Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1885)
- ! 'tyvv 'vi?i;'5rt" v -"v ; v'vs :.-$:? -j": Fy ttf. l ' I THE JOtJRNAL. ISSUED EVKUY WEDNESDAY, M. J. TUTKSTER &, CO. Proprietors and Publishers. it F AatatTMMICi w r.- EfTBmaiaooo and prof tonal cardn of'ATO linos or looa.por aaaum, firo dollars. ISr Tor time advertisements, applr at this office. ftSTLsgal advertisements at statists rates. t3TFor transient adverUaing,se rates oa third page. l-sTAll advertisements payable aaoathly. . I J - Sk " &T OFFICE, Eleventh St., up stair h Journal Building. fc H -r e k m s : Per year.... Six mouths. Three months . .Single copies . I S VOL. XVI.-N0. 31, COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1885. WHOLE NO. 8U. w-. itjt- BSBBBBBBBBBBBBBtB BsV mm - V ! ' i - 2-' .1 v s - Hi;. COLUMBUS STATE BANK! " .UMBTJS, NEB. CAiSU C VITAL, - $75,000 DIKKCTOKS: IjKandcii shbakd, Preset. Geo. v- Hclst, Vice l'ru't. Jul a. Reed. 11. : TlENItY. 1 K. Task Eh, Cashier. Hun It Bcif.It, IMmcombi CcII'jcSlorj-l'romptly Made nil Ptfini. iy IiiIci-ckJ om Tim Iee !. 274 HENRY LITERS, DKAI.Ki. IK WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. 1 limps Repaired on short lolice SSTOiip lno- west of Heintz's Drug Store, lllli Street. Columbus, Neb. S HENRY G-ASS, TJISTID ERTAXEE ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DKAI.KU IN Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus. Tables, Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. tSTItcpairing f all kinds of Upholstery Goods. C-tf KMLITMIIUS. NEB. Happiness results from M.at true contentment which indicates pi feet health of body and mind. You may r scs it, if you will purify and iuvionue j jur blood with Ayer's Sarsa parilla. V.. 31- Howard, Newport, X. H., writes : I suffered for years with Scrof ulous humors. After using two bottles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, I Found great relief. It has entirely. restored me to health." Jair.es French, Atchison, Kans., writes: "To all persons suffering from Liver Ccmplaint. I would 6trongly recom mend Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I was afflicted with a disease of the liver for nearly two years, when a friend advised me to take this mi iiciue. It gave prompt relief, and has cured me." Mrs. II. 31. Kidder, 41 DwigLt st., ttostou, Mass., writes : " For several ve.i. - I have used Ayer's Sarsa parilla in l-y family. I never feel safe, even Home Ml without it. As a liver medicine and general pur of the blood, it has no equal." 3Ir&. A. B. Allen, "Winterpock, Va., Trltfs: '-My youngest child, two year of age,'vss taken with Bowel Com plaint, wLicii we could not cure. We tried many remedies, but he continued to grow worse, and - nally became so reduced In flesh that wc cculd only move him upon a pillow. It vas suggested by one of the doctors that Scrofula might le the cause of the trouble. "We procured a bottle of AYSB'S Sarsaparilla and commenced giving it to him. Irsurely worked wonders, for, in a short time, he was completely cured." Sold by all Druggists. Price $1; Six bottles, 95. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Aver &. Co., Lowell, Mass., U. S. A. FARMERS HOME. This House, recently purchased by me, will be thoroughly refitted. Board by the day, week' or meat. A few rooms to let. A share of the public patronage is solicited. Feed stable in connection. 2-3 Albert Ltjtu. tLYON&HEALY I State A Monroe Sts.. Chicago. VTillml trrtiaU to uTtMn tl AND CATALOGUE, I I far isss. apn zl bmo I w KlnnmU. suiu, p. ll. i SunJ- Dram X!S Su9. u4 ,rsitm. tp.u. irai.&iiii I'lUli- SinJr lUnJ (Hicu. Ktralrlw ;Mittbh.ftlIu,l.Ic In titloa as4 Ex- pwil II for Awmtrcr lft.h. aJ a A PRIZE. Send six cents for postage. and receive free, a costly box of goods which will help you to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely ' sure. At once address, Tans Co., Augusta, Msiae. ' THE MADRID HOSPITAL. Description of aVUJt to the Cholera Hos pital at the Spanish Capital. The iirstr wards we catered were those of the convalescents. They consisted of two large, liht and airy rooms, beautifully clean as, indeed, the whole of the hospital was), iu tho lirst of which were about six or seven men sit ting about mid seemingly doing nothiug but pasaiug the time away by chatting. They looked to mc quite well, though mostly very thin. It was a novel sight to see so many poor Spaniards in so re markable a state of cleanliness. I ex pect it was the only parrof their treat ment they found unpleasant the baths. There is no door between the men's and women's wards, and we merely had to step through a doorway innocent of cur tain or anything. I saw just about the frame number of women, some of them, poor things, looking very ill iadooi. Their iace8wea'atpale, but thin and drawn. Ona 'pleasant looking girl I asked how she was. "Very tired, very weak, but getting belter.'' If it had not been for the assurance of the nurse, I should have thought she was dying. He said that in one or two days at most all these cases would be discharged. Just as I was about to leave the ward, in came a sister with the afternoon's chocolate. It was worth while to see the way in which she "was welcomed. The patients adore the good sifters, and not without a reason. Before leaving the convalescent ward I was shown a poor little fellow whoe father and only brother has been swept away ' r the disease, aud the little chap left "ak 1 1 His mother had long been dead. The boy seemed quite a pet in the ward, and'was evidently well satis tied with his present quarters. Coming out of the ward, we turned sharp round to the left and entered room N". 