Till- AVKKKLY HI-KALI): lM,ATTSMOlMII.Ni;i!KASKA. MaKCII 2, IS!K. i-PAMAI.US AND BL wCANEERS. Jl.iu Milia .tp Uitv: (l Out In Hi.- In.jn f ill Olil I il l.' I il;;l( . Asa i-is! the i;Mi Atni'iioan mcivli.iii' uii u v.i it li t n M.ilile lloat-i'-pr V. y ; (.my l.Yn,f :l (TOY. . ' : l i . v ill- two of liM':ii!ii! ,1 - .: i. !- 'ili.'V tn. i i , ' i -1 VV.U.V ,V I ; 1.1VV.V J.il l.ll. 'iu.' "mi'ki'tc r; " .. iv I,' ,,- iiirni- - I '.villi lie I ll n i.ii: ! 1 tra'nr'iK w liirli I.. !. in '. i.i.t 1 .1 li ts l.y tl" ijnai'tiT !, i ;::,(! v. ivcxivmvi 1; ilisavii-i'.-al.!.- i H it .ti.irteiN. 1 liny weir i I - h"d m cuira-.-.i-h uf ImlV. wli'ch w, ii: iiii ii a hall. Tin' i niiil tin i'i ;v( ;'-,i!i wire sulil t'H'ts. j. in 1 tii.' U i liii'i- wih t'unii.s!:i . with Niiiriival;:r f;ill -rii. lio:n wlinli tin- li'i'i'inii:i s coiiM fire wii li foiimiaiiuiiin .n ri.. ,uii. TlnTe vt i" lMiar.lin- lu Ulii;.;s to , triced to tin rivginjr. mill at tin' waist, whei" tln suit s were tli' luwi'M. huanlin;; must have h. en like si rainhling nil the wide t' n lnnise. If we turn, on the other lmtul, to tliolifdit I'lif eaJieeiinKeraft. it would wrni there was no sort of equality. They were cenerally schooners or liriKuntinesof suinll liunlen, with tall lnit tait-riti sjiars, oaiTyinj? a tro ineniloiw weight of lauviw. Their Kuns were uece.ssnrily few, though no or two were fonniilulile. The men nt tho most could not m nuiiu r ous, although jiackt'd nuay alxiVouinJ U'low like lierringH in u lmrrel. When) they excelled wiw in Hea nianshi) nml dexterous maneuvering. In certain light winds they hud it all their own way. If their luck waa Kood. the encmy'8 runners would lire wnlo of tho small and shifting mark. Their very audacity often saved them frouKlisnKter, for at the closest quar ton it was impossible to depress the KUIihhu unto do them serious damage. When they did Ixmrd, there wan no need to give the watchword death or victory. They were fighting not only with ropes around their necks, hut with thuml)M(;rewH and hot grid irona in the more remote prospective. That accounts for the animation they tlirew into the attack, hut wo confess wearoHtill inyMifitil ly the triumphs that crowned their audacity, for even tho buccaneers never denied the Spanish pluck, and tho Spaniards were likewise fighting for existence. Ulaekwood's Magazine. Tim Art of Nrill Milking. The art of ncerilo making was kept secret until about Ki.V), when it was revealed by Christopher tJrooning. In tho little town of Kedditch, a few miles from Birmingham, tho needle makers still ply their trade for all the world. Twenty thousand peo ple make over l(M),liO(),0()0 needles a year. From the ugly pig of iron to the fairylike needle aro manifold processes, hut probably tho drilling of the eye is the most interesting of nil. The experts can easjly perforate a hair and thread it with its own end. The steel wire is cut into tho length of n bristle, rnd the needles are born as twins, heads together, feet farthest apart. In the old days the ends were shai) ened at a cost .of lite that made this industry more deadly than war. The "grinders' asthma." by which strong nu n's lungs were inwardly ground to pieces by inhaled particles of steel, slew tens of tlioiisandsof strong men. Now a blast of air away from the grindstone makes a grinder's life a lirst class risk for insurance com panies. Tempering, annealing and polishing are all worth seeing in the rt in ss. I In q icr'h 1 ia za r. Wliy IIitnch ,r(. High In I'nrk One of the most prosperous imhis tries in l iris is the sale and disposal of horseflesh for ('.Mid. There are in the city of I'aris lu shops for the sale of horseflesh, and in the course of the year more than i'l.ouo horses, til mules ami 273 donkeys have been killed and eaten by tho Parisians. The most singular point about this traffic is that the price of the flesh is equal to that of good beef -"J cents a nuind. It is only fair, however, to add that two thirds of this meat has been converted into sausages, so that it is more than possible that the con Kilmers are ignorant of the source of their toothsome dish. It is now easy to understand how it is that good horses are so scarce in the I'aris riacres. At 20 cents a pound a fat horse would