LOUP (ITY NORTHWtSTfRN UKO. K. UKNHHl'OTKB, Kdlt«r and Pub. L.OUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Parts Is still patiently waiting for Simon Sam to unpack his $10,000,000. Probably it was remorse that drove the author of "Goo-Goo Eyes" to drink. A nation that becomes drunk with prosperity is sure to wake up with a headache. Probably you think you know what perityphlitis is, but do you know how to pronounce it? It is a fortunate reformer whose promises are not followed by a heavy crftp of apologies. The crown of Great Britain is like King Edward's vermiform appendage —in a detached state. A pickle trust with $30,000,000 capi tal has been formed. This is one of the sourest doses of all. It will be by no means an insignifi cant accomplishment for the king to disappoint the superstitious. Will the yachting experts kindly no tice that it was an American boat that won in European waters also? Kipling has rescinded his gift of a drill hall to Rottingdean. Perhaps the villagers were using it for ping-pong. The combination of a Kansas farm er, a shotgun and a harvest field ap pears to have solved the tramp ques tion. Mary MacLane is going direct from Butte to Boston. Is this from the sublime to the ridiculous or vice versa? The postponement of the corona tion was a great blow to the peeresses who had provided themselves with new gowns. The automobiles in the Kansas wheat district cannot pass each other in the lanes on account of the mow ing machines. A New York merchant advertises “real pseudo panama hats.” The ca pabilities of the language continue to be immeasurable. No matter what the scofTers say. the fact remains that the girl graduate is as clever as she is pretty, which is saying a good deal. It is not difficult to trace the origin of King Edward's ailment. He was a member of twenty clubs, most of which had men cooks. The first winner at the interna tional yacht races at Kiel was the Uncle Sam. There’s something in a name now and then. Richard Harding Davis says the Spanish empire is not tottering. King Alfonso’s legs must be a good deal stronger than they look. We are not likely loon to forget that King Edward remembered the poor of London even while the sur geon's knife placed his crown in the balance. Patrick F. Sheedy has gone abroad to form a company to engage in the mining of emeralds. He cannot break himself of the habit of working with green things. i _ That Cincinnati woman who is urg ing her sisters to adopt a reform dress that costs $1.25 is in a fair way to become very popular with the sterner sex. An Englishman traveling in Siberia was astonished to find that “all Ir kutsk should have gone out of town for the summer just as if it were New York or Naples." Now that a learned Judge of Jersey City has defined the making of goo goo eyes as an attention without in tentions the world can go on with a new sense of security. The Chicago milkman who dis proved the charge that he sold poor milk by exhibiting in court half a doz en fat babies fed from his dairy prod uct knew the value of circumstantial evidence. The New York state minister who sued for a $t> funeral sermon fee and proved that his effort was worth $5 must have put on the pedal when he used the adjectives descriptive of a deserving life. Frankfort, Kentucky, is somewhat alarmed over the wonderful prepon derance of female babies there. This Is the first intimation ever given that such a thing as too many Kentucky girls could be possible. Is it not a trifle late to worry over tte religion of George Washington? George was a rather useful and re spectable citizen, and the chances are that he has been well taken care of. The pessimist who reads of that stabbing affray between two of our schoolgirls may be pardoned for ex claiming, "Whither are we drifting?" They say it was overwork that made King Edward sick, but he may have had a look at Alfred Austin’s ode be fore it was giver out for publication. SHOULD RECALL 1892 THE FOLLY OF ENC. Then Moses turned to the third punishment of the people. He summoned to him all that were on the Lord's side, and when the Levltes, Mnses't own tribe, responded, he sent them throughout the camp to slay the leaders in the idolatrous movement. Even their own brothers and sons they were to kill, thus consecrating themselves (v. 29), set ting themselves apart for priesthood. V. The Disobedient Restored.