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About The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1891)
. n MAN. " . . . r chuVtij legs, ; m aear!eihae: . UUIiitBbby1'"ti , j rmher UuubtfuJ UMp: it kill, a little emit, X .Jilt a mnlknr X . " iri lu! teroru us tands In slat as inime j "coiulug uin." ea, perchance, will read the start , . their nuknown wars; - . -V:''n ki tln'ir (raae; , tlirir am-n and flashing glance -' ,, . Uetiou a liKbt " ' ' .ni now are wistful bent Ou suiiie t,ig inilosrV kilo. , Those bamls-ihoeT'llttle busy hands- So sticky, small and brvwn flhiwi haiuls whuw! only tHtsalon seem To pull all order duwn ".'I"""" "hsi '"t -recsth may be Hidden within tlaap. lu svuruy bold tber grasp, Ah. bleiwlnirs on those little handa, Whose work Is et uudonel And ble-.luire on those little feet, Warwe iv Is yet nnrunl And bliwsl, us on the little brain inat baa rot learned to plant Wbate'er tte future holds In store, God bleae '.he "coming man!" Hoinerville Journal. At a Marriage License Window. A niMrptu'ra 1 ....... .i .. 1 : '.'ew .ciirj muiiiuw Ul B queer place, and one at which human nature to bared to official inspection a it sel dom is in any other government office. Hither come the gottaips to ask whether cartain couples whose names were pub lished the other day have yet got mar ried; to ask what sort of a looking man H wu who took out license to wed with Snsie Todd was he tall and light or Btont and dark? And hither come an gry mothers to say that no permit thonld have been given for their daughters, who are not so old as was aid. They alr how the law can be In voked to puiiich the offending bride grooms. But there are other brides who appear to be forty or thirty, yet de clare themselves thirty or twenty. Back comes a man to attk if his permit number cannot be changed, because be wants to bny a lottery ticket of the same number as his wedding license, and can not do so unless a change is made. Old men speak for girlish brides, and ancient wrinkled women lead np very young men, holding their arms as if they might escape. Once a girl came weeping, an" eaid the man she meant to marry lay dy ing, and there was not a moment to lone. Indeed, it is a queer place, an1 the whole illimitable gamut that novelist have panned in many centuries is there at hand still sounding fresh notes and of fering new chords. Julian Ralph in liarjiers Weekly. Mow Muskrats Are Trapped. Trapping is one of the modes by which mukrata are secured The traps are made of boards about 6 inches wide and 3 feet long. These are nailed together like an ordinary box trap, the open ends being secured by swinging doors of wire network, fastened to the npper part of both entrances. These doors allow easy Ingress to the trap, but once in the rat cannot get out without opening the door by pulling it to him, which secret they seem very slow to discover. These traps are put in the leads running from the honses to the water when the tide is at low ebb and the rats are out feeding. On the return they crawl np the leads, push against one of the wire doors of the trap, which immediately opens into the trap, bnt they cannot go further, as the next door opens toward them. Be fore they can gmiw ont the tide makes up ami they are drowned in the trap. By having a number of traps and watch ing the tides closely a trapper can cap ture a large number in this wav. Balti more Sun. Judged br Ills Appearanra. An amusing incident occurred some time ago which illustrates the scanty ceremony with which shabbily dressed people are often treated. A country magnate in the north of England was called upon with reference to a scheme for the furtherance of some local charity by a person whom the servant, judging by his timeworn habiliments, described to his master as "either a beifcar or a tout for orders," adding that he had left him in the hall, not thinking it safe to haw him into one of the rooms. The 'beggar or tout" turned out to be no less a is-rsonagn iuaii iue member fui the district, and one of the richest men in the county. London Tit Bits. lie Couldn't lie Frightened. A small boy on Sixth street hates the washing process worse than snakes. His mother was scrubbing him and he was kicking. "Why don't yon be a good boy," she begged. "Don't yon know that you'll go to the bad place if you are not?" "There ain't any water there, is there?" be asked. "Not a drop," she answered solemnly. "Then 1 guess I'll keep on being bad." And he kept on. Detroit Free Frees, Fully 83 per cent of artificial limbs made are legs, 13 per cent anna. Of legs, 49 per cent, are right, 4 per cent left, S per cent both right and left Seventy-eight per cent of legs amputat ed are of males, 23 per cent are females. One of the tricks of tbe coffee trade U to sift the beans so as to got the small beans out of inferior Java coffee and mix them with Mocha, so as to sell at a will be deceived by this trick. Beet sugar msy be bought in certain tores in onr eastern cities. To the taste it cannot be distinguished from the beht cane sugar except by experts, who say It is rk-iier in sweets than most cane agar. Steam pines are now being made from the ramie filler. The material its so close ly pressed together by hydraolio ma chinery that it has a tensile attengtu two and a half times that of steel a swrwn nana clonics dealer rounl aa I O U for fi,X) in a gentleman's jacket which the) mifn had overlooked on sell ing and had (Unpaired of ever llndiug gain. KHOCKINU OUT A. ntment of the Insults T st.jj fitage 1 Urlver by a Llffl. lirt.