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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. IX)UP CITY, - - NEBRASKA. Admiral Perry little dreamed what progress the Japanese would make in llfty years. Kuropatkin says he is glad the Japs have crossed the Yalu. Satisfactory ^11 round then. According to recent investigations there are’ 44,000 hotels in the United States—mostly bad. Gen. Stoessel and staff expect to spend the summer months at their seaside resort in Port Arthur. Fried onions, they say, will kill germs in the human system—also, sometimes, long-standing friendships. Still, the small boys of Wisconsin will not object to the announced cur tailment of the shingle production in the state. Grafting in charitable institutions, with the patients as victirhs, is moral ly very like taking pennies from a blind beggar. A former Dakota judge is cow an inmate of a Missouri prison. This is rather a heroic way of taking one’s own medicine. The value put on men is steadily rising. A woman in Georgia, in a breach of promise case, has asked for $100,000 damages. Young Mr. Rockefeller says that misfortunes are blessings in disguise. Yes; and they are usually successful in preserving their incognito. The kiag of Italy now wears his mustache curled up at tho-ends. Evi dently there was a deep significance in Emperor William’s recent visit. So King Peter is going to be crown ed June 15, if he isn’t assassinated before then. That will be the anni versary of his election to the throne. An American girl has painted the portrait of the empress dowager of China. Fortunately, the work was completed before the dowager’s latest death. One of the sons of President Loubet gets a salary of $400 a year as a clerk in the Bank of France- Evidently he wants to learn the business from the bottom up. A preacher says St. Louis is mor6 wicked now than Rome or Babylon ever was. But a good many people will insist on going and seeing for themselves. J. C. Smith of New York, who in herited $1,000,000 seven years ago, is a bankrupt. Well, he can at least claim credit for having put the money in circulation. --- The New York minister who inter polates “they say” in the Apostles’ creed must have formed the “it-is alleged” habit from reading copy on a daily newspaper. If Peru and Brazil are reading the reports from the far East it is safe to assume that the boundary dispute will be settled by arbitration. The other thing doesn’t pay. The war in the east would seem less horrible if some suitable English syn onyms could be found for “Fengwang cheng,” “Newchwang,” “Liaoyans, and “Fengshanghong.” An English chess player is going to marry the daughter of an American millionaire. This will enable him to go on benefiting the world by devot ing himself to the game. China announces again her deter mination to maintain strict neutrality and that is wise. An army equipped with parasols is out of place when there is real fighting going on. Somewhat roughly, people may be divided into two great classes, those who think the cherry looks most beautiful in bloom and those who think it looks most beautiful in pie. Japan’s attitude on the foreign trade question while it is trying to take Manchuria is much less import ant than its attitude when It shall be in definite and permanent possession. It Is interesting to read and hear what the philosophizing prophets have to say about conditions in the American city of the ftiture. Perhaps they know as much about it as any of us do. Cats are said to be regarded as a dainty food in Italy, their meat be ing described as “tender and sweet.” This may be true of the meat, but can hardly be appropriately applied to the song. Mme. Janauschek is now an inmate of the Actors’ Home at West New Brighton, Staten Island. Thus do we see the benefits of genius. If she had been an ordinary woman she might have had to scrub in her old age. All the shorthand writers in the country working together couldn’t have taken down the remarks that were made in New York when all the L roads in the city were stalled at 5 p. m. and it took, from ten to twenty six minutes to start the trains again. A New York phrenologist who has been making a study of Russell Sage, says the financier’s master passion is a desire to conquer in the battle of life and not the abstract love of hoard ing money. And still uncle Russell doesn’t willingly separate himself from the money when he gets it. Only a year or so ago it was impos sible to pick up a paper without read ing something about C. M. Schwab. It will be remembered by many of our readers that he wa3 once president of