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V - V THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVEBY WEnS"EsDAY. M. K. TTKS'EH & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. OFFICE. Eleventh St.. up stairs in Journal Building. TEEMS: Per year Six month Three months Single copies 2 l ee 3 BTJsnrsss caeds. p x. wood, m. -. PEYSICIAyf iylF.GEOX. 2S-H- opened the office f rmeriy oc cupied by Dr. B:neteel. 19-3m. DE5TAL PASLOE. On Thirteenth St.. arul Nebraska Ave., over Fnedhfs store. J2T iffice hour. to 12 a. m ; 1 to 0 p. m. olii AHBAron. Dentist. C lOiWHI'II"-" Sl'LLIVA, A TTOllXETS-A J -LA W, Up-itAir, in (ilurk Building, 11th street, Aho. th - bank. H. J. HI 0, XOTABY PUBLIC. 12th street. 2 doors west of Hammond Hoose, Columbus, yeb. 491-y nnin;Ksxo a: imwi:k.. tURGECX LEXTISTS, J2g-urr m Mitchell Block, i oluni ,u.. Nei.raska. lltr p KEK A: KCKDEK. .4 TTORXE Y6 A T LA TT. offi c. 1 i,. A. HTLLH"R-T. A. M-. M. D.. HOMEOFATH1- PHY1C1AS. 22J-T I'.lc .- ..um f t'ourt Hou-e. Telepaon,- ctnmunn ation -l-T p CO. T- SPOOLER. W i Hi cntra-i-fo- 3-ickiavms. Plastering. Stonework, Etc. Saus'ar:. . ;a ir mrJ. " PV- V. A. MACKEN, DKALER IN Wines. Liquors. Cigars. Porters. Ales, ec. etc. ulive r-treet. next to Fir-t National Bank. M cALMSTtR BKOX., A TTOEXE TS A T LA W, uffi-e ui.-t.iir. ic M-Allnter's build-in.- lltn -: "' A M Alh-ter. Notary Pu'jIu . J. M Mil 5- IKL.INI' B K. COW DKRY. ZCs" LAV AND roLLEiTloX OFFHE .,! MACFAHiAND St CCWDERx". C'tw&'wi. ' yebrnskc. G " CO. !. DEKK. PAIXTER. arria- h a- and i-rti painting. "iazm ' pa' h-in.-m.:. Kai-ouumux. tw-. done t. oni. -a. p -n l-'-th -t.. "pposiu Engine n a- . ,mui .U-. N--0 ,,1-.v T7 h. RrsriiE. " nth St.. opposite LindellHote!. -e!l Harn--. "add.--. ullar-. Whip-. Blank-!.-. -" j m ' - lir'.ue-. trunks, vah-'-. l-- top. i.ai n carriage trimming. ."ci--- a; tn- i.-vi t po ible prices Re; air- pr nip'.I;. attended to. JOII C.TASRKR, Real Estate Agent, Genoa. Nance Co.. Neb. "Y"" ILI LAND- and improved farm for sl. .rre-pondenee -olieit- ed. uffic- in Younj:'- building, up-stair-. o. c. siiAJsroK", MASXFaCTTRER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Sooting and Gutter ing a Specialty. jgrnop r. Elrv.nin -tr.et. opposite Heintz'- TiTuz st 4ti-y G- W. CI.AKK. LAXI Ayjj iylEAXCE AGEXT, li UMrEE E r. yEBE. Hi land ompne ?ome nne tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Pl.tte county. Taxe paid for non-re?ident-. satisfaction iruaranteed. y pOLOIBl'S PACKWG CO- COL UMB US. - XEB., Packer- and Dealer- in a'l kind- of Ho:: product, t-ash paid for Live or Dead Hogs or crease. directors. S. H Henry. Prest.: John "VTizcina. sec and Treas.: L. Gerrard. . Cory. Ts NOTICE XO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief. Co. Sapt., Will be in his offlce at the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher- certiacates. and for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. " 5CT-y TAMES SALMON. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame cr briok building-. Good work suaranteed. Snop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard. Columbu, Ne braska, j- 6mo. J. WAG-NEB, 'Liveir and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public vr'th good teams, busies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Alo condncts a sale stable. 44 D.T. iLiKxrs, 2T. D. F. SCHtTG, 31. D Deutscher Artz.'i Drs. 3CAETT3T & SCHITGr, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surceons. Union Pacific and 0'.iB.H.E.E's. COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA-32-vol-xiii-y ,-e ..n 'ii- -- -lum'-':' Sebra-ka. -tf Tlu; VOL. XJ.V.--N0. s COLUMBUS STATE BANK! S::inss u ScnM. 2 21 isl Zznn k 2ii C0LTT3OTJS, HEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000 DIRECTORS: Leakdee Geeeard, Pres'i. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice Preset. Jclics A. Heed. Edward A. Gerrard. Abxer Turn"eb, Cashier. Bank or Depexit, OLkoui a Eickasce. CoIlectiosiM Promptly ltn.de est all PolntN. Pay Iatterewt oi Tiswe p- DREBERT & BRIGGLE, BAXKEES! HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA. STPrompt attention given to Col lections. STlnsurance, Real Estate. Loan, etc. 5 JOHN HEITKEMPER. Eleventh Street, opposite the Lindell Hotel, COLOTBUS, NEBRASKA, Ha on hand a full assortment of GROCERIES! PROVISIONS. CROCKERY & GLASSWARE, Pipes, Cigars and Tobacco. Hiiruet price paid for t ountry Produce. Good- delivered in city. GIVE ME A CALL! JOH. HEITKEMPER. 3J-y LOUIS SCHRE1BER, ft All kinds of Repairing done on Short Notice. Buggies. Wag ons, etc.. made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world -famous Walter A. Wood Jfowers. Eeapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. STahop opposite the TattersalL" Ol ive su COLUMBrS. -iJm-c H. LITERS & CO, BLACKSMITHS AND Waojon T3uilders9 5ir Brick Shop opposite Heintz's Brae More. ALL KINDS OF WOOD AND IRON WORK ON WAGONS AND BUGGIES DONE ON SHORT NOTRE. Eleventh Street. Columbus. Nebraska. SO NEBRASKA HOUSE, S. J. MARMOY, Prop'r. Nebraska Ave., South of Depot, COLOIBtS, 3fEB. A new house, newly furnished. Good accommodations. Board by day or week at reasonable rates. 