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THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY, M. K. TURNER & CO., Proprietor and Publishers. KATES OF ADVEMTISlUfi QTTBaslness and profesaionalcarda of five lines or leas, per annum, five dollars. ES For time advertisement, apply at this office. ISriiOgal advertisements at statute ratea. HTFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. "STAH advertisements payable monthly. (fulnmbtt.s ionpal r3T OFFICE. Eleventh .St., vptairs in Journal Building. terms: Per year I Six months SO Three months 5 Single copies VOL. XVI.--N0. 46. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1886. WHOLE NO. 826. lie 2 a jT COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CA till CA PI TA L, - $75,000 IMUKCTOKS: Leanmikk (Jkuuahi), I'ics'I. (Jko. W. IIiilst, Tricc 2V7. .JUI.IUX A. U5KD. II. H. JlKSRY. J. K. Task ek, Cashier. Link of lJlolt, IMwownl und Eichanse' Collection, Promptly !' sill I'olntx. ny lnterl on 'I'Ibms Bep- it. HENRY LUERS, DEALER IN C? 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I was afflicted with a disease of tlic liver for nearly two years, when a friend advised mo to take this medicine. It gave prompt relief, and has cured me." Mrs. II. M. Kidder, 41 D wight St., Boston, Mass., writes : " For several years I havo used Ayer's Sarsa parilla in my family. I nver feel safe, even At Home without It. As a liver medicine- and general purifier of tho blood. It lias no equal." Mrs. A. B. Allen, "Wmterpok, Va., writes: "My youngest child, two years of age, was taken with Bowel Com plaint, which wo could not cure. "We tried many remedies, but ho continued to grow worse, aud finally becamo so reduced in flesh that we could only move him upon a pillow. It was suggested by one of the doctors that Scrofula might be tho came of the trouble. We procured a bottle of ITER'S Sarsaparilla and commenced giving it to him. It surely worked wonders, for, In a short time, he was completely cured." Sold by all Druggists. Price $1 ; Six bottles, 95. Prepared by Dr. J. C. 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Quality anil Value of Preclou Stoat Found In the United States. Mr. George E. Kunz, of this city, is the author of an admirable monograph on "Precious Stones," issued by tho Department of the Interior, being an ab stract from the Report of the United States Geological Survey in regard to the "Mineral Resources of the United Slates." In these sixty pages tho student of this most fascinating depart ment of mineralogy will find in formation which he could not possibly gather from other sources or by any amount of personal effort. Air. Kunz is an indefatigable student and collector, and writes no line which does not contain some fact of interest. Considering the vast extent of our territory, this country is not remark able for its precious atones. In 1884 more than 69,000,000 worth of diuiiynids and other precious stones wore imported and entered for con sumption in the United Slates. In thai same year it is roughly estimated Ih-it the value of stones found in the United States and cold as specimens, curiosities and to cut into gems, was considerably less than $100,000. But a very e-mail part of this includes stones ranked as precious most of it being expended for fine specimens of varieties of quartz, garnets, etc. But our variety of truly beautiful mineral de posits ami crystals is rich enough to awaken the enthusiastic interest of every one who finds in stones the en during glory which is so frail and evanescent in foliage and flowers. Diamonds have been found in Vir ginia, North Carolina. California and other places, but nowhere in such num bers and of such quality as to command much attention; 500 is said to be the highc-l price paid for a California dia mond in the rough, though large num bers have been sold for from 10 to $100 each. Valuable emerald-green sapphire (oriental emerald) have been foin-.d at Franklin. N. C, and sap phire gem of other types have been found in other part of tho State, nlo in Penn-vlvania, Montana and clse wheie. But all together they could not ! of much value, for the estimated value of sapphire gems found and sold in LS-vi was $2,200, and in 1S81 only .Si. 750. Stiil we have some remarkable talcs of gem discoveries relating to our own neighborhood. Twenty years ago im meuM' spinel crystals were found near Monroe, Orange County, N. Y. The exact locality was known only to two mineralogists, "who worked it for sev eral years by moonlight for secrecy, ami from it took Calais that realized over $6,000. Since the death of the former miners the position of this most wonderful locality has been unknown." One of the finest gems ever found in America is a topaz of 125 carats, from Platte Mountain, near Pike's Peak. Mr. Kunz says that topaz erj'slals from this locality are equal in quality to many of the finest of the same size from Siberia, and are sold at a valua tion of from fifty cents to $100 each. Emeralds are found in New England and North Carolina, but scarcely any of gem value. Their near relatives, the beryls and aqua-marines, are found in a greater variety of places, and main- of them arc very transparent and beautiful. Tourmalines abound at Mount Apa tito, in Maine. They are found in other localities in that State, and also in other States. As to garnets, Mr. Kunz says