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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1891)
Mrrl of DraaMla. The finest of all lace is Brussels. Bel jrium Li the lawmakers' chosen home. One-fortieth of the whole population in engaged in it. The government MupportH 000 lace rtchools, to which children are writ as young as five years. liy the time they are ten they are self supporting. Brussels in a pillow lace. Indeed, Barbara Littman, tlie inventor of pillow Lice, lived and died tliere. The pattern, drawn upon parchment, is fixed firmly to the pillow, pins are stuck along the outlines, and to them the lace is woven by crossing and twisting the threads, each of which ends in a bobbin. Lace two inches wide requires 200 or 300 bobbins. A piece six inches has sometimes as many as a thousand. The thread is hand spun from the licst Bra bant flax, in damp, dark cellars, whose one ray of light falls on the spinner's hand. Naturally spinning is very unhealthy, and experts get high wages. .Tlie I jest yarn from a single ponud of flax fetches over $3,000. For filling flowers and leaves fine soft cotton is used. Grounds. t jo, are often made of it. Elaborate patterns are made in sections, and joined together by the most skillful workers of all. As the lace is never washed before it is sold, the most exquisite neatness is requisite in everything connected with it. Still, as months are consumed in mak ing very handsome pieces, the work turns dingy in npite of the lace worker's Ijest efforts. To remedy that it is some times dusted with white lead in jjowder, and turns dark at contact with gas or Milphur in a way to exasperate the wearer. New York Herald. Wliy tli Mufl Kxinta ill Italy. The origin of the Camorra and Mafia murder leagues ceases to puzzle travel ers who have visited the rural districts of southern Sicily. Nearly all the real estate of the coast plain from Syracuse to Caje Bianco is in the hands of a few aristocrats, who have deprived their ten ants of their panes as well as of their circenses, of the right to hunt, to fish, to train fighting cocks, without a 8ecial license, as well as of tho more urgent necessities of life. The streets of the in land villages generally resemble the gul lies of : parched out mountain river, and the houses are mere mud piles, roofed with flut stones and wattles of broom corn, and surrounded by rubbish heaps, where mangy curs and sore ej'ed chil dren compete for scraps of animal re fuse. Laborers, returning from a day's hard work, sit down to a meal of maize paste and salad, washed down with the water of the slimy village cistern. The profits of little truck farms barely satisfy the demands of the tithe collector, and in dignation meetings are promptly sup pressed, but midnight conventicles are less easj- to prevent, and the starving villager would as soon defile the statue of Garibaldi as to betray a Capo Mafioso who has befriended him at the expense of an oppressive landlord. Felix L. Os wald in Philadelphia Times. A New Use for Matches. I watched a train hand stagger through the coach . a eyes closed and a tearful face a cat?e of cinder. He met a com panion, who instantly felt in his vest pocket, poised himself, made one motion, and the suffering brakeman at once went back to his post relieved. "How did 3'ou remove that cinder?" I asked. "With a match," he replied. Producing one, he eplit it to a jtoint with his thumb nail. "This looks like a harsh way to treat so tender an organ," said he, "but it is en tirely safe. Turning back the eyelid, the siek only needs to be touched by some dry substance in this case the match to adhere to it. We have to help one another so a dozen times a day." "But why not wait until stopping?" I inquired. "Too busy then. Besides, there is no need. It is as easy on a train in motion as on the ground when one is accustomed to it. After raising the arm for the operation, one needs to get the swing of the train. This car runs smoothly, so I did quick work." Spring field Homestead. I'ari.tian IJouquets. Please to heed what an autocrat direct from the salons of Paris has to say on the subject of bouquets. No more "com posed bunches of flowers" are carried by the fashionable women in that dizzy capital. A beribboued bouquet is re garded as "bad form," only the Parisian has another phrase for bad form, and a dame of the haut monde now enters a salon carrying a spray or branch of some flowers in season, such as lilac or mimosa. In this land of extravagance, where all the flowers are always in bloom, she might hold a spray of orchids or a bunch of roses, but the arranged bouquet, jamais! The idea is to resem ble the young martyrs in the pictures, these said martyrs