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- . V ' --iv." v- - --." .- ' i 'V'Ji .' 'sv.. & &?" ,'-i -s -"? -' s. e iatfMfiiifl tV It: 3 ft K5 is ' ! '? i is V -w lu. THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, KOV. 11, 1885. Xsttni at tia Psrtoflce, Cslsctu. tflt.. u nasi dus mtitr. MY SWEETHEART. I'm la lore with a fair little maiden With her eyes, with her lips, with her hands. With her dozens of dear liule dimples And although she'a petite On her sweet little feet. Tic a'wonder to me how she standi. , And she lores me, this dear little maiden; And her hands, and her eyes, and her lips. And her dimples, all giving me welcome In a tweet, artless war Hare their ear, every day, Aa to meet me she lovingly trips. Will she wed me, this sweet little maiden? liless you, nol That she nerer will do. But, when I have told you the reason, I haren.t a fear Twill appear to you queer; For I'm thirty while she's only twol Allen O. Blgiloic, in St. Kicholas. A STRANGE STORY. The Remarkable Resurrection of a Common Sailor. How at Dead Man Returned to Life to Admonish Commodore Rodger and His Former Comrades An Incideat of the War of 1813. Archibald Forbes contributes to Belgravia the curious story found be low. He says: Concerning the history of the subjoined curious narrative, the orisrinal manuscript of which, written in now faded ink on the rough dingy paper of sixty years ago, was placed ih my hands in the course of a recent visit to America, only a few words are necessarv. The narrative is addressed to "Mrs. Rodgers and sister," and ap pears to have been written at the request of the former lady, after the author's return from tho sea on the termination of his service as surgeon of the frigate President, the famous fight ing cruiser of the American republic in the war with England of 1812-14. Commodore Uodjrers, who commanded the President tluriii"; the war, aud who was the husband of the lad' for whom the account was written, gave to Dr. Turk's narrative his indorsement of its perfect accuracy. Of the authen- ticitv of the document there can be no possibilitv of a doubt "Some time in the latter part of December, 1813. a man by the name of William Kemble, aged twenty-three (a seaman on board of the United states frigate President, commanded by Com modore John Rodgers. on a cruise, then near the Western islands), was brought to me from one of the tops, in which ho was stationed, having burst a vessel in his lungs, the blood gushing with great riolence from his mouth and nostrils. Wkh much difficulty I succeeded in stopping the discharge, and he was put upon remedies suited to his case. I visited him often, and had the best of opportunity' of becoming acquainted with lib temper, habits and intellectual attainments; and under all circum stances, during his illness, found his language and behavior such as stamped him the rough, profano aud illiterate sailor It is my belief, although I can not positively assert it, that he could not either read or write. It is certa'u that his conversation never differed iu the least from that of the most ignorant and abandoned of his associates, con stantly mixed with oaths and the lowest vulgarity. Had he possessed talents or learning", he must have betrayed it to me during his long confinement. "In the early part of January, 1814, a vessel bore down upon us with every appearance of an English frigate. All hands were called to quarters, and after a short and animated address by tho Commodore to the crew, all prepared to do their duty. Before I descended to the cockpit, "well knowing Kcmble's spirit and how anxious ho would be to partake of tho glorious victory (defeat never entered our thoughts), I thought it best to visit him. After stating to him the peculiar situation he was in, and the great danger he would be ex posed to by the least emotion. I en treated anil ordered him. not to stir dur ing the action, which ho promised to observe. We were soon obliged to lire. At the sound of the lirst gun he could restrain himself no longer, but regard less of my admonitions and of his own danger, he'rushed upon deck and flew to his gun, laying hold to help run her out. A fresh ami tremendous discharge from his lungs was the consequence, and ho was brought down to me again in a most deplorable state. 1 appre hended immediate death, but by Jhe application of the proper reme dies I succeeded once more in stopping the hemorrhage, by which he was reduce! to a state of the mot extreme debility. Be'ng near the equator and suflering much from heat, his hammock was slung on the gun deck between the ports, affording the best circulation of air. lit continued for some time free from hemorrhage, but was under the constant use of med icine, and was confined to a particular diet. This made him fretful, and he would frequently charge my mates with . starving him. at the same time damn ing them in the true sailor fashion. After some time, being again called to quarters at n'ght, he was necessarily removed below to the siek berth (com monly called bay.) This was followed by another discharge of blood from h's lungs, which was renewed at intervals until his death. "On January 17, in the afternoon. Dr. Birchmore. my lirst mate, came to me on deck, aud reported