the United States steel trust mm THE WORLD’S I BEST WRITERS DO MEN EAT TOO MUCH? Prof. Chittenden has been reading before the National academy of sci ences the much anticipated descrip tion of a series of experiments recent ly conducted by the Sheffield scientific school of Yale to determine if the average human being is not eating too much. His affirmation is very important in these days of food trusts, for he still persists that the average healthy man eats from two to three times as much as he needs to keep him in per fect physical and mental health and vigor. Prof. Chittenden’s experi ments covered all classes of men from the hardest worked toiler to the col lege professor and lasted nearly a year. It was certainly the most com plete test of the question ever under taken. There was a gradual reduction of meat and proteid foods with little in crease in starch and other foods in nearly all the tests, and yet at the end of the experiments the entire lot of men who had been experimented with Avert in the best of health. In some cases the weight and strength had ac tually increased, while the daily con sumption of food had been only from a half to a third as much as the aver age man cats. WHY JAPS HAVE PROGRESSED. The ease with which scientists, en gineers. naval and military experts have been produced in Japan proves that often the most abstract training is the best preparation for practical efficiency. The cherry-stone carvers have been preparing to hold the lever and the trigger: the pundits have found the plotting of a campaign upon Port Arthur already accomplished in their ancestors’ charting of the cos mos and the soul of man. The Japa nese have not been taught to despise anything as too small or too great. No allusion of raflal superiority has fostered a faith that they can blunder luckily through all emergencies. No superstitious respect for machinery has betrayed them into scorning the finest of all instruments—the mind itself.—New York Evening Post. AGAINST WAR, AND FOR IT. The real argument against war is not the sentimental one of suffering, hardship, loss of life, etc.; it is the moral one that war with its vicious consequences of national debt, bur densome taxation, disordered finances, relaxc d social morals, should never be undertaken if it can possibly be avoid' d. * * That men are killed <n war; that dreadful wounds are ob tained; that hardship is suffered and domestic bereavement wrought, is nothing. Such things are as insepa rable from war as prickly heat from the climate of the tropics, or as deadly cold from the Arctic circle; but that is not the true argument for or against war, for or against peace. It is not a question at all of personal hardship or domestic bereavement; it is a ques tion of public justice or injustice. A wanton war, a war of conquest for mere brutal conquest’s seke, a war waged in the spirit that Ahab took Naboth’s vineyard or David obtained Uriah’s wife, is a great crime; but a just war, a war inevitable**for nation al preservation, for the defense or en largement of human liberty, is more glorious than a thousand years of ig noble Chinese peace. There are vices coincident with war, but they are not more deplorable nor more ineffacable than the cankers of a calm world and a long peace. The march of civiliza tion has proceeded at a charging step following every great war. The bat tles of Marathon and SaLamis were the turning points in the civilization of mankind. The greatest forced marches of mankind since Marathon on the path to enlarged civil liberty and law have been wrought by great wars. Gigantic social and civil abuses have perished beneath the sword.— Portland Oregonian. PERILS OF “SELF-DOCTORING” Large numbers of people in pros perous circumstances die as sexagen arians from maladies which are evi dences of degeneration and of prema ture senility, while many who' pass this period go on to enter upon an eighth or ninth decade of life. The former class comprise those who have lived without restraint of their appe tites and who have sought to allay some of the consequences by self-med ication, while the latter class com prise those who have lived reasonably and who, if annoyed by imperfect digestion, have sought relief by aban doning the errors from which it sprang.—Lancet. THE INARTISTIC AUTOMOBILE. How many millions of human be ings must be born and wither and per ish before men of light and leading will come into the world competent and willing to design and construct automobiles of truly artistic and grac<* ful lines? Most of the thousands of self-motors in our thoroughfares are monsters of ugliness. Why cannot these chariots be so put together that they will at least make some ap proach to symmetry?