Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892, November 08, 1888, Image 3

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A Grand Musical Catherine:.
I'r-'iu Haturdry's iMlly.
X Ji r suit of fjinot pfrnnsl work of
tin: young people of - the l'rchy tci ian
Sunday h( liool in nclling tickets to 1 1 r-i r
Cf-nri rt given lriht nigbt, there gathered
il ll; k v-,d hull a large audii-ncc of
both youjg and old. Tla mteitnin
nicnt more limn pleased tliosr pr .Hi nt.
All tin; progi-jimme was iv .n mi goad
t ! j, 1, but t !r niii:-1 i i k iu r i X-1 1 ' of th'.
I V hilig v :-t I !:: Inll.ic 1 1 V tin- Ztlicr
"!a'. I :. ci uli v. :is Had..-." tin- had'-r
sbip ol .Mir , Lilli-m Kiuhte, wiio, Ihougli
I'Ut U gal. displayed l j ) i -i il t'tl' lit, :ii'd
ability worthy an .l,br h:..,'. Tin:
Zytln:l Ulub appi.ai- 1 taii.i: oil tin: pro-
c'j anuiV.-. and was car.'i I ha . .neon d.
Mi. L'i lil'o nit was encored on his
bij!u, and ; Hided u ilh a song of his
own composition, which wiih a parody
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!i:i.'i;;i; d Mi hi-gdii,"
(' U':i i t tin; ol .! i
sin:! ! It til- hall,
i .lk.- laid a jolly time
Mia-.s far about an hour.
II. I
ACAI vil IHcSETVLERS.
Judge Brewer Rentiers an Import
ant Decision in a Railway Case.
Toi'KstA, Kas., Nov. Judge Brewer
has ju.-4t handed down ail opinion in the
famous Allni county case, in which cer
tain aUernitc sections of Ixud granted
ly the goy-rncuent to this .Missouri, Kan
sas and 'I. t is railway vcrc claimed by
the sviii.',H uierjuu. Judg Urcwcr
holds t's it i m-y ij (pie.iiioa legally
ii i ..4 - 1 i- t 1 r a i ij i;o:r p. my. Tlie
.s;iii 1 , i ' i.Io.j !ij cnoipi'lled to
g.v.; n ,..-.; ii'ti lo ill's conumuy.
.'llti'.y t i l 'l. -,'!.' o.'reUp: :, til': liudj
for t ii ii: : -a y'K'.rs and It . ; laude
ext aivc lai jrovf.'ii.jnls.
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i.iii Mil-
!:, v t ' : V ' i , 1 . i i i a-.' X MM il
('ii . ; 'w.vi." .1,1 iay, threw a
i a:, i ;, ,. nicli crashed through
tii " window after hitting the driver. An
otlieca on tho car jumped off and chased
Miller, who refused to stop. The oflicer
fired, hitting the man in the left leg.
Just after the shut was fued the man dis
appeared and Us was not found until an
Uaur ' 'ter. !!:. he was discovered in
ii hoi;. .Mi his aeck oroken.
Tl-.o Sobyioninn Expcdition
PmLADEi.i'iiiA, Pa,. November 3.
Word has been rcc :ived from Prof.
lVters auaoafu ii; the safe arriyal of the
U.dyers.ty Vcv.ih Ivania U iby Ionian
evj.-viiliii'H :)t. Siai'th niter the brief deten
tioa by dp wreck iu th" Medi -crranean.
Jrof. L'l'ierr, denies th::t any or the sci
i;r'iur ." j p aatus of the p atv was d aili
ng -d -tad says that no bii;':: !tr- was las'.
A a. i ; f.oit Ji ifi'i at .er:d.
.::: i.;.s. N i-::5.. Nov. Chs Root,
.-n : of the editori 1 t.itl of the Nebraska
i'adr Scale .b.n: a'd, set'vetary of tia
Lit.ct ki Fr. . 3 club, and stut.j dclegait
from Nebraska to the late lm-tin of thp
Prison reform assoiMation in Iioston, died
at Ids ao:si. in this city yev-rday from
!y:-'iio;d r. -.r.