generally holding in one hand a palm branch. Perhaps our florists will catch on to this new wrinkle and have some extraordinarily lovely blooms prepared for their fair customers. Boston Herald. Pleasantly Expressed. A humorous writer thus describes how he got out of a bad scrape at the police court: The next morning the magistrate sent for me. I went to him. and he re ceived me cordially, said he had heard of the wonderful things I had accom plished by knocking down five persons and assaulting six others, and was proud of me, for I was a promising young man. Then he offered a toast, 'Guilty or not guilty? I responded in a brief but elo quent speech, setting forth the impor tance of the occasion that had brought us together. After the usual ceremonies 1 -was requested to lend the city forty shillings. A Speculation. "Chollie is in great glee today." Why'" "He owed his tailor $3C5 for five years, nd the tailor got mad and put the ac count up at public auction." 'I should think that would make Chol lie mad." 'Oh, no. He went to the sale and bought it for eighty-five cents." Har pexs Bazar. CHINESE URBANITY. CIRCUMLOCUTION THEY DISPLAY IN LETTER WRITING. The Educated Cblnaman Can Glva the American Polnta on PollteaeM and Re finement In the Conduct of Epistolary Correspondence. It has probably fallen to the lot of most of us to have met people who, without the excuse of an unconscious habit, have the knack of asserting un pleasant truths, and who value the un gracious practice as a sign of honesty. There are others, such as the Quakers of bygone days, who regard every expres sion which may not be in strict accord ance with absolute truth as a sin against their consciences. To such people the idea of subscribing themselves "Yours truly," or of beginning a letter to a casual acquaintance, "Dear So and So," is abhorrent. But public opinion has been too strong for them, and we con tinue, and shall continue so long as so ciety holds together, to address one an other in terms of endearment and respect which are nht required to correspond with our sentiments. Orientals have surpassed us in this re gard as much as the brilliant sunshine to which they are accustomed exc els the murky atmosphere of Europe. The de scriptions of ourselves and of our corre spondents pale before the glowing ex pressions of objective admiration and subjective self abasement which adorn eastern epistles. We are content to con fine our wishes and compliments to the present life; but such a limit is far too narrow for an Asiatic, who delights in wishing that his friends may live for ever and ever, and that the ancestors of his enemies may le condemned to ever lasting disgrace. We are satisfied to speak of "I" and "You," but an oriental loves to heap ad jectives of contempt upon himself and of glorification upon his correspondents. ELEVATING AND IJEMEAMNM SIMILES. In all cases he avoids the use of the personal pronouns. By a system of cir cumlocution necessitated by this omis sion, he describes himself as "Your younger brother," the character repre senting his expression being written small, and partly at the side of the col umns of words, and he designates him self and others conjointly as "We ants." But the jjerson he is addressing figures as "Your excellency," "My benevolent elder brother," or "Your honor," liter ally, "You who are at the steps of the council chamber." His own house is "a mean dwelling," or, as the parts of the character signify, "a stricken and broken dwelling;" but he is unable to think of his correspondent's habitation as any thing but "an honorable," literally "basket-of -pearls palace." In the same spirit of self abasement he feels obliged to wind up his epistle with the phrase, "Your stupid younger brother, So-and-So, bows his head to the ground." The character for "stupid" is drawn for us by two hieroglyphics, meaning "mon key hearted." To bow to his friends is also pictorially expressed by a colloca tion of "a head" and "turf," suggesting the act of bowing the head to the earth. If his correspondent proposes to call upon him he hastens to assure him that "at the appointed hour, with bowing hands, he will await the time when his excellency 6hall abase himself by driving his chariot to his office." His friend's letter is "the revelation of his hand," and he takes pains to make him aware that holding it "with washed hands he had chanted" its contents. On expressions of thanks particular emphasis is laid by the Chinese, and with true Oriental instinct, in their effort after hyperbole, they are accustomed to give a physical interpretation to their mental feelings. POWERFUL I1YPERBOLE. For instance, a correspondent who wishes to say that he is profoundly grate