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THE JOURNAL. ISStKD EVERY WEDNESDAY, M. Iv. TURNER & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. KATES OF AJDTEMTI9U!;. 7"Businss and professional cards of five lines or less, per annnm, first dollars. 13 For time advertisemsnts, apply at this office. iSTLsgal advertisements at status rates- j3TFor transient adTSrtlslnf, m rates on third page. 33TAU advertisements payable monthly. rims A5D nenuH. iiiitpi mmm K Z3T OFFICE. Eleventh St.. up stairs j in Journal Building. TERMS-. Per year ... . six month? Three months single copies .34 1 05 VOL. XIIL-NO. 82. COLPMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1882. WHOLE NO. 66. V- CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. C. H. VasWyck, U. S. Senator, Neb raska City. Alviv sacnder5,U. 5. Senator.Omaha. E. K. Valentine, Rep.. West Paint. T.J. Majors, Contingent Rep Peru. STATE DIRECTORY: Albinus Nance. Governor, Lincoln. s.J. Alexander, -secretary of State. John Wallich-, Auditor. Lincoln. ;. M. Birtlt-tt. Treasurer. Lincoln. C.J. Oil worth, Attorney-General. VT.VT. W. lone-. Supt. Public Instruc. C.J. N'obe-. Warden of Penitentiary. 'nVVVb,biey' Prison Inspectors. C.H.Gould, l J.O. Carter. Pri-on Physician. U.P. Mathewson.Supt. Insane Asylum. JUDICIARY: George B Lake. voci:lte j,jces. Amaa ( obb. t S. Maxwell. Chief Ju-ti'e. fourth jrnrri.L iisti:ic. it. Y. 1'o-t. Judari, York. 31. IS. Uee-e. I)i-trict Attorney, YV'ahpo. LAN'D OFFICERS: 31. IS. lloxif. U-sI-ter. Grand I-land. Wm. Ail) an. Receiver. (Srand 1-land. LEGISLATIVE: State Senator, .M. K. Turner. Rejin -t-nt.-itivr. J. W. Lehman. Ci H STY DIRECTORY: J. G. Hiiririn-. County Jmlse. John MuunVr. Comitv rjrk. c. A. NVwmw. ( !erk Ii"t. Court. .1. W. Earlr. Traurer. 1M . Kaia'tiamrhheriff. L. J. i rmr. surveyor. 31. .Maker. ) J-eu Rivet, V H. J Hml-nn. ) 31. .Maker. Count Commissioner lr. A . Heintz, Coroner. J. E. 3Iottirif "upt.of School. XXJTZ" r'lWtt,' l Ju-tice,ofthePeace. . 31. Coriielni-.t CITY DIRECTORY: J. R. 3Iea!rhr. Mivor. A. P.. CotTroth. Clerk. J. B. Del-man. Treisiirer. W.N. Hfn-l.-, Police Judce. J. E. North. Engineer. Ci ntilmen: 1st Ward J.hn Kiekly. G. A. liroedor. 'M Ward -Pat. ILtv.. I. (Jlii.k. 3d War I J . R i- m u - - n . A. A. smith. oliii!itu lo-i Office. open on und.ix- trin 11 a.m. to 12m. and from i-.:W t ti i. m. ISu-ine--liours ef pt "umlavtl A..M.10 3 l M. Ea-trn mail- elo-e at 11 a. m. W'-tern maili elo-e at 4 :!." i-.M. .Mail l:ie- Columbu- for Lost Creek. Genoa. -t. Edward-. Albion, Platte enter. Humphrey, Madi-nn and Nor folk. eery day (except Sundays) at 4:X p. m." Arrive- at 1:35. For shell Creek and Cre-ton, arrive-at 1-2 m. Lei es 1 v. m.. Tue-day-, Thurs-1j- and "-aturd.i -. For lexi-. Patron and David City, Tue-dav-. Thur-dav- and Saturday-, 1 1. m Arrie- it 12 M. For cnklin.' Tui-day- and Saturday 7 a. m. Arrive.- o n. in. -ame dav-. I,'. I. Time Eastward B uml. Table. it C:1' a. m. 10:.v; a. m. 2:1." p. m. 4:30 a. in. t 2:00 p. m. 4:27 p. m. 4 6:00 p. m. . . 1::50 a. m. Emigrant. No. 'i. leave- at Pa en'r, " 4, Freight. " N FreiirJjf. " 1". " Westward Bound. Freisrht. No. ."i, leave? at Pa enir'r, " :?. ' Freight. " '.. " Emigrant. 7. Every day except Saturday the three line- leading to Chicago connect with lr P. train- at Omaha. On Saturdays there will be but one train a day, a? -bown by the following schedule: B. & 31. TIME TABLE. Leave- Colutuun-, ':." a.m. Bell wood 0-:S) " David City. . .. 7.20 " Garri-on. 7:40 Ulv e- :2. " Staplehurst, :" " " Seward, . ... I:I50 " Rubv. . 9:"0 ' 3Iilford. 10:1" " Plea-ant Dale, . . 10:4.. " Emerald. .. 11:10 ' Arrive-at Lincoln, 11:4." M. Leave- Lincoln at 2:2-1 P. M. and a rive- in Columbu- v"" P. m. 3Iake- clo-e connection at Lincoln for all point- ea-t. we-t and -otitb. O., N. B. H. ROAD. Time Schedule No. 4. To take effect June 2. "1. For the government and information of .'inployce- only. The Company reere- the right to therefrom at plea-ure. Train vary dailv. Minday- excepted. Ouhcard Hound. Inicard Bound. Norfolk . 2t" a. M. Columbu- 4:."l" P.M. Lo-'CreeK,.1:2l " 1M. Centre .1:42 " numplirevO-2-1 ' 3ladi-on 7:01 " I 3Iunon 7:4. ' 3Iadi-on .:20 " I IIumphrev!:0.1 ' ! PI. centre 0:4 I Lo-tCreekI0.i ' ( ohunbu-10:.1-1 IIRANCH. Albion 7:4;J i.M. . st. Edwards:" " ;enoa !:14 ' I.o-tCreek0:-1! " Columbu- 1H:4.1 " 3lun-on Norfolk 7:KS :04 ALBION Columbu- 4:4.1 p.m. J o?t Creek-i.:i " Genoa 0:10 ' St.Envard7:M " Albion 7:47 H. LTJIRS fc CO, BLACKSMITHS AND Aras:on IBnilders, ew Krirk Miop i.-it HflnU'i Drue More. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORJC ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Eleventh Street. Columbus, yebraska. .10 NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. HARMOY, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLtJIBIS. rEii. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodation?. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. jg-TSet a Fii-a-CIa Table- Meals, 25 Cts. Lodgings.... 25 Cts. 3S-2tf COLI'nBCS Restaurant and Saloon! E. D. SHEEHAX, Proprietor. SSTWholesale nd Retail Dealer in For eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Dub lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales. XSTIIentucky Whiskies a Specialty. OYSTERS in their season, by the case can or dish. lltk Street, Scstk of Dapat. BUSLTTESS CAEDS. pOKELIUS Sc SUNLIT AJf, ATTORXEYS-AT-LA W, Upstairs in Gluck Building, 11th itreet, Above the New bank. TT J. IIUIMHKV, 2T0TABY PUBLIC. 