( I , Lionel VUi15a-Oreene Strrett, of t.he OaljuuDallas News, tl Us this "Once, a good many years ago," he laid, "I was traveling in a ' t.tage in western Texas. It was long before the snort of 1 the locomotive was tyeard ou the prairies of that region, over which the bufTiiljo yet roamed. At oo of the stations young Englishman and his wife got ir. He was a little fellow nni dressed as a typical Englishman what we now call a dude. The driver was a big, raw boned six footer, lie was a noteij fighter. He had never be'in whip ped and ' was a regular terr"! He teemed to take a dislike to the little Englishman from the etnrt. PrwnMy he stopped the stage, got down, came back anil threw open the door. " 'Here, he said to the Englishman, 'you come out of that and get up on the seat with me. There ain't room for yon in there.' The Englishman didn't move. 'Come out, I tell yon,' roared the driver. The Englishman just sat still 'If yon don't come out, I'll haul you out by the l"gs,' shouted the Jehu. Then the rest of us expostulated with the driver. I was too tired to fight and couldn't get at my gun, so I jut expostulated along with the rest We told the driver there was plenty of room inside; that the Eni; lihmsn not. crowding n, and tht if he (the driver) insulted or injured am of his passengers he would be dischargui by the stage company. The driver by this time was wild. He swore he was in command of that stage and that he proposed to ran it to suit himself, and if that blankety blank cuss didn't come out he'd pull him out " 'All right,' said the Englishman, at last. 'I will come out, and when I am ont I will whip you soundly.' "lie got out slowly. We all felt sorry for him and sorrier for his wife. She didn't seem scared or worried, though, and all she said was: ' 'Charley, don't let him scratch your face.' "Well, when the little Englishman got out he took his coat off and handed it back into tbe stage. Then he started toward the driver and the driver started toward him. We heard a sound a good deal like that made by hitting a steer in the bead with an ax. Down in a ht-ap went the driver. He was up as quick as a flash. Down he went again. Actually that little English dude knocked that burly six foot driver clean off his feet a dozen times. How it was done none of ns could tell. The big fellow would rush at the little 'un with his arms go ing like flails. Suddenly the little Mlow would make a dash, his right arm would fly out, and down would go the driver. After the dozenth round that driver called out: " 'Hold on, strange.- hold onl Tin whipped and throw np my hands. You kin ride anywhere on this stage you darn please, outside or inside or on the hosses. You're the boss now; but,' he added, glaring savagely at the rest of us, 'I kin lick anybody else on this stage.' "We didn't expostulate. The English man climbed back into the stage as qnickly as he got off. His wife was sat isfied, for 'Charley's' f.ice wasn't even scratched. At the next station thedriver explained that if he'd only have got hold of the little fellow he'd have hngg-d Lira to death like a bear; 'but.' lie exclaimed, 'every time just as I was about to lay hsndson him the ground 'd f?y np and hit me on the back of the head.' "Who was tlis little fellow? Oh, a graduate of C.imbridgo, and the test boxer of lit time at the university." Washington Post. Illtindrr of the Teachers. A friend, himself for many years a teacher, writes: "The blunders of teach ers of English literature are sometimes more amazing than any that are told of tiieir pupils. I heard the other day of a woman at the west who, when a cla was reading Teuuyeub'i 'Day Dreain,' explained to them that the happy prin cess, in following her lover 'deep into the dying day,' went to America: The laureate would be tickled to know of tins. A year or more ago there was a discussion in a leading educational jour rial as in the persons meant in Longfel low's lines 'To the Itiver Cliarlea,' where he says: "Mure than this -thy name reminds ms Of three friends, all true and tried, etc. "One writer suggested that they were Professor Cornelius C. Fulton, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Sumner. An other thought that Louis Agassiz'sname should stand in