CRANKS AT THE CAPITOL. DlatarbaaoM Occasionally Taka'Flam ia tha Gatlarlea of »ha Honia. The recent appearance of a dement ed negro in the gallery of the . house of representatives recalled numerous similar occurrences to some of the older members. In the forty-fifth con gress, when the 4th of March come upon Monday, a deadlock ovor an ap propriation bill led to a session which lasted until Sunday forenoon. While the house was thus in session, contin uing the legislative day of Saturday, an evangelist, who had been in the habit of holding street meetings near the capitol, aroso in the reserved gal lery and In a loud voioe invoked the curse of the Almighty upon congress for desecrating Sunday by remaining in session, lie was promptly hustled out, but in the midst of the excite ment a member arose and said: "Mr. Speaker, I agree with the man who has just been ejected from the gallery. I do not think we ought to be in session on the Lord's day. I move the house adjourn." The motion immediately carried. Once, in the Forty-eighth congress, while Samuel J. Randall was speak lug, an Irishman in the gallery stood up and said: "Oh, Mr. Randall, what do you talk so much for? Why don't you do something and stop talking?” This man was also promptly sent out of the building. But no one ever gavo the capitol officials so much trouble as Dr. Mary Walker. Sho had an idea that Bhe was entitlod to the floor under a vote of thanks, and she would slip in among the members at every oppor tunity. Once, It is said, she took a seat in a chair by the speaker’s desk, and when the gavel foil at noon she refused to budge. The only way by which the doorkeeper could get rid of her was to carry her out, chair and all, and this was done with more speed than politeness. fancies op invalids. A Gentleman Who Longad for a Dish ' of Grilled Elephant's Foot. About the manner of serving their t food patients sometimes have curious fancies. In one case a woman per 1 statently refused to take her beef tea "hunless the bread which accompanied ^ & v - it was out in the shape of diamonds, while in another it was always neo ■?*;* essary to sorve the food in a blue basin, for out of nothing else what soever would she take nourishment. A boy who was attaoked with scar • let fever showed great disinclination to take food, but finally agreed to ;■ - swallow what was necessary, pro i'. vlded he was fed in the following way: The beef tea, or whatever was to be given him, was put into a silver > ,’ teapot The spout was plaaed in his ■ mouth, and in this manner the food was poured down his throat % An elderly gentleman who had passed much of his time hunting in « • ; Afrloa, on] being asked if (he fancied | any particular dish, replied that he would like a bit of elephant’s foot! Under certatn oironmstances, we be lieve this dish is a dainty and nourish ing one, but the price of elephant in this country being prohibitive, this elderly ntmrod wm forced to content v himself with a beefsteak instead. 7 A clergyman with a broken leg had a great longing to put on a pair of jtv'Z-i stilts, a pastime whioh he had never feWiK yet tried; while a man whose leg had '™!fr been amputated, although admitting r the impracticability of the wish, de v ' dared that a passion for skating had so seized upon Mm, since the loss of his limb, that he regretted being Operated upon chiefly on that aceount IT %A| ‘ MATHEMATICAL. v: It" ■ if: %■ : hi II Wu an Intnllnotnnl tort of a Snake " ‘ That He Had an Interest In. isBald a well-known recounter of >Mke stories the other day by way of ft round up of several: *9 can’t call any more to mind Just at present My wife knows a lot of snake stories, but I forget ’em. By the way, though, I've got a regular living curiosity’ down at my place. One day my eldest boy was sitting on a stool in the back yard doing his sums, and 'he couldn’t get ’em right lie felt something against his face, and there was a lit tle snake curled up on his shoulder and looking at the slate. In four minutes he had done all the sums. We’ve tamed him, so he keeps all our aeoounts, and he is the quickest head at figures you ever saw. He’ll run up a column eight feet long in three seconds. I wouldn’t take a’prise cow for him.” “What kind of a snake is he?” in quired the listener curiously. “The neighbors call him an adder.” “Qh, yes, yes," said the other a lit tle disconcerted. “I’ve heard of the species.” C .'SVh, '. !