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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10

A. H. LINDEKE,
Second Vice President.
3ERS. 1886.
MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES.
Robinson g. t'ary.
Rogers, Willis IL Co.
I ampbeli, Walsh T. Jllson.
WOOD AND IRON PUMPS AND PLUMBERS
SUPPLIES,
HI. p. Ruee 4 Co.
SCALES, WlNDNILLS ETC.
Fairbanks, Iorse + Co.
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS.
A. Oppephcimer & Co.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Nathan Ford.
w. j. Dyer s. BRO.
FRUITS, NUTS, ETC.
FURNITURE.
Quinby T. Abbott.
CRACKERS AND CONFECTIONERY.
BerrfsfOrd Ii. 4 G.. Co.
Friedman + Lewis.
DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS.
Bohn N Manufacturing Co.
+. A. Abbott Co.
WAGONS AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
Mast, Bu1ord 4 Borweu Co.
G. Il. Thurston 4 Son.
j. II. Mailer Co.
st. Paul Storage Forwarding . 1.1's.
WIRES AND LIQUORS.
rsd. s:.1 r Z c.: = Co.
GRAIN AND COMMISSION.
y: <: van S's siy1. 4 Co.
FLOUR.
st. Paul Roller MIL Co.
ROOFING, C0RNlCE AND MACHINERY.
scribner-Libhey CO.
LUMBER
j. r. Gribben Lumber Co.
Rood 4 Maxwell.
T.. r. Sum walt.
c. n. Helson Lumber Co.
W. +. Fiheld s Co.
John Martin Lumber Co.
Barronnett Lumber Co.
BONN Manufacturing Go.
LIME CEMENT AND PLASTER.
The Northwestern Lime Co.
FUEL.
st. Paul Pacific Coal Iron Co.
Northwestern Fuel Co.
TRUNKS, ETC.
III. 8. Crippen 4 Co.
SEWING MACHINES
Domestic 3. n. Co. ~.-E;
STEAM FITTING, TOOLS AND sUpfLH
II r. Osborne --.ss <
GUNS, H.fOLS Ard SPORTING ae0R.
n r. Kenaedy = Bros.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10
"A Wonderful Machine.

When was laying the foundation of
my mechanical fame and fortune, q
few years ago, boarded in house
filled with locomotive engineers and
firemen. A practice prevailed there of
enlivening the supper table with So
cial conversation, and the locomotive
party being in the majority, the lead
ing theme of talk was stupendous feats
performed in railway runs, varied by
minor incidents aud records of narrow
escapes. George Dewhirst, who ran
lathe in the shop, sat opposite me at
the table, and he got tired of being ex-
cluded from the conversation. He be-
came ambitious to hear himself talk in
that crowd. One evening, catching on
in a hull in the conversation, he called
out loudly to me: "Well. L went over
and saw that machine to-day, and it is
astonishing the fine work it does"
"How does it work?' I inquired.
"Well,' said he, ''by means of a pedal
attachment, fulcrumed lever converts
vertical reciprocating motion into
circular movement. The principal
part of the machine is disc which re-
wolves rapidly on a vertical plane.
Power is applied through the axis of
the disc, aud when the speed of the
driving arbor is moderate the periphery
of the machine is travelling at great
velocity. Work is done on this per-
iphery. Pieces of the hardest steel are
by mere impact reduced to any shape
the skillful operator desires" ''What
in thunder is the machine, anyway
demanded Tom Jones. ''Oh, it is q
new grindstone,' replied George, and
silence that could be felt passed
round tho supper tablc.-Aechanical
Progress.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10

Just opened to travel by railway and steamboat
PIcrUREsQUE portion Of Florida. Highland crys-
tai lakes teeming with Ash: grand natural wood
ed parks, where deer, wild turkey and other
game abound. Winged game in great variety
on land and water.
The Tarpon Springs Hotel is one Of the best
furnished and appointed houses south Of Jack
sonvil'e, and in al respects will be kept in first
claes style. The prices per day will be $500
aud $3.50. Special rates will be made by the
month or season. The Tropical Hotel and the
Fernald House are we'll and comfortably kept at
price per day Of $3.50 to $500, with special
rates by the month or season. Camp life at
Tarpon Springs and Seville costs about 300 per
week.
These lands being below the killing frost liHes
on the Gulf coast of fernando and Hillsbor0
counties, with direct steam transportation to all
points of the U. g., make them especially valus-
bic for tho production Of vegetables for ship
ment, from December until May, to Northern
markets, when the highest prices are obtained.
Tomatoes ranged the past winter from Sc to IS
per crate Of three pecks, and other vegetables
equally profitable. Tobacco, rice. sugar cane,
ali vegetables, tho cereals and grass produce
largely.
It requires but six to eight weeks from plant
ing to market tomatoes and other vegetables.
We have cheaper lands back from the Gulf coast,
and still cheaper lands III the various counties
north of the goth parallel, where winter vegeta-
bles cannot be grown successfully, and where
the orange and other fruits occasionally arc
pinched BY the frost, but the people who have
examined our GULF COAST HIGHLANDS, consider
them preferable from every point Of view.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10
4 Brilliant Prospect.

