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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7, 1885.
WHOLE NO. 765.
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Drs. MAETYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Consultations in German and English.
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PHYSICIANS: SURGEON.
Diseases of women and children a spe
cialty. Countv physician. Office forraer
fy occupied by Dr.Boncsteel. Telephone
exchange.
f-E.l,A ASIIBAIJGII,D..8.
" " DENIAL PARLOR,
On corner of Eleventh and North streets,
over Ernst's hardware htore.
TT J. 1HIMS03I,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
12th Street, i doun. ncot or Hammond Hobm,
Columbus, Neb. Wl-J'
J . KEEDER,
A TTOJiNE Y AT LA W,
Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska
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ing, llth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
-ron TUIOTUY,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Keeps a full line of stationery and school
supplies, and all kinds of legal forms.
Iusures against lire, lightning, cyclone
and tornadoes. Office in Powell's lilock,
Platte Centei. 19"x
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JT. J. 2HAUCS1IAIV,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and Collection Agent.
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llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collar.-., "Whips,
ltlaukpts. Currv Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggv tops, cushions, carriage
trimmii)',', .Vc. at the lowest possible
prices. Kepairs promptly attended to.
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DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR.
Will do general surveying in Platte
and adjoining counties. Office with S. C.
Smith."
COLUMBUS,
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JS. MUKDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Haveliad an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
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HUMPHREY, NEBR.
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Packers and Dealers in all kinds of Hog
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-VTOTICE XO TEACHERS.
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on the third Saturday of each
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for the transaction of any other business
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Don't delay. Address Stinson & Co.,
Portland, Maine.
A WOKI OF WARNING.
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 other Companies to the contrary not
withstanding. P. W. HENRICH, Special Ae't,
15-y Columbus, Neb.
NO HUMBUG!
But a Grand Success.
RP. BRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC VTA-
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Oehlrich's grocery. 9-6m
J. WAG-NER,
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Is prepared to furnish the public w:th
good teams, bugeies and carriagos for all
occasions, especially for funerals. Also
conducts a sale stable. 44
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opeus before the workers, absolutely
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Augusta, Maine.
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THE WISH-BONE.
Slender and shining, propnetlo bone.
We pulled It the future to divine;
Her bare pink palm, the bit in my own.
Told that wiaOi mnd -wish-bone both wt
mine.
"What did you ask for?" whispered myBoH,
Looking up shyly with eyes so true.
"I wished," 1 answered, drawing heaclote,
"The woman I win might look llkefyou:
"Her eyes as brown as a forest brook,
Uer cheek as pink as a sea-shell's tint,
A tender mouth, and a saucy look.
And pale brown hair with a golden glint;
"In short, that my future wife might be
You, dear little Uose, and only you."
lildlng her face In my breast, said she:
"Isn't It funny? I wished that, too."
lluih Hail, in Harper's Magasu.
A CUP OF TEA.
A Story of the Times That Tried
Men's Souls.
"The British are coming!"
It was a fearful cry unto the ears of
those upon whom it fell that warm
April day. Whispers of a purpose on
the part of the red-coats had reached
the town of Lexington several days be
fore, and now the whisper had culmin
ated in a hoarse, full-throated ory:
"The British are coming!"
Mrs. Sanderson had finished her
ironing, and after rocking the baby
to sleep, swept up the hearth and set
the kettle on for the cozy meal she
meant to prepare for her husband and
her brothers when they should return
tired and hungry from the village.
She had just got out the precious canis
ter of tea, which, ever sincu the terri
ble fuss in Boston two Christmases be
fore, she treasured as one of her most
valued possessions, when her brothers
burst into the little kitchen with the
thrilling cry:
4 'Oh. dear! Oh dear! What shall
we do?" cried Mrs. Sanderson, wring
ing her hands.
"Do?" answered her husband, who
caught her words as he came hurrying
in behind the boys. "Do? Why, meet
the pesky critters on their way to Con
cord, where they are bound, and scat
ter even' mother s son 01 em to
atoms," and he pulled his musket
down from its place and looked quite
equal to the murderous deed.
