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VOL. XL-NO. 45.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 9, 1881.
WHOLE NO. 5G5.
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Y.
P SCHECK,
Manufacturer and Denier in
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
AM. KINDS OF
SMOKING ARTICLES.
Store on Olive .St.. near the old Post-office
Columbus Nebraska. 447-1
HENRY LTJKRS,
BLACKSMITH
AND
"Wagon Maker,
Slinpi iifir t'nuiulr), south of A. A N. Itfjint.
All kiiul if wood ami iron work on
Wagon, lJuiarU"-. FHrm MaehiiH-ry, .V".
Iv-fii uii band the
TIM P KEN SPUING BUGGY,
mul utlicr eastern liiiyuies.
ALSO, THE
"Furst Sr. lrndlt?v Plows.
JlliS. M. S. URAKK
HAS .irsT KKCIClVEl A I.AUtiK
T(K OK
FALL AND WINTER
MILLIRERY AND FASCY GIODS.
I3TA KILL ASSOUT.MKNT OF KV
KKYTIMNfi l'.K LONGING TO
FIItST-CLAS MILLI-
KI5Y STOItK.JJg!
Twelfth St.. two doors east State Hank:
F. GERBER & CO.,
ItKtl.KlUt IN
FURNITURE ,
AND UNDERTAKERS.
Ml,
TABLES, Etc., Etc.
OIVK HIM A (ALL AT HIS 1M.ACK
OX SOUTH SIDK IKli ST.,
One door east of imjfr's drug store.
CITY:
Meat Market !
One door north of l'oxt-ofliee,
NEBRASKA AYE.. - Columhu.
:o:-
KEEP AM. KINDS OF
Fresh and Salt Meats,
- A LSO -
r
, wwa.,
Kt, in their e.ion.
X2fft'li pnl.I fur Hide. I.nrd
ni ItnoB.
542-x
WILL.T. UU'KLY.
NEW STORE!
Ham Qua i gEO;,
(Sucre-tor to HKNKY & ItRO.)
-o-
All outtnmer of the old hrm are cor
itially iuvilrd to continue their pat
reuage, the same sih, heretofore; to
gether with a many new custo
tuerb as w ih to purchase
Good G-oods
For the Least Money.
coJVcraffB'crs
STATE BANK,
Si::(ti:r: to 3i::l EitJ ;si Tirsir k Etht.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
CAS If CAPITAL, . $50,000
D1KKCTOKS:
Leandkr Gerhard, Pres'i.
Geo. W. Holst Vice Pres't.
Julius A Rkko.
Edward A. Gerhard.
Abnf.r Turner, Cashier.
Bank of Icpotlt, DImcohbS
aBl Exchancc
Collections Promptly' Made or
all Point.
Pay iBtereit ob Time Depos
its. 274
LUBKER
Booksellers
-) DEALERS IN'(-
Sewing Machines, Organs,
Small Musical Instruments,
Sheet Music, Toys and Fanoy Goods.
ESTIf you want anything in our line, give us a call. We sell none hut first
clu jioods, ut tlir lowest IItIbk price.
SING-ER SEWING- MACHINES at $25.
COinEK 13th AND OLIVE NTREET.S.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
KXI SIMUNfiS,
l'LATFOKM SPRINGS,
WHITNEY & HKEWSTF.lt
SIDE SPRINGS.
Light Pleasure and Business Wag
ous of all Descriptions.
We are pleased to invite the attention
of the public to the fact that we have
jut received a car load of Wagons and
'ltuguiesj of all description, and that we
are the sole ajront. for the counties ol
Platte. Uutler, ltoone, MadUon, Merrick,
Polk and York, for the celebrated
CORTLAND WAGON COMP'Y,
of Cortland, New York, and that we are
otl'erimr these wagons cheaper than any
other watron liuilt of same material,
. .... i j-.r.i i. . i.t :.. ,i.:t
m vie aim uiiitu can ic nuiu iui iu ium
eitlllltV.
jSTriend for Catalogue aud Price-list.
PHIL. CAIN,
4S4-tf Columbus, Neb.
