THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14, 1885. ster:i at tia P::tsS:e, Cslsato. Het, u steal elut sitter. TOGETHER. ffee winter wind Is wailingr, sad and low. Across the lake and through tho ruaUlaff The splendor of the golden after-glow Gleams through tho blackness of the great yew hedge; And this I read on earth and In tho sky: "We ought to be together, you hd L'f Bant through its rosy changes into dark. Fades all the west; and through the shaA owy trees, And in the silent uplands of the park. Creeps the dbtt sighing of the rising breeza; It does but echo to my weary sigh: We ought to be together, you and LM My hand is lonely for your cJasping, dear. My ear.is tired, waiting for your call; want your strength to help, your laugh to choer; Heart, soul and senses need you, one and nil. t-m I droop without your full, frank sympathy e ougnt to De logeiner, you una x. We want each other so. to comprehend The dream, the hone, thintrs planned or seen, or wrought: Companion, comforter, and guide and friend. As much as love asks love, does thought need thought. Life is so short, so fast tho lone hours fly We ought to be together, you and I. AU the Year Bound. MY NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR flow She Often "Drops in," What a Nuisance She Is. and "Over the garden walL I have the misfortune of being per sonally acquainted with my next-door neighbors. Mr. Platitude is comparatively harm less, but Mrs. Platitude is a perfect nuisance. She is perfectly idle herself, and she cannot get it through her head that anyone else has anything to do. She comes in to visit me at all hours. I can't say, "not at home1' to her, for I never go out or come in without her knowledge. It is no use to say I am enjrajred, for she comes in all tho same, always on the plea that she wants particularly to see me, and will not de tain me five minutes, but she forgets all about that once she gets hold of me. She always opens her visits by saying, 'I just dropped in," and a very big "drop in" she is. I am sure she does not weigh less than one hundred and eight-. And how she talks. She al ways knows a great deal more of my business than I know myself. She generally "dropsin" to tell mo that my cook handed a parcel, early in the morning, to the milkman; that my Emma Jane was romping in the back yard with the baker's boy, or that she thinks it right to tell "mo that the butcher stays a very long time in the house when he calls for orders, and what do I think of that? And do I know, that though she has a larger household than I, she only takes in half as much ice as I do, and don't I think my servants must waste it? And am I sure that I keep my house warm enough, for I use far less coal than she does. And what do I think of my Emma Jane telling her Kate that I was a tiresome old maid, and that no one could live with me. And then she generally wants to know who was the gentleman who called yester day afternoon, or whose carriage stood so 'long at the door, or where I spent the whole day? Then she offers me matronly advice, saying, that living alone as I do, I should not receive gen tlemen's visits without sending in for her "to make it pleasant for me." She always cither "drops in" when I have a visitor, or comes in the moment I am alone, to account for her non-appearance. 1 had a great joke the other da and mystilied my friends most beautifully. I had been having some curtains dyed, and the dyer, a jocose young man, called around with the bill. Of course, when he rang, Airs. Plati tude trotted up the slops after him and saw him hand Kniiiia Jane a slip of paper, and heard him sa': "I dye for your iuistiv-ss. Give her that. She knows all about it," I heard it, too, so I bid Emma Jane show the young man into the front parlor, and tell Mrs. Platitude 1 was very much engaged, and positively coidd not see her. I paid the young mini's bill and let him go, and have been very silent and mys terious on the subject ever since. Mrs. Platitude thinks that I have made a mash, and has not neglected to express her opinion, and spread the news far and wide, but she remains in the dark, and Kate aiuly tries to make Emma Jane tell her. but poor Emma Jane really does not know the facts. But yesterday Mrs. Platitude had full re venue. My parlor is a very pretty room, and I am very proud of it. I spent all last winter working new chair covers for it. These were made of Human satin and elegantly embroidered. They all came from the upholsterer yesterday morn ing, and thev looked siinplv quite perfect, 1 had them unpacked in my little bad: parlor, winch is a very small room, and barely held them. While 1 was gazing fondly at them, a flood of sooty, grimy water suddenly rushed down the chimney and saturated three of my prettiest chairs, and splashed all the rest, till they looked as if they had been covered with a chim ney sweeper's apron. "Emma Jane, Emma Jane!" I 6creamed, and began to haul out the chairs, but it was too late, they were all spoiled. That tiresome Mrs. Plat itude had, or fancied she had, a lire in her kitchen chimney. So she got that idiot of a maid of hers to pour water down, and she, of course, sent it down come other 11 vp which connected with my back parlor, and spoiled my lovely chairs. Of course, Mrs. Platitude "dropped in" before I half time to re cover my temper, and equally, of course, I went for her. I think I frightened her, for she "dropped out" very quietry, but that won't make my chairs clean again. I see nothing for it, but to cover them in chintz, just as I had them before, but I never will bear to look at my lovely Roman satin covers again. There arc really no bounds to the stupidity of Mr. Platitude. I have to blame my little alarm clock for the fact that 1 made acquaintance with her. 1 wanted to get up vcrv early one morning, so 