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VOL. XIII.-N0. 47.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21, 1883.
WHOLE NO. 671.
THE JOURNAL.
ISUi:i EVEKY WKPXE&DAY,
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DENTAL PARLOR.
On Thirteenth St.. and Nebraska Ave.,
over Friedhof store.
jSTOfficc hours 8 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 5 p. in.
Om.a AMMAUfiii, Dentist.
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Above the New bank.
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Columbus. Neb. 491-y
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Ilth St., nearly opp. Gluck's store,
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at the linvol pojble price., llt-pairs
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paid fin noii-resideiits. :iti-l:i-tion
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BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. liusr-jie-. Wagons, etc., made to
ord-r, and all work guaranteed.
tdTShop opposite the Tatterall,'
Oliie Mrt'ft. .'2."
vtotici: to ti:aciii:km.
J. 15. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
Will le in his oihco at the Court House
on the tirst Saturday of each
month for the purpo.it of examining
applicant- for teacher" certificates, and
for the transai'tton of any other business
pcilaiuiii to schooN. ."C7-y
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on Kith Street, near
St. Paul l.uuito'i Yard. Columbus, Ne
braska. .VJ Ihuo.
J. WAGNER,
Livcrv and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public w.'th
good teams, busies and carriage." for all
occasion, specially for funerals. ANo
conducts a sale stable. 44
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Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surt'eoii". I nion Pacilic and
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COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
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KENTUCKY WHISKIES
Wines. Ales. Cigars and Tobacco.
jSSchils Milwaukee Beer contant
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Colcsibus. Nkb.
JS. MURDOCK & SOX,
a Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehadan extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done ou short
notice. Our motto it.,"" Ctood work anil
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunity toestimateforyou. E3TShop on
13th St., one door west of Friedhof fc
Co's. store. Columbus. Nebr. 483-v
THE
rOUI-MBUS FLAX AND TOW CO.,
Are prepared to receive and pay $3.00 per
ton for good clean flax straw (free from
foreign substances) delivered on their
grounds near the Creamery, in Colum
bus Nebraska.
COLI'.M BITS FLAX & TOW CO.,
GEO. SMITH. Aq'L
Columbus. Dec. 5, 1S&I. 32-3m
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ggrWholesale ind Retail Dealer in For
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lin Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
3TKentucTcy Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
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AND
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MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
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FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COL UMB US, NEB.
SPEICE & NORTH,
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacilic, and Midland Pacilic
R. R. Lands for sale Jtt from $3.00 to f 10.00
per acre for cash, or on live 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 lot6 in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
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4 OI.I.HRIJS. NEII.
M holosale and Retail
GROCERS
aio dealers in
Pillslnry's Bat Mimaesota, Sobnyler
Saow Flake aad Sokayler 82
Flour Always kept ea kaad.
Every Sack Warraated.
CASH PAIO FOR BUTTER AND EGGS.
jSTGoods delivered free of charge to
any part of the city. 43
LANDS, FARMS,
CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE,
AT THE
Union Pacfic Land Office.
On Long Time and low rate
of Interest.
All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands
or Improved Farms will tlud il to their
advantage to call at the U. P. Land
Office before lookin elsewhere as I
make a specialty of buying and selling
lands on commission; all persons wish
ing to sell farms or unimproved land
will find it to their advantage to leave
their lands with me for sale, as my fa
cilities for affecting sales are unsur
passed. I am prepared to make final
proof for all parties wishing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
iSTHenry Cordes, Clerk, writes and
spealcs German.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
Agt. U. P. Land Department,
U21-y COLUMBUS, NEB.
WM. BECKER,
DKALKK in all kinds ok
FAMILY GROCERIES!
I KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A
WELL ELECTED STOCK.
Teas, Coffees, Sugar, Syrups,
Dried and Canned Fruits,
and other Staples a
Specialty.
Goede Delivered Free lo aay
part of Ike City.
I AM ALSO AGENT FOR THE 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' AilD LEARlf PRICES.
Cor. Thirteenth and K Streets, near
A. it JT. Depot.
HERMAN
QRHLRIGH & BRO
Crockery
Lamps
Glassware
THE SONQ OF THE SCHOOL OIBL.
