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BUSINESS CARDS.
DIVMaktyn, M. D. Y. J. Schug, M.'D.
Dm. HARTYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Shkpoii-. ITwion I'a.-IHc- O.. N.
.t It. H. and H. ' -1- " ll "
CoiiMiltiti..ns in German anil I-'ikIMi.
Tele phones at oilier ami ie:i.enee.
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X I'. WH.SOX.M.O.,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
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ri y Countv phVMoi in. Ollicc former
ly occupied by Ir.Y.oetcel. Telephone
exchange.
pllAN. SI.OA.-VI5, ( Ykk I.kk)
CHINESE LAUNDRY.
iSTUnder "Star Clothing Store " Ne
braska Avenue, Columhu. -3-'1"
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1.I.A A!HHAl?Cli
DENIAL PARLOR,
On comer of Eleventh ami Xortli street,
over Ernr-tV hardware More.
lOKKl'I'll' SWi'UVAHi
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Up-stuir, in Gluek Building. 11th street,
Above the Sew bank.
TT J. ll!lSOJf,
notary run LIC,
IStli Street, i ioors went or Hammond Hoasc,
Columbus. Neb. Amy
rpiUJltTOlV fc POWEBS,
SURGEON DENTISTS,
T2T0ir.ee in Mitchell Block, Coliim
bus, Nebra.xka. "-
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Office mi live St.. Columbia, Nebraska.
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p 0. A. MTM,IIOttST,A.M., M. P.,
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gSTTwo Hloeks south of Court House.
Telephone communication. "-IJ"
V. A. MACKEN,
11KAI.KK IN
Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Porters, Ales,
e'.c, etc.
Olive Street, next to KirM. National Hank.
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A TTURNE YS A T LA W,
Oilier upstair- in MeAIlister'H build
ing, llth M. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
.1. M. MAC-AKLANl.. U. K. COW ;..
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACFARliAND& COWDBRY,
Columbus, : : ' Nebraska.
GEORGE SPOONER,
COXTKA t'TOJt F011ALL KINDS OF
.MASON WORK.
OKKHK, -Thirteenth St., between Olive
and Nehr.i-k-i Aeiiue. UeMdeiu-e on the
corner f Eighth and Olive.
All Work Guaranteed,
45-tf
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ll.Itl S 111.,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Ulaiikets, Currv Combs, ltruhes, trunks,
valise, buggy tops, cuhions, carriage
trimming-. Arc, at the lowest possible
prices. Kepair pn mptly attended to.
JS. MUUDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havehadan extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair price. Call and gie us an oppor
tunitvtoestimateforyou. JgTShop on
lath St., one door west of Friedhof &
Co's. tore, Columbus. Nebr. 4SJ-v
O. C. SHANNON,
MANUFACTURER OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
SSTShon on Eleventh Street, opposite
Heintz's Drue Store. ""-'
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IV. CLARK,
LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT,
HUMPHREY, NEBR.
His lands comprise some fine tract's
In the Shell Creek Valley, and the north
ern portion of Pl?tte county. Taxes
paid for non-residents. Satisfaction
guaranteed. 20 y
ptOLUJIBUS r ACKI3i CO.,
COL UMB US, - NEB.,
Packers and Dealer in all kinds of Hog
product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs
or grease.
Directors. R. II Henry, Prcst; John
"Wiggins, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gcrrard, S.
Cory.
-VTOXICE TO XKACIIKRS.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
"Will be in his office at the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transactton of any other business
pertaiuiug to schools. "-GT-y
TAMES SALJlOrV
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near
St. Piul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. 52 6mo.
J. WAGNER,
Livery and Feed Stable.
Is prepared to furnish the public with
good teams, buggies and carriages for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
oe&ducU sale stable. 44
COLUMBUS
STATE BANK!
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
r IS II CAPITAL, - $50,000
DIUKCTOKS:
I.F.ANIIKIt (JKRItAIHI, JVcs't.
Geo. Wr. Uui.st, Vice Pros' t.
Julius A. Heed.
Edward A. Gerhard.
J. E. Taskeu, Cashier.
Hank or lepoii, IHxcounl
and Exchange.
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Pay Interest on Time Depov
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HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA.
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lections. 3S"Insurance, Real Estate, Loan,
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LINDSAY &TREKELL,
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OIL CAKE,
CHOPPED FEED,
Bran, Shorts,
BOLTED i UNBOLTED CORN MEAL.
GRAHAM FLOUR,
A XI) Font KINDS OK THE BEST
wheat FLorn alw vys
OX HAND.
' G2TA11 kinds of FUITITS in their sea
son. Ordei-x promptly lilled.
lltli Street, C1iii1uh, Nebr.
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HENRY G-ASS, '
TJISTTJEKTAKETfl !
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES
AND DKAI.KU IN
Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu
reaus. Tables, Safe3. Lounges.