■:' S*©?? / .v v; * ■ ' // Vf*Tv. iss Sa%H -; t'lp, -{ , 13 *5 T-i. e® ,-:r '|fe *'x x- . . The Uib (or • Moan Follow. In Geneva, Ala., close to the Florida line, Ed Cowart and Miss Lizzie Lun wood were to have wedded. All ar rangements were made, the preacher and the guests had arrived, the wed ding supper was spread, but the bridegroom was missing. A delega tion was sent after him, but he de clined to come, saying he had changed his mind. The assembled gentlemen provided themselves with masks, again called upon the bridegroom, carried him into the woods, buckled him across a log, and lashed him un mercifully, the blood being made to flow from his back. J#ffr' Nobly desisting Temptation. “Ain’t that a fine horse Elder Keep along’s drivin* to church?” exclaimed Hammy. “It ’d make a splendid match for our Pete. If you could trade the chestnut filly to the elder for that—" “Sammy,” said Deacon Ironside, looking resolutely the other way and heaving a deep sigh of mournful resignation, “This is. Sun day 1” *7 n■ , a ' r:;j-a '-'fuw: a: a v 'x ■ ' \ a ’ x. ■: ■. . x' "x. HOR3E9 CRY OUT. Whan la Pain and Hoirnrlnt Th»y Glv« Vplmt to Their AntnUh. "On the way to the city I purchased ft copy of a magazine and read a very interesting article on the patient way in which animal* boar.pain withont crying out," aahl a traveling man, lately. "To ono statement in the ar ticle I take exception from personal experience, acquired _during the war. The writer says that-a horse will en* dure pain in battle without any out cry, During flie war I rode the same horse for nearly a year. He was wounded two or three timos slightly, and always gave vent to so pitiful a cry that I felt as much sympathy for him ns though he had been a human comrade. One evening I was out with a foraging party in Virginia, when we were shot upon from ambush by a small detachment of Confederates. My horse was Btruck and fell, and I escaped by riding double with one of the other boys. We obtained re-en forcements and soon drove that gray coated detachment out of the neich borhood. As we were returning through the woods I distinctly heard my horse’s cry. and returning to it put au end to its troubles and misery by getting a friend to shoot it, the task being one 1 could not perforin myself. Last month I positively saw half a dozen mules do just the reverse. They had been working in a coal mine for three or four years, and when first brought to the surface could not see at all in the daylight. After a. few minutes they got accustomed to the light, and then, kick.ng up their heels, they gave vent to something so much like laughter that those who were watch ing them enjoyed the scene hugely.” OLDEST RUINS. Immense Temples on the Mile’s Banks In Mubla. The most ancient architectural ruins known are the temples at Ipsam bul, on the loft bank of the Nile, in Nubia. The largest of these temples has 14 apartments, the whole of which has been hewn from solid rock. Some idea of the immensity of these tem bles may be gleaned from the fact that one single apartment of which measurements were taken was found to be 67 feet long and 58 feet broad, the vaulted, dome-like roof being 30 feet above the floor and supported by two rows of massive square pillars, four in a row, and each of the same material of which the roof, sides and floor of the temple are composed. To each of these pillars is attaohed a oalossal figure of a man, the feet being on the floor and the head touch ing the roof. Those human figures are necessarily of enormous propor tions, and are each painted in gaudy colors. In front of this wonderful rock-cut temple are seated four still larger figures of human, beings, two of which are sixty-five feet in height, and are believed to represent Ilameses the Great, whose remarkable military exploits are to be found depicted all over Northern Africa. Reproductions of two of those colossal figures on a gigantic scale of the original, also a fao simile of the temple itself, on a small scale, were made and exhibited at the celebrated Crystal palaoe, 8yd enyham, England. WOMAN COMBS LAST. Bow the Arab Regards HU Wives and Daughters. An Arab—meaning a tent-dweller, in an equine sense, the town-dweller is no Arab—loves first and above all his horse. No one need to recite the oft-sung affection he will lavish upon him. Next he loves his firearm. This, poetically speaking, ought to be a six foot, gold-in laid* muzzle-loading hor ror of a match-look, which would kick any man but an Arab flat on his baok at ©very shot; but actually, in Algeria or Tunis, when he lives near a city, it is more apt to be a modern English breechloader. You