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•rrrni as Rales of Etiquette. Never pass your plate for mashed po tato more than six times, especially if there is company at the table. Never reach across the table for but ter. Wait until it is passed, and then take only a small bit, as butter at thirty cents per pound, and the banks charg ing 2 per cent, on A 1 paper, are apt to discourage the head of the family. Don't wipe the back of your neck with your napkin, no matter how hot the day is. Never take more than ten good-sized biscuits, no matter if the plate is passed twenty times. Don't use your finger to stir your coffee. The handle of your knife is more fashionable, and if you want to be real aristocratic take a spoon. Refrain from wiping your mouth on the table cloth, if possible. Some an cient writers favor the practice, and I believe a few Kings yet persist in if, but your coat sleeve is much more ban dy. If there is watermelon on the table for dessert, and you have eaten five or six pieces, and the plate is passed again, you should shake your head and reply No thank you, I never did care much about watermelon.*' An evening call on a young lady should never be made in the forenoon. The length of a call at the house of a young lady depends somewhat on cir cumstances. If the old man comes in with a shot-gun the call shouldn't be prolonged over an hour. It is not in good taste to ask a lady how much he* set of jewelry cost. It used to be until they got to patronizing the dollar stores so extensively but now it is considered the height of ill breeding. Children should never be whipped in presence of company. Call them your little darlings until the callers go away, and then hunt up the ax-handle and remark "Now, then, you sassy brat, come here! It is not proper to bow to a lady four blocks away on the* street but the right way is to run through the alley and head her off. If you are at a party and a friend of yours desires an introduction to a young lady, the proper way is to first ask her consent. Toll her that his father owns a brick house, 5,000 acres of pine land, fifty shares in a gas company, and a paving contract, and she'll consent with such alacrity as to astonish you. In church never rest your feet on the back of the pew in front, and don't stare at the minister through an opera glass. If you are one of a party making an evening visit, and fruits and nuts are passed around, don't fill your pockets until some one else has had a chance. One must be self-sacrificing about such things.—" M. Quad," in Fireside Friend. The Grangers' Ten Commandments. I~ Thou shalt love the Grange with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and thou shalt love thy brother Granger as thyself. II. Thou shalt not suffer the name of thy Grange to be evil spoken of, but shalt severely chastise the wretch who speaks of it with contempt. III. Remember the Grangers' day. On it thou shalt set aside thy hoe,and rake,and sewing machine, and wash thyself, and appear before thy Master in the Grange with smiles, and songs, and hearty cheer. On the fourth week thou shalt not ap pear empty-handed, but shalt surely bring a pair of ducks, a turkey roasted with fire, a caked baked in the oven, and pies and fruits in abundance for thy Harvest Feast. So shalt thou eat and be merry, and freights and fares shall be remembered no more. IV. Honor thy Master, and all who sit in authority over thee, that the days of the Grange may be long in the land which Uncle Sam hath given thee. V. Thou shalt not go to law VI. Thou shall not burn thy straw, but shalt surely stack it for thy cattle in winter. VII. Thou shalt not do business on tick Pay as thou goest as much as in thee lieth. VIII. Thou shalt not forget that the good Husbandman places Faith in God, nur tures Hope, dispenses Charity, and is noted for his Fidelity. IX. Thou shalt plant trees, fruits and flowers so that thy descendants may bless thee. Be honest, diligent and faithful. X. Thou shalt have no Jewish middle men between thy ranch and Liverpool, to fatten on thine honest toil, but shalt surely charter thine own ships, and sell thine own produce, and use I thine own brains. This is the last and great commandment. On this hangs all the law and profits. And if there be any others, they are these: Choke monopolies, break up rings, vote for honest men, fear God and make money. So shalt thou prosper, and sorrow and hard times shall flee away— Wis Granger. Josh Billings on Dispepshe." DEAR BARKER I hav