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rurna-A "From A. II - '?-jm m fe X k n 4 'A THE ADVERTISER a. w. TiiMMigiB i T.C.XJLCXX. FAmBttOTHER fc HACKER, PabUsbers &ed Proprietor. Published Every Thursday Morning AT BROWNVIXIYE. NEBRASKA. TERMS, TN ADVANCE i One espy, oneyear - Os copy, stx months .S3 GO . 109 . SO fiaecapy. three months gr yopapersectfTOgitheofflce&atllplat.T. BEADIS6XATTEII 05ETEBTPAGB OIFICIAL DIRECTORY. Distriot Officer. B.B.POTnJD, -Judge. .District Attorney J)ltrlct Clerk. William; h. hooveb- Couatv Officer. bthll County Judge 8 AiTL CULBERTS02. X. H fULMOKF- jTlL EI.ECKNER O B. PARKER-. UEO. R. SHCa.- PHILIP CKO -EB JOHN H. SHOOK. JOHS H- PfJHIjMAN rB.KEREDFERN JOHN B. Cleric and Recorder Trpmn rer Sherln Coronex Surveyor JSchool Superintendent 1 rnmmlasloners City Ofioera. 3.L.CARSOIT- .Mayor .a.-cectij Police Judge 3. B.DOPKER H. A.OSBORN J. jQ. B05SELL, .Ciers "Itft?' iiarsnai i COUNCILilEN. W HACKNEY. JOSEPH BODY. J - Jrt Ward A. RO BISON. A H-GILMORE C. NKIDHARTJ E.HCDDART. IjidWard 3r'dWard BUSINESS CARDS. T IL BEOADY, O . Attorney and Counselor at Iavv, OSceoverStata Banfc.Bron-nvllle.ycb. C A. OSBOBN, O. ATTORNEY AT LAW. OSes, No. El Main street, Brcnvnvlle. Neb A S. HOLLADAT. il Physician, Surgeon, Obstetrician. Gradnatd.ln ISS1. Located In BrpwavlllelSSS. Oace.41 sialn str3et,Brownvlue.Jeb. T S. STULL, J ATTORNKVS AT LAW. Ofice or County Judge. Brownvllle, Nebraska. SCHICK, ATTORNEY ATLAW. rerPost Omce.Brownvllle, Nebraska. Ofilce Q' W T -ROGERS. Attorney and Counselor at Law. WUlelve diligent attenUon to anyleralbuiilness entrusted to his care. Office opposite Post Office, Urowavnie. Neo. J L. HOY, TTNDERTAHSR, Ccfllng made on short nottc1 Three miles -re?t of Brawnvilli-. Neb T W. GIBSON, biTacklsjiith and horse snoBR Work done to erder nd satisfaction suaranted First street, between Slain and Atlantic. Brown vllle.Seb. AT CLIXE m KASIIIO.VARI.E BOOT AM) SHOE .MAKER CI STOM WORK raadeto onlcr. and fits alway r uaranieed. RepalrlnK neatly and promptly done fitnp So.z: Main rtreet. Brownvllle. Neb. ACOli MAEOHJJ, MERCHANT TAILOR, and dealerln FineEngHh,rreBCk, Scotch and Fancy Cloths yMtln?s,Etc,Et. "Brownville. rVebraska. B. SI. BAILEY, SHIPPER AND DEALER IN LIVE STOCK. BROWyi'lLLE, JTEBRAhKA. Farmers, please call and get prices ; I want Co handle your stock. Office Flrnt Matlonnt Hank. pHARLES HELMER, FABH.10NABLE Boot and Shoe 2-A.SlSS.. Havlnc bought the cus tom shop of A. Roblson, I am prepared to do work of all Kinus at Reasonable Rates. .O-Kep&lrlrjK neatly and promptlydoue. Shop No. 62 Main Ktreet, nrtnonville Nebraska. B. G.. WHITTEMQRE, DEALER IN QROCERIES, PROVISIONS, SEWING MACHINES SEWING HACHINE REPAIB8 A SPECIALTY, Trtllpay thehlsthest market price for scrap Iron and rag. Main Jt., West Brownvllle, AiTEi Palraer. Sett. Johasaa NEW RESTAURANT, Palmer & Jolmsoii. Flrst Door West or the Old Bnildiufr. National Bank This firm, having fitted up these rooms wll run a first clasn restaurant, where Rood warm meals can be had at all hours. They cIvb their customers tke best viands In the market, including fresh oysters served In any manner called for. Try the New Restaurant All Orders for an Express Left -with Them will be Promptly attended to We Kean Cured, Hot Merely Relieved And Can. Ftoto What tee Claim. YyThereareaa fallnrxand nodlmp. polnimtnlt. If yon mrc trwotelrtt wrlth ti I at llCAnACKK yon can be easily aaa aulflLlyMPe. huagrc4 have togen il rwdy. We hall toe ptead to mall a Tbtrt of tysttmoBlala to any intevealeit. CARTER'S LSTTLE LIVER PILLS jnonarp3l! fcrrat of BlllOBess. prevent Constl ccSori and Dvpep!n, promote rMrestlon,TeUere SSSs from too hearty eiau& correct Dtearders SrSXrKtSTT:h. StltactM the Uvcr. and Recu te1tnBVv They do all this by tafclttfjost ta-utaepti at a t- L CTT F01!" eeeta tieltfBncrrr'peir pure. end are as nearly per Mn n foMme ora i i. la he. llre Seen!. S f.ir fi. k imzsi rvrr-xarr wra: t? aiul. caotf.r nr.nio-vn co erie. pa- 5iod by a. W. KlokelL ! k ' ' h09T KXEEilUCR getaafa XiU3riXBrUUX7 lOOB. J Oia.rt P.per 1 tk. Stt Tne Doctor's Testimony. A. S.Rusel.of 3iarion. Wavae Co.. N. Y. says Tne wonderful success of Thomas' Eclectrlc Oil Int all cases of acute and chronic Inflammation, ca tarrh, bronchitis, lame back:, eu. make the de mand for It very great. The Druggist's Testimony. ,. COI.rSBlTS,O.,rEB,STII.lS80. Messrs. Fntr Tvnihn.n rv Regarding the sale Of Thomas' Eclectric Oil we xtc gratified In being able to Inform yoq that since we woa me agency wree monus ago for the sale and Introduction of Eclectrlc OIL our verv Iatch . sales proves conclusively to onr minds: this re-B- the unprecedented sale. Weanticlpate a large In. crease tn the sale, as Its virtues become more gener ally Jinown. YOurs truly. R. JONES fr SON. Dealers la Drugs and Borglcal lostnnaenU Sold by 1. TT. Slckell, DrnIst, BrowBTllIe. Goto Nlckell's forilrs.rreeman's New Nation al Dyes. For brightness and durability of color they are unequaled. Color: to 5 lbs. iprlcft cents. ACTHOBIZED BY THE C. S. G0TE8XJIEST. First National Bank OF SROWNTILLE. Paid-up Cajntctf, $50,000 Authorized " 500s000 IS PREPARED TO TRANHACT A General Banking Business BUY AND SELL COIN & 0DBBEN0T DEAFTS on nil tbe principal cltlea orthe United States and Europe MONEY LOANED On approved security onlr. Time Draft": discount ed. and special accomniodatlnn crantrd to deposit rs. Dealers