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BUSINESS CAB.DS.
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F. WOOD SI. !
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
jSTHas opened the oflice f rmerly oc
cupied by Dr. Ilonestcel. 19-3m.
DENTAL PAELOR.
On Tfiirteenth St., and Nebraska Ave.,
over Friedhofi store.
JSTOflice hours, 8 to 12 a.m.; 1 to 3 p.m.
Oi.la Ashbaugh, Dentist.
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lOKKKMUM NL'LLIVAK,
A TTOJINEYS-AT-LA W,
Un-stairs in Glurk Building, 11th street,
Above the New biink.
H.
.b. esi;iwo3i
NOTARY PUBLIC.
12th Street, 2 doors west of Hammond Hoase,
Columbus, Neb. 491-y
qIlUHSYO: A; POWEBS,
SURGEON DENTISTS, '
235-Olhcc in Mitchell Block, Coluui
bus, Nebraska. H-
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J TTORNEYS AT LA W,
Oilice on Olive .St., Columbus, Nebraska.
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G. A. IllTLLUOKST, A.M., M. D.,
HOMEOPA Till 0 PHYSICIAN,
ESTTwo Block- south of Court Ilouse.
Telephone communication. "-ly
G
EO. X. SPOOLER,
Will take contracts for-
Bricklaviug, Plastering, Stonework,
Etc.
$3T Satisfaction guaranteed, or no pay.
4-tt
V. A. MACEEN,
DKALKlt IX
Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Porters, Ales,
cU:, etc.
Olive Street, next to First National Bank.
50-v
fcAIJJNTEK ItltOS.,
A TTORNEYS A T LA W,
Oflice up-stair-, in McAllister's build
ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
J. M. MACl'AltLANI, " COWDERY,
Att:ne7 al i'-tary Psil' c. Collect:?.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
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MACPARLAND & COWDERT",
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
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EO. ". WEB25CV.
PA INTER.
HSTCarriaire, house and n painting,
glazing, paper hanging, kaNomining, etc.
done to order. Shop on l'lth St., opposite
Engine lluiiie, Columbus, Neb. 10-y
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? ii. it i nciii:,
ilth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Blankets. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy "top, cu-hions, carriage
trimmings. Arc. at the lowest possible
prices. I(cpair pr inptly attended to.
.!OII?k C.TASKEK,
Heal ."Estate .Agent,
Genoa, Nance Co., Neb.
WILD LANDS and improved farms
for sale. Correspondence solicit
ed. Oilice in Young's building, up-stairs.
O. C. SHLAJSTNON",
MAXL'FACTL'ItEIl OK
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
jSTShop on Eleeuth Street, opposite
Heintz's nrni; Store. 4ti-y
G
X CLAUK,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
HUMPHREY, NEBR.
His lands comprise some line tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion ol Pl?tte county. Taxes
paid for non-rosidents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 y
OLUSIBUS PACKING CO.,
COL U3IB US, - NED.,
Packers and Dealers in all kinds or Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hoga
or grease.
Directors. R. II Henry, Prest.; John
"Wiggins, Sec. aud Treas.; L. Gerrard, S.
Corv.
-VTOTICE TO TEACHERS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
"Will he in his office at the Court Ilouse
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. " W57-y
TASI ES SAL.S10IV,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
cuaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. 32 Gmo.
J. WA&NER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public w.'th
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
conducts a sale stable. 44
D.T. Martyx, 31. D. F. Schcg, M. D.,
Deutscher Artz.)
Drs. HABTYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons, Union Pacific and
O., X. & B. H. It. It's.
COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA.
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COLUMBUS '
STATE BANKJ,
Sttuturxto attnti k Slit si Tank k Xslit.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
CASH CAPITAL, - $50,000
DIRECTORS:
Leander Gerbaud, Pres'i.
Geo. W. IIulst, Vice. Pre 't.
Julius A. Reed.
Edward X. Gerrard. ."
Ji E. Taskkh, Cashier.
Baak of lepeI, . OIiicoml
aad Exchaage.
Collect 1mb Promptly 91 ado
all Points.
Pay laitereMt oa Tlie'Deaos.
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DREBERT & BRIG6LE,
BACKERS!
HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA. . '
S3SPrompt attention given to Col
lections. B3TIiiBurance, Real Estate, Loan,
etc. '
J. H. GALLEY & BRO.,
Would respectfully ask their friends and
patrons to call and examine
their stock of
Fall and Winter Goods
Before purchasing their supplies, as they
have their store full from floor to
ceiling of Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS!
CLOTHING,
For Men and Boys, at all Prices!
?&. OVERCOATS!
EATS MID UTS, BOOTS MB SBOES.
WE ALSO CARRY A LINE OF
LA DIES' FINE SHOES. .
Blankets, Quilts and all kinds of Fan
cy Notions.