been a praktickal dispeptik for 27 years and four months, and it would hav been munny in my pocket if I had been born wishout enny stummuck. I hav prayed upward of one thousand times to be on the inside like an ostrich or a traveling coiporter. I hav seen traveling colporters who could eat as much as a goose. I hav seen a goose eat till they couldn't stand up enny more, and then set down and eat sum, and then lay down and eat sum, and then roll over and eat sum more. I have tried living on filtered water, and going bare-foot for the dyspepshy, and that didn't hit the spot. I hav soked at water-cure establish ments until waz so limber that kouldn't git myself bak agin inside ov mi Baldwin apparel. I bought a saddle-hoss once, who was got up expressly to kure the dispepshy —he was warranted to kure the disease in 90 days, or kill the horse. He wuz warranted to trot harder than a trip-hammer, pull wusser on the bits, stumble safer down bill, than enny other hoss on the futtstool. I rode the hoss until I wuz ov a jelly, and then sold him bridle and all for sixty-eight dollars, and sot sued by the purchaser, and had to pay him 90 dol lars and sum cents damniage, bekause the hoss had the Nimshys," a disseaze knu nothing about The hoss and fixings cost me -450 dol lars gold. I kontrakted for eleven kords ov hick ory wood, kross-grained and as phull ov wrinkles as an old cow's horn, and sawed away three months on it, and the pile seemed to grow bigger every day. I finally gave away the saw, and what wood thare waz left, to save mi life, and sat down diskouraged, a square victim to the everlasting dispepshee. I have lived at the sea side, and gamboled in the saline flood, until was az well pickle az number one salt mackrel. I have dwelt at Sarotoga, and taken the water like a mill, and still had the dispepshee. 1 have walked two miles before breakfast, and then Ptt a slice ov dri toast, and half the yelk ov a pullet's e-jc, and felt all the time az weak az a kitten that had just cum out ov a fitt. I hav laid down more than 2 and times, and rolled over once nit all nite long, and s*ot up morning like a korpse, and thare didn't nothing seem to ail me enny where in partikler. ^, -. ,...._.. ,, .. thous min- ihe I hev red whole librarys on the stum muk and liver, and, when I got thru, I knu a grate deal less what was the mat ter ov me than when 1 be^un. I hav drank whiskee with roots in it enuff to carry off enny bridge or saw mill in the country. I hav worked on a farm for mi vittles and board, and dieted on fride pork and ri bred until was az thin as the sermon ov a 7 day baptist preacher. I hav dun all these things and 10 thousand other things just as ridikilus and hav got the old dispepshee yet, just as natral and az thik az the pimples on a 4-year-old goose. If you git a good hold of the dispep shee once yu kant never loose it entire ly it will cum around once in a while like a ghost, and if it don't scare you so mutch az it did .mce, and make yu think yu are going to die to-morrow, it will make you feel just as sorry. Yours, JOSH BILLINGS. To COOK RTCE.—The following is the method recommended by the French Academy for cooking rice during the seige of Paris Take one cup of rice and one-fourth of a cup of water in a saucepan, cover, and place over a good fire after an hour the water will be evap orated and the rice cooked tender, but dry, with grains distinct, not in paste. Suf ficient salt should be added, in the first place, and care should be taken not to disturb the rice while cooking. By ad ding a little butter, and allowing the rice to dry a little more over a gentle fire, a more delicate dish is prepared. The Boston Medical Journal says that rice cooked in this manner, which is the same as that employed in the East Indies, bears the same relation to the indigesti ble paste of the New England kitchen as does bread to boiled flour. —In describing the recent debut of a young lady, whose friends went into rapt ures over her performance, Jones says iney applauded her when she opened her mouth they applauded her when she shut it they applauded her when she kicked the stool and I very believe they would have applauded her had she kicked the bucket! Preparation for Winter Flowers. It is best, even in summer, to make to be very queen" of beauty when transferred to the sitting-room, or the bay window. The Balsam is a very de sirable plant for winter blooming, par .. ticularlJy th,e _„ .. ... we often selectt cuttings from a few of the finest plants