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f RATES OF ADVEKTISnG. AiUimk' 0tpt ESTBusiness and professional cards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. JS? For time advertisements, apply at this office. iSTLegal advertisements at statute rates 3TFor transient advertising, see rates on third page- 2fiAll advertisements payable monthly. JS" OFFICE, Eleventh St.. up stairs in Journal Building. terms: Per rear Six months Three months Single copies VOL. XIV.-NO. 50. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. APEIL 9, 1884. WHOLE NO. 726. THE JOTJRyAL. ISSUED J5VIUY WEDXESWY, M. K. TURNER & CO., Proprietor and Publisher. iw $2M I ... V r I! 1 FN ( 9 f BUSINESS CABDS. D.T. Martyn. M. D. F. J. Schcg, M. D. Drs. BIABTYN & SCHTJG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Lotjl Surgeon. Union Pacific. O.. N. & B. H. and B. II. K. It's. (ui.ulttons iu German anil Enli-h Telephones at ofiice ana resiliences. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. 45-r y r. wit jw PHYSIC J ASS: SUP. GEO. Dieaet of woman and children a spe cials. County physician. Office former, lv occupied" by Dr. Boueileel. Telephone exchange. " pit AM. SLOA.E,iYek Lek, CHINESE LA UNDIiT. J3-Under "Star Clothing Store" Xe braaka Avenue, Columbus. s-m o l.l.A AtfHB A i:GII, ... DENIAL PARLOR, On corner of Eleventh and North streets, over Ern.f hardware store. A TTOIiNE YS-A 'I -LA W, (lp.uii in (iluck Building. Ilth street, Above tbe New bank. TT J. HUlMO.It ' XOTA11T PUBLIC. IJth Hlrert. 1 Uor xrtl of Hammond Hoaw, Columbus. A&. 45l-" rpilVKM IO A POWEIK SURGEON DENTISTS. jarOflire in Mitchell Block. Colum bus, Nebraska. "-11 JH OIISEY A T LA W, Office on olive St.. Columbus. Nebraska. 2-tf p G. A. Iiri.LHOKT, A.M.. M.D., II OMEOPA Till C I'll YS1 CI AN. gjTj, Blocks south of Court House. Telephone communication. -ly V. A. HACKEN, DKALEK IN Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Porters, Ales, etc., etc. Olive street, nex,t to First National Bank. A TTOIiNE YS A T LA W, Oniee un-aUir " McAllister's build in Hth St. W A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. l. MACKAItLASD, Xitcrtiyitii'curj"1- B. It. COW DEIlY, :;lli:ur. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACPARliAND Sc COWDERr, Celuiabus, : : -' Nebraska. QEOEQE SPOOHEE, CONTRA CTOR FOR ALL KINDS OF 2IAS0N WORK. OmcK, Thirteenth St., between Olive and Nfcbrkj Avenue. Residence on the eorner of Eighth and Olive. All Work Guaranteed. 4-tf Tp U.KIHCUF, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Slli Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, C'urrv Combs. Brushes, trunks, valises, buggv'tops, cushions, carriage trimming Ac, at the loweBt possible prices. Bepairs pn mptly attended to. JS. MDRDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havebad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kind of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is. Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitvtocstlmateforyou. STShop on ISth SU, one door west of Friedhof 4 Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 4&J-Y o. c. sHJsrjsror, MAXCFACTUKER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Jtoofin and Gutter ing a Specialty. erShop on Eleventh Street, opposite Heintz's Jirue store. trt-V G W. CLABK, LAND AND INSURANCE A GENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. Hit lands comprise some fiue tracts In the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of PIstte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y oLU.niius pACKixe cc COLUMBUS, - 2TEB., Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hoga or grease. Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John Wiggins, Sec and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory. N OTICE TO TEACHERi. J. E. Moncrief. Co. Snpt., 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, ana for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. 567-y TAXES ALMOX, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick: buildings. Good work faaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near LPaul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. J. WAGNER, Livery and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public w!th good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. AUo conducts a sale stable. 44 COLUMBUS STATE BANK! 3i::su;r::: 3:mri.i j;i iri Crti: t Ss!n. COLUMBUS, NEB. r. S II CA PITA L, - $50,000 DIRECTORS: I.EANPKR (iERRAKI), Prei'l. Geo. W. Huxst, Vice Preset. Julius A. Ref.d. Edward A. Gerrard. J. E. Taskei., Cashier. Basic of Iep"lt. IHucoaat aad Excaaafre. 