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THE
LINCOLN,
- NEBRASKA.
The month of May in England in
1889 w ill probably t ake rank as the
wettest on record.
CAX-vrx: S. , Beice has been elected
chairman of the national democratic
committee.
The Vatican has decided that the as
tronomical observatory is to be begun
at once at an estimated cost of L.000,
000 francs.
Ttfns. Custv widow of the General,
will spend the summer at her cottage
in Pennsylvania, where she will write
another book.
Many well-informed persons refuse
utterly to believe the report that a
castor-oil trust w actually organized.
They simply declare it will not go
down. .
The condition of spring wheat in Ne
braska is estimated at ninety-eight per
cent, which is higher than any state in
the country. Score first place for Ne
braska. ...
It is declared that the price of cof
fee will ultimately rise to a point that
will check consumption. This will be
joyful news, indeed, to those who
suffer from weak lungs.
Kansas expects to harvest thirty-
four million bushels of wheat thii year,
the largest crop in the history of the
state. The condition of the growing
grain is unusually fine.
Dii. Hamilton, surgeon general of
the army, who went to Johnstown in
has returned to Washington ardreports
-that in his opinion there is" ho danger
of an epidemic.
On the 26th of this month a conven
tion of business men from every county
in Nebraska will be held at the board
of trade hall, Omaha, for the purpose
of devising ways and means of inducing
immigration and otherwise advancing
the interests of Nebraska.
Stockholders of the Western Union
Telegraph company will have no rea
son to complain with the annual divid
ends soon to be declared. The gross
earnings re the largest in the history
of the company, and approximate
twenty millions.
Gekeeal Master Workman Pow
derly has issued an appeal to the as
sembies of. theKnights of. Labor to
-contribute to the relief of; the Johns
town suf f erres. The appeal should not
fall v?Tnn loaf -ttaroi-, ' :
A call for a territorial convention
has been issued signed by Mayor Dyer
and " committee of citizens of Okla
homa. The convention is to begin at
Guthrie Wednesday, July 17.
The growth ox. Russia s naval power
on the Black sea is marked. Besides
an addition to her fleet already under
way she has just ordered three im-
mn3 iroDclads of 11,000 tons, .12,000
horsepower, and six heavy guns.
Goverxor Hill, of New York, has
signed th? biU authorizing the expen
diture of six millions for repaying the
streets of New York within the next
three years. It will now be the task
ol JSiew lor& contractors to organize a
paving ring.
At thexicnic: Darling, I'm going
to let go of your hand for a minute, but
you won't be mad, will yon, darling?
I wouldn't let go until you did, only
some sort of a bug is crawling down
my back, and I can't keep my mind on
yon and bngs at" the same time.
As Englishman has invented a lamp
burner which extinguishes the flame
after six hours' burning. An economi
cal couple. tried it on their daughter's
most persistent suitor, but instead
of taking the hint he got eleven kisses
out of the girl before the lamp could
be lit again.
It has been calculated that the rail
roads of the world are worth, nearly
$200,000,000,000, or about one-tenth
of the wealth of the civilized' nations
or more than a quarter of their investe
capital. At this rate all the readv
money in the world would buy only
about one-third of them.
, The Illinois state board of agricul
tnre has secured a flock of African os
tricnes as a novelty ior tne coming
fair. The flock will consist of seven
birds full grown and will be on exhibi
tion during the entire week of the
state fair. The expense of securing
this attraction was too great for one
state board to incur and ic could only
be done by pooling the expense and
engaging the ostriches for, the Eionth
of September by the respective boards
of agriculture of Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Illinois.
Tnis year's crop of prairie hay in
Oklahoma is estimated to be worth
$10,000,000. Charles M." Lane, busi
ness manager of the Oklahoma City
Daily Journal, says that this town ex
pects to ship Nearly a million dollar's
worth before the end of the season. It
will be the principal sourca of income
br the settlers this year t and will fur
nish employment for a great number of
people who are in Oklahoma but have
no claims. Unless unfavorable freight
rates interfere the prairie hay will lit
erally, be the salvation cf the new
country's first year. -
A rather curious marriage ceremony
m 1 ' ' tn TT 1 1 - L
was penormea uy squire .nan at
Portsmouth, O., the other day, where
by William Donnelly became father-in-law
to his own son and his wife her
daughter's mother-in-law. The con
tracting parties were James Smalley
and Annie Williams of Brush creek.
