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VOL. XIII.-N0. 9.
C0L0MBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1882.
WHOLE NO. 683.
THE JOTJKtf AL.
ISSUKI EVKKY i;i)NKSAV,
M. Iv. TURNER cSo CO.,
Proprietors and Publishers.
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CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
C. II. VvsUyck, I'. S. Senator, Neb
raska C'iiv .
. Ai.VlN SALXfcKK-S, U.S. Senator. Oniuba.
' K. Iv. Valen iixk, iiep.. West I'oini.
T. .1. Ma.ioks, Contingent Uep., Peru.
STATK DIUECTOin :
Ai.binus Nancu, Governor, Lincoln.
..l. Alexander, Secretary or State.
John Wallieh", Auditor, Lincoln.
(J. M. lUrtlett. freu-urer. Lincoln.
CI. lilvtirtli, .Yttorney-deneral.
W.W. W.Jone., Supt. Public IiiMriu-.
CI. Xobes, Warden of Peiiitentiarv.
'i:TGid?'J1,ri"nI.peeln,:
J.O. I'arter, Prison Physician.
11.1. .Matbevoii,S!ipt."lusane Asylum.
IIIDICIAUY:
(eprin- It. LaKt .1 , , - ., r.i. .
. , Associate Judges.
S. .Maxwell, Chief Justice,
KOUK'llI .ll'IUCIAL. IHSTItlCT.
O. W. Post,. I mitre. York.
31.11. Kecse, litriet Attorney, Walioo.
LAND OKFICKKS:
31. II. Hovie. UesM-ter, Grand Island.
Win. Ativan. Ucceiet, ("rand Island.
4 LKCISLATIVE:
State Senator. M. K. Turner.
" Kepn enl itivc, C V. Lehman.
COl'NTY WKKCTOP.Y:
.1. O. Hiin-. rounty .Indue.
John Stunner. County Clerk.
C. A. Xewtnaii, Clerk DM. Court.
J. W. K-irly, Treasurer.
I). C. Kavaiiailirh, Sherill".
L.J. Crnier, Mirevor.
T 31. Malirr, )
V Joseph IJivet, V I'ount'i Cotiiini-ioiiers.
4m 11. J IIiuNon. )
lr. A . Heiut.. Coroner.
J. K. MoHcrief Siipt.of Schools.
Hyron .Millett. ) , .. ... .,
W..M. Cornelius,! ' "u csof thePeace.
city du:kcti:y:
J. It. 1 curlier. Mayor.
A. P.. Coil n.ih. Clerk.
J. H. Iel-in-in. T re surer.
W.N. Ileiisley. Pnlietf Jud'e.
J. K. N'u'tli. Kiiirinecr.
rirx("ii.irx:
1st Ward John Itickly.
(!. A. S-Iiroeder.
'- Ward -P.it. Ha,.
I. Cluck.
"i Ward 1. Ii:iinitssiti.
, A. A. Smith.
'oIumtu Fowl Ollice.
open 4iu Sundays trmn 11 a.m. to 12m.
and from ':."'0 to 0 v. M. Pithiness
hours except Sunday t! a. m to S p.m.
K -it em mails close at 11 a.m.
W-tern m.iils close at 4:l.r.M.
3!ail leaver Columbus for Lost Creek,
Genoa. St. I'M ward. Albion, Platte
Center. Humphrey, Madison and Xor-
loik, eery ilay (except Sunilays) at
4:."i p. in. Arrives at 1(I:.'m.
For Shell Creek and Creston, on 3Ion-
days- and Fridays, 7 A. M., returning
at 7 P. M., same days.
For Alexis, Patron and David Citj',
Tuesdays, Thuisd-iys and Saturdays,
1 p. m "Arrives at 12 m.
For ConkIiur Tuesdays and Saturdays
7 a. m. Arri es ; p. in. same da vs .
(J. I. Time Table.
Eastward Hound.
Emigrant, No. (, leaves at :2.r a. m.
Pabteiii-'r, " 4, " ".... 11 :!'. a. in.
Freiirht, " -S, " "... 2:15 p. in.
Freight, "10, " .... 4:30 a. in.
Westward Bound.
Freight, No. leaves at ... 2:00 p. m.
Passeiurr, " :t, " " . . 4:27 p. in.
Freight, " !, " "... C.-.OO p. m.
Emigrant. "7. " " 1:."0 a. m.
Every day except Saturday the three
lines leadinir to Chicago connect with
II P. trains at Omaha. On Saturdays,
there will be but one train a day, as
shown by the following schedule:
O.. X. Jc 11. II. KOAD.
Time Schedule No. 4. To take effect
June 2, "SI. For the frovernnient and
information of employees only. The
Company reserves the rir,ht to vary
therefrom at pleasure. Trains daily,
Sundays excepted.
Outteard Hound.
lmcard Bound.
Norfolk . 7:2C A. M,
3Iunson 7:47 "
Madison ,S:20 "
Huinplirev!:Or '
PL Centre !:4S '
Lo.tCreeklO.( "
ColumbuslO:.Vi "
Columbus A:'Xt P.M.
LostCreek5:21 "
PL Ceil t re f: 42 "
lItimphre(;.'2- 4
31adison .7:(t4 "
3Iuuson 7:43 "
Norfolk . 8:04
AL11IOX BKANCII.
Columbus 4:4.1 p.m.
Lost Creek.":31 '
Genoa 0:10 "
St.Edward7:00
Albion . 7:47 "
Albion . 7:4:1 A.M.
