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VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
That oriental Turkey has been roast
ed long enough baste it
A St Louis paper says Time
moves even in St Louis Thats odd
It is asserted that a man cannot de
stroy his life by holding his breath Eut
he may prolong the lives of others
If the Cuban junta would send a few
American collega foot ball teams to
Cuba the war wouldnt last a week
General Campos is only waiting for
better weather to wipe out the enemy
The insurgents are waiting for the
same purpose
A Dayton bank burglar blew off his
left arm by a premature explosion of
dynamite And yet they call such wort
a safe business
Peary will write several books and
deliver lectures this winter The entire
country will send up a call for relief
expeditions pretty scon
The Spanish troops in Cuba have
killed eight more insurgents in three
battles Is Campos doing his deadly
work with insect powder
The manufacturers of rubber made
5000000 last year on bicycle tires At
thisrate we shall soon have to refer to
them as the rubber barons
Peary says the Esquimaux women
originated the bloomer costume and
have worn it for centuries Why not lei
them have a monopoly of it
If Louise Michel comes to this coun
try to preach revolutionary anarchy
she will have her trouble for her pains
and possibly pains for her trouble
The water in the Ohio River at Ciucin
nati is now only thirty inches deep
Next week they expect to begin sprink
ling the river to keep down the dust
The coffin trust has a new trade or
gan called The Obituary It isnt a
very progressive paper however for It
is made up of dead matter exclu
slvely
And now the scientists declare that
It would have been impossible for Sven
gali to make Trilby sing when hypno
tized Heavens Why didnt we know
this before it was too late
According to Professor Helm the
most pleasant of all deaths is to fall
from an Alpine height And yet most
of us who cannot afforJfa European
VjfaJpvpr complain 3
Tlvs thejgTeyed of my condi
tion sac JUjf ersian poet Sadi but
once when my feet were bare and I
had no money to buy shoes but I met a
man without feet and became content
ed with my lot
It is a dear delight for a soul to have
the fidelity of another It makes a pil
low of softness for the cheek which is
burning with tears and the touch of
pain It poursia balm into the very
source of sorrow
St Louis boasts of a young woman
dentist who recently pulled thirteen
teeth in three minutes Such a new
woman as that ought to have a great
pull in any community a greater pull
to the acher than in any other calling
An Indiana farmer girl wrote heq
name and address on an egg which wa
sent to market with a large shipment
and as the result married a St Louis
grocer three months later Matrimony
often is a kind of shell game anywayr
nowadays
The English disigner of Valkyrie III
says Americans have no mere sense of
Immor than a cow that they cannot
see a joke But they can They see
one almost every time au Englishman
of just the designers degree of stupidt
ity opens his mouth
Some jokes are worth a great deal
more than others A San Francisco
wag who told one of the Durrant jurors
merely as a joke that if he didnt con
vict tho prisoner he would bo lynched
himself has been fined 250 by the
court Mighty good joke all around
The value of the Kaffir gold mines in
3S93 was quoted at 83000000 Now
the market quotations reach a total of
1500000000 The South Sea Bubble
of John Law Cid not involve more than
400000000 when inflated the most but
of course there is a difference between
1720 and 1805
There are many shining qualities in
the mind of man but none so useful as
discretion It is this indeed which
gives a value to all the rest and sets
them to work in their proper places and
turns them to tho advantage of their
possessor Without it learning is ped
antry wit impertinence and virtue it
self looks like weakness and the best
parts only qualify a man to be more
sprightly in error and active in his
own prejudices
The Minnesota courts will have to de
cide what reparation can be made a
man who was attacked by a moose in
that State and seriously injured He
defended himself as well as he could
but did not dare use his gun as there
is a Minnesota tow forbidding the
shooting of rariiio except at certain
jeasons When will people learn that
the right to defend ones self is
to all laws and that it is impossible
Cor a State to protect an animal com
mitting an assault on a human being
Whatever force is necessary to destroy
5uch animals is within the law
The far reaching effects of the Cuban
war can easily be seen from the remark
of a New York official of the tobacco
trust who nonchalantly says that a
drought or freshet in Connecticut
would be more serious to local Havana
interests than a dozen wars In Cuba
Our pure Havana cigars come from
Bridgeport
American farmers are unquestionably
at the head of their business and there
Is good reason to believe that American
Cruit growers will occupy a similar posi
tion before many years The demand