that "there is undoubtedly no finer garnet found that looks better in the evening than those from the garnet regions of the United Slates. The. dark color in Cape garnets remains by artificial light, whereas with the American garnet nothing but tho clear blood color is visible. They are of fine qualify, and plentiful on the great Colorado pla teau." They are found also in other States west of the Rocky Mountain, and in Maine, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and elsewhere. We have not space enough to men lion even a few of the great number of beautiful quartz mineral' and feldspars which are described by Mr. Kunz, such as the remarkable anietiiyt recently deposited in the National Museum, 'Si inches long, 2 inches wide, 11 inches thick, transparent, flawless and uncut. N. Y. Observer. SELF-INSTRUCTION. A Fauioun Scholar's Method of Acquiring Foreign Tongues. For the benefit of a large number who have asked advice as to the best method of learning foreign languages, we givo Dr. Schlieniann's method, which wc find in bis Ilios. " Nothing spurs one on to study more than misery and the certain prospect of being able to release one's self from it by unremit ting work. I applied myself with ex traordinary diligence to the study of English (German was his native tongue). Necessity taught meameth .od which greatly facilitates the study 'of a, language. This method cousists in reading a great deal aloud, without making-a translation. Taking a lesson every day. constantly writing essays upon subject. of interest, correcting these under the supervision of a teach er, learning them by heart and repeat ing in the next lesson what was cor rected on the previous day. My mem ory was bad, since from 1113 childhood it had not been exercised upon any object; but I made use of every moment, and even stole time for study. In order to acquire a good pronunciation quickly, I wonttJice evcrj Sunday to the English church, and repeated to myself in a low voice every word of the clcrygman's sermon. I never went on my errands, even in the rain.wituout having nry book in ny hand and learning something by heart, and I never waited at the post-office without reading: By such methods I gradually strengthened my memorv and in threenionths' time found no difficulty in reciting from memory to my teacher, in eacfc day's lesson, twenty printed pages, after having read them atten tively. In this way I committed to memory rbciwliolc of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanboc. From over-excitement I slept but little and employed my sleepless hours at night in going over in nry mind what I liad read on the preceding evening. The memory being always much more concentrated at night than in the day time, I found these repeti tions nt night of permanent use. Thus I succeeded in acQuiriug in half a year a thorough knowredge of the English language. "1 then applied the same method to the study of French, the difficulties of which I overcame likewise in another six months. Of French authors I learned; by heart Qtc whole of Fenelon's Adventures de TjtfftnQquc and Bernar- din do St. Pierre's Paul ei Virginia. This unremitting study had in the course of a single year strengthened my memory to such a degree that the study of Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese appeared very easy, and it did not take me more than six weeks to write and speak each of these lan guages fluently." This was before Dr. Schliemann was twenty-two. His method of work at night can not be recommended to an American youth. Our climate is not that of Holland (where Dr. S. was then a clerk at one hundred and sixty dol lars a year salary), and in our climate abundance of sleep is imperative. But an adaptation of his methods may be very helpful to tho aspiring and reso lute student. N. Y. Tribune HINDOO PILGRIMS. Scenes at Allahabad at the Time of the Annual Pilgrimage. Allahabad is the holy place of the Hindoos, the city of God. Its halo of sanctity arises from its location at the union of the Jumma and the Ganges, tho two sacred streams of India. The tongue of sandy land at the junction is the hallowed spot, and here myriads of the devout resort, like pilgrims to Jordan, to purify the soul by bathing and prayer. This custom takes the form of an annual festival, lasting a month, when the lowland at the con fluence becomes a vast encampment. As the Hindoo religion works on a cash basis, these occasions are embraced for purposes of gain as well as of worship. Owners of various portable shrines hold forth their efficacy; Brahmins read the Shasters in return for pious offerings; the makers of gods are present to sell their wares, aud groups of Nautch girls find an abundant harvest. Traders erect booths or bazars, and the traffic in merchandise reminds one of the great Russian fair of Nijni Novgorod. Every twelfth year, when Jupiter enters a certain sign of the zodiac, oc curs tho great Mela, as the pilgrimage is called, when the concourse some times readies millions. The last took pb.ee in 1882. The holy mendicants al ways attend the Mela" in great num bers, begging or exacting food and money from the great masses. Under the pretence of sanctity they almost dis pense with clothing, allow their hair and beard to grow wild and twist a coil of gray rope about their heads, or else wear nothing, while they smear