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THE WORSHIP OF JOSS.
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OF A CHINESE CHURCH
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!or 1.6 Jom IIoummi An Blaiutainod.
frayer Mutt He Short or EUe I'altl fur.
Jo Htlt-ka A Prayir Translated The
Lurk I took.
There nro two houses of worship hero la
Piuw ork. Thoy aro callel Joss houses.
though whajj, gave rise to the word Joss is not
known. It is not a Chinese word and in pro-
liily a tirili or the pigeon English dialect.
lue word meaning God in Chinese is Quong
tieo way uong. in tlio two Joss houses, as
in every other ono all over tho world, ho is
pictured as tho central iioint of attraction.
hanging, as tho picture does, behind the al
tar, it is painted with moro or less macuiil
fence and represents a man of ideal beautv.
iioeording to Chinese standards, in the prime
or lire. On either side of tins picture, in all
Josh iiotues, hang portraits of the great low
ers of the universe, one as tho destructive.
represented lyu hideous soldier armed to the
teeth. The other is the ideal productive wo
man, txiarmg in her arms a sock of gold
uud quantities of flour and grain. In tho
"two J.w houses in New York tho central
pictures aro about six feet hy four in dimen
sion :'iid artistically execute!.
. HOW THEY AP.E MAIVTAJNT:D.
To tho niaintennnce of theso Joss houses all
tho.calthy Chinese and many of tho poorer
fu!xw;riio with moro or less liberality. Every
cue will tako a Oyer in fan tan or a lottery
and ic!;et his gains or . losses without
scruple, and no ono is )Aid by Occidental
. notions of chastity. They aro very pious and
devoted iiien, according to tho tenets of their
tL They ofticiato at tho simple ceremo
nies which obXain in theso two temples with
out pay unjs tho wyshiier jrotrao his
devotions. High Priest Ah Moy said the
other daj': "A man can say all tho prayers
be needs to say in a minute. If ho plongs
the matter bo is simply what 3-ou would call
ju Engl'li a rharjst e and a byioerite. For
liyfuries of this kind wo make a charge, and
Kf a"??ian remains before tho altar more
rVi a minute lie must pay for tho privilege.
Oi& mitjuto costs him nothing, the second
-osts him twenty-five cents, tho third fifty
i-cxits, the fourth ft, tho fifth $2, and so on in
regular ratio."
What tho worshiper d'jes is interesting,
although it is so brief. Entering tho Joss
Louse without ceremony he distributes a
quantity of Joss sticks which he has pur-t-.'iased
outside. There are six little bowls of
sand in which ho sticks them; four are in
rout of the altar, one is under a table in the
corner, and the sixth is on a table or stono in
another comer. In each ho puts six sticks,
or a multiple of si , according to tho ferv
ency of Lis religious notions. Six is a sacred
number among this people. The first bowl
represents devotion; tho second the jast of
tuo worshiier; tho third Lis future; the
fourth tho present for him and his relatives
mid friends. Tho one under the table goes
for luck, and the last for Lis domestic rela
tions. Having placed uud ignited theeo sticks
ho kneels upon the prayer cloth, which is
spread before tho altar, and thero makes
twelve genuflexions.
A rji4YEIt TRANSLATED.
All this is done quickly, as has been stated;
Lut tho ostentatious will remain reciting
prayers from tho looks of the Chinese
classics, bumping their foreheads on the
ground and acting tho Pharisee's part. The
short prayer that is said may be freely trans
r luted as follows: "Make mo better; make mo
juoro courteous; make me kinder; bless my
parents and my grandparents; bless my
chilreii and my wife; bless my cousins, my
uncles, my ancestors, my countr', my ser
vants aud my friends; keep away from ail of
thenl any disease and give them all pro
iLriry. Amen."
. ' Phe house itself or room deserves descrip
tion, and yet li would lo Lard to give one
llrit would carry tho ;icture to tho reader's
cyj. Tinsel ornaments aboTudj ornamenta
tion is profuse, but little or iioth.:lSf of real
value is to le seen. The room is used net
exactly as a club house, but as a pleasant
place of resort. Conversation, smoking,
games at cards and dominoes, sometia'S for
stakes, go on without a question, and tho
general air of tho small crowd that may bo
found at any Lour of day or night within
tho walls is that of jollity and social enjoy
meat rather than that of what we western
jieoplo call religion.