SgrRemember that we keep no shoddy
goods-, and strictly one price is our
motto, which our twenty-live years resi
dence in Columbus will sustain. 2.1.3m
LOUIS SCHREIBER,
Hi
r.
All kinds of Repaying done on
Short Notice. Buggies, Wag
ons, etc., made to order,
and all work Guar
anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A.
Wood Mowers , Xeapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and 8elf-binders the
best made.
GTShop opposite the "Tattersall." Ol
ive St.. COLU3IBUS. 2-6m-c
WISE
people are always on the
lookout lor cuances to
increase their earnings,
and in time become
wealthy : those who do not improve their
opportunities remain in poverty. We
offer a great chance to make money. We
want many men, women, boys and girls
to work for us right in their own localities
Auv one cau do the work properly from
the first start. The ''Usincss will pay
more than ten times ordinary wages. Ex
pensive outfit furnished. No one who
engages fails to make money rapidly. You
can devote your whole time to the work,
or only your spare moments. Full infor
mation and all that is needed sent free.
Address STDfSON & Co.. Portland, Maine.
HlJBEIl'S HOTEL..
JOHN HTJBER, the jolly auctioncar, has
opened a hotel on 13th St., near TitTa
ny & Routson's, where clean beds and
square meals will always be found by the
patrons of the house. "I will in the fu
ture, as in the past, give my best atten
tion to all sales of goods or farm stock, as
an auctioneer.
j3JSatipfaction guaranteed; call and
see me and you will be made welcome.
JOHN HTJBER,
Proprietor and Auctioneer.
Columbus, Neb., June 19, "83. 9-tf
coLinsis
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Proprietor.
j3TWhole8ale nd Retail Dealer in For-
eign "Winesj Liquors and Cigars, Dub-
lfn Stout, Scotch and English Ales.
$3TKentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lltk Strost. Sontk of Depot.
S. MURDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Have had
. an extended -xperlence,and
intee' Batitfaetjoa ' in , wpik;
will eaarantee,
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good, work and
fair prices. Call and give us an op'por
tunitytoestimateforyon. rJTSbbp-on
13th St., one door west of Friedhof 'A
Co's. store, ColtrmbtiB, Sebr. 4857
BlacKsmitli ana w aeon HaKe
Fi-ltST
National Bank!
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AutaoriMd'Capitol, - - $250,000
Cask Capital, - - 50,000
- ornCUS AMD DIBECTOR.
a. Anderson; Preset.
SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't.
O. T. ROEN, Cashier.
J. W. EARLY,
ROBERT UHLIO,
HERMAN OEHLRICH.
TV. A. MCALLISTBR.
G.ANDERSON,
P. ANDERSON.
Foreign -and Inland Exchange.!1 assage
Tickets, Real Estate, Loan aua insurance.
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COAL 4
J.E. NORTH & CO.,
DEALERS 1N-
Coal,
Cement.
Bock Spriig Coal, $7.00 per ton
Carbon (Wyoming) Coal 6.00 "
Eldon (Iowa) Coal 1.50 "
Blacksmith Coal of betTgttainj &I
ways on hand at low
est prices.
North Side EleTenth St.,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
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BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE, COL UMB US. NEIt.
SPEICE & NORTH.
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from f 3.00 to f 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 abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
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COLUMBUN, NEB.
LAKDS, FAKMS,
AND
CHT PROPERTY FOR SALE,
ft s -
AT THE
Union Pacfic Land Office,
On Long Time and low rale
of Interest.
All wishing to buy Rail Road Lands
or Improved Farms will find it to their
advantage to call at the U. P. Land
Office before lookin- elsewhere as 1
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 wishiug to get a
patent for their, homesteads.
GsT'. W. Ott, "Clerk, writes and
speaks German.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
Agt.U.P. Land Department,
C21-y COLUMBUS, NEB.
HENRY. GASS,
TJNDEBTAKEB!
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES
JLStV DKaUCK IX ., J"
pHtnitmrs), Chairs, dsuadia, Bm-
reana, Tables, Safes. Lcmnges,
Jkc Pictnrs FrksBM and
Mouldings-
j
: T Repairing qf all kinds of Upholstery
Goods. '-
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
COX.C7BCBTTB, NEB
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Sue's Wedding-.
Site ought to lmvc been marries a
l6ng while ao. That's what everybody
says who knows her. She has been en
gaged to Mr. Travers for three years,
ana has had to refuse lots of offers to
fo to' the circus with other young-men.
havo wanted her to get married, so
that I could go and live with her and
air. Travers. When I think that if it
hadn't been for a mistake I made she
would have been married yesterday, I
find it dreadfully hard to be resigned.
But we ought always to be resigned to
everything when we can't help it.
Before 1 go any further I must tell
J'ou about my printing-press. It be
onged to Tom McGinnis, but he got
tired of it and sold it to mo real cheap.
