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Year: 1873

An extraordinary fallacy Is the


dread of night air. What air can we


breathe at night but night eirI The


choice Is between pure night air


from without, and foul night


from within. Most people prefer


the latter. Az unaccountable choice


What wiz they say If II IS proven


te be true that fully one-half OF ali


the disease we suffer from Is occa-


stoned by people sleeping with their


windows shutl An open window


most nights in the year, can never


hurt any one. This is not 10 say


that light is not necessary for reeoy-


erv. In great cities night air is OF


ten the best and purest air to be had
in the twenty-four hours. / could


better understand shutting the win
dows in town during the day than
during the night, for the sake OF the
sick. The absence OF smoke, the
guiet, all tend to make night the


best time for airing the patient:


One of the highest medical au-
thorities on consumption and eli
mate has told me that the air OF
London is never so good as after ten
| O'Clock al night. Always air your
| SOON. then, from the outside air II
| possible. Windows are made to


omen. doors are made to shut-a
| truth which seems exceedingly diff
| cult of apprehension. Every room
must be aired from without every
passage from within. But the few


er passages there arc in q hospital


the better.-FiOrence Nightingale
Year: 1873

a Young man went into the Office
of one of the largest dry goods im-
porting houses in New York and
asked for a situation. He was told
to come again.


Going down Broadway the same
afternoon, opposite the AstOr House
an old apple woman trying TO cross
the street was struck by q stage,
knocked down, and her basket of
apples sent scattering in the gutter.


This young man stepped out from
the passing crowd, helped up the
old lady, put her apples into her
basket, and went on his way, forget
ting the incident.


When he called again upon the
importers he was asked to name his
nrfce, which was accepted immedi-
ately, and he went to work at once.


Nearly a year afterward he was
called aside one day and asked IL he
remembered assisting an old apple
woman in broadway 10 pick up a
basket of apples, and much to his
surprise, he learned why he obtain
ell a situation when more than one
hundred Others were destriug the
same place.


Young man, you little know who
secs your acts OF kindness The
ewes OF others see aud admire what
, they viii not takc- The troable 10 do
/ themselves.
Year: 1873

There are many traits of charac-
ter and custom in which the Arabs
and Turks are our antipOdes. They
shave the head and not the chin, and
we the reverse. With us the uncoY-
ering OF the head in the presence of
another is a mark of respect; with
them a mark of disrespect. When
they 90 into a place of worship they
keep on the hat and take eff the
shoes and slippers; we do the oppo-
site. They mount on the right side
of a horse, we on the left. They
write from right to left, and we
from left to right. We show our
good breeding by taking the out
side of the street when we pass per-


sons; they by passing nearest the


wall. They do the honOrs of the Ia


ble by serving themselves first; we


bv serving ourselves last. If a friend
inquiries after your wife you regard
il as a compliment; TO inquire after
his Is an insult. Their mourning
dress Is white; ours black. They
finish their wooden houses from the
ton downward, and we from foun-
, datfon uD. The men wear frOcks
and the women pantaloons. We
wash the hands by dipping them in


to the water, and they by having


water poured on them.-B0Usug,yt''
Sinai and lion.


Faithfuluess and sincerity ara tht
highest things.
Year: 1873

II l had known in the morning
How wearily all the day


The words unkind


Would trouble my mind
I said when you went away,
had been more careful, darling,


Nor given you needless paia;
But we vex "oUr own"
With look and tone,


We might never take back sg7,in-
For though in the quiet evening
You may give me the Kiss Of Peace,


Yet II might be


That never for me
The pain OF the heart should cease.
How many 20 forth in the morning


That never come home AZ night:
And hearts have broken,
For harsh words spoken,


That sorrow can ne'rr sct right.
We've careful thoughts for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest,


But Oft for "our own


The bitter t0Rc,
Though We love s'our own" The l',>t-
An lips with the curve inpatient


Ah. brow with that look Of -eoru,
'Twcrc a cruel fate,
Were the night too late


To undo the work Of mort.
Year: 1873

They do some things in Germany
different from our customs, and
much better than we do. a mar
riage engagement is, with the Ger
mans, more serious thing than it
is with us. 1t carries with it the
force of a solemn compact, and some
of the responsibilities of a marriage
contract already performed. The
engagement is known to all the
friends of the parties it Is publish
ed in the newspaper, and is regarded
as almost as irFeVoc2ble as marriage
itself. In Cassel, two army officers,
one of them a count and an adju-
tant, were discussing the suscepti-
bility of women, and the count
made a wager with the other, that
he, poor as he was, could win the
affections of any rich heiress the
two might agree upon, and become
engaged TO marry her. They set
tied that the count should lay siege
to the heart of a very pretty and
very rich young girl, the daughter
of a widow whose former husband
was a noted gambler.


