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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1896.
The prohibition vote fell off in
..nearly all ot the states this year as
compared with 1892, even the com
bined votes of Levering-and Bentley
aggregating- less than that polled
for Bidwell four years ago.
Japanese workmen are said to be
intelligent and ingenious, and if
this is true they will be apt to want
shorter hours, and better wages.
Some of their demands have already
been complied with by the Mikado's
Cabinet.
Jx selecting North Platte as the
place for holding the next state
irrigation convention, the delegates
made no mistake. Our citizens
will lend the officers material aid in
making the next convention the
most successful one yet held.
. o
The President on Saturday ap
pointed W. D. McHugh, of Omaha,
United States district judge of Ne
braska to succeed Judge Dundy,
who died a couple of weeks ago.
Mr. McHugh was recommended by
many influential Omaha citizens.
He is a personal friend of Secretary
Morton and a staunch administra
tion democrat.
The only way in which North
Platte can increase her population
and her business is to boom our
irrigated lands and work to secure
a beet sugar factory. We need
more people on our irrigated lands,
and by having a sugar factory a
market is created for a product
that pays the farmer well for rais
ing it.
According to the official returns
the agSregate gain of votes in Ne
braska in 1896 over that of 1890 is
15,891. In thirty-two counties there
was a decrease, bnt in the remain
ing counties there was a large in
crease. The increase in Lincoln
county was 366. Based on the
usual computation, the state shows
an ircrease of 95,000 in population
in the last six vears.
Under Spanish rules about 3 per
cent of the native inhabitants of
Cuba have the right of suffrage.
What a beneficent government
Spain is! For generations it has
lived and fattened on the labor of
Cubans, the bulk of whom are but
little removed from slavery. The
Spaniard even received more from
their toil than had they been
slaves.
Apart from what the London
Chroniclehas paid him. Nansen has
received $50,000 from the London
publisher Constable for his forth
coming book; from Brockliaus of
Leipsic he receives $25,000 for the
German rights, and from a Christi-ania-
publisher the same sum tor
Scandinavia. The book will have
about 250 illustrations, and prepara
tions are under way for its transla
tion into a dozen languages.
The records of the treasury de
dartment show that from Februray
1, 1896, to November 1, there were
coined at the mints of the United
States 16,262,922 standard silver
dollars from the balance of 'silver
bullion on hand purchased under
the act of July 14, 1890. The seig
norage upon this amount was
$5,051,430, which has been turned
into the treasury. The balance of
the silver bullion purchased under
the act of 1890 on hand November
1. 1896, was 125,061,263 fine ounces,
which cost the government $112,
865,625. The total vote in Cook county
for president Nov. 3 was 376,708.
This is 38,878 more than the total
vote in Minnesota, 8,000 moreihan
were polled by all parties in New
Jersey, and only about 2,000 less
than the total vote in Massachu
sett The total vote of Cook
county in 1894 was 290.522 the fig
ures showing an increase of S6,
126 in two years, and an increase
of 118,378 over 1892. There is an
increase in the republican vote of
69,397 over 1894 and of 110,550 over
1892, in the latter case an increase
almost of 100 per cent. Inter
Ocean.
The work of improving the New
York and Erie Canal will begin
this winter, giving employment to
4,000 men. By a direct vote the
people of New York authorized the
expenditure of $9,000,000 on the
canals of the state. The Erie Ca
nal will be deepened to 9 feet. This
addition of 9 feet to the present
depth will admit boats 16 feet longer,
with freight capacity enlarged one
half. It is probable that the seven
locks at Lockport will be replaced
with on elevator lock, lifting boats
62 feet to the higher level. The
necessary Tock blasting and dredg
ing can be done to advantage in the
course of winter.
BYPRODUCTS OF COAL.
Dves, Perfumes, Oils, Medicines, roisons
and Other Caluable Extracts.