He was going to oiler to exchango it for
a bicycle, a St. Bernard dog and twelve
good books,Nbut he finally let me have
it for a dollar and a half. "
It prints "beautifully, and I have
printed cards for over'so many people,
and made three dollars and seventy
cents already. I thought it would be
nice tb be able to print circus bills in
case Tom and I should ever have anoth
er circus, so I sent to the city and
bought some type morenauinch high,
and some beautiful yellow' paper.
Last week it was "finally agreed that
Sue and Mr. Travers should be married
without waiting any longer. YoU should
havo seen what a state of mind she and
her mother were in. They did nothing
but buy new clothes, and sew, and tallc
about the wedding all day long. Sue
was determined to be married in church,
and to have six bridesmaids and bride
grooms, and flowers and music and
things, till you couldn't rest. The only
thing that troubled her was making up
her mind who to invite. Mother wanted
her to invite Mr. and Mrs. McFadden and
the seven McFadden girls, but Sue said
they had insulted her, and she couldn't
bear the idea of asking the McFadden
tribe. Everybody agreed that old Mr.
Wilkinson, who once came to a party at
our house with one boot and one slip
per, couldn't be invited; but it was de
cided that ever' one else that was on
good terms with our family should have
an invitation.
Sue counted up all the people she
meant to invite, and there was nearly
three hundred of them. You would
hardly believe it, but she told me that I
must carry around all the invitations
and deliver them myself. Of course I
couldn't do this without neglecting my
studies and losing time, which is ahvays
pleuicus, z. I houeht of a plan which
would save Sue the trouun. cf directing
three hundred invitations and save n
from wasting time in delivering them.
I got to work with my printing-press
and printed a dozen splendid big bills
about the wedding. When they were
printed I cut a lot of small pictures of
animals and ladies riding on horses out
of some old circus-bills and pasted them
on the wedding-bills. They were per
fectly gorgeous, and you could see them
four or five rods off. When they were
all done I made some paste in a tin pail
and went out after dark and pasted
them in good places all over the village.
The next afternoon father came into
the house looking very stern, and car
rying one of the wedding-bills in his
hand. He handed it to Sue and said:
" Susan, what does this mean? These
bills are pasted all over the village, and
there are crowds of people reading
them." Sue read the bill, and then she
gave an awful shriek, and fainted awaj",
and I hurried down to the post-ollice to
see if the mail had come in. This is
what was on the wedding bills, and I
am sure it was spelled all right:
Miss Susan Brown announces that she will
marry Mr. Juines Travers
St the Church next Thursday at half past
seven, sharp.
All the Friend9 or the Family
With the exception of
the McFadden tribe and old Mr. Wilkinson
are invited.
Come early and bring
Lots of Flowers.
Now what was there to find fault with
in that? It was printed beautifully,
and even' word was spelled right, with
the exceptiou of the name of the church,
and I didn't put that in because I wasn't
quite sure how to spell it. The bill
saved Sue all the trouble of sending out
invitations, and it said everything that
anybody could want to know about the
wedding. Any other girl but Sue would
have been pleased, and would have
thanked me for all my trouble, but she
was asrangrv as if I had done something
real bad. Mr. Travers warf almost us
angry as Sue, and it was the first time
he was ever angry with me. I am
afraid now that he won't let me ever
come and live with him. He hasn't
said a word about my coming since the
wedding bills were pnt up. As for the
wedding, it has been put off, and Sue
says she will go to Isew York to be
married, for she would perfectly die if
she were to have a wedding at home
after that boy's dreadful conduct
What is worse, I am to be sent away to
boarding-school, and all because I made
a mistake in printing the wedding bills
without first asking Sue how she woidd
like to have them printed. "Jimmy
Browns'1 in Harper's Young People.
Treasures Among1 Rags.
The money and other valuables found
in the rags furnish a good illustration of
how much confidence may be placed in
cleansing and inspecting. ' A j-oung
lady," said one gentleman, "workiug
in one of our mills found a diamond
ring valued at one hundred and fifty
dollars inside the lining of an old vest
that was taken from a bale of rags, and
there have been repeated instances
where bank-notes in some cases in
large sums have been found, as also
have gold, silver and copper coin. In
some cases these are found in the pock
ets of old garments, evidently forgotten
or overlooked by the former wearer. In
many cases the money or other valua
bles has slipped from holes in the pock
ets and been caught in the linings, and,
in still other cases, money and even
diamonds have been found, stitched
firmly between the outside and lining
of the garment. The Chinese rags have
generally kept all the mill hands sup
plied with specimens of the Chine-e
cash, a small copper coin with a hole in
the middle, by which the natives carry
the coins in large quantities strung oh
a cord. All sorts of writings appear
notes of hand, bonds, drafts, love and
business letters, marriage contracts,
and many other compositions in every
language and style, and some of a dry,
very Questionable character, There is
no telling of the crimes that now are
shrouded in mystery that might be fullv
Unraveled by the testimony revealed in
the paper-mill rag-rooms.
