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VOL. XIV.-NO. 43.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1884.
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Shop opposite' the"" Titteraall," on
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m Kisa:
Am& leaned m be spoke ca tae pasture ban.
That ke towM by tke heaven blue
Brtht allrarr moon and Um shining- atara
To ever prove lea! and true.
"Ken chaste. 'Us true." ke aaid, "but oh I
BeUere me. aar own true lore,
Section like mine, aa tuae will show.
Has a strength that no power can mora."
"Wo fearordoubU. blortd. have T,
For deep In this hc.rt of mine
la a lore that wm never dim or die.
But will laet Tor aye-like tiine I"
Hecare her a rlnr and a fond caress,
while her tears like a torreat feU:
Aa'wlth t alfring- words and In sore distreas,
He bade her a long farewell.
But the man la the moon, who had often
lowed
Such tender scenes, I ween.
Winked knowingly then, as the lovers stood
Beneath, in the silvery sheen.
Two summers with blossom and bug were
gone.
Two winters with frost and snow;
And again the man in the moon looked down
uu we walnuts; worm uciuw.
And what did he sea? Why, the lorer had won
A widow vlh. ,-roalth galore.
While the maiden had wedded, that very
mom.
The cler!: of a dry-goods store.
Quoth the man In the moon: "It's exactly
now
As It was when the world began.
No weaker thing than awoman's tow,
EzoepUng the rows of a saaa."
These things hare given the aaa In the moon
Such oynloal views of life
That this Is the reason he Urea alone.
And never has taken a wife.
P. a. Convene, in tMaOdphia CcR.
THE MOQUI SNAKE DANCE.
A Legend and Solemn Religious Ceremony
at the Xoqul Indians of Ariaoaa.
THE LKQEXD.
In the country of Tusayan, an ancient
Erovince of Northern Arizona, there
ved a people the remote ancestors of
the present Moquis. An enterprising
youw ox ima people, aesinng to ais
cover the sources of rain, constructed a
Taft and ascended r great river until
the banks and cJitta seemed to reach
the heavens. The youth was kindly
received by the people of that region,
and he married a 'wife and remained
there several years. After this he re
turned to his own country, accompanied
by his wife. His own people were re
joiced to see him and gave his wife a
most flattering reception and kindly
treatment. Tnis kindness aroused the
jealousy of the Moqui maidens and
caused her to be an object of envy and
Eersecution among them. The wife
ept her troubles to herself, but, in
the course of time, gave birth to a
great serpent which made war on the
tribe as enemies of his mother, and
drove them into another region of
country, where he met another serpent
which killed him. The victorious ser
pent welcomed the fugitive people to
ma own country ana bade tnem remain
In it They did so and that is the
present country and people known as
the Moqui-Pueblos, and this legend
gave rise to
THE SHAKE DANCE.
This dance was instituted and is per
petuated in honor of the serpent pro
tector of the tribe, and to insure a
aupply of rain. At first the snake
dance was solemnized every year.
This caused too much rain, ana the
country was inundated with floods.
Afterwards the dance was solemnized
once in seven years. The country
was then afflicted with drought and
famine. The rule now is to perform
the snake dance once in two years.
This is supposed to induce the proper
amount of rain. Among these people
the snake is looked upon as the most
acred object in existence, and, on no
account must a snake of any sort be
killed or injured.
Some ten years ago Major J. W.
Powell, of the Colorado exploring ex
pedition spent a winter at Wolpl, one
of the principal Moqui towns, but he
had no opportunity to witness the
snake dance, though he made the
language and religion of the people
special subjects of study. And it is
thought that not more than ten or a
dozen white men now living have wit
nessed this dangerous and solemn cere
mony. The last biennial snake dance of the
Moquis took place in the town of Wolpi
during the month of July the present
summer, and was witnessed by about
eight white men, among whom was
Professor W. B. Powell, brother to
Major J. W. Powell, who made a trip
of ninety miles and return, on mule
back, in order to witness this deeply
interesting ceremony. During Prof.
Powell's visit in Junction City last
week we listened to a verbal description
of the dance, and the tradition of its
objects and origin, which are substan
tially as here stated.
Eight" days prior to the dance were
spent in preparations, collecting snakes
and in secret ceremonies in the "estu
fas," or lodge rooms. Two days prior
to the dance were spent in strict fasting
by the dancers., When the day arrived
there had been collected about one hun
dred and fifty snakes. About three
fourths of them were rattlesnakes. The
snakes were kept in a "snake shade,1'
a place of confinement adjoining the
dance ground, shaded from the sun.
