Nebraska Newspapers

    A DISGUISED ROBBER.
A Man mo Refused to GIt Tern
But Afterward Gave.Ten Dollar.
"Any one who can.get a dollar of oMi
KedPolder's money is on the road tm
fortune," is a proverb well known to
the citizens of Little Rock. Polder is!
one of those men who are always cort-J
plaining of hard times. He owns a.
great deal of property, and raises his,
rents every season, yet his income isj
always unsatisfactory. Once a little'
child, shivering with cold and almpst
starving, found her way into old Ned
Polder's office.
"What do you want here, little girl;
what do you want here?"
"Won't you please give me ten cents.
I am nearly starved."
"Nearly starved. Why, where are
your parents?"
"Dead, sir."
"That's bad; that's very bad, indeed,
but I can't help it. We've all got to
die, and the sooner the better for some
of us. Tut, tut, don't cry. Run along,
.now. It's pretty chilly to-day, but I
think it will be warmer" to-morrow."
"But I am so hungry, sir."
"Yes, I understand. People get hun
gry every nor and then. I was once
hungry myself, but I hustled round
and got something to eat. Don't give
up, keep on trj-ing, and perhaps you
may get something to eat after awhile,
ph, no, I can't give you ten cents.
Couldn't think about it, for my pew
rent is due to-day, besides, I have been
taxed with foreign mission business.
That's right, run along and shut the
door."
Shortly after the little girl went down,
& large man with bushy whiskers and
fierce expression of countenance, en
tered and, drawing up a chair without
an invitation, sat down, crossed his.
legs and said:
"Is this Mr. Polder?"
"Yes, sir, that's my name. Business
with me? Please be brief, for I am in a
!big hurry."
' "I won't detain you long. I havo
beard that you are a man of rare judg
jnent and that you have had much ex-'
perience in thc'law. I want your ad-.
Vice. Don't be impatient I won't de-'
tain you long."
"And I won't detain you at all, sir,
if you'll be so kind as to excuse me."
"You must hear what I have to say,
for it concerns you financially."
"Ah. proceed then, but bo brief, sir,
be brief.s'
"Several days ago, a man went into
the oflice of a well-known gentleman
and wanted to borrow five dollars. The
gentleman hooted at the idea. The
man who wanted the money did not'
"hoot. He looked like an owl of wis
dom, but not a single suggestion of a
Loot escaped him. He fixed his eyes
ion the gentleman, just like I am doing,
and said that he must have the five dol
lars. Now what I want to know is,
did the man act rightly in killing the
rich gentleman simply because he re
fused to give the live dollarsP"
"It was murder!" exclaimed Polder.
"It was murder in the first degree."
"That's what I thought, still I am
not willing to risk my judgment in
such matters. So you think that it was
murder?"
"Of course I do."
"Yes, I think so, too, but, as I said be
fore, I felt a reluctance in risking my
own judgment. You may have noticed
that the judgment of the average man
is as full of holes as a sifter, or the hat
which the rich cheerfully give to the
poor. Murder well, considering
everything, I suppose it was."
"But, my dear sir, how.does it con
cern me financially?"
"In this way. Some man might en
ter your oflice some half crazy fellow
and demand five dollars. You might
refuse, which I have no doubt you
would be tempted to do, and he might
kill you with a knife. You would re
gard that murder, would you not?"
"I I hardly understand you, sir,"
looking suspiciously at the visitor.
"Of course I would regard it murder."
"Yes, and quite naturally so, but
does it occur to 3011 that all the time
you were regarding this matter you
.would be dead? It would be murder,
and you would be the murdered man-"
"1 don't think you have any business
with me, sir, and you will please re
tire." "I came up here with that intention.
As I was ascending the steps which I
noticed had not been swept for some
time I said to myself, 41 expect to re
tire from the presence of that man.'
Yes. that is the way I mused.
"But did you think that you would
retire as soon as I requested?"
"Strange,, but that did not enter my
head. The human mind is a curious
piece of machinery, full of odd cogs
and little wheels that fly around and
larger ones that labor like the editor
of an agricultural paper. You under
stand, 1 suppose."
"Yes, but I do not understand the
object of vour. vis.it."
"No? Well, 1 said that it concerned
you financially."
"You said so, but I don't see that it
does."
"Now, you see, there's evidence of
another mental phenomenon. I should
think that a man of your brow, bulging
with acumen and pressed hard by lore,
would have divined the object of this
pleasant visit. 1 want to borrow five
dollars, and sav if anyone should come
up here after 1 am gone if the police
should be nosing around, don't mention
the fact that I coinmittedmurderin the
first degree because a man down in
Texas refused to lend me five dollars.
"What! you hesitate. A strange cbil1
seizes me. Haven't five dollars! Oh,
well, that ten dollar note will answer.
Thank you, sir. You tremble. Tw
well. So, you see, the visit concerned
you financially."
When the man descended to the
street, he removed his disguise and was
talking to the Governor of the State
when old Polder, pale and almost
breathless, came down.
" Did you see a man with bushy whis
kers come along here?"
"Yes," replfcd the robber. "He
seemed to be in a great hurry. Unci
Ned. I think he went down on the
river bank. Did you wish to see him?"
"No no not particularly. He was
up in my office just now and wanted to
6ell me" some some hogs. But it
makes no difference."
"Little girl," said a man approaching
the child who had begged for ten cents,
and who had told her story in the pres
ence of the robber, "come into this
store. The man who refused to give
you ten cents rave me ten dollars for
you. He would have given it to you,
but he hadn't the time. He is a very
busy old gentleman. Come on, and
when we have bought some warm
clothes, we'll go over and get some
thing to eat"
"Oh, he's a good oldnnan, isn't he?"
"Yes, he is such a good old man,
little girl. But don't ask him for any
more. It bothers him. Come on, and
when you have had a nice dinner, you
must go home with me." Arkansas
Traveler.
