ITEMS Of SUNDRY SORTS.
Williamsport, Pa., has the biggest
suspender mill In the country.
No British sovereign haa vetoed a
parliamentary bill during the past 18*
years.
Most of the rope that is need for ex
ecution is furnished gratis by a cor
dage firm in Philadelphia.
A small vase of Sevres ware only
eight inches high wss recently sold in
London for $7,205.
The shortest street in the world is
Mansion House street in the city of
London. It is only a few yards in
, length.
Samples of tea grown and cared at
Summerville, 8. C., have been received
in Baltimore which expert tea dealers
have pronounced superior to East Indis
tea.
Some tinsmiths use leaden-headed
nails for roofing purposes The last
strokes flatten the head over the hole
made in the tin, and leaking is thus
prevented.
A Malden, Mass., man haa invented
a device for lifting the lid of a street
letter box by touching the foot of a
treadle at the foot of the post to which
the box is attached.
The anti-liar letter box is the latest,
which registers the time tho letter is
dropped in the box, but men who mail
their wife’s letters would scarcely ap
prove of it
The "well of frozen air*’ is near Day
ton, Os. The drill passed through a
five foot stratum of frozen gravel into
a series of cavities from which gusts of
freezing air come with perfect regu
larity.
Among some young salmon fry
hatched in the hatchery on the River
Devecon there were found two fishes
joined together at the back fin, from
which there is only one body to the
tail. Both heads are perfect
A man at Macon, Oa., has a S10 note
of the state of North Carolina, printed
in 1778. On one side is the inscription
"Persecution the Ruin of Empires,”
while on the other side appear the
words “Death to Counterfeiters
WHAT TICKLED 'EM.
Miss Elderby—You have never met
my elder a Liter, have you? Cleverton
1 didn’t suppose it was possible that
you had an eider sister.
Judge—You were begging on the
public streets, and yet you had $30 in
your pocket Prisoner—Yes, jedge, I
may not be as industrious [as some, y’r
honor, but I’m no spendthrift
Whyte—Are you good at arithmetic?
Browne—Good, my boy? I’m simply
phenomenal at it I can add a column
of six figures up seven times and make
it come out eight different ways.
Seedy Party, contemplating himself
in a pocket mirror.—Here 1 am wear
ing the boots of a bank manager, the
. trousers of a landed proprietor, a
baron’s cost and vest and even a
count’s hat and in spite of all that I
look like a tramp.
Papa—Well, Tommy, and how did
you like it? Tommy, who has been
taken to church for the first time—
Very much, indeed. Every one had to
keep very quiet but one man stood up
and talked the whole time, and at last
we all had to get up and sing to keep
him quiet
Mrs. Gadder—I’m happy to inform
you that I have been converted—got
religion, aa they say. Mrs. Tawker—
Pm glad, and yet I’m rather disap
pointed, too. Mrs. Gadder—Why so?
Mrs. Tawker—Because I had a choice
piece of scandal to tell you, and now I
suppose it won’t do for you to listen to
it Mrs. Gadder—Oh, go on and tell
it I’m not to be baptised till next
Sunday.
“You need not deny it I know that
he kissed you while you were sitting
on the atepe last night’’ ‘‘Yes, mam
ba, eight or ten times' I guess.’*
“Eight or ten times! Why—I—you—”
,fYea, mamma dar. I told him the first
time if he did it again I wouldn’t speak
to him, and after that I could not tell
him to stop without breaking my word.
| And I knew you would not want your
daughter to tell a fib.”
W' BOMB UNUSUAL HAPPENINQS.
. Alien Milton Browning1 of Hunting*
ton, W. Vn, ia sixty year* old, ha*
been mantod tlx time* end has sixty*
■even children.
9 A mule at Rome, Ga., killed a large
% moecaain snake which was in the act
of striking it on the nose, by seizing
the snake in his mouth and biting it
nearly in twain.
Last June a young man was killed in
an accident at Bloomsbury, N. J. A
family of Elizabeth thinking it their
■! son, claimed the remains, buried him
and collected the insurance money.
They were recently agreeably sur
prised to see their son return home.
Seven soldiers hare been drowned at
jjg ’ Teisae, fa Prussian Silesia, while
practicing in the military swimming
aehool. The captain thought the
Whole company could swim, and so
made them all go out of their depth.
With the consequences that they sank
and never rose again till they were
iff' fished out.
