Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1882)
THE JOURNAL. IM'KI i:VKUY WK!NKDAY, I. Iv. TURNER fc CO., Proprietors and Publishers. KATES OF AinrEKTisiirvc;. JSTBuainess and professional cards of. five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. 1ST For time advertisements, apply at this office. E7Iiegal advertisements at statuts rates. CTFor transient advertising, se rates on third page. TST OFFICE Eleventh St.. 'J 'fairs in Journal Building. Sit ifitpal s J J j r v w T w P T kioi ?: Per year J Six iiionih V2t Three month J single copies "' VOL. XIII.-N0. 21. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER. 20, 1882. WHOLE NO. 645. J3 All monthly. advertisements payable b at ." r ji r A j CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. C. Ji. VanW yck, L 3. Senator, Neb ral;.i ( U . Ai.viv -ujnikk-.U.m. Senator, Oiuaba. E. li. Vu.KsriXK, U-p West Point. T. .1. M.v.ioas, (."onliii'iit ttep., Peru. STATE DIUKCTOUY: Ai.iu.NUs N v.nck, Governor, Lincoln. -...I. Vle'iaiuliT, Secretary or State. John Wal'u-h"., .Vulitor. Lincoln. J..M. Kirtlelt, rrc f-urcr, Lincoln. C..I. Dilvvurth, Vttoruey-ieneraI. W.vV. V. J one-. Sunt. Public In..ruc. O. J. Nob.-. W.irdeii of Penitentiary. V Txh'P'- I Prison Iw-pectorrt. CH. Gould, i J.O. Carter. Prison Physician. ll.P. Jlathevr-on.Supt. insane Asylum. .iriUCIAKY: tteorjre I. LaWt'. Aociatl. Judges. Atn:i"J Cobb. 1 S. Maxwell. Chief .1 U-tiee. FOI,KTH JUDICIAL. MSTKICr. U. V. Pt,.luItfe, York. .M. IS. l!ci",e, ii-trict Attorney, U'ahno. LAND OFKICCUS: M 15. Ho.ie. KeaNter, Grind Island. NY m. An in. Receiver, Grand I-land. LEGISLATIVE: iMtlo tMMintnr, M. K. Turner. i:eic-ciitatie, J. NV. Lehman. nirXTV DIItECTOKY: .1. (i. Ilijru'in-. Count .Jude. John Staiiller, ounty Clerk c. A. Nov. man, clerk Ii-t. Court. J. NV. Early, In-a-nrer. I). C. Kavan-itiirli, Slx-riil'. L. J. frim-i, Surve or. .M. Mabor, ) Jo.epb liivet, v Countv Coi II. J Ilud-on. Ir . lleiutiS. Coroner. -I. E. Mom-riff Supt.of Sell M. Mabor. )mtuisioner. -I. E. Moncrii-f Sunt, of School-. Tw, r. Ju-tice.ofthePeace. . M. c orncliii,( CITY DIltECTOUY: J. It. Mfi'.'li.T. Mayor. A. i:. Coti'ioth. Clerk. .1. It. Di-Ninaii, Trei-urer. W. X. Hen-ley, Police J udire. .1. E. Xorlh, Enirineer. oor.Ncn.Mi:x: 1st Ward John Iticklv. (5. A. S'-hroeder. - Ward- Pit. ilav-. I.GIii.-k. 3d Ward I. It i-mu--'M. A. A. Sniiih. 4 'olii nihil. I OflI. Open on suii'lav. Irwin 11 A.M. tolSM. and from :'( to r. m. Bu-ine-" hour- eeept Millday (i A M. to 3 i. M. Ei-tern mail-clo-e at 11 a.m. NVe-terii mail-clo-e at 4 :l."i r.M. Mail leae- Columlni- for Lo-t Creek, Genoa. t. Edw.ud-. Albion. Platte Center, Iliuuplirev, Madion and Xor- lolk, every day (except Sundays) at A :."." p. in. Arrive-.it lii:.V. For Hiell Creek and Cre-ton, arrive at 12 m. Leave.- 1 1-. vt., Tue-da -, Thtir-- lav - and .ituri!.iv -. For Alexis. Patron and David City, Tinda-. Tliur-dav- auU Saturday?., 1 v. m Arrive- at V m. For ( 4 i K I i 1 1 -r Tiu-dav and Saturda- 7 a. :n. Arrive- t. m. -.ime dav-. V. 1. TiiiK' TlIt. Eastward Hound. Emigrant. No.C, leave- at i:2." a. m. Pa n-'r, " 1, " " H:.r-" a. m. Freight, " -, " " -:l-" P- " Freight, " 10, " -::10 a. in. Wfsttrard Ilmtnd. Freight, No. ", le-ne- -it '2:00 p.m. Pas-eng'r, " :!, " " 4:27 p. in. Freight, ' ', " " .. :: ! ni. Emigrant. " 7. " ".... 1: a. in. Ever dav except Saturday the three line- leading to Chicago connect with U P. train- at Omaha. On Saturdays there will be but one train a day, an -hovvn by the following schedule: U. A M. TLME TAKLE. Leave- Coluuibu-, .1:45 a. M. P.ellvvood .... ::) " " David City, 7.20 " (Jarri-on, 7:H " I'l e- :i" " Staplehur-t, S:."i " Seward, :".0 " Itiibv '.:" " .Mi I ford. . . I0:l."i ' " Plea-ant Dale, .... 10:4.". " Emerald 11:10 " Arrive-at Lincoln, ll:4.ri m. Leave Lincoln at 2:i" ! M. and ar-rive- in Columbus ::!' I". m. jhikes clo-e connection at Lincoln for all point- ea-t. vve-t and -outh. V.. X .t 15. II. KOA1). Time Schedule Xo. 4. To take etrect June -J. 'SI. For the government and information of employee- only. The Compaii ic-erve- the right to varv therelroiu at plea-ure. Train- daily, Sundav - excepted. Ohhcard Hound. Inward Bound. Columbus 4:.Ti p.m. I .Norfolk 7:2 A. M. Lo-tCreek.":21 PL Centre .":42 Huinphre0.-J" Madi-on 7:04 Mil n -mi 7:4.t Norfolk S:04 Mun-on 7:47 i Madison .:2t , IIuiuphrev!t:0Ti I PL Centre J:4S Lo-tC reek 10.01 Columbus lO.-.Vi AI.HIOX Itlt.VNCII. Columbu- 4:t." f.M. .Albion 7:4o A.M. Lost Creek:.:"l - I St. EdwardS:) " Genoa :Il " j (Jeiioa !':14 " St.Eiiward7:iH " Lo-t CreekJ:.V.f ' Albion 7:47 " I Columbus 10:45 " H. LUERS & CO, BLACKSMITHS AND "Wasxon "L5uilcleiss ew Hrirk Simp 0iio-itc HrlnU'fc Drue Store. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street, Columbus. SebraJca. "0 NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or "week at reasonable rates. EgrSet a Flrsi-Clann XalIe. Meals, .25 Cts. Lodgings. 3S-2tf .2T Cts. COM JI K ' S Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor. E3Yholes:tle nnd Retail Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigar.", Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. EST Kentucky 7iiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dinh. 11th Street, South of Depot. BUSINESS CARDS. D R. CARL NCHOTYE, VETERINARY SURGEON. Otlice at Dovvtv. Weaver .v. Cos store. A ii:ko & KOEX, HASKEKS. Collection, Insurance and Loan A cents, Foreign Exchange and Pas sage Tickets a specialty. pOKKKI'lUS & NIJ1L.1VAZV, A TTORNEYS-A T-LA W, lip-stairs in Gluck Building, 11th street, Above the New bank. H, j. huuno:. 