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V ,3 ---. THE JOURNAL, ISSUED EVBBY WEDNESDAY, 1M. Iv. TURNER & CO., Proprietors and Publisher!. Z ,Sr 1 BATES OF ADTEKTIiUC. s7"BusinoBS and professional cards of five lines or lens, per annual, five dollars. S3 For time advertisements, apply at this office. SSTLegal advertisements at statute rates- 3TFor transient advertising;, see rates on third page. . j 23TA11 advertisements payable monthly. ii jfei-. $3 OFFICE, Eleventh St., up stairs in Journal Building. . V i t -v. terms: 1. e r V e ar . ... Six months Three months Single copies . 1 VOL. XmN0.f4C COLPMBUS, JSfEB., WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27, 1884. WHOLE NO. 720. S ; VnsW ""VsSs1 iptipai mm - V t tall p. r- ( I' ' BUSINESS CASDS. !. T. 31 ARTYN, M. D. F. J. SCHDG, 31. D. Dm. MAETYN & 8CHU0, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surtri'ona. Union Pacific, O.. X. & B. H. and li. A M. U. E's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 42-v T !. WII.SIK. 51. !., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. UNeaes of women and children a spe cialty. Cituntv phytiiciiu. Office forracr lj occupied 1) Dr. Bonesteel. Telephone exchange. S9 n:iAS. ss.oa.m:, (Ykk Lke) CHINESE LA UNDIiY. JSTUnder "Star Clothiuj; Store," Ne braska Avenue, Columbia. 2S-3m DENTAL PARLOR. On Corner of Twelfth and North Streets, over Ernst's hardware store. iSTOffice hour, 8 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 5 p. m. Oli.a Asiibacoh, Dentist. lOUXKMl'M Ac MIJL.I.IVAIV, A TTORNEYS-AT-LA W, Up-btain-iuUluck Building, lllh street, A hove the New hank. XT j..ihiosoi, NO TA RY P UBLIC. XHU Street, i doors nest of lUtuaiond Hoim, Columbus, Neb. 49l-y rpilUICS VOX A: POWERS, SURGEON DENTISTS, IS" Office in .Mitchell Block, Colum bus, Nebraska. 11-tf t c i:i:i:i)KR, A TTORNEY AT LA W, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska. 2-tf pt G. A. IIULLHOUST, A. M., M.D., OMEOI'A Till C PHYSICIAN, JSTTwo Blocks south of Court House. Telephone eommunicatiou. 6-ly V. A. MACKEN, DKALKK IX Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Porters, Ales, e'e, etc. Olive Street, next to First National Bank. flO-v ireALLMTER BROS., A TTOllNEYS AT LA W, Office up-stairr in McAllister's build in ?. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. M. MACFAKLAND. AttrmoyssdiTctarrPsW: U. R. COWDERY, Cellule. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACPARIjAND & COWDBR?, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. G EO. flf. UERRY, PAINTER. JSTCarriage, house and sign painting, glazing, paper hanging, knlsomining, etc. done to order. Shop on 13th St., opposite Kngine House. Columbus, Neb. 10-y Tp II. RIJSCI1E, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sell Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, .tec., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs pn mptly attended to. JS. MURDOCH & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on Bhort notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitvtocstimateforyou. j3TShop on 13th St, one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-v o. c. srrATnsrojsr, MANUFACTURER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. 3TShop on Eleventh Street, opposite Heintz's Drug Store. 40-y G W. CLARK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Platte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y poLunnvs PACKING CO., COLUMBUS, - NEB., Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs or grease. Directors. R. H nenry, Prest; John "Wiggins, Sec and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory. -VTOTICE TO TEACHER!. J. E. Moncrlef, Co. Supf, "Will be in his office st the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. 507-y TAMES SAE9103T, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Flans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 526mo. J. WAGNER, Livery and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public wfth1 good teams, buggies, sad carriages for all e cessions, especially for, funerals. AJ eensucU a sale stable. U FIRST r National Bank ! Aaihoriised Capital,- - 8250,000 Cash Capital, - - 50,000 OFFICERS AND DIKKCTORS. v. VNDERSON,PresX .- SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Preset. O.'T.ROEN, Cashier. J. vr. EARLY, ROBERT UHLIG, HERMAN OEHLRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Iniand-ExctiaBge,.Pass.iga T:ekets, Real EsT:te, Loan ana Insurance. - 29-T0l-ia:ly,, - r COAL & MilME ! J.E.N0RTE&.C0., DEALERS IN Coal, 1 1 1 J -t Hair, r Cement. Seek Spriig Cal, CirtoR(WypmiB?yCo.l. EldoR (Iowa) Coal .$7.00, per Ion 6.00' .3.50 Slaektmith- Ceil of -best quality al ways on hand at low est prices. North Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, NEB. 14.3m UNION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE. r Improved and TTnimprored 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. USB" Final proof made on Timber Claims, Homesteads and Pre-emptions. J3TA11 wishing to buy lands of any de scription will please call and examine my list of lands before looking else where tTAll having lands to sell will please call and give ine a description, term , prices, etc. 3TI a'so am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency or several first-class Fire insurance companies. F. "W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German. SAIWIJEI. C. SMITH, nO-tf Columbus, Nebraska. BECKER & WELCH; PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. v 4 i i. i. r MANUFACTURERS !AJSD ViIDi;E SALE DEALERS IN 2. FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COLUM B US, NJSB. SPEICE & NORTH, GcBSral Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at, from S3.00 toSlO.OO per sere for cask, or ba-lfe or'ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have-also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and UBlmproveaV. fsrlsale s,t.'low; pricj jind on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. VTe keep a coMplete.abstract.of title to all;real es tate in Elatte County. 