The door of the snake shade was closed
with a long curtain, the lower end of
which rested upon the. ground. There
were about fifty-six dancers, men and
boys. When tha ceremonies com
menced the dancers made five rounds,
dancing to the time of a solemn chant,
while the priests and their assistants
sprinkled them with sacred meal
and holy water. At the end
of the first series of rounds the
dancers divided into two companies.
The company which was to per
form the active and dangerous parts
consisted of twenty-eight men, ranged
in the form of fourteen couples. The
dance was then resumed bv these four
teen couples only, while the other com
pany stood in an assigned position.
After a given number of rounds; danced
to the same monotonous chant, with
Seat solemnity pictured on every face,
e left hand man of one pair of the
dancers disappeared behind the curtain
into the snake shade. When he emerged
he had a' snake crosswise in his mouth,
with the tail toward, the. left and the
head toward the right-hand man. The
dance was, all .this time; kept up in tha
most continuous, solemn- and careful
manner; and it was the business of the
right hand man, with a small wand ia
the right hand and-hisleft hand rest
ing on-the Heckrof his partner, by close
attention and quick motions and gestic
ulations to engage tho attention of the
snake,' and prevent Hfrom doing Injury.
Then the left hand man' ol another
couple disappeared into the snake shade,
and in due tune emerged as his prede
cessor.aad done, with a snake in his
mouth as above described. This process
was kept up until the, left .hand men of
the entw fourteen couples' were dancing
around the circle wh;oa'e v snake v each;
ia theirntouths Then th:ieft. hand
sautt of tsirrt couple agiin disappeared
Into .the' snake shade1, and emerged jas
before: but this tbma fc had twp snakes
in his mouvh, and this process was con
tinued until.the left hand men of the
entire fourteen couples were dancing
around the circle with two snakes each
in their mouths. There was now some
danger of snakes being dropped and es
caping. This was closely watched and
the fallen snakes, if any, were immedi
ately captured by the priests and assist
ants and restored to the men who drop
ped them, or to one of the dancers In
the company that was standing idle.
When the left hand men had each ac
quired two snakes, then the disappear
ance into the snake shade began again
and was continued as before until each
left band man of the fourteen couples had
acquired a third snake. Then tho ex
citement and solemnity was intense and
earnest, and the dropping of snakes
more frequent. The snakes were then
unloaded into a consecrated circle
drawn on the ground. The space of
this circle was divided into four quar
ters by two marks drawn across it
through the center at right angles to
each other, and this circle was carefully
sprinkled with sacred meal and holy
water. The same processes of dancing,
disappearances, reappearances, etc,
were continued until all the snakes were
removed from the snake shade and de
posited in the consecrated circle. The
snakes were then all gathered up by the
dancers and the priests and their assist
ants, and carefully, but in great haste,
carried down the declivity of the mesa
into the surrounding valleys, aud depos
ited unharmed in their former homes.
The dancers then hurried back into the
village and retired into the estufas, or
lodge rooms, where they were caused
to vomit and were anointed by the
?riests in the most solemn manner,
his done, waiters and assistants ap
peared with soups, and afterward with
other food, and the snake dance ended
with a feast. Many of the dancers had
been bitten, some of them dangerously,
but death seldom occurs. The Moquis
claim that, to them, the snake is holy
and not poisonous, but two years ago
one death resulted from the bites.
We have in the Tribune office a large
photo of the village of Wolpi, taken by
the J. Wr. Powell exploring party some
years ago. It shows the east side of
the town and mesa, with the sheep and
goat corrals near the top of the declivi
ty, and the flat dancing floor on the
summit of the broad, flat rock on which
the village stands. In this photo Prof.
Powell is able to distinguish the tall
standing rock around which the dance
occurred, and from this he is able to lo
cate the position of thesnake shade, the
spectators and other points of interest.
We think this short, imperfect sketch
may prove intelligible, and, perhaps,
interesting to our readers, and we will
add that we have succeeded in obtain
ing a promise from Prof. Powell, that,
when he reaches home and procures
from bis trunk the copious notes taken
by him on the occasion, he will prepare
for one of the monthly magazines a full
and detailed account of this dangerous
and solemn snake dance of the Rattle
snake Moquis. This dance is properly
reckoned the most thrilling and won
derful aboriginal ceremony which is
now known to be practiced. After
making all due allowances for the skill
in management by hands that have been
accustomed to snake training and snake
handling for twenty generations or
more, for the soothing, stupefying and
healing qualities which, probably, are
tiossesseu bv the secret (sacred?! oint
ments, meal and water which are freely
used on the dancers and the snakes, the
fact still remains that to the Moqui
snake dance attaches an interest and
wonderful m-stery seldom equaled
among the religious ceremonies of men.