I ligh Priest Ah iloy said to a pretty act
ress wl;o visited his temple while studying
New York; "You think that this is all ir
reverent, u.i'1 that we should not pray and
Luicrh and sins' n the Louse of our Cod. Do
you not lielievo iu latins children enj'oy
themselves wherever tf:y are You would
not send them away from homo to play In a
bar room. We think the same. We are all
the little children of our Gd4 and we enjoy
ourselves in Lis house rather than go away."
Perhaps tho most curious institution iu the
Jos Louse or temple is tho luck book, so
railed. There are standing in front of tho
altar two vases, in each cf which are two or
three hundred bamboo leaves. On each rf
these is inscribed the number of a page aud
verse in the sacred book that lies on a table
near by. The worshiper, after payinj a.
email fee, will either shake the vase himself
or get the priest to do it until ono of theso
leaves is shaken up on top. This is picked
out and the verse looked up, as it indicates
the fortunes of the devotee. New York
lirapLic.
I A Little Mountain Storm.
Though tho sky was perfectly clear et
starting, we won detected another of thoso
jxxruliar little isoutitsin storms coming tear
ing down a deep fe'Drgo ahead of us. There
was tho same chug, chug-, chug as before, and
the rani came down with such cutting force
ns to make it impossible for our horses to faco
it; so we were obliged to 'bout face and wait
till it Lad passed not over, but on, for these
storms literally roll along on the surface of
tho m irth. A milo or two farther on we met
it f win brother, with a similar experience,
and still farther up the valley wo met various
und sundry other members of the family.
My observation of these and other moun
tain storms in the far northwest has led m?j
to believe that much of our popular science
regarding clouds and the formation of rain
is sadly at fault. W hen one of these peculiar
clouds meets with an impassable obstruction,
as when reaching a sudden turn in a canyon
or bringing up against a jutting mountain,
it simply gets so mad it "bursts," and the
water then rushes down the narrow valleys
with such violence as to carry everything
before it.
The people of this section, some of whom
ore highly educated, and all of whom hav
acquired habits of the closest observation,-invariably
speak of these sudden
deluges as "cloud bursts," and scientifi
cally accurate or not, tho term certainly
describes the appearance of the phenomenon.
In some way or other the onward motion cf
tho cloud, when suddenly arrested, is changed
into a force which almost instantly liquefies
it, and then good-by to the hopes of tie un
' 'ortunate ranchman whostj crops of growing
"-skirt the borders of the brook. Wil
I "np in Overland Monthly.
TRAVELING IN MOROCCO. ABOUT OLD WINES. MY LADY OF DREAM3.
CroMlng the Sbott Hirer Arab Strpidltr.
Praying ami Cnrclng.
For ages this spot Los been tho crossing
place of all the caravans which come from
the desert, and yet all the meuus of getting
over is upon an abominable cross between a
raft and a flatboat, with sides built Ligh to
keep fractious animals from jumping out
during the passage, as any animal of sense
would bo tempted to da I should say the
sides of these rafts were three feet high, and
there is not now nor has there ever Leen any
sort of plank or gangway upon which the
animals could walk aboard. The men com
menced to pray before they got in sight of
tho boats, and by the time thoy arrived along
side there was nothing to le heard above a
tearful howl for Mooley Indrees and Allah
to come down from their high place and give
the mules a boost Into the loat.
The river, the praying and boats got tho
mules intoaprojier state of fright even before
the time came to embark them, and the men
Lad to cLange from prayers to oaths, which
seemed to have a better effect The mules
were unpacked, led to tho boats and invited
to Jump in, which, of course, on the slippery
bank of tho river, was impossible. Then all
hands would stop coaxing and swear awhile,
interlarding each remark with a shower of
blows for the animal, until exhausted, after
which they would turn upon each other,
shake their fists, call bail names, and finally
quiet down and go to praying again, until
seeking a change, two of them wculd tro
down, lift the forelegs of the mule into tho
ixnt, and then twist his tail until ho kicked,
when at tho moment his heels were hicrh in
the air they would give him such a shove
that ho either would fall into the boat or into
tho mud on tho bank, when they would have
to start all over again.