The former is a child by William Sinal-
ley's fiist wile and the latter by his sec
ond wife s first husband.
The American society of civil engin
eers has appointed a committee to in
vestigate the causes of the Johnstown
disaster. The question to be deter
mined by the committee is whether the
flood of water over tha top of the dam
was caused by the sinking of the dam
from weakness, or simply by the ac
cumulation of water in the lake beyond
the normal height of the ; dam. The
committee will also endeavor to ascer
tain why the provision made for over
flow was not operative. An adequate
investigation of these matters by ex
pert engineers is unquestionably desir
able, if for no other purpose than that
of properly fixing the responsibility,
though this may be exceedingly diffi
cult, if not impossible. The fact
doubtless is that the responsibility is
widely distributed, and not the least
part of it, as one of the survivors of the
calamity has said, rested upon the
authorities of Johnstown who neglect
ed to regard the popular demand to
have the reservoir ' drained. But at
any rate engineering science may gain
something from the investigation, an
it is well that one is to be conducted
in behalf of the American society-of
civil engineers. r.. --"
SABBATH BEADING.
TOYOLWGWOMEN.
YOUR RELATIVES AS DAUGHTERS AND SIS
"' TERS. :,'
You all sustain one or both of these
relations. Your earliest acts lie in
this sphere. You will, in the exercise
of your duties as daughters and
sisters, receive and impart impressions
that time cannot efface, and eternity
alone can fully develop. Ia those
relations, the temper of mind will be
fixed, the principle of action be secured
which will attend and distinguish you
hrough life. Amid the endearments
of home, while the charm of vouth is
upon you, your peculiar disposition
will be formed. It is one of the most
solemn and impressive of all truths
which an immortal mind can contemn
plat6, that in your mcnt light and
thoughtless days you are doing work
for a lifetime indeed for both worlds.
The most giddy hours of existence are
to nave tne greatest influence upon
your destiny. Those days of folly in
of life when those giddy days, the
days of youtn are to mould your
character, and be forever indelibly im
pressed upon it. Then the pliant twig
is shaped, and the bend it receives it
will never lose. Then at your feet
springs up that little rill which you so
can turn tnat it may become a river
of life or death. You will live over
again the scenes of your earlier years.
lou will feel their power when the
heavens and earth flee away and are no
more
The first lesson which your position
and relations impose upon you is that
of filial respect. "Honor thy father
and thy mother that it may be well
with thee, and that thou mav est live
long on the earth," is the first com
niana witn promise., liepeated are
each command. . Promises large and
gracious are connected with filial obe
dience and filial respect. Curses bit
ter and enduring have been pronounced
upon those who neglect or disobey this
duty. Paul classes with all unright
eousness and murder" the crime of dis
obeying parents. .
especially snouid young women
cultivate and exercise this trait of char
acter. It is this, with habits or erder
and neatness, and with a disposition
cheerful and kind towards ail, that
makes a young woman lovely and im
parts to her that charm which is so de
light ful. These secured in youth,
adorn the freshness of that rosy period
and, undimmed, give bloom to old age.
If a young woman, amid the relations
of early life does not form that char-
.-tcter so desirable, she will inevitably
be distinguished for rebeJlisn, perish
ill humor, a narrow-minded selfishness
with all these bad traits which, make
her a disagreeable companion and an
unwelcome associate. These are the
briars and thorns which spring spon
taneously upon that soil from which
the hand of culture could have ex
tracted the bloom and fragranoe of un
fading beauty.
