The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, June 20, 1892, Image 1

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I'LATTSMOUTIL, N EHUASKA; -MON DAY. J UN K 20, 1892.
MJMISKK 22S.
FIFTH YEAH.
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Plattffiiotttfa
pgODEB
Absolutely Pure.
A cream of tartar baking powder
Highest of all in leaveninir strength
latest U. S. Government food report.
UURI.INUTON Sc MISSOURI RIVER It. .
V TIME TABLE. J
OF DAILY PASSENGER TKAINS
GOING EAST
No. 1 5 : 17 V. M
No. 4.
No. 8...
No. 10..
Nv.fi ..
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....7; 44 p. m
.... 4 :45 a. m
VS. ' a. di
GOING WEST
Nol, 8 :45 a. m.
No. j 3 :48 p. in
No. S, 9 :00 a. m.
No. T B :V p
No. 9 4 : P.m..
So, 1 ' :15 a. m.
Hu.shueU's extra leaves for Omalia abou. two
'clock lor Omaha and will accommodate pas
e tigers.
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY
TIME CAKD.
No. 3H4 Accomodation leaves....
No.wi - arrives....
Trains dally except Sunday.
...10:55 a. m.
... 4 ;00 p. ni.
SECRET SOC1ETI,..
CAsVcAMP No. 332 M. W. A. meets every
second and Fourth Monday evulngs In
yilzgerald hall. Visiting neighbor welcome.
hi Hanneu. V. C. : F. Werteiiberirer. W. A..
8. C. Wilde. Clerk.
A FT A IN H E FAl.MEIt CAMP NO 60-
ttous of Veteran, division of Nebraska. U
H A meet very Tuewlar night at 7 --TO o clock
In their hall in Kltlgerald b ock. All son and
HUiiig comrade are cordially invited to meet
with us J.J. Kurt.. Commander ; I. A. Mc
ICIwain. lt Seargcnt.
OKIi: OF THE WOULD, Meet at 7 : 30
every Mi nnav evening at the Cra-id Army
halt. A. F. 'roou.. uresideiit. Thos Walling,
secretary. -
Defying Supers! It ion.
Thirteen Philadelphia young men have
banned themselves together, if rumors
are true, in what timid superstitious ones
will call a suicide club. This Club of
Thirteen, as its name hints, has been or
ganized in contempt of almost all known
Xopular superstitions. The club meet
ings occur on Friday evenings, and
on the 13th of the month, in room 13
of a house numbered 13. The fiery
headed member is the first to enter the
hall, and all pass under a ladder raised
in the room. On taking his seat the
president opens an umbrella handed hi in
by the cross eyed janitor, and sits under
it during the session. The sergeaut-at-arms
opens the proceedings by breaking
a looking glass.
A skeleton sits opposite the president
at all feasts and two black cats stalk
around the room. The walls are adorned
with peacock feathers. Every member
is under solemn oath always to spill salt,
look at the moon over his left shoulder,
stumble whenever alighting from a jour
ney, walk between couples on the street
and when together pass on either side of
a post. They are eager just now to pur
chase a raven and rent a haunted house
to hold their meetings in. Philadelphia
Record.
A Thief la Disguise.
A miner operating on Sabe creek.Idaho,
for some , time past has missed a great
deal of amalgam from his sluice boxes.
He determined to keep watch for the
thief, and several nights ago he saw a
calf nibbling grass near the boxes, often
reaching over the rim and drinking the
water that flowed over the riffler. He,
however, paid no attention to the ani
mal. The theft of amalgam still con
tinued, and a few nights ago, when the
calf appeared, he shot it. He ran to
where the calf was lying and saw a hu
man leg, with the foot wrapped in sacks,
protruding from the animal's stomach.
It took him but a second to realize that
he had shot the thief, who had been
cleverly disguised as a calf. The miner
took the culprit to camp, and, much to
his surprise, he discovered that the thie."
was a young woman. Exchange.
A o I' W XoS-Mtet first and third Hri;
tlay evening t.f each nionth at I O t 1
hall. Kruuk Vermyleu l W ; J k. Harwick,
recorder.
GA K.Mctoiilhl Fot No. 45 me-ts every
itur-y evonmgat 7 : 30 in heir llallm
i ockwood t.Wk All vlsitii. comrades are
cordlallv invited to . eet with us. red Bates.
