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THE DAILY iiEUALiii -i'LATTSaiOUTu, rifltA8K A, TUESDAV, AUGUST 21. 1S8&. GLASS IS MADE. - - WtOCESS VARIES WITH THE DIFFERENT KINDS. Iaterlul of "Which the BtcUliiff Tot la Made Coloring; lno bjr Sletalllo Oxldea. IloltW anil 'Window Glana Tlio Illow I'IM flat Cilas. The process of making glans is exceedingly Interesting, but it is also elaborate and not free from complication. It can. therefore, only be net forth in a brief ami cursory man ner. Bo intricuto is the work in some of its departments that one is puzzled ut the pro ficiency in tho art in ancient times. The conclusion is forced upon us that in this, as Jn many other branches of industry, the workmen and artificers of remote times were in full command of many means and appli ances of which we aro ignorant. Tho compo sition of which glass is made, not to mention tho fusing and finishing, implies a large amount of chemical knowledge. U'hut is this composition Generally, it may bo described as consisting of a certain numlxr of silicates, such as soda, xjta.su, lime, baryta, magnesia, alumina and lead, tho ccj ring matter beiug obtained from iron, magnesia, cobalt, uranium, copir or gold. The eom)oeition, of course, is conditioned or qualified by tho kind of glass which is wanted. Tho best glass is that which con tains tho minimum of uncomblued silica. Bohemian glass of tho harder kind contains the silicates of totah and limo in predomi nant projioit ions; of the softer kinds it con tains, in addition, a notable quantity of the silicate of alumina. Soda and lime predomi nate in French plato. Poua--.li and lead are tho principal silicates in tho ordinary flint or white glass. The lead gives density, soft ness,, fusibility and brilliancy. Tho exact proportions, in different cases, of tho differ ent ingredients belong to tho secrets of tho gla.snmaker's art. Tho process of manufacturing varies with tb different kinds of glass. Tho first step in tho process, however, is tho same with all glass. Tho first requisite is tho melting pot, tho making of which is an art by itself. It U made of tho purest kind of cl iy and con list pretty nearly of equal propi tious of silicon and alumina. Tho mass, consisting also often of piucos of old i-ots, is worked up with water and then laid aside for threo or four mouths. It is after that time made into jots the work leing of the most particular and laliorious kind covered at top find ljt tom, with an opening' at tho side. When thoroughly t'ried und hardened in tho fur nace, tho pots aro filled with the prepared material, colled frit, mixed with a small quantity of rullet or broken glass. After sumo or ten or twelve hours, the heat of the furnace ' avlng leii brought to the highest imint, the jjts are skimmed and the melted .'j'itcrial is ready for what is called tho jour1 ney. Dialing the melting process tho color ing is done by mean of various metallic ox idest What is called flashed glass is pro duced by another and Jiiferent process. It Is only superficially colored. 1'ot metal, hen colon d, is colored throughout. "When tho material is thoroughly melted and skimmed and mado ready for the journey tho work of tho blower, or molder, begins. Bottles and window glass crown or sheet are made by the blow jape. What is known as plato glass and optical glass is cast; and the glass used for heavy domestic utensils is (he result of 'a'coaibined process of blowing mid casting. The blow pipe to glassinaking plays precisely the same part whjch is jx.-r- forined by tuo potter's wheel in the manutao turn of earthenware. It is on iron pipe gi Jailer at the mouth end than at the other. In tho manufacture of flint glass tho pije is heated almost to redness, then inserted into tho pot of fused glass which adheres to it. I5y turning it round the workman gets as mut ii metal as he requires, lie then distends tho glass by blowing through the pipe, an; flio glass being put into a mold he continue fo blow until the desired shape is produced. Jn this way liottles are made, and also almost oil articles for domestio use. Window glass is blown into the form of a cylinder. "The ends of the cylinder arc, after a cooling pro cess, cut oir. The cylincr is then slit by a diamond from end to end, and, being again heated, it is with much care aud labor grad ually flattened out. Plato glass is mado in a different manner. It is cast or pressed. AVheu the material is Siielted and ready for use the pot is lifted but pf ' tho f urnaco by means of forceps and wheeled up to what is called the casting table, where it is seized by prane and t&cklo, lifted and delicately poised so that it can be easily tinted. Such is the necessity for pare and steadiness during the performance of this task that tlie men preserve also!uto silence. fter havjng been poured put uiou the plate it is spread by means of a steel roller. By means of successive outpourings and successive rollings tbo glass can te