1 brought my ffttle alarm up to my room. In the course of the day Mrs. Platitude sent in to ask me would I object to keep mv pet rooster tn a back room, as the crowina: dis- Curbed her m the mornin When Emma Jane brought me the message, I reallv thought lh ad a luna- uc tor my next uoor neighbor, l am fond of pets, but a rooster in my best be&room! It was too much. I did deft know Mrs. Platitude then, and I felt quite mortilied that any one should fancy such a thing. I went in and called, for I really wanted to know what it was all about, and the per sisted the rooster had crowed all morn ing in my front room. I got quite angry, and never thought of my little alarmer, till Emma Jane suggested it to me after 1 went home. Then peace was made, but that is now twenty Tears ago, and Mrs. Platitude has kept dropping in" ever since. I do now like Mrs. Platitude's gossip, & is so ill-natured. For my own part I mever say an unkind word of any one. 1 pnde mvscli on not being sat- irical and prone to see the faults of oth- ra hut Mrs. Platitude says such things. She told me that poor old Mr. Heath rbone died because the young Heath-, erbones would not leave him in peace, at home, but dragged him here and there for change ofair, poor old man ! And then in the same breath she told: Ae how the young Smilers actually murdered tBeir old father by keeping him in town, whena breath of country air would have, saved his life. I wonder what she says about me when I am not by. One thing is a com-, fort, she has not brains enough to say anything clever. It will be almost worth the loss of my chair covers if she stops "dropping in" for a little while, and sending in to borrow my things, but I am sure she will never pass Mon day morning without sending in to me for soap. She has her washing done at home, but she never can remember to fot in soap, so she borrows it from me. he borrows everything from me, but ter, salt, flat-irons, hair-pins, coffee, mustard, darning cotton, pepper. Sho got ashamed of herself once and cams in to me to helD her to make a list of things she ought to have in the house, Sut the woman can't even spell. She asked me were there two ps in pepper, and when I said "Yes, three," she actually put three in a row. like this "peppper." Not content with borrowing my things she constantly finds fault with the thing she borrows. One day she sent in for the loan of my steps to put up curtains. I never would have risked them had I had the least idea she meant to get on them herself. They were a good set of steps, well calculated to support an average weight, but they gave way under hers, and two of my steps and her collar bone got broken. Oh! how she tormented me about that collar bone Sometimes I felt tempted to agree with some of the neighbors who said it was a pity it was not her neck. She took to literature once, and wrote a series of articles called "The Platitude Papers," by A. Platitude Sho meant to make me hear them all, but I got an opportune cold, which made me so deaf that she gave it up in despair, ad I have refused to read them myself till she could get an editor to do so first. So I think I am toler ably safe. Since the episode of the chair covers I h'ave become desperate, and I think I will change my house. It is a little hard on me. The locality suits me, so does the house, so does all and every thing except the Platitudes. I don't want to say anything unkind, but I do not think there is one saint in the cal endar, even Moses himself, who would have patience to live next door to them. So, it is not too much to expect, even of a charitable, kindly, good-natured old girl like Tabitha Tompkins. N. B. Mrs. Platitude has just sent in for the loan of an easy chair. Well, that woman has tho impertinence of well, I shan't lend it The line must be drawn somewhere. T. Tompkins. P. S. By heavens, she's coming in for it herself. Judge. YOUNG CHIMPANZEES. A Species of the Monkey Family Which Closely Resembles Man? The chimpanzee is generally ad mitted to be the highest species of the apes, because its anatomy compares more favorably with that of man than any other of the monkey family. The adult measures nearly five feet in height. Its body is covered with long blackish-brown hair, which is thick upon the back, but scant upon the fore part of the body; at tho sides of the head the hair is very long, and hangs down in the form of whiskers; the eyes are rather small; the lips are thick, and admit of great protrusion. The hands and feet are nearly naked, and the hairs of the forearm arc directed toward the elbow. The chimpanzee is a native of the Guinea region of West Africa. It has only been within the last few years that living specimens have been exhibited in this country. Our Zoological Gar dens, Philadelphia, have now two in teresting individuals of this species Although they are comparatively young, perhaps not older than six years, yet they have an extremely an tiquated appearance. I heard a coun tryman say to a bystander that he "guessed they were seventy years old, easy." One of them has such a great fondness for an old blanket that he carries or drags it with him wherever ho goes. Even if he desires to climb to the extreme top of his cage, the blanket must go along, although it greatly retards his progress. He knows its use, but does not always use it judiciously. Thus, on au oppress ively hot day in July I have seen him reclining for twenty minutes or more, entirely enveloped in the blanket, with the exception of his face, looking at the spectators with a comical and pout ing expression. I saw one, when teased and disappointed by its keeper, throw itself upon the lloor, and roll and scream vehemently, very like a naughty child in a tantrum. A board shelf was placed across their cage for them to climb upon. This they soon found could bo used as