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THE JOTJKNAL.!
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8,1883.
IsierciV. its P:ii:2:i, Celestri, Ui.. s: reccsi
clts sitter.
The irony of greatness.
A plain, grave man once grew quite el
t rated; .
Dame OrutfJy met binj wjth her blandsat
smile:
And Mrs. Shoddy, tlndiuff biin much "feted.
Gave biin a dinner in ber swfellest style.
Her dinner-table was a blaze of glory;
Soft light from many colored candles fell
Upon tho young, the middle-aged, and
boary
On beauty, and on those who "made up
well."
A piece of crimson plusb across the table
Shimmered its royal way from fildo tt aide,
And Mrs. S.,.wherever she was able.
Had loops and ends of satin ribbon fled.
Her china was a miracle of beauty
No service like it ever bad been self;
And befog, unsxnuggled, wlUt the price an4
duty.
Was very aearly worth its weight in gold.
The flowers were wonderful I think that
may be
Only another world has flowers more fair;
o Each rose was big enough to brain a baby.
And there were several bushels of them
there.
' The serving was the acme of perfection;
Walters Vera many, silent, deft aPd fleet;
Their manner seemed a reverent affection;
And oh. what stacks of things tkere were
to eat!
And yet the man for all this honor singled
Would have exchanged It with the greatest
Joy
For one plain meal of pork and cabbage
mingled.
Cooked by bis mother when he was a boy!
BtatU Chandler, in Hat-per'a Bazar.
A "DREADFUL LESSON."
: . Demonstrating That Things Might
Have Been Worse.
"Your last day! Dear, deart Must
you go to-day. Harvey?'" said Mrs.
Seely, looking across the breakfast
table at her son with affectionate con
cern. And her daughters, Kitty and Mar
gery, echoed her words.
"Couldn't you have got off for an
other week?" said tho father, breaking
Ids hot roll carefully; "now that you're
a partner, though"
"Now that I'm a partner, it's hard
work getting off," responded Harvey
Seely; "it was all that I could do; in
fact"
He paused suddenly.
"What was all you could do?" in
quired Kitty.
"Well," said Harvey, laying down
his knife and fork, with "a beaming
smile, "here goes! Here's the news
I've been saving up for you till the
last, from a natural modest-. It was
all I could do to get things arranged
so that 1 could go ou my wedding trip,
a month hence. I am going to be mar
ried." Kitty's spoon fell into her saucer
with a clatter, and Mr. Seely dropped
his roll hastily.
"Married!"" said- Margery, breath
lessly. Mrs. Seely alone remained calm.
She rolled up her napkin and put it
SSigS
"lam going to be married."
in its ring, and looked at her son
through her gold-rimmed glasses com
posedly. She felt, however, that this was an
important crisis.
When Harvev their only son had,
with commendable independence, left
his pleasant home to "get a start" in
the neighboring city, they had all ex
pected great things for him.
He would be rapidly successful; he
would distinguish himself in the pro
fession he had chosen and amass a for
tune; and he would woo and win some
sweet young girl with a long row of
ancestors the Seelys being themselves
a good old family, were great respect
ers of blue blood a host of accom
plishments and a heavy down.
Their hopes had seemed likely to be
fulfilled. Harvev had proved himself
possessed of remarkable business qual
ities; he had risen quickly and had re
,oently exceeded their wildest ambitions
Jby being made a junior partner of his
firm.
All that now remained to be desired
was his safe conquest of the beautiful
and aristocratic young person of their
dreams, with her many talents and her
substantial inheritance.
It was not to be wondered at. there
fore; that the girls were trcmblingwith
eagerness; that Mr. Seely fumbled with
his watch chain in nervous suspense.
and that Mrs. Seely opened her lips
twice before she found strength to pro
pound the all-important question:
"Who is she?"
"She is a Miss Dora Bcrdau. at pres
ent," said Harvey, smilingly.
"Berdan?"' Mrs. Seely repeated, and
raised her brows inquir.ngly. "I doif t
t'tink I have heard of the family."
"Not at all likely," Harvey rejoined.
"Thoy are quiet people."
"Berdan!" Mrs. Seely repeated, inus
ingl'v. "No. I have not heard of them.
Where do they live?"
"In Weyinau street," responded
Harvey.
-Mrs Seely fell back in her chair with
a little gasp; her husband turned a dis
mayed face upon his son; and Kitty and
Margery gave l.ttle screams.
Weyman street! It was miles from
the regions of aristocracy; it was peo
pled with working girls and seam
stresses, and smalPsbop-keepers; with
street-venders and old apple-women,
for all the Seelys knew.
"Not Weyman street, Harvey," said
. his father, appcalingly.
' 'Certai nly Weyman street,"Harvey
repeated.
"But she is not she can not be of
good family, living in Weyman street?"
said Mrs. Seely, anxiously.
"The family is quite respectable,"
, her sou responded, quietly. "Dora's
mother is a widow, one sews lor a
lace goods house, our establishment;
0 that is how 1 met her."
Mrs. Seely groaned.
"A bookkeeper a seamstress!" she
ejaculated. "Oh, Harvey, you could
not have done worse!"
"A pun:les girl?" said his father,
solemnly; and after all we have hoped
for yon." No; it could not be worse."
"A eimiinoii vorki..t girl," said
Kitty, in a c'luk'nz voice: "and every
body will know it. O, Harvey, it
, couhlii 1 in; vviri
Tin- ti:it man looked
from on to
ir?th-r In i-toni-hed; hurt and
half-
Cui.ii'iittiii()i;- b'l-jucc.