Queen Victoria rarely indulges in
a joke, but she once gave a good hit at
Sir Charles Dilke, who had Tittle sym
pathy for the royal family. Some one
8oke disparagingly of Sir Charles
ilke's criticisms of the civil list
whereupon the Queen remarked:
'It is strange, for I remember having
him as a boy on my knee and stroking
Sua hair. I suppose," added Her Ma
jesty, after a moment's pause, "I must
pave'stroked it the wrong way. Good
'Gvur.
THE FOES OF FISH.
lBolrlc bj the Halted
J State Hah CommiMlAi.
I The recently issued bulletins of the
"United States Fish Commission contain'
much interesting matter concerning;
ithe habits of fish and of the enemies of
3ish. A paper by G. E. Sims, Jr., de
scribes a novel and unexpected enemy
:to the pisciculturist, discovered among
'the weeds in his aquarium, in the shape
of a fish-eating plant "My attention
was first drawn to it," Mr. Simms says,
"by observing that several of the tiny
.fish, without any apparent cause, were
lying dead on the weeds, while the rest
of the brood looked perfectly healthy
and in good condition. At first I was
somewhat puzzled at the strange posi
tion in which they were lying, and in
trying to more one with" a small twig,
I was still more surprised to find it was'
held fast bv the head, in what I thought,
when I pulled the plant from the wa
ter, were the seed vessels; and a still
closer examination revealed the strange
fact that others of the little fish had
been trapped by the tail, and in one or
two instances the head and tail of the
tune fish had been swallowed by adja
cent bladders, thus forming with its
body a connecting bar between the two.
This is a plant known to botanists as
Dricalaria vulgaris. A peculiar fact in
connection with it is that it has no roots
at any time of its life, and the floating,
root-like branches which are , covered
with numerous capillary anil much
divided leaves are interspersed with
tiny green vesicles, which were sup
posed by a former school of botanists
to bo filled with water, by which means
the plant was kept at the bottom until
the time of flowering, when the water
gavo place to air, and the plant then
rose to the surface to allow its bloom to
expand. As a matter of fact, these
vesicles exercised no such function,
their real work being to entrap minute
crustaceans, worms, larva?, etc., for its
support and without a good supply of
which it is impossible to keep it alive
in an aquarium.
bnakes and muskrats appear to bo
chief among the enemies of the carp.
Reports made by Rud. Hessel, Super
intendent of the United Suites carp
ponds, during August and September,
1883, are quoted to show the destruc
tion of young carp by snakes. In this'
report Mr. Hessel says: "During the
East few dajrs a great many snakes
ave appeared at the ponds, man' of
which have been killed, as follows:
August 4, 16 August 5, 82; August G,
52; August 7, 32; August 8, 39; August
!. 14; August 10. 15; August 11, 21.
This makes 221 snakes killed in one
week. In the smaller snakes I found
from nine to fifteen young carp, and in
the larger ones sometimes over twenty
five, besides undigested skeletons of
fish. They contained no frogs or tad
poles. We can, therefore, see that one
medium-sized snake devours forty
young carp per day, for they digest
very quickly. That would make for
225 snakes 9,000 carp per day, and 63,-
000 per week. That number is correct;
and it shows that snakes are more in
jurious than cranes, herons and other
birds. I kill them by shooting, some
times only seeing a small part of the
head in the water, or hiding beneath
water plants. I have had opportunity
to see how they catch the young fish,
and how they devour them. An old
wall constitutes their best hiding place.
1 often shoot them sitting in the
cracks of the old wall, the head look
ing outside, watching the poor little
fishes."
A paper by Dr. C. Hart Merriam on
"The Muskrat as a Fish-eater," says:
"At a meeting of the Biological Society
of Washington, held in the National
Museum December 14, 18S3, Mr. Hanry
W. Elliott spoke of the 'Appetite of tho
Muskrat' He stated that in certain
parts of Ohio the muskrat did great in
jury to carp ponds, not only by perfor
ating the banks and dams and thus let
ting off tho water, but also by actually
capturing and devouring the carp,
which is a sluggish fish, often remaining
motionless, half buried in the mud.
In the discussion that followed Dr. Ma
son Graham Ellzey said that
from boyhood he had been fa
miliar with the fact that the musk
rats sometimes cat fish. In fact, he had
seen muskrats in the act of devouring
fish that had been recently caught and
left upon the bank. The president, Dr.
Charles A. White, narrated a similar
experience.
On the 7th day of Febuary, 1884, I
brought this subject to the notice of the
Linnsean Society of New York, and
asked if any of the members knew the
muskrat to be a fish-eater. Dr. Edgar
A. Mearns said that he had long been
familiar with the fact, and that it was
no uncommon thing to see a muskrat
munching a dead fish upon the borders
of the soft marshes along the Hudson.
He had shot them while so engaged.
In a letter dated Charlottesville, Va.,
March 18, 1884, Mr. R. T. W. Duke
writes: "On Saturday evening J
caught, with a hook, a carp which
would weigh about four pounds. I put
it in my bath-tub filled with ivater.
Yesterday, about eight o'clock a. m., 1
put the carp in a small box, surrounded
it with wet moss, and forwarded it to
Lynchburg by express. It niched there
about four p. m., and 1 learn this morn
ing from my friend to whom it was
sent that when taken out and placed in
a tub it was as lively as could be. Wo
ate a small carp Sunday morning, and
thought it very good."
The method frequently adopted by
fish culturists to destroy noxious fishes
is to introduce quicklime iulo the pond.
This for a time exerts a very destructive
influence, but before long becomes
inert by slakiug and forming a harm
less combination. If the water is drawn
off af tor liming, of course it would bo
very much better, and at the end of a
week carp or any other fish could bo
introduced. Dr. Rud. Hessel, Superin
tendent of the carp pond, said, Novem
ber 23, 1883: "Some forty eels have
been killed during the last eight days in
the East Pond, and there arc still more.
One barrel of lime is required to exter
minate them." Chicago Times.
