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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-03-28
A NEW LIFE OF
N 60 N,
Magnificently Illustrated.

THE CENTURY is famous for its great histor
ical serials, and never in Its history has a
greater one been projected than this new
Life of MAJ oleon,'' wrlted by Prof. William
M. Sloane, of Princeton, who has spent many
years in preparation for his work. Thus far
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from rancor and attentive to the laws of his
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ILLUSTRATIONS WILL BE MAGNIFICENT-the
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will be printed, great historical paintings re-
produced, and Castaigne and other modern
artists have drawn anew some Of the great
scenes of Napoleons life for this history.
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-03-28
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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
To Make n Daisy Chain.

In the story books all the girls make
daisy chains the very moment they
get out into the fields. Perhaps all Of
them know how, but if so they are
wiser than many girls outside of story
books. This is almost picnic time, and
it will be q novelty for the girls out
side of books to know how to make
flower wreaths for their hats, so that
they may spend m day doing as
their favorites about whom they read
always do. First, be careful how You
pick the flowers. Break them with as
long stems as possible. Make the
stem into a loop, slip the head of the
next daisy through it, draw the loop
tightly, loop the next and keep on
looping and slipping in flowers and ty-
ing until you have a string long
enough to fasten around your hat.
Another way to max daisy chains is
TO slit the stems close to the flower
and slip n stem through mother,
thus making a close set wreath
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
A Chfd's Party.

When directing invitations to a chill
dren's party, instead Of sealing the
small envelopes I cut two tiny Sits
In the flap of each with a sharp knife.
Through these 1 passed white baby
ribbon, brought 1t around and tied it
n a bow in front over the name. AS
L could not send them through the
mail l arranged them in a fancy bas-
keA and the little maiden for whom
the party was given was very happy
In being allowed to deliver, under the
care of a servant, these dainty mis-
sives to her little friends.
When the party was nearly over I
placed a basket of cut flowers and a
silver tray of pins on a table neal the
door, and as each little guest babe the
hostess goOd-by, she pinned on his or
her breast a lovely blossom. 1t was
a very pretty sight. The room had been
darkened and the lamps lighted whilst
the little ones were taking their sim
pie refreshments, one lamp with its
lovely pink shade being placed just
back of where the little hostess stood,
dressed as a fairy, giving to the other
little ones, also in fancy costume, her
lovely flowers and her sweetest good.
bys.-Home Queen.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
Electric Heat Alarms.

On May Z a very disastrous fire oc-
Cured in the village of Moretown,
VT, in which considerable property
was destroyed and the surrounding
forests were set burning. The aus
of the fire was an Over-heated journal
box in a large mill. 1t o spread to
other buildings with the result stated.
Had the bearings in the mill been pro-
vided with some reliable sort of clec-
trio heat alarm no serious damage
could have occurred. 1t would seem
to be a good thing for the factory
mutual insurance companies to insist
upon an electric alarm Seing used on
all bearings in mills and shops where
there is danger of FIRE. A slight re-
duction in the premium as an incen-
tive would undoubtedly result in de-
creased losses to the insurance cOmpa-
MES and at the anne time make it
easy for the policy-holder to adopt the
alarms.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
MATCHED IN ASHES.
A Chicken Makes Its Appearance
Under Peculiar Circumstances.

