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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1900)
SCORPION BY MAIL. Animal Had Crawled In tlie Pamphlet while at Jamaica. A few days ago C. G. Lloyd, the bot anist, received through the mall a pamphlet Issued by the botanical de partment of the colonial government of the Island of Jamaica. Upon re moving the wrapper and straightening out the folds of the pamphlet there was disclosed the remains of a deadly scor pion. It Is characteristic of this ven omous Insect to seek a hiding place In anything of tubular shape which will *ive it the opportunity of crawling to the far end of it'- castle and there awaiting the chance of giving some unsuspecting person a glimpse of the -River Styx. In this case the scorpion, while prowling around among the mall sacks In the Kingston postofllce, dis covered the pamphlet and immediately crawled into the opening. Unfortu nately for “hl« scorpionship,” or fortu nately lor some mail clerk, the pam phlet wa.< placed under a pile of mail matter In the sadt. with the result that the insect was flattened out. Mr. Lloyd :saw in an instant the nature of the foreign corpse, and wisely put it aside until he held an Inquest. Like an In dian, the only good scorpion is a dead one, and not even a hardened coroner would dare to sit on one if the thing showed evidences of playing ’possum. The weight on this scorpion was so heavy that bis tail took the familiar curve It assumes when the business end Is ready to go to work. The "stinger” Is forced out to its full length. Mr. Lloyd says that this Is only an in stance of how insects are accidentally transmitted from one part of the world to another. The accompanying danger is correspondingly great to those who handle the mail matter.—Cincinnati Enquirer. How the Filipinos Uury Their Dead. A Manila correspondent of an Amer ican newspaper says that the Filipinos do not bury their dead under ground, but in tiers of masonry. In Manila, Paco cemetery is the most important place of burial. The high walls of masonry in which are the long vaults, each the size for one body, are built In circles, one within the other, with a walk between. As the coffin Is thrust In the vault the mourners rend the air with their wails, but they stand by quietly while it is sealed with bricks and mortar; when the final crevice had been filled they quietly disperse. These vaults are hired, not bought, of the church, and when the rent is not forthcoming the body Is torn out, no matter In what state of preservation, and the vault rented to some one else who can afford to pay. The bones thus desecrated are thrown in a heap in a place prepared for the purpose, where there is a large and gruesome collec tion. ___ ARE YOU GOING ABROAD? If you contemplate a trip to Europe during the summer, please remember that any ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y can furnish you rates, tickets and up to date inform ation, as well as reserved berths on ocean steamers—all lines—in advance of sailing. Geo. H. Heafford, Gen. Pass. Agt., Old Colony Building, Chicago, III. W. N Day, D. P. A. 415 4th. St Sioux City. __ The Toeabmlertes of Civilisation. If the English -language is soon to be the universal tongue, one Is inclined to feel rather sorry for those who have to acquire it. For, according to a Ger man statistician, who has made a study concerning the comparative wealth ol all the languages of modern civiliza tion, ours is the only one which heads the list with the enormous vocabulary of 260,000 words. Germany comes next, after a great drop, with 80,000 words; then follows Italy, with 75,000; France, with only 30,000; Turkey, with 22,000, and Spain, with 20,000 words. Fortu nately the liters ture of a nation does not depend on .'he number of words in its vocabulary, for did not the French masters of the pen in the seventeenth century work with the small capital of 6,000 words? lake Chelan’s Upheaval. i Lake Chelan, in the state of Wash ington, Just east of the Cascade range of mountains,'was recently the scene of . a strange disturbance. Without warn v ing, the water in the center of the lake, which is some forty miles long and three or four broad, rose to a height of fifteen feet. Immense waves rolled upon the shores, and a large creek emptying into the lake ran dry for three hours. There is an Indian tradi tion of a volcanic crater having once existed in the neighborhood of the lake. toft S« wder. •‘When I was discharged my em ployer let me down easy.” “How so?” “He said I could get work more readily than an inferior man.”