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"h-J Z i Vfk yliG&P J- - 3 n THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVKBT WEDKEEDAY, M. K. TURNER&OO., Proprietors and Publisher . t3T0FFICE.-tteventh St., vp stairs in Journal Building. terms: v Peryear i Sxmoriths 5t) Three months filoglc copls ' COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, KEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 fie Baaaanl iBaLaf M .aaLaALaal " BaH H "MaaPlBaB Maaflr T aai BaH XJaLaT BaH VHISH H aH IBBBBB iBBBBal IH 1 H H ViBBBBal BBBBal ofl-reHa wh dollars. EV For Uata attaisoJacs. 9nij 13Lgal adYsrtlasnsttts rates. tarPor transisart rates on third pasjv. -'3 VOL. XVI.-N0. 48. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24, 1886.. WHOLE NO. 828. OTAJl av monthly. -"i.r vH DIUECTOES: Leandeb Gebkaud, Prcs'l. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice PresH. JULIDS A. ItEKU. R. H. Hssky. J.- E. Taskeh, Cashier. BaBk f UepoHit, lnce-m ud ExchaRK Collection k Promptly " all Polmtff. Pay latere! Time Oep- itM. HENRY LUERS, DKAI.KK IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pumps Repaired on short notice SSTOne door west of Heintz's Drug Store, 1Kb Street, Columbus, Neb. S HENRY G-ASS. ttistdert-Aier ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND UXALXItlJf Farniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, &c. Picture Frames and Mouldings. tSTIiepairitia of all kinds of Upholstery Goods. e-tr COLUMBUS. NKR. Ayer's CherryPectoral Should bo kept constantly nt hand, for uso iu emergencies of tho bouicho'd. Many a mother, startled la the night by Uic omiuoui sounds of Croup, find tho liltla sufferer, with red and swollen frier, gasping for air. In such cases Aver's Cherry Pectoral is invaluable 3Irs.Eir.ni5 Gcdncy, 159 "West 12S St., New York, writes: " "While In the country, last winter, my little boy, three years old, was taken ill with Croup; it seemed as iMc would die from strangulation. Aycr's Cherry Pectoral was tried In small and frequent doses, and, In less than half an hour, the little patient was breathing easily. The doctor said that the Pectoral saved my darling's life." "Mr. Clin. 1. Landon, Guilford, Conn., writes: "Ayer'a Cherry Pectoral . Saved My Life, and also the life of my little son. As he is troubled with Croup. T dare not La without this remedy in the house.' llrs. J. Gregg, Lowell, Mass., writes: 3Iy children have repeatedly taken Aycr's Cherry Pectoral for Coughs and Croup. It gives immediate relief, followed by cure." Sirs. JIary E. Evans, Scranton, t Pa., writes : ''I have two little boys, both of whom have been, from infancy, subject to violent attacks of Croup. About mx months ago we began using A ert Cherry Pectoral, and It acts like a charm. Iu n few minutes after the child lakts it. be breathes easily and rests well. lery mother ought to know what a blessing I have found in Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.' Mrs. Win. C. Rcid, Freehold. N. J., w rites : 'In our family, Ayer's medicines have been blessings for many years. In cases of Colds and Coughs, we take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, aud the Inconvenience Is soon forgotten." PREPARED HY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Xaas. Sold by all Druggists. FARMERS HOME. This House, recently purchased by me, will bo thorougbly refitted. Board by the day, week or him!. A few rooms to let. A' share of the public patronage is solicited. Feed stable in connection. 2-y Albert Ltrrn. LYON&HEALY Mcta a Koaroe Sts.. Chicago. WMmbJ wraU la as; JJmfc.li ; BLa.ua CATALOGUE. I far UA 100 1. 210 Eijt.uii Ma. Cap. Ben &u'W C&D-Lami g' - Dram MtnA Staff,, aad ik.mktoc"adeTeUPMi3asd Ki alCtotmtorjMwm te iMbv Hn uJ a A PRIZE, jjg six cents for .and receive i costly box of goods which will help you to nore money right away than anything else 'in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from frit hour. The broad, road to fortune peas before the worker", absolutely are. At eaee address, im C Agata, Maiae. ftBHa BBBHOTU BRAZILIAN DIAMONPa Primitive Method by Which They Ax Gathered from the Beds of Streams . Mr. H. N. Collier, who has visited the diamond fields of Brazil and mado a study of the dazzling gems, gave a reporter some interesting facts. Mr. Collier first visited the diamond fields cf Brazil in 1871.- He landed at Rio Janeiro and obtained a permit from' tho Emperor Dom Pedro to go into the interior. The fields were six hundred miles from Rio, and could be reached partly i)v wajron routes. At that time j the fields were worked by slaves in the i most primitive way. The total cost of all tne machinery used in surface work at tho fields was not more than one hun dred dollars. "When a miflicient quantity of dirt has been gathered from the beds of hallow streMns the washing begins. The washers that catch the diamonds and let the dirt and water pass thapugh are nothing but large and small sieves. TejJpQfciiUthedjams . ,1111 I I I I I l I I I ' I I I I I s. 1 I I I I lllll I I I I I lllll lllll lllll I I - I I I "L catches tho large and S the small gems. 1 saw a diamond embedded in the sand when I first arrived and pitehed it out with my cane. In the rough it weighed '$ 9-32 carats, and pol ished a carat and a half. Of course 1 had to pay well for it to the owner of the field. There is no doubt in my mind that that country is still rieh in undis covered diamond fields. Whj in the Province of Goaz there arc fields that I was told had not been worked for sixty years. The natives outside of the cities absolutely know nothing about the rich diamonds that can be