2. This was a long, narrow room, along one side of which were ranged twenty beds, each one tenanted by a man. These were bad cases, and all teemi'd in quite a stupor. One thing I must not omit to notice. On entering this ward I had removed my hat. One man, who seemed iu the last stage of exhaustion, and who was lying staring at us with fixed, glassy eyes, slowly and with a painful effort raised his band to his head, and took off a sort of skull cap he was wearing. Polite are these people to the last, Three or four beds further on I noticed, close together, two beds, in which were the two worst cases. The men were a terrible sight. Their lips were the color of old parchment, their eyes closed, seemingly unconscious, and dreadfully, terribly thin. Their cheek bones seemed almost as if the1 would start through their faces. "To-day," said the nurse, "they die." And I thought they would be glad enough to do so from their appearance. On reaching the cud of this ward we turned again to the left into a square room, in which were a few women, all very ill. In one corner of the room I saw a little cot. it was tenanted uy quite a j'ouug infant I should think not more than nine or twelve months old. It had been in the hospital for over twenty days, and, poor child, bore traces of having suffered very much. One of its arms was lying outside the coverlet, and looked like a little stick of wood. To me this, little waif, lying there alone and in such a state, was &o most painful sight in the whole hospital, and I do not mind confessing why should I? that for a moment I had to bite my lips pretty hard, and choke down something that would have been very malapropos in a person viewing the cases in quite a professional capacity. In this ward I had a chat with one of the sisters, a bright, bonny woman, whose very presence must have been of, one would think, as much efficacy as the physic. After my chat I was conducted up a large staircase to see the six new cases which had come in and been put to bed. They were all girls, and all in mates of the orphan school here; one oi two of them seemed to be iu pain, con vulsively lifting their arms and drawing up their legs. Here was another sister, who gave me at some length the treat ment to which patients arc subjected and the symptoms by which cholera is told. As these are pretty well known I shall not repeat them here, except per haps to mention that for six days a per son ill of cholera is kept without any food whatever beyond a little tea and warm rum Cor. Fall Mall Qiizelte. OILING A CRANK. Hew a V'iile-Awaka KnKiucer Cur! Squrakin "KiiKlne." The palatial steamer Mary Powell was on her daily trip up the Hudson. A number of passengers had gathered around the open door of the engino room, looking with interest" abt he move ments of the ponderous machinery. Among the passengers was Sam Foster, a New- York gentleman, who is a prac tical joker. He is a young man of means and was elegantly dressed. Ho is moreover a very good amateur ven triloquist. ' " 'Now, boys," said Foster, 'let us have some fun with the engineer." A creaking, squeaking noise wan heard among the machinery. The engineer was-somewhat startled, and he lubri cated various and -sundry parts of the machinery with great industry and an oil can. The latter contained half a pint of oil. Foster nudged one of his boon com panions in the ribs, ami prettv soon the aiachinery squeaked again. Once more the engineer calmed down a suspected ?iston by anointing it with his alleviator, he squeaking still continued, and Fos ter pointed out the place that needed oiling. Once more the engineer took his alleviator, and removing the cork, poured the contents down the back of the festive Foster, and over his forty dollar suit of dollies. "There," said the engineer, "I don't think that crank will squeak again in a hurry."-'-Team Sifting. A sad case occurred at Jersey City one day recently. Benjamin Ger- aarat, a young oermaa, was going home at the invitation of an aged and unhealthy aunt; who had sent for him for the purpose of making him her heir. Gerhardt became sick on the jonrney from the West and was unconscious when the train reached Jersey City. He never recovered, andhis - name and history were learned from a letter of in troduction to a citizen of Hoboken, which was found in his baggage. N. Y. Tribune. i With regard to the popular notion of the disappearance of American trees, it may not be idle'to notice the wonder ful change for' the better in. all Western villages during the last twenty-five years. The number of trees grown in a .quarter of a century must be enormous, and must in itself exert a climate ia iaesw. Chiea9 CwrrmA. WAITERS. How They- are Trained la Most Earopeas I'utmtries.. A Tribune reporter, who was taking lunch in one of Delnionieo's down-town restaurants the other day, noticed a waiter who served an -American, a Frenchman and a German within a few minutes and answered the questions put by each in his own tongue with the great est facility. Of course thisjs not unusual in 'cstaurants of the best class in New York. But the reporter was prompted to -hat a little with the waiter when the latter was at leisure. He