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Til K lUlLV HEJtALU : 1jlA:1TsM0utH. NEBRASKA TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1U The Plattsrcouth Daily Herald. KNOTTS 5., Publishers & Proprietors. TIIK I'LATTSMOUTII IIKIUM It publMiril every evening except S'""1.:,J tnd Wrvkly i vi ry lliuis.iay iioriiii.tf. KeKl tered at the potolll-e. I'.alieiimiilli. ":-r-. EE,?, "rU Jinall-r. Ollice corner ot ine and "lllh rtrtels. 'leleplioiie No. 34. TKKMS rOM DAII.V. One copy on v-.-ir I" advance, by mall. One coiy per month, by ar-l-r, One copy ir week, ly carrier .$ f 15 TERMS FOK WKKXLV. One eoi-y one year, in advance Ouecopytix mourn, in advance . . . 75 Our Clubing List. WKKKI.Y IIkbai.I ami N. Y. World.. N. V. Ti'binuv . .92 4" (imulia Kt-p !4 3 N. . I'n-'H - 2.. N. Y. fort. ' Harpers M:i:iine 4 Weekly. 4 " Saiir... 4 7." Vounj; People : Neb. Farmer 2 no l)eiiiorest's Month ly Majiii.ii-e 3 l' Amerieaii Ma'lne 3 f,o 1 lie Forum 5 on THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM. The so called Australian electoral scheme has been in operation for years in England and Canada. Adaptions ol the system have lccu made in Wisconsin Kentucky and Massachusetts. In "Wis consin the law applies to Milwaukee tnd) and iu Kentucky it is restricted to Louis ville. Massachusetts adopted the plan a year ago, to apply to the entire state. It will go into actual operation in tie election in November next. A bill for the enactment of a similar .scheme is be fore the New York legislature now, and will undoubtedly piis both branches of that body. The chances of its approval by Gov. Hill are favorable. Last year when a measure like this in essential features passed the legislature J Jill vetoed it. This year, however, the grvenior is committed to electoral reform. Ik-sides, the bill this year is devoid of the fcaturt s of detail objected to by Hill in 1SSS. The legislatures of most of the "otlnr northern states will also liaye I "ills oi the same class before them this winter. The bill no .v up iu the New York leg islature will probab'y serve in a model upon which most of the measures to be brought forward in other states nill be based. Its principles may be broadly outlined thus: The state shall print the ballots, the charge for general elections being put on the counties and for muni cipal elections on thccitiia, the ballots to contain the names of all the candidates to li voted for, aecli party's nominees to be grouped together anil designated. These are the only tickets that can In used, and tluy will be furnished at th ollin places by the inspectors to actual yoters. The inspector puts his name or initials on the back of the ballot before handing it to the voter, who retires to a private compartment, where he indicates by a mark opposite a name r group ol names, the candidate or candidates foi whom he desires to vote. lie is not per mitted to put any other sort of a mai k n the tick t, or to inscribe any sort ot sign upon it by which his identity in n be letrayed. After making his mark the voter folds his ticket, with the indorse ment on the oi tside, and carri -s it back to the inspectors, who deposit it in th box. Thes3 are thi esenti il features of th measure. All the candidates to bevoteil for, as before mentioned, are placed up on each ticket. ' The conditions which establish the status of candidates are these: A candidate is a person nominated by a convention or primary meeting r p resenting a political orjjiniz ition wiiict polled at least 1 per cent of the cntir vote cast at me election imm -mau n precedin?. This lets in prohibi tit nists j and labor men in most of th- states. ' . . , . . : lioiiin canii)iaies, or cauuiuaies oi ner. parties, are provideil for in the clause of . the measure which secures a place for ; them on the ticket if a number of voter j representinir at least 1 per cent of the j votes ca-t at the next pr-cedinj ih ctio'- sign a document asking to have thei: nominees names put on th.- ticket. Tie county clerk is required by law to pub lish the tickets in two newspapers of th county at least seven days In-fore ih election t ikes place. Of cource the p crs genei ally will print th .' tickets i , fac-simile often pn-viou to the tleetji i. This will familiarize voters with diem." Nobody will be with the voter when he is marking his ballot, and he is not allow ed to fliow it to anybody alter it i niarkcd. This insures the n--r ss.