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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1898)
THE AMERICAN FROZEN BOOS. A lui, tTaTaraUaad Tala Akaat a Yary Bad CoH Saaa. It tut cold, clear, sharp moraine in January. A number of traveler were Unpin? up and down the platform, because it was freejug. The express train never wail for any man, but sometimes man has to wait for the express train. When it in below zero and the wind blowing and roaring the train is generally behind time. "This Li pretty cold wewther." tid one man, an he commenced dancing a breakdown to keep hU blood in circu lation. "Yes," said another, -but it's noth ing to the cold weather I have neon in Ru&sia." This last declaration seemed to rile the frozen travelers, who were jump ing and kicking and swinging their hands against their sides to keep warm. .They were patriotic and didn't care to stand by and hear the home cold weather belittled or made light of. "How cold hare you known it in Russia?1' asked several at once. "Well, now, I have seen it pretty cold, I can tell you. I remember the winter of '67 pretty well. It was about tike bitterest of all the bitter winters I erer spent. I was at Moscow then. One morning we opened the back door to let the dog out for a run in the snow. Am he jumped off the step a neighbor's dog saw him and, aa they were old enemies, they made a frantic rush for each other. When they got into the middle of the field they stood still, each one waiting for the other to make an attack. After they had been standing la a warlike attitude for several min utes both dogs made up their minds to commence hostilities. Just as they undertook to spring upon one another thejr found they could not move." "What was the matter?" asked sev eral men, who could not let the Stranger finish his story in peace. I' "What was the matter?" repeated the stranger; "why, the dogs were frozen stiff, that is all was the matter; and there they stood, knowing perfectly well that they couldn't move to save themselves. Every bit of each dog was frozen stiff except the intelligence. Each one thought the other might thaw out first and eat him up. The expression of mingled fear and disgust that lit up their features was heart rending. They would be easy victims for any urchins with evil designs that might come along. Suddenly each made an endeavor to wag his tail, and the two efforts were so great that both tails wagged; but. as they were frozen stiff they snapped eff close to the termini of the owners, and two tails went scurrying across the field. "By this Mmo we thought something was the matter, and I went out to learn the state of affairs. I picked both dogs up and returned to the house with them. First we thought that we would put them in front of the lire and let thorn thaw out gradually; but ray Bister, who was. withal, a tender-hearted creature, said that a surer and quicker method of alleviating their . suffering would be to immerse them in not water, which would at the same time give them a much-needed bath. So we filled a wash tub with hot water and threw tho dogs in, and what do you think?" "What?" asked the entire party, in tones of great interest. "Why, the dogs broke just as glass ware does when put in hot water in cold weather." "What cracked like glassware?" they all asked. Certainly; just like preserve dishes or wineglasses." "What did you do tnen?" Why, we stuck them together with glue; the only trouble was that in the hurry we got the wrong heads on the wrong dogs, and I couldn't tell the fox terrier from the King Charles spaniel. But they were glned tight, though." "What kind of glue did you use?" "I used my great Mai '.3 Glue, which I am now selling over the country I have a few samples left at the reduc- d prto df 6d. each. It is purely vegetable and will make a mechanic stick to his trade. I am the sole agent for" But the train came booming along and choked the glue man off. London Tid-Blts. Crook's Council of War. Gen. Crook's councils of war differed from those of any other general, living or dead. He never asked any one for an opinion, never gave one of his own, but taking his rifle in hand, strolled a short distance away from camp, sat down under a rock, crossed one knee "over the other, clasped his arms about his shins, and occasionally rubbed the tip of his nose with the back of his right hand. This last was the infallible sign by which the troops afterward learned to know that one of Crook's councils of war was in progress. He communed with himself, canvassed all the pros and cons of his predicament. Scratch the Jest. Afran k confession that made by a Unitarian clergyman to a local Congre gational divine: -You Have a good deal easier time than we; all you have to do is to preach the Bible, while we have to be looking around constantly for something new. Scratch the jest and you discover a considerable amount of truth. Cape Cod Item. Nothing Stands Still. Prof. Keeler, of the J.Ick Observa tory, has found that the bright nebula of Orion is receding from the sun at the rate of nine miles per second. In all the vast universe nothing stands still nothing but tho corner loaier. Ha Mar Change. A barking dog cannot bite, but the trouble is that he is likely at any time to stop barking and take a piece out (I f out leg. Somcrville Journal. .,,.