"They will pass here, right through
Lexington, then, Silas," said Mrs. San
derson, catching up the baby from its
cradle and holding .it tight to her
breast.
"Not if we can help it mother !
We're only seventy men strong, to be
sure, but keep up your spirits ; there's
a fire and fervor in the American heart
that can outblaze any dull, nickering
flame of courago in the breast of King
George's hirelings! Come, boys! we've
not a moment to lose." Then kissing the
sobbing woman, and bidding her "keep
up," the men hastened on to their
brave duty of defending hearth and
home.
Again the crv resounded on the cleaT
spring air: "The British are coming !'
and looked out of her window down on
the village that lay a little ways below,
Mrs. Sanderson could see the signals :
and now the bells rang out and signal
guns were firing.
"Oh dear! What shall I do?" she
cried again. "They may pass by here
and pillage the house and kill baby and
me! Then, as a thought struck her,
"I'll escape to the woods before they
reach the road. I shall be safo in the
little lo hut the bovs built last win-to-."
She wrapped the child up warmly as
she spoke, and throwing a heavy bed
quilt about her own shoulders, was
about to start, when, catching sight of
her beloved tea caddy standing upon
the table, she said to herself, and she
laughed afterwards when she recol
lected how ridiculous and trivial it was
at such a serious time. "The Satun
ious redcoats shall not have auy tea for
their supper, so there!" anl she quick
ly emptied the contents of the caddy
into an old battered colFec-pot and hid
it in the oven.
"I guess you'll have to whistle for
your cup of tea in this house, Mr. Brit
isher !" said she, as she ran hurriedly
out of the house toward the piece of
woods half a mile or so away.
tt vfiu Hort- nntv ?inil wiYiwinir fnrl
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though the weather for the season ha'd
been warm. Patches of snow still
lingered on the hedges and in paths
which the sun coujd not reach at mid
day. The wind whistled through the
bare boughs, and she was chilled
through when she reached the little
hut in the woods. The baby wakened
and cried, and his voice seemed louder
and shriller than ever before. She
hugged him closer to her bosom and
stilled his cries quickly, lest some
prowling British soldier should detect
their hiding spot
Flashes of hre and the sound of the
excited voices of the men could be
heard in the distance. With a prayer
upon her lips for the safety and pres
ervation of her loved ones, Mrs. San
derson at last succumbed to nature,
and lay down to rest. Tired and worn
out with the fatigue and excitement of
the day, she soon fell into a profound
(dumber.
It was late in the morning when she
wakened. In spite of the discomforts
and cold in her strange quarters, she
had slept soundly through the night;
the babv too had been unusually good,
and had not disturbed her. For an in
stant she could not recover her
thoughts. Where was she and what
did it all mean? Then a flash of recol
lection swept across her dazed brain,
and she remembered all.
She made her way at length to the
edge of the woods and looked down to
ward the illage. The light seemed to
be raging fiercely: but could she believe
her eyes, as, shading them with one
hand," she secnied to see the red-coats
fleeing back toward the Boston road,
closely pursued by the Minute Men?
"They have been routed and are re
treating! Brave men of Lexington!"
she cried, proudly, as she watcled with
breathless interest the quick march of
the enemy, which were driven before
the Americans like a flock of sheep.
It was growing toward sundown
when Mrs. Sanderson decided it would
be s:ife to venture back to her home.
VI ready along the roadside were to be
seen the debris and ravages of Avar;
and when she entered her own desolate
home, there, too. the "British" had evi
dently "come," for a general upsetting
of her orderly household was plainly
visible.
Where, oh. where were father and
the boys? Should she ever see them
again?" As she laid the bab down in
its cradle, and lighted the candle to
look about her more closely, a deep
groan startled her. She looked over
toward the spot from whence the sound
had issued, and saw a man's figure
prostrate upon the floor in the dark
ened corner.
