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VOL. XVII. --NO. .2.
CURIOUS TIME-PIECE8.
Watches and Clocks Dfafeocmred
Various Farts of the WortH.
Odd
In
In tho year 1839 a transparent watcb,
f small size, constructed principaHy of
rock crystal, was presented to the Aca
demy of Sciences in Paris. The works
wure all visible; the two-teothed wheels
which carried the hands wore of roc3c
crystal and the others were njetal. All
the screws were fixed in crystal and each
axis tamed on rnbios. Tho escapement
wafl of sapphire, the balance-wheel of
rock-crystal and the spring of gold. It
kept excellent time.
A curiosirv in the way of watches was
shown by tfie director Of the Watch
makers1 School at Geneva before tho
horological section of the Society of
Arts at a meeting last year. This won
der is nothing less than a watch wffh
one wheel, manufactured at Paris, in the
last century. Tho watch was presented
to the National Institute in 1790, being
then in a deplorable state; but
the teacher of tho repairing
section at the school has, after niany
hours of labor, ettocoeVled in Te-estab-ishing
harmony between tho various
organs, so that it is now ingoing order.
It would take a professional wathmaker
to describe the manner in which tho one
wheel is made to perform the whole duty
of keeping time.
A recent number of tho Jewelers'1 Cir
cular describes an ancient musical clock
now in possession of a citizen of Mari
etta, Win. "It is two hundred and thirty-live
years old, aud keejw good time.
Tho movement is made of wood, lead
and iron. Tho weight that runs the
musical part weight fifty pounds. It
plays a piece every hour, but it is rather
hoarse at present from old age. Tho
dial is largo aud has the paintings of
William lVnn describing his history. At
tho top are fivo musicians dressed in
uniforms, who raise their instruments to
their lips as they begin to plav. Tho
case is made of maple and mahogany,
it was made in the year 1649, and was
brongirt to tins country in 1847 by a
partj- of immigrants, Ixjing the only
time-piece brought with them."
A paragraph went the rounds of the
newspapers some time ago describing
the novel invention of a Salt Lake
jowolor. It is a time-pieco ia tho shape
of a steel wire stretched across a show
window, on which a stuffed canary
hops from loft to right, indicating as it
goes tho hours of the day by pointing
with Ids beak at a dial stretched beneath
the wiro and having the figured from one
to twenty-four. When it reaches the
latter figure, it glides across the wire to
one again. There is no mechanism
whatever that can be seen; it all bping
inside the bird. Tho inventor says ho
was three years in studying it out.
A dock of some historic interest was
recently sold at auction in Carlisle,
Mass. It stood in a house at Lexington
at the time the shot was fired which was
heard "round the world." Tho British
set fire to tho house, but tJio clock es
caped in somo way and has just
turned up again after the lapse of a
century in perfect ninninir order. It
was pnrchascd by a resident of Lexing
ton, and is now performing its dailv
round of duties in il old home, it
bears the date 1774, and is snpposed to
be remotely connected to that other
"ancient time-piece," which to the poet
seemed always to bo saying:
"Forevernover
Novor forever."
A novel form of clock has recently
leen designed by an English artisan.
Tho face has tlip form of a tambourine
decorated with a wreath of twelvo ilow
crsat equal distances apart. These mark
tho honrs, and over them glido two gay-ly-painted
butterflies, one larger than
the other. These are tho hands, the
larger indicating the minutes, the small
er tho hours. Tho works are concealed
behind tho tambourine, and tho motions
of the butterflies, which arc made of
magnetic metal, are produced by mag
nets carried on tho arms forming the
real hands of thc'clock. Another clock
worthy of mention is exhibited in a well
known clock-maker's window in Lon
don. It is a framed and colored photo
graph of tho houses of Parliament, West
minster, with a real dial let into the
tower to represent "Hig 15en." Tho dial
is very small, to match the photograph;
nevertheless it is said to keep good tiino.
N. Y. Observer.
PUSHING TRADE.
How It Is I'oiio Uy Dealers In I.ailif' Foot
CJear. A tall man, with a hatchet face and a
nose so thin that it barely separated his
keen, gray eyes, entered a Grand Mrecl
store, drew a package from a capacious
pocket of his overcoat, aud said to a
polite clerk: "Somebody must have
marked these shoes wrong. They are a
half size too large." Tho clerk opened
the package, looked at tfie inclosed pair
of kid gaiters, and remarked: "Ah.
theso are twos-and-a-half. You want
twos." "No. I don't," said the custom
er, with a sharp ring in his voice; "I
want number twos-and-a-half, but tho
shoes must be a' half sizo smaller than
these."
Clerk Why, sir, these aro twos-and-a-half.
Yon can see for yourself. Tho
mark is plain enough.
