Nebraska Newspapers

    GEN'D OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
v STATE.
/•Governor.Silas Holcomb
/•bleutenant Governor...J. K .Harris
^Secretary of State.Win. K. Porter
Wstate Treasurer.John B. Meserve
I State Auditor.John b\ Corueli
' Attorney General.0. J. Bmythe
Com. Lands and Buildings.I. V. W olfe
Supt. Public Instruction.W. K. Jackson
REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Ohas. H. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham,
Omaha-, J M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes
Pierce; J. T. Mallaleu, Kearney; M. J. Hull,’
Edgar.
Representatives First District, J. B. Strode
Second, H. I). Mercer, Third. 8. Maxwell,
Fonrth. W. L. Stark, Fifth, K. 0. Sutherland,
Sixth, W. L. Green.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; John
M. Thurston, of Omaha.
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justioe.A. M. Post
Associates.. .T.O. Harrison and T. L. Norvall
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge.M.P. Kinkaid,of O'Neill
Reporter.J. J. King of O’Neill
Judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushville
Reporter.• obn Maher, of Rushville.
LAND OFFICES.
O’KIILL.
Register.8. J. Weekes.
Receivor.U. H. Jenness.
COUNTY.
Judge.(ieo Mcuutcneon
Clerk of the District Court.John Skirving
Deputy. O. M. Collins
Treasurer..J. P. Mullen
Clerk f.Bill Bethea
Deputy.Mike McCarthy
Sheriff..Chas Hamilton
Deputy.Chas O’Neill
Supt. of Sohools.W. K. Jackson
Assistant.Mrs. W. R. Jackson
Coroner. Dr. 1'rueblood
Surveyor.M. F. Norton
. Attorney.W .R. Butler
SUPERVISORS.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga,
Rock Falls and PleasantvlewiJ. A. Robertson
SECOND DISTRICT.
Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll
'owdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins.
TRIRD DISTRICT.
Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing, Verdigris andDelolt—L. O. Combs
FIFTH DISTRICT,
Chambers, Conlev, Lake, McClure and
Inman—S. L. Conger.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Swan, Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—0. W.Moss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Atkinson and Stuart— W. N. Coats.
012 7 OF O’ NEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H.
Benedict and S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
McBride and Perkins Brooks.
COUNCIL-HEN — FIRST WARD.
For two yoars.—D. U. Cronin. For one
year—0. W. Hagenslck.
SECOND WARD.
For two years—Alexander Marlow. For
one year—W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Charles Davis. For one
year—E. J. Mack.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin;
treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer
John Horrlsky; Police Judge. H. Kautgman;
Chief of Police, P. J. Biglin; Attorney,
Thos. Carlon; Weighmaster, D. Stannard.
GRATTAN TO WNSR1P.
Supervisor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney
McGreevy; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben
Jo tiring: Justices, M. Castello and Chas.
Wilcox; Constables, John Horrlsky and Ed,
McBride; Road overseer dist. 26, Allen Brown
/eiat. No. 4 John Enright.
SOLDIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION.
Regular meeting first Monday In Febru
ary of each year, and at such other times as
is deemed neoessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page,
chairman; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary;
U. H. Clark Atkinson.
yT.PATRICK’8 CATHOLIC CHCKCH.
K5 .Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’olook.
Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school
Immediately following services.
Methodist church. Sunday
services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and 8:00
p. M. Class No. 1 9:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League) 7:00 p. M. Class No. 3 (Child
rens) 3:00 p. M. Mind-week services—General
prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 P. M. All will
be made welcome, especially strangers.
E. T. GEORGE, Pastor.
p A. R. POST, NO. S6. The Gen. John
VJ, O’Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne
braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third
Saturday evening of each month In Masonio
hail O’Neil] S. J. Smith, Com.
L'LEHORN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O.
JCi f. Meets every Wednesday evening In
Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers cordially
Invited to attend.
W. H. Mason, N. G. 0. L. Bright, Sec.
Garfield chapter, r. a. m
Meets on first and third Thursday of each
month In Masonio hall.
W. J. Dobrs Seo J. C. Rarnish, H. P
KOFP.—HELMET LODGE, U. D.
, Convention every Monday at 8 o’clook p.
m. in Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brethem
cordially Invited.
Arthur Coykendall, C. C.
E. J. Mack. K. of It. and S.
O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30. I.
O. O. F. meets every second and fourth
Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Chas. Bright. H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe
DEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS
JCi OF REBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d
Friday of each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Agnes T. Bentley, N. G.
Dora Davidson, Seo.
/^A-RFIELD LODGE, NO.05,F.<& A.M.
VI Regular communications Thursday nights
on or before the full of the moon.
J. J. Kino, W. M.
Harry Dowling, Sec.
HOLTHJAMPNO. 1710. M. W. OF A.
Meets on tne first and third Tuesday In
each month in the Masonic hall.
Neil Brennan, V. C. D. H. Cronin, Clerk !
AO, U. W. NO. 153, Meets second
• and fourth Tudsday of each month in
Masonic hall.
O. Bright, Kec. S. B. Howard, M. W.
A Clover Trick.
It certainly looks like it, but there is
really no trick about it. Anybody can
try it who has lame back and weak
kidneys, malaria or nervous troubles.
We mean he can cure himself right
away by taking Electric Bitters. This
medicine tones up the whole system,
acts as a stimulent to the liver and kid
neys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic.
It cures constipation, headache, fainting
spells, sleeplessness and melancholy.
It is purely vegetable, u mild laxative,
and restores the system to its natural
vigor. Try Electric Bitters and be con
■vinced that they are a miracle worker.
'Every bottle guaranteed. Oply 50 cents
a bottle at P. C. Corrigan’s drug store.
FOB SALE—Thirty head of white
face Hereford young bulls.
\ 17tf Jacob Shaft, Stuart, Neb.
MEALS IN TIN CANS.
COURSE DINNER IN CANNED
POODS.
Ifo Beeleged City Need Star re—Pari.
Bel Stored Enomsoi Quantities at
Them, Enough to Feed the City
Eighteen Months.
HAT greatest ter
ror of war, a starv
ing garrison and a
starving town, sur
rounded by a hos
tile camp, yet able
to see far-off fields
of grain and plenty,
could not be re
peated In this age
of canned goods,
meats, vegetables,
puaaings ana fruits, all incased In tiny
Jars or boxes of tin.
It used to be easy to beleaguer a city
and starve it Into submission with
hardly an ounce of shot, for it was a
foregone conclusiori that If all avenues
of food supply were shut off only a few
weeks would elapse before both garri
son and citizens would have to capitu
late, though they might eat ratflesh and
horseflesh first. But now. so cleverly
are provisions compressed and packed
away into tins, and so long will even
the foods that most usually spoil quick
ly keep—for years in most cases—that
no city or town could be starved out If
it only had a chance to provision Itself
properly.
The city of Paris has stored away
hundreds of thousands of packages con
taining canned and cempressed food
enough to supply the entire population
for at least eighteen months. This out
fit of canned food is not permitted to
be touched, though at times it is tested
to see that it still remains unspoiled.
Other cities in Europe have built up
stores along much the same lines,
though Paris has by far the most im
portant assortment of canned food held
! in reserve.
Outside of these preparations the
manufacture of canned articles has
grown to be something enormous, es
pecially in meats and vegetables. In
many cases the canned goods seem to be
actually preferred to the original prod
ucts. Nearly every wise housekeeper
nowadays emulates Paris in a small
way, for she keeps on her shelves any
number of these little boxes and thus
finds herself always ready for any
emergency sboiild company suddenly
drop in or the butcher or grocer fail to
turn tip.
| It is really surprising the variety of
things to eat that are put into cans. As
a matter of fact one can live, and live
comfortably, on canned foods alone. “I
cau stock your house,” said a big whole
sale grocer to a World reporter, “so
that you need not make another pur
chase of food for five years, and you
shall have every day a perfect dinner
of soup and fish, entrees, roasts, fruits,
pudding, cheese and coffee, all canned
goods.”
Canned goods, though, have proved
themselves of the greatest value to
travelers from the fact that an enor
mous amount of nourishment can be
carried in an exceedingly small com
pass. The Arctic explorers first found
out the value of canned meats and vege
tables, and in this way were able to tra
vel with less hardship and to do things
which would have been impossible had
it been necessary for them to depend
upon food in its original form.
When the Greely expedition went
away in 1881 a large quantity of pem
mican was put on board. ' A large part
of it was not consumed on the trip, and
on the return of the explorers it was
sent back to the firm from which it was
bought. When the Peary expedition
was being fitted out ten years later and
the same firm was doing the providing,
they opened sample cases of this pem
mican and found it to be in as good
condition as if fresh made. So it was
sent out with Peary, and on that explor
er’s return to New York what was left
proved to be as good and as nourishing
as it had been in 1881.
No e-pedition of recent date has
plunged into the Dark Continent with
out being well equipped with tin boxes
of all sizes and varieties. It is said that
there is no desert plateau in any part
of the earth where one is not liable to
run across an empty beef can.
Transatlantic steamers and sailing
ships about to start out on long voy
ages use these goods in great quantities
because they keep so well and because
they can be stored so easily, When pre
pared by a skillful cook it is impos
sible for the diner to distinguish be
tween fresh meats and vegetables and
those that are canned.
One-Armed Woman Tennle Champion.
The woman tennis champion of New
Zealand is one-armed. She is Miss
Hilda Maule Hitchings. Her arm is
the left one. In three fingers she holds
the racquet, and between the remaining
finger and the. thumb she grasps the
hall. A slight toss of the ball, fol
lowed by a smart rap of the racquet, re
sults in a fast, low service, which is
anything but easy to take. Besides
her ability at tennis the New Zealand
champion is noted for her dexterity in
everything she undertakes, and espe
cially with her needle.
Sling Dictionaries.
The are plenty of dictionaries oi
French slang in existence, in which a
slang word is explained in good French
and the first dictionary in which the
slang equivalents for good French
words are given is to be published in
Paris. It is needed apparently by the
writers of stories.
Faith.
The time has come when a man
must be ready to show reasons for the
fcaith that is in him if he expects others
to accept it—Rev. Dr. MacAXee
THE ALLEQED HUMORISTS.
Town Topics: Slumlelgh—I don’t
lee why you ears so little for me. Miss
3yer—Have you ever taken a good look
it yourself?
Indianapolis Journal: “George de
scribes the girl he Is engaged to as a
jerfect vision." “Yes; and his sister
says she Is a sight.”
•‘Treddle is Jealous of his proroga
tes. Isn’t he?” “What makes you say
so?” “He got angry the other night
ind. told me not to be a fool.”—New
i’ork Sun.
Cincinnati Enquirer: She—Did you
iave any trouble in getting papa to
isten to you? He—Not a bit. I be
;an by telling him I knew of a plan
whereby he pould save money.
Cleveland Leader: “How did Nell
.rlynu look .in her new ball dress?”
she asked. “I don't know,” he replied,
‘but the large majority of her that
.vas out of It looked stunning.”
-O you think Skinner can make a
iving out there?” "Make a living!
iVhy, he’d make a living on & rock in
ho middle of the ocean—if there was
mother man on the rock.”—Tit-Bite.
Mrs. Spat—Your husband is an in
.•entor, I believe? Mrs. Spotter—Yes.
Some of his excuses for coming home
ate at night are in use all over the
country.—Philadelphia North Ameal
:nn.
