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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-07-24
Fire Brick, 1 Ian,
Drain Tile. WORKS.
Crude Fire and Pot Cor. PLUM s and
Clay. Fire Sand sr Alh.rs.r
by barrel or car lots. Iatf Agent
A Reliable House.

Mr.. j. II. Jones Is always reliable and tries
To secure the best of everything for his pa-
irons. He now has bought q large quantity
always willing and ready TO recommend IL to
every one In need OF preparation for
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, bronchitis and Con-
sumption, as he knows Of no other remedy
that Is gaining such wide reputation. sam
pie bottles frce.
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The Oldest r


Which IS the oldest tree ? The elder, but. tn,
old mullen plant is the oldest IN worth, for Il
IL now recognized of more value than cod
liver oil I'm consumption. Taylor's Cherokee
Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen will cure
coughs, colds and consumption.
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Wonderful -!

Oberne, Hosick 4 Co.'S "Sweet 10" is
the best Soap in the market for the
money.
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Call mt Taylors Jewelry Store and see
the finest and largest stock of gold pens
and holders and novelties ever seen i'm
any one store east or west. 2tf
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] will pay 35 cents per pound Tor green
Ginseng. Dry Ginseng according to
quality from 81 90 to $l.75 per pound.
FRANK llENLlNE,
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Inst. the Thin

for harvest shoe is our stitchdown
Brogan ut $3.50 per pair.
Ava G.. III. AUSTIN Il Son.
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Try "Sweet 10" and you will use no
other. OF
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Wanted.

Wait for the genuine French Kid Shoes
from Finet Il Co., Paris, France, which
will arrive at KROLIK'S SHOE STORE,
about Aug. 18th.
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" 4 R II liz ID.
A Hen Convention.

ANDREWS-KESTE On July 10Th, 1885, In
Mankato, by Rev. j. e. Ople, Mr.. Frank An.
drcws and Miss Della kestei, both Of Man.
katO, Mimi.
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Wanted.
John +. MeaPhs

Has an immense stock of binding wire
and Irvine on hand. Send him your or
ders, and you can depend on being sup
piled during harvest. 5w3
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Tho 2ofiafoctinn

j. II. Jones has secured the agency for
Natures Life Tonic, and recommend il
as never-ailing remedy for Nervous
Prostitution, Sleeplessness, Loss of APP
petite, Muscular Weakness, and all dis
orders requiring Tonic or Renovating
medicine. Sold at SOC. per bottle. 5w2
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HOME JOTTINGS.

WEATHER STATISTICS
For the week ending Thursday, July -, 1851
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English Waukenphast Shoes at $500 and
81. 90 at AUSrIN'S.
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Two large up-stair rooms. either fur
nished or unfinished. Near q good
boarding house. Inquire ut this Office.
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All shoes guaranteed at KROLIK'S.
To Rent.

Ask your grocer for "Sweet 10" soap.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06
How to Prevent Ergotism in Cattle.

The conditions most favorable for
the growth of the ergot are not we'll
understood, but it is nevertheless true
that it is much more abundant in some
seasons than in others. Warm moist
weather favors the development OF
fungi generally, and we doubt if ergot
is any exception to the rule. We have
observed it most frequently upon
grasses growing in low wet meadows
during rainy seasons. Thorough
draining of wet land would probably
diminish the amount of ergot in a
meadow. The favoring conditions of
a wet season of course are not under
the control of the farmer. The ergot-
ted grains are not fully developed IN
til the grass is ripe, therefore it is a
wise p%recaution to cut the grass at, or
soon after, the period of towering.
This is the best time to cut grass for
hay. The development of ergotism is
favored by exposure to cold and an
insufficient water supply. Animals
properly stabbed and watered in VIM
ter, may feed upon slightly ergotted
hay, without serious injury. When
ergot poisoning is suspected in an
animal, it should have a complete
change of food, with EPSON salts as a
physic, followed by mashes, roots,
etc., with warm stables and abund.
ance of pure water. In severe cases,
when a limb or a portion of one is
gangrened, treatment is of little avail
and the animals should be killed. II
may be several years before another
outbreak like that of last winter oc.
ours, but farmers should be on their
guard, able to detect ergot in their
hay and, when it is abundant, refuse
to endanger the lives Of their herds
Dr.. Halsted, in american Agriculturist
for February.
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over had succeeded 70 the throne AMI
everybody wore big wigs. To the com
ct, however, tho most important fact
was that Haley had told the worldthai
he was coming and that everybody in all
directions was ON the lookout for his
appearance. No sooner had he got
his eyes fairly ON the country than sig.
nal fires were Lit, and the news of the
comets return was flashed across from
town to town. And SO to 1885. During
the previous seventy-six years London
had spread out to nearly twice its
former size. and the comet stood
amazed. Looking northward, it saw
in Lancashire q string Of cars travelling
along q pair of rails without either
horses or men to drag it. There was
smoke coming out Of stumpy little
funnel, but the comet could not under
stand how this made the wheels go
round. Yet it saw men get into the
carriages at one place and get out at
another; and seeing is believing. even
for comets.
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..Ihen how do you claim this g..

