3 at of 'ladies' un fcs op AiVEit risix.. THE JOURNAL. iiitfK y cheap, at J. B. Df -j 'wanted f ISTBuainess and professional cards" of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. iSTFor time advertisements, apply at thi3 office. USTLegal advertisements at statute rates. JSTFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. J2J All advertisements payable monthly. ISfcUED EVKUY WKISEsDAY, M. K. TURIVKLi fc CO., Proprietors and Publishers. 13" OFFICE, Eleventh St.. up flairs in Journal Building. terms: Peryear ? 22 Six months 52 Three months Single copies VOL. XIIL-N0. 2. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1882. WHOLE NO. 626. J- ill to I I E- CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. C. H. VaSmyck, U. S. Senator, Neb raska City. Alvin Saunders, U.S.Senator,Oniaha. E. K. Valentine, Kep.. West Point. T. J. Majors, Contingent Hep., Peru. STATE DIRECTORY: Albinus Nance, Governor, Lincoln. S.J. Alexander, Secretary of State. John Wallichs, Auditor, Lincoln. G. M. Bartlett, Treasurer, Lincoln. C.J. Dilworth, Attorney-General. W. W. W.Jones, Supt. Public Inatruc. C. J. Nobes, Warden of Penitentiary. W0VAb,b.ey' ! Prison Inspectors. C.H. Gould, J J. O. Carter, Prison Physician. H.P. Matlicwson, Supt. Insane Asylum. JUDICIARY: George B. Lake,) Assocjato Judges. Amana Cobb. J - S.Maxwell, Chief Justice, fourth jumerAi. district. G. W.JIott.Judse. York. M. B. Reese, District Attorney, Wahoo. LAND OFFICERS: 31. B. Hoxie, Keglxter, Grand Inland. Win. Anyan, "Receiver, Grand Inland. LEGISLATIVE: . M State Senator, M. K. Turner. " Representative, G. W. Lehman. COUNTY DIRECTORY: J. G. Higgius. County .fudge. John Stauffer. County Clerk. J. W. Early, Treasurer. D. C. Kavauaugh, Sheriff. L. J. Crmer, Survevor. M. Maher, ) Joseph Rivet, County Commissioners. II. J. Hudson, Dr. A. Hcintz, Coroner. J. E. Moncrief Supt. of Schools. STSJImIh., JuHticesofthePeaee. w . m.. Corneliuri,) . CITY DIRECTORY: J. R. Mcairher, Mavor. A. B. Coffr'oth, Clerk. J.B. Dclsman, Treasurer. AY. N. Henoley, Police Judge. J. E. North, Enirineer. COUNCILMEN : Ut Ward .John Rickly. G. A. S:hroedcr. 2d Ward Pat. Hays. I. Gluck. 2d Ward J. Rasmusspn. A. A. Smith. Colambns Pout Ollce. Open on Sundays tram 11 a.m. to 12m. and from -1:30 to 0 p. M. Business hours except Sunday u a. m. to 8 p.m. Eastern mails close at 11 a. m. Western mails close at 4:l.r p.m. Mall leaves Columbus for Lost Creek. Genoa, St Edwards, Albion, Platte Center, Humphrey, Madison and Nor folk, every day (except Sundays) at 4:35 p. in. " Arrives at 10:5T. For Shell Creek and Creston, on Mon days and Fridays, 7 A. M., returning at 7 P. M., same da vs. For Alexis, Patron and David City, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 1 p. m Arrives at 12 m. For Conkling Tuesdays and Saturdays 7 a. m. Arrives G p. in. same days . U. P. Time Table. Eattcard Hound. Emigrant, No.C, leaves at ... 6:25 a. m. Passcng'r, " 4, " ".... 11:(W a. m. Freight, "8, " ".... 2:15 p. m. Freight, "10, " ".... 4:30 a.m. Westward Bound. Freight, No. S, leaves at 2:00 p.m. Passeng'r, " 3, " " .... 4:27 p. m. Freight, "9, " ".... 0:00 p. m. Emigrant. 7. " " .... 1:30 a. m. Every day except Saturday the three lines leading to Chicago connect with U P. trains at Omaha. On Saturdays there will be but one train a day, as obown by the followins schedule: O.. N. A B. U. ROAD. Time Schedule No. 4. To take effect June 2, '81. For the government and information of employees only. The Company reserves the right to vary therefrom at pleasure. Trains daily, SnndvR uxcented. Ouhnard Bound Imoara nouna. Norfolk... 7:26 a.m. 3Iunson 7:47 " Madison .8:26 " Hmnphrev9:0R PI. Centre 9:48 ' LostCreekl0.09 " Columbus 4:33 p.m LotCreek5:21 " PL Centre 5:42 " Humphrey6:2. " Madison .7:04 " Munson...7:43 ' Norfolk... 8:04 rColumbuslO:55 " ALBION I1KANCH Columbus 4:45p.m. .Albion .7:43 A.M. LostCreek5:31 Genoa.... 6:1G " St.Edward7:00 " Albion.... 7:47 " St. Edward8:30 Genoa . 9:14 " LostCreek9:."9 " ColurabuelQ:45 " B. & M. TIME TABLE. Leaves Columbus, 5:45 a.m. " Bellwood 6:30 " " David City, 7.20 " " Garrison, 7:40 " " Ulysses, 8:25 " 44 Staplchurst, 8:55 " 44 Bcward, 9:30 " 44 Ruby, 9:50 44 44 Milford 10:15 44 Pleasant Dale, 10:45 " 44 Emerald 11:10 44 Arrives at Lincoln, 11:50 m. Leaves Lincoln at 12:50 p. M. and ar rives in Columbus 7:00p. m. Hakes close connection at Lincoln for all points east, west and south. H. LTJERS & CO., BLACKSMITHS AND "Wagon Builders, Hew Brick Shop opposite HelnU'i Drug Sfn. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street, Columbus, Nebraska. 50 NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOT, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLU9IBUS, NEB. A-new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. V"&ets Flnt-Claa Table. Meals, 25 Cts. Lodgings.... 25 Cts. 38-2tf ULW, REAL ESTATE . .V" 5 AND GENERAL C0LIECTI0N OFFICE, BY W. S. GEEE. MONEY TO LOAN in small lots on farm property, time one to three years. Farms with some improvements bought and sold. Office for the present at the Clother nouse, Columbus, Neb. 347-x .