2T0TABY PUBLIC, lJIli Street, 2 doom nest of Hammond Houne, Columbus. Neb. 49I-y D K. 91. . TllUKTO., RESIDENT DENTIST. Ortice over corner of 11th and North-st. All operations first-class and warranted. C IIHCAtiO IIAItBEK SIIOl: HENRY WOODS, Pkop'b. tSTEvervthing in first-class style. Also keep the bet of cigars. .r10-y G A i:ek &l kkkuek, A TTORNEYS A T LA W, Otlice on Olive St.. Columbus, Nebraska. 2-tf p G. A. IIL'LLHOUST, A.M., M. I)., HOMEOPA TU1C PHYSICIAN, JSTTwo lllocks south of Court House. Telephone communication. 5-ly M cAI.IJKTGK HKOS., A TTOllXEYS A T LA W, Otlice up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. Ilth St. Y. A. McAllister, Notary IMiblie. 0. i. i:va:v, .11. ., PII Y SIC I A X it S URQ-EON. 13T Front room, up--tairs in Gluck building, above the bank, 11th St. Calls :iiivvered night onlay. .VOin .1. M. MACKAIII.AXI), . K. COWDKItY, Att:rs7 :d H:tary PrtJ:. C:lle:::r. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OH MACFARXjAND& COWDBRr, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. G i i:o. ,. DIIKKY, PAINTER. j2T'arriage, house and sign painting, irluzing. paper hanging, kalsomining, etc. done to order. .Shop on i:ith St., opposite Engine House, Columbus Neb. 10-y ? II.KIJKCHK, 1 M. Ilth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sell- Harness Saddles, Collars, Whips, lU.'itikets, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc., at the lowest jio-sible prices. Uepairs promptly attended to. IIYKOX MILLETT, Justiceof the Peace and Notary Public. into nn.i.Krr, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. B.-lle will give close attention to all business entrusted U, him. 218. T OUIS SCHKE1BER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. AH kinds of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. iQTShop opposite the " Tattersall," Olive Street. -&t ATfAUrcH Sc WESKDrr, AT THE CHECKERED BARX, Are prepared to furnish the public w'th good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conduct a feed and sale stable. 49 FAMES PEARS ALL IS PKEPARKD, WITH FIRST-CLASS APPARATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give nim a cull. N otic: toii:aciii:rk. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the first Saturday of eacj month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transactton of any other business pertaining to schools. ."CT-y IIAIll.lt: KLOA, PKOriUKTOIl OF THE Dealer in Chinese Teas, Handkerchiefs, Fans, and French Goods. 12th and Olive Sts., Coi.uvnus, Nkb. 7-12tn 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 (mo. WILLIAM RYAN, DEALER IX KENTUCKY WHISKIES Mines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco. J2r"Schilz's Milwaukee Beer constant ly on hand.PJ Eleventh St Columbus, Neb. Drs. MITCHELL & MAETYN, COLUMBUS uesisu & imm iute. Suifieons 0., N. C Ji. H.Ji.Ii., Asst. Surgeons U. F. It'y, COLU3IBUS, NEBRASKA. JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havebad 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 to estimate for you. 5fSbop on 13th St one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus, Nebr. 483-y ADVERTISEMENTS. MILLMRY! MILLINERY! Mrs. M. S. Drake HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF SPRING AAI SU.llHEIC MILLIIERY AID FAICY IS" A FULL ASSORTMENT OF EV ERYTHING BELONGING TO A FIRST-CLASS MILLIN ERY S.TORK.JP3 Xebraska Avenue, tico doors north of the State Bank. 27-tf BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. O FFTCE. COL UMTI US. X E It Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IN I WIXES, LKIIOKS Fine Soaps, Brushes, PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on baud by Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA. SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacilic, aud Midland Pacific R. R. Lauds for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or ou live or ten year. time, in annual payments to suit' pur. chasers. We have also a large and choice lot or 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 titleto all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COLUMBUS, NKIt. "PILLSBOBY'S BEST ! BUY THE Patent Roller Process MINNESOTA FLOUR! ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION, Because it makes a superior article of bread, aud is the cheapest Hour in the market. Every sack warranted to run alike, or money refunded. HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO., GROCERS. l-Sm WM. BECKER, DEALER IX ALL KIXPS OF FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON BAND A WELL SELECTED S TOCIv. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. CiooilM Delivered Free lo any part of the City. I AM ALSO AGENT FOR TIIE CEL EBRATED COQUILLARD 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 StreeUt, near A. &X. Depot. EVENING SONG ON TEE PLANTATION. De night-time enmin an" de daylight scootin'; De jew-drap falliif au de blK owl liootin'; You kin soon see de bright stars fallin' an' a- shootin'. An' hear de old buntiu'-horn blowin' an' a- tootin'! Oh! deSeben Stars cittin' nphicher an' high De supper-time cumm' on nicher an' nigher; er. u wine to cote Jliss Dinah by Ie hick ry nre An' roas' detn titers while 1 sittin' down by her. De cat-bird happy when de cherries gittin' red der; De sheep in ishty libely when he grarin' in de meddpr; Bat deniucer an' his little gal sittin' down to gediler Jea' happy as a cricket in de sunshiny vvedder! Refrain. Hi p. MIbs Dinah, Listen to de sons! Hi O, Miss Dinah. 