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THE JOURNAL. BATES OF AavTKBTIBIIfCi GTBusiness and professional carae. of five lines or Isaa, per annnm, Ire dollars tSkl For time advertisements, apply at this oflce. ifrLegal advertisements nt statate rates. -ITor 'transient adTertlaiag, see raise oatklrd page. ' ETAU adTOrtMsmsata payable ISSUED EVKKY WEPSESDAY, &I. Iv. TUKNER & CO. Proprietors and Publishers. Z3T OFFICE -Elnenlh St., up iWws n Journal Building. fj c tn iff W J - i " . - terms: ! I s p j - r Per year six month Three months Sir.jjlo cople COLUMBUS, NEEV WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 16, IjBfi&w . . ,- VOL. XVLs-NO., 84. , j. WHOLE NO. 814: it tr -J l-fci ithly. Ste SSbBBBBVt 'SSBa stsBBalBm BbmiBbbT CmiK LbkbV BKLb r"Vm I XBsBbI BBW mi ' II II I BBS I BBH BBS iBTlBBBT I "J--M mmw COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, HKB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 DSKKCTOKS: liEASDEiiGEituAUD, i'rea't. Geo. W". Howt, Vice PresU. Julius A. IIekd. R. II. llEN'UY. J. E. Taskkh, Cashier . K.ikU of lpoil, IHcomi aid Kvchiinso. ;IIM-linn Promptly Wle ll lolni.. !. n- -rr-l on Time IftepoK- !.. 274 HEFEY LUERS, hr.w.ek in WIKD MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pumps itepaired on short notice jgronr door west of Heintz'4 Druz Stoi. Iltii Street, ColumlM-, Neb. 8 TTF.TfiTRV G-ASS. - -w - 1 TJISTDERTAJKlETzl ! COFFINS AND METALLIC OASES AN 11 MKAl.Klt IN Furniture Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reau a Tables. Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. 3 Repairing of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. fi-tf COLUMBUS. NKB. Happiness results from that truo contentment which indicates perfect health of body and mind. You mar possess it, if you will purify and Invigorate your blood with Ayer's Sarsa parilla. E. M. IToward, Newport, N. 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." James French, Atchison, Kans., writes: "To all persons suffering from Liver Complaint. I would strongly recom mend Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I was afflicted with a disease of the liver for nearly two cars, when a friend advised me to take this medicine. It gave prompt relief, and has cured me." 3rs. H. II. Kidder, 41 D wight st., Boston, Mass., writes : " For several years I hava used Ayer's Sarsa parilla In my family. I never feel safe, even At Home without It. As a liver medicine and general purifier of the blood, it has no equal." Mrs. A. B. Allen, Wlnterpoek, Va., writes: "My youngest child, two years of age, was taken with Bowel Com plaint, which we could not cure. We tried many remedies, but he continued to grow worse, and finally became 60 reduced In fleh that we could only move him upon a pillow. It was suggested by one of the doctors that Scrofula might be the cause of th troub'c. "We procured a bottlo of AYER'S Sarsaparilla and commenced giving it to him. Itsnrely worked wonders, for, in a short time, he was completely cured.'' Sold by all Druggists. lrice $1; Six bottles, $5. Prepared bj Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., U.S. A. FARMER'S HOME. This House, recently purchased by me, will be thoroughly refitted. Board by the day. week or meal. A few rooms to let. A share of the public patronage is solicited. Feed stable in connection. 2-v AtBKRT Luth. sLYON&HEALY I State & Monroe SU.. Chicago- WHl mi prtraU U HI adjrru tb , UNDCATALOGUEi t I far JssJ. TOO rts J upnci Io: iBtnanu, saiu, c(m, imu. Stiatls. Dm M,.VStffw sad ilV&lrtfeli. aleln1t-S. Inrtrartten a4 Ex H&Xk. ndrY HUH1 UblfiU. KeTra fciU IllJTABltotrUUhlM r Cbau. tL4 J-ojc 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, bucceed from first hour. The bro.id road to fortune open-, before the worker, absolutely sure. At once address, Tkuk & Co., Augusta, Maine. ap- . 1 1 aiMiuw iSBBBsi SUBMARINE NAVIGATION. The Kordenfelt boat, the first oi lis olaaa, was built at Stockholm about two fears ago.- Zke boatkoigar-skaned, with a ooffla-liko nrojeotio on tke top nMahino fi wTUtn-i mK. bags supporting a glass 'Seme, or oon nlng tower, ono foot high. Which en ables the commander to see bis way. Tno dome, with its Iron protecting cover, stands on a kortxontal UA, whlok can be swung aside to allow the crew of three men to get In or oat without difliouhy. The length of the hnU is 64 feot. and the central diameter 9 fees. It is built of Swedish mild steel plates 3 inch thick at tke center tapered to J inch at the ends, supported on angle iron framing, 3 inches by 3 iache by I inch. The arrangements for sinking the boat are: of ateetataejjire4er wiuca uu inventor etsune lmperuus advantage. Practically, such a boat can lie sunk in three ways, singly or taken in combination. It my be forced down by power applied from with in, weighted down by taking in sea water sufficient to destroy the buoyancy, or it may be steerod down by the application of its ordinary mo tive power modified by a horizontal rudder. Mr. Xbrdoufelt has adopted tho former arrangement, placing spou sons on each side of the boat aiuid shipi, in which arc wells for the ver tical propellers capable of working the boat up or down. In order to prepare for action, enough scawatcr is taken in to reduco tho buoyancy to ono hundred weight, which sulfides to keep the con ning tower well above tho surface, lu order to sink the boat further tho ver tical propeller are set in motion,'' and, by their action. It is held.- at the ire quired depth.