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FAITH AND SCIENCE.
ths Officers of tho Smithsonian In
stitution Combat Few
Dags area source of ranch anxiety anl j
annoyance to the curators of birda an l ;
"mammals at the Smithsonian institution
and in the National in awn m. If given
chance they would gobble up the dead
and stuffed creatures, not even sparing
the bouoa and the beaks. Accordingly,
thone- in charge have to be penetnally
on the alert to combat these small but
not contemptible foes.
If a stuffed "specimen" is thoroughly
poisoned with arsenic when it is pre
jured there is little or no danger that it
will ever be attacked, but the collections
in charge of Secretary LaDgley are gath
ered together from all parts of the world
and very many of the contributions are
not properly protected in this rep pec t.
This is true particularly of those which
come from tho tropics, where peppers
and pungent spices are considered suffi
cient for purposes of preservation.
So they are for awhile, and then, tha
spices having lot their strength, the
enemy legins to get in its work. Not
only does this happen with stuffed birds
and bea-sts, but the skeletons that reach
the institution with the flesh roughly
chopied off them and folded up in the
smallest possible compass for transporta
tion are frequently 60 poorly protected
by poisoning that maggots get at then
and eat the ligaments which join the
bones so as to seriously injure their use
fulness. Three kinds of insects threaten the
stuffed collections,' Oue is the familiar
moth, which -'s tiie feathers or hair
down to tr iin and leaves unsightly
bald pat" Another is the "dernies
. ion "'lard beetle." which
rh 13 holes in the fatty skins,
'"than either of these is the
ITjf j a beetle about the size of a
JL V:. and 60 small therefore that it
render itself evident and is not
Il.OJ'fouiid when sought for.
. is very fond of anything horny, and,
getting a chance at a bird, it will begin J
by eating off the covering of the bill, de
nuding the legs afterward and chewing
up the shafts of the bigger feathers. If
it has an opportunity, it will regularly
honeycomb the horns of animals fres
coed for museum purposes.
Of course it is understood that these
three bugs do all the damage in the lar
va stage of their being that is, while
they are yet worms. Another sort of in
sect gets into empty eggs and eats up the
lining membranes, where careless col
lectors have left them inside, as they
should not do, but it cannot injure the
shells and does no harm, except to make
a litter.
. The best remedy, or preventive, known
is bisulphide of carbon; but it has so
horrible a smell that Curator liidgway
will not use it for keeping the birds un
der his charge." He prefers to employ the
next best thing, which is naphtholine, a
product of coal tar. A handful of crys
tals of it will kill a case full of insects.
It has the disadvantage of irritating the
breathing passages, producing a chronic
catarrh. Curator of Mammals True pre
fers the offensive bisulphide of carbon.
A great many things besides beasts
and birds at the National museum hava
to be protected from insects; for exam
ple, the costumes of all nations and other
dry goods of every kind, which afford an
agreeable diet for devouring bugs. It is
no small task to protect these perishable
articles from the attacks of many legged
scavengers with stomachs for anything
short of metal and no respect for the
most sacred of curios. Washington Star.
They dwelt apart, that radiant pair:
In different garbs appear:
And whila the vows of men they share.
Have separate altars here.
A golden lamp the one displays.
Of light still clear and keen:
The other walks 'ueath starry rays.
With sometimes clouds between.
The voice of one enjoins the wise.
To mete, and weigh, and prove:
The other lifts expectant eyes.
And inly murmurs, Lovcl
Both teachers of celestial birth,
Toeuch be credence given.
To Science that interprets Earth.
To Faith the seer of Heaven.
Spect ator.
When lie Served the (Jueen.
I served the queen for several years,
and I look back on the experience with
neither horror nor shame. During the
twenty-five years that have passed since
then the amelioration in the condition of
the soldier has been incalculable. Hut 1
should bo untrue to their memory if I
did not lift up my testimony that the
men of the old days endured their more
arduous lot with a grand primitive resig
nation. They knew that the quartermaster and
the butcher were in collusion in regard
to the meat ration, that the troop ser
geant major cooked their accounts, and
that the pay corporal had glutinous fin
gers. Their captain habitually addressed
them as brutes; the surgeon left his du
ties for days to go hunting. There was
no quick escape for them from those
abuses, for some of them were "lifers."
and all were long service men.
But there were no professional agita
tors in those days, nor any barrack room
lawyers "who knew their rights;" there
was not a great deal of that commodity
of a little of which the poet speaks as
"a dangerous thing," and there were no
halfpenny newspapers. The discipline
was rigid, how rigid no younger of to
day can have any idea; but insubordina
tion was undreamed of. Archibald
Forbes in Fortnightly Review.
We're After Yob..