1 s comin' straight erlong! Hi O. Mis Dinah. O wine to sec yon little later! Hi O. Mnw Dinah. . . Gwine to help you peel dat 'tater! J. A. Mnam, in the Century. MRS. JUDDLEKIH'S LETTER. Mr. MidtUerib paused with his coffee cup raised half way to his lips, as his wife took the letter from the servant. She turned it over once or twice, gazed earnesth- at the address ami said: "I wonder who it can be from?'' She looked at the stamp, but the picture of the ood George Washington, his visage sadly marred by the rudo impress of the canceling stamp, made no sign. "I can't make out the postmark," Mrs. Middlerib said, carefully studying that guide to the authorship of letters. " It isn't Perryville it 'ks something like Tonawainlx l . ..i'l know any body in Touawatida. i wonder if it isn't intended for York? Cousin Hiley Ann Jackhon used to visit in York. Why don't they make the postmarks plainer. 1 wonder? 1 believe its Indianapolis, after all. Then its from Eleanor Mc Pherson whose husband you met last summer iu Canada, it isn't Indianap olis, it's Laeon: that's where Silas Mashall lives. That isn't an L, either. Mo, its Kcw Philadelphia, Illinois; I can make it out now; don'tyou remem ber? Uncle Abner Beasix went out there in the griudtone business. I wonder if anything has oh pshaw, it isn't iNew I'lulauelpiua, either; it's what is it? It's K; R-o-m Oh now 1 see, R-o-m-e, Rome. Why, it must be from Oh dear me, it isn't Rome, either. I can't make it out at all." And she turned it over and looked mournfully at the receiving stamp on the back. "It was received here at seven o'clock this morning." she said, finally. " Now, where would a letter have to come from to get here at seven o'clock? If you knew that, we could tell where it came from." "Let me look at it," said Mr. Mid dlerib, who was beginning to fidget with impatience. " No," replied his wife, turning back to the post-mark once more. " I can see what it is now. It's Spartansburg, Ky. Sarah Ulanchard went thereafter she married. I expect she wants to it isn't Spartansburg, either, it's Grid ley. That's where Cousin Jennie Bus kirk lives; her husband went out there and bought a grist mill. I wonder if she's coining out this summer? I hope if she does she won't bruig the chil dren. But it isn't from her, either. I think that is Mount Pleasant Uh! It's from Aunt Harriet Murdock, and I know they've all been killed by that dreadful cyclone. I can't open the letter, my hand trembles so. Do ou know, the last thing I said to her when she moved out West, I said--It isn't Mount Pleasant, either; there are only live letters in it. I can't make any tliin"; out of it." "Perhaps," said Mr. MidtUerib, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in his inflec tion, "perhaps we'tl better send after the carrier who brought it. He may know." ' Rut it is so tantalizing," complained Mrs. Middlerib, " to receive a letter and then not be able to tell who or where it is from." "Did you ever try opening a letter to ascertain these facts?" asked her hus band. The lady looked at him with an expression of speechless disdain upon her features, and half whispered: " if . ?. i that isn't like a man," as though any woman ever looked into a letter until the had guessed all arountl her circle of relatives and frientls and clear through the United States Postal Guide, to decide whence and from whom it came. This particular post mark, however, was too 'blind' for the most ingenious expert to decipher, ami at last, with a sigh and a little gesture of despair.Mrs. Middlerib yielded to the inevitable, and resignedly opened the letter, pausing once or twice in the act, however, to look longingly back at the tantalizing post mark. " At last," groaned herhusband,who by this time was burning up with curi osity. But she laid down the envelope and looked at it a little whiiu before she turned to the unfolded letter in her hand. Her husband by a desperate ef fort controlled his rising wrath, jnd, ;n ., ,-..;,.0 1...-...1 i . ...:. ..I k ' i.: , " her to read the letter, as it wasTtte and he should have lww.n l,i...n rfr. been dovv n tow n half an hour airo. She Hid not answer. She opened the letter, turned the ltrst page to look for the end of it, went back to the first page, settled herself in. an easy posi tion, and said: , " Well, I will deelare !" Then she read on in silence, and Mr. M;,bir;K ,r.,.i i.: ....i. b i.. ' she said- " ' ....Uv..v.., t-.uuuu no ttivji.il. J. lUSeilLlV H'm. She read three oc four more lines ' with eager eyes and noiseless lips, and suddenly exclaimed: . I t don t believe it!" rr.1 , , . Then she resumed her voiceless pe- rnsal of the document, and a moment juici omuiiimiuu ner nusoanu oy loou ing up at him and askings i nuuuci u ui.u m wr Mr. Middlerib replied in mocking tones that it must, be or the postmark w"idiLiar?a,d S: bUt her eye? were glued to the page once more and she made no response. , OV.I" she fairly shrieked, "did you everP" The writhing man at the other end of the table said he never had but he would, if this intellectual entertainment lasted much longer. j "It s too bad," murmured Mrs. Mid-1 u.uu.i.uiijiug a jjugeoi me ip.uer witn-; out raising her eyes. Well, whats too bad?" he broke ' out, wrathfully. "Who is the letter from and what is it all about? ' Either read aloud or make your comments as ai.t ,..i.. . :: mentally as you read." " I've half a mind to go," she said in firm decided tones. "Oh, have you?"