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Ha THE JOURNAL. uumal RATES OP ADVEKTIKirVG. EETBusinesa and professional carda of five lines or less, per annum, & dollars. EFTor time advertisements, apply at this office. Il 1 1) I VIXY UEH.M1I.1Y, M. K. TUKNKK vV: CO., Proprietors and Publishers. I ZZT OFFICE. Eleventh St.. to. stairs in Journal JSuildiii-j. ISTLegal advertisements at statute rates. EtTFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. 257 'AH advertisements payable monthly. tk i:si!: Per ear :Mx i'nonth- '1 til CO inoiitli biijlo copier. S U( . 1 oo so VOL. XIII.--N0. 17. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23, 1882. WHOLE NO. 641. C V t t iw la rs I s r V tfcpV CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. I. II. V.s yck l'. . .Senator, Neb Ai. IN .M M)Kii.i. IT. . Senator, Om.iba. r. lv. V I.risIINK, ltep.. W'ot Point. I..I. .Ma.iok, 'iiti:ii-ut Itep., lVru. STATK DIUK'TOKY: Al.MNUS N AN OK. liuVCI IKir, l.lllCOln. -i..l. A'.eaiiilor. retsry or State. John Valli-h, Vmlitor, Lincoln. i..M. li-irtl'tt. !'re.i Mirer, Lincoln. ('..I. lilw-rth. A.ttortie-ieuer:iI. W. V. W. Joiic, Siij.i. Public Iiimxuc l'..l. N'oIk-.. V irdcn of Penitentiary. ?V..U;.Al,.,,lt'y, r PrNon Inspectors. ... I'arler. Prison Physician. II. P. M.ah'"oii,Siipt. Insane Asylum. .irniciAiiV: (Jeoi-c V. LaU-.f Ak0l.iatt. .i,,,,,,. Ali'.nj ohlt. t . M tvw.-ll, Miief Justice, KOl.'KTII JUDICHI. M.s'lKICT. O. U . l'o-t, J'.Mlaf. York. 31. It. Itee-e. Ii,trict Attorne, Walioo. LAND OKFK'H::S: 31. It. lloxie, Ue;iMcr, (Jruml l-luinl. Win. Ativan. Uocehcr, Unuid Island. LK:iL TIVK: State Senator. 31. (.Turner. " Krpn-i-.it.itivi. U. W. Lcliinan. Cut STY IHItKCTOKY: J. J. HiL'in-. Count .Ml rise. John tauil'i-r. County Clerk. . A. Newman. Clerk DM. Court. J. V.'. Karly. To- ;-urer. !. . Kava"n-iui:li, Slieriil. J...l. rnier, Mirvcj or. ,M Mailer, 1, ll ... r, 1 llivet, V County Comni!-Moner.. IimUou, ) Joseph i: II. I II I r. A . lleint. Coroner. J. l. Mon-rief -Mipt.of Schools. t ...... i :n.... W. 31. Cornel in s,f " " """.-ii. i... .:. ...r.i.i.. linill CSIII Llltri can CITY I)IRKcT)I:Y: J. I.. .Meu'h.r, Mavor. A. It. CoilVoth, Clerk. J. It. IieNniau. Tre-tsurer. W.N. JIeiis,.v, Police J mine. J. II. North, Knsrineer. 'M'NC1I..!1"N : st 'a,! John Itiekly. (J. A. S'-hroeiler. -'( U'r-P:it. I la vs. I. illlek. -id W'.ml -J. ll:i-:im-in. A. A. Smith. 'olmliiiN Pool OtHce. Open on uul:ivs (rum 11 A.M. to 12m. ami from l::;o i. ti r. m. ISiiMness hour-e.ept slil)ila ti A. M. to S 1 M. l!ali-in mail-close at 11 A.M. Vc-irin m.-iils clo-e at l:Kr.M. .Mail leaves Columhus for Lost Creek, (icnoa. M. Iltl ward-. Albion. Platte enter. Hiiinphrev. .Madison and Nor lolk, every dav (except Sunday ) at A :.:." p. in. Arrive- at l(:.",i. Kt Miell Creek and Crestnn, arrivvn at 12 m. LexVes 1 t. m., Tue-davs, Thurs days and aturd i. s. ForAlexis. l'atron and David City, Tuesdays, T!iur-div- and Saturdays, 1 r. m " At rives at l-j m. For Coiiklim: Tmd:i - and Saturdays 7 !. in. Arrives ii ji. m. -11111' dav s. 8;. B. Tinu; Tiihle. Eastward Hound. Ktniurant. No. (, leaves at ti:2." a. m. rassensj'r, " 4, ' " . l():.:j a. m. Freisrht, ' , " " 2:13 p. m. Freight. in. " ' l:o0 a. in. Wi-s'ward Hound. Freight, No. .", leaves at ... 2:(HI p. 111. Passeiui'r, ' ". " " !:-" P- m. Freight, !', " " .. f.:0o p.m. Emigrant. " 7. " 1:30 a. in. Kvery day exci pt Saturday the three lines leading to Chicatro connect with lT !'. trains at Omaha. On Saturdays there will lie hut one train a day, as -liovvn hv the following schetlule: It. A- 31. TI.MK TAItLK. Leave- Colunihii-, 3:43 a. M. ' ltellwotiil ::( " David itv, .. 7.20 " (iarrison, 7:J riys-e-. . . S;23 " Staplehurst, S:33 " Seward !:::0 " Knl.v ::30 " Milford 10:13 ' Plea-ant Dale, 10:43 " Kmerald 11:!0 " Arrivo at Lincoln, .11:43 m. Leave- Lincoln at 2:23 i. m. and ar- rive- in I'lduinhu- S:."0 i. vt. Makes close connection at Lincoln for all points ea-t, ve-t and south. O.. N. A It. II. ItUAI). Time Schedule No. 4. To take etl'cct June 2. S1. For the government and iut'ormation of employees only. The Company reserves the rilit to vary therefrom at plea-ure. Trains daily, Sundavs excepted. Outward Hound. Inward Jioutul. Columbus 4:.'wi i.m. I Norfolk . 7:2i a. M. I Lost Creek 3:21 3Iuiison 7:4. (PL Centre 3: 12 l!umphrev;.-23 Madison 7:04 Mtnison 7:41! Norfolk S:0i Madison .S:2(i IIumihrev9:03 PL Centre !:4S Lost Creek 10.0! Coluinbiisl0:33 AI.IIION 11KANC1I. Columbus 4:13 p.m. Lost Crcek3:."l (Jenoi C:It; " St.Kdward7:0( Albion 7:47 " Albion . 7:4:5 A.M. St.EdwardS:::o " Genoa 1:14 " Lo-t Creek!l:3 " Columbusl0:43 " H. LUERS & CO, BLACKSMITHS AVaon BuildeiSs Xen Itrirk Shop ijipo-itr Ilrlutz's Vrug Store. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street, Oulnmbus. Nebraska. 30 NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MAUMOY, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, coixnni: :eb. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. 225ef a Firt-Cla. Table. Meals, 23 Cts. Lodgings.... 25 Cte. :tS-2tf coi.iJ.nn i; s Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. Wholesale ind Retail Dealer in For- eiiru Wines. Liquors and Cigars, Dub lin Stout. Scotch and English Ales. YT Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. UtkStreet, South of Depot. BUSINESS CABDS. VETERINARY SURGEON. Ollice at Dowtv. Weaver v Co's store. A UKKNOX Ac ROE, ItANKEKS, Collection, Insurance and Loan Airents, Foreign Exchange and las sae Tickets a specialty. pOKKKLIVN A MIJULIVA:, A TTORNEYS-A T-LA W, Up-stairs in Oluck Uuildins, HtJi street, Above the New bank. IT J. 1HJOSO, NOT A RY P UBLIC, ieth Strrrl, t doom went of Hammond Uouie, Columbus, Neb. 491-y D K. 91. 