As a single example of the power of
skill and judgment, we understand that
a skilled snake handler will never
touch a rattlesnake when coiled up.
The coil is the striking and biting posi
tion. With a stick, or otherwise, qui
etly and gently straighten out the snake,
and it then may be grasped with im
punity. Otherpoints of management
well known to experienced men are,
doubtless, equally important; yet, after
all allowances are made, this' wonder
ful, dangerous ceremony is capable ol
staggering the credulity of most men
whonave not witnessed it, and exciting
the profoundest wonder in the minds ol
those who have.
HISTORICAL SKETCH.
The Moquis are a tribe of Pueblo, or
town building Indians, whose manners
and customs remain unchanged, or
nearly so, by contact with Europeans.
It is supposed that they were visited by
the Spaniards about the time of the
Spanish conquest of Mexico, and in
this way they probably acquired don
keys, sheep and goats; or, these ani
mals may have been acquired subse
quently through the Zunis and other
Indians who were visited by the Span
iards. But the Moquis appear to have
been so inaccessible on the remote and
elevated mesas, and so poor that they
did not tempt the cupidity of the con
quering Spaniards; and they now.prob
ably, exhibit very fair examples of
oboriginal life and character which
reaches back into the ages prior to the
discovery of America. At one time the
Franciscan monks attempted to estab
lish missions among them, but in 1G80
the Moquis killed or expelled the mis
sionaries. In 1748 another attempt was
made by the Franciscans to establish
missions, but with only local and tem
porary success. In 1723 the Viceroy
of Mexico attempted to conquer the
Moquis, but failed. At times they
have suffered much from the attacks of
the Apaches and Xavajos. They are
formed into a number of small tribes or
families, with one supreme chief. They
are strictly an agricultural people,
raising grain, vegetables, fruits and
cotton. They also have donkeys, sheep,
and goats. They live in seven towns,
located on mesas, or bluffs, from two
hundred to seven hundred feet above
the adjacent valleys. Their houses are
of adobe briek or stone laid in mortar,
several stories high, in terraces. The
roofs are of poles, rushes and clay.
The floors are of earth, sometimes cov
ered with rushes. The Moquis knit,
weave and spin their native wools and
cotton and trade a portion of the pro
ducts with other tribes. The men wear
blankets with leggings of dressed skins.
The women wear shawls and other
garments made of cotton and wool.
When the country first passed into
the jurisdiction of "the United States
the Moquis numbered about 8,000 per
sons; but, in 1855-6 they were almost
destroyed by small-pox. Their total
number now is about 1,600, distributed
In seven villages. Three villages were
represented in the snako dance wit
nessed by Prof. Powell. Ihese villages
were, probably, all that contained
families of the Rattlesnake tribe. Other
tribes are known as Deer, Water, Sand,
Prairie Wolf, Tobacco and other names;
but all are under one chief. The
Moquis resemble the Zun's in many
respects. Junction City Tribune.
,.
To speak of the thread of an argu
ment would imply that the whole thmsr
is a.Taro."-& r. Life.
Hew New Soses Are Blade.
They are grown from the seed, Pa
dent men, with a mildly speculative
bent of mind, in France and Germany,
give their whole minds to it, and their
work begins even before the formation
of the seed. To explain: The large,
new roses about which you, as I un
derstand, particularly fvish to know
are technically known as "hybrid per-
Setuals," and arn erosses between, or
escendants from, the hardy June roses
and certain varieties of the remontant
roses. The remontants are those com
monly and incorrectly known as monthly
roses" They are not monthly, anymore
than their children are perpetual. Their
French name signifies remounting, or
continuing to ascend, and is given to
them from their habit of sending up new
shoots and putting forth new bloom al
most continuously through a great part
of the vear, without any definitely pre
scribed flowering season. The flower of
one of those roses, a choice one, ripe,
fully open and perfectly developed, is
used to impregnate another rose, also as
perfect as can be selected of the hardier
variety, and the seed from ttie impreg
nated flower is carefully saved and, in
due time, sown. Acres upon acres the
grower fills with the experimental plants
that spring from these seeds, which
occasionally reproduce the parent
plants, but "are far more likely to develop
into an infinite number of varieties,
good, bad and indifferent Theso young
plants have to be carefully tended for
three years before it is known what they
will be. Then, if the grower gets two or
three new varieties that are really line,
he is content, and if he obtains half a
doen, he considers himself in great
luck for getting so many
out of ten thousand seedlings,
to which he has given three
"ears of patient care and skillful
cultivation. The remaining ninety-nine
hundred and ninety-four are only brush,
fit merely to burn. Sometimes, when
they are all in bloom, he sees that he
might just as well burn the whole ten
thousand, but that is exceptionally bad
luck. He ought to get one out of the
lot, anyway. Suppose that he does
the work has just begun. In order to
get back his investment in the experi
ment and make anything by it, he must
have five thousand or ten thousand
plants ready to throw upon the market
at once. Then he springs his new rose
as a surprise upon the trade, and it com
mands good prices, like the Andre
Schwartz, for instance, good plants of
which at present bring five dollars each.