In GO VERNSTKNT BONDS, STATE, COUNTY & CITY SECURITIES "DEPOSITS Received payahleondemand and TNTERKSTal lowcdon tlmeccrtlflcatesofdeposlt. DIRECTORS. Wm.T. Pen. B. M. Ballev. jr. A Handloy. Fntnk E. Johnson, r.uther Uoadley Wm. Fralsher. JOHN L. CAKSOX, A. R. DA VJSON. Cashier. President. I. C.McNATJr;UTON.Asst. Cashier. ESTABLISHED IN 1856. O JL T E S X EEAL ESTATE A-G-EISTCY IN NEBRASKA. "William H. Hoover. Doe6 a general Real Estate Business. Sells LandH on Commission, examines Titles, makes Deeds. Mortgages, and all Instra meats pertaining to the transfer of Real Es tate Has a Complete Abstract of Titles to all Real Estate lu Nemaha County. m. m:mm. WAT CM MAKER, 90 Main Street, BROWNVULE, - BTEB, Takes till opportunity to Tli an k the People or Broirn- ville and IVerualia Comity for their Liberal Patronage dur- in? the past year, and solicits a continuance of their favors. Having now a choice, new, stock, of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, at prices that cannot be discounted anywhere. Call and See. Stages and Express es pass the door : get the con ductor to put you down at 90 HXaln St., opposite Lownian's. CHARLES BODY Hereby calls the attention of the people of Brownvllle and vicinity to the fact that he keeps a full line or the best FAMILY GROCERIES. PMOTISIOKS. FLOUR, COJTFECTIOJVS, etc. And tells at tbe very Lowest Living Rites. He also has a X ESTAURANnp A-- TJEI'AH.TJiaEKr!' Jl Where Meals at all Hours are fnrnshed upon t&e shortest notice. People from the country are Invited to call and get a "square meal" for only 25 CEJTS PILES filly Itaaitod -wei totiKIe st ef cw. rrof. Huni' IBsttniri jrapfct tnl tm o tnKcibcc DAERI8 EEMEBT CO, Xtcfc CktakU, U KtrtttSti, t- I-oaU, a. The Delinquent Subscriber. One day last -week, when sad and dreary, Aa we wended, weak and weary. Across the nnswept floor; We heard, at first, a gentle topping, Then It became an earnest rapping At oar sanctum doer. "Come In!" we said: while yet we pondered And In silence we still wondered What for us could be In store : Then, the door-bolt gently turning. In he walked. Our cheek-was burning! Thoughts of crimson gore. "Are you theman whodoes thewrlting?" (What word will rhyme with this but fighting. Quickly thought we. o'er and o'er). "Sir, we are," we gently told him, Nodding to tbe boys to hold him. If he tried to beat ua sore. 'Then you'll pleae clve me a credit Opposite my little debit . -v Fortwodollarsmore; , I like your paper and will take It As long asyou strive to make It As good as it has been before. Wejumped Ihedodged! thus we missed him. Or we should have surely kissed him. No matter If tbe boys did roar ; So beldom treated In this manner. We felt Inclined losing hosannah ! Only this and nothing more. i m US VERY LAST CHMOE. It was pink day-dawn in September as a m:m emerged from one of tbe charming villas, by jjroud humility termed cottages, that peeped coquet tishly from behind ruches of ever greens bordering the avenue leading to the ocean drive at Xewport. Oh, how white that man's face look ed, and blanched, and drawn. Bound his eyes lay deep, dark caverns, and in his eyes a strange, restless light He turned up the collar of his coat, and shivered as he swung open the gate and turned in the direction of the sea. Henry Lamerte had attended a hop at the Ocean House. Bessie Bedouin was there, of course; she eauie with the Philomels, her father being only a dinner man, and had three hours of earthly paradise. For the piazza is spacious and full of cunning corners where the garrish gaslight does not lenerrate, and the gentle Luna peeps timidly 'round the corner. Little did Lamerte as he handed the happy girl into the Philomel carriage, think! On the steps of the Ocean House La merte encountered half a dozen fash ionable young men of his acquaintance, chatting, smoking, and very wide awake, as is theWant of the young swelldom of the nineteenth century toward the small hours. "Come over to Lentrapp's, old man f exclalmedvone of them. ""Who is Lentrapp ' asked Lamerte. "Don't know Lentrapp ? "Why, when did you arrive?" "I got over from Xew York this morning." "That accounts for it. I'll tell you who Lentrapp is. He's English, was in some cavalry Tegiinent, has no end of money, has taken Tampico's cottage for the season; tools a four-iu-hand, rides the best pony, and is the best man at polo; keeps open house, with brandy-and-soda all over the place. That," shipping Lamerte violently between the shoulders, "tltat's who Tony Len trapp is, so come along." "Bnfcl.am not acquainted with " "Bah! you are of our set. I'll pass your check." Henry Lamerte was easily persuaded, aud a rope of sand led him to the Tam pico villa. Lentrapp proved a delight ful host champagne, dashed with London stout, became the order of the evening, and when a game of baccaret was laughingly proposed, the idea was vociferouslyvoted, just the thing to spin off a cbuple of hours. These hours saw Henry Lamerte cleaned out of ev ery dollar he possessed in the world, and with a debt of honor of $10,01)0. He had not enough of money to pay his board bill, and as to his prospects, they were simply nil. He was an army of ficer, with an allowance of a thousand a year over and above his pay. It went hard with his mother, the widow of General Lamerte, to hike off even this annual sum from her limited means. He had no relations to appeal to in this