- Thus,to come to the. surface again, it is meroty necessary to stop tho vertical propellers, in which case tho reserve of buoyancy at once comes into play. This principle 'is rightly regarded as important, even if not essential, in a safe submarine boat. A break-down in tho engines does not entail danger, since the reserve of buoyancy is never lost for a moment As a still furthor safeguard, however, Mr. Nordenfolt has provided an auto matic check on the downward motion. A lever, with a weight which can be adjusted so m to counterbalance any desired head of water, is connected with a throttle valvo supplying steam to the engine working tho vertical pro pellers. Thus directly the desired depth w oxceeded,4lue increased head of outside water overcomes tho weight and the vertical propellers are stopped. The motive power is steam alone, generated in a boiler of the ordinary marine type with a forced draught So long as the boat runs on the surface, this boiler can be stoked and a con stant head of steam maintained. The smoke is driven out through two chan nels which pass partly round the Hull and point aft. For submarine work, no stoking is, of course, possible, and the firebox has to be scaled. Jt is thereforo necessary to storo the requisite power beforehand, and this is done by heating tho water in two tanks placed fore and aft and connected by circulating tubes with tho boilcf, till a pressure of about loO pounds per square inch is obtained. With about this initial pressure, it is stated that the boat has beeu driven for 1G miles at a speed of three knots. The greatest surface speed attained is a little over eight knots, and the boat has been run for 150 miles without recoalrag. There are three sets of engines, one of which drives the propeller, an ordinary fonf-bladed screw 5 feet in diameter, with a pitch of 7 feet (i iuches. The other engines drive the blower and tho horizontal propellers respectively. One of the principal difficulties of submarine navigation is to preserve an oven keel when under water. Should a boat turn downward when in motion below tho surface, it might easily strike tho bdttom, or reach a depth at which it must collapse before its course could be arrested. On the other hand, if the bow took an upward turn under the samo circumstances, tho boat would rapidly oonie toNtue surface, and bo" ex posed to view and to projectiles. It is evidently, therefore, of the utmost im portance to )rovide ample steering power in a vertical direction. In the Kordenfelt boat, two horizontal rudders are placed one on each side near the bows, and are ijted upon by a pendulum inside the hull. This pendulum, coming into play the instant the lioat takes a cant in either direct'on, actuates the horizon tal rudders and causes her immediately to return to an even keeL By this means it is claimed that the boat is automatic ally kept with her axis horizontal, whilo since tke bow rudders are entirely be yond the control of tho crew there is no, aauger u accioont auo io neglect or -loss of nerve. In the event of a break down of the abovo arrangement, it is necessary at once to stop the boat and let her return to tho surface. No com pressed air is carried, and tho crow de pend, therefore, for existence on the- amount of air -sealed up' in the hull. With this amount of air only, four men hare remained for a period of six hours wifhout any especial inconvenience London Jim. m EXCHANGE LINGO. Tiie Meaning of Many Terms Vrtad New Turk Stock-Broker. by The technology of the Stock Ex "change is too large for full quotation. Conversions!' are the exchanges of bonds for equivalent shares of stock; such bonds being called convert ibles." 'Collaterals" are securities of .any kind ptedged-for borrowedrmoney: Pledging them is tersseeV hypotheca tion." A"goodTbBJtyjs of cer tificates of stocks'tanmsVlfcaUy is sued, bearing sal iisfi utstj .jyjfor of at torney on the back; orlanaanded, and transferred aJrsmbkj.to tBb laws of the Exchange. A "bs4ie!eliveny? is the opposite, andUvoJmtjBmrisPi of ap peal to theCommltsee1 on Securities, and thence tajke. Governors?;. 'Differ ences" are TvtmgflUfmam npjd where stock is not tTmsitraslwhisk seldom bajspens. To laW--aes? sneesb with out mterestrT4Twatsj sssek is to increase itseBjBjatityia'xintnsir its quality.' ToTsssV visVsssBr is not to pay it There are ""other slang Phrases used in connection, with the Dusmess oi siock pnvueges, wnich is notr by or doaarpsskUclyrgenious system of inflections of tke at the IkskangeJ ;Prmlere, to receive or to deliver securities are bought d sold outside the institution. Russell Sage is the king operator in these pe- age i nfinr cnlsac 'transartjops. n hssocici nruatges xeuW!aftehfetfs.' .oftconrfftnaV tions of both. A 'put" is the privilege of putting mci wsssingj to.theionswho sells it a certain quantity. of a specified stock at a designated price within a 'fixed time. 'A call" is the" privilege of calling for nr buying a certainestock at a speet-ted price wjthin a given time. The seUer of de pot mnst be reaMy to boy, aad of the eall to sell, whenever called aposv A "straddle" k the op tion of eitnec teyinx or atilimg; it conv. binea the pat ana call In one, and dif- potai n tW fers from tke "spread" in that the mawmt preesU tno time at paronaseie fiUcd into tke lattec wkdo m e straddl8,, tke nrice ay rary front that of tke market, ' by agreement or otaerwue. The cost of stock privileges varies with the length of time they have to ran. the diierenoe between the prices, oaatedin thesn from those current on' th day tno privilege are sold, tke ae tivy of tke asnrket, and other condi lions, and is from one per cent to three per cent of tke amount involved. Ex perts sim that thev nave a duplex cbnfnessr tkat of policies of insurance aa4 tke of tickets in a lottery. In ex ceptional eases