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The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
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 so.ealiea p1IaiieS" electric aro braRamo We ..c6 practicable and even effici& o%rking devices. In none of them, however, does electricity furnish the power by which the brakes reapplied; it merely puts in operation some other power. In one type of electric brake the active bral1ing force is taken from an axle of each car. A small friction drum is made fast to the axle. Another friction drum hung from the body of the car swings near the axle. If, when the car is in motion, these drums are brought in contact, that one which hangs from the car takes motion from the other and may be made to wind chain on its shaft. Winding in this chain pulls on the brake levers pre- cisely as if it had been wound on the shalt of the handbrake.
 The sole function of electricity in this form of brake is to bring the fric- tion-drums together. In French brake which has been used experi- mentally for some years with much success, all electric current controlled by the engine-driver. energies an eleetromagnet which forms part of the swingin@-frame in which the loose friction-pulley is carried. This electro magnet being vitalized, is attracted toward the axle, thas bringing the frietion-drums in contact. In an Amer ican brake lately exhibited on a long freight train, a smaller electro-magnet Is used, but the same end is accom- plished by multiplying the power by the intervention of lever and wheel The other type of so-called electric brake is that in which the motive power is compressed air. and the func- tion of the electric device is simply to manipulate the valves under each car, by which the air is let into the brake cylinder or allowed to escape, thus putting on or releasing the brakes. All of these devices have this advantage, that, whatever the length of the train, the application of the brakes is simul- taneous on all the wheels, and stops can be made from high speed with little shoek.-Scribner,s Magazine.
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
INT PARAGRAPHS.
es t'>lie. but lies figure .4nrrirnlu in.nlrnnct Ill ofntis-

'-sr--"-'---xS x tcnsively insalmost all statis- articles. Boston Transcript
 "A new play is entitled: "The Headless Man. Another opportunity, perhaps, for brainless actors. Chicago Herald.
 Pupils at the school of politics learn the arts of paving the way to office and the drainage of the public treasury. N. o. Pieayunc.
 Wife (who never lets her husband forget that she is doing the housework) My poor hands have been working ever since I've been marricd.' Illus band-'I know your poor tongue has" Epoch.
 -"Tommy,n said mother to her seven-ycar-old boy. you must not in- terrupt me when I'm talking with ladies. You must wait till We stop, and then you can talk But you never stop" retorted the boy.
 Did you take me for fool when you married meon cried an angry hus- band, in the thick of domestic quar- rel; to which the wife mcekly re sponded; No, James, 1 did not; but then you alwc $ said was no judge of character. r.'-N. I. Ledger
 Said physician. Good health demands that the mouth be kept closed while asleep.n Ne have known in- stances where mans health would have been materially improved if he had kept his mouth closed shut while awake. burlington Free Press.
 -Enamored svain-"For you darl- ing, I wad lay me doom and dee. . Practical maiden-"That sort of thing is clear out Of date. Willie. What a girl wants nowadays is man who will get up and hustle for her. '-Terre Hauto Express.
 Down to hard facts. -Testy old gent-"Huh! Do you think you can support my daughter in the style to which she has been accustomed? ?h Young suitor-'''Well, no; but I can support her in the style to which her mother was accustomed a good many years after she married you Old gent (subdued3 3-"Take her. my son, and be happy. .'-N. '. Weekly.
 -Baldheaded and very homely old gentleman to photographer = "Brat such pictures. Can't you make me look any better than that after five sit tings2a Photographer Thoroughly eXasperated)-'1 think I can, sir, fl you will allow me to take the back of your head. It hasn't so much express sion as the other side. but it q blamed sight prottier.n - Burlington Free Press.
 -snagsby, ip his office (to trim look ing booil-aGent)-"Wo don't want any of your blarsted= literature here. Git out!' Agent-s.I thought you might want copy of How to be Happy. Though Married. 'n Snag5by Hold! I'll subscribe for my wife. Shes been wanting that book these ten years. = Drake's Magazine.
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
How Lobsters Are GaTed.