See Picture Frames and
Mouldings.
$3TRepairina of all kinds of Upholstery
Goods.
C-tf COLUMBUS. NEB.
HENRY LUERS,
DEALER in
CHALLENGE
WIND MILLS,
AND PUMPS.
Buckeye Mower, combined, Self
Binder, wire or twine.
Pnmps Repaired on short notice
t3TOne door west of Heintz's Dm;'
Store, llth Street, Columbus, Neb. S
GOLD
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Send 10 cents for postage,
and we will mail you free
a roval, valuable box of
sample goods that will put you in the way
of making moie money in few days than
vou ever thought possible at any bui.
tiess. Capital' not required. We will
start vou. You can work all the time or
in spare time only. The work is universalis-
adapted to both sexes, young and
old. You can casilv earn from 50 cents to
$3 every eveniui:. That all who want
work mav test the bUMUess, 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 particu
lars, directions, etc., sent free. Fortuues
will be made by those who give their
whole time to the work. Great success
absolutely sure. Don't delay. Start now.
Address StixsoxA Co., Portland, Elaine,
A WOKD OF WAKrVUYG.
FARMERS, stock raisers, and all other
interested parties will do well to
remember that the "Western Horse and
Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the
only company doing business in this state
that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle
against loss by theft, accidents, diseases,
or injury, (as also against loss by tire and
lightning). All representations by agents
of other Companies to the contrary not
withstanding. HENRY GARN, Special Ag't.
15-y Columbus, Neb.
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OFFICERS axd directors.
A. ANDERSON, Pres't.
SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't.
O.T. ROEX, Cashier.
J. W. EARLY,
HERMAN OEHLRICH.
W. A. MCALLISTER,
G. ANDERSON,
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Hair.
Cement.
Rock Spring Coal,
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Eldon (Iowa) Coal
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ways on hand at low
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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 Lony Time and low rale
' of Interest.
JST Final proor made on Timber Claims,
Homestead-, and Pre-emptions.
JSTAll wishing to buy lands of any de
scription will please call and examine
my list of lands before looking els; where
J3TAI1 having lands to sell will please
call and give me a desci iption, tt-rm ,
priees, etc.
3STI a so am prepared to insure prop
erty, as 1 have the agency r several
liist-class Fire insurance companies.
F. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German.
NAJIlIi:!' C.SM1TH,
:;ti-tf Columbus, Nebraska.
BECKER & WELCH,
PROPRIETORS OF
SHELL CREEK MILLS.
MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
SALE DEALERS IN
FLOUR AND HEAL.
O FFICE, COL UMB US, NEB.
SPEICE & NORTH.
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and "Midland Pacific
R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 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.
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COLUMBUS, NEB.
LOUIS SCHREIBER,
AH kiids of Repairing done on
Skirt Tfotiee. Buggies, Wag
eis, etc., Bade te order,
aid all work Guar
anteed. Abo U tkwdld-towui Walter A.
Wood Xfwert. Beaver, Combin
ed Xaekinef, Harreiteri,
aid Wf-lnwUri-the
'Shop opposite the "Tatters all," on
Olive St., COLUMBUS. 28-m
IcM Map Maker
THE LAMENT OF THE AESTHETIC
YOUNG LADY.
Winter is the only season
In whose tints I pleasure find.
As must every human beinir
Who Is not to beauty blind.
In the Winter I may revel
In soft tones and sober shades;
Bomber's then the heaven's color,
Somber, too, the forest glades.
Xben the trees in naked beauty
Stretch their branches, stiff and brown,
Aad the meadows' jfaudy verduie
To a faded gca)'s toned down.
Then all light and freshness vanish.
By one neutral tint effaced
Winter is the only season
When poor Nature shows some tostal
But, alas! the Spring is coming.
Boon my tortured eye will ache
To behold the Hasliy colors,
Clothing' meadow, mount and brake.
Then the chestnuts' brown buds bursting
Flush with blossoms, red and white.
Forming, with the bright green foliage.
Contrasts hateful to the sight.
And in Springtho very skies, too.
Lose thoir heavenly iislieu huo.
And assumo e. jaunty color.
Really too absurdly blue!
And, when Spring glides into Summor,
Matters will grow sadder yet:
How its glaring color errors
Make my art-soul fume and f retl
Tben throughout the golden corn-flelds
Crimson poppies up will start.
Mlmrling with the bluest corn-tlowers.
Quite against all rules of art.
In the orchard the same story:
Purple grow the prune and plum.
Red and gold, the ripened peaches,
But, alas! the worst's to come.
For in Autumn, honest Nature
Seems to go stark color-mad.
Ev'ry treo. and bush, and bid;erow.
In one gaudy garb is clad
Glowing in one blaze of color
I saw the woods, the hills, the plain.
Crimson, russet, golden-tinted
Chaos sure is come again!
But from faulty Nature flying,
To my boudoir I will go;
There, amid pure-Art surroundings
Let the seasons past me now.