Mrn Wages Demanded.
?).:.!,: ' , '!.! Xl .VI-.VKI-.K 3. At il
1,: . ;,, 1 . ; ..; tie (.'ret k iva;u'i'.-
i.s ,- y , w - r vi lv-d to make a
ii .r ., . ;', : . .ii 'any for an increase
o. ; : T'.;-: pvrM-nl price is C5c
Tit c . -v,- '..'ill probably refuse and u
titrike will follow. The company em
ploy U00 men.
impaled on a Pitchfork-
ilASTrsos, Neu., Nov. 3 The son of
a f arm :r mined Calkins, living near this
t itv, Avas yesterday impaled on a pitch
for: v,': :i sliding down a g-ahi
st vek. T iiMnjs pierced the boy's leg
mi l ; : '. , ' tl liId 1dm su?pended
with his !;i'i l tl.-'wnw ird.
o - eon at id Island
L:n"o :. X.: i . Nov. :j. Tu- Bij.tist
Un i i.y w ioi i.iy bio a ted at Grand
I-il l , , " ; , 'i.' -.; t: )ti of t': ' -Ut? con ven -tiaa
'.;:-d ..aaaimti'T. y s(. r.Iay. The
c i.fiiMi (b.sed lau '.I- ib
tf.a P::-t5-.T-.rif-'d:-. Kn-y Iniprcvins
T;:--- I! ..t i:. Sov. :. l ie: conditio:
Of La )i Jl.il t:i.t Was II'i MOVl'i: I
I : ; i.....
- . .'. -. G .-. i,er, of Wabash, who foiu
. .-k ago today cime to Plattsmouth as
a delegate to tUe democratic convention,
and became insane on the road, was ar
rested, examined, and returned to his
home, the attack being thought to be
More or le?s temporary, ia again far off
from his mental balance. lie was brougat
in troia Wabaib this morning again and
i .io: i.iiiMiml iu the jail here. Appli
radon lias been made to have hiui ad
mitted to the hospital at Lincoln. That
institution, however is crowded and there
n-iy bo no roam for him, but until a re
plcds received he will be kept here, lie
is'vrry ret;ess and walks and talks ccn
tiuutiiy. Political excitement seems to
! too nn-at a strain for him.
' -.vf now busleth herself
-. ,. . a( r.- fatuily dwellj.itf
..:...,!.,.;:.'::-?': ,t:td j'.'.rcmer real
c a',. -.Aii ei Ciioits arc rioLly rewarded.
TliAVELIXG IN SPAIN.
LIFE AS SEEN FROM THE WINDOWS
Cr A RAILROAD CAR.
IIvr IVHKuut SI--j lai ICoute Tho llor
roi f f;ai'lic Tim fij-aiiiunr Inevl
tii!l tlar-ttu A (hut willi a Jolljr
family.
A lait'l e'ass earria'ro is r.ot a very
plea;. an! la-';, evea if you can M-o the
beaatii'M of Sjiaia from ita dirty windows.
I ca i but dt:.-rilxs tl. uuu I t wvclfd ia as
rts"ribli:!;r; an American cattle car tilted
up uiiii park beiadies. At t ho ends of
each car is printi d the number which do
.innate:? tin; ti uru i.er if passengers a car
is epe ted to hold a anlly ninety.