12th Street, i doors west of HaaMond Roue, Columbus, Neb. 491-y D K. M. 1. THIRSTO, RESIDENT DENTIST. Office over corner of 11th and Xorth-st. All operations tirst-class and warranted. C ilill'ACiO BARBEK SHOP! HEX BY WOODS, Prop'r. t-Evcrvthing in first-class style. Al-o keep the best of cigars. 510-y r i:i:k &. reeder, A TTOJSXEYS AT LA W, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebra-ka. 2-tf f G. A. IirLLHORT, A. 31.. 31. D., HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, pg-Two Blocks outh of Court House. Telephone communication. 5-ly rcAM.TER BROS., 'A TTORNE YS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in 3IcAlliter's build ing. Uth St. W. A. 3IcAllister, Notary Public. C. O. EVA, n. ., PH YSICIAX fc SURGEON. TgT Front room, up-stairs in Gluck building, above the bank, 11th St. Calls an-wered night or day. .1-6in J. M. MACFARLANP, A:ur7 izfSr-7 ?s!:. B. K. COWDKRV, Cellar.: LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARXjAND & COWDERS Columbus, : : : Nebraska. G EO. -. DERRY. PAINTER. iSTCarriage, house aud sign painting, glazing, paper hanging, kal-omining, etc. doue to order. Shop ou loth St., opposite Engine House, Columbu-, Neb. 10-y Nth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store, Sells Harness Saddle-, Collars, Whips, Rlauket". Curry Combs, Brushes, etc.. at the lowest po.--ible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. G W.CLARK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY. NEBR. His lands comprise some tine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion ot Pl.tte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y BYKOS MILLETT, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. I1VK( JI1LLETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus Nebraska. N. B. He will give close attention to all business entrusted '.o him. 243. T OU1S SCHREIBEB, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Buggies, Wagons, etc., made to order, and all work guaranteed. JSTShop opposite the " Tattersall," Olive Street. "25 yA ER 4c WESTCOTT, AT THE CHECKERED BARX, Are prepared to furnish the public wJth good team, buggies and carriage for all occasions, especially for funerals- Also conduct a feed and sale stable. 49 TAMES PEARSALL IS PREPARED, WITH FIRST-CLASS APPARATUS, To remove houses at reasonable rates. Give nim a ctill. "jV'OTICE TOTKACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the nrst Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. 367-y pOLinKUM PACKING CO COL UMB US, - XEB., Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hog or grease. Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John Wiggins. Sec. and Trea.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory. Tame sal. no:, 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, DEALER IN KENTUCKY WHISKIES Wines. Ales. Cigars and Tobacco. iSSchilz's 3Iilwaukee Beer constant ly on hand.g Eleventh St.. Columbus. Neb. JS. MUKDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehadan 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 tunitytocstimateforyou. JSTShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co'. store. Columbus. Nebr. 4-SS-v $72 A week made at homo bv the industrious. Bet buines now before the public. Capital not needed. We will start yoa. 3fen. women, boys and girls want ed everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. You can work in spare time, or give your whole time to the business No other business will pay you nearly a well. No one can fail to make enonnou pay by engaging at once. Costly outfi and terms free. .Money made fast, easil and honorably. Address True Jfc Coy Augusta, 3faide. 31-v ASVE&TISEMEHTS . FIRST National Bank! Authorized Capital, Cask Capital, - S250.000 50,000 OFFICERS and directors. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. J. W. EARLY, ROBERT UHLIG. HERMAN OEHLRICH, W. A. -MCALLISTER, G.ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Ticket.-, Real Estate, Loan anu Insurance. 2LvoUl3-ly BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK HILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE. COLUMBUS, XEB. Dr. A. HEINTZ, DEALER IN KS, MEDICIIES. CHEMICALS. WEVES, LIQUORS, Fine Soaps, Brushes, PEEFUMEBY, Etc., Etc., And all articles usually kept on hand by Druggists. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Eleventh street, near Foundry. COLUMBUS, : NEBRASKA. SPE1CE & 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 fire 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. 621 COLIJIBIS. MEB. prain best! BUY THE Patent Roller Process MINNESOTA FLOUR! ALWAYS GIVES SATISFACTION, Because it make a superior article of bread, aud is the cheapest flour in the market. Every sack warranted to run alike, or money refunded. HERMAN OEHLRICH & BRO., GROCERS. 145m WM. BECKER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF FAMILY GROCERIES! I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A WELL SELECTED S TOChT. Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups, Dried and Canned Fruits, and other Staples a Specialty. Goods DIiTrel Free to aay part of the City. I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE CEL EBRATED COQUHXARD Fami and Spring Wagons, of which I keep a constant supply on hand, but few their equal, in style and quality, second to none. CAXX AUD LEARW PRICES. Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near A. J: X. Depot. MORNING IX THE CITY. What charm Are thine, ok, iocenM, bnatfcloff morn! How blessed with dewy freshness the hour! Before the dawn I hear the milkman' horn Blow at my gate with every-swelling power. rne ruey-omrered hour far In the jiowiac east Touch all the skies with streaks of gold and red. Food for the eyes, though for my morning feast I usually take a little roll in bed. The English sparrow, just outside my gate. Salutes the morn with many a rasping squawlc: rhe cartman, with slow wheels that creak and grate. Inspires his laggard steed with shout and whack. And now the baker's bell, with dire alarm. Ding doiurs and clangs: in tones that fairly freeze Die human blood, a huckster from the farm Comes down the street and yells: "Nice radish -es!" With rattling- sticks along the picket fence Rush down the street loud swarms of whist ling boy; And every man in all this city dense Starts up and greets the day with some new noise. Wash-tubs to mend the street: come bawling down "Ouldhats! ould hat3! shakes the door; vCharn.,oiiI, cha-aiM-d-aI!" fresh cut's meat!'." ould hat3l" just Here's your nice While "M-o-r-ning papiz!" swell the thun dering roar. Dh peaceful morn! oh, blushing, cloudless uavra: How sweet to kiss thy dewy-scented breath! How sweet to grasp a club and fall upon Yon shrieking boy. and maul him half to death. Burlinutun Haukeye. ABOUT SNAKES. Pythons and Anacondas Snakes Eggs and How They Are Hatched Rattlesnakes as Food for Human Stomachs AdrenturM With Reptiles. There was brought to the Star office by Mr. G. O. Starr yesterday an enorm ous erg. It was twice the size of a joose-egjr. but was not as regular in ihape. The outer covering, instead of being hard and brittle like a shell, was so soft that it could be easily indented by the finger. This singular egg was cold and clammy to the touch, and it gave a person who handled it an un comfortable feeling like1 that which would result from contact with a snake, toad or frog. "This egg." said Mr. Starr, "was iaid by the three-hundred-pound python .vhich was brought to this citv by Mr. G. B. Bunnell a few days aro. The u-?Dr." a 1CV u;i-3 f,0 Z python is sitting upon a nest full of such gg. auu iu a auuri unit: a ioi oi utile nakes will be hatched out. Thev will oe nice pets for people who have an ad- miration for reptiles. The mother snake is twenty-five feet in length, and she is coiled upon her nest and patiently await ing the advent of her young. Her tem er is just like that of a setting hen. 5he is very ugly, and if she is disturbed ihe manifests her displeasure in a way vhat gives all meddlers to understand jhat she wishes to be let severely alone." "What shall I do with this thing?" was the inquiry made by the represent ttive of the Star, to whom the python's gg was handed. " You can have it hatched artificial ly," was the reply of the donor. "Just fceep it in cotton in a place which is neither too warm nor too cold, and the first thine- von know vou will b thn owner of a real, live python. The if ou take proper care ot the young snake, it will grow so large that "it will be able to coil about you and crush you in its vice-like folds." Mr. WT. A. Conkling. Superintendent of the Central Park Menagerie, speak ing of reptiles, said: " There is scarcely any animal that commands so much aversion as the serpent, and yet, in spite of this, it is one of the most interesting pf all that come before the naturalist. Yet little attention has been paid to the snake, as compared to others of the animal kingdom. The ancient writers speak in respectful tones of ser- oents of size and power. Aristotle tells ' of the immense Lybian serpents, so i large that they pursued and upset some of the voyagers' boats that visited that . coast. The story of the gigantie snake that threw the armv of Regulus into dis- order bv killing and devouring several of hissoldiers, and squeezing a few hun dred to death in his folds, will be re membered. Regulus finally killed the monster by aid of the engines used to assail fortified places. The skin of this python was 120 feet in length, and for years adorned one the temples Rome." of Mr. Conkling added: "The story ' in that State are particularly plump, that snakes cover their prey with saliva and exceedingly inviting to the palate is an error. Sir Robert Ker Porter says J of an epicure. According to the ortho tic python does not first cover its .prey ' dox method, the rattler is skinned and with saliva The mucous does not pour , cut up into pieces about an inch or an out oi me gianus unless tne prey is large and it is required to lubricate the jaws and throat for the seemingly dispropor tionate feasL Pythons will clinsr bv the tail to some tree growing in the water, anu men noat upon tnesunace anu wait for animals that mav come to the water to qu-nch their thirst. They often feed upon each other. In the Zoological Gardens in London, one who had Rved for years on friendly terms with a ' brother nearly as large as himself, was found one morning sole tenant of his den. As the cage was secure, the keep-1 er was puzzled to know how the serpent nail escaped. At last it was discovered that the remaining inmate had swollen remarkably during the night, when the truth came ouL But if vou want a srood up and down snake story, let me intro duce you to Prof. Hutchfngs." "Can I tell you anything about snakes? I should sav so,'" said the Rev. Mr. Hutchings. lightning calculatorand lecturer upon Bunnell wonders. bir! I could tell you facts, sir-facts in rela- tion to the