for our fruit is growing in Europe and
it is already acknowledged that our ap
ples are unequaled The Italian lemon
crop is very poor this year and but for
the Florida freeze wo mignt perhaps be
shipping lemons to Palermo
All lives in which the sense of duty
is lacking are unregulated lives Uvea
going to waste with no principle of
coherence or growth in them worth
less to day and holding no promise for
the future The home whose Inmates
are destitute of this organizing germ of
happy useful united life is a poor
lonely desolate place no matter how
sumptuous its furnishings or how state
ly its adornments
It was stated a few days ago as
showing the crazy lengths to which
speculation in the African gold mines
lias been carried that the present sell
ing price of the mining shares exceeds
the greatest possible output of the next
ten years without allowing anything
for the cost of operation The state
ment is fully borne out in an article by
Mr S F Van Oss in the Investors Re
view He writes that the yield of the
Witwatersrand mines last year was
2000000 ounces worth 37500000 One
third of this amount was reckoned as
gross profit and nearly 8000000 was
paid in dividends The yield of this
year is estimated at a 25 per cent in
crease and if that of next year should
be 3000000 ounces at the same rate of
profit there would be 11500000 for
dividends But the present market
value of the Witwatersrand gold
shares is fully 8750000000 on which
there would be a return of only 153
per cent for the business of next year
if the expected rate of Increase be kept
up and it is but 1 per cent on the busi
ness of ast year And this makes no
allowance for the gradual and inevita
ble exhaustion of the property The use
of money can be obtained more cheaply
in England than in the United States
but the owners of money are not likely
to want to invest much of it in Kaffirs
at current rates and when this fact is
once ascertained there soon will be a
asaus to ell r tfiose who bought only in
the hope of being able to sell again at a
further advance There are enormous
quantities of gold in the Witwatersrand
district but when the mines there are
capitalized at three or four times their
value there is bound to be a collapse
just as certainly as in the case of wheat
pork cotton or copper soon after either
of them has been pushed up to fancy
prices
His Political Record
In every county of Kentucky you
will find a lot of old men who take great
pride in telling you that for 40 or
may be 50 years they have never voted
anything but the Democratic ticket
They began perhaps with Jackson
and have come on down the line
An old man of this sort who waa
called Uncle Billy and who was very
close fisted one day saw a group of
voters about Gov Proctor Knott Un
cle Billy leaning on his tall staff edged
his way in and asked to be introduced
He was formally presented as thtj
oldest voter in the county
Yes govnor said Uncle Billy wltli
eviuent pride I certainly am the old
est voter in the county If airy man
will tetch a man as has throwed mora
Democratic votes than I hev Ill fur
nish the liquor
Hereupon several of the crowd know
ing Uncle Billys stinginess but eager
for any chance to come into a treat
pricked up their ears and Uncle Billy
noticing this and becoming alarmed at
the probable outlay if he should be
proved wring hemmed and hawed and
added mat is Ill furnish the liquor
to airy man as fetches the man Cen
tury
Indian Jugglers
The jugglers of Indian are unsurpass
ed in natural magic A juggler took
an earthenware pot filled it with earth
moistened with a little water and plac
ed among the earth a mango seed
which had been examined beforehand
This done he threw a sheet over the
pot and almost immediately removed
It again when it appeared that the seed
had in the space of say half a minute
become a young mango tree Again the
sheet was thrown over the pot and on
being a second time removed the man
go tree had doubled in size The same
process was repeated a third time and
now the tree was covered with small
unripe mangoes This time the juggler
plucked the tree up out of the earth
displaying the roots and the remains
of the original mango stone from which
the tree was supposed to have sprung
Ambitious Fruit Trees
On a farm at Hamilton Mo is a
cherry tree that Is now bearing its sec
ond crop of cherries of this years
growth An Ontario Ore farm has a
pear tree that has borne a full crop in
due season and is now again in fall
blossom and a few miles from this is
an apple tree that is covered with a sec
ond crop of this years fruit
IT WAS A LANDSLIDE
REPUBLICAN VICTORY NEARLY
UNIVERSAL-
New York Iowa Ohio Maryland
Massachusetts Pennsylvania Ne
braska Kansas and New Jersey Go
with the Surging Tide
Results of the Election
A landslide in Maryland a Republi
can victory in Kentucky and the return
to power of Tammany in New York City
were the features of the elections
In Maryland the Democrats met a ver
itable Waterloo The whole State seem
ingly repudiated Senator Gorman and the
indications now are that a Republican
