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T ilJfi HERALD. JftSU UILLl.NUS ON ULEIt. yShj lit UelieTCs it Hill Not Intoxicate . II Is ramoiiH r.oer Test Act. t have finally cum to the conclusion hut lager beer us a Leverage is not in toxicating. I have been told by a Oermau who said he bad drunk it ail night long, just to try the experiment, and was obliged to go home entirely sober in the morning. I have seen this same mail drink eighteen glasses; and if he was drunk it was in German, an no body could understand it. It is proper enuff to stato that this man kept a lager beer saloon, could have no object in stating what was net strictly thus. 1 believe him to the full extent of my ability. I never drank but three glasses of lager in my life, and that made my head out-twist as tho it was hung on the end of a string, but I was told that it was owing to my bile be ing out of place: and I guess that it was so, for I never biled over wus than I did when I got home that nite. My wife thot I was goin to dy. and I wuz afraid that I shouldn't, for it seemed as though everything I had ever eaten iu ray life was coming to the surface; and I believe that if my wife haun't pulled off my boots just as she did. they would have come thundering up too. O, how sick I wuz! 14 years ago, and I can taste it now. I never had so much experience io bo short a time. If any man shud tell me that lager beer was not intoxicating. I tshud be lieve him ; but if he shud tell me that I wasn't drunk that nite but that my stummick was out of order. I shud ask him to state over a few words just how a man felt and ucttd when i e was set up. If I wasn't drtmk that nite. I had some of the most natural simtums that a man ever had and kept sober. In the first place it was about 80 rods from where I drank the lacer beer to mi house, and I was jest over two hours on the road, and a hole busted through each one of my pantaloon neez, and I didn't hev any hat, and tried to open the door by the bell-pull and hiccuueu awfully and saw everything in the room trying to get round on the back side of me, and, sitting down on a chair. I did not wait long enough for it to get exactly under me when I was go ing round, and I set down a little too soon and missed the chair about 12 inches, and couldn't get up soon enough to.catch the next on that came along; and that ain't awl, my wife sed I wuz as drunk as a beest, and, as I sed be fore, I began to spin things up freely. If lager beer is not intoxicating it U3ed me most mighty mean, that I know. Still I hardly think that lager beer iz intoxicating, for I Lave been told so; and I ara probably the only man liv ing who ever drunk eny when his liver was not plumb. I dont want to say enything against a harmless temperance beverage, but if ever I drink eny more, it will be with mi hands tied behind and mi mouth pried open. I don't think lager beer is intoxicat ing, but if I remember rite, I think it tasted to me like a glass of soap suds that a pickle had been put tew soak in. The seed of broom corn, which has hitherto been considered useless ex cept for planting as an inferior article of food for cattle, has been discovered to be valuable as a breadstuff. It was first used as a substitute for wheat in 1370 and 1S71, but, like many other good things, was lost sight of, and its manufacture was never carried to suc cess, and never became even partially known until about three years ago. The yield of flour is about one-half in place of two-thirds from wheat. The bran is also as valuable as wheat bran as food for animals. The Hour cannot be told from wheat Hour, an J the bread, cake, etc., delicate, inviting and delicious, and easily digested. The yield of broom-corn seed is also enormous, a single spear often pro ducing a pint of seed, and the yield lias reached 500 bushels to the acre while it is safe to estimate the average at 100 bushels. Mules for Shipment. At Grand and Bishop streets, in Jersey City, is the largest mule yard east of the Alleghanies, and the only yard whence there is any exportation to foreign ports. In it the mule is seen in all his native attractiveness, and every variety of mule may be studied at leisure. The great yard, in which is ample room for 10,000 mules, but which is generally occupied by 400 or 500, is divided into many smaller yards, each of which contains ranges of open sheds, water troughs, hay