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; 7 N T . ? TELL v f.rm Ixoih to !Te th Fact Tbt th UaiDitu AlMclilne lm Wearing Oat A "VTearj Heart Oraj Hair Other Vrn lnm. - - Nature U 090 of U10 kindext of mothers. Kli in ever on the affectionate alert to lot her million children know of the ilia that mnac turtn und to hoist tbo danger signal that toll of tronblo nhead. For years you bave been .nccii;toniod tj rend mi hour or two or three : Lours at niht w ithout your sight Ix-in"- in tho lea.- t nlTc-cU-d. You ran Mill fit the de tail.! of tlio On k land bills ami make ojit wli'TB tho few rd woods nro It-It brick of San trJI.iti o. No tyio bother you mid yon bave 110 irti ti!..r fxurof vision, f utterly, how-a! ever, you na ve I x-iiu to notice that toward tho end of your wane-- jonr yc U-t-onio a trifl hl.u rcd, tli.it tho bUrk of tho ink grows grayer and that you require another kis j'-'t or the lauiii n litllo n-ar-r to your elliovv. --There is yur waning, and he alone U a, iyo h Iki'iL-i it. Yui bavu rcc ivel a "j.'ii!tiT of tin; intt viiiu.il.lo description. It ni-iiis that v-i nru ueariug out 3011 r eves ini. I tli.it t!;.- hilled j;ift of good siht Is be lli,; I l iil. d w itli. To let this wiiming go by uiilii-".;. .1 is criminal, Ijotli in intent and action. The tn.i'1.1.) with us is that to will not pr'-par.; for the torirul-j until it Is upon us; th:it c .-iTit a clul-bin:' to find out that our 1:1 I rr.-n-k-d. Wo are loath to brin; oin -"l .i s f.icc to facis with tho fact that tho nru iiii e is wearing nut, ami wo almost take it .". an ii.-.il! when tdd t !i:it we are not as youn ? as v tni;!:t lx So it hajipena that we li., I v caant.t run u a bill with tho K.ime '.;.; i- ( el.isticii y that wo wero wont to have, 1 t hat lieu wo arrive at the top tti'lllivi.' I - I!...'.., til llletld, WO llScriljO theso fact i to iih :vy ilinucr, tho state of tho at- ll'.o. ;.!,.-,-t ';;iif, l-.H-t-:, or to Utiy Other CUtlSO tsci pt tise i lit one increasing years. l-MTKIt AVOID A. I'.VSII. Tint he il v beating heart that thumps igiii:-t yoi'i i -.ibi-ii tho run is over is one i' nal .111 ' ; 1 ...inters, and one given with a pd ileal (' seriousness, too. It indicates thai the heart stock is weakening; that there is loo lunch fat i y debris in tho cardiac dis t l ici , a ;. I 1 unless you want a smash in 1 he mnrl-.ef you had better avoid an3thing Jiko a ru-h. Physiologically, the heart i-; only a big muscle, but it is also I ho great clock of tho human system. It. tr.-U lick goes on from the cradle to the c.,i"i;i, an.l it lx-ats olF tho seconds of our lives, tangibly, audibly and ceaselessly, ki. lo'c; a . oar l.oroscropo permits. Lut most of ail si.oai.l we remeiiilM-r that it isao alarm ,e:orl', iis vvirii:!gs being varietl, but unmis-taii-ji-u.". There is tho intermittent bcut, the jlutfii. th." i iitle nad tho wild tluob all jKi:it. 1 j 01" .' i d a- !y nature. Something is wrong, i'crli n-i ii is only a ease of indi estion, or the l:;k of a little iron in the blood, or th" ,;-e.i iu-o of an extra amount of etiijiuhrnt, but whatever it it, we are here iilToi-iJ.-d nil opportunity of finding put v. i. ;i! r tSc troui'lif is temporary or ierina ii -tit. The r :; v. jf'i caro can be removed, the other with care euu bo alleviated. Fail to heed the n aming, and siiio timo when you fiiv unking oil after dinner s-x-eeh you will i'a'l forward on tho table and never read your obituary notice. Your barlxr one day jvndstlie cold shivers down your back by telling you that 3our hair i grlting thin on the top of 3our liad. You lml Known it already; 3ou had noticed for very many weeks past that 3'our brushes rarricil oir a snd lot of 3-our crop in its bristles c vein tinu 3-0'j ul them, and bv 1 he 1.1.