mada to any thickness. Where tho machinery L less complete tho liquid matter is lifted witb. a sort of dipper, which, like the blowpipe, is brought first to a red heat. As will bo gath ered from this description, the blowpipe ii iot- needed -in the manufacturing of- plate glass. After the glass has been flattened out und brought to tho rcquisito staudard p thickness it is moved to tho annealing room, fin Jater it is subjected to an elaborate pi cess of polishing.' Reference nas been mado to colored glass and tho pot class coloring has already been explained. Flashed glass, which has not yet been explained, is thus produced: The work man has two pots in equal conditions of read iness the one containing colorless materials, the otbT containing colored raat.-iiaL He tfiakes Lis Urst gatherings from' tho colorless jrkiss and tbo last only from the colored pot. The consequence is that the glass when Car ished has a thin skin of colored material pn. th outrf Jo. For some ornamental purpose tJf flashed glass is found specially useful. Much that is interesting might be added bere concerning the cutting, grinding and engraving of glass, each of which is prac ticed in Brookirn, and practiced with skill and success; but theso belong to the adorning cr decorating of glass rather than to the making of it. Much also might be written concerning glass paintirg. "J. L. W." in Brooklyn Eagle. J ! v An jmprovea i otii ism. postal card with a flap to cover tho writ 'puld be a good thing and would meet a iiopular demand. The postal crd is one of the articles that become indispensable the jaioment they are onco ued, but many ieeple ire prevented from using them by the fact that privacy is impossible. The device which Senator Cullom has brought to the attention of the senate postoffice committee provides for this in a simple but effective way. The card is double and the ltack is split diagon ally from the center, where the four joints be attached in the same way that an en velope is sealed. Of course the writing could not be inspected without loosening the fiapi, " - -J ample protection to the correspondent! ' Id he secured. There would be a small 'on to the-weight of the card, but wi "1 enough to carry a few pounds mor -'Iho without serious embarrass- ;intry's fjaances. 2iew York ATTAR OF ROSES. Au Account of It Manufacture A rreclA Enaentlul OH. Until tho sixteenth century we have no autlumtio mention of attar. The htory of its origin is told in the history of tho Ml.iil empire. Tho sultana Nourniulial, tho light of the harem, during a feast which she gave to the grand mogul Jehaiiguir, iausel a canal to 1 filled with rose water, where they bathed in its erfumcd water und floated about over its surface. After, some days a curious suliftance wan oliserved on the wir fuco. IT ion examination it proved to lie tho essence of the roses, which the heat of the sun had caiiMHl to gat her on the top of the roso water, ami the delicious fragrance in duced them to turn this accidental discovery to account. Since that day roses have In-en cultivated i'l Pei-sia, in India ami in Turkey for the manufacture of the essence. While in different parts of the cost great quantities of roses are grown for their essen tial oil, the province of Roumelia is jierhaps thtt most important -enter for tho industry. On tho lofty plain, hounded on the north by tho Balkan mountains, aro planted the great roso gardens, whero tho finest attar in tho world is made. Kasanlik, the center of the district, means in tho Turkish tongue place of lioilers. Tho roses are planted by the farmers of this district on sloping ground faving the sun, nnd where the soil is sandy. Laying down a ro o garden may be done in tho spring or fall, the ground being cleared of weeds. Young ros shoots are torn from tho old plants, so as to carry with them a fwirt of the roots. These are laid almost hor izontally in trenches five feet apart. In six months or so tho t.hoots appear, and are earthed up, and in almost a year tho plants stand like young hedges, aloiit a foot high. It is not till the end of tho third year that tho blossoming is of any inqiortance. At the end of the fifth the plants aro in full bearing, und they continue blooming for fifteen years longer. It docs not do to enrich tho soil too heavily, as it injures the quality of tho es sential oil quite as much ns it improves the quantity, Iloar frori, fog and dampness are very injurious; in ItslO all tho roses in th district were killed. In May, when tho gardens aro a sheet of bloom, tho harvest begins. Tho roses aro of several kinds, but uU singlo or nearly so pale pink or white, and very much like our wild roses. Karly in the morning tho pickers legin, while the dew is on the flowers. Tho jx-tals are taken from tho stalks, ami at once put into great copper alembics, capable of holding about 210 jmuihIs of water. Into each of these alembics, with their downward lolutiiis nozzles, nro put ISO pounds of water and