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BROWNVTLLE, KEBRASEA; THURSDAY, JUJTE 28, 1877.
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3Tolher's Diary.
Morning ! Baby on the floor.
Malting for the fender;
Sunlight seemB to make It 6neeze,
JJaby "on n bender !"
.AH the Spools upset and gone.
Chairs drawn Into file:
"Harnessed strings!! strung across.
Ought to make one smile.
. Apron clean, curls smooth, eyes blue
(How these charms do dwindle!)
For I rather think don'tyou
Baby "la n swindle?"
2soon ! A tangleS sliken floss,
Gottlng In Wueeyps;
Apron that will netfceep clean,
If a body tries!
One blue shoe untied, and one
Underneath the table;
Chairs gone mad, anA blocks and'toys,
Woll us they are able ;
Baby In a high chair, too,
Yelling for his dlnnor.
Sppon In mouth; I think don'ty on
Baby "is a sinner?"
JSTlght ! Chairs all sot back again.
Bioaks and spools in order;
One blue shoe beneath a mat.
Tells of a marauder;
Apron folded on a chair.
Plaid dress torn and wrinkled,
Two pink feet kicked pretty bare.
Little fat knees crinkled ;
In his crib, and conquered, too.
By sleep, best evangel,
Kow I surely think don't yon
Baby "la an angel?"
A BOX OF DIAMONDS.
Well, as I said before, as It's Christ
inas eve, I dont mind telling you tie
etory. It's a good many years ago
now since it hnppened, before the
days of the mall companies, and Glas
gow clippers, when a man had to make
his will and Bet his house In order be
fore putting foot on board ship ; and
when ouoe you had passed the Eddy
stone it was almost a hundred to one
against your ever Betting foot again in
old England.
However, here I am, laid up like an
old hulk for the remainder of my
days, with nothing to fall back upon
but my memories of the past; and
sad memories some of them are, you
may stake your life. I was a young
man then, and had been knocking
about In the Brazils and the West In
dies everywhere in South America,
I may sny, fori believe I made one of
the first parties of Englishmen to
cross the Andes from Valparaiso to
Buenos Ayres, no light feat in those
-da3's, I can tell you. I wo3 a doctor
by profession, and many a time by
the exercise of my professional skill,
I have saved nsy.owii-CiiIpamong.th8Xejrcjcrae
savage Indians of the Pampaa. I am
net going, however, to tell you any
thing about the Indians now some
other time perhaps a Blice of lemon ?
Thank you and sugar; that will do.
Kow for my story :
As I said before, I had been knock
ing around a good deal In South
America, and shipped as doctor on
hoard of an old tubof a trader leaving
Rio Janerlo, homeward bound for
Bristol, with a full cargo and a couple
-of cabin passengers.
The Good Hope was commanded by
'Capt. McFarlane, a bard headed old
Scotchman; John Williamson, first
mate, and a crew of thirteen hands,
all told, made up of Englishmen,
Dutchmen, Swedes, and a couple of
sniggers, one of whom was the stew
ard's mate. We sailed on the 14th of
December, a blazing hot day, with
scarcely a breath of wind to fill the
sails; but the Captain was anxious to
get away, as Yellow Jack was in port
and he had no mind to keep knook
tug his heels in quarantine any long
er than ho could help. We had, how--ever,
hardly got clear of Raza Island
when a breeze sprung up, and we
were soon bowling along aa fast as the
old ship could be made to step, all
studding set, and so far, a clean bill
-of health on board.
On the 21st, however, I was sitting
-for'ard, getting a breath of fresh air,
and smoking my pipe, when Pete,
the steward's mate, came up and sum
moned me r ."t to see one or two of our
cabin pas- zigers, Mr. William Grler
sou, who nad been very unwell dur
ing the night, and began to be afraid
he was in for a touch of the fever ! I
went aft and saw him, but there did
not appear to be any alarming symp
toms just at present, so I prescribed
some cooling medicine and left him.
He was worse the next day, and the
next, yet it was not a case of yellow
fever, and there wassometblngiu the
pymptoms, that I am not ashamed to
eay, fairly baffled trie. On the 24th
he was so much worse that I began to
be serlouslv alarmed, and communi
cated my fears to the Captain.
"It la not yellow fever, of that I am
Bure."
"What is it thon, Doctor?"
"Well, to tell the truth, I can bard
lj say. .Nothing that I can adminis
ter seems to do him any good, and he
is evidently sinking rapidly."
"Humph !" said the Captain, "mys
terious, to say the least of It. Does he
know of his condition ?"