Margery turned to him, with a gentle
s4f
KU I VCZS&t i stJf
CS'SeIS
sympathy mingling with the dismay in
her lace.
, "Perhaps," she said, hopefully; "per-
hnnr thorn in fioructhinir to make UP?
! Perhaps she is a wonderful beauty, or
a great genius, or sometningr
narvey gave uex a giawjiui auiiic.
"I think Jicr pretty, of course," he
miA. oVittf T ciinnnui that's hcf.llicn Till
! fond of her. 1 don't think she would
(be called a beauty. And as for her
j genius she's very clever at accounts;
but she doesn't sing or paint, or any
thing of that sort. She's never had
the time or money for such things,
poor girl?"
But Margery had turned away with
an impatient gesture.
"There is nothing, then, she said de
spairingly; "no; it couldn't be worse."
Harvey rose from his seat with an
energrv which set the bell in the caster
jingling.
"This is absurd!" Be said lnmgnantiy.
"It is moro than absurd: it is unjust
and narrow-minded. How sensible
presumably sensible people," Harvey
corrected rather bitterly, "can say, in
regard to a ier.on thev have never
Lseen, that 'it could not De worse,
is
past mv comprehension.
"We" will not talk of it," said Mrs
Seelv. holdinjr up a restraining hand.
Discussion will not mend matters
And you are to be married ne
xt
month?"
"On the 9th." Harvev reioined.
Of
course you will all be there?" he addad,
rather dubiouslv.
"This is my wife," he said, proudly.
"By no means," said his father
shortly.
"You could hardly expect it,' said
Mrs. Seely reproachfully.
"Very "well; 'if Mohammed won't
come you've heard the observation.
We shall pay you a visit immediately
on our return from our wedding tour,
with your kind permission. You must
know Dora."
When he left the house an hour later
he had the required permission.
His mother and the girls had even
kissed him good-bye in an injured and
reproachful way, and his father had
shaken hands coolly.
But his ears still rang with that
odious assertion, "it could not be
worse!" and he was thoughtful all the
wav back to the citv.
The Seelys were in a state of sub
dued excitement.
Harvey's wedding tour was com
pleted; and they had received a tele
gram that afternoon to the effect that
he would be "on hand" to-night with
his new wife.
The dining-room tablo was set for
dinner, and Mrs. Seely wandered from
one end of it to the other nervously.
Her husband sat under the chande
lier with his evening paper, but he tas
not reading it; Kitty and Margery llut
tcred about uneasily, watching through
the window for the return of the car
riage from the station.
"I hope," said Margery, with a
nervous attempt at cheerfulness, "that
she will be barely decent present
able. Think of the people who will
call! 1 hope she won't be worse than
we're prepared to see her."
"She couldn't be," said Mrs. Seely,
dismally.
There was a roll of wheels, and the
twinkle of the carriage lamp at the
door, and the bell rang sharply,
Kitty and Margery clasped hands in
S3'Uipathetie agitation; Mr. Seely
dropped his paper and rose, and Mrs.
Seely advanced toward the open hall
door with dignity.
It opened wide before she reached it,
and Harvey entered, his face suffused
genial, blissful smiles.
"This is my wife," he said proudly;
"my mother, Dora; my father, my sis
ters, Kitty and Margery."
And with a caressiug touch, he took
by the hand, and led forward among
them
What?
Mr. Seely gazed at the apparition
with staring eyes: Mr. Seely dropped
the hand she had started to hold out,
with her face growing ashy, ami Kitty
and Margery gasped.
For what they saw was a woman of
apparently forty years, with a face
powdered and painted in the most un
blushing manner, with thin gray hair
crimped over a wrinkled forehead in a
sickening affectation of youthfulness,
and with a diminutive, gaih -trimmed
bonnet perched thereon; with an
affected, mincing gait and a simpering
smile.
"This is my wife," Harvey repeated;
"have you no welcome for her?"'
The bride tittered.
"Mcbby thej think I ain't good
enough for 'em, dear," she obervd
tartly.
"impossible, my pet," Harvey re
sponded, and patted her falsely bloom
ing cheek affectionately; "besides, if
you were but a shadow a caricature
of your beautiful self they would not
have been surprised. They were
prepared for the worst."
He looked at his horritied relatives
meaningly.
The truth of his words flashed over
them.
Yes, they all had said repeatedly
that "it could not be worse." But
this wretched, wrinkled, bedizened
creature had they dreamed of this?
Harvey watched them with an un
disturbed smile his father, turning
away at last, and rubbing his fore
head with his handkerchief weakly;
Mrs Seely, gazing at her daughter-in-law
with a dreadful fascination, and
the girls, sinkinjr into chairs in dis
mayed silence.
"'Well, mother," said Harvey, lightly,
"of course a new addition to the fam
ily is an object of interest; but don't
forget that 1 have an appetite, and get
ting married has rather improved it.
Take off your bonnet, mv own. Here.
Kitty!"
Kitty came forward with a set face
and tightly-clasped lips to receive the
marvelous combination of beads and
silk flowers held out to her with a dis
gusting air of sprightliness. She was
afraid "to trust herself to speak.
Toor Mrs. Seely, sick at heart, had
made her way to the bell and rang it,
and diuuer being ready they came.down
presently.