-n v s crecy. There can le no doubt that measure like this would cure most, if not nil. the abuses which flourish under th present system. In the countries w here it has lcen tried the system has friveii coniplets satisfaction. Globe Democrat. HAD JUYOSUTS. A COTFSIOX THAT OOOU ONES CANNOT JHlW BE MADE IN ENGLAND. j Lon-(n, iy vemhor 22,-In relation to compl unts of the inferior quality of. the ; bayonuU iisod by the troops at buakiin. Wilkinson & sm. the arms m-innfactur wli furni.-liel the weapons, expUin i that they are unable to make bayonuts in ' Enlaad cor, owing partly to i their inulfility to secure skilled workmen and partly to the iiK-oinpleiioii of their new factory work in which is leii? pushed forward. They stite that Oir ni.uiy is now the center of the sword niakin iii'Iurftry of the world. The war authorities regard this explanation a n-iiMm.il !;. New York Evening Post. There u.l t m i fiim silk muaufac tuiin industry in England, hut it Ins surrendereil to France. Free Trade Eii l ind once manufactured laryc fiiruititied of gloves, but has yielded the industry t ) France. A liort time wince there were twenty or more suir refineries in the City of Lou Ion, tod;y there arc hut five. The industry h is departed to Germany and the U.iited States, which countries are able to lay down refined .suar in Free Trail. Loudon cheaper than tin. Enylih can in ike it. Only recently the Manches ter cotton manufacturers were Complain ing that the coolies in 15 jinh ay were spinning cotton and laying it down in the far eastern markets at chu-iper prices than the Manchester spinners could make it for, and now we have a confession that Germany lead England in the manufac ture of bayonuts. Is it any wonder that the workmen of England are holding meetings and protesting ag.iint the free trade policy of the country i Economist. .1 Jl.-MOUillAy U IV US HOME FACTS OF 1)1 El' INTEREST TO THE FARMERS. J, .1, Foster, of Kansas City, Mo., writes the following to the New York 1 rtss: "During the low tariff times in Missouri my father tells me that tln- took to m ii ket an 1 got in return th following: One pound of good buttei for 1 pound of nails; 2 busiitd.s of good pot does for 1 yard of c:dico; '20 dozen of good egus for 1 bushel of salt. Now. with 1 liouii I of butter, we can ircr ; ! pouU'N of nails with '2 buuls or po tatoes, 10 ynnU of r i'ico; with '20 diZ'i eggs -1 barrels of t-.ilx. 'T bel'eve in a protective tariff, mx was toii O'l farm at that. I do no! think it was the tgnoi-stn-. ?f the farmer that defeated the president for ic-elet-tion. liu, on t htr contrary, I 1 elieve they are smart enough, to know when tlipy get a good thing, nod oted ac cordingly.' Thk Yantic has returned to New York Harbor from Ilayti with two cases oi yeilow fey.er on board, and Licutenan' Mihs died yesterday. T?i-i other one i pas d inger. One death occurred duriiu the voyage. Too well known to need lengthy (id vert is n ents- Dr. Sage's Catarrh Itemed . t;aii!' Invention of the Telegraph. "I don't remember," writes Gauss to Olboi j on tho 20th of November of the year lS&i, "my having made any pre vious mention "to you of an astonishing piece of mechanism that we have de t ised. It consists of a galvanic circuit conducted through wires stretched through tho air over the houses up to the steeple of St. John and down again, and count cting the observatory with j.h;J phy. ical laboratory, which is under the direction of "Weber. Tho entire length of v, iro may bo computed at about 8,000 feet. I loth endsof tho wire are connected with a multiplicator, the one at my end consisting of 170, that in Weber's labo nttory of DO coils of wire, each wound around a one pound magnet suspended according to a method which I have de vised. IJy a simple contrivance which I have named a commutator I can re veriAi the current instantaneously. Care fully operating my voltaic pile, I can cau ;o no violent a motion of the needle in tho laboratory to take place that ft strikes a bell, the sound of which is audi ble in