The usual method of taking lobsters is by means Of the pot. The pot is d trap baited with fish, and which is sunk to a certain depth. These traps are marked with buOys, left for a tide, and then the lobsterer goes out in his boat, hauls up his trap, and secures his Holsters. At times, however, off the coast of Maine there are estu- aries, which are of great length, run ming between the lodges of rock. Pools are many and of considerable depth. When Holsters are plentiful, at certain seasons, they run in from the sea, and seek these estuarics for food. small fish being abundant. As the tide recedes, the Holsters remain in some Of the rocky basins, and can be gaffed. The gaff has a stout hickory stock, and the gatf itself is generally three-pronged, and made out of the best steel. A good gaff is rarely bought ready-made, but is turned out by the village blacksmith. Its temper must be excellent, as it must neither be too soft nor brittle. To Use the gaT requires no small amount of skill. for in the water the movements of the lobster are rapid. He can back or turn in the fraction of q second, and then in color he assimitates to the shade of sea water. Many of the largest Holsters are taken in this way, but are not brought to market, because galling lobster generally kills it, and dead lobster is not marketable Harper $ Weekly
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.
How tho Dials of Tower Clocks Are Made
 Visible at Night.

Clockmaker Doray. in Havre, France, has constructed very ingenious device in order to make the figures on tower clock dials appear white upon dark ground as well by day IS by night.
 The dial is made of plain, transparent glass, and the figures are painted on it with white paint The hands are made of.white china glass. Behind the dial is a black b, C ground. From the stre t the dial seems to be black, and the figures and hands are white as milk.
 At night the light is thrown upon the dial by strong relectors from the bottom of the clock room. so that the rays are thrown through the glass dial toward the sky. No direct rays can reach the eyes of spectators below.
 The semi-transparent figures and hands receive and divide the rays of light in such a way that the figures, as well as the hands, show themselves to observers below in clear light upon a dark ground. At the neurological school in Glashutte, Germany, simi- lar construction may be seen in the house clock at the school building.- Jewellers Weekly.
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
KNOLL. MISCHIEF"

Our little Molne Mischief
 fHer proper name is 8oso) Is always busy as bee,
 And every body knows The bees arc full Of business The iivelong summer day, And so is Mo ly Mischief
 But in quite different way. Her little rosy fingers,
 So pretty in their place, Are often tied together
 Behind her i'll disgrace, Because, f mamma leaves a thing For only half minute, They, ike tiuttering butterflies Are sure to settle il it. One Sunday, after meeting, She vanished from our sight But no one saw the going
 Of our little wandering sprite. We ran around to seek her Among the girls and boys Aud found her III the organ loft, hunting fer ze noiae." And once when we forbade Eer To p:cl; the entrants red. We heard her in the bushes. And this is what she said 't o title lonesome babies, Is you atwaid 10 stay Cone [, your own, dear muzzer, III hide you safe away eave my little readers fo guess the hidiHJpi9ce. rhaps | something had 10 do ith the stains upon her faea. Mrs J. U. Dana in YoutAs' Con panion.
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01

The pen enables a young man to give his girl al iuSljng ot his seati- ments.-N ashinpton Capital
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01

While tearing down an old chim- hey in Nyack, N. Y, lately, the work men were astonished to find imbedded in the mortar a toad in d somewhat in- active condition, but still alive. It had been confined in that spot, hidden from light and air for fully forty years. Half an hour after he had been brought out he hoped around in IS lively a man. ner as if he had been born the pres mt year
The Springdale news., 1889-11-01

A locomotive engineer, while run. hing between Whoatvale and San Leandro, Cal, lately ran in to what ap. Peared to be small cloud, sweeping close to tho ground, but what was in reality swarm of bees. The cab was literally filled with bees in a few min. utes, butneithec he nor his fireman wag stung.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
Old Settlers Meetings.