face, breast and limbs with ashes from the funeral pyres, relieved with daubs of ocher and vermillion. During Mela they inflict a variety of tortures upon themselves. One, for example, will bury himself in the ground until only his nose and mouth arc exposed, and feign to remain several days without eating getting up in the night, like the knave he i, and stealing the ma terial for a hearty meal. Boston Herald. ii JAPANESE TOILETS. The Costume Worn !y 111 Mikado'i Fair Siilijecla. In making her toilet for the day, the Japanese girl first puts on a garment made usually of some coarse material, not very long, and reaching only to the waist, but with long sleeves. On the neck of this garment is sewed a deep fold of scarlet or some bright colored crape or silk. A long, straight skirt of blue or red crape, silk or wool is tied around the waist, and over all three of these gar ments is worn the kimouo, or dres. This is of some dark color, and made of coarse spun silk or thick crape. For festivals and holidays the dresses arc of very fine material and very handsome. The outer dress is simply a wrapper reaching to the feet, with very long and wide sleeves hanging nearly to the ground, and u-cd as pockets. On each shoulder a deep tuck is made which extends to the waist, thus mak ing a little fullness for the skirt.. But the dress has no gathers, and is straight all the way down. The neck is adorned with a wide piece of black velvet or satin, which reaches nearly to the waist, and the dress is crossed over the bosom and confined by a girdle. Over this is worn a very wide sash, a piece of brocaded silk or satin, stiff with em broidery in gold or silver, lined with soft silk and fastened behind with a large bow. When these are all on, but barefooted, or if in cold weather in white mitten socks, made to reach only to the ankle, and with a placo in which to put the great toe (just as mit tens have a place for the thumb), she goes out to say "Ohaio," or good morning to her father and mother. X. Y. Times. WILLING TO CORRECT. Bat the Correction la to Be Made After the Expiration of a Decade. He walked into the office the other morning, looking pretty much like r. man dissatisfied with general results. "Can I see the editor?" he inquired. He was directed to the foot of the throne. "Good morning, sir," he began, grullly. "Mornin'," grunted the editor. "I came in," he proceeded, "to tell j'ou of a misprint in the paper." "What is it?" "Well, I sent a notice around here that my friend Smith had just been married, and your infernal compositor got it: 'Mr. Smith has just been mar tyred.' " "Ugh, j-ou call that a misprint, do you? Well, don't, and I've raised "that compositor's wages. If yon don't like it, send Smith around tc me ten years from now, and if he wants it corrected, I'll have it done." The visitor departed to see Smith. Merchant Traveler. The Lake of Constance. The Lake of Constance is only some fifty miles in length, but any one who travels from pier to pier and wishes to know the right time of day at each ought to carry five watches. Ite waters wash the shores of five different States Austria, Baden, Wurtemberg, Bavaria and the Swiss Federation. If you land at Rorschach and want to catch the train for Ragatz or Chur, your watch ought to stand at Bern time. In Fricarichsbafen yon most know the Stuttgart time, in Constance the Baden time, in Lindau the Munich time. The Austrian time is not reck oned from Vienna, but from Prague, which differs no less than twenty-eight minutes from the Bern time. Henca a traveler crossing over the Austria frontier at St. Margareten most pat back his watch half an hour in order to set himself right at the Swiss station. N. F. Observer. TAILOR TOPICS. A New Generation of Clothos-Makera Oa of the Fatnre PoMtbUllied. So much time and attention have been given of late to the all absorbing topic of fashionable attire for the male sex that it woidd seem eminently proper eventually for some enterprising pub lisher to launch forth a magazine es pecially devoted to their whimsical wants and ideas. The magazine would havo to be conducted upon the same plan of those designed for the fair sex, and this of itself would be a novelty, if noth ing more. Columns arc devoted to the matter in almost every paper in tho country, and at this rate woman, who has unquestionably held the fashionable field, stands a chance of being crowded out to make room for other darlings. There is a class, however, who smile complacently at this probable turn in aflairt, aud who chuckle to themselves in .delightful anticipation. They are the laiiors those squatty figures, who perch on a bench after the manner of a Turk, deep in the mystery of shaping coals and pants for aspiring j'outh. "I tell you what, though, said a pop ular tailor, "there is going to be an alarming scarcity of clothes-makers pretty soon. At the present day, no ono wants to be a tailor. Nobody wants to learn the trade. It's almost impossible to get an apprentice, and I venture to say that when the present generation of tailors dies off there'll probably be no one left to undertake the business. Did you ever see a young man making a pair of breeches? I don't think you have. Nearly all are old hands with no successors when they shuffle off. A great many applicants don't want to do anything but cutting, and most of them are botches. There