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Thomas County cat., 1886-08-19
The Absolute Zero.

At the Royal Institution recently.
Prof. Dewar exhibited for the first
time solid oxygen. Last year the
professor gave lecture before the
Prince of Wales on liquid air, but al.
though he and other experimcnters
had made liquid oxygen in small
quantity, yet no one had succeeded in
getting oxygen into the solid condi-
ton. The successful device employed
at the Royal Institution depends upon
allowing liquid oxygen to expand INTO
a partial vacuum. when the enormous
absorption of heat which accompanies
the expansion results in the production
of the solid substance. Oxygen in this
condition resembles snow in appear
ance. and has temperature about two
hundred degrees centigrade below the
freezing point of water. A supply Of
this material will enable chemists to ap-
preach the absolute zero of tempera.
ture. london Times.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-19
SOLVING A MYSTERY.
A Soudan Railway Track That ShrAnI
from Day to Day.

Soudan Railway Track That ShrAnk
from Day to Day.
Every newspaper reader no doubt
remembers the gallant though unsuc-
cessful attempt to save General Cor
Ion from death ut the hands of the
Mehdi, but few know of the hardships
borne and the obstacles overcome by
the British army in the Soudan. How
ever, l will not attempt to picture thos,
discomforts and difficulties here. !
will simply relate an incident of the
expedition.
The advance up the Nile was made
in eight hundred whale-boats. Each
boat was in command of q Canadian
voyageur and carried dozen soldiers,
with provisions for one hundred days.
Sailing, rowing, towing and carrying
Or pOrtaging boats from daylight to
dark, interspersed with picnic meals of
canned corned beef and hard tack.
would be no more than novel expert
ence for week or two. but, believe
me, it gets mOnOtonous in less than
eight months. Some of the portages
were short. fifty yards to mile; 9TH
ers long, from mile to fifty miles.
Over the former the provisions were
packed by the men, and over the
latter by camels, the boats being taken
through the cataracts by the Canadians
in the meantime.
One portage, from Wady Halfa to
Lone hat Tho D,.:f;-L
Government decided to build rail-
road between the two points. Fifty
miles of track were ready to be laid;
engines, ears, water-tanks and stations,
in fact. a complete railroad were sent
out. The members of the engineer
corps had not enjoyed a very large ex-
perience of railroad building, and were
not furnished with necessary apph-
ances for grading, etc. So natives,
men, women and children, mostly the
latter, were hired at piastre Give
cents) a day to carry sand in small
baskets and dump it on the grade.
When an obstructive rock loOmed up
n front, they never thought of blow
ing it out, but went around it. Such a
thing as cutting through hill was nm
heard of, and the only way any large
heaps of sand were removed or lcvelled
was to bury piastre in the center of
he heap, and let the natives know it
was there.
Well, after months of hard labor the
track was all laid. but it did not reach
Sarras by any means. True. Sarras is
only fifty miles from Wady Ealfa. and
fifty miles OF track had been laid, but
in sending out the material numerous
curves had not been taken into con-
sideration. The only alternative was
to move the Sarras station down to the
End of the track. This was done, and
The last ..spike." was driven to ..Rule
Britannia" by the band of the forty
second High1anders.
Every thing worked right for week
or two. but then. for some unaccount-
able reason, the track began to shrink.
At first the end was about hundred
yards beyond the Sarras station, but
daily the track got shorter and shorter
antl tho end came down in front Of
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-19

-, An entsrprising editor Of Cape
OF twenty-five dollars to any subscriber
TO his paper who loses property BY frs
or Waf0k
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-19
-..Hallo," calculated an anx;ou

-.Hallo" calculated an anxious
guardian to his lovely niece, as he en-
tered the sitting-room and saw her in
the arms of swain who had just
popped the question and sealed it with
smack. What's the time of day
now?" Il should think it was about
half-past twelve" was the cool reply.
''You see that we are almost one.
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-19

=" There are great many ways of
catching flies, but still adhere to fly
paper. as the man said when he sat
down on sheet of it-D0asrilse Breeze
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-19

The Yreka (Cal) Osion. IN its re-
port of the recent murder of . China
man, SAYS: His lie craW3s1 0ut
through bullst-hols in - bgsasA"
Thomas County cat., 1886-08-19