With Heavy and aching' head
With weary but sleepless brain,
A school airl sat In her room at night,
And thus gave voice to her pain:
It's study by day and by night, --
And lra study by night and by day,
Till a blur comes over my sight, .
And my brain seems oozlnjc away.
The studies are piled so high
That the weight is breaking me down:
1 wish I had wings, and could fly
Away from the school and the town.
Ifs study anil study at school.
And Ifs study and study up here.
And I shudder beneath the rule
That awaits the failure I fear.
All day and all night Is my head
w iu ngures ana iacu or
And at last when I crawl Into bed
They haunt me and rob me of reit.
Kb oh, for a romp and a run,
A game with a hoop or a ball!
And Ifs ob, to bo out In the sun.
Away from percentage and allt
Perhaps I may marry some day, "
If I ever get through with my life.
And what will my husband say ,
To a nervous and fidgety wife?
It's study by day and by night.
And It's study by night and by day.
Oh. surely It cannot be right
To study and never to play.
-A'. T.Sun.
THE VICTIMS OF POMPEII.
lataresUac Facts Connected with the De
stroctlon or the City.
The work of exploration which has
been steadily going on in. Pompeii for
over a century, from the day when ex
cavations rirst began on the site of what
was then vaguely called " La Civita,"
in 1748, has led to other than purely
archaeological results. It has enaoled a
fairly accurate notion to be formed of
the nature and extent of the catas
trophe. We know, for instance, that
the lava stream did not reach Pompeii,
and that the city was not destroyed by
tire. We know also that the eruption
was accompanied by one or more shocks
of earthquake, which threw down
houses here and there, and buried men
and women under their ruins. From
the fact that skeletons have been found
at the entrance to the public bath,
which was quitted hastily by the few
Srand ladies who were not present at
le gladiatorial performance in the am
phitheater, the time of the catastrophe
oan be fixed with approximate accura
cy at or about noon. Above all, the
discoveries of skeletons, every one of
which has been carefully recorded for at
least a century, enable some conclusion
to be drawn as to the total number of
victims of the catastrophe. It would be
a mistake to suppose that the majority,
or even a very large portion of the in
habitants of Pompeii perished. The
effects of the ashen shower were not
instantaneous, and every one who
could get away from the city on the
first alarm probably saved his life. The
bulk of the people were in the amphi
theater, which was situated near one of
the city gates on the side remote from
Vesuvius, and there was nothing to
hinder every one in the great audience
from getting away in time. Those who
perished were those who deliberately
put off their flight to save wife and
child, or still more often, valuables.
Of such victims 450 have been al
ready found. From the year when the
excavations began, in 1748, to the year
loi'o, tne total number ol human re
mains discovered was 1C0; from 1827 to
1845 it was 63; from 1846 to 1860 it was
60; from 1861 to 1872 it was 87, and
from 1873 to 1881 about 100. But it is
to be remembered that only two-fifths
of the buried surface has been brought
to light On the whole there appears
ood reason for putting the total num
er of human beings who Dorished in
the eruption at least as high as 1,100.
To these should be added the skeletons
of three dogs, seven horses, eleven
hens, two tortoises, fifteen pigs,tenoxen
and the bones of fifteen other animals.