"O Silas, my husband! Are you
killed?" she cried, throwing herself
down beside the figure
The man tamed and laised him f
apou one una, and she saw, not ike ;
&cc of her husband, but that f a i
stranger, and she recognized now the
hateful red uniform of a British officer.
"Madam," whispered the man,
hoarsely, "I am sick unto death. For
Heaven's sake give me a cup of tea."
"flow dare you?" she began, her
dark eyes flashing lire, the very sound
of the word "Tea" from her enemy's
lips rousing her American indignation;
then at sight of the man's pale, ago
nized features she stopped, and a
womanly compassion for a sick and
suffering fellow creature swept away
all other feeling in her tender breast.
"You are suffering," sho said, in a
gentler tone. "Let me see; where are
you wounded?" and she knelt once
more beside him, for the man had sunk
back exhausted.
"If if you will give me something
warm to drink, I will try to leave
your house at once, madam," he
gasped, vainly endeavoring to rise
again.
"No, no, you shall not go," answered
Mrs. Sanderson now, with warmth and
earnestness. "Your white face is flag
of truce enough to soften my enmity
against you. We women of Lexington
are as tender-hearted as our husbands
are brave. I will not turn a suffering
man from my door, even though he be
our bitter enemy. Lie still; vou shall
have your cup of tea," and sno put a
pillow beneath his head, and bustled
about, making the fire, while the man
watched her preparations with eager
eyes.
The kindlings now blazed up, and the
kettle sang blithely, when Mrs. Sander
son drew from the oven the old coffee
Jiot into which she had poured her tea
or safety. She looked towards the
stranger," as she carefully measured out
the precious grains.
"Coffee?" he asked, catching her
glance.
"No; some of the tea, for which you
British would fain tax us beyond en
durance!" she replied, hotly, her color
rising and eyes flashing again.
In spite of his suffering, the man
smiled grimly. What a spirited little
Yankee woman she was!
Presently she poured out a cupful of
the fragrant Oolong and held it to his
lips. He drank long and copiously,
then with a grateful look, he muttered
a few words half-intelligibly. She bont
lower to catch them.
"Whosoever giveth a cup ot water in
my name, he shall not lose his re
ward."' So much she heard as he
closed his eyes and sank into a deep
sleep.
Baby now demanded her care, and it
was with a sorrowful heart that sho
seated herself to nurse him. Again
and again the agonized thoughts of
where was her husband? were her
brothers still alive3 were she and baby
widowed and fatherless? came with
overwhelming force. Suddenly a shout
outside started her reveries, and roused
her sleeping guest. She hastened to
open the door, and Silas Sanderson
burst in, begrimed and black with the
dust of the fray.
"Hurrah!" he cried, triumphantly
"We have routed the red-coats; they
are going back to Boston fo-night
quicker than they came yesterday.
Three cheers for the brave Minute Men
of Lexington town!"
"O, Silas, you are alive! you are not
hurt!" cried his wife, throwing herself
into his arms.
"No, no; 1 am equal to a hundred
more battles"
"Ami the boys? O, Silas, tell me
quickly!"
"Reuben wa- wounded a trifle, but
Ebcnezer is s:ife: they arc both pur
suing the enemy, am! will follow them
up to Charlentown to-night. But j'ou,
Malvinv, where did you stay, and
baby?"
"In the woods all night," sobbed
Mrs. Sanderson, breaking down for the
first time.
"My poor girl! There, there, we are
all safe now. Come, make me a cup of
tea. Ah, you've got it all ready for
me? What!" as she caught sight of
the tall figure in the red uniform that
now stajjjjered towards him from its
corner.
"What!" he shouted, catching up his
musket and preparing to fire.
"No, no, Silas! not that not mur
der! he is sick and wounded, he is"
"He's a red-coat!" cried Silas, taking
aim.
Mrs. Sanderson quickly placed her
self before the man, shielding him with
her own bady.
"Silas!" she cried, putting up her
hand; "you shall not have this man's
blood upon your mhiI. It is not war,
but murder, in your heart now."
