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COVERNORS AS SENATORS.
Who Served Mai Api.rv itUobtf
Refer Ciotnc la I ho .-. .
Tho present I'niteJ St i senatt
consists of eighty-eight n.c... .ors. II
ajr 8Ute legislators, to their choice ot
representatives in the higher branch of
congress pursue! the plan proposed by
one of the most Intelligent and patriotic
Iramers of the -st constitution, and
chose one senator from the ranks of
former governors In each state and the
other from among the representatives
In congress from the state, an almost
Ideal senate would be secured, because
each state would be represented by men
qualified by experience. The former
governors would be familiar with the
Internal needs of the several states, and
the former representatives in congress
with the agencies of legislation.
Former governors and former repre
sentatives will not be found wanting
In the senate of the Fifty-fourth con
gress. Senator Pugh of Alabama was a
representative before being a senator.
Senator Berry of Arkansas was elect
ed governor of his state in 1S82. Sena
tor Hawley of Connecticut was a repre
sentative before he was a senator.
Senator Gordon of Georgia, was elect
ed governor of his state in 1868. Sena
tor Shoupof Idaho was elected governor
of the forest state in 1890. Senator Cul
lom of Illinois was elected governor ot
his state in 1876, and his democratic
colleague, John M. Palmer, was elected
governor in 1S63. Senator Voorhees of
Indiana was long a representative in
congress before being chosen as sena
tor, so was Senator Allison of Iowa. The
colleague of the latter, Senator Gear,
was elected governor in 1878. Senators
Hale and Frey of Maine were congress
men before being senators. Senator
Burrows of Michigan was for sev
eral years a republican leader in the
house of representatives, before being
chosen senator, recently. Senator Hill
of New York was twice elected governor
before being chosen as a member of the
United States senate. Senator Sherman
of Ohio was a representative before be
lug elected to the senate in 1851. Sena
tor Tillman, the new representative
of South Carolina Jn the United States
senate, was elected governor of South
Carolina in 1S90, and was the first
democrat chosen there in opposition to
the regular party organization. Sena
tor Bate was elected governor of Ten
nessee in 1882. Senator Mills of Texas
wps chairman of the ways and means
committee In the house of representa
tives and the leader of the democrats
before being elected to the senate. Sen
ator Proctor of Vermont was governor
of his date from 1878 to 1880, and his
colleague, Senator Morrill, was six
times elected representatives before he
became a senator. Senator Squire of
Washiprton, was governor of his state
when it was a territory, from 1884 to
1887.
GRATEFUL TO HIS CAPTORS.
Criminal Wanted to Give His Watch to
the OHti-er Who Arrested Illin.
The intiueace oi biierlock Holmes
seeais to have spread among the crimin
al classes. As a rule convicted swind
lers do not have any special feeling
of grat'tude toward the detectives who
run them to earth, but there la one
English sinner, who goes under the
name of Dean, who seems to have a
Just regard for the efficiency of the
police force. At the conclusion of his
trial in Manchester the other day, Just
after he had been convicted and the
Justice, in severe words of condemna
tion had pronounced an extended sen
tence upon him. Dean addressed the
court and asked permission to bestow
his gold watch and chain, together
worth, as he said, more than 80, upon
the detective who had arrested him.
Dean's little speech was concluded after
this fashion: "This brave fellow de
serves such a present, seeing that he
has succeeded where more than half
his brother officers have failed within
the past year and a half." Naturally
the court refused to allow the present
to be made, and as the prisoner was
led away he shook his head sadly and
exclaimed: "It Is shameful for the
English that the detectives who serve
them so well, should be rewarded so
poorly."
Napoleon' Booty In One Campaign.
The season was as busy on the mili
tary as U had been n 'he political side.
Day and night tne soldiers in the con
quered Venetian lands wrought with
ceaseless labor until the whole territory
was in perfect order as a base of mili
tary operations. Not a single strategic
' point there or elsewhere was over
looked. Even the little island of St.