4'ollectioBH Promptly .tlade oa all lIntH. Pay IsatereMf ob Tiwe Depot ItK. 274 DREBERT & BRIGGLE, BANKERS! HUMPHREY, NEBRASKA. SSTPrompt attention given to Col lections. HTInaurance, Real Estate, Loan, etc. LINDSAY &TREKELL, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FLOUR MD FEED 8T0BE! OIL OAKE, CHOPPED FEED, Bran, Shorts, BOLTED I HIED H8 HEM. GRAHAM FLOUR, AND FOUlt KINDS OF THE BEST WHEAT FLOUR ALW WS ON HAND. ETA1I kinds of FRUIT iu their sea tou. Orders promptly tilled. llth Street, Columbus, :Selr. 47-0 in HENRY GASS, UNDEETAKER ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IK Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads. Bu reaus, Tables. Safes. Lounges. Ac. Picture Frames and Mouldings. X3 Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS. NEB. HENRY LUERS, DEALER IK WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pimps Repaired on short notice J3TOne door west of Heintz's Dru; Store, llth Street, Columbus Neb. s GOLD for the working class Send 10 cents for postage, and we will mail youre a roval, valuable box of sample goods that will put you in the way of making more money in a few days than you ever thought possible at anv busi ness. Capital not required. W e will start vou. You can work all the time or in spare time only. The work is univer sally adapted to both sexes, young and old." You can easily earn from 50 cents to $3 everv eveninsr." That all who want work may test the business, we make this unparalleled offer; to all who are not well satiitied we will send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing u. Full particu lars, directions, etc, seut free. Fortunes will be made by those who give their whole time to the work. Great success absolutely sure. Don't delay. Start now. Address Stdjsox &. Co., Portland, 3Iaine. JL WOKD OF WAR3TI3f6. 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 fire and lightning). All representations by agents of ether Companies to the contrary not withstanding. HENRY GARN. Special Ag't. lS-y Columbus, Neb. LYON&HEALY ti Meant Sts..Chleue. WBl i Mil u or i tk , ASH WTSI.OHUI, 1 S.SH. C, Brt1 wo iv j Dnm ilHSuJk, ul mtrr waa. turn mh tmendm twiri llmKx- aflH' Bam1 t IRS StnAb jAjacr- S FIRST National Bank! COZ.X7BSBX7S. NEB. Authorized Capital, - - $250,000 Paid In Capital, - 50,000 Surplus and Profits, - 6,000 OFFICERS AKD DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, Prei't. SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Prcs't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. I. W. EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRICH. W. A. MCALLISTER G. ANDERSON, P.ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, l'assase Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. 23-voMS-ly COAL LIME! J. E. NORTH & CO., DEALERS IN Coal, Lime, Hair, Cement. Rork Spiug Coal, Carbon (Wyoming) Coal . Eluon(iowa) Coal ...$7.00 per tsu .... G.09 " .... i.0 " O Blaclumith Coal of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices. North Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, NEB. l i-:tm UNION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE. Improved and Unimproved Farms, Hay and Grazing Lands and City Property for Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. "SsTFinal proof made on Timber Claims. Homestead- and Pre-emptions. J3TA11 wisbiug to buy lands of any de scription will please call and examine my list or lauds before looking else where 3rAll haviiiir lands to sell will please call and give me a description, term , prices, etc. J3TI a so am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency of several first-class Fire insurance companies. K. VT. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German. NAMIIEL C. SMITH, 30-tf Columbus, Nebraska. BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. O FFICE, COL UMB US, NEB. SPEICE & NORTH. General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, aud Midland Paciic R.R. Lands for sale at 'from $3.00 to f 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 abatractof title to all real es tate in Platte County. b2l COLDMBIS, NEB. LOUIS SCHREIBER, All kinds of Repairing deie oi Short Notice. Biggies, Wag ons, etc, Bade trder, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A Wood Mowers. Beapers, Combin ed Machines, Harrartsrs, and Belf-Vindrs the best made. 'Shop opposite the "Tattersall," ob Olive St., COLUMBUS. 26-m BlacMMwauer A FATAL CONUNDRUM. Whj Is It." asked a wicked man, who In the aaactua strayed. m Why is It that aa editor who's regularly paid Is like a hungry little boy dootimj froa mother's eye. CAad waiting- for a chance to steal a piece of applo pier Tae editor quick gave it up, and thea the man went on: The difference la plainly seen, as darkness Is from dawn: It Is because (and here he got In shape to fly away; Because one lays for pie, you see, and the otaer lies roroav. Tbe editor upon aim fell la blind and flery race, C And on his wicked carcass be did warfare ware: bloody And when his work he had got In the room was necked with brains. And purple gore, and matted hair, and scrambled up remains. Birnnank TrOamte, TOBBEXT TAMDiO Cf FRAME. SOUTHER In the year 1860 France began upon a new and successful plan, a light with certain lawless torrents, many of them tributary to the Rhone. The condition of affairs which made necessary such & course, the progress of the struggle, and its successful Issue, are well worthy our attention here in America at this time. For more than three hundred years the improvident wood cutting has been t going on, which at last changed many of the streams of that region into tor- nnt4. Th lower lvincr and mtnarallv steeper slopes of their basins had been robbed by their short-sighted owners of their protecting forests. Next, as the income from woodland became lev-;, the impoverished peasants were tempted to overstock the higher and more level upland pastures with sheep and goats. The sharp hoofs of these animals, and their close bite when pressed by hun ger toon weakened the turf, so that it could not hold its place against the washing action of the heavy rain. During hard showers the fragments of this turf, with more or less of the soil underneath, started down thin hill. Arrivingatthe steeper .