ends were fas-
tened together, making an endless rope,
and when the engine moved, the ropes
travelled TO and fro over the river.
For this reason they were called the
travellers"
There were, besides these travellers,
two more ropes placed side by side,
Cn these were laid short pieces of oak.
thus making a foot-bridge on which
the workmen could cross the river.
There were also other ropes for sup
porting platforms, on which the work
men stood as the weaving went on.
On each traveller was hung an iron
wheel, and as the traveller moved, the
wheel went with it.
1t took only ten minutes to send two
wires over the river in this way. The
men on the foot-bridge and on the
platforms suspended from the other
ropes guided the two wires into place.
and thus the cables were woven, little
by little, two slender steel wires each
time, and carefully laid in place, till
5434 wires were bound together in a
huge cable, fifteen and three-quarter
inches in diameter. The work was
fairly started by the 18th of June, 1877,
and the last wire was laid October 8,
1873. There are four cables, each
3578I feet long, and if all the wires in
the four cables were placed in line
they would reach over fourteen thous-
and miles.
The work was long and dangerous.
Sometimes the wire would break and
fall into the water, and an hour OF
more would be spent in hauling it up
and starting once more. The men on
the foot-bridge or on the cradles high
in the air watched every wire as it was
laid into place. To start and stop the
engine, men stood on the top of the
towers and waved signal flags to the
engineer. Such a mass of wires would
not very easily keep in place, and as
the work went on, number of wires
were bound together into little bundles
or ropes, and at the end all were bOund
together into one smooth, round bun.
die or cable-St. Nicholas.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-07-26
A Legend OF The Dews.

Earth had no dews until baby died.
A dimpled, iair-laced baby. whose dear
eyes
Peeped through Ito swinging gates Of Para
disc,
And, seeing wondrous treasures scattered
wide,
Sought them with iruitless grasp and home
sick cries;
And when the eager trembling little hand
Wearied in reaching for the Turing things,
Futtered and lolded-likc the dropping
wings
OF Noah's dove, sent out to find the land,
Where no land was-then angels wopt their
woe
For the sweet, sealed lids, and cheeks OF
snow;
And all their ruelul tears the zeIhyrs bland
Gathered in dainty cups OF moonlight hue,
10 break on babies graves in showers OF
dew!
Lucy M. Blinn, in the Continent
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-07-26

The work of bleaching ivory for pi-
ano keys is SO slow that at Centrebrook.
Ct, at which place they are made in
large quantities, 10000 sets are some
times on hand in the different stages
of the operation.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-07-26

There are six equestrian statues in
Washington-more than in any other
city in the world. They are of
Washington Jackson, Greene. Scott,
Mcpherson and Thomas.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
YOUNG TOICES,

There is charm, an inspiration, in
the blending of young voices in sacred
song which nothing else can impart. We
owe it to our children, to ourselves and
to the dignity of worship, that an ele-
ment SO thrilling, SO effective, should
not be lost to the church for want OF
training.
The teaching of music in the schools
in great measure prepares for partici.
patton in the church and Sunday-school
services. Perhaps the most forcible OBJ
lection to that form of worship in which
the people participate is that the
American people are not trained to sing.
Let vocal music be taught, in its in
tegrity, in the public schools, and our
choir and congregational singing must
become as grand and universal as noE
in Holland and Germany. where music
forms an integral portion of education,
What is done in these countries, with
means far inferior to those at our com.
mand, may be done and better done
here, by liberal and enlightened sys.
tenn of school instruction. -Husicol
Herald,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
sLoH-BURNING CONSTRUCTION.


So long as wood must be used for
floors and roofs, there can be no such
thing as ire-proof building. 1t is, there
fore, proposed by one of the leading
fre-insurance companies that all new
structures, and particularly factories and
shops where wood is to be used, shall be
made fre-resisting or slow-burning. The
plan suggested is worthy of attention,
because it often happens that, if the fire
can only be confined to the interior of
the building for even few moments,
much property, and perhaps many lives,
can be saved. For the floors it is pro-
posed to use heavy timbers, 800 cent?
meters by 30 centsmeters az by IA
inches), and on these to lay matched
planks 7.6 centimeters g inches) thick.
Over these planks is to be layer of
roofng-felt or mortar, and in this mortar
is to be bedded fooring-boards OF the
usual thickness. Such floor would
burn, but so slowly that fire would be
long time in eating its way through.
The aim is to gain time, fog time is the
one element of safety at all fires. For
the roof, the supporting beams are to be
Of the same size, and the top is to be of
matched planks 7.6 centimeters thick,
and covered on the outside with any
form OF roofing that may be desired.
The ends of the beams ere to pass
through the outer walls, and to be fin
ished as brackets TO support the plank
ing that is carried to the ends of the
beams.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
THE REHABILITATION CT BOW

