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THE JOURNAL. KATES OP ATDTTBKTIS1NG. Space. lw iitr lwit 8m 6m lyr IS ISSUKI) KVKKY WEDNESDAY, lcol'mu $12.00 20 $2fl $33 j60 fWO K " I 3-W 12 16 2t 35 j tip )i ' (i.7fo 0 12 15 20 35 M. K, TURNER & CO., inche .'.2.' T.'e 11 14 j 15 j 2? 3 '- L50j 6.7ft 10 j 12 o 2' 1 " l.r.0 2.25 1 4 j S j 8 10 Business and professional cards ten linen or less sp.ice, per annum, ten dol lars. Le;al advertisements at statute rates. "Edltot lal local notices" fifteen cents a line each Insertion. "Local notices" five cents a line each Inser tion. Advertbments classified as "Spe cial notices" live cents a line tlrst Inser tion, three cents a line each subsequent in-ertion. . Proprietors and Publishers. -:o: VOL. XII.-N0. 42. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1882. WHOLE NO. 614. fit ft "hs- ft t - ' i1 yirofflce, on llth street., up stain, in Journal building. Terms Per year, $2. Six months, fl. Three months, 50c. Single copies, 5c. ADVERTISEMENTS. HENRY LTJERS, BLACKSMITH AND Wagon Maker, Shops near Foundry, south of A. k '. Depot. All kinds of wood and iron work on "Wagons, Buggies, Farm Machinery, &c. Keeps on hands the T IMP KEN SPRING BUGGY, and other eastern buggies. ALSO, TUK-- Furst fc Bradlev P.lows. NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOT, Prep'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COL.IJiHR(JN, NEB. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodation!. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. 3TScIm a Fir-Cls Table. Meals, 2T Cents. Lodgings.... 25 Cts 3K-2tf MILLINERY! MILLINERY! Mrs. M. S. Drake & Co., HAS .JUST KECKIVEI A LARGE STOt'K OF FALL ANI WLITER HILLIIERY AID FAICY :o: 2"A FFI.L ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTIUXG BELONGING TO FIRST-CLASS MILLIN ERY STORE. Nebraska Avenue, two doors north of State Bank: 27-tf F. GER8ER & CO., DKAI.KU.S IN FURNITURE, 'AND UNDERTAKERS. !, B TABLES, Etc., Etc. GIVE HIM A CALL AT HIS PLACE OX SOUTH SIDE licit ST., One door east of Heintz's drug store. CITY Meat Market ! One door north of Post-office, A' Ell HA SKA AVE., - Colanbas. :o: KEKF ALL KINDS OK Fresh and Salt Meats, ALSO Etc., in their season. :o: ZSTViuttt paid for Hide, "Lara and iiacea. r.42-i A'ILL. T. RICKLY. H. B. MORSE IS STILL SELLIXG W3f. SCHILZ'S OLD STOCK At Cost! At Cost! AXD HAS ADDED A Line of Spring Goods WHICH HE IS SELLIXG AT EASTERN PRICES. M. SCHILZ Can still be found at the old stand, where he continues to do all kiiids of Custom Work and Repairing. BECKER & WELCH, f B0NUET0BS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. .MANUFACTURERS A WHOLE BALE DEALERS IH FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COL UMB US, NEB. Ciirs DRUGS, MEDIGINES, Etc, iMrMYER 4 CO., OF .THE Columbus-. Drag Store, Have the pleasure of offering to their customers, in connection with tbeh complete line of DBC&S. PATEIT MEDICIVES. ITC. A list of Proprietory articles not ex celled by any of the eastern manufacto ries. A few of the articles on our list are a ygA powerful alterative and blood purifier. D.W.& Go's Cough Syrup Concentrated Essence of Ja maica Ginger. SA.SSA.FJRA.SSO, iSTThe most wonderful remedy ever discovered for chap ped hands, lips, Ac. OUR EQUINE POWDERS, jSTFor stock, are without an equal in the market, and many others not here mentioned. All the above goods are warranted, and price will be refunded if satisfaction is not given. 37-3m WM. BECKER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP COXSTAXTLY OX HAND a well selected stock. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. floeds DellTered Free to aay part ef the City. I AM ALSO AGEXT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQUIIXARD Farm and Spring Wagons, of which I keep a constant supply on hand, but few their equal. In style and quality, second to none. CALX AMD LEARN PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, pear A. AN. Depot.' v ' STATE BANK, - taecNcnte Oirari s fa. ibI Tcrsn Stilt. C0LUMBU8, KSB&aSKA. CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000 DIRECTORS Leandkr Gerhard, Pres'l. Geo. W. Hulst Vice Pres't. Julius A Reed. Edward A. Gerhard. Abnes Turner, Cashier. Baak af Depetilt Dlsceaat aaa Exckaasje. CellcctieaB Promptly Made ea all PIats. Pity laterct ea Tlaie Dcaaft Itsw 274 ffAfrBIS! MfilK! IlEBIS! END SPRINGS, PLATFORM SPRINGS, WHITNEY Jb BREWSTER SIDE SPRINGS. Light Plessire and Business Wag ois of all Descriptions. We are pleased to invite the attention of the public to the Tact that we have just received a car load of Wagons and Buggies of all descriptions, and that we are the sole agents for the counties ol Platte, Butler, Boone.Madiuon, Merrick, Polk and York, for the celebrated