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CRUSHED BY A CYCLONE,
Two WIxconSin villages Almost En-
tireIy Destroyed.

Two wisconsin villages Almost En-
tireIy Destroyed.
A cyclone has done great damage to per-
son anu property in Wisconsin, Report,
from country towns located in the path OF
the storm indicate that it was about eighty
miles in width, and crossed the entire State,
from the Mississippi river to Lake Michigan
the counties of Vernon, Sauk, Dane, Jeffer,
son, Richland and Columbia being the great
est sufferers.
The little village OF New Albin, Houston
county, was almost destroyed. The railway
elevator, school house and seven residences
were leveleh in an instant. The fronts OF all
business blocks were broken III, twenty
houses were unroofed and many barns blown
to parts unknown. Four people were injured,
ono child danycrouslv. Tho schoolouse, q
fine, two story frame building, was raised
high in the air, dropped and crushed to
spiinters. Boards were driven through frame
houses. The loss to New Albin and vicinity
is $50,O00
The village of Victory, in Vernon county,
opposite the river from New Albin, was en-
tirely destroyed The town building, two
small elevators hotels. church, school-house,
three stores and fifty residences were wiped
out of existence Tho loss to Victory Is
placed at 100000. Several persons were
seriously injur, there. 49,
From this point east of Lake Michigan the
damage was conlincl 10 overturning and de,
molition Of farm houses and small
buildings and injury to ,growin:S
crops, gardens and fruits by hal
and wind. The force of the hnilstorm was
unprecedented. in many places the fall OF
ice continued for thirty minutes, covering the
ground to depth of from four to toll inches.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

JOHN E. OWENS will play few large
cities next season, and then retire
MARIA BIASECH1NI is said to have charmed
all Milan with her sweet flute playing
THERE are no less than 1l,5I6 women en-
gagged in giving musical instruction IN Eng
land.
Won BULow has been obliged to abandon
his European concert tour because OF Sc
we're injury from fall.
MARK TWAIN is travelling with Miles and
Barton's company, which is playing his
drama, "Tom Sawyer"
THERE are now touring the country no
less than half dozen "Wild West shows,
of varying degrees of wildness
The play by Wills which Mrs. Langtry
has purchased is entitled "The Little
Tramp" Mrs. Langtry plays in boys cos
tune.
NINE ALBASI recently sang "La Travia
ia" at The Hague for the benefit of seventy
two stranded chorus singers and netted over
SI,4OO.
The managementIof the Comedie Francaise,
Paris, France, intend to devote week to
plays of Victor Hugo, with gala mig int on
which an ode to Hugo will be presented and
selections from his poems recited.
Miss CARRIE E. DANIELS, Of Chicago, n
contralto whose voice Mr. Farnie calls phe-
nomenal, the lower register reaching flat,
has made tremendous success in the revival
of Boccaccio at the London Comedy theatre
HENRY RUSSELL, the composer, who forty
years ago visited the United States, when he
wrote the music to Morris Woodman, Spare
that Tree" and also to Epes Sargeant's "a
Life on the Ocean Wave," is living at very
advanced age in England.
RESERVED seats in theatres are not
modern invention. In the ancient Roman
theatre seats were numbered, and the specta-
tor was shown to his place by an official
called designator. The number Of the seat
appeared on the billet of admission.
In Normandy bird-dealers arrange sing
ing contests between favorite chaffinches
which are sometimes compelled to sing al
ternately as many as sou times Occasi onal-
ly the cruel practice Of deprlving them OF
sight is indulged in, as blind birds are often
the best singers.
]. E. CARPENTER, the English song writer,
whose death is announced from London, was
the author of "What are the Wild Waves
Saying" widely popular twenty-five years
ago, and not without admirers now. 1t was
founded OIL chapter in Dickens ''Dombey
and Son." and brought the writer consider
able money.
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG will make a
concert tour during the summer under the
pilotage Of her old manager, Major j. 3.
Pond. The American prima donna will visit
the principal cities Of the Northwest. She
will be supported by Miss Ottie Forbett, yio-
linist; Mir. Mockridge, tenor; MIR. Morowski,
basso, and Mr.. Adolph Glosee, pianist.
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Garden Herbs.

