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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1887)
Tltr: DAILY JlEiiALb, l'lAfrsHOUTII, iliiilAr-KA, THURSDAY, miOKMJiliU 1,13S7. (I Stye JJlattomontl) SDailg fjcratb KNOTTS 33 H O S., Publishers fie. Proprietors. Jacob Siiahp, the New York boodlcr, has been granted a new trial. .The president has appointed James 11. Chase, of Indiana, to be United States consul at Durango, Mexico. The Soldiers' Home at Marsbaltown, Iowa, was dedicated Yesterday, ana is now open for the soldiers of Iowa. The corns commandes of the army of France have sealed orders, to be opened in case an outbreak occurs following the pi evidential election to-morrow. The French radicals are opposed to the election of Ferry to the presidency. Deroulcle the leader of this party, threatens to march at the head of 50,000 men to the palace, in case Farry iselecttd and prevent him from entering. The democrats of the House of Repre sentatives, meet next Saturday in caucus to select a speaker for the house, they will most likely nominate Mr. Carlisle, as he as no opposition, except a gentle men by the n-ime Thoebe, and he has probably not be invited to the caucus. The democratic leaders at Washingten would be glad to have some one tell them two things: 1. What they can do concerning the tariff. 2. "What they arc going to do concerning the tariff. That something must be done they have been busily engaged for a year or two in explaining Sioux City Journal. THE CALIFORNIA rASSIOX. Southern California is proving a bon anza for the transportation companies, if not for the tourists. The popular cra?e is carrying people to the Pacific coast in flocks, and these people arc distributing njgood deal of money by the wav, will leave a good deal with landlords there, and be getting home again with less mon ey and more experience. Undoubtedly California, south oi north, has its attractions; and what state or country has not? California is a good place to go for a trip, if one is circum stanced to cross the continent for a jour ney and for the pleasure of an outdoor nosegay in January. But as a rule Cali fornia will be found too expensive a luxury for people who make their money on this side of tha continent to enjoy There! ore, the present popular thing in the way of travel will not long continue. Undoubtedly many who are going now go somewhat with the view of of striking something rich, and at least of lookinp over the country for themselves with view of making a residence there if they find sold dollars ouite as indigenous to the soil as rosebuds. Cut they will not find it so. Moreover, many will not be so deligeted with the climate as the pic tures they have seen of it have induct d them to believe they should be. Such forms of iudustsy, by which accumulation or even livelihoods are possible, are be ing greatly overcrowded, and these form of industry are chiefly dependent upon a steady inflow of tourists for "their op portunities. The country itself outside of climate and flowers and some capasity for fruit growing, is deficient in inher ent strength to Bujjport a large popula tion. This fact will appear to the in coming tides, and subsidence will fol low. It 13 not a country in which mod- crate home industrios can be made to flourish not a country well adapted to support home-makers and afford then the opportunities to gather the means to build. It is a better country for men who can take their money with them As a place for pleasure and spending money, and as a refuge from the region of winter, of course it is admirable. This being true it follows it is not the place for the many rather the place fcr the few. Iowa, Nebraska and Dakota the year through and the year round, can dis count southern California. Coming down to what is legitimate, what is of the real strength of the country, and this is by far the letter place to be. In Iowa, Nebraska and Dakota are the solids of life, and the wealth of the soil is avail able to every man who has disposition and ability to work. Iowa people, and all people of these western states, should think slowly be fore making sacrifices to enable the:n to try experiments, beyond the expert:)" ents of holidays m southern California. Siaux City Join-nnl. A CLOVEN-FOUI'SD FAMILY. The resemblence recorded here of human beings to the old pictures of the devil would have been thought a huu- dr d years ago sure evidence of. satanic relationship we give the story for what j it is worth: A gentleman was in our town yester day who had