That ereateft western paper,
The Weekly State Journal, is deter
mined to double its circulation this
fall. To do this the paper has been
enlarged to twelve pa "; every
week; new departments added, and
every column freshened and
brightened by crisp and ordinal
ideas. The Journal is the true and
able exponent of western enterprise
and thought. It has grown apace
with the progress of our common
wealth and stands to-day at the
head of western newspapers,
equalled by few ami excelled by
none.
This will be an exceptional fall
ami winter for newspaper re.it I hi cf.
Kvery man who thinks for himself
and wants his boys and girls to do
t he same; should have the weekly
Journal in his family. Write for
sample. You need only to see the
paper to appreciate it. Send twenty
five cents for a three months' trial
subscription. You will then be
come a regular reader. Kighty-five
ter cent of trial subscribers stick.
That's a good record. Published at
tin state capitol the Journal is
more in touch with the great
masses of the people, and the quest-on
that agitate the hour, than any
of iis competitors. Don't forget lo
send for a sample paper. We want
you to see one. The paper itself
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in every town in the state. Kasy
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The largest line of patent med-i
cities will be found at Hrown A: Har
rett's tf
ONLY ONE.
There has been but one new
Summer drink brought out this
season- !t is Cherry Phosphate
and is dispensed from Urown V
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Headache.
We are often asked for a cure for head
ache. A certain wise physician classes
headaches among the ailments which
have baffled his profession. At a medi
cal meeting a member said: "Did any of
you ever cure a headache? I never did."
Several doctors having mentioned their
treatment, he replied: "Oh, yon only re
lieved it. I can do that. But have you
ever cured it?"
No one could answer yes. The shops
contain nostrums enough, but did any
one ever find himself more than tem
porarily relieved by them?
Nature, unaided, sometimes effects a
permanent cure by the changes which
the system undergoes in the process of
time. Persons who have been subject to
headache are often more or less fully re
lieved after about the age of fifty. This
is perhaps a result of the shrinkage of
the brain and the hardening of the
tissues, which begins at about that period.
Changes in one's condition or habits, or
in climate, may sometimes effect a cure
by removing the disturbing cause.
Yonth's Companion.
A I'atent Horseshoe.
A patent covers a horseshoe which pos
sesses many advantages. On its under
surface is stamped a pattern which gives
a number of points for the securing of a
better grip on the pavement, and this,
where wooden pavements are used, is an
important consideration. The shoe is
about half the weight of an ordinary
shoe, being two and a half pounds the set
of four; it takes less time and less money
to fix, has onljT four nails, as against the
usual seven. Being a three-quarter 6hoe,
it leaves the frogs and heels on the ground
which prevents concussion to the foot
and leg, contraction and corns.
The only preparation the hoof requires
after the old shoe is taken off is that the
rasp must be used on the toe and quar
ters, making a reduction of about one
eighth of an inch on the lower side of the
hoof. The frog and heels and back part
of the foot should not be touched. This
6hoe is made in accordance with the well
established principle that the more the
hinder part of the foot which is very
tough is used, the harder and healthier
it becomes. New York Telegram.
Policeman antl Model.
There is a big, picturesque policeman
on the Broadway squad who is noted
among the habitues of the Rialto for his
flowing blond mustache, who turns an
occasional dollar as an artist's model.
Having (hiring his watch on deck
for the benefit of the common people in
the flesh, he is transferred to imperisha
ble canvas to gladden the artistic eye of
generations yet to come. He has the
trunk and arms of a giant. In the opin
ion of a distinguished artist, this police
man is the best specimen of massive
physical perfection he ever saw. Of
course, the lady artists have all had a
hack at him with pencil and brush, for
which he invariably gets one dollar a sit
ting. No wonder he carries the air of a
man thoroughly satisfied with himself.
New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Thumb Rings.
And do they wear them on their
thumbs?"
"Yes, miss, and they are right pretty,
too."
A jeweler's clerk was displaying his
new stock of thumb rings.
"May I try one on?"
"Certainly," he replied, and stooped
low over the pink tipped fingers, slipping
on a tiny circlet of pearls.
"It doesn't look so bad, after all," said
ne. " i ou see tne Dana is so narrow
and the pearls so small that the effect is
not awkward, as 1 expected it would be.
ril take that one."
The advent of this unique little orna
xnent is greeted with rather more favor
than was at first expected by the jewel
ers. New York Letter.
Jk. Narrow Escape from the Gallows.
James Johnston, who murdered his
wife and four children at Ballarat, and
was condemned to death, was respited
by telegram ten minutes before the time
of execution on the ground of insanity.
Two doctors obtained access to him at
midnight and gave a certificate of In
.xiacy, which was telegraphed to the gov
' ernor at 3 o'clock in the morning by the
- medical board examining. London Tit
. .Bits.