a spring board, and nothing seems to give them more pleasure than, when there is a good audience, to steal gently to the center of the board, grasp it tightly with all fours, and spring violently" up and down, causing the board with them selves to vibrate rapidly, and produc ing at the same time a loud, jarring noise. They then seem to greatlv en joy the startled and amused looks of the spectators. Perhaps one of their most human actions is languidly to re cline, and holding a straw in one hand, listlessly to chew at its tip, while the eyes are rolled vacantly around. It may be that they are then building "castles in Spain!" A lady observing a chimpanzee thus engaged, said he was thinking of liberty and his sunny home. But I do not for a moment suppose he was dreaming of and long ing for his native home the luxuriant and balmy forests beside the calm-gliding Gambia but rather saying to him self: "Isn't it most time for that bossy and consequential cousin of mine to bring me my boiled rice and milk?" C. Few Sciss. in Scientific American. m m Bacteria in Bricks. A new danger, it is said, has been discovered in sanitary organization. The nbiquitus bacterium, which proves to be the germ of so manj' obscure dis eases, has been found by M. Parize, a French savant, to take up its abode in brick walls. Noticing some peculiar mark on the outside of the wall, ha scraped a little off and placed it under a magnifying power of three hundred the result of which was to show myri ads of organisms moving about with extraordinary activity. It was the more singular that this red dust had been covered with a layer of lime a quarter of an inch thick. Under the impression that the bacteria might have been a superficial deposit, M. Parize then drilled a hole into the very center of the brick, and to his great surprise discovered the powdered material was full of the same living organisms, although not in such large quantities as in the external layer. To make sure that this was not au" exceptional brick, he carried on his experiments at various places in the walls and always with the same result; that the bricks were more or less impregnated with bacteria, which appear to live equally as ll in a brick wall as in a saucer of some fpr- Renting sobetaace. 2f. Y. Observer. A NEW YORK HERMIT. Thomas Williams, the Strange Man Who lives In a Hole on tho Bank of the Niagara- Elver A Beggar, But Not a Bllser. I am the most unfortunate man you over saw, and the poorest. I have not the grease spot of a relative on earth; am fifty-four years old, and have seen more misery, want, sickness and suffer in than any man living. I have been an outcast for nine years. During that time I have walked five thousand miles in search of peace. I went from Pres cott, Canada, to Ogdensburg, thence to Utica, New York, Camden, Phila delphia, Erie, Pa., down to New Or leans, from there to Pensacola, Fla., and back to New York. I have lived all summer in a sandhill at Point Al bino, and am now building this house to live in this winter." With these words the most singular man within a radius of hundreds of miles of Buffalo began a conversation yesterday with a stranger who found him at work. He stood on the bank of the Niagara River, about a quarter of a mile from the Ca nadian terminus of the international oridge. There, close to the water's edgefand not a foot above high-water mark, he has dug a hole in the ground about six feet square. He is building a hut of pieces of fence boards and drift-wood, to be afterward covered with sand and earth. His tools are a potato-hook, an old hammer, a piece of bucksaw blade stuck in a handle, and a broken shovel. He was dressed in pair of patched and ragged overalls, held up by a single suspender made of cloth, over a shabby coat buttoned into the overalls like a shirt His hair and beard were long, gray, and matted thickly. Ho wore an old battered straw hat and was barefooted. All the pos sessions he had, apparently, were a few apples, two empty, blackened tomato cans, some pieces of carpet, a pair of old pantaloons, a ragged coat, two pairs of unwashed stockings, two pairs of shoes, and a box made of a piece of stove pipe. His clothes were fastened together with wooden pegs, and all about him seemed the result of an in genious study of vagrancy. The charred remains of a stum) lay upon a pilo of earth thrown up from the hole. At his feet huddled a bony sneaking dog, whose long, gray hair was full of thistles, and resembled its master in its yellowish hue of dirt. Yet the man was neither crazy, fool ish, nor very much depressed by his condition. He rather gloried in Ins poverty. The bent of nis conversa tion was to gain the sympathy the coppers of his callers. Next his hut passes the main roadway, over which the farming neighborhood of Fort Erie passes to and fro. "I have not used soap in four years," said he, looking at his soiled hands. "There is potash in all soap which, if taken, is deadly poison. I got some into my system once, when a silver burnisher, and it nearly killed me. I was a mass of boils, was paralyzed and lost my hair. It was then that I made the discovery which cured me I went and lived in the ground. All diseases," said he, dropping the saw and using his hands to make gestures, "come out of the earth, either through rich food or drink as our substances come from tho earth. I dug a hole in the ground like this and lhed in it, sleeping on the sand. I tell you I could feel the disease leaving me like a fever when it cools. I am now as sound as a man can be. I am nimble, can dance, and do dance, can run, and have walked thousands of miles. I am never sick. I shall live a good many years yet, and I want to." "What do you do to pass away the time?" was asked. "I study inyself. I know myself, my weaknesses andmysins. I have got rid of the tobacco and rum habits entirely. I cook my own food, and I know how to do it. I do not like to beg, but do when I can not pick up a living. I do not read much. All 1 know of letters is what I have learned from scraps of paper and from hearing men talk. I have composed a few songs, words and music. Of course I can not write them, but I sing for my friends and play the bones or whistle. "Arc you not afraid of freezing here.