KATES OF AlTEHTUIZt. !"hnnbtt 0'npal "STBusiness and professional carda of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. X For time advertisements, apply at this office. EyXegal advertisements at statute rates- EETFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. EsTAU advertisements payable monthly. IS" OFFICE, Eleventh St.. up 'tairs in Journal Building. terms: Per year Six months Three .months Single -opiea ..93 OO 1 OO 50 OS VOL. XY.-N0. 33: COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBEK 10, 1884. WHOLE NO. 761. THE JOURNAL. IaSCKD EVZBY WEDSEtDAV, 1SL K. TURNER & CO. Proprietors and Publishers. 10 J N BUSINESS CAEDS. D.T. Martyn. M. D. F. . ?chco. M". D. Drs. MAETYN & SCHHG, U. S. Examining Surgeons. Local Snrzeon-. I'nion Pacific. o N. ,tB. H.and B. .v M. P.. R'-. Consultation-, in German and Enirh-.li. Telephone- at otlW- anil residence-. COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA. 4J-v J PHYSICIAXA SURGEOX. Di-ea-e- f wom-n and children a -.pedal U . i ..iiuv ')oi.ian. OflU-e former ly oe.-iiinr.I t.y Lr. liouesteel. Telephoin: o "LI-A .1511 U -II CJII. DEX1AL PARLOR. On i-orner of Eleventh and North streets, over Ernst'- hardware itore. TT J. MI'1.0-"V XljfAIlY PUBLIC, IMh -treet.2 .lour-, nt-t or lUmmonJ House, Columbus. Neb. 491-J J. 4;. ki:i:ih:k. A TTOIIXEY AT LA W", Oliice on o"ie -t., folumbu-. Nebraska t-lt V. A. MACKEN, DKALEK in Foreinn uid Domestic Liquors and ( 'itjars 11th -ir.'ft. ilunilu-. Neb. ."0-y M ,-AIJ-ISTKK KKO.. 1 TTU 11 XE YS A T LA W, Office up--t.nr- in M- Vllister's build ing. 11th -i. W. A. McAllister. Notary Public -roM.A riuoTHV. NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keep- a tuli line of -tationery and school -uppli.--. and all Winds of leiral forms, lu-ur.- J'ain-t tire, liirbtninir. cyclone and torn-idoe-. Office in Powell's Block, Platte .-ntei . 1;,-x J. M. MACFAKLAND. B. K. COWDERY, LAW AND COLLECTION' OFFUE OF MACFARbAND & COOTDERY. Clumf.3. -- Xebraska. , Mic.-e or to Dr. f.G. A.Hiillhort) 11 OMEO I' A Til 1 1 ' I'll YSl CIA X A XD URGEuX. Regular graduate of two medical college-. Office up -tairs in brick buildim: north o: t.tte Bank. --!" J. J. JIAUCillA.V. Justice. County Surveyor, Xotary, Land "'id Collection Agent. Sr':rtie- de-inn -urveyimr done can notifv me !v mail it Platte entre, Neb. M-tim 17 11. at I SCH E, "llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. -ell- Harue , Saddle, Collar-, Whips, Blanket-. urrv Combs, Bruhe-, trunk", vali--. iu:r;rv"top. cu-hions, earriaire trimmiu-s. .vc. at the lowest possible pri'-. Impairs pr. mptly attended to. O ll.,l,AWKEJi:E. " DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR. Will do general -urveyins in Platte and adjoining couutte-. olli.e with S. C . smith. COLCAlHLfc, - NKBR.ISKA. 17-tf JS. Ml'RDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have had .in extended experience, and will guarantee sati-fiction in work. All kind- ot repairing done on short notice, our motto 1-, Good work and fair price-. all ami ieu- au oppor tunitj toe-umatefor you. j5TShop on 12th M one door w est of Friedhof .fe Co'-. -tore, olumbu-. Nel-r. 4.-:5-r o. c. si-iAjsrisro, MANLKACTLRER OF Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. EiThop on Olive -tr.-et, 2 doors north of Brodfeuurer'- Jewelry Store. 4G-V G W. CLAKK, LAND AND 1XSLRAXCE AG EXT, HUMPHREY, XEBR. His lands comprise some tine tracts in the hell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion ot Pl.nte county. Taxes paid for non-reident-. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y pOLLMIHIJii PACKING CO., COL CJIB US, - XEB., Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hoc product, ca-h paid for Live or Dead Hoir or jrrease. Directors. R. H Henry. Prest.; John "Wiiiinus. Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory". TAMES SALMON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans aid estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work iruaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus Ne braska. 52 6nio. -VTOTICE TO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in Ms 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 pertaining to schools. " 567-y x'a presents given away. Send us ."i cents posture, and bv mail you will iret free a packajre of sioods of lare value, that will start you in work that will at once bring you'in money faster than any thin? els"e in America". All about the 1200,000 in presents with each box Agents wanted everywhere, of either sex, of all ages, for all'the time, or spare time only. io work for us at their own homes. "Fortunes for all workers ab solutely assured. Don't delay. H. Hjll LECT & CO-, Portland, Xatine. COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLTTBOUS, XEB. '-4 SI1 CA PITA L, - $75,000 DrKECTOnS: Leaxpeu Geurakd, Pres'i. (Jeo. W. IIulst, Vice Piks'L Julius A. Reed. R. II. Henry. J. E. Taskeu, Cashier. Baik of Deposit UUcohbI aid Eichamee. CoIlectioBH Promptly Made oh all PoiHt-. Hay iHterext o XIrae Depo- HENRY G-ASS, TJlsrDEnTLKEIl ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AXD DEALER IX Furniture. Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu- reaua Tables, Safes. Lounges. &.C.. Picture Frames and Mouldings. 