[ciAL DIRECTORY
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II ' .Silas Holoomb
. B. E. Moore
.. j. A. Piper
j. S. Bartley
Euiteno Mooro
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Ltateiinivebsity.
l>avltt Burnham,
i’."" Lima- K P. Holmes,
Hll.ltl. AlOlllt *“• *«. | Mull
", u‘ u. Kearney i M. J. Hull.
.OllESSIONAL.
I |.\ Mandorson, of Omaha,
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,,.,-nrst District, J-B Strode
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JUDICIARY.
I ...Samuel Maxwell
i j udie Post and T. L. Norval
. J. J. Klnn of O Neill
.i I,. Bartow of Chadron
a! L. Warrick. of O’Neill
Lyd OFFICES.
A. Harmon,
er Williams.
count'™
.Oeo McCutchoon
1-rictCourt.Joh.8klj.vlng
J. P. Mullen
..Sara Howard
...Bill Bethea
"..'Mike McCarthy
'....Ohas Hamilton
..Chas O’Neill
w.K. Jackson
Mrs. W. K. Jackson
. Dr. Trueblood
..M.F. Norton
. H. B. Murphy
LTKIi visors.
.Frank Moore
..Wilson Brodle
. ...W. I’. Elsele
.'.'...George Eckloy
_L. B. Maben
..A. 8. Eby
. ....A. C. Purnell
. ...D. G.KoU
.'.'.John Dlckau
.H. B. Kelly
....K. J. Hayes
. ,K. Slaymaker
. ...R. H. Murray
. .8. L. Conger
.John Hodge
. .Wm. Lell
.V..E. J. Mack
..’.'.'.’.George Kennedy
.John Alfs
. ....James Gregg
,.F. W. Phillips
. .A. Oberle
.....Hugh O'Neill
. , ..D. C. Biondin
. .John Wertz
. ...U. O. Wine
. .T. E. Doolittle
. J. B. Donohoe
. G. H. Phelps
.J. E. While
..A. C.Mohr
1Y OF Or NEILL.
E. J. Mack; Justloes, E. H.
S. m. Wagors; Constables, Ed.
Perkins Brooks.
NCILMEN—FIRST WARD,
ars.-John McBride. For one
‘Yarman.
SECOND WARD.
irs—Jake Pfund. For one year
THIRD WARD.
ire—Elmer Merriman. For one
Yagers.
CITY OFFICERS.
K. Dickson; Clerk, N. Martin;
John McHugh; City Engineer
ky; Police Judge, N. Martin;
Dlice, Charlie Hall; Attorney,
id; Welghmaater, Joe Miller.
ITT AN TOWNSHIP.
, John Winn; Trearurer, John
k. D. if. Cronin; Assessor, Mose
Justices, M. Castello and Chas.
Uhtices, Perkins Brooks and Will
);ui overseer dist. 26, Allen Brown
oim Enright.
.S’ RELIEF COMNISSION
feting first Monday in Febru
ear, and at such other times as
cessary. ltobt. Gallagher, Page,
"’m. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary;
Atkinson.
ICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH,
every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clook.
.’assidy, Postor. Sabbath school
following services.
HIST CHURCH. Sunda
-s-Preaehing 10:30 A. M. and 7
No. 19:30 a.m. Class'No.^ (Ep
ue)0:30 i\ m. Class No. 3 (Child
Mind-week services—Genera
[lu8Thursday 7:30 P. M. All wil
iconic, especially strangers.
E. E. HOSMAN, Pastor.
■•OST, NO. 80. The Gen. Joh
Post, No. 86, Department of Ni
•will meet the first and thir
enmg of each month in Mason!
8. J. Smith, Com.
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FORTY niLLlON CAKES YEARLY.
An Knffllah Divine Who Put mu End t®
an Original Swindle.
A curious case was discussed in an
English court recently, says the
Jewelers’ Weekly. It involved a
question whethor Intentional decep
tion was practiced in labeling a
watch and chain as “Gold Watch and
Chain." The obvious meaning of
the wording, and one to which no
exception can be (taken, was that
both the artloles were of gold. A
clergyman passing the store in the
window of which they were displayed
saw the sign: “Gold Watch and
Chain.prioe £l,lls,Cd" (about $7.60).
