,- - c R RELICS OF ANTIQUITY. A St. Paul Archaeologist's Collection .at Carious Specimen. Gathered Dnli a Tear's Tour In the Northwest aad South west. Mr. T. H. Lewis, a St. Paul archaeol ogist, has lately returned from a tour of exploration of almost a year, and he brings with him some rare and valu able specimens obtained from the an cient mounds that are scattered about in almost every1 section of the South west and Northwest Undoubtedly he has now the largest and most valu able private archaeological collection in the Northwest, and the reports of his season's . work are regarded as most valuable contributions to scien tific -records and history. Mr. Lewis has surveyed 1,250 mounds during the past year 125 of which were effigies and eight or nine fortified points and forts. His travels embraced explora tions in Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa, Wis consin, Illinois and Arkansas. He brings .back with him, as the result df histour, a large collection of draw ings of effigias and curious relics of the days of the mound builders. In the line "of effigies he discovered' a mound in Southeastern Minnesota, the outlines representing the form of a fish. The few fish effigies that have been de scribed by explorers heretofore have never shown the fins; but Mr. Lewis' discovery has the fins very accurately marked, being the first ever noted by archaeologists. vIts extreme length is 109 1-2 feet, the greatest width 36 feet, from end to end of iins. Mr. Lewis considers this one of the most interest ing and valuable effigies ever discov ered. Another one represents a frog the only perfect specimen ever de scribed. It is 98 feet in length, 94 feet in width between the tips of the fore legs and 95 feet between th6 tips of the hind legs. The body of the largest bird effigy is 28 feet from beak to the end of the tail, and 121 feet from tip to tip of the wings. Another of a bird is the most symmetrical of any surveyed, the length from the tail to the tips of the wings being exactly thejsame. A draw? ingof a rattlesnake effigy, foundonLake St. Croix, in Minnesota, shows a length of 448 feet, the section of the mound representing the head swelling out to a width ot fifty-three feet. Three mounds at the rear eud denoto that number of rattles. The effigy w very well de veloped to show the natural propor tions of a snake. Another interesting and striking effigv was found a short distance west of St. Paul. It is a group of five mounds, bearing the appear ance of large birds in motion in the air, with wings extended and necks stretched forward. Three of them are directly in line as geese fly one a little to the left, and the other a little in advance, bearing off to the right. Mr. Lewis saj's that it is one of the best and most natural effigies he has ever discovered or seen described. The shape of the mounds is different from any that have ever before been dis covered in the way of bird effigies. The Highest point is near the upper portion of the wing, the slope of the wings being proportioned so as to show which way the long feathers run. These de 'scribed aro only the more striking ones of the 125 effigies surveyed. - In the matter of aiclueological relics dug from the mounds mostly "by Mr. Lewis himseif there is a collection that to enumerate each object would require a column of space. The curi ous specimens embrace a wide variety of drinking vessels, bowls, dishes, plates, dippers, agricultural imple ments, pipes, shell beads, axes, arrow heads and chisels, made of different materials, clay, mu-sol shell, stone and copper having been principally used. The Minnesota collection was secured principally in the southeastern part of tbe State. There is a large drinking vessel, basket-shaped, the handle set ting off from the vessel four or five inches. The only opening is a small aperture on the top of the handle. Another drinkingyessel is painted a deep, glossy red, the color being well preserved, except on the handle, where it cwas evidentrv worn off by usage. This is polished very nicely, and evi dently belonged to a nabob's outfit. It 'stands upright, the handle being much smaller than the bowl. Another vessel, similarly constructed, is painted intwo colors, red and yellow, there being ten stripes of each color on the bowl and four of each ou the neck. Irregular, wavy lines of color ornament another. Still another drinking vessel has ten double circles panted on the bowl, with crosses in the center, and three double circles, with crosses in the center,- on the upright neck. Evidently these were intended as evidences of ex traordinary artistic talent A round, open-topped vessel has handles mod eled to represent a woman's face and head; inside the hollow head are sub stances of some character which rattle when the vessel is shaken. There i3 a large circular dish, with a grooved top, fashioned something after our modern models; several forms of plates, also of modern design; several oval-shaped, open top cooking vessels in which to heat water, the handles being repre sentations of beaver, duck and owl heads. One co.kn; ve-sel has three short legs attached to its bottom; a dipper has a hardle modeled after a beaver's tail; another a long, strong, thick handle; there are no two dippers that arc similar in de sign, showing a raga for something new and novel amjng the people of that time. One water vessel and a cup suow eviuuncus oi luuuurn construction the former having a perforated base and the latter having a regular chimb around the bottom. A .hood-top drink ing vessel the neck running up and being fashioned after the head of a hooded woman is a curiosity. The only opening is under the front of the hood, where the face should be. All these described are made from clay and pulverized mussel