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THE FAKME11S ALLIANCE LINCOliN, NEK., THUHSDAY, FEB. 11, 181)2. ABOUT OUR YOUXG FOLKS. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO , BRIGHT YOUNQ PEOPLE. The Lawyer's Chost A Revengeful Little Bird Explanation of Foreign Weighta Hard Thing to Say Polit Boy. The Lawyer's Chost- A lawyer and a bishop, perhaps the bishop should come first, ere talking, aud this was the manner of their talk: "I have become thoroughly con vinced," eaid the lawyer, "of the existence of nocturnal apparitions, for I have. seen one'.". '.. "Dear me!" exclaimed the bishop. 'I am very curious. Relate the story." "I will, my lord, I will," said the lawyer. 'It was between the hours of eleven and twelve, Ihadgoueto bed, and was just falling into my first comfortable sleep, when I was wakened by a strange creaking noise. It sounded as if some one was walk ing up stairs!. The steps sounded nearer and nearer, slower and slow er; solemn and measured they were, and presently they halted at my door. I drew the sheet over my head, and lay there trembling, not daring'to move. , "Something," continued the lawyer, "entered my room, and threw the " shret over my face. I felt rather than saw a faint yellow glimmering light. -1 could not move at first, but I present ly managed to gain a little courage. I drew the sheet cautiously down from my face, and looked!" Well!" cried the bishop, excitedly. "In the center of the room," said the lawyer slowly, "stood a tall old man. lie seemed gaunt and worn with age or hunger,' and his long gray beard hung half way down his breast. He was dressed in a queer loose cloak with a cape, and he wore a broad leather band about his waist. In one hand he held a peculiarly shaped lan tern, from which flowed the yellow light, making strange ghostly shadows on the wall behind him. In the other hand he held a staff, the look ot which was unpleasant. He stood still in the middle of the floor, looking at me. Presently I said, 'Whence art thou?" What dost thou requirfc?' "And what did he say?" cried the bishop, fixing his eyes upon the odd expression 01 the lawyer's face. "Ho said" replied the lawyer, speaking in a hoarse , whisper "he said: 'I beg yer pardon, sur. I'm the watchman of the street, sur; an' I thought 'twould be best for me, sur, to come up an' tell yer that yer front door stood open! If ye do be lavin' it that way, sir, it's bad luck ye'U have before the morniaT " A Revengeful Little Bird. In spite of the poet, "birds" do not "in their little nests agree," but, like some people, they have a general , reputation for amiability, without at all deserving it. But it seems difficult to believe that anything with so small an allowance of brain as a bird has could find room in itscraniumforever so small a bit of , memory, and even meditate and carry out a plan of re venge, let this is known to be a met. Years ago, said an English writer, I found in my garden a nest of the shrike. The young birds, four or five in number, were nearly fledged. Hav ing hoard a good deal of the preda tory habits of the tribe, I was going to wring their necks. I had put them on a hedge, and they sat quite still.but looked so proud and self-possessed, and the dark, glittering eyes that were bent upon me with an expression of indignant surprise, said so plain ly, "Have we not as good a right to live as you?" that my con science smote me aud I could not find it in my heart to kill tliem. I walked away to call mv daughter and show them to her and when I came baek they were gone. One morning last year I was in the ?;arden looking at my roses, when I elt something hit the back of my head. Turning round not a little startled, I saw a bird flying up to the top of a high tree. When it had got there, it said, "Check!" Very soon afterward it came down again, flap- Eed its wiugs against my head as it ad done before, flew up to an oppo site tree, and repeated its "Check!" At the first glance I had seen that it was a shrike. Since then, and for several days, I could never show myself bareheaded in the garden of a morning without being assaulted or saluted in the same manner, and I soon got quite accustomed to it. When my head happened to be covered I was left alone; and neither my gardener nor any other frequenter of the garden was attacked. It is clear that the bird must have been one of the nest lings of the