Fot Ad jniant; O.F.N lies. Fo-i- Commadder.
KXl;ifTt K PYTHIAS iauntlet Lode
.N,-47. Meets every Wednetay.ye.
nine at their hall over Hermet dc.Iutt s. all
virtitiiMC kniulit are cordial y invited to
Btteudr M X tiriflith, C c: Otis Dovey K of
Kand S.
A ir w Xo W Meet second and fourth
Friday eveuinus in the month ut 1 i
O F Hall. M Yondran, M W, P Brown,
rccrdeJ.
nUHTEKS OF KEl'ECCA bun i rroin-
fourth Thursday evening of each mo nth in
the I t. U. r. Ilu. mra- ' -
O. ; Mrs. John Cory. Secretary.
DEGREE OF IIOXOR-Meets the nrsi
and third Thmrsday J . of each
month in 1. if. r. nan. m. hi.i,v. ",,
Mr" Addle Smith. Worthy Sister of Honor
Mrs. .Nannie Hurkel, sister secretary.
CASS LODGE. No. 146.1. 0. O. F. meets ey-erVe-day
night at thel. -hall .In
Attend when vIsltlnK In the city. fchrU Pet
ersen.c. vi . , v.
DOTAL AKCANAM Ca Coiincll No 1021.
. . t a, -rutin, visiiini!
orTt'nren invUed. Henry' Oefjng. ' Begent ;
Thos Walling, Secretary.
YoUNO MEN'S I'HRIMTION- -SJUCIATION
Waterman block. Main Street. Koomf
a .-u. o m o .-ii i, ro For men onlv
Gospel meeting every Sunday attexnoon at 4
o'elock .
For millinery and pattern hat or
anything in the line of ribbons,
flnwro of the la'et styles and ue
sitriiH. call on the Tucker Sisters in
" f 4
the snerwoou oioca.
Fok SALE Two desirable jrest
ind iii Orchard Hill addition
to Plattsuiouth, within a block of
O.. Miaamiri P.lcitlC deDOt. For
particulars call on or address THE
llEKALD office.
EQUITAI3LK LIFK INSURANCE
CO., OF N, Y.
T. II. Pollock, Agent,
C 'AmmlttAil Suicide.
I." i. at IVulliinM. left th!
letter: M?Iy husband Forgive me
if I cause you trouble, but 1 suffer
r. You do not know what these
- ..,- i..f it l wrMclipil iiiirhts are
...o uhd f am ho tired, darlitiir
..- r.oin will never be better. It is
: . . ... n inVt mv own life, but I
have been sick so long. Good-bve,
my husband, I love you your wife."
This is but one of thousands that
inatpatl of usiiic Dr. Miles
Restorative Nervine, and being
speedily cured of their wretclieU
K Ci Frirke and iret an
elegant book and trial bottle free. 6
EVtr Sale.
My house and three lots corner
Sixth and Ley, price
MRS. T. A. G.' BUELL,
Central City, Neb., ape. E. K. B.
Death Snperstltlons.
Death superstitions are rife in the
West Indies. . To the people there every
thing out of the ordinary is a "sign."
In Cuba a person with a sore or wound
of any kind will not look uion a dead
person, f eariiig That the spot will be
come incurable. The rum used in wash
ing a dead body is,. however, regarded
as a sure cure for all eye troubles. If
the light from a candle or lamp falls on
the face of the dead, death will shortly
come to him or her who was carrying
the light. St." Louis Globe-Democrat.
Aoout to Sue.
A man who leta out dress suits at twe
dollars per night threatens to go into
court and sue for $792 for the use of a suit
that couldn't have cost more than twenty
dollars in the first instance.
This is how it happened. A member
of an arctic expedition, encamped just
now, or supposed to be, somewhere with
in gunshot of the north pole, was ten
dered a reception by some friends on the
night before his departure. He secured
a pair of patent leather shoes, a clean
shirt and a satin necktie from some
where or other, but the dress suit he
hired from the agent referred to.
Next morning the explorer's mother
packed the suit in his Saratoga trunk,
not knowing that it wasn't his, and he
took it up to the north pole with him.
It has been used doubtless at the prin
cipal blubber feeds and walrus hunts to
impress the natives.
