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Mower County transcript., 1890-10-01
Market Girls In NORWAY.

.
In Bergen women and girls carry to
market most unwiedly milk cans, great
wooden kegs shaped like churns, we'll
hooped, and having leather stretched
over the top to prevent waste. They
are borne on the back, being held in
place with straps or ropes, much as .
knapsack would be carried. The fish
market girls seem to have an easier
time; far less cumberson are their
scaly burdens, and it is said that great
activity Of tongue and gesticulation
prevails among them. Their costume is
"a dark blue petticoat and jacket q kind
of Scotch bonnet drawn we'll over the
head, from beneath which . jauntY lit
tie white cap may be seen, and about
the neck large handkerchief is we'll
rolled. st Louis Globe. Democrat
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g martial. art In tho evening an onlcer and
iseveral soldiers took him out OF this
pestllentlal tN1E den and told him: ''Since
you ere 9 strolling player you con amuse
US little. Give US recltation!' Got
olo MS very best, and so pleased his
captors that the officer said: "Ah, you
may be Got, after all! You can make OF
as soon as you like, Got took the hint
ana managed to get back to London.
ine off1cer In command Of The soldiers
was an Italian, AMI M. Got attribu tes
ms deliverance partly to the fact that
he was able to converse with him in hia
own language. St James Gaxetta
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LACK OF PROGRESS.

A New England Woman Who Went to
Boston Onoe In Three Decades.
A Washington lady, in writing from
New Hampshire, where she Is spending
a portion of the summer, speaks Of the
lack of progress which prevails in many
of tho farming districts Of the State.
She Is stopping at farmhouse in q
very quiet and lonely neighborhood,
where a few summer boarders occasion.
ally 60. The owners OF the farm, Mr..
and Mrs. --, are in moderate circum.
stances, but in many respects they are
sadly behind the times.
II asked these people," writes the
Washington lady, III it did not become
exceedingly monotonous living where
they saw so few people, for their near
est neighbors were nearly mile away.
Mrs. -- replied that sometimes they
were a little lonesome. I suggested
that as they were so near to Boston
they, of course, went to that city occa-
sionally, where they could see more of
what was going on in the world. 81"
40, yes,' said Mrs. -. Railways
accompany my husband whenever he
goes to Boston, @sa 49,
"'In that case I suppose you have
gone there three or four times this year,
at least
i" Land, no. she replied, it is exact
y thirty years this summer since Silas
and were last tbere.'"
And yet she always went to Boston
W henever her husband did. .-Washing-
ton Critic.
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A. SONG OF. HOME.

Across the wild land as pilgrim roam
Alone and stranger fare, .
But wherever wander my heart Is ut honne
With the ones that remember me there. i
The bowers bloom sweetly along these Wild
dellS, ! 7
And the mountains rise rugged and grand,
And the low Sabbath sound Of tho faraway
bolls
Molts tenderly over the land. ..-s... ~
And the western skies wait for tho soft after
glow,
Eve never closed lovelier day
o'erfow,
CFor my heart is at homo for away.
You may warble, sweet birds. to the red even.
ing skies,
Yet your vesper song dies on my cor,
For deep in my spirit the memories rise
OF the farawny voices more dear.
You may babble. pure brook in your soft mon.
otone
You may purl to tho pebbles you love,
You may kiss the green moss rs it clasps tho
gray stone,
Hark harkl now I hear them. hear the old
words,
Familiar and sweet, light and gay
Nay, nay, but dream, it's tho song OF tho
birds
But my heart is at home for away.
The western skies darken. tho stars brighten
forth,
The wild flowers droop, tho night comes,
The birds hurry home to their nests south and
north
Ahl happy things, cling to your honest
The lights Of the city ore dawning in view,
return through the gay, thoughtless throngs,
From happy home windows bright faces smile
through,
And hear children's laughter and songs.
New friends give me welcome with greetings
OF cheer,
1lANgh and I seem to be gay,
But memory grieves in the thoughts inner ear
And my heart is at home far away.
Ernest w. Shurtles.., IN Youths Companion.
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The shsh's sons..n-Law.