IA
Under Peculiar Circumstances.
H. NJ. Hewitt has the misfortune to
have his hen house attacked by mites
pretty early in the season. and about
three months ago he removed the roof,
so that the house might be thoroughly
aired, summed and washed by the rains.
He also built a temporary shelter for
the fowls on the other side of the yard,
filled the old nests with ashes and tried
to wean the chickens away until every
thing was in readiness for them. 1t
t%ranspired that an old hen, who felt
the love of locality strong in her breast,
refused to be comforted in the new
abode, and returned to the old home,
laying eggs in the ashes which filled
her former nest. 1t was some days
before the pe~rigrinationS of this old
hen We're discovered, but at length the
nest was broken up and the hen shut
up in solitary confinement, that there
might be no fear of her spreading the
mites broadcast among the other fowls.
About three weeks after this Hewitt
went in the old hen house to investi-
| gate the mite question, when what was
his establishment to hear a young
chicken c%heeping. He looked in all di-
iNNoiollo, hliilhluS Ollc LllSuJ have wall
dered over from the new fowl yard.
and it was some time before he found
that a little chicken was just bursting
The shell in the nest among the ashes
where the old hen had lain.
Knowing beyond a doubt that none
of the fowls had been in the yard for
a period of three weeks, Hewitt was
forced to conclude that he had over
looked an egg that day when he cooped
up the old hen. The result was thai
this egg, having lain buried in the
ashes, was warmed by the sun during
the long-cOntinued drOuth which this
section is now experiencing. until in
cubation took place spontaneously, as
it were, and the little chicken came
forth a veritable child Of the SUM-
Burton Ga.) Correspondence Philadel
Dhia Times.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
A CuriOkity Vt Time.

Two persons were BORN at the same
place at the same moment of time.
After an age of fifty years they both
died, also at the same place and at the
same instant-yet one had lived 100
days more than the other. How was
this possible? The solution turns out
on a very curious, but, with a little re-
Election, a very obvious point in Cir
cumnavigation.
A person going aroud the world to-
ward the west loses a day, and toward
the east he gains Cne Supposing
then, two persons are born together at
the Cape Of Good Hope, whence a
around the world may be performed
in a year; IL one performs this con.
stantly toward the west, in fifty years
he will be fifty days behind the sta
tionary inhabitants; and if the other
sails equally toward the east, he will
be fifty days in advance of them.
One, therefore, will have seen 100
days more than the other, though
they were born at the s: ne place and
at the same moment, and even lived
continually in the same latitude, and
reckOned time by the same calendar
London Tid-Bits.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
Smelling Iron by Electricity.

Important developments are immi-
nent in the iron-smelting industry.
The days of smelling iron with char
coal are passed, especially in districts
where the cost of fuel is high. An
Oregon iron manufacturer says that
while iron is manufactured in Ger
many at So per ton, it costs here $40
per ton for fuel to smelt the metal.
In Alabama. where coal and iron
mines are close together and negro
labor Is cheap, the iron is smelted for
SIS per ton, and the freight on it to
Portland is $40 per ton. Pig iron used
to bring $50 to $50 per ton in Oregon,
and finally it was reduced to $23. This
left but little profit, when the fuel
cost $40 to the ton of iron and rem
dered competition with Alabama iron
impossible. The Oregon ironmaster
regards smelling by electricity as the
only hope for the iron industry in his
state. By utilizing water power to
generate the electricity it will be pos
sible to smelt iron as cheaply there as
elsewhere. Electric smelling works
have already been started in Portland,
where a piece of iron was recently eX-
hibited which had been made by cleo
tricity from black sand in twenty
minutes.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
A BIG ALLIGATOR.