One day last fall Boston purchaser Of
$50 city lots in q new Nebraska town,
called Red City, might have been seen
roaming over the unbroken prairie look
ing for them. At the door Of q pioneers
cabin sat an old man smoking short
pipe. Said the Boston man:
II have come to see about my $50 lots
in Red City"
Eyes; l thought so when you were q
mile off. What about 'em?'
''Why, there's no city. The place isn't
even surveyed"
'sGuess it amt
'.And the whole thing is swindle?'
swell, I dunno about that. Me and
the old woman, and the blacksmith two
miles down the road and his woman, have
signed a petishun to have the national
capital removed here, and if she comes,
that ere property will take such Jump
inside of week that me and you kin jist
lay back and slobber in wealth all the
rest of our doggoned days. ''-News Of
Wall street.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10

Races on the course IN the Park.
Eueniag: Second Entertainment BY
Winnipeg Branch of St. Georges
5Snow-shoe Club at Carnival Hall.
FEBY. 9. Forenoon: Indian Sports 1T
the Encampment in Carnival Park.
afternoon: Grand Prize Burlesque and
Grotesque Masquerade Parade through
principal streets. Eveni,ag: Brilliant
Illumination of the Ice Palace by
colored fires and gorgeous dissolving
lights; Prize Sports within the
Grounds.
FEBY. 10. Foredoon: Prize Exhibi-
ton by Scandinavian Ski Clubs at
Carnival Park. afternoon: Speeding
of gentleman's driving horses on river
track. Evening: Entertainment by St.
Paul Ideals at Carnival Hall.
FEBY. II. G. A. r. day. Forenoon:
Reception of Visiting Posts. afternoon:
Parade of G. A. R. Posts. Military
Companies and Uniformed Clubs. Eue.-
ing: Storming of Ice Palice by G. A. R.
Forces; Defence of Ice King and win
ter clubs; Capitulation of Ice King and
taking of the flag; the Victors and
Vanquished in Procession.
FEBY. II. Forenoon: Snow-Shoe
contest between white men and Indians.
afternoon: Grand Review of all uni
formed clubs by President and officers
of Association. Evening: Saturnalia
At Carnival pork; all sports,in progress
Dazzling Illumination of Ice Palace;
Grand pyrotechnic d,splayand release.
of two hundred mammoth fire balloons.
FEBY. Is. Forenoon: Exhibition
by Indians and Dog Trains at Carnival
Park; Dances. Races and Games.
afternoon: Children's Day at all Slides
and Kinks. Evening: The Opera of
Pinafore by St. Paul German Society
at Carnival Hall.
Tobogganing slides, skating and
curling Kinks, Indian village. booths,
ETC., inside the Carnival grounds. Con-
tests by sporting clubs every day. Pal
ace brilliantly illuminated nightly.
Electric lights and colored fires.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10
SEVILLE