betrayer of our common mother that would overwhelm you with amazement. I remember one in the vear 1864. I was at Gilbert's Museum. Market, near Second. San Francisco. CaL Fifty in gold and all expenses. Those were glorious days; gold way up, and myself generally in a like condi tion. I noticed for several days a man they called Reynolds hanging about the place. He was a man about fifty, no taller than myself, gray locks hanging Dver his shoulders. A bent form like a tree that had been brought up wrong. Eyes with a far-away look. He had a peculiar gliding motion, and his feet, muffled in slippers, gave forth no more sound than the reptile. Shortly after I noticed the proprietor advertised for snakes. One day a mountaineer came in with a box pierced with air-holes. From the inside came a sound like unto the rattle of musketry. " What yer got, stranger?' said Rey nolds, pushing through the crowd. " Rattlers? said the mountaineer. " Let me take one,' reaching for the box. " ' Better look out; said Reynolds, they bite, and whm tjev bite they kill. was the reply. " If yer brought these in answer to the advertisement them's my snakes,' said Reynolds, as he plunged his hand into the" box. In a second he brought forth a six-foot rattlesnake, and holding it between a thumb and finger looked at it. The far-away look in the eyes of the mysterious man had given way to a dancing, sparkling brilliancy, bafore which the snake was powerless. 44 Ain't he jpurty ? See the sun strike its handsome hide and cum back in rain bow colore. Kiss me, boy.' " Slowly the deadly serpent went to wards his mouth, and then darted down his throat. The crowd did not move; they scarcely breathed. I felt my hair rising; I might say, in New Haven slang: We were paralyzed.' At all events. we were rooted to the spot as firmly as the Pyramids are to Egypt's sand In an instant his hands were in the box, and no less than twenty of these deadly animals were dancing around him to the music of their rattles. The mount aineer was pale as a sheet, and trembled as with the ague. Back went the snakes into the box. Turning to the mount aineer, Reynolds exclaimed: 'Wharf's the matter; are ye cold?' His voice broke the spell; the mountaineer gave one look, and then made for the door. He never came for pay for those snakes." Among the visitors to see the enor mous 300-pound python on exhibition there was a native of Central America. He told the attendant at the door that a long residence in a warm climate had made him perfectly tamiliar with rep tiles and their habits. He arknowl edged that the python in the museum was a wonderful serpent, but he said he had seen niany such in Guatemala. A representative of the Star, who hap pened to come along just then and overheard the Central American's re marks, asked him to relate some of his experiences with snakes. The man was a veteran of sixty-live or seventy years. His face was bronzed, and his " hair, which he wore long, was as straight as that of an Indian. He was full six feet tall, and the laukness of his figure g-ive him a singular appearance. He told the reporter that his name was Senor Jose Dece. that he was born in Mexico, and left that country for Central Amer ica when a young man. The Senor was well educated, and is able to speak in the English language with the same fluency that he does in his native tongue. He said: "I have camped in swamps and thickets, and slept with pythons and anacondas crawling all about me. I never thought of being afraid of them. The stories told in books of immense snakes attacking large animals and men. coiling about them and crushing and swallowing their prey, are for the most part exaggerations. It is true I that am3 are ofteQ yled and swallowed whole by anacondas and boa-constrictors; but it is safe to say that no full-grown man was ever made a meal of by a serpent." ' Were you ever attacked by a ser pent?" the reporter asked. ' I never had one tackle me, but a sailor with whom I was acquainted had a pretty severe experience. He was walking in a thicket ou one moonlight night, twenty-five or thirty years ago, when he suddenly found himself encir cled with the folds of a tremendous snake. I suppose he would have drawn a knife from his pocket and cut the reptile in two. but unfortunately for him he did not happen to have any cut ting instrument with him at the time. So all that was left for him to do was to struggle and free himself the best ' wa7 he could. He made a desperate 1 effort and loosened himself from what wis a very close embrace Once free, he procured a stick and pounded the anaconda upon its head until it was dead. There is a certain spot at the base of a snake's head which, if struck even a slight blow, will cause death." "Is an anaconda good for human food?" "Now, that is a question which is very hard to answer. It may be wholesome, but I think it wonld be prettv tough eating for any human being who has an ordinary set of teeth and the average ' digestion. I think I would prefer good beefsteak or a tenderloin if I wanted a . good square meal." ' Is any kind of snake suitable for food?" "O, yes; rattlesnakes are delicious and wholesome. I have been in coun formed a large share tries where thev of the regular diet of the inhabitants." " To what countries do you refer?" "Well, sir, the people of Brazil and Chili eat rattlesnakes: but you need not go so far away from New York to find seroent-eaters. The folks down in the northern part of the State of Pennsyl