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VOL. XVI.-N0. 87.
A JAPANESE FESTIVAL.
A Soene Whose Gorgeoosness aad CI
Baffle Description.
Tho day that we reached Kioto was
Uic lost day of the Gion matsuri, a fes
tival which lasts for a month and serve
as a pretext for getting all the popula
tion out of doors and in one quarter
of the city during the evening. The
Gion temple, an edifice reared for tiie
worship of Shinto believers, lies at the
foot of Marayama, and from the court
yard of the temple a Babel of musio
and voices arose as soon as the
sun had fallen. With each hour it in
creased, and finally drew us irresistibly
down the steep and shady road and
through the great stone torii to the
courtyard of the temple. The noise,
the lights and the people were then fur
ther on, and pursuing them, we went
down tli rough the great gateway and
.stood at the head of the main street.
The view there was dazzling and the
shouts and the chatter of many
voices deafening. On either h side
the narrow street was linear with
rows of white paper lanterns hanging
over the hoii-c door, and at the curb
booths hung round with lanterns and
men with wares spread on the ground,
surrounded by torches, made walls of
light on either side of the street.
Crowd surged tip and down between
these rows of lighM, nearly every man
carrying a paper lantern on the end of
a short bamboo stick, the women carry
ing smaller lanterns, of white paper,
and the children delighting themselves
with red and gaily colored paper shell
for tiny eanilles. Boys marching and
running in single file and shouting a
measured chant as they cut their way
through the crowd, whirled giant lan
terns or torches at the end of long poles.
All the people out on this gala night
were arrayed in their holiday clothes,
and the gay colors of the women's ami
children's dresses added to the bril
liancy of the lanterned scene. B.-Ing
bareheaded, with their glo-sy black
hair glued in the big loops of the latest
Kioto style, twisted with scarfs of bright
red or blue crape and stuck with silver,
shell or flower hairpins, the graceful
women of the old capital were all in
harmony with the surroundings of tho
great night of the great midsummer
fete.
Front the Gion temple the Shijo street
only runs a few hundred feet until it
reaches the Sliijo bridge, but crossing by
that long viaduct it then cleaves its way
with few curves out to the furthest su
burbs. For all its length the Shijo street
was a wavering, glittering line of light
for the Gion festival. It narrows just
before the bridge piers, and on that last
block either side of the street is lined
with theaters, peep-shows and juggler
shows, each with its gaudily painted
banners and pictures, its rows of torches
and lanterns, and shouting ticket sellers
vaunting the merits of the show within.
On the night of the inalsitri then, were
more lights and lanterns and more vocal
displays in this narrow reach, and
people were crowded solidly from
wall to wall. A louder shout and
a stronger chorus heralded the
advance of twenty or more men
carrying between them a giant bamboo
pole blazing at one end like a Brobdig
nagdian trick, and the crowd surged
hack to the house walls aud parted
quickly as this fiery wedge was driven
through their midst and carried out to
the center of the Shijo bridge, and
whirled arid swung aloft in great ares
and circles. All this parade of torches
by bands of shouting men was for tho
purpose of holding ami increasing the
crowd for the sacred procession that
carried back a certain sacred chair from
the Gion temple to another Shinto
sanctuary, where it will remain until the
matsuri of the next year. More torches
and lanterns, priests in garments of silk
and gauze, wearing strange hats, ami
beating and blowing strange instru
ments were in the possession of the
chair, and the heat and din were over
powering when the temple chair was
borne along.
Front the Sliijo bridge there is a vis
ion of fairy land on any midsummer
night, but during the Gion malsuri the
spectacle is enhanced tenfold. The
whole broad river bed is ablaze with
torclun ant! colored lanterns for the
half mile intervening between the Sliijo
and Sanjo bridges and the lirt si;iit is.
so dazzling, so brilliant ami m) beu'il
dering with ilsjiovehy that tine has to
rub his eye, arid look long tQ.'in.xkc.
out tin" secret of the fascinating seem;.
In summer time -. the tea Unity's tiia
line the river bank, there vfilh their pi
tuiv.s.jneh gaIler:etrfiontsset out acre,
of low platform table?" in the dear
shallow river. T!0; water ripples
pleasantly ngain-t the Supports of the-e
tabic, and giyJ tt grytoful sen-e of
coolness to the.n'par ie-thViie Japan es
who sit in apfups on these platforms,
the-e simpler nights, eating and
smokmheir tiny pipes under the
light of paper lanterns. Every bit of
running water is covered with tea
house tables. and on the dry,
Travel ly .'niches of the river
lh-tl a multitude of small
peddler, refreshment venders and show
men set up their strings of lanterns ami
oil torches. Somewhere we had read,
heard or dreamed of uc!t a scene in
Japan, nnd the sight of it caused us to
lwarly -hriek with delight anil sati-fac-tion.