The conversation was cut short by
ho nrrlvnl nf Pete, who Informed us
that Mr. Grlerson had been seized
with a sudden and alarming acceBS of
pain, ond was apparently dying, add
ing that the patient wished to see me
at once and alone. In obedience to
the summons I went below, and hav
ing shu the cabin door and adminis
tered the necessary remedies, asked
the dying man (for there could be no
doubt of bis dying) the reason for his
-wishing to see me.
"I wish to see you because 1 feel
that I am dying, and I can put off no
longer what T wish to say, if It Is to
be said at all," responded the patient
feebly.
"Fetch me that box off the top of
ray sea-chest and listen J
I brought it, a small oblong mahog
any box, and laid it by his Bide upon
the coverlet, and Mr. Grlerson, laying
his hand upon It, and at the same time
detaching a key from a string by
which it was suspedded around bis
neck, with which his fingers played
nervously during bis recital, continu
ed: "I am a murderer. Aye ! you may
stare, and think perhaps that my
mind Is wandering, but it Is the truth.
Twenty-five years ago twenty-five
years of mleery I committed the
deed which I am now in the presence
of my maker about to confess. I was
a clerk in a banking bouse in London
and the facilities and opportunities
for speculation offered me were too
irrnchfoT me to withstand, but cir
cumstances occurred which oonvlnced
me that discovery -could hardly be
longer delayed, and I was casting
about how to make my escape while
there was yet time.
"Just at this juncture one of the
senior clerks in the house had to be
sent down to Bristol in charge of a
very large sum of money in gold, and
I wa3 deputed to accompany him to
guard the treasure. In those times
matters were differently conducted
from what they are in the present
day, and we had to takeibe money in
a box, strongly secured and Bealed,
with us by the mail-coach, which
started from one of the old inns in
the city for the West of England.
There was a sum of 2,000 guineas. in
the box, and the idea suggested Itself
to my mind that If I could become
master of such a sum I oould get dear
away by some ship leaving Bristol for
foreign parts befor the bank could be- j
come aware of the fact ormy escape.
But bow to get rid of my companion.
Briefly, fori feel my strength sinking
and I must hurry forward to the end
of what I have to tell you, I procur
ed poison which I poured into the
leathern bottle in which I carried my
refreshments on the road, and watch
ing my opporjuuity, offered it to him
to drink. He sank baok in a corner
of the coach, and in a ev? minutes
was a corpse. Empting the remain
ing contents of the bottle out of th'e
window, and placing the dead man In
such b position as wonld lead people
to suppose he had died naturally In
his sleep, I hailed the guard with ev
ery stimulation of trepidation, and
stopped the coach. .The outside pass
engers got down, and a soeneof great
-occtrrred. At tiitr" nVjil,
village, the local doctor, who, as it
happened, waa a man of nogreatskill,
wa3 sent for, and dexterously Insinu
ating to him that I had known my
companion to have suffered from
heart di-ease for some years, with
many compliments to the profession
al acumen of tne doctor himself, that
worthy man was not long in pro
nouncing it a case of sudden death
from heart disease, and I was suffered
In view of my representations as to
the urgency of my mission to Bristol,
to proceed on my journe'. This Is
the bare outline of my crime ; the
details would only weary you and my
time is short. I succeeded in leaving
England and in reaching Brazil,
where I have amasBed a fortune. That
fortune is within the box whioh lies
beneath my hand."
He paused, for a violent spasm seiz
ed him, and it was not for some time
that I could recover him sufficiently
to enable him to proceed.
Rasing himself in bed with difficul
ty he unlocked the box, andjdisclosed
an ariay of unset diamonds, whose
brilliancy fairly dazzled me.
"Here are 50,000 worth of dia
monds," proceeded Mr. Grierson. "I
have converted all my fortune into
these gems, and these I intend to in
trust to your care. Take this box at
once to your own cabin and return to
me for your Instructions as to the dis
posal of the oontents."
I hesitated, but he was imperative.
"Not a word. I am dying fast, and
I Implore you to aocede to my last re
quest.'' I took the box, locked it, and left
the cabin.
As I opened the door I ran against
Pete.
"What the devil are you doing
here?"
"Nothing, Massa."
I passed on along tho main deck,
toward my cabin forward, and on my
way I met Captain McFarlane.
"How is your patient, Doctor ?"
"Dying, I fear. He cannot la3t
long."
I passed on, and depositing the box
In a place of safety, returned. Grier
son was rapidly sinking, and in a few
broken sentences he instructed me as
to the disposal of his property. Ten
thousand pounds was to be given to
the bankers, Messrs. Holt & Wadley,
of Dombard street, and the balance to
the family of the murdered man,
whose name was given me, and whose
representative I pledged my word to
do my best to discover.