The colored school house in Brick*
head village, Georgia, was struck by
lightning. The whole school sat par
alysed and unable to save themselves
from danger. People rushed to the
burning school house and began to
drag out the pupils, the great majority
.of whom had been rendered uncon
scions by the stroke.
Only one instance in which a lady
has changed her name three times in
U one day ia on record. Mr. Croft, son
j*. of Sir A. D. Croft, was married at
Weigh Hill, Hants, to the eldest
daughter of Mr. Marsh at one time M.
P. for Salisbury. The same day the
old baronet died suddenly and his son
succeeded him. Thus the lady was in
the morning Miss Marsh, in the after
noon Mrs. Croft, and at night Lady
Croft.
REMARKABLE OPERATIONS.
reals of larger/ That Amount Almost to
Of the many results of the rapid
strides which science has made Is the
remarkable skill which medical men
have brought to bear upon difficult
and dangerous surgical operations It
I was not many years ago when it was
[ thought improper to attempt opera
tions upon the human body; but
the steady onward march of human
progress has given surgeons such a
knowledge of the human anatomy
that they are now enabled to perform
feats which formerly would have been
credited to witchcraft and the black
art.
At the annual meeting of the Welsh
branch of the British Medical associa
tion, I)r. Damar Harrison gave an a>
count of an operation he had per
formed upon a boy, which he claimed
to be unique. t
The boy had the misfortune to cut
his wrist with plate glass, which
caused him to lose all sense of feeling
in the hand and was followed by corn
laid open, and it was found that a por
tion of the nerve about two Inches in
length was entirely destroyed. A
young cat was obtained and chloro
formed, and immediately after death
the surgeon cut a nerve out of the hind
leg. The nerve was then wrapped in
a cloth soaked in warm carbolic lotion
and afterward connected with what
remained of the boys nerve. The
result was most gratifying. Sensation
returned and the boy was cured
An equally interesting and success
ful operation was performed upon a
boy who had swallowed a fish-hook.
He tried to release it by pulling upon
the line, bat it had become firmly at
tached in the lower and back part of
the throat. A medical man was called
in, and he procured a pistol bullet and
bored a hole through It. It was then
allowed to slide down over the line to
the hook. The weight of the bullet
dislodged the hook, which, sticking in
the lead and being protected by it,
was safely removed.
Miracles.
plete paralysis.
wrist was
WHEN A MAN’S HELPLESS.
Mein Treatment Received at the Hand!
ot Hurricane*.
“A man never feel* so utterly help
less as when a hurricane is having a
little fun with him," said a namesake
of Captain John Smith. “A hurricane
—most people call it a eyclone,
bnt improperly—is a freak of tempor
ary insanity which nature occasional
ly indulges in. 1 have had three tete
o-tctes with that kind of phenomena,
and I hope the fates will remember
that I have had my share. At Grin
nell, Iowa,a few years ago a hurricane
used me to batter down a brick
church. Then I went out to Kansas
and was driven through a corn crib,
head first. I was then used as a mop
rag to wipe up a couple of counties in
Minnesota. I have had my skull
cracked, both arms broken, and my
internal economy so shaken up that 1
do not know where my heart ia When
one of those black spirals strikes the
earth and begins its war dance, all the
laws of nature and reason seem to be
suspended. 1 have seen people carried
a mile and landed unharmed, and
others whipped to death in their own
dooryards with the trees beneath
which they sought shelter. I have
seen battles, earthquakes and mine
explosions, but the horrors of a well*
developed hurricane exceed them all.”
CITY FIRE SERVICE.
Boston’s Department Costs the Most and
London's the Least.
The central fire brigade of Chicago
has recently been furnished with two
of the largest and most powerful land
fire engines in the world. They are
constructed to work six sets of hose
throwing 10 tons of water per minute.
Paris has a very extensive fire estab
lishment, the largest in the world
303 engines and 1,500 firemen.
London has l.U engines of all de
scriptions, and employs *707 officers and
men. The number of journeys
by the fire engines and hose vans of
the Metropolitan brigade last year
was 33,795, and the total distance run
65,800 miles, these figures not includ
ing hose carts or the escapes, which
are run by hand.
The London brigade uses 17,000,000
gallons of water yearly, that is, 4%
gallons per inhabitant; or 8,500 gallons
for each fire.
The New York brigade consumes
83,060,000 gallons yearly, that is, 25
gallons per inhabitant, or 18,000 per
fire.
