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! I' ' THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17, 1SSG. fcUred at tk Pait:et, Cslsntu. He., si ttessi clut Bittir. NIGHT.. rsoit tictob nooo.1 A little chlM. beside me. fresh and fair. In slumber bo profound and calm ron ept To did not bear the doves that, murmurin tbare . . . ' In the doep shade, their tender vigil kept. Pcnslro I breathed the somber sweets Of night The solemn night. I heard the angels flutter round your bead. And watched your close-shut lids: pale primrose flowers. With noiseless touch, upon your sheets I spread, . . And prayed, with wet eyes, through the llent hours. Thinking on all that in the darkness watts Lies hid and waits. One day will bo my turn eo sound to sleep That I. liko you. shall bear no murmuring dove: lhe night will bo so dark, hc rest so deep. Then you will come, then you will come. And pay me back my gifts of fair whito tears and flowers. jlfTTCiy. CUKIOUS MARRIAGES. Cupid's Disdain for the "Consist . ent" Actions of His Victims. According to some of tbo novcl9 of the present day, it is only the lovely nymphs of seventeen or eighteen, and the fascinating swains of three or four and twenty, who have any business o think of matrimony. The poor plain ones or those who have passed the me ridian of life, arc looked upon as com pletely shelved; the hymeneal torch is not to be lit for them, and the little god of Love passes them over with ;ontempt. But is this really tho fact? On the contrary, there were novcr more extraordinary contradictions than vc find in the history of marriages; wc sec women marrying men young enough to be their grandsons; crabbed Age and Youth often live together in perfect harmony; and May and Decem ber arc constantly united with the hap piest results. Almost every marriage is a nine-days' wonder, and creates much astonishment, speculation and lifting up of hands. Quite recently, a liorseisnire clergyman 01 ciguiy years of age electrified his congregation .by publishing his own banns in the parish church. It is always necessary to be I repared for theHo surprises. alio lind, deaf, halt and maimed are not exempt from the contagion of matri mony; and so far from youth and love liness being tho only vietims of Hymen, we find some of the loveliest women consigned to single-bleasednoss; while their less favorod sisters arc happy wives and mothers. The particulars of many curious marriages arc not re vealed to the public; but during tho last century less reticence was observed in the matter; the ages of the respective parties were frequently put down with out reserve, and the fortunes of tho ladies were mentioned with much unc tion and gusto. Among these announcements a few of the more remarkable are worth se lecting. Here is one from an old mag azine for June, 177S: "A few days age, was married at St. Bridget's Church, in Chester, Mr. George Hard ing, aged one hundred and seven, to Mrs. Catherine Woodward, aged eighty-three. So singular a union could not fail of exciting the admira tion and surprise of a numerous con gregation, before whom the ceremony was performed. The bridegroom served in the army thirty-nine years, during tho reigns of Queen Anno, George I., and part of George II. He is now particularly hearty, in great spirits, and retains all his faculties to an extraordinary perfection. This is his fifth wife; the last one he married in his one hundred and fifth year; and lie is Mrs. Woodward's fourth husband. It is also worthy of observation that the above old man's diet has been for the last" thirty years past chiefly butter milk boiled with a little flour, and bread and cheese." As a pendant to this, we come across another an nouncement a few years later: "Mr. Thomas Dawson, of Northallerton, aged ninety, to Mi?s Golightly, a boBncing damsel of sixty-four. The SAxious bridegroom had been a wid ower almost six weeks." As instances of youth and age going together, wc may give the case of "Mrs. Horn, an agreeable widow with a genteel fortune, aged seventy-nino, who married Mr. William Steptoe, aped about thirty." We aro again startled by the following announce ment in tho month of January, 1805: "At Tynemouth Church, a young man about twenty-three to a woman aged eighty-six, who had been the mother of seventeen children. Notwithstand ing the banns had been but twice pub lished, tho experienced lady repaired to the church, where she was soon joined by her lover, and declared she would not leave it without her errand. She waited till the forenoon service was over, during which time she was frequently requested to leave the vestry, but all to no effect. She complained bitterly at her negligence in having forgotten to bring her pocket bottle and tobacco-pipe with her. The groom apologized for uot being ac quainted with the forms of the church, as he had never been in one since he was christened; and if appearances could be believed, water did not seem to have been upon his face mucc that period." We find another curious marriage, which is announced in the following terms: "Lately, at Newcastle, Mr. Silvertop to Mrs. Pearson. This is the third time that the lady has been be fore the altar in the character of a bride, and there has been something remarkable in each