FLEET-FOOTED ZEBRAS. „ rh«l* Duk of Spssd When Alarmad kjr tha Whla of • lllfla Hall. Tlio rapidity with which the dif ferent zebras have boen extermina ted, owing to tho advance of civiliza tion in South Africa, Is shown by reference to such works as that of Sir Cornwallis Harris, written in 1840, in which the author tells us that tho quagga was at tho time found in "Interminable herds," bands of many hundreds being frequently seen, while he describes Burcholl’s zebra as congregating in herds of eighty or one hundred, and abound ing to a groat extent; but now, after tho expiration of about fifty years, the one species is extinct or practical ly so, while tho other has been driven much farther afield and its numbers are yearly being roducod. • This author's description of the oommon zebra is well worth repeat ing, says the Saturday Review. He says: "Seeking tho wildest and most soquestored spots, haughty troops aro exceedingly difficult to approach, as well on acoount of their extreme agility and fleetnesi of foot as from tho abrupt and inaccessible nature of tholr highland abode. Under the special charge of a sentinel, so posted on some adjaoent crag: as to oommand a view of every avenue of approaoh, the checkered herd whom ■painted skins adorn’ is to be viewed perambulating some rocky lodge, on which the rifle bail alone can reach them. No sooner has the note of alarm been sounded by the vldette, than, prloklng their long ears, the whole flock hurry forward to ascer tain the nature of the approaching danger, and, having gazed a moment at the advancing hunter, whisking their brindled tails aloft, helter-skel ter away they thunder, down craggy precipices and over yawning ravines, where no less agile foot oould follow them.” Of Burchell's zebra he says: "Fierce, strong, fleet and surpassing ly beautiful, there Is, perhaps, no quadruped in the creation, not even excepting the mountain zebra, more splendidly attired or presenting a picture of more singularly attractive beauty.” Zebras are by no means amiable animals, and, though many of the stories told of their ferocity are doubtless much exaggerated, they have so far not proved them* selves amenable to domestication. * financial arbitration. DMdr Whits Assure# ■ Maa That Ha It Mot Bigger Thaa a Bank. An angry discussion was taking place between two colored men on Bates streot, says the Detroit Free Press, and one of them was about to lay hands on the other when Daddy White came down Cadillac square , »nd stopped to ask what the row was about. "Dat man dwes me half a dollar!” replied one of the disputants. “I don’t deny it,” said the other. •*Den why don’t you pay meP’’ > "Kate it’s too soon.” "If you doan pay dat half a dollar Tze gwlne ter smash yer fine!” "Hold on, Mister Simpkins—hole on!” said Daddy, as he stepped between the pair. "Let’s see how dls yere case standa How long has dls gem'lan owed yo’ half a dollar P” j| "’Bout fo’ weeks.” "Has yo’ dun axed him for itbefo’P" "No, sah." "Den yo' haln’t got no case and better stop yo'r noise.” "Doan he owe me dat moneyP” "Of oo’se he does; but am yo’ a bigger man dan a savin’s bankP If ye* wants dat money yo’ glu him sixty days’ notls an’ do blzness in a bigness way. Humph! De ideah of a white-washin’ oull’d man sottin’ his ••lf up to be bigger’n a bank wld a mlllyon dollars in it!" a, Texas Products. Texas raises 1,200,000 bales ol cotton, which yield nearly 950,000,' 000. The ootton seed product ex ceeds 600,000 tons. The sugar plan tations on the Brazos alone produce 12.000,000 pounds of sugar and 1,200, OOi yjAllons of molasses. Texas has 5,0tNtfeart dis ease? Mow long shall I live? Shall I live for six monslis?” “Oh, yes,” re plied the medical men, “you may do that.” lie went home end the match was broken off. He wrote to the commit tee saying that as he had a mortal dis ease of the heart, and could not live for six months, he withdrew his appli cation for rooms wherein to dwell with his wife. On the receipt of this letter the committee deliberated, and said: “We must superannuate him, poor fellow; and, as he has but six | months to live, we will let him have his full pay.” Accordingly ho was su perannuated upon his full pay, and upon this superannuity, said Sir An drew, he lived for more than fifty rears. HE WAS CHAIRED. 