7 COUNTY LOCALS. We want a iiumbtr of additional CorresjMmdrjit) throKyho t the County. Can't you initc us the news from your litlyhborhoodt j;r. nvooo. Vioin tin; i: iu. Ellis Orcciiblatu i.s under the weather this week. Willard Sutherland has purchased the old city dray of J. II. Hart. About fifteen Indians passed through this part of the county last Tuesday, heading for Omaha. James Mediums, of Onnawn, Iowa, was visiting his sister, Mrs. C. N. Smith last week. John, oldest Hon of James (M irk, who has been sick for some tim:: with typhoid svor, is recovering under tho bkillful treatment of Dr. llobbs. Dr. llobbs and C. I). Clapp went to Omaha Thursday to see -Mr. Iler in regard to the coal business. They took a few samples of coal with them. We have had no chance to interview them since their return. Last "Wednesday evening our band boys rigged up and went duwu to Weep ing Water to give the citizens a pleasant serenade. The boys speak very highly of the courtesy shown them at the hands of the citizens. Mrs. S. Itakcr and Miss Nora Raker left Wednesday morning for Uluc Springs, this state, where they will visit a week when Mrs. llaker will return and Miss Nora will go to Kenesaw and remain all summer. I.OUISVII.LK. Froia the Observer. Charley Rockwell left Wednesday for Kavanna, Neb., where he aeccepts a job on the 11. &. M . as wiper. Georgia May field returned home from Reynold, Neb., where he has been at work for a few weceks past ia the Reporter otlicc . Mrs. M. Peterson has lately had one of those line iron pumps put in her well in the rear of her store building by II. E. I'ankouin. Mr. Samuel Ilryaut, of Ashland, came down Monday to attend the protracted 'meeting that is being held at th's place by Elder Henry. Jlr. Ilargis station agent at the Mo. Pae. depot informed the reporter that he so'd 73 tickets to Springfield Thursday. This shows that our town was well repre sented at the barbacue at that place. Mr. George Utt.n and newly wedded wife, formerly Miss Anna Sampson, of Greenwood, were the guests of G. AV. Mayfield and -family Sunay afternoon. They returned home to Greenwood in the evening. ROCK BLUFFS. ih I. S. White and granddaughter who went to Colorado a few weeks ago to improve their health, have returned. About sixty-five of the people of this locality went to the show last Friday, which made the fields have a rather lone some look. Mark White lias sold his farm and 100 head ol hogs to his father, I. S. 'White, we hear, for the sum of $ ,500, and ru mor says that Mark is going to Arizona. Mrs. Allen, her daughter Kate and son William, came in from Valparaso last Wednesday to make a visit and to see the old home once more. John Churchill and family moved to Phillips Co., Kansas, last spring, to stay for good, but last Monday night he pulled into Rock Bluffs again. lie says he has got enough of Kansas and he thinks that Cass Co. will hold him after this. Anothor one of our school inarms has gone. She has gone to the state of mat rimony. Miss li.-lle Fitch of this place was married on Wednesday the loth of this month to Charles Franz of Factory ville. The wedding occurred at the resi dence of Robert Franz in Foctory ville. Harvesting in this locality is all done and the grain is mostly in the stack. Small grain may b called a fair crop, and the growing corn crop at present looks extra good, and if we could get a few good rains soon, there would be a large crop to gather this fall, but the dry weather is beginning to make the corn blades curl. Tim Shaver. avoca. Robt. Malcolm our J. P jeweler, and tonsorial artist was in Omaha yesterday on general business and to secure state agency for tea. Robt. and Geo. Mai coin have opened up a three gun shooting gallery and have fixed it up in fine style as a permanent institution. Mr and Mrs. Wm. IT. Reck and Mr. Mr. Chas. Rivett of Victoria, Mr. and Jlr. J. T. Marshall, of Avoca and LeRoy Marshall of Syracuse, were visitors with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Marshall on Saturday evenintr last, and had an enjoyable time. Mr. James Rivett sr., of Lincoln was also an esteemed guest. Mrs. Wardin and daughter of Topeka, Kan., sister and neice of our esteemed fellow townsman, Amos Teffr. returned to their Kan. home yesterday, after a pleasant visit with their friends and re latives here. . Mrs. F. Beattr and her sister Mrs. I. Pell, will start tomorrow morning on a visit to their children lie v. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Barger, M. E. Pastor at Hebron, Thayer Co., Neb. Mr. Mack Jones and daughter, Miss Nellie, were visiting A. L. .Marshall and family Tuesday. J. C. LaGrange and family have inov ed back to Avoca. Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall have re turned from Callaway, Custer Co., they like old Cass best after all. Our town comm. Lave just put in new crossings. Gluaneu. tftaaSattgaSsj QUEEN WOOD. From the Loader, A great many hogs have been marketed here of late. Miss Estella Polk, of Louisville, came in Monday on a visit to frieuda in the vicinity of Greenwood. Mr. TefTt, of the Greenwood Roller Mills, went down to Plattsuouth Wed nesday morning to dinpose of a car of bran. The drug store of Conn & Toland has been closed most of the week invoicing, preparatory to a dissolution of partner ship by the firm. Mrs. Finey is here from Ohio, on a vis it to her sons Geoge and Win. Finey, both prosperous farmers residing a short distance northeast of town. Miss Emma Moon, who will teach one of the schools in this vicinity, is expected to arrive from Iowa in a short time, and will visit with the family of her brother Mr. T. O. Moon. We hear it rumored that Greenwood is likely to have a boom in the shape of a new brick hotel of considerable propor tions. This is just what our town is in need of, and we sincerely hope the want will be speedily supplied. Mr. Geo. Moon, who has been visiting with his son Attorney T. O. Moon of tnis place, returned last week to his home in Ackworth, Iowa, accompanied by his grand daughter Miss Bessie Moon, who will visit two or three weeks with her grand -parents. WEKPINU WATER. From the Republican. Bo kn Monday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Richards, a fine boy. Rev. Wilkinson and his little grand daughter returned from Michigan. Mr. J. M. Beardsley was confined to his bed for several days by illness, but is able to be out again, we are pleased to see. Butter and Douchey each lost a valua ble mule last week. Mrs. Woods, sister to Gus Hobbs, we learn has a line daughter. Ben Thompson is the happy father of a 10-pound boy, born on Thursday of last week. Ben has been extensively in the cigar business ever tince. Mr. William Maple received word that a pension had been allowed him at the rate of $2.00 per month. He will get four or five hundred dollars back pen sion. Mack Baily who is now tiring on a B. fc M. engine in Flattsmouth, came over last Sunday to see his best girl and shake hands with the boys. We expect to 6ee Mack at the top of the railway ladder in a few years. The bids for the erection of the new brick school house were opened Tuesday night. A. B. Martgan. of Auburn, and T. F. Jameson were the only bidders. The former's bid was for $9,200 and was the lowest. He will get the contract. Mid wiil, he said, begin work Monday next. From the Eaj?lo, The siding to Sperry's brick and sand yards is all graded ready for the iron. The Weeping Water Academy has ac cepted B. A. Gibson's proposition to lo cate the Academy on Carter's addition. Geogre Schrider started for Oregon Tuesday, he will probably locate there. Mrs. A. M. Beech, has returned from Lincoln, where she has been visiting for a while. The Western Union telegraph company are stretching the wire between here and Nebraska City. Fair commences August 30th and con tinues four days. Bear this in mind far mers, and prepare something for exhibi tion, and thus help us to make this the best county Fair in the state. A small boy at Eagle came near losing his foot last week. He got to close to a scythe. Dr. Hobbs fixed him up in good shape again. Last Thursday morning James Folden met with a painful accident in the yards here, that will lay him up for some time. Mr. Folden was employed on the section, tiie duties for that day were to go out on the Lincoln branch to distribute fence posts. He had just climbed to the top of a car, when the engine backed up to it to make a coupling, the slight jr.r thew him off his balance, he dropped between two cars onto the rail, Engineer Headley was signelled to hold his engine, which he did promptly, or the poor man would have lost both legs, the car wheel got hold enough of one leg however, to crack the flesh open for about eight inches, lay ing bare the large cord of the thigh, and nearly severing another. w aba sir. From the Item. Valentine Hay is still very sick. John Clark is very low with typhoid fever. Will Cole and Willie Hulfish have em barked in the poultry business. A child of Peter Jenson, who was be ing cared for by Mrs. Peter Eveland died last week. Samuel VanEvery, who has been mak ing his home at James Colbert's, has bought two lots in Hortons addition and will build a dwelling house at once. We learn that $2,000 has