The suit succeeded, the engage
ment was soon made and published.
The count was victorious and won
the bet, it being a gorgeous wine
supper. He then thought the joke
had gone about far enough, and
wrote the young lady that it would
be impossible for him to keep the
engagement to marry her, because
her father was a gambler. The af-
fair made a great deal of public
scandal. and the German chronicleT
of these events states that the story
came to the ears of the Emperor,
William, who strongly disapproved
of the whole proceedings of his
| army officers. The supper was pre-.
pared, and the count and his friends
were about sitting down to theiI


viands and champagne, when al
order came for the arrest of the two


officers, who had so disgraced theil
cloth and manufactured scandal
| They were not permitted even tC
| drink their wine, and are now await
/ ing trial by court-martial. That
| the way they treat these harmless
| little Jokes in Germany.
Year: 1873

con, DID You KNOW II WAS
Me PA little ragged boy stood
with his face pressed to a pane of
glass, gazing earnestly at the toys
displayed in the window. His hands
were loosely clasped behind his
back with the palms turned upward.
y lady noticed the little earnest
face as she too paused moment be-
fore the tempting show. Then qui-
etly dropping as many cents into the
little hands a they could hold, she
passed on


The moment the boy felt their
touch he turned and caught sight of
the pocket-book in the hand of the
retreating lady. Running after her,
he look ed up anxiOusly in her face,
and said. 80, ma'am, did you know
it was me :"


Evidently he thought she had mis-
taken him for some little friend.


Yes" said the lady smiling, 81
ERelC it was yOu:' and the child
bounded away with a face radiant
with happiness.


This lady is in the habit of drop
ping small change here and there a.
She daily walks through the poorer
streets Of the city.


Many sad little face has bright.
ened as the money fell into its lap
and a pleasant, smiling face looked
down and said, "There, run and
buy a stick of candy OF cookv."-
Think of such a course perseveret
in year after year. How many q SAD
child's heart has been warmed By
the loving thOughtfulncsS, ever
more than by the unexpected gilt
''Inasmuch as We did it unto one o
the least these, We didit unto me. I,
Year: 1873

have been married ten years, and
| love little Grace as wildly to-day
as did when she plucked the pur-
pie feather from her hat, and plac-
ing it my hand, said, take il and its
owner too
Year: 1873

The stock market has been weak throughout the
day. and at times the pressure of sales told freely
upon prices The decline ranged from to Il per
cent the lowest quotations being current at the
close. The hardening tendency of money in the
afternoon and the prospects of squeeze in cash gold
were the reasons assigned for the depression There
was little doing in investment shares and expresses
were also quiet. Our tables of quotations below
will be found unusually interesting. The opening,
highest lowest, and closing prices of active stocks
cold tn.-dn rrnrn A. fnllnSUs
Year: 1873

tlon we should need no law. Bnt Al.
though we shall never be able to max q
perfect laws, still that is no reason whv
we should not make them as perfect as
possible: and we are very glad that
" UNCLE Tom" has brought up this
matter. We cannot too earnestly i'm
press upon our law makers the necessity
OF simplicity and clearness in the terms
of the law. AS our correspondent init
mates' carelessness, and negligence
and sometimes something worse--in
forming laws is one of the greatest evils
OF the day, and we sincerely wish this
letter could 60 into the hands of eyerv
man who will sit in our next legislature
Let US have more of this kind # cor
respondence that touches things at the
quick.
Year: 1873

Lawyers and Law Makers.