The remains of one of these dogs were
found in the porch of the " House of
Orpheus," and the cast which Signor
Fiorelli has taken brings before us with
a painful vividness one of the minor
tragedies of that awful day. The poor
beast was chained at his post, and in
the general panic and confusion no one
remembered to let him loose. The
chain lay by the remains when they
were found, and it was evident that the
creature had strained his tether to the
utmost in the effort to keep himself
above the masses of ash and pumice
tone that rapidly accumulated around
and over him. The otst is to be seen
in the little museum at Pompeii. The
dog lies half on its side, half on its
back, his slender head and open
muzzle, gasping for a little air,
buried between the hind leers, which
have been convulsively brought for
ward in the last agony of death. But
the process which had been so successful
in reproducing the very form and like
ness of this creaturo as he lived and
died has produced results no less extra
ordinarvin the case of the human vic
tims of the catastrophe. The idea of
! pouring plaster of Paris in a liquid state
nto the moulds left by the bodies in the
oft ash did not occur to any one till it
suddenly flashed across Fiorelli about
twenty years ago. Of the remains of
the 180 human beings discovered in
Pompeii in the first hundred yeat-3 of
the excavation there is consequently
only a written record. It is only from
the "Journal of Excavations" for the
year 1831 that we know of the touching
and famous sight which greeted the
eyes of the first discoverers of the
House of the Faun." On the floor of
the banqueting hall lay the body of a
woman, probably the mistress of the
house, with her jewels scattered where
she had thrown them iu despair of res
cue or escape. The roof had been
crushed in by the weight of falling ash
and pumice stone, and the hands of the
dying woman were upstretched iu a
vain effort to keep off the impending
weight. Parts of the body and clothing
could still be made out, and a drawing
could be made of the charming foot
But such records are lifeless and tame
indeed, beside the extraordinary por
trait statues which are now to be seen in
the little museum "at Pompeii. There
are nine of these, or were a very
short time since, and to see them is
like seeing the men and women them
selves of eighteen centuries ago. Fio
relli's method is as simple as possible. A
small opening is made, the plaster is
delicately poured in, and when it has
had time to harden the surface cmst of
ash is peeled off, and the man or woman
comes back to life again. The details
of clothing and feature have all left
their mark on the soft ash, and are all
faithfully preserved in the plaster cast.
The results achieved by Fiorelli are
striking and complete. Take the cast
of the elderly slave, for instance, prob
ably a man of some sixty years old, who
appears to ha e leen taking- his siesta
when the eruption began, and to have
been painlessly asphyxiated in his sleep.
He lies on his right side, the knees a
little bent, the left leg drawn up and the
cheek resting on the right band. The
coarse, strongly-marked features and
peaceful expression of the sleeper have
all been perfectly preserved. -A hardly
lass easy death must have beentheMot
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of the four persons found lying: on thai!
hacks in tne street Three of these
Were men.- one of them a -negro of the
most pronounced type.' The fourth was
a woman of unusual stature! ,The three
persons found lying on their faces :do
not appear to have foand quite so quick
a death. Two of them are women.
One -of these, an elderly woman with
thin figure, lies by herself, her face,
buried in her anas, - if to .protect her
self from the fatal rain, o The other lies
side by side with a, man inrhfpe. com-
Sany she' appears to haVe'tatefi "flight,
he has covered her face with a -fold of
her dress, 'and.-' the hands .are "tight
clenched in tfre last death agony. Pa
MM OazcUe. .
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An M.8eeel Pilet.
My particular friend among the pilots
was a very big man, who used to amuse
as much by the childish gravity of hi
remarks. He was -a remmaat of a past
(generation, and the. introduction of
steam snocKea nis iactiuies oeyona re
covery. He would say: "In the old
times, sir, vessels had to turn up here.
It was back, fill and shiver-r-r all the
way; but" now you urght as well have
sets of rails laid on the wafer and run
the ships on them. There is no sea
manship needed. He never quite for
gave the Commissioners for deepening
tne river, as he saia, in his trenchant
manner: "There used to be some cred
it in bringing a ship across the bar when
you were never quite sure whether she
would touch or not; but now you could
bring the Duke of Wellington'in at low
water. These kid-gloved Captains
come right up to the moorings as safe
a9 if they were driving a coach along the
road."
The first time I saw my poor
friend I liked him. We lived in
a lonely house that stood on the
cliffs at a bleak turn of the coast.
One wild morning a coble beat into our
cove. It looked as though the sea must
double on her every second: but just
when the combers shot at her most dan
gerously the man at the tiller placed the
broad square stern at right angles to the
ath of the traveling wave, and she
unged forward safely. By dexterous
jockeying she was brought close in, and
the men came through the shallow
water in their sea boots. They were
blue with cold, and begged for a litt e
tea or coffee. Hot cukes and coffee
happened to be just ready, so the fellows
had a hearty breakfast and went away.
With prolonged clumsiness the pilot
shook the hand of the lady who had en
tertained him; and in two clays after the
boat sailed into the cove again amid
nasty weather, and the master came
ashore with a set of gaudy wooden
bowls painted black and red. ' These he
solemnly presented to the lady of the
house. He had run thirty miles against
a northerly sea to bring them.