1. THIIKMTO.'V, RESIDENT DENTIST. Ollice over corner of 11th and North-st. All operations lirst-class and warranted. C 1II(A;0 HAKIIDIt SIIOI: HENRY WOODS, Prop'r. lSJ'Everythinjr iu first-class style. Also keei the bet of cigars. 61G-y G i:kr sc reedek, A TTORXEYS A T LA W, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraskn. 2-tf C. G. A. IITLLIIOKST, A. 31., 31. D., U OMEOFA TU1 C FRY SI CI AN, J3TTWO Blocks south of Court House. Telephone communication. 5-ly IfcALLlSTER BROS., A TT0R2TE YS A T LA W, Office up-stairs iu McAllister' build inj;. 11th St. V. A. McAllister, Notary Public. "A . EVAS, ill. !., Pll YSICIAN & SURGEON. 2S7" Front room, up-stairs in Gluck building, above the bank, 11th St. ChIIs answered nielli or dav. 3-Cin J. M. MACKAKLAM). U. R. COWDKKY, Attcrsey wi H::iry PsW s. C:lli:t. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFARLAND& COWDBRY, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. G i:0. x. lKKlt, PAINTER. E55"Carria:e, house and sign painting, laziiifj, paper hanging, kaNomiiiiug, etc. done to order. Shop on lllth St., opposite Engine House, Columbus, Neb. 10-y i n.Ki.sciii:, Ilth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sells HaVness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Itlankets, Curry Combs, ltrushes, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. HYKON MILLKTT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. IIYR03T .lllLI.E'rr, ATTOUNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. B. He will give close attention to all business entrusted to him. 248. T OU1S SCHREIBEU, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. iSfShop opposite the " Tattersall," Olive Street. 323 W AUrVKR 4k. WUMTCOTT, AT THK CHECKERED BARN, Are prepared to furnish the public vv'th good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conduct a feed and sale stable. 49 TAMES PEARSALL IS PRKPlRKD, WITH FIRST-CLASS APPARATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give uim a call. "jyOTlCE TO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., I Will be in his office at the Court House on the first Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, ahu for the transactton of any other business pertaining to schools. 567-y Ly 1IAKLIE KEOA1Y, rROI'RIETOU OF THK fiHTNAMAN'S STOT?Tr:t Dealer in Chinese Teas, Handkerchiefs Fans, and French Goods. ' 12th and Olive Sts., Colu.mbus, Nkb 7-12m TANEN XA1.N03, 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. 32lmo. WILLIAM RYAN, DKALXR IX KENTUCKY WHISKIES Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco. j3?Schilz's 3Iilwaukee Beer constant ly on hand.Fl Elkvknth St., Columbus, Neb. Drs. MITCHELL & MARTYN, coLunms mm i mm institute. Surgeons O., N. t B. E. Ji. Ji., Asst. Surgeons U.P.Ji'y, COLU3IBDS, NEBRASKA. JS. MURDOUK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Hare bad 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 tuoitytoestimateforyou. 3TShop on 13tli St., one door west of Friedhof & Co s. store, Columbus, Xebr. 483-y ADVERTISEMENTS. MILLINERY! MMERY! Mrs. M. S. Drake HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF . SPRING A.1 SUMMER HIBY 110 FAICY :o: 13" A FULL ASSORT3IEXT OF EV ERYTHING BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS 3I1LLIN ERY STORE.a Nebraska Avenue, two doors north of the State Bank. 27-tf BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. 3IANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE. COL UMB US. NEB. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IX DBU&S. MEDICI1ES. CHEMICALS. Fine Soaps, Brushes, PEEFUMEEY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on band 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 3Iidland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on five or ten years time, iu annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and uuimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of titleto all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COLUMBUS, NEB. "PHLSBDBY'S BIST! BUY THE Patent Roller Process MINNESOTA FLOUR! ALWAYS UIVES SATISFACTION, Because it makes a superior article of bread, and is the cheapest flour in the market. Every .sack warranted to run alike, or money refunded. HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO., ISm WM. BECKER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WELL SELECTED STOCK. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. Goods Delivered Free to aay part of the City. I A3I ALSO AGENT 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. CALL AND LEARN PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A. dN. Depot. MY SIXTY YEARS. My nixty years! My sixty years! Hball I look i)ack with joys r tears Across life's truck, at duties done. At battles lnt and rictorics won ? At t.id mistakes that I have made? At hoiKd that blossomed but to fade? Or, at the lrnit that now appears. Of seed well sown, iu sixty jean? My sixtv years ! My sixty years! What ii-hts and shadow h. hupes and fear. NVliat jihnjii-fs of the uood and true. Vluit frieiulnlnjw all the journey through. What mercin hive around me shown. What t.uueat hands have clasped my own, Bince that etentful time, below; My birthdii), Bixiy years ago! The man who lets the days pass by. From outh to late maturity. Iu earelessiu f.s of acta aud deeds. Unmindful ot Ins nature's needs When oiio'tuuity has gone. And still the days are iiassinson. Will nt-vcr Wiiow m evening neaia. What may be done in sixty j ears. My sixty years! My sixty years! The western horizon now clears. And 1 can see with calmer ees The hand that lends me toward theskics; And listenii::. I can Lear to-day. A still t mall voice, that eems to say: "What man hatli sewn he reas. alone: In sixty jMirs. what have you sown?" Mi, ii. A. Kidd'r. in D inirrctt's Monthly. HE HADAliEAUT. "As heartless as a Jew" is an ex press i on that loner since passed into a proverb, but why as heartless as a Jew' w" would probablv pn.le the invent- of- the expression were he now liv- nr rog. Its survival onlv shows that vc. lmvfi not, even in the "Nineteenth Century olsr ved a minute spring, gainst outgrown the blind and unreasonable w,,ich he I"""eu. and a false bottom prejudices of the Middle Ages. I slr;' 1- The Mtorv of Abraham Levi, dealer in I . slleh ,a f'S11,1 as met thV asto" Mminii.hflmi ..imiiiiKr . ' mrnr f ' "ed eyes of the Jew. buread out on w.... .... ... ..... .U,v. . cast-oil triiles. is u : .ule example showing that the much abused Israelite has a heart. His place of business is a tumble- Hnum nld hmip in Wolwtor At-oiiii. in the sniokv citv of Pittsburgh. The ex- tormr rf l..a s,nn on,l H.uullm.r ...In.lo UV..U r... .... -'.. a. .. L..w. AA....., au nnnnf tliotpnt.iiit.nlu i.f tlioPivo Pnintc while the interior presents a veritable curiositv shop, filled with every imag- inable second-hand article, as though a whole colony of enthusiastic Sirs. Toodleses had consolidated their auc tion treasures for the purpose of giving a grand exhibition. Overcoats and dress coats in various stages of dilapidation, broken-winded pianos and melodeons, torn music and broken-backed books, door plates and bootjacks, and ever' imaginable odd and end of domestic or personal ap pointment arc to be found piled up ou boxes, shelves and in dusty corners. Every day Mr. Levi sallies forth with a dirty black and green piano cover under his arm, and comes back laden with a miscellaneous collection of books, broken crocken, dilapidated hate, old boots, and all manner of cast off articles to add to his collection, and meet the wauts of his customers who live on the "hill." " Mr. James Harbison was one of the iron kings of the Smoky City, a widow er with one son and two daughters, and a million in solid cash. Emma Harbison was not a favorite with her brother Arthur and her sister Samantha. She had been her mother's favorite, but her lather never exhib ited much partiality for her. She was as reserved aud shy as her brother and sister were forward and boisterous. Mr. Harbison had removed to Pitts burgh from the interior of the State upon the death of his wife, while his children were yet small, and Emma, as she grew up, still kept the rural ways of her early childhood, which gave mortal offense to her fashionable broth er and sister. Fashionable life and Hash society had no charms for her, and she was soou ignored in the house hold; even her father lavished all of his attentions and paternal regards upon his two eldest children. At length Mr. Harbison died, and was buried, and the will, which he had taken good care to make, was admitted to probate. It was short and to the point: 'To Emma Harbison I bequeath the work-box that belonged to my dear wife, with the trink ets it contains, lo my dear children. Arthur and Samantba Harbison. 1 bequeath all the re mainder of my estate, bonds, stocks lands, tenements and property of whatever kind. It is also my wish that mv two children. Ar thur and Saruautha, give Ltnnia a home until he marries. (Signed) "James Uaiusii-on." The friends of the family were astounded at the provisions of the will, and were still more astonished when Arthur and Samantha openly pro claimed that Emma was not their sis ter at all, but a pauper whom their father had adopted out of charity. And as such they treated her and made her the household drudge. For mouths she acted the part of a servant almost uncomplainingly, aud then she was discharged from service and turned out upon the world, her only earthly possessions being a little bundle of clothes, her mother s work-box, and ten dollars, her earnings during six months of slavery. She went forth fully resolved to main tain herself by her labor, but misfortune still followed her. Being frail and delicate she fount it impossible to keep her place as a house servant, and she could get no other employment. i.t ilL. J, ro h T ' and3tfmfsWired herein the face, A li.n.. 1. I. j-kM 1...-.4- - .JJf&m Hunger at last drove her to the shop of .