7ndsr the Clroumstaneea, the Yonnx Man Wm Rather Stuck on Ite At the home of a popular Louisville | girl a most uncomfortable half hour was recently spent by a modest youth who had called to see her. The youth is noted for bashfulness and nervous ness. The night in question he went with a friend to the girl's house. He took a comfortable seat in a large armchair, and, as was his habit, soon began to nervously poke his fingers into cracks and holes of the ornamen tal ipart of the chair. He shoved his finger into a hole in this manner, but found to his dismay that hia kuuafcle pm**tottowfi to wm I back through -the hsh. The art re I the young man worked to rescue his finger the harder it was, as the finger became swollen. The youth was too bashful to men tion the ridiculous predicament into which he had gotten himself, but manfully bore the paid in silence. He suffered untold agony for fear his friend would go before he released his finger. Finally the hostess noticed his apparent uneasiness. The youth with many blushes then told the cause. It was not until half an hour later that the bashful youth and the chair parted company. The butler finally succeeded in releasing the fin ger with the aid of a hatchet and chisel,- but the handsome chair is a hing of the past THE RIGHT KIND. There Was no Nonsense About That Boy, Ho Meant Business. The merchant had arrived at his of fice as early as 7 o’clock and five min utes after he sat down to his desk a foxy-looking, bright-faced boy came in. The merchant was reading and the boy, with his hat off, stood there expectantly, hut saying nothing. At the end of two minutes he coughed slightly and spoke. “Excuse me, sir," he said, “hut I'm in a hurry.” The merchant looked up. “What do you want?” he' asked. “I want a job if you’ve got one for me.” "Oh, you do?” snorted the merchant. •Well, what are you in such a hurry about?” “I’ve got to be, that's why,” was the sharp response. “I left school yes terday evening to go to work and I haven’t got a place yet, and I can’t af ford to be wasting time. If you can’t io anything for me, say so and I’ll skip. The only place where I can stop long in is the place where they pay me for it.” The merchant looked at the clock. “When can you come?” he asked. “I don’t have to come,” replied the youngster, “I’m here now and I’d been it work before this if you said so.” Half an hour later he was at it and he’s likely to have a job as long as he vants it. a xirauuK tauina. A floating1 island about thirty miles tong and broad, covered with trees from thirty feet to forty feet high, which is supposed to be a detached fragment of South America, held to gether by the roots f its trees, has been met with in the Atlantic several times since last year. It was first sighted on 38th of July, 1893, in latitude thirty-nine degrees Xwth ' longitude sixty-five degrees West, and ' the last time on the 19th of Febu ary, having traveled 1,075 miles nearer Europe. ' Senator Gorman's Weakness. Senator Gormau is very free from the weaknesses that beset the ordi ®*ry individual, but he has one dis tinct failing. lie is an inveterate gum ehewer. He chews gum in the senate chamber, in the committee-room, on the street and at the theater. He does it artistically and quietly, and there are few times during the day when there is not a piece of gum in his mouth. He neither smokes nor drinks Twn»*w A Solantlfle to Deilraj tk« tali' nol akapsd Cload. \ The “para-tornadoes,” or tornado destroyer, is the name ot a machine or contrivance which may well take rank as one ot the most ambitious inventions ot the age. The power ot this new weapon against a terriiie enemy has not beon tested yet. First, because It has been scarce ' a month Mince the brain of its inventor de signed it, and, second, because there have booh no tornadoes available in his locality to destroy. It is the invention of Eugene Tur pin, a man recently released from a French prison. He says Lieutenant Findlay, of the United States weather bureau, confirms Faye, or at least he declares that nearly all tornadoes are formed in the upper layers of atmosphere. The records of the United States weather bureau show that the tor nadoes in America always travel from the southwest to the northeast. This ooing established, it is com paratively easy to face the enemy, because you know from just what direction he will come. The dangerous extent is only an eighth of the points of the compass, says the Kansas City Journal, that is, if you protect a town on its south wost boundary for one-eighth of its