V r The schools in Winnebago county. I TaM .m u. ... 1 ul ........ 11.:. au ni mil wo nniuicu wiiu uuru iuib Mmoo, At ten cents a bunhel it is much cheapor than coal. It is claimed that during tbe Inst twenty-five yenre but one person (ur every 8,600,000 oarried by the rail roads of Denmark has boon killed. While tbe death rate of the Austrian cities averages over twenty-five per thousand, the rate of thirty-three great towns in England and Wales is only 15.8. - - . , . . . j Prairie schooners bound east are the speetaoles to which Nebrasksns around Arapahoe are treated now. The people are being foroed away from the south-western country by drought. The Qneen of Italy has taken to the bicycle. This is all the more note worthy, as only a few years ago a lady of the bouse of Savoy was virtnally banished by King Humbert from the court because she was devoted to the too demooratic wheel. There are ten or twelve thousand grocers in New York City and Brook lyn, largely Germans, a hnrd-working economical sot of pooplo, who do not mind toiling sixteen or eighteen hours day if neod bo, living on what they can't sell and sleeping nnder tho conntor, if necosssry, and those will ing to fight in that way for existence are bonnd to survive, even to make money, and that in dull times. Oar tars have many advantages over the sailors of other navies, notes tho New York Sun. One of these is peculiar one. It is the freedom that our Jackies have in the matter of how they wear their hair. Your French or Russian or English man-o'-war's man mast go clean shaven or wear a full beard. He is not allowed to indulge in a mustache alone. This may seem small matter, bat it results in giv ing a different nppearanoe to the crews, taken in bulk or separately. The rnle abroad applies to officers and men alike. Perhaps our method is the better one. Our defenders ought not to be subjeot to regulations such as are applied to a butler or a foot man. One of tbe most g re who mo additions to tho military equipment of the Ger man empire is the crematory. Here ifter every Qermnn regiment in time of war will be acoompanied by one of these grim reminders of a huge kind of baking oven mounted on four wheels. It is said that the soldiers resent tbe innovation on tbe ground that the machine is a too vivid re minder of the horrors of war. Tbe inventor claims that the mucbine will dispose of the killed in a few hours, but it is not improbable that some of the wounded might be oremuted by mistake. The invention does not find favor elsewhere, and it is to be hoped that suoh a grewsome objdot will not beoome general Tbe readiness with whioh tales of incorrigible liars are accepted is a re minder of bow history is too often made, but reports of eoientifio obser vations are more severely scrutinized. Unfortunately, however, even scienti fic men, aooustomod as they are to weigh evidence and reject improba bilities, are sometimes deceived Not long ago an sooouut was given of some great potatoes, weighing something like 100 pounds enoh, and as the de icription waa illustrated with a out of a man staggering nnder a monster tuber monuted npon bis shoulder, it was acknowledged that a new marvef of plant or aoil had been found, until after a time it leaked ont that the pioture was tnok of an amateur photographer, who bad invented tbe story to lit his clever combination of two photographio exposures. The trite announcement of the full of a me teorite ooveriug two acres was a more elnmsy invention, calculated to deoeive only the very credulous. Oue of the most successful soieutitio canards seems to have been the report of some Swiss experiments, in which rifle bullots and artillery projectiles were alleged to have been deflected to distance of many yards by electrically charged wires parallel .to the firing range, this report having been generally pub Ushed and oommeuted npon by soien- tino journals throughout the world. In exposing this reprehensible joke, tLO, , Ouillaume shows that it really had a basis iu soiuntiflo faot Another recent statement is that s body estimated to be forty-Ave miles in diameter and only 1,000 miles away bad bseu seen to cross the sun's disc, the, ridiculousness of this being ap parent when it is considered that suoh body would have an apparent diuue iar of five times that of the sun. Uotdonrod, Hark and mist of the morning, Glare and clamor of day, Dream and languor of oventld When the shadows, Idly play i Flower of the fnlth that cllngeth, Olft of the loving God, Giving glory to everything, The beautiful goldenrod t The prodigal of nature, The spendthrift of the spring, Bold giver In the snmmsrtlmis To which the glamours cling, Covering the earth with beauty, Hiding the ragged sod, And never loth to plight its troth, The beautiful goldenrod I As with tired feet we wnndor Along the weary path, With the ghosts of broken forests Bswslllng the storm king's wrath, A gleam lights up the shadows, And, springing from tho sod, It heals the earth with blessiugs sweet The beautiful goldenrod I It hunts out humble plaeoa Where roses never bloom, And where the rarer proteges Of the spring ne'er seek for room, And then", in loving kindness, Where unseen feet have trod, It weaves Its yel'.)W mantle bright, The beautiful goldenrod I And here Is taught a lesson That all should try to heed, That not alone In palace hall Is written the kindly deed I That from tho humble hovel (to sweetor prayers to God, As In the lowly plaees blooms Tho beautiful goldenrod I Hamilton Jay. REVERSED THE FLAG. I was standing on the wharf, watching the sailors unload a cargo of fish from a schooner which had just returned from the banks. The boat had fared well, reporting (19,000 pounds of hali but, and it was a sight well worth see ing to note the great iisb, some of them weighing several hundred pounds, being brought to the wharf. The schooner had had a quick run and the crew were chocrful as became men who had turned over a few dollars so speedily. 