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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1900)
9 HANDSOME EVENING WHAI. Of whlto cloth, with an Inset border of white laco over cloth of gold; the L'Aiglon collar, Jabot with long ends, and tho lining of the sleeve ends Is of white chiffon over rose chiffon, tho rose showing In tiny ruffles. LATEST TIIINO IN IIOSIEHY. When a woman raises her skirts nowadays the passer by with sharp eyejWlll notice what appears to be a seeking bllpping down beyond phy sical and moral support. She Is In no danger of losing It. It won't turn down even over her foot It Is merely ly tho raousquetalre stocking, tho latest of feminine folly's fads. Just as a long glove would, wrlnklo over my lady's wrist and arm, so her long stocking now wrinkles over her leg. This probably wbb devised by the gjrl with thin lower extremities for the consternation of her stout friend, who could not afford to add anything to tho circumference of that part of her body. Tho stout lady, thcreforo, will content herself with tho stripes and clockwork which decorato tho skin tight hosiery, whllo the thin girl will don tho Interminable hoso that wrin kle throughout their length. Somo of tho mousquetalre stockings aro woven to produce a semblence of wrinkle. Of course, this careless ef A NEW EVENING WRAP. OF EMBROIDERED HEAVY" SILK; OF ERMINE; THE ROSETTES AT LONG ENDS ARE OF WHITE fect must be planned carefully. To provent the stocking from getting Into unseemly bunches extra garters, to bo placed at necessary Intervals, aro devised of narrow elastic and match ing the stocking In color. One of these, Just above tho shoo top, fastens with a small, handsomo bucklo or bow of ribbon, another appearance that would Induce the belief in tho unin itiated that tho woman was losing her garter. , Literal? Cat Lover. Miss Sarah Orno Jewctt is a cat lov er, und tho dear old countrywoman down In Maine, whom one" loves tu encounter In her stories, usually keeps a cat, though theirs aro only tho farm er's plain useful cats, says tho De troit Free Press. Miss Mary B. Wllk tns is also a great admirer of cats. Mr. William Dean HowellB says: "I like them on general principles." Col. Hlgglnson confesses to a great fond ness and admiration for cats, while those who aro familiar with Charles Warner's "My Summer In n Garden" need not bo reminded of tho cat "Calvin" and his Interesting traits. Mr. Ed mund Clarence Stcdman is n genulno udmlrer of cats and evidently knows how to appreciate them at their full value. CHILD'S SATIN FHOCK. Frock In softest cream, satin Ori ental, for a pictty baby of three 01 four, with its quaint bodice, smockod collar and cuffs, tho sash hold by throe paste studs, and tho flounco Inserted and edged with luce and daintily feather-stitched. HIGH COLLAR AND CAPE EFFECT THROAT, UNDERSLEEVES AND TULLE. 1IANDMNG DISEASE OKKMB. Millions ot ravaging dtscaso germs aro fostered and fed In tho bacteriolo gical laboratory which Is owned by tho Boston board of health. Thero are all kinds of bacilli, from tho bubonic plaguo specimen which has tho power to extinguish a Human llfo In the short period of a few days, to tho dull, half dead mites that rcqulro years and years of frequent, even continuous, at tacks In order to deprive man ot tho pleasures of llfo. There nro descend ants of germs who did their last deadly work In some remote part of China or India, germs which have caused much sorrow In tho very heart of this city, gnawed off tho heaviest bonds or friendship, and brought poverty into families that were comfortable and In dependent Mnybo thero nro microbes that havo traveled the country over In futllo quest of victims, or assailed tho living as well as tho dead on tho mysterious bottom of tho boo, becauso this groat collection Is gathered at dif ferent times from mineral as well as organic matter. It Is an army that could produco'an awful calumlty wero it set at liberty and given proper di rection toward that end. Thero aro pcoplo In Boston who fear this army to such an extent that thoy actually loso. sight of tho effectiveness of tho method whereby it is kept and cared for, and they even allow this unwar ranted fear to Interfere with business prospects, says the Boston Transcript. Hero is an example: Tho laboratory Is located In tho Sudbury building on Sudbury street. Its quurters being somewhat unsatisfactory for tho work, tho board of health sought promises nearer tho center of tho city nnd final ly obtained an option on sultablo rooms, Preparations wero mado for tho removal of tho laboratory to tho now location, but at tho laBt moment tho owner of tho building changed his