' Instead, we seizeil one another bjT
the arm-, we pointed, we waved our
hands, we crowded close to the rail
ing of the bridge, and hanging there
alternately raved ecstatically over this
bit of "the real, the ideal Japan," wo
hail been looking for, or shook our
heads with the hopelessness of ever mak
ing word- do justice to the brilliant,
fairy-like scene. There were hundreds
of Japanese lingering and strolling on
the bridjje to adinire the gay sight, for as
no people but the Japanese could have
conjured up so brilliant a spectacle in
ordinary every day or every night life
out of such simple and natural elements,
so none but them can more truly appre
ciate its beauty and charm. A'i'oto
(Japan) Cor. St. Louis Globc-DcmocraL
A Model Farm.
The farm of David M. Clough, of
Canterbury, Mass., the widely-known
"corn king," comprises five hundred
acres, and follows the fertile bank of
the Mcrrimac River for one mile.
Among the productions this season are:
Corn in the ear, 3,000 bushels; oats,
1,000; potatoes, 500, and hay, 150 tons.
The farm has one hundred liead of neat
stock and eight horses, while in addition
to the owner and his sons, four men are
employed regularly, with extra help as
needed. For sixty years no intoxicating
liquors of any kind, not even cider,
have been allowed on the premises as a
beverage. Distinguished agriculturists
call this the best farm in the Mcrrimac
Valley. In addition to the homestead,
Colonel Clough owns five hundred acres
of outlying land in Canterbury, Bos
cawen andNbrthfield, and large tracts
in Wilmot and London, in all about one
Uiouiaml five hundred teres. N. Y,
Post
NEWj REFRIGERATOR.
A Car Thsvt FroIs f atereUttoaOM
ftralt m If eat SklsrpUa;.
A number of Sacimmentans had an
opportunity of examining a new sys
tem of preserving fresh fruits ani
vegetables during the transit across the
continent. The principles involved
may be briefly explained as follows:
The researches of Tyndall and other
scientists havo demonstrated that the
decay of organic matter is due to bac
teria, and that warmth and moisture
are conditions peculiarly favorable to
their development. For instance, the
ordinary refrigerator car, with its
quantities of ice, produces a great deal
of moisture, and in order to counter
act its effects the temperature must be
kept down to about freezing point.
The regular fruit car is but a shell, al
lowing ventilation and giving access
to outside air, and it is the sad experi
ence of shipper that one very hot day
in transit will often ruin the greater
part of a shipment. The new car re
ferred to proposes to do away with
both objections by allowing no access
whatever to outside air, preserving a
uniform temperature throughout the
car and a free circulation of very dry,
cold air.
The car itself is an ordinary insulated
refrigerator car, which i closed at the
beginning of the trip and not opened
until the perishable goods reach their
destination. The car weighs 28,000
pounds, some 8,000 pounds more than
the shell fruit car, but considerably less
than the ordinary refrigerator car with
its load of ice. In one end of it is the
machinery for regulating the tempera
ture, occupying just four feet, so that
in available space, too, it has an ad
vantage over the refrigerator car. A
long pipe puncturod with many holes
runs along the car at the top, and back
into tin; machinery end where a small
fan supplies suction to draw the air
from the ear into the pipe and it is then
carried down, passed among pipos con
taining the cooling fluid and thrown iu
uti 'i the fruits and meats again. All
!: ture clings to the cooling pipes
and the air circulating is kept dry and
cool.
The cooling liquid is made of alcohol
aud muriatic acid, and is known as
chloride of ethyl. It is a neutral fluid,
possessing neither the corrosive quali
ties of the acid nor the inflammability
of alcohol. It boils at 52 degrees
Fahrenheit, and the Bee representative
had the curious sensation of seeing
some of it boil in the palm of his hand.
The simple evaporation of drops of the
liquid upon the bulb of a thermomejter
forced the mercury down to 10 degrees
below, zero. The chief advantagjL'of
this liijggd over the ammoniacal fjajde
usually used in refrigerating apparat
uses lie&jln the fact that it only requires
a pressurijrof 15 to 25 pounds tothe
square ijh.,to transform it into vapor,
while a'ninjonia requires 150 to' 250
pounds. 'This chloride of ethyl in pass
ing through a labyrinth of pijfes is
vaporized ahd allowed to condense
again, thus producing the degree of
cold required. The power isUken
from the axle of the car, and several
ingenious devices are resortcdoto, to
counteract the pulling and jumping of
the car, and again to obtain the exact
degree of power required, no matter at
what speed the car moves.
In practice one man can manage an
entire train of fifteen of these cars, and
by means of levers and attachments on
top of the cars keep the temperature
regular by regulating the speed of the
machinery inside. This particular car
brought through a lot of-nicats from
Chicago in excellent condition, and.
where ordinary refrigerators were com
pelled to keep the temperature at 30
deg. lest the meat should- spoil, under
this system it is kept for four or six days
at 45 deg. and comes through in better
shape, while the woodwork of the car
remains as dry as a chip. It is claimed
that this system will revolutionize fniit
shipments, as it will land fruits in Chi
cago and New York without decay and
almost in the condition in which they
leave here. The cost of the machinery
is so small not to exceed four hundred
dollars a car and the running ex
penses so light that it is belicvod by the
patentee tbnl any slight excess in
Ifharges over that paid for ordinary
ruit cars will be returned mjiny fold to
the shipper in the x.iiit preserved from
decay. There are many interesting
minor details connected With the work
ing of the simple but very ingenious
machinery to which we have not space
to refer. Sacramento Bee.
