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n. TXSSK TABLE. 'M. R. E. in Nebraska, ' MAIN LINK' . XXf RIM TRAINS fiftIKO H'KHT. IONS : i NO. 1. No. X touth... 11.4 4 Crk... ille lirtiU... id. rood .... . a KM a in :ao a m tl III :Mltni in M a in in an a m 10 :47 a to :Jtf p in 7;l-1 p in 7 p in 7;4 p m 7 :M m K :10 p IU 8 DO p HI 8 -.15 p ui a :30 p III 10 :15 pm 3 :15 a in 3 uto a in 0 a 111 8 sie a ni 12 :itfp in 1J p in 6 ;X p m 0 p m 10 ;0"i p III 11 305 a di Ar. 11 p D)Ar. p tnlAr. I.'ve 12 Ar. 4 L've 4 jo pn iw S&5 p iniAr. siOpmjU've .nop wlAr. lopiiijLve 20 a in Ar. a m lve 03 a in I A r. cod. r. e L'Vfcl lAr. . iL've Ar. . k.... EirOEHS TRAINS OOINO EAST. vrroxs : 1 No. 2. No. 4. tainoutU.... kpolis ...... jord at Creek... Isvllle th fiend..... land i CDWOttd .... r co!u I , ttlogn 'i Cloud Cook Iron nyer.... ..... Ar. 6 sio p ni 4 :M) p in Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. 0 :iK) a HI H :.r)0 a ill 8 :3A a lu 8 :2ft a in 8 :17 a iu x :05 a in 7 :18 a in Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. Ar. At. 4 :3S p in 4 HI P 4 :UI p Hi 3 JA p III 3 -M p IH Ar. 3:13 pm 7 :3I a m 3 -JM a in 10 :15 p in 10 :30 p III 6 :W p HI 7 :40 p HI 3 O0 p HI 3 :'M p III 10 -M a in 11 a in 7 -M a iu Ar. 2:0' P Ar. L've Ar. L've Ar. L've Ar. L've Ar. 1,'vo 2 36 P Ar. o o a Lie 10:10 a Ar. 8 L'vo t! Ar. 3 a L've :o a Ar. 10 :-lfi p L've :p mi L've in L've I ;rain3and 4. numinnit 39 and j west of id Clouu, runuaujr K. C. ST. JOE & C D. R. R. EXPRESS TRAINS C.OINO NORTH. STATIONS : lattsmoutli . 4 -J60 a m 6 13 a in fi :11 a in 6 OS a in C 0 a in B a& p in 6:11 pm 6 :ll p HI 6 :'M p m c :.rio p m breapolta.... a riaiie... e levue . imalia IX TRESS TRAINS :oin: SOl'TII. STATIONS : f'lattsmouth. Ireapolls .... l)0a in 9 :10 a in 9:oo a in 8 :47 a m :-5 a ni 8 :10 p in 8 :i0 p iu 7 -Jo p in 7 :-' P in 7 rju p in , fiatte Belle vue... ... TIME TABLE n.ssouri JPaciflc Ilatlread. K&press Express i-reigni leaves leaves leaves going going going SOUTH. SOUTH. SOUTH. 7.40 p.m" S.mi a.m. 12.W a. in. 8.17 " 8.37 " p. Ih. 8.42 " 9.00 " 3.00 - 8.59 " 9.15 3.S0 - 9.24 9.40 5.00 9.37 9.53 " 5.45 " 10.07 10.21 " C.l" " 6.37 a. in 7.07 p.m. tjUp.m 6.22 a.m. Going I Uoing doing NORTH. I NORTH. NORTH. 8 52 a.m" 8.32 p.m. 8.3Sp.in 7.57 a. m. 6.10 a.m 1.24 p.m. 1.01 p. m. 6.45 " .54 " 2.10 " I 6.03 6.0H " 2.43 I 6.32 6.33 " 3.5 I 61 6.48 " 4.25 " 7.20 " 6.15 ' 5.2" I 8.00 6.55 " 7.0; M FapUlum..... Hprtnt?tield 1-ouUvllle Avoca.... Dunbar ......... Kansas City LonU t. Loafs-- anM Ciiy iinlur. voa. Wipli:tr Water. (ulli.-YlUf -irinncld... I apiliion Liuahi arrivcf j lir aU-ne U .lellerson City time, which is 1 mi f.t-iter thau Omaha time. x i A.SI UEPABTIBE . iTTHMOUTH 31 A ILK. OF j r.iv.;. KB. TJ3o p. in. I U.30 a. m. f 9.00 a. in. t MX) p. m. f li.oo a m fio p. m. u.mo am.) .JO p. in. ) 4.00 p. m. 11.00 am. DEPARTS, t 9.00 U. m. I 3.00 p. ro. j . a. in. 6.55 p. in. 4.-5 p. in t.v) a. m J 8.25 a. m. 4.23 p. m. 8.oo a. m l.oo p. m JIOXEY KA9TERX. WESTJCCV. " KORTHERX. SOUTHEHX. OMAHA. V KEPINO WATER. -ACTOKVVILLK. Dec. 17. ltl. KATES CHARMED FOR OltlMER. On orders uot exceeding 815 - - - 10 cents Over 815 and not exceeding 830-- - 13 cents .. cjo yio - - 20 cents $5 - - 25 cents A single Money Order may inciUuo n. amount lrom one cent to liity dollars, out must cot contain a Iraclioual part of a cent. BATES FOR POSTAGE. 1st class matter (letters) 3 cents per ounce. 21 - - (Publisher's rates) 2 cts per lb. 3d (Traunient Newuppoers and books come uuier this class) 1 cent per each 2 ounces. Uh class (merchandise) 1 cent per ounce. J.W.Marshall F.M. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY 1HUECTORY . GEOBGE8.SMIT1I. Mayor. WILLIAM II. CUS11LNG, Treasurer. J. D.SIMPSON, City Clerk. W1LLKTT IOTtENOEK. 1'ollce Judife. K. B. WINDHAM, City Attorney. P. K. Ml! KPU Y, Chief of Police. P. McCANN, Overseer of Streets. O. KlEHNKE. Chief of Fire Dept. S. H. KICHMOND, Ch'u Board ol Health ... . COCNCILMEN. 1st Ward Wra . llerold. 11. U Bous, 2nd Ward J. M. Patterson. J. U. FairOeld. 3rd Ward M. B. Muri.hy, J.E. Morrison. 