been pledged for the erection of canning works at this place. It will take about $3,000 to put in the plant. Among the people of to-day, there are few indeed, who have not heard of the merits of Prickly Ash Bark and Berries, as a household remedy. Teas and drinks have been made"of them for centuries' and in hundreds of families have formed the sole reliance in rheumatic and kid ney diseases. Prickly Ash Bitters now tnke the place of the old system and is more beneficial in all troubles of this na ture. (16ml) ABOUT THERMOMETERS. THE INSTRUMENTS TO WHICH ALL RUSH IN HOT WEATHER. The Tubes Frequently Imperfect Keeord of Cheap Thermometer How They Are Made The Centigrade Cee of the Spirit Thermometer. During the hot spell there Is no Instrument that is studied more carefully than the ther mometer. Every one want to know how hot it is each day, and all continually consult these little glass tubes. These vary some times several degrees at the same Instant. Baid a dealer in thermometers to a reporter: "Thermometers are very curious Instru ments. Sometimes we find one that Is all right at certain points and at others it will be several degrees out of the way. These variations are caused by irregularities in the tube. The tubes are very frequently imper fect. When the tube Is too large, of course, the registration is several degrees lower than it should be. Sometimes the tube is too small, and then the mercury shoots up higher than it ought to. The tubes have to be sea soned. This takes several months. When glass is new it changes, expands, contracts and warps almost as badly as green wood. Very often, after buying a cheap thermom eter the customer has brought it back and said it registered 100 degrees in the shade, when the temperature was only ninety. The best thermometers are made in London. These imported thermometer? are, however, very expensive. Some very good ones are made in this country at New Lebanon, N. Y., and at Rochester." 1IOW THEY ARE MADE. "How aro they made I" was asked. "The tube is b'own to the size wanted, the top being left open. The bulb is then heated to expel the air, and while heated the open end is inserted into some mercury. As the tube cools the mercury runs into the vacuum. The open end is then sealed and the tube placed on a scale. Then it is placed in water of a known temperature and the point to which the mercury rises is marked. Several tests like this are made before the instrument is offered for sale." "How are the thermometers proved to be accurate r' "There is a place at Harvard college for testing them. They are carefully examined at different temperatures and any variation is marked. A certificate is given with every instrument that is examined." "Which scale do you think is the best!" "The centigrade is the one I think should be generally adopted. For the use of brew ers there is a thermometer about three feet long, with a bulb about two feet in length. The scale of this is short, and is only marked for a few degrees above freezing point. An other odd instrument is of English make, and can be read in the dark. The tubs is filled with a green composition and contains phos phorus. Spirit thermometers are used for very cold climates, as mercury congeals at 30 degs. below zero. These cannot be used to measure extreme heat, as above a certain temperature the liquid expands too fast; it boils at 160 degs. For very high tempera tures the pyrometer takes the place of the thermometer. The heat is measured by the expansion of metals, and will accurately register up to 700 degs. Febrile thermom eters, for the use of physicians, are very care fully made, and a certificate is sold with them indicating their variations from perfect ac curacy." New York Mail and Express. Few Collegians In Journalism. In an address at the commencement exer cises of Middlebury college, Air. George E. Plumbe, a Chicago editor, tried to explain why it was that so few men with academic culture are found among the members of the daily newspaper press. He gave some inter esting statistics on this subject, which may be thus summarized: In the five great cities of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and St. Lonis there are nineteen daily jour nals of admitted influence. Only six of these are edited by men who have bad what is called a "liberal" education, while of the 821 persons regularly employed upon these journals as editors and reporters, but 222, or a fraction over 26 per cent., have graduated from a higher institution of learning. Mr. Plumbe offers several explanations of this, but omits the most significant one, which we take to be