Nebraska Newspapers

    Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, . - NEBRASKA.
It appears that King Daddu was the
daddy of all kings.
“Baby born on steamship Romanic
and named after the vessel.” Poor
baby!
Dr. Wiley, chief of the government
bureau of chemistry, still insists upon
having his whisky straight.
A Brooklyn man advertises that raw
food has cured his dyspepsia. How
he will enjoy eating cooked food now!
Air ships get bigger, but it is not
clear whether the increase of size
will make them fly longer or fall
harder.
The nurse who killed two of her pa
tients by giving them carbolic acid for
water should have her sense of smell
repaired.
Japan needs $400,000,000. If she
gets it she can make big money by
copyrighting the recipe and putting
it on sale.
They say there are fewer and fewer
men in the co educational institutions.
It looks like the ultimate survival of
the prettiest.
Don’t you feel sorry for the Sunday
school teachers at Strasburg. Pa., j
who have just voted that there isn't
any Santa Claus?
Sweet potatoes are quoted higher
and it is understood that the 'possum
is also being a little more careful
these moonlight nights.
Rich Americans residing in England
have begun to marry their wealthy
country-women who live over there.
Nobody seems to know why.
A New York girl has been driven
insane by the pictures on the bill
boards. The wonder is that so many
other people have escaped a similai
fate.
If Alfred Austin had had any sense
of humor he would never have pub
lished that essay of his on “The Grow
ing Distaste for the Higher Forms of
Poetry.”
A Syracuse court has decided that
wearing French high-heeled shoes is
not a sign of insanity in a woman, but
it doesn’t lend its indorsement to
the fashion.
Some day an enterprising insurance
company will make a hit by putting
out a line of “Halloween insurance”
in addition to its fire, lightning and
tornado risks.
That young man who forgot he mar
ried in the morning and married an
other woman in the evening will get
a year in the penitentiary to strength
en his memory.
Every man who hunts deer in Ver
mont has to pay $15 for a license.
This goes to the state, however, and
his friends are supposed to look after
the funeral expenses.
A New York World reporter de
plores the fact that the campaign
cigar is a thing of the past. But
what’s the use of exhibiting our sore
spots to the public gaze?
It is a great thing for the world
that the dispute between Russia and
England is to be settled by the big
guns at The Hague court, instead of
the big guns of the warships.
A Boston judge, in sentencing a cul
prit to six months, said, “Drunk or
sober, I won’t stand for any man beat
ing his mother.” One of these sen
tences is unhappily ambiguous.
The light of hope dawns. The wom
an purchasing agent of a great Chi
cago store was rebuked by the man
ager of the house for buying the
plumes of birds that are protected by
law.
Still that cataract in South America,
which is bigger than Niagara, has a
long and strenuous campaign of adver
tising ahead of it before it can hope
to attract the bulk of the wedding
tour trade.
The new king of Saxony refuses to
recall his former wife to share the
throne with him. but he will probably
not be so cruel as to neglect to send
her a picture of himself, seated in his
solitary splendor.
A New Jersey minister announces
that he has made arrangements to
give free rides to and from his church
by automobiles, carriages or trolley
cars, to all who wall attend his serv
ices. It is a question whether ne
couldn’t get larger audiences by charg
ing an admission fee instead.
Four firemen in New York were ov
ercome by the smoke from several
cases of tobacco leaf in the cellar of a
burning building. It will be interest
ing to know whether the experience
cures any of them of the smoking
habit.
In England people who drive their
automobiles at unreasonable rates of
speed and without regard for the
rights of others are called just plain
“road hogs.'* It isn't an elegant ex
pression, but politeness is only wasted
on such offenders.
John Bull wants Tibet to pay him an
Indemnity of $3,750,000 for the trouble
he has had in sending his boys to
Lhassa. Tibet didn’t urge the neces
sity jpf the expedition, but Mr. Bull,
being a funny old fellow in some re
spects, will not permit that to bother
him now.
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A Chicago professor declares that
women with dark eyes are always
ihe most attractive. Strange how
some persons will insist on setting u?
their own tastes and preferences as
pniversiri standards of merit.
“FIRED” ON THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE
Edwin Entwistle, Who Ran on the “Rocket” Seventy-three Years
Ago, Still Alive
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Locomo-bive.
A model of the famous Rocket, the
flrst engine to draw a passenger train
stands in the Transportation building
of the St. Louis exposition, and Edwin
Entwistle, the man who acted as fire
man on the epoch-marking day sev
enty-three years ago, when the first
passenger train in the world left Man
chester for Liverpool, lives in an hum
ble cottage in East Des Moines; and
when he thinks of his inability to
visit the exposition and see the Rock
et model, tears come to his eyes and
course down his cheeks.
