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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
PHONOGRAPH,C DOLLS.
They Sing "Twinlxle, Twinkle, Litt]
STAR" ana Other Pretty Tunes.

They Sing "Twinkle. Twinkle, Little
Star, }" ana Other Pretty Tunes.
Fifty years ago the little girl played
with a rag doll. Then came wooden
dolls. then wax and china, and finally
papier mache and bisque> Then the
dolls We're taught to creep, and even
walk, and when they progressed so far
as to say mamma" and "papa' in
squeal1y voices, the little girl no doubt
thought the acme of doll culture had
been reached. But within a very short
time dolls have been produced that
actually recite "Mother Goose's Mel
odies," and other standard poems,
such as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little
STAR"
How is the wonderful effect pro-
ducedP Easily enough, by means of
the photograph.
The dolls are about one foot in
height. The photographic apparatus,
occupying the body of the doll, has
space perhaps two or three inches in
diameter in which to operate. The
dolls are brought from Europe, but the
talking machinery is manufactured
and inserted here.
AS each doll reaches the proper age
it is turned over to governess spe-
cially employed to train it's phono-
graphic ideas how to shoot. This lady
gives the most careful attention to the
education of the dolls. She recognizes
the value of individual training, i'm
parts separate instruction to every
doll. Knowing the great initiative
power of little folks, she is particular
to modulate her voice to just the
pitch which she wishes theirs to as
sumo.
The doll pupils are required to re-
peat her words until every accent and
infection is satisfactory The dolls
have such wonderful memories that
not only do they repeat their lessons
with accuracy, but they even "hold
the voice."
This faculty of theirs compelled the
employment Of lady instructors. The
deep, gruff voice of a man reciting
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starr had
rather gruesome effect when issuing
from the lips of rosy-cheeked little
dollie.
Their voices are strong and their ar
ticulation so clear that their conversa-
ton can be heard up one flight of
stairs with distinctness-somewh
more perfectly, in fact, than when
close by, as there is little z-r-r-r' of
the machinery which is not noticed at
a distance. -Golden Days.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08

fore, in came Doak himself. Well, we
wept over him. and bathed him in
champagne, and he took it like little
man. made place for him beside
me, and told him how I had done it.
''1t's lucky says he, laughing like
good fellow, that you cleared your
self by six O'clock 'Whyp" says I.
WELL he says, ''it's a falling market,
l believe. If my we'll was dry, all
right; but there's oil out there sure as
sin, and there's oil all around. You
sold in good time
".Not q bit of it, Doakey,' says I.
YOU'RE all wrong. I'd do it again. and
hold over, too
lat the same igure?' said he.
AT the same figure said I.
"'Eow much would you take?'
"'All you want to SELL
"Ttl see you,' said he; and we
shook hands.
'He took out /. pencil and wrote
the agreement, and I signed it; and
then we knocked the neck off another
bottle, and don't remember the rest
of the night. sa0a1a in wine"
''But about half-dozen fellows
dragged me out of bed in the morning.
It's all up with you,' they said. 'Doal1
exploded his mystery, and it's a
'gusher."' Sure enough it was, and
the cuss knew it when he loaded me-
The market dropped plumb from 81. 80
to ST. 80"
Sandy, still smiling, sank back in
his chair, and smoked in silence.
ale hasn't told you," said my
friend, that if he had wished to he
could have ignored the trick, as it is a
rule of the exchange that all transac-
tiops made out of the regular session
may be declared off. But Sandy
wouldn It take advantage of tho provis-
ion. So he lost his $25O,OOO, and
owed the market about $50, 900 moro. :"
'Pve nearly paid that Off," sighed
Sandy.-Once Week.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
THE KENTUCKY WAY.