Peter on the Mediterranean was taken
from Piedmont, and garrisoned with
200 men. It was generally understood
that war might break out at any mo
ment. Every contribution under treaty
obligations was exacted to the utmost
farthing. As a single Illustration ot
the French dealing, Jewels and gems
estimated by the pope as worth 10,000.
000 francs were accepted by the French
experts at a valuation of five. Within
the previous twelve months Bonaparte
had sent to Paris 7.000,000 francs, of
which he destined 2,000,000 for the out
fit of a fleet It was but a moiety of
what he had raised. During this sum
mer, on the contrary, he kept every
thing; even the 3,000.000 francs prom
ised to Barras were not paid. It ia
therefore likely that he had In hand
upward of 30,000,000 francs In cash and
commissary stores to the extent of sev
eral millions more.
A Horse Ha (He Ia Wicked.
Marshal Winters of Hillsboro, 111.,
raffled off an old gray horse two weeks
ago. He sold the tickets to his friends
at $1 each. A jury in the Montgomery
County Circuit court has found Win
ters guilty of selling lottery tickets.
Population of the Sea.
The sea has no herbivorous inhabit
ant. Its population live on each other.
CAT STOPS A MONKEY FIGHT.
Simian Hear the tello pl and Lose
All rMlaUveaa,
A battle royal between monkeys took
place yesterday afternoon about 3
o'clock, says the New York Journal,
in the window of a down-town animal
importer, to the great delight of all
who could crowd near enough to the
scene of the conflict. Six young mon
keys were playing in a cage behind a
big plate glass window. Suddenly the
monkeys took it into their heads to
scrap. They sprang at each other in
the wildest way and hair flew at a lively
rate. There was no apparent reason why
the rreatures should have gone at each
other, but go at each other they did.
A Donnybrook fair was not in it as
compared with the way these monkeys
plugged and chewed each other. Each
one seemed to be for himself and
against all the others. The crowd of
men and boys on the sidewalk yelled
with excitement for several minutes.
Finally a boy who is employed at a
neighboring restaurant appeared with
a big gray and black cat in his arms.
"Let me get near the window," he
cried, "and I'll bet my cat will scare
the life out of the whole lot of them
monkeys."
The crowd let the boy through. The
lad held bis Thomas cat up to the glass,
and instantly Mr. Cat straightened out
his whiskers and commenced spitting.
That was enough. The gang of mon
key fighters heard the spitting and quit.
Their fury was quieted in a Jiffy, and
they jumped to the farthest corner of
the cage with a unanimity that was as
pronounced as their mental aggressive
ness bad been.
TRYING TO BAG WELLINGTON.
e Was Warned Just In Time Story
Ilelleved by the French.
The story goes that Wellington used
to ride over dally, with one or two of
his staff, from his headquarters at St
Jean-de-Lua and take his stand on the
top of a wooded sand hillock, called
Blanc Pignon, on the left bank of the
Adour, which commands a view of both
banks and the town itself, two miles
up-stream, says Macmlllan's Magazine.
This had been noticed by the French,
who had still command of the river
and the opposite shore, and the zeal
ous sailor aforesaid, Bourgeois by
came, conceived the plan of entrapping
the great English captain by lying in
ambush for him, with a few men,
among the undergrowth on the sand
dune, which happened to be on neutral
ground Just outside the line of French
pickets. Gen. Thouvenot very honor
ably declined to sanction this tricky
proceeding, but, seeing through his
glasses from the clock tower of the ca
thedral In Ravnnnn thnr It u-us uotimllir
( -v..,,
being carried out notwithstanding his
disapproval, he sent a mounted orderly
as fast as he could gallop down the
road on the left bank of the river (the
present site of the Ailees marines), past
the French pickets, to warn Welling
ton of his danger. The message was
j Just in time. When within a short dis
tance of the ambush awaiting him on
the narrow little track winding up the
' sand dune he turned his horse and
moved quietly off in another direction.