has been quite a falling off, too, in the number of tailors recently. Do others take their places? Not often, and when they do soon quit in di.sgu.sL There is only one alterna tive, as far as 1 can see, and that is for women to take the matter in hand when no men are left. This event may 1)0 long distant. But it is extremely prob able nevertheless." "Can a woman equal a tailor in mak ing clothes for men ?" "I never heard ot any. If they're in existence the must be very scarce. Some women can make shiits and pant? for youngsters, but never knew one to tackle a coat or vest. Ami I'll bet you a man or boy couldn't be persuaded to wear them after they were made. How ever, men should accustom lhe!Ueles to women-made garments, for 1 think it will only be a few years when the task will devolve upon tiieni entireh." "Heretofore," he continued, "it has been regarded as a distinction between tailor-made and mantifaciiiied clolhcs that the pant of the former were pressed out round and Mti.iulh, without any crease down tho leg. But il seems that the m.'.niiiaciurcrs have caught on to this, ami now their pants are also pressed smooth b tailors employed for that purpose. If, upon reaching their destination, they slill retain a crease caused from packing, the dealer to whom the' are consigned makes any alteration thai may be nee.-s.sary to suit the purchaser. What must then be done? I see that in New York all the tailors purposely make a crease down the lege of pataloons in order to again distinguish them from store clothes. The whole thing naturally looks absurd, hut there must be a distinetion. What other follies did you say? They are too numerous to mention. A man comes in ami wants a suit made. If he simplv gave his or der and chose the cloth and style there would be no trouble. But he want.- the breeches to fit jusl so ami so around tho leg and to delicately fall over the feet. And the coat must not have a wrinkle. The shoulilers, however, receive more attention limn the whole business. They must be systematically padded, and to do this will require great skill. This feature of the eoat has the greatest charm imaginable to the happy pos sessor. Many hollow-chested persons with slopingsliouldersliave the. -liouliiers padded to make them square ami give the body an upright position. Thl will account for some of the finely foi med men you encounter daily, and if ou took their coats off you would find about an inch and a half of p.idditig on e-teh shoulder. It is perfectly reasonable to wish to improve a defective form by ar tificial methods. But the matter of pad ding is carried to such an extreme that it becomes disgusting. What a. unit skin-tight pants? I think their day is almost over, though its hard to .say what will take their place. Yes, sir," repeated the tailor man, as he resumed hiss pat ting position, " our race is almost run, and unless more men learn the buine.s there'll be a panic for pants one of these days. ' ' Galveston News. EDUCATION AND LIBERTY. The Kaphl rrogro Recently Mitric by Jiip:tu and Jli-.iril. Gilbert and Sullivan in their burlesque of the "Mikado" have got theatre iro.-rs and amusement lovers to lauph at :he oddities of .Japanese customs ami man ners, but Japan itelf is making pro gress in fields which promise to put it in advance of the most civilized nations-. It has settled by law the vexed quo-tion of free popular education. Her -.tier all childn.11 between the age- : . md fourteen are to be compelled to : t.-ml school from three to six hours a tl: for thirty-two weeks in the year, and all ex penses, including the use of school books, are to be paid out ol lite nublie treasurj. This in a few year will' placo Japan in the front rank with (iermany iu the universalit uf a free common ed ucation, while it will hi far in advance of the United Stales and England. In the latter country such of the poor as can contribute to the support of the schools arc forced to do so, while in the United States education is not compul sory, and hence some sixteen per cent, of our population is illiterate. Then there is Brazil which has taken another step forward in hastening the day when slaver- is to disappear from the great South American Empire. Enforced slavery is rapidly disappearing from all parts of the earth's surface. The num ber of slaves in Cuba is steadily dimin ishing; the day is certainl coming when over the whole eaith it may be said that the sun does not rise upon a master or set upon a slave. Demorcsfs Monthly. An exchange sas thai "Vanderbilt left from $170,000,000 to $200 000,000." What if he did? Theie's immv a poor devil who hasn't ten cents to his oack, and if he were to die to-night he would leave the whole world. Xorristovon Herald. Guano has been discovered on the island of Southern California, and three hundred tons were, recently hipped to Europe FIRST National Bank ! coz.TjracBXJs neb. Authorized Capital, -Paid In Capital, Surplus aud Profits, - 8250,000 (50,000 13,000 OFFICERS AND PIKKCTOKS. A. ANDERSON, PresH. SAM'LC. SMITH, VicePres't. O.T.KOEN, Cashier. J. Y. EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRIOH, AV. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange. Passage Tickets, auu Real Estate Loans. -voMS-ly BUSINESS CASDS. D.T. Martyk, M. D. V. J. Scnuo, M. D. Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeon. Union Pacific, O., N. & 1$. H.and 15. .v M.lt. lt'. Consultations in German anil English. Telephones at ollice and residence. JQTOtlice on Olive street, next to llrod feuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 42-y W. .11 . COKrMU.llK, LA V AXD COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th utreet. J. a. ri:i:ukr, ATTORXEY AT LA V, Ollice on Olive St.. Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf c. 1 I. KVAXS, ML . PHYSICIAN AND SUB G EON. JSTOtlice anil rooms, (thick building, 11th street. Telephone cominuuic.itioii. Iv TJAMILTOS 9IEAUI; . !., PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON, Platte Ceuter, Nebraska. l-y '. I KIJEK, 31. IK, HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Children a Specialty. laTOliice on Olive street, three doors north of Kirbt Nationil Uauk. 2-ly TT J. ESIIWMOi, NOT A Ji Y P UJ1LIC. Sth Street, 2 doors west or Hammond House, Columbus, Neb. 4l-y ftlttXKY TO LOAM. Five years time, on iinproveil farm with at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one thinl the fair value of the homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, 1 31. K. TURNER, .o- Columbus, reir. M cAl.l.llslKK 1IKOS., A TTOJRNEYS A T LA W, Office up-stairs iu McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. TyrOTICK TO TKACIIKRN. W. H. Tedrow, Co. Supt. I will be at mv ollice in tho Court House on the t i"rd Saturday of each month. Tor the purpose of examining teachers. :'!'-,f J. M. MACKAKI.ANI, II. K. COWDKKY, Atterr.07 ai Hstiry Prtl e. C-Ua:.:r. LAW AND COLLECTION 0FFM-E OK MACFARbAND & COWDERy, Columbia, : : : Nebraska. J. J. MAUCiHAIV, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Aycnt. 3TPart ics desiring surveying done can notifv me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. .Il-Um JOHN ;. 1IIGG1NS. C. .T..GA1M.OW, Collection Attorney . HIGGINS & GABL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C. J. Oarlow. 34- hi Tj SI.KISslli:, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harne-., Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blankets. Curry Combs, Rrushcs, trunks, valisec, buiruv tops, cushions, carriage trimmings,'. V.c., at the lowest possible prices. Repairs prr inptly attended to. TAH1KN WAIVEO:', CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. (Jood work guaranteed. Shop on loth Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. ' JWCmo. pAUPBEI.I. & CO. IlKALKRS IN !Raors and Iron ! "& The highest market price paid lor ras and iron. Store iu the Rubach building, Olive St., Columbus, Neb. l.Vtf JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havenad an extendea 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 tvnitytoestimateforyou. ISTShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 488-y RCBOYD, MANUFACTURER OK Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. t3TShop on Olive Street, 2 doors north of Brodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store. 32-1 f ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. A Number of Inoxplicablo British Fecal Urltleo. In tho obituary notices which the death of the Duke of Somerset called forth n curious diversity in the spelling of the family name was noticeable. Tho old Duke, a plain, rough-tongucd, un ostentatious man, spelled it Seymour; the new Duke, who himself is seventy five years old, writes it St. Maur. And as the old brothers disagreed on this point so the nephews of the present duke differ, for there is among tliem a Lord Algernon St. Maur and a Lord Edward Seymour. When members of the family arc themselves of two opin ions it would be temerity indeed for a plebeian outsider to attempt to deter mine the right of the thing. Apparently the original name was Norman, and the family harks back to a William de St. Maur, who held lands in Monmouth under Henry in. But three genera tions afterward, in the time of Edward III., the head of the house wrote himself if. indeed, he knew how to write at all Roger Seymour. This name they bore with them when, iu Tudor times, they emerged from obscurity by a lucky chance, gained court favor," fattened themselves on church lands and finally, from the pinaelc of the Lord Protector ship, gained the right to sniff at all tho other families of England, barring only the Howards. Indeed, I am not sure that this exception ought to be made, for although the Dukes of Norfolk (1483) antedated the Dukes of Somer set by some iixty-four years, it is well known that Howard is a corruption of the excessively common-plaee Saxon name Hogward, while now that Sey mour is spelled St. Maur, there can be no manner of doubt ::l ut it-. Norman bluc-bloodedncss. Of eoure, it i Inn that vulgar tongue.-, conupted the name for something over live centime. : hut. thank Heaven, it has been restored now. and we can all breathe easier. The name will continue, however, tc be pronounced Seymour, jnt-l :is Si. John is called Sinjun. and St Legcr is spoken Sillin.