—Detroit Free Press. Why are we warned to look out for certain individuals who are more than capab’e at looking out for themselves? "» ■ - CITY MAKES MONEY. Ooo'l 1 r;*nt M .$! » br Topek* la Stlllif I iiM’trioliy. h. i.^e ciirtt., i:; ;;;o of the Indus* rir.iisl. a mat ; n wished at the t;-. .♦ g;i. u.tr . ’ there Is an xl -.u. \o c . , (, . the Topeka elec rii ii. ii. itn. ay Henry M. Thomas. 1* tu «., jer.tiy made a thorough in • es *?—j:i of ...j .situation in Topeka iiu. !. • a;;Uci> at the following con .lu io- 'In t4l.o of the mistakes that have be::i ni.ide, city ownership and operatiu; u. the street lighting system ha:; ; :c\ed a paying invest ment to > ,.i ir.icipality. As one re sult ci tlu.. exierier.ee, it is not un reason bn to exjrrt that in the fu ture i..o city w.li exhibit great capa bilities of usarr'CTt at. and will still further improve the service and re duce the expenses. When the plant was founded the lowest bid that had been received from a private com pany was for $10 per light per month; and while there are no data beyond November, 1SS9, yet it is believed to be a near and safe approximation to assume that the cost per lamp did not exceed that for the thirty-eight months immediately following the date just mentioned, for which time we have already presented exaet state ments of cost. According to the ta ble given, the cost per lamp per month from November, 1SS9, to January, 189$, waa $8.40, which leaves a difference of $1.60 per lamp per month in favor of the city operation. The number of lamps at this time was 184. and on the assumption that the saving Just mentioned was continuous from 1887 to 1893, there was a total saving to the cny over wnai a contract ior *iu per light per month would have Involved of {21,186.80. And had the same rate of economy been prolonged up to the time of the rebuilding of the plant, the amount retained to the city would have been the large sum of $33,5(1.60. When the building of the plant was under contemplation the Edison com pany endeavored to secure the street lighting, by representing a bid for the extremely low figure of $6 per light, but even at this rate the city weuld have suffered a loss of 87 cents per light per month, amounting, for the year covered by this Investigation, te $2,693.52, in view of the economies ef fected by the new apparatus.”—Ne braska Journal. Experiment* with Wlrele** Telegraphy Experiments are reported with wire less telegraphy during ten days be tween Chamonix and the Vallot Ob servatory, on Mont Blanc; the straight distance was seven and five one-hun dredths miles and the difference in height two miles. After a descrip tion of the transmitting hnd receiving stations, the results are summed up as follows: The experiments were made every day during eleven hours. The signals were satisfactory only for a distance between the oscillator spheres equal to eight one-hundredths of an Inch. The absence of water in liquid form did not interfere, neither did the Intervention of clouds. Although at mospheric electricity actuated the ap paratus several times, it did not make communication impossible. A Homeopath. From Judge: Mrs. Jones—Did Mrs. Smith’s son graduate as an allopath or a homeopath? Mrs. Brown—Homeo path, I think. He’s been livin’ at home ever since he took his degree. Color In Commerce. The United States consul-general in Frankfort says "that it is important to study the taste of people in the matter of color, as well as in regard to shape, in designing goods for a for eign market. Saxon makers of needles drove England out of Brazil by wrap ping their goods in pink paper Instead of black. Other Germans are catering to the fondness of Russians for red in their dress. France recently learned how distasteful green is to a China man, but it cost a good deal of money to make the discovery.” EnsUid I.ohii* Mont Motif1?. England is the great money lender of the world. A statistician estimates that she has $550,000,000 invested in land and mortgages in countries abroad. She lends to foreign govern ments and municipalities an average of $200,000,000 annually. She finances railways in India, Canada, the United States, Australia, South Africa an.l South America, her investments of this class aggregating $2,100,000. Eng lish capital is Invested in this coun try in water and gas companies, cat tle and horse raising breweries, flour mills, 6treet railways, iron manufic^ turing and mining. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tin Kind You Han Always Bought Bears the /if. Signature of IT IS NO Tit in rybody iocs nit SECRET make* and cells mors merblnes every da; than Dearly all tbs other compa nies eombiaed. That the Me* Horn# Sewing Machine Company ot Orange, Mass Tbelr Re. 18 New 1 Is Sailing like SEE IT BEFORE YOU BUY ANY OTHER! Br«w Hot! Hot Cskci. It Is the most handsome machine you ever saw. It 1c entirely automatic—cannot get out of order. Double feed with SCIENTIFIC TREADLE MOTION that «oes not make your back acne. No other kind Just as good, ■tcel bearings. Will last a life-time. It runs easier and costs no more than a common everyday machine- 80 other kinds from $19.00 up. We discount all Big Bar gain prices. ' Why not buy where you can get the most for your money? • Every Machine fully guaranteed. Haedles. Oil and Repairs for any machine. Send for •pedal list, or call on our agent. tsswwsojtinwnia meant* co.. at. Lnu.it*. O F BIGUN, CNElLL PHOTOGRAPHS A9 PROOFS, They Am About M Coo el ait r* m H|am "That Never Lie" “Speaking of freak photographs,” said an old newspaper man, "reminds me of a singular little Incident. About three years ago, if you remember, n story went the rounds of the papers that a flying machine had been seen maneuvering In the air at a number of different places in the middle west Some of the reports seemed to be well authenticated, and it was certainly strange that the same yarn should come from so many widely separated points. One day while the thing was being generally talked about, a certain big journal received a photograph from a town in Nebraska showing an encr mous cigar-shaped machine caught in the top of a huge oak tree. According to the story that accompanied the pic ture the aerial navigators bad at tempted to land nnd fell foul of the oak. There was no doubt as to the genuineness of the tree in the photo, and it was at first thought that the machine had been ‘painted in,’ which is an old trick with pictorial fakers. When an expert was called in, how ever, he declared positively that the picture had not been doctored, and on the strength of his opinion a reproduc tion was printed. How the trick was done afterward leaked out. It seems the photographer first took a separate picture of a small pasteboard model of a flying machine, which was only about a foot long. One of the beauties about photography is that you can make everything the same size, and the photo of tiie model was as big as the photo of the tree. The model was then cut out of the picture with a pair of scissors and pistod on top of the branches of the oak. and a new photo graph was taken of the combination. It was the most deceptive-looking job I ever laid my eyes on.”—New Orleans Timea-Democrat. •8jn I.HBUOM.—■l*PB#n®Cl XjqSjq *i—aaijaajd uaq-qmnp Jo Su| -qiBM jaqjja—pjBMJajjB XiejB|pamni| ••(9JBZO qspq ‘aiBjjXBp Bqj ni new JI ‘paq oj 3b|oS aJBgaq jsnf ‘jq*iu IB qjaq s.ano aqsj oj ‘BHiqo oj »iqBH HB jb sj auo j| jaaq 8| J| SujJdB i£lJ»» paB j»jujm aqj jnoqSnojqx 'Jl'nll ®V »q PinoqB sajnuiui Xjjjqx ‘tHBQ PI<1®J « n{ Suo[ ooj a|BtBBJ oj aqsjB|m B s| ji -/{•jBipaaivi qjsq joq B aqsj oj b{ non -RB39Jd JO Xbm Xq op OJ Suiqj Jfl*q aqj BOfJOejB) 9J pBBOdZB B99q BBq 9HO J| j*qj UMOBq I IBM B| JI p«B ‘qjlBBq IBJ9 -BBS Bqj no jasjpa jbbjS b tsq u|qs Bqj JO BsannuBBio ‘jaSnnoX jbbj pus qooi bbo Sujqsai pus 'uiqs aqj jo Bsaujjos paB ssauaup aqj SujsBajaui ‘uxajsXs aqj Sn|jBJoSiAa| ‘noBjad aqj 3uijbaou9J jo Xbm aqj u| j{ joj paraisp B{ jBqj ub op HIM qjaq aqj uaqj Iqjsq b mouoj bXbm -IB pinoqs Sniqqna