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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-03-02
''~'D WATCHES ARE MADE

IN a SOLID GOLD WATCH, aside ircr,
the necessary thickness for engraving AMI
polishing, largo proportion OF metal is
needed only to stiiien and hold the engrav.
cd portions in place, and supply strength.
The surplus gold is actually needless. 10
!aaes Boss Patent Gold Watch Cases this
WASTE is saved, and soLlDIrY ana
STRENGTH increased by simple process
at onc-half the cost. A plate of SOLID
GOLD is soldcrcd on each side Of plate
of ard nickel composition metal, and the
the are then passed between polished
SEC. rollers. From this the cases, backs.
tenters, bezels, etc, are cut and shaped b.
es and formers. The gold is thick
.ough to admit Of all kinds Of chasing
engraving and cnginc turning. Thee
cases have been worn perfectly smooth BY
re without removing the gold. This Is
Me only case nude up,ier this process. Each
cosa IS dc:,mpcnied mih rohd guarantee
s'.n"' y Ire manufacturers safraating IL 10
rw % yeors. 10000 ct these Gases
nv carried in the United States an
t nada. Largest and Oldest Factory.
+ ':,niisi,ed 1854. Ask your .Jeweler
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An Anecdote About Wagner.

A curious anecdOte about Wagner is
going the round Of the Partisan press,
and it is given rs Oh the authority of
Count Beust, the late Austrian minister
in London. The eminent diplomatist
was some years ago president of the
council in Saxony. where he received a
visit from Wagner. The maestro ow-
ing to the share he took iE the troubles
of 1849, had been obliged to fly to tho
kingdom, and had just taken advantage
Of the amnesty to return.
..They tell me-" said the count, that
your friends are getting up an ovation
for you. COuntermand it. il will only
lead to npleasantness."
"Whatm asked the composer, ..does
not the court of Saxony like my music?"
"Music has nothing to do with the
matter. But, you know, you took part
in the events of 1849."
..Ohw said Wagner. lis that alp DO
you still think about that little misun-
derstanding?'
Excuse me-" interrupted the minis
ter. "you call that "a little misundcr-
standing l have here in my archives
a document, signed by you Richard
Wagner in full. proposing to burn
down the royal palace"
Wagner has a reputation for extra
ordinary coOlness-to use tho mildcst
term; but in the face of this unexpect-
ed reminder even he could find no an.
swer, and nothing more was heard OF
the s'OvatiOn. Pull MAI fazetts.
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On a Frieslmd Boat.

1t was pleasant to take notes of the
various liitle pictures made by the
tangle of brOwn.sailed. broad. beamed
craft. We had even time To observe
the lightsome aud free ways of the
Dutch female sailor not rOmantical
ly disguised as boy, but sporting
distinct (tarry more Or less) costume
OF her own; not SD very different
either from the real bOy-or rather.
his dress, in one important particular,
is rather lame imitation OF hers
He wears n pair Of baggy breaches so
very voluminous and petticoaty that
one has to turn To other peculiarities
of dress in order To he on the safe
side Of judgment.
There is one way of telling the boy
from the girl. however, as far as you
Can see them, rs he does u deal of
vigorous looking OF and smoking;
while she does some very pretty pull
ing and hauling and polling the boat
about. in harbor especially. We saw
one athletic young maiden shy Il coil
of rope for II youth On another boat
to catch. He did not get his hands
cat of his capacious pockets quickly
enough. 80 the rope caught him play
fully about the ears; whereupon en-
sued Il rattiipg interchange OF com
pliments probably between these
two ~ liIst. and then the female sal
lor belonging To the lubber'S boat
''sailed ia to use II strictly nautical
term and then 1t soon developed
into Il pdrte c0rree, As the old man ut
the ruder of the r0pe-slinging maid
ems boat opened lire. lie was Il
maste hand at profanity, that aged
mariner. 1t was Just getting hot and
deeply interesting to us On.lOokers,
when our boat drew out. with "a we'll
directed brnadside Of invective from
our crew. bestowed impartially and
Literally on AL concei ned. tor not
getting out of the wav.-George II.
Bonghton. in Harpers Magazine for
.Udrch.
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MANKATo FREE Press.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1888.
Agricultural Notes.
Cllcap HAY.