ful, writes, "Your kindness is very deeply engraved and enveined in my heart." If he hears of the illness of a friend "he cannot help being hung up in suspense," and the symbol he uses shows to the eyes the heart of the writer tied up, while at the same time he urges him "to take care of his person as a pearl." And on the receipt of better news he breaks out, "How shall I bear the joy and pleasure!" Having finished expressing the object of his letter, he winds up by "availing him self of the opportunity to wish his corre spondent all the blessings of the season, and," if he is on the road to honor, "all tha promotion he deserves." But, if not ferocious, a sufficient lati tude still remains to a Chinaman for the development of much plain speaking. It is as possible to "slit the thin spun life" with a stiletto as with a broadsword, and in the most finished periods a Chinaman finds himself quite able to express either withering contempt or remorseless hate. But he has other ways also of giving vent to his ill humors. Tlie very punc tilious rules of letter writing enable him to convey his dislike by omission as well as by commission. Chinese is, it may be explained, writ ten" in vertical columns, beginning on the top right hand corner of the page. In ordinary circumstances each column is completed to the bottom of the page; but long usage has established the cus tom that, if the name or attributes of the person addressed occurs, the column is cut short, and the characters representing these subjects of honor begin the next column at an elevation of the space of one or two characters, as the case may be, above the general level of the text. It will now be seen what a ready weapon lies to the hand of a Chinese letter writer. To write "Your Excellency" or the name of the correspondent's country or sover eign in the body of the column is to in flict a dire insult upon him, and is equiva lent to the expression of the bitterest contempt in European epistolary 6tyle. London Saturday Review. He Is Dead. Mrs. Scriblets I see that the Aristotle manuscript has been published. Mr. Scriblets I fear that the payment for it will be too late to do Mr. Aristotle any good. Puck. Short Shrift. One of the leading banking firms in Paris, on the recommendation of a Lon don correspondent, engaged an English clerk of the name of Stephenson. For about three years the man's punctuality was altogether unprecedented. He came to his work at 9 in the morning and did not leave the office before the last stroke of 5. He was not a man, he was a clock. Besides, during the whole time he never asked for a holiday. One fine morning, however, to the great surprise of his su perior, Stephenson blushingly craved permission to absent himself for an hour on the following day. Next day at 12 he left the office. It was observed that a carriage stood wait ing for him at the door. At 1 o'clock he drove up again in the same carriage and resumed his calculations as cool and self possessed as if nothing had happened. This short absence puzzled the brains of all the employee in the bank. The prin cipal himself, eager to obtain the solu tion of the enigma, invited this paragon of clerks to dinner. Between two glasses of Chambertin the banker said, "You will not think me indiscreet if I ask you what you did with yourself in that hour's leave of absence you applied for last Tuesday?" "Oh! dear no!" replied Stephenson, "1 went and got married!" Messager Boiteux. Insulted by a Woman. "Oh, yes, I'll remember Detroit; no fear about that," said sweet voiced Dora Wiley as she rocked to and fro in an easy chair in the Russell House. "I shall re member it as the first place in which I was really insulted, and by a woman too." "How and when did all this happen?" asked the reporter. "One night this week," continued Miss Wiley in reply. "A woman sat in one of the boxes with her back to the stage. One could bear that sort of thing for a little while, but when an auditor turns his or her back squarely on you for a whole evening you cannot drive from your mind the impression that an insult is intended. Well, that was the feeling that came to mind as scene after scene of the play went by, and still that wom an sat there. "I became so annoyed exasperated, I might say that I could hardly sing at all. It affected others on the stage the same, but erhaps to a less extent. The legitimate result, of course, was to take our minds off our work to a certain ex tent, and to a measure the audience suf fered by the acts of that one woman, al though, perhaps, they may not have no ticed it." Detroit Journal. Cheap Funerals in New York. A Hester street undertaker says: "Fu nerals don't come very high in this neighborhood, but