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"When the only reply a ilemocrntic
editor can make to the master criticisms
of James O. Blaine oa Cleveland's mes
sage is that he, Blaine "knows too much."
The ordinary observer would fairly pre
sume that nothing of that kind ailed the
aforesaid editor.
Tub outlook for republican success in
1SS8 is far better than it was in 1884.
Democracy has been "weighed in the
balance and has been found wanting."
The people have reduced the democratic
majority in congress from .80 down to 12
and a careful resume of the popular vote
at the last state elections shows the re
publican patty have a majority, even if
Now York did go democratic.
Tin: Hock Island and the Chicago A
North western are putting on fast train
between Chicago and Omaha. The peo
ple of Nebraska arc under personal obli
gations t Mr. T. J. Potter, of the Union
Pacific, for the beginning and carrying
out of this fast train service, which ha
been so long an absolute necessity in the
west. The Hekald hopes to see the
Union Pacific under the Potter manage
ment a?ain union" the first roads of the
country.
Thk National Republican convention
will be held at Chicago on the lUth day
of June, 18S8. The Democratic Nation
al convention, has not been called as
they arc unable to hold a c invention
earlier than the republicans, there not
being enough brains and moral s'aminn
in the democratic party to strike out fail
and square and lay down the issues of the
campaign; it has been so long a party of
kickers and faultfinders that, although
in power at the present time, jt is unable
to form a policy that would address it
self favorably to the people.
.Nebraska has lonir been known as-
one of the most liberal states in tin
Union in the management of her public-
schools. The sum expended by the stat
each year is something munificent. "We
learn that this year over three huadrcd
and fifty thousand dollars will be divid
ed among the different school district!
in this state. It is pleasant, also, to con
template the fact, that this large sum ol
money is raised without drawing it as a
general tax from the people of the state;
our school lands and interest on the
money received therefrom being suffic
ient to almost make the above amount.
KEEP IT BEFORE TUB PEOPLE
Says a London telegram: Members ot
the American colony, who have lived
here many years, say that since the civil
war no event has so excited .Lnglisli in
terest, in newspapers, club3 and commer
cial circles, a3 President Cleveland's mes
sage. 1 he comments in tlie morning
papers were apparently hastily writtu
and upon accounts and information not
so full as, later in the day, reached tip
evening press. These almost cntireh
ignore the crown prince, the Russian
frontier, Tullamore jail, etc Cape)
court largely took up the financial ques
tion. The money articles of the St. James
Uazette said: President Cleveland's
message had not the beneficial effect up
on stock markets which, at first sight.
might have been expected from it. All
the year the market for American rail
road securities has been suffering fron
fear of a financial crisis brought only the
accumulation of vast sums of unem
ployed money in the United States trt as-
ury. The president recommends such
sweeping reduction of taxation : s would,
in the future, prevent a similar a -cumu
lation, yet the market here w-is lifeless
all day and the New York stock ax-
change elid not open as buoyant as might
have been expected. The explanation is
that people doubt whether congress will
act on the recommendation. If the house
does, the senate, it was feared, will re
fuse to agree. At the least there will be
protracted discussions. When prompt
. decision is required besides the message.
if it strikes the keynote of the coming
presidential election, foreshadows a bit
ter struggle and consequently interrup
tion of business."
Svys he Pall Hall Gazette: "Presi
dent Cleveland's message is a free trade
tract of the first importance end ought to
be widely circulated by the Cobden club,
or has that yenerable body decided to
merely dine and die? What is protection?
It is a tax, says President Cleveland, laid
upon every comsumer in the land for the
benefit of a minority of Manufacturers.
This it what it is in America. Will the
tory free traders kindly explain how
wilr bo anything' else in England?"
the car Question.
A Newly Invented Heater
the Teat.
Put to
According to Wednesday' Chicago
Tribune a newly invented car beater was
given a test on Tuesday on a Northwest
ern sido track in that city. The test is
described as follows:
The stove is known as Iltrr's patent
and is especially designed for heating
rail road cars. The aim of its inventor,
August W. I Terr, has been to produce a
stove that, while furnishing the necessary
amount of heat, would not act as a
crematory in case of accident; in other
words, one. that, in case of collision,
wouldnot set fl.e to the cars and double
and t rebel the herror of the situation
To make the test realtwo cars were
sacrificed for the occasion. A freight
car was securely blocked on a side or
branch track by means of bumpers and
will braced beams, so that its resistance
was measured by its crut-hing power.