- A DANISH FARM. Tha faaala Tab tha UrMlMt Cara af Tnalr Caw. ribi. lhe horses are strong, thick-act animal, short in height, and more like those to be seen in Suffolk than anywhere else. In Denmark, how ever, by far the most imHrtant ani nial is the cow. In appearance they are not specially striking. In size, coloring nu quality iney are very similar to the ordiimry shorthorn biwd such as oue see in tho north of Kngland. though thay are if anything a mile smaller. The people take the greatest possi ble care of an interest in them, much more than we do in Kngland. says Mc Millan's Magazine. They seem to be watched by some one or other con stantly. As there are no hedges to saparate the fields, the cows and other animals, including the sheep, are all tethered, and this custom itself en tails, of course, pretty constant atten tion. If the weather be at atl cold, one may often see the beaaU covered with cloths as they graze. The cows are milked thrice a day, about five in the morning, then between eleven and twelve, and again late in the evening. A register is frequently kept of the amount of milk in pounds given by each cow daily. This is done without difficulty, and adds greatly to tho in terest and success of the dairy work, livery cow has a name. Sheep are not reared to any great extent, though every farmer has a few. Shearing takes place twice a year in May and toward the end of i?epicmDer. inis work is for the most par dcme by women; indeed, the wom en generally work fjoarijr as hard as the men upon the farms, but they do not neglect their domestic duties. The houses, which are invariably thatched and df one story only, are clean and tidy, but from the close proximity of the cowhouse to the dwelling (a door opening straight from one to the other), the smell of the beasts is rather too overpowering for unaccus tomed nerves. Tho wife spins her own wool, and not infrequently weaves her own cloth. MALE AND FEMALE COURAGE. Tha Femala It W That Fought, tha Rnoater Claimed tha Victory. One morning as the wife of a milk dealer in Harrison, N. J., was sitting at tho window in the rear of her house she saw a large hawk swoop down to ward a hen that had led her brood of chickens a hundred yards away from the poultry inelosure, says the Xew York Sun. Tho hen had seen the ap proach of the enemy, and, cackling loudly, she called her chickens to gether, and valiantly standing over them she repelled the first attack. The noise she made brought a big rooster to her assistance, and he, too, faced the hawk with great clamor. But when the fierce bird swooped again it was the vigilant hen that met him. Tho rooster had pranced away behind her. Then, however, as the baffled hawk again retreated, ho rushed forward with the light of battle in his eye, knocked the hen avay from her chick ens, ruthlessly trampled on the brood and sounded his clarion note of tri umph and defiance. Twice more the hawk renewed the onslaught, and each time the hen drove him off and the rooster claimed the victory and trod down the chickens. When the hawk at last flew away with empty beak and talons the hen had only two little birds to care for. Out of a family of nine the gallant rooster had trampled seven to death. OLD FASHIONED PREACHERS who I no Not Due 81aug Nor lieanrt to Keniatlonal Method. It may not be generally known, but it is nevertheless a fact that some of the greatest and best preachers in the world do not use slang or ab.isive language, or pass around the b.i for living, says the Atlanta Constitution. They suffer many hardships, and as a rule remain poor all of their lives, but they never resort to sensational .neth ods in order to draw crowds and fill their pockets. Many of them in their old age feel all the evils of poverty and die neglected and in want but their work lives after them, and they go out of tho world happy in the conscious ness of having fought the good fight. The evangelists who go up and down the land startling people with their ex travagant and unique manners and sayings no doubt do some good in their way with certain classes, but it would be very unsafe for the preachers of the day to imitate them. Among sober minded people there is a growing con viction that the old way of preaching the gospel is the right way, and their opinion is more likely to be right than wrong. VandalUm. To the great regret of the friends of the late Dr. Schliemann, many of the interesting relics dug up by the great explorer in Troy have been stolen and despoiled by the miserable inhabitants of Asia Minor. Turks and Arabians in the neighborhood of the excavations use the valuable stones to build their huts. After Schliemann's death a man was employed to guard the ruins. His salary was discontinued recently, how ever, and the watchman ceased to guard the excavations. TheSlamboul, of Constantinople, calls upon all scien tific societies of Europe and America to put an end to the iconoclasm and vandalism of the semi-barbarous in habitants," and to continuo the work of the great Schliemann. Call for Reform. San Francisco has 4,500 salosns or places where liquor is sold at retail. f the population of the city Is 330,000. there is ohe saloon to every 73 per sons, ll tho voting