There I'll shut out gaudy brightness.
Drawing down the pale-green blind,
And in willow-pattern landscapes
Consolation I will find.
There I'll tend my tall sunflowers.
Lovely plants. I ween, are they.
Yellow, prim, and stiff, and scentless,
And High-Art iu every way.
Or, in crewel-work I'll model
Fruit and tlower, and leaf and tree,
And endeavor to. show Nature
What she ought to try to be!
TtmiAc Bar.
A LAND OF MARVELS.
One of the Last of our Geographical Mys
terirs A Terra Incognita Beyond tho
Himalayas The Secrets or Thibet.
Thibet is one of the few regions left
on the earth wliioh still afford legitimate
scope for romantic conjecture. All
other lands of mystery have been ex
ploded. The Abyssinian campaign dis
sipated the last shreds of wonder about
Prester John. Travelers have abol
ished the mountains of the moon; a
Russian railwav runs within sight of
the Vulture's nest, the eyrie of the
Assassins and the Old Alan of the
Mountains; commerce has familiarized
us with the lands of the while elephant
and golden umbrellas; science bits dis
persed Atlantis, Utopia, and the other
"Erewhons" of past beliefs. No Raleigh
nowadays would make sail for fabled
cities of Mansa. no voyager set his helm
for the Hesperides. The Jchthyophagi,
Tartarines and Maliotrans, with all the
other strange races of whom Mande
ville go-si ped, are now sobered down
into matter-of-fact tribes, and the whole
world, under the ruthless scrutiny of
scientific explorat:on, is fast becoming
common-place. Electricity and the
cabinet trick, phonography, balloons,
dynamite and all other like things arc,
no doubt, very wonderful, or mys
terious, or dreadful ; but they
have not the romance of the
old days, when blanket-eared men
were known to exist who wrapped
themselves up in their cars when tliey
wanted to "go to bed:" when pilgrims
on their journeys chanced upon dolorous
giants or delectable lions: when Rcal
mahs went to chemists' shops to buy
their sleep in slabs; when, in fact, fairy
land and goblin-land existed, and
fairies nud goblins to live in
them. Those were the times
for real adventure. One might then
reasonablv expect to meet with an ogre
or a paladin or an enchanted maiden in
the course of a day's ride, while Want
ley still had green dragons, and Duns
more heath its black ones. But they
are gone tho good old days
of unlimited conjecture and fas
cinating uncertainty. East, West,
North and South, hard-headed
men have traveled, sweeping cob-webs
out of the dark corners of the world,
and writing books about them. Even
5 lagans and heathen are giving up their
etishes and idols as antiquated foolery,
and the missionary reports periodically
an increasing acreage of broadcloth
upon the person of the noble savage.
Meanwhile, one country defies all ef
forts, and this is Thibet. Perched upon
the edges of mountains that none but
Thibetans have crossed, the highland
plateau remains for civilization and
science a land of nrystery. Like some
Iirincess of fairy tale the country over
ooks from her prison tower the futile
attempts of heroes to reacii her, and
coiled all round the treasure lies the in
terminable serpent of China, the dragon
empire, vigilant and alert.
How wonderfully "well,, too, that
dragon-guardian has kept tho secret!
Travelers have essayed the land at
every point, but sooner or later there
meets them an official with the reptile
emblem of the flowery land upon bis
uniform, and the intruder has to turn
back. It is not to be supposed, of
course, that we know nothing of
Thibet, for we know a good deal; but
that is all so vague that curiosity is
more piqued than it would be by abso
lute ignorance. A child, the Grand
Lama, sits in inviolable sanctity within
the awful courts of Lhassa. Incense
burns perpetually before the terrible
infant, and a nation of priests exercise
viceregal powers in his behalf through
out the bind. The towns are mere col
lections of temples, and some are posi
tively overloaded with native gold and
gems. Monasteries, with golden roofs,
contain as many as four thousand
priests, and all Central Asia travels in
pilgrimage to the holy city of the invis
ible boy. With them they bring the
choicest product of the countries, still
aemi-fabulous, that adjoin Thibet: musk
and the silky fleece of goats, gold dust,
gems of rare size and sort,
with gold lace and filigree;
horses of Turkestan, and yaks
from the snowy mountain heights. India
sends up her corals and pearls and
apices; Cashmere its saffron and fruit,
curiously woven tissues, and inimitable
lacquer; While Bokhariot and Tartar
trail across the steppes their loads of
silk and tea, of carpets and porcelain.