vania eat rattlesnakes. Ihe sernents . inch and a half long, and then fried the same as you would cook an eel. I have eaten rattlers lots of times. Thev taste something like eels, only a great deal ( sweeter. I prefer rattlesnakes to frogs , anv dav dav in tne week. t rogs are in sipid." "Did you ever see a pyramid of snakes?'"" "If you mean one of those conical piles of reptiles, such as Livingston saw in Africa I will tell vou that I never i saw a pyramid; but I have seen a heap 0r biff tn0ts of 'serpents'all twisted and entertwined in a wriggling, squirming, slimv, hissing bunch. I was exploring t a cave in South America a few vcars ago, when I came to a passage that was so low and narrow that I waseompelled to get down and crawl upon my hands and knees. I had to hold my torch in my teeth, and. as I could not manage if. wrv wall mv linrfif trna avt inrnTichtnl i .nH m r,i',- w.,f; ,r ,U ( along darkness. Suddenly f felt something cold and slimv against mv hamls. j. knew from the" feeIing that'r had touched a snake. Then 1 blindly . nnt. mi- honHa rnnnni ,nH thmt tm into a nest of serpents. You can be- lieve that I got out of that place speedily as possible." N. Y. Star. as A man undertook to paint the de struction of Pharaoh's host in the Red Sea on one of the walls of a room! After a very short time he much sur prised his "employer bv asking him to come and view the finished picture. On going to inspect it he found the walls covered with red paint. " Where are the children of Israel?" he asked. "Gone over," answered the painter. " Where are Pharaoh's host?" he next inquired. "All drowned," said the painter. m m Three hundred and fifteen vessels, ot a total burthen of 169,715.o4 tons, an owned by the Bath (Me.) citizens. The value of "this shipping, averaged at -522 per ton. a low estimate, is $:J,6:i3.744. On these vessels 769 officers and 2.34:2 sailors, a total of 3,112 men. are em ployed. James Gordon Bennett cares well for the family of Jack Cole, the insane boatswain of the Jeannette. He em ploys the oldest boy at a salary of $21 per week and subscribes $75 per month for the support of the five other children. A Walk la tke Lendoa Sewers. Most of the prevailing impressions as u the London sewers have no founda tion in fact, as. for instance, that thieves hide in them, that they are swarming qq goe3 around the country trading with nits, and that they are frequented I horses and selling a cure for ring-bone by aged mudlarks who scratch among ; Prof. SnatHe. the eminent veterinary the filth in search of spoil The idea surgeon: because where a pbvsician who that they are exceedingly unpleasant ministers to human suffering, wfth all places to explore is more natural, but the learning and skill the colleges can is commonly exaggerated. There are give him, il content and proud to be some scores of back streets in London called, doctor, the traveling "hoss doc which are much more trying to the tor" alwavs and evervwhere " Pro nostrils than a main sewer. As one of j feasor." A "man hires a hall and teach mv companions said-" Thev 2et a rood a nrml tn H-in... Pmf T.TcrhtfnntL deal more of it up above than we do He mav not be able to make out "his own rlrttxrr, tiara " on nnmmn tn ,v"l,TK rtn . ia"iil J i l .-?1 ?.t -..-...- down here. inclined to concur. The filth which ..i v.u.uu . .. .... . ... must uecessarilymake its way into the sewers has been in some degree chastised into cleanliness before it reaches the main lines, and the discomfort of an ex- ploration is caused by water and by the Cioseness of tne atmosphere ratner than by any disagreeable effluvia. The King's" Scholars' Pond sewer follows the line of a natural depression from be yond the Swiss Cottage to Pimlico. The water is drawn off in the manner al ready described at a point uear the junc tion of Oxford street and Davies street. Thence for some distance the pavement of the sewer is almost dry. Every few yards of our progress, however, dis closetl to us some new inlet. Some of these were mere earthenware pipes, with a stench-trap affixed. Others were square brick "gullies," generally in a bad state of repair. These are all private property. The more im portant connections, which are under the control of the Board of Works, are solidly built, and are in shape like a huge egg standing on the thin end. Here and there glimpses may be ob tained of old and disused sewers, as un derneath Davies street, where a long low tunnel brings us into a space al most as large as a village church, and with a roof so constructed as to suggest the comparison. A large sewer is very gloomy and mysterious. It has most resemblance to the tuunel of a cana!. As we walked along the water gathered about our feet. It seemed to enter in insignifi cantly small quantities a bucketful now and then running down a drain pipe, a continuous trickle here and there from one of the street connec tions yet after about a mile or so we were walking in water up to our knees. Then once more we heard the sound of rushing and tumbling, this time in front of us; and b and by were able to pass over a weir on to dry ground. Our course lay under Berkeley Mews, down Clarges street, and across Picca dilly. Our companions aboe ground had" saluted us at every entrance as we passed, and on reaching Piccadily we determined to have a breath of "fresh air. We emerged in the Green Park. It had been raining, and the strong sunlight was sparkling on dripping leaves aud moistened grass. Around us