TJiF DAILY I1EUALD? I LA'lTSAKnjTH, NKUKASKA, THUJiSOA V, JULY 2C, 18S8. A CHINAMAN DIE?, CELESTIAL MERCHANT'S DEATH IN HIS NEW YORK HOME. The riou Taftk of Cheering the Dying Man and Ministering to II U Physical ami Spiritual Want Attractive Interior of a Chinese Home. A heathen died 12,000 miles away from home, nt No, 13 Tell street, on Friday morn ing. Although ho was so far away from his liaiivo land, he was tended in his dying Lours ly somo of his "cousins," for in China the cousin is any member of the Name family, no matter how re mo to the kinship, and the manner of his death was as it would have been if ho had died at home. Hid name is Hong Toi, and he is a cousin of a wealthy Chinaman who keeps a grocery at No. lid Mott street. Ho had just been taken away from Boston to die in this city. According to a certuin Chinese sui'istition it is unlucky to allow a man to dio in tho same house where he lived. Consequently, as soon as the at tending physician pronounces tho ca.iti hoptt Jcsx, a room elsewhere is hired for him to die in, as was done in this case. ' Hong Toi was bora in Quang-Tung-Foo in 'Chi and came to America when he was 30 yearn of ag. Like so many of his country men, when ho arrived hero he sought employ ment in a laundry, and set himself to make a fortune. His savings after a time wero largo enough to enable him to buy an interest ill a grocery, and before he died be bad laid up $o0,0fK). Hi hopes and plans, however, all perished with him. Four months ago he contracted an illness common among the peo ple of his rare, lie cougrtsd, grew thin and lt Lis appetite Tho American ph3-jioiau idiom be employed' at first pronounced tho trpublo malaria, but his treatment did tho pat It. nt little good. A Chinese doctor was i-onsultcd later, and ho declared the troublo to be pneumonia. This proved correct, and the d incase soon provel fatal. Within tho last two weeks of his life ho was never left alone. His friends and cousins relieved one another in tho pious task of i.hcvrir.g tha dying man pnd ministering, in fi.ir heathen fa-hioa; to LU spiritual as well in hi physical warn' They read Jong pas sages to liim from their national books, such fii the works of Confucius and Meneius, tho Tiipi'ekf of Iluddiia and the verses, of f.af TsX-e and other famous poeu. They f M 1..V- . . ...... v..-.. uu b.iange anu Ueiicate dainties which the Chinese only can concoct, and talked of homo when ho was strong enough to listen. Then, as tho end came nearer, they brought tufc and spread around him numerous queer looting objects, such as had been familiar to him in his childhood, evidently seeking, as they might amuso a tired child, to bring some pleasant memory or happy thought into his mind while yet life might beniude a little brighter. They spread out littlo squares of sugar rmdy, looking not unliko tho "butter scotch" American children like so well. Queer cakes were laid around on tables and chairs, and even on the bed, some with fruits and some with spices in them, some with meats and somo with unfamiliar ingredients to the Cau casian ; very few of them wero alike. Then they brought even dolls, fashioned as nearly after tho babyhood of China as the pictured of their native artists are like nature grotesque, quaint and richly garbed, odd and pretty. From tha ceiling they hung kites and queer umbrellas, and some of the ele gant, fantastic paper lanterns that aesthetes delight in. A 6inile would sometimes como over his wasted features, but for the most of tho tinio his face was calm and grave, as is tho wont of Chinamen. It is a look not un like that of babies, wise beyond their days, who look at all things with a quiet attention that seems to 6peak a tolerant half approval. I His bed was a narrow bunk, covered with white matting, and the pillows were long, narrow boxes, covered with upholstery. They looked not unlike tho footiests in au pl.l English church. Around the walls hung Kilken banners of vivid scarlet and rich em broidery tracing tho hieroglyphics that fctood for verses from the poets. Over the mantelpiece were religious pictures not un like those that hang over the altars in tho Chinese temples. In the center was a repre sentation of God as the Chinese picture him, peated on a throne of barbaric magnificence, while on either hand wero pictures of the beings whom they suppose to personify the powers of destruction and reparation. On tho opposite wall hung tho words of the Christian hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee. n On the mantelpiece underneath tiio religious pictures wero a dozen or more artistic photo graphs of ballet girls iu the axtrema nuder