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.V - 1 I i! TIIl-UUKMATIC DREAMS. WARNING RECEIVED DY A TEXAS FARMER AND HIS WIFE. Irraintti of a IUi.l of Mexican Graax-n, Wltirli Van I uIHIUmI lu tlie I'anclio 1'arru 91 u:im The Nt-Iihurs Couldn't l'n-l-raf aii.l Why tlio Farmer .Moved. Impending jh may cast a tihudow Iorhi-toiitly ignored in a wuking Ktate, while tin? miii'l U under tho iuilttcnco of a se lf deluding optimism the wish that w father to I ho Ixlief in tho significance of the thrcati-mmr d:ni"er. lint in k!i. t. " o- i- ' tlie voice of tho monitor cannot bo si lenced hy Mich illusions, and warning forehi tilings often take tho form of div tinct vi. ions, repeated with a vividnena and frcijiicin-y which at last cannot fail to influence tho action of tho individual, in spite of all waking sophisms. ll;-..MKI IT TWICE. I rcmcinlier tho instance of an Ameri can family that had settled in tho northern upland.- of Cameron county, TexiM, hut hoforo the md of a year re moved to the vicinity of a larger Kettle iiient and told their half completed lion: tery f;ir reasons that remained a inys l tin ir upland ncighlors. !.:.d selected that building site 1 deal of prospecting," tho : i.-trof that house told me a ! iter, "and at first it seemed a ;.! that nobody had pre-empted ,o. It was a braid hill with a - ,M t east and south; wo had an !':! f. v. f.il. i ! ... il:.-- t ice of timlier, lino range, two jV"d "prints, and a ledge of eoft litno btone within a thousand yards of tho house, where you could bhape out build i:ig t'.touo with a common saw. I never could hopo to find better neighbors; they actually got up a picnic to eclobrato our arrival, so glad they wero to have English speaking folks within visiting distance. "We had every prospect of getting an improved road and a postofiiee, and three month iu"icr our lirst entry I would not have Ktild that homestead for ten times my direct expenses. But about half a year after that ranch seemed a haunted place and I didn't feel at rest night or day, though people that know mo are not likely tocall me superstitious. I never was afraid of darkness even when I was a loy and a swarm, of ghosts would not scare mo worth a cent. But ono night, idout a week after I had got homo from ii trip to Brownsville Landing, I dreamt our houe was tackled by a band of J feasor bushwhackers (Mexican bandits) i.ud that they shot mo down and killed my little boy with a club, and then loaded their horses with everything they could move. "Two nights after I had exactly that same dream over again, and I could see every stick and stone in our yard, when I tried to make a break for our next neighbor and was shot down just as I rushed through the gate. I noticed the very ,;orst's anu saddles of that gang and coidd ha V recognize d every ono of them if I had iutt i hem in daylight, and Inow do believe that 1 did see them somehow or other on that trip to the landing. THE WIFE'S WAESINQ. "The idea began to htiunt mo when that dream had coiao back for tio third time, though I never 6aid a word i, but one morning my wife seemed uneasy till all our faria hands had started to work, and then asked mo to come out in the .garden for a minute. " 'Do you think there are any robbers in this neighborhood?" fcha asked me when wo wero quite alone. " 'Why, did you see or hear anything -ipieious?" I asked Iier back. .. rCo, but I had such a strange dream last -t, said she, witli a sort or a I dreamt a gang of iJexieans shudder. io and made me run for came to our h. beforo I got through my life, and jus Lnock down little tho door I saw them Tommy with a club.' , " 'Didn't I help you?' I lJuSUeU "I don't know,' sho sail. saw you collar one of them, and I kept JS for 3011 in English to save yourself, t. u . just as you dashed through the gate 1 i heard tho crack of a shotgun and then I fainted." "I made no reply, but that minute I filt that we couldn't stay any longer, and two weeks after I made up my mind to- move to Indianola. There wero no Mexicans in our immediate neighbor hood at that hill farm, and no serious robbery had happened anywhere nearer than Casa Blanca, but I felt that I had to look for a new home if I expected to get an hour's peace, and it often seemed to me that I wan doing a sin if I let my little boy out of sight for ten minutes. So we made up an excuse about schools and postofiico and managed L.Vsellour pretty place for a few hundred. The neighbors thought I must be half crazy, but"l couldn't help it; and just ten weeks after we were gone we got the news of that Fancho Parras massacre. Tlie whole neighborhood had been sacked and outraged, and as I know my boy, I am now morally certain that he would liave stood his ground and got himself tilled if he had seen any brute lay his hands on his mother. The very homeliness of that account impressed me with a conviction of its ab--oluto truth, and on the whole I consider it the most characteristic instance of what Artemidoros would have called ,theore.uatic dreams." Felix L. Oswald, M. D.. in 7" Open Court. vat -I:irt In Creation. 