PRENTICE. Incidents in tho Career of tho Ilabowncd Humorist. TThero is a sort of general Iccx that Tireuiicc was "a bad man with o gun," 'a duelist, and all that sort of thing. Nothing could be more erroneous. Tho fact is he never fought a duel, tut was sometimes, from the nature of bV busi ness, forced to personal and audden rencounters. He was frequenth chal lenged, but always made fun ol mes sage?. Once he wrote his chalfenger that- it only took one fool to send a challenge, while it took two to light, and he didn't wish to be classed :n the category. On another occasion lie ac cepted he challenge, and having- the choice of weapons, insisted that ach man should be armed with a straw and A cask of whisky, and that each should suck with his straw from his own rask until one fell, and that one should be considered vanquished and the othor'fl honor satisfied. Prentico was an exceedingly candid man, as the following anecdotes will show: Once Will S. Hays, the famous spng-wriUjr, in conversation with him, said: "I suppose, Mr. Prentice, you .have seen mv last song?" With a sly and quizzical look at the minstrel, lie replied: "Well. I hope so, li.ll." Coming out of a public building on ,day, where there were double door which swnng in and out, a young man, who was coming in, pushed against the left-hand side of the door in which to enter, while Mr. Prentice was pushing against the other side of tho door, try ing to make his exit. The result was a ridiculously awkward halt. Finally, when the two had managed to got the oor open, Mr. Prentice said to the frorriiger: "My young friend, in mak as8urPur way through the world, if you . , jnly keep to uie rigm you wm 'r run against anybody but a fool. to p you iieedn't apologize to him." I niebody stole the unabridged die " Ay once from the editorial room of the Ittifil, and Mr. Prentice, having from boys" &'e tnat valuable tome, dis . .l ss. Forthwith he ordered thenco to tho , of the book be pup. bles, destroyib, "For." said ho, "no property. "less egotist would at- - a newspaper without a Me. Iry." ney, yrentice's hat was one o his ee- other rlics' e Mwavs nat ' more -J lf full of bits of paper not larger He waostjj stamp, on each of which a sulky pHten a word or two, in the die deBd.'niorantk1' lesities be car ' .pocket-knife, pencils, scissors, Accoke and porteitonnaie in it, and menj. lines, in an absent-minded way, ould put a well-masticated chew SP'tobacco into it instead of throwing the cud away. Many persons from abroad used to call on Mr. Prentice when they were in Louisville, as though he was one of tho curiosities of the citv, or just for the mrpose of being able to say that they lad talked with such a great man, and this was peculiarly annoying to him, as ho was inclined to be retiring and really never thought of comprehending nis own fame. Un one occasion an oiu friend called on the editor, and brought with him a callow young man from some undefined locality in the rural districts. This youth was particularly curious, and actually asked Mr. Pren tice to say something funny. The ludicrous remark was smoothed over as quickly :is possible by Xho gentleman who brought the young man in, and shortly there after some liquid refreshments were ordered to be brought up to the sanctum. Mr. Prentice nad chosen a mint-julep, and when it came he held it up and asked tho gentleman wiry that drink was like his young friend? Of course the young man, feeling Hat tered by the attention, was eager to know, and begged for the answer to the conundrum. Finally, turning to tho irentleman. Mr. Prentice said with a pleasant smile: "This is a green horn!" Once Mr. Prentice met an acquaint ance on the street who was very much intoxicated, and he declared to the wit 'that he was all huiikidori." "What do you mean by hunkidori?" said Mr. P. " "1 mean, sir." said the inebria'te, "that I am pretty drunk." "Well," said Mr. Prentice, "if hunkidori means pretty drunk, I think vou are hunki dori1 In 1868 Hon. llcnry Wattcr son became editor and part owner of the Jour mil, and Mr. Prentice, who had grown quite feeblo, did very little work. In tho course of six months the Journal was consolidated with the Courier and became what is known as the Courier-Journal. About a year after, Mr. Prentice died at the resi dence of his .son. Colonel Clarence Prentico, a few miles below Louisville, on the Ohio River. He was a powerful editor, and was the most brilliant paragrapher of the age indeed, the first one of any note. His wit was bright and sparkling, his satire keen, his eloquenc. grand, his poetry beautiful, h s logic unanswer able. A deep thinker, a profound reasoner; genial, hopeful, human, and, therefore, sometimes erring, he had the best of friends, the bitterest enemies, and he was, all in all, a great and gifted man a genius. HI L. Visscher, in Denver Opinion. A LOGGING-CAMP BOSS. A. Thrilling Incident in the Pineries or Northern Michigan. "For a vouusr man I have done some pretty tough scrapping in the Rockies and mining regions of New Mexico and Arizona, but a few days ago I had the worst scare of my life in the lumber districts of Northern M chigan." The speaker was a young man of some twenty-seven years, dressed in rough-and-ready style and wearing a frizzy tow beanl. He shifted the position of his broad shoulders as he lounged back in an easy chair in the Sherman House office, puffed his cigar vigorously, and then continued: "It was one of those bitter cold days we've just been having, and I had got up at three o'clock to rouse the men and get their t,prinkler out. The air s-eerued full of blue steel and cut to my marrow like a razor. One of the teamsters got scared out and played off sick. So I had to take his place. When we had sot a jrood, big load I took the reins and sat down on the butts of the logs, leaving tlu two loggers on be hind. Of courst about twenty feet of the load