There is locked up in coal a mar
velous series of produots, which for
their beauty, wonder, sweetness and
use are unexcelled. These valuable
extracts are obtained from coal, prin
cipally in tho modern byproduot
coke ovens and illuminating gas
works.
Until recently coal tar was a seri
ous annoyance to the managers of
gas produoing establishments, inas
much as it had to he disposed of in
some other way than as ordinary
waste, most oommonly by burning.
Probably in no branch of oheniistry
has soienco delved so deeply as in
that relating to the blaok, sticky
mass of coal tar, and certainly from
none has it produced more brilliant
results, tho productions being al
ready numbered among the thou
sands, incredible as the statement
may seem. They oomprise nearly all
of our most beautiful colors and
dyes, such as the aniline (indigo) se
ries, ami tho most important of our
medical remedies, those contribu
tions of UDtold value to the healing
art, phenacetino and antipyrine, tho
former of which has acquired a
worldwide reputation ; many of the
modern perfumes and essences and
saccharin, which one writer poetic
ally describes as being "a thousand
times sweeter than sugar." In fact,
tho suggestion is freely made that
if wo have sufficient faith and pa
tience and persevere in our investi
gations we may yet see the day
when we can subsist on tar.
While the discovery and charac
ter of these products may he deem
ed fairy tales of science, although
in reality of priceless value to hu
manity, there are still fuel products
other than heat and power obtained
fronl coal that in amount and value
far exceed tho dyes, medicines and
perfumes. The ohief of these aro the
tars themselves, from which are de
rived the light and heavy oils, the
oreosotes and benzoles, tho ammo
nia from which we obtain that most
valuable of all fertilizers, sulphate
of ammonia. From the nitrogen of
this fuel we may also extract that
most poisonous of drugs that val
uable agent in gold assaying cya
nide of potassium. All these byprod
ucts have acquired so important a
place in the arts, soiences and man
ufactures as to become well estab
lished articles of commerco, and the
prices realized 'pay a large percent
age of the original cost of the coal.
The amount of these products con
tained in every ton of coal, as fig
ured out by Mr. Weeks, makes very
interesting reading. In every ton of
coal coked in the United States, he
says, it is fair to assume that from
any of the byproduot coke ovens
there, can be produced at least 3 per
cent of tar, valued at 1 cent per
pound; 1 per cent of sulphate of
ammonia, at 3 cents per pound; one
half of 1 per cent of benzole, at 2
cents per pound, and 1 pound of cy
anide of potassium, at 50 cents per
pound. In 1893, 14,916,147 tons of
coal wore coked in the United States,
and the possible production and val
ue of these produots would have
been:
Amount in pounds.
Tar 590,015,880
Bulpbato of ammonia. 293,322,940
Benzole 149,101,470
Cyanide of potassium. 14,910,147
Valuo.
$1,988,820
8,949.CS8
2,983,223
7,458,073
Total ?21.379,810
Tho above products are only from
the 15,000,000 tons of coal coked in
one year and do not include the val
ue of the byproducts of the 113,000,
000 tons of coal consumed but not
coked. The amount of ammonia that
could be saved therefrom would be
something enormous, though the tar
and benzole, if tho coal were proper
ly turned into gas before applied for
heating purposes, as it should be,
would not be so great as when tho
coal is coked. A low estimate of the
byproducts per ton of the coal burn
ed would he 50 cents. This would
reaoh $64,000,000 on the coal mined
in 1893.
Thus the reader obtains a fair gen
eral idea of the profligate waste per
mitted in the consumption of fuel
alone and has presented to himself a
problem in the fuel question that is
financially worthy of earnest consid
eration and investigation. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
Applied Art.
"Women are queer, aren't they?"
remarked a friend to me tho other
flay. I replied that, judging from
what hearsay evidence I had been
able to accumulate, they were some
what peculiar.
"My wife spent five years in an
art school, " he resumed, "and how
do you suppose she puts into prac
tice the skill she acquired? In mak
ing designs to he worked in pale
blue silk on the yellow ground of a
baby's flannel petticoat." Buffalo
Express.