began with tht remark: ' I presume that waiters have to be pretty well acquainted with languages?" OK yes," was the reply, "tbat is, if they want to hold a good position. A fellow that doesn't know anything but English finds it mighty hard to get a position in New York, except in a ten eect restaurant. And .it's the -cheap fellows that ruin the business, too. That's why the people get to look down on waiters" so. They see these fellows that don't half understand their busi ness in these cheap basement restau rants, and they condemn them all as ordiuary fellows. Now there is just as much difference between a waiter in a first-class restaurant and one in a Blcecker street bean shop as bctwen a merchant prince and a peanut vender. Yet people seem to think them all alike. "Now, in Europe," ho continued, "boys are trained to be waiters just as they arc here trained to the different professions. When a boy is, say about thirteen or fourteen, after he has gotten a common-school education, he is ap prenticed to some restaurant or hotel- keeper. The first year or so he is kept iu the cellar washing bottles, or doing work connected directly with the kitchen, as for instance, killing and cleaning fowls, etc. Then he gets ac quainted with the different grades of wiues. studies somewhat of book-keeping and learn's the different things that belong to his profession. Then he be gins to serve as an under-waiter. Or, as is frequently the case, a man, say a hotel-keeper, wants to train up his boys to the profession. After going through an apprenticeship, he will send them to the different cities of Europe .so they may learn the customs and manners of the different people." "Rather an expensive thing," the re porter suggested, "Not very," the waiter replied, "but then they are not making money during those two or three years they may be away. Of course you know that many of the hotels in Europe are different from those here. Here there is a head clerk or bookkeeper who has charge of all accounts, makes out 'bills and so forth. Now there the waiters do all that. That's why they study bookkeeping. You see when a family occupies a room or rooms one waiter serves them with meals, takes care of checking baggage, makes out all bills of expense, in short has in charge everything connected with the guests.' "There's one bad thing about it," he resumed after a reflective pause, "in Eu'-opo waiters cau'tget married." "Can't get married?" 'Well, they can't get positions if they do. And again they don't want a man over forty. So at forty you see a waiter is practically laid on the shelf." "It's rather hard on them," the reporter remarked by way of a stimulant "Yes, and then a fellow can't do much better here. Now say a man gets $30 a month besides his food. If he has a family, as I have, he has a pretty tough- time of it I pay $14 out of that for rent But then I know fellows, good waiters, who make as much as $15 or $20 a week. The' work during the day at some down town restaurant and putin the evening at some fashionable place up town." How about fees?' "Well, waiters depend a good deal on that. In an iirst-class restaurant the customers are generally pretty liberal. It's just like you saying to theexpress man: 'I want my trunk taken up stairs,' and in addition to twenty-five cents for cxpressage you drop him ten or fifteen cents extra for his extra work. Waiters all expect fees. And their sal aries are so little that they need them." -27.Y. Tribune. i m SALMON CANNING. Hot J corse Francis Train Started Ore , Ron's Great Industry. 1 he salmon catching industry in Ore-gor- is attributed altogether to a sugges lioi of that queer genius, George Fran cis Train. Some years ago Train was to t eliver a lecture in Portland, and in the afternoon before he was to speak en saged in salmon fishing. He met with great success, and was amazed at the qu? ntity of the great fish in the river. He could talk of nothing else, and beg ged the lecture committee wbic.li had engaged him to allow a substitution of salmon for the subject of his address in place of. the-one announced. This the committee would not agree to, and Train began the speech announced in lhe advertisements. He got . .along very well for half an hour or so, and then the attraction" of the theme uppermost in his mind proved too much for him. He left his original subject and began to talk about salmon. 'He drew a salmon an the blackboard; ne declared that the people before him were neglecting a mine of wealth- close beside them; he told them that they ought to begin salmon-canning at once; that it was the coming great industry of the region; and that if they did not move quickly in the matter others would come in and seize the prize. He be came eloquent and the lecture ended in a grand, wordy panorama shewing a salmon-colored" futore for the country. One or two men in the audience, though discounting Train's prophecies, were impressed with his ideas, and resolved to carry them out 'in a -practical way. They organised a -company, and the salmon-canning'industry was begun. ChicsiQO Tribune. A new sugar is bow obtained from the seeds of LaurvapenctL,. tree grow ing in the tropica. This 'sugar has, on previous occasions,, been noticed by chemists, bet was supposed by them to be minute.