lo worth more when he was dead than alive. Chicago News Record. hiiii- of T wn (iilltlrrn. Trivial circumstances give names to children. A gallant Irish soldier was the father of two girls, named resiHH tively Jane and Pluvlte. Some one asked him why he had selected the latter name, and he im plied: "Well, sorr, ye see our eldest was tKrn m January, so we called her Jane, and tho other was I Mini in Fel- ruary, so we just called her Faybie." The story would lie lx'tter still if there had W en a third daughter bom in March and named, of course. Mar oia. Youth's Companion. A imil Work. "I hear you've been cultivating the society of that pretty widow. Van. What are you up to;" "I'm trying to kill the weeds." Kate Field's Washington. A iio inr, Winks I can't stop to talk, old boy. j This is my busy day. , Frank Frieud Got another note to pay, eh? New York Weekly. rirklnc 1i I in Jitliurv. In Johoiv no tea crop was picked miUl five years eld. but this was dm1 to dirtier!; ic;. in Martini; a new imlns i try in a loiei; ,i couMiy. Planting W:'S , rtv iivv.r' , j;; I '' n ;,),! w;,.:.f t to tit!'! ; -1 r.rj endive t I'. - i labor i -ch- : . ii-f ,!, i,;i I id. ( ;.'- in t!: se -ai'iit lis li-ceivt ' I, cents in Mj-xi.-aii silver per dievi' tor every day t!-y work (or, at pn-s : cut exchaiee, say I.' n uts in Ann ri I can liH.ney,'. Th" wliole gariien has'; to lie dug over thiee tiiies n ye; r. and v.iti.' mat ure i.ce in t.h r . yi a is i is capable uf produ-.-ing an all round i avi-r:':.'i' (if ."iM) Mii;iii!s per acr.-. I Fvi ry iiiorniiig. with iheexcejition ! of Friday (the Mohammedan Sun-1 day), men. women and children are I called out at day break by a horn to pluck the young leaves. At 1 1 a. in. the honi is again the signal for theii return to the factory to have tin -it morning pluckings weighed in by the inaiiagi r. Pluekers are paid at a fixed rnt perjioiindof green leaf. Fach basket f leaf as it is handed in is wcighel by the mandore, the weight of the basket deducted, and a ticket for tho balance handed over. At 1 p. in. the horn calls them out nguin, mid a sim ilar weighing operation takes place at 5 p. ui., except ing only that the morning tickets aro culled in und the total pluckings for theday put against thonameof each plucker in the check roll. With a good flush of leaf on the bushes a smart plucker can pick GO pounds of leaf in a day.-Washing ton Star. A "Soft Simp" l or a Ki'iiorter. "When I was living in Binning ham, Ala., in 1887." said Richard P. Powell of Cincinnati at the St. James last night, "tho town was ou a boom, the biggest in its history. Somehow or other there were but two coro ners in tho county of Jefferson. One of these was located in Birmingham and tho other was out somewhere in the rural districts, whore no one ever died. 1 was a reporter on The Her aid and wkmi made friends with the Birmingham coroner. New railroads were being built all around the city, mines being explored and all kinds of improvements going on. "Of course there were accidents, and the accidents oftentimes brought death. 1 got on tho coroner's jury every case, and when I served my tees were KsJ.50. Sometimes there were as many as !.'0 cases a day and never less than two; so you see that I lived ou the sunny side of Kasy street while tho 'snap' lasted. But it didn't take long for tho hangers on around tho courthouse-to get envious. and when they lM'gan to howl the coroner had to change his jury and that let me out. Meantime I had cleared f'J.adO on jury fees besides salary as a' reporter." -St. Louis Re public. , A Clilni'M" lii'lli'iii')'. There may be found in the hills of fare of the Chinese addled eggs, fat grubs, caterpillars, sharks' fins, rats, dogs, Indian birds' nests and the finest of all their delicacies trepnng. What is trepaiig? Trepan;:, or tripling, is a collective name by which a considerable uuin her of species of most curious sea animals are designated ; they are also known as sea rollei-s, sea cucumbers, in French as cornichoiis de nier, and scientifically as holothiw ians. They are among tho most sluggish of ani mals. Only the fixed or stationary animals art slower than the holo thurians. They lie like gray, brown or black leather pipes or cylinders on the hot toni of the