Misunderstood.
Miss Flitters I don't know wheth
er Mr. Tomlins or Miss Briggs is the
best man.
Miss Revere (from Boston) Ex
cuso me, but I presume you mean
better man?
"Excuse me, I'm talking about a
wedding. ' ' Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Of a Cheerful Turn of Mind.
The genial young man slapped the
merohanton thebaokand exclaimed:
"How's business?"
"How's business?" the merchant
repeated thoughtfully. Then ho
took a bundle of notes at anything
from 30 days to 6 months from his
pooket, and with an effort at cheer
exclaimed:
"&y boy, I never saw a time when
business was more promising."
Washington Star.
DOOMSDAY SPECULATIONS.
Discussions as to the Fate of Humanity
the Last Great Day.
The probable fate of the last man
has often been discussed, and dozens
of theories have been advanoed by
persons who honestly beliovo that
they have solved the problem. That
there will be a time when this little
world of ours will no longer exist
there is not tho least shadow of a
doubt, but exactly how the human
race will perish and disappear from
the face of the globe is tho question
that has interested the philosophers
of all ages.
Some profess to believe that tho
oceans aro gradually encroaching on
tho land surface, and that eventual
ly tho last man will be drowned.
Opposite to this is the muoh talk
ed of theory that the water on tho
earth's surface is slowly drying up,
the amount being appreciably less
now than it was at tho opening of
the century. The apostles of this
unique theory say that if the drying
up process continues for a few thou
sand years longer the earth will he
come as arid as the moon, and tho
last man will perish for want of wa
ter. Some believe that tho earth will
fall to pieces; others that a monster
planet will plungo into tho sun,
causing that great luminary to blazo
up and burn to oinders tho earth
and the other planets in its train.
There have been dozens of other
theories, some of them equally curi
ous, advanced by men who have
been making the subject a study. But
the most remarkable solution of tho
question is the opinion lately ex
pressed by a leading Gorman mete
orologist and astronomer. He says
that the internal fires of the earth
are rapidly dying out, and that tho
sun is sura to burn out and become
cold and dark.
This, ho says, is proved by tho fact
that ico is rapidly accumulating at
tho poles of tho earth and slowly
creeping down toward the temperate
zones. Places visited by Kotzebue,
Franklin, Ross, Parry, Lyon and
others during the first quarter of
tho present century and pronounced
by them as "being free from ico dur
ing June, July and August are now
covered with several feet of tho
crystal deposit, whioh is capped with
snow throughout the year. This
oertainly proves that the earth's
glaoial zones are rapidly and perma
nently enlarging and that tho old
German apostle of tho freeze out
theory has a basis for his calcula
tions, to say tho least.
That Europe is on tho borderland
of another glacial epoch has been
shown by Flammarion, tho great
Frenoh speculative astronomer. Dur
ing the last 50 years every kingdom,
ompire, republic and principality in
that country as well as those of
Asia has lost from 6 to 14 degrees in
its mean annual temperature. In
France, Germany and Italy tho
northern limit of the growth of the
vine is being steadily forced south
ward. In South America and South
Afrioa similar conditions aro noted.
At Rio de Janeiro the annual tem
perature has been steadily going
down since the date when meteoro
logical records were first kept in
that oity. The German authority
just oited deolares that this will go
steadily on, with the effect of nar
rowing down tho habitable area of
the globe. At last shivering human
ity will all colleot along tho equator.
Finally that, too, will become a
region of ice and snow. Then tho
time will come when tho overcrowd
ed human beings will all be starved
or be frozen in a heap. St. Louis
Republic.
Curbstone Kepartee.
Newsboys aro cute and impudent.
One of tho fraternity, who had a
blaoking kit over his shoulder, ac
costed a seedy looking old man on
tho corner of Grand River and
Woodward avenues.
"Say, boss, want a shine?"
"No, my boy," answered the old
man. "I used to cut up shines once,
hut I'm too old now."