Few things add more to the pleasure
OF thoroughly good cook than to have
full supply of kitchen herbs ready to
hand, SAYS the Garden. A little of one
thing or another in this line often makes
all the difference between a successful
dish and ono of mediocre quality. Every
garden should have a few, and where
they are wanting should be looked after
at this season. Perhaps the most useful
Is parsley. That has to be raised from
seed, although if the flower stalks arc
cut off as they come up in the summer
the same PLANTS may be prolonged several
seasons. 1t does not 60 to seed, how
ever, the first season of sowing; 80 that
if it is sown early and gets strong be-
fore summer comes we can get pretty
good supply of leaves the first season.
The seeds, however, take several weeks
to germinate, and should be put
IN as early as possible. Another herb
of great service to the best cooks In the
leek; q kind of onion which is no onion,
as it makes all tops and little roots. 1t
is not 80 strong as the ordinary onion,
and gives delicate flavor to certain
soups and sauces which nothing of the
tribe will do. This has also to be sown
early and on very rich ground. But,
if possible, the richness should be given
to the ground the previous year. Fresh
and rank manure is unfavorablc to good
hek culture. Many make good use in
winter of majoram and summer savory.
These arc raised from seed sown at the
usual time in the spring. Sage and
thyme are perennials; but they require
an occasional pruning or replanting to
get them in the best condition. If left
to themselves they become woody, scaly,
and somewhat barren of leaves, if they
are not entirely killed by the severity of
the winter. Thyme can be kept in good
condition by being simply sheared down
to the ground or cut back with a knife
every spring. This induces good healthy
growth, whichisin excellent condition for
use at any time. Sage is often kept many
years in good condition by simply cut
ting back; but often it needs starting
quite anew. This may be done by taking
cuttings of the old plant and burying
them deep down in the ground so that
The tops of the shoots are barely above
the surface. These root well and soon
make good plants. There are other
herbs useful on some occasions; but these
are essential to every good garden
Farm, Field and Stockman.
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| some places whole villages have been engulfed
! and the people who have escaped death are
! threatened with the horrors OF famine.
THE wife and four children Of j. Wonct
! were burned to death IN their house at Bar
: rie, Canada.
SIR PETER LrMSDEN, the British commits
! sioner on the Afghan boundary question, re-
/ ceived an enthusiastic reception few days
| since upon his arrival i'll London.
FULLY 5000 natives, fearing the wrath OF
the False Prophets chiefs, have fled from the
! Soudan into lower Egypt in consequence ol
the withdrawal Of the British troops The
Arabs are advancing upon the points aban
doned by the British. They have driven
! the friendly tribes from Ambukol and ricin
ity, after numbering the Sheiks and the promi
nent chiefs.
PEOPLE are fleeing from the cholera-infect
ed districts of Spain
THE German army is to be increased from
4lS,00O to $4,000.
AF1RE i'll the Stamboul quarter of Con
stantinople has destroyed 800 houses, fifty
shops and three mosques. One person was
killed and many injured.
SEVENTY persons were killed and many in
iured on train in Russia which had been
wrecked by robbers who placed bar of iron
across the track. Alter Lne SlHlSu-up Iue
robbers plundered the train.
TEN members of the Rhine club were
drowned in q lake near BaSle, Switzerland
y the upsetting of their boat.
THE latest estimated number of killed by
the earthquake in the Nalo of Cashmere,
India, is 2l0.
IGHAcE BoURGET, archbishop of Montreal,
is dead in his ninety year.
THE cholera scourge has broken out in
Madrid.
THE insurrection in the United States OF
Colombia has been suppressed.
A FIRE at Aux Cages, Hayti, has destroyed
300 buildings and rendered about ,C0) fami.
lies homeless The loss is is estimated at over
S2,O09,000.
A LONDON dispatch announces that con.
cerning the claim of Mayor Maitland to the
I.auderdale peerage, which is before the
house of lords, United States Minister
Phelps and Senator Edmunds Will give testi.
mony relating to the law OF marriage as 1t
existed in tho American colonies i'll 1Gi2.
A HALF-BREED named Remeau has reach
ed the mission at Calgary, Manitoba, in an
almost diving condition and with terrible
story of massacre by Riels Ind ian allies un'
der Big Bear Remeaus story is to the effect
that his wife and five children and three other
families, while travelling toward Green Lake,
were caught by the Indians and all foully
murdered.
LORD WoLsELEY denounces the evacua
tion of the Soudan by the British troops, and
predicts that the whole province will be
given up to anarchy.
THE Canadian town of st. Cesaire has beer
swept hy fire. Seventeen dwellings and
stores, the hotel and the chief buildings were
consumed, and total loss Of $2OJ, 700 was
caused.
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CuriOsities In Bottles.