1 no .iii-a. A man ia Clay, who owes us over two years" sulscriptiou, ru' llL3 FaPcr back in the postofiiee last week marked "re fined." Wo have heard of many mean rie'i There is the man w ho used the w:i t on his neck for a collar button, the one who pastured a goat on his grand mother's grave, the one who stole cop- i ApnA man's eves, the one who got rich by giving his five children t rrrt to lied without 6UI per and then stealing the mckel after the children were asleep; but for pure, downright meanness tho man who will - -.i. .....w.i- for vears. mark it "re fused," and then elfck it back into the Tostofiice, is entitle to lue urst pre- miaui. uneviue ia,; jeui.ocjn.. THE FOOLED . ELM. The boM young Autumn c&ma riding along Ono day where an elm tree grew. "You ore fair," Iio all, (m sho bemUber bead " "Too fulr for your rolo' dull hue; You ore far too yijnntf for a gurh no old; - Your beauty need color and sbeon. Oil, I would clolho you in scarlet and gold, IieflUing thy grace of a queen. "For one little kiss on your Hps, sweet Elm, For Just ono ki3 no more I will ffivo you, I swwir, a robe more fair Than ever a princcwi wore. One liulu LLs on ttione lips, my pot. And i' you Hhall stand, 1 say, Quet-n of tho fonwt, and, twtter yet, Qihhj.t of tny In-art alway." She tossi-"! her head, but he took the klsa (TU tho way of lovera lx)ld); And u Krtv!in dress for that sweet caress He ave ere tho mora was old. I-'iir a week and a duy sho ruled a queen In Ix-jiuty nnl Kplciidid attire; For a 'fi'k ami a day bho was loved, I ween. With a love that U born of desire. Then bold eyed Autumn went on his way In quest of a tree more fair;" And mob wiudd tattered her garments and scat tered IIr finery hero and there. Poor and fail. -.J and ragged and cold Khe rucked and moaueil in distress. And longed for the dull ?re-ju gown she had sold For a lover's fickle caress. And the days went by nnd the winter came. And his tyrannous teniiieuts beat On tho bhiverlng tree whose robes of shaino Ho had trampled under his feet. I raw her reaeh to tho mocking skies Her poor arms bnro and thin. Ah, well-a-day, it is ever the way With a woman who trades with sin. Ella Wheeler Wilcox In Once a Week. Ilrilliaut Flesh Tints. lie had conceived an idea for a great classical picture, and ho hired a stalwart gentleman of toil to poso for tho muscu lar figure required for the center of the picture. Ho painted for daj-s and days, and ho thought whenever he had his model beforo him that he had never 6een such rich flesh tints before. And he studied thoso ilesh tint3 and worked till ho had got them perfect. Then he called his brother artists in and showed them tho picture. "Those flesh tints don't seem quite right. Where did you get them?" "They rich, aren't they? But they're from nature. They're from my model." "Well, they don't look quire natural." Tho last touches had to be given and tho model had come to pose for tho last time. When he stripped his torso and took his position tlie painter 6tared aghast. The brilliant flesh tints had vanished and he was a plain, ordinary flesh colored individual. "How's this? What's the matter with you?" "What?" "You've changed your skin. It used to bo redder than that." "Oh, that was from the red undershirt I used to wear, and I had a bath this morning." San Francisco Chronicle. Added a Proviso. An old vag, who has been in tho habit of calling on a certain business man on Griswold street for dimes, was asked the other day how much he would take to keep away for all future time. Ie thought for a moment and then replied: "Give mo fifty cents and I'll never bother you again." "I'll do it. Here let me draw up a writing to that effect." An agreement was drawn up and the vag read it over and iaid jt down with tho remark: "I can't do it. There's something cold blooded about that." "But you agreed to." "Yes, I