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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1891)
U1UIUI1 1UII . Making LlnJit of it llurl-n. The jieriod of flitting on hj cM: Ii h i:. often long deferred by Tiiliii a-d M;e ple, who "hate to seem old," or dL-iike c-onfestiing to themselves that they have reached one of the tiignili.-aut 1 urniu;- IKlillt.4 Of life, l'eople have, how. V. i different ways of accepting the inevit able. One charming woman, who lias I;iksh.1 tliis visual limit, declares that her comfort is thereby daily increased. "I was always so la.y!" she .says. Nevertheless. I had to do a thousand things 1 hat d. Now when I go out for an alb-moon I can Lave my glasses at home, and ho. whi n I am ;i.si;i:l to look at photographs, try a new crochet stitch, or read 'dear Alary Ann's last letter,' I can refuse with a c lear conscience. And it is nidi a rest of mind and saving of tissue." Another woman, and a very pretty one, owns to a bit of tacit deception in wearing her cross. "I try to put my glasses on with th air of having always worn them," sin confesses. "1 can't help hoping that jhm..1. will think me near sighted from childhood." Jiutadear old gentleman, who can't nee. without glasses, actually goes to the Jengtli of declaring that he doesn't need them at all. Jle proves the case by standing at a distance from print and reading it without difficulty. "There's nothing the matter with my eyes," he then explains humorously. "The only trouble is. my arms aren't long enough. V'ou tli's Companion. MANIAC AND DOCTOR AN INSANE NEGRESS THROTTLES A PHYSICIAN IN A CELL. ! Dr. Deut, of ISl.ick well's Island. Kenrlv ! His Life Timely Arrival of A t trndaiiU Prevent w ratal Keoult A Thrilling Kik-ouii ter. SOFT SOAP AND HARD. An Owl lit the I'anner'H Friend. Of all birds, from the farmers stand Mint, owls are the most useful. They hunt silently and in the night, and are nothing short of lynx eyed cats with wings. The l nefit they confer upon agriculturists is most incalculable, and is susceptible of proof. It is well known that owls limit by night; but it may bo less ;t matter of common knowledge that, like other birds of prey, they return by the mouth hard indigestible parts of the lood in the form of elongated pellets. These are found in considerable, quanti tits about the birds' haunts, and an ex amination of them reveals the fact that owls prey upon a number of prctlaceous creatures, the destruction of which is directly beneficial to man. Of course the evidence gained in this way is infallible, and to show to what extent owls assist in preserving the bal ance of nature it may Ik; mentioned that Too p. Hets examined yielded the remains of ii bats, VI rats. mice, ;o:j voles, l.njui shrews and U'J birds. These truly remarkable results were obtained from the common barn owl. ami the remains of the L'J birds were those of V.) sparrows, 1 greenfinch and 2 swifts. The tawny and long eared owls of our woodlands are also mighty hunters, and an exam ination of their iM-Hets shows equally in teresting evidence. Cornhill Magazine. fireek ami Komuii Moves. Warm as (recce and Home and Egypt are, stoves wen; made there m the dim and misty vistas of the past. It was not just the pattern used in Chicago at pres ent, but was a metal basin in which charcoal was burned. It sat in the mid die of the room, and as the resulting smoke was of the slightest no opening in the roof or elsewhere was necessary. J. no same implement, still called bv its old (J reek name of brazier, is still em ployed in many portions of continental Europe, where it is utilized for heating j is well as cooking. Uut the progressive Romans improved on that and made a hyioeaust. It was the germ of the present furnace. It was made under the house in a little cellar prepared for it, and the heat was con ducted to the rooms and baths through crevices left in the floor and lower por tions of the wall. Later flues were pro vided, conducting heat to any portion of the house. In some of the old Roman villas in England the remains of these old time furnaces are still found. Chi cago Herald. es, . Itensn rkulle Phenomenon. On Thursday. March 19, 1710. there apjeared at London, about 3 o'clock at night, a "sudden great light moving af ter the manner but more slowly than a iainng star. It started from a point lie low Orion s belt, then lying in the south west, and went upward instead of down ward like a falling star. Its size, ac cording to the testimony of numerous observers in Spain, France, Ireland, llol land and some parts of Germany, as well as those who saw it i:i London and all over England, was about that of the full moon. It was of whitish color, with an ej-e in the center as blue as the mo: azure tortion of a Jun skv after a thun der storm. It went straight upward in its course until out of sight, leaving a track of fiery red sparks in its wake." St. Louis Republic. KrMu for vi3t it nIe. "I even once read a grateful defence of Captain Kidd. the pirate." "Uut you don't know the circum stances under which it was written?" -No." 