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VOL. XIII.--N0.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1882.
WHOLE NO. 654.
THE JOURNAL.
ISSUED KV7.RV WEDNESDAY,
M. Iv. TURNER & CO.,
Proprietors and Publishers.
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CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
C. H. VaxMyck. U. S. Senator, Neb
raska Citv.
Alvin Saosders, U.S. Senator. Omaha.
E. K. Valentine, Rep.. "West Peint.
T.J. Majors, Contingent Rep., Peru.
STATE DIRECTORY:
Albinus Nance, Governor, Lincoln.
S.J. Alexander, Secretary of State.
John"Vallich3, Auditor, Lincoln.
Ct. 51. Bartlett, Treasurer, Lincoln.
C.J. Dilworth, Attorney-General.
W. VT. W. Jonei, Supt. Public Instruc.
C.J. Xobes, Warden of Penitentiary.
JhGouU?' f son Inspectors.
J.O. Carter, Prison Physician.
U. P. Mathewson, Supt. Insane Asylum.
JUDICIARY:
George R. Lake.)
Am:t-a Cobb.
Associate Judges.
S. Maxwell. Chief Jutiee,
rouitTH judicial district.
G. W. Post, Judge, York.
M.I1. Reese, District Attorney, AVahoo.
LAND OFFICERS:
M. B. Iloxio, Reglnter, Grand Island.
Win. Anyan, Receiver, Grand Ixlanri.
LEGISLATIVE:
State Senator, M. K. Turner.
" Representative, G. "W. Lehman.
COUNTY DIRECTORY:
.J. G. Iliins County Judge.
John Stauffer, County Clerk.
C. A. Newman. Clerk Din. Court.
.1. W. Early. Treasurer.
D.C. Kava'naugh, Sheriff.
L.J. ( rmer. Mirvevor.
31. Maher, 1
Joseph Rivet, V C
H.J. Hudson,
Jounty Commibiionern.
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Dr. A Ifoinf.-r nrntier.
J. E. 3Ioncrief Supt. of Schools.
CoSuslicesofthePeace.
CITY DIRECTORY:
J. R. Meajrher, Mavor.
A. K. Coffroth, Clerk.
J. B. DeNman, Treasurer.
AY. N. Hen-ley, Police Judge.
J. E. North, Engineer.
couxcilmex:
1st Ward John ltickly.
G. A. Shroeder.
Id Ward Pat. Havs.
I. Gluck.
3d Ward J. Rasinussen.
A. A. Smith.
ColHmbnK Pout OMce.
Open on Sunday, trwmll a.m. to 12m.
and from 4:30 to 6 p. M. Business
hours except Sunday 0 a. m. to ti p.m.
Eatern mails close at'll a.m.
Western mails close at 4 :1ft p.m.
.Mail leave Columbus for Lost Creek,
Genoa, St. Edwards. Albion, Platte
Center, Humphrey, Madison and Nor
folk, every day (except Sundays) at
4:2f p. in. " Arrives at 10:55.
For Shell Creek and Creston, arrives at
12 m. Leaves 1 p. M., Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays.
For " Alexis, Patron and David City,
Tuesdays, Thuisdays aud Saturdays,
1 p. m "Arrives at 12 M.
For Conkling Tuesdays and Saturdays
7 a. m. Arrives 6 i. ill. same days .
U. I. Time Xable.
Fasticard Bound.
Emigrant. Xo.ti, leaves at
Passeng'r, " 4, " "
Freight, " s. " "
Freight. " 10, " "
Westxcard Bound.
Freight, No. 5, leaves at
Paseng'r, " 3, " "
Freight, " 9, "
Vmiirr-int. 7 "
G:2.'i a. m.
10:ft; a. m.
2:15 p. m.
4:30 a. in.
2:00 p. m.
4:27 p. m.
6:00 p. m.
1:30 a. m.
Every day except Saturday the three
lines leading to Chicago connect with
U V. trains at Omaha. On Saturdays
there will be but one train a day, as
shown bv the following schedule:
B. & 31. TIME TABLE.
Leaves Columbu-' 5:45 A.M.
Bellwood
" David City,
14 Garrison,
" Ulysses,
44 Staplehurst,
SeWard,
44 Rubv
31ilford. ...
44 Pleasant Dale,
44 Emere'.d,
Arrives at Lincoln,
Leaves Lincoln at 2:25 p.
ti:30 44
7.20 44
7:40 44
S:25 44
8:55 44
i:30 44
J:50 44
10:15 '
10:45 44
11:10 44
11:45 M.
M. and ar.
rives in Columbus S;S0 P. M.
31akes close connection at Lincoln for
all points eat. west and south.
O., N A B. H. ROAD.
Time Schedule No. 4. To take effect
June 2, 'SI. For the government and
information of employees only. The
"ompanv reserves the right to vary
therefrom at pleasure. Trains daily,
Mindays excepted
Ouhcard Bound.
Inicard Bound.
Norfolk 7:20 a.m.
3Iunon 7:47 4
3Iadison .8:20 44
Humphrev9:05 "
PL Centre 0:48 '
Lo-tCreeklO.OO "
Columbusl0:55 "
Columbus 4::!5 p.m.
LostCreek5:21 "
PL Centre 5:42 44
HumphrcvC;25 44
Madison 7:04 4
Munson 7:43 44
Norfolk.. 8:04 44
ALBION BRANCH.