JB5
Trl
T VERY PROFITABLE.
Her's Experience with a Lot
kDls-
appointed Africans. y
Charleston I met a man from
Bingbarnpton, N. Y., who was agent
for some sort of cotton machinery, and
almost the first thing he asked me was:
"How do you manage with the hotel
waiters?" -.
"Why;1 I have to fee theni.yjf
course." """
"That sfiows how green you are.' I
am going to stop here four aays,.and I
won't pay 'em a cent."
"Then vou won't get much service."
"I won't, eh! Well, you just watch
me and learn, a thing or two. See
that?"
It was a load half-dollar, neatly cov
ered with gold foil, and at first glance
it seemed to be a twenty-dollar piece.
When the New Yorker s trunk came
up-tairs and the two darkeys lingered
around for a quarter apiece, that
"twenty" appeared to view and he
said:
"Smallest I've got to-day. I'll see
you before I go.""
The same thing' was worked on
the table waiter, on the waiter who
brought up ice water and on sev
eral other colored individuals, and
when we were all ready to take the
train for Savannah the trunks went
down on the wagon and we walked to
the depot. Two minutes before the
train pulled out the New Yorker
turned to the African with his gripsack
and said:
"James, will you take this coin and
square up all?"
"Yes, sah."
"Place it carefully in your pocket
and don't lose it"
'She's dar, sab; an1 be millyuns o'
times 'bleedged to you."
"Never mind that. Well, we are
off."
All the way down to Savannah that
evening my companion chuckled over
his keenness in beating the colored
population, but when we reached the
latter city his chin took a drop. W
were not clear of the depot when be
was arrested for paatgis; counterfeit
money, and all his erfpTaaatiams did
not prevent his return to Charleston
by the next train. I met aim after
wards in Alabama and he told me the
affair cost him sixty-fira dollars. fPaW
Btrtd JfriM,
Mliitttto
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 6,
AN ELECTRIC TABLE.'
A Coatrtraac Which Threats the
letaaea at Walterdoaa.
The vocation of the waiter is imper
iled, that which threatens his livelihood
in the lower ranks of waitordom being
an invention styled the electric dining
table. The inventor of this machine
for H is as much a machine as a table,
is a German, and, having put up one of
his contrivance, he has invited all those
who are interested in such matters to
come and sec it. On entering the room
in which the electric dining-table has
been erected there is seen a double row
of small, flat desk-like tables, set back
to back, and divided one from another
by a brass railing. The tables, or com
partments, do not touch each other at
the back, being separated by a raised
shelf about three feet wide. On sitting
down each diner finds himself given a
space of about three feet square, with a
portion of the raised shelf on which to
place his empty dishes, bottles, etc On
sitting down, too, the customer will no
tice a bill of fare and a punch like tliOHO
UHod by railroad conductors. The bill
of fare is divided into three columns
the first containing the dish, the second
the price, and the thin! a series of blank
spaces, across which are printed the di
reetionri to "please punch in this space
whatever j'ou want to order." Giving
punches for a plate of soup, a steak and
a glass of wine, the customer ut
"turns over" the bill of fare, aocording
to a foot-note, and finds further direc
tions to put it, when punch, d. in front
of him ami pu-li the button to his right.
He does so, an viectric bell is heard
tinkling in the kitchen, aud then, as if
by magic, the table in front of him
slips noiselessly away, glides under the
raisetl shelf, and runs kitchen ward. The
time for filling the order elapses, aud
then slipping out from under tho shelf,
comes the talde once more, laden now
with the soup, steak and wine, and set
tles itself in front of the customer. The
bill of fare is there also, and as the cus
tomer knows exactly what he punohed
and what he has eaten, he takes the
bill of fare to the counter aa a check
anil pays the amount due.
If the customer were allowed into the
kitchen he would find a boy seated ou a
bench having in front of him a spoked
wheel like that of a rudder. Over tho
wheel is placed a series of sixteen num
bers covered with black shades, while
beside it arts two handle like levers.
Another cu-tomcr is heard entering th
restaurant; he seats himself at a table,
punches out what he wants, and presses
the electric button at his side. Down
falls the shade from over No. 2 of the
wheel. The bo pulls out a connecting
switch, marked No. 2, gives a haul at
one of the levers, and turns the wheel.