621 COLU MHUSWEl LOUIS SCHREIBER, -t - i . v -- - s. All kills, ef Repairiig 4ae Siiiti:-'lnBgarJWas- .msef.alew rer, aaiall wrfeiar- aitei. AlteaiB tk;wi-frWalUr A. Mi i ristpMSMiUtie "TatteTssJl," oa unrest uuiiumsuB. - BIsiftiMaifflliinir mtrnmt. ipms..q ista MtpaMai? " "Tfafteaii, ami UB'a4m-U: jajlp JsVHajapv f in 'i - , " " i Is sb fasBerious. laertinent trass. Wkose calls, though nawelcome, we canaot reiuae, Capricious, Insatiate, detestable scamp. Our hospitable homes to abuse. With maidenly same tkere Is none to admire TaeT"beauty for aiaci" that lurks in her " J smile. So wed her there's none, wlselor gar, who as pire, AMnlty's not of ber style. Ker birthplace was Eden she's older than sin. But lively performing- her favorite role. :Ko country is known where her play has not . - t. been vAnd she's booked to take in the north pole. She comes, uninvited, to every man's door. Nor waits invitation to enter within. It may be to rob him of honest-earned store. Or pay him tho wages of sin. Though guest of the poor her name seems to imply Prosperity, riches, and increasing' gain. The poor man pronounces the name as a lis. To him It moans poverty, pain. It li flTmlsnomcr, a fortune is missed In colling berby such a high sounding name, Miss Fortune's an actress everywhere hissed, A tramp without fortune or fame. Chicago Inter Ocean. THE DEADLY CENTIPEDE, r MFer Tkat are We lawyers.' STORY OFTO-DAT. The PettiCTew family lives in s stone cottage in tie outskirts of Austin, and consists principally of Mrs. Pettigrew's mother, who is a widow by the name of Twaddles, whose home, if she ever stayed there, would be in Michigan, for that is where Petigrew married Mrs. Pettigrew. The rest of the family is composed of a ten-year-old son, Billy Pettigrew, and a blessed baby. Mr. Pettigrew1 is a lawyer, a good-natured sort of a man who is very much given to looking at everything from a profession al stand-point In Mrs. Pettigrew her self the maternal instinct is very much in the ascendancy. Almost all her thoughts and cares are centered in Billy and the baby, and a new carpet f .r the parlor. The baby being only a year old, his character is not yet sufficiently developed to admit of ananalysis.butthc neighbors, judging by his voice, predict that he will become an auctioneer. Billy, the boy the irrepressible boy seems to be of a mercenary disposition. He recently, during the absence of his parents, sold a nearly new kitchen stove to an old junk man, and he has put the money where nobody else but himself can find it He has on several other oc casions shown a surprising degree of business enterprise in one so young. On morning, after breakfast, not long since, Mr. Pettigrew was sitting in the sitting-room, reading the morning paper and smoking a cigar. Mrs. Twad dles was adjusting her specs, prepara tory to reading her usual morning chap ter in the Bible, when the voice of Mrs. Pettigrew was heard in the parlor. "Charles, O, Charles! Come into the parlor a minute, will you, dear?" Charles heaved a sigh, and then he called back: "It's no use, Emily, talking to me about a new carpet this Christmas. Ex penses are so heavy" and he glanced around- at Mrs. Twaddles "that we can't afford it"" "Charles, come into the parlor," said Mrs. Pettigrew, in a rather decided tone oi voice. Charles did not respond very prompt ly, whereupon Mrs. Twaddles, looking up, said, in a severe, cutting tone: "Sir, my daughter requests your presence in the parlor." "I always obey orders when they come direct from headquarters," said Mr. Pettigrew, winking at himself confi dentially, as he threw down the paper and strolled into the parlor. Mrs. Pettigrew was standing by the mantel-piece, and Mr. Pettigrew was about to make an opening speech on the carpet question, when his wife, pointing to the mantel-piece, remarked, in an impressive manner: "Just look at those tracks in the dust on the mantel-piece, and. tell me what made them." He approached the dusty mantel-piece and .examined it very closely. It cer tainly presented a very strange appear ance, for there was a continuous broad track meandering over it in different directions. It was evidently made by some reptile, for it seemed" to be too broad for an insect The trail seemed to emerge from, and return to, a hole in the wall near 'the edge of the mantel piece. "By thunder!"