Finally, binding me over not to dis
close what I had just been told, ex
cept to the parties named by him In
his dying request, Grierson relapsed
into a state q partial Insensibility,
from whioh I In vain attempted to
arouse him, and before half an hour
had elapsed the unhappy man was no
more.
Going on deck., I communicated the
news to the Captain, who gave the
necessary directions as to the funeral,
which took place next day, and once
more we were plowing our waj' thro'
the blue water aa if nothing had hap
pened. I was an altered man. The strange
commission with which I had been
intrusted w'eighed on my mind. Ov-
er and over again in the stillness of
the night I opened the box of dia
monds and gazed on the brillianoy of
the gems. What proof was there that
they were not mine, the box with Its
brass plate bearing the owner's name
could be destroyed In a moment, and
then over and over again the devil
whispered to me, but thank God, I re
sisted the temptation. I would fulfill
the trust -confided to me, and I prayed
fervently for strength to resist the
evil promptings of my baser self.
One day I sat alone, the box unlock
ed on my table, gazing with an irresis
tible curiosity, which I was unable to
control, on the jewels which scintil
lated with a devlish luster before my
dazed vision. The doorwassuddenly
opeued and Captain McFarlane enter
ed. "I beg your p'ardon, Doctor ; didn't
know you were engaged." But before
I could close the box or reply his eye
had caught the shimmer of the bril
liants.
"Halloo! what's there?"
With a firm hand he olo3ed the lid
and read the name upon the plate.
Innocent as I was, involuntarily
stung by the remembrance of what
my thoughts had-been but a few mo
ments before, I quailed before his
eye.
"I know all now that man was
poisoned consider yourself my pris
oner." I endeavored to explain. I told
everything as it had occurred, and I
appealed to the Captain to believe the
story, or at least to await its reason
able confirmation, before acting on
the rash conclusion. He was incred
ulous. One concession I obtained,
and that was that all Bbould be kept
secret till ourarival in port, and ihat
I should not be publioly branded as a
suspected murderer before the crew.
A fortnight passed away, a weary
fortnight, during which I repeatedly
endeavored to shake the conclusion at
which Captain McFarlane had so has
tily arrived. Suddenly, without a
moment's warning, the Captain fell
sick. He was suffering from a low
fever. I begged him to accept my
service.
"Never; you shall not poison me,
too."
Days passed ar3 tho Captain got
worse and worse he babbled In his
delerium. of poTson, of stolen jewels;
and night and day I watched at his
bedside, jealously excluding every-
'bxnlyrhoDTiglitCTGffimdffl.
his ravings and rise up in judgment
againt me.
One day the orlsis came. A few
hours would determine all. If he
died I was once more a free man, free
from the imputation of a foul crime,
free tocary out my honest intention
of fulfilling the dead man's wishes,
and also free from the dread of expos
ure, which to me would be worse, as a
bare suspicion, than death itself.
If the Captain could but sleep his
life would be saved. How easy to
make that sleep his iast the devil
waB at my elbow, the laudanum bot
tle in my hand. But at my sorest
need the strength to resist waB given
to mo. I poured ocit the proper dose
and advanced yward the cot In
which the Captn lay. A strange
light was in his eye. Rising sudden
ly, aud throwing the bed-clothes off
his tall, lean, sinewy form, he half
leaped from the bed, and seizing the
box of diamonds, which he had thro'
out his illness never allowed from be
neath his pillow, in one hand, he
shrieked.
"Never, never ! Will you allow me
to be poisoned like a dog? Help!
some of you."
The effort was too much. Clasping
the box to his bosom he fell back on
his pillow a convulsive shudder pass
ed over his frame he was dead.
I don't pretend to analyze my feel
ings at that moment. My reason well
nigh deserted me. I did not stop to
think of the possible consequences.
Snatching the box from the relaxing
grasp of the corpse, I rushed from the
cabiu and fell over Pete, the negro
who was just outside.
"See to the'Captaln. He Is dead,"
and I eped onwnrd ; but the powerful
negro had his hand upon my arm.
"Massa Doctor not go so quiok Mas
sa Grierson dead, Cap'n die, too Doo-
urtr
tor got his box of jewels. Give up dat
box," and the negroe seized me in his
grasp and sttuggledwith me for the
possession ofytbe box.
At mat rxoment the streneth of a
Hon was in me, I wrestled with my
assailant, and freeing ruyself from his
grasp, made for tho companion stairs.
I had reached the deck, with what in
tention I know not, but PetG was
again with me, wrestling with the
strength of a demon for the possession
ofthe prize.
The ship was rolling heavily in a
dead calm, and as we fell together,
we slid across the deck toward the lee
scuppers. With a superhuman effort
I freed my right arm, and with all
my force, threw the box over the
quarter-deck railings. It flew open
as it fell, aud in the moonlight the
diamonds fell like a shower of falling
stars Into the black water.