just rctruned from Old Mexico, and had with him a boy about fourteen years of age that is almost as frreat a curiositv as the armless man. r- - He is well formed iu every respect ex- ccpt his feet, which consist of only two I lons tocs cach toc about 8ix nche lung, i nc joints 01 me iocs appear sun j from walking on them. The toes and foot, of which there is nothing bat a heel, resembling the thumb and fortfioger of the hand, both toes of the 6ame length, ana lie can grip n pices ot coin or paper with the ends of them something as a cntwfiah would. He is very pleasant and int. -lligi-nt. Tha gentleman with him 81(1 ins wiiuie trimly, lather, mother. brother and sisters, wore all formed the s-uiiu way. rnd they claim to belong to a tub:; in Central Mexico, whoso feet werr all forni -d the same as theirs. Nevada- City Mo.) 'Hie. INCOMPLETENESS. To reach hih heaven, and fail in entering; To Eilit love iu hU glory and his frrace. And turn back to this heavy hearted place; Ah! surely is the load of pain we bring Desires ungated and fond hopes that cliu? IJke ivy ou our souls, still worse to bear Than all tho weariness tinned with despair. That comes of knowing full how sweet a thing Ixve is. No perfect hour through memory Shall make hell beav'n by its preponderance; The gloom shall ne'er be raised with thinking. once IJfe was not so. Our hungry souls sha'l be Fed on ripe kisses left untouched, and sue. Crylnj? for light, no trace of any dawn But tbat one day we turned our backs upon. lora McDonald in Chicago Tunes. A FLIRTING HUSBAND. A Pretty Girl's Punishment of a Married Masher A Car Scene. Do tho foolish men travel more than the others, or docs it make a man silly to put mm on a ear and send him away from home? I ask tbis'question because I meet eo many men acting like idiots on every journey I take. Directly in front of mo on a recent journey sat a pretty girl, perhaps 23 years of and across tho way was a fine looking, middle aged man wiih a sweet faced wife, two lovely children and a nursemaid. This party was evidently returning for some pro longed visit to the country, and heading for "(.. random's" to stay until the holidays. Tho conversation f the children told all this to every one in tho parlor car. Presently when mamma was deep in a new book, acd nurse had tho babies on a sofa at the end of the car, tho scamp of a husband opened tho, cam paign vy surreptitious smiles in tho look in loss at tho pretty girL During tho day he lliiteu. with her. As the Madonna faced wife Lcut over her novel, the man would make eyes l ight over her shoulder to the amuse ment and disgust of tho pasaeugers. i inady ho went to a rack in which tele graph blanks were deposited, took one and retired. After a while ho came back, walked to : he opposite end of the par and as he re- Lu"oa ne swayea with its motion end ati.uitly laid a folded paper on miss' knoo. t was tho telegraph blank and on it was th. :: "I am strangely interested in you and di ;ro a further acquaintance. Will vou .:o me on your return to Now York? A ac- addressed to John Johnson, 0G4 sr.. .et, wnl reach a delighted man. .Give me st ;c signal before I leave (at the next sta- ti . ... that I may know mv fate." The crirl n. -a over ana over- tins impudent coimnum- c ion. I hen, as she felt the eyes of half the p; .isengers upon her, sho got afraid of the re- si. ana she turned to a ladv. nassed the na- P over aim asked, "What would you do w ti ii o. re you in my place?" n old gentleman in front spoko up: "Give paper, whatever there is on it, to that ;:ied wile." Veil, bless me! if sho didn't get up, cross it to the chair in which the wife sat, place open conunurueation on her lap, and say: .".o gentleman with you gave mo that a .neiit ago. I don't quito understand it.". ;: ly tho whole ear load watched the devel op, lenis wiin incense interest, tsomo were : ry for tho wife and felt vexed at the expo- si. ool tho man for her sake, but tho lady quietly read it through. She was palo as a lies, but sho turned a glance of suchcon- tx .npt on the man that we all knew there was trouble m store for that delusion and snare. T".:en sho faced about and said pleasantly to the pretty girl: '"Thank you; you have ren dered mo a very great service" The cars slopped and tho party withdrew, the flirting husoand making a desperate attempt to look unconcerned, but the outlook for one fool of a traveler was by no means pleasant, f we could read faces. New York Sun. American Girls and Englishmen, Now, there is another thing upon which I would like