flljc JJlattsmoutl) Dailn fjcralfc
2INOTTS I3BO Q.,
Publishers & Proprietors.
The hoy ami men who asks, "Is this
cold enough for you" enjoyed themselves
thoroughly yesterday.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, with some
good eastern man for vice president
would make a strong candidate forpretii
dwut in 1868.
The FulU City Journal, in alluding
to the recent marriage of a neighboring
editor, says that while it waa all right
for him to marry and nettle down, it
would have been better still had he re
mained faingle and settled up.
THE TARIFF VllOllLEM.
There is no disagreement on the ques
tion that some of the revenue of the gov
ernment ought to be cut off. But how
to cut it down is another thing altogeth
er. The democratic press is clamoring
fcr an immediate reduction, but what
will the democratic majority of the
house of representatives do? The leaders,
familiar with the difficulties of the situa
tion and knowing a good deal more of
practical politics than they do of the
tariff, are looking for a compromise.
But what compromise? Mr. Carlisle
wants to cut down the customs duties
and leave the internal revenue
taxes alone. The two leaders will not
accept a compromise that doca not benefit
their own district. Jlr. Carlisle says
customs must be reduced and internal
revenue taxes left as they are, while Ran
dall wants it reversed. Some think they
will solve it by taking the revenue off of
sugar for one tiling, but there are demo
crats of the South who would work hard
against that. So when it comes to carry
ing out a compromise, they will find too
many minor compromises, and the ques
tion arises, who is to have the advantages?
The South or Pennsylvania? Pennsyl
vania wants the benefit of the protective
principle, and so does Louisiana, and so
does Virginia. And they all want the
surplus reduced for the protection of the
democratic party. But the man who
takes the medicine will be made to an
swer for it by his constituents; and so
every statesman wants every other states
man to think of the effect upon his dis
trict. THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.
It is not generally known that 1 3 per
cent of the population of the United
States in 1880 was foreign born. If we
include the negro race, the element in
question amounted at that time to 18 per
cent. The number of persons landing
on our shores from other countries has
steadily increased from less than 20,000
in 1820-UO to an average of almost half
u million per year for the last ten years;
and in the absence of definite and prac
tical restrictions, this average is likely to
be surpassed in the ten years to come.
It is not fair, of course, to class as for
eigners all the children of such immi
grants who have been born in this coun
try; but it is worth saying that a calcu
lation of that sort would increase the
showing to 34 per cent of the total white
population, and that in some of the
States Massachusetts, for example over
half of the people are of foreign blood.
The fact that this immigration has
been of decided advantage in the devel
opment of our resources and the promo
tion of our national prosperity and wel
fare is not to be denied for a moment.
A large majority of said peopla are patri
otic, industrious and valuable citizens.
It may be conceded that the infusion of
foreign blood thu3 brought about has
been beneficial in other than strictly ma
terial respects, and that we are stronger
and lietter in every sense because of such
an addition to our population. But has
not the time come to apply certain rnlts
of discrimination for the future, and to
shut out at least that sort of immigration
which is undesirable on economi
cal grounds? It is well known that the
character of the immegration is not now
as good as it was some years ago. We
are receiving not only a great many per
sons who are practically helpless, but also
a considerable number who are miscbie
vous and dangerous, and whose presence
here can only bring us trouble and possi
ble disaster. Is it not right and proper,
under such circumstances, to begin to
draw the line?
There is a general feeling, unques
tionably, on the part of all good citizens,
including those of foreign birth, that
some plan of protection is needed in the
case. Just what shape that plan 6hall
assume, however, is a question of mani
fest and serious difficulty. Wc can not
afford, perhaps, to forbid foreign immi-
cration entirelv. There is still room for
some more if we could be sure of getting
only that which is profitable; but in the
nature of things we can not have such a
guarantee except by some process of se
lection and exclusion. The problem of
devising such a process is one of the most
important that our statesmen have to face;
and it cannot much longer be postponed
in justice to ourselves and la s3fety tbbnr
institutions. We can certainly make no
niiiiuke in denying anarchists an asylum
and an opportunity under our flag.
With equal propriety, we can refuse to
reci ive and support the paupers and
invalids and cripples of other nations;
ami our i ight to impose certain condi
tions as to education and the ability to
earn a living is beyond reasouable dis
pute. Probably these restrictions would
be sufficient. Globe Demotrrat.
NO T 11 OQQISII.
From the Huston Comic.
"You have a reat country," said an
Englishman to an American; "I admit it.