hung off the last bob. The road was a sheet of ice, for the sprink ler ran over it every morning, and the horses were sharp-shod, so wo si d along smoothly until we got to the slide a pretty Jip incline ending in a turn wh ch was m ghty sharp for a road sixty feet wide. As soon as we started down my hair began to stand on end. for t!.e" horses gallope4 like fury to keep ahead of the bobs which were slew.ng all over the road. I got so paralyzed and nervous that when we approached the turn I reined in too suddenly. I felt the front bobs jump one wav and the back bobs the other. The hind ends of the logs whistled through the air like willow switches, and I heard the loggers yell: 'For God's gakCj .' The next thing was a loud snap! snap! snap! like three tremendous paper-crackers as the big log-chains broke like so many cotton thread. D.d you ever use a switch sling? Whirl it round and round your head, you know, till a sud den twist sends the apple off the end and spinning into the a:r? Well, that is the way I felt and that is just what I thought of as I was shot off in to the air, over and over and over, till I struck in a snow drift some hundred MX more feet from the road. When I GEORGE D. had struggled bck through tho snow I found the norses trying to kick loose from tho few bits of harness that dan gled about them, tho bobs tangled around the trunk of a small piua tree, and the logs scattered to the four winds. One logger crawled back to the road with a fractured leg, and the other soon followed with a dislocated shoulder. One had struck a tree and the second had landed against a stump SXSKTw JraS . .. i .-i.i r .. l.M-t- and, as I had some pretty heavy bruises myself, I concluded that I was not made to boss a lumber camp. So I was driven to town next day to telegraph the management that the'head team ster was tilling my place, and. that I was on mv wav to Chicago; and you bet your life I am glad I did it. If you have never passed a winter lntheMicu- . igan lumber districts you don't know ean lumDer uisinuuj uu uuu c .hut what trouble is. In the first place a man has to work from three in tue i morning till eight and sometimes eleven at night. My daily life, while I was fool enough to stay there, was something like this: 1 kept stow for twenty teamsters and bossed them at their work. I .slept and ate in the only approximately clean place in tho whole ranch a little box built out into the big room and all lined with strong tobacco, curry-combs, socks, pins, but tons, buckwheat, kerosene and bad molasses. The box had no cover, so as I lay on the only quilt between me and the floor I could see the stars through tho frosty cracks in the roof. Tho onions, beans, cabbages and a small kenr of sauerkraut were stored just out- 1 side my door in the big room, which was heated red-not Dy an immense open fire-place. At night tho man would take off their soaking-wet rub ber boots and stand them up by the fire. Those were awful old days lor me. It ,ori lmn slpnnlnss nights, and then had to eet up before daybreak, with the thermometer twenty or thirty de grees below zero, and go about my work with a splitting ueadacLv, con tracted in tho foul air in which I had to pass the night. I am glad I am out of it. It is an unhealthy, dirty, danger ous business, and unless a man is in with the management there is no mon ey in it" Chicago Tribune. A DROLL SUIT. A Singular Breach-of-Promise Case A FrNky Old Gentleman. Surely the drollest breach-of-promise case ever brought into court is one now pending at Williamsport. Pa. A tough old veteran of eighty becama enamored of a buxom beauty of twenty-eight, of the name of Kentner, and promised to marry her. Wind of tho affair reaching tho sons of the old man and tho parents of Miss Kentner, they put their heads together and stopped the foolish busine?-?. Uy way of a salve to tho lady s feel.ngs she gi m S3.000 damages. But the octoenan mt his charmer ajrain. memory did bring back the feeling, and they agreed1 to elope. The lady, like Miss Mel notte in tho novel, kept her word ami went to Detroit, where her aged lover was to meet her. But he, 1 ke Sir Fe lix, was not on hand. Whether he had the same reasons lor not Keep- in"- his engagement as that worthlpr baronet, or whether his sons kept too (tlosA'A vTAtah on him. wj are not inr ffjStfpa. Wo are only told that the.ladyn returneu nome ironi leiro.t -craju with orief." The errief must hav layjJ tne nhano-nd into tho histor.c fury of woman scorned when she learned that during her absence, while she was crying "He cometh not!" in herJffacL at Detroit, the wretched o'.d malnhad actually gone otT and married anotuBr woman. e ty Hi one srirl aim wniio ikt oacit is turiieu "oes off and marries another. Tall the wildness of youth! It is h'gh me the clergy began a eour-e of lectures to old men on tho neeess ty of moderating their passions. Thonias Hood had no notion of these times when he wrj: "When he is forsaken, withered Tnd shaken, what cm an old man do but d'eP" D.? Why. if he had lived in these times he would haw got engaged to a young girl and jilted her.J'hatis better fun than dying. Wo rather SBF pect that Willis Is somewhat respon sible for the astonishing tendency of the modern-race of old men to throw their oap over the m 11 top. He meant well probably when ho wrote: "It stirs tliu blood In an old man's lieafr And inukos his pulsed ily. To catch the thrill ol a happy voice And tho light of a pleasant eye." But there are old men nowadays who. when their blood gels stirred and their pulses fly, swoop down on women folk like an Assyrian on the fold and ravage whole citv fulls. The thing makes one feel 1 ke "13ened:ck": "Hath not the world one man but he will wear his age with susp'cion? Shall I never see" a bachelor of three-score again?" San Francisco Chronicle. GREELEY'S HABITS. The Great Kdltor Not the Kind of a Man to Grace