-00 your handglass and ti.e mirror you bad found out that the scalp on the crown was l-eginningto show through, that the parting was getting very broad and the forehead very high. All this you had known, but 30' 1 had thought it a secret between yours-Mf and your mirror, so that when the bvt.i-r l.r::r-.Uy teil you that the effects of J I.-.- tiii'ir.in;; out process aro plain to every one, vn '-'lot help l-eing shock.!. When ' on I.j::i" 3ou pi:t jmtrself in a strong ii;'n nnd : ) in for a regular inripett ion of Ti:nc s rav ;'' T'-e result is deplorable. i'Lc; in tl: teiiprrtl J.x-ks. cunningly hid V'i! a.v.:y u!;.!er the ihukt-r hair, aro two or l:r.-; :l.-rc:'. is of era 3-. while, as though the i;e..i. '.v: a-i' "-vit'ii tho hour glass had struck .uiaihu i e !; of the neck, iu tlie ishort i- ;:s .f t!. i::i. 4s7J or three more white .!. s tiro i. F-T A WAV FOOLISH TIIIXGt. Jt i 1. Tvr:-.-p-. ini;Kissibio to imagine aT?v i i:ai .a .-'s .:nfj.TS that is more unwill- 1a ;! ri-!v-J than this. Unwillingly re c.;d I- e.i-i-j it lat-ans that tho time lias c. -a- w:o:: y..-i rinst pat away foolish things, onii t::e frivo'itlts tat the pleasures, neees I'y '-' ' ' ' give up the aunipt ion of : V.'y : 1 m.;t!e down to the s?riuus j: .!.-; of f.A l'..i nge. Fortunately middk i--.- :ls 1 I :.$ ut nswell as its -serious ti,:.;--. 1 i f--r, it is a question whether that Cjc. : . . t'.r.i' v.ii-.ei the k-aves aro beginning j i .1.:. ' : ti c loon heat is over; when the-. . -i aiv sc.bJued and when the quiet : 1 c "i.'.'.r'g on is not after all the best j-er... :i '- r.uy.i 1 Ifo and of a woman's, too. 'il -t ' 'y h- n i v" to Lw so if we pay yr .. : .f : . .' c.'i i t iu-,i;;re"s xiaterj and bo cvr ."1 ci co.!JI;as ourselves. V'.o f these pointers is by no xneu:: - : hov.cver. The tailor Las onco; !v. .m . :. : iia store for us. "When, for . i.c lis i3 that we aro adding to our gin :. i :- .v 1 i.-- waistband and not above it; that ti e 1. gs ' i' cur trotisers aro growing short-r nv 1 ta-.t 1 flap of our vests l ad bottei 1-- mud-j a little longer to l;k well i!ie aro a few pointers that r.re fu'A -f meaning. Then there is tl.e f:u I that we can't stand getting our feet wet as w, used to; that we havo to bo -nre;"ul wl-.cn coming out of a warm room iato the coM dir; that wo want our meals nt ri gul-r boars; that wo cannot stay up at r.igUt! without -leepir-g con-espondingly Lifer in th.-liioniir.g; that the birds do r.ot eing rpiito i; I.onnily as in lang s;,ce; that ive U'giu to tiiink of slipptr ana dressing gowns ns the pleasures of an evening, that our feet grew cold if we sit too long; that we buy a thicker quality of socks; that our l.-ui-iL'Ci'-i Le-.d is beginning to reach our svtttch jioviii-t; that there aro little creases M-tt'.ing into tho corners cf our eyes; that tho lines from the base of the noso to tho angles of the mouth are fTOwir.g heavier; that wo do not look as fresh in tho morning asfornierli- thc--c are a few of the tips which Mother Na ture gives us to remind us that her gentle Lut irreaisii'ole laws are in cieratioa and that iho r.-aeLine we call ourselves is surely running down. !San Francisco Chronicle. An rixaniplo of Tree Acencj. E-'s mamma having been very ill in tho spring, I presume some one had told him that lod bad sent the incss. for, in the summer, After i-atakiftg a little too freely of water melon, ho came and btocd by my side and, looking very uaconuortaoia, saiu: -vou ; xlidn't coinl this stomachache, did he? l"ant-s ; my own bu-iiness, Vos I ate too much water- . jaeloii. Cabyh aod. . J ... CICNALS THAT CP TROUBLE AHEAD. A CURIOUS MIMETIC FRAUD. Om of th Phaainlda TtnlljtJlU m XVUp of Bay. My introduction to them occurred on tho bonlcrs of Lake Shirwa ono of the mailer and - less known of the great African lakes and I shall record the in cident exactly id I find it in my notes. I had stopiicxJ one day among some Jail, dry groan to mark a reading of the on eroid, when one of my men shouted -ChiromboJ" "Chirombo" means an Inedible beafit of any kind, and I turned round to see where the animal was. The native pointed straight at myself, I could see nothing, but bo approached, nnd pointing close to a wisp 1 of hay which had fallen ni)on,tny coat, repeated Chiroml-a." Believing it must be some insect among (ho hay, I took it in my lingers, looked over it, ond told him jiointedly there was 110. 