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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1886.
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COLUMBUS, HEB.
CASH CAPITAL,
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Found
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Augusta, liaise.
AN IRISH HORSE FAIR.
The Carioos Costoxns Obtaining at
the
Horso Markets of Ireland.
To a novice an Irish fair appears to
be pandemonium lot looso. The main
street is the show-ground and ride, and
a convenient field, with a stone wall or
two, serves the purposes of the "man
ege." Such a whooping and yelling!
Droves of wild young colts, rough, un
kempt looking animals, rushing madly
about with Pat riding bare-backed as
easy as a glove, with nothing but a
"bit of a twig" and a halter for a
bridle. "Whist! but that's a lepper,
yer honor; be aisy now, on her, Tim,"
shouts the proprietor of some raw filly,
as Tim negotiates the wall with a cock
of his eye. Perhaps you turn round
to look at the "lepper," and, by the
mercy of Providence, just escape being
trampled to death by a whole troop.
Pulled this way, shoved that, hot and
thirsty, you at last gain a place of safe
ty, and are able to look on for a few
moments in peace. Meanwhile, the
dealers aro not idle, and bargains
mingled with glasses of potheen arc
flying about in every direction. If you
happen to be in the know you will sec
a horse bought for thirty pounds sterl
ing ready cash, which for market pur
poses was to have been a seventy
pounds sterling transaction. Every
conceivable class of animal is here,
both biped and quadruped. The
hunter which, if properly got up, will
fetch in England a couple of hundred,
is side by side with a screw not worth
as many pence, and the autocrat of the
dealer's yard maj' be seen in confabu
lation with what looks like a prime
dynamiter; while above all the din and
jangle floats an aroma of whisky and
tobacco, to say nothing of blarney and
bad language.
As the day wears on prices lower a
little Indeed, a few of the knowing
ones do not complete their bargains
until late, excepting in the cases of
some really high-class gees. But what
is going on in the corner of the wall?
A small crowd is gathered there, and
from j'our position you can just make
out one of the men who crossed in the
boat standing opposite a true son of
Erin in the middle of a small ring, and
seemingly either fighting or endeavor
ing to snake him by the hand which?
You can not quite make them out.
Presently the crowd breaks up with a
cheer, and you can see plainly now the
two men shake hands, and to your sur
prise money passes between them.
Can it have been a prize fight at nil?
No, it is only a deal, and if we come a
little nearer to this new lot that are
forming a; ring we shall sec. As we
approach a lane is formed, and the
vision of a flying colt appears, ridden
bare-backed by a bright looking lad.
Over the wall is the order, aud Pat,
steadying his mount, takes it in lirst
class form. Then the crowd closes in,
and two figures stand opposite
each other England and Ireland.
"Well, what's the price?" says
England. "It's just the foinest little
horse in the fair this day, and I'll
not be selling him under 120, and
that.s. dirt-chape, replies IrHanri.
holding out his hand. "Forty," says
England, marking a dive at the paw.
Ireland is too quick, however, and
snatches it away before England can
grasp it, saying at the same time, with
an air of disdain: "Forty! and for a
baste like that.tliat the Lord Lieutenant
would bte proud to be seen on. Is it
trying to blarney me that you arc? I'll
just let you have it for 100 and not a
penny less," and out ocs the hand
again. This time England springs a
tenner, and the same pantomime is
gone through, with the exception that
England nearly catches the outstretched
member this time, which raises a laugh
and "Mind 3our eye, Pat," from the
crowd. After every bid this goes on,
and at sixty-live England catches Ire
land by the hand shakes it heartily,
thereby signifying that is a deal. The
crowd cheer, and the two go oil to
gether to cement the bargain with a
"dhrop of the cratur." This is the
way most of the deals arc carried on,
and it is an unwritten law that if you
happen to be quick enough to catch
hold of the hand after j'oar ofl'er, the
horse becomes your properly for the
amount of your bid. Scottii Agricult
ural Gazelle.
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KENTUCKY HIGHWAYS.
GlUtcuiBf, Smooth, Itroad and Ivcl Turn
pike of MacaIanilzed limestone.
You will not find elsewhere in Amer
ica such highways as the Keutuckian
has constructed all over hi country
broad, smooth,.lcvel, white, glistening
turnpikes of the macadamized lime
stone. It is a luxury to drive upon
them, and also an expense, as one will
discover before ho has passed through
many toll-gates. He could travel more
cheaply on the finest railway on the
continent, though of course it' will not
be himself, but his horses and vehicle,
that are paid for. What Richard Grant
White thought it worth while to record
as a rare and interesting sight a man
on an English highway breaking stones
is no uncommon occurrence here.
All limestone for all these hundreds of
miles of roads, having been quarried
here and there, almost anywhere, near
each of them, and then 'having bceu
carted and strewn along the ro.id-sidc,
is broken by a hammer in the hand of
a man. Bv the highway he sits
usually an Irishman pecking away at
a long rugged pile as though he were
good to live for a thousand years.