a Fashionable Dintus-Room. "Horace Greel was a great eater; he d.dn't care went in for about quality, but said John Schlosser, caterer Duquesne Club, while talking of sdlie Tf his ex periences the other day. nIr:Il5chkT3ser was at one time caterer o a famous New York hotel, and af terwhrdi held the same position at iejckeifs, in Washington, and naturalrjrehas a large fund of anecdotes of distmguished men. "How did you become acqua with Greeley's hab.ts:"' aske writnr. ' "I was caterer at the house when Greeley lived there," replied Mr. Schlosser. "He was a very queer old man and a good natured one generally. He would sit in his room dressed, in a dirty old dressing-gown with nu old pair of slippers on, and read the papers early in the morning. It 'was wonderful the number ol papers he would read and throw in piles all around the room, and if any of them were lost or were taken away when his room was cleaned up, he would bo furious. He was a greateat er of fruits. Nearly every day baskets and even barrels of fruit were sent to him. He was very fond of pineapples, and some friend sent him tr.o and three barrels at a time, which he enjoyed with great relish." " as he a good liver and fond of delicacies and French cooking?" "Not at all. As long as aafsh pleased his taste he never stopped to inquire what it was called, or what it was made of. If he wanted a repeti tion of it he would say: 'I want some of that j'ou gave me the other day,' and that would end it. He was an enor mous eater, but was too much of a farmer to care to go into details. He never gave any banquets orflidners to his friends. Sometimes one of bis inti mates, Mr. Bardsley. the lawyer, would give Mr. Greeley a dinner, biit Greeley never gave him" any in return. Mr. Greeley was in bad health then, and I think that his manner of eating did not make him any healthier." FitUburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. "rs" The grasshopper develops "-from g larva to tue winged adult the youn without changing its mode of life. The State of Maino paid last year f 2,745 as 'bounties on bears, the num ber of bears killed being 549. orfiettntjfr u!usi burrmqevitiitintt TearsWLao.Wfci'ees Jo eleTwci witnn olHfctlW." THE OOWBOY. Bill JCye' Ma of the Genesis of tlw tir Monarch or the rutins. So much amusing talk Is being made recently anent tho blood-bedraggled cowboy of the wild West, that I riso a one man to say a few things, not in a dictatorial style, but regarding this so called or so-esteemed dry-land pirate who, mounted on a little cow-pony and "" 8rttt "OS8- the green surge of the plains to scatter the rocky shores of Time with his fel- lowman. A great many people wonder where the cowbov, with his abnormal thirst for blood, "originated. Where did this Jesse James, with his gory record and his dauntless eve come iromr was ne Dorn n a buffalo wallow at the gome rockribbed mountain, or foot of BOme rock-ribbed, mountain, or cuu. ne Hrst breathe the thin air along the brink f lk.i: ond. where the horned of toad and the centipede sans him to sleep, and tho tarantula tickled him under the chin with its hairy legs? Careful research and cold, hard statistics show that the cowboy was horn in an unostentatious manner on the farm. I hate to sit down on a beautiful romance and squash the breath out of a romantic dream; but the cow boy who gets too much moist damna tion into his system, and rides on a gallop up and down Main street, shoot ing out the lights of the beautiful bil liard palaces, would be just as happy if a mouso ran up his pantaloons-leg as you would, geptle reader. One night, while I had rooms in the business part of a territorial city in the Rocky mountain cattle country, I was awakened at about one o ciocica. m. by the most blood-curdling cry of "murder!" I ever heard. It was mur der with a big "M." Across the street, In the bright light of a restaurant, a dozen cowboys with broad som breros and flashing silver braids, huge leather chaperajos, Mexican spurs, wd orange silk neckties; with flashing re volvers were standing. It seemed that a big red-faced Captain Kid of the band, with his skin full of valley tan, had marched into an ioe-cream resort with a self-cocker in his hand, and ordered the vanilla coolness for the gang. There being a dozen young folks in the place, mostltmale and fe male, from a neighborulf hop, indulg ing in oream, the proprietor, a meek Norwegian with thin white hair, deemed it rude and outre to do So. He said something to that effect, whereat the other eleven men of alcoholic oour-ao-o let off a yell that froze the cream into a solid glacier, and shook two kerosene lamps out of their sockets in the chandeliers. This annoyed the ice-cream agricul turist, and he took the old axe-handle he used to jam the ice down around the freezer with, and peeled a large area of scalp off the loader's dome of thought, and it hung down over his eyes,so that he could not see to shoot with any degree of accuracy. After he had yelled "murder!" three or four times, he fell under an ice cream table, and the mild-eyed Scandi navian broke a silyjBJlated castor over the organ of self-esteem.