How Love Finds Words Among the Ma
tives of the Blue-Grass State.
| had been asleep in my seat in the
passenger-coach as the train was roll
ing through Kentucky, and was aroused
by a couple taking the seat in front of
me. did not raise my head, but made
out that he was young fellow of
twenty-five, or Whereabouts, and she
was a young girl of eighteen or twenty.
"Reckon he's asleep?" queried the
girl, referring to me.
I'm shore of it, he replied, after
taking look at the back of my head.
There was an interval of silence, cut
IN the bias and warranted first color.
mud then he queried:
"Glad ye come, Mary?''
"Sorter, Bill"
''We's friends, hain't we?''
"Shore."
81 never did keer fur no other gall"
"Shoo! Now you is funning me-"
"Shore as live, Mary. I woul dn't
marry no girl in our hull section, no
how"
"Honest?"
"True as cucumbers. Pap likes We,
Mary"
''Glad on't.''
''And nam likes ye."
"Glad on't.''
"And pap was a-saying to me that if
got mar'd l could bring my wife right
home"
"Your pap is good"
''But I can't git mar'd, Mary"
"Deed, but why not?"
"Cause nobody loves me-
"Shoo! Reckon somebody does"
mo they don't. If they did they'd
show it,
There was another interval of silence,
bordered with forget-me-nots and Or
namented with orange blossoms, and
during this minute think he seized
her unresisting hand. I think she was
ready to be seized. He probably
squeezed it as he said:
$50 you reckon somebody does?''
"Yep."
''Then why don't they say SOP"
"Waitin', mebbe."
"Waitin' fur what?"
"To be axed to say So"
He was trembling with excitement,
and he could not control his voice as he
said:
IF they loved me they'd squeeze my
hand, wouldn't they?"
"Reckon they woulh''
(squeeze-zip-gasp. Hello, Gen.
tralD ...s.
"And-and, Mary, if they'd marry
me they'd squeeze agin, wouldn't
theyp" ~.. 49,. .-..-
.'Shore they would" .sy H.. -
Squeeze-whoop-call up the par
sonD
Then he leaned over and kissed her,
and Cupid danced hornpipe up and
down the aisle. IN. 7. Sun. s.
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THE SEAS MOVEMENTS.
The Causes of the Shifting To and Fro of
the Tides.

Inc causes Oh the Snl1ClnT 10 ana FRO Oh
the Tides.
No movement of the sea is more i'm
portant than the regular rise and fall,
once in about twenty-four hours, which
we know as the tide. The movement
is due to the difference between the at
fractions exerted by the moon and sun
upon the solid earth and those exerted
upon the oceanic envelope. Attrac-
ton, as shown by Newton, varies not
only directly as the mass. but also in
versely as the square of the distance;
thus, at an equal distance, one body
will exert double the attraction of an
other of half the mass; but if the dis
lance of one body be twice that of the
other, and their masses equal, the at
traction of the more distant will be but
a quarter of that of the nearer. So.
the immense mass of the sun exerts, in
spite of its greater distance, far
greater attraction upon the earth as a
whole than the moon.
The difference, however, between
the SUMS attraction upon the solid
earth and it's attraction upon the
ocean is, on account of its distance,
but small fraction of it's total at
traction; whilst that between the
moons attraction upon the solid earth
snd it's attraction upon the ocean, ow.
ing to it's comparatively small distance
of two hundred and forty thousand
miles, is a very considerable fraction
of it's total action. So that whilst the
earth's attraction causes the moon to
travel round it once month, the re.
ciprocal attraction of the moon is
mainly effectual in causing the tides,
the SUMS action being only about one
third as great. The waters of the
open ocean have a tendency to rise up
in a heap on the side nearest the moon,
because they are pulled more strongly
than is the solid globe, and, being
liquid, yield to the attraction. Stimuli.
taneously a similar heaping up occurs
at the antipodes of this point-on the
side, that is, farthest from the moon
because the solid is, as it were, pulled
away from the water there.
Two great tidal waves are thus orig.
mated; and, as the earth's movement
in it's orbit, coupled with its daily TO.
tation, makes the moon occupy the
same relative position every twenty.
five hours-or, moro exactly, every
twenty-four hours and fifty minutes
high tide at any place occurs twice in
every such period of time. --Casselps
Educator.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
ONE DAY AT A TIME.

- Why hurry and worry,
And live in a furry, s.
10 gather In dollar and dime, (
When life will be sweetes .
And true joy completer,
by living one day ut timer {
The world that we live in,
= Receive in, and give in,
Hath many o beauteous cline;
With treasure on treasure
To add to mans pleasure,
Created one day at a time.
Why borrow grave sorrow
To weep DER tomorrow?
Tomorrow brings roses, not rimo.
All, then, how much better
Then forging fetter
TO live just one day ut time.
. Hope meets us-love greets US,
And softly entreats us
To rise from the dust and the Crime;
Not rush up the mountain,
But stop at loves fountain,
And journey one day at time.
With leisure, seek pleasure,
joys o'erflowing measure
No headache, no heartache, no crime.
Then the right task discerning,
Just wages be earning,
BY toiling one day at time.
Mrs. NJ. A. Kidder, in N. Y. Ledger.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
PHOTOGRAPHlNG STARS.
a Plausible Scheme to Secure Picture q
g." tho Entire Heavens.

