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VOL. XIV.-NO. 37.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JANUAEY 9, 1884.
WHOLE NO. 713.
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BUSINESS CARDS.
pHAS. SLOAHI Yek Lee)
CHINESE LA UK DRY.
TSrUnder -'Star Clothing Store." Ne
braska Avenue, Cylumbu... -j"m
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jjif y.sv cjjv & sun a eon.
lSTII:i opened the office f rinerly cc
cupied by Dr. lionoteel. 19-Sm.
DENTAL PARLOR.
On Corner of Twelfth and North Streets,
ovtr 'Ernst's hardware store.
S2roifico hours. 8 to 12 a. m.; I to ." p. in.
Ol.I.A ASIIllAUr.H, DiMltibt.
ATTORNEYS-A'I-LAW, .
ITn-M-iir in Uluck Uuildin?, 11th treet,
Above tin New bank.
TT .. EaEJfiSON,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
ltli Strrrt.:! .loon, west or tlnmmonil lion!,
Columbus, Neb. M-Y
rpiIU5tST !t POWERS,
S UJIGEOX DENTISTS,
ST Office- in -Mitchell Block, Colum
bus, Nebraska. I111
J.
o. sskjjbh-'k.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office on olive St.. Columbus, Nebraska.
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( G. A. IIUI.LIIOKST, A.M., 31. D.,
IIOMEOPA TlllC 1'IIYSJCJAN,
jgjTuo Hlock south of Court House.
Telephone communication. -!
V. A. MACKEN,
DEALER IN "
I'Vmcs, Liquors. Cigursr Porters, Ales,
c'.c , etc.
Olive Street, next to First National Bank.
M
cAI'I'ISTKK BROS.,
A TTORNEYS A T LA W,
Office ui.-stuirr. in McAllister's build
inir. 11th M. W. A. MeAlliter, Notary
Public.
.1. .M. MACKAUI.AND, U. It. COWDERY,
LAW AM) C0LLEIT10X OFFICE
or
MACPARbAND & COWDEBf,
Columbus, : : : Nebraska.
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ko. a. ai:itv.
PAINTER.
JSrCarriajie, house and !.l,'n painting,
glazing, paper hanging, kalsomiiiing, etc.
done to order. Shop on Wth St., opposite
Engine House, Columbus, N'eb. U)-y
7 bi. ici;siai:,
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Hth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whins,
Blankets, furry Combs, Briuhes, trunks,
:ilises, bus-TV 'tops, cushions, carriage
tiimmin:;, .Ve.. at the lowest possible
prices. Kepair- pr mptly attended to.
O. C. SHANNON",
MANLTACTURER OK
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
JSTSlion on Eleenth Str.-ct, opposite
Ilcintz's Orusr Store. (-
G
W. CLAKK,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
HUMPHREY, NEliR.
His lands comprise some flue tracts
in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion ot PI tte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. -0 y
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OLU.VIIIS PACKHG CO.,
COL UJIR US, - NEB.,
Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs
or grease.
Directors.-U. n Jlenry, Prcst.; John
"Wiggins, Sec. and Treas.: L. Gerrara, S.
Corv.
nVTOXICE XO TKACIIKRS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Suptt
"Will be in his office at the Court House
on the -third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of cramming
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transactton of any other business
pertaining to schools. f7-y
TAMES SALMON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
'guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. "2 Cmo.
J. WAGNER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public w.'th
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for fuuerals. Alo
conducts a sale stable. 4-
D. T. Martyx, 31. D. F. Schcg, 31. D.,
Deutscher Artz.)
Drs. MAETYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific and
O., &B. H.It. It's.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
32-voJ-xiii-v
$66
a week at home. $5.00 outfit
free. Pay absolutely sure. .No
risk. Capital not required.
Reader, if you want business
at 'which persons of either sex, young or
old, can make great pay all the time .they
"wort, with absolute certainty, write for
particulars to H. Haixit & Co., Fort
tad, Maine.
COLUMBUS
STATE BANK!
:;eeeu:rst3 3im:l Sua sl Tsreir Eslst.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
' 16V CAPITAL, - $50,000
DIKECTORS:
!.i:a.vder Gebkakd, Pres'i.
Geo. W. FIulst, Vice Pres'i.
Julius A. Reed.
-Edward A. Gcbkakd.
J. E.Taskku, Ccuhier.
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flank of leiOMit, aticosiai
.-.aid Kichaaee. V
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i;ollectiotiM Promptly Made e
i.:l Points.
Pay latere! e- Time WepoM-
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DREBERT & BRIGGLE,
BANKEES!
HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA.
iSTPrompt attention given to Col
lections. ZSTInsurance, Real Estate, Loan,
etc. 5
J. H. GALLEY & ERO.,
Would respectfu'-ly ask their friends and
patrons to call and examine
their stock of
Fal and Winter floods
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 U
..OVERCOATS!
-AIX-PrlceM
sii; add mi m m shoes.
