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LOVE ROMANTIC, YET MOST TRU6.
Tliru men. who were pool an J great,
knvoiv-1 ty fortuno omJ fato
f yivttl una woiiuid; lut ho
liOvfU noun of the three.
Tln'jr wcra friend and they loved each otber
Ah Irifinl love friend, or lirother brother;
lint no one ever (ioko
Tha namo Ida linart awoke.
Tlio first Id love to the woman told.
In xudion'H word, by hopo inuda bold,
"Ih-rter tban fuinn or weallb,
Sloru than life lLclf,
1 lovo yon. I lovo you!" tit until.
Him li: J-iieL but Kbo shook tier head.
Aim nrifiwerrvl, low and true:
' lovo not; love not you."
Tln second Maid: 'I love you well.
More than through lifo my liMicna tell
Living, 1 11 love but you, '
lu (I.miIIi to you lo iruo." "
V.by, hlio di.l not undorxtand,
Uutuho la 1.1 In hi her hand;
And throughout nil her life
Klio lived bis faithful wife.
Of Ills love for her. the third
Kjioke never a tingle wonl;
Yet nn hi lovo'M di'jfro
Tho hili'-t of the three.
Ho watcheil her live mid Haw her
l!ut hut lienrt never voiced a cry.
Koineliow, when her life was a.st.
Ho know alio wun bis at lust.
liertrudo Garrison.
leuloii f III Fame,
No one can Ijo surprised when a uian
refuses to hliaru his hardly earned fame
witli (mother, no matter how kindly his
feelings toward that other may lc.
An aspirin; young man, who had writ
ten yards of versed for tha paper pub
lished iti his nativo town, at first used
his initials. "J. II. L., for a signature
loiter, h.jvvever, ho omitted tho middlo
letter, and a friend asked him tho reason.
"Can't you guess?" asked tho young
Ioetaster. "Well, it may seem selfish,
lut I do want tho credit of my own
work."
"Why shouldn't you have it?"
The young man looked sympathctic
jilly nt his stupid friend.
"My dear fellow," said he, "can't you
see hw it is? If I use only two of my
initials people will soon associate them
with my name; hut if I wrjto J. R. L.,
James liussell Lowell will get all the
credit that belongs to mc!" Youth's
Companion.
Sausage, Old and New.
fpealjjjig of tho "worship of the an
tique," thero is a lady in Oldtown who
worships the ancient sausage and de
clares that the modern sausago is a con
spicuous illustration of the deterioration
of the ijnies. "So sooner," says she, "is
it in the frying pan than it immediately
l urns itself wrong side out, and not satis
Jied with that feat it Hies to pieces as if
loaded with dynamite; consequently it
Ss served in a shapeless mass, presenting
a striking contrast to the shapely sausage
:Hked by our mothers, which came to
ins Jable perfect in shape, and nicely
rowneu." Lewiston Journal.
Healthy.
XVrsonal illustrations are usually in
doubtful taste, and sometimes are posi
tively dangejous. A farmer was com
plained of for maintaining a nuisance in
flu; shape of a piggery; tho neighbors
asserw.l that faid piggery was detrimen
tal to ih-V health.
xt. the trial Jhe rustic gentleman ar
i:ed Js own case and summed up as
follows:
"The neighbors say, your honor, that
!ogs is unhealthy; 1 say they ain't. Look
lit w;e! Ain't I healthy?" Youth's Coni
jnnio, I'nterri fieri.
"Tin told, fcaiU George to Mabel,
-ihat tyrotoxicon has been found in re
mar kaLJa abundance in ice cream this
"Does it hurt ono much?" she asked
apprehensively.
"Oh, I guess it poisons you," ho re
plied. "Is it alive?"
"Ye yes; I think so."
"Oh, (ieorge. how I would like to see
one." Merchant Traveler.
An ln;;:iiily Creature.
Man is an ungainly creature at the
liest. His head is an irregular spheroid,
his eyes 100 not alike orof equal efficien
cv; his v. hiskes won't grow uniformly.
Oiu shoulder is higher than the other,
one has;d or foot larger than the other
ji.ud tins is Aiij opposite sides his hips (if
ha has any) are unequal in shape. The
calves i-f his legs are no, twins in any
thing but age; and without ids tajlor,
flatter and txotniaker he is a sorry look
ing animal. Ogden Argus.