terrible emergency. The insane desire to show off in company with richer men than himself had led him to play. He played, and lost lost everything. Of course, Henry Lamerte, as he fiercely strode toward the melancholy ocean, now thought of suicide. When a man has made this world too hot to hold him, he dreams naturally enough of a cool snug bed underground, where he is not likely to be dunned, nor to wince under the unendurable fire of the sneers of men who accuse him of having cheated them. It was a ques tion of Lamerte between death and dis honor. He had but two roads to trav el. H he did not pay 510,000 before a certain few hours, he would be posted as a aeiauueri Me wouia nave to throw up his profession and leave the country; and as he gazed at the distant smoke "of an ocean steamer, like a gray feather against the pink sky, he mused with poignant bitterness on the hideous possibility of being obliged to follow in its wake with thebrand of shame upon his forehead, provided he elected to re linquish that other alternative. Henry Lamerte rested himself upon a rock down by the edge of the sea, and lit a cigar. "My last," he laughed, with a dry, grating laugh that, heaven help him, had little of the ring of merri ment in it. "Poor mother! Poor Bes sie! It is lucky that I did not engage mvself to her. She will be cruellv stricken when she comes to learn that I have been found dead in my room at the hotel, a pistol in my right hand. Perhaps not; she's going to the ball at Stilmontes' on Friday night; she'll go and dance with that fellow Hipsley, and perhaps say, "Well, Mr. Lamerte was a nice fellow, and this our waltz, is it not f .N o, and he flung awav his cigar, it tasted so bitter, "She'll never do that. She's too good and true." Dawn was spreading now, and there were z-ytne saffron tints on the horizon line, heralding the sun's coming. La merte, his hands plunged deep in his pockets, sat on a rock in a dream v wav. like a man who has nothing to do, wait ing for the sun to rise; as it emerged slowly from its bath it covered all the water with gold, and the sky above it became one 'vast vault of speckless blue. "Now? sighed Henry Lamerte, springing to his feet. "A fine morning, sir," piped a reedy voice close beside him; then came a fit of coughing, and then blood stained the lips of an emaciated little man, who was trying to inhale a little sustenance into his lung3 from the tonic of the morning. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, This dying man for he was only battling against terrible odds, and fighting fiercely to the last was one of Boston's wealthiest citizens, Mr. Pow ell Ingalls, of weakly constitution. He had overdone himself by fast living in Europe, for which he had never felt any real inclination. And now that he knew he was doomed to die, he looked back upon his past life as rather a dis mal joke from tbe beginning to theend. "A very fine morning," he repeated. 'Very," was Lamarte's laconic reply. "Will you kindly assist me to the seat you have just vacated?" "With pleasure. You seem to be an invalid," said Lamarte, as he lifted oh! he was physically a splendid form, and could have raised 250 pounds with ease Powell Ingalls on to the rock. "Invalid! Im past that; I am fairly en route for the next world at express pace. Can I carry a message for you?" with a sickly attempt at a smile. "I shall, perhaps, be there before you," replied Lamerte, in a tone which the other mistook for a banter, for a laugh had accompanied the words. Dying men are never to be reminded of the freaks of fate by which the strong are often down before the weak, and if Lamerte had to win over the dying Bostonian, he could not have proceeded more adroitly. "You might, indeed," chuckled In galls. "A man twice your fighting power, who stopped at the Aquidneck house, Major Morton, and who wanted me, half joke, whole earnest, to re member him in my will, dropped dead beside me in the garden on Monday last. It's all a toss-up, and depends on how the cubes are shaken in the dice box of destiny, and this is how we ought to regard the snuffing out of the wick of Ufe. Mori vieux, they call me rich, with everything surrounding me that renders this fiction called Ufe worth having, and yet I snap my fin gers at life, and say adios without so much as a sigh of regret." Lamarte let him talk, scarcely heed ing a word the other had said. Vis ions of West Point of the Lovers' Walk, of the parade, of hazing, of glo rious days spent by the Hudson, came dreamily to him, while the hum of In galls' voice, mingled with that of the small, noiseless waves as they kissed the beach of soft, white sand at his feet, served to produce a languor that for a moment compelled him to forget the terrible position in which his own folly had so mercilessly placed him. Suddenly a thought Hashed to his heart, causing it to leap. What if this dying man could help him save him from death and ignominy! What if by the stroke of his pen he would open a new career for liim, full of great God ! life, life ! If this man was rich, was on the edge of the grave, would he feel for a man in the full flush of youth and strength drifting to an untimely death ? Henry Lamerte gazed scrutinizingly into Ingalls' pinched face. "Skin and bone," exclaimed the inva lid; "a death's head. I was fresh and full of blood, and handsome, ten, nay five, years ago. I caused young hearts