THE 1RANSfLANTdI4OR CE DO'L'
The migrating of flesh is surgical
fect which has been frequently accom-
plished with success; but the first
known instance of transplanting piece
of bone from one living person to an
other was announced at recent meet
ing of the Royal Society. In 1873 a
young child was admitted into the Glas-
gov Infrmary with necrosis Or NORTH
cation of the right humerus or bore Of
the upper arm. The mortified part was
removed from the bone, but even after
fifteen months no fresh bone had grown
to fill up the gap. This extended to
two-thirds of the entire shaft, and it
became necessary to try and transplant
a piece of alien bone into the place.
On three several occasions portions OF
living bone were transplanted into the
child's arm-the pieces being obtained
from osseous wedges which had to be
excised from the healthy bones OF other
patients. The pieces were divided into
many small fragments before being APP
piled, and in course of time they united
together into solid rod, thereby con-
verting helpless arm into a useful one.
The operation is of great importance as
demonstrating that a piece of trans
planted bone is capable of living and
growing ON another system, to the ben
eft of the latter.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
BUSINESS TRANSACTION,

A man went into clothing Sore in
Lawrence, Mass, and bought hat for
$3.50, left his old one, and said he would
pay for it when he came back. In half
an hour he returned, and entering the
store met the proprietor, who was alb
sent at his first visit. The proprietor
was glad to see the mana neighbor of
his-but, observing his new hat, a shadow
passed over his face, and he said /:
"Where did you buy that hat? lean
sell you hat just like that, and good
deal cheaper, than what you paid for it,
I know" This pleased the neighbor,
and, his eye twinkling, he asked how
cheap he would sell him one. Well,
you are neigbbor of mine, and you
shall have one for just $1.75." every
we'll" replied the customer, "I'll take
this one which have on, which I got
here half an hour ago, and just returned
to pay for and he counted out 81. rs
and departed for his suburban home,
satisfied at his bargain.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
NEWSPAPER "ORG4NS."

IF the excellence of newspaper is not
always measured by its proftableness, it
is generally true that if it does not pay
its owner, it is valueless to the public.
Not all newspapers which make money
are good, for some succeed by catering
to the lowest tastes of respectable peo-
pie, and to the prejudice, ignorance and
passion of the lowest class but as a
rule the successful journal pecuniarily is
he best journal. The reasons for this
are on the surface. The impecunious
newspaper cannot give its readers
promptly the news, and, still worse, it
cannot be independent. The political
journal that relies for support on drip
pings of party favor or patronage is
a poor affair, and, in the long run or
short run, comes to grief. The news
paper only becomes a real power when
it is able on the basis of pecuniary indie
pendence to free itself from all such
entanglements. An editor, who stands
with hat in hand, has the respect accorded
to any other beggar.-Chdrles Dudley
Warner.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
MORRIS.
The County Seat of Stevens County-A tea
of the Many Advantages of City and
County-The Opportunities for
Profitable inuestment--How
Cheap Farms and Homes
May be Obtained.

Morris has brilliant future. Situ-
ated in the midst of Stevens, one of the
most highly favored counties in the
famous park region, with many nat
ural and acquired advantages it will
certainly become one of the most
prominent railroad and commercial
centres in the Northwest. Less than
twelve years old, Morris now has an
immense business centering within
her limits, and a population of fifteen
hundred. Stevens county has devel-
oped as well. AS soon as the railroad
reached it and it's advantages became
known, people fiocked in and III very
short tinle all government lands were
taken. The climate is healthful.
Water, is easily obtained in the nu-
merous lakes or by digging but few
feet. The soil is rich and fertile, pro-
ducing cereals and root crops in pro-
fusion. Many fruits do well AMI with
luXuriant grasses, pure water and
shade afforded by oak groves and
timber skirtings, the Il vantages for
stock raising are unsurpassed. Here
we will give u few figures compiled
from the official records which will
show what the development of the
county has been. These figures have
been published before, but they will
bear repetition as they challenge COM
DariSOn:
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
STUDY OF HUM1N NATURE.

