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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-25
Time Lost.

MOST of us fritter away great deal
of time. We are wasteful of the minuets-
when we are wasteful of nothing else.
Nothing is easier than to fritter away
time in matters of no use to ourselves
or any one else. The habit is readily
formed. It grows upon us unwares:.
Keep a strick account of every hour OF
your time for a single week. setting
down the exact manner in which every
hour is spent, and whether, when you
come to review the record, you do not
find it full of admonition and instruction.
In this simple way one can readily un-
derstand the secret of his want of time.
He will discover that he has given hours
to idle talk, to Incidence and to incon-
siderable trifles, which have yielded
him neither profit nor pleasure. What
is the remedy? Arrange your work in
the order of its comparative Importance.
Attend first to the things which are
essential to be done. and let the un-
take their chance afterward.
The difference in the amount of work
will be astonishing.
Duty before pleasure, Those who
practice this precept have plenty of
time for pleasure, and enjoy far greater
than those who reverse
this rule. For there is great satisfaction
to be obtained in the simple performance
of ones duty.-Baptist Weekly.
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Facts About Forests.

AN important paper in "Polybibion''
on this subject gives the results of OBJ
servations made during the last six
years under trees and not far from the
edge of forest, and also in the plain
and far from all trees. First, forests
increase the quantity of meteoric wa
tiers which fall on the ground, and thus
favor the growth of springs and of un-
derground waters. Second, in a for
est region the ground receives as much
and more water under cover of the
trees than the uncovered ground of re-
gions with little or no wood. Third,
the cover of the trees of forest dimin-
ishes to large degree the evaporation
of the water received by the ground,
and thus contributes to the mainte-
nance of the moisture of the latter, and
to the regularity of the flow of the
water sources. Fourth, the tempera-
ture in forest is much less unequal
than in the open, although, on the
whole, it may be little lower; but the
minima are there constantly higher and
the maxima lower than in regions not
covered with wood. These observa-
tons have been made in the neighbor-
hood of Nancy, and by the pupils of
the School of Forestry Of that city, un-
der the direction of M. Matthew, SUBJ
director of the school. On the other
hand, M. Fautrat, when Sub Inspector
of Forests at Senlis, made during four
years, but on a different method, OBJ
servations on forestial meteorology
which fully and completely corroborate
in certain respects those of M. Ma
thieu. The laws which seem to follow
from the figures given by M. Fautrat,
as well as an inspection of the curves
which graphically represent them, are
as follows: First, it rains more album
dainty, under identical circumstances.
over forests than over non-wooded
ground. and most abundantly over for
ests with trees in q green condition.
Second. the degree of saturation of the
air by moisture is greater above forests
than over non-w0oded grounds, and
much greater over masses of pinus syl-
vestri than over masses of leaved spe-
cies. Third, the LEAKAGE and branches
of leafed trees intercept one-third, and
those of the resinous trees the half of
the rain water, which afterward re-
turns to the atmosphere by evapora-
ton. On the other hand, these same
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Formation OF q National Agricultural
Society.

NEW YORK, December II.
Delegates to the Convention called
to organize the American Agricultural
Society met to-day in the Metropolitan
Hotel. David Taggart, of Pennsylva-
mia, presided in the morning, and Cen
eral Curtis, of Ogdensburg, N. Y, sue
ceeded him. The attendance was large.
While the Committee on Organization
was celebrating, DIR. A. S. Heath, Pres
ident of the Farmers Club of the Amer
lean Institute, read q paper entitled
"How Shall We Increase the Value
of Our Dairy Cows and Beef Stock?''
The object, he said, could best be
accomplished by care in breeding. If
mich cows were desired, farmers should
breed for milk; if butter was required,
they should breed together those ami
mails whose special excellence strongly
indicated that product in large quanti-
ties and also in superior quality. If
cheese was the aim of the farmer, then
he should strive to secure the best re-
suits, and use every effort to secure an
finals whose milk is rich in the ele.
ments of cheese.
The Secretary read letter from w.
K. Rogers, Private Secretary of Presi-
dent Hayes, informing the Society that,
in consequence of previous engage
ments, the President could not accept
an invitation to attend the meeting,
and expressing his sympathy in the
John Merriman, of Maryland, was
chosen permanent President, with sew
eral Vice-P Presidents, and H. Real as
Secretary.
The first paper read in the afternoon
was by Professor G. V. Riley, Of Wash
ington, on " Agricultural Advancement
in the United States" After review
ing the proceedings Of the Agricultural
and Societies in European
and their effect ON farming
industries, Professor Riley freely at
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The Queen of England likes the cold
weather of Scotland.

