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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-08-10
Manifest Destiny Points TO MalkatO !

the great distributing center OF Southwestern Mnnesots
busy industries fast multiplying will be pushed the
most supply the rapidly developing of the country beyond
foohold will be worth fortune in the future If
want omc if business location, and
lend a hand to make
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-08-10

Where carefully made at present prices will bette
than money at interest
The manufacturing interests of Mankao in the full
tide of successful prosperity mechanics at work. labor
employed than before enterprises being projected
every abtae occupied and the brightest prospects
the rapid growth of the city
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-08-10

An English Veterinary Surgeon and Chemist.
now travelling I'm this country, says that most
ui the Horse and Cattle Powders sold here
are worthless trash. lie says that Sheridan
Condition Powders are absolutely pure and
Immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will m
fil to pint food. Sold everywhere, or sent b,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-08-10

The following is the platform
adopted by the national anti-monopo-
IL convention. which met in Chicago
Oh the 4lh of July last:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-07-12
Getting His Moneys Worth.

A man, little topheavy, rushed into
a Sixth-ayenue telegraph Office, seized
a telegraph blank and stub pen with
a ball of dried ink on the end, and, by
propping himself against the counter,
managed to write the following mes,
sage: i5 Atj 80
Kate; won't be home till morning.
HARRY"
"What'Il that costa'' said the man,
handing the message through the port
hole to the manipulation of electricity.
tt'Let me see. Seven words-fifteen
cents.
Fifteen, eh! How much for ten
words?n ae Y.F
The same price; anything not ex-
ceeding ten will cost you fifteen cents
to any address in the city, answers
the operator, making spring to muzzle
an instrument that was sputtering as if
it had delirium tremens.
I'm bound to have the worth of nv
money out of gour corporation, then
said the man, braeing himself against
the counter as he traced on blank this
clear message:
"Incomprehensibility manufacturers, trans.
cendentalism, Constantinople, concavocon
vex, Massachusetts,, assassination, PennsyI
vania, imperturbability, philoprogenitive
ness"
There, string that on your wire and
send her at 2:40 gait" said the man,
with look of vengeance in his eye. 4
The operator counted the words, but
volunteered the information that there
was no sense in the message, and that
the dictionary must have been ran
sacked for the longest words.
II know there's no sense in it, but
Kate'll understand it all. the same
Sh'll know I'm on q drunk ANYWAY
when send message at this hour,
whether it's sense or not. / make EN-
long on purpose to break the back of
your darned machine. Shovel 'ein in
and start the crank. I'm in for a good
time. Never mind the expense. Here's
your fifteen cents" And the man San
out and hailed passing cah-M 2.
World.
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The PantIler's Leap.

A gentleman of truth said this to me:
II was in Canada some wears since.
The family had just finished the usual
slaughter of hogs and beef. and had
hung the beef against pile of lumber
| to cool off or freeze A catamount
| (the Indian name in New England)
| crept out in the night to get a piece.
In pulling down the quarter of beef he
| upset the pile of lumber, which came
| down with . frightful noise, and he
made elthree tremendous leaps from the
spot. saw the tracks in the snow:
there was not mark between them;
did not measure the distance myself.
but man did, and l believe correctly.
The first jump was UP hill, thirty feet;
the second, horizontal, to a large rock.
tIfty-four feet; the third, down hill.
seVenty-two feet.n ts ig.sti
A leap Of thirty feet perpendicular to
the branch OF a tree, or a forty-foot
plunge after a fatal shot, and falling
dead almost at the. hunters feet, have
been repeated until the veracity is not
questioned, and after. making all pos
sible allowance we must acknowledge
there is not creature living whose leap
compares with it. f.. 1zais8
+ The question then comes up, how is
this superiority over other animals at
tanned? The key we shall find in the
coiled wire spring. This spring, pressed
down on base and liberated, leaps
ahead further than any other form.
The reason is very simple, Every
movement of substance must start from
a base unless moved by an outside
force. The coiled wire spring, when
pressed down, becomes a solid its en-
tire length. When let loose the first
turn jumps from its base, which is the
second; the second adds its force to the
first. jumping from the third, and so in
succession to the last, which adds its
force after the whole coil is fiying from
the outside base of all. And this is pre-
cisely the case in the panther's leap.
The forelegs and head are shot forward
from the shoulders. the powerful
muscles of the back straighten the
curve of the spinal column from the
hips, while the great posterior muscles
through the Achilles tendon and over
the longest lever in the animal economy,
add the last impetus to body already
shooting ahead like an arrow.-Forest
and Stream. fs3 a3taf.
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Seed and Plants to the Acre.

The Southern Agriculturist gives the
following table, as showing its view ol
the quantity of seed and plants to be
used to the acre of ground:
Asparagus in 12-ineh drills, 16 quarts.
Asparagus plants, 4 by II feet, 5000.
Barley, q bushels to the acre. ~
Beans pole, Lima. 4 by 4 feet %
quarts. - ~ @ - !
Beans. Carolina; prolific, 4 bys3 feet,
10 quarts,
Beets, mandgolds, drills, p feet, 8
pounds. 9yGH sTagu3aHinGa. 5sat.s..
Cabbage, outside, for transplanting,
II ounces. ''i.t W ''.'f mont y
Cabbage sown in frames, 4 ounces
Carrots in drills, % feet, pounds.
Celery, seed, 8 ounces. 1siszs'i aa
Celery; plants, 4 by J foot, $4,000.
Glover, Lucerne, 10 pounds to the
acre. y 55SHH ti itSs 5S8 .iIlE II
Clover. Alsike, pounds. .r5.s s.t 81
Clover, red with timothy IL pounds.
Clover, red without timothy, 16
Corn, sugar, 10 quarts. 3,1y.a -
Corn, field, s quarts. ,......,.- ..-.t
/ Cucumber, in hills, quarts. . g.
Eggplant, plants, 8 by 2 feet, 4
ounces. t.;.go ..,..9 49,.
Endive, in drills, q feet, 8 pounds.
Grass, timothy, with clover, 6 quarts.
Grass, tilmn timothy, without clover, 10
Grass, orchardI grass, .S5 quarts.
Grass, red-top or herds, 20 quarts.
Grass. blue, quarts. '''
Grass, rye, 20 quarts. ga..
Grass, millet, 32 quarts.
Hemp, broadcast, } bushel. 15ei. 1d
Kale, German greens, 3 pounds
Lettuce, in rows, p feet, 8 pounds.
Lawn grass 35 pounds. s1 afe4
Melons, water, in hills 8 by 8 feet, 8
pounds. ,'f3 20 90
Melons,. cantelopes, in hills a by 4
feet, pounds, - -.-a.
Oats, 2 bushels. -'
okra, in drills 81 by ! feet, 20
pounds. ~e--s z...-
Onion, in beds for. sets, so pounds
Onion, in rows for large bulbs, 7
pounds. ia sttaTa 7eaaa III. +
Parsnip, in drills q feet, 5 pounds.
Pepper plants, p by foot, II, 800.
Pumpkin, in hills by feet, 2 quarts.
Parsley, in drills 2 feet, pounds.
Peas, in drills, short varieties, 2
bushels. 3Ai 3Hs@a 6{ Fl sa
Peas, in drills, tall varieties, / to II
bushels.
Peas, broadcast, 8 bushels, ID III
Potatoes, s bHshelssee.
Radish, in drills 2 feet, 10 pounds.
Rye, broadcast, IL bushels.
Rye, drilled, II bushels. H
Satisfy. in drills p feet, 10 pounds.
Spinach, broadcast, 80 pounds.
Squash, running, s by 8 feet, -
pounds. faza fI#Hs s, f....
Sorghum, 4 quarts.
Tnrnips, in drills feet, pounds.
Tomatoes, in frames, 3 ounces.
Tomatoes, plants, $500.
Wheat, in drills, II bushels. 900 -
Wheat, broadcast, 2bushels.
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Witchcraft in India.

There are in India professed heart
eaters and liyer-eaters, who, by their
spells and incantations, pretend to steal
away and devour these vital organs,
thereby reducing the luckless indf-
viduals thus attacked. to the greatest
extremity. These extraordinary feeders
are, it is said, able to communicate their
art by giving those who desire to ex-
ercise it a piece of 'liver-cake to eat.
They are dangerous people, efeeting as
much mischief by. their pretended
power as If they were actually able to
achieve what they profess; since they
work upon the fears and excite the
imagination of the unhappy individuals
who are subjected to their diabolieal in
fiuence, producing upon the victim
who isl rendered hypochondriae by the
artful suggestions of the. enemy
anguish, disease and finally death
A recent Indian mail gave a, very
curious instance of the. fatal results
which arise sometimes from native
superstition. 1t was brought to light
in the course of a trial held before the
Agent of the Governor of Madras at
Gangam, in South India. A paltry dis
pute had arisenbetweerlt two menregard-
ing a,sum of six annas (about seven
pence) which had to be divided between
them, and it ended in one of them 90
ing into a, house and fetching knife,
with which he inflicted several
stabs upon his opponent from the eff
fects of which hesdied.s~0n being taken
up, the accused admitted having caused
the death of the other man, but said he
had done so IN order to save himself, as
the other had threatened to turn him.
self into tiger and kill him. There is
a. superstition among the hill tribes to
the effect that such metamorphosis
can be made; and coupling this with
the circumstance that the crime was
apparently unprecedented, as the
weapon with which the wounds were
inflicted did not belong. to the prisoner,
the Governors agent did not consider
the case such as to call for the exercise.
of the utmost severity of the law. The
prisoner was found guilty and ordered
to be transported for life.
The Mohammedans adopt another de-
vice for taking away the life of an ene-
my. They construct an image of earth
taken out of grave, read d particular
chapter of the Koran over it and then
repeat the prayers backward, everv
word spelled in.the same way-that is.
with the letters reversed. These and
other preliminaries being accomplished.
the image is perforated with wooden
pegs in every part, and being shrouded
like a human corpse, is conveyed with
funeral solemnity to the cemetery of
the place and inferred in the name of
the person whose death is desired. and
who. it is believed, will not long survive
the performance of these obsequies.-
Chambers Journal
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NUMBER Is. i.5
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

I a.
Virginia claims the oldest English
church in this country. It is the old
Friends church at Burton, and was 4
built in 1852. An ancestor of Martha
Washington is said to be buried in the
church-yard
The monthly magazine of the Free 9
Church of Scotland makes the number
of Protestants in the world to be 12O,- y
000, 900; of Oriental Christians, SO, 0,oO0,- a
600; of Roman Catholics, 200, 900, 900;
of Jews g1o, 900, 900; of Mohammedans,
10000, 600; of Pagans, 800, 900, 900.
The Principal of the Nevada CITY ,
(Cal0 schools has given notice that any r
pupil under his charge who was known
to indulge in Cigarette smoking or In e
the use of tobacco in any form while in,
attendance upon or on the way to or
from the public schools of that city
should be forthwith expelled 9'l 9A
President Ewell, of William and +
Mary College, at Williamsburg, Va,
reports several students in the various
departments of that venerable institu5v
ton, and insists that its trustees do not
contemplate letting the college-'sthe
only one in the United States having
royal charterl-pass out of existence.
AT the recent Presentation, Day ex- i.
ercises of the National Deaf-Mtte Col "a
lege, in Washington, a memorial bnst.d
OF the late President Garfield was un-
veiled with appropriate ceremonies
The bust, which arrived from Italy
only six hours before its unveiling, was .
erected by subscriptions received from
deaf mutes throughout the United
States, and cost $l,500.-N. T. Times.
The charge having been published
in New York that the American Bap-
tist Missionary Society's funds for ex-
penditure in Burnlah had been manip-
ulated in the interest of officers of the
society IN this country, DIR. Murdoch \
of Boston, Secretary of the Board, ex-
plains that whatever manipulation has
been done was for the benefit of the so-,v
ciety, and with the consent of the mis-
sionaries in Burmah. IN Y-TTSb,t7se. -
When Parson Jones was asked bygi
one of his parishioners if he didn't
think some broad ideas interiected into
his sermons would be more in oonso-
nance with the spirit of the times than,
his customary pulpit utterances, the 2
good man replied, "Quite likely; but
pray how can one put broad ideas into
narrow mindsa Sermons must be
adapted to the capacity of the congre-
cation, you know. = 80 Chicago Herald Z
There is in Philadelphia an. organi-
cation composed of some, of the most
prominent ladies and gentlemen i6f that =
city which is known as 'fThe Public }
Education Association" Rhe object is
''to promote the efficiency and to per-
feet the system Of education in Phila7
delphla by attracting general attention /.
to its errors and defects through ap-,s
peals to the local authorities andIto the,
legislature when needful, and through
such other means as may from time 10
time be deemed expedient. PEilGdeE-
pliG Press.
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} The Hearts Work.

/
As with each stroke the heart pro-
jects something ike six ouncesiof blood
into the cenduits of the system, and as
1t does so some seventy times every
minute and 1920 times in an hour, this
implies that it does the same thing
100,S00 times in tWenty-four hours,
30,000s000 times lin q year, and more
than $500, 100000 times in a life of
seventy years The mechanical force
that is exerted at each stroke amounts
to pressure of thirteen pounds upon
the entire charge Of. blood that, has to
be pressed onward through the branch
ing net work of vessels. According to
the lowest estimate that has been made,
this gives an exertion of force that
would be adequate, in smother form of
application, to lift 120 tons one foot
high every twenty-four hours. Yet the.
piece of living mechanism that is called
upon to do this, and do it without pause
for three score years and ten without
being itself worhSodts by The effort ssa
small bundle Of flesh that rarely weighs
more than'elevens ounces 1tAis insthe
nature OF the case, also, it must be re-
membered, that this little vital machine
cannot be. at any time stopped for re-
pair. Ii it gets out of order, it must
be set right as it runs. To stop the
beating of the heart for more than the
briefest interval would be to change
life into death. The narrative of what
medical science has done to penetrate
into the secrets of this delicate force
pump. so jealously guarded from the
intrusions of the eye that it cannot even
be looked into until its action has
ceased, is, nevertheless, long history
OF wonders. By means OF the spyg-
mograp-a writing style attached to the
wrist by means OF levers and springs
the pulse is, made to record actual
autographs of cardiac and vascular
derangement.-Edinburg ReUieU.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A case is on record where barber
and his victim were both happy. The
former talked on without interruption
and the latter was deaf. - Toledo An1eTS-
cd1l ile Hoa. 3ftlegsgE. So
"A Boston Sunday-school boy, when
asked to stand up and s'say his verse;
did it thus: '.Be not overcome of evil, "a
but come it over evil with good. ',,--,f
Boston Transcript. ''''' "a
IA solemn old scientist printed the
fact that by bathing the feet in tepid
water man could double his circula-
ton, and nowall the editors are having
tanks fitted to the- Office steves.-N
Y. Graphic. -
"A lawyer, having gained snft for
a poor young lady, who was very ugly,
she Remarked: II hae naething to pay
you with, sir, but my heart. ? "Hand Z
it over to my clerk, if you please; I wish
no fees for myself he said IA RN' ~
--Colored doctor (wedded to no
school, III think I wouldn't aggerVate
myself, Miz Jef'son. don't think Mr..
JEFF son critterkul; eff dar's no conges-
ton NV de eppydermis, an reaction
takes place in de spinal collum, he will
eonyalescent himself SOS to be about
putty soon. "-Are1Rsaa0 TrGtelter. 81
- will send my Newfoundland
Joe, y wrote young Mr.. Dude last week ?
to the manager Of the Westminster
Bench Show, ''and my carriage dog
Ben. Also please enter me for the best
blooded puppy; took the prize IN ST.
Louis The probabilities are that he
has not yet discovered his mistake. IN
"A romance of the period: A. beau
tiful girl was about to be married to d
bachelor seventy years of age; but very
rich. On the eve of her marriage she
learned that his wealth had been sdd-
denly swept away, leaving him penni-
less old man. Did the noble girl desert
him in his hour of troubleP She. did,
indeed, and her parents helped her, too.
Detroit Post p adi s-
Don't you remember me?,,' Cant
say that ever saw You before" eWhy,
don't you rememberlittle Sammy Bam-
bry, who used to steal your peaches and
break your windows twenty years ago?''
''Why, certainly, Ireme1nber you now.
And tanned your little hide for you
when ] caught you" ''You bet you
did. All, those happy days will never
come again. Chicago Tribune.
Mems Stupidity: An old gentle
man who had provoked the hostilityof
a fashionable. lady whom he had known
in boyhood, was asked by his wife what
he had done to incur helady's 'sdispleas-
ure. " Nothing al all, \ replied the in
nocent old man; "on the contrary,
was very cordial to her and spoke Of the
time when / used to carry her to school
nearly half century agoF' His wife
threw up her hands in. amazemenL Lsand.
murmured: ''How stupid men are!'-~
~ 2. Ledger.
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Established July 1, 1859.
BID ME GOODBYE.

Bid me Good-byei NeHsweeter salutation
Can friendship claim;
Nor yet can any language, any nation
A sweeter frame.
1t is not final; it forebodes no sorrow,
As some declare,
Who born to fretting are so prone to borrow
TO-morrow's share. F
Goodbye Is but a prayer, a benediction
From lips sincere;
And breathed by thine it brings sweet con
That God will hear.
Goodbye! yes, God be with you;" prayer and
blessing
In simplest phrase;
Alike our need and His dear care confessinp
In all our ways.
However rare or frequent be our meeting,
However nigh
The last long parting, or the endless greeting
Bid me Good-bye!
Harriet MeEt0eft KiRtbdU, in Youths Compd1.
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In Pantomime.

E4 #4E He
One of the traces of the street car
horse broke. delaying the car for seven
or eightminutes. Afar off to the right
one could see into the backyard OF a
house, and directly the passengers on
the car were gazing that way at pan
tomime. A man on the car took it
upon himself to explain what was oc-
curing. He began:
"A woman and her husband appear
at the backdoor. She is excited-he
the picture Of calmness. y
1t was so. The woman waved her
arms and gesticulated-t the man seemed
to whistle.
''Now she leads him to a bedstead
which she has been scalding," con
tinued the passenger ''She is prob
ably saying that she will smash it with
the ak. and he is probably replying
that she'll have to sleep on the floor If
she does. If | had time I'd advise her
to use kerosene. oil in the crevices, but
/ haven't neaa y
The woman then led the. man to a
carpet hanging on the fence and waved
her arms some more 1 ta
She's telling him to pull off his coat
and beat it, explained the passenger.
''and he replies that he'll see the old
thing burned first. No true wife viii
ever ask her husband to have anything
to do with carpet. I o. !
The two suddenly disappeared into
the house, and the interpreter re-
marked: s 70
Hold on--this isn't the end! She s
taken him in to show where she wants
the kitchen stove moved to- There
they come, and she is madder'n ever. .
The actors reappeared and stood in
the attitude OF enemies about to begin a
combat,
s'She's saying that she rdes the day
she ever set eyes on him!n whispered
the passenger. 'She's calling him a
loafer and a drunkard, and he's telling
her to set the chimney afire and let the
fremen do her house-cleaning. Whoa!
there she's flying off the handle!
There! she's hit him with a bedstead
slat! He staggers, but recovers and
tries to grasp her! She whacks him
again, and now he turns to fee. He
reaches the fence, but she reaches himin
Some of the passengers ran out upon
the platform to- get a clear view, but
the interpreter climbed to the roof and
continued: 8 $685. fea
'tShe has him down on an ash-heap!
She's telling him that he has reached
the end of his rope and has got to cut
bait or fish. He struggles-she chokes
him and jams his, head into the ashes!
Now he is quiet. Now she lets him up.
Now he is walking towards the carpet
with stick. Ladies and gentlemen,
the great moral exhibition is over and
virtue and perseverance have won an
other glorious triumph n'- Detroit Free
Press.
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Charles A. Gray. of New Bedford,
Mass, who is now lying in bed at his
residence with his right knoe-pan broken
for the third time within four years, has
on each time he has been so disabled
lost horse by death.-Bostorp Post.
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"A butcher in Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
killed an OK few days ago. and on
opening its paunch found therein i've
hundred dollar certificate of stock in
the Poughkeepsie bridge.--M 7. San.
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ANTHONY K. Henderson. who died

---AnThony 4. Henderson, who died
IN Erie, Pa, recently, bequeathed his
fortune of 100000 to $3.50, 600, after
some small personal bequests are de-
Quoted, to the towns of Newcastle, Pa,
and Cleveland, O., for the establish
nlent and maintainance in each of an
industrial home for poor boys, in which
they may betaught the trades and given
sufficient education for the ordinary
requirements of business life.-Ptlla-
delphia Record. @
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1883-06-23
FAaMER as, LOOK here!
Make Your Own Cuano.

shun these gpano dealers and manu-
faeluie your own fertilizers, Most OF
the mate'ial is on your farms, and easy
to be had, and the balance can Lc
had at your nearest town.
One receipt for quickly manufactur.
ing guano 'fiif better than the spurious
stun sold by INSCRIPTIONS dealers,
will be mailet!to you Oil receipt OF
oAE DOLLAR. vn B,
directions are Simple, no tools
Ior apparatus needed besides what \
farmer already has, and the cost docs
not exceod THREE DOLLARS bcr
ton, Three hundred pounds but Of
an acre WilliIaite a better crop tHair
any gHaiio you can buy. Send your
order and one dollar BY null, at Inv
risk, with post Office plainly writ.o9
to r.. JsEDENFIElD
Swainsbofo, ia.
Jan. 20, lSS3-l6t