Columbus 4:45 p.m.
LostCreek5:31 '
Genoa 6:10 44
St.Edward7:00 44
Albion 7:47 "
Albion . 7:43 A.M.
St. Edward8:30 44
Genoa 9:14 44
Lost Creekfl:59 44
iCoIumbUslO:45 44
H. LUERS & CO,
BLACKSMITHS
AND
"Waoron Builders.,
w Brick Shop opposite Helntz- Drue Storf.
ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON
WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE
ON SHORT NOTICE.
Eleventh Street, Columbus, Nebraska.
50
NEBRASKA HOUSE,
S. J. MARMOT, Frop'r.
Nebraska Ave., South of Depot,
COLIMBI8, 3fEB.
A new house, newly furnished. Good
accommodations. Board by day or
week at reasonable rates.
SSTSeta a. Plrat-Class Table.
Meals, 25 Cts. Lodgings.... 25 Cts.
SS-2tf
COL U JIB US
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAX, Proprietor.
ty 'Wholesale nd Retail Dealer in For.
eign "Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub.
im Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
pT Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OTSTEHS in their season, by the case
can er dish.
lltk mtrt, SmUi ml Itepat.
BUSINESS CABDS.
pOR.-VKI-IUM Sc SIJ-LA.IVA.IV,
ATTOENEYS-AT-LA W,
Up-stairs in Gluck Building, lltn street,
Above the New bank.
TT J. Hl'MO.1,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
12th Street, i doors west of Hammond Hoite,
Columbus, Feb. 491-y
jTK. 91. 1. THUBSTO.l,
RESIDENT DENTIST.
Office over corner of 11th and North-st.
All operations first-class and warranted.
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CHICAGO BABnEK SHOP!
HENRY WOODS, Prop's.
t"Evervthing in flr.-t- class style.
AlSo keep the best of cigars. 516-y
p i:i:r sc keedek,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska.
2-tf
r G. A. HULLHORST, A. M., M. D.,
II OMEOPA Till Q PHYSICIAN,
ESTTwo Blocks south of Court House.
Telephone communication. 5-ly
UcALLISTER BROS.,
A TTORNE YSATLA W,
Office up-stairs in 3IcAllister's build
ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
p D. EVA5TS, M .
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
t3T Front room, up-stairs in Gluck
building, above the bank, 11th St. Cills
answered night or day. 5-Gm
J. M. MACFABXAJJD,
AttjrMj zzi Vtstuj Pl?c.
B. K. COWDEKY,
Ccllisr.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACPARLAND 4 COWDBR7,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
p EO. K. UEKUY,
PAINTER.
13"Carriage, house and sign painting,
glazing, paper hanging, kalsomining, etc.
done to order. Shop on 13th St., opposite
Engine House, Columbus, Neb. 10-y
T n.RKSCHE,
llth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, etc.,
at the lowest possible prices. Repairs
promptly attended to.
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LARK Sc DKKUERT,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENTS,
HUMPHREY, NEBR.
Their lands comprise some fine tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion ol Pl.-tte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 y
BYKON MILLKTT,
Justiceof the Peace and
Notary Public.
H YRO. ..H1LLETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus
Nebraska. N. B. He will give
close attention to all business entrusted
.o him. 248.
J OUIS SCHREIBER,
BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to
order, and all work guaranteed.
r3TShop opposite the Tattersall,"
Olive Street. :"'25
yAER
St. HESTCOTT,
-AT THE
CHECKERED BARN,
Are prepared to furnish the public w'th
good'teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for fuuerals. Also
conduct a feed and sale stable. 49
JAMES PEARSALL
18 PRKPAKKD, WITH
FIRST - CLASS APPA RA T US,
To remove houses at reasonable
rates. Give nini a call.
"JOTICE TO TEACnERS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
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, ana
for the transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. 567-y
pOLU.nBUS PACKING CO.,
COLUMBUS, - NEB.,
Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
product, casb paid for Live or Dead Hogs
or grease.
Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John
Wiggins, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S.
Corv.
TAJIKS SAL.J10:',
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 6mo.
WILLIAM RYAN.
DEALKRIX
KENTUCKY WHISKIES
Wines, Ales, Cigars and Tobacco.
yjTSchilz'g Milwaukee Beer constant
ly on nana..
Eleventh St., .Columbus, Neb.
Dts. MITCHELL ft MAJtTYH,
COLUMBUS
UCDIC1L & mm INSTITUTE.
Surgeons O., N. A B. H.R.R.,
Asst. Surgeons U. P. iTy,
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
JS. MURDOCH & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehad 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. jShop on
13th SU,one door west of Friedbof &
Co'a. sure, Columbus, Nebr. 483-y
ADVERTISEMENTS.
FIRST
National Bank!
COXiinCBTTB. WEB.
Authorized Capital, -Cash
Capital,
8250.000
50,000
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
ANDERSON, Pres't.
SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't.
O. T. ROEN, Cashier.
J. W. EARLY,
ROBERT UnLIG,
HERMAN OEHLRICH,
W. A. MCALLISTER,
G.ANDERSON,
P.ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage
Tickets, Real Estate, Loan and Insurance.
2P-vol-13-ly
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COLUMBUS. NEB.
Dr. A. HEINTZ,
DEALER IN
DfiBGS. MEDICIIES. CHEMICALS.