is well located, nine miles north Of Tarpon
Springs, on the Gulf Of Mexico, having . water
front on the ocean. The land adjoining and IN the
rear is high and rolling, having an elevation Of
shout fifty feet above the ocean within one ana
one-half miles. A vessel il owned and used OK
pressly for the trade Of this settlement. Ar
engagements arc being made for the erection Of
hotel IN Ocean Park, wharvcs and other W.
rious improve ments in Seville. The new steam.
or finished In Pittsburg, Pa, September Is, 1885,.
by the Gulf Steamship Co., expressly for the line
u few miles south and north from Tarpon
Syringe Tor all points.
The soil varies from sandy loan to humus~
muck and mari, and IL Of dnra' lie fertility, -
viii be scen from the large size OF the trees ava
the rank growth Of grass III the timber.
Water soft, pure ard abundant.
Gov. Elox ham say. that Florida has DOUBLED
its resources IN FOUR YEARS.
1420OO settlers settle; :, s 49,, located perma.
years.
ia 000 tourists and winter boarders
lOf,VOO registered at tho Florida hotels
the past winter, and invested In the state over
sS,000, 000 In four months.
Great inducements in desirable town lots and
five and ten acre plats; also any sine tract mp to-
10000 acres, adapted to colonization; 10 xILEe
EEARLY SOLID OCEAN FRONT.
Several charming town sites and thousands Of
acres Of desirable land adjoining.
GB" Special Inducements TO men OF means
and tact, ~ organize colonies.
500. 1000 i A:,s' we'll ""'sr"a stock lands
$4,000 acres bert sugar lands in America.
10 acres in Florida productions yield more net
cash thsn 100 acres In the north Gown in grain
Free transportation by our rebate land tickets.
Ohces, Tarpor Springs and Jacksonville. Fla;
PHILADELPHIA New York and other points.
We are the exclusive agents ard managers, not
only III Florida, but everywhere. OF the Cuff
Coast Reserve, the Lake Butler Villa Co., the.
Cootie Land and improvement Co.: also agents
for the Florida Land and Improvement Co, and
Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal and Oleeechobee
Land Co. The stock Of the latte, company il
one OF the beet and most secure Investments In
America-secured by broad aercs. Information
regarding this stock furnished on application.
send1or map and new prospectus; also state
exactly what you want, and whether you can In
auence capital OF emigration.
Address:
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10
A Haunted Locomotive.

IL believe locomotive can be
haunted" said veteran B. o. en-
gineer. -! ran one on the PennsJlva-
MIA railroad for about year that was
haunted. My engine was goo'' one,
but had some very curious actions at
times. The man who ran the engine
before took her was killed in little
col ision beyond Cresson. He lived in
little house just west of Altoona. In
my run coming east always passed
this house about 9 o'clock at night.
Just before reaching it for several
nights noticed that my engine COM
menced to slow up more than l iu-
tended. began to thinE / was grow
ing nervous, and my hand was no Ion
ger true in guiding the throttle. But
as it never occurred anywhere else, the
effect made on my mind by the circum-
stance became very unpleasant. After
while realized that there was some
power helping me at the throttle when
l reached this place. mentioned it to
my fireman, and made him try it. He
was convinced that my impression was
right.
''Onc night the whistle gave two or
three screams. l thought the fireman
had pulled the cord, but he denied it.
This occurred two or three times after
ward. and couldn 'tsee any hand pull
ing the. rope. Well, YOU may be sure
l didn't like this sort of thing. At last
creepy feeling began to crawl all
over me when approaching the dead
engineers house. One dark night in
June, 1881, made up my mind to balk
the ghost. l called the fireman in the
cab and both of us grasped the throttle.
slowed up to the proper speed, and
held on to it firmly. We felt some
thing tugg:ng at it, but We were too
strong for it. Suddenly the throttle
was wrrnched from our hands and
pulled out to the utmost limit. Away
bounded tho train down the grade into
Altoona, the whistle shrieking like a
demon. Before we could get away
from tho ghost the train had attained
great speed, and we ran half way
through the city before we could slow
up. A switchman saw Us coming and
switched us ON side track beyond the
Logan House. where we wrecked two
or three cattle cars and damaged the
engine. The incident caused great
commotion among the people living
along the tracks, and the company cen
surcd me for it. AS l couldn't be re-
sponsible for ghosts antics, l threw
up the Job and came back to the B.
and o.
WAS the ghost that of the dead en-
gincer?"
Il think so. He always slowed his
engine while nearing his house, and
waved his hand at his wife and chill
drcn, who stood in the door and bowed
and smiled at him. The night he
raised all that rumpus he must have
gotten mad because I didn't let him
have his way
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10
A Natural Storm Signal.

