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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17

The fall of snow in the Southern
States has been unprecedented for Dec.
ember. In North Carolina the suow is
twenty six inches deep.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS leaves an
estate valued at a million and a quarter
dollars. He was poor young man,
,ut he secured rich wife,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17

Hon. w. D. KELLY of Penna. the
father of the House, says that Congress
may do good deal of talking on the
tariff, but it will do nothing more.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17
THE OLD WORLD.

A London cable of the 8th, reports a
terrific gale, accompanied by lightning and
thunder, prevailed in the southern counties
Of England and the channel. A number of
vessels were wrecked. At Brighton much
damage was done. Throughout the United
Kingdom rain and hail fell. The storm
caused widespread devastation. In Scot
land there was heavy fall of snow. The
gale gale abated somethat during the day,
but ragged with increased violence during
the night over the whole kingdom. All the
harbors are filed with shipping. The high
tide at Limerick is flooding the warehouses
on the water front, and at Armah the spin
ming mills have been stopped by floods.
Damage to property are reported from all
drowned at Dymechurch. On the east stcoast
many vessels have been wrecked. Four
ships struck on the Elssnor breakwater.
A telegram from U. S. Pallata an
nounces the fact that cholera has made its
appearance in Mendoza, Chill. Seven cases
are reported yesterday to have occurred
among prisoners in the penitentiary and
prison.
Quarantine against the infected towns
in the Argentine republic has been raised
by order of tho minister of the interior
Since Tuesday last there has been no quar-
antine in any part of the country, and
trains have been running between Rosario
and Buenos Ayres as usual. 1t is feared
that the cholera will soon spread to Mendoza
| and San Juan. The Chilian authorities will
| send troops to guard the roads in the Cord.
illeras, and all Communication between that
country and the Argentine Republic will be
| completely stopped.
The police prevented prize fight for
the championship, which was to have taken
| place in London yesterday, between Jem
Smith and Jack Knifton. Seventeen per-
| sons we're arrested.
Nine youths have been sentenced
to death at Sydney, N. S. w., for commit
ting an outrage on 10-year-old servant
girl.
The Inauguration of the West African
telegraph cable, connecting st. Paul de
Loanda with Europe, took place ON Sept.
%.
The jury in the case of the alleged
Cork "moonlighters," after 10 minutes de-
liberation, returned verdict Of not guilty
Germany intimates that she won't be
able to receive the Bulgarian delegation.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17

IT is said that the Western Union and
Baltimore and Ohio telegraph systems
will come under one general manage
ment and that rates will be advanced.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17

When Baby was sick, We gave her CAS-
TORIA.
When she was Child, she cried for CAS-
TORIA.
When she became Miss, she clung to Cas-
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17
CURRENT COMMENT.

IT is reported that the press of Rus
ia has been prohibited from detail
ing the movements of Russian troops
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17
For sale by MILLS 4 JOHNSON

Oh! softly now the crimson glows,
Upon the maiden 8 nows;
And up and down her graceful bacque
Run shivers for q sealskm sacQue;
And If that garment she has not
And woulds herself with one bedecque
She fawns upon her dear papa,
-Boskcn CowSier
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17

As ex-senator Conklilg won't go On the
stass the i.%Tsd courts where he practice arc IN
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-12-17
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

At Nebraska City, Neb., Lee Shellen-
berger, a farmer has been convicted OF
murder in the first degree for killing his
daughter Maggie, aged II years. Shellen-
berger was living with his secoud wife and
poor Maggie had been iltreated by her
father and stepmother. One day she was
found in the cellar with her throat cut.
Near by lay a butcher knife. The first
alarm was given by her father, who with
his wife endeavored to make it appear that
some stranger had done the deed while they
we're absent in the stable; that she had
committed suicide, or had accidentally
killed herself by falling down stairs. Mrs.
Shellenberger is under indictment and will
also be tried. The principal witness was
Maggie's little brother, aged thirteen. The
motive Of the murder, it is claimed, was to
get possession of real estate in which the
chileren had an interest from their mother,
the first Mrs. Shellenberger.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
The possibilities Of a New Cereal.