1ST Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLTTMBlTS. XEB. HENRY LTJERS, DEALER IX CHALLENGE WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pumps Repaired on short notice J3"One door wet of Ileintz'- Drni: Store, llth Street, Columhu., Neb. HENN1NCS IMPE0VED ELASTIC SECTION CORSET I varrant-l to Tstir longer, dt tile form ntvr, j J tfic l-tUT atislart.on 'nan any utiier Cur-el in the m.-tiLrt. ..r pru-e pant wJl lw nr'anjL Tli -n JorM-iucntd ut i huraini s n.t utiviPtaa- .nt-ini- pany each Corbet. Pncr. SL0O and upaiil. Aik jruur iiiercliani for them. . ..... . ROTHSCHILD. JOSEPH i CO.. Jlanufacturers.JWJLiti Kamlolpa bU.ClinJO. For &a1 tjr FRIEDHOF A CO. TTTjlT T)for working people. Send 1 H H. I 1 cents po-t.i;re. and we will -u--L'--'-L mail ouree, a ioyal, val uable -ample box ofood- that will put you in the way of making more money in a few days than ou ever thought po -ible at any bu-iue. Capital not re quired. You can live at home and work in -pare time only, or all the time. All ofbothsexe-, of all aire, grandly suc cessful. ."0 cent to $." easily earned every evening. That all who wmt work mav test the busines. we make thi un paralleled offer: To all who are not well satNtied we will -eud $1 to pay for the trouble of writing us. Full particular-, directions, etc , ient free. Immen-e pay absolutely sure for all who t.irt .it once. Don't delay. Address SriNsON A, l it.. Portland, Maine. NO HUMBUG! T3nt a Grand Success. I) P. BRIGHAJlS Al'TOMATIC WA t terTrouh for stock. He refer- to every man who ha it in use. i all on or leave orders at Georire Yale'?, oppo-ite Oehlrich"- jiroeerv. '.i.Cm J. WAGNER, Liverv and Feed Stable. I prepared to furni-h the public wth rood teams. bu2,rie and carriages for all occasions, especiallv for funeral. A!o conducts .1 aie stable. 44 rpKA3iSlT nOL'.lE. PLATTE CENTEP. NKB. JOHX DCGGiy. Proprirtor. The best accommodation for the travel ing public guaranteed. Food good, and plenty of it". Beds clean and comfortable, charges low, a.- the lowest. 13-y AT) T) T r7Tjl Send six cents for I III I A Pi Postage,and receive J. -LlU-ZJ-Li. freCj acostivboxof goods which will help you to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once address. True A Co", Augusta, Maine. ILYON&HEALY I Stale A Monroe Sis.. Chicago. WUl o4 preraij ta lay addma tWr AND CATALOGUE, l far IssS. rto facK. 2) tntrmn.ji of laUTcmmu. SIti, Cipv Bla, iPamnciu. Esoakti. Caj-Lamsa. StaaX. Dram Mtwr'i SUffk mod iHia, .-ndry msi uenn. luptxrsf rteK b iacSBMi laractsoa aca f or Asatnr Butte, sad a I E:' r . -"i X trr flmttttiMnnCTy III llffll - JJAT. Le?Ki? DewB East. The lumber industry of New Hamp shire, particularly in the region around Plymouth, is a very important one, and vet one of which few people have any adequate idea. The product reaches into millions of feet, and while the ax of the lumberman is wielded without stint, the effect Lj comparatively little noticed in the forests that cover the motntains. Away up the Pemigewasset valley, among the foothills of the Franconia range, stand immense forests, into which each winter enter gangs of lum bermen. A rude shanty ls erected, in which the men eat and bunk, and large quantities of salt pork and salt beef, dour, and molasses carted in. a cook procured, and the winter campaign is inaugurated. The life of the men in these camps a mest monotonous one, chopping steadily through the day. with the exception of a brief rest for dinner and a smoke. After supper they all gather about the cook's tire to relate storias or listen to the soulful harmony drawn from a two dollar and fifty cent fiddle, and shortly afterward they climb the ladder to their bunks in the "loft. The timber on hand is drawn to the banks of the Pemigewasset. where it lies until the breaking up of the ice in the spring. With the rise of water the logs are rolled in and the journey for Lowell begun. Much depends on the start, and it is very important that the river should be just the right pitch. If too low the logs strike on some rock, and a "jam" results, which is only broken at the expense of much time and labor, and of the cutting of quite an amount of timber. If too high, when banks are reached the logs are distributed over the submerged lands, where they must be hauled by team back to the river. On account of the great number of rocks impeding the passage, the tortuous windings of the stream, and the many rapids and falls, it is impossible to form the logs into raft- as on the Western rivers, but each individual log must take its own in dividual way, by many devious wander ings, to the"aw" mills "at Lowell. There are many places m the river which are much dreaded by the drivers, chief among them being Livermore falls, about two miles from Plymouth, and Bristol falls, a reunion of "rapids about live miles in length, on which nearly even. year some poor fellow misses his footing while tryinir to start a log caught by some projecting rock, ana boiling waters quickly carry him out of sight torever. Then "there'are the falls at" Franklin, and Amoskeag at Man chester. The passage of the drive over the Livermore falls is one of the most ex citing -cenes imaginable, and is annually witnessed by great numbers of people. The water comes rushing through a narrow, rocky chute, whirls around a projecting ledire, and plunges over into a sethinjr whirlpool. Down this come-ru-hin the timber with terrible im petuosity, whirling over the falLs. Immen-e lors are caught in the whirlpool and sometimes thrown complete! on end. Often a long stick of timber catches on either side, other logs quickly are thrown upon it. and in an instant a formidable jam is formed. Several yokes of cattle are always kept in wait ing, with immense tackle, and coolest headed driver is sent over the tumbling waters, where a mi.