Cheap Hay.
The discussion at the Dairymen's
Association developed the fact that
the men In Illinois who are making
the greatest success ont Of dairying
are feeding hay To their cows worth
ten AMI twelve dollars ton, while
the dairymen of Cottonwood county
are feeding hay worth 81 90 ton AMI
of equal nutritive strength. During
the pendency of the discussion Presi
dent Hoard said that in all ages when
men were driven To extremity for
want of resources. they achieved
their greatest results, and that where
the most abject poverty reigned.
This may not he his language, but it
is the sense he intended TO convey
The most prosperous farmers OF
Illinois AMI Wisconsin were growing
rich upon small farms with large
herds, with 50 10 100 cows 10 an
"eighty, Of land, while the farmers
here are poor and sc, have the most
superior advantages. Wealth IL with.
in their reach and they avail them
selves moi at it. They ship thou.
sands oi tons of bran from Minneap
oils Ia Eigin Ia feed. We have it al
our doors. They make $50 and $50
per COW per year We make $40. $50
and S3o. Yet nature has favored as
with cheap hay and cheap lands, aud
they have no superiority over us in Il
natural way except nearness 10 mar
ket. They have made Elgin butter
famous the world over, and grown
rich. We are where they wer.
twenty years ago. hut from their
prosperity may We learn and not he
obliged Ia experiment decade or
two.
One Of the really prosperous farm.
ers of this neighborhood the other
day. when we spoke To him about a
package of butter to display at Man.
kato, said he did not know whether
he wanted to 'see mach of u boom
or not TOR ii would cut off his range
for cattle and make dairying less
profitable" If this man had been In
Mankato and heard what Il man at
Elgln with smaller farm than his
did with seventy-tive cows he would
pray for boom. Ii f. j. Oatman.
Elgii, owned The farm we speak Of
it would support 100 COWS. The
Reporter confesses surprise at the
number of COWS that those people OF
Elgin are Keeping on small tracts of
land. 1t seems incredible, as we
shall show AS soon as the official re.
port of the convention is published.
The incredibly expressed by them
at our cheap hay is not equal to the
establishment their statements will
create as to the number Of cows they
keep per each acre of grOnnd.-Win.
dem Reporter.
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The Art Amateur

for March contains admirable full.
seized working designs for clover.
azaless and water.Iilies for china
painters; IL South kensingtUn chair
seat, AMI Il chalice veil tor embroid
erers; il score of delicious cupids, and
Il page of fresh and excellent mon
ograms, twenty six in number. Civ
ing the letter n in successive com.
binatiOns with the entire alphabet.
The remaining letters are to he
similarly given in future numbers.
The leading article In this Issue is Il
capital notice of the Water.COlor
Exhibition, 10y Edward Strahan. with
illustrations OF over thirty of the
noteworthy pictures. BOughtOn's
beautiful painting, "SnOw in Spring."
is finely reproduced, and there is
good portrait Of Dore, with some
well.chosen examples Of his work.
Flower painters, fan painters. china
painters and photograph pOrtraitists
are remembered in the practical ar.
ticles, and there is much pleasant
and copl0usly illustrated talk about
French furniture, Japanese art. new
houses. old fashions, and variety If
other art topics. On the whole, the
March number is an excellent speci.
men Of this always attractive maga-
zine. Price, IS cents. 81 Il year.
Montague Marks, publisher, % Union
Square. New York.
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Care OF Mich Cows.