of her three connu bial engagements. Her first husband was a Quaker; her second, a Roman Catholic: and her third is a Protestant of the established church Each husband was twice her age. At sixteen, she married a gentleman of thirty-two; at thirty, she took one of sixty; and now, at forty-two, she is united "to a gentle man of eighty-four." A great sensation was created in the year 1778 by the marriage of the then celebrated femai- historian. Mrs. Cath erine Macaulay, who was far advanced in years, with a surgeon's mate, nnder age, of the name of Graham. Mrs. Macaulay was quite a literary lioness; and Dr. Wilson, an elderly and learned admirer of her talent, "had actually built a house for her, called Albert House; this he presented to her with furniture and a valuable library. He went so far as to have medals struck in her honor. Great, therefore, was the amazement amongst the literary and fashionable world of Bath when Mts. Macaulay, who had always been con sidered a rock of sense by her friends, made this extraordinary match. In Mr. Cudworth's interesting book, "Round about Bradford," he mentions the low status of the colliers of Wibsey in the year 1S51, and says that the humilitating spectacle of the wedding of "Johnny and Betty" is not yet for gotten, nor the collection of oddities and absurdities that passed through the streets of Bradford in that year, on the way to the Parish Church. On a couple of yards of painted calico, the secret of all this rejoicing was told in Ike following words: -At John's and Betty's wedding We will merry be. ar Johnny's sixty-ire. AM iw muma-mmv Mr. Cndworth also relates that the incumbent of Wilsdcn, Mr. Barber.was onco called upon to perform a -mar- Iriage in trust. There was a person living at Haworth Parish known by the name of "Moses o' Lukis." Moses having persuaded a woman to take him "for better, for worse," they appeared at Wilsden Church to be married; but Iwben the knot was tied, tha happy UUULI1C UCkU. uu AUiruuj w HV ""' -x"J Moses promised to pay the reverend gentleman in besoms; and honestly kept his word. This reminds us of a couple who, not having the where withal to buy a wedding-ring, the large key of the church door had to be tem Dorarilv used for the purpose. Ireland was not behindhand in tho , oddity of itsmarriages; we come across whole clusters of them in Walker's i mbcrnian Magazine Among them are , tho following: "Mr. John IIurarty, of Ballymanduff. County Dublin, aged . twenty, to Mrs. tiooa. oi saiu piace, aged eighty-six." "The Rev. Athana sius Huring, aged eighty-two, to Miss Carr. aged twenty-two, an agreeable young lady, with a fortune of fifteen thousand pounds." Mr. Richards, gardener, to Miss Mary Roper. The bridegroom is in the sixty-second year of his ago, and five feet four inches high; the bride aged twenty-one, and only two feet eleven inches in hoight." A match in high life between a cer tain Dowager Duchess and a handsome Irishman, Mr. Hussey, created a great deal of heart-burning and envy. Ilan buty Williams, one of the rejected suitors, composed some very spiteful verses on the occasion. The problem how to unmarry a j couple was attempteu oy a clergyman in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the year 1805. Ho found out on inquiry that he had married a young man and woman who were brother and sister by marriage (probably a deceased wife's sister). The clergyman, afraid that he might be punished for uniting this couple, attempted to unmarry them by taking the bride's bonnet from her head and placing the church Bible thereon; but the charm was not suc cessful; and the loving pair firmly re sisted this innovation of undoing the hymeneal knot. Some very curious changes of names have taken place in marriage. In Derbyshire, there now lives a woman who has been married three times. Her maiden name was Wildoose quite a common one in that locality she changed it first for that f Fox, then for that of Goodlad, and finally settled down as Mrs. Derbyshire. A Mr. Bacon was once married to a Miss Beans; and a Miss Pane married a Mr. Glass. Abundant instances of the same sort might be multiplied; but enough have been given to show how strangely things sometimes work out in the im portant matter of matrimony. Cham hers' Journal. n PASILINGUA. Another Universal language J'esh'e Which "VoUpnck" Is Outlandish. The advocates of a universal lan guage will soon have more than enough systems to chooso from. Tho Gorman papers speak of a new lan guage "Pasilingua" which claims especial merits. It is based on living languages, in that all that it contains either now exists or has lived, and down to to-day has remained an actual element. The system of the philolo gist Steiner is, on account of its closo relationship to modern tongues, re garded as superior to the earlier "Vol apuck" of Schleycr, which in compari son is said to be outlandish. The "Pas ilingua" is a mixture of Teutonic and Romance elements the mixing, how ever, being done on scientific princi ples yet tnat it is esoteric is not dis imted. It is claimed to be a language or adults, and is especially commended to travelers, commercial men, con ductors of hotels and all who are thrown into contact with persons of a nationality different from their own. It