the place of Haw thorne's, and this was finally accepted by all concerned. Neither the editor nor any of bis correspondents or readers ap peared to see the absurdity of making the name of tbe river suggest friends whose names were other than Charle," -Critic Maklag tae Bight Shade. Those who have sought la Tain for laoes to match tbe color of silk on lamp shades and other decorative article may be able to prod oca the right shade by using some of the French tapestry dyes. One should experiment on a bit of lace, first to see if the dyes are properly thinned, so as to get the desired shade. Any of the thin laces in silk or cotton take the dyes nioely, Point dEsprit and German Valenciennes looking very well when treated with the yellow shades. In the Valenciennes several delicate tints may be used on tbe light and tbe heavy part of the lace, bringing out the design with excellent effect In preparing lace Urc the dye, brash and press it carefully, then stretch it upon a board, laying sev eral thlcknesse of paper underneath. Dip a small bristle brush in the dye and lay it on freely. When nearly dry, lay the lace on a padded board and press with a hot iron. New York Post A Touag Diplomat. Mrs. Brown I'm afraid to let yon have a bicycle. Little Johnnie Don't fed that way, ma. Even if it did kill me, remember that It would be the last thing I ever asked yon for. New York Epoch. V. Log Rolling la Kara est. An 1 old fanner in Morgan oonnty, !nd.,,w:i busy in his clearing some years ago rolling logs together, stacking bruslv, pulling stumps and the like, when two hunters emerged unexpectedly from the bushes. They "passed the time of day" with the fareiyr, and the younger of them aid to his companion: "Did you ever do any wvrk of this sort, jndger "Yes, indeed," answered the second man. "Well," said the first speaker, "so did 1 a good many years ago. Let's try our bands at it now." "Agreed," said the judge, and the two mm Laid aside their guns, took off their coats and wnt to work with a will. At the end of an hour tbey had finished 1 trtr aHnt, and tha farmer offered to pay them. "Oh, no," tbe strangers said; "you are welcome to what we have done." "Well, I don't know your names, gen tlemen, nor whom I have to thank, but" " "My name is Elliot," the judge broke in, "and my friend here is Senator Har rison." "Yoa don't mean it!" exclaimed the farmer, and as the United Stales sena tor and the judge of the supreme court started into the woods he said to him self: "Well, now, I've read a good deal in tb papers sW.nt these politicians a-log rollin, but I'm blest if I thought they ever really did it" Youth's Companion. Does Modera Education Educate? One of the greatest disadvantages of an exclusively college education is that it is apt to foster what Macaulay calls a "Chinese cast of mind," that stupid con tempt of everything beyond the wull of the college man's celestial empire. The defenders of a college education claim as their own every man of distinction who has attended college, whereas these men became eminent authors, lawyers, statesmen, etc., in spite of the fact that they spent several of the most Valuable years of their lives at college, and were only saved from the obsenrity of the majority of college bred men by syste matically neglecting the dull routine of prescribed studies and spending their tune in desultory reading. Bacon. Drydeu, Sheridan, Byron. Scott, Wellington and many other illus trious men went to college, but dis dained to subject their intellects to the atitiquatl ourse of studies prescrilied. Who were the senior wranglers at col lege when the men just mentioned were cutting the classics and rending history poetry and fiction The very names of the successful si Molars are unknown. but the "idle young men" who refused V) lie tied to tbe mental corpse of a dead literature made their names immortal. o ame Magazine. Why Home Corks Are Made by Hand. The reason for making champagne corks by hand is curious and interesting. The cork machine is tirovided with rir. cular knives of razorlike edge. Now, the crude cork is so rough and hard that if it were applied to one of these rapidly revolving knives the kuife would at once be ruined. So crude cork that is to be cut by machinery must be softened in a steam vat It comes out almost pulpy and cnts like cheese. But tbe steam takes the "life" out of the cork. Iu elasticity U gone, never to be recovered, and when the machine cut cork is dnven into a bottle the cork tends to shrink and liermit leakage. Furthermore, the machine made cork is mathematically ronnd, while the uecks of bottles are more or less irregu lar. As the machine made cork has lost its elasticity, its smooth, round a nr ', canuot swell out to fill any irregularity in me necic or the bottle, and here if an other source of leakage. New Yorl bun. Wanted the Telegraph Maa Fired. There is a Btory going that a