twenty-five pounds of rose leaves. This is then distilled till the turbid rose water amounts to twenty-five pounds. The boilers are emptied, cleansed, and the process is re- peated. The turbid fluid is again distilW, and then allowed to remain at ret. On the surface of this double distilled rose' water tlio precious essential oil rises like a greenish or yellowish scum. This is skimmed off by means of a conical spoon, with a Einall hole in the lottom to ullow .hd water to Vuu away. The. appliances a re all very rude, and thero must necessarily bo much, wnsta XA A material so preoinia, ' Acoot duig to estimates mado at Iwonanlik it takes about 4.000 pounds of roses to make one xund of oil. Aud from 4.0J0 to 6,000 pounds of roses are tho largest crops raised upon an (English) acre of land. The price for the pure attar is about ?4 per oopce. Sophie. Ii. tterrick in Tho Cosmopolitan. " '; - v' A Visit to Simon Cameron. It is true that he daily revives a, v-ery large number gf isiuirs, but ho has a knack of treating every caller well, yet disjiosing of him quickly, uuless he happens to be some congenial spirit with whom ho feels in the humor of chatting. - But no man ever did or ever will go away from Gen. Cameron's curt yet courtly presence disgruntled without good and sufficient cause. He has alwajs leen pre -eminently a manage-' of men. 'lie has taken caw to watch when tho tides in public affairs were liable to rise, and when tho ebb camo ho was pretty sure to see. its ap proach lefqre most other eopie. This has been the secret of his political success. In shaking of his career in politics he likes to day to talk to his intimates in a strain some thing like this: "People always said of me when I was in active iolities that Cameron waa boss; that no man could le a candidate for 'office unless Cameron tU st vdected him and gave huh per mission to run. This impression became so strong that aspirants for political prefer ment would pome to me months 'before the primaries or nominating conventions and ask if they might have the office they sought, believing that my ward or support Was equiv alent to an electlpn. It wasn't anything of the kind, you know. I invariably answered such questions Vy asking tho candidate, 'What is your strength j or 'How many deli gates can you count on? Show me your fig ures and then I can tell you whether I can afford to support you.' This I would say to all who came. Then when I found tho man who was pretty sure to win- with U, httlj support I cpuld glyo him h"4 was" nWW the Cameron candidate'. I got 'all the credit for tbo -victory, and the' candidate himself be lieved that his success was entirely attributa ble to ino. The truth of the matter always was that the candidate had Pp.uVw strength with him, iind vit trout that i wouldut aii'l' couldn't hfive been of much servico." Jew York Sm Cot of Getting the News. Mr. Eugene M. Camp, who has collected the statistics for America on this point, says, through The American, that tlio entire cost; of ail uiws used in tho papers in this country is $20,C3,000 per year. This is curiously di vided. The special bureaus, which aro print cipally located in New York, with, the t ighs to look pver tho proof every night of sotno of the morning journals, cost fU45,000. This is divided among 100 of the leading provin cial iapers. The business of the Associated Press now amounts to 1,3."0,000 year ly, aud that of the Unite 1 Press foots up to 450,005. These two sums, with tho special outlay for telegraph, tolls outside of tho ' organizations, place tho total to all the papers of f 1,520,000 for this department. In addition to this there are to be reckoned the special services, of professional correj.ondents in adjacent ton us aud important centers, whose salaries aggregate $1,000,000 beside. This makes the total cost of all the service about 2,SS0 00Q per annum. In tho larger titles of the Union it costs nil the way from $40Q tp $2,200. a week for the working up of local districts. Mr. Camp reckons this yearly expense at about $la, UX,000. Tbis. is a porrect analysis of tho ex lenso in collecting uews and the proportion in. which one branch of tho service is related t:- the other. There are three lines on which this work proceeds the gathering of news ty the local reporter, the use of the telegraph and the special correspondent. Each method U .closely related tQ tho other. Th3 state ment shows that therg has been a gres t devel opment of journalism in the matter cf news. Every "effort is made to get the news ind ono combination only paves tho way for another in order to keep the ead in this department of a newspaper, The greater the combina tion, the greater tho result, and the paper that has the news is the ono that tho public is most willing to pay for. Boston Herald. MOHAMMEDAN SCHOOLS. A SCENE WHICH !S VERY LUDI CROUS TO A EUROPEAN. How Head I uf; la Taught tua Young Mot lent Tuue of the Voice In the Knit. Tl iousuesa of