qspig ‘Ji najjos HIM aajBM pjBq m BinomnB jo xBJoq •IJJH B PUB ‘J9JBM B|BJ OJ JB9q JZ9U B| jbjbm jjos -asn isjeuaS joj 9A|Bnadx9 ooj bi qojqM ‘jbjbm pamjaip oj qoaojd -dB jBBJBan aqj 8| B|qx 'qjBq aqj joj jbjbm niBJ usap ‘qsajj asn ‘aiqiBBOd ■I ji ajaqM -BiBatn jojjb jo ajojaq os jo JBoq ub n*qj saai uaqsj aq pinoqa qoiqM jo anon 'aqjBq n* u{ bb jdaa -xa ‘pajapisnoo aq jon paan jnoq aqj sqjaq UBissnji jo qsfqjnx Sujqsj ni 'Supijej ajojaq jsnf sauo oijbm pnB Sn| -njotR aqj n| Sapp no sqjaq ppa aqsx ubai* aq Avm apj iBJanaS aidraja b qjaq b joj amu jadojd aqj SujpjaSajj B1*B M| B«I|X »<OJJ •picjaH UBaixapi—'peasBd Xaqj bb sa|tu>.>;i:q aqj uiojj BjaqBinXJjani aqj uo pau|BJ sauijuadjas pua ujaj -uoa 'sjaMoi,^ saqajoj SujXjjbo |{b pub pauaopB spaqM J|aqj qjjM sjsjp -Xa jo uoissaoojd ; : q b Xq paMO[[Oj ajaM s.iro as >qj. s.: . juib UAiouq-ipM jo Bjjsaqajo ub Xq .:u> pjjqj aqj pnB BU|juB|pnjBa ub A'q pc ;dnaoo bbm jaa puoaas aqj Izauaiuip ojnjjy Xq paXB]d sbm qajqM ouBid pjpuaids b Xq pa(dna -so bbm JB3 js.iji aqj, *sujajuB[ aaau -iqo jo uo|snjo.id b qji.w pauaopB Xaqj qa|i|M sjb3 jug aa.iqj pa.ijq ajojajaqj Xaqx MauuHiu ibao.i m uj qjBj -jojj Xq paounouuc p;a: m aqj jo pua aqj jaajS oj papiaap BouqoBj uj sanjuiBj oj SuiSuopq uaui SunoX pjaxag V|A*>M ««IJ J» P«B Ml 1 <•!': OJ BBBB|XBJ| Rev. Dr. Pepper’s Booh "UNDER THREE FLAGS” This is one of the most charming uolumes ever written. Consisting of.... HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND PERSONAL SKETCHES. The Hiitbor is REV. GEORGE W. PEPPER Tbe distinguished Methodist minister. Soldier, Patriot, Orator, Preacher. The Champion of Religious Liberty. The Devoted Friend of Ireland and the Irish. One volume, 550 i hvi e, fii'ie pnper, hound in clo'h. Price Express Paid $2 Send orders to NEIL BRENNAN, 0‘NEILL. NEB Itt On* Solillrr Left Behind When Southend, an Essex village In fibgland came to send off to the war its quota of reservists, only one man for the reserve could be found. But a big and exrit;::l erowd having as sembled at the station, the one man re serve was carrier shoulder high onto the platt\>:ni. i: < n :tie band played. As the V.mu \.ar r.aiG<;; 11.e musi cians si. ;l; ..p pi.ii.iv.va farewell air, "Au'.s! . k ....~c. ' uaii handker chiefs wetc .esl and the air rang With the deaKn.i.g c;ies of •Uoodby!" and "God biers you!-' The train at last dlsappea:eri outside the station. Then, lo! the reset vln t> whom they had shrieked farewell was standing on the platform. He had been left behind. A Butterfly Sprr nrlis The inhabitants of New York were astonished on Sept. 7 by an Invasion of butterflies, which suddenly appeared by thousands fluttering about the tall buildings, alighting on the grass in the parks, spreading their broad, orange hued sails above the roaring traffic In tbe streets, and even threading the wiry mazes of the Brooklyn bridge. They belong to the variety known as the Monarch, or Milkweed butterfly, which measures from three to four inches acrof? ihe wings. The cause of their strange invasion Is not known. They disappeared as suddenly as they had come. A Social Marvel. "He is tbe most notable rich man in this section of the west. Wo have plenty of rich men who came here without a cent, but he is the only rich man who came here rich. I tell you he is to be credited with a great force of character."—Detroit Journal. Not What Ha Meant. He—“How would you like to own a—er—a little puppy?” She—"Oh, Mr. Softly, this is so sudden!” H H Of 0 Z (A 0 c H OB Purohaaa Tlokata.'and ConatRn yeur Fraight via tha F. E.& M.V.andS.C.&P RAILROADS. TRAINS DEPART: going BAST. Passenger east, No. 4. 