preceding spring or one of their parents, and that it remembered me probably as the disturber of its peace, not with any feeline of gratitude, however, for having spared a life I might have taken, for it evidently hit me as hard as it could, and there was an unmistakable sound of revenge in its cry. He Marked Him. It is only the dishonest trickster fc'ho depends upon chicanery and so called "sharp practices" to achieve success in business. The true business man builds upon honesty and integ rity, knowing that with such a foun dation the success he attains will not fail at last. Of Thomas P. Cope, the famous Philadelphia merchant, this charac teristic incident is told. A person highly recommended, ap proached the Quaker merchant one day, and invited him to embark in a certain joint-stock enterprise. In a careful exposition of the matter he made it appear that the scheme was likely to succeed, and that the stock would instantly run up to a liberal premium, on being put upon the market. "Well," said Mr. Cope, "I am satis fied upon that point; I bilieve it would do os thou sayest. But what will be the real value of the stock?" "Why, as t that," answered the speculator, "I cannot say" implying by his manner what bethought "but that is of no account, for all we have to do is to sell out, and make our thirty or forty per cent profit." "I'll have nothing to do with it! I'll have not bin; to do with it!" was the prompt indiguant reply. "Aud from that day," the upright merchant afterwards declared, in re lating the occurrence, "I marked that man, and shunned all transactions with him." Watching the Trifle. "Take care of the pecnies, an 1 the dollars will take care of themselves," U the burden of the famous old saw, and conveys a truth that, wie!y ap plied, leads to independence and com petency. . Lord Altuorpe, the well known English statesman, evidently was a firm believer in the trite saying; at any rate, his actions here the im press of painstaking care and rigid honesty, which U better than all thf old sayings in the world. Althorpe was one of the most hon ored and loved of the Whig leaders in Parliament. He never introduced a bill into Parliament until he had thoroughly examined its minutest provisions. On one occasion he was looking over the accounts of an agricultural soci ety betore signing his name as presi-! dent. He detected an error of three pence in the balance-sheet, aud refused to sign the statement until the error was corrected. He spent four hours going over the accounts again, to re move the error, saying to a friend: "One three pence may swell into a hundred pounds next year if we neglect it." Accuracy and Greatness. The wonder of Professor Agassix's knowledge was the completeness of it. That is the secret of the power of all great naturalists. They see what es capes the observation of others, and are able to discover the meaning of slight differences that ordinary men have not noticed at all. A young art ist once called upon Audubon, the great student of birds, to show him drawings and paintings. Audubon, after examining the work, said, "I like it very much, but it is deficient. You have painted the legs of this bird nice ly, except in one respect. The scales are exact in shape and color, but you have not arranged them correctly as to number." "I never thought of that," said the artist. "Quite likely," said Audubon. "Now upon this up per ridge of the partridge's leu there are just so many scales. You have too many. Examine the legs of a thousand partridges, and you will find the scales the same in snimber." The lesson shows how Audubon became great by patient study of suaaU things. Sel. Polite Boys. George and Henry Grafton, to fill their time during vacation, and to make a little money, set up a candy, and pop-corn store with their parents permission, in an unoccupied shop on the village street. "Now," said George, we shall have a good manv ladies among our cus tomers, and it won't do to let the men smoke iu here." "Oh no!" said Henry:'"we'U put up a big sign, 'No Smoking Allowed." "I guess we'd better be a little more polite in our notice," said Geopge, "so that we shan't offend any of our smoking customers." The bovs nut their heads together to invent a potte "no smoking" notice; aud at last, with a pleasing sense of having done exactly the right thing, hung up the following neaUy lettered inscription: Customers