The Remarkable Intelligence Of . Sight.
ess StOre-keeper.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1886-02-01

baIb IS bon unleren oeuti6en SanoSlellten
in Qmerita ais ELM mtrtli6er, pertb7
9auS d. a ) betraHtet DerS
ben lou.
DR.. &uboGf Seiffert."
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8eurtbeiler 9aben mir meiter nt6ts 9IlljIl
sufIgen, ais Die 0offnung, DaB IS u!1S gez
Iingen m0ge, Dem Ni6Ietn III rebt ptelen
INSTRUMENTATION Samtlien Singing
3u Deri6affe1.
0enienigen. tpelGe itatt zines 8utheS
lieber Elm Silb als Stmmerl6mud Da>
ben tpolle1, bieten mir cine III lfcnem
Ginten> S6parSorud oUSgefubrte eople Der
berlbmten
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GDrtitu5ftnbe bon St1t1eI
an, bcs beriDmteiten aler @enlGIOe oes
groBer Wteiiters, tpelebeS Die 6auptateroe
beS Ululeums III DRESDEN biloet. DaS
Bib lit, obne Ben 81 i3oQ bretten 9tanb 20
!3ou bod unD IA 3oll brett, alio 81 elneln
Ma1oidmuG trefflid geeignet.
9IuBeroem perbleibt eS Bel Den1 ltebenoen
2tnerbicten. baB Sober, Der (nn1 Nbtraz
gtng ettpai9er frilberer 8erbillolt6tetten)
nit 5mei 9olIars auf eilleit Sabrz
gang bes 8odenblattes abOnnirt,
tir einen Collar 9tad5ablung einel
Sabrgang beS rs elten", 9onntagsz
bIatt Der pSIlinois StaatS6et:
tuu9", crbalten fam; allo fir 6ret
Collars etnen Sabrgan9 Bet
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tGgli0e 3eitung unO in Der Sbat eI1e
game Sibliotbef btloen.
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baraui aufmertioln, baB 100 i'll elmer fletllelt
beuti6em gtteberIanung einc Nn5ahl Nbons
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ILLINOIS STAATsZEITUNG COMPANY,
CHICAGO.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1886-02-01
Sabtt at Die 3etttng.

@inige unierer %@bonnenten, tueIGe nit
ben 3ablungen I'M &ifitanoe ii1b, BADEN
aIs @nti6uIoigung ~angegeber, Dap ite ers
tpartet hGtteu, bas @elo mer6e 6ur6 ettelt
unierer Ngenten coleftirt per6en. GeraOe,
neil es mm0gGi6 1T, baB jeoer unierer
bieraigtauienO 2tbonnenteu 81 Der !3eit per-
iDnli4 aufgeludt ipirb, mo- letn 9t6onuez
rlert abIauft, unb neil es fir Sen 9lbonz
nelten bieI eriprieBli6er lit, tpenn er brett
nit Der 3eitung in SerbinOung tritt, inben
tDenigcr Gerieben babel Dorfauen fonnen,
baben mir Die Nbonnenteu aufgeforbert, baB
lie bas announcement brett all Die 3eitung
eini6iden, u1O ais 9lufmunterung basu
Die grGmienausgabe ein9eri6tet. 0enn
grGnien peroen nur bann ge9e6en, tpenlt
oas announcement i'm 8oraHs Ill Die
3ettung Elm 9ei@idt tpirO.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1886-02-01

8on65 bonn Sabre 1882 uber $40, 600, 900
3ur JtiidSobIung AM l. WtGrS B. S. geflltz
Otgt unb siDar: Die Sriginalz 9tuinlner 298
itber $50, Sriginal,9tummern 2149 bis
2165 uber il 500, 9iummern
1903 bis 1873 iber je $500, Srigtnalz
ytummern 91S9 bis 9786 iiber ie $1,000,
Original : gummern 16,449 bis II, 400
i6er ie $4,000. 9ie ertp0bnten 8onDs
itto enttpeoer SonoS bon Der Srigtualz
NuS9abe. welde III cine Original ytumz
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lpalloerung i'm uorigen Sabre llp tDre Nbz
lio0rlc 9e9ell oaS Sabr 1884:
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1886-02-01