shells. There aro also specimens of agricultural imple ments hoes, spades, etc. boine made of chert (a spee'es of llint), others of the shoulder blade of the buffalo; the latter are highly pol.shed. There are also a number of discoida stones (round stones, having the form of a disk), celts (shaped like small tomahawks, and supposed to have been used for skinning animals); clay pots, n'ccly ornamented with lines and dots; copper axes (one weighing one and a half pounds), arrow anu spear heads, stone axes, lead ore i nd shell beads. . stone paddle, four teen inches long, Mr. Lewis says is the largest ever found in tho" United, States, the greatest length heretofore: noted being six and a half inches. Mr. Lewis also has four two-handled clay j pots, there having been 011I3 one more found in Minnesota of which a record is known. Copper chisels, ceremonial pipes, pestles, stono hammers and doz ens of other rolici go to complete tho; collection. One htrjre two-handled' cooking pot made of clay and mussel' shells deserves special mention, it, was found in Northeastern Iowa, which is considered pretty far north for such a ' specimen. Its symmetry is perfect the sides being fluted and ornamented with diagonal lines. The diameter across the top is 13 1-2 inches; across, the center, 18 inches; depth, IS iachas. This was probably used as' a wash tub' 4r punch bowl or likely both. Mr. Lewis stirts out again in a short time for another southern tour. If Minne sota should ever construct a suitable Are-proot building, it is the intention of ttke gentleman to present the State witk ' magnificent archaeological collection. 8U Paul Pioneer Press. -A clerk in Indianapolis was arrested IN THE JURY BOX tea aad Tree Greet the "Drea4 'The DtotlacUjMarker- UarlttMfJaran. Perhaps there is no time in the life of an active business man when he is mora tempted to rave at his clerks, stamp witk rage, and utter corses load and deep, than at the moment he mas vp against a little piece of paper properly signed and countersigned and endorsed "Jury summons." The unfortunate re cipient of this unwelcome insignia of citisemshn grasps his kaf7 rushes wildljT from ms omce, mases ou way rsptuijr over to the Court House and stalks de- jectedlyinto the court room where the summons in peremptory terms an nounces -kis presence as being "re quired." He is somewhat consoled when he espies his friend, and his busi ness competitor C. both of whom, as he rightly condudes,3rejfor the ofJce kis brothers in misfortune. " " Scattered about the court room are perhaps fifty men of' various nationali ties and ages. They are all jurors in embryo, and are waiting for the Judge to open the court When His Honor appears and takes his seat on the bench thirty-five out of the fifty men get in a row, filing Indian fashion up to and from the judicial bench, whisper all sorts of excuses and touching stories of domestic affliction and financial peril into the sympathizing judicial right ear. 1 It is plain to be seen that -each one of the thirty-five is arefully considering kow he can best attain the object which they all seek viz., immunity from the jury box. .Many of the excuses are frivolous, some are legitimate and not a few are palpably '.'trumped up." Sometimes a juror is excused upon nis mere statement of fact but as a rule they are sworn to answer such questions as shall be put to thorn by the judge touching their rightrto be excused. The judicial examiner probes the anxious applicant sternly. . Once bound down to the jury box the juror becomes the type of a class. He is no longer a broker, a merchant a bank president or a saloon keeper. His natural identity is lost and he is part and parcel of tbe machinery of justice. To be sure, he eats and sleeps like other men, but then he thinks and acts only like a juror. His status is not- firmly established, however, until ho begins to develop a peculiarity. This done, he becomes an object of interest especially to the lawyers. The characteristics of jurors are dis tinctly marked. If frequently happens that the same persons sit as jurors from term to term. Whether because they like it have nothing else to do or sit for pay, or whether it so happens that they are "drawn" with malice aforethought it is hard to tell. But somehow or other lawyers are getting to know the jurors. They aro able to lean over to their clients in the court room and describe the peculiarities of each one of them. The foreman is recog nized as a auodel juror for a good case, but too sound for a poor one. The second juror is the proverbially obsti nate specimen who invariably insists that he is right and tho other eleven are pig headed fools. He is a first rate man to have in the box if a disagreement is wanted. The third is marked down as always having a leaning toward the plaintiff's side of the case, while the fourth is known as an easy-going, "happy go lucky" sort of an individ ual, ready to go with whichever one the "other fellows" favor. Number five is the inquisitive juror. Ho is always asking questions of the witness about matters which the lawyers have kept carefully in tho background. His brethren in the box respect him, but the lawyers regard him as an irritating thorn. Number six is much given to argument and contention. He is al ways ready for a fight in the jury room. and, being somewhat "gun," is gen erally able to hold his own. Seven is an unknown quantity. He is possessed of a great veneration for ju dicial learning and discernment and goes with the judge, if the judge inad vertently exhibits a bias. Eight is re markable for nothing except it be a fondness for the newspapers. He will peruse his. favorite paper regardless alike of the most startling testimony and the flowery eloquence of counsel. Number nine is