Sooehow, in patience, he always get
to the ther end of his hard row. But
if, some bright Easter morn, you sit for
a moment beside him, and speak to
him sympathetically of labor and of
life, hfs tears will sprinkle- his d.tsty
hands, showing his heart is elsewhere.
One can not sojourn long here with
out coming to conceive an interest in
this limestone, and loving to meet its
rich warm hues on the landscape. It
has made a deal of history: limestone
blue-grass, limestone water, limestone
roads, limestone fences, limestone
bridges and arches, limestone engineer
ing architecture, limestone water-mills,
limestone spring-houses and home
steads limestone Kentuckians! Out
side of Scripture no people was ever
so like to be founded on a rock. It
might be well to note, likewise, that
the soil of this region is what scientists
call sedentary called so because it sits
quietly on the rocks, not because the
people sit quietly on it.
Undoubtedly the most picturesque
bits in the blue-grass country, archi
tecturally, arc those old stone water
mills and old stone homesteads land
marks each for separate trains of ideas
that run to poetry and "to history. The
latter, built some of them by descend
ants of pioneers nearly a hundred
years ago, stand gray with years, but
good for nameless years to come; great
low chimneys, deep little windows,
thick walls, mighty fire-places; situ
ated unusually with keen discretion on
spring, last ns a
Saxon forefather would have placed
- . w
them centuries ago. Happily one will
see the water of wis spring issuing still
from a recess in a hill-side, with an
overhanging ledge, of rock the en
trance to this cavern being walked
across and closed with a gate, thus
making, according to ancient fashion,
a simple natural spring-house and
dairy. James Lane Allen, in Harper's
Magazine.
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THE NEW DIAMOND.
A Proposed Change That Woald Pleats
Spectators of the Natloaal Game.
Among the propositions which were
discussed at the session of the National
Base-ball Club, in its session at New
York, was ono submitted by a Boston
enthusiast, which has been approved by
seven of the loading managers. The
plan exhibited will havo a tendeucy to
increase the batting, which legislation
has never accomplished, as all previous
efforts have been made to reduce the
pitcher's effectiveness. The ch.ngo
will be effected in the simplest manner
possible, by slightly changing the angle
of the diamond, as is shown in the fol
lowing diagram:
The heavy lines show tho old base
lines, while the light lines exhibit the
newly-arranged paths. By tho new
plan the pitcher's box would be placed
back five feet from the place at pres
ent occupied, enabling the curver to
guard first and second bases more ef
fectively. The batsmen would havo a
decided advantage, fewer strike-outs
would result, making brilliant fielding,
and giving scientific batsmen and fast
runners more chances to beat the ball
to first base. The catcher would also
be brought ten feet nearer to second
base, enabling him to throw more ac
curately to that point for tho purpose
of preventing free stealing. The change
in the foul lines would eliminate the
large number of foul hits, by giving the
batsmen a chance to drive the ball be
tween the in-fiolders, together with
causing the out-fielders to spread
farther apart, increasing the chances
for longer hits and more brilliant field
ing. As the essential points of base
ball consists of free hitting, clean-cut
fielding and fast base-running, there
are potent arguments to favor the
change, as it would increase the bat
ting, lessen the battery work without
laming the pitcher, increase the work
of, the fielders fifty per cent, and cause
oaso runners to exercise gooa judg
ment with speed. Sacramento Bee.
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ANIMAL COMMUNITIES.
The Communists of Nature, Their Habits
and Property.
The social animals form true com
munities. They are banded together
by certain common interests, and pos
sess a principle of association beyond
the ordinary. They present the germi
nal condition of a political society.
These comprise most of the large her-
bivora, with aggregate purposes of
common defense, in some cases station
ing sentries for protection while feed
ing, and in others following certain ac
knowledged leaders. Instances of any
such association arc among carnivore,
the wolves being tho most marked ex
ample. Yet in the social animals, as a rule,
the common interests are few and the
links of association weak. Individual
ity largely persists, there is no idea of
common property, and nearly or quite
the only interest in common is that of
attackjor 'defense. Separated from these
by a broad interval are some three or
four animal tribes whose socialism is
of so advanced a type that it fairly de
serves to bo indicated by a special
name. These tribes comprise the ante,
bees and termites, among insects, and
the beavers among mammals. Their
conditions of association arc so differ
ent from those prevailing in most other
cases that it seems proper to consider
them ns a separate class. I propose
for them the title of communal ani
mals, as most distinctive of their life
habits. Instead of possessing a few links of
combination these animals have most
or all of the relations of life in com
mon. In ant and bee communities, for
instance, individualism has vanished.
All property is held in common, all la
bor is performed for the community,
there are a common home, common
stores, common duties, community
alike in assault and defense, and it is
difiicult or impossible to detect any ant
or bee doing anything for itself alone,
or performing any act which is not in
tended for tho good of the community
as a whole. Selfishness, so far as the
home community is concerned, seems
to have vanished, and labor and life
freely given for the good of this great
whole, with no evident display ,f
any thought of individual comfort
or aggrandizement. Popular Science
Monthly.