found in certain localities. The circle of their lives is very small, and the' have no enterprise or push. How is the diamond trade conducted? Why, it is done just like any other business, pretty much; the bankers and mer chants paying so much for diamonds in the rough or polished. At tho mines diamonds aro always quoted in the rough. They do not sajso main carats, but so many aetavios, which is about 17J carats," less a thirty-second of a car.it. Tho export duty on them is one per cent., and the oilicials arc vigilant and always collect it. But that export duty is small compared to our import tax'of ten per cent. Every tiling in Uio Janeiro is done by a system of red tapeism circumlocution. A foreigner immediately upon his arrival, has to report himself to the chief of police and get a passport to go about. In leav ing, another passport has to be ob tained. I met the Emperor several times at his palace and participated in a jubilee demonstration at the time he departed for Europe. Of course, like all autocratic governments, there is a groat deal of buncombe and llashy mil itary shows. In buying a ticket to leave the country, it is necessary to give the Government thirty days' no tice of your intention to pufchaso pass age and sail." "What is the difference between a Brazilian and an African diamond?" The specific gravity of a Brazilian diamond is greater than that of an Afri can diamond, and hence the former will weigh more. The Brazilian is al so much more brittle and difficult to cut. They have more brilliancy and mor3 specks in them than African gems, and as Ixilliancy is one of the requisites to create value, the Brazil ians aro generally the best. The shades of most of tho Brazilian stones are blue and steal color. The Africans arc gen erally white and yellow. More than one-half of the diamonds sold come from Africa. In 1869 diamonds reached the highwatcr mark in prices, and have declined in value from fifty to one hun dred per cent This fact is due, of course, to tiie extensive fields discov ered in the Transvaal country. Europe of course, receives by far the greater number of diamonds." Ar. T. JImi7 and Express. AT THE POST-OFFICE. Some of the Trials aird Tribulations of the Retail Stamp Clerk. "The average ingenuity of the human family," said a retail stamp clerk at the post-oflice, "must be very small. Why, there is not one person in five hundred who has gumption enough to iut a stamp on a letter. I see the pro cess gone through with about a thou sand times a day, and I ought to know. All the people at my window begin by putting the stamps into their mouths, closing their mouths, rolling their eyt;s Hko a m m trying to swallow a pill and moving the stamps around in their mouths until they are perfectly sat urated with saliva. Then they lay them on the corner of their envelopes and bring their clenched fists down on them like a pile-dri cr. Then come the profanity. . 'Sec here, clerk,' they say, 'this stamp is no account. Won't you please put a little mucilage on it. So strange that they can't put enough mucilage on the stamps to make them stick.' Now, tho trouble is that these people lick and chew all the gum off the stamp before the try to affix it; and if the gum were an inch thick, it would meet with the same fate. The way to put a stamp on is to moisten the gum very slightly, and then lay it on the envelope, and with the end of the forefinger slip it back and forwards once or twice until the saliva and the gum are mixed. I have been licking stamps for forty years, but I have never yet met with ono which would not adhere, if it was treated in this way. Another thing people like to kick about is the refusal of the clerks to take torn notes and great piles of nickels and pennies in payment for 'stamps." "Are they not bound to take them?" 'Not much. The Government has a treasury for the redemption of muti lated currency, and. tnere is no more sense in expecting the post-office to re deem it than in expecting tho paymas ter of the navy in doing so. If it was once understood that we would take torn bills, we should have no .other mcjiey to-handle and nothing else.to do. We would embark in the Danking business, and 'somebody else would bare to be hired Co attend to the ' post-1 omce. Then, as to nickels, three-cent, and peaaaetvtke post-office reg ulations expressly provide that wo aro not bound to take over twenty-five cents' worth from one person. But they keep bringing them to use in large quantities, sometimes rolled up in paper and sometimes slung in an old hankerchief. It is all in vain, how ever. Then, how they do kick against telling what is in their package and against directing them before they are weighed." "What's the use of thatP" " Why, all the uso in the world. If we didn't exercise any supervision over what was put into the mails, every bag ful of mail that left here would be soiled with nasty ointment or hair oil, even if the post-office were not blown up with some explosive. Now, we do not require people to tell us exactly what they have got in their parcels, but only its general character, such as dry goods, leather, wearing apparel and so on, but they stick like blazes even against that. Then, as to ad dressing their letters and parcels be fore they bring them to us to be weighed, that also is indespensable. in order to aveM-givmg- misleading infor mation. We sometimes weigh some? thing in an unsealed envelope, and tell the postage, on the theory that it is unsealed. Then the man goes off, puts that amount of postage on it, and seals it, thereby doubling the rate. The consequence is that his letter is re turned to him for