More Than n Century Old.
To f. A. Dennette and his brother,
Elton D. Dennette, belong the credit
for the killing of Fort Georges fam
Gus gator, a giant in size and so old
that his back Is crusted with barna-
cles and moss. But their encounter
with the saurian. was not without ex-
element and some damage to the
hunters.
They found the gator in one Of the
Shall creeks that make into the island,
sneaked upon him in their boat and let
him have a bullet from a Winchester.
The big fellow gave a roar of pain
and rage, and at once started for the
his tail flashing the waters into yeasty
foam. They jabbed an oar into the
gators mouth, and he crunched it into
stem his onslaught, but he broke thai
When almost upon the boat he swung
his tail against it and nearly upset it.
Elton Dennette was knocked over.
board, and no sooner had the gator
seen him than he made for him, and il
the young man had not hastily scram-
bled inboard he would certainly have
met an awful fate. The two young
men had two pairs Of oars, and with
these they managed to keep the little
craft away from a swing of the sau-
RAMS tail. which would have crushed
in the sides as If they were paper.
While one of the hunters kept clear of
the enraged beast the other kept
pumping lead into him from the Win
chester until the water was covered
with red foam, telling that the mon
ster was badly hit.
Finally he appeared to give up the
ghost, turned over on his back and
fioated upon the surface. They las
seed him and towed him ashore, but
the gator was not dead, and still had
any quantity of fight in him, and so
when one of the sportsmen ventured
too close the gator gave a lash with
his tail, knocked the young fellow
upside down and raralyzed his legs
for the time being and went for him,
grabbing his foot in his frightful jaws
and inficting a painful and perhaps
serious injury. 1t was two minutes
before the jaws of the beast could be
pried open, and 1t was an hour later
before the last spsrk of life left the
reptile.
The alligator was Of the largest
seen in the st. Johns in recent years.
He measured IA feet and 3 inches in
length and around the barrel 8 feet
His head was 8 feet long. Those
versed in gator lore say that the oil !
fellow must have long age passed the
century mark. He has been seen In
the vicinity of Fort George for many
years and has probably had a ton of
lead shot at him by enterprising
sportsmen in search of a big trophy
Florida TimeS-Union.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
M1sTooK BozENTA FOR A VAC.
A Restauranteur Sees His Error and
Makes Amends.


When pretty Helen Dungeon won some
reputation as an actress, says the San
Francisco News. and her father took i'll
dollars galore over the counters of Il pop
ular restaurant. an individual almost as
seedy as the typical tramp sauntered into
the swell place at the dinner hour.
Nearly every table was filed with the
gilded youth, male and female, of the
city. A thrill of establishment and indig-
nation swept through the perfumed crowd
when the battered old scarecrow hung
his hat on n peg. snatched an evening pa
per and looked around for a waiter with
the air of one who owned the place.
Did Dungeon. in horror, stepped from
welcome guest.
Haven't you made a mistake, my
friend?' he said.
The old tramp looked up with a smile
and replied in excellent French: 81 think
not. my friend; is not this the cafe?'
"Certainly it is" replied the patron,
but, Won know-you know-it is for the
upper classes"
aOh, | see,'' said the stranger. with an
aire of amusement, "and my costume is
not exactly en- regle. But l have only
this afternoon returned from my ranch
and got here ahead of my trunks. How
ever, if my name will not be an apology
for nv dress l shall have to &c to some
other cafe" and he handed Dungeon his
card.
When the patron glanced at it and read
Count Bozenta." he was profuse in his
apologies.
band. and the gilded guests about the
room were astonished at the obsequious
ness of the old restauranteui.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
Indoor bicycle Riding.

Nowadays every one wants to ride
a bicycle, but many do not attempt
it because they dread the ordeal Of
learning. In the first place, they dis
like the idea of abrasions and bruises,
and, in the second, they can hardly
bring themselves to the sacrifice of
dignity which the flounderings of the
beginner usually entail. They need
no longer hesitate. The bicycle can
now be learned indoors, safe from
prying eyes and without fear of falls.
A new appliance designed for this pur-
pose consists of a small fy-wheel, COW
cred with rubber, and two side wheels,
fitted with simple arrangement by
means of which it can be adjusted to
any kind of cycle in two minutes. Its
great advantage is that the rider ex-
p%eriences the same momentum as in a
spin on a hard road, while the ma
chine either remains stationary or
moves so slowly that in traversing
t1fteen feet the same amount of eXer-
else is obtained as in a mile of or
binary travelling. Practice can thus
be carried Oh in a hall or room, and
the riders can gauge the rate of speed
their eXertions would have given them
on the highway. For beginners, chill
dren and invalids needing physical eX-
erciSe this invention is specially adapt
ed, as it stands perfectly steady and
enables the difficulties of mounting
and %dismounting to be thoroughly
overcome without any danger of falls
or bruises. The appliance is collap-
sible, weighs fifteen pounds and can
be easily carried in the hand.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
FREE BURIAL.
IT Has Been Adopted in Many of the
Swiss CautOns.