All these plants must he produced from
his one solitary little seedling. It lias to
be kept in constant heat in the green
house, its rapidly making new wood be
ing shipped off and propogated as fast
as possible and the plants so produced
being used to start others, and so on for
two years before the discoverer of the
new rose can venture to say to the pub
lic, How do you like my new beauty?'
"But even then do not suppose that
the subsequent cultivation of that rose
is all plain sailing. Many roses that
have been great successes in England
and France have been entire failures
over here, the great change in climatic
conditions preventing their develop
ment. Very often the' will not bloom
at all here; br, if brought to flower, the
result is so bad that it does not pay to
cultivate them. But this cannot be de
termined until after two years of trial.
No prudent gardener would discard a
plant because it failed the first year. It
niut get acclimated. Then thedevelop
nient of the second year may be just
enough to encourage him to give it a
third year's trial; and, after all, it may
turn out to be useless. Out of a hun
dred new varieties imported there will
be hardly more than half a dozen worth
cultivation in this country, or, at least
in the Eastern and Middle States."
.4 Florist, in N. Y. Sun.
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Big Billiards.
Probably the best game of billiards
ever seen in this city was played at the
Assembly Rooms, Tenth and" Chestnut
streets, last night. There were fully
five hundred billiard amateurs and pro
fessionals among the lookers-on, and
McLaughlin's supurb play met with
wild and sometimes uproarious applause.
A. C. Anson, an old Phihdelphian, but
now one oi the Chicago base-ball nine,
was the referee, and George Slosson
acted as umpire for Heiser. The scorer
was P. Levy. George Slosson, formerly
champion of New York, whose brilliant
games with Vignaux, the great French
wizard of the cue will never he forgotten,
occupied a front seat, and near him was
John Gleason, an old billiard profession
al, of New York. There was a group of
Heiser's friends near the table, and it
was evident by the way they gave the
odds against McLaughlin, at the rate of
$100 to S90, and sometimes $100 to $80,
that thev were inspired with great con
fidence in that brilliant young player.
The men strung for the lead at 8:16 p.
ra., after the terms of the game had been
announced. These were that 1,000 points
were to be made by the winner, of French
carroras, and for a'stake of $2o0 a side.
McLaughlin won the lead and opened
the game by a run of six. On his seventh
shot he made a miss on an easy" single
cushion shot, and left them in fairly
good position for Heiser. The latter
went out for one.missing an easy one.and
it was evident that he was not in good
form. Up to the thirteenth inning, in
deed, he had only made fifteen, and his
friends who had backed him were be
ginning to look glum. In his third in
ning McLaughlin fell heir to rather bad
balls, but a series of brilliant round-the-
table shots massed them in the upper
left-hand corner, and there "railed"
them and made a clever run of 63.
They did not run well for a
time, hut finally, by a well
judged bank shot, he" got them
well gathered and had every show of a
big run when he slipped up on a carrom
that the merest tyro would have made.
There was nothing to be admired from
the third to the thirteenth inning, but in
the latter Heiser gathered the ivories in
the upper part or the table and made
119, as yet the best run of the game.
When McLaughlin opened his four
teenth inning the balls were widespread
and by no means in a promising posi
tion, but a long shot brought them into
the lower right-hand corner and began
one of the prettiest runs that ever was
seen in this country. The first 50 points
were made on the lower cross rail in two
and one-quarter minutes, and in five
minutes had rolled up a neat 100, and
had to stop for an instant until the ap
plause had subsided. Up the right
hand side of the tables he coaxed them
gently, no ball moving more than half
an inch at a stroke, and when the scorer
sailed oat 200 he had them bunched in
the right-hand upper corner in the
Bhape of a cocked hat. The difficulty
here was to turn the corner and still
keep them in that form for future oper
ations, and, this required thoughtful
sad peculiarly delicate handling. Eddy
was fully up to his work and made the
Mvjuag is uree moves, a xeat tnat only 1
a master could have accomplished. The
two hundred points had been made in
twelve minutes, and the balls looked
like a red and white shamrock, so close
ly were they grouped.