want -of sufficient postage. Then he goes to the postmast er and howls; and swears that he put exactly the amount of postage on the letter that we told him to put on it. Again, we weigh a parcel of merchan dise that is not directed, and sell the man the stamps for it. We ask where it is going, but the man is sullen and makes some answer that we do not catch. Wc take it for granted it is going to some place in the United States. But he goes off and directs it to Belgium. It jrets stopped and returned to him of course, as no merchandise can be sent by mail to anyplace outside of the United States. Then the man goes to the postmaster and howls, and says that we expressly told him that the parcel could go to 'Belgium. See? "Have you seen the Annual Postal Guide for 1886, just out? It announces sonic rather interesting changes in post al rates." "What are they?" "One relates to photographs. You would be surprised if jrou Knew what a larro percentage of the mail matter weighed by us is photographs. Here tofore a strange anomalv has existed in the postage on them. We have been charging a cent an ounce for them when sent to any place in this country, and only a cent for every two ounces when stilt abroad; that is to say, it cost two cents to send two ounces of photographs, unealed to the West side of the city, and one cent to send the same package to Turkey, India and Arabia. Now, however, photographs are ruled b- the department to be printed matter, and they go, when un sealed, all over the civilized world, nearly, at thn Kite of two ounces, or a fraction thereof, for two cents." "What else has been changed?" "Some changes have been made in the rulings concerning unmailable mat ter. The rule has been, for a long time, that candy and cake oould not be sent by mail unless inclosed in a tin or wooden box. These articles are very troublesome in tho mail. If candy can go, any kind of candy can go, and candies are sent that melt and run, and defile and glue together all the other mail .matter in the same pouch with it. Cake is worse still, and, strange as it may seem, gives the department more trouble than any other kind of mail matter. It is always wedding-cake, and very rich. It not only breaks up, gets scattered through the pouch and leaves great grease spots on all the other mail-matter, but attracts the rats, so that they cat through the pouches and through the other mail-matter to get to it. Experience has proved, now, that even inclosing cake and candy in tin or wood does not remedy these evils; and consequently a late ruling declares cake, candy and all sorts, of confectionery altogether unmailable. This will break the hearts of a great many brides and bridemaids, but it is indispensably necessary." "Any thing else?" "One fhing more; glass has been al most ruled out, too. Hitherto glass has been admitted when inclosed in tin or wood. This was required, not to save loss by breakage, but to prevent the broken glass from giving the lock jaw to all the mailing clerks. It has now been found that even these pre cautions are not sufficient, and it has been ordered that glass shall not be mailed unless first inclosed in a cloth bag, and then in a tin or wooden box. This refers even to spectacles and open faced watches, as well as to china-ware and crockery. Most people would rather give up mailing them than go to this much trouble." Chicago Journal. AROUND THE HOUSE. Useful HIuU for the Tidy and Careful Housekeeper. Wash black stockings thoroughly in strong salt and water; wash again in a weaker solution, and finish by a thor ough rinsing iu clear water. Stockings thus washed will not crack. To relieve hoarseness and tickling; in the throat: Make a gargle of the white of an egg beaten to a froth, adding a half-glass of sweetened, lukewarm water. Discolored tea and coffeepots maybe cleaned by filling them with water in which two or three tablespoonfuls of wood-ashes have been placed, and let ting it boil up, then wash thoroughly with hot soapsuds, and rinse. Mustard water will cleanse the hands after handling odorous substances. A mixture of rain water, cologne an d glycerine should be kept by those ho are troubled with roughness of the skin. Apply to the face and handa alter washing. Bean water is also good for rough skin. Put a handful in a bag and dip it in warm water and wash with It. To remove the dust from carpets, pin a wet cloth over the broom. Also to make the broom wear as long as two, draw a stocking leg over tho brush, and with a needle and twine sew Ijhrough, and dampen the broom every day. Lime powder well sprinkled where cockroaches abound will drive them away. Philadelphia Press. A countryman "was standing on one of the wharfs tho other day watch ing the process of hoisting an anchor of a ship which was srettinc under 1 weigh, and, as ho sa'w'th'e hngo iron use irom me water to me "xo, ,neave, oh!" or the sailors, he remarked: "Ton may heave high and ".heave low, .but you will nvor get that nea crooked tmng mroufc tfea uoie hota; know potter, 'i-ttfirrijptss- OF GENERAL INTEREST. -At least four incorporated towns in Colorado are at an altitude of over nine thousand feet above the sea. Prof. Landmark, Chief Director of the Norwegian Fisheries, asserts that salmon sometimes jump perpen dicularly sixteen feet. Scorpions, spiders and various in sects have been observed to remain motionless if any person blows strongly upon them in a vertical direction. Canon Farrar came to this country for a rest and took away twenty-five thousand dollars. He will take the rest on his next visit. Philadelphia Call. A burglar in Weld, Me., was de tected by a snowball