- exclaimed Mr. Petti grew, "the evidence is overwhelming to mv mind" "What!" "I've seen one just like it in a bottle in Graham's drug store. It is a" "A what?" "It is the biggest centipede that ever crawled. Those 'outside tracks are made by his legs, and the inside tracks are made by the two hooks at the end of his tail." At the word centipede, Mrs. Pettigrew jumped on achairand shook her clothes, -atthesame-tiine -uttering a piercing shriek, which' brought into the parlor, as if by magic, Mrs. Twaddles and Billy. Kow, if .there was anything in the woria mac juts. j.waaaies was afraid, of, it was a centipede. She had never seen one, and when she saw the trail in the dust, on the mantel-piece, she nearly had a spasm, but her son-in-law sought to allay her apprehensions. It seemed to be a pleasure to bim to describe the habits and peculiarities of the insect "If you should feel one crawling over your person at night, Mrs: Twaddles" (shudder), you must not move or betray any emotion" (gasp), "for, if you do' (O, my Lord!), "he will bury his jaws in your flesh" (wriggle), "but yon will not feel it." (I wish! was back in Mich igan "IsSayrJIri. Twaadles, you will not feel his jaws, because he will simul taneously, anchor his other end in your quivering flesh" (Oh, give me some gtimulanis "bptwo long hooks, and he will bring his legs, -each one of which" (Mrs. Twaddles sank back into a chair) "is armed with a sting, and clinch them so tight that the insect will have to be removed by pieces; but if you keep quiet, it will crawl over' your face, perhaps. This is what it looks like," -he added showing her a picture of the terrible creature. With a dreadful shriek, Mrs. Twad dles fled up stairs. The situation was, indeed, a very .serious one. It was very evident that the .centipede lurked in the "chimney, "and emerged, at night' from the hole' and crawled ' over the.whole parlor:" - . - , A; council of war was held as bow to destroy the venomom' creature. . My idea," said Mr. Pettigrew. "ia to lockup -your mother inthe parlor at nights. I think that would Thake the" centipede apply for a change of veaue." "Charles, VYL not permit yon to speak erf my mother ia that disrespectful man er.' How are we going: to kill the crea ture?" ' - "Dohik the'way;tW do ratsiaa bar-roo. Catei Uav aad scraeeze kfcl jseaaiB- a lemo sqnsaatrv - Hut, eerioas ly, Idok'tkaowwka tod about tkat centipede. We can't take dowm the chimney to find him, and it's a dreadful thing to know there is a fiendish reptile, eleven inches long (if he is one), crawl ing about the house at night My idea is to stay in the parlor till he comes out, and then mash the infernal thing with the back of the ax." "No, sir, not on my carpet you don't mash no centipede, I can tell you that, even if it is an old carpet" "There is no sense in buying a new carpet, then, until the centipede is caught Why, Emily, do you Know I begin to look on that centipede "as our benefactor. If he makes your mother go back to Michigan, and prevents you trom buying a new carpet, I don t know but I'll take to raising centipedes. There's money in it" "Charles, I don't like tohearyou talk that way. You talk as if you really meant what you say. How would it do to stop up the hole where he comes out?" "Now, that shows that you have got brains brains tdsel'i.JYbu dod-gasted measly Mrs. Spoopemlyke, you. l)ont you know that if you shut up that hole in the parlor, the dod-gasted measly reptile will hunt up some other outlet, and he may crawl overjthe measly dod- Ssted baby. Oh, but you are smart! 1 you need to look like a law student at the Texas University is a three-dollar and-a-half stove-pipe hat, a mustache, and a copy of Blackstone under your arm. Spoopendyke's wife is a fool com pared to you when you have one of your knowing spells." "Well, what are jou going to do about the centipede?" "Mash him, 1 tell you. Lay for him and mash him." "Don't mash the poor centipede, pa," said Billy, the tears standing in his eyes, for if you do, pa, I'll feel so bad, for then the druggist won't buy him from me to put in alcohol. I am going to get a quarter for that insect" With the exception of Mr. Pettigrew, the entire family became distressingly nervous. Mrs. Pettigrew jumped hve feet into the air, and warbled: "Cen tipede!" when she accidently put her naked foot on a hair brush just before retiring. Next morning, Sirs. Petti grew's ma announced that before night she would be away from a State where she had to associate with centipedes and worldly-mmued men (looking at retti grew) ; she would go back to Michigan. "It's nothing when yon get used to it, is it, Emily?" remarked Pettigrew, ap pealing to his wife. Emily did not reply, but urged her mother to remain. So did Mr. Petti grew, he saving that people occasional ly recovered from centipede bites; that in Mexico they were used as pets. In spite of all these enticing induce ments offered Mrs. Twaddles to remain, she left on the eleven o'clock train. That same evening Mr. and Mrs. Pet tigrew were in the sitting-room, talking about Mra. Twaddles, the centipede and other cheerful topics. "How quiet the house seems to be now, since ma left," remarked Mrs. Pettigrew. "That's so; and I wouln't regret hjr absence if she had only the other centi pede along to keep her company; but" Just at this moment Billy, "who had been laying for the centipede in the par lor, entered, his face wreathed with dis gust and ejaculating: "Here's your blamed old centipede that makes tracks." He held aloft on the end of a sharpened stick, a writhing, kicking, struggling, but harmless cock" roach. Charles," said Mrs. Pettigrew, im pressively, "I believe you knew all the time that those tracks were made by a cockroach, and you made out it was a centipede just to scare ma oft"." Mr. Pettigrew leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and murmured: "For that are we lawyers." Texas Silings. m The Custom or "Posting." There has been no strictly American code of honor, although a majority of the duels fought iu the United States by gentlemen have been arranged and car ried on according to rules and regula tions promiscuously adopted from