The negro seeing my movement let
go his hold on me, and sprang forward
to catch the box as it fell. A heavy
lurch, end I was alone on the deok,
The rapidity with which every
thing had taken place seemed to have
stunned me, and deprived me of the
power to utter even one ory for help.
When I recovered myself ft was too
late Pete and the diamonds were
gone forever.
I looked around the deck was de
serted, save by the man at the wheel,
who, half hidden by the wheel-house
had not seen the Btruggle.
Can I be blamed? I held my
tongue. The Captain waa burled at
dawn, and the chief officer took com
mand of the ship- It was dear that
Pete must have fallen overboard, and
no one suspected the share I had in
the catastrophe. In due time we ar
rived at Bristol, and for my own satis
faction I instituted the necessary In
quiries as to the individuals named by
Mr. Grlerson. The bank had long
since ceased to exist. I traced some
vague rumor of a man having died
suddenly in a stage coaoh while pass
ing through an obscure village in
Somersetshire, but could never obtain
any clue to his representatives. It
was, perhaps, as well that I failed.
I am still a poor man, but I would
rather die so than aooept the possibil
ity of becoming rich at the terrible
risk which attended the unlucky be
quest of the box of diamonds.
A Well-Deserved Tribute.
London Xcws.
General Grant, who is expected to
arrive in this country to-day, none
the lesa olaims a hearty British wel
come beoause he has permanently
laid.aside the responsibilities and dig
nities attaching to the exalted office
of President of the Unieed States.
He comes to Europe for the purpose
of enjoying a protraoted period of well
earned repose after having undergone
the incessant and exhausting labors
involved In the government of a great
republic numbering forty millions of
inhabitants during eight eventful
years of Its history. Tho Constitution
of the American Union iuvesta its
chief magistrate with a measure of au
thority approaching that which cen
tre in the most autocratie sovereign ;
but the ex-PreBident, during his resi
dence at the White House, has, amid
enormous difficulties, administered
the momentous trust committed to
him, on the whole, with justice, firm
ness, and moderation. Some of Gen
eral Grant's predece3ors in office were
suddenly raised from provincial ob
scurity to wield the Republican scept
er at Washington. But our distin
guished visitor happens to have been
among the few Presidents, the luster
of whose antecedent services had won
for them the political confidence as
well as the social admiration of their
countrymen. Besides himself, only
&&&-i&tmiS3tt
occupants of the President's chair
have completed a second term of of
fice. These were Waseington, Jeffer
son, Madison, and Jackson. And,
while cordially recognizing the rare
combination of honest wisdom and
benevolence which endeared the char
acter of Abraham Lincoln to the mass
of hia countrymen, our deliberate
judgment is that the brilliant career
of Grant, whether viewed as a victori
ous commander of the national forces
oran able chief executive, entitles him
to a niche in the American Pantheon
in close proximity to that great and
good man who is proverbially known
in the United States as 'the father of
his country .' Whatever tribute of
respect, therefore, England Is pre
pared to offfr General Grant is not ex
tended to him merelj because he has
so long held the reins of power as rul
er of a friendly nation. Those person
al qualities whioh so signally adapted
him to preserve the integrity of the
republic, and afterward successfuly to
control Its destinies, commend him
fully as much to the regard of English
men. Jackson and Scott doubtless
equaled Grant in dauntless courage
and possibly in strategic talent. In
no previous American general, how
ever, has keenness of perception been
so conspicuously allied with indomit
able perseverance ; and it is the un
ion of these elements which consti
tutes the main secrot of his military
and administrative success.
Black Hills
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Detroit Free Press.
Yesterday a man clad in the garb
and having tho general stylo of the
frontiersman, called atMr.Eppstein's
pawnbroker's office, on the corner of
Woodward and Jefferson avenues, and
said he wonld like to make a dicker.
'Well, sir, what can I do for you ?'
Inquired the urbane attendant.
'I've got some gold here,' Bald the
stranger. 'I'm hard up and want to
raise some money on this 'ere pile.'
He took from an Inner breast pock
et a small pasteboard box, carefully
lifted the cover off, and disclosed to
the pawnbroker a handful of gold
nuggets.
'Where did you get that?' iuquired
tho pawnbroker.
Dug 'er myself,' was the reply.
'How much do you ask for it ?'
'Oh!' returned the minor, 'I don't
want to sell it ; only want to make a
tamporary raise. I guess $150 will see
me through for a few dayB, and when
I git home I'll send for it.'
The pawnbroker tested one of the
nuggets, found it twenty-one carat
gold, and after weighing it and find
ing the pile worth $174, he offered to
advance $100 on it.
