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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24
DOiNGS OF, WOMEN.
Notes of Particular Interest to Represe
atiyaS IF tLo Fair Sow

Notes of Particular Interest to Represent
atives of the Fair Sex.
Mrs. Austin DobsOn, the wife of the
well-known poet, has taken up the pro-
fession Of letters. She has published a
volume of. stories of an evangelical
character, entitled ''Cherryburn" She
is also authoress of a number of relig-
ious tracts.
While there has been no falling off
in the increase of feminine medical
practitioners. the growth for the last
three months would probably have
been larger had not goodly number
Of the medical neophytes been diverted
TO the study of the sister art, dentistry,
which has recently gained many re-
cruits from the sex. In New York,
particularly, the number of women
matriculating at dental colleges is rap
idly growing.
The statistical crank has let himself
loose again, and now turns up with the
information that the seaside resorts
last summer have had an average at
tendance of twenty-eight women to
every man. There has. indeed, been a
deplorablo scarcity Of men at all the
resorts, At many of the balls, the lu-
dicrous spectacle Of set composed Of
one man and seven girls is common,
and tho entire set is not infrequently
'dmced by girls.
The Empress Victoria ia not a high
church woman. In fact, her religious
views are SO exceedingly liberal that,
as Labouchere says, lit has been a
mattor of speculation as to whether
she really held on religious subjects
any special doctrines whatever Tho
other members of the royal family arc
in very much tho Same condition, al
though the late Princess Alice, who
was for several years a decided free
thinker, entirely altered her views and
became very devout in the few years
preceding her death.
The: -Amerlcau .Ano2yst warns all
women to abstain from the use of hair
dyes to produce "the delicate golden
shade so much admired by the court
circles OF Europe and the high society
of tho United States" These dyes are
composed of peroxide of hydrogen
aqua regia, and bronzers' acid. The
first is tho least harmful of the in
gradients, but it produces scalp sores
and skin complaints. The acids attack
and burn the hair as well as the skin.
and produce-if their use be persisted
in-intlammation of tho hair cells, dis
charges of the scalp, and, eventually,
badness. Altogether, it would be betc
tor if. the ladies decided to get on with.
out the 'dclicate gold shado'' of hair
-ChlcuQo NcWs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A Collection of Vie Sayings by Prominent
Thinkers and Writer'S.
Idleness is the holiday of foolish
womon.-Nrs. Buyoa1r.
Manners and morals arc so nearly
allied that they have often been con-
founded. -Mory Wollstoncrat1
Women, especially in domestic life,
should learn the great wealth and COM
fort of frugality. -Horacc Mann.
The reason why education is usually
so poor among women Of fashion is
that it is not needed for the life which
they elect to lead. Ward Hone.
All the m0lestations of marriage are
abundantly recompensed with other
comforts which God bestoweth on
them who make a wise choice of a
wife.-F'uller.
Let us do our duty in our shop or
our kitchen, tho market, the street,
the Office, the school, the house, just
as faithfully as if we stood in the first
rank of so1no great battle, and we
know that victory for mankind de-
pended on our bravery, strength and
skill. Theodore PARKER.
AS a great part Of tho uneasiness OF
matrinony arises from mere .trihes, it
would be wise in every young married
man to enter into an agreement with
his wife that in all disputes of this
kind the party who was most convinced
they wore right should always sur
render tho victory, by which means
both would BIO moro forward to give up
the cause -EicluiN0
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24
PlTH. AND PQlN1.