in the garden, and root them in pots for winter flowers. The stocks are equally good. The Cobcena Scandens, and nearly all the climbers, make excellent winter bloomers. We mention these things because they are so easily grown, and yet every way de sirable. To grow plants for winter floweriHg, I seed can be sown about July or August, in a shady, cool'plaoe in the garden, or I in boxes, the soil being kept well wa tered, and by autumn plants will be (just right to, transfer to the house. Of course, as the plants get large enough to transplant they must be put in pots I in which they are to flower. Mignonette and Sweet Alyssnm may be sown as late as September. Put from three to six plants in a pot. The Ma deira Vine tubers may be kept out of the ground until the latter part of June, and if then planted in pots will be in just proper condition to transfer to the house, and will prove no mean ornament to the window garden. The Tuberose should be treated in just the same man ner, and will flower in the early winter. Any plants in the open ground that have not bloomed may be taken up carefully and potted, shading a few days after potting, and giving a full sup ply of water. In answer to inquiries from a gentle man in Saratoga, last year, we wrote the substance of the above article, and the result was so satisfactory, and our Sara toga friend so delighted, that he sent us a very pleasant letter of thanks and a photograph of a bay window, which he had thus aided to beautify, and it was really so well arranged and prettv that we have placed it in our artist's hands, and it will appear as an engrav ing illustrating window gardening in a future number. Look around the garden before frost, and see if you have some young and strong plants that proved a little late for out-door flowering, that you would like to try in pots. If so, take them up with as little disturbance as possible, put in good soil, and treat as previously directed. Vick's Floral Guide. How TO E E EGGS FRESH.—My ph™ for the past eight years has been as follows They are gathered every day, and kept in my house, in a box of v\\nn Ar\aA ,o^,, n,i,:„u „L.... ._. twentieth ot its kil dried sawdus which i„ about one inch thiek. They may be kept on the end or fiat, and care must be taken to turn them over at least three times a week. Impregnated eggs will hatch well if kept in this way, even if they be two months old. I now have seven chicks (from nine eggs) which were kept as above, and I am positive they were over five weeks old when put un der the hen. It is necessary to be careful in turning them over that they do not get any sudden jar, as that oft times prevents their hatching.— Cor. Rural New Yorker. has been developed among•—--•»--•»--- some Roches ter shippers about which little is known. It is the trade of dried potatoes. Pota toes are sliced up and dried in much the same manner as dried apples. One firm in this city has an order on hand now for 50,000 pounds of these dried potatoes, as well as for 1,500 bushels of onions, which are dried in much the same manner. They are intended for the navy. A bushel of potatoes dries away to about ten pounds, and a bushel of onions to about six pounds. When ready, they are put into large tin cans holding about forty pounds each, and sealed up the same as oysters. The News and Courier of Charleston avers that more than two thousand par cels of real estate in that city were for feited to the State for failure to pay city and county taxes. The property was offered for sale without finding bid ders, partly from unwillingness to take advantage of the owners' misfortune, and partly from doubt as to the validi ty of the titles to be given. Such wholesale confiscation in a city like Charleston could only occur where the people had been unreasonably robbed by their rulers. —A correspondent of the Christian Union says you can no more keep ras cals out of a party by putting the word "purity" into the platform, than you can keep crows oat of a cornfield by writing no thieving on the fence. ,: a little preparation for winter flowers, just presented)—" Wal, I guess you air and it is surprising what a little fore- an old hoss!" Waiter—" Old hoss sir' thought will do in this direction. A .American. pot of Mignonette and another of Sweet Alyssum cost nothing, and yet few things will be more pleasant and attrac tive in the winter season. Plants that appear unimportant, almost insignifi cant, and entirely eclipsed by more am bitious rivals, when the garden is