So says the story, which, entirely be
lieved by the French, is placed on rec
ord by Morel, declared in a foot note to
be correct, and then (184G) within the
memory of living witnesses. We can
entirely agree with the author in his
succeeding remark: "Thus by one of
those strange chances beyond all hu
man explanation there fell through a
design which might have materially
changed the course of events."
Retter Trice for Tattle.
Grass fattened cattle are usually low
In price, and so are cows, heifers and
Immature cattle when fed on corn cost
ing 20 to 25 cents per bushel, but when
the price of grain is doubled it requires
close figuring for the farmer to realize
from the fattened animals, commonly
known as butcher stock, the price of
the grain fed, writes John Cownie, in
Rural Life. But this class of cattle are
now eneptionally Bcarce. for farmers
have lost so much in their endeavors to
' supply the markets in the spring time
with butcher stock, that with the con-
eluded to abandon the business.
In consequence fat cows and heifers
are scarce and it is difficult to supply
the local demand, and cattle not intend
ed for the butcher are being sacrificed
simply because the price offered seems
large In c mparison with former prices.
While butchers may not have sold beef
as cheap as they could afford, when cat
tle were plenty and low In price, still
they responded quickly to an advance
in the price of cattle and throughout
the length and breadth of the land
there has gone forth a universal howl
at the advance in the price of beef. An
advance of $1.50 to $2 per cwt. in live
cattle means an advance of from three
to five cents per pound in the net
I weight, and instead of rejoicing at this
new and much needed prosperity for
the farmer and feeder, these professed
friends of both feel the effect on their
own purses and although stultifying
j their past utterances, now urge con
sumers to stop buying beef until the
price is reduced.
With low prices for beef year after
year farmers were becoming discour
aged, and have been selling cows and
calves determined to quit a losing game,
and now when there is again a ray of
hope for the cattle business, those who
heretofore had championed their cause
are the first in the field urging a boy
cott on beef.
Chaining a Beauty.
Jenks Everybody predicted that
Hardhead would ha? trouble after he
married that vain beauty; but she nev
er leaves her home unless he is with
her. How does he manage? Winks Ha
filled the house with mirrors.
A man arrested and locked up for be
ing full can always be bailed out
Galveston News.
THE NEW DAILY SCHEME.
The friend at Omaha are trjlnjr to
raire sufficient capital to sUrt an
American dally. They already have
a fair start, but desire the assistance of
rlends everywhere In the Unltod
Slates. Can you take one or more
bares, on account of true A merlcanUm ?
Thin is their plan:
In answer to repeated requests we
have finally consented to undertake the
tatk of starting a Daily Amfrican In
Omaha. This would bo an taey thing
to do if people were to act as they talk.
Yet It will not be impessibta, even if
they do not, for there are thousands of
patriots who are anxious to have the
cews anxious to give the Protestant
preachers as fair a bearing as Is ac
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lecturers of the Jesuit Sherman stamp
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We have consulted with our friends,
and they have suggested this plan:
Increase the capital stock of the
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Divide into 10.000 shares of S15 each.
Begin business .when $100,000 has
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year, will be $10;, $8 the second, and
whatever the directors decide there
after. The roanagementt'f thecompany will
be placed in the hards of a board of
directors, who will be elected from
among the stockholders by a maj riy
of the stock represented at the regular
annual meeting.
The indebtedness will not be over 40
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ime.
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The following numbers of shares hara
been i-poken for in the scheme tu get
up a patriotic dally paper in Omaha:
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share in $15, piyaMe when $100,(KK) ban
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to be$l.r)0,(Nt. How many .hares will
you wauty Let us have a dally.
SURE TO CET MARRIED.
1 t:rjr Ctrl That till at Till Treas
ury Iek.
There is in the mail division ot the
treasury department a very popular
d'';., to which is attached the peculiar
merit that the occupant Is by that oc
cupancy placed on the sure road to
matrimony, says the Washington Post.
No sooner is the position made vacant
than there is a scramble among the
remaining clerks for the lucky place,
the fortunate candidate feeling sure
that It will only be a short time before
she x advanced to the Hymeneal grade.
