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-iftvt CAPITAL CITY COORIISR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1891 s i' U I , A) ' r fWfim.ff xsc r.iM t Mrs. Graham's Cucumber and Elder Flower Cream laliot iirininetlo In llio annuo which Unit lonn In ioinlTly iisinl, hill poruiiinriilly bivmllitra. It erenlea u aoft, smooth, oltiir, velvety akin, uml by Hiillv use Kriiiltially nuke tlirt riiloxlii aeveriilaluules whiter. It la a constant protection fro.n tlio r-ltecla ; nun nml wlml uml prevent sunburn uml frooklea, nil tilnekhenil will never eiiino while you uoll. Itoleiinac the fiieo nr l;o tor Hutu snap uml water, nourMieaniul ImlliU up Ihn akin llaaiioa unil thin provenl llio ror million nr wrliulo. It KlvM IhiifrtuhniiM, Clearness ami ainnothni nl akin tlml you hail whonnlitlliiKlrl. livery Imly, joitim of oliloimlilloMwII. UrIvmi more youth ful nppriiraneo In any Imly. nnil Uml l,'im.' nonlly. It contain m imlil, pnwiliT. or ill mill, mid la in hnruilixa as ilow mill nourishing BNttuwIalo tlm lluwor, I'rlen S)I.OO. Ask yourilruitiilsl for It. . ...... . i. HAMl'l.l: iiurTM: mulled fn In nny I nly on receipt "f HI cent In slump In 1'iiy fur pastime uml piieklint. I.iulv Annul wiinteil. Mm, (lorviilno (Iriilimn. ''IJcnuiy Doctor," l(M I'oal Hlnul, Sun KrniH'lai'ii. All U10 leinllnit Lincoln driilHta mull It, H. T. Clarke Drug Co., Lincoln WIIOI.r.SAliK AUKNTH. Ladies' and Children's Hair Gutting and Shampooing a Specialty 9 -AT- SAM. WESTERFI ELD'S HURR ! BLOCK. 1Ai ipCAN anf'OQiriiTT" mm run uowmfhy or tut oauNinr win. mti mucm mroMrKM om arvov o iwi mv or imi Cbicago.Rock Island & PaciflcRu TWKNTY-FIVKYK.IKSAQO WE HAD A anEAT CONQnESS IN YEAH 1800. THE Willie Wellnmn I'ompiirca That l'irl"it Mini lln I'nlillo Min Mrlth Mm Present. Homr I'lrlnrix Tlml r'.irmpllfy tlm lllghl of Tliun. Hpeelal Oorrriiiilriic(i.) Wahiiinoton, Nov. 25. I wiw talking tlm other ilny wUli mi old timer, n mati who Iiiih lieon employed In llio Capitol for twcnty-llvo years. "It in wonderful v ' r i"m s. 180(1 w. n. 1101.MAN teOl. what changes 11 quarter of it century makes in it groat Isidy llku tlio coiiKrcHH of thn Unltoil HtiiU-H," Haiti ho. "I caiiie Iiito In tlio Fortieth coiiKnw, which wiw c1i(!lO(1 in tlio full of 1800, jiint twcnty-llvo yearn mko, uml mot in rjhj. clal hcmhIoii in March, 1807. Tliat wan just nflor Iho war, anil coiiBretw was full of Iho men who hail miulo thoir fiiiuo in tho rebellion epoch. It in n ru marknlilo fact that only tun men who nat in that coiiKreNs aro now members of tho national leglHlaturo. I Hitoiit mi hour yentonlay looking up tho factH, and hero thoy aro: Three men who wero iiiuttilicra of thoHcnnto twenty 11 vo yearn ago aro ntill incmherit of that body John Bliorinau of Ohio, .JiiHtin S. Morrill of Vermont, and William M. Stowart of Novada. Fivo men who wero then membero of tho Iioubo arc Bfc. Th DIJUMT BOUTS to and from CHTOAOC; XOOX IBLAKDjDAVBKPOBI, DBS XOINK& council Mvxhrn, watehtowk, bioux TAIiU. JflNHBAPOUS. BT. PAUL, IT. JOB SFK, ATOHIBOIf , X.KAVXM WORTH. XAK8AB CITT. TOPXKA, OBirVKR, OOIX)RAOO BfMOW Ad VVJUUXX SOLID VESTIIULE EXPRESS TRAINS of Tbrousb OoaohM. BlMpcra. rra lUcilnlng Ohalr Qua and Dinlntr Can dalljr txtWMn OKI OAOO. SSB MOIMBB. OOUNOlt BLDFKB and OMAHA, and Mwwa CHICAOO and DXNVXR, OOIiOKADO BMUKOB and PtHtBLO via St. Joaapb, or Zaaaaa Oltr md Zopaka. Via Ths Albsrt Lsa Route, Iat Xxpr(a Tralna dally botwoen Chlcctfo aad mnnaapolU and St. Paul, with TKROUOH Bacllnlmr Ohalr Cars (TBXX) to and from thoM tmlnta and Xanaaa Otty. Through Ohalr Oar