'i in: tii-c ct whieh I a:a writinjr was
eariy rprin, yet n: ia.ijt, tiiero waj a
daaip ciiill in tie; air, had t ho atmosphere
of tho cii.r was rtd.d.ait with tho siaell of
that highly tlavored Kpanidh delicacy,
parlic jiaddinir TLis popular relish
every f-paidard tal.es with him, in un
iv.rii'in pot. whenever he travela. If ho
i', oelv i'.iiiaj- a f.-w miles tho pudding
C'.eo too. to bo hrindy in caso of etuer-
Ao n',','Lt f-r.-'w on apace, my compan
i.a.h, li pfasants, j.refiared themselves
for sleep The preparations were speed
ily iu-eonip!i:;!.cd, eeli man mullling him
self in las cloak up to his eyes, and all
I'-aning in who direction on each bench, as
if by previous agreement, those on the
next bench loaning tho other way. liut
for this equalization Ibhould have thought
tho car tipping and about to slido down
ono 1 1 tho eteep sides of tho mountain.
Tuey breatho through this cloak. Somo
tinieu tho cloak i.s un heirloom, and tho
continual breathing through it by a few
p-wrutions does not mako this arlitlo of
their apparel more presentable.
GALLIC TCDUINa.
Some stayed awake lor a whilo tosmoke
their cigij-cttes. You would imagine
f.'! a the uisMuous way the peasants of -iV-rt
d each oilier tobacco and that garlic
delicacy of which 1 have spoken, that
tuey were vory polito by nature. I found
out aitarward, however, that iu Kpaiuyou
are expected to decline when anything is
offered lo you if you understand eti
quette. Not being r.ware, at the lime, of
this social law, I took some garlic pud
ding which a villainous looking jx-asant
i .Vere-d mo 1 thought that tho act might
i i.a .a l.iia, .si.ov. in'.- that f was not too
load i r 'htuck !'" to cat what lie and
ilio iv-;t at". 1 paid dearly for ray o.vpcri
vi. at. !'-r it i:oarly strangled mo with its
e.-. i-r; yt t 1 f ia:id strength to murmur
bueao," t':o:igh tie; tears surged into
lay yc; waiio 1 ti'.aaked the donor.
la lay perambulations uround tho world
I have come upon nauiy viilainous smells,
but never bel'ora such a concentrated
combination of odors us that garlic pud
ding emitted. Later I learned to distin
guaui localities and streets by it. Tho
Spaniards canuot cook without garlic.
Often as I have asked for something
without ajo, never did I lind anything but
hr.-l soiim taint of garlic.
It nay bo unnecessary to speak of the
inordb.i.-ito smoking of tho Spaniards.
They uro- uuerpialod bv any nation in tho
world as smoko producers. It is very
hard to meet oue, morning, noon or night,
without the inevitable cigarette attach
ment. 1 mention it as a discovery that I
met one Spaniard who did not smoke.
Till' sr.YM.UUiS CIGARETTE.
The Spr niard bends his cigarette down
ward, at nearly a right nn:do. At home
and abroad, .accept ia cathedral or ransoo,
the lings of smoko arc always rising in
perpet aal incense. Tho senora at her
loiiet ia the window smokes her cigar
ette. The beggar asking alms, and rat
.:::g ;U t ae iron gate of tho patio, smokes
meanwhile. Oaly burro, tho patient
donkey, doesn't craokr1.
r'v r.aJ bv ttie tram stopped and a 1
portly peasant and his two daughters en-
tvrel, tlie latter clad in the national cos-
t ian", with the r.iaatiila. They had the
race of leopards ia their movements,
and eyes that seemed full of hidden fires.
Ono dark, with blue black eyes and a
r;ikk-n brown skin, that lovely color
w hich only comes from alifo iri the sun,
at work ia the Holds. Tho other had th'
bioatio hair Muriilo so loved to paint.
Though simply dressed, there was soiao-
tbisg strangely pieturesyuo and poetic
a'aotii t hem. Both si.siors spoke pure Cas-
.'a'ia:t "the tongue of tho north." To
iao t acre i ; no language under tho bujj
:au.-.-kal ta tho port Si'.'-r-ijU ton-
a-" Lv w " " , -s?"0 wilcu
- " . - 1 oi ,a stile. It is like
". ..e laarvaar of a brook flowing over peh-
b.03 Rial full of dreamy harmony, liko tho
murmtir of water at rdght, which tho
Spanish call "tho sigh of the Moor,"
IX A JOVIAL MOOD.
