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XXFttKHH TRAINS OOlMO
WKST.
STATIONS :
No.l.
No. 3.
Flsttsmouth ...
Oreapolui
Coaevrd
Codar Crek...
Louisville, i....
boutta bend....
Ashland. ...
Greenwood ....
Lincoln., .....
Hastlnar
Bed Cloud
McCook
Akron
Denver
tooani
y -ao a oi
7:1 p m
7 :2 pm
7:42 p in
7 M pin
B :10 pm
8 DO p in
8 :45p m
9 :30 p tn
10:l5sro
3:15am
a :3oam
e :30 a iii
8 a in
12 :0Gp m
12 45pm
6 :35 p m
6 .-oo p in
10 :0t p in
:&A a tn
:48 ui
10 KXa m
10 30 a m
10 :47 a m
il :oa a m
Ar. 11
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a i; m
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lupin
2o am
Ar.
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Ar.
:06 am
tirtlKM TRAINS UOJMO
KA8T.
STATIONS :
Ko.X
No. 4.
Plattamouth..
Oreapolia ...
G'ncord
Cedar Creek..
I oulavllle
outh Bend..
Asbland
reenwoed...
Lincoln . V...
Ar.
6 :10 p ni
4 0 pm
Ar.
9:00 am
8 a in
8 Ut5 a m
tlf a m
8 :17 a m
8 :06 a m
Ar.
Ar.
Ar.
Ar.
4 :3 p m
tipm
4 iin p m
3 :M p m
Ar.
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Ar.
Ar.
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Ar.
Ar.
7 :4s a m
Ar. a as p m
Ar. T:Hra
Ar. 2pm
Ar.
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Ar.
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L've
Ar.
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Ar.
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L've
3 -JO am
7 aioa m
10 :15 p in
10 no p m
6 :66 p in
7:45pra
3 -oo p m
lv lpm
Ar. 9 -Jo a m
L've 10 :10 am
Ar. iMin
Basting...
Red Cloud.
McCook....
Akron
Denver
L've lu
Ar. S;Mani
L've 4 Cm
Ar. I0:4pm
L've '0 :55 pm
L'vt 1 M6 p m
3 :20 p in
10:66 am
U Mam
7 :35 a m
Train 3 and 4. numbering 39 and 40 west of
ilea noua, run a any exrrp ounuj.
K. C ST. JOE A C B. R. R.
VOBTH.
riattsnioutb....l 4 :50 a m B p m
Oreapolls 6K3am t p m
La l-latte tat i m : P m
Belevue II 28 am 6 6 pin
Omaba li e :00 am 6 :M p m
STATIONS : OOINU
l'lattsmouth.. 9 so a m 8:iopm
Oieapolia .... 9 :10 a m 8 :oo p in
La iTaite 9 .-00 a m 7 :35 p m
Bellevue I 8 -.47 a m 7 :42 p m
Omaha... I bu& a m 7 20 p m
TIME TABLE
Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Express
leave
going
OUTH.
Express
leave
going
SOUTH.
8.00 a.ni
8,37 "
9.00 "
9.15
9.40 "
9.63
!0.21 "
7.07 p.m.
6.22 a.lii
Kreigui
leaves
going-
SOUTH.
Qmata
Papiliion-
Bprtngneld
Louis villa
Weeping Water.
Avoca
Dunbar
Kansas City
7.40 p.m
8.17 "
8.42 M
8.M "
.9.2 '
9.37
10.07
6.37 a.n.
a.52 p. ii
12.50 a. m.
2,o p. n
3.05 "
360
6.00 "
6.45 "
6.45 "
lining
KOBTU.
Oolng
NOKTll.
Going
XOBTU.
t. LouJ - -
vausa City...-.
' mnbar
ITUCX
Weeping Water
l.uuiviiTe.......
priitbfleltl....
rapnliun. -unuuia
arrtv
8 52 a.m
8.38 p. m
8.32 p.m
7.67 111
4.24 p.m
M "
6.IW
XJ3 "
5.18 "
6.n6
j.io a. m
1.01
2.10
2.45
J.Zj
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p. m,
5 44
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The above Is Jeflerson City time, wbicb Is U
tiUAVJkt, AAl) IIEIVAKTVILE Oi
1LA. 1-131 OL'TH .HA1LM.
THRIVES.
ijo p. m. i
a. in. i
j.oo a. m. i
fun p. m. (
i.uw a in
itO p. in.
i a in. l
i .JU p. m. f
p. m.
ll.ow a m.