13esides,the market price was good, there having been a dearth of flub recently. Great Boston was eager for that cargo of fish and was willing to pay the advance in price whioh naturally followed the condi tions of the hour. It was a pictur esque sight, this unloading of a fish sohooner. The old wharf, lying pro tected in the harbor; seaward the open ocean ; down the harbor a small forest of spars, belonging not to ma- joutio merchantmen, but to the sprightly, agi,lo, attractive schooners whioh shoot in and out of the harbor at all times and in all kinds of weather. It is a apeotaole that a yachtsman would enjoy the coming and going of these boats. In such a masterful manner are thoy handled that they glide in and ont among tho other ves sels, always without mishap, some times performing evolutions which seem almost impossible to tho lands man. The crew wore bronzed, with fuocs like leather. A group of women had drawn near to greet thorn home, and brief as had been tho trip, the wel come back was none the loss fervent. Most of them, however, had no one in port to greet them. They wero mere outcasts of tbe ooean ; tramps of the sea; working for a while uud then spending all their wages in riotous living. Among the women on the wharf that day was one who asked for a "chiokeu halibut." "Here's one, Liz," called ont a sailor, tossing to hor a fish which looked miniuture, indeed, Oumpared to tbe other monsters of the deep. "Is it fresh?" she asked, handling the "ohioken" suspiciously. "Cut it and see," was the response. At that she took ont a knife and hacked a bit out of the lull. "Yes; it bleeds all . right," she an nounced. This is a test that never fails. Near me on an old mackerel box was an old salt who bad retired from active service, but who always liked to see the boy come in. He sat around and sat aronnd. That was his occupation sitting. He would sit all morning aud all afternoon on a box or keg and never tire. He was a mar vel at sitting and spiuniug yarns. Tbe old fellow never forgot, though, and told yon the same story twice. Here's one be told about figure well known in Gloucester -with moBt of the dia lect eliminated; "Never heard what be done when he was driving toward the shore iu a big nor'-essterf Why, it wus the noblest thing a sailor ever done. They seen him from tbe shore, and they made up their minds the schooner would leave her ribs on the rooks. But the lifeboat boys were going to put out, just the same, I wus stund lug there and beerd them tulk. 'It's mighty rough, boys. The chances are ugiu it, but it must be doue.' Tbuia seas were just rollin' iu, you see. 'We've got onr duty to be done; there's a flag of distress. Com on, boys! "They seen the boys gottln ready to come out on tho schooner and whnt do yon 'npose they done? They wouldn't let thosj toys run any such risks. Down comes the flag of dis tress, to the bewilderment of the men on shore. Up it goes, reversed, tell ing: 'We don't need help; we can help ourselves,' It dazed the boys on shore. Not need help with the seas threatening every moment to over whelm theraf Had they gone crazy; wero they daft; did they want to diet Yet there was the flag they had re versed. Out of the fury of the sea they had spoken. Out of the wildness of the tempest camo back a response like one from heaven to the trembling women ou the shore who had implored their busbsnds not to go out in the lifebost in that sen. Tbey didn't want help I "The moments seemed like hours. Tlion wo seen a boat lowered from the schooner, a mere cockle-shell, and we understood. The men on shore were not to be saorillced. It was the no blest thing to see those men tumble in their little boat and pull gnllantly toward tho land. Upou the land was the wife of tho captain. When the flag was reversed she uttered a wail of auguisb. 