The Shah Of Persia won't stand any
foolishness on the part Of his sons-in-
law: They can't move into the palace
and board free, with the use of the
library and bathroom thrown in. They
can't consume his wines and cigars and
use his horses without compensation.
He only marries q daughter to Q very
rich man, and as soon as the ceremony
is over he Immediately condscates his
property. That Is the kind Of man the
Shah is. Then they have to 60 to work
and try to build up anorher fortune.
There is nothing the Shah likes better
than to see his sons-in-law hustltng
around to make living. Texas Sift-
ings. s 3 u. Z. +
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4 WONDERFUL { RIDE


From Mendoss to Chilli Through Uspaiiats.
ON q Mule.
The passage Of the UspallattA 1S nade
most easily during January and Febru.
ary, whom tho snow has disappeared
from the lower mountain slopes and tho
river levels are lowest. From April to.
November snow.storms are constantly
met with, the bride paths arc slippery
and the discomforts and perils Of the
journey are multiplied. Mountaineers
and mail-couriers make the passage
evon In the most inclement weeks Of
winter, travelling on foot over tha
Cumbre. The scenery In the winter
time, when the abysses are ingulfed
with snow and the rugged mountain
wallis are incased in ice, must be Of un.
rivaled grandeur, but prudent tray-
eler will be content to make the jour-
ney in midsummer. Even when the
road is dry there is . constant source
of danger, since mule, with charac.
teristic perversity, persists in travelling
along the outer edge Of the slope on the
edges Of the precipices, and it is un.
safe, as we'll as useless. to attempt
to make him swerve from his selt-regu.
lated course. When the road is coated
ovef with ice one must be hardy
mountaineer in order to rise superior
to the perils of precipitous chasms and
deeply-sunken river bottoms. The
sense of loneliness increases. moreover,
when few travellers are on the high.
way, and one is confronted with the sol.
emn stiffness and gloomy grandeur OF
the Andes. In the midsummer the pass
ing of mule trains imparts animation
and variety to the journey. The pictur-
esque poAchos-I regret to say that the
native garment has been largelyreplaced
by cheap and inferior European wrap,
an imitation sleeveless shawl-cape-
and the bright fantastic patterns of the
neck-gear worn by the guides andmount~
aineers add q welcome touch to the
bar rem edges of bridle-paths. When
fellow-travelers are met it is .
sudden refreshing contact of human
mpanionship. Smiles and ''buenos
dios'' are exchanged, and the file of the
passing cavalcade is watched as it dis
appears in the zigzag of the road. Hu-
man society is all the more welcome
from tho absence of animal life in tho
mountains I heard the twitter of only
one bird in the course of the five days
ride. That was a wee thing, only half
as large as swallow. The guide-book
represents condors as perched on the
heights Of the most dangerous passes,
where traveller will be pitched head
long thousand feet into abysses if the
mule goes wrong. The closest approach
to the great Andean condor coming un-
der my eye is the Atlantic mosquito,
which has followed me all the way from
the Rio to the Plate and across the
continent. It is carnivorous bird,
eager at all times to strike to the very
marrow of human bones-Cor. n. Y.
Tribune.
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TEARING OUT BREASTS.

One Of the Sickenlng Practices of the In.
tlians at the sun Dance.
At the sun dance, one of the young
Indian devotees is suddenly seized by
the medicine men. He Is stripped
naked and laid on the fiat OF his back.
Then the flesh OF his brawny chest is
gathered into the left hand of one of
the doctors" who with the other
drives keen knife through the muscles
and tendons, and forces after it q stout
wooden peg or skewer, which is left to
protaude couple Of inches. A SIM
liar skewer is drawn through the
left breast. Stout thongs are fastened
to the ends of tho pegs and those in
turn to long lariat attached to the
top of pole perhaps twenty feet high.
White men who have been permitted
to look on turn away sick and faint
even at this part Of the performance,
but the warriors never vince. Now
they stand the bleeding victim on his
feet and give him an eagles wing bone
whistl Q, and now, my brave, is your
turn.
Fix your eyes on the blazing sun;
never remove them for an instant; blow
your whistle and set to work. Leap,
tug, strain; throw your whole weight
against the skewers.. What you have
to do is to tear yourself loose from that
awful pole, and to do it these skewers
must rip their way through tendon,
muscle and bleeding flesh. Aye, leap,
howl, run backward with all your
weight against your tortured breasts,
and break loose If you can. Only thus
will your VOW be fulfilled.
Sometimes the splendid muscles hold
out for hours Sometimes the sun goes
down, and still the fainting victims
strain at their fearful flesh. Sometimes
they swoon away, exhausted from loss
of blood, but mostly they bear torture
as only Indians can. And when at last
they succeed in breaking loose and
fall with their torn and bleeding breasts
plowing the dust of the terrible in
closure, rush is made by the friends
and relatives of the triumphant brave.
He is borne tenderly and proudly away.
He is petted and nursed, praised, his
wounds are dressed, the their scars be-
come in after life the silent and hideous
witnesses of his heroism. .-Philad elphia
Times
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THE SOLAR CORONA
New Theory Of Its Character Which
Seems Capable of Demonstration.