"The boss in the sorting-room of one
of ocu mills had at one time quite an
extensive collection of curiosities, all
obtained In this way. Prominent in
this collection were the foreign coins,
specimens . of books and writings,
combs, brushes, " ring3 and bracelets,
beads and other ornaments; and even
an idol from the pocket of the discarded
robe of a madarin. The epgUieer
also, in one of the mills, KM a collec
tion of rare and beautiful books, all
culled from the rags, and including
some two or throe volumes worth al
most their weight in bank notes, on ac
count of their rarity. Many of tho
operatives have supplied themselves
with whole files of the leading maga
zines, which they collect from the paper
stock, aud several times complete files
of Harper's, The Century, etc. have
gone-through the grinders, simply for
what they were worth for paper, when
the book stores would have paid a
liberal price for them, and they are
growing (the old numbers) more valu
able every year.
" At one time the different prizes
found in the rags made such a stir that
a boss in one of the sorting-rooms grew
crazy over the subject, and could hard
ly th'ink'ortalk of anything else. As
whatever- was found was generally
taken possession of by the finder, this
man.was in the habit" of going to tiie
miH on Sundays and mornings before
work hours, to open and examine the
bales of rags by himself. W'hether he
ever found much of value or not is un
certain, but in one bale he did find a
pair of drawers of English make, and
nearly new: It occurred to him to take
off the old ones ho was wearing, aud to
put on those 'he had found. He did so,
and in a few days was taken sick with
what soon developed into a case of
small-pox in its most malignant form.
The disease proved-ifatal in- this case,
but it was only just before the death of
the unfortunate man that he confessed
the foolhardy manner in which he had
exposed himself and others, for the dis
ease spread, and something like twenty
more cases of small-pox and varioloid
followed in rapid succession, and it was
only by the most vigilant means that
the ravages were finally stopped. Sev
eral times the small-pox has broken out
among the hands employed on the rail
roads and steamers, evidently from the
same cause, contagious rags." Boston
Herald.
A Wealthy Alaskan.
The palace of Siwash Town is tho
residence of 'Mrs. Thorn," a painted
cabin with green blinds, and a green
railing across the front porch. Mrs.
Thorn is a character, a celebrity, and a
person of great authority among her
Siwash neighbors, and wields a greater
power and influence among her people
than all the war-chiefs and medicine
men put together. Even savage in
stincts bow down to wealth, and Mrs.
Thorn is the reputed possessor of 10,-
000, accumulated by her own energy
K
ajl shrewdness. We heard of Mrs.
Thorn long before we reached Sitka,
and realizing her to be suck a poteniate
among her people, we were shocked to
meet that lady by the roadside Sunday
morning, offering to sell bracelets to
some of the passengers. As became us
envoys from a Christian land, we read
her a small moral lecture, and severely
said that we would buy her bracelets on
Monday morning; and Mrs. Thorn then
and there invited us to come to her
green-galleried chalet in Siwash Town,
"next door to No. 17," at any time we
pleased.
The rainiest morning in all the week
we set our drippiug umbrella-points in
that direction and found tho great Tyee
lady at home. It was raw and chill as
a ?cv York November, but Mrs. Thorn
strolled about barefooted, wearing a
single calico garment, and wrapping
herself in a white blanket with red and
blue stripes across the ends. Her black
hair was brushed to satin smoothness,
braided and tied at the end with a co
quettish blue ribbon, and her arms were
covered with bracelets up to her elbows.
She is a plump matron fat, fair and
forty, in fact and her house is a model
of neatness and order. Her palatial
residence is built after the general plan,
the one large room having a raised
platform around the sides, and small,
cabin-like bedroom in one corner, with
glass doors and calico curtains. The
square fire-place of stones, in the center
of the main living-room, is about to be
done away with, an improved cooking
stove having arrived by this steamer for
this great lady of Tyee. When Mrs.
Thorn had reluctantly brought out a
dozen pairs ormoru of silver bracelets
to show u-, we" began to believe that
her, wealth was really as boundless as
her neighbors say. Her arms were
covered with silver strips, as if with
jointed mail, and there seemed no limit
to the riches her dozens of trunks and
chests contained. Like all Indians, she
puts her faith in blankets, and her
house is a magazine of such items of
wealth, while deep in her cedar boxes
are such trifles of the toilet as velvet
dresses and fur robes of wonderful qual
ity. When the steamer left here in
June Mrs. Thorn commissioned tho
Captain to buy her a bonnet of the latest
style. Tho gallant skipper muddled
himself with millinery all the while ho
was in Portland, and evolved therefrom
a broad-brimmed, gray-straw hat, faced
with dark-greeu velvet and trimmed
with a wreath of red poppies and a
trailing, crimson feather. Mrs. Thorn's
face beamed with pleasure at sight of
it, but the accompanying bill of twelvo
dollars put her economical soul to tor
ture, and it was with mingled pride and
regret that she brought out the new
bonnet to show it to us. When she set
it atop of her broad, plump face and
cast down her eyes with a conscious air
of bet'ouiin n ess. the scene was worth
photographing. Sitka (Alaska) Cor.