liess of tho modern stage. In ouo corner was a bamboo table, on which wero pots of coal kept constantly burning, and of tea kept always hot Other pmaller. tables supported bronzo vases, some of them very costly and all artistic; bronzo bowls of clean white sand, in which were ptuek joss sticks, to be burned from time to timo in devotional exercises, and pome forty c r fifty volumes of tho writings of t hiiu-se ioefc5. Theso were Lugo and enmbrous, but ot rare workmanship, and must have been fxpensiva purchase The sick man 'a costume was a simple hoao dress, somewhat resembling the pajamas that liavo grown into popular favor in America within the last few years. He wore a bloiioo, loose and without any approach to a fit, ' made of yellow muslin, and a pair of trou sers of the same material, only reaching to the ankle, and on his otherwise naked feet were a pair of loose slippers. This was in his Boston home. A few days ago, his physi cians having pronounced his caso hopeless, he was removed to this city, as stated above. Ho confronted death with all tho calm courage of thotruo fatalist, evidently in full possession of all his mental faculties and firm ill his Oriental faith. There was not the mtest evidence of an7 fear in his manner or his words, nor did there seem to be any longing for life or desire to supplicate for it. To an American whom he knew well, and whom ho had learned to regard as a good friend, he said, as ha grasped his hand the day before ho died: ".Mayhap die one week, maybe one mouth ; die allce samee. No solly myself. All light. Solly my mothee, my motheo." To ouo of his Chinese friends ho said, only a few hours before ho breathed his last, and vhea he was almost unable to articulate : "I think I sea tho dragons." It was tho last he said. Boon after he sank into what seemed a peaceful sleep and saving for his labored breathing he gavo no farther evidence of suf fering. Slowly and more slowly ho breathe until with a long gasping sigh be gavo up tho struggle and rested. Tlere was no lamentation, nor any evi dence of grief, though it was plain euoLgh that to many of his friends his going was a real sorrow. Five or six of theso friends wero in the room when he passed away, and . as soon as they saw that he was dead they -an tho preparations for his final disposxd. ew York Herald. Its Many Meaning. ost common stock expression in the probably, "Well," used as an i'i ' may be given mora nieanin;;? - sjc" ' ' " word of a w THE FAIR SEX. Newspaper Goitaip Concerning the Daugh ters of Eve I'eraoual Mention. Rose Elizalieth Cleveland will go to Europo next year to pursue her literary btudies. The fastest typesetter in California la Kaid to bo a young woman who is em ployed in a newspaper office- at Santa Barbara. Miss Daisy Hampton, Gen. Wade Hampton's daughter, in a famous pe destrian. She recently walked from her home to Charleston, a distance of 143 miles, and made in one day a record of twenty-fivo miles. The Dowager Duchessc de Fitzjames sent recently to a Paris fashionable bride as her wedding present a copy of tho funeral oration delivered over James II of England, recovered and preserved by the Baron do Maynardat Lisbon. The number of tall ladies now in Wash ington society is noteworthy. A niece of Secretary Bayard, MUs Bayard, of Iialti luoro, is six feet tall; Speaker Carlisle's wife is iivo feet nine inches, and Cen. Greeley's wife, Mrs. Wilkinson, wife of Representative Wilkinson, cf New Or leans, and Miss Ginter, of Kentucky, uro about the sanio height. Anielie nives' sister, abotit whose beauty so much is being said, is small, very slight and girlish. She has golden hair, large dark blue eyc3 of weird expression, and a complexion of the most dazzling pink and white. She lias lonx lanhes, u line nose, and full red lips. She dresses with bchool girl simplicity. Mme. Tincent, a French woman, has saved twelve j?rsons from drowning. A bhort time ago sho jumped into tho waves entirely dressed and rescued the twelfth, a 0-year-old boy. She has seven children of her own, tho youngest a baby. Now that tho queen and the Princess of Wales have set the fashion of wearing opals, it will be very widely followed, in 6pilo of the reputation" for ill luck which clouds' the peauty of theso prismatic gems, Miss Franco l-r "" "i i ti. -1 ..etmoro has been ap- 4 ...ied government physician for the Lland of lido. ''Dr. Fanny," as she is called, has a largo practice, and is very popular among all classes. She makes lier visits on horseback, and is ready to answer any call, night or day, in fair weather or foul. Mrs. Ritchie, the daughter of Thack eray, seems to write her stories by