flaustble Scheme to Secure q Picture Of
- tho Entire Heavens.
"A combined effort is now being made
TO secure a representation of the entire
surface of the heavens by photography.
A congress met in Paris, under the
presidency of Admiral Mouchezr con-
slstlng of astronomers from all parts
OF the world, and the conditions under
which this stupendous survey of the
universe was to be undertaken were
then decided on. The operations are
divided among number of observa-
tories situated over. the world, and
each OF them undertakes to photograph
on plates of uniform size a certain
region of the heavens.
The work has been entered upon
with the heartiest enthusiasm, and ere
many years have elapsed we may an
tlclpate being in possession of what
Will practically be a photograph of
tn e entire heavens. This great piece
OF work will provide us with the
means OF making a reasonably COM
plete inventory of the entire contents
OF that small portion of the universe
which lies within the reach of our in
struments. That all the stars which
can be exhibited on long exposed plates
shall ever be completely catalogued is
task as much beyond our power to
obtain as it would be to obtain de-
scriptive list of the several pebbles on
a sea beach or of the several leaves in
an ample forest.
The more modest scheme has, how
ever, been suggested of taking the two
million brightest stars and forming a
complete catalogue of them, in which
their brightness and their absolute po-
si5ions in the Heavens shall be given
with all attainable precision. Even
this is a sufficiently magnificent UNDER
taking, but it is within the practical
limits of scientific enterprise, and
it ought to be done--it must
! be done. Not alone is it our mani
fest duty to obtain comprehensive
survey of that universe around us, but
there are many other special astro.
nomical problems that will be largely
forwarded by its accomplishment.
There are some problems indeed which
| must remain unsolved so long as this
task remains.
I @ mention only single one of the
questions for which the great survey is
imperatively demanded, may refer to
tbs interstellar motion of our solar
system. 1t is we'll known that our sun,
accompanied by the whole system of
planets, is at present bound on a voy-
age through space. Astronomy pre-.
sents no grander problem than the dis
covery of the circumstances of this
voyage. Whence has our system come,
whittier is it bound, and with what
speed? We can never learn such par
| ticulars as these without the {nforma-
Pm that the great survey would give
| us.-Sir Robert Hall, in Macmillan's
Magazine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
PiTH AND POINT

An old oft1ce-seeker says that the
surest appointment in politics is dis
appointment.
The man who never changes his
opinion is one who never enlarges his
information.
The lighter the Individual, the
easier to float in the social swim:-
Washington Critic.
1T does not take an imaginary evil
long to become real one.-Philadel-
phia Call.
10 seek redress of grievances by
recourse to the law is APPLY compared
to sheep running for shelter to BRAN
ble-brush.
The man who is suspicious lives
in a constant state of unhappiness. It
would be better for his peace of mind
to be too trustful than too guarded.
We are all dissatisfied, The diff
ference is that some of us sit down in
the squalor Of our dissatisfaction,
while others make a ladder Of it,
Once a Week,
The result Of self-examination on
the part of some people is abundant
satisfaction; with others, it is so de-
pressing as to almost bring despair.
Both are wholly wrong.-United Pres
byterian.
Alas! it is not till time, with reck-
less hand, has torn out half the leaves
from the book of human life to light
the fires of passion, from day to day,
that man begins to see that the leaves
which remain are few in number
Longfellow.
-Affectation naturally lcounterfeits
those excelences which are placed at
the greatest distance from possibility
of attainment, because, knowing our
own defects, we eagerly endeavor to
supply them with artificial excellence.
johnson.
"A smooth sea never made a skill
full mariner, neither do uninterrupted
prosperity and success qualify for USE
fulness and happiness. The storms of
adversely, like those of the ocean,
rouse the faculties, and excite the in
vention, prudence, skill and fortitude
of the voyager.
IT'S pitiful the things by which we
are rich Or poor-a matter of coins,
coats and carpets, little more or less
stone, Or wood, or paint, the fashion
of a cloak or hat; like the luck of
naked Indians, of whom one is proud
in the possession of glass bead or
red feather, and the rest miserable in
the want Of it.-Emerson.
1t is always a bad sign as to ones
real character when the more you
know of him the less you think of him.
The fact shows that he seemed to have
excelences which disappear on more
intimate acquaintance, and has faults
and defects that did not appear upon a
limited and partial acquaintance One
regrets in this way to change and re-
call good opinion which he had of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
Hyena-Spearing in India.