But the dress suit loaner wants two
dollars a day for every day he has been
deprived of the use of the clothes, and
by the time the explorer gets back the
bill will be $792, thirteen months being
the length of his absence. A deep legal
question will doubtless arise, but the
agent is firm and says that he means to
jet his rights. New York Herald.
A Duel Nipped In the Hud.
A duel between two young men has
been nipped in the bud at Buena Vista,
Va., by Mayor White. Mr. J. G. Seay
sent a challenge to fight a duel to Mr.
Edmund Randolph. Young Randolph
paid no attention to the challenge and a
second challenge was sent by Seay.
Young Randolph referred the corre
spondence to his friend, Mr. R. B. Wil
liamson, and before any details could be
arranged the police arrested Seay. who
was carried before the mayor and bailed
to appear at the next term of the cor
poration court. Young Seay is abouj
twenty years of age and was educated
at the Virginia Military institute. Mr
Randolph, who is about twenty-ene, is
teller in the First National bank.
Both young men are highly connected
and respected. The difficulty was caused
by a misunderstanding between the
young men as to an engagement, Seay
claiming that Randolph purposely avoid
ed him and thus treated him disrespect
fully. No further trouble is apprehend
ed. Richmond Dispatch.
A company has been organized at
Phoenix, A. T., for the construction of
vhat is claimed will be the largest arti
Icial reservoir in the world. It will be
ixteen miles long and contain 103,053,
H0.800 cubic feet of water.
A large block of asphaltum, which
veighed 2f tons was recently cut from
he mine of the Santa Barbara Asphalt
:ompany, of La Petera, CaL
An Ancient Tragedy.
Students of natural history are much
Interested in the recent discovery in
New Zealand of an extensive deiosit of
the remains of the gigantic extinct birds
called nioas.
The discovery was made in plowing
through a slight depression in a field
where a bog containing several springs
had evidently once existed. Here, buried
in a deposit of ieat, at depths of three
or four feet, the skeletons of 800 or 900
moas were found packed and inter
twined together in a 'remarkable man
ner. It was evident that these great birds,
which were much larger than the mod
ern ostrich, varying in height from ten
to fourteen feet, had perished there by
wholesale. An enormous quantity of
smooth quartz pebbles, which they hud
carried in their orops, was found with
the skeletons. There were also found
the remains of extinct species of other
large birds.
Various explanations have been sug
gested to account for the destruction of
such an army of powerful birds. One
theory is that they were overwhelmed
by a great storm, and that their remains
were heaped together by the combined
action of wind and water.
What renders the question still more
puzzling is the fact that collections of
moa skeletons, mingled with those of
other giant birds, have been found in
similar situations elsewhere in New Zea
land. Students of geology are aware that
evidence is sometimes found in the rocks
of the sudden destruction of great num
bers of animals that formerly existed on
the earth, and the resemblance of such
cases to this of the New Zealand moas
is interesting. Youth's Companion.
weighed iiixmi poanus, and when lie
appeared before the recruiting commis
sion liis weight was ascertained to be
430 pounds. Despite his extraordinary
bulk, he has a light and easy step, and
is, moreover, an ardent bicyclist! Na
tional Zeitung.
Looking Ahead.
Lawyer (drawing will) Your estate
is much smaller, sir, than is generally
supposed.
Sick Man Yes, but keep that quiet
till after tho funeral. 1. want a good
show of grief stricken mourners. Lou
don Tit-Bits. - '
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BaBY'S dessert.
Oiling a Highwayman.
There used to be and may be yet
on the Las Cruces division of the Santa
Fe railway an engineer known as "Big
Jack Long." One night Jack was alone
at his engine, oiling up the machine,
while the rest of his crew, like the pas
sengers, were at supper in the dingy
eating house. The train was a long one,
and the engine was well away from the
little cluster of buildings. Suddeulv
Throw up your hands!" was growled
at him, and Jack found himself looking
into a gun in the hands of a hard look
ing citizen.
The fellow . demanded money, and
Jack began to argue, protesting that he
had but a dollar in his pockets, and that
to take that were a cruelty, since it war
meant to pay for his supper. Yes, the
marauder was determined to have the
sack, even if it had but a single dollar.