Young women desire to be regarded
as amiable and good tempered, polite
and courteous. It is their wish to seem
to be f&muiar with the accomplish
ments of elevated life. At least, when
abroad, these excellent adornments
seem of great value. It is, however.
true, that those charms which attracts
the stranger and win for tfieir wearer
such applause, are not always displayed
at home. Luke the gems of a . young
woman's toilet, they groce the drawing
room of tne stranger, but the fireside
of her parents. They attract and de
light the stranger, but give no charm
to the every-day life of home. In the
slattern's, the loose and untidy garb,
tne petulent tone and disrespectful re
marks, one- would in vain attempt to
recognize the distinguished young lady
of the evening before, whose elegant
attir, modest mien, respectful and sub
dued conversation and great amiable
ness, secured sucn applause and won
so many hearts. Parents and brothers.
often ask in vain for those amiable and
affectionate accomplishments which.
abroad, gave the , daughter and sister
such a reputation for all that was love
ly and refined
Let me impress upon you the
duty of cheering your own home and
spreading there that charm which
your acquirements enable you to spread
abroad. To your parents be halituaUv
respectful and obedient; to vonr rela-
lives oe uniiormiv oblifiriTio and nmirt-
. i . v . ' -i
eons ; tnen at home and abroad you
win ne in trutn ail you seem t be.
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HOUSEHOLD.
A Woman' Epitapb.
An epitaph, written nearly a cen
tury ago, and commemorating a
poor woman who all her life had
longed for rest and found it not,
read as follows: Y-
Here rpsts a poor woman
Who always was tired,
For she lived in a hone
Where beln was not hired.
Uer last words were: "Fr'ends,
Fare ye well; I am going
To a place where there's nothing
Of washing or pewinfr.
Thn weep not, my friends.
When death shall us serer
For I'll hare a nice time -
In doing nothinjr forever, '
For everything there -J
Is exact to my wishes;
Since there's nothing to eat
There's no washing of dishes.
The courts with sweet mode
Are constantly ringing;
But having no voice
I shall get clear of singing."
She folded her hands
With her latest endeavor
And whispered, sweet nothing,
01 nothing forever!
A
jlealtlifalne-ts of Country Homes. .
There is much care taken, and none
too much, in locating in a new State
or neighborhood, to select a place
promising healthfulness for the
family. Without good health, the
advantages of fertile soil and cheap
lands go lor naught. But how
many people in the country look to
see that the homes they already have
are kept in good sanitary condition?
As the country grows older the . soil
into which sink slops are emptied be
comes saturated with filth, so that
it no longer disinfects what is thrown
upon it as it used to do. Many
countrv places are thus made more
unhealthful than cities, where crowd
ed population obliges greater care
of sanitary mv?r:resL It ought to
be no. ' -The-deathrate in the country
ought to be lower than it is in cities,
and will be if due care is given to
good drainage and ventilation. .
Good Inleations.
Fred Russell was exceedingly busy.
He had lived in the city only three
years, and was already known as a
trouble seemed to be, he told him
self, that he had no time for anything
except his daily business.
He could not even write to his
mother. For the last year, indeed,
he had sent her only au occasional,
hurried note.
One night, having finished his
work unusually early, he sat by the
nre tnmkins: about ner, and it was
"borne in upon lum, as she would
have said, "to write her a long let
ter.
Just now there did seem to be an
unoccupied hour for it, and he went
to work with zeal. Ire described his
mode of life at great length, inquired
with careful interest about all the
hornet flairs, and even tried to tell
her at the end that he really loved
her dearly, though he seemed to neg
lect her ot late.
'There," said he, when he had
OoUj, -"i Jvm'ir tenrtrrvi un Ye ueen
as sweet on anybody since I was a
boy; and here I register.a vow that
I will write every week as good let
ters, too, as I know how. to concoct!"
H ben he came home from work the
next nijrht, he ' found a telesrram
awnitinjr him:
"Mother is sick. Come at once."
He hurried down to the quiet
country village, and by the time he
reached the desolate home, the mes
sage should have been changed to
read. "Mother is dead. ' Just as
those words were uttered by his sob
bing sister, he chanced to glance at
the table, where lay the letter un
opened. fehe would never read it. T.he dear
eves were not now to be brjghtenetl,
nor the faithful heart cheered by see-
ng m those loving words the record
or
is good intentions. It was too
late. -
Epeasirees of Credit.