the fact that what may be called journalistic aptitude is not a product of academio culture at all. It is true that the same thing might be said of the special talent or talents which count for success in the profession of law or medicine, but the in dividuality of the journalist goes for more than does that of the doctor or the lawyer. He must be born with a certain sense of dis crimination and of proportion, most have a kind of intuitive perception not only of what will interest his fellow men, but of what is the general bent of mind of large masses of readers. The Epoch. Labor and the Golden Kule. A writer in The Open Court, a scholarly Chicago publication, relates an experience of his early life which carries an instructive lesson. Although now possessed of a com petency, in his early years he trundled a wheelbarrow in the construction of railroads, and deemed himself a skilled workman then, as he was, for the men were few who could accurately and jauntily roll and dump their barrows. One day an aged fellow worker said to him: "Yez could wheel on a horse's rib," and the tribute was a diploma. Soon afterward there came along a greenhorn, stalwart, but awkward. He made a mess of the job, but only one man volunteered to in struct him in the knack of walking the plank. For his kindness in doing so Jemmy Hill was upbraided by his confreres, who looked on the new arrival as a "plug" and a "scab. Their taunts had little effect on Jemmy, but one day he took aside the writer of the narra tive which we condense and showed him a little watch charm, on which were engraved two torches, the one lighting the other, with this motto underneath: "My light is none the less for lighting my neighbor." What a lesson that was in political economy and the humanities I It is gratifying to be informed that this philosophic and kindly barrow trundler afterward became president of a great railroad. New York Graphic. The Depository for Stolen Pocketboolts. A favorite depository for stolen pocket books is a lamp postal box. The inquiry de partment of the post office has fourteen pock etbooks on hand now, out of twenty received during the year. The pickpocket seems to have some slight sense of honor, as he is con tent with the money he finds in the pocket book. He puts the book and any draft or other articles of no value to him, but of pos sible value to the owner, into the letter box, so that it may eventually reach the owner. One Sunday night last fall a noted politi cian was robbed of his pocketbook at 155th street. He felt the rascal at work, but he was protecting an old lady in a big crush and was powerless. He never expected to hear of his pocketbook again. On the next day he got a notice from the post office that it was there. He at once claimed it, as it had a safe key and some documents of value, but the t00 in bills were gone. New York Sun. EW YORK TENEMENT SCENES. The Watery of On Block Evolution of ! a Tojngh A. Landlord. Could the history of this single block be written, say for the past year, it would make strong ram turn faitit. Women in the agonies of child birth on the bare floor, with the stench from cesspools rising unchecked to greet the new born infants, children of ten der years cooped up In narrow cells with those suffering from contagious diseases; little onus going blind with the terrible infectious ophthalmia which runs riot through tho poorer quarters, the sick and the aged turned out into the street for daring to complain of their vile quarters in abort, a thousand ter rible happenings to make people wonder if there is a Ood in heaven. Let it not be sup posed that all of those houses are bad. Some the greater part perhai are to be olassod as good in themselves, but all are contami nated by the bad ones, and the best suffer from the outrageous, illegal, inexcusable overcrowding. Suppose you were born In a rotten tene ment, would not you be a tough Ten to one that you would. Scarcely out of your mother's arms you would find the whole world against you. Your father, if you had one claiming the title, would get so sick of his nasty sur roundings that he would rush out and accept inebriation as relief; then he would tome home and kick and beat you. Older com panions would bully you, teach you to swear and steal, "tump" you in the neck when op portunity offered. As you grew up evil com panions would cleave to you. No good in fluences would touch your poor little life. You would have to shun tho filthy home and seek the solace of the beer saloons. You would learn all things evil and learn to judge evil as good. You would be a tough just as soon as