- . !! Abraham Levi. She must part with her mother's work-box for bread! "Mr. Levi," she said, "I am in great need, and am compelled to part with this box for a little ready money." Mr. Levi looked at it critically, and inquired: "Vot you ask for him?" "1 could put no valuation on it, as it is priceless to me. Let me have live dollars on it, and I will redeem it in the future." "Oh! Mein Gott! fife dollar? Vy. it vould bankrupt me if I gif you a dollar. I not care to take him at dat." In vain did Emma Harbison plead the sacredness of the keepsake. Mr. Levi was inflexible, and at last she parted with her inestimable treasure, receiv ing a single dollar in exchange. But this pittance only kept off starvation for a da' or two, and at last she was picked up one night by the police, wandering in the streets, and taken before an alderman. She told her pitiful ttory to the mag istrate, and her brother and sister were ent for. They came and disowned her, and declared her an impostor; and she was consigned to the House of Refuge, which was then under the su perintendence of the worst tyrant that ever disgraced a reformatory institu tion. A Legislative committee, years ago, brought to light the horrible practices that had been carried on for years. How delicate girls were horse-whipped, and tied up by the thumbs, and sub jected to every conceivable torture at the caprice of the officials. Poor Em ma, so gentle and uncomplaining, came in for a share of the punishment, and her recital before the committee made strong men weep in very indignation. A wealthy lady, hearing the story of the poor girl's wrongs, adopted her and gave her a home full of every comfort, . and her young life became joyous once more. v But how fared it with the unnatural brother and sister? For a while they led the fashionable portion of society, and lived magnificently. They out rivaled all in the magnificence of their entertainments and splendor of their equipages. Arthur prided himself on his finan cial sagaeity, and invested his and his sister's fortune in paying stocks that brought handsome dividends. Uut the financial crash of 1873 brought them ruiu. The collapse of the Isational Trust Company, Brady & Co.'s baukiug house, and other banks where Arthur had invested, beggared them, and swept almost a million dol lars out of their selfish grasp. They were in as great straits for the necessaries of life as poor Emma had been, and lived solely on the charity of a few of their wealthy friends, a little less heartless than the most who had once fawned upon them, but knew them no more. Abraham Levi valued Emma's work box at ten dollars, but found no pur chaser. After trying vainly to sell it one day, ho shoo1; it imliguantly at the customer as he was leaving the shop, and was .surprised to hear some thing move inside of it. Takimr the . k,e- Jf8 unlocked it, but it was empty, "oldiujr it open he again shook it, and again Hoard something moving. Lx- aminmg tne ulterior more closely lie , . - , the bottom of the box was a ten-thou sand dollar United States bond with ten years' coupons undipped. lie picked it up and another precisely like it met his ga.e. Grasping the second the .. . B . ' UurU, appeared, and so ' numbered tllirtV-llVe. on until they Here was a greater fortune than Abram Levi hail I eve,r lramid of. He si am -aleulated themteres seized a pencil U The bonds and coupons were worth more than six hundred thousand dollars in the money market. They were. his. He was wealthy at last. He replaced them in the box. put down the false bottom aud locked it up in his safe. But Abraham Levi's peace of mind "was gone. He no longer took auy in terest in his business and began to lose his customers. Several times he had taken the box and started to New York to get the bouds exchanged, but his heart always failed him. He knew that he ran no risks, and yet he had not the courage to reali on his for tune. One day, after musing for nearly an hour, a strange mile crossed his face, and he said: "Dot's shust vat I vill do!" He opened his safe, took out the box and placed it under his arm. Just as he reached the street a carriage stop ped in front of his store and Miss Em ma alighted. "Oh. Mr. Levi," she exclaimed, "I am just iu time. I see you were going out to sell my box. 1 have come to re deem it." "No, Miss." replied Levi. "I not go out to sell him. "1 goto take him to you. But coom in young lady, I vish toexblain." Emma entered the ding place, and Mr. Levi told her the whole story in a straightforward way, and then showed her the fortune he had guarded so care itiiiy ami so iguorantly lor so many years and which he had tried to sell for ten dollars. 'And how can I ever reward you, Mr. Levi?" asked Emma, grasping his hand. "Veil," said he, "I dink ash you might gif nie a hoondred dollar." "No! no!" saiil Emma, and seizing one of the bonds, said, "you shall take one of these, at least." But Levi hesitated for along tirae.in sisting that one hundred dollars was a sufficient reward. Finally Emma in duced him to accept a ten-thousand dollar bond, and to-day Ahmhain Levi is one of the happiest of men, although he still keeps up his endless variety of odds and ends and goes Irom house to house in search of "old clo's." Emma Harbion was too sensible to act like the girl in the stor' aud divide her fortune with her ungrateful brother aud sister. She did nothing of the kind. She secured the position of ship ping clerk iu a rolling mill for Arthur, and the position of music teacher for Samantha. She treats them in the most sisterly manner, but insists that they shall earn a living for themselves, and to this, all who know the trio.say atueu. Cleveland Lcdijer. - - The Future of Alaska. With a comparatively mild climate throughout the Arcnipelago, with most valuable ship-building timber covering the islands, with a cedar that now sells at one hundred and fifty dollars