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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1899)
SERVED HIM RICHT, Itrtrll tiMon Which Overtook a Heartless Editor. Sklmper had a novel newspaper ex it rience In Frontlerville. He landed In there with his outfit In a prairie ,*«-hroner drawn by four mules. His r aff consisted of a shock-fceaded boy i!,at did everything from sweeping the sanctum, when the accumulation of paper and other things amounted to a blockade, to reporting the local events by word of mouth while Sklmper put them Into English, says the Detroit Free Press. The town grew like a mushroom, for It. became the center of a big mining boom, and money was plenty. For tunes were quickly made and It was not long before thero sprung ap a local aristocracy, based solely on a foundation of riches. Sklmper, with the true Instincts of democracy, ridi culed this In a new town that had no communication with the outer world except by wagon trains and a pony ex press. The Indignant women raised a crusade against him and It was not long until his advertising patronage dwin dled to less than a starvation revenue, Sklmper was game and swore that he would sink with his colors flying. He found his chance for sweet revenge Just as he realized that he must give up the fight and seek for pastures new. Thero was a branch of a national female or ganization In Frontlerville, especially popular because of Its liberal contribu tions to the cause. It was Invited to \he general round-up of the society at St. IxjuIb and concluded to go In a body. Just as this was settled Skim per’s paper came out with a page of summer styles, stolen from a paper ten years old. There was a great stir In the town and dressmakers were at a premium. When the Frontlersvllle delegation marched Into the big con vention hall, wearing antiquated bon nets, teetering crinoline and full-slzo hustles, propriety and fraternal feeling combined could not restrain the laugh ter. As soen as money could accom plish the transformation the styles of the visitors were brought up to date, but Sklmper was never forgiven and ho took retreat In a little town aa far eaat as the Atlantic ocean would permit. WHY SHE REFORMED. The Alarm Clock Went Off In Her llnatle. "I've quit smuggling,” admitted the good old lady who Is prone to consult her conscience and look upon ths laws of men as the outgrowth of fallible judgment and of political prejudices says the Detroit Free Press. “If I can get my laces and Jewelry and my dress goods for less money in the Dominion of t anada than I can here, I regard it as ruy right to do so. But one experi ence with the revenue officers made, them watchful of me and now I do my shopping on this side rather than be subjected to the annoyance of thetr sur veillance. T had gradually grown in to the habit of getting my silks wool ens, seal goods and diamonds la Wind sor. In fact, I bought nearly 'very thing over there that I could get at s reduction and conceal about my person. One afternoon when I was there I found the daintiest and prettiest and cheapest little alarm clock that 1 had ever seen. We needed such an article in the house, and, after being assured that it was a good timekeeper and to be depended upon to wake us at any desired time, I bought it. At that time hustles were a good deal larger than we wear them now and I had no trouble in conceal ing my purchase. I also had about my person several articles of silverware se cured at a bargain, and a beautiful lit tle diamond ring for a favorite niece. The Canadian officials at the landing knew me and bowed pleasantly. On this side I felt perfectly secure be cause I had been engaged In individual smuggling for years and no one had e/er asked me a question. As I step pod to the dock one of the deputios lifted his hat and began to examine the basket of some poor woman who was landing. * Out of curiosity I awaited the result, but right in the midst of the investigation there was a bur-r-r and a whlr-T-r-r that made me faint. My slarm clock had proclaimed Itself. 