Is proposed at an early date to issue a French edition of (he Pasilingua grammar from Paris, and later an English edition is to bo printed at New York. The simplicity ot the diction ary is shown by the fact that it is only necessary to cive the root forms for the nouns and a part of the adjectives, J ana ail woras uerivcu inereirom, as verbs, etc., are then formed after defi nite grammatical rules. The follow ing is an example: Ta haus-a, tho house. tmue-lr. to dwell. ta haus-osa, tbo large to hnus-iro, the oceu- nouso. nunc oi me nouse. ta haus-Ula, tho small. bnus-au, a household. bouse. ta haus-al, the wretch cd house, ta haue-ta, house hotd. or. to tiauaaro. thoownor or the house, hana-io, domestic, liuus-ls, domestically, haus-nblo. belonging to tho house, haus-adeo, proceeding ta haus-u, domestic economy, tabaus-ln, household affairs. irom me iiousc. Tho Sterner system may not on closer examination justify expectation, but it is at any rato another attempt to solve a difficult problem, the solution of which would be of universal benefit. Chicago Tribune. m m A LUNAR PROBLEM. Frof. Young's Ideas of the Relations Exist, big Between Earth and Moon. Once upon a lime, many millions of j'ears ago, tho earth and moon, then young, hot and plastic, were very near each other, revolving around their common center of gravity once in from three to six hours, and also whirling on their axes in the same lime, so as to keep always vis-a-vis. Probably at some time before this they had formed a single mass, which -on account ol some unovenncss of density or figure, separated into Iwo under the rapid rotation. But starling from the condi tion first named, when daj' and mouth were equal and eaeli about four hours long. Dr. Darwin has shown that it is essentially an unstable state of affairs, and that if the moon were brought ever so little nearer to the earth, it would then draw closer and closer with ever increasing speed, until at last it would rejoin the parent mass; but if, on the other hand, its distance from the earth were ever so slightly increased then it would begin to recede, and would slowly withdraw farther and farther from the earth. As it recedes both day and month will lengthen; the month at first most rapidly, and then the day, until finally, in some far distant future, a condition of stable equilibrium will be obtained when day and month will again equal each, the period then being something less than sixty of our pres ent days, and the corresponding dis tance of the moon about sixty per cent, greater than at present. After that, so far as their muluul interaction is con cerned, there will be no farther change, but mother and daughter will live for ever happily apart. Prof. Toting, in Princeton Review. Mr. Bergh has his eyes on no less a place than Paris, where cruelty to horses is said to be distressingly com mon. A cruel thing that is ceaselessly happening all over Paris is the crack ing of tho whip just over the horse's head, so as to cause it to make a detona tion like a pistol shot. In a satirical writing of 1617, and then it's not given as new, occurs the saying: "Paris is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men and the hell of horses." N. Y. Herald. m m The largest dog in the country is said to be a St Bernard owned at Glen Cove, Long Island. He measures seven feet eleven inches from the end of hie nose to tho tip of his tail, stands twenty-five inches high, and weigh JWMaJMsltyl BJJMtytKO fWttfe COCOANUTS IN FLORIDA. Matures of m Naw Industry IsaagwU! -.-by Shrewd New Yorker. E. T. Field, of Red Bank, N. J., is an extensive Florida cocoanut-grower. He is a member of the firm of Field & Osborne, Ezra Osborno being asso ciated with him in the enterprise. To a Tribune reporter tho other day Mr. Field said: "Wc are located in Dado County, Florida, which is the extreme southern end of tho peninsula, on the Atlantic coast. There, between Cape Florida and Jupiter Inlet, wo have now about eight thousand acres of land which we aro devoting to cocoanut wnlks, which is the distinctive name applied to these plantations. Wo began our purchase of land there about three years ago, buying it from the Govern ment at a low prica. It being in the Everglade region, as will be seen by a fiance at the map, the land has never een considered of much value for any purpose, whatever it may become by an extensive system of drainage. Here wo are upon tho shoro of tho sea, a needed requisite in tho successful growth of the cocoanut palm. The soil is a porous coral land. From Cape Florida north for a distance of ninety miles, running parallel with the coast, thero arc bays, rivers and sounds, dis connected by narrow strips of land, bnt themselves connected by inlets to the ocean, through which tho tide ebbs and flows. Between these and tho ocean is our strip of land, which varies in width from twenty rods to a little over a mile, being elevated nearest tho ocean, and sloping gently toward tho west. "This chain of inland waters receiving the fresh water flowing from tho Ever glades prevents its Teaching through this strip of land. Easterly winds fre quently drive tho Gulf Stream waters against the coast beach as far north as Lake Worth; these waters being about eighty degrees Fahrenheit, a