23TSets m Fir-Cl Xable. Meals, 25 Cts. Lodsings . ..25 CU. 3S-2tf WISE people are always on the looKout tor cnances to increase their earnings, and in time became wealthy; those who do not improve their opportunities remain in poverty. We offer a jrreai chance to make money. "We want many men. women, boys and girls to work fof us right in their own localities Any one can do the work properly from the" first start. The ''usiness will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. .Ex pensive outfit furnished. Ko one who en-rases fails tomakemonevranidlv. You f can devote your whole time to the work, j or only your spare moments. Full infor mation ana an mat is neeaea sent iree. Address StessOX Co..Portland,3faine. Js. mtjedoce: & sox, Carpenters and Contractor!. Havehadan extended experience, and will guarantee satisfactioa in work. All kinds of repairing dose on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices . Callxnd give us an oppor ;unitvtoestimateforvou. rySiiop on 13th St, one door west of Friedhof & Co-'s. store, Columbus, Nebr. 4S3-T BlaclsitlfflflWa FIRST National Bank'! cox. Authorized Capital, Cash Capital, 8250,000 50,000 OF7ICKSS AJTD DIRECTOR. A. ANDERSON. Fres't. SAM'L C. SMITH. Fice Pris't. O. T. ROEX, Cashier. J. V. EARLY. ROBERT UHLIG. HERMAN OEHLIUCH. YT. A. MCALLISTER. G. ANDERSON, P.ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage "faen had been hired lof Tflilr0" j coming to the knowledge of the stone management, it was deter- led to beat them at their own game accordingly negotiations were ired into and effected by which abury and Bandle, the TJ. P. pitch- nd catcher, were to play with the atones, and no secret was made of matter, and the two well known ers were on the ground in the form of the Keystone clnb, ready olay with the boys, insuring defeat the flTahoos if they tackled them. Coal, Cement. Bock Sprinz Coal S7.00 per ton Carbon rWyomin?) Coal 6.00 ' Eldon (Iowai Coal UO " Blacksmith Coal of best quality ways on hand at low eat pricea. al- North. Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, 14-3m NEB. BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEE MILLS. ilANIFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE. COL UMB US. XEB. SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Hnion Pacific, and Midland Pacific , R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to 1 10.00 per acre for cash, or on nve or ten years -";"""; """" -i, .i. .. time, in annual pxvments to suit pur- i were poetically described as the strug chasers. "We have also a large and , ffles- of the imprisoned giant. Typhosus, choice lot of other lands, improved and i Virgil, adopting Homer's tradition. unimproved, for sale at low price ana j on reasonaoie terms. Aiuuuiuiniw residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COLUXBUM, E- LAKDS, FARMS, CFTY PBOPERS FOE SALE, AT THE Union Fade Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. All wishing to buy Bail Boad Lands or Improved Farms will find it to their advantage to call at the TJ. P. Land Office before lookin- elsewhere as I make a peclalty of bpyiag and selling lands on commission; all persons wish in? to sell farms or unimproved land "will find it to their advantage to leave their lands -with me for sale, as my Ta cilitier for affecting sales are unsur passed. I am prepared to make final proof for all parties wishing to get a. patent for their homesteads. tTK. W. Ott, Clerk, writes and speaks German. SAMUEL C. SMITH, . At. C.P.Laad Department. 6il-j COLUHBUS, 2TEB. HENRY G-ASS, TJISTDERT A KEB ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES XSD DKALZSIX Faxnitaxe, Ckaira, Bedateada, Bn- reana. Tables, Safes. Losngea. Jtc Picture Frames and Mouldings. fZrEepairiag of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLHKBTJ3, NEB. .mmmmmmkm-SissBiii"lL " mW (i"uiumt)) COLUMBUa NEB., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMEEE WHAT DID HE LEAVE What did he leave? He left toe Uffht of Heaven And the wide rivers that make glad the left the birds the forests to enliven. And the sweet k buttercup with golden shieMs; He left the music of the air and water. And the cool groves, where witching shad ows fall; He left erth-love. the Mtuee' purest daugh ter. And poesy that was beyond his call He left them an. What did he leave? He left, with spirit yearn ing. All the fiatterinc plaudits of his peers- All the laurel he spent his life in earning. And many things that wither with the years; He lert the wealth that hooded all his garners. Which, ere .the snnhad set upon his pall. Was reached for by the hands of greedy mourners. Who feared lest something might the dead recall He left them alL Q What did he take? Ah! "t is not for mortal To iudre the dead, or mete for him the rod; eariyhate'er he carried through that mystic portal give is known unto himself and to his God. t,.jist this we rnow, he took the blessings TiP those he cheered in poverty's enthrall Xe toolc whate'er he won of true worth's and grandeur. What time he sweetened Sorrow's cup of for a gall And that was all. iVm. LiM, in Batton TranuripL. Cc THE FATED ISLaXD. gatfOjtory and Description of IaehJa, the Funooi Spot Where the Kecent Karth ord quake Happened. chai The Island of Ischia, the