ps ————— i 4 i TRON FAR AND NEAR. Interesting News From Various Parts of the World, Disabled and Dereliot Ships Re- ported by Incoming Vessels, More tales of the suffering of tempest tossed sailing craft have come to hand. The steamship Hudson from New Orleans reports having passed the Italian bark Leonada with the upper part of her mainmast and her miz- zen topgallantmast carried away, The bark Sappho, from Pensacola, with a cargo of yellow pine for Buenos Ayres, was thirty-six hours under the lash of the storm. She was thrown on her beam ends, and her crew bad to out away her foremast to sve her from capsizing. The jibboom and main- topmost went by the board with the fore. mast. Soa after sea broke over the vessel, floading her cabin and forward house, and spoiling nearly all her provisions. Her sails were torn and lost and part of her deck load washed awny. She put into New York port for repairs. The steamship Bermuda brought to New York from 8t. Croix the crew of the schoon. or N. Hand, of New Haven, which was driv. en ashore at Frederickstead, St. Croix, by the storm, The schooner Rosebud, from Greenook for 8t. Johns, reports havisg passed a bark with nothing standing but her mizzenmast and bowsprit; also a derelict, with foremast heii iy She also passed two large icebergs and floating ice. The steamship Nebraska passed the wreck of the Italian bark Barone Podesti off Shinnecock, and her decks were awash. 8he was bound from Pensacola with a CArgo of lumber far St. Nazaire, The Cufle. from Liverpool, passed the same wreck, as did also the bark Sarah Chambers, from Auster 0, Johnstown Rising Again, That Johnstown, Penn., will rise again thore seetns to be no doubt. The enormbus task of restoring the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks [rom South Fork to the famous stone bridge continues day and night. With all ible energy the Cambria Iron Company operating those departments of its works which escaped ruin. Its army of employes is busy and hundreds of men are engaged in rebuilding the structures demolished or damaged. Planing mills, gas works, elec tric light works, and other minor industrial establishments are being put in working or. der. Btores have been reopened, and al though the merchants are only in temporary buildings they have a good stock on hand and find ample demand for their wares There have been at least 1000 places of hab. ifation erected during the last three months, Of course the majority of them are only tems porary structures, but they answer every pur Some substantial buildings, how. ever, are well under way and many founda tions are being laid we Our Agricultural Exhibits at Paris, One of the employes of the United States Agricultural Department who has Just re. turned to Washington from Paris, describes the American agricultural at the world's fair as small but excellent. Of the $250. 000 ap- propriated by Congress, only $30.00 or thereabouts was obtained for the agricul. tural show, and that came so late that it was impossible to begin work in collacting materials before Novem. ber. In spite of the narrow limits of time and money, the department succeeded in get- fing up a very creditable exhibit, which has attracted general attention, and will be rec ognized in a substantial way when the awards of prizes are published. It is under- swood, from private sources, that a larger average of gold, silver and bronze medals will be carried off by the United States than by any other sxhibitor in the agricultural section. A Crew Saved From Cannibalism The Tonga steamer Wainui, has br ught to 8an Francisco the Captain and crew of the British ship Garston, Captain Davies, from Sydney, N. 8. W,, for San Fx ancisco, which foundered in mid-ocean. The shipwrecked sailors wers twenty-two days in an open boat without food or water, On the twenty-second day the men, driven to desperation by hunger and thirst, decided that one of their number must be sacrified to save the lives of the others. They were casting lots to see who should be the victim when they sighted Wallis Island. The natives of the island assisted the exhaveed men to land, and treated them in the kindest manner. A mission boat took the rescued men to Tonga, Saved by a Tramp, An unknown tramp was walking on the railroad track from Council Bluffs to Mis souri Valley, and between Crescent Stony Creek he found a broken rail on a high embankment where tie rail makes a sharp curve It was an outside rail next to the river, and no train could have passed over in safety, The next train due was the limited passenger, and he resolved to avert a terrible wreck if possible, | Ho ran to Honey Creek, three miles distant, and tried to raise the operator, who was not at his post. He then aroused the metion hands, and they took the band car and went back to the broken rail, arriving there just in : time to flag the limited and stop it within a tow foot