mind In accordanco with his ground less fears, and tho laboratory had to remain In the Sudbury building. Pos sibly It will bo takon into tho old court house after that structure has been renovated and enlarged. It may bo useful, therefore, to look into tho bacterial camp, the scientific prison of so many enemies of life nnd happiness. Death lurks In every cor nor llko a feasting parasite, without hope and without desire to escape, ev erywhere watched by tho bacteriolo gists, who handle It wltli .calm and authority. Under the conditions thero Is absolutely nothing to fear, as th?i good health of tho doctors nnd attend ants will attest. Every little group of germs kept In stock lies imprisoned In a glass tube, drenched in serum or agar, which, whllo It feeds tho microscopic organ ism, also provents Its escape even if tho stopper wero removed from tho mouth of tho tube, and each tubo Is sealed with paraffin. No germs can rise from tho media and sail In tho air. Thoy rise only when they aro dry, and they aro never dry excopt when tho bacteriologists dry them on a glass slldo over a hot flro, which kills them. All the material which is used In the researches Is destroyed by fire as soon as tho experiments aro completed, excepting the glass recop tacles and Instruments, which can bo cleansed by chemical solutions. Ani mals Injected with tho more danger ous germs nro not kept in open iron cages during the Incubation period; they aro put Into glass bowls and excluded from all chances of coming Into contact with anything which might transfer tho disease Summing tho story up In a few words, the labor atory Is as safo to health as any office or dwelling house. KEKl'H THE FKKT WAItM. Tho illustration shows tho combined carriage lamp and foot warmer re- COMBINATION CARRIAGE LAMP, cently patented, for uso In cold weath or. Tho object of tile Invention Is to provldo Blmple and effectlvo means by which a continuous warmth at llttlo cxpenso may bo supplied to tho feet of tho occupant of tho vehicle, and In which tho arrangement Is such as to provldo a light whoso rays may bo di rected on tho road In advance of tho team. This object Is attained by mounting tho lamp proper directly un dornoath tho body of tho vehlelo, with tho oil reservoir located below and at the rear lamp. Leading from tho res ervoir to tho lamp Is a curved tubo containing tho feed wick, and In lino with tho blnzo Is tho glass bull's-eyo, through which the rays aro emitted. Directly over tho flame is a vertical Uibo leading to a warming chamber contalncd Inside the body of tho wagtin and a passage for smoko Is formod by a continuation of tho pipe, ft. can bo readily understood that If tho wick Is Ignited and tho (pot are placed over tho warming chamber and covorod with a" robo they will bo perfectly comfortable themselves and nlso aid greatly In tho circulation of blood through other portions of tho body. CANADIAN SEEDING DKVICK. Tho sowing of grass and other flno grain ovenly is a difficult task when attempted by hand nnd most of tho patent scoders offered for sale aro too costly for tho average farmer to In vest In, especially when It Is taken into consideration that tho socder will only bo used once or twlco a year. With tho Idea of providing a cheap and simple apparatus, which will sow tho seed rapidly nnd ovenly, n Canadian In ventor has designed tho apparatus Illustrated above. It consists of cloth Back suspended from tho shoulder and provided nt Its slnglo lower corner with n funnel lending Into tho distri buting tubo. The funnel has an in ternal gato to limit tho amount of grain pusslng through. In tho outer end of the tubo Is nrranged n series of deflecting fingers, which aid materi ally In tho distribution of tho grnln, which is accomplished by swinging tho tubo from side to side whllo held In a slanting position, tho grain falling GRAIN-SOWINQ APPARATUS, toward tho outlet as long as tho end Is held downward and tho gato left open. Owing to tho length of tho tubo tho area covered at each swing 1b consider ably greater than could bo seeded by hand. Mutcleii nml Drain. In one of his recent lectures at Clark University, Prof. Angclo Mosso of Turin averred that "Physical edu cation and gymnastics servo not only for tho development of tho muscles, but for that of tho brain as well." It Is bpcomlng evident, ho said, that as much tlmo should bo devoted to mus cular oxorclso as to Intellectual oxer clso, and children should begin read ing and writing only after thoy aro nine years old. Muscular fatlguo ex hibits phenomena identical with in tellectual fatlguo. Nerve cells show on tho nvcrugo ovory ten seconds a tendoncy to rest. It Is probablo