-step means instant death, the rope fastened to some princi pal log in the jam and an attempt made to draw it out. Sometimes one lo"- can be taken out and the whole jam re leased, but more often the entire mas--tarts slightlv. only to -ettle again more solidly, ami the operation has to be re peated. Occ:eionalIy a driver is sent out to cut in two the logs which holds the jam. This isi dangerous proceeding, a- the -tarting of the logs ma- throw him under the whole mass. The scene .it Livermore are repeated at every fall on the Pemigewasset. Every bridge pier, every projecting rock, and every ridge of sand seems waiting to catch the loir, as they come on. and to invite the formation of a jam. The Upical river-driver is to New Hampshire what the eowboy is to the West a creature of unbounded pro lanin and -hirt collar, bold, reckless, and dare-devil to the hist degree. Yet among the number are many who are far above the average of such laborer-; farmers on- who go down the river for the -ake of the one or two dollars per dav. which is more than they can earn at home at this period of theyear. The life is a hard one. The r en never sleep in a house during the trip, but two camps, the --front" aud the -Tear," move with the drive here to-day and further on to-morrow. The camp consists of a larsre rook's tent, several "A tents. in which, on a few inche- of straw, the men take their rest. At da light the men are called to breakfast, after which they 20 immediately to the river. In the "mid dle of the forenoon a lunch is earned to them, and another at four p. m. Supper follow- at dark, previous to "turning in." The bill of fare is not extensive, but is one well adapted to the mode of life. Coffee, fried pork, boiled corned beef, ginger-bread and biscuit, cooked in old-fashioned tin ovens before an open fire, and baked beans, cooked in the ground, are the usual dishes. Good cooks are always employed, and the men are never stinted. An immense wasron follows the drive, always filled and covered with a heterogeneous col lection of pike-poles and overcoats, tents, coffee-pots. etc. The trip usually consumes from two to three months. The drivers, cooks, waiters, etc.. com prise a force of about sixty men, with a pay roll of over one hundred dollars a day. It has been generally supposed that with the building of "the Pemi gewasset Valley Railroad into the lumber country the drive would cease, but such dcKs not seem to be the case. The booms at Lowell are filled with logs, and the extensive mills will be actively employed this season in con verting the timber into commercial shapes of lumber, while the furniture manufactories have already experienced a business boom that will not bemateri allv decreased until late in the vear. the contracts for wares being unusually Iarse. Lumberman s Uazette. A Happy Boy. "Whar ye bin?" he asked as the other bov suddenlv came around the corner. "To the doctor's!" "Fur yer mother?"' "No fur me." "What ails you?"' "Tongue all coated see there." "What does that mean?" "Heaps!" chuckled the other. "That means rhubarb to begin on, and Ioai sugar, sweet cake, a velocipede, roller skates and a jack-knife before I git through! Don't you wish you waa me?" Detroit Free Press. Bay window parlor cars are tb) latest things on wheels. Chicago Est-aid. How Blondes are Made. "What lovely hair that lady has, and what a delightful color!" remarked an ingenuous youth to an up-town barber in ew York the other afternoon. Aiwi the oung man strained his neck to ?uch an extent, in order to catch a glimpse of the sylph, that the barber very nearly indicted an ugly gash on the confiding but restive chin. "How old are you, young fellow?" asked that worthy, presently, when the razor had resumed its work. "Twentv-one." was the answer. "And to think," continued the barber reflectively, "that a youth who has attained his majority should speak of a woman having lovely hair, when one glance is sufficient to show that the golden hair-wash is in full force, and accounts for all the beauty. I say, to think such a thing makes me lift my eyebrows in amazement. Young man you're very naive. For two dollars your haii shall be that color, I guaran tee, and you can keep the shade as long as you like it. If the monotony of the thing palls upon you, you can after ward try auburn or dark brown, as I presume that lady will do." i "Do you mean to say that woman's hair is ilved?" "Well" I should smile." was the answer. "If you were to touch her head vou'd feel that her hair was as brittle as this glass. I'd like you to do it." "You're very kind." "I speak to you as a scientist, young man. and as though I were giving you a lesson in physiology or some other ology Toxicology would be correct, beca'use that hair-wash is poison, although I says it as shouldn't," the barber added. "Do vou -ell much of it?" "Do l.J Well, rather. Look at that row of bottle- on the top shelf. They are all sold to Fifth avenue and Madi son avenue ladies ladies who ain't actresses, mind you. If you were to suggest such a thing as an actress thev'd taint on the spot. When I was young in the business a lady one day bought a bottle of auricomus "that was the name of the stuff in the days of yore), and I asked her to what theater I should send i- -You insulting wretch!' she cried, say such a thing again and I'll scream a.