MEDICAL & "Ma INSTITUTE,
7. Z. MITCHELL. U. 0. S. 7. HAETTiJ, V. 0
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C. S. UES:SS, M. 0., ft J. C. SEUI3E, If. C, ciCuli,
Consalting Physicians a&i Surgeons.
For the treatment ofall classes of Bar
gery and deformitiea ; acute and
chronic diseases, diseases of the eye
and ear, etc., etc.,
Columbus, Neb.
JEWELRY STORE
OF
G. HEITKEIPER,
ON ELEVENTH STREET,
Opposite Speice & North's iand-otlice.
lias on hand a tine selected
stock of
Watclies, Clocks ana Jewelry.
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY.
H3TALL GOODS SOLD, ENGRAVED
FREE OF CHARGK.JEl
Call aud see. No trouble to show
goods. 519-ttm
Wm. SCHILZ,
Manufacturer and Dealer In
BOOTS AND SHOES!
A romplrtf atortmtnt of Ladle' and Chll
drrn'iKlKMi krpt on haad.
All Work Warranted!!
Our Motto Good stock, excellent
work and fair prices.
Especial Attention paid to Repairing
or. Ollreaad 13th St.
BECKER & WELCH,
PEOPEIETOES OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS & WHOLB
BALE DEALERS Ilf
FLOUR AND MEAL.
PITS
Suraeoiis
OFFICE, COLUMBUS, NEB.
& CRAMER,
S Stationers,
KBE
i:hi:k jt knobei.,
AT THE
MEAT M&BKET !
Ob Eleventh Street,
Where meats are almost given away
for cash.
Beef per lb., from 3 10 cts.
Rest steak, per lb., 10 "
Mutton, per lb., from C 10 "
Sausage, per lb., from 8 10 "
iST&pecial prices to hotels. f62-ly
TTE.KRV GAM,
ManuJacUirer and dealer in
Wooden and Metalic Burial Caskets
All kinds and sizes of Kobev, also
has the sole right to manufac
ture and sell the
Smith's Hammock Reclining Chair.
Cabinet Turning and Scroll work. Pic
tures, Picture Frames and Mouldings,
Looking-glass Plates, Walnut Lumber,
etc., etc. COLUMBUS, NEB.
Dr. a; HEINTZ,
DKALKR IX
SUES. MEDICIIES. CHEMICALS
WIXEN, L.10.IJOKM,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand by
Druggists.
Physiciaps Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Eleventh .afreet, near Foundry.
COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA
ANDERSON & ROEN,
BANKEKS,
Kf.KVKNTH ST.,
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.
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1ST Deposits received, and interest paid
on time deposits.
T3"Prompt attention given to collec
tions and vroceeds remitted on daxi of
payment.
I?f" 'Pnasnnp tirl-pta tn or frnm 'Piirnnmn
points by bat lines at lowest rates.
T&FDralls on principal points in Eu
rope.
REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS:
Firt National Bank, Decorah, Iowa.
Allan &. Co., Chicago.
Omaha National Bank, Omaha.
First National Bank, Chicago.
Kouutze Bros., N. Y.
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
Real Estate.
Union Pacificj and.,ilidland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from J3. 00 to 110.00
per acre for cash, or ou fire or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have' also a large and
cnoice loioi otuer tanas, improved and
unimproved, lor sale at low price ana
on reasonable terms. Also-Unsinesr and
residence -lots in the city.' 'We keeD a
complete abstract of titleto allreal es
tate in l'latte County.
633
COLUMBUS, NEB.
LAND, OFAHMS,
-AND-
AT THE-
Union Pacfic Land Office,
' On Long Time and low rate
of Interest.
CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE
All wishing to. buy, fiall Road Lands
or Improved Farms will And it to their
advantage to call at the U. P. Land
Office before looking elsewhere as I
make a specialty of .buying and, selling
lands on commission; all persons wish
ing to sell farmi or unimproved land
will find it to their advantage to leave
their lands with -me for sale, as my fa
cilities for affecting sales - are unsur
passed. T am prepared to make final
proof for all parties wishing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
JHenry Cordei, Clerk, writes and
speaks German.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
Agt. U. P. Land Department.