-' In the winter the ice will pile up all over your hut." "No, I guess not. As for cold, I can stand that. Cold weather is healthy. I have slept out here since Monday, and we have had frost nearly every night. I put on two pairs of stockings, the other pantaloons, and lie in the hole under the carpets. I shall have a stove in here as soon as I get the house built" "There will not be room, will there?" "Oh, yes. I build a stove of my own invention by turning a kettle upside down and connecting it with a draft and a mud chimney. I build the fire under the kettle. Here is a box I have used as a cooking-pan. I made it out of a short piece of stove-pipe, and fas tened a sheet-iron bottom on it by pounding the edge over with sticks. Strange to say it will hold water. I use it now as a treasure-box, and keep thread, knick-knacks and a song-book in it. I like minstrel songs. No, I think I will have no trouble here on ac count of the weather. I wish I had a Bible and some books to read. I don't go much on the Bible think it is like cranberry sauce on turkey. It will not make a square meal of itself. Still, I don't know about it" "How came you to be alone and liv ing in this way?" "Well, iny father was an Irishman, who married again after my mother's death and moved away into the woods of Indiana, on the fresh-water rivers, so-called. He did not like my step mother, nor me cither. My mother died in giving me birth, and" I always thought my father hated me for it. At any rate, -after my step-mother died, he took me to a small village somewhere and left me with a strange man. I have never married, but once had a gal' in Buffalo. I used to compose songs about her, but I don't know "Do you expect to live here uoon pub lic charity?" "Yes. I have only earned $2.60 since last harvest a year ago. When I work and cat women's cooking, I get sick and have to quit Here I shall have pure water to drink, pure air, pure food, and shall live in the ground. One might almost live on this water alone." "But people will see that you are well, whole, and apparently able to work. They will not give you any thing." T got ten cents this morning, and am never without a penny. I can earn a living playing the bones and singing at saloons, but I keep away from them. I don't want to be called a bum.' My condition is the result of misfortune and saffcring. I don't want you4o .make, my case a load on your mind, though, as a charitable man ought to do. I always get along. I have been taken for a miser. Whde living in the swamps near Hamilton, Ont, I was fired at one night I got a load of shot in the rim of my hat, my coat col lar and the folds of a scarf around my neck. No, I'm no miser." The strange man continued to relate incidents of his trampings; of his life and experiences, and gave his views opon all manner of subjects, including labor, money, scenery of the south, "minstrelism" and newspapers never suspecting that he was talking to an Express reporter. Buffalo Express. m a The drmm is found in every couttrj of the world except China. ALASKA. Growth of the Luralwr niul Mining tkv tciests There. Although this vast territory of Alaska measures one thousand four hundred miles one way and two thousaud two hundred the other, and its furthest island is as far west of San Francisco as that city is west of Bath, in .Maine, few jicoplc have any clear idea of the country and its people. Within the four hundred miles between its north ern and southern boundaries there is a chance for a -great ranm. of climate, 1 and while the northern portion of the 1 mainland lies within the Arctic " circle and is wrapped in the show and ice of , polar regions. Souther i Alaska re ' joices in that its winter is not as severe , as that of Marvland of ffsnluckv. The isothermal li:es make Krange curves on the Pacilic coast, and inliuenccd by the warm Japan it ream of Kuro Sino, a mild temperate climate is given to the shores and archipelago of South western Alaska. As in California, temperature and climate depend more upon the distance from the seacoast than upon distance from the equator, 'Sitka summers are quite as windy and foggy, but hardly cooler than those of San Francisco. Sitka itself lies in the same latitude as Aberdeen, Scot land, and in all the islands south of it there is much the same climate, ac companied by the corresponding ocean current as prevails on the west coast of Ireland. By the records of the Russian observatory maintained here for fifty years, the thermometer fell to zero only three times during that period. The reports of commanders of United States ships during the past four years confirm this climatic marvel and show many other strange things in meteor ology. The lumber interests are undeveloped, but a great industry is in promise for the future, as all Southeastern Alaska from Cape Fox to the Kenai peninsula is clothed with forests denser than any thing in Oregon or Washington Ter ritory. The comparative mild temper ature, the heavy rainfall, and the nightlcss days" of the summer season force everything to a trop ical luxuriance. No forest fires ever devastate these pine-clad shores and islands, and one season suffices to clothe with living green undergrowth the scars of land-slides or avalauches. This vast area of forest includes little be sides conifera. Much of the pine is as poor as Oregon pine, which is such bad ship timber that vessels built of it can onlv be