- loud -as I cairT That was probably very loud, judging from the tone in which she ruade the remark." Well do ladies admit to their friends that they de their hair?' Ye god- and little fishes!" ejaculated be of the razor, "they'd die first." We send the bottles to "their houses under wrous: names and without a vestige of labeir Look here," and he took up a bottle. -What does that say.-" The youth also took up the bottle and read on the outside paper: "Miss Blank Blank. Fifth avenue. Eye lotion." "Yes. eye lotion." said the barber. 'Luckily for her. she enjoy- bad health iu the eves, and make.- use of th:tt tact when she orders her golden dye. uie ladies pretVr it as a u nie," beef aud iron. toothache e-synce." -redivivus.' in fact. an thing but what it is." Ls there any difficulty in applying the wash? That's ai'eordin"," was the laconic replj-. -When the lady has studied the directions on the bottle and listened fi. the barber'- prophetic words, all go easy. But the trouble is they're too nervous ami excitable to read directions. Last Wednesday week l .-old a bottle tt a lady. On Friday she came down here in ;reat consternation. 'Good heavens' Mr. Barber." sas she. 'ou'veplaed a trick ou me, you nasn. bad man. I can't get the thinir to color my hair, ami what will people say if they -ee me ettiujr dark again, and -osoon? It 3 real mean of you." and she btir-t iuto tears. It was rather affecting. 1 confess, and tears came into tin own eyes from laii'-hing. Do oti know what she'd done? She'd ju-t poured some wash on her hands, like hair oil. and rubbed it on. Bless vour life, it must be done with a spouge. and carefully rubbed in. One lady, alter buying a bottle, went out of town, anil two days after I re ceived a di-patch from Long Branch. I shall alwas remember it. It ran 'You're a fraud, and wheu I get back I'll bring an action again.-t you for damages. I'm getting dark hourly and minutely. What ou gave me was not what you applied while I was in yout store. 1 am ou mv weuuinjr tour ana would have given thousauds of dollars ' to prevent this. Send proper stud' at once, with direction-." Ju-t think." ob-erved the barber, "what the arony of that poor vouug husband must have been when he noticed his dearlittle blonde becoming more brunette every hour. A wash wears ott verv fast. And now, voung man. before you get married stroKe your love and Express. hair." -V. Y. Mai: Where Buttons Are Made. The button trade of New York l esti mated to amount to from SS.UOO.MX) tc 1U.UOO,000 annually, although Europe is still the chief seat of the button manu facture. Gla but tons are nearlv all made in Bohemia, where many children are employed in the factories. They re ceive about ten cents a day. women thirty cents, and the men from forty tc fifty cents. Vienna is at the head of the pearl button trade, but many shirt but tons are niade in Birmingham, which is also the great locality for the production of metal buttons. The Paris and Berlin manufactories for novelties in this line are the most extensive of anv in tht world. In one village -ituated near Paris and having a population of from 5,XK) to u.X)0 people, all of the working class are engaged in making agate but tons, which, when importedinto the United States, under a thirty per cent duty, sell for about thirty-one cents a great gross. It is said "the material alone could not be produced here fot double that price. The American marufacturera excel in making bone, brass, ivory and gold but tons by machinery, and export large quantities of the goods. Providence. R.. I., has been quite largely engaged in this branch of the business. Boston Globe. Among the novelties of London jewelry ae ornaments made of iron. Berlin'once adopted the fashion, but it was during a moment of national pecu niary difficulty when ladies patrioti cally brought their jewelry and pre cious stones to the mint as a gift to the country. The gallant country by and by gave them a plea-ant surprise, by sending them fae similes of their jew elry in beautifully cast iron, which boie stamped upon it the words, "I gave old for iron." This iron jewelry i still a treasured heirloom iu the aristi eratic Prussian families. Rhode Island is going to have a State base-ball league. The lines of the bordering States are to be strictly de "aned. In other words, over the fence will be out. Lowell Citizen. NEW ISLANDS. Bovtifal Nature IVowdln;? New Land (or Man to Conquer. Geographers complain that soon there will be no more