The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, February 07, 1888, Image 3

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    TJIf DAILY HERALD, I LATTSJUOU HI, is'cimASKA, TUESDAY, FFJIUITARY 7, 18SS.
A MONTANA PIONEER.
WHY HIS HAIR AND BEARD ARE AS
WHITE AS SNOW.
1 iirll-nt In tli (arcir ttf I'uul McC'or-iiiK-k,
On aif tli Mr it Wlxi II-1:I to
Open it( lli" Y-lltonv in Sjit) of til
hlolix.
After (.ring ln-sici-il in Fort IVase; for
SPiiii'timn it Imtuiiio vili-iit to our nd vent
urers that f nit Ii'-i supplies of provisions,
uiMiiiiiiiil iori. He, would In- neei-ssary to hold
out uainst Ilic iM-sif-.-r::, nml it was deemed
imporlHiit Hint inn; of t he'i-iiaring pioneers
hliould volunteer tr run the gauntlet ami w
ciuc not only an u n 1 1 ! M:j.,.y of provisions
mid niiimuiiil ion, I (i t re nlorecnients nl.-o.
It wiis .i(H' miles t lloemmi, tho nearest
ploeo of rt li-f, ion! over a lonely, wild coun
try, inf"s.-l by r.n v:i- .-, I;'it l'u.il MeCor-mi'-k
-liiTi-':illy voiunl. e: . -I make the
ilan.'ji-ioi.-i trip nif. Hi-, f .! u in-; tln fort l.y
!ti:.k aiel t nevi ini:.; nio-t y by nilit, in fen
d:iju !n .,:.-; ;.?. J :i).v::i:; i atMlwviired not only
'iity f ii'-'-ivv-.-.Tri-f; l.,r t!iv ;arri.-.en, lut
orgu'ir'-e-d quite :i I ! ; I enmpauy of reeru.ts,
undvei'.li the !,!: it li of a wild animal tlu-y
i.lipjxtl down I li ' i i n-r and suv li-d in yaisi
itiC for:, wit limit :,iy li.:-s. I'ihiiiuIUi' it
wis i'o!i:i I lu-i -.try 1 1 :. another trip should
! ma le, r.inl if .un .'oriniek p;r ed
Yhrourh tin1 i::'!i.ii' lines :i!ihiu and n-tariied
again in srif. y. I'U :i !). ;;), ::rioiis times
jdii.od oi:t of I'm- i 1 1 t! i hi. ami ai ler
Killing a ! i r or n t ik t '.u i; -.t iay at ioiiio
jvrt at di.slr.'n'r I'!'", v- iii 1. 1 n-iarn iu the vno
manner to Mi; .!y the ii!iu:.t' .-; with l'n-sh
Velii.-o'l. S) i!.;imi; '.! !, !n:i feats that his
coat.:i:u i.:-: k.id i.e. !.:ii. l that l'.o uaj ill
rahty :i. :!'. i'i t' .-. i
mwxtr ; a c::i: at iustc.
Oiio v:ti Tii-c, afler i: --.1 n week's rvTra
liou of l-riii;;- l.y t!:.? li!(!ifi:i.; on Fort lVi;-iO,
and iion; of tliani li:ae liven won i'i t!io
vit-inity of itio j'. i t for !ay3, Iili-l'ormlck
toM pnaio c f hirf -o;!i;.n:iii Msat Ii'f irojio.-;cl
to vc:itn:v o:tt I'.-triy i.i 1 i' iiicniin: l;or-o-
I ::': 1 ! . . i iain !!' t!:i :'
In.ii:.?.:; si '! in tl:;i i"i
v.-iiri'.v-l l;i..i of t!-' ,
t'livir varnin ; nii'l kt.-. : .