the code duello of foreign countries. "Post ing," however, is strictly an American conceit, and seems to have originated with General James Wilkinson, U. S. A., whose challenge .to John Randolph, member of Congress from Virginia in 1807, was disdainfully declined by the haughty Virginian, who concluded his letter as follows: "In you, sir, I recog nize no right to hold me accountable for my public or private opinion of your character that would not subject me to an equal claim from ColonplBurr or Sergeant Dunbaugh. I cannot descend to your level. This is my final answer." The audacious Wilkinson was not to be thus summarily disposed of, and he indignantly replied: "I have received your letter of the 25th inst, by mail, in which you violate truth and honor to indulge the inherent malignity and ran cor of your soul. On what level, pray, sir, shall we find the wretch, who, to mask his cowardice, fabricates false hoods, and heaps unprovoked insults upon unmerited injuries? You can not descend to my level! vaiu, equivocal thing! And you believe this dastardly subterfuge will avail j'ou, or that your lion's skin will longer conceal your true character: Embrace the alternative, still in your reach, and ascend to the level of a gentleman, if possible; act like a man, if you can, and spare me the pain of publishing you to the world for an insolent, slanderous, prevaricating pol troon." No further action in the mat ter was taken by Randolph, and the next time Congress assembled General Wilk inson stuck up, or posted, notices as fol lows, in all the taverns and street cor aers of the National Capital: Hector Unmasked. In justice to my chai aater, I denounce to the world John Ran dolph, a member of Congress, as a prevaricat ing, base, calumniating scoundrel, poltroon and coward. Posting became frequent in the United States after this episode, and it has been no uncommon thing to meet a card in a newspaper, xr a notice in some public place, the declaration that "is an unprincipled villain and coward." The author "has witnessed many .cases of this custom of posting in New Orleans, Nashville and Savannah, and calls to his mind, while writing, a younggentleman of Los Angeles, Cal., who posted a former .friend (with whom he -bad-a disturbance, at a party; and subsequently sent him ji challenge, which was unnoticed,) "as a cur and a coward," and sat under the notice with a double-barreled shot-gun forseventeen hours. Chicago Times. m In 1881 Mr. Prank Berry, of Easier, S. C, picked and packed a bale of cot. ton at his gim, and placed a note insid the bale, requesting the man who man ufactured the1 cotton to inform hiaa wh'afhe made of it, etc Last week Mr. Berry received a note" from 'Francs,' hi which he was informeel that his aoto had been fotwd and that-his cottom had Badeiato twjstl Chicago TrUmte. How He We ike Sfaatter. "Can vou tell me when the train comes aloDff here?" asked a travel- stained man of an old fellow who. sat on a pile of cross ties near an Arkansas railroad. "Yes, Ireckinlkin." "Rut will you?" asked the traveler, after a moment's silence. "Yes, 1 reckin I wUl." "Well, what time?" "What time what, mister "What time does the train come along here?" "I dunno." You said you did." "Didn't" "I say 'ou did." "Say I didn't." "What did you say?" "Said I'd tell you when itjeomes along, an' ef both o' "us are here when she comes I will, but I reckin yer ken see her as well as I ken." "You think you are very smart, don't "Not now. rheumatiz sot I was right in." peart till the "Where do you live?" "I'm livin' here, now." "Is this your home?" "Noah." "Then vou don't live here?" "Wall, "I don't die here, do I? Long's I'm here I'm livin' here." "When the train comes do you sup pose I can get on?" "Yas, if it stops." "But that's what I want to know. Will it stop?" "I kain't tell yer right now, although I'm al'ers pleased to give to stranger any information in my power." "When can you tell me?" asked the stranger, evidently thinking that the old fellow was going in search of infor mation. "When she gits here." "Now, say, old man, I don't like to be made game of in this way. You may have nothing to do but sit'around and spend your life in joking, but I am thoroughly in earnest I have come a long distance to reach this road, and I want to leave this wretched country. You would confer a great favor on me by answering my questions in a straight forward manner. If the train is not likely to stop at this wood-yard, why then I must walk until I come to a sta tion. Now give me your honest opinion. Do vou think that the next train will stop here?" "Now, stranger," replied the old fel low, leaning over and tying his shoe, "yer ken talk mighty pitiful, I must al low, an' ef yer was a preacher it would take all the plank at the saw mill to make a mourners' bench big enough fur yey church. I'd be a mighty man ter hold back any news I've got about this matter, an' bein' as I like yer looks I'll tell yer all I know about these trains." "I thank you most heartily, sir." "I expect I know as much about these trains as any man what lives in this here community." "I have no doubt of it." "An' all that I know about 'em ston ing here I'll tell yer." pine ell?' "W'y, sometimes they stop an' some times they don't. That's all I know." "I am half inclined to jump on you and maul you." "Better walk ter the station, stranger, than ter try that The last man what tried it ain't been able to 'tend the United States Cou't sence." "Well, how far is it to the next sta tion?" "Which way? Thiser