There is no doubt that there will be
Farmers and Mechanics enough in our
coming Legislature to control the action
of that body, and while the producing
classes are making strenuous efforts for
reform in matters directly pertaining
to their interests, such as transportation
and direct communication with their
manufacturers, they should not over
look another question which is almost
as vital as the above [ refer to the
laws Of our State. All laws are made
tor the government Of the unlearned as
we'll as the learned, for the farmer as
we'll as the lawyer, for the mechanic as
we'll as the merchant, for the artizan
as we'll as the priest, and all are alike
interested in the making and execution
Of all laws, hence the necessity of hav-
ing our laws 50 framed and worded
that all can understand and comprehend
their effect and force; why the necessi-
ty Of so much repetition ? so much com.
plication, so much that nobody under
stands? Take the statutes of Minneso-
ia to-day, and you will find but few
who agree as to their meaning. You
will scarcely find two lawyers in the
State defining or constituting any law the
same; the courts are often at loss to
determine questions Of law submitted
to them, and in the course Of every
term Of court you will hear something
like the following: The Court thinks,
or is Of the opinion that the Legislature
intended" &c., &c.; hardly two Judges
agreeing as touching the same inten-
tions. Now, Mr.. Editor, you being a
lawyer, can you tell me the necessity of
this


Litigation is one Of the great curses
that is cursing our land, and the tax
correctly shown that it imposes upon
the entire community would startle all
who could see it; very large proper
tion of the cases on Court Calendars
would cease to appear if our laws we're
more simple, if they were written for
the masses instead of the few, and half
Of the few though skilled in the law -
could not give concise and clear state
ment of its meaning.


1t is clearly the duty Of the Legisla-
ture to simplify all laws, let cause and
penalty be so stated that at least C a
wayfaring man " can interpret and un-
derstand; and for one 1 hope that we
may in the future have common sense
ingrafted in all laws instead of legal
bubbles. The dark frown Of" Monop-
oly" gathers about it; any law that you
cannot understand bodies no good to
the masses. We would be a law abid-
ing people could we know the law; ;
let the farmers and producers who are
members Of our Legislature see to it
that no law is passed this coming ses-
sion that they do not understand or
comprehend. UNCLE Tom.


We fear that we cannot satisfactorily
answer our correspondents question.
Can he tell US how it is that hardly any
two men understand the Bible alike ::
Now, if it is impossible for US to read
and understand the divinely inspired
law alike, much less shall we expect to
agree upon the terms of human law.
II man were perfect in judgment, so
that he need not err, and also perfect
In heart so that he would have no de-
sire ; to err, we might expect perfectly
formed laws, but the trouble is that if
we had reached such degree Of perfec.
Year: 1873

SHERIFF CHANDLER met with a Sc
rious accident on Monday by stepping
upon a broken trap door in his ware
house, causing dislocation of the toes
of his right foot He will let that ware
house alone for the next four weeks.
Another warning to men no: to 90 fool
ing around places they are not accustom-
ed to.
Year: 1873

Editor Grange Advance:


If there should be time at the next
Council meeting would su bmit certain
questions for consideration at that time.
What plan Of arbitration, if any, can
we adopt to settle any dispute or contro-
versy that may arise between members of
the different Oranges in this County p
As there is considerable difference Of
opinion among farmers as to how much
it costs to raise bushel of wheat. can
We not determine upon some plan of
operation by which we may determine
this question do not believe it can
be raised and sold for less than 81 90
per bushel and yield fair profit.


should like also to bring up the
subject Of Insurance for discussion.


H. BRUCE.
CHARLES, son Of G.. s. Rathbone
had his leg broken while exercising on
gymnast pole, on Wednesday last.


FLocKs Of geese flew over Wabasha
on Tuesday morning in search Of a
warmer, latitude. ,.~.
Year: 1873

The remarkable work Of turning the
first sod Of tho first railway in Persia
has been accomplished at Rcshd, a
town, tho capital OF the province of
Ghlinn, OIL tho shore Of the Caspian.
Year: 1873