A Horrid Husband's Irony.
"I see, dear, fiat you arc getting
along well with your household duties,"
said a young husband to his wife, hold
ing up a biscuit and looking at it critic
ally. "Oh, goody," she exclaimed. "lam
so glad you like the biscuit, George."
"Yes, he replied, "you are getting
along well; but," he continued, "allow
me to offer a suggestion. Put some
bar iron into your next batch of bis
cuits. I have a lingering suspicion,
dear, that.you used sheet iron this time,
because you sec I can break this bis
cuit easily over my knee. What tho
American home-made biscuit most
needs is real solid iron iron that you
can depend upon, and the hotels will
get all the trade, or men will begin to
marrj wooden tobacco signs.'
She called him a horrid thing, and
they never speak now unless there is
company present
The cider mills of Maine are groan
ing beneath their task, and the cider is
flowing from the presses in great
abundance. Many thousand bushels of
apples, which in other years, when
there was a paucity of fruit, would be
valuable for sale in the markets, are
being ground up forvinegar. Farmers
say that they derive more profit from
their fruit manufactured into vinegar
than in any other way. Cider barrels
are in treat demand, ami nmnv nn K
Ing shipped to Maine from Boston.
Wl MCTUH.
AN INQUISITIVE POSTMASTER
A Reporter's Adventure fa aa BUmfe
PostoiHce His Experience as a Spring
Poet Bouncer Comes in Good Play.
A reporter was in a very small town,
in Illinois one day this week. We were
expecting a check from the editor, and
consequently our footsteps were directed
towarau the postoffice. Arriving at the
office, which is in a little one-story
frame building, we inquired, "Is there
any mail for me?" forgetting to give
our name. The postmaster eyed us for
a second, then turned and glanced over
a big package of letters; he found none,
and then scrutinized another bundle.
Again failing to find the expected letter,
he turned towards the reporter andsur-
I veyed him from head to foot
t "Say, what's yer name?" he then in
quired. , We told him and again he turned and
carefully inspected the very same letters
that he had only a moment before ex
amined. Then he turned and queried;
"Where's the letter to come from?'
"Evansville," we answered.
"Oh-o, so! Guess I'll find it, then."
The same performance was again in
dulged in, but without effect. He lazily
laid the letters aside and asked us if we
were any relation to the so and so's,
that used to live in Rattan County,
Kansas. We answered him in the neg
ative. "Visiting here, I s'pose?"
"Yes; is there any mail for me?"
"What did yer say yer name wasP"
We told him again, and he remarked
that if the letter was there it came in
on the morning train.
"O, yes, that's so. I'll look over this
bundle," and he extracted another from
a pigeon hole. Evansville Evansville
let's see, that village is in Ohio, ain't
it?"
"No, sir. It's in Indiana."
"Small place, I guess, near Ft
Wayne?"
"No, sir. Southern part."
"Near Posey County ? How's politics
there?"
"Hang politics! Is there a letter for
me?"
"O, letter? I'll sec," and he finished
mmmaging over the package, and
found one that he eyed for half a min
ute ncai'lv. Just then a voice in the
rear of the office yelled:
"Chicken light. Bet a dollar on
Jones' cock!"
With the letter in hand the postmas
ter made his exit through the baek
door. We sat down and waited ten
minute, then called in a passing boy
and gave him a dime to go round the
back way and call the government
official.
"Want to see me?" he mnocently in
quired, coming to the window.
"For heaven's sake, man, aro you
crazv? I have been here an hour."
"Want mail? What's yer name?"
"Come outside, you danged stinker,
and I'll show you."
"O, you're the fellow that was stand
ing here awhile ago?"
"Arc vou going to give me my mail?"
"Here is a letter."
But before he gave it to us a young
lady came in and the postmaster turned
his attention to her. They chatted
away for live or ten mimitcs, but our
patience was gone.
"Will you excuse me, mam? This in-
fernal jraloot has been two hours
hand-
injr me that letter that he is holding
in
his hand!"
"Letter? O, yes! Here it is."
We grasped it eagerly and heavens,
it was for Smith.
"Sav, this letter isn't for me!"
Thegirl tittered.
"Isn't your name Smith?"
This was too much. We remembered
the many days we had acted as spring
poet bouncer at the Argus oflice and
jumped over the partition. The maiden
tied, and then the matinee for gentle
men only commenced. First one of
that old party's heels would knock over
a pile of "dead matter," then as ho
sftvung around again another would
knock over a lot of Congressional re
ports that he was saving to sell for old
paper, and about four hundred packages
of garden seeds sent by Congressman
Snags to his constituents in that county.
Then his right arm would hit his date
stamp and knock it so that it would
strike his rau&lage bottle and carom
onto the ink bottle and break both.
Then another arm would go through
the air and knock off a lot of circulars
from the Henry College Lottery, and
finally with a wild yell we picked him
up and tired him through a back
window, right through a bi poster of
the Snags County District Fair that was
acting in the place of glass.
As we got on the train the next morn
ing at St. Louis, we heard the newsboys
yelling: "All about the bloody affair at
Snagsville. Eight masked robbers at
tack the postmaster, who shoots two
and drives the others off. Object sup
posed to be robbery!"
We only smiled. We could afford to
smile; we had succeeded in borrowing
lift- cents of a friend in St. Louis to buy
dinner with, and our pass was safe in
our pocket Evansville Argus.
NOVELTIES
OF CHINESE
TUME.
COS-
Nothing
Fits Kzcept IIU Stockings, .Jackets
and Caps.
The principal feature about a China
man's costume is the fact that nothing
ever fits but his stockings. His cloth
ing consits really, of three or four shirts,
or garments made after the fashion of a
shirt, each opening in front and having
five buttons, a sacred number. These
buttons are never in a straight row, but
in a sort of semi-circle half around tho
body. The outer garments have sleeves
a foot longer than the arm, a fact which
affords abundant opportunities for theft.