It is alwaj's well for a businessman
to have good credit, but to do this
ne snoum avoid using it any more
than is necessary. Practically pay
as you go is as good policy for the
buyer as any one can see it is for the
seller tew people realize how much
their credit costs them. It is by far
the dearest luxury that they keep,
and is what keeps more men poor
then a retiring else. It is mainly the
credit v.r.icn tne country store ex
pects to, and is, perhaps, obliged, to
give that makes it a dearer place to
trade than the citv ,vhere for casual
customers credit is impossible. Much
more than the legal Tate of interest
is. added '-to the price of the article
where credit is given. In reality the
the honest man who intends to pay
his debts cannot aliord to be trusted.
He is saddled with a part of the loss
es of those who are dishonest in ad
dition to interest. It is better to
borrow money in a Jump and pay in
terest on it, and buy only for rash
than to buy on credit. Better still
to do without things until monev is
earned to pay for them. The gro
eery bill is in thousands of homes the
secret of lack ot thrift.
"A Simple Cabba? Salad."
At this season of the vear there is
nothing more pleasing to the appe
tite than a cabbage salad. The sys
tem requires something of the kind
when the Winter's supply of pickles
is about run out. and lettuce and
radishes too expensive for the aver
age housekeeper. - A good salad is
made by taking half of a good sized
cabbage and chopping very fine, first
taking out all tne core which would
otherwise make the salad bitter.
Take half a cup of vinegar, four
or five tablespoonfuls of sugar, a
pinch of salt and mustard enough to
suit the taste and mix together.
Then pour over the cabbage, also
add : two hard-boiled eggs finely
chopped. If procurable, a little celery
is good chopped in with -cabbage.
This placed in a glass dish looks verv
pretty, and is very palatable. It
palatable.
makes a good addition to the table
I x i l i- ,:!'.- ' a-I-
I ""v ume, imu c-sucuiuuv m tue
pingtime when we are
wonderinjr
what we can have in the way of a
fresh vegetable.
A Few Hint.
A man must ask leave of his stom
ach to be happy.
For a boil, take the skin of a boiled
egg, moisten it and apply. It will
draw off the matter and relieve the
soreness in a few hours.
Boiled starch is much improved by
the addition of a little salt or dis
solved guraarabic.
Windows should be opened at both
top and bottom in order to procure
proper ventilation.
So-called unhealthful occupations
can be made less so by properly un
derstanding and practicing the laws
of breathing. ' -
A piece of zinc placed on live coals
in a hot stove will effectually clean
out a stove-pipe, the vapors produc
ed carrying off soot by chemical de
composition. To restore tumbled plumes and
feathers to their original beauty they
should be dipped quickly into hot
water, then shake them and dry them
slowly by the fire.
. ' . i if
Two Little Travelers.
Among the passengers on the north
bound train over the California and
Oregon line" were two very small
travelers, small in statue, but feeling
wonderfully big and independent
over a feat which they have just
accomplished that of crossing the
great American continent unaccom
panied by parent or guardian.
Flora and Arthur Wertheim, the
travelers in question, ore aged re
spectfully 6 and 9 years, and they
are all the .way from New York,
where they have lived ever since
they first saw the light.
"I hain't got no mother," said
Arthur to a Chronicle reporter who
saw the youngsters at the Oakland
pier, and father's
up in Porkland,
for 'bout two
where he's been
years." ' .
"You mean Portland,"
suggested
the reporter. .
"That's what 1 said Porkland "
said the little fellow. "Sister an' I
came out m a tourist car. ro, we
didn't have anybody looking alter
us," this rather disdainfully. "I
was the boss o' the trip, bought the
tickets an carried the lunch ba sket,
an did everything.
The children had cleaner faces than
generally come from a New York
tenement house, and their clothes,
though rather worn and patched,
here and there, were also clean, ,or as
nearly clean as they might be ex
pected to be after a 3,000 mile trip.
"We came in a tourist car," the
boy went on, not omitting to empha
size the tourist." "These tourist
cars ain't very high tbney, but
they'lldo for poor folks. Immigrants
like me an' sis can't have everything
we want." ''''''" :
the little maiden.