WE ALSO CARRY A LINE OF
LA DIES' FINE SHOES.
Blankets. Quilts and all kinds of Fan
cy Notions.
J3TRemember that we keep no shoddy
goods, and strictly one rnicu is our
motto, which our twenty-five years resi
dence in Columbus will sustain. 23-3m
LOUIS SCHKEIBER,
ttmitbaiilWainHte
All kinds of Repairing done on
iSliuri iuiicc. nuggica, n ,
iflp
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ons, etc., made to order,
-and all work Guar
anteed. Also sell the world-famous. Walter A.
Wood Mowers, Eeapers, Combin
ed Machines, Harvesters,
and Self-binders the
best made.
iSTShop opposite the " Tattersall." Ol
ive St., COLUMBUS. 2-Gm-c
GOLD
for the working class
Send 10 cents for postage.
and we will mail you free
a roval, valuable box of
samplegoods-that will put you in the way
of making mote money in a few days than
you ever thought possible at anv busi
7 ess. Capital not required. 'e will
start you. You can work all the time or
in spa're time only. The work is univer
sally adapted to both sexes, young and
old." You can easily earn from DO cents to
$0 eyery evening." That all who want
work may test the business, we make
this unparalleled offer; to all who are not
well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for
the trouble of writing u. Full particulars-,
directions, etc., sent free. Fortunes
will be made by those who give their
whole time to the work. Great success
absolutely sure. Don't delay. Start now.
Address Stixsox & Co., Portlaud,'Maine.
HIJBEK'M HOTEI.
JOHNIIUBEB,thejoIIy auctioneer, has
opened a hotel on 13th St , near Tiffa
nv &. 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.
j3TSatifaction guaranteed; call anil
see me and vou will be made welcome.
JOHN HUBER,
Proprietor and Auctioneer.
Columbus, Neb., June 19, "83. 9-tf
COLUMBUS
Restaurant and Saloon!
E. D. SHEEHAN, Preprietor.
3f Wholesale nd Retail Dealer in For
eign Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Dub
lin Stout, Scotch and EnglisL Ales.
fST Kentucky Whiskies a Specialty.
OYSTERS in their season, by the case
can or dish.
lltfa.Strt. Semtk ef TBt.
JS. MURDOOK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Have had an extended experience, and
will .guarantee satisfaction in -work.
All kiads -of .repairing done - on abort
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give ui as oppor
tunitytocstimatefor.you. ryshop on
13th SU,one door west of Friedhof A
Co's. stare, Columbus, Nebr. . 4M-y
ViZlST
National Bank!
COX.X7SCBI78.
Authorized Capital, -Cash
Capital,
$250,000
50,000
omens and directors.
A. ANDERSON, Preset. ,
SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres'i.
O. T. ROEN, Cashier.
J. W. EARLY,
ROBERT UHLIO,
HERMAN OEHLRICn.
W. A. MCALLISTER.
G.ANDERSON,
P.ANDERSON.
Foreign and lnlaad Exchange, Passage
Tickets, Real Estate; Loan ana Insurance.
29-vol-13-ly
COAL LIME!
J.E. NORTH & CO.,
DEALERS IN
Coal,
Lime,
Cement.
Bock SpriD Coal,
Carboi (Wyomiig) Coal.
EidoH (Iowa) Coal
.$7.00 ptr ton
. 6.U0
. 3.i0
Blacksmith Coal of beat quality al
ways on hand at low
est prices.
North Side Eleventh St.,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
14.3m
UNION PACIFIC
LAND OFFICE.
Improved and Unimproved Farms,
Hay and Grazing Lands and City
Property for Sale Cheap
AT THE
Union Pacific Land Office,
On Long Time and low rate
of Interest.
jSTFinal proof umdaon Timber Claims,
Homesteads and Pre-emptiou.
larAll wishing toiuy lands of any de
scription will please call and examine
my list of lands before looking else where
B3TA11 having lands to sell will plea9e
call and give me a description, trm ,
prices, etc.
83TI a'so am prepared to injure prop
erty, as I have the agency of several
first-class Fire insurauce companies.
F. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German.
(SAMUEL. CKHITU,
30-tr Columbus, Nebraska.
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK KILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND MEAL.
OFFICE. COL UMB US. NEB.
SPEICE & NORTH.
General Agents for the Ssle of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific
K. R. Lands for sale at from S3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on five or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots in the city. We keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
021
COLUMBUS. NEB.
HENRY G-ASS,
TJJSrDERTATCER !
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES
AND DZALKRIX
Furniture, Chain, Badataada, Bu-
raaaa, Tablea, Bafta. Loucis,
Ac-. Fictvra Fraaoaa and
Motldinga.
tt'Sevlrlnaof all kind of UthoUUn
,6ood$.
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fctf.
'COLUMBUS, VKfcV
TEE LOVE OF HIS LIFE.
Oh, no, I never mention ber,
I never breathe her name.