- It is extracted-by boiling alcohol, from which it crystallizes on cooling. Dr. H. S. Lucas, of Chester, the dis coverer of the emery mines there and the corundum mines In the BluePidge Mountains of North Carolina and Georgia, has been searching for more than forty years. Pittsburgh Post. Thel' observations of Prof. C. P. Langley'have convinced him that there has been a mistaken .conception of the color of the sunlight. It has been sup posed to lie white, while in reality i' blue. (McvUmL WISDOM. Apaerismi Whose Truth It Yladieated , Kverjr-Dajr Ufa. There is a great deal of intellectual Activity that is nothing better than idle curiosity; like the fly, ibionly anibi:oa Is to buzz and get into things. The great art in getting rich is not in saving money, but knowing how to spend it Don't mistake stupidity for patience: patience is the humilitv of wisdom. Any one may commit a blunder, but no one but a fool is bit twice by the same dog. The man whom idleness don't lead into mischief is cither a very pure or a very stupid one. Nature makes her own laws, but caa't break ono if she tries. Economy is a kind of natural wealth; it is money ever at interest To give so as to bestow a favor and not create an obligation is a delicate art J The more ideas -ay man has ?ot the fewer words he takes to express them. Wise men never talk to make time; they talk to save it Experience costs more than it is worth, but most people refuse to learn at any less price. Advice, just at present, is the greatest drug in the .market, the supply has ruined the demand. Lies are like certain horses; they can travel farther in ono day than they can get back in two. Take all the fun out of this world and every pound of life would weigh ten. You can buy a dog for two dollars and a half, but there isn't money enough in the world to buy the wag of his tail. The poor are more extravagant than the rich, and this is just what keeps them poor; for the sake of one feast they are willing to starve three days. A suit of clothes that tits a man per fectly is worth more to him than a ped igree tnat tits mm indifferently. wisuoni wunout learning is like a sword without a handle, and learning without wisdom is like a handle without a sword. Reform! ! is the battle-cry of civili zationreform for others, immunity for ourselves. The ridiculous side of life goes far toward making it endurable. A fool may possibly amuse others, but he can't amuse himself. Beware of the man who listens much and talks little; he is getting your thun der and saving his own lightning. A peacock's pedigree is all in the spread of his tail; a wet day takes the glory out of it " Condensation is almost omnipoten t, single words are autocrats, and a sen tence is law for all mankind. Men are very vain of their opinions, and yet there is scarcely any two of them who think alike. What the world wants just now is less civilization and more of the virtues. Beware of the man of a few words; ho always has something in reserve. Truth can travel to the end of the earth all alone, but a lie must have com pany to keep up its courage. Religion is most excellent to mix with business, but to mix business with religion is not safe. We get our vices from each other, but our virtues by cultivation. My friend.'does it pay to bo a great manr xou must oo nateu by some, feared by mauy, and. at best, envied by all. Labor will buy anything that is in the market Pedigrees seldom improve by age. Vice and virtue began life together, and will leave the world when the last man does. Wisdom can afford to go slow; but if a fool doesn't run ho is sure to get left. The man who is ever muttering to himself is talking to a fool. The man who has no superstitions loses half the pleasuresof life. Honesty, like charity, begins at home: the raau who is not honest with himself can not be with others. Century. SHE WAITED. A Detroit Woman Who Wanted to See a Square Fight. The other day a dog which was fol lowing a carriage turned aside and ran into a yard on Park street He might have expected to pick up a fall and win ter stock of bones, but in this he was disappointed. He was about turning away when a dog owned in the house Hew out and rushed upon him in the most reckless manner, and in the course of ten seconds there was a bite-as-bite-can contest of the fiercest description. A woman considerably past the prime of life came out of the house as the dogs rolled around, picked up a club lyingon the grass near by, and seemed about to enter the struggle. She raised the club two or three times, but let it fall as oft, and finally stood an interested spectator of the light Among the dozen pedestrians halting at the gate was a man who called out: "Say! stop 'em stop em!" m The woman raised her club, but hesi tated to strike. "Why don't you stop 'em?" shouted the man. "I'm waiting," sherenlied. "For what ? Don't you see they'll kill each other?" "i'm waiting to see how it comes out. If my dog can lick him it's all right If he gets the bulge on Rover I'll eyen up the chances with this club." . Rover -got a nrck-hold and shook the stranger until his yells were heard a block away, and when he was finally permitted to sneak off the woman ftan? down.her club and mounted the steps with the remark: "Nobody nor nothing has been killed as I knows on, and every one of you could see that it was a square tight, and victory for the best dog. Please don't rub the paint off that gate." Detroit Free Press. He Remembered Well. "And you pretend to say," remarked a lawyer to a witness, "that you re member