Nebraska Newspapers

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TRACING UOST BAGGAGE.
The Sntcm Used by All Express Ci
Bies to Recover Hiaslas; Package.
All the big oxprcss companies nowa
days have systems by which lost or mis
directed baggage can be traced to the
point where it disappeared, and when
baggage is damaged just who is respon
sible, and when and where the damage
occurred.
"There is very little baggage lost
now,1' Agent R.A. McKinney, of the
American Express Company, said yes
terday: "I mean entirely lost There
are lots of things reported lost every
dav, but we generally manage to find
them."
"Will you explain the process by which
missing baggage is traced?"
"When a man comes in and inquires
for a lost package he is asked to show
his receipt, which is compared with the
stub in the receipt book from which it
was torn, and which bears a corres
ponding number. A tracer is then sent
to the freight office to a clerk whose
business it is to look over the tissue im
pressions of all the way bills to New
Vork. He takes down the number and
date of the way bill on which
the package is entered. If there
is no record of the missing pack
age in the way bills, blanks
are illed out describing the package,
and sent to every office in the country
where we make up a package truak. A
package trunk is a receptacle in which
manv small packages are placed for
safe transportation. The description
which is filled in the blank takes in not
only the name, address and date on
which the package was received by the
company, but also gives a detailed ac
count of its contents. At the same time
duplicates of the tracing which has the
name and address are mailed to every
place in the United States of the same
name as mat on tue package, xnen we
clerk ia charge of the tracing depart
ment refers to the reports or our ;,ow
offices to see if any package correspond-
ns to the missinjconehas been wrongly
sent to any one of these offices.
. "iou must understand, Mr. Mc
Kinney continued, "that it is by no
means unusual for senders of packages
to misdirect them. It is a frequent
occurrence for a person who wants to
send a package to 'John Smith. Cleve
land.' to write 'John Smith, Cincinnati.1
So at man' offices misdirected baggage
accumulates. At the end of every four
or five days the agents send in reports
of this left-over baggage, as it is called.
If there is nothing in these reports to
correspond with the lost package, then
iwe forward a tracer over tho route that
(the package ought to havo gone. It
there is nothing about it on an of the
iway bills, he finds the messengers."
"Who are the messengers?"
"A messenger is an employe who
(takes cant of money and valuables after
they leave the express office and until
jthey are duliverol to the agent of the
office to which they an sent. H-i travels
ton the cars, and has charge also of all
(the baggage. Each messenger has a
run. A messenger wlo travels between
here and Buffalo has a run of 4'jO miles;
that is, he looks out for things for that
(distance. They are tried, picked men,
land must be physically as well as
morally sound, for it is a trying life,
put to' go back to the tracing. The
Kessenger has to put his initial on the
ay bill opposite to every package he
Scarries. If he finds any packages left
jover ho enters them in a way bill of his
jown. He has a log book, which is
called the 'messenger's overs and
shorts.1 If the package is entered on
any way bill, then the messenger can
be found whose initial is opposite to it,
and the messenger should be able to toll
something about it
"If nothing can be learned of the
package after the investigation, or if it
is traced to a certain' point where it
disappears for good, then we notify our
agent at the place to which the package
was intended to be sent to call on the
consignee and get from him a state
ment of the contents and value of the
package, and a certificate that he has
not got it We always look upon the
consignee as the owner. We get from
him an order to pay the shipper before
we pay for the package.
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ov about trunks?"
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"They are rarely lost, and it's very
seldom, indeed, that anything is missed
from them. When we receive a trunk
we weigh it and put a lead seal on the
lock, so that we can readily tell if the
lock has been tamjered with. If. on
reaching its destination it is not called
for at once, it is placed in the On
Hand' or 'Old Horse' department as
we call it It is then weighed again,
and its weight compared with the first
weighing. This is a check on its being
opened. If it is called for at any time,
and the ownership proven, we gladly
give it up."
"What is done with it if it is not
called for?"
"It remains in the on-hand depart
ment for a year along with a lot of un
claimed otlier things. Then it is sold.
AH unclaimed baggage is advertised for
a month every year."
"Are there niany trunks unclaimed?11
"Last year there were only eight.
Altogether there were not over 300
ieces of baggage and packages at the
ast sale."
"Is there ever anything valuable in
them?"
"No. Most of them are unclaimed
because the owners do not want to pav
the expressage. Years ago an occa
sional valuable package was bought at
the sales, but those days are pat"
"H baggage is damaged what do vou
do?"
"As soon as we are notified of it we
send an adjuster to examine it, and
agree with the consignee as to the
amount of damages. If we can not
come to an agreement ourselves we
leave it to an arbitrator. But the latter
condition of affairs rarely occurs."
"Do you ever attempt to fix the re
sponsibility for the damage?"
"Always. We refer to the way bill.