Their progress along the upper rail
was very slow; for so gently were they
handled" that they scarcely moved a
quarter of an inch "at a stroke, and by
the time the delicate turn at the corner
was to be made the scorer announced
300, and the admiring crowd had yelled
and stamped its admiration and delight.
Then a slow march down the right rail
began. The balls were never far apart,
and many of the graceful player's
friends shuddered at their nearness, be
cause they dreaded a disastrous "freeze."
But it did not come. "Eddy" had them
too well in hand, and all along the rail
to the corner he never made a blunder.
There he had another hard turn to make,
but neither his courage nor his judgment
failed him, and he made it suc
cessfully, still keeping the three ivories
in in their shamrock shape. Across the
lower rail he made 10C tins in 4 min
utes, making the turn at the right hand
corner in three well-judged shots. At
392 he turned in the upper right-hand
corner and had the balls in splendid po
sition. His play was very rapid and the
scorer had all he could do to count the
runs as they were made.
When 500 was called there was a roar
of delight and an outburst of stamping
and clapping that prevented any play
for a short time, but the indefatigable
billiard expert kept his cue in rest and
patiently awaited the subsidence of the
storm. It was a minute or more before
he began on his 600, and at this time he
had the balls bunched on th'e left rail
and in perfect control. There was deep
quiet in the room, and the feeble click
of the balls as they came together in
this skillful nursing could bo plainly
heard. When 690 was called and fol
lowed by "691," there was another yell
of delight, for those of the amateurs
who were posted in the history of the
game knew that McLaughlin had beaten
the best record ever made in a match
game on American soil. The player
went right on after the applause had
ceased, still holding the balls in sham
rock shape, and fondling them rapidly
but gently and with rare judgment At
this point of the game he made 100
points in three and one half minutes.
By the time McLaughlin had made
700 points the excitement was so intense
that it was with extreme exertion that
the audience repressed their loud man
ifestations of delight, and when the
scorer, scarcely less excited than they,
called out "Eight hundred!" there was
a shout that ought to have been heard
half a mile awav. There was a pause
of about two mfnutcs in the play, and
then McLaughlin poised his cue' again
and coolly and deliberately finished the
longest run on record in America. He
made the 805 points necessary to make
up the 1,000 points in exactly forty min
utes, while Heiser's score was only 134
Philadelphia Times.
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A Marrying Man.
"Twenty-three hundred and four last
night," answered Squire Mayes, who
was found comfortably seated in an ele
gant arm-chair at his residence in West
Alexander, in response to a query put
by your correspondent Mr. Mayes is a
Justice of the Peace, and the number
twenty-three hundred and four meant
he had married that man' couples.
West Alexander, the home of the joiner,
is a small town of five hundred souls on
the line of the Great National Road, be
tween Cumberland, Md., and Terre
Haute, Ind. Joseph Finley Mayes, the
name of the celebrated knot-tier, is
probably sixty years of age, tall, but by
no means a" heavy weight. Within a
year or two he has taken unto himself a
third wife. His father joined together
eighteen hundred and sixty happy souls.
He, too, was a Justice of the Peace. A
record of all the marriages solemnized
by him is in the possession of his son.
The latter received his commission in
1862, and at the end of the first term of
live years had joined together in the
holy bonds of wedlock two hundred and
ninety-three couples; the second term,
three hundred and sixty-nine; the third,
five hundred and seven; the fourth, and
up to the present time, eleven hundred
and thirty-five, making a grand total
of twenty-three hundred and four
couples. A glance at the 'Squire's
record shows many curious facts and
incidents. Up to 1865 the fee allowed
by law was two dollars; during that
year it was increased to three dollars.
The least he ever received was ninety
cents; generally the regular fee was
Said. One happy groom left a twenty
ollar bill with the 'Squire. No license
is required in Pennsylvania. West Vir
ginia and Ohio, being so close, furnish
much of the marrying timber; though
nearly even sectiouof the United States
is represented. About thirty couples wera
of African descent; liftyof the grooms
bore the name of Smith. On one occa
sion four couples were upon the
floor ready for the ceremony to begin,
when a ring at the door-bell announced
other arrivals, who came on the same
mission. Instead of the four couples,
six were at the same time pronounced
husbands and wives. Washington (Pa.)
Cor. Cliicago Tribune.
Hnles in Mines and Tunnels.