The owner Of II moderate sized
farm In one of the central countries
of this State, has become 80 success
full in the quantity of milk which he
obtains from his ten cows, as To ia.
duce the particular inquiry how, OF
10y what process he obtained more
milk than WAS afforded from IN equal
numher in the best diaries in tina! re
9iOn vi the country. The answer in
substance was, by the perfect care
which the animals received. The
management is divided between the
owner and his son. The father does
the whole Of the milking. the COWS
are we'll acquainted with him and
with his gentle treatment. and the
milk is not diminished by their heing
frightened with the presence .!
strangers The son does all the feed
ing. and knows just how much each
animal will eat. and distributes the
amount accordingly. Every one has
enough. and none are surteited by
wasted food. Each one attends in.
variably to his own department. and
no attraction at the neighboring city
ar demand on their time Will draw
either away f;Om the care of the
cuwS at the regular time for feeding
or milking. The fine condition of
these animals when we saw them.
AMI the comfortable quarters provid.
cd for them showed the careful atten
ton which they received. Country
Gentleman.
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PROBATE NOTCH.

STATE OF MINNESOTA. County of Blue
> Earth. Ia Probate Court. Special Term.
In tho matter or tine estate Of Fre,iriCE
Simpson, doC"aSet.
Gu reading and iling the petition Oi Thomas
y. Shcrk, administrator Of SdIu c-tGt" syttin-s
forth the amount II personal estate that has
come 10 his hands, ana IN" disposition there
OF; the amount Of debts uH'~tanau g against
said deceased, and a absorption al all the real
estate Of which said deceased died So'Zcd, and
the condition and value OF the respective
portions thereof: and praying that license H.
10 him grant ii To sell the east hIii nf lot two
2, block lDurt zen 90, Van BgIuTS addition
10 Mankato. and II appearing. by said pcti-
ton, that there IL not sufficient personal
estate in tho hands Of said administration t.
pay said debts aud that IL Is necessary in or
dor to pay the same. To- sell All ~ said rcai
estate.
II is ther:or, ordered, that aiIpcrSons inter-
csted in said estate, appear before the Judge
Of this court on Thursday. the nth day ~
March, \. ID. 1855. M 10 o'clock i. NJ. al the
Probate Office In MIGkUto III said county.
then AMI there to show cause ar any there bcj
why license should not hc granted &" >iid
administrator To sell said real estate Gccord-
inl u the prayer ol SalG l.. titiuH.
Aal Il = further Oricroi, that 4 copy Of this
order shall Lee published lUr four successive
weeks prior H. sIId day o.. hearing, the last
Of which publications shall tee At least -four
teen days before ~. Il dig Of hearing. IN the
Nanliato FACE PtTs~, Il weekly new -pJpcr.
printed ANA pGbiI-h'-l AZ Nau%dtu in said
county, Gud p'gS n8ily srrVrd M al pcrSnns
interested ia saia estate, residing ~ said
county. al least fourteen days before said
day of hearing. md uppu rl other prr,ous
By tns Curt. q ". MEAD.
Judg, 0f Probate. 81 Blue Earth County, hilu.
Dated At Mankato. the lath day ~ February,
\. ID. 49,.
THOMAS Sc WlEHTUES, 3iwI
Attorneys Cor Administrator
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PROBATE NOTICE.

rTATE OF NlSNESOTA. County of Blue
- Earth.-sS In Probate Court.
IN the matter OF the estate q; Phcbc Ann
Webster, deceased.
The State ui Minnesota ana the said Probate
Court 10 all persons interested In the estate
OF Phcbr Ann Webster, deceased, greeting:
Whereas William Thomas has filed his pc
titiOn iu the Probate Court of Blue Earth
county for letters al administration - Issue
u some suitable person upon tho estate Of
Phebc Ann Webster, late al SAID county de-
ceased
Therefore. ynuand each oi you are cited and
required To appear at the Office al the
Judge uf Prnhata n the City uf Maullnto, IN
said county on Monday. the 9TH day oi March.
~ 10 a. clock III the forenoon ri that day and
show cause why letters IT administration
GpDn said cstat. should not issue rs prayed
f0r I'm said petition.
Ia testimony whereof have hereunto set
my hand sui affixed the seal III the Probate
Court This Stu DAY Of February j. y. 1885,.
G.. W. MEAD,
tSsALp Judge oG Probate.
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Undomestic Young Women in Boston.