insured as A No. 1 for three years. The white spruce, Sitka pine, which grows to a height of one hun dred and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five feet and is from three to six feet in diameter, is the common tree ia all these forests, and Menzies and Merlon spruce, red and yellow cedar, pinus contorra, lir, cottonwood, ash, alder, small maple, and small birch are the other trees most frequently met with. The red and yellow cedar are the most valuable woods, and the lat ter, more particularly, is the only good ship building material on the Pacific coast Its value arises chiefly from the fact that it is impervious to the teredo or boring worm, which eats up the pine piles under Puget Sound wharves every two or three years. It has a line grain and a certain fragrance, and when made into chests it affords pro tection from morlis to anything placed within. This yellow cedar is rarely found south of the Alaska boundary, and the largest tracts of it are on Kii preanoff, Kon, and the Prince of Wales island. It was once urged upon Con gress to declare the Prince of Wales island a Government reservation for the purpose of preserving this valuable ship timber and piling for its own use, but, like all Alaska bills, it was laughed at and voted down. As the Govern uicui, Huuiujiuiuu . n1 -'"'. i Anf wrn11 nnttlini call tsi loocn tliocfl m timber lands, establish laim oiuces, make surveys, nor allow settlers to pre empt their aeres, there are few saw mills in the Territory, and their owners are guilty of taking Government tim ber and are liable to prosecution if tho new officials press things to the finest point Want of lumber has been a serious hindrance to settlers, miners and owners of canneries. The density of the forest growth, the tangle of undergrowth, and the thick carpet of moss that covers every inch of the ground has made mineral pros pecting very slow and difficult The men who discovered a ledge of quartz near Sitka worked for ten days to clear oft' a small patch of grouaid" over the out-croppings, and the more one sees of these dense, tangled forests, the more one marvels at the extensive min ing region that has been opened up near Juneau and across on Doug lass Island. As they have had neither land offices, surveyors, nor recorders, the ownership of mining claims has been rather uncertain. While they could get no title to their claims, nor protection to themselves, mine-owners have been contented to do only yearly assessment work, wash or pound out enough gold to pa' expenses, and keep very still while they held their mines byr sufferance, luck, or shot-guns only. The fear of inviting more adventurers to come and jump their claims and in crease mob rule, has made the miners very reticent about the value of their properties, and boasting in that line is unknown in the mining camps of the Archipelago. The first quartz ledges were found near Sitka in 1871, but bad management and bad luck have pre vented their becoming profitable claims. A mill was erected on one of the ledges and was successfully worked for awhile, but litigation and the vicissitudes of mining life have kept it at a stand-still for several years. The great mining re gion is at Juneau, one hundred and fiTty mUcs south of Sitka. Chicago Times. Books 'with Emotions. When a tomtit builds its nest, as was reported by a naturalist lately, in a dead crow which had been hung up in a field for the express purpose of frightening little birds away, farmers are taught a lesson in the morality of scarecrows. Both morality and logic should be observed in scarecrows. To hang up the executed rook in the mid dle of a potato patch is, if properly considered, a most shocking act. It is an outrage upon all the tendercst feeling of the black republic in the neighboring elms. Every rook in them must feel hurt by the shame less exposure of a relative's corpse; and for such a purpose, too to frighten away all others of its kind. As if the "mere spectacle of the dry old careass, shrivelled up into the veriest mummy of a rook and twirling on its gibbet in a silly, neck-wrung sort of way, with every breath of wind, were not in itself sufficient to keep every rook, indeed every fowl with any of the decencies of emotion, away from the spot But is it moral to take advantage of the susceptibilities of birds in this cruel way; to harrow their feelings so brutally when other means are availa ble? Is even the logic of the proceed ing obvious? For it is difficult to be live that a live crow is scared by a dead one. They fly over it, recognize it are shocked and depart Or they assemble in indignant cawcus, if we may use the word, upon a neighboring tree, and pass resolutions condemning the conduct of the farmer. But there is no reason to suppose that fhey are frightened. It is just as probable and much more agreeable to suppose that good taste keeps them away from a spot suggestive of such distressing Infections. London Megrapk. OIET Oh THE FAMILY. When, W-iut anil How to i:.il Sjiuo Use ful I Hut-.. Those persons who riesiro to live themselves and have, their families live hygienically, fiud jt very diiiicult to decide what foods are healthy and what are not. But there are a few gen eral rules that may be given. Oae of the waj-s of accomplishing this is by means of the pro; t comb! nations of different kii.ls of In 1. A few hints on this subject are g:vu i in a buok on the diet .question, as follow A combina tion of dishes that would be delightful in the sultry days of July or August would be altogether insufficient to sat isfy the appetite on a cold December day, or a kejn frosty morning; and when the weather i not, only cold, but damp, the food is always best relished if warm. Often a good plate of hot soup, to be followed by coru-bread and baked potatoes, and perhaps another warm vegetable