"Here is one of the neatest things
that has ever been brought out in the
glass line," said the clerk, as he handed
the reporter small medicine glass.
Tea and tablespoonfuls are marked off
on it by lines, and on one part was the
name of business firm and its address.
"You see druggist can have his name
etched on here by hydrofouric acid, and
whenever he sells bottle of medicine
he can give away one of these little
tumblers with it,"
The huge bottles which, filled with
colored liquids, are seen in every drug
store window are all blown, it was
learned, and not nodded. They are
in three styles-the Roman, so called
from its resemblance to the old Roman
pedestals; the pineapples, also named
from its shape, and the Wayne, from
Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where it
is made. These show bottles are plain,
engraved, or cut, the cut glass, OF course,
being the most expensive. The differ
encc between cut glass and engraved
glass, which may not be understood, is
lust this: The work upon each is done
by means of rspidly-rcvolving wheels,
VARYING in size from onc-eighth inch to
five inches in diameter. But the cut
work is done by wheels made of Scotch
stone called ''oredlief," and has to be
polished up before it is finished, while
engraving is done with copper wheels
moistened with emery powder and oil,
and is not polished. The chief reason
why America cannot compete with
Europe in the manufacture of glass is be-
cause of the difference in the price of
labor. Just as artistic work can be done
here, but in Bohemia, for instance, the
peasantry, who are taught the glass busi-
ness from the cradle, visit the manufac.
turing towns in the valleys in the sum-
mer and take load of goods to their
mountain homes. They are charged with
this, and during the winter they cut the
glass with their little foot-whecls and 60
again the next summer for fresh stock.
but, curiously enough, Notwithstanding
the general excellence of foreign work,
the finest bottle.wear usually has one de-
feet. The glass shoppers are nearly
always loose. They seem to fit tightly
but they do not, and very often this
point is of the highest Importance in
preserving liquids from evaporatlon.-
Rostou HIobe.
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GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Clean Culture of the Root Crop.

Clean culture from the first is vital
necessity of the root crop. For some
years past the writer has practiced an
easy way of securing this necessary cul:
ture without any hand wedding, and
merely by the use of a little more seed.
Six pounds of seed per acre will give q
stand of plants which will admit of run
ming o hand cultivator across the rows,
cutting out o strip ten inches wide aud
leaving the plants thus ten inches apart in
the row. The cultivator, having two
scrapcrs, one on each side, can be run
over the row of plants in this manner,
(thc x * represent the plants, the
inclined lines the scrapers,) and thus
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A RESERVOIR BURSTS,
A Torrent of Wafer 100 Feet High
Causcs d:rcnt Damage.