Kemble to be dead. I directed hiui to see that his messmates did what was usual on such occasions preparatory to comm tting his remains to the deep. About two hours after this Dr. Birchmore again called on me. He sa d that Kemble had come to life, and was holding forth to the sailors in a strango war. I directly went down, where 1 witnessed oae of the most remarkable and unaccountable transactions that, perhaps, had ever fallen to the lot of man to behold. Kemble had awakened as it were from sleep, raised himself up and called for his.messmates in partic ular, and those men who were not on duty to attend to his words. He told them he had experienced death, but was allowed a short space of time to return and give them, as well as the officers, some direction for their future conduct in life. In this situation I found him, surrounded by the crew, all mute with astonishment and paying the most serious attention to every word that es caped from his lips. The oldest men were in tears, not a dry eye was to be seen, or a whisper heard; all was as solemn as the grave. His whole body was cold as death could make it. There was no pulsation in the wrists, the tem ples or the chest perceptible. His voice was clear and powerful, his eyes uncom monly brilliant and animated. After a short and pertinent address to the med ical gentlemen, he told me in a peremp tory manner to bring Commodore Rodgers to him. as he had something to say to him before ho linally left us. The Commodore consented to go with me, when a sccue was. presented , truly novel and indescribable, and cal culated to fill with awe the stoutest heart. The sick iay (or berth) in which he lay is entirely set apart to the use of those who are confined to their - beds by illness. Supported by the sur- 'fsoas, surrounded by bis weeping and SMtoaisked comrades, a crowd of specta- tezs looting tkraagk tk lattice-work which inclosed the room, a common' spanned lamp throwing out a sickly! eht, and a candlo held opposite his face by an attendant, was the situation of things when our worthy commander made his appearance: and well does- he, remember the effect produced by so un-' common a spectacle, especially when followed by the utterance of these words from the mouth of one long supposed to have been dead: 'Commodore Rod gers. l nave sent ior you, sir. oeing commissioned oy a uiguer power io address you for a short time, and to de liver the message intrusted to me when I was permitted to revisit the earth. Once I trembled in your presence, and was eager to obey your commands; but now I am yoursuperior, being no longer an inhabitant of the earth. I have seen the glories ot the world of spirits. I am not permitted to make known what I have beheld; indeed, were I not forbid den, language would be inadequate to the task; "tis enough for you and the crew to know that I have been sent back to earth to reanimate for a few hours ray lifeless body, commissioned by God to perform the work I am now engaged in. He then, in language so chaste and appropriate that it would not have disgraced the lips or the pen of a divine, took a hasty view of tho moral and rel.gious duties incumbent on the commander of a ship of war. He reviewed the vices prevalent on ship board, pointed out the relative duties of officers and men. and concluded by urging tho necessity of reformation and repentance. He did not, as was feared by our brave commander, attempt to prove the sinfulness of fighting and wars; but, on the contrary, warmly recommended to the men the perform ance of their duty to their country with courage and fidelity. H:s speeches oc cupied about three-quarters of an hour, and if the whole could have -been taken down at the time, they would have made a considerable pamphlet, which would no doubt have been in great de mand. Dr. Birchmore, now at Boston, heard all the addresses, I only the last. "When he finished with the Com modore, his head dropped upon his breast, his eyes closed, and he appeared to have passed through a second death. No pulsation nor the least degree of warmth could be perceived during the time that he was speaking. I ordered him to be laid aside, and left him. I retired to bed", deeply reflecting upon the past, unable to sleep, when about nine o'clock p. m., many hours after Kemble had been laid by. I was called out of bed to visit a man taken suddenly ill in his hammock, hanging near Kemble's apartment. It was an hour when all but the watch on deck had turned in; general silence reigned, and all the lights below were out, with the exception of a single lamp in the sick apartment, where lay the remains of Kemble. I had bled the sick man he was relieved. I entered the sick room beforo I retired to replace some thing, and was turning round to leave it. being alone, wheu suddenly I was almost petrified upon beholding Kem ble sitting up iu his berth with his eyes (which had regained their former bril liancy and intelligence) fixed intently upon mine I became, for a moment, speechless and motionless. Thinks I to myself, what havo 1 done, or ten undone, in this man's caso that would cause him thus to stare at mo at this late hour, and alone? I waited a long time in painful suspense, dreading some horrid disclosure, when I was relieved by his