ablaze blindfold the waiter, and the first one he with its summer giory, sometimes prove caught should pay the bill. He hasn't caught any of them yet, DRIED POTATOES—The Rochester dispute. The first man, being from (N. Y.) Express says Lately a trade Connaught, immediately seized a lump of stone and let it fly at the head of his opponent, who dipped his head and missed the stone, which went through an expensive plate glass window, and did much damage. A magistrate was called upon next morning to determine which of the two should pay the cost. OMNIBUS. —American, (looking at themmr long bill uai white, and toward autumn thp Stato 6 ah MW mu Wha d'ye mean si. Wal, just that you're a famous charger, for sure -Punch. —A party of young men dined sumpt uously at a restaurant in Atlanta, and each one insisted on paying the bill. To decide the matter, it was proposed to William,'' said one Quaker to an- other. thee knows I never call anybody names, but, William,, "c» "ui imam tn Governo a ,tovc We fite ten sppf nil r.r.l flora irntvi ivr I -r ii™,u „L~ ~. otat should come t* me and sayV Joshua, I want thee to. find me the big gest liar in the State of New York,' I would come to thee and say, William, the Governor wants to see thee particu larly.' —The New York papers say over three thousand immigrants arrived there on Monday and Tuesday of last week. Of these, four-fifths were loaded on the cars for the West within four hours after they had set foot on laud The large delegations of Swedes and Norwegians, which arrived on Monday, were most of them ticketed to Blue Earth county. Minnesota, where thousands of their kinsfolk have preceded them. —Bad words are as influential as the plague and the pestilence, They have wrought more evil than battle, murder and sudden death. They crop through the ear into the heart, cali up all fts bad passions, and tempt to break God's commandments. A few bad words got into the ear of the mother of mankind, and led her on to eat the forbidden fruit, and thus to bring death to the world. —There is something that touches the heart in the last moments of a dog that died at Langsingburg, N. Y., the other day, at the age of twenty-four years. The old fellow (jihad hardly stirred from his rug for sunie days he arose stiffly crawled with difficulty up stairs, visited every room in the house and seemed to bid a last farewell to all familiar objects, came back to his mas ter's feet and died without a struggle SOUTHERN MINNESOTA R. R.—Rep resentatives of the first and second mortgage bond holders of the Southern Minnesota Railroad, have for a number of days past been in consultation at St. Paul, in reference to a basis of settle ment satisfactory to all creditors of the road, by which it can be taken out of the receiver's hands and nut of court. The proposition is to merge the second mortgage bonds into the stock, make the first bonds a lien on the road, and the stockholders who were formerly sec ond mortgage bondholders, to take con trol of the road after two years, provid ed all delayed interest on the first bonds is squared up.—Mankato Union. ^—It is said that the simplest method of sharpening a razor is to put it for half an hour in water to which one weight oi muriatic or sulphuric acid has been added, then lightly wipe it off, and "after a few hours set it on a hone. The acid here sup plies the place of a whetstone by corrod ing the whole surface uniformly, so that nothing further than a smooth pol ish is necessary. The process never in jures good blades, while badly hardened ones are frequently improved by it, al though the cause of this improvement remains unexplained. A CURIOUS DECisioN.-^-The follow ing story comes from Ireland Two men had a quarrel in a liquor shop. They adjourned outside to settle the The evidence clearly showed that the aim was a good one, and that if the second man had not dipped his head he would have been struck. Therefore." said the magistrate, he must pay the damages, as it is certain the first man didn't intend to injure the window, and the window would not have been in jured if it had not been for the act of the second man dodging." THE Dakota County Agricultual So ciety is the first to announce its premi um list for the present season. The fair will be held at Farmington SeDt 30th and Oct. 1st and 2nd. RESIGNED.—William Paist, Esq., has sent in his resignation as Secretary of the State Central Committee of the anti-monopoly party. A pressure of other business has made this step nec essary. It is a pleasure to record that Mr. Paist is rapidly gaining strength, and it will be but a few days before he visits the city.