A storm on the wild, iron-bound
coast of North Cornwall is not to be
readily forgotten by those who have
seen it rage in full force. Its coming
is heralded by tlocks of red-legged
gulls skimming low over the estuaries.
making their way to the marshy mar
gins of streams far from the coast;
lowering in troubled masses above
muddy flats, or cruckling with shrill
cries about sheltered tarmsteads. Fol-
lowing toward the land come several
coasting smacks and trawlers, making
swift way to secure Ravens under the
hills at St. Ives, New Quay or Padstow.
There is sudden lull in the freshening
breeze; the waves that were beginning
to break into sharp edges of foam are,
for moment, stiIled; and the color
less sea, darkened by gathering clouds,
looks like molten lead. Then the
wind moves again with a hollow moan.
A cry. loud and clear, comes from
overhead, where a great b]ack-backed
gull is soaring and wheeling like a
falcon. Foolish guillemots'' and
razorbilled auks, forsaking all at once
their Industrious pursuit of small-fry
under water, take post in rows, on
tbs lodges of jagged.rocks, and stand
there, solemn, white-vested congrega-
ton; while low on the sullen sea some
Mother Carey's chickens are darling
like swallows. Far out, but yet too
near those rugged crags and peaks of
black rock, a solitary vessel is making
her way up chaLnel under close-reefed
top-sails; ominous masses of heavy
clouds have gathered quickly west
ward; the sea is broken into short
chopping waves; the booming thunder
of surf against sheer cliffs grows louder
every minute; the bark is shrouded in
a drifting torrent of rain, across which
a pale CLEAN of sunlight strikes; and
the wind, veering few points more
toward the north, begins to blow in
furious gusts. Now and again one
hears a mysterious noise, like the dull
distant report of huge howitzer, fol-
lowed by hoarse roaring as of Titanic
fog-horn. The stranger who has never
listened to such weird, unearthly
sounds before may we'll be puzzled to
account for them. Turning his glance
from the angry sea, he will observe
tall, misty column, like the vapor of
geyser. That is spray forced by con-
cussion of air through one of those
curious shafts known along the Cornish
coast as blow-holes, and thence the
strange believing proceeds. There are
many such slanting shafts in the cliffs
hereabout, all so evidently artificial
that they are supposed to have been
cut by smugglers for the greater con-
venience of landing contraband goods.
A poor idle man cannot be an honest
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10

A poor idle man cannot be an honest
man.-AchiIles POrriclet
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10

HARDWARE
strong-Hacke:t Hardware Co.
FarWrli, tlZ'nun 81 Jackson.
a d1 IN Decker.
IRON, STEEL AND HEAVY HARDWARE
Hico:~ & bean.
Rhodes s. s.ortOn.
DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS
Anerba,h, f'inci, s. Van Slyck.
Liniekcs, Warner & Schumacher.
Powers, Nurkcc i Co.
NOTIONS AND FURNISHING GOODS.
nlabon, Warrc" 4 Chipley.
arthur, Warren s. Abbott.
GR0CERS.
p VI. Kelly Mercantile Co
Alien, NJ DON e. Co.
Maxfield d. >eabury.
Eea"pre, Keogh & Co.
Yxnz, briggs Howes.
TEAS, C0FFEES AND SPICES.
Berkey, TalmadEe Co.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
c. Gotz.an & Co.
Kellogg, johnson Co.
FOOte. SchulZe s Go.
Forepaagh Tarbox.
HATS, CAPS AND fURS
Gordon l. Ferguson.
Lanpf,er, Finci, & skinner.
StEcissguth & Drake.
DRUGs.
Noyes Bios. 4 Cutler.
Ryan Drug Co.
CHINA, CRCCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
Craig, larkin & smith.
Pollock, Donaldson r Ogden.
LEATHER, SHOE FINDINGS AND SADDLER7
HARDWARE.
r II. T.. Hardenburgh & Co.
Sche1er & Kossum.
ChaS. G. Schmidt.
PAPER AND STATIONERY.
Ward, Hill & McCleliAn.
Pioneer Press Co.
BOOKS, PAPER AND STATIONERY.
st. Paul Book + Stationery Co.
CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS
Campbell & Burbank.
MEMS FURNISHING GOODS,
Guitermsn Bros
fAILORS TRIMMINGS AND W00LENS.
Yallop. DeGroot Co.
RUBBER GOODS AND Betting.
Ct. Paal Rubber Co.
: GOo0yo1F rubber Co.
CIGARS Ind f0BACC0S
White1nan s. %.
q. M AcLatD. -
NOTIONS AND COUNTER sUPPLR
n. somzaers q c..
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10

When Baby was sick, We gave her CAS-
TORIA.
When she was q Child, she cried for CAS-
TORIA.
When she became Miss, she chung to Cas-
TORIA.
When she had Children, she gave them
CASTORIA.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10

You never saw my hands as dirty
40 yours" said a mother to her little
girl. mo, but your ma did," was the
prompt reply. Hsz5 Ia-<E ~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-02-10

Notwithstanding all the grand new
telescopes, the palm for size belongs to
Lord Roses in Ireland,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-03
GRANDFATHER,s WATCH.