"Twon't do, mister,' said the visit
or, I must have $150 or nothing.
'One hundred dollars la all I can
lend you on it, 'replied the pawnbrok
er, handing back the box and its
precious contents.
The owner placed the cover and his
treasure back into his pocket and start
ed toward the door. At the threshold
he halted, appeared to be debating
with himself for a moment, and at
length turned again to tho pawnbrok-
ler
Well said be with a careless air
take it and give me the $100. I'll
make that do. With that he hand
ed out the boz once more, received
a ticket and $100 In cash, and disap
peared. An hour later Mr. Eppsteln
thought he would have a look at the
gold, and took it out of the safe. To
make assurance doubly sure, he test
ed it again. The first nugget proved
to be Bilver neatly gilded. Another
and another were examined in like
manner, .until the whole had been
gone through, and every nugget was
found to be of the same character, the
whole being worth a fraction over
$4.
The trick waa now transparant.
The pretended miner was In reality a
very clever swindler, who had two
bxes, one containing pure gold and
tTg other the glided silver, which he
& hanged at the time he pretended
tjecline the offer of $100. He made
V, escape, and Mr. Eppsteln philo-
f$v'hically pocketed his loss of $90.
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(uu.
-erj. Spurgeon Described.
Mr. Spurgeon is a very hard-working
man, his time being spent in mov
ing quickly to and fro from the Tab-ernaclfi,-thePastorB
college the schools
alms--.ses, and orphanages of whioh
he is the guiding spirit. He passes
his life, when not actually preaching
or workiug in a pony chaise, varied by
occasional bansom caba. Wrapped
in a rouah blue overcoat with a spec
ies of sott deerstalked hat on his head
a loose black necktie round his mass
ive throat, and a cigar burning merri
ly in hi mouth, he is Burely the most
unclerical of all preachers of the gos
pel. Yet that short, thick-built man,
with the shook head of hair hardly
yet touched with grey, with ample
brown beard covering hia heavyjowl,
and a thin line of mustache covering
his capacious mouth, is the famous
preacher for whom, when yet a very
young tnan, no building could be
found sufficient to hold his congrega
tion. One plan he has ever pursued
during hia public life. It is never to
reply to personal satire or attack.
Not even a statement in print that he
had poisoned his own mother would
provoko the shaddow of a reply.
More than this, lie keeps not one vol
ume, bijt several, in his library filled
with newspaper cuttings of an abus
ive character, and takes particular
phjastir.hgoin tin g out to hia guests
designated monntobank, buffoon, blas
phemer, hypocrite, and yillian. His
dark brown eye lights up with a keen
twinklo of enjoyment ns he comes up
on a particularly pavage onslaught,
and he actually smacks hia lips over
oaricatures.
7' i r '
FORTY YEARS FREE.
Fred Douglas Yisits tlio Home He
Lcftns a Fugitive.
Baltimore, June IS. Marshal
Douglas of the District of Columbia,
visited yesterday St. Michaels, Talbot
county Maryland, for the first time
since he left a fugitive, forty-one years
ago, and was well received by his for
mer masters. Capt. Thomas Auid, and
Wm. W. Bruff, who taught him read
ing, arithmetic and geography fifty
years ago. In an address to the col
ored people, Marahal Douglas said :
If in twenty years from now the col
ored race as a race has not advanced
beyond the point where it was when
emancipated, it is a doomed race. He
encouraged them to earn money and
keep it. A poor people are always a
despised people. To be respected they
must get money and property ; with
out money there is no leisure and
without thought there Is no progress.
A Home IHade Carpet.
An Eastern lady says : Have any
of you a spare bed-chamber, Eeldom
U3ed, whioh you would like to carpet
at little expense? Go to the paper
hanger's and select a paper looking bp
muoh like carpet as you can find.
Having taken It home, first paper the
floor of your bedroom with brown pa
per ; then over this put down your
wall paper. A good way to do this
will be to put a good coat of paste upon
the width of the roll of paper and tho
length of the room, and then lay the
paper, unrolling and smoothing at the
same time. When the floor is all cov
ered, then size and varnish, only dark
glue and common furniture varnish
being used, and tho floor will look all
the better for the darkening these will
give it. When it it is dry, put down
a few rugs by the bedside and toilet
table, and you have as pretty a carpet
a3you could wish.
Mark these facts and say if the Chi
cago Tribune is not practicing a fraud
upon its readers.