C01TLA1D WAGON COMFY, of Cortland, New .York. and that we are offering these wagons cheaper than any other wagon built of same material, style and finish can be sold for in this county, jy Send for Catalogue and Price-list. PHIL. CALL, Columbus, Neb. 434-tf Gomponna Syrno S anil ANDERSON & ROEN, BACKERS, EMCVKXTH ST., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. Z" Deposits received, and interest paid on time deposits. TSTPrompt attention given to collec tions and proceeds remitted on day of payment. TSTPassage tickets to or from European points by best lines at lowest rates. ZSTDratts on principal points in Eu rope. REFERENCES AND CORRESPONDENTS: First Xational Bank, Decorah, Iowa. Allan & Co., Chicago. Omaha Xational Bank, Omaha. First Xational Bank, Chicago. Kountze Bros., N. Y. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IN DRUGS. MEDICIIES. CHEMICALS WAXES, LIQUORS, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand by Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of Real Estate. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or ou five or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate in Platte County. 633 COLUMBUS. NEB. Hems Qeblbicb & BrOm WHOLESALE & RETAIL GKOCEKS! ALSO DEALERS IN Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc., and Conntiv Produce of all Kinds. TnE BEST OF FLOUR AL WAYS KEPT OX HAND. FOR TflE LEAST MONEY! JSTGoods delivered free of charge to any part of the city. Terms cash. Corner Eleventh and Olive Streets, Columbus, Neb. TTENRY CLASS, Manufacturer and dealer in Weoden iid Metafie Bsrial Caskets All kinds and sizes of faofees, 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 j.nd Mouldings, Looking-glass Plates, Walnut Lumber, etc., etc. COLUMBUS, NEB. W EBER A KNOBEL, AT THE .IHlElTimET! Oa Eleveatk Street, Where meats are almost given away for cash. Beef per ib., from .". 3 10 cts. Best steak, per lb., 10 " Mutton, per lb., from 6 10 " Sausage, per lb. from 8 10 " EdTSpecial prices to hotels. 562-ly LAW, REAL ESTATE AND GENERAL COLLECTION OFFICE BY W.S.GEEE. TONEY TO LOAN in small lots on lvJL farm property, time one to three years. Farms with some improvements bought and sold. 'Office for the present at the Clother House, ColumbUB, Neb. 473-x COLUMBUS Restaurant and Saloon! E..D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. j3TWholesale nd Retail Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stoat, Scotch- and English Ales. &r Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. lltkStrt, S ktefDapat GOOD MS lusnrEss cards. pOMftELIIJS Jc SVlX.1T AW, A TTORNEYS-A T-LA W, Up-stalrs in Gluck Building, llth street, Above the New bank. i JOHN Jf. 91AUGHAH, JUSTICE Of THE PEACE AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Platte Center, Xeb. TT J. HV1MON, NOTARY PUBLIC, 13th Street, 2 doon west of HaatMead Hone, Columbus, Neb. 491.y D K. M. 1. THITRSTO:. RESIDENT DENTIST. Office over corner of llth and Xorth-st Alloperations first-class and warranted, IHICAtiO BARBER SHOP! HEXRY WOODS, Prop'R. tSTEverything in first-class style. Also keep the best of cigars. GlB-y M cAIiLITER BROS., A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. M. MACKAKLAND, Attm- a-.4HoUr-P.UI:. B. R. COWDERY, Caltoetsr, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK JOHN M. MACFARLAND, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. F I. RV8CHE, llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Repair. promptly attended to. TlT J.THOMPSON, NOTARY PUBLIC And General Collection Agent, St. Edwards, Boone Co., Neb. BYRON MILLETT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. BYROX MILLETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. B. He will give clove attention to all business entrusted to him. 248. T OUIS SCHREIBER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on shorl notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. jSTShop opposite the " Tattersall," Olive Street. "25 Tf J. SCHUG, 91. ., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Columbus, Neb. OJffce Nebraska Avenue, opposite the Clotber House, three doors north or Bank, upstairs. Consultation In Ger man and English. TAMES PEARSALL IS PREPARED, WITH FIRST-CLASS APPARATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give him a call. "VTOTICE TO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Bupt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the first and last Saturdays of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, aud for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. 