'He will not take help; he will not, will not,'- she moaned. Had not the boat been lowered from the schooner the men would have gone out at uny hazard. How they watched tbe cockle-shell I A hundred times it arose. Heaven seemod to watch over it, because of the gullaut deed of the onptain. It seemod preserved by some special act of providence in recogni tion of the bravery of the crew in ac quiescing in such a course. On it came; up aud down ; nearer and nearer. The crowd raised their voicos.now inspired by hopc,cncouraging the in to new ef forts. They hold their breath as a tre mendous wave boro them along on its horrible hissing crest with the speed of an express train and then loft them in a hollow to be borne down by tbe breakiug of the wave. But they arose, and the next moment men rushed into the surf and drew them safely to land, sound to a man, while tho schooner, like a poor, helpless bird, beat herself to doath upon tho distant rocks. Then the woman.evory one of them, rushed to the captain, kissed him aud blessod him with united voices. It was a sight never to be forgotten never to fade in impress ivenoss. The sea has its heroes as wellns the laud. But this doed should long be remembered by the life-boat men. That captain deserved a medal, for in the face of doath, with possible help near at hand, he thought of others who might bo made widows and orphsns, and reversed the flag. God bless him 1" Detroit Free Press. Arilllclul Diamonds. It is the impression that tho dia mond of all preoioits atonos defies successful imitation, yot Franois dp rin of Havre, Fniuoe, at present a guest of the Su James, assures us M. Moriseau, a coiintrymun of his, has discovered a method of transforming carbon iuto the queou of gems, says the Washington Times. Tliere are, however, two reasons whioh will pre vent the artilloial stone from entering iuto oomputitiou with the mind ar ticle. In tho first place, they are ao exceedingly minute that they have no commercial value, and aeoondly, the process is so expensive that it oosts more to manufacture diamonds than to import them from tbe mines. The essence of the discovery is the idea of obtaining tho requisite pressure by utilizing tho quality possessed by some of increasing iu volume as tbey change from a liquid to a solid state. The chemist pluoed a quantity of silver and churooal of sugar in an eleotrio furnace aud fused tbe metal to the boiling point By this method the silver was roudo to absorb a small quantity of carbon. The whole mix ture was theu thrown into cold water. forming a shell of solid silver. -After a few moments this wsa withdrawn from tho water aud allowed to cool slowly. As it did so the kernel of sil ver oontained in the outer shell ex panded, preoipitating tbe form of mi- orosoopio diamonds. There can be no doubt as to the validity of this die- oovery, a tbe Freooh Aoadeiny of Science has examined the diamonds produoed by this process, aud has pronounoed them the same in every respect as the uutural ones. Having Fuu With Him. And . tho dude thought he would have fun with the old dootor to whoip he suid "What had I best do, duo tor? When I even tuke light exercise I breathe iu short, quick puuts." "Gut a pair of trousurs stretch- era," Relay liOrtgliiif Homes. , Near the big sugar reflnerios "fi! Williamsburg the landlords of the numerous lodging houses are at their wits' ends Just at present over the solving of the problem as to what to do with all their guests. The cuuso of this perplexity of tbe landlords and landladies is caused by the fall increase in the number of workmen employed in the refineries, whioh this year is unusually large. Tbe married workmen have their own homes, bnt the single men rent "relay furnished room" as the say ing goes. Kent avenue, in tbe neighborhood of Grand and Sonth Fifth streots, has a number of these relay lodging houses, which simply swarm with masculine humanity all day and all night. For instance, in one good-sized room there are four beds, and these four beds fur nish rest for twenty-four muscular Poles, Germans and Scandinavians. Of course they do not all sleep at tbe sstne time, but, as tbe sugar re fineries rnn all night, the workmen hire the use of a bed for eight honra out of the twenty-four. Each man arranges for bis chance to sleep ac cording to the hours he worked, but no matter whether he sleeps during the day or night, he is only ontitled to eight hours, and it is only on rare occasions that one of those rolay lodg ers fails to sleep until he is routed out of bed by the man entitled to tske his place bach of tuo relay sleepers pays sev enty-live cents a week for his fifty-six hours of sleep. They are all healthy and usually clean, and as their work is hard, they find little difficulty in living a strictly regular life. They eat their meals in boarding houses in the neighborhood, and if there is any time for recreation they stand about the street or saloons and discuss sub jects of general interest. No matter how tired and sloepy they happen to be, however, they are unable to retire nntil the exact minute scheduled for their beds to be vacant There are in all about 1,000 sugar bouse relay sleepers, and, fortunately, most of them are good natured. New York Journal. To Can Tiirtlen. A number of local capitalists at Cortland, N. Y., have organized a scheme for canning turtlos in tbe West Indies for sale iu Now York and Europe, whore groou turtle soup and turtle steak aro now among the choicest and most expensive delica cies. Turtle eggs are also to be laid on our tables nt little more than cost Robert P. Porter, late superintendent of the census, is said to be interested in the enterprise. The plan which tho Cortland capi talists regard as most feusible is to either charter or purchase a sailing vessel, and equip her with lumber aud other necessary articles to construct oanuing fuctory, iuoluding a few huge kettles in whifb the turtles