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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1897)
IN THE ODD CORNER. QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS AND EVENTS. Some People'. Food -Foreigner. In s I.and Generally Adhere to Old Conn* try Method, of Cooking and Fating— The Crowned Crane. The Guilty Ka.cal UILTY, Judge, and I own the crime— I .lipped away with a sack of Hour; They nabbed me Ju.t In the nick of time— I'd have had It home In half an hour. Only, the constable on the hill Knew that I must have jumped the bill. Knew as well an he could, that I Hadn't the money w*th which to buy. "Larceny?” that's the proper word; There's never a crime but Law can name, Only, I wonder If law has heard That any one but the thief's to blame? Hay; did the constable on the hill Tell you about the closed-up mill? i Tell you of men who must beg or steal To give their babies and wives a meal? Yes, 1 have begged—and I'll tell you how: 1 walked the roads and Helds and the lanes, And asked for work with a pleading brow And came back empty for all my pains! % Hay; did the constableonthe hill :i,' Tell you the wheels of trade were still? j r-,i y,,u worn worn was nun or aeaa : The wife and child must go unfed? I' Guilty, Judge—let the law be paid; Hut if you had children four or live. Ax pretty an God has ever made b And lacked the food to keep them I alive, r Lacked the method but not the will. Their cries of hunger to stop and still— And then saw oceans of food In view— For God’s sake tell ine, what would you do? Say! If you had a wife whose heart Had fed your own for a score of yearn, ,4 And never for a moment walked apart From all of your griefs and hopes and fears, And now In that faithful bosom had grown A little life that wan part your own And Hunger harrowed them through and through. For God’s nake tell me, what would you do? Hollars by thousands stacked away— Harvests rotting In barn and shed— Silk* and ribbons and fine display— And children crying for lack of bread! Wealth and Famine are hand In hand, ft;.. Making the tour of a heart-sick land. Half of the country’s future weal HF Flushed by the Present's selfish heel! Ess, Guilty, Judge—I own the crime; Put me In prison without delay— f Only—please work me double time. And send my family half the pay! And tell my children If ever they ask, That 1 was working my glooming task, tE?r- Not for pleasure or money or gem— Hut for the love that I had for them. —Will Carleton. The Crowned Crane, The crowned or Kaffir crane la a striking #blrd, nearly four feet in height and pale gray in color, the nak ed white cheek-patches edged with ^ crimson and the crest of yellow bristles arrest attention at once. That crest, by the way, Is an object of desire among £ tbe natives of South and East Africa, . who seek tbe bird for no other purpose § than to procure tbe tuft of yellow web | less featbers wherewith to adorn their v own beads. The crowned crane is I found singly, In pairs and In small 5 flocks, sometimes associating with the | Stanley or Paradise crane, In the vast areas of swampy ground, where It finds a livelihood. The bird’s domestic arrangements are uncomfortable from the human point of view; like other ground-building cranes, It selects a neuralgic site on marshy land, and ' constructs a conical mound of rushes ' or long, rank grass, sometimes ankle deep In water. In a slight depression id It lays a couple ol dirty and rear* Its young. Mr. Illng of the birds of Mata lys be once found a large g on Ibe water, but as a the crowned crane prefer* ore stability Tba dialler » mentioned, la peruttar to a. where It is fatalllarly he bine crane Thte le a M bird, with It* soft lend' • -4» and wonderful deeel Inti and w tag feat hem le adult are so lung that t the ground, end ‘me mar* trd which spends 'be better itteience stslhtng aoout In the rleer shallows. mould _ with plumage which «nn hsaome draggled and dirty A iter hah*i w attributed ij mta U it H land of rwoetiag if me j hi not mtanned ham <tmg 1.1 * * The tart that ah nhasresr. mmd Mr lastnrd in hie Mirda *f doath im b** »ma the utanley tfhM I frozen Into the ice In winter does noth ing to increase our respect for Its in telligence. It is a remarkably shy and wary bird, but curiously enough, if taken from the nest, is easily and com pletely tamed. j Some People'* Pood*. The foreigners who come to this country prefer the foods they are ac customed to in their own country. When you walk through the regions where the Germans live, you see rye bread, sausages and signs