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i'J . KKjfri. ?- -? ,c" ?5v "tfe " - THEOTJiRNAl. ISSUED ttTVKRT WEDNESDAY, M: K. TURNER &5 CO., 9 f rtf ritttra and Fabliihex . . ? , &T OFFICE, Eleventh St., vp fairs H Journal Building. ..?.,,. tbkms:' Peryear Riv aanutlis w V ABBTUfll ISrSnntneea nasi arefseetonelcnrne of Irelineeorleee.ner aannm, lve dollnxe. OTFor time advertleeeseate, amply atthieoaace. aTLegal adTertiseasente nt eUtnte ratee- iTTor transient ndrertlelaf, rates on third page. 9"A11 edvertlaeateata payable VOL. XVII.-NO. 7. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 9, 1886. WHOLE NO. 839. Three months . Visile copies & Italy. it. v-? . fto Inttpal If It A COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. - CASH CAPITAL $75,000 V6') . - DIRECTORS: LCA.NUCR Gkrbari, Pres't. vGjco. W. Hulst, Fce Y'f. Julius A. IlKi:r. It. II. Uenry. ,T. E. Taskkii, C'ishicr. Baak f lsepextlt, IMacaaat aa ExchaBK Callectleae Promptly" Mad Mil PelBttU HENRY LUERS, DEALER IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS, Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Piaps Repaired on short notice yyOnc door west of Heintz's Drug Store, 11th Street, Columbus, Neb. 8 HENRY G-ASS. UNDEETAKEE ! COFFINS AND METALLIC OASES AND DKALKR IK Furniture, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Tables, Safes. Lounges, etc. Picture Frames and Mouldings. fSTHepairinaof all kinds of Upholstery Goods. -tt COLUMBUS. NKK. INDIGESTION To strengthen the stomach, create an appetite, and remove the horrible depres sion and despondency "which result from Indigestion, there is nothing so effective as Ayer's Pills. These Pills contain no calomel or other poisonous drug, act directly on the digestive and assimilative organs, and restore health and strength to the entire system. T. P. Bonner, Chester, -Pa., writes: "I have used Ayer's Pills for the past 30 years, and am satisfied I should not have been alive to-day, If it bad not been for them. They Cured mm of Dyspepsia when all other remedies failed, sod their occasional use has kept m III healthy condition ever since.' L. N. Smith, Utica, X. Y., writes: "I have used Ayer's Pills, for Liver troubles and Indigestion, a good many years, and have always found them prompt and ccient in their action." BIchard 2f orris, Lyaa, Mass., writes : "After much suflcr Isf , I have been cured of Dyspepsia and Liver troubles By Using Ayer's Pills. They have done me more good than any other medicine I have ever takes." John Burdett Troy, Iowa, writes: "For nearly two years my life waarendered miserable by the horrors of Dyspepsia. Medical treatment afforded ,BM only temporary relief, and I became TSdnesd la nesh, and very much debili tated. A friend of mine, who had been susJkrly afflicted, advised me to try Ayer's Pills. I did so, and with the sappiest results. My food soon ceased to y appetite retained, and I I well as ever." Ayer's Pills, nxr ARED BT M. J. d AID Cfc, XevelL Bam, IW sale by an Druggists. " NO HUMBUG ! But a Grand Success. RP. BRIGH AX'S AUTOMATIC WA- ter Trough for stock. He refers to every man who has it-in use. Call on or leaved orders at George Tale's, opposite Oehlrich's grocery. 9-6m LYON&HEALY a Msaras Sts..Caicaae. ATALOOUE, SrtkOHfete 41V 1 Irti. &! iiri sum. mam uuta. APMZE. Send six cents for postage.and receive free, a costly box of feeds which will help you to more money right away than anything else in this werlaV All, ef 'either sex, succeed freas ;aar. aas oroaa rosace lorcue ;neisre snetwercsrs, sDseuneiy At ease address, Tnun h Cou sPay latere! Xlate Wep Ita. 274 jS BBslBBBBB AfBsws uuXMS&P. SM WB1 - ilH. ana wmmm. m p. . m m m . i i mr mm i jii i iI.ii.im mm BMik saMrr mm OmmKmSmUi Xmama flwh eTCSilefciHlefc, - I(AW NIAGARA FALLS. Xeeesstea ef the Great Cataract Dallas; US Tears. The fallacy of Lyell's guess at the rate of recession was always plain If we referred to the first accurate account, that of the Swedish traveler Kalm, in Gent. Mag., January, 1775; since whieh the gorge has both been enlarged full 100 acres and had miles of its bed deepened many feet In p. 16, coL 1, A. he said: Canoes can go yet half a league above the beginning of the car tying place, ... but higher up it tii quite impossible, the whole course of the water, for two leagues and a half up to the great fall, being a aeries of smaller fjlti, ont under another.''1 Now plainly this whole series have so levelled their bed that the main falls now de scend some 160 feet instead of the "137 feet', that he repeatedly maintained (col, 3, ) to be the utmost the engi neers, "with mathematical instru ments." then admitted. Butasfortbe plan, he is yet more definita,'P?16. col. 1. I: "The river (or rather strait) runs here from south-southeast to north northwest, and the rock of the great fall crosses it, not in a right line, but forming almost the figure of a semicircle or horse-shoo." (Professor Tyndall has well remarked that the upper stream having probably been always much wider than the gorge, the chief fall, lias always been concave; but Kalm's view makes it appear very slightly so, and we know that very flat segments are, by a perspective illusion, commonly thought 'semicircles or even "horse shoes.") "Above the fall in the middle