will pleas take Notise That if they wish to smoke in Here They will pleas either Extinguish, their Pipes or else Go Out-Doors. Explanations of Foreign Weights. The rates of exchange and prie of gold here are to be taken into account in forming a comparison between foreign markets and our own: English. In round numbers, count for a pound sterling marked thus (), $4.8-1; for a shilling, marked th is (s.), 21 cents; for a penny, marked thus (d.), two cents. Continent of Europe. A franc, com posed of 100 centimes, marked thus (f.), is 19 cents; five centimes are equal to one cent. Jn France a kilo is about 1 1-5 pounds. In Austria a florin, equal to 0.0 krestzers, is worth 18 cents. The German florin is 40 cents. In Prussia a thaler, equal to 30 silver groschen, is worth 71 cents. In Hamburg a marco bank, equal to 16 shillings, is worth 36 cents. In Holland a guilder or florin, equal to 100 Dutch cents, is wbrth 41 cents. A Holland centner is equal to about 109 pounds, a Prussian centner to 103 pounds. . Hard Things To Say. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; a peck of pickled peppsrs Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepers, whore's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?" "Thou waft'd'st the rickety stiff over the mountain-height cliffs, and clearly saw'st the full-orb'd moon." "When a twister twisting, would twist him a twist. For twisting a twist three twists ho will twist, But if one of the twists untwists from the twist, The twist untwisting untwists the twist." "Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round; a round roll Robert Rowley rolled round. Where rollod the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round?" "Bandy-legged Borachio Mustachio Whiskerituscus, the bald but brave Bumbardino of Bagdad, helped Abor milque Blue-Beard, Bashaw of Bal mendeb, to beat down an abominable Bumble Foafshaw." What Chauncy Forgot. "Mamma!" called Chauncy running up the bock steps; "mammal I for got somofin!" Mamma was busy putting the dining-room to rights. What could Chauncy have forgotten? His lunch? No, for t he little red lunch-basket was gone off the hook. His mittens? No, they wore on his hands. His hand kerchief? No, that was in his pocket. Chauncy had forgotten to kiss mamma good-by! "It's such a loiac time 'fore 'leven 1 fought I couldnT wait," said he, plaintively; "so I tole the teacher 1 forgot somefin, and she said she'd 'sense me if I wouldn't be so careless again, and I tole her I wouldn't." It was a very happy little boy that tripped lightly back to school. "Did you find what you forgot?" asked the teacher. "Yes, lree of "em," said Chauncy. SCIENCE AND PE0GHESS. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES IN THE FIELD OF PROGRESS. tectrlo Locomotives Solid Petro leum Vaccination a Prevention of Influenza Ineeotlvoroua Plant--A New Use for Aluminum. Electrlo Locomotive. An electric locomotive has recently been constructed at the works ot the Thomson-Houston Company, which upon trial pulled eight loaded freight cars about a yard iu what is reported to be an entirely satisfactory man ner. The weight of the locomotive is given as 43,000 pounds.and its speed, "when delivering 80 horse-power at the draw-bar, is about five miles an hour." The machine was built for the Whitin Machine Company for use about their works, and we suppose there were some peculiar conditions presented which made such a machine preferable to the ordinary locomotive in this case. Nothing, so far as we have noticed, has been given as to the expenditure of coal required to do the work, or, in other words, the efficiency of the ma chine; but upon the simple fact that such a machine has been built and has drawn cars, we are again entertained with predictions to the effect that the days of the steam locomotive are numberod. One electrical journal says that "the time will doubtless come wbn all railway traffic wHl be han dled by electrically operated trains," and that, "in addition to the cheap ness of construction of the electric lo comotive, as compared with ths steam locomotive, it commends itself because expensive skilled operators will not be needed to operate it." To any one who knows anything at all abot railroading, this latter state Nint will appear ridiculous, in view of the fact that the modern railroad engineer depends more and mora upon the machinist for that part