"Turtle soup!" the bride observed,
looking round the table with a girlish
smile; "ain't nothing I admire so!
Just pass that celcrv, father-in-law.
Delicious! aint't it, darling?"
"Extremely, my dear' said the
bridegroom, complacently.
Ignorant and vulgar! What dread
ful thing would they'discover next?
It was an evening they never forgot.
The unfortunate parents sat with pale
faces and unsteady hands staring into
their plates, or 1 joking at each other
I 1
i with fresh horror at each simpering, .
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senseless, ungraramaiicai rcmarii oi
their terrible daughter-in-law.
Kitty and Margery excused them
selves during the second course, and
flew to their rooms to cry themselves
to sleep, in an agony of dismay and
mortilication.
"If anybody calls of course, everybody
will call just tell 'em I'll see 'em
to-morrow."
"I shan't think of setting up," said
the bride, rising from the table with an
apologetic giggle, and bowing herself
towards the door. "I'm too worn out.
If anybody calls of course, everybody
will just'tell 'em I'll see 'era to-morrow.
Come on, dear."
And she tripped up stairs, with a ju
venile nod over her shoulder, and with
her beaming young husband following.
Mrs. Seely wrung her hands despair
ingly. "We said it could not be worse,"
she said, faintly. But this! How shall
we endure it?"
"I shall not endure it!" said her hus
band; his face had grown almost care
worn during the last two hours. "1
shall send them packing to-morrow;
and if ever he enters mv house again
He brought his hand down on
the
table threateningly.
"But that will "not help matters,'"
said his wife," miserably. "He is ruinwd:
we are disgraced and everybody will
know it."
There was a silence.
"I had pictured her to myself," said
Mrs. Seely, beginning to sob, "as a
young girl" a person of suitable age
for my poor misguided boy, decently
educated, and at least a lady. And
even then I did not doubt that it was
such a one he had chosen. I thought
myself the most unhappy creature in
the world, because she had not wealth
and an old name. Stirely it is a judg
ment upon us. Oh, was there ever so
dreadful a thing?"
"Probably not," said her husband,
grimly.
It was a solemn group which wailed
in the dining room next morning for
the appearance of the newly-wedded
couple.
Mr. Seely stood in front of the fire
place, watching the door with a stern
face. He was master in his own house
at least, and he was detetmincd that
it should not be disgraced by his son's
wife for another hour.
"Please get them away before any
one comes, pupa," said Kitty. "It
would be dreadful if anybody were to
see her."
"Dreadful!" Margery echoed, with a
groan.
There were footstej on the stairs.
Mrs. Seely turned with a shiver, and
the girls caught their breath.
The door opened.
The waiting group looked up slowly.
Would she not be still more terrible in
the broad daylight that artificial, sim
pering horror?
But it was not the sight they were
prepared to see which the open door
disclosed: it was not a painted, pow
dered semblance of a woman who came
in slowly, with a timid smile and
downcast eyes.
It was a slender, sweet-faced young
girl, with shining brown hair
crowning a charming head,
peachy cheeks, in which the color
But Margery came towards her hastily,
and seized both her soft hands in her
own.
came and went, and soft dark eyes,
which studied the carpet in pretty tim
idity; with dainty slippered feet, and a
lace-trimmed wrapper, litting snugly
to a perfect form.
"Good morning," she said,
Harvev followed her closely.
gently.
"Well. Dora," he said, looking from
one to another of his speechless rela
tives quizzically, "they don't seem in
clined to speak" to you."
But Margery had come towards her
hastily, and seized both her soft hands
in her own.
"Was it you all the time?" she cried,
joyfully. ""And the grey hair was
false, and the wrinkles were put
and all that dreadful powder?
Harvey, how could you?"
"I begged him not to," said
on.
Oh,
the
pretty bride, raising her dark eyes,
sweetly. "I told him it was cruel: and
such a time as I had, saying all those
shocking things he had taught me, and
keeping my wig straight, and trying
not to laugh! Shall you ever forgive
... o o
us?"
"Forgive you! Oh, my dear
cried Mrs. Seelv, incoherently.
girl!"
She hurried forward with a sob of
joy, and embraced her daughter-in-law
wildly.
"I was rather rough." said Harvey,
gaily. "I felt like a villain when I saw
the way you all took it. But you know
what you said, every one of you that
it 'couldn't be worse.' I thought I'd
just demonstrate to you that it could.
Dora is nineteen instead of torty; sne
can speak correctly when she makes an
effort: and I can heartily recommend
her for a willing and obliging, good
tempered and thoroughly capable girl
the sweetest in the world, in fact."
Mr. Seely left the lire-place and came
and clasped his daughter-in-law in his
arms, with a beaming fa,ce, and Kitty
kissed her effusively.
"It was a dreadful lesson," said Mrs.
Seely, looking up with a tearful smile;
"but I am afraid we needed it, my
son." Detroit Post.
The New York Mail mid Express
claims that fifty million eggs are daily
consumed by the American people. An
egg a day, the year round, for man,
woman and child would seem to be a
large egg ration, and perhaps not
eggs-actly correct. Bnt the idea of
counting 18,250,000,000 eggs!
Globe.
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THE YEAST PLANT-
?ecultarlties of One of the Lowest Farms
of Vegetable I,ire. .