'Of late have been impressed with
the growing tendency to undomestic
habits OF the young women in cities"
writes a Boston lady to the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat THAT is, a certain
class of young women who are very dis
tinctive, and who are, in a way, the out
growth, the product of new conditions
OF life. These arc the young women in
the professions and in art. The latter.
at least here in Boston. numerically
very far Overbalance those devoted To
other avocatiOns. There are here doz-
ems OF young women who have their
own studios and live separate and indie
pendent lives. They are artist, in oils,
water-colors. specialists in flower paint
ing. or portrait painters. Crayon por-
traiture is also specially. Tho ply
sicians are usually, so far at least as !
know. an older class of women, us
naturally they would IL. For we have
no doctor Fay as yet, possible as she
is to this age. Law has its attractions
for Boston young women, and journal
ism is in high favor-rathcr fashionable,
In fact it is very good form here to have
something to do-and TO do it,"
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Comparative Poisonous Effects Of Different
Metals.

Some interesting results relating to
different metals have been noted by N.
Richet. He finds that copper is 600
times more toxic than sirontium. not
withstauding that its atomic weight is
less; lithium, the atomic weight OF
which is but twentieth of that of ha-
rum. is yet three times more poisonous.
Even in the case of the same chemical
family of metals. no relation is found
TO exist between atomic weight and
toXicity. Thus cadmium, with an
atomic weight of ll2. is just half as
poisonous as zinc, the atomic weight
Of which is IS. Lithium, with an atomic
weight Of Z, is seventy times more poi
sonOus than sodium. 1t would appear,
therefore. that there is no relation he
tween the chemical function of body
and its Toxic power. Potassium and
sodium, the properties Of which are so
similar, differ widely in their poisonous
effects, one gram Of the former being.
nearly $50 times more poisonous than
one gram of the latter.
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Smoke Preventing Deaths.

Some one has ut last been found to
say good word for smoke. The Bur-
slem Town Council has been discussing
the death-rate in that town, which APP
pears just now to be rather high, and
the medical officer consoles them by
pointing out that the deaths would be
more numerous still were it not for the
smOkiness Of the town. The evil effects
of their bad system of drainage are
largely cOunteracted by the smoke from
the factories, which blends with the at
mosphere, to act As u deOdorizcr; and
he was at loss to imagine how "intell-
gent men, and even members of his
own profession" could complain of the
''smoke nuisance" The doctors NAV
be left to settle the matter for them
selves; but one must admit that smoke
certainly has some of those offensive
qualities which belong to recognized
'sdeodoriZers.'
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How Gambetta Lost an Eye.

His father, who had no provision
of the boys future celebrity, wanted
to secure him against military service
by keeping him in Italian. Immuni-
iy from soldering was brought about
accidentally. AS Gambetta was
watching knife.grinder operate on
Il wheel, the blade Of the knife got
detached from the handle and flew
into the boys eye and blinded 1t. He
WAS very much petted in consequence,
and the mother was embOldened by
her increased tenderness to insist
upon Leon being sent to the Petit:
Seminaire of Montfaucon to receive
Il classical education. Her husband
was IN enemy to higher instruction
and thought the communal school
sufficient for Il boy whose destiny it
WAS to be provincial grocer.-From
tie Warch Century.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