1 was caught redhanded, and they said they were letting me oft eaay when I hey confiscated the goods. That's the only reason that I ceased to smug gle.” WALK ON HOT STONES. A Curl pus and Revolting C us tons Among ths Fijians. Fijian feet can endure more terilble contact than the blow of a hard* hit cricket ball. There la a Fijian tribe, eays the London Dally News, which might make a fortune of any entre* preneur enterprising enough to bring them to civilized l“.o#c. They are call ed the flrewalkera. About onee a year they give on the island of M'uya, about twenty-two miles from Sava, the Fijian capital, what must be one of the most extraordinary exhibitions in the world. In a forest glade about a quarter of a mile from the shore a hole is dug In the ground about twenty-five feet wide and six feet deep. Flat stones are spread over its bottom and wood piled on tnem and set alight. When the stones are red-hot the burning logs are dragged away, the stones carefully made to lie as evenly as possible and all flames extinguished. A party of tribesmen, garlanded with green leaves, then descend Into the pit and deliber ately walk over the glowing stones in procession. Their bare feet are not burned or even made hot. The display takes place under the eyes of specta tors, native and European. This year a steamer was actually advertised in Australia to take visitors to witness ths spectacle. Nothing In nis Nam*. Ura Goodman Is the name of a New York citizen but. all ths same, he was arrested for burglary last week. , , ' GET THEIR TIPS FROM CROOKS | Hank nfflclnls Take Mean* In Trolert ! Their Trruor* from Tlilere*. ; It is 6aid by a police official at city i hall headquarters that some of the city | batiks, whose hoard of surplus cash I has been increasing largely of late, ' have been experimenting with an ex pedient long in use by the Bank of England officials of paying known i crooks for Information of any contem ' plated raid upon their vaults. The | Hank of England's first experiment of j this kind dates fr i 1850, when the ! directors of the bank listened to a startling proposition made by a ‘‘ditch digger." The laborer told the directors , that lie had discovered a new and un ' suspected method of getting Into the cellar vaults, where the gold and sil i ver bars were kept, and that lie wou.d sell Ills secret to them for money. The | directors hesitated, believing that they had taken every precaution against loss {.cm the vaults in putting up heavy masonry, with plenty of iron bars, and by manning the building with armed watchmen. But finally they planted the man, who seemed to talk fairly, a chance to try his plan, and a night was named for the undertaking. At the appointed time a committee of the directors descended to the cellar ar.d heard a peculiar scratching sound under their feet. Two hours later the floor -opened and the ditch digger bobbed up serenely, like the evil spir its in the spectacular drama. All around them lay bars of precious metal, totaling in value £3,000,000. The man explained satisfactorily how it was done and as a reward the direc tors assured him an income from life on an investment of $10,000. The crook was content and it is believed he remained honest ever afterward. But other cracksmen were tempted by his luck to try the same game and the directors were inundated with sugges tions and tips on new methods of bur glaiy and how to prevent them. Among other things, they paid $20,000 for a process, invented by a young chemist, for copying the ink, paper, water marks and designs of the bank notes so perfectly as to defy detection. The directors found they could use his sys tem more satisfactorily and more profitably than their own in the pro duction of their currency. Despite the fact that these expenditures have run up into big figures in the last half century the directors of today say that all the money was well invested. FAMOUS OLD CLOCK. That for OiO Tear* Has Rctul.ud the City of Rouen. Rouen, one of the principal cities of France, and the great seat of its cotton manufacture, possesses the oldest pub lic clock in the world. The great Rouen clock has held its place in that city for 510 years and is the pride of its citizens. Placed in 1389, it has been running without interruption from that day to this, requiring nothing except cleaning and a few trifling repairs of its accessory parts. The great clock had so accustomed the citizens of Rouen to look upon its ev-actitude as a matter of course, that when, in 1572, the breaking of a wire prevented its sounding 5 o’clock one morning, the population was in a state of consterna tion. The magistrates summoned the custodian—Guillaume Petit—and re monstrated gravely with him. Until 1712 the great clock had no pendulum. For 328 years it had no other regulator than a "foliot,” an apparatus unknown to the majority of modern clockmak ers. The pendulum in clockwork was introduced in 1659, but so well satis fied were the people of Rouen with the time-keeping