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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1901)
1 Will set) at public sale at ipy place at Eijiryiet, ]>febM oi) Thursday, Febr’y- 21, 1901 property described as follows: 44 head of cows, 13 head of heifers, coming 2 yrs with calf. 18 hd heifer and 17 hd of steer calves. 7 head yearling steers. I pony mare 10 years old. 1 black horse 7 yrs., I black mare 7 yrs I bay horse 8 yrs., I bay mare 8 yrs old, with foal. 3 sets double and I single harness. I Newton wagon, 4-inch tire nearly new; I wagon with hay rack. I * SALE COMMENCES AT lO. Top buggy, double carriage, single buggy; Deering binder. McCormick 6-ft mower, nearly new. McCormick 5-ft mower. 14-ft Eagle rake; complete stacker. 2 sweeps; 2 walking corn plows. Riding corn plow, new. 3 stirring plows; 2 breaking plows. IB-inch disc cultivator, used I season. Lister, used I season; feed mill. Household goods, etc. FREE LUNCH AT NOON. Ten month’s time at 10 per cent on sums over $10, approved secur ity; $10 and under cash; 5 per cent off for cash on sums over $10. THOS. MALLOY 2sv£. T. LARGEST WOODEN SHIP. j _ ’ !*' Ww Constructed by lllero, KIur of ; 8ymcn«e. : The largest wooden ship ever built was that constructed by Hiero, king of Syracuse, under the direction of Archimedes. We are informed that Ptolemy Phllopater had a ship 280 cu bits long, 38 broad and 48 high. It carried 4,000 rowers, 400 sailors and 2,000 soldiers. That which the same prince made to sail on the Nile was 312 feet long, 45 feet broad, with a mast 120 feet high. But that was nothing compared with Hiero’s ship. It had all the variety of apartments peculiar to a palace, banqueting rooms, galler ies, gardens, fish ponds, stables, mills, baths, etc. It was encompassed with an iron rampart and eight towers, with t walls and bulwarks, furnished with , machines of war, particularly one, ‘ which threw a stone of 200 pounds on * a dart twelve cubits long, the distance * of half a mile. Though the hold was extremely deep, one man sufilced to keep it clear of water, by means *of a machine now called the Archlmedian screw. An Athenian poet made an epigram on this superb vessel, for Which he was well paid. Hiero sent him 6,000 bnshels of corn as a reward. Hiero, finding there was no port of Sicily capable of harboring this vessel in safety, reeolved to make a present of it to King Ptolemy, and sent it to Alexandria.—New York Weekly. ■:&% ?■' -S' -- jttftuw Tabuhw euro Laadjsche. PLANTS EAT INSECTS. T(bu' Fly-Trap DUorlralnatn Between Animal and Other Matter. A few insecting eating plants have been gathered from the swamp lands of North Carolina and California, and others have been sent from India, Aus tralia and Madagascar. Perhaps the best known of the group is Venus’ Fly Trap. The leaves vary from one to six inches long, and at the extremities hre placed two blades or claspers. On the inner walls of these claspers there are six irritable hatrs.any one of which receiving the slightest touch from an insect is sufficient to bring the two blades together with such rapidity as to preclude any possibility of the fly escaping. A correct idea of how the trap closes on its victim may be ob tained by bringing the two hand6 rap idly together, the fingers of one being firmly pressed between those of the other. This plant readily discriminates between animal and other matter; this, if a small stone or piece of wood be dropped into the trap it will Instantly close, but as soon as it has found out Its mistake, and it only takes a few minutes, It begins to unfold its trap, and the piece of wood or stone falls out. On the other hand, should a piece of beef or a blue bottle fly be placed in it, it will remain firmly closed until ever’y piece of organic matter is ab sorbed through the leaf. It will then unfold Itself, and is ready for another meal. iffendaehe etoppe-4 in 20 n:iuu*»s by Dt WiVs*- P<hn PIUL8 “Onfe jeot a aose. * Most llfavlly Insured Woman. Sirs. Florence Pullman Lowden, daughter o£ the late Geoige M. Pu.l j man, is the most heavily insured w.m an in the world. She has just taken out policies which aggregate $250,000. Her husband, Colonel Frank O. L w den, has been “written” for a similar amount, so that the total of all thair policies amounts to half a miliion.Colo nel and Mrs. Lowden left for the Pa cific coast recently, with Mrs. Pull man and Mrs. F. J. Carolan. B, fore their departure policies representing $500,000 life insurance were turned over to them. Napoleon's Chateau Is Kesiorod. Malmaison, the old chateau near Paris, once occupied by the First Na poieon and his discarded wife Jose phine do Beauharnais, has now been completely restored, thanks to the inun.ucence of M. Osiris. The resi dence was badly damaged during tae German invasion, and also during the Commune of 1871. For years