most pro on .uctive portion of which, including the cjjasrincipal villages, has been destroyed. vas smown to tne ancients as jnmecusa, JEnaria and Inarme. It is the largest island in the vicinity of Naples, from which it is distant twenty miles. Its circumference is about twenty miles, ex clusive of the sinuosities of the coast, Its length is five and one-half miles; its breadth in the widest part is about four. The total population of the about 26.000. island was Before Vesuvius resumed its activitv in the first centnrv of the present era Ischia was the principal site of volcanic j action in Southern Italy, lhe Mont Epomeo. the Epopos of the Greeks, and the Epopeus of the Latin poets, which rises grandly near the center of the island. aDnears to have acted chieflv bv lateral eruntion. for there is not a trace of lava near the aummir, while several volcanic vents may be distinctly traced on its flanks and in various parts of its declivities. On the north and west the island slopes gradually down to the sea, and terminates in a beach, while on the south and east it plunges into it. form ine abrupt and often lofty precipices. The history of Ischia at an early period is intimately associated with its volcanic action, and the connection of these phenomena with the mythology of antiquity has invested the island with a charm peculiarly its own. A Greek colony settled in the island pre viously to or simultaneous with the foundation of Cumae. The settlers at tained great prosperity, but are said to have been afterward compelled by con stant earthquakes and volcanic action .o leave the island and settle on the op posite coast of Cumai. These outbursts are probably the same mentioned by Hm:EU5, who lived about 262 B. C". and recorded a tradition that shortly before his time Mont Epomeus vomited fire and ashes, and that the land be weea it and the coast was thrown orcibly into the sea. which receded three stadia, and then returned, over flowed the land, and extinguished the fire. These events are also related with some variation by Plinv, who mentions a tradition "that Epomeo emitted flames; that a village was swallowed up; that a marsh was created by one of the earthquakes which accompanied the eruption, and that Procida was detached bv another. A colonv established b Eieron. the ! Tyrant of Syracuse, no doubt after his sreat naval victory over the Etruscans, In B. C. 474, was also driven away irom the island by volcanic outbursts. The Neapolitans subsequently colonized the island, and remained till the Ro mans, at an unknown period, took pos- I session of it. Julius Obsequens men- i tions an eruption in B. C. 92, and the local historians assert that other vol canic convulsions occurred in the reigns of Titus, Antonius Pius and Diocletian. The last eruption took place in 1302. when a stream of lava issued from the northeast base of Mount Enomeo. which ran into the sea near the town of Ischia. TI-ii TmrMi itmrTf TIMinin rtrrMit..' gave Typhosus to Ischia and Enceiadius to t.tna. ine ancient name, ritnecusa. was popularly derived by the Roman poets from the fact the island was said to be inhabited by monkeys. But Pliny, the naturalist, with more probability, attributes it to th pottery manufactured in the island. The name .naria, ac cording to Pliny, was derived by the poets from its having been one of the stations of the fleet of tineas. Ischia is a corruption of the word Iscla. under which name the island is mentioned in ecclesiastical records of the eighth century After the fall of the Roman Empire Ischia followed the fortunes of the capital. In S13 and again in 847 it was attacked bv i the Saracens; 1135 it was attacked by the Pisans while on their wav to Amath. In 1191 Henry VL "took possession of it. In the refgn of his son Frederick IL, Carracciolo. his GeneraL allowed himself to be burned alive in the castle rather than surrender it to the Guelph troops of Otho IV. In 1282 Ischia joined Sicily in the revolt against Charles L In 1299 Charles IL recov ered the island, and punished the in habitants for their rebellion bv sending: 400 soldiers to cut down their "tees and ! vineyards. In 1389 Ladislaus defeated Louis IL of Anjou in a battle fought near the crater of Mont Rotaro. In the fifteenth century Alfonse L seized and fortified it in the war against J anna U. He expelled the male inhabitants and forced their wfves and daughters to marry his" soldiers. At his death, in 154S, Giovanni Toreglia, the cousin of Lucrezia d'Alagui, proclaimed himself an adherent of Krntr Renato, and held the island against Ferdinand L till 1463, when he sold it to the crown for 50,000 ducats,. In 1495 Ferdinand IL retired to Ischia with his Annt Janna, who had just become his bnde in her i "e coionng matter became more pro fourteenth vear, abandoning NaDles to I nounced. and soon he drpw a vellow- his rtTaL Charles VHL The King ar-! rived before the Castle of Ischia ! with his retinue in fourteen al-' leys, but the castellan. Guisto della Candina. a Catalonian, refused to admit him- Hecon-ented at last to ad mit the King and Queen alone. Ferdi nand then landed, but he had no sooner set his foot within the castle than he drew big sword and killed the faitnlass