New Theory Of Its Character Which
Seems Capable of Demonstration.
The observations made by Prot.
Schaeberle, of the Lick Observatory, in
connection with the eclipse of elast De-
cember, has led him to PROFOUND An en-
tirely new theory OF the solar corona.
According to his observations the corona
is caused by light emitted and reflected
from streams OF matter elected from the
sun by forces which in general act
along lines normal to the surface.
These forces are more active near the
center of each sun spot zone. and owing
to the change of the position of the OBJ
server with reference to the plane Of
the suns equator, the perspective over
tapping and interlacing of the two sets
of streamers at these zones causes the
observed apparent change in the type
of the corona.
Having had this idea suggested to
him in the course of his Investigations,
Prof. Schaeberle has tit upon mode
of mechanically demonstrating it Hav-
ing stuck number Of needles in ball
to represent the streams Of matter, he
placed the model in a beam of parallel
rays and allowed its shadow to fall upon
screen, the result being that indefi-
mite variety Of forms, similar to the
coronal structure, can be produced by.
simply revolving the model. Whether
the forms that are seen according as
the observer is above, below or in the
plane Of the SUMS equator, agree with
those that should be seen, has yet to be-
proved, but ii there is such agreement.
it will go far in the direction of confirm
ing this novel view of the suns corona.
Chronicle
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FALSE HYDROPHo1tA.

iss victim Can Only Have Symptoms of
which bo Has knowledge.
1T may bo laid down in the very be-
ginning OF our consideration Of the sub
jeot that tho victim OF false hydropho.
bia can only have those symptoms of
which he has knowledge. Unfortunate-
~ the real disease has received so much
notice from newspapers and other pop
ular publications that tolerahly cor
rect knowledge Of its phenomena has
been acquired by the laity. Hence we
lind that the picture ordinarily pre-
sented by the unconscious simulator ia,
at least to cursory observation, not un-
like the real affection. There are,
however, great differences. which the
educated physician will not fail to de-
tect, and which will enable him to do
what has never yet been done with real
hydrophobia-cure the patient
Hydrophobia never originates, in the
human subject at least, except by inocu-
lation from rabid animal, and death
always occurs in four or five days after
the development of the disease. A case
Of so.called hydrophobia came under
my notice in which it was stated that
the patient had been bitten some three
months previously by dog undoubted-
ly hydrophobic. inquired as to what
had become of the dog, and was in.
formed that he was still living, having
recovered. 1t was not necessary to ex-
anime any further into the particulars
of this case, for If the dog had really
been the subject OF hydrophobia he
would have been dead very shortly after
biting my patient
Again, it often happens that person
easily affected by suggestion has what
he conceives to ba the symptoms OF
hydrophobia developed very soon after
having been bitten by supposed rabid
animal. whereas the real disease rarely
until after a month has
elapsed from the time of incubation.
1t is true, there are cases on record in
which the period of incubation was less
than that, but they are exceedingly
rare. In my own cases the time has
varied from twenty-five days to four
months and half Cases in which the
disease is said to have supervened many
years after an alleged incubation ought
to be received with doubt The inter-
val probably mover exceeds two years
or is less than ten days.-W. II. Ham
mOnd, in North American Review.
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No Practice Needed.