It was in a dilapidated condition, but the re storers have done their work well. | The grand salon, decorated long ago 1 by Percier and Fontaine, has bean suc j cessfully treated by M. Jambon, who obtained many valuable hints from an old water color drawing of the room In the possession cf one of Fontaina’s descendants. M. Osiris has given over Malmr.i^on .to the state, which will have io provide the furniture and ■ hangings, and to turn the palace into a museum of Napoleonic relics. > Self-Knowl*dj'«i and Self-Work. We find this great precept often re peated in Plato: “Do thine own work and know thyself,” of which two parts, both the one and the other generally comprehend our whole duty, and con sequently do each of them complicate and Involve the other; for he who will do his own work aright will find that his first lesson is to know himself; and he who rightly understands him self will never mistake another man’s work for his own.—Montaigne. New Bridge for Boaplioros. A new bridge is about to be built across the Bosphorus, bearing the name of the Sultan, Abdul Hamid. It will be constructed of granite and metal by the Bosphorus Railway com pany,which designs a junction between the railways of Europe and the trans Asiatic railway, of Bagdad, now being built by the Germans. The narrowest dividing line of sea has been chosen for the point of connection. A mili tary bridge erected by a Corinthian long before the Christian era once spanned these COO yards of water at the same spot, and over it, in 513 B. C., marched King Darius and his 800,000 Persian braves during his campaign against the Scythians. Dord Byron, impatient of bridges, as of many things, swam the flood. The new bridge is to be erected on lasting lines. Massive granite pillars are to be built, and these will support the steel cables on which the bridge stands. ! |j^H. BENEDICT, LAWYER, 'the* In the Judge Robert* building, nortt of O. O. Suvder’a lumber yard. '» NR11.L, VKh u. r. nirRKon ATTORNEY AT LAW "ferenoe Kirai National Rank O'MriLL. IjARKET 81GWART, PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER Satisfaction guaranteed. Address, Page, Neh I*. 4. FLYNN PHYC1AN AND SUROEuN Office over Corrigan’s, first door to right Night calls promptly attended. |^R. G. M. BERRY, DENTI8T AND ORAL SURGEON Graduate of Northwestern University, Chicago, and also of tmerican College of_ Dental Surgeory All the latest and improved branches of Dentistry carefully performed. M. P. KINK AID LAWYER. Offloe over Elkborn Valley Bank. O’NEILL. NEB. |jli. .1. P. UILLIUAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Holt County Bank building Orders left at our drug store or at my residence first street north and half block eaot of stand pipe will receive prompt response, as 1 have telephone connections. O’NEILL. - - NEB. | A. B. NEWELL | j REAL ESTATE j | O’NEILL, NEBRASKA j Selling and leasing farms and ranches Taxes paid and lands inspected for non residents. Parties desiring to buy or rent land owned by non-residents give me a call, will look up the owners and procure the land for you. C. L. BRIGHT Fteal Ejtat® 8 insurance Represent the NEW YORK LIFE, ************* NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE, PALLITENE AND ROYAT FIRE INSURANCE CO.S NOTARY PUBLIC with Stenographer in office. O’Neill — Abstracting Go Compiles Abstracts of Title ONLY COMPLETE SET OF AB STRACT BOOKS IN HOLT COUNTY O’NEILL. NEB. HOTEL E VANS Enlarged Refurnished Refitted Only First-class Hotel In the City W. T. EVANS, Prof UNION MEAT MARKET 6£°iee lirae °f F[®®^ and gait fl2eat$ epoLiltny a rad Game -RED C. GATZ,Prop We fix * 'Em Watches Clocks and Jewelry REPAIRED d. GUARANTEED W. M. LOCKARD With G1LLIGAN & STOUT Meat, &amg, EisB, fowls, lard, Etc. Jk. Midgs and furs S V BongBt Jk. Erodaeg taBgc in jC| jk. IxoBangg jk««^j{k» Purohai* Tickets and Consign you Froightvia tno P. E.& M. V.andS. C.fie P RAILROADS. TRAINS ItKFART GOING CAST. Passenger east No. 4. Freight east. No. 24, Freight east, No 28, GOING WKST Passenger west No. 3, Freight west, No. 27, Freight, No, 23 Local The Elkhorn Line 1* now running Reclining Chair Cars dally, between Omaha and Dead wood, jree to holders of first-class transpor ration. For anr Information call on i 9:57 a. m 12:01 p. m • 2:35 P. M. 10:00 P. it 9:15 P. M 2:35 p. M. E. R . ADAMS, Agt. O’NEILL. NEB. ' IN ORDER TO make your home comfortable and pleasant you should have a nice big coal stove, one that is ornamental as well as useful, that is cheerful as well as warm ing. We have Jany number for you to choose from and are making great cut in prices to make room for spring stock. fjEIL. BRENNAN. !♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« REAL ESTATE. CATTLE AND SHEEP RANCHES GRAIN AND MAY FARMS For Sale <+ and Lease ®(§) PRICES LOW AND TERMS EASY . | M. LYONS | EMMET, NEB.