-lopes formerly Iirotected bv trees with their fallen . war with deruiany mad the state les; eaves, roots and undercrrowth the ' liberal in its expenditure for relo scment water found nothing to cSeck it, till 1 for awhile, but soon the work .is taken part of it could tind the crevices leading "P again with vigor. It wa estimated to the springs, and there was nothing that the great flood in the Garonne in else to keep the rest from rushing June, 1875, did damage to the e tent of too suddenly to the stream bed; but 300.000,000 francs, besides destroying carrying with it the scanty soil of these ' more than 3.000 lives. Careful investi denuded slopes, everv vard of descent I ffation afterward showed that had the would add to its volume, velocity and erodino- tower. By the time the s'tream was reached ea -h drop would contain some grains of the precious soil to be washed down to tbe sea. or on its wav there to be deposited where it would spoil river, channels and harbors. Be - sides this washing of soil, rocks and boulders imbedded in it would be loos ened, tumble down into the channels, and in flood-time ground up into gravel and spread over fertile ground in the valley. In one province, Adreche, 70, 000 acres, one eighth its total area, were thus rendered almost worthless by flood deposits (Marsh: Earth as Modified by Human Action, p. 257, no!e). In ad dition, costly roads, bridges, aqueducts and buildings were undermined and washed away. Large regions, formerly populous, became solitude,-, across which it was hard and often unsafe to travel. Great sums were speut in such works as retaining dams built across the mouth of gorges; rows of stone pillars lining the borders of streams, and at right angles to these walls of pebbles and row of trees, and many other ex- rsdicnts, none of which cured the evil; M, 000,000 was annually spent on roads and bridges, and much of this outlay was made necessary by the gul lying undermining and covering with debris done by torrents. Meantime rainfall was becoming ir regular: floods and droughts alternated; the rapid heating and cooling of the bare slopes caused violent winds; and these, with the sudden changes of tem perature, wrenched, so to speak, the moisture from the clouds,, causing local floods of terrible furv, e. g., "in a single day of flood the Ardeche, a river too insignificant to be known except in the local topography of France, contributed to the Rhone once and a half, and for three consecutive days once and one third as much as the average delivery of the Kile. " although the basin of the latter river contains 1.000,000 square miles. or more than 1,000 times as much as the former.' (Marsh, pp. 258-9.) "The water of the Beaume, a tributary of the Ardeche, rose in 1872 thirty-tive feet above low water, but the stream was again fordable on the evening of the same day." (id. p. 258.) The most serious results of denuding the steep slopes of the mountains were Been when the warm wind called the Foehn. coming probably from Sahara, and when crossing the 'Mediterranean loading itself with moisture, struck the snow line on the higher parts of the mountains. This wind, according to Guot, sometimes has power to melt six'feet of snow in twenty-four hours! The melted snow, together with the rain, dashed down from the Foehn, would be likely to do serious damage, even if the hillsides bad their full pro tection of turf, bush and tree. But when no such barriers checked the rush the results were frightful. At lait, after many costly efforts to cure an evil which "grew worse and worse, a timid step was taken toward prevention. Many far-seeing men, and especially Surell who gave a life-work to the cause had long been urging this. As the torrent was tbe accumulation of many drops which, when brought to gether at one time, were irresistible, the point aimed at was to prevent their reaching the channel all at once. They must be arrested as long as possible where they first fell, as many as possi ble must be enabled to tind the crevices leading to springs, and all the way down to the stream bed the progress of the remainder must be delayed. Be sides, if, in addition to terracing and horizontal furrows, the steep hillsides were covered with growing trees, bushes and fallen leaves, much of the descending water would be taken up into thece plants, to be gradually given back into the air in drier weather, thus eaualizino- temperature. . At first the Corns Letrislarif eonld only be induced to vote 2.000.000 fra.. to be . expended at the rate of 200,000 frs. a year. It was clear that the State must take the lead, since it alone was rich enough to advance the capital necessary and wait twenty years for a return, and which could control the whole region from which a torrent drew its water; and nothing could bo done unless the whole of a torrent-basin were taken in hand at the same time and under the same direction. The works were closed as reboiscmenis (reforestings) facultaiifs, and retxfee ments oUigatoires. In the former (he State merely assisted by loans of