DCPARTH
I 9.oo a. m.
1 3.oo p. in.
j si.oo a. m.
J 6.56 p. m.
4.25 p. in
9.uo a. m
WIIITIBX.
VORTHIEX.
OUTHKJUT.
OMAHA.
WKCrUVU WATKR.
KACTOKrVILJ-B.
I 8.25 a. m
4.25 p. m.
8.00 a. tu
1.00 p. m
Dee. 17. lent.
KATKM CUAKUEU FOB
OUUEBM.
MOSl
On order uot exceeding 15 - - - 10 cent
Over ili and nt exceeding $3o - 15 cent
Ktti - 40 - - 20cenu-
-ju - c - - 25 cenl
a alnirlo Mnnpv Order mar mcmu.
mouiii lroui one cent to Dlty dollars, bui
tr.usl not contain a fractional part of a cent.
KATK rOR rOdTAOK.
Ut clau matter ileitere) 3 Ccuta per hi ounce.
2d " " ruuiuuer raiesj z via per in.
ul (Trauoieul Neweproers ami
book come unier tbia claM a cent per
eacb 2 ounces,
itb claa (tnerehauduej 1 cent per ounce.
J. W.MAR4HA1X P.M.
OfTICXAX D1RXCTORT.
CITY DZBXCTOKT.
GEOEGE 8.' SMITH. Mayor. '
WILLIAM H.CCSUlti. Xreasurer.
J. t. siMrao.N. City Clerk.
W1LLLTT fOTTKNUKit. iolice Judxe.
K. B. WIN DM AM. City AUorney.
V. ft. MUiCfUV, Cbiel of t oUce.
P. MuCANN.Oveneervf btreeta.
C. KUOLM KK, Cblef of Fire Dept.
8. H. KiCUUO.Su, C'h'n Board oi Health
COCMCILXKX.
1st Ward Wm . Herold. H. M. Bons,
2nd Ward J. M. fattersou. J. It. Kalrfleld.
3td Ward M. B. Muri.hy, J. K. MurrUon.
4tn Ward K. D. Lebbboa. P. McCalian.
uaooi. BOARD.
JESSE B. STRODE. J. W. BARNES.
M.A.HABTIUAN Wm. WLMXaiR-STEEN.
L. It. BKNKTT. V. V. LEONARD.
?VavMr-JNO. W. MARSHALL.
o
OOUHTT DLRXCTOST.
W. U. NKWELL. County Treasurer.
J.W. J EN M.N gj. County Clerk.
J. W. cOHNSON. County Judge.
K. W. HYRKd. Sberifl.
CVKt'S AL1XN. Supt of Pub. Instruction.
o. W. FAIRyiELD. County Surveyor.
P. P. U AS. Coroner. .
VOVVTT COMXU8IONIU.
JAMES CRAWFORD. South Bend Precinct.
SAM'L R1CUARDSON. Ml Pleasant Precinct.
A. H. TODD. Flattsmoutb
fatlee "toavlng buslnesa with the Count
CommlMloiMM. will ttnd theui in session the
First Monday and Tuesday of eaob month., .
. V . : 0
- BOARD OF TRADE.
FRANK CARKUIH. President.
J. A. CONNOR, URNRV BJiCR, Vloe-Prel-
dent. -WM.
8, WISE. Secietary.
FRRD. OORDKU. Treasurer.
Regular meetings of the Board at the Court
fiouse.tne nrst Tuesday evening of eacb month.
EZ IL Ha IS .
J. F. BAUME1STER
Furnishe Frerh, Pure JaUk "
DEUfEBEO OAl.Y.
Special eaUs attended to. and Fresh Milk
nv ani . tunuinsa wnen wanted. iy
UaTtsijouth niw-s
TTSMOrjTB KEBJ
C. UCUEL,
Proprietor,
Flour, Corn Utai 4 Fl
1 J.P.Young, residence.
a ttcnneu m uewi. iiore.
9 -U.H. Marpbr Co.,
4 Bonner Mtabfes.
fi Countv Clerk's offlce.l
6 R. B. Lewi, residence. . - ,
7 J. V. Weckbach. tore.
8 Western Union Telegraph office.
I. H. Wheeler, residence.
10 D. . Campbell,
14 K. b. Wlndnam, "
16 J no. Waymau,
18 J. W.Jeunlug. "
17 W. 8. Wlpe.onice.
18 Morrlssey Bros., offloe.
19 W K. Carter, store.
20 . W. Fairfield, rtdence.