The man pushed her aside, and stood
awaiting hi doom. Silas dropped his
musket with a dull thud upon the floor,
and grasped the man roughly by the
shoulder.
"You are my prisoner, at least,"
said he. "and you'll stay here
until"
"Stop. Silas! do you not see the man
is dying?"
The loss of blood, which now gushed
from a severe wound in the oliicer's
side, made him unable to stand longer,
and he fell in a dead swoon at their
feet
At sight of the enemy's weakness
even the stem Minute Man's anger
melted, and Silas lifted up the man, as
tenderly as he would have done a
brother, and laid him down upon the
settle by the hearth.
Then together the compassionate
man and wife dressed the gaping wound
that undoubtedly some of their own
friends had that day inflicted upon the
hated red-coat.
They watched beside him through
the night, ministering unto his feverish
thirst and and answering his continual
petition for "a cup of tea, for God's
sake!" without a thought of enmity
toward the Britisher" in their hearts.
For three days was this their enemy,
their prisoner and their guest. At the
close of the third day the man was
strong enough to walk about the room.
Up to this time the three had spoken
upon nothing save the necessary talk
relative to the man's illness.
He himself bro.ke the constrained si
lence at last: "I am strong now," he
said to Silas, one evening, "but I am
your prisoner; what disposition shall
you make of me?"
Silas looked at his wife. She replied
quickly and with warmth:
"You are our enemy," said she, "but
vou have been wounded b who
knows? perhaps one ot our ownblood"
with a thought of her own brothers,
who wer still down in Cambridge.
"You are not a bad man, I think, al
though you are a Britisher. If I may
answer your queM .0 : a I would like
to, I would -jaA .-.imply: "Good-bye,
don't come thi way again; we might
not be so hospitable another time.' "
And she looked anxiously over toward
Silas.
Her husband did not speak.
"And you, sir?" asked the officer.
(Silas did not look up. "My wife's
word is law in this house," lie replied,
in a low tone. "I won't answer for
wiat I mkrhti sav if she were not here.
You'd better do as she says now. say
good-bye and go right away."
"Madam, I leei that I owe my life
and my liberty to you, God bless you!"
and the officer extended his hand to
them both.
Mrs. Sanderson accepted it, but Silas
drew back.
3 "I can't shake hands with a British
er, sir," ho said; "you are my enemy
stfll." J J
' The man turned and walked out of
the door, but in a differant garb, into
the gathering gloom of the dull Spring
night, and never again did Silas San
derson or his wife entertain a red-coat
My story is substantially true.
Many years after, when Mrs. Sander
son was quite an old lady, and liked to
tell her grandchildren of the cup of tea
she made one day for a Britisher, a
great box came to her from over the
seas one Christmas.
It contained a chest of tea of tho very
finest brand, and on a card inside was
wftten, "From a British officer to tho
American woman who once made for
him a cup of tea." Augusta de Bubna,
in Youths Companion.
a.
The Ideal American Home.
What is the ideal home of the intelli
gent and refined American citizen?
You know the picture. It is not over
500 acres of land. One hundred in
woodland, 100 in pasture, 230 in gen
eral cultivation, and the remaining
fifty in proximity to the eight or ten
room house. There is a ten-acre
orchard of well-cared for fruit trees of
every variety adapted to the soil and
climate, a live-acre vineyard, a kitchen
farden of one acre, separated lots and
ouses for .stock and for fowls, and
with the front yard thrown into mounds
and laid off with serpentine walks, with
summer houses, and in which are found
tho choicest flowers and most luxuriant
of vines. In one room, one of the most
comfortable, is found a library; there
is always money to spare to" pay for
new books, magazines and a newspaper,
and to which on the dullest of days the
minds of the family can readily turn
for communion with great authors. Do
officors of tho law ever look under rose
bushes or through vine arbors for per
sons named in their writs? ever find
them in such place?? No, those do not
breed crime, graduate or attract crim
inals. But they do inculcate and ma
ture principles born in tho bosom of
God, whose voice is the happiness and
harmony of the world. Were it possir
ble to rear a child in such a place,
without contact and contamination
with the outside world, with no other
teacher than tho language of
tho gar-
uen, its Hie would oe as pure as
the
prayer of an angel, and its epitaph
with truth be written:
Xo pearl ever lay under Oman's green water
More pure in its shell than thy spirit In
thee.