announcing that sauerkraut is for sale. When you go through the part of any city where many French families live, you will see that the keepers of the shops are French, and the signs In the window announce the sale of French foods, In the French language. In the Hebrew quarters you will And that it is the kind of food that the Hebrews, no matter from what country they come, prefer, that Is sold in the shops. Where the Chinamen live, it Is the foods ‘.hat they prefer that you will see in shop win dows. These foods come from their native country. Thirty thousand duck eggs were sent to this country from China during the last month. These eggs are each wrapped in black mad. This mud, which is of the consistency of putty, remains on the egg for months. The yolk of the Chinese duck eggs is pink, not yellow like our duck eggs. These eggs are packed In boxes of twenty-five dosen, but the Chinese dozen is ten, not twelve, as the Ameri can dozen is counted. The rice the tyiiiuuuinu preier is coonei ui a jeujr form. Shark's fins are a Chinese deli cacy, and salted plums are also a deli cacy. You may think these are queer things to want to eat, but you must re member that much that you eat would make a Chinaman shudder—that he can not conceive how you can wear the clothes you do, and that our babies, with their full heads of hair, are hide ous little monsters. It is a matter of education and custom.—Selected. Bees as Aids In War. History records two instances, ac cording to Mr. Whiteley Stokes in the London Athenaeum, in which bees have been used In warfare as weapons against besieging forces. The first is related by Applan, of the siege of The mlscyra in Pontus, by Lucullus in his war against Mitbrldates. Turrets were brought up, mounds were built, and huge mines were made by the Romans. The people of Themlscyra dug open these mines from above, and through the holes cast down upon the workmen bears and other wild animals and hives or swarms of bees. The second instance is recorded in an Irish manuscript in the Blbliotheque Royale, at Brussels, and tells how the Danes and Norwegians attacked Ches ter, which was defended by the Sax ons and some Gallic auxiliaries. The Danes were worsted by a stratagem, but the Norwegians, sheltered by hur dles, tried to pierce the walls of the town—when, “what the Saxons and the Gaeldhil who were among them did, was to throw down large rocks, by which they broke down the hurdles over their beads. What the others did to check this was to place large posts under the hurdles. What the Saxons did next was to put all the beer and water of the town into the caldrons of the town, to boil them and spill them down upon those who were under the hurdles, so that their skins were peeled off. The remedy which the Lochlans applied to this was to place hides out side the hurdles. What the Saxons did next was to throw down all the bee hives in the town upon the besiegers, which prevented them moving their hands or legs, from the number of bees which stung them. They afterwards de sisted and left the city." In Honor of Jnpnn'v War God. in me Japanese capital there is a gigantic Image of a woman made of wood and plaster, and dedicated to Hachlman, the god of war. In height it measures fifty-four feet; the head alone, which is reached by a winning stairway In the Interior of the figure, being large enough to comfortably hold twenty persons. The figure holds a huge wooden sword In one hand, the blade of the weapon being twenty seven feet long and a ball twelve feet in diameter In the other hand. Inter nally the model is fitted up with an ex traordinary anatomical arrangement which is supposed to represent the dif ferent portiou* of the brain. A fine view of the country Is obtained by looking through one of the eyes of the figure. The admission to all parts of the structure costs about one penny. Out of t'ey lee's Keuaerkahl* Mlrda. Among the numerous birds In Cey lon there are few more remarkable than the Virginian horned owl. As soon as svenlng draws on. and mankind retire to rest, he sends forth such sounds as teem scarcely to belong to this world, making night hideous with his loud and sudden cries of "Waugh O, Waugh O ' He has other norlumtl eolue, no lens melodious, one of which very strikingly resembles the half-sup pressed scream of e person suffocating or throttled The Kandyans consider the rrp at tbta owl ns n preeags of death or misfortune, unless they adopt s ebarm to avert Its fatal summons. A Minute Uam Pkyatctaa* occasion ally use fur ihs purpuas of lllumlnAtlng parts of