of the river, is an island, lying also south-southeast and north-northwest, or fmrallel with the sides of the river; its ensth is about7or8Frencharpents (an arpent being 120 feet). The lower end of this island is just at the perpendicular edge of the fall." He proceeds to tell how this island, once thought inaccessi ble, had been the scene of the heroic res cue, twelve years before, of two indians by two others. Then p. 18,col. 2, F: "The breadth of the fall, as it runs in a 'semi circle, is reckoned about six arpents. The island is in the middle of the fall, and from it to each side is almost the same breadth" (barely 350 feet then, but in his engraving not half that). "The breadth of the island at its lower end is two-thirds of an'arpent or thereabouts." His view makes it but one-third the height, f. ., one-third of "137 feet," Now this mere reef, about 900 feet by less than 80, was plainly one whose length the falls were reducing. Is there the least ground for holding they have ever reduced Goat Island (now ten times larger than that) or will reduce it one rood? But, prolong "Luna Islet," north-northwest till 900 feet long, and you will have the site, I submit, of Kalm's middle rock, barely 850 feet from the point Mr. Wesson marks, on Jig. 2, "New York Shore." and about as much from a Canadian point west southwest of it As for Goat Island, it cannot, in his time, have yet been touch ed by the falls, but may be one of those the hunters had habitually visited above. His description can be so well plotted on this last survey that the amount of gorge excavated since 1750 should be knowable to an acre. The west fall, then, only slightly the larger, has ever since been widening, lowering its edge, and getting more of the stream; so that the east one, comparatively stationary, retaining its height and decreasing In volume, must dry up, and its bed and all the isles become part of New York State. E. L. Oarbitt. m Jfature, m . INDIAN MARVELS. Aa Illostmttoa et th HlgrKArt Attained by Asiatic Conjurors. The wonders of conjuring, seen in the southern part of Asia, especially in Hin dostan, are almost beyond human belief. Travelers agree that such extraordinary feats as changing wigs into snakes, and causing seeds to grow immediately to the stature of trees, are actually per formed. Through what delusion of the senses trustworthy witnesses ;have been made to believe in such jugglery, we are as yet ignorant. A recent traveler In India thus describes snew a very old trick in scientific conjuring: Taking out of bis pocket a long, thin, silk rope, the conjurer curled it up into several folds and made itpnto a circle, the ends ef which were bound round and round this circle. He threw it en the ground, where it lay. Alternately humming a wild air, whist ing.singisg a monotonous chorus, knock ing two sticks together all the time, and dancing to the noise or sound, the tied cord on the ground began to move about, to twist hither and thither, to gyrate in circles, to leap up a couple of feet into the air, and then gradually to unfold itself, till at length it appeared only a tangled tsass of rope. In a few moments, however, the per former all the time playing loude, knocking his sticks together violently, singing more vigorously, and leaping about almost in a fury, the tangled mass became unraveled, and the rope was st once seized by him. Taking it in his right hand, yet hold ing one end in his left, and with a vigor ous shout and great bodily exertion, he threw itperpendicularlv into the air. It fell. He threw it again. - Each time ,it went higher, though it fell several umes. All the while he kept muttering, ges ticulating, whining, imploring, expos tulating, crying. At length, warning the spectators, who were crowding upon him, to keep the circle around as wide and broad as at the outset, he gathered the rope once more into circular coils in his right hand, and with a supreme ef fort and a wild shriek, threw it up a great height towards the sky. He then all of a sadden pulled it with the great est violence two or three times. It did not fall, however, but, on the contrary, seemed tightly fastened. With a yell of triumph, he at once, as it seemed. climbed up the rope, first with one hand and then with the other: his legs equally agitated. He row higher aad higher, and then aetaaliy vanished oat of sight imtk ir. YsidVsCsmpanisn. Ario Bates, ef Boston, has been tell ing a storv of a woman who went to Concord. Mass., aad asked for some of lalph Waldo Emerson's old clothes to n in a poet's rug" made of patch work. "I can corroborate this story," writes George Parsons Lathrop, "be cause, when I owned and lived in The Wayside, Nathaniel Hawthorne's old home at Concord, the same woman ap- Eiedthersona similar errand. Being Id that it was futile, she asked: 'May I pick up something around the place to carry away as a memento?' Permis sion was granted, aad she finally caught a cricket la the grass of the lawn and Cit iato a bottle. She said she also s cricket from Emerson's front wi.''