sea. One might watch them half a day long, if he had nothing better to do, and hardly see them change their position, and they rarely move more than a f.xit or two in several hours. Their class relatives, the other spinv skinned animals or echinoderms, are much more active. William Mar shall in Popular Science Monthly. The I v 1 1 of (.ri-.it Winltli. "Beyond a very moderate amount." wrote Col ridge, "1 regard money as a real evil. ihemanol other pur suits knows that one canuot nossihlv Ik) very rich and canyon those other pursuits also, so engrossing is the mere care of nronortv. and so difli cult and absorbimr is the wise use of it. Many a promising artist or author has iMH'n snuiilv ruined tor tho nur- jmjscs for which he was created by lKvoming heir to a largo estate. Not that it demoralized him otherwise, but it left him no time for his natural work. Volumes have been written on the suppression of genius through pover ty, but very little has yet been said ou the wrecking of genius through wealth. T. W. Iligginson in liar Hr's Bazar. Il. auly mid lt l.m k of llralin. The trained Arabs of Fgypt, who seem to possess po ir brains and of course have no education, are often extraordinarily handsome, while in ISliO tho grandest head in Asia, a head which every artist copied as his ideal of, Jove, belonged to an Arab horse dealer, who outside of his trade knew nothing. Million. Celluloid TootliiU'k. The latest toothpicks look precise ly like quill picks, but are made of sheets of celluloid shaqiened at one id an.', tlif-n rolled up into a cylin der. Hotel keccrs have their ad vertisements printed on them before they are rolled iuto quills. New York Sun. DEATH OF A KNOWiNG CAT. A oiii-fi-l t nl I i t : n. Tint Vi riilvi-rmitlv I ii.nl in. il i'rtli .l. Tommy 'i r -k ! is no inure. ITait fold's well known .- 1 1 i'l f.u ew, 11 to .earth af'teraupvent fcl liTeof ISyoars. Few cats enjoy th" lam liable cm-eer that bin', been the lot of Tommy Tucker. When a Mr!" mite cf a kit ten, with no l..ini to pedi;;r, n and with no liome, he wandered into t he paper wurerooms of E. Tucker' Sons, on Trumbull street. lie made friends, and from t hat day until hu death he found a comfortable home. Only oi.ee in all his life did he leave bis home f'..r a brief interval. Two years ago he was locked out one night. Not appreciating what he considered an injustice, he started for the home of Mr. Tucker on Ld wards street. Jle failed to reach the home of his master, and also lost bis bearings as to tho location of the store. For seven days ho was not seen at the warensmis, when he was returned by a ladv who found 1 and recognized him as Tommy nicker. During the seven days he lost seven iMiunds of flesh TI is ii iv at finding his home was manifested as oniy a cat can sltow joy. Tommy was a handsome- cat. ITe was of the tiger variety, with a good snowing or long white fur. His nose, breast and front feet were white, which were kept scrupulously clean at all times, as well as the rest of the body. The litrht and dark lieirl. iiio was sharply defined and tho features were strong. Tho eyes were big and bright as new Columbian half dol lars and the whiskers long. Tommy when in his prime weighed 17 pounds. In his old ago ho weighed somewhat less. Tommy could iwrfonn many tricks and seemed very fond trf his ac complishments. Ho would shake the hands of visitors and sit nn when asked to. He was esjKicially fond of lauieb aim in suitable weather would Sit in front of the Htorn In nm,l tl attentions showered upon him by the IlilmllMTIO. ttllULlAn.l.n HM ......... ...b jm.-winiijr. lien young Tommy was fed with milk, and each morning a lwl was placed in front of tho store with 5 cents to pay the milkman, it was tho custom of the cat U look into the bowl to make sure that tho money was not forgot ten. At times when the dust was blowing a cover would bo placed over tho bowl. Tommy was IkhiuiI to find out if the nickel was in tho bowl, and would push the cover off. If the coin was seen, ho would rest content until tho milkman arrived, but if tho howl was empty ho would mako the fact known by an unusual activity be tween the office and tho store front. -Hartford Times. Iloiv a Wlinli. I'l ;ti U. Approaching a whale at all times is like going into battle, not with btanding the abandon of the fisher men. Have no fear that the right w hale w ill swallow you. He could not do so even if he were sodi.