'Chiromho there. lie Mriiled, and, jointing again to the bay, exclaimed: "Moio!" ('-It's alive:") Tiio hay its.lf w-is the chirombo. I do !:t cxriggcrato when I fui3 that that wisp of bay w-w 110 more like an insect than 1113' aneroid barometer. I had mentally IV.14 lived never to In taken in by any of tlicso mimetic frauds. 1 von incredu lous nougli to hiispH.t that the descrip tions of Wallace and the others were M.niewhat highly colored, but I confess to have le'ii completely stultified and l-vnten by tho vry lirst mimetic form I nit i. It was one of that very remark able family, the phasmid'O. but surely nowhere els in nature could there be Mich another creature. Take two inches of dried yellow grass stalk, c-uth aa one might pluck to run through the stem of a pipe; then take six other pieces nearly as 1 otigand :i quarter as thick; l-c-nd etich in tho middle nt any angle 3011 like, stick them in three opjiosite pairs, and again at mi angle 3011 like. 111011 the first grass stalk and 3 0U have my chirotylio. When you catch him his liniKs are twisted sil-out at every single a.s if the whole were made! cf ono long stalk of the most deli cate grass, hinged in a dozen places, and then gently crushed up into a disheveled heap. Having once assumed a position, by a wonderful instinct, he never moves, or varies one of his many angles by half a degree. The way this instinct keeps up the delusion is, indeed, almost as won derful ns the mimicry itself ; you may turn him about, and over and over, but ho is i-H-rc dried grass, and nothing will induce him to acknowledge the animal kingdom 1)3' tho faintest suspicion of spontaneous movement. All the mem trs of his faii'i3 have this power of uhamming death; but how such emaci ated and juiceless skeletons should ever presume to be alive is the real mystery. These piiasuiid;e lKk more like ghosts than living creatures, and eo slim are they that, in tM-ingto kill them for the collecting bos, the strongest squeeze be tween linger and thumb makes no more impression upon them than it would upon fine steel wire, and one has to half guil lotine them against some hard substance 1-cfore any little life they have is sacri lic.il to Science. Good Words. I'asiliifj jinl Po'hoiib. The advance of rational therapeutics will be characterized by increased preci sion in instructions as to the mode of taking medicaments, their relation to food, their state of dilution, difference of action according to temperament, and so fcr;h fa.sting, as is already known, ex orcising an important influence on the efTevt of certain substances. M. Roger has now investigated the influence of the state of hunger upon the jiower of ani mals to resist the j-oisonous action of alkaloids, tlai result U-ing that such alka loids as quinine, atropine or nicotine . ere found to bu only four-lift lis as toxic if reduced during fasting into the peri pheral voi-oi:- S3stem of a rabbit, as com pared with their action when introduced while di i' ,i,', is in progress; but if in troduce'! into tliw "port: J 700113 system during digestion, the toxicity' ts oni' haif taat during fasting. It is assumed, then, that fasting diminish-- fhe power of the liver to arrest the alkaloid, and this coin cides with a diminished power of gl3' cocren formation. London Lancet. Ial?crllnr.c yi bill 3 J Mlnd- I am free to confess that I love old clothes, boots, hat and everything else, s::nply liecause I