4tn Ward F. D. LeubhoiT. l McCallan. SCHOOL BOARD. JESSE B. STRODE, J. W. BAK.NES. L A. IIART1U N Wm. WINTEKSTEEN L, D. BENNETT, V. V. LEONARD, 7Wjr JNO. W. MARSHALL. o . COUNTY DIRECTORY. W. IL NKWEI.L, County Ire.vnrer. J.W. JENNINGS. County Clerk. - J. W. JOHNSON. County Judue. K. W. HYERS. SlieriC. CYRUS ALTON, Sup't of Pub. Instruction. G. W. FAIRFIELD. County Surveyor. P. P. GASS, Coroner. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. . JAMES CKAWKORD. South Bend Precinct. SAJt'li R1CUAUDSON. Mt. Pleaoant Precinct. A. I'- TODD, Platlsmouth Parties having busines with the County . Conunisaloars. will find them In session the First Monday and Tuesday of each month. BOARD Or TRADE. FRANK? CAKRUTH. President. J. jl. CONNOR, HENBY B.ECK, Vice-Presidents. . WM. s, WISE. Sect etary. FRED. GOKDKR. Treasurer. Kegalar meetlnR of the Board at the Conrt ilouM.tbe first Tuesday evening of each montlu J. F. ' BAUWEISTER Furnishes Freso. Tnr Jinik UCLlVr.REO DAILY. Special calls attended to. and Fresh Milk from same ' furnished when wanted. !y LATTSUOUTH MILLS TT8M0CTH NEB. Proprietor. Flaryr.Com ileal & Fed riattiimonth Telephone Exchange. 1 J.P.Young, residence. 2 lUtnnett At Lewi, store. 3 ' M. B. Murphy Bi Co., 4 lionner Ktablcs. a :ninty Clerk's offlce. ti K. B. Lewiii. rpsldtl. 7 J. V. Week bach, "tore. H Western Union Tf l-graph onlce. tt 1 . II. W heeler, residence, lo I. .,ampbell, 14 R.b. Wlndliam, " 16 Jao. Wayinan. " 16 J. W. JflilllliK. " 17 W. H. Wine, olllce. is Morrisey BrosM ofllee. V.t W. K. Carter, utore. JO . W. Fairfleld, rellence. 21 M. B Murphy, 22 1. If. Wheeler & Co , office. 2:1 J. I. Taylor, residence. 21 Klrst National Bank. 2T I. K. KuHner's ofllce.! 20 J. 1. Young, Htore. 2H 1erktns Moum. ' K. W. Ilyti, rexldence. 31 Journal olllc. 3J Falrlleld'" Ice fflee. 31 JIkkai.o I't'is. Co ofllCP. :rt .I.N.Wise, refldence. 36 H. M. Chapman, " 37 W. I. Jones, " 24 A. N. Sullivan, ' 39 U.K. I'alnier. 40 W. II. Hchildknecht, ofllce. 41 Sullivan & Woolcy, 42 A. W. Mcuiut'lilifi. resiilenre. 4.1 A. l'altersu. livrry. 44 C. M. llolineH. 46 I.. 1. Bennett, residence. 4i ie. H. Smith, otllce. 47 l A.Moiin', tlor.st. 4- .1. W. Barnes, resilience. 50 It. K. Llvluufton, oilier, 3o7 J. V. Weekhach, residence. 3-Ci Chaplain Wright. 3K) W. II. SchlUlkiiccht " JMH Jeo. H. Smith, 3V K. K. LivingHtun. " 315 C. C. Ballard, . " Tlicjvvitch hoard connects l'lat tsinou'li with Asiiland, Arlington, Bluir, Council BIuITk, t re nuint. Lincoln. Omaha Klkhoru Station. Fapiliiou. Sprmgneld, ixui-vi!le South Bend and Waverly. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. C A MARSHALL, D E IT T I S T , (Successor to Clutter & Marshall.) Preservation of natural teeth a specialty. CseH N itrous Oxide Gas. Oftice in Fitzgerald Block. - Plattsinouth, Neb. SMITH & ISIIESOX, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. the Courts iu the state, tional Bank. PLATTS MOUTH 1 practice lii.ill Ollice over Firxta- 4yl NKEUSKA. IU. A. MALI.SBl'llV. ID ZEIi 1ST TIST. fflce over Smith, Black & Co's. Droit Store. First class dentistry at reasonable prices, 231 y II. 31 KA II K, 31. !.. PHYSICIAN and SUUC.FON. OHlco on Main Street, between Sixth and So vent h, south side ouice open day anu o:ight COUNTY rilYSICIAN. Special attention given to disease of women ana cnuuren. 21 ti M. O'DONOHOE ATTORNEY AT LAW ft NOTARY" PUBLIC. Fltgerald's Block. PLATTS-MOUTH, - NEBRASKA Agent for Steaaiship lines to and from Europe. li2vr2ly R. R. I.I VI?. lihTOS. XI. t I'll Y8IOIAN & 8UHIIEON. Uf r 1 c noura, irom 10 a. in., to 2 p. m. bxamin.rt! Surgeon lor u. S. Pension. "JUUttUK R Nebraska. 