the exact words this man said to vou ten vears ago?" "I do." " "Well if my memory serves me, I met you at Saratoga about five years ago and 1 should like to know if you can"swear to any expression which' I then made." "I can." "Now, Mr. J., I want you to remem ber that you are under oath. Now, un der oath, you swear that you can quote with great accuracy a remark I made to you at Saratoga five years ax?" "I can." "Well, what was it?" "You mei me iu the hotel corridor. "Yes, quite correct" "And you shook hands with me." "Naturally I did." "And you said to me: 'Let's go and take something.' " The crier of the court had to call si lence for ten minutes, and the lawyer confessed that the witceas had a remark able mum oty.Botto JfemaL UNCLE ESEK'S National Bank! COX.X7 xr m : Aitfctricei Capital. -Pud Ii Capital, Sirplis aid Proits, - $250,000 60,000 13,000 OmCUS AND DIRBCTOK8. A. ANDERSON, Prett. SAM'L C. SMITH, VicePrei't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. J. W. EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER, O. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreira and Inland Exchange. Passice Tickets, aaa Real Estate Loans. Z9-TOI-1S-1V D.T. Maktyn, M. D. F.J. Schug, M.D. Dr.. KABTYff SCHUG, U. 8. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. A B. H. and B. A M. R. It's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. CTOffice on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. 42-y TIT M. COKMKIJUW, LA W AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. C. . EVANS, 91. D., PHYSICIAN AND SVRGEON. (STOffice and rooms, Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone commun. cation. TTASf lLTON 91EA1E, M. IK, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. 9.y F. F. KUIVNEK, M. IK, HOMCEOPATHIST. Ckremie Biswas sutd Biswases m! Ckildiwm a Specialty. CirOflice on Olive street, three, doors north of First National Bank. 2-ly TT J. IHJIWOIV NOTARY PUBLIC, 2th Street, S doors west of Ilssmoaa Mease, CoJuwi&u. Neb. 491-y J G. REEDEK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf MONEY TO BjOAN. Five years' time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth the acrease under cultivation, in sums representing one third tbe fair value of tbe homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, M.K. TURNER, 50-y Columbus, Ncbr. V. A. MACKEN, DKALER IN Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars., llth street, Columbus, Neb. 50-y rcALI.I8TER BROS., A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Office upstairs in McAllister's build ing, llth St. W. A. "McAllister, Notary Public. JOHN TIMOTUf, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kinds of legal forms. Iusurcs against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centei. 19-x J. M. MACFARLAND, AHcrcir ul Votary PibPe. B. K. COWDBRY, Collietor. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFARLAND Columbia, COWDBRT, Nebraska. a. a. ifiAUOUAN, . Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. ty Parties desiring surveying done can notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. 51-Cm JOHN G. JUGGINS. C. J. GARLOW, Collection Attorx cy. HIGGDI&&GABLOW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made Oarlow. of Collections by C.J. 34-3m T B.RU8CHE, 'llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAMES SAfLMOrt, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. T B. LAWMENCE, IDEPUTYO. SURVEYOR. Will do general surveying in Platte and adjoining counties. Inquire at the Court House. COLUMBUS, NKBRASKA. 17-tf -VTOTICE TOXEACHEMS. J. B. Ifoncrlef, Co. Bupt., Will be in his office at the Court House oa the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for tbe transaction of aay other business fartainin to schools. Nfi-y J. S. MURDOCH. & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Have had an extended experience, aad will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call aad give us as oppor ;"" estimate lor you. ra"saop oa oh, oae aoor wist of Triedaef bus, Nebr. afJ-y ws. stare, Uel UNLUCKY DAYS. 'Fatal" Friday la Cowawttea With Aassafr aa History. Among all the superstitions few are so' incomprehensible as the belief c la lucky aad unlucky days. We have a friend of more than ordinary general intelligence and business capacity, who can .not be persuaded to start upon a journey or undertake an enterprise on Friday. He will not listen to argument or heed ridi cule; he knows what he knows. But as he is a man who takes great interest ia the history of his-country, perhaps if he should study a recapitulation ef lucky days in the American calendar, he might be cured of his prejudice. For the benefit of all who may sympa thize with our friend, we avad onrself of a Kentuckian's research, to show how great cause we Americans have to dread the fatal day. OaFriday. Augusts. 1493, Cariatoaaer Columbus sailed on his groat voyage of discovery. On Friday, October 12, 1492, he frit discovered land. On Friday, January 4, 1493, he sailed on his return to Spain, which, if he had not reached in safety, the happy results would have never be known which led to the settlement of this vast continent On Friday, March 15, 1493, he arrived at Palos in safety. On Friday, November 22, 1493. he ar rived at Hispaniola on his second voy age to America. On Friday, June 13, 1494, he, though unknown to himself, discovered the con tinent of America. On Friday, March 5, 1496, Henry VII. of England, gave to John Cubot his commission, which led to the discovery of North America. This is the first American State paper in England. On Friday. September 7. 