Swiss CantOns.
There is at least one country In the
world where 1t costs nothing to die.
In some of the cantons of Switzerland
all the dead, rich as well as poor, are
buried at public expense. Collins and
all other necessary articles are fur
nished on application to certain I'M
dertakers designated by the govern
ment. Everything connected with the
interment is absolutely gratuitous, in
Guiding the grave and the religious
service. All classes avail themselves
freely of the law.
Appropriations are made for the
medical inso....on of the body. for adj
vertising the funeral. for the coffin
and dressing of the corpse, Tor the
funeral procession and hearse. for
opening and closing the grave. and
for putting up and numbering the
head-board. Furthermore, the grave
must be ornamented by growing
plants in a modest way at the expense
of the community. but the bereaved
family has the privilege of adding to
such decorations. A special law pro-
vides for the payment of subsidies by
the cantonal government to the COM
munities in of epidemic.
In the canton of Glarus strangers as
well as citizens are buried at the eX-
pense of the state. The grave, too,
must be kept in proper condition for a
term of ten years. The cemetery is
the property of the community, and is
placed under the care of a superin-
tendent, who arranges for and CON
duets funerals, keeps a register of the
graves, which are numbered consecu-
lively, and sees that they are properly
marked and kept in order. The collins
are to be made of pine wood, and
after a model to be prescribed by the
authorities, who establish a uniform
price for them. The graves follow
each other in regular order, according
to the date of burial. in uniform rows,
and the dead are all laid side by side,
without distinction as to standing in
life or religious belief. Children, how
ever, on account of the smaller size Of
their graves. are buried apart from
the adults. In case religious services
are dispensed with by request, bells
are tolled in the customary fashion and
the recorder of life statistics reads at
the grave the personal record of the
defunct. Officials and employees at
burials are forbidden to receive gra-
tuities. Wherever free burial has
been introduced in Switzerland the
principle has been adopted that, mas
much as death makes ill men equal.
there ought to be no distinction in the
interments of the departed. 1t is as
sumed that all citizens, high or low,
rich or poor, will avail themselves of
the provisions of the enactment, and
that all funerals shall be equally plain
and unostentatious.-Boston Tran
script.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
The Maple Sugar CrOp,

The maple sugar crop in New Eng,
land is reported to be below the aver.
age. 1t was a backward spring. Yer
mont is the first of the sugar-pro.
ducing states, it's average yield being
about 100000 pounds, and 100000
gallons of mOlasses. The Empire State
comes second in the list, with a yield
of 100000 pounds, while Ohio with
2.50O,OOO, New Hampshire with 2,OOO,,
600, Pennsylvania with 100000, In.
diana with 100000 and Massachu.
sets, Virginia, Kentucky and West
Virginia follow. During the year 1894
the mount of bounty paid for maple
sugar was $166,O0O, and this sum was
distributed among some 1000 pro
ducers.-Buffalo Express.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25

A new device now in use in the
psychological department at Yale re-
cords what is called the reaction time
of a Splinter, that is the interval be-
tween the signal to start and the
actual start. The time thus consumed
in carrying a sensation through the
ear to the brain, translating it to an
order to the muscles and transmitting
the order along the nerves so as to
move the muscles, is usually from one
sixth to one-third of a second. The
apparatus will measure the thous-
andth part of a second. The firing of
the starting pistol breaks an electric
circuit, and the first movement of the
runners foot breaks another. Each
break makes a mark on a moving cyl
inder, and from the position of these
marks the time car be measured.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
The Hamadryas.