221113 I. II. W II KK Li R It & '. UW OFFICE, Real IMate, Fire and Lite In surance Agents, riattsiuoutu, Nebraska. Col lectors, tax -payerf. Have a complete abstract 01 lines, uuy and sell real estate, negotiate JA3IK3 i:. JIoitRlSOX, Notary Public. ATTORNEY AT LAW. WUIprastice in Cass ana aujoining counties ; gives ?pecia:atteoticn to collections and abstracts of title. OlUce in x ltzgeraia Block, Plattf mouth, Nebraska. J. C. DEWBERRY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Has his office in the front part of his residence on Ltncago Avenue, where nc may be found In readiness to attend io the duties of the of fice. 47tf. ROUKKT R. lVIiHAH, Notary Public ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office over Carruth's Jewelry Store. Plattsinouth. - Nebraska. M. A. HARTICAN, I- A W Y E B . Fitzgerald's Block, Plattsmouth Neb Prompt and careful attention to a general tan rnwuce. a. n. sullivanT Attorney and '.Counselor- at-Law. OFFICE In the second story, sou'. 1. all business . Union Clock, front rooms Prompt mention given t mar2o BOYD & LARSEN, Contractors and Builders. W 111 give estimates on all kinds of work. Any orucrs iei ai me uunioer xarus or 1 ost Ofllce will receive proinot attention Heavy Truss Framing, for barm and large buildings a specialty. For refeienc9 apply to .1. P. Young. J. V. Wee b 1: 1 or II. a. Water man & Son. d&w BEST fS THE MARKET. ?.T:ula OXIjYot Vegetable Oil umIjL'iux licet Tallow, To Indues housekeepers to giTe this Soap iia outip Hi a trial, with each BAR WE CITE A FINE TABLE NAPKIN This offer It mado for a short time only and should bfc taken advantage of at ONCE. We WAKE ANT this Soap to do mora wash- Ins with greater eoso than any soap In the market. Ti has no EQUAL for use In bard and cold water. Y0V3 GROCER HAS IT. a.A.Wrisley&Co. Eaau&otwwrs of Standard iMsndrt Telia soaps. o. a. WESLEY & eore A'TKOFHECY OP AMERICA. (George Berkeley, 1727. Tbe Mn., disjruHtml at an age ami c'iius Barren of every Klorious theuie, . . In distant lands now vvaiLs a lietter tune, lYoduf iny subj-t worthy fa 11 10. Tliere shall l kuii another golJen age. 1 he rise of empire anil of arts, The Rood ami jfreat uprising epic rage, The wisest heaUs and iioblekt hearts. Not such as Eumjie breeds in her decay; Huch as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay liy future poets shall be sung. Westward the courseof empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with tho day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. A Clerk' Hammer Retreat. Washington Cor. Kt. Paul Pioneer Press. There is yet another queer way of syieuding the summer in the city, to which my attention has recently leen called. This can hardly bo said to bo in the city, and yet it is on the Ixmler-lund of the city, too. A clerk in tho pension ofllce has encamped himself just out of West Washington on tho heights, and in the trees. And this camp, let mo tell you, is tho oldit thing on the top of the earth. It isn't 011 the earth either, nor yet under the earth, nor in the heavens, but it is midway suspeiid;d in the tree top. Among the great oak trees 011 the heights is one with gnarled, spreading branches about twenty or twenty-- five feet from tho ground. On those branches this iK'ii.sion ofllce clerk has laid a platform of solid pine, joists, and upon tho platform ho has fixed an ordinary army A tent. Like tho celehratod fumily Robinson, alout whom ev ery boy has read, he ascends into thi habita tion by means of a ladder, lie doesn t ex actly get into his hole and pull the hole in after him, but he goes up his ladder and pulls the ladder after him; which is much the same thimr. Once within his tent up in the branches, ho is safo from all intrudei-s, except intruders with wings. A friend asked him what were his reasons for such an eccentric life. His reply was characteristic: 'I was bound to go out of town this sum mer, and yet 1 had to work in tho oitice. 1 am keeping cool now, anu living not only in the country, but in tho air. and nothing in the world disturbs inv tranquil rest. I have a fow lKXks in my tent, and as for pictures, whv I have pictures innumerable in cloud- laud, and new ones every night. Everything is comfortable in my tent, rio sound reaches nie save the sighing of the wind, which some times comes like the music from an Colian harp. When it blows tho hardest, the music is sweetest. It is like the rain on the roof to tho drowsy boy in the attic the more it rains and blows, the sweeter are my slumbers. There's only one time when I feel a little shaky everybody's cup of nectar must have a drop or gall, you know and that is during a heavy thunder storm, when tho lightning flashes so vividly through the tree tops. There's a possibility, you know, that I might Ite elected drasideut 01 the United states; there is also a possibility that I may be struck with lightning. 