1565, Me lenderfounded St. Augustine, the old est settlement in the United States by more man iorty years. On Friday, November 10. 1620. tho Mayflower, with the Pilgrims, made the harbor of Provincetown. On the same day was signed that august contract, the forerunner of our present glorious Constitution. On Friday, December 22. 1620. the Pilgrims made their final landing on Plymouth Rock. On Friday, June 16, 1775, Bunker Hill was seized and fortified. On Friday, October 7. 1777, the sur render of Saratoga was made, which bad such power and influence in inducing France to declare for our cause. On Friday, September 22. 1780, the treason of Arnold was laid bare, which savod us from destruction. On Friday, October 19, 1781, the sur render of York town, the crowning glory of the American arms. On Friday, June 7, 1779. the motion was made in Congress by John Adams, seconded by Richard Henry Lee, that the United Colonies were and of right ougntto oe irceami independent The prejudices about days, thus so effectually exposed for Americans, is like many other prejudices preserved by tradition, an 'inheritance from our re mote ancestors. Ancient calendars designate two days in each month as unfortunate, namely: January the first and seventh; Febru ary, the third and fourth; March, the first and fourth; April tenth and eleventh; May, third and seventh; June, the tenth and fifteenth; July, the tenth and thirteenth; August the first and second; September, the third and tenth; October the third and thirteenth; November. the third and fifth; December, the seventh and tenth. Each oue of these days was devoted to some peculiar fatality. Golden Days. A CURIOUS ORNAMENT. A Monogram Whone Construction lte qnired Six Hnndred Illrtla. A design which suggests a tangled tropical copse, thickly denizened by birds of the most gorgeous plumage from every clime, may at present be seen in one of the windows of a local millinery establishment The figure is six feet in height by four and a half' in width, and is an imitation Persian rug done in plumage and stuffed birds a marvel of beauty and of color. It is edged by a very narrow gray feather trimming which incloses a sort of frame a foot in width that is filled in and thickly studded with birds of tlie rarest and most brilliantly variegated plumage. Conspicuous in each corner is a laro-e green parrot, while the rest of the frame is crowded with red tanagers from South America, blue and green merles from the south of France, seven-colored finches, mottled English pheasants, gray Japanese snipes, green top-knotted tur pean pheasants, red-headed birds of ?aradrse, gray terns, sea-birds from exas, starlings, blue-birds, thrushes and owls. This gorgeous display frames a solid mass of redfcatheis which sur rounds the central design of the figure. It is the monogram of the firm douo in humming-birds and creepers on a back ground formed of the breasts and wings of white herons and aegrets from Flori da; the elaborate monogram alone re quired two hundred humming-birds, and in the whole desism there are no less than six hundred birds. It is valued at $400. Chicago News. New Use For the Nose. The old story of bow Mozart made use of his long nose when executing a piece on the piano which would have been impossible but for this way of mak ing up for the want of an eleventh finger, has often comforted people afflicted with an olfactory .organ of nnu-ual length. But the full use of tbe nose has only lately been discovered by a community of young Italians, who claim that by the adroit pressure of the nostrils with thumb and forefinger, sup plemented by judicious breathing, the .softest, sweetest melodies can be execu ted, and that the Italian's favorite air, "The Delight of Love," is never more charming than when executed on the nasophone, this being the aristocratic name by which the new-born art has been called. ovel, indeed, and origi nal is this musical instrument, but con sidering haw many people sing through their noses already, it is doubtful whether the new invention will add to the sum of human happiness. Pall Matt Gazette. A new guide book mentions that "the city proper is surrounded by tbe suburbs. ' Guide books occasionally stumble on a great truth, but we must insist on having the news broken gently. A sudden shock like this may be dan gerous. Pittsburgh Chronicle. English soldiers in Egypt aro housed in mud huts. The ease with which they were constructed shows that t.A :- . ..:. .1 .i:as..i. t -t-i ? "ZZlZl- J htsOM.withontatraw. PITH AND POINT. Tho banjo ia nrgood deal like tho eueunbor. A good deal of human ai ory follows its picking. Detroit Event Saturday. An exchange has the headllno "Where Does Lying Begin?' JJust about where a woman passes her. twen tieth birthday. Binghamto Republi can. A Pittsburgh lady cooked Lafay ette's dinner when hi visited America in 1825. It will bn remembered that the Marquis never returned. Courier Journal. Speak of a man's marble brow, and he will clow with conscious pride, but allude to his woo leti head and he's mad in a minute. Language ii a slippery thing to fool with much. N. T. Inde pendent. A man said to his aged 'mother, speaking of h s wife: "I do wish I could