will succeed Senator Gibson Baltimore
went Republican by from 5000 to 10000
Lowndes election as Governor by a ma
jority of anywhere from 10000 to 20000
is conceded by the Democratic committee
In New York the Republicans elect their
entire State ticket and carry the State by
an increased majority Conservative es
timates place the figures at from 50000 to
60000 New York City is carried by
Tammany but the combined Democratic
vote of that city and Brooklyn shows a
loss of about 12000 The Legislature is
solidly Republican
New Jersey was carried by the Republi
cans by from 18000 to 20000 John W
Griggs is elected Governor Cities and
precincts expected to give large Demo
cratic majorities were found to have gone
the other way when tho returns came in
and the general result was considerable
In Kansas the election of David Mar
tin the Republican candidate for chief
justice of thrSupremeConrt is conceded
The Republicans carried Chicago and
Cook County by pluralities considerably
less than those given their ticket one year
ago The Democrats made gains in al
most every ward of the city but their
combined gains were not sufficient to over
come the Republican excess in 1S94 Far
Iin Q Ball Republican defeated Richard
W Morrison Democrat for the vacancy
on the Superior Court bench by 3G09S
plurality For the full term on the same
bench Judge Henry M Shepard Demo
crat was elected without opposition to
succeed himself Judge Shepard received
a total vote of 134339 which was only
about 2000 less than the combined vote
of Ball and Morrison The Republicans
also elected five of the Drainage Commis
sioners which gives them control of the
new board
SUCCESSFUL STATE TICKETS
The Princinal Candidates Elected in
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Secretary of State JOHN PALMER
Controller JAMES A ROBERTS
Treasurer ADDISON B COLVrN
State Engineer CAMBELL TV ADAMS
Register WILLIAM SOHMEP
ilARYLAD
Governor LLOYD LO WTDES
Comptrollor ROBERT P GRAHAM
Attorney General HARRY M CLABAUGH
UTAH
Governor HEEER M WELLS
Secretary of State JAS T HAMMOND
Attorney General A BISHOP
Tresiourer JAMES SHIPMAN
Auditor MORGAN RICHARDS
MASSACHUSETTS
Governor FREDERICK T GREENTIALGE
Lieutenant Governor ROGER WOLOOTT
HORROR IN DETROIT
Boiler Explosion Wrecks a Building
Seventeen Persona Killed
At about 9 oclock Wednesday morning
the boilers in the Journal Building
ner of Lamed and Shelby streets De
troit exploded with terrific force That
portion of the building about forty feet
wide immediately collapsed burying
scores of people in the ruins A great
many girls and women were employed in
the building Within a short time nine
unidentified bodies had been taken from
the ruins and many more were inaccessi
ble While the work of ro3cue was pro
gressing voices could be heard from im
prisoned sufferers
Shortly afrer 9 oclock the ruins broke
out in names and the great clouds of
stifling smoke seriously impeded the fire
men in their work of rescue A number
of stereotypers at work on the fifth floor
went down with the wreck There were
from twenty live to thirty at work in tho
building The large building was cut
cleanly in two from front to rear by a
gap of forty feet wide at the bottom
of which was left an almost solid pile
of timbers bricks and debris
From revised lists of tenants and em
ployes it is thought there were nearly fifty
people in the collapsed section Up to mid
night Wednesday seventeen bodies had
been taken to the morgue and twenty
seven persons were still unaccounted for
It is almost certain the explosion was
caused by the oil tank which fed the boil
ers Boiler Inspector McGregor gives it
as his opinion the calamity was caused
by the ignition of gas generated at the
tank
The most shocking scene attending the
holocaust was the struggle for a bodv
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of a surprise
Massachusetts Republicans re elected
Gov Greenhalge by increased majorities
In spite of its being an off year the ticket
went through with more to spare than it
had last year
Blj Majorities in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania went Itepublican with in
creased majorities The voting early in
the day indicated but little interest and a
probable falling off of the votes of both
tho big parties In tho late hours how
over this was overcome by the rapidly
increasing number of electors who ap
peared at the pools The vote was fully
up to expectations and the majorities will
average 80000 and better In Philadel
phia alone there was a heavy increase in
the Republican vote The city went Re
publican by 00000 This may send the
toal majority in the State over 100000
In Ohio Bushnell the Republican can
didate is elected Governor over Camp
bell by from S0000 to 100000 majority
His vote exceeded that of McKinley right
through the State In addition to elect
ing Bushnell and the rest of the State
ticket the Republicans have fully three
fourths of each branch of the Legislature
thus enabling them to elect a Republican
successor to Brice in the United States
Senate
Iowa surprised the Democrats and even