- BU8IHE88 CARDS. TR. CARL SCHOTl'E, VETERINARY SURGEON. Office at Dowty. Weaver & Co's store. A iIERSO! roi:, It ASKEUS, Collection, Insurance and Loan Aleuts, Foreign Exchange and Pas sage Tickets a specialty. G OKNKIltJS St MBuBL.ITAflr, ATTORN EYS-AT-L A W, Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. TT J. HUlMiOai, NOTARY PUBLIC. 12th Street, t doors weitt or Hammoail Iloane, Columbus, Neb. 491-y pvst. . . TI11JKST03I, RESIDENT DENTIST. Oftice over corner or lltli and North-st. All operations iirt.t-clann and warranted. C UIICAttO BAKBKlt SHOP! HENRY WOODS, PROP'u. j3TEvery thing in llrst- class style. Also keep the bct of cigars. 51J-y TIT P, ni'KKS Al. I , HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Will attend to all calls night and dav. Office with O. F. Merrill, east of A & N. Depot. 5l3ino M cAIJJMlKK UKOS., A TTORNEYS AT LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. j. m. mackakland, b. r. cowdkky, Atteraiy ai Hotirj PaWe. .Callirtor. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MAC! ARliAND & COWDERY, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. f EO. L.McKELVEY, PROPRIKTOK OF THK ""IfClTV UARBKR ll6P!V" j3Twelfth St., five doors west of the Hammond House. 52-tf T7 1I.KIJ8CI1E, llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc., at the lowest possible prices, ltepairs promptly attended to. BYRON MILLETT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. MYKON JUI,L.KTT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. B. He will give clon attention to all business entrusted to him. 248. T OU1S SCHKEIBER, 3LACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. lESTShop opposite the " Tattersall," Olive Street. ..25 TTTAttXPIt Sc WESTCOTf, AT TUB CHECKERED BARN, Arc prepared to furnish the public wrth good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conduct a feed and sale stable. 49 TAMES PEARSALL 18 PREPARED, WITH FIRST-CLASS APPARATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give nim a call. -jyoTici: TO TKACHPKS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court nouse on the first Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. JH57-y TAMES SALMON CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 Gmo. WILLIAM RYAN, DEALKR IN KENTUCKY WHISKIES Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco. SdTSchilz's Milwaukee Beer constant, ly on haud.pRl Eleventh St Columbus, Neb. Dr$. MITCHELL & MARTYN, COLUMBUS in i iJitm inmE, Surgeons O., N. & B. II. B. B., Asst. Surgeons U. P. By, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. nave 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 tunity tocstimateforyou. 3TShop o 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-y colu ranus Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. ISTWholesale nd Retail Dealer in For eign "Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. tSTKcntucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. lltli Strt. SoHtk of Depnf. $66 a week in your own town. $5 Outfit free. No risk. Every thing new. Capital not re quired. We will furnish tou everything. Many are making fortunes Ladies make as much as men, and boys and girls make great paT. Reader, iT you want a business at which you can make great pay all the time you work, write for particulars to H. Hallktt & Co., Portland, Maine. 4jan-y ADVERTISEMEHTS. MILLINERY! MILLfflERT! Mrs. M. S. Drake HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OP SPRING AI SUMMER MILLIIEBY AID FAICY GOBDS. tS A FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTHING BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS MILLIN ERY STORE.jg Xebraska Avenue, ttco doors north of the State Bank. 27-tf BEGKEU & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS: MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE. COL UMB US. NEB. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IN DRUGS. MEDICI1ES. CHEMICALS. WOES, E.IQUORS, 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 Pacillc, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on 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 abstract of title to all real es tate in Platte Couuty. 621 COIjIIxIRUK, neb. PIUMTC Bi!! BUY TIIE- Patent Roller Process MINNESOTA FLOUR! ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION, Because it makes a superior article of bread, and is the cheapest flour in the market. Every sack ivarranted to run alike, or money refunded. HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO., GEOCERS. l-3m WM. BECKER, DEALER IK ALL KINDS OF FAMILY GEOCEEIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WELL SELECTED STOCK. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. Gd DellTereil Free to part er the City. T 1 AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQUILLARD Farm and Spring Wagons, of which I keep a constant supply on hand, but few their equal. 