keep Mary from exaggerating so." "Getharto -talk about .harage.'JLxv soonded the shrewd old lady. San Franciscan. A gentleman met a boy and asked him what o'clock it was. Being told it was just twelve he expressed some sur prise and sai 1 he thought it was more. "It's never more in these parts, sir." said tho boy. simply; "it begin again at one." Mrs. Spook, when her pastorcalled the other day. hastened to find a Bible for him to read. She could find only a few soiled leaves up in the garret, which sbo handed to tho pastor, re marking: "Why, really. I didn't know we were so near out" Uoiton Post Miss Laura Braden. Treasurer of the Washington & Waynesburg Rail road, is said to be the only female rail road officer iu tho country. It is strange, too, since women handle more trains than men and know how to switch 'em off in great stylo. Ar. J'. Graphic "Muscle i$ all well enough," said the little man. "but mind is every thing.' Now. take it in fishing. 1 am a small man, but do you remember those enormous strings of trout that I "Yes, yes.'' said the big man; "1 remember those big strings of trout you caught iu your mind." Chicago Herald. "What aro you doing. Mary?" asked a husband, addressing his wife. "I am sewing on a crazy quilt." she replied. "Are there any button on it?' "No." "I thought not." he said. "it wouldn't be like you to do sewing on anything that needed buttons." and drawing a deep sigh, he proceeded to fasten his susponders with a holf-burncd match. Chicago Journal. Tho Day After tho Wedding (Do mestic Drama, in One Act: Wife Muffins all right my darling?" Hus band "Perfection, my pot" Wife "How (hesitates and trembles) how is the coffee?" Husband "Excellent" Wife (greatly agitated) "Not so good as your mother used to make, my darling?' Husband (calmly) "My mother never knew how to make coffee at ail, precious," (Wife falls into a deadly swoon. Tableau). Philadel phia Call 1HE CONVERSATIONALIST. lie TelU a Funny .Story or the Fellow Who Wrote What's Its Name? "You remember that fellow who wrote what's its name? You know he made some money on ono of tho Western railroads; 1 forgot what they call it" "Well, what of it?" "Why, not long ago he was in what's that town in Wisconsin? Yon know." "Dou't mind the name of the town; what did ho do?" "What the deuce i the uame of that town? A big policeman came from there. You know him. Well, this fellow " "Which fellow?" "I can't think of his name. It's a goo 1 joko. and I nearly died wheu I heard it He'd come up from that big plantation in Louisiana, Kept by by who's that big banker in St Louis? The man who built a line of steamboats from Keokuk to to I'll think of the name in a minute the town at tbe mouth of yon know that town in Ar kansas. Anyway, he'd come up on the thai i oad that runs at the west bank of the IVli3ii?inpi fr tm that place op posite Cairo. Consolidated with the Cairo & Fulton Hoad. What's the namo of that line?" "Don't know. N ver was iu that country. What did rour man do that was so funny?" "Why. he'd come t p from that plan tation on this Hue to he town in Wis consin, and struck for the- that hotel on the corner of Jefferson and that other street. Named after a French man, btrangc I cau't remember it" 'Never heard of it Don't know anything about it Go on with your story." "Well, he got there, aud perpetrated the best pun you ever heard on the laundlord'sname. The landlord got oil' a pretty good thing on this man's name but I can't remember what it was. Anyhow, this man asked tho landlord: 'Why are you like an insur ence company' ho named tho insur ance company, but I've forgo tteu what itwa? 'Why aro you like an insurance company?' Give it up?" "YesI givo it up." Well, sir. the answer is tho funniest thing you ever heard. It broke me all up when I heard it ' "Why, if I could remember tho name of tho landlord, I'd know in a moment. Who's that fellow that in vented the pshaw, that machine for making what' re they called? You understand, something about stair rods." "Never heard of him." "It's the samo name except tho last syllable. Funny I don't catch it" 'Is that all of your story? ' Why, yes. Xou sec if 1 could re member my man's name, and the in surance company, and the landlord's namo. I'd bust you tight open with the best thing you ever listened la" A vast proport on of society is raadc of a vacuum in memory, and some of the shining social lights of Brooklyn will compare pleasantly in conversa tional abil.ty with the genius here por trayed. Brooklyn Eagle. Tbe way the law stands now a boy has only to raise a couple of dollars and swear that he is eighteen years old and a girl that she is sixteen in order to plunge headlong into the ?ca on whose snores some of the profoundesl philosophers have stood around and shivered until they were sixty-seven or ninety years of age without daring' to go in. This is allwrong. Lansing Re publican. ' f. Tho mind cure has taken a wart of Nanlrcket woman's nose. Boston Herald. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. The Princess Victoria or Teck is Mid to be the handsomest Princess in Europe. 