—Pioneer. J)RS. HEWITT & CUMMINGS, OFFICE IN KEYSTONE BLOCK, RED WING, MINN., Charles N. Hewitt, M. D. D. J. Cumm fogs, M. E W STOCK OP CLOCKS and JEWELRY JUST RECEIVED. N0 P. PETERSON Watchmaker and Jeweler DEALER IN AMERICAN and FRENCH CLOCKS, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, 4c Xfo. 78 Main Street, KKD WING, MINNESOTA. T. IS. if the Governor of F. SHELDON DEALERS IN- DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, CARPETING, HATS AND CAPS. BOOTS AND SHOES, CROCKERY, CHINA AND GLASS WARE. A OOOI) ASSORTMENT ALWAYS ON HAND AND SOLD AT THE O W E S PB.XCSS. MUSIC UALL BLOCK, RED WING, MINN. ]y[ERCHANT TAILOR. A New .Merchant Tailor's Shop lias just opened in POST OFFICE BLOCK, Please call and see our GOODS, and see what a GOOD FIT In the Clothing line yon can get. rniRis T. S LOVD, Red Wing, Minnesota. GRAHAM, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, CONVEYANCER AND GENERAL COLLECTION AGENT. Red Wing:, Minnesota *If*Taxes paid for non-residents. MELSO N & PETERSON^ Dealers in Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, FARM MACHINERY aud IMPLEMENTS. BuUlr** a a Mechanic' Tool and HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Rush Street, Red Wing, Minn. J)KXSMORE BROTHERS, Machine Shop and Foundry, CORNER OF BUSH AND LEVEE STS., Are doing Iron Work, and Furnishing Light and Heavy Castings of every description. Also, repairing Steam Engines, Machinery for Mills and Factories, Threshing Machines, Headers, Reap ers, Mowers, Drills, Ac. Casting in Brass done to Order. OLD METALS WANTED. pON ONSDMERS' IMPORTING TEA COMPANY.' No. S Clmrcli Street, P. O. Box, -), 109. New York City. This is a combination of capitalists to supply the consumers of Teas throughout the United States on the mutual principle. yy co We have experienced agents in all the best districts of China and Japan to select Teas especially for our trade. We expect every consumer of Teas to render ns all the assistance they can in carrying out our enter prise, as we make a specialaty of SUPPLYING CON SUMERS ONLY (and allow no middlemen to make any profit on our importations), which wilf enable us to supply them with Teas at prices lower than hav.- ever been known, aud of those fine qualities that seldom reach the interior, being sold only in the large cities and among the very wealthy. Hoping the consumer will take an interest in our enterprise, and send at once for a circular with full explanations of how to proceed to obtain our goods, we remain, Most respectfully yours, CONSUMERS' IMPORTING TEA CO.. No. 8 Church Street, P. O. Box, 5,509. N it Entered according to the act of Congress, in Jan- a £'J he Importing Tea Co., in the Office Of the Librarian of Congress. Washington, What the Press Say of Us. •riom the American Agriculturist, N. Y., Feb. 1874. To Tea Drinkers !—Oxi this page appears the circu lar of the Consumers' Importing Tea Co. We believe this Company able and willing to perform all that their circular proposes. From the Rtiral New-Yorker, Jan'y 17,1S74. Consumers' Importing Tea Co.-Our readers should not overlook the advertisement in another column of tne Consumers'-Importing Tea Co. They propose to supply consumers only with pure teas as cheaply as large facilities and direct communication with con. sumer will allow. We know this Company-that it is in every way reliable, aud worthy the confidence of the public. E STATE OF MINNESOTA T"^- .c °"n.t-v°fGood,",e SS: District Court. First Judicial] District Benjamin Bond, Plaintiff arainst Elijah Rostrin, Defendant, Summons. The & Minnesota to the above named Defendant You are hereby summoned and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action i&f/hk« been filed with the Clerk of saidIC&rttohSrtSctt the Court House in the city of Red W W !f Goodhue and State of Minnesota and to a c'opy aforesaid, the PlainUff on „r I after a he '•im! re 8 a 8 with interest on a "he 2 2 of" «li« one-hindred-ths dollars after a Cent- an n« and Jan at the S 5 "a«-y, A. D. 1874, and interest hnnl'ed and fifty do'llars thereof, cent, per annnm,fromand with "J* °f January, A. D. 1873, together thisfaction disb,lree, nents of said Plaintiff in Dated Red Wing. Minnesota, April 8th, A. D. 1874 T»OQ E HODGSON, Plaintiff's Att'y, _ZWf^ Red Wing, Minn. gREAD! BREAD! BREAD! it* in 8 Bread at a price whichastern *u who buy—cheaper than yon can make it. shes