If the package is checked off it "is sup
posed that it was in good condition
when the check was made, and thus fix
the responsibility on the messenger or
employe who is 'careless enough "to let
it occur."
"We get some singular freight." Mr.
McKinney continued. "To-dav we re
ceived two prairie dogs from Columbus.
Nebraska. They were sent to a ladv in
this city, but she refused to take them.
and they are now down stairs."
"You won't keep them a year with
other unclaimed baggage before selling
will you?"
"Not very much. We will notify the
shipping office to find the sender and
Set instructions from himv If he
oesn't send any. we will sell the prairie
dogs for charges. In fact they will be
treated like perishable property, sold as
strawberries and the like, which are sold
on account of the owner."
"Do you often ship strange things?"
"les. We do it all the time. We
-ship monkeys, elephants, camels, race
horses, and every other conceivable ob
ject We also have to ship a great
aoany dead bodies."
"Who feeds the animals?"
"We do. Good care is taken of them."
"If the die on your hands arc you
responsible for them?"
"No. The owners s'ga a release."
Mr. McKinney said that valuables,
such as money and the like, were
skipped in safes.
"I would rather not talk much about
that" said he. "because the information
ugkt get to those who would use it for
criminal purposes. Some companies
seek the safe at one office and ship it
directly to another office, only the two
amnta knowiner the combination. Ia
other companies the messengers know
afi wmUt boasV' X T. Bun.
GREAT GAMES OF CHESS.
Caliph Who Flayed While Ills Enemy
Assaolted His City A Civil War Which
Owed Its Origin to a Game of Chew.
In the history ef the Saracens, it is
said that when Al Amin, the caliph of
Bagdad,' was besieged in his city by his
hereditary enemy, AlMurum, he was
engaged in a game of chess with his
ireedman and attendant, Kuthan. The
enemy was advancing in tremendous
force upon the city gates. Terror
stricken, the courtiers rushed in to warn
the caliph of his danger, but he would
pay no attention to them. "Let me
alone," he said, "1 see a checkmate
against Kuthan." This ruler was so
devoted to chess that he had his king
dom searched for all the good players,
and had them brought to his palace.
where, whatevei their rank, he made
them friends, and heaped gifts upon
them. Among these was the slave
Kuthan, who became the caliph's favor
ite antagonist in the game. The case
of Al Amin furnishes a by no means
singular instance of tho absorption of
interest possible in this fascinating
game. King John was at chess
when the deputation at Rouen came
t tell him that Philip Augustus
had besieged the city, but he
refused to give them an audience
until the game was done. Charles I.
was engaged in playing chess when the
news was Drought to him that tho Scots
were going to sell him into the hands
of the English, and manifested no in
terest whatever in the intelligence until
his game was finished. So, too, John
Frederic, Elector f Saxony, when im
prisoned in 1547, was beguiling the time
by playing chess with a fellow-captive
at the moment when a messenger came
to tell him that the Emperor had sen
tenced him to lie beheaded before Whit
tenberg. He betrayed no agitation at
the news, but proceeded with the game,
and expressed the heartiest satisfaction
at the close over the fact that he had
beaten his opponent The Hindoos say
that chess was the invention of an as
tronomer who flourished several thou
sand years ago. and who was possessed
of supernatural knowledge and acutc
ncss. The ('reeks claim that it was the
invention of Palamedes to beguile the
tedium of the .siege of Troy. The Arab
legend is that it was devised for the in
struction of a young despot by his tutor,
a learned Brahmin, to teach the youth
how a king was dependent upon his sub
jects for his safety. Oriental che.-s is
of two kinds, Chinese and Indian chess.
The Chinese game is plaed generally
in eastern Asia; but in India and ttie
adjacent islands, and, with some slight
modifications, all over the civilized
world. Indian chess is played. The
bishop is the elephant in India, the cas
tle the boat, and the queen the min
ister; otherwise the pieces an; identi
cal with those known to us. There is a
chess school in India with its salaried
professors, and success in the game is
held in very high regard. Monesh
Ghutuck, it was said, could play a fab
ulous number of games when lying on
the ground with his eye closed. The
complications of the game called the
Indian problem are known all over the
Occident as among the most difficult
ever devised. The Chinese chess
board has sixty-four squares and a
broad strip called the River Ho across
the middle. The castle is known to
them as the war-chariot the bishop as
the elephant the knight as the horse,
and for the king and queen they have a
general and two officers. They have
but five soldiers or pawns, and two can
non, the latter being able to move over
the heads of the others. The general,
cannon and chariot can not pass the
river. The Persians call chess Timour's
game, because of the favor in which
it was held by Timerlane, the
great Tartar ruler who lived in
the fifteenth century. This king found
the game so easy that he introduced
additional men and moves to compli
cate it This was the origin of what is
known as great chess in Persia, in con
tradistinction from little chess, the
common game. This is played on a
board with 110 squares and fifty-six
men. A Persian emperor is said to
have called one of his sons Sehahrohk
because at the moment he received the
intelligence of the infant's birth he was
playing chess, and had just given check
with his rohk (castle) to his adversary's
king (sehah.) Kings and potentates
have usually delighted in chess. Char
lemange delighted in the game. So did
King Canute or (Knut) the Dane. Ivan
the Terrible, of Russia, died in 1584 of
an apoplectic fit caused by rage at a
checkmate received from a subject
Queen Elizabeth was very fond ofchess.