must fly from the busy haunts of men to find the matchlock. Next to his gun he loves his oldest son. Last comes his wife—or one of his wives, perhaps. Daughters don’t count; I mean the Arab doesn't take the trouble to count them, unless in so far as they minister to his comfort, dietetic or otherwise. Until some neighbor comes along and proposes to marry, in other words to mako a still worse Blave of one of them, she is only a chattel—a soulelss thing. And yet she is said to be a pretty, amiable, helpful being—said to be, for no one by any hap ever chances to cast his eye on one worth seeing. This disregard for women, be it said to their honor, does not al ways apply to the Eedouins of the Syrian and Arabian deserts. Of Wh*t II “Bee Comb" Composed T Bee comb, or “beeswax” the mater ial of which the honey-cells in the beehive are composed, is a wax pro duced by a system of chemistry car ried on in tha “wax pockets which are located in the abdomen of all •workiug bees. It is a peculiar sub stance and is said to be analogous to the fats of higher animals. Original ly it was supposed that this wax was taken up in an almost pure state from the flowers by the bees, but recent experiment carried on by the botanists and chemists of the world conclusive ly proves that the bee is capable of elaborating his peculiar Wax, although confined to a diet purely saccharine in its nature. Rescind Ing an Obnoxious Order. Apropos of the official order for the wearing of tall hats and frock coats at Punchestown races, in England, it is said that once upon a time a gen eral officer issued a similar order for the guidance of officers when out oi uniform in Edinburgh. He was led to rescind it, however, after being ac costed on the street by an officer ar rayed in a tall hat, frock coat and i Bob Boy tartan kilt. STOPPED SMOKING TO SAVE Dat the I'roeMtiin Didn't Pan Oat a* Profitably m Ha Bad Expected* Xerxes Mones determined to quit; smokfgg, not you know, that it had any baneful influence upon his health, but solely for the reason that ho didn’t feel justified in spending twenty-fire cents a day for the weeny luxury. Jones had a good disposition and began his new scheme on Sunday. “Seeing I've quit smoking, I’ll put an extra quarter in the oollection box to-day," he mused, and in the money went. Monday, just to pleas* his little wife, good Jones bought a forty-cent box of mixtures ana handed it oyer to hi* wife with the remark:. "No, ray dear, it’s no extravagance. Just about wliat I saved on cigars to-day, and we both can enjoy this after tea.” Tues day Jones bought a fifty-cent toy for his little boy out of the cash saved by abstinence from tobacco. Wednesday he changed his dining place down town from a twenty-five cent place to n fifty-cent table d'hote, feeling justi fied in spending the extra quarter saved on cigars. Apparently forgetting this Thurs day, the reformer remarked to him self: “There’s that new umbrella my wife’s been talking about. I’ll buy that and charge it up to two weeks’ savings on smoko.” Friday a new dinner set was purchased to please the wife of his heart, and set over against twenty weeks' savings from tobacco and Saturday Xerxes Jones spent 25 cents for cigars, hav ing lost six days of his luxury, and figured up that he had saved on the wrong side of his books just about 838.00. LITTLE SKULL OP GLASS. A. Boston Man’s Ingenious Device for Pre venting Poisoning Accidents. The unlabeled poison bottle is as bad as the unloaded gun for causing fatalities. Carelessness at homo will render useless the utmost vigilance of the drug clerk who relies upon the warning label required by law to be pasted on all poisonous prescrip tions. To obviate this danger a man living in the suburb of Boston known as Jamaica Plains has made a bottle which very effectually conveys the necessary information as to the dead ly nature of its contents, so that not only he who runs may read but he who cannot read may understand. The bottle is of blue glass, in order that the contents may better resist being affocted by light, and it is molded into the shape of a skull, with cross-bones underneath. The word "poison” is placed in raised letters on the forehead, and at the base of the skull a snaco has been left for the red label that tells the nature of the drug. The hollow eyesockets, the jawbones and the teeth would tell its purpose to a blind man, and ghastly as it may seem to those who are blessed with sight, it is better to be frightened than to die. That at least is the philosophy