HOLLOW OF ATLANTIC. n U Mo* Strletly m Haaln, Bat Hold) a h ■ Lot of Water. It seomB that the hollow of the Atluntlc ie not strictly a basin whoso depth increases regularly toward the contor, the latest Investigation show ing that it is nelthor a saucer nor dislike one, so even is the contour of ite bod. It is found that, proceeding west ward from tho Irish coast, the ocean bod deopons very gradually—in fact, for tho first 230 milos tho gradient is but six foot to the mile, though in the next twonty milos the fall is more than 9,000 feot, so precipitous boing this sudden descent thut, in many placos, depths of 1,200 to 1,000 fathoms aro encountered in proximity to tho hundrod-fathom line. With the depth of 1,800 to 2,000 fathoms tho sea bod in this part of tho Atlantic becomos a slightly un dulating plain, whose gradients are so light as to show but little altera tion of dopth for some 1,200 miles; tho extraordinary flatness of the sub marine prairies, therefore, rendering tho familiar idea of a basin rather inappropriate. The greatest depth in the Atlantic is claimed to have been found some 100 miles to the northward of the Island of 8t: Thomas, where sound IngB of 3,870 fathoms were obtained, says Fire and Water. The seas around Great Britain, instead of forming a part of the Atlantic hollow, as here to-fore generally regarded, are now alleged to bo rather a part of the platform banks of the great European continent which the ooedn has over flowed. The DCnman _..A A traveler stopped at a little cabin in the Georgia woods. He wore a white rose on his coat—one that a little girl had plucked and pinned there as he was leaving home. A woman entered the cabin. She stood and gazed at the rose a mo ment! then, darting forward, she tore it from the stranger's coat and stamped it on the rude floor. “Why did you do thatP” asked the stranger, leaping to his feet “Hush I” said a man who was sit ting near. “That’s my wife,—and— she ain’t right here,” tapping his forehead. “We had a little girl once with blue eyes and hair like a sunset She wandered off among the roses one day—lost, lost!—an' when we found her she was where the roses grow, on’ they was oreepln’ over her. An' the wife there went mad, an’ now Bhe says the roses stole the child and hid her away from us flMTw, an* she goes about an’ tramples them—just like she did the rose there—on the floor!” Special Seta Iona of Congraaa. The first special session of. con gress was oalled May 17, 1797, by President Adams to provide for a threatened French war; seoond, Sept. 4, 1837, oalled by President Van Buren to provide for financial exi gencies whioh have been likened by some to those existing at present, the banks on May 10 of that year having suspended speole payments; third. May 81, 1841, called by Presi dent garrison to consider the reve nues and flnanoes of the country, par ticularly on the subject of reoharter ing the United StateB bank; fourth, Aug. 21, 1856, oalled by President Pleroe (three days after the adjourn ment of congress) to provide appro priations for the army; fifth, July 4, 1861, oalled by President Lincoln to provide for supresslng the great in surrection; sixth, Oct 16, 1877, called by President Hayes, and seventh, March 18, 1878. Those sinoe that time are of too recent oc currence to require recapitulation The Oat In Egypt. By some person* the popularity of the oat in Egypt has been attributed to the fact that the animal was valuable in ridding the palaces 'of rats and mice and also in hunting - fowl There are several paintings in the British museum, executed by ancient Egyptian artists, represen ing Egyptian sportsmen in boats on the River Nile, accompanied by oats sitting on their haunches in the stern. Other piotures show the oats swimming with birds In their mouths after the manner oi retriever dogs. These piotures have greatly perplex ed modern naturalists because the oat of to-day has a strong aversion to water, and it is difficult to reoonoile such different traits even after the lapse of thousands of years. Just Id Time, A gang of men were at work near a row pf New York tenement houses, breaking up old scrap iron. The superintendent of the yard stepped out of his office and started down to have a look at the load of iron which had been just brought in. He ar rived just in time to see the men with their cutters raised, ready to bring them down on a dynamite bomb. It weighed some seventy-five pounds and was the kind used in blasting. The superintendent yelled, the men stopped, and the destruction of the neighborhood was thus nar rowly averted. DM Mm Shi M Young Lady—Oh, I don’t aoe your argument at all. But then, you know (with Intention) 1 am next door to a fool. The Poet—Oh, not You muBt be beside yourself to say so! Young lady wishes she hadn't at tempted the ancient witticism.— Onoe a Week. Thay'r* in no Barry. Contrary to the general opinion the Irish are the slowest people about getting married of any in the world- In that country, according to the latest statistics, the percen tage of marriage is 9.1, while ip Prussia it Is 18.4 and in Hungary 18. A LONG DICK'S LAST RIDE. A Bunking Bronco Precipitated Death From a Wound Buetatned Long Ago. A slide of sand from the mountain sido that risos just east of tho old fort tho other day tore open one of the graves that were made by the soldiors some years ago, says the Fort Tulerosa, N. M., correspondent of the New York Sun, and disclosed tho skeleton of u man who was once well known here, who camo to his death in an unusual fashion. His name was Richard Delong, but known among his associates as Long Dick. Whon the Mexican Central railroad was first constructed Dick was em ployed by tho company as a carpen ter, and, the wages being good, he rapidly accumulated a stake of sever al thousand dollars. This done, he startod back for the statos, and as luck would have it, in a train that was held up by bandits. That is to say, a number of bandits boarded a train at a station and started through the cars, two to each car, to rob the passengera Dick had been in Mexi co long enough and understood such circumstances as to acquire a violont prejudice against the ordinary in habitants. it riled him greatly to have one of them get the drop on him, and he sat with his hands under the muzzle of the baDdit’s revolver as pale as death. When the thief who was taking the valuables came to tho seat he noticed Dick’s pallor, but mistook it for a sign of fear, and so, having been very successful so far, he lost bis caution for a moment and turnod his head to call the other bandit's attention to Dick. That was a very bad mistake for the ban dit. Tho moment he turned his head Dick’s big list took him under tho ear. Dick was as strong as an ox, and the blow killed the bandit, broke his neck, they say. Nevertheless, in falling the thief's revolver discharged and the bullet struck the seat and glanced into Dick’s side. But Dick was game and picked up the revolver, opened fire on the bandit who was on guard, that sent the rest of the gang flying S „ __1 A.X_ 11__i a ~ “ vuuu VUU IUOU Ui the passengers gathered around Diok. A surgeon found the bullet was lodged somewhere in the muscles of the back, but had no instruments to out it out. So he dressed the wound and by the time Dick got up the road to Socorro, N. M., where ho intended to stop, he felt so well that he de cided not to have the bullet cut out at all. He eventually recovered, to all appearances, and coming to the Tulerosa region became a cowboy. He had been here a few weeks when. a man came along breaking bronchos for the cow outfit. Dick watched the man through two mounts and then said he could break one of its desire to pitch in less time than the pro fessional could, and backed his offer with $5. Both men mounted at the word, and both got a good Bhaking. The two ponies pitched aB only plains ponies know how to do, but both were oonqu ered in a space of time so nearly equal that the contest was declared a draw and a new mount for each man called for. But Dick was out of the game. He had downed his pony’s spirit, but when he had done so his head rolled from side to side, because of dizziness and he was groaning with pain. “Something gave way," he said, “and it must have been the lead of that d-d Mexican. ” He was right in hiB diagnosis, he got off his pony, but soon fell to the ground, and in a short time died. A surgeon who examined the corpse said the bullet had lodged near the main artery there and the wound was not fully healed. He was of the opinion that it would have killed the man sooner or later no matter how he had cared for himself, but the tremendous jolting while trying to break the pony had broken down the wall of the artery and death soon followed. He was buried in the sol diers’ cemetery near the fort me lrutn About uacteria. Bacteria are simply microscopic plants of varying sizes and shapes, some of them being so small that 15, 000 laid end to end would not make a row more than an inch in length. Some are flat, others round or oval, and still others are rod-shaped. The oddest form of all is that of the one that is the exact counterpart of a corkscrew. In all cases they are so minute that one needs a powerful microscope in order to study them, and in no case can they he perceived with tne unaided eye alone. The Men Who Wrote It. ••Did you over notice," said Hicks, “how men and women get hold of some single word which they use on every possible occasion?” “I don’t know that I’ve noticed it,” observed Parker. “I have," put in little Johnny Hicks. “Pa and ma have one they’re using all day long. ’’ “What word is that?" said Parker, with a smile. "Don’t,” said Johnny.—Harper’s Bazar. A Ooiuidorato Mono. Hospital Nurse—Come and taste the patient's phiar-padrilug. Ds Jen kins. It’s beautiful. Dr. Jenkins—Gracious! Is this provided by the hospital? Nurse—Not much. It was sent up to Case 103 by her friends; but, bless you, it isn’t good for her, so we kept it.—N. Y. Mercury. IfctlTe sons In Congressa Six states of the union are repre sented in the present congress en tirely by native sons. They are Maine, Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, South Cardins and Louisi ana. All the others have borrowed their delegations in part or wholly from their sister states or foreign countries. WHAT FO)rM|a trlot court of Holt county. ** ^ ing that he Is the owneroMMi scribed real estate, situated w » Nebraska, to-wit: [ebraska, to-wit: .quit* The east half of the north north*1* the southwest quarter of the n ^ ^ ter, and the southeast qua™' ;heast quai ">‘ --.m west quarter, of ,8®ctl0“ 5«(teeniS ship thirty-three (33). rang® . . p'lamtiraneSesThafdnJ.e®^ July. 1690, one V. E. Alien wss ^j^ certain mortgageiniadt hy J ---•*■ Ormsby Bros. & Co. °“ note of *62.45. and that on _id that on , an action in the district c°u r Md Nebraska, against said Bon ^ to foreclose said nl0',^eenteiS i decree of foreclosure w ,^ is _ „ reclosure w" ell,wr » cause on the «tb dayofj' the sum of *47 aud 00?“' j sheriff^ said premises were sold y, Bliven.fJ issued to the purchaser, t- owWi■* Plaintiff alleges that„*i®hased the s»»* nnl estate, having purchase ^ blKUi iiunv wiv wv.s- s»iu ,w not made defendants in tbeij» suit, although having an apparent inter* on lllS[ Plaintiff prays in sa'dpet ^ fendants be required to paj tM su« for the use of the Plato'ro®» with IntflrftSt ftt lU P1 with interest >t'!lllF”(:oil»0'Sj decree, together with th ()]at the* *37.83 within thirty day| jn ti1ejl»'sJ,J said premises be quieten j j that the defendon s be ^ n that the oeienuau,=. -- wd 1 interest In said prern , O',DOartebdat0O'Ne!n.Nebyrasta °,AP^’ 1895 >*V+**m‘■■' .-As