—New York Tri bune. AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. Some of the private houses of set tled and cultured people in Boston, New York, Baltimore and Washington are as good as our best. One of the most refined and dignified of their great homes is the White House. Com pared with the tawdry oppressive glit ter and real vulgarity of some of our palaces, the White House is a model of what a home for the president of a great people should be.—Report of C. Ronley of the Mosely Commission. FREEMEN THE BEST FIGHTERS. An English writer on military mat ters takes the ground that & repub lican or representative form of gov ernment is not conducive tQ the best results when it comes to preparation for war, and that the business of fighting, to be thoroughly successful should be managed by an autocracy But it is to be feared that this gallant soldier has studied history, and espe cially recent history, to little effect There is no more autocratic power on earth than Russia, and that country has not furnished a particularly strik ing example of readiness for war oi effective military organization of late Japan, on the other hand, which if "nything was a little too ready for war, has a representative government.! Napoleon III. sought to be as auto cratic as his more famous and much abler predecessor, the first emperoi of that name. Yet under Napdleon III. the French army administration was so weak and rotten that it fell to pieces, involving the nation in d* j feat, disaster and humiliation as soon as Germany had a fair chance tc strike at it. Autocracy never yet, from the times of Xerxes, Alexander and the Caesars to the present, has been capable, in and of itself, of creating that spirit of devotion and patriotism which makes the truest national defense. On the contrary, those nations which have the most liberal governments and the largest measure of freedom of indi vadual action have shown themselves the bravest and readiest in war. It sometimes takes longer to arouse them, and it undoubtedly is true that they are not always as thoroughly prepared for hostilities as they might be. Tnat in itself shows their prefer ence for peace as against war. But when the spur of necessity or patriot ism is applied where can better fight ers be found than those who come for ward from the ranks of a free people and offer themselves to their country? —Troy Times. TOURISTS AT THE BULL FIGHT Men who at home are members of the S. P. C. A., yea. even of the Y. M* C. A., come to Mexico and demand to know where tickets to the bull fights are to be had. If it is on Sunday, so much the better; there is a thrill of deviltry in smashing several com mandments at once. Women go. and, fascinated, sit through the successive acts of a drama of blood and pain Does anyone mean to say that he j would not attend a gladiatorial com bat. would not revel in seeing men pitted against wild animals, or that, ! if Christian Science martyrs were | thrown into a Mexican arena to he de- ! voured by wild beasts there would not be a crowd of most worthy tourists on | the front seats? Human nature re mains quite unaltered. The passion | for the bull fight on the part of the ■ worthy people who come here every | winter and spring is proof enough j that the old Romans were no fuller of original sin than the rest of us.— j Mexican Herald. _ THE FIRST SWIM OF THE YEAR. The first swim of the year Is with- ! out a peer as a serious menace to health, combined with acute personal suffering, says James L. Ford in Les lie’s. There always comes a time early in May when three or four suc cessive days of warm weather give a sudden impetus to the buds, leaves and grass, and fill the schoolboy’s heart with a longing for the cool depth of the river that flows through the meadows half a mile from school. And immediately after the hearty ; 2 o’clock dinner—which, as every j physician knows, is a most auspicious j moment for bathing—a dozen boys with towels stuck under their jackets may be seen leaving the school grounds in a furtive manner so as not to attract the notice of the “old man," who is known to harbor certain old fashioned prejudices against swim ming in the early spring when the water is as cold as ice and malaria lurks about the river banks. The lit tle band of .fun-seekers are also at pains to elude the school bullies who might play disagreeable tricks with their clothing, and to bid to their saturnalia of discomfort two or three unsuspecting small boys