"She's all the time wanting me to
spend money on nonsense," said
the boy. ignoring the remark so far
as a direct reply was concerned, "but
it takes coin to tra vel, and you can't
fool it away and have 'nuff to take
you through when you haven't got
only just 'nuff to buy grub."
When this chunk of philosophy
had been delivered the little fellow
went on to say that his father had
gone from New York to work at his
carpentry in Oregon; that he was
going to be a carpenter himself, and
knew how to build houses pretty well
already. He had no trouble in gett
ing over the road without, assistance,
and thought he could easily make a
trip around the world.
"I will get to Porkland Monday
morning," said. he. "Father will
meet us at the depot, and then we'll
be all right." San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Wise Men of Lagos.
Once, uton a great festival, the
town council of Lagos went to the
parish church to hear mass. And all
tne members or tne council were
dressed in seemly state in black coats
and tight black trousers and flowing
cloaks, and each wore a wide brimmed
hat of bla ck, over which a feather
gallantly curl id. For their comfort
a leather covered bench was placed
before the chancel rail- And when
they came to sit, each man, in- the
order of his dignity, sat down upon
the bench and placed beside him his
hat. But when six of the twelve
councilors were seated the bench was
lull. Then a whispered conference
was held, and it was decided that
the bench must be stretched. So six
of them took hold of one end and the
other six took hold of the other end,
and they pulled hard. Then they
came to sit again. And now the first
councilor put Ids hat beneath the
bench, and the second did likewise,
and so did they all. And they all in
comfort sat down by which they
knew that they had sufficiently
stretched the lench.
Being thus seated the first council
or crossed his right leg over his left
leg, and so did t,V second councilor,
and so did they all. But when came
the time in the mass when all must
rise not one of the councilors could
tell .certainly whbh two ofthetwen
ry four legs were his, for all were clad
in tight black trousers and all were
crossed. And each man looked at
the many legs among which were his
own, and sorrowfully wondered if he
ever should know his own legs among
so many and so be able to rise and
walk. And while they thus ponder
ed it fell out that the" first councilor
was bitten by a flea fiercely in his
rearward parts. And the first coun
cilor slapped at the flea, and that he
might slap the better uncrossed his
legs. Then the second councilor
knew which were his legs, and so did
the third, and so did they all. And
so they uncrossed their legs, and
with great thankfulness arose.-
Scribner's Magazine.
FOR THE FARMER.
Asrirnliiral Sotes.
The old sow may rip off the bark
of a young fruit tree with her teeth.
Look out!
Better no bed than a wet bed The
cross-bred pigs will be the strongest
and be best.
If you have a large flock of layers,
as soon as a hen gets over fat and
stops laying send her to market.
Wood seasoned under cover is
worth enough more to pay for hiring
help to put it in the shed this spring.
The roots of trees or plants H
kinds resemble fish in one respect;
cannot live long exposed to the at
mosphere. " A dog which habitually roams
aroupd the country without his own
er is a public nuisance, and to sup
press hiin with a shotgun is a public
benefit. c
The Cleveland Bay originated in
England. It may be a distinct breed
and is a distinct breed, even if it is a
cross. There is some dispute as to
how the breed was treated. The
colon's dark.
It is said that the legality of de
horning has been tested in the Eng
lish courts and that the decision is
adverse to the practice. The friends
of the business, it is said will carry
the question to the higher courts.
The sugar beet a few ; years ago
was a plant not rich in sugar, but
under the fostering care of the French
and German government it has be
come but little inferior to the sugar
cane of the tropics as a sugar pro
ducer. Mercurial ointment, carefully used,
is the easiest and surest remedy for
lice on cattle, but it must be thor
oughly rubbed in where it cannot bo
licked off, and animals should not
be exposed to wet for a few. days
after its application.
An English dairy writer once as
serted that "every third cow in Great
Britain is unprofitable in the dairy."
Let every dairyman who reads this
sit down and figure out the real
truth regarding the work of each cow
in the stables. If it is true that 33
per cent, of the dairy cows in use are
profitless, how can dairying e made
to pay?
Farmers who take up and improve
new places will do well to set out
berry bushes, strawberry plants and
grape vines before they plant fruit
trees. A crop of berries can be ob
tained the second year after the
planting is done. It is necessary to
wait many years, however,foracrop
of any kind ot large fruit, as most
fruit trees are of a slow growth.