From one end tiro ice ted some four or
five feet two or three layers of 4x4 and
2x0 inch tiinbi-r, each piece having the
Droiectinir end sharpened. The other
ends were bac ked by a solid mass of
like timber placed across the car. This
was a simple method of securing firmness.
In another freight car a Ilerr heater had
b.K-n placed quite close to the forward
end, or the end facing the projecting
timbers of the objective car. The floor
was covered six inches deep with shav
inas which were saturated with several
gallons of turpentine. Fire was started
in the stove and when it was at a red
heat, the temperature being over 100
in the car, the order was given for ob
servers to leave. lnen th3 door was
closed and a locomotiv pulled the car
back a distance of haf a mile. The
spectators fell back beyond the danger
line and awaited the crisis. The loco
motive brought the speed of tli3 car up
to its full bent, cut loose from it and
allowed it to rush to its fate. It plunged
into the stationary car with a crash at a
rate of from twenty to thirty miles an
hour, and in a few seconds wa wrapped
in flames. The locomotive ran up and
made several unsuccessful attempts to
detach it from the objective car, but the
fire tad obtained first possession. A line
was run to the blazing car and the fire
was within a few minutes extinguished.
The Northwestern railway men with per
sistent unanimity derlair that the stove
had fired the car at the moment of its
crtslj. With equal unanimity the heater
men and the bystaudeis centrally pro
tested that the car was on fire before it
got within 400 feet of the stationary car,
and that hre was the direct result ot in
tense heat igniting the highly inflammable
contents. Certain it is that what ap
peared to be nmoke was issuing from the
crevices of the rough boards of the doors
of the Hying car several hundred feet
away from the point of collision. The
Northwestern men insisted that what ap
peared to be smoke was only dust
caused by the sand placed on the track
to enable the locomotive to stop quickly
when she cut the car loose. The stove
had been knocked from its iron fasten
ings and lay in the center of the car. It
was rolled out on the prairie and showed
no breakage in the cylinder but only a
d-jnt and a small rip in the wrought-iron
jacket. The test was a very severe one
the stove being made the target of all
tho-force- which, in an ordinary collision
would be mainly expended on the cars
themselves. And then it was surrounded
by the most highly inflammable mater
ials, which were probably ignited before
the collision actually occurred. On the
other hand, the value in the heater,
which is relied upon to absolutely pre
vent the escape of fire from the pipe-hole,
did not work properly, and, beyond
question, names escaping therefrom
would have tired the car jf spontaneous
combustion, so to speak, had not pre
viously done the w rk. .Neither party
was fully satisfied with the experiment,
but, as one practical railroad man re-
marked. B the stove had sustained what
no ether stove could stand, and while it
was not perfect it was far in advance of
any other known device.
The stove in qujstion consists of a
ast iion cylinder r heater perhaps
thirty inches m diameter and perhaps
thirty inches high. The iron is an inch
thick at the fire box and tapers up to
three-fourths of an inch. Surrounding
.his at a distance of two inches is a
wrought-iron jacket twenty-two inches
in diameter, consisting of an outer atd
in inner sheeting of one-fourth inch iron
with a little more than an inch of space
between. When the tst was made the
cylinder was heated to the highest point
md the tloor by means of which it is fed
was left unlocked, as JUr. Ilerr claims.
the door of the jacket only being closeel.
He also claims that turpentine should
lot have been used. The railroad men
m the other hand, say turpentine and
shavings would render a freight-car no
more inflammable than varieh and splin
ters do a wrecked passenger coach. Mr.
Ilerr was seriously injured twenty-one
years ago, and while an invalid began
working on a heater. He says - he has
ncvoieu more man eleven years of time
in perfecting it. Yesterday's test will
undoubtedly excite curiosity and contro
versy among railroad men throughout
the country, and another trial will un
doubtedly be made soon for the benefit
of both sides. Meanwhile that portion
of the traveling public not already ! -
cremated will await results with interest. '
ICE THAT. NEVER MELTS.
Heat
Equal to That of Our Latitude
Without KflTect In Alaska.
It is remarkable indued that so much of the
Burfuco ground oa the Yukon is froze u solid
to a depth of several feet. It is all the mora
so when we come to realize the fact that dur
ing the summer it gets as hot there as in the
south. During the heat of tho past season
the miners found it a great convenience to go
in bathing in the streams at least twico a
day, and to sock shady places in which to
rock the gold out of the gravel. At the break
ing up of winter toe hours of sunshine are
rapidly - increasing, and continue so until
midximimor, when the sun beams forth
twenty-two hours out of tho twenty-four,
while on the high mountain peaks it is for a
period of several days in Juno not entirely
out of sight the twenty-four hours.