1t is always bad for tho truth when
a liar speaks tn. O. Rcayune,
Talk is Cheap in this world, be-
rnuso tho SUPPLY is SO much larger
than tho doma nd.-4ultinsorc ,44naeri-
~ have always found that the loss
we speak of our Intentions, the more
change there is OF our realizing them.
.+-Ruskiae. j.: .r ,"..,,
The man who does every thing
ION his own hook is likely to get
caught one Of these days. -LoweU Ctti-
zen. -:
1t isn't true that a mother can not
SEQ fault in her own baby. She can,
but she won't.-Jour'sal Of Education.
Malaria is a:malady that doctor
lays you have got when he doesn't
know what's the matter with you:-
Puck. =:
The voice of conscience. is 80 deli
cate that it is easy to stihe it, but it. is
also so clear that it is impossible to
mistake lt.---1N01ne. dc Stdcl,
1T is the man who can not write
who makes his mark, in this world.
But life is full of crosses to him if he
has to sign his name oftcn.-Bosto,s
Courier.
"A wise man says: "1Ie who would
acquire fame must not show himself
afraid of ccnsurc." And he who would
acquire wealth must hold on to every
cent, sure.-1eras Sif1i'ags.
This world was made for poor mon;
and therefore the greatest part of it
was left out-of-doors, where every body
could enjoy it.-Eecchcr.
He that lovesno his wife and chill
drcn feeds lioncss at home and broods
p nest of sorrows, and blessing itself
can not make him happy.-Jcremy Tuy-
Tor.
Probably the happiest period in
life most frequently is in middle age,
when the eager passions of youth are
cooled, and the infrmitics of age not
yet begun, as we sec that the shadows
which arcjat morning and evening so
large, almost entirely disappear at
midday. DR.. T. arnold.
The beginning of hardship is like
the first taste of bitter food; it seems
for moment unbearaole, yet III there
is 'nothing else to satisfy our hunger
we take another bite, and find it pos
sible to cd on. There IS no despair so
absolute as that which comes with the
first moments of our first great sorrow,
when we have not yet known what it
is to have suffered and be healed, to
have despaired and to have recovered
hope. :.
A little. girl asked her maher:
''Mampa, what makes all the people
we rent houses from SO, mean? Why
don't you rent a house from a good
man s9metimes?.' ~ Had she been the
daughter Of a. landlord she would prob
ably have asked: "What makes the
people you rent, houses to SO mean?
Why don't you sometimes rent a house
to a:good man?' People look at things
in the light of their comfort and con-
venience, and not in the light of truth
and right. AS George Eliot says:
"They translate their convenience into
other peoples duties. "-Louisr,lle Re-
sorder.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24
PAINTING FLOORS.

| A Fashion, Which Deserves to Become
Popular Everywhere.
Now that the fashion is becoming
more prevalent of using carpets which
do not completely cover the area of the
floor, and thus escape distortion by
being so cut as to coincide with every
angle, recess or curve of the walls,
floor painting should certainly be more
generally adopted. Painted borders
are all we'll enough, but the whole area
Of the floor may advantagoously be laid
out in color. This painting necessarily
involves printing, which of itself,
adapted to: floors, is hygienic, as
having tho effect of closing the
pores in which dust hodges, the dust,
with it's darl1oning effect, never failing
to find Judgment unless, indeed, the
board be of costly hardwood, which is
the exception, not the rule. 1t may DO
said that a floor painted all over will
not>bc seen; but, without replying that
a painted border where the whole area
is not colored is q deception, we may
remark that the entire treatment of a
floor or cover affords Il security against
unsightliness should any portion Of the
central carpet be accidently raised, aud
in the event Of its removal Tor the pur-
pose of cleaning, the painted floor suf-
fees, moro especially if enriched with
few rugs or tinted or patterned mats.
In tho hot summer months a floor
'rtistically painted will be found
preferable to carpet, as aiding in the
movement Of air, not harboring dust,
and proving. on tho whole, cooler.
Paint may be SO compounded and laid
on the flGors' as to suffer little injury
even when exposed III a long course OF
time, Should the colors become dull,
a slight vanishing wilt stuff ce to re-
new much Of their pristine freshness.
There are many rooms in a house
which would be all tho better for not
being fully carpeted. Such especially
are the bedrooms. Boston Budqet.
If you would not have afflictiOr
visit you twice, listen at once to whu
it teaches. "A. l.. HuoG.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24
WOMEN ,NvENTob'RFs.