HJ~ OTIS Nntmort auf cine Menge Nnz
frageu bentsrfeu !pir, baB nit gti6tz Nbonz
tellten un6 niht SIT &rGmien 8erehtt9ten
bas BUD vDie tIe;ue 9auszNpOz
tDefe" fir 80 GtS. poctoIrei %Suienoen.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

Professor Kedzie. Of the wide-awafe
Michigan Agricultural college, has been ex-
perimenting with the different kinds of
ashes for fertilzng. He considers hard
wood ashes invaluable, especially when it
can be bought rs low as 81 - a ton or the
soils most ben fl cd by ashes he remarks:
Discardng ashes of mineral coal as value
less for manure, may -ay in general terms
that the oshns of wood and of lanl plants of
every kind are of value for manure on
every kind OF soil which has been reduced
by cropping; Tut the greatest benefit is
shown upon sandy and porous soils On
these light soils crops of every kind, but
especially root crops and corn, will be bene-
fitted by dressing of wood ashes. Fruit
trees and fruit-baaring plants having a
woody structure will be benefited by wood
ashes
Thirty to fifty bushels to the acre of fresh
ashes will be a full dressing, and three or
four times that amount of elched ashe,
may be applied with permanent benefit
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02
FARM AND GARDEN.


The Audubon society, No 40 Park row,
New York, whose purpose is the protection
of American birds, has issued form for a
petition to be presented to the legislature OF
all the states, the first section of which reads
as follows:
Section l. Any person who shall, within
the state of -, kill any wild bird other
than a game bird, or purchase, offer, or
expose for sale any such wild bird, after il
has been killed, shall for each offense be sub.
ject to a fine Of S., or imprisonment for ten
days, or BOTH at the discretion of the court
For the purpo.es Of this act the following
only shall be considered game birds: The
anatide, commonly known as swans, geese,
brant, and river and sea ducks; the rallide.
commonly known as rails coots, mud hons
and gallinules; the limicole commonly
known as shore birds, plovers, surf birds,
snipe woodcock. sandpipers, tatlers and
curlews; the gallin@, commonly known as
wild turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens,
pheasants, partridges and quails.
Section relates to the needless destruction
of nests or eggs.
Section S-j exempts those taking birds or
eggs for scientific purposes, and makes rules
for tie same.
Section exempts the English sparrow
from the list of birds which it shall be I'M
lawful to kill.
Those desiring copies Of this petition to cir
culate can obtain them by addressing the
Audubon society as above.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

The opinion of a woman whose husband
has a good garden:
Does garden payl What TO lish ques-
tionl OF course it pays 1t pays better than
any other part of the farm. Whyl Because
SO much can be grown in it that the family
can make available at all seasons of the year
1t isn't mere summer institution, this gar
den Of ours. When summer ended we had
vegetables to use the same as we had during
the growing season, for we always raised
enough to last until garden stuff grows
again. Think of the variety the garden gives
our bill Of fare; Corn, cabbage, tomatoes,
lettuce, cucumbers, parsnips, squashes,
onions, satisfy, beans. beets, turnips, rad
ishes-why, if you were woman with a
family to cook for, and you wanted some
thing to make n change with, you'd see
where the advantage Of having a garden
came in. With these vegetables to draw
from a woman can so vary the bill of fare
from day TO day that the men folks won't be
complaininQ about the 'same old Qrubn from
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

be as bright and attractive to look at as any
of her small white sisters who learn music
and go to Sunday school
Clusters force was divided into three col
umns on that fatal day, one commanded by
Maj. Reno, another 10y Col Benteen, the
third by Custer himself. The plan was for
these three columns to take different routes
converging toward the Indian village on the
Little Big Horn. The rest of the story may
be told in one sentence. Reno and Benteen
failed to come to time, Custer and his men
reached the village, fought an overwhelm-
ing fore, of Indians till every man died in
his tracks. For a mile or more their bodies
were found strung along the banks of the
Little Big Horn just where they fell. The
pa ticulars of this last fight are as thrilling
as the story of Thermopyle. 1t ought to
be put into the school books for American
boys to read and draw inspirations from.
The Indian scout Curly, who tells the
story, was the only one with Custer who es-
capped from the massacre. He had been with
the leader several years, and was trusted
and faithful. he was Crow. The fight
began at 2 o'clock and lasted till sunset
The white men who fought it knew long ere
it closed that it was desperate. As soon as
Curly saw this he went to Gen. Custer and
begged him to let him lead him to a place of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

