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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1891)
" W AUl4 VufcWOT) lprDii tawvbllU Cui:iCT travels. An experiment will be madi, probably from the Franklin inntitote, by connections over the Atlantic cable to Liverpool and return. A recent test appeared to show that an electric current is a slow coach a com pared to light, being only able to get over to Europe and back in something like a second, or at the rate of only some 400,000 miles a minute, while light arable along at a million miles a minute gait. The Philadelphia scientists who are proposing to make further investiga tions are not satisfied to give up the rec ord to sunlight, and htjm to prove that the electrical current, if not handi capped, i.i the swifter element. The most recent experiment was tried at McGill college, Montreal. The cur rent whs transmitted in Montreal, was transferred to the cable at the New foundland cable station by means of Thompson's mirror galvanometer, sent across to the station at Liverpool and re tnnied to Montreal by the same method. The distance traversed, partly by over haul wire and partly by cable, was 8.0)0 miles. From the time the current left the key in Montreal until it returned to the receiver in the same office jut one second and one-twentieth of a second had elapsed, and the conditions were not as god as they might have been; hence the further experiment to bo made here. The rapidity with which the current travels over short wires with no delay indicated unlimited jwjssibilities in the direction of practical tests. Professor Marks, of the Edison EI,tric Light company, is authority for the assertion that if the globe was encircled with a continuous cable a current would travel the entire distance in a tritle over three seconds. At this rate a current would travel to the sun, covering the distance of 90.000,000 miles in three and a half minutes, or twice as fast as light. Phila delphia Record. Mr. Prttla' Ilont Floated Away. Mrs. Pettis, a lady living at Lake Emily, in Le Sueur county, met with an experience that she is not apt to forget for some time. She was out boat riding during the evening, and while out on the lake her loat, which was leaky, be t;an to fill with water. She was in the vicinity of Cedar island, and rowed there for the purpose of bailing out the boat. She got on shore, and some dis tance from where she landed she spied a can. which she proceeded to get. She got the can, but when she returned she whs horrified to find that a strong wind had taken her boat some distance out into the lake. The island was some distance from shore, and her cries of distress were un heard, and the prospect of spending tle night was anything but pleasant. No one came to her relief, and, as there was no way of escape, she w;w compelled to accept the condition imposed by unkind fate and remain. She passed the night and was discovered next afternoon by a party of St. Peter campers, who were out sailing. One of the party, A. F. Everson, secured a skiff and hastened to the island to rescue the unfortunate woman from another night of horror She was taken into camp and kindly cared for by the ladies, and her mental equilibrium was soon restored. She has no desire to spend another twenty-four hours in a like manner. Cor. St. Paul tilobe. Kcvrnge on a Widower. A heavily veiled woman, dressed in black, entered the business office of one of the inomiug newspapers a few days ago and inserted a death notice, with the announcement of the funeral next day. Many friends of the deceased man read of his death with sorrow, and at the hour mentioned for the services gathered at his house. Several carriages stood in the street, but no hearse was visible, nor was there any crape on the door. In fact, instead of witnessing the last sad rites the visitors found themselves ushered into a brilliantly decorated room, in which a clergyman was about uniting their alleged departed friend to his second wife. The laugh went around, but the niystery was not solved nntil some time after. It has since transpired that his first wife's relatives were bitterly opposed to the widower's second mar riage, and inserted the funeral notice in a spirit of revenge for the outraged feel ings of the shade of wife No. 1. Phila delphia Record. A Great Year for