rliey Are kota succ oss. Exc ept /" " rev.
Notable tnstances.
RI want you to tell mo something
about wo1 nen' invq ntors, said d re-
PORTE THO other day to W. Il. Baird,
who know . ali ;.bout paton IS. /
i.'Thcre ar@ nole,'' was tho prompt
response. Il don't mean t hat there
are abso(4 tely none, Tor Of course that
is not the case; but as far as know no
important invention, no improvement
in mechanism which has affected in
dustry and altered tho conditions of
production, has boon devised by Il
woman. There is Il queer story con-
nected with one of the best paying
things ever gotten up by Il woman. 1t
was u corset, and she. made money out
Of it for awhile until limitations
sprung up and she WAS compelled to
bring an Infringement suit, when the
defendants broke her patent by put
ting her own husband on the stand and
compelling him to testify that he
had seen his. wife wearing her
invention four years before tho
patent was taken out. This tho
court constructed. to: be public use
within the meaning of the statute
which prescribed that Il patent upon
an article in public use moro than two
years is invalid. Tho defendants won,
the patont became. common property
and tho bottom of that gold mine was
reached. OF course, a! good many
patents arc taken. out. by women for
household cOntrivanccS of ono sort and
another, us thcir inventive genius
naturally runs in that direction; but |
do not know Of any thing in that line
that has amounted to much. Perhaps
the pillow sham holder is one of the
best paying Of these. There is one
trouble about Inventions which is CAL
culatcd to vcX and harrow the souls Of
| women, and men, too. They: usually,
when thoy think they have an idea,
look for similar machines, and, finding
none, take it at once for granted that
the way is clear. Then they bring
their ideas to q specialist and he has
to toll them, if he is honest, that the
distinctive feature OF tho supposed in
vention has already been patented in
another entirely different class Of ma
chine upon which hers, though used
for different purpose, would be an
infringement.
There is one class Of invention"
continued Mr.. Baird, (which is large
ly done by women, though this does
not appear in the patent Office reports.
Women mako many of the exclusive
designs for carpets, prints, oil-cloths
and other fabrics, but the designs are
almost always filed by the big factory
firms who buy them, and the women
get no credit for them. have seen
some talks lately in the papers about a
woman taking out Il patent for shaping
barrels, which may turn out sonle-
thing good, but also may not
Mrs. Livermore, in one OF her witty
lectures, used to wonder why some
smart woman did not invent a stove
which would cook the meat without at
the same time cooking tho cook. Per-
haps that is an impossibility, but it
certainly seems as if there was room
in the household for inventive genius
of women, if they have any, to tighten
their own and others burdens. ~. y
Mail and E,rDyesS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24

A jaczdaw flew into a church at
Monktoa, England, during service, and
took an active part in the responses,
jabbering SO morrily that pastor and
people were convulsed with laughter.
The pastor finally had to order the
children to leave the church, they
laughed SO, and an effort was made tc
capture the bird, which had lighted
upon the reading desk. 1t flew to the
rafters, however, and stayed there
until the service ended, chattering al
the time.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24
An Accommodating Editor.

Facetious Visitor in newspaper Office,
Ito Editor)-Nlay I use j our brains a
moment?
Editor-My brains?
Visitor (smilingly picking up scis-
sors)-Ycs, sir. Only a moment. !
want 10
Editor with great cordiality)- Cor
tainly you may. Uso them as long as
you please. Always glad to furnish
brains to man that hasn't .ny.-Chi.
cugo 7riduuc,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24

If you would not have afflictior
visit you twice, listen at once to whu
il teaches. IL. L. H7loG
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-24
BUSINESS CARDS.

CATHERINE WILCOX. M. D.,
CAGO. I'LL.
Over two years practice in hospital clinical
work. Office and residence at present two
doors east OF Mansfield House, ON opposite
side OF street.
AUSTIN, MINI.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
0ld-Time Scotch Horrors