There Is no memory to stir
To life a wasted flame.
No vision of her haunts me now,
Unbroken is my rest,
Ko kiss Is laid upon her brow,
Nono on her lips is pressed.
I never bother as to how
Is worn the forehead tress.
Her whims and freaks don't grieve me now.
Her woes cause no distress.
There is no anguish in my soul
Lest she another choose.
I pen no lovesick rigmarole
To conjure up the blues.
Ah. no I never mention her.
The girl who'll rule my life,
Whose maiden name I'll alter
To the dearer name of wife.
I tell no friends delightedly
Of the treasure I shall get.
I speak not of her. For you seo
i have not met her yet.
N. Y. Journal.
THE HAUNTED POOL.
The sun was setting over the Ganges
one bright summer evening in 1871.
The day had been a hot .one even for
India, and it was an unspeakable relief
to every one when the scorching sun be
gan to decline at last, and the length
ening shadows of the tall palms along
the riverbank told that night was at
hand.
And now the Hindu inhabitants of
the neighboring village, who bad been
lying motionless all the afternoon under
the shade of their reed-thatched roofs,
or of the vast overarching banyan trees
around them, came trooping down to
the water in a body.
Instantly the wliole bank of the great
river so lovelv and silent all through
the long, burning day became all alive
with noise and Inistle. Children pad
dled in the broad, still pools, or chased
each other in and out of the tall,
feathery bamboo clump that grew along
the bank. Women filled their earthen
pitchers from the stream, or washed
their threadbare clothes. Men began
to scour their brass lotahs (drinking
vessels), or to kindle fires for the cook
ing of their evening meals; while a little
farther down the stream, a group of
young girls, wading out in the shallow
water, fell to SDlashinsr each other with
might and main, amid shouts of merry
laughter.
To any one unaccustomed to the ways
of India it would have seemed strange
enough to see, upon the wrists and
ankles of nearly all the girls, and many
of their mothers likewise, heavy bangles
of solid silver, which any Western lady
might have been proud to wear. But the
Hindu peasants, to whom savings-banks
are utterly unknown, have no way of
keeping their money safe except by
carrying it about with them in this
fashion a somewhat hazardous plan,
it must be owned, in a country
swarming with the most expert and
daring thieves in the world.
Suddenly, one of the girls, who had
ventured a little farther out into the
stream than the rest, disappeared under
water with a piercing shriek, as if
dragged down by some overpowering
force. A few bubbles that rose sullenly
to the surface were the only token of
ber fate, while her terrified companions
turned and rushed back to the shore as
fast as possible, screaming:
"A crocodile! a crocodile!"
Several day passed before any of the
village women dared to approach the
scene of this terrible mischance. At
length one, bolder than the rest, ven
tured in again, and the others, seeing
that no harm came of her daring, began
to follow her example. More than a
week passed without any accident, aud
everything was beginning to go on as
usual, when, one evening, a second girl
disappeared in precisely the same man
ner as the first.
The terror was now universal, and all
tbe best hunters of the village set them
selves with one accord to get rid of this
destroying crocodile. Baits were laid,
traps set, men posted along the bank
with loaded guns to keep watch for the
monster; but, look for him as they
might, nothing was to be seen of him.
Several days later the wife of one of
the villagers was washing her white
wrapper on the bank of the river when
it slipped from her hands and floated
slowly out into the wide, still pool
formed by the bend of the stream. The
woman at once waded after it, and had
just succeeded in clutching it, when she
was seen by those on the bank to give a
sudden start, throw her arms convul
sively into the air and disappear under
water just as the other two had done
before.
About three days after this last catas
trophe. Mr. Henry Sparks, the British
Commissioner for the District of
Jungleywallah, was at work in his office
amid a perfect mound of papers, halt
ing every now and then to wipe his
streaming face (which, despite the
enormous punkah, or swinging-fan,
worked by his native servant outside
with a cord passed through a' hole in
the wall, looked very much like a half
melted snowball), when he was sudden
ly disturbed by a knock at the door.
"Come in!" cried he, snappishlv, ex
pecting the entrance of some Hindu
farmer or peasant with a complaint as
long and unintelligible as an Assyrian
inscription. But at tbe first glimpse of
tbe person who entered his face cleared
at once.
The visitor was a tall native, with the
handsome features and stately bearing
of a Mahratta. His figure, nearly six
feet in height, was so gaunt and sinewy
that it seemed to be made of pin-wire,
and his piercing black eyes looked out
from beneath the folds of his white tur
ban with the quick, keen, watchful
glance of a practical hunter.
In truth. Ismail, the Mahratta, was
well used to tracking other game beside
deer or tigers. Over and above his oc
cupations as scout, hunter and Govern
ment courier, he was in constant re
Suest as a detective, and, for tracking
own either a wild beast or a criminal,
he had no equal in Bengal.
Gliding into the room as noiselessly
as a shadow, he made a low salaam,
and said in bis own language:
"May the humblest of his servants
speak to the Sahib?" (master).