worlds for them to con quer, and the Danes have ever since the loss of the duchies, looked forward with doleful forebodings to the time wlxm their country will be still further shorn of its fair proportions. Nature is, how sver, bountiful, and now, by throwing up a new island off the shores of Ice land, it has added in an appreciable de gree to the territories of King Christian and to the regions which stilf await the explorations of the traveler. It is true that the new land is only a Volcanic cone, and as it was the result of subter ranean fire, may, like so many of its predecessors born of the throes of mother earth, sink again into the ocean from whence it spransr. At various times, especiallv after some severe dis- j , tiurbance of Hekla, similar islets have for a brief period shown "themselves above the waves, but generally, with 1 the exception of Nyoe, which was thrown up last century, have been worn I away by the action of the surf before j geologists could accurately examine the I volcanic scoriai and ashes of which they were composed. In 1311 Captain Tif lard of H. M. S. Sabrina, witnessed such an islet arise during a volcanic outburst in the Azores and proudly named it after his ship. But when he returned a few weeks later to survey and annex his acquisition not a trace of Sabrina Island was visible. The sea had reclaimed it. In the volcanic region of the Mediterranean several similar births of land have been re corded by ancient and modern writers. But the most notorious of them was Graham Isiaml. which arose in the year 1331. some thirty miles od" the southwest coast of &ieily. For a few weeks much ink was -hed over it, ami at one time it was feared that gunpow der would be burnt iu the assertion of the angry claims which were made for this wretched -J,oW yard.-of Etnaic cin ders. The names of Sciacca. Julia, Hotham. Graham and Corrac were -ue-cessively given to it by the fiery mari ners who cruised around it ready to land and hoist their countries' tlags the moment the scoria? cooled. But before Europe was embroiled in war about it Graham Island vanished and 0 settled the dispute in its own simple way. Aft er the destruction of Krakatoa by the great Java earthquake in 13J twentv one new islets appeared in the Sunda Strait,and only last year one hitherto un known rose above the sea od' the shores of Alaska. In all of these cases vol canic action has been the ostensible cause of the formation of these specks in the ocean. But in 1371 Captains Luzen and Mack discovered to the north of Nova Zembla a group of islets just above the sea. on the very spot where, in lo'J4. William Barents had found soundings. On the two largest, vt hich wre named Brown and Hellwald's Islands, tropical fruits were picked up. tossed thither by the northern extension of the gulf .-tream. Hence the group was named the Gulf Stream Islands; and as the laud in this portion of the polar basin is undergoing a slow secular elevation, just as in other places it is sinking, in the course of a century or two the Arctic navigator may find in that direction something worthy of a dag and an entry on his chart. London Standard. BOSTON WOMEN. Ladiet Who Have to Endure Sarcasm !! caune They Happen to Be Sensible. Boston women have to endure any amount of sarcasm because they are more sensible than the New York women in the selection of their dre es, and because the majority Usually look so downright dowdy in the streets. But let me in justice to their lack of rood taste sav the women one meets in the shopping quarters come mostly from the distant suburbs or are out-and-out New Euglanders, only in town for the day. They are not Bostonians at all, and they wear gossamer cloaks when it shines, and carry big shopping bags in their hands or a plaid shawl ou their arms, as independent of worldly scorn as a wood-sawver s clerk, it clerk. these people must continually be mi: taken for our native citizens, it would be a good plan to send missionaries to the wilds of Methuen and Fitchburg to convert them to the wav- demanded by cosmopolitan critics. It i- said that Bo-ton girls of the intellectual -tamp could be picked out of a crowd anv- where, that they are content to wear a hard, icv expression, thick boots anil last year's bonnet, and where any other women pould be miserably out of their element, they push ahead with lofty unconcern and independence. All "of which is undoubtedly true, yet, in spite of the sneer, these girls are just as busy now about their dress makers and milliners as their mo-t frivolous kind. I was waiting at a fashionable niodi-te's the other morning when two females walked into the reception-room where I sat. and in- Juired bluntly: "Where's madanie?" f course. I stared and said I did not know. Then they sat down and waited five minutes, ten minutes, as I had for twenty previously. At length, after fidgeting and wondering and coughing, the spokeswoman again addrc--ed me: "Does Madanie always keep people waiting so long?" "Yes."" "Well. Abby. I guess we must go. I have to speak at Tremont Temple soon after three, and it's almost that now." And away the two went, leav ing me ignorant of what they could wish with a dressmaker whose custom ers are of the ultra-fashionable order. When madame appeared I told her two guvs from the back-wood.