Tho haul at the lever pulls the No. 2 ta
ble under the shelf and places it on a
well-oiled tramway, ant! the turns of the
wheel bring the table along the tram
way until k reaches the Kitchen. On
the table the cook places the order, the
boy reverses the wheel, this time ktcp
ing his eye on a pliable flat wire which
runs around the hub of the wiieel aud
which is marked with numbers up to
sixteen. As soon as No. 2, marked on
this bantl, reaches an index, the wheel
is stopped, the lever reversed, antl the
customer is served. All the tabloH can
be moved at once by the transfer of the
switches, or as many :is ortlers come
from. What is claimed by the inaxmtor
is economy of time to the customer, ex
ieiisc to Uie proprietor, the avoidance
of complaints, the ab-ence of noie, and
a strict check on the kitchen. Several
restaurant-keepers have been to see the
machine, but ail hesitate to use it for
fear it might prove a failure am! of the
boycotting by the discharged waiters.
A physician of the French hospital,
however, who has no .uch fear before
his eyes, lias given his approval to the
contrivance ami will recommend iu
adoption at that institution. Sun Fran
cisco Chromrle.
Practical Archaeology.
A rather curious fact may he men
tioned in connection with the building
of Archbishop Tail's cenotaph in Can
terbury Cathedral. In the construction
of the altnr tomb a quantity of bricks
of the sixteenth century were used,
which were ting out of that portion of
the crypt appropriated to the use of the
French Protestants. It was suggested
to the Dean by a local archaeologist that
if ever, in after years, the tomb was to
be opened, and sixteenth-century bricks
were discovered in a nineteenth-century
tomb, antiquaries might lc puzzled to
understand this. Dean Payne Smith at
once recognized the force of the sugges
tion, and agreed to write a few word?
explaining how the old bricks came to
be used, and to see that the paper con
taining the explanation was placed with
in the tomb. Accordingly, before the
tomb was finally closed, a bottle was de
posited thcreiu containing a notification
to that effect. AT. Y. Post.
Legal Phraseology.
If a man would, according to law,
give another an orange, instead of bay
ing, "I give you that orange" which
one would think would be what is called
in legal phraseology "an absolute con
veyance of all right and title therein"
the phrase would run thus: "I give you
3 ami singular my estate and interest,
ght, title and claim, and advantage of,
and in that oingf.with all its rind, skin,
juice, pulp, and pipes, and all right and
advantage therein, with full power to
bite, cut, suck, and otherwise cut the
same, or give the same away, as fully
and effectually as I, said A. B.,am now
entitled to bite,cut,suck or otherwise eat
the same orange, or give the wamo
away with or without its rind, juice,
pulp and pipes, anything heretofore or
hereafter, or in any other deed or deeds,
instrument or instruments of what na
ture or kind soever to the contrary in
any wise notwithstanding." N. Y. Ob
server. m m
Sweat Remembrance.
They were enjoying their parting
yum-yum at the door. She stood folded
in his arms stroking his parted-in-tbe-middle-Englisb,
you-know beard, while
he looked into her orbs of blue with a
smile on his countenance that would
have caused a blush on the cheeks of
the Statue of Liberty. For a time no
sound was heard save the gentle smack
of the colliding lips. At length she said:
"George, dearest, do you know why I
love you so well"
"No, darling, why?"
"Because when you kiss me you re
mind me so rojuch of my dear little po
dle that died last summer."
She now wonders whv he broke off
their engagement ami went West
Judge.
XRST
National Bank!
COZ.X7BKBXTS NEB.
Aiithorized Capital, - 8250,000
Paid In Capital, - 60,000
Surplns aud Profits, - - 13,000
OFPICKKS AND DIKKCTOKs.
A. AXDEKSOX. J'res't.
SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't.
O. T. KOEN, Cashier.
J. W. KA11LY,
HERMAN OEHMUCH,
W. A. MCALLISTER,
G. ANDERSON,
P.ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange. Paeae
Tickets, ami Real Estate Loans.
iil-vol-lS-ly
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Drs. MAETYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Suriteons. Union Pacific. O., N.
& It. II. and II. .v M. It. R'.
Consultations in German antl Eut;lUh.
Telephones at oCiee and resident es.
3TOflice on Olive street, next to llrod
fouhrer'.i Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
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LAW AXD COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Ernst building 11th street.
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FUYSJCIAN AXD SVJtGEON.
ESOflic.o and room. Gluck building,
11th street. Telephone coinimniictlioii.
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TTASIItVJrON JlEADli, M. 1.,
FHYSl CI AN AND SUB GEON
Platto Center, Nebraska. !-y
F. F. KUrvrVEK, ill. .,
HOMCEOPATHIST.
Cbronic IHseases and Diseases of
Children a Specialty.
laTOnice on Olive btreet, three doors
north or First National Hauk. '2-ly
TT J. iiuuNorv,
NOT A li Y P U B LIC,
2th Street,:! door west of lUmmoad lloase,
Columbus, Neb. 4l-y
T . KKUUKK,
A TTOllNET A T LA W,
Ofllee ou Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska
-tf
MOrVKY TO L.OAN.
Five years' time, on improved farms
u ith at least one-fourth the acreage tindrr
cultivation, in sums representing one
tttird tho fair alue or the hoiurhtcatl.
Correspondence solitdtetl. Address,
M.K.TURNER,
,-iO-v Columbus, Nelir.