1c style and quality, second to none. CALL AND LEARN PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A. AN. Depot. OVER THE WAV. No fresh young beauty, laughing eyed, Whc reckons lovers by the bcore, But just a swoet old maid who died WUilo I was yet in pinafore. She lived upou the shaiy side Of that old-fahioned country street, A threading chesnut greenly tried To screen the door of her retriat. A tiny garden, trim and square, A snowy flight of step aUve, And sweet suggestions in tho air Of all the tlowi-rs tho poets love. Within the trcliised porch there hung A pjrrct in a burnished casre A foolish bird, whose mocking tongu Burlesqued the piping tones of ago. A branching apple-treo o'crsproad A rickety old g.ir len seat; No apples sure were e'er so red! Or since have tasted half as sweet. In Memory's enchanted land, I sue the genllesplnster yet. With watering-pot in uiittenea hand, Gaza proudly at her mignonette; And when tho spring had grown to June She'd sit beneath the apple tree. And dream away the afternoon. With some quaint voluiuu on her kneo A gray-robed vision of repose, A pleaant thought in Quaker guise t For truly she was ono of tho-o Who carry Heaven in their -yes. CtiamUr' Journal. UNDER THE ICE. All through the long, pleasant sura sier on the Williams Farm, the two girls bad been rivals almost to tiic death. Society has its restraints well for many of us that it is so! For, on the last even ing of her stay at the farm-house, the heart of Kate "Jervis was full of a cold and deadly anger, as she reviewed the vents of the campaign, and knew that it had failed. She had come to that lonely and se luded place only because Charles Ed wants, the handsome and wealthy wid ower from Australia, was to be there. Throughout the cool days of autumn, and the hazy beauty of the Indian summer, he had lingered on, hoping continually that she might win him away from Lily Melville, whom, in her secret heart, "he r stigmatized as " a dark little thing, with not an atom or style about her. But to the end of time the question: "Why does a man love one woman and not another?" will never be satisfac torily answered. Miss Jervis, large, tall, stately and fair, devoted to dress, and with social talents of the very highest order, had only received from the gallant widower the ordinary attentions which everv gen tleman is bound to pay to the ladies near him. While Lily Melville, who wag poor and unnoticed, who toiled daily with her pencil for her daily bread, and who was utterly unable to follow the shifting fashions of the day, even if she had wished to do so Lily Melville had won the widower's heart, and need only say the word to receive the offer of his hand. Kate Jerrig lid not deceive herself. She had watcWd their parting only two days previously, and had read her own doom in Charles Edwards1 face. May I write to you?" had been his last words to Lily. For Kate, he had only the conventional-regret at parting, mingled with his adieu. Not one word of hope as to any future meeting: Yes, she had failed utterly and igno mlniously failed and now she must pack up the useless finery, which had cost so much, and go back to the city boarding-house to the narrow, pinch ing consideration of ways and means, from which, by the capture of this man and his fortune, she had hoped to have been forever freed. If I could only spoil her happiness, I would not so much mind giving up my own," she thought, as sho walked along the road that led from the farm to the villago, on the third evening after Mr. Edwards departure. "But now? And how disgustingly self-satisfied bIio looks! I hate her! 1 hated her from the first day of her coming, though I did not then know why." At that moment she Baw the boy who was employed at the farm to run on errands to tho village. He was running up the road at a great pace, with a countenance black with discontent. "Have you seen Farmer Williams, miss?" he asked, anxiously. "He came home from the village half an hour ago," said Kate. 'Just my luck!" whined the boy. "I wanted to give him these, and now I must go all the way with them. And the minstrels are up in Telson's Hall. They'll bo half through before I can set He held out two letters as he spoke, with an appealing look at Kate, one for herself, the other sealed with a seal, and direoted to Lily Melville in a hand that she knew only too well. "I'm going back. I'll take them for you," she said, mechanically. The boy gave her the letters, thanked her, and tore back to the village, whist ling. "Shall IP Shall I not?" thought Kate, standing still in that lonely place. She opened her own letter. It con tained only the dress-maker's bill, for those pretty summer toilets which had been of so little use to her. How was f he to pay that bill, now that the rich husband on whom she had so securely counted had turned out to be a myth? "It is too hard!" she exclaimed, aloud, in sudden passion. "Why should this good fortune come to her and not to me? She shall never have the satisfac tion of triumphing over me. I wonder what ho has written?" Crack went the seal as she trifled with it But, in her frenzy of jealous anger and hatred, only an "iron-clad" envel ope could possibly have withstood her hand. The next moment the letter.was opened out before her. With a sicken ing heart she read the manly, straight forward proposal of marriage. But her fair, proud face brightened at the con- earning worast M I bad no courage to say this while ws were tOMttter. Nor hare 1 courage to niet your refusal, even though