Torrent of Wafer 40 Ecct High
Causes Great Damage.
Near Longmount, Col, at noon, few days
since, the Beaver Park reservoir, in South
st. Vrair Canyon. burst causing great dam
age to the surrounding country. The torrent,
which is estimated to have reached height
of lo0 feet, rushed down the canyon with
terrific force. earring away bridges houses,
barns and everything which obstr,,cted its
rath, and flooding the adjacent country. So
lar as learned, no lives we're lost The dam
age to crops and meadows along the lowlands
is very great The reservoir, an immense
affair, covering an area of many acres sup
piled water for the highland ditch, which
iraverses large section Of land adjacent to
The mountains.
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Combustible Gas in a Human Body.

Dickens has been much crltlclseu lot
his apparent acceptance of the fact of
spontaneous combustion, but Sir W. Gull
lately testified to a surprising case before
the committee of the house Of lords on
intemperance. A large, bloated man,
who was suffering from difficulty of
breathing and great distention of the
vcnous system, died at Guys hospital.
At the post mortcm on the following day
there was no sign of decomposition, and
the body was believed to be distended
with gas. "When punctures were made
into the skin," said Sir William, land a
lighted match applied, the gas which
escaped burned with the ordinary flame
Of carburetted hydrogen. AS many as
dozen of these small flames were burning
at the same time"
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clearing and scraping up the soil quite
close to the row. This cleans out all the
seeds excepting those which grow quite
close to each plant, and there will be
very few of these if the ground is only
in moderately clean condition. Usually
no hand wedding is necessary, for the
roots soon oyerpower any stray weeds
that may show themselves. Thirty
tons per acre of mangels have been
grown in this way with no moro cost
than crop of corn, and all by the use
of the hand cultivator. The middles, OF
course, arc worked with the horse hoe.
Indeed, the hand cultivator will almost
wholly dispense with the use of the COM
mon hoe, an implement fit only fol
Indians and their primitive and slow
ways of culture.-Nfw York Times.
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ENGLAND AND RUSSIA,
All Questions of Difference between
Them Settled.

Them Settled.
The London Pail Mall Gazette says it is
glad to he able to state upon the highest au-
thority that the long standing question OF dill
ference between England and Russia concern.
ing the northwest Afghan frontier has been
finally and satisfactorily settel. A definite
agreement has been arrived ut on all questions
of principle. The commissioners will forth
with commence to mark precisely the dcliml-
tation of the boundary They are now on the
spot. The Pen jdeh Incident will l'e referred to
the king of Denmark, who has informally
agreed to accept the Office of arbitrator.
Tho arbitration will TO rigidly confined u 70
the INTERPRETATION o. the covenant of March l6.
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The Great Stature of the Bismarcks.

Men who are intellectually grcat arc
not always as physically we'll developed
as Prince Bismarck, who is the tallest,,
and probably also the most stalwart, OF
fist class European statesmen. On one
of the posts of the door OF the study ut
Friedrichsruhe the height of each mem
Der of the imperial chancellor's family
was solcmnly rcgistercd.on the last day
Of 1880 by the chancellor himself; and
the pcncilcd inscriptions, which are still
to be seen there, are as follows, the
measurements being given in centimc-
ters: Prince Bismarck, six feet two
inches; Herbert. six feet one and ono
third inches; Bill Count William), six
feet and one half inch: Rantzau, Count
Rantzau, the princes son:in-law), five
feet ten and a half inches; Johanna
princess Bismarck), standing on tip
toe," five feet eight and a quarter inches;
Marie Countess Rantzau, five feet eight
inches. If we put aside as unworthy OF
credence the ungallaut assertion that
Princess Bismarck cheated the measurer,
we find that the average height of the
six members of the family is slightly
over five feet eleven inches. A well
crown race the Bismarcks, evidently.
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FoxeIsn.