the Republicans by giving Gen Drake an
estimated plurality of G0000 The Legis
lature will be overwhelmingly Republi
can and a Republican successor to Sena
tor Allison is thus assured The vote
throughout the Stato was light farmers
in many sections being too busy in their
fields to take the time to go to the polls
The Populists showed a large gain in
their vote many free silver Demacrats
giving their ticket support
In Nebraska T L Norval Republican
candidate for the Supreme bench is prob
ably elected by 15000 majority Max
well Pop polled less than 60000 while
Phelps Silver Dem got about 25000
Mahoney the straight Democratic candi
date will not receive to exceed 10000
Forty two precincts out of seventy six
in Omaha gave Broatch Rep for May
or 800 plurality His total plurality is
estimated at 2000
Kentucky Goes Republican
Kentucky has been conceded to the Re
publicans oa the Governorship by the
Democrats The chairman of the Repub
lican State committee claims the election
of Bradley over Hardin by 15000 and as
serts that the Legislature will be close
In Virginia the Democrats elected
three fourths of tho Legislature Little
interest was taken in the election all
over the State In many counties there
was so little at stake that many negro
voters remained nt home
The Utah Republicans elected the State
ticket and carried the Legislature by a
safe majority Re turns from 215 pre
cincts out of 320 give Wells for Governor
a plurality of 2482 and Allen for Con
gress a plurality of 1072
The contest hi Mississippi was one-sided
Not more than half the Democratic
vote was polled and the majority ranges
between 30000 and 40000 The princi
pal interest centered in six or eight of
the strong Populist counties where there
were lively contests over the county
offices-
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Secretary of State WM M OLIN
Treasurer EDWARD PAYSON SHAW
Auditor JOHN W KIMBALL
Attorney General HOSEA 1L KNOWLTON
MISSISSIPPI
Governor ANSELUM J MLAURIN
Lieutenant Governor J H JONES
Secretary of State J L POWER
Auditor W D HOLDER
Treasurer A Q MAT
Attorney General WILEY N NASH
IOWA
Governor FRANCIS MARION DRAKE
Lieutenant Governor MATT PARROTT
Supt Public Instruction HENRY SARIN
Railroad Commissioner GEO W PERKINS
Judge Supreme Court JOSIAH GIVEN
KENTUCKY
Governor WILLIAM O BRADLEY
Lieut Governor WM J WORTniNGTON
between Coroner Butler and an under
taker The latter clung to the stretcher
while the body was being carried out
through the crowd and as the spectators
were becoming excited over the ghoulish
scene tho police in the interests of order
rushed the undertaker outside the fire
lines and would not permit him to return
SHES NOW A DUCHESS
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt Marrisd to
the Duko of Marlborough
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt was united
in marriage at 1230 oclock Wednesday
in the Protestant Episcopal Church of St
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THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
Auditor SAMUEL H STONE
Treasurer GEORGE W LONG
Attorney General W S TAYLOR
Secretary of State CHARLES FINLEY
OHIO
Governor ASA S BUSHNELL
Lieutenant Governor ASA W JONES
Auditor WALTER D GUILBERT
Treasurer SAMUEL B CAMPBELL
Attorney General PRANK S MONNETT
Fred J Spiesman has been charged
by the coroners jury with tho murder of
his wife at New Whatcom Wash and
the police are now in search of him His
house burned and among the ruins was
found the body of his wife An investiga
tion showed that she had been murdered
and the house set on fire to conceal the
crime
Sergt Matthew M Wolff Company B
Twenty third Regiment U S A died
suddenly at the recruiting office at Dal
las Texas from hydrophobia resulting
from the bite of a cat
Richard Barnett a Lake Shore ami
Michigan Southern conductor was shot
by train robbers who lay in ambush His
wouads are serious
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MlSd CONSUELO VAynEEBILT
Thomas New York to Charles Richard
John Spencer Churchill ninth Duke of
Marlborough MarquLs of Blandford Earl
of Marlborough Earl of Sunderland Bar
on Spencer of Wormleighton Baron
Churchill of Sandridge Prince of the
Holy Roman Empire and Prince of Min
delheim in Swabia The church edifice
was guarded by fifty police ofiicers spe
cially detailed to hold in check the im
mense crowd of spectators who began to
gather as early as S oclock in the morn
ing As upon previous occasions when
American Ireiresses have bestowed them
selves upon titled foreigners the cere
mony was witnessed by that select and
exclusive body known as society Fol
lowing the ceremony at the church for
which over 4000 invitations were issued
there was a breakfast and reception at
the home of Mrs William K Vanderbilt
the guests for the latter function being
limited to 300 in number
St Thomas Church wa3 converted into
a veritable conservatory of rare tropical
foliage and vines The bridesmaids were
composed of eight of New Yorks haud
somest girls 1
HIS WITS SAVED HIM
An Incident in a Lawyers Career