There was nothing particularlv hum
ble, it must be admitted, in the speak
er's bearing; on the contrary, he held
himself erect, and looked the Commis
sioner full in the face with the air of a
man who knew his own value, and had
something to tell which he felt to be
worth bearing; but Mr. Sparks, with
whom Ismail was an old acquaintance,
appeared to understand these signs' per
fectly, and said
"What has Ismail to tell? lam list
ening. "
"Lhave been at the village of Ram
ganj" answered the Mahratta, laying a
alight stress upon the last word.
"Bamranj?" echoed Mr. Sparks.
"Ah, to be sure; the place where that
crocodile's been eating up so many peo
ple." "Are yon quite sure. Sahib?" asked
the Hindu, keenly watching the effect of
his words, "that it wot a crocodile that
diditf"
The Englishman started, and looked
fixedly at Ismail's immovable face:
"That's how I heard the storyolrt'
rejoined he. "H it wasn't a crocodile,
what was it?"
"Did the Commissioner, Sahib," in
quired Ismail, "ever hear of a crocodile
being so nice in his eating as to devour
none but women, and only such women
as had plenty of silver bangles qnV
Again Mr. Sparks gave a slight
start, and the sparkle of his
eye ' showed that he was beginning
to guess the riddle, but he took care to
make no interruption, seeing thai Ismail
wished to have the pleasure of telling
the whole story himself.
I went to the village," continued Is
mai, "and talked with the people.
Then I dived into the river (my lord
knows that I can find my way through
water as well as through thickets), and
at the bottom I. came upon a noosed
rope."
The Commissioner nodded with the
air of a man who understood the whole
affair perfectly, but still he said
nothing.
"The Sahib understands How it was
'done," proceeded the Hindu. "When
an- woman worth robbing went into the
water, the noose tangled her feet, and
the robber, hidden among the bushes on
the opposite bank, dragged her down
and drowned her, and then plundered
the corpse at his leisure."
"I see," said Mr. Sparks. "Well,
Ismail, you know there's a Government
reward of a thousand rupees ($500) for
every murderer brought to justice; sea
what you can make of the case."
The Mahratta's black eyes flashed
fire, for five hundred dollars is more to
a Hindu than five thousand to a white
man, and such a chance did not come
to him every day. He went out with
out a word, but Mr. Sparks felt satisfied
that there would be news of the crim
inal before long.
Ismail plunged at once into the sur
rounding jungle, and traversed it at a
pace which few men could have kept up
over such ground and in such a climate,
till he came in sight of Ramganj, but
instead of entering tbe village he struck
down a by-path to the river, swam
across, went slowly up the opposite side
till he came to two bamboo-clumps close
together, and groping in the water be
side them, pulled a rope.
His next move was to hunt out a big
stone, upon the sharp edge of which he
sawed the cord to and fro till it held
only by one strand. One slash of his
long, sharp knife would have done the
work much quicker, but Ismail doubt
less had his reasons for what he did.
Then placing the stone in the shallow
water with the sharp side uppermost,
and the rope lying right across it, he
vanished in the thicket.
An hour had passed since his dissap
pearance, and night had already set in,
when a dark figure came creeping up
to the same spot, and pulled at the
half-severed cord, which instantly
parted in his hand.
The man started, and held up the
broken ends to the light of the rising
moon, but finding them rough ana
frayed as if by constant rubbing, and
feeling the sharp-edged stone lying. just
undorneath, he appeared satisfied that
it must have been an accident, and
knelt down to knot the cord together
again.
So engrossed was the villain with his
treacherous work that he never lifted
his head to look around him, but even
had he been less preoccupied he would
scarcely have heard the noiseless foot
fall of one who had been tracking the
tiger and antelope through their native
jungles ever since he was ten years old.
The rogue was still quite unsuspicious
of harm, when a tall, shadowy figure
rose behind him as suddenly as if it had
started up through the earth, and a
tremendous blow from a heavy bamboo
club, falling upon his bowed head like
a thunderbolt, felled him senseless to
the earth.
That very night the crestfallen robber
was sent off to the nearest British sta
tion, escorted by a strong guard of
native policemen, to be tried and
executed, as he deserved, while Is
mail received from the hand of the
Commissioner himself, together with a
warm commendation of his shrewdness,
the thousand rupees which he had so
well earned. David Ker, in Tlie Conti
nent. Trimming an Elephant's Feet.
Yesterday Prof. George Arstingstall
and four assistants were occupied all
day in trimming the feet of two ele
phants. The operation is performed
three times a year once on the road,
once in the fall and again in the spring.