dislike the unmannerly remarks of those I meet. So long as you wear o!d clothes you are all right. But I tit on a new suit and you run ihb gult l. t of criticism. Everybody has some thing to say pl-out it. It your i-eard grow and you have 100 j-fflections. Cut it off and ycu have 1,000 more. ImW, ail this does not arise so much from iil-tcr.iion-d impertinence as gossipy sur prise. The common mind hates innova tion in creed, icliticsor dress. To escape criiicLsni you must avoid change and be an every daj' man. Most people like light talk and so are interested in trifles. Half the so called wit in ordinary con versation is jicironal allusion. A true gentleman doon't ask you where you bought 3our hat or why jou do not shave. The scholar does not either. Tho ordinary man will, because he has little thought beyond liLi pantaloons. Lan eauster Examiner. Cotton Mill- 0 the Suth Cotton mill building in the south is being pushed with almost blind zeal. Within two months announcements have lieen made of sixty new mills. One at Athens is to double its capacity from 3,000 to 10,000 spindles. A thread fac tory is to be built near Barnett Shoals, Ga. A Merchant ville, N. J., projector wiil put up a largo amount of knitting machinery at Monbo, N. C. Spartans burg, N. C, i3 to have a 100,000 null, New Orleans Times-Democrat. Imbedded la a Brick. George Ilerrick, of Logansport, in watching the demolishing cf an old building in that city recently, saw a clay pipe imbedded in a brick. Curiosity led him to break tho brick and secure the pi;e, of common white clay. It must liave been lying in its contented bed for nearly fifty years, and was put there by eotne worker in a brick yard. The build ing was erected in 1847. New York Graphic The Chilian government is advertising in this country for proposals for the con struction of BOO miles cf railroad in Chili ! at an approximate cost of $17,000,000. j PRENTICE AND TRAIN. INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE AGITA TOR AND THE FAMOUS EDITOR. len Portraits of Two Noted Blen Prn tlc la Kvaryday Working Dnu and Train Sir Dandy Suit Dictating to aa AmuMDiii. , ' One afternoon about twenty-two' r three yean ago, a debonair younft (Centletnaa walked into th editorial rooms of the old Louisville Journal and asked to see Mr. Pren tice, lie was clad in a badiaome Hue broad cloth coat of the swallow, tail style, with smooth and glittering brass buttonx Ilia trousers were of black doeskin, hti shoes shiny, patent leather, his Vest of so mo heavy bull material over which his coat was but toned so that it doubled in front, showing an inch or two below thu front of tho coat; and in his band bo carried a rich looking soft hnt. His hair was black, wavy and plentiful, and his upper lip was covered with a luxurlr.nt and well kept mustacho. Altogether there was an air of elegant negli-nco alout him. The man was over the medium height and build, and presented a card which liore the words "George Francis Train. Civis Americanus Sum." lieing then Mr. Prentice's amanuensis and private secretary, I presented Mr. Train to the immortal George D., wit, iott uud ed itor. Train seemed to be a little staggered. I presume ho expected to see a large, impos ing and severe man, and he beheld "a leun and slippered pantaloon." Mr. Prentice wus eculiar!y a slouchy man then in his dress, and altogether careless oi bis personal ap pearance. Indeed, 1 believe be never had been "dressy." Ilis hair, which had onco lieen jet black, fell on his shoulders and even about his cheeks, well mixed with pray, and his whitening beard, which was also very long, and which covered nearly all cf his face except the nose, e3es and forehead, was tied as close up as possible with a cotton twine, and his ears wero stuffed with cotton. Tobacco juice stained his vest, and he bad a habit of using his fingers for a