The hyena, though a most useful
scavenger, is not a noble looking ami.
NAL, and his nature is decidedly cur.
IRISH. He is not a beast usually select
ed for the chase, but affords a certain
amount of fun when nothing better is
to be had. Many sportsman, when
disappointed in finding boar, has had
run after a hyena. These beasts do
not go at any great pace or charge like
brave old boar, yet they are not easy
to spear, by reason Of the quickness
with which they turn and twist. In
our first illustration the amin al has
just turned sharp at right angles and
thrown out the man who was apous to
spear him, letting another cut in, while
the horse OF third, putting his foot in
hole, comes down, and then, getting
rid OF his rider, continues the chase on
his own account, biting and striking at
the hyena, which makes no attempt to
resent this strange onslaught. We
observe that Mr.. Moray Brown, in his
excellent book. ''Shikar Sketches"
mentions a similar incident. But
doubles and turns can not always save
the hyena; at last a well-directed
spear-thrust ends his career On earth
and finishes the difficult pursuit
Illustrated London News. a.. i
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
FACTS ABOUT SALT.
Many Interesting Points for Seekers After
Reliable Information.

Many Interesting Points for Seekers After
Reliable Information.
There are many interesting facts
connected with salt which it is we'll
sometimes to remember. TO begin
with the name itself, a curious fact is
to be noted. Salt was formerly re-
garded as a compound resulting from
the union of hydrochloric Cor, as it
used to be called, muriatic) acid and
soda, and hence the generic term of
salt was applied to all substances pro-
luced by the combination of base
with an acid. Sir Humphrey Davy,
however, showed that during their &C
ton on each other both the acid and the
alkali underwent decomposition, and
that while water is formed by the
union of the oxygen of the alkai and
The hydrogen of the acid, the sodium
of the former combines with the chic
rine of the latter to form a chloride of
sodium, and this term is the scientific
designation of salt, which, paradoxical
as it may seem, is not a salt. Chloride
Of sodium must be considered economic
ally under two heads, relating respect
lively to sea or bay salt, and to rock Or
mineral salt. The one is probably de-
rived from the other, most rock-saltI
deposits bearing evidence of having
been formed at remote geological Pc
RODS by evaporation from the sea. At
one time nearly the whole of the salt
used as food and for Industrial pur-f
poses was obtained from the sea, and
in many countries where the climate Isl
dry and warm, and which have a con-.
venient seaboard, a great quantity of
salt is still so obtained. In Portugal,
more than two hundred and fifty thou
sand tons are annually produced, and
the same Quantity approximately is
obtained on the Atlantic and Mediter-
ranean coasts of France. Spain has.
salt works in the Balearic Islands, the
Bay of Cadiz and elsewhere, which turn
out annually three hundred thousand
tons, and even the small seaboard Of
Austria produces every year from sew
enty thousand to one hundred thousand
tons London Standard.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
Answering for Himself.

Conductor-Excuse me, madam, but
! shall have to ask you for ticket fol-
that boy. I think he's over five years
old. IL 3
General Atom with dignity)-Sir,
can't you tell man when you see himl
Here are the tickets for myself and
wife, sir.
Conductor totters feebly on into thu
next car. Chicago Tribune,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08

J n. aazEHHAH' :;
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Wm practice IN tho courts Of record and tie u
,. courts. Once in Sch1eudeTs block, Haa
RECT, Austin, MIN. <0.1y
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08

a wkfte oak tree recently felled
near Baraboo, Wis, measured nearly
seventeen feet in girth and more than
one hundred feet il height.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-05-08
BUSINESS CARDS.

n n. JOHNSON, M. D., M.
"
Graduate of McGill College, Montreal.
ate Assistant Surgeon in Montreal General
Hospital Office in West & Litchfeld's
Block. opposite Opera House Calls at
ended day and nig ht.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-30