WITVE8, LIQUORS,
Fine Soaps, Brushes,
PERFUMERY, Etc., Etc.,
And all articles usually kept on hand by
Druggists.
Physicians Prescriptions Carefully
Compounded.
Eleventh street, near Foundry.
COLUMBUS. : NEBRASKA.
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on five or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstractor title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
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COI..UJIBUS. .1KB.
PITS BEST!
BUY THE
Patent Roller Process
MINNESOTA
FLOUR!
ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION,
Because it makes a superior article of
bread, and is the cheapest flour
in the market.
Every sack icarranted to run alike, or
money refunded.
HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO.,
GROCERS.
l-3m
WM. BECKER,
DEALER IX 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.
Goeds Delirered Free to
part or the City.
I AM 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 tyle and
quality, second to none.
CALL AND LEARN PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. dN. Depot.
Cooliinjr Potatoes.
At this season potatoes are not nice
when baked, and one gets tired of boiled
potatoes at every meal, and a change is
both grateful and dcsiiable. When po
tatoei are plenty, and consequently
cheap, it does not matter about being
prudent, as all left from the table goes
to the chickeus or pisp. This year po
tatoes bring a good price; therefore
housekeepers exert their ingenuity and
skill in making the vegetable go as far
as possib'e Acvery nice dish is a kind
of stewed potatoes, made as follows:
Take the cold boiled potatoes and peel
nicely, cutting out every eye, and cut
up in small chunks, from half an inch
to an inch square. Put a teacupful of
milk, a teacupful of salt, a bit of butter
or pork drip the size of a butternut, and
a tablespoonful of Hour, into a skillet,
and sii till scalded; pour in the potato,
say three pints of the pieces, and coer
the kettle tightly, to keep in the steam;
give it a good stir occasionally, till it is
well scalded; serve hot, and it is a nice
dinner dish.
Another way is to pare the potatoes
and wash them in salted water a full
hour; drop them into boiling water and
cook till soft; take up and mash fine;
put in a little sweet cream or milk, with
a little butter, stir well, and put it in a
dish and set in a hot oven till needed for
the table. It is good. Another nice
way is to slice the boiled potatoes quite
thin, and have a little pork drip hot in a
rlat spider; sprinkle a little salt among
the slices, and spread evenly over the
bottom of the spider; cover up so the
steam will not escape; when browned
upon the under side, take the
griddle cake shovel and turn them
over. When nicely browned they are
ready for the table, and make a
pleasant change of diet, either with
meats or fish. We have become so ac
customed to the use of this vegetable
that it is almost impossible to pass over
a meal without them in some form.
They make a heaithful relish, which
ulinost every person enjoys. They go
farther, when made into some palatable
dish, thaa when merely boiled and set
by the side of the meat platter. There
are potato-balls and otato-cakes that
are very nice, and are prepared the
same as mashed potato, only to a quart
of the pulp add an egg and mix thor
oughly with the milk and butter. For
cakes, butter a flat patty-pan and spread
the potato over the bottom of the pan;
set in a brisk oven till lightly browned;
cut up in square cakes and serve hot.
For fried balls prepare in the same way.
and mold into balls and fry as you would
fish-balls, not omitting to rub over the
whole outside with flour, so that they
will not fall to pieces in turning over.
A very good way to dispose of bits of
meat, is to chop it up quite fine, and to
one-third quantity of meat add two
thirds of cold boiled potatoes, chopped
fine; add a cupful of sweet milk, a little
salt and pepper, and let it boil till right
hot, stirring often while cooking. I
would not fancy this d.sh served at a
hotel or restaurant, for I should con
stantly be thinking that its fabrication
might be indeed a mystery that I should
not like to solve: but for a home dish,
made by the tidy housewife, it is a real
delicacy that is not to be despised, and
is nevof left uneaten on the table. All
these methods of cooking potatoes an
good for a change, ana calculated to
tempt the appetite. Farmer's Wife, in
Country Gentleman.
Fashions in Cigars.
"How will you hav.
stylish, colory, or is it
want?"
your cigars
flavor that you
Are there styles and fashions in
cigars?"
"To be sure," the tobacco man a
pl'ed. Fashions and styles change in
cigars even more thau they do in dres.
The judges of a really good cigar are
very few, indeed: The average smoker
buys a cigar through his eyes. Now,
here is one," tak ng it from a glittering
show-case, "that sells for five cents.
You will notice that it is rich, dark,
g'ossy and handsome. It has no quali
ty, but a smoker is satisfied with it be
cause it looks well, and, stuck in his
mouth, it serves the purpose of a twenty-five-cent
cigar. I remember when it
was fashionable to smoke light-colored
cigars, Claro or Co.orado, as they are
known in the trade, out now everybody
wants dark, colory goods. This has led
to the use of coloring extracts, aud
Havana tobacco extract i now a staple
article of merchandise in the trade. In
."hapes the cigar manufacturers are con
trolled by mold-makers, who, in order
to stimulate their business, are as inex
orable in their season's changes as are
the makers of hatters' blocks. Cigars
are pressed into wooden molds betore
the wrapper is pot on, and, according
to the mold, the cigar is turned out to
be thick or thin, dampy, pointed at end
or entirely round. Smokers, as I said
before, are attracted by appearance,
and some shapes become very popular
and have a great run; others don't take
at all, and then the mold-makers get up
another shape. As for quality, it is
simply a matter of taste. Some men
actually prefer the taste of a nickeJ
cigar, just as an Irishman will cling to
his clay pipe and ' nigger head.' But
it is a curious fact that ir a smoker once
inhales the flavor of a fine cigar he loses
all Laste for a cheaper article.