only are they means of profit to aav but those who issue them. Even tke latter with the exception of Ufa shrewd opera'or now so couspkn- bo in the business, and pouibly not OTa of him are likely to come to erief. as the large najority of their pradeoeason hare done. Tno gaia of the holder is dependent, first, on favor able turns in the market, and next, on his ability and promptness in utili.ing hem. Keen intolloct. pravision, nerve, watchfulness and tigerish spring at op- I portnnitj mnst unite to.prcvent the loss oi wn;n is mveaica m vnoau -uvu i is the best advice to those who seek ad vice about fooling with them. li. ncatlcy, in Harper's Magazine. PURSUING ELEPHANTS. Description of an Exciting;. Bat Yy Cruel, Sport. Elephant-hunting must be very excit- I ing, very cruel, and, to those not acens Ktomed to the habits of tho great beast. 'very dangerous work. But so long as ivory is such a valuable commodity in the mnrket, there will be plenty of peo plo Tilling to risk their lives for the sako of procuring It Captain Parker Glllmoro describes his oxperienoe in chasing "tuskers" as follows: A couple of Kaffirs led the way, so as to prevent the spoor being lost; tint this was almost unnecessary, o distinct was the path tho mighty boast had made through tho forest It was evident from this, and their not having deviated to the right or left to feed, that thev were in a kurry, and probably travel ing from one haunt to another. Suck a chaso is generally a long one, not un frequently an unsuccessful one; bat Fortune ohoose to smile fayprably on us; for. after about three hours' ride, tho Kaffirs declared tho game in' sight Not a word had been spoken for some time; now ensued a knrricd consulta tion, whon tke programme deoidod upon was for all to approach as cau tiously as possible till the elephants toor the alarm, when we were to oharge, each hunter selecting his prey. For three hundred y.rds or more, w silently stole through the forest in sin gle hlo; at longth the loadinsr horsemen halted, and we wheeled Into line. Over the underbrulh towo.-ed the backs of a number of dark animals. Closer and closer to them we approached, when ono of tho elephants uttered a shrill note, and in an instant the herd was crashing through the timber, raising a tremendous dust, and sending rotten limbs of the brushwood flying far and wide. My poor old horse, who had up to this momont been a regular slug, took tho bit in his teeth, and toro along 'm pursuit as well as tho best of them. lie needed no gnisbng I only sat still and let kim go. If the others were after elephants, so was he; and if his fore legs only kept him 'up, there was very little doubt that soon I would be afforded an occasion to use my gun. I wanted a big tusker, of course, but such I could not see; so, to rectify the deficiency, sighted out the largest ani mal in the nerd, and made a dash to get alongside of it In this I was.suo cossful, for tke old nag knew his work, and required no forcing. Holding the gun at arm's length, I fired. The Heavy charge nearly sprung it out of my hands; but the elephant staggered, recovered itself, staggered again, and then came to a dead stop. With the report of the gun my veteran charger had sheered off to the left, expecting pursuit, and not getting it he easily pulled up, so I turned him round again so as to renew the contest The poor stricken beast was evidently very sick blood flowed from its mouth and trunk. It seemed desirous of charging, but was without the power to do il; so I jumped oft my horse, went within fif 'tecn vards, ana fired at the space be tween the .car., and aeyo. - With. a crash 1 the poor thing fell, struggled violently to regain itsJoet, rolled0 veron its side, and yielded up' life., It was"a' cow. in the prime of life, but its tusks did not exceed eight or nine pounds weight From P. amnion's Great Thirst Land." Salt Lakes in Afghanistan. Sir Peter L-unisden's paper on, his ex periences in Afghanistan, read before the Royal Geographical Society, in Loudon, contains an account of the curious lake upon which the Tekke Turcomans are dependent for their sup plies of salt Tnis lake is six miles square, is situated at an elevation of about fourteen hundred feet abovo the sea-level, and is surroundedonall sides by a steep precipitous descent: - The yield of salt is praclicailyunlimitedtfor the bed of the lake is one solid1 mass of level rock salt corarsd esJkyjan inch ortwo of water; the TdsptVoLtheaeposit being c unl nuia Af scoaadllake fur nlhe theory kstPsnjdeh with salt This lake is muck -liuger-than tke one jnst described, aad tke salt in it does not present such a smooth unbroken surface. Tksjalt is dug oat ia the form of ftakW sljofemncim kV mkkaeiv which are packed into bagsvaad carried on camels to market without any kind of preparation. AT-, TPosjL The Chines Language, A language which has, "only some four hundred and odd distinet sounds" with which to- exnress "ten thousand words" would appear at first sight to be in a very anomaloaseondrtioa. And, as a matter of fact, many of tkesevBeirsV are homophonous, although, 'by am ia- oive, . f2 umjhci, ok wrimrmyr wbuii io a nincse ear, as least is moie tun In Pekinjr theiairCWfriamtCSfct them: ,bnt in tke soutk tkesewho asa knowiag n s,ncs psttrri,' or mere.A" is is sense of a word stenenoa eK ioan a distmctiosVas thef which k-ism for luakiag bMaders beeome LondenMkenamm BenssMasa SIOKNI em mm9BRm99 SsmawV VBoi M9S emw WssmMBsmSHnsV I know of no more absard aj pkysiologioal notion tan mat prevails in many, if aities, that one most siofc. with no resrars to tke the attending eironmstaaces or. tke state of the digestive