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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20
NOVEL SIGNAL ROCKET.

It Needs No Stick, and Its Explosion Can
Be Heard Twelve Miles.
A new signal has recently been
brought out by the Cotton Powder
Company of Queen Victoria street,
London. The distinguishing features
OF this invention are that no stick is
required and there is no back fire. The
rocket takes the form of metal cylin-
der, in the base of which IS the pro-
peling charge. Above this is a charge
OF tonite, and above this again a star
composition. The rocket is placed in
a phosphor-bronze socket which NAV
be screwed or let into the rail of the
ship. When it is required to fire it 8
firing tube is placed in the center OF
the rocket and to the top of this Ian.
yard is hooked. The propeling charge
is fired by simply pulling the Ian
yard, and the signal is propelled
upward at one impulse. The wire fuse
by which the decorating charge il
exploded is at the same time ignited,
and this burns until the rocket has
reached the maximum height, which is
six hundred feet. The stars are
thrown out, giving a brilliant illumi-
nation, and the tonite charge then ex.
plodes, The noise of the explosion ia
equal to the firing of a six-pounder
gun; but being high, is heard at a
great distance; indeed, in one instance
disabled vessel brought another to
her assistance from a distance OF
twelve miles. These rockets are SO
portable and easy to fire-no match or
portfire being required-that they are
very suitable for boats, and doubtless
many lives would have been saved had
they been in use in cases where ship.
wrecked crews have had to take to
the boats. The board of trade has
authorized it's surveyors to pass these
rocket distress signals in lieu of both
guns and rockets, so that many
lines of steamships have landed
their guns and use these signals in.
stead. The National Lifeboat Institu.
ton is also introducing them with red
stars, which is the distinctive signal to
summon a life-boat crew. A further
advantage of this form of rocket is that
combination of colors and number oil
stars can be so arranged as to form q
code on the principle of the Morse
alphabet, a feature which may prove
of great Importance in naval maneuve,
and for torpedo-boat operations. The
full-sized rockets are seven inches long
and two inches in diameter. A smaller
size, which is called the 'rocket-light
signal" is also made This has no ex.
plosive charge Another modification
of the idea consists of a sound signal
which has no stars. This takes the
place OF q gun.-Engineering.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20
WOMAN DETECTIVES.
Some Cases in Which They Can Do Better
Work Than Men.

Some Cases in Which They Can Do Better
Work Than Men.
Although for long time detectives
of the fair sex--and some of them of
good social status-have been employed
for the discovery of crime and grave
political ofenses, and also for making
private inquiries where delicacy and
tact is requisite, female detectivism
has but occasionally been employed in
the United Kingdom for public pur-
poses, and even then with merely in
significant results. In recent gov
eminent report upon the Scotch police
by Captain Munro, Her Majesty's In
spector for Constabulary of Scotland,
he says that the employment of a few
women on the detective staff in large
and populous places might possibly be
of valuable service. Owing to this
statement, and the important fact that
the employment of women as pri-
vate detectives in London has
made great progress, a writer in
the London Queen has carefully in
vestigated the subject of this article,
on which he has received some appre-
ciable informationfrom those who are
the most competent to speak with au-
thority on the question.
AS regards the engagement of women
for the detection of crime in this coun-
try it is not only very limited, but mere
ly extends to few offenses, the most
important of which appear to be shop
lifting and pocket-piclxipg cases and
other thefts. In these and other in.
stances they generally act under the
guidance and close supervision of reg.
ular members of the detective staff.
Some years ago large firm of omnibus
proprietors always engaged women to
find out the dishonesty of the conduct
ors of these vehicles in robbing their
masters of a portion of their fares, and
it is stated that women are even now
employed for this purpose.
Is competent and trustworthy wom-
-. Asre difficult to secure for secret
in police forces, and a. no
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20
PARTISAN CAFES,

