Did Prehistoric Mai\ Live in New York? Considerable interest has been iroused among geologists and others In New York state by the finding of the footprint of a most remarkable prehistoric animal in a piece of rock near Penn Yan, N. Y. The discovery was made by Prof. C. Carleton Wheel er of Hammondsport, while walking through a ravine. Apart from the well preserved con dition of the footprint, which in itself was remarkable considering that thou sands, perhaps millions, of years have elapsed since the strange animal stalked this earth, wonderment has been caused at the evident peculiar formation of the foot. Nothing like it is known to science among animals of the present day or those of prehistoric times. “We know of no such animal which had such a foot,” said Professor Wheel er, who has been studying his "find” intently. “It has five toes and some what resembles the human foot. But the toes are webbed like those of the ancient monkey or ape and of the shape which distinguishes the prehis toric man dwelling on this continent. “What seems equally as probable is that the footprint may have been brought here by the glaciers during *.he glacial period.” The discovery of the curious print an the face of the rock was made by the merest accident. A farm laborer, while plowing in a field at Penn Yan, itruek a snag, which proved to be i piece of slate over two feet square *nd several inches in thickness. The i ploughman carried the obstruction to the edge of the held and unceremon iously dumped It down the ravine. That was six years ago The rock remained there until found a few days ago by Professor Wheeler. "It was covered with earth, w’hich adhered to it," said the Professor, "and appeared to be nothing more than an obstruction to the plowman. 1 first noticed the indentations caused by the toes. When I examined closer I found the impression was nearly the shape of a human foot.” The stone is a variety of slate and originally measured five inches in thickness and four feet square. At present it is one inch in thickness and two feet square. In both the upper left hand and the lower right hand corners are several small pieces which w’ere partly decayed before they were petri fied. These must have been caught in the mud, which received the footprint of that unknown animal and which lat er formed the stone. The print is in the lower central part of the stone. It is seven inches in length and three inches wide. '1 here are five toes, which seem to have been connected by a web. The center toe i3 the longest and largest. The others grow shorter regularly. On one of the indentations are several marks which cause it to look like a face turned wrong side out. There are five in dentations at the end of the foot, which were caused by the ends of the toes, but there are only three indenta tions caused by the ball cf the foot. IMPRINT OF FOOT OF PREHISTORIC MAN-MONKEY. Serinn* Famine In Russia. Three districts of Russia have been declared in a state of famine. The as sistance required in the form of grain Is estimated at 3,200.000 poods. The villagers of Khavlinsk, where famine was first declared, have left in such numbers, seeking work, that the population has been reduced from 22, 900 to 15,000. The province of Saratoff, in which this and other severely strick en districts are situated, has been promised a loan of 990,000 poods of wheat and 250,000 poods of oats. Over 400,000 acres of cotton in Central Asia are reported to have been des troyed during the last autumn by grasshoppers. Typhus is prevalent in fifty-seven volosts—the territorial unit next above the villages—of Cufa, and other dangerous diseases in eight vo losts. Scarletina, diphthoritis and smallpox are also beginning to make their appearance in the famine dis tricts of this province. Statue In Germany to Iloer Leader. £ CM«'(riAnDtWiT This monument to General De Wet, the commander of the Boer army, was unveiled last week at Schierstein-on the-Rhine, Germany. Funds for its erection were collected throughout Germany by the “Christian associa tion.-’ Mrs. I*. I>. Armour, Jr., to Wed Information came to Chicago yester day that the rumored engagement of Mrs. P. D. Armour, Jr., and P. A. Val entine had been confirmed—not for mally announced, but given out as a fact among the friends of Mrs. Armour. It is understood that the wedding will take place some time during the win ter. Mrs. Armour is the widow of Philip D. Armour's younger son, who died in California about a year before the death of the father. Mr. Valentino has been connected with the house of Armour & Co. for many years. COMPEL CITIZENS TO VOTE. All ftelgian* Onaliflcd Must Exercise* the Elective Franchise. The Belgians have made an import ant discovery. They have found out how to accomplish something that no American commonwealth accomplish es. They have found out how to com pel