- had been wishing to interview her, and thev had gone now to attend a meet- 1 ing of some sort at Tremont Temple. Whereat the little woman burst into an uproarious laugh, and when she could speak, said "dese ladies" were her customers, and she was to make a dress to be worn at a wedding for one of them, and that neither lived in the back-woodi, but very near the Hub. Well, appearances are deceitful, for I would not have dreamed that thev knew satin from flannel, or had ever i paid over five dollars for having a divs-i I made in their whole lives. After all, women are very much alike, even if 1 they will harangue temperance crowls. I They do love pretty thing-, though ' they may not become the pretty ' tilings when thev get them. Albany (AT. J") Jounud". " j --Journalism is in a flourishing con dition in the little Kingdom of Greeee. At this moment there are 1J printing houses, which produce anniialiv about 1,000 different works. Neari) every village has its newspaper. In A:m.-uj Uwre ire fifty-four political parrs. PERSONAL AND IMPERSOHAL. Twenty-one years ago there werv twelve women doctors in the United States. Now there are S50 and more coming. Chieuijo Herald. Dr. B. F. Ghrett, of Altooni. Pa., died recently, and his sister, bearing of his decease, fell on her face and expired almost instantly. Pittsburgh Post. Chief-Justice Waite, nominally from Ohio, is still a ("jnnecticut man and still owns the old homestead that has been in his family for generations, at Lvme. on the Connecticut River. Hart ford Post. A Connecticut shoe manufacturer has made for Miss Fannie Mills, a San dusLy (O.) giantess. a shoe measuring eighteen inches in length, nine inches across the sole and twenty-four inches around the ankle. Boston Post. Jay Cooke, whose fortune was swept away by the crash of 1873. is to-day one of the wealthiest men of Pennsylvania. He has investments in iron. coal, gold and silver mines and railroads reaching far into the millions. Philadelphia Press. Two sisters and a brother named Plonk, living near Lincoln. N. C. clinr to life remarkably. The brother is still called "the baby". although ninety-six years old. One of the si-ters. Mrs. Sallie Weaver, is ninety-nine vears old. and the other. Mrs. Jane Toutheron. is ninety-eight. .fames Smith, of Kociusko. Miss., has been married forty-seven years, and death hits never yet "visited his house hold. He and hLs" wife have had twelve children, all of whom live anil are mar ried. The have eighty grandchildren. The entire familv live within a radius of twenty-eight miles iu thirteen residence.-. St. Lotus (ilobe. Hon. Thomas S. Kinir. of Georgia, at the elo-e of the war married the widow of a rebel odicer. It has just beeu found that the rebel otlicer Ls in Connecticut alive and well aud the bride of eighteen ear- has been unmarried from Mr. King by the court so that -he can be divorced from the man in Con necticut and then remarry Mr. King. Xetv Haven Register. Walter Burden and Miss Fannie Swallenberg, a young heires.-. eloped from Long Island City. and. beinr mar ried in New York, .-ent a messenger to notify the young lady's widowed mother. The couple were much surprised soon afterward to receive a loug and warmly conirratulatory telegram from Mr-. Swallenberg. "and the additional infor mation that all the member- of both families approved the match. X. Y Xeics. The Princess Like-Like, of the Ha waiian Islands, who ha.-, been -pending weeks in San Francisco, left for hme a few days ago. She received uiauy so cial attentions, and created a -ensation at some irathering- by appearing in a rich black co-tume "with long black gloves, and not a single article in hor toilet to relieve the somber color. A she is as black a- the ace of spades the efiect of -uch a figure among brilliant party co-tumes may be imagined. -Sin Francisco Lull. The late Judah P. Benjamin is au thoritatively stated to have made i5. 000 a year at the Engli-h bar for some vears." When lie tir-t commenced prac tice there he undertook jun ease-, but in the difficult arts nf eross-exam'na-tiou and addressinjr London juries, which require a special faculty, he did not shine. o he restricted him-elf to tiie equity side, to the courts in banc and courts of appeal. t;ll later he re fused to go into any court but the House of Lord- and Privy Council, ex cept for a fee of SoU'O. and a client hav ing demanded a consultation at his own hon-e. the fee was . I. .). His favorite tri Minal was the Privy Council, anil his most eminent faculty argumentative statement -Chicago Tribune. 'A LITTLE NONSENSE." There is a strawburying -eason in September for the man that can atford a uew hat. (ueiy Can the father of a dwarf be regarded as a -hort-heired man? Bos ton Times. -A wit said of a man who was known far and wide for his selfishness: "He would burn down your house to cook a couple of igg for him-elf." A oung poetess -ays she "told her -ecret tj the sweet, wild ro-e-." She was very imprudent. When the sweet, wild ro-es "blow," she will w i.