Ilrudiiig; Manuarrlpt Vol umra A Trick. If the stranger in a Moslem country in pass ing through the streets is attracted by a noise for which he cannot satisfactorily account towards the building in which the school is held, he will, on looking in, probably seo a long and narrow room, at ono end of which is seated a man with a long beard (school masters retain their beards even when whisk ers only are sanctioned by general usage), while the sides are lined with little boys of various nges squatted upon their heels on the floor which is generally covered with a thick mat, in addition to which those jiarents who can afford it provide their sons with a bit of carpet or felt in l'ersia, or with u cushion in Turl.vy to placo between them and tho mat. Some of tao elder boys go so far as to obtain u cushion to introduce Ijctween their backs and the wall, but this luxury is rather dis countenanced by tuo piasters as an encroach ment on their own j. culiar dignities. All tho boys ha vo their heads vo.ervd, but they aro without their shoes, whici aro left near tho door, so mingled und so similar in shae and color that it would seem difficult for each to find his own; but on the breaking up, every one seems to slip his feet into his own. shoes without any of that individual hesita tion or general confusion which might bo c-x-JectiHL When the boys aro learning their .lessons, or reieating taem to their muster, they do so all ut onco with a loud voice, and with a con tinual seesaw of the body, without which, movement theyseem. to.coutvi vo. it impossible that unythiug cau bo learned. The scene which this affords is extremely ludicrous to a KuroiK-un, particularly as the zeal of the learner is estimated by tho loudness of his voice and the violence of seesaw; and hence, when conscious of the approach of a person whom the master or pupils wish to impress with a favorable opinion of their application and progress the noise in tho school room, which may previously have sunk into a low hum, rises abruptly to tho clamorous uproar pf many voices. It seems that in reading all at once to the. ina-tcr tho elder boys, in the school at large, areexpected to give some attention to tho other's near them. Tho master cannot, in such a noise, distinguish the individual accuracy of each reader, and his attention is, therefore, directed to observe that timo is as nearly as i'ty kept by tho voices, aud, i". ;;jio measure, in tho motions aUo of the pupils. This object seems bub' poorly attained.' This style of reading' Is most unnatural. It is n drawling chant, uttered in a very loud vc, In tho east geneva'dy the touo ti voice is v"ery o.g't 'SU n. Common conversation, but in ' l eading it s raised to screaming. Some Arabs dosire ; friend of mine to let them hear him read, lie complied, on which they exclaimed, "You are not rending, you are talking 1" The fact, however, is that "ex cept among those of the learned professions, few of those who have professedly learned to read in the schools ran or. do exercise the acquirer.; In rtcr life; and the few who do r.main actually qualified to 'read with facility, rarely do so without some stimulus incomparably' stroprjgr th:ut woidd bo re quired in tins, or perhaps, 'any European country. After a residence of several years among Mohammedan people, I da not vecol lect more than three instances in which I have seen persons quietly engaged in reading a book to themselves, although till the ac tions of their ordinary life are much more ex;oacd to public notice than can well lx imagined in this country, 'i'hese fatj uro easily explained. Books nre expensive "articled of luxury in Moham medan countries, and this is ialono sufficient to account for much that w-e havu&iuUd.' Before the inty.p.du.iuu ot tho art of printing tho state of knowledge among the people was not more favorable in this country than it is iu Persia now. Thero is also another less obvious circumstance, which vflyj have great influence evcu wore mamiscilpt books' much mere common and cheap than thev aro. Thjss the difficulty of reading manu script This difficulty should SOt bo under rated. Even in this country most educated lerson5 "would require considerable stimuly.a to induce them to go through a luauuscript volume. Those only whoi duty it is to ex iraiiue manispj.iiii3 and tp prepare them for tho press can describe the tediousnew t tho operation. It is not one of ihe least advant ages of printing- that it has tended to simphfy tho chnmcWr employed in the preparation of books and to render it uniform. This com parison very imperfectly illustrates our meaning, for our manuscripts are far more legible to us than those of the east are to en Oriental. Among civ,y4,-es map persons who can n'ijio ; skvthand' with' facility are unable to read it With ease; an Oriental manuscript is a sor of shorthand which many more per sons aro able to write than to re.iL The words are abbreviated, us i shorthand, by tho or.iisMon pf ymVJs, and