such as they are the poor people seem to have trouble paying the bills. I furnish what is considered a respectable funeral for $5.50, but that does not include any carriages. The coffin and the hearse attendance is all that I can give for the money. The people in this neighborhoed are mostly Polish Jews and Greeks, who are nearly all very poor, and $.5.50 represents a small fortune. Only a few of them, in my experience, have ever expressed any objection to having their dead buried in Potter's field, but they all are sensitive and superstitious about the funeral, and will sacrifice almost anything to obtain a coffin and hearse. "They seem to have no idea of the value of our mone3". A woman, whose husband died the other day, came to me with a brass ring, which she thought 1 would take in exchange for a coffin. She was very much surprised when I refused her, and offered to work for me for a year if I would only give her husband a decent funeral. He was finally buried at the expense of the city." New York Letter. Diamond Smugglers' Devices. "Diamonds are smuggled into this country by a good many strange de vices," remarked a voluble customs official the other day. "Not long ago 1 examined the baggage of a newly ar rived tourist and found in it a beautiful set of silver mounted brushes. Curiosity prompted me to lift one. I heard some thing rattle and investigated, with the result that I found over $2,000 worth of stones concealed in the backs of these brushes. Another individual had the heels of his boots hollowed out and fitted with a drawer which he filled with dia monds. One day one of the heels came off and disclosed the hiding place of a number of valuable jewels." New York Telegram. In the Minority. An African traveler was recounting to a company his hairbreadth escapes in the jungles and savannas about the great equatorial lake region. He had encountered there, he said, the m-' savage and bloodthirsty men in u world. "As we were marching," the traveler related, "from Nmgosji to Grohangbo, we suddenly found ourselves in the midst of a most terrible and desperate combat. And what odds! Ten to one? "Were you one of the tfcur ' atked a bystander. "Sir," said the explorer, grandilo quently, "I wish you to nnderstand that I was one of the one." Youth's Com panion. What an "Inch" of Ruin Means. Few people can form a definite idea of what is involved in the expression, "An inch of rain." It may aid such to follow this curious calculation: An acre is equal to G.272,640 square inches; an inch deep of water on this area will be as many cubic inches of water, which, at 227 to the gallon, is 22,000 gallons. This im mense quantity of water will weigh 220. 000 pounds, or 100 tons. One-hundredrh of an inch (0.01) alone is equal to one ton of water to the acre. St. Louis Republic. An Appropriate Costume. "What was the idea of dressing the little page at the Revere wedding like a desperado?" "Oh, he was to hold up the train, you taw!" Puck. We sell men's working1 pants and blouses at a discount of 20 per cent. We are closing out this line of rood: tf "THE JAIK." IJrown & Harrett have the largest and finest stock of wallpaper and borders in Plattsmouth. wtf "The Fair" has just received a new invoice of hammocks, croquet sets, boys' express wagons and doll carriages. Will you suffer with Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint? Shiloh's Vit alizes is guaranteed to, cure you. 12 C. II. Jaquette does none but "first class" watch, clock and jewel ry repairing. Neville block, Sixth street. tf Hair chains, rings, crosses and hair work of all kinds to order. Mrs. A. Kxee. tf 17'J6 Locust St. Pansies! Yes! In bloom, of the most gorgeous colors, They will con tinue to bloom all summer, too. and can be selected at Moore's Green House for from 40 to, 50 cents per dozen. t Shiloh's cough and consumption cure is sold by us on a guarantee It cures consumption. For sale by F. G. Fricke & Co. and O. II. Snyder. 3 Go to C. H. Jaquette. Neville block, Sixth St., when you want engraving done. f Repairing of fine watches a spe cialty at C. II. Jaquette, Neville block, Sixth street. tf Baby is Sick. The woefull expres sion of a Des Moines teamster's countenance showed his deep anx iety was not entirely without cause, when he inquired of a druggist of the same city what was the best to give to a baby for a cold? It was not necessary for him to say more, his countenance showed that the pet of the family, if not the idol of his life was in distress. "We give our baby Chamberlains's Cough Remedy," was the druggists answer. "I don't like to give the baby such strong medicine," said the teamster. "You know John Oleson, of the Watters-Talbot Printing Co., don't