555-y - COLUMBUS, NEB.
BUSINESS CARDS.
pORNEL,lUN4cSUL.L.IVAK. '
ATTORNEYS-AT-LA Hr,
Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
john jr. an augh aw,
JUSTICE Of THE PEACE AND
NOTARY PUBLIC,
Plattk Center,
Nkb.
H.
J. HUDSON.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
12th Street, doora weit of Hmmonil House,
Columbus, Neb. 491.
D
ft. Iff. D. THURSTON,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
Office over corner of 11th and North-st.
All operations first-class and warranted.
C
1HICAUO BARBER SHOP!
HENRY WOODS, Prop'R.
J2TEvery thing iu first-class style.
Also keep the best of cigars. ClO-y
IfcALLlSTER BROS.,
A TTOIiNEYS A T LA W,
Office up-stairs in McAllister's build
ing. 11th St.
Tj II. RUSCHE,
llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes ft- ,
at the lowest possible prices. Repairs
promptly attended to.
TIT J.THOMPSON,
NOTARY PUBLIC
And General Collection Agent,
St. Edwards. Boone Co., Neb.
NOTICE!
IF YOU have any real estate for sale,
if you wish to'buy either in or out
of the city, if you wish to trade city
property for lands, or lauds for city
property, give us a call.
"WaDSWORTII & J08SELY.V.
NKLdON MILLKTT.
BYRON M1LLETT,
Justice of the Peace aud
Notary Public.
N. .THL.L.ETT Ac SON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Columbus,
Nebraska. N. B. They will give
close attention to all business entrusted
to them. 248.
T OUIS SCHREIBER,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairlug done on short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, and all work guaranteed.
JSTShop opposite the " Tattersall,"
Olive Street. .25
F.
J. SCHU6,ltI. .,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Columbus, Nel.
Office Corner of North and Eleventh
Sts., up-stairs in Gluck's brick building.
Consultation in German and English.
"ITM. BUROESS,
Dealer in REAL ESTATE,
CONVEYANCER, COLLECTOR,
AMD IHS72AHCX A0E1IT,
GENOA. NANCE CO., - - - NKB.
O LATTERY & PEARSALL
ARK PRKPARKD, WITH
FIRST-CLASS APPARATUS,
To remove houses at reasonable
rates. Give them a call.
T S. MURDOUK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Have had an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tune v to estimate for you. fcSTShop on
13th St., one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-y
LAW, REAL ESTATE
AND GENERAL
COLLECTION OFFICE
BY
W.S.GEER
MONEY TO LOAN in small lots on
farm property, time one to three
years. Farms with some improvements
bought aud sold. Office for the present
at the Clother House, Columbus, Neb.
473-x
COLUMBUS
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor.
$2rWholesale nnd Retail Dealerin For
eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch 'and English Ales.
pg Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lltk Street, Sontk ef Depot
NEBRASKA HOUSE,
8. J. MARMOT, Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
COL.U9IBUS, NEB.
A new bouse, newly furnished. Good
accommodations. Board by .day or
week at reasonable rates.
target Flrst-Class Table.
Meals,. ...25 Cents. I Ldglngs....25 Cts
" 28-2tf
A PYRAMID OF CABBAGES.
'Why, where are you going, Isabel
Eastman? Not inio the farm-yard,
surely ?'
'Yea, Mlaa Lottie Mayell, I am
going into the farm-yard, surely,'
replied Isabel, with a uiiachevious
light in her big gray eyes, and a
charming smile on her prettily curv
ed lips, as she opened the gate lead
ing to that place. 'Nowhere else can
we be confidential without running
the risk of being overheard. The
farmer's family are in the orchard ;
Charley and a half-dozen of his play
mates are playing iu the flower
garden ; there's a young.couple in the
parlor at the piano, he making love,
aud she not making music, and a
still younger couple whispering and
giggling iu the bay-widow ; auutie
is. in my room enjoying 'Splendid
Misery;' and grandma is in auntie's
room darning stockings. Aud so, if
you really want to hear 'right away'
why I am here instead of at oue of
my usual summer haunts, you must
e'en follow me to the farm-yard.