it sbould be a written ono. So I will beg of you. If your heart is oth erwise engaged, not to pain me by the knowl edge. If you do not answer this letter, I shall understand that It Is for that reason. If you do answer it, you will make me the napptost of men. Tours faithfully, CHABLX8 Edwards." "There Is the answer!" said Kate, spitefully, tearing the letter across and across, and thrusting it deep into the hedge in its envelope. Then she walked back to the farm. That night the first snow of the autumn fell, and the farmhouse was deserted the next day by the last of its summer fuests, good Mrs. Williams writing own the ohy address of Lily Melville, and faithfully promising "to forward any letters that might arrive," while Kate Jervis looked quietly on. Two months went by. Lily, tolling away at her paintings, found time to wonder, sadly, why the hoped-for letter from Charles" Edwards never came. Not for his fortune did she love him, but for himself. It was a mild, open winter, and when the holidays drew near, she took the fttw dollars she had so painfully saved, andTwent back to the old brown farm house, where she had first met him. Smce she was to see his face no more, it would be some consolation, although a sad one, to visit the places where she had been so happy by his sido. The secluded road that .led to the village had been oue of their favorite walks. iThere Lily lingered through a whole sunny afternoon the last of her stay that year, as her purse was nearly empty. Some bitter tears were in her ejes a she (urned to go. A carriage was com ing (from the station, and, not caring to be sjeen there, weeping, she drew back, witp her face toward the barreu hedge. Al her feet something white gleamed. She picked it up mechanically, aud, to her astonishment, saw a torn and stained letter, with her own name upon the"nvelope. 'Under the ice and snow of the p:ist autumn it had lain, waiting for her com ing. JShe could still decipher it, and :is she read, a mountain of snow and ice seemed to be lifted from her heart. "Thank God! He did lovo mo!" she exclaimed. "Lily Miss Melville!" said a famil iar volco. She turned. The carriage which she had seen stood waiting in the road; and at her side was Charles Edwards, look ing from her happy face to the torn let ter in her hand with a questioning gaze. "I was coming back for a few days to the dear old place," he said. " You made me very unhappy last autumn. Yet I am like' the moth with the caudlu not wise enough to keep away, even after getting severely burned." " I only found it this moment, undor the hedge!" stammered Lily, giving him the fragments that she held. " It must have been lost, and hidden under the ice all this time." "You would have answered mo, then, Lily?" he asked. Her shy, happy eyes looked gently up at him. "Drive on to the farm, my man. We will walk," he called, to "the staring man. And drawing Lily's little hand withir his arm, they began their life-jounjej happily together. Margaret Blount. Starting a Dramatic Boom. " I believe I have the pleasure of ad dressing the dramatic critic?" said a tall, angular-looking party protruding his neck through the door of the dramatic and musical sanctum. " You have," said the D. and M,, looking up from his work and adjusting his spectacles more firmly upon the slender bridge of his classic olfactory organ. "Ah, yes," said tho angular party, entering the sanctum and throwing him self into a chair. "You see I como on business. I'm the manager of the great Beat-As-You-Go Combination, and I should like to have you do the best yoc can forus." " To be sure," said the D. and M. "Crowded houses. Packed-to the doors. Standing-room only after a quarter pas! seven, something like this, for in stance:, "Nothing could better testify U the sterling character of the perform ances given by the Beat-As-You-Gc lyomuinauon roan tue enormous auu ui tra fashionable audiences which greet them nightly ' " Oh, that will do very well after we have opened up, you know," said the angular party. "But, what I'm aftei now is a preliminary send-off." "Oh, I understand. Something strong before you arrive to prepare the public for the treat of seeinsr you perform. A line or two of this sort, for exam;': 'The simple announcement of the coming of the Beat-As-You-Go Combi nation would suffice to insure it packed houses, so wide-spread and Illustrious a reputation has it gained throughout the country. " "That will do very well, so iar as it goes," said tho angular party. "But the grand racket is an interview with our leading lady." Well, whore Is your interview?" asked the D. and M. " Here you arc," said the angular party, slapping a roll of manuscript upon the desk before him. "You can just change the name of the hotel and sling in something local " " Something about her always being glad to get back to Brooklyn, where sk is so sure to be generously received P asked the D. and M. " Well, hardly that," said the angu lar party. "You see this is her first visit." " Well, then," said the D. and M. suppose she says she is delighted to nrrivo at last in a city of whose gene rositv to dramatio art she has hoard s much." "That isn't