He met nis end like a brave man in
the great October gale which all of us
remember. He was down on the pier
smoking with his friends in the watch
house and looking out occasionally for
distressed vessels. The great seas
were hurling themselves over the stone
work and shattering into wild wreaths
of foam on the sand. Strong men who
showed themselves outside full in the
face of the wind were blown down flat
as if they had been tottering children.
The wind sounded as though it were
blown through a huge trumpet, and the
sea was running nine feet on the bar.
A small vessel fought through, and ap
peared likely to get into the fair-way.
She showed a port light for a time, and
all seemed going well. Suddenly she
opened both her red and her green
lights, and it was seen that she
was coming dead on for the pier.
Presently she was struck hard, within
thirty yards of the stone-work. There
was "wild excitement amongst the brig
ade men. for they saw that she must be
smashed into matchwood in five min
utes. Th3 rockets were got ready; but
before a shot could be fired the ill-fated
vessel gave way totally. A great sea
rushed along the side of the pier, and
the pilot saw something black amoug
the traveling water. There's a man',
he shouted; and without a moment's
thought plunged in, calling on the other
fellows to pitch him a rope. Had he
tied a line around his waist before he
jumped he would have been all right.
As it was, the Dutchman whom he tried
to save was washed clean on to the pier
and put safely to bed in the brigade
house. The pilot was not found until
two days afterward. St. James1 Ga
zette. The Later Geography.
Q. Where are the Poles located?
A. At the school-house, town hall oi
some empty store.
Q What is a circle?
A. A gathering where the gossips
sew for the heathen and tell aU they
know.
li. What places have noon at the
same time?
A. Factories and boarding-houses.
Q. When are the nights the longest?
A. When you cannot sleep.
Q. Is there a plain in your neighbor
hood? A. We should think not by the way
ours is borrowed. .
Q. What disadvantage in having a
bar at the entrance of a harbor?
A. It would take away trade
from
the saloons in port.
Q. What is a strait?
A Five cards following in order of
denomination. (Hoyle.)
Q. Where do we find the largest and
fiercest animals?
A. At the menagerie.
Q Where do we find the greatest
number of insects?
A. Out of town on a hot night.
Q. Into what races ate we divided?
A.--Thc Horse race, the Boat race'
and the Human race.
Q. How are the inhabitants of a civ
ilized country generally employed?
A. The men in working and the
women in shopping.
Q. What is mining?
A. Finding out how much you have
be n cheated.
Q. Name some substances now
manufactured for food?
A. Oleomargarine and boarding
house hash.
Q. What is commerce?
A. Selling your neighbor goods at
three times their value.
Q. What do merchants do with
products of the surrounding country?
A. Gather them together and form a
"corner" in the market.
Q. How are the commercial towns
connected with the towns of the in
terior? A. Bv "drummers."
Q What is fishing?
A Sitting in a boat all day for noth
ing, and having to lie all the evening
about what you caught, and what got
away. Detroit Free Press.
The nmvincial
-i... - j o" "o
immigration agent
Buwes mat f2.o00.000 was brought into
Manitoba by Europeans only. He esti
mates that Americans brought $2,800,
000 and Canadians 94,000,000.
8we SaJafl Tklnga.
The smallest hogs in the world are
duartered in wJtheZoolbgical Gardens in
London: They came from Australia and
are known as the. "pigmy hogs." They
are well' formed, are frisky, good
natured, and make excellent pets. They
are about the size of a wild hare.
Probably the smallest and youngest
sea-Uohjn.captivity is the one now in
the Zoological 'Garden in Philadelphia.
He is only nine weeks old. When about
four weeks old he appeared one morning.
wiU agloasyyoat.of grease. .Up to that
time his coat "of hair was rather tough
and nqn-repellant,',and not at all calcu
lated to, shed water. The mother J9
teach.uig.hlm to swim. -.
The smallest baby was born in Chan
delaria, Nev., a few weeks ago. The
father and mothers are4 strong, aad
healthy, weighing 190 and 160 pounds.
The child ia a male, perfectly f orated.
When' it first saw light it weighed eight
ounces. Its -face ia'aboat the size of a
horse-chestnut The mother's wedding
ring was pulled over its foot up to the
knee. Three such babes could play hide-and-seek
in a cigar-box. It is in good
health.