".Then how do you claim this Sl,-
20Of'' inquired the surrogate.
..1''ve as much right to it as the law
yers.' was the reply. But the surro-
gate said he would not allowthe estate
to be plucked"
Inthe Rollwagonwill case Henry l..
Clinton got an allowance of $15, 600;
Mr. Arnoux, $40, 900; Malcomb Camp
bell, $500; George and j. G. Dang
bein, $3.50 each. In the Vanderbilt
will case Judge Jeremiah Black had
one check from Mrs. La Bau for $751;
600, and other fees during the trial,
and Scott Lord had some large fees.
Mr.. Joseph H. Choate came in for a
big fee on the other side.
The big fees of receivers and their
lawyers have attracted much recent
legislation. and the enormous sums
paid in this direction will not hereafter
be repeated. There are several cases
on record where receivers have receiv-
ed fortunes for merely nominal work.
-NcW York San.
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Photographers Paralysis.

"During the past three weeks 1 have
been unable to use MY pen," said Supt.
Walker, of the city's e lcctrical de-
partment, .'and have been compelled
to dictate my correspondence. l am
suffering from telegraphers' paralysis.
My right arm is useless, rendered so by
my working in and around batteries,
testing their strength and from the
repeated shocks | have received.
"Anyone handling the keys of an
operators board is subject to this all
ment, 1t is first observed in the mus
cles of the arm, which become be-
numted after a hard days work. A
few months after the first shock the
stoutest operator will succumb. My
physician has had me under treatment
for a month, but as yet does lot APP
pear to have benefited me much.
"Any muscular work, such as lifting
heavy packages, I can readily accom-
plish, but it is only with difficulty
that l can button my coat. Last sum
mer our chief operator complained of
a pain in his arm, and l insisted upon
him taking a complete rest, and since
his return he has not been attacked.
On the night OF election, when the re-
turns came pouring in on us, one Of
u best men was struck and was COM
PEELED to give up"
Supt. Gill Of the Western Union
operating rooms, said that many men
after serving the company for many
years were compelled to throw up
their positions on account of this form
of paralysis. Many mistakes have
been traced to the same source, as the
slightest pressure on the key will
produce other than the letter
the operator wishes to indicate. He
will often charge the mistakes to a
defect in the machinery, but in the end
must admit of his inability to work.
When an operator is first attacked he
will simply attribute it to over-work,
but he soon finds that his keen sense
of touch has disappeared. In nearly
every case it is u iirst-class operator
that is afflicted. A good transmittel
is paid a large salery, but must kceI
continually working at his board
while a second or third-ratc man ha.
many resting spells which allow him
to stretch his Philadelphia
Times. y
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On h Wing.