powers. Tho folly of this ought to be apparent, to the more sensible cisss, when thef remsmber that the appetite is tke Side ts food-taking, as this indicates- waste of the body, this waste im peratively demanding food that may be supplied. This should be appreci ated from the fact that this appetite is increased by hard, active labor, wear ing away the tissues, while inactivity, mental aad physical, reduces it, so that not more than one-naif of the food needed by the active toiler can bo kej disposed o bjr tfc inactive, tl indolent In sickness there is but little activity, but little waste of the tissues, conse- Juentlv. but little appetite, relatively, ideed, in cases of acuto discasej, as fevers, inflammation and the like, as a means of preventing harm from over eating, the appotite is utterly destroyed, as the first precautionary step, and, as if to make safety doubly certain, the tasto is taken away, that there shall be no temptation, as a matter of sensual in dulgence, to which is added, as a very decided precautionary measure, a nau sea rendering it quite certain that food can not be relished. This, thon. is a very merciful arrangement, since tak ing food at suoh a time would tax the digestive powers, aggravate the dlse.vo, and, in extreme cases, might destroy life. Indeed, the brutes either know too much to eat when sick, or are so controlled by their instincts that thoy will not since even tho swine, very low in tho scale of creation, peremptorily refuse to eat even the simple food taken by them, naturally, when in health. In acute diseases it is wholly unnatural to take food, for both human beings and brutes, since such food would not only tax tho digestive powers, but derange the whole system. We may reasonably infer that this arrangement is made on tho principle that while in sickness, tho system has enough to do without at tending to the digestion of food. But it is asked how ono can bo nour ished without food during tho several weeks in which tho appetite is sus pended? That is plain. We are so made that, in suoh an emergency, tho system feeds upon its fat etc., as we may see bv the "hollow clicok and sunken eye" after the' "run of a fever," during which it is by no means unusual for the appetite to be suspended for five er six weeks. Again, sinee the human body is composed to a very great extent of the three gases of air and water, and since, in the absence of tho appetite, a very urgent thirst is substituted, it is plain to see how the system can bo sus tained, during the inactivity of a fever, by a free use of water, cool.ng the body, rapid breathiug, whon the carbon of tho body fats is added. A still more conclusive argument against eating in acute diseases is found in the fact that tho gastric juice is not secreted at such a time, at least, in the usual qualities, if at all, whilo it should be plain that digestion can not proceed without the digestive juices. Eating is one thing; nourishment quite another. It may be impossible to be nourished, sufficiently, without eating, under or dinary circumstances, but It is possible to eat and not be nourished, sinco wo are nourished by what is digested, not by all that is eaten, for much may pass undigested. Then, never eat without an appetite. If this is foolishly done, nat ure may, very wisely and mercifully, throw off such food by vomiting. The more we follow the dictates of nature io these matters, the safer It is for us, and the more healthy we shall become Dr. Ilanaford, in U olden Rule. FRENCH FIREMEN. KxtraTcnt Pay Kn Joyed by th Tire LadStos of l'arl. Over in Paris, when you see a man with red trousers, remarkably baggy, with a little blue jacket tight enough for a corset, and with a big red belt to which a ring is attached, as though to onable his mother to hang him out on a limb ns some squaws do their papooses, you have before you a pompier or Sapeur-pompier. Those are the words employed by Frenchmen to express tho meaning of our word "firemen," and it is to those gentlemen with the wealth of trousers that the citizens of the be nighted city conlido tho work that is done bv firemen over here. The best place in the world to study the Sapour-pompicr is around the big fountain in the garden of the Tuilleries. That is also a desirable resort for the student who would learn the ways of the herds of French infants and of their shepherdesses, tho bonnes in spotless lionncts and fantastic ribbons. Noth ing in the world presents a better pict ure of perfect happiness than a pom Eier sitting in the snn with an amiable onne beside him, unless it b the French baby who finds himself free to devour his toes unmolested. That is the attitude in which the pompier was always studied by the writer of this treatise who watched for four years Mid ran across only one fire in Paris. A New York iirenian on reading this will perhaps exclaim: "Oh, to be a tSapeur-pompier," but he would bo wrong. A feapeur s life may, be a long dream of bliss; a chain oi happiness whose links are untold bonnes each with ribbons more fantastic than those of .her predecessor, but then it is an aw fully economical,, dream of bliss. The Sapeor-pompier is a soldier regularly eaiisted and chosen to b-s a Sapenr on account of his physical prowess and .agility. -He must be a pompier whether the wants to or not. ami bis only conso lation is that he receives as -compensation for the hard work which he is sup posed to perform the unusually large ay, ot nrty or sixty centimes a day. ucmg bis salary for the poetical centimes to the cold, hard ceat it is found that the pompier gets ten or twelve cents a day. Cor. Cincinnati Times.