attentive, conscientious and analytical. He weighs the evidence on both sides, scrawls all day in his note-book and votes according to his convictions. He is looked'upon with suspicion, and is frequently challenged. Ten is the silent juror. He watches the proceedings'with expressionless counte nance, is unfathomable, and therefore dangerous. Eleven, on the contrary, is as open as the sky. He sides with his favorite lawyer, and is always ready to laugh when that legal luminary make3 a good hit He can lxs counted upon as prejudicial for one side or the other long before the trial is finished. Number twelve is the last man in the box, and he is likewise the last man to make up his mind what he ought to do. He is pleased with the appearance and bearing of the plaintiff, but on the other haud, he is thoroughly impressed with the justice of the defendant s case. In this dilemma he awaits tho first vote and then chimes in with the majority. After the jurors have listened! a great mass of conflicting testimony, been talked to and pleaded with by the lawyers and gravely instructed by the Court they aro IcU away by the court officer, who carries a portcntious look ing kev in his hand, and are marched into a little ten-by-tcn jury room. The key grates in the lock, tho officer re treats down the stairway and the twelve men "good and Into" arc left to the joint contemplation of bare walls and tho caso under consideration. The bare walls look so cold and gloomy that the unhappy jurymen at onco devote them selves exclusively to the case. Granted that all the elements constituting a well ordered jury exist quick justice is meted out. and it oftentimes happens that a loud pounding on the door announces to the officer who has just left that the jury arc ready with their verdict. At other times boUterons lan guage and voices raided high in angry contention show too plainly that the ob stinate juror has got himself hopelessly 'entangled with the conscientious juror. Then the judge goes away, instructing them to hand in a sealed verdict in the morning. When tho morning arrives the judge finds tho .jury in their seats, looking haggard and worn. The obstinate juror Is sulloa and defiant while tbe fore man tells the judge that they have not been able to agree. The lawyers look disappointed, the litigants despairing. Th jurors, if they are discharged, file sheepishly out of court collect in squads In the corridors and vow vengeance agawst tho obstinate one, who trips jauntily away, happy in the knowledge of a duty well performed. N. Y. Eer- Among other idealistic dresses is an oriental creation of gold silk and cream tissue, figared with green palm leaves woven into the sheen-like fabric, the leaves being in clusters, the corsage; loopings of the skirt and hair all being furnished witk pendants and borderings of oriental pearls, with marvelously beautiful effect Its sister dress is of a new material, embossed with wild roses. oomautaa in lace net in the sans wttkeajro to match, the looped back train Injur of the embossed fabric, while the front is formed of the lace in aaaisVm and most artistically draped .A. r. Urmpkic. t . m m on the Island of SaaaV are tafcave their eyebrowa shaved t Delete the in Hilar 17 takaa plaee. VENICE, urn n falls e Hfe'Exserieaees In Best Waters Tow ta Xarope. We arrived in Venice last evening; latitude 45 deg. 25 min, N., .longitude, IS deg. 19 min. E. Venice is the home of the Venetian, and also where the gondola has its best and rears its young- It is also the headquarters for the' paint -known as Venetian red. They use it in painting the. town on'iestive occasions. This is the town where the Merchant of Venice used to do business, and the home of 'Shylock, a broker, who sheared the Venetian lamb at the cor ner of the Bialto and the Grand Canal. He is now no more. I couldn't even find an old neighbor near the Rialto who remembered Shylock. From what I can learn of him. however, I am led to believe that he was pretty close in his deals, and liked to catch a man in a tight place and then make him squirm. Shylock, during the great panto in Ven ice manyjears ago, it is said, had a chattel mortgage on more lives than J-ou could shake a stick at He would oan a small amount to a merchant at three per cent a month, and secure it on a pound of merchant's liver, or by a cut-throat mortgage on his respire tory apparatus. Then, when the paper matured he would go up to the house with a pair of scales and a pie knife and demand a foreclosure. Venice is one of the best watered towns in Europe. You can hardly walk a block without getting your feet wet Unless you ride in a gondola. The gondola is a long, slim hack without wheels and is .worked around through the damp streets by a bru nette man whose Dreath should be a sad warning to us all. He is called the gon dolier. Sometimes he sings in a low tone of voice and. in a foreign tongue. I do not know where I have met so many foreigners as I have here in Europe- Wherever I go I hear a foreign tongue. I do not know whether these people talk in the Italian language just to show it off or not Perhaps they pre fer it London is the only place I have visited, where the' Boston dialect is used. London was originally settled by ad venturers from Boston. The blood of some of the royal families -of Massa chusetts may be found in the veins of London people. Wealthy young ladies in Venice do not run away with the coachmen. There are no coaches, no coachmen and no horses in Venice. There are only four horses in Venice, and they are made of copper and exhibited at St Mark's as curiosit.es. The Accademia delle Belle Arti of Venice is a large picture store where I went yesterday to buy a few pictures for Christmas presents. A painting by Titian, .the Italian Prang, pleased