A grand country, vast in its territory and
of boundless resources, but your climate
can not compare with that of England
for Ralubrity."
"It can't?"
"Certainly not."
"Why, now, our climate is one of the
principal things we pride ourselves upon.
We have all kinds to suit frigid, tem
perate, torrid, and each poscssed of a
salubriousness equaled nowhere else in
creation."
"But it is averred that Americans die
early."
"Die early ?"
"Yes, sir, and especially your business
men. "
"And don't you know the reason?"
"It is to be found in the nature of your
climate, I presume."
"In the nature of our climate? No, sir.
The reason Americans die early is because
they ain ft hog, because they know when
they've got enough. Public-spirited,
patriotic and uuselfish, they die early,
sir, to make room for the rising genera
tion." Russia's Censor of th Press.
Tho censor of the press, when he wi&bes to
simp!y destroy a certain article in a news
paper or magazine, generally runs a roller of
black iuk over it, leaving a dense spot
through which not a word can be discerned.
Tbe instrument is like tho ink roller of a
printing press. If the article hi a magazine
covers inoi-o than a page, tho pages are aim
ply torn out and cast into th wast basket.
Tho oflico of tho consor of the press in a city
like St. Petersburg is something like that of
tho city editor for a large American news
paper. The corps of assistants open tho
mails, run through the matter and hand the
questionable stun to the censor, who decides
if it should be detained, destroyed or passed.
This process makes the delivery of all -
matter, except letters, very slow. Tho news
papers in Russia are of very little importanos
on account of the censorship. Erery arttdl,
even to a local paragraph, discussing Russian
affairs or referring directly or remotely to the
emperor or his family, tho army, navy or
any official, although it may simply say that
so and so is going to such and such places on
a visit, must bo referred to tha censor. Edi
tors tell mo that their articles are so long de
layed by the censor, even though be passes
favorably upon them, that it is not worth
whilo to attempt to use political matter or
news relating to any one or anything con
nected with the empire. It is not infreqoaat
that articles are referred to the czar, and the
author is summoned to appear before his ex
cellency and explain the object of publica
tion. Thus tha restraint of writers cannot
be appreciated by any except those who nave
had tho experience. Russian Letter.
The London Half Saturday.
Of course the British public is used to its
half Saturdays now, and perhaps in time the
American public will come to it too. Tha
distinction between Saturdays in the two
countries is something very marked. Satur
day all day i3 the busiest part of the week
in America. I know many business men in
England who don't count Saturday as a day
at alL Before you get rightly started at
work the day is finished. It takes an Amer
ican a long time to get accustomed to the
London half Saturday. I was a year in Lon
don before I got at all reconciled to the fact
that you could not count on Saturday for
much. I was continually going down in the
afternoon to the printing office and finding
everybody gone.
But the four bank holidays are a frozen ter
ror to the American. A paper has to be got
out about a week ahead in order to tide over
that terrible Monday, for any employer will
tell you that it generally takes most of tho
week to get things going smoothly again. I
pity the man who has to go anywhere on a
bank holiday. Traffic seems to be knocked
silly. You can buy a third class ticket and
go into a first class carriage and then stand
up. Luke Sharp in Detroit Free Press.
The Montenegrin as Emigrants.
Tho Montenegrins are entering tho field as
emigrants. Whether the crop of flea pow
der (that is their staple article of export) has
failed, cr whether the fleas that cause the do.
maud for it have diminished is not clear, but
certain it is that the people of the mountain
principality are inclined to leave their rocks
in such numbers as to cause Prince Nicholas
to fear a day when he shall no longer have a
man left to govern. Perhaps the Monte
negrins will be putting in an appearance in
Castle Garden one of these days. They are
all in favor of allowing women as large a
sphere as she wants, if so bo that she will
only work in it. It was one of them to
whom a traveler, observing the women hoe
ing a Held with hoes but two feet in the han
dle, said:
"Why do you make the women work with
such tools as tbatf'
"Because it makes the men's backs ache,"
ansvrcred the free born son of the Black
mountain.
"But docs it not make the women's backs
ache, toof
"Oh, they pet used to it." Constantinople
Cor. liew York Tribune.
r.ules at a "Jleallh" Hotel.
Ths Et-Dton Transcript tolls of a hotel at a
health resort i:i which the following rulos are
displayed: "Do not ask servants to do any
thing you can oo yourself; go elsewhere if
you tire not suited here, as there are others
wanting your room; any disagreement bo
twe n greets will bo settled by the request
f Loth to leave." New York Tribune.
camrles' cnso or loior.