qualities of their famous old clock that 53 years were allowed to pass before a pendulum was substi tuted for the “foliot.” Equipped with this new apparatus it has continued to this day to strike the hours and chime the quarters. St. Winifred's Well to lie Protected. Mr. Justice Byrne has thrown the protecting ermine over the High Court of Justice over St. Winifred’s Well, in England, and declines to allow the water of the famous fountain—which is supposed to be endowed with mirac ulous powers quite as wonderful as any in the Grotto of Lourdes—to be bottled and ticketed for home and for eign consumption, like soda water or lemonade. The High Court of Justice did not exhibit the bottling of Wini fred's mixture out of any churlish de sire to keep her benefactions for the select few, but simply because the ripa rian owners of the stream fed from the spring object to be deprived of their quantum of water to enrich the local board, who wished to sell it for their own pecuniary profit. These owners had enjoyed the rivulet f;cm time immemorial, and preferred its contents to a collection of useless sur gical appliances. His lordship held that, although the board were the cus todians of the well, they had no right to carry off its miraculous waters, which must remain in situ. Those who wish cures must get them on the spot. An injunction preventing any in terference with Winifred was accord ingly granted. Horn* Mythology. Detroit Journal: When the maiden in the old Teutonic myth saw the dragon approach, she was much terri fied. “Are you going to devour me?” she shrieked, clasping her hands agon izedly. “No, Maude,” replied the dragon, sarcastically, “I’m simply go ing to take your chewing gum away from you!” Whence we see that even a dragon eventually becomes tired ol being asked foolish questions. : No Immediate Danger. 1 Sandy Waysides (reading)—“Here's a brand-new microbe jest made its ap i pearance.”^’ Yawning Yergason—“Dei dere's no Immediate danger. We nevei * get nuttin’ till it’s second-hand.” MORE ENGLISH IRON Timely Discovery at Kent In the Dover Coalfield. When the coal boring ,v.is put down at Dover about six cr years ago, by Mr. F. Brady, on the s.^e of the old Channel tunnel works, there were Indi cations in the cores of the presence of iron ore In the strata between 500 and 600 feet from the surface. The indica tions have now proved correct, says the London Chronicle. In the coarse of sinking the No. 2 shaft a bed of valu able oolitic iron ore has just been struck at a depth of rather less than 600 feet. The seam proves to be no less :han twelve feet thick end probably ex pends over a great area, the quantity being practically unlimited. The diam rter of the shaft is twenty feet and the quantity brought to the surface in Massing through the twelve fee* mounted to about 350 tons. Samp er of the ore have been s ibrltte:’ to r.r.al vsis. with highly satisfict :y res i ts, a .shed sample of the o e yie'dmg 45.8 per cent of iron. Pa ' s !rg the col liery works today I iusp’ :el a consid ers me bulk of the o;e c.r.,1 the mana ger informed me that a w .she.l sample tested at the works yielded between 50 and 60 per cent of iron. The analysis shows that the ore is f '•-> from sul phur and phosphorus, 'l i e ore is stat ed to be of much riche - q;*- i‘y than the Wealden ironstone, worked in Kent and Sussex a century ago. Prof. Boyd Dawkins, in a paper read before the British association in 1801, describe-' a sample obtained from the crlg'm' boring. From this it appears that tills bed of iron ore is identical with that described by Biake and Hudlcston at A.bbotsbury, in Dorset, where it occurs between the Kimmeridge clay above and the Corailian rocks below. It is also practically identical with the val uable iron ore worked for many years in Westbury, Wiltshire. The ironstone presents very singular physical char acteristics. It is composed of dark brown, shining grains of hydrated ox ide of iron, like millet seed, imbedded in a crystalline base, partly of cal cium and partly of iron carbonate. MORE GLACIERS THAN COLD Sclentlata Found Munjr Natural Wonders Up In Alaska. Two members of E. H. Harriman’s scientific party that has been explor ing the Alaskan coast for some month past have returned to Vancouver and bring accounts of their cruise on the steamer Elder, which Indicate that Mr. Harrlman and the scientists will return laden with many laurels. They seem to hare developed a mania for glaciers, having visited and explored more than thirty, some of which were unknown except to natives. In one bay, not shown on the maps or charts they discovered an Immense glacier, not as large as the giant Muir, but much more grand and picturesque. The bay extends Inland more than twenty miles and at a point near the glacier a sounding line of forty fathoms did not tench bottom. This Inlet they named t'nknown hay. It was here that the rider maneuvering among the cakes of ice broke from the glacier, broke a propeller blade, making it necessary tc i e: urn to Orca, where repairs were made.