"Yes; people are gradually becoming
educated in the matter of taste, and
there would soon be no market for
nickel cigars if the ranks of smokers
were not constantly recruited from boy
cigarette smokers. Last year the con
sumption of cigarettes were 14,000,000
less in this country than the year be
fore. This shows "that recruits have
.been added to the ranks of cigar
smokers. Perhaps you don't know that
Hew" York has become the largest man
ufacturing center of the cigar industry
in the world. For the seven months of
this year ending July 30 there were
441.236,000 cigars made in New York
City. These, at $6 per thousand, yielded
a very handsome revenue to the Govern
menL "The cigar industry is controlled by
foreigners, and all have made money.
Cigar-makers come principally from
Germany; many are from Bohemia, and
a few are from Belgium, Holland and
England. German cigar-makers are
coming over now in large numbers, and
are settling in New York at the rate of
2,000 a year. They all find emploj-ment
at remunerative wazes. A good work
man gets $4.50 per 1,000 for making
cigars, and he can tnrn out from 500 to
700 cigars a day.
"Tobacco is a peculiar plant Every
leaf differs. The more tender the leaf
the finer the quality. No machinery has
yet been perfected to supplant the skill
IhI manipulation of the human hand, al
though there have been numerous at
tempts to make cigars by machinery.
The essential parts of a cigar are the
filler and tfce binder, which is called a
bunch, and the wrapper. The wrapper
ps not Um thirtieth part of a egar, ami
j it is tbc part which imparts flavor
4o the whole. A bad mapper will spoil
is filtr ad IsMsr, wke a god
wrapper put on a poor bunch will maVo
a very good smoke. The introduction
of a new tobacco grown on the Island
of Sumatra into this market has lately
caused a great flutter in the trade.
This tobacco is grown under the direc
tion of a wealthy Dutch syndicate at
Amsterdam, which employs coolies '
o raise tobacco on their possessions in
tlje East Indies. The tobacco has only
been in this market two years, yet it is
gaining favor so rapidly that the im
portations of it have in reaped at the
rate of 100 per cent, a year. In 1874
the total tobacco product of the Isl
and of Sumatra was only 96.463
pounds. Last month 147,224 pounds
T.
alone were brought toAew lork.
Sumatra leaf is cured so well, and is so
glossy and handsome in appearance,
that cigar-makers eagerly take it. Its
quality is very poor, but since four
pounds of it will cover 1,000 cigars,
where twelve pounds of seed or domes
tic are ordinarily used, it is much
cheaper to use Sumatra tobacco where
appearance only is considered, notwith
standing its duty of thirty-tive cents a
pound and ten per cent, ad valorem.
Cigar manufacturers say that American
growers of tobacco have become very
careless in the cultivation of their to
bacco crops. . It requires one year of
curing before the crop is ready lor the
market, and the '80 and '81 crops have
been found so poor that in self defense
the handsome Sumatran stranger has
been given the preference. Lately the
Tariff Commission, while at Long
Branch, heard arguments for the sup
pression of this imported tobacco by
placing on an additional fifty per cent.,
or 100 per cent ad valorem duty. Cigar
manufacturers aver that they prefer
to use Pennsylvania or Connecticut
tobacco if they can get it for use in
cigars. The native leaf, they say, has
the quality, but it is poorly cured and
of bad color. The sorting of colors of
Sumatra tobacco is graded with the
most perfect nicety. There are, for in
stance, thiity-three shades of brown,
comprising dark red, yellow and middle
browns, and light and' dark fallow. It
is the nice arrangement of colors which
causes the Sumat.-a tobacco to be pre
ferred, and it is said that American
growers might take a valuable lesson
from the care and skill which character
ize the coolie labor." N. Y. Sun.
Hew the World Went Right Aloag.
A Bear who had made himself believe
that he had the worst luck of any ani
mal in creation, was crawling through
the woods one day when he met a Ser
pent, who inquired:
"Which way now, my Friend?"
" I am going to find some spot where
I can retire from the World- The World
has not used me tight, and in revenge I
will desert it."
"I wouldn't do that."
"But I will. lean no longer trust
anvbedv. I have been cheated, lied to
and misused until I h ave no faith left.
I will now retire within myself, and if
any convulsion of Nature "takes place
the country must not blame me for it. I
have borne all that one Bear can be ex
pected to put up with."
Bruin went his way until he found a
lonely spot, and he then crawled into a
hole and began listen'ng for the Crack
of Doom. It made him feel good to think
that the World was turning itself bot
tom side up because he had absented
himself from sight and search, and he
was determined uot to yield until after
several thousand terror-stricken people
had come to him with tears in their
eyes.
"Much to Bruin's surprise the night
passed like all other nights. No one
appeared during the forenoon to plead
with him, and' the afternoon passed
without an Earthquake or Tornado. He
momentarily expected the advent of a
crowd to plead with him to come back
to the World and have faith and confi
dence, but the crowd didn't show up.
