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IX)UP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
Time, tide and a rnfitorman in •
hurry stop for no man.
Dan Patch has a plain and homely
name, but his record is a mighty
pretty one.
The way of the transgressor may he
hard, hut a good deal of it seems to
be asphalted.
The devil wagon, like the worm, has
a tendency to turn upon those who
press it too hard.
How President Baer must despise
the ordinary citizen who has his win
ter ccal in and paid for.
It must be admitted that "the boys
in oiivo drab” doesn't sound so wel’
from a poetic standpoint.
No doubt the American girl is en
tirely etual to the task of driving th«
monarchies out of business.
!n England they are exploiting a
red light cure for disease. It should
be good for the yellow jaundice.
If our millionaires get tired of golf
they will probably purchase navies
and indulge In the great war game.
So long as the automobile con
tinues to run amuck on the highways
grade-crossing agitation seems trivial.
President Castro of Venezuela has
won a victory. The other side must
have consisted of a boy and a lame
duck.
Trolley accidents are becoming so
frequent that the public is almost
ready to welcome the return of the
mule car.
The best thing about Mrs. Stuyve
sant Fish's gorgeous colonial ball was
that it put something like $18,000 in
circulation.
A Los Angeles man has insured his
life for $50,000. It would be interest
ing to know what his neighbors think
his life is worth.
There are rumors (hat a eireua
trust is to be organized. Presumably
a live octopus will be the principal
feature of the menagerie.
The formation of vegetarian soci
eties on ocean liners will afford the
steamship companies a means of get
ting back at the beef trust.
Who cares what the original Eng
lish Washington coat-of arms was? A
cherry-tree couehant with hatchet
rampant is good enough for Ameri
cans.
The American actress who has got
a real live English duchess to write
t play for her naturally expects to
father in an unlimited supply of
ducats.
That luncheon given by the shah of
Persia in London at a cost of $13,000
looked like> quite a big affair with so
many of the American millionaires
out of town.
A We3t Virginia physician says
that by fasting one may live to be
200 years old. Yet many people have
starved to death, not understanding
scientific principles.
The jewels in the queen's crown
will be sold and replaced by paste. If
Ed is hard up for paste he can just
take his dish and run into the near
est newspaper office.
The general distribution of the pic
tures of famous individuals is bound
to cause trouble. A jealous Minnesota
man recently whipped his wife for
treasuring a likeness of George Wash
ington.
An Indiana man burned up $G,000
the other day before committing sui
cide. A man as mean as that might
have saved his matches if he could
have managed to take the money
with him.
John W. Gates said to the boys of
an industrial school that he tried to
be right 51 per cent of the time. It
is hoped that Mr. Gates is not content
with a lower percentage in his morals
than in his profits.
The story that a New Jersey Sunday
school superintendent asked his flock,
“What is the best thing in the world?”
and that a hundred little voices
piped out, “Money!” bears internal
evidence of being true.
President Wheeler of the University
of California is on dangerous ground.
The general rule goes something like
this: College President—There is no
harm in hazing. Chorus of Barbarous
Sophomores—Let's haze the old man.
The Mississippi river is reported
to be so low in some places that cat
tle can wade across it. That's a nice
hind of river to go winding around
claiming to be the father of waters.
Scientists say that some insects live
less than a day, but there are others
that live three score years and ten.
and die with a nestful of mortgages.
The men who sat on the edge of a
crater and looked down two thousand
feet gave a demonstration of the
lreaning of the term "deep insight.”
UNIV E R S I T Y OF OKLAHOMA.
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The University of Oklahoma, lo
cated at Norman, Okla.. a growing
town of 3,500 inhabitants, the county
seat of Cleveland county, eighteen
miles south of Oklahoma City, is
founded upon the authority of an act
of the legislature of the Territory of
Oklahoma, entitled. “An Act to Lo
cate and Establish the University of
Oklahoma.’’ The act provided that
when ten thousand dollars and forty
acres of land should be donated to the
territory by the city of Norman, the
institution should be located at that
place. These requirements were met
in 1892 and the university was estab
lished in that year.
The school is open to students of
both sexes. It now comprises a col
lege of arts, a school of music, a
school of pharmacy,' a preparatory
school, a school of medicine, and a
school of engineering. The governing
board, the board of regents is ap
pointed by the governor of the Terri
tory and the members are chosen
from the ranks of practical business
men. At present the board is com
posed of the following members:
Gov. T. B. Ferguson. Guthrie, Okla.,
ex-officio; Hon. G. W. Sutton. M. I).,
Cleveland, Okla.; Hon. It. E. Wood,
Shawnee, Okla.; D. L. Larsh, Esq.,
Norman. Okla.: J. L. Wilkins. Esq.,
Oklahoma City. Okla.; Harry Gilstrap.
Esq., Chandler, Okla.
The university campus comprises
sixty acres, twenty of which have re
cently been donated by the citizens of
Norman. The campus and approach
ing boul.vards have been set out in
trees which have already reached a
size sufficient for considerable shape.