Customer But I have already told
vou that tho mark is wrong. My wife
has been wearing ' number- twps-and-a-half
shoes for years. I ought to know,
for I havo had'to buy so many of them.
I took these shoes home the other day,
expecting that they would fit, of course,
anal havo had to come hack to ex
change them because a rascally shoe
maker put a wrong mark on them.
ClerkYou most be mistaken, sir;
this house takes tho greatest .care that
every thipg sold is exactly what it is
represented to be. Our reputation
Customer Nevermind your reputa
tion. I tell you these shoes are No. 3.
Get me another pair s half size smaller.
The polite salesman went in search of
shoes of tho same trademark and soon
returned with twt pairs which were
marked "2" and '&' 1-2." He smiled
serenely on tho customer as tho latter
compared the shoes which he had taken
back to tfco store with each of tho other
pairs. There could be no mistake. Tho
pairs numbered "2 1-2" were of exactly
the samo size, while the pair marked
"2" were a half size smaller.
CustomerWell, theso No. 2 shoes
will fit my wife, but I wish you would
explain something. There came near
being a row in the family when mv wife
rsaid I would have to take tha"t pair of
shoes back, and to be very sure .that I
had not forgotten the size of her foot I
'looked at'her old shoes and'saw theUb.
21-2 mark on them. Yet her old shoes
measured a quarter of an inch less in
length than the new ones.
Clerk Were tho other shoes bought
here? -, - a -? j
. .Customer4-No.. Thave. been buying
shoes for some years at Blank's,- in the
Bowery. ", -i, "
Clerk Ah. thatroay explain the dhV
ferencc. IlHitikthcy have a different
standard for nwrking at JUank. Yon
'oo somo women insist on baying shoos
half a size too small for them, and when
they go to a store to buy for themsdTOB,
they can't be satisfied until the salesman
crowtis their four and a half foot into
a four shoe. A woman who has worn
a four shoo will not have it said that she
has to wear a four and a hall Now, if
she has been buyi uglier shoes at Blank's,
and she happons to come hero for a pair,
she either gets fours that are com
fortable on her feet, or she finds that
she can ninch.her feet into threos-and-a-half.
Sue will bo satisfied, anyhow, and
Blank won't sell her any more shoos.
It helps trade, don't you sou?
The sharp features df the customer
relaxed in a smile which did not vanish
until ho had departed from tho store.
N. T. Tribune.
RED SNOW.
Vast Extreme of Temperwtiuo Borne Bj
Capsuled Productive Orga&is.
Even to-day the wild theories about
the red snow are notyct ended. Seeing
that tho young spores of the algss moved
incessantly backward and forward in
lho water, the idea arose that they wero
aniraalcula), and red snow only tho
lowest form of animal life. By de
grees, however, it camo to be an ac
cepted fact that this voluntary motion
does not belong exclusively to animal
life, and tho young spores of the lower
plants, although they move freely about
in tho water, and aro plentifullv, pro
vided with fine hair-liko threads like tho
real infusoria, still remain plants, and
never turn into animals, and thus the
plant nature of tho "6now blossom"
was finally settled. Tho red snow alga
found on the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpa
thians, and also on tho summits of the
North American mountains as far down
as California, is not, however, such a de
termined enemy to heat as its having its
homo in tho ice region would imply.
In the Arotio circle, as well as on our
own mountains of perpetual snow, es
pecially on Monte Rosa, tho red snow
is seen in summer like a light rose-colored
film, which gradually deepens in
color, particularly in tlie track of hu
man footsteps, till at length It turns
almost black. In this state, however,
it is not a rotten mass but consists
principally of carefully capeoJod "quies
cent spores," in which state theee mi
croscopic atoms pass the winter, bearing-in
this form the gratetcKtrBmes of
temperature. Some have been exposed
to a dry heaiof a hundred deareea, and
were found still to retain li&bcaring
properties, wnilo owners, again, weret
esposed with Irapcni&r to the gresBBt
cold known in soienee. This proves
that tho productive organs m a capsuled
state can bear vast extremes of tempera
ture without injury; a significant fact,
in which lies tfie secret of tho mde
struct ibility of those germs which are
recognized as promoters of bo many
diseases. Oinmbcrs Journal.
ONE SMALL
HEAD.
The Knowledge, Wisdom sad
Contained In It.
Learning
Take tho animal world, for example
fne creatures themselves, and not their
names and look at tho diversity of
cats and dogs, goats and sheep, beetles
and butterflies; 6oIes and shrimps, that
even tho ordinary unlearned man knows
and recognizes, and mostly remembers.