The will of the late Peter Maltzberger,
who recently died in Reading, Pa., has
just been filed in the Register's office. It
it the shortest ever admitted to probate
in Berks County. It is as follows:
"Reading, Pa., January 29, 1880. I,
Peter Maltzberger, do give and bequeath
to my wife, Lena Maltzberger. all my
personal and real property, absolutely;
and I appoint my wife executrix of my
last will and testament.
"Petek Maltzbebqer."
An ingenious mechanic at James
town, N. Y., has constructed a perfect
locomotive, said to be the smallest in the
world. The engine is only eight and a
half inches long, with a tender twelve
inches long. The pumps throw a drop
of water per stroke. As many as 58
screws were required to put the parts to
gether. The engine itself weighs a
pound and a half, and the tender two
pounds two and a half ounces. The
mechanic was al work upon the loco
motive "at intervals for eight years.
The smallest steam-engine iu the
world was made 'by D. A. A. Buck, of
Waterbury, Conn. The engine, boiler,
governor and pumps stand in a space
seven-sixteenths of an inch square or the
erea of a gold dollar, and live-eighths of
an iuch high. The engine has 148 dis
tinct pieces of machinery, held together
by fifty-two screws. Three drops of
water till the boiler to overflowing. The
diameter of its cylinders is a sixteenth
of an inch. The length of stroke three
thirty-seconds of an inch. The whole
engine weighs three grains. AMI Sun.
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The Man or Few Words.
To prove the garrulity of some travel
ers we state the following facts: A
young man, some time back, arrived at
an inn, and after alighting from his horse
went into the travelers' room, where he
walked backward and forward for some
minutes, displaying the utmost import
ance. At length he rang the bell and
upon the waiter's appearance gave him
an order, nearly as follows: "Waiter!"
the waiter replied, "Sir." "lam a man
of few words and don't like continually
ringing the bell aud disturbing the
house. I'll thank you to listen to what
I am going to say." The waiter again
replied, "Yes, sir." "In the first place
bring me a glass of brandy and water,
cold, with a little sugar, and also a tea
spoon; wipe down the table, throw some
coals on the fire and sweep up the hearth;
bring me a couple of candles, pen, ink
and paper, some wafers, a little sealing
wax, and let me know what time the
post goes out Tell the ostler to take
care of my horse, dress him well, stop
his feet, and let me know when he is
ready to feed. Order the chambermaid
to prepare me a good bed, take care that
the sheets are well aired, a clean night
cap and a glass of water in the room.
Send the boots with a pair of slippers
that I can walk to the stable in; tell him I
must have my boots cleaned and brought
into this room to-night and that I shall
want to be called at five o'clock in the
morning. Ask your mistress what I can
have for supper; tell her I should like a
roast duck or something of that sort; de
sire your master to step iu. I want to
ask him a few questions about the dra
pers of this town." The waiter answered
"Yes, sir," and then went to the land
lord and told him a gentleman in the
parlor wanted a great many things, and
among the rest he wanted him. and that
was all he could recollect. Old Anecdote
Book.
Houses en Poles.
For the benefit of any who may be cast
upon the hospitable and kindly feelings
of the natives along the northern shores,
1 would most earnestly recommend that
some token of appreciation be otl'ered to
the natives of St. Lawrence Bay. Flour,
tobacco, calico, drill, lead, indeed, almost
any article or articles of usefulness would
not only be duly appreciated, but would
insure the further extension of that hos
pitality and protection which to the cast
away is life itself. There are many veins
of bituminous coal near Point Barrow.
They vary in thickness from seven to
eight inches to as many feet.
I visited the habitations of the natives
of King's Island, in the Arctic Ocean, a
curious people who live upon a precip
itous hillside as no other people live.
The houses are erected upon poles. The
entrance to each is effected through a
hole iu the front wall about fourteen
inches in diameter. Having clambered
through this entrance, one finds oneself
in a room about eight feet square, which
is the common living room of each house.
From the sides of this room an: found
several apertures similar to the main one
of eutrance, which lead to as many
sleeping apartments. The appearance
presented by thee houses is, to say the
least, unique, and more strikingly so by
reason of their great contrast with those
.of the usual Indian village, which is
always built on low sand spots.