St. EdwardS::;o
Genoa !:14 "
Lost Creek!:.".9 "
CoIumbublO:45 "
15. & 31. TI31E TABLE.
Leaves Columbus, .ri:4.r a. m.
" Kellwood ::io "
" David City 7.20 "
" Garrison, 7:40 "
Ulvsses S:3.'i "
" Staplehur-t, S:."i "
" Seward, 9:30 "
Ktibv, !:.r0 "
" 3Iilford 10:13 '
" Pleasant Dale, 10:45 "
" Emerald 11:10 44
Arrives at Lincoln, 11:50 M.
Leaves Lincoln at 12:50 p. M. and ar
rives in Columtius 7:00P. m.
Makes close connection at Lincoln for
all points east. West and south.
H. LITERS & CO,
BLACKSMITHS
AND
"Waron 3uildei s3
w Hrirk Shop oinwislte Hilntz's Ilnir? Store.
ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON
WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
Eleventh Street, Columbus, Xebraskti.
50
NEBKASKA HOUSE,
S.J. MARMOY. Prop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
A new hcue. newly furnished. Good
accommodations. Board by day or
week at reasonable rates.
B3Metw a Flrt-l'liiMK Table.
Mcal8. 23 Ots. Lodghus....23 Cts.
3.S-2tf
tOUlMBUN
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAX, Proprietor.
$3"Wholesale ind Retail Dealer in For.
eign Wines, Liijuors and Cigars, Dub-
Jll2ut' Scotc ud English Ales.
ET Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lltfc Street. South of Depot.
BUSINESS CARDS.
IVIK. 'AKL SCIIO'I'-rK,
VETERINARY SURGEON.
Ollivf :it Itowtv. Weaver & Co', stni-p.
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.KICS4K A: KOO,
BANKERS. Collection. Insurance and
Loan Agents, Foreign Exchange and Pas
sarre Tickets a specialty.
nOKKKIJUN A: Ni;i,l,lVAi,
A TTOIiXEYS-A T-LA W,
Up-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street,
Above the New bank.
TT J. IIITUNO.-,
NOT A It Y P UBLIC,
ii Street, i iloors Trent of Hammond House,
Columbus. Neb.
401-v
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it. .ii. . riii;it!i ro.,
It ESI DENT DENTIST.
Ollice over corner of 11th and North-st.
All operations lirst-clas and warranted.
C
1IIICA0 HAICIIKK SIIOI:
HENRY AVOODS, Pkop'ij.
135Ever thing in tirst-class style.
ANo keep the best ofciirars. 510. y
s i:i:k Ac iti:t:ii:ic,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Otliee on Olive
St.. Columbus, Nebraska.
2tf
C.
G. A. lll'LLHORST, A. 31., 3I.D.,
HOMEOPATHIC I'UYSICIAN,
ISTTwo Blocks south of Court House.
Telephone commuuicatioii. 5-ly
W.
f .tivi:ics, n. ik,
11 OMEOl'A Till C rilYSlClAN.
AVill attend to all calls night and
da v.
Otliee with O. F. Merrill, east of A & N.
Depot.
51 IIiiiii
AlcAMJSTER IIKOM.,
A TTOllNEYS A T LA W,
Ollice up-stairs in 31cAllister's build
ing. Uth St. V. A. 31cAllister, Notary
Public.
( . KVA.S, M. IK,
' Y SIC I A N b S VUG EON.
JST" Front room, up-stairs in Gluck
building, :tbovi the bank, 11th St. C-ills
answered night or day. 5-0ui
J. M. MACKAKLAN1, B. It. COWDKBV,
Atttrsoy lad Neury PtW c. . CsU:t:r.
LAW AND r(LLECT10N OFFICE
OK
MACI&RI1ANO& COWDER7,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
tA ii.icust.-iii:,
Uth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
SelU Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc.,
at the lowest possible prices. Repairs
promptly attended to.
BYKON MILLKTT,
Justice of the Peace and
Notary Tublic.
ItYtMKV JIll.l.KTT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus
Nebraska. N. B. lie will give
clop attention to all business entrusted
to him. 248.
T GUIS SCII REISER,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done 011 short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, aud all work guaranteed.
aSeShop opposite the " Tattersall,"
Olive Street.
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W
ac;:i-:r At wiwTtorr,
AT TUB
CHECKERED BAXN,
Are prepared to furnish the public w'th
good teams, buirgies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
conduct a feed and sale stable. 4!)
TA31ES PEARSALL
IS PREPARED, WITH
FIKST - CLA SS APPA RA TUS,
To remove houses at reasonable
rates. Give uiiu a cull.
Iotice toti:aciii:kn.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in his ollice at the Court House
on the first Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. iiti7-y
pllAKLIK KLOA.,
PROPBIKTOU OK THE
OHrNTAMATSTSS STOT?F,!
Dealer in Chinese Teas, Handkerchiefs,
Fan, and French Goods.
12th and Olive St., Columbus, Nkh.
7-12m
Tajiks saljiox,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for cither
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on lath Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. o2 Onio.
WILLIAM RYAN,
DKALKK IN
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tolacco.
ESTSchilz's 3Iilwaukec Reer constant
ly on hand.3j
Elkvknth St. Columbus, Neb.
Drs. MITCHELL & KABTTH,
I'OI.I'illBIJS
MEDICAL I mm INSTITUTE.
Surgeons O., N. & B. II. li.