Silly Gossip.
Hand Is it true that you are in love
with Mr. Bullion?
- Clara Mercy no." Tin only engaged
Decorations at a Ball.
At a recent English ball the floral dec
orations were beautiful and very origi
nal. In the middle of the two large
ballrooms hung a large parasol formed
by a wire frame and covered with pink
La France roses with their leaves, the
crook handle being tied with pink rib
bons. There were also numbers of imi-
tion chandeliers hung from the ceil
ing and staircase made entirely of flow
ers and leaves. Gilt rustic baskets were
filled with Japanese honeysuckle of
glowing colors. The pillars on the land
ings and the large mirrors were covered
with long trails of stephanotis, the whole
effect of the decorations being remark
ably luxuriant and charming. Ex
change. A Novel Fabric.
A foreign textile journal records the
invention of a new kind of looped fabric
which has a novel and beautiful effect,
with a durability never before attained.
The peculiarity about it is that worsted
is used for the thread forming the figure
of the design and alpaca or mohair for
the threads forming the ground of the
design. The contrast between the lus
trous and beautiful threads of the mo
hair and of the worsted, it is said, forms
an effect that is strikingly novel.
In a new bicycle tire the wheels, in
stead of being fitted with pneumatic or
cushion tires, have the grooves fitted
with complete cycles of balls, which re
volve on pivots fixed in the groove of the
wheels. These balls bite the ground,
and the machine travels up and down
hill with wonderful celerity.
The law does not allow the American
born young man to vote, no matter how
well educated he may be or how well
prepared to exercise the privilege wisely,
until he is twenty-one years of age. At
that age he has probably been learning
how to discharge the duties of a citizen
for five or six years.
For a cold in the head, what is called
a head bath is useful. Fill a wash basin
with boiling water and add one ounce of
flour of mustard. Then hold the bead,
covered with a cloth to prevent the es
cape of the steam, over the basin as Iobj
Car Horses llranded -u ih Hoof.
a young uinn wno nas jusi written a
successful play was leaning on ins can;
in company with an actor an Engli.
importation watching the passing
on the Broadway side of the Alone i
House when, after a silence of sever;
minutes, the playwright said:
"Do you see anything peculiar ahoii
the Broad way car horses?"
"Nay. nayl Would'st try to guy me-
said the actor.
'Look at their hoofs and tell me it
they are not branded."
ine actor sizeu tne animals up, ana a
reporter, who was standing near enough
to hear the conversation, did the same.
and discovered the number SCO on the
forward left foot of one of the horses
The figures were about half an inch Ions
and had evidently been just burned into
the hoof.
Superintendent Ifewell of the Broad
way line, who was seen at his office in
the barns at Fiftieth street and Seventh
avenue later in the day. said in relation
to the reporter's question concerning the
branding of the hoofs of the horses:
"Yes, we have been doing this for some
time now The idea occurred to me sev
eral years ago, and we find it very satis
factory.
"What was your object in branding
them?
"Simply so keep track of what each
horse was doing We keep the accounts
of each horse now the same as we do of
any man in onr employ. It benefits us
in a thousand ways. We know just how
many days a horse works, how many
days it has been sick and, in short.
everything it does. It enables us to
keep such a minute knowledge of their
work tfcat we know just what condition
they are in, and if they are not all right
we keep them in the barn.
"ijouian t you do tnat if you gave
them names instead of numbers?"
"We have 2,000 horses in our employ,"
was the reply, "and there is a limit to
names, unless you go back into ancient
history. New York Advertiser.
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BURLINGTON & MISSOURI RIVER R. R.
TIME TABLE.
OK DAILY PASSENGER TRAINS
GOING EAST
No. 2 5:05P.M.
No. 4 10 :30 a. m.
No. 8 7 ; 44 p. m
No. 10 9 : 45 a. m
No. 12 10 :14 a. ir
No. 20 8 :30 a. m
GOING VEST
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SECRET SOCIETIES
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS' Gauntlet Lodge
no. 47. Meets every Wednesday evenine
at their hull Id Parmele & Craig block. All vis
itins knights are cordially invited to attend
C. C. Marshall. C. C. ; ti Dovey, K. K. S.
The Dog on the Farm.
A farmer once told the Listeuer that
there was nothing in the world that
would keep crows out of a field of young
corn except a living man or good 6ized
boy with a gun. He had tried all man
ner of scarecrows that ever were in
vented, and hung strings about in all
sorts of ways, and the wise birds came
in and pulled up the corn just the same.
There was once a time, when people first
thought about it, when a white string
around a field would keep out crows
they thought it was a trap. But it took
the whole tribe only a year or two to
see through this device.