a thous and feet in Sitka, with splendid har bors with inexhaustible fisheries, with an abundance of coal, and the proba bility that veins of copper, lead, silver, and gold await the prospector, with the pd3fcarfH$--of raising sufficient garden vegetables, aiiuw.tfi.. w;m i,..rrv S swamps on nearly everv island 1-vriCth n -T - wiauw& these advantages it is surprising that an industrious, amphibious, ship-building, fishing colony from New England, or other States, has not established itself in Alaska. One drawback is that Con gress has not et organized a Territorial Government, but wheu this region shall have been opened up to individual en terprise aud settlement, it will then be discovered that Alaska is a valuable possession. Lieut. C. E. S. Wood, in the Century. The Mungoose its a Rat Killer. The introduction of the mongoose into Jamaica as a cure for the once formidable rat pest on the sugar plan tations is saiil to have proved a notable success. The sugar rat is a huge white bellied fellow, measuring ten inches in length of body, his tail adding ten inches more to his length. Formerly the damage done to the sugar planta tions of the island by these rats amounted to something like half a mil lion dollars a year, rising to a quarter of the crop in seasons of special ravages. About five years ago the mungoose, whose zeal as a snake and rat killer is well known, was imported from India. As a result the plague of rats has been greatly diminished with a saving in I sugar of not less than twenty-five tons on eacn estate, mere is also saved tne expense of rattage, formerly amounting to hundreds of dollars a year. Scien tific America-it. The. longest span of wire in the world in used for a telegraph in India, over the river Kistnah, between Bezo rah and Sectanagrund. It is more than 6,000 feet long, and is stretched be tween two hills, each of which is 1,200 teat nigt -Polk County, Georgia, has thitU saw-mills, employing 1,050 hands. Patent Medicines, rry . T- u i. '" 's then Tyler's Secretary of The patent-medicine business hwa State-he confessed it to me. sunied such enormous proportions that .. w n curloualy eao h thalr he largest dealers say that sometimes . , , f ,J f t ;9takes. ley can scarcely realize that so ranch lu IW8 the verv same thing happened money is invested in it. " ithout the rf ht over ahu ln lfig C1 haU most extensive newspaper advertismg. bn defeat5i j ukea out -oftho they admit the business would fa I away aml uow Webster thought ho .r id T. " ,en, .' 1Lei;are would walk over the course, "i saw ,f 1 .il U- fiW U , tl,.tlcot,u,,i-lou that Gen. Ta3 lor was pretty likely to of allairs with them, notwithstanding thu m- or af MJxican their irreiuovable opinion that many of Ul , t furor over T , U,e articles have genuine merit, and bur- , -j b fo h non;na. when properly used accomplish good tion iWent overToMarshtield. 'Well. V f i ;US,ness m:1-v!,r1OS; what do you think of it this time?' ,.mlof.of dollars are expended :isked Mr. Webster, with a smile of so every year in advertising. hen the , curjtv manufacturer of :m article, after ten ;".,. , ... t. ,T -j .u . vears of widespread advertising, dis-' ., th1ink .i3, Uino- X s?ld thjU continues this plan of keeping it before I Gen. laylor will be the man. the public, the sales generally fall off I "He was astounded. It didn t look about 75 per cent.. atPd then a stead v so.aJ a11 to him- IIe thought u a very demand, which continues for many Jv,,d ?"V ' Do ,you senoU9V think.' vears, is reached. A reporter of the !,e "" ,"Sd' !hat sucf " nc "7iii visited an establishment-which is 1 1?' -1 awuwd'him that I though the onlv one of its kind in the eitv, ' V 'er' pnuW!- lavlor was then where patent medicines and other pre-' l'J.r?ed by those- who did not ad parations of the apothecary ami druo- i ,uire h!m ' 1' frontier Col gist are exclusively sold. The seven OUK . hasn l voted lor forty yetirs', long floors of this building were tilled and what0.r seemed to sympathize with articles invented for the cure of , ?.lth th,s vie'T' l then .appealed to even-disease which tle-h is iieir to. . J to accept the nomination for ice Twentv years ago this proprietorstarted ? Pn'"jlcnt. under laylor. He remem in a small wav with throe patented pe- i ber,cd I'V folmer m'stfl ko- and smiled, parations. anil at the present time he ?!' sa"t last that he would consult deals iu over 5.000 different articles. The gentleman who showed the re-1 porter through the place, and who has ' been engaged in the business for many i years, insisted that he had never heard ' of any person who died, was injured or disfigured through the proper" use of any of the o.OOO articles Sometimes, ' he said, a mother would, of course, pour a bottle of soothing sirup dmvu the throat of her squalling infant, and then when the infant died there would be a great hubbub. The reporter's informant ; said that there is no dull season in the patent medieme business, as there is in ' the drv-goods trade. When the season for cough sirups litis passed the cholera medicines find a readv market. Tooth ache is common throughout the ear, t and thus remedies for that distressing ' complaint are always salable. Hair ru- storalives are briskly called, for in the ( spring, summer, autumn ami winter, and tonics likewise prevail at all sea sons of the year. The salesman esti mated that" there are L'."),(KX) drug- ' gists ami