Asst. Surgeons V. r. IVy,
B.,
COLU3IRUS, -
NEBRASKA.
JS. MUJIDOUK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Ilave had an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
AH kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunitytoestimateforyou. tSTSbop nn
13th St., one door west of Friedhof &
Lo'e. store, Columbus, Nebr. 433-t
ADVERTISEMENTS.
MILLINERY! MILLINERY:
Mrs. M. S. Drake
HAS JUST
RECEIVED A
STOCK OF
LARGE
NPRI.HG A.1 SUM Jl Kit
ItUIEfiY AID FAICY
S2T A FULL ASSORT3IENT OF EV
ERYTHING BELONGING TO A
FIRST-CLASS 31ILLIX
ERY STORE.JPJ
Nebraska Avenue, two doors north of the
State Bank.
27-tf
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
-MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE. COL UMIi US. NEIl.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DKALEIt IN
IIS. MEDICIIES. CHEMICALS.
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PEBFUKEBY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on band b
Druggists.
Physicians Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA.
SPE1CE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union I'aeilic, and 31idland Pacific
R. R. Laud:, 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 aud
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.
(521
COLUMBUS, KEB.
PDIMY'S BEST!
BUY THE-
Patent Roller Process
MINNESOTA
FLOUR!
ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION,
Rccau se it makes a superior article
bread, and is the cheapest flour
in the market.
of
Every sack warranted to rim alike, or
money refunded.
HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO.,
GROCERS.
l-3m
WM. BECKER,
DKALKK IS ALL KINDS OK
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WELL SELECTED STOCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
OottdM Delivered Free le
prl rike City.
wtmj
I A3I ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL
EBRATED COQUHXARD
Farm and Spring Wagons,
of which I keep a constant supply on
hand, but few their equal. In style and
quality, second to none.
CAJLL AND LEARN PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and JC Streets, near
A. &N. Depot.
UN-
BY MRS. THOU AS CAHIYTK.
Thou, too, hnst traveled, little tluttorin? thin r
Hast seen the world, and now thy weary wingr
Thou. too. must rest.
Ihit much, my little bird, couldst thou but tell,
I'd give to know whv here thou lik'st so well
To build thy nest.
For thou hast passed fair places in thy flight ;
A world lay nil beneath thee where to light ;
And. strange thy taste.
Of all the varied scenes that met thine eye
Of all the spots Tor building 'neath the sky
To chooso this waste.
Did fortune try thee? was thy little purse
Perchance run low. and thou, afraid of worse,
Felt here secure?
Ah, no! thou need'st not gold, thou happy onol
Thou knoWst it not. Of ull Cod's creatures,
Mau alone Is poor!
What was it, then? Some mystic turn of
thought.
Caught under German eaves and hither
brought.
Marring thine eye
For the world's loveliness, till thou art grown
A sober thing that dost but mope aud moan,
Not knowing why?
Nay, if thy mind be sound, I need not ask,
Since here 1 see thee working at thy tusk
With wingand bcuk.
A well-laid scheme doth that small head con
tain. At which thou work'st, brave bird, with might
and main,
Nor more need'st seek.
In truth, I rather take it thou has got
By instinct wise much sen-e about thy lot,
And host small cure
Whether an Eden or a desert be
Thy home so thou reinain'st alive, and free
To skim the air.
God speed thee, pretty bird: may thy small
nest
With little ones all in good time be blest
1 love thee much;
For well thou inunairest that life of thine.
While I! Ob. ask not what I do with mine!
Would 1 were such!
From Afr. Froude's Fortticoming Life of Car
lyle. MIDNIGHT AMOXG THE DENS.
Watching- for an Hour the Animals In a
Menagerie.
What do the animals do at night?
Everybody who has ever visited a men
agerie must have observed that the
animals during show hours manifest
such an overwhelming sleepiness as to
suggest that the only time they have for
real rest is when they are under the
eyes of the public. It seems to be
necessary for keepers and attendants to
go along in front of their cages mo
mentarily, prodding them with sticks,
jabbing them with pieces of iron, or
animating them with cowhides to keep
them awake, and when the bold trainers
spring in among them, with much clat
ter ot Iron doors, foot stamping, and
ejaculating of "Hi! there," even the
most savage brutes arc wont to look as
if they resented the intrusion as a
breaking of their rest, rather than as an
aggravating temptation to a change of
diet. Do they, then, . never get sleep
enough? A curious reporter took it into
his head to endeavor to do something
toward settling that question, a few
nights' ago, by watching the animals for
some time after the thousands of specta
tors at the show had left the building.
Slowly the crowd passed out into the
street, lazily watched as they went by a
sturdy old lion, who pretended to be
agleep, but kept opening an eye
stealthily now and then until quiet suc
ceeded the tramp and shuffle
of many feoL Then he lazily got
up, yawned and stretched himself,
as much as to s:iy, panto-
mimically: Thank goodness, another
daj'3 gone." Just at that moment one
of the wind-jammers of the band, with
whose instrument something had been
wrong all the evening, and who had re
mained in his seat punching and blow
ing into it after his comrades had gone,
blew a loud blast that in the gathering
stillness seemed extraordinarily loud.