St. Louis U lobe-Democrat.
A Transaction in Eggs.
A few d ivs ago a merchant living at
Wabaunsee County, came to this side
with a ease of egs and tried to sell
ti em to one of our merchants, but as
several of the egg were accidentally
broken the odor that aro-e from them
proved that they were not fresh, and
the sale was not made. After several
unstK cussful attempts to sell them the
merchant started ior the south side.
When across t' e bridge he tied his
team, and taking the case of eggs,
wrapped around it an old coffee-sack
and carried it to the river bank. He de
posited it in a clump of bushes. A
fisherman saw him hide the bundle,
and thinking it valuable, waited until
the merchant was out of sight and then
rowed his boat to the spot, took the
bundle aboard and started to row across
the river, anxious to see what he had
captured., Several reports likepbstol
shots coming c from the package, tho
fisherman "became' alarmed, thinking
maybe it was a dynamite package lett
by some burglar, "and without waiting
to reach the store, he tore off the coh
ering and opened the box. The find
was not eggs-actly as he expected, and
his boat now looks like a vessel used to
make omelet in. Topeka Common
wealth. A boy who was tried recently in
Kentucky on the charge of carrying a
concealed weapon was acquitted on the
ground .that he was too small to conceal
a weapon so largv.
The Conquest of Pain.
It is said that even the most acute
physical pain can be overcome by a de
termined effort of the will, and in a re
cent number of a medical journal Dr.
Carpenter quotes several corroborative
instances.
Dr. Edward H. Clarke suffered from
a fatal malady which produced the
most agonizing "pain; ana yet he could
determinate withdraw his conscious
ness, so to speak, from that pain by
fixing it upon another object, that ob
ject being the working out of his own
neutral train of thought in the compo
sition of a book.
This is well known to have been the
case also with regard to Sir Walter
Scott, who, during a very severe and
Eainful illness, dictated the "Bride of
ammerraoor." The most remarkable
fact about the composition of this work,
was that, after his recovery, he entire
ly forgot all that he had done, tho book
on its publication coming to him as an
entirely new work with which he had
had nothing whatever to do. He only
remembered the general outline of the
Btory upon which ho had composed bis
novel; this he had heard in early life,
and it remained with him; but of the
working up of this story into tho novel,
while lie lay on his sofa contending
yith paroxysms of agony, he had no
recollection.
Thus, in the case of Walter Scott, as
in that of Dr. E. H. Clarke, we see the
effect of determined fixation of the at
tention upon a train of ideas in master
ing physical pain.
Another most remarkable example of
the same thing is in the case of Robert
Hall, a celebrated preacher. He used
to go into the pulpit suffering the most
agonizing pain, which was found after
his death to have resulted from a large
calculus in his kidney, with projecting
points, the terrible suffering produced
by which every medical man will at
once appreciate ; and was obliged
habitually to take some of the largest
jdoses of opium that were ever adminis
tered. But from tho moment he began
his extempore sermon (the introductory
service having been performed by his
.colleague), he seemed utterly uncon
scious of his condition.
"During the latter portion of his life,
which was passed in Bristol," says Dr.
Carpenter, "I was often his hearer:
and like every one else, was most
t
eeply interested m Jus discourses.
while at times quite carried away by
'the torrent of his eloquence. I was as
sured by eye-witnesses that when he
went down into the vestry he would
'sometimes roll on the floor in agony,
'though during his pulpit address he
had ceased altogether to feel pain."
Will and faith together can indeed
work wonders. Youth's Companion.
HonoraoV,;.
A well-known American author we
wish we could mention his name died
lately, leaving a large estate to his
children. They assembled to hear his
'will read, all of them being married
and heads of families. An adopted
daughter, who had offended their father,
it was found, was passed over in the
will with a trifling legacy. One of the
daughters interrupted the reading of
the will.
"Father, I am sure, is sorry for that
by this time. A should have a
child's portion. We must make that
right.
The other children assented, eagerly.
A widowed daughter with a large fam
ily received an equal .share with the
other children. One of the sons spoke
now. "C ought to have more than
wo men who are in busi
ness and are able to earn our
liviug. I will add so much" stating
the sum "to her portion." The two
remaining brothers each agreed to give
the same amount.
When the will had been read, one of
the elder children said: "There are
some of father's old friends to whom he
would have given legacies if he had
not been ill and forgetful when this
paper was written. Shall we not make
that right?"