money, reds aad -cuttings, ana by the advice and o vcaigte of hs trained officials. Is tbe latter the State for the time being assumed ownership of the land, and whan its work, was done, gave the insU TiaaaU o? osjmti wfrp hasVtafct it the choice either to repay the cost o the work and take the land back (tbV. State, however, retaining such over sight as would prevent torrents forming again) or to take back one-half the land and pay nothing. In the case of return ing (regasonnement) the State retained only one-fourth the land to cover the cost of the work. Local opposition to the law was at first a serious obstacle to its enforce ment. This was overcome by great pa tience and kindness; by putting leading men of the districts on the boards, which, in connection with the State ex perts, decided what land must be oper ated upon, and bv circulating a Science Primerentitled "Etudes tie JUadre Pierre sur FAgriculture el les Forets." A prize was offered for such a primer, and a young lawyer, A. Rousset, won it. It consists of eight dialogues be tween a peasant farmer. Master Peter, and a Government teacher who in these walks and talks converts his pupil from a stubborn foe to a firm friend of the law. The little book is a fine model of Socratic questioning, and will repay careful study bv teachers. It may be added that rigid economy was practiced and minute accounts kept, so that those whose land was taken could know just what they must pav for when they re deemed their land, and feel satisfied that they were not being charged too much. The bold expedient which was adopted f attacking one of the w "-: proved a prudent oi orst torrents one. t or cot only wouiu tne owners ot lanu so nearly ruined be more willing to give up its ownership for a time, but besides, if such a demon as the Anleche could be tamed, it was the bet proof that less violent torrents could be brought under control. Beginning with the trifling sum of SOO.OU0 francs a year for ten years, be fore the end of "that time the sue ess was o marked that all the monev that ' could wisely be expende I was readily I voted by the Lorps I.egislain. and near ' ' a JocaI opposition vanished. lho I wor relotsement contemplated in i the original act of 186' (and which it was supposed it would take one hun dred and forty vears to tin'sh) been completed, that awful flood would have ' been comparatively harmless. 1 To give an idea of the process of tor- rent-tamiufif, we quote the graphic words of Cezanne, with which Tie concludes his supplement to the great work of Surell ("Etude sur les lornm s dr$ Hautes Alpes,'' published first by the Administration des Fonts el Chaussccs in 1841, and when it had been for years out of print, a new edition was prepared in 1870 by his friend Cezanne, and in 1872 the supplement.) Speaking of the astonishment of visitors when they see pointing heavenward the verdant shoots of the elm, the maple and the acacia growing on the dry schists: and of the walnut and the oak on the dry andsolid buttresses, while the alder, the poplar, the ash; the osier and the white willow of the Alps grow in the more moist depths of the ravines, be Bay3: "These works, so ingenious in their very simplicity, form a net work of hor i7pnfcfl lines like the alleys of a garden. The green cdings and linings develop themselves among the innumerable sin uosities of the combes valleys, embrac ing from the rocky beds of the torrents to the very summit of the mountain crests those ravines which were but late ly inaccessible and presented an aspect full of horror. On seeing what has been done, one immediately understands how such a combination should be ef fectual. Every liquid molecule, so to speak, is seized individually, the thin sheet of water flowing down" is retarded in its course by a thousand thirsty little plants, by the lines of cultivated herbage, and by the hedges of shoots and trees. It is compeded to tarry a little on each terrace to slake the thirst of the ground, and when it reaches the lower end of a furrow it spreads itself out on the flattened bed there prepared for it. Stopped at every barrier, it loses its vital force on every hand, and finally, from resting place to resting place and from descent to descent, it arrives, after a thousand retardations, and still limpid, in the channel which conveys it to the river. The violence of torrents is occasioned by an infini tude of elements infinitely minute: and the system of extinction consists in ex tinguishing each of these elements with out disregarding one; it is an accumla tion of infinitesimal littles. The sec ondary ravines are blocked up, their mi nute ramifications intercepted, the lesser flanks filled up, and finally there are spread over the soil, completely to diffuse them, the innumfrablc threadlets Tof ! water divided and subdivided like the fibres of a root. The best single work from which one can get an idea of this great triumph is "Reboisement in France," by J. Croumbie Brown, LL.D. Samuel W. Powell, in Forest and Stream. The Xegro aad tne Mule. You begin to notice the union that exists between the negro and the mule, the two inseparables. Be it the cart with one, the truck with two, or the wagon with three it is all one, on the box is a negro invariably. You shall not see in tbe streets of the city a dozen