me very much, but I couldtvnt beat down the price to where it would be any ob ject for me to buy it Besides, it would be a nuisance to carry such a pioture around with meall over the Alps, up the Bhide and through St Lawrence County. I finally decided to leavo it and secure something less awkward to carry and pay for. The Italians are quite proud of their smoky old paintings. I have often thought that if Ven'ce would run less to art and more to soap, she would be more apt to win my respect Art is all right to a certain extent, but it can be run in the ground. It breaks my heart to know how lavish nature has been with water here, and yet how the Ve netians scorn to investigate its benefits. When a gondolier gets a drop of water on him, he swoons. Then he lies in a kind of coma till another gondolier comes along to breathe in his face and revive him. N. Y. Mirror. EDUCATED TO DEATH. The KtIU ef Over-Craamaalag la Pablle Schools IUustrated. Ten million children are educated in the public schools of the United States at an annual expense of nearly one hundred million dollars. In every respect these figures are as tonishing. They show how liberally the "palladium of our liberties," as the Fourth of July orator always calls the school system, is supported, and also that it includes nearly one-fifth of our total population.- These figures may well attract atten tion, and especially that of parents. It is the most natural thing in the world that in such a vast system there should be constant emulation and rivalry not only between scholars, but scholars ana teachers, to surpass every other school. -j 'In this lies a great danger, that of ed ucating the children to death. The re-, cent exposition by the York (Pa.) Daily of theamount crammed by rote into the children in that town is one instance out of thousands, and no one can doubt that the dry facts given to the York scholars would produce mental indi gestion in grammar-school children and tax their abilities too far. In the daily papers of this very week in which the York story is printed appears an account of a bright young girl of Brooklyn, who was ambitious to be the hed of her school. Encouraged by fond but silly parents, she worked con stantly, gained her aim and has just become an intellectual and physical wreck. The other case is that of a boy who succeeded in all of his studies but one Latin; for failing in which both his teachers and father reproved him. To save further humiliations to him self, and any repetition of his father's action, he was accustomed to steal out of bed in the dead of night and apply himself to his Latin until the gray streaks of dawn warned him of the danger of being discovered in his un dertaking. As a consequence the lad's nervous system gave way under the strain, ana though he succeeded in his object it is a serious question with his doctors whether he wXl ever be re stored to even tolerable health. Are not these instances enough to il lustrate the evil of over cramming in the public schools; or if they are not enough can they not be supplemented in the experience of any reader? Fathers who think first of their money-making and mothers who think first of social duties too often neglect the first of all duties that to the chil dren and in this neglect comes the strain of the schools. Every father and mother should see that their chil dren are not forced to study too hard. Above all they should use their influ ence to do away with the pernicious habit of study at" home. Overwork is the great' complaint of Americans. When it -comes to having over-worked children the prospect is terrible for the future. We have too many "diseases incidental to modern life," and of these many are traceable directly to the pub lic school. The educate the chil dren to death, and instead of demand ing more studies or more time for study every man and woman who has a child at school should try to see that the sys tem can be so modified that the., poor children shall only need to study not much more than half the time they do now, and that will be almost too much for the little ones. Philadelphia News. s Women intend to make as good a sMowing of their work as possible at New Orleans; but however excellent their "exhibit" may be it will not ia ltfde the results of their best work of alL which is found in happy homes, well-ordered households and wefl traiaed sons and daughters. 2T. Y. Ctmmtrdal Advertiser. Sr boy is mo1 active den at Er colt prances mo' gaily den er hoes, bat he is de soones' ter fall off 4a bins! aa kjtt axeULArktuisaw Trwmhr. THE DEAR OLD MOTHER. A Pathetic Romance Told by a Passeac ob a Western Trala. She was poorly clad, and shivered as she sat down near the stove and wrung her blue, rough fingers to warm them. The passengers all felt sorry for her, for she had a kind, benevolent face, and seemed to be grieving about something. "I wonder I wonder I wonder if I will get there in time," she mumbled over and over again. "Poor boy! He was always so good to me, and I wonder if I will be with him when itpomes?" Tickets?" said the conductor. The old -woman opened her basket and was a long time looking over it although. she searched diligently, and when she got through she looked very white and sad, and softly said to the conductor: "Stop the train and nut me off. 1 bought my ticket yesterday and put it in my purse, but I .have forgotten my purse and left it at home. O! sir, I am so sorry, but I was going to St Louis to see my poor boy who worked in a foundry until yesterday, when a great wheel fell over on him and crushed him so badly they say he will die; but I have forgotten my pocketbook, and now 1 will never see my poor boy again in this world. Put me off, but I don't know how I will get back home or go on," and