'Oliver Wendell Holmes lives in a house painted a bright 'yellow, with green blinds. It is said that Mr. Howclls, the author, will hereafter writo exclusively for irarfiers Magazine, at a salary of $10,000 a year. Mr "IL H." Jackson's death is now uttr.buted to her wearing high heeled French boots, causing nor to stnmblo on tho stairs, fall and broak hor leg. Chicago Inter Oscun. There is an editor ninety-one years old. He attributes his loug'life and ex cellent health to the fact that ho never expected to please everybody, and nev er tried to. Foreign Exchange. Sarah Bernhardt will make a tour through the South when she., comes to sthjs. country. . Tho Atlanta CuulUutiou says she probably remembers that city as the place where she had tuo cholera infantum. Inside of President Garfield's tomb fresh dowers are always to be seen, and it is saiu that a tlonst has a regular con tract with the Garfield family to duily supply them with these tributes. Cleveland Leader. A new journal published iu En gland, aud called the Linguist, is Erin ted in live lauguages English, rench. Spanish. German and Italian; and, if necessary, a supplement will contain articles iu Modern Greek. Rus sian. Portuguese. Arabic and Hin dustani. Mr. Charles Peterson. President of the Security Insurance Company, of New Haven. Conn., died at his home in fiat city the other afternoon, aged seventy-live years. He was the son of poor parents, and learned the trade of cobbler. He died one of tho wealthiest men in the State. Ar. Tribune. A tudcnt at Yale, tweuty years ago. wrote a letter to a New Haven girl proposing marriage, aud iu reply re ceived her wedding e.mls. showing that his wooiug wa loo late, but giving no intimation of what might have been if he had acted more promptly. Theso two niL't by chance at a Xew Orleans hotel table the other day. He had be come a I.oui-. ana Judge, and alio a widow. Their butrot..al immediately eusued. Ilartf'urd t'o-t. General Grant's father. Postmaster at Covington. Ky.. exhib ted old-fashioned notions of "'conomy. The editor of the Advanra says he saw him "go about tho ofiicc gathering up pieces of waste pajnsr and twmo anil telling the clerks it was a shame not to take earo of little odds and en Is " The remark is added that he was a devout Christian, as was also his wife, and "he told me how they used to pray around the fam ily altar for 'Lyases when he was at the front" HUMOROUS. Buckskin is proverbially deer. - -Chi- eago Sun. Thcro's nothing vcr3-0rigiu.il about the Board of Trade, but it's a grt at place for "ipiotitions." 'Ac l.'tinib'er. -r"Say, c'ndu :tr. '11 you (hie) turn thish scat over.J" " What do you want the seat turned for?' " Got earned by my station. Want t' git bask." Chi cago lleiuld. Some people think it very funny to laugh at a policeman, but we have passed through the city several t inej late at night and have -ecu 11 ittiiug to laugh at Troy 'limes. Customer (looking at silks) They look to me .11st aliLe; but you say one is uiuetyeg.it cents and the other $1.10. ISo.v wn.it is tiie diilcr cuce? Clerk (hluu.Uy) -Twelve cents. He's Com'ng lis sweet to knoc-.. at your sivcethcai t's tloor. When the oec Iiuv-j ci-ase.l the rUniiiimin, And hear the Int. I lof vrowl ieion:: "Oh, yts, old loy. I hi coining." .'tt-i Fran t.-o Call. "Can't you give us some war rem iniscences?" asked a citien of au old fellow iu a party of ex-soldiers tellin stories. "No, I believe not." he an swered promptly, "you scy I've only been married six mouths." Merchant Traveler. "Tatleuani ,uilit.li" is the A.tec name for kiss ng. Think of a fond mother, saying to her rosy checked baby "Come aid tatleiiaraquilitzli you! mother darbug " If the baby didn't have a lit it was made of good stuH. that's all. IhtnsuUlc J!r:eze. "My dear," said a New Jersey farmer's wife to her husband, "we haveu't a b't of meat in the hou-u for dinner." "AU right." he replie'. aftor breakfast I'll Uike my gun and go over to thy thousand-xcre swamj and sec if I can'bag a couple of mos quitoes. --N. V. Sun. Rebatcment -Old lady fa little bard of hearing) Kighten shillings! It's monstrous! I know the value of these articles, und never paid more than seventeen- Shopman (shouting) I said eight shillings, ma'am not eighteen. Uhl lady - Oh eight shillings for thee? I couldn't think of giving more than seveu-and-six-pence! London i'unrh. "The young lady is in evening dress." said one of Dr. Holmes' friends as & rather elaborately dressed damsel stepped out on the hotel p'.tzza to ad mire the sunset. "The yo c o" the day, my dear sir.'" remarked the witty pro fessor. "That i-, Holmes pun,' was tho reply. "I am worsted, concluded tho poet Commcrcia' But ei:v. "Fast trains aru getting to lie all the rage." observed the conductor to an acquaintance, "but I iies our lim ited' is still the fastest one in the busi ness.' "Oh. no." said the pa s -nger. "nearly every day 1 take a train that runs so fas' your -limited' couldn t keep up with it live seconds " "What train is that?" "Atra'nof tb ought." Ex change. A Patience-Trying Prispner. "I was never in a court of law before in my life." sa'd a thin-haired, shabbily-dressed man to Justice Murray in th Yorkvillc Police Court yesterday morning. "Do you work?" asked His Honor. "I live near Milburn. in New Jer sey." "What were you doing last night?" "I can refer you to my employers." "But how came )oii here?" 'I can show you letters from New Jersey." "Will you auswer my ijuestiou?" "I am a .respectable, hard working man. Your Worshi. au-J was never drank." - "How old are you?" "I dont drink. I work.' "What is your employer's name?" "I am telling the truth. I live im New Jersey." Too can go this time." X V. Herald. ?: tr.' p ES? ,.-?. 'SZtr--'