a similar method to that which Emerson pursued in the preparation of his essays. When anything strikes Mrs. Ritchie she writes it down at the moment, and then patches the littlo scraps together. It ap ihmis that before tho publication of Mr. Ix)uis Stevenson's '-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the very same story had been thought out by Mrs. Ritchie. It had come to her with a flash the very best, most delightful story she had ever thought of; and bitter was her disap pointment when she picked up Mr. Louis Stevenson's little book and found her idea had been' anticipated. Col. Ingersoll's daughters are brilliant girls. Not in tho sense that society tcrni3 its girls brilliant; for they are not shal low, and frivolity does not babble when they speak. They are brainy. They have read and studied deeply. They have a fine scientific knowledge, and they talk thoughtfully on all topics of the time. Still, these two young ladies have by no means neglected themselves in the lighter accomplishments.. They are fine musicians, and they possess in a remarkable degree tho gift of entertain ment. One of them, Miss Maud, is the possessor of a remarkably memory. She lias stored up in her mind a vast amount of knowledge which she recalls in the most minute manner and with the great est apparent ease. Without the slightest hesitation she can tell, for instance, the date of birth or deatii of any important composer, and can recall any event of moment in his career. This quite un usual gift she carries "into other fields, and her information is so widespread and so accurate that but for her singularly winsome manner ordinary folks would bo quite afraid to talk io lier, f Oettin Itkl of Kat. A farmer living near Greensboro, Ga., was much troubled by rats, and their depredations on his corn crib increased to an alarming extent. Ho finally thought of a method by which ho could rid him self of them. Ho secured a three gallon jar and half filled it .-itb water. On the top of tho water he placed a thick layer of cotton seed. The seed, so he argued, would attract the pts as a pleasant place to play, and of course the moment they touched the seed down they would go. The trap worked like a charm, The rats came; they attempted the frolic act on the seed with tho deceptive foundation, and, to use Mr. Kilgore's own words, he "caught a gallon md a half of rats the first night," running the water to the top. Chicago Herald. Southwestern China's KsUrocd.i. Great interest is taken in the east in tho railway between Siatn and south western China, which will bo about a thousand miles long. It has been sur veyed, but more surveyors are going out froai England. It h expected that this railway will postpone for a long time the construction of a lino between Tonquin and China. The China Railway company have, by the way, completed their line as far as Tang-ku, and in April the trains legan to run from that point to Tongsan. The remaining section of the line, be tween Taug-ku and Tien-Tsin, will be pushed on with unremitting energy, and in a few months' time the "flying wheels" will be making their revolutions to tho delight and amazement of tho peo ple of Tien-Toiii. Homo Journal. I'rices 1'ald fur Jfovels. There seems to have been a great ex citement over the $10,000 paid to Mr. Stevenson for his "Outlaws of Tunstall Forest" by an American syndicate. As a price it pales into insignificance before the 40,000 paid by Smith, Elder & Co. to George Eliot for ''Roiuola," and the ?0,000 paid by the Longmans for Lcrd Beaconstield's 'Lothair." Anthony Trol lope and Charles Reade often received $20,000 for a. single work, and Harrison Aiasworth, nt the height of Ids popular ity, is known to have made $100,000 a year. Belford'a llaiziae. - ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. A LAND OF PLENTY ITS PEOPLE AND TRADE. A Bnenos Ajres Hanker Talks About ISuMnes In the Svu.th American Pro vince Business, Schools, Climate and Railroads The Newspapers Prosperity. 