who are sur prised, pleased and flattered by the invitation. Which one of us will ever forget the ghastly misery of that early spring swim? The icy coldness of the water; the oozing turf on which we undressed and left our clothes; the gusts of chill wind that swept down the river; the sharp stones over which we walked and the awful cold ness of the water that was spattered on our backs by our merry comrades! SHAKESPEARE. If you could collect all the volumes of Shakspeare’s works that have been published and sell them at $1 each it is possible that you might be able to buy out the steel trust at its water ed valuation, and have something left for a nest egg. There have been all kinds of editions, some for the million aire at $8,500 a copy, some for the street mendicants at a penny. His works have been forged, garbled, edited down to the bare bones, rewritten, repudiated, printed and reprinted, published and repub lished. Only the Bible stands in front of Shakespeare in gen eral circulation and the good book has the merit and advantage of being forced down our throats, whereas Shakespeare is sought after.—New York Press. * Long-Lived Calla. Mrs. Adallne Hobron of New Lon don, Conn., has in her possession a calla which is 75 years old. The plant looks as healthy as ever and bears blossoms. * FORETOLD BIG FLOOD AGED MAN’S PREMONITION OF , GALVESTON DISASTER. His Prophecy Is Vouched For by Well Known Priest of the Texas City— Man Was Undoubtedly Gifted with Strange Power. Father James M. Kerwin, rector of St. Mary’s cathedral, has returned from Dallas, where he officiated at the funeral of Michael Rennie, known throughout the United States as the “old telescope man,” says a dispatch from Galveston, Texas. Rennie died suddenly at the Salvation Army Work ingmen’s hotel in Dallas several days ago. Upon the window near his bed was found an open Bible and a well worn hymn book. On the flyleaf of the Bible was written: “Give this book to Father Kirwin. Michael Rennie, Galveston.” Inside the flyleaf was written': “If anything should happen to me. sudden death, this is my will. You will find enough money in the boss of my telescope to pay my expenses, and a mass for my soul, the remainder to be given to Father Kirwin for the use of the little orphan school, the tele scope and one microscope. One mi croscope for Father Kirwin himself, a present from me. Michael Rennie.” Death had come suddenly, as he had always predicted it would, for Michael Rennie was something of a seer and a prophet. The time or place of Rennie's birth is not known, but somewhere in Scot land more than three score years ago he first saw the light of day. He re ceived some education and soon drift ed out as a sailor before the mast to the ends of the earth. For more than twenty years he fol lowed the rough ways of the sea, and, according to his own account, was very wicked. He came to Galveston in a jute ship in the early ’80s, and left the sea for the interior of Texas. He settled at Dallas and became the moving spirit of the Liberal Club, an agnostic organization. He soon tired of life away from the sea. and eventually landed in Austra lia during the period of the Melbourne exposition. One day by chance he wandered into the Catholic cathedral at the moment of the elevation of the Host, and afterward declared that he saw in the priest’s hands the Infant Child. He returned the following day and witnessed the same sight. Immediate ly he applied to the priest for instruc tion in the Catholic faith. At the close of the exposition in Melbourne he purchased a street tele scope and two binocular microscopes sent out by CrQuch & Son of London. He continued his travels, finally re turning to the United States. He gave exhibitions in every largo city and gradually worked his way back to Texas. Rennie always declared that the spirits of his dead friends held close communication with him, and Father Kirwin vouches for the following story: “On the Thursday evening preced ing the great Galveston storm I en countered him at the corner of Mar ket and Tremont. He was not busy as a showman, and I engaged him in conversation. He made arrangements for a mass for his deceased parents on the following Tuesday, and prom ised to be present thereat. “Much to my surprise he came in the following morning—he was a regu lar attendant at the early mass—and said he would not wait over until Tuesday, as he had been w'arned to leave the Ci.y. “ ‘I see a terrible, engulfing flood,’ was the way he worded it. ‘I see thou sands struggling in it and hundreds floating dead. Then I see a steel gray wall, stretching from one extremity of the city to the other, and then I see the wall disappear.’ “Rennie left the city on an early morning train. The following day the storm bore down upon us, and after events, the world's charity and Gal veston’s pluck have built the steel gray wall; and now the grade rising ,and the gradual secretion of sand upon its seaward side are about to cause it to disappear from viewf.” Japanese Field Marshals. One of the Japanese field marshals, Marquis Yamagata, is 6ixty-six years old and looks decrepit, although he is full of energy. He represented the Mi kado at the coronation of the Czar in Moscow in 1896. The other field mar shal, Marquis Oyama, is four years younger, but looks portly and phlegm atic. He married a Japanese girl who received here education in the United States. He went to France during the war with Prussia and was in Paris during the siege. Welding Cast Iron. Machinists and iron workers are greatly interested in the discovery of the art of welding cast iron, which W. S. and L. R. Schaap, of Loveland, Colo., claim to have made. They de clare that the compound which they have invented also will braze alum inum, as successfully as borax will braze steel. What Made the Noise. The late Senator Tim Ellsworth or Niagara county, New York, was a physical giant, as well as a tremen dous power in politics of the state which he served so long. He had a tremendous voice, and when he got into a heated argument it was pretty definitely understood what he meant. On one occasion several members of the legislature were taking lunch eon together / at Keeler's in Albany. There came a tremendous explosion, which fairly shook the building. “What was that?” asked Senator Per sons. “That,” replied Speaker Nixon, “is Uncle Tim Ellsworth saying that he can carry Niagara county this fall.” _ Playwright’s Big Bonus. Massenet will receive a bonus of $200,000 for giving La Scala Theater, of Milan, the choice of his works for the next four years. Dominion Steamship Subsidy. The Dominion government has voted a $50,000 annual subsidy for- a steamship line from Montreal to Mex ico. - * « .-V CHANCE TO DO GOOD. Beggar Worsted Pedestrian With His Own Argume ni. The pedestrian looked scornfully at the beggar who had accosted him. “You say you want money for your starving wife and family,” he repeat ed. ‘I don’t believe you have any.” “Well, wot of it?” asked the beggar brazenly. “I believe you’re lying,” persisted the pedestrian with conviction. “Wot if I am?” said the beggar dog gedly. The pedestrian showed his astonish ment at such a display of utter de pravity, but he held firmly to his pur pose. “I believe you only want money to buy liquor,” he said. "Wot if I do?” returned the beggar. “In that case,” said the pedestrian slowly and impressively, “you show yourself to be a liar, a vagabond and a drunkard—a man who is hardly worth saving.” Then, after a moment of thought, he added, “Do you know that the liquor evil is, to a certain ex tent, its own corrective?” “Nix,” replied the beggar. “Well, it Is. Scientists tell us that it is killing off the weak and inferior classes and in that way you may be said to be doing some good. Do you-” Before he could finish the beggar’s hand was thrust toward him, palm upward. “Please, mister-, won’t you help the good work along?” asked the man in rags. He got a quarter and the lecture was never finished. TRULY A MODEL SERVANT. Man Stuck to His Duty Though His House Was Burning. Miss Ida Tarbell, the writer, was talking at her home in New York about servants. “I have been reading,” she said, “John Forster’s ‘Life of Dickens,' and the book has reminded me of the pompous Forster’s body servant, Hen ry’. Dickens described Henry during his last visit to America. “The man, it seems, was devoted to his master. From one year's end to the other he never needed a repri mand. “It was therefore surprising one night, when Forster was entertaining several writers at dinner, to see the scrupluous Henry make error after error. He upset a plate of soup, and Forster uttered a cry of alarm. He forgot to serve the sauce for the fish, and his master said, ‘Why, Henry!’ Altogether he made the excellent din ner seem a slovenly and poor repast. “When, at the end, he had set the port and walnuts on the table, Henry leaned over Forster's chair and said in a tremulous voice: “ ‘Please, sir, can you spare me now? My house ha£ been on fire for the last two hours.’ ” Made Room for the Judge. A merry story is told of Judge Beekman Winthrop, formerly a judge of the Court of First Instance in the Philippines, who has just been named by the president for the next governor of Porto Rico. The judge is a Harvard man and a valued member of one of the old New York families. An anti-imperialistic female was worried about reports reaching this country concerning the dislike the Filipino woman has for the Yankees, so she said: “My dear judge! You are so chival rous! Don’t you feel the slight put upon you by the native women? I've heard that their hatred of their con querors is so great they are positively insulting.” “On the contrary, madam,” replied the judge, bowing, “they are most solicitous. Why, a high caste Manila lady deigned to push her pet mar moset off the divan so I could sit beside her!”—New York Times. The Bold Ghost. The vear was young, but the place was old. And the house had gone to sleep. And the ghost that came by night was bold. For the silence was so deep. Aloud he called to his heart's fair queep, But she would not unbar the door And the window from which she used to lean Stirred at her touch no more. In vain through tne empty night he cried, But there came no answering tone; And then he bethought him that since he died A hundred years had flown. But a hundred years should have brought more near The love that he loved so well; And the bold ghost's neart turned cold with fear— Where was the old-time spell? Had she forgotten what he neld fast? They say 'tis a woman's way: Was It only a dream that love could last, The dream of an Idle day? From the silent house the bold ghost turned— Why dream that a dream Is true? Ashes were where love’s tire once burned; Death's meaning at last he knew. ‘—Smart Set. Death of Famous Conjurer. Herr Dobbler, the famous conjuror, died in Aberdeen recently. He was on the stage forty years. It was he who, in 18G4 exposed the Davenport Brothers, who had pretended that their tricks were supernatural mani festations. Japanese Censor Dot:’ts. This is what the Japanese censor forbids the publication of: (1) Details or accounts relating to tactics; (2) what relates to future war move ments; (3) damage done to the Japa nese warships and transports; (4) the range of guns in action and the quan tity of shots used; (5) the positions and names of the bases of naval oper ations; (6) the whereabouts of war ships and transports, and (7) particu lars with regard to coal, fresh water, munitions of war, etc. From Athens to Paris. Athens, Greece, is soon to be con nected with Paris by railway. The Grecian government has already se cured the building of a road to the Turkish frontier, which will soon be connected with the railway systems of Europe. Connecticut’s Fair Building. The Connecticut buidJng at the World’s Fair contains many old co lonial relics, furniture, china and oth er treasured articles of Connecticut’s early day s. TO SAIL ON PRAIRIE “SCHOONER” THE INVENTION OF GAIL BORDEN. Difficulty of Controlling It Made Ve hicle Too Dangerous To Be Popular Early-Day Texan Had Stormy Jour ney Through Life. A man from Texas was talking with a New Yorker when a wagon with the name Gail Borden painted on it passed by. The name is retained by Gail Borden’s successors, though Gail Bor den himself is dead. “I do not know when Borden came to New York,” said the Texan, “but the sight of his name recalls a bit of interesting history which, I venture to say, few, if any, New Yorkers ever heard. “Gail and his brother used to be editors in Texas. They were the founders of the Texas Telegraph, which had a hot history. It was the first newspaper published in Texas. It was printed in San Felipe in 1835.’ “On the approach of the Mexican army, President Burnet and his cabi net fled to Harrisburg, and were fol lowed by the Bordens with their press and type, and they were there work ing off a form of the paper when the advance of Santa Anna’s army ap peared at that place. “They were forced to abandon the work and flee for their lives. The type and press were thrown into the bayou and the printing office de stroyed. “After the victory at San Jacinto the publication of the paper was re newed at Columbia, but was, with the government, transferred to the new town of Houston, and soon afterward was sold. Thomas was older than his brother Gail, and, besides being a part ner in the paper, was also engaged in surveying and selling lots in Galves ton. “Gail invented the steam gauge and also a vehicle called a prairie schoon er. This was much the same as an ordinary covered wagon, but was made to run by sails, and it would run, but i too much so. "It was not easily controlled, and it would do unexpected things, and was dangerous. It would run into the gulf