The old lion wheeled around and glared
savagely in the direction whence the
sound came. A couple of tigers sprang
up from apparent slumber with the same
malevolent expression, and even the
hyentis stopped lighting long enough to
stare with mingled inquiry and fury to
ward the belated musician. The dis
turber departed suddenly, all the gas
jets went out together, aud only the
clear, ghastly, bluish-white illumination
of the electric light remained. The fe
line animals again stretched themselves
on the iloors of the dens, the lions in
regular and dignified attitudes, and the
timers, leopards and panthers twisting
themselves into all sorts of queer con
tortions to get their eyes away from the
light. For a while the antelopes and
the dwarf cattle stood up and ate hay,
with a manner of contentment they had
not worn during the day. One by one
they dropped down on the floors of
their eares aud seemed to sleep. Gen
erally, they lay with their legs doubled
under them, as if in readiness to make
a spring, but the "horned horse," or
gnu. wliieh Tody Hamilton says "is
fhtelly remarkable for the singular
unanimity with which compositors," in
.-citing up advertisements and notices,
atwab spell his name gun," had a
queer way of coiling himself up like a
dog.
Three or four hours later the electric
light-: suddenly ceased to glow, and then
oiily the patient watchers observed,
here and there, long distances apart,
Miiall points of gas flames, burning
steadily and only giving light enough to
make the surrounding space seem more
vast and darker just beyond their nar
row circles of illumination. Those in
the main division of the Garden seemed
like glow-worms in an enormous vault.
In the distance a watchman's lantern-
uougeu, oooueu. ana giimmerea nice a
will o' the wisp. And now a new life
of activit- seemed to have entered into
the beasts. In the cages of the feline
beasts greenish, phosphorescent lights
shone in pairs, sometimes iixed steadily
for minutes together upon the silent,
motionless watchers, again flitting to
and fro as the ferocious brutes glided
noiselessly hither and thither in their
narrow, iron-walled quarters. For some
time all was silence. Then the distant
watchman stumbled and awoke a thou
sand echoes. In an instant the gleam
ing eyes in the cages were all in line,
looking .out, and every animal was still.
Then, as the last faint echoes died away,
a hyena indulged in the diabolical noise
of his kind, which is commonly called a
laugh, and it ended in a chorus of snarls,
howls, laughs, yells, scrapings of claws,
and rattlings of the hyena cage.as its den
izens revelled in onu of the numerous free
tights by which they vary the monotony
of existence. While this was going on
one of the lions expressed himself on
the subject of the disturbance in tones
like an asthmatic fog horn, and the oc
casion for public speaking was not let
pass unimproved by either tigers, leop
ards, panthers, jaguars or catamounts.
The lynxes were quiet, or else they could
not be heard in the brief tumult. A
tour of inspection near to the cages of
the herbivorous and gramnivorous ani
mals showttd them nearly all standing
up, with looks of fright, and some ol
them trembling. Only the plucky little
axis deer had put itself in a posture of
defense, with its head down for a charge,
as if quite oblivious to the fact that its
sharp horns have been sawn off to pre
vent its jamming them through the
wooden wall of the bless-bok's quarters.
TO A SWALLOW BUILDING
DEB OUB EAVES.
The huge rhinoceri. both single and
double homed, and the wart hog lay in
stolid indifference to all the row. Once
or twice every night, the keepers say,
the animals indulge in such a demon
stration as this, but the uproar never
lasts more than a few minutes, unless a
storm is coming, and then the hyenas
display an activity and fiendish jollity
peculiarly their own that keeps the whole
establishment in a tumult all night.
What the monkeys were doing could not
be seen, as it is necessary to keep their
cages closed up tightly all the time that
public curiosity does not compel them
to bo open, in order to exclude the cold
night air. As far as could be judged
from listening, mandrils, baboons and
several varieties of smaller monkeys
were sound asleep. The anacondas and
boa constrictors were much more lively
than during the day time, disentangling
themselves from the mass they made
together when sleeping, gliding stealth
ily about their cage, touching iuquir
ingly with their noses the glass walls
of their prison-house, and
festooning
themselves- over the wire screen
that
covers the kerosene oil stove by which
their quarters are kept at tropical heat.
Within a great canvas enclosure, tho
mother of the baby elephant, having
completely covered her little one with a
huge pile of hay, stood swaying her
trunk over it, anil rocking from side to
side, appearing to be doing a sort of
pantomime cradle song. Her keeper
says that she only lies down very late at
night, when all strangers arc away and
everything is verj quiet, and that when
she does so she places herself in such
a positiou, with her trunk touching the
baby, that its slightest movement will
awaken her instantly. Long before day
light she in up again doing her fantastic
dance, but moving as noiselessly as a cat,
watching and waiting for the little one
to get up.
Of all the herd of elephants, camels,
dromedaries, Hamas, guanaoos, sacred
cattle, ponies, aud other beasts occupy
ing the large space under the
seats on the Twenty-sixth street side of
the building, the most wakeful and
watchful are the first mentioned. It is
very seldom that they make any other
noise than long-drawn puffs, that sound
like stupendous sighs, but never do they
all sleep at one time. From two to a
dozen of them stand, as if on guard,
swinging their huge heads from side to
side, toying with wisps of hay which
they gather to toss into the air or occa
sionally stuff into their mouths, while
the others sleep. Bv an aiinarently
well-understood arrangement among
them, the guard is relieved from time to
time, slumberers awaking and standing
up to swing and toss hay in their turn,
while those that have been on their feet
slowry lie down, roll over on their sides,
and drop asleep. When a stranger
enters their stable at night the watchers
never for an instant take their eyes oil
him while he remains in sight. Two or
threo spotted coach dogs animals for
which elephants seem to nave a peculiar
affection, possibly because they have
fewer good qualities than any other dogs
living sleep in the hay under the ele
phants' trunks, and are never harmed
or even touched by them. Two or three
of the oldest and ugliest camels are al
ways awake, not, apparently, to keep
guard, like the elephants, but just be
cause they cannot sleep, and hope for a
chance to show their innate cussedness
N. Y. Sun.
A Montana "Theater."