is very acceptable on damp, cold days, when there is a raw atmosphere, chilling ono through. In the early fall days, before the stoves are put up, the mornings are very chilly and the juicy fruits and cooling vegetables hat have bean so acceptable during the heats in summer should be replaced by something warmer and more stimula ting. To form a perfect diet, the cook, or in other words the housekeeper, must usaher rare good sense in the matter, and adapt the food to the circumstances of the case. What would be suitable in the case of a student or one engaged in sedentary occupations is not most suita ble for the farmer who is actively at work. He needs those foods which will give him .he greatest amount of flesh-forming elements, which we fiml in meat, milk, ejrirs. and the gluten of grains, which we will find in oat-meal. cracked wheat, etc. The various veg etables, beans, peas And the Hubbard squashes also contain great nutriment Bread made from the whole wheat flour which contains the gluten of the grain is the most nutritious. No doubt much injur' is done to children by their being allowed to eat highly seasoned and unsuitable food. While there may be a difference of opinion as to the healthfuluess and de sirability of anyone consuming pickles, strong coffee and using pepper, highly spiced sauces, etc., there are few who will claim they arc suitable articles for children's diet It is said that the ex cessive use of red pepcr which is so common in the cooking of torrid cli mates is rendered necessary by the effect of the long and continued hoat on the liv er, which weakens it and lessens the sup ply of bile; the pepper having the effect of stimulating this organ. This excuse can hardly be urged for its use in this climate and certainly not with children. A great deal is also said about eating too much, but a child should not bo stinted in its food. It requires a good deal to supply the waste and keeji up the growth. But it should be of tho right kind. It has been said with truth that a child will seldom over-eat of perfectly simply food, when it will beg for more pastry and cake. There is much truth after all in the saying which sturuls so harsh to childish ears, " If yos: an' ut hungry enough to cat bread and butter, you don't need any thing." The diet need not be confined to quite such a limited list as this, but may embrace fruit, plain cookies, etc., but the principle holds good that plain food will be relished by the hungry per son, and if not hungry he is better off without any. If thero is a craving for some particular article, it shows .there is a want in the system which should be supplied in the food. The child needs sugar, but it should be supplied in the food, not in lumps from the sugar-bowl at all times of the day. In this connection the words of Miss Frances Willard, who is known through- out tne country as tne . , f . apostle of tem perance conies with force: "I have formed a settled conviction that the world is fed too much. Pastries, cfces, hot bread, rich gravies, pickles and pep per sauces are all discarded from my bill of fare,' and I firmly believe they will be from the recipes of the twentieth century. Entire wheat flour brpad, vegetables, fruit, fish, with a little n;eat, and milk as the chief drink, will distil in the alembic of the digestive organs into pure, rich, feverless blood, electric but steady nerves, and brains that jan 'think GoU's thoughts after Hin, as they have never yet thought. Tin is my recipe: 'Plain living and Iv.gh thinking, and this w my warniyg: With high living you will get exceeding ly plain thinkihg." Western RuriM m A QUAKER WEDDING. The Marriage Ceremoify According: to v'e Orthodox Frlentl Quaker Prescription A Quaker wedding is not the uneouth affair which the description given woftld lead the reader to suppose, but is, on the contrary, a solemn and impressive ceremony, decorous and orderly in the extreme. The prospective bride aid groom pass meeting threo or four woeks before the day set for the mar riage. That is, they appear in the meeting to which the bride belongs, and a declaration of their intention is publicly made. If no obstacle appears between the "passing" and the wed ding day, the clerk of the meeting pre pares the marriage certificate, large enough always to contabi many signa tures. When the wedding day arrives all the front seats on the men s side of the house arc reserved for the wedding. It is not necessarily on a fifth day, as stated, but upon whatever day of the week, except the first day, the regular meeting for worship is held in that district. After thi meeting is "settled into stillness," the wedding party enters, the bride leaning on the arm of the bridegroom; they take seats together, not on opposite sides of the house, undv the minister's gallery, (on Lthe men's side of course,) facing tho congregation, not with their backs to it. The bridesmaids and groomsmen, rang ing in number from four to eight, fol low the bride and groom and take the front seats. Then the parents of the contracting parties, and other relatives and friends arrive and occupy the re mainder of the. reserved space. After all arc seated there is a half hour or more of silence, or sometimes a prayer or short sermon, then the ceremony takes place. The groom rises and gives his hand to the bnde, who rises by his side, he still retaining her hand. He says nothing about his worldly goods as stated, but repeats gravely these words: "In the presence of the Lord and this assembly, 1 take Mary Penn to be my wife, promising, by Divine assist ance, to be unto her a faithful and loving husband until death shall separate us. She repeats a corresponding formula, and thev sit down. A table is then placed before the pair, upon which is spread the marriage certificate. The sign it, the relatives and friends sign it, and after another interval of silence, a minister or elder rises in the gallery and says quietly: "The wedding com pany may now retire." The newly married man gives his arm to his wife and they pass out, as they have entered. together. The bridesmaids and grooms men follow in pairs, the rest of the com pany follow them, and not until the last carriage is driven away does the minis ter at the hea4 of the gallery shake liands with his next neighbor as a signal 'that the meeting is dismissed. In ac jcordance with ancient usage, two ovej ;seers are appointed to be present at th wedding breakfast to see to it that a proper decorum is preserved, and the Icierk enters the marriage on the records lf the meeting. Pittsburgh Dispatch. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Sitting Bull has cleared 52,800 bv : wiling h:s autographs. Chicago Inter Ocean. ! At twenty-one years of :vj Abra ham Lincoln was wllh.out trade, pro-fc-vion or manual skill of any kind. I Chicago Herald. I A iiostou young lady, cultured and I Intellectual, of uourcu, received a prop osition of marriage printed with a typo- ' writer. -V. Y. Sun. I Stanford.the California millionaire, ' has purchased a $130,003 residence in N.!W York, and will make his home there. Sun Francisco Cull. Dr. Emma L. Call has the honor of being the first woman admitted to membership in th Massachusetts Med ical Society. b'u.flon Journal. Mr. Philip Armour, the Chicago pork king, is credited with a fortune of 2.),000.OUO, or enough to buv up the entire kingdom of Greece. -V. Y. Star. j A Parsee girl has sistouuhed her raco in India by bringing a suit for ( breach of promise of marriage. It "is I the first episode of the kind known in j that laud, and it has created a great scandal. The coming giantess is now devel oping in a village in Leicestershire, England. Though barely fourteen years of age she is six feet five inches in height, weighs two hundred and lifty-two pounds and has only just com menced to grow. Orme Wilson and Carrie Astor start out passably well on the matri monial sea. John Jacob Astor gives them a Fifth avenue home to dwell in, and their respective parents have settled upon each a $100,000 incomo for life. 2T. Y. $Iail. Tennyson fled from North Wales, says the New York World, because he was asked to preside at the National Eisteddfod at Llangwellydangdoodle fodd, and he feared he would be com pelled to pronounce both words on taking tho chair, so he took leave in stead. Mrs. Haley Rogers, a Boston widow lady, after bequeathing her modest fortuno to a few surviving rela tives, adds to her will: "And I hereby give and bequeath to the Home for Aged Colored Women in Boston my cloak and red flannel gown." Boston Globe. A curious case of imposture has come to ngut. A man traveling in New Mexico and othef of the Terri tories ha3 claimed to be Dr. Joseph Ray. the author of Ray's arithmetics and algebras. Dr. Ray died in 1855, vid his only son died two years ago. Chicago Tribune. A correspondent of tho London Lancet says that he has practiced for e:ht years on steamers running be t.en Liverpool and American ports. D'iring t!;Is time he has liad charge of fifty thouwul people, and the deaths were lcs- than one per oue thousand. Five of these were suicides and the re mainder occurred mostly among chil dren. Reports from Ireland state the hotel keepers have never had that such a prosperous season. Little villages on the coast, that have hardlv overseen a tourist, have become places of im portance, and the railway companies are placarding their newly discovered charms with great vigor, and offering facilities to those who aro willing to test them. The tune of "John Brown's Body" is an old Methodist camp-meeting tune and tho words were adapted to it by a Boston glee club in 1861. It was first published at Charleston, Llass. Cap tain James Greeuleaf, an organist of the Harvard Church, set the notes for music, and a Massachutts regiment made them first noted bv singing them atFort Warren in 18GL ! Chicago Times. A LITTLE NONSENSE." A small boy, who slid down a tree pretty fast, and blistered the skiu oi his liands, said: "I guess I don't yearn for a hotter climb than this." Teacher: "Why are you writing in such a big hand?" Tom: "Why von see, my grandmother is deaf, and I'm writing to her." Golden Dags. Professor (to class in mineralogy) "Can you recall a mineral occurring in the liquid form?" Philosophical Stu dent: "Milk; because it comes id quarts!" Powerful steel knives which will cut cold iron have been invented. The in ventor hopes in time to produce knives which will cut eating-house pie crust. Norristown Herald. "You are opposed to the use ol slang, then, Jennie?" he said. "Well. I should twitter!" she replied, and then he knew that he must not use slang any more in her presence. Soin srville Journal. Said an astronomer to a bright eyed girl, when talking of rainbows: "Did you ever see a lunar bow, miss?" "I have seen a beau by moonlight, if that is what you mean," was the sly rejoinder. N. Y. Independent. Some paragraphistsays that Frank lin did not discover lightning until after he was married. Tlmre are many men not half so great as Franklin who not only discover lightning after they are married, but catch thunder. Chicago Journal. On reading in a newspaper that a piece of fresh beef bound on the face every night would make the complex ion fair, a Chicago drummer tried the experiment He put a quarter of beef on each cheek and went to bed, and next morning found that the brass in in his cheek had formed verdigris on the beef and poisoned two yellow cats and a bob-tailed poodle that had been nibbling the beef. Paris Beacon. The delights of a musical block are thus described by "Bob" Burdette: Hark nnd oh hear, the plauo Is bantting (Soi:nt:t nnd cnnticlu. elmntnnd