Grandfather's watch is battered and old,
Innocent quite Nf jewel or gold;
Poor and common, n worn and cracked,
Much like graadfather's self, in fact.
Yet its wheezy voice has a cheerful sound,
And the child as she listens in wonder
bonsad
To its mystic tales of departed time
Is smiling as though at a pleasant rhyme.
What are the tales the old watch tellsf
OF seventy years it counts the knelfs;
Years whose every setting sun
Was marked by labor faithfully done.
With primitive form ard clumsy skill,
And clumsier help when the works went
ill;
Yet serving their time as best they can
This is the story of the watch and mani
Many a fall has the old watch hushed,
Many a blow has the old man crushed,
Meddled with, tinkered and sorely tried,
At last rejected and thrown aside
For modern rivals. all science and gold,
Useless and crippled, despised and old,
Under a cloud and under n ban
This is the story of a watch and man
But there's a reverse to the picture sad;
Human hearts they can still make glad.
The watch in its dented silver case
Can bring a smile to the fair chiid's face.
The mans all battered and silvery, too,
| With Il moral can cheer both me and you,
MARK our time us well as we cam
This is the lesson of watch aud man.
Atlanta Constitution.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-03
a curious but Important rest.

Theresult Of a curious hut very impor-
tant test as to the accuracy with which
chemists, druggists and others make up
prescriptions committed to their care has
recently been presented to one of the Lon
don vestries. Fifty prescriptions were
sent out to ordinary druggists, to cooper
alive stores, to doctors shops and 10
certain traders styling themselves drug
companies. The mixtures made were aft
erward analysed, to find u how nearly
they agreed with the prescription. the.
represented; but in order to give a liberal
margin for error it was resolved not to put
| a black mark against any one Ii the chief
constituent were within 10 per cent. of the
right amount.
Notwithstanding this margin, no
fewer than seventeen out of
the fifty mixtures were incorrectly dis-
pensed. In one case the principal drug
was less by IS per cent. than the
amount ordered, while in another it was
81 per cent. in excess. The chem.
lists and druggists came out BEST in this
strange competition, as only 6 per c NJ.
Of their prescriptions had to be called ii.
question. Next came the co-ope ratiee
stores with 20 per cent. of error; then
the doctors shops" with SO per cent,
ard lastly the drug companies, who are
credited, or rather discredited, with Is
| per cent. of errors.-Chambers' journal.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-03

Being a Californian, of course, he is no end
of a millionaire. Governor Stoneman, OF
that state, appointed him United States
senator to fill the place left vacant by the
death of John Il. Miller. The term expires
in March, 1887. a senator from any Of the
mining states who was not a millionaire
would be a cur osity. Mr.. Hearst was Gen.
Stoneman's own rival for the Democratic
nomination for governor of California. He
is Ill active Democrat, and was Senator
Leland Stanfords opponent for senator
Both men will now find themselves in the
senate together. Fate arranges curious
surprises.
Hearst owns great mining properties. He
also owns The San Francisco Examiner and
has a finger constantly in California politics.
He went across the plains as a pioneer in
1850, from the east, and began life as a COM
mon laborer. The first money he made he
sased and went into partnership with two
nien named Haggin and Tevis.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-03

The two sit down and become quiet, asking
the question: care there any communica-
tionss" After a few minutes the little table
begins to move over the board. 1t is an in.
telligent, or at least, a semi-intelligent force
that guides the table, for it answers
questions. Sometimes it talks utter nonsense
and again it will write real information.
The tabl spells out sentences in this way.
When a question is asked, the table moves
towards the letters, and the foot stops upon
the first one of the sentence to be written out.
Then it passes to the nex one and the next
and SO on, with more or less rapidity. A
gentleman, who has experimental with the
thing, says: Sometime the table viii cover
two letters with its feet and then you hang
on and ask that the foot be moved from the
wrong letter, which will be done"
One man who thought his family was
spending too much time over the talking ma.
chine burned it up. Then he left home on g
journey. When the talking board could not
be found some one. made another, and the
amusement went on as before. To the CUES
ton what had become of the other board the
answer was given, Jack, burned it up
which somewhat astonished Jack on his re
turn.
h questions may be asked mentally, ever
by persons sitting in the room several feet
away from the operators, and the answers
are given just as readily. In some cases re
%nlarkable and truthful revelations are said te
have been given aboutliving persons. But ii
is not well to give too much heed to these
| revelations.