- and poured red pepper, andjt aricTvinegar, and Halford sauce, and other .relishes on the place where the scalp.was loose. This revived ttie brave out murucrous cow-gentleman, and ho begged that he might be allowed to go away. Tho erentlo Y. M. C. A. superintend ent of the ton-stamp ice-cream freezers then took the revolvers away from the bold buccaneer and kicked him out through a show case. All cowboys arc not sanguinary; but out of twenty you will generally find one who is brave when he has his re volvers with him; but when he forgot and left his shooters at home on the piano, the most tropical violet-eyed dude can climb hira with the butt end of a sunflower, and beat his brains out and spatter them all over thawsehool district. In the wild unfettered Wefft, beware of the man wo never caTies arms, never gets drunk, and always minds his own business. He do't go around shooting out the gas. orntimidating a kindcrgarteh school; b when a brave frontiersman, with a rovolver in each boot and a bowie down the back of his neck, insults a moddlt young lady, and needs to" bo thrown through a plate glass window and lien walked over by the populace, calhm the silent man who dares to wear a cleau shirt and human clothes. Bill Nic, in Puck. THE PUBLIO SCHOOLS. What Teachers Are Doing to Decrease the Percentage of Illiteracy. The members of the teaching profes sion in this country are exhibiting, at the present time, a most commendable zeal in all good works. A review of the proceedings of the district conven tions, count3' institutes and State asso ciations reveals an extraordinary spirit of progress. The columns of the edu cational periodicals abound in papers which are full of interesting sugges tions, original ideas and theories of all kinds. Every teacher seems to have his or her peculiar view which, on the proper occasion, is very courageously advanced. Opinions, diametrically op posed, constantly clash, but all are the outcome of one unanimous desire im provement. The country at large is to be felicitated on this condition of things. It occasionally surprises the tuition and tax-payers to find how far some of the vital questions in the administration of the public schools are from being de finitely settled, but this surprise grows out of the American disposition to re-1 gard ten years a century and fifty years an age, and to forget that we are yet, and naturally, in the period of institu tional beginnings and experiments. The public at large should not, there fore, grow restive because the teachers are given to debate and disagreement. They will come to conclusions, doubt less, in good time. Their energy and devotion to educational interests must be considered as devoid of the selfish ness that characterises place-hunting politicians, for the reason that their positions are usually arduous and their financial expectations inconsiderable. They certainly present themselves in the attitude of soldiers enlisted on the side of a great and worth' cause, their loyalty being due to purer and higher motives than individual bonefiL The question of a large appropriation by the National Government to be de voted to the suppression of illiteracy has aroused them as never before. They now find themselves facing a great evil with the possibility of secur ing effective mejing for its overthrow, and they feel something of that ardor which our forefathers felt when the Stamp Tax enabled them to draw a line, and which the old Abolitionists experienced when the proposition to extend slavery brought their affair to an "issue. Heretofore the teachers, though imbued with a desire to ban ish ignorance from the land, were con tent to ploU along in their mission, be lieving that the light would gradually spread as the years wore on, yet with the discouraging consciousness that the .lane waF very long. Now, sud denly, an over-plus in the Treasury iuggests a plan whereby a grand ad- I J fa a general stimulation of en- ? j .- .w; .- fh t ranee can be made, and the conse- W .?"" XCir,.6 tion by the Government is altogether . . Tm . ... .? ?l .1. .. They have settled that to thur own sat- advlsaoie is not tne question wuu lucm, iffaotion, and believe, if we may trust the reports, that the country's glory can bo subserved in no way so well as bv educating tho great body of illit erate voters. Whether or not the ap propriation shall be made, the teachers will have been greatly elevated in tho public regard by tho philanthropic po sition they have taken, and the assur ance they have given that they are striving according to their best lights to improve the intellectual and moral life of the Nation. Realizing, therefore, the progress tho teachers are making in the work of educating the people a progress which has the positive testimony of figures the relation of the teacher to reforma tory measures in the prisons is a mat ter for the curious to consider. If ed ucation means the increase of the citizen's responsibilities, it may be per tinently suggested that, with the in crease of educational opportunities, prison discipline should grow sharper, and punishment rather than reforma tion be the policy of the prison-keepers. If the percentage of illiteracy, accordingly, continues to be reduced by the teachers, the social scientists ol the country should not fail to give this matter thefr attention. O. C. Malthsws, in the Current. FOREST CULTURE. What Has Been AocomplUhod in Ne braska. No reasonably intelligent person can doubt the advantage and benefit to the country at large of the maintonance ol a considerable area of forest. No one can ignore the value of timber as s material for use in various arts and fot the domestic supply of farmers and others who require rough and cheap timber for many purposes. It is quite unnecessary to do more than refer tc these points or to the universally ad mitted advantages of the forests and timber plantations in regard to climate and water supply. All these things arc known and well understood. But tlij are almost entirely ignored and neglected and the positive necessity for general action in rogard to the planting of waste lands with timber it lost sight of in tho noisy calls upon the Government to step forward and "do something." The old story of the cart man whose cart was stuck in a mud hole, and who called upon Jupiter to get him out of his trouble, applies to this business. Farmers are the most interested in this matter; they have an abundance of waste land, or of land that lies useless at present, that might be very profitably planted with timber. But because some other persons may derive some benefit from tho planting of timber upon their