Little Immigrant. A medical man who knows what he is talking about said recently: "This is a baby year. I do not know how to account for it, but the statistics will bear out my assertion that some years are noted for the great number of births that occur. This year of our Lord 1891 La one of these seasons. If yon will take pains to look the matter up you will find that 18S4 was a very prolific year, and so was 18S6 and 138S. Now we have 1891 with more than the usual number of births. There will be a great number of nappy families before 1892 comes to greet us. It is fortunate, too, that there has been comparatively little sickness among the children so far, which was not true of either 1836 or 1833." Chicago News. Storks That Fly Long Distances. For a number of years a pair of storks built their nest annually in the park of the Castle Ruheleben, in Berlin. A few years ago one of the servants placed a ring with the name of the place and date on the leg of the male bird, in order to be certain that the 6ame bird returned each year. Last spring the stork came back to its customary place, the bearer of two rings. The second one bore the inscription, "India sends greetings to Germany." Exchange. A Combination Strawberry. A Palmyra woman could not believe . her own eyes recently when she found a . strawberry measuring six inches in cir cumference. An investigation showed that it was made of no less than eleven berries which had grown together, mak ing a great sight. Bangor (Me.) Com-jmerciaL who have queer ideas regarding the meaning of words She has transcribed from several hundred replies to ques tions given in the examination of appli cants for the position of te.-tcher. The candidates were asked to define plagiar ism Here are eight of the j.uswers. Plagiarism is an occult science. PI giarism is the act of plaguing. It is the state of believing differently from the majority of jeople. It is the act of telling falsehoods about an opponent. It is downright meanness. It is having the disposition to fight. It is something made correct by usage. 1 do not know unless it relates to the power of witching. Define pedagogics. Pedagogics is fo mail teachers. It relates to petty rulers. In that case there is something about pedagogics in the history of Europe, also history of the United States and the Bible. It is the tmtory of one's good or bad deeds. Pedagogics is un old teacher that's cranky What are metaphoric rocks? They are rocks composed of little animals called metamorphoses. What is the derivation of the word 'polypus?" It is derived from poly (many) and pus (puss); many cats. What is anatomy? Anatomy us extinct in a dead boddy. What can you 6ay of the use of pain and pleasure? Pain is of no use, but it is bad for the health. Pain gives the physician practice. Pain tells us that all is not right in the region where the pain is. There are many kinds of pain, enough for every one to have some. Pleasure is useful because it promotes health, it lets us enjoy ourselves while the pains are absent. Descrile the bee. The l?e has 2 wings. 4 leggs. It has 1 part at the end of the boddy not the head that is poisonous, lie is classed among flies. Give an account of Horace Greeley, lie led the Greeley expedition into the north, turned cannible, eating up their members when provisions gave out. Youth's Companion. Why People Get Married. Though it is very common to reproach old bachelors with their celibacy, and to pity old maids as if single blessedness were a misfortune, yet many married people have seen fit to offer apologies for having entered into what some profane wag has called the "holy bands of pad lock." One man 6ays he got married to get a housekeeper, another to get rid of bad company. Many women declare they got mar ried for the sake of a home; few ac knowledge that their motive was to get a husband. Goethe averred that he got married in order to be "respectable." John Wilkes said he took a wife "to please his friend." Wycherly, who es poused his housemaid, said he did it to "spite his relations." A widow who married a second hus band said she wanted somebody to con dole with her for the loss of her first. Another, because she thought a wedding would "amuse the children." Another, to get rid of incessant importunity from a crowd of 6uitors. Old maids who get married invariably