-ais J$mnJ IRVINGTON HOME. A Wmtsr-ttmi ea ta Hbra for the er Wall Street. Seven years ago George Dawson Merritt, a merchant of this city, prided himself on what he thought the most beautiful and thoroughly equipped summer residence in this country. It was located at Irvington, on the east bank of the Hudson and about a mile from the depot. What was then known as the Merritt estate is now known as the Jay Gould estate, and could its former proprietor, now dead, awake to life he would scarcely recognize his ideal home. In 1880 Jay Gould became struck with the magnificence of the property and purchased it Since the day it passed into his hands he has been con tinually backing nature with capital until he has succeeded in creating one of the loveliest sites in the world. The estate now covers (according to the books of the supervisors) 610 acres of the- most eligible and fertile land in Westchester County. Of this about 200 acres are woodland and the rest devoted to lawns and light farming. It is said that the purchasing price paid by Mr. Gould for the estate was in the neighborhood of $200,000, and that he can dispose of the property any day for five times that amount, or $1,000, 000. The house of the king of finance is built in Gothic style, and in itself is not particularly striking. It faces the river from a distance of 3,000 feet, and the view commanding is at once grand and picturesque. It contains twenty rooms, beside a basement of the dimen sions of the house. Not until entering the house is the visitor fully impressed with the sway that its owner must have in the financial world. Axminster and Moquet eaipets and velvet tapestry cover the floors, and frescoing of the most delicate and ex pensive patterns decks the walls and ceilings. On the second floor is Mr. Gould's pride, the art gallery. It extends tho entire depth of the house, and has the full benefit of the setting sun. In it is hung a most tidy fortune in paintings, by the most celebrated masters. Bric-a-brac is everywhere prevalent, and nothing is wanting to make such a home as only a many-times millionaire can afford. Surrounding the house is a graceful, wavy lawn of ninety-five acres, kept with faultless care, and marred only by the single macada mized roadway leading from the main road to the house, a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile. The grounds are separated from the road by a polished stone fence, nearly four feet high. Proceeding toward the river, the next object to attract one's attention arc Mr. Gould's hothouses, nineteen in number, and comprising combined about 900 feet in length and 450 in width. In these can be found every description of flower that crows on the face of the globe. From there Mr. Gould relishes grapes up to February 1, cats strawberries of his own growing to top off his Christinas dinner, and takes the nits out of his own nnarhfti on April Fool's Day. The hothouses and their contents are valued at $250,000. Underneath the hothouses is a miniature cellar only 405 feet in length, in which are stored articles of vegetation to which a cellar is indispensable. Here are also roots which are used to decorate the house in one mass of green foliage. Mr. Gould will make affidavit that he does not use oleomargarine, because his twenty-four head of thoroughbred cat tle supply him with the choicest of butter and milk to which water is a stranger. Twenty four horses do the farm work and supply the members of the family with all the out-of-door enjoyment they wish. Poultry abounds and of the choicest breeds. It is said that one of Jay Gould's greatest delights is to rise early and with his youngest son, Frank, watch the pro cess of feeding the chicks. Eighty men have been employed constantly for the past year, and for their wages receive nine dollars per week, or a grand total of $2,880 per month. It requires ten pair of hands to look after the house work beside the French chief who pre sides over the destinies of cuisine. The chambermaids', housekeeper's and gov erness' wages amount to $300 monthly, and the gentleman who wears the white cap and prepares creme de volaille grows fat over $250 per month, or $60 less than the other ten put together. Allowing that the live stock are self supporting, Gould's expenses, exclu sive! of Mb house in this city, his yacht and hundreds of other asides, are at Irvington, $388.89 per day, or $11,- oio.oo per monm ana 9138,199.92 a year. Since the advent of Jay Gould at Irvington he has not only spen thousands of dollars in beautifying the place, which is an ornament to the beautiful village, but has been no less Industrious in improving its sanitary condition. For years there has been a swamp right In the heart of the village, which has been the source of malaria and other obnoxious diseases. Be cently Mr. Gould purchased it, and is now engaged in draining it by the aid of a tunnel at an enormous expense. Five thousand feet of piling have al ready been driven at a cost of double the price paid for the land. When the Gould family is not augmented by hiends it includes Mr. and Mrs. Gould, Aeir two daughters. Helen and Annie, aged sixteen and nine, and the four sons, George, Edwin, Howard and Frank. A", x. Journal. GRADED GREETINGS. m Xatar a Displayed ta taw Brit Hr Chief Clerk (to head of the establish ment) Good-morning,' Mr. Large wealth. Head of the establishment Good morning, Mr. Smith. Second Chief Clerk (to chief clerk) Good-morning, Mr. Smith; pleasant morning. Chief Clerk