“I’d give anything I possess just
to see and handle it again ” the aged
man said recently, as he told the
story of that memorable trip. “But
I’m old now and feeble. I’m not the
lad I was when George Stephenson
gave me a word of cheer and I climb
ed into the Rocket and we started on
our trip.”
Edwin Entwistle was a lad of 16
when the trip was made. He was
recommended to Stephenson by the
Duke of Bridgewater, whose steward
declared that Entwistle was the best
mechanic in his shops.
It was in September, 1831, that the
Rocket made its trip. Stephenson
had triumphed over many difficulties
and the test was to be made. He had
completed his plans, obtained a char
ter for the railroad between Liver
pool and Manchester, and laid his
track.
Stephenson had one strong friend,
the Duke of Newcastle. When he
heard that Stephenson was to appear
before the committee the duke bade
him be careful of his answers, lest
the committee refuse the charter.
“George heeded well the instruc
tions of the duke,” said Mr. Entwis
tle. “The committee asked him all
sorts of questions, but the answers
were always cautious and hard-head
ed. In particular they tried 10 find
out what the capacity of the train
was to be in the way of speed and the
handling of freight.
“ ‘It will travel fast enough and pull
freight enough,’ answered Stephen
son, ‘to pay the interest on the money
invested.’
“That was all they got out of him,
but the charter was granted. Work
was begun on the road at .once, but
there were ten miles that were a bog,
and gravel and dirt h^d to be hauled
in, so that it was four years before
the rails could be laid,
“When the track was completed
and Stephenson was ready to enter
the competition he was without a
fireman. He applied to the Duke of
Bridgewater and was sent by the lat
ter to his machine shops. Here Ste
phenson repeated his request to the
foreman of the shop. The latter re
plied:
“ ‘I haven’t a man to send, but that
lad will serve your purpose, if you
care to take him, and get an order
from the steward.’
“The order from the steward was
not long in coming, and Edward Ent
wistle, then a machinist's apprentice,
went on the Rocket.
Stephenson took Entwistle out the
following Sunday to let him try his
hand at the throttle. They ran the
engine down to the bog, a distance of
fifteen miles, and return. Stephenson
was more than pleased. The next day
was the day for the competition. Ent
wistle, speaking of the trip, said:
“I don't remember much about the
weather. All the days in England are
pretty much the same, and along the
seacoast there !s always more or less
of a fog. The thirty-one miles were
what might be called level country.
Where the bog had been filled in. of
course, was level. It was slightly
down hill between Manchester and
Liverpool. The country was not rough.
“I don’t remember the time we
made on the trip, but it didn’t mean
much, as the trip was marred by a
fatal accident. We were about half
way down when a stop was made.
The Duke of Wellington was talking
to Mr. Huskisson, and they were
standing on the second track. Sud
denly a construction engine came
around the corner and bore down on
them. The Duke of-Wellington jump
ed and escaped safely, but Mr. Hus
kisson was struck down and the
wheels passed over his legs above the
knees. He was taken to Liverpool,
where he lived about ten hours.
“Strange as it may seem, this ac
cident did not prejudice the people
against the railroad. They understood
that it was an accident and did not
blame the road.
“The Rocket pulled on that trip
five coaches. They were small affairs
and looked much like stage coaches
on wheels. Each coach contained
three seats, each accommodating
three people, making nine to a coach.
People rode on the tops, however,
and hung on the sides of the coaches,
so that in all seventy-five persons
rode that day. Thousands of persons
were lined up along the railroad
track on both sides to witness the
strange performance.”
After operating the Rocket thirty
months young Entwistle found him
self almost a nervous wreck and re
fused to serve any longer.
“When I was eighteen—that was in
1837—I left England and came to this
country. Fifty years ago I came west
and built a house right on this very
spot.”—New York Herald.
It Puzzled the Expert.
The customs official was greatly puz
zled. He knit his brow and frowned
darkly. He even tapped his foot nerv
ously on the polished floor.
“What seems to be the difficulty?'
inquired a sympathetic subordinate.
The chief turned to him with a trou
bled stare.
“I’m bothered," he growled. “I’m
badly stumped. And yet I am the
very man w-ho classified frogs’ legs
as ‘dressed poultry,’ and admitted a
colt from Canada as ‘household furni
ture.’ ”
“And what’s the question now?” the
subordinate respectfully asked.
The chief ran his hand through hi9
matted hair.