to say a word or two. It is the marriage of American girls to Englishmen. How many of these marriages are there tbat we can put our finger upon, that money did not come from the lady, and a title from the gentleman? Not one. If not in present, it is in f uturo. If the girl hasn't a fortune, she will have one; if the man hasn't a title, he is sure, sooner or later, to come into one, or be in some way related to a man or woman who has a title. It is not the way of Englishmen, of present or prospective title cr high family, to marry a woman without money. A girl with money in England is like a bar rel of molasses in July. You can't count tfr.4 flics. And then, a girl, even without money, is surrounded by the most absurd rules and regulations. Love marriages won't do. If a man is content to marry a girl without any fortune, he isnt encouraged much by her papa and mamma, unless he is able and will ing to make a good settlement upon her. which must be signed, sealed and delivered fecfore tho ring goes on. Then. too. the en gagement is a depressing period of existence for a man. He can't have any fun. He mustn't go about with his fiancee. He can't escort her alone to a ball, party or the thea tre. A big brother, or her portly father, has to go, too! Everything is propriety run into the ground, and to the verge of nonsense. 2xo wonder, then, that Englishmen jump with delight at tho comparative ease with which (if they have a beggarly title) they get an American girl with bags full of eolden twenties." London Cor. The Argonaut. Remedy for Catarrh. Aa remedies for catarrh thousands of per sons daily use snuff and other stun: whoso action is to irritate tho lining membrane and thus cause more catarrh. There is nothing better than common washing soda diluted in water and twice a day sniffed thoroughly well through tho nostrils. Many persons use only salt and water. New York Times. Chimney on Fire. If a chimney or flue catch on fire, close all windows and doors first, then hang a blanket in front of the grate to exclude all air. Water should never bo poured down the chimney, as it spoils tho carpets. Coarse soli thrown down the iluo is much better. Boston Budget. To set tho color in black or dark hosiery, calicoes?, couubrics, etc., put a largo teaspoon f nl of Llaek ieppcr into a pail of water and let tlia artielca lie in soak fcr a couple of hours. THE PANAMA CANAL RESIDENT LOOKER ON . TALKS OF THE SITUATION. Million of Dollars Thrown Away and Other Millions LATlahly Squandered, Funeral Ceremonies At the Hospital Tiulldlnf m Dam Colon. To the weary and seasick traveler no more enchanting scene can be viewed from the sea than the city of Colon, with its surround ings of tall palm trees waving in the breeze, It seems like a glimpse of fairyland; but let tho tourist once land and he is soon disen chanted. The air seems to be full of pesti lence, and if Cologne is said to have had "seventy distinct stinks." I am suro Colon has at the least three times as many. In fact it is a wonder tbat the inhabitants have not all of them turned up noses. The front street has a planked over sidewalk under which the water stands and putrefies after a roinfalL The back streets of the city are mud holes, and a green scum is their principal decora tion. 'The majority of the houses aro built upon sticks, with a bed of steaming mud be neath to add to their sanitary advantages. l generally the Panama Railroad company run two funeral trains daily out to the cem etery at Monkey Hill, and carry lots of "deadheads." The funeral ceremonies ore conducted on a most economical plan. A poor man dies in the street. A box is brought and he is tum bled into it and whirled away to the place of sepulture. On arrival the body is pitched into a hole. When there are four or five bodies in this hole it is closed up. The boxes are, however, always brought back for fur ther use. There is no hospital or aid for the sick and destitute. For tho sick man there is no aid, for the dead no religious services. It is said that all are not dead who are thrown into these pits. .This is immaterial, of course, as they soon die after the red mud is shoveled in upon them. There ore hospitals, of course, in Colon, both American and French, the latter under the auspices of the canal com pany, whose head is M. de Lesseps. I have personally given the French hospital a trial of nearly a year, and cannot recommend it as a first class hotel. Poor coffee and tough beef are not, in my estimation, the most nourishing food for an invalid. These hos