lands and enjoy some of the advantages with them of it, this beneficial work is left undone. A valuable lesson may be learned from Nebraska in this regard. This young Western State was almost wholly with out timber; a treeless waste of green grass and blue sky which met at tho horizon all around the solitary traveler who crossed its lonely prairies a dozen or a score of years ago. Ex-Governor R. W. Furnas, one of the pioneers who settled this State and have covered it with fruitful fields, blossoming or chards aud gardens and leafy groves, was one of the lir.it to arouse popular favor in regard to tree planting, and it was, we believe, during the administra tion of his government that Arbor Day was established as a public festival, of which the planting of trees was tho chief object. This idea struck the popular fancy, and it has spread into other States.'but flourishes most fruit fully in its birthplace, so much so that during 1884 the amount of tree plant-in"- done consisted of 2,500,000 cotton woods, 400,000 box elders, 800,000 soft maple, 250,000 ash. 175,000 elm, 85,000 sycamore, 225,000 other deciduous trees, 1.850 bushels of walnuts, 250 bushels of acorns and 125 pounds of catalpa seed. At this rato of progress Nebraska will soon be melodious with the varying music of the forest and be come a place of woods and groves, while elder States will have unclothed themselves and lie bare and barren to the winds and sun. All this h:is been done by private effort, stimulated by an ambition and rivalry keenly sharp ened by a public spirit which has pre vaded all the people, until even the children have their groves, planted by tiny hands and nursed into growth by generous care. Government has had no hand in it It is the outgrowth of tho truo American idea of popular sovereignty, and that what the people want dono tho people must do for them selves. If only the people most inter ested in other States would follow this bright example all that tho State Gov ernments should do where there aro public lands would be quickly done, and the remaininir forests would be preserved from the cruel axe and the wasting fire. --- BLAKE'S PILLS. The Astonishing Cure Wrought by a Box of Globules Which Were Not Even Swal lowed. The present mania for doctoring and dosing, recalls an incident in the experience of Mr. Josh Blake, son of the lato Madame Blake, of Mount Ver non street Mr. Blake was not feeling remarkably well, and while contem plating a trip to Calcutta and other places, thought he would study up hii own ailment from a modical treatise, 'over vfhich he spent considerable time. At last, finding a. case repjgseuting a Jie supposed-rhis own, and which vsrjJfc fully described, atffl with it had the prescribed remedy annexed, he was satisfied ihat he Could cure himself. He accordingly copied verbatim the re ceipt giveVand'hied him to one of the leading droggista. He displayed the copied receipt afid ordered it prepared, sayingAe would "wait for it" The clerk looked Ya little suqirised, but merely said:"It will require some time to fill this prescription if'vou want the whole quantity, and as'wc are pretty busy it will not beteady before to-morroafteruoon."- Atythe appointed time Mr Blake callqd for his "lHtle package of medi cinfc" and was considerably non plussed when tho clerk brought out for him a box measuring nine inches in len"-th and about five inches in width, an(f the same in depth, filled with pills! and with it a bill for ten dollars. As he had ordered the whole quantity there was nothing to do but to take it and pay for it; but afterwards in re counting the joke he had so unwit tingly played upon himself, he made uscof some short but very emphatic words in plainest English, and even then declared that he could not do the subject justice. He took the "pills" with hira to Calcutta; the passengers and crew were all well on the trip out and back. Whether on account of the big boxful of pills or not we will not pretend to say. Boston Courier. m "Grin and Bear It." The following is vouched for by a minister's wife, and therefore must b so If it isn't so: A clergyman visiti woman in a severe illness, asked : "Do vou derive any comfdvLfrom the instruction of the Bible?" "Oh, yes, indeed," was the reply. "What particular passage do yo rely upon at.present? asked the minis ter 'Grin and bear it" replied the suf ferer. The clergyman departed to look up a j concordance. Oil Citu Derrick. THE CALLEYS. How FrUom-rs Wcr; 1'nrmcrly Tur aied fea Hi r.M'fii :a!!-yi. We suppose ho imt-fu'or lempori: ar P w 1! nuver entirely disappear. Thee Wfl alvays 1 e found tho-o who w.ll ma r.ta'n th ttho former days were bettor lh:i:i lit-' prcsu1, and t..at the aff:i rs o th s world .do not move so ."luoothly a .n iAd tun. s. Undoubt dly th r mav be reason in such as-ert;o: s, as n some iist:incas our days .ih w a deg--n. at on from those of o.ir for'fr.ther ; tlu b lief in the overruling prov.d -nee and good ness of God, uie respect of youth to ward old av,e. he sent.meat o; obe dience to t e commands of law, we fear have 5ou o:n wiat of their inllu.mce over the actual genrat'on. But wi hout. stopping to enumerate the tuanv points r. whic'i our own age has m .de a decid d advance over those that have prec d-.d it, let u-i merely re flect on the po iton of prisouers and sailors of the present day as compared with thost when men wore condemned and not alwa s for crimes committed to the l.ving death of tho galleys: Baras de la V mv, who served forty years as a:i oliicor in a galley, thus writes in 1713 of them: "Those who enter a galley for tho lirst time are surprised to see so many souls on board. There are, in fact, in Europo an infinity of villages which do not conta n so many inhabitants. But that which cause st-11 more aston ishment is to find so many men in so small a paeo. It is truo that the f renter part have not the liberty