Mr.. Jinks-Your brother, the physi-
oian, practices . great deal, does he
not? -.
Miss Gadabout-O, dear, no. He
doesn't need to practice any more. He
did that at college. He's full-f1edged
physician, now, and has ever SO manv
patients!-Light 49, -,
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what She wanted TO se,,

$50 this is the Mint!" exclaimed .
visitor to one Of Uncle Sam's coin fac
tories. +
Yes, Miss" ,... i ssss
20, please won't you show mos the
mint juleps ] have heard about?" n. =.
Sun.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-31
AMONG THE LEPERs.
Two Letters From Sister Rose Gertrude
Written on the Hawaiian Islands.


Sister Rose Gertrude, who has decided to
devote her life to the lepers, has written to
the Rev. Hugh Chapman, of England,
under date of Kalihi Oahu, Hawaiian
Islands, March II, as follows:
''I am not going to Chicokai, at any rate
at present. There is new leper station
here, and the President of the Board of
Health says shall be much more useful
here. There is no one, and there are 20 poor
lepers under the care of DR.. Lutz. Besides
this there are great many suspects, and
here there are children. The doctor says
it would be better work to teach these
children and to comfort them in the newness
Of their grief. I don't know for the present
We need anything"
In another, Sister Rose Gertrude says
II have one patient dying, unless our Lady
save him, of pleuro-bronco-pneum
another with an internal complaint some
very bad surgical cases, and 30 Or
dinary dressings and dispensings
three times day. L make up my own medi-
cines and salves for the most part, and have
to wait on the doctor with the patients, so
you will understand how busy / am. The
patients are very well-behaved. We have
eight acres of ground, and they live in sepa-
rate cottages all around. The president
took me to Molokai. 1 kept some of my
presents, and sent the rest on. was very
glad to have them the day the examiners
came. Some of the suspects were moved on
to the leper side, and they cried so because
they knew all hope was over. Some are
very distressing to look at, and they get
into a state of general ill-health. Poor
things, they feel the parting dreadfully, but
they say they soon get used to it once at
Molokai"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-31
ANOTHER POLAR EXPEDITION.
DR.. Nnnsen Hopes TO Profit by Current In
the Arctic Ocean.

DIR, Nansen Hopes 20 Profit By a Current In
the Arctic Ocean.
New York SUM-
DR.. Nansen is preparing to lead party to
the North Pole. the first expedition in years
whose chief purpose has been to reach the
most northern point of the earth's surface.
One-third of the $50, 600 he asks for has been
secured by private subscription, and it is
expected the Swedish Government will con-
tribute the balance. His ship has already
been made. Its shape and plan are chiefly
patterned after the best Norwegian whalers,
and it is expected that ice pressure against
its immensely strong sides will tend to lit
the vessel up on the ice. The ship will be
only ITO tons burden, but it will be coaled
and provisioned for five years. Tne e1,
plorer will not start for the Suez Canal and
Behring Strait before February next year.
In 1884 cake of ice drifted ashore at
Julianehaab, on the southwest coast OF
Greenland. Froz en- upon the surface OF the
ice were a pair of trousers which were
marked with the name Of one OF the Jean,
nette's sailors. They had been carried
nearly across the Polar area to Danlsn
Greenland settlement. IF this incident does
not prove the existence OF a current moving
north from the New Siberian Islands 1t
must be admitted that such current is not
only possible, but also N the highest de-
gree probable.
This, then, is Nansen's plan for reaching
the North Pole. In vessel specially built
and SO modelled that ice pressure will tend
to lift instead of crush it, he purposes to
steam through Behring Strait liz June or
July, and make his way to the new Siberian
Islands. He will get into the north-moving
ice, put out his engine fires, and drift wher-
ever the ice carries him. If anywhere on
the journey he reaches open water, SO much
the better tor his purpose. Even if the
worst comes, and his steamer is crushed in
the ice, he thinks the chances for escape will
be good. With plenty of provisions and
clothing and warm sleeping sacks. he says
he would not fear to face winter on the ice
of the Polar Sea. If his ship sinks he will,
like De Long, retreat over the ice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-31
Pastor md Peonle.

