Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-08

Corporal Wright. Observation-Disclosures. ...... 30
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Private Sterling. rs
| Private St. John.
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The State Sabbath School conven-
ton, which met in Faribault last week,
was very interesting. Eminent speakers
from abroad were there. The attendance
was good, filling one of the largest
churches in the city. The delegation
from Austin with several others were &C
commodated at the Deaf Institute, where
DR.. Noyes is principal; the building cost
about $500. 900, and is palatial in its pro-
portions and surroundings, the grounds
are forty acres in extent, commanding
view of the surrounding country. Part
of the company took supper with Mr.. and
Mrs. Dow of the Blind Institute, formerly
of Austin. Some attended reception of
Gov. Hubbard, and there met part of the
Austin boys. Altogether the hospitality
of Faribault has been Astounding, and
| will rebound to our kind memories of that
lovely city.
Mr.. William H. Witham died at his
residence in this city at 1880 o'clock, of
typhoid pneumonia. The deceased was
foreman of Mclaughlin s. Sheldon's
paint shop, he having removed from
Austin to this city, some time ago, to
take charge of it. Mr.. Witham was born
at Boston, Mass, January I'd, 1912, and
was married at Austin May 90th, 1877.
During the Rebellion he joined the
Union army, enlisting in Company B of
the 1O6th New York regiment August 10,
1862, and receiving his discharge June
49, 1865. He was member of Mcintyre
Pest, G. A. R., of Austin. The remains
were taken to Austin, last Monday
morning, for burial, escorted by the Post
OF that city. The deceased leaves
wife and four small children. During
his residence in this city he made many
warm friends, who sincerely sympathize
with his bereaved family.-Otoatonna
Journal, June Is.
AS so many in our city are now in
terested in art work, we publish the fol-
lowing from the Philadelphia Times in
regard to the frames of pictures The
artist in question is one Of the royal &C.
ademicians. After saying that gilt
frames are by far the most preferable for
oil painting, he adds:
"The frame is to a picture what the
proscenium is to the stage-a something
apart from the painting altogether. To
decorate it with any suggestion of the
picture in color or otherwise is to distract
dividuallty. TO look at picture Alright
the frame is, as it were, the frame Of
window-you look out into the picture"
But you do not object to other than
gilt frames?"
"Oh no; don't object to silver or to
bronze-to metal of any kind, so that it
is frame and not part of the picture.
If you should paint frame to repeat
the color of your picture, then you should
paint the room in which they are hung
up to the frame, and so on, until YOU
might be led into all kinds of ex-
travagance."
1t is now July. Just one half of the
year 1885 has passed away. The birds have
ceased their spring songs, and as is al
ways the case, we only hear chirp now
| and then. No more will their liquid
| notes please the ear, or wake the univer-
sal grove, until the warm breath of next
April shall call them from the sunny
south. The sun has already begun to
move toward the south. and prepare for
next winter, which now lies in the dim
distance, but will very soon be bowling
and seeking admission at our doors and
windows. and yet it seems as though last
winter had but just babe US adieu. Is
it, we ask ourselves, possible that one
half of 1885 has already gone where it
can never be recalled. We can hardly
realize the fact. How forcibly we are
reminded of the shortness of time, and
each succeeding year flies swifter, and
yet more swiftly, and vainly we say
with the poet,
backward turn backward, 0 time in your
flight.
Make me child again, just for tonight"
THE CENsUs.-Below we give the full
returns, as furnished US by the County
Auditor. AS figures don't lie, we shall
have to admit falling off in the county
of I, 527 in five years:
1880. 1885.