0 may, or you may not, know, as
it is, perhaps, the case either way, that
writing on the ears is attended with
certain difficulties and interrupted by
uncertain Incidents. The more uncer-
tain the incident the more liable it is
to happen, and the more nervously you
anticipate it, the more certainly does
it never happen. You grasp this. l
trust. And that, kind reader, is the
only thing | will trust you with.
No matter how smoothly the train is
running when you are doing nothing,
it begins to jump and roll when you
begin to write. There this car has
just jumped over a stump now it is
running, l think, in the bed of a creek
-an ola, abandoned bed at that, which
was so rough that no creek could run
in it. II the creek bed is any more
abandoned than the language of the
passenger who just now caught hold of
the stove to steady himself as the train
corkscrewed itself around a reversed
curve, it must be something terrible.
| will not even look at it.
At Allentown, Pa, a party of Penn
sylvania Dutch ladies, attended by a
numerous retinue of children. mostly
boys and girls, got on the car and pro-
ceeded to occupy the territory already
pre-empted under the laws of the road
by existing passengers. l have two
children billeted upon me, the elder
being several years the senior of her
little brother. I do not mind it, be-
cause l am fond of the company of
young people. But the commercial
traveller, who happenedto be Temporal
lily absent and has returned to find his
claim jumped by five children, is mad
about it. There are four ladies in the
invading party and thirty-two children.
The youngest child can just walk, and
the eldest is so young that the con
ductor can't get q single half fare out
ofthe whole crowd. So many children,
all rugged and healthy as kids, appor-
toned between four mothers, isn't so
bad.
If the gentleman with the "perfum-
ed" breath sitting in the next seat
leans over much further in his effort to
see what | am writing, he will fall into
the coal box. What did, tell you?
There he goesp. But I was wrong in
my diagnosis. We struck the other
curve and he foil out of the window.
The ladies hereinbefore mentioned
are conversing in Pennsylvauia Dutch.
It is a most ~distracting language to
listen to. About one-tifth of the words
are plain English, and the rest are
half-breeds and thoroughbred Dutch.
So you can understand just enough of
what they say to make you wild to
know the rest of it.
I find that ! was mistaken in attrib-
uting those t~hirty-two children to four
mothers. One Of the ladies, l learn,
is the mother OF the other three. That
makes it about right. l thought the
families were rather small for this
country.-Burdete, tn Brooklyn Eagle.
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What is Ergots

Ergot is a fungus that develops upon
the young grain of various species OF
the grass family, more especially the
common rye. When full grown the
affected grains are several times their
normal size, dark brown or purple
upon the surface, and gray and hard
within. The common name for this
fungus (Clavceps purpureu) is "spur-
red rye" sc called from the resem-
blance of the long, curved and pointed
grains to the spurs of a cock. The
life history of the parasitic plant is as
follows: The spores (seeds) of the
ergot find their way to the young
flowers of the grass and terminate,
after which the tilaments of the fun
gus penetrate the ova1y and change
the interior into a mass of threads.
Spores are oon formed upon the sur
face of the infested ovary, which serve
to rapidly propagate the fungus on
other grains. As the seaso advances
the ergotted grains cease to form sur
face spores, increase to their full size,
and usually remain as such until
spring. At this time, those grains
that have fallen on wet ground OF
otherwise have sufficient moisture,
produce long stalks from their surface,
bearing %globular heads, and within
these are borne vast numbers of spores.
The hard, oily, ergotted grains, may
be considered the winter state of the
fungus-a condition of inactivity out
of which it comes with renewed vigor
in the spring.
Ergot has long been known as a
| poison, which, when taken in large
quantities, has induced a dreadful dis
cas- sometimes terminated only by
death. In the hands of a careful prac-
titioner it is a powerful medical agent
of great value. When present in con
siderable quantities in rye, it has
sometimes caused serious epidemics
among people who have fed largely
upon bread made from the ergotted
grain. 1t is not our purpose to re.
count the fearful misery that ergotisn
has brought to mankind, especially in
those countries where rye has been the
leading cereal food. 1t is sufficient to
state that gangrene, and loss of the
extremities of the afflicted persons
have frequently resulted from eating
bread made of ergotted grain.
The live stock of the farm are moi
exemptfrom the evil results of ergot-
ism. That many of the epidemics
which have occurred among flocks ano
herds, both in this country and abroad,
have been due to ergot is we'll estab
lished.-Dr. Halsted, IN american Ag
rtcultnrist for February.
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Mrs. Whitman and the Strange Beast.

F
Forty years ago or more, when the
doors of the Athenmum used to be
closed from IL to 2 O'Clock. Mrs.
Whitman frequently spentthose hours
there alone. One summer'sday, when
the librarian returned from dinner, he
found Mrs. W. in a state Of consider.
able excitement. which she explained
by saying that while walking up and
down the hall, as was her custom,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06
Kansas at New Orleans.