A Chinaman's jackets are his ther
mometer. He will say: "To-day is
three jackets cold, and if it increases at
this rate, to-morrow will be four or five
jackets cold."
Their shoes arc well known, and their
caps are of three or four different forms.
One they call the "watermelon cap," of
tho shape of half a watermelon, having
no front-piece, but instead, a knob on
the ton bv which it is handled. The
second is like a round top felt hat with
the sides turned up, and others are
of various shapes. The color of the
knob on top of the hat is the sign of
rank among mandarins. The lowest
wear a gilt knob, then a white stone, a
clear crystal, a pale blue stone, a deep
blue, a pale red and a deep red, in order
of rank. Yellow may only be worn by
the Emperor'sfamily.but as a mark of
respect to age, men'ovcr sixty years by
special edicts arc allowed to wear yel
low, this always entitling them to great
consideration among all classes.
The dude pantaloon probably origin
ated among the Chinese, for, from the
dawn of history, on state occasions,
officials and dressy persons will wear a
sort of pantaloon, fitting as tightly as
possible to the leg and each leg being
entirely separate from its fellow. These
trousers are of silk or satin, and the legs
are held in place by being fastened to a
waistband or belt around the body. On
the approach of cold weather the Chi
nese increase the number of their gar
ments, until sometimes tfcey are like
animated bales of cotton, their arms
being forced into a nearly horizontal
position; nor do they take off their
masses of clothing until the return of
Bprinsr. St. Louis Globe Democrat.
There are rumors of several large
engineering enterprises as likely to be
brought to the attention of manufactur
ers during the winter, and a large
amdunt of railroad building is projected.
Railway Review.
FABLED MONSTERS.
Wonderful Stories Told or Serpents with
Iecs and Lions with Snake Tails.
At what period fancy began its work
in zoology is a question which is dis
creetly avoided or acknowledged a puz
zle by those writers who have diligently
delved through the records of all people
for traces of fabulous denizens of the
earth, the sea and the air. That fasci
nating terror of the nursery, the fiery
dragon, it is agreed, is probably the de
generate offspring of the awful ichthyo
sauri and plesiosauri of prehistoric
ages. Chiseled on the earliest stone
monuments of Egypt and Assyria and
India exact representations are found
of the dragon which St George over
came in a mighty battle, and which the
annals of Winchester say existed in
England in such numbers in 1177 as to
be a great danger and scourge
Diodorus saw one which was sixty
feet long, brought to Alexandria by a
slave to please Ptolemy II. St Mich
ael's dragon the Monkish Chronicle
says, was much larger than this. Marco
Polojsays he saw a roc whose outstretched
wings measured sixteen paces from tip
to tip. Not to be outdone by the latter,
that adventurous Englishman, Sir John
Mandeville, relates that he beheld one
in the Chinese seas which was, beside
Polo's like a hawk to a sparrow. El
Wsrdee, the Persian, writes that upon
an island, in an unnamed sea, there
was in hi3 time a roc's egg 100 cubits
high, a firm, white, glistening dome,
big enough to serve as shelter for an
army. An island in the Chinese sea
was marked out as the home of theso
great birds.
Of all fabled birds the most interest
ing was the phoenix. This is a beauti
ful legend, a yearning, it has been elo
quently said, for a visible sign of im
mortality. St. Cyril wrote: "God
knows man's unbelief and provides the
phcenix as an emblem of the resurrec
tion." Clement said this bird goes to
the land of Egypt once in 500 years,
not to the desert" but to a notable city,
to show forth the resurrection, that as
the Lord was killed and rose again, so
the phcenix immolates itself in a lire of
hemlock boughs, and from its ashes
comes a world which straightway grows
into the bird of golden plumage with a
purple body. The polished literature of
the Latins from its birth until its im
mersion in the fogs of the Dark Ages,
glows with the description of the phce
nix as a reality. Pliny knew the bird
well. The populace believed in it. The
brave Manlius rose in the Senate to
mourn the denarturo of a phcenix which
had resided near his house for five hun
dred years. Among other Hying crea
tures "which existed in the popular be
lief of the Latins were the Hying pig, an
enormous hog with an appetite that
ravaged the growing crops of Ilcrzo
mernc; and the gritlin, a lion with an
eagle's head and wings. Sir Jolm Man
deville saw a grilliu lly into a field and
carry off a yoke of oxen. The Romans
firmly believed in the satyr. Pliny said
they lived in India; Albcrtus Magnus,
that they inhabited the woods of Sax
ony; another writer that their home was
in the Atlas Mountains, and another
that the were to be found in what is
now Little Russia. There is no record
that a satyr was ever seen alive. Al
bertus Magnus, however, wrote that he
once saw a satyr pickled in brine at
Alexandria, where thePtoJemys reigned
and collected such curiosities.
imagination has sounded the myste
rious "depths of the ocean and brought
up the terrible krlrKen or kraxen. There
are thousands of Norwegian fishermen,
it is said, to whom this monster is no
fable. They can tell its presence by the
water rising when it rises to the surface
in warm weather. Bishop Poutlapidan's
kraken measured a mile and a half
across its back, and its arms were as
long as the masts of a man-of-war.
Though the fear it has inspired has ex
aggerated its size, there is good reason
to believe that the kraken, which is
doubtless the great cuttle-fish, grows to
an enormous size.
In the ago of the Crusaders dwellers
on the coast of the Mediterranean be
lieved in the zitiron, a iSh with its head
and breast clad in steel armor. Tho
Arabians had the zedmsus, a fish so big
that its bones were sawed into planks.
The pretty fable of the mermaid and
the siren is slow in dying. Less than
fifty years ago the people "bf the country
for miles around swarmed to a little sea
port in the south of England at a rumor
that a mermaid had been seen sitting on
a rock combing its luxuriant locks in the
moonlight. The sea satyr and the tri
ton were familiar beliefs with the an
cients. About two hundred years ago
one of the latter was alleged to have
been captured oil" the coast of Portugal
in the very act of blowing his conch.
