f33 a v.v- 'vAys-; Vt !N i". - T ... " WVtf r??;.' . it' - v t . ctS-5 rf' - V! i ,.- V . I 4 '. .. r?s ' ,f ". S a t !: J 8 J tt f 1 ! 5 B B M h - j 4: THE Kariae TERRIBLE TEREDO. fe That Destroys Timbers , jWBm B1DBS UI0 DBipS. , jvAsfody.of the history and. habits of this t Stoks'TtarfcW Ship. 10 history and habits of this tangularrm will be found neither unh ugaisrKorm nu do lounu neuaer unm f jte'resting nor unprofitable, says tho Atlanta jCmiMtMtfon. Its habitat was originally in the) tropic seas, but being carried in tho (timbers of vessels into North American and European waters, it has become tho terror 1 u uruia ui woaniwa uuu wpuiuu, ui uu- SSrJS jnumbers of Mediterranean ciUes. Accord - ,ing to the classification of Linnaeus, this bi - vaive ociongsxo xno lamuyw inoiauiuw . 0 .w ,jy "- -. . rzzz fiS of dcsti-oyiug ship or other timber. Tho i shell is equally ralvcd, and in form- it is short, thick and rcund and widely open in front and rear. This shell is situated at tho inner end of a tube, sorsexvhat cylindrical in shape, and cither straight or crooked, as tho case may be; this tube being open at each end in the full-grown specimens, and1 lined or coated with a wliitc, chalky pasto or substance, which seems to be its digest ive apparatus. The weapon of the teredo is not its teeth, as might be supposed. This singular animal has still another peculiar ity, dependent, however, upon the one last mentioned, for since its instrument is its foot, so it fesds itself not from the mouth, but from the font itself. The valves abovo noted are simply appendages cf the foot In fict, if a tcrol') rhoald I:we his foot am putated he would 1:1 a most vital sense 'lose Ills grip.'" la the center of the circular opening of thj valves the foot is protruded, lilrs the LUdo concealed in a spring cane, r.n.l ;he entire r.rrangcmcut constitutes:: 3v::s ig-n::?hl:ie t.f power in conceivable in to s:n:ll au object. But tho strength of tbi" j:" Lire 1'ccomcs apparent when, uicn a clo-cr t:njIaa:ion, one notes the strong, ruobe -l:l;e ridges of the valves, which can cqntiCjt citr. great force, and the compar.ftive.y i:r.i2 i' rizo of the great abductor :. u !. -. i'h enables tho teredo to use 3:is . :, fo.u with the caso cf aa arjer ju-iiug through tho softest pine. This worm r ,:ns often a ;rre..t length, frosi cue fuDt to V. yard cn-Iiag civ llie ;c:igth of i thu .'O.-!. ai frcqucntr but it is urur'!. long, its sne u time it be.u lyou tli-.'i'z' " : .c v I ; . It ij pro ,.. ....y..,. UUvw each of vueu . v a tw which has ". niiou ;.;cjjJ to a lalcaro ou. V. :tte'i".'. 'riaiiRuUir i ' : c on the out skV T '.i' i.'iy. It h. . two hcids, if suth t.:"" i - i b cii'.el. t:..ucHed to the cx- trem::.' maiat.i tube'- . wori1 . :: tub :: the ia.li . :: tu'" riuch ?cil!er than tli2 :. :'ii i w.iich lire iv.cu 'the email '. " : I- inches !our: or, in other ::iiu body s;t'its iato two sniall 4 -mux a fot cr six inches from ekcidi ;.i r. to:cJl ad whero !ia!d io in a siuiJr. This worat i3 ovi"-riOU. . : i k'-i-v' i t'l .v,.a7 :ire bora (Willi. ti it.iwi) l!u'y .'.v.3 arouu'l by mc,:i:s m :i v'ur.'.Vihi ru! sometimes cixv;i:ug ..!-j th foot, itu old enough ta bci.! wuru oa a piece of wood. A t'Q& nil.', n .'ie having beon tck'-.tt'd, they listen tl; ...celves fo ths wool by r.ie.msfcf ths:.;.c'. nruir-tasii .ic heads, strike in w.ih ilcli' fojt and Lure inwardly until only the head remain outaidc. Then they fasten theme'ves to tho very edge, just as a clerk will fa-en sheets of jiapcr together, turning over the sides of a brass clamp, and, Lcnccfunvartl, their role aim. object and ambiiiou iu life is to pow. buro and mcLie sawdust. Small when they enter, they could 1..1 :no:v creep backward out of then" original hole ;:f tcr feasting a mouth or two on a rich pine log t ban a camel could go through the eye of a needle. Still another species of this log-cater is the worm classified by