The board of police commissioners OF
Kansas City had a surprise in store for
the aloon-keepers, which they sprung, a
few days ago. The new charter adopted
about month ago contained a provision
requiring the Endorsement of the board of
police commissioners on every license
granted. The saloonists comforted them
selves with the belief that the provision
would be carried out in a perfunctory
way, and that the Endorsement would be
given as a matter of form. That was
where they got left. The commissioners
have begun warefare on disreputab BILE
saloons that will result in closing about
half of the bars in the city before the end
Of the year.
Edward Day, formerly resident of st.
Joseph, as representative of the Chase
Sirup Company, and claiming still to
represent that company, is wanted Their
for passing forged check on E. A. Car
michael, grocer, to the amount of about
fifty dollars. Day is said to have worked
the same game at Kansas City and other
towns.
Albert F. Schwab, aged thirty two
years, and local manager for the Green
Tree Brewery Company of st. Louis at
Kansas City, has absconded, leaving a
shortage in his accounts of about $1,000
The Masonic Home of Missouri, located
on Olive street near Delmar avenue, st.
Louis, will be dedicated with imposing
ceremonies on Saturday, June 10.
Fred Critchlaw, boy thirteen years Of
age, was run over and killed by Mis-
souri, Pacific train in ST. Joseph recently.
He attempted to jump on the train while
it was in motion. Both legs were crushed
and mangled, and the boy died in less
than half an hour.
Mr.. R. H. Abrahams. formerly of st.
Louis, and now of Kimberly, South At
RIGA, arrived in ST. Louis recently. and is
stopping with his father, Mr.. Joseph
Abrahams, of 1872 Morgan street.
Rev. H. L. Foote, of Holyoke, Mass,
has accepted the call to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Rev. James Run.
Gle as rector of Christ Church, st. Joseph
DR.. Foote is brother in.law Of Bishop
futile. of st. Louis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-30
LATE NEWS ITEMS

THE concert at the Academy of Music
in New York City, on the night of the
18th, For the benefit of the family of the
late civil justice, Michael Norton, realized
49, 900.
THE Bellows Falls (Minu.) Times build
ing and a number of stores were burned
early on the morning of the Goth. Loss,
$50, 900.
KING HUMBERT and the Prince of Ma
Piles started on their journey home from
Berlin on the Goth. There was large
crowd at the railway station to witness
their departure.
A FIRE at Lubbock, Germany, on the
Goth, dstroyed several extensive ware
houses filled with cotton and flax. The
loss is estimated at 100000.
Mr.. ROBERT MCLANE, the retiring
American Minister to France. sailed for
New York on the Goth. His wife and
daughter will remain in Paris for the
present.
REV. JAMES III. HARDING, formerly
chancellor of the Diocese of Connecticut,
died, on the Goth, at st. Francis Roman
Catholic Orphan Asylum, where he had
lately acted as chaplain. He was eighty
one years old.
AN adjourned meeting for the purpose
of completing the organization of New
Boston on the 25th. The report of the
committee on organization was read and
an amendment adopted that the pro-
posed association be made national in
character.
The Dominion Government announced,
on the 25th, that an order in council had
been passed reducing the clearance fees
charged on American vessels entering
and leaving Canadian ports on the great
lakes to fifty cents for vessels of any tom
mage.
Mr. JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE will return to
England, in July, for the purpose of bring
ing Lady Pauncefote and daughters to
Washington.
IT has been decided at the Navy De-
partment that the remains OF the inventor
Ericsson shall be taken back to his native
land in National ship, and it is under
stood that the Chicago will be selected
for the duty.
COUNT lGNATIUs has been appointed
assistant Minister of the Interior of Rus
STA.
A SPECIAL from Pomona, Cal, says that
Dwight w. Lord, cashier of a National
bank at Omaha, who arrived at Pomona
on the 25th, CLAIMS to have been robbed
on the Santa Fee train between the Nee
dies and San Bernardino of $1,000 in
money and $1,000 in notes, which he car
ried IN his sachel.
The north bound train on the Rich
mond & Petersburg railroad ran into the
rear end of lumber train, on the 10Th,
six miles from Richmond, Va. The lum-
Der train was on a side-track, and not
clearing the main track, the mail train
plunged into it. Several trainmen were
injured, but no passengers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-30
General Drums Retirement.

WASHINGTON. May 27.-To- morrow Gen.
eraI Drum, the Adjutant- General Of the
army, retlres to private life. He has at
.alned the age of sixty-two years, has
been most excellent soldier and ,ova
down the cares and troubles of Office VIII,
as brilliant record as any army officer
could possibly have. During the week
there has been bitter contest waoed
through the newspapers between the ri-
walls for his place. By genera, consent the
nght seems to have narrowed down to-
Colonel kelton. the present Assistant Adj
and Colonel Whipple.
now On duty at Governors Island. New
York harbor. 40"