Ihs interHM of the hudy s delicate electric lamp, called the pea lamp,’1 because Its little glass both raasmbias a small pea in else, being only oaeguartsr of aa I nek in ftuwtw It la neverthe less a complete Incandescent lemp, having a carbon dim one eigb'h at an iarb k>ag and about mm two thooe aadtb of an inch In diameter IT IS EASILY DONE. UNDERGROUND RAILWAY A SIMPLE PROBLEM, Hals* tli. Street I.Tfl a Few Feet and Build the Track. Below the Mur/ace - No Tunneling; U Nee...ary—Like a Covered Ditch. NB of the finest and most commo dious railways In the world is now In operation In Buda pest, In Hungary. It Is known as the Franz Josef Elec trical Underground Railroad, and It runs from the heart of the capital to the suburbs. For many years the peo ple of Budapest have been anxious to have a railroad through beautiful An drassy street, but, for apparently valid reasons, the Minister of the Interior persistently refused to give his eon sent to any such project. The original proposition was that a horse railroad should be constructed, but the Minister promptly vetoed it. His argument was that Andrasay street was mainly used as a public promenade, and that Its beauty and usefulness would be lessened by the introduction of a horse railroad. Five years later—In 1*87— the pro ject of an electric street railroad with an underground current was broached, but when the Minister who was then in office beard of It he refused to sanc tion it, and on the same grounds as his predecessor. Finally the project of an ur%1er ground electric railroad came to the front, and, after some delay, the ne cessary consent of the authorities was secured. According to this new plan a road was to be constructed beginning at the Olsella piatz and thence passing under the Waltzner boulevard and An drassy street to the Stadtwaldehen. The greatest thoroughfares In the city would thus be threaded, or, rather, un dermined, and a ready means of tran | sit would be secured from one Import In regard to the management of the ■ new road none rigid rules have been • laid down. Thus, It was enacted that during the first fifteen years the fare of each passenger shall not exceed ten kreuzers. After that time a change may be made If the interests of the road or the passengers require It. If the road succeeds--and there seems no doubt about it—the city of Budapest will share In the success. Ac cording to the terms of the concession, Budapest Is to receive no taxes from the road for the first twenty years, but after that time It is to receive one per cent of the gross receipts between the twentieth and the thirtieth year, two per cent betweeen the thirtieth and the fortieth year, three per cent be tween the fortieth and the fiftieth year, four per cent between the fiftieth and the sixtieth year and five per cent thereafter. Furthermore, it Is enacted that during the first twenty-live years of the concession no other line shall he built from the Interior of the city to the suburbs. THE DIANA VAUGHN HUMBUG. A Sesndsl Wklrk IntarctU Msajr t'oua trlss—()l|kktlc Hoax. A scandal which Interests many countries was revealed In Paris re cently. A man named I^eo Taxil, by birth a Marseillais, has for a long time been putting a woman named Diana Vaughan, who he declared was the secret head of the freemasons, who were alleged, In America at least, to be devoted to the worship of gat&n, says the London Hpectator. Hhe her self, under the auspices of Gen. Pike, an old and respected Amerlcsn mason, was msrrled to Asmodeus, s devil of high rank. This rubbish found be lief among some clerical and ignorant catholics, Leo Taxil was received In audience by the pope and the greatest Interest wss manifested In Diana Vaughan, who was represented as sin cerely repentant ajul a convert to Catholicism, and to whom Cardinal Parorchlo, a candidate for the papacy, actually wrote a letter of sympathy. Taxil baa now made a public apeech in Paris, in which, In the presence of muny priests, he confessed that the whole story was a gigantic hoax got STATION OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY AT BUDAPEST. ant point to another. This plan was adopted January 22, 1894. and there was a distinct stipulation that the road should be In working order by the time of Hungary’s millennium, in 1896. Quick work therefore was neces sary, for the task was gigantic in its way, and not to be easily accomplished within two years. Actual work was begun on August 13, 1894, and it was kept up without ln 1 termlsslon till the completion of the road. The line was laid with