667-y Drs. MITCHELL & MAETTX, COLUMBUS mm i smul inmt Surgeons O., N. & B. H. R. R., Asst. Surgeons U. P. R'y, COLUMBUS, - - NEBRASKA. TUTTS PILLS INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERSYMEN, AND THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE, THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE. SYMPTOMS OP A TORPID LIVER. Jdtmat apptsJrsnaea.bowels coatlv. PainintheHad,withadal snniatlon In tka back: part, PainondT the shonMsr bjjsds. fcdln after etto. with m ditin-. ellnatton to exertion of body or mind. IrritabUlty of temper. Ijowpiriu, Iioas of memory. wlthafeuofh)TlnEn8t lected soma dntytweartoeee. Plainest lnttrtna of ths Heart, Poto before the eyee. Yellow Bkln. Headache. tleai ne at night, highly eolorad urine. Ef IMXB WAARTJItM AIX UBRZBDID, SERIOUS DISEASES Wftl SOON BE DEVELOPED. KUIT'I PILLI are Beelally adapted to achca ,oae dose effeeta ssclimchaage of feeling m to aatoalah. the (offerer. TlitTtariMn tlie Astpetlte, andcanethe body to Take Tleifet, thoa the ijrttem it . ana Dy in rirxwaieAewe oa ua nearepro rSCIf.T. TUH'S HAIR DYE. Gkat Hais or WaisKKaa chanced to a Otoesr Black by a single application of tkla DTK. It imparts a sataral color, acta Inataataaeonily. Eold by OniggisU, or Mot by express oo receipt of 1. Office. 30 Murray SU New York. m9r. 1L1I1 AlCsL of TttasM uatnmttm mU minsii wm iti eat k iiii wmmm OIK A BLACKBOARD. Mildred Par m enter sat in the little parlor, beating her feet Impatiently on the striped rag carpet. Two neighbors bad dropped in to eee her aunt, and the three ladies, with their knitting-work and occasional resort to their black papier-mache snuff boxes, were discussing the probable fate of a disagreeable farmer in the vicinity, whose theft of 'a yearling' was the chief topic of conversation in all the farm booses within a radius of a dozen miles. Miss Mildred caught up her hat and sauntered out of the front door. Only a few rod away were the pine woods cool, still and fragrant. A wagon came rattling along the crooked, sandy road. Her uncle was returning from a trip to the vil lage, and, as be drove into the shed, he called out to her : 'Letters, darter It was always his name for her she was so like a daughter he had lost. She waited for the letters, not very impatiently. There were only two of tbem. The one from her sis ter she opened first. 'And Mr. Elson came yesterday,' ran one of the paragraphs. 'We told him of your fancy to bury your self all summer in the rural districts, but assured bim you would join him for a week, at least, before we re turned to New York. Of course that is the only thing thai prevents bim from leaving the Springs at once. By the way, he beard before he came up that it is all over be tween you and Oscar, who is engag ed to that cousin of his, Ella Hunt, who was always held up as a model of all the virtues. I don't doubt that she is exactly suited to him. Mamma is delighted that Mr. Elson is going to stay with us. You know, Milly, what she has eet her heart on, and of course you won't disappoint us all ' Yes, Mildred reflected, she was altogether the proper person for Oscar Brant, and with a queer little laugh she thought of the hopeless difference between herself and this most admirable woman. But the laugh was so near akin to a sob that she dared not trust herself to go on thinking. She caught up the other letter, from a young lady sojourning at Saratoga. It was addressed in a large, dashing hand, covering the whole envelope. 'Why will she use violet ink?' was Mildred's thought as she opened it. It was as dashing inside as out. 'You are certainly a gay deceiver, my dear. To think that your health required rest and mountain air, so that you could neither give your family nor me the pleasure of your society. I understand it all now, and really I cau't blame you. Oscar Brant is more entertainiug than a hotel full of people and handsomer than ever. I saw bim for just a moment en route for Champlain with his party. Camping out must be such fun. And to think you have an uncle so conveniently near. Of course you see Oscar every day or two.' 'More news!' How little her Saratoga friend guessed at the truth in the case. And Oscar Braut was only four miles away. She could not help it now if the tears came. Why could they not let her alone, she thought. She had come up to the New England hills to gain some of the strength and peace she had lost after she and Oscar Brant bad parted. She must try for it harder than ever now that the time drew near for ber return to the city. Her mother and sisters would wait for her at the Springs. Mr. Elson would wait, too Mr. Elson, worth, half a million, 60 yeara old, his head bald and sbiny ; a short, fat, fussy man, who had 'grown a little stouter.' Ugh! They would all' go home together, to the fall fashions and dinner parties aud formal call 6. She went back to the house pres ently. She would conquer this fool ishness, so she told herself, as Bhe had kept saying over and over again the whole summer long. She would conquer her temper, too ; grow bum ble and docile and patient. Supper was nearly ready when she came in ; a beautiful appeal to an artistic eye, with its heap of snow white biscuits, deep golden butter and purple grape jelly, but the flow era with which she always decked the table she bad forgotten that afternoon. She went at once into the garden, meeting ber uncle as he passed by with the foaming milk pails. 