- m A Hebrew Star. Morgenstern, which, translated ;from the German means morning star, is a very common Israelitish name. Mo;o Schaumburg junior is awaro of this fact and so one evening he pointed to tho planet Venus, and asked his fattier if it was -the evening -star. "Yes, mine son.'" "Vai be Chew?" u Vat for askrdot?" .. , !Pcanse I know dose morning stars Vis Chews, so I choost wanted to know ef dotevenwgJtar'vas:' "Moses, goes' yon in" dot house in pe fore I makes you see .mere stars dea you vaats." Texas Sifting National Bank J Aithorizei Capital, -Fait ! Capital, Siriis aid Prefts, - - $2.50,000 60,000 - 13,000 oniciu ahd im naoToas. A. ANDERSON, Preset. SAM'L C. SMITH, TieePrvft. O. T. BOEN, Cttkitx. J. W. EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. 2-vol-18-lT BU8IJE8B CARDS. D.T. MautynM. D. F. J. SCHOG, M.D. Dm. MASTTH eYSCrrtJG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons, Union Pacific, 6., N. ft B. H. and B. M. R. R's. . Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. KSTOffice on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrer's Jewelry Store.. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. W, in. eouNEi.ius, LA W AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. C 1. ETA us, m. o., PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON. ISTOflke and rooms, Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication.' 4y H AMILTOl ItlEAOE, HI. IK, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, PlatU Center, Nebraska. 9-y r. BV. JHHstss, 9f . Bw, HOMCEOPATHIST. Chromfo ef Childrem a Saeeialty. tdTOfflce on Olive stroet. three .doors north of First Natloaal Bank. 2-ly XT J. IlIJIMiON, NOTARY PUBLIC. It Htrast. t 4Mrs wast of Mastaiaad Haass, Columbus. Neb. 491.J T . RKKDEM, A TTORNE T AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf HONEY YO LOAN. Five years' time, on Improved farms with at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one third the fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, M.K.TURNER, fiO-y Columbus, Nebr. V. A. MACKEN, PKALSR IIT Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Cigars. Uth strcst, Columbus, Neb. 80-y VrcAI-MTEet HMOS., A TTORNE YS AT LAW, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. JOHN TIMOTHY, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keeps a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kinds of legal forms. Iusures against fire, lightning, cyclone and tornadoes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Ccntei . 19-x J. M. MACKARLANP, Attoraoj ai NoUry Pttro. B. K. COWPKRY, Cellteter. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACF ARLAND & COWDBRY, CfoJum&t. .' : : Nebraska. J. J. HAUCSHAIV, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Agent. tSTI'arties desiriugsurveying done can notify me by in.-iil at Platte Centre, Neb. M-6m JOUN G. I1IGGIX6. C. J. GAKLOW, Collection Attorney. HIGGIH & & GAB.L0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Spccialtymudc;of Collections; by C.J. Garlow. 34-3m Tp U.KUSCUE, Uth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, SaddlesT-Collars, Whips, Blunkets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. JANES 8AE.HOIV, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings? Good0 work fuaranteed. Shop on ISth Street, near t. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6dbo. TOTICETO TEACHERS. J. B. Moncrief, Co. Snpt., Will be in his offiee at the Court House on the third Saturday of eaeh month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the transactton of any other business pertaining to schools. fiS7-y J 8. MURDOCK & SON, Carpsntsrs and Contrsctert. Havehad an extended experience, and will gaaraatee atisfaetioa in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fairprieas. Call aBd-givc.ua an oppor tunitytoestimateforyou. KsTShop on 18th St one door wist of Frledhof A Co', store. Columbus. Nebr. 483-v NO HUMBUG! 2 But a Grand -Success. RP. URlGIIAM'S AUTOMATIC WA- ter Trough for stock. He refers to every man who has it la use. Call en or. leave orders at George Yale's, opposite Oeslrich'a grocery. 9-sm 2 tab' ft THaT APPt-l 1 .1 L. jJ. I., 4SJB- BBsss,nssssjsens-snK nee jDvanms' naves get 1 What esmlget the ef ef a waiter in acaia. c . " , "Feck and beans," replied the youth of white, aprons and dude hair. Hed better try soft-shell crabs," said McGough in an aside to a reporter wbo was uquidaling,. in a two-fold 'sense, for;-a lunch. -There's nothing like seft-shell crabs for satisfying a man's hanger. "I've seen men lose ttieir appetite before they'd taken a mouthful tcrab," -, - , "And thereby hangs a talo?" said the reporter. Inquiringly. "Yow ought to nave been in here and seek it,.and you'd a-died a-laughing. 1 can't half tell it to you. but Til do the best I cab," responded McGough. "It was tho week of the races. A couple of young fellows came in hero, sat down at the tablo over there In the corner, and as the waiters were all busy I went over to take their order. They were lotting at tho bill of fare and one "of them said: "'Jim, did you ever cat-any soft-shell crabsf "'No,' said tho other; 'what are thevP " 4I danno. Let's try 'em.' " 'All right' " 'Givo us some soft shell crabs,' says the biggest fellow to me. 