way or thater way?" pointing. "Either way." "Well, thcy'se 'bout the same dis tance." "How far?" "Blame 'fi know." "I'll be confounded if I stand this. Come over here and I'll lick you." "Well, ef yer wanter whup me wus'n I wanter be whupped, yer'd better come over here." "I can do it, and don't you forgit it." "Well, ef yer do, I ain't apt ter foreit it" "I'll try it anyway," and taking off his coat a bottle fell out "Hole on. What -er got in that bot tle9" "Whisky." "Then tbar's no use in lighten," and throwing out a quid of tobacco, he limped across the track, took a drink, and said: "Train ain't likely to stop here." Took another drink. "Closest station's down this way." Another drink. "Three miles." Another. "Make it better. Two an'er half." Still another. "Go down thar an' them niggers will take yer on a han' car. Good day, Cap'n. Wush yer well. Ef yer'd 'nounced yer principles in the fust place thar wouldn't ter been all this argyin'," Arkansaw Travelci . Polish Exiles In Siberia. In a late number of the newspaper Seebeer appear the following interesting Karticularsrespcctingthose Pol es most- youths and young men who were exiled to Siberia for participating in the Polish insurrection of 1868-4: "Upon arriving there and being freed from continual supervision they gave them selves up neither to despair nor to an irregular mode of life. But in order to obtain the means of living they became shopkeepers or worked at different trades, or, in some cases for many of them were landed proprietors, or their sons took to agriculture, and by their industry greatly assisted In developing horticulture in the province. Some mathematical students gave their time and strength to carpentering or to smith's work, others devoted their tal ents.to watchmaking, and others theirs to (fine art) painting. Some landed proprietors became bakers, and others sausage-makers. In fact, several busi nesses, as those of baker, confectioner, etc., were unknown in many parts of Siberia previous to the arrival of these men in if Before that time, too, there were no coffee-houses, dining-rooms, or even decent hotels in the province. Again, many of the exiles for a large proportion of them had been students at the universities or in the higher schools devoted themselves to science or to medicine, and ungrudgingly gave time, talent, strength, health, and eves life to these pursuits. So that alto- ? ether the twenty years' sojourn of these oles in Siberia has' had a beneficial in fluence upon the manners and customs of its middle and lower-class inhabi tants' And iheSeebcer concludes" with the remark that "they I have now, in accordance with the terms of the im perial manifesto issued at thetime oi the coronation, been allowed to rerun, to their homes, but they leave behind them most "agreeable ' memories in tin Itearts of' their former fellow-cilizeaT aad asifaWrs." Cfer. Lndn Tmtt Lasker's Leve. It Is quite by .accident that I came across an old German paper recently wherein I found the outline of a ro mance that may prove interesting to our readers, inasmuch as the hero.of it was of late a visitor in Galveston, and made many friends; who though recog nizing in Dr. Edward Lasker one who has led an eventful life, would scarcely have associated him with an affair of the heart. Judging from the fact that he is still a bachelor, it may be said to have made a life impression on one who would not generally be credited with having had room for tenderness in the heart which he seems to have devoted to his country and his people, and to the cause of thej?p"pressed and down-trodden everywhere. In 1863, Dr. Lasker, then one of the m6st aggressive of the Liberal leaders, formed the acquaintance of a young lady in Berlin, a Miss Franziska Rus sak, the niece and adopted daughter of a wealthy land-owner, who was, how ever, a strong supporter of the Govern ment The young lady, admiring the spirit of the young doctor, and his steadfast devotion to the cause of the people, returned the! sentiment which the young man had not hesitated to im part But the current of true love never did run as smooth as might be desired, and in this particular case the stream was a very turbulent one indeed. The uncle was apprized of the state of affairs by the suitor, but turned a deaf ear to all entreaties. He told the doctor that Franziska could never marry one who was opposed to "the best Government the world ever saw" with his consent, and that if she "married contrary to his wishes she would not get one cent of the Russak fortune. To this the doctor replied that he wanted no fortune, nor anything else except the lady. Fran ziska, however, while willing to forego the fortune, was unwilling to incur the displeasure of her uncle, to whom she was much attached. After that the uncle tried to arrange other matches for his niece, but she, true to her firsthand only love, refused all offers, no .matter how brilliant, and some of them were very brilliant indeed. In a year or more after the first visit of Dr. Lasker to the Russak mansion the old man thought it wrons: to balk the girl's fancy longer and accordingly sent for Dr. Lasker, and in the presence of the young lady he withdrew his objec tions provided the doctor would, in the future, discontinue his activity on be half of the Liberal party, and espouse the cause of the Government. The proposition was scornfully rejected by Dr. Lasker, who said on that occasion that he felt that his wife would ever de spise him, as he would despise himself, for so base a