paste brush and of wiping them on his panta loons, lie had taken off his long, black frock coat and replaced it with a brown, somewhat ragged and alto gether disreputable looking old yarn pea jacket, or what was commonly called in Kentucky a "warmus." On the table near him stood his hat. This was a slouch with a tall crown, and It answered the place of pockets in his clothes, which sort of recepta cles be never used. He carried In his hat everything that other men carry in their pockets, and more too. Being unable to write more than a word or two at a time with his own hand, he would, with both of his trembling, writers' palsy stricken hands, make out to scratch memoranda of such things as be desired to consider upon the margins pf newspapers, and these little bits he would throw into bis hat for future refer ence. He usually had the old felt about half full of them. He also carried his pocket knife, pencils, scissors, keys, etc., in the hat, and I have often seen him, absent mindedly, drop a well masticated quid of tobacco into it instead of throwing the "old soldier" away. This was the famous editor, the author of "The Life of Henry Clay;" the champion and bosorn friend of "Prince Harry of the West" during the atter's glorious and bril liant career as a statesman, the writer of "The Closing Year" and other grand poems; the man whose keen wit, caustic sarcasm, eloquence end terse dramatic force drove giants before him with bJs PQii. Yet his quiver was filled with arrows of all sizes, from tho quill of the eagle to that of the bumming bird, and he could indite a fierce philippic in prose, or tune his sentences to a sweet and tender song of sympathy or love in poetry. Train exhibited his astonishment for an in stant, unobserved by Mr. Prentice, however, and at once the two fell into earnest conver sation. Train was in Louisville with Anna Dickinson, Susan B. Anthony and a number of dxUpi: leading i-v'oti-AM'3 right "-f.cn.c--, and was assisting in their suffrage crusade. After a pleasant stay of a half hour or so. Train withdrew and Prentice proceeded to dictate a pen picture of his late visitor. For many 3-eare Mr. Prentice had been forced to write by an amanuensis, beiug, as before Jntunated, a sufferer from scrivener's cramp,' or Writers palsy, kucsvn ia surgery as chorea scrlptorum. He would walk the Coor in a slip shod wa3, with his hands clasped behind him, and in a somewhat pip ing voice, with a nasal twang, being also atilicted with catarrh, he would dictate to bis amanuensis, punctuating the matter as be went. He alwa3s began his articles with tviiot is knwn fn typography as a "nst' a little cut of the band With piia'Jndex linger pointing, and thus his jen picturo of Otorge Francis Train was like this: "(Fist) A locomotive that has run oft the track (comma) turned upsido down (ooina--; ji1 cowcatcher buried in a 6tump and the wheels making a thousand revolutions a minute (full stop) ' A kite in tho air that has lost its tail (dash) a buiu'in novel without a hero (dash) a man who liabs a tree for a bird's nest (comnjaj but on a 1m'd (cc-mirta) and la order to get it saws tho limb off between himself and the tree (full stop) A ship without a rudder (dash) a clock without hands (dash) an arrow shot into the air (dash) a sermon that is all text (dash) a pantomime of words (dash) the apotheosis pf talk Jppfnnia) the incarnation of gab (full stop) Handioma (comma) vi va cious (comma) muscular (comma) as neat aa a cat (comma) a Judge pf the effect of clothes (comma) frugal in food and regular only in habits (full stop) A noonday ni3stery (dash) a solved conundrum (dash) a cipher hunting for a figure to pass for something (semi colon) with the brains of twenty men in his head (comma) all pulling in different diiio tions (semi-colon) not bad as to heart (c-omma) but a man who has shaken hands with rever