After a long and hungry night Bruin
began to weaken. After much argument
with himself he crawled out of liis den
and was sneaking through the woods
when he met a Hare.
"Is the World yet
the Bear.
standing?" asked
"Certainly, never more solid since I
can remember."
" And is anv one searching for me?"
4 "Kn Iia. T lrnnir rt "
" Everything goes on just the same,
eh?"
"Just the same."
" And didn't you hear that I had lost
all fuith in human nature, and retired
from the World?"
" Never heard a word of k. Tro-la,
old man; I'm off."
The Bear sat down on a thistle and
thought the matter over for a few min
utes, and then arose and made a bee
line for his u.ual haunts, telling every
:nimal he met on the way that he had
been off on a fihing excursion.
MOKAL.
The cynic who flatters himself that
he is revenging on the world by with
drawing his company forgets that he
will be obliged to associate with him
self. Detroit Free Press.
The Effect of Stock Fluctuations.
" Guess 1 won't take in the school to
day," said a Carson urchin with an
Appeal in his hand. "Why not?"
"Concordia has fallen oft ten cents,
and I don't dare show up until it picks
up again." "What have the fluctua
tions of Concordia got to do with your
studies?" "A good deil," answered
the boy. "My teacher has a hundred
sh-ires of the stock, and when it falls off
a few cents we all catch it heavy. I
keep my eye on the list, and when
there's a break yon bet I don't go to
school. I play sick. Golly! how she
basted me the'time Mount Diablo bust
ed down to two dollars. When it was
sellin' at twenty she was as nice as pie.
I was the first feller that got on to the
break, and told the bovs of mjr class
that if she didn't cell there'd be the
dickens to pay. 1 heard Uncle Fraser
say it was a good short, and I never
slept a wink for a week. I arabbed the
Appeal the first thing every morning;
when I saw her keel down to sixteen I
skipped to the hills. Oh my! How she
did bang Johnny Dobson round that
morning. I was in hopes that the
blasted mine would pick up, but the wa
ter got in the lower levels; and 1 knew
we were in for it. She licked some-1
body for every dollar it dropped- After
ir HrrhTinoH AltA.
.eiSh(t ll mckd aP ajittle, and .
we had time to get My mother s been
big break m Sierra Nevada, and if the
I'm goin' to quit the public school and
go to work on a ranch." Carson City
Appeal
iuun.ci, uuu k ism; a uirn ureiiv soon
A colored driver of an express
wagon made all Cleveland laugh the
other day by rigging out his horse in
pantaloons in order to mitigate "the
scratches," of which the animal was a ;
ji-uiu. Ane coioreu man took toe
laughter very philosophically. "Lm
on, chile," he remarked; "itdoanlook
god, but it feels good to the aaixsoic"
Detroit Fret Pre.
The Absurdities of Fashion.
Old Mr. Thistlepod climed up the
broad stairway of marble and rosewood
leading to the'high-backed, Queen-Anne
editorial room3 of The Raiokeye, yes
terday morninsr. His heavy tread fell
noiselesoly upon the fompadour velvet
". -. - -1
carpets, and as he sank into a costly es
critoire the perfumed light fell through
the stained glass tant mieux at the facade
of the mannginsr editor's ebranlement
de cuirt touched the old man's face with
a softened overmoulou, that seemed,
like an echo from the stately renaissance
that looked down upon the walls. Care
fully moving the elegant Louis Quinze
I passe-partout where .the old man could
not tip it over with his feet, if after his
usual habit he should choose to rest
them on the carved mauvis sujet, the
editor asked the honest tiller of the soil
how was crops in the Flint River conn
try. "Crops?" echoed the old man. "Well
now I want to tell yon about crops.
Corn's all right, an' oats was better'n
Hsual an' wheat just boomed, but you've
got a crop of fools in Burlington that'll
;just lay over any other green thing that
ever uxawea ine cows in me otaie 01
Iowa.
"Why, the town's full of 'em," shout
ed Mr. Thlstlepod, who labors under
the impression that he can't be heard
unless he talks very loud.
"How can you' tell they're fools?"
asked the society editor.
"By their clothes," waved the old
man, and the society editor slid as far as
he could under the table and then laid
his face flat on his arm in order to write
more easily. "By their clothes," re
peated the sturdy old agriculturist. " 'Y
gaul, if a boy of mine 'uz to dress like
the young fellers I see in this town, I'd
beat some sense into him with a neck
yoke. Why it's redik'lus; 1 tell ye, it's
redik'lus. I see a young chap down in
the countin'-room with a pair o' trous
ers on him tlghter'n candle molds I
hope to die 'f I didn't think he'd stuck
his laigs into a couple o' snake skins.
'N' his coat by jockies, it wasn't hard
ly long enough to cover his suspenders;
it wasn't, I swanny. 'N' it fit him clos
ter than his undershirt, and his shirt
collar sawed his years every time he
turned his head, 'n' he wore his watch
chain outside his coat. An' he wore a
flat hat, with a round top, about as big
as a cooky. An1 his shoes! P'inted,
do ye know, p'inted like toothpicks, 'n'
they was long" as pickaxes. To see him
skippin' around in that git up, lookin'
more like a monkey -nor a white man,
'y gaul, it made me mad, 'n' I swan I
wanted to lick him. I declare I did.