To determine whether her two pot canaries '
pos3es.?d the sense of color, a Chicago lady .
placed before them two bathing cups, one of
ordinary wloto ware, the other of colored
gLtss. After a moment's hesitation the birds
plaugcd into iho colored cup ani have since
ref used to liatho in any other. New York
Evening YfwEL i
THE SHIP.
A klnjr, a pope, and a kaiser and a queen mctt
tM was !
Went sailing', Batting, silinp, over a sunny sea.
And anil J toara sal a beggar, a churl of low de
gree; And they ail went sailing, sailing, over the sunny
sea.
And tho king said to the kaiser and bis comrades
fair and free:
"Let us turn adrift this beggar, this churl of low
dearer.
For he taints the balmy odors that blow to you
and me.
As we travel, asiliag, sailing, over the sunny sea."
"The ship Is mine," said the beggar, that churl
of low degree.
And we're ail of us sailing, sailing, to the grave,
o'er the sunny see;
And you may aot, and you cannot, get rid of
mine er me;
Ho, not for your erowns and scepters my name
is Death!" quoth be. C. Mackay.
SAVING THE TEETH.
Irreparable Injury Done by So Called
Dentifrices A Dentist's Prescription.
"What should a man use to clean his
toethr was the question asked of a well
known dentist recently. Tho dentist replied
at once, "Nothing but water. There are
more good teeth ruined by so called denti
frices than by all other causes in the world
put together. The object of the makers of
these dentifrices is, of course, to produco a
preparation that will, with very little rubbing
of the brush, make the teeth look perfectly
clean and white. To accomplish this they
put pumice stone, and sometimes strong
alkalies, in their preparations. Pumice stone
will unquestionably take all the tartar off tho
tooth, and it will also, just as unquestionably,
take all the enamel with it. An alkali will
make a yellow tooth like white in a few
seconds, but before a week has passed it will
have eaten away nearly all the enamel and
utterly destroyed tho tooth.
"In walking along the street you often see
a 'fakir,' by way of advertising his patent
dentifrice, call a small boy from the crowd
near by and opening the boy's mouth rub the
dentifrice on his dirty teeth, and in a minuto,
almost, take off all the tartar and make tho
teeth l jok perfectly pure and white. Now, a
man like that 'fakir' ought to be arrested, for
ho has forever destroyed that boy's teeth.
II is preparation, composed of a powerful
alkali, is eating away the enamel of the boy's
teeth, and in a few months the poor young
ster will not have a sound tooth in his head.
The dentifrices composed chiefly of pumice
stone are not as bad as those containing an
alkali, because they will not destroy the teeth
so quickly; but if used habitually they will
as certainly destroy them in the end.
"I should advise a man by all moans to use
no dentifrice of any description, unless it be
prepared chalk. If this is used not of tenor
than once a week, it will not injure the teeth,
and may help to cleanse them, but it should
on no account be used every day. Orris root
does the teeth no harm, and gives a pleasant
odor to the breath; and if all our dentifrices
were composed simply of orris root and pro
pared chalk, they would bo harmless enough,
if not beneflciaL My own plan is to use a
moderately hard brush and plenty of cold
water, and nothing oiae, and my teeth are in
excellent condition. If people would onlj
picx their teesh careftiUy after eaeh mea-,
making sure that not the slightest particle of
food remained near tho gums or between the
teeth, and would also, before retiring at night,
run a piece of soft thread through their teeth,
they would not have any necessity for a den
tifrice. Of course sweets and candies are bad
for the teeth; so is smoking, or taking either
very cold or hot drinks; but, bad as all these
undoubtedly are, I really think that tho worst
enemy the tooth has is the so called denti
frice. Take the advice of a dentist, and never
use anything for your teeth but a brush and
good cold water." Boston Saturday Even
ing Gazette.
California Mammies.
There is in Ban Francisco a collection of
newly found mummies, forming one of the
most remarkable discoveries ever made in
America. The mummies differ from Egyp
tian ones in that they ore generally quite
naked, only a few having a loose covering,
end they have evidently undergone no pro
cess of embalming. The flesh is so thoroughly
dried that it resembles parchment, and the
corpses are very light. The mummies were
found by a party of gold seekers in one of
the numerous branches of the Bierro Madro
mountains, near the Gila, in Arizona. One
day tho gold seekers discovered a cave, the
entrance to which was closed with a kind of
cement, very hard to break. Forcing an en
trance, the men found themselves in a kind
of ante-chamber, thirty feet long, hewed out
of the living rock. This led into a large hall,
in which were lying a number of dried up
corpses. The discoverers at once set to work
to transport the mummies to the nearest
railway station, in spite of the opposition of
tho Apache Indians, who soon heard of the
discovery and considered the remains to bo
those of their gods. All the mummies were
safely removed to San Francisco, where they
excite great interest ia scientific circles.