pitals are under the control of my distin guished friend, M. de Lessens, but he never boards at them when he chances to be in Colon. The Sisters of Charity noblo women and a staff of some educated doctors of French extraction have tho management of affairs. The principal medicines used ' are compound cathartic pills and quinine, varied occasionally by a fly blister or an enema. This treatment is an eminently successful one, as is evidenced by the coffins going out every day. In the hospitals, as in everything else, the French have the preference, except in graveyard privileges. They get chicken. etc., when an American or Englishman is given tough beef the meat cut out between the horns of bullocks whoso ancestry dates back beyond the reign of William the Con queror, who himself is old enough to be his own grandfather. LENGTH WHEN" COMPLETED. Tho Panama canal, or rather "The Inter- 00000," will be, when completed, about incy-uve miles long. So far about eighteen miles have been dredged out on the Chaeres, and a portion of the mountain at Culebra has been blasted out This is all the work of con tractors, not of the French. The American Dredging company have done their work nobly, while the French dredges have lain idle and rusted along the shores of the Cuagres. The chief aim of a French employe seems to De to arlnk absinthe, cognac and claret, and wear a cork hat and top boots. They are extremely clannish, and view Amer icans as an inferior race of animals. The canal company purpose building a dam across between two mountains near Gamboa. This tuey calculate will give them a lake of soma marvelous capacity, so if tho" Atlantic and 1 aciflc oceans ever dry up they can turn on a laucet and nil the canal without soiling their kid gloves. This is all very fine in the ory (De Lesseps), but the Chagres river rises sometimes twenty-seven feet in twenty-four hours, and should u take a notion to do so after this mythical lake is completed, it would soon show that Uamboa was not worth a dam. Is o profanity intended. M. de Lesseps is an im aginative man; be is a man of great ideas, out he did not "look before he leaped." Juds ingby present prospects the canal may be completed by the year 1976, when the second centennial of this grand republic will be cele brated. Supposing, for example only, that the canal could be completed by the French company in ten years, an investor in its bonds would be a centenarian before he re ceived a decent return on his investment, pro vided ne was 21 years of age today. By cooking up favorable reports on a gas stove the i reach management have bagged mil lions of dollars, but the game is nearly played out. M. de Lesseps has built a town on a necro graveyard at Colon, which he calls Cristoval Colon, fie has taken possession of the bronze statue of Christopher Columbus, which was presented by Empress Eugenie, of France, to coion ltseix as being one of tho first places visited in the new world by the great dis coverer. . This be has erected in front of his palace, facing seaward, so as to welcome him when he sees fit to cross tho waters. Here. at Christoval Colon, are collected his faith ful satellites. Host of them are like the lilies as they grow; "they neither toil, nor do they spin," yet they uso up lots of brandy, vermouth and gin. As an old resident on the Isthmus of Panama, and a looker on at all the doings of the so called canal company, I do not hesitate to stigmatize the thins it self, so far, as a deceit and a snare. Doubt less tne company hope to complete the canal at some future day by aid of the "rainy seasons," but that will take some centuries. What is required is cool American brains, American energy, American capital and the thing will be a success, a thing of today, not as it promises now, to be regarded in years to come as a failure and a fossil enterprise. Colon Cor. New Orleans Times-Demoerat. Mayor Roche's Impromptu Speech. Mayor Roche hates the very mention of George Francis Train's name. '"Cock Roche' will doubtless cling to the mayor long after all his other titles to fame have been lost in tho record room of time. His honor, by the way, isn't cs brilliant a speechmaker as Train. Roche has all his speeches written out by Secretary English, no matter how short they are. At a recent gathering .where tho mayor was to make a few remarks ex ofllcio, a newspaper reporter asked him how long ho would speak. "1 shall talk but a few minutes," replied the mayor, seriously; "my speech is quite impromptu, Quite impromptu, and, if I re member