Ihat Ci.y I: i:i .
loudly tiiat t!i y v. oulil m.
aiivi-.
v.y. rcaiiy aii"
ii'.y. His fri-::ils
i-, I.nt l:o : cou''il
I sii 1; tc i-ijiiiii illy
-.all', i:iti:Eiting
vi -r :;t e Lim uiruin
Triu- 1.. I
in fo:':i:l i
h:-.' i'i)i::n:."i
::il.:o:j, ':i nffst morn
1: trip. Ow of
1 ' . !:.! T. J c Cor m i l- !i
, !;!!:? rcil t accom-
.1 r-
r.--i
JKJJ1V ll.l.l,
;:!. flu- ;;:
l:i'-n ijiii-. ir
..1 at tin- Sir.! r.:; nia' Ii of lay-
v;n ; 0.1 .!. I air! t!i: two liorse
il. j.ai: t!1;- o,i.::'ov.:i v;:riii:i:s
of li:i ir i-o;!i;a::ii'ijS .-till ri:iiii: in tiifir
cars. I'ro.-ovdiii'; i;i ami down tuo valley,
wlii'-Ii is lit rea v.i'!-; N.tto:n, lh-y fnilo-.l to
iisi-i r:i tin irliiv -..t t iua of lixlir.tis, ami a"
"onlinj;l3" '.irj:e to t';c .nt-7 u-;i-n t!int llio
1 1.1 ..i 1 .... . Ts..r..,.
.Lt.t ll.'i.ll'. '1.. H I..' .1 . 1 3' 1M11. 1
t uriiiiir, liov.'Vfr.
a ri-coiiiioi-. .iiii'i i
I'll':.
a
'i
I tlicsn to nudio
.hic'i ojiine
il'tttii iiori ;'.:c fooi Iiiii... in,;! wi;i!o passing
ulon t:.i:i ii-iiii.w .;. Ire il.-Cortni.-ks com
panion r. n:a.-i.i'd that ho i.tv :,.-.:;:thing like
tho tracks of Indians in t!io saml only a, short
Ibta:.'.ai away, a ad ji:d ilcConnick to
cviiio and hec
A VOLLEY FR.OM THS SAVAGES.
Just at that moment n v.holo swarm of
pavaj;e.: ro:.i r.p frotn lithi!i 1 tho s-sgo bruli
nnd esnritiod a volk-y fnnis thoir riilcs. Tho
distance was less thuji twenty iet, but evi
Iently the aim of tho Indians was very poor,
owing to their liasto and i ir itoment. 21c
C'ormiek's coninar.io:i wiu badly v.-outided,
mid the liore, instea! of making toward the
fort, rushed among tho navajje?, and tho
rider was of course lost. McCormick, how-4-vor,
wheeled his own horse toward the
fort, and dashed back in the proateft haste,
lieinjj surrounded by tho red devils, who
seemed to riso tip out of the eirth on nil
tides, shooting and giving unearthly yells.
ileCora-.iek. lieinj mout:ted on a fjr.e charger,
quickly passed tho InuiaasVni foot, but wu3
suddenly confronted by two Indian horemen,
vho, iu some unaccountable! manner, bad got
l.-ween him and the fort. JJeCormiek's
!ior lieing very swift, enabled him to pass
neof them, though the Indian fjavo him a
terrible How on the shoulder:, his rifle having
Iiocij emi..t it?tl hen 2I'- 'ormiel: was approach
ing. The other horseman was now across
his path and waiting his turn, but, being
under considerable exeite-rriit, his gun,
J hough so r-lose to JMfCormiek's face that his
srtt".'i was fiile.l with powder, failed to do any
Jiarm, and the occupants of the fort, having
heard tu- tiring, now ru.-he I o-:t to protect
heir comrade, and o::e of the Indians was
hotand J.u -calp taken.
Kut, pi or r.kCormie!: ! his terrible senre
during that brief st:?.ce of time had nearly
liimcrved him. Xtfwr was theiv exhibited
a libera awl'id piel wvo of fright ihati v.as por
tmyfil on his cotimenuncis on rea.chiug the
stockstit'. ll;::r crc:-4., p:iIo as a ghost, he
piaked with such fear that ho coal l not for
ti K.;:g ti:::i ve any a taut of his advent
ure. Iu i'art, he pr soi.Sei! .1 pitiable spec
tacle, a:; i : I fui'y ix-covcr Ids sen-es
for v.-ee'.:s. iiut tho si.ar.gest all'air of the
whiilo oceunvv.ee was that Lis Iiair and
whisker.', whic h had bocu i f jet blak color
nml glossy iu a;?:caiT.r.e:. tlariag thore ten
minutes of jn-ril h:id b.-cor.ia wj-.ito as the
ilriven snow, and the sti:r.r,er could now
casiij" mistake l.iiu for t.u t ctogeuariau.
