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About Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1892)
Taa Kltratv 1 ... af ( hill. The caliche, or i iw i , ... u of soda, is not equally Ii.-.iiV . .I . r tho jmuipaa bf Chili. Tin- i.. -t l. . i,.i.t (lt'iniU are situated on i ! uf tliehilK which robUy I . mi i,t h.mriMuf l ie old lii'iHitis. A.. t.j.ui till I;.,., tits exurnul hi ; .ii, r- hi I... rin... i where the be found. Tin i . i t.u t ...i on the 8urf.t : .. u n v- ered up by t. : , . iu.".,,. known terlui .. r a I : hie tint nit'. . mil, while l.i. .. . rocky con-lr,-.); ! frsKineiiUo! ! in thickness fro , twelve fWl, I i of earth cu!V I The imli' i i .' i iIk i i . ., rivaled is as ; I . . i through the ch. , -. 4.1.1 layers till tin' i miIi ., ,( , reached below. 1 i i.'.u, .;.! ui til it is wiili' cnoi: .uni t.f h m;.. 1 boy being let iov . m-i..,m.i.. the earth Ih Iow H im fonn a little h . . luto lliix'n charge of gunji. . iurnidijced n;.. enbswiuuiitly t-i; '.he culiclio i-, then eeparuted 1, . i.f picks from the overlying i carried to tuu Mfinery. Uoili i.. ..nice and coin position it varies ,,i iuu:h. In cclor it may be tmow v h.c ilphnr, lemoii. range, violet, bine iiml wiiiieiiiiHS brown, like raw Mignr. Blackwood's Magazine. Tlia A iff of Krr.h Kjrgi. As to junt how old the eggs may be When they get imn the hands of the con sumer in thia town is a matter for con . jecture, and a tank that would cause fleawant thrilln in one inclined to mathe matics. Any one who has ever spout any time in the country and mode a proper una of his eyes kuows it is the habit of furtncrH to keep their eggs un ill they have a certain quantity before disposing of them. The fanners may collect the eggs for an entire week und then dispose of them, or they niuy keep them for two weeks before the huckster gets them. That de pends entirely upon the number of eggs which that particular farmer's hens will lay in a given period. The hucksters go about the country once or twice a week the dealers say. They gather the eggs here and tliere, and when they have gathered a certain quantity turn them over to tho shippers. The shippers, iu turu, hold the eggs until they, too, obtain a certain quantity lid then conttign them to the dealers in this city. When the eggs get here final ly the dealers say they have recoived a shipment of fresh eggs, and mean it too. The dealers maintain that an egg two weeks old in ordinary weather is just as good as an egg that in not more than twenty-four hours old. In fact, they make bold to say they would eat an egg two weeks old just as soon as ojie two hours old, and relish it just aa much. New York Evening Sun. Th Yrar 1881. The year 1881 was a chronological oddity of the oddest kind, besides beinga mathematical curiosity seldom equaled. From right to left and left to right it reads the siune. Eighteen divided by 3 gives 9 as a quotient; 81 divided by 9 gives 9; if divided by 9 the quotient con tains a 9; if multiplied by 9 the product contains two 9s; 1 and 8 are 9; Sand 1 are 9. If the 18 be placed under Ue 81 and added the sum is 99; if the figures be added thus 1 , 8, 8, 1 it will give 18 as the result. Heading from the middle from right to left or from left to right it is 18. and 18 is two-niuths of 81. By adding, dividing and multiplying, 10 lis are pro duced, being one 9 for each year to the beginning of the last decade of the Nine teenth century. No wouder the fortune tollers, the as trologers and the mathematicians weave bo many strange fancies around that curious combination of figures. It may have been what induced Mother ShipUm to end her prophetic jingle with, "And at last the world to an end shall umie in eighteen hundred and eighty-one." St. Louis Republic. A Vary Olil English Cloth. Fustian is a species of cotton cloth much used by tlie Normans, particularly by the clergy, and appropriated to some ordors for their cashubles. The Cuter cians were forbidden to wear them made of any material but linen or fustian. A stronger description was first manufac tured in England, at Norwich, temp. Edward VI. It was much need for doublets and jackets in the Fifteenth century, at which time it appears to have been im ported from Italy. "Fustians of Naples" are named in a petition to parliament from tbe manufacturers of Norwich, 1 Philip and Mary, 1554. The name was corrupted in England into "fuatiauapea" and "fustian and apes," i. e., "fustian a Naples." Notes and Queries oared Barftara bjr Bto Tola. The ventriloquist, Fred Maccabe, has put his Bpecial gift to good use. Retir ing late one night he tossed about for some time unable to fall asleep, and then, hearing footetejie down stairs, he felt convinced that thieves had got into the house. Crawling down stealthily close to where they were at work he, by means of ventriloquism, began a con versation and hullaballoo in many voices: "Here they are! Bring the lighte! There they go! Shoot, shoot them quick r The whole gang of