and Mapar batwani Faorta, SnUit Laka and loux ralla via Book laland. for Tlekata, Xapa. Voldara, or dcalrod Informa Man. apply at any Ooupoa Tlckat Oflca, or addr I. ST. JOHN, JOHN SEBASTIAN, Qan'llUnagar, Oan'lTkt.BiPaaa.Act, OKIOAOO IU 1800 w. i. Al.usoN 1801. now in tho nenato Henry L. Dawea of MnsHiicliUHettH, William II. Allison and Jamen F, Wllnon of Iowa, I'hilotiiH Sawyor of Wiscoiwin, nnd Sholby M.'Cullom of UIIiioIm. Only two men thou in tlio Iioubo aro nt ill uiuuibcrs of tlio hoiiHO of roprt'sentntives W. S. Iloliuan of Indiana and CliarleH O'Neill of Pennsylvania. Only one man thou in congreM in now prominent in public lifo olaowliurv .TauicH Q. Hlaliio of Maine. "It wiih it great mirpriso to me," con tluueil tho old timer, "to learn that of U00 men in congrewt twenty-livo years sgo only ten nurvivo aa national legiH latorn, and that only one other Htlll mnlntaiu!i in another Held high place aa it public man. Tlila Hlmphi fact strik itigly hIiowh the high rate of mortality tmoiig public nien. I do not mean alone aatural mortality, though tho congres- titNCOt-N1 4dihw(2fflp0C uc laiTmrrc ok ruouxiinr. Bbortbanil, ami Tnwwrlllntt.U tlm twtt and largcat ColMsii In Iho Wrat. UU 8tudrnta In alttmlancv lut year. SiuJrnU prrpan-d lor buMnrM In from 3 lot Bxauilfirt llliiitraKM otaUvw, ritln.'t jmimala, and fiaolnwnaof jwiimiuuhli, onl trm ly ttlrvaliiK ULUIUUIKIK A UOOhE, Uw,ln, Nob 1800 1'IIILKTUS SAWYER 1801. lional death rate is unusually high, but tho difficulty men And in keeping them solved in iower and the rapidity with, which veterans aro crowded hack into retirement bh new men push to the front. "That was a great congresswhich met here twenty-live yeura ago. It was juftt nftei tho war, when the men who had been tried In tho Hery f nrnace of battle, md in tho crucial tent of congressional life throughout those stormy dayti, wero tho men of tho hour. It waa n period in which the best blood and brain of the untion wero foremost in all public af fairs. Of 800 men wiio wero in congress a quarter of it century ago nearly 1110 bore names which wero then or liavo slr.co be come household words throughout tho oountry, I'll mention some of them, merely to point my moral. There wero in the senate Charles Sumner, Denjuuiitt P. Wade, Zach Chandler, Thomas A, L ' "rsV &r Bchoock, William H. Allison, James F. Wilson, William Lawreuo, Oeorge lloiitwell, Iitiko I'olaud, Ham Cary, Thomas W. Ferry, Hhelby M. Cullom, Jim Ashley, William B. Iloliuan, Qol lovo S. Orth, Horace Mayuard, Henry L. Dawes, Judge Bhellabarger, I'hilotus Bawyur, Columbus Delano, lames M. Heck, William Wlndom, W. II. liar mini, Proctor Knott, Green I). Kaum, Jehu linker and many others til most an prominent. "A liner looking body of men than tho senate of tho Fortieth congress nover sat In it legialatlvo hull. You will remember what it magnificent head Billion Cameron had, even in later years. Then ho wai sixty-eight years old, and a splendid sH'cimen of a well preserved, vigorous old man. Jim Nye, of Nevada, tho wit and eloquent orator, had a faco like an old itoinant Charles Stunner was almost divitio in tho nobility of his features, and a handsomer man r.urile 5'hb Dr. I. Dun' )rlllrnl PltU train 1'iirU, Franco, Tlml poslllvi'J.l io llovo auMpreasloni), monthly ilorunsiHOtriita nil IrKXUlarlll MuuHOd 't colli, aeukltu, liook, AiumiliU vr stin'nil iiiorvau ilobfriy. Tho Uiko ror"''rilm 'f IIIh. Io Mlileli .ll) ll itnu iiiitw tiTV iim ' ia ii dircii rt'aiivv pi n dUonJyriHl or, 'rroiiiilur nidTialruallou. 'ip preloin eiiilllniif 1 riull in blnotl mioi.viih .i.in i vit o i h i'u j hi i u piQKau or imr ti. ho:h airoiiti no rcuipi oi prior n Iiliuolii hy ft. llniwn, ilruim' hl jsaBwaifi z- "- i JTJSM) MXST Vtrf w ODD l AND ENDS. John Conness, of California, never set foot in tho senate ohamler. "Lyman Trumbull and Den Wado hnd faces which it did one good to watch. Young Bprngue, of Rhode Island, was then counted by tho ladies tho hand roiuest senator, though I think his great fortune and high social station had some ItntMciuako oil la worth sixteen dollars an ounce. Of llio twelve Inrgoit cities in the world, three are In Japan. To relieve nan iea nnd ilyapepiln drink cup of hot water before meals, Try a hot, dry iliiuiivl over tlio scat of neuralgic pain and renew il frequently. The fruit oiitnii of California increased fully thirty fold d irlug the punt ten years. A New York olurgyiuau lini married IS,(mi cnuplei and received over 11)0,000 in ueddlng feet. The population of (Ireeco U Increasing at n grater ratio than that of any other Kit ropenu eoiiuiry. Three tunnels nro Mng cointructed uniler the hiirlsir of (llasgovv for foot hw heiigerNiinil tnilun. The settlugi for dhunouils are plnlner than heretofore. Tho most precious are than get with very Utile gold. CLfl OTM SHOES Olio third of a teaciipful of molasses li i good siilistltutn for a wine glims of brandy In fruit cike or pudding. ! William Harvey In his latter days took to iiinlhenmtlcs, and for the llr.tt time fo! 1 lowed them with ease, much to his quiet. Tho annual amount of sawed lumber of MiUfiiiintrv. If nut iiiioii a train of cars. tiling to do with their choice. Ho is ) would constitute a train W.000 miles long. still living, I hear, up In Rhode Island, William II. Seward once declared that i the Tactile oeeau would no too scene oi inu ' greatext commercial activity of tho world. ' In n certain portion of the Ural district I camel are tho only working cattle used, some large fnruis possessing a hundred camels, I Canadians aro pouring Into tho United States, On one train the other day Micro were KU), who intend to live hereafter In the United States. , Kect'iit experiments show that If the las-) sels aro removed from growing corn before ' I pollen Is formed a much larger amount of i 1 grain will bo produced. Poor Southey, whoso life was not the happiest, was wont to repair to the coun try, where ho found contentment in mi-1 i turn's syiup.ithetlo company. I The ChlciiKO pension olllco tins on its . rolls the oldest pensioner In the United .Slates, lie Is IIKI years of age anil was a I Bailor of tho nary in the war of 1812. The nervous old Imly who lived in her Shoe coufd not linxc found a home for her family In nnylhlng we keep. We keep all sles hut nothing equivalent ton tenement house. In nil guides of bhoea our stock ia complete, embracing Congress, llutton, Lace, and tln Comn on 'I lea, In Kid, Calf, and Kangaroo. AIo a full line of Slippers etc., etc., Rubbers, etc., etc.. etc ' IOIG O STREET. S. B. NISBET NEW GOODS. 1800 JOHN HIIKHMAN 1801. little better than it recluse. Senator Cattell, of Now Jersey, n man now almost forgotten, had a faco that was a picture. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, now a grizzled old lawyer, was then a remark ably duo and vigorous looking man, with an eye to threaten and n tongue to com mand. Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, was a living imago of the Green U. Raiim of tho present day. "Fcsscndcu had a grand old face; K. D. Morgan was n splendid looking man and Dick Yates was it combination of Roman senator and a modern comedian. Henry U. Anthony, who served twcnty-llvo years in tho senate, was then In tlio prime of vigorous manhood and nearly its handsome as Senator Hiscock. Henry Wilson was a lino figure in those days and I have often heard him likened to Henry Ward Beecher. Senator Patter- 1800 K. Mi CUI.I.OM 1801. son, of Tennessee, was a man much ad mired in tlio.se days, and I suppose ho was the only man who ever sat in the senate while living in the White House. Ho was Pieslilent Johnson's son-in-law uml lived with his wife's father. There wero so many other lino looking men in the senate then that I caunot begin to mention them all. "There wero many grand faos in tho house too. A more interesting coun tenance than that of John A. Bingham was nover seen in tlio Capitol. Tliad deus Stevens looked liko tho grandest old Indian 'jhieftain you ever saw, with tho domelike brow and finer features of tho cultured Caucasian. James A. Gar- Held waa then it remarkably handsome man of thirty-six years, and two liner looking young congressmen than Ultimo nnd Garfield nover sat together. I re member that thoy were fast friends BE A MAN AFOUO WAS A PERFECT MAN. mrtCT HI fHM I-IUKU1.HS II Wall taueua mn u Mfiraw t' ' iuiri mD iku BTtrr UAH aa U nBOMS aaa TlBOlOUa la all mimcU. Y0UNIMEN0R0LD, ttfUf aiBTOVI M4. rknltal IictMM. Mtatat Warry, Miatt4 DUatal. ar aay ruioaaL wiaaaua. caa m nnm4 to rtariOT BtALTII aa tk IIOBtS YrtaLltT ( STBOBa HI tk rrlli aa hni ( RatUaa. We claim by rear ol practice by our clulv nirlhot a uniform MOBoroiT or nooiia-- in ireav- alt BMMf ia, WaatMMM ana UtUuefUtB. TiitlmonlaUl from bo male and Territories, mttm BJPUI S)IIAB wlliMnuirr,acalea,pou HR HEW IDOrl paid, fork fimlird tlmO. SwkUe ! taa. Fall BialaaatUaa tor BOMB TBIAT lit. TeataskaJrVUT BUTOBIB aa Thtttaadt mtMitfn. BaaikaruttlMaatUa. AMrataateaaa Rll MKOIOAL CO. BUFFALO. N.Y. C$ i 5fjr Mm m I IV '. rl2 P3KOOBEMIYB BIICHKK. .BV Bead roatal Mot to Joan Siaumx, S.T. A. C., B. I. FTS. R.. Chlrafo. and rwwliv, pU paid, MjUBkMt deok of card jrou arerr haodlvd. ! DaaU ar aaafe. eaa or uaay '1800-J. O. DlaiSK 1801. Hendricks, Roscoo Coukling, Jamos A. Hayard, Oliver P. Morton, Lyman Trumbull, W. P. Fessenden, Henry Wil- ton, Simon Cameron, George F. Ed munds, Lot M. Morrill, John Sherman, Henry U. Anthony, C, R. Duckalew, James R. Doolittle, Timothy O. Howe, Dick Yates, E. D. Morgan, Jim Nye, Justin S. Morrill, James Dixon, Garrett Davis, Willanl Saulsbury and many others whoso names aro bright on the pages of our legislative history. When shall wo have another senate' liko that? "Tho house of representatives, too, teemed with men of national famo and great ability. I can now call to mind some of the names, though not by any means all of them, who deserve mention In this category. There wero James G. Blaine, James A. Garfield, Tliaddeus Stevens, Schuyler Colfax, Goorge W. Julian, Nathaniel P. Banks, Benjamin F. Butler, Samael J. Randall, James Brooks, John A. Logan, Ellhu B. Wash burnc, Johu A. Bingham, Fernando Wood, Wi"l-m D. Kellv. Robert 1800 W. M. STKWAUT 1801. from their first meeting. They wero of the same age, and mado their debut in congress the same day. "A man now almost forgotten, but then a member of tho house from Massa chusetts, was Samuel Hooper. His waa n face of which you would say 'beauti ful,' just iik you would of a pretty wom an. Sam Cary tuid Jim Ashley, of Ohio, had grand faces, tho former liko that of a monk and tho latter a Grecian war rior. Proctor Knott was then as fino a specimen of Kentucky manhood as one would want to see, and