vehicles bearing burdens and drawn by mules that the motive power, so far as the whip goes, is not a negro. It would be an interesting study, this connection of the mule with the negro. This inseparability of the most docile of the races of men with the most stubborn and obstinate of brutes is a mystery which no fellow has ever yet found out. Probably it is that a general average may be struck, that the gentleness of the one may be balanced by the ugli ness of the other. A mule will kick the head off a wnite man, but he never so abuses a negro. With mules a negro may safely rush m where tread. And there is another similarity between them. You can never tell from appearances the age of either ne gro or mule. The mule is born with an old expression which never changes, and when the Southern negro has at tained a certain number of years he never grows older. The only difference is negros do die, and mules do not, naturally. No one ever saw a dead mule except from accident, and seldom then, for a mule will live and do well after a railroad express train has gone overhim. Anyhcrw the mules are all driven by negros, and they evidently love each other. After the war everv negro wanted forty- acres of land and a mule. If he could have but one he invariably chose the mule whetker he had any. use for aim or not. J?. -B. Locke, in 2Vcrf vSB" A Desolation The Inu. Lieutenant Ray, who was sent by the United States authorities to establish a signal station at Point Barrow, thus de scribes the people among whom, and the country in which, for two years, his lot was cast: The village consists of a few scatter ing dwellings built in an uncouth aud pnurtive manner, and contains about 130 people. They belonged to a tribe of Esquimaux, or" as they call them selves, Inu. The word "Esquimaux" was practically unknown to the natives, it having been" applied to them by the French, when early expeditions wete sent to discover the North Pole. The natives do not show a vestige of having made any attempts at civilization, al though they are a quiet and inoffensive lot of people. In fact, during his entire stay of Wo years among them. Lieuten ant Ray says he never knew one of them to qiwrrel with another, uor even saw a child punished. In this respect a les son might be learned by the more pre tentious people of civilized countries. They are not the fat, greasy-looking race" pictured by some historians, al though robust and healthy. The aver age weight of the men is about li3 and of the women about 130 pounds. They have a lighter complexion than the North American Indian, and dark-brown eyes. As a rule they are of low stature, not exceeding five feet and four inches ;n height. Men, women and children dress alike, their garb being construct ed of deerskins ewed together with a thong of hide. The greatest objection to them is theic,uncleanlv hab.L-, none r.f thorn orrvnt.irino-tt,.L-.. , hth The filth of their infancy Is buried with ,i - The stories told of them about eating blubber and fish fat are untrue, nor do .u.... -:i- :i .. V. .I the average inhabitant of MLs,ouri. They oftenWer terribly from hunger. and are reduced to eating raw wafrus hide. but they willingly share their last mouthful w.th a total otiMiirMii rrimi are continually struggling for an exist"- .j i:o..:.i. f;5 .iT- , : life than to keep from starving tdeath. And vet they are seemingh happy, put- ting but little faith in what is told them of a better land and a happier life. They are born and reared in a fife of extreme .i.i . , r U.UU.-U4U, uut. uuium lUllUlCJ lUill KonTctiin oirTca uuium luiiuics auui cold and starvation, and pas happiness. They have little MII-OI in or no re- Jigion.no government, no commeM- nothing, in fact, but a miserable exist- ence. They have learned to use whisky and tobacco, and are very fond of botlu they having been initiated" into the practice o'f the;e habits of civilzation by the whaler?. 4; Men, women and children chew tobacco. Lieutenant Kav says he has seen a two-months-old baby awake u" Ait from itsslumber.but immediately relapse upon a quid of navy-plug being placed in its mouth. Anold s maw will strut about with a quid in the side of either cheek, one sight of which would bring a blush of shame to any jack-tar. After she has thoroughly extracted all the juice she sticks pieces of the weed behind j her ears and dries them out for her lord and master to smoke. As a race. though, they are rapidly lading away. and In a comparativelvshort t?me will probably become extinct. In a distance of700milesalongthenortherncoastthere are less than 400 natives. None of these live in the interior, as there is nothing on which they can subsist, but are s -altered along the shore, and spend their time in hunting and fishing. In tho little village of Oogloomie there we-e eighteen deaths and only two births in : two years, the cause of the deaths being j almost entirely from pneumonia. They j have no fires whatever, as there is noth ing to burn but oil, and in the winter j time they are forced to huddle together in order'to keep warm. The huts of the village are all built of wood and are the remains of wrecked vessels which washed ashore. In 1871 thirty-three vessels were wrecked along the coast, comprising almost the entire New Bedford whaling-fleet. Last year the steamer North Mar. of New Bed ford, was caught in the ice and sank in twenty minutes. Fortunately it hap-J worth, jut few know how to hand. e .r.e. pened within sight of the station, and ! Once in a while you'll m.