The priucipal means of livelihood of
these natives are fishing and walrus and
seal hunting. To these people, the wal
rus is the more important auimal, inas
much as from its hide and intestines
they obtain the covering for their houses
and boafej, and the ivory tiicy sell to
traders is the most valuable article in
demand. The necessities of their posi
tion have stimulated such inventions and
developed such superior workmanship
as to cause their articles of manufacture
to be the most greatly prized of any along
the coast. Report to the Navy Depart
mentby Lieutenant Healy.
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The Baptists had planned a general
Bible Convention, which was to have
met at Saratoga in November. But the
'plans failed for lack of enthusiasm, and
the convention has been postponed un
til next May. Chicago Tribune.
The mace and sword of State used
in South Carolina in Colonial times are
still preferred. They were brought. to
this country in 1729.
FACTS ASH FIQPHE8.
There are six coal mines working in
Arkansas.
Philadelphia ia assessed at $371.
183.255 less than half of the assessed
falue of New York City.
Twenty years ago it required five
tons of coal to make a ton of iron rails.
Now a ton of steel rails may be pro
duced from .the on with half that
amount of coaL
A German arithmetician has been
calculating' the aggregate number of
combfn'ationavin:the game of dominoes,
aad has ahowa them to be 284.628,
2ll,840!,t Two players, playing four
S Lines' in a minute, would only exhaust
ese combinations in 118,000,000 years.
' A year ago a Laramie plains cattle
man was offered a Utah herd and ranch
for $70,000. which, offer was rejected.
Since that the Utah man sold $45,000
worth out of the herd, then' sold the
ranch for $4,500. afterward put $9,000
more into the herd, and then sold It for
$140.000. Chicago News.
Boston is the largest market for
boots and shoes in the world. There
were shipped during 1880 over 2, 250.000
cases of boots, shoes and rubbers to in
terior and coastwise ports, the cases
holding from twelve to seveaty-five
pairs per case, but containing, at a low
estimate, over 50,000,000 pairs. Boston
2Yanfcript.
The latest Russian census shows St
Petersburg and its suburbs possessed of
a population of 927.467 in 10.929 stone
house3. 9.318 that are of wood, and 913
that are partly both. The city has 75
hotels. 625 restaurants, 1,416 beer rooms.
170 grog shops. 793 wine rooms. 645
schools and 109.000 children between
the ages of 7 and 16.
Ground has been broken for the new
Pension OAice on Judiciary Square.
Washington. The building Ls to be 400
by 200 feet and 75 feet high, and will
accommodate 1,500 clerks and cost
$400,000. General M. C. Meigs thinks
it will he finished in two years. It will
resemble one of the old Italian palaces,
but will be built of brick and iron.
It is said that the old post-office,
which was sold in New York recently
for $650,000, is probably the largest
UlncU. of down-town property ever sold
in this city at public sale. The lot
comprises 19,800 square feet. The
property has changed hands but three
times in 155 years. In 1727 it was pur
chased by the consistory of the Re
formed Dutch Church, for $2,875. and
it remained their property till 1860,
when it was bought bv the Federal
Government for $250,000? N. P. Inde
peruknt. m m
WIT AND WISDOM.
Let well enough a loan and it will
pay you back.
When you fret and fume at the pet
ty ills" of life remember that the wheels
which go round without creaking last
longest. A". P. Herald.
One of the best rules in conversa
tion is. never to say a thing which anv
of the company can reasonably wish
had been left unsaid. Swift.
A cow at Pittston, N. Y., ate up a
section of a spring bed before her own
er noticed that she had a wiry appear
ance. Some men are so absent-minded,
you know. Detroit Free Press.
A New York paper says: "Last
night Gustavus Sehwackheimer. a Ger
man, attempted to commitsuicide." etc.
The explanation that Gustavus is "a
German" was necessary. Readers
would have supposed that he was an
Irishman from Tipperary. Norrislown
Herald.
"Baggage not allowed in the seat,
sir," said the conductor. " I have no
baggage in the seat," said the passen
ger. "Aren't those two valises yours?"
"Two valises! Why, I haven't any,"
arising from his seat. "Oh! excuse
me," said the conductor, and he lit out,
remarking: "The biggest feet I ever
saw."
We are told by a recipe book tha
"eggs may be kept in good order for
six months by dipping them into warm
tallow, and after they are cool packing
them in saw-dust; cover with sawdust
and make as nearly air-tight as possi
ble, aud put away in a dry. cool place."