Morning, Brown. Ordinary Clerk (to second chief elerk) Good-morning, Mr. Brown. Glad to see yon looking so well this morning, sir. , Second Chief Clerk Ya-as. Hang np my coat, Jones. Office-Boy (to ordinary clerk) Good-morning,-Mr. Jones. Can I do any thing for you this aaoming, sirP Ordinary Clerk Hustle aroun lively now, and gat things in shape. Yon ain't north the pewder te blew you up. . . Aegro forter (to office boy Good awnm, Jantes. How is yo' health aaawnnv J dis mswnin'P Naek ret dew DMamani dawn stairs on; the t,crn report jea. The negrn aseaan saw stsavi ee , , Mr 'j . - t-r -t . . WEATHER SIGNS. rrwafceUc Wisdom Which Cm B sT la Birds aad Nature. The man who is out of doors at sun rise can form a pretty accurate opinion of what the day may be. If just before sunrise the sky especially in the west is suffused with red, rain generally follows in the courso of the day. In winter often snow. If, however, it be frosty weather, the downfall is some times delayed. On the other hand, if the sky be a dull gray, and the sun rises clear, gradually dispersing the vapors, it will be fine. If he retires behind the clouds, and there are reddish streaks about, it will rain. Should the sun, later in the day, shine through a gray, watery haze, it will probably do a rainy night The sunset is very unreliable. Often a beautiful sunset will be followed by a bad day. After a rainy day, suddenly at sunset in the far west will appear s magnificent streak of crimson (not copper-color) this generally foretells a fine day. A tinted halo round the sun at setting occurs in long-continued rainy weather. A halo round the moon, especially if some distance from it is a sure indication of downfall at hand. Rainbows are unreliable, except they occur in the morning, when rain may be expected. Sun-dogs and fragments of prismatic colors durinsr the day show continued unsettled weather. A dazzling metallic luster on foliage dur ing a cloudless day in summer pre cedes a change. Huge piled-up raassessof white cloud in a olue skv during winter indicate snow or hail. If small, dark clouds float below the upper ones, moving faster than they, rain will follow, as it will if, in the morning, pale brown, smoke-like clouds are floating about Red-tinged clouds, high up at eveuing, are followed by wind, occasionally by rain. Mists at evening over low-lying ground or near a river, precedoiine and warm davs. If a mist in the morn iner clears off as the sun gets higher, it will be fine; but if it settle down again aftor lifting a little, rain is at hand. No dew in the morning is mostly followed by rain, and a heavy dew iu the evening by a fino day. Rain follows two or three consonutive hoar frosts. A shower of hail in the dav time 8 usually followed by frost at nirrht. If, after rain, drops of water still haner on the branches and twigs, and to window framos. tho rain will re turn, but if they fall, and the wood work dries, finn weather is at hand. Stones turn damp bpfore wet: at the seme lime it must bo observed that the fact of their doirig so does not. invaria bly indicate rain, for they will do so occasionallv before heat. Smoko descending heavily to tho ground is the sign of very" doubtful weather. Objects at srront distances, which are generally indistinctly seen, or even not seen at all, sontotimes loom out clonr and distinct. When this happens, bad weather or change of wind ensues. A well-known instance of this is the M of Wight as seen from Sonthsea. If the opposite shore is clearly seen, thi're is rain about. If, at night :iftr being blown out and exposed to tho outer air, the wick of a candle continues to smolder a long time, the next day will be fine. Green-colored sky betokens unsettled bad weather, often long con tinued. If, on a fine day, the dust suddenlv rise in a revolving, spiral column, rain is near. The howling of the wind indicates, in most bouses, but not invariably, that downfall Is near. Tn some houses, owing to their construction, the wind always moans. Wherever the wind is at the timo of the vernal equinox (March 21 and thereabouts) , that will be the prevailing wind throughout the next three months. If the stars apppar unusually numer ous, and the "milky wav" very clearly defined, with the surrounding sky dark, or if there be a misty appearnnco over the stars, rain is coming; while if there be but few stars, and those very bright and sparkling, in a pale, steely sky, it will be fine. Swine, before rain, are unusually noisy and restless; Swallows in fine weather will fly high, and at the ap proach of rain close to the eronnd: but the latter does not apply if the day is cold, in which case they hawk verv low. Common sparrows washing vigor ously in a pnddle on the road, or at the edge of running water, is a sure sign of rain. A baker, who kept a parrot in the dry atmbuphere of the bske offices, noticed that a few hours before rain the bird took an imaginary bath, fluttering, as if splashing water, and preening her feathers. CasseWs Fam ily Magazine. m A POOR WOMAN. Hew "Uaele Steed" Managed to Save Cart Ce Charge. "Uncle Stead" is what they called a shrewd old gentleman who used to live in Winthrop, a little way out of tho vil lage, up the side of the pond, near Beadfield. One of his fellow-citizens was