JIow Tliey Work.
Baking powders are mixtures of cheiui.
cais which, when moUtened, liberate car
bonic acid gas. They are added to the
Hour used in breadmaking, so that the
gas, as it escapes, may puff up the dough,
rendering it spongy and light Yeast
serves the same purpose by causing A
ernv-'JJtaiion in tho Hour, which also de
vtlops,carbonicacid gas Boston Budget.
lf;ul the figures lo Show for It.
"'You soever loved me, .Jofctii" sobbed
Jlrs. VAllus hysterically.
"Maria," exclaimed Mr. Billus ear
nestly, "you arc mistaken. If you will
Jo,-k bac k over the family expense ac
count vou will find that it cost us ??7-50
for ivp.ii;ng rocking chair3 during tha
;5rst tines y-rs of our married life."
(Chicago Tribune.
Optimism auri Peaeiuijsu.
Pretty Daughter Papa, dear, what i
optimUm?
Father The art that enables a father
to s:Ue over his daughter's dressmaker's
bills.
P. I). And poisimism?
Father The ability on the part of a
woman to look supremely miserable in a
becoming bonnet. Pittsburg Uulietia.
Ile that hath a trade hath an estate,
nd he that hath a calling hath a place
of profit and honor. A plowman on
ids legs is higher than a gentleman on
his knees. Franklin.
Celery is said to have been introduced
from France into England in 1704. From
England it later found its way to Amer
ica. j
Younjr One and Old Onea.
Traveling men have more points of re
semblance, to actors than any other class
that I know of. - Maybe it is because lifo
on tho road throws them largely into the
company of Thespians with whom they
fraternize and exchange notes wherever
the contact is made. This likeness breaks
out even on a man's first trip. Young
actors and young commercial travelers
ulike glory in all tho paraphernalia of a
conquering blood. Shiny silk hats, pat
ent leather loots, flashing jewelry some
times, and at any rate clothing enough
for a trip to l'.urie, which they calculate
will at once bring provincial admiration
Mown to a point described as the "hyp
notic" state wherein tho subject, be
wildered by a owcrful display of brill
iancy, allows himself to In sicted tion at
the magnetic will. The Booths, Barretts
mid Irvings of the profession, if I may be
allowed the simile, prepare themselves
for a long ami hard tussle with the prac
tical hardships of traveling and demean
;hemselves rather as the huuvblu attend
nits iimii the glory of their wares than
s the sole rejiositcirics of everything
A'oiih admiring among their employer's
jelongiugs. Interview in Clothier and
Furnisher.
OeniiHti Ktiiiette.
Perhaps the best criterion of tho mi
nuteness of (icrman etiquette is the little
unwritten code on pocket manners. Ger
man goiwl form is shocked by the belter
skelter condition of the American pocket.
A well bred (Jerman never allows his
keys and his jackknife, hissmall change,
his shoe buttoner and his cigar cutter to
jingle about loosely in his trousers
pocket. The greatest ofTense against
Sherman MK-ket manners is to carry small
silver coins loose in the jiocket. A (Jer
man lieutenant may havo only half a
dollar to his name, but ho carries as big
a purse as if he owned all the notes of the
Imperial IJeichsbaiik. In paying for 5
cents' worth of beer ho goes down into
his trousers and draws out his llabby
pocketbook with a dignity, thanking
heaven that he is a mannerly, high born
Prussian, and not a vulgar tradesman
like the American at his side, who has
just tlapped down on tho table a mess of
gold, silver, keys and manicure appara
tus. The small (Jerman schoolboy is not
even allowed to carry his car faro with
out a purse. Detroit Free Press.
Pugilism and IiiHunity.
The Neurogieal society lately held a
seance in New York, in which several
pugilists jvero exhibited to establish
marked similarity between their ears
and those of the incurably insane. It is
a well known fact among physicians
that a swollen prominence of tho upper
part of tho car occurs often in crazy
people, and is an invariable indication
of hopeless lunncy. Among prize fight
ers tho same peculiar mark is seen, re
sulting from frequent pummeling of the
head. The swelled ear of a fighter is
prized by him as a distinction second
only to a broken nose, and in time be
comes an established trade mark; but
the individuals who came forward to
illustrate "IIa,-matonia," or tumorous
cars, were somewhat chagrined to find
that their professional sign also belongs
to tho worst cases of the mad house.