Considering the bargain uncommonly
cheap, he opened overtures for a
purchase. Before, however, putting
upon it the final clinch, he demanded
a written guarantee that the quality
of both watch and chain was exactly
as represented. Thrust Into an ugly
position the dealer was forced to
confess that the sign’s phresaology
was deceptive; the chain was not
gold. The admission in this instance
was frank. The indignant clergy
man made some strongly perti
nent remarks. Angered at being
entrapped and remonstrated with,
the store-keeper threatened to eject
his inquisitor. But he made a sad
error in enraging the clerical custo.
mer, who, it appears, had passed the
university with flying colors as a
finished athlete.
“Look here,” said the old gymnast,
“I don't want to take advantage of
you, but if you lay a finger on me I’ll
‘trim’ you round the shop. You may
take some persons to be old women,
but you are in the wrong box this
time."
Further the , would-be ejector did
not venture. A policeman was sum
moned and the dealer arrested. The
magistrate fined him, after which he
coursed his way home, a sadder and
a much wiser man.
ALL FOR NOTHINO.
If the La'dy Had Her Purse What More
Cou'd She Want.
An English lady, walking down the
Lung ’Arno in Florence, missed her
purse. The suspicious movements
of a man in front made her boldly
demand the stolen property. Too
amazed to refuse the thief handed
over the purse. Indignant at such
broad-day robbery, the lady stopped
an elegantly dressed gentleman and,
in excited tones, began to Dour out
her grievance. Merely waiting to
hear “that man stole my purse,’’ the
gallant Italian rushed after the
thief, who promptly took to his
heels. They had a good run before
the thief could dodge his pursuer. The
sun of a summer day did not help
the polite Florentine to keep cool;
so, red-faced and out of breath, he
turned back to meet the English
lady with profuse apologies. "Mad
am, I am very, very sorry. I did my
best, but your purse is gone.”' “Oh,
no!" she replied, sweetly, “I have
my purse. I got it back from the
man." “Got your purse back! Per
Bacco! What did you want, then?”
“Want! Why, I want justice.” It
was t'oo much, even for proverbial
Italian urbanity, and, almost chok
ing with sudden wrath, he gasped
opt: “Justice! To think I should
have run myself into a perspiration
for justice!"
She Shut Him OK
A prominent Englishman, Lord D.,
and a proverbial hater of America
and Americans, was dining lately in
Paris with the British minister, and
next to him at the table was a noted
Newport belle, Miss X. The con
versation had drifted to a discussion
of things American. It is needless
to say that Lord D. made some pretty
disagreeable remarks about some
Americans he had met and some
Yankee customs he abhorred. “Why,
d’ye know,” he continued with an
almost unpardonable want of tact,
“that at some of the places I dined
in America I saw people eat with
their knives and spill their soup on
the tablecloth?’’ Miss X. was thor
oughly provoked by this time, and
she replied with apparent unconcern:
“What poor letters of introduction
you must have had, my lord.” There
was no more unpleasant talk about
America that evening.—Harper's
Bazar. •
Grog.
Grog, a mixture of spirits an6
water, was so called from Admiral
Vernon, a distinguished British
sailor. He always wore a grogram
coat and was callod -Old Grog” by
his sailors. He introduced the ration
I of spirits into the navy bill of fare,
I and the mixture at once received his
nickname.
CIVIL ENGINEERS.
TtoT Do Wot Allow Their Clerki to Ktof
Private Note-Books.
"He was the best surveyor and
draughtsman in my employ,” said a
well-known civil engineer a few days
ago, referring to a man whom he had
Just discharged. “I discovered a short
time ago that he was keeping a pri
vate note-book, and after notifying
him that he must stop it and again
learning that he was continuing the
practice 1 was obliged to discharge
him.”
i asueci uio gentleman to explain
what he meant by “keeping a private
note-book."
“A surveyor,” said he, “in doing a
piece of work makes minutes aa he
goes along of the lin es ho runs, of the
various points marking the bounds of
the lands ho is surveying and all such
data as is not only necessary for the
drawing of his plans, but also' inci
dentally that which may aid him in
the case of any other survey being
made later on.