from the heel of his boot, which corresponded precisely with a similar snowball found in the 6tore after the robbery. The New Orleans Creoles make a sleeping draught of lettuce leaves boiled to form a tea. The lettuce-leaf tea is administered in large quantities before going to bed to cure .sleepless ness. 2?1 TT Times. A New York negro pleaded not guilty to a charge of highway robbery with such fervor that he might have escaped had he not pulled out the com plainant's handkerchief to mop his perspiring brow. N. Y. Herald. To stop a runaway horse the Rus sians have a light cord with a slip noose in it about the horse's throat, with the cord running through the sad dle ring and over the dasher, at hand for the driver to pull upon at the horse's first attempt to run. A little choking stops him. A miner on the head waters of the Columbia River, in British Columbia, has found, so he alleges, a deserted mining town, where the billiard tables still stand in the saloons and letters arc lying in the post-office bearing date of 1856, Not a soul has been near the nlfion fevr ro'irs ffltirnsin Times. r.v. .. j.... w . . s Some twenty colonies have been established in the Santa Fe district of the Argentine Republic. Their terri tory occupies ninety-five square leagues, and the settlers number 1,359 families. During the last thirty years the district has grown through colonization until it Has a population of 110,000 souls. At Trieste, on the Adriatic, they say the wind is so stable and enduring that you might accept a bill on it, and George Augustus Sala says the breezes of Wellington, New South Wales, have such steady habits and are so strong that he frequently uses them as a desk on which to draw a draft on London. Massachusetts registered over six thousand insane persons in her asylums and hospitals during 1S85 an increase of two hundred over the previous 'ear. The annual cost to the State of this form of relief exceeds ."$1,000,000, not reckoning the $""o0,000 of interest on the value of buildings, etc. Boston Herald. The telegraph system of the Brit ish Islands, under control of the post office, now amounts to one hundred and fiftj'-six thousand miles, and em ploys seventeen thousand instruments. The standard rate is twelve words for a sixpence, address included. Press messages alone now average one mil lion words a day. "Sir," said the wanderer, as he entered the sanctum, "I come to ask your assistance. I have lost my right leg." "Advertise for it," said the busy editor, without looking up from the paper. "Special rates in lost and wanted column, and half money re funded if article advertised for is not recovered. N. . Star. The blind Mr. Fawcett, late Postmaster-General of Great Britain, was an enthusiastic angler. 'He performed if anything hotter than the seeing," says his biographer, "whether because he waited-more patiently to strike until he felt his fish, or because he was more docile in following the directions of his skilled companions. He had great success in catching salmon and trout, and in trolling for pike in the winter." One of his trophies was a twenty-pound salmon. A great deal is being said -about hydrophobia that would be better un said, and the dog will be charged with the killing much oftener than he should be. The work of old rusty nails, whose wounds have healed months ago, and the many other pro ducers of tetanus will all be laid at the kennel door of innocent "old dog Tray." In all the. United States, with its fifty-two millions of people, there have not been in the entire year over twenty-five deaths from hydrophobia by the agency of three million dogs. It was only two months ago that Mrs. Sharpe's hired girl left her to get married, and yesterday Mrs. Sharpe was much surprised to receive a call from her former lady of the kitchen. "I want to come back to work for ycz agin," said the latter, with an air of resignation. "Why, Bridget, what's tho matter? I thought you were going to get married?" "An',"please ma'am, so I did. But, you sec, John he struck luck in the lottery, and so we hired a cook. An' now, please ma'am, I'd like to come back an' be boss once more." Boston Post. He was only a stray waif of a yel low dog with no ancestry to boast of, but as he sat upon the wooden seat in one of our city parks with a little child's tiny arm lovingly entwined about his ugly thick neck, and a sweet, cooing voice saying in his ear, "I lovo you, little doggie, he was as proud as any prize setter in the land. "Is that your dog, little boy?" asked a police man, as he passed the happy couple. "No, he doesn't belong to me, only I'm acquainted with him," answered the affectionate friend of the little tramp dog. Boston Home Journal. There is an allusion of local inter est in a book of verses recently printed in London. The verses are by the late William Maguire, who, whatever may be said of his poetry, was an expert rhymster. One jingle goes: Why do you cry, my sweet Mrs. Flanagan. When you will soon have your own des man again; Whom the first wind will bring borne Iron the Delaware, Brimful of sovereigns and such other yellow ware? Ho is driven into some port to the west of ua (A thing that might happen, dear, to the best of us). Where he is sighing, sobbing and chattering Night and day long of bis own dear Cath erine, Distinctly Philadelphia street cries, collected by a local reporter, contain some melodious calls. Besides the music of the rag man and oyster man, there is.heard the negro patriarch sing ing, "Hominy man, come out to-dav, selling sweel hominee! nominee!" And the watermelon vendor says: '.'Here's your ripe watermelons. Try .'em before you buy 'em! All red." A curious cry is: "Peppery pot, all smoking hot!" and another humorous cry is, "Crabs a-walkin', crabs- a-talk-in crabs a-bifin', crabs a-fightiu fresh crabs, er-r-r-abs!"