Narrow the question down to dogs alone,
aud sfill you got the same result Consid
er the St. Bernards and tho mastiffs, tho
pugs ajid bull-dogs, the black-and-tans
and tho King Charlies, tho sheep dogs
and tho deer-hounds, the shivering little
Italian gray-hounds and the long aaohs
hunds that you buy by the yard. Every
one of theso. and countless others, has
got to have its cell all to itself in tho
clasificatorv dr-partment of tho human
brain, and I suppose another cell for its
name in tho portion specially devoted to
language also. Add to these
the plants, flowers, fruits, roots
and other well-known vegetable prod
ucts whose names are familiar to almost
ever body, aud what a total ycu havo
got at once! A good botanist, to take a
more specific eao, knows (in addition
to a stock of general knowledge about
equivalent on tho average to anybody
ciso's) the names and natures of hun
dreds and thousands of distinct plants.
to say nothing about innumerable small
peculiarities of stem, and leaf and flow
er, and seed in every species and variety
among them all. No. tho mero bare
weight of dead fact with which every
body's memory is stored and laden defies
the possibility of reckoning and pigcon
holuing. Make your separate dockofc?
ever so tiny, reduco them all to theh
smallest dimensions, and yet there will
not be room for all of them in tho hu
man brain. The more wo think on it,
the more will the wonder jrrow that one
small head can carry all that the merest
infant knows. Grant Allen, in Gentle
man $ Maynzine.
DOCTORING HORSES.
It Can Not Ito Done So That It Will Fool
an Kspert.
"I haven't much sympathy with any
one who gets cheated in a horsc-doal,"
said a well-known livery-man: "It is
only these smart Alecks who think they
know it all that get left. No expert can
be fooled."
"How do horse-sharks fix up a fifteen-year-old
plug until ho looks like a two-year-old
colt?"
"That's all nonsense; it can't bo done.
The greenest man in town can scarcely
be fooled in that way. Of m course, the
appearance of a horso can be improved.
You tako an old, hard-worked horse and
his coat will be rough and his general
appearance anything but slock. Yon
tako that horse, and blanket him, feed
him and groom him well, and in a week
or so he will look fifty per cent better,
although hd Is not a bit better horse
than ho was before.
"Then to. hide s horse's age, his teeth
arc filed. If he Is wind-broken he is
dosed with shot. That will make his
breath easier for a time, but in the long
run makes him much worse. If a horso
has the heaves from eating musty hay.
the best thing to do is to sell him at
once, for he never can be cured. If he
is fed on bran or corn fodder for awhile,
his condition will improve, bnt as soon
as von give him hay again the heaves
will reappear worse than ever. As I
said before, no expert can be fooled for
a minute by any of theso schemes, and
anv one who buys a horse without con
sulting a man who understands the ani
mal 'deserves to get left.
"There is one thing that will fool any
expert that . ever lived, although it
doesn't often occur, and that is a horse
that is subject to fits. He may be young
and sound and a good traveler. He may
not have a fit for a week or two at a
time, and yet some day he will.lay down
in the shafts and act Jfor all the world
like .a man afflicted with cpilepsv. .That
is the only way thaf I overheard" of fool
ing a horse expert'.' Chicago News.
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. MAY 5, 1886.
CATCHING A SHARK.
Tae Valaable Berrfee Beadered
tfgly Yellow Dog.
by m
In 1874 I was mate of a coasting
schooner voyaging between Charleston,
Beaufort, Savannah and other points
on the Southern coast. She was built
at Charleston, and I went out on the
first voyage. ' The name of her captain
was Martin, an easy-going, good-natured
man, and we had three men be
fore tho mast
We left Charleston in the afternoon,
and were scarcely clear of the bar
when a monster shark was observed in
our wake. There are always sharks in
plenty in Charleston harbor, and this
chap would not have received much
uuucu except ior ins size anu me grim,
persistent manner in which he followed
ns. He ranged up on tho starboard
quarter, not more than ten feet away,
and there ho stuck. When we had
made our offing and set our course,
the captain determined to get rid of
the unpleasant visitor. When a sailor
sees a shark following his ship he fools
as a landsman would if a wolf was
pursuing his carriage. Tho shark is
there to eat you, if opportunity occurs,
and you' feel a spirit of revenge stirring
you up to get rid of him.
We had a biff shark-hook on board,
and after the decks had been cleared
we Drougnc u our, uaitcct it with a
chunk of pork, and tho morsel was
dropped overboard and the rope paid
out until the pork was right at the
shark's nose. He refused to touch it.
Sharks are always hungry, and sharks
aren't a bit particular wh'ether theveat
pork or sailor, but this fellow socmed
to know that we had formed a con
spiracy to destroy him. We made up
a dummy and carried it aloft aud
heaved it overboard with a great out
cry, but that trick also failed. Tho
shark paid no attention to the splash,
but kept his wicked eyes on the man at
the wheel, and remained where wo
first discovered him.