the adjoining room. This serves merely as an amusement. Our aim is to ili-j-lay tho movements with tho utmost ccc.irficy. We have already made use of this apparatus for telegraphic experi ments, which have resulted successfully in the transmission of entire words and ! f.mtill phrases. This method of telegraph ! ing hr.s the advantage of being quite in dependent of either daytime or weather; tho ore who gives the signal and the one who rc-cejves it remain m their rooms, with if they des;ro u the 6lmtters dnr.vn, The employment of sufficiently i:t wires, I feel convinced, would en- aun lis to leieirruun wiin out a sinKie i np from Gottingen to Hanover, or from IIa:.over to Bremen." "Gauss and the Electric Telegraph m Popular Science Moi.tldy. Educated Horses. Diiubtless most of you think when vou see thj performances of trained horses in the circuses of today that a great ad vance has leen made in educating the a ni:. ids over what was done in ancient t iin . But you are mistaken, for even the lnoi t wonderful exploits of the horses of the present day are repetitions of what was done with them several hundred vpars fgo. In those days horses not only uai.ced ujon their hind legs, but fought mock battles, striking at their enemies with their fore feet, and showing what appeared to be remarkabio intelligence. I'trhaps the most surprising feat ever i'oi mcd by a horse w as in tho olden time. A large three sided braided rope was stretched several feet from the ground, and upon this the horse walked, preserving its balance perfectly. In an old m int a picture of the act is shown, while another cut represents a horse striidng tho shiejd of a soldier with its hoofs. Even tho elephant, generally considered tho most ungainly pf animals, was t-.ajned in those days to walk the tight rope, not only near the ground, but, if we may believe tho old writers, it traversed ropes swung above the heads of I he audience, and not only preserved its b:.lar.ce, but bore a man upon its back. Philadelphia Times. : T mocdnS birds in Oran-o, Cal., focd o:i th3 irrie3 that protv in the Ch:i:csc umbrella tree, and this sort c.f f( ...j ,nai;C3 nltm iipSV Thev et Vc: looli-ddy just after a iieavy inet and 4 trrrcr iitout badly iutoxicateC .'""" - -v . TWO CHATEAUX. DIFFERENCES THAT AT.E NOTICED ONLY ON INVESTIGATION. Th Tuuri.1 Liable to Ito Deceived by a High Smindln; Name I'hice That Should Ito Called a Uatieh Water That Came Exceptionally lllli. France is full of chateaux, under which name are included a great variety of buildings, so great that when you hear of a place so called you do not at all know what to expect. Information is always hard to get in a foreign land, and the human mind rebels against a perjietual confession of ignorance, so that its owner is apt to accept with a smile of intelligence instructions in a strange language that convey but a shadow of meaning to tho hearer, and to trust to cxjerience as the liest teacher. I leave it to any candid reader to say, if ho would know which promised the most, tho Chateau of the Pharos or the Chateau of St. Eulalie? Yet one is a palace, and the other but let mo not anticipate. A PLEASANT PLACE TO BE SICE. On one cajo of tho magnificent bay that includes Marseilles and her harbors, and overlooking them all from its hill, stands the Chateau of the Pharos, giving us an unexpected reward for our dillicult walk lietween quays, fortresses and lighthouse, in its eleganco and quiet se clusion. The palace is closed now, and stands as peacefully in its extensive and well kept park as if it were miles away from the busy city a handsomo Renais sance edifice, far moro attractive than many more famous royal residences. It Ijelonged to tho Empress Eugenie, and after the fall of tho empire was given by her to tho city of Marseilles, to lo used as a hospital. I believe it has not jet been fitted up for that purpose; at any rate, it is not now in use. It is finely situated tor a hospital, in such an oien, healthy location; it would bo almost worth while to be sick in order to recover in 6uch a pleasant spot. THE OTHER KIND. It was while we were at' Hycres that we heard of the Chateau of St. Eulalie. Atlrai ted I y the poetical name w.o re solved to vitit