Yet, after all, oar knowledge is much
of it travelers' tales, for who has ever
jaeen those wondrous caravans of yaks
that aenie along the valley of the ban
Po, or Beard the challenge of the Chi
mes sentries every hour during a jour
oaj of eight honored stiles along ths
sacred highway? Hindoo pnudita,
traveling secretly and in disguise oa
behalf of the Indian Government,. hav
mode the journey, and tell us of herds of
wild asses which" scour the plains where
borax glitters in lakes, and of the horns
of the Angali that lie bleaching upon
the barren mouutains horns so large
that the foxes make their homes insiua
them. Hound the Great Lake stand
clustered the black tents of the gypsy"
Tangutans a nomadic and violent face;;
on the islands of Blue Lake livo in
perpetual seclusion the Brotherhood of
the Elect, the monastery of tho lamas,
who, so modern theosophy -declares,
are in the secrets of the Creator, and,
by virtue of their knowledge, re
volve upon the ultimate rounds
of existence. The Sky Lake is oven
more sacred, for the 'Buddhists who
people its temples are already on
tho last rung of sanctity, and only one
step therefore below divinity itself.
Vast extents of gold-bearing soil lie, so
it is said, untouched, and the travelers
report with awe how, passing over winter-locked
lakes, they saw geysers of
hot water spouting up through tho sheet
of ice. But, whatever this information
may be worth, they are all agreed iu
one thing that it is a land of marvels,
and that China is savagely jealous of ic
trusion upon tho stronghold of the
faith. Here, in this priest-governed
country, a hierarchy of monks admin
isters the laws, and a spiritual sovereign
is supreme. Pekin is represented, in
its temporal aspect, by a viceroy and
many garrisons; but they arc there to
support, not compete with, the sacer
dotal authorities, as a guard of honor
and pitnishers of sacrilege, rather than
the actual representatives of a superior
power. The priesthood assist the sol
diers to maintain their holy seclusion
inviolate, for they know tha't once out
side influences have crept within the
temple precincts their twilight life ol
ease and obscurity would cease. The
people, the hardy little Thibetans, have
wandered southward with their strange
wares into British India in such num
bers that they have come to under
stand that commercial prosperity and
individual wealth re pure a greater free
dom of intercourse, and if they could
yould gladly enlist tho rupees and en
terprise of Anglo-Indian merchants in
return visits to their own markets at
Lhassa and the other temple-towns on
the Roof of the World. They have to
drag their caravans all across the Nepa
leae jungles, paying toll as they go to
Nepalese officials, and they grudge both
the time and the money they are com
pelled to waste. From their own heights
they can look across to th Indian Him-alaj-as;
and they know that on the
southern slopes lie British towns that
would soon become emporiums of traf
fic; but it is a forbidden route, so they
have to turn away from the straight,
short road and wander through the
wild Ghoorka country before they can
reach the frontiers of a commercial
people. Whether their longings will
ever be satisfied and the fabled wealth
of the land of the lamas be thus easily
exchanged for the products of our hill
plantations and the goods of Indian
markets, remains to bo seen; but Ciiina
is so ponderous to move, so inert, that
nothing probably save violent pressure
from several powers at once would force
the passage of this reputed El Dorado
and open up what the Chinese call the
silver road to the city of the imap
proaehablc child.
It would, no doubt, be iu time a
great benefit to India to have trailic
'.l 111 ti . .. i
wiin iiiuiei unresiricicu: nut tins
) whimsical might regret it as destroying
one ot the last of our geographical mys
teries. There is some advantage after
all in having someth'-ng to wonder
about, in knowing that tho Himalaya
Mountains bar the pasago to an un
known land, the laud of eternal
winter, where frost-giants may perhaps
still hold their silent courts, and sotun
heim be no myth. Yet spices and gems
come from it, so perhaps there are the
Delegable Mountains, and beyond
them lies Bculah, "very sweet and
pleasant." White men have traveled
up to a certain point, shot the great
mountain sheep upon their native
peaks, and tracked the snow-leopards
to their dens "among the rocks of ice.
But further they could not go. Th.re
was a mystic charm which they might
not pas. No rainbow bridge, like
the Scandinavian Bifrost, or that
which Zeus threw across the Empyrean
for his messengers to descend to earth
upon, ottered itself. Anything would
have sulliced to serve the purpose of
these adventurous travelers; they would
have ventured upon the Zorastrians'
hair bridge, or hazarded even the razor's
edge of El Sirat. Mongol soldiery, how
ever, faced- them whenever they ap
peared, and the answer to petitions was
always the same: "Go back." No open
sesame or other taliraa:i of admission
proved of avail. The intruders were
from the outside world, and that was
enough. The flat-faced sentries sniffed
their earthiness afar off, as the giant
sniffed Jack; their thumbs pricked like
the witches' in "Macbeth" at the ap
proach of the ordinary mortal; their
ears were as quick as Cerberus to rec
ognize the footsteps of arrivals from
"another place." So Thibet, thus faith
fully guarded, remains to this day a
laud of speculation and surmise, anil to
expect that China will ever voluntarily
surrender its secrets to British India is
to expect the dragon to have plucked
the golden apple for Hercules. London
Telegraph.