We had a slow passage down to tho
inlet, and as wo entered it the shark
suddenly disappeared. Wo went up
to Beaufort, unloaded a part of our
cargo, took on Homo cotton, and came
down again, and we had scarcelv
crossed tho bar when tho big fish
again look his position on the star
board quarter. It was the same when
we went into Savannah, and tho samo
at Brunswick, and we dropped him
again oft Charleston, as wo roturncd
after an absence of two weeks. We
inea every way Known to sailors to
drive tho fellow off, but ho wouldn't
budge. At Charleston the captain
consulted a oolorcd clairvoyant, and
she sold him about an ounce of pink
salvo and told him that he must buy a
yellow dog, grcaso its paws with the
salvo, and usa the dog to bait the
shark-hook. Ho paid two dollars for
the salve, and was a whole day finding
a yellow dog. One was finally di
Covered following a colored man
about, and an offer of three dollars
made him our dog. On this occasion
we loft Charleston just at day-break,
having been in the harbor threo days.
As day fully dawned we picked up our
old enemy, and alT hands willingly
turned up to see what luck we would'
havo with the new bait. Wo greased
the paws of the dog, and he at once
began to howl in tho most dismal
manner. You'd have believed from
his actions that he know what was
coming. When we had lashed him
fast to the hook wo found that the
snarK naa ncared the ship by several
feet, and that no seemod to bo a bit
nervous.
Well, when all was ready over went
the dog, and ho had scarcelv touched
the water when the shark had him. Ho
had dug, hook and all at one snap, and
started to make a skip when tho hook
brought him up. We took tho lino to
tho capstan and walked tho old chap
alongside, and when we had his head
out of water wo tired two charges of
buckshot into it. Wo then drew him
inboard and finished him off, and after
breakfast we fell to and slit him open
to see what sort of oarro he carried.
There was the dog. swallowed almost
whole, a human head, a beef-bone, the
heel of a boot, a pint bottle, two feet
of small chain, a score of button';, a
silver-plated table-knife and two iron
spoons, and several other trifles which
ho had picked up while cruising around
and waiting for us to come out. We
hove him over yfttr the examination,
and though the schooner ran on that
same route for lho ensuing cloven
months none of us sighted a shark,
large or small. The greased-dog busi
ness seemed to have" given tho whole
fraternity a valuable hint. .V. Y. Sn.
GOOD AND LEARNED.
The Work nml r-.nipUIiiiHuts at a
riiilnnthrnplc Cnuntiian 31i.iiiinnry.
One of the most remarkable of Cana
dians is Rev. Silas Tertius Hand, ol
Hnntspori, Nova Scotia. Mr. Rand is
a cousin of Sir Charles Tupper, his
mother having been the sister of Sir
Charles' fattier. The reverend gentle
man is now seven ty-iv yeara of age,
and for over forty years has been a
missionary to the Micmac Indians.
IIU heartiness and general good health
at his advanced ago aro not his chief
peculiarities. Though he never re
ceived the advantage of a college edu
cation he is said to bo one of the best
linguists in tho world. lie is the mas
ter of twelve languages English,
f atin, Greek. Hebrew, French, Italian,
German, Spanish, modern Greek. Mic
mac, Maliseet and Mohawk. In Latin
ho has proved his scholarship to no less
an authority than Mr. Gladstone. Some
years ago, when tho debate In Parlia
ment became nrosy and dull Mr. Glad
stone employed himself in the transla
tion into Latin of thatnoblo hvmn,
"Rock of Ages." Mr. Rand observed
some inelegancies in the translation,
among them being the failure to ren
der satisfactorily, with all its meaning
the word "rock." He therefore tried
hjs hand at tho task and forwarded to
Mr. Gladstone the result, with a few
remarks on thq right honorable Gen
tleman's production. Mr. Gladstone
replied: "I thank you for the kind
terms used in your letter, and I at once
admit that your version of the 'Rock of
Ages' is more exact than mine." Mr.
Rand labors among the Micmacs with
out salary that is to say, he receives
no fixed income, but relies, as does the
Rev. George Miller, of Bristol, upon
faith in tho Almighty to supply his
wants. Toronto Mail.
Tho latest instance of English ig
norance of American geography u
rather a flagrant'one. The St. James1
tlawM. in aa editorial on tho Florida
land swindles," makes it conspicuously
apparent that thy able editor believed
Florida to be fcitualeJ xu Cuutral Amcr
iea. "
i THE FXR9T
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-HAS AN
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $15,000,
And the largest Paid In C a1i Cap-
A ital of any bank' in this part
of the State.
tSTDcposits received and interest paid
on time deposits.
BSTDrafts on the principal cities in this
;country and Europe bought and sold.
