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STATE BANK!
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CAiSU C VITAL, - $75,000
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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
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with a disease of the liver for nearly two
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year of age,'vss taken with Bowel Com
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many remedies, but he continued to grow
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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