another fino looking young man was William Wln dom, of Minnesota. "Of the eleven men of a quarter of a century ago now in public life I think John Sherman has most changed. Twenty-five years have iiindo of him another man. It is only by tlio expression about tho mouth that you would recognize in tho John Sherman of forty-four years tho John Sherman of sixty-nine. Ho is much liner looking now than ho was in thoso days. Uncle Pliiletus Sawyer has grown rounder, stouter and balder dnr Ing tho twenty-five years, but his expres sion has changed very little. Mr. Blaine wa a splendid knightlike figure twenty five years ago. Ho has changed little. "This is true also of Senator Stowart, whone whitening Ward makes him look so much like a patriarch. You would not believe it, but it is true that a quar ter of a century ago Judge Iloliuan was a handsome man, and as for Senator Cullom, it is only within the last ten years that ho has looked liko Abraham Lincoln. Senator Allison used to looK liko a countryman, but tlio flight of time tias made him handsomer year after venr." WAl.TKU WEM.MAN. A Wertther Fnrvcnat Hock. Roy Menlimer, of New Orleans, who has just returned from a tour through Mexico, during which he visited many out of tho way places usually passed over by travel ers, gives an account of a singular rock to bo found near tho little village of Chll pancluno, in tho Sierra Madro del Sur. This rock ho describes as being possessed of the property of being able to foretell rain, and is said by the natives to be in fallible. Mr. Meniuger himself was nblo to witness several exhibitions of its re markable power, which repeatedly foretold a shower twenty-four hours before nny other warning of Its approach was given. The rock stands alOiio In a little valley un usually fertile and green, and seems to protrude from the ground rather than rest upon Its surface. It is Irregular In shape, about six feet in height anil ten feet about the base, and In fair weather Is of a dull grayish tint, and US HIIIOOlll IIS HMlKllt:U llllirillU IU llll! MJ11CII, but unnaturally cold. On the approach of . ralu It loses its neutral color and lieglus to turn a dingy ivd, deepest about the ba.su and a light pink about the summit. Its temperature increases to about IK) ileus. Fahrenheit, and It presents the appearauco of being slowly heated by an internal lire. This hentai'd crimson color increases rap idly as the Minosplieru grows heavier, un til tho rain begins to fall, when, according ' to Its descent, the rock glows and becomes ' lighter In hue. When the shower is over the warmth and color gradually depart, and the gray tint Is resumed and the rock becomes cold. Dur I ing electrical disturbances this mineral barometer often assumes a highly heated appearance, emitting n pale blue light, and Is so stronuly charged with electricity aa to lie unapproachable. Mineralogists who I have examined tlie stone declare thorn-. selves at a loss to Identify it. New Orleans Picayune. Illnla Doctor TliMiiMtlvea. Some Interesting observations relating to ' the surgical treatment of wounds by birds ' were recently brought by M. Fatlo before I the Physical society of Geneva. Ilequoted 1 the case of the snipe, which lie had often ! observed engaged in repairing damnges. With its beak and feathers It makes a very creditable dressing, applying plasters to bleeding wounds, and even securing a broken limb by means of a stout ligature, j On one occasion he killed a snipe which hntl on the chest a largu dressing composed I of down taken from .other parts of the body and securely