Besides which speaking with in
creased animation 'I have lately,
strange as it may spouj to you, de
veloped quite a passion for farm
yards.' 'It doesn't seem at all strange to
me, my dear, for during our ten
years friendship you've always been
developing some odd passion or
other. But I've never lost faith in
you. Lead on; I'll follow.'
And stepping daintily and grace
fully, unimpeded by trains or demi
tralurf, the young girls threaded their
way through the crowd of heus aud
chickeuH holding a loud and lively
conversation preparatory to going to
roost ; past the cows waiting to be
milked, and turning their hdads to
look after the intruders with great
solemn brown eyes ; and old Low
head, the white horse, slaking his
thirst at the water-trough to the
extreme end of the yard, where a
pile of cabbages, neatly arranged in
the form of a pyramid, confronted
them.
Behold,' said Isabel, stopping be
fore it, 'how Nature lends herself to
Artl (That sounds well, though I
don't know as it means auythiug.)
This mighty structure, formed of the
green and succulent cabbage, is no
doubt the work of some humble
field-laborer, who, having read of
the Pyramids of Egypt iucited
thereto, no doubt, by the newspaper
paragraphs about our owti dear
Obelisk has sought to vary the
monotony of cabbage life by build
ing as close an imitation as his
material would allow. Let uh hope
that this flight of imagination may
lead to a higher oue, and that the
cabbage man, like the butter woman,
may meet with public recognition,
and at last be crowned with a wreath
of laurel. Often from the humblest
sources spriug the greatest works of
genius. Burns Lottie' breaking
off suddenly, and assuming a re
proachful tone 'why do you break
in upon my eloquence with rude and
unseemly laughter? I was about to
repeat to you Longfellow's last
poem ; now I won't. See what your
frivolity has loBt you ! And take a
seat on the extreme base of the
pyramid (I prefer the mound of
sods in this secluded corner, sacred
to somebody's rake aud hoe), while
I go back to the commonplace.'
'Thank you, Bell dear, I'll share
the sods with you, if you please. I
have an idea that a cabbage would
prove a very uncomfortable seat
under any circumstances. Aud do
go back to the commonplace, that's
a darling, for I'm dying to know
what has happened since we parted
an age ago.'
'An age agol Oue year and a
half exactly. I was then engaged to
Claude Venner. Pretty name, isn't
it? And he was a pretty little fel
low, with nice curly hair, and lovely
blue eyes, with lashes long enough
for a bang, small dimpled hands, and
not an idea in his little round bead.
My mother with all due deference
I say it and his mother to whom
I accord much less deference made
the match when I was eighteen, and
I unmade it at twenty. I never
loved Claude. How could I? Aud
he never loved me. How could he?
We were the victims of circumstan
ces and match-making mammas, and
two mortals more unlike it would
be hard to And. He was the most
conventional of men, aud would
have nearly died if at one of those
dreary dinner parties in which his
soul delighted somebody had whis
pered to him that his back hair
wasn't parted straight, while I have
often been strongly tempted to
shock the full-dressed guests, at the
very start, by asking for more soup.
Well, last June, at Newport, my
diminutive friend, Eda Smythe, with
a bead the exact counterpart of
Claude's, appeared upon the scene,
and she and my betrothed fell in
love with each other at first sight.