Philadclpliia, Times.
!c-anlii!ess of St. rolei'MlJiirg:.
! The stranger wonders how, iu St. Peters
burg, for iusr.mc, tin markets and shops
aro kept as clean as they are, when tho water
issolllthy. C'ne can smell tho vatr of the
Ieva. which furnisher ths supply for tlrink
ing and hou-'.hold purposes, for a mile ou an
ordinary summer day. It discounts the
wator ti:r.t u-vd to get greet in the l'otomac
flat ut Washington. A native tells mo the
reason tj;ug ; are cle.i;:. livery day a health
officer 'd.rut i::.-ivet!:ig the shops and
houses, lieu-.i.iriues assist. If there is any
lei;ch or decay ilisecrriablo, or any tilth of
jury kind. li'o place is arbitrarily closed, and
kept closed tor wee'es or :.! i.iths. There is 110
recourse, no hei; for it. fie:!".li:iess in the
commercial centers is an imperative neces
sity. Many pevple h.avo been f.iined in busi
jih?s by licing cirised by the oCicers. They can
never learn v. liat is want j I The only reply
is: "You must Loop the pre:ni.-'J clean."' How
t-lean is not explained, r.ni t hero can be no
tippeaL Moscow Cor. 2sev Orleajis 'I'jnies
Democrat. Not to lie Disturbed.
"Let us not throw too many sto:ies at Clii
icago. where, if report speaks truth, books as
well ns land are bought by the "front foot."
llight hvre in Boston lives a lad who has in
her pari r a very elegant b.xkca- lilleil with
ta:nlurd works iu choice bindings, protected
from dust by glass doors which are kept
carefully locked, tho key Unnj removed. A
friend was calling there nnd aked for tho
key, as he wished to examine some of the
volume's. "On 110 account," said the hostess.
-I had n iu.-vn come up from the book store
to Ct them in, and I wouldn't bave tbenj dis
turbed on any account. r Boston Herald.
The study of Volapuk, the new universal
language, ii obligatory upon the students of
the Koyal Gymnasia of Munich.
ABOUT INFERIOR CIGARS.
6m of the Trick Which Hum Vett to th
lr-i4"nt State of Thing.
'I reid n recent article on clioap ci
PTars witlt intentt," tsaiil u c-ijjar manu
facturt r to .1 rejiorlcr. "I not only manu
facture? cigars, but I lo n retail biisitifsj
its well. 1 don't think that tin' tjuulity
of tlm jxipular cigar i.s ua lad :i.s it lias
leeii pictun il. "
'Iio you think the quality couM bo
Hindu any wuw';" :iskel the rcmrt r.
'( i-rtainly," iil tho cigar man. "It
could I; made a great deal worst;.
"Then I t-hould certainly give up tho
weed and go Ixick to tho cob pi" and
oak loaves of iuy boyhood di liglit," baid
the rejiorter.
Tho fact of tho matter is," said tho
cigar man, 'there aro a great many
Ilo who do not know a good cigar when
they get hold of it. I've tested that
matter to my satisfaction. I have delib
erately retailed a 10 cent cigar for 5
cents, and I have had jiersons look tit
one of these, turn it over, smell it, and
declare it waft 110 good, and insisted upon
the regular old o center. Again, a cus
tomer, after smoking my regular grades
of 5 cent cigar for a long time, was fur
nished some of the 10 cent brand. The
next time he came in here ho said:
" 'Why did you change cigars on me?'
" 'I gave you a Letter grade and I
thought you would prefer it.'
" 'Weil, I don't think there is anything
be tter about it, and I am sure I don't
prefer it. Givo mo some of the tiame
stock I have leeii used to having.'
"You see, the man's taste is thor
oughly vitiated. He would have made
the same complaint had I given Lim a
-0 cent cigar. The better the cigar the
worse he would have considered it.'"