The Inter Ocean publishes early
every morning special cable news
from all parts of the Old World. An
hour or two later tho Tribune appears
with a second edition. In which our
cable dispatches are" given ns special
telegrams from New York to the Trib
xnc. There Is nothing in the out
ward appearance of the paper to indi
cate that it is a eecond edition, cable
grams being run In rfndsr the regular
foreign head. A few of its subscribers
in the central part ofthe city get the
late edition, and are led to believe that
but one edition Is published, and that
its entire issue ha9 the same telegrams
from New York that appear In the
Inter Ocean aa cable dispatches from
London and other places. Isn't this
rather small business for a great newfl-
paper ? The Times, with a great deal
less pretense about it for honor and
fairness, has the manliness to come
out at the same time with a postscript
containing the same dispatches, in
Which it confesses the real state of af
fairs. For the sake of a little cheap
reputation among a few hundred per
sons, however, the Chicago Tri6ncis
willing to pilfer our dispatches, and
give them to readers under the guise
of regular telegrams obtained In the
regular way, and sent from New York
immediately upon their reception by
the Herald. Would a commercial
house guilty of such trickery main
tain oaste among honorable men of
the trade? Inter Ocean..
A Frenclmmn Puzzled.
The English language is often a
puzzle to foreigners, and sometimes
drives even an Amerioau hotel-keeper
Into a corner, as for instance at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, where a wealthy
French guest came to complain at the
office, and wa3 there met by the gra
cious Griswold, who rose to explain.
What for, sare, your garcon not
present my demand ?'
'Your demand, Monsieur?'
'Yes, sare; do Ispeaklnglls perfait,
sare; do you comprehend me sare?'
'Certainly, yocr English la perfect
ly correct, my dear sir; what is it yon
de3lre?'
'Vy, eare, you tell me I can have at
my private table wis my frenB what
ever I desire to manger pardon, to
eat.'
Certainly,' said GrlBwold, 'any
thing, stewed doubloons and diamond
sauce, If you wish.1
'Ah, no, Monsieur, zat is too riche.
I simply deBire some grice.'
Eh ; some what?'
'Some grice, Monsieur Griswold,
such as I eat for dinner ze ozer day.1
'Ah, you mean rice, boiled rice
certainly, all the rice you desire.'
No, sure! It is not rice. Zat is
what zat premier garcon head wait
are, say. It is a bird I want Bare; I
want him roast not boil.'
Roast grice why, let me see,' said
Griswold, in a dilemma, not wishing
to appear ignorant of his guest's
meaning. I don't believe there Is a
single grice in the market.'
Ah, you make mistake when you
say single grice.'
. 'Indeed!'
V 'Yes, sstf-feLyou calLajleetle ratj
u u
Mouse,' suggested the hotel propri
etor. 'Yes. Zon two of zem, vat you call
two mice, eh ?'
'Quite correct,' responded the host.
'Zen, if one Is ze bird you call
grouse, two is what you call grico,
eh?'
'Whj', not exactly,' said the hotel
man, struggling to keep countenance,
we say two grouse, just as we say two
sheep or two deer but for mouee,
mice, and '
'Yaas, sare,' said Monsieur, tri
umphantly, 'an vy not you say two
bice for two houses, or two louBe for
two louses, or how far he might
have continued cannot be said, but at
that moment the head clerk, Palmer,
standing near had a violent attack of
coughing, and Carr, tho roora-olerk,
walked off suddenly and slammed on
the big bell, and called for 'front' to do
something, and then stuck his own
head down beneath the counter, as
the amused host walked away toward
the dining hall with his guest to or
der 'two grice' for Monsieur's private
table. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The Palmetto ChiTalry.
The Chicago Tribune has tho fol
lowing Washington special :
Chief Justice Walte, since his re
turn from trying the Ellerton riot ca
ses, gives free expression to the man
ner in which he was received there.
Socially, he was really Insulted, and
himself and his family Ill-treated.
Mrs. Walte was avoided by the wives
of the chivalry. The Chief Justice Is
said to have expressed the opinion
that, in his judgment, a white man In
South Carolina could not be convicted
of any offense against a negro.
The Tribune, referring to the above
says, editorially: 'From the ex
perience of Chief Justice Walte and
wife, it is to be inferred that the poli
cy of paclfloatlon and good will is not
reciprocated with great heartiness.
The wife ofthe Chief Justice, who, in
Washington, ranks socially scarcely
second to the lady of the White House
was completely avoided and Ignored
by the ladles of Columbia, and pains
were taken to make the affront known
and felt by the distinguished visit
ors.