burglars thereupon bolted in panic, leaving all their intended plun der behind. London Tit-Bits. A Sufficient ReconimandaUon. Little Dick Aren't you goin to call on that new neighbor across the street? Mamma (hesitatingly) I don't know Anything about her yet. Little Dick Oh, she's all right. She's the mother of that new buy I play with. Good News. Hook Ytrsua Light uul Air. Better live in a house without win dows than iu a house without books. Barn's Uorn. Twa MrtaUaJ Maaaa. Marco Polo's "Travels" gives a cari ous account of two islands, "distant from Kesutworan about 500 miles to ward the stith, and about thirty mile? from each other, the one being inhab ited by a company of men without a sin gle woman among them, the other by women without the company of men. They are called, resjtectivtly, the Inland of Males and the Island of Females." Geographers and others interested iu the eurioaities of history and navigation have made many attempts to ascertain the exact location of these fantastically named little tqweks in the great ocean; but even after so much research and study the European as well as the Amer ican geographical societies have beeu forced to admit that their whereabouts is doubtful in the extreme. Some believe them to be identical with the Footnote islands, near Socota, but these last named are uow too small for human habitation, besides being too ear the shores of the Red sea to cor respond with thoee mentioned by Marco Polo. The meet probable conclusion that has yet been arrived at is that So rodah, a small island on the west coast f India, is the celebrated "Island of Fo males," it being the resort of dancing girls and women who retire to the place lor a summer s outing after a hard wid ter's work on the continent. As far as Marco Polo's "Island of Males" is concerned it is irretrievably lost, the combined efforts of the geog sphere, the historians and the travelers aot being equal to tbe task of bringing it from the mysterious mists which have hidden it for centuries. St. Louis Re public. Boards af Trad In Waiters CHIm. The novelty in western life is the in evitable combination of leading citizens pledged to promote the beet interests of their town. Such a body is variously called a board of trade, a chamber of commerce or a commercial club. It is the burning glass which focuses the public'-' spirit of the community. Its most competent officer is usually the highly salaried secretary. He does foi his town what a railroad passenger agent or a commercial traveler does for his employers, thut 'is to say, he secures business. lie invites manufacturers to set up workshops in his city, offering a gift of land or of land and money or of exomption from taxation for a term of years. The merchants, and perhaps the city officials also, support his promisee. In a South Dakota city I have known a fine brick warehouse to bo built and given, with tho land under it, to a wholesale grocery firm for doing buni noss there. In a far northwestern city there was talk of sending a man east mi alary to stay away until he could bring back capital to found a Bmoltery. These boards of trade often organize local companies to give a city what it needs. They urge the people to sub scribe for stock in asoociations that are to build electric railways, opera houses, hotels, convention halls, water supply and illuminating companies, often divid ing an acknowledged financial loss for the sake of a public gain. Thus these boards provide the machinory by which the most ambitious, forward and enter prising communities in the world ex pend and Btilize their energy. Julian Ralph in Ilarptr's, Salamander from Arteklun Well. Mr. H. G. Zimmerman, of Albion, Ind., recently discovered in a trench leading from an artesian well a good sized and very lively mud puppy or wa ter dog. This well is eight miles noith of Huron, S. D., and is 1,250 feet deep. Everybody was confident that the rep tilo came from the well, as there is i,o other water for miles and miles. Its head was shaped like that of our com mon cotfish, its color was similar to that of the catfish, and it had bushy external gills, besides four legs. Many coujucturos as to what tho ani niul could be were made; some persons thought it principally fish, others lizard, and the most general conclusion was that the thing was a mongrel between the two. A genius (Proteus) belonging to the same family as tho above (which we take to bo Necturus), and found in caves in southwestern Austria, is blind and colorless. Mr. Zimmerman states specifi cally that the puppy found by him had a good pair of eyes and was dark in color. Lake Byron, twelve miles north of where this batrachian was found, is said to fur iiiah good fishing. Forest aud Stream. Where ArtlnU Blander. "I never saw an artist yet who could correctly paint a horseshoe," remarked a friend of mine, pausing before a Broad way picture store. "They invariably paint it with an equal number of nails on each side sometimes three, some