to lie own at full length. Seven men are put on each bench; that is. in a space of about four feet wide by ten in length. At the prow are to be seen even thirty sailors, who have no other lodging place than the plans des rambades, which are two spaces of two feet in length by eighteen wide. From stern to prow one can see noth'ngbut heads. The captain and oflicers are hardly any better lodged, their only refuge is the poop, which, considering its size, one is tempted to compare with the tub of Diogenes. When the pitiless wind from Lybia. sweeping across the Ro man beaches, surprised the galleys on the sea: when the .mpetuous Aquilon assailed them, or the Gulf of Lons de livered them to the humid wind of Syria, the galleys must have been an image of hell itself. The mournful la mentations and frightful cries of the crew, the horrible bowlings of the chain-gang, the groaning of the vessel's frame, mingled with the no se of chains and tho roaring of the- tempest must have produced a sentiment of terror in the most intrepid heart. Rain, hail, lightning, the hab tual accompaniments of these violent storms, the waves washing over the decks, added to the horror of the situa t'ou. Although people are not gener ally very devout in the galleys, some would then !; ov,n praying to God. while others were offering vows to all the saints, ."-ome ewn. in spite of the rocking of tlu vessel, would try to make pilgrimages on board! Much better would it have been for them not to forget God and his saints as soon as the danger was past "Calm weather ite!f has its inconven iences: Uad m -lis are then so offen sive that the. can not be escaped from, in spite of the snuff w th which you are obliged to fill your nose from morn ing to night. There are always on a galley certain little pests which aro the torment of the inhabitants. Flies exer cise their empire by day, bugs by night, fleas and lice day and night. Whatever precautions may bo taken, one can not succeed in getting free from these annoyances. The frightful vermin do not respect even cardinals, ambassadors, or crowned heads." With respect to the size of the gal leys, the largest of taose in the six teenth and seventeenth centuries had a length of about forty-seven to fifty-five meters, by not quite six meters in width. They were of very light draft, and consequently shallow, were moved by fifty oars of twelve meters in length, ami carried a crew in all of about lour hundred in that circumscribed space. Here is the testimony of Jean Mar seille de Bergerac, who in 1701 was condemned to servo in the French gal leys for the crime of beinr a Protest aut. and therefore speaks from a bitter experience of many years: "All the convicts are chained to benches, six to each. These are four feet from each other, and are covered with a sack stuffed with wool, over which is thrown a sheepskin that de scends to the footrest. The comite, that is, the maiter of the chain-gang, stands at the stern, near the captain, to receive his orders. There are two sous comites one in the middle, the other at the prow. Each is armed with a whip, which is applied to the naked bodies of the slaves. When the cap tain gives orders to weigh, the comite gives the signal with a silver whistle that hangs from his neck. This signal is repeated by the sous-comites, and immediately the staves Deat tne water with their oars together; you would say that the fifty oars were but one. Imagine six men chained to a bench, naked as when they were born, one foot on the rest-thc other on tho bench in front holding in their hands an oar of enormous weight, stretching their bod ies toward the stern of tho galley, their arms extended so as to push their oar above the backs of the rowers before them, who themselves take the same attitude. The oar being thus advanced, they raise the end they hold so as to plunge the other in the sea; this done, they throw themselves back and fall on their seat, which bends beneath their weight The galley slave thus rows sometimes ten, twelve, and even twenty hours in succession without a single stop. On such occasions the comite would thrust a piece of bread soaked in wine into the mouths of tho poor oars men to prevent their fainting. Then the Captain would command the comite to redouble his blows. If one of the poor wretches fell exhausted over his oar, which frequently happened, ho was flogged until he was supposed to be dead, and then cast into the sea without ceremony." What an idea of human misery and suffering does the foregoing picture convey! Boston Transcript. Growth of Mormonism. Mormonism is adapted to the in tellectual capacities of the masses, the multitude of the ignorant aud poor, the wretched, the "pariahs of society. To these are offered just what they are sure always to hunger for, bold as sumption aud boundless assertion, great show of authority, these helping to certitude in faith; salvation by forms, by the legerdemain of rite, the hocus pocus of initiating and anointing; lit eral interpretation of the Scriptures, and profuse quotat:ons of texts, and specially such as are set in the poetical and obscure diction of the prophets. The same minds delight in prodigies. "Quod ignotum, pro rtt"r(fco." The more mysterious the more true. Tho secrecy, too, of the endowments has a charm, and as well the offices and titles which each one may possess. Of such fjewgaws and tinsel this church has un Imitud store. And who is not flattered by the assurance that he is ef the few wise and blessed of the radl, tfutt the many outside his coterie aryitojfch and doomed? No doubtaRoT besetting the standard of moralityb lamentably low, and offering sal vatiomthe worst on such easy terms as external obedi ence and service, thousands have been captured and held. The promise, too, of land is a lure to many. Bibliothtca Sacra. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. Weather Prophet Wiggins sees fit to deny the rumor that ho has joined the Salvation Army. Lieutenant Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, who is worth ten mil lion dollars, wears a twn-cent ueektu. Napoleon, the great leader of men. judged them and chose them according to the character indicated by their noses. Matthew Arnold, who came to America to win fame and farthings, wound up by losing h:s daughter and gaining a distinguished son-in-law. Ar. V. Tribune. One of Nellie Grant's little boys is said greatly to resemble his grand father. General Grant, in his love for soldiers, horses, pups and oigars. Harper's Bazar. The daughter of Bians, the ex hangman of London, recently testified in court that she had frequently been frightened out of the house by her father's experiments in hanging dogs and oats. William H. Crain, the Democratic Congressman-elect to succeed Colonel Thomas Ochiltree, from the Galveston (Tex.) District, is the first native from Texas ever elected to Congress from the State. St. Louis Globe. Joseph Richardson, of St Paul, but known to everybody as "Uncle Joe," who never wore an overcoat or a suit of clothes worth more than twelve dol lars, is the possessor of six million dol lars. Chicago Inter Ocean. A Texas County Judge recently delivered a farewell address which ex cited the admiration of all his friends until some otliciqus person discovered that Washington had delivered thesame address many years ago. N. Y. Sun. A Pennsylvania girl had not spoken to any one for years until her mother died the other day, and was supposed to be dumb. At the death of her mother she talked as though she had always done so. Philadelphia Press. The oldest woman in Connecticut lives at Middletown and is named Smith. She is the mother of eleven children, enjoys good health, never rode on a railroad, and is one hundred and three years of age. Hartford Courant. Georgo Dolby, who, In the capacity of secretary and manager, accompa nied Charles Dickens during his American-tour in 1867, says the gross re ceipts of his seventy-six readings in this country were two hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars, and that Dick ens' personal profits were ninety-five thousand dollars. Nicholas Van Horn, a well-to-do farmer and widower of Habershan, Ga., and tho father of two children over thirty years of age, was married recently tb Miss Ivy, a child of twelve. During the ceremony the child began to sob, when the old man patted her on the head in a fatherly manner, aud wiped away her tears with his big ban dana. Chicago Times. Mr. Thonias Barbour, thread maker at Paterson, N. J., who dud recently worth one million dollars, if not .several millions, was the son of a threadmaker at Belfast and traveling salesman in America. His father wanted to thrash him, big as he was, for setting up a thread-mill in America against the British manufacturer. "Father," said the son, "I'll make more money for you than I ever did, and make monev for nivself, too." lie did. if. Y. Graphic. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." A Brooklyn scientist says that in about thre million years the earth will be one gigantic iceberg. According to his belief, it will be a cold day wiieii evervbodv gets left. Xorristown Her ald. " No modest, prudent young lady will accept a scapegrace for an escort, but if she will go to masquerades in the character of Maud Muller we don't se how she can avoid going with a rake. Burlington Hawkeya. A Boston girl who saw a fellow with delirium tremens exclaimed: "Un happy min! Why do 3-011 permit your self to get the 'James-James?' " The shock restored the sufferer to his right mind. N. Y. Journal. He had an auburn-haired girl, and promised to take her out riding. She met him at the door when he drove up. and he exclaimed: "Hello ! Ready?" She misunderstood him, and they don't speak now. Chicago Tribune. Landlady "Do you find your steak tender, Mr. Dumby? If not I will " Dumby (who was wakened about five o'clock that morning' by tho cook pounding it) "Er it might be well to let the cook hit it a few more times, I think." X. Y. Sun. "So you didn't succeed very well with your school in Illinois?" "No; I had tb give it up at the end of the first month. "Did you use the blackboard much?" "No. "It was too large. But I used all the other furniture about the room that wasn't nailed down." N. IV Graphic. Looking on the bright side: "My wife is really getting complimentary." remarked Fogg. "Ah! how's that?" asked Brown. "Why, she came very near speaking of my beautiful raven locks." "How near, for instance?" "Why, she said my head looked lik a crow s nest." Bo'ston Transcript. "Are you superstitious, Mr. Bad ger?" asked Miss De Silva. "Not in the least," replied that gentleman. "Would you prefer a dinner arty of six to one of thirteen?" "es, de cidedly." "Ah! I knew you were supers'titious. Why would "y". Mr. Badger?" "Get more to eat" Tioy Times. Her Ancestry. A maiden of uncertain age Of ancestry was wont to brag: When that attention would engage The conversation would not Hajj. "One of my ancestors," bays she 'Came on the Mayflower." "Can it Ve?" Asked one, " T 6 a distinction jjreat. Why. l'UU wu- the date." "Pray tell me," Mvly asked another, "Was it your fattier or your mothei " "Why do you suppose the feminine is used in speaking of the mooii?" asked Kosciusko Murphy of Miss Es meralda Longcoffin. "I5eeau.