RJULIrs BENEDICT noted English mu'
sician and composer, is dead.
THIRTY Christian villages in Ton1uin have
been destroyed by the Black Flags, and
many of the inhabitants masSacred.
LATER official reports say that eighty
seven persons were killed and 100 injured by
the earthquake in the vale Of Cashmere
India. Unofficial reports however, state
that the earthquake was even more disas
trous in its effects than the first dispatches
indicated. Whole cities and towns are
spoken of as destroyed, and the absence of
definite news is attributed to the demolition
of the telegraph lines.
i AsIAr1c cholera has appeared in France.
CONTINUOUS earthquake shocks, accompan
led by loud rumblings, are reported from the
Vale of Cashmere, India The earth has
opened in numerous places swallowing many
! houses Hot water and clouds Of sulphurou:
dust have been elected from the chasms. Ii
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In cleaning silver kerosene may be
used with advantage.
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The best oranges are those which feel
the heaviest in the hand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-19
DR. uALL,s CHINESE sUyDAr-soHooL

In obed hce the command to preach the Gospel to
all Nations, the ladies OF DR. Halls Church have
organized Chinese Sunday school, and any one who
steps into the chapel a Sunday evening. between
and o'clock. will from fifty to hundred NOON
faced Ceestsls in all varieties OF barbaric toggery
and with countenances expressing all degrees OF re-
ceptiyity and stupidity, listening TO their women
teachers. The speci Of ylvacous young lady her
eyes sparkling with excitement and her face wreathed
in its sweetest smile. explaining TO stoiid laundry
man the complicated motives which induced the whale
10 swallow Jonah. is common one. Some OF tie
scholars can read and they stumble along while the
teacher exp0unds. line upon line and precept upon
precept the verses they are read. With most OF
Them however kinder garten methods have to be used,
and states are distributed for this purpose Others
still merely TO look and will not at hrst permit
the Establishments of the superintendent and allow
themselves 10 be led away TO some class.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-19
LITTLE HOPE FOR MORRISON.
THE ADMINIsTRAT NOT LIKELY To INTERPHRE-
A SPRINGFIELD CONFERENCES.

WASHINGTON, April Is (SpecidD Most Of
tho Illinois Democratic politicians In Washington have
come to the conclusion that the efforts to elect Colonel
Morrison TO the United States Senate hopeless. and
they arc awaiting his arrival with considerable Interest
and no little anxiety. Some OF them think that he VIII
hear hi, own utnaturn the Administration, and that
II will be Morrison or Democratic senator from
Illinois" Others believe that his purpose Il to effect an
arrangement with General BLACK prominent Illinois
politiclau to-day said: do how tho Admins
tr,tio could help Morrison, even should be willing
try II has is hands full enough now, should say
oltbout going In 10 the business 81 booming Senatorial
caudidaes n Morrison expects 10 secure promises OF
Federal appointments In return Tor VOTES
for himself think he will be disappointed"
one object OF Colonel MoTisons visit Is said by one OF
i ffi. 10 be To the appOntment or one OF MS
term will xpre In about three weeks There are ABOUT
dozen applicants for tho 0noo aud the contest Dds
fnir 10 be a lively one. -, --, -.... -,
Springfield the Illinois Congressional deirg iilOn do-
cslrd 10 uulify agreement concerning tue STATE AT
rouacc which has been IN force since the Adjournment
Hotel aud agreed to stand by toluucl Nor
risou Ia his Tor the senator paud 10 Keep names
Oh the Illinois patronage except where coud ue 20 as
trbufrd n promote his chances. Tic compact mas
crusei a great deal OF difficulty. The appointments OF
Black and Sparks regarded 10y some OF the mem
ber. Is violation Of the tcun.. ana nuch III feeling mas
brought about the conference at Springfield
when tho compact declared void after
Apr 90 This allows Illinois statesmen time 10 prepare
their papers aud 1ock back to capture the capital
srntNGrIEID, Ill, April lS.-In the Joint assembly
erht Senators and twenty Mae Representatives an
svered 70 the rol-cn MI Morrison received ten votes
General Logan four, and the remainder wore scattering