commanding mo to fetch him some water. With what alacrity I obeyed can easily be imagined. I gave him a tin mug containing water, which he put to his mouth, drank off the con tents, and returned to mo; then laid himself quietly down for the last time. His situation was precisely tho same in every respect as beforo described. The time was now expired which, he had said, was given him to remain in the body. The next day by noon, all hands attended as usual to hear the funeral service read, and see his re mains consigned to a watery grave. It was an unusually solemn period. Sea men aro naturally superstitious, and on this occasion their minds had been wrought upon in a singular manner. Decorum is always observed by sailors at such times; but now they were all affected to tears, aud when the body was slid from the plank into the sea. every one rushed instinctively to the ship's side to take a last look. Tho usual weights had been attached to the feet, yet, as if iu compliment to their anxiety to see more of him, the body rose perpendicularly from the water breast-lush two or three times. This incident added sreatlv to the as tonishment already created in the minds of tho men. I bes leave to remark tha it was not proper to keep the body longer in the warm latitude we were in. "I have now given a short and very imperfect sketch of the important events attending the last illness and death of William Kemble. It is sub mitted to the ladies in this State, beg ging they will excuse haste and inaccu racy. The change procured upon the crew was ior a time remarkable. It appeared as if they would never smile or swear again. 1 he effect wore off by degrees, except when the subject wa. renewed. "W. Turk." UNDERTAKERS. How aud Why the Term Came to Be Applied to "Funeral Directors." The earliest known use of this word as applied to conductors of funerals is by Young, who has the couplet : While rival undertakers hover round, Aud witli his said the sexton marks tha Krouud. The present use of the word is no doubt derived from its primary mean ing, one who stipulates to do anything. or undertakes the management of any affair. Two hundred years ago a class of people known as UDholders veere usually called upon to take charge of the funerals Thus the poet Gay says : The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. ., una wiiu iiupuucacc ior me dying- breath. Xow. upholders were dealers in seeond-hand furniture, old clothes and the hke, and perhaps were so called oeirause they were so often resorted to as the last" resource of failincr credit. As these persons were abl frnm their stock of cheaply purchased matfrial to supply what was needed at funerals at less ex pense than the regular merchant nr haberdasher, the came to be thus em ployed, and also to furnish houses. In time the more ambitious of this class confined their business to the furnishing of houses only, and dealt in goods both new and old. and to avoid tho con founding of their business with that of me iuneral managers styled themselves upholsters, a name changed latter to upholsterers. Subsequently the more pretentious members of the clan of upholsterers assumed the name of undertakers, deriving the cognomen logically enough from the signification of its parts in the Saxon tongue. An undertaker, one who takes in hand a business or task, or renders himself responsible for its performance. Or perhaps the idea of the word was taken from the French name for th cama office, entrepreneur, though the primary idea of the French word is rather that of one who bids for a particular task. Clarendon, in his "History," gives the word with a general meaning in the line. "Antrim was naturally a great undertaker." Honeywood, in "The Good-Natured Man'r of Goldsmith, speaks thus of Croaker: "His yery mirth .is an antidote to all gayety, and his appearance has a stronger effect on my spirits than an undertaker's shop. St. Louis Globe Democrat. A German doctor claims to bar invented a machine for lookhsf into tfca brain. COCK-FIGHTING. How the ChJekea DUpatea of J0w F fathers Were Conducted. With all the antiquarian knowledge of the present day, we doubt whether one man in a thousand could give a tol erably accurate description of the cock fights of his forefathers. How cock fighting is conducted at present we do not pretend to know ; but ancient "cocking" hath its literature, and, be sides, the written word, there is consid erable tradition concerning it, which some of us are old enough to have re ceived from the very mouths of our parents. The first and most important point in cock-fighting wa3 the weight of the birds. In most agreements for a cock fight "articles for a cock-match" was the technical phrase it was stipu lated that no cock should weigh less than three pounds six ounces, or more than four pounds eight ounces. When the cocks of each side had been weighed, the next thing was to pair them. This was done by matching all the cocks on either side whoso weights came within one ounce of each other. The lightest par of cocks were always made to fight first, and then those gradually heavier, until the heaviest pair fought last. This venerable rule had been in use since the days of King Charles H. Although the cbmbs of the birds were always cut, they