treachery. One day, a few months later, Bis marck sent for Mr. Russak, and though the result of that conference may never be known, it is, nevertheless, certain that on the next day Dr. Lasker was again sent for by the uncle of his idol. At this interview the old man said that he had reconsidered his proposition, and wanted to temper the severity of his former alternative. He represented to the young man the dangers that were incurred by any who opposed the Gov ernment, and recalled instances of im prisonment of young men who bad gone a step too far. He said he would con sent to the marriage if the young man would withdraw from politics, and while he might entertain what views he chose, never to express them in public: and to make this offer the more tempt ing:, a large sum was named as being; at his disposal on the day of his marriage. But the convictions and predilections of the young man were not to be shaken, and an interview followed between him self and the young lady, in which she plighted her love to him anew, but com mended his determination to stand by his principles. In less than a year from that time the voting lady died in a foreign land, where her uncle had journeyed in the hope that new scenes and the excitement of travel would cause her to forget hei passion. Dr. Lasker never married. Perhaps Russak would have been less exacting in his opposition had he been able to fore cast the fame that the future had in store for the rejected suitor. Galveston Opera Glass. Aboat Sleds. "Where do they come from?" "There are a dozen factories in the country that during six warm month; make sleds. During the rest of the year they make express wagons. It's a specialty without any exorbitant profit in it "Howdo the retail prices run?" ' "From thirty cents to eighteen dollars. The first is a cheap solid board runnel without ornaments At one dollar and seventy-five cents they have bent wood runners braced with iron inside and out They will carry a man. Above that you can pay for the ornaments you want. Swell box cutters, upholstered in plush or raw silk, ornamented with real chromos, and withal as strong as thej- are handsome, will cost from fif teen dollars to eighteen dollars. A pole can be attached for a span oi sjoats when desired. They delight the hearts of the boys and ffirls." "What is the choice sled of all?" "The boy's choice is the coaster. It is long, low, sharp forward, and rakish: reminds him of the time when he will command a pirate schooner. The runners are of solid wood, heavily shod. There are good hand-holds in them. Ihey project beyond the boy's head as he goes down the hill, so as to protect him when he runs into the other fellow. They are sure death to the other fellow. It is becoming the fashion to put alarm bell gongs on thorn." "Gooa to increase trade. A man is tnot very old who can say that the trade has quadrupled in .his time. The in crease is due to cheap sleds. They break and thus necessitate the pur chase of another." "Is there anything more to be said about hand sleds?" "Yes. Some are made wholly ol iron, except the top board. That is wood, because wood is lighter, and is not so cold to chubby fingers. Sleds vary in length from two to four feet, and in height from four to ten inches. They will average one-third as broad as they are long. They are so cheap that the boy cannot afford to make his own. American sleds are lighter and stronger than Canada sleds. We sell lots of them there, in the face of twenty-five per cent tariff. We have sold some in Russia. We would sell more, only the trade there begins when we are inter ested in velocipedes and express wagons. We have shipped some a far South as Richmond, va,, just enough to make boys wish they lived where they could have-some fun. One thing we cannot tell about sleds, and that is the number made. It is simply coextensive with youagHenu N. t. Sum, PERSONAL Ag .IMPERSONAL. General Grant has been elected President of the New York Socictvfor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. General Martin, who was recenth elected Mayor of Boston, was a truck driver less" than thirty years ago. Boston P&s!. "Pompey" Graham is the name of a colored man in Newburgh, N. Y.," who was there when the Revolutionary army disbanded. N. Y. Times A negro girl in Laurens County, Ga., bear the following poetic name: "Fair Rosa Beauty Spot Temptatiou Touch Me Not" CMcaqo Times. Senator Anthony is the only Sena tor in service now who answered to his name at the roll-call on March 4,. 1S61, when the Southern members resigned. Washington Star. The late Mrs. C. H. Northam, of Hartford, left $150,000 in private be quests. $100,000 to Trinity College and smaller sums to various societies. Hartford (Conn.) Post. Albert Jay Jones, of Providence, R. I., who for many years has resided abroad, proposes to give the United States Government an estate of fifteen acres la the suburbs of Rome for an academy of fine arts. lxrovidence Journal. Miss Auretta Hoyt, who has been very prominently identified with the prohibition movement iu Iudiana, died at Indianapolis recently. She was Sec retary of the State Temperance Council and associate editor of the Monitor Journal. Whittier is color blind. A lire hav ing; daniajred the wall paper in his resi lience ho undertook to match it with a new piece, which was neatly pasted on, to his great admiration aud" the amuse ment of his family. Ho had used a green rine with one of crimson. Boston Jour nal. A bab- in.Hanc.ook, Mass.. has now living nine grandparents. A grand mother and grandfather, a great-grandmother and great-grandfather, a great-reat-grandmother on the father's side; i grandfather, grandmother, a great grandfather and mother, a great-great-vreat-grandfather on the mother's side. Uoston Transcript. A leading operatic singer in New Xork. on being asked if Theodore Thomas was recognized as a man of merit in Europe, replied: "Oh, yes, both as a distinguished leader and at p o Crammist His knowledge of composi tions and selections is nearly unrivaled, and he is regarded as the chief instructor in musical things of the American peo ple." N. Y. Tribune. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." A harmless optical delusion: The dude's absorbing pastime is looking at his feet through the wrong end of an opera glass. Life. A Western paper alludes to a star as a diamond-tiiroated songstress. It probably alludes to the precious tones in her throat Philadelphia Chronicle. Refrigerater cars are kept running all winter. "Faith," said the Irishman who looked into one, "it's the fust toime I ever saw a cellar on whales." jV. Y. Commercial. An exchange advises brcad-and-milk poultices as a cure for scratches. Young husbands will do woll to note this down in their diaries for future ref erence. Burlinaton Free Press. "I hope, sir, you will not proceed to extremities," "said the lover at the gate, as his sweetheart's furious old pa came striding; down the walk with a pairof winter boots. Louisville Courier Journal. "Pat, why in the name of Jupiter are you lying there with that stone on your stomach?" "Be aisy uow! Oim jist carryin' out a hint oi got from the doether. He guv me a divil of a dose this mornin', an' sez he, 'Pat, me b'y, ye nuisht try yer bisht to l:ape it down,' au be jabers". ef it's ruquoired, I'll put another shtun atopo' this but oill do it." Yonkers Gazelle. "Is blindness ever curable, Doc tor?' asked a man of one of ourM. D.'s yesterday. "Not generally," replied the doctor, "but not long ago I saw a man stoneblind temporarily restored by n cup of coffee." "How was that?" "He was eating his dinner, and the waiter asked him if he would have coffee. He replied, "Yes," and took a cup and saw, sir." Oil City Derrick. An .Austin lady, who had company to tea, reproved her little son several times, speaking, however, very gently. At last, out of patience with him, she said sharply: "Jimmy, if you don't keep still, I, I'll send you away from .the "Yes, and that's what you al- table." wavs do when there s company and there are not enough canned peaches to go around," was the reply of the gifted youth. Texan Sif lings. Hungarian Versus German. The composite and heterogeneous nature of the Hapsburg Empire is fully realized by the traveler ou taking his first walk in Buda-Pesth. Everywhere, nowadays, the German language is rig orously excluded from public inscrip tions, whether ou street corners or tram-cars or steam-ferry piers; and this though the King, Francis Joseph, is him telf :t German, and Germans by thou sands are in the city. In this the Hun garians are taking full revenge for tho impolitic attempt to crush their nation ality in the past, and, as all Hungarian children are now taught their own language, in the first in-tance, at ele mentary schools and German rather as an accomplishment, no inconvenience, we presume, is felt by the majority of the population at this jealous exclusion of ihe hated "schwab," as the German is there called. The Englishman, how ever, with his smattering of German picked up at schools or elsewhere, must needs regret that the two languages are uot used in -public places, as rrench aud Flemish arc in Brussels and German and Czech at Prague. It would be of no consequence in his eyes which language stood first, so that he might get the German somehow. Possiblv that tongue will never again appear in Buda Pesth for the beneht of the many who can not master Magyar articulations, when the soreness which has sprung from past tyranny has had time to sub side. To take, one instance of the trouble caused by the exclusion of the German tongue: Baedeker speaks ol the Stadwaldchen, obviously, as any educated Englishman sees, some kind of park, but when the foreigner searches for the name on the tram-car he can not find it Varos Liget, though he knows it not. is the name he wants. There would, of course, be nothing- strange in all this were Hungary in every way a separate State.but it show3 an unaccom modating spirit toward other subjects ia the same Empire, who are as helpless in the matter of the language, very often, as the Englishman himself. Mmtttrdmy Review. OF GENERAL EiTEREST. - TheValuation of property in New York Citv is as great as that of London. N. Y. "Sun. . Some fifty thousand acres ofjts&d have been discovered to have been fraudulently entered in Uvalde County, Tex. Chicago Times. Quail-killing will be illegal in Cbat taraugus County, N. Y., for the next four years, under a penalty of twenty- Jive dollars for each offense. Buffalo Express. . t An enterprising New York baker exhibits in his show-window a pig's head, a turkey, a bologna sausage, 'and a platter of sausage all made of cake. N. Y. Mail. A prominent orthodox clergyman of Lockport, N. Y., positively refuses to marry a young couple unless the bridegroom first 'signs a temperance pledge. Rocficstcr Express. The Post-office Department has de cided that the mere fact of : a person taking from a Post-office a newspaper sent to him without being ordered from the publisher does not make the