the pleasant ridges on her face were drawn up into corded lines, and the blue veins stood out in great knotsi and she clenched her bony fingers in agony, as the tears started from her eyes. The passengers were all looking on, and when the conductor passed on as if he had lost his mother, nis great hand grasping his punch tremblingly and his eyes brimful, a quiet big hearted passenger whispered to him and then went through the coach ahead of him, asking for half-dollar subscrip tions, but the passengers would not give, and as the train slowed up at the next station the conductor walked up to her and gently put his hand on her shoulder. "Never mind," she said, swallowing a big lump that kept coming up in her throat "Pll get on peaceably," and her frame , was convulsed with a shudder, and as' the brakeman opened the door to call the name of the station, the snow-burdened air came in and blew off her bonnet and she uttered a sharp cry as the conductor pressed her back into her scat and said: "Don't get off, mother. Your fare is paid clear through to" He stopped and said, in deep agony of mind: "My God!" and as the passengers gathered around, he completed his sentence. "Her fare is paid clear through to Heaven," and as the pas sengers looked on her glazing eyes, her acnonized features resumed their wonted pfeasantness, for she was traveling on a pass written in letters of living light and had reached the end of her journey and met her son, who had died an hour before. The conductor and brakeman tenderly lifted the vacant tenement of her soul and complied with the request to put her off at the next station. A pretty girl that bad been flirting began to cry and a woman and baby took it up and joined the pretty girl, and one by one the rest of us united our tears with theirs, and the fat woman bugged the brakeman of our coach, and so wo went on our way, all feeling better for what we had seen, Through Mail. m HE SKULKED. The Meaaaess of His Kaemy la Net Givta Him Half a Chance. Biding out from Chattanooga towards Bridgeport on horseback I came across a native who had a seat on a rock quite apiece above the road. If he hadn't rattled a stone down just as I came opposite he might have escaped unde tected. He had a gun across his knees, and I called to him: "Pretty good hunting around here?" "May be," he answered. "What do you find?" "Nuthin' yit" He seemed so cranky that I was about to ride on, when he rose up and de scended to the road. He didn't look a bit good-natured, and he held his shot gun in a very careless manner as ha said: "Stranger, you mought have coma from Chattanooga!" "Yes." "You mought have had company part o the way." "Yes. A man on a mule rode with me as far as the forks, half a mile back." "Man with reddish ha'r long nose whiskers on his chin swears a good deal?" "That's him." "And, hang him, he turned off, did ke?" "Yes took tho right-hand road." "Jistlike him jist like theonorery 'possum ho is! Stranger, that 'ere feller shot my father morevn two years ago, and he was the game I was waitin' fur! He's got three different roads to go an come oy, and jist as sure as I'm watchin' one heUl go by t'other. He's fooled ma all summer long in this way, and I'm gittin' that desperit that if I miss him to-morrer I shall have to go up to his clearing and take a shot at him as he sots in tho door smokin' his pipe! Stranger, what's yer real, downright Christian opinion of a man as will put another man out of the way as he has me!" Detroit Free Press. m m Nothing New Under the Sun. That there is nothing new'uader the sun must surely have been the reflection of those who read the strange story of robbery at Portsmouth, which is de scribed in this morning's papers. Some thousands of years ago King Barneses of Egypt as described by Herodotus got a builder to build him a secret treasure-house to which the King alono could find an entrance; but tho astute builder left a loose stone and helped him self at the treasury when he liked. About ten years age, it appears, a gen tleman named Milligan, residing near Portsmouth, being of primitive ideas, thought that a "secret drawer" would be safer than a bank, and instructed a workman to make him a receptacle of this nature. Into this drawer, when constructed, Mr. Milligan poured some hundred sovereigns, and never after ward inspected the store until last year. In tho early part of this year Mr. Milli gan put two hundred more sovereigns into the drawer. The builder of the drawer seems, however, to have been struck with the same idea as the Egyp tian architect of the treasure house, and went and helped himself as he liked, and to such an extent that he has during the year purchased some houses in the neighborhood. Un fortunately the tales end differently; for, when the son of the Egyptian builder eventually secured the princess and half the kingdom, the English builder has merely found his way into the hands of the police. SL James Omzette. There are nineteen known metale valued at over $1,000 per avoirdupois pomnd. The most costly is vanadium, which is said to be worth 910,000 a pound. Of these nineteen metals only one is produced or used to any con siderable extent and this is indinm, which is valued at $1,000 par pound- It is sometimes, but very sparinriy. in electrical experiments. N. Y.ffermld. One-half of the world doesn't the other half lives. And 'tis jat aawelL it saves treat aaaiaf Jieston Courier. MISCELLANEOUS. Certain doctor insist that hydro phobia is riniply a diMw.ie eutirefy oi tho intasi'Kitiim. A- !' Sim. "Tin.tis is so hard tlu't I feel like holding up a s'age." murmured a half famis'ied prospector. And then ha added iun;ii:ly, "but what 'ml be the use? Nine out of ten of the fellers wouldn't have a ecu t, .and the tenth 'ud have a