assure their friends that they thought they could be "more useful" as wives than as spinsters. Nevertheless Quilp gives it as hi opinion that nine-tenths of all persons who marry, whether widows or widowers, spinsters or bachel ors, do so for the sake of getting mar ried. London Tit-Bits. The Lumber Business of Three States. The value of forest products, not man ufactured at the mill, in Michigan, Wis consin and Minnesota, 1890, aggregates $30,426,194; value of mill products. $115, 699,004; value of remanufactures, $21, 112,618 making an aggregate value of products in three states of f 167.237.S16. The capital invested to produce this value was $270,152,012; men employed in forests, 95,258; women, 99; children, 10; animals, 32,491. In the mills the product required the labor of 87,939 men, 646 women and 653 children. The amount represented in operation of machinery and chemical appliances, 1890, was $23,559,834; the expenditure of steam and water power was reported as sufficient to lift 3,500,000 tons one foot in one minute; 1,262,151,180 cubic feet of merchantable timber were removed from natural growth; $7,890,254 were invested in vessels and other means of transport, and $99,683,256 were expended for wages, subsistence, supplies and miscellaneous purposes. The aggregate increase of product since 1830 is reported to be 29.66 per cent, in quantity and 75.92 per cent, in value. Harper's Weekly. An Odd Use for the Pin. An odd nse that the pin was put to long ago was that of checking the intem perate habits of the English. St. Dun stan conceived the idea of dividing the tankards out of which the liquor was drunk into eight equal parts, each part marked with a silver pin. The cups were generous affairs, holding two quarts. Consequently the quantity from pin to pin was half a pint, and the regu lation was that the drinker "stop at a pin." Roisterers, however, prevented the purpose of good St. Ounstan and estab lished the rule of "good fellowship," by which the drinker was to stop only at a pin. If he drank beyond he had to go on to the next mark. As it was difficult to stop exactly at a pin the vain efforts always excited much mirth, and the trial usually ended with the draining of the tankard. Table Talk. A Man Who Had Eighty Overcoats. There are dozens of New Yorkers who have a passion for buying clothes, and they count their suits by the hundred. Pierre Lorillard has a great assortment of clothes, and so has A. M. Dodge, the latter probably having as varied a collec tion of garments as any gentleman in the city. None of the fashionable set has ever excelled the late W. K. Soutter in the eize of his personal wardrobe. Mr. Soutter was known to have had eighty overcoats. New .York Sun. Ouiltintr and tiecing, cotr'ortHg ami rrnzy patch work and carpet rag tewing Hatiefaetorily d..:e by Mrs. Vroman, 513 Nortli Sixth utreet. Pls'-t'tnoiitli. N('l). tf A -Hone Lu-chieiiskey aged f2' wl.u was injured while at work on the rourt house some time since, died last evening at " o'clock. The iiiterrmenl will take place from the Catholic church tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Kev. J. I). M. IJuckner and family leave this evening lor University Place to attend a golden wedding in coiDtiieiiioratioii of the fiftieth anniversary of the married life of Mr. Huckner's parents. Thence they will depart for Hennett to at tend the camp meeting to he held there, returniughouie Aug. '12. h'ev. Filer of Lincoln will occupy the M. K. pulpit next Sabbath morning and even ittg. Mr. Hackney, of the Riley, in forms us that the moter line will be in operation to-morrow and con tinue regularly hereafter. The needed su ppl ie. I la ve ar r i ved from Chicago, the track is in good shape and every tiling is in rcadinass. Mr. Hackney has invested consider able money in the enterprise and deserves a liberal jiatronags. We trust our citizens will appreciate the business enterprise exhibited by Mr. Hackney and make it a re muneration investment. In the police court to-day Mr. Geo. Spangler of South Park filed complaint against Mrs. Henry Schubert, charging her with swear ing, disturbing peace and conduct ing herself in a vicious manner. Mr. Spangler owns land adjacent to Mrs. Schubert's and was in the act of trimming the hedge fence sepa rating the farms when Mrs. Schubert armed with a