Barnacle geese was a curious and strong
belief in the Middle Ages. Sir John
Mandeville did not omit to state that he
had seen the diminutive goliugs dropped
from the shell of the mussel. Within a
comparatively short period a letter ap
peared in an English newspaper rela
ting how a barnacle goose, grown to a
great size, had swallowed a full-rigged
ship and all on board save the writer.
N. Y. Star.
Two Very Smart Cats.
We hope none of our readers, who
pride themselves on their skill as fisher
men, will indulge feelings 4 jealousy on
reading the following story of a cat that
belongs to a lady in Vermont:
A few mornings since she was called
to the front door of the house by the
strange actions of tabby, and discov
ered an eel over two feet in length on
the steps. After a few words of aston
ishment and approbation from her mis
tress, the old cat started for the brook
again, and soon arrived -with anotfier,
but smaller, eel. A third journey to
the brook was made, and a large dace
was brought back. Hardly a day passes
but the eat brings in one or more fish.
Another Windsor cat has dovelopcd a
singular method of hunting birds.
Thomas climbs a certain tree and seats
himself on a limb overhanging another,
at a place where the way to the ground
is clear of branches and boughs. If a
bird happens to light on the lower
branch, Sir Thomas makes a dive and
catches the bird in his month on tho
way to the ground, and dines at his
leisure. His movements have been
watched several times, and he has not
yet been known to miss his prey. Ho
invariably catches the bird in his mouth
while making the Hying trip. Vermont
Journal.
A Woman's Nature.
I think I have several times alluded
to the very curious kind of thin"- wom
an is. I came across a French play
which illustrates one phase of the fe
male nature most amusingly. A voun
man has run away to escape a woman
he has been flirting with. He is makin
love to a fresh flame, when the deserted!
one hunts him up. After a few bitter
reproaches she says:
"Henry, darling, I love you. You
know it " I have never hidden it from
you. Perhaps you have not returned it.
But mine is no selfish love. Tell me
that you love another, and I will say no
more. Tell me frankly you do not love
me, and I will leave you without a mur
mur." "Well," says the youth, frankly, "I
do not love you."
Then she proceeds immediately to
tear all his hair out, and leaves him on
the floor a battered wreck. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
About 10,000 Jewish immigrant
land at our ports yearly, and they hrd
been coming at that rate for ten jeaiaw
AN OXFORD PROCTOR.
Tho Origin of the Term "Plucked" as As
pHrtl to I-Viilure in lixamlniitlon.
Picture to yourself a gentleman be
tween thirty-nine and fifty years of age,
dressed in a black gown, with ample
velvet sleeves edged with wasp
color, and white bands (such as cler
gymen were wont to wear) depending
from his throat, and vou will have some
1 idea of the external appearance of an
j Oxford proctor.
I His dress is symbolic. Tho black
j gown represents the public ceremonies
in which he takes part; the white bund
j denote-the solemnity of hisoflko; while
the velvet sleeves express the softness
of his manners, and the wasp-colored
' border suggests the sting that lurks be-
, ncath.
I lu dignity he ranks next only to the
j vice chancellor: he walks second in the
j procession of magnates wkich files into
' St. Mary's Church every Sunday to
hear the University sermon; he receives
the names and fees of candidates for
the public examinations, and plays a
conspicuous and highly amusing part
in the ceremony of conferring degrees.
After each batch of new-made graduates
have had a Latin iucautation mumbled
over them by the vice chancellor, two
proctors in the presence not only of
university oflicials and students, but
also of any outsider who chooses to
look on sheepishly stride up the long
room and back again without saying
or doing anything. At first there is an
attempt at solemnity in their gait, but
after the senseless exercise has been re
peated two or three times they look, as
they doubtless feel, thoroughly
wretched; the effort to appear dignified
and the desire to get it over as soon
as possible combine to produce
one of the most comical effects ever
seen.
The reason for this absurd perform
ance is not fair to seek. In ancient
days any tradesman who had money
owing him from an undergraduate
might arrest the proctor's course by
plucking his sleeve, and so prevent the
defaulter from taking his degree till
his debt had been discharged. Few
people know that this is the real origin
of the term "plucked," as applied to
failure in examination.
But this is by no means the only oc
casion on which the proctor has to go
on duty. It is a sad fact that this
splendid dignitary, with his velvet
sleeves and snow-white bands, is com
pelled to prowl about the streets by
night, fulfilling the functions of a
policeman. He is supported by three
stalwart fellows in plain clothes, whoso
official title is "proctor's men," but
who are popularly known as "bull
dogs." CasseWs Family Magazine.
CARRYING BUNDLES.
An Interesting Collection of Anecdotes,
Including One of Longfellow.
In the matter of carrying bundles:
A gentleman td threescore years a
millionaire was once clerk in a book
store, and tells this story of the late
Jonathan Phillips, who came into the
store one morning and purchased a
book. After doing it up, the clerk
said: "Mr. Phillips, I will scud this to
your house." "No," said he; "young
man, I will tell you a secret. When
vou get to be as old as I am you will
learn that the most independent man
is he who is his own servant" It is re
lated of Dr. Parkman the same who
was murdered that whenever he
bought a leg of mutton he carried it
home himself. On being asked why he
did this, he said "he wanted to be sure
of the one he had picked out" There is
somewhere a dictum of Lord Eldon,
the famous English lawyer and judge,
that a lawyer might carry a green bag
or a fresh fish through the streets. The
latter perhaps for the same reason that
Dr. Parkman carried his mutton. But
query, whether this would be good
law in Beacon street? An eminent ex
judge of Massachusetts, who was born
in the country, returning to Boston
with a class-mate from a short jour
ney, kindly carried the portmanteau ol
the latter through the streets in order
to save his feelings in case they should
(meet any Bostonese of his acquaint
.auce. This was almost half a century
'ago. To-day so many men, women
and children are rushing about with
bundles to reach the cars that even an
undergraduate of Harvard might not
be ruined if seen with a portmanteau
especially one made of alligator skin.