bad," said the angular party. "By the way, how would it dc to send her acros3 the East River bridge?" "Oh, that's too common,'' said the D. and M. " Wo might slip in some thing about a sleigh-ride in the park, up set narrow escapo fright, but no in juries sustained." "Capital," said the angular party. "Tou will find wardrobe, color of hair and eyes, age and incidents of career ir the manuscript I feel our Brooklyn boom has started already," and he van ished, humming an air from " Pa. tienco." " Well, I should suffuse my matures to ejaculate," mused- the D. and M., re moving his spectacles and winking con fidential! at his bronze inkstand, as he tossed the angular party's manuscript into the waste-basket Brooklyn Eagle Why He Left. A Woodward avenue business matt who had advertised for a coachman had an application yesterday from a man who seemed to till the bill exactly, but the fact that he waseutof a place caused tne citizen to ass: "Were you discharged from your last place?" " Ob, no, sir I quit of my own ac cord." " Anything wrong?" " There was, sir. The place was very pleasant, the pay good, and I came away without a hard word. But the gentleman was a bit reckless, sir." "How. reckless. "Why, he wouldn't be vaccinated, and he insisted dn coming to. the bars every day and exposing me to dangor. I spoke to him several times about it, but he seemed so obstinate and reckless that I deemed it my duty to quit the job. Ah! sir, but bo one knows how in corrigible some of these high-toned peo ple arol They'd even lug a baby which had the whooping-cough right int the coachman's bed-room, and then expect him to buy his own medicines and do his whooping at night after ev erybody was asleep!" Detroit Fret Press. For nose-bleedinsr. bathe the face and neck with cold water. Arctic Ballooning. Capt George E. Tyson, who has had thirty years' experience of Arctic life, recently add raised a letter to the editor of the New York Herald, in which he said that, having seen the working of ice both in summer and winter, he was of the opinion that it is utterly impossi ble for any vessel to reach tho North Pole and live to return, and that sledge journeys from all latitudes yet obtained by ships are impracticable. ' Despite our modern inventions in steam and the un questioned skill of our present naviga tors, we Dave, he says, so far done very little more poleward than the navigators of nearly 300 years ago accomplished in their little shallops. The obstacles in the way to success are natural ones. No matter in what meridian navigators sail, in about latitude 80' degrees is met that barrier of ice which no navigator has been able'to penetrate very-far. Seeing no reason to hope for success by the use of ships, the Captain favors an international balloon expedition to the North Pole. He appreciates, he says, the dangers to be encountered by serial navigation on such a voyage. He would have each balloon carry a skin boat twenty-five feet in length and four and a half.'feet beam amidships, iu:ide after the model of a whale-boat. He would have the boat so made that it would be waterproof, light, tough, and elastic. He believes the weight of such a boat, capable of carrying six or eight persons, with sufficient provisions to last six or eight' months, would weigh not more than o00 pounds, and, in case the nan gators met with a large body of water, it would be able, under the direction of experienced sailors, to withstand even a heavy sea. He would also have each balloon carry a light and strong sleigh, weighing not more than thirty pounds, which could be used to carry the boat over rough and rugged ice, should that be necessary, whicn is probable. The Captain says a balloon sixtv feet in diameter would raise about 7,000 pounds weight. He calculates the ag gregate weight of all that would be needed for a polar voyage at about 0,000 pounds, as follows: The boat, 800 pounds; the sleigh, 30 pounds; the pro visions necessary for sustaining eight men for eight mouths at two pounds a day for each mun of condensed food, 4,000 pounds; guns, ammunition, and necessary instruments, 30O pounds; and the weight of the men, 1,200 pounds. Capt. Tyson would start four differ ent balloons at or near the same time, and from as many different points of departure. In his opinion, for the de parture of these balloons, England should establish a station at the north end of Spitzbergen Island, near the 81st parallel and 20th degree east longitude ; Germauy at Franz Jo.sef Island; Amer ica Cape Union, in about 82 degrees 20 minutes and CO degrees 10 minutes west logitude; and Russia at Diakhov Is lands or New Siberia, near where the Jeannette was lost. The necessary E reparations having been made, tho alloons should start as near as possible to the 1st day of May, which would give them four months of continuous light and pleasant weather. By starting at the beginning of May, should the winds prove favorable for but a single day, they would probably be within the vi cinity of the pole, the distance to which from Cape Union being only about 480 miles, from Spitzbergen u"00 miles, from Franz Josef Land about 480 miles, and from New Siberia about 840 