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About Nebraska advertiser. (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1881)
A, Ancients Who Woro Well Fixed. Thousands of moil lmvo ouviud Aslor, Stowart, Vntidurbilt, Maokoy, Koonc, Gould mid thu otliut follows who can buy strawberries at one dollar por box, but the richest of t hum are moro va grants when compared to hoiiio of the ancients. There was Niniis, for in stance. Ho was thu hoii of Nimrod, llio old huiilur, who mado lions scratch for holes ami tigers tuku to ditches. Old Nim loft his boy about 1.10, 000, 000 in cash, besides 12O,0dO cuttle, a plows of laud about m big an Arkansas, and 11,000 likely slaves. Thoro woro no lawyers in those dayH who made a him utility of breaking wills and gobbling estates, and young Ninus quietly tool; possession aiid oust about for some plan lc keep hiin.iolf out of tho poor house. Ho was considered h poor young man, and had ho boon .soon lug ging his girl to an ioo-oroani saloon or riding out In a livory rig his friomlH would lmvo suid ho would bring up in a garrot. By a lucky cap) tiro of torritory from tho Assyrians, logothor with 20, 000 slavos, 125,000 oattlo, ton wagon loads of silvor and jowols and a low olhor trillos, Nintts walked up tho so cial ladder until big-bugs asked after his wife and babies, and ho could lose tliroo gumof of billiards without won dering if tho owner of thu saloon would take a "stand oil'." Ho was worth U50,000,000 when ho dlod. and yot for tho last live years of his life ho wont without mutton because tho price hail raised to three cents per pound. The heiress with a 50.000 bank ac count considers herself some pumpkins, but what a thrco-i'onl-plcco shu would have been alongside of Queen Semi- rutins, blie not only had tho lucre loft by Niuus, but in ten years she had in creased it four-fold. .Inst multiply :J50,000,000 by two and you have tho amount of her bank balance, to say nothing of jowols and clothing and furniture and palaces and slaves and catties. Had she sold out and cleaned up she could have drawn her little chock for about 700,000, 000. Sho didn't worry about whore her spring bonnet was to come from, and when a now stylo of dress goods came out sho didn't sit up nights forfearsome neigh bor would secure a pattern lirst. While she made it lively for her enemies she was soft on hor friends. She gave her waiting maid half a million dollars in a lump lor dressing her hair in a now stylo, and she tossed the same amount to hor dressmaker as a reward for tho excellent lit of ono particular dress. One day when she saw a poor old man traveling tho highway on foot sho pre sented him with 500 asses to ride on, and insisted on his accepting 50,000 to pay his toll and tavern bills. 1 Cyrus, King of Persia from the year TtllB to 580, hud some little change to begin with, and In ten years he could draw his check for ,100,000.000. He didn't haggle over the prieo of a slave when a man came to buy-, but present od him with 1,000. He at one timo owned 110,000 horses, 10,000 cattle, '200,000 shoop, 15,000 assus and 25,000 slaves, and when ho got tired of a palace costing 1,000,000 he gave it away lo some poor washwoman with seven children lo support. Ho one day sat down to a dinner which had cost 110,000, and in the afternoon he went on a 50,000 drunk. Tho polieo didn't run him in, or ho would doubtless have insisted on paying a line of 20,000 and presenting his Honor with a cornor house and lot in the touiost part of Babylon. King Monos was another well-heeled man. It was too much trouble to count his cash, and so he weighed it. One day when an old friend asked him for the loan of a few dollars until Saturday night, ho sunt him a procession of sixty asses, uaeh animal loaded with 150 pounds of gold coin. Ho paid 100,000 for a bird which could whistle, thu sumo for a trick dog, and ho had suoh a fond ness for white oxen that ho .shelled out 25,000 apiocu for them, and at ono time had a drove of 2,000. Whun he got out with tho boys ho made things lively. During ono sproo in his city of Memphis, ho gave away $500,000, and didn't get dead drunk at that. At one timo hu had G00.O00 gold chains, 1,000. 