'Whether the polite public would tol
erate a fresh fish or a leg of mutton is
"doubtful. Perhaps some of our rcad
ers may remember the horror ex.
pressed by an English traveler at see
iing President Lincoln with a parcel in
'his hand. That such a man could suc
ceed in the war then raging the Eng
lishman could not believe. That wflj
'do for bundles. And this ex-
iression reminds us of a little story re
ated of Mr. Longfellow. A Parisian
once remarked to him that there was
one American word that he never
could understand or find in any dic
tionary. "What is it?" inquired the
poet, "lhateldo," was the reply. "J
never heard of the word," said Long
fellow. Presently a servant came in
to replenish the fire. After putting on
a little fuel Longfellow remarked to
him: "That will do." "Ha!" ex
claimed the Frenchman, "that is the
very woKd which has puzzled me."
Boston Every Other Saturday.
"Shakel"
Some years ago an emigrant from
the United States kept a small restaur
ant in a town situated in one of tho
great stock-raising districts of South
Australia. Ho was presumably the only
Yankee in those parts. There was an
enormously rich old stockman who
came into town from his lordly cattle
range at intervals, whose nationality
was a matter of doubt, though he
usually passed for a taciturn and un
communicative bachelor Scotchman.
One day this wealthy but solitary old
chap entered the restaurant of the mau
from the States. When he left he
looked hard at the proprietor, and then
simply remarked:
"American, aren't you?"
On being answered in the affirmative
the millionaire cow-puncher walked
away without another word.
Regularly once a week he reappeared,
silently ate a hasty lunch, and made
the same stereotyped inquiry, receiving
the same emphatic, "Yes, siree!" in re
ply. At last there came a time when
the eccentric old customer did not re
turn. One month went by two. At
last a wagon stopped at the door, and
the old fellow, pale and wasted with
sickness, was helped out and supported
into tho saloon. He called for his usual
steak -with a weak but dogged determi
nation, ate a morsel and then tottered
up to the counter. As he paid his bill
he whispered, hoarsely:
"American, aren't you?"
"You bet" replied the proprietor,
pleasantly.
Stretching out his shaking hand, the
odd customer said:
"Shake! So am I."
Then he tottered away without an
other word. Three days afterwards a
lawyer came into our young country
man's place and told him that the
queer old guy out on the Thompson
range had died and left him a cool
$1,000,000. San Francisco PotL
m m
New photograph albums have sil
ver legs and a cover that automatically
becomes an easel that holds up the
pages one by one.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Sardinia, (Pa.) physician has
taken forty-six needles out of the arms
of Mrs. Srfi'ley. She don't know how
they came there.
It is said by an authority that in
stead of being lean and lank as hereto
fore, American women aro
round aud buxom.
growing
In Germany a man dare not cut
down the trees on his own land without
consent of the proper authorities, so
zealous is the Government In preserving
the forests.
A recent estimate, made by moans
or a very intricato testing apparatus,
places the rate at which an electric dot
travels over a telegraph wire at 16,000
miles per second.
A wonderful chasm has recently
been discovered in San Luis, Obispo
. County, California. An adventurous ex
plorer was lowered into it to the depth
of 4,000 feet without finding any bottom.
The sides of the chasm are covered with
ruaguilicent cream-colored stalactite.
San Francisco Call.
A very simple plan for a street rail
road has been devised by Dr. H. G.
Davis, of Newton, Mass., by which a
track and pavement can be put down at
about one-half the present cost, aud yet
be more durable; it will also save a large
percentage in repairs. Boston Post
Richard Hoodum, a poor mau who
resides in Westmoreland County, on the
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, found
a package of money three years ago.
He advertised it, but it was never called
for, and a few days since he opened and
appropriated it Tho amount is said to
be about $25,000. Pittsburgh Post.
A young lady, recently "ouK" at
tended her first wedding the other day.
On goiu up to congratulate the bride,
her mind became somewhat confused,
and having been at a birthday party the
day before she could think of nothing
better to say than to wish the blushing
young matron "many happy returns of
the day." And then she wondered why
the newly-made husband looked so sour
as she passed on. Chicaqo Rambler.
One of the most remarkable arti
cles for export ever dispatched for
scientific purposes from any country is,
without doubt, says Nature, the "con
signment which lately left Norway for
Germany. It consisted of fifty-two
skeletons of Lapps, which had during
the summer been unearthed at Utsjok,
iu Russian Lapland, and which an en
terprising dealer of Vardo sold to vari
ous museums and societies on the conti
nent at the price of $30 apiece.
Hithey.o it has puzzled eminent
surgeons to account for sudden death
caused by apparently inadequate
wounds in the heart, such as those made
by the prick, without penetration even,
of a needle. Herr Schmey, a student of
the Physiological Institute, Berlin, has,
however, just discovered that when a
needle pricks a certain small spot on
the lower border of tho upper third of
tiic septum cordis quite instantaneously
the movements of the heart are arrested
and forever set motionless in death.
Figures are wonderful things. Here
! a sample of what can be done with
thi-.n: By placing one grain of corn on
the first square of a clicks board,
doubling the number of grains for each
succeeding square, the quantity of corn
w uir'-d for the whole boardof sixty
ft :r squares would fill 1,844,375 barns,
each holding 1,000,000 bushels of
100,000 grains each, bushels round
numbers. If the United States grows
1,800,000,000 bushels each year, it would
require a little over 550 years to make
enough. Chicago Herald.
When a Chinese boy is one month
old his head is shaved and a bladder is
drawn over it, and as his head arrows
the bladder bursts and the queue
sprouts forth. The first shave is made
the occasion of a magnificent banquet,
and the guests are expected to make the
host a handsome present iu coin for the
newly-shaven baby, with which a bank
account is started to his credit. This is
the most pleasant feature of the affair
for the baby, as the razor always pulls,
and he can not take part iu the" feast
Chicugo Times.