-e she is so beautiful, I suppose." replied Es meralda, who is on the shady siilw o! thirty-five. "No. it's because thce's no finding out how ole she is," re plied the lunatic. Texas Sitings. How the Sultan Looks. "The day before the one appointed for our leaving Constantinople," said Senator-elect Stanford. "I was much surprised at receiving, through a cjurt official, an invitation for the follow ing afternoon to a private audience with the Sultan, during which he wished to question me concerning ma terial developments of Turkey. There was nothing remarkable about the room, except perhaps, the fail that it was furnished in French U le nor was there much of Oriental -plcmlor in the dress of the Sultan. He wore a blue undress uniform of European cut. the only traces of Eastern cottumc being a plain fez, and-a magnificently mounted scim etar. He appeared to be a ratherslight man, some thirty, five years of age, with an intelligent face that showed a some what timid character, I should judge, and a decidedly Jewish cast of fea tures." San Francisco Call. Old Liberty bell was cracked in 1828 while ringiug in honor of a visit of Henry Clay to Philadelphia. bbbbisbbbbsVbTsh9?I'bbbHbIsbbS WmsssssVii m i Mi ssssT 4SBBBBBBBBB:PM M&ksWH JLlssssssssssBWBssfjy' bWPHJ tsssssfrritVlBsMB sbbbbbbbbbbbELibbbVsW bbTsbHb1bbIHIbbbbbbb!?7bbbbbbbbbm rTirBWBMBBBTiT9 fMfi73BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB3BBBK"rVfci THE SPRING TERM OP THE FREMONT NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, A.t Fremont, iVoVrnlcn, AVIH begin APRIL 14th, '85, and End July 3d. M UNUSUAL ADVANTAGES WILL UK AFFOKDED PERSON'S WISHING TO TRKPAUE FOR THE FALL EXAMI NATIONS FOR TEACHERS' C'ERTI. CATES. The Business Department will afford every opportunity for improvement in Penmanship, Business Ariiumet letic. It )olj-JJ kceulnir. Commercial Corre and imitation of actual husinc Music. We can apeak with the utmo.it confi dence of the Instruction jrlven in our Music Department. Mi.ss It isu Conral, instructor of the Piano Forte, a rratlux'e of the Cornell Conservatory of Mu.tc, i not only a lirilliant perfumer, l;it .1 pains-taking and superior tea-Iirr. Th .nstrcctors In Vocal Culture, X :-.-r.M l ng and Siujjiug are thorough fid 1110 uesaful. Expenses. Tuition for twe.ve weeks, $11. 'Ut il paid strictly iu adv nice, .$li. Tin- in cludes admission to Normal und IJui'J.-'- classes. Mudc, $12 for twentj lo-ons. Short-hand, $12 for twenty lciion- t'vpe writing, with use of iu-.u-umottt, $1 lor twelve weeks. Good ilav boar.! '-an be obtained in the College II me at $2.i" per week. Rooms 50 eta. to 75 cts. per stud ent. For further particular.- a hirers, W. P. JOES A. 31. President of Normal C'oIIcac, . .. Freun.ut, Neb. y - Improved and Unimproved Fainis, Hay and Grazing Lands and City Property for Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. KSTFlnal proof made on Timber Claims, Homesteads and Pre-emptions. S3TA11 wishing to buy lands of any de scription will please call and examine my list of laudrt before looking el- where. $37"AI1 having lands to sell will pleae call and give me a description, term , prices, etc. H3TI a'so am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency of several tirst-class Fire insurance companies. F. W. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German. NAMIIKL C. SMITH, 30-tf Columbus, Nebraska. SPEICE & NORTH, General Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on five 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, Tor 9ale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COLUMBUS. NEB. LOUIS SCHREIBER, ll! All kinds of Repairing done on Short Notice. Bnggies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walttr A. Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-hinders the best made. . Bhop opposite the "Tattersall," on Olive St., COLUMBUS. 26-m TOTICE TO TEACHERS. J. B. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his ofiice 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. 5CT-y in presents ijiven ntcay. Send us ft cents postage. uuu anu uy man you win gut frees, package of goods of large value. inai win start you in worK iut mu once bring you In money faster than any thing else in America. All about the $200,000 in presents with each box. Agents wanted everywhere, of either sex, of all ages, for all the time, or spare time only, to work for us at their own homes. Fortunes for all workers ab solutely assured. Don't delay tH? Hal lett fc CO., Portland, Maine. , at MIRUH MACAZINE RIFLE. lm. 45 Govt, and 40-CO Grata Cartridge. HIT STUNS.' Klftem SAfE. TUP BCCT DTCf t la tha -world for Urge 1X1 DC3l flir LEttme. Superior inaccu racy, rapidity, modal Bad ftnish to any other. D A I I ADf Gallery. Sporting and Target If A L L A It 1 Hlflea. Send for Catalogue. yaTlln Fire Arms Co., N ew Haven, Conn. f ' CTNjbiVPACITIC V j- 1 BlacMauer $9(in nnn ve" GO TO A. & M. TURNER'S BOOK AUD MUSIC STOREA roic Tin-: iBEST 22 GOODS AT The Lowest Prices! CONSULT'THE FOLLOWING ALPHA BETICAL LIST. 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Pap. r ! l-trocr-, Pi.-tu.-e p.ijc Zles, J'icture frim-s. l'.cKcl books, PtriUiiicry and Perfumery cases; Paper racRs, Pencil hofder.-. i:WAKC cards. Rubber balls. Hub. ber dolls. SCHOOL books, Sewing stands, School Satchels. Slates, Stereoscopes and pic tures, Scrap books. Scrap pictures. Sew ing machine needle-. Scholar's com panions, Specie purses, Singing toy canaries, Meds for boys, Shawl straps, Shell goods. TKI.KMCOl'Rti. Toys of all kinds, children's Trunks, Thermometers, Tooth brushes (folding). Tea sets for girls. Tool chests for box s. Ten-pin sets for boy.-, Tooth picks, Tin toy-. VIOLINS and strings, Vases. V4(latBCaili: Organs, Work 'bas kets, Waste baskets. Whips (with ca-e), W'eb-ter'.s dictionaries. Weather glasses, Work boxes. Whips for boys, Wagons for boys, What-nots, Wooden toothpicks. " f Jf Eleventh Street'' Journal" BgiUing. Cures Guaranteed! DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 1. 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M,d)Ma lCbZJl m trial pad " k cud prepmid oa nctttl at 3 nat itis7 "ITTTTV1" more money than at anything W I e'sc ,,v t;lkin" an agency for " -X"L the bust selling book out. Be ginners succeed grandly. None fcil. Terms free. IIallktt Hook Co., Port land, .Maine. 4-32-y JIMiifl vb- .isiih aiw liafMflBEcSM iirM r