- he interjected, with mild sarcasm, "shall I -go pack vour trunks while you finish that let ter?" 41 "I don't see how' they can do it," she said, after an interval of silence. "Why don't you look at the post mark, then?" he growled. "Maybe that would tell you." She read on, silent and unimpressed, for two or three lines further, and then with an exclamation of .astonishment, said: "How very low!" Ah, well," her husband snarled. "I'm glad to learn something about that letter at last. It's about your Uncle Marcus' family, isn't it?,T She ditl not hear" nor heed. She glued her eyes to that precious letter and went oil, ejaculating at irregular intervals: " H'ni." " Oh, that must be lovely! " " It can't be the same." " I never heard of such a thing.' " Oh, my goodness!" Until her husbaud was fairlv frantk with curiosity. Finally she concluded the perusal of the important document, sighed and, with profound aud exas perating deliberation, folded it care fully aud replaced it in the envelope. Mr. Middlerib looked at her in blank amazement. " Well, by George!" ho said. " Yon are a cool one. Here I've waited fifteen minutes to leant what that blessed letter is about, ami all I know about it U that you couldn't make out the nost-niark. By George, woman !" "Why, whatever is the matter with you?" she exclaimed, with unfeigned surprise. "Here it is, if you want to see it. 1 didu t suppose you cared to hear it." "Didn't want to hear it?" he shouted, "what do you suppose I waited here and missed ray train for, if I didn't wait to hear that blessed letter?" "Why it isn't a letter at all," she said, in the tone of a superior being commiserating measureless and inex cusable ingnorance, "it is a circular from Wacheuheimers, about their mil-linen- opening next Thursday " The bang of the street door cnt off the rest of the sentence, and Mrs. Mid dlerib became aware that she wai alone, and that her husband was tlnj angriest man in the State. "And what had occurred to ve.t 1 nim. she said to her neighbor, whu t ifnnn. :.. ,i...:.... !. ' : .. uiujipu in uiiiju niu iiiuruing, "x can't for the life of me imagine. Every, thing about the house has gone on smoothly, and I can't recall a singlti irritating incident or circumstance. Men are strange animals," she sighed, "aud there is no accounting for. their vagaries and pecuiarities." Burlinyum Hawkey c. Xtdcs at tie Zoological Garden. An old monkey sat cosily asleep in a snug corner, with a friend nestling against him and indulging likewise in a comfortable snooze. Presently a young sky-larker approached them somewhat timidly, and squatting beside thefriend, sat quiet for some seconds, then sud denly, as if possessed by some ma licious inspiration, he reached his arm out cautiously behind the slumbering friend and gave the elderly monkey a whacking box on the ear. He, waking In just wrath and unsuspicious of the truth for the culprit was now sham ming sleep and looked the picture of innocence flew upon his friend with an iudictment for assault, anil chivied him with monster clamor round aud round the cage, while the culprit sat regarding them and jabber ing with joy. Some little time after, the performance was repeated, the old monkey anil friend having settled in their corner, and assault aud the wrong ful punishment occurring as before. Once again the trick was tried, but the friend, who had twice suffered, was shamming sleep this time, aud caught the culprit in the act, and with the help of the old monkey gave him a good drubbing, which, indeed, he well de served. I have seen many interesting infants at the Zoo, and heard much conversa tion evoked on their account. What a fuss w:is made about the hippopotamus and how the baby tapir was idolized last winter, until the Jumbo worship put its tiny snout quite out of joint! A baby elephant would doubtless draw all London to its cradle, and who would fail to hail with joy au infantine giraffe? But as far as my affections nave at present been extended to babies zoological, I think that baby monkeys have most won my admiration, if not, intleed, my love. Few infants can be prettier than a baby kangaroo, seen peepiug slyly forth from the snug ma ternal pouch. Even this, however, is not so sweet a sight as that of a small monkey squatting pick-a-back upon its mother, with its long. lean little arms tightly clasped around her neck. To see her give it suck is one of the grotesquest and yet tenderest of sights; and if she allows vou the great honor of a hand-shake with her offspring, you vyiu not soon iorget me soilness oi the tiny slender lingers, or how eliugmc ly they clutch. The study of zoology is made easy at the Zoo, and a few steps from the mon-kej'-house will bring you to the lions. wnose solemnity of countenance and VlT'? - P"8??" a rInS -"""i i leaiitss mue IUlSCIliei- lo creatures you have lcfL A ,io n always looks majestic except, perhaps, when snarling and snuillingover a bone; he has a way of gravely gazing into space, as though his brains were occu pied by great affairs of Slate. Yet the king of beasts is somewhat of a coward, so hunters have declared; and despite U1 uw "ls . i iear ne may De 1.,... 