nature allowed you to. But the land lord is not to blame, bis apologists say. He makes a plaoe for people to live in that they perforce shun. It drives them to rum holes as to a refuge. Yet tho landlord is not to blame. Here's a lovely place for a civilized eity the best city in the world. Filthy hallways, cellars with low ceilings and damp floors, bedrooms without ventilation save what comes through the doorways, and those on the top floors having no ventilation. These are the delightful apartments which are sup posed to hatch out tho creme de la creme of Inhabitants. Here is one of them recently looked up: She is a 25-year-old widow, comes from Germany and has been six years in this country. She is a laundress. Maximum wages $3 a week ; minimum, fifty cents. No other honest resources. Two children, aged 2 years aud 13 months. Rent of two rooms, t-t per month. The bedroom is perfectly dark, the only light in it entering by the door. There is no window save into the halL The young widow is extremely pale and nervous. She suffers from frequent attacks of rheuma tism. And she is put down as immoral. Think of it! A woman enjoying theso luxu ries Immoral! How perverse is human nature! The house Is full of Italians. It is never cleaned unless by the tenants. The privies are never cleaned. And two Innocent chil dren, with such a mother, have got to grow up and face tho world if they do not die In the growing. The landlord who owns a big tenement on Batavia street has had put up a sign saying: "No ball playing or other games in this yvd. No lounging, and nobody but tenants allowed In the yard." Asa tenement house boy re marked recently: "I'm tired of livin'. There's no place to go; there's no place to play ; there's no use in havin' a holiday, anyway. If you play ball in the pork the cop chases you off; if you play ball in the street you get arrested. I'm tired of livin'." New York World. An Important Study. Negro Father (to sou)-iTow yer gittln'long at school ? Boy Fust rate. Father Whut yer flingln' yer mine down on fur de mos' part! Boy Rifmertic. Father Got down ter jogerfy yit? Boy No, sah. Father Wall, I wonts yer ter git down ter dat ez soon ez yer ken. Boy What's jogerfy gwine ter do fur me? Father Whut's it gwine ter do fur you! Wy, it'll alius keep yew outen de po' house, dat's whut it's gwine ter do. . Boy How come! Father Is yer dun los' all yer sense dat yer doan know how comet Doan' yer know dat er man wid plenty o' jogerfy in his head ken alius tell de age o' er boss by lookin' at him I Doan yer know he ken fling his eye up ter de clouds an' tell w'en it's gwine ter ram, an' dat he kin skin er sheep jes' like snatcbin' off er shirt? Know dat man whut tuck er peach tree switch an' foun' dat fine well o water on de Fulgum place, doan yerf Boy Yea, sah. Father Wall, he wua er fine han' at jog erfy. Go bock ter dat school 'ouso an study jogorfy, son ; go right back dor on' study it dis minit. Arkansaw Traveler. "Copy" from the Telegraph Operator. His day operator at once commences to take the report from the Morse sounder on a type writer. He is a fast operator, and he takes on an average seventy-five words a minute. He could take more if it were pos sible to send it faster. A voluminous code is used to facilitate the sending. Thus "t" stands for "the," "Wshn" for "Washington," "fm" for "from," "mfrs" for "manufacturers," etc. These words are filled out on the type writer while they are coming in abbreviated form over the wire. A batch of "copy," neatly type written, is soon ready, and a boy dashes down stairs with it to the telegraph editor of the after noon paper, who cuts it up, puts suitable "heads" to the different items, and sends them to the printers. Only the news comes over the wire, and the operator sits impassively, with unchanging countenance, taking mur ders, riots, weddings, bank failures, Jubilee items, conspiracies, desperate battles and ministerial conventions in one long, clicking monotone, without anything to distinguish one item from another except the date and a new line. The sorting afterward is the work of the telegraph editor. Pittsburg Dispatch. Master and Slave. The gatherings of the blue and the gray about town are full of little incidents of color. Ca.pt. Booker, of Post R. E. Lee, played a prominent part in one. He was dining with his old comrades at Faneuil halL Jollity reigned. There was a telling of stories and clinking of glasses. The deft waiters ran to and fro, supplying the guests, and Capt. Booker was in a gay group. Another toast bad just been proposed and a fresh round of champagne was in order. Capt. Booker