Thi3 family party, thorotnnd father and
his two graceful daughters, were in a
jovial mood. As wo sat on the same
bench, we soon entered into conversation.
They thought it great f mi to make me the
subject of their badinage. JIv future was
prophesied by one of the daughters. Was
1 a bachelor? Did I expect to escape all
the fa.;r Cast ib-ms unmarried. They were
indeed a juv-ial tet, and did much, by
their talking and singing, to enliven tho
trip.
t I waa surprised to find many of the
oaauiards in the, car were of enormous
etattuv. Usually the Spaniard of the
tcwus is fdight and undersized. The
numerous cloaks, sashes, knives, and so
forth, make the slenderest Spaniard quite
robust in appearance.
I must say there is one thing about the
caballero that wearies me, and that is hla
tnsuficrablo conceit and braggadocio.
Tkcso "children of the sun" are very
yeeaaar. They have a conceit of locality.
..lany 1 saw dressed in the costume of tho
time of "Don Pablo of Segovia." The
wearer being more proud of las province
t'.isn of his country, wears the costume of
th? pro viae?. The most boastful of theso
braggarts aro generally arrant cowards,
yet they aro, for tlie most part, good ma
tured cowards. W. Parker Boagh in
Demorest's Monthly.
Chloroform in Killing Poultry.
Mr. F. Eaden Benger, the president of
the British Pharmaceutical conference,
adopts and recommends the following
plan fcr the "happy dispatch" of poultry.
A largo wide mouthed stoppered bottlo ia
kept cuarged with an ounce of chloroform. :
When a chicken has received sentence of j
death, it is held firmly under the left arm j
and its head slipped into the mouth of the i
bottle. A few deep inspirations follow, !
aud the bird without a struggle becom3 !
uncoitscious. Then, holding it by the
legs, its neck is dislocated by a quick i
stretclu The plan is so simple that it
might be generally adopted. Scientific
Aciericau.
Xo Two Were Alike.
It must b? pretty hard for a woman to
lead "in fashion." Out of 500 toilets and
730 bets surveyed on a recent afternoon
on Broadway no two were alike, while all .
wero fashionable. Detroit Free Press. j
PLATTSMOUTIl WEElttA -ir,'rtius. 'niJFJSIM V, NOVEMBFIl S,
INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS.
The i:flot Irodured by KurtlMjuakf a
Upon tlio Ixmcr Aiilaiul.
In the la.-t issue of the "Transactions
of tho Seismoli.gieal Society of Japan,"
l'rofessor Milne, the- well known student
of volcanic: phenomena, discusses tho ef
fects of earthquakes on animals. Th!
record.'! of most great earthquakes refer
to tho consternation of d"gs, horsefi,
cattle and other d-iaa--.1 i; animals, lash
also ara frequently effected. In tho Ijou
ion earthquake of ll'.i), roach and otLcr
lisli ia a canal showed evident t-igi.'s of
confusion aal f riei? ; und sometimes
after na earthquake fish riao to thosur
face dead and dying.
Durirar tho Tokio earthquake of 1SS0,
cats inside a house tan i.bout trying to
t.-.eapo, fuxes braked, horaes tried to kick
down tho board i conlining them to their
btables. Thcra can, therefore, bo no
doubt that animals know something un
usual and terrifying is takiag place.
More Interesting than these aro the ob
servations showing that animals t'.ro agi
tated just before an earthquake. Ponies
have been known to prance about their
stalls, pheasants ta scream, and frogs to
cease croaking suddenly a little time bo
fore a shock, as if awaro of its coming.
Tho Japanese say that moles show their
agitation by burrowing. Cieese, pigs and
dogs appear more sensitive iu this respect
than other animals. After the great
Calabrian -thquake It is said that the
neighing of , jorse, tho brayingof an ass,
or the cackle of a goose was sufficient to
cause tho inhabitants to fly from their
houses in expectation of a shock.