The Queen of England likes the cold
weather of Scotland.
EVERY Turkish house is divided into
two parts, the selamik and the harem.
The selamik is reserved for men, and
the harem for the women. This d.
vision is, in a manner, common to all
houses-to the palace and to the howell.
Even in the very tents of the nomads
there is curtain or rug to form the
partition.
IT is related that when Prince Alex
ander, of Battenberg, visited Berlin aft
er his election as Hospodar of Bull
garia, he called on Prince Bismark to
ask his advice as to accepting that ex-
allied position. The great German
CURLY said: "You are u young man
any way it will always be an agreeable
remembrance for YOU" It is suggested
that in the present unsatisfactory con-
dition of Bulgaria these words some
times recur to Prince Alexander.
A MOHAMMEDAN priest, Ahmed Eff
fendi, has been for some years assisting
8 company of Protestant missionaries
in a translation of the New Testament,
receiving twenty-five dollars per month
for revising, correcting and clothing in
poetical Turkish their versions. This
coming to the knowledge of the Shiek-
ul-1slam, he had the priest arrested
and tried by an ecclesiastical court. A
religious excitement was stirred up
and was famed by the Turkish press.
and when the last mail left Constanti-
nople the court was hesitating whether
to sentence Ahmed to fifteen years i'm
prisonment in fortress or to death.
A CAREFUL German, who believes in
the value of statistics and has plenty of
spare time, has, by long and patient
observation, ascertained the exact per-
centage of railway passengers that
miss their trains at the Vienna stations.
Beginning his observation at q single
station. he found that out of s, 400 to
$500 passengers leaving every day, one
man and two or three women were the
average number of late corners. Then
he took in all the stations, and placed
the number of tardy passengers at ten
per day. OF every one hundred there
were twenty-nine men and seventy-one
women. The statistician was not sur
prised that the male sex should show to
advantage, but the disproportion aston
ished him when he reflected that manv
men are delayed by the fault Of their
wives, while the contrary seldom oc-
ours. More people miss local trains
than express trains, the proportion being
az three to one. In winter the number
OF these unfortunates is least, and in
the warm months of July and August it
is greatest.
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leaves and branches restrain the evap-
Grafton of the water which reaches the
ground, and that evaporation is nearly
four times less under mass of leafed
forest than in the open, and two and
one-third times only under a mass of
pines. Fourth, the laws of the change
of temperature out of and under wood
are similar to those which result from
the observations of M. Matthew. The
general conclusions seem to be that
forests regulate the function of water,
and exercise on the temperature, as on
the atmosphere, an effect of "pondera-
tom and equilibrium.-Lo,sdo's Times.
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THE OLD WORLD.