This costs but little more than twice as
much as it would to throw away the
eggs you have and buy fresh ones when
you want 'em. Ar. Y. Post.
Nothing is ever lost by being pleas
ant and agreeable. You ask for two
pounds of steak no more, no less. One
butcher growls that he can't cut off just
two pounds, and you leave him, thor
oughly vexed. At the next stall, the
man of meat hears your request with
unruffled visage, cuts off a pound and a
half, slaps it into the scale and out
again in double-quick time, rolls it up
neatly, and says, with a sweet smile:
"Just two pounds, ma'am." He is the
man who succeeds, Chicago Tribune.
"What is your business?" inquired
a city merchant of a country youth with
whom he was playing an innocent game
of euchre. "Oh. I'm one of nature's
humorists," replied the verdant lad.
"I fail to catch on," said the merchant,
unconsciously dropping into slang:
"what are you giving me?" "Just
what I said, boss, responded the boy.
"Well, what do von mean by nature's
humorist?" "Why, I tickle the ground
with a, hoe," explained the young
grangfr, "and the earth smiles with
plenty." The merchant passed, and the
youth inside it spades.
Japanese Ethics.
There is one custom practiced iu
Japan that is full of poetry and utility
when a daughter isborn to the family
a tree is planted one of rapid growth
and making wood of fine texture. At
the tinif of the girl's betrothal the tree
is cut and made into articles of furni
ture suitable for housekeeping and of
ornamentil value. In the place of the
tree thus used another is planted to
commemorate the celebration of the
nuptial period. Veneration for parents
is held to be one of the cardinal virtues
in Japan, and in fact reverence in that
direction is-the epitome of excellence.
It is considered a fault to place one's
self voluntarily in peril of death before
the demise of the parents, as thereby
they are deprived of the usual honors
conferred upon the dead by the children.
In caso the child is taken before the
parent a petition for pardon is made for
the child for the unintentional fault
The fidelity of families from all the
members thereof is sublime, the will
and desire of the parent being absolute
law in the guidance of the conduct of
the child. Throughout the scope of all
the religious teachings of the people of
the far East it is inculcated that ances
tral worship and devotion to filial duties
are at the base of all virtues, and that in
default thereof all the pains and penal
ties are to be encountered that may be
come the portion of the depraved after
death. Yokohama Cor. San Francisco
Chronislt,
SCHOOL A5n ClUBCM.
The American Tract Society is ciron
lating religious pamphlets in 246 lan
guages. The New English Wesleyan Confer
ence minutes show that that body has
509.347 members, 54,489 on trial, and
2.124 ministers, with 299 on trial, aad
941 supernumeraries.
In the high school of Dedham,
Mass., the experiment is being made of
using daily newspapers instead of text
books in the reading class. The princi
pal thinks that the plan is successful.
Miss Emily Smith, of Provincatown,
a graduate at the Boston School of Ora
tory, is to take charge of the Depart
ment of elocution and oratory in a col
lege of music at Cincinnati, O.
In Rochester. N. Y., the Board of
Education has ordered the study of "in
tellectual arithmetic" to be dropped
from the third grade of the school aad '
some text-book on language and compo
sition to be substituted.
The' new plan of synod organization
in the Presbyterian 'Church, making
each synod coextensive with the State.
has proved a failure in New York, fot
the reason that il was overloaded with
delegates who had a legal right to bi
present. A''. Y. Times.
The Interior laments that the prac
tice of memorizing the Scriptures has pas
sed away from the Sabbath-schools, and it
is now a rare thing to find Sunday-school
teachers who can recite from memory a
single chapter in the life of Christ, or
even one of the Plalms.
The Rev. A. D. Mayo, reports that
as fast as education lays its hand upon
the Southern children, black or white,
they begin to draw near to each other,
and that there is no doubt that at a
time not very far distant they will dwell
together in unity. The present attitude
of the higher classes is favorable to this
change. Mr. Mayo said that although
many of the children to whom he spoke,
were descendants of the leaders in the
Confederacy, he found the former free
from the bias of their fathers.