It is, however, not at all necessary to
have so much as 500 acres to create an
ideal home; nor the half, nor the fifth
of it. How often do wo find a master
hand take hold of a few acres, and, as
j it were, by the touch of magic, change
the otherwise rude and ugly surface of
the elephant into the soft and silken
spots of the leopard? The cottage
home, surrounded by fruits, flowers
and ornamental trees, arranged with
taste, cultivated and pruned with care,
attracts more attention than the costly,
stately mansion without these although
Hanked by native forest monarchs.
You need walk but a few blocks in this
or any other city to find proof of this.
There is another light in which your
calling shines with a luster all its own.
You are not reapers but sowers. You
are teaching people of our young State
how to live how to raise and enjoy the
best gifts of their Creator. The seeds
you are planting now will bear fruit for
generations yet unborn. And it must
be a happv reflection that if you suc
ceed, as you certainly will, in dissem
inating your products and a correct
knowledge of them over your country,
you will not have lived in vain. And
always remember the immortal truth of
the immortal speech of Jennie Deans to
Quren Caroline: "When the hour of
trouble comes, which comes to all, and
when the hour of death comes, which
comes to high and low, it is not that we
have done for ourselves, but that we
have done for others we think of most
pleasantly." N. O. Times-Democrat.
The Games of Savages.
We must look for considerable sim
plicity in the games of savages. We
must also allow for their want of me
chanical skill. No outsider, not even
Mr. Gale, knows how a cricket ball is
stuiled and sewed; some, at least, of
the processes are a trade mystery. The
savage can not produce a cricket ball,
a gou ball, a billiard ball; his equip
ment is thus scanty, and he has to do
the best in his power with the rude ma
terials and means at his command.
Yet we must not despise the games of
savages. Little studied as they have
becnuy the anthropologist (for even
Mr. Taylor lias chiefly written about a
primitive form of backgammon and
about tsigan, or polo, alone,) the
games of savages deserve to be ex
amined with respect. The nrranjre-
meut of such vague
things as savage
not verv easy. They mav.
perhaps be classed as imitative, gam
bling and purely sportive, though the
three divisions naturally overlap and
run into each other. The first category
mav be dismissed briefly enoujrh. Of
savage as of civilized children it may
be said that "their whole vocation is
endless imitation." A wedding or a
funeral among the elders is copied by
the little ones in childish play. The
Esquimaux children "build little snow
huts, which they light up with scraps
of lampwick begged from their moth
ers." Australian children have their
tinv boomerangs and lijrht vet danger
ous boys spears, the latter being made
of a long reed tipped with a sharp piece
of hard, heavy wood. Australian chil
dren are regularly taught by tho old
men to wield their little weapons, and
the late Mr. Grimston, at Harrow, has
his Australian counterpart in the aged
Murri, who sets up the mark for the
children and teaches them how to di
rect their missiles. A disk made of bark
is thrown hard down on the ground,
and, as it bounds along with irregular
leaps, the young blacks cast at it with
tin spears. "Obedience, steadiness,
fai -.day and self-command were incul
cated by the practices witnessed" in tho
playing fields of the bush. The imita
tive games of young savages, then, are
like those of other young people, only
varying in the things imitated. Among
games we can scarcely reckon the
dances of the adults, in which the man
ners and customs of beasts are imitated.
These dances have usually a religious
sense, (as when the Athenian girls
mimicked the bear in the worship of
Artemius,) or they are magical cere
monies, intended to secure luck in the
chase. Saturday Recicio.
A man with a wooden leg is one of
the most expert bicyclists in Salem. Ore
HOW LONDON DINES.
Corfly State Dinners, or. If You Like,
Meal for a Fenny.