of the inventor, and he is not a druggist, or doctor, by the way, but a plain, every day jobber in boots and shoes. ENGLISH ORTHOEPY. The Work That Is Being Done by a Pri vate Tutor of Foreigners. In the national capital is a private tutor of English to foreigners who trains them in the idioms of pronun ciation with this chain of similarly spelled words: “Though the tough cough and hiccough plough me through.” The result is humorous as these samples of the efforts of the pupils will show: “Tho the to co and hicco plo me thro. Thuf the tuf cuf and hiccuf pluf me thruf. Thof the tot cof and hiooof plot me throf. Thup the tup cup and hiccup plup me thrup. * Thoo the too coo and hiccoo ploo me throo.” It is not surprising that Voltaire, when he began to study English'and learned that ague was pronounced as two syllables and plague as one, should have wished that half of the English had the one disease and the other half the other. , Burning Mountain of Coal. At Winger, in New South Wales, there is a burning mountain. It is 1,820 feet in height, and is supposed to be a large coal 6eam which has in some unaccountable way become ignited, and has been burning for many years, certainly long before the advent of the white man in this por tion of the colony. The course of the fire can be traced a considerable dis tance by the numerous depressions or chasms occasioned by the falling in of the ground from beneath which the coal has been consumed. Smoke is continually issuing from the sides of the mountain, and in the vicinity of these openings the surface is hot, and has a dry, parched appearance, while sticks thrust into these openings are readily ignited. Rather a Knowing Cat. J. tv. Moses, of Megquier Hill, has an unusually intelligent cat, called Isaao, who is very fond at fresh fish. Recently while the cat was lying on the floor a member of the family said to it: “Isaac, do you want us to go a-fishing?”and then added, “If we had a frog for a bait we would go.” On this old Isaac got up with a knowing look and trotted out, only to return in a few moments with a good-sized frog, which he had caught in a swale near by. Never Touched m— A little fellow had been seriously lectured by ,his mother and finally sent into the garden to find a switch with which he was to be punished. He returned 6oon and said: “I could not find a switch, mamma, but here’s a stone you can throw at me.” HIS VISIT CUT SHORT. v An Indianapolis Lady* Solicited* lor tho Cleanliness of nor Frlonda A certain lady of Indianapolis .who had never been usand was sound and flexi ble, and the fish was in a healthy con dition. Matrimony Cheap In Australia. Those to whom the wedding fee is an obstacle to matrimony should emi grate to Melbourne. Australia, where clergymen vie with each other in their advertisements to tie the knot cheaply. Their charges range from S-.50 to seventy-five cents, and m some cases the wedding breakfast and ring are included. A Dovotert Grandmother. In Charleston, Mass., there resides a widow with one hand. The other is wholly useless because of an acci dent- The widow does washing and other day work, is well along la years, but has thus far fed, elothed and educated a young orphan grand i . , vi Th« Hotter tin Iroa the Uh Pels to the Battering Patient. “I bare never been able to under* stand,” said Dr. C. T. Glenarm of Denver! “why it'is that the pain re sulting1 from a burn with a red hot iron is so much greater than when the flesh is touched with an iron at a white heat, but I have seen the exper iment demonstrated so many times that I know it to be a fact. When ever it becomes necessary for me in my practice to cauterize a wound I am always careful that the iron I apply shall be of an intense white heat, and in a great majority of cases the pa tient has always said there was abso lutely no pain felt, while if the iron should simply have been red hot, the effect would have been agonizing. This applies to animals as well as man. I once saw a veterinary sur geon apply a white-heated iron to the shoulder of a horse; the animal never winced under the operation, and seemed hardly conscious of what was done to him.” The Dutch Alarm Clock. Ic. the back streets of most of the towns in Holland, there may be seen houses with this curious sign-board, “Hero they Knock and Wake Pei* sons;” for in the large comfortable Dutch beds folks are apt to oversleep themselves, and so the men and women who have to rise very early for their work pay a man a small sum every week to call them at daybreak. And