--epii flw. ... XR1T National Bank! J Aotktrired Capital, -Paii Ii Capital, Siiflis and Profits, - $250,000 60,000 13,000 i 0rnCBKS AMD DIRECTORS. A. ANDERSON, PresH. I SAM'L C. SMITH, Fie Pres't. t O. T. ROEN, Cashier. J.W.EARLY, HERMAN OEHLRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER. G.ANDERSON, P.ANDERSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. ., - 29-vol-13-ly BUSIHESS CARDS. D.T. Martyw, M. D. F. J. Schug, 31. D. Srs. MABTTH & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surjreon. Union Paciiic, O., N. & B. II. and II. & M. R. R's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at office and residences. ISrOflicc on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 42-y W. Ifl . CORK IZI.IUS, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Ult.t:iir Ernst building 11th street. r . REKDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office on Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska 2-tf C. D. KVA.'N, Ifl. ., PHYSICIAN AND SUIiGEON. SSrOflieo and rooms, Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. 4v TTA-fiiiro: MEAUE, HI. ., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. !-y V. P. RIIiliiVI-'K, Itl. D HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Children a Specialty. ESTOlhVe on Olive street, three doors north of Firbt National Bank. 2-ly TJ J. HUllSOI, NOTARY PUBLIC, Slit Street,! doors went of Hammon-l Honse, Columbus, Neb. 491-y IflOrVEY TO LOAfl. Fie vcars' time, on improved farms with' at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, in sums representing one tliird tho fair value of tbe homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, 1 - M.K.TURNER, 0- Columbus, Nebr. M cA-LI'lKTKR IIKOS., A TTORNE YS A T LA W, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. -VTOTIVE TO TEACI1KRN. W. B. Tedrow, Co. Supt. I will he at my ollice in the Court House on the t ird Saturday or each month, for the purpose of examining teachers. 3i-tf J. M. MACHAIILAND, B. R. COWDKRY, Attorn? m4 Ssit-y Prtl e. CelHrtor. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF M ACPARLAND & COWDBRT, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. J. J. tlAIJCJIIA.lf, Justice, County Surveyor, Notary, Land and Collection Ayent. Gyi'artic9 desiring surveying done can notify me by mail at Platte Centre, Neb. 51-Cm JOUN (1. 1HGGINS. C. J.GARLOW, Collection Attorney . HIGGINS & GAEL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C. J. Garlow. 31- m F. II.Rl.Sl'Ul, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sella Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blanket?-, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, &'c, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAMES SAE.-flOX, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. .2 Gmo. G A-WPRKIX. &. CO. DKALRRS IN i !Raors and Iron ! " The highest market price paid (or rags and iron. Store in the Bubach building, Olive St., Columbus, Neb. 15-tf S.MURDOCK&SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Havehad 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 tunltytoestimateforyou. "g?"Sbop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's.tttore. Columbus. Nebr. 48S-V :r. O. BOYD, MANUFACTURER OK r Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. ISTShop on OUvo Street, .2 doors north 6t Urodfeuhrer's Jewelry Store.' 32-tf -- T "MEXICAN PETER." How He Defeaded HlatselT Wkea AceaMd of Tarkey Steallas;. "Mexican Peter," is something of a celebrity in his native county. He won his sobriquet, if not his laurels, when serving as a body-servant to his young master, "Marse John," during the Mexican war. Now, our hero is not free from some of the failings of his race, and the shrines of pious Mexicans, with their gold and silver ornaments, did prove a most special pitfall and temptation to poor Peter, in vain did "Marse John'1 instill into the African mind lessons of higher morality, with a wholesome blending of the terrors of the law when coming in the garb of strict military discipline; the Fact re mained the same: in the time of temp tation Peter had to be closely watched. When the war was over "Marse John" went to Washington, and Peter was sent home to "ole marster." For a few short hours after his home coming he stepped a hero, with many tales of the marvelous to tell. Harinfiiwhic sus picion of how matters stood, "ole mars ter," with a sly twinkle, said: "Now, Peter, what did you bring back from your travels to show us?" This was touching a tender spot, and Peter's countenance fell as he said: "I 'clare, ole master, Mars John didn't hab no conseieco 'bout dat thing at all. Much as dar wuz to git, all I could fetch home wuz wun lil silber gord " displaying with a mixture of pride and melancholy a little image of some saint that might or might not have been of the precious metal. Time rolled on, and the proclama tion emancipated Peter from "Mars John's" conscience, and at various sun diy times he profited by his liberty of aetion, and finally found himself in liuibo for unlawfully possessing him self of a neighbor's turkey, and was tried in the court where "Marse John" was a practicing attorney, and "Marse Peyton," another mem ber of the family, the grave and dignified Judge. The evidence was oveqiowering, and to plead "not guilty" impossible, so Peter could only request to be " 'lowed to splain how he got in de trouble." Antici pating a treat, the request was granted, and solemnly the court awaited the de fense. Not "without a certain dignity, the old man arose, and the explanation bt-gan: "Gentmun, I won't say I 'aint got into dis trouble, 'cause 1 sholy is, and hit troubling me "nough; but in justice J mus' tell how it all cum upon me. Fust, sum blame la at de door ob Marse John. He good man, good as gole; but he wun contrackted, not say wun sting, farmer, He got de ole thrashiu-machine he had 'fore de war, what leave mos' ob de wheat in d straw, and dat fack 'tice ole Mis' Simpkins' tuckeys to cum dar, an' .'