'lie lxarded a vessel where everybody was se;isick. He gave the usual order. Your mouey or your life.' Everylody felt so thankful at the prospect of being 2ut out of their misery that they one and all refused the money. He accord ingly hung them, and the captain, who was spannl. was so thankful to le spared their complaints that when he got on , shore, he wrote the article." St. Paul 1 Glol-. j Their Point of I)i flerenew. Kate Such an owl as you are! Why can't you lie talkative, like Tom Rat telon? Such a difference as there is be tween m.-ii! Fred There's only this difference, my dear girl: I thi'ik aud say nothing; Tom talks and says nothing. Pittsburg Bul letin. Dr. Johnson and Sydney Smith were both inveterate tea drinkers. The for mer said that "he never gave his teaket tle time to cool." while the latter gave as a sure recipe against the prevailing epi demic of his time, melancholy, "a tea kettle simmering upon the hob." Dr. E. C. Dent, siijerintendent of the insane asylum on Ulackwc ll's Island, told me of a thrilling cxjH-rienco he had with a mad negress. Dr. Dent has been for ten years connected with the asylum, has treated the most violent cases and has had many narrow escapes from death, but his battle with the giant negro woman, he said, was the closest call he ever had. When Dr. Dent tjecamo superintend ent of the institution on Dlackwell's Isl land he alolished all the mechanical re straint apparatus, and he determined that all harsh aud repressive measures should be expres&ly forbidden. His idea was that in the treatment and care of patients they should be made to feel at home and among friends; but in spite of all the care and kind attention and the endeavor to please the patients, there are a numlwr of the latter on the island, the doctor said, who are jis ferocious as wild animals. These violent cases occasion ally take advantage of the fact that there are no strait jackets or restraining ma chines in the institution, and they bo come insulting and aggressive and often times very dangerous. The negress was one of theso cases. She had been in tho institution for sev eral years and was incurably insane. All the attendants and nurses in the ward in which she was confined were in mortal dread of her, and they were obliged to keep constantly on the watch for fear of a sudden attack from the mad woman, whose name is Ann Kinney. She is nearly six feet in height and very muscular. She had been a laundress in this city, and during an altercation with her husband she received a blow on the head, as a result of which she became insane. "I was summoned to the acute ward," said Dr. Dent, where I found the negress in a terrible rage. She had driven all tho nurses out of the ward and the other patients were completely cowed. She j was rambling about at will, brandishing ! half a picture frame she had torn from the wall. Her eyes Were bloodshot and ! she was foaming at the mouth. When I j apieared she became more violent, aud i the other patients were crying out in ' terror. She began t earner oil" her clot be and presented a hideous spectacle. "There was only one thing to do, and that was to.-confine the negress before she could kill or maim any of the patients, which, with her strength, she could do in a few moments. There was no time to summon other help, so I opened the door and walked in. The mad woman mad a dash for me, and when within half a ! dozen paces she threw down her picture ' irame, winch was ot light pine, and seizing a bench, which she broke with ease, and catching up a heavy oaken bench rung, she prepared to attack me. I spoke to her gently, calling her by name, told her it was all right, that no one wanted to harm her, and to keep quiet. This did not soothe her in the least. "Thinking to catch her off her guard I grabbed for the arm that held the bench rung, ily antagonist dropped the rung and swore that she would Kill me, and to tell the truth I was a little afraid she would, for I was only about half her size. The way she chucked me about the floor, picked me up and threw me down again, almost took the life out of me. She played with me as a cat does with a mouse, but. strange to say, thongh she had me at her mercy, she did not at tempt to beat my brains out with her club. It all happened in a very few minutes. When she gave me a breathing spell I appealed to her svmpathies and she calmed down considerably, and after talking to her in a conciliatory manner we decided to compromise. She agreed to go to her cell quietly, after I had promised to give her something to ease the pain in her head. I walked to the cell with her, in order to fasten the door on the outside. 