It tooi just two hours to load ten mules
into the boat, where they stood huddled to
gether, with bruised legs and evil glances,
watching for tho moment to come when thev
could get even with the man who got them
into tho scrape. Then came tho fun of cross
ing, and as I contemplated tho crowd of ani
mals, looking as if at a mojnent's notice they
might commence to kick and plunco at each
other, I edged toward the bow and centered
my affections on a pack saddle which con
tained charcoal, for tho others had Mooloy
Indrees to give them a life preserver if neces
sary, while I felt more drawn to something
tangible, and so seuted myself on the ehai
coal with a firm clutch at the ropes. There
was something charming and at the same
time interestingly excitimr about that trin
across, for of course the current was too
swift to admit of landinir anvwhere hut.
where chance took us, as the sweeps in tho
boat were too clumsy to do more than keen
headway on the raft. When we got almost
across, the men would see some spot on the
bank where they wished to land, and implore
Mooley Indrees to land them there, and as
soon as they saw they would be carried by,
commence to curse him in a most outrageous
manner, ana turn their attentions to Allah.
I forget whether it was Allah or Indrees who
finally landed us, but in the course of time
wo grounded on the other bank, almost a
mile below where we started. Morocco Cor.
Boston Transcript.
"Wliere the Tourists Come From.
Some pains have been taken of late years
by statisticians and parties interested to as
Certain approximately how many tourists
annually enter Switzerland. While tha
figures are found to vary somewhat from
year to year, owing to financial depression,
political uncertainties or the existence of
temporary attractions, snch as the French
exposition, the Victoria jubilee, etc., else
where, yet it is pretty accurately determined
that tho yearly number of pilgrims to this
Alpine Mecca averages about a quarter of a
million. Of this enormous army of tourists
four-fifths come from England, Germany,
the United States, France and Italy, England
alone sending 35 per cent, of the whole num
ber and the other countries proportionately
in their order as given.
About thirteen in every hundred are frora
the United States, which, considering tho
long joumey across the Atlantic, is a largo
ratio ps compared with the ten in every hun
dred sent by adjacent France. How steadily
tho percentage of American tourist craviil ;n
Switzerland has grown of late years is evi
denced by the fact that, in 1801, the United
States was tenth on the list of countries re
presented; in ISTi the fifth; in 1SS1 the
fourth, and now, as above stated, the third,
and a close second; Germany and England
being tho only competitors in excess. It is
also of interest to know that in everv thou
sand summer tourist? who pass through
Switzerland, far off Australia is represented
by ten, Africa by eight and Asia by six. But
John Eull is largely in the majority every
where. On tho quays at Zurich, Lucerne or
Geneva, along the dizzy footpaths of the
Jungfrau or the Metterhorn, on the steamer
ihrrks at Vevey or Thun, in the railway
restaurants everywhere, he jostles you at
every turn, and chulk-igos your mute ad
miration by the sublime assurance with
which he addresses everybody or anybody,
no mutter who, be it a railway conductor or
the Veriest peasant, with good broad Eng
lish, and then grows red in the face with rage
that they don't understand him. Consul
Catlin's Switzerland Letter in Philadelphia
Times.
A J'rcncli Ranker's Yacht.
A strange looking cr&ft is visible on the
Seine jast at present It is moored at the
little island of the Vert-Galant, close to tho
Pont-Xeuf, and in general appearance looks
like one of the ordinary river lighters, or
gabares, which carry goods through the
waterwnj-s of France. On nearer inspection,
however, the gabare turns out to be a most
carefully constructed and 'sumptously de
corated specimen of its class of craft. It is,
in fact, a well appointed 4'junk" which has
been built by a rather eccentric provincial i
banker for himself and his family. Around
its sides are Iron rails and hooks for awpins
and in its interior are a salon, a dining room,
two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen, and,
most wonderful of all, a stable and coach
Louse. Tho cabins, or rather rooms for pri
vate us, are fitted up not only comfortably
but artistically, and th;re is ven a piano in
the drawing room. Tho stables told four
horses, the animals being as comfortable in
their stalls as if they were in a big stable in
a chateau or in a town house.
Tho boat is built of iron, is of about 200
tons burden, and can be navigated on most
of the French rivers. Tho cost of the craft
was 2,400. Its owner, a M. Bare ton, dis
dains railways and ordiuary means of loco
motion. Ho merely uses Lis Lorses and car
riages for traveling in cities and other places
whero bis big "junk" cannot go. Wherever
there is a river or canal ho journeys along it
quite comfortably in his gabare, and enjoys
f resh air and quiet away from the shriek of
engines or the bustling life of big termini
He never has a hotel bill to pay, and he in
tends to live with Lis family in Lis boat dur
ing the great exhibition, when he is to spend
two or three mouths in Paris. People have
already begun to speak about" Diogenes in
bis tub," but M. Bare ton goes along in bis
gabare and heeds nobody. Paris Cor. Lon
don Telegraph.