Their Prominent Place In the Soet=A Life
of u Century Ago.
"Cafes," biliiard-tables and tennis
courts abounded in the Faubourg St.
German. Billiard-rooms were haunt
ed by French and foreigners alike, and
tennis being the game of Kings and
Princes-what game was played with
one poor King in one such Jeu de
Paume! It was naturally cultivated
by courtiers of all sorts. AS to the
cafes proper, cup of coffee after din
ner had then become nearly universal,
and smokers drank it, with their to-
bacco. The coffee-houses in some
streets were to be counted by the
dozen, for those were the days when
they were frequented by princes
and other great personages," and
by the learned and accomplished
coteries, whose only previous
resources had been the cab
arets, which they deserted en-
masse so soon as cafes came in. One
might go into one of them without
ordering any thing, and ''ladies of the
first quality were in the habit Of
stopping their carriages at the moro
famous, to have a dish of coffee
brought out to them on silver saucer.
Such rapid progress had the berry
made since Pascal, the Armenian, and
Procope, the ice man from Florence.
first vulgarized Moka about 1869, and
Madame de Sevigne said she invented
the ''fantasy'' of cafe-au-lait in 1880.
The same or a later Procope was,
about the time we write of,
bringing out the still extant
bavaroise, first made with tea,
not chocolate, for the Bavarian
Princes who frequented his renowned
house, which closed at length only
last year, having played out its old
fashioned part when Gambetta failed
it. True, it has since been swept with
new broom and reopened. The
widow du Laurent kept the Cafe do
Beaux Esprits in the Rue Dauphine,
where met a society which was sup
posed to be ever starting some odd,
novel or witty subject for dis
cussion. There one Grimaret, 4
professor of languages, who wrote
"Campaigns of the King of Swe-
den'' and "Lettres Serieuses ct
Galantes," used to take the chair and
years afterward Saurin, La Motto,
Danchet, Boindin and Rousseau re-
sorted there. and thence issued the
famous couplets which banished JEAN
Jacques. A similar coffee-house was
Poincelet's, nearer the Pont-Neuf, and
in the Rue Rouille was the Cafe Sa-
want, where the literary bigwigs con-
sorted, just as Boileau, Racine, La Fon-
tame, Chapelle and Furetiere were
wont before the days of coffee-houses
at the famous traiteur's on the Place
st. Jean. In others were to be found
the predecessors of the journalists, the
newsmen ('aouveillistes), who discussed
rumors and politics between the throes
of bringing forth their gazettes. Thea
there was the general mob of idlers,
who killed much of their time stroll
ing from cafe to cafe, hoping to pick
up some new thing.-Saturday Review.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20

AT recent meeting of the share
holders of the opal mines of Queens
land, Australia, it appeared by the
speech of the chairman that the COM
pany had sold opals to the value Of
47,576 during the year, and that these
had netted profit of f4,664 IFS id to
the shareholders. The chairman also
alluded to the difficulties in the way OF
selling opals, one of them being the
fast-waning prejudice against the opal
as an ''unluchy" stone, and another
that hitherto the business in opals has
been confined to certain channels, out
of which it has been difficult to
draw it. .r..- -,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20

What are called "health slices''
are toast soaked in beet blood and
then fried. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20

G, D, DEMO is man we'll known in this
community, and was probably the worst wreck
physically of any man this country ever saw.
He was paralyzed from Rheumatic poison,
and no one ever expected he would recover.
He IS well and it is simply marvellous.
FRANK L. SMITH,
Ex.Member Legislature, Jackson, Mich.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-02-20
n H. JOHNSON, II. D., O. II,

ersAu.ts q Neon College, He15f1ss, Iass ~
ha.aat euf1seA in Montreal General HespltaS
o0ee over ClennsH b PooloIs Asul stoso. 0oNt
s&tsn1ed day and night !;
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17
TERRA GOTTA
Figures and Busts,
AT 99c. Each

Lava Cuspidores, &c.,; elsewhere csc.
Real china Cuspidores, large size, decorated,
30c. reduced from SOC.
Library Lamps, 14-inch dome shades, modern
shape, solid brass, $L9e; reduced from $3.50.
Parlor Lamps, full brass mounting. Elegantly
decorated, Shade and Lamp to match, duplex
burner, sold complete, Sl.s5; reduced from $s.25
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17

X. of r. S. was instructed to state that,
more money or clothing is needed, they
should send for it.
The Rev. John Krautz, of Centenary M;
f. Church, Pavonia avenue, has extenueu
an invitation to District Deputy Louis
Miller, of DistrictNo. 9,for the lodges OF
District, with the Palestine DIVISION az
an escort. to attend service in his church
next Sunday evening. The members ex-
pect 0 to receive a fraternal visit from
Jersey City Lodge.
On Decoration Day Unity Division, UNI
form Rank, of Elizabeth, paraded IN
Brooklyn. On their return they Mere
captured by Palestine Division, n were
treated to the best in the land, Ihey
train train A few DAYS 8 they sent a letter
to Palestine Division, in which they
thanked our boys for the manner IN
which they were received.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17
2sD STREET THEATRE.
L 25c., 50c., 75c., si.W, $780,
D~OCKSTADER'S MINSTRELS.
Mr.. Lew Dockstader and Company.
Matinee Saturday at 2.
cHANcERY OF NEW JERSEY.