1 take my chances, however, between the two possibilities." Has he not found the philosopher's stone of contentment, this monarch, whose kingdom is a tree and whose castle is in air if Another View ofthe "Assisted" Kml erant Question. The Judge. Iu the first place, the vast majority of these emigrants were never paupers in the proper sense of the term. They were assisted to emigrate, not deported. They pay a por tion of their own passage, and arrive here, usually with a few dollars in their pocket, and almost invariably with stout hearts and strong arms, ready to work for more. Such men are the most desirable class of immi grants we could have, and everyone of them is worth a thousand dollars to the wealtn of tho country of his adoption. If, among a large number of such immigrants, we receive one here and there who is not of this desir able class, we have little light to complain. According to the laws of proportion, in every given number comprismg a community, a certain number must be whether from old age, sickness or any other infirmity depend ent on the others. The purchaser of a roast of beef might as reasonably refuse to pay for the bone, as the country that receives ten thousand emigrants refuse to support that quota of helpless which the tables teach U3to expect in that number. Furthermore, and as far as regards the allegation of pauperism which is charged against the people: That they are poor, goes without the saying, else they would not come here as assisted emi grants ; but a man who cannot find work which is the reason for their leaving Ireland is not necessarily a pauper, nor does it fol low that he will be idle when he does find employment. The conditions of life are very different in America from what they are in Ireland, as many of our citizens can testify. We have room here and a need, as well for a practically unlimited supply of immi grants. In Ireland the country is altogether overpopulated. A man who would starve there has a fair chance of becoming moder ately independent here ; and even if his gov ernment has assisted him to reach a country where he can better himself, that is no reason why we should refuse him. We have a good right to set our face against the imposition on us of criminals and of people incapable of supporting themselves but we have none to refuse emigrants because they are assisted or to argue from the fact of their needing that assistance that they are paupers. Trust In a Oood Crip. At a circus in Bismarck, D. T., the other day, according to The Bismarck Tribune, a colored man and his wife occupied front scat, and when a terrible gale of wind began to rip the canvas the woman planted her knees right down in the dust, and began to call upon the Lord to save her and spare her life. The man tnrew ms arms around a stake driven in. the ground and cried out: 'Look 'yah, ole woman, you bettah ease up on dat prayin' an' grab a centah pole if yo' doan1 wanter leab dis country ahead ob de reg'lah procession. Hit's all right to rassle In pra'r in de ordinary program ob life, but de Lawd ain't gwine to head off dis tornader as a pussonel favor to you. You jes' grab a centah pole, now, an' shet yo' eyes, an' trans fer dat trust in heaben to trust in a good grip, 'less yo' wanter light somewhere about Jimtown afo' mornin! I'se canversin' wid yo' now, honey 1" And she did straightway grip a grip even UKe tnat unto death. For Book.Borrowcra. Chicago Tribune. The London Lancet has a charming way of consoling its readers and promoting the com fort of humanity at large. It has just de clared "there is no more powerful apparatus for the conveyance of disease than a book." Books, we are assured, can transmit "measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, sore throat, whoop ing cough, bronchitis, and perhaps