Yeast is a substanco which has long
been known by the -power which it pos
sesses of exciting the process called
fermentation. Almost everybody is
fam'liar with the fact that in the pro
cess of bread-making when yeast is
added to a mixture of flour and water
it causes it to "raise," and that the
raising is attended with the production
of a sour smell and the formation of
bubbles of gas. which escape from the
6urface of the mixture in little pull's.
Now yeast has the power of awaken
ing this .activity only by virtue of its
being a living plauL When some of
it is added to the mixture of flour and
water, the conditions of the growth of
the plant are satisfied, it is able to get
the kind of food on wh'ch it lives, and
it is by its very rapid growth and mul
tiplication that the fermenting process
is caused.
If a small drop of yeast be spread
out into a thin layer and placed under
the microscope, it will be found to con
tain very many of these yeast plants.
Judging" from" their appearance, no
one unfamiliar with microscopic forms
of life would ever suspect them to be
plants. They are simply round or
oval transparent bodies, lying single or
associated in heaps or strings. They
are very small indeed, the largest be
ing only about one-thousandth
of an inch in diameter. Ex
amining a single one of these
plants, it will be seen to consist of a
thin sac or bag. within which is con
tained a more fluid part. In the mid
dle of the fluid sometimes a small, clear
space appears, called the vacuole.
Nothing farther than this can be seen
at a single examination, but if one of
the bodies be watched for some time, a
change in its appearance will be ob
served. It will bo seen to give rise to
a minute bud, which rapidly grows un
til it has assumed the size of the parent
It may then detach itself, and in its
turn produce another bud, but usually
the second bud begins to grow befoie
the first has become detached, and in
this way the strings and heaps are
formed. Sometimes one of the plants
multiplies itself in another way. It
does not throw oil' a bud. but the fluid
matter inside the sac divides into four
masses, and each of these having be
come surrounded with a sac of its own,
the sac of the parent bursts open ami
the four new plants are set free. Each
of these rapidly attains its full size, and
in its turn, either by budding or divi
sion, gives rise to others.
These small bodies, being possessed
of the power of growth, are living or
ganisms, and the question arises
whether they are animals or plants.
That they belong to the plant king
dom is shown bv their possession of
two characters. In the first place, the
outer covering, or sac, contains the
substance cellulose, which -is one
of the most characteristic con
stituents of plants. Secondly, they
possess the power of living upon
inorganic matter; they are able to sepa
rate the flour and water into the chem
ical elements which compose them, and
out of these elements build up their
own bodies. Animals, on the other
hand, can live only upon organic mat
ter, that is, upon other animals and
plants. Yet there are two respects in
which the yeast plant differs from all
ordinary plants; it contains no green
coloring matter, or chlorophyl, and it
constantly throws off carbonic acid gas
and absorbs oxygen. In these particu
lars it is at one with the animals; but
as the two properties first mentioned
are of a more fundamental nature than
the latter, yeast is considered to belong
to the plant kingdom.
The vitality possessed by the yeast
plant is very remarkable. It is aole to
keep alive in a dry state for a very long
time, probably man3 years. The con
ditions required for its growth are heat,
moisture, and the presence of sugar, or
its chemical equivalent. As soon as
these conditions are satisfied, it grows
and multiplies with great rapidity, so
that a small quantity will in a short
time produce an amount many thou
sands of times as great in bulk. It is
said, on good authority, that under
favorable circumstances one plant
will produce one million in one day.
The growth of the plant is attended
with the formation "of two bodies, car
bonic acid and alcohol. These sub
stances arc formed at the expense of
the sugar contained in the matter in
which tho yeast is placed. In the rais
ing of bread, the bubbles of gas formed
are carbonic acid gas, and the sour
smell generated is due to the forma
tion of alcohol. In brewing, the grain
is first caused to sprout, this changing
its starcli into sugar. The growing
process is then interfered with, and
yeast, the plant now. being able to sub
sist on the sugnr, is added, and fer
mentation ensues.
The yeast plant is one of the very
lowest forms of vegetable life. Like
the lowest animals, it consists of a
single simple cell. The material of
which the cell is made, except as to the
cellulose sac, is jiiit the same as that
of the lowest animals, viz., protoplasm.
The yeast plant is like the lower ani
mals, too, in the manner in which it
reproduces itself by fission and by
gemmation or budding. But it shows
its resemblanse to the higher members
of the kingdom to which it belongs in
that it is a fixed organism, not able to
move about from place to place.
Country Uentltman.
Cautious Car Horses.
"Durn them horses,'' exclaimed the
driver of a Fifth street car, who had
just crossed the tracks of the Beading
Bailroad at Willow street last night.
"Durn those horses," he repeated,
whacking one of them with the wrong
end of his whip and basting the other
with his cap.
"I hold,'' he .aid to the conductor,
who had joined him to see what was
the matter, "that a horse has- np right
to be intelligent. Now these critters
are as brainy as I am myself. They
won't go over the railroad'tracks until
they see that the conductor has gone
ahead to make sure there is no danger
from an approaching train. They shy
every time, and if their blinkers are se
arranged that the can't see the con
ductor inspect the line, there they'll
stick, and won't budge until they are
satisfied all is safe."
"It's true," the conductor declared
afterwards, "although it sounds like a
Western lie. Ever since that accident
on American street, that killed two
horses and several passengers, the ani
mals have been extra careful, though,"
he added, thoughtfully, "I don't know
how they ever heard of it."
It is on Sundays that the conductors
are most likely to be reminded of their
duty by the car horse3. On that day
fewer trains are run and the men are
less careful. Philadelphia Press.