will be boiled, together with provisions for the supply of the men who will be employed to put up the building and maintain those that will do the work of boiling and cauuing. The natives will be utilized to catoh tbe turtles. As aoon as a cargo of turtlos is canued the vessel will return to Now Orleans or to New York and the goods will be consigned to agouts who will placo them on the market The United States will bo supplied first, and thon ahipmeuts will be made to England and Franoe. It is thought there will be a great demaud for canned turtle in the oouutry towns, as it is a toothsome dish when made into soup or turtle steaks, New York Journal. A Rubber Horseshoe, If tbe latest phase of modern in genuity proves a success, say the New York Tribuue, there will be no more heavy trampling aud the rhyth mic olioking of tbe hoofs of four- footed steeds. There has been in vented a new horseshoe a steel frame about which is built a cushion of vul canized ' rubber. The advantage oUimed for it is that as the rubber in stead of metal strikes tbe ground there is no concussion or jur,and tbe horso'a hoof, leg and shoulder are saved. Thirty-three per oent of tbe dis eases of horses, it has been said, are maladies of the foot and there is but little question but that even the best shoeing, as it is doue now by burning tbe hoof, is in a measure injurious. This new horseshoe is to be put on cold, and the hoof simply pared or out to fit. It is nailed on in the or diuary way, Ao additional advantage of tbe rubber sole is that it will take the' horse a firmer hold upon wet or treacherous pavemouts, and by scour ing bint a good purchase, enable him to go up or come down steep hills with a heavy load fur more easily than at present LOST WARSHIPS. United States Vessels That Van- ' ished Myster'UBly, Swallowed Up by the Sea With out Leaving a Trace. The Uuitod States Navy Department bns many interesting records of its ships that have met with sad endings, but none more ao than the brief ac counts of six different ones summed np tersoly in these words: "Never heard from." This laconic expression is familiar to all sea followers, and it contains a world of meaning if rightly understood. There have been ships that have gone down in battle with the flags flying defiantly at the mast head, and others that have battled bravely against the adverse elements nntil, water-logged, tbey have sunk within sight of land ; but to be lost at sea, with no official mention of the disaster becuuse of lack of all detail, is to meet a fate hardly deserved. - Early in the history of our navy such a mystery dosed about one of tbe first vessels flying tbe new Stars and Stripes. The ill-fated Saratoga, an eighteen-guu ship, after perform ing a brilliant service on the high seas sailed forth upon the great ooean and disappeared forever from all human knowledge. What we know of her is briefly summed tip in a few sen tences. After capturing three Eng lish prizes she wss intoroepted on her way to Philadelphia with them by the British soventy-tonr-guu ship of the line Intrepid, and af tor a long fight she escaped from her heavier adversary. No further word from the Saratoga was ever received, aud no signs of her wreckage were ever discovered. She probably foundered at sea in a gale, but she Dover left any one behind to toll the tale. This was in 1780, and the noxt loss of a similar charnotor occurred twenty years later. Tho thirty-six-gun frigate Insurgent, commanded by Captain Patrick Flotolier,was originally undor the Fronch flag, but after she was cap turod by the Constellation off the Island of Nevis, she sailed under the American flag until the end of her short career. She bad sealed orders to sail from the Chesapeake capes out to sea, but after she started on her easterly courso she went forth to her mysterious doom. No word from any ship brought tidiugs of the Insurgont She disappeared as completely from the world as if awnllowod up by a whale. No one on board of her was ever saved to give official confirmation of the story of her loss. About a month after this sad occur rence the fourteen-gun brig Pickeriug met with a similar futo. She was cruising off Guuduloupo, with Master Commandant Benjimin Ilillor in charge, when a severe storm arose and swopt tho seas. It is generally sup posed that the vossol succumbed to the hoavy waves, for she was an nnsea worthy' tub, and foundered with all on board. Pieoos of wreckage were picked up along thu coast, but as so many vessels were lost during this gale there was no certainty of identi fying them. It is thought also that the same storm might have caused tbe loss of the Insurgont, although as to this no trustworthy acoount can be found. The next vessel in our navy to dis appear in this mysterious fashion was known as guuboat No. 7, commanded by Lieutenant Ogelvie. She sailed from New York May 14, 1803, to in crease our naval foroo then engaged in the war with Tripoli. She returned to this port after being out for a few days, and then she sailed on June 20 me seoona time. nut she never reached her destination, and no word was ever received from any of the offi cers or crow. The loss of the Wasp followed this disaster. The mystery about this handsome naval