tf the work which must depend upon an in timate knowledge of the machine and its construction, there being enough for the engineer to do who under stands how to manage a train upon the road, and cet it to its journey's end safely and on time knowledge which is largely independent of the E articular kind of machine Dandled v him. In short, a very large share, if not almost all of the skill acquired by locomotive engineers would be re quired just the same, whether steam or electricity were used aa motive power. The Distance of the Sun Many readers may have seen the transit of Venus in 1882, when the earth's beautiful sistr planet, mov ing in its orbit exaotly between the earth and the sun, appeared upon the bright disk of the latter in the shape or a round oiacit spot a worm in silhouette. Although almost ten years have elasped, astronomers have hardlv yet completed the computa tions and discussions required to give us the best possible knowledge of the sun s distance that can on derived from the observations made at that time. Professor Answers has recently published the results of the observa tions made by the German astrono mers during both the transit ot lHSJi, and the previous transit of Venus iu 1874. After carefully comparing the measurement made on the two oc casions, and correcting, as nearly as possible all the known errors, he finds for what is kuown as the sun's parallax, 8".880. This simply means that half of the diameter of the earth as seen from the sun would subtend an angle of eight seconds and eight hundred and eihgty one-thousandths of a sec ond. The distance of the sun, as indi cated by the parallax given above, would be 02,059,700 miles. But ow ing to probable errors in the observa tions which cannot bo corrected, the parallax is uncertain to the extent of about one four-hundredth part either way, so that the true distance may be as great as 92,289,700 miles, or as small as 91,829,700 miles. This German computation makes the sun's distance somewhat less than has usually been assumed in recent text-books of astronomy. Other meas ures based on the transits of 1874 and 1882 have varied from 91,850, 000 miles up to 93,428.000 miles, tho number generally preferred being about 92,900,000 miles; although the distance corresponding to the paral lax adopted for use in tire nautical al manac is about 92,400,008 miles. At first sight it may appear surpris ing that there should be such wide dif ference in the various measures, but really the differences are not as ser ious as they appear to be. The sun is a body about 806,000 miles in diame ter, so that the probable error, one way or the other, in any of the meas ures given above does not amount to more than about one-quarter of the sun's own diameter, while the varia tion of the distance in the course of every year, owingto the elliptical form of the earth's orbit, is more than a dozen times as great as the error in question, and t wice as great as the dif ference between the extreme measures, Insectivorous Plants. In an mterestingpaperoninsectivor ous plants, read before the Royal Horticultural Society, and now pub lished in the society's journal, Mr. R. Lindsay refers to the experiments by which Mr. Francis Darwin has shown the amount of benefit accruing to insectivorous plants from nitrogen ous food. Mr. Lindsay says his own experience in tho culturo of Diomea is that wheu two sets of plants are grown side by side under tho samo conditions in every respect, except that insects are excluded from the one and admitted to the other, the latter, or fed pTants, are found to be stronger and far superior to tho former during the following season. He point s out the importance of remembering that the natural conditions under which these plants are found are different from what they are- under cultivation. In their native habitats they grow in very poor soil aad make feeble roots, and under these conditions may require to capture more insects by their leaves to make up for their root deficiency. Under culture, however, fairly good roots for the size of plant are developed. "Darwin," says Mr. Lindsay, "mentions that the roots of Dionaea are 'Wiry small: those Ot a moderately fine plant which he exam ined consist ed or two brandies, aooct oue inch in length, epriegiiu from a bulbou enlargement. I bavtireaufut ly found Dionara roots six inches in lenzth; but they are deciduous, and