In a recent lecture In Edinburgh on
"The Stars," Prof. Grant'eaid that a
railway train, traveling daj- and night
50 miles per hour, would reach the
moon In Eix months, the sun in 300
years, and Alpna uentauns, tne near
est of the fixed stara, In 42,000,000
years ; a cannon ball, traveling 900
miles per hour, In 2,700,000 years ; and
light, traveling 156,000 miles perseo
ond, in three years. Light from some
of the telescoplo stars takes 5,760 yeare
to reach the earth ; from others 500,
000 years. These Btars, therefore, may
have become oxtlnot thousands of
years ago, though their light oomes to
our eyes. Alpha Lyra Is 100,000,000,-
000 of miles from us, and its magni
tude and splendor are as 20 to 1 com
pared with our sun. The sun Is
neither greater nor Bmaller that moat
of the stsrs.
Tho shooting of alligators in (he
swamps in St. Charles parish, Louiai-
ana, la of more frequent occurrence
now than formerly, the colored peo
ple preferring the meat of these ani
mals to that of any of the wild game
In our woods. They assert that it is
more tender and more savory than
chicken or fiBh. Courier Journal.
The Plattsmontlilnstitntc and Coun
ty Superintendents'' Convention.
As already announced, thismeeting
will be held from July 9th to I9th, in
clusive. The special purpose of this institute
is to prepare superintendents and
teachers for managing and instructing
teachers' institutes. The exercises
will consist of
1st. Lectures on objects, methods,
and means of institute work.
2nd. A regular study and recitation
of some good work on teachers.
3d. Specimen lessons by members
ofthe convention, with criticism by
the leader and others.
4th. The preparation of an outline
manual of Institute instruction embod
ying the beat thougbt3 brougbtout at
the convention, and suitable for use at
Institutes.
As a basis for specimen lessons, and
instruction in the art of teaching,
classes will be formed in the following
among other subjects :
Arithmetic Compound numbers
and percentage.
Geography North America, and
map-drawing.
Drawing on Blackboard, with spec
ial reference to its use by the teacher.
Elementary Sounds and the use of a
dictionary.
Physiology Digestive, Respiratory
and circulating systems.
School Economy Organization,
regulation, teachers' records, health
condition, dtudy and recitation.
Recitations will be largely confined
to the topics indicated above.
Many text hooks will be furnished
for use without charge, and all at very
low rates. Delegates had better bring
6ome text books for reference. Bring
dictionaries especially.
This institute Is called for all the
counties in the State east of the Gth
meridian.
County superintendents are notified
that section 91 of School Law, makes
It their duty to attend this Institute.
Superintendents who live within the
district for which itia called, but who
prefer to go to Grand Island will beat
Tltbertj-ttr-doctr.-
EXA3IIXATI0N.
if desired an examination for first
or second grade state certificates will
be held : Boarding at hotels, $4.00
per week ; In private famlles, $3.00
per week. Delegates who pay full
fare coming will be returned on one
fifth fare.
Thi3 bids fair to be one of the larg
est and most Important conventions
ever held In the State, and every su
perintendent and teacher In the
State fs earnestly requested to be
present.
Persons Wishing more particular
information concerning boarding ar
rangements, may write to Mr. Thom
as Pallaek, Plattsmouth.
S. R. Thompson,
Supt. Pub. Instructions.
Lemons Growing in Iowa;
Des Moines Register.
Judge Fulton, of this city, does not
appreciate the difference in climates,
and would as soon raise tropical fruits
in Des Moines as in Africa. He has
now a lemon tree on which are eight
full-grown lemons, and numerous
more of all sizes, from the blossom to
the full-grown fruit. The ripe oneB
have been nearly a year in reaching
from the blossom to the perfeot fruit.
The tree is Beven years old, and wa3
grafted on an orange stock raised from
an orange seed, when one year old.
The chief beauty of the tree is the
fragrance from the blossoms, which
lastB about all the time, as the tree Is
nearly all the time in bloom.
We were Btruok tho other day by
the reply of a musician to s friend
who had asked him to play on a pia
no whioh waa outof tune. Some one
was present who had not before heard
the pianist.
"Do play for ns," said the musi
cian's friend. "Mr. Blank will make
allowances for the condition of the
piano.'"
"Make allowances!" replied the pi
anist, "I have heard that all my life,
and it never was and never will be
true. Nobody 'makes allowances.'
If a pianist plays on a bad piano, or a
tenor sings when he has a sore throat,
er an orator gets out of his death-bed
to make a speech tho audience is dis
appointed because he doe3 npt dn his
beat work, and it carries away an Im
pression of the performance which Is
likely to lost for a life-time. It's the
same In housekeeping, and dressing,
and business, and everything else.
Poople expect the best under all cir
cumstances. There is no such thing
as 'masing allowances.' " Scribner
for June.