circumference it will be tornado It is a well known (act that a water spout at sea collapsos instantly if a heavy gun is fired. This is so well understood that nearly all ships in tropical latitudes carry a cannon for this purpose. A tornado on land, which is a phenomenon of the samo nature, can be dissipated in the same way. His plan in a nutshell, then, is to establish aerial torpedoes, fixed on high towers, and, like the electric light towers used in some American cities, and so placed that the explo sion can only take place by auto matic action of the tornado itself. “The apparatus which I have de signed, and patented a few days ago, is so constructed that a wind of tor nado intensity will by simple me chanical means discharge the power ful explosive with which the maga zine is loaded. “I am acquainted with explosives and I do not exaggerate when 1 say that the apparatus which I have in mind will keep in perfeot working order without attention for about a century. I should use about 200 pounds of the most powerful explo sive in each tower, or pylone. The explosion would develope an immense UttOUll of y§4^f g^afq|||| ■ore, quite capable of destroying any tornado in its vicinity. At the same time the explosion taking place 120 feet or higher in the air would do no damage to buildings or other property lower down. “The number of these' towers or para-tornadoes necessary would de pend upon the area or importance of the town or buildings to be protected. !R> furnish absolute protection it would be necessary to place them from fifty to 100 yards apart—the minimum width of the path of a tor nado—within the dangerous octant. Take, for instance, a town three miles in diameter. The dangerous octant would be about a mile along its southwest border. I would place sixty para-tornadoes in four rows along that section of the circumfer ence. That would represent an ex oense of about 130,000. Hypodermic Injections of Perfumes. There was quite a rage some years ago in the East for perfuming the skin. Some physician discovered that the hypodermic injection of some perfumes, such as white rose, lllao or violet, under the skin, caused the perfume to be exhaled from the whole body, and eve'n from the brehth. All the ladies wanted to be perfumed. The operation had to be repeated about once a week in order to secure the desired results. But unfortunately, two or three of the perfumed ones suffered subsequently from blood poisoning, and one or two died. That put a quietus on the hypodermio injection of perfume, and the whole matter dropped. —London tnswers. A Freflacltl River. Evidences of a preglacial river have been found, which in earlier ages drained Lake Michigan west ward into what is now the Mississip pi river. Some of the places where this river ran are covered by nearly two hundred feet of deposit, but the sift which occupies the river’s bed is black and contains shells which show remains of earlier animal life, proba bly before men lived on this planet. The Oak of lirittanr. In the ground surrounding the ab bey of Vetron, Brittany, there once flourished an oak which is said to have sprouted from the staff of St. Martin. This miraculous sprout was transplanted by the saint and is said to have almost instantly become a full-grown tree, “furnishing shade for a praying band of almost a score of women the next day after it was transplanted.” Ikw Teak ne Oimm. Two men at work sweeping and cleaning the street in the upper part of New Ycrk. ••McGinty, it looks like rain." ••Lot’s sit down, Moike. Be jab bers it molght rain and then we would be doin’ this worrick for nothing.”—Texas Siftings. Judging From Experience. Brown, who has met an old friend —I suppose your son is quite a young man now? Smite—O, yes, he’s arrived at years of discretion. Indeed, he’s going to be married. Brown—Do you call that discre tion?