During the discussion Jack slipped his
hand from bulb to nozzle of the long
machinist's oiler and edged around the
head of the locomotive, finally backing
across the track, closely followed by the
temporizing holder up.
When the nan was so well into the
glare of the headlight as to guide Jack's
address, this worthy promptly laid over
his head with the heavy oiler for a
bludgeon, and when the victim's j-ells
had drawn forth the supping contin
gent, Jack had beaten his assailant al
most senseless and stood, weapon in
hand, looking down at him and saying
grimly, "Well! I guess I've got you so
well oiled up that you won't 'run bot'
again for one while 1" San Francisco
Argonaut.
American Pie Vindicated.
The American pie has triumphed.
There was a time when pie was in dis
grace. It was considered an indigesti
ble and inexcusable culinary concoction.
In England, where it was almost tanta
mount to misprision of treason to sug
gest that plum pudding is too rich to be
healthful, pie except perhaps mince
pie, which is as rich and dubious as
plum pudding was tabooed. But, like
the oppressed of all nations, it found
shelter in America. There were New
England housewives who made pies
which were delicious and comforting to
the inner man, and the pumpkin pie be
came associated with the festival of
Thanksgiving in a manner altogether
honorable to those who were responsible
for "making and uttering" it.
Then arose the great American philos
opher, Emerson, the most essentially
classic type of ' man who has flourished
in this western world, and Emerson ate
pie three times a day. Dr. Johnson used
to say that "the man who drinks beer
thinks beer." Ralph Waldo Emerson
ate pie and thought philosophy. The
American pie was vindicated. Milwau
kee Wisconsin.
Baby at the diuing table.
Sitting in her wee high chair.
Saw a ray of golden KUiihhliie
Uildiug all the silver there.
And her eyes were sparkling, laughing.
As she saw the radiant light.
Boon it full upon her tcaspooa
And she grasped it with delight.
To her month the baby lifted
The bright spoon as if to dino.
Saying, "See, mamma, I've swallowed
A wholu spoonf ul of sunshine.
Baby land.
Kxtirnating Tattoo Marks.
The method proposed by M. Variot, a
French authority, for extirpating tattoo
marks has been widely described and
approved, the initial proceeding being
simply to wash the part with a concen
trated solution of tannic acid, then
closely puncturing it with a set of nee
dles, such as tattooers use; following
this, a crayon of nitrate of silver is
thoroughly rubbed over the area, and
after a moment the skin is dried off, al
which stage it is found that the punc
tures have become deeply blackened by
the formation of the tannate of silver in
the superficial layers of the skin.
The cauterization is said to result in
au inflammatory reaction for a couple
of days, and subsequently in the forma
tion of a crust of thin eschar, which sep
arates siontaneously in from fourteen
to eighteen days, leaving beneath it a
! superficial red cicatrix, which gradually
loses its color, and at the end of a few
months is scarely perceptible. Only a
small area is to be treated at one time.
Tand powdered tannin is the simple
j dressing to bo employed. New York
Tribune.
An Accomplished Cobhler.
'I believe the finest shoemaker in the
' world is the one employed by the gov
I eminent at the West' Point Military
! academy," said a army officer. "He
r&(irt I1 1 li lilt LAI llv A tiltllVlf a -j
and bent and gray, but the shoes he still
makes for the cadets haven't their equal
in shape and durability. The cadet, you
know, is supplied with four pairs of
shoes a dancing shoe made of morocco,
a furlough shoe made of the finest calf
skin, a uniform shoe made of calfskin,
but with a thick sole, and a winter shoe
made of cowhide. When I left West
Point I carried my cowhide shoes with
me. I marched every foot of the way
from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Bayard,
a distance of 1,300 miles, in the cowhide
shoes. That long tramp didn't phase
them, and I have them yet, good as
new." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Waiting for the Funeral to Pass.
The passengers on one of the traction
cable cars fumed the other day when
the gripman stopped the car to wait for
the passing of a funeral. It took ten
minutes for the last carriage to roll by,
for it was an unusually long procession.
As they slowly rolled past, two of those
in the car gave vent to feelings in some
such manner as this: "Did you ever see
such foolishness?" "No, not foolishness,
but superstition!" "Do you think so?"
"Pshaw, can't you see by that gripman's
face that he is superstitious? What else
can you expect from him?" "He does
look superstitious, doesn't he?" At tins
point the conductor broke in, "It's not
superstition yit's the law. Philadelphia
Press. Jb
A Man of Weight.