This eloquence took away the
boy's breath for a moment; thon ho
asked with great apparent sincerity:
"Don't you have to pay taxes,
boss?"
"Whaffor?" inquired tho old man.
"Real estate on your shoes, boss."
Detroit Free Press.
Sinner From the Supreme Court.
The expression, "Nor does the fact
cut any figure, " though com
mon in newspapers, which aro writ
ten more hastily than is altogether
agreeable to newspaper men, and
though not unknown in moderately
polite society, is out of place in an
opinion handed down by a supremo
court. This expression occurs, wo
are sorry to say, in an opinion hand
ed down by the supreme court of
Wisconsin. Milwaukee Sentinel.
Genuine.
She I don't know whether to be
lievo you or not. Your proposal
sounds so much like others I have
heard.
He That ought to be in my favor,
because if I had had any experience
I would have learned how to be
more original. New York Herald.
HOW'S THIS?
Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHEXEY k CO., Props., Toledo, O.
"We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transaction? and financi
ally able to carry out any obligations made by
their firm.
West k Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Waldd?g, Kink an & Haevin, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo. O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the
system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Drug
gists. Testimonials free.
linn's family rim are tee best.
KILLS TWENTY A MINUTE.
Greedy Bloefish Plays Sad Havoc Among
Smaller Fry.
Tho man who has never studied
the habits of tbo fish can hardly un
derstand how such a pretty finny
being as tho bluefish can he so fool
ish, even when in the search for
food, as to point his nose toward
land and keep going until ho is
stranded on tho hot sands, but to a
man who has looked into tho mys
teries of the fish almost anything is
possible with them. The great trou
ble with the bluefish is that he never
know3 when he gets enough. Ho
simply starts out with the idea that
he is going to get a square meal, and
he docs not care a rap who knows it.
He gets his shining body in among
a sohool of 12 inch menhaden and
begins to eat. Finally his stomach
begins to expand, and ho realizes
that if he swallows a few fish moro
he himself will sink and be but food
for sharks and orabs or any old
thing that happens to come along.
Therefore he decides that discretion
is tho better part of valor, and by a
mighty effort gets what might be
termed a short spell of seasickness.
After he has given up all that ho
has eaten ho feels better and starts
out once more to repeat tho wholo
operation. Timo after time he will
disgorge his food and swallow more
and more of the smaller fish, never
seeming to grow tired of chewing
with his sharp teeth tho menhaden,
which are so oily and whioh let out
so much blood.
It is not an uncommon thing for
tho bluefish to get in among a big
school of menhaden and by vigorous
efforts leave a great trail of blood in
their path. This they do by grab
bing tho menhaden about midway
between the head and tail, snapping
the victim in twain and then spit
ting out the half which went into
tho mouth during the operation. It
takes tho bluefish not more than
two seconds to do both of these
things, and tho third second sees
him with another fish between his
fierce teeth. Thereforo it may bo
reckoned that when ho gets in
among tho menhaden tho bluefish
will do up between 20 and 30 men
haden a minute, and in many cases
such is actualty true. Ho acts like a
wild bull which sees the red flag in
front of him or the old giant wo
all read about who smelt the blood
of an Englishman. Ho gets into a
kind of i'enzy, and nothing but blood
will satisfy his desire. In tbo mean
time the inoffensivo menhaden leap
into the air, and if the sea be quiet
it takes them but a short timo to
work it into a foam. When a school
of bluefish strikes a sohool of men
haden, which is often the case, the
water in the vicinity looks as though
it wero raining fish, for the men
haden leap into the air by tho thou
sands. Tho trouble is that even that
does not save them, for the bluefish
is on to their game and goes into the
air at tho same timo. When the
bluefish goes into the air after a
fish, you can bst the smaller fish is
going to get tho worst of it every
time. When yon are out sailing,
you can often see tho bluefish snap
his victim in the air. Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Detected.
She is the kind of woman who al
ways has a word or a smilo for peo
ple sho knows, and sho demands in
turn the same sort of recognition
from them. It was, then, quite a
surprise when she entered a car and
saw, as she believed, an old friend
not to receive either a nod or a word.
"Good morning, doctor," sho ob
served blandty.
"Morning," grumbled the person
addressed.
"How's the folks'?'
"What folks?"
"Your folks," sho persisted, al
though sho was beginning to have
distinct fears that sho had tho wrong,
man by tho ear.
"Who do you think I am?" asked
tho individual addressed in a severe
tone.
"Why, I took you to bo Dr. M.,
but he isn't any such a cross, cranky
lot as you are."
As sho spoke a smile broad and
genial lighted up .tho face of tho
man, and'sho said fervently:
"Of course it's you, doctor, and I
knew it all tho time. But you are
changed somehow?"
"You're the first person that has
known me today. I am just from
tho barber's, where I had my mus
tache shaved off. I've already seen
several friends, who stared and pass
ed on. I expect my wife will set the
dog on me," and the doctor looked
thoughtful
Press.
again. Detroit
Free
.Uirtl Slaughter a National Question.
Is it any wonder that our game
birds aro becoming extinct when
wholesale butchery is not only per
mitted, but regarded as sportsman
like and worthy of a gentleman? It
is a strictly national question in its
scope and application and by no
means only a question of sentiment.
Tho evidence multiplies yearly that
in destroying the birds so wantonly
we aro destroying what has well been
nailed "our insect police." Charles
ton News and Courier.
Albert VI of Austria was tho
Prodigal on account of his insane
liberality. He spent all the incomes
of the state before they were col
looted. When tho new moon occurs be
tween 12 m. and 2 p. m. in summer
time, rainy weather will probably
result; in winter, snow or cold rain.
Tho voyage between Now York
and Adelaide, in South Australia,
via London, requires 59 days; via
San Francisco, 34 days.
THE SEVEN AGES OF BICYCLING.
All tho world's awheel
And all the cyclers merely tired!
Thoy havo their enmities as to a choice of bike,
And one man in his time has many falls,
His sets being seven ages at first tho polly
wog. Wiggling and sprawling from bis trainer's
arms;
Then the whining nnd discouraged tyro, creep
ing, Trcmulons and fearful, unwilling, from the
adamant floor
Back to the wheel, and then, all hopeful, talk
ative of when
That blissful day shall come and ho with mis
tress rido
A tandem to the happy courts cf love!
Then ablkist in full measure, seeking tho bub
ble notoriety
As a trick c-ler; colliding withnn alderman
In hugo proportions, beer and capon lined.
With eyes severe, our cycler vanishes behind
a prisoner's dock.
The sixth age shifts, and into his lean and
plaidcd pantaloons
With fearsome mien and real faint hcartedness
His little hoard well sav'd for purposes
Known right well by his bike, which, disar
ranged And spokes uncombed, awaits its master's bail 1
And his big, manly voice, turning to a childish
treble, pipes,
"Aye, guilty, honor," winds whistling in his
sound.
Last Eceno of all, that ends n wheelman's chess
and checkered history,
Is cyclomania, oblivion to elso
Bavo gear, save spoke, save tire, save scorch
lng!
New Orleans Timos-Democrat.
Starr's Fatal Wary.
In tho year of grace 1863 ono Ja
cob Starr, in the city of Montgom
ery, Ala., took it into his head that
ho was a man of some literary and
historical ability. Starr went to
work to keep up a diary. Ho record
ed every event of noto and was so
proud of his work that he read it to
his neighbors. Two young lady
friends lived next door, and Starr
read his diary to them every even
ing. The girls enjoyed it very much
and repeated tho contents of tho
document to their beaus.
All this made its work. Tho
points in the Starr biography were
duly quoted. The young men about
town discussed the matter, and it
was soon deoided that Starr was a
public enemy who deserved the
worst punishment. So Jacob Starr
was watched. Leading Confederates
wero consulted, and they agreed
that he ought to be hanged or sbot.