tropical climate is produced and a fine growth of vegalation is insured. We are fanned by the breezes wafted to us from the Gulf stream, and everything favors rank, luxuriant growth. Here during the last two years wc have planted over two hundred thousand cocoanuts. We take all our help and implements from tho North. The natives thoro aro a wild, lazy, shiftless class, unfit and incapable for work. The total population of Dade County in 1880 was only 257. Our planting is done in winter, when I tako my family South with me and superintend tho work in.person. At other seasons the trees help themselves and very little cultural attention is needed." "At what ago do tho trees come into bearing?" "From six to seven j'ears from plant ing. Thou they will average about two nuts per treo, and boar continually al most until soventy or eighty years old. We plant about twenty foet apart, which gives about ono hundred trees to tho acre, or a little more." "What about price and profitsP" Mr. Fiold was asked. "During the last throe years prices by the cargo havo ranged from twenty to scvontv-five dollars a thousand, twenty dollars being tho lowest figure for the most common kinds. This is for the nuts dcliverod in Now York; tho freight and expense from the tree to the market will not excoed five dollars a thousand." "Is there no danger of overstocking tho market?" "Tho demand for cocoanuts is now almost unlimited. I have a profitable offer for all I can possibly raiso in j'ears to come. The nut will bo used green to a much larger extent than now when people know now good it is; and tho water, which is then clear, and not milkj' as whon ripe, will bo highly relished :is a beverage. Why, we eat the nut from tho shell at the South. It is soft and rich. Then the husk, which is generally thrown away in America, Ls a valuablo part which is soon to bo utilized. Experiments to separate tho fiber bj- machinery arc now in progress and tho device is noarlj perfected. In addition to this, there is not sufficient land in Florida adapted to tho growth of tho cocotmut to overstock tho market if all was planted to it. Perhaps not over one million trees could bo grown there successfully." Mr. Fiold said that a sufficient number of cocoanut palms have been growing in South Florida for forty years fully to demonstrate tho certaintj of success. And these trees compare most favorably with the most successful in other countries, both in quality ami quantity oi product. But not until about six j'ears ago was anj' attention given to this industry in that State. About that time a few "thousand were planted at Lake Worth, a part of which aro now in bearing. Sinco then residents of Kej West have planted several thou sand on the different kcj's, which aro ncarlj all composed of this coral sand, varying in width from ten to a hundred feet; and it is thought these kcj's will soon be devoted entfrclj to the growth of the cocoanut. Messrs. Field & Os borne' already have about eighty thou sand growing on Key Biscayne. An advantage which Florida possesses over the West India Islands and other tropical regions where the cocoanut is grown is nearness to tho United States market. Those who visit od tho New Orleans Exposition saw manj fine specimens of tho cocoanut palm, some of which wcro twenty or thirty feet high. They grmv to the hoight of one hundred feet in their native region, and tho tree is an interesting object. It bears both male and female flowers, tho leaves curving downward being from twelve to twenty feet long. The fruit is borno from a long pointed spathe which is curious. N. Y. Tribune. THE SISTER-IN-LAW. A Dlnagrccable and Kxpemlve Addition to a Happy Family. The mother-in-law has had her day. Sho has had manj' daj's. She will havo manj more. All joking and senseless puns aside, the mother-in-law is a very handy creature to have around when the babj' is taken suddenly sick, when j'our wife has a chill or when j'ou want to borrow funds to settle for hist winter's coal before filling the bill this season. I used to make wretched jokes about the mother-in-law. I thought a funnj- scribe could not get along with out having his occasional fling at her. I don't say hard things about tho mother-in-law now. i nave; got one now. I have got something else. The mother-in-law is an angel compared to what I've got. When frnarried I didn't agree tc marry my wife's sister. That's the case in a nutshell. I've got a sister-in-law. Did you ever havo one? Be verj- careful." Don't'. Mv mother-in-law never cost mo a single cent. My sister-in-law, if she continues, will bankrupt me. One year ago I bought a parlor set. Mj- sister-in-law and her friends have created disaster among mj- parlor furniture. She sparks by mj coal fire. She reads gush to her beau under my gas. She wears out my gate hinges. She has the best room in the house. Sho must have a sealskin like my wife's. She says Chawly don't like tohear the baby cry. She goes to the seaside with my wife. She bosses ny servant. She she woll; if any mother-in-iaw could be more expensive and disagreeable than my sister-in-law I'd like to meet her. "I'd trade my sistor-in-law off for a yellow dog; then I'd shoot the dog. H. S. Keller in St. Iyitis Whip. A Canadian Frenchman thinks that when