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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, JLY I2, ,s90 v. H r We are Showing " sLte Clothing, Furnishing Goods At Low Prices. CALL IN AND SEE US. STORES AT 1017-1019 O St., LINCOLN, NEB. Beatrice, Neb. Falls City, Neb. Weeping Water, Neb. and Wilber, Neb. Herman Bros. A. M. DAVIS & SON, Spring Carpets And Draperies 1112 0 St. Telephone 219. 100 Engraved And Copper Plate, for $2.50. If you have a Plate, we same, WESSEL PRINTING CO. Courier Office. Tolophono 253. a Complete Line of Hats, Caps, AND AND NOW'S THE TIME TO PLACE YOUR ORDER WITH THE LINCOLN ICE CO. 1040 0 ST. PHONE 118. PURE CLEAR ICE I Prompt Delivery. i ' Callng Cards will furnish lOOjCards from at $1.50. 1134 N Stroot A MODEL DUILDINQ. Out Anil Description of Tim Chlrnnu Hrr Itlil'l I'roinil lliiliin. tin: ritui'()Hi.i iikuai.d hi ii.dimi Tilt) mania for now newspaper IiiiIIiIIiiuh ban struck Chicago, ami Tin Herald is a victim. Tim work of tearing down (ilil structures 011 Washington street, between Fifth nveiuto and Ij-i Sillo street, will bo followed by tho erection of onuof thu llnest newspaper buildings in tlio west. Thu stylo of arelilti'cttiN) will Ihj i i'iiiiIhsiiiico of tliu end of Hid Fifteenth century sllght ly Gothic. Thu building will bo (11 feet wido, 170 fret deep and 120 foot high. Tho front will bo highly and artistically orna mented, it sUituo of u mctlliiiviil herald blowing his official trumpet forming one of thu chtuf decorations, ulillo at night many electric light w 111 maku tho struct ure stand out in bol 1 relief Especial re gard will Ik) given to those small things which nru so often neglected H.ithrooms, barber shops and lunch rooms will lx fur nished for tho use of members of thu dif ferent forces, ami everything will be done to assure tho coinfoit of employee and fa cilitate their work. I)i'l;im on the Coin. Thero has Ijecn some talk about the advisability of changing thu designs on United States coin on thu ground that thu present 'symbols aro not appropriate nor artistic. Director Leech lit credited with favoring such u scheme, but it is meeting with opposition In some iiuurters. There is a bill in congress authorizing thu steps that would Ih) preliminary to such a move, but there is considerable t.Uk that it will not bo passed, at least not prior to the summer vacation. Col. Hosbysliell, of tho Philadelphia mint, where any changes that wore au thorized would have to I hi madu, has had no olllclal intimation of such a thliiK. lie hesitates almut giving his opinion on the advisability of doiug such a thing, but it is unite evident that ho does not look on it with favor. He sajs tho experience of other countries is that any such changes are dangerous, and If made should only Imj done after giving tho matter tho gravest consideration. A .lupillll' VlSCOtlllt's limit! roitiuii'. Tills summer the graduating class of thu law school of thu I'niverslty of Michigan contained nine .Japanese joung men, who ended their studies with credit alike to themselves mid to their preceptors. In tho winter they expect to return homo nnd be.Uow thu advantages of tin American training upon their countrymen. At thu head of tho party is Vis count 'faro Miosh, whoso father Is n general in tho army of tho island kingdom. Tho vis- TAKO MIORII. count has been n resident or tho United States for flvo years, nnd has proved him self not only n good scholar but also a lucky suitor. A year ago ho met, wooed and won n bright young woman of Ann Arbor, and consequently will tako back to his natUo land both an American education and an American wife. Nevada' Tr.-iullii; Stones. Austrr.lia'ncurious traveling stones have been paralleled iu Nevada. Tho ones re cently found Iu tho Silver Statu are de scrlheil as being perfectly round, about as largo as a walnut nnd of nn Ivory nature. When distributed about on tho lloor, table or any other lovel surface within two or three feet of each other they immediately lx.'gln traveling toward each other until they meet at a common center, and thero liu huddled up In a bunch liko eggs in a nest. A slnglo stono removed to a dl.stauce of four feet upon being released returns to tho heap, but If tkon away five feet re mains motionless. It is needless to say that they aro largely composed of magnetic Iron ore. Chlnme Metllcln. Chinese medicine is oven more empirical than American. Nevertheless tho nlmond eyed physicians aro so successful with rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia and similar complaints that they have built up a vast practice among their Cauca? inn neighbors who suffer from those ills. Tho Mongolian M. D. fills his own prescription, and charges tho cost under liis own fee, which is usually J, Thero nro only llvo medical sons of Confucius In New York, nud all aro doing a good business. At least one-half of their clients are Americans. An Ancient lluln. Near Somerset, In Perry county, O., is nu ancient ruin whoso walls, imposing forty acres, were built of undressed stones, now lying In confusion. They have lieen es timated suftlcient to build a wall 7 feet high anil 0 feet broad around tho whole forty ncro inclosure. Ono gateway between two largo rocks opened Into tho country nnd was do 'ended by a huge Itowltlcr. Tho luclosuro contained n largo stouu mound. No skeletons have been found, and tho lu closuro wns certainly used for other pur goseMhnn habitation or sacrifice. L 5 TO CROSS T'lE ENGLISH CHANNEL. A Ciiiiitiltintliiu llrltlgn nnclTutinrl Hclirmr. Hlilnli Muy Hiirrrnl. A most unique- Idea U tho one. that has emanated from tho busy brain of M 1 lliiueau Varilla, nud which seems likely to sol e the problem of rapid transit across the English channel. To devise a method to escape the turbulent passage, by boat of that tempest swept patch of wntcr, niitl bring the tight little Island Into closer communion from tho standpoint of hours nnd minutes with tho continent, bus long been the dream and ambition of commer cial England And either the method of bridge or tunnel would long ago have h.on adopted but for tho fear Hint the cov eted road to France would, In tho event of war with that country, prove tho road to England's ruin by affording tho enemy a menus of speedily Implanting an army on her snores Hut the Ingenious Frenchman's scheme dissipates all that, and hero Is how he pro poses to do It, by what ho calls a "mixed solution," "bridge tunnul" method, lie would build a great bridge out from tho shorn on either side Into the sea for as long n distance n was advisable or necessary, each bridge totally Independent of tho other Then at the sea end of each bridge ho wottld construct shafts, either In clined or ertleal, which would contain elevators suillclently largo to lower or ralsu at ono time as many trains of cars as nbsnluto safety mlghtdlctnto. Thesoshafts would bisunk to a sulllclent depth below the bed of the liver to allow a tunnel to ho constructed connecting tho two shafts and t litis tlio bridges. You would leave I)oer In a comfortiiblo railway carriage, the train would speed across the English end of the bridge to tho elevator, down jou would go to the bottom of the mm and into the tunnel, run across that distance, como Up by the elevator on the French bridge and speed on to Calais, which you would reach in an hour from starting rfffi ?22V!JZL" "'A - V '? "" " - tiii: nti:NTiiMAN'fl plan. And suppose there should spring up a war' Well, n couplo of well direct ed heavy shot would knock the elevators and the connections Into tho channel and all fears of au invasion by that route would vanish Into thin air Tho scheme is perfectly practicable ami has excited favorable com ments from tho sclent llle men of both France and England Its materialization Is among the possibilities of tho near future. It could lo completed in six years, at a cost of about MHXI.OOO. Tin- llluti lln-il KiikIIiiIi Wiiiiiuu. Thu high bred English woman li mining tlio finest products of civilization. Her voice is music, exquisitely modulated, with every syllable clear and distinct; to hear It makes credible the story of the orator who could pronounce the word mcsnpotamln In a manner to move nn audience to tears, Her carriage Is thu rcutilt of as careful training as that of a race horse, ami her manners In her own circle are simply per fect. She Is alwiys well educated, speaks French and German fluently, plays nnd sings "all English pipe a little," to quotu an Englishman, "and join in choruses whether they have any voice or not." Greek In Now Ytirli. Tim (Jreek inco is sending quite a con ting"iit across the ocean to the New World. One class consists of thosu who come fiom thu lljtlu kingdom and from Smyrna anil the other largo Turkish cities They urn intelligent and educated, and usually go Into mercautilo life as soon ns they arrive in Now York Tlio second class comes from tho villages and Holds of Turkey in Europu and Turkey in Asia, and are lilit eratu and superstitious. They follow In the footsteps of the