-et with a Lieutenant Ray and his men saved the ; farmer's daughter "who u-el t- ri.lo a entire crew, took them ashore, and j horse a la Mary Anderson In her e iri cared for them a month, when assist- I life, and thus became intimately ac ance arrived. In 1877 twelve whal- quainted with equine acvuuiplishmt it ing-vessels were sighted in the ice in all its phase- of ridiug and driving: bv the natives, but thev disappeared ! but in the citv vou'll find thv w men and their crews w i of eighty men were , never seen again. Lieutenant Rav and ; numerous than the da:n; darlin. who his command are the only part5' that are given to driv ng lowi taudem ver passed a winter with" the native-. , though it takes an arttul ont- to work a In 1854 Captain McGuire, of the Kn- l tandem. Ser'ously speaking. 1 dot, t glish navy, was caught in the ice ofl J believe women generally are titd . Joint Barrow while commanding the Plover on an expedition sent to search for Sir John Franklin, but he remained on board the ship. The country is an absolute desert. without the slightest vestige of timber i or undergrowth. For a distance of 200 ; miles from the shore the land is covered i with a peculiar kind of mo-s. which i thaws out in the summer-time to the ! depth of about ten or twelve inche. There are no other signs of vegetation, I and in the winter there is no animal j "Some of the best drivers I ever saw life. It is one of the most barren and ' were women. There's Mis- Eva Brit desolate regions on the face of the ) ton, editress of t: e Hurrirnnc. of earth. It is a very healthy and pleasant ' Charleston. S. C, the little girl in Ids e. climate, despite the extreme cold. The who flashed like a meteor through the reasons are very peculiar. May 23 the Northern States some ear-ao. turn sun rose and did not set again "for sev- ing our heads and emptying our purse-: enty-two days, it being a delightful sea- and Louise Armaindo, the ricyoli-t and son of continuous snniigLL November ! Bianca Chapman, the prima donna 10, however, it set.Jand for a like period Fanny Davenport and Rankin's wife, of seventy-two days there was almost , and a host of other women perpetual darkness. Chicago Tribune. ' wbo-e name3 are not before the -- I public, some of whom are resident.- of late res ting Roman Discoveries. Snmo vprr intoroattiir T?nmn cnnnl. ! chral discoveries have been made lately I at Mavence, in the carrying out of some ' considerable excavations and earth- works required for carrying the Lud-; wigsoahn railroad around the citv. , Close to the Neuthor the workmen came upon a place of considerable ex- j tent, evidently assigned to the sepul cher of civilians. A large number of large and small stone cofhns were found at irregular distances from each other, the intervening spaces having been oc- cupied by wooden coffin--, as is proved by the fragments and the nails which were foundl One stone coffin bore a plate which seems to have previously served as the "headstone" of a former , grave; and all the indications suggest that the place had been used at succes sive periods as a place of burial. Most of the graves that were opened con tained skeletons of women and chil dren, with bracelets, needles, censers for burning incense, etc. There was I one metal coffin, in which lay a worn- ' he, a strong, calm sovereign of his an's skeleton, but without any inscrip- country and masher of hi country tion or ornament- In the children s ! women, was relied on lor protection. graves tnere were toys and other ob jects, generally of beautiful workman ship, such as little bracelets, glass and earthenware utensils, etc. There was one little polished goblet of singular beauty. One stone coffin (the inscrip tion on which contained some mistakes) held the body of a woman, dressed with lime for the purpose of preservation. bavins; the back-hair arranged in a long I plait of eight strands, woven with great elegance, and the clearly-defined re mains of a cap, the hair is now red, but most probably was once black. There was in the coffin a stone needle-case, or namented with gold bands, two bone dice, a wooden casket with bronze mount ings, the key of which was in excellent preservation, and a bronze ring. As to other objects found in the place, a small bronze figure of a dancing Bacchante, three black earthenware vials beauti fully painted, and bearing the follow ing'inscriptions: "Vivas mi,' "bibe," "dos." were especially deserving of no- ' tice- A quantity of silver and bronze coin- were found, ranging from the j time of Hadrian to the end" of the th'rd century. London Times. Dickens's Readings. We can assure ou- readers who nevet hear I Dickens rea 1 that they lost noth ing which might help them" to under stand his creations. His biographer tells us that he and other friends re monstrated with him against the un wisdom of the excitemenf and labor of thee readings; but the money returns argued on the other s'de. He cont n ue t them with a few Intervals until nearly the end of his life, went to Amer ica : "second time, in the end of 1667, for the sole purpose of getting money by reading, was ery ill the whole time. but kept on, despite of warnings, and had his reward in the shape of enor mous gains 500 a night. "The man ager is always going about with an im- .... ..... 