citizens to vote. They do not send the non-voters to jail, but the coercive means employed is so effective ihat at a recent election out of 1,058,165 eligi ble voters only 5,551 failed to vote J without giving previous notice to the courts as required by law, and of this number 2,621 when summoned before the magistrates, were able to present acceptable excuses, such as age, Illness, or unavoidable absence. The number punished for not voting at that election was 2,920, or exactly 2.76 out of every thousand. How has this wonder been achieved? In the case of the first offenders the state is far from being harsh. The magistrates admonish the beligerent citizen that the habit of staying away from the polls will cause him trouble if persisted in. He has begun to make entries on the wrong side of his ac count with the state. If he fails to vote a second time there will be a penalty. In that event he hands the magistrate 15, and if he still continues to refrain from voting as the elections recur his political rights are suspended for ten years. Some day we shall be as ef ficient as the Belgians are in enforcing the performance of political duty. Before the year 1893 in Belgium it is said that 16 per cent of the voters remained away from the polls at every election in spite of all that the party workers could do to get them there. But as soon as the law making voting compulsory wa3 passed the rate of absentation fell below 5 per cent. The Science of Sleep. It is a curious fact, but by no means astonishing, that until of late days a satisfactory explanation of sleep and its causation was hardly to be met with within the bounds of physiological science. Anaemia of the brain was re garded as the origin of our slumbers, but it became clear that this bloodless ness was to be regarded rather as a result of some other and more primary process than as itself a true or direct cause of sleep. The theory has been revived that sleep is due to the libera tion into the blood of certain sub stances which arc manufactured by certain glands—these are not defined, by the way—with the result that our brain cells are sent dozing. Alongside this view may be placed that other whicli supposed that a greater amount of carbonic acid gas being produced as the result of bodily work—Or a want of elimination of this product being rep resented—we went to sleep because our brain cells were thus numbed by the gas. I think these “poisoning’' sleep I theories will not hold water. Far more j rational is the simple view that fa { tigue of our brain cells is the real cause l wLich sends us into the arms of “the I drowsy god.”—Loudon Chronicle. T PEOPLE*™ EVENTS IN ALASKA'S INTERIOR. Only Two Sraaoni There I*e«tlfernna Inaerta Numerous. In the vast and almost unknown In terior of Alaska, far beyond the influ ence of the "Kuro Slwo," the climate is arctic in the fullest sense of the word, ^here are only two seasons here —winter and summer. The winter is of eight months' duration, dry and, ex cepting certain restricted localities, en tirely free from wind. The tempera ture descends as low as 80 degrees be low zero (upon rare occasions even 9P degrees has been reached), with a mean of perhaps 40 degrees below. Ice forms in the rivers and lakes to a thickness of eight feet and more. Summer extends over a period of four months. During its earliest month high winds prevail, greatly assisting in the dissipation of snow and ice, but rendering this time extremely dis agreeable. The balance of this short season is mild and the temperature pleasant, rarely exceeding 86 degrees. The snow and rain annually precipi tated is about 12.9 inches. The hapless resident in this inhos pitable section is afforded no relief after his long winter’s fight for the unity of soul and body by the advent of this otherwise agreeable period, for. with the first tempered breeze, comes countless legions of mosquitoes, black flies and various stinging insects be sides, while agonizing assiduity and ghoulish appetite preclude the enjoy ment of the briefest moment. Whence conies the abnormal instinct, says a writer in the Era Magazine, that marks man at first sight for their prey—con sidering the fact that their ancestry, back to protoplasm, had no knowledge of his being—is an interesting problem best left for entomologists to deter mine. To Cultivate Kubbir. The Los Andes Rubber, Lumber and Fruit company of Gnutemala and New Orleans has gone into business. Men will be down in the rubber country in the next few days, and the work of the company will go forward at once. The officers of the company are all New Orleans men. The company has been incorporated under the laws of Louisi ana. The idea is to handle rubber on a large scale, and to manufacture the raw product here. The plans contem plate the establishment of a factory in America in which all kinds of rubber goods