phthisis." Will book-borrowers please bear this in mind) Might Ket be so Pleasant. flT 1 . . a wisn x was on a aeserx island, ex claimed Mrs. A., who had been annoyed by gossiping neighbors; "I wish I was on a desert island where there wouldn't be any body to talk about you." "But, my dear," replied Mr. A., "you .must remember there wouldn't be anybody to talk about, either." Mrs. A. said she hadn t thought of that, and concluded that a desert island ought not be so pleasant, after all. THE "FOWfAnrdF YOUTH." The Fan out Hot Mprincs or Arkaa- sas A. I'nlqae and, Peculiarly In teresting Place. "Baldwin" in Texas Sif tings. Few places on this green globe have ever attained such celebrity for the "healing of nations" as the Hot Springs of Arkansas. Their fame has lone since been sounded In every portion of the civilized world ; and of late years the feeble and diseased of all climesand countries have sought these Be thesdin waters. There is little doubt that Hot Springs creek is the wonderful "fountain of youth" that .the . simple aborigines told Ponce de Leon and De Soto was to be found "toward the settinir sun." Here, in one of um most romantic iltUa r alleys or canyons on the continent, between two rugged P of th Ozark mountains, we And the charm ing little city of Hot Springs. . Th rrairiimt nonulation Is about 0,000, and there are from 5,OU0 to 6,0W visitor always in attendance. The number of visitors yearly increasing, particulary since the com pletion of the Iron Mountain ranrona Arkansas. - Tl.la m,1 run. from St. LouU tolexar- kana, and within twenty-three miles of Hot Bprings. From Malvern, the nearest point to the springs on the road, there is an excellent narrow euage road running to the great health resort. The country here is rough ana rugged. d abounds in a variety of stones and mineral water. The hot water, which Is the distinguishing feature of the nlace. flows from seventy or more springs out of what Is known as Hot Springs raountaiu, on the east side of the town and creek. This mountain is owned by the general government. These springs vary In tempera ture from 9.1 to 157 degrees Farbenhelt, and the aggregate flow is nearly 500,000 gallons a day, affording an ample supply for 25,000 bathers. While the hot water is apparently tasteless and as soft as rain water, yet a chemical analysis gives eight and a half grains of mineral constituents to the gallon. Its principal ingredients are lime, silicic acid, cai Wnic acid, sulphuric acid, alumina and soda. Oxide of iron, potash and magnesia are also found. Whence these waters derive their heat is a matter about which there are various theories. One remarkable feature about them is that they do not produce nausea. Ordinary tepid water is often used as an emetic, but these thermal waters can le safely drunk at any temperature. Nearly all the hotels keep tho hot water "on tap," beside the ice water reservoir, and many visitors drink the hot water in preference. Its cura tive properties are administered both by bath ing in it and drinking it. The diseases for which the thermal waters -e beneficial include all 'manner of blood and skin impurities, catarrh, asthma, dis eases of the liver and kidneys, sick headache, female complaints, and many others, too numerous to name. Consumptives are ad vised not to come here. Bright s disease is not treated at tho Springs, but I am told that some remarkable cures have been affected by the use of the Mountain Valley Springs water, found twelve miles north of Hot Springs, which is much used by invalids at this place. O , ' To the stranger visiting Hot bprings for the first time the place is unique and pecul iarly interesting. The town is "strung out" for two miles or more along a narrow can yon, through which runs Hot Springs creek and the city street railroad. Owing to tho narrowness of the canyon and the crooked. ness of the creek, the street room is very limited on Central avenue, the principal thoroughfare, but the United States govern ment is now havmg the creek walled and arched with granite, which will more than double the present street