'How many?' says L "Ho glanced at the other fellow, but didn't want to give himself away, so he spoke up promptly. M A dozen.' " I'd just received some big fellows; and, upon, my word, thoy cost mo two dollars and ninety cents a dozen bo Hides the express charges from New York. 1 was selling them at forty cents apiece, jand, making nothing off, them at that. I suppose I ought "to have told thom how "much their order would cost,vbut 'twas none of my busi nessonly to fill the order and get my pay for it. 1 sized tho fellows ,np and. mads up my mind that they had' got the' raouoy. They lookcdMike a couple of fanner boys, but didn't have much hay seed in their hair and woro store clothes. Anyway, I thought I'd take my chances. But for a ton-dollar noto I wouldn't kave earned those cratM over le the table. I sent them by one of the .boys and got behind tho ice-box, where I eould laugh ami keep aa. eye en them. "Here! just leosrat tho size of Ihese orabel 'Big as your head, overyoneof thml When tke bey set a big ptattor fl down, in .front of those two fellows, their eyes fairly bnlged oat They stared at the platter1 and then at each other, bat didn't say a word. Then they looked around to see if anybody was watohing them, but I dodged be hind tho box. " 'How muoh Is tho bill?' said the biggest fellow to the waiter. The boy came to the bar and asked for a eheck. I ought to have charged them four dollars, but I didn't stab them hard; sent them a check for three dollars and fifty cents. They stared at that harder than they had at tho crabs, and thoy began to go down in their pockets. I guess it about cleaned them out tor they got down to nickels and pennies, but thoy paid like gentlemen. " How many crabs did they eat?" " Not a crab! I was out there by the eigar case when thoy passed out and asked them to have a cigar." "We den't smoke!' Detroit Free Atss. m c GMPRBSS CHARLOTTE. fc IMHr Itet Maximilian's VaTortn. st Widow. A few miles from Lacken, the favorite BMidence'ef the King of the Belgians, stands the old Gothic castle of Bouchout at present the residence of the widow of the Emperor Maximilian. Not long ago rumors were current that- the Em press of Mexico had regained her rea son, which she lost at the death of the unfortunate Emperor. These reports were untrue. More thnn eighteen years ago, wfcen the Empress had first lost her reason, a semblance of court life was carefully kept up around her. Receptions were regularly held, soch as' in former days brightened life at the old palace of .Iturbide, in Mexico, and the respectful homage which was accorded to the poor Empress was perhaps more genuine than in her days of greatest splendor. The Empress herself went through the ceremonies with the samo grace as of old, and after a certain numberTJf peo ple had gathered around her she would thank them for coming to see the great Empress of Mexico, and then, rising from her stimulated throne, move to ward the adjoining roorii3, s.i3'ing: " You wish,'no doubt, to layyour trib ute at the feet of his Majesty the' Em peror; I will go and end him." Returning after-a-fow minutes, she would say: "I can not find tho Em peror, but ho will see you as soon as he returns.!' With this she recommenced an animated conversation on the present situation and tho brilliant future pros- Eects of the Emperor, and, taking up is portrait, she exhorted bini to rise higher and higher still, and not to strive for one, but for ten, twenty, nay, for all the crowns of the world. The courtiers, moved to tears by the pa thetic scene, would bow low and take their departure, imperceived by the ex cited Empress, who, ' after a while. would majestically sweep through" the nary pages to carry, her trail. .But the proud, hard look melted into sweetness and tenderness 'when on her daily walk (through the grounds at Tervueren, waere impress vnariotte was then re siding, her oyes followed the flight. of birds or clouds. After the conflagration of Tervuerea the little court moved to Bouchout and the Empress has in the course of time, become less excited.- Some years ago it was one of ker. fancies to order a large number of elegant costumes, each of which required some thirty yards of material, having to be made Mexico fashion, with innumerable plaits. But when the sumptuous costumes were spread oat. before her. she turned her back1 disdainfully on the 'dressmaker m m muring: ?I will net have them; they are not good enough forjtbe great Empress of Mexico." Fortunately, the rejected costumes 'were bought up by the ladies of Brussels, often as-a pre cious souvenir of tbennhappy sovereign. Now all violence has ceased; receptions are no lenrer held, and the court circle consists only of tke ladies of honor, be 'longing to the Belgian aristocracy, eight of whom in torn reside for a week satBoaehot7 - " - - ; Several koan are speat every day at mepisjKyaad. as Empress Charlotte is ksrself "a'distiagnlaked Artiste, these bv alL Fancy-work Is Sis eaeef the favorite occupations of the-. Empress, and her embroideries are said to equal' thoso of the best Paris work ers. While listening to tho music, off busy with her needle, the Empraui never utters; a single wow, but seenia, lost in thought and it is very rarely, that during her daily walks shebreaks tho silence. ' Sad a'nd sorrowful, -the once ambitious Empress of, Mexico, spends her monotonous days in tho, quiet castle, and tho veil appears to bo lifted only when on Snnda-v during divine service, which she regularly at tends, tho voico of the organ is .beard, through the ch ipcL Then her seuT seems transttgured, and a strange smile lights up the featurerfof one of the most unfortunate women of our contury. Pall Mall Gazette. HOW NOT TO DROWN. A Ww Words ot Advlc from Oaa Who Ktowt All About It. Four caft'a6I'ws floatingln the1 siirf at Atlantic City, gazing up into the sky and thinking only of its beauties. when feeling somewhat tired, 1 essayed - to stand up,;but failed-for tho very ex cellent reason that I had nothing to stand on. I had, without noticing it floated out boyoud my depth. I am a very indifferent