The theater, which is well patronized
by the bar-room population, is a primi
tive structure. It is about seventy-live
feet long by twenty-five feet wide, and
at the entrance has a bar on one side
and a faro table on the other, each do
ing a thriving business. If you are so
fortunate as to pass these attractions,
j'ou enter the auditory, which has an
inclined floor, is fairly lighted, and heat
ed by an enormous stove piled full of
tho soft coal which is so abundant
throughout this valley. In the orches
tra is an excellent piano of the most ex
pensive kind, from whose interior one
of the ladies of the theater informed us
she frequently cleaned out a dust-pan
full of cigar stumps and ashes, dropped
in by careless performers, but it seemed
none the worse for rough treatment,
and with a skillful pianist, and the as
sistance of a violin and flute, made very
acceptable music. Directly at the right
of the stage are two boxes decorated
with remnants of lace curtains, and
through these boxes certain favored vis
itors at the performance pass to what is
called the "wine room." This is an
ante-room just off the wings and flies
from which one can see the stage, and
where, at those intervals when not oc
cupied on the boards, the actors and ac
tresses resort for conversation and re
freshment. To be sure, these processes
are somewhat interrupted when the car
penter passes through with a bulky
riece of stage property, for as space is
imited all the pumps, fences aud large
articles are kept out of doors, and are
brought in through tho "wine-room"
as occasion demands, all more or less
covered with snow or mud. Trilles like
these, however, we do not mind in the
Western countrv. The ladies of the
theater are affable and pleased to meet
strangers. This being a well-conducted
entertainment, the' do not drink during
the performance, unless it be a glass of
lemonade or beer now and then, differ
ing in this respect from their fair sis
ters at Glendive and Bismarck, but con
tent themselves with smoking industri
ously when not occupied with the clog
dances or character songs which are
their specialties. The hour for commenc
ing the performance is ten o'clock p. m.,
and it usually lasts until hah past
two in the morning, during which time
the voice of the proprietor is frequently
heard saying: " Keep your seats, gen
tlemen, keep your seats. The show has
only just commenced." Of course,
the longer the gentlemen keep their
seats the more they drink, and toward
the close of the entertainment the audi
ence is anything but stolid. The gen
tlemen criticise freely and audibly, put
their feet on the backs of their neigh
bors' chairs, quarrel a little, drink some
more and make up their differences, but j
their favorite diversion is to send up to
some one on the stage whom they par
ticularly admire a glass of beer to drink
between the verses of his song. We
saw tne comic man come on alter a
alter
long series of recalls with a record of
thirteen glasses consumed during his
last vocal effort, and he told us in the
"wine-room" that he could
high as twenty-seven glasses
"go as
without
giving up." The profits of the theater
are considerable, and will be, doubtless,
until the railway brings in a class of
people who demand something better
than the present management fur
nishes. Cor N. Y. Evening Post.
An old orchard can never be made
young again, but by good care, pruning
and cultivating it can be made to bear
a fair crop until a young .orchard can
be set out and brought into bearing.
Indiana Slate Journal.
The Old Kail Fence.
I am told bv foreign tourists that while
jnanv 01 our leuces aro reliectea in
of our fences aro rellected
thoe of other lands, the counterpart of
the zigzag fence is to be iitiun in no
I other country. It is typical of Yankce-
, land.
It is known as the snake or Virginia
I fence, and as the relie of a lavish era of
j unlimited forestry. History does not
chronicle the name of its inventor', but
' I have long since learned to cherish a
I profound respect for the memory of this
! unknown individual. It is hard" for me
to imagine in the person of this primitive
mil-splitter the picture of an untutored
backwoodsman, and 1 never follow the
course of one of these fences without
felling a certain consciousness that its
original builder must have seen his
j work through eyes artistic as well as
I practical.
' The careless abandon of its lines a
repetition of form in wliieh absolute
repetition is continually defied by the
capricious convolution of the grain, for
there are no two rails made in the same
mold and their gray satiny sheen,
their weather-beaten stains of moss
and lichen, and the ever-changing play
of lights and siiadows from their wav
ing weeds and ines, make the old
mil fence truly an object of real beauty
in our landscape Often have 1 lingered
in its angles, and a hundred times have
I thought of the host of pictures and
reminiscences which might fill a book
to the glory of a fence corner.
Moreover, this peculiarity of con
formation panders to a most worthy
and blessed shiftlessness happily latent
in the bones of almost every farmer;
for while the ploughshare creeps clo.-e
along the base of the old stone wall,
and the direct course of most other
fences offers a free scope for the mow
er's scythe or the reaper's blade, the
outward corners of the zigzag fence
dodge beyond its reach, and thus es
cape. How often, too, are these, re
cesses the convenient .storage quarters
for the stones and stubble of the field,
and as such receive a wide berth from
the newly-whetted scythe or cradle.
Thus does the old rail fence bedeck
itself abundantly with wreaths and gar
lands. The refuse stone piles clothe
themselves in tangles of creeping dew
berry, cinque-foil and ground-ivy; and
the round leaves of the creeping mal
lows conspire to hide their nakedness.