Maid to order A errant glrL
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ONE OF THE DELUSIONS OF MODERN
GASTRONOMIC ART.
The Mistaken Xotiou That Age Knrlchea
Wine inimitably A Tet Caiwt Wines
of tho AnrltnU Pompeii' Wine Jar.
Flavoring and Drugging.
There is probably no greater delusion in
the modem gastronomic art than the notion
that age enriches wine inimitably. If a
three or five year wine is better than the
crude juice, the process must go on forever,
and tho wine of 500 years must be the verita
ble nectar of the gods. It isanvyth of the
poets. Wiue Is an orgauic product, and to
every organic there i3 the immutable law of
growth and decay, life and death. There is
no exemption. Dosing with foreign sub
stance, fortification with brandies and alco
hol, care of temperature and other devices
may stave off the fatal decline, but for only
a little. An item is coiner tho rounds of t.li
press that the wines of the late king of Bava
ria, some of them a century old, have been
bought by English seciilators at enormous
prices to resell to English gourmets. Upon
this remarks a writer in The Paris Register:
What the item says about the wines of the
excellent vintages from l&."Jto 1S4 is doubt
less true, and possibly it may be true of the
Johannisberg of 1811, but I Lave no hesita
tion in doubting if there is uny truth or good
ness whatever iu the vintages of 1.V10, 10-10
and 17J1.
THE REAL FACTS.
Now, what ure the real facts about wines
as old as tho above? After fermentation,
which is a process of decay, wino will deteri
orate unless preventive measures are taken,
such as keeping tho wino in a cool or even
temperature, the addition of alcohol, boiling
iLiio vmum conum 01 tne iiomans and the
vino cotto of modem Italians) and the com
plete exclusion of the ordinary atmosphere
by good corks, by sealing wax or by oil. Tho
most common method for preserving wine in
modern times is by adding alcohol and by
corking and s?aling. Tho alcohol in wines
prepared for England is of ten in such pro
portions that the wine ceases to bo anything
like the juice of the crane, and too of ton w
as 6trong as a glas3 of brandy and water.
In 1871 Mr. Itabello, the Brazilian consul
at Oporto, made me a present of several
bottles of port wine of the vintage of 179..
Mr. Itabello had heard of the breaking up of
an old Portuguese family where, from father
to son, a certain number of bottles of famous
vintages had been handed down, I sent
several of these aged wines to the la to William
Culleu Bryant, remarking that the bottlo of
1703 was, aeeordiug to the encyclopaedia,
of his own age; but the ioet, in acknowledg
ing the reception of tho wine, stated that it
was Lis senior, and that he should look up to
it with reverence. When I came to open my
bottle of 179:5, 1 found it (which once had the
dark red of port) about the color of water,
and the most insipid stuff. Up to the be
ginning of this century it was not the custom
in any part of Europe to put a lot of fiery
alcohol into any kind of wine, and when they
did add spirit to port wine it was a little of
that which had been distilled from port.
This 1703 wine had probably been thus
treated, but with all the sealing wax, and a
once good cork, tho beverage was as un
vmous and tasteless as if it had been water
dipped up from a pond and bottled. There
fore, I doubt if tho Bavarian wines, so
sedulously advertised in England as thoso of
1310, 1040 and 1731 have any virtue in them,
even if they be genuine wines of thoso dates.
WTXES OF TIIE AJfCIEXTS.
The ancients, having no distilled spirits,
were wanting in one of the exeat remedies
which prevent wines from decaying, or turn
ing to vinegar. Homer represents old Nes
tor, in the "Odyssey," drinking ten- year-old
wine.' Atheuxus incidentally mentions a
wiue kept sixteen years; but, in the days of
the empire, connoisseurs eonsjUfcred Grepl?
wine a perfection when six years old. Hor
ace tells his friends, when they come to sea
him, that he will give them "three-year-old''
wino. But the ancients evidently did keep
wine, either by boiling, or by very tight
corking and putting plaster upon the corks,
or by burying i fr twenty and thirty
years. There is one wine jar (amphora) in
tho museum in situ at Pompeii, which, if the
label is to bo beueved, and if wino was in it
at the time of the destruction, must have
been over forty years old jntho year 79 A.P.,
when Pompeii was destroj-ed. But we must
remember that ancient wino dealers could
cook up labels, and give fictitious names,
just as well as the modern descendants of
their craft. '
As to the wines of the ancients, I believe,
in general, they were, for the upper classes,
much more artificial than in this present agti
of adulteration, because it was a fashion for
centuries to mix wines, and to flavor and
drug them to such an extent that we mod
eras would never drink them, and would not
take them except as medicines. Not only
were spices, fragrant roots, leaves and flow
ers steeped in the wine, but myrrh, cassia,
nard and pepper were put in, and, as if even
there were not enough, flour 'and' 'grated
goat's milk cheese were sprinkled over the
wine just beforo driukiug. Home JournaL
Courtesies of Olden Time.