it, although it was repre sented as rather too distant for a walk. But with such an object in view we would take tho best part of the day, itart early, and give up our lunch. Fol lowing Ihedirectionsgivcn, we proceeded down tho beautiful valley ot' llyeres, between the summits of Costa Bella and tho mountains of tho Moors, the latter name so suggestive of the times when all this land was racked by piratical incursions of those savage marauders. Crossing the rapid little Gapand river alter two or three miles' walk, and fol lowing its banks, we looked in all direc tions for the stately edifice we expected to show its towers abpvp the yellow sycamores, but in vain. Finally, being directed by the most polite of" French cavaliers, whom wo fortunately met, and who might have ridden directly out of tho middle ages, we turned down a muddy lane and found a ranch! A ranch, though nobody in this effete country knows chough to call it so. There were a number of long, low stone buildings, scattered among huge old olive trees, poach orchards, groves of mulberries and grass fields; there were great ricks of hay, an old mill, wide barns and tribes of chickens, but no handsome central mansion worthy of tho noble family that formerly inhabited it. The only reminders of the ancient times when I suppose princes used to visit here were a dilapidated avenue of lofty trees that once formed the-approaches : the chateau, and a singular old town. This tower must have been built as a re fuge for the family and dependents when tho pirQte galleys were anchored in the uaruor ana tne aiaim was eoreaa in ... one estate to another; a tall, round tower, pierced only by loopholes, with a lookout on the summit of its bell shaped roof. Around its . baso were battle mented walls, now in ruins, the former moat overgrown with bushes and trav ersed by cliickens, tho pnly useless part of the farm. Amen! May all : war so vanish in peace and plenty! AN EXPENSIVE CANAL. "Have you seen the falls of Durance?" we were asked soon after our arrival in Marseilles. We replied in tho negative, wondering to what the lady could refer, when she explained by adding: ""Where the water comes into the trwii." in 1840 the Marseilles people, having been Bhort of water for some centuries and having, as it happened, no war on hand to ex haust their finances, undertook to bring in a river to satisfy their thirsty souls. The expenditure of 20,000,000 francs re sulted in the canal of ltoquefavour, which connects the Purance with the city, a distance of twenty-five miles. Marseilles slopes gently upward from its harbor to a hill directly east from that Coint, about a mile and a half, the hill eing 400 feet abovo the sea level. On the top of that hill arrives the canal, having passed through several tunnels and crossed the final valley . pn arches like the old Roman aqueducts. Mar seilles Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. How to Split Paper. ."Oh, dear! I have a picture printed on one side of this paper and 6ome reading matter on the other, and I wanted to save both," said a young lady recently, who was pasting scraps into a" book. "Well, you can save both," said her friend. " Why, how can I do that?" "There are two ways of splitting a piece of paper. One is to lay the sheet of paper on a piece of glass, soak it thoroughly with w ater and then press it smoothly all over the glass. With a lit tle care tho upper half of the sheet can be peeled off, leaving the under half on the glass. Let this dry and it will come off the glass easily; pf course the glass must be perfectly clean. The second way is a better one, but it requires some good practice. Paste a piece of cloth or strong paper "on each side of the sheet to bo split. When it has thoroughly dried pull the two pieces pf cloth apart sud denly and violently. The paste can then be softened with water and the two halves of tho sheet easily taken off the cloths." New York Mail" and Express. A King's Nurse. -The most gorgeously dressed woman at the court of Spain is" the j oung king's nurse. She alwaj-s wears a dress of rich black velvet, with broad bands of gold round tho 6kirt, an apron of blue velvet, r also trimmed with gold, and a Liack vel vet bodice fastened with silvtr buttons. This bodice is open in front over a che mise of line lawn. Round her neck'she has five r Fix rows of coral beads, and upon her dark hsur Is arranged a liand kerchief of rich 6iik. Uer long earrings". are&lo coral. London Jje .. . ea A MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY. Tin; Remarkable Talent of Half WHtod Negro Countryman. RcuIk-ii Field, tho mathematical nro- digy of Lexington, who has attracted bo much attention, was born at Warrens burg, Johnson county, about thirty years ago. and assesses only slightly better i.ittlloctual faculties than "Blind Tom." 