ST. PETERSBURG dispatches of the
10th say the Car had decided to abandon for
the present his Asian policy, and devote his
wisdom and strength to the development of
home interests and the introduction of needed
reforms. The police force in st. Petersburg
had been greatly increased and the streets
and passages in the vicinity of the Winter
Palace were being necessarily patrolled. The
further attempts upon the life of the Car.
FIFTEEN Spanish Generals resigned
their commissions on the 10TH.
THE Pope has again advised the
Catholic Bishops of Chilli and Peru to exer-
else their good Offices in the direction Of
peace between the two powers.
1T was stated on the 18th that the
great St. Gothard Tunnel in Switzerland only
lacked 500 meters of completion.
For the first time since 1861 the
River Seine was frozen over at Paris on the
18th.
LORD LYTToN, Viceroy of India,
narrowly escaped death on the 18th. He
had returned to Calcutta from a tour of the
provinces, and while proceeding to his resi-
dence was twice fired upon. The would-be-
assassin was captured and found to be .
drunken native.
SIMLA dispatches of the 18th report
that the engagement at Kotal was more i'm
portant than first reported. The Afghans
had inflicted heavy loss on the British, and
at the date of the last advices each party
held its ground. It was feared that the
British would be forced to abandon the posi-
ton.
TRUE bills have been found against
Davitt, Killen and DAILY for sedition.
ALL the Spanish Generals on the
Island of Cuba, including General Blanco, the
Captain General, rendered their designations
on the 18th.
A VIENNA telegram of the 18th says
the Shah of Persia had decided to send an
extraordinary mission to European capitals to
seek recognition by Europe of the Persian
Attrek frontier, which is threatened by
Russia.
A PEsTH (Hungary) dispatch of the
18th says that nearly all the rivers and brooks
in Transylvania had overlooked their banks,
laying under water waists tracts of country,
and destroying bridges and houses, interrupt
ing communications, and sweeping away
farming utensils, cattle and grain. In some
cases the inhabitants were for days on trees
and the roofs of houses, waiting rescue. Six
villages near Arad had been also destroyed,
and many entire families who had found
refuge in neighboring woods were frozen to
death. Several hundred persons we're miss
ing.
GENERAL STEWART has sent q mes
senger to Ayoub Khan, the Afghan COM
mander Of Herat, requiring him to hold Herat
In the name of the British Government, and
threatening the advancement thither of .
British force in case of his failure to do 90.
SEVERAL large land agitation meet
ings were held in the west of Ireland on
the 14th.
On the morning of the 18th the Brit
ish forces in Cabul, under General Baker.
captured the heights of BalarHissar. The
day before General Macpherson attempted
to drive the Afghans from their position,
but failed. During the three days fighting
the British lost forty-three killed and seven.
ty-six wounded
The French Chamber Of Deputies
voted ON the 18th to appropriate 100000
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-25

The weighing of silk Is ruinous to
the silk-growing departments Of France.
Their high-class products are no longer
in demand, as inferior and cheaper
foreign silks serve equally well for
loaded tissues. Hence, these districts,
already suffering from the phylloxera
and from the loss of the madden trade,
are in the utmost distress. Marius
Moyret proposes that in the sale of
silks, as in that Of gold and silver, the
proportions of the real article and of
the weighing matters should be exact
ly specified, and that q central Office
for the cheap and rapid assay of silks
should be opened in Lyons.
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-"Pa," said little boy, "a, horse is
worth great deal more, isn't it. after
its broker Eyes, my son. Why do
you ask such question: because
1 broke the new rocking-horse you gave
me to-day"
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An article is going the rounds
treating on the best method of putting
away potatoes. A family of about
eight, including three boys and three
girls, can put away potatoes about as
successfully as Is necessary.
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Horrible Death Of Boy Burned by
VitriOl.

Adam Roche, a fifteen-year-old son
of Frederick Roche, a blacksmith at the
Centennial shaft in this city, was burned
to death yesterday afternoon on the
road between Scranton and Taylors-
vile. He was employed around the
blacksmith shop as an assistant. Some
of the livestock at the mines became
sick, and young Roche was sent to
Iaylorsville to procure some vitriol.
He went on horseback. He purchased
a bottle containing a pint, and started
back, bringing two mules along. Half
way between Taylorsville and the mine
the cork came out of the bottle, and the
jolting caused the vitriol to spatter into
his coat pocket. Then it slowly worked
through to his pantaloons and went
streaming along his limbs. The first
touch of the drug caused the boy to
shout with pain, and the most of the
contents of the bottle was spilled into
his clothing. His cries of agony spurred
the horse into run, and the suffering
boy endeavored to throw the
bottle from his pocket. The action
burned his hands severely and he
clasped them to his face, which added
greatly to his agony. He then lost his
control of the horse, and just at the
foot of a steep declivity on the road he
was hurled violently into ditch where
he lay writhing in anguish. He recov-
cred sufficiently to tie the mules to q
tree. The horse went back to the mines
and the boys father and several others
set out to find the lad. When he was
discovered he was dead. The oil had
eaten into his limbs, and he presented
a frightful spectacle. His hands were
badly blistered, his cheeks were burned
and the vitriol had sunk to the bones
of his legs. The boy had torn away
nearly all of his clothing except the
portions that had been saturated with
the oil. A large wound on his head
showed that he had been thrown head
foremost from the horse. He had
crawled to tree on the hillside, and
his appearance showed that he had suf-
fered the greatest agony Scranton
(Rd.) Special to Chicago Times.
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other cargo OF negro emigrants for the Re-
public of Liberia. They had been picked up
by agents of the American Colonization So
ciety in all the principal cities Of the South,
many of them coming from North Carolina.
The Virginia public schools have
recently closed for one month for want of
funds.
The committee appointed to make
sanitary survey of Memphis has recommend
ed that measures should be taken to secure
proper superintendent and subsequent care
of the sanitary work to be undertaken by the
city; that at an early date every house in the
city should be opened, ventilated and chilled;
that large number of houses should be con-
demned, torn down, and the materials
burned; that system of sewerage be adopt
cd which will carry the subsoil drainage into
the Mississippi River; ETC., etc.
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LATER.