Father Alcott Lad a Lappy sa3-iug that po
liteness is such an easy virtue that every one
could afford to have it in abundance. Yet
there is a general omplaint of the deadness
of fine manners. The trouble seems tq bo that
manners change more rapidly than in olden
time. The old school of politeness reintro
duced would be jeered at by those who mourn
its loss. How would our girls look practicing
the courtesies of fifty years ago? The "good
old gentleman of the good olden time" lived
in a slow age, when there was time for in
finite infinitesimals. We might keep them up
one day in the week. Go ahead six days as
go you can: but the seventh look to wiirs.
and knee buckles, and stately courtesies, and
all sorts of little personalities. That, indeed,
was one good thing about the old fashioned
Sunday that it was a day of nice clothes and
nice manners. People dressed and acted well
out of respect to tho Lord. They might keep
up the habit out of respect to themselves and
each other. Globe-Demociat,
The Japanese Hanging Picture.
There are now on view at a London gallery
a splendid collection of 1,200 Japanese kake
monos or hanging pictures. The hanging
picture is tho Japanese equivalent for the
ordinary oil and water color pictures, but
are unlike them in this particular, that thty
are not placed on the walls of a room and
retained there aU the year round, but are
only on vjew at certain seasons and fes
tivals, each kakemono being supposed to
convey some meaning in . respect to the
various times and events. For instance,
when a marriage takes place the subjects ex
hibited are chiefly a representation of the
god "Jurojin," signifying a desire that the
couple may spend a long and happy future ;
also sets of three kakemonos, depicting first,
pine tree; secondly, bamboo; third, prunus,
with, in addition, figures of takasago (an old
couple gathering fir cones), a stork and a
tortoise, each and all of these Laving rt-fcr-tnce
to long life. Home JournaL
Last Sabbath morn I llston'd in the church:
Tho organ hlper'd music, soft ami low,
Tieix-ed through with half husbml wailing, tiN it
seemed.
I heard silk draperies lightly near me sweep
Or felt the breath of some on sLantling ly.
But vain la shadow aaJ half glooms this searvb
Korshaoor vUion: veiled to outward eye,
Soft as the Ki,-hiuf of a babe In sleep,
Thrt gracious Iresence came, of one 1 know.
My drfam, too dear to put aside, 1 UreauieU
With far net gaz, within my carvea ctull.
aenujf 1111 nun air duwn, tho swert sound
reii;
Then joined and gathered in a winsome form
So near, it seemed the livin-j likeness stole
To nestle in my arm, against my heart.
Tin dear, old fashion that I know bo well.
Pulling w ith tender trust, shy, pure and warm.
,
Thus, best beloved, love is all in all.
Ami love, th'i silver music of thy soul;
And thy life, my life, though wo breathe apart.
Archibald Maemechan In Queries.
Exhibition of Uvo Ants.
Tho featuro of tho meeting of tho Britlah
1oyal society last week was an exhibition by
Mr. Henry l'.urns of a class of nests of live
ants. These were so arranged that all tho
elaborate internal economy of the insects
could bo fully observed. A cable dispatch
say3 that "in ono cell was the ouecn. with
servants attending upon her. In another wero
the aphides, or cows, watchfully herded by
their koepei-3, and a party of workere wrro
engaged 111 walling up an intruding; queen
which had been placed In tho nest that morn
iny. Tho stato of ant civilization wa.i e.o re
markably high that nobody would havo
lecn much surprised v.t a part7 cf Ecior.tifio
ants in spectacloo taking notes on tho Royal
society. Science. J
Notes on the Alyioinlatis.
The expedition made a few notes on tho
Abyssinians, which may or may not bo o!
value to the ethnologist. Thoy noted that
all tho pooplo go bareheaded, oven tho Negr.3
and tho great chiefs. Tho men all wear tho
"shama," a red striped garment, and the
women long red crosses on tho back and froufc
of their dresses. Thoso who can afford it are
fond of anointing themselves with oil, bal
sam and musk. Both soxes wear ringa on
tho arms and legs. Women wear eairings,
and make a cross on tho lomplo or forehead.'