had to appear "with a fair hackle, not too near shorn, or out, nor with any other fraud." The spurs were usually of silver, at least in the great matches. " At the time ap- pointed f r the cock-fight to begin, the masters of the match" took their seats opposite to each other, on either side of the cock-pit, accompanied by two offi cials termed the "setters-to. Then the two "feeders" appeared, each carry ing a cock. After due examination, the birds were made over to the setters-to, and they handed them to the mvsters of the match, who started the fun by putting the cocks upon the mat on the floor of the cock-pit. The next par to the business the cocks manage! for themselves. The "noble sport" now began in earnest, and sometimes two good birds would fight until one cock had killed the other or thrashed him to helplessness. But not uncommonly after a sharp round, both cocks would suspend hostilities to gain breath, and, withdrawing to a little distance, each would watch the other in the hope of catching him in a careless or listless moment. For a short time this rather added to the excitement of the specta tors; but human patience soon became exhausted when two cocks stood solemnly eyeing each other. Now the limit of time for cocks to ogle without fighting was fixed at the interval during which an official, called "the teller of the law," could count forty. When this limit was passed, human science was brought to the assistance of the birds. The setters-to then caught them, and carrying them to the middle of the pit, "delivered them on their legs, beak to beak." If either of them had been blinded in the previous battle, their heads wore to be made to touch each other. If one cock refused to fight, he was tried ten times, and he had to re fuse to light as many times before he was considered beaten. It sometimes happened that the cock who would fight, died from his wounds before his adversary had refused tu times, and in that case tho craven bird was con sidered to have won the battle. Tho law further provided rules in case both cocks refused to fight, as well as in other cases which it is hardly necessary that we should enumerate; but they wero nearly all based on the principle that "the teller of tho law' should count forty, twenty or ten, according to circumstances, between the intervals of A the fights, It will be readily under stood, from this description, that a great part of a cock-fight was occupied by the setters-to squatting opposite to each other in the middle of the pit and "de livering the cocks on their legs, beak to beak." Cock-fighting was fashionable in Greece at least five hundred years B. C, and it was probably a very ancient sport iu China, where it is still highlx popular. In India, again, cock-fighting is an institution of very great an tiquity. Mr. Doyle, in his book on poultry, assumes that tho Britons prac ticed cock-fighting before the landingol Cu;sar, from the statement of that au thor to the effect that the Britons only reared their fowls for amusement. Both Henry VIII. and James I. were fond of "cocking;" Oliver Cromwell legislated against it, but Charles II. revived it. The Royal Cockpit at West minster, which was the head quarters of cock-fighting, was established by Henry VIIL., and even in tho present century mains have beon fought in it. Newmarket has been the scene of num berless cock-tights. Indeed, it may be said that for a long time eock-fightiug went hand-in-hand with racing, and it used to be reported in the official racing calendar, which was then called the Sporting Calendar. -Taking up the Sporting Calendar of 1775, we read that at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, during the race meeting the gentlemen of Durham and Northumberland fought a "main of cocks," consisting of thirty-eight battles, and ending in "a drawn main." It is said that 1,000 game-socks have been killed in fights during one week at Newcastle. The gentlemen of the same counties fought another main, at the Durham races of the same year, when Northumberland won. after thirty-four battles had been fought. Although the matches were sometimes made between individuals, it was more usual for the mains at races to be fought between cocks belonging to the gentlemen of two adjoining counties. Ten guineas each battle, and one or two hundred on "the odd," seem to have been the usual stakes; but there was an immense amount of bet ting, and the odds were calculated to a great nicety. Hoyle gives a table of odds which is quite'appalling. For in stance, he quotes one case in which the betting is 1 3,843.421-7.821.875 to 1 against a certain contingency. Mr. Dovle mentions a cock-fight in India for" "a lac of rupees (10,000)," but it is probable that more money has been lost and won over cock-fighting ir England than in any other country. London Saturday Review. Careless Letter Writers. Some facts and figures showing how careless many persons are appear in t Washington budget concerning the Dead Letter Office. The whole number of letters received during last year was 4,834.099, or an average of 15,675 for each working day. Of these 3,719,380 were sent to the Central Office because they were not called for at the postoffice to which they were directed, and 112, 648 were returned to the postoffices by hotel-keepers and thence sent to the Dead Letter Office because the departed guests for whom they were intended failed to leave a new address. Of the domestic letters opened, 18,387 con-. tamed money amounting to 33,70.17; 20,204 contained drafts, checks, money orders, etc., to the amount of $1,576,--948.13; 84,088 contained postage stamps . 