The most expensive brigade is that
of Boston, which costs 6s 7d per head
of population to maintain; that of
London costs the least, 5d per head.
j THE FIRST OVERSHOES. j
They Cum From Brasil sad ud Wore j
Painted and Glided.
Odd as it may seem the first pair of |
; artics brought Into the United States j
were imported from Rio de Janeiro in
i 183a They were a rough pair of
I India-rubber “gunboats," pointed and
gilded like a Chinese pagoda, and were
sent as curiosities to a New York
gentleman by a representative of a
wholesale house doing business in
what was then the great American,
Empire. Friends of the gentleman
when inspecting his odd rubber shoes
expressed a desire to own a pair of
such oddities; and in 1833 twenty
seven pairs were imported by New
York and Boston people. The price
was something terrible to contem
plate, but they were soon sold out and
orders placed for more. From this
small beginning the rubber boot and
shoe trade began. In 1833 500 pairs
were imported and from that time for
ward until Goodyear’s famous “vul
canizing" discovery and the complete
revolution of the rubber trade from
5,000 to 10,000 pairs of rubber shoes
were annually imported from South
America.
WHAT WORMS CAN DO.
Ihty lUUa Tana of Sand on the bflkk
, Coast.
Mr. C Davison baa examined the
sands between Holyhead and the coast
of Northumberland, England, a large,
flat stretch of beach familiar to most
persons who travel by the east route
to Scotland. The observer found that
the number of castings of sand thrown
up by the lobworms gave an average
of 50,000,000 to the square mile. A
portion of the castings was weighed
and the total weight thrown up an
nually was thus shown to be, in some
places, about 801 tons per acre; at
other points it was a good deal lesr
than this, but in still other parts it
amounted to no less than 3,140 tons
per acre.
If all the sand thus passed through
the bodies of those animals in the
course of twelve months was spread
out it would give an average thickness
of not less than thirteen inches. How
many and various are the changes
produced in the sand by the wonderful
activity of these industrious worms it
is impossible to say, but it is easy to
see how the presence of such creatures
in large numbers operates with other
forces to produce a kind of order on
the surface of the earth and to replace
crudeness by beauty.
The thing that strikes one most,
however, is the magnitude of the re
sults which can be produced in a short
time when a large number of separate
individuals work in co-operation by
the same methods toward the same
DIGGING EARTH WORMS.
A Little Trick Worthy the Attention of
the Fisherman.
A man tells how to get earth worms
without digging for them. Take a
strong stick, four or fire feet long and
sharp at one end, and go to some lo
cality, snch as the back of a barn,
where the worms are sure to be plenti
ful. Drive the stick four or fire inches
into the ground with a hammer or
stone, and then begin to twist it with
a rotary motion. Every few minutes
hit the top a rap to drive the point fur
ther into the ground and keep on
twisting. In five minutes the worms
will begin crawling out of their holes,
and all you have to do is to pick them
up and put them into your can. They
hear the grinding and think it is a
mole after them, and know that only
on the surface are they safe. So they
come out, those nearest to the sound
making their appearance first, with
every evidence of haste and trepida
tion. Sometimes they come np for a
distance of ten or fifteen feet from the
twirling stick; and in places where
they are plentiful, as many as a hun
dred can be literally scared out of the
ground in this manner. Some people
think a worm has no sense, and. they
may be right in general, but a worm
knows that a mole is its deadliest ene
my, and will come squirming to
top of the ground any time it hears %
mole coming in its direction.
TO SAVE LIFE.
Iaborde's Method of ■ storing Breath la
Desperate fun
Anybody may be called upon to give
assistance to drowned persons while
the doctor is being sent for, and Pro
fessor Laborde’s simple method for re
storing breath when all other meaas
have failed deserves to be universally
known. At a watering place in Nor
mandy two bathers, a young man and
a boy, who were unable to swim, west
out of their depth and disappeared.
They were brought on shore inani
mate, and were taken to the village.
Two doctors were sent for. bat the
yonng men gave no signs at life, aad
they were declared dead.
M. La horde, who was Sahing at
an hoar's distance, fame np as soon aa
he heard of the accident- He exam
ined the body aad found that the ex
tremities were cold and the heart had
stopped. Then taking hold of the
root of the tongee he drew it violently
forward, giving it a succession of
jerks in order to excite the reflex no
tion of the breathing apparatus, which
is always extremely sensitive At the
end of a few minutes a slight hiecoegh
showed that the patient was saved.