Tho skin is also tattooed with a cross, and
in addition, such 03 have mado tho pilgrim
age to Jerusalem bear tho sign of the cron
and irgin on tho back of thoir hands. St.
James' uazette.
How a Horse Sleeps.
it is a tact not generally known that at
least four out of every ten horses do not lie
down to sleep. The horse that sleeps in a
standing position rests one leg ut a time, d?
pentiing on tne other three to sustain the
weight of his body. Tho habit is a very
dangerous one, for the equino as well as the
human somnambulist. Only last week a fine
horse in the stables of a big manufacturing
ooncem iu this city went to sleep while
standing in his stall and fell heavily to the
floor, breaking ono of his legs. A great
many horses are permanently injured as a
result of somnambulism, and there is no way
of curing them of tho disease. Horseman in
G lobe- Demoera t.
Tho Commej-eial Travelers.
Tho commercial travelers of this country
now number over 250,000, and reach in their
journeyings every town and hamlet in this
country; they are tho greatest distributors
f goods, shipping about 300,000,000 tons out
of 400,000,000 tons now carried yearly by the
railroads, and they spend over f 1,750,000 per
day, or. about 08,000,000 per. traveling year
of nino months, which is distributed anion"
the carriers, hotels, shopkeepers and product
ers. Public Opinion,
A Very Serious Omission.
Little Gotham Maid (reading) And the
fairy prince and Blue Eyes were married
and lived happily ever after.
Little Boston Maid Where did they live?
Little Gotham Maid (consulting the last
page carefully) It doesn't telL
Little Boston Maid That was a serious
omission on tho author's part. As we do not
know vhcre the princo and Bluo Eyes lived
we nave no way of establishing their social
status. Town Topics.
IMecl in Distilled Water.
Dr. N. A. Randolph, an English physician,
mentions that minnows which throve in
brook water and remained alive in it with
out food for many days, died in a few hours
when placed in distilled water properly
aerated. He holds that one of the chief
dietetic advantages of salads and uncooked
vegetables in general is that tho mineral ele
ments have not been removed out of them.
New York Graphic.
Growth of Kansas City.
A visitor from the east recently gave a
Kansas City reporter an interesting illustra
tion of the way tho town has grown. In JS54,
only thirty-four yea-s ago, Kansas City con
sisted pf u steamboat landing and half a
dozen insignificant huts, while Indians
prowled along the river banks and occasion
ally made a raid on tho settlement. New
York Evening World.
A Summer Vacation.
Minister's Wife I am so gladjthat you are
going to Europe for the summer, Jasper, I
think it was so noble of the church to give
you this delightful trip. Of course I should
like to go too, but that is out of the question.
Minister Oh, yes.
Wife What is your sermon for today?
Minister "Tho poor ye have ahvavs with
you." The Epoch.
Ileal It Kato of Doctors.
Among tho policy holders of a Cfcnnan Jifq
insurance company 1 he death rate of medir
tal men in 1&77 was 11.53 per cent, above tho
total average. This was duo to diseases of
the respiratory organs, consumption and in
fectious diseases. There was only ono easo
of post mortem poisoning out of 1,052 deaths
Arkansaw Traveler.
Ilarin't Got to the Meat.
Husband What is that you are reading,
my dear?
Wife It is a letter from mother.
Husband Is there anything important
in it?
WifeI don't know yet, dear. I haven'i
got to the postscript. Boston Courier.
Married a Tartar,
De Wigs Old feUow, I am truly sorry for
you. You seem to havo married a tartar.
De Eiggs 16 Is true. But, then, she'g
beautiful and wealthy.
De Wiggs Ah ! a sort of cream of tartars.
Pittsburg Bulletin.
Victoria's Iteigiu
Victoria has reigned longer than any of
her predecessors excepting Henry III, who
reigned fifty-six years, and George III, who
was on the throne for sixty years.
Lightning can be seen by reflection a dis
tance of 200 miles.
The Plattsmouth Herald
Is on joying a
EDITIONS.
The
Will bo one liirin; which the guhjects of
national interest ami importance will u
strongly agitated and the election of a
President will take place. The people of
Cass County who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
of this year and would keep apace
the times should
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Daily or Weekly Herald.
Now while we have the subject before the
people we will venture to speak of our
AVhich is first-class
from which our iob
out much satisfactory
PLATTSMOUTH,
Boom in both, its
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with
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in all respects and
printers are turning
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