surface. Telephones, gas, waterworks and electric lights are among the leading features of mod ern convenience in vogue here and a general spirit of life and bustle is strikingly promin ent. All manner of diseases and suffering is to be met with, and invalids upon crutches, leaning on canes, or in rolling chairs, swarm the sidewalks and the verandas of the numer ous hotels and boarding houses. Blind men dicants and paupers of nearly all descriptions are met upon the thoroughfares asking then more fortunate fellow creatures for alms. Here, too, you will find the rich and refined from almost every portion of the world, seek ing relief at the "Fountain of Youth" which their wealth could not procure at home. The old and infirm rheumatic, the young and fashionable "fast young men," the sick and suffering of all climes, castes and conditions, here seek to eradicate the disease that mis- fortuno or dissipation has entailed. It is claimed that "eighty per cent, of all the desperate cases who have tried these waters for the past ten years have been cored." Henry Clay and President Rachanan. Henry Clay used to take special delight in annovine Mr. Buchanan, who had, he be lieved, started tho report that he had mado a bargain with John Quincy Adams, by whioh he secured the election of the Massachusetts statesman as president, receiving in return the appointment of secretary of state, which had been up to that day a stopping stone to the presidency. On one occasion, as Mr. Buchanan was defending himself against the charge of disloyalty during the war of 1812, he having been "an old Federalist," to prove his loyalty stated that he had entered a com pany of volunteers at the time of the battle of North Point, and marched to Baltimore. 'True," he said, "I was not in any engage ment, as the British had retreated Detore 1 got there." Mr. Clay, xou marcnea to Baltimore, though? Mr. Buchanan. Yes, Mr. Clay. Armed and equipped) Mr. Buchanan. Ye3, armed and equipped. Mr. Clay. But the British had retreated when you arrived? Mr. Buchanan. Yes. Mr. Clay. Will the senator from Pennsyl vania be good enough to inform us whether the British retreated in consequence of his valiantly marching to the relief of Baltimore, or whether he marched to the relief of Balti more in consequence of the British having al ready retreated i The senators and the occupants of the gal leries roared with laughter, and Mr. Buchan an, red with anger, pruaentiy maae no reply. AiFly-Catchins Pet Toad. Cincinnati Enquirer. Capt. John Flush, of the Lawrenceburg gas works, has a pet toad that be has trained to catch flies, and the little creature will como to him when he whistles and submit to being placed on a table where some attraction has been placed for flie3. . This done, it will amuse an audience by the expert and swift manner it will dispose of thesu winged pests, jumping at times several feet high and protruding its tongue almost an inch in efforts to reach its prey. The sight is a curious one, and seems to greatly delight tho toad. The flies were not given time to show how they enjoyed the performance. A Hole uin Problem. Peck's Sun. A young woman in an Ohio town has mar ried her brother's wife's father. When last seen she was busy with a compass and a dic tionary trying to study out what relation she was to herself. THE KET-WOSD TO WEALTH. ! How a . Telecraplt Operator Caught On to a Fortune Disguised In Armenian. Louisville Courier-JournaL Later the reporter mot an old operator and was talking about this same matter of cipher. "A curious man bos no right to be a tele grapher." said he. "We are forbidden to talk about what passes through our hands, ' and if a mau were to try to catch the mean ing of the queer and mysterious things he reads he would have no time for business. I remember once when I was in Chicago hear ing some of .the men talking about a big strike that one of the loys made. His nam was John Gilmore, and he is a wealthy New Yorker now ; lives on his money and spends it like a lord, has his fast trotters, his servant in livery, his trips abroad, and all that. Toe way