-posed, as his gull, t is only large enough to admit a good sized herring. The Kpei in whale could swallow a man ii he desired to do m, but he is no more inclined 1o sw allow u man - particii liirly with bis clothes on - than you would be to swallow a sj.:ni! iV-d with its feathers. But he will crush you in his ponderous jaws if be j;,-, fighting bull, and eject you in delai! He will also chew up and s; it out pieces of the demolished boat. bre:,k up the wooden utensils l'maiing npon tho water and titrht. every p. .t c! woimI until more than seven l.;'-k -is of fragments may be taken up. mm having tired himself out in tin., way he will lay oil', angrily slapj.il,;; the water with his tins, and chuilcnuo sonio other boats, or perhaps, in rare cases, attack the vessel. J. T. Brown in Century. Nut Hij I'uy For City Men. Two young fellows who were tak ing a pedestrian tour through the Berkshire hills recently lost their way after makingthe ascent of Mount Everett, and at nightfall were glad to seek quarters at a lonely farm house. Tho woman in charge got up an excellent supper, killing a chicken for them, gave them clean, comfort able beds and had a savory breakfast ready in the morning. When they nsked how much they should pay her, she replied in a deprecating way that as times were a little hard she would have to charge them more than they might like to pay, but 12J cents apiece would to satisfactory. She was astonished when they gave her $1, and probably thinks to this day that she entertained Vanderbilts unawares. New York Sun. Tli l.ove of Hook. A certain housckecjKT, who takes a just and noble view of books, almost frightened her parlor maid into spasms by the stern reprimand which she gave heron this subject. The poor maid bad just let fall one of her mistress' favorite volumes. "Never 1" she uttered in a deep and trembling voice, "never drop a book in my house again. I would almost as lief have youdropthc baby." New York Times. LoiiInIhiiii'ii Oyhter Crop. Statistics for the vear lS'.K) show that IS'1,000 barrels of ovstein were fished in the state of Louisiana at a gross cost of SpJjO.OUO. They were wmi rVrr tiu,0iii, leaving a profit of fclliO.UOO. In considering these figures it should lie knue in mind that the industry is in its infancy. Chicago Tribune. THE GREAT MlbGIVING. j Nii ni:r," .nh;- muro, "ilie tbt.iii.-Iit uf doalh ilnwl; j Akm no h..nvt ii. we fwir no faMnl h it. i t.ili I-ll fl':l-I, nml we have tHUI'l'le! 1 Sh.lll HI. I t iie wnl'lll- XI W 1 11.' j 'Tli nfli r hie'Iic. hen I lie fem-t iifn'.r, I Ami vuiil il;u i.i.iii, Hiicnj U,e miii-ir-la i MihkI. i fiiTi r- in iiHii'.'lit from wluit Imlti Let ll In-fore, I All'.! I" !l'T ill Iirip -noil." Ah, hut the iii'.ii il iuu lli" iln ui b , 'I'lie l"M'kniiihi! liiiL-er lil'liliin,' me foreuti I Tli" filluwsliiii. Hie converse utnl tliu uine, I T'ii' oii-, the fe-tal i;!i.m! A lid, All, to I new not, while j t Ii friindH I sit. A l ii 1 ,v I . i ) ., tli.. r. i , , .,1a I. . , ia ..... I .. I ' ..iii, w I ' ' i J". ',i.-w, n iitj.'tll , VY hei hi ! '1 1 a iii pi i r lj iliviui -lier lit n Imtni-le nl'ht willmutl A I . I "In i her. H. iiiIiu fni It', my moiiI stmll hh New iH'i-pi-i-s, or lull lii-er - h hlindeil tliini;.' 1'liere U. ( irrnve, thy Imiiily h loiy. AliI lliere, ll driiih, Ihy i-liiiu'! William . atMoii in IajihIoii S.'nukcr. Hvrrhearil at Muiinra. "The NiiinrH river, you will observe," cniil the xuUU- uji at tlie falls, "runs more miiiilly mi I lie American side than on the Canuilian. This U natural. It indue to the linger degree of quickness in vokub iq tin- Tinted states.. If the falls were en tirely in the Dominion of Canada all the water that in Ixmnd for bake OiimiIo would never get over the precipice, and I-aks Krie would fill up and overflow the cou ntry, and there wouldn't he any conn try." "Thank bitvn, then, that it's in the United States," said the I'hiladelphiun. "Nut byn darned sljjht," retorted the guide; "if you want to fire off any grati tude you'd just U-tter be glad it's in New York stale, ff the fulls were in Philadel phia they'll lie stnnpiiij,' to think all the time or going to sleep, and deluge would com of it, and t here wouldn't lie any Pliila delphitk." And then he resumed his monotonous chant of, "And in the next cage you will find the whirlpool rapid where Captain Webb" ! And bo ou. New York Herald. 