to throb in my time. I was heartless myself. I jilted women for love of the sport. I was" run after for my yellow gold that now cannot give me a f ull dmwn breath. What a farce the whole thing is! Ah!" and here the racking cough assailed him until Lamerte had to hold him on the rock in order to pre vent his tumbling off. "And who may you be?" demanded Ingalls, when the paroxysm had pass ed. "You have the straight back of the 'gentleman of the army.' " "I am in the army." "West Point?" "Yes." "What year?" Lamerte informed him. "The army is a poor look-out. A man must be either very fast or very slow to make his life of genteel beg gary bearable. You are fast; I read it in your eyes. You have not been to bed, and have come out here to rob the sea breeze of ome of its freshness. Am I right?" "Eight and wrong." "In what am I right?" "I have not been to bed." "Dissipating?" "Yes." "Cards?" "Yes." "Ah! And von lost." "I did." "now much?" "More than lean pay." Then speak ing very f ast, so as to make retreat im possible, Henry Lamerte told his mis erable story: "I have lost ten thou sand dollars. Providence may have thrown you in my way, sir. Can you will you, lend me that sum? I do not know how long it may be before I shall be a position to repay you, but 1 swear to discharge my debt some dav if 1 live. Ingalls stared very hard at the speak er not surpriaedlv, not uukindlv. "My position is this," he said, after a pause: "I cannot command a hundred dollars. My death is being discounted by my kinsfolk, and they have kindly taken possession of all my effects. If I wrote you a check they would ask you to return it on the plea that I am not capable of managing inv own af fairs." Poor Lamerte saw that his last chance had gone; that life was no long er to be played for. "Forgive me for having troubled you, he almost sobbed. "A drowning man will catch at a straw." As he was turning away, Mr. Ingalls exclaimed: "You mustn't despair because the cards have gone against you once. A good man faces luck and beats bad luck down. Some give it a mere soujjie, some strike with sledge-hammer force. All is not lost until everything is lost" As he said this, however, Ingalls look ed at Lamerte and saw that the man's very soul was steeped in dispair. "If I could help I would, but stav!" he hurriedly added, as his eyes fell up- uu a nug uewas wearing a very large black diamond set within a circle of brilliants, a trinket of creat price. "I believe thisis worth seven or eight thousand dollars. It was purchased at Tiffany's about four years ago" drawing it off his finger as he spoke; "it is better that you should have it than some of my loving relations." "But" palpitated Lamerte. "Go to New York with it to-day, and raise as much money on it as you can." "But I do not like to accept such a loan," gasped Lamerte, who reddened deeply. "I cant lend you money," said In galls, "and I shall soon be past caring for rings, so that you need have no MI4J vVWJIWf' THURSDAY, JUNE scruples. The ring is mine. Ah! how my cousin, James Edward Alfred In galls', will swear when he finds thatit's gone." "This generosity, this" "Hush! Lend ine your arm. I re side, I mean I try to breathe, in that cottage over there. Just help me to the door and then go and live." Lamerte assisted him to the cottage, and, lifting his hat, left him ; but his step was rather unsteady as he went, and a mist seemed to have risen out at sea. A few days later and Xewport was disporting itself as Newport knows so well how to do. The band was playing in the pagoda beneath the trees oppo site the Ocean house, and, seated in a wooden chair, his feet high upon an iron railing, was the invalid Ingalls, still fiercely fighting his ghastly assail ant. His worn hand dropped with fa tigue on the arm of his chair, where his fingers beat time to the music "I wonder," he thougnt, and this had been an abiding thought for days, "what has become of him. I wonder if he didn't write or telegraph. Could he have proved a rascal after all, and have played me with a trumped up sto ry of wreck and dishonor? I cannot, will not believe it. His eyes spoke such a tale of misery as no liar could call to his aid, however vivid his lying imagination. Anyhow I'm glad my grasping cousin James didn't get the ring, and unless I had thrown it into the sea it must have come to him." The concert was drawing to an end when an open hack darted up to the gentlemen's entrance of the hotel, and from it sprang Henry Lamerte. "I saw you," he cried, as he clasped the invalid's trembling hand in both his "I was driving out to your cot tage. It was only when in 2Sew York that-I remarked i had never asked your name or address, and I found myself cut off from writing to you." "Have you squared your account?" asked Ingalls. "Everv dollar of it." "Then the ring" "Here it is again safe and sound. I have brought it back to you." "Then you had no use for it?" "It saved me. Let me tell you how let me tell you all and don't blame" this in a very humble and contrite voice. Ingalls smiled as he trifled with the ring. "I took the train to New York after I left you," said Lamerte, "and went straight to a fellow who knows a lot about jewels. He told me I would get a clear ten thousand loan, as black dia monds were not to be had for love or money, the sultan having purchased every stone in the market I raised the money " Here Lamerte hesitated. "Go