Among the numerous presents re
ceived by the Emperor William on the
occasion of his last birthday was a
simple farthing of the year 1797, that
being the year in which he was born.
This curious present had been sent by
a gamin living in one of the villages
around Brunswick, who also wrpte a
letter congratulating the Emperor in
the best language he could command
on having reached so great an age.
The other day, to his intense astonish
ment, this lucky youth received an
acknowledgement from the Emperor
in the shape of an autograph letter,
thanking him for his present, and, what
was probably more valued, a tweuty
raark piece," bearing the date of 1885
SINGING PARROTS.
Fancy Trice for ll!-;:i!y Accomplished
Birds T' .Mrthoil i.r Tt-acIiii'S.
An advertisement called for a sing
ing parrot, with the addendum s Unit
the price mu-t not be a fancy one, ami
that no dealers need apply.
"Are singing parrots rare?'' a bird
fancier was risked.
"Singing is an accomplishment that,
very few parrots acquire." he replied,
"and a good s'ng'ng parrot one that
knows three or four songs and sings
them well is very rare inde:-d. The
advertiser will hardly secure one with
out paving a 'fancy price.' His warn
ing to dealers not to apply seems un
necessary, for if a dealer chanced to
have a good one he certainly would
not care to sell him cheap. But deal
ers do uot very often have singing par
rots in stock, for the birds only learn
to sing well in private families. where
music is an every-day recreation, and
some one is patent enough to give
them lesson. After they are once
taught their owners are not willing to
part with them.
"The African and Mexican parrots
are. by long odds, the best singers, as
they are the best talkers and whistlers.
They are, in fact, by far the most intel
ligent, and so, of course, the easiest to
teach. If one of either kind is a pet
in a musical family, and the person
who feeds him slugs to him while he is
eating, he w 11 quickly learn both the
words and the tune of the song learn
them so well that if his teacher is
guilty of a false note it will be
difficult to rectify the error,
later. One song should be thoroughly
mastered before another is attempted,
and no effort should be made to teach
a parrot to sing before he has passed
his first year. If a parrot is well and
patiently taught he will sing so accu
rately, both as to the tune and the pro
nunciation of the words, that it will be
found, after a time, wholly impossible
to distinguish his' singing from that of
the human voice. e have had,
though rarely, such birds, and if one
of them were placed out of sight, but
within hearing, I would defy the sharp
est musical car in the world to detect
anything in his song indicating that it
was a bird singing and not a man or a
weman: for he sings always with a
voice pitched after the manner of his
teacher.
"Of course, such birds are very ex
pensive, and it is folly to advertise for
a cheap one. Some time ago we had
an African parrot here that sang
'Pretty Polly Perkins.' but not very
well. We sold him to a dealer for fifty
dollars. He was perfected in 'Polly
Perkins.' and sold for one hundred dol
lars. Later, having learned a second
song, he brought two hundred dollars,
and finally a finished master of three
songs, he was bought by a gentleman
in this city for three hundred dollars.
You could not purchasu him now for
love or money, he knows so many
songs and whistles such a number of
tunes, to say nothing of his conversa
tional powers.
"The birds learn to sing in German,
English, or French indifferently. The
language of their songs is dependent
upon the nationality of the family by
whom they are brought up. Some sing
in more languages than oue. ami Mich
are highly valued. .V. V. Sun.
DIVORCES OF THE WORLD.
How and for What lteasons They
Are
Granted lu Many Countries.
The following particulars as to the
methods of securing divorces in differ
ent countries are interesting: Siamese
The first wife may be divorced, not
sold, as the others may be. She then
may claim the first, third and fifth
child, and the alternate children are
yielded to the husband. Arctic Begion
When a man desires a divorce he
leaves the house in anger and does not
return for several days. The wife un
derstands the hint, packs her clothes,
and leaves. Tartars The husband
.may put away his partner and seek an
other when it pleases him, and the wife
may do the same. If sb? be ill-treated
she complains to the magistrate, who,
attended by the principal people, ac
companies her to the house and pro
nounces a formal divorce. Chbaesc
Divorces are allowed in all cases of
criminality, mutual dislikes, jealousy,
incompatibility of temper, or too much
loquacity on the part of the wife. The
husband can not sell his wife until she
leaves him ami becomes a slave to him
by action of the law for desertion. A
son is bound to divorce his wife if she
displeases his parents. Jews In olden
times the Jews had a discretionary
power of divorcing their wives. Javan's
If the wife be dissatisfied she can ob
tain a divorc? by paying a certain sum.
Thibetans -Divorces are seldom allowed
unless with the consent of both parties
neither of whom can afterwards re
marry. Moors If the wife does not
become a mother of a boy, she ma be
divorced with the consent of the tribe,
and she can marry again. Abyssinians
No form of marriage is necessary.
The connection may be dissolved and
renewed as often as the parties think
proper. Siberians If the man be dis
satisfied with the most t riding acts of
his wife, he tears her cap or veil from
her head, and this constitutes a divorce.
Coreans The husband can divorce
his wife, and leave her the charge of
maintaining the children; if she proves
unfaithful he can put her to death.
Druse and Turkoman Among these
people, if a wife asks her husband's per
mission to go out, and if he says "go,"
without adding "but come back again."
she is divorced. Though both parties
desire it. they can not live together
without being remarried. Cochin
Chinese If the parties choose to
separate, they break a pair of chop
sticks or a copper coin in the presence
of witnesses, by wiiich action the tmion
is dissolved. The husband must re
store to the wife the property belong
ing to her prior to her' marriage.