two rails, the entire length being 3.700 meters. Along the route there are eleven sta tions, at which passengers get on or off. Nine of these stations are under ground and two are In the open air. Everything appertaining to the work Is of the strongest and most durable material, und the utmoat pains have been taken to insure for the paaaengers comfort and aafety. Lights are scat tered fieely through the tunnel, some being used as danger signals. Thus a red light shows that the train is to slop and a white light that the road Is : clear. In case the lights get out of or- ; der a telephone can tie used, fur earh elation la provided with a telephone The carriage# are spacious, lusur- , loua. and ar* constructed after the i timet approved models. They are { tweaty la number, fourteen of which j can be uaed singly The road wu finished at the ap j pointed time, and has been running since then from 6 n. m to I a. a> ! Trams follow each other In rapid #«*» | sees#law, and during the busiest time of the day there Is ualy two minutes j headway Prom the atari the road has j beea popular, which la proved hr the j fact that durln* the drat Ive months the number of paasoacera amanatad la I IfdLMd The capital of the road ta IddPdM Aortas, of which IMt.MM Mar ina are kept aa a raaorva fund The t»vsrnmeni. a* municipal, coa ceaaloa lasts for ninety years In IfM. howavsr. the mac eastern ta the Node past Rtsetrtc Railroad tOmpany will tapee. sad Ihea the fraarhtae of (he present road will revert ta the vlty of Hndapeet I'ntll then the Prana June! aad tha Rodepose Hteclrtc companies Will kpeesren11 • e<wt ltenet bee up by him out of sheer love of mysti fication, Diana Vaughan being a type writer of his ucqualntanco who knew nothing of Gen. Pike or Asmodeus either The auditors were very much Inclined to lynch M. Taxil, who had to be protected by the police, and whose motive for his discreditable im posture they evidently doubted. He was probably seeking cash. His stories had a ready sale, and there are men In Paris who would do anything to dis credit the catholic church, which, no doubt, is Inclined by tradition to be rather credulous about free-masonry. It is probable that a good many of the stories about Satanism in Paris have been got up in the same way, by men who traded at once on catholic credul ity and on the appetite for the horrible and the nasty. rim Male Kale. Ho jack -Can you give me a good rule for playing pokerT Toindlk I ran. "do ahead." "Don't poke."— latulsvllle Courier-Journal PERSONAL*. Hev. John McNeill, the evangelist, *aa a railway porter fur year* before he became a preaeher (V W Walton Justice of the Supreme fourt of Maine, will anon retire after a Mtrlr* of flirty years. Mr*. !.engirt ynwun * dreealag bag which la. perhep*. the costliest of lia hind. It la adorned with gold and Jeweled fitting*, and coat ft.tin. John Mrvan. an Ohioan. will aetab tints a public erbool for farming on the Miami river, near Yellow dpringa, itreene county, Me will devMe IM din to the projem, hoping in eerrnet the tendency of people to rush to I he larger rltlas. William firheneh wf Pta* drove. Win . who hoe been lawn trenewtar tor if year a. ha* recently a *4* the grai an*tab* m hi# buwhe and avtw this ‘•a* la on# ml very Utile tmpartoaen Ha In to ream aid and the townsmen intend to hasp him to ofitoo tor the rant of his Ilf* IT IS HARD TO ESCAPE NEW METHOD OF IDENTIFYING CRIMINALS. Now Adopted by St. Louie Th* Folic* Depurt men! of That Already Wrest ling with French Measurement* and Mathematics. 8 ROM the St. Louis Post Dispatch; Since the adoption by the police com missioners of St. Loula of the Ber tlllon system of Identification the beads of depart ments hare begun to rub up their French mathemat ic* and delve more deeply Into prison literature. Even th9 chief* private secretary, Mr. Espey, who. by reason of having been a newspaper man, know* a little of everything, admit* he Is a klndergartner on this subjeot. It Is neither an easy nor a quick transi tion from the old style of descriptions and photographs to the more modern Bertllloo method, and It is rather re elfaKla that A* I ytnia ahmiM Viavo waited ao long before making the change when the Joliet penitentiary and nearly all the chief cltlea and principal prisons bare been working for years under the French plan of Identifying prisoners. Alphonse Bcr tlllon first presented his method to the public In 1881, when France was agita ting the question of the deportation of habitual criminals. It was promptly adopted. It reached this country through the