With a liberal suply of currants and
berries the want of large fruit, will
not be severely felt. ,
Few successful pork raisers now
Tceep any nogs over-winter except
those intended for breeding purposes.
They prefer to have pigs dropped
very early in the spring and they
slaughter them about Christmas
time. They find that young hogs
gain in weight faster than old ones
do when allowed the same amount
of food. These small hogs do not
afford as much lard as larger onea
do, but their meat is of a good
quantity and is suited to the demands
of the market.
Says the London Live Stock Jour
nal "Agricultural horses are fetching
very high prices in the west of Eng
land, from 50 gs. to GOgs. ($250 to
$300) being a common figure for
anything like serviceable animals. A
ral e lot of horses, the property of
Mr. H. Mayo, leaving Corker's Frome
Farm, and other gentlemen quitting
their holdings in Dorset, were sold at
the Dorset Horse Repository at Dor
chester by Mr. V. Ensor, and made
from 45 gs. to 05 gs., being princi-
Eally purchased by dealers from
.ondon, Liverpool, Bristol, and oth
er centers; the run for second-rate ani
mals being from 30 gs. to 38 gs."
Singl? heavy horses a re very gener.
ally superseding lighter double teams
for that class of city hauling to which
they are especially adapted. On
smooth pavements a horse of this
kind can draw an immense load in
deed the ordinary driver seems to
think that th s limit of strength has
yet to be discovered. This class of
hauling would furnish a market for
a great deal of heavy drait stock, if
there were no other source of demand.
However, the field for dralt horses is
constantly widening in other direc
tions as well. '
Every pasture should be well sup
plied -wiui water. One watering
trough is not sufficient for a large
pastur. Stock should not be obliged
t o walk half a mile in the hot sun to
quench their thirst. The comfort of
animals should be considered. If
cows are restless and uncomfortable
they will give but little milk. Steers
will not gain flesh if they suffer heat
and thirst. Young animals of all
kinds should be rendered as comiort
able as possible. Their rule is large
ly determined by the growth they
make the first summer alter they are
weaned.
In his "Notes" in the Husband
man Linden very sensibly declares
that the continual dosing of unwell
farm animals with condition powders
and other medical compounds, with
out knowing the cause of the disor
der or action of the medicine, is usu
ally attended with injury and oft
times loss. Well-fed stock, kept in
comfortable stables and given intel
ligent care, unless in cases of epidem
ics, rarely ever need medicine, and
then only after a careful knowledge
of the disease is obtained should it
be given. , .
An English writer says of the foot
of the horse: The hoof is not a mere
block of solid matter resembling
horn; but indeed is, so ; to speak,
"the patent safe" in which ure en
locked the valuables and title deeds
of the whole animal as a PIV;
How many horsemen
and by horsemen we mean tf J
have bred them and worked them?
Yet "gone at the hoot". is a common
verdict of condemnation and a
horse is often done at his prime
through the carelessness of theshoer,
who is r very often an apprentice
blacksmith who. treats that portion
of the live animal as if it were but
the share of the plow. ,
The Rural Canadian says: "If the
ability to consume food profitably
was made a leading feature in breed
ing by breeders of pure-bred dairy
cattle, and as much importance
given to it as is' now attached to
families and strains, very soon half
the uncertainties in selecting a good
cow would be avoided. A few gen
erations of judicious mating of ani
mals known to be profitable dairy
feeders would fix a type that would
prove of far. greater value to the
airy interests of the country than
can possibly arise from the use of
animals chosen simply because of
their near or remote relationship to
some great dam of sire that has a
long list of alleged butter makers or
large milk producers to their credit
and for which high prices are often
paid. . . f - . . fc
Distances In Alaska.
"When I sat at my desk in Sitka,"
said Gov. Swineford, to the Detroit
Free Press,"I was farther from A ttu is
land, the westernmost point in
Alaska, than I was from Portland,
Me. This may serve to give some
idea of the prodigious distances of
Alaska. But I can furnish a more
striking one. If the capital of the
United States was located in the cen
ter of United States that is to say,
at a point equidistant from Quaddy
head, Me., and Attu island, Alaska
it would be in the Pacific ocean some
six. hundred miles north by west of
San Francisco."