About eight years ago the Georgia State
agricultural department received from
Egypt a collection of African seeds, which
were distributed among Georgia farmers.
Included in the lot were seeds of the
Kaffir corn, SO called because it is the
principal food Of the Kafllrs of South AT
RIGA. A little Of this has been cultivated
every year by DR.. j. II. Watkins, who
found it to be excellent for forage.
This year he planted an acre OF it on the
poorest land he had, which would moi
have yielded three bushels of wheat.
Without any fertilizer, however, the KAT
fir corn yielded thirteen bushels. He had
some of it ground into flour andmade into
bread. The flour was fine and had a rich,
creamy color. 1t was made into biscuit,
egg-bread, and cakes, and in each proved
delicious. Except in color, it was impos-
sible to distinguish it from the finest Ohio
valley flour, Specimens of the bread and
cake distributed at the department Of ag-
~riculture excited surprise by their excel
lence. The cultivation of Kaffir corn is
likely to become large in Georgia.-Chi
capO Tribune.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
TIE Cars Railway Train.
THE Argonaut

TAo railway train of the Russian
car consists of sixteen carriages, of
which the first is a kitchen, and then
comes one for police agents, one for the
military suite. three for members of the
household, and two for the imperial fam.
lily, each grand duke having an entirely
separate compartment, which a be
fitted for either day or night use. The
carriage of the empress has a spacious
sleeping compartment, with a hammock
bed, furniture of ebony and utensils of
silver, aud an immense looking-glass.
There is o bathroom completely fitted and
a compartment for the lady n.waiting.
The empress sleeping.room contains a
~writing.table, q sofa, and easy chairs. The
emperor's sleeping.carriage is fitted with
olive green leather, and contains only a
bed and dressing table and bath. Then
come q sitting room, fitted very simply,
and lastly the dining room, which is fur.
nished with car rived oak and merely con-
tains tables. chairs and sideboard. There
is communication throughout the train
from one end to the other.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
A Trader Gives Awny = scored.

A trader who was fortunate in giving
credit was asked the other day by aeon.
frere, who, being less clever, always had q
lot of failures on his hands, the cause OF
his success, and he replied: "When O new
customer asks me for credit, If upon
taking advice I feel justified in giving 1t
to him, l subscribe for the local paper Of
his place and l study closely the way he
advertises. In the first place, this investi-
cation shows mi what profits he realizes
on certain articles, and SO indicates
whether my customer works on good
basis or not. Beside this result, which
can not, however, be always exact, in
view of the sacrifices that are made in
some cases, l learn also from his adver-
tisements what his standing is as well as
If l opened his account books.
GAS long as my debtor advertises ener-
getically, his advertisements well got up,
carefully looked after and in good posi-
ton, he can get from me all he wishes
he is a good risk. But I discover that his
advertisements are badly arranged and
defective, / set myself about settling his
account and stopping his credit. The
merchant who can not pay for his adver-
tisements, and who allows them to stand
in the paper as a contra-account and in a
defective shape because he doesn't dare to
take them out, is dangerous customer.
As for the man who throws away his
money on advertisements in worthless
sheets simply because they cost less than
those in a good journal, he is a hare
Drained fellow who knows nothing about
business, and who must be dealt with only
on the terms Of cash do~wn."--Journal Of
Fabrics.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
The Judge. of the Supreme Court.