“I’m worried to death,” he cried,
"over a proper classification for a
three-legged stool. It isn’t a biped and
it isn’t a quadruped—and there you
are!”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Hypnotism Again.
“A little lad in Limingten,” said F.
S. Black, ex-governor of New York,
• must have studied the records of t^e
criminal courts, and noticed a certain
rather absurd plea that for some years
had been advanced in extenuation of
all sorts of crimes. The lad was ab
sent from school one fine spring day,
and on his reappearance the next
morning he brought no excuse.
“ ‘James,’ said the teacher, ‘where
were you yesterday?'
“The boy began to cry.
“ ‘It was Joe Mullen’s fault,’ he said.
‘He hypnotized me and made me go
flshin’ with him.’ ”
Courage the Enemy of Disease.
The way to avoid contagion is to
keep the mind pure and sweet, having
due regard also for the body. Culti
vate optimism and hopefulness and
avoid gloomy thoughts and forebod
ings. Seek the society of those who
are buoyant and helpful and if at any
time you are overtaken with the real
ization that your lot is not what it
should be, think of the condition of
many who are not so fortunate as
yourself, who are suffering from ac
tual want.
The woman who would avoid mi
crobes will not fear them, says a
writer in Madame. Courage and the
consciousness of right living and high
thinking are the enemies of disease.
Congregation vs. Choir.
Crowds attend the Church of St.
Aldan's, Boston, England, every Sun
day, to hear a musical contest be
tween congregation and choir, the for
mer insisting on singing against the
wishes of the latter and the organist.
The congregation usually succeeds in
drowning out the choir and organ, fin
ishing rather hoarse, however.
Use for Automobile.
Belgium is getting up an antarctic
expedition with Dr. Henryk Arktoweki
as a member of it. Dr. Arktowski
thinks an automobile can be worked
into the scheme. The machine would
have to be built very strongly, and on
a special model, to take apart when
necessary, and work in very low tem
peratures. The theory brought for
ward is that except at its rough edges
the ice cap of the southern pole is
smooth, and that once mounted on it
a machine would go flying to its des
tination like a racing car on a Long
island road.
Growing Use of Petroleum.
It is not yet half a century since
Col. Drake discovered petroleum on
the waters of Oil creek, near Titus
ville, Pa. The total production of
crude petroleum from 1859 to 1902—
forty-three years—has been no less
than 1,165,280,727 barrels. Of this out
put Pennsylvania and New York con
tributed 53.9 per cent; Ohio, S4.3 per
cent; West Virginia, 11.3 per »ytnt;
Indiana, 3.9 per cent; California, £.6
per cent and Texas 2.1 par cent.
Collegiate Discipline.
Syracuse university is a good Meth
odist institution whose chancellor re
cently declined a bishopric. The odor
of sanctity which clings to the plajpe
has led frivolous persons to call the
hill on which the university is built
“Piety Hill.” Some worldly minded
students recently associated them
selves into a “Piety Hill Dancing
club.” That was too much for Chan
cellor Day. “Any attempt to hold a
dance after this,” he told the girls
and boys, “will be taken as a deliber
ate notice of your intention to be no
longer one of us.”
Dog Breaks Up Show.
In the Lyric theater, Oakland, Cal.,
on Oct. 8, when, during the perform
ance of “Everyman,” the procession of
players tried to pass up the center
aisle, a Great Dane, which had been
asleep there, attacked the processio*.
chased Manager Greenbaum when he
came to the rescue and held the aisle
against all comers till a policeman
was called to shoot him. Then his
owner, an old woman, arose and led
him out.
When the girl had gathered all her
gifts in her boudoir on Christmas
night and closed the door, she picked
up a silky object, surveyed it for a
moment, then put it back on the table
with a pat.
“And I really like you best of all,”
she whispered, “because mother’s
love went into the making of you.’'
That is a common feeling. A home
j made Christmas present has more
value and is more appreciated than
any article purchased in a shop; in
every stitch is a loving thought for
the one who is fortunate enough to re
ceive it.
It is amazing how beautiful an ob
ject can be made with a yard of linen,
a few skeins of embroidery silk, and
an attractive design. Here are a few
hints for the woman who always
makes it a point to put love into her
gifts to family and dearest friends:
An Attractive Veil Case.