—The next two chapters of Exodus describe the re storing of Israel to God's favor. In three particulars: (1) the pitching of the Tent of Meeting outside the camp; (2) the def inite promise of God's presence, con firmed by a particular view of the divine majesty as Moses stooil in the cleft of the rock; and (3) God's new covenant with Moses, confirmed by a renewing of the stone tablets, and by such blessed communion through the second forty days that Moses' face wore a supernat ural radiance, though he knew It not, when he returned to his penitent people. So will it be with us, after our sinning, if we will honestly repent, and seek through Christ, our intercessor greater than Moses, the merciful paidon of God. Wonderful Work of Tornado. Speaking of tornadoes, a western exchange says: “A Nebraska man tells of having a large flock of geese stripped clean of their feathers, and the feathers, carefully ‘sorted’ and stuffed into an empty barrel. Froude’s History of England. Froude passed seven years in col lecting materials and in writing his “History of England.” He was very careful in the selection of data, and spent whole days in the effort to veri fy a single fact or citation. _ _ t THE GRAVE OF KUSHAQUA. Foreman of Gang of Laborers Imposed on Or. Seward Webb* Dr. W. Seward Webb, whose name has been Ailing the newspapers re cently in connection with the affaire of a syndicate in Wall street, has great talent as a railroad builder. One ol his achievements was the construc tion of the Adirondack and 9t. Law rence railroad, cutting through the heart of the great New York wilder ness. During the building of tills road Dr. Webb became very much interested in the location of a hotel at Lake Kush aqua, an extremely beautiful spot. He ordered a section gang to clear the grounds all about the hotel, and to lay out a smooth, level lawn. The foreman In charge of this gang was an Irishman. In the course of his labor he came upon an enormous bowlder. To remove this rock would have involved more labor than he was inclined to give to the Job, so he cov ered the rock with earth and laid over this a carpet of turf. About two months later Dr. Webb came to Lake Kushaqua and his eyes fell npon the mound. He called the foreman sharply to task. “Didn’t I tell you,” he said, "to level this ground?’’ “Yes, sir,” replied the foreman. "Then why didn't you do it? What is this hummock doing here?" “That hummock?” repeated the foreman, sparring for time; “why, I didn't think you would want that hum mock removed. When we lifted the rock we found some bones under it, and one of the Indians around here, whom we asked, told us that it was the grave of the great Chief Kusha qua. I thought you would probably want us to leave it.” The man received Dr. Webb’s com mendation for his thoughtfulness, and to this day the hummock is pointed out to visitors at the hotel as the grave of Kushaqua, to the great glee of the natives thereabouts. A SPONGE STOCK FARM. They Are Trying to Breed Tame Ones Now in Florida. Not even the sponge can escape the efforts of the breeder. If the govern ment succeeds even measurably in its efforts, there will be a stock farm of sponges on the Florida coast some day, whej;e a man can go and buy eggs or young sponges as he would buy hens’ eggs or calves now. Some time ago Dr. H. F. Moore be gan experiments at Sugar Loaf Key, about 25 miles east of Key West, and j at several places in Biscayne bay. j Several thousand sponge cuttings were planted at these places under a variety of conditions. The chief prob lem confronting the experimenter in this field is to find some ready means of attaching the cuttings to a durable support, Capable of resisting the ac tion of salt water and the ravages of the teredo and animals having simi lar destructive habits, and which, at j the same time, will not have an injurious effect upon the growing sponge. The cuttings live and their cut surfaces heal without difficulty. About six w’eeks after the plants were made they were examined, and, under favorable conditions, it was found that about 95 per cent of the sheepswool cuttings were alive, healed and apparently healthy. In several cases, where the plants were made in places exposed to very strong cur rents, many of the pieces were torn loose from their supports, while oth ers had been killed by rough action of the currents. The cuttings from yellow sponges suffered a much greater mortality than those made from the sheepswool sponge, but whether this be due to the more delicate nature of the animal or to the accidental conditions under which they were planted is not yet determined. So far as has been discovered, the more valuable sheepswool sponge seems to posses greater hardiness than its cogener. Berlin a Beautiful City. “Berlin, the Beautiful,” is the name bestowed upon the German capital by the throngs of visitors who pour through every summer. Those who Save not visited