a flock of sheep was feeding, and for a moment it seemed as if we were miles away from town. To enjoy a London park thoroughly nothing is necessary but to come upon it suddenly from a sewer. It was a poor exchange for the sheep, when we had once more descended, to encounter the first rat. We saw. perhaps, a dozen more during the remainder of our journey. Of the many varieties enumerated by Mr. Browning, only one seem to frequent the sewers. Sewer rats are gray; and it is a peculiarity of theirs that, though they do not like" to be driven into the water, they can swim admirably. It is also worth noting that they have mas tered the secret of a stench-trap, and can get into the drains with ease. to be cunnfnjly introduced under flooring of our houses instead of being n,,F.uffH,nfmf a ta In " the good old times" sewers used carrietf along the front. ago the King's Scholars' Pond route would have taken us under Buckingham Palace. Now, however, it makes a bold curve, sweeps round in front, and passes under the gardens. It gets broader and higher from this point, and there are more frequent glimpses of the upper world. Through small square gratings the sunshine penetrates, making tall obelisks of light, which, inverting them selves, are dimly repeated in the black waters. "Archbishop Manning lives mere, said one ot my companions, puiiiuug iu a square jaru oi stone work that was visible through one of these grates. We fixed our locality in this way as we went along. Such casual glimpses of the world above served to relieve a journey which, much to the wonder of the passers-by. was again broken in Victoria Street From thence we had what the chief of my guides described as a "stiff bit." The water was broad and deep, and there was a heavy, clinging sediment at the bottom. Be-ides we had to pass underneath a great brewery, where all the drains vomited steam." The effect was much the same as if we had been in a Turkish ba"th. and matters were scarce ly improved when the close and heavily laden air warned us that we were ap proaching the gasworks at Pimlico. Here, after wading through the deepest piece of water that we had yet encoun tered we came upon the" last of the openings through which the sewer empties itself into the lower levels. Thenceforward, instead of having the earth above us. we had merely a wooden roofing, and after passing through what seemed like the hull of a great ship, and was exactly similar in form, we came upon the double flood-gates which interpose between the sewer and the Thames. Only on occasion of a great storm do these require to be opened, and then the whole course over which we had traveled is occupied by an im petuous torrent, which not infrequently rises to the height of sLx or seven feet. Pall Mall Gazette. Good Morning, Professor.' Jn this favored land the Professor is running, the Colonel a pretty close race, and the Colonel may just as well under stand that he has to hump himself or he'll get shut out at the distance pole. Just after the close of the war the Col onel took such a start that the most sanguine friends of the Professor admit ted that he never could catch up. Bat the Professor is one of the immortal few that were not born to die, and while the Republic lasts he will be on deck. Seed time and harvest may faiL summer may ! cease and the winter may not endure, i morning and even time mav pass awav. I but the Professor will be here. This is ; the country for him. and while it is defi- nitely settled by the last census that the coionei is aying out. anu tnat there is now but one Colonel to every thirty seven of population, the Professor is on the increase and holds all that he gain. The title is most honorable, and at one time it represented only the broad est scholarship, the profoiindest learn ing. It represented long years of hard, patient study of men and books and things. It "meant thought. It meant brains. It meant wisdom. It meant standing in the world of intellect. It r- i .- was a title hard to win and sparingly bestowed. Now A new barber comes to town and opens "tonsorial parlors" one room and two chairs he is Prof. Scraper. A Dins, auu speiw sunoitisae wuu sevcu letters, but he is Professor. A circus employe goes up in a balloon Prof. Gasbag, tne daring aeronaut. A retired prize hshter opens a srvmnasium and , boxino-school Prof. Bruiser, instructor ( 0f physical science and muscular devel- opment. A man takes his nue and ' makes thirty-nine bull's eyes in the tar- fet out of a possible forty at eight hun red yards Prof. Globesite, all o er the , country, fast as the mail and telegraph can confer his degree. A Texas cow i boy comes north and breaks horses for a living --Prof. Toecalk. A man swims further than any other man Professor. A man cuts corns and cures bunions for a living Professor; he waltzes three hours without resting Pro.'essor: plavs , the fiddle ami imparts to others the se crets of the diabolical art Professor; i walks a slack rope stretched across the street -Professor; goes without eating twenty days Professor; rides four horses bareback Professor; sings in the choir professor; teaches a brass band ' Professor; cures warts Professor; i plays billiards for a living Professor; trains dogs -Professor; performs some i clever tricks of sleight of hand Profes sor; does anything in the world except teach, and knows less of books and I schools than he does of Heaven Pro- fessor. The Colonel differs widely from the 1 Professor in that no reason