W ithin the past ten years the de.sk has
been occupied by seven lady clerks fol
lowirg each other lu quick BUcce.-luu
as emhrvo brides, and tho records dur
ing that time Indicate that they have
come from all parts of tho country only
to finally meet their destiny while oc
cupying the fateful desk. Mlts llirdio
Walker of Tennessee started the pace
by marrying a resilient of the district,
after a few months' service. Sho was
succeeded by her sister, from the same
state, who speedily followed her ex
ample and left the envlablo position
open to a new-comer. She arrived on
schedule time from Virginia in the per
son of Miss Easby-Smlth, who shed the
glifly of a famous Virginian name over
the tnllsmanlc desk for a short time
and then was led to the altar by a
Journalist of Washington. Next came
from Delaware a relative of Senator
Gray Miss Sue Gray who was fol
lowed in an incredibly short time by a
delegate from Massachusetts Miss
Mercine Dickey. MIrs Dickey attracted
much attention during her stay in the
department through herremarkable re
semblance to Mrs. Cleveland, and later
married Mr. Simon Flynn, who at that
time was connected with the Wash
ington branch of the Baltimore Sun,
and now manageB a paper in Spokane,
Wash. Pennsylvania also furnishes a
representative in Miss Ella Newton, a
granddaughter of the first commission
er of agriculture. Her marriage to a
well-known resident of this city is a
recent event The last graduate from
this sought-for post is another southern
girl, and was formerly Miss Ida Lind
say of Alabama, but on Easter Monday
she became the wife of Dr. Henry D.
Fry of Washington, and the place is
temporarily unoccupied. This happy
illustration of rotation in office as ex
emplified by the feminine contingent
of wage-earners, Is the only one on rec
ord where nobody "kicks," for each
woman thinks she Is advancing her in
terests either by filling the position or
leaving it, as the case may be.
HOT SPUING, S. N.
If indications count for anything, the
Hot Springs of South Dakota are des
tlned to become the moist popular resort
between Chicago and the Pacific Coatt.
They aie situated in the gentle and
beautiful canon of Fall River, and are
the center of a splendidly built little
city of three thousand permanent in
habitants. The t fflcacy of their waters
for rheumatism, dyspepsia, and, in fact,
almost every chronic disorder of the
system, is too well known to require
statement. It is testified to by the an
nual arrival cf thousands of invalids,
and the departure of these same per
sons, after a few weeks, in much im
proved or wholly restored health. The
Springs are surrounded by many ob
jects of surpassing natural interest, as
Wind Cave, equal in extent to the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and far
more wonderful information, filled with
striking beauties and strange fantasies
of structure. Not far away are the
romantic Cascades, and near by are
extinct craters of geysers standing up
like holes that had been built rather
than excavated, and by their puzzling
appearance meriting the name they
have recelved.'The Devil's Chimneys."
This is but a beginning of the list of
attractions in the vicinity, to fairly see
which would entrancingly occupy a
month.
The hotels and the bathing accom
modations for euests are unsurpassable,
and nothing is left to be desired by any
grade of people, from the nabob travel
ing for amusement to the poverty
stricken invalid in search of cheap and
speedy restoration to health.
The Passenger Department of the
Burlington Iioute has issued a well
written and beautifully illustrated
folder, containing a great deal of inter
esting matter relative to this famous
resort. For a copy or for information
about the Burlington Route's rates and
train service to Hot Springs, write to
J. Francis, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent, Omaha, Neb.
P. S. Half rates to Hot Springs
May 24, June 7 and 19, July 3 and 19,
August 2 and 23.
A Fast Train for the Yellowstone Park
Leaves Omaha via the Burlington
Route (B. & M. R. R.) at 4 U5 p. m.
daily. Lands patsengei-s at the Park
inside of 40 hours. Full information
about the Park tour, what it costs,
what's to be seen, how to got there,
etc., is contained in our Yellowstone
Park book. Send for a copy.
J. Francis,
G. P. Si T. A., Burlington
!" Onaba, Neb.
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