Chicago Herald.
Passover Custom in Algeria.
During the Passover week, in tho present
year, I noticed that many of the bouses in
the Jew quarter in Oran and in Tlemcen
were marked on the outside with the impres
sions of the human hand. These impressions
were in different colors red, black, yellow
or blue; and in no instance, as well as I can
recollect, were they either upon the sideposts
of tho doors or upon the lintel 3, but always
upon the walls of the houses. In some cases
there was one impression only, in others
there were as many as five; and, further, in
others they were arranged somewhat in tho
form of a branch, having three hands at tho
summit and three at each of the sides. At
Tlemce n I saw a man marking an impression
with a brush and ordinary red paint. The
custom does not appear to be known among
the English Jews, for, after many inquiries,
I have met with none who have ever hoard
of it. Is it not an outgrowth or survival
from that ceremony which was performed on
the night of the flight of the Israelites from
Egypt ' and may not the branch like figure
be symbolical of the bunch of hyssop? Cor.
London Notes and Queries.
An Kx-KJng's Cleanliness.
The ex-king of Oude, who lately died at
Calcutta, was as particular about neatness
and cleanliness as the proverbial Dutch
housewife. If, when walking in his gardens,
he found a stray bird's feather among the
flowers or a few straws or withered leaves
1 lying about he would fine the gardener and
1 the watchman of the day three days' pay.
Tho same penalty was inflicted on any indoor
; servant who left a speck of dust or scrap of
' litter about the palace, where floors, walls,
I anH ftir-nifuwn iwni Y&irKT dusted end rlfnd
all day long. Chicago News.
Meteorological Instinct.
Mr. T7. Mattieu Williams .hinks that tho
instinct which guides the swallow southward
in the autumn is probably of a very practical
and unpoetie kind. Its food is chiefly flying
insects, whose development ceases with the
advance of cold from tho north, and in
migrating the bird is simply following it3
retreating food supply. Arkansaw Traveler,
mmm remomt-
- v?f: V?
v.ivcr, only tu. hours by rail from Lincoln;-the capital, end forty minutes from Omaha, tho
-! the State.
turn -'.bout 'J.O'O and rapidly increasing.
; ot the liiK'si ystems of Water Works in the State.
; re well lihud hvgus.
railway in operation. .
.1 the stre-4.-..stablihcd, and bonds voted for the purpose of constructing seweiago and
" !:ln Street, work to commence thereon in the spring of 18SS.
rim: four storv high school building and six ward school houses. Aside from business hous
CT'gO illHl
metropoi
Pop
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Str
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Gra
paving o:
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over 100
An
.Mences have b-.-en constructed durinjr the year 1887.
ra lion.-'.; c -tinir 50,000.
Kel ' Preserve ai.d Canning
ploys 40
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Pla;
hands, U
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Dui
The
this poii
di.sbursii
One
limit ot i
us
d Term Works, camtu!
outh Cum in- Factory, capital 30.000, capacity 1,500,000 cans per year and employs l',5
over in one ;-.':ir business about $l00,0o0.
iv papers; one Republican and one Democratic.
;!'.'h' r Ijii r;!ry and wagon factory.
;e.rgs cigar"uiannfactory, employs fifteen hands, and largely supplies the trade of soutliwest
& Co's. new Packing House.
at C. 'li. Q. Railroad machine shops, round houses, storehouses, &c, are maintained at
the u. e of it - system west of the Missouri River, employing many hundreds of hands, and
employes m- iithly about $30,000.
he fi est rail road bridges in the United States spans the Missouri River at the Southern
-Itv.
Ove - :..;:) miles t railroad conveys its freight traffic into and through our city
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factories.
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.:;k- and the
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. 1 "T"k .
:'e
above
equcste1 to come and make personal investigation. While here you will he given afie
i 1': :k, the nvist beautiful and desirable residence locality in the city, where lots may I e
VoTn $1T0 ..: $200, each. Tiiis picturesque addition is accessible by either Chicago or Lin-
or by South Oth Streot and may be reached in a ten minutes walk from the business c r -i'ark
is more rapidly building up than any other part of the city. Correspondence solicit d.