on," said Ingalls. "I feel horribly ashamed to " "You 'yamftled with the proceed,"" interrupted the other. "I did. I said to myself I will make a supreme effort to let my noble, gen erous friend have back his ring. I felt that I would win, and in one night I won bact my losses and five thousand over; but" added Lamerte, "I have sworn by everything I hold most sac red never b touch a card again, and I will keep my oath, so help me God!" The sun was setting in a blood red haze, the ocean drive was thronged with lordly equipages, thelight ship on Brenton'sReef looked like a painted ship on a painted ocean as it swung lazily at its moorings. "This is vhere I met him, darling," said Henry Lamerte, to a young and winsome girl who nestled closely to his side. "This is where I smoked my last cigar. Thisis where I thought of what you wouldthink when the " "Don't Henry! It makes me shiver to think of all the terrible agony of those horrible hours," and little Bessie Bedouin covered her face with her hands, as if to shut out the ghastly vis ion conjured up by the words of her lover. "Poor fellow! A few hours now, and all will be 'over.' " "It is near the time he appointed for us to come to him. Let us cross over to the cottage." They found Ingalls stretched upon a low coucb, his face turned toward the ocean. That blue which would seem to be the very shadow of death was on his face, and cold drops of perspiration stood in beads upon his brow. By a supreme effort he stretched out his emaciated hand toward the girl. "I am so glad to see you, he whisp ered "glad to have a bright, happy face as my last mirror on earth. And you," to Lamerte, "promise me to be good to this bonnie child, and swear, ves, swear," his voice becoming strong- er, "never totoucu a cam again swear it to me now, here." '1 swear it," said Lamerte, with a great gulp at the throat. "And you, my dear child," to Bessie "I have a little wedding gift for you. Put out your hand." And drawing the black diamond from his finger, he placed it on that of the sobbing girl's. "Never let this ring away from you, for it will always remind Lamerte of his oath, and now good-bye." He turned upon his side, heaved one great sigh, and on that sigh his spirit went forth beyond the great sea, Henry Lamerte has kept his vow, Five Lives for One. yew York Herald. Never before in the United States has a single murder been avenged so terri bly by the law as that of Joseph Baber, who was drowned eighteen mouths ago by some men who wished to realize the value of his life insurance policies. Six months ago two of the alleged con spirators were hanged, and yesterday three others suffered the same penalty. For five lives to be sacrmced for one seems terrible, vet the crime of the murderers was so shocking and malic ious that the courts could not possibly fix a lighter sentence upon any of the perpetrators. Murder for money is the basest form of the greatest crime rec ognized by law, and when the offense is the result of long premeditation and plotting, its vileness increases. The execution of the five Pennsylvanians will serve as a powerful warning to would-be villians of a similar stamp; but this crime should also serve a pur pose by cautioning every one against offering a premium for murder, which many a man does when he assigns in terest in life insurance or anything else that may be turned into money as sooii as he dies. 10, 1880. ltfrnfl in Scientific Persons Evidsicsa That They Have It Learned dogs, cultured pigs, and ac complished mules, says the 2STew York Times, are by no means infrequent What is still more remarkable is the fact that animals can teach a variety of things to scientific persons, and that the latter unquestionably possess in stinct which is susceptible of cultiva tion, and which gives us a right to consider them as differing from ani mals only in degree. There are scores of interesting facts which support these assertions, and which ought to be collected and published by some ju dicious literary dog. For example, there is the anecdote of the scientific person who was taught to speak the cat language. He was of the small Fxence mathematical breed, and of great intelligence and activity. He was once matched against a wiry Scotch mathematician to extract cube roots, and won in twenty minutes and three seconds, having at the end of that time extracted fifty roots, to his anta gonist's thirty-four. The cat, who was a remarkably accomplished animal. with an especial fondness for scientific persons, taught the French mathema tician to converse fluently, not only in a classical cat language, but in the diffi cult and little-known tortoise-shell and Maltese dialects. The two would fre quently sit up on end on the front pi azza, and converse with an evident en joyment which excited the envy of the neighbors. The cat testifies that the mathematician displayed in conversa tion a degree of intelligence upon rat, bird, and other important subjects which is unusual even among well-informed cats, and that his accent, ex cept as to a few difficult syllables, was unexceptionable. It is painful to be compelled to say that the French scien tific person's morals were not cultiva ted by the cat, who was, unfortunately, an avowed atheist. He took his pupil with him on midnight excursions, and introduced him to the dissolute and musical circles of the back fence, where a bullet from a revolver