I can only con jecture that th roots men tioned by Darwin were not iuny crown at the timet her were measured. What is here stated of the natural habits of Diouaa applies mors or less to all insectivorous plants." Vaccination a Preventive of In fluenza. Dr. Julius Althans's preventive against the influenza epidemic will cau.e a sfcock to the feeling of anti- vaccinationists. It is simply whole sale re-vaccination of the population with animal lymph. This well-known physician tells us that, according to data furnished by Dr. Goldschmidt, re-vaccination ot this systematic kind has been lessening the occurrence and fatality of influenza in the German Army, where re-vaccination is en forced at stated intervals. It is ob served that the general conditions of life amongst the troops rather tend to promote than to hinder the spread of such an epidemic amongst them, as they are more exposed to the inclem encies of the weather, have to under go great fatigues, are badly fed, and sleep in overcrowded dormitories. Yet, in spite of all these drawbacks, it has been found that, while influenza affected 12 per cent, of the civil popu lation of Berlin, and as much as 04 per cent, of that of Paris, its preva lence in the German Army amounted to only a trilling fraction over 11 per cent. A number of garrisons were entirely spared, whihs the civil popu lations of the towns where .they were stationed suffered severely, and no garrison was ever effected where the civil population enjoyed immunity. Wealthy Electricians. Fortune has smiled on the explorers in the field of electrical science, says an American paper. No scientific body in the United States has so many millionaires as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. At the top of the list is Alexander Gra ham Bell, whose profits on the tele phone are represented by eight figures. Next conies Edisou, with a seven-figure fortune. Brush, of electric light fame, and Elihu Thomson, whose hirancial future is now peuiaps bright er than that of any of the others, are more than millionaires. Frank J. Sprague was a junior officer in the United States Navy six years ago. He is now living in the mansion which was built for the Grants. His com pany sold out to the Kdison Company for $1,000,000, and half of it went to the inventor. Franklin L. Pope, of New York, and a suore of others have independent fortunes. Most of these men were . telegraph operators, and most of them began their experiment iug and study without a dollar. An Interesting Telescope. A four-inch equatorial telescope for the use of schools and private observ ers has been introduced by Mr. F. W. Gardam, 58, Ann street, New YorK, at a cost which will bring it within the reach of many. It is mounted on a handsome tripod of black walnut, and the axes are so curefully ground that the motion is very smooth. A star can be kept in view by a simple move ment in right ascension. A' balance weight is attached to the declination axis, so that the telescope is perfectly balanced iu any position. The instru ment is furnished with one erecting and four celestial eye-pieces, giving powers from 70 to 280. The object glass, a compound achromatic lens of four inches aperture and fifty inches focal length, is guaranteed to show all the delicate test objects given in Webb's "Celestial Objects, for Com mon Telescopes," for example, the solar spots, mountain shadows inthe moon, Jupiter's belts and satellites, the crescent of Venus, aud so on. Steam Used for Extinguishing Fire Recently a fire broke out in one of tho workshops of tho Spetz Spinning Mill, at Isenheivn, Alsace. The pro prietor ordered tho use of steam iu addition to other appliances for sub duing tho fire. The .stop value havhig been opened, the steam escaped under high pressure, filling the workshop and suffocating the fire. At first the steam, being condensed, saturated with moisture all the combustible ob jects in the room. More steam being added, tho firo was completely extin guished. The smoldering bales of cot ton could then easily be washed out with water. Upon close examination it turned out that much less damage had been done to the building, the machinery, and tho goods than if water had been used for extinguishing the fire. A New Use for Aluminum, According to a Pittsburg dispatch, an order for five hundred tons of al uminum has been placed with the Pittsburgh.Reductiou Company, to be used for thy equipments of the Ger man army. Capt. Hunt, of the Pitts burgh company, is reported as say ing: "The emperor desires the can teens of his soldiers to bo made of al uminum. There are two reasons for this, namely; its lightness and cleanli ness. It will be used also for buckles, and it may be brought into use in the manufacture of cartridge shells. The new smokeless powder cartridges haw brought ubout a demand for al uminum, and other European powers are also considering tho advisability of using it.1' Solid Petroleum. A new method of solidifying petro leum has been demonstrated by Mr. L'henali at the Solidified Petrol.