In addition to the usual restorative
means. Professor Laborde in extreme
cases rube the chest with towels soaked
in nearly boiling water.
M Mpa at MackweU* s 1
At the insane asylum on Blackwell’s
island it is said that when the iimm
are first committed they are visited by
family and friends. The friends drop
off, bnt father, mother, sisters and
brothers return week by week, month
by month. Then the brothers appear no
more. At length the father leaves to
the mother and sisters the duty of
looking after the afflicted son or daugh
ter. The girls marry, and husband
and babies claim their timj. ‘ Then the
day cornea when the mother alone is
seen. Year in and year out, unmind
ful of the weather, unheeding the sea
son. comes the mother. When she
comes no more they know at the asy
lum that she is dead.
A Sweet Credulity.
Miss Cal mg went for the first time
to view the sea. At her departure
from home her sister recommended
her to carry back some sea water in a
bottle. She went down to the shore
and filled her vial with water. “Bet
ter not fill it up like that,!’ said a sail
or, “bekase it being low water now,
when the tide rises it’ll burst your
bottle.” Miss Caling, quite convinced,
poured out half the water and de
parted.
Practiced It.
A certain Irish orator, whose dangh
ter was going to marry Emmett, died
of consumption. The day before he
died some friends asked him how his
cold was. “It ought to be all right,”
ha answered, “for I’ve been tip the en
tire night practicing on it.”
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PfgJSW
COVERED WITH A TASTELESS AIR
SOLUBLE COATUM.
For SICK HEADACHE,
Dtestaew, or Mauriar la the Head, WMi
Paia, aad 8h—« at the Stomach, Pale* la
the Bach, Gravel, aad fyiag Paima la the
Body, Ehwastha, etc.
Take four, fire or even six of Beecham’a
Pills, and 4a r>u com oaf of Ian, (A«y uUl rim
rtkief u Itcemty Ako<«; for the pill will so direct
to and restore the canae, d* mm* being bo
more nor leee than wind, together with poieon
Ooi and noxious rapoon, aad eoaeMaet
aawholeeome food.
Of all drag cists. Price SB cents a box.
Hew York Depot, 965 Canal St. <
A reported outbreak of cholera at Hel
metta, N. J.. created much excitement
in that vicinity. Investigation showed
that the disease was not cholera but a
violent dysentrv which is almost as
severe and dangerous rs cholera. Mr.
Walter Williard, a prominent mrrchant
of Jamesbnrg, two miles from Helmetto
says Chamberlain's Colic, Cboleia and
Diarrbira remedy has given great satis
faction in the most severe cases of dy
nestry. h is certainly one of the best
things ever made. For sale by P. C.
Corrigan, druggist.
Understanding the difficulty people
living in small towns have in getting
proper lenses, when they possess any
complicated trouble of the eye. sack as
myopic, hyperopic or presbyopic, asti
gmatism. strabisma. or muscular insuf
ficiency, Involving the use of prisaae. the
Tudor Optical company w5i sead 1 mem
j ber of their firm. Mr. S. D. Brace Tudor.
M. A. O , oculist, -scc'ciaa and specialist
i in lenses. Lars «f New Ycrs. w ONeilL
j Xeb.. on Octsjber *. This is an oy-poy
; tani:y act of tea alredesi ia*i we showld
1 advise any wa-;ae spawrajca** do *ot fit
j them, or *h® think they ktre anything
| tne matter with their eyes, v* see Mr.
: Tad»»r„ who can he see at their tsest,
P. C. Ccrrau. X. D_ s® Saturday. Oc
tober * 5s charge fee fTUtftUioa.
WsVSr a #
The uadezi£gaed win mdi at public
' acctiou in front of the Holt County
I Bank, in OTStSL wa Ocatsbo 8. IrSS. at
| 2 o'clock r. the fellow.ag described
j property. to-w;£. One team d work
i horses, cue horse b year* sAi c-ae mare
j T years ofci; cue h»jr*e eeit % years oil,
one mare coil fi seats old. two set of
I double harness, cue spring Stuidebaker
j wagon, one cultivator, owe stirring plow,
i one pair of bob sleds, and numerous
■ other articles !>,o numerous to mentioo.
Mine months' time on all sums over 919
with approved security and 6 per cent
interest. Six per cent off for cash on
all sums over ilO.OO
F. J. Toohill. Auctioneer
id-2 CittLts Memo, Proprietor.
Aaerion Sale.