call them he does, for he knocks and rings until his customers appear at their windows, and the row- he makes is often enough to disturb a whole street In summer, when the careful Dutch housewife has taken the stoves out of the rooms, the waker-up earns a little extra pay sup plying hot water as. well for an early cup of tea or coffee. Worst Railroad In England. The Pall Mall Gazette has been pub lishing opinions as to “the worst rail way in England." The following let ter may be recommended as an admir able model: “Sir: The Southeastern railway is the very worst railway in the world. Its engines-are asthmatic; its lamps are trimmed by foolish vir gins; its fare excessive; its carriages let in the snow in the winter, and are furnaces in summer; its motto is un punctuality; its principal station is approached through the neck of a bottly. It ruins the temper, destroys the digestion and enables one to real ixe the horrors of Dante’s Inferno. I am, sir, yours obediently, The Worm Who Turns." Until After Election. The present campaign is of unusual interest to Nebraskans. Not only will a full set of state officers be elected, but a legislature will be elected that will choose a United States senator. The State .Journal, located at the capital, can give you all this news more fully and more reliably than any other paper. It eomes twice a week and will be sent until after election for only 25 cents. Address, State Journal, Lincoln, Neb. There’s Always a Reason. It is an easy thing to account for the wonderful growth of the Daily State Journal recently. Its price has been reduced 'to 50 cents per month without Sunday or 65 cepts with Sunday. The Journal has always been reliable and honest, printing the news without fear or favor. The people of Nebraska realize that they need a paper published at the capital, and when the price of the Jour nal was reduced the subscription list grew at a phenomenal rate. The Jour nal is a Nebraska paper through and through. Last June Dick Crawford brought his twelve-months-old child suffering from infantile diarrhoea, to me. It had been weaned at four months old and had al ways been sickly. I gave it the usual in such cases but without benefit. The child kept growing thinner uutill it weighed but little more than it did when born, or perhaps ten pounds. I then started the father to giving Chamber lain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Before one bottle of the 25 cent size had been used a marked im provement was seen and its continued use cured the child. Its weakness ‘and puny constitution disappeared and its father and myself believe the child’s life was saved by this Remedy. J. T. Marlow, M. D., Tamaroa, 111. For sale by P. C. Corrigan Druggist. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office at O’Neill, Neb. » ., , ^ July 31, 1894. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the register and receiver at O’Neill. Neb., on September 8, 1894, viz: , . JOHN L. KUHNS, HE No. 14357 forthe SWJ4 Sec. 25, Twp. 31, R. 13 westCth He names the following witnesses to prove nis continuous residence upon and cultiva tion of said land, viz: William Veal, Wallace Johnson, John Gor don, of Hay, Neb.; Peter Winn, of Atkinson, Neb. 4-« JOHN A. HARMON, Register. NOTICE. Isaac C. Edwards and Mrs. Ed wards, his- wife, (first and real name un known) will take notice that United Trust, Limited, a corporation, plaintiff, has filed a petititlon in the district court of Holt county, Nebraska, against said defendants, im pleaded with Orrin C. Smith, the object and prayer of which are to foreclose a mortgage Llated March 14,1889. for $700 and interest, on the southeast quarter of section 7, in town ship 30. north of range 10 west of the (ith P. M in llolt county, Nebraska, given by Orrin C.' Smith to the Globe Investment company and assigned to plaintiff, which mortgage was recorded in book 47 at page 78 of mortgage records of said county, and to have the same decreed to be a first lien and said land sold to satisfy the same. You are required to answer said petition on Dr before tbe 24th day of September, 1894. Dated August 15,1894. «-4 S. D. THORNTON, Atty. for Pltf. NOTICE. IN THB DISTRICT COCRT ON HOLr NEBRASKA. c Wyinan Patrldge & Company, plalnug W. P. O'Brien. McCord, Brady Cm.. Abies & Company, R. L. Jlolw! Goods Company, Dempster Mill jr uring Company, Albert VoorS Lewis E. Miller, defendants. fl Tho above named defendants and them will take notiee that on the a!' 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