know; but think of a man selling .his manhood for fifty pentsl I'd starve first!" "Well, how much do you want?" "A dollar." "I'll split the difference with you." "Well, I'll sign, but I want a proviso inserted that I do not hereby lose my self respect, and that I do not forfeit the right to come up stairs and strike the man in the next room if I get hard up." It was added, and he signed and went off to strike a freo lunch counter. De troit Free Press. How TUey Were Blade, Among exclamations in common use .fallool" And "Hurrah!" have curious Origin MitllUUI.f fcS AW tho authoi or tUo 'SJUeen s n,ngnsn mac the people ot Camwood forest, Leices tershire, when thej desire to hail a per son at a distance call ui not -nauooi h,,t "hnllouo!" This ho jmagines is a survival of the times when one cried to another: "A loup! a loup!" or as we would now say: "Wolfl wom ' "iiur rah!" again, according to M. Littre, is derived from the Slavonic huraj, "Iq Paradise," which signifies that all sow diers who fell fighting valiantly went straight to heaven. "Prithee" is obvi ously a corruption of "I pray thee;" while "marry" was originally a method of swearing by the Virgin ilary. All tho Year Round. A Losing Game. " 'Ow did it work?" said one small boy on the street to tho other. " 'Ow did you do it?" "See: The old man he dropped a dime, an I picked it up an' runned after him, an I says: 'ilister, 'ore's a dime as you dropped, an ho puts 'is hand in his pocket an' he says: 'You're an honest little boy; here's a quarter for you. " "Wal, I dropped tho dime right In front of tho old woman, wen she had er purse open, an' I picked it up wen she walks along, an follows her an says: 'Here, missis, is a dime you dropped.' " " "Well!" "Wal, she takes it an' says: 'Thank you. little boy,' an' puts it in her pocket, an' I'm ten cents out." San Francisco Chronicle. Copper Kettles Bad. Cider is turned into vinegar upon ex posure to tho air, by the oxygen gas in the air, which unites with, or oxidizes tho alcohol, changing it into acetic acid, of which vinegar is only a weak solution. Pickles are colored green by boiling in a copper kettle, because the vinegar unites with the copper, forming a green colored salt, similar to verdigris. As this color ing matter is unwholesome and poison ous, tho practice is not one to lue recom-mendcu.- ioston Budget, THE DAILY HERALD : PLATTSMOUTir, NO CURE FOR BALDNESS. Tonsoriul ArtWt Nays a Fortune Await tlio Man Who Can Solve the Kiddle. "Can hair bo made to grow on bald heads?" Said a fashionable hairdresser, tn resiionno to a reiortcr's query: "Yes and no. If a jwrson becomes bald ow ing to illness the hair can be mado to grow again. In fact, it will grow again without making, but it can be aided and stimulated in its growth by tonics. But if a person is deprived of his or her hair by natural loss of vitality, it will not grow again, and nothing has ever been compounded that will restore it. Natural baldness comes on gradually, and tho awful day of iU complete triumph over the hair's existence may bo jiostponed by tho uso of tonics, but tho final catastro phe can't bo prevented. Long experi ence has taught me that fact, although years ago I had tho personal opinion of the renowned Dr. Bazin, of Paris, to that effect. I have dressed heads for more than a quarter of a century. I have lamented with hundreds of my pa trons from whose heads not only the hand of titno but tho indiscretions and carelessness of youth wetc gradually but persistently plucking tho natural and often luxuriant covering, and have an ointed, drenched and plastered their too apparent polls with lotions, tonics and pomatums, and rubbed and kneaded and manipulated their failing scalps un til, if there had leen one ember of hair life left slumbering there, it must surely have been brought back to its wonted fire and vigor, and have given it up at lat and handed them tho card of tho wigmaker. If I have used one hair re storative I have used 500, and every ono was warranted to not only prevent bald ness but to restore to bald heads their sometime hirsute glory. Look at rue. Seo what a remarkable growth and youthful gloss of hair I have. It has not changed in twenty-five years. Why?" Tho hair dresser seized his soft brown hair with loth hands, and with a vicious jerk removed it from his head. It was a costly wig, and his head was as white and bare as a billiard ball. "That is why!" ho murmured bitterly. "And I am not only a hair dresser, but