put a prema iure end to what was certainly a most interesting and valuable experiment Only less remarkable was the Eng lish scientific person, who was taught to sit with his mouth open in hot weather, and pant. He was the prop erty of a respectable mastiff, who treated him with great familiarity. By bribing him with small mineralogical specimens, which the mastiff found and brought home in his mouth, the scien tific person was gradually taught to sit up and hang out his tongue like a dog, and to pant with an ease and perfection which could not be surpassed. The scientific person was evidently quite vain of his accomplishment, and found it a great relief in warm weather. His example, however, was never followed by others of his kind, and in some cases even seemed to excite the anger of his less intelligent acquaintances. The scientific persons really possess instinct has often been claimed and is often denied the assertion being made that what observing dogs mistake for instinct in scientific persons is only reason simulating instinct. But there is evidence to the contrary that cannot well be resisted. There was a scientific person in Xew Jersey of the Positivist species, who was accustomed to break into yells of rage whenever he heard a church bell. !Nov, this was evidently not a reasonable act. He knew that he was not compelled to go to church, and that the church could not go to him. The sound of the bells was not intrin sically unpleasant, and did not do him any possible injury. His rage, then, was not reasonable, but instinctive, and was a clear proof that he was pos sessed of genuine instinct. These incidents sufficiently prove the propositions that scientific persons are possessed of instinct, and that their minds are susceptible of cultivation. Hundreds of other incidents of the same general nature mignt De men tioned, did time and space permit. Nothing can be done, however, within the limits of a newspaper article with such a subject except to call the atten tion of intelligent and observing ani mals to it in the hope that it will be taken up and investigated by our learned dogs with the care and fullness wliich it deserves. Tales of the Bernhardt. From the Theatre. Two stories probably apocryphal of Mile. Bernhardt. A" gentleman in the audience had one night the exceed ingly bad taste to persistently hiss her. She found out liis address, called at his house, aud had an interview alone with him. Then and there she told him it was always her endeavor con scientiously to do her duty as a his trionic artist and to please "the public; that she regretted anything like failure in that dutv, and that she should feel greatly obliged if he would kindly point out her defects in order that she might correct them. This conduct won her another passionable admirer. Another day she read in a certain Parisian paper the statement that her hair was false, and her teeth were far too good to lx. genuine. Next day the dramatic critic was amazed to behold a lady dash into his room and let down her hair in his presence. "Pull it," she exclaimed, as she placed a luxu riant tress in one of his hands. "Is this real hair or not ?" "Cert;unly, cer tainly." stammered the critic. Catch ing hold of his other hand, she opened her mouth but happily not to bite and made him finger her teeth. "Are these false?" cried the lady. "No, they are the most beautiful real teeth I ever beheld in my life," declared the terrified victim, who would willingly have sworn that black was white if it would have given his visitor the least satisfaction, "I am Sarah Bernhardt" proclaimed the lady, with as much se renity as she could" possibly put into her voice, and the wretched critic made up his mind for the worst He, too, has since btome one of her most de voted vassals. Baby Prizes, $600. An eminent banker's wife of -N. Y., has induced tbe proprietors of that great medicine. Hop Bitters, to offer S600 tn prizes to the youngest chUd that says Hop Bitters plainly. In any language, between May 1, 1SS0, and July 4, 1SSI. This is a liberal and interesting offer, and everybody and bis wife should send two cent stamp to the Hop Bit ters Mfg. CoBoche6tfir.2- Y..D. S. A.,, tor circular, giving roll particulars, and begin at osce to ta&ch the chlldres to say Hop Bit ters &z secure tie prize. VOL. 24. NO. 51. Charles Lamb. Amusing Btcxise of the Stammering Hu- From the London Standard. Lamb was invited to meet a some what mixed company; one day Mr. D , a retired cheese-monger, who had been for years in some commission connected with the poor laws. He was a pompous man, with a grand af fectation of having been born to the exalted position. At one time in the course of the dinner opinions ran at variance as to the proper methods of dealing with pauperdom, and Mr. D assumed a very high manner. "Gentlemen," he said thrusting his thumbs into the armholes of his vest, laying back in his chair, and. inflating his lungs to their utmost capacity "Gentlemen, I should know what I am speaking of, with all my years in the puMic service, and with my opportuni ties for studying the dispositions of these miserable and troublesome pau pers. Gentlemen, they are as worth less and ungrateful as they are and have been improvident. The time has been, gentlemen, when I had some of the milk of human kindness in my breast for these wretches; but now" and he paused for a moment in order to