Investigation might lead to the discovery
of a more iatimate kinship between the
two classes of people who bear the brand
of swelled oars. Cocnopolitan.
The Organ Won,
Down on Main street the other day two
beggars ran opposition hand organ ap
peals for crjarjry. One wore a sign on
his breast telling that he wa3 blind; the
other had lost both his legs below the
knees. The blind man, however, touched
tho iub!'c heart, and but few who
dropped small co!i;2 for him had any
charity left for the legless man on the
other bide. The latter stood it for a
while, looking glumly at his more fort
unate fellow mendicant and playing the
"Star Spangled Banner." Suddenly an
idea struck him and he ceased his patri
otic tune and changed his music roll.
Out of the organ came blithely "Pull
Down the Blind." Tljo crowd caught
on and for fifteen minutes tho legless
man got a big share of the dimes and
quarters. Kansas City Globe.
Why Hie Sky Is Hluc.
Professor Hartley , of London, has been
trying to find put why the sky is blue.
His experiments show that the color
arises from the action of ozone upon the
rays of light. The results of his exami
nation of ozonized air go to prove that it
is impossible for rays of light to pass
through so little as five miles of air with
out the rays being colored sky blue by
the ozono pommouly present, and "that
the blue of objects viovypd on a clear day
at greater distances up to thirty-five to
fifty miles must bo almost entirely the
bluenesa of ozone in the air." In his
laboratory experiments he observed that
the quantity of ozone giving a full sky
blue in a tube only two feet in" length is
2,500,000 milligrammes in each square
centimetre of seional area in the tube.
Where They Don't Drink Jamaica Bam.
A. W. Rogers as just returned from
a t wo months' sojourn in Janyaica, and
is rejoicing in what is to him compara
tively cooi weather. lie said: "They
don't make molasses for export in Ja
maica any w.c. Everything they can
get for the purpose is put into rum. Rum
brings more than sugar, and anything
that will decay or ferment is put into it.
If you knew the stuff they put into rum
you wouitj ppnfuta your drink if you
drink to potatp whisky. Why, sticks,
straw, any decayed vegetable substance
seems good enough in the eyes pf the
planters of Jamaica to jxit Into their
rum. The natives of the island and the
operatives in i.U.9 mill don't drink it
Their chief drink is sugar and jvster."
Rochester Post-fixpre2.
To keep eggs for use during the year
dip them when perfectly fresh in boiling
water for one second, place in a box, Of
basket, and set in a cool place. Be 6ure
the water is boiling hot when the eggs
arc dipped. A film forms on the inside
of the shell, making the contents air
tight. They- will keep fresh any length
of time.
THE DAILY" HERALD ! I'LATTSMbUTlL AiKDUASivA, MONDAY, JUNE 24; im.
Bnffulo mil's Father.
An old time resilient of Denver a day or two
tinoe related an incident of tho orlfinul "Buf
falo Bill" Oxly, father of tho present famous
showman, w hich has never teen in print. Old
man Cody was a prominent figure on tho
pluins in an c;irly day, being tho owner of an
extensive trading Kt on the Arkansas, in
tho vicinity of Fprt Larnod. Iate in the '.V)s
tie received Information that tho Indians pro
posed to clean out hU ranch, which was an
extensive adolie building surrouuded by a
Btockudo. He did not pay much attention to
it, but tho same news continued to reach him,
and wuii ut last cun!li iii(l by the arrival of a
largo hand of Cheyenues and Arnpahoes and
Kiowas, who camjed oil tho opposite side of
a deep orroyo from the trading MXt, across
whieh tho military authorities hail erected a
brido for tho passage of ;ply trains.
The savages pretended to bo very friendly
and wanted to trade, swapping furs and bkiiM
for ammunition, hut tlkcir real object was to
burn tho jwst ami carry away Cody's scnlpas
n trophy a fact of which tho old frontiers
man was well informed through tho spies
whom ho had among them. Tho place was
well armed, but not sulHcicntly manned to
resist tho attack of so formidable a band of
red skins, and old Bill cast ultout to seo what
ho could do to protect himself. In the stock
yard of tho post was an old howitzer which
had Ix-cu abandoned by somo of tho plains
military exeditious, and this ho curried up to
the top of tho post and placed it so that It
would sweep tho bridge. Ho had plenty of
powder, hut no other ammunition lit to load
it with, and so he charged tho gun with old
niulo shous, nails, bits of iron and similar
truck.