1 1 1:1" - "u""l,cciieu uku many a weaKer crea ture. I have often seen his majesty enhmif. In muni? i1I-tiikutri.i.f ..t !. now..- nf i,;u,i ,. .,. ,i.' .u dav she actually jumped over his royal baj.k whHe ne ,avJ enjoying hls shlmber jn the sunshine, and on .Ids growling a --" -"' wuuouiuv, ..till UU.IJia Jiiuvwilli; a remonstrance she gravely slapped him on the cheek. Whether this was done in fun although she looked too grand a creature to condescend to joke or whvf hor elm . nc .. . l. i band's temper as fine ladies often do, or possibjv to draw, his notice to the t that some reraarkahly line plump children were close before his nose, are , fats wh ieh .,. fftrpr ' ped in doubt.- neil in ilm-hf Alt t! Vnm u-,,,1 I tw j, CVW AAVMtl. -- The Truth About That Shell. The tnn- of tlir. rlonnrr TTnKot. lU I cer who extinrtfcshed a shell which had" I fallen on deck by putting it in a bucket I or water lias some minor inaccuracies. I In the first place, no fuse could be ex- 1 tinguished bv water; secondly, uo shell would be likelr to tton b.no- nnn,rJ, tn I be tiit;kpl nn- tiniiv hZ v...n... .,::.:::.,'.'".- ""r. "ojj'- threw solid shot, but no shell at all. The facts iu the case are thatan English shell lodged in the tassel of the Khe dive's cap, and he prevented its explo sion by calmly spitting into the fuse hole. Tewfik tells the" tale himself, but it is Tewfiktitious even.for theniarinea. Philudetphia Uncord. Esrypt's Army. The Egyptian array was organized hy American officers, and as far as it has any efficiency it is their creation. The-.e officers some twenty-five in number went to Egypt in 1867, noarly all broken in fortune and filled with high hopes in their new- employment. It was through Gen. Thaddeus P. Mott, and son of Dr. Valentine Mott, who had made his way to Constantinople and there married a Greek ladyi that these gentlemen were induced to enter the service of the Khedive. Gen. Mott served in Italy, and afterward rose to the rank of brigadier-general in the federal army during the late civil war. The best known of these Americans was Gen. Charles P. Stone, who almost immediately became chief of staff, and soon after hrmly established himself in a post similar in power and authority to that of Gen. Von Moltke toward the German armies. It was not long be fore the American officers began to feel hostile pressure from two quarters one from the American consul general, Col. George II. Butler, and from the English influences prevailing in Cairo and Alexandria. Then followed some personal encounters and general bick ering disgraceful to all concerned, and as a body among the Christian colonies of those two cities these gentlemen soon lost any collective standing. In dividually, however, they were soldiers of established reputation, the larger proportion being from the Confederate army, and they have nearly all led very adventurous careers, both before and after leaving the Egyptian service. The most prominent Confederate was Col. Charles Rhett, Chief of Staff to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston during the civil war. When Col. Rhett went to Egypt no was very much disinclined to adopt the habits of the military in matters of costume, and, in fact, had no sympathy with the country at all, and was quite outspoken in his views. From this cir cumstance he was never given an im portant command, but like many others, was given his pay, according to con tract, which was an inflexible instru ment. He was siezed with paralysis while on a visit to Europe, dying sud denly. He was the most popular of all the American officers in Egypt. An ofiicer of no loss note was Loring Pasha, who, in 1849, performed -the most difficult and painstaking march known in American military annals. He conducted a regiment supplied with ar tillery across the Rocky Mountains to Oregon a five months,"traiup. He sub sequently engaged in the Mexican war, leaving an arm on the field, but when the civil war came he cast his fortunes with the South. When he left Egypt, whore he was commandant of Alexan dria, the Khedive gave him $50,000, which it is understood has almost melted away in disastrous speculation. It was Gen. Loring who constructed almost all of the important defenses of Alexan dria, commanded the disastrous expe dition against Abyssinia, and whose hand is visible in the military organiza tion as it exists to-day. He is living in Xew York, engaged upon a book re counting the experiences of his life. The career of Gen. Charles P. Stone is well known to all army officers, and had he remained in his original position on the army list there is scarcely an officer in the active service that would now rank him. He was, however, at the instance of the late Senator Sumner, sent to Fort Lafaye'te on charges of treasonable conduct at the battle of Ball's Bluff, and was subsequently