rack3, great corn mangers, and small ones for salt. Each of these is devoted to animals destined for different ports in the West Indies or on the Spanish main. Here are mules of all sizes, colors, dispositions and degrees of intelligence, but of an average age of from 4 to 7 years. When by themselves and unmolested by visitors, the majority of them stand in the attitude of deep dejection, pe culiar to the mule while meditating heads down and legs wide spread and firmly planted. Hut when a visitor enters the yard, its inmates are full of life and activity. They follow him about, inquisitively smelling of his clothes, watching his e'-ery motion, kicking, squealing, and biting at each other, and easily stampeded by a sud den gesture. From this v.'.rd between four and five thousand mules are annually shipped to the plantations of British, French and Dutch Guiana, and to Trinidad, Guadaloupe, and other of the smaller West Indies. "They are sold here to the acrents of the planters at from 90 to S230 apiece, and shipped in sailing vessels at the risk of the consignee. Their passage money is $40 per head, and duties on mules are $& to SS apiece in the several islands to which they are sent. A mule, therefore, is a val uable piece of property by the time he reaches his destination. The great mule breeding States are Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa, and the large, active beasts from these States are much prized on the sugar planta tions of the West Indies, where they contrast favorably with the native mules, which are undersized and have little strength, and with the lazy, elephantine beasts imported from France. In one division of the great Jersey City mule yard is a pen formed like a bottle with, a long, slender neck. A dozen mules being let into this pen. they are driven two at a time into the narrow space at one end, where they can ju3t squeeze themselves between the walls. Here they undergo the operation of roaching that is, their manes are trimmed off, with a pair of shears, nntil nothing remains but a line of short, thick bristles, extending along the back of the neck; and all the fca' 'except a little tuft at the end is est from '.hrir tail.-. TVis :s aon be cause the hair of a mule's mane and tail is very thin and of poor growt After the roaching a door at the fo ward end of the narrow enclosure is opened, and the mule bounces out. with a kick and a squeal, looking as smooth and clean as a man fresh lrcm a bi -ber's chair. Mr. Eishop, one of the propiieiois of the yard, says that although in Western and Suthem cities, and i.s f;.r north as Philadelphia, mules are very popular for purposes of heavy teaming, there is little demand for them in New York, and still less in Iioston ; and the demand for them, such as it 13, in these cities, is decreasing rather than other wise. One of the Bishop Bros. herdeis, a bronzed frontiersman, whose face is shaded by a sombrero with a brim of the widest, and whose constant com panion is a black-snake whip, that he can crack with a report like a pistol, relates many anecdotes of mules, with whose habits and capabiliti-s he is thon ughly con vers: nt. He says: "When you get out on the plains, you don't want nothing better'n a mule, and you can't get nothing better for plain's work. They can live on ies?, and lay themselve down to more hon est work, than any critter of their size. Why, stranger, a mule kin run down a antelope, and I never see one of your long-legged American hoists that could do that. Mustangs can do it sometimes, but a mule's the best. He won't be so very speedy, maybe, but he's got the bottom, and though the 'lope '11 get away from him at first, and perhaps hist himself clear out of sight, the mule'll tucker him out, and fetch him in the end if he's kept on 1 i trail long enough. "Mules ain't no slouches on the track sometimes, too. I remember a little white mare mule in Santa Te, some years ago, that, for running, beat any horse in Xew Mexico. The officers there used to match their American horses against herbut she'd scoop 'era every time. "Mules will live, too, on what 3 horse would starve before he'd touch They'll grow fat on sage brush, and I've known 'era to live, and work for weeks, by chawing on each other's manes and tails, wagon tongues, feed boxes, wagon sheets, sand and sich. Oh, you bet a mule's tough. You don't want no better guard round camp in