The immense stones used in the
erection of the Pyramids of Egypt,
were obtained from the quarries in the
Arabian hills, and were carried to the
river and over a bridge of boats. They
were then brought, by means of a
causeway, which of itself took ten
years to construct, and which la said
to hav6 been a fine work, with Its pol
ished stones and figures of animals
engraved upon them. One hundred
thousand men were employed at a
I time, and these were relieved by the
same number at the end of threa
months'. A long time was spent in
the leveling of the rock on whioh the
edifice stands', and twenty years for
the erection of the edifice itself. The
stones were raised step by step, by
means of a machine marie of fihort
pieces of wood ; and, last of all, com
mencing from the top, the stones were
cemented together by layers of ce
ment not thicker than a strip of pa
per, the strength of which is proved
by the age of these enormous memo
rlal3. Butchery In tho Xamo of God.
I remember during the Franco
German war a poem by John Brough
am, published in the American jour
nals, an Impressive satire on the an
nexation of heaven In the cause of
murder which kings make so freely.
The Emperor William was always atf
it during his triumphal march in
France. If he cut the throat of k
Bpy, or shot a Frenohman, it was al
ways "by the Grace' of God' HJs
brother, the Czar, has learned the les
son well, but he will have to imitate
the German Emperor fn supporting
God's will with plenty of troops be-?
fore he sweeps over Turkey as tba'
Germans devoured tho roadways of
France. The recent tremendous In
crease of military force on the Ger
man frontiers and In- Alsace' and Lor
raine, look as if King William did
not place too much trust in God, even
now. That Europe at this moment
is armed to the teeth, and thata care
less word or pet might deluge tho fair
est cities of the world in blood and
carnage, does not say muoh for the'
practical good that Christianity has
done for us. This 1b not the fault of
the beautiful and humane principles
of Christianity, but what a perversion;
of the Savior's teaohing Is this mutu
al and bloody butchery in the name
of God ! N. Y. lime.
William Wirt's letter to his daugh
ter, on the "small, sweet courtesies of
life,' oontaina a passage from which ar
great deal of happiness might be
learned :
"I want to tell yon a secret. The
way to make yourself pleasant to oth
ers is to show them attention. The'
whole world 1b like a miller at Mans
field, 'who cared for nobody no, not
be becausa nobody cared for him.'
And the whole world would eerveyocf
U4i.VUU fUVU lUKUI CUB UUUStJ. -LlCU
people see that yon do care for them
by showing them what Sterne stf
happily called the small courtesies, in
which there is no parade, whose voice'
is too still to (ease, and whfoh mani
fest themselves by tender and affec
tionat - looks and little acta of atten
tion, giving others' the preference in
every little employment, at the table,
In the field, walking, sitting and
standing."
It Is a funny circumstance, and Il
lustrates the changes as time twirls,
that twelve years ago this spring, Key
surrendered In North Carolina, and
actually hired a mule and rented
ground and raised a crop that summer
to get money to take his family to
Chattanooga. He did not return to
East Tennessee until fall, after he hs3
realised frord his corii crop. What
confederate money he had was, of
course, utterly worthless, And, after
ho had sold bis crop, there was still
not money enough to take his family
around by rail, (which was several
hundred miles), bo he rigged tip a
wagon, in conjunction" with another'
family, and In this primitive style thff
present Postmaster-Gensral journeyed
over the mountains to Eeast Tennes-"
see. Tennessee letter.
Gov. Hayes was wounded in thtf
arm ct Sosth Moiintain. The sur
geons said it must come off, and pro
ceeded to make all necessary arrange
ments for amputation. The General
was at iliddletown, Md., at tha resi
dence of a gentleman well known
here, and this gentleman begged blm
to allow his family physician Dr
Bare, of Middletown, also well
known here to take charge of him.
He consented, and although the army
surgeons were displea3ed, the doctor
assumed the case of the General, and'
managed the imie o skillfully tha
amputation was rendered unnecessa
"Why la It," asks an exchanger
"that wheri a woman falls down:
stairs she screams out at every bump.
while a man holds his breath till her
gets ro the bottom?" Why? It iff
because the woman deeBn't Intend tcr
do any swearing-at the bottom", while
the man does, and saves himself for &
grand, comprehensive, "everlastlng-ly-dad-durn-it."
when he gets there-
Two young brothers may be as de
votedly attached to each other a3 werff
Damon and Pythias, but yon wIU
f never hear of one snatching the scut-1
tie from the hands of the other and
insisting upon going down cellar to
bring up the coal.
When a "cow leaks her milk, bathet
her teats with spirits of camphor once
a week for four applications. Waste
may be prevented until the cure is
effeoted by milking three times a day
during good grass season.
A mother having occasion to re
prove her seven-year-old daughter for"
playing with some rude ohildren, re
ceived in reply: 'Well, Ms, somsr
folks don't like bad company, bai I
alwaj's did.
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