Many birds are said to show their un
easiness before an earthquake by hiding
their heads under their wings and behav
ing in an unusual manner. At tho time
of tho Calabrian shock, little fish liko sand
eels (cirricelli), which are usually buried
in the sand, came to tho top and were
caught in multitudes. In South Amer
ica certain quadrupeds, such as dogs,
cats and jerboas, are believed by tho peo
ple to give warning of coming danger by
their restlessness; sometimes immense
flocks of sea birds fly inland before an
earthquake, as if alarmed by tho com
mencement of Boino sub-oceanic disturb
ance. Before tho shock of lWSa in Chili,
all the dogs are said to have escaped from
tlin city of Trdcahuano.
Tho explanation offered by Professor
Milne of t his apparent prescience is that
some animals are sensitive to tho small
tremors which precede nearly all earth
quakes, lie has himself felt tLem some
seconds before tho actual earthquake
came. Tlie alarm of intelligent animals
would then bo tho result of their own
experience, which has taught them that
small tremcrs are premonitory of move
incuts mora alarming. Signs of alarm
days before an earthquake are probably
cectaental; hut sometimes In volcanic
districts gas:;s have emanated from the
ground prior to earthquakes and have
poisoned animals. In one caso large num
bers of lish were killed in this way ia tho
Tiber, and at FoIIonica on tho morning of
April G. 1S7-1, "tho streets and roads were
covered with dead rats aud mice. In fact,
it seemed as if it had rained rats. The
oidy explanation of the phenomena was
that these animals had been destroyed by
emanations of carbon dioxide." Scientific
American.
T?io Chinaman's Lovo of Home.
Tho ties of locality aro very strong
among the Chinese, and hence now fami
lies, as they are formed, settle down in
lifo in the immediate vicinity of that from
which they sprung. Thus one commonly
sees groups, or nests, of families gathered
about the parent stock. Whole villages
may be found composed almost exclusively
of persons of the same name, and contain
ing four and even five generations of one
family.
"Smithville," "Jonesville," or, to trans
late more exactly, "Tho village of the
Chang family," "the town of the Wang
family," "Tho Li ParuUy Crossroads"
these and similar names of hamlets, vil
lages and cities are so frequent through
out China that they give a large fraction
of all the names to places in tlie empire.
The class of "globo trotters," as they
aro called persons of wealth who travel
around the-globe sight seeing form a
never solved puzzle to the mind of the
Chinese. A Chinaman pevex leaves his
home excopt from necessity. While ab
sent, whether in foreign lands, or jn feuui
other part of ds own (ttftuir.n
look.3 upon ' ue always
-wu as an exile, is always
. .e or less homesick, and, no matter
how dirty and squalid his native village
may be, he looks forward to his return to
the wretched place as the chief joy of his
life.
The Chinaman is not, and, without ati
entire change of his nature, cannot, be
come a colonist. lie is an acute and care
ful merchant, a patient, faithful and dili
gent laborer, but, above everything else,
his home ties are strong. While ho wan
ders all over the earth and submits to all
sorts of privations, abuses and hardships,
ho ia only a wanderer whoso doepest do
siro is for home, a quiet old age with his
family, and, above everything else, burial
in the tombs of his fathers. Chester W.
Holcombe in Youth's Companion.
Andrew Lang's New Game.
It is "my own invention;" alone I did it,
and can recommend it as more than com
mon, tedious and destructive of the hap
piness of nations. By this game alone a
company may bo driven to bed an hour
earlier than usual, and the comfort of the
families may be wrecked at the lowest
possible figure. Directions for playingthe
new intellectual game of poets and paint
ers: Each person being provided with a
eheet of paper and pencil, which the
owner will never see again, the dealer
makes a nonsense rhyme. An example is
here given for the instruction of country
gentlemen. Example:
There was an old man of Toronto,
And people cried: "'SVhere has be gone to?