that only part of tho brain is actlvo at tho tlmo; tho various parts rellove each other. The more mobllo any animal's oxtremetlcs nro, tho more Intelligent, other things being equal, ho Is. Chlnii'N Coat l'lolil. China contains somo of tho richest coal deposits In tho world. Lost fall Professor Drake of Tientsin visited tho coal fields In tho provlnco of Shnnsl, which were examined by Baron von RIchthofen In 1870, and found that thoy aro of Immense extent. Tho coal area Is said to bo greater than that of Pennsylvania, und tho anthracite coal alone contained In thoso fields has been estimated at 030,000,000 tons. Tho Shansl coal beds aro so thick and llo so uniformly In a horizontal posi tion thnt the practicability has been suggested of running long . lines or r:iroad tunnels through the beds so ' that tho cars can bo loaded in tho mines all ready for distant transpor tation. To I'rntoct tho Great Kedwoorii. It whs reported at tho recent meet ing of tho American Association foi tho Advancement of Science that tho redwood forests of tho Pacific coast aro now practically all in tho hands of prlvato owners who hold them for lumborlng purposes. Slnco tho rod wood rivals tho gigantic sequoia in slzo and Interest, It Is doomed a mat ter of scientific Importance that it should bo preserved, and tho associa tion approved tho action of Its botani cal section In favoring tho purchoso and preservation of a public park in the Santa Cruz mountains covering more than 25,000 acres, and occupied largoly by tho primeval redwood for est. Wonderful Variable Start, In utu'jylng tho variations in tho light c;' certain stars In tho cluster known us "Messier 3," Professor Bail ey has found one star whoso changes aro so rapid that In thirty minutes It gains moro than an entiro magnitude; In other words, becomes more than two and a half times as bright as It was at tho beginning, Sovoral othors vary with a rapidity almost equally startling. Their entiro period of vari ability from ono maximum to tho noxt Is about half n day, but thoy gain light much quicker than thoy loso it. It seems Impossible to regard Buch stars as suns in the senso of our sun. WAYS THAT AUK DAfttf. "Sho told' mo I looked pare," said tho serious-faced girl on tho car, "and so sho took mo upstairs and put somo rougo on my cheeks and sent mo off to tho pnrty feeling llko nn Easter egg. "Sho said I was lovoly, howover, and I admit that 1' thought tho embellish ment rather becoming when I gazed In tho mirror at my pinky reflection.. But I had a miserable tlmo at Mary's. I had forgotten to ask my hostess whether my complexion was a fast color- or not, so when tho rest bobbed for apples in tho most ridiculously un dignified fashion, I was obliged to ab stain for fear ot emerging many shades whitor than when I went In. "Also, though my faco bocamo very warm from dancing, I did not daro to pass my handkerchief over It, lost tho sensolcss linen absorb tho rich, warm blood that mantled my blushing checks. "I was never so stiff and. uncom fortablo In my life, r spent my tlmo endeavoring to catch surreptitious glances of myself In tho many mirrors that adorned tho walls," quotes tho Baltimore Nowh. "I was self-conscious and absorbed, and I'vo no doubt every man thero considered mo n brainless Idiot. "When I got home I found my corn ploxlon was Intact. It hadn't rubbed off In spots or dono nnyof tho horrl blo tilings I expected It to; but It looked to mo dreadfully ns if It had como out of a battle "This was my first cxporlonco with 'boughton' beauty, and It's going to bo my last," said tho sorlous-fucod girl, emphatically. "Up to this tlmo I havo pinched my cheeks when I wanted them flushed, but r can't rocommond this method, cither; It gives ono such a spotted look, qulto ns if spinal mon lngltls wero about to suporvono." "I batho mine in scalding 'water' when I want n good color," said tho girl noxt her. "A cloth dipped in tho boiling liquid and then held to eacli cheek until It Is scarlet Is tho pro scription. Then dash on eau do co logne, and by tho tlmo ono is ready to go out ono's skin Is delightfully pink." "That mnkes wrinkles," said tho third young woman of the trio. "Mullen leaves are good enough for me. Get your country frlonds to send you a box of them. They're fuzzy things, and ono will act us a cosmetic half a dozen times. " 'Coureo there's no color to como off they're green. It's tho fuzz lhat makes one's chooks red. Grandmother told mo about thonii Sho used to uso thorn when sho was a girl. Every ono did then, she says. I think It's vulgar to spread tho 'bright vormllllon an tho tondorloln,' as my brother says." And then tho shopping district was reached and tho young women fllod out soberly, leaving n couple ot highly edified men In tho scat in front of them. Worked Ilotli Wuyn. "I can't havo 'lost all my good looks," said MIbs Northsldo to her best friend, Miss ShadyBldo, "for I can still obtain n sent In n crowded street car." "Oh, well," replied Miss ShadyBlde, "you know tho men will glvo seats to old ago nB well ns to youthful beauty." Pittsburg Chronlclo-Tolegraph. Ahead of 1U in. Chlmmlo "Dat's McCorkor do heavy weight mo cousin used tor go tar school wld 'm." 1 Billlo "Dat nln't nuthln' mo brud dor had free front too' -knocked out by him ,onct." Brooklyn'. Life.