he has been vaccinated it does for th whole family FISHING rOR CONGERS) Bare Sport far IteaaieM WUkttwtmTM Wolf of the Ware. For those who are hardy enough not Co dread a night's exposure in an open boat there are few finer sports than conger-fishing off the coast of Devon shire and Cornwall and all along the edges of tho English Channel. There are many "old salts" scattered along the coasts of the Mediterranean and even in theso sober and unroranntic islands many snch exist to this day who are always ready to aver that a big conger, when hauled up from tho rocky bed of the ocean and introduced into a boat, is in the habit of opening his gigantic mouth bristling with teeth, of making a desperate onslaught upon tho first man that he spies, and of barking like a dog. It has, indeed, often been asserted that a conger Ihrco or four feet long, and weighing about twenty or thirty pounds, is a truly awkward customer to face when ho is drawn into a boat. Alone of fishes, ho and his congeners of tho eel tribo havo as much power of locomotion upon land as they have in the water, and no sooner do they sec a human being near them on the clement to which they are foreigners than they mako up their minds to "go for him" without delay. It is probable tiiat the captured conger is prompted by nervousness rather than by ferocity when he glides towards tho enemy, and the noise which issues from his open jaws is attributable to tho escape of air from his swimming bladders and uot to his possession of barking powers, such as dogs are en dowed wilh. The best way to pursno Is to set forth about five in tho evening of a still, soft October day, and to row out to sea for a distance of two or three miles, until tho boat reaches the spot where experienced guides know that soven or eight fathoms below lie the reefs and rocks in which the congers reside. The first step is to set tho night-lines, which aro attached to corks floating on the surface. The line is about tho third of an inch in thickness and has strands fastened to it which are wrapped round with waxed twino or cotton from the hooks upward for two or three feet. It has been found bj experience that wrap pings of this kind are preferable to gimp as protections against tho power ful jaws and sharp cutting teeth of tho sea-eel. Having sot the night-lines, the fisher men next try their luck with hand-lines, and for thetirst hour or two after dark ness has fallon the fun is at its best. Under theso circumstances it is not un usual for a huge conger to get tho hook firmly fixed in his jaw, and a desperate struggle between him and his captor then takes place. Tho hooked fish gets his tail twined round anything firm and solid that is within reach, and snaps vigorously with his jaws at the lino, which is drawn light by the fisherman's strong arm. If the tackle holds, which is not always the ease, the tussle ends in the capture of tho fish. Although he is bjf no means so formidable in reality as ho seems in appearance, no wise fisherman allows him to wriggle about at the bottom of tho boat without iustantly taking meas ures to stun him. I Occasionally an inexperienced boy will allow his wrist to get within reach j of tho conger's gaping jaws, in which j case the bite inflicted upon the arm will leave marks never to be effaced. With i what purpose, however, it will be asked, j do amateurs quit their comfortable beds and duvoto the nights to catching a fish which resembles a sea snake and J is almost worthless for human food? The answer is that, as poetry is, ac cording to Coleridge, "its own exceed ing great, reward, ' so the fun of tug ging a big conger up from the ocean's depth is sufficient compensation for a night's exposure at sea. Nothing is more inexplicable and mysterious in the cookerj' of the ancient Romans than their extraordinary partiality foi the "munena," or seo eel. In the days of the Roman Empire enormous sums wero expended bj wealthy gourmet? in keeping up the artificial iish pond? whero this dainty fish as they regarded it was inclosed. There is a well known story that among the Romans the "munena" was considered to be most delicate of flavor if it had been fed upon human food. A rich frcedman named Pollion was said to be in the habit of giving orders that such of his slaves as he thought deserving of death should b thrown into the stews oi fish ponds where his eels wero kept. On one occasion a slavo belonging to Pollion had the misfortune to break 3 valuable vase, upon which his cruel master ordered him to be "filing to the eels." It chanced, however, that the Emperor Augustus was ono of Pollion' j guests, and he not only reversed the tyrant's order, but commanded the at tendants to break every vase in his host's mansion. It is impossible foi modern fishers of the conger to pretend that It is palatable. Despite the vague rumor that the oleaginous and strong flavored flesh of the sea eel is largclv used as the substratum of turtle soup, those who occasionally pass a night in catching him would do well to abstain from all attempts to dress him for the table. London Telegraph. THE PAMIR. An Almost Unknown Asiatic Keglonand lit InliHliUttnU. At the last general meeting of the Russian Geographical Societj' M. G rou m Grjimailo gave a very interest