The teacher arose Immediately after he
called the school to order. There was
look Of pain on his gentle face, and he
seemed to be feeling for an apple in his
coat-tail pockets. but he was not. He
was feeling for something, but it was not
an apple, and it was not in his pocket.
He glanced around the school, and every
face was either oblivious or miscellaneous,
except Walter Cranes. Walter Cranes
face, bent over his Latin grammar, had
such profoundly studious expression,
it was so sublimelY free from guile, it was
80 angelically innocent, the teacher called
him to the big desk, and, as Walters
wondering eyebrows arched themselves
into silent but expressive interrogation
points, the teacher handled long switch
and said: "Yes, Walter, yes; it was
very neatly done and now if you will
just stand out here for one minute ] will
show you just about where that pin
caught NO."
And he showed him not once, but
many times, to the great disgust of stu
dious Walter Crane, and the infinite de-
light of all the rest of the school, and
more especially big Sammy Johnson.
Did Walter Crane really put the pin in
the teachers chair, children. All, no,
indeed and truly he didn't know any
thing about it. It was big Sammy John
son, who grinned and rubbed his hands
every time Walter "hollered," who did
it. Thus we see that rometimes in the
study Of physiognomy the wisest teacher
will, as Herodotus observes, "bite off
more than he can chew"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
EVERY EGG BROKE.

A farmer, carrying basket of eggs,
tried to steal ride on freight tram,
and when he came to want to get off the
train didn't stop, and so he jumped off.
The train wasn't going very fast, but he
didn't understand getting away from it,
and SO got slung several somersaults
and stopped against a fence, with wrist
sprained, his clothes muddied and rent.
and one ear pretty nearly torn off. He
got up and took an inventory of the re-
suit, and, in his despair, lifted up his
voice and said: "Gosh durn the gosh
durn luck, anyhow! Ev'ry gosh burned
egg in the lots broke B,sfon Post.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
n DOUN-HILL FIGHT.
H0W Ttco Miners ROHd 500 Feet White
E,gaged in ~ Deoth :h"Gg'e.


Engaged in ~ Death strmGg:e.
Tom Cox and Jim Null were two n n
ers working far up on the bleak, s'.o !
slopes of Mount Ebert, in Colola.lp.
They slept in a tent near the mouth IF
Golden Lode, in which they were work
ing all night, when they went into the
tent for the purpos' of going to sle"p
One of them got i'll bed, and, envelor IL :
himself with the blankets, was snug and
comfortable and drowsy in a moment
The other, not in so great hurry, no
ticed that the melting snow was dripping
through the roof of the tent and right
where he had to sleep. He couldn't
stand wet couch, and, arousing his
companion, asked him to get up SO that
the bed might be moved to a position
whe1e the melted snow would not touch
it. His sleepy partner growled out re-
fusaI. There was hot reply, and In
less time than it takes to write it the two
men were engaged in fierce personal
encounter. They were both clad in their
night-shirts alone, and small tent is
but limited space for two angry men to
fight each other in. They had hardly
clinched before one carried the other
through the front flaps of the tent.
Right here it is necessary to say that
the tent was pitched on the fearful
II steep slope of Mount Ebert, and
there wasn't more than two feet of level
ground between the front of the tent
and the prec1pitous slope of the mount
ain. This slope was covered with four
feet of soft snow, and it extended down
for 1000 feet before there was a resting
place. In the fierce fight between the
two miners they were carried down the
dizzy slope, and, with their hands upon
each others Threats, they went whirling
down the mountain like pair;;of bowld-
ers. They had gone but a short dis
lance when anger vanished in the pres
ence of possible death, and each man
turned his attention to the paramount
work of saving his life. Down they
went along the fearful slant of the great
mountain, and at each revolution they
sunk in the soft snow, sometimes head
first and sometimes feet first. They
were paralyzed with fright, and no
sound escaped their lips. The further
down they went the greater the momen-
tum of their bodies, and when about
500 feet from the point where they
started, they bounded in the air and
alighted in the snow SO deep that they
stuck fast. After arduous efforts they
managed to extricate themselves and
get back to their tent, bruised and
bleeding, and their quarrel healed. No
matter what the future has in store for
these two men, they will never forget
the time when they were whirling down
the snowy slopes of the continental divide
of North America, and snow drift saved
them from landing l, 500 feet below in
condition in which none but the Coroner
and the undertaken would feel any prac-
tical interest in them. They have been
the best of friends ever since their per-
ilous down-hill fight.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
SCHOLASTIC METHODS.