American Indians Among some
tribes the pieces of sticks given to the
witnesses of the marriage are burnt as
a sign of divorce. Usually new con
nections are formed without the old
ones being dissolved. A man never
divorces his wife if she has borne him
sons. Lcedt Mercury.
The Cftild Got Well.
A little five-year-old girl in East
Eighteenth street was suffering severely
from sore throat, and her friends and
the doctor for a time feared that the at
tack might prove serious. She saw
that they were anxious, and asked:
"Annty, do you think I am going to
die?" " "No," my dear," was the reply,
"we think vou will soon be better."
"Well," said tk$ child, wearily, "I
know I am very sick, and I think I'd
like to die and go to Heaven' and rest a
little while, if I was only siure I could
come back if I found I didn't like the
place." The child got well. N. Y.
Tribune.
m
An intelligent physician has dis
covered that color blindness is very
rare among girls, though it is common
among boys. From this fact he draws
the conclusion that in most cases color
blindness is due to the want of early
education in discriminating between
colors. Girls are taught to become
familiat with every shade of color,
while boys receive no instruction what
ever in colors. Hence, boys frequently
show an ignorance of colors which is
confounded with true color-blindness,
but which girls rarely show. Chicag
Times.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
George F. Slosson, of Chicago, is
now the recognized champion billiard
player of the United States. Chicago
Journal.
Mrs. Man- MeNuelv died in Wa'tau
ga County. N. C, recently, at the age
of oue hum.' red and eleven years. She
was born in that county "in 1774; oa
land then owned by Daniel Boone.
W. H. Smith, of the British Admir
alty, known to air the world by his
"Pinafore" fame as Sir Joseph Porter,
with his numerous sisters, cousins and
aunts, is about to be raised to the peer
age. A splendid monument of Italian
marble, twenty-live high, will be erected
over the grave of Dr. Norris, who vol
unteered his services in Vicksburp
during I he yellow fever epidemic of
1878, and diet! at his post. It will be
the gift of a member of Ids family. Dr.
Vanderman. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The son of Charles D'ckens. who
was at first reported killed at Fort Pitt,
but who has happily escaped, went to
Manitoba some ten years since, and
was made Inspector of the mounted
poiftre. He was afterward promoted to
be Chief Inspector. He is de-scribed as
a plucky, dashing officer, inheriting
some of his father's literary tastes, but
fonder of adventure and open air life.
A. V. Sun.
A new view of Bismarck: His life
has been unselfish. Had France pos
sessed such a statesman and an Em
peror worthy of the title, Bismarck
would have been compelled to accom
plish his purposes by other means. Men
of his stamp, not those who sit on the
throne, make nations that endure for
generations. Prince Bismarck believes
in God and righteousness, and these
have been the strength of his life.
Central Christian Advocate.
It has been mentioned as a curious
fact, says theNew York Graphic, that
the wife of Mr. Chandler, ex-Secretary
of the Navy, should have been the
daughter of a fonuer Senator Hale,
while the wife of Senator Hale of the
present day is a daughter of a former
Secretary of the Navy Chandler. No
relationship exists between either of the
families. One has a sou named Halo
Chandler and the other a son named
Chandler Hale.
The richest lady in Washington
now probably is Mrs. Whitney, whose
husband is Secretary of the Navy and
whose father is the millionaire Senator
Payne, of Ohio. It is said one of her
brothers gave her a cool million within
a year or two and as a trifling Christ
mas gift gave her a ten thousand dollar
ornament of rubies. The diamonds
she wore at her first Wednesday recep
tion in Washington were very large
and brilliant. Her car-rings of solitaire
diamonds and the three solitaires which
were set in a bar breast-pin are unusu
ally large and pure. Washington Post.
Poor Gordon could not help taking
a quaintly humorous view of things,
even iu the dark days at Khartoum.
When he found that Mr. Gltd.stone's
Government was persistently disregard
ing his appeals for aid, and became
convinced that he was to be a martyr
to dnty, he naturally blamed Sir Evelyn
Bar ng for his abandonment, and said
so bluntly iu his diary, but he added,
with a keen recollection of his own last
journey across the desert: "O, Evelyn!
Evelyn! I would forgive you all your
in'quities if I could see you bumping
across the Korsoko Desert upon a
camel!" N. Y. Independent.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
Out in the boundless West, when a
youug fellow gets married the first
thing he receives is a serenade from
the local band. This generally recon
ciles him to any sort of treatment, and
he settles down and is happy afterward.
Yonki-rs Statesman.
Little Minne' s mother had several
times spanked her for going out onto
the street. The other day as the gro
ceryman was leaving the house Minnie
called to him, and said: "Tome back an'
shut the gate." "Why?" "So I can't
get out.
Arkansaw Traveler.
Paper-hanger: "So you're having
the m.t room papered as well? I can
hear somebody at work, scraping the
walls. You might have let me Tiave
job." Farmer s Wife: "Nay, nay,
now, come! Why. that's my husband
a-shaving hisself!" Chicago Tribune.
An Irishman latety lauded was
taken to see .the Cathedral. As he en
tered the magnificent building, be
wildered by its beauty, he turned to
his companion and said, "Phwy, Moike,
it bates the divil." "That's the intin
t'on, Pat." AT. Y. Commercial Adver
tiser. "Well, how did 3011 like the sermon
to-day?" "The sermon?" "Yes; you
were" at the church, weren't you?"