—Truth. yw* WAKTira or a TT3xfrr& ‘ Evolution of the Coin*- Minded Tooth Into tho Street Howdy. I hare been watching a boy who' is going to grow up into a thief and a rowdy, and while watching him I have had a chance to see how "gangs’’ are born and how rowdy life is developed in these big cities that compose New York. I suppose the little boy is 11 or 12 years old. He is small for his age; a wizen faced, little-eyed, stunted rat of a child, with leathery skin and the complexion of a drumhead. He lives on a route along which I often walk between my house and my office, and my attention was first called to him by an extraordinary act of violence that he committed upon his mother. She ran scream ing out of her tenement apartment into the street with her apron up to her face and a knot of women trail ing after her, says the Providence Journal. She screamed something about her neod of water and a great deal more about her eyes and her fear that she was blinded. The women hustled her into the court yard behind the barracks where she lived and began to deluge her face with water from a running hydrant. Little by little it came out that her boy, Tommy, had come home and demanded ten cents that he might go to a dime museum "wid de gang.” She did not have the money or did not propose to give it to him, and he became angry, and, filling both hands with red pepper, rubbed the stuff into both her eyes before she suspected what ho was about or could prevent the act. Tommy came down while the women were doctoring his mother and lurked at a distance, looking on. Suspecting that he might not find favor in their eyes, should any of them see him, Tommy armed himself with an undersized cobblestone. They did see him, and brandished their great bare arms at him, and called him a choice lot of names. He, in turn, exhibited his bit of paving stone mechanically, and remarked: "Lemme alone, or I’ll split you wid dis, see?” An Irish cobbler took the child, not very roughly, by the shoulder and told him he was a bad boy and would never be satisfied till he found himself in jail. "A-a-ah, rats!” said the little street urchin. "If de ole woman don’t do de square t’ing by me I’ll do her up cold, and den dey kin take me to jail if dey want to.” Thirty-Three Years Without Food, A queer story, and one which reader* would do will to thorough ly sah (give It more than the pro verbial grain) before swallowing, comes with first-class recommenda tion all the way from England. Thirty-three years ago, in 1860, a member of the Chaplin family died at Blanknev, Lincolnshire, and was laid in the family tomb. This par ticular Chaplin was a naturalist, and. among his other pets, had a large gray bat The bat was permitted to enter the tomb and was sealed up alive along with the corpse of his dead master. In 1866 the vault was opened and to the surprise of all the bat was alive and fat On four dif ferent occasions since the Chaplin family have looked after the wellfare of their dead relative’s pet, and each time it ,has beon reported that the bat was still in the land of the liv ing, although occupying quarters with the dead. He was last seen in 1892.—St Louis Republic. A Deadlock. “What is this?” “A young man of the period. Is he not a work of artP” “He is indeed. ” “Is he engaged?” , “Yes.” “To whom?” “To a young woman of the period who loves him deeply.” “And when are they to be mar ried?” “Never. ” “Never! And why not?” “She will not marry him until he has paid his debts, and he cannot pay his debts until she marries him. ” “O!”—Harper’s Bazar. Why the Porter Wept. A passenger on a Pullman car wat found dead in his berth, recently. The porter burst into tears, exclaim ing between sobs. “So sorry, so sorry.” “What are you sorry for?” asked the conductor. “You didn’t know him, did you?” “No, I didn’t know him,” replied the porter. “I’m sorry I didn't col lect fifty cents of him before he went '.o bed.”—Texas Siftings. (•loves. Tho chief supply of cloves is ob tained from tho islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, whore the clove-tree was introduced in 1830. Trees ten years old should produce twenty pounds of cloves. Trees of twenty years frequently produce upward of one hundred pounds each. The yield last season was in excess of any previous year. . He Had Noticed It. The hands of the block were point lag to twelve. ••Have you noticed the clock?” she asked, yawning. “Yes,’" he replied, “it’s the same one you’ve always had, ain’t it?” “Yea ” “I noticed it the first night I came to call on you. It’s a very nice one. ” WI*con*>n’4 rroduota. 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Sen) sealed in plain wrapper Bond *»" not_tobecharge§Ptte'^a, -- h. 51ab.ii - APPLICATIONfChiT^H “utter of appueat,^1^ ;TJtSS^a.0™te.> O'Neill, ftolt coun,1/v°“h“«»| Notice is herebv vi„* Gallagher have ill/u fe “*( city clerk of O'Neill, H0 r for license to sell ous liquors in O’Neiii ?.lr)l Holt county, Nebraska V ,r* May 1895 to the ith fey o mi"~ be no objections re.,?