Being bidden to one of London's civio
dinners, I partook inter alia f lark
pudding. I do think it is a shame to
put the lark which "at Heaven's gate
sings" into pudding, but being in a
pudding the lark is exceedingly nice. 1
am told that lark pudding is quite as
expensive and doubly as rare as bird's
nestjsoup, and certainly the unanimity
with which tho guests on the occasion I
refer to called for it, bears out the as
sertion. Perhaps Delmonico himself
could not have suggested a rarer menu
than that which the shipwrights laid
before us. The Lord Mayor as fine
and yeomanlike a specimen of English
man as one wonld wish to see occu
pied the guest's place of honor, and at
such times as I dared furtively to raise
my eyes in the direction of that digni
taryl thought I 8aw"tnat he enjoyed
tho repast exceedingly. Certainly it
was a gorgeous affair, from tho soup to
the pudding, and afterward to tho
cigars (great fat fellows of that deli
ciously loose and crumbly make about
the end that domestic workmen can
not imitate). The wines, too; the fra
grant hocks and mellow clarets and dry
champagnes, the rare old ports, the
nutty sherries, the thimbleful of oily
brandy, and the accompanying gulp of
coffee. That is one way in which Lon
doners the great corporations and city
guilds dine.
Let us soe. At tho height of that ban
quet it must have been nine o'clock.
From tho majestic Mansion House,
which seos literally hundreds of such din
ners during every Lord Mayor's term,
to the Now cut, is but a ihort distance.
Here, "as indeed in all parts of Loudon.
there are served up at eght o'clock pre
cindy in the ham and beef shops huge
dishes of boiled beef, baked pork and
peaso pudding. It is not to say too
much that one hundred thousand fam
ilies in London take their evening (and
heartiest) meal from theso shops, carry
ing home the steaming viands in hot
basins, at a cost of from one penny to
say, ninepenco each family. (Two to
18 cents. The meat, of course, can
not bo obtainod for this smaller sum,
but a huge platter of peaso pudding
may, and there is no dish moro whole
some and sustaining. To tho very
poor not to the very poor
est, poor creatures, for they
are unable to get oven this cheap food
frequently the hot joints and hot pud
ding served from eight o'clock until
midnight, and the savory saveloys that
are taken steaming from the boiler are
a great boon. Many of tho establish
ments in which they are served have
also a midday hot lunch (none being al
lowed to consume their food on tho
premises), but for tho most part the
morning is occupied by their proprietors
in cutting and preparing the meat for
the great rush of the evening, in clear
ing up generally, and in cutting cold
meats for such as want them. I have
often gazed with mute admiration upon
the deit manner in which these gentle
men ply their long knives. They seem
to be able to cut off a pound of meat
without diminishing the joint. And to
do it again and again. I am positive
that I have seon them shave off a piece
of ham that was no thicker than tho
paper on which these lines will be
printed.
Such as can not muster enough
money to indulge in a steak-and-kidney
pudding, which costs anywhere from
four to ten pence, according to how
much steak and kidney there is in it,
and of what variety they are, can at all
events find a cheap and healthy repast
in the fried-fish shop. There is a great
plenty in England, and at any seasons
of the year, ot a fish called plaice. It is
something liko a flounder and some
thing like a sole, but it is neither, and
has a distinct flavor. The fried-fish
shop-keeper cuts this plaice in two,
peppers, salts, and flours him, and pops
him into a gigantic vat of boiling grease.
In ten minutes he is done. Scores of
thousands, especially in the winter time,
are nightly customers of the fried-fish
shop. I have tried plaico so cooked
and like him very much. The great
consideration about him, however, is
his cheapness. A satisfying portion of
fried plaice for one can be obtained for
a single penny, while, if the purchaser
desires to spend more, he can get
at the same shop a three-cornered
paper full of chipped potatoes for
another penny four cents of our money
in all. Is it not terrible to think that in
this vast town, this innumerable cara
van, there are thousands who can not
often approach even this poor luxury?