a man named Lovejoy. Uncle Stead met Lovejoy in the village one day, and he said to him: "Lovejoy, there's a poor woman lives out on the edge of the town that needs some pro visions. I'm willing to supply her, but I've sold my horse and have no means of getting the . stuff to her. Now, I'll buy her a oarrel of flour and a ham and some other supplies if you'll carry them out to her with your team." Lovejoy said certainly he'd be very glad to do it. Accordingly, Uncle btead bought a barrel of flour, a ham, a bucket of sugar, etc., and. telling Lovejoy where the woman lived, sent him on on the errand of charity with the good things in his pung. Lovejoy easily found the house where the woman lived. He unloaded the goods, puffing like a grampus as he rolled the barrel of flour in. and said to the woman: "Mr. Steadman sent you the provisions. He's a mighty kind-hearted man to send yon all these things." "Well, I don't know why he shouldn't send them tome!' exclaimed the woman in surprised accents. "He's my husband." icicufow (Me.) Journal. 'm e We have received a- communica tion entitled "Ignorance." After care fully reading the article, we have come to the conclusion that the heading is the most appropriate one that could hava been chosen. Pacific Jester. m a "Say, sis, does Sandy Claws fetch tnesnowr" "Guess he does, Johnnyl" "No he don't neither!" "Why don't her "Iiimh he always fetches the "jr. 1". JJevttai THE FIRST National Bank ! OF COX.TJBCBTJS. NEB., HASAN Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $15,000, And the largest Paid 1st Cctals Cap ital of any banjt In this part .of the State. CyPesosits received and interest paid on time deposit. tSTDraftson the principal cities in this country and Europe bought aud sold . 'Collections and all other business given prompt and careful attention. 8JOCKH0LDKKS. A. ANDERSON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. J. P. BECKER, HERMAN UBULRICU, 6. SCHUTTE, W. A. MCALLISTER, JONAS WELCH, JOHN W. EARLY, P.ANDKRSON, G.ANDERSON. Apr38-'8fitf BU8LE8S CARDS. D.T. Martyx, M. D. F. .1. Schug, M. D. Dw. MABTYff ft SCHTJG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., N. & B. H. and K. & 31. R. R's. Consultations in Oerman and English. Telephones at office and residences. ISsOffice on Olive street, next to Brod feuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. 42-y W. M. CORiVEE.lIS, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. CULLITAN efc KEEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office over First National bus, Nebraska. Bank, Colum-60-lf r 1. EVANS, M. ., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. tSTOffice and rooms, Gluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. 4y TTAJIIIrO.K nEADE, 91. !., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Platte Center, Nebrabka. -y TTEKnAiH NAriiNSTEirr, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKKR, 13th street, east of Abt's barn. AprilT,'86-tI DOWELL UOUsE, PLATTE CENTER, NEB. Just opened. Special atteutiou given to commercial men. Has a good sample room. Sets the best table. Give it a trial and be convinced. f0Siuo TOW EU9DKIV, COUNTY SURVEYOR. EBTParties desiring surveying done can address me at ColumbUH, Neb., or call at my office in Court House. ftinaySC-y F. F. KUNNEK, .11. IK, HOM0EOPATHIST. Chrenio Diseases aad Diseases of Children a Specialty. ISTOfflce on Olive street, three doors north of FIrht National Bank. 2-ly MOrVEY TO S.OAHT. Fivo years' time, on improved farms with at least one-fourth the acreage under cultivation, In sums representing one third the fair value of tbe homestead. Correspondence solicited. Address, 31. K.TURNER, 50-j Columbus, Ncbr. VjcALLlMTEK BROS., A TTOBNETS AT LAW, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th St. W A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. If. MACFARLANQ, Attsreiy sad SaUry PaU e. B. B. COWDKBY, Coll rtor. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OF MACFARIjAND & COWDBR7, Columlt. .- . .- Nebraska. JOHN G. HIGGINS. C. J. GAKLOW, Collection Attorney. HIGOIHSf& GABL0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAVV, Specialty made of Collections by C.J. 24-m uanow P H.MU8CUE, Hth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, 'Whips, Blankots, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, &c, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAMES SALMON, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work fuaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near t.Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. C AMPBELL CO. DKALXSS llf Raors and Iron ! eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeee The highest market price paid for rags and iron. Store In tbe Bubach building. onve it, celuasbus. Neb. 15-tf J J. 8. MURDOCH ft SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Haveaadaa extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on abort notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor "Tteestbnateforyou. "gBop b etene eser west of Frisdhof Oe'i.stere.Celnnibns. sTabr. eaVv I QUEER APPETITES. Sosaeef the 4)eUoactee".Coaamed la Va rious Parta of the World. The old saying that what is one man's meat is another man's poison is real ized in the opposite tastes of people. The Englishman will not eat a squirrel but will gloat over a meal of barnacles and periwinkles, the latter a species of sea-snail that adheres to the rocks. The Hollander relishes a feast of de cayed shark, yet looks with horror on bread-and butter. The Japaueso have a prejudice against milk and beef, but will enjoy stewed or roasted rat. Tbe Turks shudder at tho thought of eating oysters. The Digger Indians of the Pacific slope rejoiced in tho great locust swarms of 1875 as a gracious dispensa tion of the Great Spirit, aud laid iu a store of dried locust powder sufficient to last them for several years. The French will eat frogs, snails and the diseased livers of geese, but draw tin; line at alligators. Buckland de clared the tasto of boa constrictor good, and much like veal. Sir Robert Schomberg found monkey very palata ble, though he says that before being carved it looked disagreeably like a roast child. Quass, the fermented cabbage water of the Russians, is their popular tipple. It is described as resembling a mixture of stale fish and soapsuds in taste, yet, next to beer, it has more votaries than any other fermented beverage. A tal low candle washed down with quass forms a meal that it would be hard to to be thankful for. In Canton and other Chinese cities rats arc sold at the rate of two dollars a dozen, and the hind quarters of dogs are hung up in the butchers' shops alongside of mutton and lamb, but command a higher price. The edible birds' nests of the Chinese are worth twice their weight in silver, the finest variety selling for as much as thirty .dollars a pound. The negroes of the West Indies eat baked snakes and palm worms fried in their own fat, but they can not be induced to eat stewed rabbits. In Mexico parrots are eaten, but they are rather tough. The Guachos of the Badda Oriental are in the habit of hunting skunks for the sake of their flesh. Li Kaskaskia, a town on the Mississippi, "Musical Jack," or fried rattlesnakes decap itated and skinned, and showing a meat as firm and white as a chicken, is a standard dish. The octopus, or devil fish, when boiled and then roasted, is eaten in Corsica and esteemed a great delicacy. In the Pacific Islands and West Indies, lizards' eggs are eaten with great gusto. The natives of the Antilles eat alli gator eggs, and the eggs of the tur tle are popular everywhere, though up to the commencement of the last cent ury turtle was only eaten by the poor of Jamaica. Ants arc eaten by various nations. In Brazil they are served with a resinous sauce, and in Africa they are stewed with grease or butter. The East Indians catch them in pits and carefully wash them in handfuls like raisins. In Siam a eurry of ants' eggs is a costly luxury. The Ceylonese eat the bees after robbing them of their honey. Caterpillars and spiders are dainties to tbe African busliman. After they have wound the silk from the cocoon the Chinese eat the chrysalis of the silk worm. Spiders roasted are a sort of dessert with the New Caledon ians. The Viennese are the great snail eaters in the world. The fcfcvn of Ulm, on the Danube, is the principal place where snails are fattened for tho mar ket. Those which are fattened on strawberries command the highest price, while sixty thousand are an nually exportetl from the isle of Crete. The Great African snail, that attains a length of eight inches, is converted into soup. Coek's combs are consid ered a delicacy in the Paris restaurants, while the Briton swallows shrimps in their entirety-. Qjiecr, Quaint and Quizzical. A NEW DODGE. Utilizing; United State Coin to Advertise Uuaiucg-t EnierprKes. Complaints have been mado to the Secretary of the Treasury that mer chants, in the West particularly, have inaugurated a novel system of advertis ing and using United States coins as medium of circulation. A small label containing the name and business of the advertiser was pasted on both hMes of sliver dollars, halves ad quarters, and thus made it difiicult to detect spurious money. Secret service agents were instructed to investigate the matter, and as a result of their in quiries a number of -merchants have been detected and reported to the de partment Some of them since the matter was discovered have addressed communications to the Treasury De partment asking to be informed' what section of the statutes they have been violating by using the coins of the United States in this way. In response a general circular will be prepared to the effect that such a practice origi nates and fosters an evil which pre vents the free circulation of the coins of the United States and temporarily impairs their value. Thus a public convenience is turned into a public nui sance, and then is nothing to prevent counterfeiters from utilizing such a medium for flooding the country with spurious coin. Now that attention has been directed to it, an earnest and sys tematic effort will be made to break up this practice, and if necessary the of fenders will be taken into court and prosecuted on a charge of being privy to circulating counterfeit money. Sev eral silver dollars thus defaced are now on exhibition at the Treasury Depart ment, and when dropped on a marble counter they give a dull, flat sound as though composed of plaster. It is be lieved that