gu.i." Hciiccr Opinion. .Rev. J. Walter Lowrie. a Presby terian missionary to China, has the only four-wheeled vehicle in Pekin an un graceful but useful covered depot wagon, built in Ohio. 1 i natives are amazed at its wheels, so light and yet strong. A family of twelve children now re siding in England can count up theic aggregate ages to the figure of 972 years. The youngest is seventy-nine and thd oldest is eighty-nine, the aver age for each of the twelve children" being eighty-one years. The pawnbrokers of Boston are considerably agitated and fear a loss of patronage in consequence of an order issued recently b' the police commission compelling them to send to head quarters at the close of each day a de scription of each article presented to them, the amount of money loaned on the same, together with the name and description of each person offering it Boston Olobe. The camphor laurel, a native of China, and tho tree from which most of the camphor of commerce is obtained, seems to have been introduced success fully into.California, one tree in Sacra mento having attained a height of thirty feet The wood, every part of which smells strongly of camphor, is light and durable, not liable to injury from in sects, and much favored by cabinet makers. San Francisco Chronicle. Oscar Wilde said the other day, in his lecturo at Glasgow, that notning distressed' him more than to see in a paragraph that such and such a color was going to be fashionable next season, and he held that it would not be more ridiculous to read in a musical magazine that "B flat" was going to bo a fashion able note. I certainly think that if "B flat" can, not possibly make itself fash ionable, "A Hat" can, and very often docs. London Truth. A little strip of sidewalk about five feet wide in front of the United States Court House in Boston is constantly thd refuge of the street peddlers of bouquets who wish " to evailo payment of the license feo which the city ordinances re quire. As the atrip is the property of tho United States, they can here bid de fiance to tho police, but it not infre quently happens that their eagerness to sell lures them out and then, if caught they are brought to court and fined. Boston Journal. "It is a matter of life and death. You are overworked, and must take a rest" "That is impossible, doctor. My best men are all sick, my customers aro coming in by the hundreds, and I must be at my po-t" "If your custom should temporarily drop off you could then find time to rest, could'nt you?" "Certainly: but how can I temporarily stoj) all my old patrons from rushing in on me, even if the case should bo, as you say, a matter of life and death?" "Easy" enough. Slop advertising!" PhitudcUtia Call. This is a Laramie, (Wy. T.) criti cism of a Western actress: "And String ham the sublime and beautiful Sadie how shall we find words to characterize her? She was a symphony in red. She had rouge enough on her face to paint the town, the general effect being hightened by a crimson dress of antique design. She repeated several times that she was ready to 'beg from door to door to save her starving child,' and that's about what she will nave to do if she de pends on the stage for a living." Chi cago Tribune. . THE EARTHQUAKES IN SPAIN. The Horror of That Christmas Xlght De scribed by One of the Batterers. The clearest idea of the horror on that Christmas night when the first two shocks in quick succession occasioned nearly all the distress, was given me by a Lieutenant Colonel of the Ninth Cuirassiers, whom I met at the King's headquarters at the Alhama baths. This officer said he had permission to spend the Christmas holidays with his family at AJhama, and had a few friends to dinner. After dinner the friends left and he sat talking with his wife and children, five in number, when suddenly one end of the room rose up three feet The shock threw the whole family to the floor, with the lamps and other articles on the tables and shelves. They remained in total darkness, dazed aud wondering what had happened. Presently he supposed it was an earth quake, and called to his wife and children to come into the street Ha reached tho street door and the street was in total darkness. The air was filled with the dust of the crumbling buildings. Afraid to go out he stood shivering and undecided, when a second shock came and the kitchen fell in, killing two servants. A piece of wood fell upon his wife, breaking her leg. He then carried his wife out over piles of ruins. Tho narrow, dark streets were so changed by the debris that it was hard to recognize them. He reached the open fields, where he found that many had preceded him. He left his wife with friends and returned for his children. Ho brought three the next trip and then the other two. All the way. while crawling over piles of ruin. he heard the cries of those who had been caught and could not extricate themselves. Every voice was familiar. He met neighbors telling each other of the loss of relatives and friends. The horror of such an experience was un paralleled. The night was spent in the open fields, shivering on the ground, enter taining fears and suffering grief, terror and a horrid uncertainty, for not even at daylight did they learn the full ex tent of the loss sustained throughout the city. As Ifollowed my guide I was regaled with recitals as, "Here two bodies were dug out" "Ainan and wife over there," "Four children on this side;" "One man was caught in the doorway and could not get out he died shortly after being removed" until the tale became too harrowing to listen to. Arrived at the outskirts of one part of the town, where the houses are built ou the edge of a cliff, almost perpendicular and forty five feet to the first plateau, the officer Eointed to the one of which