business manager recently proved himself strangely ignorant He went to the managing editor and complained. "Are yon aware, sir," said be, "that your telegraph editor is grossly neglect. Ing his duty and wasting our time?" "Why, no," was the reply; "what is the matter?" "eii, for several successive morn ings now I have Iwn watching him, and I notice that the first thing he does when he gets down in the morning Is to begin reading the morning papers. I don't wish to be captious, but it apiars to me be had better attend to his work first, and then If he has time to read tbe v pern he can do so." A telegraph editor's first doty is to read the morning papers. Exchange. Wanted the "Ohoet" te Walk. "I was np all last night washing for the theaUr folks," said my old colored laundress, "and now I've got to sit op all night tonight to get my money. Yon see the opera company goes away. This Is their last night here, and if I don't watch 'em they'll go 'way and leave me without a cent. Don't you tell me, honey I know them. They've dona fool me lots of times. It's the 'ghost' I want to ae right now, I toll 'em, and nice big words dont buy no potatoes." LaUs that night I saw her sitting pa tient! at the stage door ecnbamplatlng the Johnnies and the scenery wagons and waiting for the "ghost" What a world this lal-New York Herald. ElMtrle Centipede. Least attractive among the insects which gi 'e light are the so called "elec trio centipede" black crawlers with many legs, which have been likened to serpen Uf skeletons in miniature. They move in a snakelike fashion, forward or backward, leaving behind them a bright track of phosphoric light However, they are most accustomed to appear in the daytime, when the illumination they af ford is not visible. Washington Btar. There is said to be a remarkable family living in polk county, Oa. The name of the family is Dies. The mother is said to be 107 years old, her oldest living child W years and her youngest M years. TO CLOSE B UYJERS OA. 1ST OVERCOATS M SUITS, FOR MEN AND BOYS FOR I.KSS MONKY THAN EVER HEARD OF BEFORE It Who will 6how you better makes, quality and for less huy west ot Cliicngo. A CHILD CAN T.UV AS CIIEAP AS JOE Has Ori.l3r One DPrico, NO TROUULK TO SHOW GOODS. OPERA HOUSE CORNER, PLATTSMOUTH. SCHOOL XOTKS. UY I'ATKIC GIVE AWAY. The Hi liooU are prosjH-rouH, real solid work bcinjr done. Some examinations have been held in the various rooms lately. LnMt week wiih 1111 "off week" for attendance. The hih -)iol wiie the "banner room" that is, they earned the "booby banner" by having the lowest percentage in attendance. 1'rof. Halscy is like n new man these days. Good cheer rcina Hiipreme in the Ht liool room. Prof. MeClelland'H (liemietry clans in making deep divesi into ecience. Preparations are being made in a number of the hcIiooIh for a good time before Christina. We know of Ktiri nl ol the primary U.nlurs who will give their pupils a good treat. Don't that make you feel good, boyn'f Wc desire the citi.ens of Platt mouth to understand that home folks IK) take on interest in the prosperity of our town. Alongaide of our bent citizen stands our city miperiiitendent of hcIiooIh, bucked by an intelligent, energetic corpoof students of the high nchool, who believe that l'lattsmoulli in not the worst town in America. Yea, they believe that elie has many udvunt ageu as a manufacturing city. The town and ita advantages have been and are being thoroughly discussed in the general instruction class, and with good results. The pro feasor has asked for lists of the manufacturing advantages of the town and the inducements we could offer for the establishment of pay. ing plant here. Some of the lists are very good and ehow a com mendable interest in the ciiy'a wel fare, while some, of course, are ex tremHy comical. Who will stand with us In our efforts to benefit cur town? ' Daarrvina ri " . We desire to say to the citizens, that for yearn we have been selling Dr. King's New Diacovery for Con sumption. l)r. King's New Life I'ills Hurklen'H Arnica Slave and Klectric Hitters, and have never handled rcniedioa that Hell ns well, or that hnve given mirh universal satisfac tion. We do not hesitate to guar anti l them every time, and wc stand ready to refund tin purchase price, if Hatisafactory results do uot follow there there uae. These remdies have won there grant popularity purely on therr merits I G. i ri ke A Co Druggists. Geo. VasH and the court house clock. tf HKAR IN MIND THAT as is a stoj 9 NU IL3 SAY ID ITOU MOlTEir Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks, etc will pay you to come fifty miles to trade with JOE WILL KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HANI) ' A full and Complete line of 1 Drugs, Medicines, Paints, and Oils. DRUGGISTS SUNDRIES AND PURE LIQUORS Prescriptions Carefully Compounded at all Hours. 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