Here's bis table and chair,
But where is ho, where.
This invisible man of Toronto?"
When tho dealer has composed a gem of
this kind he docs not show it, but illus
trates it by a drawing. This he circulates
among the company, and each of them has
to make a nonsense verse on the incident
illustrated by the sketch. The worse you
draw the better. The dealer then repeats
the truo original rhyme, and the others
aie read aloud by the person in tho com
pany least skilled in deciphering hand
writing. A box containing the game and
rules for playing it, with pencils or
crayons (lead pencils 2s., colored 5s.), may
be obtained at the office of the society for
propagating intellectual games. Long
man's Magazine.
Xii2th of Soldiers' Steps.
Among the Continental armies the Ger
man soldiers have the longest legs, judg
ing by the length of etep. It is b0 centi
metres. The step cf the French, Aus
trian, Belgian, Swiss and Swedish is 75
centimetres, and of the Russian 71 centi
metres. Thirty centimetres make a foot.
New York Sun.
Iartr Uncomplimentary Audience.
When Adel inn Putti first 6firrr biro I
think It was in 1!S1 she scut over na
manager a man utterly ignorant of tho
country and its customs, u l-'reni-hman
who scarcely understood a word of laig
lish. The tickets were r.old at ,10 apiece,
but tho sales were few, and the evening
of Patti's lirst aj'jK-arance, or rather th
aft ernoon. arrived without nior" than a
few rows of seats sold in Steinway hall.
At the last moment it became evident
that if Patti was not to sing to an anav
of empty bem-hos. either the priv of tho
tickets must bo reduced t h quae', els or
tle y must Ihs given away To reduce tho
prico after having sold boinu tickets at
if 10 would have been a concession f f.al
uro and something of an agjjrava! io:i to
those who had paid 10 So it was wi.is
percd about that reputable per-;oas w Lo
wanted Patti concert t icket s could l.ava
them for not hing by applying at the box
oiiico. Immediately a descent wa.s mado
by n'.l tho habitues cf Fourteenth street
livery olaco bay, every waiter La tho
neighborhood who con hi beg or steal a
sheet of writing paper sent in an appiica
tion far seats, signing any name which
might bo thought effective.
Tho collection of letters upon whk-h
some hundreds of tickets were given oat
that afternoon has been preserved as a
curiosity. One boy brought a letter ask
ing for "four seats, signed by the duke of
Harlem, and got them. Tho mayor of
Long Island, of Now Jersey, the president
of Brooklyn and a number of other Id ;'a
officers wholly unknown in real life gut
tickets. Before evening tho boys along
Fourteenth street had their pockets full
of Patti tickets, which wero hawked
about at CO cents apiece. The effect upon
tho business was. ef onar'-'i 1 r
and Mmo. Pat.i ha t.. j;i vo up her con
certs in disgust. I shall never forget tho
face of tho famous prima donna as sho
gazed upon that audience in Steinway
hall. Inatead of tho elite of the town in
dress coats and white chokers, silks and
satins, tho front rows were filled with
persor.3 who had evidently never pos
sessed dress coats ia their lives. It was
all that Patti could do to'keep back her
tears of indignation. Philip (J. Hubert,
Jr., in The Epoch.
Craze for Variety i:i IMef.
There is a positive virtue in a certain
amount of routine iu diet, and a positive
sacrifice of happiness in tho continual
craze for variety. Oae falls into a way i f
looking forward plcasurably to a diancr
that ho knows is coiaiier, raid sits u .wi:
to it witli a kind of ca-'e acss provided.
of course, it does not come too oltea. The
people who li vo to a great li ;e generally
account for it by t lie regularity of t-afr
iife. M. de Chevron! takes hi.; t wo boiled
eggs for breakfast evi-rv laorniaa' id' l.is
life, and, for all anybody knows to the
contrary, has taken than ovcrv mornin."