In the reign of James l., of Scotland,
there was born in East Lothia, village
a few miles from Edinburgh, Sawney
Beane, the son OF poor but hard-working
people. Evincing from boyhood hatred
! of ell labor, and displaying every kind of
vicious quality, he at an early age aban
doned his home and fled to Galloway. He
was accompanied by fit companion for
his crimes in the person Of young
woman, native of the same village. The
home OF the pair was in cave of about
mile in length and of considerable
breadth, the mouth of which was
washed by the sea, the tide sometimes
penetrating the cave a distance of two
hundred yards. The victims were waylaid
under cover of night On their way from
country fairs, or, in the case of isolated
| travellers across the country, were openly
attacked in daylight. The same soul
| sickening mut1lation was inflicted in each
case; the abdomen was cut open and the
entrais dragged out and the
body carried to the cave. To
prevent detection they murdered
every traveller they robbed, and for years
| they continued their horrible calling.
In this manner, the Chronicle
tells US, they lived until they
! had eight soHs and SIX daugh-
tiers, eighteen grandsons and four
teen granddaughte = all the off
spring of incest. After long career of
| murder the gang were captured by King
James, who, reused to action by the long
immunity of the criminals from detec-
tim, headed a body of troops and sue
ceeded with bloodnounds in unearth-
ing from the cave the whole vile tribe, to
L. IL
with the life they had led. The men,
Gays the historian, had their entrails
| thrown into the fire, their hands and legs
were severed from their bodies, and they
were permitted to bleed to death. The
mother of the whole crew, the daughters
and grandchildren, after being specta
tors of the death of the men, were cast
into three separate fires and consumed
to ashes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
The National Capital.

The name of Lord Dufferin if favorably
mentioned in London in connection with
the mission to Washington to succeed
Lord Sackviue-West, bnt it is deemed
probable that it will be some time be-
fore an appointment will be made.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The treasury de-
partment has decided in case of two
Chinese laborers shipped from Boston TO
Valparaiso and returned without leaving
the vessel. The decision is that Is they
had been constantly under the United
States flag in the meantime they are not
subj ec5 to exclusion under TIE recent aot.
A CORRESPONDENT in Washington writes:
General Joseph E. Johnston is not iiv-
ing at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, as
has been reported. He resides on Con
neoticut avenue, Washington, and is q
commissioner of railroads in the Depart
ment of the Interior. He vas not class
mate of Gener Il Sherman at West PORT
as General Johnston entered the United
States Military Academy when General
Sherman was only five years old. Gener
al Johnston was a clessmate of General
R. E. Lee, and they both graduated in
1926.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
Cable Flashes.

The king of the Netherlands is serious
~ i'll.
II Is stated that the Ca :. will visit Bel
lin IN the spring.
IT costs $1,2OO,OO0 per year to keep tbs
treets of Paris clean.
VAN BARMBURGER, the fdistinguishe c
Austrian physician, died at Vienna, aged
66.
The empress of Austria contemplates G
voyage in the West Indias to be followed
by tour through the United States.
A TERRY steamer was sunk in collision
at Calcutta and sixty persons were
drowned.
A TERRIBLE collision occurred yesterday
on railway line in Southern Russia, near
Kovel. Many persons were killed.
5THE betrothal of the Prince of Naples
to Princess Clementine, of Belgium, will
be announced shortly.
The Pope has appointed Dec. 81, 1883.
as day of special thanks service for
graces received during the jubilee year.
Nine. LIE Bay contemplates another
voyage of exploration, She is about to
start for Teheran, from thence making
excursions into the least accessible por-
tions of the Persian dominions.
DoNA MARIA DE ANDREDA is considered
to be the most cultivated woman in Bra
zil. She spent four years in New York
studying the American school system
which she is introducing with success in
her own country.
A DISPATCH from Brisbane says that the
Queensland parliament has come to
decision in regard to the Chinese bill IL
accordance with the Sydney conference
The clause relating to tie imprisonment
for life of Chinese illegally entering the
colonies is reserved for royal assent.
In addition to the unhidden letters from
the late Emperor Frederick, found IL
Won Boggenbach's house, the police dis
covered in a secret drawer in writing
desk two bundles of kilograms and letters
from Frederick (when he was crow
prince), his wife, Queen Victoria, the
princes of Wales, Prince Alexander o.
Battenuerg, DR.. Mackenzie, the duke o.
Cumberland, Count Won Sslcksndorf, DR.
WinoJhorst, and others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
As to His Fortune.