Tall brambles rise and yield theirsnowy
blossoms to the rillinir bees, or later
hang their purple fruit in tempting
clusters to the troop of boys in their
eager scramble among the rails. There
are no black raspberries so large and
luscious, no hazel-nuts so full and
brown, and no filberts so tantalizing be
neath their prickly pods, as those that
grow up under the protection of the old
rail fence. Here the rich green beds of
sweet fern give out their aromatic savor
to the wise old simpler, the eager small
boy, or even to the squirrel in quest of
the nutty kernels among its seed-bobs.
The dull red blossoms of the glycine
tell of sweet tubers beneath Jhe ground,
and the bright sunflowers of tall arti
chokes invito the old-time search among
their roots.
Here in these sheltered angles the ed
dying November winds hurl their flying
leaves, and heap the glory of the au
tumn present upon the matted mold of
many autumns past. Later, the whist
ling gales of winter whirl about its cor
ners. Clouds of drifting snow bedim
the evergreens, and drive along the
meadow, battling with the army of tall
gaunt mulleins and rep-capped sumacs,
and at last arc whirled along these
weather-beaten timbers, where fantastic
peaked Alps arise, and overhanging
glistening cliffs hem in the rambling mils
in great blue-shadowed crescents white
and dazzling.
Here, too, the icy air shall ring with
the shouts of those same voices that are
known so well by the rural fence
through every mouth and season, with
their rollicking testimonies of wild-flower
parties and squirrel hunts and nut
ting exploits. William Hamilton Gib
son, in Harper's Magazine.
House of Commons Manners.
The House of Commons meeting
room is a little bit of a place, only large
euotigh. I am told, to contain about half
the members. Still it is seldom crowd
ed, for the average M. P. stays away
from his duties with remarkable perti
nacity. The room is not more than one
hundred feet long by fifty wide. There
is an open space running along almost
the entire length of the center of the
apartment, some fifteen feet wide, I
should say. On each side of this space
rows of pews gradually ascend, one
above the. other, to the walls, like two
straight theater balconies facing each
other. In these pews the members sit.
Above them, entirely circling the hall,
is a shallow gallery for visitors that
part of the gallery crossing the inner
most end of the room being reserved for
the newspaper stenographers. Still
above these people there is a series of
tall, grated windows which look like the
apertures in the side of a prison. Be
hind these gratings one can see here
and there a pretty face, set off by a
bright ribbon or a bunch of flowers, and
he presently learns that he is looking at
the ladies' gallery. Exactly why they
are fenced oil in this tlark loft nobody
about the place seems to know. But
there they must go if they want to see
the legislators at work, and there they
must sit, like a lot of well-clad jail-birds.
Below the reporters' gallery, in the open
space between the rows of members,
is the Speaker's chair. It is a high
backed aflair, like the oak furniture "ve
sometimes see in pulpits. It is set un
der a kind of canopy, also of carved
oak, some fifteen feet high, I should
think. The Speaker is a clean-shaven
mau, seemingly about fifty years old,
though it is next to impossible to cor
rectly estimate his age, by reason of the
white wig which hangs down over his
shoulders on each side like a pair of
gray saddle-bags. He also wears a
black gown, and when called upon for
his decision of any quibble that may
come up, he rises "slowly, advances a
step or two, and delivers his opinion
in a low but distinct and well-modulated
voice. His manner is exceedingly
impressive, but to the American eye it
seems that the dignified and well-poised
bearing of this official would be great
ly enhanced by the removal of what in
our country would be regarded as mas
querading toggery. In front of the
Speaker there sit "two clerks, likewise
wigged and robed. But these are not
impressive parties, and only aggravate
the notion of the American about the
grotesque cfleft of these garments.
One of the things which strikes the
stranger most forcibly is the fact that
nearly all the members wear their
"plug" hats while sitting in the Houso.
They only remove these articles of head
gear whe'n they rise to speak, or when
the Speaker alludes to one of them. All
in all the hat-wearing business may be
regarded as a fair sample of the man
now of the assemblage. If a speaker
begins to talk upon a topic which nan
110 particular interest, about thrce-qua
ters of the members will bolt for tLu
iloors. Then somebody calls for i
count, and they stroll back again until
the count is completed, when they tnA
right out into the lobbies once more.
If a man is particularly obnoxious to
them, they begin a concerted system cf
coughing, which can have no other ef
fect than to drown his words. If they
like a man or what he has to say they
howl "Hear! hear!" for two or three
minutes sometimes, and it is always
hard to tell when they laugh whether it
is done in irony or appreciativeness of
some humorous point. I hardly think,
however, that the latter application fre
quently exists, partly because humorous
points are not of momentary occurrence
in the speeches of the House, ami part
ly because the House wouldn't know it
if they were. Such another shambling,
hem-and-hawing lot of talkers I never
heard. Tin great bulk of them have no
ideas to convey, and only a very few of
those who have understand how to
convey them, either with force or ele
gance. Mr. Gladstone is one of the clearest,
readiest talkers I have ever heard. He
sits iu the front row of the members'
pews, on the left-hand side, facing the
Speaker, close by the end of the table
which stands in front of the white
wigged clerks. Perhaps I should have
said he reclined there, for he doesn't ex
actly sit. His head is thrown back,
ami rests upon the upper edge of the
new-back, his hands !iri clnsneil in liis
lap, his legs are sprawled out in front.
anil he h:us the general appearance of a
man sound asleep. But he isn't. Now
and then the eyelids half open, anil a
shade of expression crosses the wrinkled
features, as the old man mentally notes
a point for future use. When his oppo
nent has ceased speaking, Mr. Gladstone
eomes to his feet with surprising agility,
and advances a step or two to the end
of the table. There is a little red box
here, containing his documents, and he
places the ends of his right hand fingers
upon this box. He lifts his chin rather
above its normal height, like a man used
to talking to a gallery, and as the words
flow freely from between his lips, he
emphasizes them by prodding the box
with the tips of his straightened fingers.