It was done, cordially and promptly.
Now this was only the just action of
just and honorable people; but how
rare such conduct is in persons to whom
legacies are given. Chicago Interior.
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Anticipation.
A colored man o'er whose head about
seventy summers had passed, was
quietly but earnestly wresting with a
watermelon near the market, when he
was disturbed by the appearance of a
small boy of his color. Tho boy sat
down on a box and looked grudgingly at
the melon, and the old man looked up
at him and queried:
"Young man, I reckons I could give
you half dis mellvon an' hab plenty
left." '
"Thanks, Uncle."
"But I shan't do it' kase it might bo
do spilin' of ye. In de fust place, de
law am plain an' cl'ar on de pint dat
what I leave behind goes to my nateral
heirs. In de second place a pusson
widout anticipashun mus' be dreffully
onhappy. As de case now stands you
anticipate. You anticipate dat half dis
yere mellyon will stuff me full an' 111
have to leave all de rest. You antici
pate dat I'll git choked on de seeds, or
git sun-struck, or be 'tacked by de colic.
As de mellyon gradually disappears
you'll anticipate dat I won't gnaw de
rinds werry clus. As de rinds disap
pear you'll console yerself wid de fack
dat do seeds am left. As I wrap de
seeds up in my handkerchief you'll
reckon on lickin' de bo'd whar de mell
yon was cut an eaten, but as I lif up
dat bo'd an' gin ye a whack on the back
ye'll anticipate better dan to crowd in
whar' ye ain't wanted. Now you skip!"
Detroit Free Press.
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Frauds in Russia.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
the Daily Telegraph says that a formid
able system of fraud has jiwt been
brought to light in connection with the
Russian shipping trade. The Straits of
Kertch or Zcniteale is one of the most
dangerous passages of the Black Sea,
and of late years the number of vessels
wrecked on the coasts has reached an
extraordinary aggregate. English in
surance companies have paid indemni
ties amounting to many millions of
roubles. Attention has, however, been
drawn to the fact that a great mam of
these disasters occurred in calm weather.
Other suspicious circumstances were no
ticed, such as the fortunes rapidly made
by some of the pilots. Inf ormatfon was
sent to London that an individual named
Francesco, formerly a pilot, of Italian
origin, was the head of a band of pirates
of various nations English, Italians,
Greeks and Russians who made their
living by the disasters on the coast.
They were in collusion with the pilots
and charged huge sums for assisting the
vessels which the pilots suffered to go
ashore. In less than two years fifty
vessels were stranded and had recourse
to the assistance of these pirate salvors.
MELtGIOCS ASP EDtCATI05AL.
Fargo, D. T., has a new $10,000
b'gh school.
Of the Catholic Bishops in this
country, sixteen are natives of Ger
many. The receipts last year of tho Meth
odist Freedmen's Aid Society were
8178,000. A", Y. Times.
Rev. Dr. G. B.Stricklerof Atlanta.
Ga., has been unanimously elected pro
fessor in the Union Theological Semi
nary at Danville, Ya.
It speaks well for England that she
has eighty-one general institutions foi
relieving tho poor clergy and their
families, besides lb'8 clerical charities
connected with tho various dioceses.
Last year help was given by them to
684 clergy, and to 1,874 widows and
children.
The Christian at Work tells about a
preacher who said in his sermon that it
is "as hard for a rich man to squeeze
through Heaven's gate as for a mathe
matician to destroy one of the foci of an
ellipse while preserving the other, or
ior a truncated cone to be made whose
intersected plane should never describe
a parabola.
The Stewart Memorial Cathedral
and St. Paul's School at Garden City.
L. I., have been declared by tho con
tractor to ho completed. The total cost
of the cathedral was nearly $2,000,000,
and the school $1,000,000. Tho great
organ In tho cathedral alone cost .100,
000. Bishop Littlejohn's residence
which is in course of erection, is to cost
$80,000. N. Y. Tribune.
The Congregationalist thinks that
there need be no rivalry between Chris
tian.colleges and State colleges. Each
is the complement to the other. If the
Christian colleges are such as they
should be made to be, their influence
will permeate the whole system of edu
cation with religious influence, and
compel State schools to maintain a high
or even religious standard, or students
will be drawn from them to the denom
inational schools.
A school-girl says her studies are
arithmetic, algebra, geography, astron
omy, grammar, English history, gener
al history, etymology, spelling, compo
sition, drawing, reading, writing and
singing by note. It looks as if her ed
ucation is" being sadly neglected. Un
less French, Eatin, mental philosophy,
calculus, civil engineering and hydro
statics are added to her studies she will
be totally unfit to assume the duties of
a wife and mother a few years hence.
Chicago Tribune.
What Mikes a Good Saleswoman.
" Do you have many applications for
work from saleswomen?" asked a re
porter of the manager of a large up-
n store.