- At the head of Disenchant-ent bay they found four glaciers which had never been seen before by white men In Icy bay, twenty miles across, op posite Carroll’s glacier, the party dis covered a new glacier with a front o! three-fourths of a mile. This wa? named Harrlman’s glacier. Observa tions taken in the vicinity of Grand Pacific glacier showed that Its ice wall had receded three miles during the 20 years that have elapsed since Muir and Reed visited the place and established their survey. The different scientist; are having gratifying success in all lines. The botanists have found sev eral new plant species and a collection o' marine species made by the party It Is said, will be superior to any other in existence. Ornithologists have had phenomenal success and are able tc she-" new bird specimens. IIH Heart Is on the Right Side* i : Physicians in a hospital at Omaha discovered that the heart of John M Murphy, or.e of the inmates. lies on the right instead of the left side of his body. Operations were at once begur to transfer it to its proper place. M phy Is accustomed to handling heavy burdens and two years ago he observed some startling change going on around hie heart. The organ seemed to be slowly crowded toward his right side In the course of a year he found his heart beating nearly in me center ol his body, and then it passed distinctly over to the right side. The doctor? performed an operation. They found his heart had been crowded out of placj as the result of the formation of piw in the natural heart cavity. This was drawn off, a section cf the ribs taken cut and the delicate organ pressed to waids the left. It could not be moved much, but the surgeons think It will gradually return to Its accustomed place. It Is believed to be the only case of its kind in medical history. Rcmarknble Karape from Dentil. I). V.. Ki.uer ui Wharton, Ohio, * member of the Third regular artillery who was shot twenty-six times in ta« Filipino outbreak in February, an< who received the most terrible wound! in the Manila campaign, still survives He was shot at 1:30 o’clock in the aft ernoon. and because he was though' to have been killed, was not treated bj the surgeon until 9 o'clock that night His escape from death on the field If one of the most remarkable on record Long Da;. In Spitsbergen the longeat day > three and one-half months. Til- V.' « - ♦* ••• .. The hcitiie:: :-u : n’t t'!:e various religious fc .?.•? p.r. togethar. According to the l^.-st Et.uistics,there are in the wor 1 143,000,000 Protest ante, 98,000,000 followers of the Greek church, 230,000,000 Roman Catholics, and 176,000,000 Mohammedans. As the population of the world is estimated at 1.500,000,000, and adding to the adher ents of the four great religions of the world other 53,000,000 for the thousand and one beliefs with comparatively few followers, there are left 800,000,000 people who worship strange gods or practice curious rites irnlieu of religion, and who come within the definition of the “heathen,” for whose conversion large sums are collected year after year amongst the churches throughout the civilized world. The Kan's Carbon Shell. It has often been suggested that the brilliance of the sun’s disk is due to in candescent particles of carbon, and within a few years past the presence of crbon In the sun hae been demonstrat ed by the spectroscope. Lately Prof. Hale, the director of the Yerkes ob servatory, has shown that there is a thin layer of carbon in the lower part of the sun’s atmosphere. It surrounds the solar globe like a luminous shell, and, under normal conditions, is prob ably not more than 500 miles above the sun’s surface. But when an eruption takes place, from beneath, the carbon layer, like all the other constituents of the solar atmosphere, is broken up and locally dispersed by the tremen dous agitation. Largest American Flags. George Main of thi3 city in 1855 or ’56 made the biggest specimen of the Stars and Stripes ever manufactured, which was flung to the breeze at a reception to President Franklin Pierce. The democrats of Concord were bound to “beat the record," aiyl hired Mr. Main to make for them a flag 120 feet long by 90 feet wide, containing 1,200 yards of bunting. It was hung across Main street, between the state house yard and a building on whose site the New Hampshire savings bank block now standa. Mr. Main made $5,000 worth of flags for the Pierce and Bu chanan campaigns.