1 opened the cell door. and as 1 did so she grabbed me around the waist, lifted me from the ground and carried me bodily into the cell, then slammed the door. 'Now I will kill you, sure,' she cried. "She imagined that it was I who had hit her on tho head and had caused her all her sufferings. Her powerful hand was at my throat when the attendants rushed in and rescued me. It was tho narrowest escape 1 had ever had. She was given an opiate to quiet her, while I, more dead than alive, was carried to my office considerably bruised." "How about the cases of rough usage to patients that have occurred in the in stitution?"' I asked. In spite of all the care and super vision and under the most rigid disci pline, it rarely happens that the patients are roughly spoken to, much less rough ly treated, by the nurse; but, of course, attendants upon the insane, like the or dinary run of mankind, are not uni versally sweet tempered, nor endowed too liberally with that spirit of Christian forbearance so beautifully inculcated in the Sermon on the Mount. "We have too few attendants here. We should have at least one for everv ten patients, but we have not half that number. The emplo-es are overworked: they are kept busy constantly from the time they get up till they go to bed, with duties of a most trying character. They are cut oS for the most jiart from social pleasures, and their sacrifices are many for small pay. Rut whenever a case comes to my attention of a nurse or attendant caught in the act of abusing a patient there is an immediate discharge. The patients are encouraged to tell their grievances to their supervisors and phy sicians, whom they are taught to regard as their friends and protectors, and their reports of ill treatment are inves tigated carefully when there is the least ground to believe that they are true. We are now investigating the cases re ferred to in the daily papers, and as far as we have gone we find that our keepers are not at fault. In case we should find otherwise we shall see that justice is done." New Ywrr Tfclfipraaa- The Klofjueiiee of a ISowery Fakir la Po tent with an Ksttit Side Anclienrd A street fakir of the finest type stood at the corner of the Rowery and a cross street, and addressed the attentive throng with all the rhetorical flourish of a United States senator. "I was once a poor boy," said he, "with only two cents in my pocket, ami I found myself here in this great city without a home ami without a friend. May the fates preserve you from any buch hardships as I saw, dear gentlemen! Barefooted, hungry, sleeping on the cold ground under the unsympathetic stars, eating the crumbs thrown .to me from the tables of the rich, I was indeed a blighted being. I did my best to get I employment, but there was no room lor me, and 1 began to contemplate suicide. "That was cowardly of me, gentle men, I admit, but I had been made a coward by my privations. I was not myself, and my suicidal purpose was tne mad despair of a halt insane youth. les, 1 was determined to commit sui cide, and was starting in search of a st eluded dock where I could plunge int( the cruel river without the danger of be ing rescued, when a piece of good fort une betel me which changed the whole course of life. As I was passing alon tiie liowery my attention was attracted by the voice of a gentleman who stood uii me ciiiiht just aoove wnere I am standing now. He had a small black bag with him, very similar to the one am carrying, and in this bag were small cah.es or soap, wmeli the gentleman wa offering for sale at twenty-five cents a cake. ".Now, I did not much stand in need of soap at just that moment, notwith- oi.iuhihl; me very inorougu oat n 1 was about to give myself, and I should not nave noppeu 10 listen to mat gentleman had I not perceived that he was offering a very remarkable inducement to the public to buy his wares. Will you be lieve it, gentlemen, in many of the pack- agesof soap contained in that bug were wrapped greenbacks ranging from tho one to the five dollar denomination! 