Mr. Adolph Sutre, of mining fame,
gives in a New Orleans paper his views
of the value of mules for underground
work. In comparing them with horses
he makes these statements: It has been
said that they have a strong propensity
for kicking, but I have never seen them
kick when in the tunnel. They be
come very tame in fact, they become
quite the miners' pets. The men be
come attached to them; and as the shift
mules pass along by the men at lunch,
they will often receive from one a piece
of pie, and from another a cup of coffee,
etc. When a signal is given to lire a
blast the mules understand the signal,
and will try to get out of the way of it
just as the men do. Of course, under-
f round it is very dark, and the mules
ecome so accustomed to the darkness
that even when they go out into the sun
light they can not see very well, and
when they go back from the sunlight
into the mine they can not see at all. So
we are in the habit of covering one eye
with a piece of cloth whenever they go
out, and keep the covering over the
eye untiL they go into the tunnel again;
we then remove the cloth, so they have
one good eye to see with. We had to
adopt this" plan for preserving their
sight, because the mule is so stubborn
that he will not pull unless he can see
his way ahead. We have found out
another thing about mules. We tried
horses at first, but we fotmd that when
ever anything touched the ears of a
horse he would throw up his head and
break his skull against the overhanging
rock; but if you touch a mule's ear he
drops his head. For that reason we could
not use horses. We employed mules and
they have answered very well
F GENERAL INTEREST,
In 1S-I6 there were no jKHtngo
r.amps in the United States. Chizag
Tribune.
"Zach" Chandler's old house in
Washington is now occupied by the
Chinese Embassy.
Venice has opened a large cotton
mill and gone heavily into tho business
of cotton manufacture.
A Cleveland woman bavins secured
divorces from two husbands, with
alimony aggregating $100,000, has
married a young man and is supporting
him in good stylo. Cleveland Leader.
Ii is said that the Emperor of Bra
zil has given Professor Laccrda $20,
000 for his discovery of permangante
of potassium, hypodermically injected,
as an antidoie for the bite of the corba.
The fashionable New York girl is
now accompanied on her promenades
by a big New Foundland or St Bernard
dog, which is a great improvement on
the dude, and
Herald.
the
pug puppy. Ar. I".
The nobility of England are all
torn up iu mind. The Marquis of
Londondeny has gone into the retail
coal business, and Lord Sudley has be
come a manufacturer of marmalades.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A New Haven (Conn.) jeweler has
received an order for a watch for King
Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands. Jt
i to be a massive gold chronograph
timepiece of elaborate design and finish,
with stop attachment ana threo diaLs,
and recording the fractions of the sec
onds. Refractory youngsters who are
brought into Judge Thompson's court,
at Louisville, Ky.t are sentenced to a
whipping by the Judge, the father or
mother, whoever it might be that makes
the complaint, being the one who admin
isters the lash. Louisville Courier-Journal.
Old bachelors can now get married.
The Commercial Gazette says: "A Cin
cinnati genius claims to be getting up
pn electric arrangement by which a man,
oy simply touching a little knob set in
the head of his bed, can kindle all the
morning fires in the house simultaneous
ly." President Grew, if a Paris storv Ls
to be believed, paid a remarkably point
blank compliment to the Grand Duke
Alexis. "Why do you look at me in
that way?" asked his Imperial Highness,
after they had shaken hands. "Be
cause," replied the President, "you are
the finest-looking man 1 ever" came
across."
A Chinaman at Virginia, Nev., to
whom was described the hanging of
one of his fellow-countrymen at Orville.
Cat, was much disgusted. "What
for chokee lope?" criedhe. "No good.
Chinaman he likee get him head cut oft".
Takee one slord z-z-w-hip? you bet
Belly good that way; lope too much
chokee." Chicago Herald.
A couple of boys arrested for steal
ing an overcoat from in front of a cloth
ing store at Delphos, Ohio, were taken
from the jail by a masked mob Satur
day night and hung to a tree until near
ly dead, when they wore rescued and
with difficulty restored to conscious.
Monday they were arraigned for theft
and proved themclvo3 not guiltv.
Detroit Post.
Kate, Louise, Emma and Josephine,
the four daughters of Joseph W. Drexel,
of New York, were honored in the naming
of the German Colony in Worcc-ter
County, Md. The uew town is called
Klfj Grange, the "Klej" beginning the
iuitial letters of the four daughter. A
gentleman whose daughters were named
Sylvia. Nanette, Oliva and Beatrice can
call his P'tablNhment "Snob Terrace."
according to the new styh of nomen
clature. N. Y. Tribit7ii
"Nothing is more discouraging than
the inability of people to discriminate
between sound stocks and worthier
pnes." say a fanciful writer. It may
be discouraging, but it is not .surprising.