the gable end ad disappeared. "There," said he. "two girls were in the kitchen when it was shaken down. Both rolled with the debris to the bottom of the cliff. Where yon see thatpile one was killed; the other, thank God, escaped without in jury," and taking off his hat he piously crossed himself. "This girl has since become a heroine, and all visitors te the ruined city are constantly impor tuned to allow themselves to be intro duced." Passing around under the edge of tke mountains he showed me where a nnm ber of houses had been built under the shadow of the overhanging cliffs, now buried- with all their mate. Many bodies are still remaining under tke ponderous rocks. The odor is per vading and sickening to tbe passer-by. Far down in the vaHey were hnge owldera, many ef them folly as Jaffa aa an ordinary seaside cottage, wkiek lbeenkarled from their position am. Ugh, in maayaistaaoas passing ana ataf over tke iatarremaw liowaa.aai np the tfnaaii whan maw W. r?- uTBfySr1 FOREIGN GOSSIP. Chili Is the most prosperoas try in South America. Queen Victoria ha the finest set of plate in the world. It cost $10,000, 000. A movement is on foot in Dublin to substitute Irish names for the present English names of street. Savage dogs wh'ch kill their mas ters are oadeataed to a curious form of death in Japan. They jure shut np in a box with a little food and are thrown into the sea. A house in Craven street Strand, London, which has' over -Its frontdoor nUUe hearing-theinforaationjtkat It was once the residence p of Benjamin Franklin, is now ajioardihgjtouie. r Two cases .of the successful joining of divided, nerves have been reported to the Paris Academy of Science', function being restored in one case to a nerve which bad been divided for fifteen years. On tho spot in High street Oxford, on wh!ch ,R:dly ami Latimer were burned at the stake, there is now a small brass crou. over which hundredi of drays pass, daily.. not five per .cent of whose driver ever beard of tke fires of persecution once kindled there. In France newspaper men oftee fight duels, it is supposed, for the pur pose of bringing their pspurs into pub lie notice, but these duels are rarelj fataL Ind :ed, so uncommon are fatali ties in French duels' at present thai of 545 duels fought since 1869 but eight have resulted fatally. The second thimble centenary bar recently been celebrated at Amster dam. .The first thimble was made la October. 1684, by a goldsmith, Vaa Benschelton. whose idea in the manu facture of the pretty conceit was to protect the finger of his lady .lore. Tbe EngPsh were the first to adopt the new invention. Nine million squaro -miles Is cer tainly a mighty measure, being forty four times bigger than France and and seventy-three time larger than the combined area of the British Isles. Yet this iajsaid to be the measurement of the expanse of territory embraced in the "geographical basis 'of tint Congo" which the International' Afri can As -ociation lalm. In Scotland, as in England, they regard theft as a good deal worse than murder. At the High Court of Judiciary in Edinburgh the other day a man was condemat d to two months' imprisonment for having knocked his wife down and kicked her unto death. The next pnsoner was oonviotcd of having stolen a letter containing two half-soverigns and" sixty stamps. He sentence was five years' penal servi tude. f A native chief in' Fiji presented himself for baptism. "How many wives havo you?" sa'd the missionary. "Seven," said the chief. "Oh. that won't do; caa't baptize you till you have got rid of six of them." A month later the chief came again; saying: Mo ail right now; you baptizo me now. Only one wife now." "What have you done with the others?" said the mis sionary. "Oli." said the cannibal, "Me's eatea eb:ry one of 'em." Ben Uricrley,s Journal. The plaee where W.1I am Tell shot the apple from his sun's head provid ed the incident over really took place is now called Altorf, and is oae milt) from the head of Lake Luzerne. The tide of the tree under which. Schiller says, the boy stood, is marked by a huge square monument sixty ftt high, the sides of which are adorned with paintings that are more suggestive than irtistic. On the spot where Tell stood Is now a large white statue of the Swiss patriot in the act of drawing his bow. SACRED BREAD STONES. Uoir the ZbbU Prepare the Wafers Which ater lata Their Kellgtouk ObMrr aaces. For no art or industry within the range of the domestic duties of Zuni, is so much care and instruction be stowed by the old women on the yoaug, as for every process in the making of the he-we or wafer breads. Year in and year out too, wh'-le theso lessons are being plied, it is told howthefamed and beloved "Goddess of the White Shells" taught not a few of her graces and some secrets in connection with the daily occupation which forms their theme. Of the secrets, a chosen few old women of the tribe are keepers. With many a mysterious rite and severe penance, they quarry and manufacture the enormous baking-stones on which the' flaky tc )thsome he-we is made. Garrulous enough, mercy knows! are these old crones on most other subjects; but they guard with a sphinx-like jeal ousy such of their methods and ob servances as add prestige to experience in their occasional calling. The usual number of old women making up a party of "stone finishers" is lour or eight rarely more. Four days previ ously to the tempering of the stones they retire to an estufa or lone room, there to fast and ojigage in Certa.n ceremonials, in which croning tradi tional chants and repeat. ng ritual play an important part. During the e four days they never come forthvun!ess at rare intervals aud for a very short time (and then under the protecting in fluence of warning head-pfuuics) that