Queer Method of a Bribc-Girer.
John W. O'Connell, of the School
Board, thus tells how a man in tho em
ploy of a publishing firm tried to bribe
him to use'his influence in behalf of a
f
bi
eography: "He approached mc and
egan to talk of the merits of the book.
As we were about to part he handed me
a copy of the new book with a remark
that I would find k Interesting. I laid
the book on the ta'ole and my friend
went away. Whet subsequently turn
ing over the leaves of the book I dis
covered what he meant by interesting,
for snugly ensconced between the leaves
I found a check for $200 signed with a
name which I re-jognized as that of a
book agent. I sent for my friend and
gave him a very large piece of my mind
and his check. But for his excellent
famih; I would expose him." St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Some years ago, at a banquet given
in his honor in Paris by the English
there, De Lessens boasted his English
descent, and located his ancestors
somewhere in the northern counties of
Durham or Cumberland. The other
day when he crossed the border this
Napoleon of canals, after the fashion of
his prototj'pc, who was a free thinker
at Paris, a Mussulman in Egypt and a
Catholic at St. Helena, proclaimed him
self a Scotchman by race and blood.
N. Y. Graphic.
m
Hygenic writers predict that the
drink of the future will be hot water.
N. Y. TrUnin
Toaacce Paper.
While seeking information among re
tail tobacconists, a peculiar preparation
of tobacco used for the manufacture of
a certain inferior class of cigarettes in
Havana was spoken of to the reporter,
and with some difficulty it was learned
that a German merchant who is not in
that line of trade had a box of peculiar
cigars sent to him some time ago from
Germany as a sample, with a purpose
of -inducing him to undertake putting
them on this market.
Take a cigar," he said hospitably,
offering a box half full of the "weeds"
and lighting one of them himself. "Yes,
I did have some such cigars sent to me
awhile ago, but I declined to have any
thing to do with them, as there was no
profit in them. Thev could not pay
duty and compete witfi the class of ci
gars they would bo expected to run
against here. 'Peculiar manufacture?'
es, rather. The richest, oiliest, rank
est tobacco brought from some of the
West Indian islands is first put through
a process exactly like that of making
paper pulp. While it is in that state
chemistry's aid is invoked to entirely
change its character. The elements
that render it rank and offensive arc
eliminated from it; other essential oils
and ethers are added to it. It can be
made to exactly counterfeit any tobacco
iu the world, even the finest from the
Vuelta de Abajo.
"When it is just right, it is run out in
a film, that gradually grows in thick
ness to a sheet, just as paper is made
Upon this sheet certain acids are lightly
sprinkled in minute drops here and
there, to simulate upon the perfected
sheets the little spots and blotches that
you see in tho genuine tobacco leaf.
The color has already been attended to
and regulated so that it will como out
just right for any shade of cigar, from
a Claro to an Oscuro, but now other
essential oils are touched to the sheet
in the most deli -ate way, to give the
rich, oily gloss or sub-tautaneous color,
so to speak, that will be observed on the
finest dark leaf. Finally, the sheet goes
between powerful steel rollers, upon the
carefully matched surfaces of which are
deeply engraved exact reproductions in
the most delicate detail of markings of
genuine tobacco leaves. When those
leaves are cut out of the sheet, it re
quires the skill of an expert to deter
mine that they are not real. The rem
nants go back into the vat, and the
leaves are, according to their quality,
made into cigars or chopped up into
tilling for cigarettes. By the way, how
do you like that cigar you are smoking
now?"
"Very well."
"Good flavor' Burns well? Holds
well its fine white ash?
"To all your queries Yes.''
"Well, that is one of the cigars I have
described to you the making of. Take
this knife anil cut it open. Examine its
wrapper and the filler carefully. 1 am
not surprised to hear you say that it
looks like natural leaf' and that you
can trace the lines of the veins and fine
stems in it. Of course you can. But
tear a bit in two and look at its edge
with this magnifying glass. Doyouoo
serve that its fibers are irregularly dis
posed of criss-cross, just like this bit of
paper that I tear and put under the
glass? A natural leaf docs not tear in
that way. Scrape it. and you will see
that its fibers separate from their hold
in different directions. Soak it in water
and it will become soft and pull apart
like paper. It is simply tobacco paper.
No, I do not know that there are in this
country anj' more of these cigars than
the few I have left. I do not think that
there are. But 1 know that great quan
tities of them arc sold all over Europe,
and that the expectations to South
America are quite large. People there
smoke them in preference to the genu
ine and good real leaf cigars grown
and made in their own countries. Well,
perhaps they don't know how the im
ported ones arc made. A dealer need
not feel it compulsory upon him to tell,
and there's a great deal of virtue in a
label to the average cigar smoker."
N. Y. Sim.
The Old Gentleman's Mistake.