swimmer and make it a rulo not to venture into tho water where I can not secure a foothold when I need one Yet I found myself, not through any foolish venturesomeness. beyond tho furthest line of bathers. Of courso I immediately struck out for shore. After swimming until I felt thoroughly exhausted 1 found that I-' bad t made very little progress, and I also discovered that the bottom of tho ocean was too far beneath mo to bo of any practical benefit as a basis of trav eling. Now what would yon do under such, circumstances? Shout, for help, you say: Exactly! That, I suppose, is what any well-conditioned sensible human- being would do, and yet I found myself actually ashamed to do it I was positively morally weak enough to permit a consideration of what ray fel low' man would thin!c of me to over power the natural sense of self-preservation. I fancied that I might be laughed at for crying out for assistance before! was actually sinking beneath tho wavej, and so I struggled on nntil a sudden convulsive twitching in the calf of my left leg told me that I had a cramp.. Then 1 shouted "Help" quite lustily and shouted thrico. .Nobody heard mo and nobo'dy paid any atten tion to me. Thanks to my good fort une, however, !- remained perfectly cool, else I would not bo talking to. you now. I was able to'. recomize on the shore the faces of people I know. and. although I experienced no sense of fear, I felt fully satisfied that I would never see them again. Now. by all recognized rules and regulations, in such cases made and provided, the events of my entire life should have passed before me in instan taneous review. I'll guarantee that you never read a novel but what when the hero or villain is sinking beneath the waves, he thinks, with lightning liko rapidity, of ovcry act iu his career. "And as Reginald felt the cruel waters closing above him, all the deeds of his life, both good and bad, passed before him as though a panorama was being moved by some magic hand." That is the way it genenilly reads, you know, and that is what should havo happened to me. "But 1 am iconoclastic and cruel enough to say that I had no such experience. I found that my mind was absorbed with but one thought, to the exclusion of all other sensations. I thought f absolutely nothing but of getting ashore just as soon as possible. After my lirst unheeded cries for help I again felt a-hamed to call again, but male another effort at swimming. In my ramped condition I found this fruitless., and so 1 again cried out for assistance, but kept perfectly still in the water whilo I did it Had I strug i:Vd I would have lost breath, and with it my life. My last shout was heard, I saw a sudden excitement on the beach. Isaw men point their arms toward me. I saw others run into the the water. I saw a man bringing a coil of rope. I could identify the indi viduals who were doing these things. I watched them coming toward me and simply-endeavored to keep as'qti'ct as possible. In this way 1 managed to keep afloat uutil they got to me and dragged me to shore. What Ijwish to demonstrate is that the very poorest swimmer amonir you is perfectly;; safe in the water if he only keep; cool and docs not struggle when nothing is tdbe gancd by such efforts. Philadelphia News A' POPULAR DRUMMER. The Grrmt Feat 1'erfi rmod by m Modest TraTelliijc Man. " Greatest man to jump into a town and get acquainted with folks I ever paw, Jap Johnson was," said a travel ing man. "Give Jap a night and a day in a country place and everybody there would call him by his first name, and he'd call everybody the samo way, even the, girls. In forty-eight hour3 he'd know every man, woman, child, horse, dog and car in the town1 and could tell who married who, who got drunk onee in awhile,, andvwho hail t.ts or rheu matics. Give. him three days in a town and he'd have every bit of the gossip and old muUy scandals that ever went over' the back fences of that town down finer' n silk. He was a wonderful- man, Jap was, and he could sell goods like a house a-fire. The biggest thing he ever did, though, was 'bout four years'ago. He had four hours to spend in a little town out in Western Iowa. In that time he sold two bills of goods, was invited to diuner by the Mayor, decided four bet, was referee in a d6g""fight, proposed marriage and was accepted by the belle of the place, borrowed live dollars front her pa, beat another .man two games of billiards, and, It happening to be elec tion day he capped the mansard by sailing in and having himself elected town clerk by a- majority of eleven votes." Chicago Herald. Count d'EstaW (in despair) "Sare, I am ruin. I havo been vat yon call swindle. I loan a compatriot all my money and he zive his note. It ii no good, and my compatriot ho is vat you call bogusw.y.at shall I doP" Heartless , hotel clerk "I am very, very sorry. Count. There is only one thing for you to do now." "vat is that? An. sare,-your kindness is tee' Imoock. Vat do you advise?" "Hire yourself out as a French flat" Phila delphia Call Scarlet: stationery Jias binn in troduced, but will ,no; be popular. Who wants a letter red before it is written? Boston Commercial Bulletin. OF GENERAL INTEREST. A Chinese physician has epeaea an office in Boston. j A studentof tramp human nature observes that with very raro exceptions, tramps are men who never learn a trade. Chicago Journal- Real Italian opera by real Italians has made a decided success in San Francisco with the price of admisjioa only twenty-tire .cents. Wnder the new law of New Hamp shire a challenged voter must make, three oaths, sign three documents, and keep his right hand up abeat thirty minutes. a Americans of