Tho cannon loaded, ho awaited develop
ments. Early ono morning ho observed an
unusual movement in thocampof his pretend
ed friends, and soon, fully armed, with war
paint on, tho savages made a dash toward the
fort. Cody was at his howitzer, match in
hand. Tho painted devils crowded tho loii
but narrow bridge, and just as the foremost
reached tho nearest hank he discharged his
gun at clear range of tho bridge. There was
a wild howl of disapointed rage, a vision of
dead Indians tumbling in tho arroyo, of legs
and arms and heads lying around loose with
out claimants, and fleeing and frightened sav
ages escaping from tho fatal bridge. Cody's
single shot had saved his post, and ho was al
ways thereafter left in peaceful possession of
his ranch. Just what struck them on the
bridge tho Indians never know, and the sur
vivors of tho fatal charge always entertainec'.
tho firm belief that "Bullalo Bill" was in
league with the evil spirit, and, as such, a
person to whom it was safe to j;ivo a wide
berth. Deliver News.
Ite I)i.I It.
Emil Charles Pfeiffer, of Cambridge, states
that a student of physiological psychology
named Martenfoldt is tho culprit who is re
sponsible fur tho "Pigs in ' Clover" atrocity.
Martenfeldt bad been making researches in
somo determinations of tho sensitiveness of
the tactile sense, u.:der tho direction of the
great Helmholtz, and found that tho ability
to balance a marble on a perfectly smooth
pieco of plato glass depended upon tho deli
cacy of what is known as tho reaction time
that is, depends upon tho quickness of tho
nerve current in receiving tho impression
that tho marble will roll, sens'ing tho impres
sion to tho controlling organs in the cerebel
lum that contract or relax th.i muscles of tho
arm and tho degree of responsiveness in tho
nervous end, organs of the fingers which hold
tho pieco of glass.
Martenfeldt found that if he placed tho
marble in tho center of tho plato and marked
four or five spots on the edge of the plate and
then asked tho subject with which ho experi
mented to tip the phite so that the mar bio
would run across a particular spot, a consid
erable rime elapsed before tho subject could
determine how to tip the plate. to make a
marble roll as requireu. When Martenfeldt
complicated the apparatus and placed rings
of pajApJKwrd about tho center of the plate,
with bolut for the marble to run through, the
average results of his experiments gave a re
markable psychological law, which was that
the "reaction time" depended upon the size
of the circles of pasteboard, which made ail
impression upon tho field of vision of tho ret
ina, and was in direct proportion to the
diameters of tl)e circles expressed in milli
metres. He sent ono of his plates to Her
man Meyer, of Philadelphia, where it was
seen by C. M. Crandall, tho toy deviser. The
Doctor.
Did Kv Talli French?
No subject has been more fertile of specula
tion than tho origin of lungaage, and on few,
lierhaps, can less satisfaction bo obtained.
Tho Jews positively insist that tho Hebrew
tongue is tho primitive language, and that
sioken by Adam and Eve. The Arabs, how
ever, dispute tho point on antiquity with the
Hebrew. Of all the languages, except the
Hebrew, tbe-Syriao has had tht giouteal num
ber of advocates, especially among easterii
authors. Many maintain that the language
spoken by Adam is lost and that the Hebrew,
Chaldee and Arabic are only dialects of the
original tongue, Goropius published a work
in l.S0 to prove that Dutch was the language
spoken in paradiso. Andre Jterup main
tained that God spoke to Adam in Swedish,
Adam answered in Danish, and Evo spoke in
French, while the Persians balievo three lan
guages to havo been spoken in paradiso Ara
bic, the most persuasive, by tho serpent;
Persian, the most poetic, by Adam and Etb,
and Turkish, the most threatening, ' by the
Angel Gabriel Erro claims Basquo'as tho
language spoken by Adam, and others would
make the Polynesian as tho primitive lan
guage of rnankiwd. IeayiKg, heaver, these
startling theories, we may bum up 'in the
words of Darwin: ""With respect to the
origin of articulate languages, after having
read on the one sido the highly interesting
works of Wedgewfod, Farrar and Professor
Schleicher, and the celebrated lecture oi Pro
fessor Max Mailer on t'ae otUw- sido, I canuot
doubt that language owes its origin to the im
itation and modification, aided by signs and
gestures, of natural sounds, voices of other
anireals and man's own cries." Cm-rent
Literature.