young Boston man, one of the tradi-
tional New Englapders suoa Is Emerson
describes in one of his essays as being
worth q host of mere college bred fell
lows, one who can turn his hand to many
things and always light on his feet like g
cat, pad left home for the west, and had
not been heard from for az many as three
or four years. His family was anxious,
the more SO because with ell his capa-
bilities, had in his composition not a
little of the Sam Lawson talent for shirk-
ing work when he could.
Finally when the family had made up
their minds that he was dead, his mother
received letter.. Here is portion of it
The first frontier settlement l struck, |
coHld find nothing better tic do than
coopering cider barrels; the second,
fund chance to turn my hand to school
teaching. After seeing no chance of
getting ahead at that / turned my face
eastward little, lit upon q larger
town, and there 1 came down
a peg, for I found nothing better TO do
than house painting and even from
that was very soon dismissed on suspI-
cion that had never learned the trade.
In Kansas City taught school again, be-
came dry-goods statesmen in Omaha, a
hotel clerk in Idaho, mended clocks In
Colorado; but this proving irksome as
well as uncertain, went farther out on
the frontier and became sort of handy
man attache of the regular army.
"Tiring of this, I returned again and
went to piano tuning in Denver. 1t was
while engaged in this occupation that
fell in with youpa lady who gave g
decided turn to my fortunes. 1 suppose
1T will no way surprise my mother to
learn that she admired my talents, took
a fancy to the cut of my phiz, and SO
worked upon her father that he has
taken me into his business. In short,
mother, the west has made my fortune.
though no. in the way Il once fancied ii
would. However, Boston in general need
know nothing about this when [ make
flying visit home next winter with my
bride.'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
ABOUT THE BIG SUNFLOlf ER
1t Doesn't Follow the Sun Ar d as
Poets all Declare.

Poets all Declare.
One by one the roses fall and one by
one the bright decisions of our youth are
dispelled. The struggle for existence
year by year knocks the poetry out of
our lives, and as if this were not enough
of that sort of thing there is always some
crank at work to the same end. The
latest Development in this line has been
made by fellow who has spent all s UNI
mer watching a row of sunfiowers in biz
garden to prove that these gorgeous and
aesthetic flowers do not turn their faces to
the sun all day long. Who has not read
Tom Moore's beautiful lines in which he
sings, GLOW the sunfower turns to her
Goo when he sets the same look that she
turned when he rose," and exc aimed.
what beautiful poetry And how the line!
were recalled every time sunhower was
seen nCdding over garden wall or a
| backyard fence, and whoever thought of
being SO critical and unpOtical as to
notice whether it really did turn or notf
But, according to the Oregoniap, a fell
low has been found out in Portland with
no poetry IN his soul who has undertaken
this job. He drove stakes and set a CON
| pass, and took regular observations, and
visited the flower three times a day,
morning, noon, and night and he says:
"Well, 1 found no twisting of the pen
uncle in a circle; no turning of the flow
er after the sun, none whatever. My
flowers faced, respectively, north, south,
east, west, northwest, and southeast, as
| they die when | set my marks at them.
So far as facing toward the sun, there
was no movement that l could detect.
One slight attenuation I did notice in
some, but not all, of tire flowers with
which [ was EXP erimenting--4 tendency
of the head to droop or incline toward
the earth as the seeds began to form.
| What call my vertical indication show
e0 this, but there was no return to the
original position; the inclination remain
ed permanent. Moreover, this irsig-
nifcane movement was not towards but
actually away from the sun, and appear
ed provision for keeping the crowded
Sc eds dry rs shey rapidly formed and be-
| gan to ripeD.
| If il were the case that the sunflOwer
every twenty-four hours twisted its
peduncle and brought its flower constant
ly toward the sun every sunhower III
every garden would be found facing in
precisely the same direction, a fallaoy
needing no refutation. Why, I have
grown suLfowers against a south wall,
and they faced in all directions Gust as
those in my garden are doing now while
1 write), sOme even towards the wall"
That settles it, and another poetica
sentiment is knocked higher than Gil
deroy's kite. Next.