Sicilians mi I becomo bootblacks, peanut roasters, candy peddlers and the liko. .Inpaix'so u Chliinuii-ii. Judging from tho press and tho public utterances of prominont men It Is not known that the Chinese and Japanese be long to the snmo race, speak similar lan guages and use tho snino characters Iu reading nnd writing. Tho result of the error Is that hundreds of Chinese nro com ing to tho United States under the guise of Jnpnnosa, nud are welcomed, when If their nationality were known they would bu shut out from "tho land of the freoand the homo of tho bravo." Miilnjs Iu the Metropolis. Thero Is n Malay population iu New York city which varies from SOU to 1,800. Despite tho statement found in school books that they uru cruel, ferocious and sanguinary, only three of their raco have been arreste.l iu tweiity-JIo yenrs, and thosu only for xiolntlng city ordinances. As n matter of fact they are quiet, orderly and very polite. A majority of them speak a very good Spanish, hut only a few have any know 1 edge of tho English language. The National IMItorlul Amoclutloii. From all accounts It would seem thnt tho recent session of tho National Editorial association at Hoston succeeded in com bining business with nn up-nud-up good time In a truly mas tvrful way TIM dinner which bTUI'llKXb wound up tho ses slou was of course '4 one of tho bright- w p. ii. JifXTElt est snots in that very brilliant week. The menu itself was a stroke of genius. It was n corrected proof sheet, and a very "dirty" proof Bluet, too. Those who have lieen I e hind tho scenes in a printing office will l.npw that no disrespect Is meant by tho term. Everyliody toasted everybody else, and they topped tho affair nil by drinking earn estly to the healths of "Our Wives' Hus bunts." That thu tdltors knew what they were alwut when they elected their officers for tho ensuing year Is shown by the fact that Mr. E. W, Stephens, of Missouri, tho new president, nud Dr. W. 1). H. Hunter, of In dlaua, the new first vice president, were among the most brightly shining HghU of tho evening. W 7 v 1)1(1 bUt OlMlll. "Tlio most wvtr rulntko I over got from tlio K'liiii," Mr. Choato tolls, "wan from ono of tlioiu typical western Judges who had (lcturmlnotl that It was tlino to Introduce, a llttlo moro of tlio formality of tlm cast In his court than lm bad for inerly Insisted on. It wan my llrwt cam) In court, any way, I had gmio out thero about its green us they innku tlioiu, nud hud purelmsod u half Interest in tint praiilcii of a sharp lawyer, who imme diately retired from practice Iu that town pud jiiikIu mo a present of the re mainder of his business when ho felt my money wife Iu his jsKitet, So 1 was thrown on my own resotircct, mm was soou llounderiug ho deep iu legal quag ndres that tlio judge folt called on to nteipdiso. A few months lieforo ho would probably have i mured out seine choice alnise on my head, and vouhS have olfered to light me If I did not like it. Hut now lie was standing on for mallty. 'Young mail,' ho said impres sively, 'the best thing you can do for yourself and your client will betohlie a lawyer.' I did so." Once a Week. Ambling l'i'l,'p I:iiiim. i jl U.J H "Hub yo' got any iiiedlcine dat will purify the blood?" "Yes, we keep this narsnpnrllln at one dollar u bottle. It purities thohlootl mid clears the complexion," "Well, bosH, hasn't yo' got suinlln' fo' about fifty cents jess fo' de blood? I don't keer about tie complexion." Life. To Support the I'iiiiiII). A Iwiy of cHinbetl up on the pillow beside his mother, who was bitterly weeping over the death of her father. After mnootliiug her hair nud caressing her, he said: "JJon'tory, mamma, I'll be a fodder to you." The boy grew in years and iu worldly wisdom, and came to twice the age when he hud offered to act the pin t of a father. Seeing his mother weary with work, for she supported her three children, he said: "I tell you what, lnuinma, you shan't work when I grow up." "Well, what will you do for me, nonV" "I'll marry a rich wife." HarisTb Bazar. Departeil on tho Dot. Old Moneybags Mr. Do Htoolo, you must be more punctual. I notice that you aro late iu getting to tho ollice nearly ovcry morning. Mr. Do Stoolo Yes, but Mr. Money bags, did you over notice how punctual I am in going away from the ofllco every night? Somervillo Journal. Dux IViiilna. Ethel Heddy Mamma, won't you please ask Dr. Doco to look at my little sick ducklings? Mrs. Reddy No, no; run uwayl Dr. Doco isn't a bird doctor. Ethel Reddy Well, papa said last