The Denudation of America.
In an address before the Liverpool
Geological Society, by Prof. Reade, on
"The Denudation of tho Two Ameri
cas," he shows that 150,000,000 tons of
matter, in solution, are annually
poured into the Golf of Mexico by the
Mississippi River, and this, it is esti
mated, would reduce the time for the
denudation of one foot of land over the
whole basis which time has hitherto
been calculated solely from the matter
in suspension from one foot in 6,000
years to one foot in 4,500 years. Simi
lar calculations applied to the La Plata,
the Amazons ana St Lawrence show
that an average of one hundred tons to
the square mile, per annum, are re
moved from the whole American conti
nent This, it is stated, agrees with
results previously arrived at by Prof.
Reade in respect to Europe, from which
it is inferrcd'that tho whole of the land
draining into the Atlantic from Ameri
ca, Europe and Asia, contributes mat
ter in solution which, if reduced to rock
at two tons to the cubic yard, would
equal one cubic mile every six years.
-V. Y. Sun.
President Richards, of the Metro
politan Horse Railroad of Boston, is
quoted as saying, after a study of elec
tric motors, that the day of horses is
past
an elevation near a si
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THE CREOLE DIALECT.
A Mixture of Dad French and Good E
situh-IIow a St. Iioalalaa Obtained a
Wife.
The Creole dialect is a mixture of
French and good negro dialect Any
one who can understand the negro dia
lect of New Orleans can interpret Cre
ole. The marriage customs of the fru
gal New Orleans Creoles are similar to
tho marriage customs of tho shopkecp
ing French in Paris. There is no such
thing as courtship allowed. In New
England a young lover courts his
sweetheart for years. He "sits up"
with her and holds her hands for
months. His sweetheart's father and
mother never know when a proposal is
?oing to happen if at all. Among the
Ircoles it is all business, this courting
is. If a young man calls twice on a
Creole girl her father will ask about
his intentions, and tltcy must mean
marriage or the courting must end.
These black-eyed Creole beauties all
like to marry Americans, and if one of
them gets a Yankee "on a string,"
with her father's and mother's aid, she
will surely make him propose.
They tell a story in New Orleans
about how-Jack Lafrance of St. Louis
got caught by a beautiful Creole girl
at the New Orleans Centennial. Jack
didn't know anything about Creole
customs. He had met Mile. Melaniu
twice at a soiree on the Rue Bon En
fan ts. Then ho called at the young
lady's house, bringing a box of bon
bons. Jack is a jolly fellow, and was
invited to call again. On his second
call Melanie's papa tapped him on tho
shoulder and said:
"M'sicu Lafrance, I would lak to sco
you ono minute," and led him to the
dining-room. Suspecting nothing.
Jack followed him. Once there the old
gentleman produced a decanter and
said:
"Mon ami, tek some cognac. You
will fin' it ver' fine. My fodder buy it
from Cavoroc. Ah! you lak it, eh?
Tek cigali neveh min thass a real
Havana, shuah. Now, fren' Lafrance,
you lak to know for w'at I want see
you eh bien? O, mon ami, I havo
notia yo attentions to my
daughtah
"O, I always liko to show attentions
to young ladfes," said Jack, "and "
"O, I am not displeased, my de'
young man. My fam'ly, sah, is one of
the bes' in the city. Yes, sah, wo are
twenty-firs' coozin with Jean Baptist
St. Louis De Lormc, whose gran'-fodder
slap that Spanish canaille, O'Reilly, on
the chik a hondrcd year ago, as yo'
will fin wrote down by Gay aire. But,
my fren', when those ankee r-r-rascals
tek ou' pantalions an' ou' nigroes, sah,
we was force to leave on' place, sah,
an' come yeh an' work, yes. An', ami
Lafrance, I do not objee to my daugh
tah for choose you for a husban', no,
I "
"But, my dear sir," interrupted the
astonished Jack, "you arc mistaken.
I have not made love to your daughter.
"You have no make love to my
daughtah?" exclaimed the old man.
Then he said sadly:
"My de' sah, I love rav fam'lv. Thass
my h'only thing yeh on earth. You
haze visit Melaine once twice; yo'
have talk with her, dance with her,
sing with her. You have compromise
my daughtah, sah! There is no otheh
co'se lef a man of honah, sah, than to
nia'y her; yes, .sah, to ma'y her!"
"But sir," blurted out Jack, "I am
only a poor clerk, with fifty dollars a
month, and could not Mipport a wife
even if I wuntutl one "
"Ah, mon chcr, thass all 'ight the
monnaie is nothing. You don't catch
motch, thass true. But fo' that I don'
keh me. You come live yeh, yes.
Then, nflch w'ile w'en yo' patron he
get fo' lak you mo, :ind give r-r-raiso
to seventy-lf dollah, we will do ver'
well, yes. So thass all fix, eh? Come,
you tek some mo' eognac. Ah, mon
flier Lafnuice, you don't know what it
is to be a fodder, I suppose! Then
you can't nevah im'slaii 'ow please I
feel w'en a young man you hask me
for my daughtah! Yes, sah, you are
the only man w'at would rattih have
my daughtah than most anybody w'at
evah, sah!"
