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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.
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HE P T EP T
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