As Mr. Gladstone talks, he grows. In
silence and repose you see a thin and
shriveled old man, with long, slender
legs, swollen joints, a hooked nose.
sunken eyes, sparsely-clothed Head,
rather narrow through the temples, but
broad and high over the ears, straggling
white whiskers, which shamble down the
sides of his face aud under his throat,
and a general air of physical decay that
is not altogether reassuring. But, sis
his chin goes, up. and the chest pro
trudes, aud the words begin to roll out
with rapidity and resonance, as the eyes
kindle and the smile of conscious power
spreads over the old face, you begin to
feel the reason of the Premier's grip up
on the polities of Great Britian. He has
the perfect confidence of the practiced
speaker, and that eloquence of manner,
no less than of words, which pro
claims the orator. He is by all odds the
most admirable talker I have heard in
England. He uses no notes, aud, as
soon as he has finished what he has to
say, he slouches back upon the seat,
apparently in that state of complete
physical collapse which Charles Dickens
ascribes to the old paralytic, who is
always throwing his pillow at some one
and immediately falling helpless in his
chair. London Cor. Boston Herald.
Economy and Philosophy.
As soon as the Limekiln Club had
opened in due form Brother Gardner
announced that the Hon. Catteraugus
Tompkins, of Montreal, was in the
ante-room and desirous of addressing
the meeting. The Visiting Commitee
were instructed to bring him in, and
after a short delay a broad-backed black
man, with an eye like an eagle and a
mouth betraying great decision of
character, made his appearance and was
given a general introduction. In tak
ing the platform he announced that he
had made the tour of the world three
times, received the forty-seventh degree
in the Sons of Malta, and would address
the club for a few minutes on the sub
jects of economy and philosophy.
" What am economv?" he began, as
he got a brace for his feet and looked
Pickles Smith square in the left eye. "I
answer dat economy am de art of ex
tractin' de most waltte fur de least
money. Economy am de art of making
time eottnt. Take de plummer, fur in
stance. All he wants to begin life on
am a solderin'-iron, a lire-pot an' a bar
of solder. Economy does de rest. He
gits pay fur de hours he sleeps as well
as fur de hours he works. Likewise,
moreober, fur his helper. Time am
cash to him. Ebery live minutes gone
while he am huutin' fur a leak am so
much added to his capital. Take de
house-painter. If he can kill fo' miu
its gwine up a ladder he k ows he
kin kill seben comin' down. Ebery
minit he gains am dead cash. He would
save ten cents a day by economi.in' on
cigars, but he doan' have to. He can
save fifty by economizin' on de man
who hires him half a day.
"Practice economy, but let philoso
phy enter into de practice. Doan' scold
de ole woman fur parin' de pertatersso
thick when you have just traded a grind
stun, which eats nultin' an' am alius on
hand, fur a dog which eats all de time
an' am missin when a tramp conies
aloug. A shot-gun mav be won 1110'
dan a watch, but when you git de gun
you mus' buy fodder fur it.
"As fur philosophy, de mo' of it you
have de less you feel de want of money.
Philosophy buys green wood an' lets it
season in de stove. Philosophy gives a
boss water jNtbefo' feedin' time to save
oats. Philosophy puts three chillun in
a bed to save kivers. Philosophy Ls in
no hurry to pay debts. It reasons dat
de man who has owed a bill fur six
months receives a warmer welcome when
he comes to pay up dan de chap who
got trusted only yesterday. Use philos
ophy in your families. If de ole woman
wants a new bonnet tell her dat she
mus have a dress an' cloak an' parasol
to match. By goin' widout de bonnet
she saves de expense of all de rest. If
de ciiillun cry fur maple sugar feed 'em
wid fifty-cent syrup. De sweet am what
dey cry fur. De same rain storm which
stops your work in de garden will wash
whitewash oil de walls an' fences, so
what you lose by de wet you make in do
sunshine. True economy will adulter
ate castor ile wid kerosene, so dat de dose
will act on de stomach an' cure a sore
froat at de same time. True philosophy
will nebber waste breath in statin de case
arter de Judge has passed sentence.
Wid dese few disaffected imprudences I
will now expand. Detroit Free Press
A citizen of White Plains, Ga., has
a curiosity in the shape of a cat. Tho
head and half the body is that of a cat.
while the remainder is rabbit. It eats.
Jieas like a rabbit and meat and bread
ike a cat. A. 0. Picayune.
PACTS AND FIGURES.
Large deposits of roofing slate have
been discovered in Berks County, Pa.,
and would be opened immediately.
It is estimated that in Great Britain
S7S.151 persons are engaged in under
ground work, conducted in galleries ex
tending oa, 41 miles.
It is estimated "that the total length
of sub-marine telegraph cables in the
world is b'"2, 100 miles, having a money
value of about $200,000,000.