Complainants, and Dennis Murray, Thomas Murray
and Cornelius Murray, Defendants.
On bill for partition.
BY virtue Of a final decree OF the Court Of Chan.
Gerry of New Jersey, made in the above entitled
cause and bearing date the twenty-ninth day OF
March, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty
nine. l shall offer for sale at public vendue, at my
Office In the Weldon Building. No. rs Montgomery
street, Jersey City, New Jersey, on
MONDAY, the Twenty-fourth day Of June next,
at two o'clock in the afternoon, ali that certain lot,
tract or parcel of land and premises situate, lying
and being In the City Of Jersey City, in the County
Of Hudson and State Of New Jersey, bounded and
described as follows, yiz.:-Beginning at a point IN
the line drawn parallel with North Fifth !now Thir,
s~outhcrly ,therefrom. and one hundred 900 fee,
thence. running easterly along said line parable!
| alleyway of eight tD feet In width. extending "a
North Fifth street; thence northerly along said
alleyway f~orty-6ve 49, feet TO another aileywey OF
| Ave () feet IN width, running westerly parallel. to
North Fifth street; thence westerly along the line
of said aileyyay last mentioned thirty-six t6 feet
thence aGutherly parallel with Prospect street
forty.hve (g feet to the point or place q b,Hin
ming. Together with all and singular the herelLta
menfs and appurtenances g the said prenaiss ; be
longing or In any way hppertRinipg.
Special Master IN Chancery o New Jersey.
Dated May n, 1883.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17
knights of Pythias.

At the meeting of Jersey City Lodge,
last Wednesday night, the rank of es-
quire was conferred upon Mr.. Oscar
Fackert. After the close of the business
meeting the usual social recreation was
enjoyed. These gentlemen sang and re-
cited:-Brothers James ID. Lee, John Kent,
Charles M. Solomon, 9Bob' Mcdonald
aud J. R. Laforest.
Lincoln Lodge has donated $25, to be
sent TO the Grand Lodge Of the State OF
PENNSYLVANIA, toward the relief of the
Knights in the Johnstown section. The
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17

A large delegation from Monticello
Lodge paid a fraternal visit to the lodge
of the same name at Arlington last wed
nesday night.
Onward Lodge is all excursion and the
good time coming. This is a real i've
! Io1np -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17

AN OLD NURSE FOR Don't fail TO
procure MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP
for children teething. No mother VIII has ever
tried it will consent to let her child pass through
this critical period without the aid Of this invalu-
able preparation. Gives rest to the mother and
relief and health to the child. Cures wind collie
diarrhoa, and regulates the bowels. Twenty
i've cents a bcttle.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17
SHOES.

600 pairs Indies Dongola button Boots, par:
plain and part patent leather tips always sold
at $500 pair; reduced to S1.39.
$50 pairs very fine Dongola and French kid
Slippers In widths, A and B only, at 79c. pair;
reduced from $l.50 and $500.
200 pairs patent leather and Dongola Oxford
Ties, $1.25 pair.
500 pairs misses canvas Shoes, ooze calf,
trimmed, at SOC. pair; reduced from $1.2S and
$1.75. TeM W
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17
LACE CURTAINS.
BED SPREADS.

672 Nottingham lace Bed Spreads, full sizf
Pillow Shams to match, $3.50 the set.
7l9 better quality lace Bed Spreads, Pillow
!. Shams to match, all tape bound edges, $1.65 the
set.
Ceases lid Marseilies.
Bed Spreads, elegant design, $1.45 each.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17
Order Iron Han,

a. new branch is about to be organized
on the Hill by Deputy Supreme Justice
George G.. Fountain.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-17

Lot Cards and Envelopes, "a in each box, sc.
500 boxes Stationery infancy leatherette boxes,
at 11c.; reduced from 39c. and Soc.
800 doz. good Lead Pencils, rubber tips, SC. doz.
900 gross white school Crayons, SC. gross.
100 doz. Blackboard Rubbers, &c. each.
750 boxes Drawing Teachers, &c. box.
1000 bottles good Writing Ink at &c. bottle.
500 doz. Writing Pads, &c. doz.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-08
EVERYDAY MEDICINES.
simple Remedies and Appliances for the
Lesser Its of the Body.