~ GSnllBIJl Cor. chicago IFlDln9.l
| dropped into the supreme court the
other day and-took a glance at the black.
gowned justices trying a case. A red
faced, blonde. mustached lawyer in q bust.
ness suit was making a dreary plea before
them about some ship lost in the
Mediterranean, and the nine Judges, for
all the world like big-headed, long bearded
old women in Mother Hubbards, sat in
stiff backed chairs behind a raised counter
listening to him. They are a great deal
like Old women in some respects, and, |
am tod, are very particular about their
gowns. The material used is the finest
satin de'aine, and it takes from fourteen
to twenty. two yards to make a gown.
They are made by t%ailors, and their cost
ranges from SIS to $3.50 apiece. Their
form is much like that of the gown of an
Episcopal clergyman. and the yoke is the
most particular part of their anatomy.
The chief justice is now wearing his fifth
gown, and all of the judges keep several
in their wardrobe.
Until 1912 the supreme court wore
gowns with a facing of bright red satin.
and there is such a gown in the possession
of John Jays great-grandson which cor
responds 10 the one IN Stuarts portrait OF
Jay in the rctiring,room of the supreme
court at the capitol. The gowns Of to-
day are of jet black satin, which shines
in the light of the window back Of the
judges as they sit upon the bench. They
wear these gowns differently. Judge
Field seems to be proud of his, and it APP.
pears to be a part Of himself. Justice
Miller throws his about as though he de.
spised il, and Stanley Matthews handles
the collar of his as though he were I'M
comfortable in it. The supreme Judge
wears his gown like the purple of a king,
but little Judge Bradley has his gown
buttoned close up to his neck and his
bright eye and nervous manner remind
one of a little. old.faced boy with his
grandmOther's black apron tied about hiO
neck.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01


Anybody can make an exposure with q
camera, but only an experienced artist
al properly develop q plate. You know
that when a plate is taken from the
camera there is not q line to be seen upon
it. The treatment must bring out the
lines, and this work requires experience
and care. The strength of the acids used
should be proportional to the strength of
the light, the time Of exposure, character
of the subject. etc. The developing lines
must be watched and nursed and cod
died as tenderly as a delicate babe. All
this has to be done in the darkroom, for
momentary exposure of a plate to the
light, either before or after use in the
camera, is its ruin.
After the negative has been properly
developed the plates are put in a fixing
bath, where the lines are made so secure
that exposure to the light does not injuro
them. 1t is in this work that most anna
tours fail. No man can be a good pho.
tographer who does not study the chem
istry of the art and acquire q thorough
understanding of the details and Of causes
and effect. Once in awhile there appears
an amateur possessing the temperament
and ability enabling him to master the
science of the thing, but such as these are
scarce indeed, and for this reason the
jealousy which most professionals feel
toward amateurs is quite ridiculous. AS
q rule, amateurs may be imitators, but
they can hardly be rivals. -Chicago Her.
aid.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
A Son Of Charles Dickens.

"Charles Dickens son is in town" said q
little man the other day, "but you needn't
be afraid that he will give us a sequel to
his fathers American Notes The old
artist didn't leave any cloak small enough
to At any Of his children" The man men
toned, Capt. +. @. Dickens, soon flashed
across the horizon Of the Russell house
bar. He resembles his father physically
Just as much as he does mentally-not any.
1t was rumored during the Riel rebellion
that Captain Dickens was among the
slain, but he still holds his commission as
commander Of a squad OF mounted police
In the Northwest territory. aYou mustn't
mention this as coming from me,n said
one Of the captains fellow-travelers, abut
Captain Dickens WILDE the historian Of
the Riel rebellion, and is now on 'is way
beast to see lis publisher. detroit Trih-
uu1.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
Do Fish Ever Die of Old Apeq

"How does it happen that we never find
floating in the water the bodies of fish
that have died natural deathsl' was
asked of u Staten Island fisherman and
fish student. "All dead fish float, do they
nOtS" "All dead fish float if the bodies
are not interfsr:d with" was the reply.
"But fish, so far as l know, never die
natural deaths" allow long would they
live if they were unmolested" well, if
they had sufficient food, which would be
an impossibility if they no longer preyed
upon each other, honesty believe they
would live forever, and it was just to pre-
vent this that they were made SO re-
morselesly cannibalistic. A fish's life is
q hard and a selfish one. He lives only to
eat and to avoid being eaten, New York
Sun,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
FOUR AIR OF %TENgMENrs.
What an Observer Has SEEN in New
York-Worst PIsce OF All.