' Y can get all we need at short no
tice," he iv',d. "Most of the ladies
like to hail from .-Orfi'e concern like
ours. But it is not so eas,., find many
who are fully up to our stanuaiu."
" What is tho standard?"
" The question is not easy to answer.
We expect a lady to be quiet, yet confi
dent; alert and wide awake, yet polite
and agreeable; easy and frank, yet pos
sessing a touch of firmness, and not so
outspoken as to injure trade. In fact,
a good saleslady is rather a complex
article under a simple exterior. Pa
tience and coolness are among the best
points they cau possess. I sometimes
feel obliged, in a doubtful case, to test
an applicant upon this point of equa
nimity by trying the effect of some lit
tle aggravating remark. If she re
mains ccol and pleasant, her chances
are good; if she colors or bites her lips,
I am forced to regard her as inexperi
enced, and put her in some simple de
partment hosiery, for example. One
of the instincts that an inexperienced
girl has to contend with is the tendency
to stiflen up if a customer becomes a
little disagreeable. But I could pick
out a !ood saleslady much more easily
than I can describe her."
"Is beauty a desirable point?"
"On tho whole, I think its impor
tance is over-rated. I should prefer,
from a business point of view, what is
called an attractive girl, who is grace
ful and has a fair figure. Many of our
best salesladies are not remarkable for
physical charms, though all are agree
able in manner. Some houses make a
point of beauty. It is thought to be use
ful at counters frequented by gentlemen;
but we have often been obliged to dis
place salesladies for keeping gentlemen
in conversation The art is to say just
enough to effect the sales and dispose
of the customer when business com
mences to degenerate into chatter.
Beauties are hard to take care of; we
often have to call them, that is, send
them on a message to a distant part of
the establishment as a hint. I think it
quite possible that larger sales at higher
profits are sometimes made in the de
partments of men's furnishing goods by
having good-looking girls behind the
show-cases. Nevertheless, I do not
think that, as a whole, we consider the
value of a pretty girl, in the wages mar
ket, to be greater than that of a plainer
girl who is as attractive in other re
spects. We do not pay more for beau
ty unless it is combined with other high
qualities. In tho cloak and other try-ing-on
departments personal charms are
of great value, of course, and command
high waffes; but even here it is more a
matter of figure and graceful move
ment than of face. It is perhaps ad
vantageous to have handsome, refined
looking girh in the lace and embroidery
departments. In the silk and trimmings
departments we require good taste, a
faculty for nice draping and a quick
eye for colors, united with a genius for
matching fabrics. We pay well in these
departments, and in selecting ladies for
them good looks have only a secondary
place. Some of the ladies, as you will
notice, are quite plain, but all are nice
looking. "Women perfectly suitable for the
trimme'd-hat department are certainly
born, not made. I assure you that few
of the fine arts are more difficult than
that of selling ladies' hats. The hats,
with their velvets, silks, laces, flowers,
feathers and passementeries, are very
complex articles. To be able to choose
the particular one from stock that is
most suitable and becoming to a custom
er's features, complexion, age and style
requires natural gifts of a high order.
Ladies are always studying dress more
or less, but the number who can trim a
hat tastefully, and who know what ia
most becoming to them, is small. They
feel this, and although they are often
very opinionated in other matters of
dress, they are quite apt to depend
much upon any saleslady in this de
partment whom they believe to be
really competent. Hence the need of
the best talent here, and. as the best
talent is always in demand, the prices
for it are high."
"Why do they object to being called
saleswomen?
"I don't kuow." N. Y. Sun
FACTS AND FIGURES.
It is estimated that during the last
seven mont'is fully Sb'8,000,000 have
been invested in Mexican railways and
mines by citizens of the United States.
Mitchell, an euterprising town of
Southern Dakota, has 3,500 inhabitants,
and more coming. Four years ago thoro
was not u house in sight of the spot.
Chicago News.
Of 91,997 insane people in tho
United States, 44,408 are males and
47,589 are females; while of 7G.895
idiot?, 45,309 are males andonlv 31,586
are females. N. Y. Sun.
The largest object glass in use is
tho tweuty-six-iuch lens at Washington,
with a focal length of thirty-three feet.
Its light-gathering power is "16.000 times
that of tho unaided eve. Washington
Fast.
- Over 5,000 tons, or 500 ordinary
car-loads, of silver dollars. 146,187,077
in number, are lying idle in tho Treas
ury vaults, and $100,000 is to bo spent
in providing more storage. N. Y.
7'imes.
Since 1861 unknown persons havo
paid 186,459.09 into the United States
Treasury to quiet their consciences.
The largest revenue from this source in
anyone year was in 186S, when tho con
tribution to the conscience fund amount
ed to 29,155.11. In 1873 S28.402.77
was added to the fund; in 1867, $12,
952.59; in 1869, $17,403.21; in 1878,
$12,01 1.33. Last year the contributions
reached only $7,888.14.