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An Approaching Star.
One of the most beautiful of all stars
In the heavens is Arcturus, in tho con
stellation Bootes. In January last the
astronomer royal commuuicated to the
Royal Astronomical Society a tabulated
statement of the results of the observa
tions made at Greenwich during 1883 in
applying the methods of Dr. Higgins
for measuring the approach and reces
sion of the so-called fixed stars in direct
line. Nearly two hundred of these ob
servations are thus recorded, twenty
one of which were devoted to Arcturus,
and were made from March 30 to Au
gust 24. The result shows that this bril
liant sinctillating star is moving rapidly
toward us with a velocity of more than
fifty miles per second (the mean of the
twenty-one observations is 50.78). This
amounts to about 8,000 m& per min
ute, 180,000 per hour, 4,320,000 miles
per day. Will this approach continue,
or will the star appear stationary and
then recede? If the motion is orbital,
the latter will occur. There is, how
ever, nothing in the rates observed to
indicate any such orbital motion, and as
the observations extended over five
months, this has some weight Still it
might be traveling in a migiJty orbit 0
many years' duration, tho bending 0
which may, in time, be indicated by 9.
retardation of the rate of approach,
then by no perceptible movement either
toward or away from us, and this fol
lowed by a recession equal to its pre
vious approach. If, on the other hand,
the four and a half millions of miles a
day continue, the star must become vis
ibly brighter to posterity in spite of the
enormous magnitude of cosmical dis
tances. Our eighty-one-ton gnns drive
forth their projectiles with a maximum
velocity of fourteen hundred feet per
second. Arcturus is approaching us
with a speed that is two hundred times
greater than this. It thus moves over
a distance equal to that between tho
earth and the sun in twenty-one days.
Our present distance from Arcturus w
estimated at i,ozs,uw times mis.
Therefore, if the star continues to ap
proach us at the same rate as measured
last year, it will have completed th
whofe of its journey toward us in 93,
000 years. Gentleman'' s Magazine.
The Clock in Trinity's Tower.
The clock in Trinity Church tower ia
this city is the heaviest in America. Tho
frame stands nine feet longr, five feet
high and three feet wide. The main
wheels are thirty inches in diameter.
There are three wheels in the time train
and tiirec each in the strike and the
chime. The winding wheels are formed
of solid castings thirty inches in diam
eter aud two inches thick, and are driven
by a "pinion and arbor." On this arbor
is placed a jack, or another wheel, pin
ion aud crank, and it takes 850 turns of
this crank to wind each weight up. It
requires 700 feet of three inch rope for
the three cords, and over an hour for
two men to wind the clock, The pen
dulum is eighteen feet long, and oscil
lates twenty-live times a minute. The
dials are eight feet in diameter, although
the' look little more than half that ze
from Broadway. The three weights are
about eight hundred, twelve hundred
and fifteen hundred pounds respectively.
A large box is placed at the bottom of
the well that holds about a bale of cotton
waste, so that if a cord should break the
eotton would zhtck the ceucussioo.
8ciintifio 'American.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Young lady physicians are multi
plying in Germany.
An elephant herd is always led by
a female, never by a male.
A ranchman in Texax owns six
thousand horses. Chicago Herald.
Carrots, turnips and cabbages arc
the only vegetables that can be raised
in Greenland.
The demand for nankin rings made
of wood grown at Walter Scott's home,
Abbottsford, is proving a great drain
on the forests of Maine.
A country road near Dublin is
s'owly burning up.
of peat, and a lire
ing it up, burning
It was constructed
is gradually eat
trees out by the
roots.
At Charlotte, N. C, is a fountiin
which sends a stream two hundred aud
sixty-eight feet high, icy cold and vicar
ai crystal. It has its source in the
adjacent mountains, aud is said to be
tho highest in the world.
Fifty thousand tous of soot are
taken from Loudon chimneys every
year, and it is subasqucntlvput to good
use as manure about one thousand
pounds to the acre the value bu:ng
Bet at forty-one thousand pounds.
A lady of Wood River. Idaho, while
preparing potatoes for dinner the other
day, found flakes of gold in the water.
The gold was assayed, the value being
fifteen cents. The settlement is now
anxious to know where the-e potatoes
were raised, but 10 oneseemtokuow.
Chicago Times.
A deaf family in New Hampshire
has been traced back to the fourteenth
century in England, and in all that time
has regularly shown a succession of
deaf mutes. In Maine there is a family
in which there are ninety-five deaf
mutes, all of them connected by blood
or marriage. Boston Globe.
"Of all tho watering places com
mend me to Prymont Fratilcin
Schultze, from B:Tlin, came here suf-
lenng lrom a severe attack 0: mipecu
niosity, and in three week she was jvr
fectly cured." "By drinkinir the
waters?" "No; by a wealthy Anvr".
can, whom sho is going to marrv."
Der Ulk.
The people of England and Scot
land are, remarks the Sjicclator, multi
plying so fast that pessimists may wel
be excused for feeling some anxiety as
to the future. The population of the
kingdom, which in 1815 was 15,(1-0.000,
is now 30,000,000 that is to say, it has
grown more in the hist seventy years
than in all the untold ages of the pre
vious past.
Fat people have now their choice
between foursystems. 1. The original
Banting, which consists of eating noth
ing containing starch, sugar or f.st. 2.
The German iJautiiig, which allows fat,
but forbids sugar or starch. .'. A Mu
nich system, which co:-its in bei::r
lothed in wool, and sleeping in llaim.-l
blankets instead of sheets. 4. Not eat
injj and drinking at the same time.