But tho innocent wont on writing!,, . , , ,TT. . . .
-, ,-! 5i. 5 ! tho immortal Will himself m his
and reading, and it never ocourred
to him that ho was in any danger.
Starr wrote down the impressions
of the people as Shorman advanced
and laughod over it. Then he took
his diary next door and read it to
the young ladios. After that every
body laughed over it. The town
boys especially wero hilarious.
There was a general demand for
something moro from tho pon of Ja
cob Starr. Mr. Starr promptly re-
sponded. His diary was produced
.
whenever it was demanded, and it
is needless to say that it was enthu
siastically roceived.
One night the town boys got to
gether. Thoy looked over the Starr
diary, paid hima call and then! The 13 rooms were named tho
strung him up to a tree down by tho principal chamber, the earl's cbain
river side. Mrs. Starr sat up all uer, the pantry adjoining, tho Ox
night waiting for her husband, and "ford obainbor, the Abingdon, the
in tho early dawn of Sunday morn-
ing sho took a negro boy in a buggy
with her and cut down the dead
body of tho foolish man who had at
tempted to keep a war diary. Chi
cago Times-Herald.
London's Most Ancient Court,
The ancient court cf hustings is
I of Saxon origin, and tho name is de
rived from "hus," a house, and
"thing," a matter of cause that is,
a house or hall of causes. Courts of
the kind wero established in all tho
great cities, and, as regards London,
it is tho supremo as well as the
most ancient court, and is the court
of appeal from tbo sheriffs' oourt.
In the earliest times it was held
weekly, but it is now summoned
only as occasion requires, and tho
last sitting was held 14 years ago.
Deeds and wills aro registered and
enrolled in tho court. London
Times.
The Cup and the Lip.
"There's many a slip 'twixt tho
cup and tho lip" is as old as the days
of Ancaeus, who ono day having
filled a cup, set it down before
drinking, on tho information that a
wild boar was ravaging his field.
Taking his spear ho went out to slay
the animal, but was killed by tho :
boar.
When a baby is
sent from Heaven,
to gladden a moth
er's heart, her wel
come is incomplete
unless she bestows
upon the little vis
itor an abundance
of health and cour
8
age to meet life's
varying vicissitudes.
A prospective mother's duty to her
child as well as herself is to be in the
best possible health and physical condi
tion at the time the baby comes.
Hundreds of mothers have received in
estimable benefit from Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription, the grandest strength
ener in the world for delicate women.
Taken early during the expectant time,
it builds up the en- fa
tire constitution andi
gives elastic vigor to
the special organ-
ism. ja sum iciii
confinement ; robs
delivery of all its
dangers and most of
its pains, fortifies the
mother against accident
or relapse and promotes
an abundant supply of
healthy nourishment for
the child.
It is the only prepara
tion of its kind devised
bv a regularly graduated,
skilled specialist of over thirty years
experience.
The subject of women's reproductive phy
siology is comprehensively treated in Dr.
Pierce's great thousand-page free boot the
"People's Common Sense Medical Ad
viser." The chapter on nursing should be
read by every mother. This splendid vol
ume will be sent you paper-bound abso
lutely free if you send 21 cents in one-cent
stamps, to pay the cost of mailing only, to
World's Dispensary Medical Association,
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the additional expense of this more beau
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Constipation can be quickly and perma
nently cured by Dr. Pierce's Pellets.
INNS OF OLDEN TIMES.
flow Many ef Them Entertained Guests
Centuries Ago.
It would bo interesting to know
who was the first person to keep an
inn. The word itself is Anglo-Saxon,
signifying a lodging house. Another
term was gest hus, a house for
guests, or cumena, a house of com
ers. Near the highroads a few
scattered inns were established
where travelers could obtain
a
night's shelter. Edward tho Con
fessor ordained that if a man lay
three nights at the same inn he was
to be styled third night awn hinde,
and the landlord was answerahle
for him, just as if he were ono of
the servants.