E37"Collcctions and all other business
iven prompt and careful attontion.
STOCKHOLDERS.
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SAM'J C. S3IITII, Vice rrcs't.
O. T. ItOEN, Cashier.
J. 1. BEOICEK,
HERMAN OEIILRIC1I,
G.SUHUTTE,
W. A. MCALLISTER.
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.IOIIN XT. EARLY,
V. ANDERSON,
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U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N.
& 15. II. and B. & 31. It. It's.
Consultations in German and English.
Telephones at office aud residences.
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bus, Nebraska. f0-tf
r 1. EVAiKS, HE. !.,
FIIYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
JSTOllice and rooms, Gluck building,
11th street. Telephone communication.
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TTAJHITOS MEADE, M. .,
FIIYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
lMattc Center, Nebraska. 9-y
HOMQEOPATHIST.
Clironio Diseases and Disoascs
of
Children a Specialty.
J3f"Olliec on Olive street, three door.,
north of Firt National Bank. 2-ly
TT J. uiJKisorv,
XOTAHY PUBLIC
2th Street,:! doors west of Hammond House,
Columbus, Neb. -191-y
JIOXKY TO l,0,tlV.
Five years' time, on improved farms
with at feast one-fourth the acreage under
cultivation, in sums representing one
third the fair value of the homestead.
Correspondence solicited. Address,
31. K.TURNER,
r0-y Columbus, Nebr.
jl reALIilSTER 1IKOS.,
A TTORNJST8 A T LA W,
Oliico up-stai
ing. 11th St.
Public.
rs in McAllister's build
W. A. 3IcAllister, Notary
J. M. MACKAIILAXD, B. K. COWDERY,
Aitsrtej a:i Xstotj Patl c. C:llcter.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACFARI1AND& COWDBRY,
Columbus, : : ; Nebraska.
JOHN . 1IIGGINS.
C. .1. GAKLOW,
Collection Attorney .
EIGOINS & 6AHL0W,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty; made
Garlow.
of Collections
by
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T IS.K1JSCIIE,
"llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells riarness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips,
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valise.-, biifry tops, cushions, earriajre
trimmings, &c., at the lowest possiblo
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
TAMES MAEJSOIV,
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. 52timo.
pAnPBELL & CO.
DEALEUS I2T-
sr KaorS and Iron ! "a
The highest market price paid (or rags
and iron. Store in the Bubach building,
Olive St., Columbus, Neb. 15-tf
JS. MURDOCK & SON,
Carpenters and Contractors.
Have had 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
Jnt.v to estimate for you. 8rshop on
13th St., one' door west of Frledhof &
Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-y
R. O. BOYD,
. MANUFACTURER OF
Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter
ing a Specialty.
BSrShop"1 on Olive Street, 2 doors
north of Brodfruhrer's Jewelry Store..
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STORIE8 OF THE RAIL.
tVeeomettres That Lore and Hate and
MMt OUmt Hat
'liOconiotivos are funny things,"
aid an Erio engineer, "and Tvo seen
them sometimes when I beGoved they
wero actually human. They get the
sulks and have balky atreaks, and
when they're in such moods yon can't
make time with them any more than
you can fly. Then again they'll bo as
chipper and willing as a thoroughbred
horse, and you actually havo to hold
'em in to keep from running into sta
tions ahead of time.
"I suppose the stubbornest loco
motive that was ever put on a road. was
ono of tho "Twin Sisters,' a couple of
splendid machines built by tho New
York Central a few years ago. They
were mado exactly alike in overv par
ticular, from tho samo patterns, tho
samo workmen and with the some" ma
terials. Thero wasn't a man on tho
road that could tell which was which
until their numbers were painted on
thcm.. They were beauties, and tho
engineers who were assigned to duty
on them wero the envy of all tho boys.
When tho engines were put on trial ono
of tho locomotives developed amazing
power and speed. She could take a
freight tram up a grade with scarcely
an effort, and with a passenger train
made fifty miles an hour with ease.
The other one wouldn't go at all. Even
when 'pulled wide open she would
simply give a few spiteful puffs of black
smoke, a few turns of her driving
wheels, and then would stop. Tho
way she exhausted steam showed that
sho was a vixen. She was taken apart,
and not a single thing could be found
wrong with her mechanism. Different
parts of the locomotive that was so
great a success wcr exchanged for the
same parts in the stubborn one. The
willing locomotive ran as well as ever,
but tho stubborn one rof nscd to move a
peg. They tried a half dozen different
engineers on her for you must know
that sometimes a locomotive is par
ticular about the man that handles her
throttle, and will do work for ono that
sho refuses to do for another; but she
treated them all with equal disdain.
