THE DAILY -HERALD: P L ATI'S aiOUTit, -j2SKASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 21. 18S8.
j ENTIRE REPUBLIC.
OF PLENTY-ITS PEOPLE
AND TRADE.
' A Itacnoa Ayrt- lUnkir Talks About
JIuHlnewi In die SuutU American I'ro
vlnce CuslnrM, School, Cliuiuto uil
Jla 1 1 roml Tb ? e wi pa pe r Prosperity.
Tlie pcoplo of tbo UDited JSUtos,'' saM Mr.
ClmrWs IL Kandford, a partner of the firm
of Samuel B. Ilale & Co., bankers, of Uuenoa
Ayres, "do not know what an El Dorado
the Argentina Ilepublio is. Not in gold and
ilver, though we mine even tlietw previous
nietala there, but in productiveness. I think
thnt today Buenos Ayres offers a greater
field for tho employment of capital with
safety than the city of any other country in
the world."
"What is Ruenos Ayres likef
"Comparing it with a city of tbo United
State, I ami 1.1 sny Philadelphia. Its street
are laid out in regular Kquarcs or block of
COO feet eaeh, and it covers a great deal of
ground. It m built upon a Blight elevation,
rising from tho La Plata river. It ha a
fr'it of two miles on the river, and extends
L Jk tetween two and three miles. The
number of inhabitants is M)0,OGO. It is to ull
intents and purposes a seaport, though 120
miles from the ocean, as it has direi t con
nection by steamer with Europe. Tim lunik
lug interest of tho city is very larg. There
it ono hank building that cost (900,000,
another that cost tG-l-O.tXX) and others tho
cost of which varies from $MJO,000 to J400,
0A The National bank is just about to
in tlio construction of a building which,
with tho hind, will cost 1,X),000. Those
structures "re of brick and stucco, handsome
iii design, and compare favorably with those
cf liny city. Of the rcsidiwes the city has
liii::y Imrnl: otiio ones that cost from J'JOO.COO
to fc;i')00 cnclj. Tho cost of others i.s from
K,mx) to ?.V,0!X). Spanish is tho language
-::va!ly p;Lrii. but English is much culti
v:.l.J uiMong the natives, and tho lurger
i:ti:.iir of fon igners luting Italians, their
I l.ig..Iy prevails."
.'l:.it is the government like?"
": f'tivi rnmeiit of the Argentine Repub-i:-.-
i . sh;:::.ir to ours, and it constitution is
: i e;iy of uuis, with the exception
; .it tin pririidcnt U rlectcd for a term of wx
i-.- - if.-.r-.'.-j.l f fu'.ir. Tli present president
i. V- M Juarez Column. He is a very
.. ,, in-iii u occupy such a ix;it ion, being
f.fl-.r iiyi'.itiof ago. IIo is a very eiur-.-
t.-- ii.ni I'titerpritiiiig ruler, and I have no
.! ;,:.i that LUye.tr will bo of prosperity to
t :.f -i u:itry. Military rule and dictatorship
I ;u' siinv loeii it thing of tho past iu
t::-.- Ar;;i-iitini- lb-public, although many peo
I ; lU.ak that this is still tho rule of tho
r.'-lnMy."
'U'hrit ure soma of 3'our wealthiest men
wi.rlhr'
"W'v have oiw man who i.s worth from
fil.OOO.M.'O to f:,0X),0(:0, several whoso
wt'ii.'th is placed at f'JO.OOO.OOO each and
many who mo each worth over 5,000,000.
Tho general socio! lifo i.i the same as
hero iu New York or in London. Bueno3
Ayrcs has a liner opera than any city on this
f oiitiiu i;t. It is Italian opera, anl boxes for
forty nights cost from $ '-'.OOO to 5,000. Our
opera house- will seat S.000 jwople, ami we
have as leading tenor the great Tama gno.
i'atti is now there. She has hod ft, most bril
liant success and has received from tho
"Argentines tho highest rate of remuneration
cveiVpaiil to any operatic performer on any
t-tage. TJie city has largo parks, and these
aro freqrrfnted by carriages, tho stylo aud
!eance of which are equal to thoso of nny
i'v in the world.. Palermo is the principal
and includes niany acres. Jo city is
ell supplied with tramw ays or horse car
i . ; 1 L o:j
mes as Liuenos Avres. is nos bi
iiT; s of them. The service is of tho beat
kwid and tho cars are of the. finest. Arrange
ments are now being made to light the city
by elect ricit3."