Leach. Limnoria terebrans, genus lsopoda, which h a minute sessile,cycd crustacean, and which eats in to the piles several feet below the lw water mark; and ia vase numbers. But in destructive power these latter can not equal the teredo. I seen a specimen of a pile at tacked by the teredo, and ono channel, be ginning ahaost as small as the diameter of a knittingeccdie. gradually widened down ward in a tortuous coarse until, at rh aper ture on the opposite side cf the lop ( which had been gnawed lengthways.) the size of the passage had grown to quite an tneb in width, and the worm had grown in length seven and eight inches, as nearly ta could be measured. On the coast of California, I am credibly informed the teredo sometimes attains a. diameter of two inches and a length of fif teem feet. And, so far as any one knows, their only food seems to be the dust which they create i-.ispu;r their way through the logs. This dust is deposited by the foot in the tube lined with the chalky membrane, end insteca of crawling iuward and onward as their borrowings lengthen, they timply jrrow iu due proportion, their head remain ingitits ,ii:u-e, Uu I there they find their renishnviu; for their size thus imreased jmd their log once consumed uud broken c.ff, -they fall out into the water, u' their .career ends i:i the maw of th2Ut.:t uungry fish that dunces their way. Once their one log is destoyed they can never be:ai life .again. So the wise teredo is careful to - .again lecta goo-.!, big log to begin wit n. Anoti.-r trait of this worm is that it will ncv. i : ac!: Coating timber. Uut woe to the r jv.- riuiug at anchor if her timbers, are not pr..;.iud by metal r.Lceliu?.s T-Iany a nobic vv js-1 has been lost with :.!! ou Itoard m n:1 1 ivc:Li owing to tho insidious r..vagcs xau .v: '.y t.iowonn-aa she lay quutly i. port tak'ii. .m carp) and pusscng.-rr.. liut uc it raix.y happens that there is m t toac visi ble 'riuip.nsation in uatuiv". works and .creat.:ro to even the torelj scv: ..eedful J)ylcrLg irtoanldLHinter:afin;ciho Luuken -wrec-TH timbers and o.l..r i.jstructions whi. i irr.u.d else render uavij's'.ion ia tome Larbera dkgciwjs. it L ;u;cai9aiag how rapLhy- a wrerk will disappear hi some channels par.icularly infcct.U by the tcr- -edo. Hew to prevent tlKm Irm reining a plto , .almost as 100.1 ; r it wls p-a: down was long a vexed ris.:.c. with hjch in maritime -towns; b'-tci.ierin:cn".siudiiiYciitiou have .solved this ni..;u?rns ;hy have given tho solution of Bu.ny :'.:crs. .Tho logs are now Jryanized or e.-cw.tcd. A log properly -treated will have u life of at least fifty jrcars, and may bid uc&tnce to every tcscdo that ever bored a ho'.e or vho would wiak - to bore one. A Pretty C.lrT ITetty Pet. The humcung birtls belocgmg to a pretty IfewYork socinygiri buiid their nests in the lace curtains and have raised little fam ilies in the parlor. There are plants for - them to fly anout hi. end every day tho florist sends a basket cf flowers for them to Hv about in, and every day the Corist sends a basket of flowers to extract the honey Iran. They are lilwlitc runbows flying abewt tho room, and they light on the head ."of their dainty mistress with pctfost free dom She seems to have an affinity for the fMund tribe. Ontsiue her chamber win dow ia box for a dovo who always sleep there at"ight and pecira at iaowin(.w ssr-aa wants o comoaa. m erfW!we,kBIVbat 2f?JSirS SW""."-. ay. Ttmaam foms V''uS.Z - ft wku a iwmj Pff'.TT'f TVrGC.APHICAL BULLS. literary Grm Unconsciously Frodacetl by .... t.:i,, ;:- ,wa nnf;A ". 4. "? ..." ":.. !.... .