was the last time Curly ever looked on the
lace OF his general alive
In that moment the dashing, heroic cav
airy leader chose between life and death. He
fought like tiger himself before giving up
his life
The Indians closed in around him at too
close quarters for him to use gun or pistol.
Then he snatched his saber The Indians
say that he killed three braves with his
saber before'he was finally overcome. Then
a chief, nam Ran-in-the- Face, who had
mortal grudge at the white leader, shot
and killed him. Such bravery as he had
shown hi, wild enemies reverenced as more
than mortal His was the only body they
left unmutlated. Thh proved that they
looked on it with superstitious awe. The
Indians say there were more of their braves
killed than of white men.
Curly, the Crow scout, escaped alone by
the way he had indicated to Custer He
washed his Crow paint off and let his hair
down like a Sioux, and thus, undetected
lowered around till the awful fight was
over. Then, much dead as alive with
grief and horror, he followed on down the
river till he reached the steamboat landing
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

1t seems that, all the while the five hours
fight was going on, Reno and Benteen were
not more than three or four miles away
Reno heard the firing and knew that his
chief was engaged with the enemy.
Reno had been even attacked by n portion
of the hostiles flying toward the Custer
fight They came riding like the wind,
"crouching over the necks Of their fleet little
ponies, foIging away with their short
whips firing random bullets in the air, and
all the time yelling out their Hi yip-yip
-yip-yip-hi-yahv The sight seems to
have been rather a demorali2ing one to
Reno and his men.
A monument was erected on the scene of
the massacre. The horrible relic hunters are
already fast chipping it away. Three Clusters,
a sisters husband and beloved, bright
haired schoolboy nephew, persisted of the
hapless family that day. Col, Tom Custer
and young Boston Custer were the generals
brother. These were all found in a group
close together The monument contains the
names of those who fell, tn flower of the
United States Seventh Cavalry regiment
1t is one of the most thrilling stories ever
told in any language.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

contained a history Of his lite, drawn in
grotesque Indian pictures. Most of them
represented S. b. killing somebody, white or
red.
Sitting Bull destroyed Custer and his COM
mand on the Little Big Horn river, June %,
1876 He then fed across the border to
British America and annoyed the United
States government people six years longer.
1t was not till 1882 that he finally surren-
deres.. Even then he has ways claimed
that he himself did not surrender. 1t was
his son Crowfoot, the lively Indian youth
who appears in the picture, that at last
snatched his fathers gun and handed it over
TO Maj Brothcrton. The boy has some of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

With the revolving churns the operation
of churning is Il pouring, not a stirring, per-
Torrance Trouble is often met with in
churning-that the cream swells, the churn
gets full, is long time coming, etc. Usually
this all proceeds from filling the churn SO
full that there is no thorough agitation OF
the cream and it goes over and over with the
churn. In using the revolving churn it
should be stopped after few minutes, and
the vent-p,ug removed to allow this acid air
to escape, and it should be once or twice re.
peated A revolving churn should never be
filed more than three-eighths full Then it
gives the cream a pouring motion, or cur
rent, as the churn partially lifts and then
drODs IT,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

T. is n worry moor farmer who does not
know n -,ol shre, when he se4s If. hut he
may he . .clorollv ro,d rarmo. md not
know a moor sheen when he SEES it. That is
to saw. he hates TO throw / ont There
nothing on n firm which is so moor nace
| of ,ronarty nc n Moor sbaen A iicb+ vai-bt
steer may make ms GOOD boof ms beovv
woiob+ or hettor and T. NAV be noarlv or
ouite ms nrofitnh,e mn animal But q light
heeced sheep generally eats as much rs a
heavy Aeaced one md often mora h cause
it is LEROY md restless
When freshly shorn the shaon stonde ro-
veolod i, i,s +rno for,, ord .ho ao,o, l. -
iect to test scporate from the holy Merely
to weigh fleece is rather n ro,v md cruda
fest of its ouolitv. still If is raco .sorv IN od.
NIT thot fine weioht is tho foremost consid.
Grafton it'll most foci masters Nv own
method was to have mir of crocer's scales
on on, side of which was fastened varv
light slat framework, LARGO enongb 70 re-
ceivo tbe fl goo and This vas bolonced b,-
bits Of iron and tbo scale sot co os 70 70
ouire n six-nound fleece to turn if Whom
ever shearer finished n shean 7 took II
! while he Carried and laid tba eooco
on the scoes and unon this test
together with nv own observations
unon the animals form 7 oHixad a mork
with rcd lead to desionotn tbo shean,o
future A wetber was morkad with III. lat
ter p on tho left shorl Ior tbo ton ~ tbo LAT
+o, 500 oh to- H. 10. ~. .-..-.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