The sole of an elephant's foot is heavily
covered with a thick horny substance of
material similar to the three toe-nails
upon each foot, and as it grows thicker
and thicker it tends to "contract and
crack, often laming the animal. When
the work of trimming is undertaken,
the elephant stands upon three legs and
places the foot to be operated upon
across a big tub. Two men hold the
leg down and one stands at the animal's
head to prevent him from turning. Then
Prof. Arstingstall, with a two-foot draw
ing knife, proceeds to shave off great
pieces' of bone from the sole of the foot
Shavings of bone six inches by four and
a quarter of an inch thick a're rapidly
cut, the edges of the foot being care
fully trimmed. Often pieces of glass,
wire, nails, etc., are found imbedded in
the foot, which have been picked up
during street parades. Sometimes
these irritating morsels work into the
leg and produce a festering sore. A
large nail was found yesterday in Pal
las foot imbedded over three inches
from the bottom. Prof. Arstingstall
extracted it with a small pair of pin
cers, then syringed the wound with
warm water, and subsequently covered
it with tar. The Professor, when hur
ried on the road, sometimes draws out
such nails with his teeth. Pallas appa
rently suffered great pain, but seemed
to know that the operation would give
relief. He held the foot high and quietly
of his own accord until all was finished,
then flourished his trunk, trumpeted,
and expressed almost in words his sin
cere thanks.
After paring the foot, each toe-nail is
cut between and then filed down, giving
each foot a white, clean look with its
settings of polished nails. It takes
about six hours to finish dressing an ele
phant's feet, and it is said to be one of
the hardest bits of work that the men
have to do. While busy making the
chips fly, Prof. Arstingstall said: "Did
you know that three times around an
elephant's front hoof is his exact
height?" "No. Is that so?" "Yes,
and to prove it, look here." Then he
proceeded to measure the front foot of
the brute, and three times its circumfer
ence was found, hy mounting a ladder,
to be the exact height of the animal.
Bridgeport (Conn.) Cor. New Haven
Register.
Georgia chaiges circuses two
hundred dollars for each exhibition.
The Lway Caves f Tlrxlmla.
The Tech, the organ of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.publishes a
description of the Luray" Caves in Vir
ginia, which have been known to the
public for the past five years. They
were discovered in 1878. The writer of
this paper says:
The entrance to the caverns is through
a narrow passage about twenty-five feet
in length, leading into a room of mod
erate size, where the attention of the
visitor is arrested by the hundreds of
stalactites and stalagmites around him,
forming all sorts of curious shapes. But
one soon learns to regard these things as
common, and contentedly hurries on
with the guide to see some of the won
derful resemblances to the things of the
outside world.
Adjoining the grand entrance hall is an
apartment called the fish market, where
the lime has so taken the shape of strings
of fish that the resemblance to our
own fish markets is quite apparent,
though the writer was at a loss to deter
mine the peculiar species. Some, how
ever, better versed in the science
of zoology, unhesitatingly pronounce
them to be a species of bass, perch,
shad, mackerel, etc; at least, so says
the guide. Winding through various
corridors leading into rooms of differ
ent dimensions, and passing by gigantic
columns and deep gorges, notably the
rift called Pluto's Chasm, about seventy
five feet deep and five hundred feet in
Ipntrth tbrnmrli which Wf urn trid thn
god is supposed to have borne Proser
pine to the under world we finally
come to the Giant's Hall, which is es
pecially interesting as containing the
organ and the fallen column, a huge
mass of limestone twenty-five feet in
length, the age of which, as estimated
by some scientists, is several millions of
years.
This statement may at first seem
strange, but after considering the follow
ing experiment we no longer doubt the
assertion. A glass tumbler was placed
beneath some dripping-lime water, that
the time taken to form an incrustation
might be observed, and at the end of five
years a crust not more than one eighth
of an inch in thickness was formed under
the most favorable conditions. The
organ is composed of stalactites and
stalagmites, which have formed con
tinuous columns from ceiling to floor,
which not only resembled the pipes of
an organ but to some extent give forth
actual musical sounds, soft and sweet.
The writer regrets to say, however, that
"Yankee Doodle" was the tune whose
notes desecrated the sanctified cathe
dral of the deceased giant.
The Wet Blanket is, however, voted
by all the most perfect and interesting
phenomenon in the cave. In a dark
corner of the cavern the lime has the
form of a large sheet suspended from
the roof. Towards the end of this sheet
have been formed, by the precipitation
of iron, two red bands about two inches
in width, which, with the yellow color
given to it by the dripping water, take
on the appearance of a veritable wet
blanket.
Of especial scientific interest are the
helictites rare formations, which pro
ject horizontally from the walls of the
cave from two to three inches. These,
the guide-book tells us, are due to slow
crystalizatiom takiug place on a surface
barely moist from material conveyed to
the point of growth by a capillary move
ment. It is bard to control the desire
to pull off these helictites and other
specimens as one passes along. But the
exercise of this will power is helped in a
great measure by "the mechanic spirits
of this under world, gnomes and imps"
in the shape of little darkies, "who dart
from shadow to shadow, behind column
and angle, to watch that we do no harm
to the marvelous handiwork." There
is, moreover, a further inducement to
keep one's hands off, in a fine of from
five to one hundred dollars for every
specimen broken. It is, therefore, rather
an expensive place for over zealous
specimen hunters; but the writer would
advise all others who travel South by
the beautiful Shenandoah Valley to
spend a day at Luray and see for them
selves its wonders.