So was Napoleon I. He oitenra his
games badly, his biographer -issures us.
but when warmed up to the game he
made some very brilliant moves. At
St Helena he played daily, going over
on the board the battles "that he had
fought, and more than once declared
that he ought to have won at Waterloo.
Louis XII. of France was so fond of
chess that he played it in his carriage.
Casimir II., King of Poland, in the
twelfth century, prohibited the playing
of chess in his dominions. A similar
law was enacted by the Turkish Caliph
Hakim, in the year 1025, punishing
with the bastinado all who disregarded
it Louis IX. of France (St Louis)
forbade the playing of chess at court
under the penalty of a fine, and Ed
waid IV. of England had a law enacted
strictly prohibiting chess throughout
the kingdom. James I. detested the
game. The Knights Templar abhorred
chess, and so did St. Bernard, and very
many other church dignitaries, but this
was probably for the samo reason that
Montaigne gave, that he hated chess
because it fascinated him so.
A civil war in France owed its origin
to a game of chess. Regnault, a
nephew of Charlemagne, and Berthe
lot a kn'ght of the court, had a quarrel
while at the game. Berthelot struck
his opponent in his anger, whereupon
Regnault lifted the chess-board, which.
as the story goes, was of solid gold, and
struck him dead. A factional war of
several years followed, which involved
half the kingdom. N. Y. Mail and
Express.
A New Kind of Bank Note.
An entirely new kind of bank note,
printed in colors instead of the black
and white of the Bank of England
notes, is being prepared for issue by the
Bank of Scotland. The promise to pay
ia the body of thenote is surrounded
on two of its sides by a broad orna
mental band, and on the other two
sides by a border in which the value of
the note is printed a great number of
times. On one, border the seal and
counter seal of Kin William II. of
Scotland are printed in brown on a yel
low ground, acsl between them arc the
royal arms on a blue ground. On the
upper border are the arms of the bank
in brown on a yellow ground, with the
date of the establishment of the bank,
1695. The chfef novelty of the new
note is in its colors, which will, of
course, make ffaroduction by photo
graphy impossible, and it is believed
will prevent forgery. The paper on
which the new note is printed is made
by the same firm as produces the Bank
of England note paper. N. Y. Post.
Professor James D. Dana, of Tale
College, has been made an honorary
member of the Royal Society of En-
gind. Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard
liege, is the only other American
who enjoys this distinction. Bosttn
JmirnmL
ACCIDENTS.
ow They Kw Be Treated la Cases
Emergency.
Broke Bones. Not much can be
done in this case until tho doctor comes,
as it requires an experienced hand to
set a bone. The chief thing to
guard against is the rough ends poking
through the skin, which turns a simple
fracture into a compound one much
more difficult to manage. If the leg,
or arm is broken, pieces of shingle can
be bound on each side of the fracture
to keep the limb stiff, and if a long
time must pass before the surgeon eai
arrive, cloths wrung out of very hot
water can be laid about the place to
keep down the swelling; the part must
be moved as little as possible.
Speaiks. A severe sprain should
have very hot water poured over it
every two hours, and in the interval
kept wrapped in flannel wet with hot
alcohol or extract of witch hazel; the
Eart must have perfect rest until it can
e moved without pain.
Bruises. Wrap a piece of ice in
cotton and bind it on the place, or
keep it covered with cloths wet in very
cold water; gentle, firm pressure with
the hand is useful. After a few hours,
the cold applications should be discon
tinued and a liniment put on. If in
flammation sets in. a doctor should
see it.
Burns. Advice on the best way to
act when the clothing is on tire has so
often been given in print that it seems
as if every one must know how to act
in this terrible emergency; yet
one can scarcely take up a
newspaper without seeing mat
some unfortunate woman has per
ished because she ran about screaming
for help instead of rolling on the floor
and trying to smother the flames. It
is of the greatest importance that the
mouth should be kept shut so that the
flames may not be breathed in. If there
is water at hand to dash on the fire it
can be easily extinguished, but too
often there is none; then seize the first
woolen article that can bo caught up.
a shawl, overcoat heavy table cover,
rug or piece of carpet, and wrap it
tightly around the person; if possible,
roll her over and over on tho floor, as
this crushes out the flame. Fire can
not burn without air; when the sup
ply is cut off it must go out If the
sufferer seems extremely weak and ex
hausted by the shock, give a few spoon
fuls of brandy and water; if tho
feet are cold, apply hot bricks or bot
tles of hot water to them. Cut the
clothes off the injured parts; do not
attempt to remove them in any other
way; if the skin is not much broken,
mix in a bowl a thick paste of common
cooking soda, spread it thickly on
linen and lay it on the burns; as it be
gins to dry, wet by squceziug water
on it with removing it; if it is kept
thoroughly damp, there is usually little
pain. when there is a large raw sur
face, cover with a thick layer of cos
moline. oiled rags, orsimply wet cloths;
if the air can be excluded, the smart
ing will cease. A burn is dangerous
in proportion to its extent rather than
its depth. In all severe cases, send for
a doctor at once, very nourishing
food must be given to sustain the sys
tem while the tissue that was lost is
being replaced. Elizabeth Robinson
Scouil, in Country Gentleman.
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TRICKS IN THE STABLE.
Vicious Habits Which Idle Horses Are Apt
to Acquire.
Among the tricks or rather habits
acquired by horses in the stable, rest
ing one shoe upon the other hoof, lying
in the gangway, rolling in the stall, and
kicking are among the worst In the
first place, the horse, if suddenly
startled, is apt to bring the resting foot
down suddenly, often seriously injur
ing the coronet The remedy is a boot
covering the part likely to be injured.
Lying in the gangway iuay be prevent
ed by placing a bale or rope behind the
horse, preventing him from backing
up. Standing in the gangway may be
prevented by the same means. Rolling
is the most difficult to cure. The most
feasible plan is to keep the skin of tho
horse free from sweat and dirt which
induce itching; and also to allow the
animal to roll in soft ground when
sweaty and tired. A roomy stall, with
sides staudiug slanting up to the per
pendicular walls, will also prevent this,
but a box-stall will be the best prevent
ive. Severe strains of the loins, even
fractures of the hip bones, and other
disabilities, are often the result of roll
ing in the stall. Lying in the stall, at
the extreme length of the halter, re
sults in strains and sprains in the at
tempt to rise.
Kicking is one of the worst vices to
which a horse can become addicted.
If the habit is not inveterate it is cured
by hanging a sack well stuffed with
hay so it may strike the animal in the
irebound from the kick. Let him kick
this innocent dummy until he is tired.
Then he is apt to quit ftr evor. A
horse that kicks from being touched
by the whitlletree or other sub
stance touching him should be
immediately taken out of the vehi
cle and allowed to kick until he be
comes tired. The whifHetrec should
be padded so as not to seriously injure
him. It may then be lowered so as to
touch his heels when he moves. When
he ceases to kick he is generally cured
entirely. The remedy may seem se
vere, but a kicking bono is worthless,
.because always most dangerous. In
Jieu of the whiffietrce a sack s to fled
with hay may be suspended so it will
touch his heels in the stable. But a
confirmed kicker should be sold to
work in a heavy team where he can not
do much injur. Chicago Tribune.
A FATAL
MISTAKE.
Selling Their
Birthright
Tor a Her of
Pottage.
What a fatal mistake bovs make in
their determination to leave school
prematurely and settle down to the
hum-drum routine of labor! An equally
great mistake is the one made by
parents who allow their children to
follow the bent of their inclination in
this direction. Learning is the key
that opens the door to success in life,
while the lack of it keeps the doors of
advancement forever barred. In the
flamour of youth such considerations
ave little weight but when the youth
arrives at man's estate he finds in the
bitterness of his disappointment that he
has "sold his birthright for a mess of
pottage.' I never saw thisjtruth more
sadly verified than in a conversation
recently with a laboring man who, for
some reason not divulged, was so lack
ing in education as not to know one
letter from another. He told me, in
the most despairing tones, that if he
was only able to read and write he
could get a situation that would pay him
double what he was then making, and
be much easier besides. It was a piti
ful confession, and yet his experience
will probably be the same that will
come to those who are now neglecting
their education, and whose burden of
.woe in future years will be that if thev
had only completed their stndies thev
cuuiu mi a pose oi nonor and emolu
ment for which their neglect has un
fitted them. Their position, however,
sad as it may be, will then be a remedi
less one. Youth is the time for im
proving opportunities; manhood is the
time for reaping tho benefit Pitts
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Twelve young women of Monnt
Holyoke Seminary have lately returned
from a ramble of one hundred and
twenty miles through Western
ehiuetts. .fiwton UaraiM.
FORMOSA.
Ufa Among- the Savages of the Island
An Interesting; Account.
The hnt in which I found myself, and
it was a fair sample of the rest, was of
the rudest possible description. Tho
doorway was so small that it was a task
to get in; the walls wore composed of
the branches of trees stuck into the
ground a little apart, tho interstices
being filled with bits of chopped wood;
the roof was thatched with grass. Three
sides were occupied by raised bamboo
sleeping platforms, some fifteen inches
above the ground; there were no win
dows. At one side was a slight de
pression in the ground, which served as
a fireplace, logs of trees being laid over
it end to end, and constantly pushed
farther in as they gradually consumed
away. All the village crowded in
women, young girls and children of all
sizes; but the male savages, with the
exception of those referred to. wore all
absent on a hunting expedition, having
been gone several days. From the roof
were suspended various requisites of the
chase bows, arrows and deerskins
besides sundry articles of domestic use,
all of the rudest kind. Having had some
thing to eat, I strolled out amongst the
other huts, and everywhere was well
received. What particularly struck
me was the fearlessness of the
women and girls and the frankness
of the children, who were most interest
ing They came close up to me, ex
amined my clothes with their largo dark
eyes, pulled my whiskers, and were
never tired of looking at my watch.
They are bright and I should say in
telligent, and incomparably more inter
esting than Chinese children so- sim
ple, natural aud unsophisticated. All
smoke, from the youngest to the oldest
of both sexes, and it was truly ludicrous
to-see tiny mites of certainly not three
summers stark naked with pipes in
their mouths. The women and girls
carry their pipes of bamboo stuck in
their hair, somewhat in the stylo of the
liang-pat'ou head-dress of the Peking
ese ladies, and keep the tobacco bags
hung round their necks. They at once
offered me a smoke. Some of them
were playing upon a curious kind of
jew's harp, made out of a slip of bam
boo with threads at each end, whilst
one girl, of about sixteen, danced.
The dance was neither a fandau
go nor a bolero, nor yet a minuet, but
bore some resemblance to all three; it
wa9 so intensely- grotesque that I
laughed uncontrollably. No sooner bad
she finished than the girls came up tc
me. and offering me a Jew's harp, made
signs to me to dance. The barp alone
was a sufficient mystery to me. but
when the minuet was added the tableau
was completo; the audience threw them
selves dwn and screamed with laugh
ing. From this performance I passed
to a scene of somewhat different char
acter a few yards along a path, a step
to one side, and I stood before a scaffold
af camphor branches on which reposed
a grinning row of human skulls, the
heads of Chinese slain in raids. Goot.
Words.
EASTERN BEGGARS.
Hendlcanry as Practiced In Northern 1'cr
Kla. Here in rich and happy America we
know kno thing of begging as it is prac
ticed in less favored lands. To know
this disagreeable experience in all its
fulness, we must cross the ocean and
travel in Ireland, Spain. Italy, but more
especially Asia; then we shall be less
inclined to complain at our fe w homo
made mendicants.
Here is a description of what a recent
traveler was forced to encounter from
professional beggars in Northern Persia:
On leaving
my caravanserai, he
says, "I
thought 1 was rid of the men
dicants and dervishes who had beset
me, but I soon discovered my mistake.
Taking short cuts across the field, they
had posted themselves at different
points ot vantage along the narrow
path, from which they liad not only
recommenced tueir importunities, but
almost made use of physical force to ar
rest my horse. There were dervishes with
beards stained of a fiery-red color, and
wearing queer conical hats, who. if they
did not regularly belong to the howling
sect of Constantinople, most decidedly
showed themselves qualified for admis
sion to it by the fashion in which they
yelled, screamed aud groaned, exhort
ing me in the name of the blessed AH
and the Imans Hassan and Hussein, not
forgetting Haziret Abass and many
other holy,'peoplc,.to give them charity.
Then there were . the old. the blind
and the lame men, women and chil
dren hanging on to my stirrup and
seizing my bridle. Some were horribly
deformed, and it seemed marvelous that
they should have undergone such ap
parently frightful disasters as were nec
essary to reduce them to their then
present mutilated condition, and yet
continue to exist They seemed to con
sider that in my supposed quality of
hadji on my way to Meshed I must be
bursting with the desire to distribute all
my worldly property to the first comers
who might think fit to ask me for it."
Youth's Companion.
A New Iron-Clad.
It is proposed to construct a new iron
clad (the fourth) at Nicolaieff, Russia,
destined for the defence of the Black
Sea coasts. It is to be of steel and iron,
the under portion being cased in wood.
The center portion will be armored; for
the defense of the engines and machin
ery a portion of the deck will be covered
with armor-plates two inches thick.
With engines of 8,000 horse-power in
dicated, the sliced of this new iron-clad
will reach, it is hoped, sixteen knots.
The armament is to be 12-inch guns,
firing en barbette from a couple of tur
rets on the upper deck. The estimated
cost is 4,000.000 rubles, or in round
numbers 400,000. The machinery,
etc., will be furnished by the Baltic
factory. N. Y. Font.
The little dog Jimmy and the horse
Itarus are inseparable companions. Mr.
Bonner has tried to part them, but as
neither would eat when the other was
absent he had to bring them together
again. The question is, what wilfhc di
with Ranis when the dog dies? Every
time the horse is led out Jimmy ridea
on ms DacK, and wnen in the stall, the
dog can not be persuaded to leave the
ex-king of the turf. It is one of the
strongest cases of affection ever seen.
X. Y. Herald.
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It is curious, but nevertheless true,
says The City of Mexico Two Republics,
that a horse is employed drawing a
bread-delivery wagon in this city which
ft over forty years old. On his shoul
der is the brand "U. S." He was a cav
alry horse in the army under General
Scott, and is frisky yet. though a veter
an. In spite of his long residence in
Mexico, he has never taken ont natural
ization papers.
It is proposed to have aa elevated
railway in operation in Paris by the
time of the opening of the exposition
four years hence. It will have, accord
ing to the present design, two tracks,
one above the other, and will cost about
fifty million francs.
A New York State dairy mjud has
succeeded in milking nine cows in
twenty-eight minutes, and that without
being kicked once. She'd probably go
through her husband's wallet im it
scoaas. Detroit Fru Press.-
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
One-fifth of the legal voters of
Massachusetts are veterans of the civil
war.
There arc now over eight million
stoves in use, and the average life of a
stove is live ears.
In Florida, oil is thrown into ponds
and standing water to prevent mos
quitoes from batching.
There are said to be more species
of birds nesting in Central Park, New
York. than on any aroa of its size in
the world.
New Bedford, Mass., carpenters
shingled one side of the roof of a house
before they discovered they were work
ing on the wroug building.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., was named after
Wilkes and Barra, two members of Par
liament who took sides with the Colo
nies during the tax discussion previous
to the Revolutionary War.
Bohemia contains something more
than 5,000,000 of inhabitants. But
there are nearly 100,000 Bohemians is
the United States, of whom there are
30,000 Bohemians in Chicago, 20,000 in
Cleveland and 8,000 in New York.
Fargo has all along supposed that
she had seventeen thousand popula
tion, but a census taken by the police
fails to show quite ten thousand. How
seven thousand people slipped ont of
town inside of two days is what bothers
those who didn't go.
The strawberry crop of the Eastern
shore of Man land is more profitable
than the o it crop. This region
promises to ' ome ;..e great trucking
garden of th .Vil.in tie coast, and there
is very little unprovable land in it that
is not now isjider cultivation.
Queen Victoria detests smokers,
and keeps up in her palaces the stand
ing order, "Positively no smoking
here," much to the annoyance of the
Prince of Wales, who, as the first dandy
of the land, not only smokes, but sets
all the fashions, though his reputation
as a rake is exaggerated.
John C. Stevens was the founder
of American yachting. He founded
the New Yrk Club, whieh originally
numbered only nine yachts. Now
there are one thousand eight hundred
vessels of the kind belonging to Ameri
can owners. The oldest American
yacht is the Minuasota, which was
built in 1635.
Some unscrupulous people in San
Francisco are selling fie water of
Owens Lake, in California, at one dollar
a pint, under the name of the "Water
of Life.' The water of Owens Lake is
strong lye, and a goblet of it would
almost kill a man. But ignorant peo
ple buy it. and drink small quantities
of it, under the impression that they
are taking a wonderful curative.
First Citizen "Do you deal at
's store?" Second Citizen "O.
dear, no; I make it a point never to go
where I am not wanted." F. C. "But
a storekeeper certainly wants 0u to
go in aud buy." S. C. --"Well. I think
if he wants me he'll invite me through
the advertising columns of a newspa
per. No. I never intrude where I am
not wanted. Mr. never adver
tises." Oil City Derrick.
A comparison of the ages at death ot
Engl .-!i and Amer.cau statesmen shows
the average for tho ughsh to be
seventy oars aud for the Americans
sixty-nine. Of our Senators fifty-nino
gave an average ot sixty-ono years;
one hundred and forty-six Representa
tives averaged fifty-five years, and the
average for both was fifty-eight The
one hundred and twenty-one members
of Parliament averaged sixty-eight
years at death.
Eagle feathers are highly prized
by the lud'ans, and their method of
capturing the bird is this: They repair
to the mountains and dig a pit which
is covered lightly with reeds and grass.
A piece of buffalo meat, done up in a
wolf skiu, is laid on the pit. The eagle
swoops down, alights upon the wolf
skin and begins to tear it. The Indian,
who is concealed in the pit seizes the
bird by its legs and drags it into the
Eit, where he crushes its breast with
is knees.
Says the master of the house to
the servant, as he prepares to lock
himself in his study and work: "I am
not in. if anyone calls, mind." A
quarter of an hour later he rings the
bell. No answer. He rings it again.
Still no answer. He opens the door
furiously and cries to the servant in
the ante-chamber: "Did you hear me
ring, you idiot?" "Yes sir, but as you
told me you weren't in, I couldn't
think of taking a bell's word before
yours, sir." Manchester Courier.