Modem Witchcraft.
A horriblo case of niorder for supposed
witchcraft is reported from tho Deccan. At
a villaga in Chennar, Jaluho, certain shep
herds were ' suspected by tie" viiiaaeVs, tuid
tbeso suspicions were accentuated In conse
quence of a severe epidemic of cholera Two
of the suspected men were seized, solemnly
tried and condemned for witchcraft bv th
village comivission, and sentenced tq be tort
ured to deatiu There, in ' the presence of all
tho villagers, their teeth were extracted with
pincers and tUejr heads shaye. gubr
quently they were burled up to their necks,
wood was piled round their heads, a fli was
kiudled, and the skulls wero roasted iutc
powder- S?mo thirty persons have been con
victed and eenfoheed t5 various terms oi Im
prisonment. - . i
Another case of murder for supposed witch
craft was recently tried at Bombay. Tho ac
cused imputed th& doath pf hjs father and
mother and the illness of certain members of
bis family to the arts of an old woman, and
beat her to death with a thick, heavy stick.
These cases are common, but are rarely
brought to the notice of the British authori
ties; -Calcutta Dispatch to London Time,
OUT WEST IS VAGUE.
RELATIVE TERM SUBJECT TO
ERAL CONTINGENCIES.
SEV-
Oio Is the IMMtiou of the Speuker When
He Cues tho 1'xprennlon The Ideal, the
Ileal unJ th "Wild Wiwllj" An Inci
dent in Ituena Vltrt' Kurly Day.
When Horace Greeley said "Go west,
young man, go west!' ho should havo ex
plained how far west ho meant. Ho should
havo said whether ho meant west of Chicago
or merely west of New York, for "tho west"
is merely a relative term, and a place that in
some localities is sHiken of us "tho west," in
other xrtions of America is mentioned as
"back east."
In Boston ami Now York even Chicago is
thought of and spoken of as "the west." while
in Colorado every small town in Indiana,
every hamlet in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas or
Wisconsin is mentioned us "back east."
fcjo tho terms "out west" and "back east"
are, ufter all, merely relative and mean only
so much or bo little of tho real cast or west ns
may enter int-j the conception of certain
localities. Nevertheless there aro 'distinctive
sectional characteristics belonging to each.
There is an ideal west, a real west, a cultured
west, and, alas and alack-a-day, a "too, toe
utterly wild, woolly west !"
THE IUKAL AM) KEAU
Tho ideal west is "tho land of tho froo and
the home of tho bravo." It is redeemed, re
generated and disenthralled from tho "out
worn" creeds of a materialistic and often
corrupt civilization. It is not afraid to say
that it soul is its own. let it should lose a
dime or ri-.!: tl; Io..i of u io.iar. it h ut
exaggerated ideas in regard to tho value of
money. It has "old fashioned" notions of
propriety and has no foolish ufl'ectutious,
fondly supposed to bo "so English, you
knaow." It has strength without brutality,
dignity without iomposity, sympathy with
out "gush," and a discriminating hospitality
that never fails to render "honor to whom
honor is due.". Tho ideal west has liberty
without license, conformity without servility,
ambition without small trickery, and a mag
nificent enterprise that means devotion to
noble uses.
This is the ideai west, and it is fair as tho
moon, bright as tho sun, and to all forms of
"genteel ignorance" it is indeed terrible as an
army with banners, for it has a "frankness
In saying what others only think."
Tho real west dilTers from the ideal and is
open to tho same objection advanced by Mr.
llo wells' young lady who refusal her lovei
because ho was "too much of a mixture."
The real west is like a merchant's "job lot,"
where twenty-live cents will buy an article
worth fifty cents or ono worth only ten cents,
according to tho discrimination of the buyer.