Lesser ITS of the body.
In every household there should be
some convenient shelf and drawer for
few simple remedies and appliances
In case OF sudden sickness or accident.
and each member OF the family should
be familiar with their contents, all OF
which should be properly labeled, to
prevent mistakes.
Upon tho shelf should stand tho
time-honorod camphor-bottle, well
lilled with an article of sufficient
strength to blister; n bottle OF pepper
mint essence; one OF arnica; spirits OF
inter and tincture OF aconite, IA we'll as
preparation for burns, consisting OF
equal parts OF linseed oil and lime
water. To this add box of cosmo-
line, and bottle of glycerine, as remo-
dies for the everyday complaint OF
rough hands. always diluting the
glycerine with rain-water. 1t is, pre-
pared In this way, Indispensable to one
troubled with salt-rheum on the hands.
Now for the remedies To be put away
in spice-boxes or any tin box that can
be labeled Ground mustard, to be
used for comforting plasters, foot-bath,
and emetic; golden seal. pulverized, to
be used for canlSered sore mouth !;
alum, which, dissolved In warm water.
is excellent TO take soreness from IA
bruise or cut; chlorate of potash. for
sore throats; ground fax seed, for
poultices. and ginger for good, old
fashioned hot drink.
In drawer should be found roll
each OF flannel, linen, and cotton
pieces; some strong bandages neatly
rolled and ready for use; box OF fine
cotton batting; plenty of strings; some
old kid gloves, the thumbs aud fingers
of which may serve to protect n
bruised member, and an envelope Of
court plaster,
There is nothing in this list that Is
| complicated or difficult to obtain. but
there is much more than Is to be found
| in most houses. Much could be added,
but these few remedies will answer for
great many ailments, and no careful.
well-managed household will DO with
out them.
A few remedies, systematically ar
ranged, with which we are perfectly
| familiar. are worth more than hetero-
genous mass OF bottles and boxes. un.
| labeled, which are to be found on the
top shelf OF many pantries In great
| abundance. aud which serve only to
terrify the beholder with an uncertain
sense Of the life or death that is within
them Il loy l.. Sholden. ~ Farm aud
! EfreSttie.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-08
PROTECTING A QUEEN.
Precautions to Prevent the Death o
Marie Antoinette by Poison.


Marie Antoinette by Poison.
Madame Campan, in her memoirs,
speaks of plots for the assassination OF
Marie Antoinette and the measures
taken to counterfeit them. I'm 1890, "
she says, IAN official in the royal serv-
ice discovered what he conceived to be
project for poisoning the Queen, who
spoke to me about it with perfect cool.
ness as well as to her chief physician.
Vicq-d Ayr. He and | together con-
sidered what precautions it would be
necessary TO take. He relied to u great
extent on the Queens extreme alb
stemiousness, but advised me ALWAYS tc
have within reach bottle of sweet oil
of almonds, which | was to renew from
time to time, this oil and milk being,
as is well known, the surest antidote
for the irritation caused by corrosive
poisons, One of the Queens habits
particularly disturbed her physician.
Powdered sugar was always to be
found in her dressing-roo and fire..
quently without calling an attendant.
she would put some spoonfuls into q
lumber OF water when she wished to
drink. 1t was agreed that should
pound large quantity of supa,
privately that / should always carry
some boxes in my bag, and three OF
four times day, when | happened to
be in her majesty's room, should sub
slttute fresh sugar for that in the
sugar-dish. We knew that the Queen
would have prevented every precautior
OF this kind, but We kept it concealed
from her. One day. however, she sur.
prised me when making the change O,
winch l have just spoken, and told me
she was sure it was an operation con.
certed with Monsieur Vicq-d' Ayr but
that was taking useless trouble
Remember she said, that no one will
employ grain of poison against me
Inc brlnvilliers do not belong to thu
present generation. Nowadays one,
enemies can use calumny, which is fa,
more eifectual FOR killing people. anf
through which | shall perish. ten
tlenan $ Magazine.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-08
ONE DAY AT a r,ns