'That all may bo true," replied the
reporter, "but the fact remains that most
cf the cigars offered at publio prices sire
Miuplv etinkers. How do you account;
for itV"
The fact of the matter i.s,'' tiaid the
dealer, "my custom is good and I have
to furnish a high grade of cigar. But
there is a class of manufacturers and re
tailers who cater to what we call tran
sient trade. They are the people who
get rich in a hurry and retire from the
business. They, the retailers, never
think of giving a man the grade of cigar
lie asks for. They never expect to see
him again, and unless he investigates his
cigar very closely he will not discover
the inferiority of it until it begins to
burn his tongue. Then he lires it into
the gutter with an imprecation. They
are the men who have no conscience,
who make tlie money and who are re
sponsible for the growl about cheap ci
gars. "Where are they? Everywhere.
"Then, again, these transient trade
sellows calculate that when a man has
smoked the first half of a cigar he throws
it away. To clinch an uncertainty they
have manufactured for them a cigar the
iirst half of which is filled with first class
tobacco, while tho second half is filled
with miserable pickings. "When the man
finishes the first half ho is in splendid
humor; when he enters on the second
half he finds his tongue beginning to itch,
and tho saliva in his mouth to have a
pungent, nauseating taste, which makes
him throw the cigar away. Ho cannot
understand it, but thinks that it is all
caused by the nicotine which collects in
the second half of the cigar the nearer it
is burned out.
"Oli, yes; it is a sharp dodge one of
the trade and dealers who count almost
entirely on transient trade work it for all
it is worth. It is iu a majority of cases
this second half of miserable pickings
which is causing most of tho complaints
about the bad quality of the popular
cigar. Not every man wakes up imme
diately to the deception, and he puffs
away 011 the second half with as much
vigor and satisfaction as he did on the
first. Sometimes ho don't discover it
and sometimes he does, but don't care a
fig. He smokes to bo smoking, and a
stinker suits him just as well as the
choicest brand of Havana would." New
York Evening Sun.
The Hog Bristles Trade.
Years ago it used to be the custom of
our farmers to save all their hog bristles
for taking to the stores as a marketable
commodity, they usually getting a good
price for them. But this has all changed
now, like a great many other tilings of
the past. Isobody buys bristles now,
siuce there is no longer a market for
them, owing to their not being equal in
quality to European bristles. All needed
supplies by brush makers aro now im
ported from the old country. They are
worth their weight in silver, and arc sold
that veay, the money value being put 0:1
one side of the scale and the bristles 0:1
the other. Westchester Local News.
Venice's Local Industries.
The local industries of Venice consist
Lirgery cf the weaving of lace, the manu
facture of glass utensils and ornaments,
the selling of all sorts of old curiosities
for as much as the sellers can get fcr
them and a fervent series of solicita
tions for copper and silver coins. The
shipping interests and trade with foreign
countries are said to bo looking up, in a
small way. The place has now probably
130.000 "inhabitants, and is at times
lively, especLJly when there are a great
many tourists in town. Will Carleton.
Fire From Steam Pipe.
It still seems to be an unsettled ques-,
tion whether wood can be ignited by the
heat of a steam pipe in contact with it.
It is admitted, theoretically, that it is
impossible for wood to take fire at a
temierature of 212 degs., or somewhat
higher, but it js well known that there
have been a large number of cases of fire
reported as occurring f rpm this cause, and
the evidence is very .conflicting, New
York Sun.
Money and Care Wasted.
If half the care and money expended
on pet dogs in Washington were devoted
to the care of needy and deserving chil
dren, some thousands of these might Ik?
rescued from want and preiared for use
fulness in life. We suppose the prefcr
encoor dogs is all right, since society
by its acts says so, but somehow it does
not seem to fit in nicely with our exalted
Chriotian civilization. Washington Post.
"Cheescrine" is tho latest fraud in
England. It has a suggestion of cheese,
as American oleomargarine suggests
butter. '
THE SECRET.
I hv a fancy; bow Khali I brin It
Homo fo all mortals wln-rever tliey be?
Sny it or Kin;? K? Show it or wiug It,
So it may outrun ami outlly inn.
Merest cmh:oii wcl wlii'tice it l.roki; freef
Duly on Ki'or'-t cm nave from disaster.
Only one limbic i that of tlir- Master;
y-l it to music; nive it 11 tune
Tune the brook sins ynil, tune tin breeze brings
you.
