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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
HUMOR OF THEDAY.

+ Some COroner's Jury Verdlcts In York
shire, England.
A reporter went through the inquests
returned during the year 1850, and found
some very unique examples of English
as she wrote. There were a great many
inquests held upon persons who died
from spasms, malarial fever, congestion
of the brain, chills, old age, and natursl
causes. The following are the causes
assigned for the death of some of the
parties.
''She come to her death by strangu-
lation in testimony we have sit our
hands and seal the day above wroten. -
"By taking into his own hands an
over dose of morphine, or something
of that sort.''
"From causes unknown to the jury
and having no medical attendance"
"Came to his death from national
causes.''
"An inquisition holden on the hern-
ando road, near nonconner creek upon
the body of John Brown there lying
dead by the jurors whose names are
hereto subscribed, who upon THERE
oath do say that he came to his death
in the following manner, by falling
off the log while trying to cross the
slue and fell in
"Said child, aged day old, came to
ing been found by the witness in a
trunk, under very suspicious circum-
| Stances
''The joueres on their ouathe do say
that he come to his deth by old age, as
tina could not see ennything else the
matter.''
"Come to his death from the follow
ing causes, to wit, from some student
cause to the jourers unknown
''The said deceased being an orphan,
father and mother being both dead
DISABILITY caused by lunacy.'
"She come to her death by tighten
striker her,
"Come to his death in the following
manner to wit: He was born dead.'
"From laying out in the sun to dry
after tumbling down well.''
''From the hands of some person OF
persons to the jury unknown and after,
ward a-going on the track and got run
over by incoming train.'
Congestion of the brain an appli'
cote fitze."
':Diseas of the hart and applexity
| fitZe.'
''Calded on left side by kittley of hot
water burning over on hir left side i'm.
megetly causing her death. -
'From the effect of heat receive by
her close accidental taking fire.
''From exposier or something"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
Utilize Your Bones.

Not the bones of your own body
merely, but any and all bones, beef and
mutton and chicken, and even fish
bones. The American Garden says they
constitute the very bestfood for fruit
trees and grape-vines, if the fragments
are only placed where the roots can
lay hold of them, and adds: ''Instead
of allowing pieces of bone to be cast
into the backyard as food for stray
dogs and strange cats, domestics
should be directed to despoit every
thing of the sort in small tub pro-
vided with lid. As soon as only a
few pounds have accumulated, we take
the tub to some grapevine or fruit-tree,
dig hole, three or more feet long, a
foot or two wide, and not less than a
foot deep, into which the bones are
dumped; spread over the bottom of
the excavation, and covered with the
soil. The more the fragments can be
spread around, the better. But they
should be buried so decp that pillow or
spade will not reach them. The roots
of growing vines or fruit-trees will soon
find the valuable mine of rich fertility,
and will feed on the elements that will
greatly promote the growth of strong
and healthy wood, and the development
of fair and luscious fruit
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
Nervous Dibilitated Men

You are allowed a free trial of thirty days
of the use Of Dr.: Dyes celebrated Voltaic
Belt with Electric Suspensory Appliances,
for the speedy relief and permanent cure Of
Nervous Debility loss of Vitality and Man
hood, and all kindred troubles. Also, for
many other diseases. Complete restoration
to health, vigor and manhood guaranteed.
No risk is incurred. Illustrated pamphlet,
with full information, terms, etc, mailed
free by addressing Voltaic Belt Co., Mar
shall, Mich.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
Hints to Housewives.