or up against things, and the model was finally wrecked in a drift on Gal veston Island and the project aban doned. Borden intended these vehi cles to be used on the great, level, dry plains; hence the name he gave them. “This idea of his afterward caused the great trains of covered wagons in the west to be called prairie schoon ers. “Gail Borden filled a number of civil offices and was a member of the con vention at San Felipe in 1833. He was also the agent for the Galveston City Gas Company and the first Collector of the Port of Galveston. “After annexation he distinguished himself as an inventor, first securing a valuable patent for preserving meat in a form which he called meat bis ! cuit. He also invented and secured a j patent for a process of condensing milk which is a staple article of com merce. “He made the first condensed milk where the town of Glidden is now. in Colorado county, but then called Bor den. As late as 1S87 his sign was still to be seen there. “At that time a postoffice and Bor den’s place were about all there was there in the way of business. The county of Borden, at the foot of the plains, was named for him, as was {also the county seat, which is Gail.” Words for Ordinary Purposes. “The small number of words actu ally necessary for ordinary purposes in our everyday life is surprising, and nothing illustrates this better than the limited vocabulary of a little child,” Dr. M. Harris said. “I have a daughter 6 years old. She is able to make all her wants known, to talk freely and easily. If an adult knew just the number of words in a for eign tongue that she knows in her own he would be able to get along nicely in a conversational way with people who spoke nothing but that language. What the child’s vocabu lary comprises, how many words and of what classes I recently made it my business to ascertain in a series of investigations extending over a con siderable period of time. I found that the total number of words she knew and used was just 352. omitting proper names, and that 54 per cent of these were nouns, IS per cent verbs and 11 per cent adjectives, the remainder be ing made up of conjunctions, preposi tions and pronouns.”—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Cause of Beef Trust Probe. Among the facts which led to the investigation of the beef trust are the following: Last August good to extra fresh beef (“Western sides”) sold in Boston at $8.37% a hundred pounds. In the preceding April such beef, in the same market, had brought only $G.50, although the packers in Chi cago had actually paid a few' cents more a hundred pounds for the live cattle in April than they paid in Aug ust. The Buffalo a Criminal. As a species of hardened criminals among placid herbivorous animals, says a writer in McClure’s, none is worse than the bison o. American buffalo. Toward man and beast and even among themselves, these vicious, vindictive and agile brutes, whose half-brothers on other continents do not fear even the terrific onslaught of lions and tigers, are in a state of al most continual wrarfare. Eagerly crop ping grass from a meadow', or luxuri ously wallowing in the swamp-mud of their ranges, a herd of these giant, brown, ponderous-headed, shaggy pa triarchs make a scene of peace and contentment. Yet they are among the wickedest rogues and most ag gressive fighters ever seen in a zoo. Sullen and ugly, they often become furious to madness without the least provocation, and frequently attack one another with serious or fatal results. Typhoid Mortality Decreases. In 1882 the deaths from typhoid fever in Paris were 142 per 100,000 in habitants, to-day the proportion is only 10 per 100,000. Diamonds a G?od Investment. About a year ago a young broker wto bad the shining light of a horri ble example before him, his father* having lost two fortunes in Wall street, fell heir to about $30,000 from the estate of an aunt. He made up his mind that this money would bo safely invested, and, hearing that dia monds were constantly going up, he put the entire sum into the stones. He bought them at a trifle below mar ket value from pawn brokers’ -ales i shops, retaining the services of an expert. He sold the entire lot the other day at a profit of $9,000, over 25 per cent on his investment. Dia monds are going up constantly, and the main supply, the Kimberley and the QeBeers mines of South Africa, is constantly lessening. The Highest Waterfall. For a long time the highest known waterfall in the world wa ('• .sola cascade, in the Alps, having a of 2,400 feet. But a waterfall ir the San Cuayatan canyon, in the . f Durango, Mexico, now claims ! ~t' place. It was discovered by prospectors ten years ago in th. . barranca district which is call Tierrns Desconocidas. While ing for the famous lost mine, Na jal. a great roar of water was !i With much difficulty the party .