Mil S PEPPEBEERG,
M ni::. .ctcueii of a :i
WH0L : 4LE & HETAIL
firlALtK IS ti:h
Choice " uMjs-f Cigars,
including our
Flor de I p .v rbyrgo r nd 'Buds
TOBACCO SMOKERS' ARTICLES
always i:: -'.uck. Nov. G. 1SS5.
GENU..",:-: SINGER
with high i.ra airl vihrath t? shuttle,
sold on Easy nayivi'iiU or cash
Y J. BICKNSLL,
icci:r Plattsaioiitli Branch
VF-'UK !
4
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Dr. E. V. 1
a guarantee
Convulsion -a-lie.
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of alcohol
predion, S
sanity and !
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er in citnr
m if-rrlio;:!
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contains o::
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receipt of i
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by us for s!
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A I -TEE JTrllTiOXES
V.'itli ea-l; r received
.cs. Kvoi-v '.)'- with 95 fo.
navliAsercur writ; na Kiiaiyn-
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Sept. 1
i aii'l Oranito Pfreets.
ForSai. On rrnsonaLJo terms my
residence lie X. W. cor; cr '-f Elm and
llth6trett o.iid property nnsists of
i block n ! :i rood story '.' d ft half
house of $ . "'i-ns, two v-an' robes and
one pantr;. . ul 1 1 ?nd f-Ity wat'-r;
twenty-se-i : !:-m'! npi.'" t-cs, and an
abundance -1 iinall fruit of kinds.
tf . P. D. Bates.
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Information to Capital Seeking Investnwt,
POINTERS ABOUT PLATTS MOUTH.
It is the gateway to the great South Platte conntry
It is situated on the Missouri Hirer at the mouth
' r i. Tiff ..
hu-tory, capital 13,000, capacity
-50.000. enmcitv 10.000 bricks ier
d the U M. R. It. in Nebraska.
land around Plattsmouth and its nearness to
! :ke it not only a pleasant place to reside, but
- mannfactoring enterprises, the citizens ot Plattsmouth would doubtless maT c
secure their location, and correspondence is solicited.
:es are growing firmer each day, yet there i nothing speculative or fictitious
lenco lots can be bought at from $150 to $350; land near the city can be pn i -00
per acre. Within the next twelve months our city expects lo welcome the
Omaha and Southern Railways into its corporate limits.
indicated. 1 arties seeking investments in iteasv
M D
gfi. uB mum
El 1 8KB HOW
:d:e.axj:e:e2.s lasr
STAPIsIO AND FANCY
H.
atu-L'-u 'I r ii ui wjji hbji1. Jii 5i.'Ann'i, jmi t. t-ry-T
L23
HAS A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
AND OTIIEIl BEAUTIFUL
CLOCKS : Of all sizes, m;.3;i.s una orice. "Warranted.
WATCHES : Kocliford. I'rcdonia. Coln..il
i these movements are so well lo;ovn
1 ixll are warruntpu.
CIIAlxSb : In tms line oi h I have everything-almost, if not
quire. Ladies' and Ctn' sl.ort or Ji.i:r chains; solid, rulied phite or
;my other kind. Also emblem pins ot all the secret orders chmms
locket?, rings, cuff buttons, gold pens etc. ' '
SILVERWARE ot every deseiiption at easy price.
K3
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it' m r irri m i 1 n nuinmim n nu j ajiii i
JoXATUAN HaTT
JUS'S A.WSS.A1
TYMEATIW ARKQ1
maum
PORK PACKERS asd ex a less n; BUTTER AND EGGS.
BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEA
TIIE BEST TflE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON DTAKD.
Sugar Cured ?3eate, Hams, Baco .n, Lard, Ac,
01 onr own make. 1 ne iippt unnns
WHOLESALE
nlw.nr hiili war bfitween v,m-
300,000 cans per year
and em-
day. employs thirty hands.
and west over the C. B. & Q.;
Omaha markets together with.
a desirable place lor tho establish
for the future prosperity of c;i:r
V 1
bO.,
B. KUBPHY & CO.
!?T,'rj?y!',?.iLy,11? 1 t.Mpi .m
THINGS TO BE SEEN.
that they need no commendation
&
mi Oarruth,
J. W. Maexkis.
of STEKS. in can rd Lnli- .1
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