-r. Alas! we did not all know this la-t until lately at least lite reporters in the Commons gallery didn't-and when the ariMo cratic Marquis of Ilarsinglon spoke ol the correspondents who hud been killed in the Soudan, one of whom was nauiec St. Leger, the papers next morning all had it Sillinger. l$ut not that we know what fashion demands in the matter ol orthocp3' it shall never happen again. Sometime I am going lo make a whole book about the funny things ir English pronunciation. Everybody knows about Majoribanks being Alarnh banks, and Cholmondciej being Chuni ley, and Levison-Gower being Lewson Gore. These are stock samples familiar to all. Most people know, too. that the Norman names of Belvoir and Beau champs arc pronounced Beaver and Bcecham, while the equally Norman name of Grosvenor retains its French sound. But these arc only sign-posts on the road to a general knowledge of the subject. When you get to know why Boughtou is pronounced Bawtcn, while Houghton has the long o, why Wemvs should be Wccms, ami Knollys should be Knowles, you will be getting on in the mastery of the subject. I'ut Inert arc no rules. Some words like Tall Mall, which is pronounced pell moll, retain the sound of foreign origin after thej have lost its form. But, then, the wort mall, meaning path, is pronounced mal and as they both came from the ole French game of paille maille, it may be seem that the Englishman disdains inert laws of analog. He -ays liumted when he refers to Bolhanistead, but he pronounces Southampton out fulry and clearly. In London, too, he has a dialect of his own. He says dark, but the rest of England savs clerk. He turns all his long a's into long i's, say ing dyly pypcr instead of daily paper, but the country people do not. But, then, he says Herefford. while the na tives of that shire call it Harford. London Cor. N. Y. Tnnts. THE EARTH'S CHANGES. Why Our GIoWs Cu.it it l'erpetu.tlly Get ting T Ms For It. Our world is growing old and grow ing cold, and as it waxes older and colder it shrinks and shrinks, and shakes and quivers, so that its coat is perpetually getting a little too big Tor it, and has to be taken in at the scams from time to time. The taking in is done by the simple anil primitive meth od of making a bulging tuck. The Alps are situated ju-t above a seam, and arc themselves one of tiie huge bulging tucks in question. According to Prof. Hciiu, the folding of the cni'-t has been so eiiomioui that points originally far apart have been brought sevciii-f ur miles nearer one another than the were at the be ginning of the mow m n of pre-siire. In fact, Switzerland mu-t have been originally quite a lari country, with some natural pretention-, to be regarded in the light of a lir- late European power; out its outride ha been folded over and over so often that there i now very little of it left upon the ur face. What it once poesood in area it has nowadays to lake out in elevation only. Prof. Judd lias well shown how great is the amount of wear and tear lo which mountains are thus subjected, and how enormous is the loss of material they undergo in the case of the extinct vol cano of Mull, which ro-c during the not very remote Miocene period to a height of some ten or twelve tlnm-and feet above the sea level. It had a diameter of thirty miles at its base, and its rcat cone ro-e gigantic like that of Etna, or of Fusi on a Japanese fan, far into the sky, unseen b' any ee save that of the half-human, ape-like creatures, whose rude, fire-marked flint flakes the Abbe Bourgeois has dis-cntombed from con temporary strata in the North of France. Since the Miocene days, rain and fro-t, and wind and weather have wreaked their will unchecked upon the poor, old, broken-down, ruined volcano, till now, in its feeble old age, its youthful fires long since extinguished, it stands a mere worn stump, consisting of a few scat tered hills, none of which exceeds three thousand feet in height above sea level. All the rest cone and aahes, lava and debris has been washed away bj the Mtiless rain, or split and de stroyed by the powerful ice wedges, leaving only the central core of harder matter, with a few outbjing weather beaten p.iteiica of solid baxdt and vol canic conglomerate. Golden Days. At a sal- of autotrophs in New Yok, one S Washington sold for S20.80; one '. John Adams, $10.50; I .'; P.tu Joi.c, tfll'.oO; General Put-ii.-.iii t'' !'5io:ii:i Jefferson, S-l. 25; and Lafaj.Mc'.s, yb.i:. - N. Y. MaiL LAWYERS AT SEA. Kolsaace a Board Ship Who Kaewa More thnu the CAptala. 'Tve shipped a good many crews in my time, said an old vessel captain the other evening as ho sat in the tug ollice toasting his feet at the stove and sucking away at an old pipe. "A good many crews, and never had any trouble with the men but once. It was on salt water, and I was engaged to sail a brig from Boston to Rio Janeiro and back. When the boys came aboard I thought what a good-looking crowd they were, and sure enough they proved to be as good men as I ever sailed with.with one exception. He bothered me a good deal. He knew his business well enough and would do what he was told, but with a kind of a way about him that was very provoking, just as though he was doing a favor, and if he was told to do any thing as like as not he would ask, as politely as you please, if it wouldn't bo better to do so and so, but if I gave hint a bit of a jawing he would go about the job easy enough. "Well, one day one of the boys drop ped a 'block' on the mate's toes, by ac cident, and the mate he cussed him pretty hard, and this blanked Iyer lawyer? Yes, Iyer, that's what he was, a regular sea Iyer lie kind of smiles, tickled like, and takes hold of the fellow that dropped the block and goes down in the fo'k'sle. 1-iirty soon he comes up to me and begins