will be made. The company has several valuable concessions, and is sending Americans down to the coun tries in Central America to look at the lands and to start the work of develop ment. Kmprcss I.o«ioe Her Power. Dowager Rmpress Marie Dagmar of Russia, who, it is said, has lost all of her once potent influence over the young czar, spends much of her tlfte at the court of her father, King Chris tian IX. of Denmark. The empress was formerly called the Princess Dag mar, and during her reign in Russia, was regarded as the “best dressed woman in Europe.” She was also one of the prettiest. German in blood, the RUSSIA’S DOWAGER EMPRESS, empress is said to dislike everything German. Bismarck she particularly hated. This bright woman, like every body who goes to live in Russia, was rapidly converted into a Russian and is today intensely interested in the destiny of the country over which she has long since lost her last vestige of power. American Flour In England. \ London paper complains that the English markets are now being flood ed to a greater extent than ever before 1 with American flour. According to this report, the American exporters have been sending over flour in small bags that were convenient in size, and yet were sold at the same rate as were barrels. This catering for the retail trade, the paper states, is something new in the export flour business from the United States, and it is growing ! at such a rate that it threatens a dull market for English flours for the rest of the current year. Bag flour has, of course, been sold in this country for many years, and it is a convenience to the small customers. If it has never been tried before in Great Britain, we do not doubt that the move will be a popular one, though it seems very strange that the experiment has not been attempted before this.—Boston Herald. AS TO COIMTAGIOtS DISFASI S Nebraska llonrd of llrwltli llrilur* Stria ent Quarantine Regulation*. LINCOLN, Neb., Dee. 4.—The mem bers ami secretaries of the State Board of Health have submitted a set of stringent quarantine regulations which are recommended for adoption by every county in the state. They provide for the quarantine of small pox, scarlet fever and diphtheria cases upon strict sanitary nes. The uoard advises the county commission ers in each county to organize a lo cal board of health and they are ur ged to follow as closely as possiole the rules submitted to them, which are as follows: Whenever within the limits of this county and without the corporate lim its of any city or village a person is suspected of having smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria of other contagious disease, he shall be immediately iso lated within his own household as carefully as possible, and as soon as a contagious disease is recognized it will be the duty of the attending phy sician and of the householder to give written notice of the same to the clerk of the county, giving the name of the disease and of the family where it exists, with the number exposed and all other particulars that may be of any value. The premises where above conta gious diseases exist shnll be duly quarantined by the board through its proper officers, or an appointee, (a) by placing upon the house or some conspicuous point upon the premises a placard giving the name of the dis ease in letters not less than three inches in height; (b) by a verbal or written notice to the householder to remain on the premises and in no way mingle with other people, or al low others, except physicians, to ap proach nearer than thirty feet of any house or person thus quarantined. This rule to apply also in cases of exposure. Such quarantine shall continue un til, in the opinion of the medical ad viser of the board, the last case of the disease likely to occur therein has com pletely recovered and is ready ror dis infection. Provided, however, that In cases of extreme necessity one free from disease may be released earlier after thorough disinfection of person and clothing, and with a certificate from the above named medical ad viser. The necessaries of life, as often as occasion demands, may be carried within thirty feet of the quarantined house by a neighbor or other duly appointed messenger, but no nearer, nor shall any effects whatever be brought away from the household un til thoroughly disinfected. In case of death from contagious disease there shall be no public fun eral; the body of the deceased shall be closely wrapped in sheets well sat urated with disinfectants and dosed in a tight casket, this to be again wrapped in a disinfected cloth, and in such cases the corpse shall not be carried to or near any body of people while on its way to the ceme tery. When in any school district or com munity several families—say five to eight—are infected with contagious diseases, or very many exposures have