ing account of the geographical features of the Pamir region, which he had re cently visited. His narrativo included the state of its flora, Its zoological re sources and the material condition of it inhabitants. The "speaker began with a minute description of the moun tains, the euonnous glaciers, the water courses, the trade routes and tho geo logical condition of the countrj, as well as the plants and animals, which, with few exceptions, aro tho same as would bo found in Europe. But wo are told in tho Russian account of the proceedings that what most interested tho audience was the lecturer's descrip tion of tho life of the Kara Khirghiz and Tajiks, nomadic races inhabiting tho Pamir. M. Groum Grjimailo gave a graphic account of their existence, condemned to seek shelter in their tents during a long winter, and seem ing to emerge from a state oi lethargy ut the first beams of a spring suii, when Iheir joy may be compared to that of children. They celebrate their return to active life with a pastoral fete. As a general rule the men are light-hearted, but ignorant of the simplest subjects, disdainful of manual labor, which thoj' leave to the women, but still cunning enough, and great singers as well as performers on musical instruments. The possession of a fine voice is held in the highest esteem among them, and their national instrument is a sim ple kind of mandoline. These people arc essentially of a pastoral disposi tion, having reconciled themselves with a certain philosophy to the hard ships of their lot. Some of the tribes enjoy a somewhat higher prosperity from the greater fertility of the spot in which thej' havo fixed their camps. Between the Kara Khirghiz and Tajiks M, Groum Grjimailo -gives pref crones', to the latter, as more laborious and inured to fatigue, as well as more hos- Sitably disposed toward foreigners. ondon Times. -- Ruth and Boaz are the names c" two post-offices of Cuyell Couni. 'Texas. HOW TO GROW SMALL A Colored Jookey Tells How He LostThiOT Ponoris Dally. A wcll-patronir.ed barber in a down town shop Is frequentlj' remarked be cause of his diminntivc stature. A boy in size and appearance, ho is yet twenty seven j'ears old. His "fighting weight" fluctuates on both sides of a hundred pounds, but never exceeds one hundred and ten. His face is bright arid a good exponent of hi3 ready mind. Tho.rcmarkable thing about this col ored boy is pot that he is undersized or unusually intelligent, but that he is the embodiment of a singular physical his tor v. His brothers are strapping big fellows, and hi6 father, his uncles and cousins, and even his aunts, are larger and heavier than the average of tljcir race. "Tom" (for in using his true name his identity is concealed as completelj' as if ho were John Smith) in early life gave promise of a thrifty growth, but tlits was interfered with by a method that leads to the conviction that one, "bj' taking thought," can take a cubit from his stature, though he may not add one. While "in his cups" lather cups "Tom" told his stoiy: "Riding is the life for me. If I was worth a million, I wouldn't be satislicd onlj' whon I's astride a hoss, and that's what got mo into trouble. I'd have been as big as Bill you know my brother Bill?- if ilhadn t been for hoss racing. I've been riding ever since I was twelve j irs old, and havo mado more mom six months first race . grounds. 1 man! but wo ti a :iv nt tnat tf.an m i t. i ii iMier. l won the i. . ii ii mi iiio Statu fair r.ide Limber I wig, and. Iluw. lil bo ruling j'ct if I hadn't been thrown and hurt two j'ears ago. That's when I got this crooked leg." "But how about vour sizeP You said j'ou once expcclial to bo as big as Bill.'" 'Fleshing me in preparing for races stunted mj growth; I've had to loso as high as seven pounds in two days. It's casj' enough to gain weight, but maj-be Jrou didn't know that wo jockej's can osc flesh. How? Woll, suppose the riding weight is to be ninotj'-seven pounds, and me weighing ono hundred and live pounds throo dnjs before the race. I'd get up earlj' in tho morning, 6trip naked and run around the race track as hard and as long as I could until tho sweat poured off atovoty pore. I'd then run to a manure pile and be buried in it up to my chin. Then I'd laj' exhausted ami sweating for hours. Sometimes I'd go to sleep in the ma nure. After awhile they'd take me out and put me to bed, where I'd stajr for six hours, In sweating and sleeping this way I've lost three pounds in a half day, and the next day as much more. I kept on eating just the same as usual, and after a long sleep would feel brisk and well, but mighty lean like. But no man can grow "who is lighting to fall off in flesh this way, and at the closo of the racing season I al ways found mj'sclf smaller than at the beginning. Bj' keeping it up for j'ears during mj-growing j'ears I mado a runt of myself", as j'ou seo mo now. But I wouldn't give up riding as long as I had two legs and a pair of hands." Indianapolis News. m PASS IT ON. Tarlons Incidents from the Life of a Noted Divine. When the Rev. Mark Guy Pearso was about fourteen years old, having been In a school in Germany, ho camo to London on his way to tho "beautiful wilds of Cornwall," his homo. Ho staid in Londan long enough to spend