dis missed. This event nearly upset his reason ; but he rallied, became a mining engineer, and finally accepted the posi tion at the head of the Egyptian staff which he still holds. His conduct in Egypt has been both highly praised and severely criticised. One thing is certain. He was about the only American officer who was able to hold his place against all intrigue, first with Ishmail Pasha, the deposed Khedive, and then with his son, Tewfik, his suonessor. Gen. Stone not only undertook to organize the pres ent array, to revolutionize the rotten methods he found in vogue, but he set on foot a comprehensive system of cen tral African exploration, under Col. C. C. Long, Sparrow Purdy and Majors Mason, Prout and Dye. The officers now remaining at the scene of conflict are (Jen. Stone, Col. C. C. Lou; (not in the army) and Maj. Mason. Sparrow Purdy is dead. Among those no longer living, too, are Col. Jenifer, the invent or of the Jenifer saddle; Gen. Sibley, the inventor of the Sibley tent; Gen. Reynolds, Col. Frank Reynolds, Mai. Hunt and Col. Campbell, all ex-Confederate officers. Gen. R. E. Colston, who made a journey of 1,700 miles on a litter from equatorial Africa to the Nile, is now engagetl as a military instructor at an acidemy on Washington Heights. Col. Wood is living quietly at Norfolk. It is hardly probable that any of the American officers will participate in the struggle, with the exception of Gen. Stone, and it is extremely doubtful if he will be permitted to retain any impor tant command if a religious war grows out of the present situation. Few of the officers now live to see the fruit of their labors. There is a very large number of Americans and officers everywhere who will watch the result of the fighting as an evidence of what our military task-masters can do with Afri can material. The array numbers 50, 000 men, and the troops'carry Reming ton rifles. In all of the local ervents of t he Soudan the negro troops have proved themselves better soldiers than the Egyptians. As to the Bedouins, there is the same romance about their fighting qualities as there is about the North American Indian in the open field. Like other nomads they are valiant in am bush and can produce havoc, but they do not love modern artillery. Detroit Post and Tribune. Charles Langheiraer, better known as "Dicken's Dutchman," who was re cently arrested at Philadelphia for tap ping a till of a feed store, entered a plea of guilty.' Upon being interrogated by the court he said he was' now seventy nine years of age and had served forty two years in prison. He wanted to be sent to the Eastern Penitentiary, as it felt more like home to him there. The defendant thought he would be able to reform after serving another term, and if his honor would give him but one year he would begin a new life at eighty. He was sent back to his old quarters ra the Penitentiary, to remain there one year. " We have plenty of fresh salt air here ; even our lady boarders wear sol 'taircs in theirears," said an enthusiastic seaside landlord. "Don't say so," said the press guest. "Have you a salt rheum in the house?" "Yes, sir," said the landlord quickly; "a humorous cor respondent has it jtt3t now." Chicago Tribune. There is only one butcher to every 1,500 people n London. This gives a woman chance to keep 1,499 people wai'"ng twenty minutes while she buys beef bone. Detroit Free Press. OF GENERAL IMERESf. Probably the oldest hotel register In the country is at Columbia Hall, Le banon Springs, N. Y. It contains the names of Web?ter, Clay, Lafayette,and many other notables. A Trov, (N. Y.,) family are much puz zled, and possibly a little disturbed, by the simultaneous stopping, the other uigm, wunout any discoverable cause, of their three time-pieces, consisting of an eight-day clock, a 24-hour clock, and a watch. Ben Thompson, manager of a the ater at San Antonio. Texas, appeared on the stage recently, while a tight was in progress, and quelled it bv shooting three bullets through the nibs of three gas burners, just to show how easily he could hit the disturbers if he tried. There is nothing so sad as the items in the record in New York pa pers of deaths and prostrations by the heat, such as the following: "a wo man, name unknown;" "a man, no residence.so far as can be ascertained;" a woman, no home and no friends." A man of eighty years applied for a marriage license in Kingston, Ontario, the other day, but when asked the name of the woman he would make his bride, said he had not vet selected her. He went away much disappointed that he could not get the license as a pre liminary, An area of 93,000 acres have been planted with trees in Kansas under the new law relating to arboriculture. The cotton tree was largely planted on ac count of its rapid growth, and 6,000 acres were set with walnut trees. The expectation is that this will nnnmtn in course of time, to relieve the climate of its extreme dryness. Allan Pinkerton. the ripteotivn writes to the Chicago papers concern ing an adventurer who once tried to pas for the poet Byron. It was in 1854, and Mr. Pinkerton had the pleas ure of arresting the adventurer for wrecking and robbing a train on the Michigan Central Railroad. The rob ber ended his days in the Michigan State Prison. Seven hundred and sixty newsboys and