-. Z fw n ? "' uu" " 'w A Jfcw England paper told about "adrove of hogs floating down tho Connecticut river," instead of c-a drive of loss." An Atlantic editor discussed the political situation in a comprehensive editorial ana fc j 4 L Esptorc. He neglec to read the proof, andl appeared under He ncglectea tho 1 "J nJ '3t WoSestcr, Mass., tried to (advcrlise tor a fawnK;o!orcd buU-terrier . n , . - ,, bn1 trilTpd nWav from home. pup, wnicli taa strayea away iromnomc, and'lcarned by the next day's paper that it was a 'fire-alarm bell-tower key' he had lost. A noted Chicago divine preached a ser mon in which he used the quotation: "And he saw Abruham afar off, and Lazarus in his boson." The printer set it: "And he saw Abraham afar of, and a horaa'scarsin Bos ton." In a lecture ct Tremont Temple, Boston, ltev. Joseph Cock asked hi3 audience: " A"as St. Paul a Dupe :" In a report of the lecture Mr. Cook was made to propound this startling conundrum: 4,Was St. Taul a Dude?" An Indiana paper found it necessary to publish the following correction: 'Tor bunrlar uicetin.:' in the heading of the ar- f tide in our last issue relating to the proceed ings of the town council, read 'regular meet ing.'" Whitticr's "Brewing of Soma" figured in a Cincinnati paper as tho "Burning of Lau ra." and another paper of that city, wishing to-bestow "a woi d of compliment" on a lo cal performance, managed to give publicity to a "word of complaint." It was a Boston nc.vspr.pcr which mado its dramatic critic say: "The toast for Irving, like the toast for oiives. must be cut elevated." What the critic wrote was: 'Tito ta-.te for Irving, like the taste for olives, must be cultivat" I." A young clergyman in a Western town sent a notice to tlw Ijcal paper that he would deliver a sermon on The ltclatton of Ministers to Their Parishes," and he was surprised the next djy to learn that the compositor bad changed his subject to "The Relations of Ministers to Their Phari sees." Notloaagoa Western Union telegraph operator found the words "orates fratercs" ia a special dispatch about the praying brothers." It is not. definitely known whether tho tergr.!n:ier or the compositor attempted to translate tho words, but it is certain they a?pear:d iu a Minneapolis pa per as: "Oh, rats, father." Not long r.go a novel depleted a pretty two-hoade.i boy playing on the "green " se cure from irautera cf curiosities aud agents of dime museums. T'uj !ioy was not such a natural pnenomenou as he seemed, howev er, for a simple transposition of two letters had changed him from "a tow-headed" youngster into ono with duplicate heads. Another daily hod occasion not long ago to tay : " In the letter in last Friday's issue about ticket speculation in Berlin, in speak ing of the Schauspicl haus, or theater proper, the ccpyist tried to write as tho au thor id, that it wa3 devoted to ' noa.mu sleaP dramatic performances, but tho types made it noa-scnsicaL' " An editorial note in a recent issue of a Pittsburgh religious weekly is as follows: " A couple of errors escaped tho eye of the proof-reader in an articlo under the head ing: 'Isles of the Sea,' in last week's issue. In fourth line of fourth paragraph it should be ' needs and not deeds.' Near the close 'Captain Gardiner, for 'Captain Sardines.' " The types usually make their errors "nonsensical," as was the case when a Sc Louis paper said: "The stay at Indianapolis proved a relief from the monetary which is inimitable on a thirty-hovr cautionary jour ney." The writer wanted to say: "The stay at Indianapolis proved a relief from the monotony which is inevitable on a thirty-hour continuous journey." UNSUBSTANTIAL SOLES. OsbWlag That ITas GaoH Ki'nch f-ir a tf. Bat Net for m Lira Drummer. Two traveling men recently striped at thoTifft House, says the IhifTalo Courier. t One of them had on a or.;" of boots very much Vrorn through the soles, and he thought he would get them mended here, for he was going to TonawanJa the ncrt day to call on a merchant and he wished to be well dressed. He had only the one pair I of boats aittl his J ncurt agreed to tako them to a cobbler while he remained in his room until thry were satchel. Tho friend found a cobbler end told him he must have (he boots that cveniug. The cobbler said he cuuld not