A SoMNAMBULIsT T.-Belshazzar Smith had a very
bad and very dangerous habit of walking in his
sleep. His family feared that during some one
of his somnambulstic saunterings he would
charge out of the window and kill himself; so
William and to tie one end of a rope round his
body and the other end round the waist of little
William. The first night after this arrangement
was made, Belshazzar dreamed that burglar
was pursuing him with a dagger. So he crept
over to Williams side of the bed, stepped over
Williams slumbering form, jumped out on the
floor and slid under the bed. He stayed there
awhile fast asleep; and then, his nightmare hav-
ing changed, he emerged upon the other side of
the bed, and got under the cover in his old place.
The rope it will be observed, was beneath the
bed, and it was pulled taut, too. Early in the
morning, Belshazzar, about half awake, scrouged
over against William. To his surprise the move
ment jerked William clear out of bed. BelshaZ-
zar leaped out to ascertain the cause of the phe
uomenon, and at the same time his brother dis
appeared under the bed. BelshazZar, hardly yet
awake, was scared, and he dived beneath the bed
stead as he did so he heard William skirmishing
across the blankets over his head. Once more he
rushed out just in time to perceive William glide
over the other side. Belshazzar then became
sufficiently conscious to feel the rope pulling him.
He comprehended the situation at once, and dis
engaged himself. And perhaps little William
was not mad He was in the hospital undergoing
repairs for about three weeks, and when he came
out he had strange desire to sleep alone. Bels-
shazzar anchors himself now to an anvil.-MaI
Adeler.
Year: 1873

CANDoR. Nothing sheds SO fine light upon
the human soul as candor. 1t was called white
ness by the arcients, for its purity; and it has
always won the esteem due to the most admirable
of the virtues. However sought for or practiced,
all felt the power and charm of its influence
upon his fellow men, whose influence is most last
ing and efficient, whose friendship is instructive
ly sought where all others have proved faithless


is not the man OF brilliant parts, or fatterng
tongue, or splendid genius or commanding pow
err but he whose lucid candor and ingenious
truth transmit the hearts real feelings pure and
without refraction. There are other qualities
which are more snowy, and other traits that have
a higher place in the worlds code of honor; but
none wear better, gather less tarnish by use or
claim deeper homage in that silent reverence
which the mind must pay to uth.-The Moralist
Year: 1873

HEaS 1udt clergy Inau Out III luuldudpOlls, Whlle
preaching his sermon one Sunday evening per-
ceived young man and young woman under the
gallery in the act of kissing each other behind a
hymn book, did not lose his temper. He did not
fly into an unseemly rage, and call upon the SEX
ton to rush up the aisle and dsband the rioters.
No He remained calm. He beamed mildly at
the offender over his spectacles, and when the
young man kissed her the fifteenth time, he mere
y broke his sermon short off in the middle of
thirdly" and offered fervent prayer in behalf
of the "young man in the pink necktie, and the
maiden in the blue bonnet and gray shawl who
were profaning the sanctuary by kissing one an
other in pew No. g." And the congregation
said "Amen." Then the woman suddenly pulled
her veil down. and the young man sat there and
swore softly to himself. He does not go to church
rs much now as he did
Year: 1873

@9-A clerk in the Indianapolis postofice is
now in the last stages of drouth, occasioned by
his own gallantry in volunteering to lick and
came to his window. He is very charming
Indianapolis is full of good looking girls-who
loved dearly to see him run out his tongue and
moisten a stamp, and the first thing the unfor
tunate young man knew he had exhausted his
secretions, and was as dry as board
ing house pie. The doctor says unless he can
start the sap in his system he is goner.
Year: 1873

@S-A An Irishman went for the first time to a
play Just as the drop curtain descended, after
the FIRST act, an engine in the basement exploded,
and the Celt was blown through the roof, alght-
ing in the next square. His first remark, after
coming to his senses, was, "And what the devil
do you play next2'
Year: 1873

A good advertisement in a widely
circulated newspaper is the best of all
possible statesmen. It is salesman
who never sleeps, aud is never weary;
who goes after business early and late
who accosts the merchant in his shop,
the scholar in his study, the lawyer in
his Office, the lady at her tea table;
who can be in a thousand places at
once, and speak to million people
every day, saying to each one the best
thing in the best manner


A good advertisement in a newspaper
pays no fare on railroads; costs nOth-
ing for hotel bills; gives away no boxes
Of cigars to customers, or merino
dresses to customers wives; drinks no
whisky under the head Of travelling
expenses; but goes ut once and all
the time about its business free of ex.
pense.