"But I couldn't do it," said Jack,
pulling himself away, "it is impossible
and "
"Ah, so you will so to Melaniu and
tell her I have grant yo' demand. Ami
I will go with you. An, M'sicu La
france, ah, to tell you the trut', you
did not tek me by sopprisc, no! A
fodder can see w'en his daughtah love
a young man! An' Metallic, she love
you, ah! She dream of you all night,
yes! Ah', sah, w'en a St Louis De
Lorme love she nevah let go, no, but
she lak the pelican; she die firs'.
"Thass all 'ight, ami Jack. I will
see Perc le Cure, an" we will mek the
announcement next Sunday. You can
get ze ring, jcs, and Mclanie will be
ready for next tnont I know you don'
waiit to wait long. Allons, let us tell
them w'at we have arrange." And ofl
Jack was hustled to the parlor.
Here they were soon married in
French before he could collect a single
thought, and Jack awoke and found
himself a husband. He made a good
one, Melanie made an excellent wife,
but the Americans became very raro
and scarce in the Creole Quarter after
the wedding. From Eli l:rkins' Wit
and Humor.
SEA COAST IMPROVEMENTS.
Work That
May Possibly Turn About the
City or New York.
While these great works at tho West
are only talked about, very great im
provements aro taking place on the
Atlantic Coast. Flood Rock, situated
in Hell Gate, as the channel is called
that connects Long Island Sound with
the East River, h:is been shattered to
pieces by an explosion of the largest
mass of dynamite ever discharged at
one time. It will take a couple oFyears
probably to complete the work, but
when it is done ships from Europe will
save loriy miles of travel by the sound
route. It is not impossible that in fifty
years' time New York City will be, as
it were, tumed about Instead of com
ing up the harbor, the ships from abroad
will take the Sound route, and the
docks and warehouses of the greatest
American city wilt be located on both
shores of the Harlem River, and on the
Long Island shore opposite. A careful
survey by naval experts has established
the fact that the three channels be
tween Coney Island and Sandy Hook,
one of which every ship has to take in
its passage in and out of New York
harbor, are rapidly shoaling. To dredge
and improve them properly would cost
an outlay of twenty-five million dol
lars. If the Sound passage will accom
modate all the shipping without trouble
it is not likely that Congress will spend
so much money in improving the lowci
bay. DiMorcsVs Motrthly.
FIRST
National Bank!
coivuisraTjs w
Aithorired Capital,
Paid In Capital.
Sirplns and Profits,
8250,000
60,000
13,000
OVFICKRS AMD Dl HECTORS.
A. ANDERSON, Pres't.
SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Prca't.
O.T.KOEN, Cashier.
J.W.EARLY,
HERMAN OEIILR1CH,
W. A. MCALLISTER,
O. ANDERSON,
P. ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange, I';
Ticket", ana Real Estate Loans.
assnire
Si-vol-lS-iy
BUSIHESS CASUS.
D.T. M AttTYN, 31. D. Y.J. SciiUG, M. D.
Drs. MARTYN & SCHTJG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons, Union Pacific, O., N.
& It. H. and It. & 31. R. It's.
Consultitions in Gorman and English.
Telephones at office and residences.
.QTOflien on Olive street, next to Rrod
feuhrcr's Jewelry Store.
COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA.
41-y
vr m . coii2k.liijs,
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Ul.Htaira Ernst building 11th street.
J.
O. SKGDER,
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
OlHco on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska
2-tf
r 19. EVANS, 91. D..
PHYSICIAN AND SUItGEON.
tSTOflico and rooms, Gluck building,
11th street. Telephone communication.
TTAtlllrO- MKADE, 91. -,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Platto Center, Nebraska. -y
F. P. KUKIVEU, 91. .,
HOMCEOPATHIST.
Chronic Diseases and Diseases of
Children a Specialty.
JSTOllicc on Olive street, three doors
north of First National Bank. 2-ly
TT J. HUDSON,
NOTARY P UliLIC,
Sth Street, i doors nest of Himmoad Hosse,
Columbus, Neb. 491-y
-9MKVE1: TO LOAN.
Five years' time, on improved farms
with at least one-fourth the acreage under
cultivation, in sums representing one
third tho fair value of the homestead.
Correspondence solicited. Address,
1 31. K.TURNER,
,-)0- Columbus, Nebr.
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cAIJJSTKR IIKOS.,
A TTORNEYS A T LA W,
Office up.stairs
ing. 11th St. W
Public.
in McAllister's build
. A. 3IcAllister, Notary
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OTIt'i: TOTKACIIKUH.
W. H. Tedrow, Co. Supt.
1 will be at my ofliro in tho Court
House on tho t ird Saturday of each
month. Tor the purpose of examining
teachers. JKMf
J. M. MACKAUI.AND,
Att:r7 sl Hottr? ftttf e.