is ever as- i sigued for his being. A man is simply called "Colonel," either becase he was a Lieutenant in the army or never was in the army, it is immateriaL He is just Colonel, that's all. But the Pro fessor claims his title by reason of his " profession," whether it be the cob bling of shoes or training of dogs. And as occupations increase in variety so the Professor increases in number. : There is honor in the honorable old title still, to the scholars who have earned it well and wear it with dignity. And it is a shame that the title which belongs exclusively to their world should have its livery worn in the circus, the rat-pit and the stables. Let us boycott the bogus Professor as an act of simple justice to the Professor whom we all es teem. Burlington Haivkege. A Diamond Headlizht. "While abroad I was fortunate enough to see the Iarirest and most val- j uable diamond in the world. It was my good fortune to learn of a very rich ' one in the hands of a slave, who made his escape from the coast, anil had been away from the mines about a year, but it was not then known that he had got- ; ten away with anything very valuable in the shape of a stone. He roamed around for a period of eighteen months, through every vicissitude. He had many difficulties before him in trying to gain passage. Finally he got on board a boat which chanced" in the Gambeza River. Twice he was confined in servi tude, until by two escapes he finally made a safe arrival in London. There I he inadvertantly became acquainted with an African woman who had been ' h" V Lnin- IS6". &e aservant in the family wnose guest I was. This woman . 3peak hu5 ton?"e an,i; a"1" oe" ' .uT-T T ,, r u fiT. u &fel h,3icIet.' teI1,n5 " that he had been a slave, in servitude for years in the diamond-fields of Africa; that by providential escape he hail made his way to London. He told her that he wanted to obtain information in refer ence to getting his wife and children to London. The bkwk woman, in her ig norance, was unable to. tell him what to do. and she applied to me, knowing that I America l nau a Knowledge of slave times in After hearing the storv I ad vised them to apply to the British Con sul in the provincial building. I went with them, and upon explaining to the Consul, the question arose, among other questions, what recompense he could make the English Government for n- ing to such expense as he had asked. Alter demurring a good while, on ac count of the great fear he felt about let ting the officials know he had such a treasure, he finally admitted that he had a rich stone. L'pon further inquiry and delay he requested the gentleman to come and make an examination. He exercised great caution for one of such ignorance, but finally brought down a large stale loaf of bread and laid it on the table for its examination. Before the loaf was cut open he negoti ated for the safe arrival of his family and protection against his former mas ters, provided the value of the diamond, was siuh as represented. I having ten dered him advice, was given an invita tion to be present in the provincial build ing when the examination was niade. I was not prepared, however, to believe that I would have the satisfaction of see ing what is considered as the largestand rairt valuable diamond in the world. When the loaf was cut open few be lieved that a diamond would be revealed. Hatton Garden experts were called, and the were loth to believe that the stone was as large and valuable as the owner had represented. It was the size of an ordinary orange when revealed: and thereupon it was at once claimed by some present that it was of a very low grade and of inferior qualiu. On a more thorough examination and partial cutting it was found to represent a weight of over six hundred carats. It was subsequently shown to a number of the largest diamond dealers in London. Its history was traced as accurately as possible, the slave was believed, money was put up, and his wife and children were at once sent for. The slave was treated like a lord of the manor, and the last time that I saw him he was riding in a line carriage and enjoying all the comfort's and luxuries of London. It was a queer sight to see him as black as tar and a regular Ethiopian, "The diamond was purchased by a syndicate of capitalists, and the very best experts pronounced it a very tine specimen. Its owners hold it at 3, 500.000: and have refused 3.000.000 for the stone. Shortlv after it passed from the hands of the black man to ita present owners, it was examined and admired by the Queen of England and the Prince of Wales." Cor. St. LoOL Republican. At Cedar Hill, below Albany. N. Y., during a thunder-storm recently, the air was filled with a substance re sembling sulphur, which fell in showers, covering everything with ellow dust. i The capacity of the ice-baste along the Hudson River is mors tha 1,000.000 tons. It is estimated that every year thers are from 1.200 to 1.500 railroad em ployes killed and from -5,000 to 10,000 Injured in this country. The tonnage transported on all tha railroads in the United States in 1881 amounted to 350.000.000 tons, which Poor's Railroad Manual estimates, at the too low average of $50 a ton. would be worth 13.000.000.000. It is estimated that the South has this season paid to the North $35,000. 000 for wheat. 3o0.00O.000 for corn. S72.000.000 for meats, and about $25. 