Ifyou utpineapples in thin slices and
scatter sugar over it the day before you
serve it, you need not add any water to
make the liquor.
It is mistake to think that the nour-
ishment in food is according to the guam
tity. Good cooking has a great deal to
do in bringing out and utilizing the fla
vor of food, and SO making the most of
it.
The glove powder so generally used
to prevent injury from perspiration, is
of value; but common corn starch, rub
bed thoroughly over the hands before
putting on gloves, will also answer this
purpose.
For pincushions in daily use the hem
stitched and fringed doyleys of monte
cloth, either white or grey, embroidered
in outline stitch in English silks or
crewels, are used. The desirability of
such covers, lies, of course, in the fact
that they can be often washed.
A pretty shopping bag is made of
plush; the two sides are neatly sewed
together and finished with a handsome
cord, instead of being cut whole, al
though they could be made so if prefer
red. The eyelets in the top are large
enough for pretty heavy cord to pass
through, which is finished at the ends
with tassels; satin or velvet bow can
be placed where the tassels are on the
side, as we'll as at the bottom of the bag.
1t is impossible, almost, to put too
many bows of ribbon on fancy articles.
There are a great many times when a
glue-pot in the house is a ''well-spring
of pleasure, and is an economical in
vestment, especially when of the kind
here described: Buy at the tin shop one
small tin cup, costing five cents, and a
large one, costing about ten, in which
the smaller can be set; five or six cents
worth of glue will mend great many
broken articles, or will fasten things
that have become unglued. Put the
glue in the small cup, with little wa
ter; put boiling water in the large one,
and set the glue cup in it. In few min
utes the glue will melt and be ready for
use.
In cleaning houses only one room
should be undertaken at time, and
that finished and put in order before an
other one is commenced, and it you find
you are getting too tired, stop and rest
day. Planning goes great way to-
wards tightening work. Every morn
ing let reasonable day $ work be plan
ned, and when that is accomplished,
stop. Don't think because you have
finished the settled task long before
night that you must keep hunting up
something else to do, unless you want
to have, when your house is all cleaned,
only tired-out, perhaps sick woman
to enjoy it.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15

When Baby was sick, We gave her CAS-
TORIA.
When she was Child, she cried for CAS-
TORIA.
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas-
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA. r. :.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
'HOLERA is RAPIDLY NOV


ing westward and will soon
Oappear in this country. In
order to prevent disastrous
effects from its ravages every
preventive should be en-
ployed, and the system
should be in perfect condi-
ton. At this season of the
year the system is in a weak
state and easily susceptible
to dangerous disease. Pain
in the back, WEAKNESS, las
situde, headache, dyspepsia,
Indigestion, kidney and liver
complaints are but the result
ofneglect. During the last
visitation of cholera to this
country no medicine was
found equal to Mishler's
Herb Bitters, both as a pre-
ventive and cure, and it has
been equally successful in
all the diseases above men,
toned. 1t renews and in
vigorates the blood, restor-
ing to health and strength,
and thus shielding the
system from disease.
Ask your druggist for MsH1ER HERB Brr1ERs
II he does not keep it do take anything else but
send . postal card to MIsHlER HERB BITTERs
Co., 6s6 Commerce Street. Philadelphia
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
A Garden without Weeds:

A correspondent of Vick's Magazine
tells the readers of that qualification how
he managed to keep his garden free of
| weeds. He says: have a one-fourth
acre garden that have not allowed a
weed to go to seed on for twenty years,
but it took FIVE years of clean culture
before could see much Improvement
in it, and it was ten years before the
old seed in the soil ceased to give
trouble AS an aid to keeping the gar
den free from weeds, plant everything
in rows running the length of it, and
put together those varieties which will
ripen about the same time. For ex-
ample, one of the narrow lands or beds
I speak of can be planted in early peas,
lettuce, spinach and radishes, and these
will all be past use in June,
when the ground can be worked
bv horse power till mellow. Then
follow with some later crops,
as cucumbers or sweet corn. Another
bed can be planted in potatoes, and
the middle of June, Hubbard. or some
other variety of good winter squashes
planted, and a full crop grown. In my
latitude, forty miles north of Cincinna-
ii, the Hubbard squash natures if plant
ed the last week in June. If nothing
else is wanted, plant sweet corn to grow
fodder for the cows, even as late as the
last of August, for you will be more
likely to keep the land clean and you
will get some benefit from the crop.
One more point. Make all rows
| straight, not only because the garden
looks better for it, but much hand
wedding is saved by it, especially
when carrots, parsnips, onions, ETC.,
are raised.
| Sheep Stin Profitable.
The National Stockman and Farmer
has the following sound advice for
those sheep farmers who have allowed
themselves to become discouraged at
the present low prices for wool and
mutton: The great project of the age
in stock-raising is cheapening the cost
of production, whether it be the live
animal. meat, or some of their contri-
buttons to the volume of trade, as but
ter, wool, etc. To sheepmen this ap-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
"Hair Brushing bv Machtnerv.,