Berlin on previous pilgrimages and also those who saw Berlin a decade ago stand in aston ishment before the mighty progress of the kaiserstadt. To Paris still be longs the charm and the gayety which attracts visitors from all parts of the earth, but to Berlin is now awarded the prize for its artistic aspect, its immaculately clean streets, well groomed public squares and its stat uary and ornamental bridges, says the Brooklyn Eagle. Add to this that Berlin is the acknowledged pivotal center of political Europe and that upon the Germah empire, with its vigorous ruler, rests the decision of peace or war in continental Europe, and it is no wonder that Berlin is pressing Paris very closely. Japanese New Woman. The Japan Woman’s University is said to have adopted baseball In n modified form as an exercise for Its students, says the Japan Times. The modification made by a gymnastic teacher consists of increasing the number of bases to five instead of four, and of shortening the inter-base distance. The field will therefore be pentagonal in shape. The heading of this note may sound objectionable, but in using it we do not of course in sinuate that our "new women” be have extravagantly, as their sisters in the West are supposed to do. The rreation of "new women,” adopted for national requirements, is an in imitable consequence of the new state el affaire in Japan. • Looking for a Popular Song. "This year," said a Philadelphia young man who haunts the theaters "there doesn't seem to be any on* popular song that has caught on, tc the exclusion of the others. This con dition of affairs is really remarkably when you come to think of it. ui course, the summer is young yet, and it may still come, but the conditions are against it. In previous years* wherever you would go, you would be sure to hear the popular song of the day, played by bands in the vari ous parks, whistled on the streets, sung by the colored boy quartets that .Make night hideous and ground out on street pianos. We had lots of good musical comedies during the last sea son, with lots of good songs, but no one seems to have just caught on to such an extent as to be ‘it.’ ” A Highbinder His Servant. Governor Gage, of California, haa roused a storm of disapproval by se curing the parole from San Quentin prison of Mab Noon, one of the most desperate and blood-thirsty highbind ers ever caught red handed. Mah is a, fine cook, and the governor has in stalled him as chef in his own home. The Chinaman was sentenced not long ago to fourteen years for attempting' to murder another Celestial. He also' shot and dangerously wounded an of-: fleer who went to arrest him. The* governor’s fellow republicans are much incensed. ^ A Fortunate Postmaster. Kirk, Ark., July 14th.—Mr. William' S. Drennan, Postmaster at this office,} counts himself a very fortunate man. Mr. Drennan in addition to being postmaster is a Justice of the Peace,! a member of the Christian church and a highly respected and useful cit>| izen. 't He has suffered for some time with) what some people would call "rick-j etts” or “rigors” of the kidneys—Kid-j ney disease in a very painful form. He could not sleep, he had a dull pain over his left kidney, was con-' tinually restless, could not lie still, and had to get up through the night several times and was also troubled in this way during the day. He used a few boxes of Dodd’s, Kidney Pills, a remedy recently in-, troduced in this state and advertised| as a cure for Kidney Disease, Rheu matism, Malaria, etc., and in a short time was completely restored to vig orous, good health. He is very grate ful to Dodd’s Kidney PilU. Nothing pleases a man so much as the inability of others to get on to his curves. Wanted Good. 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He repeated this} performance, till, one day, one of the, men said he felt like hearing a tune, and asked him to play, "I am sorry," said the man with the clarinet, “but I cannot play a note." Same Kind of a Critter. This is from a Connecticut woman’s1 diary, dated 1790: “We had roast! pork for dinner, and Dr. S., who carv ed, held up a rib on his fork and said: ‘Here, ladies, is what Mother Eve was made of.' ‘Yes.’ said Sister Patty, ‘and it's from very much the same kind of critter.’ ” BOYS WHO MAKE MONEY In a dainty little booklet. 15 out of some jooo bright boys tell in t heir own way just how they have made a success of selling (THE SATURDAY EVENING POSTr-<& Pictures of the boys— letters telling how they built up a paying busi ness outside of school i hours. Interesting stories of real business tact. 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