ence (full stop). This is George Francis Train (full stop)" Thus did Mr. Prentice draw a picture of the restless agitator which photographs him inside and out, even to-day. Will Visscber. What! Tli- United States? The name of our country ought to be the same in all languages employing the Latin letter, by their importing the words "United States," and in all other languages the American spelling should be insisted upon. In France and French Switzerland we are "Etats Unis;" ia Austria-Hungary, Bel gium, Germany and German Switzerland, "Vereiuigto Staateu;" in Bolivia, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Itica, Salvador, San Domingo, Ecuador, Guatemala, Hayti, Hon duras, Mexico, Monico, Nicaragua, Ven ezuela, Uruguay, Spain and Portugal, we are "Est ados Unidos-" in Norway, "Forente Straterne;" in Sweden, 'De Forenede Stater;" in Greece, "Enomenai Politeiai;" in Russia, "Soedineneia Stadtds;" in Italy, "Stati Uniti. Besides the British Empire, we have the honor of being called by our own name, United States, only in the limited and de 6pairing republic of Liberia, in Africa!- New York MjuI and Express. Slipper for Clars-fmen. Why aro women forced by a blind necessity of their being to offer 6lipfiers to clergymen? The clew will be found in the love of spinsters for their jt animals. This rests on tho forcible dam ming up in their ch? j breasts of that maternal aCfec1 "!.!ch earth presents no mon rJ loving trait. Statistic .Cat' those spinsters who r . .0 clergymen have no ' - a canary bird. Ergo, ' d arises from per vert: v cr 1 arrested maternal affect;.. Put wuy tappers? the thoughtless reader omictod with a chronic paresis of memory may ask. Ah, they do not re member, then, a thin clinging bit of leather wielded by a gentle but deter mined hand which smote them unawares or other whercs? In civilized countries the slipper is the inalernul rod of com mand, tho wen ion that koeps the iiiirsi-ry from Ixi-oniing a private lunatic a v hi in or anti-jioverty society. It is used 1 v instinct, not from forethought, lu ing an inheritancy from countless generations of siniters. Now, tho spinster has the instinct in her ju-t as the married wo man, but it never finds an outlet, Pushed, however, by lh unconscious spring of maternity lying undcvcloiicd in her soul, she turns to slippers. The favorite clergyman ii not her love, neither is he her son, but the affection in her groiies that way; it Ls too strong for her; she must work him a pair, and though she dreads the American humorist, jr secret sh embroiders and send I r ; t. less gift. New York Tmit.-. VhixIuKhiii in I'liliiie Iabr.ti i-H. "Cranks are Dot (he o:ly people who strive to make a librarian's life burden some," said the manager of one of N'".v York's big public libraries a few days ago. "Thero is another clu-v of habitues, " continued the manager, '.who visit libraries with an intent that is nothing less than devilish. I recr to the vandals who write gibU rish 011 the margins of valuable 1-ooks (they call themselves 'an- notators'); ("irangerites,' who stealthily tear out rare prints from 1-ooks which often it is im--ossih!e to duplicate; the pictures thus stolen to enrich some tome undergoing process of 'extra illustratiii" ' and people who de face the fair surface of a flyleaf with silly Kcniwla or drawings. Such jiersons aro the pet abhorrence of librarians. There is no pest which gives them so much needless work and irritat ing annovance. "Book vandalism is not confined to one class of library loungers, however, for while thoughtless schoolljovs and silly maidens are the princinal cfTenders. clerks, students, lawyers, doctors, and evenclergyiuen.form t'10 majority of boo!, abusers. One iea;;on whv such" vandal ism continues to be so prevalent nndli-ook stealing so rampant is that librarians seldom or never bring the detected cul prits into the courts and before the pub ic notice." New York Evening Sun. noating- in a. r.lg riddle. of the floods at Tcmesvnr. renorts the fralration of an old gvpsv fiddler upon tho quaintest boat, nrobablv. that has ever been seen. The old man lived at the extreme end of the Fahriket'nlat in a wretched 'ittjo cctt;,gfj. Ho wont om about midnight in a very jovial htimoi, laid himself down to hieen and awoL-o about o'clock in tho morning. When he opened his eyes he made the unpleas ant discovery that his hut was fbuwl.