prison congress held at Detroit In 1887, and found a friend and advocate In MaJ. R. W. MeClaughery, then warden of the Illinois peniten tiary at Joliet. Since then It has come slowly into general use, A majority of readers are familiar with the ad vantages of the system, but the practical application Is not so well known. Its results are shown best at Joliet, where, of over 1,500 photo graphs now classified and filed, any one picture can be found In a min ute’s time, from the subject’s meas urement, thus showing that no two persons are precisely alike in every particular. The identification of a prisoner rests upon the knowledge of the following Indications: 1. length and width of the head. 2. Length of the left, middle and little fingers. 3. Length of the left foot. 4. Length of the left forearm. 5. Length of the right ear. 8. Height of the figure. 7. Measurement of the outstretched arms. 8. Measurement of the trunk, from the bench to the top of the head of the person seated. These different operations necessi tate the use of special Instruments called caliper-csmpasses and sliding compasses, and of three graduated measures, permanently fastened to a suitable wall, two being placed verti cally and one horizontally. These in struments have not yet been ordered by the St. Louis police department, but as soon as a Bertlllon agent can be lo cated the order will be made, and with the Instruments will come a teacher to drill the main office in the system. Two or three lessons ordi narily suffice to make an operator tol erably proficient As two or three of the measurements can be modified or influenced by trickery on the part of the subject, the operator himself must practice the motions that are apt to alter the result, and allow his assist ants to do the same, so that he may Ro a KIa 4 a aoqIIw illaAA«vA« tL x_.1 ^ I erles whenever they appear In actual practice. Not taking into account the time needed to ascertain either the civic status of a prisoner of the various particular maiks of the subject, the simple process of measuring, after the period of grouping has been pass ed, does not require more than four or five minutes. In order to become efficient the operator must know un mistakably the nearest approximation to which each measurement or each Indication can be ascertained. Thus, if the officer taking or comparing de scriptions knows to a certainty that the length of the head never exceeds an approximation of two millimeters— this measure lelng the largest pos sible, dlverge icy—a difference of four millimeters or more between two head length measurements would be condu cive proof to him that the measure ments were obtained from two differ ent persons, as the examined subjects cun not exercise the slightest Influence on their cranium diameters, it i» quite common to And two subjects of the same height, but a heir's breadth In head-length Axes the difference it la said the aoa-uatveraality of the me trie system la no obstacle whatever la etllee where the Uertllloa system It not la use. #<* Aguree on the Uertllloa instruments are taken, not as actual measurements of length, etc . hut ax sphere or algae designating a certain Information sought for. as Is now done by means of sears end marks The meaeuremeala and descriptions are ukea at the Joliet penitentiary la the Ivllowlag order, the prisoner being brought Into i he operating room barefooted and la shirt sleeves Height Measurement of I he person steading eteet. OuteireUhed arms from Anger tip to taper Up. the arms being extended la a right angular • rune with the body Trunk hsa beach to lop of bond of • person seat nd. HuM Prom cavity at the root ef the aeee ta the resaoteet point of the hash at the hoadi the diameter from side ta side, between the two palais meet feamte Horn seek ether, el lusted over the earn and on a horizontal piano at right angles to the measurement of length. Right ear--Measurement from the top of the rim to the lowest point of the lobe. Left foot—From extreme point of back of the heel to the end of the farthest projecting toe. Left middle Anger—From point of knuckle to tip of Anger, the Anger being placed at right angles to the baek of the hand. Left fore-arm—From p».nt of the el bow to the tip of tip |g“.hest project ing Anger, the elbow K*ng placed at sharp angles with the upper arm. Left eye—Analysis of the colors, poeetble confusion of pigment and peculiarities. Nose—ProAle, form of the ridge, length, projection, breadth and pecu liarities. Forehead—Inclination, ap parent height and width, and peculiar