Don't cut the first crop of clover too short
Leave two or three inches,
1t is now believed that the peach yellows
is owing to a lack of potash in the soil.
1t has been proved by thorough expert
ment that bees do not injure or puncture the
skin of fruit.
Some very neat blacksmiths, so called, cut
away horses heels, frogs and hoofs 50 close
that he gradually gets lame
Mutton talow or fresh lard rubbed upon
the backs of bare young Cochin or Brahma
chickens or other Asiatics, will protect them
from being sui-blistered.
A man lately cured thoroughly "A Dalky
horse by simply hitching him in the field
and letting him stay where the load was till
he got hungry enough to pu it home Tbe
horse held out thirty-six hours
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02

ONE weeks end to another. But Isn't il
che pr to buy. than TO raisei SEE here's:
How much money do you suppose | have
% exreud on ,eSetn bios if we hal % blv l.
we u|edi I'll venture to say that | wouldn't
get s. for that purpo through the year.
unless | kept it back from the butter money.
Men folks don't like to buy garden stuff, but
they do like to eat it. Thank goodress, my
husband has sense enough to sec the advan-
tage Of garden. I don't know that he
likes to work In one but he sees that it pays
and he ia not regarding the pleasure OF his
appetite Alone but considering the finar cia
as, ect Of the case. when he raises vegetables
He knows that what we eat from the garden
C; SITS less than the other things we would
have to buy il we had no garden.
The opinion of the man who doesn't have
a garden:
Do have gardcni Not muchl Catch
me puttering round in one. I'd rather go
down to the corner and sit round the grocery
store or saloon all day long than make a
garden bed. It's all foolishnesS. You sow
the seed, and half won't come up, and what
grows gets smothered by weeds Why don't
I pull EN- upi don't have to, | can work
on the farm, but won't work in the garden.
Whyi Because it don't pay to-ddn't tell
you that b fore' But wouldn't it paw il 1
worked it the same as I do ficldf l don't
know | don't care to know. But don't l
like vegetablesl OF course | do Do we buy
anyi Well. no, not to speak of We can't
afford to. Don't get tired of pork and pota-
toes and bread the year roundl Well, yes, l
do and it does seem as if my wife might
give us change sometimes. but she don't.
If she did we'd "spring out" with a better
appetite. aud not have to take "hitters" and
such stuff She "lways harps about n gar
den-a gerdel. but l just put my foot down
and tell her She don't get me into that trap
No, sir I won't bother with one.-Our
Country Home
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-02
CUSTER'S LAST FIGHT.
HOW THE HERO FELL THIS 25TH
OF JUNE TEN YEARS AGO.

Picture of sitting Bull, tho Great Sioux
Chief, who Defeated Custer on the
Little Big Horn-His Chiidren-Curly,
the Generals Scout.
This 25th of June, 1886, it is ten years
since the day when brave Gen. Custer and
his band Of soldiers were massacred on the
Little Big Horn river, in Montana The
wild Indian region Of ten years ago is a
civilized country now. Focks and herds
Craze peacefully where brave Custer and
his men marched to their death that day
The only bit of real wildness in al that
country is the National Yellowstone park,
set apart by government as 'publis park
or pleasure ground for the benefit of the
people"
1t is the strangest river in the world, that
Yellowstone, down branch of which heroic
Custer marched with his men. 1t was ex-
plored for the first time in 1S70-71. When
the surveying party came suddenly to n
square mile Of hot springs they could only
stop and wonder. The terrific rift in the
mountains, 900 feet deep some distance
further on, with the rapid river flowing
through the bottom, was still more wonder
full. 1t was awful The ravine is so sunless
that in broad daylight persons looking up
from the bottom can see the stars.
George A. Custer was an Ohio man, born
in an obscure country village, New Rumley, in