one newsgirl partook of the dinner given by George W. Childs in Fair mount Park, Philadelphia, recently. She was only a newsgirl, to be sure. But oh, ye besilked and bejeweled dames of high degree, think of the ecstacy of being the sole object of the attention of seven hundred and sixty of the male sex! Boston Post. After a young child had died and had been laid in its casket at Auburn. Me., a few days ago, a rosebud was plucked from a neighboring garden, and the stem was placed in one of the lifeless little hands. A day or two elapsed between this incident and the funeral ceremony. In the interval the rosebud in the hand of clay was seen to gradually unfold. When the service was held the bud had become a blos som. Chicago Tijnes. Dr. Hammond thinks the new med ical code of New York "illogical, ab surd, sophistical, unsound, unwarrant ed, untenable, inconclusive, fallacious, specious, evasive, irrelevant, heretical, unreasonable, unscientific, narrow minded, visionary and futile." If any of the "great and only" circuses in America miss any of their adjectives, let them get out a search warrant for Dr. Hammond. Burlington Hawkeye. The many collectors of postage stamps may follow in the steps of a Benedictine monk, who has solved the problem of their usefulness, and with them he has papered the walls of a room in the monastery in a most inge nious aed effective manner. In three months he collected 800,000 stamps, sorted them according to their colors, and then arranged them in a variety of animal and other designs, such as flowers, mottoes and inscriptions, to gether with the date of the day when the task was finished. Chicago" Herald. A smart Warsaw man who wanted to put a stop to his cow's switching her tail while he was milking, tied that appendage to a picket fence. The bo vine became frightened, and the man says he wouldn't mind repairing the fence, as it would be a just judgment on him for being a fool, but he does think it pretty rough that she should drag a 10-foot section of it through his garden and tear up about every grow ing thing there. Boston Post. A Philadelphia woman vW has lost her husband and six children has long been insane from grief. She im agines that the spirits of the departed deat! have transmigrated to the bodies of the English sparrows. Daily, rain or shine, 'she trudges to the public square to feed the little birds. She calls them by the names of her lost childred and they seem to know her. They eat from her hands and perch fearlessly upon her shoulders. With them she is happy: without them the keen look of sorrow and sadness is ever on her face. Chicago News. Didn't Care to Make Trouble. Yesterday afternoon a quiet little man on one of the Fulton Ferry boats approached a deck hand and touched him on the elbow. "I say, this boat doesn't stop any where iu the river, does it?" ' Certainly not," growled the deck hand. "Oh. I see," muttered the little man, in some confusion. " This is a through boat." " That's just what it is," retorted the deck hand, turning away. The little man went to the rail and gazed earnestly into the water. " I wonder if the bloke is going to commit suicide." said the deck hand to another, watching the little man's cu rious motions. " I'll look after him." Approaching the little man the official asked him roughly what was the mat ter with him. "Nothing the matter with me," re plied the little man. " What did you want the boat to stop for?" demanded the deck hand. " Oh, I didn't want it to stop; I only asked if it did, you know, 'cause there's my brother in there swashing around, and I thought if you did stop, we'd try and see what we could do for him. It's all right now, for I suppose he's as wet as he's going to get, and he'll putter aiong uu ne geis asnore,only I'm afraid it will be after bank hours before he fetches it. They are getting on with the brittle right well now, ain't they!" The boat made one way station that trip and the little man's brother was rescued. Brooklyn Eagle. Once was the time when the In dian ranged the wood, decked out with beads, feathers and dirt, in search of the scalps antl gore of the pale-fasoa. Now he dons a plug hat and rides abou in a barouche, accompanied bv a long haired liar, with a bottle of bitterness. He is a doctor now. Verily the last state of that redskin is more'dangeroiui iuuu me ux3i. o j runcaco cnromcit. FACTS AND FIGURES. San Francisco has a populatioa oi 275,000, of whom 45.000 are Chinese. For one mile of railroad it takef 852 rails. 80 feet long. 5.250 pounds ol spikes. 5,650 pounds of fish plates and 1,750 of botts. The" total tonnage of vessels lost, under all nags, in 1831. was 1,250,000, or. according to the iron trade report, more than the whole steamship tonnag launched in 1878. 1879 and 1880. . OX these vessels, 425 were steam vessels and 2,750 sailing vessels. Chicago Journal, The plantation of F. A- Luling; about four miles below Hahnville. La., has been sold for $104,000. The pur chaser is Mr. Viterbo, a learned chem ist of Paris, who intends to make thl9 grand central place for the grinding ol cane. The owner is said to oe backed by large means. The shipment of strawberries front Long Island to Boston this season was light when compared with former years. The total shipments were 390.