when tho words are deciphered tho want of punctuation ren ders it often difficult to discover at once the meaning of the phrases. When to this it is added that thero are several different styles of writing, besides the difference oc ja$iuiie in tho several manuscripts by tlie variety of individiitl l.uiui-i and flourishes, it " will be perceived tbaf a person cannot read with facDity'without more practice tbau, the state of literature and kuowledga encourages any eousiderabjo number- of students to seek or pnabjTS tbem to obtain. A stranger is very liable to be deceived in estimating the com petency of a Mohammedan to read. A very largo part of a common education consists ir learning by heart a very considerable pprvtou of the current literatnrp. p& Hoularly of tho Koran. IC( is, therefore, able to repeat by rote ihe most striking passages of almost ary of tho very limited number of books which are likely to be placed before him, IIo. will turn over its leaves unti he can find some passage wilh which he is acquainted, and will repeat it'oorrecfly as if from the book; ' but, if suddenly interrupted, he is afterward ' quite unable to indicate the part pf the page at which t'Q interruption took place. Lon don Standard. Tenants of Rasalai Tenements. Iu the cities, the Russians live almost en tirely iu apartment houses. There are 10,000 tenants, it is said, in one house in St. Peters burg. The houses are nearly always of brick, and tho government buildings are all stuc- . coed and ainted red. Each house has a dvorcik, who is the agent of ha owner, and of tho police, an4 a porter, who wears the uniform pf a colonel in the army and is tho janitor or agent of the tenants. The dvornik inspects the passport of every new tenant and even, temporary tenant or visitor, and re- ports it to the police station, where it is re corded. A like notification is made of every change of residence. The dvornik sits at the back gate of the house, clad generally in sheepskin. He knows everything that goes on and is responsible to the police. In this way the perfection of the Russian police sys tern is maiEfiai. tT w Yc-fc TTcrlV SLEEPING AFTER MEALS. A Widespread but Mistaken Ilelief Rest for the I (rain. There ii a widespread suierstitiou, cher ished by tho great majority of the iK"pl, that to sleep immediately after they have taken food is to endanger health, to favor tho onset of apoplexy, etc. a superst itioir based on tho assumption that during sleep the brain is normally congestL There i-i, no doubt, such a thing as congestive sleep, but during normal sleep tho brain isana-mic. When a jn-rsai. has taken a fairly uhundaut lunch or dinner the stomaoJi demands a sjecial influx of lil.w! wherewith to accom plish its work of digestion; no organ can more easily comply with that demand than the brain, which, when in full activity, is suffused with u maximum amount of th vital fluid. But u derivation of blood from tho brain to the stomach can only take lay, except in exceptionally full blooded and vigorous per sons, on tho condition that tho trelral func tions bo meanwhile partially or wholly sus pended. Hence many ieople after taking dinner feel i;idisjosed for mental action, and not a few long for sleep. The already par tially ana?mic brain would fain yield up to the stomach a still further supply of blood and yield Itself up to re freshing sleep. Doing so it gains new strength; meanwhile digestion proceeds en ergetically, and soon Ixnly and mind are again cquiped to continuo in full forco tho battle of life. But superstition, tlio child of ignorance, intervenes, declares that sleep during digestion is dangerous, admonishes tho would le sleejers to struggle against their perilous inclinat ion, and, though tel'ing them that after dinner they may sit awhile. assures ineni r-i , "a.r -sup,.'! walk u mile." Tho millions of its victims continue, there fore,, tho strn'o to which it condemns them, and ignore tho suggestions offered to them by tho lower animals, who have always prac ticed tho lessons of sound physiology by sleeping after feeding whenever they ure al lowed to do so, IIjnce the human brain and human tjtomach of such victims contend with each other during the digestive process: the brain, impelled by superstition., strives to work and demands blood to work with, while tho. stomach, stimulated by its con tents, strives to carry on its marvelous chem istry, and demands an ample supply of blood for the purpose, The result of the struggle is that neither is nblo to do its work well; the bruin is enfeebled by lei;ig denied its natural rest during the digestive process, and the healthy function of tho stomach degener ates into dysjcpsia. Westminster Jtoviow, A ri r Self Abnegation. Uiarjos LamVs doi-cUon to his in.Uio sis ter was ono cf those instances of self abnega tion which aro as a silver lining to tho darker aud more sinister traits of human nature, but it is, perhaps, moro than equaled m some respects by