„ lr filed within two weeifs1n0!',,ru May. 1895, theWs°ame&^ HThe8'&^° S?Sr;c: not to be charged therewith ___N'Mahti applicatioiTpouImw; MUquOr°/lcento*Catl0n of **' T°,‘he major and citycound O Neill, Holt county, Nebn Notice Is hereby given tK" have filed their appltcVinn clerk of O'Neill, HoltcoS a druggist’s license to self and vinous liquors for me mechanical and chemical pu Grattan township. Holt « May, 1896. If there be no ot stranco or protest filed r Rcens^wilf be granted0' M' it "wh O'Neill PaONTiEifnew llsh the above notice two « pense of the applicant,thee to be charged therewith. 41"2 N.Ma named settler has filed'notlceotj to make Anal proof in supmnj and that said proof will ht diisi Register and Reoeiver at (j'Sefiil nn Anrlt 07 1WIV. 1 UU'i range 9 west. ^ He names the following wltn»d his continuous residence u»i3 ration of, said land, viz: Ji*,j Joseph M. Hunter, Charles W.lj Blnkerd, all of Minneola, Nebruhl 37-6up John A. HabmiJ TIMBER CULTURE COUMCTAM NOTICE FOR PtBLICilW United States Land Office. Dm Mum Notice is hereby given that Fr^kl tell has hied notice of lotenfai commutation proof before the m Receiver at their office in O'Neill Friday, the 3rd day of May Iftij culture application No.6638. forth] of section No. 32, in townshipNal No.9, W. ] He names as witnesses: A, Cl ITainesville. Neb.; Frank Piteer.nl Neb.; T. F. Reynolds, of N«llgh,Mi las Gandy, of Wayne,Neb. 38-6 JOHN A. HAHMONJ NOTICE FOR PUBUCATIlj Land Office atO’NeillI March Notice is hereby given that the* named settler has filed noticeofhiiji to make final proof in support of ■ and that said proof will be nude* Register and Receiver at O'SefflJ May, 3rd, 1895. viz: j FRANK PITZER, H. E. No.liefer S. W. M S. E. N. W. >4 and N. W. !?.H 29, Twp. 30, N. Range 9 W. j He names the following witnewM bis continuous residence uponjud tion of, said land, viz: Frank M. J O’Neill. Neb.;T. F. Reynolds,ofMJ Joseph M. Hunter, of Mineolt.» NOTICE TO NON-HESIDEW Henry 0. Marmon, Ina A. Mamjl Brown, first real name unknown,m firigel and Mrs. Brigel, his wjftl name unknown, defendants. ta«g on the 10th day of April, 1^ vestment Company, a corporation laws of the state of Massacnueeus tiled a petition in the district cowl county, Nebraska, against you you, the object and prayer or foreclose a certain mortgages Henry C. Marmon and Ina A. Jiang Globe Investment Company, east H of section 29, in townshipM range 10, west of the tith P. M IN THE DISTRICT COCKT( COUNTY, NEBRASKA Henry J. Hershlser, plaintiff. H. 8. Ballou & Company, « (‘fl defendants. NOTiCf. f The above named notice that on the 2ith om ^ * 1894, the plaintiff herein the district cou‘;tol,i]“l?v>$c« ol, against you, and on the -n ^ , 1893, he Bled in said coun petition._ , „rovBr 0( said of record and deciareu e“'",rvered M mortgage, executed and d tljf y McCoy and wife to; you « t(l(» May, 1888, to secure the PM®tf note of *1,600 due May 1, I®* lirij ,18 having been given by agoufheast 4“* on said day, on the» »ou^wnship * section twenty six, W.„ , jD Holtj— nine. [39,] range twelve, Nebraska, Said mor**jB5„n pase "fc Book “88 of mortgages on Pntj. j^ mortgage records satisffe also to have cancelled an » a eei cert*"* also to nave a eenj, and d eelared paid and^ «** (eg „[ ill* k« gage given to secure, ten 0““° given Bald mortgage B.hXjgEjJy and »>{• above land by saidnMSS“»"o( and duly recorded in boox^^e, OD paK« 1*" 01 , . ,. Holt county. Nebraska. amendedP Plaintiff alleges in «'s “ (lWnp»« that said mortgages lI^LpstedW and that you have \)tenm and discharge the same d ,t ySS have failed to do sc>..Ufa ^ ■” "ffssjafgsrsf SB5SKS%»S! ictitlou that said «'OT}L^for *cl tether with releases tiie ,Nel| .National hank oi yIU' ■out the iith dai os t vered to the P ' wve i* hat said P'JP^fbaa n«'1 _k, and tl','lt ,.5 hss de““ he same, although ... ^ gages remains , the abore 1J upon plaintiff's title to the»e tlW iondc fn rionrOOitltC trie . gjjjU tgages day of:^ ittld' bank, and that he odd ends to atfprtu..ttv — ju ilaintiff further > “ an letitiou that said "‘or'Lrgfcr } upon piainuu a tends to depreciate tn«es 0,^ >-liveD*‘" in” of''about the Mb ,^‘mtiff. b,‘i, to bo delivered *“ tlJ|: Hj.rs have !*,, illeges that said pnP, syne' „ the First tne suiiic't a*, a :;js5 trorn said bank. f.,rtber 10 **‘,[4* -tgago « de^£ md released of recor* title W. hat the cloud cast on t °L^ heir Uing *ln* * emoved aud for oth