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cAMJNTEK IIROW.,
A TTOJUTEYS A T LA W,
OthVe up.stairs iu McAllister's build
ing. Uth St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
jOIlit T1MOTIIV,
NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER.
Keeps a full line of stationery and school
supplies, and all kind" of legal fornix.
ItiKiires against tire, lightning, cyclone
and tornadoes. Office ill Powell's Block,
Platte Centei. V.i-x
.1. 31. MACKAKI.ANI), II. K. COWDKKY,
A::sc? isd ITctary TsVc. C:l!e:t:;.
LAW AND COLLECTION 0PFM E
or
MACFARIjAND & COWDER7,
Columbtrs. : Nebraska.
J. J. .MAUUHA.-V,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Land and Collection Agent.
jgPart ics desiring surveying done ca.t
notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb.
M-r.m
.TOHN :. HIGOINS. C. J. OAKI.OW,
Collection Attorney.
HIGGINS & 6AEL0W,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specially, made of Collections by C..J.
Garlow. ..t-:hn
Tj II.RIJ.SCIIK,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
IHankct. Curry Combs. Rrushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriaire
trimmings, ,tc., at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs pn mptly atteuded to.
JANES MALMO,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame o brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop on 18th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. nSfimo.
iOTici: toti:aiii:rk.
J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt.,
Will be in his office at the Court House
on the third Saturday of each
month for the purpose of examining
applicants for teacher's certificates, and
for the transaction of any other business
pertaining to schools. .67-y
JS. MURDOCH & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Havebatlan extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds nf rn,irinfr flnno tn tihnrt
J notice. Our motto is, Good work and
, fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
t tunitytoestimateforyou. ISTShop on
1 13th St., one door west of Friedhof .t
! Co'8. store, Columbus. Nebr. 4S3-V
NO HUMBUG!
But a Grand Success.
RP. RRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA-
ter Trough for stock. He refer to
every man who hah it in iiie. Call on or
leave orders at George Yale's, opposite
Oehlrieh's grocery. a-6in
iflipal
1886.
A PROFITABLE NECDOTB.
tfowaja Ksfllsfc, Wummt Sfaaapsxl to
vM Dowries far HI DautkUr.
They tell in England a profitable an
ecdote about Mr. tiakewell, of Dishle.
who was an eminent agriculturist and
breeder of stock. He was also regard
ed as a very wise and shrewd man, and
his neighbors were in tha habit of re
sorting to him for counsel and advice.
On one occasion an old friend wont to
pay him a visit for the purpose of ex
plaining to him his position, and at the
same time begging him that he would
recommend him what to do. He had
lived all his life upon his own farm of
one thousand acres; he lired very well,
but he had never saved a shilliug. He
had three daughters, and the eldest was
about to be married. He highly ap-
E roved of the match, but the intended
usband oxpected some portion, and
he had nothing to givo him. Should
ho mortgage his estate, or what should
he do? Air. Bukewoll begged him to
spend the night with him, and prom
ised, tho next morning, to give tho re
sult of his cogitations. Accordingly,
the next morning, when they mot at
breakfast, Bakewell said:'I have made
up my mind what you ought to do;
give your son-in-law one-fourth of the
farm, keep the remaining three-fourths,
and do not part with any portion of
your capital and stock, and work
the remaining three-fourths with it.
Do it better than you have hitherto
done, and your income will be rather
increased " than diminished." His
friend followed his advice, but at the
end of two or three years another
daughter would bo married, and the
iiorplexed father again resorted to his
rieml Bakewell for advice under this
new difficulty. Bakewell coolly said
he had watched his proceedings and
seen their results; he must do in this
case as he had done before; he must
give up another fourth of his farm, and
keep the original capital ami stock.
The father seemed somewhat puzzled,
but as the lirst experiment had suc
ceeded, he determined to try it in this
case also. Last of all the youngest
daughter was to be married, and, in
utter despair, the poor father paid an
other visit to Dishlcy to explain his
perplexity. "Well,' said Bakewell,
"tell me honestly whether your income
has diminished by having" your farm
reduced one-half?" Tho father ac
knowledged he thought it had not.
"Then," said Bakewell, "you must
give up another fourth of your farm,
and keep the remaining two hundred
and fifty acres for yourself, and, to tell
you the truth, you will then have just
such a farm as your stock, your capita!
and your head are lit for, and will be y
better and happier man than ever."
Old Bakewell used to tell this story
with great glee, and declared his friend
left as much stock and capital upon the
two hundred and fifty acr,s as he ever
had upon the one thousand, and, as he
believed, made a better income out of it.
American Cultivator.
MEN'S JEWELS.
Moonstone Buttons, Smooth Watch-Cas,
Short Chain and Intaglio Kings.
The extreme fashion in gentlemen's
attire demands that the broad expanse
of white exposed by the low cut even
ing dress be furnished either by a
plaited shirt b'jsom or one of pique
embroidored in dots. Naturally thc3
elaborate front call for more than ou
stud, hence tinea studs arc again the
correct style for evening dress. With
this increased demand have come
some changes in the fashion of the
studs themselves, the very newest style
being represented by moonstone but
tons set in slender gold rims. Very
:esthetical young men are permitted to
have a choice between white pearl and
pink pearl studs.