Turns tlmt tho columbines dunce to in Juno:
Tin's Is the KCPret : so simple, you Kce!
Kuxy u:f loving, easy us kissing,
K.nsy as -well, let me poml-r as mif.iin.
Known, Kiuee the world v.a:i, by seareo two or
three.
James liusscll Lowell ia The Atlantic.
THE MODERN PANORAMA.
Invention of the Circular Form of I'ict
urn A Myhtery to the Spectator.
However far back in tho dim past the
panorama idea can lx; traced, tho roller
panorama is comparatively modern, ami
its career was destined to be brief, for its
miles of canvas with crude color fur
nished pictures that were devoid of en
during qualities. It gave ri.se or revived
an infinitely better mid more instructive
and valuable exemplar in the present
panorama that the eastern cousin calls
tho cyclorama. History credits liobort
Barker, a Scotch artist, with the inven
tion of the circular panorama, he having
exhibited in Edinburgh that city's pan
oramic reflections i;i 178S, it being
followed in succesbion with a view
of London, sea lights and the Na
poleonic wars. Between the old roller
panorama and that of the present there i.s
a deep gulf fixed. The former carried
tho spectator upon a long voyage, with
the leather lunged lecturer as the vocal
accompanist, and from the steamer's
deck 011 which tho audience were sup
posed to view a succe-.:dnn of scenes;
something like a Stoddard lecture or a
guide liook that speaks in a stage voice
from behind the friendly screen of dark
ness. The present jiaziorama or eylo
rama. without any such adventitious
aids, provides the spectator with an ele
vated position in the center of 11 lixed
landscape that has been mado memorable
by some great historical event. It pro
vides a picture that bespeaks its own art
istic value, and bases its incidents upon
recorded fact. It now successfully in
vades the field of historical paintings and
challenges the severer canons cf criti
cism, as well as the skill, truthfulness
and accuracy of the artist.
At the lirst view of tho spectator the
panorama seems to be a mystery. It is
apparently an absolute reproduction of
the scenes represented, the objects seem
ing equal in size with the original ob
jects, and the space covered equally groat.
A circular building, less than 100 feet in
diameter, and not much more than fifty
feet in elevation, expands to the dimen
sions of the space that can be covered by
the eye in an open landscape, and reaches
upward , to the clouds. A iortion of the
foreground, it is very well known, is
composed of real figures and objects; but
the illusion upon the painted canvas is
so perfect that the painted figures seem
hardly less objective than the real ligures,
and without the most careful scrutiny
the dividing line cannot be distinguished.
Surely tho spectator thinks there must
be some wonderful secret known only to
the painter in this illusion. The largest
life size figures are between three and
four feet high.
The most remarkable of recent realistic
aids to the panorama is the foreground.
A recent writer says: Shut out the real
objects in the foreground from 1 he eye.
and tho distances in the perspective will
not be diminished, nor the ligures on tho
canvas rendered less strong in their re
lief. The only service that seems to bj
rendered by the objective portions f
:he foreground is to bring the en
:ire landscape to the feet of the spectator,
c.nd to shut out the intervening space of
bare floor that would otherwise destroy
the illusion. One is surrounded by the
picture above, below, and upon all sides,
and is permitted to see no other object,
standing ujwn a platform, that seem?; to
be erected in the very center of the field
delineated. These are aids to render the
scene more realistic. Any one who Jnw
observed a painting of this character,
without the foreground in position, will
eadily recognize its immense advantage,
when it forms the link between the plat
form anil the canvas. Good; drawing,
spirited color, and finely sustained icr
sjiective, are three requisites that must
figure on the plane of a worthy pano
rama. The linen canvas for panoramas, from
the Wehner studio, is specially woven at
.Brussels, in breadths thirty feet wide by
fifty long, that ar- neatly stitched
together, fourteen widths furnishing the
regulation size. The ground colors alone
cost upward ot 800 before there i.s :.
tracery on tho canvas. It requires nearlj
2.000 pounds of pure white and ultramt.
rine blue for atmospheric glazing. When
a panorama is painted and rolled for
shipment it is coated with three tons of
color, and weighs alxnit live tons, and is
liable to consume another ton of color in
the finishing touches. The panorama of
the "Battle of Sedan."' the heaviest in the
country, weighed eleven tons. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Tlie Terror of iticlies.