to argue with me about the male abusing the men. The mate was as kind a fellow as ever lived, and wouldn't hurt a hair of a man's head. Well, I kinder laughed at him and said in course the mate would swear when he got his toes -mashed, but it was no use; the more I gived in the more he jawed away, and at last I ordered him furred. The cuss smiled all over and sez that, accordin to law, ho has a right to state the case and demand to have the crew treated properly, and then he gives me more law in a minute than I ever heerd before, and I got right hot and tells him if he don't go forrcd I'll have him locked up below. Then he sez. sez he: 'Please do lock me up if you waul to,' and begged me to punish him, ami I dassen't. and the cuss knew it, for he would have hail me hauled up for it at the first port we touched, for he wasn't doing nothing wrong. It was his watch below, and the weather was fair, so I didn't have no excuse to order him aloft. He jawed away until I went aft to get rid of him. "All through that trip it was hard to tell who was captain of that vessel, me or him. Every day he'd come up with some question or other, and the madder PI'd get the more he'd smile, until it is a wonder I didn t put him in irons and stand my chances in court for it. "Well, wc got through that trip at last aud I give him the sack pretty quick, you bet. I've heard of sea-lycrs before, but if thoie was ever a tougher one than that fellow I want to know it. I ain't afecred of no mutiny, for a bold stand and the sight of a revolver will make the boys come to time; but I'd rather ship a loose manageric than another sea-Iyer." Chicago News. A STRATEGEM. Tfea itratulng Ulnmlcr Committed by a Long Inland ltclle. A young lady from Smithtown re turned home a little late the other eve ning, and after parting at the gate with a "some one else," crept up the front stoop and very softly inserted the night-latch key in the lock, unfastened the door and crept iu the house so as not to awaken her parents, who were slumbering upstairs. But luck was against her, for she upset a chair, 4iul a voice from above immediately nkcd: "Who's there?" "Only me, papa." " What time is it. and where have you been?" "I only went down to 's to spend the evening.' Imagine the young lady's feelings when she heard her parental ancestor get up anil pre pare to come down stairs. She immedi atelv set her brain at work to get out of the coming storm. She had better turn the clock a little back, so she went to the mantelpiece, and as there was 110 lamp in the room she had to feel for it. She found it, and gave the hey which turns it a twist, and with a smile sat down to warm her feet and await the arrival of her dear papa. In due time he arrived, and brought with him a Iani. The hands on that much abused clock registered 5:30 a. m. The young lady, instead of turning the hands back, had turned them ahead. What followed we don't like to tell. Long Islttndcr. t TWO STRINGS. An Knteriiritiiig Tnucli-i- U'lut Knows All About IIU I'rofV'.il'Hi. A very dilapidated looking tramp entered the counting-room of one of the wealthiest merchants on Austin avenue, and coining up to the dek asked: "A'int vour folks from Posey County. Imliany?" "Yes." "And your name N John Smith?" "Yes." Shake! You have at last found your long lost brother Bill. I am in need of money.' "Here is a quarter. Take it and go." The long lost brother turned over the quart r a time or so, and then -a'd: "Is a qu.nter all you can sj);ro for your long lost brother?' "That's all. Go. now, or 111 call a policeman." .said the merchant. "I'll accept the quarter on account of our relationship. That i a family mat ter: but, besides being your brother, I am a tramp and a dead beat. Now I apply to you professionally. Give me another quaitcr." Texas Sif tings. New Butter Test. "Say!" exclaimed a hotel guest, call ing the attention of an urbane waiter, "this is a terrible deal you are giving rac in the way of butter." "It's slighth off color; is,n't it?" in quired the waiter. "I should say il wad." "Rancid?" "You bet?" "Strong?" "Strong as a mule. "And fearfully frowy?" "Worst I ever saw in my life." "Yes, well that proves it's genuine butter, don't it? If it was oleomarga rine there wouldn't be nothing the mat ter with it. There is considerable dif ference now-a-days between churned butter and painted tallow. Texas Sift ings. m m A drummer who has just returned from Southern Florida says the beef in tfcat section is so tough as to make it aV aost impossible to etick a fork into tb jravy. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. Senators Sherman, Evarts and Hoar are consins. N. Y. Tribune Mrs. Brownlow, the famous par son's widow, is still living at Knox ville. Tenn. James R. Randall, who wrote "My Maryland" when he was twenty-twe. is about to publish his first collection of poems. Jabal A. Early is described as a venerable appearing man, his long, white beard reaching to his waist, and his bent figure indicating the rapid ad vance of extreme old age. Baron Tennyson's fortune is esti mated at $100,000, all of it of his own making, for the poet is practical and always makes profitable bargains with his publishers. Boston Journal. M. Pasteur has his theory of hap piness. "True happiness," he says, "appears to me in the form of a man of science devoting his days aud nights to