mend them so soon. "Oh, but this is a asc of necessity, the man is dead and we want to put a decent pair ef boots on him. We're got to take the body out of town." Tho cobbler finally promised to have the boots done, aud had them ready when the drummer called in tho evening. His friend i-lcjit peacefully and the next moruhig put on tho mended boots feeling that he could lno!cth wnole WJrld in the face. It was quitu n wnli: from the railway station at Tonawaada to the oSice of tho merchant he sought, and he had not gone half the distance when to his astonishment aui wrath one of tho new soles came loose and Copped about in smostdilanidatcd man ner. The gentleman sat down by tho road sido and found that the rascally cobbler hed just pegged a strip of leather over tho old sole. Ho hammered it on with a stone as best he could aud shafded slowly en. He transacted Us business with the merchant and had to walk ail thrua'h the works with h'.ni, during which the o.hor solo came loose, but he manccd t conceal the trouble until he got nway, vr'iea ho ham acred the boots together ugain rs best he could and returned to Duff.Uo. lie bhor.ed the boots to Ids friend and asked if that was the way in which the UuiTlo cobblers usually u'.d their work. Uis friend wa3 as indi,T.iJ;'i'. as he was, an u tailing the boots, rushed rour.1 .j the luck.cs' cobbler, shcok tho articles ia his fee. and asked what ho meant by paiiaing off uu-'h work oa people. Why." said tho disciple of lit. Crispin. "1 told yon I couldn't racad the boots in so short a time as you gave me, and besides, yon said the boots were for a dead man, and I thought that a bound sole was un necessary. What sort of a dead man was itl" he asked, in a grieved manner, "that would wear oat a pair of boots walking around in them! He must bo awfully live ly for a dead man. If he'd laid still, as any respectable dead man should, the boots would have never broken,' and with this explanation the traveling man had to be content. The llint-e :iumn little Mr. E. 8. Brandreth. one of the sub-editors of the New English Dictionary, bas been ac great pias to liuii 1 ho answer to tkis question. Tho result of his rescawtes is to shot? that tho jnirusa ''liomeRulo' was first used by thu ta'e ?Ir. A-SLBul-liraainthc .Vaffwi r.f Ju'yi., li-CO. It did tea years Utcr, w'sen iho W ;a Protestaata, disrrusted with 1'r. 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Its Watertown Branch traverses the most productive lands of tho great wheat and dairy belt" of Northern Iowa, Southwestern Minnesota and East-CentaralPakote. The short line, via Seneca and Kankakee, offers superior pCEKV faculties to travel between Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Iofa- llRf Kf yette. and Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leaven- 71 3 111 B f worth, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. PauL Illllll!u5j For Tickets, Maps, Folders, or any desired information, sRRRRRamr apply to any Coupon Ticket Office in the United States or Canada, or addrecc, E.ST. JOHN, rHir.ro , E. A. HOLBP.OOK, Oeaerel Kansger. CHICAGO, ILU. Deal Ticket ft PaWr Asms CLARKE, Pres'.let, A'.-;.ny, N. Y. J. A- TTJLLBYS, Vice Preelcont hoc. V.SHIBSY, Treasurer. .'.KP.RASKA & KANSAS. FARM LOAN CO PAI'i UP GAPIlAL,950flOO. Ked Cloutl. Nek DIRECTORS: H. Clarke, Albst v. X- V V. H. kn. !. Virl .Iiijif. ;,". Y. E. r. '. Hij'jlanii. J. IB.V.SMrey D.JI I'i: t rylO.SEV LCANES. Onlimprwveti l.inr.' i ae.-unty ih .tj.i.r ' N Un KH.md Kii.i. rii i nn!ial Hint ii HIGH LAN T Addition to the By far the most desirabb kx ; ii A V r Sr -: -ft i i ft OS - -. M ! it NINTH -II 19 2 If - 't r- .: s 14 U n reason;-1; ic. U cation easv or h 1 : :: utif ully GUMP. & WAitt-tER, REM ESTATE&lQAfl BROKTRS '. Tf-rotir.te'Lonn, Pay Taxes, " ipiiTince Written, Call and exaiViine cfv bargains. Correspond ence solicited, GU&P & WARNER. . .