scythe, ordered him to cease cutting his hedge from her side but to immediately get on his own side of the fence. City Solicitor Polk prosecuted, Attorney Gering defended. The Judge fined defend ant whereupon an appeal was taken to the district court. Will you suffer with dyspepsia and liver complaint? Shiloh's Vet alizer guaranteed to cure you. 1 -tf Does Not Itrturn to Dust. Many strange things have been told :oncerning the secrets of the grave. Within the past few months discoveries aave been made in Missouri and Iowa ;hat people have been buried alive, but ;he strangest discover was made in Colchester a few days ago, viz., that, ifter having been buried twenty-one pears, the body of Miss Flora Hume is n as perfect a condition as the day she lied. Twenty-one years ago the lady died in St. Paul of pneumonia and the body was Drought to Colchester and buried in the Argyle cemetery. That cemetery has long since fallen into disuse, and recent ly it was laid out in nicely improved grounds. The few graves in it were re moved, and among the dead was the body of Miss Flora flume. It was in closed in a metallic case. This was cov ered with a heavy coat of rust. When the cover was removed there lay the body perfectly intact. The features were readily recognized by relatives, and the clothing looked perfectly fresh. Even a ribbon of delicate tint about the neck was as bright and fresh as when it had been first put on. The face was not in the least discol Dred, and the body was full and round. In fact, the corpse looked as though it might have been buried only a few hours. Quincy (111.) Herald. In a Miser's Hut. A dispatch from Columbia, S. C, says: "Uncle Billy Bost, an eccentric char acter of Cabarrus county, N. C, is dead. He was a bachelor, about eighty years old. His only companions were two flogs and an old negro, ifis real estate consisted of 1,800 acres of land, which he left to his nephews. He had a safe which was thought to hold thousands of iollars, but when it was opened the only money found was a nickel. However, in bureau drawers, in old cupboards, in pitchers and jars, in old clothes closets, in old stockings and in cracks in his miserable house was found $10,000 in jold, besides a large quantity of gold lust and bullion and a few hundred dol lars in greenbacks. "In the search a package from a Char lotte bank was found containing $700 that had never been opened. This was received by him in 1880. He had corn and bacon on hand four years old, and some hay that had been stacked for twenty-five years. He made his will Dnly three weeks ago, and there is much talk of contesting it, for some of his kin have been left without anything." The Way an Artist Reasons. Here is a characteristic story about the great Parisian man milliner: A lady of high position once ventured to remon strate with the great man because he had charged her 120 for a ball dress. "The material," she said, "could be bought for twenty pounds, and surely the work of making up would be well paid with five pounds more." "Madam," replied the milliner, in his loftiest manner, "go to M. Meissonier, the painter, and say to him, 'Here is a canvas, value a shilling, and here are colors, value four shillings. Paint me a picture with these colors on that canvas and I will pay yon one and threepence.' What will he say? He will say, 'Mad am, that is no payment for an artist.' I say more. I say, if you think my terms too high, pay me nothing and keep the robe. Art does not descend to the pettiness of the higgler." London Tit-Bits. If Wig When you take (Ju.iUty anil Make in Consideration you !. Buy Cheaper anj Ware in the World than or The Only One Price Oiofhier in Cass Co. TO APPRECIATE JOE'S LOW PRICES You iimt call and Examine his Muper'or .Make and (Junlily ol Clothing) Furnishing Goods, Hats, Etc THAN THOSE KEPT BY H IS COM PKTITORS, Joe buys Only -:- Quotes no Prices But he Will Sell You The Best Goods FOR THE LEAST J&OXTE. Money Cheerfully Refunded if Goods; Found mot Satisfactory or as Represented., Opera House Corner We're After You. That greatest western paper, The Weekly State Journal, if deter mined to double its circulation this fall. To do this the paper has been enlarged to twelve pages erery week; new departments added, and every column freshened and brightened by crisp and ordinal ideas. The Journal is the