penetrating the secrets of naturo and discovering new truths." Parson John Jasjicr, the famous colored preacher of Richmond, claims that he lias recently been solicited to go to England on a lecturing tour, and that a man offered him four hundred dollars to deliver his great lecture on "The Sun Do Move.'"in a Northern city. It is said that the wife of President Adams contributed largely to the State papers of her honorable and distin guished spouse, and that Mrs. Madi son was often useful in moderating tho temperament of the addresses which her husband wrote during his term of office. Chicago Herald. "Mr. Parnell," says a writer in the Chicago Tribune, "is a bachelor, and lives the simplest sort of life in lodgings, as a rule, taking his dinners at a hotel. His habits are so quiet that he and his sister Anna were guests at the same hotel for weeks without know ing that they were under one roof." Mrs. Bancroft, the wife of the his torian, is said to be preparing a vol ume of her reminiscences anil experi ences, and as she was a belle at Wash ington siiy y ears ago and ha seen the best people and places at home and abroad, she can not fail to favor the public with an uncommonly interesting book. Whillier says: "I have never thought of myself as a poet in the sense in which we use the word when we speak of the great poets. I have jusl said from time to time the things I had to say, and it has been a scries of surprises, to me that people should pay so much attention to them and rcnic'm ber them so long." John B. (tough re-appoarcd on tho lecture platform at Melrose, Mass , a. few evenings ago and introduced him self bj explaining the cause of his long silence. "I appear to-night," he said, "for tin: first time in three months, and for the first time in my life with a set of crockery in my mouth. I havo dreaded greatly appearing before the public, not under false pretenses, bnt under false teeth." Report say lhat Mr. Gotigh spoke "with all of his old eloquence and vigor." HUMOROUS. The say those artificial eggs can not be beaten. Pittsburgh Chronicle Jones must have been pretty sca-i-iek going to Europe when he threw up his engagement with his girl. Lowell Citizen. Said an Alabama mother: "Never would I call a bo- of mine Alias, if I had a hundred to name. Men by that name is alius cuttin up capers." Papa, what is a luxury? Father It is something, my so", that we can hi without. Logical boy What a lux ury a mosquito mu.stbe. f7rf''7t Days. From the prompt :nd safe way in which horse-t'iievesare hung out West, it looks as if that portion of our nc loved country was under the rule of a hemp-era. ?r. Y. Lrdaer. "Why didn't 3-011 come when I rang?"' said a Texas lady to a domes tie "Because I didn't heah the bell." "Hereafter when you don't hear the bell 3-011 must come and tell me so." "Yes, mum." Texas liftings. "Speaking of oleomargarine," re marked McSwilligen this morning, "it has occurred to me that there is one kind of butter which will always defy coiint-rfeiting. "Ah! what kind of butter is that?" asked Squildig. "The goa t. ' ' I'itlsb urgfi Ch ron iclc. Angry Father- Now, confound it, wii3' don't 3-011 go to practicing? Just see that girl across the street how de voted she is to her music! Unapprcci ative Offspring Stop right there, father. The girl nuiy be studious ami all that, but that's a type-writer she's plaving on. Puck. A Lowell small b3' who attended the Old Ladies' fair had to be told a great deal about the chance, he would have to "grab." This became the cen tral thought in hi-, mind, ami he had'ut been lonr in the hall when hebejjan to ask: "Manmfti, when can I begin lo steal something?" Lowell Conrirr. Fender-on, who recently' pur-cha-ed an alarm clock. say. the thing is a confounded humbug. " I set tho alarm, ' he explained, "before going to bed, after taking the precaution to stop the clock, so that its ticking shouldn't keep me awake. And would 3-011 believe it, I overslept next morning a whole hour later than usual!" Iiolon Transcript Chatty- Passenger " To show 3'cr what cheats they arc, sir, friend o mine lots o' mono;- and fust-rate taste, give the border "to one of 'em to decorate his ikw 'ouse in rcg'lar slap up st-!e. spare no expense, with all tho finest chromios that could be 'ad. You know what lovely things the3 are. sir! Well, sir, would 3-011 believe it! After they was sent, they- turned out not to be chromios at all, but done by 'and" (with withering contempt) " done by 'and, sir!" Harper's Bazar. Rhode Island Coal Mines. The "Coal Mines" is the name by which a hamlet and station in Ports mouth, R. I., arc known. Two mines that are said to have been originally opened in the present century, and to have been worked spasmodically since, are situated there. The product was a cross between slate and ordinary an thracite, with a preponderance in favor of the former. It could not be burned in ordinary stoves, though iu war time, when anthracite was bringing fourteen dollars a ton. Newport people to soma extent bought Rhode Island coal at eight dollars a ton, and managed to burn it by mixing it half and halL Of late years the demand for il has fallen off, and a few months since mining was suspended altogether, after penetrating to the depth of sixteen hundred feet. The mine arc full of water, aud coal mining In Rhode Island is probably ended forever. Chicago Herald.