- -- . . -- r -Y t ' - c - a Y. ana council iJUuii, in lows; uauaun, 'rrencon, uamcro::, St. Joseph and Kansas City, in Missouri; Leavenworta and Atchiccn, in Kuisas; BCinneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota; "Water ;ov7a and Sioux Palls, iu Dakota, eci many other prosperous towns and cities. It also offers a Albany, New York. 6p K. Ileai-h, BalstnnSp'i N.Y. s. 1Tijiiri P :trlieia. Rs A. rulieys 3I.B.McNit Vonev furnisiie! aa soon a the :tni juvnMe in Red Cloud &- WECLH city of Red Cloud property in Red Clead KNTK f, -' I j i h -' ": ijL : i r j If I S in i 5 j - ir. -5 mri ft i 1 w u it a AVKXUK access, Buv nriv situated. ! Ift-V.SaiitEV, Pres. I BowAto'BrCATHEB, AssIstaBsfGasliier : i FIRST NATIONAL BAliK, Red .Cloud, Nebraska. ? CAPITAL $75,000, - x. t 'Transact a general banking business, buy an J sell county warrants, also county, prccintt and school dist:ict L'onds. Buy and sell foreigu cschanr DIRECTORS: Jas. 3rcNenv. J. A.Tulley, John K. Shirey. Henry Chrke, Furniture, Furniture Nfcw stock and almost at your own figure. ' Come and get bargains. F. V. TAYLOR, Opposite First Natioiial bank and Post Oiiice. Special attention given to undertaking. J. W. Shenvool. President. W. E. .Taclcson. Vice-President. U 1. Albright, Cashier. P. A. Hi iu:iy. A 4,Ntint O tshier. Capital $50,000 Special Attention Given Collection DIRECTORS J. W-Sherwood. II. Sherwood jj. r. Aiirtgnt. ivi .uoore. W. E. Jackson. Y.'ir. Duvkcr aui S. Xorris. Buy and sell Exchange Make collections and do a f jfeneral Banking Business. Interest allowed on ime deposits THE TRALERS LUMBER CO. WliX MAKE 1 POSITIVELY Lower than any yard rin the world. HMSOESfc-x T Fine 9Sfm Ttughing Gas always on hand &M POPE keep on hand Farm Implements of hIi kiiit 8, which tkey sell at the Lowest Living Rates and on the Best of Te:is Among their goods we call attention to the following: , BrowR Planters. Checkrowers and Cultivtojs, Manufactured by Geo. W. b on & C. Galesbnrjr, Illinois. f Eagle Listers aud Golden Eagle Cultivators, Manufactured by Eajjle Manuiacturinfr Co. Standard Planters, Checkrowerc, Cultivators and Mowers, Manuractured by Eni?r-on, T.il.ott & Co., of Bockford, Illinof . Hwosier Rskes, Maniifactared by Heoeier Drill Co illnrnes Combined Cultivators, Tongue Toagueless Cultivators, Manufactured by the Pan e1 Mjinnfarturing Co., Freeport. III. The well known New Departure Cultivators, Manniaetared be the Pattee Plow Co. Studebaker Wagons, Buriex and Plaeton, tl Best Goon os Eastu Manufactured by Studcbakpr Bros., MaaufgCcs ofSoutkBendvJndiana. Tho wcl1 known and reliable Deeriag Steel Binders anal Mowerer . Manuf tcturcd by William Deering AJCfc, Caicaffo, ni. And Lsift bu ry Least, the World BenowtMd C- bUCKEYE mOWEr- and the Light Running , BUCKEYE Manufactured Aultnwn, XilTerVISkkxcniel They have sold these eoods for twelve years and tiaMkaatleaeastrated hat they are unexcelled. ouir uiuu -'i i us, Manufactured Aluo MonitorWindMiib and Yea will observe that all tbe-'rjjoods nrmawho hare an eeUbuehed rputatkm. A fell line onCaairs'lBr above cooos. Themettoof the Iran is No Peai meats made with new Mode at exi . ,V.' ' -r1 IlEtv CtARKE,Vice-Pre Jso. R. Shiret, Cashier G. w . Lindscy. K.-.bhxrcy. E. F. Highland. A. J. Kimney. .tmt. z -V ' .lil -1-ij, wr. 6Wf -i : m mm i-rT-i-,--'-,;.- i " .VJ.SS sasfia-yiv uss5S- ;sr--!rr0t -.-' -s -r?- wSl- cy 7i2&--T.r" ' iW J O TI'KTr'H' DENTIST, r KED CLOUD NEBRASKA. office work a Specialty I BROS. a full line of A Walk in Cultivators,!IIay Bakes aad ', BINDER. . m by Flint 'Wa Ssv Waapnn Vaneleas Wisji Mills. are first-iaaa aaisleaaarsfacsarad kr satxit's.- heb.tGSim tBBCSTirb '.r-j .j - . - m&ts.ux9:rwvmi rMiai1 ji"-r. a mm :vj;iii &JS&E&m& "iXjSrtrAmHSiJ ' i -J pi .tBk -.. . ntrsBsissssBsssiro. T " e are Drst-ciaa putetkm. A fall 'ewitMtfarT Geode enefel cuaaw.'' aaadMaadaeexaeriM r 1 ? ' fl d t 'I i A V 'l l ft -J it I il .11 va l K 4: r. -TY is. u -jf Wjtes,..; m 4i v: