The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, July 08, 1885, Image 4
ewyfcryjEjttgeMfJij wwo iTfffiPirf-ttmmf&ni i ,i v IV . : P. :. O " i! A i i. i . t& 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, . I . l 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. n tCz0W 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 B. P. HALL So CO., Huhua, N. H., U. S. A. Sold bv all dealt-in in medicines. H,iA-H9pHHSHHHB9kBAaSvFSpBK!1 KelBVBUBTsBHBfsfsfsfsaBBBBl.1 N Btl 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 COL1I3IBIJH, KEB. BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE. COLUMBUS, NEB mum MAGAZINE RIFLE. Govt. Ud 40-60 Grata CutrUft. tm itmm. ranem sate. THE flirLb nine. Superior in atcu- 3l IT tin S iu. SporUaTSad Trt ALLAH II mit-Mrtend for-CMalorue. MuUa JTix Ann Co., HenrrHaTen, Conn. (-K3KM .1 r45 BEST GO TO A.-&M. TOMER'S . BOGKAftD' MUSIC STORE i FOR THE . BEST ij GOODS AT o Tlie Lowest Prices! CONSULT THE FOLLOWINU ALPHAj BETICAL LIST. . A I. It I'M. Arithmetics. Arnold's Ink (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). I 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 ."; " . . 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. OICUA.VsS (Ml lor sewhfg 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. Eleventh Street, "Journal" Building. Cures Guaranteed'! DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 1. A Certain Cure for Nurvoiis Debility, Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Emis sions, Spermatorrhea, and all diseases of the genito-urinary organs caused by self abiiseor over indulgence. Price, $1 (Ml per bo. siv boxes .f.1.00. DR. WARNS SPECIFIC No. 2: For Epileptic Fits Loss of Meinorv, ."soft Vental nietv, uing of the Brain. and all those diseases of the brain. Priwe $I.IMI per box, six boves $.".oi). DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 3. For Impotence, Sterility iu either .sex, Loss of Power, premature old age, and all those diseases requiring a thorough in vigorating of the. sexual organs. Price $iuu per box, six boxes $10.1)0. DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 4. For Headache, Nervous Neuralgia, and all acute diseases of the nervous system. Price .10e per box, six boxes $-2.."0. DR. WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 5. For all di.svai-.s caused by the over-use of tobacco or liipior. This remedy is par ticularly elllcaeious in averting palsy and deli i mm tremens. Price $.tM pi ox, six boxes $.1.ou. We Guarantee a Cure, or agree to re fund double the money paid. Certificate in each box. This guarantee, applies to each of our live Speeilics. Sent by mail to any address, secure from observation, on receipt of price. Be careful to mention the number of Specific wanted. Our Speeilics are only recommended for spe cilic diseases. Beware of remedies war ranted to cure all these diseasi s with one medicine. 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