In this age of many veils a con
venient and dainty receptacle for
their safe keeping becomes al
most a necessity. This extremely
pretty one is practical as well as orna
mental. and can be made from a num
ber of materials. The peculiar and es
sential feature is the arrangement of
the ribbons on the inside. These are
four in number and each should be
an inch in width. The ends of each
piece are attached to different sides
of the case; tnat is to say, the two
ribbons that are crossed at the center
are attached to the outer edge of the
upper section of the cover and to the
inner edge of the lower section, and
the ribbons that are placed straight
in exactly the opposite manner, or to
the inner edge of the upper section
and to the outer edge of the lower.
By this arrangement the case is
made to open at both sides, and the
simple act of closing and opening it
causes a veil, laid tiat on either side,
to be held fast beneath the ribbons,
which are transferable.
The outside of the case can be of
linen, silk, suede or leather, decorated
with painting or needlework; or,
again. It may be of brocade or flower
ed silk and left without further orna
mentation. In any case the inside
should be padded and perfumed and
covered with some soft silk.
The foundation for the case is two
pieces of cardboard of equal size. Each
of these must be covered inside and
out and completely finished before the
ribbons are attached. When this first
step is taken the two are held togeth
er, but a ribbon tied neatly about the
whole makes an attractive finish.
Group of Novelties.
Pincushions, photograph frames and
pretty bags always find a welcome, no
matter how many already may be pos
sessed.
The convenience of a pincushion,
which can be hung at the side of a
mirror or in some similar position, is
self-evident. A novel and useful one
can be made from a large size doll’s
parasol. To get the best results one
of some bright colored silk should be
used. It must be closed and the cov
er tacked to the stick at each rib;
then each of tne sections becomes
separated from every other and can
be fitted at the top and stuffed either
with bran or wool wadding picked
into bits. When the cushions are
slipped into place they can be tacked
firmly to position and the parasol fur
ther ornamented with bows of ribbon
tied on wherever fancy indicates. To
Curious Test.
Engineers judge of the condition of
their machinery by the tone it gives
out while running. Every engine,
whether stationary or locomotive, has
a particular tone of its own; the en
gineer becomes accustomed to that,
and any departure from it at once
excites suspicion that all is not right, j
Tne engineer may not know what is |
the matter, he may have no ear for
music, but the change in the tone* of
his machine will be at once percep
tible, and being instantly recognized
will cause him to start on an imme
diate investigation.
British Coal Is Cheap.
The coal mine owners in the south
of Austria have been obliged to re
duce the price of coal because Eng
lish ships on their way to the Black |
sea for corn have taken British coal i
from Cardiff to Trieste at the rate of
$1 a ton, whereas the usual rate is be
tween $1.60 and $2, and has even
been as much as $3.75. The price of
British coal is so low that unless Aus
trian mine owners reduce their prices
British coal will find its way into Aus
tria in large quantities. j
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make the best foundation the parasol
should have a hooked handle, by
which it can be hung, but should such
not be obtainable a ribbon loop can
be attached to a handle of any sort.
Novel Photograph Frame.
The demand for photograph frames ,
knows uo limit. Any slightly novel j
sort, meets with as hearty an approval j
as if it were the first of its kind.
A really charming novelty can be
evolved from a bit of chamois skin
left in its original shape. The chant
lies in the irregularity of the edges,
which should not be trimmed. The
opening is cut round, square or ob
long, as preferred, and is supplied
with four brass paper holders, the
points of which are pressed through
the leather and turned back agains*
the skin until needed. When the
photograph is put in place one point
of each holder is turned down against
the back, where the other remains,
as already placed, the* holding the
picture firmly.
The lower edge of the skin is slash
ed into narrow strips to form a fringe,
and its surface is decorated with
painting or fire etching, as preferred.
The upper edge is turned under to
form a hem, and into this hem is
slipped a little brass rod. which keeps
the frame in shape. To the ends of
this rod is attached the ribbon hang
er, which terminates in big bows or
rosettes.
Gifts Made of Handkerchiefs.—
Handkerchiefs seem ever to be serv
ing some new use. One of the latest
is the making of dainty bags for fancy
work and the like. A particularly
pretty bag of‘this sort requires two
handkerchiefs, the size used by men,
or small mufflers. They should be of
fine linen. The upper handkerchief,
embroidered with a border of forget
me-nots within the hem, is cut at the
center to form a circular opening, the
edge of which is faced to form a cas
ing, in which is inserted an ordinary
wooden embroidery ring as narrow as
obtainable. The embroidered handker
chief is then laid over the plain one,
and the two are stitched together on
the line of the hem. Ribbon bows are
attached to each of the four corners,
and a ribbon hanger to the edge at
the opening, with full bows at each
end.