The city house which Mr. J. C.
Flood is building in Sau Francisco will
be a very expensive structure, like
those of Governor Stanford and the
Crockers. One room will be done in
ivory and gold. The cost is fabulous.
At one time Mr. Flood would not hear
of having it done, but the architect
finally prevailed, and he will be al
lowed to carry out the original plana.
He has furnished complete drawings
one might say paintings of every room
just as it will appear when finished
some two years hence.
"My dear," said a wife to her hus
band, "I know that I am dreadful
cross with you at times, that I am not
patieut as I should be, and I think the
same can be said of you." "Yes, cer
tainly." he frankly acknowledged, "I
am almost as bad as you are." "What's
that?" "I I say that I am just as
much to blame as you are." "I think,"
went on the lady, "that we ought to
cultivate a mutual toleration of each
other's faults." and she bent over hiss
and fondly kissed him.- "You are not
looking well to-night, dear." he said
stroking her hair. "No," she replied,
"my feet pain me dreadfully." "That's
because you wear shoes two sixes too
small for you." Then the trouble be
gan once more. Shoe and Leather Re
porter. Mutual Regrets.
When the Broadway car reached
Chambers street yesterday morning a
dumpy little man stood at the door and
a massive young woman supported
about two hundred pounds by the strap
.overhead. Just then a truck crossed
the track, and as the car came up with a
jolt the massive young woman went up
quite impetuously to the little man and
one elbow put a dint in his high hat
.the size of a quart measure. On the
recoil he shot out pretty impulsively,
tod. .and the hat collided with the
young woman's back hair. She turned
about when the car moved on with
some asperity. But the sight of the
hat appeased her and she said calmly:
"I'm awful sorry, sir. that this hap
pened." "Madam," he returned, struggling
with the injured headgear and breath
ing heavily, "madam, you're not half
so sorry as I am."
And there was not a soul present who
did not believe Trim. ..V. Y. Herald.
There used to be an old gentleman
who lived np in one of the parishes of
this State who was noted for his tre
mendous deportment and peculiarity.
iArriving in the city for che first time.
:he accosted a young man about town
.who was standing on the corner ef
Canal street: "I wish, my young
'friend," said he, taking out his watch,
-to go Jo the St Charles Hotel."
"Welt" said the gilded youth, "yu
ky
co. but aon'c stay out nan art
stay
hour.
M
-N. O.
Times-Democrat.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes ii ef
the opinion that "bad air, bad whiaky
-and irregular habits keep the doetan
fre."
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Pivo hundred policemen in citizens'
fJothes arc employed in guarding the
public offices of Loudon against dyna
miters. rI i -v. Richard Barton, living near
New Brunsw'ck. N. J., who has twice
given b.rth to twlus. is now the proud
mother of triplet-.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, was
arrested the other day for keeping his
carriage standing on the street cross
ing and was fined ten dollars a4
costs.
The late Colonel Glman M. Pal
mer, of Clinton. N. Y.. has left by will
to the First National Bank of Clinton,
"for helping him in time of need," the
sum of four thousand dollars.
Frederic G. Vollmer. of SagMfofw
walk. Conn.. in his JB0-
dred and second year. Hu wfl?m sol
dier of Bonaparte and fought at Aus
terlitz and Jena. Vollmer does not
drink, but has smoked since tho vear
1798.
Christian Ranch was employed tea
years upon the bronze equestrian
statue of Frederick the Great, which
was erected in the Unter den Linden.
Berlin, in 1851. The statue is seven
teen feet high and stand upon a pedes
tal twenty-five feet high.
The funeral of Victor Hugo was
the most popular colossal fete that
Paris has ever seen. There was no
sadness, no Solemn ty, but. on the con
trary, a pagan gaety, the festivity of a
triumph. It was the manifestation of
a purely human worship. Letter from
Paris.
Russell Sage is reported to have
lost fully eight million dollars in spec
ulation " last year. He is still very
wealthy, but is growing more cautious
and has not the dash of his younger
years. He takes no chances now, pre
ferring to invest in assured interests,
and has cexsed to be a power in Wall
street.
Out of live hundred and nine mem
bers of the House of Lords, not less
than four hundred and forty are land
lords in the fbllest sense of the term;
that is. they derive the whole or the
'rcater part of their revenues from
and. Fifteen million acres of laud,
with an aggregate rent roll of fifteen
million pounds, represent their prop
erty anu income, wn le another seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, iu
the shape of pensions, annuities and
salaries, also falls annually to the lot
of this priv leged class.