The very newest thing in watches
for gentlemen is a medium-sized watch
in a perfectly smooth gold case of
bright finish. These new watches are
not only diminished iu m'zo as reganis
their circumferu jcc, but are as Hat as
is compatible with the works inside,
hence they arc of exceedingly conven
ient form to carry. As has bcon in
timated the cases are devoid of decora
tion, indeed, do not oven indicate the
locality of the hinges, hut present an
unbroken smooth surface.
The short vest chain, either of gold
or gold and platinum, very light antl
unobtrusive in effect, is patronized
more largely by gentlemen than is any
other sort; m a word, is considered by
ultra-fashionables as quite the correet
thing. The Charles Dickens or double
chain, however, remains a favorite
with many who find it too convenient
and useful to put aside for other pat
terns. Gentlemen arc wearing fine intaglio
rings, and occasionally one sees a ring
with a suitable antique coin in antique
setting. A ring popular among those
who wear gems is a head of carved or
nugget umsued gold with a gem im-
be
ueu in it. ueivcicr s uxrcular.
MIGRATION OF BIRDS.
Lcmoiis to Ifo Learned from the Flight of
Migratory nirds.
Not long ago large numbers of Brit
ish migratory birds (dead) were found
floating in the sea off the Eddystono
Lighthouse. It is probable that during
their night journey from the Devon
shire shores a fog overtook them, and
that the bright light from the lantern
of the lighthouse attracted them and s
stupefied them that the- dashed them
selves against the thick glass and were
killed in large numbers. The fisher
men who trawl for turbot, soles, ttkatc,
etc., on the Varne Ridge Banks, be
tween Dover and Calais, not unfre
quently hear the sound of flocks of
migratory birds flying overhead. The
speed at which birds cn go when on
their migratory flight has been noticed.
Quails are said to accomplish one hun
dred and fifty miles in a night, and in
digested African seeds and plantsjhavc
been found in the crops of these birds
when thej reach the French coast.
It is said that the migration of
birds will foretell severe weather, and
it is well-known by the bird-catcher
that when the larks and other northern
birds appear snow and hard weather
will follow the flight. Theee warnings
of migratoiy birds, though apparently
insignificant, may be of vast political
and even national importance. If the
Emperor Napoleon, when on the road
to Moscow with his army in 1811, had
condescended to observe the flight of
storks and cranes passing over the fated
battalions subsequent events in the
politics f Europe might have been dif
ferent. The storks and cranes knew of
the coming on of a great and terrible
winter; the birds hastened fcjward the
south. Napoleon and his array toward
the north. Chicago Interior.
WHOLE NO. 817.
A VARIED EXISTENCE.
tt, Tkaat m Fish, Thaa s Larger
Boat. Thaa a Sail aad Thaa a Bird.
A riddle has been devised by Mr. J.
O. Wood, the naturalist, who confesses
that he believes the sphinx might have
lived some two thousand years longer
had she propounded this, instead of
her own rather simple question. His
query runs thus: "What animal is that
which is first a boat, then a fish, then a
larger boat, then a sail and then a
bird?" How many of us could guess,
on the spur of the moment, or even
after deliberation, that it means a gnat?
The tiny insect is a native of the
water during the early stages of its ex
istence, and only seeks the air and land
when it attains its wings. The eggs of
the gnat are destined to float on the
water, in order to be hatched, but as
they are very small, they would be
liable to destruction if they were sim
ply placed there at random, and then
left alone. Therefore the female,
whon about to deposit them, sta
tions herself on a floating leaf,
or other convenient support, cling
ing to it by her fore legs, and stretch
ing tho hind legs as far as possible ovet
tho water, and crossing them at theli
extremities.
By means of these slender hind legs,
sho guides the eggs in the direction
they idiould take, arranging them linal
lv in tho form of a boat, and fastening
them together with a peculiar water
proof secretion.
In a short time aftor the eggs have
been laid tho young gnats within them
are so developed by tho warmth of the
sun that they force out the lower end
of their shells, drop into the water, and
swim away.
The future gnat now corresponds to
the caterpillar of the moth or butterfly,
and is called a larva. During this statu,
it changes its skin several times. Be
fore trfu last moult, it seems to be in a
dying condition; it tloes not swim
about, but remains at the surface of
the water, where, presently, its skin
bursts, and the pupa issues.
The little creature now never dives,
except when alarmed, but merely floats
near the surface of the water, obtain
ing its air supply by means of two little
horns communicating with the atmos
phere. The most noticeable alteration
which has taken place in it, since the
larva state, 1s the enlargement of tho
upper part of the body; antl if this jor
tion be examined under the microscope
there will be found within it, closely
packed together, the wings, legs, head,
beautiful feathered anteumc, and the
complicated mouth organs bclouging
to the mature gnat.