they may not be touched by the unin itiated. Yet, dur ng the intermiss:ons of their religious observances, they prepare great cakes of pinion gum, carefully wrapping them in strips of cedar bark. ani in other ways make ready for the work at hand. On the morning of the day succeeding the last night of their vigil, they repair in sin gle file, headed by a particular clan priest usually a "Bauger," who on no account touches one of them to the quarry. Before lifting the stones, be fore even quarrying any of them, they recite long, propitiatory prayers, cast ing abundant medicine-meal to the "Flesh of the roL-k." With other but shorter prayers the fire is kindled by the old priest who uses as his match a stick of hanj wood with which he drills vigorously into a piece of dry. soft root until the friction ignites the dust of its own mak: tg. and to the flames thus creucratcd. ilYorings of dry food are made. The jtones are then brought and when warm enough, placed over the tires, being cor.-tantfy anointed with p tch and cactus juice, which they greed ly absorb, so that they at- least seem m1 d masses of carbonized sub stance rather than gritty rock. From the beginning to tho end of this tem pering process never a word is spoken aloud nor he lea.-t excitement or sprightly aetion indulged in. Sounds uttered 'would penetrate tke grain of the rock and, expelled by heat or con flicting wth the new "being" (func tion) of the stone, split scale or shiver it with a loud noise. So also, the evil infliunue of undue passion or hasty ac tion would al'-ke be communicated to it with bl:ghting future effect Frmmk CtuJtiwj, in the Millstone. "The blood of the lower animals is commonly colorlos. It has. however, a Mueish cast in c taceane. reddiak, yellow'&n or greenish in worms, and reddish, inwnish or brownish in jelly fishes. Tbe blood is colorless in tke macular part of fishes; that of birds is of tke deepest red. Tke red lioaid which appears when tke head ef a ly ie rushed is not blood, but comes aresB tke eves. In vertebrates tke blood i red. except in one species ef blooded nh.--Philaiehki YOUR BEST TIME FH ICtCHIHe A FIACT1CAL EIUCATM IS NOW. r 1 1 flamamamsmlav" aaaaaaaaaEaaaaaaaBsaBBBM amamamamavYliamamaVamamamaH Kamalamamamamamnmam&Uaai PaVamamaVamamammHsaS' aV A DECIDED SUCCESS. THK FREMONT NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, AT FREMONT. NEB., Opcaed successfully October 21, with ten teachers and a good attendance, w I eh doubled durisj? the tlrat flvo week?, and is still steadily lacreasin?. Fifty Studcats in tbe Business College aad Saort-haad Classes: nearly fifty in the Kermal er Teachers Department and coBtBBOB braaehes, aad a good attendance la the Uusic aad Art Departments. The FsicwItT. PRESIDENT JONES has had over tweaty years experience is Educational work. PROFESSOR HAMLIN. Principil or ths Busiaass College, has had over fifteen years experieace aad Is a Superior Pen man sad Expert Accountant. PROFESSOR MOHLER is an original aad iasplriBjr teacher in the Natural Science aad Business Dcpartnu-nt-i. PROFESSOR LAWTOX, or Boston, Hass.. is a superior Instructor in Music. Miss Sarah Satmiau, of Chimo, is an artist of rara taUat and skill, and a ino.t successful Teacher. Miss Lydin L. Joaeaaad Miss Jessie Cowles are grad uates" ef tke Northvrektern University, and able teachers. Mr. A. A. Cowles is a practical short-hand reporter and an adept at type-writiug. Tbe other teach ers are thoroughly qualified. EaLrrasra vey low. Tuition for twelve weeks $12. Board costs from $2.50 to 3.U0 a week. In clubs aad by self-boarding It costs less. Places can be found for several more studeata who wish to pay part or whole ot board by housework or chores. Ife Tacatlesisu The SPRING TERM ot 12 weeks will begia April 14, but students can xntkr ATAHTTllUt, and aro doing so contin ually, pajiag charges only from time of eateries; to time of leaving. For particulars addresa cthe under signed; W. P.JONES, A. M., Prest. of Normal College, Fremont, Ne). UHION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE. iBBtwrti and UmimproTed Paras, Say ami Grazing Lands and City Preaarty far Sala Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office. On Long Time and low rate of Interest. fpsTFiaal proof made on Timber Claims, Homesteads and Pre-emptions. fpaTAll wishing to buy lands of any de scription will please call and examine my list ef lands before looking elsewhere. gf"All having lands to se 11 will please call aad give me a description, term., prices, etc. also am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have tbe agency or several Irst-claas Fire insurance companies. F. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German. 8AHHEL C. SMITH, SQ.tr Columbus, Nebraska. SPEICE & NORTH. General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Paciic, .and Midland Pacific B. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre fer cash, or on five or ten years time, ia 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 oa reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate ia Platte County. 131 COLUMBUS. IVKal. LOUIS SCHKEIBEB, BlartsjiMWaeoiMfc. . V . All kiiif f Reiairiig deie ei Sktrt Nttiee. Biggies, Wag- h, etc, fe erder, aid all werk Giar- aiteed. AJat tall tka warld-famoui Walttr A. awan. Aaafera, -jomduv at Xaeaimw, Harrmttari, ami tttf-aimiart-tka aastmait. 8hoa appasIU tke " Tattersall," on Olivs BU COLUMBUS. 36-ra -ajayriCE xa teachem. j. criaf, Co. (apt., Will b la kis oaf.ee at tke Court House ea tke tklrd Saturday of each taoatk for tke purpose of examining applicaaU fer teackers eertlf cates, and sr tke traasaettoa of aay other business aectalalag te sekoels. 667-7 200,000 i presents given away. 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