of almost cortain destrustion. Death of Bob Younger, In the Stillwater (Minn.) Penitentary Bob Younger, the youngest of the notorious Younger brothers, who wers sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in connection with the robkery of the Northfield Bank, diad n few days since of consumption, from which ho had been slowly wasting away for some ‘weeks, and on account of which his pardon was recently asked of the Governor bus nos granted, A Family Scourgely by Diphtheria, A family named Zemthall, consisting of Jatents aud ten children, left Boone, lows. a ew weeks ago for Milwaukee. They went in a wagon, being ten days on the road. Diphe theria broke out in the family on their ar- rival at Milwaukee, and six of the children died in six days, Laborers of Five Republion, A meeting of representatives from varions Industrial and trades unions in the five Cone al Amerie ny blics, wil be held soon in enragun, for purpose octing a janeral organization someth Jtrfoey She lights of Labor in the United States. Severe Famine in Montenegro, Advices from M are that 25000 families in that country are likely soon to be fering from famine. Prince Nicholas fn. tends 0 visit the districts, BURNT THE BANDITS, Gondarmes in Servis Oroemate a Wo man and Two Men, and | THE NATIONAL GAME, Brant straight victories is Columbus's best record for the season, SECRETARY OF AGriovrtune Rusk hat become an admirer of baseball, Antaun Inwix is playing a wonderfully brilliant game at Washington's short fleld. Tue Chicagos have no chance now for thi championship, but they play just like pen nant winners, and never relax a bit in their efforts, WinNNING the League and subsequently the world's championship means a division of seven or eight thousand dollars among the Now York players, Fogarty, of Philadelphia, is at the hea of the League base-runners, with Brown, ol Boston, second: Kelly, of Boston, third, ane Ward, of Now York, fourth, New Havex, Hartford, Waterbury, Provi dence, Fall River, Worvester, Lowell and Manchester, is the circuit outlined for ths proposed New England league of next SOASON. Unprines McQuane and Curry agroa that 19 double umpire sys i the only prope: one for the game, and that it would bo wi economy in 1 y ways for the League t« adopt it next sea Wien Kelly signed a three year contract wilh the Bostons one of the provisions in if was that he was to captain the team during that period. Kelly says he will remain Ca; tain until his contract expires, Ryan is Chicago's best base stealer. Brown { has upheld Boston's honor in that respect McAlser for the Clevelands, Glasscock for | Indianapolis, Ward for New York, Fogarty for Philadelphia, Hanlon for the Pittsburgs | and Hoy for the Washingtons, Dunixe t inning games, twelve-inning pames, 2 thirteen-inuing games, and 1 filtesn-inning game the one played at Chicago on Aug. 2. when Chicago finally won from Cleveland by a score of § to 7. Tux total number of tie games cont date is eight. The Bostons have tied twice New York and once with Ch Cago he Clevelands have tied ones each | with Indianap Pittsburg and Washing | ton. Chicago has tied ones with Pittsburg | and Philadelphia once with Washington h were have been 10 ten Eames, ¢ season tl 3 eleven-inning up to re with HER Tae numbar of “whitewashes” to date is irty-threo. Singnlarly enough, the Wash 1gton tail enders have a better record, in re 1to this point, than any other club in the League, « xcept the Chicagos, as these two lubs have been whitewashed only once sach Philadelphia has suffered most with eight whitewashes, Cloveland and Pittsburg have been whitewaibed six times each, Boston five times, and New York and Indianapolis thrice mach, A necext Toledo-Detroit game at the former city was marked by two unusual in cidents, Pitcher Cushman had a bone in his pitching arm broken by a liner in the first ining, and afterward Shafer got into an tercation with Umpire Brennan for calling and in his anger Shafer struck Brennan. No arrests were made, as Brennan manfully said he would not disgrace the Toledo grounds by having to call upon the police for protection. LEAGUE i ir nl him out, RECORD New York Boston . .a Philadelphia . Chicago Cleveland Indianapolis Pittsburg Washington AMERICAN ASSOC ¥ RECORD Prreenta SND Brooklyn St Athistle. ...concisives Baltimore. .... Cincinnati. .......... Columbus Kansas City Louisville PROMINENT PEOPLE. Loeb Texxysox walks three day Kixe Avroxso, of Spain five pounds Mes CLEvELAXD mother every Mary popularity CALA Mn work SUI (GORGE WwW. Wis the ‘colored race Worcester wr or writes day in the 5 ANDERSON af Pas EE Ang 4 a lott on in % Episox smokes a he the £1 oR m Marssar Fixio is rated the | man in Chicago, with a {os wit to $25. 000. 