fixed to the wound by the coagulated blood. Twice he had 'rought home snipe with Interwoven feath ers strapped on to the situ of the fracture of one or other limb. The most Interesting example was th'it of a snipe, Imth of whose legs he had un fortunately broken by a misdirected shot. He recovered the animal only on tho day following, and he then found that the poor bird had contrived to apply dressings and a sort of splint to IkhIi limbs. In carrying out this operation soiuo feathers liail bo come entangled around the beak, and uot Ixdng able to uso Its claws to get rid of them, it was almost dead from hunger when discovered. In a case recorded by M. Mnuulu, a snipe which was olnerved to flyaway with a broken leg was subsequent ly found to hit vo forced the fragments into A parellel position, tho upper fragments reaching to tho knee, nnd secured there by means of a strong band of feathers and moss intermingled. The observers were particularly struck by tho application of a llgaturu of a kind of flat leafed uruss wound round the limb, of a spiral form, ami llxeil by means of a sort of glue Med ical Record, .ri TiEB Formerly ot HUPFMAH & RICMTER. 1039 0 STREET. NEW LOCHTION, Fret Work, Screens and Panels CAH1NET WORK OF ALL KINDS TO ORDER. Full Line of 7V ANTELS Always ,n stc. ARE SHOWN IN OCR NEW WaREROOMS. NEBRASKA CABINET WORKS, COUNTERS AMD WALL CASES. 1224-28 M Street. SIDEWALK AND BUILDING -!S BRICK -AND- VITRIFIED PAYERS J.A.BU GKSTAFF w A S. E. MOORE, NKWKST KI"Fi:CT.S IN Fine Walt ?vjers and Decorations. Cull and examine the largest line in the City. None but the best norkineu employ ed. Prices that can't be beat-step 1 '"""""" "'" 1134 0 STREET. In. P P e R H. W. BROWN DRUGGISTUfBOOKSELLER The Choicest line of Perfumes. D. M. Ferr V Finest Flower jiiic' Garden Seeds. 127 South Eleventh street. Wlist Ono tilrl Did with WO a Week. Here is a problem for the girls In higher mathematics to solve. Given an income of six dollars a week or less, never more, how Is a girl to dress herself respectably, go to an occasional ball, pay her share of the weekly family expenses, give away little presents, buy books and papers, and save in five years (350 with its luteiestf Only ono girl has thus far arrived at the solution, and shu Is the girl who accom plished It and told all about it to tho other girls in the up town working girl's club to which shu belouus. The party dress was a black lace which did duty three years with such variety of adornment as her cleverness evolved. The ((loves were mils, the slippers her Sunday shoes. Ilowover, the fact stands on record is remarkable, even amotiK those remark lie gills to whom It was told, the work ing uirls of the city, whose lugenuity, practical sense mid cleverness In mnkiug aupply meet demaud are phenomenal, New York Sun. LIBOOIIPS NEWEST AND EINETS STABLES W. .1 I'HATT, Proprietor. First Class Livery Rigs At nil Hours Day or Night. Family Carriages, Jfflw Gentlemen s Driving Rigs, htc. BOARDING DEPARTMENT. We are especially well prepared to board a limited number of horses nnd having the largest ami flncrt equipped -.table In the city, can take best of care of all horses en trusted to us Our stable U light and roomy with iinsm passed ventilation. All vehicles nnd harness receive dally cleaning and always leave the stable In neat, clean stylish appearance. CVIA- ,IA7; -SVii 1S.-GH'; US A TRIAL. Stables 1639-1641 O St Telephone 518. W HEN YOU WANT FINE JOB PRINTING See the WESSEL PRINTING CO. 'S .4 1. 3i,. t . ... .-lA ?. I-wKtu jSlffiriiiifl.'a'': e " - fii ";i'i'i".lff'w