all his faro, except sufficient to pay his fare home. He traveled by train tc Bristol tho rail only went as far then He went on board the vessel to carry him home, and thought, when he had paid the money for uis passage, that that included all. Ho was very hungry, and ordered his meals that day. At the end of the journey a dapper little steward, with a gold band around his cap, came to him and presented him his bill. He told him ho had no money. "Then,"' said ho, "j'ou should not have ordered the things you did." He asked him his name. He told him. He took him by the hand, shut up his book, and said: "I never thought that I should live to seo you." Then he told him how, when he haO lost his father, his mother was in grea: distress, and the lad's father had oce: so kind to her that ho mado a solemr promise that if he ever had the oppor tunitj', he would show kindness to one of his; so he took charge of him, paid his bill, gave him live shillings, and put him into a boat with some sailors, who rowed him in fine sryle to tin shore. His father met him, and lit said: "Father, it is a good thing to have a good father;" and he told him of what, had taken place. "My latl," said he, "I passed the kindness on to hiin long ago, in doing what I did, and now he has passed i on to j'ou. Mind, as j'ou grow up yot pass it on to others." Well, one day he wai going by train, and intended to take a firsl-elass ticket, as he had a donl of writing to do in the train, when he saw a lad at tho third class tickot-oflice rubbing his eyes to keep down tho tears. lie askvd him what his trouble was, and the lud told him he had not enough money for his faro bj- four pence, and he wanted so to go" as his friends were expecting him. He gave him a shilling, and the lad went, got his ticket and brought him the change. He told him to keej it, and said he was going to rid witl him. Then the carriage he told Hit lad the storj' of how he was treated ii tho boat. "And now," he Kiid. "I want you, if ever j'ou have tho opporltmitj', to pass it on to others." He got out at the junction, and as the train left the sta tion, tho lad Waved his handkerehie and said, "I will pass it on." OldJon athan. A SPANISH JOKE. The Cuttinsr UurlfMiuo on th Caroline Affair 1'roilucfil nt Madrid. There is something eally praise worthy in the manner in which Span iards make capital out of the famous Carolines incident, Diplomatists have had their full share in it, public house keepers, under whoso hospitable roofs countless political meetings of all pos sible and impossible parties wcro held; newspapers, filling their columns with long reports of the said meetings they all and many others have profited by it. Now, lastlj', the members of the theatrical profession are having their turn, for since the new piece, "Las Carolina's" has been played at the Madrid Variedades Theater the public crowds to everj performance in order to view the question from a new point ofview. The plot of the piece is this: Two little gins, Hispama and Ger mania bj' name, arc furiously quarrel ing over the possession of some dolls, and neither partj' can be appealed un til some one happilj suggests that papa which stands for both "father" and pope" in Spanish should solve the difficulty of the ownership of the dolls. Papa's verdict is that the dolls belong by rights to Hispania, but that Ger mania should be allowed to play with them. It would seem that the play wright had a better conception of the true importance of the question which troubled King Alfonso's last days than most of the Spanish and German poli ticians concerned in it. JM MullO-uil. PER8QNAL AND IMPERSONAL. President Scelye, of Amherst Col lege, says that if girls would run every day thoy would never die of consump tion. M. Do Lessen?, who is eighty yean old, predicted tho other dav that he would live to sail through the Panama Canal. ; Probato Judge Richard A. Wheeled, j of Stonington, Conn., has written four nunureu anu imv ttiiih, ana not one oi thorn, it is said, has ever been broken. Lord Tennyson admits that ho once tried for six weeks to be a vegetarian, and thinks he might hare succeeded had it not tx;cn so near Christmas, when he was tempted by s roast pig. Artemas Martin, the Librarian of ! the United States Coast Survey, was a ! market gardener when called to his present place. He is an expert in j mathematics and was self-taught. Washington Post. Miss Florence Nightingale believes in comfort, and when she want; a pair of new shoes she places her foot (irmly upon a piece of leather, and has tho shoemaker draw an outline of tho form so that the shoo maj correspond to the foot. N. T. Times. Henry M. Williams, President of tho Massachusetts Bicj-clo Club, has ridden fifteen thousand live hundred and sevontj'-cight miles sinco and in cluding 1880. He took to bicj'cling for his health and it has mado a well man of him. Boston Journal. President Tuttle, of Wabash Col lege, ascertained the ac of two thou sand two hundred and fortj'-two minis ters at death in this country', and found that they averaged over sixty-one j'ears, and that ono cf every seven attained his eightj'-eighth j-car. Chicago Mail. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle states that tho incomo of General Toombs averaged from 1810 to 1875 twenty thousand dollars a year. His last large cases were tried when assisting tho State's Attornojr in tho railroad lax cases, in the Duprec will cac, and tho Eberhardt murder case, in all of which he was finally successful. Ho uaod to say that w had often mado five thou sand dollars at a single session of court in Elbert County. Alva Banks, a young man who lives at Plcasanlvillc. N. Y., was re cently refreshed by a nice nap of fire days and live nights. Tho odd case of Mr. Bank is of pathological interest, because he has slept so twice boforo. It is said that he suffered from inflam mation of the covering of the brxhi while getting over that most undigni fied of ailments, tho mumps, ten years ago, at which time ho firnl fell into the long sleep. Ordinarily Banks is fresh, sprightlj and chipper. Buffalo x jHress. A "close friond" of the late Mr. Vaitdorbilt is quoted as saying that af ter his last vovago to Kurope Mr. V. told him In: hail chauged his will, and gave this explanation: "I had decided to divide my property among the boys, and had done so. But some of them who had about five million dollars that they thought thoy could make use of, put it into stocks in Wall street. It cost mo nearly twenty millon dollars to got thnm out of the scrape. Since I have been abroad, too. I have obtained some impressions in favor of keeping the bulk of the property intact. 8o I have made a change in my will to carry out that idea.'? If. Y. Herald. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." Young men who think their sweet hearts are divine, love to make divinity students of themselves every night in the week. Chicago Ledger. A Western settler's cabin was rc centlj' swept entirely away by a tor nado. This is what wc should call carrj-ing a house bj' storm. Prairie Fanner. A correspondent has di.scovored that there were dudes in ancient Rome. That is all right, but we fuel moro grieved over tho fact that they didn't stay there. Philadelphia Call. "My horse can answer a question very plainly," remarked a jockey. "When I ask him if he wants oats he nods his head up and down. That means yea." "Suppose he does not want oats, how docs he express him self P" "Bj' a simple neigh." lHttsburgli Chronicle. A Michigan man's life has been saved by a silk necktie backed with pasteboard stopping a pistol ball. Peo ple who had supposed that a silk neck tic backed with pasteboard could serve no other purpose than to hide soiled linen from the ej'c of the public will now see how greatly they were mis taken. Boston Transcript." Dumley bad related aside-splitting joke, and the company laughed con sumcdly. Fcathcrly seemed to be par ticularly amused. "Rather good, oh, Fcathcrly ?" said Dumley, very much S leased. "Y-j'cs, indeed," replied eatherlv, as soon as he could articu late. "It's g-good every time, Dum ley g-good every tinio. ' N. Y. In dependent. Old lady (to street gamin): "Lit tle boy, don, t you want to join tho Sun day school, and grow up to be a good man?" Little bov: "What Sunday- school is it?" Old lady: "The Method ist." Little boy: "No. I tried tho Methodises laV year, an didn't git nuthin' but a stick o' broken candy an' a apple. I'm goin' to try the'Piscopal this j'car." Golden Days. An eminent scientist attributes the remarkable longevity of a woman who recently died at the age of one hundred and nine to the fact that she never wore a high bonnet in a theater. We also understand that the vigorous health of a Philadelphia man now in his ninety-ninth j'eav is duo to the fact that he never went out between the acts to mako astronomical observa tions through a glass." Norristown Herald. Magistrate You aro accused of assaulting Pete Johnson. Prisoner Yes, yo'honah. Poto 'lowed I wuzzent no gcninian. But I only hit him wunce, sah, at the co'nah of Fo'tj'-scc-ond streot an' Fou'th avenue. Mag istrate Fortj'-second street? The policeman says he picked him up at tho corner of Twenty-third street. Pris onerAm dat so? Well, I didn't mean tcr hit him as ha'd as dat, Jcdgc. 'Deed, I didn't. N. Y. Times. Said a Dallas, Tex., woman to a female friend: "You should make your husband quit chewing tobacco. If you tell him to quit, ho will givo it up, I suppose." "Yes, if I ask him to, Dut I am not going to ask him to quit chewing tobacco." "When ho kisses you, don't tho taste of tobacco mako you sick?" "Yes, but I want him to keep on chewing. He kisses thrco or four other women, and the tobacco makes them sicker than it does me, for I've got used to it already." Texas Biflinas. - The Congo River. Stanley says that the length of the Congo river is twenty-one hundred miles, and that the Mississippi and tho Nile together would scarcely equal its tribute of water to the ocean. From the mouth of the river a steamer draw ing fifteen feet can steam up one hun dred and ten miles, at which point a land journey of fifty-two miles is taken on account of the rapids. Then an other steaming or rowing voyage of eighty-eight miles occurs, which is suc ceeded by a land journey of ninety five miles. After that it is possible to team np another ten hundred and sixty miles. Along this route thirteen stations have been constructed among peaceful tribe. 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