B. It. COWDKRY,
Collector.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OK
MACFARLAND &
ColumlHS,
COWDBR7,
Nebraska.
J. J. 9IAUGIIA1V,
Justice, County Surveyor, Notary,
Lniul and Collection Agent.
ISJTart ion desiring surveying done can
notify me bv mail at Platte Centre, Neb.
51-6in
JOHN !. HlfifilNS. C. J..CAKLOW,
Collection Attory .
HIGGINS & GABLOW,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specially made of Collections by C.J.
Garlow. 84- m
rp II.RIISCIIK,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips,
Itlaukets. Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valNes, buggy tops, cushions, carriage
trimmings, &, at tho lowest possible
prices. Repairs pre mptly attended to.
Tit91K.i MAL.910N,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and estimates supplied for either
frame or brick buildings. Good work
guaranteed. Shop ou 13th Street, near
St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne
braska. 62Cmo.
p AMPIBKLL Sc ST. CLAIR,
DBALKKS IN
Racrs and Iron ! "
The highest market price paid for rags
and irop. Store in the Bubach building,
Olive St., Columbus, Neb.
15-tf
JS. MURDOOK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
navebad an extended experience, and
will guarantee satisfaction in work.
All kinds of repairing done on short
notice. Our motto is, Good work and
fair prices. Call and give us an oppor
tunitytoestimateforyou. EJTShop on
13th St., one door west of Friedhof A
Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 488-v
RO.BOYD,
MANUFACTURES OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Koofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
t3TShop on Olivo Street, 2 doors
north of brodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store.
M-tt,
A LADY'S JOURNEY
Madam Kalfht's Adveatar Titp Be
tween Boston and New Twit Oae Han
dred and Eighty Tears Age
On "Monday, October ye second,"
ono hundred and eighty-one year
ago, a Boston lady undertook a
journey to New York City, an ac
count of which was published in 1823
from a diary in the author's own hand
writing, "being a faithful record of
Madam Knight's adventures 'over that
tract of eountry, where sho traveled
about a fortnight on horseback under
the direction of a hired guide."
That madam was regarded as rather
odd is evident from the reception she
received on the first night after start
ing. "I was interrogated," sho writes,
"by a young lady, I understood after
ward was the eldest daughter of tho
family, with these words: 'Law for
tnee! What in the world brings You
hero at this tlmo of night? I never
sue a woman on tho Bodo so Dreadfull
late, in nil the days of my vcrsall life.
Who aro You? Whero are You going?
1'mc scar'd out of my witts.' "
Madam Knight arrived in New Ha
ven October 7, whero sho "was re
ceived with nil possible respects ami
civility."
On December 6 sho writes: "Being
by this time well recruited and rested!
after my journey, my business lying
unfinished by some concerns at New
York depending thereupon, my kins
man, Mr. Thomas Trowbridge, of Ncxr
Haven, must needs make a journey
there before it could be accomplished,
I resolved to go there in company with
him and a man of the town which I
engaged to wait on me there."
Madam seems to havo been much
pleased with New York, whero she
made many acquaintances among the
good women of the city, "who cour
teously invited me to their houses and
generously entertained me." And her
description of tho city at that time is
well worth reading. Sho says: "The
Cittie of New York is a pleasant, well
compacted place, situated on a Com
modious River which is a lino harbor
for shipping. Their Diversion in the
Winter is Riding Slcys about thrco ax
four Miles out of Toun, whero they
have Houses of entertainment at a place
called tho Bowery, and go to soma
friends' Houses who handsomely treat
them. Mr. Burroughs cary'd his spouso
and Daughter and myself out to Madam
Dowes, a Gentlewoman that lived at a
farm House, who gave us a handsome
Entertainment of five or six Dishes
and choice Beer and Metheglin Cyder,
etc., all which she Said was the pro
duce of her farm. I believe wo melt
50 or 60 slcj's that day they fly with
gYeat swif tuess and some arc so furious
that thoy'le turn out of the path for
none except a Loaded Cart. Nor do
they spare for any diversion the place
afford and sociable to a degree, tlicy'r
Tables being as free to thar Nnybours
as to themselves."
"And now," she adds, "Having
transacted the affair I went upon and
some other that fell in my waj after
about a fortnight's stay there I left
New York with no Little regrett."
Boston Statesman.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
The rosslble llcncflts to Be Derived from
Their Establishment.
In 1871 Postmaster-General Crcswcll
recommended the establishment of pos
tal savings depositories in connection
with the United States post-offices, and
two years later he discussed tho sub
ject very fully in his annual report.
Several of his successors have renewed
his recommendation with great earnest
ness. Hon. Thomas L. James, after
referring to and highly approving of
these recommendations, said: "It is my
earnest conviction that a system of this
description, if adopted, would inure,
more than almost any other measure of
public importation, to the working peo
ple of the United States. In 1873 Hon.