Thoy put her in the round house and
kept her there for six months, thinking
that sho might get over her balky fit,
and rnn all right on another trial.
"One day they fired hex up and tried
her. Sho started off like a beauty, and
ran two miles in a little over frwo min
utes. Then sho stopped, and couldn't
bo induced to make a move m orthcr
direction. Sho was towed back to tho
9hops and taken to pieces. The same
machinery was used in bmrdtng anoth
er locomotive and that ono was as big
a success as tho mate of the stubborn
engine, and when I last hoard of her
she was still one of thobest engines on
the road.
"It sounds queer to say that locomo
tives have their likes and dislikes, but
it actually does seem that tiicy have,
and thero aro few engineers who don't
believe it. There isn't a railroad man
who can't tell you instances by the
dozen of engines that positively would
not make tamo with some engineers,
but which would get there every time
under the hands of others. Yon might
sa- it was the fault of the engineers if
the engines did not mako their time,
but I have known the very best engi
neers that over mounted the footboard
who have been obliged to bo transferred
from locomotives placed in their charge
bcoause tho locomotives would not
mako tho timo, but which, under the
hand of othor cnirmeers neither as"1
8kiIlfnlnor so experienced, would never
run behind.
"Tako tho case of Josh Martm and
Gad Lyman, two of tho old-timo Erio
engineers, and either of them without
a superior in their day. Josh was run
ning a locomotive that ho was greatly
attached to, and tho sequel proven" that
tho attachment was mutual. For some
reason or othor tho superintendent of
the road wanted Josh's locomotive for
uso on a portion of the road that Ly
man ran on, so he ordered Lyman and
Martin to exchange engines." Tho old
fellows who remember it say that when
Josh's engine was run from Port Jor
vis Josh cried liko a baby, and that tho
engine herself was nil broke up at the
parting, for sho was nn hour longer
than she shonld have been in getting
to her now field of labor. Gad Lyman
took charge of her; but she made up
her mind that she wouldn't work un
der him, and sho didn't Sho got
stalled with the lightest trains, and
never mado her rnn on time. After a
week's trial Lyman reported tho loco
motivo 'No good,' and sho was con
demned to run the gravel train. She
worked as balky and sulky as ever, and
the superintendent ordered her taken
to Patcrson and broken up. Joh Mar
tin heard of this and camo down tho
road a-ilying. He begged to havo his
old gal" back again, and finally tho
superintendent said he might try her.
Josh mounted tho foot-board once
moro, and when ho pulled the throttle
away sho went liko a bird. She made
tho run to Port Jcrvis quicker than
any locomotive had ever dono it up to
that day, and Josh Martin ran her for
years over the Delaware division after
that, and always made his run on time
as easy as could be, except in cases of
accident. No, sir; the fact of tho mat
ter was, Josh and that engine just
loved ono another, and simply would
not bo parted; and there aro plenty of
cases just like it to-day. N. Y. Sun.
LIBERIA.
The True Condition of Things
In the
Negro State.
Anderson H. Jones, a colored man,
who went to Liberia six months ago
from Missouri, writes homo from
Browcrsville, a village fifteen miles
from Monrovia, giving somo account
of tho country. He says that thero are
no horses, no mules and no oxen in the
whole settlement All tho farm work
is dono with the hoe, tho rako and the
axe. He says': 1 have been all over
the settlement, and I found the largest
number of people in a suffering condi
tion for something to oat and for
clothes to wear. There isn't any doc
tor in this settlement the settlement is
too poor to support one. Calico is 25
cents per yard. A common laborer,
when he can get any work to do, is
paid 25 cents per day. Pickled pork is
23 cents per pound; shoulder meat, 25
cents per pound. All the flour and
meat used here is imported from En
gland and America. Corn-meal is Id
cents per quart. Common flour is 915
per barrel. Tho only slow way the
settlers have to make money here is by
raising and selling coffee. It will take
a new-comer like myself from five to
six years to get a coffeo.farm in trim
for gelling coffee. The public schools
are poor. There is a class of people
over here who do not want the true
condition of tjnzg written back hose.
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WHOLE NO. 834.
COLUMBUS
Roller Mills!
SCBfiEOEft BROS., Proprietors.
MANUFACTURERS OK
Flour, Peed,
Bran, Shorts .
And Meal,
AND DEALERS IN
All Kinds s Grain.
OUR FLOUR BRANDS:
"WAY UP," Patent,
"IMPERIAL," "BIG 4,"
"SPREAD EAGLE."
Wc guarantrc our flour to bo equal to
any Hour manufactured in the state.
Wa call the attention of the public to
tho fact that we mako a specialty of ex
changing Hour, bran and shorts for
wheat. as good flour and as much of it as
any other mill in this part of the state;
also tho exchango of corn meal for corn.