true and able exponent of western enterprise and thought. It has grown apace with the progress of our common wealth and stands to-day at the head of western newspapers, equalled by few and excelled by none. This will be an exceptional fall and winter for newspaper reading. Every man who thinks for himself and wants his boys and girls to do the same; should have the weeklj Journal in his family. Write for sample. You need only to see the paper to appreciate it. Send twenty five cents for a three months' trial subscription. You will then be come a regular reader. Kighty-five per cent of trial subscribers stick. That's a good record. Published at the state capitol the Journal is more in touch with the great masses of the people, and the ques tion that agitate the hour, than any of its competitors. Don't forget to send for a sample paper. We want you to see one. The paper itself will do the rest. One dollar per year. Address, Weekly State Jour nal. Lincoln, Neb. Wanted. A bright, active agent in every town in the state. Kasj' work and good pay. Address, weekly State Journal, Lincoln, Neb. W ill be Clven Away Our enterprising druggists, F. G Fricke & Co. who carry the finest stock of drugs, perfumeries, toilet articles, brushes, sponges, etc.. are giving away a large number of trial bottles of Dr. Miles' celebrated Res torative Nervine. They guarantee it to cure headache, dizziness, ner vous prostration, sleeplessness, the ill effects of spirits, tobacco, coffee, etc. Druggists say it is the greatest seller they ever knew, and is univer sally satisfactory. They also guar antee Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure in all cases of nervous or organic heart disease, palpitation, pain in side, smothering, etc. Fine book on "Nervous and Heart Diseases," free. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cute Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Pilee, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by F. G. Fricke & Co. New BarnNew Stock. Klam Parmele has pushed his waj- to the front as a livery man by keeping nothing but the finest car riages and buggies and best horses to be found in the state. Those wanting a satisfactory livery can't do better than to call on Mr. Par mele. dtf From the Best Houses in America. JOE CO) 353 - Plattsmouth, Neb. BAD ECZEMA ON BABY A Head one Solid Sure Iteed awful Had To tie his HaiuUto Cradle Cured by Cutieura Our little boy broke out on hi head with a bail form ol eczema when he wa four months old. We tried lhee doctrrs but they did not help him. Whm we i.sed your three Cuticc ki Kkmfhik.s. and after using them eleven week" exactly according to directions lie uegan 10 steadily im prove and after the ue of them for seven month his he;td was en tirely well. When we be gall using it his head wa a solid sore from hie i-rown to his eyebrows, It was also all over hi ears mo-t of his face and (mall places od different parts of hi body. There were sixteen weeks that we had to keep his hands tied to the cradle and hold them when he was taken up ; and had to keep mittens on his hand to keep hi fingernails out of the sores, as he wold cratch if he could in any way net his hand loose. We know vour Cutictri Kf.mrpi kb cured him. We f;el safe in ree comending them to others. Geo. B. and .lanetta IJanis, Webster. Ind. CUTICUKA KESOL VEST The new blood and skin purifier, and greatest of Humor Kemedies. cleanses the blood of all impurities and poisonous element ana thus remove the cause, and Clticlha, the great Skin Cure and Citiclka Soap, an exquisite Skin Purifier and Beautifier. to clear Jthe skin and scalp and restore the hair), speedily cure everv humor and disease of the ekin, scalp, and blood, with lis of hair, whether itching, burning, scaly, pimply, and blotchy, skin scalp and blood d i eae, from plmyles to sdrofula from infancy to age when the bet physician fail. .Sold everywhere. Price utk i iti, 5oc, Scat 25c ; Kesolvknt $1.oO. Prepared by the Pot ter Drug and Chemical Corporation. Bostyn. fST"iend for how to cu e JSkin Ceseases.'' BABY !rt Skin and calp purified and beatiti- Lfiea Ci'ticwhi Soap, '.Absolutely pure PAINS AND WEAKNESSES Of female iaetantly relieved by that new elegant and infallibly antidote f to pain In flan i at ion and Weakrn theCuticuri Anti Pain Pla . tor es S- Organdies, lawns flouncings