What an Observer Has SEEN in New
York-Worst PIsce OF All.
l"Uncle Blr' in Chicago Herald
Large sections of the city are covered
with houses standing 90 close to each
other as hardly to permit air or light to
gain access to the lower rooms, There
are over 2, 800 rear tenements, separated
by yards rarely more than twelve or
fifteen feet from the front houses, while
in many cases the space is not half that
amount A man can live for weeks with
out food, as DR.. Tanner has shown, but
he cannot survive for five minutes with.
out air. All diseases are more potent iE
their influence in a foul atmosphere.
Pure air is the most certain security to
health. Musicians find that removing
patients from inside bedrooms in tene-
ments is a help toward their recovery. In
the tenement region it is not merely a
question of the amount of air, but also
of its quality. In hundreds of buildings
the supply Of air is far less than the mini
mum needed for health. But even il the
full standard of 600 cubic feet of cir
space was supplied. it would not be
enough If contaminated by the emana
tions from foul cellars and cesspools.
"Stench! stencil" is the cry in most
temenents. every visitor is struck with
the peculiar odor, which is Just as distinct
as that Of q hospital or ships hold. If
pure air is food, as is most certainly true,
then o million people in New York en-
dure a slow form of starvation. Light is
only second to air as an essential Of life.
Every visitor among the tenemeats must
ha ofrt1nE with thn fNpil;@lf 0loor, tIot
prevails within them. The lower halls
are always as black as night, aud the in.
ner bed rooms are sunless. Tho occupants
of many such rooms bleach right out, +"
as o landlady remarked The sick and in
firm. who from necessity spend the whole
time in dark inner bedrooms, are the
greatest sufferers from want of sunlight
and the close, fetid atmosphere,
The worst room in the fifty or more in
the big tenement building that | person
ally visited was on the rear Of the lower
floor of the back tenement. 1t was so
dark hat it was hard to distinguish its
contents. excepting a cook stove and a
dresser, whose shelves were lined with
crockery, while a huge mahogany bureau
stood by. The sole light came from a
narrow court shut in by a lofty ware.
house eight feet distant. An oppressive
gloom hung like a pail over the room and
its solitary inmate q short, stout, middle.
aged Irish woman, lame in one foot
and with the usual volatility of her
race. While lifting a heavy kettle of
boiling water from the stove her foot had
broken through the rotten oor and she
was so badly scaldcd as to need hospital
treatment for some months. She had
lived on her scant savings and odd Jobs.
but vas now very poor. The house was
erected many years ago. The Official
records of the board of health show an
annual mortality of five persons, or 100 in
twenty years. If the co inns of all the in
mates who have died in that period were
piled in q column they would lelch higher
than the ad dining roadway Of tho ! asst
River bridge,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
New Disease of the Nerves.

Cosmophobia, or dread of the world
process" has been rescued from its meta
physical exclusiveness, and is to be stud
led as a nervous disease. A patient suf-
fering from it is described by DR.. Vance
in The Medical Review as believing that
1.-The power of the world is a power of
evil, and existence a frenzied carnival"
He is troubled with "irritability of that
part of the physical mechanism concerned
in the elaboration of the intellectuo-emo-
tional ideas" and is generally out of joint
with the world, tomperamental predispo-
sition being a prime factor in the trouble.
Medical Journal.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
Horrors of a Chinese Restaurant.

Speaking of a Chinese restaurant in
San Francisco, Mrs. Pfeiffer, in a recent
volume of travels, says: II can imagine
nothing short of being one of the useless
mouths of a city in a state of siege that
could make me partake of any of the kick
shaws of that DEVILS kitchen; even then 1
then l should have grace to prefer a more
lingering death. flashes of tubular Or
ganisms looking like earth worms, birds
Of the size of chickens and the form of
cranes made ready for the spit in the cruel
mockery of flight, multifarious messes in
little saucers, pots and pans, and refuse of
all sorts mixed with shells having a fatal
affinity with those Of snails, must have
suficed to rebuff any but an appetite to
the manner born. "-Exchange.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
The Appetites of English Rovalt

