THE AMERICAN
STATE NKWH,
MIMAIM MlMUUNtOUS MAT! till.
-" (!o, Thayer attended the district
rttunlon lit Ol d,
Ciretna peoplo will organise a fait
HIlJ trolling asSorUlioil,
Tho Saline county fair will bo hold
at V liber September 1 to 4,
Tho Klklioni raliroad official will
nit up a depot nt iMltniemla.
A rum Held of horse wilt ho nl
Adam count fair In October.
Ltihoi'lnu- men of Omaha will ml
ebrate labor luy in if nun I stylo,
'J im office of lit 11 Nebraska state
fal? opened at Lincoln on AuVut 311.
Apple grown in Jloyd county are
old by tin)' wagon load In llutto City,
Tlifl York county republican con
vention will be hold on September 'li,
Orouiid U in good condition for
full plowing and much of it i bulnjf
dona.
Jloyd county, tho baby of tho
itato, will make an exhibit at tho
tula fair.
'Jhfl contract for the new Indian
i'IiooI building in Cenoa him boon lot
for lO.li'o,
Henry lllpp, of Humphrey lout a
(liH; or whllo iuljullng a grain pout
in ii n elevator,
Lightening struck the residence
Cf I. 1'. J'ui'W mid U. K. HwHimoti of
II urn 1 1 ton ntuuuv
Ohio peoplo will have a grand
plcnbi mid inns meeting at Jiloo
Spring in tbo near future,
-The people of Jloyd county are
noon to hunt better until fuollltlo,
thank to Ho tin lor Mandorfion.
Tim surveyor of tb Duluth A
I'ortlaiid ni li road urn now working be
tween Lexington and Stockvlllo.
A little three-year-old girl arrived
In Fremont lhi other dny, dlroetud to
her mother In car of u house of ill
am.
Fremont citizen ar not pleased
with the service rendered nt that place
by the Western L'nlon telegraph coin
puny, A Nebraska City marble dealer
offal' to give '0 per cent off on tomb
lone u an inducement for people to
buy.
Al Troutmnn, ft York druggist,
dropped on tint street in Lushton, of
heart dieu, Tli attack win hap
pily not fatal,
'Jb Queen City land company
will noon pii id Uh a book uniting forth
tli pnelnl attraction of Hutting and
Adam county,
Fred Weaver, of Schuyler, won
10 on a home race at David City, but
the money wit stolen by a sneak thief
till mi m night.
Two hundred people are employed
at tli lieatrloo canning factory and
2J0, 000 can of corn and toniatoe ar
put up each day.
Jim old soldier of Valparaiso
firitl the neighboring country expect
to hold a reunion at Valparaiso thu
Jnh and i'ith of September,
Jit, J, O. Martin, of JHu Hill,
swallowed rusty needle, which wa In
tb cal ittfn, Jt lodged in ber throttl,
but docior finally rmovd it,
- J h" chiwf of pollen wa kpt buy
al w4, ciniting 'rook, many of
wnom ttii'i"d in J,lucolo on their
wuy lo tit (inind Nludd rttunlon,
Tb two-ycar-oid on of Kmnoll
Urltfif. of lloopor, wn bitum by'
riitiio.niiki, and it wu only by th
lnot birola effort that hi ! wa
ved,
According to rfl'orl of expert
who bavo bcin examining hi book,
Adam fck, tr'a irr of ( bnyinrm
county, I hort in th nuin of
011,00,
Mr, and Mr, Jf, C. j5Htftnbndr,
of Lincoln, enjoy tint dittl nction of b.
Jng nominated tor unprernit and di
trlct Judgo, rnipei'l)vly on th pro.
blduloo tirkt,
iCIty,
' COIII'I
Chnrlei A. Inl, mi African
Mnthodlut dlvlnn, wa In Lincoln last
weak tm-klng dountlou In nupporl of
tli Itidiimrlal ncliool at Munkognu, tie
d Inn Territory.
Conductor Hcdbmg, running -twi-on
l.lnwooil and Huptu'lor, ha a
finnnU iiuititllT which recently bud ton
pupplc. Of iIxho her owner ha sold
I nliii at Piich.
Mary A. hnrgctit, of KoliriiHkii
llled a pntltlon in tho dUtrlct
court prnvlng for dlvorco from her
bimlmiid, I), A. Niirgont, on tho ground
of exti cnm crunUy. ,
W. T. Scott of Kntirnty hu been
nwnrdod thn contract for building
forty tunuincnt cottage for llio cotton
mill opiM'Hllvn. 'J'lu'y am to bo In
cloned before cold weather,
A larjio nirty of hurvcat exctir
alonlNt reached Fremont the other
day, en routo up tho Klkhorn valley,
Tlicy nonined highly plcimnd with No
bniMku a far a tiiey liad gono,
lluttn (,'lly, tho temporary county
eat of Jloyd. I growing ant. Tho
election to decldo tho permanent coun
ty neat quewtlon will douhtle ho lit
tho general election In November,
Aten precinct, Dixon county, will
tot on thu queni.lou cf bond or the
Norfolk and Yankton mil way Heptein
ber 10. The peoplu are mild to bo cn
thuMnatlc over tho proponed road.