"What about schools V
"Every state of the province .has a normal
school for boys and another for girls. At
the head of tho latter, with but few excep
tions, there are American girls. In Buenos
Ayres tho pnblic school buildings are hand
somer than those of New York. Last year
the total number of schools in the country
was 3,0"JS. They were served by Ofiil
teachers, and their attendance numbered
.'7,450."
. "How is tho climate?"
"Very tomperato and delightful The
mercury rarely goes abovo 80 degs. in sum
mer or below tiO degs. in w inter. Tho great
est extreme is 40 degs. It is not a tropical
country, but is dry and healthful, about the
temperature of Georgia, except that it does
not have the extreme cold that state some
times exericnovs. Karely does ice freeze
thicker than a pane of glass. This makes
the Argentine Republic the best cattle rais
ing country in the worhL It is never neces
sary to house the cattle. The number of
feheep now being raised there is 100,000,000,
and of cattlo 20,000,000. A new industry
lias taken a great hold of the people of late.
It is tho raising of horses. It is prophesied
that in a few 3-ears tho Argentine Republic
will have as fine stocks of horses, if not liner,
than any country io tho world. Ono of the
latest horses imported for breeding purposes
cost 5,000."
"What about railroadsP
'The number of mile3 of railroads iu the
country is 4,430. They cost . $107,000,000.
Their gro-is earnings aro $25,000,000 and net
earnings over $13,000,000. They pay divi
dends of from 10 to 12 per cent. Ono com
any has 1,000 miles, another S00, and one is
now building to be 1,200 miles Jong. Tbo
government has ordered the building of a
road about 1,200 miles long. Another now
being constructed is to reach from Buenos
Ayres to Chili. The line will bo done in two
year It will connect Buenos Ayres via
MePii with Valparaiso, and will mako
Buenos Ayres the great metropolis pf South
America, as all west coast passengers, mails
acd light freight, etc., for Hurope will save
ten days by using this railway."
"I haven't asked you about iiew.spers."
"We have some very bright dally papers
and -a number of them, and they compare
favorably with those of this city for enter
prise anJ aipearance. They contain daily
dispatches from New York, Londop, Liver
7ooI, Rome, Berlin and other principal
points. Two of the dailies are printed in
Knglish and the rest in Spanish. Of the lat
ter the leading ones are La Nacion and La
I'reusa. The income of. the former is $73,Q0O
net, and that of ttie latter is scarcely any
thing less. The leading English paper is
The Standard, one of the proprietors of
which is the great statistician, M. O. MulhalL
"The prosperity of the people is remark
able. Failures are almost unknown, and
"one of importance bare taken place iu the
eight years. An Argentine's word is bis
a note waa never given there for a
,Sefore 1S70, and today the largest
-.iiqtis of the country are dono on
,j . bal promises or agreements to pay.
i i millions of dollars of business
' wc having a document pass until
. ITt folly completed. Thepeo-
vay found hospitablo and
. known few worthy Ajnerl-
' coeed there." New York
ELECTRICAL INVENTIONS.
Sam of the Contrivances to be Seen at
the l'atent Ofllcc.
Tbo electrical inventions of the patent of
fice have within the last ten years grown
into mammoth proportions. Tho great
American brain seems to bo devoting itself
to electricity just now, and there is a class
here devoted to this subject In it are the
divisions of electric signaling, telegraphy,
telephony, electric lighting, medical electric
ity, electric motive jwer, electricity genera
tion, electricity conductors and others. Each
of these classes have sub-classes, and new
classifications have to be made every year or
two. Before 1870 thero were less then two
thousand patents granted for electricity.
Since that time over eight thousand have
been granted, and wo now give out over a
thousand patents or electrical inventions
every year.
And still electricity is in it? infancy. It
lias made many of the big fortunes of today,
and tho Bell telephone and the Western
Union telegraph aro founded upon it. There
aro now electric street cars in many of tho
cities of the country, and a company has leen
formed iu Baltimore to run a lightning ex
press over an elevated railroad acrota the
country for the carrying of mail and import
ant express matter. The car used will le, I
understand, about the size of tho average dry
goods box, and tho 8ixed will be 000 miles an
hour. This will beat the telegraph and pneu
matic tube, and it will revolutionize much of
the business of the country. By it a letter in
your own handwriting can go from New
York to Washington in twenty minutes, and
Chicago will get tho New York papers for
breakfast. Wwill Ikj able to send a pack
ago from New York to San Francisco iu live
hours, and the outcome of the whole will bo
that passenger travel will be carried on in the
same way.