000 fingur vlngs, 100,000 costly swords, 300,000 daggers, and land only knows how many lish-liiies, jack-knives, cork screws and tobacco-boxes. His wife had 1,000,000 a year as pin-money, anil when his oldest son wont up to Thebes to sou thu uluphaut, ho was fol lowed by 500 friends, 1,000 slaves, 2,000 horses and 500,000 for faro, checks and buor-monoy. Detroit Free lrcss. In Fly Timo. It is ono of tho unfathomable myste ries of nature that a tly Is unablu to turn to account his many good quali ties, for hu Is blussod with au abun- dunce of them. Ho is under a natural ban which compels him to dovotu all I his talents to making a nuisance of himself. Tho lly's onorgy is simply in defatigable, and in any useful pursuit could not fail to maku him wealthy ami respected. Ho starts at daylight ovory morning, and proceods at once to busi ness, ami throughout tho livelong day ho koops It up, always acting, always ready, always apparently cheerful, and always socking to annoy somobody. His porsovuraneo, too, is on a par with his onorgy. Ho rather enjoys being driven away from tho oud of his vic tim's noso ; It breaks up tho monotony of oxistonco, and tho porsistonco with which ho returns to tho attack again and again has au evident splco of en joyment In his malice. A lly nuvor uuknowlodgos the broad est hint that ho is not wanted. Whun ho has Hot his affection on an individual ho sticks to that unhappy mortal like an otllco-seokor to Washington, and is equally hard to bu gotten rid of. Ho is indifferent to throats, easily ovaslve of blows, almost impossiblo to entrap, and quite Impossiblo to eradicate. Al though too wary to bo caught by any of the methods wliich suggest themselves to his enraged victim, ho Is courageous in tho extreme, and never hesitates to risk his life in the pursuit of his object. It is said t bathe sometimes loses it, and many persons are ready to testify that they have killed Hies, but the assertion is open to some doubt. The alleged corpses exhibited as proof always dis appear in a short lime, and no matter how many aro thus disposed of, the surviving hordes never allow any dimi nution; while individuals bearing a sus piciously close rosoinblaneo to the sup posed dead Hies buz vindictively about the would-hu musencido soon after tho deed is supposed to have boon accom plished. It is not yot settled, indeed, to every body's satisfaction, that Hies aro not immortal. They disappear at the end of every season, and whore they go no body knows, and very few care to in quire, for fear of rousing them from their presumed hibernation and bring them back before the timo. Next sea son, however, they reappear in full force, anil with an apparently lively memory of their former haunts, pur suits and victims. So far as anyone can see, they are the same flies thatdis turbed the previous summer's naps; they display a keen rontoinbrai-y of tho sensitive points discovered then: they know where tho sugar bowl is kept, and can go straight to tho preserve closet; can tell with an accuracy that must bo due lo experience just when lo start and how far to go lo escape tho avonglntr hand, and they make themselves at homo with thu uaso and familiarity of old habitues. Flies may die and bu succeeded by now generations, but, as we have said, the fact is not fully M'ovoil; ami it it is a tact, tho new n-ood is novor an improvement on mo old one. .Josh Millings' despairing anathema will be as true a thousand years hence as it is now and was a thou sand vears ago: I'liuto a Hi. Darn a lli!" ,tifa delvhia Bulletin. Mi'ul-lvutlng and the Fire-Escape. Ourspleen against horsellesh has been handed down lrom generation to gener ation with such unabated intensity that none of us could "stomach it'' except under the direst necessities. Never theless the llosh of horses and mules has been proved by tho French to bo as wholesome as that of other animals. The ollect of "much pork-oating," about which a friend inquires is the same as that of eating much animal food of any kind. The indications which usually follow are those of exces sive alimentation -in Humiliation, bil iousness, scrofula, colds, catarrhs, rheumatism, dyspepsia, etc., etc., thu weakest excretory organ giving way lirst to over-action, 'llio "notion that lioirs aro naturally scrofulous" may or may not lmvo a foundation in fact. Tho ease and frequency with which their livers become ailbcted shows that their greatest liabilities to disease aru of a nliousckuractcr. Wons, tumors, lame ness, swelled joints and other swellings indicative of scrofula in tho human sub ject, aro moro frequent in cattle than in hogs. Tho fact that tho English word scrofula is a derivative from scro fa, an old Latin word signifying a sow, is not sulliciont authority for the lnfor ouco that scrofula is so called because tho disease was common among swine. It may Inivu proceeded from somo other fanoy analogy. Wobstor intimates that it miirht have como from a flunnosod re semblance between tho lorm of glandu lar swellings in thu nuck and the shapo of a pig. Tho ancients woro "great" on relations and analogies, and they sometimes took somo singular freaks, suoh as the fancied connoction botweon tho forms of constellations in tho zodiac and certain putts of tho animal body, which ia behoved in by many to this day, and annually Hnds a place in our almanacs. Undor tho unnatural conditions in which domestic animals aro raised, dis ease has bocomo so common that there is no safety in using their llosh un cooked. Trichina1 aro liable to bo car ried in pork, tho foot and mouth dis easo and anthrax in beef, tapeworm in fowls, and oven milk becomes a ve hicle for convoying infectious disoasos, such as typhoid fovor, kiuopox, small- pox, scariauna, oic. ino naniiuios aro about the same in ono class ot animals as in another. Thoy aro certainly not grcator in pork than in other tlcsli. Indeed, boof might bo moro reasona bly suspooted than pork, sineo tho in troduction of plcuro pneumonia, foot and mouth disease, malignant anthrax, Toxas fovor, etc., and especially when tho dolotorious ollect upon beef from fright and cruel treatment ot live stock in transportation by rail aro taken into consideration. The hog, it is true, ot'ton lives under conditions which would prove destructive to other ani mals, but, thou, his unsuscoptlblo na ture and tho powerful digostivo ability of his omnivorous stomach, enable him to ward off and digest and destroy foul and infectious matt or which might oasily take effect hi others and bocomo a source of danger to those using their llosh. Fortunately, thorough cooking kills all infectious matter and rondors it harmless. It is the only safe-guard on wnion wo can coniuioniiy roiy. When this is properly done there is no reason for rejecting the llosh of swino from our tables that would not Ho against all tho rest of our domestic animals.- Prof. h. 11. Arnold, it N. 1'. Tribune, A dying thiof was compassionately roloasod from tho Rhode Island State Prison and sont to pass his remaining days at homo in Providence; but boforo his death hu crawled out and robbod seven housos. IIEMUIOUS AM) I-:i)UCATI(hAJi. AJiout a thousand Hindoo children nro attending the American Sunday scoools in Liicknow, India. These schools were first introduced by Mr. ('raven, a young American of great en terprise. Three Methodist ministers wore recently sentcm oil by the Magistrates at Belfast, Ireland, for singing hymns In a public street. An appeal was taken from the decision of the Magistrates, and the result has beeu a couiploto vic tory for the ministers. The Baptist churches of Central and Eastern Europe have formed n union or convention, embracing Gcr many, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, Russia, I'oland and Turkey, and reach ing Inlo Africa. There are nearly ;H),. 000 Baptists in tins vast region, where fifty years ago there were hardly any. Mr. Spurgoon, though a Baptist, is not a strict close-communionisl. Ha allows Christians of other churches to commune with his church three months if desired, and then, if everything is satisfactory, invites them to bo bap tized, and in such cases, ho says, they almost invariably accept. Biiflmp Littlojoltii, who Is now In F.uropo, is credited with tho romark that "the Church of Kngland is further than over from disestablishment." and that it has spout 200,000.000 during the last thirty years in building and re pairing cathedrals and churclies, and .'50,000,000 in church schools. Bishop Scott, the senior Bishop of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, is soventy-nino 3 ears of age, and has boon In the Kpiscipal oflice twenty-nino years. Bishop Payno, senior Bishop of tho Methodise Episcopal Church South, is eighty yours old, and has been in tho Episcopal oflice thirty-five years. The President of the Central Turk ey Collego at Aintuh recently addressed a largo audience in London on the sub ject of Christian education in Asia Minor. Ho referred to the largo num ber of educated American ladies and gentlemen now engaged in missionary work there, and said that as a result of their labors 400 schools for tho instruc tion of children oxistod. Tho President of Harvard Universi ty recently said that tho expenditure of students ranged from 170 to 82,500, the highest liguro boingthatof a young man of independent property, whoso outlay included a saddle-horse, an ox pensive summer journey, liberal sub scriptions to athletic clubs, anil contri butions to aid tho poor students. In the opinion of the President, " tho great majority of students, whoso parents aro neither rich nor poor, spend from 050 to 850 per year," and ho further expresses his opinion that "tho number who spend more than 1,500 a year is very small." Three -Men Burned to Death at an Oil Well. At Clarendon, a now oil town, a few miles north of this city, three men woro burned to death last Monday. When a well is drilled to tho spot where tho oil-beating sand is tapped, tho drilling tools aro removed from tho well and a torpedo, made of about forty to sixty quarts of nitro-glyccrino, put in and exploded for tho purpose of loosen ing the sand. A well, known as tho Grovor well, had boon "shot," but as is quito often the caso, it "bridged over;" that is, the loosened rock and sand formed in the shapo of an obstruc tion which would not allow tho oil to pass off, as it would bu forced to do by tho gas, were it not for this bridging I ovor. Tho work of cleaning tho well 1 was at onco commenced. 1110 usual precautions against accidents woro taken. Tho boiler had been moved sixty-tivo feet boyond tho ongino house, which was sixty-livo foot from tho well, making 130 foot botweon the boiler and the mouth of tho well. Ashes had been banked up around tho furnaco, a barrol of water stood near by, with which to extinguish thu liru when the woll should begin to indicate a How, and tho steam jot was in readiness for an omergonoy. Your correspondent was sitting in a littlo shanty a short distanco away. There were present and working about tho woll Stephen, Henry and Joo Grovor, and a young man called Eddie Stonier. Thotools had been run down for tho purpose of agitating, when it was noticed tho well showed symptoms of ilowing. Tho men all mado a dash for the boiler to extinguish tho lire undor it. Suddenly I noticed little jets of llamo surroundinsr tlw mon. Their clothes woro completely saturated with crudo oil, front which a gas aroso which readily ignited. In an instant thowholo air in tho neighborhood scorned to bo in Hamos. I started to run, but was knocked down by tho explosion. Whon I got up I could see the woll Ilowing furious ly, tho tlamcs rising to tho hoight of 200 foot or more. Honry Graver was lying on the ground botwoon tho boiler and ongino house in a blazo. Ho Iriod to get up, but tho burning oil which tlowod from tho woll poured down up on him and prevented ltis escape. Rim ning around' on tho other sldo, I found Stephen Grovor and young Stornor with thoir clothing all burned off, and tholr bodies completely blackened. Thov woro dead. Tito body of Honrv, when it was recovered, was hardly recognizable. The other two, Edward Stornor and Stephen Grovor, lived a few hours, suffering groat agony. Thoy woro rational and conversed frcoly, though they woll know, all tho timo thoy could not live. Thoy woro all rosulonts of Frybury, Clarion Couu,y, Pa. Nono of thorn was: married, with tho exception of Stophen Grovor, who loaves a wifo, to whom ho was married about a year ago, and a son about two weeks old. Oil City (Va. Cor. N. Y. Sun. Singular Illness of a Voiint,' Girl. A remarkable caso of hysteria and epilepsy has been brought to light in the northcoscorn section of tho city. Louisa Fuorst is tho namo of a young woman, "nineteen years of age, who was loit an orphan, a mcro child. Com pelled from early youth to earn hor own livelihood, she worked incessantly, sometimes engaged in domestic labor or in sowing from early morning until Into at night. At hist site found a home with a family on North Dallas street, near Gay, wlnro sho worked on a sewing-machine, suppljing a olothingsloro in tho central section of the city. She applied herself lo this employment with energy, labored hard and ato lit tlo, and, as the attending physician ex pressed it, " becatno overworked and under-fed." This brought on a de pression of spirits, and liually devel oped into the maladies from which she now suffers hysteria and epilepsy. During this illness, which has already lasted four weeks, tho patient has beun deprived of sight and hearing, and has had her tuoth tightly clenched almost continuously. For some days those at her bedside woro at a loss In what way to administer food to her. It was dis covered that one of hor front tooth was missing, and a tube was inserted into this open space through wliich tho patient has since been foiL The food consists entirely of liquids, and, during tho four weeks of her illness, has amounted to an almost insignificant quantity. Although deprived of sight and hearing, tho patient is very loqua cious, sometimes talking for soveral hours through her closoutccth without stopping. Her conversation at such times is mainly directed to her de ceased parents, whom sho fancies that she sees, etc. Sho is very sensitive to touch on ono side of tho body, and recognizes hor physicians, and fre quently persons whom she has seen but once, as soon as thoy como in con tact with her hand. Some of thoso who have boon watching at hor bedsido assert that strangers who have pressed her hand have been astonished to hear hor state who they woro; but this may bo an exaggeration. Tho other sido of tho body is devoid of this lino senso of touch, and her doctor states that a paper on lire does not cause tho slight oat movomont. Tho young lady's ex istence has been maintained only by keeping her constantly under tho in fluence of chloroform. Her stato that two days ago, while talkative moods, sho asked hor to bo present at hor bedside friends in hor frionds at two o'clock on Friday (yesterday) morning, as sho expected that something strange would happen. Thoy accordingly as sembled at that hour, impressed with tho belief that she had a presentiment of her death. But, it is said, sho be gan to improve about that hour, and yesterday felt much bettor than at any timo within the last four weeks. Dr. Abraham Arnold, who attends hor, de clined to say anything on the subjoot when questioned regarding the matter. Ho remarked, however, that this caso was not without a parallel, but that such cases wore exceedingly uncom mon. Baltimore American. Fashion Notes. Watcrod ribbons aro the present fashion. Summer silks ami washing silks aro much in favor. Tho waists of young aro very much shirrod. ladies' dresses Crinoline is gaining ground with tho approach of tho autumn toilets. Cashmero laco is still freely used, es pecially on matinees and petticoats. Laco and. embroidery aro tho princi pal trimmings on tho summer dresses. Grenadiucs aro so heavily brocaded as to closely resemble brocaded satin. Handkerchiefs aro tucked in tho bolt, showing tho embroidered and fancy edges. Fans representing pugs' heads aro among tho atrocious shapes presented to view. Children's dresses show a combina tion of checked material with plain or striped. The skirts mado in oithor black or white Spanish laco are exceedingly pop ular in Paris. Among tho latest vagaries of Parisian womon aro velvet oar-rings of tho same color as tho dross. Small bouquet-hplders aro worn at tho left cornor of tho square corsage in the shapo of a fern leaf. Black and white cheek dresses aro trimmed with small silvor buttons, and silver jewelry is in keeping. Black velvet grenadine worn ovor a skirt of black satin makes an elegant summer toilet for full dross. A large sash bow is worn at tho back of basques, and forms a conspicuous featuro in imported drosses. Tho very largo straw hats aro tied down and wound about in a most piet urosquo manner by long tullo veils. Bows or knots are not worn at tho throat by young ladies as much as a simple pin or oven small silvor pin. Children's shoos are now mado very high at the back, with a succession of straps showing tho fancy hosiery. The broad linen collars worn with tho gingham suits aro embroiderod with a narrow vino or dots to match the dress. Black watered silks tiro to bo mado up into dresses for autumn wear, and will be combined with plain silk also. Andrews' Bazar. Classes in New Testament Greok for Sunday-school teachers have boon started by the Glasgow Sunday-school Union. Rev. H. W. Boochor thinks thoro aro two things that tho Gospel is pow erless to touch fashion and tho use of tobacco. T FACTS AND FIUUKE9. A European lady in Japan ha3 col lected 700 teapots of different varieties and kinds. The semi-annual dividends payablo in Boston in August aggregated SU, GU8.G75. " The average man measures about five feot and one-half inches, and weighs 110 pounds. During June four steamers reached San Francisco from China, bringing ,1,150 passengers, the largest number for any time since 1871. Tho experiment of runningalocomo tivo without brakos has just been suo- cessfully tried by the Delaware, Lackawanna As Westorn Hallway Com pany. Tho locomotive is of ordin ary pattern, but