population t IIUO thara ia a aalAiA tnw votes. BRIAR ROOT PIPES. afr Thaat ara Marfa a Brajaro Im aad Soma Nat. Within two years pipe smoking has quadrupled, l'eople smoke pipe be cause by doing so they get a better smoke and pay nothing for it next to nothing a compared w ith cigar. lut the great thing, if you are going in for pipe tmokltig, says the Xew l ork Sun, is to know how to get a pipe aud what kind of a pipe to get. lo begin with the day of the meer schaum pijehjui gone. Where one man buy a nieen-haum ten buy a briar. Briar pipe, or more properly bmycre pipes, are made of the wood and root of the bruyere bushes, and the south of trance supplies nearly all the raw ma terial for this now really great industry. But you are not to supinise because you are going in for a plain every day briar pipe that you are going to get it for a small price, l ou can just get a lairly good, straight, unoraamented briarwood pipe for a five-dollar bill, t. . ... .... u you want something nrxl-c lass you must pay from 18 to J8 for it. And In these last named high priced pijws it Is not the amber mouth piece or the silver ornamentation which costs the money. It is the wood in the bowl Itself which is expensive. it snouiu do oorne la mind that a pipe made from the bruyere wood and the bruyere root are two different things. The bruyere root, which is the part of it from which the pipes are cut is a gnarled, clumsy mass about as big as a big fist It has throe poeu liaritios: It is very hard; it is at the same time porous und will taceon beautiful color, like a meerschaum: it will also take a beautiful polish. lhe bruyere wood is coarser in grain and is not porous. What is particular ly looked at in a briar root pipe is the bncness of tho grain and the beauty of the markings. These go to make up the beauty of a bit of bruyere root just as the various grades of crystalline purity go to make up tho value of a diamond. You cannot get afino-grain- ed, well-maVked, straight pipe short of f 15. It should bo rememborud. though, that when you have bought a pipo of this kind you have got a pipo for life. nun ordinary care tney never wear out, and a curious thing is that the longer you smoke a bruyero root pipe the sweeter it gets. in ims respect it is superior to a meerschaum. A meerschaum Is at its best when you buy it. An aged meer schaum is sure to become more or less "high" in odor. A John Hull See I . The nervous effects of tho rapidity with which men and women live in the new world are accentuated by in flu. ences of climate. A certain delicacy of featuro, grace of movement neat ness of pose, distinguish both the men tal and physical products of the coun try. Its literature, like its beauty, be longs to nervous, high'y strung, ke nly susceptible organizations. .American artists are dexterous in management of lights and shades; they dispose sketches upon the canvas with tho cleverness oi trench masters. American poets call up graceful image in graceful words, and invest common life with an air of refinement American thought is apt to bo superficial. Their thinkers rarely think a thing out; (they are sug gestive rather than forcible; they play with difficulties as cats play with mice: they rarely grapple with problems and squeeze from them their life. American humor is rarely of a rollicking kind; it is dry, not rich; fine rather than deep; subtle, not broad. It depends upon quick perceptions of analogies or upon exaggerations of facts rather than upon a broadly comic sensibility. Americans have produced no plays which deserve the name, and in power of dramatic invention, they are de ficient Their voices, like their laugh ter, are seldom rich or rounded. though they proceeded from hidden recesses of being. Their variety of tho tnglish language is modified so as to gain time, ineir utterance is rapid; they drop their voices at tho end of the sentence in their hurrv to reach the next; their idioms are compressed; even their spelling is clipped. Cold, self-possessed, precocious, alert keen . j . . . . wnieu, Americans seem wanting m fervor, passion, repose and expansive- ness. J heir versatility is phenomenal but the gift is dangerous if it dissipates powers or squanders talents. Few writers devote themselves to letters as their solo vocation with the self-devo tion to which alone tho highest literary worn: is produced. Aovel writing is not undertaken by persons who have aptitude for work. It forms an inter lude in the literary life of writers who are also versifiers, critics, essayists. biographers and journalists Edin burgh Review. 