Horace Maynard brought before Con
gress a bill to establish a National
Savings Depository, but no action was
taken. Since then a number of efforts
havo leen made to induce Congress to
enact the necessary legislation. The
latest of theso efforts was made in
1882, under the leadership of Mr.
Lacey, whose report from the Commit
tco on Post-Ofllces and Post-Roads con
tains valuable information and sugges
tions on the subject. Tho bill which
Mr. Lacey introduced, and which has
recently been strongly indorsed by the
State Charities Aid" Association of
New York, and other advocates of
postal savings banks, provided that
none but money order offices should
receive deposits; that no single deposit
should ha less than ten cents or more
than one hundred dollars; that no one
Eerson should deposit moro than one
undrcd dollars within thirty days, or
have at any time more than flvo hun
dred dollars to his credit; and that in
terest at two per cent, should be paid
on all sums over thrco dollars and mul
tiples of one dollar, beginning the first
of the month following tho deposit, and
stopping the last of the month preced
ing the withdrawal. Prof. D. B. King,
in Populw Science Monthly.
BUSINESS WOMEN.
A Grotrlng- Femalo Crazo for Bank Ae
counttt ii ml Check Bookx.
"Any number of ladies keep their
check-books," said Cashier Osborne, of
the Merchants' Loan and Trust, "and
check against their bank deposits for
household and personal expenses, just
as their husbands do in their business.
It is very convenient for ladies to do
this, as they can go shopping and mako
extensive purchases without bothering
the stores or their husbands with bills
and without carrying currency around
with them. Some ladies are given a
regular allowance by their husbands,
in some cases I know of running as
high as twenty thousand dollars a
year. The wife of one of our richest
merchants takes entire charge of the
household, the grounds, the stable,
everything. She watches the domestic
end of their affairs as close as her hus
band docs the business end. She issues
her checks to pay the servants, the
stablemen, the harness repairing, the
carriage maker, the grocer, the butch
er, everybody. She even takes charge
of all home improvements and pays
the painter, the boss stonemason, the
decorator, the carpenter, and so on.
Such a woman is a great help to a man
who has many irons in the lire and a
great business on hi3 hands. Many
men who are not wealthy make dc-
Eosits to their wife's credit and wo
andle their checks. In fact, thcro
has been a sort of craze among Chi
cago ladies for bank accounts and
check books. It is a good thing, too.
Chicago Herald.
COSTLY VANITY.
ftlly Mea sad Womea Wao SaertSee Theft
Health to the Motech of Fasaloa.
Tho story of Amelia Sheehan, the
handsome young hospital nurse who
became insano through the use of a
hair-bleaching liquid, is typical.
Though it has long been notorious that
there is scarcely any hair-dye or
bleaching preparation that can be used
without danger, a change of fashion is
always sufficient to induce thousands
of young women to employ such per
ilous cosmetics. And though most
pcoplo havo personal knowledge in
their own circle of somo disaster
analogous to this, tho cases which end
fatally appear to carry no Icssou what
over for the survivors, fa. this instance
the unfortunate girl is said to have had
beautiful and abundant hair. The
statement that her appearance was im
proved by bleaching her hair is not at
all probable. Nature knows far better
how to adjust the tones of hair and
skin than yonng women do, though
tho assertion may seem hard to them.
It is indeed true that men aro not less
vain than women. Only a few days
ago the death of an elderly man was
recorded, whose friends were surprised
to find that during his last illness his
hair and beard had become white. It
was further discovered that they had
been so naturally for years, but that
the man, unwilling to surrender tho
appearance of youth, had employed a
hair-dye which finally poisoned him.
This was clearly a more aggravated
caso than that of poor Miss Sheehan,
and while tho tragic termination of her
experiments gives conspicuousness to
her folly, it would be a mistake to con
clude that thero is anything unusual in
such reckless ministering to vanity.
The streets of every town in every civ
ilized country to-day swarm with the
victims of their owp self-conceit. Crip
pled feet, distorted waists, a whole
swarm of clinging evils directly caused
by the most barbarous defiance of nat
ural laws, testify to the force and' ex
tent of the influence which in so many
cases makes lifo not worth livingmerely
to gratify a vanity at once puerilo and
absorbing. The sacrifices to this ignoble
sentiment, moreover, are so prodigious
that perhaps no other human foible
possesses an equally overmastering in
fluence. For to put in peril deliberate
ly one's health or life, one's reason and
even one's vitality, is to do for a funda
mentally discreditable tendency as
much as can be dono for the noblest
and most heroic cause. And whilo
many an act of heroism is the result of
spontaneous impulse, the number is
countless of those who with their eyes
open sacrifice the best life can offer for
the sake of a short period of illusory
triumph over rivals in personal adorn
ment. It will uot do to inquire too
deeply into this mystery, however, or
the reality of the progress made in
civilization may come to be called in
question. N. Y. Tribune.
DUTCH HOUSES.
The Clean and Comfortable Homes of the
Steady Hollander!.