'Don't forget my hollyhock, dar ter, he called out as he passed along. Hollyhocks were a standing joke between tbem. When she came again her uncle was carrying on a spasmodic con versation with his wife, who, out of sight in the buttery, was straining the milk. 'An' if they can't find some one to taketbe school,' he was saying, 'it'll I hev to be shut up awhile.' ' Wh.i otinr.1? XflM-t 'What school?' Mildred asked, caring less for the answer than for the effect of a great pansy she was setting among the china-asters. 'Here in our own deestrict. Teach er's sick, an' they can't seem to find no one to take her place.' 'now many scholars are there?' she asked, a sudden impulse taking possession of her. 'Not more'n twenty, I reckon. It's a summer school, 'taiu't never very large 'Uncle, would they let me take it?' 'You, darter!' 'Yes, I believe I should enjoy it and it would do me good, beside giving the teacher a little help. She looks as if she needed help So it came about that Mildred Parmeter, meeting the children in the road early next morning, intro duced herself to them as the lady who would take care of them till their teacher got well. It was a queer little log school bouse to which they went, oue of the primitive sort. From all the win dows were magnificent views of the mountains, but Mildred improved even on that advantage by occasion ally having recitations out of doors, a departure from the orthodox fash ion very gratifying to the youthful mind. She had little contact with the country people, and the peculiar dialect, the homely simplicity of life and marked characteristics of her pupils continually amused her. Bobby Whitman, her youngest scholar, had a strong propensity for chewing gum, a habit which serious ly interfered with a naturally defect ive articulation, but one which he sacrificed for the good graces of his teacher. Wi'h Maggie Wt therbe, one of the oldest pupils, she formed almost an intimacy, listening with interest to the long confidences twanged thro' a very pretty nose about the trials in tending the baby, picking the 'gar den sass'and laying down pickles. Poor Maggie, she learned, was also the victim of an ardent attach ment, severely disapproved at home, for 'a hand' employed during baying on her father's farm. Between these two extremes in age, she found al most every variety of taste and dis position, realizing that she had en tered on a fertile field of usefulness and enjoyment. She wrote to her sister a very comical account of her experiment, laughing loud as she pictured the disgust of her lady mother, indulged in the wildest dreams of an inde pendent career, and in a few weeks had become convinced that there was really a great deal in life worth living for. It was little Harley Jones' turn that week to 'rid up' the school bonse, as he termed it, and Mildred wondered for two successive days at the cluster of flowers which she found on ber desk. The great double geraniums seemed to flash their scarlet glory all over the room ; and the heliotrope, too, her favorite flower, in masses of purple beauty, filled the air with its fragrance. A spray of it, with a few delicate fe.rne, another of her delight?, was laid upon the Bible opened at the chapter with which she began the day's exercises. Harley Jones had certainly a taste and appreciation for which she had never given him credit. He was vigorously cleaning the blackboard one morning, and she came in just in time to see the last few words as be erased them. The writing struck her peculiarly. 'What did you rob out, Harley?' she asked, hanging up her hat in the corner. 'Something you writ yesterday, Miss Carpenter. I was writin' it over She smiled at the name. He nevpr could get it right, but 6he corrected the other slips in his speech. 'You mean something, Harley, and you should say I wrote it. Can you remember?' ' 'He just done it bisself,' piped up a voice behind them. 'I seen bim when I come in 'O, Johnnie Mack !' was the teach er's exclamation, 'after I have told you so many times Yet no possi ble mutilation of verbs seemed to affect her love for the offenders, or to diminish ber patience with them, and in the course of the day she noticed that Harley Jones had really made vast improvements in his copy-book. But she bad occasion to reprove Maggie Wetherbee as they walked home together that night. 