000.000 for hay. butter, cheese, oat, ap ples, potatoes etc Cticago Times. It is pretty well settled that a healthy man who lives to bo 70 years of age. in his life eats 7.800 pounds of meat. 72 barreLs of flour. 1,500 pounds of butter. 9S7 dozen eggs, 800 pounds of cheese. 163 bushels of potatoes, and 1.700 pounds of lard. The annual interest on the public debt is now about 31-08 for every in habitant. In 1876 it was more than twice this, being $2.20 per capita, and in 1S65 it was as high as $4.29 per capita, or Sl50,977.69, to be paid by 35.469.000 people. A. Y. Times. 'Pennsylvania and New York are the only States in the Union containing over a million males of die voting age. twenty-oneyearsandover? TwStateg. Minnesota and Wisconsin. havf more foreigners than natives -vaenty-one years of age and over. Chicago Jour nal. Since the first oil well was opened in 1859 the product of the wells has added 5fl.500.000.000 to the wealth of tha United States in the value of the erode oil anil its products. To-day the prod uct of these wells lights the cathedrals of Europe, the mosques of Asia, the pa godas of Japan, and even the huts on Africa's sunny soiL Its exports ars over 1.000,000 gallons a day. Boston Pos'. The great cattle range of Wyoming under the military protection of Fort McKinney is about 800 miles square. In this area are now grazing 300,000 head of cattle, worth S27 per head, amounting to S13.50O.00O, to which can be added the value pf the horses and ranches of the cattle-men and the farmers, and the stock of the grangers, making at least SI5.000.000 of property under the protection of the post. N. Y. Herald. In this country, with a population of 50.000.000. there are 4,204.362 per sons above the age of twenty-one years who cannot write. Of this number 2.056,463 are whites. 1.747.900 negroes, about 300,000 Indians and 100.000 Asi atics. It is estimated that in almost every State iu the Union, and in the country as a whole, the balance of po litical power, so far as numbers are con cerned, is or can be in the hands of tha illiterate voters. A". Y. Sun. Arizona covers an area of 72,000, 000 acres of land, four-tenths of which is mineral-bearing. It is larger than New York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware combined Since 1849 there has been extracted from seven States anil Territories the sum of $2, 100.IH.O.000, for which California is credited Sl.148,307,731; Nevada, $469. 125,943; Idaho. $71,543,901; Oregon and Washington Territory. $48,637,251; Utah. S55.848.831. and Arizona, $17, 930,175. Chicago Tunes. WIT AND WISD03L Every man Is occasionally what he ought to be perpetually. One of the best rules in conversa tion is never to say anything which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. Fond wife: " How strange! "Every time Peter comes home from his lodge he comes to bed with his hat on. But I suppose it is some more of those Mason ic doins." An exchange says that oor navy h still in its infancy, which would justify the assertion that the vessels are seldom seen out of their slips. Yonkers States man. When the man averred that he had seen a trotting match they didn't mind it much, but when he said " A lemon neighed " they threw him under a grip carT Chicaao Times. When a doctor who claims to cure by laying on of hands reaches Missouri, he either quits business or starts for the woods with a crowd after him. There are some swindles Missouri can't abide. Detroit Free Pr .-s. Cause and Effect: Eminent Provin cial Tragedian Come hithorr. sweet one! Your mothorr tells me that you shed teorrs during my soliloquy in exile la t nighL Sweet One: Yes. sir. Moth er kept on pinching me, 'cause I was so sleepy! Punch. It is reported that English detect ives have proved useless in Ireland, on account of their accent. We should think so. It rather gives a fellow away, bajove, when he walks into a Land League meeting in a damp cave and asks: "Beg pawd'n. y' know, but 'ave ye seen such a thing as a suspect about ere, y' know?" (Chicago Times. "I can't smoke that cigar much longer." said Chowder, as he worried with a stub. "No."' said some one present, "and you can't 3moke it much shorter." Chowder gave the imbecile one pitying glance, and then hailed a street-car ana went home with a sad heart. By the way. when it comes to hailing street-cars." isn" t it dangerous to be out of doors? When he was eating fast and furi ously, piling in the food as fannere do hay into the barn on the eve of a thun der shower in June, the head waiter stepped up and said " Beg pardon, sir. but there's no train out to-night." " I know it." said the man with nis mouth ful, "and that's why I'm hurrying to catch a good night's sleep!" Bottl Mad. An old story in a new form is go ing the grand rounds, and tells abont a young man at table d'hote at one of the rural hotels, where " lady waiters" are employed- He wanted a beverage with his roast, and summoned the maiden, to whom he said: "Have you any porter?" " Yes," she said, " we have three oi four, but they are all colored." Where ignorance is bliss it is the height of ab surdity to be intelligent. A county rector called rather early in the morning on one of his parishioners- One of the children saw him coming, and ran into the house to tell his mother. The little fellow soon re turned to the front and resumed his play. The clergyman inquired: "la your mother at home?" "No, sir." re plied the child; "she is out at pres ent." " Tell her when she returns thai I called." said the clergvmen. "I did tell her." replied the "little boy. CM cago Tribune. .-