The poor, however, have certainly more
opportunities of obtaining cheap and
nourishing food in London than in any
other of the large cities certainly far
more than in New York or Brooklyn.
We will suppose, for example, that a
man were landed in New York with but
twenty-five cents in the world and
hungry. How long could he support
life on that? Certainly not more than
two days that is to say, before he be
gan to starve. Twenty-five cents are a
shilling and a half-penny in English
money, and I think you" will gather
from what I have written that it would
go much further here than there. For
a penny here man may have a dish of
whelks (a toothsome shell-fish) with
pepper and vinegar, or two very repulsive-looking
oysters, or in the winter
time a cup of hot eel soup, or a meat or
fruit pie, or a plate of mussels. Cor.
Brooklyn Times.
Why He Objected.
Judge Bigincome sat down to the
dinner-table, and after being helped,
asked his wife:
"Mary, who is that freak of nature I
saw in the back yard?"
"That is the new coachman I engaged
this afternoon."
"Why, he's humpbacked and will
look like a toad sitting upon the chine
of a water-logged barrel!"
"Perhaps so."
"And he's got a bias in one eyo that
would arouse tho sympathy of even
Ben Butler."
"I noticed that."
"And his mouth looks like the hop
per of a sausage-grinder, his nose
eems to be retiring from business and
his ears are the size of the cinder-fenders
on a Pullman car!"
"I agree with you. But why do
you object to those items, Judge?"
"Why, madam? Because I don't
propose that one of my daughters shall
marry a combination side-show! I, at
least, have the privilege of wishing
that my son-in-law can go about with
his wife in good society without his
very looks giving people acute neural
gia of the optic nerves and frightening
timid parties into possible catas
trophe!' Ihe "freak" got his walking papers
right away. v42xto Cracker.
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O. T. ROEN, Cashier.
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unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
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TZ3TI also am prepared to insure prop
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Columbus, Nebraska.
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One of tha Few rortn la China Opa a
Foreign Trade.
Foo Chow 13 thu capital city of tho
province of Foh Kieu, annil one of tha
few ports in China open to foreign,
trade. The Chinese nanus of the city U
Hok Chin, which signifies "happy re
gion." Foo Chow is situated in latitude
2G degrees 5 minutes north and longi
tude 119 degrees '20 minutes east, about
420 miles northeast of Canton, and 375
miles southwest of Shanghai. It stands
on a plain about two and a half miles
from tho north bank of the River Miu.
and twenty-live miles from its mouth.
An ampitllcater of hills surrounds the
city about four miles distant, and it is
protected by one of the peculiar walls
of China, which is seven miles in cir
cumference, from twenty to twenty-live
feet high, and from twelve to twenty
feet in thickness at different points.
Seven gates. aHoriLentrance to the city
proper through this high wall, and over
each of the gates is a high tower which
is jealously guarded by watchmen. Tho
whole district between the city and
River Miu, the island of Xantai. and the
southern bank of the river are occupied
by extensive suburb-,, and the river it
self is occupied by a large floating poj
ulation which lives in the boats which
crowd its waters. Communication frm
bank to bank of the river is afforded by
a stono bridge, which is about a quartor
of a mile long, and is supported by
forty piers, placd at unequal distauces.
Across these piers are laid immense
stones, three feet square and about
forty-live feet long, and over these a
granite platform extends. This bridge
is known to the natives as the bridge of
ten thousand ages, and is said to be
over eight hundred years old. It is
lined along the sides with shojw, and is
constantly lilled with the people of Foo
Chow.
The city proper of Foo Chow is reg
ularly built, but the streets, though
paved with granite, and in many in
stances planted with 4rees. are tilthy,
narrow, anil infested with beggars.
The population of the city has been
variously estimated by travelers in
China at from G00.000 to 4,000.000 souls.