The annual meetings of the Old
Settlers Society of this county has
been observed a good many years.
These meetings will pass into history
and the time has come when it
should be decided whether the
meetings of the old settlers during
the many years gone by shall be
only traditional or placed on record.
MI. D. B. Benedict, who has So long
held the office of Secretary Of the
Old Settlers Society, has on request
consented to furnish for publication
from the records the places of meet
ing of the society and other facts
from its beginning to the last in
1888. We are sure this service of
Mr.. Benedict will be appreciated by
the citizens of the county. And
while on this subject of home history,
it is here repeated what has before
been said: A brief history of each
town in the county, including the
names of the first settlers, the events
of interest occurring in its early
years, including the first schools and
churches established, and other mat
tiers of Importance should be
preserved These facts and early
events will increase in value as
towns grow older, especially in the
estimation of those who care to know
of the early settlement Of the coun-
try where they reside. The longer
this history of early settlement is de
ferred, the more difficult the task of
doing it. Every year strikes from
the ranks of the living those whose
memory of the past has some one or
more facts which would have been
worth perpetuating, but now lost for
ever. 1t seems that in this county
where So many young men have en-
joyed the advantages of good
schools at home Or abroad, there
might be some one found in each
town to collect the most interesting
facts and incidents of early history in
his town and embody them briefly in
a written statement. No young man
of a respectable public school educa-
ton could plead inability. News
papers would readily give place to
such historical articles.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
An Old Town Sensation.

The old town Of Oak Creek, ten
miles this side of Milwaukee on the
lake shore, after a repose of half a
century, has awakened to new activ-
ity Oak Creek is Familiarity known
to all our early citizens. Before the
construction of the railroad from this
place to Milwaukee, it was the prin-
cipal stopping place, except Racine,
between here and Milwaukee. It
then had hotel with fair accommo-
dations, a store and a few small
shops; that has been about the ex-
tent of it's business Importance dur
ing subsequent years. Strangers
who visited Oak Creek fifty years ago
were told a lake harbor was in the
prospective there, and were shown
where the harbor piers would proba-
blv be located. There were few, if
any, of the usual natural advantages
for the construction of harbors, but
the situation for building harbor
was quite as favorable as at least one
other point not far away, where ap-
preparations are now expended for
that purpose by the government.
On boring a we'll at Oak Creek a few
days ago, current of natural gas
was struck, which came rushing out
with noise that startled the neigh
borhood. Gas to any amount was
wholly unexpected, for it is usually
not found except where coal abounds.
The volume of gas emerging from
the we'll can be utilized in Milwau-
kee and is sufficient, it is claimed,
for the needs of that city. This dis
covery has impaired life to the dull
old town and raised high hopes; on
the strength of it real estate has risen
hundred per cent. with the risk of
the gas soon being exhausted. When
it is settled the gas is not tempo
rary flow, property is expected to
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
irst-born Of Egypt appropriated

frst-born Of Egypt Appropriated
the horror Of the Johnstown food.
The Angel took but one from each
house. The food took we'll nigh
half of all the souls that were in the
line Of its cruel current,
The earthquake of Lisbon, the
great fire Of London, the great fire
tof Chicago left the survivors of those
famous disasters well equipped for
new struggles in comparison with
the survivors Of the recent cataclysm.
| Of the houses and stores, the banks
and marts, of the deluged region, all
that can be said is "the floods came
and swept them away The very
foundations are oblterated. The
cities are as though they never had
been. There is less left of Johns
town than of Tadmor It's ruins are
less reconstructible than are those
of Tyre or of Sidon. The devasta-
ton is complete and irredeemable.
None of those bene6cent agencies of
modern civilization, the insurance
companies, can be called upon to
aid largely in the relief of the sur
vlvors. Men insure their homes
against the peril of fame; the peril
of food is not contemplated in the
insurance of houses. When fire
breaks out it is rarely that some nee
essaries of life-clothing or bedding,
or at least the money contained in
the bulldlng-are not saved. Moth
ing was saved from the food. He
who preserved life preserved that
alone The husbandless mother has
neither food nor shelter nor change
Of clothing for herself, and the suck
ing babe that is left alone to her of
lately numerous family There is no
charitable neighbor to give or we'll
disposed trader to trust her for pro-
visions. There are no neighbors or
traders in the desolate valley. The
husband who has saved himself and
wife, or it may be himself and now
motherless child, can 60 to no foun-
dry or mill for work and wages. In
dustry has no more existence in
Johnstown than in the depths of the
Red Sea. The awful truth is that
the city has ceased to exist. 1t was
and is not. There is neither insur
ance, nor charitable organization,
nor municipal authority, nor private
enterprise, nor public zeal to help
the sick or to employ the healthy, to
aid in restoration or to prevent fur
ther destruction. There is nothing
to restore; there is nothing to des-
troy. The devastation of all things
is absolute. "The floods came and
swept them away"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
Soldiers and Widows.