ono skilled in every tonsorial art! If there were help for baldness other than tio skill of the wig maker, do you suppose for a moment that I, of all men, would not know it, and knowing it, would not only have rescued myself, but have saved to myself hundreds of my most profita ble customers? If that is not proof enough that a man onco bald is always bald, just call to mind doctors of your own ac quaintance who are bald as glass globes They are learned in the mysteries of drugs and their preparation. They know what result their combination and appli cation will produce. If any one living were capable of curing baldness some one among these experts in the science of medicine ought to be. You never had occasion to go to a doctor to get a pre scription for baldness. I have. " 'Come to me for a cure for anything else,' my medical adviser said. 'Any thing else,' said he, 'and I will cure you. But baldness! Why, my dear sir, Escu lapius himself was as bald as a bald as well, as bald as I am !' "And he was baltthis doctor of mine. An onion has more hair than he had! No, my son. If there lurked anywhere in all the materia medica, of not only this age but of past ages, the name of one little herb or drug, or whatever you may call it, that could bid even one hair to grow where there had been ten before, there would be no bald doctors nor bald hair dressers, and the discoverer of this boon wrjuld live longer in the hearts of men than would tbe much ppokeu of indi vidual who is expected to reach tlie sum mit of all greatness some day by making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before," New York Mail and Ex press A Rival of tlie Virginia Natural Bridge. High up in the crest of the mountains on the Birmingham, Sheffield and Ten nessee Kiver railroad there is to bo found ono of nature's wonders. It is a natural bridge, as complete, as perfect, as sym metrical, and, in some essentials, more remarkable than thG great natural bridge of Virginia. Tho bridge lies between the stations of Lynn and Delmar. It is about fifty-eight miles from Sheffield and twenty-nine miles from Jasper. Its length from abut ment to abutment is 173 feet. Its width is 23 feet, and the thickness ranges from 4 to 0 feet. It is of pure sand stone, and ha3 no doubt stood the climate changes of ages. Leaning over the bridge you see in the ravine which it spans, some 6iity feet below, tho shimmer and sparkle of many springs of clear, limpid water, which bubblo from the sandstone soil, and joining flow down the ravine. A singular feature is a subdivision or smal ler bridge, coustnicted on the same pat tern, perhaps even moio perfect lines, which leads from one side of the bridge propet-Tuscunibia North Alabr-mian. i 'i i m I i p.i Persevere. The cause of nine parts in ten of the lamentable failures which occur in men's undertakings lies not in the want of tal ents, or the will to use them, but in the vacillating and desultory way of using them, in flying from object to object; in starting away at each little disgust, and thus applying the force which might conquer any one difficulty to all series of difficulties so large that no human force can conquer them. Commend me there fore to the virtues of perseverance. Without it all the rest are little better than fairy gold, which glitters in your purse, but when taken to market proves to be 6late or cinders.-rrCarlylo. A Simple Scientific Experiment. Take a bottle and place a cork over the nioutli. The cork must be suffi ciently large to rest lightly upon it, without falling into the neck." Snap the neck of the bottle sharply with the thumb and finger, and tho cork will fall from the bottle towards tho hand giving the blow, and not away from it, as might ba expected. This effect is duo to the principle of inertia, the quick blow forcing, as it were, the bottle away from the cork before the motion can be trans mitted to the cork itseif . Buffalo Times. NKHltASKA, FKtPAV, JUNE Mnllierly Devotion. Tlie late Queen Mary of Bavaria is Baid to have been as warmly devoted and blindly o'jedient to her son, King Lud wig II, as sho had been to her hunband. King Max. Krom tho day of his acces sion, sho looked upon him moro as a king than a son. A story is told which shows how dearly mother and son loved each other. They wero gazing out of ono of tho windows in the frescoed hall of Ilohcnschwangau, with ono of tho finest views in tho world beforo them tho green Schwanscc in tho foreground, tho pine clad