fighter is generally familiar to all readers of Amoricau history. Her exploits on the water after her first launching before tbe time of bar atrange disappearance were so brilliant that every sohoolboy knows abont them. Within period of five months tbe Wasp took fifteen Euglish merchant men, valued at noarly a quarter of a million of dollars, aud fonght sev eral stubborn battles with naval ves sels of her own size and strength. On October 1, 1814, the Wasp bailed the Swedish bark Adonis and took on board two of tbe surviving offioors of tho old Essex after her destruction in Valparaiso Harbor, and then passed on into tbe durk mystery whioh has never been solved. That waa the last intelligence evor brought to auy port by any ship oonoeruiug the veteran fighter and viotor. Hor fate will ever remain au unexplained puizle. The last vessel of the series to be lo.it at sea without leaving any alga behind to explain matters was the brig Epervier, commanded by Lieutenant John Shnbrlck. When tbe terms of the treaty between the United States and Algiers were dictated to tbe Doy at the point of the cannon by Deoatur in 1815 a copy of tbe paper was sent home by tbe Epervier. The brig passed the strait of Gibraltar on July 12, 1815, and from that time all trace of her was lost She sailed out npon the ocean and was swallowed np by the sea that has wrecked the hope and ambitions of so many. New York AdvArtiser. Uses for Old Shoes. Old shoes are not waste from the standpoint of modern industry. After they have done their servioe and are discarded by tbe first wearers, second-hand dealer restores the worn shoes to something like their former appearance and they are sold again, to . be worn a little longer by poorer peo ple. When the shoes are finally dis carded by them they are still good for various purposes. In Franoe suoh shoes aro bought np in quantities by rag dealers and sold to factories where shoes are taken apart and submitted to long manipulation, whioh turn them into paste, from whioh the material is transformed into nn imitatiou of leather, appeariug very muoh like the finest morocoo. Upon this material stylish designs are stamped, and wall papers, trunk covers, and similar articles are manu factured from it. Anothor French in dustry is using old dilapidated shoes in tho trausfotming of old into new foot wear. This is the prinoipal oc cupation of the military oonviots im prisoned in the fortress of Montpelier. Tbero the shoes are taken apart, all the nails are taken out, and then tbe leather is soaked in water some time to soften it From those pieces that can bo used are cut the uppers for' children's shoes and part of the soles are similarly nsed. The smallest pieces of leather are applied in high Louis IV, heels, which were in style a few years ago. Jivon the nans ol tue om shoes are used again. They are sepa rated by a magnot which attracts the steel nails, while the coppor and brass nails are carried on furthor. -' The price received for the old cop per nails alone almost pays for the first cost of the old shoes. Clippings aud cuttings of the leather are ulso ' nsed, being turned iuto paste, from which artificial leather "is made, and what is not good enough to serve for this purpose is sold with tbe sweep ings to agriculturists in the neighbor hood, who use this paste with great success as a fertilizer. St. Louis Globe. Well to Remember. What is good for oue is not always good for another. This is illustrated in a short tale told some time ago about a Frenoh medioal student Whilo iu London on a visit the student lodged in tho house with a man vory aick with a fever, who was continually besieged by his nurse to drink very nauseating liquids which were luke warm. The sick man found this al most impossible to do, nntil one day be whispered to bis nurse: "Bring mo a salt herring and I will drink as much as you please." The woman indulged him in his re-' quest he ate the herring, drank tho liquids, uudorwent tbe required per- auiration and reoovered. The Freuch student, thinking this very clever, inserted in bis journal, "Salt herring cures an Englishman of fever." On his return to Frsnce he pre scribed tbe auine remedy to his first patient with a fever. Tbe patient died. On which he inscribed in bis journal: "N. B. A salt herring cures an Englishman, but kills a Frenchman." Harper's Ronnd Table. Contaminated Oysters. Some months sluce a barrel of oys ters was seut from a Freuch seaport to an inland town. A large number of persons partook of them cooked in various wsys, and nearly a score of individuals ate of them raw. Of the latter, all were seriously ill. Abont half of them reoovered in leaa than two weeks, half a dozen were ill for three or four weeks with extreme prostration and iutestiual paius of great severity ; and two patients de veloped dearly detlued oases of ty phoid fever, oue of them terminating fatally. It has been suggested that oysters taken from beds where there is a possibility of coutumiuution bo kept for a week at least immersed la sea-wuter that they may have oppor tunity to free themselves from what ever impurities tbey may have taken from the water ia which thoy buvr lived. The Ledger.
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