miles. The pole having been reached, the return, the Captain thinks, would be an easy matter. The men would be fresh and unwearied and have the entire sum mer to work in. Their provisions would be ample and everything would be in as good condition as when they started, and the Arctic current, against which navigators who go by vessel have al ways had to contend, would be continu ally carrying them southward without any effort of their own. Even should they happen to be caught in the polar basin during the winter they could quietly settle themselves down on some strong floe of ice, build their snow-huts and secure all the game possible before the Arctic night overtakes them. During the winter the polar currents would carry them southward, and they could without difficulty escape in the spring. Nervous Americans. Why are Americans more nervous-, than people of other nationalities? It is stated as a fact that Englishmen and Germans become so in a few years after residing among us. Their children have not the phlegmatic temperament of their Carents. There is a marked difference etween the Americans who descended from the English and Englishmen at home. We have taken on a national type which differs as distinctly from tnat of the English as it docs from the French. In the crowd that surges along the street of any city it is not difficult to distinguish the American countenance, and it is never mistaken for that of any other nationality. Instead of decreas ing, it is said that the nervous tempera ment predominating in America is in creasing, and that we are being sepa rated further and further from the En glish, making a national temperament and type unlike any other that ha3 ever existed. Physiologists who make a study of race and nation-building re gard the inflow of Teutonic immigra tion as a corrective to some extent of this, and a most fortunate thing for our future national character. Bnt the ten dency of life here joins to that of cli mate to make new as well as old resi dents nervous. The immigrant who only hoped to live in reasonable comfort sees fortune within his grasp, and enters the race with an eagerness his ancestors never knew. He sees wealth accumu late and disappear in a day, and the mutations of fortune, the prizes and disappointments, contribute to divest him of his inherited calmness. But there is a subtle influence of climate not well understood that assists in convert ing phlegmatic men into nervous ones. It is well known that the same amount of any kind of intoxicating liquor has a very different effect upon the same person here and in Europe. So that it would be impossible to grow the typi cal Englishman in this climate if all other influences were the same as in England. He inhales here, with the air of liberty, some other agent that con verts him into an Amencan ere he is aware of it. It is said that the Aus tralian already begins to develop a com mon type of face and temperament as unlike the English as is the American. Iwiianapolis Journal. There is a new project at Minneap olis to utilize the sawdust thrown from the saw-mills, by mixing it with peat, grinding both, and then molding the product into bricks or blocks of a con venient size to use for fuel. The three foremost architects of England, Sir Gilbert Scott, Mr. Bnrges and Mr. G. E. Street, elied during l year 1881 What a Cabbage Did. Nothing is so readily collected, nol even a wedding fee. as a crowd. The smallest point is sufficient for idlers to crystallize around. Au amusing illus tration of this fact is reported by the San Francisco Evening Post: Tho other morning, two geutlemeu were looking out of the window of a house on Market street, when they saw a cabbage roll off a market wagon that was passing. Instantly more than a dozen -well-dressed and apparently sane persons be gan yelling after the wagon as though the vegetaole had been a gold watch, or a thousand-dollar bill. The driver stopped about half a square oft", looked back" at the cabbage, yawned and drove on. What an absurd fuss people in the street make over trivial occurrences," said one of the gentlemen. " Now, I'll bet a silk hat that I could get a crowd of persons around that cabbage inside of thirty minutes, and yet not -leave this room." "I'll take the bet" said ids friend, pulling out his watch. "Are you rwtdj " "i s; give the word." " U .s now eleven-thirty. Go!" Thi' proposer of the wager led his friend io the window, threw up the sash, and taking a cane pointed earnestly at the mud-covered cabbage with a terri fied expression. Presently a hack-driver noticed the action and began to stare at the vegeta ble from the curbstone; then a boot black stopped; then a bill-poster, a mes-benger-boy and a merchant. What?s tho matter?" inquired a German, approaching the innocent base of his national dish. "Don touch it! Look out there! Stand back?" shouted the gentleman at the window'. At his horror-stricken toues the crowd fell back precipitately and formed a dense circle around the innocent cab bage. Hundreds came running up, and the excitement increased rapidly. "Look out there!" frantically screamed the better, waving his cane. "Take that dog