“This data, you see, really con
stitutes a sort of capital or stock in
trade, for if the party owning the
land ever wishes another survey of it
for any purpose he will naturally
apply to that same surveyor, who,
having these old memoranda, can do
the work easier and more cheaply
than any other surveyor. Oftentimes,
after many years have elapsed and
old landmarks have passed away,
those minutes become very valuable.
“Consequently a civil engineer al
ways wishes to keep these in his own
hands, and men in his employ are not
allowed to make copies of minutes of
surveys which they make while in his
employ. Otherwise an old employe,
in leaving and setting up in business
for himself, could carry away a large
dice of his employer’s business.
SPITTING SERPENTS.
They Are Able to Blind a Man by Pro
jecting a Fluid Into HU Eyes.
The African explorer, V. Hoehnel,
on his voyage to lakes Rudolph and
Stephanie, encountered one day, after
a long rainy spell, rolled up in a con
ner of the basket in which the dishoB
of the expedition were carried, a ser
pent of narrow girth and about twen
ty-seven inches long. His servant
armed himself with a long dirk
to kill the serpent, but the moment he
approached the basket he fell back
with a heartrending cry and covered
his eyes with his hand. The snake
had projected into them a tiny stream
of burning liquid which caused terri
ble suffering.
Iloehnel came up and placed himself
in snob a position ttint the wind would
blow the liquid past his eyes should
the serpent defend itself in the same
manner it had done before. As soon
as the snake caught sight of him it
lifted its head and squirted two drops
of black fluid upon his neck, which,
however, produced no burning sensa
tion oh the skin. An Arab guide, who
had heard the cries of the explorer’s
servant, came up, and, wrapping his
turban around his hand, endeavored
to make a dive into the basket for the
snake. A moment later he, too, fell
back blinded and covering his eyes
with his arm. Iloehnel did not seek
to repeat the experiment. He turned
the basket over on the ground, and
the serpent in its flight was killed
with sticks, so that the mystery could
not be solved as to the nature of its
peculiar squirting qualities.
The Lawyers Not In It.
The shortest and most intelligent
chancery suit on record was probably
one—recorded by Mr. Croake James—
between Lord Enniskillen and a lady
litigant. It was about a piece of
waste land that promised little har
vest except to the lawyers, and his
lordship called upon his opponent and
proposed, instead of fighting it out, to
toss for it. “Come,” he said, produc
ing a sovereign, “heads or tails,
ma’am?” This very sensible lady at
once fell into his humor, and cried,
“Tails!”—which it was. What rather
spoils the story was that she had
afterwards misgivings about the re
spectability of this way of settling
matters, and, selling the land in ques
tion, bestowed it on a charity.
How “Sizes’* Vary.
When you speak of a man’s hat be
, ing “about two sizes too large for
him,” you do not mean that the proper
fit would be a hat two inches smaller
in either circumference or diameter;
with his coat, however, when you say
“size” you mean an inch. The follow
ing may be of interest to those likely
to get mixed on the question of “sizes”
and inches. A “size” in a coat is ex
actly an inch, in underwear it is two
inches, in a sock an inch, in a cellar
one-half inch, a shirt the same, in
shoes one-sixth of an inch, in pants
one inch, in gloves one fourth of an
inch and in hats one-eighth of an inch.
Difficulties of a Language.
A French gentleman, whose admira
tion for a party of Vassar girls con
siderably exceeded his ability to speak
it in English, met the women at one
or two day festivities, aDd was suffi
ciently impressed; but when, at an
evening reception, they burst upon
him in the bravery of full-dress, the
admiring Gaul felt at once the handi
cap of his vocabulary. “I can not say,'
he confided to one of his hosts, “how
beautiful the young ladies appear in
their night-dresses.”
About Quinine.
Of the 7,000,000 ounces of quinine
annually produced in the world, the
United States uses 3,100,000, or nearly
one-half of the entire output. There
are eighteen chinchona or quinine fac
tories in the world. This comprises
one establishment in Holland, two in
England, two in Italy, three in France,
four in the United States and six in
Germany. If we are not mistaken
there is some experimental work in
the same line being conducted in Bua
aia. '-• - - --.