34,390 contained receipts, paid notes, and canceled obligations of all sorts; 38,348 contained photographs, and 25,554 contained articles of merchan dise. Chicago Herald. In olden times drinking-mugs were hooped, to guage the allowance of guests using one tankard, or, as is written of the custom, "hoopes on quart pots were invented that every man should take his hoope and bo more." Catcaye Timet. ABOUT FLIES. A DIssertatloa Upon Their Orderly QaaA ties Why Bald-Headed Xea Have Rea son to be Thaahfal for Their SUsht IaSrsaity. So far as my researches on this im portant subject havo extended, I find thnt while there are innumerable races and varieties of the fly family, they are only divided into two great bodies, namely, the tramp, and the domestic fly. The former may be found more particularly on the street cars, attracted, doubtless, by the family market basket; but when the basket fails to material ize, he vents his spite on the passen gers in vicious attacks on every unpro tected portion of their cuticle. The tramp fly will board a car at tho Woods Run stables, and gather what cold victuals he can as far as Market street; here, if not satisfied, be leaves the car and goes around to the Oak land line, and, after a lengthy and leisurely ride, he eventually reached the East End. By this time lie is com pletely "gorged," but, that neighbor hood being too quiet for his playful disposition, he steals a ride on the Penu avenue car, makes connection again with the Union line, and soon is hung up for the night on the beams of the Woods Run stable. Occasionally, however, in thus sw'.ng.ug around the circle he get dazed, misses connec tions, gets into a strange tly roost, aud is lost sight of forever to his old asso ciates. The domestic lly is a different insect iu all his habits. ' No matter what the outside attractions may be. his motto is: "Be it ever so humble, there .s no place like home;" and. if the truth must be told, the humbler the homo the better he appears to like it. He loves to frequent board. ng houses and restaurants, but is content to hang up his hat in an ord nary dwell ng wlien the aforementioned resorts are bay oud his neighborhood. Longfellow, in his matchless pa tho. has compared trouble to a host of vultures who watch from a distance for a favorable opportunity to descend upon their prey, and the comparison holds equall good w th flies at meal-time. Ob-orve tlu'iu. as, in uncounted numbers, they promenade along the bouiex ard ov . rhe.nd, chatt tig with this ce ghbor and that over the latest fashions, or. perhaps, denouncing the scandalous action of Miss Shuony; but lo! the peaceful promenade or dis cussion suddenly cease, and a strange hush settles over Fh land. What does it mean? Simply that tho table is be 'ng drawn out for the evening repast Do they at once descend, in contem plation of the anticipated feast? Not by any means they wait for the appearance of the viands. Soon all is ready, and down comes a fly, then another, and another, till at last they take complete possession. They wade through the butter, go swimming in the milk, play hide-and-seek in the bread, and perform such a series of aut:cs, that in despair, tho head of the family arises grasps the fly-brush, swings it around v'gorously, and knocks a fly in the tea-cup of every one at the table. Upon this culmination of distress, all efforts at disposing the intruders ceases, and tho Hy reigns supreme. Before "clos'ng this homily I would like to correct a very prevalent, yet very erroneous idea, that bald-headed men are mom annoyed by llies than tlio?e who have been blessed with con siderable capillary adornment. On tho contrary, egg-topped ind'viduals are rarely troubled with t'.iem. I have made a special study of th s feature of the subject, and have noticed that where ordinary individuals expended a large portion of their time, temper and muscle in combating the ubiquitous insect, the bald-headed man has eu joyed almost complete immunity, and smiled serenely at the ridiculous gym nastics of his ne'ghbors. The reason for this is based on the aversion flies manifest for anything of a light color; their taste inclines them to sober hues, and therefore somber-headed people must bear the brunt of their attacks. Happy bald-heads! Pittsburgh Chron-ide-Telegraph. m REMARKABLE PHENOMENA. ElectrlcHl Dlarhitrce from Clouds ICe RriuMliif; Brilliant Firework. At about midnight on July 29 a re markable phenomenon was seen at Jonkopiug, Sweden, over Lake Wet tern. A strong luminosity was sud denly shown in the north where some ver3' peeul ar clouds looking hke ice bergs were seen almost to touch the water. From these clouds electrical discharges continually proceeded, im parling to them a bluish, phosphores cent light, somewhat ruddy near the water and intensely yellow at their sides. It seemed like a constant dis charge of fireworks from the lake. It