"Nice child, very nice child," ob
served an old gentleman, crossing the
aisle and addressing the mother of the
boy who had just hit him in the eye
with a wad of paper. "How old are
you, my son?" "None of your business!"
replied the youngster, taking aim at an
other passenger. "Fine boy," smiied
the old man, as the parent regarded her
offspring with pride. "A remarkably
fine boy. What is your name, my son?"
"Puddin' Tame!" shouted the youug
6ter, with a giggle at his own wit. "I
thought so, continued the old man,
pleasantly. "If you had given me
three eruesse3 at it, that would have
been the first one I would have struck
on. Now Puddin', you can blow those
things pretty straight, can't vou?"
"You bet!" squealed the boy, delighted
at the compliment. "See me take that
old fellow over there!" "No, no!" ex
claimed the old gentleman, hastily.
"Try it on the old woman I was sitting
with. She has boys of her own, and
she won't mind." " Can't you hit the
laIy for the gentleman, Johnny?"
asked the fond parent. Jobnny drew a
bead and landed the pellet right on the
end of the old woman s nose. But she
did mind it, and rising in her wrath
soared down on the small boy like a
blizzard. She put him over the line,
reversed him, ran him backward till he
didn't know which end of him was
front, and finally dropped him into the
lap of the scared mother, with a bene
diction whereof the purport was that
she'd be back in a moment and skin
him alive. "She didn't seem to like i,
Puddin'," smiled the old gentleman
softly, "She's a perfect stranger to me,
but I understand she is matron of a
truants' home, and I thought she would
like a little fun; but I was mistaken."
And the old gentleman sighed sweetly
as he went back to his seat. Jersey'
man.
-
A decided sensation was created at
a masked ball in Stamford, Conn., the
other night, when "Oscar Wilde" and
"Uncle Sam," on unmasking and salut
ing their white lady partners, were
found to be "Professor" Dudley, a coal
black bootblack with dudish proclivities,
and Henry Caqienter, another negro
equal to the emergency. The "lark of
tho negroes was undertaken in revenge
for some disparaging remarks to which
they took exception. Hartford Post.
TbeTingue collection of buttons,
about which so much has been said, has
been presented to the Connecticut His
torical Society. The collection cost J.
W. Tingoe 4,000, which he paid to va
rious young ladies for sending him but
tons of different patterns. New Haven
Register.
-
Mr?. Ann Stump, of Columbus, O.,
poisoned ker pet dog, fearing it might
outlive her and .be nncared for. Re
morse at the deed caused her to'kill
herself with strvchnime. Cleveland
Leader. '
A Story f a Qieem.
The arrival in this city the other day
of that "Queen of Tahiti," who was
no Queen of Tahiti at all, reminds me
of a story the Queen-Dowager Emma,
of the Hawaiian Islands, told me of her
experience the first time she visited San
Francisco. "Emma," as she is famil
iarly but always respectfully spoken of
by her people, is three-quarters'white."
as the expression goes, being the
daughter of an English father and a
"half-white" (Hawaiian and English)
mother. Sho is, therefore, not darker
than a decidedly brunette Caucasian.
In her suite of lemales were a number
of half-white and pure-blooded Hawaii
aus. One of the latter was a strapping
big girl with tho independent swagger
and upright carriage peculiar to Sand
wich Island women of all classes, and
this woman nearly every one here who
saw the party insisted upon was the
Queen. Sho was big and very dark,
which satisfied the popular idea con
cerning Emma better than the Queen's
own proper description: petite in per
son and comparatively light in com
plexion. "Lalani," that was the big
girl's name, received the homage of
clerks, shop pcoplo, chambermaids,
waiters, bell-boys, and the uninformed
public generally, with such evidences
of royal condescension as she thought
the occasion demanded, being en
couraged in maintaining the common
delusion by the Queen, who thus es
caped in and out of the hotels and
stores, etc., unnoticed and unincon
venienced. The party was in a fash
ionable dry-goods house ono day when,;
as usual, the crowd was thickest
around Lalani and thinnest about Em
ma. The former, seeing some particu
larly rich and dazzlingly bright silk
and velvet, ordered a liberal supply for
a dress, to be sent to hor hotel. "And
when shall I send the bill, your Majes
ty?" inquired the over-cautious though
obsequious salesman.
' Oh, never mind about that, Lalani
will pay the cash now," replied Lalani
herself, and then, attracting the Queen's
attention by speaking in native to her.
added in English: "Here, Lalani, see
what my bill is and pay it please."
To have rebuked the hussy there
would have made a scene, but that con
sideration aside, the splendid assurance
of the girl and the sight of the half-'
grinning, half-affrighted faces of the
other women in the suite, drove out of
her mind whatever indignation the
Queen may have felt. Stepping to the
salesman she inquired: "How much,
please?"