Mamma fretted and fumed and
scolded, and asked me, with tragic
emphanis, how I could look calmly
on and see so many thousands of
dollars being lost to the family, for
she was sure that artful minx would
persuade poor dear Claude to elope
or something; but I coutiuued to
look calmly on, until one evening
Claude, with a deep sigh, kissed
Eda's hand as hr. bade her 'Good
uight,' when I turned suddeuly upon
them and bade them follow me to
ray room. There I forgave quite
in the manner of a stage parent the
infatuated midgets their base du
plicity, gave them my blessing,
kissed them both ; and as soon aa
they, beaming with joy, had depart
ed, I also, beaming with joy, and not
quite iu the manner of a stage par
ent, except perhaps in a 'Pinafore'
one, executed a pirouette a mad,
revolving pirouette, in honor of my
newly-acquired freedom. Mamma
was awfully augry, but they're
awfully happy, and they've named
tho baby after me. My chains (they
were never very heavy, I must con
fess) broken beyond repair, I flirted
more than ever, all the time growing
as weary as could be of hearing the
same compliments aud making the
same replies, and doing this thing
in tho morning, aud that iu the after
noon, and tho other in the evening
and at last I fled from the old fnmil
iar throng precipitately one rainy
day, leaving my maid to pack my
wardrobe and follow. And I de
termined that (his summer I would
try pastures entirely new. Auutie
had often told me of the pleasaut,
old-fashioned farm-house which she
discovered years ago, and I coaxed
mamma promising to take Charley,
our youngest, who is the 'worrit' of
her life, with me to let me spend
three of my four out-of-the-city
mouths here. And, Lottie, I have
never been as happy before, and I
am firmly convinced that here I have
found the kind of life that would
suit mo best. I was born to love
cows and chickens, to make butter,
to build pyramids of cabbages.'
'You !' laughed her friend. 'I
think I see you in the dairy, in neat
cambric dress, with sleeves rolled to
the elbows, stamping the pats of
butter with your monogram for
that's as near as you'd ever come to
churning; aud in the hennery, scat
tering com to .the chickens from a
dainty white apron, a curiously
shaped rustic hat meanwhile shading
your rose-aud-cream complexion
from the sun. You born to love
cows and chickens! you who have
reigned a city belle far four long
years!'
'And for three been most ready to
abdicate. By-the-bye' with assum
ed carelessness 'have you seen the
young farmer, the ouly child of our
host and hostess?'
'Certainly not?' and Miss Mayell
glances at her watch. 'I only arriv
ed two hours ago, and have seen no
one but you and your aunt. But I
can see him in 'my mind's eye' tall,
ungainly, and speaks through his
nose; eats with his knife; says
'How?' and stares at you as though
you were a being from anothor
sphere.'
'Your mind's eye needs an eye
glass, Miss Mayell. Its vision is
weak. Tall, broad-shouldered, and
gainly, if I may use the word as I
mean it. I saw him tossing hay
to-day, and he looked like an Apollo
who had exchanged his lyre for a
pitchfork, and profited by the
change. And his table manners are
as exquisite as your own, Miss
.Mayell ; and he has a deep, full voice,
and does not say 'How ?' and has
scarcely looked, let alone 'stared,' at
mo. I have an idea that he regards
girls of our ilk with a quiet scorn,
aud thinks of us, if he thinks of us
at all, as hot-house flowers, not to be
compared with the daisies growing
wild in the meadows.'
'How long have you been here,
Isabel ?'
'Six weeks.'
'Quite longonough, I think. You'd
better go away. You are regardiug
this young farmer, who never looks
at you I don't believe that, how
ever too sentimentally. You might
come to believe that you had fallen
in love with him.'
'And if I did, what harm could re
sult from that ? He'll never come to
believe he has fallen in love with me.
He is so different from the soft
voiced, perfumed darlings by whom
I have been surrounded all my life,
to use your own words, with a diff
erent application. stare at liim aB
though he were a being from anoth
er sphere. The young farmer reads,
Lottie, and reads books which, tho'
printed in our native language,
would be Greek to you and me ; and
he numbers the poets among his
friends. I peeped into his room one
day, and saw them all, in blue and
gold, on his book-sbelf. He is an
honest, manly fellow, with no false
pride about him. I was idiot enough
to fancy that he might be the least
bit confused when I first saw him at
work in his red shirt, and coarse
very broad-brimmed straw hat, but
he saluted me as calmly as though he
had beeu arrayed in tho flu est gar
ments. And bis name is Nathaniel
uot as pretty as Claude, but it
means 'the gift of God.' Tho gift of
God.' The gift of God, indeed, his
old mother says he has been to her,
aud so will he be to the womau be
marries. And that woman must be
a bee, not a butterfly. Lottier with
sudden fierceness 'if ever you tell,
I'll kill you.'