After a short time passed in this
stage, the pupa, remaining perfectly
still, takes several deep inspirations,
thus swelling the body of the enclosed
gnat, which is by this time quite sepa
rated from the pupal envelope.
The skin cracks, the gnat emerges,
and supports himself upon his discard
ed covering, until his wings arc dried
sufficiently to take to the air. As the
pupal skin on which he rests is so dried
as to be a mere shell, he raay be said;
for the second time in his life, to act as
a tiny boatman. Presently, however,
he is up and away, to begin a new
phase of existence as a perfect winged
insect. Youth's Companion.
o
"DEM WHITE WIMMINS."
Wliy a Colored Domestic Declare Them
to be Unreliable and Deceitful.
Mrs. Ycrger advertised for a colored
servant, and Matilda Jackson, fresh
from the cotton fiolds, applied for the
position.
"So you want to hire out, do you?"
"Yes, mum."
"I'll give you ten dollars a month to
do the cooking, washing and ironing."
"Dat's mighty little money for a
heap of hard work," replied Matilda.
"Well, I'll give you ten dollars a
month antl clothe vou."
"G'way! You-se jokin."
"No, t am not. I'll agree to clothe
you. You will not have to clothe your
self at all."
"Dat's de bes' offer l'se had in a
long time. You is a lady, you is. You
treats de culltid folks like dey was
aornQljody, you does."
Matilda went to work that afternoon.
Her work was done very well, and
Mrs. Ycrger thought she had a treas
ure. Before Matilda retired for the night
Mrs. Yergor said to her:
Matilaa, we -..ilfwanl breakfast on
the table by se".;i o'clock."
"AH right, mam."
Next morning Colonel Ycrger said
to bis wife:
"I don't hear that new darkey mak
ing any fuss in the kitchen. I don't
bcTiove she's up yet, and it is past
seven o'clock already."
"I'll gorand soc what is the matter
with her. Perhaps she is sick," said
Mrs. Yerger, dressing herself hastily,
and going to the door of the servant's
room, she knocked loudly at the door.
" Who's dar?" said Matilda.
" I am here," replied Mrs. Yerger.
"COnio right in, mum. I'sc becu
waitin' for ye foah de las' hour.'"
Mrs. Yerger did so, and discovered
that Matilda had not yet spurned the
drowsy couch.
" W hy didn't you get up long ago
and cook breakfast? It's past seven
o'clock," said Mrs. Yerger, indig
nantly. " I done tolc yer why I didn't get
up."
" No you didn't."
" Yes I did. I tole yer I was waitin'
fer you ter come in heah and keep yer
promise."
" What promise?"
"Yer promised mo ten dollars a
mumf, and ter clofe me. What's de
use of me gittin' out of bed ef you ain't
heah ter put de clofes on me" pusson.
I'se been readv ter be dressed for de
last hour. Dars my clofes on de char
by de windy."
Matilda put on her own clothes that
morning, and as she shook the dust of
the Yerger mansion off her large and
generous feet, she was heard to say:
" Dat's de way all dem white wim
mins is. Dey promise yer and promise
yer, but when hit comes ter keeping
dar promises dey ain't dar." Texas
Biflings.
None of It Got Away.
DeBaggs I hear that the famous
case of Biggs versus Kiggi has finally
been decided.
Lawyor Grab Yes, judgment was
rendered this morning for thr defend
ant after ten years' litigation.
"I heard the defendant say that of
the amount involved nearly ninety
thousand dollars every cent has been
lost during the trial. Is that so?"
"Lost? No, sir. The plaintiff's at
torney got about thirty thousand of it
and I have the rest. Not a dollar was
!ost"-JMadefpAio ?.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
A woman at North Danville, Va.,
gave to the building of a local church
until her hist dollar was expended, and
then, work having como to a stop, pres
ented the church fund with her horse
ami buggy.
The students of scienco in Indiana
propose to form a ?tato Academy of
Jscience, similar in its scope to tho Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of
Science. Indianapolis JIanuaL
A writer in the Church Eclectic ob
jects to "tho name of 'Protestant Epis
copal which means (a our mission
aries who have labored to translate it
intoC'hmcsu tell us) 'The contradictory
bishops' church.' "
Mauv strange religions are beiug
introduced into California, among them
Hindoo Theosoph ami Chinese Confu
cianism. The growth of Spiritualism
there is so rapid as to challenge, atten
tion. A local paper, noting these facts,
says it is about time for tho Christian,
churches to waku up. Stin Francisco
Call.
Tho total contribution of tho forty
churches of the New York Presbytery,
with their lU.tIi conimunicauLs, tho
past year were $j-IS,-l-Ii.71, of which
$8b. 111) was for home ami $85,742 for
foreign missions. $-142,025 forcongrega
tiouai, ami $7,2;?8 for miscellaneous
purposes. X. Y. tribune.
If teachers wish to leave a notable
impress upon the schools in which they
aro now working, we know of no way
more .- litable than doing something to
improve the generally bleak antl unat
tractive appearance of school buildings
antl school yards. Educational Wtekly.