They's no sense in a Christian man
makin' such an outlandNh spectacle of
himself, an' if I ever ketch my boy
dressed up in any such a' dog-goned re
dik'lus, absurd, disgustin' fashion, I'll
be gaul swizzled if I hello, Jasper, are
ye waitin' for me?"
And saying good-by, Mr. Taistlepod
accompanied his son down stairs to the
wagon. As the old man turned to go, he
did not in the least degree resemble the
"young feller" down in the counting
room. The big felt hat he wore had
originally been of some color, but that
was years ago. The blue merino band
sewed on with black thread was too
loose, and a twine string tied tightly
around it caused the hat to bulge out
above the band like the dome of a
mosque. lhe hickory shirt fastened at
the collar in severe simplicity with a
big horn button, scorned a collar of any
kind. The roomy brown vest had four
white bone buttons and a black shawl
pin, and through the irresilar reticula
tions of its much abraded back the soli
tary suspender showed through, reso
lutely clinging to a button aft and a nail
forward. The baggy blue trousers
swelled out below the flapping vest into
an ample dome, strangely creased and
fearfully wrinkled, breaking, as the old
man walked, iiito awful billowy bulges
and humps, while one long, deep, diag
onal crease showed where the trusty
suspender, hauled taut from port to
starboard, held everything fast on the
quarter. Further down they bagged in
great curving billows at the knees and
wrinkled behind; they were brief, and
came to an untimely end about four
inches before they reached the top of the
shoe, and they ended abruptly; same
size all the way down and sawed square
off across the ends. The shoes were not
exactly pointed at the toes, and when
the old man's feet were not in them you
could't bet which way the shoes were
pointed. Jasper was attired in like
manner as his father, only being a much
taller man his trousers were correspond
ingly shorter. As they passed through
the aesthetic decorations of the counting
room, the man in the lean pants laughed
sneeringly, and Mr. Thistlepod laughed
tauntingly. The managing editor sank
back in his ermine cushioned jleur de
terre.
" I am afraid," he sighed, wearily,
"those two people are laughing at each
other's clothes." Burlington llawkeyc.
A Popular German Name.
Few characteristics of the German
Fatherland are more justly and emi
nently calculated to astonish the intelli
gent foreigner visiting that realm for
the first time than the inordinate preva
lence of the patronymic Muller within
its ethnological boundaries. So striking
is this Teutonic specialty that a French
author of no mean renown, having trav
eled through the length and breadth of
Germany, and being moved, on his re
turn home, to record his "impressions
de voyage" in the form of a book, com
menced his introductory chapter as fol
lows: "The Germans are a people
whose name is Muller." As a nomen
clature, in short, Muller is to the Ger
man Empire what Smith is to Great
Britain, her colonies and dependencies.
This is no mere conjecture, but a grave
and authoritative statement, based upon
official statistics recently communicated
to the German nation in connection
with the General Census of 1881. From
1 these statistics, the correctness of which
I we see no reason to doubt, it appears
, that the total number of Mullers having
1 their being in United Germany at the
close of last year was 629,987. That
. the proportion of Teutons whose "front
name" is not Muller to those upon
i whom the accident of birth has be
stowed this patronymic should only be
Zlll:
as seventy-three to one is surely a sur-
o
London Telegraph.
The annual wheat crop of Minnesota
is glorified in the four quarters of the
at home and is seldom even thought o'f
by the outside world. Yet its value this
year is reckoned at nearly .20,000,000.
The crop is estimated at 1,500,000 tons
t of wild hay and 200,000 tons of cultivat
, ed. Chicago Journal.
t- 70Q C?Q,t trust aman entirely Jet '
him skip ; this trying to get an average I
on honesty has always been a failure.
osn tunings
The Atlanta Constitution thinks
that eight courses at dinner are enough,
even If four of them are water.
September.
.Tune and September are the glory of
summer. June comes to us with the
charm of faith and freshness, Septem
ber with the radiance of a deeper, richer
life. There are no days like these,
1 trom the early morning, when the gray
clouds flush mto
crimson, and the light
increases to a golden brightness, on
through the cool afternoons, when the
shadows grow longer and deeper, and
the brilliant colors fade into the deli
cate purple, there is a beauty to be
found during no other month of the
year. The blue of the sky its heaven
ly clearness; the warm, mellow light;
the air deliciously blending the softness
af summer with the invigorating tone of
autumn, the yellow green of the foliage,
belong only to the early fall. It is a
;ime of exceeding joy in nature. It is a
holiday; the hard work, the putting
forth of energiesis over. The last
Dlush has been given to the peach, the
llnrtint tn tE .-ir tho -n nn.l
:rimson to the plum; the marvelous
bloom has been thrown upon the clus
:ers of grapes ; the melons have stored
inside the last drop of juicy sweetness; ,
:he corn has thrown out its sign of
:ompletion Nature pronounces her '
oenediction: "Well done, good and '
aithful servants ; the harvest, the rest,
:he neace have come."
The delicate tints, the short-lived
lowers have gone, only the gorgeous J
sues, the Titians and Tintorettos of the
garden remain, such as could bear tho I
heat and burden of the summer, like '
isters and marigolds, each silently i
caking up and laying aside its particle
Df color, patiently waiting for the last
aa3, iu niiuuur aiuuuii me iirjiriuc-t
nd best. The bees still hover around
the balm, but evidently they begin to
realize that working days are nearly
aver. Now and then, a whiz in the air,
ind a humming bird darts inside a yel
low nasturtium. If you want to enjoy
1 forest, select an afternoon in Septem
ber. You will realize how the golden
light, glimmering through the thick
branches of the trees, first brought to
some creative mind, in vision, the aisles
and arches of (iothie architecture.