-h she had kept her -ecref to her-elf. Belmont. N. II.. boasts of a woman who "goes out and chops wood with her husband." It is cu-tomary to use an axe. but he may In? an unusually -harp man. Bismarck Triltitue. Hu-band: "No. mv wife doe-n't sport many jewel-, but there i- one I.ind of gem of which she has a full suppl." Friend: "What i- that?" Hu-band. Stratagem.' Burlington Fr- l'n.. At Washington, some one applied to a theatrical manager to obtain free ticket.- for the pages who carry me sages ami the like in the Senate and House. "No." said the manager. "I might give to one page, but not to -o manv. Many pages make .1 volume!" Miss Montague Tavleure (to Mi-s Capulet Suiythe) : "I want to introduce to you Mr. Nail.-ley. back there, who thinks you are -o awfully handsome. You know of him. don't you? He i very amusing and eccentric never thinks as any one else doe-." X. Y. Graphic "Pap. how wa.- Adam when he was horned.'" "He wa- a man. and a.- large as a man when made." "Then he never didn't have any boy fun. did he?" "No." "And right away got mar ried?" "Yes." "Good golly! No wonder he never laughed none." Kentucky State Journal. Annie was sobbing as she entered the library, and placeifher head sorrow fully on her grandfather's arm. "What is it?" said the old gentleman, softlv. "I'so dot snmpfin' in ray eye!" she wept. A long -earch revealed "nothing. "There's nothing in it," said the good grandfather. "Yes. there is!" protested Annie. " 'cause Tom said my eye had a twinkle in it- Golden Day.-. "I must have some rest this sum mer," said the clock: "I am all nm down." "I think I need a country sear." said the easy chair, leaning on its elbow. "I am getting played out," said the piano: "a little fresh air would be a good thing for me." "That's what I want," said the sofa; "a little fresh hair at the springs." "I should like to go with the sofa, and lounge in the woods." said the foot-stool." "If my legs were stronger," said the table, "I should go the country for some leaves." "Let me redect." said the mirror: "they have vary plain-looking lassies there, too, do they not?" '"You make me blush," saiil the divan and here the housemaid closed the folding-doors and shut them all up. Botton Commercial Bulletin. FACTS AND FIGURES. One steel rail is mad every hali minute at Steelton, Pa, London is the only large city in the Old World that doesn't possess A . universitv. '- The "New York City haa 7.326 butchers, bakers, and grocers; there are 1 10,000 liquor dealers. X. Y. Xetcs. The taxable valuation of Con necticut is $34;?, 774, 579, an increase of I 86.532,313 over last vear. Hartford ! Post. I The reduction of silver ores and ! other metallurgie operations on the Pa- ; cific Coast require the use of 2,000 to o.O jo tons ot salt per year. The average ocean steamer burns about 100 tons of coal a day. Th largest steamers the Greyhound burn nearly 200 tons. .V. i. Sun. in Dakota the farmers are plowing by steam at a cost of less than one dol lar an acre. The motor is a very broad-wheel traction engine. Chicago Herald. Last year about 190,000 head of cattle were shipped east over the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific railroads. During the present summer the number that will be sent forward is estimated at 200,000. - The recent report of the National Board of Fire L'nderwriters shows that no fewer than 2,372 hotels in the United States have been destroyed by fire dur ing the past eight years", an average of 3.0 yearly. - The phosphate beds in the Bear Creek hiils of Autauga County, Ala., are of great value in "the manufacture of sulphuric acid. These beds y.eld .0U or Gun tons of phosphates to the aero. 1 'htcujo Journal. - Mr. George M. Pullman states that there are in this country 190 railway Directors' private palace cars, which cost .$jOO.UK., and which he pro nounces wholly unnecessary; but the Directors think differently. Cucas Journal The power developed by the ex plosion of a ton of dynamite is equal to t."i.GJi tons raised one foot, or 45,6b." foot-tons. One ton of nitro-glycerine similarly exploded will exert a power of (".". l."2 tons, and one pound of blasting-gelatine similarly exploded. 71.050 tons. The recent Papal encyclical against the Freemasons is aimed at no less than LtS.OtJ.) lodges throughout the world, with 14.1d,j."4 members, whose annual receipts are e-timated to amount to about .S9O,u0o.00, of which sum fully two-thirds are expended in charities. X. Y. Trtbrne. - The Mescalero Apaches, formerly notorious cattle-thieves, are now large stock-raisers in Lincoln County. New Mexico. The Government som yeari ago set up these Indians in the cattle business, and now thev find it more pleasant and more profitable to raise stock honestly than to steal it. The Kamschatkans are in danger of becoming extinct. Kamsehatka proper Ls a district larger than the whole of France. It once had a population of about 50,000. but in ISS0 the total had fallen to 15.200. Shooting aud fishing are the chief occupations, anil fish the chief, if not the only. food. The aver age annual income rarely exceeds So, tor which forty pounds of dour could not be bought. The mortality of the countrv is great WIT AND WISDOS. It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling to re spect antiquity. ujuttrneu. If a woman loses her voice driving out chickens could