But during all this heat and long days of
continuous sunshine the sun'? rays do not
penetrate the heavy mosses that cover nearly
the entire surface of the country, and conse
quently the frozen ground, underneath lies
in that state as if packed in an icehouse.
After it once becomes frozen, as any damp
ground will do in the winter time, it quickly
becomes covered with this moss, which is of
a remarkably rapid growth and attains a
depth of some two feet or more. During tho
heat f summer this moss tiecomes dry to the
deptii of several inches, and the miners think
that by a continuous burning of it as fast as
it dries they will soon have the gravel bars
along the creeks, at least, cleared olf, being
of tho impression that when the gravel de
posits are exposed to the scorching rays of
the t un and rains and 'atmosphere they will
readily thaw out.
"When winter sets in the hours of sunshine
gradually decrease until during the shortest
days the sun shines but four hours out of the
twenty-four. But at this period the aurora
Li most intense, and helps very materially in
driving d rkness from that dreary land.
The thermometer goes down to 70 dogs, in
winter, but the atmosphere js very dry, and
consequently the cold is not so perceptible as.
ono would imagine. Juneau (Alaska) Free
Press.
An English Quack Doctor's Trick
A short time ago a quack experimented in
Lambeth with considerable success upon the
pockets of an awe stricken crowd. After a
preliminary haranguo and a terse little lect
ure o:i the viscera, which the charlatan
sketched in with colored crayons upon a
blackboard on which the human skeleton
was outlined in white paint, the fellow came
to business, 'I am ging to demonstrate tp
you,77 said he, "by a startling experiment
uixui one of you ln'standers, that my
mirac ulous remedy can cure all diseases of
the lungs and chest. Now, whoever's got a
baa cough or cold on the chest let stand for
ward." There was some little hesitation and
a good deal of giggling. "Don't be afraid,
my irienaa," saia the quack; "it's all free.
gratis, for nothing. Ijet any afflicted person
come forward and I'll show him the nature
of his disorder, and give him a packet of my
lung neaiers for nothing," At last a man
with a violent cold and cough came forward.
I ho quack doctor pretended to sound hi
chest with a stethoscope of almost pantomi
mic proportions and infoi-med the starinz
crowd that the patient was In a galloping
consumption.
My friend," said the quack to the unfortu
nate victim, "so terrible is this disease that
you can actually see it." He handed a glass
tube to the patient nnd then poured a pint
of clear water into a large tumbler. " "Just
you blow iijtQ thaj water, my friend." he
cried. The man obeyed, and the water grew
discolored, turbid, and at last as white as if
it had been mixed with milk, The patient
became as pale as ashes. "This unhappy
man, my friends," said the quack, as he held
the glass on high, "if he had't had the good
fortune to come across me to-night wouldn't
have been long for this world. I should have
given him about a fortnight; that's all.
row a pacxec or my lung neaiei d will cure
him. What you see in tho glass of water are
ins vitiated humors, tho products of corruTv
lion. My magic lung healers destroy these
nutnors in tno body or out of tho body. Ob
serve, my friends, watch me carefully, there
is no deception here." Tho quack dropped a
pinch from one of & packet of powders into a
giiu-is, auu curecuxi me patient to stir it with
i . J? a. l . . T .
tno tube. The water became immediately
clear. Then bo reaped his harvest. The
water was lime water, and the carbonic acid
in the man's breath naturally threw down
the carbonate or lime at once, and rendered
the water turbid. And the miraculous lung
healer was simply a littlo citric acid and
sugar wbich instantly redissolved it. Satur
day Keview.
A Lowly Refreshment Stand.
At the foot of the Fifty-ninth street ele
vated station, between a stout telegraph polo
ana ono or ttie iron pillars, there uts a buxom
colore! woman attired in the proverbial blue
calico dress, an immaculate white apron, and
a fantastical headdress of bandanna handker
chief. An ironing board does duty in front
of her as a counter. Upon this is placed at
one end a huge coffee urn with an oil stove
underneath. Next to this is an immense
waiter of deviled crabs. The woman usually
takes up ner stand about 11 o'clock at nieht.
and there she remains until it is nearly morn
ing, uuring the few minute intervals on
the elevated trains she indulges in cat naps.