Had the Proof.
A hopping mad man at the Union de
pot wanted to see the President, Secre
tary, Superintendent and Treasurer all
at once, and it would have done him a
heap of good could he have got within
striking distance of even a twenty thou
sand dollar stockholder in any of the
railroads entering Detroit. To the
several queries as to what was on his
mind, he finally replied:
"I was coming in from Dearborn this
morning, a walking on the track. My
dog Bombo was with me. I've bad that
dog five years, and have been offered
fifty dollars for him. He was a little green
about railroads, but on everything else
he was as sharp as a razor. We had got
down about a mile this side of the village
when I saw a train coming."
"And stepped aside?"
"Of course I did. I own one hundred
and sixty acres of land and am a High
way Commissioner, but I ain't fool 'null
to think I'm bigger'n a railroad train."
"But the dog?'
"He stopped, too. I reckon it was
the fust time he ever saw a train, but
he'd have bin all right if the engineer
hadn't begun to toot. The minit he
heard that tootin' Bombo begun to bris
tle, and while the train was five hun
dred feet away he started down the
track to meet it."
-Then ?"
"Wall," said the man as he mopped
his forehead, "it was a leetle too much
fur him. An engine and five cars ought
to git away with a dog any day in the
year. He riz about twenty feet high, I
reckon, took a slant to the left, and
when he came down he broke the top
off a small tree."
"Well?"
"I motioned for the engineer to stop
the train as soon as the dog started. He
could have done it, but wouldn't. Indeed,
when the train went past me he leaned
out and laffed yes, sir, laffed in my
face."
"And you want damages?"
"I do! I want the worth of that dog
and five hundred dollars for the shock
to my nervous system."
"Have you proofs?"
"I should smile! Even when I'm all
broke up I don't try to put the right
boot on the left foot; see that!"
And he drew from his pocket a hind
leg, two paws, an ear ana a piece of the
lost canine's tail and spread ti n the
bench. There was an expressu u silence
in the crowd, and then the Highway
Commissioner called out:
"P-roofs! P-roofs! If them ain't
p-roofs who be they? Gentlement, I
never had a lawsuit nor struck a man
in xay life, but if I don't take home a
wad of greenbacks to settle this ease the
Michigan Central Road will want a hull
new board of officers to-merrer!" De
troit Free Press.
A Denver boy sued his father for
aaoaay laaad him and got a judgaeat
OF GENEKAL UvTEBEST.
The sum of $85,000 has been raised
for a monument to Robert E. Lee. N.
Y. Sun.
"Yes, I'm a cop, and I've several
little copies," remarked the policeman.
N. Y. Mail.
In Kansas tramps are 'mildly re
ferred to as "itinerant citizens." Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
A poisonous wood from Panama
called cockobola, is much used in Con
necticut factories for knife handles.
Hartford Post.
A Brooklyn man has run away from
his wife for the fourth time, leaving a
note stating that this is postivelyhis
farewell tour. Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle.
The first white labor ever employed
on a South Florida railroad glistens ia
the shape of thirty Irishmen at. work on
the International Railroad. Detroit
Post.
Professor Paul Passey. of Paris,
says the United States is the dullest
country he ever visited. He probably
didn't go out and interview the cow
boys. Chicaao Herald.
Twenty-three counties in Texas
neglected to make any returns at all to
the Secretary of State of the votes cast
upon the Constitutional Amendments
which were submitted to the people and
ratified in August last V. 1 . 1'tmes.
Ten warriors, five squaws and four
papooses of the Omaha tribe have sailed
from New York to France. They are
under contract to give exhibitions in
riding, shooting, dancing, etc., receiv
ing fifty dollars per month and expenses.
Yellow Smoke, one of the braves, is
seventy years old. Chicago Journal.
The San Francisco Alia says that
shad, which were planted in the waters
of California a few years ago, are natur
alizing themselves along the whole Pa
cific coast They are now caught in
Puget Sound, and,, the Alia believes,
will soon freauent everv river and har
bor between San Francisco and Alaska.
Among the numerous relics and
curiosities possessed by Mr. Hunneman,
of Boston, Mass,, are a chair- and bureau
150 years old, a bill for a load of wood
hauled in 1763, costlv china ware over
one hundred years old, four volumes of
literature published in 1814, and a snuff
box which was carried by a person in
Perry's fleet on Lake Erie. Boston Post.
The States in which no tax is levied
upon commercial travelers are: New
York, Colorado, Connecticut, Dakota,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Min
nesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska,
New Hampshire. New Jersey, Ohio,
Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, West
Virginia and Wisconsin. Chicago
Times.