Gilmore got his money, so they say in Chicago, and I Dever beard Of bis contradict ing it, was this: You are not old enough to remember the vast speculations that tho war produced, when men bet millions on thcresult of a battle by buying bonds or gold or cottou, whan princely fortunes wero made in an hour and squandered in a day, when beggars rose in a month to Monte Cbristos and at the end of another month were beg gars again. You can have 00 conception of the fierceness of speculation ; it was something like the war that was raging. Everything those days was sublime Men specula tod like gods and robbed each other like epic heroes.' The mighty conflict that was racics mado uten uiKkTa!. everyuung. ell, lu tnose uays cipher dispatches were more In vogue than tbey are now. Every speculator Had a sep arate kind of cipher for bis broker, and half our work was done in this language of shadows. We knew nothing of what we were doing, whether it were a battle won or a market broken, whether it was the nation or the stock market tliat was pavoL There was at that time a wealthy old speculator In Chicago named Armstead, of Armstrong, or some such name as that, who dealt only in cotton au gold. He seemed to have some secret nourc of information at Washington, and never failed to profit by every battlo, no mattei whether the south or the north came out victor. All his dispatches passad through Gilmore's hands, and all of them were signed 'Spartica.' They were never over a dozen words. TheMj words had a peculiar sound. They seemed like a language to Gilinore. There was nothing of that harxhnoKS of manu factured words about them that one alwayt sees in English ciphers. Oilmore covertly copied one of them and took it to a learned friend of his. The gentleman read it and then said: 'The words are Armeni an, but tliey make no sense. It is a mere jumble. There ia not a word of it under stood.' Oilmore was in a quandary. He went back to his table, and tho next day re ceived another telegram from Armstrong. He compared it with the copy of his former message. It was precisely tho same, with the exception of one word. He happened to come across a friend, who was a sjieculator, and asked him casually about Armstrong. The friend told him that yesterday he had bought cotton short, but that day bought it long. That was all Gilmore wanted to know. He consulted his learned friend and learned from him tho Aiiiieniun words were for long and short. He knew that the cipher word that had been used on the second day must have been long, and the previous day short. The fact that the word didn't mean 'long' in Armenian did not trouble him. It was the key word to the cipher. By the word he got, I think, six cipher letters, and easily got the lialance. He soon understood what was said as readily as Armstrong did. He made money rapidly. It is said that on tho result of the battle of Gettysburg alone ho made $050,000. Ho knew the result before any one on 'change. He doesn't speculate now. Come around during the races and I'll give you some tips," said tho old operator; "you know we got all the tips." Ham Wah at the Zoo. Philadelphia Record. Sam Wah, of Wilmington, Delaware, as mild-eyed a Celestial as ever sprayed a linen shirt, visited the Zoo on last Thursday, and, after having "heaplee fun" in the monkey house, stopped over at the elephant's home, and watched with much interest the little girls feed the huge quadruied3 with peanuts and cake. A party of wicked lads noted the contemplative satisfaction with which Sam regarded the scene. They beguiled the inno cent flat-iron artist into conversation, and finally pursuaded him to give one of the ele phants a ginger cake which they had dosed with red pepper. They then retired to watch for the result. Sam patted the animal's trunk softly with one hand, and remarked : "Eatlee muchee." The elephant closed its eyes lazily and reached out for the cake with its long trunk. Sam gazed with placid satisfaction at the beast as it curled up its trunk and poked tho cake down it throat. Then the elephant's little eyes snapped viciously. Sam