M, Na,, o.
a aee nsg o' Sa. : ..uya,Se Ion.a'ns
n ahls n.ass ,ne g1euess ol
Ekana.a aamo - So "a .ne
haiisus uep.ens .he Sleao
No. Mt eApo ~" - iuii oi's' ~
sna' oioy
c.n;,, :, 49, .; sii "a
~ nIa.:s oya - = aoiiicy W siiu
and ! 800 u,aHIa ;ota eonIa eleaeu.es
n, INV s;nnia and bau,aim teau'y 'he
go np,o au,;onn ya alate1ai.
aon.J WY u ,noa ana i%nseles'lhg
eAampleso 81 arI. Work' executed IN the
rudest materlal' are 70 DC seen III sev-
elai ~ .ne sla'e eAniolLs. otraw, corn,
o arpa ,ns, no m TOW oo. .ot. ahu !ne iike
VIC usee mi'n MonueIiui SKIN ana
"ioustl NV .uo in9s1 PieasinS ana
peau..iu, opyee.s, anu ~ the .loso I'M
eAPecteo nanne by way OF iilustra-
'lon seseIhle examples WI DC noted. !.
IN lne Aansas eAhlolI 1ne statue OF
ceres: me uoadess OF gram, Is seen
slanuing On lolty Peuestal
Win a chaPlet OF "nea ears ana bear
ing IN her hands q slckle and q sheaf
Q ! grain. Inc statue stands " feet
high on q pedestal 80 feet IN height
Inc pose iseasy and graceful, the dra-
perry classic IN form and falling IN nat
nrai lines ana curves, displaying the
limos n ilgure IN the approved Gre
rs mode.
Az distance this s~tatuesque figure
YOU NOT o. taken Tor a bundle of
straw, when II Is; u when it is ap-
proacned n lts real nature disclosed,
It's artis,ie excellence appears all the
more striklngly. 1t iooses mono OF its
beauty Of form. and gains in beauty
81 detall. The figure is clad
nrst IN vest or close-fit-
y SHIRT OF mail, covered en-
stlreiy with grains OF golden wheat,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06
More Brain-P Power on the Farm.

About the best use a farmer can
make of himself is, to devote the
present long winter evenings to an in
crease of his mental activity. Farms
differ in their productiveness. mainly
according to the amount of intelli-
gence that is brought to their cultiva.
ton. B%rain-power may be increased
by a thorough knowledg &c of the pres
ent condition of the farm. and its
worth as a machine for making money.
What crops have paid, and what have
been raised and sold at loss? What
per cent has it paid on the capita. in
vestedp In the case of the grain, what
secured itp Was it the manure APP
piled or the frequent tillage, or the ex-
ira amount of rainfallP In case Of
loss, was it the want of fertilizers, was
the crop choked by weeds, or was the
seed poor, and the crop damaged by
late plsntingP This accounting for
failures is as profitable as Dragging
over big crops. without making any
record of the process of obtaining
them, Brain power may be increased
by planning improvements. There
may be several acres of peat-swamp
or bog meadow, producing only brush
and bog hay, hardly worth cutting.
There is a good outlet, and itcan be
drained three feet or more deep.
Cipher out the cost of drainage, and of
making it produce three IONS of clover
or Timothy to the acre Would not
the sight of the waving heads of the
grass be more pleasing than the cat
tails, flags, and skunk-cabbages, that
now waste their sweetness upon the
desert airP There may be an acre of
swale, underlaid with hard-pan, over
which ferns, weeds, and aquatic
grasses run riot during the whole sum-
mer. Is it not time the bottom was
knocked out of it, by tiles laid three
ior four feet in the ground, and the SUI
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06

perauous water compelled to 20 out
through these instead of creeping
lazily over the surface? 1t can be
made the best grass land on the farm.
Why not make it 30. and handle the
dollars that come from maximum
cropsP Brain power can be increased
by reading and digesting the instruct
i've contents of agricultural papers
Vim. Cliff in american Agrtcuuartst for
February.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06

A Boston physician advises everybody to
ascertain what diseases have carried of bis
ancestors, with a view to guarding himself
against inherited tendencies by adopting the
requisite manner Of life, place OF residence,
and general eelf.treatmcnt.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06

The NeW Orleans Picayune contains
the following notice Of the goddess of
grain as she presents herself in the
Kansas department. of the great
worlds exposition, now in full blast in
that nitU.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-29
Jackson. Mss. April %. 1856.