rave you sorrow, and trouh,.
20 your burdens seem heavy q sHd carsi
y the present all dark, ana ~ oeart
s~y VI your life thickly clas sale al drss,
10y 10. moment! Pause si,sa. ed Win ies,;
nv. u no.o y you can the wisdsm -. ! saa stu
ns' measures your strenrth w,. ma VIII
Gus design Win Co.'s
ny bidding your ills, zone aav
Would you climb up the mor.
w" 800 yva carve on its summit yons .sns'
10 maize 80, WORK, and patIen, Isnes
by, the moments that 70 w..
lou may string them like near.
chain pearis In scInt,,...
1ha' WIN give back their lIsbt !,
mat VIII open your path. In on
you ''na tnem together, zone da u' J. line
Have you found that your friend !. M
knew .ha' you trusted, the friend un', ,ss
" ak aions H''n your betrayal, as you i, :,
po you fncy your faith forov.
Do you turn from vonr .e, has flown,
each racas am your fellows and tu,n :.
Do you think you will shun r.
racer s"e whole hum.
love Is sore wounded, but love ia a,u,.
Ana the hurts will be healed ..one das s,ne,
has your ours, soul been invaded. your ham, N
n.y. Dy that terrible loss and terrible main
diad, ea uear one has
And the place that is vaean, J..
side? 10 cose al your
When life seems SO crushed I'm a..
blow? sac iorce Of Tia
Even then, in way that Won nav..
rhe hope OF reunion Is sen ling lis shIn as snov
Through the gloom, and the sbado sn'he
at a time" one Day
Ella Dare In mt. n
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-08
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The OTHER WORLDS.
Secrets which the Wisest VI Us shosAo
Never Attempt to Expound.

Secrets which the "isest VI
Never Attempt to Expound.
For more than century astronomers
have been arguing the question
whether or not the planets are IN
habited; and their elaborate theories
leave the great problem just as they
found it.
All the information which science
affords on tho subject Is, in truth'
purely negative. 1t is clear enough
that beings constituted as we are couid
not exist for an instant on Mercury.
which, from it proximity to the sun,
must have a climate as hot as that OF
the crater of volcano; nor on Neptune
ON the outermost verge OF the planet
arv domain-which receives seven
hundred and eighty-four times less
heat and light than our pleasant little
orb, whose course is through the tenn
perate zone of the solar system. In
Mercury or Venus we should combust;
in Neptune be turned into adamantine
statues by the unspeakable cold. Nor
is there an intermediate planet that
would be tolerable to our constitutions.
Yet it by no means follows that they
are therefore unpeopled
When we consider that space has
more stars than the earth has pebbles,
and that our star is very small con
Germ as to size, compared with many
Others OF the planetary family, to say
nothing of the incompatible millions
OF orbs beyond the confines of our little
group. it seems not improbable that
they, too, may have forms of life
adapted to their peculiarities, and that
all the glorious floating worlds we see
sparkling in the boundless Pacific
above us may be inhabited
But there are no sufficient data from
which to argue convin cingly one way
or the other. and to argue questions
which can never be set at rest is waste
OF time. Some of us may suppose that
every twinkler of the skies teens with
organic life-others that this infinites-
| imal portion of the universe called
Earth, is the one favored orb among
the innumerable starry hosts that is
not barren, silent, lifeless. But as it
is not given us to know which OF the
two suggestions comes the nearer to
the truth. the less we speculate on the
subject the better.
1t is sufficient that wisdom and be-
neficence which can not be measured
or conceived of by our purblind intel.
| ligence have ordered all things for the
best. To insist that life pervades all
the worlds, or. on the other hand. that
it is confined to one, is to assume thai
we. who can not even comprehend Oul
insignificant selves, are competent, 1t
the absence of all data, to say wha'
God has done in his capacity of Crea
tor. throughout the infinite realms o
space. Could presumption lie carried
furtherp
AS far as science will give us light
we may legitimately pursue our in
quiries; but there are mysteries which
its brightest beams can never pen
etrate-secrets of Omnipotence which
it is not intended that the wisest of u
should attempt to expound.-N J
| IeR0py