The Queen rather, choked at the an-,
swer: "$115, please," but swallowing!
her amazement the best she could, pro
ceeded to settle the bill in good gold
coin, while the triumphant and only
slightly trembling real Lalani regarded
the success of the joke in apparently
aueenly indifference to such trifles as
ry-goods bills.
in telling this story Queen Emma
concluded: "I never even rebuked the
girl, who, I afterward learned, played
the joke on a 'dare' from the other
girls. I thought I owed that much to
her for the share of public attention in
tended for me which she relieved me of.
San Francisco Chronicle.
A. Lesson of Thrift.
Into the hills east of St Helena about
two years ago came two Italians, father
and son, just arrived from the old coun
try. They had no means of any conse
quence, and could not purchase laud
There was, however, a quarter-section
of Government land on a side hill,
rough and almost inaccessible and cov
ered with underbrush, with rocks of all
sizes upon nearly every square foot of
it. This land, which every one else
had rejected as incanable of cultiva
tion, these sturdy Italians took up. They
built themselves a little sliautv. There
being no water near, they felled small
trees, grooved troughs in them, and
thus constructed an aqueduct il.50 feet
loug, through which to bring water for
household use. They then set to work
clearing the laud, removing the trees
and underbrush, and brought into a till
able statu quite a tract of it on which
they will set out grape vines. On be
ing asked if it wasn't too rocky, the
old man answered. " Oh, no!" anil then
marking places about eighteen, inches
apart on the ground, he said. "Here,
rock. There rock. Here (placing his
hand midway between the two marks)
putta vine. Verry good." And thus
they are bringing into cultivation some
of the most discouraging land, so far as
appearance goes, to be found in the
county. Wherever there is a space be
tween the rocks sullicient to afford a
foothold for the vine, there the vine
goes. The son works out during the
summ r, earningsutlicient to meet their
frugal wants during the winter, and in
a few years' time they will have a place
to be proud of. Napa (Cal.) Register.
The English Mile.
M. Faye has explained why it takes
sixty-nine and a half English miles to
make a degree instead of sixty, as was
probably intended when the mile was
established. The English geographers
deduced their mile from Ptolemy, and
Ptolemy refers to Eratosthenes. Era
tosthenes measured the arc of the mer
idian on the basis of the distance be
tween Syenne and Alexandria, in
Egypt, which gave 700 stadia to the
degree. Ptolemy says that he Verified
the measurements of Eratosthenes and
found the same result, which he sives,
however, as 5L0 stadia to the degree.
The discrepancy arises from a change
which took place in the at ndard of the
foot of which b'fX) went to the stadium
- during the 40.) years betw en Eratos
thenes and Ptolemy. Eratosthenes used
the ancient Egyptian foot, which is
shorter than ours, while Ptolemy used
the Phileterian foot, which is longer
than ours. Making allowance for this
difference, the two measurements
agree. The English geographers, in
making their calculation, bel cved that
Ptolemy had used still another foot, the
Greek foot, which is one and a half hun
dredths longer than ours, but shorter
than the one he did actually use. If
the English geographers of the .-ixt'enth
century had strained this valuation ever
so little, and had carried it to five one
hundredths, they would have found 6S0
English feet for the stadium, which they
believed to be 600 Greek feet and thee
630 feet or 210 yards, multiplied by 500,
would give them lOVi.OOJ yards for the
degree and exactlv 1,760 yards for the
mSe -V. Y. IRrald.
.'Graham Sponge Roll: Take a cup
and:a half or graham flour, th ee tab'e
spoonfuls of hot water, one teasp onful
ofsaleratus, one cupful of -ugar, and
three eggs. Bea: the water aad saler
atus into the cup of sug.:r, and stir
them into the flour. Beat the eggs for
tin minutes ftnd add to it Butter a
long biscuit pan, and bake it thin for
fifteen or twenty minutes. Turn out on
a soft towel. Spread jelly over it and
roll up. When coet out lie jelly cake.
The BtucMd.
FACTS AUD FKGSI9.
The sugar crop of Loaisiasm ex
ceeds that of any year since I860. .If.
O. Picayune.
Jay Gould figures his losses in
stocks at various times at over $100,
000,000. AT. Y. Sun.
Minnesota's butter product for 188S
'will nearly reach 17,000.000 pound,
worth $5,300,000. Chicago Tribune.
San Francisco will put up buildings
costing $1,000,000 in Golden Gats Park
'for her world's fab in 1887. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Mississippi has gained one hundred
per cent, in five years in manufacturing
industries, having at this time $7,000,
000 invested in such enterprises.
Detroit Post.
The Western Union Telegraph
office at Chicago has 450 operators ana
700 wires entering the operating room
from the towers. Thirty miles of wire
underlie the floor. Chicago Herald.'
The winnings of Hanlan, tho oars
man, during the last five years amount
to $70,000. Of this sum ho has man
aged to save about $40,000, of which
$30,000 is invested in a hotel on Toronto
Island. He has a wife and two children.
Montreal Witness.