000 Ex-Sgxator Prarr, of | his offices by S00 oy ry leaves bhefors 5 : New York reaches morning and never Joaguixy MirLen contemplates pur & vacht and leaving Francisoo for cruise in the South Seas Mur. Canxor. wife of the Fret dent, is of medium height. with plexion and Roman features UBarLES F. Fannan Farrar, of England, has try to complete his education PRINCE Brsmanox now devotes time to playing solitaire. This was a ite card game of Napoleon 1 SENATOR MORRILL, of Vermont, issovents | nine years old, and has represented his State | at Washington thirty-five voars, Turovore Roosey ery. Ci missioner, | mortality, | covered to be as bad as Horace Greeley's EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is still un decided as to his European trip. Mrs. Cleve land is said to be anxious to gO ReTOss and | spend a few months in the south of France Manx Twary asks from £50 to a S100 for a story or sketoh and he gots what | asks. Frank |is8250. T.B verses Sir Wintiax MoGraeon, Governor of | New Zealand, has recently made the ascent : of Mount Victoria, 12.121 feet high, the high. | est pank of the Owen Stanley range, New | Zenland. ] HMsing San a son of ABN ne to this coun favor vil Service Com Is getting comfortably near im Irich charges $30 for a few | Miss HEwgx Gourp, daughter of Jay Gould, is said to have always bolleved she | bad a mission to teach, and even cow in. structs four music pupils, members of her church, at her home Winkie CoLring, the novelist, is short and | delicate looking, with very small hands and feet and a cheerful face. His luxuriant hair and beard are snowy white, and he habitually Wears spectacles. Hp is an inveterate smoker, AMONG the distinguished octogenarians who ganke a practios of garty rising may be named Cardinal Newman. Ho fs v feeble, but still receives visitors, and i treats with especial cordiality and Wittian E. Hexray, who has won recog. aition as poet, was a laborer of dissipated habits when un accident that crushed both of laid hi t a he hors h. the hiuence of Robart Lois tevenson Count vox Mourke has been Colonel be | ekton's price for 2000 words i ’ | 4 | erept from beneath the A great of | His handwriting bas been dis i | old, i Harms ato denly he fol | Almost before he touched the | axloep | did not even dream { living death, | they did no {man ia that | Harms woke every night of his own i per and went back to kt i emly when he is awakeued, ! Anos ASLEEP MANY YEARS, Prolonged St upor of a Minnesota Man--Strange Effects of Agnue, In the little village of Utioa, Minn, lves Herman Harms, who has been sleeping soundly most of the time for the last twelve years, Thousands of people have been to visit the man, Doctors have come long distances to seo him. What the secret of his long sleep is no one has been able to dis cover. The story is not a legend, neither is the sleeper a myth. He is sleoping still, The doctors say that he way live and sleep twenty | Years to come, Harms is a German about fifty-one years I'welve years ago he was seized with fever and ague. He had long spells of fe verod sleep for four years, Then the mysteriou, | spell seemed to leave him, and for three years he was almost a well man, May 12, "1884 his morning meal as usual, Sud. t stupor coming over him, put down the cup that ho held in his hand. rose and cast himself I®avily upon the bed bed ho was For three years he slumbered, He lived, but it was a Many remedies were triad, but good The strangest thin in this & about this mysterious period of three years accord his sup- Ones every day he emerged from oblivion and talked with his friends, entered for'a fow moments into the old Tamily life and then slipped away again At the end of three vears he again ross from about 12 o'clock, ross famished. ate | his bed, but his limbs had grown weak from long disuse, He was abie to totter about the house in a feeble way, in constant fear that sleep would again overtake him Fora few days bie walked out in the sunlight For a few months he Kept awake, Then he felt the stupor come upon him, His eyes grew heavy, his limbs Jeaden, and he sank down under the weight of sleep, This time he has been asleep for nearly two vy cars, but he does not awake in the way he formerly did. He cannot rise in bed and it is plain that he is gradually inking. Now he wake It bas been g 1% in a hypnotic gested that be t o his body sleeps his mind is Living that wh ile ———- THE COUNTRY’S SCHOOLS, ynopsis of the Commissioner of Edu. cation’s Annoal Repost, HN B : | 5 TE Dawson MOD Year m i rin States have ha wionited dev nea w 1 Ren mnent | ned an that in them wim for it Prhais HOY erent ner regrets hi ad whew pion ia THE WORK OF LIGHTNING. TwoGirls Killed A Tent Blown Down on a Crowd, While Sunday school services were being held in a small fame church five miles south of Columbia City, Ind. lightning struck the spire and coursed d through the roof, instantly killing two gris both aged seven. toon, who were sitting together in the or nter of their class. The other ten children in the class wore badly stunned. but