was remarkable that the light as is generally the case w'th an electrical discharge in the atmosphere did not assume the form of bunches of stream ers, but at one time flared up intensely and at oilier times formed narrow bands across the clouds. Above the latter there was a faint bluish reflection. The lake lay as calm as a mirror, and though an optical illusion was uncom mon in these parts, the western shore seemed close to the town, while the eastern disappeared in the clouds. Ex cept the electricity-laden clouds in the. north the sky was cle..r. stars shone, and the full moon was bright. Below the latter the sky seemed faintly red. compared w'th the intense electric light At Katrineholm the same phe nomenon was seen in the northeast Here an intense glare was seen above a cloud, assuming the appearance of two gigantic lustrous'trees, which remained thus for half an hour, when it changed into a variety of forms. There mis no nohe accompanying the phenomenon, which lasted in both places for about an hour. It is not probable that the phenomenon could have been of auro ral nature on account of the bright ness under a lull moon. Mature. How Grant Encouraged an Aide. An old army officer told me to-day how General Grant once revived the flagging courage of pne of his stall officers. The latter, when he was first ass:gned to duty under General Grant, had never been in anv serious cnae mcut. Almost the first day that he reported to Grant he was placed under a fire of the hottest and most severe kind. The screaming of the balls, the roaring of the eaunon and the sharp crack and rattle of the musketry thoroughly demoralized him. He be came absolutely sick and paralyzed with fear. He was so weak from nerv ous excitement that he lost physical control over himself. Grant came up at the very climax of his fright, anil noticing His pale face, his blue lips and chattering teeth, he said: "Cap tain, you are frightened. That is natural enough. Yon will get over it Suppose." continued Grant "I should come to you with a hat containing ninety-nine white beans and one black one, 'and I should ask you to thrust your hand into the hat at'a venture and pick out the black bean; do you think your chance of getting that black bean would be very good? Well, yonr chance for being hit under this fire is ho greater than your chanca for draw ing the black bean." This officer at once' took heart, and from then on ho never showed the slightest sign of fear. .V. T. Wtrld. OF GENERAL INTEREST. A Dakota farmer claims to bar raised seventeen bushels of wheat in three years from one grain of seed. Hot water at the depth. of eight hundred feet has been discovered in an artesian well at Sierra Valley. Cal. Fifteen hundred telephone instru ments in Buffalo, N. Y., are supplied with electricity made by the water power ot Niagara rails. In bu Ming the main drainage works iu Boston 50.000,000.000 bricks and 180,000 casks of cement were used. The total cost of these works was 5,213.000. It is estimated that New Yorkers spend no less than $3,000,000 in sum mer recreation everv year. Of this, ( Sl.OOO.OQO goes to Newport and another ; ' 91.UOO.O0O to Long Branch. ' England does oae-tirrd of the ' - oanking business of the world. The Bank of England holds one seventeenth : of ail the deposits of Great Br.tain. I The total amount held is. in round ! numbers. S27.000.000.000. A report of a baso-baU game says: j 'Larkins knocked Fulton, the new ! pitcher, all over the field." This must have been an agreeable change for the amp-re. It is a long lane that has no , turn ia it N. Y. Independent. i Over two thousand business men n New York City have been swindled tjy a tuap-publishor who went around gathering up five dollar b lis and prom ising to insert pictures of bus ness houses in u r.i r wh c'i was never is sued. Big tass ! v.-.i.e put by a Memph's woman on thu r.;'S o: her hors aud a broad ribbon bow on his tail, iu order to decorate him to her satisfaction for equestrian use; but he Lked the adorn ments so little that he ran away and threw hex o!F. nearly killing her. Oue of the best colored barbers in Philadelphia is said to be a colored woman who work's iu her husband's shop. She is an octoroon, with largo black eyes, and she has a pleasant smile for all her customers. She keeps her razors in the very best condition and has many regular customers. The vorthle.sness of the murdered man was the only plea made by a Wy oming lawyer in defense of his client who had del.berately shot a bar-room bully for merely annoying him. The Judge said that the argument was un sound in law, but the jury let it justify, to their minds, a verd ct of acquittal. A jot for the thousands who sell and the thousands who buy tha fabric ment'oned herewith appears: "Alpaca goats have been discovered in Asia Minor whoso hair excels that of the South Ainer can alpaca, and a very silky, joft alpaca fabric results from its manufacture." Philadelphia Press. A Vancouver schoolma'am visited Portland. Oregon, some time since to have some dental work done. She acted so qtieerly after taking some chloroform that -4ie wa-s accused of being insane, and'was held in confine ment for a considerable period as a lunat c, untl she could prove the facts in the case. A