you? Inquired the druggist. His baby, when eighteen months old, got hold of a bottle of Chamberlain Cough Remedy and drank the whole of it. Of course it the baby vomit very freely but did not hurt it the least.and what is more it cured tha baby's cold. The teamster already knew the value of the Remedy, hav ing used it himself, and was now sat islied that there was no danger in giving it even to a baby. For Sale by F. G. Fricke & Co Druggists. C. II. Jaquette carries no stock but will do you as goo'l a job of repair ing ever done in the city. Experi ence TALKS, not money. All work satisfactory or money refunded. Neville block, North, Sixth St. tf Sour Crapes. The Journal man roars about the board of trade job, performed by The IlEKALi) office. iiy compar ison with their own work of last fall, there is no merit in the roar. The whole trouble may be found in the one point that "there was noth ing in it for Sherman." That is the sole and only test that is ever ap plied by the Journal crowd to any thing done in the city, either public or private. If there is nothing in it for Sherman it is bad, otherwise it is good. Supreme Court. The following syllabi of two Cass county cases appears in late de cisions: Shafer vs. Stull, sr. Appeal from Cass county. Affirmed. Opinion by Justice Norval. Where a party cuts down a fence on the lands of another, and after wards attempts to justify the act on the ground that the fence is within a public road, he must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the fence at that point was within the limits of a legally established public highway. 2. The existence of a legal public road over the premises of a private person may be shown by user alone, but in that case the user must have been with the know ledge of the owner, and have con tinued the length of time necessary to bar an action to recover the title to land. This rule, however, does not apply when the user is of wild uncultivated prairie land. Graham vs. Hartwell, 10 Neb. 517. 3. The defendants have repeat edly torn down plaintiff's fence in order to pass over his lands, and have threatened to continue to do so. Held that the plaintiff ia en titled to relief in equity by injunc tion, in order to prevent a multipli city of suits. Lehnhoff &Soennichsen vs. Fisher et al. Error from Cass county. Affirmed. Opinion by Justice Norval. A rule of the district court which provides that an action in which the statutory time for filing a reply has expired or will expire one week before the first day of the next suc ceeding term, whether issue has been joined or not, may be noticed for trial at such term by either par ty by filing with the clerk one week before the commencement of the term, and no action, not so noticed, will be docketed for trial or tried upon an issue of fact, except by consent of bjth parties held, not to apply to cases which are for hearing on error. 2. Under the provisions of sec tion 531 A of the code the wa-es ot sixty days service of laborers, me chanics or clerks, who are heads of families, in the hands of their em ployers, are absolutetly exempt from execution, attachment or garnisment. 3. The provisions of section 531 of the code, which reads "Nor shall anything in this chapte ...J j r V-.7. . A V V IK -T V w- r V be construed to exempt from execu tion or attachment, property of the value of five hundred dollars ($500) for any debt contracted by any per son in purchase of the actual ne-JI cessaries of life, for himstfjf and family," do not apply to debts con tracted by the head of a family for groceries and furnished him aj supplies for a boarding house. The base ball Jboys aregoing right ahead with their work, fixing up their new ball groundw which are now surrounded by a neat fence about completed. A St. Joe pitcher has been sent foraud Walker a first class player from Pleasant will also be a member of the nine. These two additions with our talent will make a nine that can white wash neighbors with neatness and dis patch. Tx. PETERSEN THE LEADING GROCERS HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE STOCK IN THE CITY. EVERYTHING - FBEEH - AND - IN - SEASON ATTENTION FARMERS We want your Poultry, Eggs, But ter and your farm produce of all kinds, we will pay you the highest cash price as we are buying 7or a firn in Lincoln. Petersen & Larson THE LEADING GROCERS Plattsmouth Nebraska. The OitizABH BANK PLATTSMOUTH NEBRASKA Jayttal atck paid iu Authorized Capital, f loo.ooo. fV0t ornczKs KA-NK OAKBUTH. JOS. A. CONKOK, w. H. CL8HIKG. C&Bhier. DIHKCTOHa frank Carruth J. A. Connor V R rK w n Z r Henry Bk. John O'Keer. W. D. Memam. Wm. Weteuciunp. W. H. Cushlnc. TRANSACTS:! GENERAL BANKING BDSINES taues CfJtlflcatP of deno.ir, k .