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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1905)
HERE TO STAY R line of farm implements are the best makes and we have some bargains to offer. Just think Walking cultivators $10.00 and up , Riding Cultivators $21.50 and up and for fine Buggies and Surries we are in the lead und dent fail to get our prices on Wind Mills , Pumps and , W. C. Shinn Lightning Rods and our work is guaranteed. Call and see us when In need of any of the above. Yours Truly : : : WERNER , MOSI- MAN&CO. J Fire Another , On Wednesday night , about 2 o'clock , our citizens were called to the north part of town , by the sound of the fire bell , and found the new barn of James Plill to be on fire. The house was finished but was unoccupied , al though Mr. Hill had one horse in the barn. The origin of the fire is a mystcrr to all. It seems to have caught in the hay loft and when discovered had such a start that it was impos sible to extinguish the flames. This makes three Wednesda } ' nights in succession that our fire boys have been called out to fight fire. George Jennings Heard From. This community was greatly startled on Saturday morning , May 27th , to learn that George Jennings had disappeared. He had attended the commencement exercises the night before and had not been se .i or heard of since until Tuesday of this week. The community at large was alarmed at the state of affairs and two local lodges made some effort to locate him but failed. This week Mrs. Jennings received a letter and a mone3r order from Mr. Jennings and he stated that he was in Chicago driving a team ' on a dray. Children's Day , Or last Sunday the Methodist , Christian and Presbyterian churches observed their annual children's day. Ver } ' appropri ate exercises were held at each place consisting of song , recita tions and drills. A collection was taken for foreign missions ; nd the collections were very credi table. The ladies in charge of the different schools are to be congratulated on the success of the programs. The crowds were large and all were more than pleased with the exercises. Thomas E. Stanley of Indiano- polis is the guest of Miss Effie Foster. Tom Kinsey of St. Joe was in this city a short time Wed nesday. George and Sherni Kinsey of Table Rock visited friends here Wednesday Herbert Kerr and wife are spending the summer with Dr. and Mrs. Kerr. s Remember the Tom Thumb wedding at the Methodist church , Tuesdar evening. J. M. DeWald left the first of one week for Alma , Nebraska , to be gone about a month. Laura Camblin left Wednesday forXHighlandKansasto visit her uncle , N. G. Camblin and family. Mr. and Mrs. Will Wamsley attended the Clift-Williamson wedding at Humboldt last Wed nesday. Mrs. James McDowell of Tecumseh - cumseh attended the Ross-Dor- rington wedding in this city Wednesday. On June 20th Miss Evans will give a Tom Thumb wedding at the Methodist church on Tues day evening. Joe Geiger moves this week in the building'just south of Shields grocery store end will be settled down and ready for work the first of the week. Tom Poteet , Gus Ruegge , Harry Foehlinger and Ed Hayes spent Tuesday fishing. They returned home Wednesday morn ing with about twenty-five pound of fish. During the past week the marshall - shall has been taking offenders against city ordinance up before Justice Moran instead of before the police court although Judge Cleaver has been ready to attend to all business belonging to his office. FISH AND BIRDS IMITATE. Inflects , Crabs and Other Animals Pos sess Remarkable Faculty for Changing Color. Many insects , birds , animals and even llsh aud crabs are won derfully clever imitators. They will take upon themselves the color , shape or position of their surroundings so perfectly that neither friend nor enemy can dis cover their whereabouts. There is a fish to be seen in the kelp beds about the island of San ta Oatalina which has aclever way of making itself invisible. Tin1 body is Blender , with a pointed head and prominent eyes. Along the back is a continuous frill , which is the dorsal fin , while , op posite , the anal flu is equally or namented. Tiie lish vary in color. Some are amber , others orange or vivid green , Avhile some have two hues combined , dark and light green or olive and yellow. These peculiarities of form and colo" render the fish marvelonsly like the kelp leaves among which it seeks protection. A number of these fish were placed in the tanks of the Zoolog ical Gardens , where they might be observed. They showed great un easiness , some of them even leap ing from the tank. Another tank was prepared where the natural surroundings of the fish were imi tated as nearly as possible. A branch of macrocystis , with leaves hanging in the water , was sus pended over the tank. The most uneasy of the fish were placed in the new home , and their change of feeling was soon evident. One swam at-once to the kelp leaves and poised itself head downward. Another , with head poised up ward , became a remarkable imita tion of the hanging leaves in shape and color. The fish made no fur ther effort to escape. Another inhabitant of the kelp beds is an olive green crab , which clings to the under side of the kelp tangles. This crab also showed great uneasiness when it was placed in a tank. When the kelp was introduced it crawled upon it and was at once almost invisible , so much did it resemble the kelp leaves. Another crab makes itself look exactly like a rough stone When it is alarmed it draws up its legs and appears a bit of inani mate stone. Several deep sea spiders which had been found at a deph of 80G feet were kept in a tank for sev eral weeks. When taken from the dredging net they were a dark brown , though presumably the spot where they came from was so dark that they could scarcely have been seen. Yet even this type of apparently sluggish life had sufficient intelligence to real ize that in the light of the tank it was a conspicuous object , so it began to add seaweed to its back , The seaweed was plucked , then passed to the mouth , and finaVlj attached , not to the back , but to the point of the shell above thy mouth so that it fell over the crab like a gorgeous plume , making tin- crab very conspicuous. But when t was startled the plume of sea weed would point upward , and the crab would become a rock with a tuft of seaweed growing upon it , well calculated to deceive the most observing enemy. PERIL IN Si ONE "JETTING. Rewards Are Offered for a Method to Remove Bisk of Lead Poison ing Little Hope. Advices fi'om Washington are to the effect that the government of the Netherlands has altered a prize of (1,000 ( florins , some ? 2)00 ( ) in the currency of this country , for a complete solution of the prob lem involved in the setting and re setting of diamonds without in curring the danger of lead poison ing.It It is'to be feared that nobody will come forward to claim this reward. For years scientists on both sides of the water have boon experimenting with a view to rem edying the defects of diamonds , eliminating their dangerous prop- pi-ties , but thus far their ell'oi'is have not been productive of t Ik- desired results. Many diamonds , particularly the larger Atones , can be set without the metallic background which threatens tlu lu'ulth of the , gold and silver smiths , but in every instance they lose their brilliancy , and , at tached to the shirt bosoms of "dressy gentlemen" or the bodices ices of portly dowagers and ma trons attract scarcely more at tention than window glass. Four aud even six-karat white diamonds mends , shorn of a thin , filmy un der surface of lead or lead and tin composition , fre < iuontly become transparent and fail to refract the light. Unhooked and presented as pledges after banking hours these gems are appraised at from $2.45 to i3. ( ] ( ) a quart , which is but a tithe of their apparent value. The lead which enters into diamonds mends of "purest ray serene" not only imperils the lives of those who handle them for the market , but also stains the clothing of those who wear them. Some little time ago the French bureau of chemistry announced that it would give 50,000 francs to the. person who would devise a process which would free diamonds from the taste peculiar to alum which many of them possess , but the de partment mentioned still has the money. Cook's Paradise. Nora Sure , Bridget Maloney lias sthruck a snap. Mary Phwat's that ? "The people she's cookin' fer now don't belave in atin' break fast at all , loouches downtown ind ginerally dines out. " Chica go Sun. j. One on TJncle John. Little Willie Say , pa , what are those holes in the side of Uncle John's derby for ? Pa To enable him to .talk through his hat , my sou * . Chicago Daily News. Soon Told. Gladys What do you like best nbout these automobile trips ? Percy You. Chicago Trib une.