21 M. B Murphy, "
22 ii, M. Wbeeler ft Co . office.
23 J. P. Taylor, residence.
M First National Bank.
25 P. K. Uuflner's office.
24 J. P. Vouqr, store.
28 Perkins House.
't It. W. Hvrs, residence.
at Journal office.
32 Fail field's lee omce.
34 IlaitAUD Pun. Co office.
35 J. N. Wine, residence.
34 M. M. Chapman, "
37 W. D. lones, -
38 A. N. Sullivan, "
39 H. K. Palmer,
40 W. 11. Hchlldknecht, office.
41 Sullivan & Wooiey,
42 A. W. McLaughlin, residence.
43 A. Patterson, livery.
44 C. M. Holmes,
45 L. i. Bennett, residence.
46 Geo. 3. Smith, office. .
47 L. A . Moore, flor St.
49 J, W. Barnes, reaidence.
60 R. R. LlvlngHton, olUee,
307 J. V. Weckbach, residence.
336 Chaplain Wright. "
340 W. Ii. Hchlldknecht '
348 Geo. 8 8mlth, M
350 R, R, Livingston. "
315 C. C. Ballard,
The switch board connects Plattsmoulb with
iVilQitl A l-llnirti fal..las s-n..M(l K..4V. sTA
Aacawj a i a v'U t uiail) VUUUUII il U 14 C ( m I V
mont. Lincoln, Omaha Elk horn Htation.
rapuuon. npriugneid, lXiuisvlUe South Bend
ana waveny.
PROFESSIONAL. CARD8.
SMITH & BEESOK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice In all
me ivouns in me siaie. omce over nrst
tlonal Bank. 4tyl
r-LATTSMODTH - NEBRASKA.
UU. A. MAE.ISB17M .
DEITTIST.
Office over Bmlth. Black A Cn'n l)nii Rtnrn
First class dentistry at reasonable prices, . 231 y
M. MEADE, M. U., -
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office on Main
Street, between Sixth and Movent h, south side
vuiw vrcu uay ana Ulglll
8pecUI attention given to diseases of women
M. ODONOHOE
ATTORNEY AT LAW & NOTARY PUBLIC
Fitzgerald's Block.
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEBRASKA
Agent for Steamship lines to and from Europe,
dl2w521y
K. K. LIVI.UHTO., 91.
PHYSICIAN & BURORON.
OFF! E HOURS, from 10 a. m.. to 2 p. oi.-
1K. H. 3IlI.I.Kit.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEOX.
Can be found by calling at his office, corner 7th
talk. I If.in U-knt i.. I t, ir... ..." .
tb.cwc, iu tf.u. vvaicruian s uouse
PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.
J AH. H. UfATHEWM
ATTORNEV AT LAW.
Office over Baker ft Atwood's store, south side
w u.wu uc.nccu ULU uu DIU Bireeie. 2ltl
HTROUC A
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in all
VVVUIU IU LUC ULdkC.
District AtUtmey aiul Notary Public.
WHiL J4. WISE,
COLLECTIONS H ZII.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Real Estate. Fire In
urauce and Collection Agency. Office-Unlo.
lock. Plattsinouth Nebraska. 22m3
. H. 1VHEKLEB dt CO
LAW OFFICE Real Rotate, Fire and Lite ,
durance Agents. Plattsniouth, Nebraska lv
lectors, tax -payers. Have a complete aberr.i.
.1 uties. Buy and sell real e-tate, negth.'
JAMES K. JltrRRlSOX,
ATTORNEYATfLAW. J&gJSggb
nd adjoining Counties ; gives ?pecia:attent...i
Mtr'iiiH0 an,d a?91'" f title. Office ii
HUgerald Block, PlatUmouth, Nebraska.
J. C. 5EVTUERRY,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
(Lis his office In the front part of hi residence
u Chicago Avenue, where ne n ay be found in
-adiness to attend o the dui.ia of the of
lce 47tf.
BOBEBT B. WISDHAM,
Notary Public
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office over Carruth's Jewelry Store,
t'iatt-smouth. - - - . Nebraska.
M. A. HARTIGAN.
Ia A W Y E It .
Fitzokralo'r Block. Plattsmouth Hkh
Prompt an! careful attention to a general
!-aw Practice.
A. II. SULLIVAN,
Attorney and ICounselor
at-Law.
OFFICE In th Union Block, front room
second story, sonti. Prompt attention given t
U basin . mar25
BOYB & LARSEN,
Contractors and Builders.
Will give estimates on all kinds of work. Any
orders left at the Lumber Yards or Post
Office will receive promot attention
Heavy Truss framing,
for barns and large buildings a specialty.
For refeience apply to J. P. Young, J. V. Wee
Ox-it or ft. A Watnr man ft Son. d Aw
Dr. C. A. Marshall
(Successor to Clutter ft Marshall.)
Preservation of natural teeth a specialty.
Teeth extracted ivithout pain by use of
, Laughing Gas.
All work warrsnttd. Prices reasonable.
Fitzokrald Block, - Plattsmocth.Nkb
a. I.
AGENCY
FIRE fflSDBANGE GO'S:
CITY, of London.
QUEEN, of Liverpool
FIREMAN FUND, of California
EZPREESS COMPANIES
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO.,
-WELL'S FARQo A OOC EXPRESS-'-OfflnoU
RockwVW filock, wlU oVtingpa St$
OAPT. JOHIT EHI0S30ir.
A Oreat .Man at Xintyr T71io Hm
Been Doing: Bsmarkable Ttxingv
All Ills Life. '
Milwaukee Sentinel.
If. in ret1r to the aueatioa as to who is the
most remarkable of living men one should
name CapL John Ericsson, wbou eigbtieta
blrthday was celebrated at his bona in W w
York last Tuesdaj, it would not be difficult to
npport the claim by strong evidence. . oor
tainlr be Is the greatest of unknown menw
cf men whose names are not familiar in every
household. John Ericsson is generally known
as "an inventor who drew the plans for the
Monitor." The many great facts of his life
are not in common recollection. For seventy
year he has been doing remarkable things,
which have had a revolutionary effect on ac
cepted systems. lie was born In Sweden,
and before he was 11 years old bo bad pro
duced a sawmill whose ingenious construction
challenged the admiration of . experienced
men, and had designed a pumping engine
which received the approval of the president
of the Goths Ship Canal company. Many of
the important works on this canal were con
structed from drawings made by Ericsson be-,
fore he(was 15 years old.- While still a
boy he invented a flame engine whlcn worked
up to ten-horse power. At the age of . 23 be
went to England, where be invented numer
ous engines, the principles of which are still
applied; apparatus for. making salt 'from
brino; mechanism for propelling boats on
canals ; a variety of motors actuated by steam
or hot air; a hydrostatic weighing machine,
for which he received a prize; an instrument
now in use for taking soundings;' a file -cut-'
ting machine and various others. He nrst
applied the principle of centrifugal fan-blow
ers in use on most steam vessels. -
Ericsson first introduced into a locomotive
built by him the principle of artificial draft,
to which we are indebted for the develop
ment of the modern ' 'railway"', system.'
Stephenson's sharpest competitor for. tbo
prize of 1839 was John Ericsson who, in the
short period of seven weeks, invented and
built an engine wbicb ran at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, Stephenson's making only Ui
miles. The London Times of fifty-four years
ago says the speed oi the other engines was
surpassed by that of John Ericsson. It is
impractioftble to even mention in a newspa-'
per article the various important inventions
of this great man. He drew the first plan for
a steam Are engine forty-three years ago.' He
constructed a caloric engine which attracted
tbo attention cf the scientific world
and which carried a vessel over the)
Atlantic and back. The world owes
the introduction of tho screw propeller to
Ericsson. After demonstrating the utility of
the screw to the British admiralty, Ericsson
was compelled to come to America to secure
a just recognition. His invention, the iloai
tor, which enabled the United States to place
itself on a naval footing at an important
crisis in the war, was offered to Napoleon III.
in 1854.
It is interesting to think of this great man
who built an engine which rivaled that of
Stephenson fifty-four years ago working to
day at inventions which promise to revoution
ize naval warfare; the man who nearly
seventy years ago drew important plans for
a canal, and sixty-eight years ago made the
drawing of the famous Sunderland iron
bridge, now devoting twelve hours a day
every day in the year to his professional
work. The monument erected in Sweden in
honor of John Ericsson and his brother Nils,
the great railway engineer, declares that
"their way through work to knowledge and
lasting fame is open for every Swedish
youth." John Ericsson's way is open only
for the youth of towering genius such as the
world rarely owns. But! his life is still an
example. He has recognized that work is
the end of the best existence. He does not
overwork, be abuses neither his mind nor his
body, but be uses both systematically and
splendidly.
A Kew Method of -Waiting for the
Train.
Cleveland Express.
The night of the Fourth was a busy one for
hotel -keepers. A great number of excursion
ists were unable to leave for their respective
homes, causing the hotels to be crowded to
their utmost capacity, thereby inconvenienc
ing a number of strangers who were far
away from their firesides, without a place to
rest their aching bones. The park was alto
gether too public for a respectable granger,
and all sorts of schemes were resorted to, but
an ingenius citizen from one of the neighbor
ing towns struck upon a scheme which should
forever render him famous and cause his
name to be banded down to posterity. Just
before the departure of the 12:30 o'clock
Woodland avenue car he approached the con
ductor and asked the following question:
"How long before you stop running these
'ere cars?"
"We run them all night," replied the con
ductor.
"How often do they leave the end of the
route!"
"Every hour."
"Will you change the cars any?"
"No."
"Well, now, let's figure. You leave here
12:30; from the other side of the road you
start at 1, then you leave here at 1:30; from
now on till 5 o'clock in the morning you make
nine trips, and you charge five cents for a
trip. I believe five times nine is forty-five,
isn't it!" Here is a half a dollar, give me five
cents change, and wake me up at 5 o'clock,
for I want to take the train that leaves early
in the morning."
The astonished conductor took the money
gave the man his change, and in less time
than the twinkling of an eye the ingenious
stranger made himself comfortable in one
corner of the car, and before it started on its
Journey be was in the land of dreams.
Plaatatlsm PklloMpayv
Arkansaw Traveler.
Yer doan' often find cruelty among fowls.
Do henjs always kind ter de step-chicken.
Dar's such a thing as bein' too brave. Ef de
trout wat so game he wouldn't be half so
liable ter get cotch. De smooth taUrin' man
aint alien de most entertain in'. De plain
clapboard lasts longer den de sawed plank.
In all life de middle condition is de bes. A
man feels 'bout as bad arter he's eat too much
as he does when he's hungry. D man what
can do a thing an' won't, ain't so deservin'
ob kind words as de man what wanster do
ometbin' an' cant. Ambition widout energy
aint wuf a ceut.
Terrors mt the Telephone.
Ingham (Mich.) County News.
Several comical things have occurred since
our citizens begun to form the acquaintance
of the great talking medium. Two ladies
from the country who observed with surprise
the closely-clipped hair of CU Q. Parkhurst,
were filled with surprise and awe when he
gravely told them that his sad capillary con
dition was occasioned by the anger of a Jack
son man, who, not liking the tone of his tele
phonic conversation, reached into the ma
chine and "matched him baldbeaded" by tel
ephone. Another lady put space between
herself and the ''machine" while her husband
conversed. She was afraid "the thing would
go off," and she did not want both beads of
the fiunily killed at once. Aladr conn bvi
talking with Lansing. She screamed into ' ta
ear of the instrument at the top of he.- -feeble
voice. When asked why so much
noise, she explained that she supposed she
must speak load enough to be beard at Lan
sing, but it didnt seam as if sho could possi
bly do it. . . -:
- Why They. Oeeltsae. j .
Dr. William A. Hammond says that toe
reason why life - insurance companies decline
to iwue policies to women is because of wo
man's inability to be exact in regard to ber
age, in .regard to the diseases she mAy have
had, in regard to. her mode of her life, and in
regard to otter Kfttders Ul which cxactoa is
..IK. K
Ma all Hand sus.4- Haw:. te -Malay
Thesn-Hew laqaeealag Iajaree the
Kiaaeklee, . i '
Chicago Tribune.
"Small hands," said one of the salesladies. ;
at a Twenth-third street store, "are pientirui
in New York, but there are many fashion
able ladies who have never done a day!
work in their lives who have large bands, al
though tbey may be shapely and white."
j "What lady among your customers has
the smallest bands!" queried the reporter.
"Well, I don't know that I can tell exactly.
There i one lady who comes here regularly
twice a mouth for gloves. Sho can wear a
byi easily, but she always insists on squeezing
her hands Into a No. 5, which makes them
look mi)Bliapen."
"What is considered a small baud V
"Well, a hand that wears a No. C glove or
a 6 is considered small No. C or K are
fair sized; but any larger sized glove is well,
isn't desirable. "People wearing smaller
gloves than No. 0 are as unusual as ladies
who wear No. 12 shoos."
"Does a thin or fat hand look best when
gloved F
- "Oh, a thin hand, by all means. WTiy, a
band that is jositively repulsive when un
gloved looks ever so mnch smaller and very
shapely in a tight-fitting kid. You know thai
undressed kid gloves fit more perfectly than
the dressed kid. They cling to the hand, and
the tips of the fingers fit smoothly. Another
thing about gloves which is of interest to the
ladies is this: If a lady has very long fingers,
let her never get a glove with fingers as long
as her own, or tho hands will look very largo.
It is curious, but true. Long fingers look
beautiful on tho ungloved hand, but not
pretty at all in gloves."
"Is there any other way of making tho
hands appear smallt"
"Yes, several. One way is to wrinkle tho
glove about the wrist. A tight, plain sleeve
Is very trying to a large hand, you know,
like low heels to a long foot."
; The reporter sauntered into a chiropodist'!
on Fourteenth street to get his ideas on
bands. "Finger nails," said he, "are the
greatest gi ve.away on people who pretend to
true blood. In every case I can warrant you
the hand is a true index to character. Why,
the electricity in people's bands is remark
able. ' Some ladies whose nails I beautify (for
$1 : you know), why, they send shocks righl
through me; regular electric batteries, I can
tell you. But to come down to solid fact, a
homely nail spoils the ha nd, no matter how
beautiful it may be otherwise."
'."What do you consider a perfect nailT
asked the reporter.
"Just this, sir. A long, oval-sliaped nail,
coming half way down between the top of
the finger and the first joint; and to be cut
properly tho top end should be exactly the
same shape as the upper part of the nail a
perfect o val ; and it should grow no longer or
shorter th-in just to come to the tip of the
finger."
"But I notice," said tho reporter, "that
many ladies and gentl emen wear their nails
Very long and cut to a narrow point."
"Barbarous, sir, simply barbarous. If
they only knew how much like a bird's claws
such nails looked they would stop it. But it
is useless to fight against fashion. One might
as well try to coax tho sun to stop rising ."
A prominent doctor in this city told the re
porter that a great many women, and men
too, poisoned themselves by using powder for
their hands, or similar mixtures.
"The best thing in the world," said he,
"and also the simplest for making the bands
white, is Indian meal and glycercino. If the
hands are washed in the meal twice a day
and then glycerined, it is almost impossible
for them not to be white and smooth.'"
A fashionable girl said to the reporter:
"You can say if you want to, and if you
promise faithfully not to give even an idea
of my name, that it is dangerous to let any
one squeeze your hand too often or too hard,
as it enlarges the knuckles more than you
would imagine. Just look at my right hand.
Now at this pretty left one."
The reporter was conviuc ed.
The Story of a Sew Bonanza.
Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise.
- "Some time ago," says The Fresno Exposi
tor, "we made mention of the discovery of a
remarkable lode of gold and silver-bearing
quartz near the summit of the Sierras, in this
county. At that time we stated the lede was
200 feet and three miles long. About three
weeks ago, Professor Beck, of New York,
who was tho discoverer of the lode, accom
panied by C. C. Pearce, John Besore, and
Nelson Kirk, stalled from Fresno flats for
the purpose of making a more thorough in
vestigation of the find. Tho party has re
turned and made a marvellous report. In
stead of a ledge 200 feet wide they report that
it is nothing less that a mountain of precious
metal. Mr. Pearce, one of the party, stated
to an Expositor reporter that ho had been
mining and prospecting for thirty years,
and that be had never seen anything that
would approach this find in extent or rich
ness. He says there are hundreds of millions
of dollars' worth of ore in sight. So extrava
gant are his statements that; were he not
well vouched for as a man of , truth and
veracity, we would be obliged to doubt this
statement. He describes this bonanza as be
ing apparently the crater of an extinct vol
cano. It lays at an altitude of about 1S,000
feet above the sea level, and towers up a
solid mass of gold and silver-bearing quartz
over 1,000 feet thick and 1,590 feet above the
surrounding valleys.
A Corns tocker to whom we read the above
has become much excited about the find.
He is going for a "controlling interest.
He declares it is just what be has been
bunting for for years. He says he
already has a plan for - working the de
posit. He will fill up the old crater with
charcoal and coke, and as soon as he gets the
whole mountain red-hot will tap it at the
bottom, draw off the molten gold and silver
through ditches, and spread is out over all
the Frensno flats until it is cool enough to di
vide np into sections and half and quarter
sections, when be will invite settlers.
- The Head Reenter.
Texas Siftings.
. Johnny Fizzletop bad been over to the
house of a neighbor. Colonel Percy Yer
ger. "Well, Johnny," asked . Major Fizzletop,
"did you have a nice time over at Colonel
Yerger'sP
"Oh, yes, I had a nice time, and, pa, they
are going to have cabbage for dinner."
"Haven't I told you forty time that you
must never repeat what you have heard at
people's houses !"
"But, pa, I didn't hear anything about
the cabbage, I smelled it with my nose."
A BMssaple l'est office.
Chicago Times.
The simplest postofUce in the world is in
Magellan straits, and has been established
there for many years. It consists of a small
cask, which is chained to the rocks of the ex
treme cape In the straits, opposite Terra del
Fuego. Each passing ship sends a boat to
open the cask and- take letters out and place
others in it. The postofflce is self-acting,
therefore it is under the protection of all the
navies of all nations, and up to the present
time there is not a - single case to report in
which any abuse of the privileges it affords
bag taken place. -
The Growth efNaJla.
Cincinnati Enquirer. i
Among the proofs that are adduced that
nails are nothing more than somewhat al
tered parts of the skin is the fact that they
are made np like the scarf-skin of flattened
scales, while the younger parts.'' just like the
younger cells of the outer skin, are rounder
and softer. But the frog family furnish toe
best proof of all, for with them the skin is
merely thickened at the ends of the different
digits. Instances have been observed of
-nails growing on the stumps of amputated
fingers, and when the coffin containing the
corpse of the great Napoleon ' was opened
loqg after bis death at St. Helena his toe-nails
bad grown clear through his ,boot and hit
half gtut& through the- chink j of tt cefiln, -
A HOT VELSIOJ rC7TD.
The OeeuMffae ro"a BeeeaUy Dls
covered Aaieleat Maamaerlpt,
London Letter in New York Sun.
A Mr. Sbapira, from Jerusalem, a book
tiler and dealer in antiquities, lias just de
posited in the British museum fifteen slli of
black sheepskin leather on which are written,
in character similar to those on . the cele
brated Monti te stone, portions of the Book of
Deuteronomy differing materially from tbo
received version. The date of the slips is the
ninth . century before Christ, or sixteen cen
turies older than any authentic niantucript
of any part of the Old Testament. Mr.
Sbapira bought them from an Arab, and he
asks for them . f 5, 000, 000 from the British
museum. If genuine, the interest and im
portance of the discovery cannot lie over
rated; and, so far as variations in the sacred
text are concerned, there is prombe of one of
the greatest controversies that scholars have
ever entered upon. Tho decalogue furnishes
a good example for comparison with the re
ceived version. I quote from the Sbapira
record:
IamOod. thy God. which liberated thee
from the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage. Ye shall have no other Gods. Ye
shall not make to yourselves any graven
image nor any ' likeness that Is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
Is in tie waters under the earth. Ye shall
not bow down to the in nor serve them.
I am God. your God, sanctify. In six day
I have made the heaven and the earth, and
all that there is therein, and rested on the
seventh day. Therefore rest thou also, thou
and thy cattle, and all that thou bast.
I am God, thy God. Honor thy Father and
thy mother.
I am God, thy God. Thou shalt not kill
the person of thy brother.
I am God; thy God. Thou shalt not com
mit adultery with tho wife of thy noighlor.
I am God, thy God. Thou shalt not steal
the property of thy brother.
I am God, thy God. Thou shalt not swear
by my name falsely, for I visit the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of those who take my
name in vain.
I am God, thy God. Thou shalt not boar
false witness against thy brother.
I am God, thy God. Thou shalt not covet
his wife, or his man servant, or his maid ser
vant, or anything that is his.
I am God, thy God. Thou sbalt not hato
thv brother in thy heart.
I am God, thy God. Tho-to ten words God
spake.
Dr. Ginsburg, the eminent Semetic scholar,
to whom Mr. Gladstone has just given -
toward tho production of his work on the
Masorah, has deciphered tho above, and is
busy completing a translation and determin
ing on behalf of tho museum the genuineness
of tho fragments.
Do We Waist a Navy ff
New York Graphic.
Possibly, after all, wo do not need a navy.