There is a modified west where certain land
marks enable ono to feel that ho has "got out
of tho wilderness" of utter chaos. Reasonable
concessions to long established and widely ac
cepted customs take away tho "stranger-in-a-
strnuge-land" feeling incident to the totally
unaccustomed and one is given a "leave to be"
that discloses in a very short time the nature
and extent of his possibilities and limitations
Tho cultured west is tho ideal west and is
perhaps a dren.m of Utopia, since it has both
vigor and eleganoe, both law and liberty,
power without tyranny, and an iadepend
enco whose most eager and joyous manifesta
tion is to succor tho weak and comfort tho
faint hearted and lend a hand to help every
beneficent influence.
THE "WILD A.VD WOOLLY" WEST.
Tho "wild woolly" is kind according to its
conception Of "kindness." Sensitive people
sometimes shrink, as from a red hot iron,
when this "kindness" happens to touch a
"galled spot;" but ii that caso they an.
"very sensitive," or "real cranky," or "aw
ful er.irtctiug," or "better go back east if
they don't like our west." Nevertheless,
kindness is kindness and not to bo spurned
whatever its manifestation.
Tq illustrate: A woman once. died in the
town of Bueua Vista, Colo. She was the
mother of four or fivo children, and tho en
tiro family lived in. two small rooms and
drank tho dregs of a prosaic and repulsive
poverty. The woman died suddenly and died
in red flannel underwear, soemod to
make death more hideous.
Nothing in her surroundings but the chil
dren suggested anything not simply repul
sive.
Motherlessness, however, is always pa
theticj ?nd. when the husband and father at
tempto4 to kill himself fhe sj-mpathies o!
the entire coannuuity were aroused and the
little hut was packed with sympathetic
neighbors and friends anxious to render tho
last honors to the dead and tho first offices of
kindness to tho living. The funeral sermon
was preached in ono of the vil)?!go t-Ut,rvhes,
and thei.o pot a vacant seat.
The dead woman's feaialo relatives came,
dressed in "their Sunday best," and with a
profusion of hair dressing suggest! vo of in
tervals when curling irons had usurped the
throne of grief and anticipations of the
funeral had obtained the roastery ? er sor-roi'-3
l!aji ifkiiuucu. TliS ' funeral se'rmoa
was a 'literaryM effort, and at its close the
congregation was requested to "a ail them
selves of the corpse" by passing up one aisle
anil down another, in order that they might,
by viewing tho deceased, who w.is Ciuii
tioued ta ;.he deceased,' show their "re
spects to the dead." Thero was nothing to
do but to march up with tho procession and
view the' woman in her coflin, if one would
uot refuse "respects."
She had died in red flannel ; she had bect
al'uiv nJ thin ard fiojunu tn utsuabilla
in her death hour, yet in her coflin sho wore
white tarletau and artificial flowers made of
paper, home made, and evidently mado for
the occasion. Her face was covered with
cosmet'es au l her fyr?h,tad ptuiusely 04-iia-mejited
w ith "slate peucii curls," narrow,
fititt", burned and laborious curls that would
have made a professional hairdresser hang
liiinself in rage at this travesty of his art
Thus did the kindness of the "wild woolly"
Oinifest itself and therein, wos it pchu'p
qu'iip ai auiictsfiii Id" its '''uiteueetual
salads," "literary' lunches," ,nd cultured
circles," and yet it is suggestive that a largo
majority of "the wild woolly west" were
born in New England and emigrated rp
tha r?4 disHyfrs tue;o tipd eWYvhere.--Agnes
Leonard tlill in Chicago Times.
The Nation's Wards.
The Indian reservations in ISS5 in the
United States amounted to 212,400 square
miles, all that s left to the race of 3,250,000
square miles, once all their own. The total
Indian population of the United States is
247,701. Estimated number of Indians in
Alaska is 30,000. Tho Indian agencies are
SI in number.' Number of Indian church
members in the United States is 2S,6t!3.
Number of houses occupied by Indians is
2l,23i Number of Indians living on and
cultivating lands is 8,012. Number of In
dians in the Unittd States who wear ciJ
5en's dress it 81,ft?l. NiuuLef fit Indians in
the United States Who can read Indian lan
guagea is 10,027. Number of Indians in tho
Unite! States who can read Englkh is but
2o,4'..'3l There are 10" Indian training eebl3
located in different parts of the Cniau. x-
A l!oni'a Ilruka-ia He Art.