hills reflected in its puro surface, and above all, tho noble mountains stretching on every side. The king drank in the wild beauty of lake and mountain, and raised his eyes to tho sky. Tho queen, who never soared too high, gazed with delight at an iuijosing pino which towered high above the window at which they stood. Sud denly tho queen exclaimed: . "What a glorious Christmas tree this would make if we could decorato it!" Tho king passed his hand over his eyes, smiled and kissed her. That was in August. In December ho expressed a wish to spend Christmas at Ilohcn schwangau. The queen, always willing to do what ho wished, followed him thither. On Christmas eve, with loving care, she decorated a little tree, and, as in tho days when she was a mother of 20, sho rang tho bell to call her children. Tho great event of tho evening seemed over, the lights wero blown out, when suddenly a gong sounded. King Ludwig took his mother's hau l. nnd. lo;ilirr; her to the wLi.ljvv ujt of wiiici Uiey iiu.d gazed together that morning in August, he pushed back the shutters and disclos ed to her astonished eyes tho gigantic treo lighted with a thousand wax can dles, which burned bright in tho frostj' night and wero reflected in the snow and icicles on t rees and shrubs around. Lon don Globe. The Specter Guest. An undertaker in Madrid, who lived over his shop, one night gave a grand ball. At tho height of the festivities a gentleman in full evening dress joined the company. He danced with the host ess and her daughter; he danced with tho guests. He seemed to enjoy himself thoroughly. The undertaker thought ho recognized the face, but didn't like to be rude and ask the stranger's name. By and by all the guests departed and only the unknown was left. "Shall I send for a cab for you?" said the host at last. "No, thank you; I'm staying in the housG." "Staying in the house! Who are you, sir?" "Why, don't you know me? I'm tho corpse that was brought in this after noon." Tho undertaker in horror rushed to tho mortuary chamber, where in Spain it is usual for the dead to be removed. The coffin was empty. His wife and daughter had been dancing with a corpse! But it turned out that the gentleman had only been in a trance and had sud denly recovered. Hearing the revelry above, and being possessed of a keen though ghastly senso of humor, ho had got out of his coffin and joined the fes tive party. Ho was presentable, for in Spain the dead are generally buried in full evening dress. New York Herald. Cassowary risking. The habits of the cormorant and of our native fish hawk are generally known. Their methods of taking fish are very much like thoso of birds of prey. But tho cassowary fishes accord ing to a method of its own. Mr. Towell witnessed its operations on a rirer in the island of New Britain: I saw a cassowary come down to the water's edge, and stand for 6omo minutes apparently watching tho water carefully. ii then stepped into the river where it was about thred feet deep, and, partially squatting down . spread its wings out, submerging them, the feathers being spread and ruffled. Tho bird remained perfectly motion less, and kept its eyes closed, as if in sleep. It remained in this position for fully a quarter of an hour, when, sud denly closing its wings and straightening its feathers, it stepped out on the bank. Here it shook itself several times, where upon a quantity of small fishes fell out of its wings, and from amidst its feath ers, which tlie bird immediately picked up and swallowed. The fishes had evidently mistaken the feathers for a kind of weed that grows in the water along the banks of the rivers in this island, and vrhich very much re sembles the feathers of the cassowary. The smaller fishes hide in these weeds to avoid the larger ones that prey on them. Youth's Companion. Eel Skins for Rheumatism. "Give me two large eel skins," said a young woman who entered a North End drug store at the time a Globe man liapr pened to be quenching his thirst at the uoda feuntaift, "Eel skins!' said The Globe man to the clerk, when the young lady had left with her purchase. "What does she want of eel skins:" "Itheumatism," said the drug clerk. "You'd be surprised at the number of people who use eel skins for rheuma tism. I know an old man whose arms and legs are completely strapped with them, and he believes that they prolong his life. Wo have more or les3 call for them, but I understand that up town stores don't keep them, although once