1:. I UUSIIIUH, uui ill leant iJaj.-i-iuuiic. nd ll rhad "fen ? CT?' ; of a sofa on the morning he le t for I f hi'adelphia.- He : cleareiT ) in I Lhl1 Ped,tlon- Bfore returainghoni , he had already settled with a London hrm -f T w RnX " . ore Tn. Egland for nct: , lhat D,ckens w-as a very caren.l man wm De eviuuni it everv uu:. nis quar rels with his publishers about monov ' iaKe ?ne,?1 ue uw I tures m his character. agreeable fea That he was i gfnerous to his literary helper, we have . f Iread-V sa,d-, lhe hllnd'eJ reading. j Hf"-, and- SP ,.,agam S'An the . d jessing bodily sympf -ms i whu hH . ,aPP?rtd ,n Ae- i ca. dui wuicn me rest ui me m 1 11 1 The doctors tVlrtiW UUUlb M4W . ' Qt lftticrtli nrATTintnri!ir fiirliii? thi nn- s r.r-v . ' unuaknce w r ,7 , U!!!, V " ter then applied for leave to begin a j:nn twelve,provided there was no railway b UM a - Vr A- - i . -..- w v traveling. We heard two ot the last. one on which he prided himself more than any the murder of Nancy by Syke. He writes that "the eilcct" was tremendous,"' that "B. was so tei rifled . i n .1 ! inai ne wab u.aziu '?"?. '' some were um-u uul la mm". t e iau certainly say that there was no such ef fect near us. Fain wa e-y tine. Svkes was passable, Noah (Maypole was , a fool, but not the supreme neak ot the story, and Nancy was intolerably 4st:i- v." We have seen her better done at a country theatre, and all Miuply be cause, to give her individuality, thf read er had to rave aud throw himself a o;:t. The ame evening he lead "Mr I Gamp." We expe-ted much fun out . f , "". "h "y ie ,l, Vame ue wa; Vv'" dently exhausted, and .u painful to waien nun. tie g-ive nis ja-i rc:umi on the IStn of March. 1.0, and followed i it bv a few graceful andto.:chin ; word.s from the platform of "heartfelt. i-tte-ful. respectful, aSVcliouatf far well " But the mischief which had bcun was now irreparable. Freih M-ns of ruined health followed one upon the other, anil on the 3th of June he wa- clced with a fit, while seated at dinner with his s-ter-at-law, and died iu tw.-nty-four hours, without the least return to con sciousness. Sco toh Re'-ier. Can Yonien Drive "Can women drive?" repeated the proprietor of a livery stable the other ilav. "That depend on what you all driving. Some of them cau make a ' horse 'get up and get' for all h. is no Know now to nauuie a treti r le- i i .t .- nature for that kmu ot Miipiomt-ir.. . cool head and a Meady li-jnu arc pre requisite to a goo! driver, and vv- i men, vou know, are nervous and .: iv excited. You mav :iv the rofc--i.-nut ! inr.-n-,-- ...-. .,irnn.'nut....n,l nni-f...,.- I ... ju.ni.M .lit; Luviu.uaii ..nil .! ,"ii-. win if they are so naturally thy learn to subdue their emotion and draw- a Meady rein before they attain any reputation." Another horseman dillered with h s colleague. " Certainly they can drive." aid he. Detroit. But of all the women driver-, Lotta is the best- Wheu .-he gets into a Viiirrrir aha ftliravj fft5 ?i if she in.ru going to a frolic, and the hore gets .-o friendly with her that he at one .-tarts off at his fastest ga"t just to please her. All he needs iu the way of iudu ement is one of her rippling laugh-. th:r -tarts away uunu uuuut uer iue-. ;mu gurgle upward, and pops and effervesces l.ke a bottle of champagne, and die away lovingiy like a lover's .-vveet good i:ight when he hasn't forgotten the u-t.al bo of confections. "I ay. though, about driving I know a lady living on Lafayett ave nue who can hold her own "with any man. She know- how to groo u 7i horse, knows all about vehicle--, and has even appointment perfect before she will make a -tart. It is all non sense to talk about women's nervon-nes-. Some of them are not a whit more ner vous than men, and between you a:nl me, I think much of the f-mlnme ner vousness is affected it i- Lecoming, vou see. and makes a fellow fel as if and a lot el-e bv the delicate, s -nsitive. loving creature by his side. Bosh! Put a girl in a buggy by herself, and if she Had as much experience a: driving as he has she'll drive every bit as well." Detroit limes. The Government envelope factory at Hartford uses a ton of gum arable a week. Hartford Post. SCIENCE A!TO 1XDUSTRY. The down of domestic fowls is be ing made into cloth in Lyons, France. Southern horticulturists unite in thinking that the Japanese persimmou is the coming fruit for the Gulf State-. A mine of talc, a substance which is u-ed fur giving a finish to wall and other fancy papers, has beau discovered at San Antonio, iu Lo.ver California. It has hitherto been imported from Chi na. San Francisco Ca'l. The value of the telephone patent is enormou. and we very much doubt if it could now be purchased for $25, XjO.OOO. It is proba ily by far the most valuable single patent which has ever been issued.