Tho romance of electric inventions lias not
its counterpart in fiction. A little more than
a decade ago. Telephone Bell, who is now
worth $0,000,000, was walking about Wash
ington "on his upicrs" ami trying to sell bis
telephono stock for ten cents ou the dollar.
Shortly before this ho was teaching a deaf
and dumb school in Boston, and his pocket
book was in a continual state of leanness.
Now be has an income of hundreds of dollars
a day. He is surrounded by line pictures,
owns a magnificent residence, and his soul
rejoices in all the fatness which monoy can
give.
The telephone gave a great impetus to elec
trical inventions. Tho electric light soon
followed it, and there is a millionaire in
Cleveland, named Brush, who was working
at $15 a week beforo he struck the light which
turned bis poverty into fabulous wealth, J
met an assistant of Edison in New York last
week, and he tells me that tho phonograph,
which is to be run by a small electric motor,
is about perfected, and that it will bo in gen
eral use beforo many months. It will cost
less than $100, and one can talk his ideas into
it and have them reproduced in tho same
language and tones in which bo uttered
then).
Bringing Out a New Novel.
Suppose I, as au American author, writa a
novel, and arrange with a publisher to bring
it out at the price of ono dollar a volume, or
fifty cents pajxr. If he has confidence in
tho book, the first edition will bo 1,000 copies;
my share of the proceeds, on tho ordinary
ten cent basis, Is $100, payable at tha end of
tbo year. If I livo by ray pi, I mut &ub
sist during that year on nothing at All; and
when I get my $100 I must pay out of it my
debts for that just jear, end, probably, my
present funeral expenses; for who can livo
on thirty-five cents a day, even if ho were
not obliged to starve to death before he could
enter upon the enjoyment of that princely
income? Hut let us be extravagant and
Utopian let us say that my edition is' 5,000
copies, instead of 1,000. In that case which
perhaps occurs as often as once in a thousand
times my reward amounts to the sura of no
less than $500; assuming, of course, what is
never the fact, that all the copies sold are in
the duller cjoth form, and none in the fifty
cents paper.
Five huudred dollars a year for a success
ful novel! How inan.v of our authors mako
twice that? How many ten times as much?
How many twenty times as much? I will
engage to entertain at dinner, at a round
tablo five feet in diameter, all tho American
novelists who make more than a thousand
dollars a year out of the royalty on any one
of their novels, and to give them all they
want to eat and drink, and three of the best
cigars apiece afterward, and a back to tako
them homo in; and I will agreo to. forfeit
$1,000 to the Homo for Imbeciles if $25 does
not liquidate tho bill and leave enough over
to buy a cloth copy of each of the works in
question, with the author's autograph on tho
fly leaf. One hack would bo sufficient, and
would allow of their putting up their feet on
tho seat in front of them. J ulian Hawthorno 1
in Belford's Magazine.
Cost of an Education.
Iu speaking of the relative cost of college
educations in the great universities in Europe
in comparison with the expense necessary to
complete the course in American instita
tious of learning a recent graduate of the
Ghisgow university, Scotland, said to a re
porter: "The total cost of n college education Jn
the old country js considerably smaller than
it is here, and especially is it true of the Scot
tish universities, where I imagine the outlay
is at a minimum, even below that required at
tho great uuiversities of Germany. I know,
personally, that thero aro many students at
Glasgow w ho are able to pay all their collegi
ate expenses, including their living, clothes
and book, for about $350 per year, and they
are tho envy of their fallows, many of whom
are compelled to be content with much less.
IIow far, think you, would that sum gc at
Harvard or Yale? Everything connected
with life in Scotland tends to make the
student economical and forces him to cut
down his expenditures tj the lowest pps;;bli
figure, and nobody conversant with the facts
will deny that an education can be bought in
that country cheaper than in any place in the
worhL
"In tho matter of discipline," the speaker
added, "the rules of the gcotch universities
are the most stringent, and such as would not
bo tolerated by tho American college student
of today, but I think that the results are bet
ter there than here, for wCyou find a man
who holds bis degree from a Scotch college
you will, in nine eases out of ten, find a
grandly educated gentleman and an honest
man. Such, at least, has been my experi
ence, and I would advocate tho practice
among parents who have thoughtful, studious
sous of sending them to one of the universi
ties of Scotland, where learning is cheaper
and where the surroundings of the student
are such that, in order to maintain a reput
able standing among bis associates, a moo
must be honest, upright and diligent' New
York Mail and Express.