.cratch in de straw an' eat. Now iley wane dar an' do dat so long tell dey je. shine, and, gentmun, when a tuckuy shine, he fat, an' I look at dem shining tuckeys so long tell I 'gin to feel mor'lly bound to have one, an' I got one. Now dat's de fust reason, but chiefliest dis trouble come to me 'cause ole Mr. Simpkins wa'nt no gentmun. Ef I had been dealing wid a gentmun, things ud '.a bin diilunt; but he wuz pore white folks, an' ez I only knowed de ways of gentmun, I wa'nt no match for him. 1 docs know a gentmun. Didn't me an' Marse John here an' Marse Peyton dar all come outile same estate, and who ever fetch de word dey wa'nt gentmun? Well, me an' de ole 'oman an' de chillun had jes dun eat dat tuckey, an', to sabe de scand'l ob de thing, I had pit all de feathers an' bones in de Dutch oven my Dutch oven Mis' Sally gib me when I hear somebody knock at de door. I went to de door, an' dar stan' ole Mr. Simp kins! Now some pore white folks is wus dan p'inter dogs, dey so peersome. Mr. Simpkins come in; he look round, an' walk straight to my Dutch oven Mis' Sally gib me. He peep in; he find de feathers an' bones, pull um all out, an' jes laff most outlandish! Wuz dat a gentmun? Now de cote knows all, an I couldn't set here quiet tell dey did." It is needless to say the ruling of the "cote" was not very severe. Harper's Magazine. INCESSANT ACTION. The Dangers to Which Nervous and "Har ried" People Are Subject. Some men are in incessant action, early and late and all through the day. They have no time for family or friends. As for holidays, the les3 for them the better. They have inherited a nervous temperament, and arc doing just the wrong thing with it allowing it to huny them to an untimelv end. They wear themselves out. Their brain is ever in a state of morbid activity al most like that of an insane man. To all such we say: Early learn to use restraint, or, in spite of all later volitions, your momentum will steadily increase, and sooner or later there will be a break-down. The more nervous tbe 'temperament, the greater the need of husbanding the nervous energy by intelligent self-control, by appropriate diversions and by frequent seasons of absolute rest. The machinery may be of iron, but it needs to come toastand still at times. Many persons, not of a nervous tem perament, specially hurry at their meals. They have vigorous appetites, and they eat voraciously. Now, swine can do this safely, but they have a vig orous digestion, and have nothing to do but to digest what they eat. It is otherwise with human beings. Tnat kind monitor "enough" is seldom heard in season by those who cat in a hurry. Rapid eating is generally ex cessive eating, with, in due time, dys pepsia, "bilious attacks." liver com Elaints and gout. Besides, not only ealth, but the good of all concerned, demands that the mealtime should be one of restful leisure, pleasant inter change of thought, and social cheer. Many persons hurry to catch the de parting fen-boat or cars. They barely get aboard by hard running or perhaps UKt fail. Such acts may start a heart trouble, or increase one already started, or precipitate it to a fatal termination. The London Lancet, giving an account of two recent deaths from hurry and exertion, one a young man of twenty, the other a girl of sixteen, adds: "How often has the hurry to catch a train, or some other sudden exertionr throwing extra work on a dilated, fatty or other wise diseased heart, resulted iu fatal syncope? Remember, people often have heart troubles without knowing it. Youth's Companion. m e A man named Conly, living in one of our Northwestern Ohio counties, and aged seventy years, won one thousand dollars the other day by walking seven miles in less than seventy minutes. It would seem as if the time were not far distant when there won't be anv fur ther use for young men whatever. j c4VfnHHtc fixammtr. ACROSS A CONTINENT. - Tfce AOveatarea ef a Oerauw Kiyletet.la AaatraUa. Dr. Jules Dobrincke, one of the few white men, and the only German, Jrho has performed the perilous and aa it was at one time regarded tho impracti cable feat of crossing the Anstraliaa continent from tho south to tho north,. is in the city. The expedition, con sisting of tho doctor and six other, started in tho beginning of March, 1875, and took an almost doe nortff course. "After nine and a half months' travel," said the doctor, "wo reached falmerston without losing a man, ex cept a native who died of a surfeit when our partv was about two weeks on its way. The chief object of the ex pedition was to survey the west of Eyre lake for the Government of South Australia, and to report as t the general character of the land trav eraeu. inc oniy incjaenis ox now - tharmarkedthtrniue'oeairdijiico ersed. The only incidents of note wnen wo were led astray from our proper route by fatamorgana or mirage, and once when we had to ward off an attack of hostile aborigines. The mirage appeared near Lake Eyro and appeared to every one of the party to be a landscape exactly like what might be expected in that neighborhood, con