RELIABLE * PERJURERS..
An Iagealeas Form of Hlsrkmsll CurM
Oot With Tholr Help.
In speaking of men who earn' their
living by swearing false baths, one of
their number says: “A reliable per
jurer is a valuable man. There are
several broken-down lawyers, who,
Bhut out from the codrts, make it part
of their business to keep in contact
with omen who, for a consideration,
will swear to a lie whenever required
The names of these people they place
on their books, and whenever a dis
honest litigator in want of a witness
applies to them they are ready to sup
ply the demand within half an hour.
B F°r instance, take a swindler who
is in want of money. It is quite easy
for him at night time to feign to have
been knocked down by a carriage or
cab, and then to sue for damages. To
make his case thoroughly strong he
can even take his false witnesses with
him, so that they may put in an ap
pearance when the name of the driver
is taken. The result of tho over
whelming presence of witness gener
ally is that the case is settled out of
court.
“In this manner any number of
blackmailing cases are got up which
never come into court on account of
the defenseless position of the victim.
The blackmailer, with his accomplices,
merely pays his victim a visit, during
which they make a definite charge,
and tho usual result is they retire
with the money they asked for in
their pockets.
"They seldom go into the bos, for
their ‘evidence,’ as a rule, is so ‘com
plete’ that the opposing side gives
way. It is quite easy to get hold of a
man who is willing to swear to an
ordinary llefor $1, while, as for alibi
witnesses, they can be obtained in
almost any saloon for the. price of a
few drinks.
“Some false witnesses, however, are
paid very high sums. A friend of
mine abroad was once offered $350 by
a party if he would swear to a certain
thing; the nest day he was offered
#300 by the opposing side, who, of
course,had no idea that he had already
been approached.
DIDN’T WANT TO BE BURIED.
And the Supposed Corpse Leaves the
Undertaker In a Harry.
Quite recently a team was passing
up one of the leading streets of
Kennebec, Maine, when the horses
became suddenly frightened and ran
away, throwing out the fellow who
was riding. He was badly shaken up
and his condition seemed 'to indicate
that he was done for during his
sojourn upon nratha/ earth.
An undertaker who happened to
hear of the fellow’s misfortune and
sad condition Immediately made haste
to the scene of disaster, equipped with
everything necessary to care for the
fellow who was supposed to have so
suddenly passed away. 'It seems he
was placed in the wagon, and then the
undertaker started with his supposed
corpse in posthaste for the man’s home.
He had not gone far when the man
recovered from his deathly (?) slum*
ber and revived sufficiently to take in
the situation and leap from the wagon
and reach a small hotel they were
just passing. Imagine the intense
surprise of Mr. Undertaker a short
time after, when he had gone but a
little distance and looked around and
discovered that the single Indication
of there having been anybody in the
wagon was the manner in which the
robes were left!
Truly the hard times have made
business dull in every line and per
haps the poor undertaker has shared
with the rest. It may seem a shame
that he lost this opportunity of earn
ing an honest dollar and performing a
faithful duty.
MADAM’S FINGER-NAILS.
She Has Them Shaped for “Execution,*
••Exhibition” or ••Escape.”
This is a progressive age, and the
“manicure lady” is up to date. She
has among other things for finger-nail
culture technical terms that may be
edifying to the people who are com
pelled by a snarled-upiskein of circum
stances to wear hands au natureL
“Will madam have her nails shaped
for exhibition or execution?”
“Don’t know what you mean.”
“Ha, ha,” she gurgles, and proceedt
to inquire: “Does madam play on the
musical instrument or the type
writer?”
If it is a key-board she must have
the escape nail; if the violin or banjo
or any strings she cuts the nails low,
quite far below the finger tips.
The patron plunks the banjo. She
takes the decollete style, and when
the operator is through with her
hands the flesh stands up+above her
finger nails like cushions.
The “exhibition cut” is for idle
hands, and the nails are tinted and
filed into curves as nearly like the
moons at the base of the nail as they
can be shaped.
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