Miss Rebecca Husey died as long
ago as 1714, and by her will bequeathed
a sum of 1,000 for, as she quaintly ex
pressed it, "the redemption of slaves, if
it may be effected, or else to the ease
ment of their slavery." The fund was
allowed to accumulate until 1863. when
it amounted to the large sum of 23.481,
and it was then decided that the princi
pal should be kept intact, and the annual
interest equally divided between St He
lena and Lagos, to be expended for the
benefit of the slave class. The trustees
at Lagos allowed their share to accumu
late until they could establish an insti
tution for the industrial training of boys
rescued from slavery, aud such a school
has just been opened, 170 years having
elapsed since the bequest was made.
A steamer whose hull and machin
ery weigh only six tons has been built for
the British Baptist Society, who intend
it for services in the upppcr regions of
the Congo. It is appropriately named
" Peace.' Many ingenious devices have
been resorted to in its construction, with
a view to good speed, very light draught
and capability of being transported over
land. The boat, built iu seven water
tight compartments, can be taken to
pieces, aud tin; total number of pieces,
neither of which will be too heavy for a
mau to carry, number 800. It will be
sent to the mouth of the Congo, aud there
'the pieces will be carried by 800 men a
distance of 300 miles up to Stanley pool,
where the boat will be reconstructed. It
is a gift to the missionary society from
Mr. Robert Arthington. of Leeds. AT.
Y. Examiner.
PUMJENT P1U K;R VPHS.
Amusic-box can be shut up when its
music is not wanted. The discordant
singer cannot be treated in the same way.
Chicaqo Journal.
A Vermont debating society will
tackle the question. " Which is the most
fun to see a man try to thread a neidle
or a woman try to drive a nail?" Boston
Post.
It was the last act of a new comedy,
and the house, half empty at the start,
was nearly deserted, only a few dead
heads remaining. The curtain went up
and the leading man began with his line:
"Are we alone?" The utility man
glanced over the auditorium and an
swered in tragic tones: " We are." For
the first and last time the audience
laughed. Boston Star.
Josh Hillings recently said: "Humor
must be based on truth. " It is because a
thing is ludicrous and at the same time
true to nature that people laugh at it
Now, Artemus Ward was not a humorist
but he was the drollest mau the country
has ever produced. Writers who make
their effects by hyperbole are not hu
morists. Genuine humor lasts forever,
because it is true. You soou tire of hear
ing a man tell stupendous lies."
A Detroit grocer is trying to make
his friends believe that while he was
stooping over some butter he was knocked
senseless and robbed. An intelligent jury
will decide whether the suspected parties
did the knocking down or whether the
smell of the butter was the guilty party.
Aud as to robbery, there is butter sold
in Detroit that no living man can rob of
a single scent Pittsburgh Telegraph.
When we see the young man of the
period, with the cut-away coat, his ears
sheltered from the cold north wind blasts
by the broad expanse of collar, his two
watch chains, but no watch, his pointed
shoes and intellectual eyeglass, his
tootsey-wootsey cane and pan-cake hat.
we realize that the $84,000,000 annually
expended in educating the American
youth is little enough. lioche&tcr (N.
Y.) Post-Erpress.
"Mamma, dear," said a girl. Justin
the flush of early womanhood, "I have
something to tell you. George has pro-
Fosed andl have accepted." "My child,
cannot think of you disgracing your
self. George is not a suitable match for
you. Besides, this would make him one
of the family and he would pay no more
board." Thus will be seen the incom
patibility of a boarding-house girl falling
in love with one of the boarders.
"Teach your daughter how to cook,"
exclaims the Philadelphia Rerord. That
is all very nico in theory, but experience
has shown that they will waste about
$5,000 worth of provisions while learn
ing, and then, after mastering the art.
will get married and cook for some other
fellow, leaving you to wrestle with the
uew Biddy. Better let the other fellow
do the teaching and bear the expense
and dyspepsia. Chicago Times.
The New Haven Register says that
on the evening of the graduating exer
cises of Mr. Waller's class in the New
London high school, "a terrific thunder
storm burst forth at the very moment
young Waller stopped upon the stage to
deliver his declamation on Spartecus;
but undaunted by the peals the young
graduate delivered his effort, and was
heard far above the elements." 'Those
who were present," we are told, "testify
to the grandeur and suggestiveness of the
scare'-evidently meaning "the scene.'
Hartford Evening Post.