Statistics of suicide show that, after nil.
the poor man rarely commits suicide
owing to poverty. Hundreds of good
fellows, with rarely .$."50 ahead, and five
or six in the family to clothe and feed,
go on with more equanimity than men
with good bank margins. They are gen
erally looking for a job, and frequently
have no work ahead for longer than one
to 6ix mouths. Tens of thousands of day
laborers in the United States rarely know
what their income is to be three months
ahead, yet fm?y are neither depressed nor
miserable, They readily spend their last
dollar; eat liberally, as long as food can
lte had, and economize when they must.
The terror of jioverty is not so overpower
ing as the terror of riches. The fear of
losing is greater than the fear of not get
ting. Globe-Democrat.
Earthquakes and the I'laiu-ts.
From a set of earthquake statistics it
has leen shown with some degree of
probability that earthquakes occur with
more frequency at tho times when tho
planets Jupiter and Saturn exert their in
fluence jointly upon the earth than at
these times when tho influences of these
planets are opposetl. Edward S. Iloldcn
in Overland Monthly.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Stray lilt of Cnml Keit-lini; C'lippc.l ir.nu
the VarioiiH !x ballot's.
Chanilx-rsbiug, Pa., has a lire com
pany that was organized ION years ago.
Tho iii-t trying iwsiti.n a truthful
clergyman can be in is to be preaching
the funeral sermon of a man who died
rich and mean.
A movement has I icon stalled for th;
purchase of the early home of the p"et
Whiltior and its preservation as a t.hiine
for patriotic Americans.
An English firm ealis alteiition to It a
admirable supply of sermons for melan
choly occasions, which tln-y retail I t
seven jk-iico each. Spicial .scrmo.is are
two and six a h-ad.
A New ()i leans newspaper . '. ; th::t
the millions of pickaninnies seen aro in 1
tho cotton fields of tho s itith i ui ni li a
complete refnlatioii of the theory that
the negro race in America is dying out.
Ait eighty ton flat ear, which i ;elai;.ed
to lie the largest over mado in this coun
try, is being built in I'aj-kerton. l'a.. and
when finished will he used for hauling a
lot of machinery from New York to
Bethlehem.
An Orlando (Fla.) newspaper man has
substituted a pair of sand hill cranes for
watch dogs, and he finds that their loud,
clear note of warning when a tramp or a
burglar comes near is an cli'oclive means
of protection.
The manager of thenutomutic machines
which furnish weights, swi ot meats, pens,
paper, and other things to London
people, rectistlv showed (!-,' 1 ' "
ton of lead and .... ... .......i
of pieces of cardiK'ard that had been
dropped into the machine instead of
pennies.
The two lu-w victorias if the senators
from ( 'alii'orniu are said to he tie-most
elegant carriages seen in Washington.
Senator Stanford's attracts the greater
attention fori ho reason that the coach
man and foot man are in deep mourning
ami match the somber hue of the horses
ami tlie harness.
The crown princess of Austria pre
sented her husband. I'rinco lmdolf, wit'i
a complete outfit of goomctricnl instru
ments as a New Year's gift. The case
of walnut, inlaid with silver, w hich lit Id
the instruments, also contained a pretty
letter from I ho princess trusting that
their lives would 'henceforth be hap
pier." California is piAid of I:er record for
1HS7. Three hundred miles of new rail
road were laid, the assessed value of
properly increased .i:!'2,U0O,0oo. tho
wine arid bra tidy product w'as large,
."0,000.000 pounds of calmed goods and
:.". 000.000 of green fruit were shipped,
and then; never was such a year for
tourists.
Among the gifts o! IV red to the; pope
on his birthday is a contrivance by a.
French engineer, named Arrago.n. for
ringing large vhtirch 1-ells by electricity.
A similar arrangement is, we believe, at
present at work in a London church, the
apparatus having been designed and
erected by some of the students at the
Finsbury Technical college.