in a while their customers ask for them. Yve get our skins of a fish dealer on At lantic avenue. He purchases them from South Boston people, who sell the skinned eels for food, and when the 6kins are dried, sell them to various customers. In many of the fish stores on Atlantic avenue you will see a bunch of the skins suspended from tho wall by a hook. They are very oily and soft, and while I don't take much stock in themt num bers of people have implicit faith in them. I am told that there is a German family in South Boston that sells these eel skins to various people Hiroughou the United States and realizes a snug little income therefrom." Boston Globe, 21, ISSfl. A Uoi-mi Broken Heart. Tho emotional life of the horse is re markable. Thero are instances on rec ord where tho death of tho horo ban been traced directly to grief. One in stance U called to mind which occurred moro than twenty years ago. A circus had lcen performing in the little town of Union ville, Pa., when one of the trained horses sprained one of his le so that ho could not travel. He was taken to the hotel and put in a Ikjx stall. Tho leg was bandaged and ho was made as comfortable as possible. He ate his food und win apparently contented until alniut midnight, when tho circus lx-gan moving out of town. Then he lecai.ie restless and tramcd and whined. As tho caravan moved past tlie hotel he seemed to realize that lie was In-in de serted, and his anxiety and distress le came pitiful. He would stand with his ears pricked in an attitude of intense listening, and then as his ears caught the sounds of tho retiring wagons he would rush, as best he could with his injured leg. from ono sido of tho stall to the other, pushing at the door with his nose and making every eflort to escape. The stableman, who was a stranger to him, tried to soothe him, but to no pur pose. I lo would not be comforted. Long after all sounds of the circus had ceased his agitation continued. The sweat poured from hint in streams and he quiv ered in every part of his body. Finally tho stableman went tt) the house, woke up the proprietor and told him ho be lieved the horse would die if some of the circus horses wero not brought brick to !.v- p i.iiii to..;a.t;.. At n'.- ii u..j iio'11 the proprietor mounted a horso and rode after the circus, lie overtook it ten or twelve miles away, and the groom who had charge of the injured horse returned with him. When they reached the stable tho horse was dead. Tho stableman said that he remained for nearly an hour per fectly still and with every sense appar ently strained to the utmost tension and then, without making a sign, fell and died with scarcely a struggle. Western Sportsman. "OH Knrrect." Moses Folsom, of Port Townsend, sends tho following sketch of the origin of tho uso of the letters "O. K.," which, ho states, was furnished him personally by James Barton: While at Nashville in search of mate rial for his history, Mr. Parton found among the records of the court of whic h Gen. Jackson had been judge a great many legal documents indorsed "O. Ii.," which meant "Order recorded," but often bo scrawlingly written that one could easily read it as O. K. If "Major Downing" noticed a bundle of legal pa pers thus marked upon President Jack son's table, documents, perhaps, from his former court, in which he still had interest, it is very easy to see how a pun ster could imagine it to bo "O. K.," or "oil korrect." No doubt Seba Smith, who wrote under tho nora do plume of "Major Jack Down ing," had much to do with creating the impression that President Jackson was unlettered and illiterate, whereas many existing personal letters, military reports, court opinions and state papers show to the contrary. Ho lived before the day of stenographers and typewriters, and yct carried on a voluminous correspondence. Hundreds of his personal letters to old soldier friends are still preserved as heir looms in tho south, and his handiwork is numerous in Washington. Ho was evi dently a rapid penman, and made greater uso of capital letters than is tho present custom, but misspelled words and stum bling sentences were few and , far be tween. Portland Oregonian, A Famous Betrothal Over Forty Vears Ago. "I wonder how many people know that Victoria tho Good, as it has been suggested tho queen of England shall be called, when sho fell in lovt. had to do thG proposing for herself?" said an Amer icanized Englishman the other morning. "I was much interested in