"Why, yes, certainly." Then you can
tell me how you liked the sermon, I
suppose. You heard it, didn't you?"
"Heard it? Certainly not. I belong
to the choir." Boston Courier.
-A scientist has discovered proof of
the existence of the rhinoceros on the
Westem Continent "thousands of years
before Barnum appeared." This will
surprise many persons - uot that the
pachydermatous animal was diucov-
eren on the v e.steru continent iiiou
sands of years ago. but that Baruiuu
was not living at the time. -Xorrhtoivn
Herald.
Mr. Bozecu was troubled by a cat
ou a neighboring roof ami oue night
he jumped out of. bed and, picking up a
pistol, started for the scene of actiou.
waking his wife by his movements.
"What's the matter?" she inquired.
"Cats," he answered, briefly. "What
have you got in our hand?" "Gun."
he replied, savagely. "O. dear, take
care; take care." "Care, thunder!
What do I want to take care for?"
"Care will kill a cat, darling," she
whispered, and dodged under the cov
er. Mercliant Traveler.
Au auctioneer was trying to sell a
horse on Michigan Grand avenue yes
terday, and after the animal had been
duly inspected the crowd was asked to
name a sum to start the bidding.
"Fifteen cents!" called out an old
woman with ome lettuce in a basket
"Humph, you'd better go homel"
sneered the auctioneer. "Say," said
the woman to a man at her elbow,
that's just the wav it always turns
out! I never try 1
what I get the w
to oblige anybody but
orst of it, 1 might
have made it twenty cents, but 1 ve
got to buy meat for dinner." Detroit
Free Press.
A Siindav-s'chool teacher asked her
scholars to each learu a verse to recite
when they dropped in their pennies at
the next missionary meeting, appro
priate for the occasion. They all came
prepared the .next Sabbath, and the
lirst-little fellow as he tiroppeu in nis
offering said, "BIesseiis he that con
sldereth the poor." The secend re-
eated. "He that giveth to the poor
endeth to the Lonl. The teache was
delighted, and as the third, a very little
bov. went forward, she whispered v
his ear, "now speak out loudly, John-
me! Johnuie reluctantlv droprtin
i
his money in the box lisped, "The foo,
ana hith money ith thoon parted.
N. Y. Indejjendent.
9 e
The proposed railway from Lon
don to Bombay will, it is estimated,
extend over a "distance of nearly seven
thousand miles, and this distance, it is
calculated can be traversed in nine
days, or an average of thirty-five miles
an hour. The route contemplated is
through Paris. .Madrid, Gibraltar, Tan-
lers, rums, inpon, cairo, .joassoraa,
it, to Kurrachee and Bombay.
HALLShair
RENEWER
It is a medicinal preparation, ami, a:
the same timo,an elegant andcleauly toilet
article. Ifs action upon the scalp w health
ful. It nourishes the glands which support
the hair, and causes thin, dry hair to be
come thick, soft, and vigorous. It restores
the color of youth to locks which have
become failed with age or disease; and
relieves and cures itching, caused by
humors of the scalp. Dr. George Gray.
Nashua, X. II., writes: "It gives vm
pleasure to testify to the wonderful cfleets
produced by ITairs VegetableSiciliau Hair
Rencwcr, as observed by nic in very many
cases. It wrtx certainly nnsTonn
TITE IIAUt TO ITS ORIGINAL COLOR. It
cleanses tho head of daudruu. and leaves
the hair soft, glossy, and beautiful." I T.
Sandhein. 1010 Spruce st.f Philadelphia,
Pa., writes : " After unavailing'-1 ry in:;
n number of preparations to prevent my
hair from falling out. ami. realizing that I
was fast becoming bald, I tried, as a l.r-t
resort, nail's Hair Rene wer. I Lave used
only four bottles of the Renew?r, and r.:n
perfectly satisfied that it is the best prepa
ration in the market for checking the
falling out of hair, Invigorating t!i" hair
roots, and promoting a new rrawth."
Buckingham's Dye
KOIt Tin:
WHISKERS
commends itself to all who have occasion
to use a dye for the leard or mustache.
It will change gray, failed, or sandy
wliNkers, to a beautiful brown or black,
as desired. The colors produced are
natural and lasting. It cannot bs washed
on", contains no destructive inwd'en:-:.
is cheap, safe, convenient to um and
effectual.
PREPARED nY
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Sold bv all dealt-in in medicines.
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THE SUMMER TERM
OF THK
FREMONT NORMAL
and
BUSINESS COLLEGE,
' A.t Fremont, Pfebrnslcn,
Will begin
JULY 7th, 1885,
and End Aug. 29th.
UNUSUAL ADVANTAGES WILL UK
AFFORDED PERSONS WISHING To
PREPARE FOR THK EXAMINATION
FOR STATE AND FIRST GRA DE CEU
TIFICATES. TO RE HELD UV THE
STATE SUPERINTENDENT AT
FREMONT, AUGUST 26th and 27th.
The Business Department will all'ord
every opportunity for improvement iu
Penmanship, Business Arithmetic, Book
keeping, Commercial Correspondence,
and imitation of actual business.
M?usic.