-Jud4 Stark of Hamilton county
allowed tho l.owi heir $1,001) dam
aire against tho Staton eitate for tho
killing of V. W. J,ewl nt IJi-omllold,
'J bo cao will go to tho mipcemo court.
William Hurrlnon of (liny county
mixed three crop of alfalfa on the
piuno ground llii year, Tho third
cropgavo the ma'let yield and yet
it uvorugo iiolght wa over twenty
inchex,
A tall, awkward looking chap,
who I traveling through tho country,
protending to bo going to Kaamt after
peache. took in Wilber iiport on it
foot meo and carried off all tlielr loono
CllllflgO,
,lnme J,lnloy, a miction band,
whllo loading utool in tho yard nt
(Jretnii wa caught by a jeJIen rail and
bad hi foot Kmahed, J'hyilolitn
found It nocary to amputato our of
hi toe,
City Engineer Kennedy ol float
rlco ha tendered hi rel nation, and
Frank M, Davl. formerly coniiected
with tho engineering depanmont of
the f(, and M-, iia been appointed to
tho vacancy,
--Jt 1 expo' tod to have Jgwniii
Donnelly preent at tho aiane pie.
file to bo given in Fremont on the
CliiuitaiUjiia ground nometimo early in
HcptemboT - tlio dati to to fixed to milt
hi convenience,
Superintendent firintead, of tho
Fremont mdiool, who wa hired for
the enulng year, ban presented bl
resignation to the board to accept a
lucrative position n representative of
the publishing bouse of (iinn A Co,, In
K an mis,
J, J, Alexander, florthwt of
Jieaver City, killed tiilrteen rattle
naks, Tho largest one wa three
feet and eleven incbe long and seven
inche in clrcuruforenco, Hloven of
the nake were smaii ones,
Andrew Carpenter, nuperinten
dent of tho Jlnvenni. creamery, lot
p xlgned bl position thro and Sep
tember 1 will take charge of one of
the South J'latto creamery company'
ereamerle located at Fairmont,
For some tlmo past a man named
Anderon ha been running a ooot
leg1' alon on the lower island, three
tml'! southeast of Jleilevue, in open
defiance of tho authorities, claiming to
bo In Mill county, Jewa, Ho ha been
rreU!d and will bo given an opponu.
tilty to explain where he got bl au
thority to engage In thl sort of bul
ecu.
yo mtter hew (food fiisn nmy h, hfn
h stilpi s cmii h e'i lnt iiicm,
It ( lt.tr to h right than U? b lrft.
UirriMKNT WAYS OF BLEEPING,
Ktirissii I, Iks Sufi rill-iwi, lint tfsslnrit
I.'P ! lh lUuikt,
."hough It 1 true, n the author of it
eehnol composition onno nsncrtod, that
'Mleeplng 1 it untvorsai pnietlco
nnioit all nation," it I also Into Hint
there I a grout diversity in tho
method of aleeplng nniong peoplo of
different ballon ntnl dlffm'ttnt way of
life, miy tho Youth' Companion.
Tho thing that otm need to make him
(deep aro proelwdy tho thing which
would keep another awake nil night.
Kveil tho sodntivo medicine which
put ono pei'Hoit immediately Into a
heavy uliimber oxclto anoilier into a
condition of tiervou restlcMsnes,
Tho Kuropeimor American, In order
to sleep woll, ordinarily requires a
downy pillow under hi head; but tbo
Japanese,-stretching himself upon n,
rusli-mat on the floor, put a bard,
mpiaro block of wood under bl bend,
and doo not nloep wU if ho does not
have it.
Tho Chinese make great account of
bl bod, which I very low, Indeed
scarcely rising rem the floor but In
often carved oxfpilsltoly of wood; but
it nover occur to blni 1o make It any
any softer than rindi-mat will render
It,
While tho people of northern coun
tries can not sloop miles they have
plenty of room to slroteh out their
legs, tho Inhabitant of tho tropin
often curl thoniHolvo up like monkey
tit the lower angle of a suspended
lmmmock, and sleep soundly in that
position,
Tho robust American often cover
blmself with pair of blanket and
throw bl window widu open to lb
nlr, even In Ui winter time, and bo
doe not complain If ho find a little
drift of snow acros tho top of his bed
in the morning.
Tho Russian, on tho contrary, like
fioIeeplng-placo mi well a tho top of
the idg soapstono stove In hi domicile
Crawling out of thl blistering bed in
tho morning ho like to take a plungo
Jit a cold stream, even If ho ha to
break through tho. ieo to get into it.