Religious ceremonies at Mecca this
year have been tin a scale of unusual
magnificence. Tho silk covering for
the Kaaba which the Sultan s;ut this
year has been valued at $75,000. and
that sent bv the Khedive for the same
purpose at 00,000. Both are black
moire, richly embroidered in gold, and
so large that each of them covers en
tirely tho whole Kaaba.
Miss Mary I. Danforth. who has re
signed her miMtion in the Wiuthrop
School, iu Boston, had served thero
forty-one continuous years. The Trans
cript says: "Many will rumombnr pe
cuniary assistance liberally bestowed
from her limited means, whorebv their
families havo been aided that their chil
dren might be continued in school."
"In two particulars," says the Har
vard Crimtoii, "Harvard may untpies
t:onably claim superiority overall othor
colleges in America, in her library and
in her gymnasium. Yet. .-trange to say,
of no two things do Harvard men seem
less appreciative. The gymnasium antl
library arc both used by 11 large number
of mt'u. but not. by as many men as
ought to um! them."
There wa something pathetic iu ths
talk of Rev. O. T. Walker at a meeting
of Baptist clergymen iu New Haven,
Conn., a few days ago. His appeal was
foran educated ministry. His own short
comings, he said, hail made tin? neces
sity of thorough intellectual discipline
apparent. The time had changed sines
his youth. Ho was raisetl in North
Stouington where yot: can walk mils
after mile Oi .stones without touching
the ground, and yet where they raiso
good corn. In his day tlm farmers uetl
to tell time by the ars. for tho days
were not long enough to finish work by
the .sun. Not having means, ho hail t.)
walk from Alb-my to Hamilton Collcgo
x distance of 22."i miles and then
walk back. His light for an education
was long, hard, and only partially suc-ces-lul.
Uaitfurd P0.1t."
WIT AND WISDOM.
Few are qualified to shino in com
Eauv, but it is in most men's power to
o agreeable.
"Greenland has only one newspa
per." This is probably the reason they
call it Greenland. -A'. Y. fnapMr.
A teacher asked a little boy, "What
is hope?" ''It is never feeling disap
pointed," answered the child. S. 3.
Times.
"Circumstances alter cases," said
an unsuccessful lawyer, "ami I wish I
could get hold of some cases thai would
alter my circumstances." - Vhicagt
Ixdtp.r.
There is nothing either absolutely
good or absolutely bad in tiiis world.
To look at everything in a gloomy light
is silly, in a roseate hue is a delusion.
Alliany Journal.
A man who blew r. fog horn in
Montreal was sentenced to four months'
imprisonment. If a Norristown boy
were to go to Montreal antl wh'stle
through his lingers he would probably
be sentenced for life. Xorristown Her
aid.
A Nursery Fable.
A hnhy once cried Tor l he moon.
So tlicv trot tt toy moon for tln pot,
lint tln huln- un'l -atislleil yet;
It eft uji (mother wild tunc.
.Ami erieil fortlie tur -iiin;r!'''J illppi-r.
Dirt they proniisi, to hunt iliiwn the cklea
No; they tirert of its "heavenly" crios.
And inutlc it "free strtrs" with a shpper.
Will II. IVntl in ll.iI.vbHxX.
-A Delightful Commission. Young
Mr. Smythe was passionately enamoretl
of Ms Brown, antl was .squirming in
his chair preparatory to a proposal when
the young lady .said: "Mr. Smythe, you
pass Mr. Thinplate. the jerellcr's, on
your way home, do you not?" "Yes,"
he said, htiskil. "Well, would you
mind doing me a favor?" "Mint!! dear
Mis1 Brown," he replied, with a look
of unutterable reproach: "vou have but
to name it!" "Thanks! Will you kindly
ask Mr. Thinplate if he has tightened
the ?etting of my engagemjnt ring
which Mr. Ceorgc Simpson left with him
yesterday ?' ' llaip-r' - Ifazar.
"Is this the last train north?" asked
a stout littlcgentleman, rushing into a
railway station. "No, there is another
in forty-five minutes. All aboard!"
cried the conductor. "Almost an hour
to wait!" sighetl the little man. drop
ping into a seat and mopping his brow
with his handkerchief. "But you have
plenty of time to catch this train," said
the conductor. "This train? Well, I'm
blamed; of course I have. I'm soused
to catching the last train whoop! hold
on!" and the little gentleman bolted
through the door for the cars. Chicag
Ledger.
m m
Contrary to Law.
Judge Prisoner, vou seem to be an
incorrigible offender This is the third
time tltis week you have been up for
drunkenness. I'll have to fine you an
other fiver.
Prisoner Tote fair. Judge, and ac
cording to law. I m a free-born Ameri
can citizen, a"d you can't punish me
more than once for the same offense.
"But it isn't the same offense."
"Yes, it is. 111 give you my sacred
word of honor that this is the same
ith'hti' a" drunk as it was last Monday.'
Fhdudzlphia (MIL