glee). The follow upstairs his guitar Is atwunging. The children aro singing ji jubilee. Just over the way there's a banjo, I think. With its "Pink-a-punk-poiik, punk, pink. JianK, piiik; uru ut the corner the man with the Unto Is rending the night with a tootle-too-toot. And oom pah-puh, oom, pah-pah, bra-a, bra-a, boom! The bruts band is practicing in its room. Huaest looking countryman to Kearney street clothing dealer. "I have brought ba"k the second-hand over coat you sold me yesterday." Dealer: "Never takes pack anything ven vonco solt,minefricnt" Countryman: "That's aL right I merely called to say I found a five hundred dollar bill Awed up in the lining, as the real owner might call for it" Dealer: "Of gorso he will; he call already, mine tear frent," seizing the coat "you ish von honest man; I give you feeftv dollar ash reward. Dot will pe all right." Countryman having gained the street soliloquises: "Guess I had better skip to Portland before he discovers that it is a counterfeit five hundred dollar bill." San Francisco Post. The railway engines of fifty years ago weighed eight or nine tons, had eleven-inch eylinders, and cast iron wheels four feet in diameter, the work ing pressure being fifty pounds to the square inch. The engines of our day have seventeen and eighteen-inch cyl inders, wheels seven or eight feet in diameter, aud weight from thirty-five to forty-live tons. Instead of a speed of sixteen miles they travel from forty to fifty miles per hour. Catholic journals advocate the dis continuance of preaching fulsome eulogies and the writing of fulsome bituaries, respecting the dead. YOUR BEST TIME FUR ACQUIRING A PHACriCAL EDUCATION 18 NOW. DECIDED SUCCESS. THK FREMONT NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, AT FREMONT. NEU.. Opened sucee.sfullv Octobrr 21. with tin teachers ami a iood attendance, w ich doubled during th tir-t live week?, and is still 3t -adilv iucre:iiu. Fifty Student in the ISumucs ("olk-ire and Short-hand Classes: nearly fifty in the Normal or Teachers' lci:irtuii;ut'aiiil common brunche, and a good attendance in the Muic and Art Departments. The Fncnlty. PRESIDENT JONES 1: twenty years experience in ::n II id over Kthicitional work. PROFESSOR 11 AMI. IN, Primipil of the Rusiness College. ha had over lifteen years.' experience and is a Superior Pi n man and Expert Aerountant. PROFESSOR MOIILER i an or.i:. and inspiring teacher in thf Natur.i Science and Uusinc Dep.irtm- nt-. PROFESSOR I.AWTON. of Boston. Mass.. is a superior intru-tr id .ISiimc Miss Sarah Sherman, of Chicago, i an artist of run- l.itent and skill, and a u. successful Teacher. MUs Lytlia 1, Jones and Miss Je-if C.vts ire r.iJ nates of the Noithw intern lnie:.ity, and able teacher?. Mr. A. A. uU N u practical short liun '. reporter ar.'i ai. adept nt type-writing. The other teach ers are thoroughly iialiiicii. KXIK.-Si: Vl'KY i.OW. Tuition for tifteeu weeks $!.". Board costs from $2"i to S'MM a v. t-k. In clubs and by scll-iinaritiiiir it en-t- h-.-Places can be fuuiul fur several tin. re student- who wisli tn p.iv p irt or little ol board by housework t.r chores. Io Yavutiou. The WINTER TERM ol 1.1 weeks wils begin Dee. oO, but "-ttnlei.ts CN k.ntki: atanytimk, and are doing so rulitlll ual.y, pa ing charge- only from time of entering to time of leaving. For particulars addres- the under signed. W. P. JON E, A . M.. Prest. of Normal Colleue. Fieniout. Nt-b :1 mi,. SPEICE & NORTH. General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacilic. and Midland Paeilic R. R. Lands for sale at from $S.OO to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on live or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. AHo busines ami residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COLIlItlRtJS. XKB. UNION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE. Improved and Unimproved Farms, Hay and Grazing Lands and City Property for Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office, On Long Time arid low rate of Interest. BSTFinal proof made on Timber Claims flomcsteads and Pre-emptions. I3TA1I wishing to buy lands of any de scription will please e'all and examine my listoflands before looking elsewhere J3T"AI1 having lands to sell will please call and give me a description, term-, prices, etc. 23JI a'no am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency of several tirst-class Fire insurance companies. V. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaki German NAJWKI' C.K.11ITII, Columbus, Nebraska. 30-tf LOUIS SCHREIBER, II All kiuds of Repairing done on Wair- Short Notice. Buggies, ons, etc., made to order, and all work (iiiar- anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A Wood Mowers, Eeapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. rShop opposite the " Tattersall," on Olivo St., COLUMBUS. X-m TAJIK SALnO."V, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52Cmo. VTOTICE TO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrlef, Co. Snpt., Will he In his office at the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. T07-y in presents given atcaj. Send us ." cents potaire. jvsuu ami oy man jou win j;et free a pacKa-re of roods of lar.-e value, "that will start you in work tint will at once bring you in money faster than any thing else in America. AH about the 200,000 in presents with each box. Agents wanted everywhere, of either sex, of all ages, for all the time, or spare timconly, to work for us at their own homes, fortunes for an workers au solutely assured. Don't delay. II lot & CO., Portland, Maine. Hal- A BlactiMIaiflMw mim nnn GO TO A. & I. TURNER'S BOOK AND MUSIC STORE -FOR THE- BEST E GOODS AT- The Lowest Prices! CONSULT THE FOLLOWING ALPHA BETICAL LIST. AI.1HJJIS, Arithmetics. Arnold' Ink (genuine). 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