An ear of corn was on exhibition
at San Luis Obispo, Cal., grown in the
exact form of the hand of a child, show
ing the wrist, hand, thumb, and fingers,
alTperfect, except the little finger, which
is double. It is covered with small
grains of corn to near the fingers, which
are bare prongs of cob, giving it the ap
pearance of a hand clad with a mit.
San Francisco Chronicle.
A twenty-dollar gold piece and a
silver dollar were found on William
Petty's person after his recent arrest, in
Portland, Ore. He is a gambler. The
coins were hollowed out and in each
hollow was a mirror, and while they
were lying on a table at an angle of 45"
behind a stack of crin in front of the
dealer, he could sec every card held by
his opponents. Chicago Journal.
A National Homestead Monument
Association has been organized at
Mitchell, u 1., for the purpose of com
memorating the beneficent provisions of
the Homestead law. It is proposed to
erect a shaft 160 feet high in the center
of a quarter section of land 160 acres
and to ask every settler to contribute at
least one cent for every acre he has
secured under the law. Denver Tribune.
A young man living in Dayton, O.,
has commenced proceedings to ascer
tain by judicial decision whether the
father of a young lady, to whom he was
attached, had a right to enforce with a
horse-whip his order to keep away from
the front gate. It is rather late in the
season, but it is hoped that the point
will be definitely settled in time for next
summer's gate swingers. Chicago Her
ald. Political writing in Hawaiian jour
nals is not much behind some other
"barbarous" countries in vigor, as the
following from a recent issue of the
Honolulu Gazette may illustrate: "The
history of the present Administration,
with its kaleidoscopic Cabinets and
boards, is an account of blunder upon
blunder, until now the Great Muddler
has fairly sunk up to the neck in a sea
of mud, from which no skill can extri
cate him."
Curtis McGregor, of Caddo Peak,
Tex., had his arm mutilated by a gun.
It was amputated near the shoulder.
He was able to sit up and walk about
the room, but complained from the first
of pain in the amputated hand, and de
clared there were bugs in it This con
tinued until the eighth day after ampu
tation when friends exhumed and exam
ined the amputated arm, which had
been buried in a box with a cloth
wrapped around it A large bug was
found in the hand as stated by Mc
Gregor. Texas Siftings.
ii
That Reminds Me."
Secretary Teller seems to have had a
novel experience with the road agents
during his excursion with the "last
spike"' party on the Northern Pacific
Railroad. The Secretary and Mrs.
Teller, intending to make an extended
trip before reaching home again, took
two large trunks of clothing. By ac
cident the trunks were set off the bag
gage car at the little station where the
spike was driven, and, of course, they
suddenly disappeared. After a diligent
search the trunks were found concealed
in an excavation near the railroad.
They were not entirely empty, for the
considerate robbers, after taking off the
locks and removing the contents of the
trunks bad carefully placed the locks
inside the trunks and left them. "So I
have only to send them to a locksmith
and have them repaired," said Mr. Tel
ler to-day. "I was as glad to get them
back as the minister was to recover his
hat after sending it on a fruitless errand
through a stingy congregation. I never
think of that story," continued the Sec
retary, "without being reminded of a
clause in a miner's deed, which I once
came across in making a search respect
ing the title of a piece of mining prop
erty in Colorado. That was a good
many years ago, when the miners used
to draw their own deeds of conveyance.
This one began as follows: 'Know all
men by these presents, that for and in
consideration of one good hat (and glad
to get it too,) I sell and grant, convey,
etc. The property turned out to be
Jnite valuable, bat its first owner evi
ently did not so regard it" C'fti' ye
htitr Qcian.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
B. M. Winters, of Fremont. O..
re-elected Countv Treasurer, but died
before the polls were closed. Cleveland
Leader.
The combined salaries of Mr.
Henry Villard, President of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, amount to over $80,000
per annum.
General G. W. Getty, who has been
in command of the Artillery School at
Fortress Monroe, has been placed on
the retired list.
John A. Logan's son Manning has
shed his name at West Point and will
be known hereafter as John A. Logan,
Jr. Chicago News.
A wealthy miser named Dr. Phillip
L. Jones was found dead in the bath
room of his house in Brooklvn a few
days ago. He left over $1,005,000. N.
Y. Sun.
An old lady now living in Lebanon.
Ia., is the mother of six sons, nine
daughters, and has forty grandchildren.
There is not an idiot, cripple drunkard,
or gambler in all the family. Philadel
phia Press.
At a reception lately given in New
port by Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, whose
income is said to be $4,000 a day, tho
dining-room walls were covered with
wild grapevines, to which hot house
grapes were cunningly secured. Irov
idence Journal .
A singular suit was brought before,
the United States Circuit Court, in
session in Nashville. Tenn. It was
nothing less than the effort of Alice
Marguerite. King to defend her beauty
against the assault of the Daily Ameri
can. Miss King has figured as an ac
tress, and the American said that she
was a small woman with a pug nose,
and ugly. She claimed $50,000 dam
ages, but her suit was dismissed.