castellan on the spot, an act which so astonished the garrison that they offered no opposition to the landing tiie royal retinue. In 1501 ins-tmele and mxesrf- er. Frederick. Jam Queen and retired to Isch.a witt children, accompanied by his sisters, Beatrice, the widow of ilattheus Corvinus, King of Hungary, and Isabella, the widow of Gion Gale azzo TiscontL They remained in the castle till the King proceeded to France and surrendered himself to Louis XH. in person, so that the Castle of Ischia may be said to have witnessed the ex tinction of the Aragonese dynastv. The island was pillaged in 1544 by Barba rossa, who carried away 4,000 inhabit ants; was captured by the Duke de Guise in 1647; was occupied by Lord Nelson in the present century, and af forded brief refuge to Murat on his flight to France in 1315. The delightful situation of this isiand and its charming climate have attracted numerous visitors in all ages. The in habitants of Ischia are a very indus trious and peaceable people. About two-thirds are agriculturists and the greater part of the remainder are em ployed as fishermen. Casamicciola. one of the towns de stroyed, was a famous summer resort. It was here that the most important springs in the island were found. It was a straggling village of about four thousand inhabitants, but its baths salu brious climate, and excellent habits made it a favorite resort with foreigners. It was on the high road between the bay of that name and the Bay of Laeco. anii from it was had a charming view of the island, the sea. and the opposite coast. The most important springs rise about one-half mile from the village at the foot of Mont Epomeo in a ravine called the Tallone Ombrasco. The most cele brated is the Asqua di Gurgitello, the temperature ot which was 162 degrees Fahrenheit. Opposite the springs was the hospital founded in 1601 by the Monte della Misericoniia of Naples, for poor patients. Near the Guiitello is the Acqui di Coppone, so called from its possessing the smell of chicken brotb The AcquaTdi Bagno Franco, risiro- ! near he Coppone, was much esteemed by the iscman ladies lor its property or j whitening the hands, Vlte Orubrasco a: Opening into the are the picturesque ravines called the Lai di lamburo, which derives its name from the noise produced by the Acqua di Tamburo. which contains such larse quantities of carbonic acid gas that its escape is ac companied by a sound resembling that of a drum. Near by is a spring which has the property of softening the skin of fowls, and so rendering easy the oper ation of plucking. Gasamicciola was celebrated for its manufactories of bricks, tiles and pottery in general, which were exported to Naples. Laco, another village partly destroyed, was beautifully situated in a cove on the seashore near Casamicciola. It had about two thousand population, which was chiefly employed in fishing and making straw hats "and baskets. " Just outside the village were the church and convent St. Bestituta. the patron saint of the island, whose festival, a great event in the year, takes place on "May 17. The body of the saint, who suffered martyrdom in Africa by being thrown into the sea. was cast as&ore in the lit tle bay of St. Montana beyond the present church, where grows in the sandv soil a flower called by the island ers the giglio di Santa Restituta, from the tradition that it sprans up on the spot where the body of the saint was cast: they also say that it will grow no where else. There were several baths at Lacco, the principal of which was the aqua di S. Restitnta. The spring rises near the convent. On the seashore at Lacco the sand, which is black and shining, is at all- times so hot that a hole made in it becomes instantly filled with water at a temperature of one hundred and twelve degrees. Near the small islet called Capitello. off the bay of Lacco, it is so hotas to raise the ther mometer to one hundred and seventy one degrees. Not far from Lacco was once a large block of lava bearing a Greek inscription recording the con struction of a fortified wall by the Syra cusen calamists before they were driven out by eruptions. This interesting relic has been lost, the fishermen having re moved it to sink their nets during the fishing season off the adjoinino: head land. Another one of the island villages which has suffered is Forio. It con tained nearly 7,000 inhabitants. It oc cupied a picturesque position on the northwest coast. It was the residence of the larger Ischian proprietors, and was a thriving little port. It was three Smiles from Casamicciol and two from Lacco. Near it were hot wells and baths, datinjr probably ot the Greek colonists, lone been out of use. ancient vapor from the time but thev had Mont Opomeo was conveniently as cended from Forio. There were" sev eral mediaeval towers at Forio. some square, others round, and an unusual number of churches, with numerous neat private residences, showing the prosperity of the island. Ischia, also partially destroyed, was the capital of the island. It " was the seat of a Bishop, but it had never re covered its prosperitv since the eruntion in 1302. Its cast', built by Alfonso I. of Aragon. stood on a lofty isolated rock of volcanic tufa