There is food for thought in the fol-
lowing "Lor, missus," said the old
darky, "what mex you pay money fur
to send the chile to school? I got one
smart boy, Jonas, but larns him my
SELF" "But, Aunt Charlotte" replied
the lady, show can you teach the child
when you don't know one letter from
another?" Chow I teach him? I jis
mex him tex de book an set down on de
DO, and den I say, Jonas, you tex ye
eye from that book, much less leggo
him, an I skins you alive r"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12

obtainable, opportunities for manufac-
turing, speculation or trade better than
are offered by any other place in the
west, Morris invites new corners to
settle where churches, schools and all
the advantages of older cities are es-
tablished, and cordially welcoms them
to ii place among her refined and cul-
tured people. All the advantages of
new countries are here combined with
those of the old. For people wishing
new homes, no place more desira-
BILE than Morris and Stevens county
can be found in all the great North
Uact
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
COLDCOMEORT.

A great Persian poet was very poor,
and went down the street without any
shoes on, crying "no shoes, no shoes +
and he thought it was awful hard for the
first. poet in all Persia. "But what do
you think r. exclaims our friend Talmage.
"One day he saw man come down the
street. who had no feet !" There was
some balm in the greater misfortune of
the other fellow, to be sure. But not
enough to warm the poets toes. Cold
comfort, that sort, after all.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12
CANNON AIDING.

Whenever youthful lover
His counting has big gun,
Howitzer prizes him to learn
That tits not alSays fur.
For instance, when he's planned his siege,
And thinks the missile do,
The girls distrustful parelt
Shows him trigger two.
And as with much momentum
He down the steps doth glide,
And on the picket fence doth land,
He feels much mortar-fied.
The maiden in the meantime
Escapes into the yard,
And shrieks, with much emotion,
"My pa has struck Petard."
The young man thinks it over,
And, though he'll not declare it,
Concludes, since he can't bullet,
That he will have to bear it.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-12

universities.
Conveniently located is
MORRIS,
the county seat, in the center of an
immense fertile region. 1t is regularly
laid out and has an unusual number
of attractive and costly business and
residence buildings. There is ample
banking capital, and numerous firms
with abundant resources, who are do
ING an immense business. Nine bust
ness buildings are now in course of
erection, and others will be built dur
ing the summer. Among other things
a court house and Jail will be built
this season, which will cost $50, 600.
The permanent improvements now
being made or contemplated for 1883,
will probably reach u total of $3.50, 600.
The three elevators are often crowded
to their utmost capacity-l6O,O 900 BUSH
els. The Bosrd of Trade organized
under the state laws, for the protec-
ton and promotion of public interests
is an important factor and includes all
of the best business men of the place.
The post-office ranks thirdclass; over
81, 900 of stamps and postal cards were
sold last year, and the money orders
sold amounted to over 1900. AS a
partial index to the amount of business
transacted at this point, we quote the
following figures from the record of
the work of 1882, at the st. p, Nj. 4
NJ, depot. These figures do not in
clude the business of the Little Falls
& Dakota Railway, which is by no
means an unimportant item:
Total pounds freight forwarded $50. 46, 537 40
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-20
LIVE STOCK


cPoCihi L.tphtnot 70 lHh Bhk.
CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, January 10 The Droyers'
Journal rep :rts as follows:
Hogs-Demand fair, but quality not 20
good AMI values 10c lower; mixed, 5 "a
tq6 25; heavy, 6 1906 so; light, 5 GOA
6 25; skips, 4 0095 40.
Csttle-Market for good shipping cattle
strong; no extra cattle here; prime. 6 OO@
. 80; good to choice shipping, 8 4095 90;
common to fair slow and weak ut easier
rates, 4 2O95 20: butchers, 10c lower. at
2 20@3 90; stockers n feeders, 3 l5@
4 so.
Sheep-Msrket active; quality fair and
values steady; common TO fair, 3 250
4 %; medium TO good, 4 1904 80; choice
to extra, 5 00(Q5 60.
Z oRK
NEw YoRK, January l9.--The Drovers
journal Bureau reports:
Beeves Dali and 2jc lower for air to
medium grades, which were more than
plenty; a fraction higher tor good steers.
which are scarce; extremes, 3 00@6 A per
cwt for common to good; no prime or ex.
ira cattle shown; exporters used 2O0 head
at G COaG a.
Sheep 1s4c lower and cloged weak
> OOG6 % per cwt; lambs, 6 OOG7 40.
Hogs None offered alive; nominally
dull ~ 6 200 70 Ter cwt.
ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, January l9.-Cattle Active
and 6rm for all grades; exports, , 1906 90
good to choice shipping steers, 8 O1N5 rs
common t fair shipping steers, 1 25d4 IS
common butchers stock, 2 75@3 %; me.
dunn TO good, 375@4 80; stockers AM
feeders, 3 50Q4 30.
Sheep-birm aud good demand; medium
: o fair, 3 5O@4 p; good to choice, 4 5OQ
8 *.
! Hogs Active, bu. lower; Workers, 8 9C