There will be a low chirping of insect;
now and then a twittering in the boughs ;
but these sound3 will hardly break the
stillness. The deserted birds '-nests will
remind you of closed country houses
the noisy life has vanished. As you
wander on you will come to damp
places, where tiny ferns, green or deli
itely bleached, are still fair as in June;
where soft, feathery mosses cling to the
earth, and the partridge vine creeps
over and around the gray stones.
September is the best season for a va
cation to those who can take it. It is
not a good time to begin work. Out-of-door
life is too alluring. One is not
ready to lift the burden of care. These
are the very days, among the woods,
the mountains and by the sea, to learn
the serenity of Nature to take home
the lesson, that in spite of weariness
and care, life holds out a golden prom
ise. Other countries make this month
a time of receation. In Scotland comes
the Kirn festival, with its hayis for the
chief dih at npper. In England, the
joyful Harvest home. Then the home
liest clothes, brpught out for this time,
year af for year, are put on. The hist
handful of grain, left on purpose in the
fields is cut down by the prettiest maid
en, and carried home by her in triumph
on the load. The laborers surround the
wagon Some lead the horses, others
shout and sing the old refrain
" We have plowed, wo htivo sowed,
Wj have reaped, we have mowed.
We have brought home every load.
Harvest home, harvo-t home."
Boston Transcript.
The Jabini of Senegal.
The Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, has
been enriched recently by the acquisi
tion of various animals. One of the
most interesting of these, without doubt,
is the jabini of Senegal, which natural
ists, n their not very harmonious lan
guage, call the Mycteria sanegalensis.
This bird belongs to a genus allied to
the one containing the marabou, which
is so well known to those who frequent
zoological gardens and to the same
family as our storks. It is impossible
in examinins it not to make the reflec
tion that animals possess a physiogno-1
my in keeping with their habits. The
marabou, a bird of revolting voracious
ness, which shares with the vulture the
dutv of disposing of carcasses and
various kinds of filth lying around, is
fully as repulsive in its aspect as the
jabini is attractive. It is, in fact, be
cause the latter eats living prey and has
the bold and free step of the hunter. ,
Living in
the vicinity of ponds and
rivera, it hunts and fishes by turns. It
w I
often flies, which is something that the
marabou rarely does, as the latter is
kept on the ground by its duty as a
scavenger. The jabiru lives in pair3,
and the male and female of each couple
never leave one another. Its area of
distribution is quite an extended one. !
From the banks of the White Nile, as
far as Senegal, having for northern
limit the fourteenth degree of latituede,
it lives in the whole center and south
west of Africa, although nowhere
abundant.
It is larger than our stork, and its
back, the upper part of its wing3, its
head, neck; and tail are of a brilliant
black, while the lower parts of its body
are of a beautiful white. Its red and
black bill is provided with two pendent
wattles that have been likenedto a sad
dle, and that have sometimes given the
bird the name of the saddled stork.
In captivity it is a pleasant comDanion.
It respects its neighbors, but wishes to t
be respected by them. Like the stork,
it has great regard for its dignity and
aoes not allow any one to injure it Ac
cording to Bennett, who has madeobser- .
vations on Australian laoirus m cap
tivity, the habits of which arc much
like those of the Senegal bird, and ac
cording to Dr. Bodinus, who has had
several of the latter in his possession,
they are easy to rear and do not suffer
from changes in temperature. It would
perhaps be possible, then, to acclimate
them in our country, where they might,
while proving an ornament to our
marshes, render service by destroying
frogs, field mice, and other vermin!
They would swallow here and there a
few fi3h ; but, since Europe will soon
witness the death of the last heron, it
would prove a certain compensation for
the friends of animals if they could re-
place that by a bird of moire sociable
habit', and which by that very fact
would be more effectually protected.
The new boarder at the Jardin de?
Plantes, to judge from the nale tints of
its plumage, is still a young bird. It j
does not appear to us to enjoy very vig- j
orous health. We have seen it often, 1
and it was always seated and makin" a
plaintive clucking, and partially open
ing with a sickly air its long bill, whos
tose
upper mandible had been mended
with
a piece of tin. La N-ilure,
Scientific men in Japan are discuss
ing the possibility of utilizing the in
ternal heat of the earth.
Sparc the Childrea.
A foreigner traveling in this country
and observing the habit of cramming
small children with eatables at all hoars
of the day and night might imagine
them some species of human geese pre
paring for a pate de foi graa. But it L
' us who are the geese and the children
the helpless victims. A few days ago a
mother was observed on an excursion
, with two dim-eyed, pallid babes. At the
1 hour of noon she produced a basket and
I gave to each child a piece of meat, some
pickles, a large sweet cake and a section
! of pie, and remarked as she helped the
I smallest one, "I don't beliove that child
is hungry. She has been eating steadily
, ever since 10 o'clock;" and then she
added, emphatically, "You'll be sick,
I miss, see if you don't!" What that
child had eaten was enumerated as fol
lows: "One bag of peanuts, one paper
Zm? QwkTi1v
COOkteS, five Cente' WOrth Of plums,
01 canuy, two peacne-s, two pears, three
larsre
doughnut. The passengers were
troubled at the capacity of the child,
fearing it would prove inadequate, but
they need not have been alarmed. It
ate as much more for its regular dinner,
and drank water to an extent that was
simply phenomenal, and it did not have
a fit or drop dead, or do anything but
look more sallow and pinched and hun
gry, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon it
was leaning against its mothercomplain
ing, "I ain't had a bite to eat since din
ner, and I'm most starved," etc., etc.