Tlio emotional life of tho borse is re
markable. There are instances on n-c-ord
where the death of tlio borso lias
been traced directly to grief. Ono in
btanco is called to mind which occurred
moro than twenty years ago. A circus
had been jK-rrortning in the little town
of Union villc, Pa., when ono of tlio
trained horses sprained ono of his le,
so that ho could not travel. He was
taken to tho hotel and put in a box stall.
The leg was bandaged and he was made
ns comfortable as possible. IIo ate bis
f(Xkl ami was apparently contented until
aljout" midnight, when the circus began
moving out of town. Then be became
restless and tramped and whined. As
tho caravan moved past the hotel he
peeined to realize that ho was King de
sorted, and his anxiety and distress be
came pitiful. Ife would stand with his
cars pricked in an attitude of intense
listening, and then as his ears caught the
sounds of the retiring wagons ho would
rush, as best he could with his injured
leg, from one side of the stall to the
other, pushing at the door with his nose
ami making every effort to escape.
The stableman, who was a stranger to
him, tried to soothe him, but to no pur
lose. He would not be comforted. Ing
after all sounds of the circus had ceased
his agitation continued. The sweat
poured from him in streams and lie quiv
ered in every part of - his body. Finally
the stableman went to the house, woke
up the proprietor and told him he be
lieved tho lnrse would die if crip ,f t!i
circus horses were not brought back to
keep him company. At about daylight
the proprietor mounted a horse and rode
after the circus. He overtook it ten or
twelve miles away, and tho groom who
bad charge of the injured horse returned
with him. When they reached the stable
tho liorse was dead. The stableman said
that he remained for nearly an hour per
fectly still and with every sense appar
ently strained to the utmost tension and
then, without making a sign, fell and
died with scarcely a struggle. Western
Sportsman.
"Oil Korrect."
Moses Folsom, of Port Townsend,
tends tho following sketch of the origin
of the use of the letters "O. K.," which,
lie states, was furnished him jicr.sonally
by James Parton:
"While nt Nnshvillo in search of mate
rial for his history, Mr. Parton found
among tho records of tho court of which
Gen. Jackson had been judge a great
many legal documents indorsed "O. Ii.,"
which meant "Order recorded," but
often so scrawlingly written that one
could easily read it as O. K. If "Major
Downing" noticed a bundle of legal pa
pers thus marked upon President Jack
son's table, documents, perhaps, from
his former court, in which ho still had
interest, it is very easy to see how a pun
ster coma imagino it to be ' u. is.., or
"oil korrcct."
No doubt Scba Smith, who wrote under
the 110m do plume of "Major Jack Down
ing," bad much to do with creating the
impression that President Jackson was
unlettered and illiterate, whereas many
existing personal letters, military reports,
court opinions and state papers show to
the contrary. He lived before the day of
stenographers and typewriters, and yet.
carried on a voluminor.3 correspondence.
Hundreds of his personal letters to old
soldier friends are ill preserved sis heir
looms in the. south, and his handiwork is
numerous in Washington. Ho was evi
dently a. rapid penman, and made greater
use of capital letters than is the present
custom, but misspelled words mid stum
bling sentences were few and tar be
tween. Portland Oregonian.
A Famous Hetrotlial Over I'orly Years Api.
"I wonder how many people know
that Victoria the Oood, as it lias been
suggest. tho queen of England shall be
called, when sho fell in love had to do
tho proposing for herself:'" said an Amer
icanized Englishman tho other morning.
"I was much interested in reading re
ctntly tho account of her betvt hai. It
had always been expected that sho and
her -cousin Albert would eventually make
a match of it. When they were both
about IS years old he visited England,
but did not make much imnression on
tho newly crowned auoov-.. However.
three years later bo mado up his iund to
s, 'now o' never' game, and with hii
brother visited her at Windsor castle.
Like more humble lovers, he was placed
in a rather embarrassing predicament by
the non-arrival of his higgle, and was
thus proyentetj horn dining with her
majesty on his first evening a3 her guest.
For livo days did Victoria study him,
and then after first telling her adviser.