The English royal family are blessed
with good appetites. They look upon four
substantial meals a day as by no means an
excessive allowance of food. Even at
their 8 o'clock tea the wafer-like bread
and butter that eustomarily accompany
the syrupy S~ouchong or Orange Pekoe is
supplemented by beautifully cut sand
witches, pate de foie gras, and other tempt
ing d~elicacies, and every justice is done to
them by the illustrous ones without in
any way spelling" the elaborate dinner
that is to follow later on.-Chicago Her
aid.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01

Ben Butler is fond of yachting. But,
in point of fact, it isn't really the yacht
ing that Ben Butler cares about, but the
opportunity 1t gives him for indulgencein
his favorite dish, lobster pie, which he
can get aboard his yacht better than any
where else. One who has been yachting
with him says: Lobster piel He's clean
gone on it. When he's out on his yacht
he catches the Holsters fresh, takes the
meat out of the tails of two or three of 'em;
removes the spawn and the meat out Of
claws, beats that in a mortar, seasons it
with pepper and salt. two ~spoonfuls Of
vinegar and q little anchoyy liquor, melts
a half pound Of fresh butter, stirs it up all
together with crumbs rolled through q
fine cullender, and the yolks Of ten eggs.
Then he puts a puff paste over the dish,
lays in the the tails first and the rest Of
the meat on them, puts IN the lid and
bakes it in a slow oven"
What a delicious dish that must bel-
The Cook.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
Small boats and Large Ones.

There is no denying the fact that small
boats upset more easily than large ones.
This is due to two causes. In the first
place the small boat has no weight of
stationary ballast away down. the neigh
borhood of her keel to keep her on her
feet; and in the second place when heeled
over exceedingly, her gunwale goes under
and the water rushes in, throwing extra
weight upon her lee side and tending to
carry her over. The large vessel, having
a deck, does not take in this water. 1t is
practically impossible to upset a large
vessel, properly ballasted, under any cir
cumstances that are not very unusual.
The chances are that her sails will be
blown out of her bolt-ropes or her spars
carried away before she goes over. This
is especially the case in vessels of the cut
ter type, which have their ballast very
low and which are %stiffest when lying
down on one of their broad sides.-New
York Times.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
Austrla Gettinp ONT a Rool,.

The National printing press of Vienna
is now busily preparing the first serial
number Of the great work, austria Hun-
gary, in Word and Picture" which has
been edited under the personal direction
Of the crown prince. This first issue will
appear on the LIST Of December, and will
be followed by others from fortnight to
fortnight until the whole work is COM
pleted-that is to say, in eightyears at the
earliest, but possibly not before ten years
have elapssd,-Foreign Letter.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01

How Banking 10 Done In lnAnAi
aschrofp shouts the clerk, and imme-
diately answering TO the term-n0t Ger
man, but a corruption Of the HindOo word
Sarrof, banks clerk-there glides forward
n Of the native cashiers, with smooth
skull, a four-foot pigtail, and spOtlessly
white flowing garments.
He s silent and rapid in his move
ments, and though his scanty stock Of
English is scarcely ineligible, he salts
f~actorily carries out the transaction in
hand, your own complicated pencil and
paper conversion Of pounds into dollars
and cents being easily distanced by the
schrof's peculiar method of calculation.
Taking up a counting machine, his long
1.-THE fingers move over it far more quickly
than the eye can follow; he plays on it
with the rapidity Of lace-making,
@Al right as regards the total, " says the
traveller. snow give me 3 pounds in small
change" For q supply Of scent pieces is
indispensable in China.
Ameans has been devised for avoiding
the WEAKNESS of counting out the 300 tiny
silver coins representing the sum in ques-
ton. A pile Of them is poured on a fiat
wooden tray, containing 100 recesses, each
of which is just deep enough to lodge one
scent piece, and shallow enough to pre-
vent the possibility Of two such lurking
together. A jerk of the wrist; the 100 re-
cesses are instantly filed, the surplus is
swept off, and you have your correct
amount, the schroff tucking up his enorm-
Gus sleeves, as the money is poured into
your hand, to disarm a possible suspicion
that he is c%oncealing any stray coins in
their lds.-Foreign Letter.