I will sell at my residence, one-half
mile south and two miles west of Scott
vilie and 19 miles northeast of O’Neill,
HoU county, Nebraska, at 10 o’clock a.
it prompt on Tuesday Oct. 11, 1892.
on one years time at 10 per cent per an
num. The following described property:
One span of gray brood mares. 9 and 11
years old; one span of 3 yenr old horse
colts, one two year old horse colt, one
spring filly colt, one bay horse, 18 years
old; one milch cow 7 years old; two dry
cows, 4 and 6 years old; one two year's
old heifers with calf; one yearling
heifers, two steer calves, one Rock Falls
wagon, one set of harness, one mower
and reaper, one Farmer’s Friend check
row corn planter, nearly new, one al
most new lister and drill combined, one
good breaking plow, one stirring plow,
one corn shelter, cultivators and cutter,
about 20 acres of corn, about 30 tons of
hay, and various small farming imple
ments. etc. And if farm is not rented
prior to day of sale, will sell tbereoff,
buildings, shed, lumber, picket fencing,
and pasture fencing of posts and barb
wire. Good bankable security will
be required upon all notes given
Ten per cent discount will be given on
all cash sales over $5. Sales under *5
must be cash in baud. Free lunch at
noon.
Notice—This is a bonafide auction sale
no by bidders, as I am quitting the farm
ing business.
F. I. Tooliill, Auctioneer.
1'w2 F, Bhadlkv.
LEGAL NOTICE.
Defendants will take notice tliat on the 22d
day of July. 18*2, T. H. & W. J. Itjikt r. admin.
1strutors of the estate of Issue p. Jiaker de.
ceased, plaintiff herein, filed a petition in the
district court of Holt county, Nebraska
against said defendants, the oblect and
prayer of which are to forclose u certain
mortgage executed by defendant, Hubert
i?s*Jac I •, Baker, upon the follow
ing described rea. estate, situated in the
Nob.rH?M,an<lcou»ty of Holt,to-wit:
Tlte south half <14) of the northwest quarter
S3ihifi!'s.S
GJ.Vest oftheVth P.'°M h and "“W! ",lrM'en
dM?,rioiee-»i1‘fi-‘>,nU.n,t of one CO"P0,‘ 'xtnd
aatul July -’4,18s., lor the sum of foe and in
terest at the rate of 8 per cent, per annim,
payab.e semi-annually and ten per cent, af
norii"atHrlty’.,hllt *h<?re Is now due upon said
note and[mortgage, according to the terms
*!>e sent of (872.00 ana interest at the
?!LV!»!F?ro£nt per annum from July l,
18UL. and plaintiffs prays tbat said premises
thereon *°d to sa,lsly ,he aniount due
Tou are required to answer said petition on
day of NovemberflJw °"
Dated October it, 1HW.
ti* ikl?: i- Babsu, Admistratois. Pl’ff,
By Bahtis * Pikhcjc, tbdr attorneys.
First National Bani
O'NEILL • NEBRASKA.
Paid-Up Capital. $5o,ooo. SUrplcJs, $j
Authorised Capital, $100,000.
THAD. J BERMINGHAM, Prrs. J. P. MANN, Tick i
ED F. GALLAGHER. Cashier. FRED H. 8 WING LEY, Asst. cy
Money Loaned on Personal Security on the Moat r'avo
Terms. Issue Time Certificates Bearing Interest!
Buy and Sell Foreign <fc Domestic Exchange.
DIRECTORS:
P. J. McManus M. Cayanaugh. T. F. Bermingiiak. j. p ,
E. W. Montgomery. Ed. F. Gallagher. Thad. J. BermingiuJ
h,D ADA',S> ^RESOENt
Wm- A«*. Asst. C«,„tDAR«. Cs
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LISTERS and DRILLS
Call aDd see me before you make your purchases as 1
save you some money.
_NEIL BRENNAN, O’Neill Neb.
THE AUTHORIZED
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*
FOR THE CURE OF
LIQUOR, OPIUM, MORPHINE AND TOBACCO HABI
At O’NEILL, NEB.
MMwnaim
This institute is a branch of the Dr. Leslie Keely in*
tute at Dwight, 111. All remedies are prepared by Dr. Keel
and administered by a physiciau appointed and instructed 1
l)r. Jveeley. In fact the treatment is identical with that
Dwight and the results must be the same—certain cure.
k-S—$75 for three weeks treatment. Medicim1
cure of tobacco habit seut by express for $5. For furtli
information address,
Keeley Intitote,
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