My dear, when I do, you may.
Isabel, I begin to suspect that you
are really in' love with Nathaniel
another of your odd passions and
that beneath your butterfly wiugs
lurks the spirit of the bee. And I
may live to see you helping the
pitchfork Apollo toss the hay, build
obelisks aud pyramids of cabbages,
copy celebrated sculptures in beets,
and heap turnips in imitation of
classic old ruins.'
'I fear me not, Miss Mayell. For
though I would be proud to share in
each and every one of those occupa
tions, as soon would I expect that
compact mass of green to suddenly
tremble to its base and then topple
over, separating one huge body into
a hundred or more heads, as dream
that Natbauiel Leigh would ever
care for me.'
The pyramid trembled to its base,
and its apex tumbled to the ground.
The girls rose quickly from their
throne of sods, and with little shrieks
fled to a safe distance, then turned
to look again. It toppled over, its
many heads rolling iu every direc
tion, and iu the place it had occu
pied stood the young farmer.
'I bless your brotbor for building
a pyramid to-day, Miss Eastman,' he
said, 'though he did unload oue of
the market wagons all ready for the
purpose. And I bless the happy
ehauce that kept me from the or
chard, and sent me here to fall asleep
behind it, to waken at the sound of
your voice. Spell-bound I remained
concealed, half believing that I was
still dreaming, to prove the falsity of
the old proverb, 'Listeners never
hear any good of themselves.' But
can I dare I hope that grains of
earnest mingled with yonr jest, and
that the pats of nutter in our dairy
may some day bo stamped with our
monogram? Stand my friend, MisB
Mayell, and you shall not be-forgotten
when wk make the beet statues
and the turnip ruins.'
'Well, 'pon my word!' exclaimed
Mi3s Mayell, with a frank glance of
admiration nt the handsome young
fellow, and a smile that threatened
to become a laugh iu another mo
ment. And 'of all things 1' said Miss
Eastman, a lovely blush mantling
her face; and then youth and fun
conquered all three, aud they laugh
ed until the farmyard resounded,
and Lion, the watchdog.came bound
ing toward them, asking with loud
bow-wows what was the matter.
A Strange Tiling:.
Some four years ago a negro man
died at Lauderdale Statiou, as was
supposed, of hydrophobia. The
day of his death he was a raving
maniac. It was thought best to con
fiue him, but there was trouble in
getting anyone to undertake the
dangerous and diflicult task. At
last Dr. Kennedy, Dr. Webb and B.
T. Bush volunteered to undertake it.
The man's wife assisted them, and
with great difficulty they succeeded
in fastening handcuffs upon his
wrists. He died that day. The
wife soon after went raving and
died. Within the last six mouths
the three white men engaged in the
struggle with the negro to handcuff
him have gone crazy two of them
sent to the luuatic asylum, and the
third, Dr. Webb, is on his way
there. There is much remark upon
the coincidence. And now wo hear
for the first time that it was rather a
suspicion that the negro bad been
bitten by a mad dog known to have
been prowling a mouth previous,
than a fact resting on certain proof.
The singular circumstances makes
food for reflection. It may be a
mere happen so, but could not hap
pen so again once in ten thousand
millions of times. Jferidian (.Miss.)
Mercury.
Among the replies to an advertise
ment of a music committee for a
candidate for organist, music teach
er, etc., a vacancy having occurred
by the resignation of the organist in
office, was the following: "Gentle
men, I noticed your advertisement
for an organist and music teacher,
either lady or gentleman. Having
been both for a number of years, I
offer you my services."
An inveterate wag seing a heavy
door nearly off its hinges, in which
condition of neglect it had been left
for some time, observed that when
it had fallen and killed some one it
would probably be hung.
A VImU to the Laadofthe
Pliurouha.
The last and greatest woader o(
lower Egypt we were yet to sea.
The pyramids of Oizek are probably
the oldest monuments in the world.