JACKSON, Mss, April %
meeting of the Board Mayor Of
Me(i Mayor Aldermen Braun Gibbs, Hardy Taylor and Watkins
Absent-Alderman Jones.
Honor informed the Board that meeting
ed purpose demonstrating proposition for the building
bridge Twon Greek, Capitol Street
proposal the Smith Bridge Company Of Toledo Ohio
presented the Board by A p Suits, Agent follows:
JACKSON, Miss, April %, 1885.
Honorable Board Mayor Aldermen Jackson,
undersigned hereby propose
bridge Town in
complete travel including
Of l$3500) three thousand five hundred dollars.
SPECIFICATION suPERszRUcTuRE
spans
wide clear
length and have capacity OF 1000 lbs neal loot with factor OF
for safety
SPECIFICATIONS sUB-sTRUcTURE.
subrucue abutments pier
abamen be exeavad
of
cypress timber hatened Sides engtwise
the other the abument said
project
built
thick and of
height wall
place bridge may A
either end Of the said abutnt feet long be
bed of the cypress
laid enghwis OF extending under abutent
and feet long and five feet thick and
built angling
to turn any drift coming against H.
Respectfully submitted
A. r. srUIHs, Agent.
notion special appointed
The Mayor appointed Aldermen Watkins Braun Taylor
On motion Of Alderman Hardy, the Board adjourned
NJ NJ MCLEOD City Clerk.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-29


Last Thursday evening the MctIfodist
church 10 our city was the scene Of AVERY
beaatiiul marriage ceremony. Ia the i'm
pressive words 81 the holy service. pro-
nounce by Dr. C. g. Andrews. two happy
hearte eere united. and Miss Florence Lee
laushIp u our city. became Mrs Edgar
smith, 81 New Orleans. The attendants
on the happy occasion were. Mis- Annie
Manship, sister o. the bride, and Mr.
Graham, II New Orleans The bride was
exquisitely arrayed ia vi it- satin, -. teaSlte,
eiaborateiy trimmed with pearl psssenien-
terie, and wore 4 veil aud orange blossoms.
L ialreI, sweeter bride we have rot seen ia
many days than was she y no plighJed her
VOWS al the altar Thursday night. With
all who knew her she was favOTite, and
many and beautiful were the tributes 81
love she received on her bridal day. The
fortunate groom Is q stranger N our city,
bat readily impresses one with the thought
that he Is well worthy Of the prize he il
taking from our midst The happy couple
Lett here Oh Tie 1870 train for New Orleans
whore an elegant reception was given them
~ the residence of the grOom'- mother
That life may never Jose one single happy
note Of The joyous song it IS to them now,
is the wish III TIE GLARE5S.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-29
Newspapers of To-Day

People generally. and even those who
NAV be termed steady readers ana close
observers have but faint conception OF the
magnitude and influence the press OF thi-
country has attained. From careful
examination OF the advance pages OF the
1885 edition Of the AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
DIRECTORY. issued May lSt, by Geo.
p. Rowell x Co, OF New York, it appears
that there are l4.I47 newspapers and pc
riod.cals published in the United States
and Canada; of these the United States has
1870, an average of one paper for every
1916 persons. IN 1884 the total number
OF newspapers was less by SOB Than at
present. aud while the gaia this year Is not
SO marked as In some previous years, 1t L.
Still considerable. Kansas shows the great
est increase the number being 7S,whiie Hi
nois follows with a gain OF -. 1t Is curl
Gus tn notice that New York, the scene OF
so much political activity during the last
campaign, should have only about one
third as many new papers as the State OF
Pennsylvania. A. an index To the com
parative growth and prosperity OF different
sections OF the country, especially the
Territories, the number OF new papers forms
an interesting study, and may well occupy
the attention OF the curious.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-29
The Boss Llriment.

How weary the time when pain is our
constant companion. That marvellous
remedy, Magic Arnica Liniment, viii cure.
Thousands testify to Its almost miraculous
cure of wounds, hurts, spralns and bites.
Have IL about the house. 1t is the hni-
ment for man and BEAST il is good lint
ment for all emergencies. Il cures rhenma-
tism when all other remedies fail. Send
for our almanac for 1885, and read about
aud our other wonderful remedies La.
Creole Hair Restorer," Hungarian Lung
Baisam, and other standard preparations.
For sale by druggists, and manufactured
by the Mansfield Medicine Co.. Memphis,
Tenn