raised his glass in the air as a signal to a waiter for more wine. A man came toward him. Capt Booker was paying attention to the table talk. Ha felt a touch on his shoul der and half turned to raise his glass for wine. He looked at the waiter and the waiter at him. The glass dropped and the bottle too. The surprise overcame both. Comrade Booker saw In the waiter a former slave of his, one he had not seen since the war. The colored man had found his old master, unseen for over twenty years. It was a pleasant recog nition, and the waiter found it a profitable one. Boston Record. Habit of llontlne Work. Habit, is the master of the world. Tuke a (dimly built fellow, nervous, need ing sleep, accustomed for years to Irregulari ties of eating and rusting, and put him at work in the oillo of a morning newspajmr, where hi hours are from 7 at night antil 9 In the morning. You think very naturally that he will grow thinner and paler and le more nervous. On the contrary, ator a few days and nights, the hat.it of routine work, the hnbit of routine hours will settle epon bin i 'id in him, and In six mouths from the dnyoi his commence moia he will gain in weight, his nerves will bo stronger, his mus cles harder and his general condition im proved, not alone lecause of the violence, but beoauso of the regularity of his work the habit of his oocujxitioii. Men who turn nigbt into day, as tens of thousands of news paper workers are comjmlled to, benefit very largely by the change. They are spared the broilings of the midday sun, they avoid vory largely the crowds upon the atreota, and al though they are strung at times to the very verge of nervous excitement by the exactions of peremptory duty, and the puahings and forcings of much work in little time, tho night workers of the press, as a rule, are the healthiest of the two sets. Joe Howard's Letter. A Hand to Hand Fight. At the culmination of tho battle of Bailors creek, when we got into the "hand to hand" part of it, there was a brass cannon belong ing to the rebel battery stuck iu bbe mud and the artillery men had left It, when it was discovered that it was loaded. It was not in a position to bo of any service to either friend or foe, while if it could be extricated from tho mud it was good for at least one shot at somebody. Three "Johnnies" and two "Tanks" took in tho situation about the sum time, and throwing aside their empty rifles rushed for this gun. A "Yank" and a "Johnnie" caught the sponge staff simultaneously and began a fight for it, while the other two "Johnnies" caught hold of one wheul and tried to turn the muzzle of the gun toward us. The other "Yank" caught the opposite wheel. Thus they stood and tugged avray for two or three minutes, until our men coming up drove the "Johnnies" away. For a few minutes things were mighty lively; the "Johnnies" got a bat tery into position and began throwing shells into the crowd, wliero blue and gray were mixed together, but a soctioa of one of our batteries coming up on the dead run soon drove them off, and settled the matter fur the day. "Trefoil" iu Buffalo News. An Omaha Horse Punlo. It is becoming customary to propound puz zles having horso trades as a oentral thamo. While this paper has no borne editor, there are several people upon Its staff who can tell a horse at sight, and who are not slow at arithmetic. A puzzle has occurred to one of tliem, and he gives it to the world at large. Sup;ose A sells a horse for $100 to B, Then B iu turn sells him to C for $110, and the animal dies. What does each make or loset The problem looks simple, but it is not. In the first place, A had stolen the horse. His profit would naturally be $100. A difficulty presents itself just here, for B paid A In counterfeit money, while C paid B by a note. B wus indicted for passing counterfeit money. In revenge ho had A arrested for stealing tho horse, and both went to tho pen. To add to the complications, D, the real owner of the horse, came along and claimed the hide and hoofs. The claim was disputed by C, and consequently upon the ensuing argumeut Cs doctor's bill was $7.75. In the mean time a lawyer had gotten hold of the note and tried to collect it. C compromised the matter by licking the lawyer, and, grabbing the not, tore it up. At present there have beau uo more developments. Omaha Herald. Mr. Gladstone's Gol Health. The home rule envoys tell me that Mr. Gladstone's health is one of the marvels of the d;ij H".lical meu in I-ondou say that he Is still one of the strongest men physically among the English gentry. When he strips there is not an ounce of superfluous flash