The most remarkable establishment of
the city is the arsenal, actuated about
three miles down the River Min, at
Pagoda Island, where the sea-going
vessels usually anchor. It was founded
in 15G7. and has been conducted, under
the direction of French engineers, ac
cording to European methods. In 1870
it employed about one thousand work
men, besides lifty European superin
tendents. Foo Chow is known in China
as a city of the lirst class, and Ls the
seat of "the Viceroy, or Governor Gen
eral, whose jurisdiction extends over
Fokien and Cheklang, the province ad
joining Fokicu to the north. The city
is also a great literary center, and nti
merous gentry who have retired from
office in other parts of the Empire and
men of high literary attainments reside
there. It has several cotton, papt r and
hardware manufactories, .-everal hun
dred factories for making porcelain,
and factories of blue cloth, .screens and
combs. Near by are productive lead
mines, and a great tea-growing district
lies within seventy miles of the city.
The commerce of Foo Chow is princi
pally witlt Japan and the maritiimo
provinces of China. The chief exports
are black teas, timber, bamboo, fruits.
orange-peel, tobacco, potash, spices,
gniin. copper and lead. The import-!
are opium, which .sometimes amounts)
to -5.000,000 in value for a year, salt,
sugar and European manufactures.
Chicago Times.
a a
WANTED TO WED A CHILD.
An Italian Atmnpiliifj tn Mury a Tn-elva-Yr;ir-OIl
(ilrl.
The procession of Italians, the womeni
in srav costumes anil most of the men.
dressed like laborers, trooped aerosst
City Hall Park yesterday afternoon and)
entered the hall by tho rear door. The
leader was Mr. Pergamini, the money
broker, of No. 15 Center street. A girl
not ever four feet in height came last.
She was clad in a brown dress with a
bright blue waist, her head was uncov
ered, and a profusion of chains hung
about her ncc,k. and rings were upon
nearly all her linger-;. She prattled
with her companion during the walk,
and laughed with childfch glee when
the hall was reached. It was a wed
ding party, and the child wa- the bride.
Entering" the hall, piloted by Mr. Ber
gamiui, they proceeded to the Alder
manic Library, where the necessary
papers were lilled out. The girl-bride
was Teresa Uallote, and her age wa
set down at between twelve and thir
teen. The jjroom was Demenico Mil
ano, aged twenty-six. Mr. Uergamini
bustled about, and when the attending
witnesses had allixed their signatures to
the certilicate declared that everything
was ready for the ceremony. After
,somc delay Alderman Dempsey was
found. The parties stood up, when the
Alderman demanded: -How old is that
child?"
"Not quite thirteen," raid Mr. Ber
gamini. "I won't marry such a child," said
the Alderman, "and it is an outrage to
have her married. You must get some
one else," and, hastily walking out he
banged the door to show his displeasure.
"Well, well," said Uergamini, "we
must get some one else. Where is
Alderman Finck? He will do it right
off."
A search for the willing Alderman
proved fruitless, and. again headed by
the indefatigable Uergamini, the party
entered the private room of Judge Mc
Adam. Before the papers were shown
to him the age of the child was altered
uo that she was made to appear as being
in her fourteenth year. The Judge ex
amined the papers, and then came out,
and. taking a look at the child, paid at
once: "I won't marry tin. girl, as she is
not of lawful age and is nothing but a
child." The girl's mother stepped for
ward and explained through Uergamini
that the marriage was with her consent,
but the Judge lirmly refused to perform
the ceremony, and again the party left
in search of the necessary oflicial. None
could Iks found, and the parties then left
for home, Mr. Bergamini stating that
the ceremony would be performed on
Monday at two o'clock, when plenty of
Aldermen will be about.
Judge McAdam said, after the bridal
party had left, that, wholly apart from
the "impropriety of marrying such a
child, the ceremony could not legally
be performed, and that any magistrate
or Alderman marning her would be in
dictable for misdemeanor. :us the statute
provides that females under fourteen
years of age. or males under sixteen,
can not be married, even with the con
sent of the parents. He was also out
spoken in denunciation of the attempt
o deceive him about the ago of the girl
oy chauging the figures upon ths papers.
N. Y. Times.
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