- 490 quarts, which sold for an averaga of ten cents per quart, or over $33,000. The crop was less profitable and th season snorter than usual. N. Y. Times. The longest three-quarter inch rod, ever made was rolled at the Albany (N. Y.) Iron-works a few days since. It ' -1GW feet long, free of flaw, and plr" from end to end. It is forty feet Ipf r than any rod ever before pro(J'e(1 "5 this or" any other country, 'ie uex,1 largest having been made x Penn3yl" vania. The life of railroad Pant,j3 no great. New roads, wit' iroa ih a?( wooden structures, w1 need renewals, for the mo3t part within ten years. Ties will rot out f rom to eiShl vears. Rails enur8 according to traf lie, and, for liut work, will last tea years. Goot' wooden bridges, whea new. will bedangerous iutenyears, un less covereu. Ex-Govemor Stanford's breeding and training farm on the Southern Pa cific Railr-jad, forty miles from Sad Francisco, comprises about two thou sand acres, and is provided with every thing which a horse could possibly do sire. The stables proper cover an area of over 3,000 feet in length and 150 feet in breadth, and furnish accommodation for 550 horses, in whose care seventy five men are employed. ChicaqoTimet. The number of theaters in the United States is estimated to be 4,500. The average receipts of one night's per formance is about $150, and the same statistical truth-seeker who compile these numbers further states that tha public pay $675,000 every night for amusements, and that in a season oi forty weeks the sum of $162,000,000 is expended on theatrical performances ex clusive of matinees. itf. Y. Independent. WIT AND WISDOM. To repent without mending one's ways is to pump out the ship without stopping the leak. This old German proverb is worth practicing: "Honor the old, instruct the young, consult the wise and bear with the foolish." Hope is always saying there ars better things in store; but if the .itoret keeper refuses to trust it is all the same to him who has nothing. "ls it injurious to eat before goingj to sleep?" asks a correspondent. Why no, not fatally injurious; but you just try eating after you go to sleep if you want to see a circus. Burlington Hawk eye. The safest sort of love for a young; man to indulge in is self-love. In tho first place, it is a source of great do light to him; antl in the second, he can indulge in it without the least fear of a rivaL San Francisco News Letter. Lady Visitor "Your boy looks very bad, Mrs. Jones; what's the mat ter!" Mrs. Jones tgYas, ma'am, he be very bad; an' what's more, the doc tors has made him worse. I'm sure wo Iioor people need to pray with all our icarts: From all false doctrin, good Lord deliver us.' I never saw its mean ing afore." N. Y. Herald. "What shall my song be to-night?" said Miss Tibbs at the tea-table. " We are going to have a musicale. I think I shall try 'Within a Mile of Edinboro'." Seems to me," said Jones, the un daunted, "I would try something I could come within less than a mile of." Miss T. says she thinks Lieutenant Jones is horrid. Boston Transcript. Dog stories should bo written in purple ink. Washington Critic. And if told verbally, the tale should be re lated in a waggin. New Jersey Enter prise. And the writers should pant for fame. Chicago World. Gentlemen, the cue is a good one, but you have em barked on a long trail. Adrian News. Cur-tail it by all means. The Alert. , When did George Washington die?" asked an Antiu teacher of a large boy. " Is he dead?" was ths astonished reply. " Why, it is not more than six months ago that they were celebrating his birthday, and now he is dead. It's a bad year on children. I reckon his folks let him eat something that didn't agree with him." '1'ezai Siftings. "Gracious, Sybilla, how Count Champignon sneezes; he is unaccus tomed to our climate; go and tell him to come away from that window." The Count was a delicate looking little fel low with an enormous endowment of capillary decoration on his upper lipw Syfbilla, whom her mother mentally re4 served as a sweet matrimonial boon fol the Count, moved toward him at a Chi cago canter, and archly attracting hij attention by a Bharp thrust in the ribs, exclaimed: Count, I've got a message from ma to you." "Ah. zat is so vera. kind." he murmured, with aga.ebf ad miration at Sybilla, who continued Yea; she says if you takeoff that mus tache and put it on your head you won't be so apt to catch cold." Chicago Times. Alcohol from Acorns. It is said that alcohol equal to that made from grain can bo produced from acorns. The acorns are freed from the shell and ground finely; then they are mashed with malt, and allowed to fer ment. Acorns contain about twenty per cent, of starch and eight per cent. of gluten. They would be a valuable articlo for human food if it were not for the tannic acid (about three pet cent.) which they contain. Vast quan tities which "go to waste every year, where hogs are not fed in the woods, might be gathered by boys, and con verted into alcohol for use in the arts,' thus freeing an equivalent amount of grain for use as food. Or some young student of practical chemistry might make a good thing for himself and for the world by devising an economical process of separating the starch, gluten and tannic acid, the last for technical uses and the others for food. Seientifia Amentum.