pot seriously injured. Tho names of the girls were Mary Hockemeler and Agnes Freyer small hole in the roof and plaster the church was not injured wn He | {contain much valuable plant food, | this reason | for He | | The dan i Ing { food. tho ! PORSESSOH y tir Beyond a | At Hartford City, Ind, the Christian tent | In which Eider Aspy has been holding meet ings, was entirely demolished and a panic was caused in the audience. The large cen tre pole of the tent fell among the terrified | people, and the heavy canvas enveloped them. Above the roar of the elements could be heard shrieks from the women and chil. dren. Some of the men in the audience canvas and come Rienced the work of rescuing. None of the people was seriously hurt, BASTOW escapes from suffocstion, WiLtiax J. Fry, a wellknown young man in Allegheny, Penn... committed suicide recently by plunging a lead pencil repeat. edly into hie breast directly over 1'w hears THE MARKETS. 2 Baavos Miloh Cows, com. to good Calves, common to prime Nheep. ..... Iamin Hogs—Live .s Dressed ai City Mill Extra Patents, . . No. ! NEW YORE EL Flour Wheat Corn~ Ungraded Mixed. ... Oats-No, | White Mixed Western Hay--No. 1........ Straw-—Long Rye... Lard-City Steam. ......... Butter Elgin Creamery. . Dairy, fair to good, West, Im. Creamery Factory . ... Chosse~State Pactory...... Bkime--Light...... Egge~State and Penn........ Htoors— Western . H Motiam to Good, |. Lam Fair to Good, |... - i ah 18] | 3RzER Sa3333338s a at SESERITEE 8... ak ROKTON, Rlour—Spring Whaat Pats. 5 Oats No, 2 Wilts. ......... Ryes-State ww gas Iw 28: = 898% ER eT WATERTOWN (MANS) CATTLE hoop. Live Shaep. REE ER) CREE AAR EEE EE EEE) 5 : CER a&3as 223° though many had | : | | ence to turning them never seen calves which are put out to consideration, the THE FARM AND GARDEN, EWERT CORN FODDER, Where sweet corn is used in the fam- ily or sold in the market, the stalks on which it is grown should be promptly cut and fed tothe cows: they are better fodder than they will ever be again, and all the better if a fow impet feet nubbing remain on the stalks. Some farmers foolishly save these for seed, leaving the stalks to dry up as they grew, and the nubbins after all yielding little corn, and that poor, Only the largest and earliest ears should he saved for seed if the of the variety is American Cullis or, value to be maintained. CONCEuUN1 Weeds nr Xa WEEDS, For they are not worth so much Rreen manuring a8 ar h ns the grains ge they do i mo 1 { re from and ciovey in abstract than plant | nie 1s plants, EXT nore the soil wh what fertility they the r the surface, and refore grester value common weed has very 8 manure gr weed grow il HINs more food tha they will soon learn Milk does not They Af fow 1B he take the place of wate should I i fresh w ground Tr is aie aay oats daily will give the start the first season The Rreatly Year Calve future of anv ae nds start gets the first upon the # need salt The best way to salt them is to piace a Inmp of mineral salt within their reach then they will lap A lent thing to piace within it as they need box of fresh loam is an excel their reach alto Calves fed upon milk crave something of this sort. If the floor is bedded with dry sand, it will guard against lice, which are a deadly foe to calves of older cattle The main point which I wish to call attention to is the benefit to be derived from keeping calves in the barnyard the first year in prefer to grass I have # as forward and strong in the fall as those which are kept in and treated as above indicated, HARMPUL WHITEWASH, I have long distrusted the broad claims made for the much-recommended whitewashing of poultry-houses for pre. vention or extermination of the vermin which it ts claimed, says O, 8. Bliss in the New York Tribune, habitually infost | them and their occupants. I have had no personal experience with it, because | never fail to accomplish the purpose by easier, cheaper and more permanently ef. fective means than the advocates of whitewashing have ever ventured to claim for it. I have, however, taken pains to lock the matter up, without prejudice, and am now persuaded that so far from accomplishing any real good of itself, the whitewash is actually harmful, It may be admitted that some immediate benefit appears to be gained, as would be He ease with any other Sabaianes » oroughly applied to every crack a psn but in true, nevertheless, that the whitewash is a protector usually plants that do not | i cultivated | tive agent in it being eflectunlly locked up. But the habitable retreat of the in sects have been increased in number 3 hundred or a thousand fold, Cracks and other places without number which be fore were uninhabitable by them have had the dust wiped out, or wet down and a protecting sesle of whitewash hung up before them, thus creating many # new nidus where none existed before. If a house is really infested and it