“Was hael!” cried the Mediaeval Bra.
‘If I were so drunk,” retorted the End
it the Century, “that I could not pro
nounce 'wat Cell’ I think I would go
‘lome and go to bed.”—Cincinnati En
luiror.
Chicago Tribune: "Let us be fair,
■ven to the ‘new Journalism,”' said
Uncle Allen Sparks. “It isn’t wholly
;iven over to printing indecent pic
u res. Part of its mission is to publish
'ake interviews.” .
“And how did he die?” asked the lady
who had come west to inquire after
.he husband she had lost. “Er—by re
Hiest, ma’am," said the gentle cowboy,
ss mildly and regretfully as possible.—
Indianapolis Journal.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: “I
;ee where the Queen of England has
sixty pianos and doesn’t play any of
hem.” “That’s a good girl. I know
it a woman who has only one piano
J'lt she plays like sixty.”
Simonsbee—I have a chance to marry
-VO girls; one is pretty, but a mere but
terfly, as it were, and the other, though
plain, is an excellent housekeeper. Mr.
Russell of Chicago—Take the pretty
- r‘ - first.—Indianapolis Journal.'
‘ It’s perfectly absurd, this clamor
ibout our hats. People who can’t see
aver them would better not go to the
theater.” “I know; that’s what I told
my husband, and he said, ‘All right,
we won’t go;’and we don’t.”—Basar.
A young student lately presented
himself for examination and ignomln
iously failed. To his family, anxious to
hear of his success, he telegraphed
thus: “Examinations splendid; profes
sors enthusiastic. They wish for a sec
ond in October.”—Tit-Bits.
MIXED PARAORAPH8,
A St. Louis woman was married to a
freight conductor Saturday, and they
are now making a honeymoon tour
through the southwest in a caboose.
He—For perfect enjoyment of love
there must be complete confidence. She
—(of Chicago)—I have heard pa say
identically the same thing about saus
ages.—Life.
A young man of Omaha, presumably
belonging to the first circles of that
town, recently called on a jeweler there
and asked to see a nice pair of golf
links for his cuffs.
At the recent village election in Con
stantine, Mich., the women tax-payers
were allowed to vote on the electric
lighting bond proposition, but only
three availed themselves of the right.
A man well up in dog lore counsels
intending purchasers of a puppy to let
the mother of the puppy choose for
them. In carrying them back to their
bed the first the mother picks up will
always be the best.
The shipment of apples from the port
of Portland, Me., to the European mar
ket for the season ending last Saturday
reached a total which is unprecedented
in the annals of the apple export busi
ness in this country.
“Yoh can't alius tell whah ter put de
credit by lookin’ at de surface,” said
Uncle Eben. “De cork on de fishin’
line dances aroun’ an’ ’tracts a heap o*
’tention. But it’s de hook dat’s doin’
business.”—Washington Star.
ITEMS,
A Jersey City landlord aroused a ten
ant at 12:45 a. m. on the morning of
March 1 to demand the rent due that
day, and was thrown down his own
stairs.
England has one member of parlic
ment to every fD,250 electors, Irela’
one for every 7,177, Scotland one f
every 8,974, and Wales one for eve
9,613.
The Swiss government is about to es
tablish at Hauterive, on the River
Saane, a grand central station for gen
erating electric power, at a cost of
2.800.000 francs.
A Bath (Maine> boy is the proud
possessor of an autograph letter from
the queen of Holland. His interest in
collecting foreign postage stamps won
him the royal favor.
Morocco’s city walls are now adorned;
with a trophy of eighty human heads,
removed from the insurgents defeated
at Sus, in addition to the forty-three
heads of the men who attacked the sul
tan’s body-guard some months ago.
“Aha, he’s working for his own
ends,’’ chuckled the funny man as he
saw the cobbler making a pair of shoes
for himself, "and he’ll put his foot in
it, as usual, before he’s through.’’—
Pittsburg News.
A REAL GHOST,
Seon and Vouched for by m Judge While
*£o you really belie re in supernat
ural visitations? I had sized you up
for a man of too muoh mental power
to lie a believer in ghosts,M said
Judge-.
‘ Well sir," said I “I am not am
bitious to be classed with the supersti
tions, but I do here affirm that if ever
a man saw a real ghost it was I.”
"If it is not a long story tell us
about it ” said the judge.
Uvlnsr In Nebraska.
•'"ell. the supernatural visitation
occurred near liaiveys ranch, in Ne
braska, several years ago. It was a
bright moonlight night in May. I
bad been to the ranch (or an even
ing's visit Between the hours of 10
and 11 I started to my home on Little
sandy, a mile distant Ascending
the bill I turned to the right talcing
i by-path which was called the -out
0 .. which led into a strip of woods,
•iuut before entering the timber re
gion and while musing on the events
of the evening, 1 suddenly confronted
h iigure draped in white lying on a
partly decayed log just at the right
alongside the path. Halting quickly,
my band dropped involuntarily to the
pistol in my belt but before I had
time to draw the weapon the ghost
t rned its head and fixed its gaze upon
m‘\ Its great dark eyes were fringed
with white hair, and while it looked
more in pity than in anger, my heart
ro-o and the pulsation quickened to a
quiver—every hair of my hea<? felt as
though an electric current was oper
ating at its root, and my breath
seemed clogged—my nerves were par
si/zed. The great melancholy eyes
of the apparition seemed mookingly
to »»>'• "Come to me; your weapon is
harmless. I am as the air—invulner
.-me I am a real ghost! Since that
"me 1 have been in fires wrecks and
Unities, but under no conditions have
>. r nerves been so severely tested or
co.,i-age subject to a more serious
1 - .1-1. 1 could see the eyeballs move
— .nvut li juid orbs—and the eyelashes
i.verin the great moonlight Ke
i!.j iihering the injunction of my
l or to never retreat from a ghost
under any circumstances, no matter
:> -w positive I might be of its ghost
i) but to always advance to it I
a Jo a desperate effort to approach
• ghostly figure with eyea ears and
u t le image of a being whioh imag
nu tr-a fashions or the spirit world,
on.o or' four prevented a retro
o movement—fear that the figure
"in ■ spring ujjon ihe. Bgacing my
- and summoning all my oour
•' ret ailing the early preoepts on
..• point of supernatural visitationa
i m ule a stop, or plunge rather, like
one leaping over a precipice to escape
u h. nnd nick as a Hash the illu
• i . was blasted—it broke in twain.
(. :■■■■ half of the horrid being trotted
o . on lour legs."
■"'but was it, ’’ breathlessly evacu
at'd l.he utigo.
tithing but a sheep. Two of them
h i : moil i ted the log to air themselves.
. 11c/ h til streiohed out, one at the
- o end o; the other, and with his
a obscured. forming a figure about
ih :e jgtu of a man. The moon was
u i'-ct.y overhead, and shone upon the
e.m of the one whose head was ete
tt.,ed. greatly magnifying the eyes
nnu eyelashes. I remember distinct
ly t he hideous aspect of the upright
'•nr . 1 recall toa thefforeleg, which
w.;s e tended when my eyes first be
h -'l.i t-lio ob ect, but imagination,
n i:honed by a sense of fear, trans
fo une 1 the two sheep into a tangible
gi.o.t,”
NEW TREASURY NOTES.
-. e *ia>T.!os Th»l Stake Them OtlHaalt to
Counterfeit.
l-Vrhaps tho principal object of the
revision of the United States paper
money is to make the backs of the
liuiuo more open—that is. less covered
* it-’i the engraving, so that the silk
bres shall be more distinctly visible.
The distinctive paper now In use no
longer bus the two threads of silk run
ning longitudinally through the note,
says the Paper World, but in their
place arc two stripes, each half an
inch wide or so of short red and blue
siik !i brts scattered thickly in the
paper, in such mauner that they show
0 ly on the reverse of tho bill.
These two fiber stripes practically
divide the note into three sections of
about equal size, and this feature ol
bro in tho paper is held to be an al
most absolute safeguard against suc
cess'ul counterfeiting. But that is
only one of several devices employed
1q insure the inviolability of the aur
reii.sr.
Koch note has an entirely separate
dedg , the work of whioh is so open
-is to show readily any error of an
1 temp ed counterfeit and no portion
af -be design is repeated on the same
note, so that no small part could be
engraved by a skillful operator and
then duplicated by mechanical pro
cesses to fill any amount of space, as
has been the case with some of the
orevious "paper money” of the gov
ernment
The geometrical lathe work of the
new designs is said to be the most ex
qu site and complicated ever executed
and such as to utterly baffle auy at
tempt at its illicit reproduction.
Johnny Wan Right.
Mother—Johnny, go into the bed
room at once! You neglected your
piano practice to-day and I am going
to flog you for it. Don’t you know
that you can never become perfect in
music without practiceP
Johnny—Yes, but practice on my
ernatormy ain’t gonter to make no
per/eck music.—Boston Courier.
Our IVIoderu Womei.
Mrs. Llncrusta Walton—1 like the
design of this wall paper very well;
but I cannot take it
Salesman—Why not?
Mrs. Lincrusta—It is too thick. It
is my flab I am going to paper and I
have to economize space as much as
possible.—Puck.
the royai. messenger.
A British Official Who Used to Be T«7
Important on the Road.
When a messenger returns to Lon
don from foreign service he is placed
at the bottom of the list of those at
home available for duty, and may
thus reckon on perhaps a fortnight
clear at his own disposal, says the
Quarterly Review. It is not well,
however, to count on any precise
period of leisure with too much cer
tainty, os is shown by the following
veracious tala which has been re
peated many a time and oft in Down
ing street: '-Captain A- having
just returned from St. Petersburg
saw his name well placed at the bot
tom of a goodly list of names ready
for duty, and judged It expedient to
spend his anticipated fortnight in the
sunny south of France. About a
week after his arrival at Monte Carlo
he was startled and annoyed by the
receipt of the following strange and
apparently impertinent telegram:
••Chief Cleric Foreign Office to Can.
tain A-: You are fast and dirty.
Return at once." Having puzzled
awhile over this enigma it ooourred to
him that, whatever might be the ex
planation of the first sentence, tho
last was an order which his sense of
duty compelled him to obey. He ac
cordingly packed up his traps and re
turned forthwith, to find on his arrival
at Downing street that the telegram
as originally dispatched ran as fol
lows: "You are first on duty. Return
at once.” Thirty or forty years ago,
perhaps even more than now, the
messenger was a personage of the
first Importance on the road, claiming
the earliest attention from guards and
porters, civility and expedition at
every customs frontier, and the best
places in train and steamboat In the
present day, traveling always by train
among the ever-inoreaslng crowd of
tourists, the comfort and prestige of
a journey with dispatches is some
what on the wane; and except In
times of war, the adventures of the
queen’s messenger are reduced to the
possible chance of a railway smash.
Only a few years have passed, how
ever, since most of the habitues of the
mall route between London and Paris
must have been familiar with the
bluff and burly presence of Major
X-, the Ajax of the. corps of
queen’s messengers and hero of a hun
dred tales. We can see him now,
striding from tho train to the boat at
Dover, followed by two porters bear
ing the dlspatoh bags. Passengers'
scatter right and left as he calls in
loud, commanding tones: "R-room
for her ma esty’s dispatches!" and
the little procosslon, headed by the
major, steps across the gangway and
flndB its way to the proper reserved
cabin.
DUST AT SEA.
Strang. as it May Stun Ui. Phanom.aa
In Kfioorded.
The British ship Berean, whloh
recently made the voyage from Tas
mania around Cape Horn to England,
encountered a remarkable, but not
unusual phenomenon at sea, viz,, a
storm of dust declares School and
Home. After crossing the Equator,
she fell into the northeast, trade wlnda
and when about 600 miles west of the
Cape de Verde Islands, the nearest
land, "the Berean's sails and rigging
were thinly coated with a very fine
powdery dust of a dark yellow or
saffron color, scarcely discornible on
or near the deck, but profuse on the
highest parts of the rigging," so that
the sails appeared "tanned.”
Fine dust falling on vessels in the
Atlantic near the Cape de Verde arch
ipelago has often been reported, but
it has so often been of a reddish hue
that it is known among sailors as
•Ted fog,” and has been generally
supposed to come from South America.
The observation on board the Berean
appears to overthrow this conclusion,
and to determine the African origin
both of the Atlantic dust and the so
called "blood rains” of Southern
Europe.
Admiral Smyth many years ago re
ported, during his stay in Sicily, on
the 14th of March, 1614, a "blood
rain,” which fell "in large, muddy
dropa and deposited a very minute
sand of a yeilow-red color”—quite
similar to that now reported by the
Berean. He then regarded it as
•sirocco dust” from the African
desert, crowning the beautiful theory
of atmospheric circulation.” Both
on the Atlantic ocean and in Europe
these rains of dust have almost in
variably fallen between January and
April—a period of the year in which
the Sahara is most arid.
Unique In Tlielr Way.
When Sheffield first became famous
for its cutlery a peculiar shaped knife,
designed for a variety of usea was
made with great care and sent to the
agent of the cutlers’ company in Lon
don. tin one of the blades was en
graved the following challenge:
Loudon, for thy life,
Show me such another knife.
The London cutlers to show that they
were equal to their Sheffield brothers
made a knife with a single well
tempered blade, the blade having a
cavity containing a rye ‘straw 2J
inches in length, wholly surrounded
by the steel; yet, notwithstanding the
fact that the blade was well tempered,
the straw was not burned, singed or
charred in the least. —Times-Star.
A Bad Sbot.
Daughter—First he kissed my hand.
Mother (severely)—An essentially
low proceeding.
Daughter—But, afterward, he kissed
me on the forehead.
Mother (more severely)—Then he
went too far.—Smith, Gray & Co.’s
Monthly.
Country Bumpkins.
Little Miss De Fashion (at the
opera)—I guess those folks in that
box is from the country.
Mrs. Do F—Why dear?
Little Miss De Fashion—I can’t hear
a word they say.—Good News.
DON’T HUHHV.
A TMf Ward at Warning to Habltnat
Rashers.
Many sudden deaths ooour every
year as a consequence of running’ to
railway trains and ferry boats. The
victims are mostly persons, middle*
aged or older, who, without knowing
it, have some disease of tho heart.
This kind of over-exertion, how
ever, does less harm than the com
mon habit of being continually in a
hurry. A habit that keeps the nervous
system at a perpetual tension leads to
excessive vital waste undue suscepti
bility to disease and in extreme cases
to nervous exhaustion. Under its in
fluences persons naturally amiable are
transformed into petulant and noisy
scolds. „
The woman who is a wife and
mother is peculiarly liable to this
habit; she has so much to do and so
little time in which to do lb in these
days when so many outside things
crowd upon her domestio dutiea
There is no doubt that hurry claims
ten victims where hard work kills
one.
^The man of business suffers in much
the same manner. The hurried break
fast and the hurried skimming of the
morning paper are but the beginning
of a hurried day. Yet it is unsafe for
him to act in a hurry, or in the spirit
generated by it The uncertainties of
his calling make entire self-control of
prime importance.
School ohlldren are victims of the
sameevlL They must be at sohool
exactly on time. But in thousands of
cases the family arrangements are not
such as to favor punctuality. The
child is allowed to sit up late, and so
is late at breakfast; or the breakfast
itself is lata and the ohlld must hurry
through it and then hurry oft half
fed and fully fretted, dreading tardi
ness and the teacher’s displeasure.
Robust children may work off the
effect amid the sports of the day. but
many others are injured for Ufa
Oooasional hurry is hardly to be
avoided, society being what it Is; but
the habit of hurry should be guarded
against as one of the surest promoters
of 111-temper and ill-health.
If necessary, less work should be
done; but in many oases nothing is
needed but a wiser economy of time.
Some of the worst victims of hurry
are men who dally with their work
until time presses them, and then
crowd themselves into a fever; pitying
themselves meanwhile beoause they
are so sadly driven.—-Youth's Com
panion.
TOO MUCH HAT.
A Granger Winds Oat That It Doasaf Do
to Trust a Barber.
A old granger dropped into the
Sherman house barber shop reoently.
says the Chicago Tribuna who would
have proved a gold mine if Denman
Thompson oould have captured him
for his rural drama Hu hat* looked
as if it had not been cut sinoe the last
Blaine campaign and after he had
passed through the hands of a barber
it is doubtful if his own family would
have recognised him. He paid the
cheok and the porter brushed the hay
seed from his coat and handed him
his hat. The old man put on his head
ooverlng and it immediately sunk to
the level of his earn practically snuf
fing out its wearer like a candle.
••Here! See here! Tarnation,that
ain't my hat!” he oried, throwing it
down and glaring around the room,
every bit of indignation in his giant
frame aroused.
"Beg pardon. Bah; but dalfs yo hah
sab, shore’s yo is bohn.” said the
highly amused darky.
■ -Don’t ye s’pose I don’t know my
own hatf” snorted the rural visitor.
"I've worn it every day for the last
two years Guess I Oughter know it
purty well by this tima
The porter made no reply, but stood
holding out the hat and laughing at
the old man’s earnestness. Suddenly
the latter -turned loose” like a torna
do; and the language he used would
have made his own cattle flee in ter
ror. The foreman of the shop hastened
forward.
-i don’t want any of you fellers ter
think that I accuse you of takln' it”
exclaimed the irate, customer. -But
I kin lick the lowdown sneak who
crept in here and stole it while I wus
havin’ my head shingled. And I shall
hold this shop responsible fer It too.
Cost $1.69, and I kin prove it”
-But Mr. Butler, are you quite
sure that—,” began the foreman, bal
ancing the hat in Ms handa
--Butler! How in thunder did you
find out that my name's ButlerP”
"It is written on your hat band
here. -See? -Abner Butler. Piper
City, in.”’
The old man hastily snatched up
his hat jammed it upon his head and
rushed opt into a cold and cruel world
again, saying several things which
can not be put into cold type.
FUUag for mermen.
One o( the old stories la that in the
year 1619 two councilors of Christian
IV. of Denmark, while sailing between
Norway and Sweden, discovered a
merman swimming about with a bunch
of grass on his head. They threw
out a hook and line, with a slice of
bacon, 'which the merman seized.
Being eaught he threatened vengeance
so loudly that he was thrown back into
the sea.
Time Bssagb.
Mrs. Bingo—Are you going to the
theater in your dress sultP
Bingo—Of course I am.
Mra Bingo (wildly)—Then why
don’t you put it on? Dear, dear, I am
almost ready and you haven’t done a
thing.
Bingo—Don't worry, dear. I have
ample time to put It on while you are
seeing if your hat is on straight, —
Clothier and Furnisher.
Hah Bead or Them.
Father—My son, don’t you often
feel ashamed of yourself for being so
lazy?
Son—No dad; not when I think of
all the great men who were notorious*
iy lazy in their youth. —Yankee Blade.