ities. The marks and scars follow as a matter of course, and then the work is Anished. The height, arms and trunk measurements are taken by per pendicular and horizontal graduated measures placed on the wall. The head la measured with a caliper com pass, the ear with a small sliding com pass, while the Angers, fore-arm and foot are taken by means of a large sliding compass. These descriptions and measurements are Aled, with pho tographs, by divisions or groupings. Given the length of a prisoner'* head, and the officers turn the head group ings for a picture. The head Index on the Ales show the small, medium and Urge, each division separated again Into classes by measurement, the me dium being those of, for instance, 19 cemeters to 19.4; the large lengths 19.5 and more, and the small measuring less than 19. Thus, the officer, in his work of identification, need only ex amine about ten pictures out of a pos sible 10,000. There are now over 4,000 pictures In the rogues' gallery of the Four Courts, and by the Bertlllon sys tem any one of such a number could be located almost Instantly. VERY TACTFUL. How a Pretty tilrl Hollered s Clergy nan's Kmliarraesment. She was a most modest-appearing girl and as pretty as a girl well could lie, says the St. Ixiuls Globe-Democrat. Her great blue eyes looked out from un der her new bonnet in a way liable to bewitch any man. She came Into Union square a recent afternoon and slowly descended the steps, apparently uncon scious of the many admiring glances cast In her direction. In her arms were many bundles, all of them small, but of such odd shapes that they were difficult to carry. As the young woman took her foot from the last step of the long stairway a look of perplexity flitted across her face. Then, as she started to cross the waiting room, those who were watch ing her saw something on the floor, where she bad dropped it. A dozen men started forward to pick it up, saw what it was, and then maneuvered so that it would appear as if they had not noticed it. The young lady, aware of her loss, kept straight on and never looked behind her. But there was one man there who bad seen the article fall and he went after it. He wore the straight collar and peculiar garb of the clergy, while glasses told of the most embarrassing of afflictions, nearsightedness. Run ning quickly to the little object that lay so harmlessly upon the floor, he picked it up and hastened after her. He touched her on the arm, and lifting his hat, he said: “I beg your pardon, my dear young lady, but you dropped your-" It was then that he saw for the first time what he had picked up. He was holding the little band of black with a red bow on it in the full view of wikn w.AOA < n ika Waiting WAAfn and be did not know what to do with It. The young woman’s hands were oc cupied with bundles, and he felt it would scarcely be right either to drop it or put It in hia pocket. For perhaps a moment he stood there blushing. He tried to speak, but the beat he could do was to stammer out some unintelligible syllables. In tbe meantime the girl stood speechless. First she flushed and then grew pale. Then her face scorned to Indicate that she was amused at the clergyman’s embarrassment. Then, with a sweet smile, she dropped her bundles on a seat near by. and. taking tbe circlet, said: “It’s so good of you. My brother Tom would never have for given me If I lost one of the sleeve holders his fiancee sent him," And she gathered up her huudles and walked away. X May on a Terrier. The foa terrier la now officially reg istered as a transparency, the X ray shining through turn like a caudle through a Chines# lantern. The eape rlment baa just been tried on nn ani mal of this specie# which had swallow ed a diamond ring, the trinket appear ing In Its midst, visible as a goldfish In a glass case or e Ay In ember. The utilities of this penetrating ban may eapand tilt it will show up other than the paltry pllterlngs of a terrier, per haps even the swag of the political boee. notwithstanding the opacity ef Ita bulk and origin --New York Tribune. llStatei twciyllM I* rata*. A striking picture of the ugNiai car rupturn that prevails in Chian la af forded by sows diplomatic reports sab willed by tbe KagiUh foreign office la the houses of perllamsal el Westmm •ter Among other things It la shown that ae greet ie the stealing that. v«v the Imperial government la ehaiteh the Me# tribute from the provtnaaa a| Klapse and Chekiang alone, it weald «ge. wkuk ta the earn that Ha vlMultan w* wrote over and abate lbs re venae that M Hilda