on his massive frame, and there are few mtu Iu the commons today that he could not knock out with his fist if he tried. He hlmeelf ex plained this by his love of exercise. His great rival, Disraeli, disdained exercise, yet Mr. Gladstone is now two years older than Dis raeli was at his death, and probably doe as much mental and literary and public work as any other man in Europe. lie is the sole survivor of his generation of public uiea and yet rivals in physical strength and endurance youngsters who might be his grandchildren. His is indeed an interesting illustration of the value of outdoor exercise. New York Star Tattler." The Bishop's Advice. "Aud don't keep telling about your last ap pointment," says Bishop Fowler. "I knew a minister who was always telling how the peo ple treated him at Brownsville. It was Brownsville here and Brownsville there everything was Brownsville. This went on until everybody got thoroughly tired of hear ing Brownsville. One night a good old lady arose in the weekly prayer meeting to give In her testimony. She was a dear, good soul one of the saints on earth. She said she had had a hard week. 'My soul,' she said, 'has been greatly depressed all the week. I find my faith very weak and my hope very dim. I can no longer see my way to reaoh ing heaven. I may hold out till I get to Brownsville, but I can't go a step further.' There was no more heard of Brownsville in that charge after that." Texas Sifting. A Question Answered. Omaha Man Are those pug dogs Intelli gent? Omaha Lady (proud owner of a pug) Oh, their intelligence is almost human. "I am surprised to hear that." "I can't begin to tell you how much the dear little fellow knows. Mercy met Jane! Jane! Where are you i" Jane (a servant) Here, mum. "Run out as fast as you can and bring the dog in. It's raining." Omaha World. Ueataarant Slang. CoL Redbeek went into a Park row rectaa rant the other day, and calling a waiter to his table ordered a beef stew, two eggs tried on one side, a piece of pineapple pie and a cup of coffee with plenty of milk. The waiter walked to a hole in the wall and warbled: "One life preserver! Pair o' white winjs, sunny side up ! Er South American grave stone! Cup o' yaller with a choker on!" New York Star. Sick with Anxiety. "Goodby, nay dear," he said to his wife as the bell rang for all ashore. "I hope you will have a pleasant voyage with your friends, but I shall tie 'sick with anxiety to hear at your safe arrival. " "Shall I cable from Quouiistown, Johnr "Heavens, nol Sand a postal card." New York Sun. A Muscular Author. It is said that Bulwer described women aa angels in his books and whipped his wife at home. Well, a man who follows the sedentary profession of an author must have some sort of exercise. Bulwer is to be commended for not taking his wife away from borne to whip her. Syraiowu HeraiJ. The Slzo Of tho First Watoh. From the Jewelry News. At first tho watch was about the sicca f a tlesbuit plate. It had wiglita and was used an a "pocket clock. The rax licst known use of the modern name o curs in the record of 16G2. which insntisas that Edward VI. had "enelnrum er watek) of iron, the case ltin liktwiss el ire gilt, with two plummets of Uad. Tk flrKt watch may readily he supposed to 1-4 of rude execution. Tho first great ira-prevemeut-the aubstution of springs fef weights was in 1680. The earliest springs were not coiled, but only straight pieces of 6tecl. Early watches had only one hand, and, being wound up twice day, they could not be expected te kesfl the time nearer than fifteen or tweaty iniuutes in twelve hours. The dials wr of silvur and brasH; tho cases had ne rre tals, but opened at the back and fron and were four or five i rubes in diameter. A plain watch cost over fl, 500, and after one wau ordered it took a ysar te make it. Wondetrful Cures W. D. Hoyt A Co., Wholenale aed R tail Druggists ef Home, da., sj: We have been selling . Dr. King's 5sw DU covery, Klretric Hitters aad Uutklea'e Arnica Balvo for two yesrs. Have handled remedies that sail as well, er give such universal satiafactioa. There have been some wonderful curia eiVcti-d by these medicines in this city. 8everi cases of pronounced Consumption kntya been entirely cured by use ef a few bot tles of Dr. King's New Disrevsry, tskea in connection witli Electric IlitNre. We guarantee them always. Sold by (1) F. G. Fiucan Co. Miases laced eerge shot 35 ami foxed CO cents only, at Merges. Htf Lege I Bet loo TO JOHK VY.aI.rKil HAIHS. alssl deftfiidant. You are lieretiy aot.Hail t:tl ou tb-S) a day of Jul, it:. W rj Rioa ait4 a etltivii ai'iiiuit you iu ilia 1'iilMal r t'-n ,uty. Nebraska, the object mbO r)s of wbi h ui-v to obtain dlvorca f'uat ;u the troi.oil that you tiara wil rully ra--4 the p '-iiltr wlthuut kj1 tauia fr the tut a of more Uin two years last st : la H ah:- a aerr-a of court dcrf1na tb ltd f lt block 4 In te eitv of i l:tlinomU. tf.a pl.inur which title la now In Uelaudaui' name Ymi are required to answer said ran tioa on r hefore Mondaj, the 5th day ef teniae. lf7. May Hixa. rialnti by Will-mt raitiRUii, har Avtaraav. 