-t and that the water lincl forced its way into Ins liedroom. lie had no movable goods except an oi l bedstead, a stool and ns great uouoic tas. lie oooilv placed his monster of a ' 1 'fs-,gcigo, his be-l-)t! broad ,vi!.,jr, uiv-n tlr- surfaco of tho water, t-ented him:-.clf us ride it 11r.1l p:u!dled himself to "dry land" with t-.r.ct of the boards of his bc.l. amid tho clioer ing and laughter of a number of gypsy comrades. Chicago IlcrnM. Jit-tk i nji' n Cc. l'-i. Tito Vignoli, an Italian ficit-ntist, fur nishes to the IleiKlieonti dtl Pj ale Insli tuto I.ombardo a detailc-d account of the obscure physiological phenomenon known as "color hearing. " lie descriix--.-. cases in which not only sound produced the sensation of color nnd color of Bound, but also cases in which :-en-(itions of aiul taste were btimulaied by sound and color. In his explanation which wiil strike tho average mind as somewhat fanciful the author refers the phenom enon to the primeval condition of lbs brain itself before tho various Fenscs be came ditterentiated and localized in thi? organ. He argues that since all tin. senses have a common origin in the primitive brain sul -stance this offers the readiest explanation cf then occasional confusion even i;i the brain itself, the J highest development of all. Color hear ing might in this way be regarded some what as a case of reversion or atavism. Chicago News. Tb Sljinsi? l Uc-L-ot-atioii. Tho very thing in decoration u a shingle. The selection is made of one :s, free from defects as possible, and upon it is painted a figure, often a tamliourine girl or a copy of "Whittier's "Barefoot Boy." The thinner edge tlifcii has holes punctured, jn U, and after a varnish of shellac, a ribbon bow and strings by which it may be hung complete this in expensive yet ornamental bit of ' high art." Lumber dealers report a run'ou Bhingles. New York Commercial Adver tiser. A Corious Drawlnc Raoui. The drawing room in Potter Palmer's Lako Shore castle, in Chicago, lias ju.t been furnished and decorated at a cost of $40,000. The decorations are in cream, gold and blue tints, and the liangings are of damask silk, copied from brocades of the last century. The ceiling has been nainted and droned bv Hester in tho Louis XVI stvle. New York Evening ' World. Iltintin-; for Lost Gold. The muddy bottom of Chippewa river, Ontario, is being raked for gold. During the war of 1S12 seme 50,000 in gold was dropped overboard by a British pay master, who was hotly pursued by Yankee troops, and tho money has laid there ever since. Brooklyn Eagle. Tho British house of commons baa 1 again passed the bill legalizing marriage . tcHth n 1f---iD?i-pd wifo's sistpi- I 1 Tl Plattsmouth Herald Is bn joying a. Boom in both, its DAILY AR-fB WEEKLY EDITIONS. Tke Tear 1888 Will be one during which the f-ubjoets td' national interest ami im jortap.co will ho strongly ayj tnted an.l the election nt'n IVe.-Ment will take place. Ihe people of Cass County who would like to h-urn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of this year and would keep jipru-e with the times should -BHBSO RIBE- --rot: kith ku 'i in: Daily or Weekly Herald Now while we have the subject before tho people wo will venture to qeak ot our Which is first-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSM0UTH, HE P T EP T NEBRASKA,