<■ . on and up the mighty chasm tire 1 they beheld the superb fall, which is said to be not less than 3,000 feet high. The Original “Rubberneck.” Giraffes are the most difficult of all animals to take by surprise. No mat ter from what direction you may ap proach, the giraffe is sure to dscover you. It has been called the original “rubberneck.” It is not generally know* that nature, because of the height of its eyes from the ground, has supplied it with a talent peculiarly its own for making observations. Even the most angelic of women can't help wondering at times if she would look really swell with wings. After a fellows being married a few years he begins to long for a little monotony to relieve the excitement. Character is crystallized conduct. A Farmer Found It. Mount Pleasant, Utah, May 23.—To find a medicine that will cure every ailment due to diseased or disordered Kidneys has been the aim of many physicians and chemists. Mr. C. E. Peterson, a farmer of this place says he has found such a rem edy and that he has tried it with suc cess in his own case. Mr. Peterson says the remedy is Dodd’s Kidney Pills, a medicine introduced here tbout seven months ago. “I am glad to be allowed to testify to what good things Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for me. I used this remedy for Kidney trouble and it cured me completely. “I can heartily recommend Dodd's | Kidney Pills to all who suffer with ! any kind of Kidney trouble.” i Mr. Peterson’s case is only one of many just as convincing that have been reported recently. This new rem edy seems to have conquered Rheu matism completely, not a single ca<e having been reported where Dodd's Kidney Pills have failed to cure per fectly and permanently. Played with Booth; Now Starving. There was a rather fine bit of senti ment developed the other day when an actor named Maurice Pike was dragged before a New York magistrate charged with vagrancy. The i*>or old fellow is 65 years of age, and he told the judge that he had often appeared in the support of Edwin Booth. It happened that the judge, who is him self an old man, remembered the ac tor, and he asked him if he did not play Cassio to Booth's Othello in tho year 1872. Poor old Maurice Pike sat isfied the court that he was the guilty party, and the magistrate refused to pass a sentence. In fact, he told the old actor that he would see that he was provided for until the time when he could communicate with the Actors’ Fund Society. Valuable Clay Deposit Found. On the Peabody estate in North Tar rytown, N. 1., a clay deposit has been found worth, it is declared, millions ot dollars. The land was in the market for two years at $40,000, with no pur chaser. ’i i-e discovery was made by a civil engineer who was surveying the land. Borings have .been made (o a depth of seventy-five feet and the bot tom of the deposit has not been reach ed. _ Extravagant speeches are often very economical with the truth. Only a fool’s tomorrow ruins tod?;-. WHAT THE KiNG EATS. What’s Fit for H*n. A Mass, lpdy who has been through Hie mill with the trials of the usual housekeeper and mother relates an Interesting incident that occurred not long ago. She says: "I can with all truthfulness say that Grape-Nuts is the most beneficial of all cereal foods in my family, young as well as old. It is food and medi cine both to us. A few mornings ago at breakfast my little boy said: '• ‘Mamma, does the King eat Grape Nuts every morning?’ “I smiled and told him I did not know, but that I thought Crape-Nuts certainly made a delicious dish, fit for a King.” (It's a fact that the King of England and the German Emperor both eat Crape-Nuts.) “I find that by the constant use ot Grape-Nuts not only as a morning co real but also in puddings, salads, etc., made after the delicious recipes found In the little book in each package it is proving to be a great nerve food for me besides having completely cured a long standing case of indiges tion.” Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. There Is no doubt Grape-Nuts Is the most scientific food in the world. Ten days’ trial of this proper food in place of improper food will show In steady, stronger nerves, sharper brain and the power to “go” longer and further and accomplish more. There’s a reason. „ J;00* *?. each pl£g- for tho famous Uttle book, “The Road to WellviUe."