an Injun country than a herd of mules neither. They hate Injuns like pisen, and a red can't come within a mile of camp but what they get oneasy, and like as not the'll stampede if they ain't well corralled. A mule's mighty scary about water, and "ou bet you hain't got no call to get stuck in quick sand with a mule team, for they can smell 'em, and if you get a mule to set foot on quicksand you've got to fight for it. "Xo, I don't consider mules so vic ious as they're called. They do kick and bite and squeal sometimes, but it's only their play. If they're well broke and used kind, they'll do the square thing, and when you do get hold of a mule that's good and kind and willing to work, he is willing all through, and you've got a critter that'll do you bet ter service and ask less for it than any other beast that you can name.'' Xew York Sun. TOTT'S "The Doors HaTe Been Open." When the Rev. Eben Halleck was settled in Plamfield it was his custom to collect his salary, for which every vter in the town was assessed. Call ing upon Mr. D , tlie blacksmith, one day, he said: "I have a small bill against you." "And for what?" 'For preaching," said Mr. II. "I heard none of your preaching." "The fault is your own," said Mr. II.; "the doors have been open, and you might have come in." Not long after, as Mr. II. was one day passing the blacksmith shop, Mr. D , hailing him, said: "I have a small bill against you." "And for what?" said Mr. II. "For shoeing your horse." "I have had no horse shod here," said Mr. II. "The fault is your own," said Mr. D ; "the doors have been open, and yo'i might have cowo in." Mr. H. paid the bill. rrovldeiice. Not long since a man stopped at the little window of a branch office in the "Hub," the inhabitant evidontly of a little sphere of his own, outside of which he was lost in the mazes of life. "Is this the telegraph office!" he a&ked hesitatingly. The young lady operator satisfied him of the fact. "I want to telegraph," he proceeded, growing confidential, "I want to tele graph to my wife and tell her I missed the train." "You will have to write it on one of those blanks," said the operator, coolly; entirely unimpressed by the (to sender) exciting event. "Oh , well. I guess you'd better write it. I can write" (evidently thinking it necessary to establish the fact before proceeding farther), "but" (flatteringly) "you can fix it up better than I can." "Whom is the message going to?" asked the operator, as she armed her self with pen and blank. "To my wife in Providence," hf replied, with the most sublime inno cence. The operator looked at him doubt fully. " What is the address? To whom is the message going?" The man eyed, her with great aston ishment. "I told you," he said, raising his voice as if he thought her alnicted with deafness, "to my wife in Provi dence." "I am afraid," the operator replied, trying to speak ironically, "that the message might not be received if ad dressed in that way. Providence is a small pliice, I know, but it might possi bly go to sou: e o'hf r man's wife." A young gentleman of Prairie Grove, Texas, proposed to his lady love, but wa3 gently refused. He went a second and third time with the same result. But at length he rode over one evening and told her ho would neither eat, sleep, nor speak until she consented to become his bride. She invited him to dinner; he shook his head. She talked on; be merely looked dejected. Then she re quested him to take supper; a negative shake of the head was the only reply. She played, sang and chatted on till bed time when a servant showed him a room; a negative shake. She tripped away to her chamber; he sat determined still. About 12 o'clock she came back and said, "I don't wish to cause the death of a good man, go I will marry you." The released one rose, and with much earnestness said, "My dear, have you any cold victor's oh hwjr"" PULLS For TEN YEARS TUTTI PILLS have ben the recognized standard Family Medicine in all the Atlantic Statee From Blaine to Jtlexlce, scarcely a family can be found that does not use them. It is now pro posed to make their -virtues known in the WEST, -with the certainty that as soon as tested they will be come as popular there as they are at the North and South. TUTT'S PILLS!! 