'The peoplo of the United SUtes," said Mr. Charles IL Sandford, a partner of the Arm of Samuel O. Halo & Co., bankers, of Buenos Ayres, "do not know what an El Dorado the Argentine Republic is. Not In gold and silver, though we mine even these precious metals there, but in productiveness. I think that today Buenos Ayres oilers n greater field for tho employment of capital with safety than the city of any other country in the world." "What is Buenos Ayres like?1' "Comparing it with a city of tho United States, I should say Philadelphia. Its streets are laid out in regular squares or blocks of 200 feet each, and it covers a great deal of grouiuL It is built upon a slight elevation, rising from tho La Plata river. It has a front of two miles on tho river, and extends back between two and threo miles. The number of inhabitants is 500,000. It is to all intents and purposes a seaport, though 130 miles from the ocean, as it has direct con nection by steamer with Europe. The bank ing interest of tho city Vt very large. There ts one bank building that cost $900,000, another that cost (050,000 and others tho cost of which varies from. $o00,000 to $400, 000. The National Lank is just about to begin the construction of a building which, with the land, will cost 1,500,000. These structures are of brick and stucco, handsome in design, anil compare favr rably with those of any city. Of tho residences the city has many handsome ones that cost from $200,000 to M00.0U0 each. Tho cost of others is from C-10,000 to C50.000. Spanish is tho language generally spoken, but English is much culti vate 1 among tho natives, and tho larger unifier of foreigners being Italians, iai m-Turigo largely yrovr.i'w.," ' "U'lKit is tho gov erhnieht like?" The government of tho Arcuti"- Ttepuo- !S S::';i- a"'' constitution is u"t't 'v. j ia ours, with the exception i. to president is elected for a term of six :: instead of four. Til j present president .Mr M Juarez Column. Ho is a. very : , i inn to occupy stu-lj a por-ition, being i ; j years of ago. Ho i a very ener lic enterprising ruler, and I have no i;!:t that liisye.irs will hoof prosperity to ccuiitry. Military rule and dictatorship ..:vo -since Ix-en a thing of tho past in :e Argentine Republic, although many peo-,.-le think that this is siiil tho rule of tho ounlry." "What uro somo of your wealthiest men worth ' "We have ono man who is worth from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000, several whoso wealth is placed at $20,000,000 each and many who are each worth over 45,000,000. Tho general social life is the same as hero in New York or in London. Buenos Ai res has a finer opera than any city on this continent. It is Italian opera, and boxes for forty nights cost from $2,000 to $3,000. Our opera house will seat 3,000 ieople, and wo have as leading tenor the great Taniagup. Patti is now there. Sho has had a most bril liant success and has roceived from tho Argentines the highest rate of remuneration ever paid to any operatic performer on any stage. The city has large parks, and these are frequented by carriages, the stylo and elegance of which aro equal to those of any city in the world. Palermo is tho principal park, and includes many acres. Ko city is 6o well supplied with tramways or horse car lines as Buenos Ayres. It has at least 250 miles of them. The 6frvioe is oi the best kind and the cars are of thejfin'est. Arrange ments are now being made to light the city by electricity." "What about schools J" "Every state of the province. has a normal school for boys and another for girls. At the head of the latter, with but few excep tions, there are American girls. In Buenc3 Ayres the public school buildings are hand somer than those of New York. Last year the total number of schools hi ttc country was 3,023. They were served by 0,211 teachers, and their attendance numbered 227,450." '(Sow is the climate'. "Very ' "tfamperata "and delightful. The mercury rarely goes above 80 degs. in sum mer or below CO degs. iq winter- The great est extreme is 40 degs. t is not a tropical country, but is dry and healthful, about the temperaiure of Georgia, except that it does not have the extreme cold that state some times experiences. Rarely does ice freeze thicker than a pane of glass. This makes the Argentine Republic the best cattle rais ing country in the world. It is never neces sary to houso the cattle. The number of sheep now being raised there is $00,000,000, and of cattle 20,000,000. A new industry has taken a great hold of tho people of late. It is tha raising of horses. It is prophesied, that in a few years the ArgenVino Republio will havo as finp stocks of horses, if not finer, tlau any country in tho world. Ono of the latest horses imported for breeding purposes cct 5,000." ; "What about vaihxwdsf 'Tho number of miles of railroads iu the country is 4,430.' They cost $107,000,000. Their gross earnings are $25,000,000 and net earnings oyer $13,000,000. They pay divi dends of from 10 to 12 per cent One com pany has 1,000 miles, another 800, and one is now building to be 1,200 miles long. The government has ordered the building of a road about 1,200 miles long. Another now being constructed is to reach from Buenos Ayres to Chili. The linu will be done ia two yuars. It will connect Buenos