'I saw you talking with a man this morning, Maggie, when I came across the lot. Is it possible that you meet anyone in that way out side your father's house?' 'But it wasn't him stammered Maggie, growing red. Him! Who?' 'Whv, Bill, that I told you about. I didn't expect to meet bim she added, growing redder under the consciousness of how easily the stranger could make her false to Bill. 'He's boarding somewhere round, and just asked how soon school would be out. He's drawing a picture of our school-house and that's all. He bad lots of pictures in a big flat book A strolling artist, Mildred tho't. She knew nothing about artists, but had an idea they were rather inof fensive people. Still Bhe determin ed to watch Maggie. She must not drift into any danger. Mildred went earlier to school the next morning, earlier even than Harley Jones. Fresh flowers were on the desk again, but with a great start she saw the figure of a man at the blackboard writing. 'I am here,' were the words he was rapidly trac ing with the chalk, 'and must see you if' Just then he turned, conscious o! a presence, but not before she had recovered her sejf-possossion. 'Good morning,' she said, quietly, extending her hand, and, with a smile, glanced from his face to the blackboard. He caught her baud and held it. 'Mildred, are you ready to forgive me yet ?' She drew her hand away and stepped back. 'I have nothing to forgive in you, Oscar. I was angry when I saw you last, but I wa the one to blame. Forgive me He looked at her in astonishment ;. she, seemed so utterly unlike herself. 'And have you got over your love as will as your anger, Mildred?' The quick color flashed all over her face. She looked like herself once more as she answered : 'That question is in poor taste, Oscar Brant. I have not congrat ulated you on your engagement to your cousin Ella. I do so heartily she went on, plunging along into a chaos of words lest she should break down utterly; sbe is good and gen tle and and everything that I am not. She' her voico failed her after all. 'Why, Mildred, what in the world are you talking about?' His arms were around her. She was sobbing on his shoulder. 'Where did you hear such a ridiculous story?' Maggie Wetherbee entered breath lessly, 'Miss Parmenter--' then stop ped, bewildered at the sight before her eyes. Bobby Whitman and Har ley Jones had been quarreling. They came up behind Maggie, each eager to exonerate himself. But the wet eyes and flushed face of their teach er made friends of them instantly. 'Is it her beau?' whispered Harley, as be nudged Bobby; but Maggie hustled them both out of the room withoot ceremony, hurrying after herself, and before the teacher re called them the question appeared to have been satisfactorily answered. It was well that the regular teach er could resume her duties the next week, for by that time Mildred was abundantly willing to give them up. Yet she always declared that teach ing was the raoBt delightful work in the world, and that she fonnd the happiness of her life on a blackboard. The Wit of Word. A pun to be perfect in in its kind, should contain two distinct mean ings the one common and obvious ; the other more remote; and in the notice which the mind takes of the relation between these two sets of words, and in the surprise which that relation excites, the pleasure of a pun censists. Miss Hamilton, in her boo on education, mentions the instance of a boy so vory neglectful that he could never be brought to read the word patriarchs ; but when ever he met with it he called it part ridges. It could hardly be consid ered as a mere piece of negligence, for it appeared to ber that the boy, in calliug them partridges, was mak ing game of the patriarchs. Now, here are two distinct meanings con tained in the same phrase ; for to make game of the patriarchs is to laugh at them, or to make game of tbem is, by a very extravagant and laughable ignorance of words,to rank them among pheasants, partridges aud other such delicacies which the law takes under its protection and calls game, and the whole pleasure derived from the pun consists in the discovery that two such different meanings are referable to one form of expression. I have very little to say about puns; they are in very bad repute, and so they ought to be. The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas, that it is very deservedly driven out of good company. Sometimes, indeed, a pun makes its appearauce which seems for a momeut to redeem its species ; but we must not be deceived by them ; it is a radically bad race of wit. By unremitting per.