did not appear to notice this, and turned around to get another cake. As he did so the elephant reached out his long trunk and wound it about the luckless Chinaman's body. Then there was a whirl and the thud of a China man's body twelve feet outside of the ropes. The keeper rushed to the scene and promptly pulled Sam's head from a parrot cage, where it had been jammed, and carried him out for dead. At the door, however, Sam revived, opened his eyes, and remarked: "Muchee eartbquakee." Then he got on his feet and walked reflectively to the station. He took the next train for Wilmington where he con fidentially said to a friend: "Chinaman heaplee dam fooloe, alle same like Milican man. He washee alle time now." A Uloomy View. New Orleans Times-Democrat. Dr. Jenkins, of London, claims to have pre dicted the present outbreak of cholera 1 1 years ago. He says that when cholera originates in India it exhausts itself in Kussia ana Ger many, but when it originates, as he claims this has been done, in Arabia, and extends to Egypt, it never fails in reaching England. For example, in March, lboo, the disease broke out in Mecca; in June it appeared in Alexandria, killing 60,000 persons in Egypt within three months; nine days after the first death occurred in Alexandria, the pestilence was in France; and in September it was in England. Dr. Jenkins takes the gloomiest view of the present outbreak in Egypt, pre dicting that before the year closes tho disease will be making ravages In every quarter of tb alobe. ancient History Revisea. G. T. Lanigan. Philip of Macedon was tho possessor or a horse, Bucephalus by name, which all its eroonis had in vain endeavored to train sc that it would show a three-minute record. His youthful son, Alexander, however, un dertook the job and was not long in subdu ing the animal. The news of- this exploit having been brought the king, he was not slow in sending for his son, to whom he addressed the follow ing words: "You must seek out for yourself some other kinedom than mine, my son, because people who go into the horse business are rarely good for anything else." It was upon hearing these words that Alex ander wept to think that he would Iiave tc conquer other kingdoms instead of coming into cue at the old man's death. CESAR A"D THK PILOT. C. Julius Ca?sar having occasion to make a sea voyage, a storm sprang up and the vessel was placed in imminent peril. At this moment Ceesar's freedman, Cb. Pompillus Mucilaginus, whispered to hit master, "Would it not be good for you, O, Caesar, to encourage the pilot by reminding him that he carries Csesar and his fortunes T "By no means," replied the conqueror. "It would only rattle him; and besides, if he saved us he would accept a liberal tip." Another Terror. A new horror has been discovered in Kan sas by a correspondent of The Hew York Bun. It is the terrible "screw worm." The fly, by which this worm is the antecedent, scents the blood of Texas cattle from afai and deposits its eggs in the wounds they re ceive fighting with one another. In a few hours the worms, resembling a half-inch screw with a pointed head, appear, and bur row and honeycomb the flesh of the animals nntil they run wild with pain, and death comet to relieve them. But this is not the worst. They have invaded Kansas and have begun to attack human beings, depositing the eggs in the noses of those suffering from catarrhal troubles, and which they seem to be able to scent out as they do the blood oi Texas cattle. Two cases have occurred in which the victims, after suffering great agony, have had the worms removed and have re covered. But these worms burrow in the flesh with great activity, and once fairly in possesion of a man's body it is not" believed that any one is vigorous enough to live throueh an attack. feicniflcaat Terms. . Chicago Tribune. - Thomas A. Edison and a number of other electricians happening to meet recently in the Western Union ofllce in New York, the dis cussion which followed took the direction of recent developments in electricity. 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