00 THEY CURE EVERYTHING? NO. They are intended for die eases that result from malari al Poison and a Deranged Liver. IR. TtTTT has devoted twenty-Are years to the Btadr of the I.lrer and the remilt has demonstrated that it exerts (Tester Influence orer the syntem thai any other crian of the body ; DigCMtisn and AMimilation of the food on which, depends the vitality of the body, is car ried on through it the regular action of the bowels depends so It, and when tbeae functions are deranged, the Heart, the Brain, the Kidneys, ths Skin, in fact the entire organism is afiected. SYMPTOMS OF A DISORDERED LIVER, Dull pain in the Side and Shoulder, loss of Appetite; Coated Tongue; Costive Bowela; Sick-headache; Drowatneea; Weight in the Stomach after eating, with Acidity and Belching up of Wind ; Low Spirits ; IjObs of Energy ; Unsociability ; and forebodings of Evil. IF THESE WARNINGS ARE NEGLECTED, SOON FOLLOWS DYSPEPSIA, BILIOUS FEVER, CHILLS, JAUN DICE, COLIC, NERVOUSNESS, PALPITATION OF THE HEART, NEURALGIA, KIDNEY DISEASE, CHRONIC DIARRHCEA, AND A GENERAL BREAKING DOWN OF THE SYSTEM. HEED THE WARNING I TcVTOa TUTT'S PILLS. The first doso produces an ef fect which often astonishes tho sufferer, giving' a cheerfulness of mind and bouyaucy of body, to -which he was belore a strang er. They create an Appetite, Good Digestion, and 4 SOLID FLESH AND HARD MUSCLE ALOUISANA PLANTER SAYS t " My plantation is in a malarial district. For several years I could not make half a crop on account of sickness. I employ one hundred and fifty hands, often half of them were sick. I was nearly discouraged when I began tho use of TUTT'SPlLLS. 1 used them as a pre caution as well as a enre. The result was marvellous ; my laborers became hearty, robust, and happy, and I have had no further trouble. With these Pills I would not fear to live in the Okofoookee swamp." E. RIVAL, Bayou Saea, La, "BEST PILL. IN EXISTENCE." ' I have used your Piixs for Dyspepsia, Weak Stomach and Nervousness, and ct.ii say I never had any thin? to do me so much good in the way of medicine. They are as good as yon rep resent them. I recommend them as the Beat Pill in existence, and do all I can to acquaint Others with their good merits." J. WVTIBBETTS, Dacota, Minx SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, 25 CENTS. J Office, 35 Murray St., New York. GREEK & BLOVERT, LOl'ISVILLG TI.VS1IU1', AND REPAIRING ROOFING AND SPOUTING. 'First Class Stock. 5 .it 13; BARNES' FOOT POWER MACHIXKUY. dilierent machines with wbirh lliiildpr "ahiuet tc- . . . i. ..... I l-JSZTmA Rnl Jobbers in miseellanrous worn can eoinpcie a luijt Air TV and pkitk with steam IKV.ver manufacturing ; also Amnteiir's supplies. caw blades, fancy woods and de ii:n. Say where you read thl and 8iitl for c ualojrne anl prices. W. t' John itAUNES, Uockford. Winnebago r. 13U2 5H 55 S3 53 A. G HATT, JUST OPKXED AGAIN, New, Clean, First Class Meat Shop, on Main Street In Fred Kroehler's old stand Everybody on band lor fresh, tender meat. as vi. FARMERS, LOOK HERE! FItED GORDER H;w received an IMMENSE STOCK of Corn Planters, Cultivators, Sulky Plows, and Plows of every description ; tM IJEST MADE. Harrison Wagon,. the best ami cheapest wagon in the market by all odds. Spring Wagons, Buggi.-s, and Three-Seated "Wagons; and the world renowned Courtland Platform Spring Wagon. Wood's Self Binder, Threshing Machines, and all kinds of Agricultural Implements In every variety, and nt Hed Iloch Prices. Y2i f VllKD GOHDEIi, Plattsinouth, Nebraska. WHITE has come ii'!m TME ATTRACTION! SOLOMON & NATHAN would respectfully announce to their many patrons that they have received a magnificent selection of Spring and .Summer goods, which they intend to sell at prices which defy competition. Our facilities for purchasing in the mar kets of the East are such that we are able to offer better inducements to the trade than any other firm in the city, regardless of assertions to the contrary. Accordingly we give you our price list, which after examination will con yiace you of our low prices and the amount of money you will be capable of saving by purchasing from us. General Dry Goods. Beautiful sprlne prints "Standard Drands," 16 yde. lor S-l other " 20 " " " Good quality sheeting, 60 per yard. Yard wide bleached uiuxlin 2'io per yard. brown " 6c " " up. Cheviot shirt ings, 7. 9 and 12c " " Denims 8jc up. ducking HKc up Bed ticking sf. up. worsted delaines 15c per yard. Splendid assortment dress goods at 9 and 10c per yard up. ;in(.'liaiiis 8Ho per yard up. Good onality hfaek alpaca 20c per yard up. Table linens 25c up. Napkin 75c per yard up. 