and ashes. It rose out of the sea opposite the Island of Vivara. and was connected with the mainland by a mole constructed on a narrow isthmus. It had a population of over 6.000. Chicago Tribune. A Small Boy as a Medium. Some two vears ago I called one morning at Colonel Kase's. No 1601 west ruteenm street, rniiaaemnia, i took my seat accidentia beside a boy of some ten or twelve" years of age", who had called in company with liis motner. i was toia dv some one pres- I was told ent :nat the boy had a remarkable spir itual gift in the way of drawing flow ers with his finger. " By my request he essayed to make me a picture. I hand ed him a sheet of paper, one eorner of which I tore off and put in my pocket to assure its identity. The little fellow laid my half sheet of paper on a paste board cover and sat quietly directly un der mv eye, which was never once re moved from the paper until all was over. Ever and anon the boy would strike the paper softlv with h'is fore finger, which he continued to do until there were signs of discolorment municated to the paper. Shortly com- after colored flower on a stem of green with , leaves to match. I know so far as mv : senses enaole me to know anything that j this manitestation was a genuine exhi bition of some invisible occult power not t comprehended oy mortals. Providence Journa.. Advices from their agents in Japan to the American Bible Societv conveys the information of the conversion of two Coreaas. one of whom. RijuteL is a per son oi hig-i n,nk in his own land. He is an i:it m t:? friend of the K'n"- of Cotea. a-. ved the Queen life "dur ing the rebel'ion in that country. mnmu 12, 1888. Oar Ostrich Farm. The winters here are a little warmer and the summers a little cooler for the ostriches than in their native land. They are about six miles from the Pa cific, where there is good grazing land, worth about S30 an acre. They are do ing as well as at homd, except, like other bridal parties, they have lost the docility for which "they were noted at home. The keeper charges it to the electric air of the Pacific coast. One of the birds (the cock of the walk) has become so acclimated that he has given his beloved a rest, the first of her tribe to enrich American soil. They do not tight with their wings, beak, or spurs, as do some of the feathery kind, but like that wonderful songster, the mule. with their feet- It is well known in science (thanks to a few book agents what the sensation is to be kicked by a mule, but no one who has been fairly impressed by the softness of an ostrich foot has lived to tell the tale. As in human nature, so in ostrich natnre, the female rarely gets angry. When she can not run away, and has none of the sterner sex to defend her, she will strike for liberty or die. The likeness to human nature does not follow so closely in the male bird. He is th ornamental branch of the family, and when it is desired to start a new branch he makes the nest, asks his companions to come and examine it: if, after puting their heads together, the mistress ot the hou-e is satisfied she usually is) she furnishes it with a dozen or so of four-pound egz$. five to six inches in diameter, each equivalent to two dozen of hens" eggs, and then allows her male helpmate to do the principal part of the setting. ThinK of that. Oh. man. anti then say which ought to hide their heads in the dust! He sits all night willingly, but woe to that hen that does not come on time to relieve him for breakfast. He must, of course, strut a little during the day, and is always '-at th1 lodge" a: night. Forty days and forty nights, with three days of grace, he maintains squatjer sovereignty." until his pos terity begin to make a stir in their en vironments, and then he helps them pick their way out into this beautiful world of evolution. This is the wav thoy do it in their wild tare : but here, as in all well-regulated farms in Africa, Australia. South America, and else where, tne incubator prevents this ex emplary display of manhood. When hatched the young ostriches are about the size of a common hen and about the color of a young goose. At maturit the male is black." with white tips on tin wings and tail, which alone constitute , his stock in trade, amounting in Africa j to several millions of dollars. The fe- i male Ls gray, with the u.-ual white tips, j but not so profuse as the male. The birds here are from six to ten years of age. and are larger and more life-like than the ostriches hauled about with shows and in zoological gardens. The , brood just out will be pastured in an . alfalfa patch, with a harder. Counting ' the chickens before they were hatched ' a few were sold some weeks ago for 32X I each. Uther companies are soon to embark in this new enterprise and there is room for a hundred thousand more. All the vegetables and lime and gravel they need can be had in abundance in southern California. They drink very little water, sometimes going three days without any. An artesian well 39.' feet deep on this farm, costing as many dol lars, flowing constantly, supplies all tne water needed for acre of alfalfa, that irr.ganng sixty yield- six good crops yearly. Approaching the farm. ' in all directions, are seen notices