an instance of unselfish devotion on tho part of a man in one of the institu tions near New York such us is rare outside of the pages of fiction. It is the case of a man and wife. They lived happily together, but by ono of thoso strange visitations of fate the happy wife liecnme insula Cases aro not rare whero a husband has shown de votion to an iv.sano wife. There aro others ii, vvhk.ii tho husband has sought to play tho role of Mr. Rochester in ,;Jano Eyre.," and ignore a tio which he speciously argued had been sundered by a stioko. of fate, though in most, u not all, of our states, nt ljst, insan ity subsequent to marriage js regarded as a disease, and no moa-a a ground for divorce than cciiinumption or any other ailment. But in this c:ise the husband forsook his hom2 in New York, where he h;ul lived on a small income received from wealthy parents in Europe, and sought nnd secured a position as bookkeeper-in fcho workhouse, close by the insane aj lim where his wife was confined, receiving no salary for his servtcjs, and rel mains there now, amid forbidden surro-- , ings, simply thai It may 1 near )., striei;'en vri.tc.whG Kiiiies vacaul'-at him or talks Witn pathetic volubility and earnestness of her fixed delusions across that dark mental gulf which sepat'Rti the Gehenna of mad ness fro.y, 'yt,9 relative paradise of sanity. Ilii enly thought is to soften the blow to his wifs .'.s much as possible., to ameliorate as far as may bo her sufferings, a pathetic attempt to make the hand of fato seem like velvet instead of iron. For seven years he has re mained faithful in his devotion to his men tally dead wife, sepulchred, so to speak, ra a hopeless lunatic in the cemetery of the mind, an insano asylum, a man not, itcrhaps, endowed with the intellectual qualities which command the admiration of men, but illum ined by unselfish dovotion as with a sacred nimbus. Oscar Willoughby Riggs. When tlie 3XountaIns Were Made, Tho chief beauty of Mount Desert Island is in its mountains. From a little distance they seem to riso gv-andly out of the very blue of tl,aea. The. highest, Mount Green, reaches an elevation of nearly 2.000. feet. As you approach t he sunshine flooding their roujided peaks gives them a bronzed, metallic appear ance. But ftoiu a league away their real beauty and grandeur break lovingly upon tho vision. Verdure clad in places, again showing massive bulwarks cf rock, and f rom each height sloping in graceful undulations to the sea, a rare and winsome charm, as well as a broad and stalwart majesty, pos sesses $heiv Wherever one may bo within bight of the splendid masses it is impossible to, cease their contemplation. Thus musing on them in tho .'irit of geologic conjecture and revelry, I hMf unconsciously asked my kipper if he had any idea of their age. "A lee-tle up'ard 'n a hundred year, he answered promptly. I looked at him with amazement, and it nettled hink "A lee-tle up'ard :i a hundred year!'' ho repeated stolidJy4 setting his teeth hard upon his tobacco, and eyeing me askance, as iC y iib. initiatory feelings of resentment At my unaccountable ignorance. "Tb,om ar, thir teen mountings ain't thar fur nnthinV'Them ar thirteen self sarr,e mountings viz plum' up outen the b,ay the very day they d'clar'd 'pfudeuce to theso Yooniterd States! Them as seed it lived right hereabout,"' "But, captain," J pleaded, aghast at this startling revelation, "you know te Mouts and Champlain discovered tho island just 2S4 years ago; named it 'L'Islo des Monts Deser ts,' from the dreary appearance of the toj of those very mountains; and Briard and Masse, the Trench Jesuits, established a mission over thero on the western shore of Some's Sound i"' In tones of awful scorn my skipier merely answered: "Did, did they Wall, I spoe Bech scallops comes from schoolin'. I say no man liviu' was in theso parts afore" my fore fathers; an' them that's dead and doubted" this with con teinr.t uous grief "seed with their own eyes them thirteen mountings hist up their beads. Howsunidever, there's no argerin with saoerers .'"Edgar Li. Wake, man's Letter. HI Preference. "Of all seasons of the year, Dr. Diagnosis," she said to a young physician who was help ing her look at the moon, "which do you most prefer P' "I think I prefer the watermelon season," be replied in a low business tone of voioa. The Epoch. The Plattsmouth Herald Is n joying1 a DA2X.1T AStfD WEEKLY EDITIONS. The Tear Will be oik! luiinr, which the subjects of nution.'tl intercut iiixl importance will be strongly agitated and the election of a lYesiilent will take place. Ihe people of Cass Count v who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social of this year and would keep apace with the times should -J'oli Daily or Weekly Herald Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to speak ol our "Which is tirst-class iu all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, So in both, its 1888 Transactions KITH KK TIIK- U 0 NEBRASKA.