--fat LI r rc'ttu. Dr. Wedding points to the fact that when melted iron is allowed to chill tho first crystals which form are nearly pure iron. He suggests that, by repeat edly crystallizing the iron, a metal of high character may b obtained from poor pig iron. '; Francisco CAroni :le. The latest ranior in regard to the proposed new steam-hip line about to be started between San Francisco and I'hina is that the company intends to run steamers down to the coffee ports in the west coast of Central America md thereby inaugurate a vigorous op position to'tlie Pacific Mail. Among the new applications of cot iou is its use. in part. in the construc tion of houses, the material employed fortius purpose being the refuse, wh'ch. when ground up with about an equal amount of straw aud asbestos, is con verted iuto a paste, and this is formed into large slabs or bricks, which ac quire, it is said, the hardness of stone, ami furnish a really valuable building stock. A". Y. Sun'. -The Phanna euticil Journal says that in Canada honey Is extracted from the comb bv a centrifugal maHiiuc and the comb replaced: the bees, when in good condition, will fill it again in four dav-. After two seasons' n.si, the comb is melted into "foundation comb." upon which the bees quickly put thefin:-h ng louche-. Canadian wax is practicaMv cut of the market: the -uppli is princi pally obtained from Afr.ca. An ingenious Kngli-h manufacturer has, by a simple and w. rkable inven tion of coiled -pring-. Miceecd.'d in. di peusing with the need o. driving -ew-iug machines by hand or font. A few urns of a handle wind up -unicient povve to keep a machine going at full speed over an hour. It i completely under control as to the :ate of stitch ing and stopping, and can I e applied to any existing machine at mo leruts cost. " -The Finf'sh M,;-hani- ays: "Al though the average -pt-ed of t ains n tLe I nited Mates is twenty per cen. below the mean speed of train- iu this country, all thing- eon-iderel. the ser vice controlled by the American engi neers compares very favoraMy .ithany iu the world. The American engines s at first copied Kngli.-h builders ani made locomotives with slugle drivt-is: but, as is their went, thev quickly made improvements, and vy. are not di-po-ed to dispute with Mr. rMwards the dictum that the American locomotive of to-day is one of the most perfect pieces of mechanism wrought out by the hand and mind ot man." PITH AM) POINT. Charity warmed over is very cold -'omfort. The kind word that turucth awa wrath has no practical effect iu turning &vvay a book agent. ' ctlaud Lender. Mvinburne. the poet, announces that he is iii t coming to America It ts fortunate that a Presidential election s at haml to make us forget his ab encc N. Y. Mad. The following is a literal ttanscript if a sign on a i' nuavlvauia village Uore. "I ea anil l'at rs. Suar and shingle-, i"rickdut and I asse, ; hi.-ky, lar ami other l'rus." l!t.-b..rt Post. De 'oman what dresses ter pleae her-ef shows ceis-e. but de 'oman what dresses ter di-olca-e o.ue udder 'oman vvid s'perior t uerv i got a -aft spot summers near ue top o" her head.--Uncle Remus. Wire lath ami glas shingles are now being manufactured, and by and by it will be .- that adutisul father will have to go t lar up ii:o tbe primeval lumber camp- i pick up -omething with which to tare hi- .-rriug bov. llurlinaton ILtick.fi. . A man in Stafford. Va.. poured -pirits of turpentine into his ear to cure the e irache. It went right to the spot, and he hain't suffered a particle of pain r-ioce. I nfortuuately the man diiUi't live long enough to write a "tes timonal" recommending his cure. -Norrisloirn Heia'd. -A w riter in :t scientific monthly ask "What i- a meter?" In reply a jocular editor said: 'An opinion has long pre vailed that a met ri- a contrivance that works twenty-seven nour.s a day e'ght davs a week the vea- round and when vou resolve to economize iu the use of ga. itthrow.- in acoupleof extra h daily witnout charge." ,r Mn hours nen- :' f- To a toast of "The babies God hle--s them! ' a railway conductor re--ponded: "May their route through life hi- pleaseut and profitable; their track .-traightforwnrd. ami not back ward. May their fatheri be safe con ductors, their mothers faithful tenders, and their switcn never misplaced!" Comparison-. The artfullest man i? the designer: the most changeable. lbj banker; the mrst aeeommodat ng. the broker; the most "fees ' able, the do tor: the most cbaste. the engraver; the most talkative, the auctioneer: the most figurative, the ca-hier; the mo-t typieah the printer: the sweetet. the confectioner; the coldest, the ice man: the graveat. the undertaker: the crusti est, the baker: the neediest, the garden er, the greatest turn-coat, the tailor. 'Iroij limes. The intermarrying of wh'te people and half-breed Indians .-.-ems to a growing in popularity. Only two weeks -ince Mi-s Rebecca Hobfas, Mat ron in the Government .-chool a? antee Agency, took a young antee-A:ier:can a- a husband, and now ilev. . D. i Hu man take- to h's bed and board a young woman of like birth. Mi Mary Mer rick, of Santee Agency. The bride is nude -tand to be heir to a goodly slice of the Santee Indian Reservation when it shall be parcelled out. Sringfisld (Z. T.) Times. - -- '! he girl who. at New ! is on Ohio, anutn.u.ed he -elf as the t r.ze in a rar.ie -a hundred changes at a dollar ape- wa taken at fir -t as a joker, but he affirms her sincere willingness to marry the winner, provided he is un der forty years of age and bears a good reputation. She is described as pretty, intelligent and heretofore net sailed by adverse critici-m. Cleveland Lealtr.