A good advertisement insures busi-
ness connection of tho most permanent
and independent basis, and is in GER
tain sense guarantee to the customer
of fair and moderate prices. Expert.
cnce has shown that the dealer whose
wares have obtained u public celebrity
is not only enabled to sell, but is forced
to sell at reasonable rates, and to fur
nish good article.
Year: 1873

Prof. John H. Boley made an ascent
from the Fair grounds at Wapello,


Iowa, at $50 p. NJ, Thursday, in his
hot-air balloon. Just US the balloon
left the ground it took fire near the
mouth. He had not secured his footing
on the horizontal bar on which he
stands, but went up hanging by his
hands, and did not apparently sec the
fire until he was too high to let 20 for
safety, but hung on until he had
reached an altitude Of twelve or fifteen
hundred feet on her canvas. He held
till the hoop at the mouth from which
ho was suspended, burned away, and
he fell, reaching the earth q quarter of
IL mile from the point of starting. His
body was frightfully mangled, the fall


driving his legs INTO the hard ground
up to the knees, and life was extinct.
Year: 1873

The London Times says: 'Sports
may be made in many ways valuable
training. They may teach a boy mod.
Grafton and self-command and self
denial, as we'll as courage and love of
active exertion. And yet, with the
strongest sympathy for ail this, we
must repeat the opinion that things
have been allowed to go too far. The
course followed has been so easy that
it has, not uhnaturally, been followed
little to excess. There need be no
opposition made between studies and
sports. The two can go on very well
together they will even aid one an.
other, if both are properly pursued.


But this Will involve the surrender of
much that is now sought for. We
must give up the aim after a profess
sional standard of merit we must
even esteem it a degrading thing
to reach it. Boys must be taught
that the principal use of games
is as relaxation in the interest
of after-study; that both study
and sport are of value only for the
effect they have on the mind and char
acter, and for the degree in which they
fit man for after life, and that in all
this study is of an importance quite
infinitely greater than sport. The rem
edy against the present state Ct things
can only be gradual. Asounder public
opinion will soon show itself in altered
tone among both boys and masters.
Boys as body will never love books :;


but they will always honor those dis
tinctions which they see are honored


by their parents and by the world.
Sports may be trusted to flourish with.
out much encouragement but studies
need all the fostering caro- which can
be employed, and even then illness and
stupidity will often be too strong for
all the efforts of the schoolmaster. It
is not much to ask that he at least
should be faithful to his high trust,
and that, in any controversy Of studies
and sports, he should stand out rs the
uncompromising holder of studies"
Year: 1873

The DooR UNLocKED.---Somet time since 1
wished to enter strange church with u min-
lister little before the time for service We
procured a key, but tried in vain to unlock
the outside door with ii. We concluded we
had the wrong key, and sent to the ianitor for
the right one. But he came and told us that
the door was already unlocked. All we had
to do was TO push and the door would open.
We thought ourselves locked out, when there
was nothing to hinder us from entering.


In the same way we fail to enter into love
and fellowship with God. The door, VIC
think, is locked against us. We try to fl
some key Of extraordinary faith to open it
We try to get our minds wrought UP to som,
high pitch of feeling We say, 81 have TIN
wrong Key must feel more sorry mus
weep more And all the time the door i
ready to open II we but come boldly, wit
humble earnestness, to the throne Of grace
We may enter freely, at once, without havin
to unlock the door, and his heart is not shu
against us. We must enter without stoppin
to fit our key of studied faith, for His mere
is not locked up. We must enter boldly
trustingly, not doubling His readiness to re
ceive us just as we are" He is willing al
ready, and we must not stop to make Hin
willing by our prayers or tears.
Year: 1873

| ARE WE DEoESERATISG "A few years


ago, at the Eglinton tournament in England,
! it appeared that the famous knights Of three


or four centuries ago must have been smaller


even than the Englishlnen Of to-day, for it


was impossible to put on their armor And


now come vital statistics TO prove that we arc


moro hardy and longer lived than our fathers.


The statistics kept at Geneva since 1860 shows
chat the average term Of life has been steadily
lengtbening. AT that time the average was
only.ee years 1t is now 40 In the fourteenth
century tile average mortality in Paris was
one in l6 the rate has been reduced in our
day TO one in A. The laws of life are better
understood the comforts of life more widely
distributed and habits of living improved !;
even consumption, the fatal malady of our
New England climate, is yielding slowly to a
wiser method Of treatment, and the annual
uerccntace of deaths is smaller than fifty
years ago. If, by a sound system of diet or
exercise, the constitution of girls could take
ON higher vitality and vigor, the outlook for
the future would be hopeful.