The least destructable portion of
the human body is the hair. In Egypt
it has been Known to survive lour thou
sand years. There are but three color
ing pigments belonging to it yellow,
red and black and the mixture ok'
these produces all the known shades.
N. Y. Post.
Tho annual report of the Secretary
of tho Pennsylvania State Board of Ag
riculture shows that tho value of the
dairy products of the past year were
$10.618. 106; grass crop. $84,349,620;
cereals, $72,401,736; number of horned
cattle in the State, 1.740.247; value.
$51,989,100. Philadelphia Press.
During the past four years Arkan
sas, Florida, Louisiana and Texas have
doubled their railroad mileage. The
total mileage in the four States now
stands 26,049. against 7,260 ten years
ago, and during the decade it is esti
mated that at least $1500,000.000 has
been invested in these enterprises. N.
Y. Herald.
The aggregate population of tho
United States of persons ten years of
age and upwards, in 1880. wasS6.761.
fc07; of these 4,923.451 could not read,
and 6,239.958 could not write. Out of
the population of 36,761.607 of person
ten years of age and upwards, only 17.
267,878 arc members of churches Ies
than one-half. Chicago Journal.
-According to the statistics given at
the National Butter, Cheese and Egg
Convention, whose annual meeting was
held at Cincinnati recently, the value of
those products marketed "iu tho United
States during 1883 is more than teu
dollars for every man, woman and child
in the population, not including the
$100,000,000 worth of milk and cream
sold in a natural state. The eggs re
ceived In New York annually are worth
nearly a much as the cheese, half as
much as the butter and three times as
much as the poultry. N. '. Tribune.
WIT AND WISDOM.
The best backing a j'oung man can
have is a good back-bone of his own.
-If you wish people to be kindly
toward you, you had best begin by be
ing kindly toward them. The man who
scatters thorns had better not go bare
footA'. '. Herald.
There is no music in a "rest" that
I know of, but there's the making of
music in it. Patience is the finest and
worthiest part of fortitude, and the
rarest, too. John Raskin.
Little George was questioned the
other day about his big sister's beau.
"How old is he?" "I don't know."
Well, is he youngP" " I think so,
for he hasn't any hair on his head."
Chicago Inter Ocean
When He Kicks.
A man is very like a gun.
That fact pleaso try to Ox;
For K he finds he's charged too much.
Why, that's tho time be kicks.
Yonkers Statesman.
A Massachusetts widow dresses in
mourning, and wears bangs made of
her departed husband's hair. Sho pru
dently had saved for that purpose all
that she pulled out before his death.
Lowell Citizen.
"No," said a fond mother, speak
ing proudly of her twenty-five-year-old
daughter, "no, Mary isn't old enough
to marry yet. She cries whenever any
one scolds her, and until she becomes
hardened enough to talk back vigorous
ly she isn't lit for a wife." Chicago
Herald.
A sensible man does not brag,
avoids introducing the names of his
creditable companions, omits himself as
habitually as another man obtrudes
himself in the discourse, and is content
with putting his fact or theme simplr
on its ground. Emerson.
"I see that an Ohio postmistress has
resigned her position in order to get
married," remarked an old benedict to
his wife. "Poor thing! I pity her,"
said the helpmeet "Why so? "Be
cause, after the honeymoon is over,
she'll have to sit up nearly every night
and wait till the male comes in." Mil
waukee Sentinel.
A jolly old uncle had been relating
some incidents of his earlier life to his
nephew. "Of all the women you ever
met, uncle," said the young man, "by
which were you most struck?" "Br
your aunt niy bo I.y your aunt," re
plied the old gentleman, dropping his
voice and feeling the back of his head
tenderly. N. i. Grapfuc.
"Mother," said a slangy Cass ave
nue boy at the table when company was
presnnt, "this butter is O. K., but the
oread is N. G., and ought to get the G.
B." "Just hear him!" explained the
fond mother, "he is such a beautiful
Latin scholar that I don't pretend to
understand a word he says!" Detroit
Free Press.
A Beneveleat Millieaalre.
Mr. Allerton, whose $5,000,000 were
made as a cattle-dealer, is menti oned
by hi3 Chicago acquaintances as
"Sam." "The dear old fellow." said
Emery A. Storrs the other day. "haa
an instinct for discovering people who
are in trouble. I was once riding with
him in a railroad coaoh and caught him
watching a young, plainly-dressed wo
man, who sat ahead of us. 'Storrs,'
said he, 'that woman ain't got no
money.' 'How do you know it?' I
asked. 'I've watched her each time
we've stopped for meals and she didn't
fet out. She didn't eat nothing either.'
'he next stopping place for meals Al
lerton addressed her in his blunt, fath
erly way. Nobody could misinterpret
his motives. He saw that the young
woman was well taken care of until the
journey was over." Similar anecdotes
by the score are told of the millionaire.
oce a bare-footed plow-boy. Chicago
Journal