In the streets of Amsterdam one may
remark here and there a passage abont
a yard wide. Enter this passage, and
you find yourself between a double
range of little coquettish brick houses,
with a garden divided off by hedges or
by palisades slightly raised, and a num
ber of little pieces of ground three or
four paces square, each belonging to
tho house which faces it- This is inval
uable to the Dutchman. It not only
serves 03 a drying-yard for the family
clothes, but as a place to dry and
sweeten the pots and kettles and
kitchen utensils, which arc scoured un
ceasingly, and which constitute tho
pride of the Dutch household. Enter
one of these houses and you Gnd your
self in the middle of a room about fif
teen feet square, having a front win
dow. In the corner a fire-place, provided
with a small stove sufficient for warm
ing and cooking purposes. One ortwo
cupboards do duty as pnntric?, whilst
a deeper one, inclosing a bed and hid
den by a curtain, is the bedchamber of
the father and mother of the family.
The ground is generally floored, but
not always; the walls, eight or ten feet
high, are whitened where the tenant
has not papered them. The furniture
of the apartment is generally sufficient
and well kept. There w no back door.
In one corner of the room a straight,
steep staircase leads to the higher
room, where the yonnger members of
the family sleep. An air of order and
cleanliness reigns nil over the house,
and witnesses that care and cleanliness
are considered to be the first of domes
tic virtues. For a house of this kind
tho rent is fifty to sixty-live cents per
week. Saturday Review.
MEXICAN INDIANS.
The Lake Village or the Descendant off
tho Atce.
Clustered in around tho body of tho
lake are numerous Indian villages,
some of them half in the water and
half ont. There arc villages and clus
ters of huts on the little islands far out
into the lake, and causeways lead here
and there from swamp to swamp, from
shore to Mioro and from village
to village. Fur miles, the country
in every direction ecma to be half
water and half laud, and it is difficult
to say just where the lake begins and
the land ends. The inhabitants of
these water towns arc mostly fisher
men and duck-hunters. They seldom
go out of their swamps, and have re
tained moro of the characteristics of
the Aztec tribes, as the Spaniards found
them, than any other Indians of the
valley. They still retain their aborig
inal tomjuc, and many of them havo no
knowledge whatccr of Spanish. They
arc shy of strangers, ami look with
suspicion and distrrftt upon the trav
eler who ventures into their haunts.
In habits and manner of living they
are as simple ami rude as were their
forefathers centuries ago, and their
bare, comfortless huts suggest beaver
haunts and blackbird-' nests among the
tules. Notwithstanding all this, they
arc as healthy aud as happv as any
people I have seen. In order tlive it
is not necessary to work hard, and thej
sing, drink pulque and skip about from
hut to hut in their little boats, as merry
as the mud-larks and as careless of the
morrow.- -Chicago Interior.
Harvey B. Bashorc, Yale, class of
'86, has recently perfected an improved
surveying instrument by which the
height of objects or their distance from
the observer can be readily obtained.
In ordinary observation the angles are
taken by the use at a quadrant, and
then the height of the object or its dis
tance from the point of reckoning are
calculated. In the improved instru
ment, however, the calculations can be
read off directly from a scale on tin
sight of the instrument, in cither yards
or meter, as desired. -Bartord Pott.
PITH AND POINT.
"Do you wish to benywffc. Ma-'
bel?" said a little boy. "Tea?- Ineaa
tiously answered' MabeL "Thea poTlosT
my boots." Pall Mill OaxcOe. 'f
A man who ts'wttttne to hold the
baby part of the time "aaa grease the
griddle in tho morning Is, la aroman'e
eye, the only substitute for cash.
"I've eaten nest to aothinir,." lisped
Smithcrs, who was dining with his girL
"Oh. I always de that wbeaVlaUby
you," responded tho youag lady,, pleas
antly. Sam.
"Give us the ballot-bos to the cry
of but very few of the fair sex, while the
rest of our fomlnfno peculation is coo
tent with being alloired to frequently
stuff tho band-box. Pkiladelahto Herald.
It Is said that "an Ohio
Slanted the first American flag fa CaM
rnla soil In 1833." Whether, fc) grew
or not is not stated;, bnt'tee suppose of
course it did. 'They havo a glorloos
clfmate ont them. LowtU (Stttm.
A man in NorUuwnptoa County;
went to Bleep iu an engine hoase, us
ing a box of dynamite for a pillow..
When ho awoko ho found his head
blown off. It must have bees -a pate
ful surprise to him. Norriitemm Her
aid.
Wife "Aren't
you coins:
to eat
your pudding, dear?'
" Husband
(pok
ing it disparagingly with his spoon)
"it would Kin mo to eat mat mess of in
digestible stuff." Wife "I know it's,
not very nfco, but you had better eat it
dear. I hate to sec it wasted. CA
cago Mail.
