The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-09

seasons, and unless our weather pToph-
cts have got the times sadly out of
joint, there is no reason to apprehend
any thing different this year. But
while We have faith in the perfection
of the crop yet, it is we'll to under
stand how best to take care of it in
case of accidents. Farmers Union.
THE Mosr POWERFUL WAR VESSEL
IN THE WoRLD.-The British IRON
clad lnaexible is now about one fourth
completed, work having been begun
upon !,er in February. 1874. Unless
the progress of invention results in the
projecting of u still uorc formidable
engine Of marine warfare before the
Inhcxih.e is launched, she will possess
the thickest armo:, the heaviest guns,
the largest displacement in tuns, the
most machinery in the world, and
probably prove more expensive than
any ojher war vessel hitherto construct
cd. She will nave engines for steer
iny, for loading sans, ,!cr hosting shot
and shell, for ventilation, for movlng
turrets, for lowering boats, and for
turning the capstan as we'll as for prop
uls;cn. The vessel is little more than
q floating cas:Ie, rectangular above
water, 100 feet long, by IS feet i'll
width, ard protected by 24 inches to-
tai thickness OF IRON. The Two turrets
wh;ci, are placed within the c:tade!
are formed OF iron Of u s,ry|e thickness
of IS inches, and within each OF them
are 'wo 80 tun guns, which can be
rained to any puint Of the compass
The main engines work up t, 5000
Indicated horse power, and the buu|;.rs
carry 200 tups Of coal TIE total
cost OF the vesse! is placed al s. $685.
OOD.-!S>icntifc An,eriraa.
A CURIOUS Il BIOGRAPHICAL PROB
LE:,--A curious geographical problem
is suggested by the appearance at the
mouth CT the Seine, ncaS i1avre, in
the course CT the present month. OF one
of the hermetically y-sealed bottles in
wooden cases which were thrown over
board during Prince Napoleon's North
Polar Expedition in 1869. Wooden
covered bottles Of this kind were
thrown into the sea daily in the mont!,
Of June of that year from *hc Princes
ship. in the expectation that the course
taken by them would lead to the elu.
cidation Of the direc' ion of The greater
oceanic curren $, but. during The four
teen and a half years that have inter
vened since then. none of these bottles
have been see till the present one was
washed ashore. Its appearance at the
mouth of the Seine seems to indicate
that polar current must be borne
into the German Ocean, and must be
carried thence through the Channel to
the western coasts OF France.-Eclectic.
A Chinese girl about eight years old
and born in California, has been ad-
mi,tcd to one Of the primary schools of
the cite of Sacramento. Application
for her admission was made in the usual
way to the Superintendent of Public
Schools, but he referred the matter to
the Board of Education. This is the
first time that a Chinese parent has
made application for the admission of
child to The public schools.
The leading New York papers are
consi erably alarmed at the prospect
of the consolidation Of the Western
Union and the Atlantic and Pacific
lines of telegraph. When this event
takes place. it it does, it is understood
that the management of both tolls and
news will practically be IN the hands of
Mr.. Jay Could, which will be an un-
mixed evil, from whatever standpoint
it may be viewcd.-lNtnn., Mail.
MATcHrs.-It is learned from the
statistics Of FIRE insurance that large
proportion of the fires that occur eth
er in city er country are caused by a
combination of matches aud careless
ness. Too little caution is exerc ciscd in
handling, using and keeping these use
full articles Of domestic economy. They
are either :. LETT in the boxes in which
they are packed or permitted to lie
around loose. Many kinds my be set
off by being trodden on. The phos-
| phorus tempts the rats, that are fond
Of that article, to carry them to their
nests and nibblo them among the dry
tow and straw, thus creating what is
miscalled spontaneous combustion.
Besides, it is too much to expect of an
average child to resist the temptation
to :'scratch 'em off, whenever opportu
nifty offers. - s,....'5 - ~
Although Imprisonment for debt
has been abolished in Great Britain,
twenty thousand persons nearly were
arrested for debt in 1873, one. fourth
Of whom went to prison rather than
pay. They were committed, however,
not for inability, but for unwillinsness
to meet their obligations. -@ H*'@
Grasshoppers are stripping blades o.
corn in Louderale, Calbert, and Alcorr
Counties, Ala, and have already dev
sstated many fields. The farmers are
spreading straw over the wheat stubble