In addition there is a nursery of 15,000
young trees, for the most part elm,
ash. and locust.
The building, which has been in use
since it was completed in 1893. is now
remodeled for use as a science hall
and a new main hall is under con
| with terra cotta trimmings and white
limestone basement.
In accordance with the bill above
referred to plans have been drawn
and contract let for a central lighting
and heating plant to cost 5,000. A
third building now being planned is a
gymnasium at an estimated cost of
$10,000.
The university is supported by a
general tax of one-half mill upon each
dollar of valuation on the assessment
roll of the Territory. In addition to
this. Section 13 in each township in
what is known as the Cherokee Outlet
was reserved from settlement, for
university, normal school and agri
cultural school purposes. The lands
so reserved have been leased for the
benefit of the institutions named.
The additional lands recently opened
for settlement increase the income of
the university so that it receives an
nually for its support something be
tween $40,000 and $50,000.
Twenty-five instructors are now em
ployed and additions to the faculty
are made each year as the demand for
additional courses makes it necessary.
The enrollment last year was four
hundred, a large percentage of which
was of college rank. The university
is a member of the Northwestern As
sociation of State Universities and its
courses rank with those in any of the
state institiitions of the Northwest.
The Institution is patronized by the
people wno come to Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory from many of
the eastern and southern states, who
are enthusiastic and loyal in their
support of the Territorial school. Its
legitimate domain is Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory and the summer
just passed has shown it to be grow
ing in favor with people from both
sections of the country. Its privileges
i are free to both peoples, and the
young men and women of both the In
• dian Territory and Oklahoma are And
as part of a legacy from his grand
father, to whom it had been presented
by a Maori chief. Said Its owner, "I
have traveled 10,000 miles with the
image, and it has brought disaster aft
er disaster upon me. I have often en
deavored to destroy it, but without
avail.
“I once threw it under a train, and,
in running to get out of the way. fell
and broke one of my fingers. Then I
was arrested for endangering the lives
of passengers. When in London three
months ago, I threw it into the
Thames, and a drunken sailor who
fished it out brought it back to my
rooms, and in his rage at not receiv
ing a reward almost beat me to death.
“While in San Francisco 1 tried to
chop it to pieces with an ax, when th«
ax, rebounding, struck me on the fore
head with almost fatal effect. The
wood is so hard that an ordinary fire
will not destroy it. and I am afraid to
get rid of it otherwise because of the
evil results.”
The image was a crude figure in
rosewood and ebony, and about two
feet long. Failing to get it cremated
in St. Louis, its owner started for
New York, where he was determined
to have it destroyed at whatever cost.
A CONSTANT NERVOUS STRAIN
French and Italian Troops Never Re
lax Watchfulness.
An article in a French periodical
draws attention to the peculiar nerv
vous excitement wnich is said to he
characteristic of the French troops on
the Italian frontier. The officers feel
that a constant strain is upon their
attention and though qualities of vigor
and alertness are aroused there is
often a tendency toward exaggeration.
It i3 in the Alps thrt the inquietude is
greatest, as the available passes are
few and if hostilities were intended
the capture of one or more of them
OLD TERRITORIAL UNIVERSITY BUILDING.
strurtior. Tta® old building, built of
white limestone and red pressed
brick, contains twenty-five recitation
rooms and a large chapel.
Hy an act of the legislature ap
proved March 8, 1901, the university
was granted the income for two years
from a tax of seven-tenths of a mill
on the dollar on all taxable property
of the Tarritory, the amount to be
spent for building, however, not to
exceed 190,000. The building thus
provided for is the new' main hall
which will be completed by Pee. 21,
1902; it is to be of buff pressed brick
ing the institution a good place in
which to do educational work.
SPELLS CAST BY AN IDOL.
Its Possessor Vainly Endeavors to Get
Rid of It.
One of the best known public men
in New Zealand, a wealthy r 'sident of
liokian^i. North Island, reef ttly trav
eled all tne way to St. I.ouis, U. S. A.,
in a fruitless endeavor to nave an
idol cremated which had cast an evil
spell over him.
The heathen idol had come to him
would be attempted. With thi i thought
in their minds minute precautions are
taken by officers and a state of great
mental tension arisss A night sur
prise is what is always anticipated
and the suggestion is made that good
watchdogs, which would give tongue
at the approach of any stranger would
he a safeguard and would contribute
to relieve the anxiety of officers and
men in these lonely stations. To the
ordinary citizen it is a matter for sur
prise that such a nervous strain
should be felt in a time of profound
peace.
UNCLE SILAS ON AUTOS.
Did Gentleman Compares Them Un
favorably With the Horse.