There is now living at Mulhouse a
man of the name of Lother, aged twenty
six, who weighs no less than 472 pounds.
Even as a child he was distinguished for
bis abnormal size. At confirmation he
Plenty Like Her.
Mrs. Spanker I wish to get a house
in a quiet neighborhood.
Agent Yes, madam, we can accom
modate you. I have a vacant house in
a street which is as quiet as a Sabbath
morn all the year round. No barking
dogs, no children, no nuisance of any
kind.
Mrs. Spanker That's exactly what 1
want. How lucky I happened to come
to you! How many rooms has it?
Agent Ten.
Mrs. Spanker That's just right. We
need a good deal of room. We have
nine children. I hope there's space at
the back for a doghouse. We have
three. New York Weekly.
Arizona's Great .irrigation vsua.
Yuma's great canal is the most gigantic
irrigation enterprise as yet taken in hand
in Arizona. To tunnel through a hill or
mountain side so as to take the water of
the Colorado without damming the
stream, which is the present plan and
that recommended by the English irri
gation engineers, then to bring the water
down on both sides of the river; h an
aqueduct across the Gila, so as to irri
gate the 2,000,000 acres of rich land lying
adjacent to Yuma, in Arizona, Cali
fornia, Sonora, Lower California; in
fact, to build this canal ninety miles in
length, 100 feet in width at the bottom
and twelve feet deep, is not the work of
an hour nor the task of a child, and yet
this is but the outline of this great work,
all of which is going to be done, and
that, too, in the near 'future. Philadel
phia Ledger.
Etruscan Legends.
Legends about the Etruscans are nu
merous, but even with them and the nu
merous Etruscan inscriptions in the
bands of scholars, the race to which they
belonged, their language and history, are
still an unsolved problem. Mr. Charles
Godfrey Leland is about to make an im
portant contribution to the literature of
the subject in a voluminous work on
Etruscan legends. For years he has
passed his summers in Italy in the old
Etruscan country, wandering among the
peasants and collecting their stories.
Their customs and superstitions date
back to the old heathen times, and devil
worship and the most primitive beliefs
prevail among them even down to the
present time.
J. LUJVRUII jH
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Foil FHST CLASS FUllXltUHF.
JO HANDLES the Whitney l.jihy Carriages unci
:in olfi-rgitod Icirg.'iin.s in them
Parties desiring to furnish a house complete',
1. 1 .,. .1.. ...t..r- tii'in ,. 'ill .....i ...,. 1
furniture, i it l!ie way of I'arlor sets, pining room seta,
I'eil RNiom si-t. sind even vth in ir kett in h firtit Mumm
establishment. .
J. I. Unruh,
PLATTSMorni,
NEBRASKA.
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W A Boeck & Co
WE INVITE YOU TO CALL AND SEE Ol;
LOW 1'KMCES IN MENS, BOYS, LADIES MISSK
AND CHILDREN'S SHOES THAT AHK GOING
AT BA KG
Ml
W. JJ.. J30J3CJZ & CO
'75 I
THE POSITIVE CURE.
KLY BKOTHERS. 64 Warren BU, New York. Price 60 ctjj
EW M E A TMAK K E T.
Fresh Beef, l'ork. Veal. Mutton, 1'utter and
eggs kept constantly on iiiinu.
Game of all kinds kept in Season
SATISFACTION - OARANTEED
SAMPSON BROS.
Cor. Gtli St and Lincoln Ave "
PLATTSMOUTH, - NEBRASKA.
jULIUS PEPPERBERG.
Among Tobacco, Havana
alone pleases the taste of
the critical connoisseur. No
artificial process can en
hance its value. The "Bud"
cigars are always made of
the finest Havana fillers and
has always been esteemed
above every other brands
made ar sold at Platts-tnouth.
FOR RELIABLE
INSURANCE
Call on
SAM'L PATTERSON !
Plattsmoutb - Nebra'
Plaltstnouth,
Nebraska
A nasal injector free with each
bottle of Shilohs catarrh remedy.
Price SQcts. For sale by O II Sny
der and F G Fricte.
GOLD AND rOHCELAIN CKOWN1
Bridge work and fine gold workq
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