A good many alehouses seem to
have been dotted about Saxon Eng
land. Our sturdy forefathers spent
a large portion of their spare time
in them. Chaucer's friar "knew
...n 4.1.
won biiu tavcu.ua iu ovwj luvtxi,
and Dunston found it necessary to
ordain that a priest "should in no
wise be an nlescop" that is, a story
teller or reoiter in an alehouse.
Efforts wero continually- made to
keep down the number of inns. In
tho reign of Edward I thero were
only three in tho wholo of London.
Even in 1552 no more than 40 wero
legally permitted in the metropolis,
now spreading out of its boundaries
on every side. York might havo 8;
Norwioh, Exeter and Cambridge, 4;
Bristol, 6, and Oxford, 3.
These regulations must have been
set at naught in a very wholesale
manner, for half a century later
there wero 400 "houses of call" in
that part of London known as the
oity and no f ower than 24 clustered
around Covent Garden. In mediaeval
Oxford it was ruled that no "victual
ler" was eligible for the office of
mayor, and this term included an
innkeeper. It will be remembered
that tho "Sweet Swan of Isis," Sir
William Dovenant, tho poet, was the
son of an Oxford innkeeper, mine
host of tho" Crown," a house which
journoyings from Warwickshire to
London. Tho "Crown" is one of
our oldest signs.
A curious epitaph
records that
Hero lies tho body of Matilda Brown,
Who, whilo alive, was hostess of tho Crown.
Her son-in-law keeps cn the business btill,
Patient, resigned to tho eternal Will.
Tho inns of tho middle ages were
furnished in a very homely style.
We know from an old inventory
what the famous George inn at Sal-
isbury was like in tho fifteenth cen-
g rri -t . i
tury. This house possessed 13 guest
chambers, each with three beds in
it, a table on trestle and some oaken
benches. People ate and slept in tho
samo apartments indiscriminately.
squire's, the Lombard's, the George,
the Clarendon, the Undestent, the
Fitzwaryn, the London and the gar
ret. At this period titled persons
slept on a bed, commoners on mat
tresses a curious distinction.
In French and German medieval
inns a humorous custom prevailed
for tho punishment of those convict
ed of drawing tho "long bow." A
wooden knife called a couteau rodo
mont was placed by tho side of tho
president at the table, whoso duty
and privilege it was to put boasters
to silenco by ringing tho bell in tho
blade or by blowing a whistle con
cealed in tho handle. He then, amid
the laughter of the company, handed
tho knife -to tho offender, to keep
until a greater boaster than himself
could bo found.
A curious provision was intro
duced into tho Scotch parliament in
1425, owing to the complaints of the
innkeepers that travelers staid with
friends when thoy came to town. It
was enacted that these henceforth,
whether on foot or horseback, should
repair to tho established hostelry of
tho placo and that any burgess who
took them into his ownliouso should
bo fined 40 shillings. Nobles and
gentlemen might stay where they
pieasod, provided that they sent
their horses and attendants to the
inn.
Origin of tho Word "Calico."
The word "calico" has a peculiar
r . a. i
origin. Jiany cenruries since rno ;
first monarch of the province of
Malabar, Hindustan, gave to ono of :
his chiefs, as a reward for serv-
ices, tho land within tho limits of j
which a cock crowing at a certain '
temple conld bo heard. From this
circumstance tho little town which
sprang up in the center of this terri-'
tory was called "Calicado," or "Tho
Crowing Cock. " Afterward it was
called Calicut, and from this place
the first cotton goods wero imported
into England under tho name of cali
co. St. Louis Republic.
Iron Titles.
The famous Edmund JI of England
was designated tho Ironsides on ac
count of his intrepidity in warfare.
burg, was designated the Iron
Tooth. Tho Emperor Nicholas of
Russia was known among his people
as tho Iron Emperor, or the Iron
Czar, on account of tho rigidity of
his discipline.
Ballard's Snow Liniment.