"Naw," observed Uncle Silas as he
aitched a nail keg a few Inches so as
;o keep within the receding shade of
a. tree in front of the country store,
‘I calkilate I wudn’t hev one o’ them
goshding’d ottymobeels ef sum feller
wud giv’ me one fer nothin'. Hain't
akasly a day passes thet one o’ th’
olame sputterin' things don't break
down out in th’ road in front o’ my
house. One o’ them ottymobeels will
git up an’ git like all Sam Hill fer a
few miles and then, fust, thing yew
know, it will jes stop, clean tuckered
out.
”Ez I wuz drivin’ intew town this
mornin’ I kim aerost two ottymobeels
thet hcd balked. Th' feller thet owned
one wuz a-layin’ on his back in under
it a-tightenin’ up sum bolts in its
st.ummik. Tother chap wanted tewr
know whut I wu’d charge tew haul his
ottymobeel ten miles tew th’ nearest
railroad station, so he cu d ship it
hum. I tol’ him that Jinny, my bay
mare, wuz skeer’d ’o th' infernal things
an’ thet ef I’o hitch her tew th’ otty
mobeel I reckon'd she wudn’t stay
hitched long.
“Naw-sir-ee—1 don’t keer fer enny
ottymobeels in mine, thank’ee; I cal
kilate thet Jinny will answer my pur
pus yit fer a spell. Jinny is goin’ on
23 years old an’ mebbe she hain't
quite es cpry es she uster be, seein’
es how she is spavin'd sum an’ inter
feres in frunt, but when I start out
behind her 1 hev th’ consolation o’
knowin' thet she won’t git sick an’ lay
down in th' road like one o’ them
gosh-blame ottymobeels. Jinny, she
can't go a mile a minnit, like an otty
mobeel kin. but she goes a mile es
quick es she kin, an’ thet s swift enuf
fer me, b'gosh! 1 wudn’t swap thet
little bay mare fer all th’ ottymobeels
that yew cud pile in a ten-acre lot—
I wouldn't, I gum!”—Ohio State Jour
nal.
NURSES' LIVES UNROMANTIC.
Seldom Marry Physicians or Patients
They Have Attended.
It is generally supposed that there
is a good deal of romance about the
life of a professional nurse and that
large hospitals are matrimonial
bureaus where men and women fall in
love with incessant regularity. Ex
actly the opposite is true. Nurses, as
a rule, do not marry men whom they
have nursed as patients, nor do they
select for husbands the physicians
with whom they come in contact in a
professional way.
In the last year and a half but one
engagement among the nurses at the
Chicago hospital has been announced,
and the incident was so unusual that
it created no end of comment. The
affair was. in fact, an extreme novelty,
although the female attaches of the
institution are unusually good looking.
‘‘This proves that nurses do not
lead the romantic lives that they arc
credited with by the outside world,"
said a physician. "I have frequently
heard it said that men who had been
seriously ill otten married the trained
nurses who had taken care of them.
This is nonsense. I have employed
hundreds of these women nurses in
the course of my practice, and have
yet to hear of a match resulting from
one of them. As a general thing the
patient takes an aversion to the nurse
who has cared lor him, and the better
sne has looked after him and the more
strictly she has enforced the doctor's
instructions the less he has cared for
her.
“Physicians sometimes fall in love
with the nurses they meet in their
practice, but such affairs, instead of
beipg common, are rare. If any girl
enters the profession with the idea of
capturing a husband she is apt to find
herself sadly sold."
PEACH STONES FOR FUEL.
Have Been Utilized in Baltimore as
Substitute for Coal.
The great strike and the increased
cost of coal incident thereto has di
rected much attention to other ma
terials for fuel, and a Baltimore man
says a good substitute for the black
diamond is dried peach stones. The
only objection to their use is their
scarcity, which depends entirely on
the size of the peach crop. Frank Hall,
the Baltimorean referred to, says his
family had used peach stones as fuel
for years until about three or four
years ago, >:ir.ee which time the supply
has appeared to have decreased.
“We used to get the dried peach
stones from a Mr. Noel, who got them
from the different packing-nouses and
dried them on his place.” said Mr.
Hall yesterday. "1 think we paid $2.50
a load for them, the load containing
about forty-five bushels. The fuel was
used in the kitchen and gave good
results. The stones will make a quick,
hot fire and one that will last. One
and a half or two buckets of the peach
stones will last as long as a bucket of
coal. One has to oe careful not to fill
the stove too full or there will likely
be an explosion similar to a gasoline
explosion. The proper way to keep
the fire going Is to put in a shovelful
at a time.
“Peach stones thrown Into a damp
cellar,” said Mr. Hall, “are said to
have a peculiar effect on a person.
After the stones are in the cellar for
some time gases arise, and the fumes
will go to one's head and give the
same effect as if the distilled product
of the peach had ueen imbibed.”
First Woman to Revisit St. Pierre.
Mrs. Joseph Haven, of Chicago, was
the first woman to venture into the
streets of St. Pierre since its de
struction. Mrs. Haven went abroad
with her husband two years ago, when
he was made American consul at tho
i Island of St. Christopher.
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