Colonel Briee. the Ohio millionaire,
has made nearly six mill:on dollars
witlfn five ear." He beran iu small
i railroad speculation, made money,
i aud fa led: tried again, ami culminated
! with the Nickel Plate e: terpri&e. Mr.
j Brce now lives in New Yok. He has
a res-dence on .Murray Hill, for which
he pa d $2."0,000. It "is filled with fur
niture, bric-a-bric and pictures which
have cot a foituue. lie has a very
line library, s fond of 1 terature. aud
,-is a man of cons deral.le culture. He
has a strong m ml. stivat speculative
ab'.l.ty, and never lose his head.
Lawsou Lawrence, colored, of Eu-
"uila. Ala., i one hundred and three
-ars old. His present wife is fifty
. cais old. he having married her when
she was u "gal," as he expressed it
She is his ninth wife. and. in reply to
the question as to how many children
he had, he said he had been accused of
having one hundred and seventeen,
and it was not for him to
dispute it Last year he cultivated
twenty acres of land and raised an
abundance of peas, corn and potatoes.
This year he is cultivating cotton. He
lives w'thin a quarter of a mile of
White Pond. Barbour County, where
he has been for the last eleven years.
He labors during the week and
preaches Sunday, being pastor of
Mount Zion Methodist Church for eight
years.
A LITTLE NONSENSE.'
It is not considered stylish to wear
a cuff on the ear.
A most unsatisfactory piece of
sculpture is the "bust" of a boiler.
The cloud which darkens a maid
en's brow is oftentimes no bigger than
a man' hand.
It is the girl who wears a great
deal of false hair that "puts on" lots of
style. Yonkxrs Sta!e.-nan.
"Fellow citizens: During the phy
sical year past" is the way a Maine
school committeeman began his report
recently. floxton Globe.
"What will blacksmiths do when
the forgo goes out of date?" asks a
scientist. They will keep right on set
ting tv pe just the same. .V. 1. I'ost.
The reason why some papers die
is that they have been unable to keep
up their circulation. We publish this
to please an insane friend. liost-xi
l'ost.
A hat manufacturer says that the
size of a man's head is always increased
by excitement We have noticed this
too. It generally occurs, however, the
morning after the excitement jV. Y.
Graphic.
George McDonald, the novelist, is
cd ling a new edition of Shakspeare.
If there is any one thing that this
world wants more than another it is a
new cd tion of Shakespeare. Philadel
phia Call.
True diplomacy is the art of hiding
your nunc where your wife can not
find it. and then lie in bed pretending
to be alcp as ou watch hergo through
your clothes in au unproductive huut
Exchange.
Walt Wh'tman defines a poet as "a
person posesiiig au eccentricity in
verbal cxpres"on." Then is "the ec
centric who rhymes ha:r-dyes wilh
burglarize quite as respectable as any
gentleman in the poetry line. Uttffalo
Express.
Jobbins ran out the other morning
to chase a couple of oxen out of his
door-yard, and wa wrecked by a colli
sion with the clothes-line. He went
out swearing at the lumbering kine and
came in cursing tne cumbering line.
Yonker. Gaietlc.
Journalist to his wife "I feel very
bad this morning. I don't see that it
is worth while to go to work, for ray
head aches so painfully that I can not
think." Wife -"Dou't'try to think any
to-day. dear. Stay at home aud work
on your book." Arkansaw 'traveler.
Last week we received war news
from Zulticar, Akrobat aud Aktepet
on the Afghan frontier. This week
ou m-iv look for something startling
from Whandywhaiigwhang. where His-
royaIjn;s Knockachipf rotuim shoulder
off s eTitrenching himself. When the
Russian bear can't scare the English
bull with anything else he tires a jaw-
breaker at hm. -Burlington Hawkey.
Deceived.
The Xord. of Brussels, says with re
gard to the speculations of some French
journals on the consequences of the
demise of the Crown in Ger
many: "We can affirm that those
who are pleased to believe that
the access;on of a new sovereign
,in Germany would be the signal for a
rupture between Germany aud Russia
lead themselves to the gravest decep
tion. The understanding established
betwteu the two States reposes not
merely on individual sympathies or
passiug inclinations; it has for a basis
the identity of common interests.
Dies are the monarchies whose cosa
htoid efforts alone can oppose an eB-
e?io3 barrier to tie ever-namg
f revolution,"
Ayer's
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iluy a luother, startled ia ttu- :ilht !.
liie ominous sound of Croup. CiaN I.o
little sufferer, with led aud wo'ilcn face,
gasping for air. Iu suih cac Ayu's
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Gcdney, 15Q West 123 st, New York,
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Landon, Guilford. Couu., writes: ".piN
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mul alio the life of my little son.
An he
OIv
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J. Gregg, Lowell, Ma-., writi-
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I
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Music Department. Jliss Rose Conrad,
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Tuition for ten weeks, $10 to $12 if
paid strictly in advance. This in
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classes. JIueic, $12 for twenty lessons.
Short-hand, $12 for twenty lessons. Type
writing, with use of instrument, $10 tor
twelve weeks. Good day board can be
obtained in the College Home at $2.25 per
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cnt.
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