19 4f. KSQAl Clt Mast. Fstrlteal BataAa4 f fce Cvtlaara II earn 4H est. For ck-aiiMlni; tlie ttkiu sue Scaly t DtcBKur lnt; Humors, for allaying Itebli n. bsralutf a4 I illumination, for curing the trat aveiiitoaut et Kerf ma. t-sorWvi. Milk Cruat, aValy Ha ana other Inherited hklu aud aUoud a)laeite, crofuU. (.'i. riruK A, Ilia ureal aklu Cure, una Cunt lka Soai aud exiu aitv skis laauUsar, externa ly. ami Cl'I'Icska tr JtaoLvas r, the naw Mood furiUer, luterually. are lfIUllw. I liHTe suffered all my life with akla dlasasi of dlttercut kinds and tiara uavat fsaud ar nianent rt-luf, until, by the adrlca al a latlf friend, 1 ued your valuable t utk vma Ms hl di kh. I gave, them a thorough trial, ualag six bottles of the Cuticuka itMMOtvawT. lu boxee of C'UTICUB a and aevaa cakaa f t'evi. ci'ii A Soap, and the remit was lust vhat I a4 been told It would be a compute curt. DBI.LK W41K. Kichmoea, Ta. Reference. J. W. Latluxer, Urujfguji, U--tuouij. Va. HALT RRKCI Cl'BVaK I was troubled with Malt Rievu for a tin. ber of years. o that the skin aatirwlr auaia os? cue of my band from Ilia Duger tlyi te the wrist. I tried remadles aud doctwra' treorlu. tions to no nuruose until 1 coiurufeuaed taklae Cuticuka Khmrdies, aud now j aa aatUrwly cured. K. T.FARKEX. 170 Northamptac M.. Icaifcrja. DBlValSTM KKB4Ka TO!?. Have sold a quantity or your CurJeur Ks edieH. Ui of uiy cuatoioera, airs. Haury Kiutz. who had tetter ou bar Baud Iu auch aa extent . to cauic the akiu to uel vf, Mit tor eiKht years the suffered greatly, aaa caatlettt ly cuied by the use of ur uiediciuea. U. V. V VE. Urufc-fc-lat, Caittoa. Ualo. ITCNIKW, thVCALV, TlUriY. Forthe lat year I have had a species at itch. uk. aealy aud pimply hsaiora aa aiy faae to which I have, applied a treat wauy eithoda of treatmcut without succ-kn. and which was speedily aad entirely cured by cuticuka. Mks. 1BAAO tUHLt. JUvui, v, XO MKHICIKK Ul We have sold your Cuticuka Kzataiie for thelaxt ix. years, aud uo tuediciuas our shelve give better aattaf action. C. 1'. AlUKKTO. Urugtfiet. Alb. . I, Cuticuka Kkmbdiks are sola everywhere. Price : Ci;tk:uka,so ceuts : Kkholvkut, kl.uu; Moai 23 eenis. Prepared by the forts it Dhuo Axn Chbmical Co., Hoatoa. Jaaaa. Seud for "Mew ta Care Mkla Otaaaaaa." GT3TTT5C Pimple. Bkln Blamiahes, aae nUJDJ.Baby Mum or, ssrad fty Cuu ciKA Soap. Catarrh to CtssiisptioL Catarrh In its destructive fare ataada uaxt to aud undoubtedly laads on to eouguinyilou. It is therefore aiuvular that those aallcted with this fearful dte abeuld sol oiaku it aa object of their lives to rid tbaaiaelvas el It. Deceptive remedies coueoctad tw by Ignorant pretend .a to niadlcal kuowiadge have waak end the couttdenee of tba graat majority ot aufferera ia all advartlsad remedies. Xher ba come resigned to a life wf uiUery rather than torture tuemselvas with aouhtful palliative. But this will never do. Catarrh must be met at ovary atae ana ooiubated with all our ailu'bt. Iu uauy cases the disease has aaautn ed UangerouH S) mptoins. The bosf-s Sbd Ike cartilnice of the nose, the ortftuia ef h arms, ef seeing aud of tasting! so af eclad as to be visa legj, the uvula so elongated, the throat so Ir ritated and Inlawed as to produce a eouaaafat and dtstrepxiiiif eougb. Sajcokouii's Radical. Curb meats every tihase of Catarrh, from a sliuple bead sold tu the iuo.it loatbsuina and distructlve stages. It is local aud constitutional. Inataut la r lievins?. permanent Ui curlLg. safe, econoaiic&l rnd uever-flliiig. Kach package contains one bottle of tbe Kaoical. Curb, one box Catahkhal Hot' vist, and an UrayvKO I halm. U1 trsatise ; prVe, 1. fOTTBB Dhuu aito Chsmical. 0 Boston KIT Y IN OKI f 4 1 lifeiesf . all I lleut with tl JL Weak liacl KIDNEY PAINS U Mill TU. that weary. . all -go tie aeasatloti ever pies a those of Inflamed Kidneys, Hack and Iolus. Aching- ill pa and Mile. Uterine Pains. Weaknras, aud Ib flammxtinn, la relieved and speedily surcd by the :otlcura Antl-Paln Plaeter. a aw original, elevrant aud Infallible antidote te pala and tnnauiraatloD. At all druAratats. v : Ave forSl.M : or of Potter Drug sud tbeiuloal Co., Boston 7-7-lBi.