Suppose a man does not know a worth
less stock, how can ho fail to know at
the same time that a sound stock is
worth le-.s much less than when he
bought it? A one is wortU-'-s and the
other is worth less, the inability of the
people to dw-riiniuat' should he ex
cused. Chicago Times.
Last spring ". C. Kve'.oth. of Wet
Batavia, N. Y., refund or neglected to
pay his school tax, which amounted to
forty-six cents: The collector thereupon
levied on and sold a pair of Mr.
Eveleth's boots, which brought eighty
eight cents. The collector did not pay
Mr. Eveleth the fort - . j .-enr- differ
ence, and thelath-raeeurd'ngly brought
suit for the amount The mailer came up
for trial a few d::.s ago. !ut was settled
by the defendant pa ing the plaintiff the
sum demanded. Buffalo Erprcss.
In olden times, before matches were
in existence, it was common for neigh
bors to borrow fire i.f each other. A
learned philosopher as visited by a lit
tle girl who aked him for some fire.
"But," savs the Doctor, "vou have
nothing to "take it in." The "little girl
stooped down to the fireplace, and tak
ing some cold ashes in one hand, she
put live embers on them with the other.
The astonished Doctor threw down his
books, saying: "With all my learning.
I should never have found out that ex
pedient" Boilan Post..
Owing to the scarcity of satisfacto
ry trees. I.:nip-posts i"tc. a mob of
lynchers near Alntiquerquc. New Mexi
co, took their prisoner to a fiat-ear, and
proceeded to erect a rather unique scaf
fold. A crib of tics was built up high
on the Hat-car, at.d two ties were run
straight out from the crib, the inside
ends of the two tics being fastened to
the crib by lashing with ropes so that
they were held securely in place. The
prisoner, with the rope on his neck, the
other end of which was fastened to the
ties, was made to mount the gallows.
when he was pushed on. the tall prov
ing
of sullicient height to break his
neck.
A Notable Trip.
A young EnglWi bicyclist, now in San
Francisco, says he intends to make a
trip around the world .on his bicycle. He
will start from San Francisco Eastward
by way of Ogden, Omaha and Chicago,
and crossing the Atlantic from this city,
will ride from Liverpool to Tover. lie
will cross the Euglish Channel to France
and ride through Europe into Asiatic
Turkey, thence through Persia and
Turkestau into the ChiuesejEmpire., mak
ing nis wav uown tne vaiiev oi tne
lank-tse-Kiang to Shanghai, and thence j
bv vessel to San Francisco, consuming
o i
a year in the traveling. He says he con
siders the trip from Sacramento to Reno
the most- difficult piece of road for a
bicycle, and looks with some dismay at
his proposed trip through Asia, where a
bicycle has never been seen. San Fran
msco Examiner.
m . m
Seven thousand dishes of fruit were
shown at a recent Apple Congress in
England.
ISTAII advertisements payable
monthly.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
The silk manufacturers of Paterson,
N. J., declare they will soon be able to
rival Lyons in tnat industry Newark
Register.
The New York & New England
Railroad has a contrivance which" suc
cessfully uses up the smoke and cinders
of the locomotive. Boston Post.
It is now thoroughly demonstrated
that flowing wells, large enough to
bring under cultivation thousands of
acres of land, can be had at a cost
within the reach of all in Salt Lake
Valley. Denver Tribune.
In a paper read before the Academy
of Science, at Paris. M. Peynison has
demonstrated very clearly that
germs of typhoid fever, cholera, and
other contagious diseases may be pre
served ami communicated by the
slightest crack in ch'na or crockery
tableware.
An Albany firm have utilized tin
scraps. They make wrought plate
dovetails forstove legs, and utilize from
six to eight tons of scraps every month
for this purpose. The articles made
are small pieces of tin of peculiar shape,
which are used by stove-menders to
make a perfect dovetail on stove bot
toms. Albany (N. Y.) Journal.
A rose farm is a new Georgia in
dustry. Two gardeners in the vicinity
of Savannah planted three acres in rose
trees. This vear thev sold 22.000 trees
to parties in the North, and had orders
for 50,000 which they couhl not fill.
The trees meet with a read v sale at from
$10 to20 per 100. Over half a million
trees are annually imported into this
country from France, England and
Holland, and the Savannah News says
it has been demonstrated that Georgia
has a better climate for the cultivation
of rose trees than that of the South of
France.