9:57 a. u Freight east. No. 24, 12:01 p. u Freight east, No. 28, 2:35 p. it. GOING WBBT. Pasienger west. No. 3, 9:40 p. u Freight west, No. 27, 9:15 p. u Freight, No, 23 Local 4:10 p. 11. The Blkhorn Line 1b now running Reclining [ih&lr Cars dally, between Omaha and Dead wood, Jree to holders of first-class transpor tation. For anr Information call on E. R ADAMS, Aot. O’NEILL. NEB. t/M MWK If otto+r maii< The lady rot angry and said. Oh fud^e. 1 But Mias Maud Killer married the JirJgft, And they lived in a home built of brawn atone With eight fine children thy called their own. The children few famous for beauty and Pace. And a Maud Muller bonnet soon shaded cadi fact While Maud Mullcrle£?inga it's easy to see Helped to cut down the bills lor their small hosier): CUTE AND COQUETTISH MAUD MULLER. BONNETS^ LEGGINGS\M Si? 4 Them ^ All Live Dealers sett them. RIDER-WALLIS CQ Manufacturer* of Whit*. Eie '. phant Clothinjj Dubuque, Iowa f _ ___(>e* _ Seientiflo American ) COPYRIGHTS, «toJ Tor Inform;.Mon and free Handbook write to MUNN & CO- >61 Buoauway, New York. Oldest bureau for securing patents In America. Khrery patent taken out by us Is brought before the public by a notice given free of charge In the Scientific JVmwicim Largest circulation of any sclentlflo paper In the world. Splendidly Illustrated. Mo Intelligent man should be without it. Weekly, S3.00 a year; $1.50 six months. Address MIINN A CO, Puhusueua. 3t*l Broadway, Mew York City r . ■. HICKS, Prop. Fr 11 anti salt meats alwa * 8 on liand. 0\'8 111 OCIloY/1 i e e e e TOP PRICE PAID FOR HIDES. dolt it Wrtlej the Great Man. Prom Scribner’s for December: Nd man lived nearer the center than John Wesley. Neither Clive nor Pitt, neith er Mansfield nor Johnson. You can not cut him out of our national life. No single figure influenced so many minds, no single voice touched so many hearts. No other man did such' a life’s work for England. As a writer he has not achieved distinction, he Was no Athanasius, no Augustine, he was ever a preacher and an organizer, a la borer in the service of humanity; but happily for us his journals remain, and from them we can learn better tlinn from anywhere else what manner of man he was. and the character of the times during which he lived and moved and had his being. Dublin Visited by a Cyclone. Dublin, Ireland, was visited by a regular cyclone recently, which did a good deal of damage in the city. The cyclonic character of the storm may be judged by the marked course it took, passing over a narrow breadth. In one street the driver of a hearse was blown oft his seat, and only for some people holding on to the hearse it would have been over with the coffin. As It w is some of the mourning coaches were capsized, as were several cabs in the street. A number of houses were blown down, and roofs taken off by the storm, which was one of the most se vere ever experienced in Dublin. I A ffobU Hero. We have Juft heard of a narrow el* cape that Mrs. Ham Twombly had a little while back. It seems she was boiling a kettle of soft soap out In the back yard when her gingham apron caught fire. If she hadn't had the presence of mind to scream it might have been our painful duty to chroni cle a dreadful holocaust. Hut Bill Sloarie. who happened to b? going down the alley at the time, jumped the back fence and let her down by the nape of the neck In the cistern. We understand Ham Twombly, when he heard of It, offered Bill $5 as n reward for his heroic conduct, but Bill nobly refused It. While the fire was being put out in the cistern the kettle boi'ed over, and Mrs. Twombly lost three or four gallons of good soap. She has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire com munity. How to L»»rn Uo»<| Kugllsh. Fro: i lluntcn's .Magazine: If the pupil nlw..v3 hears correct English from his teachers and Is always cor rected when he uses incorrect English he will acquire a correct use of the language without spending .several years studying books devoted to rules and their many exceptions, diagrams, parsing, spelling lists, etc. After the pupil has learned to use correct Eng lish, while learning something else which he writes and talks about, five hours a week for one school year la all that Is necessary for the systematic teaching of English grammar. The OldjReliableiDeaierifor ” HARDWARE FARM. MACHINERY In the Retail Battle for Life we always lead, be cause we sell Good Goods at prices that defy compe tition. The Majestic Range leads them all and is a household necessity. The Anti-Rust Tinware is another standby, and one the people all admire. For Barb Wire we take a back seat for no one, because we always did and always will handle the best goods and at prices none can excel. 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