LATER.
CALcRAFr, the man who, during the
previous forty-six years, had conducted the
public executions in Great Britain, died on
the 18th.
The people in some portions of Per-
STA and Turkish Kurdistan are said to be
starving, and an American missionary has ap-
pealed to the world in their behalf for charity.
MIR. BUTLER introduced in the United
States Senate on the 18th an amendment to
the joint resolution introduced by Mr.. Bay
ard Withdrawing the legaltender quality of
greenbacks. providing that the proposed
change shall not take effect until January l,
1855. Mr.. Voorhees, presented q petit
ton of 1000 ex-soldiers and sailors,
praying to be paid in greenbacks the
difference between the value of green
backs, in which they we're paid for services
to the Government, and the value of gold at
the time of payment. Mr.. Vest introduced
bill for the organization of the Territory of
Oklohoma out of the present Indian Terri
tory. A bill to establish an income tax was
introduced in the House by Mr. Mcmillan,
and one by Mr.. Morse for the encouragement
of American ship-building and manufactures,
The Department OF Agriculture re-
port says, regarding the condition of the cot
ton and corn, crops that the returns from cor
respondents for the month of November sub
stantially confirm the report of the month
previous. The weather had been favorable
In all sections of the cotton belt. The corn
crop, during November, deprecated through
the imperfect ripening in our heaviest corn
growing regions, the States north of the
Ohio River and Missouri, some States fall
ing off ten per cent. This will reduce the
average yield per acre of the whole
country to 29.1 bushels, which is exceeded
by only one former year-29.4 in 1875. This
reduces the aggregate production about S.
$1,000 bushels from the November figures
but still leaves the crop larger than in any
previous year by over Isl, 900 bushels.
The States and Territories west of the Missis-
sippi River return over loo, OO0, 600 bushels
more than in 1873.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Augusta,
Me-, on the 18th says the Governor and Coun-
ell had cut down the Republican majorities in
both branches of the Legislature. In the
House the Republican membership had been
ICuuCCu AIOAA AAuCCy " duO UuC
Republican majority of nine in the Senate
changed to Democratic majority of seven.
1t is claimed by the Democrats that these
changes were necessitated by informalities of
returns. The Republicans claim that the
Irregularities shown were the result of the
sending out of blanks, by the Secretary of
State, known to be irregular.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch of the
18th says William H. Kemble had stated that
he had resigned from the National Repub-
lican Committee, and Senator J. Donald
Cameron would probably be selected to fill
the vacancy.
GENERAL GRANT arrived in Harris
burg, Pa, on the 18th, and was given an en-
thusiastic reception.
The conservative debt-payers of the
Virginia Legislature, in caucus on the even
fng of the 18th, nominated Mr.. Withers, the
present incumbent, for United States Sem
ator.
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francs to prosecute the survey for railroad
across the Desert of Sahara.
A CAPE Town dispatch, received on
the 18th, says the Colonial forces had success-
fully stormed the stronghold Of the rebellious
chieftain, Moirosi, who was killed with many
of his followers.
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THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, December 15.--Flour-
White Wheat Extra, $6.25@675. Wheat
No. 2 Chicago Spring, $1.45@1.45H; No. Q
Milwaukee, $l.45<@l.46. Oats Western
Mixed, 49@ Sic. Corn Western Mixed,
66@66Ac. Pork-Mess, $12.50@1275. Lard
-$7.95. Cattle-$7OO@1O.25 for Common to
Extra. Sheep -$4.OOG6.00 Hogs $4.5O9
500
EAST LIBERTY, Pa. Cattle - Best,
$4S7]a@5.25; Fair to Good, $375@475
Hogs - Workers, $3.50 "a AGO; Philadelphias,
$475@5.Oo. sheep-$2. 75@4.5O.
BALTIMORE, Md.-Cattle-Best quail
ity, $3.50 a 5.s5; Medium, 5000 $50.
Hogs-Good, s5.OO@625. Sheep Good,
$3OOG45O.
CHICAGO. - Wheat, No. 2 Spring,
$1.29s4 q 100 cash; $1.31 q 1875 for JAN
uary. Corn closed at 4O>S04O5sc for No. 2
cash; 4Osk@4Olac for January. Oats-No. 2,
3434@35c cash; seller January, s4al@34Xc.
Rye-No. 2, 1917911c. Barley-No. 2 cash,
eO@9O]xc. Mess Pork S11.75@1275 cash.
Lard s7.25a7.2711z cash. Butter Good to
Fancy, 24@33c. Eggs-2O@21c. Cattle-Extra
Beeves, s4.s5(95.1 Is; Choice, $4.5O@4. Is; Good,
$4.OO@4.4O; Medium Grades, $34O@4OO;
Butchers Stock, sss5@3.15; Stock Cattle,
$2.4O@310. Hogs-Good to Choice, $4,000
Ass. Sheep-Poor to Choice, $2.75@465.
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first to last exhibited design on his part to
secure her fortune by working upon her po-
htical and religious sympathies.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says the Senate Finance Committee had
postponed till after the Christmas recess the
Warner Silver bill, the Trade-dollsr bill. and
bayard's resolution concerning greenbacks,
ON the ground that the subjects require fuller
discussion than could be given by commit
tee before adjournment.
On the 18th the New York Produce
Exchange voted-S6S to 605-to adopt the
GENITAL system. There was great dissatisfac-
ton at the result, and the minority threaten
ed to secede and establish a new Exchange
where business could be transacted upon the
bushel plan.
Hon. JAMES NJ. EDMUNDs, Post
master Of the City of Washington, d. c.,
died on the 18th.
A FIRE occurred in the livery stable
Of J. ellis, at Little Rock, Ark, on the 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. ellis, who occupied rooms
above, managed to save their childred, but in
subsequent efforts to secure their own safety
Mrs. Gillis persisted and Mr.. ellis was fatally
burned.
A PARTY of engineers left New York
on the 18th for Mexico to locate and superin-
tend the construction Of railroad across the
lsthmus Of Tehauutepec. The promoters Of
this enterprise have formed . company, and
1t 10 said they hope, by completing their work
1t an early day, to defeat the canal project.
DURING the four months ending on
the 18th the amount Of gold brought to New
York from Europe was Oh. e72 $50. The New
York banks reported an aggregate reserve Of
1857, SOD In excess Of the legal minimum,
but decrease from the previous week of over
100000. Their loans, deposits and ctrcula-
ton showed an increase.
IT was announced on the 14th that
the bark Aonrovia was about to sail from
New York for Nonrovta, Liberia, with an
The New York herald., 1879-07-02
THE AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION
PURPOSE OF THE EXPEDITION