Hair Brushing by Machinery
Everybody has heard of the new way
BARRIERS have of dressing hair-their
patent rollers and patent brushes. The
subject has the delightful sensation of
brush rolling over his head at the
rate of an ordinary steam engine. The
wind the tickling, the fairy-like sensa-
ton, are almost equal to the institution
in which female fingers perform the
delightful Office. A few DAYS since,
however, in a certain metropolitan
BARRIERS shop, the result was different.
A stranger entered and took his seat,
asking that his hair might be dressed.
The steam-brush was applied, and for
single, feverish moment the pleasure
was indescribable. But unfortunately
the hair of the subject was long-so
was that of the brush. 1t tangled.
There was a yell of pain as handful
of hair came out by the roots
succeeded, and q yell more intense
then the preceding one attested the
anguish of the sufferer.
''Stop!' he cried.
The barber was unable to manage
his machine, and hastily imagined
what was the matter. But by this
time the sufferer had been drawn out
of his seat, and hanging between
heaven and earth, resembling All i'm
promptu execution.
"Get DOWN. screamed the operator.
"Oh-oh, I can't mumbled the suf-
ferer.
The barber couldn't sympathize in
such weakness, and ruthlessly applied
his machine, while the hair came out
by the handfuls. The mans head was
literally bare. His loud cries finally
procured release, and he was again
seated in the chair, rubbing his balled
pate with energy,
''Iu sue you. I'm ruined," he
cried.
Chow can I help that?' the operator
asked with assumed indifference.
''Wretch, don't you see you've made
me bald!"
Eyes, sir, I see; but, sir-I'm happy
to say we have wigs to sell, and
1t is useless to say that our victim
interrupted with a word not down in
Webster, quitting the shop minus the
purchase, and rubbing his sore head
with an energy that fully attested the
warmth of his feelings.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
Separating Cream from Milk.


In series of experiments by Prof.
Ford of England, as reported in the
Agricultural Gazette, London, the
following conclusions may be drawn:
1t was found that the yield of butter
grew less the lower the temperature
of the milk before setting. When milk
set in ice-water directly after milking
gave 100 pounds, milk that had been
previously cooled to 6S deg. gave 95.7
pounds, 81 deg. gave 81 pounds, 48 deg.
gave 86.3 pounds. A means of
restoring the original qualities of such
milk was found in warming the milk
to about 104 deg before setting.
Prof. Ford gives two general con-
illusions:
l. Shaking of the milk before setting
is detrimental to rapid separation Of
the cream. OF two samples of milk,
one being shaken before set aside, the
latter required eight hours to separate
7 per cent of cream, the time required
by the other to separate the same
quantity being only three hours.
2. Premature, cooling of the milk
before setting is more serious in its
effect upon a thorough separation than
the first mentioned point. When milk
conveyed to a creamery in a common
vehicle by centrifugal separation gave
100 pounds of butter, a sample of milk
of the same quantity and quality
conveyed in the same manner, and set
in ice-water, gave 908 pounds, while
another sample that had been cooled,
transported as before, and then set in
ice-water, gave only 87.9 pounds.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
No Special Rates to Ministers.