occurred, the board should prohibit all gatherings of people in that com munity, including sessions of schools, until in their opinion the emergency is past. All physicians should use due pre cautions in their visits to quarantined households to avoid the danger of contagion to the well. When, in the opinion of the medical adviser of the board, quarantine can safely be raised, it shall be done with fumigation with a 40 ppr cent solu tion of formaldehyde, using at least five ounces to each 1,000 cubic feet of air space, solution to be applied by an approved evaporator or by the sheet method, the rooms to he sealed for at least six hours, all persons to receive a disinfecting bath and their clothing to be fumigated and the house thoroughly cleaned. This is to be done in accordance with the sug gestions of the State Board of Health to physicians. When in the opinion of the board a hospital is needed to which individ ual cases of contagious diseases may be removed, or when such method will accommodate those without homes at much less public expense, or for any other reason it is deemed best, a building suited to their needs shall be provided. Whoever in any way willfully or negligently disobeys fjhese rules of quarantine and disinfection shall by such disobedience render himself sub ject to prosecution and a fine of $25 for each and every offense and shall meanwhile, if infected and subject to quarantine, be held at the quaran tined house or hospital until the time for disinfection. A1U*b«-<1 Horne Thieve*. OSCEOLA, Neb., Dec. 7.—Sheriff Nuquist returned from St. Paul, where he secured two horse thieves wanted in this county for stealing a horse, November 29, from Charles H. Olsen, twelve miles southeast of Stromsburg. They waived examination. T THE OEEICIAE VOTE Of NEBRASKA Result of the Canvass of the Vote Cast at the General Election, (November 5, 1901. A TABLE TO PRESERVE EOR FUTURE REFERENCE Figures for AH the Candidates in All the Counties in the Contest Last Month — Miscellaneous Nebraska Matters in Various Sections of the Commonwealth. Judge of Supreme Ct. Regents of the University. TET SS a » o 3 COUNTIES. o’ E < o Adams . Antelope .... Banner . Blaine . Boone . Box Butte .. Boyd . Brown .. Buffalo . Burt . Butler . Cass . Cedar . Chase . Cherry . Cheyenne ... Clay . Colfax . Cuming . Custer . Dakota . Dawes . Dawson . Deuel . Dixon . Dodge .. Douglas . Dundy . Fillmore .... Franklin .... Frontier .... Furnas . Cage . Garfield . Cos per . Grant . Greeley . Hall . Hamilton ... Harlan . Hayes . Hitchcock .. Holt . Hooker . Howard . Jefferson _ Johnson . Kearney .... Keith . Key a Balia . Kimball . Knox . Lancaster .. Lincoln . Logan . Loup . McBherson . Madison .... Merrick . Nance . Nemaha .... Nuckolls .... Otoe . Pawnee . Perkins . Phelps . Pierce . Platte . Polk . Red Willow Richardson . Rock . Saline . Sarpy . Saunders — Scotts BlufT Seward . Sheridan .... Sherman .... Sioux . Stanton . Thayer . Thomas . Thurston ... Valley . Washington Wayne . Webster _ Wheeler. 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In Football flHtn*« HUMBOLDT, Neb., Dec. 3.—-Will Power, as the result of a foot ball game at Auburn, lias two broken ribs and numerous other hurts. n».V to the hr form School. STERLING, Neb., Dec. 8.—Sheriff Strong took Joe Hobbs to the reform school. The lad has been a source of a great deal of trouble to his teachers and parents for several years and Is apparently Incorrigible, having been expelled from school several months ago. lately he enticed a young girl into a barn and attempted to outrage her. She advised her parents and they filed a complaint. From Norfolk to f.lnroln. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 3.— Governor Savage, upon the recommendation of the state board of charities and cor rections, ■will advocate removal of the insane patients at present at the Norfolk asylum to the institutions at Lincoln, Hastings and Beatrice. Rea sons are lack of sanitation in the Nor folk institution since the fire there some weeks ago, as well as to the present crowded condition. Hr put. Prairie Fire. SPRINGVIEW, Neb., Dec. 3.—The range country for many miles north west of this town has been swept by a great prairie fire. Corn la Still King-. ARLINGTON, Neb., Dee. 3.—Farm ers in this section are enjoying a largo degree of prosperity as they will have an average of about thirty-five bushels of excellent corn per acre, for which they receive 56 cents per bushel. No Pardon for Until,.,-. LINCOLN, Dec. 3.—Governor Sav age denied the rumor recently put into circulation that he is contemplat ing either a pardon or a parole for Joseph Bartley. He said there was no foundation whatever for the report Ilorttr. »,„1 Mills* Cremated KCHT M,ER, Neb., Dec. 3.—Fire de stroyed the barns belonging to John Bingham. Eight horses ai,d two mules were cremated In the ruins f