reading re cently tho account of hbr betrothal. It had always been expected that sho and her cousin Albert would eventually make a match of it. When they wore both about IS yeai3 old he visited England, but did not make much impression on the newly crowned queen. However, threo years later ho made up his mind to a 'now or never' game, and wi;h his brother visited her at Windsor castle. Liko more humble lovers, he was placed iu a rather embarrassing predicament by the non-arrival of his luggage, and was thu3 prevented from dining with her majesty on his first evening as her guest. For fivo days did Victoria study him, and then after first telling her adviser, Lord Melbourne, what sho had decided to do, 6ho sent for Albert, saying that l!io desired to seo him particularly. One ac count of the affair, certainly valuable for its brevity, reads as follows: 'What the queen told him waa that she loved him with her whole heart, and that bhe de sired to be his wife.' She was accepted without hesitation, as any good looking sovereign of 20 might have hoped to have been, and so they were matried." Plula delphia Press. Tho Weiglit of Individuals. The average weight of a boy at birth is teven and that of a girl a little mora than six pounds. When they have at tained tho full development of ma:i or womanhood they should weigh twenty times as much as they did at birth. Tliis would make a man's average weight 140 and a woman's about 123. Tlie height of a male at birth is 1 foot 8 inches and that of a female 1 foot G inches. Fully grown, a man's height should be about three and a half times greater than at birth, or 5 feet 9 inches, wliilo a woman should bo 5 feet 3 inches. The weight of individuals who are fully developed and well formed, however, varies within ex tremes, which are nearly as 1 to 2, while their height varies within limits which at most are a3 I to 1-3. Taking 200 pounds as tho maximum of man's weight and 83 a3 the minimum we would hayo the average of 142 J pounds. Placing the maximum wc'ght of woman at 1S3 pounds and the minimum at 70 pounds, and we get an average of 127$ pounds. Philadelphia Record. IC D. WlMMIAM, JollX A. PAVIKS, Notary 1'ubllc. Nolary I'ublt UIMMIA3IA l.VIl:rt, A.ttornoya - at - Law, Ofllce over lljiik of i'lin County. I.VTTf MoUTII. - NlllUAFKA C. F, SMiT H, The Boss Tailor M.ilu St., Over Mer.-s' Klioe Htore. Has the bent nnd imn-.t comple te tttock f sutiiphs, both foreign nnd domestic woolens tlmt evi r rstine west of Mihouri river. Note these prices: But-inchS mi its from lij to t:r, tlrrm Hiiln, $',.' to f13, punts fl, $5, :, ifil.ro and upwards. C2TWill guarantee a lit. Prices Defy Comoetilion. H. C. SCHMIDT, ((OI NIV MllVl lolt.) Civil Engineer Surveyor and Draftsman Plans, Specifications and Ki-tiiii.itis, Mu nicipal Woik, MnpH Arc. PLATTS MOUTH. - - NEB W k -S t H THE OLD f?E!f A DLL'. i a. mnwM k m Wholesale hi! K t!l tn ;ur it. .UMBER ! Shingles, Lath, S.iiii, Poors. Blinds. C'au supply every demand of the tmdo Call and git terms. Fourth i-livet In Hear of );"i;i House. MIKE SCHHELLBACKtB, "Wagon and Dhickt-iiiith Shop. Wagon, Buggy, Machine nnd Plow csnnosnnr A Specialty. He uses the Horseshoe, the 15ht IIorseHioe lor the Fanner, or for Fa.st L'rivin and City purposes, ever invented. It is made ho anyone can can put on sharp or Hat corks as needed for wet and slippery nad, or smooth dry roads. Call and Kxamino these Shoes and you will have no other. J. RLSchnellbacher, 5th St., Plaltsuiouth, Nth. Rolert Donnelly's Wagon and Blacksmith Wagons, Bukrii's, '!aeV;iic- iu' Uy Im paired ; I'lows SIi;i: im:i :I t-.'.ni iei.i-i at Horseshoeing A Specialty - I USE THE Ilorsf slioe, vi','i-a Kiwi i:' ft v. ars ftW'-y. tline is never s:iiv ;'.:ii:r-r of voar iiuvs". slij.jMi k ai:ij liiti'tii.;; lut-lt. (ail a:il exf.miii" llii slmi- am: y n will iiave ro other. lie t fSlioe Li'Je. ROBERT DONNELLY SIXTH ST., - - PLATTSMOUTII " i ( Q'J "A A MONTH fan t,e mad O'" lWf?.' v.oikinsj J or ill. .A grill p'efom'il vim ciin fin-i.l-h a lion-t? and pive ilieir wlmle titiio to tli e buines. hiiare mem ent-may lie jiK iiial'ly en:p!cj;il al-o. A fw var-ai-eies ia t'lwns an'' c;fies. !. K. JOUN fOV & CO. t'KKiM-in-st.. Jtiolimi.Tiil, Va. A". D. Ptenrr ttirr. ijc ,7 l.v!nf frfST tience. Xr.vcf tninrl aut urnitinu utatnp 1ir Tt- Hl l. Ji. t'. J. r'c Co. dAS-SfXIRK r o o a. E k i XL -v. ' o Flo ati Nip Z ca RAPPERS I V ( ur.it sizti j a-.i receive i nnvwii lbs AciDRs-and-itessts iimhm' P BB B V I It