The Lriplaiidr crawls, bend rind all,
into a bag made of reindeer skin and
sloop warm and comfortable within
It. The J'-aat Indian, nt the other end
of the world, n!o bus a sleeping-bag,
but It J wore porous: than tho Lap
lander'. Jta purpose i to keep out
fiiosqultoe more than to keep the
aloeper warm,
Whllo tho American still cling to
bl feather pillow h I steadily dis
carding bl old'fndiloncd feather bed
In favor of tho balr or straw metres,
The feather bed J relegated to the
country and many people who slept
upon it alt through their childhood
find tbomolve uncomfortable upon Jt
Jn their maturity,
The (jerman not only sloop upon n
feather bed, but underneath one, Th
feather covering used in Germany,
Jiowever, I not a largo or thick a
the one which J used a mnttre,
and the foreigner who undertake to
sleep beneath It often find bl feet
suffering from cold, while bl should
er are suffering from beat,
'f Ito Wuy t4t Nlmri'fii Nfrswdrlvsr,
The screwdriver hi found not only
In tho tool (ihestof every mechanic, but
In most bouses, and In not ft few office,
Jt rank with tbo hammer, tbo saw
and xe in general utility, and yet
very few people know ftnything about
bow it should be sharpened wi a t' do
Jt work most efficiently; that is, with
tho least expenditure of power and tho
least Injury io tbp bend of errew.
In driving a screw into the wood,
th foreo used to prn the crw.
driver against tho head of the screw
tend to aid tbo latter In penetrating
the wood; i when wo attempt to
a tract screw, every pound of prc
nuro that wo apply tend to render it
mom difficult to get tho icrew out.
It, therefore, become very important
that the screwdriver nbould be o
formed that It may be kept In the
nick of tbo icrew by tb exertion of
tho very least degroo of force, for If It
ba nny tendency to llp out, wo cai
keep It in plnoo only by applying
pressure, In which rasa w run great
risk of Injuring tbo nick and rendering
It iniposslblo to draw tho screw.
If wo examine a screwdriver In tbo
condition in which. It i ordinarily
found, .we shall find that it present
a section in which the tide of the
wedge, In which all screwdriver tor
minute, aro curve with the convex
side outward. Now, the effect of
tliu curving the ldo of thl wed go 1
to render It greatly more obtuse.
Moreover, when we turn th crow
driver, tbo tendency to slip out of the
nick I Just in proportion to tho ob
tusonoMR or bluntncH of the wedge,
and, thoroforo, thl form 1 the very
worst that can bo chosen. In the
hands of most good workmen, tbero
foro, wo find that the screwdriver end
in a wodge, of which the lde aro
perfectly utralgbt Thl i a very
good form, but it 1 not equal to a
form In which tho side of the wodgo
nro curvo, but with tho concave nido
turned outward. Jn thl way we les
son tho obtusenes of tho wedgo at tho
extreme point, and produce a turn,
screw which may bo kept in tbo nick
by tho least possible pressure endwise.
To grind u screwdriver into thl form,
it 1 necessary to uso a small grind
stone, and many of ttio artificial atone
found In tho market answer admirably.
Most mechanic would llnd It to their
advantage to keep ono of these small
grindstone for the purpose,' and It
could bo run in tho latho with very
1 1 tt I o tro ubl o. - - Tech nol Alst.
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A Curious Culcul.iCuri,
One conoern in Watervlllo, M,
rnadt 18,OO0,OW yard of cotton goo U
last year, and a Maino newspaper fig
ure that the cloth would make a tent
that would cover 870 aero and bold
all tho people of Maine, New lf iinp
shiro, Vermont and Massachusetts,
comfortably seated, with al'lng of loH
acre In tho center. Jn that ring tho
84,000 borseit of Maine could bo ex
hibited at ono tlfie without crowding.
An Von I.Ike Id
Harbor (to customer) j "OIL lrP
Customer (emphatically)! No!" liar
hers You aro right, sir, Nona of our
best peoplo aro using oil on their hair
now-a-day," (To next customer)!
"Oil, slrP" Customer! "Why, yes, I
Htippose so. I'ropor tiling, isn't it?"
Harberi Yes, ir. AH our best peoplo
are using oil on their hair now-a-day,"
IMIs.
Hell are tolled In orno of tho wine
dlstilcUof Franco when there I like
ly to bo a xovoro frost. The inhabit
ant nt oneo hurry out of their house
a'jd place qunnti tie of tarbotwwn th
rtw of vines, Then a signal 1 given
l right the lar, and in a few mlnuk
a deriNO cloud of srnoko arise which
completely protect the vino from the
frost .,,
WoirianI,lk.
"1 believe John will propoe to rno
to-filgbt, ma, If ho doe, what shall
I say!"'
"Accept blm, of course."
"Yes, but what hall I ay flrstP"
"How long have you been expecting
lb! proposal?"
"Two year.""
"Well, I don't know what you can
say except 'J hi 1 o uddonP' Capo
Cod item.
iTfiiitf Twfnfls.
Kmunuol Crlosnor, of Lebanon, I'a,,
who 1 Just forty year old, ha boon in
(hi country twenty year, married
twenty years, and I tho father o
twenty children, ay an exchange,
Tempii regie
JudgeYou aro charged with being
a (ramp. Thl I tho third time in i
month .
Tramp Great heaven! How Urn
doe )lp away,