fully .SO, 000 physicians' in the I'liiled States, and said that the patent-mediciue dealors find much , favor among the physicians as well as ' tne druggists. bile the reporter was mooing against boxes kind of preparations, filled with all the salesman 1 " z pointed to a pile of boxes, each less .,.. than two It't't sini:iri "Those " he said, "contain pills. We sell one of the b.ives for .:. aud you will ob- serve," lie added, with a smile, "that that is rather an expensive box of pills." Then he figured up thecotof a pile of boxes that seemed almost lost in the vast amount of other boxes in the room, and said: "There we have !, 072 worth of pills, and that will give yon a faint idea of the amount of money invested in patent medicines in this building." The salesman said that the dealer will not venture any money in a new article unless he buys it from the manufacturer or pav the inventor for the everlasting right to manufacture it. He will not accept a patented arti cle, advertise it. and make it profitable, so ti-at the inventor can at some time take it from him and manufacture it himself. The iuventor must either manufacture and advertise the article himself, or sell the patent to a manu facturer and have done with it. Look ing at half a dozen preparations fos coins, the salesman said that there :ue fully 2,000 different corn-cures sold by dealers. The reporter was permitted to see a list of the various preparations on sale. The number of balms for the lungs, rheumatism, consumption, etc., num bered lb'; balsams. Ho; stomach bitters, 106; cordials, 48; catarrh, asthma.skin, cough, rheumatic, heart, cholera, dys pepsia, ague, and other cures, YM drops. 18; elixirs, 77; extracts, :$1; ban dyes, --'.; hair tomes, lb; liniments, 1.11: lotions. :M: lozenges. ."i7: hair-nils, and cod-liver preparations. 150; oint- "remeut of the routes actually traversed nients. 87: pills, .!! 2; plasters, 17.7; from place to place No wonder their powders, 1(J.S; various remedies, 142; maps were mere caricatures. Think different kinds of hair restorers. G8, of trying to measure the distance across salts. 21: salves. 7i; snuffs, 18; soans, j tIie Atlantic in that way, even with the 12!t; specifies. fiG; sirups, 188: tablets. ! a'd oi patent logs used on board White 27: tonics, ol; tioches. .52, ami medi- Star steamers! Yet that, was what cinal waters. 7o. llesides these arti- ' Golumbus had to do on his poor little cles there were mauv others with ex- ri,,'P3. without the patent logs, and the traordinarv names, and the salesman I result lat the identity of the island said that to be a good salesman in such I uPon which he first landed is even yet an establishment it was necessary to ' a subject of dispute. Few persons real remember all of the .O.OOO different ' ize tne amount of uncertainty exist articles in the place. X. Y. Times. How Xear Webster Camp President. to Being 'It is not generally known." said Thurlow Weed to me Moudav evening t after a rubber at wuist tor. thouirh he . . . o can no longer make out the faces of friends, he can still see cards, when placed in a good light " it is not gen erally known how near Webster came Jto being President.' " It i gciiutaiiv Known." i said. " that he was a candidate for the Whiw nomination live times and missed it ever; time." " Vp " ! -wmiMawoil but he cime a .,.! ,i..i ............ .i. ,i., .. i . deal nearer. I had always been among , his most profound admirers, and wan ed to see him President in 1840. But it became obvious to me ilurin" the I wiuier, mai ne couiuirt get ttie nomi nation, that Harrison was leading. I went down to Washington early iiT the spring and called him into the cloak room. ! ihink I shall be the Whbr .,,: candidate,' he &aiu. r ..Jt,o.i ..... doubt ol it. 'Who il. 'Ubo will be then?7 he f It looks to me like Harrison.' red. He almost sneered at the will be then'' he M. AJl l7.-l1 ill , asked. I answered ?f. TT ll i mi .. luea. te naturauv nau out little re spect for mere military men. and he exclaimed: 'It is impossible that a man so ignorant as he and so lacking in everv oualitv oi a Chief Magistrate. can be "nominated for such a nlace.' 1 told him it was sinmlv a ouestion of I who could poll the most votes: then I got him to look over my figures. They uuln t convince him, of course. " 'Why, you don't act as if yon be lieved it yourself,' he said, 'for you have chosen a Scott delegation from your own State.' 'That was to prevent the appointment of a Clay delegation.' I said, 'and Clay cannot be elected if nominated. But, Mr. Webster,' I went on, 4I haven't come to Washington to get 3ou to withdraw your name, but to ask you to accept the nomination for Vice-President in case Harrison shall be selected lor the first place.' No, Jae wouldn't listen to such a proposal, and he refused with quite as much spirit as the occasion called for. So J came home, aud Harrison was nominated and John Tyler was made his Viee.and by the death of Harrison Tyler became President a month after the election. Webster ;a the fatal mistake he had made, and the next time I saw him ins two nest irienus. tieorge Asnmun, of Massachusetts, and Senator A ilson. of New Hampshire, and do as thev said. " They were summoned and came. I met them at Mr. Webster's, and pre sented my figures. They were non plussed at first, but came finally to ray conclusion that Taylor's nomination was probable, aud