In reply to statements lnslnuatlng
that all the old soldiers in this state
are not we'll cared for, Hon. L. E..
Pond, member of the last legislature
of Wisconsin, who had charge of the
bill proposing the building of Memo
rial Hall, says that at the close Of
the fiscal year September 80, 1888,
there were ten soldiers and seven
soldiers widows in poor-houses; that
not one of these was in pOOr-hOuse
from necessity, or because they could
not be cared for under the liberal
provision of the laws of the state.
They were in the poor-house from
choice, or because their condition
and habits were such, they might be
elsewhere more to their choice. Un-
der the law of 1887 $50, 1872 was au-
thorized to be raised by the counties
in the state for a relief fund of
Union soldiers; that full amount was
not raised, but sufficient to take
proper care of all the needy soldiers.
By the law passed at the last session,
the state can raise by counties for
the soldiers relief fund, about
100000 The Waupaca Home was
given $500 last winter 1t is CAL
culated that every inmate in the
Home will receive $1oo yearly. The
accommodations for soldiers and
their widows at Waupaca are pro-
crossing satisfactorily, and in what
ever other duties the state may be
remiss, it cannot be charged of be-
ing unmindful of its obligations to
Union soldiers. Wisconsin has from
the first been patriotic and generous
to those who aided in crushing out
the rebellion.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
The IohnstoWn Calamity,


Every newspaper reader, and pro-
badly every one who does not read
the papers has heard of the disas-
trous flood at Johnstown, Pa Tell
ing of this awful calamity imparts no
news to any man or woman residing
within the limits Of ordinary COM
munication. But it would betray
an indifference to 4 catastrophe the
most appalling and destructive of
the kind to human life Of any which
has before occurred in this country.
not to give it a passing notice,
though it has before been described.
No attempt will be made to speak of
particulars, yet there are enough of
these of thrilling interest to fill a vol
ume. Only an imperfect summary
of the situation can be given. The
dam of the reservoir, which gave
away, causing the disaster, is p
miles from Johnstown; it is the lar
gest reservoir in the United States.
1t was in some places 100 feet deep
and from two to three hundred feet
above the level of Johnstown; it was
over three miles long and over
mile wide. The dam which held the
reservoir in check is from 700 to a
1000 feet long, ninety feet wide at
the base, twenty feet on the top and
a hundred feet high, When the dam
suddenly gave way before the i'm
mense pressure of the food which
had been accommodating by days of
rain, came rushing down, presenting
an appearance of an advancing wall
of water twenty feet high. 1t needs
no fertile mind to comprehend the
awful devastation which followed in
it's course. There we're number of
smaller towns on the river below
Johhstown which Jared disastrously. |
The Cambria Iron Company lost
100000. The following COM
ments are taken from the Chicago
Inter Ocean,:
TO find anything at all compare
bic in magnitude of destruction to
the Pennsylvania inundation the
mind has to revert to the lava deluge
of Herculaneum and Pompeii, to the
earthquake of Lisbon, to the burst
ing of the Holland dikes. We
doubt if any other event of which
profane history gives authentic &C
count resulted in such dire calamity
There have been two or three bat
ties in which a greater number of
lives we're sacrificed, but not one in
which the percentage of death was so
great The most exaggerated esti-
mate of loss CT life in the three days
fighting in the Wilderness assigns
but II 900 dead to the Union army,
and by this estimate 10000 men
took part in the engagements.
Johnstown and its adjacent villages
counted but 10000 souls, and of
these at least 1900 are supposed to
have persisted. No fire, plague, pes
thence, or famine ever has wrought |
so much woe in SO brief a space of
time among SO small population.
Not even the terrific march of the
Angel who slew every one of the !
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
Northwestern Yale in Wis
cOnSin.