she be called a black smith? She certainly would be a hoarse shooer. By struggling with misfortunes we are sure to receive some wounds in the conliict: but :t sure method to come off victorious is by running away. -Goldsmith. Mr. William Doodle,- "Yes Mlv. Fro-t. I always wear gloves at night: they make one's hands so nice and soft.'' Mi-s Frost "Ah ! and!o .oitsleep with your hat on?" Chicago tribune. There are two things, each of which he will seldom fail to discover who seek3 for it in earnest: the knowledge of what he ought to do. and a plausible pretext to do what he likes. Bxpnst Weekly "Pug dogs are made f laziness, .snappishness and peevisine-.s." says a writer. This i- shameful. Arhen they begin adulterating little 011 dogs it Is time for the law to interfere. -V. I. Graphic. They chopped dowu one of the big trees of Mariposa. ( 'aL, a few d.iv ago. the rings of whi.-h betokened its age to be !,:HJ years, and imbetffled in the heart of the monaich of the for est was found a joke aboitt house-cleaning anil a man falling down stairs on & piece of soap. Chicaao Time. The Boston girl is compelled to suf ,fer many criticisms from the illiterate Western journalist on account of her superior culture. One o them recent ly wrote that the young lady Ls 'so awfully cultured that she won't call it the -sweet bv-and-by.' She calL-it the ugared subsequently.' "- -Boston Tran script. Wisdom dwells in blue skies and broad sunshine, and the vide hills and the infinite waters; in peace of mind and freedom, and the worship of earth. He is poverty trickeu who i.-J so ab sorbed in the one little enclosure of which he holds the title deeds that he loses his grasp on the bending universe. Gail Hamilton. A correspondent writes- Will you please inform me wnen straw hats can be worn without exciting comment? Certainly. Straw hats can be worn without exciting commeut 'A'hen worn on the head. But when they are worn cavorting along the street in a gale of wind vou must expect a remark or two. Philadelphia 'JalL At Augusta, Ga.. the other day lightning struck a hen that was sitting on a nest of eggs. When that thunder bolt got out of "the hen-house it looked as though it had been drawn through a sausage machine, and the way it scoot ed for a cloud was a caution. Bet you it'll never strike a setting hen again. ' Burlington Fnc Press. Oae fellow was from Wilcox and the other resides in this county The Wilcox man said: "After our cyclone, a year or two ago. a large number of birds :md chickens were found from which every feather had been stripped by the terrible wind: in fact, they were peeled as slick as an onion, but the iowls were still alive and kicking." "Oh, that's nothing," exclaimed the Pulaski man. "One of my neighbors had his well blown so crooked by the .same cyclone that he has not been able to get a bucket down into it since, and 'he was compelled to dig another welL" At this point the raeeting adjourned. Hawkins i-ille (Ga,) Afao. FIRST National Bank ! COLUMBUS, IX Authorized Capital, -Paid In Capital, Surplus and Profits, - S250.000 50,000 . 6,000 OFVfCKRS ND DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON". Pres't. SAM'L C. 3t ITH. Vice Pret't. O.T. ROKN, Cashier. J. W. EARLY, HKRMAN OEHLRICU. V A. MCALLISTER, 1. ANDERSON. I. ANDERSON. - Foreign and Inland Exchange. Pujsajje Tifket.-.anu Real Estate Loans. -vol-i:t-ly COAL LIME! J. E. NORTH & CO., DEALERS IN Coal, Lime, Cement. Keck Spins Coal L'iirlion (Wyomini) Coal. EM011 luva) Coal -S7.0U per ion . li.Uil - . i.l)tf ' Blacksmith Coal of beat quality al ways on hand at low eat prices. North. Sida Eleventh St., COLUMBUS. NEB. I I .Sill UNION PACTFIC 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. JSrHiij! proof in.nie on I'iriihcr CLtiiu-J, Il.'iut te .l- .in! lre -mi'tfjin. IifAll -Ai-liin to ln l.irnl- of my t.--rr"itioii will pi.- -- .mII .mil -x.milne nit li-tl I.irul- !iefoi'eloSl!ii el-- wliire J5".VI1 nivini: l.tud- to -.'ll w.ll pleu-e call jihI ii me .t iU--f iniion, t rm , price-. it-. J3J"I 1 o .mi ir.-piro.l to ni-iire prop erty, :i- I Ijivc the .it-ii'v of -overal lir-t.tfl.iii fr'iiv iii-nr iix.-- comp inie-. . V. oTT. "vl:i-itnr. -pe.ik (iermnn. Mill IJ.r.JWIITH, :ti-tf V olitlllhll-. Nclru-K:i. BECKER & WELCH. PROPRIETOR OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. M.VNl KAtTl RElt- A'I WUol.E h VLK OLA LEU- IN FLOUR AND MEAL. oFFff't-:.-- co i r Mitrs. xkr. SPE1CE & NORTH, lien-ral icnt-for 'he "lie o! REAL ESTATE. Union Paeitit:, anii Midlaml l'aciac R. R. Land? for sale it from $3.0 to10.00 per acre for cash, or on tive or ten years time, in annual payment to uit pur chasers. We have alio a lare and choice lot of other land", improved and unimproved, for s.ile at low price and on reasonable term-. ANo bnsine and re.-idence lot,- it. the city. VTe keep a complete abstract of title to sill real es tate in lltte County. i?2t COLK JIBl'M. .1EB. L0CIS SCHKEIBER, HacMIaiiillaK AH kinds of Repaitiag done on Short Xotice. Baggies, Wag ons, etc. made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A Wood Mowers. Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-hinders the heat made. 'Shop opposite the " Tattersall." on Olive St., COLIDLBU3. 26-a 11 laser