A new flying machine has been
constructed in England and subjected
to a trial which the inventor declared to
be wholly satisfactory. It h propelled
by steam, first on" the land until a
velocity of thirty to thirty-five miles is at
tained, when it is, b-. means of a tau
lever, projected into the air. Thy ma
chine w made of light wood, with a
frame like that of a four wheel ca-nage.
and has two large wheels in frout and
two .small pnes behind, with a nine
bladcd screw for tho air. The inventor
thinks he can easily travel at the height
of one mile.
A French physician has been mak
ing some interesting experiments on
the effect of condiments used with food.
They show, among other tilings, that
in cooking meat onI an ounce of salt
should he used with from six to twelve
pounds of meat If more is employed
it will do una or two things: it will
modify the struct ti"c of a portion of the
muscular fibre so :is to render it more
resistant t the action of the gastric
juice, or it will itself check and retard
the peptic fermentation, the very
groundwork of digestion. It follows
that salted and smoked moats are more
indigestible than fresh.
Charlci R. King, of Hartford.
Coun.. may he said to be tho nio-st mul
tifarious tradesman in the tate of Con
necticut, haviug mastered no Ies than
twenty-two distinct trades, and being,
what is still more strange, a first-class,
workman in everv one of them. He is
not yet seventy years old, and is vigor
ous and hale anil able to do a mail's
work am day. Here a v the vocations
he has learned: Blacksmith, house ar
penter. cabinet-maker, ship-joiner, ship
carpenter, glas; cutting ami "rinding,
shoe-making, hanu-ss-mak ng. wheel
wright, wood machinist, mathematical
instrument makiug. wood-ea-ving, pal-tern-making,
clock-making, cooper,
carriage maker, gardener ami florist,
molder. patent-orlioe model-makr,
Slumbing and locksmith. Acw liufen
eqitter.
PITH AXi POINT.
Official reports state that tho Brit
ish census embrace 1 7,000, 000 women.
Who wouldn't bo a census. Chicago
Tribune.
"Misfortunes hover come singly."
They couldn't. It would be singular if
they could. One misfortune might, but
Lindley Murray forbids the plural num
ber from acting that way. Golden
Days.
So man' people are dying in all
parts of the country just now, at the
advanced age of 10. years, that a man
under eighty-five feels kind of bashful
about going into a barber .shop. Bur
lington Hawkfije.
Longfellow said: "In this world a
man must be either anvil or hammsT."
Longfellow was wrong, however. Lots
of men are neither the active hammer
nor tiie sturdy anvil. They are nothing
but bellows. Boston Post.
The man who wa detected in the
act of burglarizing a laundry declared
that he had only dropped in to scabo it
getting some washing. "Uood." said
the officer, "and now you'll want iron
ing," and he nipped a pair of handcuffs
on him. Chicago Herald.
Of the rlc:i newspaper men .lames
Gordon Bennett runs two yachts and
four-in-hands; Robert lfon'ner is the
owner of one hundred aid seventy
horses; Charles A. Dana keeps a Pull
man parlor-car, while wo arc putting in
a foundat'on for a bam. Marlboro"
Times.
It was :t happ;. fiought ou the part
of our Government f purchase the Vel
lowstonu country and convert it into a
national park. It belongs to all the
p'ople of the United States, the poor as
well as the rich, and all It costs for a
man living inside of civilization to go
there and return s a thousand dollars
or two and perhap-his scalp. Ncrrit
town Herald.
"Is this train to stop at Neponset?"
a passenger asked a conductor of the
Old Colony Road the other forenoon.
"No, sir.'" was the reply: "no -tops be
tween South Braintree and Boston."
"Why. how's that "' s-(l the surprised
inquirer; "you u-ed to stop there: you
lid the last time I came up," The con
ductor was puzzled. "Gups, you are
wrong." he said, "but when was that
time?" "Well," replied his passenger,
"I can't say exactly." And aftcra mo
ment's thought he continued. "It was
when I built my barn ome time dur
ing the war." Boston Transerip'.
"James!" he began, as he called
the clerk into the private office, "your
conduct is such that I cn no longer re-
tnin vnn in niv emnlov. You do not
- -..-
hesitate to he and cheat, and ou are
drunk at least twice a -veek.' "All
innrlit " reannnrln th( r-Iprt. "T
got
news yesterdav of a legacy of $75,000,
and 1 guess I wont go to tne poor
house.'" "Seventy-five thousand dol
lars!" "To a cent." "Cash money?"
"All cash." "Then I'll sell you a part
nership interest in the business, and
.we'll make things hum! Ha! Let me
congratulate you! Just such a partner
as I'd pick among a thousand! Wvll
Strut News.