night ho was a quack doctor. Puck Working lor Illiiim-ir. Jimpson Why, how early you get around nowadays! You never used to show up leforo 8 o'clock. Squaker I know it. You see, I was working for old Feeks then, but I'vo be come his pnrtner now. Lawrenco Ameri can. Mm. htrnrkulii'a Itcpiirlee. "I called on those snobs tho Tittletons this afternoon and they insulted mo," said Mrs. Struckoylo, with marked in dignation. "They said they'd return my call next week. 1 told 'em not to trouble themselves I didn't want it back." Hnrper'n Bazar. Tin. Tt'iuiU 1'urty. Alfred (a stutterer) M-my d-leart I Move you! Will y-you ma-ma-mnrry in-me? Alice--Marry you? Indeed, uo! I don't care to lw proposed to on tho in stallment plan, if yon please. Pittsburg Bulletin. Mrnli-i;), "Time will prove myclient innocent!" cried Squlljig. "Your argument carries some wait with it," observed the court. And Squll jig laughed so heartily that ho won tho cas Harper's Bazar. Not Uulto lU't-nrrt'il. Bagley Have you recovered from your recent sickness, Bailey? Bailey No, not fully. Bagley Why, you look as well as ever. Bailey Yes, but I owe tho doctor $l yet. Now York Ledger. A Mtfn of Pocrty. "The Parsons don't keen a dog, do thoy?" "Yes; three of them." "Are they as iwor as that?" Ynnkeo rUndti wa Jm.mhj'imfimz .-. w?u'liitaiA2S 'iiflfnhJ&MkmA -siV; li - 1 b HOWS' THE TIME TO I'LAl'i: YOIMI OIlDKIfFOIl ' House Decorations,! Wheie they will icctive piompt attention and "klllful woikimuihhlp. C'nll on S. E. MOORE, nntl ee bis Hue ol Flue Paper Hangings, 11(34 o stiisisIt Sole Agenc) for-'- The Sliorwln-Wllllams Co.'s Paint. Roberts & Co. 212 North nth Street, Undertakers anMmbalmers. Telephones -Ollkciis Rcnldcucc i 56 Open l)n nnd Night. E. T. ROBERTS, Manager, WESTERFIELDS Palace Bath Shaving PARLORS. Ladles and - Children's Hair Cutting asp.jo:ai.ty. cor 12 ko sts new i1urr hl'k TTl)r(icedcnted Attraction! OVER A MILLION DIBTHIBUTBII Loiiisic.na State Lottery Comp'y. liicorpornleil bv tho 1-enliilaturo for Kilu catlotiid 1 1 it Charitable purpose, Its rranchlno iiuiile n part of thu present itnto ciiiiHtltiitlou InlHTU !y au ourrtioliiiliiK lI uliir votu. 11111I To continue until January 1st, 1895. Its MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place Semi Annually (June and Decent bcrj, nnd Its Grand Single Number Draw ings tnkcnlncc In each of the other ten months of the car, and are all itrnwn In public, at the Academy of Mutdc, New Orleans, La. FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS For Integrity of Itr Drawings, and Prompt Payment of Prizes, Altuhteu ns follows: "woilo hereby certify that wo supervlsu thu nrnuiKi'iiieiiis for nil tlm Monthly aiut Hunt Auniuil DruMliirf- or Thu lnil-lann Htato txitterj Company, una In person man iitii) ami eimtiol thu Uruwluus thumselveH, ami that tliu salmi nru eoiiiluuleil with hon esty fairness, ami In uool fitlth towunl ull nnrtles, ami we ntithnrlru tho Cor,. puny to mm this certlllcate, with ruc-slmlllus of our mIbiiu "lies iitlncheil, In llsiiilvertlkunieiits." Jff CominUtiloncrs. We, tliu unilcralKiietl Hanks nnd Hunkers will pay nil prUes drawn Iu tliu !oul-lauu htutu Uitttrlux, which may bu presuutvil rt our counters. H. M. AI.MSl,i:V. I'res. Umlslnmi Nat irk i'llUtHK I.ANAUX, Prus-Htuto National Il'lc A. 1IAI.DWIN, I'res. Nuw Orleans Natl liunlc CAIII.KOHN, Pics Union Notional Hank Grand Monthly Drawing. At the Academy of Mnilo, New Orlttni, TneiJajr, July IS, 1890. CAPITAL PRIZE, $300,000 100,iiOTIcUeUat fJOeiieh: Halves I0: Quar ter. Oi Tenth- U; TuntlelliM 1. LIST OK 1'ltIZKS. 1 iMtlZKDKI.UO.liOOU .liD.uw 1 I'llIKOKlUO.uuills 10U,) ll'ltl.KOK 6n,noi)U n),OD i piii.k ov iit as'oijo Jl'ltl'KSOK lU,W)aru 'JOMU ft I'lti.KH ok r,im are -axm UIMU.KSOK l,(J00uro iV.OU) lUJI'lllr.SOK .VM are &),ujo ) rur.KM op .tooaro oouo fjo I'IH.Ksok .ijUaru lW.eoo AI'I'ltOXIMATION I'll I IKS. 100 I'rlnes of V) lire S0,tM) liM ilo. 300 are 30,000 loo Uo. axjnro avxo TKIIMISAI. 1MIIZKS. IH'J I'rliesof iKUnre w.tux) ivi Prizes of lrt) aro w.sxo a,i:u Prizes amoiiutliiK to Ht, O.lt, (too Notk Tlekftnilrawlnir Capital I'Mze nro noteutltlei! to terminal Prizes. V'lt l1! Ilil IFtiti... rm ft. !... !....... 1 11)11 lll'MlI'l-tl. l rllit liti'lhlv tl ttl.t It II. I.. f I. r !...! clearly statliiK your reslilenro, with statu, Count, Hired utiil Number. More ruiilil re turn mall delivery will beussured b oureu elo.lnif mi Rfi.lniui lM.uri.it. ..iii run n.i dri. IMPORTANT ! 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