away, quick!" Several stones were thrown at a cur that w:is sniffing at the cabbage. "Take care!" said a ear-driver to a policeman, who was shouldering his way through the mass. "It's an infernal machine, nitro glycerine or some thing." Meanwhile the sidewalk was" blocked, the street became impassable. Tho two gentlemen moved away from the window and sat down. In a few moments there was a hurried tap at the door, and there uppeared a man who had been sent hh a delegate from the mass-meeting outside. "I should like to know, gentlemen," he said, " what the facts are?" "What facts?" "Why, what there is peculiar aboui that cabbage out there." "Nothing in the world," was the soft reply, " except that it seems to be sur rounded by persons who ought to be in better business." The Ttro-IIendcd Uirl's Hotel BilL Millie Christine, the two-headed girl, who sonio years ago attracted consider able attention from Dr. Pancoast and other prominent members of the medi cal fraternity, is at present a guest of the Great Western Hotel, on Market street, abovaThirleeiith. On Saturday, when her agent presented himself at the cashier's desk to settle the week's ac count, he was bin prised to find that the buL read:. " Ihu iVli.-vses t hristiuu, and that board was charged for two per sons. "How do you make this out?" asked the agent, as he looked at the bill and then at the cashier. ' The lady has two heads, has she notP" said the cashier. The agent admitted that such was the case. " And she has two mouths?" contin ued the hotel mun. Again another affirmative uod. " And she cats with both of them?" persisted Mr. Cashier. " Yes," broke in the agent, "but she only takes half a meal to each mouth." 'That's all very fine," responded tho cashier, "but you can't come that racket on us. She's got two heads and two mouths, and she gets two meals served in her room. Now if that doe.-n"t constitute her two persons then I'd bet ter go out of the business." The head waiter was called and cor roborated the statement concerning the double feed. Then the agent hied him to an upper apartment and demanded an explanation from the double-headed lass, which dcveloed the fact that while the two meals were actually served, one of them w:is devoured by a voracious curiosity that occupied an ad joining room. Somewhat of a similar ail'air occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad a few weeks ugo, when a con ductor, who had not a spark of humor in his system, gravely demanded two fares for the monstrosity. It was only with considerable difficulty that her agent managed to convince him that although there were two heads, four arms, four legs and two minds, it was only one woman. After Some demur the conductor agreed to accept the sin glo ticket,. but up to the time that the train reached the depot he had failed to solve the arithmetical conundrum as to how one and one could be simply one. Philadelphia Bccord. A Desppratc Duel. Two worthies recently entered a rail way car in which a .Neic.t man was seat ed. They were picturesquelv attired in sombreros, rubber booty, and pearl-colored suits of niilitaryr&ftt They glow ered around the car a-jnoraeut and then seated themselves and commenced a whispered conversation. Thoughts o! train-robbers Hashed through the minds of the tender-feel in the train, and a conservative-looking old gentleman was noticed to surreptitiously slip his gold watch and pocket-book under the cush ion. Suddenly one of the "Wild Bills" stood up and there was a general move ment among the tender-feet to throw up their hands, and to allow the supposed desperadoes to get through with their work of acquiring their booty as expedi tiously as possible. But a general feel ing of relief was experienced when it was found that the bloodthirsty looking fellow merely wautcd to borrow a chew of "navy" from an acquaintance at the opposite end of the car. He had scarcely left his seat, howev er, when his companion turned to his nearest fellow-passenger, and remarked: " That's the hardest man in Colo rado." " Has he killed anybody?" "Killed any body? You betcherlife. Mor'n you've got fingers and toes on you. Why that's Dead Shot Bill. Nev er has to waste a second cartridge. Al ways takes 'em an inch above the right aye." Is he a robber?" hesitatingly in QBired the passenger whom Dead Shot SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. It is asserted by M. Gaiffe that co balt is much more strongly magnetio, than nickel. Spencer, of the repeating rifle, has invented a new gun that will fire ten J times in five seconds. Chalfoat & Co.'s steel works atT . Etna, near Pittsburgh, employ 1,500 men, and all the fires are fed by natural fas Drought-through pipes from wells ' , nve miles awaay. A Vermont man has gotten up a mbmarino boat run by electricity,whicb will run twenty-five knots per hour . through the water in any direction up or down, or at an angle" ,l ' The glove production of Fulton County, N. Y., the last year exceeded -anything in the history of the trade. ( Gloves and mittens to the value of $8,-' 000,000 were made. ,. .'