let the conclusion come more over whelmingly. "N-now," broke in Lamb, with his poor, thin face all childish innocence "n-now, Mr. D I sup-p-pose that milk is all m-made up into ch-ch-cheese P Lamb received an invitation on a certain evening to be present at a breakfast at Kogers' the following morning, to meet a young author whose first volume of poetry left the press that day. He went a trifle early and reached the waiting- room while it was vacant, Kogers not having come down, and none of the other guests having arrived. On a table lay a copy of the young poet's new book. Lamb picked it up, ran through it, saw that it contained noth ing of any special mark, and then in the few minutes yet remaining amused himself by committing to memory three or four of the short poems it con tained. The guests arrived among them the young aspirant for honors. Some of the leading men of the London world of letters were among the num ber. Kogers descended, the young man was introduced, and the breakfast was served. Some literary matters came under discussion, pending the after introduction of the young poet's book. With the gravest of faces, after a few moments, Lamb said: "I d-don't think, g-gentlemen, that I h-have ever r-re-peated- to vou one of my best p-poem's. What s-ay"? Will you h-have it?" No body quite understood what was com ing, but all could read the mischievous flash in the eye that was usually so kindly, and the demand for the poem was general. Lamb quietly repeated, word for won!, one of the poems in the young man's book. The key was fur nished to the rest when they saw the young poet pale, then redden, and then fall back in his chair, as astonished as if thunder-struck, and as helpless as if paralyzed. Loud cheers, clapping of hands and demands formore. Lamb bowed his thanks, pretended not to re member anything else that he had lately written, and then, under urging, repeated another and yet another of the poems from the young man's book, the budding poet manifesting symp toms of doubt whether he was himself, whether anything on earth was real, whether he had reallv written the poems that up to that time he had be lieved that ho had until lie heard a man declaiming them, and claiming them for his own ; a man who could not even have seen his unpublished book. Loud cheers, and a still louder demand for yet another. The fun, with all the "old un3" now thoroughly instructed, began to grow "fast and fu rious." Lamb, who had previously re tained his sitting position,now rose and said: "G-gentlemen, I have only been g-gi v ingyon s-some 1-little bits of m-my poetry. But I h-have one p-poem that I am a little p-proud of. I wr-wrote it a g-good m-many years ago. Thisis how it begins: "Of m-man's first disobedience. and the fruit Of thatforblddon t-tree, whose mortal ttaste Brought d-denlh Into the world, with all our woe" The recitation was doomed to go no further. For the previous few min utes the young poet, crazed with won der, and yet aware that in some unac countable manner he was being robbed, had simply been tearing his hair. But at this juncture he could not restrain himself no longer. He sprang to his feet, his face ablaze, and burst out: "Gentlemen, this is too much! I have sat here, gentlemen, and heard that man repeat poem after poem of mine, claiming them for his own, and I have borne it But when I hear him attempt to claim the opening lines of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'" That address, too, was doomed to be cut short like the recitation. Rogers averred that never, beneath his roof, with all the merry madness that that breakfast-table knew, had such a storm of laughter and applause gone over it as finished that speech, and sent the young man to his chair for the time little less than an absolute maniac, un der the pressure of Lamb's crowing atrocitv. Texas is a vast empire in itself. It has an area of 345,000 square miles, or about 75,000,000 acres. It extends through nearly ten degrees of latitude and over thirteen degrees of longitude. It has 00,000 square miles more than the berman Lmpire: 70,000 square miles more than all France and is more than twice as large as the Kingdom of Great Britain. Take the six NowEng land States, then add four Middle States, then add Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, and all these thir teen States are not so large as Texas. The Ontario Fruit-Growers' Associ ation agreed that the yellow in peach trees is a contagious disease, and that every tree showing signs of the disease should be rooted up and burnt They favored steps being taken by the Gov ernment to stamp out the disease. Tt :- :j iv!. it,. -, xt.i. -. iiiiaaoiu. uiik mo uu mac ejiuuea 5!i5S?. S - Progress wuuuuita xii Liieiz zpieoi ,Mas. -art j, bofroi the United Statae as a Perhaps thaGjUaay also neuseiM foritt-. ! DUU " emotions. SageTejrwss is small ouatjy raaie an ezceHeit iiiixzoa-srtesi THE. ADVERTJBERi FWX1KOTHER HAC&SHz: Fllifcers-4t Frojkxtetera, ADTXXTI9i?S . Oat Lsch.oae-year- .ateaa -"aw asccceedlnfiachvper-yeari Oae Inch, per aosth. 3 Xaca addlSeaal iaeb.per asea&- Iealadvertleeaaeata at legal rates Pandits; (l0ltaescT2ioapsrlorles3)Sritta4MIa.Mti aehrrtesactlaertte.Wc J5L ,- j Ail traaawrtaaTeiMiamMtoMMtfraja?. forlaaraace. 