taining a lake, the color of which in dicated that it wa3 fresh water. Wo went ten miles out of our course be fore finding out our mistake. "The hostile tribe attacked us near tho Ashburton range in North Aus tralia. They were armed with spears and arrows, and I was the only ono wounded in the party, having received a spear thrust in my left arm. Ono volley of our rifles served to disperso our assailants; and we went on our way unmolested thereafter. We found traces of blood on the trail, but wo had no particular desire to follow them up to see whether any of tho crowd had been killed or not. "On our second expedition in 1877, one year after Giles had started with his expedition from Perth for Adelaide, which journey he successfully carried out, we starte'd from Adelaide for West Australia, but failed to reach the coast, and after losing one of the members of our expedition, we were compelled to turn south and make for King George's Sound, which we ultimately reached, and from which wc returned to Ade laide by steamer. "Of the more notable exploring ex peditions which have attempted to cross the continent mav lie mentioned that headed by Dr. Leichardt in 1848, and that of Burke and Wills in 1860-61, neither of which three explorers sur vived to return, and Leichardt was never heard of. "McDougall Stuart was tho first to travorse the continent from Adelaide to the Malayan sea, which he did in 1862, and along the route taken by him the transcontinental telegraph line was laid. Several minor expeditions followed, fitted out by flic South Aus tralian Government, and in some cases by private enterprise; but ours was the first expedition after Stuart's, which went in a compact body from the south to the north of the continent. I intend on my return to Australia to form an expedition, to be led by myself in person, to search for Dr. Leichardt's remains, or at least for reliable indica tions of his fate." Suit Francisco Chronicle THE HUMBLE BOB. Wherein It Sarpasos It Aristocratic Ri val, the Toboggan. Rome had its chariot races and Greece its Olympian and Isthmian games, the glories of which have been sung by poets innumerable. But what were they as inspirers of enthusiasm compared with the Albany bob? The patrician youths of the Eternal City or the ardent competitors on the shores of the iEgean never know the tingling sensation of sliding down hill with a score or more companions on a light ning bob, with gong sounding, horns blowing, and a steersman in a dazed condition of mind, uncertain whether he will run into a horse car, a police man or a snowbank. Tho most frantic struggles of the charioteers in the Fla vian circus, or even in Byzantium, when the wars of the greens and blues were at their height, could not be compared, in the estimation of the adolescent Albanians,- with the excitement of a nice between two well-appointed bobs on an icy slope, with the delightful uncer tainty of where thoy mayland. The toboggan may turn up its nose, or what serves for that nasal organ, at what it considers its plebeian rival, and claim certain fashionable preroga tives. But the bob holds its own in popularity, and goes its shining way down hill in triumph. The dainty to boggan must have a slide especially constructed for itself; the sturdy bob asks for nothing more than a fair sprinkling of snow, and never winces if it encounters a cobble-stone or two on its journey. It does not believe in "discreet silence, either, but lustily an nounces its approach with all the dis cordance that brass, tin and the lungs of its crew can furnish. It is as ten derly cared for when not on duty as the petted toboggan could wish, and when in its snug quarters it is regaled with stories of its powers narrated by the enthusiastic crew in their adjoining room. The aesthetically inclined may not be able to discover" any quality of the beautiful in the bob, but the small boy does, and is readv to argue on the sub ject at a moment's notice. Buskin says: "Any material object which can give us pleasure in the single contemplation of its outward qualities, without any direct and definite exertion of the in tellect, is beautiful." Now, the bob does not call for any direct or definite exertion of the intellect, but as for its outward qualities any small boy in Al bany will tell you they are "immense." It has the appearance of the felicitous fulfillment of functions in many things such as getting to its destination in a hurry, spilling its crew occasionally in the most unexpected manner, and never pausing for a moment to consider what may be in its way. There are occa sions in the brief life of a bob when it indulges in a sort of royal progress or triumphant procession. On such occa sions it is hauled around the streets with a brass band playing uncertain music before it and a legion of enthu siastic urchins after it, The bosom of the bob, if the carpenter had provided it with such an appendage, would on such occasions swell with pride, and its steel runners would glisten with pleas ure. Albany Argus. m m The stenographer's fees in a pro longed contest over a will in a New York court were nearly eight thousand dollars. PERSONAL AND IMPCWSONAU j Edwin Booth's fall : Thossas Booth. isiawia --General Nelson A.. Miles; it- Yonnzest msa of his raak la thelli . Statos arBy,.aacLthe oalyJme wa1 come froaa ami lift, vmmgo The new Swedish Baasistec tst.ths United States Is named .Kolt. .Thsj way to pronounce this riame'krtdMghv in the middle sad Uek th sties P EL Louis PostZHipatcT "crenorai wesiey saemw, uw,( mandant at West Point, is atatt-i with a round, red face and -aail silken mustache. He-stands as i as his cadets are instructed 2f. r. Herald. Henrr F. GiWr. of the Exchange, London, who recently: sated for -London, after a flying tsip.to t$ United States, is oiidv thirty-five. Tears old, yet he has crossed Uie Atlsatio just fifty times. Merced Ccmntv.CaT.V:choasft of the largest man In the State iaUMpsa - f -goa" of ItfclCean AiefclhsfA a asafiVuf .. . . . 