1 was seized with an immense longing to try my luck in that soap lottery. Prov idence was watching me at that mo ment. The soap vender looked down and saw my sad face and tattered gar ments. " 'There is a lad,' said he, 'whom 1 should like to help. He will be per mitted to draw a cake of soap from thi bag without charge, and we shall see what his fortune will be.' "I drew, gentlemen, as I was directed, and, joy of joys! there was a live dollar bill in my cake of soap. A year later I NEW SPRING CLOTHING k Had 1,000 m the bank, and now I proud to say iife is a perpetual delight do inucii tto i teel my indebtedness to ward tiie gentleman who saved me that I, too, have taken up the philanthropic woric or distributing bank bills amon 41........ .1.. A - -I T . I . 1 me Hccu) . -vim i always maKe it a prac tice to precede mv sales bv nllowim some poor, ragged boy in my audienc j to draw a cake of soaj) from the bag free of charge. "Ah! there is a most unhappy faer My bo.v, select a cake of soap from the bag. It will cost you nothing!" xne poor, miseraoie lad tuns impor tuned did as he was directed, and as the l l T 11 crowo waicneu imn untold tho paper wrapper it was seen that a five dollar bill was inside. ion see, exclaimed tne ramr, nn wrapping several of the cakes to displa, the money within, and then throwin, tucui oacii into tne iK'o "you can scarcely help drawing a prize." T 4- .1 il. . -i . , xuMjiuu) mere was a rn.sn in tiie soap business. As last as the fakir could make change coins fluttered into his hands. The excitement continued for number of minutes, and then some one in the crowd began to complain that no prizes were turning up. It was then that the fakir discovered a policeman approaching, and hastily shutting his bag he hurried down the cross street, and turning sharply to tho right after going a short distance, disappeared, and in a lew minutes was joined by the ragged boj- who had been allowed to draw the five dollar prize. Ilis profits on the soap must have been fully 10. New York Sun. FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, ETC ARRIVING EVERY DAY JOE 2 THE LEADING ONE PRICE CLOTHIEK. -o- Donotbuy until you have seen and inspected MA ft MOTH STOCK AND PRICES. IT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. o The finest btoek of Spring- Clothing', Furnishing Goods and Uats you ever Been in Piatt smouth. -o- S 1 I JL. 1 v.. X i (. -v - . "i 3 V .t .' v': $ -Ail OPERA HOUSE CORIsTEB Ail Kxpert Opinion. The Xew York State Meter inspector's deputy was asked this question the other day: "CouM a gas company make meters record more than was necessary to be ir a j i , . consumed oy Tenants ny putting on an increased pressure through the pipes?" The inspector replied: '"Of course, an in creased pressure will make more gas go through tne meters than is necessary for tne lights. Ihe companies nave to put on a lot of pressure about 0 o'clock in the evening when everybody is lighting up. That is what makes the gas jump and flare so. All the gas coming through me pipes is not ourneu. ana tnat is where the patent governors and regula tors step in. But the consumer can regulate that just as well without a governor by turn ing the gas partially off at his meter un til he gets a stream just about adequate to the number of lights he uses. It makes the light stead-, and saves about 20 to 25 per cent, of gas to the consumer. I have done it for many years, and found it to work just about as well as a patent governor." Characteristic Evon in Tier lre:o:in. A ladj' who is known to bo an ex tremist in many of her views gravely told tho following dream over the coffee the other morning to the great amuse ment of her husband and some friends, who declared it essentially feminine and characteristic of her sex. She dreamed that she had died, and in the interval before tho freed spirit made its way heavenward she was an unseen observer and listener to all that took place in tho room in which the poor clay she had so recently inhabited lay. She was touched with the devotion of her mother, who, like Mary of old. was always first and last beside the body, soon to find sepulture, also intensely in terested in the arguments for or agaii!