As each train deposits its load of passengers
she suddenly enthuses with the thought of a
possible customer, l he voice that has been
trained in the old plantation school of music
raises its notes and utters the refrain of ,4Hot
coffee and debbled crabs." If no one stops to
purchase, and the rapidly dispersing crowd
warns her to infuse more life into her cry.
she suigs in a higher key, "Here's nice hot
corphy and debbel crabs. Oh, won't you buy
uese oeDoei craDSf
The belated passenger who does try a cup
of her coffee generally adds a nickel to her
price, nnd, if bis digestion bo good, a deviled
crab prepared in the old southern style of
cooking makes him wonder that such things
can be found at that time- of night. The wo
man who keeps the stand is said to make be
tween $2 and $3 per night. New York Even
ing bun. -
Gems in Crown Paper.
I beard a curious story about Mrs. Paran
Stevens, the other day, which was extremely
characteristic. A friend calling was shown
up into her boudoir and took the first chair.
They coav?rsed for a while, or rather he
listened with interest to her caustic comments
on men and thing3, until she said suddenly:
"(Ja, you re sitting on my diamonds; get
up this minute."
On examination lie found that a little
crumpled brown paper' parcel on the seat of
the chair, wliich be had not noticed when he
eat down, let slip when he picked it up a per
fect river or tne most splendid gems.
"I keep them in brown paper, she ex
claimed, "to deceive tho burglars. They'd
never think of looking in a brown paper bag
lying about anywhere on a shelf or in a
drawer for soma $73,000 worth of jewels.
Thero have been two attempts to steal them
within a year, and I hit on this as a good way
to keep tuem." lirooiuyn citizen.
Danvin was a dunce ot school and a rake
t college; so says hiJ life, recently pub-
'a au cm uuuuj taw iUW WJU a 4 OaV I
lked -
Yankee races In Holland.
One of tho most r.oticeal Je things to me
In Holland was the familiar typo of faces,
tho same to be seen every day in the streets
of New York. I won hi see some well
known faca and r.ccrst him only to be
greeted with a reply in Diftch. It Is very
clear to a visitor that many of New York's
prominent people have Dutch ancestors.
In some f .nrtsof 1J Hand I saw faces of
the pure Vankce type. Coming over on
the Flush!:);; steamer I saw a man at the
wheel w1k looked for all the world like u
Vermont Y::!ikcc lie had sharp, aquiline
features mid the short chi; whiskers so
much affected in the pictims of Undo
Sam. Any American seeing such a man
would swear that he was iroin New Eng
land. Yet he was n Dutchman w ho had
never bee:i very far from Holland and who
knew not ;v word of English.
I have- always believed that "chin
whiskers" were peculiarly American. The
caricaturist of Uncle Sam is responsible
for this. Vet I have found this style very
common in England and Holland. Many
of the English cabbies wear chin whiskers.
If this style, which the Hon. Hard well
Slote affects, is American, it was origi
nally borrowed from Europe. T. C,
Crawford in New York World.
An A:-ini:-liccl Literary Critic.
A novel writer of my acquaintance
some years a:;o wa writing short stories
for a Ne w York mngaziue, nnd was on
verylntiitHite terms with its owner and
editor. The latter was a bright, enter
prising fellow, somewhat conceited and
imbued with the belief that he was born
to shine in the literary firmament. One
day he handed a manuscript to the novelist
with the remark that it was the first pro
duction of ft beginner in Ptory writing nnd
he should like an impartial opinion of its
merits. The novelist look it and read it.
though it was very tough reading. He
returned it to the editor, saying: "Jt is a
very cruelo affair, not worth printing, in
my judgment, but there are gleams q;
reason in it at rare intervals. I should
say that the. author might be declared
sane, though I have my doubts even alout
that."
A month later "the very crude affair"
appeared in the New York magazine, sub
scribed with the name of the editor and
proprietor. Hut he was generous; ho
never znenii-;ied the subject to his crude
critic, but treated him even more kindly
than before. i-ittsburg Dispatch.
The family had lust moved into the
neighborhood, and their social status had
not yet been defined, when a small boy
appeared at the nearest house and polite
17 said :
"Ma's coir.plerments, an' ken yer loan
her a iryin' pan?-
The frying pan was duly loaned, cud in
a few moments back came the bov.
"Ma's complermcnts Aw yer let her
hey a pouiid of pork to grease the pan?"
Alter some tieu Deration the pork was
given and the neighbors were rehearsing
the circumstance when again the small
boy:
"Ma's coir.plerments, an' hey ye? a sup
of tea to wash down the pork?"
But they drew the line at tea. Detroit
Free Press
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tf P. D. Bates.
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