means and who are. ambitious are notified that several old palaces are for sale in Italy. Tholr im pecunious owners have no further use for them. The Medical Journal states that a few handfuls of common salt thrown daily into closets, and an occasional hand ful v into wash-basins, goes far toward , counteracting the noxious eflectsbf ike " omnipresent sewer gas. Poor old Jumbo has been killed by a locomotive engine Since the time when tho spike-horned bull met a train and refused to get off the track, down to this day, railroad engines have shown no respect for animals. Arkati srno Traveler. Detective Julian traveled over fif teen thousand miles and oxponded tea thousand dollars in his chase after Janie Robinson, a St John (New Brunswick) shoe manufacturer, who swindled, the Bank of Montreal out of eighty thousand dollars. A country visitor to tho Federal Treasury building walked into the ele vator ignorant of its use, and whea it began descending the shaft he assaulted the tender, imagining that he had beea betrayed into a trap and was being lowered to a dungeon. Washington Post. "I'm only getting fifty dollars a month, and I was afraid I'd have to spend too much money treating the boys if thoy found it out" was the cx planat on given by a Chicago young man when charged with taking out a marriage license under a false name. CJitcago News. A tobacco manufacturer of New York City has hit upon an ingenuous scheme for advertising his wares. Ho has had made several hundred boot blacking boxes, with the name of his brand stenciled thereou. and has pre sented them gratis to the numerous urchins who are engaged in tho shining industry in that city. N. Y. Sun. A young woman whose clothing caught lire while superintending a clambake at City Point on Saturday, was saved from death by the ready wit of a youngster who shouted to her to "go into the water." Sho stopped running up and down tho beach, plunged into the sea up to her shoul ders, and oscaped with little injury. Boston Advertiser. North Carolina has in her lower sounds, bays, rivers, creeks and estu aries, more than six hundred thousand acres of oyster bottom, land-locked and protected from foreign depreda tions. Iu this six hundred thwusaud acres there is every variety of bottom adapted to oyster culture, differing In quality as much :is high lauds differ in their adaptation to different vegetables. One of the latent and. if truo, most cogent of tho many strong objections to the smoking of cigarettes it that oven tho highest grades, purchased from reputable dealers, are found by Rnalyaii to contain considerable quan tities cf opium. Can nothing be done to put a stop to cigaretto smoking by little boys? There" is an alarming in crease in the habit. A'. I'. Examiner. A daring boy nine years old. the son of John Rheil, of Co Cob. Conn., disappeared from home the other day, and was supposed to bo drowned. Soon after a dispatch was recoived an nouncing his arrival at the home of his grandfather, at Oyster Bay. Long Island. He had started in a canoo. with a shingle for a paddle, and pro pelled himself clear across the sound. llarlford Post. A witty as well as soft answer will sometimes'tiirn away wrath. Charles Burleigh, the abolitionist, in the midst of an anti-slavery speech was struck .by a rotten egir full in the face. Paus ing to wipe away the contents of the missile, he said calmly: "I have al ways contended that pro-slavery argu ments were very unsound." The crowd roared, and he was no longer molested. Public Opinion. A novel use is being made of oys ter shells by a Hartford (Conn.) man. who is coining money in his new enter prise. The shells are placet! in a pat ented mill and ground. It has a ca pacity of five tons a day. By an inge nious arrangement sieves aro kept at work assorting the dust into fine, coarse and insufficiently treated. The line and the coarse are taken by eleva tor belts to the floor below, where through canvas chutes, rogulated by wooden slides, barrels are rapidly filled. Tho product is sold for chfckeu feed. Twenty tons and more aro sent yearly to San Francisco, orders are filled from Western States, and Ber muda and the Sandwich Islands havo been supplied. llartford Courant. m THE SLUGGER'S FATE. The Oanjjer of Kxertnlro KxereUe After M-al. In the London Lancet i.s reported the case of a healthy boy (belonging to a robust, healthy family), who had nev er suffered from rheumatism, scarlet fever, or indeed any disease save chickeurjpox. who died suddenly under the saddest circumstance, because his death was so thoroughly preventable. After coming from school one day, he ate a hearty dinner, and immediately commenced" to play cricket Finding the time drawing near for the after noon session, he ran to school (a quarter of a mile), and as he entered the yard fell unconscious to the ground. In'a very few minutes he was dead, notwithstanding the persistent prac tice of artificial respiration. The Medical and Surgical Reporter states the results of the post-mortem exam ination and adds: "Here, clearly, was a death due to exercise, Ihe loaded stomach and bowels being the needed exciting causes. Wo have ere this sounded the warning against violent exsreise: iron muscles gonerally indi cate an hypertrophied heart; the ath lete is notdestined to become the long lived, respectable and useful citiaen; the slugger is all right in his place, aad is a popular beast but he is doomed to 'an early dissolution. It maybe ac cepted as. a general truism that say nature or amount of exercise that will cause the heart to jump aad thump azainst the chest-wall is exercise carried Y to an excessive and alarming extent. w ':: mmm