has an extra pipe loading from the boiler to tho steam che.4t, by which power can bo applied against the piston, chocking tho ongino and enabling tho ongino to reverse without "hauling over."' A Newfoundland dog, owned in Bethel, Conn., broke his leg two or Uroo years ago. Dr. W. C. Bennett, rcsvijng in ft neighboring town, was called ,ina sct tl,u broken bone. Whilo driving through tho village a fow days ago, ho rou,gnized the dog. Ho had occasion to sio,,, nn,i the dog immodi atoly canto up U hi,,,, s,0it of him, and was almost wild uth joy. It w as with dilhculty that the Docf.or could keep his foot, lho dot jumped M,)0ii him, and by every possible way in hi&uower tried to express his gratitude, shoi,r that he know the Doctor and rcmoironl tho sotting of tho bono. A now locomotive on tho Boston & Providence Railroad has no coun-tor-balauco in tho driving wheels, but has double cylinders, double cranks, and double connections on each sido. Tho cylinders Ho abreast, instead of ovor each other. Tho steam is admitted and exhausted into both cylinders by a singlo slide valve. Tho inventor ex pects to mako high speed without as much strain and wear and tear as with tho old way of connecting; his idea being that tho shackle-bars, connecting rods and pistons will absolutely balance each othor, and, admitting steam as woll as exhausting it by the cylinders upon either sido simultaneously, will keep tho wholo thing from sailing or weav ing. It is estimated that noarly 2,000, 000 pounds of paper is produced annu ally; one-half of which is used for printing, a sixth for writing, and the remainder is coarse paper for packing and othor purposes. Tho United States alone produces yearly 200,000 tons of paper, averaging seventeen pounds per head for its population. The En glishman comes next, with about twelve pounds per head; tho educated Gorman takes eight pounds, tho Frenchman seven pounds; while tlo Italian, Spaniard and Russian lako re spectively three pounds, one-and-a-half pounds and ono pound annually, tho consumption of paper being roughly in proportion to tho education and intel lectual and political activity of tho people. WIT AND WISDOM. Two tramps with a singlo thought beat as ono. iscio Orleans ricuune. Michael Angelo said that genius is eternal patience. Michael evidently published a newspaper when subscrip tion dues didn't como very fast. Syracuse Standard. In Flint Mich., thoro is a piano that was built in 1810. It is still capablo of putting the next door neigh bor into spasms when tho right girl is present to do the pounding. Louisville Courier Journal. A watermelon which weighs twolvo pounds has five pounds of rind and six ouncos of seeds, which mqst bo wasted. The times demand a melon with a tissue-paper covor and rattan ribs in placo of the seeds. Detroit Free h-ess. A flatterer strikes a snag: "Madam" he gallantly observed, "I have your imago photographed upon my heart." "Indeed," she said, "a sort of a negative impression of mo, I suppose." Brooklyn Eagle. An Albany man has rented a va cant lot near his lesidonco, fenced it in, and fitted it up as a playground for tho boys of the neighborhood. In other words, he furnishes a playground to avoid having a plague round. Boston Post. Whon a Cleveland reporter discov ered the hanging body of a suicide, the situation was surrounded thuslv: "An owl hooted lonesomoly; an old elock on tho shelf ticked with terror; a dog howled; it was midnight outsido; thu wind sighed; a cat crouched on the cold hearth in four, and a sound like tho laugh of a maniac camo from the gar ret." That was all. Thoro wasn't even a sign on tho wall recommending any body's stomach bitters. Detroit Free rrcss. Yesterday Colonol Fizzlotop mot Colonol Gilhooly, who is a prominent Knight of Honor. Said tho former: "I'vo mado application to hecomo a mombor of your noble order, and 1 want you to see that I am elected. I want to join on account of my wife." " Yes, that's a good idoa, to leave hor an insurance policy that will secure hor against poverty and distress." "That's not what I moan. I want to join your noblo order on account of my wifo, bo cuuso unless I'vo got somo lodge to go to, or somo other good excuse, she won't lot mo como down town at all at nights. Just as soon as I am a mom bor thoro will bo callod meetings al most ovory night that I'll just lmvo to attend, and I'll always sot 'em up," and tho admirer of the noblo order winked a wink that had boor in It. Texas Sif tings. i j M ' .ft A- i -r