6tte Interference Needed. "It Is strange that state which are so :reful to provide for the safety of luna tics do not compel railways to keep car doors locked while trains are in motion," said Abel O. Smith, addressing a knot of travelers that occupied reserved seats In front of thei Nmtheru. "The necessity of some such precaution has often been forci bly called to my attention. There Is noth ing that gives greater joy to the enterpris ing American heart than to jump off a train before it comes to a full stop, thereby saving some half dozen seconds at iniini ueut risk to life and limb. Comparatively few jieople who jump off moving cars look wliere they are goinji. While performing this foolhardy fiat one night myself 1 stepped ou a vali.se, which rolled over and pitched mo under the coach. At another time I was st ruck by a burgage truck and tumbled into danger." tit. I .ouis Globe llcmocrat. Hml, lllue ami Orange Hallstonci. Humboldt, an authority on tttmospheru phenomena who has never been disputed, tells of a heavy hailstorm which passed over Tuscany on March 14, 1M3, every ice globule nf the entire fall being of a beauti ful orange ci, lor. Five years prior to this extraordinary event Caniioln, (ierniany, was I rented ton fall of five feet of blood red snow, followed by a slight fall of blue bail, which is said to have given "the wliole face of the eiirtli an exceedingly cu rious aspect." Hed hailstones fell at Am sterdam in lT'.V,,at London in Wfl (during the time of the great plague), find at divers places in Ireland and France iu the early part, of the present, century.-St. Louis lie public. Wool Treuteil hIIIi Chlorine. Attention in called to the fact that wool llil'll llllS Ill-ell t lv.lt I'll wil h 1 ill iri to. lie. ipiiii's ii st ron .'er allinily for mordants and ijcMuiis, nun in ciiii.se(ueiice is dyed much lcelicr .shades than mil iinieil wmil 'I'l.ij being I lie cas", care should be taken in su treating wnoi that, too niiicli tiliichiim powder be not Usui, fi'niii 'Jti'." a per ce'H. 'I i m weight, in I lie wool liemg quite Mlf li'ii'llt. t liis to be 1 i i ii 1 ii lo ii ,i- si.'h. lion, middled with sulphnrie acid, the wool iiemg worked in tins tor thirty niiu tiles, rinsed in water, and then dyed in the isiiai initiiMer. textile .Mercury. Iiije.r-ioiis to the lioily. I'hysii iatis say that animals' skim are t'ljnnoiis ii worn next to the ji.e-soii. A similar object! m is raised ngaiust the use o' siiimal oils. Lanoline and all cosinetics containing iiniin.il oils liave a lendciicy to lliitke the skin coarse. Vegetable oils, as riKiianut oil, cottonseed oil, etc., should bt d instead. Kxcliange. COPVRioHT 1891 Wound vp tho nan or woman who's "run down." Dr. Tierce's Golden Med ical Discovery sets tho wheels going. It starts the torpid liver into health ful action, purities and enriches tho Mood, cleanses, repairs, ami strength ens tho system, and restores health and vigor. As an appetizing, re storative tonic, it sets at work all the processes of digestion and nu trition, and builds up flesh and strength. For all scrofulous humors and Llood-taints, and even Consump tion (or Lung -scrofula), if taken in time, it's a positive remedy. Unlike tho sarsaparilias, which claim to bo good for the blood in March, April, and May, " (.Joldon Medical Discovery" works equally well at all seasons. Unlike other blood-purifiers, too, it's guaranteed to beuefit or cure, in every case, or your money is re turned. On these terms, it's the cheapest. You pay only for the good you get. But it's tho best or it couldn't be sold to. $5,000 S SIXTY CENTS Will HEROLD I SON. This is the Largest One Shipment of Shoes ever Received in this city consisting of EVERY STYLE 0 F HOES MADE, ior humanity from infancy to old age. SACRIFICE SALE of Ladies Jackets the Balance of the Month. CALL - IN - AND - EXAMINE. WILLIAM HEROLD I SON, f 506 AND 507 "A FAIR FACE MAY PROVE A FOUL BAR GAIN." 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