-icirion it has at last been got under and driven into cloisters from whence it must never again be suffered to emerge into the light of the world, Sidney Smith. Hw Lag Saealtt -ere Sicca. The vital processes of man, like those of all his fellow creatures, are partly controlled by automatic ten dencies. Some functions of our in ternal economy are too important to be trusted to tho caprices of a human volition; breathing, eating, drinking and even love are only semi-voluntary actions ; and during a period varying from one-fourth to two fifths of each solar day the conscious activity of tho senses undergoes a complete suspense: the cerebral workshop is closed for repairs, ami the abused or exhausted body com mits its organism into the healing hands of uature. Uuder favorable conditions eight hours of undisturb ed sleep would almost suffice to counteract the physiological mis chief of the sixteen waking hours. During sleep the organ of conscious ness is at rest, and tho energies of the system seem to bo concentrated on the functions of nutrition and tho renewal of the vital energy in gen eral ; sleep promotes digestion, re pairs the waste of the muscular tis sue, favors the process of cutaneous excretion and renews the vigor of the mental faculties. The amount of sleep required by man is generally proportionate to waste or vital strength, whether by muscular exertion, mental activity (or emotion), or by the process of rapid assimilation, as, during the first years of growth aud during the recovery from an exhaustive disease. The weight of a new born child in creases more rapidly than that of a eupeptic adult, enjoying a liberal diet after a period of starvation, and, though an infant is incapable of forming an abstract ideas, we need not doubt that the variety of new and bewildering impressions must overtask its little sensorium iii a few hours. Nurslings should there fore be permitted to sleep to their full satisfaction ; weakly babies es pecially need sleep more than food, and it is the safest plan never to dis turb a child' slumber while the regularity of his breathing indicates the bcalthfnlness of his repose; there is littlo danger of his "over sleeping himself in a moderately warmed, well ventilated room. Never mind about meal-times; hun ger will awaken him at the right mqment or teach him to make up for lost time. Three or four nurslings in the twenty-four hours are enough. Dr. C. E. Page, who has made tho problem of infant diet his special study, believes that fifty per cent, of the enormous number of children dying uuder two years of age are killed by being coaxed to guzzle till they are hopelessly diseased with tatty degeneration. Dr. Felix L. Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly. The other day we called the at tention of the people to the fact that a number of large land holders of the county had been allowed to redeem their land from tux 6ale at a discount of fifty per cent, aud made inquiries as to why it was done. In explanation the Commissioners state that iu these cases the certificates held by the nouuty were outlawed, and could not be collected, and that they considered it wise to accept one-half the face value of the cer tificate, rather than loose it all ; which, of courHe, is true; but it occurs to us that there is something wrong somewhere that needs right ing the very worst way. The coun ty can buy lund at tax eale,but cannot take a tux deed; the certifi cates isued to the county outlaw in two years, and all the wealthy land owner has to do is to let his land go unredeemed for that length of time, aud then snap his fingers at the county and tell it to whistle for its pay. This is a very nice thing for the big land owner who desires to beat the county out of half of what he owes it by paying one-half less taxes than bis poor neighbor, who owns but a quarter section. If we have such laws as these, they sho'd be repealed as soon as possible, and if the county cannot acquire a title to land purchased by it at tax sale, we certainly think it would be well for the Commissioners not to buy it, and let the tax go on accumulating until the wealthy land owner sells it, when, as the tax is a lien on the land, he will have to pay np before be can make a good title. Falls City Journal. Sell) P. Mobley, of the Grand Island Independent, writes to his paper from Washington, that H. A. Bruno, of Merrick county, is to suc ceed M. B. Uoxie as Register of the U. S. Land Office at Grand Island. But Sefu don't mean a word of it the loug-baired genius is after the office himself, aud if be gets it, it will only be when Mr. Hoxie retires of his own free will. The present Register has made too good and efficient an officer to be removed merely to make room for a chronic place-hunter. Sherman Co. Times.