that Won a Case
A man who has his wits about him
remarked a learned judge Is greater
than he who conquers a- city or word3
to that effect for he Is always sure of
getting there
In respect of what was the in
quiry made with the ulterior purpose
of drawing the judge out for he knew
a good many things worth the telling
In many he went on but in thin
particular case I refer to an experience
I had when I was practicing for two
or three years and had an idea that
Coke Blackstone et al were scarcely
In it with me In the ordinary business
of the courts There were a lot or
young fellows at our bar and I am
free to confess that we did not always
maintain the dignity of the law which
is one of its strongest points Some
times we even exceeded the limits and
now and then somebody had a fine to
pay for contempt We had fun at times
with visiting lawyers and the best
practical joker in the lot was always
held in great respect by the rest of us
One day an old lawyer from the
neighboring county seat was defending
a prisoner for stealing a cowr I believe
and I had tho other side and was quite
sure of making my case The old fel
low had been in our court many times
and he was the slowest and longest
talker I think I ever listened to He
didnt seem to know when to let up
Well on this occasion he had been talk
ing until the young fellows were worn
out and they thougkt they would teach
him a lesson and at the same time help
me in downing him So they quietly
went out to the telegraph ofiice got
blank and an envelope and fixed up a
telegram which read Great Caesar
Governor wont you ever stop talking
Then they got a boy to bring the
message Into the court room and they
sat around the bar to see the old man
fall dead when he read the dispatchJ
The boy came in all right and the sher
iff promptly delivered the message Of
course everything became quiet when1
the point was reached and the lawyer
asked permission of the court to read
his message he tore it open amida
breathless silence everybody watching
him and those who were in the jok
expecting an explosion as soon as the
end had been reached But there was
nothing of the kind He read it over
slowly once then more slowly again
and then he looked up at the judge and
over to the jury
May it please the court he said In
tremulous tones I have just received
a message announcing the death of a
very near and dear relative one who
and his lip quivered was more to me
than I can tell and I must ask to be
excused from speaking further
This was an entirely unexpected
turn to the affair and of course the
jokers were powerless to change tho
current They simply sat dumfound
ed while tho old fellow was asked to
finish his speech He finished very
briefly but it was to tho point and
when my turn came to end the business
I was not in it with the grief strickea
man by my side and the jury gave the
case to my opponent without leaving
tho room
After it was all over the old lawyer
called one of the crowd aside and said
something to him with a mild sort of x
smile that residted in his taking up a
collection among us sufficient to pay fox
a fine dinner for the entire bar Wash
ington Star
Nearing the Age of Glass
A North Carolina inventor O W
McLean has patented a number oC
curious devices Among them is a gloss
coffin which is guaranteed proof1
against decay and rats So long as no
deliberate attempt is made to smash It
It ought to last forever Another con
trivance is a staircase made wholly of
glass steps landings and newel posts
being all of that material Yet another
is a glass barrel But perhaps the mostj
remarkable invention of Mr McLean
is a billiard table of glass Glass bricka
are now being made and the time will
come perhaps when glass houses will
not be much of a curiosity
A Clever Cat
William Gilen of New London threw
some lobster meat to his cat Cats are
very fond of this delicacy so what wa3
Williams surprise on seeing Grimalkin
lug the meat around the corner Fol4
lowing her he found that she had
placed it carefully In front of a large
rat hole as a bait Then she lay in
wait behind a barrel until an unwary
rat came out and snapped the bait
when pussy pounced on him and broke
his back with a single shake HartH
ford Courant
Delta of the Danube
An Anglo Dutch syndicate Is trying
to reclaim the land in the delta of the
Danube between the St Georges and
Sulina branches by means of dikes
The dredging of the bar now permits
ve33els drawing twenty one and one
half feet to reach Sulina and before
long it is hoped the channel will be deep
enough for ships drawing twenty four
feet
One Meaning
Say pop what docs the letters D
C mean dat dey always put after
Washington
Dey means daddy of his country
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The baby did come mighty nigh be
ing named Trilby said the lean man
with the yellow vest -but I managed
to save her How asked the fat
man Told my wife that we would be
liable for infringement
of the copy
right laws Indianapolis Journal
Tell a woman that she doesnt look
well and you have furnished a topic of
conversation to last an