—Concord Patriot Monkey* Escape. Two monkeys have escaped from their cage in the garden of the Bull and Bush hotel, Hampstead, England, and have been exploring, not only the heath near Golder’s Hill,but have also enjoyed themselves in the well-kept grounds of houses adjoining the heath. One of the animals, “Joey,” got into trouble last August, when he and three companions went out on a eimilar ex pedition. His companions were killed and “Joey” was wounded and captured. On being taken back to his cage his owner bought another monkey to keep him company, and it Is this new com panion “Joey” has now led astray. HlglieRt lSulIttlngs in the World. The ten highest structures in the world are in order as follows: The Eif fel tower, Paris, 984 feet; Washington monument, Washington, D. C., 555 feet; the city building, Philadelphia, 535 feet high; the cathedral of Cologne, Ger many, 511 feet: the cathedral of Strass burg, Germany, 466 feet; the chimney of St. Rollox chemical wor.cs, Glasgow, 4551/& feet; St. Martin’s church, Land shut, Germany, 454 feet; St. Stephen’s church, Vienna, 453 feet; the great py ramid of Egypt, 450 feet, and St. Pe ter’s church, Rome, 448 feet. Dloe Rose* firew Wild. An account of the blue rose has been given by the German gardeners in Slavonia, Chwcika and Bitz, who are cultivating ft. Reports came of blue roses that grew wild in Servia, and a specimen was sent to them two years ago with violet blue flowers. They have been experimenting to see whether the color Is retained under cultivation or whether It is due to the soil of the moors where it is found. If the roses retain their blue, the plants will be for sale in 1901.—New York Sun. A Sure Coffee Test. There Is no drink more delicious than a cup of coffee when the beverage Is made from the beet seed. To test «ffee put a spoonful gently on the top of a glass of water. If the coffee Is pure it will not sink for some minutes and will scarcely color the water; but if chicory is mixed with it it will sink to the bottom immediately, rapidly ab sorbing the water and also giving it a dark-reddish tinge. A Wonderful Natural Urldfa ' Down on Pine creek, near Camp Verde, Arlz., Is a natural bridge that Is probably greater than any other in the world. It Is nearly five times the size of the natural bridge of Virginia, an 1 has a span of more than 500 feet across Pine creek, which is dry 300 days in the year. The height of the bridge is about eighty feet, and it is about 600 feet wide. Carrier Pigeon* Armed. In China carrier pigeons are pro tected from birds of prey by apparatus I consisting of bamboo tubes fastened to j the birds’ bodies. As the pigeon flies | the action cf the air passing through the tubes produces a shrill whistling sound, which keeps the birds of prey at a distance. | Preferred Water. I One sensible man in Wlnterport.Me., ! who has wanted city water put in his house, but felt that his income was hardly equal to it. this year concluded to drop the use of tobacco, after thirty years’ use of the weed, and put in tha j water. THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO SIOUX CUT is via O'Neill and the Pacific Short Line. Connections made botli ways daily, except Sunday. No layovers; saves three hours in each direction. Passengers to and from points in Eastern South Dakota make through connec tions, avoiding layovers at Sioux City. Buy local tickets to and from O’Niell. Makes lowest fare. “All weather is alike to me" I wear the, kind thati “RETAIN THEIR jt SHAPE." , "That's the kind I'm look ing for* I’ll ’order a salt from their it imme ly.” MADE TO ORDER BY EDWARD E. STRAUSS & CO. 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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.