since ho was of a:;e which was just
eighty-one years ago. Tho "Listouer"
has never noticed that tho people who
eat certain dishes with nufaiiinir re.ralar-
ity seem to enjoy them imy less thamj her
people do who pick and h.T-'do over a bill
of fare every day, looking wearily fur
eomet lung new.
rot every person is born with the rift
to bo an epicure; nnd the mass of us who
were not born with that out had bet to:
adapt ourselves to a cheerful and com
fortable routine. Lven the born epicures
are seldom happy. If they could always
Ct just what thv'y x-ant'ed to eat. and
were uoe mado miserable bv the cookin:
of at least' two meals out of three, they
would not be happy, because go al diges
tion seldom waits on highly u-"orir-as"ad
palates. It was Urn tat Savaim. the "Lis
tener" believes, who said that "heaven is
where we eat." tmd the place whero we
digest he called by another name. Fast on
Transcript "Listener."
The People of British Honduras.
The lower classes cf people in our coun
try aro iu better circumstances than those
of the corresponding class in this country.
I have just made a trip down the. 11 li tails
and Mississippi yivcrs'to St. Louis, and I
lind people at nearly all points living in
miserable huts along' tho river banks Vad
in dirty hovels built on flat beats. Such
things aro not sepn in British lioaduvas.
The working classes lnakw a cc.lu1,"i
living, ariparentK- wUhoo ..a.ule
The priii-rai! i--' o' exertion,
is t. ' ' . ...uct of tho country now
i oanana. Formerly Honduras was
a great sugar producing country, aud
large areas of land were devoted to rais
ing sugar cane, but owing to low prices
tho crop became unprofitable and tho
farmers have nearly all turned their at
tention to tho cultivation of bananas.
Plantains and cocoanuts also flourish
there. Lemons and oranges are cultivat
ed to a very limited extent, and tho
Indians in tho interior of tho country
raise some corn.
Tho banana crop, however, is the chief
source of revenue in tho country, and it
is a very profitable crop. The larger
number of inhabitants of British Hon
duras are Scotch people, who have sett'ed
there and aro doiag well. There are also
quite a number of Americans and people
of other countries ia the state. Tho prov
ince is a small ono and is surrounded on
three sieles by Spanish Honduras, Ciuate
mala aud Yucatan, which countries rae
inhabited chiefly by the Spanish. Capt.
James Leitch in Globe-Democrat.
Cost of Killinj: a Ttlan.
It doesn't coet so very much to kill men
in the west. Cf course you cannot cut or
shoot a man down with impunity, and
murder is sometimes as severely punished
there as it is anywhere else; but what I
raea'.i to say is that it doesn't cost much
to kiil a man by accident. You frequently
hoar of cave ins in mines or fractured
skui'.s by falling down winzes or shafts,
and the thought that comes to you natur
ally is that the mine owners have to pay
o!uC0 cr 010.UOO damages. That isn't so.
A sht while ago four men were killed ia
a mino near Leadviile. They wero Ital
ians, and tli3 widows or families of the
ra:-n were more than delighted to receive
$1. C00 and the funeral expenses. In the
sa ?ie mine more than ten men have been
killed, and never more than 1,000 Las
been paid. Tho plan in the west, when a
man is killed in a mine and the company
is somewhat to blame, is to go light to
the heirs and make a settlement. Most
of tho laborers are Italians, and their
rcoplo take 1.000 as quickly as it is of
fered. A. J. Gray in Globo-Democrat.
Indoor Games for Winter.
As cold weather and our deadly northern,
winter comes again to shut us np, some
ineloors and souio in the grave, t here aro
games with balls to help drive tho de
stroyer away. All these aro good. They
bring every muscle bits play, and espe
cially train the eye, as it follows the flying
sphere to and fro, to swift accommoda
tion of vision.. Battledore and shuttle
cock, played in a cool hr.!l cr Isrgo room,
is next best to tentus, aa:l it is astonish
ing how much sport may I j -ained there
from. William F. Ilutbhitiija, M. D., in
American, Magazine.
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