The number of wealthy members of
Congress increases. Col. Lyman, of
Massachusetts, is one of the new mem
bers who will entertain elaborately next
winter. He inherited great wealth.
Washburn, of Minnesota, has rented
Don Cameron's house, and will give
lavish receptions. Bowen. of Colorado
is a mining lord. Sabin, of Minnesota,
went from Connecticut twenty years ago,
and is now very rich. Dolph, of Ore
gon, is a thrifty corporation attorney.
Colquitt is one of the best-to-do men in
Georgia, and Gibson, of Louisiana, in
herited wealth. There are not many poor
men left in the Senate. Count out
Blair. Frye, Kenna, Jones, of Florida,
and Riddleberger, and the rest are ac
counted rich. Chicago Jribune.
Hanlan is said to have accumulated
a comfortable fortune by his oars. He
lives well, but is uo spendthrift, and
never drinks a drop of alcohol. He
works very hard. "I have traveled
thirty miles to-day," he is quoted as
saying, "and all with my own wind aud
muscle. I went about twenty of it in
my boat and the rest on my lejjs. O,
no; that is aot exceptional. I do as
much as that every day. from early in
the spring until late iu the fall. You
see my races are rather frequent, and it
is necessary that I should keep myself
constantly in perfect condition. I am,
therefore, in training all the time. My
diet is always as carefully regulated as
though 1 was to pull a race next day."
N. Y. Herald.
, ALITTLE NONSENSE.
"There are 1.400.000.000 people
upon the earth at present according to
the latest statistics," said Mrs. Smith,
looking up from the paper. "Only
think of it! aud we haven't had a caller
for two days!" Buffalo Express.
"I wish I had a pug dojr." said au
up-town youth recently. "What In the
world do you want oue of the critters
for?" asKed a friend. I kuow where I
could .sell him for fifteen: dollars!" was
the earnest reply. N. Y. Commercial.
"Johnnie, what part of speech is
adieu5" "A verb, ma'am." "Aha!
Something new, I suppose. Let me hear
how you would decline it?" "Present,
adieu; past, a dude." "Johnnie, that
will do; it will now be my dudey to send
you home." Do'ton I'o.st.
The Christian at Work has an article
entitled "How to M-ike a Wife Insane."
We have not read it. presuming: the
method given to be. of course, either to
come into the house with mud on your
boots or to forget to bring home your
wife's bonnet from the milliner's on
Saturday night. Lowell Citizen.
In answer to his remark that she
had ventured away from home on a bad
day, she said. "It does look like rain,
but I brought my gossipper with me.
and I ordered John to meet me at the
station with the phantom. By the way,
have you seen my silver-mountain har
ness that I bought last week?" Chicaqo
Inter Ocean.
A few short weeks ago and the
pitcherof abase-ball club wouldn't walk
down the street without having a brass
bantl and a crowd of admiring citizens
chasing after him, begging for his auto
graph. And now he gets jostled on the
sidewalk, people trample on his toes on
the opera-house stairs, and if he com
plains he is called "Oscar" and told to
go out on the prairie and back his feet
around. So goe-5 the vanity of this
world. llurlington Uawktue.
They met, kissed and parted.
Thev met. anil ktsse-1 a:nl itartetl
(Heilldn't please her lu-l.
Nor she his m. uml all the world
Cri'il out. "How verv s id!"
But tU-is li ptrt 'iwaw better
Thnn too !tiUto wish they had.
For she'd a tcnirer rf her own.
Anil he'd one lust as liad.
And fj that thy should marry
And kindly fute forbade:
For think how drvitdful 'twould have boon
When both of them arot nuid!
Ah! lucky spoonev mil Ion.
Ah ! lucky spooney lid.
To meet und L1-"? arid part before
Too late to nish you bad I
A tough old debtor in a town
across the Hudson entered a grocery
the other morning, and stood for a loug
time looking at an exhibition of plug
tobacco. Tlie grocer felt certain that
the old man wanted credit, and he de
termined to head him off. He therefore
observed, "I have to r.cll that tobacco
for cash down." "You do, oh?" "Ye.-,
sir. Tobacco i ch-.Ii on the nail."
"How's sugar?" "That's cash." "Tea
and coffee?" "Cah all cash. Soap,
molasses, candies, kerosene, butter,
potatoes, flour, rice. hams, starch all
spot cash." The old man stood and
looked over the stock for five minutes,
and then heaved a long sigh and replied;
"Well, Mr. Waters, that don't hit me
worth a cent. I want to get trusted for
three dozen clothespins!" Wall Street
News.
The first published proposition for
the adoption of uniform time standards
came from Prof. Charles F. Dowd, of
Saratoga, N. Y. The development of
the idea into practical shape, and the
securing the assent of the railroads to
the adoption of the plan, are the work
of W. . Allen, editor of tho Travelers'
Official Quid, of New York City.
N.Y.Bun.