at less than cost, at Wm. Herold Sc Son's. tf Kstrayed from my premises this morning my bay carriage mare. Finder will please return to K. I. SlGOIXS. Ladies, among that sample line are some of the finest shoes you ever laid eyes on Wm. Herold & Son's tf Potted strawberry plants of choice varieties will be on sale at Lew Moore's by Jul- 15th. Plants put out now will insure a big crop next year. d&wtf Itch on human ans horses and all animals cured in 39 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold by F, G. Fricke & Co.. druggist, Plattsmouth. wtf. Wonderful Success Two year ago the Haller Prop. Co.' ordered their bottles by the box now they buy by the carload. Among the popularand succeseful remedies they prepare is Haller's Sarsaparilla A Burdock which is the most wonderful blood purifier known. No druggist hesitates to recommend this remedy. For sale by druggist. 1 i, 11- W,l. M Jl l.ll til ii I V j ik it, jit 1 TIME-TABLE. OK IiAII.V l-ASSKMiKK TWAINS GOING ERST GOD No. 2 Ne. 4... . No. 8 No. 10 No. 18.... No. 20 . r, : or, v. m. .10 :30 a. a. .7 ; 14 p, m - 9 : 45 a. m ..10 :14 a. m .8 :30 a. m Nol No. 3.... No. 5,... No. 7,... No. 9.. . No. 11, . No. !!... ..mv-j'N) a, ..9 :25 a. 111. f, .. 6 i I . 5:25 p. .11 :05 a. m. SK II KT SOf J ET1ES KNIGHTS OK PYTHIAS Gauntlet Kndge No. 47. Meetc every Wedneday evening at their hll in Parmele .s. Craig block. All vis it.iiiK knights are cordially invited to attend C. C. Marshall. C. O. ; tii. Uovey, K. K. H. YOCNO MKX'S CliKfoTION HHOCIATION Waterman block. Main Street. Jtooiim oiien from ::v a m to :Mn i, ml Kor men onlv Gospel meeting every Hi.inJay afternoon at 4 o'eiock . , A O. U. W.,8. Meei lirst and third Friday J evening of ea h month at G. A. K. Hall (' , in Kockwook block . Frank Vermiiyea, M, W. .-. ' 1, H. Kuersole, Jlecorder. - " ' AO, I,'. W. No. M -Meets recolid and feurth Kruhu- t V4.n irif.w iti tin. iiiitnlli ut 11 A It hall in Kockwood block. K. .J. Morgan. M W, . P, Brown, Keaorder, IJOVAI. AKCANAM-Cokm Council No 1021, 1V Mett at the K, of P. hall in the Parmele & Craig block over Bennett A- Tuttn, vlsiring brethren invited. Henry Herold, Kejetit ; Thos Wailing, Secretoi t. UASS LODGE, No. I4. I. O. O. K. meets ev ery Tuenday night at their hall in Kitxgerald block. All Odd J-'ellowH are cordially invited o attend when visiting in the city. .1 Cory, N. G. S. W. Bridge, Secretary. PLACKS OF WORSHIP. Catholic St. Paul's Church. Oak. between Fifth and Sixth. Father Carney, Pastor Services: Mass at 8 and 10 :'M a. m. Sunday School at 2 :30, with benediction. Christian. Corner locust and Kighth 8fn. Services morning and evening. Elder J. K. Iteed, pastor. Sunday School 10 a. m. Episcopal. St. Luke's Church, corner Thirw and Vine. Kev. II IS. Burgers, pastor. Ser vices : 11 a. m. at:d 7 :3l. m. Sunday School at 2 :30 p. M. Gkrma.v Mkthodist. Comer Sixth Rt. and Granite. Kev. Hirt. Pator. Services : n a.m. and 7 ;.) i. m. Sunday School 10 :30 a. m. Pbkskvtkki an. Services In new church, cor ner Sixth and Granite st. Kev. J . T. tiafrd, pastor. Sunday-school at !; 30 ; Preaching at 11 a. in, and p. m. The Y. K. S. C. E of tbi church meeto every Sabbath eveniiiK at 7 :ir, in the basement of the chucrh. All are invited to attend these meetings. First Mhthodist. Sixth St., bet wen Main and Pearl. Kev. J. IJ. M Buckner. pastor. Service :11a. m.. 8 :00 p. M. Sunday School 9 ::vs a . i. Prayer meetitg Wednesday even- trig. German Prfskvtkriaj . Comer Main and Ninth. Kev. Wltte, pastor. Servit -s : usual hours. Sunday School ! :30 A. M. Swf.kdish Con';rfational. Granite, be tween F ifth and Sixth. Colokhd Baptist. Mt. Olive, Oak. between Tenth and Eleventh, Kev. A. KowelI, pas tor. Services 11 a. in. and 7 :3U p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. You; Mf.n's Christian Association Kooms in Waterman block, Main street. Gos pel meeting, for men only, every Sunday af ternoon at 4 o'clock. Kooiiif open week dav from 8:30 a. m.. to : 30 p. in. South Park Takfrnaclk Kev. .J M Wood, Pastor. Services : Sunday School! 10 a. m. : Preaching. 11 . m. and 8 p. in.: prayer meeting Tuesday night ; choir prac tice Friday night. All are welcome. W Anted Au active, relioble msn-eaiarv t79 to f bo monthly, with increase, to represent in hi? own section a responsible New Vork Box lrs!. New Vork. 7 ;. f. i