3i OWICLIIFJ.PEX ofthecoustt BwirBeasv BlU2Tye,ln,Denve'TTlbane; '" " Buck beer is demoralization ia its tendency when it moveth itself arjgjat. It lavethholdof the iellectandtwist--eth it out of shape. My son, go not with.tfiem whogo-to seek buck beer, for at the last it sting-; eth like thebrocaded hornet with the redhot narrative, and kicketh like-the cholerick mule. Who hath woe? Who hath babfeaagr? Whohathrednessof eyes? Hetfcatgoes to seek the schooner of buck beer. Who hath sorrow? Who striveth -when the middle watch, of the night hath come to wind up the clock withi the 15 puzzle? He that Mckethagainst the buck beer and getteth left Verily, the bucknes3 of thebuckbeer bucketh" with a mighty buckasBOHHich that the bucket arises attheneon&oar with a head that compasseth the town round about and the swellaess thereof, waxeth more, even from Dan to Beer Shebov (Current joke in tie Holy land.) Whoelamoretk with a loud ce and saith: "T erily, am not I a bad man?" Who is he that walketb un steadily, and sicgeth unto himaelf "The Bright Angels Are Waiting: for Me?" Who wotteth not even a fractional wot, but setteth his chronometer with the wooden watch of the watchmaker and by means of a toothbrush? Go to. Is it not he that bangeth his intellect ferninst the buck beer even unto the eleventh hour? A Plus of Tobacco. One -day when trade was dull a grocery clerk procured a piece of sole leather from a shoemaker, painted it black and laid it aside for future use. Within a few days an old chap from back in the country came in and inquired for a plug of chewing tobacco. The piece of sole leather was tied up, paid for and the purchaser started for home. At the end of the sixth day he returned walking into the store he inquired for the clerk. "'Member the terbacker I got hero the other da ?" "Yes. sir." "Well, was that a new brand?" 'Yes." "Regular plug terbacker was it?" "Yes." "Well, then, it's me. It's right here in mv jaws, sadlv replied tne om man. "I Knowed 1 was getten purty old, but I was alius haady on bitin' plug. I never seed a plug afore this one that I couldn't tear to pieces at a chaw. I sot my teeth on this one and bit and pulled and twisted like a dog at a root and I've kept biting andpuli ing for six days, and thar she am now, the same as thedayyonsoldhertome!" "Seems to be a good plug," remarked the cleric, as" he smelt of the counter feit "She's all right; it's me that's fail ing P exclaimed the old man. "Pas3 me out some fine cut and I'll go home and deed the farm to the boys and get ready for the grave mvself." Drinking Ice Water. There is no more doubt that drink ing ice-water arrests digestion than there is that a refrigerator would ar rest perspiration. It drives from the stomach its natural heat, suspends the flow of gastric juice, and shocks and weakens the delicate organs with which it comes in contact. An able writer on human diseases says habitual ice water drinkers are usually very flabby about the region of the stomach. They complain that their food lies heavy on that patient organ. They taste their dinner for hoirra after it is bolted. They cultivate the use of stimulants to aid digestion. If they are intelli gent, they read upon food and what the physiologist has to say about it how long it takes cabbage, and pork, and beef and potatoes, aud other meats and esculents, to go through the pro cess of assimilation. They roar at new bread, hot cakes, and fried meat imag ining these to have been the cause of their maladies. Butthe ice-water goe3 down all the same, and finally friends are called in to take a farewell look at one whom a mysterious Providence has called to a clime where, as far as known, ice-water is not used. The number of immortal beings who go hence, to return no more, on account of an injudicious use of ice-water, can hardlv be estimated. Baltimore Sim. He Got Something Frisky. "Got something frisky?" he asked, as he walked into the stable and called for a saddle horse, "somethingthat will prance around lively, and wake a fel low out of his lethargy. I used to ride the trick mule in a circus, and I reckon I can back anything that wears hair." They brought him out a calicor colored beast with a vicious eve, and he mounted it. Before he had gone two blocks the animal bucked, crashed through a high board fence and plunged into a cellar, tossing his rider over the top of an adjacent woodshed and land ing him on the ragged edge of a lawn mower. They bore him home, straight ened him out, and three surgeons called in and reduced Ids dislocations and plastered him up with raw beef. A few weeks later he called at the stable and said if they had a gentle saw-horse with an affectionate dispo sition, a bridle with a curb-bit and martingales, and a saddle with two horns and a crupper to it, he believed lio vrmtlfl Tn Tin ?r frTio VavilYWT 2JT!f? ? I irallon around a little, where it was soft and it wouldn't hurt him if he went to sleep and fell off, as he did the other day. Baltimore Bulletin. A guide and hunter, known as Colo rado BUI, at FortStekle, is astonishing the far West by his wonderful pistol shooting. A short time ago he broke ninety-two out of 100 glass balls with 45-calibre Coifs revolver. He chal lenges the world to shoot with him at any distance, from ten to 300 yards. i The London Times say3 that "Gener- i iu. 3irxin. uaj ujij uo iuuiuui. ucs;w j j w.t..- vn;u,vj;ffi.nui.... of ; mttustirith the interests, not of a The wife of JL. McBride. in Atlanta, has givea birth to a child weighing if n uaw' 2, ' J bwi vkiMWfeit