A traveler in England writes from
the celebrated Muifby .Junction (Rug
by), satirized by Dickens, that the rail
way refreshments are as bad a ever
they conld have been. Whih flirting
with the barmaid at the station he
wrote his name with date o: tin- lid of
a pork pie. Three months aftfr, com
ing that way, he saw the autograph
still there on the same refreshment
Queen Margherita of Italy is mak
ing an effort to revive the making of
Venetian point lace. She h:is estab
lished a school, from which the gradu
ates go out to teach to others the mys
teries of the craft. Already there aro
four thousand pupils, all at work, and
thirty-four varieties of point are turned
out Only by the color, it is said, may
the new product be distinguished from
the antique lace.
Between Damascus and Jerusalem
is said to be a tribe of about three
thousand Israelites, who have probably
been there since the beginning of the
Christian era. They have neither city
nor town, but live in tents, and speak
the Hebrew language among them
selves, but Use the Arabian with
strangers. They have remained, like
the primitive races, exclusively tillers of
the soil and warriors. They go armed
from head to foot
"Ferdinand, my love, why, do you
sit so far from me this evening?" she
anxiously inquired. He was silent and
remained sitting at the opposite end of
the sofa. Again she spoke. Again he
was silent, hesitated, and finally mur
mured: "Isabel, my dear, I blush to tell
it, but I have been eating onions to
day." "You darling!" exclaimed the
lovely girl, with a look of glad surpriso
illuminating her face as she sprang
close to his side, "so have I!" Lowell
Citizen.
In 1827 Charles Babbage superin
tended the printing of a set of trigono
metrical tables for the ordnance survey
of England and Ireland. Only thirty
copies were printed. The tables con
tained six millions of figures. They
were prepared and corrected with the
utmost care, and when completed were
hung up in the hall at Cambridge Uni
versity and a reward offered to any
one who could find an inaccuracy.
Since their first issue in 1827 no error
has been discovered, and it may rea
sonably be concluded that they are ab
solutely correct.
A young medical student named
luttrell, 01 Mississippi, nas been ren
dered temporarily insane by the sights
in the dissecting-room of the Vander
bilt Medical College at Nashville. He
was found bv the police wandering
about the streets, gesticulating wildly.
He said to an officer: "It weakened
mv stomach. I can't stand it I can't
be" a doctor. Oh, horrors! to think
that thev should know I could not
live, and want me to sell them my
body for dissection before I died. Nev
er, I will go home to Mississippi if I
have to walk. Heaven help me. I
am mad." St.Lotiis Globe.
Silver mines never die. From the
days of Cortez, in 1521, down to the
beginning of this century, and even to
the present time, except when inter
rupted by revolution, the Mexican
silver mines have poured forth an un
ceasing stream of silver, such as the
world bas never seen. It is estimated
that the value of the silver coin and
bullion of the countrv since the con
quest is over $30,000,000,000, and it is
well-known that some of the mines
have been profitably workod almost
without interruption from that time to
this, and that one of them at least is
still running out silver at the rate of
$5,000,000 a year. California has
yielded about $1,100,000,000 of gold
and silver. Nevada has turned out
something like $300,000,000 possibly
more. Cliicago Times.
A New Gunpowder.
For a time it looked as if other ex
plosives were to take tho place of gun
powder, but now it seems an improve
ment in the composition of the latter
has given it vastly more power. The
improved powder is now used alto
gether in Krupp's famous gun factory
in Germany. One seventh in bulk of
this powder gives as much projectilo
force as an ordinary charge of the old
gunpowder; the smoke is less dense,
and clears up quicker. It burns more
slowly at iirst, but gains intensity at
the final explosion. Lieutenant Day,
of this country, has an equally good
powder that is called "coeoa powder,"
because its color is like onocolate.
Mankind are not only adding to their
stock of terrible explosives, hut are
also improving the older inventions.
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each of our live Specified. Sent by mail
to any address, secure from observation,
on receipt of price. Lie careful to mention
the number of Specific wanted. Our
Specifics are only recommended for spe
cific diseases. Iieware of remedies war
ranted to cure all these diseases with one
medicine. To avoid counterfeits aud al
ways secure tue genuine, order only from
dowty &. cm::,
DJii'G GISTS,
l'.l-l Columbu, Neb.
Health is Wealth!
Da E. C. West's Nerve asd Ukai: Tiie.it
ttEXT, a fraaranteed specific for Hysteria, Vizzi
ne3. Convulsions. Fits. Nervous. Neuralgia.
lietidacho,Norvoua Prostration caused by tho uso
of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness, Mental Vo
proMion. 8of tonirnr of tho Brain resulting in m
Banity and leadinc to misery, decay and death.
lrematuro Old Aro. Barrenness, Loea of power
in either scr. Involuntary Losses and fa'perrnat
orrheca caused byovor-osertion of tho brain. Bell
abuse or over-indulgence Each box contains
ono month's treatment. $toTOabox,orBir boza
Cor$W. cent by mail prepauln receipt of pneo.
WE GUARAXTEE SIX BOXES
To care any caso. With each order received byna
for six boxes, accompanied with $5X0, wo will
send tho purchaser our written Bo&ranteo to ro
fundtao money if tho treatment doca not euecl
euro. Guarantees issued only by
JOHN O. WEST & CO.,
862 W. MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILLS.,
Sole Prop's West's Liver Pills.
S500 REWARD!
VgwUlpTtS(iitird foraar cof liw Con pMal
PjipiU, Sick Htadic2ia.lndJfMUiK, Ccsulptioa or CottWratt
wf csnsot can with Wcit'i V.gtU&! Liver PU1 whta th tflnc
Uousre itrlctly cosplkd wfeh. They r partly TrgtU&I,ai
MTtr&Il to cir utiibctloa. Snjr Coated. Luj boin,coa
Ulalaf 20 fillets ccnti. r ul by all drcRliu. Duel
tocrUr&lU aad '"''"" Th ftamina Buobctortd onlr by
JOHJf C. WEST CO., 1S1 A 1S3 W. VaJboa St. Clucica.
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more money than at anything
else by taking an agency for
best selling dook out. ue-
ginners succeed grandly. -oue ian.
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