Ayre3 via Moadoza with Valparaiso, and will make Buenos Ayres the great metropolis of South America, as all west coast passengers, mails and light freight, etc., for Europe will save ten days by using this railway," "J haven't asked you about newspapers." fiWe have some very bright daily papers and a number of them, and they compare favorably with those of this oity for enter prise and appearance. They contain daily dispatches from New York, Loudon, Liver pool, Rome, Berlin and other principal points. Two of the dailies aro printed in English and tho rest in Spanish. Of the lat ter the leading ones are La Nacion and La Preusa. The income ofthe former is $75,000 net, and that of tiio latter is scarcely any thing less. The leading English paper is The Standard, one of the proprietors of which is the great statistician, JL G. MulbalL The prosperity of the peoplo is remark able. Failures aro almost unknown, and none of importance have taken place iu the last eight yeari An Argentine's word is his bond. A note was never given thero for a debt before 1870, and today tho largest transactions of the country are done on simple verbal promises or agreements to pay. J have done millions of dollars of business without ever having a document pass until the business was fully completed. Tha peo ple I have always found hospitablo and amiable. I havo known few worthy Ameri cans who did not succeed there." New York Mail and Express. . ' . WONDERFUL ARAB DOCTORS. Kx-L'ultrd States Milliliter Marali's Account of a Con pie of Wonderful Cures. Ex-United States Minister George P. Marsh's recent book chronicles a curious ex perience at Cairo. After returning from their journey to Upper Egypt Mr. Marsh and another member of his party, a Miss Paine, found themselves completely disabled by severe sprains which tho surgical skill of the Frank doctors proved powerless to rem edy. They wero assured by their dragoman that an Arab miracle worker of his acquaint ance could cure tho sprains at once", mid they finally determined to call on tho inheritor of tho secrets of tho Pharaohs. So tho drago man presented himself, "bringing with him tho most extraordinary looking creature that can well bo imagined. He was scarce five feet iu height, and was clad in a single gir- ment of cotton fastened about tho waist with a leather belt. His old withered face was lighted up by ono eye only, and that seemed but half open, while nothing about his jierson would havo led one to believe that the waters of the broad Nilo were within reach. Thero was an unmistakable look of mortification on tho part of those who had consented to summon the iEseulapius, but there was no hope for it now. "At this moment a visitor was announced tQ Mr. Marsh, and tho lady, therefore, was. the first to prove tho wild man's skill. Ho- ex amined tho injured foot, placed it iu warm water, dipped his own fingers in olive oil and rubbed and pressed the foot very gently for about twenty minutes. Ho then carefully dried it and l.ado his patient walk. She hesi tated, having suffered so much and so long from every effort of that kind, but an im perativo 'Inisheh, Imsheh!' dwidod her. Kli placed her foot finaly o.i tlm lioor and took a step another, and another, and still no pain. In a few minutes she was on the street, and after strolling some hours among the bazars of the city returned without the Icvr.'. feeling of discomfort. The cure was iifect and permanent." ' Meanwhile, Mr. Marsh leeeiveu equally ,n.. vinci ng i.ooi. of tho powers of 'tb Jttabian to tho energetic pulling, which in his case was a part of tho treatment, and at tho end of three-quarters of au hour he was well nigh exhausted by pain. But then, on looking at his foot, he was surprised to find that the s welliug had disappeared, the color was almost en tirely natural, and the shoe and stocking which had been laid aside almost two weeks were put on with perfect ease. He was then directed to walk, which to his amazement he found ho could do without the least pain, and the only unpleasant sensation experienced afterward was a slight stiffness for tho first day or two, which, however, did not iu tho least interfere with walking." Detroit Free Pre&s. " ' Bathing and Swimming Suits. A preferred style in bathing suits affects the blouse waist with a yoke, which conceals the figure and" has a X'leasing effect. Short sleeves are now generally liked, as they leave the arms of the swimmer free; the drawers loose at the knee are preferred to the closed Turkish drawers, aud they must be sewed permanently to the belt of tho blouse, or elso very securely buttoned there. Tho drawers are made long enough