Making; Fast Time,
It was at Saratoga, and be bad passion
atcly declared bis love.
"I am wholly yours, Mr. Higgins," tU
happy girl replied; "but would you kindlj
leave your card before you go? Not as m
guarantee of good faith," she explained, "bat
I am cui ious to know your full name," New
York Bun.
HOW A 'CHINAMAN DIE?.
A CELESTIAL.. MERCHANT'S DEATH
IN HIS NEW YORK HOME.
The Pious Tak of Cheeilug the Dying
Man and Ministering to Ilia 1'hysleal and
Spiritual Wants Attractive Interior of a
Chinese Home,
A heathen died 12,000 miles away from
tome, at No. 13 Pell street, on Friday morn
ing. Although he was so far away from bis
native land, be was tended iu his dying
hours by some of his "cousins," for in China
the cousin is any member of the same family,
110 matter bow remote the kinship, and the
manner of his death was as it would havo
been if be bad died at home. His name is
Hong Toi, aud ho is a cousin of a wealthy
Chinaman who keeps a grocery at No. 20
Mott street. He had just leen taken away
from Boston to die iu this city. According
to a certain Chinese suerstition it is unlucky
to allow a man to die in the sumo house where
he liveL Consequently, as soon as tho at
tending physician pronounces tho case hope
less, a room elsewhere is hired for him to dio
iu, us was done in this case.
Hong Toi was born in Quang-Tung-Foo in
1S03 and came to America when he was 20
years of age. Like so many of bis country
men, when be arrived here he sought employ
ment in u laundry, and set himself to make
a fortune. His savings after a time were
largo enough to enable him to buy an interest
iu a grocery, and liefore he died he had laid
up $50,000. His hopes and plans, however,
all jierished with him. Four months ago bo
contracted an illness common among tho peo
ple of his race. Ho coughed, grew thin and
lost his apietito. The American physician
whom he emploj-cd at Urst pronounced the
trouble malaria, but his treatment did tho
patient little good. A Chinese doctor was
consulted later, and he declared the trouble
to bo pneumonku This proved correct, and
tho disease soon proved futnl.
Within the last two weeks of his life ho
was never left alone. His friends and cousins
relieved one another in the pious task of
cheering the dying man aud ministering, in
their heathen fashion, to his spiritual as well
as bis physical wants. They read long pas
sages to him from their national books, such
as the works of Confucius and Meucius, tho
Tripiteka of Buddha and tho verses of Lao
Tszee and other famous poets. The3r fed Lim
with the strange and delicate dainties which
the Chinese only can concoct, and talked of
homo when he was strong enough to listen.
Then, as the end cams nearer, they brought
out and spread around him numerous queer
looking objects, such as had been familiar to
him in his childhood, evidently seeking, as
they might amue a tired child, to bring
some pleasant memory or happy thought into
his mind whilo yet life might be made a little
brighter.
They spread o'.it Utile squares of sugar
candy, looking not unliketho "butterscotch"
American children like so well. Queer cakes
wero laid around ou tables and chairs, and
even on the bed, some with fruts and sumo
with spices in them, some with meats and
some with unfamiliar ingredients to the Cau
casian; very few of them wero alike. Then
they brought even dolls, fashioned as nearly
after tho labyhooci of phina as tho pictures
of thpir native artists are like nature
grotesque, quaint and richly garbed, odd and
pretty. From tho ceiling they hung kites
and queer umbrellas, and some of tho ele
gant, fantastic paper lanterns that aesthetes
delight in. A smile would sometimes como
over bis wasted features, but for the most of
tho time his face was calm and grave4 vjz is
tho wont of Chinamen. It is a look not un
like that of babies, wise beyond their daj-s,
who look at all things with a quiet attention
that seems to speak a tolerant half approval.
His bed was a narrow hunk, covered with
white matting, and the pillows were long,
narrow boxes, covered with upholstery.
They looked not unlike tho foot rests iu an
old English chiirch. Around the walls hung
silken banners of vivid scarlet and rich em
broidery tracing the hieroglyphics that
stood for verses from tho poets. Over the
mantelpiece wero religious pictures not un
like those that hang over tho altars in the
Chinese temples. Iu the center was a repre
sentation of God as the Chinese picture Hm,
seated on a throne of lxirb..ric n,ingniliceuce,
whilo OU either, baud were pictures of the
beings whom they supiose to personify tho
powers of destruction and reparation. On
tho opposite wall hung Vhe words of tho
Christian hymn, "Nearer, my God, to. Thee."