Prof. Chandler, of Now York, has been
approached on the subject of infant sta
, h;8 i(ktaof what a child,'food &,& be
tistics, and the following dialogue gives
to injure health :
" What are the greatest desiderata in
taking care of children in the summer?"
" Plenty of fresh air these river and
harbor excursions are splendid early
hours and proper food."
"What is the best food for children?"
" Milk and cereals, bread, oatmeal,
corn meal "and cracked wheat are the
best food. Poor people often give their
children corned beef and cabbage when
they are only two or three years old.
That is simply frightful."
"Are not veal and pork almost equal
ly indigestible for children?"
"They are very trying, indeed, to
their digestion ; beef, mutton and fowl
are by tar more nutritious and easily
digested."
" How as to fruit, green apples and
the like?"
" Fruit, if it is ripe, is healthy, but
green apples are to be avoided ; they
often produce cholera infantum."
" And our national, omuipresent pie,
Professor?"
" That is the very worst of all. Pie
of any sort is bad, because the crust is so
indigestible, but mince pie and lemon
pie especially are diabolical."
"And candy?"
" Candy eaten in moderate quantities
is not bad if taken after meals. The
trouble about Cindy eating by children
is that it generally take-s away their
appetites for wholesome, strengthening
food. There is no stamina, of course,
in sugar; it is simply a boating food,
and won't make brain or muscle."
It is enough that the poor little things
must contend with all the diseases natu
ral to childhood without being sacrificed
to the gross stupidity and selfishness of
their parents. With oatmeal and milk
a child can live and thrive until it U
three years old without tasting meat or
vegetables, much less indiirestible pas
try. Detroit P't ami Trthune.
Are Women Belter Dressed than Men I
One of the signs of advanced civiliza
tion is discomfort in dress; the further
any nation advances in civilization, the
more she tortures her subjects, and,
strangely enoush, the infliction falls
upon the so-called upper class. The
educated class, the members of the
liberal professions, the denizens of the
city, the merchant and his clerks, suffer
more than the por laborer from heat if
not from cold. As between the sexes
there is little difference in this resDect.
Civilization even extends its cruel hand
over the babe in its cradle, and would
afflict the dead if they had any feelings
left.
Science has investigated the absorbent
and radiant
powers of different fibers
and different colors, but man, in his
wisdom, disregards this, and prefers
the worst instead of the best. Woman
may expose her brain to the direct rays
of the sun by wearing a small, useless
bonnet, but fashion compels her to carry
a parasol to compensate for it. On th
other hand, fashion, not so cruel as she
is painted, is eouallv in favor of lrr
hats with useful brims. Xot so wi?h
"
man. Broad brims are tabooed, and
parasols are not permissible. With re
gard to the neck, man has no choice ; a
collar he must wear, and one fitting
close to the neck and reinforced bv a
cravat or tie. To woman alone is
granted the comfort of low-necked.
Salf-law, heart-shaped or loose-fittin
collars. The body, or trunk.is no better
I off. Man must wear a stiff white shirt,
j a vest, and a lined and padded coat,
j Woman needs wear but one (visible)
, garment, which may be made as light
I and thin as possiblewithout being trans
I parent. It is even doubtful whether the
tightly drawn corset, that object of uni
versal use which is so violently de
1 nounced by the opposite sex, causes
, moe discomfort than the numerous
, articles with which man surrounds him-
selt; for physiologists have learned that
woman can breathe with the upper part
of the lungs (thoracic breathing), and
therefore suffers less from tight-lacing
than man. As regards the arm, matters
are pretty evenly balanced, with the
odds in favor of woman, who may
shorten her sleeves as much as she
pleases, and in no cae wears more than
one long-sleeved garment, where a man
) wears three. Cuffs she mav dispense
I with, but he can not. Her sfeeves need
not be lined ; his must, unless of very
: thick material. Boston Journal of
uaemisiry.
Respect the Body.
A writer in the Hearth and Home has
some sensible idc:is on the subject of
bodily health. He says: "Respect the
body. Give it what it requires, and no
more. Don't pierce its ear3. strain its
PTT0G- ctr nineh iri foot flnrOf vnacf Sfr ki.
a hot fire all day, and smother it under
heavy bed covering at night; don't put
it in a cold draft on slight occasions.
and don't nurse or pet it to death ; duu't
dose it with doctors' stuff3, and, above
all, don't turn it into a wine cask or a
chimney. Let it be 'warranted not to
smoke,' from the time yorr manhood
takes possession. Respect the body;
don't over work, over rest, or over love
it, and never debase it, but be able to
lay down when you are done with it a
well worn but "not a misused thing.
Meantime, treat it at least as well as
3 on would your pet horse, or hound,
and, my word for it, though it will not
jump to China Rt a bound, you'll find it
a most excellent thing to have especial
ly In the country."