IN 1s4l there were 5000 Jews in all Palestine,
In 1888 there were $1,000; but SO great has been
the increase of late that in 1883 the number
reached 10000, about the number that cameup
from Babylon.
AT, the English Lutheran Chnrch, Sharps-
burg, religious service will be conducted
under the direction Of the Laymen's Missionary
League of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
ANNIVERSARY services will be held at the
First Primitive Methodist Church, Holmes
street, Eighteenth ward, tomorrow morning,
afternoon and evening. Dialogues and recita-
tions by the Sunday school children are to be
lnterspersed with the regular religious services.
The Holy Father has received in special
audience in the Throne Room in the Vatican
Palace His Excellency General Sir John Lin
torn Simmons, Envoy Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the
Queen of England and Empress of India, ac-
credited to the Pope.
DURING the year closing March /, the Amer
ican Sunday School Union organized L6S5 new
Sunday schools in 81 States and Territories;
distributed G. 10 Bibles and 1887 Testaments;
and gave aid to l. So2 needy schools. In the last
three years the number of missionaries has in
creased from 80 to %.
THE Methodist Episcopal Church South
does not contain two purer broader stronger,
nobler men than the two who have just been
elected Bishops by the General Conference of
that Church-Drs. Haygood and Fitzgerald.
Neither is a member Of the Conference. DR..
Haygood was chosen on the first ballot, and
DR.. Fitzgerald on the fourth.
THE next International Sunday School Con-
vention, which is TO be held in Pittsburg June
R4-27, will be unusually important in many re-
spects. 1t will elect a new Lesson Committee
arrange for Worlds Sunday School Conven-
ton TO be held in the United States in 1892 or
1sed, discuss the question OF uniform course
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-31
MUST HAVE A DIVORCE.
Wife Identifies Her Husbands Corr-as but
Finds Him Alive and Well.

Wife Identifies Her Husbands Corr-a but
Finds Him Alive and Well.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pfsrATcH
ST. LOUIS. May 30.-A remarkable case
of mistaken identity occurred at the morgue
to-day when Mrs. Mary Fasold threw her.
self on the remains of man lying on one of
the slabs, and Historically declared that he
was her husband. II loved him once" she
continued, ''and we lived happily together,
but ne treated me so mean. He got to
drinking, and spent every cent on liquor.
He even sold the household furniture. I
had begun divorce proceedings against him,
and the papers are now in the hands of
deputy sheriff, who has been looking for
him. This is Gods will, but he was my
husband, will bury him.
Three theirs besides Mrs. Fasold testified
that the dead man was Eberhart Fasold,
stonemason. Morgue Superintendent Pradi-
COW sent to Fasold's residence to summon
witnesses. He found Eberhart Fasold there,
alive and we'll.
81 have not committed suicide" said Mr..
Fasold, ''that I'm aware of, nor have I any
intentions of doing SO. If that man at the
morgue is Eberhart Fasold, there are two
of u.s. NY wife can't marry again till she
gets divorce" Mrs. Fasold tainted when
she heard that her husband was still alive.
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THE sULTANs ADJUSTMENTS,
If Something Funny Happens He Writes n
Comediettn and Hns it Enacted.

If Something Funny Happens He Writes n
Comediettn and Has it Enacted.
Pail Mall Budget.I
The Sultan is a clever writer of comedi-
ettas, which are performed in a charming
little theater that has been constructed in
the Yildiz-Kiosk. They are, curiouslv
enough, written in French, and performed
in the presence OF the author, his household
and the ladies of the seraglio. The latter
are seated behind a grille, and enioy the
performance immensely, to judge by their
laughter and applause.
The Sultan is in the habit of suddenly
concelving the ideas for plot, and having
put them together he sends for the actors,
and distributes the roles with request that
the piece is to be performed the same night.
One of the last represented an incapable
master of royal household suddenly called
upon to provide. dinner for 100 guests.
Everything goes wrong, and the utmost con-
fusion reigns. An incident which His
Majesty especially wished to be emphasized
was that of lacquey exploding bottle of
champagne right in the face Of the discom-
fted master of the household.