On tho mantelpiece underneath the religious
pictures were a dozen or more p.vtWtio photo
graphs of ballet girls in the extreme mide
ness of the modern stage.
In one corner was a bamboo table, on
which were pots of coal kept constantly
burning, and of tea kept always hot. Other
smaller tables supported bronze vaics, some
of them very ccrtly and ail artistic; bronze
bowls of clean white sand, in which were
stuck joss sticks, to be burned from time to
time in devotional exercises, and soma forty
or fifty volumes of tho writings of Chinese
poet. These were huge and enmbrous, but
of rare workmanship, and must have been
expensive purchases.
The sick man's costume was. a simple bouse
dress, somewhat resembling tha pajamas that
have grown into popular favor in America
within tho last few years. He wore a blouse,
loose and without any approach to a fit,
made of yellow muslin, and a pair of trou
sers of the same material, only reaching to.
the ankle, and on his otherwise naked feet
were a pair of loose slippers. This was in bis
Boston home. A few days ago, his pbysir
clans baying pronounced bis case hopeleM, he
was removed to this city, as stated above.
He confronted death with all the calm
courage of the true fatalist, evidently in full
possession of all his mental faculties and firm
in bis Oriental faith. There was not the
faintest evidence of any fear in. his manner
or bis word-, nor did there seem to be any
longing for life or desire to supplicate for it.
To an American whom be knew well, and
whom be had learned to regard as a good
friend, he said, as he grasped bis band the
day before be died;
( 'Mayhap die ono week, maybe ono month;
die alleo samee. No solly myself. All light.
Solly my mothee, my mothee."
To one of his Chinese friends be saiA only
a few bours before he breathed his last, and
when he was almost unable to articulate :J "I
think I see the dragons." It was the last he
said. Soon after be sank into what seemed
a peaceful sleep and saving for bis labored
breathing he gave no f urth?r evidence of suf
fering. Slowly and more slowly be breathed,
until with a long gasping sigh he gave up
the struggle and rested.
Thero was no lamentation, nor any evi
dence of grief, though it was plain enough
that to many of his friends bis going was a
real sorrow. Five or six of these friends
were in the room when be passed away, and
as soon as they saw that be was dead they
began the preparations for bis final disposed.
New York Herald,
.Its SXany Meanings.
The most common stock expression In the
language is probably. "Well," used as an in
terjection. It nay be given mora meaning i
than any other ateaninglefis word of m few
letters. ,
THE FAIR SEX.
Newspaper CoHSip Concerning: the Daufcli
trrs of i:ve IVnunal Stent Ion.
Rose Llizuljclh Cleveland will go to
Europe next year to pursue lier literary
btudies.
Tho fastest typesetter in California is
fcuid to lo a young woman who is em
ployed in a newspaper ofiico at Santa
Barbara.
Miss Daisy Hampton, Gen. Wade
Hampton's daughter, i a famous pe
destrian. She recently walked froui her
homo to Charleston, a distanco of 143
miles, and made in one day a record of
twenty-five miles.
The Dowager Duchesse do Fitzjames
sent recently to a Paris fashionable Lrido
as her wedding present a copy of tho
funeral oration delivered over James II
of England, recovered and preserved by
the Darou do Maynardat Lisbon.
The number of tall ladies now in Wash
ington Koeiety is noteworthy. A niece of
Secretary Uayard, Miss Bayard, of Balti
more, is six feet tall; Speaker Carlisle '
wife i.s live feet nine inches, and (leu.
Greeley's wife, Mrs. Wilkinson, wife of
Representative Wilkinson, of New Or
leans, and Miss Ginter, of Kentucky, are
about the same height.
Amolie Rives' bister, aljout whose beauty
so much is being said, is small, very blight
and girlish. She has golden hair, largo
dark blue eyes of weird expression, and
a complexion of the most dazzling pink
and white. She has long lashes, a tine
nose, and full red lips. She dress -s with
school girl si m j ill 1. i;y.
JInie. Vincent, a French woman, has
saveil twelve persons from drowning.
A short time ago she jumped into tln
waves entirely dressed and re.se tail the
twelfth, n G-year-old loy. She lias seven
children of her own, the youngest a
baby.