-t cremation (this having been her own pet theory), which her friends field forth in the presence of her disembodied spirit, aud longing to depart with the ceies'ial throng awaiting her, 3-et mortified and thrilled on the threshold of heaven bv the fact that, graven on her casket plate, her age was given as forty-nino instead of thirty-two. Utica Herald. I Just Think Ovrr It. Who has not at soui" rvrio-i of istence nuzzled his brain over this If a goose weighs te'i !!! a what is the i his e- "Vi-y : . half it of iio AVuracn or I'asliions riianj;s? In an apothecary's window in New York is a heap of the vinaigrettes that were in use four or more years ago. They re of cut glass, from twelve to fourteen inches long, an inch thick, and of the weight of a policeman's night stick. The- are eloquent of the eccentricities of fashion, for whereas women paid many dollars to get one only the other day, so to speak, no lady would carry one the length of an avenue block today for five times as much money. The same moral is pointed by a picture that was famous sixteen years ago. It is Arthur Lumley's sketch of two rival schools meeting on Fifth avenue. The beauty of the school girls in that picture gave the picture great eclat. Today the girls look like dreadful guys. Their queer hats, their waterfalls and their balloon skirts con demn the work as a picture of something preposterous. San Francisco Argonaut. Mortuary. DiKD-Mi-H. Maryniel K'uiliei ford, : lier home in tl'iis cily, of Urijg-ht' disease, at 1L';.') last in'ht. 1 lie tleccased was ji noble Chris tian woman, a member of the I 'res bytcrian cliiucli. She leaves tlir sons, John. alter unci Charles to mourn the loss of their only parent flic father having joined the silent majority twent- 3 ears a;'o. frs. KutherJord was born at Gil- boa New York lum: 1st 1S:() .-moI NT..I -.1... - . , uiiiii.- in -ii i'iiishii 111 i-M)'.j sue was a sister of Hie late C. M. Holmes of this cily and settled near his farm in KockHIulTs precincls. Ouriiiiif her illness which proved lata! she siiheied rerit pain but bore it with 1 rueClirisiian fortitinh lhe funeral will lake place to-mor row afternoon at 12 o'clock from the Presbyterian church. Rev. liaird will officiate. Th one ars?parilla. re is one fact so plain that 110 need be mistaken, and t bat i 110 person can have jood health where the blood, the very life itself, is in an unhealthy and impure con dition. We .guarantee I Jailer's Sar saparilla and Hurdock Compound to remove all humors and impuri ties from the blood and eradicate every particle of discare from the system. For sale b- all druggists. its own weight the goose? Many persons have undoubtedly been tempted to answer fifteen pounds at once, when the correct answer, of course, is twenty pounds, as they discover after giving the problem a little thought. New York Tribune. The largest county in the United States is Yavapai count-, A. T., which has an area of almost ."0.000 square miles. Nine states of the Union are each smaller than this one county. It is larger than the whole of West Yir Kiuia, and almost as large as South Car-olina. Old Cities of Europe Changing. Said a woman returned from a trip abroad, which was by no means her first: "I have discovered that the his toric monotony of even European life can change. When I first saw Ghent, ten or a dozen years ago, it was a pic turesque walled city; now I find that much of its wall has gone into it3 fine quays. So with Bruges, which all guide books used to delight to remind you had not had a house built within its limits for an extraordinary length of time a hundred and fifty years at least. I was there recently to discover some rnarked changes some almost modern housea and others altered in a manner which has done away with a degree of their de licious antiquity." New York Times. I am now prepared to deliver ice to any part of the citv. Telephone 72 tf II. C. McMAKl-.w PURE MAPLE SUGAR and Syrup. Lo w uriccs quoted on large or small lots Strictly Pure. Adirondack Maple Sngar Co 19.ETERSEN L LAESQN. THE LEADING GROCERS HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK IN THE CITY. EVERYTHING - FREEH - AND - IN - SEASON ATTE-VTIOX FA KM 1; RS rZ1" 'our,,,try, KKfra, But r imi vour fnrm ..,..1.... . L r Kinds, we will n;iv Voti lb,- cash pr.ee as we are buying 7or - a lira 111 Lincoln K ur d Petersen & Larson TIIK LKADIXG GKOCKKS lattsmouth - - Nebraska. 123'5 Monroe st.. Chicugo. 111. FULLEi; & DOi?0A Western Agents. ft O ! fl ?5 CURS FOP. "H! 7;, 9 ' - a i, The Citizens BANK 1-1ATTSMODTH . ICEI1KASKA oayltal stock paid In . $50 0 0 Author.zed Capital, $100,000. OFFICERS w.H.;u8Hi(1.cJBl:;.p",'4c,' , DIRECTOE3 Frank Carrutb J.A.Cnnn. v T eiencatnp, "W H. Cushing. n-itip 1S n Woden, from whom we nave tbe name Wednesday, was a prince of high stand ing among the Saxons, liis image was prayed to for victory. On the third day after each succeeding sun worship the old Saxons spent hours invoking the blessings of Woden. .1 ?:. If--.f f i Vl 'V'1'- Vf r arM A.i, uu ' : :..!...- Ki!..y nis-t Hln'Atlvn tLe v-. p V'; . '.. -" '.- ' .au l or wittwu: fpirts"! ' :.r tv enr-vtu r.-mni? kiwn. Fcli d ve'. i or. .ch tic:;ae. 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