few daws ago Mrs. J. W. Mad dox, of Wilkes County. Georjjia, found a silver :!i mh'e in the gizzard of a frying sized chicken. The thimble was as bright as when in came from the jeweler. The chicken seemed to suf fer no inconvenience, and was as game as if it had nothing but grit and plenty of it in its gizzard. There was submitted to the Com missioner of Indian Affairs a request from a K-'owa Indian studying at Lin coln University. Pennsylvania, to bo ad i iv t ted to cH'zenship. He was in formed in reply that it could be done o.'ily by some act of the general Gov ernment The fact that Indians are born in the country docs not make them c'tizens. A new food fraud has recently been deteete I by a French chemist On ex amin ug a sample of preserved to mato, he found that it contained but little of that vegetable, the remainder being chiefly eomposed of carrots and pumpkins, colored with some analiue dye. We should think it would be quite as cheap to put up the genuine ar t:cle. .V. Y. Examiner. The ptrase "a wheel within a wheel" undoubtedly had its origin in the B b!c. In Ezek". i. 16 we find the expression, "a wheel in the middle of a wheel." The revisers of the Bible have ail opted the popular phrase "a wheel within a wheel, whether as a more correct transcript of the original or in deference to the common phrase is known only to themselves. A Belfast gentleman and wife were riding out oue day recently and stopped at a house on North port avenue and asked for a drink of milk. The young lady in formed hiiuthat they had only skimmed urlk. tvhieh the gentlem.iii sad .would do. After drink':ii; the man insisted upon pay ng for it. but the voting lady rofneil. She liually said: "We want no pav.Wi irive sk'iuuied milk to pigs." Uelj'asl Journal. For years Americans have been in the halt t when abroad of buying suits of clothe-, thereby s:iv:ng from ten to fortv per cent. Now. t is .-aid. tiie import -t on to New York of Engl sh made u-ts on private orders is a big business. The clothes are delivered at the door of :.'ie purchaser, who is put to no trouble at the custom house, and the priee is f enerally two-tlrrds that charged by American taUors. An agent t.ikes the measure, and satisfac tion is guaranteed. Uotton Transcript. "Sing a Sonj; of Sixpence" is as old as Hie- sixteenth century. "Three Bl'nd Mice" is found in a music book dated IG'XJ. "The Frog and the Mouse" was licensed in 1580. "Three Children Sliding on the lee" dates from 16:53. "London Br dge is Broken Down" is of unfathomed antiquity. "G.rls and Bovs Come out to Play." is certainly old as the reign of Charles II. : as is also "Lucy Locket Lo-t her Pocket" to the tune of which thn American song of "Yankee Doodle" wa written. "Piiss Cat. Pussy Cat Where Have You Been?" is of the age of Queen Bess. "Little Jack Horner' is older than tho seventeenth centurv. How Plug Hats Are Made. To make the silk stove-pipe hats a large square of muslin is dipped into shellac, wrung out and then stretched over a wooden frame to dry. After drying it is cut up into sizes aud shapes suitable for the various parts of the hat Some pieces are cut on the bias for the crowns of hats, others are stiif oited particularly for the brims, while th" muslin for "the central cylinders, wh ch are the aides, is cut Into oblong squares. The material for a dozen of these hats is then given to a workman, who draws the frame of the hat to- f other around the block and fastens it y means of a hot iron. The shell of the hat, as it is called, is then var n'shed and dried, making it stiff, and then the silk plush is put on, a man ironing it to the shellac-covered shell and sp'ong-ng it with every stroke of the iron. Girls sew iu the crown and the briu after the sides of the shell have been fastened, aud then the seams are gone over with a hot Iron, which conceals all traces of them. The brim is then curled, as in the case of the felt j article aud then the hat goes away to ' the luering machine, where polish brushes, revolving rapidly, give it a high polish. From the luering Ma chine it goes to the hands of a girl, who trims it and puts is tha lining. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. There are in England 187 raggea. schools which are attended by 50,000 children. The Presbytery of San Francisco has organized "a Presbyterian Church whose members consist entirely of Jap anese Christians, resident in the city. There is. said to be not a single evangelical .missionary in the whole, valley of the Aniason, and that a gospel sermon has never been preached in all that territory. M Y. Post. Rev. Dr. W. B- Davis, pastor of the Zion Baptist (colored) Church.of Louis ville. Ky., has resigned at the request of his congregation, who alleged that he did not preach loud enough nor with suffie'ent fervor to make them happy. Louisville Courier-Journal. Among those who have joined the Roman Catholic Church since the be ginning of -the Oxford movement are enumerated 36 lords. 25 baronets, 902 graduates of Oxford, 149 graduates of ambridge. 142 armv officers. 