NlTATE OF MINNESDTA-CoUNTy oF Blue
- E,RTH-ss. In Probate Court. Special
Term.
IL the matter Of the estate of John Gomstock
Deceased.
on reading and tling the petition Of John
Fisher. administrator with tn" will annexed
OF John tnmStoCk. deceased setting forth the
amount of personal estate that has come iu-
to his hands. and the disposition thereof: tnr
amount of debts outstanding against said de-
ceassd. and n description OF all the real estate
Of which said deceased died seized or In hich
H. was interested, AMI the condition ana VAL
ne oT the respective portions thereof. AMI
praying thar license be IL him granted Ia sell
al. 81 said real estate described In said peti'
tion. And IL Appearing, 10y said petition, that
there H. u1t sufficient personal estate In the
hands ~ said administrator In pay said debts.
and thar Il is necessary Ia order u pay the
same. t. sell all Of said real estate;
II X therefore ordered. that all persons In
t"restod in the said estate. appear before the
Judge or this court. on the Slst day nt March.
A ID. 1883. at ~ o'clock A. VI. al the Probate
Office in the city of Mankato in said county.
then aud there Ia show cause. II any there
hp why license should not Ice granted u said
john Fisher, administrator, with the Will an
EeNed. IL sell said real estate according Ia
tho PRAYER az said petition
And "a Is further or,.er,si, that a copy 81 this
order shall he published for four successive
weeks prior ~ sai1 day of hearing, the last
of which publications shall be at least four
teen DAYS before said day ~ hearing. in the
Nankatu FREE Pass a weekly newspaper
printed and published NJ Mankatn III said
county. and personally served on all person,
interested Ia said estate, residing IN sai,
county ut least fourteen days brfure said
day ~ hearing. and upon all other persons
interested, according to law.
Nv the Court, q. W. MEAD,
JUDGE 30 rrohs'" ~ Blu" Earth County. MINI
n. &. WILLARD.
Attorney for said Admiustratnr
A D. lsSS 3iwl
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He WantAd Ia Fosa.


A resident of Park street had photo
grapher come up the other day for the
purpose of taking view Of his resi-
dence, and the man of the camera had
Just got in position when alonC came an
old coon with II buck-saw on his arm
and wanted To know what was up.
''Going to photograph the house."
was the reply.
Then | guess I'll posc," remarked
the old man. IN take II position ut the
left Of the gate and represent the statue
Of Industry"
The members of the family came out
and arranged themselves, and the man
called out:
Here. old man, you want to get out
Of THAR
Cant represent, Industry"
"No, STRIP
Cant stand over there and repre-
sent LazinessT"
mo. sir! We don't want you in the
group ut all
"Lemme represent the Sleeping Beau
ty."
"You go awayr'
He drew of to one side, the passing
teams halted to give the artist chance,
and directly the plate WAS made. Ev-
erybody rushed forward when it was
ready for inspection. and the old man
was one of the first. AS the plate was
held up he giggled and tickled. and IL
nally burst into loud laugh. He had
lodged around the corner of the house
and his full figure was revealed behind
the family.
what do you represent in that atti-
tudep" sternly inquired the photograph
or.
"Well. l reckon that's pretty good
pose for COntcntmenr."
Every we'll. ! will now represent
Dissatisfaction.
And the artist took the festive old
chap by the ear and walked him ont of
the crowd and put in Il couple of kicks
which changed the pose OF Contentment
to that OF SOrrOw.-DetrOit Free Press.
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PROBATE NOTICE.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA. County OF Blue
~ Earth. In Probate Court.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA. County OF Blue
~ Earth. In PI ubate Court
In the matter of the estate OF Benjamin
Durkee, deceased.
The State OF Minnesota and the said Probate
Court TO all persons interested in tho estate
Of benjamin Durkcc, deceased. Greeting:
Whereas, Elizabeth Durkee. of the county
of Blue Earth. Stale Of Minnesota, has nled
her petition in the Probate Court of the cp,iE-
~ OF Blue Earth for letters Of administration
~ Issue u said petitioner upon the estate 81
Benjamin Durkcc. late Of said county, de-
ceased.
Therefore, you and each of you arc cited
and required 10 appear nj the Office OF the
judge OF Probate ia the city OF AankatO Ia
said county on the i?th day Of March 1883, at
two O'Clock in the afternoon IF thar day anu
SHOW cause why letters az administration
should not issue IT, the said Elizabeth DuTktS
as prayed for in said petition.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal OF the Probate
Curt this 18th day Of February, 4. ID. 1881.
GEO. W. MEAD,
IsEAL Judge of Probate.
"a