It is, indeed an almost boundless
empire that Mr. Swineford has ceased
to govern and that Fred A.Maynard
has lost. Few people appreciate the
colossal size of the Alaskan domio ot
the United States. Even prominent
public men are apt to guard it as a
little fringe of the frozen zone quite
unworthy of their attention. William
S. Holman once had this idea ot
Alaska. A couple of years ago,
when Gov. Swineford was urging the
house committee on territories to
report favorably on a bill to give
Alaska something more than a sem
blance of territorial government, Mr.
Holman said:
"Well, governor, my idea is that
Alaska ought to be made a county
of Washington territory. That
would be the simplest way to dis
pose of the troublesome Russianpur
chase." Swineford was mad in a minute,
lie promptly advised the great ob
jector to go and buy some primer
geography, and he never had the pa
tience to discuss the matter with
him again.
It has long been said that the sun
never sets on the British empire, but
it is not generally known tkat it is
equally true that the sun never sets
on the domain of the United
States. It is shining in the Aleutian
islands while it is the dead of night
on Martha's Vineyard. The United
States laps nearly half way around
the world. It extends from G7 de
grees west longitude to 1C9 east
longitude. Alaska has been eight
hundred thousand and nine hun
dred thousand square miles of land
surface, and a great water area. It
is nearly as large as the United
States east of the Mississippi.
Gov. Swineford took a journey last
summer of more than ten thousand
statute miles without leaving his
domain as governor. He went on
the United States steamship Thetis,
which was placed at his disposal by
the secretary ot the navy. The jour
ney occupied four months and five
days, being much longer than the
famous exploring expedition of Gov.
Cass, which played a part in the
early history of Michigan.
An Anecdote of Ericsson.
One good story of Ericsson is
missed from the hundreds that are
now going about. It was told many
years ago that the famous inventor
was invited to hear Ole Bull play the
violin. His reply was that he had no
time for such frivolity, as he had been
taught to regard music, that he never
had an ear for it anyhow, that it
would be a waste of his valuable time
and a breach upon his staid daily
habits. But somehow his friend man
aged to bring the two great geniuses
together. The meeting was said to
have occurred in the inventor's shop.
A violin was produced and Bull be
gan to play while the inventor worked
Pretty soon Ericsson paused in his
work, then he dropped his tools and
listened spellbound to the mngkal
tones of the musician. He said, so
the story ran, he had always felt that
something had been wanting in his
life, and that he had never known
what it was until that day. Musical
Courier.
How a Wife Was Lost.
A pair of Berlin lovers whose union
was opposed by the girl's parents,
eloped and set out for English soil
on Heligoland to get married. When
they got to Hamburg they found
that no steamers were running, 60
they hired a sailboat. The waves
were pretty high, and before they
had been at sea an hour he excused
himself to go below to lie upon a so
la. She, left alone above desk,
thought about it awhile, concluded
that she didn't want to get married
after all, and ordered the captain to
turn back toward Hamburg. There
her lover was unable to induce her to
itay with him, and she went back to
Berlin alone on the first train.
A Shark Killed by Tohncco.
In a short time-we had caught a
nice mess of small snappers, from ten
to thirty inches long, and we were
having a real good time. We had
not fished very long, however, Wforo
a large shark put in an appearance
and stopped our sport. We hm
knew of his presence by his greedily
snapping off the fish from one of my
neighbor's lines, having followed it;
up from the bottom. He executed
this performance several times, and
then the snappers stopped biting en
tirely. Not even a nibble could we
get, so we hauled in our lines ami
commenced to pay our attentions to
the shark. ;
He was a monstrous fellow about
fifteen feet long, and he kept sin mi
ming round and ' round the vessel,
sometimes on top of the water and
sometimes down deep Mow us, but
always at a respectful distance, llw
reddish brown body could be plainly
seen through the clear transparent
green water, and you may bo sure
that he was the cynosure of all eyes.