A dead crow hung up by the feet will
scare away some crows no doubt fe
males, of a superstitions turn of mind
but it won't keep off the canny old
agnostics among them. A farmer whom
the Listener knows once had a shepherd
dog who, at the command "Go down
and keep the crows out of the cornfield,"
would take charge of the field and keep
away every bird of them effectually.
Dogs, especially collies, might be trained
easily to perform this duty, though oc
casionally, no doubt, the crows would
divide their forces and give the dog
more work than he could do. Few of
our farmers, by the way, realize the
amount of help in their work that they
can get out of a good dog. Boston Transcript
Young men's christion association
Waterman block. Main Street. Rooms
open from 8 :30 a m to S :30 p m For men only
Gospel meeting every Sunday alternoon at 4
o'eloek.
O. II. W 8, Meeis first and third Friday
' evenings of ea h month at G. A. K. Hall
in Rockwook block. Frank Vermilyea, M, W.
D, B. Euersole, Kecorder.
O, U. W. No. 84 Meets second and fourth
Friday f veninos in the month at G. A . K.
hall in Rock wood block, E. J. Morgan, M W,
F, P, Brown, Keaorder,
ROYAL A RCA NAM Cass Connoil No 1021,
xx Mfttt at the K. of t. hall in the Parmele A
Craig block over Bpnnett & Tutte, visiring
brethren invited. Henry Herold, Regent ;
Thos Wailing, Secretory.
CASS LODGE. No. 14fi. I. O. O. F. meets ev-
sry Tuesday night at their hall in Fitzgerald
tlock. All Odd Fellows are cordially invited
oatteDd when visiting in the city. J Cory.
N. G. S. W, Bridge, Secretary.
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Jules Verne did not at once discover
the road to success, for he wasthirtj-hve
years old when his first novel appeared,
and he bad previously tried his hand at
varions things.
An Orchestra of Five Hand red.
Five hundred was the strength of the
orchestra on the occasion of the Handel
festival at the Crystal Palace at Syden
ham in ISSa The festival is held at the
palace triennially. The first festival in
commemoration of this composer was
held in Westminster Abbey on the 26th
of May, 17S4, on which occasion 263 per
sons composed the chorus, while the or
chestra numbered 245 performers. In
18SS the chorus consisted of 8,000 voices
and the performers in the orchestra num
bered 500. London Tit-Bits. -
Catholic St. Paul's Church. Oak. between
tilth and Sixth, rather Carney, I'astor
Services: Mass at 8 and 10 :30 a. m. Sunday
School at 2 :30, witn oeneuiction.
Christian. Corner Locust and Eighth Sts.
Services morning and evening, fclder J. K.
Reed, pastor. Sunday Scuool 10 a. m.
Episcopal. St. Luke's Church, corner Third
and me. Kev. II B. Burgees, paftor. Ser
vices : 11 A. M. at d 7 :30P. m. Sunday School
at 2 :30 p. M.
German Methooist. Corner Sixth St and
Granite. Kev. Hiit. Factor. Services : 11 a. m.
and 7 :30 P. M. Sunday School 10 :30 A. M.
I'rf.skvtrkiak. Services in new church, cor
ner Sixth and Granite sts. Kev. J. T. Baird,
pastor. Sunday-school at 9 ; 30 ; Preaching
at 11 a. m.and 8 p. in.
The Y. K. S. C. E of this church meets every
Sabbath evening at 7 :15 in the basement of
thechuerh. AH are invited to attend these
meetings.
First Methodist. Sixth St., betwen Main
and Pearl. Kev. J. L. M Buckner. pastor.
Services : 11 a. M., 8 :0O p. m. Sunday School
9 :30 a. m. Prayer meetjrg Wednesday even
ing.
Gkrmax Prfsbytkriajj . Corner Main and
Ninth. Kev. Wltte, pastor. Services -. usual
hours. Sunday i;chool i :30 A. m.
Swfedisr CoxoRFOATiojfAu Granite, be
tween Fifth and Sixth.
Colored Baptist. Mt. Olive. Oak. between
Tenth and Eleventh, Kev. A. Bowell, pas
tor. Services 11 a. m. and 7 :30 p. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening.
Yocno Men's Christiak Association
Kooms in atermau block, Main street. Gos
pel meeting, for meu only, every Sunday af
ternoon at 4 o'clock. Kooms open week days
from 8:30 a. m.. to 9 : 30 p.m.
South Park Tabkrs acle. Kev. J. M.
Wood, Pastor. Services : Sunday School,
lo a. in.: Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.;
prayer meeting Tuesday night ; ehoir prac
tice Friday night. All are welcome.
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ohn Fitzgerald. 8. Waugh.
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