'liueb's" gift is mado tho xnore promi nent by tho barrenness of his mmd in other features. lie has no intelligence aside from his remarkable manipulation of figures. Give Reuben Field a problem, no matter whether it be in decimal, com pound or vulgar fractions; it makes no difference whether it is better suited to the rules of short than long division; it is immaterial whether there are ten fig ures or 700 in it; whether multiplication or subst Taction; and he will, without the aid of paper or pencil, give you the answer before the echoes of your voice in projiounding the question have fully died aw ay. He cannot read; he cannot write. He does not know one figure from another, and yet mentally, by the gift which he possesses, he can solve any problem submitted to him. As "Blind Tom's" talent of repeating pieces of music played in his presence for the first time by many of tho most brilliant performers in tho country has been tested;, and always with the result of making more wonder ful his great gift, 60 have learned math ematicians tried to trap Field, but with out success. To give him a problem which one himself could not solve would not determine whether he was riht or wrong, and lest errors might be made the most difficult "examples" in the higher arithmetics, as well as others, originating with their Questioner and simple enough except for their long array of figures, have been hurled at him, and quick as a flash would come his answer, always correct. Give him the diameter of the wheel of a locomotive, and the distance between any two points it !:;:.!. s no difference how great tho lime- s; i .:t i:i traversing this distance, and you have hardly ceased speaking before he gives you the number of revolutions the wheel makes in covering the distance. Give him the distance and the lime and he will tell you the diameter of the wheel. Tell him the dimensions of a brick, and say to him a wall is so many feet long, so many hi." !i and so many thick, and he promptly tells you how many bricks are in the wall. Not in a reasonable length of tiu-e. as though calculating it, but in stantly, and whilo skilled accountants who have witnessed his feats have ques tioned the correctness of his answers, they have found they were in error and Reub was i ic,ht whenever they did so,. Tell him to multiply ,898.74G,822,150 by i'j, add 8U,.ri7 and divide by 00, and in less time than the reader can calculate it Reub will have tho answer ready. These figures are only usee! as an illustration, but they are simplicity in its purest form compared to some submitted to him. He has gray eyes, and, when not engaged in exhibiting his 6trange gift, they are entirely free of expression, as though they were of dead glass; but have iiim in the excitement of figures and a strange glitter something little short of an expression of madness lights them up. The strangest of this half wUteJ fellow's accomplishments is that, awak ened at any hour, he will tell you the time to a second. He does not make a business of exhibiting his power, and it is not always that thoso who are most kind to him, and whom he knows best, can persuade him to "show off." He says his power came from God, and, if he accepted oilers which had been made to him to travel with showrneni PF q lasce employment m large business louses, God would take his gift away.