N-v that the queen and the Princess
of Wales have set the fashion of w earing
opals, it will be very widely followed, in
spite of the reputation for ill luck which
clouds the beauty of these prismatic
gems,
3Iiss Fiances Wet more luis Ixon ap
pointed government physician for tho
island of Hilo. ''Dr. Fanny, " as she is
called, has a large practice, and li very
popular among all classes. She makes
her visits 011 horseback, and is ready to
answer any call, night or day, in fair
weather or foul.
Mrs. Ritchie, the daughter of Thack
eray, seems to writs iier stories by a
similar method to that which Emerson
pursued in tho preparation of his essays.
When anything strikes Mrs. Ritchie sho
writes it down at the moment, and then
patches the scraps together. It ap
peara that before the publication of Mr.
Louis Stevenson's "Di Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde," the very eamo story had been
thought out by Mrs. Ritchie. It had
come to her with a flash the very best,
most delightful fctory she had ever
thought of; and hitter was her disap
pointment when she picked up Mr. Louis
Stevenson's little book and found her idea
had been anticipated.
Col. Ingersoll's daughter are brilliant
girls. Not in tho sense that society terms
its girls brilliant for they are not shal
low, and frivolity does not babble when
they speak. They are brainy. They
havo read 'd studied deeply. They
have a lino scientific knowledge, ami
they talk thoughtfully ou all topics of
the time. Still, tlic-so two young ladies
have by no means neglected" themselves
in tho lighter accomplishments. They
are line musicians, and they possess in a
remarkable degree the gift of entertain
ment. One of them. Miss Maud, is the
possessor of a remarkable memory. She
has stored up in her mind U vast amount
of knowledge vrV-ich she recalls in tho
most mhuite. manner and with tho great
est apparent ease. Without tho slightest
hesitation she car, tell, for instance, the
date of bii in or death of any important
composer, and can recall any event of
moment in his career. This quite un
usual gift tlie carries into other fields.
and her information is so widespread and
so accurate that but for her singularly
winsome manner ordinary folks would
be quite afraid to talk to her,
CettUij? Kifl of Kats.
A farmer living near Greensboro, Ga.,
was much troubled by rats, and their
depredations ou his corn crib increased to
an alarming extent. He finally thought
of a method by which he could 1 k h.Ha
self of them. He secured ft threS' gallon
jar and half filled it -Fith water. On the
top of t?iG vyater he placed thick layer
of cotton seed. The seed, so he argued,
would attract the rats as a pleasant place
to play, ud of course tho momeht they
touched the seed down they would go.
The trap worked like a charm. The rata
came; they attempted the frolic act on
the seed with tho deceptive foundation,
and, to use Mr. Kilgore's own words, he
"caught a gallon aud a half of rats the
first night," running the water to the
top. Chicago Herald.
Southwestern CUlua's ICaUi-cuS.
Great interest is taken iu the" east in
tlie railway between Siam and south
western China, which will be alxut a
thousand miles long. It has been sur
veyed, but more surveyors are going out
from England. It i expected that this
railway wiU postpone for a long time the
construction of a line between Tonquin
and China. The China Railway company
have, by the way, completed their line
as far as Tang-ku, and in April the trains
began to run flora that point to Tongsan.
Tho remaining section of the line, be.
tween Tang-ku and Tien-Tsin, wiU be
pushed on with unremitting energy, and
in a few months' time the "flying
wheels" will be making their revolution
to the delight and amazement of the pea
pie of Tien-Tsin. Home Journal.
I'rlces Paid fur Novell.
There seem3 to have been a great ex
citement over the f 10,000 paid to Mr.
Stevenson for Ids "Outlaws of Tunstall
Forest" by an American syndicate. A9
a price it pales into insignificance before
the $40,000 paid by Smith, Elder & Co.
to George Eliot for --Romola," and the
$30,000 paid by the Longmans for Lcrd
Beaconsfi eld's Lothair.' Anthony Tro
lope and Charles Reade often received
$20,000 for a single work, and Harrison
Ainsworth, at the height of bis popular
ity, is known to have made $100,000 a
year.Belfordg Magazine.
he Plattsmouth Herald
Xs 021 joying ci
DAILY AND WBKXT
EDITIONS.
line
Will be one during which the subjects of
national interest nml importance will be
stronjflv airitateil and the election of it
President will take place. Ihe people ot
Cass County who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social
of this year and wonld keep apace with
the tinier should
-l'oi:
Daily or Weekly Herald.'
Now while wc have the subject before the
people we will venture to ?peak ot our
Which is first-class in all respects and
from which our job printers are turning
out much satisfactory work.
PLATTSM0UTII,
I3oj - m. in both, its
1888
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