re cipient liable for payment of the same. Washington Star. Dr. Billings, in a lecture at Balti more, said: 'The tendoncy of city life is for the majority to degenerate aud for the family to be destroyed in 'a ma jority of cases, but fresh and healthy lives pour in from the country, and so concentration and population in creases." A young woman in HolyokeMass.. called on the City Clerk, and,, afiecex amining the marriage license register, told him to erase her name, as the young man who had taken out a certficate did it without her leave, and she did not propose to marry him. She was ac commodated. Boston Post. A man of the name of Colas, who had the monopoly of rat killing in Paris, recently died. He used to feed exclu sively on the produce of his sport. Eight or ten times already he had nearly died of indigestion; this time he expired after a heavy meal of rats before the doctor could be called in. Chicago Herald. Mr. J. J. Reason, of Columbia,, has thirty chairs which have been in actual service for fifty-two years. Tho lot in cludes a baby's low chair, and also the high chair for the table. He does not know how old they are, but they have been in the family aud in use fifty-two years to his certain knowledge. He also has a lot of marblo covers for milk pans which have been iu use thirty years. Atlanta Constitution. Near Blakeley, Ga., a yoke of oxen ran away while the driver was standing behind them lighting his pipe. Drop ping the match he started in pursuit of the runaways. The pine straw took fire and the lire spread, sweeping all before it. Some fanners lost nearly all their fencing, and a Mr. Davis, who was sick in bed, lost ever' building on his place except his dwelling, and that was saved with much difficulty. Baltimore Sun. An interesting torpedo experiment was made a few days ago in the road stead of Touion, in France. The object wa? to ascertain whether a torpedo con taining seven hundred kilograms of powder, which had been submerged for six months, was damaged by its pro tracted contact with the water. An ex plosion was readily effected by the elec tric current, proving that vitality was maintained, but whsther the destructive power was impaired is not determined. I was talking some time ago with a prima donna, who is in receipt of a vory remarkable salary for a woman, aud I told her of a young lady who wanted to become a aincrer. The prima donua said: "Oh, tell her to take a husband no matter who he is. This living alone, detached from love and family life, roving from city to city, never will make one happy. A woman must pay a penalty a far greater than man for not consenting to be loved." Oath. Don Miguel White, whom the Los Angeles Herald calls the first English speaking settler in California, was born in ChiscThurst, England, in 1801. He landed in the Golden State in 1817. His first venture was in a schooner, in which he traded with the Sandwich Islands until the California revolution of 1830 diverted his enterprise to the coast trade. Tiring of the sea, he resumed his trado of carpentering iu Alta, Cal., and later he settled on a ranch in San Diego County. Thence he moved, in 1880, to Los Angeles, where lie and his wife are surrounded by their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A Napa, (Cal.), father has invented a punishment which will probably take all the "Old Nick" out of his youthful scions. His thirteen-year-old son be haved so badly at school that he was summarily dismissed. Tnis called for paternal punishment. The uext day an elder brother left town for school" in a distant place. The father forced the young reprobate to clou a white night gown, and, clad in this, marched him down to the train Is bid his brother good-by. The boy "murmured" loudly, but pater-familias was inexorable, until the train left. Then he put the culprit iu a hack and wiit him home, thoroughly repentant. San Franciwo Call. Bonds worth .S7.400. stolen from the Woodbury (Conn.) Bank last June, have been found iu an old stone wall near Bridgeport. Iladley and Howard, two of of the bank-burglars, were after ward lodged in Litehlield Jail. They retained a lawyer to help them out, but he would not work without pay, and, having no money. Iladley at last told him of the bonds, and made a rough drawing of their hiding-place. The lawyer undertook to fiud them, huuting at night. He failed, and the matter came to the ears of a nephew of a man who owued $4,500 of the bonds, and he got admission to the jail and obtained the drawing and description of the hiding-place, from which he found a glass jar with the bonds in it. Hart ford Post. The New Orleans newspapers se verely criticise the Treasury Depart ment s rejection of Mrs. Mary Miller's application for a license as master ol a steamboat, the ground of rejection being that she is a woman. She has spent her life on the Mississippi, and her hus band's age has necessitated her learning all the intricacies of that great national highway. She is twenty years younger than her husband, and has navigated his boat for some years, and all the !)ilots recognize her skill. So constant y has she been in the boat thaj. two or three of her children have been born ia the cabin. Her daughter, a pretty girl of sixteen, assists her in managing affairs in the Captain's new craft wniea is navigating the bayous that are tribu tary to the Black and Ouachita rivers. The aged Captain is compelled to spead most of bis time In repose in tae cabin. t Chicago Timu. .is. .-& - v V - -v..-- .f3r t- -. -jr -- - -..