'rash Toweling 5c per yard up. llatiil-otne patterns In summer shawls 75c np. :ittn Batting Good 7 lbs for SI up. A Ii.ll line of Ladles. Gent, and Childrene Hose from 5c per pair up. Carpet Chain " Standard Brand " In 5 lb packages $1 25. Carpets. A MAGNIFICENT ASSORTMENT. Hemp 20c per yard. Ingrain 37'-4c per yard. Two-ply all wool 7.5c per yard, Three-ply $1 25 per yard. Brusf ell $1 no per yard, loor mats, nigs very low. One yard wide floor oil loth, 27'ie up. One and a half yards wide floor oil cloth, 60c up. A CHOICE SELECTION OF CASSIMERE FOR MEN AND BOYS SUITS. WE OFFER SPLENDID BARGAINS IN THIS DEP'T. All wot 1 easui meres 75c up. Tweeds 25c up. Cottonades l2'ic up. Millinery and Fancy Goods. "We have received direct from "Paris" the most superb selection of Pattern Hats rer ex hibited in this city, which we offer from Sio to $25 each ; also, a full line of Ladies and Chil drens Trimmed Hats from 75c up. Shapes 50c up. Nice flowers 10c up. Ornameuts ioc up. Plain and Gros Grain Kibbons retailed at wholesale prices. Sash ribbous, lovely patterns J. V. WECKBACH, Prop. NEW GOODS, ELEGANT STYLES. We are iu almost daily receipt of DRY AND FANCY GOODS, amd KJHl(DIEIliE, which we offer our friend and the public at WDiolIeale anal Metal!, at prices to suit the Units. ier vard. K id'Gloves 25c per pair no. Lisle Thread Gloves 15c un. all colors. Trimming silks. Satins. alouir. Turmiois, at remarkably low figures. Handsome Black Spanieh Lace Scarfs from 50c to $5 each. Black Lace Scurf goods by the yard 15c up. Ladies handkerchiefs 5c lip. Ladies silk handkerchiefs 25c up. Au extensive variety of Neck Ties and Tiesues from 10c up. Net crepe niching 10c per yard up. Veiling 30c per yard. Silk parasols 75c up. Cotton parasoU 15c up. Laces, edgings and embroideries from 5c per yard up. Pans from fc to $1.50 each. Out stock of zephyrs is complete in every particular. Wo also carry card board iu all colors, mottoes, canvas, etc., at exceedingly low figures. White Goods in Great Profusion. Piques nausook plain and striped Jaconet, Bishop and Victoria Lawn Swias. rancine in price from 10c per yard up. - o Buttons of every description. An unusual display of Cotton. Silk. Bugle. Ball and Two FIv Fringes. Trimmings of every description. ' i 'nrsets irom 35c up. A unique selection of tuck combs from 15c to 1 5 each Cuffs and collars 2c up. Full Hue of Ladie8 Suit. Ladies muslin underwear from 25c up. Gents Clothing and Furnishing Goods A complete line. Suits from $4.50 up. Cii!N, collars and neck ties at prices within the reach of all. Gents underwear from 25c up. Colored overslilrts. 50c up. White shirts, 75e up. Calico shirts, 50c up. Percale shirts, 75c up. BOOTS AND SHOES. An extensive line, noted for thair durability and cheapness. Mens boots from .2.oo per pair up. Boys boots from 51.25 pr pair up. Mens shoes, l.:5 up. Ladies shoes uoc up. Childieas shoeo, 25c up. Hats and Caps. Latest styles, good hats, from 75c up. Caps from 25c up. We also carry a full line of jewelry, watches, clocks, silver spoons, kniven, forks, pocket cutlery, writing materials, market baskets, work baskets, etc. AT FACTORY PRICES. Call and be convinced SOLOMON & NATHAN. t&MES' PRESS GOODS, Casliincrcs, Alpacas, Delaines, &c. Calicos, from 12 to 16 Yards for $1.00. Muslins, from 6 cts. a yard upward. BBDSPHBADS The finest stock of White Bedspreads ever broucht to tho City. Buell's Cassimeres, Tweeds, Jeans, and Cottonades in full Stock. EBoo anial Ib? Mats ami (Dap, and IFisrsaisMiBg !2sm1o DfiMcerie mni Pa-ovisJons OF ALL KINDS. Country Produce taken in exchange for Goods. Thankful for past favors in the years gone- y. I respectfully -ask a continuance of the miu guaranteeing satisfaction is ALL. cases, and hoplugmy efforts to please may be crowu ed with euccees, I remain as ever, J. V. WECKBACH. REMEMBER THE PL A CE. ONE DOOR WEST OF P. O.. PL A TTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA ASTONISHING! And he has brought the finest line of Dress Goods, Staple Goods, Fancy Goods and IXotionsyou ever stiw. say laotMiBg f grocer ie by f lie acre, boots and shoes till yow can9! rest leafs aiicl caps fill jmi must buy Spring and Summer Goods eyer and ever so cheap. Aow is your clianco bound to sell arid undersell anybody. Hurry vp. 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