. A Kus.sian general has created a great
sensation in Europe by furnishing an
elaborate scheme for the construction of
a railway through Silieria to the Pacific
ocean. It is intended to go by the short
est possible cr.t from tlie Urals to the
Pacific oce an. The total oist of . road
is estimated at ViOO.tioO.ooO, which, it
is behe-ved, can be readily raised in Rus
sia itse-lf.
Ex-CJovernor Alger's great Michigan
pine forest is located at Block river. 0:1
Lake Huron, near Alpena. It cejmprise ;
1 0.000 acres, or over 100 square miles.
The annual priiK-t -f the forest is from
To.OOO.OOO to fO.OOO.OOO feet of lumber,
according to thestale ef the trade'. There
are o(!0 men employed in the nine camps
in the feirest.
Hucksters are f-o numerous in some
parts ef town that f he y are a serious an
noyance to l:oii;c-ke-e-pe-rs. A lady in
V.'e-.t Philadelphia, tireel ed' the ir repeated
rings at her door bc'.l. adopted a very
shrewd, means if getting rid of them.
She I'.eiiilieel every or.e who came to her
h: iV.se that she wou.'d have him anvsted
for seiiijig v.hh..ut liceuse if b" came
again. It was only a guess of hers as to
the license, but the shot went lou:-' in
every case.
The wife of a United States senator is
believed to have breiken the Washington
visiting rewrd. She made forty-eight
oall.j in one afternoon. Assuming t'.jd,
she galk'peel the round of her social duties
in four hours, she made twelve eali ;.u
hour, or one every live minuU-s. I v
tlueting' the time taken in ge-i'.tg fr;!:i
house to house and estimating ii tit two
minutes, the average eluraiio.i of air.il
would be about three minutes. Three
minutes, however, is siif'.icient for the re-epiire-ment.-;
if Washington friendship.
)jei-.in of S;t:iii:'.-; Parliament.
The opening f the 8:;:!i.-h parliament
by the infant king and 1 is mother, the
queen regent, was a most interesting
f-ueciach. The infant king was dressed
iu white, with a white bonne t, the latte r
being re moved, upon his be-inc scatc-d on
the throne, to the right of que-en Chris
tina, whose black elre ss, only relieved by
a tiara and a ge.ld collar of eliamonds.
formed a striking contrast to the mass of
gold color ccv.vriag the hem-e and light- ,
ing up the tribunes. While the qint-n
read the speech from the' throne in clear,
audible tones, without tin slightest signs
of the nervousness attribn'd to her, tho
young king surveyed trie we-m with
complete comro.-ure. fixing his attention
alternately ni.tui the as.-ombluge anej.
upon the queen. Wh-n tho reading of
the document was cuip'ete-d, J lis maje-dy
showed a wish tc be azr.emg the lirst te
leave. but lieitig taken in tho queen"i
arms he remained perfectly eptu-t. Tho
Argonaut.
Ten Favorite 'iv-ls.
The Unity club of Denver nxcnt!y ad-
j dressed letters to the leading miuLster ;,
i lawyers, iolitie-ians and - literary men of
the state tsking each to furni.-h a li.-t of
ten novels be consielcred the 'greatest,
j The results showed the favorite novels to
Ik?, in the o der named: "Les Miser-
ables," David Copperfield," Scarlet Let
ter," "Ivanhoc" "Vanity Fair,' "Bo
mcla," "Jane Eyre," "Adam Bede,"
"Ben Hur" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Chicago Times.
Tho PhftQmni!
Is enjoying aBoomin both, its
DAX2LT A 113 WEEKLY
ET3ITIOISrS-
Year
Will lei ene elnriiiig- v.liie-li the- nthjects ed'
national inlerost :inl imjiorf :.iie' will le
strnnjrlv noitttfcl ami the i-k-ctioii id' a
Prosielent will take- place. 1 he- people ed'
('ass Coimty wlm woiiM like; to learn ef
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
d" this year and wobM keep a pact; wil
the times should
re.i;
iaily or
Now while we have the snhjee-t hel'ore the
people we will ventiire te speak et ottr
AVhich is fcTf-t-chiss in all res pee ts and
from which emr jolt printers are turning
out much satisfactory work.
P L ATTS MOUTH,
th Herald
1888
1 11 'ii ki: -i 111; -
eekly Herald.
jVlQa
NEBRASKA.