times four, and even five nails. As a matter of fact, there are four on one side and three on the other, the extra nail being on the inside of the foot, where the greatest strain comes." . Which reminds me of the lines of a distinguished American poet in which he sweetly depicts the drowsy cattle on a summer's day lazily lapping the cool ing waters of the crystal stream. The same peculiarity is also poetically at tributed to the horse and other animals, the model of the poet having probably been the house cat. New York Herald. LWarjr of rarlor Maid. English parlor maids wear a distinct livery, not often, though occasionally, seen in New York houses. This consists usually of a plain, long, black or dark woolen skirt, a loose, open jacket of the same material, and oitlmr a n-i,;iu , ---... . n uira ICOI with gilt or ornamented burtons or a vestmadoof livery strijies. With this Bre worn cap and apron. New York limes. A ruzzled Yankee. A etory is told of Lord Grosvenor, who, while traveling in this pnnntrv was asked by a Yankee how ho got his living. iuy lord replied that ho did not work, as his father supporttnl him. "What a dear old gentleman," said the Yankee: "how will Vol! ever mnnnra t.i live when he dies?"- .San Francisco Ar- gouuut FACTS FOR AN OttTUAAY. j ' Tha Good Maa Da Uvaa After Theea aattl I Detailed ta tba lUpartar. ! As disagreeable a duty probably aa any that ever falls to the lot of a re porter is the getting of facts for the obituary notices of persons who are not , esjiecially prominent. Newxpaper uicu , always shrink from the work auU aro loath to enter a house of uioui 11114. The exigencies of the profession demand it, however, and strange as it may s, i (, sometimes the men actually have ical experiences. This is best illustrated by tho ii;.; ;h- tion of a recent occurrence in Ne ' York. A death notice had been re ceived late in the eveuing, and to th. I trained eye of the night city editor Im.m j all the earmarks of a "good obituary." ) Thesoare indicated bv the nnmnMii of the notice, the location of tlw home of the deceased, the name, the woniiug ana numerous other minor details, mk-Ii as one unfamiliar with newspaper work would scarcely notice. The reporter assigned to the tak jin ceeded to the residence given with a ! 1 ing akin to a desire to exchange phuW with the corpse. In response to the rin;; of the bell un airish young woman, pre sumably the widow of an elderly man, oiened the door of the house, which was in a good neighborhood. The rt-poi tor introduced himself and the subject as delicately as possible. "Oh, I'm delighted to see you," replio'l the woman effusively, in answer to the deprecating words of the man. "fve always wanted to see a reporter." she added, looking curiously at the specimen before her, as though astonished at we ing a respecfctbly appearing individual. Then followed the ordinary question by which the reporter found out wln-u and where the man was bom, where ho was educated, the list of clubs and fra ternal lodges of which be was a nu m ber, whether he had fought in the war, and a dosen other things. "It does seem so strange," remarked the woman. "Here I am telling you ail these things, and he will never read your article. Ho would have been so pleased. You know, he was a literary man himself." "Indeed?" said the reporter, brighten ing up at the prospect of swelling liis stickful of matter to at least a iu;ji ..t column. "1 had forgotten to ask ih ' occupation. Will you kindly furuti me with a list of his works?" "Oh, he didn't write books!" "Magazine articles?" queried the re porter, with wavering hopes. "No," said the woman. "Newspaper man perhaps?" asked' the reporter eadly, for his imaginary quar- . ter column had again shrunk to an ac tual stickful ) "He did not write at all," remarked i the woman, at lost brought to bay. "What!" said the reporter, his curios ity at last thoroughly aroused, "not even for trade papers, advertising liter ature, theatrical posters, programmes." "No. His father was an editor, though," exclaimed the woman, with a pleased smile, "and he worked for a publisher. He had the agency for Long Island of the 'Cyclopedia of Useful In formation.' Of course you need say nothing about that. Just write it down that he lived a simple, Christian life and was engaged in literary pursuits." New York Herald. And Yet Ila Cava Him Six Months. A fine, stalwart man, with a frank, open expression, was arraigned for steal ing a pair of shoes from a dealer. "Did you stool the shoes?" asked the judge. "He caught me, judge, with the shoes and the box iu my hand. Ill tell you how it was," began tho complainant, but lie was cut short and reminded thut tlie prisoner had pleaded guilty. "How did you come to steal the shoes? You look like a hard working man," re marked the court "Well, I stole them, judge, and he caught me," was the re ply. He was committed for six months. The judge remarked later: "I was rather taken with that man. He came up to the