Boston claims to be the second
banking city in the Union, outranking
Chicago and Philadelphia. It has fifty
three National banks, with a combined
capital of $50,450,000, and a total out
standing circulation of $30,431,182.
The city has also eighty-two banking
establishments, having" a capital ol
$7,98,200, and four State banks, with
a capital of $1,850,000, and fourteen
savings banks, having deposits amount
ing to $61,137,146. Chicano Journal.
A "cottage" at Newport is rather
a pretentious affair, judging bv tho
value set upon them in the tax dupli
cate. That of John Carter Brown is
thought to be worth $822,000, and pays
a tax of $5,260. Others are valued as
follows: George P. Wetmore, $576,900;
Catherine L. Wolf, $310,400; Elizabeth
A. Gainwell, $385,100; John N. A. Gris
wold, $278,000; Mary A. King. $273,
600. Three others are valued at over
$200,000 each, and in a long list tho
values descend to the paltry sum of
$50,000. N. Y. Tribune.
It is a wonderful fact that shipping,
as old as civilization and once the great
carrier of the world's commerce, has
been far outstripped in its capitalized
value by the railroad, an institution but
little more than fifty years old. The
value of British shipping is $1,000,000,
000; value of British railroads, $3,700,-"
000,000; value of American railroads.
$6,300,000,000. Great Britain herself,
the queen of marine commerce, finds
her railroad investment to treble that
in shipping, while our railroad plant
nearly doubles in value that of tho
mother country. Detroit Post.
WIT AND WISDOM.
The greatest events of an age are
its best thoughts. Iloice.
Coal men arc familiar with tho
weighs that are dark. N. O. Picayune.
It is the same with a book as with
a man. With a good title, the dem.-iml
for the book or the man will be measur
ably increased.
Artemus Ward once indignantly re
marked to a railroad president who re
fused him a favor: "You won't pass mo,
because your road i s so darned slow it
won't pass anybody."
There is not a single experience in
life which may not boused to advantage
if you have wisdom. That which will
not be made into butter may In: made
into cheese. .V. Y. Ii'mlil.
A lady who had for years been
compressing a No. mx foot into a No.
two shoo died recently from gangrene
of the pedal extremities. The Coroner's
Jury returned a verdict of "Died from
the effects of a. fit."' The Judge.
The latest "snake story" going
the rounds of the press is headed: " A
Young Lady Tightly Embraced by a
Seqient." Such incidents are not
rare. Sometimes she does not discover'
the fact until after she marries hin.
Norrislown Herald.
A Kansas woman was jawing her
husband the other day. when a cyclonu
came along. He turned pale as death,
but the woman kept on scolding and
the cyclone dodged around the wood
pile and .sneaked off with its tail be
tween its legs. Burlington Free I'ress.
Young Mr. Brown was making an
evening call, when his best girl's little
brother approached him and begged
the loan of his whistle. " Whistle?"
queried Mr. Brown. " I have no whis
tle. " Well, papa savs you have," con
tinued the little wingless angel, "and
that you are all the time wetting it."
Detroit Post.
" I can swim the whirlpool at Ni
agara," said a stranger in a confidential
whisper to a hardware man on Wood
ward avenue, yesterday. Can you?"
"I feel that lean. I should like some
advice from you. Would you try it if
you were me?" "No, sir no,"sir, I
wouldn't think of such a thing. A man
who hasn't been in a bath-tub for a
year, nor had on a clean shirt for a
month, wouldn't tand the ghost of a
show with a whirlpool. You'd better
go and tackle a drink of water and
gradually work up to it." Detroit Free
Press.
"Did I ever tell you about Pinch,
the shoemaker?" asked Fogg. "No?
Well, he got shut into a little, dark
closet in his shop spring-lock, you
know no air couldn't live long, you
know. The boys heard of it rushed
in pried open the door: but alas! poor
man. "Was he dead?" cried a half-dozen
men. " No not dead, but he was breath
ing his last that is to say, he had it
with him." The fellows felt like boot
ing Fogg; but as he is a strapping fel
low, they awl kept still. He'll get a
welt one of these days. Fellows don' t
like to be soled that way. Boston Tran
script. Strange Conduct of the Sunflower.
The sunflower is something of a
mystery, and its relation to the sun
may be more intimate than the poetic
legends make it. Two years ago when
the "yellow day " threw its lurid light
on all the world and imparted a strange
aspect to the flowers, the sunflower
alone was permanently susceptible to
its influence. None" of the other
flowors were injured, but all the sun
flowers in this region were blighted,
.wilted, lost their yellow, and turned a
dlitv brown. Nothing but the blossom
Of the plant was affected in this way.
Can the scientists account for this
phenomenon? Hartford (C'oN7i.) Ct-fant.