We can Mpeak with the utmost confi
dence of the instruction given in our
Music Department. Miss Rose Conrad,
instructor of the Piano Forte, a graduate
of the Cornell Conservatory or Mtt.iic, i
not onlv a brilliant performer, but a
pains-taking and superior teacher. Tli
instrnctors in Vocal Culture, Note-reading
and Singing are thorough and suc
cessful. Expenses.
Tuition for eight weeks, $s to flu'lir
paid strictly iu advance. Tbi in
cludes admission to Normal and Business
classes. Music, $12 for tweutj lessons.
Short-hand, $12 for twenty lesons. Type
writing, with use of instrument, $10 lor
twelve weeks. Good day board can be
obtained in the College Home at$2.i." per
week. Rooms .i() eta. to 7.' eta. per stud
ent. The Fall Term will begin Sept. 1st, and
continue ten weeks; tuition, $10. For
further particulars address
W. H. JOF.S, A. .11.
President of Nurmal College,
Fremont, Neb.
SPE1CE & NORTH.
General Agents for the Sale of
REAL ESTATE.
Union Pacific, and ilidland Pari tic
R. R. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00
per acre for cash, or on live or ten years
time, in annual payments to suit' pur
chasers. We have also a large and
choice lot of other lands, improved and
unimproved, for sale at low price and
on reasonable terms. Also business and
residence lots in the city. AVe keep a
complete abstract of title to all real es
tate in Platte County.
621
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PROPRIETORS OF
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MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE
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(genuine). Algebra. Autograph AI-
bums, Alpbabet B K-ls,Aithtrsji;:rtl-i
ArJjs, Accordcon. Ab-trail Legal Cap.
I!1C3!4UIN. Basket.-. Bal.v T.',l'...l.s,
Bibles, Bells lor 'ovs, Ulan!. Books.
Bii'thdiv Cards. Basket Bifm:ie. bt.v's
Toid-liels Balls, Banker's .Cases,
boy's Wagons. 'Sleds and Wheelbar
row , Buteber Books Bra-s-edged ltu.
lers. Bill -I no!.-, Book Straps. Bse
Balls and Bats.
Mllr!:Hs Cards, Calling Cards. Card
Caes Combs. Comb Cases Cigar va-
ses, t lieeker Boards. Child'eii Cli lirs.
Cups and Satieeisfamv ) Circulating
Library. Collar and Cull" Bove. 'op:
Books.'Christinas Cards. CJiineM Toys,
Crayoiis.Clieekers. t. Iifss-nu-n, i votjiiej
sets
sKlli:.Vri- Sewing Mac(iins, Draw
ing raper. dressing ra.es. urums.
Diaries, Drafts in books, Dblls, Dressed"
Dolls, Dominoes Drawing books.
IVM.OIMX, Klemeutarv seh.ool
books, Erasers (bl-n-khoard), Erasers
(rubber).
Flfl'MK RooksFiord. Sdhtu-w. rfir-;
niture polish. .
at a. Tin a iis.
tries,! love bo.e
rograpliii-s, Ceome-
tiV (allUs.dV fOCOpfs
ito illustrate the lUu- of mutton).
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IIAItlM'K'S Readeis. haudviiiie UoB
dav gilts. Il.iult-glasse.s. HobbC-horses
lland-satclir!-, Hisinrie-. " . . i
l.'iltK, (all good kind.-. ,md eolot's). Ink
stands ( common and fancy ). .
.IVTi:!. Ca-e, .lews harps. j ."; "
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Itl-ICaS of ink, Kitelien sets
.t:ic;Ki.i, I.
Lunch baskets.
edger papec. ,L"egaI eap.
Loofcingglas'ser,
JIASO.X .V IJunlin Organs., Ji.ignets4
Music hove-. Magazines, Mysj, iehe
cup-, Meuth org.ius, Meihoi-aiidurns,
Muu- books, Mu.ie holders. ll:i;iiine
Oil, .Mat, JlodelMtol's lecord.s, Muei-
lage. Microcopcs.
evving m ichin.es, .to-
paper.
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Organ sli ids. Oman si a'.s.
til ii liities,-
lMCItlOD'H'AI.v.. Pictures,- Yyt..W.:
blocks. Presents. Picture books, 1'iai'ios- ".
Pens, Papetries. Pencils, Purse's. Bol-
isi for furniture, i'ainpbb-t ei-es. l'.ip.r;
utters, I'ipei I rsii-m-i -, j;.-tiire -jm.
zles. Picture frame. Po.-k-t btiuk.
lVrlumery and lViliiiuerv-eases, Paper
racks, Pencil holders.
KKWAKU
ber dolls.
cards Itubber balls, Bub-
MCIBOOI, books. Sewing stands, School
atchels. Slates, Stereoscopes and pic
tures, Scrap books. Scrap pictures;
Sewing machine needles. Scholar's colli,
panioiis, Specie purses. Singing ty
canaries. Sleds for boys Shawl straps,
Shell goods.
Ti'l.lLM'OI'i:. Toys of all kinds,
children's Trunks, Thermometers,
Tooth brushes (folding). Tea sets for
girN, Tool chests for boys, Ten-pin set
for boys, Tooth picks, Tin toys.
VlOliirV and striugs, Vases..
WOOIl'lltll'l-: Organs. Work has.
kills. Waste baskets', Whips (with'
case), Webster's dictionaries. Weather
glasses, ork hoes Whips for boy's.
Wagons for boys, What-nots, Wooden'
tooth picks.
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Loss of Meinorv, ."soft
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six boxes $.1.ou.
We Guarantee a Cure, or agree to re
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