Lord Melbourne, what she had decided
to do, sho 6eut for Albert, saving that she
desired tq see him particularly. One ac
count of tho affair, certainly valuable for
its brevity, reads as follows: 'What the
queen told him was that she loved him
with her whole hear, and that she de
sired to bo his wife.' Sho wa3 accepted
without hesitation, as cny good looking
sovereign of 20 might have hoped to have
been, and bo they were married." Phila
delphia Press.
Tlie Weijlit of Individuals.
The average weight of a boy at birth
is tevc-n and that of a girl a little more
than six pounds. When they have at
tatr4ed!hc full development of man or
womanhood they should weigli twenty
times as much as they did at birth. This
would make a man's average weight 1 10
and a woman's about l2o. The height
of a male, at birth is 1 foot 8 inches and
that of a female 1 foot G inches. Fuliy
grown, a man's height shc-uld be about
thrt'O and a half times greater than at
birth, or 5 feet 9 inches, while a woman
should bo 5 feet 3 inches. The weight of
'individuals who are fully developed and
well formed, however, varies within ex
tremes, which are nearly as 1 to 2, while
their height varies within limits which
at most are su o. Vm- Taking 200
pounds as tho maximum of man's weight
and 83 a3 the minimum wo would have
tho averago of 142) pounds. Placing the
maximum weight vf woman at 13j
pounds, and the minimum at 70 i-undo,
and vo get an average of 12 poends.-.
riiiladtlyhia Kecord.
K.B. Windham, John a. Imvikm.
Notary Public. Nolury I'ublt
WIMUIAMA IIAVIF.M.
Atiornoyc - at - Law.
onice over bunk of Cun Comity.
VX VMi-MoCTn, - NhltHAHKA
C. F. SMiT H,
The Boss Tailor
Main Si.. Over Merges' Mine Stoie.
llus the best and most complete stock
of Humpies, both fort ion uiul deincMic
woolens that ever mini: wi st of Mist-ouri
river. Note these prices: JmMnt sH suits
from $115 to foT, drees n:its, ifa.l to $45,
pants 1 1, $:, $0, $-i.L,U and upwards.
CJyWill guarantee a fit.
Prices Defy Comoelilion.
H. C
SCHMIDT,
iTV M1IVI (.(,)
(rci'MV
Civil Engineer
Surveyor anil Draftsman
Plans, Specifications and Fsti mutes. Mu
nicipal Woik, Miips A:e.
. LATTSMOUTH. - - NEB
THE OLD RELIABLE.
L WATBBMAH k SON
VI;olalp hikI IN'fall I'luh-r l
UMBER !
Shingles, Lath, Sah,
oorSr,Blinds.
Cun supply every 1 nnnnl of the trade
Call and g; t term.-!. Fourth street
In Uesir of Opera House.
iiiKE SCHKELLBACHER.
Wagon and IJhicksniith Shop.
Wagon, Buggy,
Machine and Plow
noeina
A Sprcialty. lie uses the
Horseshoe, the Hist Horseshoe tor the
Farmer, or for Fast Friving and City
purposes, ever invented. It is made no
anyone can can put on sharp or Hat corks
as needed for wet and slippery roads, or
smooth dry roads. Call and Examine
these Shoes and you will havo no other.
J. M. Schnellbaeher,
3th St., Plattsmouth, Neb.
Robert Donnelly's
Wagon and
Biacksmilh
Wagons, r.iitfiricv. Machines iiii-!;iy Ht-jiuired ;
lioe Sharpened aiel Cent-ral
Ji.Lihir.i: U;i:e.
Horseshoeing A Specially
I I'SETIIK
Hor shoe, whim ?-linrppns its l' a f wears
away, so theie j-i nevr any iliniccr of ymr
Horse sliiii-K and liiiiti'iij; iin-if. ( all
ami examine this she anil yen uill
Have no other. !: -t bhoe iniole.
ROBERT DONNELLY
SIXTH ST., - - PLATTSMOUTH
to "fl A MONTH can be made
O ' l" O working i.r ns. Ants
ftreferre-il v. ho can fm i,lh a hoie joxl (;ive
ih.sir .ln le time to the lus!ii-s-. inre fix m
ent may he irotitally employed aN. a leer
vacai ci s in towns an'l ciiit-s. H. K. JOHN
' &ro. tofi; M-in-'t.. I'.'ciifiond. V'a.
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