upon i poles declaring that -all dogs found on the premises will be shot. DL--bedience to this order has resulted in the demise of several pet canin-s. and the loss of temper of their pretty com panions. The story that a pair of birds had es caped from the farm, and after killing a few men and a lot of sehool children had fled into the wilds of Arizona to pop ulate the desert tracts. Ls far from tne truth. It startpd. probably, from the following instructive and amusing inci dent: Several nights ago thL- feathery flock became frightened by a coyote or some wild animal, and. of course, no fence could hold them. They soon kicked it to pieces, and one of them " took leg bail" and vamoosed the ranch." One of the farm hands hap pened to be a few miles awa at hir, father's, and saw his acquaintance flee ing in the wrong direction. Father and son quickly mounted their horse? and joined the rha-e in Gilpin style. They overtook the bird in the course of time. and began the caoture. but soon discov ered that. American eagle style, the bird j was master of. the situation. " The hor-es became frightened and refused to con tinue the contest. A fresh horse wai ! procured. -To the victors belong the spoils." "Veni. vidi. vici. " which, be ing interpreted, is: The ostrich turned on" his captors, and horse and rider were put to flight. The horse did his best in going home on a full run, but the bird nlleoTup his spare time in patting the horse's flank vigorously. This had a tendencv to make the horse beat his best record. The triumvirate entered the coral to- i gether, and the chick was s-afe within the bam. Dr. Sketchley was sent for ' to complete the job. Ordinarily a three- ' foot fence is enough to coop them. Thev j are very tame and easy tu care for until i about four years old. Then it is they ' begin to look for mates, and the war begins. Here again they differ from , most bibeds. for they do up their quar reling before they begin to live together ' for l2e, and ever after live in peace: but ! woe to the hen that doea not return the i proffered affections. She will be kicked ; around until she does enn-enr to love and cherish, and then all i- gentlene-s. ' A Mormon is found among them now and then, bur monagamy is the rule. One high-toned bully has caught the New York idea, and will not take a help- , mate. Sometimes a femaie will die , rather than surrender her independence ' or mate contrary to her wishes. There are more contradictions in the study of , this bird perhaps than in any other aai- ( mal. They are both stupid and cunning, timid and brave, kind and savage, awk- ' ward and graceful, ugly and beautiful; much depending upon how, when and where vou see them. Senator Edmunds has been charmed by Mount Tacoma. in Washington "Territory. "I have been through" the Swiss Mountains." he gays, -and T am compelled to own that, incredihleas the assertion may appear, there is absolutely no com parison between the finest effect that are exhibited there and what is seen in approaching this grand isolated mountain." One day recently a smart Fulton baby of less than one yearof age climbed a ladder twenty-five feet long which rested against a scaffold, and got upon the scaffolding. It was rescued without injaryi Trw(X. F.) Times. WHOLE NO. 696. Cut Off His RcTenue. An old gentleman was sitting in a lawyer's onice in this city the other day a messenger boy came in and handed him a telegram. The old man put on his spectacles and spelled the telegram out with considerable trouble. When its full meaning seemed to flash on him. he sat for a moment as though dazed and then, laying his head on the table in front of him. he groaned audi bly. The only other person in the room was a pale-faced man with a bandage over one eye. who. like the old man. was waiting to have an interview with the lawyer Thinking that the telegram must have conveyed news of some family bereavement, he ap proached the old man and asked sympathetically: " Bad news?" Yes." said the old man. wiping his eyes with a big bandanna, " tremen dous bad." "Yes: my gal" The old man's voice broke down, and burying his face in his handkerchief he wept aloud. The pale-faced man seemed much touched by this display of grief. " It Ls indeed, sad." said he. " when a loved daughter, the stay and comfort of your declining years " ba she was." broke in the old man. Is suddenly called away to that shadowy " - She" weren t called." interrupted the old man. looking up, "she just went ofl" herself. She hadn't no call to go." I mean." said the pale-faced man, When a daughter dies " -Dies?" broke' in the old man. "who said anvthing about dvin"?" " Then she is not dead?" " Wuss than that. Why. man. married." Married?" Yes rot the luck, married to she's Zeke Jimpson this morning." Isnt he good foranything?" Good for" anything?" Why. I tell you he's worth five thousand dollars. She iiad worked that fellow down fine, she had. and I jut came down to-day to arrange for a breach-of-promle suit. And to think that they should make it all up and iuarn. while I was away. Why. that girl has been worth three thousand dollar- a year to me ever -:nee she was sixteen years old. and .