. A California man ha? made aa in-j . ventiou that attaches a stout spring-tOw . tthe- cud of- a cross-cut saw. On ono , sido of a tree triihk""triplesanr driven, and into these is inserted one end of the spring, the other end being connected with "the saw. Tho arrangement is such that one man is enabled to use a stout and heavy saw that otherwise would require a man at each end. A stone bridge to be built in Minne apolis, Minn., bids fair to become ono of the notable structures of the world. It will consist of sixteen eighty-feet spans and four 100-feet spans, and, in cluding the shore-pieces, will havo a to tal length of 1,900 feet. It will support two railway tracks at a height of over sixty' feet above the water, and will run diagonally across the river below St. Anthony's Falls. The cost is estimated at nearly 500,000. A new skating surface, called "crystal ice," has been invented by Dr. Calantarients, of Scarborough, Eng. Considering that after all ice is merely a crystalline substance, and that there Li no lack of substances that are crystal line at ordinary temperatures, Dr. Calantarients experimented with a va riety of salts, and after a time succeeded in making a mixture consisting mainly of carbonate and sulphate of soda, which, when laid as a floor by his plan, can be skated on with ordinary ice skates; the resistance of the surface is just equal to that of ico, it looks like ice, and indeed when it has been skated on and got "cut up" a little, the deception i3 quite astonishing. PITH AND POINT. Thirty Bostonians have written essays which are sealed up in a box for a hundred years. This would be a good scheme for newspaper poets. It is almost impossible to look over the hats worn by ladies at the theater, aud this fact is but another argument for the elevation of the stage. What a pity flowers can utter no sound ! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be ! Ikccher. Tewfik, the young ruler of Egypt, is particularly fond of poets, and keeps his court full of them. (We shall send a marked copy of this issue to the Sweet Singer of Michigan. She may be able lewhks it so that she can leave by the next boat.) V. O. Picayune. "What a nuisance!" exclaimed' a gentleman at a concert, as a young fop in front of him kept talking in a loud voice to.a young lady at his side. " Did you refer to nie.sir?" demanded the fop. 'Oh, no! I mean the musicians, who keep up such a noise with their instru ments that I cant't hear your con ve ra tion," was the stinging reply. There is a man who can not get prompt service to his bell at his hotel. The other night he gave the bell a vio lent ring at midnight. Shortly after tho servant answered it. "I don't want anything now," said the fellow. "I ring now in order to get it on filo. Bring me hot water at eight in the morning." Lotiiscillc Courier-Journal. We havo never before known that parrots could be utilized for building purposes. While a large store was in process of construction Polly, who was stationed near by, kept crying out, More brick," only alternating the aw ful command with the words, " More mortar." An Irishman who was earn ing his living by the sweat of his brow hurried in his toil and tilled the plat form on the fourth story with hod after hod, first of the one and then of the oth er. Still the cry was heard, and heard again, until the Irishman's spirit of re bellion was stirred within him, and at the risk of losing his place he put both hands to his mouth and yelled at the top cf his voice, "Is it mor-r-tar mad that ye are? Sure a man ought to have the ligs of a centipig (centipede) to wait onthe likes of yez." Some New Geography. Of what is the surface of the earth composed?" Of corner lots, mighty poor roads, railroad tracks, base-ball grounds, cricket fields and skating rinks." What portion of the globe is water?" " About three-fourths. Sometimes they add a little gin and nutmeg to it." " wnatis a townr" " A town is a considerable collection of houses and inhabitants, with four or five men who " run the party " and lend money at 1,1 per cent, interest." What is a city?" "A city is an incorporated town, with a Alavor who believes that the whole world shakes when he happens to fall flat on a cross-walk." What is commerce?" " Borrowing 5 for a day or two and dodging the lender for a year or two." Name the different races." " Horse race, boat race, bicycle race and racing around to find a man to in dorse your note." Into how many classes is mankind divided?" Six; being enlightened, civilized, half civilized, savage, too utter, not-worth-a-cent and Indian agents." What nations are called enlighten ed?" "Those which have had the most wars, the worst laws and produced the worst criminals." " How many motions has the earth?" " That's according to how you mix veur drinks and which way you go home." "What is the earth's axis?" The lines passing between New York and Chicago." " What causes day and night?" " Day is caused by night getting tired out. Night is caused by everybody taking the street car and going home to supper." What is a map?" " A map is a drawing to show the jury where Smith stood when Jones gave him a lift under the eye." " What is a mariner's compass?" "A jug holding four gallons.'. Detroit Frc Pcss. I fV H-v