This invaluable renudy is one that
ought to bo. in every house hold. It will
cure your rheumatism, neuralgia,
sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, frosted feet
and ears, sore throat, and sore chest
If you have a lame back it will cure it.
It penetrates to the Feat of the. disease.
It will cure stiff joints and contracted
muscles after all other remedies have
failed. Tbofe who havo been cripples
for years have used Ballards Snow Lin
iment and thrown away their crutches
and been able to walk as well as ever.
It will cure you. Price 5' cents. So'd
by North Platte Pharmacy, J. C. Bush, j
Manager. 1 j
Legal Notices.
NOTIOE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
The final report of Charles" W. Basking, Admin
istrator of the Estate of Anna Baskhis, deceased,
will be heard in County Court of Lincoln county,
Nebraska, on November 0, 18V6, nt 1 o'clock p. m.
JAMES M. RAY, County JudKe.
1.N THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR L1N
! coin county, Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate ot Xordlca C. Fur
nish, deceased. -
This cause came on for hearing upon ihe petition
of Abigail E. rurni.li. administralix. of the estate
pf Moidica C. Pu.m.b, deceased, praying for
license to sell the southwest quarter of the north
west quarter, anc tho northwest quarter of the
southwest quarter, (being lot.-two nnd three) and
the east half of tho southwest quarter, all in Sec
lion li. Township 9 north. Range 29 west, in
Lincoln county, Ivebraska. or a sufficient nmonut
of the same to bring the sum of $800, for the pay
ment of ihe debts allowed against said estate, and
tbecrst of administration, there not being suffi
cient personal properly to pay tho said debts and
expenses. - ;
It is therefore ordered, thot all persons inter.
sted in said estate, appear before mo nt my office
in North Platte, Nebraska, on ihe COth vday"ot
December, lb, at one o'clock p. m. to show cause
why a license should not be granted to sold admin
istratrix to sell so much of the above described
real estate of said deceased, as shall be necessary,
to pay said defrs end expenses. It is further
ordered that this Mrder be published in tho Nobtii
Platte Sesii-Weskly Tbibdne for the time re
quired by law.
Dated this 10th day of November. 1S96. v
H.M. GRIMES,
Dl.trict Judge.
"ILCOX & HALLIGAN,
ATTOliNEYS-AT-LAJ?,
KORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA
Office over North Platte National Bank.
jyi. F. F. DENNIS,
HOMOEOPATH 1ST, ,
Over First National Bank,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
D
It. JS. F. DONAIJ5SON,
Assistant Surgeon Union Pacflc Rfnw
and Member of Pension Board,
NORTH VLATTE. - - - NEBRASKA.
Office ovr Streitz's Drug Store.
g E.NORTllRUP,
DENTIST, r
Rocm No. G, Chtenstein Building,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB:
JjlRENCH & BALDWIN,
ATTOIlKETS-AT-LA TF,
NORTH PLATTE,, - - NEBRASKA.
Office over N. P. Nil. Bank.
rp C. PATTERSON,
Office First National Bank Bldg.,
NORTH PLATTE. NEB.
F. J. BB0EKER,
Merchant Tailor
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ana domestic piece goods in
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Prices.
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DEALER IN
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Gasoline, ,
Gas Tar,
a n n j ti-.l "i
.ana uruae reiroieum.
Leave orders at office ' r
in Broeker's tailor shop. t t
GEO. NAUMAN'S
SIXTH STREET
MIJAT MARKET.
Meats at wholesale and re
tail. Fish and Game in
season. Sausage at all
times. Cash paid for Hides.
.1
I F. PILLION,
Phife, TiGworte
General Repairer. ..
Special attention given to
HI EMI -
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5 wui aiways nua it at J.
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Boxes, fS 00.
Special Directions Mailed
with each Box. Address .
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3SW Lucas Ave.
ST. LOUIS, - MO,
Sold by North Platte Pharmacv, J. K
Byeh, Manager.
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