At least, one composed of tho regular fashion
of big war ships. Invention is always mov
ing. Man's skill is always devising means
and ways to develop something superior to
the skill of those who have devised before
him. Great war ships, though plated with
iron and armed with tho greatest guns,
throwing shot equal iu weight to ' ae can
nonades used in the sea fights of 100 years
ago, are not the ultimate of maritime aggres
sive skill.. New explosives are continually
coming to the front, and so are now methods
of using them. Ericsson revolutionized the
world's navies by that "cheese box on a raft,"
and the mind is so fertile in this species of in
vention is active and working yet. Down
tho bay at a Staten Island wharf lies another
uncouth craft, resembling a dry goods box
afloat. Yet this ugly creature is capable of
creeping up to the strongest ship afloat in all
her majesty and spitting from its awkward
bow a dart of terrific power, which, like a
thunderbolt ploughing its way under
water, shall strike tho opposing hull
and tear it to pieces. A half do. n men by
such means may send a thousand to death.
The cost of this craft need not be much over
that of an ordinary tug-boat. It involves no
naval pomp or circumstance, no graceful
curves or "bellying sails," nor any of those
characteristics which have in. time past em
bellished the sea fight with romance and
beauty. The age is growing prosiac lu its
modes of killing, but more deadly. The sword,
so powerful in the era of chivalry, is now re
tained in actual warfare . but - as a symbol.
This itself is the prophecy of what is coming
and what must come. In every country the
show and glitter, the "fuss and feathers" of
war, are being gradually dono away with,
and in its place a plain, homely, monotonous
garb is substituted, more practical, less cum
brous and better suited to tho real business in
hand. As with the showy uniform of a re
cent past, so it may be with tho imposing
man-of-war. Sho may find her superior in
the compass of a canal boat. Science bus no
regard for appearances. The graceful bow
and quiver of the archer had to give way to
the awkward but more deadly musket. War
means killing, and whatever kills quickest
and the greatest number in the shortest time
will be seized upon with avidity.
Worse Than a Thunderbolt.
Rochester Post-Express.
"So you were struck by lightning, were
you?" asked a visitor of a hospital atient.
"Yes," wearily replied the poor fellow, who
seemed not long for this world, "but that was
a good many years ago."
"Oh, 1 understood that your present condi
tion was caused by a thunderbolt.' ?
"No, not exactly. I asked a little fat man
the question, 'Is it hot enough for you f Thun
derbolts I wish it had been."
Try It and Be Convinced.!
Burlington Hawkeye. .
A crocodile shuts its jaws with a force of
1,540 pounds. If you don't believe it, get in
and weigh it when it comes down.
WANTED A JOKE.
Bob. Burdette.
Give me a pair of scissors ! Hand me the dic
tionary I
Bread bred; that's good. No, I've used that
before.
O solemn humor how dost thou afflict me?
My jokes look blue. This one. about the cu
cumber Is too much like the one about the apple.
What fearful puns 1 made upon the fair
Fair, fare; '.'fair maids and hardly fair;" two
kinds of fair.
What can I write! A joke! I will, about a
man
Beating a carpet. No, a woman throwing a
stone.
No, no; about a man falling down stairs
By stepping on a ping of laundry soap;
Alas! I hato this dismal funny business .
My memory has a thousand several jokes.
And every joke hath been told several times.
And all the boys condemn me for. my jokes
As being, at least, acacissory to their theft.
Methougbt the ghosts of all the various jokes
That I had ever heard, or read, or made,
Came to my desk, and every one did show
A genealogical record running back,''
Without a break, four hundred thousand
ears,
every one among them wore the. ac
cursed brand
Of the blue-pencil dude.
Another Telephone Claimant.
Popular Science Monthly.
Prof. Thompson's book, which treats ex
haustively the early history of the telephone,
is, therefore, not only of scientific but of
social interest and importance. It establishes
beyond honest doubt or question, by histori
cal evidence, by the reproduction of original
documents and illustrations, and by the pub
lic records of scientific bodies, that Phillip
Re is discovered the electric transmission of
speech in 1S0O-61; that he elaborately described-and
exhibited his telephone in 1861;
that be invented transmitting and receiving
instruments, which not only talked then and
talk now, bet wbicb .include the essential
principles of transmitters. avnd receivers now
in uso.- That an invention so important,
made In the heart of Germany, should not
have been instantly perfected and utilized
would surprise us in this-country, if history
did not abundantly teach that inventions
complete in themselves often lie . sterile until
the favorable season and -soil are found for
their ccsuB&rcial odoptioo d4ve!opnen
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