Yale College in New England has
borne the palm as one of the most
distinguished literary institutions of
high order in the East, it being
among the oldest 1t was little sus-
pected in I847 when few friends Of
education, none Of them wealthy,
started the idea Of founding an insti-
tuition in Belot which it was hoped
would ultimately claim rank with
New England Yale. The beginning
of a college was made at Beloit un.
der the joint auspices of the Presby-
terrain and Congregational churches
of Southern Wisconsin and Northern
Illinois; also little later under the
same auspices Female Seminary at
Rockford, Illinois. The College has
had much hard struggling to main
tain it's standing, and it's recent good
fortune has been such the New York
Express, an old and influential Jour-
nal, justifes Beloit's early title to the
"Yale of the Northwest" It is we'll
remembered when it's most earnest
early friend and it's first President,
who held that position many years,
DR.. A. L. Chaplin, visited this town
when but village to solicit aid in
founding the college, and was glad
to obtain small pledges from citizens
who were mostly poor, but were
anxious for an institution in the new
west, where their sons could be edu-
Gated without sending them east.
Three church deacons here, neither
of whom were wealthy, Deacons Sey-
mour. Whitney and Bennett, each
aided the best they could. All these
many years ago passed away and did
not see hopes realized. During the
intermediate time large number of
young men have been educated at
Beloit, who entered the ministry and
other callings. Through the liber-
atty Of individuals in part outside of
Beloit, the college has recently re-
ce1ved assurances Of funds to the
amount of $2oo, 900, which will place
it in condition which it has long
desired, and will no longer hold in
ferior rank to any New England
College.
Buy your fancy fan nels, dress and
colored shirts from. LENT & FUNCK. 52tf
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06

If lyncIliug is ever justifable it was
in the case Of the ghouls captured mu-
tiIating and robbing the victims of the
Pennsylvania food yesterday. Two
were given short shrift at the end of a
rope, and four were driven into the
seethins river and allowed to miserably
perish by the frantic men whose dead
they were Decorating. Their fate was
terrible, but just, Vandalism is one of
the offenses against society which mer-
its immediate and awful punishment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06

run up to a high figure and Oak
Greek perhaps will take a long
stride toward what it hoped to be a
half century since The early pro-
jectors Of the village of Oak Creek
have passed away without realizing
their expectations; the future is still
problematical.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY
MCGARIGLE, the Chicago boodler

MCGARIGLE, the Chicago boodler,
has paid lightly for the ofense with
which he was charged. If he can
not we'll afford to pay a fine Of
ST. 900 and costs to get his freedom
he is not half the boodler he has
been accused of being. To an out
slider there seemed to be unseemly
haste in the quick settlement in
Judge Shepard's court Of the case
against McGarigle and his partner,
Mcdonald.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-06

Buy your fancy fan nels, dress and
colored shirts from. LENT & FUNCK. SIT.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-31

saml; wszystkiem kiorowat orga-
nista p. Chybihskl. o godzinio A
pc po1udnlu przyby} nasz czcigod.
dy proboszcz I'd Obornik, a para
fianie z choragwiami kos cielne-
mi oczekiwali go ma koacu wsi. X.
proboszcz S1worc, byiY administra-
tor tutejszego koscloiu i parafn,
powitat nowego p~roboszcza.
Poznaa.- Nietrzepkowskiego, ma.
larza, skazat sad Drzysiegtych ma i
lata wiezienia w domu karnym IA
zranienie nozem czeladnika bednar-
skiego SokofewSkiego, skutklem
czego Sokofowskn W poi godziny
zycie zakohczyi.