bar like a Marc Antony, not with the sksek expression, 'Your honor,' or a whine of any kind. Had he given me any good excuse I would have been very lenient with him, for if I am not very much mistaken in my judgment he is no thief, but an unfortunate fellow who was pinched by poverty." Brooklyn Eagle. Cariyle' View ol Apron. Carlylo iu his "Sartor Resartus" was able to find a deep philosophy in aprons. "Aprons are Defenses; against injury to cleanliness, to safety, to modesty, some times to roguery. From the thin slip of notched silk (as it were, the emblem and beatified Uhoet of an Apron), which some highest bred housewife has) grace fully fastened 00; to the thick tanned hide girt around him. with thongs, wherein the builder builds and at even ing sticks his trowel; or to those jinghng sheet iron aprons, wherein your other wise half naked Vulcans hawmrr and smelt in their smelt furnace is there not range enough in the fashion and uses of this vestmentr Tnea That rarnlaha Baal Lac. The lacebark tree grows in tbe West Indies. It is a lofty tree, with ovate, entire, smooth leaves and white flowers. It is remarkable for ths tenacity of its inner bark and the readiness with which the inner bark may be separated after maceration in water into layers re sembling lace. A governor of Jamaica is said to have presented to Charles U a cravat, frill and Yuflka made of it Uotdthwaite's Geographical Magazine. Another Plan. Aged Admirer Think of all the lux uries a rich husband like me could give you. Miss De Young Oh, a rich father would do just as well. Marry my moth er. New York Weekly. A Well Made IUiw. A rope two inches in diameter hiw run at a speed of between 4,000 and 5,W0 feet per minute, day nd night, for eiglit years without having apparently ap proached its limit of durability. Powtvr. "PLACES OF WCKSiriPT Klfth aud Hlxth. Father Carney, Paator Hi rvlcet: Vim at nnd 10 :30 A. H. Hundav NilmoUl :30, wlm benediction, 'HHiTiM.-(nriier L.ieu.M and righto his .-ivli-m ti wiiiny mrt vfi pf( rTilt-r A i' . whj pasti.r Ninriay eViiool ioa. m. rAl..-Ht l.i.k.'K i huiuli. rori.er Third " Hi . IU- h H. KurgrM iatir. Ker- : II A M a ill i m Sunday MctuMil .' . e m Vl ! I" MSI I'l l Nxih M and iv ffs : 11 m. .l In :'M A M cIh x h. r I 1 v .1 1.1 i,ir , I' ; ITHrl Mm I' ni tiii . ve y 1 I us. mi of H't 11 .i - I 1 'it un '1) at el lui'ii Mi. 111 ' I . 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Lighthouse at Sand Heach Mich, and are blessed with a daughter, four yearn. Last April she taken down with Measles, followed with dreadful Cough and turned into a fever. Doctors at home and at Detroit treated, but in vain, she rew worse rapidly, until she was a mere" handful of bones". Then she tried Dr, King's New Discovery and after the use of two and a half bottles, was completely cured. They say Dr. Kinjf.s New Discovery is worth its weight in gold, yet you may get a trial, bottle free at F. G. Frickey Drugstore. . ""HowThis! We offer 100 dollars reward for any case of catarrh thatcan not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. K J. Cheney & Co. Props, Toledo, Ohio, We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the laet 15 years, and belive him pefectly honorable in all buisness transactions and fin ancially able to carry out an oblig ations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Drug gist, Toledo Ohio., Walding Kinnan & Tarvin, Wholesale druggist Tole do Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cnre is taken inter nally, action directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, Wc. per bottle. Sold by all Druggist; Testimonials free. O HENRY BOECK The Leading FURNITURE DEALER AND LJNDERTAKR. Constantly keeps on hand everythin you used to furnish your house. coiina sixth and maim stkkkt Plattsmouth - Neb RY Family Student' School I V I Library 8-H-O-U-L-D Own a Dictionary. RKT THE BIST. T w WEBSTER'S I INTERNATIONAL 1 DICTIONARY THB INTERNATIONAL, NEW FROM COVER TO COVER, 10 ica vii, ixj ttux. 4 Ten yewi pent l:i revlpinR. 100 edl- X tors employed, ever $300,0&u expended. 8old by all Booksbilere. O. & C. MERHIAM ft CO.. IM'.iBhera, 2 J Sprtngllold, M'vds., U. E. A. -Do not bv.7 roprin:.: ft vt3o!eteI 4 editions. a-Scnd for free pimp'.ilst containing T 4, ipecimeu page aud full particulars. J ILV Jy iW cJNC ftfANTA GLAUS FOR IT AS STOOD THE TEST. OP ALL WE SOAPS TflS TAInBANKu IS TOE BEST. 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Tfa nr. . 1 . . 1 anwosj. uuiicmi vj me nouscwue, me farmer, we Stock Raiser, and by crery ooe requiring an. effeaive liniment No other application compares with it in efficacy. This well-known remedy has stood the test of years, almost generations. No medicine chest is complete without a bottle ( Hustano Liniment. Occasions arise for its use almost every day. All druggists and dealers have it. THE PRAISE "OuflCinLSlVE TflfO s y j -f x "I (XT n 4.5 Js- d.XWU WJ. MASAGEK. NEBRASKA. -- tr rv , Y-.:..??k Liniment l TT. .a . 3 J