Vo havo put In special machinery for
grinding rye flour and buckwheat Hour.
"ST Satisfaction guaranteed. Please
givo us a call. 21-Fcb-'0"-y
COAL & LIME!
J.E. NORTH & CO.,
-DEAI.KRS IN-
Coal,
Lime,
Cement.
Rofk Sping foal, $7.0!) prr ton
Carbon (Wyoming) Coal 6.00 "
Eldon (Iowa) Coal 5.00 "
o
Blacksmith Coal of best quality
ways on hand at low
est prices.
al-
North Side Eleventh St.,
COLUMBUS, NEB.
14-!lm
PATIiiTS
CAVEATS, TRADE HARKS AND COPYRIGHTS
Obtained, and all other business in the
U. S. Patent Ofliee attended to for MOD
ERATE FEES.
Our oilice Is opposite the V.&. Patent
Otlice, and we can obtr.ln Patent in le.
time than those remote from WASHING
TON. Send MODEL OR DRAWING. We
advise as to patentability free of charge:
and we make NO CHARGE I'NLESS WE
OISTAIN PATENT.
We rcler here to tho Postmaster, the
Supt. of Money Order Div., and to oflii.
cials of the V. S. I'atent Office. For cir
culars, advice, terms and references to
actual clients In your own atato or
county, write to
J. A. SWOW A CO..
Opposite Patent Ofli.-c. Washington, D.C.
A.J.ARN0LD,
DBALKU IN
DIAMONDS,
FINE WATCHES,
Clock, Jcvrclry
SILVERWARE.
Strict attention piven to repairing of
Watches and .Jewelry. ETW111 not be
undersold by anybody.
Neb. Avenue, Opposite Clother House.
TTTjlX Xfor working people. Send 10
H fli I 1 1 cents postago, and we will
I I J I ix maj youree, a royal, val
uable feample box of goods that will pat
you la the way of making moro money in
a few days than you over thought pos
sible at any business. Capital not re
quired. You can live at home and work
in spare time only, or all the time. All
of both sexes, of all aires, grandly suc
cessful. 50 cent to $5 easily earned
every evening. That all who want work
may test tho business, we make this un
paralleled offer: To all who arc not well
satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the
trouble of wiiting us. Full particulars,
directions, etc , sent free. Immense pay
absolutely suro for all who start at once.
Don't deiaj. Address Stixson & Co.,
Portland. Maine.
Af TTPP Send 10 cents postage
It I fl I ind we will mail you
v-" --- -- free a royal, valuable,
sample box of goods that will put you in
the way of making more money at once,
than anything else in America. Both
sexes of all ages can livo at heme and
work In spare time, or all the time.
Capital not required.. We will start you.
Immense pay sure for those who start at
one. StikSox & Co., Portland, 3Ialno.
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PITH AND POINT.
"Time makes all things eren,' saidj
an old maid who had lirea odd liSX aha
was forty-five and then married. fla
cago Herald.
A Nashville girl hac eloped wittk aot
editor. Somo women aro powerful anxJ
ions to organize a private poor-house
Now is tho timo to subsenbo. Fcc&s
Sun.
Learned men tell us that in Latfjt
tho word editor means "to cafe" Iff
United States it menus to scratcbaronni .
Iikoblazc3to got something to 0Bfc-4
DansvnVc Brcesc.
j. no men who arc runninjr a
in Stato's prison will bo saveu thai
of applications for places aa editor
writers by green college graduate-
Milwaukee Journal.
Country brido (looking over b3l o
faro) John, what's "Patty do.fe6 grass?"
Groom 'Sh! Don't talk so loud, orpco
plo '11 think we're ignorant. It must bo
French for celery. N. Y. Sun
An Ohio young man has been sound
asleep for tlireo consecutive weeks. His
father emphatically declares that not
another copy of a London comic wcokly
shall como'mto the house Drake
Traveler's Magazine.
Mrs. Lighthead Of courso. Dr.
Scripture, we wero very sorry to have' to"
give up our pew in your chnrch. but It
cost us so much for the children's danc
ing lessons that we had to give up-some
thmg. Pittsburgh. Post.
An Eastern firm very generously
sends us an order for advertising to bb
paid for in seeds. We tliank you, gen
tlemen, we are about as seedy now as
we can be and get around town. If voa
have any patent adjustable pants patcnesv
warranted to match all pattern, yoti
can send them right along with your
electroplate. St. Paul Ikrald.
"Look here, now! Don't yon know
there's an order reouinnjr every car-
nirrt in IivA lnnfam of rflrvffi) 'T
11IU LV ltU laUULHU U I&ILIMW
said
tho policeman to tho Hibernian hack'
driver. "An' sure, sir," was (ho reply;
"what nado havo I for a lantern at all.
at all? Can ye not sco for yTrreelf, sir.
that my horo is bloindt" PhffudcTphid
Call.