-he never went back on her poor old father be fore. Well. I'll have to scrape along and get all the money out- ot Zeke 1 can until they want a divorce." And the old man tottered out, wiping his eves. Charf. Strayed Away. The young man with two watch chains across his vest boarded a ood ward avenue car a: eleven o'clock yes terday forenoon. Among the passen gers was an old woman who had been inquiring aoout taking the Bay City train at the crossing. She looked across at the young man with great interest for a minute or two. and then said: Your time niu-t be very valuable, young man." He bowed and mumbled something which she could not catch, and leaning forward, she asked: " I'spose one o" them watche is for i"hen you go down, and the other for when you come up. eh?" He shifted around to look out of the window, and seemed somewhat vexed at hi- want of courtesy, -he continued Seenia to me it would be cheaper ( to bitch an eight-da , bosom." clock to vour shirt He didn't reply to that, either, and tapping him on the knee with the han dle of the umbrella, she inquired' " Young man. I want to catch the Bay Cirv train." -Yes'm." "What time is it by all your watch chains'1" "I I about eleven!" he stammered -You ditlnt look. 'orne. now. here's an old bull- eye that's been in the fam ily forty-eight years and never had an inch of brass chain hitched to it. I'll bet it show- the right time nearer than anvthing you" ve got." she hauled out a watch almost a large as a saucer, and rattled it around and waved it about, and as he slid along the seat towards the door she continued: "I'd let them chains run down and hitch to your boot-straps! Anv young man as will go and toggle himself all up and criss-cross his vest with chains and spangles must have got strayed away from some twenry-five-cent store, and wants to be identified and re turned. Have you got baked 'taters hitched to the pocket ends? Say " But he dropped off and fell down and got up and got away before she could iurther abuse him. "Detroit Free Press. A Teleirraphie Blander. Telegraphic anecdotes being in order reminds us of a diSDatch which some i years ago a business man in this city , -ent to his correspondent in New York. requesting him to have a room reserved" for him at the hotel, as he should come i on that afternoon. j Arrived late at night he stood serenely behind the crowd at the old Astor House vho were registering their names, even ' till the clerk" began to turn applicants : away for lack of room assnred that his . dispatch in advance must have secured j accommodation, but was surprised and 1 indignant to find that no order for a , room had been received, and was ob liged to hunt up lodgings for the night elsewhere. Early next morning, in response to : the demand if his dispatch had been re , ceiveii. his correspondent replied in the , affirmative and that a tore-house had ' been hired for him in Beaver street as ordered. A -tore-house! I never ordered a store-hou-e." The dispatch wa.-produced. It read: " shaii De on to-nign: have room in a store-house secun-dat once." Application at the telegraph office re vealed the fact that the young woman who received the message as it came slowly from the wire, supposed the ope rator had been abbreviating and 3he therefore corrected (?) the spelling of the message, which originally read. " Have room in Astor Hou-e secured at once." The division of A-tor and ad iition of an e produced quite a different result than was desired. Boston Com mercial. The three Ohio children, ranging in age from ten to fourteen years, who went under a tree for shelter from a thunder-storm and were killed by light ning, probably did not have fhe tact very deepiv impressed upon their minds that they would have been just as safe nesthng'at the foot of a lightning rod. Chicago Inter Ocean. He hails a supposed friend with ' Hello, Joe." but finding: his mistake, adds: 'Excuse me, I thought you were another man." I aaa," was the lacon ic reply. BATES OF ABTEKTlSCnC Buslneaa and professional cards of -re lines or less, per annnm, five dollars. 52? For time adxertiaemanta. apply at this office. SSTTiegal advertisements at statue rates- i i J3Tor transient advertising, se rates on third page. ST All advertisements payable monthly. PITH AND POUT. The duration of a kiss has beea found to be from half a second to one and a quarter minutes, according to who you are kissing. A pawnbroker named his boy Cy clone becauseje thought people would come to him .