No Special Rates to Ministers.
A bony, long legged gentleman,
wearing tall hat and gold trimmed
spectacles and having a clerical appear
ance, recently approached the ticket
window at the Grand Central Depot,
when the following words were
overheard by bystanders:-
els this the ticket office?''
eyes sir.''
"Do you sell tickets to Providence?'
eyes sir
"What is the price of ticket to
Providencc?'
Five thirty-five'
Him. (Pause.) Do you have tickets
for clergymen?''
Eyes, sir"
Him. What is the price of those?'
give thirty-fve.''
The lean, long-legged stranger
glanced sternly at the irreverent
railroad man over his spectacles and
then withdrew.
In half an hour he appeared again at
the window of the ticket agent, ex-
claimed excited]y, "Give me ticket
for Providence. Quick!'
whats your hurry, sir?'' asked the
agent.
''Oh, don't ask me! I haven't time to
explain!''
''But the train doesn't leave for an
hour yet
''1sn't there one that leaves right
away?''
mo, sir Any friend of yours
dying?''
"Great Scott, no!''
''What's your hurry, then?''
"Why, I've just been informed that
there are 5000 more women than men
in Providence.
"Wall, what of that?'
"Well, you see, l guess you DOM
know me. I'm Mormon missionary,
and -
"Good morning!'' shouted the agent,
slamming down the window.
Once, Mr.. Fields was on his way in
the cars from Boston to his SUMMER
cottage at Manchester-by-the-Sea. Two
men sat in front of him, discussing
places and the persons who lived in
them. Mr.. Fields caught his own
name, and bent forward to listen.
'.Let's see," said one,-''Fields, the
publisher, lives round here somewhere
don't he?'' Eyes: he's got a house
on the hill just beyond here" Lee
lures, don't hep ooh, yes! he lee
lures lott ''Well, how is he, any
way?' 'Well, he amt Cough, by a
big sight?''
"How does it happen, Bridget, that
there are as many feet of gas charged
for this month as last, when Mrs. Bios
som and myself have been out of town
three weeks?'' ''Sure an l can't tell,
sor, sayin' that whin the gintleman
came to lux at the mathur there was
six fate of coal an wood top of it, an
he observed that I needn't bother wild
it, he'd take lux at the pracaydin'
ffggers. Maybe he added the six fate
of wud an coal, don't know '-Har-
per's Bazaar.
Some persons appear to find it impos.
sible to avoid the use of terms associa.
ted with their calling even when the
terms chance to be awkward. Ar
author, while discussing the corn Law
question, was heard to inquire what
| price bread was published at; and q
printers boy, just returned from deliv:
ering letter, declared that he had
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
Mr.. Mulcahey Had the Right of Way and
was Going to Win His Bet.

MIR. Mulcahey Had the Right of Way and
was Going to Win His Bet.
A sleepy policeman was yawning
and rubbing his eyes in East Fifty
ninth street one morning last week,
when his attention was attracted by a
sound of unsteady footsteps. An Irish
man with red face and a fringe OF
white whiskers came staggering along,
the worse for liquor. The policeman
recognized him as one of the political
lights of the ward.
Good morning, Mr.. Mulcahey.''
Good mornin' to you, sorr. Is it
(hic) pasht two o'clock yet?''
"It's nearly S. Hadn't you better
get home?''
"Home-why home? Old woman s
home. I've been to Mickey Grogan's
wake. Everybody drunk but me. I'm
"Not quite, Mr.. Mulcahey,''
'D'ye want to bet l can't walk a
line?''
"I'l bet you can't 60 inside the cal
track for block
"Begorra, cam
The whole street seemed too narrow
for Mr.. Mulcahey, and the policeman
felt sure of winning. Mr.. Mulcahey
walked nearly half block on the uE
track, and was advancing with un.
steady gait and great solemnity of ex.
preston, when runaway came in
sight. The driver had fallen of, and
the horses were plunging madly. Mr..
Mulcahey shouted to them to take the
other track.
1t took four policemen an hour tc
pry the wagon off Mr.. Mulcahey, and
when he revived in Bellevue Hospital,
he said:
II can whip the man who hit me-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15

lection for her cubs, and sent them of
to their friends. All, she was a spirit
ed wenchp'-From Mark Twain's
Sketches. ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15

"a For notices in reference to Special Ex-
cursions, change Of time, and other items of
interest in connection with the CHICAGO, MIL
wAuKEE s. ST. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to
the local columns of this paper.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15
Farmers Homes.

Farmers' Homes.
"There's no place like home.'' Much
has been said and written upon
what should be done to make a model
home for the farmer. Made up as this
great country is largely of farmers and
farms, its pride should be in the attract
iveness of farmers homes. We do
not speak now of the interior, but of
the exterior, of the home. The results
which mi ght be attained if "a united
effort should be made by the farmers of
the country to improve their homes by
the cultivation of trees, shrubs, and
flowers, would be marvellous, indeed.
Often-very often-a farmhouse is
remembered by the passer-by, chiefly
for its unattractiveness, owing to an
entire absence of all ornamentation-
not flower, shrub, or tree, to be seen,
and, perhaps not even fence inclosing
the rusty grass-plot. No place is so
retired that the ornamental and the
beautiful can be dispensed with. The
surroundings of home have much to do
with the respect which the children
have for it.; and long years after, it's
appearance will 60 toward making up
the pleasant or unpleasant memories
connecting themselves with it. The
farmer cannot afford to neglect beautify-
ing his home. It will add greatly to
the contentment of the children and
awaken a just pride in the hearts 1of
the wife and of the farmer himself, to
surround his home with those at
fractions which nature is ready to con-
tribute. Let every farmer, whose home
may as yet be wanting in this respect,
give the matter his careful thought.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-15