be comes desirable to elesn i out to get rid of the vermin, it is casier. « heaper and far more effective to apply strong soap soaps with or without the addition of kerosene, of turpentine, or any other of the ugents employed to render it more effective, wash? not only kills the vermin, but det the seer tions which protect them leaves free open ble te except it be fine spirit Buch a ETM ET fi which is greatly prefers ith in Bpice, one partly filled w anything, w hich erncks he in d ri dry dust If ti in 8 poultry sects cannot live Fl sn other open spaces {se to be filled at all it should by tar containing sufficient amount of plaster of Paris, raw or calcined, or other simils thie ihstance. to RK I repeat what | } fv Seo occasion for nn the in every supply of das Case, GONE es In young bh shod too neral thang Gariven hard and to Keep ti Kept the ¥ that they can Iw cause th how shod My advice is ‘ vot hey are young, egs sour fs and d they must Ix arive I horse too much at mre Take horses | 3 u and leave the rs the sor | ) till they have the This will {1a LIAS reached bye nually ff 4 '} r i ] the means of Wing many a an When the weather is dry a good ’ lead the horse of water for an hour or so thing is to in a pool once ne while 20 as to give the hoof ing. FARM AND GARDEN XoTRs, Dispose of all surplus cockerels while they will pass as spring chickens If we take the weight of the eps in duck lays more than the hen Did you notice that big thistle when you were out in the garden yesterday : Go and ged it and burn it before the seeds fly all over the garden, All forage and grain crops may be pre- | served in the silo. The silo adds very materially to the palateableness, digesti- bility and nutritiousness of many articles | of food and detracts from none. Camphorated oil is one of the best) | things for roup or swelled head ; you can [get it at any druggist's and apply it with | | the finger to the inflamed parts. Vinegas | reduced one-half with warm water is also good. It is not the number of acres that a | man skims over that makes him either » lurge or a successful farmer. It is what | he makes net, above cost of production, for his own toil and interest on the capi. tal invested. Don’t throw away the chicken drop. i Thr i Once in a full year ered often mr | | i ( losely that without 8s bran and salt land most delightful HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, R—— HOW TO SWEEP. Some persons advise scattering small | bits of wet paper over the carpet, to take up the dust when sweeping. This may | answer well where a broom is used, but if | You use a earpet sweeper, you will find that the paper does not always come off carpet veadily, It hugs down Bo the sweeper slides over it being able to take hold of it. We have found nothing so satisfactory but wet, The bran takes up the dust, and the salt scems to freshen up the « in the carpet. The sweeper will up every particle of \y trouble American the well -moistened nos HOTS take (ist without {ri wilvuriel MOTHS han 150 years that elothing IN the wool and ha bys that tacked mais, the distasteful inferred if the wool or of oly to them, rubLHeg vi IS TRIS nf ment been never ating with tobace add another of dish of this Truss it up and » aut iV In a dripping-pan on lioed pour aill of hot water, twenty poun with new, small esrrots, oni potatoes; strain and thicken ul due 1S vegetables, and d. Garnish and new the ver a make minutes to the — gravy, pour it over all and serve Rolled Beefstake-— Make a cup of fine bread erumbs, an ounce o minced salt pork, sage, salt and pepper, and mix well with a tablespoonful of melted butter. Lay two pounds of round steak on a board, trim off the fat, and with a chopping-knife gash the upper surface, but do not cut through. Spread the dressing on this side, roll up like Jelly cake and fasten with skewers. Lay over a few thin slices of salt pork and lay in a saucepan a little copped onion and carrot, cover with a pint of water to which has been added salt and a little vinegar Sitamer until very tender, probably three hours. Lay in a baking- pan, dredge with flower, and brown quickly. Strain and thicken the gravy and pour over the meat, Sweetbreads—Farmers frequently kill their own calves and sell them to a country butcher, who does pot know the value of sweetbreads, for which a city customer must pay from forty to seventy- five cents a pair. They are easily conked, when prepared properly. Bosak them in a bowl of cold water for ap hour; pull off the skin and fat; parboil for twenty minutes in water a dre sing of f ! | with a little salt; throw in cold water for five minutes and then press between two plates with a weight on top until fectly cold. Dip in beaten egg and Rt Sri, Aud fr in bt drippings. They are especially with green peas bi in a circle around them. — Ameri i= §i3irE i i F 1H is
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