- rner when they wanted to raise the wmd. Detroit Post. When Henry was courting Sarah he used to boast that he had a "boss" girl; now that he is married he finds that he has a "boss" wife; but he never mentions it. Bost&n Transcript. Alaska diamonds are made in New York at about $1.15 per quart- It doesn't seem as if one of the little pieces of glass would make a young man think, he owned half a town, but it somehow does. Detroit Free Press. A blundering compositor, in setting up the toast. '"Woman without her, man would be a savage." got the punc tuation in the wrong place, which made it read. "Woman, without her man, would be a savage. Earlier Jokes oj Ancient Greece. "I detest slang phrases." said an old lady to the pastor, especially when ued by women. Why. the other day I heart! a girl say that she had flirted with a fellow, and" made a mash.' She thought I didn't know what she meant, but T tumbled to it. all the same." Chtraijo Tribune. Some clever young ladies have in vented a new plan tor securing hus bands. They go out boating with the man of their choice, contrive to upset the boat, and then grab him and save his life. The virtim. in the first "amrst of gratitude and admiration, generally makes the desired proposal to Eis heroic preserver. A Frenchman, living in Louisiana, whof-e wife deserted him. amused his neighbors by telling how he got her back without, trouble. "Did I run after her and beg her tocome back3'" he dra matically asked "No. I did not run after her. I zhust publish in ze papaire zat I have drawn tiitv tousand doibira in ze lottery, and she vas back much quicker as no time." .V 0. Piattune. "What is the difieren.-e. George." said Mr. Dusenberry to the dude re porter, "between a bag of salt and a man who-? eyesight has been impaired bv working in a cloth renovating es tablishment?" George said it would be too fatiguing, you know, to try to guess. "Why?' said Mr. Dusenberry. one is chloride of sodium, the other sore-eyed-of-elo" dye-em," Jersey City Journal. We all know, or profess to know, and it is even patent to thine who are not cognizant of the fact, that in all ages. frm the very remotest to the a'on in the misty future, man has. or ha.- aot. according to hia inalienable right.- and prerogatives, in the prem ise. thnugh the organism of the mind which connect.-, the understandable ness with the intelligibility of the dyna mic energy of the body an underly ing, inherent inclination, on multifa rious occa.sions.as if propelled by an un seen force, to seek the magnetism and stimulation that is co-existe'ht with, and analogous to. a fermentoiw extraction of. Concord School Philosopher, in Puck. e e SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Flour milL- are being erected thb I -uninier in various parts of Nevada. Tho-e already in operation make ex cellent flour and are kept running steadily. It is a fact not generally known that most of the tems from North Carolina tobacco lactones are shipped to Germanv to be manufactured into snuff for the German peasants. They are collected by a Winston firm and shipped thence in immen.-e quantities. Chicago He'iud A railroad only six thou-and feet long, but with a grade of one-fifth risein every five on the average, and at the steepest one in three, has been built straight up Green Mountain, near Bar Harbor. Maine The roadbed is solid rock, cut away to a plane, upon which the ties are bolted. The loco motive pushes a passenger car up the ascent by means of cog-wheels plying in a center rail, as on the Mount Wash ington mad. Boston Hrrnbl. Dr Horace T. Evans, of Philadel phia, beiievo mushrooms contain oma of the poisonous property which, when present m excess, cause accnieats that L-5. sickness and death from eating mushrooms. Even thoe which are or dinarily considered safest and beat are at rime- objectionable, owing to conditions affecting their growth. This explains why experts in the selection of edible fungi are sometimes mistaken. It isn't their fault, but the fault of the mushrooms, which are evidently a dan geroas luxurv H'alUi Mtmtdrj. The production of -ugar cane L in creasing in Mexico The climat and soil anTreported a- well adapted to it. It is stated that there is nothing in the form of sugar cane in Louisiana which can compare with the luxuriant growth to be found in Mexico Many of the largest sugar districts in Mexico have abundant water which can be utilized for machine power as well as for irri gation. As for facilities for transpor tation. Mexican sugars are put up in small package of conical shape, which are easily tran-ported by pack animals to any distance required. Chicago Times. Massachusetts has the credit of hav ing the largest -hoe manufacturing in terest of any State m the Union, and it i due chiefly to her enterprise that America is conceded to have attained the highest perfection in the art of shoe making of any country in the world. Perhaps few ar' aware that the shoe and leather interest of the United States is next in importance and value to the agricultural, and largely exceeds that of iron. coal, wooten. or even cotton. The annual "sales of -dios and leather mount up to sometuing like 8250,0. 000. Boston Tran.mpL A Long Sufferin Hosbaas Mr. Simeon B. Wrightleigh, an I Austin man. having returned nome un expectedly from his place of business, finds Mrs. Wngfatieign and his clerk sitting together on the lounge, where uponMr. Wngntleigh stamped around and behaved so rudelv that the clerk got mad and left the house, at which the exasperated husband vented his rage on his unfortunate wife. "Now, Jladame. that s the fifth or sixth time I have caught you sitting oh the sofa with my clers. I tell you now, for the last time, if k hapgens again Til dock his wages." Texas Sijluvjs. William Morthimer, a one-handed compositor in the office of the Carboa (Pa.) Advocate, fastens his stick diago nally across the "t" box, and sets, cor rects aad distributes 8,000 ess of solid rn'niru; each day. Chicago Herald.