to fall just below the knees, and tho skirt should bo sufficiently long to conceal the drawers. The blouse is completed by a sailor collar, or elso the deep collar is round in the back, though pointed in front in sailor fashion. Striped skirts are much used with plain suits that have also a striped collar. Albatross flannel of the heavy grades yet not closely woven is chosen for bathing suits; it should be well shrunken be fore the garments are cut out. Elastic jersey wool loathing suits are 'in great favor, and are in 'dark colors, such as plain navy blue, or bluo with white cross ttripos, also garnet or gray, and. aie very pretty in white wool, with red or bluo stripes, Theso taav'6 the yoke waist and drawers cut together in priu'oessQ fashion, with a skirt beltou over them; there are other jersey suits, with. Hie blouse and skirt in one piece, UoVoules braid and tho opon woven wool trjm nanuci and serge, su'ts. inconspicuous suits of dark fjrCLy'fianncl have either black or blue braid for trimming. A fisherman's cap with tas scled crown is made of jersey wool for bath ers. Other bathing caps of oil rubber have a puff crown drawn up, with a narrow frill in front to cover tho baug, and a deeper trill behind to protect the back of the neck. Hats of gossamer or of oiled siik have a large full crown, and a brim with wiro in the edge that can be drawn down over the ears, while the head goes in tho crown. Silk handkerchiefs of navy blue or of bandanna red are worn around the head to protect tho hair, and aro knotted about the neck insailor fashion. Harper's Bazar. artbj Worms Causing Trichinae. It is a not uncommon oceurreneo that a parasito inhabits different animals at differ ent stages of its growth. This is the case with tho small thread worm, Syn gamus tracbealis, which infests the windpipe of the pheasant, peacock, turkey, duck and other fowls, and often occasions considerable dam age. Mr. Walker, of Franklinville, N. Y., has recently made some investigations on this subject. Ho finds that the intermediate host of the embryo syngamus is the common earth worm, which in places visited by birds has been found to be beset with these para sites. They are swallowed by tho birds along with the worms, and perforating the oesoph agus, Cud then,' way into tho respiratory or gans. During, or immediately offer, this migration tho syngamus attains sexual ma turity and attaches itself to tha trachea. This liappens in six or seven daj-s after it hag been swallowed. Ia seven days mora its eggs are produced, which aro coughed uphy tho bird and reach tho groand? wheti the embryo emerges in abou$ three weeks. It is swallowed by a worst and remains in its in testinal canal until dj. oured by a bird. Tho best method to check this d'Se&se is to moist en the soil with brine, which kills both the worms and the embryo synganii which they contain. Birds which have died of this dis ease should be destroyed by fire. New York Star. A Wrd About Gloves. The fit of a glove depends greatly on the manner ia which the glovo i3 put on for the first time. Tho wrist portion should be turned over one inch below the opening be fore being drawn on the hand, aud the fin. gers put on straight, and then carefully, with patient pressuro cZ the thumbs and fin-, gers of the right hand, each must be well pressed down to tho very points. Twisted fingers ruin gloves. The specialty called Eeaver Nantwieh are drawn into tho wrist, and flow out into a gauntlet over the sleeve. They are delight ful to touch and comfortable to wear. There are several varieties of driv ing and riding gloves; chamois gloves for seaside wear, and a better and more reliable kind than the usual make. Fine Suede gloves for evening wear, twenty button length, in all tho lovely cool tan and biscuit shades, are beautiful end reasonable. Uouequetaira styles prevail when undressed kid U the . ruit;raJ, and "cither buttoned or loo wrisU chea dressed physician "Uis root aiuljui which were both badly swollen an.' discolored, were very sciifutlvo to ao mauipuiation, and esiecially The Plattsmouth Herald Xs enjoying a DAILT AITO WEUKLT EDITIONS The Will be one during which the subjects of national interest ami importance will he strongly agitated and the election of a President will take place. Ihe people of Cass Countv who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of this year and would keep apace with the times should Koit kitiiki: Tin: Daily or Weekly Herald. Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to speak ot our mm TO til Which is first-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, A Boom in "botla its 1888 mUyiLuvll NEBRASKA.