AK your druggist for M1sH1ER HERB BrT1ERs
II he does not keep it do take anything else but
send = postal card to MrsHIER HERB RTTTER8
Co., 6s6 Commerce Street, Philadelphia.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-02-21

proof that these letters have any ref.
erence to the alleged intention Of the
Miners Union to compel the compa.
Mes to pay them 81 per day. If, then,
there is no proof, what sid are these
Instruments to your honor in finding
that there has Leen q conspiracy?
Now, if these instruments can he
construed or interpreted consistently
with the innocence Of these defend.
ants, the Court is required to SO con.
struc them. Reads. "Decided by the
Miners Union that all work in the
mines at Broadford be stopped until
the trouble" etc, "be settled" Now
is there anything criminal in this? No,
at all. Then there is no evidence Of
any conspiracy or design, on the par,
OF the Union, to compel the companie.
to pay them 81 per day.
1t is in proof that, February 4 9
resolution was introduced in the Union
and passed. Is there any conflict a.
to what its purport was? 1t was thai
the Broadfo,d Miners Union would
stop work. 1t meant that they would
stop work on the mines by peaceful
means. Would the prosecution have
the assurance to allege that it mean,
that the Union would use force OF
violence to stop work?
Judge Waters is still speaking, a.
we go to press ED.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-02-21
Advice to Mothers.

Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by sick child
suffering and crying with pain of cut.
ting teeth ? If so, send at once and
get a bottle of Mrs. WINsLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHlLDkEN
TEErulNG. Its value Is incalculable.
1t will relieve the poor little sufferer
Immediately. Depend upon it, moth
ers, there is 40 mistake abo 1t it. 1t
cures dysentery and diarrhea, regu-
lates the stomach and bowels, cures
wind collie. softens the gums, reduces
inflammation, and gives tone and en-
ergy to the whole system. Mrs. WIN
SLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP FOR Chill
nREN TEErnING is pleasant to the
taste, and is the prescription of one OF
the eldest and best female nurses and
physicians in the United States, ard
is for sale by all druggists throughout
the world. % cts. bottle. icl?dw,
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-02-21
Saturdays Proceedings.

Mr.. Harris concluded his argument.
Unemployed workmen could combine to
refuse to work for less than a certain fig
ure; men at work could not combine to
quit. Each and every one Of them could
quit and all togetaer, but they could not
combine to do SO, or to cOerce kheir en-
ployers to pay them any rate of wages.
The instant employers Or employees go be-
yond any control or attempted control of
their own individual action, they become
guilty OF Il conspiracy. The law is no re-
spccter of persons; it treats mine-owners
and miners alike.
Now. your henor, we have shown that
the Union, at its meeting the 4th Of Feb
ruary, ordered that all work in the mines
stop; that all work has since been
stopped; that there were IS to 100 mem
bers at that soeeting; that all these de-
PENDANTS except Shay are members; that
three or four of them were IN the crowd
that stopped Galbraith; that Petty was
one of those who stopped deputy sheriff
Mandell; that three or four of them were
in the crowd that run Horton and three
other contractors out OF town, forced
them on their knees and aatle them take
an oath not to UNDERMINE the Miners
Union. We hare shown the iseeption OF
the conspiracy and its execution. W,
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-02-21
The Best Legal Forms.

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has already begun printing, legal
Ga,ks of all kinds, such as are re-
quired by justices, notaries, convey
aacers, constables, etc. They are
undoubtedly the best and neatest
forms to be had.
Those liable to use blanks should
therefore order at once, as their orders
cam be filled much cheaper than if the
work is done on special order.
Write for estimates.