A great many plans for his capture
were discussed, but none appeared
practicable within ourlimited means.
The engineer suggested that if tho
shark would give him time he would
forge a proper hook and chain, but
as the shark was unable to give him
a guarantee he abandoned the pro
ject. While we were thus talking, I no
ticed the nativo pilot every now and
then throwing overboard one of th
snappers we had so rocently caught,
and as the current carried it a little
distance clear of the vessel the shark
would gobble it down, and, in fact,
the intervals were so regular that
Mr. Shark seemed impatient when
the regularity was broken by a little
delay. We saw that our pilot had
some ultimate object in yiew and it
drew our attention to him. As he
was born and raised on this coast
and hud probably sejved his pilot's
apprenticeship as a fisherman, he
knew how to deal with his inveter
ate foe, the shark. ;
After having thrown over ten small
fish he selected another a littlelarger
than the others and with a stick of
wood rammed a roll of chewing t o
bacco, nearly as large as u man's
hand, down into its belly and pressed
its throat together again. Ho held
it ready to throw, and as tho shark
came up, anxiously looking for hi
fish, he tossed it too him, and as it
barely touched the water tho shark
turned over on its back and Hiieked
it in. The shark then swam oft ;is us
ual to the side of the vessel and tl;n
below us, and was apparently rising
again in expectation of another fish
when the nicotine commenced its
A'ork. His struggles and contor
tions were terrible to lehold, as he
darted here and there in a blind rage
and vomiting blood, but a he swam
or was carried by tho current away
Irom us his struggling grew gradual
ly less until it ceased altogether.
The tobacco had killed him. Forest
and Stream.
Rice Knew His Business
TVnsliington Critic. .
A Washington man tells the fol
lowing story about Dan Rico, the fa
mous circus clown and showman.
Rico had a show out in some of tin?
wild Western districts, and he learned
that there was a conspiracy on foot
to mob the circus. That used to 1m
one of the greatest ck awbacks to tho
circus, business. Every once in a
while tho roughs ol a community
would get together
strenuous effort to
show. It is so to a
now, and this is one
and make a
clean out the
certain extent
cause for the
army of apparently superfluous peo
ple that a circus carries withit. Rice's
people had opened the performance
to a good crowd of people, but it soon
became evident that the attack was
being organized. Dan Rice cleared
the ring and made a speech, "Gen
tleman," said he, "lam herewith my
show to entertain you. You know
what the price is and you don't
have to come if you dem't want
to. I understand that there is a plan
on foot to inob my circus. Now, I
want to make a proposition to you.
Pick.out the best man you've got. I
don't care who ho is, and all the rest
of you keep off. I'll fight him ii he ia
as big as a house, and if 1 don't whip
him I'll give you all your money
back and the rest of the show for
nothing." He won the sympathy of
the crowd, who broke intoenthusias
tic applause at this exhibition of
nerve. Any riotous disposition was
promptly suppressed. The boldness
of the step, however, was somewhat
modified by tho fact that Dan Rice
was one of the best rough-and-tumble
fighters in the country.
An Anecdote of William II.
According to the story lately cir
culated in Berlin, the emperor ap
peared at G o'clock one morning
most unexpectedly at the barracks
of a dragon regiment. The soldier
were ready for manoeuvres, but the
commanding officer had not yet ar
rived. Th emperor waiter half nu
hour, when the delinquent arrived.
His feelings at the sight of
his sov-
ereign can better be
imagined
than
described.
But the emperor did not say a
word. He assisted at the manoeuvres,
made several observations, as usual,
and finally left without addressing a
word to the officer at fault, who con
sidered himself lost. Ho went home
in despair, expecting from momtnt
to moment to receive tho news of hU
disgrace. With the customary -expeditious
ways of tho emperor, ho
knew he would not havelongto wait.
But the afternoon passed, then tho
evening, and still nothing occurred.
He had not dared to leave the house,
in dread of the events that were to
decide his future career.
Finally, as the evening wore on, he
ventured out for a walk. On return
ing home he found a little package
addressed to him. No letter or mes
sage accompanied it. He hastily
opened the mysterious parcel and
found it contained an alarm clock.
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