The keeper at the zoo, describing to
the hamadrya's appearance when
it raised itself to strike, said it was
proud and bold looking" Its action
was as swift as thought, and looked
almost like a spring from the ground.
How high when irritated the terrific
thing can strike is not known; but no
other instance is authenticated of a
snake making good a blow SO high as
four feet from the ground, while
marks on the glass of it's cage show
that the reptile has, in it's endeavors
to escape from confinement, reached
up to the height of nine feet.
Surprising, then, that we were in
clined to believe all that the natives
Of India say about it-that it Is so
fierce as to attack man at sight, SO
vindictive as to follow him with dog
ged resolution, and add to it all we
actually know about the reptile, that
it can climb trees like an anaconda,
swim like a hydra, get over a nine
foot wall and squeeze through a six
inch hole, and that it's bite is death,
it would have to be confessed that the
snake-eating snake is the most terri
BILE creature in nature.-GOOd Words.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25

The theory that malaria Is usually
due to bad drinking water instead of
bad air is supported in a pamphlet is
sued by the North Carolina state
board Of health for general distribu-
ton. 1t contains replies from the
coast counties, in which it is clearly
shown that the use of shallow wells
is connected with nearly all the cases
of malaria, and that communities sup
piled with rain water in cisterns or
from ~artesian wells are almost free
from this form of disease. Many au'
thoritiss in South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida are cited supporting this
view Of the case, and instances are
named In which outbreaks Of malarial
fever have been ended by avoiding
the use Of water from wells or small
streams. A more general scientific in
vssttgation Of this subject would prob
ably prove important.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
A Curious Royal Collection.

One of the most curious collections
In the world is one upon which the
queen of Italy has been engaged for
years. 1t consists of old boots, shoes
and slippers, to many of which a his
torical interest attaches. Queen Mar
garet Is the happy possessor, for in
stance, of a pair Of coarse, heavy
shoes that are said to have belonged
to Joan of Arc; she has also a dainty
pair Of boots supposed to have been
worn by Marie Stuart at her execu-
ton, as well as some slippers of Queen
Marie Antoinette and the famous
beauty, Ninon de rEnclos, of whom
tradition says that she had lovers
after she had reached the age of four
score. Somebody has suggested that
it is possibly the fact that the king
dom of Italy is shaped like a boot that
suggested to the queen her strange
bobby.-London Daily News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25
BIRDS LIKE TO TRAVEL.
which Accounts for Their Annual
Flights From North to South.

Eoh
Flights From North to South.
Why do the birds fiat southwark
each autumn and return again with
every spring? No n knows, but sci
ence, in the person of Prof. Wang, the
eminent Austrian o~rnithologist, has
Just disclosed that the usual fiippant
answer to this question, Because
they like to travel" is not far out of
the way. after all.
In a lecture that Prof. Wang recent
ly delivered at Vienna he gave some
extremely interesting details regard
ing the migrations of birds, all OF
which migrations resemble cue an
other in two responsibility foIow the
most direct line southwark, and are
made with almost incredible rapidity.
Numerous observations have been
made at Heligolapd, which is the
principal halting place of birds OF
passage from northern countries, ana
in Egypt, which is the winter home of
many, and these observations have
established some facts hitherto I'M
known. The bluebirds traverse the
400 nautical miles which separate
Egypt from Heligoland in a single
night, which is at the rate of o
than forty geographical miles per
hour. The swallows speed is over
two and IA half miles per minute, or
nearly three times that of the fastest
railway train. Even the younger
In ds. six or ni ,ht weeks old. accom-
the impulse which caiSes the BIRDS,
after the hrooding ana m"Ulting sea-
son is over, to quit northern eli
mate? He does not think it is fear of
cold-for many species cutie as deli
cate as those which migrate south,
ward easily Withstand the rigors of
| the winter, hut they have an irresistl-
BILE humor for travelling. This is his
idea of the fact, but he can give no eX-
PLANTATION.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-07-25

There are some funny fellows in
Paris, and many of them like nothing
better than to play their jokes on en-
tire strangers. One of these walking
along one Of the largest business
streets one day saw before a clothing
shop n great placard stating that the
concern had 100000 O%vercoats for sale.
Entering the shop the joker asked
the man in charge if he were very
busy.
NO." replied the salesman. "What
can 1 do for you!"
Il see," said the jester, that you
have 100000 o%vercoats for sale, and l
thought I'd like to try them on
Harper's Young People.