1.1 ,."i-.- i Nova Scotia, lie is over high and built in proportion, wears a No. 10 boot and carries Ho his own last. Joseph Cook refers to thoAaaert cans in a recent lecture as "tho. jnost drunken race on the planet;" but Canon Farrar says that "tho temperance cause in the United States is far in advance of tho temperanco cause in England." St. Louis Qlobe. Mrs. James K. Polk has found It necessary to deny tho report that she? is a Catholic. While she has the highest respect for that church, she is and always has been a Presbyterian, and was once called a blue Presbyterian bo causo opposed to dancing. Chicago Inter Ocean. Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, several years ago gave his wife tho choice between a block lot in Minne apolis and a nice new bonnet. Disre garding the traditions of her sexahe took tho lot and recently sold itfor ninety thousand dollars. The present value of the hat she had in mind at the time is not known. Chicago Mail. Of Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, au thor of America's nearest approach to a national hymn, who is living in New ton Center, Mass., at the ago of seventy seven. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his poem, "Tho Boys," wrote: And there's a nice fellow of oxcclfent pith. Fato tried to conceal htm by naming- biia Smith: Out be shouted a song for the brave and the free. Just road on his medal, "My country, ot theo." "Diamond Joo" Reynolds in ono of tho millionaire curiosities of Chicago. He invariably wears a plain gray suit without an overcoat, a hat several aea sons behind, pruncllo gaiters that have been out of style for years, and always has in his phirt-front'a first-water dia mond as largo as a filbert and as bright as a dewdrop. Ho owns moro grain elovators than any man in tho country and ship3 more grain than any two men on the Chicago Board of Trade. Chicago News. West Brookficld, Mass., has six couples who have experienced more than fifty years of wedded bliss, and one of the marriages was fifty-seven years ago. One of the marriage cer tificates recently issued by Town Clerk Bush was to Rev. W. B. Stone, aged seventy-five years, and brother of Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell. The veteran groom's brido was Miss Martha Robin son, aged seventy-one years, the sister of Mr. Stone's first and second wives, and also of ox-Governor Robinson, of Kansas. Boston Journal. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." A Boston barber says: "A perfect temper in a razor is a happy accident." How like women razors must be! Lowell Courier. A knight of tho grip married the girl who dusted his room and furniture because he said ho understood dusters were very useful traveling companions. Merchant Traveler. Little Johnny, on being asked by his school teacher if he knew what was meant by "at par," replied that "ma was always at pa when he came home late." Philadelphia Call. Fogg Phew! open tho window, the room is full of gas. Fendcrson That can not be, for I took the pre caution to blow it out boforo I lay down. Boston Transcript. Pasteur was so snccccssful with the Newark children that it is said ho will next tackle a Jersey mosquito. But if the mosquito sees Kim first he won't. Yonkcrs Statesman. A man camo into a eigar store, bought a cigar and threw a bad five-cent piece on the counter. Ho was hurriedly departing when the dealer called after him, "Hold on, hold on, it's bad!" "Never mind," answered the purchaser as he quickly passed out, "I'll smoke it anyhow." N. Y. Commercial-Advertiser. Adelaide Chapman, an American girl nurtured on Boston beans and other intellectual comestibles, is creat ing a sensation in operatic circles In Italy. Bnt she does not do it in her own namo. She calls herself Mme. Adda Adini. Will Mile. Addi Adinl pleaso explain why Adelaide asido her proper name? Norwich Bulletin. Brown I never could endure that Jones, he is so infernally lazy. Smith Is he lazy? Brown Too lazy to wink. And the worst of it is he sets such a wretched example that everyone about him gets to be just as shiftless as he is himself. .Smith Is that so? Brown Yes. They do say that even yeast won't work in his house Somerville Journal. A Yankee who had never paid more than a shilling to sec an exhibition, went to -a New York theater one night to see the "Forty Thieves." Tho ticket seller charged him three shillings for a ticket. Passing the paste-board back, he quietly remarked: "Keep it, mister; I don't want to tjee the other thirtv ninc," and out he marched. A". Y. In dependent. Japanese etiquette requires that tho lady shall give the signal for the termination of a visit from a gentle man. Japanese customs arc singularly like our own. In this country the lady gives the signal for the termination of a visit, and the signal is: "George, I think I hear ps)a out in the backyard untying the dog." The signal never fails. Boston Courier. At Sing Sing. Visitor Don't you find your quarters here rather close and uncomfortable? Convict Oh, no, I'm used to this sort of thing. Visitor Ah. I see. You have been confined for a long time? Convict No. sir; only a month. Bat before I came here I lived a number of years iu a New York Hit. Life. HMaV itoAt to.do.T- AuMRCSnal wF- p- ir .