---exington (Mo.) Cor. Globe-Democrat. Umbrella vs. Cane. The gold headed cane which loving Yddren present to dear papa, to remind .m that he is growing old! and that his .ottering footsteps are fetching him tQ tho grave; or which poorly paid em ployes present to the superintendent as a it of taffy; or which the retiring minis ter receives from his doting congrega tion to help him on his journey, is going out cf favor as a gift, in holidays or other times. The gold headed umbrella has taken its place. The umbrella an swers all the purposes of a walking stick, without the disadvantage of the latter, it is not a hint of old age, and is more convenient in a rain storm. As eloquent donation speeches may be made over a line silk umbrella with a gold headed handle as over an ebony wood club that but few men will carry about with, themt Possibly the umbrella is more likely to turn up as lost, strayed or stolen, with less chance of finding its true owner again than the cane, but that is a disad vantage that comes entirely from the superior value of the umbrella. There is the same distinction between gold and brass. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Fooling a Jehu. "Some bright newspaper man," re marked my marine engineer friend, ought to ship as a deck hand or coal passer on a big lake boat and write up las experiences. He'd get an idea of life unfamiliar t him, and be able to biter est his reaelers with glimpses of a strange, rough, reckless existence, and perhaps if lie had a good constitution he'd be all the better for roughing it for a few weeks. He would see some amusing things, too. I remember one night in Chicago, as we were lying near the Clark street bridge, a cab was driven rapidly on to the bridge juii as it wa3 in the act of swinging. The cabby was half tipsy, but he had a fare and was rushing away with him for one of the depots. 'Oh. I'lJ get there,' he says: 'I always do, and you can't stop me.' He went on 6assing the bridge tenders as he and his cab swung around with the bridge. The vessel went through, the bridge sw ung to place, but the bridge tenders had put up a job on the jehu. Away rattled the cab, the driver crack ing hi3 whip and yelling. Til get there. but he didn't, for the bridge tenders turned him the wrong way. They swung the bridge clear around. Buffalo Ners.' Wanted It Done Fashionably. "Inasmuch as the animal you stole was only a colt," remarked the leader pf the regulators, "we have decided to giv you forty-nine lashes with a horsewhip instead of hanging you. But we shaQ lay them on well." "I have only one favor to aslfi gentle men," said tho prisoner, pale but tin? flinching. "What is it?" "Gentlemen," he replied, "I have pot always been a criminal and an outcast, I have moved in good society and I know the customs that prevail amorg our best people. I will take it as a favor, gentle men, if ycu will lay the lashes on, as far as possible, in regular checks or diag onals. Perpendicular stripes are not worn this season." Chicago Tribune. Lo (3d In onlt r to cut down our large rtock l Dry Goods, JKotions &c, we are often nr Unexcelled liar o-.-i' in tin .-c (J We have a ilk and Cashmere liiflers And fcilk Handkerchiefs :it very hv fioiires Great Cloak S In this Lejiartment we are CLOAKSiPLUSM SACOUES at prices that is Hire to fell thent. Call and in;-it ll m ; ; d be convinced lhat we carry the 1,-crt stock in I I:it t .-m i: ! Ii. . C. DOVEY lb , I, HAS THE LARGEST PEAS FURNITURE, HOUSEHOLD GOODS. In the cit-, which he is oii'erii g at Prices th:.-t will n . ,!.-. tl m ell. . A complete line of Window Cnrtidns s;t :l s:u-ri!.-. i'li '.,.; Frames in great variety. You can en.:l evcr t i i : ; u i (.j Yon can buy it on the installment plan pay m::' i, c ( I; month and you will soon. have a line liirnihed Imuim; and hardly realize the cost. Cal! smd s c. SIXTH STREET, RET. MAIN AND ROBERT DONNELLY'S i - - - - - Wagon, Buggy, Machine and Plow pairing, and general jobhing r now prepared to Co all kinds of repnin a of farm and other naeliii,ery, a thrp Is a gooJ latlie in my nhop. PETER RAURN. The old Reliable Wagron Make r has taken charge of The wson sv.ot He is well known as a NO. ; WOUKMAN. r Wni sal Knerfi mmn.i WM. L. BROWNE. I OFFICE. P -rsonal attention to all Buginer Fnlruv my care. SOTARY IX OKFICE. Tille Examined. Abstarct Comr IIpH in. lurance Written. Keal Estate Sold. Retter Facilities for making Farm Loan? thai. Other Agency. PIfMmouth, - XrbraKka K. B. Windham. 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