Another equally charming gift that
can be made from handkerchiefs is a
bureau cover. For this three or four
are required, according to size, and
they can be as simple cr elaborate as
desired. While embroidered kerchiefs
are always dainty, yet there are also
many novelties in color that can be
utilized with good effect. But to get
the best results the edges should be
plain.
Whatever the number and whatever
the style, each handkerchief should
Automobiles in the Desert.
In the matter of Soudanese com
munications much interest is taken in
the expected arrival at Khartoum of
experimental motor cars for passen
ger service in the desert. The diffi
culty has been to find motors which
are capable of traveling over the sand,
but it is hoped that the recent experi
ments will lead to a solution of this
problem.
Give Few Degrees.
Asked why California’s two univer
sities—State and Stanford—had grant
ed so few doctors of philosophy de
grees—only twenty-five in seven years
—President Jordan of Stanford said:
“By wider introduction of the ‘trading j
stamp principle’ in higher education (
the number of degrees could be in
creased. but with no gains to science
and art.”
Rains Raise Price of Beans.
The excessive rains in California
have raised the price of Lima beans
from 3M to 4 cents a pound. They
are profitable to the farmers at 2%
cents.
have J >ee insertion at the ends, and
then ail be joined together to form a
strip by means of beading. Around the
entire edge of the cover is a frill of
lace, which forms a finish
A still further decorative < ffect can
be gained by threading all the beading
with colored ribbon, terminating in
bows of many loops. Fine plain hand
kerchiefs, with embroidery of small
flowers in color, are exceedingly dain
ty and attractive, and many other va
riations can he made.
Some Useful Trifles.—The gift that
combines utility with beauty is often
the most welcome cf all. Catch-alls
can never be too numerous. Th sim
ple three-cornered form is by no
means new, but becomes novel when
made from unfamiliar materials. Such
a one consists of a square of plain
Japanese or Chinese fine quality of
malting, painted in a bold yet simple
design. It is then folded and bound
two edges together and two separate
ly, and is finished with ribbons and a
hanger.
When painting is beyond the skill
of the maker, embroidery in crewels
can be substituted, or, again, the
square can be of denim or heavy linen,
lined with the same and interlined
with stiffening, and the decoration,
painting or embroidery, as preferred.
Poppies painted in bold strokes on
the dark blue of the denim are singu
larlv effective, and many other novel
designs will suggest themselves.
The problem of how' to care tor the
necktie is ever present to the mascu
line mind, and any practical device for
its safekeeping becomes a boon. It
was long ago conceded that hanging
is the best and really only desirable
method provided for its preservation.
To make an ornamental hanger, ob
tain a level board, half an inch thick,
oblong in shape, and as long as de
sired and cover it with embroidered
linen, or with some handsome bit of
brocade. Then complete the board
with a brass rod, attached at each end
by means of protruding rests, after
the manner of a miniature towel lack.
Supply the upper edge with brass
screw rings, by which it can be hung
against the wall, and the rack will be
complete.
Amateur photography has become
so general an accomplishment that it
is quite safe to offer an attractive re
ceptacle for views and the like to any
friend. A novel one is made with a
number of gray mounts, covered and
held together by means of silk cords,
passed through holes made near one
edge.
The mounts, as many in number as
may be desired, are laid one over the
other. Then two covers of the exact
size are made and placed one beneath
and one on top of the pile. The holes
ar^ carefully drilled through each one.
and the cords are threaded in and out.
through the entire number, binding
them together, and terminate in knots
and ends.
The covers can be of leather, fire
etched; of linen, embroidered; of vel
veteen, fire-etched; of handsome bro
cade. or of any one of a dozen ma
terials.
Brides of Berlin.
The oldest woman who married in
Berlin last year was 72; 228 were over
50 years, and one under 16. A trifle
more than one half of the brides were
under 25 years of age. About one
fourth of the bridegrooms were under
25; the oldest was 81. The total num
ber of pairs was 20,141. Of the men
2,191 married the second time, 214
the third, 15 the fourth, 1 the fifth
and l the sixth time. Of the women
1.4(6 married the second, 99 the third,
6 the fourth and 1 the fifth time.
Mansion for E. H. Harriman.
E. H. Harriman, the railroad mag
nate, has begun the erection of a
splendid residence at Arden, near
Middletown, N. Y. The house is to be
solid granite, 350 feet long and 180
feet wide, two stories in height, and
having fifty rooms. The structure and
terraces will occupy three acres.
European Population Increases.
A German contemporary states that
within the last decade the population
of Europe has increased about 38,000,
000, of whom Russia contributed 14,
0on 000 and France less than 100,000.