'Tmm't One of That Kind. Dentist Xow, seo here, whafs the use of making so much fuss about a little miserable root like that? Let me pull it. fat ion t You'll hurt "Don t be a coward. Why, there was a woman in here thi9 morning who had seven good teet,h pulled." "i Know, doctor; Dut tins lsnt a good tooth." An Artiatlc Slip. A French painting which sold for $18,000 was entitled: "Getting Ready lor the Harness. ' A horse was repre sented getting up from the spot where he had passed the night under a tree, and it was an American who first called attention to the fact that he was getting up cow-iasnion, or hind quarters first All artists are licensed to make these slips. A Regular Snap. What is Smith doing now?" "He is traveling with a circus." "Pretty hard work, isn't It?" No; ho has nothing to do except to stick his head In the lion's mouth twice a day." Texas Siftings. RELATIONS OP NUMBERS. A Carlo, law Whir Ha aar Baaa Arrauataal Far. There are many Illustrations of tha odd pmHrtiea and relation of num bers; but one of the most interacting and remarkable is that known a Bode's Ijw. As most girls and latys doubtless know, the earth on which we live is one of the eight planets which are continually revolving around the mm. at different distances from it. Those eight planets and their satellites, and the minor planets known as asteroids. form, together with the sun. what known as the solar system. is Astronomer have i-Ml.uliit.sl with remarkable accuracy the distaiKV of these planets from each other and from the sun. Now. at one time. Mercury, Venus, l?.....!- II . .. .... r.arui. .uar. jupiu-r anu Mil urn were the only planets known to axtrono- niers, neuner me asteroids, nor I ranus, nor Neptune yet havimr been discovered. According to Prof. Iwkver. Titius discovered that if we write down a row . ... - of fours and place under them the fig ures u, ;. e, J2, 24, 4H, I6. thus: 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 6 1384 4M Do 4 7 10 10 -H 6J160 By adding, we get an odd series of numbers. They represent very nearly tne relative distances f:"om the sun of the planets above mentioned, as fol lows: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, . JujMtcr. Saturn. As fifty-two in the above series represents tho relative distance of Jupiter, there was among tho planets apparently no representative for the fifth term of tho scries. The surprising accuracy, however, with which the series represented the distances of tho other planets caused many astronomers to firmly believe that the number twenty-eight stood for an undiscovered planet hen, sonio years later, upon tho discovery of the planet Uranus it was found that tho position of this planet was very well represented by tho next term ot node s series, r.Mi, an organ ized search for tho suspected planet was determined upon. A society of astronomers was formed for this purpose, and a certain section of the heavens assigned to each mem' ber of the society. lhe results of theso efforts was the discovery of the asteroids, the first and largest of which, ('ores, was dis covered on tho first day of the present century. Since that time about 300 of these small planets have been discovered. So satisfactory physical reason has yet been given to account for the workings of this luw, which remains classed among the oddities of numbers. Santa Claus. HORSE POWER. Kutatill.liivl aa a Cult by Jnmet Watt About a Ontnry Ago. When men first begin to become familiar with the methods of measur ing mechanical power they often spec ulate on where the breed of horses is that can keep at work raising 33,000 pounds one foot, per minute, or the equivalent, which is more familiar to some mechanics, of raising 330 pounds 100 feet per minute. Since $1,000 pounds raised one foot per minute is called one-horso power, it is natural that people should think tho engin eers who established that unit of meas urement based it on what horses could really do. But the horse that can do this work does not exist. Tho horse power unit was established by James Watt about a century ago, and the figures were fixed in a curious way. Watt found that the average horse of his district could raise 22.000 pounds one foot per minute. This, then, was an actual horse-power. At that time Watt was employed in tho manufact ure of engines, and customers were so hard to find that all kinds of artificial inducements were necessary to induce power users to buy steam engines. As a method of encouraging them Watt offered to sell engines reckoning 33,000 foot pounds to a horse-power. And thus he was tho means of giving false unit to one of the most important measurments in the world. l.uinliioiiK I'.aM Indian Plain. Upwards of sixtv species of East Indian plants, mostiy of the fern fam ily, with a goodiy sprinkling of grasses and creeping vines, are lumin ous, and it is said that the sides of the mountains in the vicinity of Syree are nightly illuminated bv tho pale, white light which they emit. The root stock of a plant from tho Oornghum jungle, near Layki (supposed to bo an orchid ). possesses tho peculiar properties of becoming luminous when wetted, while, when dry, it Is quite lustreless. One jointed plant supposed to be a member of tho rush or cane family, emits a fiery red light from its leaves a pale whito one from its stilk, while its flowers give out capricious flashes, like that of our "lightning-bugs." Clearly Inrorrlglblr. Discouraged father "I don't know what to do with the boy. He gets worse and worse all the time." Friend of the family "Do vou try to develop the moral and religious side of his nature?" Discouraged father "Do I? Tve whipped that boy a thousand times for not committing to memory his regular twenty-five verses a day from the Psalms!" Chicago Tribune. Ronelit a llaby Carriage. A loving couplo from the rural dis tricts of Moose river went up to Ban gor tho other day and got married. 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