From the New York Evening Mail, July IL
The three wandering and adventurous heroines Of
..Jeanne Jeannette ct Jeanneton" one of the comic
operas given in New York last season, did not meet
with more wonderful and novel experiences than
likely to come in the way of the nanesake Of Of
them-the tight and handsome ocean yacht which
has been fitted out for exploration in the direction
of the North Pole There is to be no playing at dis
covery no pleasure trip along established routes and
within hailing distance of provision stations. The
Jeannette is to make what is said to be the rst at
tempt to reach the Polar Sea by way of Behring
stra-at least 1t is the first genuine trial made in
modern times since that passage made known
To the world by the daring Dane in 172S. The
pcdition well defined purpose, and the usual
effort to reach the North Pole wall be made and to
tack the American flag to it. this essentially new
route being chosen worth testing.
''It will be of the pleasant thoughts or our
voyage that the expedition started from San Fran
cisco said Lieutenant DE Long yesterday, at the
Indeed. the Cafornians have done their best to
press their hearty sympathy with the development
OF scientific knowledge by the vessels voyage. OF
course the Jeannette may not reach the North Polc
she may even be forced to turn back before she has
pone half rs far she proposes into the Arctic
Ocean. But vessel yet entered the ice-bound
circle of the Polar regions without finding some
thing that is worth knowing. and no expedition.
honestly undertaken, Will return without
fact or two to add to the of science. This at
least, the Jeanncttc will do, and having done thic
she will be regarded not haviry wasted time. We
hope, like all who wish her weyi, that she will 10
more than has yet been done.