Times are pretty hard with aorae of:
the small brokers in tho new board of
trade dUtrict. A deaf and dumb man
went into an ofllco in the open Board of
Trade Building the other day. and.
seizing a piece of paper, wrote: "I am
hungry." The broker took the piece of
paper, read the unhappy words and
scrawled under them: "So am EM Chi
cago IIcrakL
Sho should hare darned 'em
The beautiful mautcn la shopping to-dar.
Unite buiqr. and to her aorvrlM.
While tlironub tho tbmuKed street she Is
taking her way,
Hor beau la the atreet the caulea
Oood araetootti 'tis awfali Ho ceaatag. ae
doubt.
And swift to her iMtart strike a pain;
The eyo of affection wUl single her out,
IIu'lI see hor uud ttneaar, that Is plain.
Sho halt, blushes redly, thoa erooaea tha
street.
Avol'Itan tho voath that she love;
Tbe maid it would laottlfymaea should the
meet
There aro hole ta the ttpe o her gtovo
Boston Courier.
A GREEN ONE.
He Uaji a Fralrlc-Io Town saw WJah
Colony.
"There ro somo mighty green men
in this world," said tho passenger from
the West, "and I strnck ono of 'cm a
week or two ago. If I hadn't I
wouldn't be here now. Last spring I
went out in Western Nebraska and
homestcaded a quarter section. I hadu't
seen the land, but took it supposln' ft
was all right. Bnt when I got thero
I found it already inhabited. Abuut
one hundred and fifty oercs of tho
one hundred and sixty were covered
with a prairie-dog town. Well. I con
cluded to settle down and sco wliat I
could do, and I'm mighty glad now
that I did. About two weeks ago I
was up to the railroad station trying to
get trusted for somo Ineon and flour
and terbacker, an feelin right Mintrt
discoucaged. 1 was nut of money and
grub, and tint winfoT was cumin' on
fast, an I couldn't see anyway oirt of it
but to cat nrnlrio dogs and they'ra
mighty hard to catch. Hut (hut day
was the turning point In my luck.
Whilo I was at tho station on Kugtim't
man got off the cars, an said a how
ho was out West tonkin for a place Ut
make an Investment Sn' he'd heard
o Utc fur business an wanted to
know if he wua out In the fur country
yet-
'Furs,' says I, tlHjro hain't not'
an' just then n idea Ktruck mo, an' I
changed my tune. 'Furs. ooy I, 'there
ain't no licttcr fur country than thw on
'artlt. Just uuiix out to niy place till I
show yon my fnr farm.'
"And ho went out with mo, on' I
showed hhn tho irairiu-dng town. an.
as luck would have ft. it was a bright,
sunny day, an tho domi wcro out ecoot
in' around by the huudredi.
" TulkiiinlK)iit fura,' mtys I, 'what
d'ye think of that? I've lieen six ymra
growin' thoHu mink, an' hain't sold a
hide. It's afl natural greu.se. Guew
tln-y'fl bout wven thousand of 'cm now,
an' they double every year. How muuy
will th.-re lo iu ten years?
"You oiightcr seen that Englishman's
eye open as he took oirt hit pencil an'
figured It up. Ho made it 7.1U8.00O
mink.
Well,' sovs L call it 5.00O.00U to be
on the safe side. It won't coot a dollar
to keep 'em. either, an' if they're worth
a cent they're worth u .iolfar apiece.
There's millions in It.'
"Then we got right down to buslnew.
an' In less than an hour I had sold out
for Hcven thou.-and dollars' cash, an' the
next day 1 paid throe hundred attd tiftv
dollars for the homestead at the Land
Office, got my patent and transferred it
to him and took the lirst train for tho
East. Step into the butler with me,
partner, an take a drink." Chicago
Herald.
MEXICAN SCHOOLS.
A Country Whom Dot feljr-Iflie l'ec
Cent, of the t'opulattott Om Until aud
Write.
The number of elementary schools in
the entire Mexican Republic is about
11.000, with me GOO.000 pupils. Of
these schools 'J.'IG are supported by
cither the National or State Govern
ments. They aro attended by 470.000
pupils. There arc 39 schools supiKtrted
by the Lanctvterinn Society. Tho Cath
olic Church maintains about 1,000
schools, with about 100,000 pupils; re
liable statistics about theso schools are
not on hand, however. The different
Protestant missions and association
maintain 260 schools, with art attend
ance of about 12,000 pupils. The Cath
olic society ln-imtains 2W schools, with
nit estimated attendance of 40,000.
Manufacturing establishments maintain
forty-five schools, with an aggregate at
tendance of 4.000. Of private schools
the City of Mexico alone has 231, whose
attendance docs not fall sliort of 16.000.
Outside of the city there are about 500
private schools, with an aggregate of
probably 10,000 pupils. Only a few of
the State have enacted laws compell
ing the attendance of children at
school. Of rticsc Morelos was the first.
This Slate ha-i tho greatest tiumber ol
schools in piportion to it.-population,
having 150 schools for its 150,000 inhab
itants, or one school for each 1,000 pop
ulation. It is estimated that from
twenty-two to twenty-five percent, ol
the population of Mexico can read aad
write. Mexico Two Republic.