-um Corporation, Gainsborough Road, Haokney Wick. A quantity of crude petroleum is mixed with 15 percent, of certain chemicals, and the vessel con taining it is placed in boiling wa ter, then heated in a fnrnuee at a tem perature of 4t0deg.to oOOdcg. Falir., the mixture being stirred the while. When it is cool the mixture can be pressed uito blocks for transport and use as fuol. The process takes half an hour and is inexpensive, and the "briquets" produced burn freely, with only a small percentage of ash. He Was Helped Twice. Mrs. Black Will you have a piecs of mince pie, John? Mr. Black No, I think not. "Iput soma brandy inthe mince meat. It helps ,to" "Oh, did 'yon. try a piece please." Yankee Blade. Nebraska Savings Bank i) and O St., Lincoln. Capital $10O,0O0 The Oldest Savings Bank of Lincoln. LARGEST CCM BBS Of DtrOSITOBa. Pays Interest on tha Most Liberal Terms. 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Omaha, U h pporscan drawslirut draft on us forM GROUND :-: OIL:-: CAKE Is now used by the largest feeders of stock and sheep in Nebraska. No other food will produce ihe same results, and a trial will convince you of its merits. It is especially good for HOGS, SHEEP, AND YOUNG CATTLE. Price la ton lots $23.00. Trice in less thai ton lots $1.25 per 100 pounds. Write for nnrtii-ulara. We can now ship car lots In Nebraska 11 50 per ton. according to location. A 31 HUUI 11 W1VV11 imilllt .table for elirht h. ad of horses ana sixty head ef cattl e, ceod well, grove and irnrden, Ave aores with so? fence, Prioe $ti.itt Iter tore, l.twu or t l.ow caen, nwanooon iuuk time. or particulars anareas, m- V. L. VODICKA, sts South isth Street, Omaha, Nebraska. CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK. LINCOLN CAriTAL, : : : 0, W. MOSHER, President. H. J. WiLSH, Vice President. B. C. OUTCALT, Cashier. J. W. MAXWELL, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS. D. E.THOMSPOJT. E. P. HAMER. A. P. 8. STUART. ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. W. W. 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Elbeka Gate Company, Waterloo, Iowa. Gextlkmen: Enclosed please rind draft for the gate hung on our place. It is giving good satislaction. Yours truly. W. M. Field & Bko. Illinois Centeal Railroad Compa t. Koadmastor's Office, Eighth Division. Mb. C. F Wichmax, Dcdcqce, Iowa, Aug. 6th, 2891. Soc'y Eureka Gate Co., Waterloo, Iowa. Deak Sir: Referring to yours of June Oth, 1891, will say, that we have tested one of your Eureka Gates in right-of-way fence, east of Waterloo, and I learned from Supon isor Moran that it works nicely. I believe that it is the " coming Gate," and is the best in use for right-of-way and farm fences. J. W. Hartley, Alllianco Stato Agent has made arrangements for soiling these Gates Direct to Members of the Alliance at Factory Prices. J. W. HARTLEY, State Agent, Lincoln, Nebraska. Or Eueeka Gatb Co., Waterloo, Iowa. WAREHOUSE ELEVATOR CAPACITY 600,000 bushels. HONEY ADVANCED OH COHSCJ COHSCNMEKTS late vawuiuucu uj bumc uautc. Writ for rate and fall particulars and consign shipment care of WOODMAN & RITCHIE CO., Med OMAHA, MKUKASKA. OIO. B. BKOWS, Termer! y Salesman at gt. A. L B. u. CO. OWN STOCK. & Company, Nebraska savtnrs and Eseaanire B'k. Omaha, Central City Maua. central City, Keb, percent of cost. . at corn rates, which saves from 50c ts to 85m3 S44 and 19-1W tores Id Lancaster Co.. Neb., TO acres unde. outUvatiou, 46 acres fenced, house with three room. NEBRASKA : : : : $300,000. 6tf. C. W, MOSHER. C. E. YATES. AND V.I HBRCn ANDI8R. Oar Itocs la replete with everything- In the musioal line. Prices to suit the times. N, P. Cuntis. Co. TYPE WRITER. By Mail 15c Extra. Present. Lincoln, Neb. - - -staJal,a0f-itT-' 1 A HEniVg3I v