Of the several names of the oldest,
the best known is that of the pyr
amid of Cheops. This massive pile
would cover nearly two of our
Washington squares, and it is twice
aa high as Trinity church spire. Of
the many theories that have been
broached as to the object which
these mountains of stone were In
tended to subserve, the most plaus
abie i that.of.Pliuy, who says that
they were "an idle and silly display
of royal wealth." That so much
time and labor were expended for
astronomical purposes, for which the
smallest fraction of their coat would
have sufficed as well, seems to me
preposterous; and the ingenious
theory of Professor C. Piazzi Smith,
that the pyramids were built to pre
serve the sacred cubit of Moses, is
not strengthened by the fact that
this cubit of tho ancients varied in
every country.
Hurrying up the Nilo with a pas
sing glance at the catacombs of Beni
Ilasnan and a hasty visit to the well
preserved temple of Dendera, wa
came at last to hundred-gated The
bea. This city was looked upon by
the ancients as the oldest city iu the
world, aud it is Haid to have been
capable at one time of sending into
the field 000,000 foot soldiers and
27,000 chariots. The principal re
maius of this giaut metropolis are
the temples of Karnac and Luxor on
the easteru bank of the river, and (he
Ramcsium, on the western bank.
Everything about these temples is of
colossal size and stupendous gran
deur. The world renowned temple
of Karnac was tho greatest of the
Thebian prodegies. This prehis
toric temple, erected by a success
ion of monarchs from Osirtesen I.
to Danes III., each of whom tried to
outdo his predecessor, is the most
magnificent architectural relic of
which either the ancient or modern
world can boast. The forecourt,
1,279 feet in length aud 330 feet
broad, leads between two colossal
bylons to the majestic Hall of beau
ty, unsurpassed by anything in an
tiquity. In the neighborhood of the
Kamesiuru is the celebrated vocal
statue of Memuou, which my love
for the beauty of the aucient myth
of the Sou of Aurora led me to
visit at the hour of dawn. Arrived
at the foot of the image, just as the
sun bathed the brow of theMemuon
iu a flood of radiance, I was almost
wild with delight to hear a strain of
delicious melody proceeding from
the stony colossus. Gazing intently
upward, I saw a little bird warbling
its matin melody from a crevice in
Memnon's shattered neck ; a mo
ment more, and with a hoarse croak,
like the eoice of an unexpected ora
cle, the inuocent songster was seized
by a hawk, whose discordant notes
were sweeter to me than any heathen
oracle, for did not the bird of prey
symbolize the god of light, Horus,
whom the Egyptians always repre
sented as hawkheaded ?
Senator Turner, of Platte county,
has introduced a bill to protect
hedges, timber claims aud orchards
a sort of au amendment to the
herd law. It also provides that a
strip one rod wide, broken around
hay land, or land not cultivated shal 1
be a sufficient notice to all herdsmen
uot to trespass on the laud thus em
braced; said strip of plowed laud
shall be cultivated once each year,
etc. The Farmer trusts that the bill
will become & law. To some it will
work an inconvenience; those who
have perpetually herded their cattle
on the open lands of their neighbors
will now be compelled to pay for
pasturage or herd on school land,
railroad lands, or on lands owned
by non-residents. To those who ask
for notbiug but their own, it will be
a God-send; they will not be com
pelled to keep a horse saddled at the
door all hours, and keep their neigh
bors cattle out of their meadows, as
the penalty is severe enough to make
every owner of stock look after his
animals. The bill is a real necessity.
Nebraska Farmer.
ear raris a peasant girl was de
serted by bee lover, who had prom
ised to marry her. Some time af
terward he called and found her
washing clothes- in the garden near
a well. They had been chatting a
while, when suddenly the girl, as if
by accident, dropped a cloth in the
well, and exhibited great grief over
the Iobs of it. Her companion vol
unteered to lean over the well and
fish the garment out; but while he
was so engaged the girl caught him
by the legs and threw him in. la
reply to his cries, she told him if he
promised to marry her she would
pull him out. He promised, bat no
sooner was he out than he brought
a suit against her for trying to mur
der him. Then at last he withdrew
it and married her.
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