^ Legal Notice. James Bacon, Clara Bacon, John W, Mc Mtnamy, jr., - McMenamy. first real name unknown, wife of John \V. McMenamy, jr., Carrie Williamson,-Williamson, first real name unknown, husband of Carrie Will iamson, Mary E. McMenamy, Charles Me Menamy,-McMenamy, first real name unknown, wife of Charles McMenamy, de fendants, will take notice that Charles K. Gibson, plaintiff herein, has filed a petition in the district court of Holt county, Nebras ka, against you. Impleaded with John C. Cowin, Willia'm W. Wallace. Ella Scott, and -Scott, first real name unknown, husband of Ella Scott, the object and prayer of which are to foreclose a certain mortgage dated June 1, 1889. for $800.00 aud interest, upon the west half of the southwest !4 and the west half of the northwest of section 26, in town ship 00, north, of range 10, west of the 6th 1*. M., in Holt county. Nebraska, given by James Bacon and Clara Bacon to the Showalter Mortgage Company, and assigned to the plaintiff, which mortyage was recorded In book 48, page 49, Mor gage Records of Holt county, Nebraska, aud to have the same de creed to be a first lien and said land sold to satisfy the same. You are required to answer said petition on or before the 2Jd day of October, 1899. Dated September 12. 1899. CHAHL.ES E. GIBSON, By S. D. Thornton; his attorney, Plaintiff. ll-4w NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department op the Interior. Land Office at O’Neill., Neb. September 21. 1899. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has tiled notice of his intent tion to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the register and receiver at O'Neill, Nebraska, on October 28, 1899. viz: THOMAS J. JOYCE, 11. K. No. 15182, f.r the 9WJ4 Sec 29, Tp. 2»N, It 12 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his contluous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz; William Gray, Charley Ingersall, Joseph Peters and Patrick Conners ail of O’Neill, Neb. 12-6 8. J. Weekes, Register V ^ Watch this paper for other verses. ?yThr Judge * rode on but A thought Wall day 'Of pretty Maud as she raked the hay. And the. bonnet so. dainty that made her crown., • Arid the leggings vthat circled her Rankles brown oo ne aenr a note irom ms courtroom 010. To a lady wealthy, but proud and cold. And he told her that he had lost his heart To the bonnetted party of the Aral part BUY THE CUTE AND COQUETTISH MAUD MULLER. B0NNETSWGG1NGS All live dealers sell them. Made by the RIDER-WALUS CO., Manufacturers of White Elephant Clothing DUSUQUt IOWA • It’s easy to haul a big load up aj big hill if you grease the wagon wheels with MICA Axle Grease Get a box and learn why It’s the best grease ever put on an axle. Sold everywhere. Made by STANDARD Oil* CO* AN ANTE-BELLUM COACH. Old Kentnck Conveyance Which Carried Many Notables. Standing under an old shad In Bloomfield is an old dismantled stage coach whicn has a remarkable history, and which, if put on exhibition, would be an object of curiosity and wonder to the people not only of Kentucky, but of the United Stales, says tbrTay lorsville Courier. This remarkable stage has had many ups and downs during its time. It was at first the property of Ham Jones, a noted stage driver way back in the ’50s. After the pike was built from High Grove to Bloomfield this stage was then run between Louisville and Bloomfield. This old coach was built at Concord, N. H. During the war it was captured many times by the confederates and recaptured by the federals. It was also captured many tim-'s by the guerilla bands led by c -dy, McGruder, y and Capt. i pnssengersjC Quantrell, C Terrell >• plunde the m; dollars cushions and stage and carri ville during the war, destroyed ands of i> a in the i of this old -nd from Louis Among the dis tinguished men who have ridden in it tvere Col. Charles A. Wickliffe, James Guthrie, Gov. J i. T . Helm, Gens. Bu ell, Phil fiherich.. ol sseau and Sher man, and it is said that Gen. John H. Morgan on one of lii3 raids through Nelson county, took passage to Louis ville and remained the city several days. Many of the noted drivers of ante-bellum days of stage coaching have sat in the box of this old stage. » Vitality of Snails. The snail is blessed with gieat pow ers of vitality. A case is recorded of an Egyptian desert snail which came to life upon being immersed in warm water after having passed four years glued to a card in the English Mu seum. Some species, in the collection of a certain naturalist, revived after they had apparently been dead for fif teen years; and snails, having been frozen for weeks in solid blocks of ice, have recovered upon being thawed out. The eggs are as hard to destroy as the snail itself. They seem perfectly indifferent to freezing, and have been known to prove productive after hav ing been shriveled up in an oven to the semblance of grains of sand.