- Getting Tired ot It. "What makes you look so unhappy, llttlo boy?" Small boy (sobbing) "Nobody novor calls mo good unless I am n-dolng somothln' I don't liko to do.'V London Tit-Bits. Ho (on tho way to tho fancy dress ball "Wait a minute, my dear, whllo I turn up my trousorH." Naturally. Young Stono "I spoko to tho chom lBt nnd ho advised that r should " Doctor (Interrupting) "Oh, he gavo you somo Idiotic advice, I suppose" Stono "Ho advised mo to see yon." Tlt-BIts. Ill V.iK, Ho You cllmcrt zo Mattcrhorn? Zat was a great foot. 8ho Great feat, you mean, count Ho Ah! Zen, you climbed him, moro as oncol Punch. -i i r fohok or HAiiiT. ' llor Valuation, ' Biggs (to cubmahJ'What will you charge to toko mo and hiy wlfo to Blank's hotel? Cabman Halt a crown, Sir? Biggs And how muali for taking mo nlono? Cabman Tho saiuo half ,a crown, ' Biggs (to ills' tflfo') 'thbromy bear. you oco how much you are 'valued, at. Tlt-BIts. Motharlr Ailviro. "Johnny," said the StvLous mother, "I want you toQiiltyualug' that low, vulgar language." . , . , "Yrtiy, mother," replied Johnny, "Shn'kcspoaro said what 1 Just 'said." '"Thon yoif must quit 'aaaoclntlnR with him," said tho good woman. "Ho'8 not a fit companion for you." 1,1 Limited JOitaemttln. "Your chlldranycom5 la bo protty well behaved," romnrked tho. frlond. 'They're 6l my children, 4hen," re plied tho hon-pecked man. "My wife only admits -that thdy'rd7 'bur :chlld r9nl..wJciiT.tlicy;rtut)nd,w,lipn.heyAr.o good thoy nro 'her children.' " Phila delphia 'PrcBB. HOW ICINUt , , Willio Motiao (to chum) "What a nice, kind man ho must bo who pro vided this safo refugo for us!" li the floor. "What do.riowB t'um Marso William nt do capital?" asked tho colored con stituent. "Well, the papor says that 'no 'has tho floor.'" "Do goodness gracious! Is ho drunk already?" Atlanta' Constitution. ' . Made find. Hetty Looking oyer tho dictionary again? Evidently you 'And It' 'intensely Interesting; ' ' ', ' Bertha-N.p t not, . intorqBtlBgi' but amusing, it qpellB words so different from tho wn'y'rspoll them, yoii know. Boston Transcript. .1 A i , . Eunlly Ityntalned., "There iB'n irian in tho oast oiid who hasn't1 hciirtl'the'olectum returns yet." "What njstupldi D'oosntt bo take any Interest In tho .wqlfaro ot his couu try'?t' 'Yes, .' bill' 'ho's deaf." Cleveland Plain Dcnjcw . m ; x Llko Alt tho Kent. "My" wlfoV'idarhod'' 'French in Ave weokB." .,! . ., "Does sliQnpoalc correctly?" "Well, iWfcssor Do Verges sayB her French1' Is atf'gdod''ab any spoken la our neighborhood, Indianapolis , Jour- nal: ,:i i!l" aridr. i" Hildrod "It makes me so mad for somebody to eat up, all tho, nuts before soup Is florveii." " 1 , Malabai1 'Especially- when youvtoro. About to,. grab for, tljem yourself? 1 agree with you." Boston Transcript. i'roreloua. ' I Wlnks-r'Wiat fldvlco, did the doctor glvo you when you wont to him this, mbrning? ' v-'1 BlI.nkB Hqiudylsod nvsto go to some, other physician to (whom I didn't owa 5. Answora. , -ItU ui ' . 4 1 ' A Joint ' Wnfdrob. ' "Do you likoyour now cook?" ' "Oh, yes, I haven't, worn my silk capo but once HIiico.bIio enmo.-but, grq clous! I'm not going to bother hor nbout a llttlo thing llko that." Indian apolis JournuY. '' ' - Hlibover4 "Ypu seem to, have discovered tho secret of keeping 11 sdrviint girl, Mrs. HIH." '''" 'Yes. SoveraP 'yenreuago I found a ,mad wKomfmygownH xaptly fit, I havo had no troubio slnco." Den nnd Denvor Times. -'i1 ' ' Hlniyly ExUt. MIbs Pepproy Uru'cMis! You don't, nrcan to say tlntt you absolutely do nothing? , v Cnony Aw, woally, I don't even do that,'' My 'marillttehda to1 ov'wything, y know. Philadelphia. PresB. Irrational. Mtb. Jones Oh dbo'tpr, Is my hus band tllb Irrational? ;' ,Pr. Dosc'm Ijxtromoly so. 'When I told him your mothor was coming to morrow ho smiled. Judge. Hlaudaroui. . A woman doesn't talk through nor hut unless It happens to ho a now one! Philadelphia Refcordi Tho Inoxporlonccd. maid, wants to ho a -man's first love, but tho 'wise Wid ow prefers to ho his Inst, M AM