they joined me in advising Mr. Webster to be content with second place if the first should prove beyond his reach. He reluctantly agreed to it. antl I was authorized to 1 see the arrangement carried out. Just at that point his sou. Fletcher, came i home from town, aud he ridiculed the i scheme .so energetically and so bitterly that his father returned to his original . position, and refused to have anything , to do with luv proposal. Well, the ice-Presidency went begging. The name of Fillmore was suddenly sprung on the Convention and he was put ou the ticket. Taylor and he were elect ed: Taylor died iu four mouths, aud Fillmore became President, aud Web ster went down to Washington and served him as Secretary of State, as he had similarly served the accidental Tyler! I think the pair of curious mis- '1 1 " 1 i a " a ooou ue:u lo BOl,r mn, a"41 ' Pt3rnaI,s helped to make him reckletw j in ins personal nanus. ' ' r,;e,i:,K SI,re inai uiese important in i cw,enls m .,e Ijialory of the country w,ere,not W1,11V known, I obtained Mr. Weed's consent to give them publicity. W. A. Croji'utl, in Detroit Fast urn aud Tribune. Calculating Longitude. To determine the difference of longi tude between two places it is only necessary to find the difference of their local times; but, simple as this may appear, without the aid of the tele graph it is one of the most difficult problems of practical astronomy. At the dawn of the seventeenth century chronometers were unknown, and the world w:is destitute of any mechani cal means of transmitting or transport ing the local time of one place to an other. The moon's motion was not available because the lunar theory was too imperfejt to admit of satisfactory predictions of the moon's place. Eclipses of Jupiter's satellites were even more unavailable, because tele scopes had not been invented, and no man knew that the satellites existed. Almost the only possible method of operating was by actually measuring the bearing aud distance between the places who-e difference of longitude was required. But here agaiu very great difficulties were encountered. The figure and size of the earth were but imperfect by known and the instru ments and methods of geodesy had not j been invented. In short, the astrono i mers and geographers of that time had i fw resources beyond the linear meas- ing in the ordinary rough measure ments of everyday life. An error of one part in a hundred corresponds to less than three-eighths of an inch in a yard, aud there are few dry-goods stores where even the most expensive silks are measured more carefully than .1 . . .... . j, . . .. - . inau au error ox one pan in atnousana corresponds to about five feet in a mile, and the country surveyor seldom works that accurately. Arr error of one part in ten thousand corresponds to less than a Piilehvthcdjatuc,Ucoi,th earth. aim'iOi.uaiu such exactness tne utmost care of the best engineers is needed. lomaKesure oi commuting no error irreater than one part in one thousand i : i... i :i. i: require: wie uiu.it uivisu uAptMiuiiuit: ui time and the use of the best mstru rJ:ts b fM men f th I'est ?&' An, accuracy of one part in a miIllon ca " rarely be attained, even undc'r exceptionally favorable circum- stances, ine maps oi commons lime ! were made from itineraries that is, I from distances measured along the ( lines of travel, few of which were ' known anything like so accurately as one pan thousand. As the direc- """ ., .- ..,., necessarily grossly error 1 he earth is our gr lIO,,s were suu less exact. uie maps were . - .Ml 1 .T erroneous. great timepiece, ' whose stead revolution causes the sun to rise aud set, and gives us day and night. But owing to the vast size of the world and our relation to its surface we.,au M : ,,ze limi ll IS m "M1" rT tat,on' an1 tims we Homc to Te"ar tb apparent motion of the sun as real, and we regulate our time by it. The heav ens are to us an immense dial ' and the suu is the hand which indicates the time upon it. X. Y. Herald. An extraordinary tricycle journey has been accomplished by the Vice President of the Lyons Bicycle Club, accompanied by his wife, on a two-seated machine. The travelers went from Lyons, through Nice, Genoa and Rome to Naples, returning by Florence and Turin, the whole journey representing a distance of some -J,:J00 miles, being accomplished at an average ot about fifty to sixty miles a day on the road. A New Haven man waited for thirty-five years to recover a half-dollar which he lost in a sewer, but he got it at last When a Connecticut man gets a brace with his feet he never lets go. Detroit Free Press. PERSONAL AXD IMPERSONAL. Henry J. Bigelow, Professor of Surgery at Harvard, has resigned the chair he has held with distinction thirty-three years. Theodore C. Dickson is only fifty four years old, and yet he was' the first settler on the site of Denver City, Col orado. He is poor, and lives in Chey enne. N. Y. Post. The Boston dry-goods firm of Jor dan. Marsh & Co. will send twelve of their employees on a European tour this summer, paying all expenses. ThL is to be made a yearly practice. X. Y Sun. Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, mother of th late Bayard Taylor, has presented to leading dry-goods house of Philadelphia a handsome skein of silk, reeled and spun with her own hands, in the eighty third year of her age. Jrulianapoti Journal. Apart from music and conversation, on non-scientific subjects, the late Charles Robert Darwin found his prin cipal relaxation from stu.ly in novel: reading, the merit of the tale being oi uo account so long as it was interesting. The American violinist, Nellie Car- I (enter, is awakening much interest in 'aris. It is extraordinary to see a lit tle girl only twelve years" of age ren dering classical music in so satisfactory; a manner as this child does. Garibaldi died with the window of his apartment wide open, aud while tho sun was setting. Before his last agony a bird alighted ou the window-sill, where it remained twittering. Gari baldi saw it and stammered, "Quunte o allegro," ("How joyful it is.") Levin Willey, of Keene's Ditch, Dorchester County, Md., has become a centenarian. He has been livinsr with .his present aud third wife tiftv-one years. He has been the father of twenty-two children. Up to five years ago he was very active, and for sixty years of his life he was a successful muskrat hunter, having caught as mauy as 1,500 in a single seasou. M. Emil Frei. the new Swiss Min ister to Washington, was formerly an American citizen, and gained his "title of Colonel by gallant service iu the Union Army during the war of the Re bellion. He was for some months a prisoner of war in a Southern prison. Since his return to his native land he has taken high rank as an orator and' writer. Ex-Mayor Henry L. Fish, of Roches ter. N. Y., has been presented with a. handsome cane, earved from the keel of the first boat that ever passed' through the Erie Canal. Mr. Isaac Warren, of Clarkson, N. Y.. now eighty-eight years old, is said to be tlie only living member of the company of ten passengers who made the first trip from Rockport to Buffalo oa that boat, the "Young Lion of the West" -AT. Y. rost. The funeral took place at Alexan dria, Va., the other day. of Colonel William B. McLean, who had the (lin gular fortune to own ami reside uponr the fields of Hull Run and Appomattox when the two armies met at these places at the beginning and end of the war. After Bull Run, anticipating continued hostilities in that neighborhood, ho bought a farm near the Appomattox River, to which he removed his family. It was on this farm that General Lee completed the formal act of surrender. Chicago Tribune. "A LITTLE NONSENSE. Flour is said to be as explosive as gunpowder. That's what enables the paste pot of some newspapers to get off so many squibs. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. "Is it injurious to eat before going to sleep?" asks a correspondent. Why, uo, not fatally injurious, but you just try eating after you go to sleep, if you want to see a circus. Burlington Hawk-eye- "The average man will never hesi tate to take ten cents' worth of time to look for live cents' worth of lost money," moans the Detroit Free tress man, feel ing around for his salary. N. Y. Com mercial Advertiser. In New York there are stores where worms are sold for fishing-bait. That is nothing. There are stores here where fish is sold, so that a man need not trouble himself with worms and wet feet. X. O. Picutunc. A frame house was being moved along the street iu Cumminsville, the other day, and a drunken fellow got in under the impression that it was a street-car. Every man on the job woke him up and collected fare of him.- Cincinnati Saturday Nig lit. Teacher "What is a score?' Pupil "The number of runs made at & cricket match." Teacher "No, noj what I mean is, how much does a score signify numerically. What idea doea it give you? That is to say, if I were to tell you that I had a score of horses what would you think?" Pupil "Please, marm, I should think you was stuiun me. Chicago lribune. Ltwa - imm . it:ible business last week, and the first thing he did was to have a big siga painted, representing himself holding: a mule by the bridle. "Is that a good likeness of me?" he asked of an admir ing friend. "Yes, it is a perfect picture of you, but who is the fellow holding you by the bridle?"- Texas Silings. The other day Oscar Wilde dined at a private resilience in New York. When the cloth had been removed the oldest child of the host, a girl aged about eight, was introduced to the no torious esthete, who was marvelously arrayed for the occasion. After timidly shaking hands with the stranger and scanning him with open-eyed wonder, the little one crept close to her mother's side and whispered: "Mam ma, I don't think Marie had better bring baby in; it might be scared." Brooklyn Eagle. Jim Hudson is known as one of the worst bores in Austin and is always trying to borrow money from his friends. A few days ago he appeared at the counting-room door of a well known Austin merchant, and was told that the proprietor was in the back office aud: too busy to see anybody. "Just tell him I am going away from Austiu aud, as 1 am never coming back. I would like to bid him good-by." "In that case, exclaimed the candid clerk, "he will be delighted to see you," and he called the proprietor who expressed great joy at bidding Jim Hudson good by. "When do you leave never to come back?" asked the delighted mer chant. "Not until I can make a raise. Lend me S-0 until I see you agaia." Texas Sifitngs. - Some women don't know when they are well off. An old chap from, the West, worth a cool $100,000, had-'' isk five St. Louis chambermaid' marry hint before he found oaf' 1 scut. iL X gf