92 law yers, 48 doctors and 1,010 ladies of aristocratic stations. Rev. N. J. Cushing. D.D., of Bur mah. arrived at San irancisco a few days since. It is about twenty years since he left this country for the mis s'onary field, and nine years since his first return. He has done a great work in the translation for the Shan people of the entire Word of God. .V. Y. In dependent. Irreverent jokers put a gallon of whisky into the baptistry of an Indiana church, after the water had been fixed for the immersion of a reformed drunkard. But their trick was turned to serious account by the victim, who. standing on the edge of the tank in his dripping robe, described the outrage to the congregation and delivered a ring ing speech for total abstinence. --in-dianapolis Journal. The great defect even of our best teachers, and clergy as well, is this living in a rut No man or woman is great or good enough to dispense with the broadening and beneficent influence of everyday physical nature and the mighty university of human life. So be wise, and use the golden hours for thorough ventilation of mind imagina tion, sympathies, sense and souL Journal of Education. In England a parent can be prose cuted for the non-attendance of his child at school, and ohildren must bring the penny school fee everv Monday. The father of a child who did not bring his penny on two successive Mondays was summone 1 for "non-attendance?' and the Lord Chief Justice held that the attendance of a child without the fee constituted no attendance under the by laws of the School Board. The system carried out in Vienna for educating girls is certainly worthy of notice. They are kept at their studies until they are fifteen' years of age. They then go through a course of teaching iu the pantry and the kitchen under some member of the family, or sometimes un der tra'ned cooks for a year or two years. Thus they learn to do every thing themselves, and to know the val ue of things long before they commence house-keeping on their own account; and though they may never bo required to cook a d nucr, they become inde pendent of cooks and servants. it. Y. Sun. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. For truly deep feeling let me call your attention to a negro waiter who has to stand by while the hotol guest whom he is serving oats watermelon. lltica Obcrvr. One cause of the throat and lung trouble in this country is the fact that all of us sing so much and so sweetly. Neitncr the thro it nor the lungs wero intended to stand such strains. Detroit Free Press. Sweet nuisauce "Xo; the scene of The Mikado1 is not laid in Ireland. It isn't pronouueed that way. anyhow. See here! Ain't you the girl that asked us if ragout wa the French for putting on your best clothes?" Boston Post. Enraptured young woman, gazing upward (to young newspaper man) What a wonderful thing is space? Do you ever contemplate its im mensity? Young newspaper man Indeed, I do. I have a column of it to fill every day. N. Y. Sun. An exchange asks: "Why wasn't the spring chicken chosen as an em blem of this country?" We can not answer with auy degrea of exactness, but suppose tho fathers of the country . were not familiar with antediluvian ornithology. Roxbury Advocate. It is reported that the maple, here tofore a healthy tree, is dying of a mysterious disease. This is nature's way of removing what is no longer of use, since dealers in "maple sugar" now sell a compouud composed largely of the settling of molasses casks. Bos ton l'raveller. Verasopht You are lookinir charm ing to-night, Estelle. Es telle Charm ing is too cold a word. Verasopht Then I'll call you "lemons." Estelle Lemons, sir! Do you mean to insult mo? Verasopht My darling, you do not read the papers or you would know that lemons are very, very dear. Phil adelphia Call. A California chap has caused the arrest of two young ladies, who, he al leges, waylaid and robbed him. As he is a dude who has neither money nor brains, it is difficult to decide what they could steal from him. Perhaps they wanted to measure his head so they could get a pattern for a pincushion. Newman In-le ,cndenl. "What tine evenings these are for studying natural history." "Yes." "Last night about sunset "l was struck by the similarity between my six-year-old and the house-flies. I was trying to drive the flies out of the house and coax the boy in. They all moved at pre cisely the same rate of speed and with just 'the same amount of dodging. Chicago Tribune. "My dear Mr. Fitzsniffle. Miss Jones aud I have had quite a discussion and we have agreed to let you decide. Which is entitled to the palm of excel lence. Keats or Shelley?' "Well, weally. Miss Brown, I would rather -not undertake to decide that question. My acquaintance with both the gentlemen is very limited. The fact is, they don't belong to my set, you know. Milwaukee Sentinel. How to Eat a Watermelon. To be properly enjoyed the perfect watermelon should be pounced on in the patch just after sun up. It should be carefully selected. In response to an eager thun there should follow a dead and meaty sound and the melon should weigh not less than twenty five pounds. After it is pulled it should be split from end to end with a short bladed pocket knife, so that in tearing it open the glowing and juicy heart, bursting loose from its confinement, should find a lodgement on one side only. At this point the kaife is to be fang away. 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