right, only 373 words long." Chi cago Herald. The Thistle in Chill. Tho common thistle, which now covers Lirgo areas in southern Chili, is said to Lave been introduced there by an Englishman, who Lr.ported a bushel of seed and sowed it nr.der the delusion that the plant would prove valuable fcr fodder, Bapton Pudget . FAUM AND GARDEN. A FEEDING R CK THAT GIVES EVERY ANIMAL ITS SHARE, NO MORE. A Land mU Irrejrul.ir Meat In and Th-'ii jmiib for Vne liclilii- Hint In Laying Out About Curing (hi Hothoii Origin. ?.I-rlno Sheep The lai st importation of pure merinos into the 1 niti'd states was uj.!e through Mr. Jarv; the American consul at Lis bon, in tl .' e:irs 10.) and 110, from the flocks of lii!i.r, Xegreltia, Aqueirna ami Moutarcc -. of Spain. Thts Hocks, cou- fcisting of licr.rly "(0,000 head, had been confiscat u ;.r political reasons and sold by the fv.wish government, along with other pro;; : ly of tho four noblemen who had own' .1 them aial whose names they bore. Of the whole number somewhat leas than '),(! v.'cre sent to this country, and as the I'l c neh government had made an importation of over 300 Spanish sheep from the msest liocfcs of Spam in 1780, which were pl-icTon a government farm at Ramb ,t Ict, near Paris, it i.s quite probable tlieir etoelc was further increased by purch;i -;t 1 V K J b ' 1 (, ' I- ) JEA fJJLBEKT PAULAK RAM. By whatever name the merinos are called, whether Spanish, Trench, Saxon or bilesian. nil had the:r origin in Spain, where they existed in large Hocks owned by wealth 'cuprietors, each of the Hocks possessing distinctive characters that entitled it t;j be considered a sub-variety. j.'rior to i.:e principal importation men tioned, siii. !! r ones had been made from Spanish i'.. :-3cs. no! ably one i.f consider able nui.f. ir: by Col. Humphreys, our minister t Spain, nnd followed bv others, of which it jnrf. at Wist, lira believed to have been Infantados; alao in lyio and 1840 importations were made from the French merino iloeks at Kambouillet, in .trance. From these progenitors the American merino has descended, and now stands at the head of tho lino wooled tlieep cf the world. Zti: Jarvis describes the Paulars as one of t Lie handsomest of f-'panish flocks. Ihey wer of middling height, sound bodied, v, .1 spread, straight on the back the nee!: r the buck rising in a nioder ate curve iim the withers to the setting on of the. l ead the head h-iiidsouie, the stm 6rnoG:;a.i' and tne crimp m the wool not so sIva 1 as in some other Hocks; the wool somewhat longer, but clo.;e and com pact, soft and silky to the touch, and the surface not so much covered with gum 'ine picture ot a irencii 'aular ram with that of tho propagator of the French Paular eli. cp Jean ilaptlst Francis Gil bert, of S; i;iy et Oise, Frauce here given, is from r.'i engraving inrmsiied by Solo mon W, Jcwett, who has imported large numbers of these sheep into Vermont since 1850. when a felon first begins to make its ap pearance, ti.I.e a lemon, cut cfr cue end, put the finger and tho longer is i.3 kept there tne better. JULIt S PEPPER8ERG, jrANUFACTUKEll OT" AND WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALER IN THE Choice Si mars, including our Fler de Pcppoiberct and Buds FCXL. LINK OF TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES always in stock. Nov. 2G, 1S85. fciNGEK with high sold on arm ime. and vibrating shuttle, Ensy payments or cash J. DICKNoLL, liliiuager Plattsmouth Branch HEALTH !S WEALTH! Dr. E. C. West's Nerve and JJr.iiii TreatniPnt a guarantee siu cilie ir "HysUi in Dizziness. Convulslous. i lia. Nervous renr:jl!ria. Heau- ache. Nerve a- I'rosf rn(!on cnu.-:e;i by the use of alcohol (; t"l Mceo.'akefu!i!Pss.!enfal lie preshion. Scfreiiiiirr ff the I'.iain ieultiiK in in sanity and ;o .i;t k f misery, deeay and death. reasature " :: tr? . r.arrennes. i.nss or row er in either s . lnv-'lut tarv L s? s aii'1 Sper- raat rrlioe.i e.-.i:sed lv v.r-p.ert!on of the brain. 8elfa!.i..s orover-linlnlfiice Kach bnx contains or1:- "ontii's treatni'-nt, 1 00 a box nrsix boxe-: lor io.oo, sent by ilia:! prepaid on receipt of p' "WE GUARANTEE SIZ3D2ES To cure an' cao With eaeh order received by us for six boxes, aceompan ed witli S5 00, we will sentt tne purcnaser .-ur written auaran- te to return '.lie money if the tr atmeut does. not effect a rme. (Guarantees issued only by Will J. Wank'!; s ;e agent, i'lattsinoutii. eb. -OF- CALL ON Cor. i :th and Granite Ftreeta. Sept. 12-Cm. ut this sale. 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