John H. Austin, of Clifton. Staten
Island, has a record showing tho sales
made by his father and himself since
1798, as auctioneers. Since 1-821, the
sales have amounted to $l04,51S,77"i.80,
of which sum Sl,0ol,b'5o'.02 was paid to
the State in duties.
The emigration from Switzerland
last year was the greatest on record,
tho number of emigrants who left tho
country in 1SSI having been 10,9i5,
against 7,255 in I860, and 4. 288 in 1879.
By far the greater proportion of them
were from German Switzerland.
Last vear the German wire milLi
supplied England with ''0.000 tous of
wire, and Russia with 40.000 tons.
France received from Germain from
12,000 to 15.000 tons of steel wire for
sofa springs, and America not less than
30,000 tons from the same source.
There are fifty-seven oil mills now
in operation or being constructed in the
South and along the Mississippi Kiver,
distributed as follows: Ten in Tennes
see; nine each in Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas; eight in Arkansas; six in Al
abama; two iu Georgia: two in Mis
souri, and one each in South Carolina
aud Illinois.
According to its annual roport to
the stockholders, the net profits of tho
Paris Figaro for the year 1881 were
$180,000. The catalogue of expendi
tures contains the following items:
Type, $752,000; paper, printing, stamps,
etc., $:,27.000; editorship, $117,000;
carriage, $71,000; administration, $52,
000. It is estimated that 100.000,000 feet
of logs were cut on the head-waters of
the Kennebec last winter, which, with
the 15.000,000 feet of old logs "hung
up" along the tributaries, will make a
drive of 115,000,000 feet to be floated
down the river. Last year the drive was
the cleanest ever made, owing to the co
pious rains, and 150,000,000 feet of tim
ber came down.
There are many expensive bridges
and trestles between Bingliamton and
Elmira on the Lackawanna Koad. Near
Waverly there is a bridge 1.000 feet
long approached with 7.000 feet of tres
tle, which cost $150,000. About six
miles west of that place is a bridge G00
feet long with 1,:50 feet of trestle.
There are two or three others about tho
same length within a short distance of
each other.
The importation of potatoes has be
come of great importance to dealers anil
consumers. The total receipts at New
York in January. February and March
were 742.812 barre!.s, or 2,228,527
bushels. At 70 cents per bushel (which
is about the wholesale price received by
the importers), the potatoes were worth
$1,559.9(59, and the customs duty yield
ed a revenue to thu Government of
$.''54,279. A large proportion of these
potatoes came from the four ports of
Glasgow, London. Liverpool and Hull.
About one tweuty-seventh came from
the continent.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Some of our recent novels remind
us of a comet, for both are a long tail
from a small head.
The individual who "stole a march"
has been put in the same cell with Pro
crastination, the thief of time.
Why will the po-dagc-stamp never
become familiar with the alphabet? Be
cause it is always stuck on a letter.
We meet in society many beautiful
and attractive woinen'whom" we think
would make excellent wives for our
friends.
A young lady attending balls and
parties should have a female cliapcrono
until she is able to call some other chap
her own.
Second thoughts are sometimes
best, which is a good reason why a man
who attempts to commit suicide by
drowning should be able to swim. N.
Y. Uraphic
Kill time to-day, and, to your sorrow.
He'll stare you In the r"iie to-morrow;
Kill him aaiii.to any way,
Ht-'l! phl'-riii,- yoitMllI fi-iim d:iy to day;
Till, in the end, its w mint due.
Time turns the table- and kills yon.
Attentive: "I do so like to talk to
you." she says softly, in a pause of the
conversation, beaming on him and sigh
ing. "Why?" asks the unsuspecting
youth. "Because." she answers genu
ly " because you are all ears."
To actors: Even in the very whirl
wind of your passion, you must beget a
temperance and not hug the heroine too
closely, if you would avoid carryin
away on your coat sleeves some of thru
divinely fair complexion. Boston Tran
script. A school-teacher asked: "What
bird is large enough to earn-off a man?"
Nobody knew, but one little girl sug
gested " a lark." And then she ex
claimed: " Mamma said papa wouldn't
be home until Monday, because ho had
gone oil" on a lark."
Tin" Norris'own ILruhl observes:
"Of what benefit to this or any other
country are all the planets discovered
during the past quarter of a vntury? A
method of raising boneless shad would
be a greater boon to mankind than a
cartload of planets."
"Agricultural is on the decline in
Austria," read fanner Longcrop. "1
should think it would be." answered hi
wife; " didn't I hear you sav the other
day that Austria had GO.OOO "men in tho
fiejd, and ain't that enough to trample
down all the crops, I'd like ti? know?"
Home Sentinel.
To be useful on a daily paper it is
only necessary to be aide to write a
pretty school composition on the limpid
and luxurious beauties ot nature. Copy
designed for the waste basket may be
written on both sides, if accompanied
by the name of the writer and tied with
a blue ribbon. Ar. O. I'tewune.
Said a lady in a street car to a good
looking man at her side: " If you took
half the pains to please me that you take
in keeping a sullen bartender in good
humor, and if you accepted as mnch
love from me as you meekly receive
reprimanding from him, I should be a
happy woman." A". Y. Sun.
Tennyson s poem shows an alarm
ing poverty of resource. A man, now,
who was posted in the salutatory art
would not have been content with
"Hands all around." He would havo
worked in "chassez," "cross over,"
"balancez," "forward and back,"
promenade," "swing," and so forth,
if he had to bust the meter to do it.
Clearly Tennyson is failing fast i,'c
ion Transcript.