Fond Boston mother (to daughter)
"Jennie, did you kis young Gnskina
again to-night?" Danghtar trZem,
mamma, he's jmt lost an undo in San,
Francisco, and I wad so worry for htm."
Fond Boston mother rvven, Jennie,
lot this bo the last. I'm afraid if yoix
keep on encourajjing him with your
sympathy he won"fc have a relative loft'
m the wide, wide world." Tid Btl3.
A NEW NOSE.
How Mr. Shooliim Wait rrnTMetl TVltH a
15 mm I Xpw Probosefrt.
John Sheehan had a new noo put on
him Sunday. Shochan ha been rather
well-known about town on acconnt of
the disfigurement of his face br the loss
of his nose, which was entcn off by
small-pox twelve years ago. He really
had no noe at all, nothing but a tiat
ulcerated place on his fare. The bones
were there, but tho septum and carti
lage were gone. Thero wero two opon
ings in his facofor nostrils. When Mr.
Sheehan had cold m the head, which'
frequently occurred, hi-j face prc&'entcd
any thing bnt an attractive appearance.
Sheehan, after struggling twolvo
year against tho disadvantages inci
dent to hi condition, voluntarily sub
mitted himself, at the Frovidones Hos
pital, to the operation of building up
a now nose. What is known as tho In
dian operation was pet funned by Dr.
Hamilton, Snrgcon-Goneral of tho Ma
rino Hospital Service, who was as
sisted bv Drs. Hartigan and Hick
llng. Tho operation consisted of
taking a flap from tho forehead, twist
ing it around and forming a novo of it.
A triangular Fetion, with ono point of
the trianglo between the cyc, wa cut
in the forehead. Tho skin and flesh
were cut down to tho bone, tho flap be
ing left attached to the flesh between
tho eyes. The flap was twisted around
until "it hung over the proposed site of
the new noe. Tho skin about the old
nose was then cut, and tho flaw waa
sewed in. A septum was mado, and all
together tho nose, when completed,
looked very well. When a Star reporter
called at the hospital, Mr. Shcehan's
face was swathcu in bandages. ITis
hand3 were s"cnrel In a mnftler, so that
ho could not, in his sleep, scratch his
new nose ofT boforo nature had secured
it in its place. Tho new noso will bo
of tho Grecian type, and tho surgeons5
think Mr. Sheehan will be able to blow
it and u-e it for all tho purposes that .
noses are used for.
This is tho first operation of the kind
performed in this city, ono of the physi
cians sard to a Star "reporter, for prob
ably twenty-five years. It is, however,
ono of the earliest operations known to
surgery. In the middle ages, when no3ea
were more frequently knocked off than
now, tho surgeon was often called upon
to repair the damaged face of some un
fortunate knight, arid so such operations
were common. The old Italian method
wa3 to make a graft from tho skin and
flesh of a manrs arm to his uose. Tho
flap was left hanging partly to the arm,
so as to keep up a circulation in tho cn
grafted flesh while naturo was making
the union. The man's arm was there
fore bound to his head so he could not
movo it. The French method was to
make two flaps from tho cheek, one on
each side. Th operation in Sheehan'a
case i3 called tho Indian operation, be
cause the man who submits to it-is par
tially scalped. Waslungtor. SUir.
PRETTY NAMES.
A Strain on the Physical Welfare of the
Rabtra Children.
Tho following is a list of names of tho
children of Mr. and Mrs. Rabun, of
Augusta, Ga.
Jirst Mary Aim Elizabeth Rabun.
Seeond Cornelia An Miranda Jane
Rabun.
Third Effie Ann Savannah Rabun.
Fourth. James Willhmi Theophilus
Patrick Rabun.
Fifth Sarah Ann Melissa Vanduzeu
Iantha Rabun.
Sixth Drnsula Ann Francis Rowena
Rabun.
Seventh Lanie Lucinda Liza Willio
Ann Al;ee Rabun.
Eighth Margaret Amazon Archibald
Roxio Ann Rabun.
.- Hinth MozelTo Jerusha Ann Ce
Syvira Rabun.
Tnth Anjenctte Sophronia Martha
AnQ Arasras Rabun.
Eleventh Eldora Matilda Louisa '
Anlne PHeher .Rabun.
Twelfth Pcher Wicker Brinson
Franklin Lee Jackson Beauregard
Swsin Rabun.
ThirtoeTifc-TJSlla Ann Sancil Virginia
Theododa WiTlantalugenia Gibson Ba
bon. . AjarteenQ-Losio Ann Stella Bell
Cijljetkjnjsitegpe Xdiyii'Ljacreti Bor.
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