the evil has only begun, and that prompt and decisive measures will uproot it, and especially when it is shown to be a drawback rather than an impetus to business on account of se curing "makers of queer money." Washington Post. Fashion notes Brakemen will be sorry to learn that "trains" are to be made unusually long. Light-footed people will hear with pleasure that "illuminated leather is .fashionable." Bald-headed men will worry a little over the statement that "during the summer hair will be worn high on the head." The gentleman who owns but one red flannel shirt will hear with sorrow that "underclothing is now frequently made of silk, ana is more elaborate' trimmed than ever." Young gentlemen of limited means will be depressed when they read "Col lars will be higher than ever this spring." Farmers who wish a fashion able fastening to the barn door must remember that "large buttons still preveil." Boston Commercial Bullsiin. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. William P. Davis has been elected clerk and treasurer of the town of Yarmouth, Mass., for the forty-second time. David McDanicls, of Morristown, Vt., claims to be tho oldest Mason in New England. Ho is ninety-five years old, aud was made a member of Mount Vernon Lodge iu 1812. One of tho moat beautiful and most noted young Indies in Philadelphia fashionable society is a complete and hopeless wreck from paralysis, caused by the indiscreet use of cosmetics. Philadelphia Prcis. Mrs. Elizabeth E. G. Emerson, of Rochester, N. Y , lived in most squalid surroundings snd died recently, when it was discovered that she left property worth $!50.000. and bequeathed 60, 000 to tho Presbyterian benevolent societies of the place. Rochester Ex press. Estaquio Pauilla. a Justice of the Peace in Santa Fe County, N. M., is complained of for exceeding his authority. Hu nipt his sister-in-law walking along the street in company with a young man. and had them both thrown into jail because he did not like the young man. It is said that tho late Governor Seymour, of New York, settled the dwestion of a monument for himself ten years ago, by selecting a large bowlder i its natural state as the only thing to mark his grave. The stone is six feet long, two feet wide and one foot thick. One side- will be polished and suitably inscribed. Colonel Nicholas Smith, "the groat American professional beauty," is a native of bhelby County, Ky., and 'was born so. A Louisville pa per says that in his youthful years it was his daily habit to stand before his mirror and exclaim: "I thank Thoo, O God. for this magnificently hand some face." Louisville Courier-Jour nal. General Hancock was of such cool temperament and steady nerves that on tho night of tiio election he went to bed at one o'clock, not knowing whthcr ho or Garlield would bo Presl deni. and when his wife woke him at six to tell him he was defeated, he merely said: "It is all for the best," turned over and finished his nap. Chicago Herald. Some people speak of Goneral Terry as haying been appointed "senior Major General." This is a mistake. There is no such rank. General Han cock's seniority was that of his com mission. General Terry becomes the junior or youngest Major General by reason of the date of his appointment Major General Schotield is tho senior of the officers of this grade. N. Y. Mail. Among the queer names found in a recent copy of tho Congressional Record were the following, many of which rival the most famous inventions and discoveries of Diekens and Thackeray: Juicy llichwine, Zephaniah Crubaugh, Anna Nation, Margaret Greathous, Simon Fought, Tunis Swiek, Sophia Gump, George Knopsnydor, Boston Fowler, Delilah Knill, Sasscr Sullivan, George Washington Waddcll, Alber tine Cockruni, Elizabeth Goctephan, Micajah Joyner, Hartford Motherly, Ambrose Chewning, David Cornpropst, F. Courtney Cochnower, C. C. Colelo. J. T. Outhouse, Calvin L. KnickandJ. Snodd. A LITTLE NONSENSE.' It is better to bo nlousj in the world than to bring a boy up to play on the accordion. Texas Silings. When the fashionable young lady makes a dive and a grab at her dress skirt a fellow feels very much like dodging, for she acts for all tho world like she was going for a brick. Mont real Witness. A woman's will is strong and sho usually sustains it by jaw. A lawyer is the only man that is ever known to break a woman's will, and he does il bv jaw. Similia similibus curantur. Texas Figaro. Roman Nose, a Cheyenne chief in the Leavenworth jail, attempted sui cide, because, as an exchange suggests, he was tired of Roman his cell. Few of us can understand the anguish a Roman Nose under - sueh circum stances. Boston Transcript. Young Featherly "Do you recall that quotation, Miss'Waldo, beginning: No pent up no pent up pent up Ithaca contract '." Miss Waldo " 'No pent up Utica,' I think, Mr. Featherly-" Young Featherly "Ah, yes, Utica; thanks, I knew it was some town in Central New York. N. Y. Sun. At the minstrels: Bones "Mr. Montrose, can you tell me why a dude with a gumdrop Derby is like George Washington?" Interlocutor "I hard ly think, Mr. Bones, that your question will come within the range of my in tellectual powers on this auspicious oc casion Why is a dude with a gum droo Derbv like George Washington?' Bones "Because he's got his little hat yet." Rambler. An advertisement in a New York paper read: "Wanted, all accordion player; apply at the shooting gallery at "No. Third avenue." The accor dion players saw through the scheme right away, and not one answered the advertisement. The object was to get all the accordion players in the city to apply to the shooting gallery, and utilize them as targets as fast as they entered the room. It is greatly to be regretted that the ruse miscarried. Norristown Hcrtdd. A temperance missionary in Glas gow left a few tracts with a young lady one morning. Calling at the same banse a few days afterwards, he was rather disconcerted at observing the tracts doing duty as curl papers on the head of the damsel to which he had given them. "Weel, my lassie," he remarked, "I sec you have used the tracts I left wi' ye;" but," he added, in time to turn merriment into confusion, "ye have putten them on the wrang side o' your heid, ma woman!" N. Y. Independent. A sick farmer had an obstinate cow which he wished to get to market On consulting his neighbors he re ceived the following advice: The car penter said he'd have a screw driver; the furniture-man said let a burean drawer; a small boy offered to holler; the newspaper-man said let an editor ial leader; the postmaster suggested having a letter carrier; the village toper wanted to do his part, and offered to take a horn; the pickle-vender thought a little gherkin would start her. Meantime the farmer expired el exnausuon ana we cow aiea oi STies, This fable teaches that the possibilities ui we xaifinu language are Ongon Statesman, OF GENERAL INTEREST. Krupp, the Essen gun manufactur er, owns 547 Iron ore mines in Ger- Details of inventions prior to 1817 are not known, as no records of patents were kept before that date. In Paris they call it a "seance de boxe," At Norris they call it a slug" gins; match. Aorrssfoica Herald. me "wm. Fenn," a locomotive built in Philadelphia in 1835, was the first railroad engine ever run in Cali fornia,and is still doing good service in that State Chicago MmL There are only one thousand peo ple men, women and children in all of Harlan County, Kentucky, yet the murders and assassinations during the year outnumber the births two to one. St. Louis Post. Oliver Wendell Holmes conceived the idea of the open stereoscope now in general use. He explained the plan to Mr. Joseph 1. Bates, who brought out the invention, but neglected to patent it Boston Journal. Somebody has discovered that the word "lady'" once meant "broad servor." This will be a terrible shock to the "foreladies" and "salesladies," and mav, perhaps induce them to con sent to be called women. Christian at Work. A Pennsylvania man haa inToatml a mechanical cow-milker which can bo operated by pulling a string. He should present an accident insurance policy to every one who buys the instrument, as the milker must stand at short range while working the machine. Philadel phia Press. It has lately been noticed in a fac tory at Cambridge, Mass., that the fumes of naphtha, under certain condi tions, produce the same effect as laugh ing gas. In tho factory mentioned a number of girls were rendered hysteri cal by, and some became unconscious from, breathing the gaa, xntWZ Citi zen. At a recent lecture delivered in Philadelphia by a prominent scientist tho gentleman said it takes a prodigi ous amount of vegetable matter to form a layer of coal; that the present growth of the world would make a layer only one-eighth of an inch thick, and that it would take a million years to form a COal bed nnn hiinrirui font thick. We believe Cal Turner to be the best lumber operator and river driver now living. Ho has but one hand, the other having been amputated below the elbow. We saw him swinging aa axe the other day, splitting some large logs for the furnace at his house in Bethel, and we were surprised at the telling blows he Htruck.Lewiston (Mc.) Journal. Los Angeles, Cal., was founded by the Spanish soldiers, on September 4, 1781. One of tho first things they did was to dig an irrigating ditch or zanja. This was the beginning of what is now a magnificent system ofirrigation. The ditches aggregate seventy-five miles in length, and they irrigate eighty-five hundred acres of land per month for six months in the year. San Francisco Call. Butter, as has been developed by recent discussions on oleomargarine, had its origin among the Scythians, Thracians and Phrygians. After they had become acquainted with the man ner of making it, it was only used as a medicine or as an ointment in tho baths, but not as an article of food, nor in cookery. It was alwavu in ,- oilv state, and not firm like our butter. Chicago Herald. A cherry trco stood in tho wav of a German railway extension that is being pushed at Nicdorlahustein. and the owner asked about nine hundred dollars for the tree. Expert wcru ap pointed, and ho then showed that it had for years yielded him erojw each of which sold for sums equivalent to the interest on the amount named. They finally agreed to award him sir hundred dollars, and tho tree had to go.. Some remarkable cats are entered for the cat show in New Haven. There are a full dozen or more of fivo or six toed cat. Striped Beauty, a tiger-eat, weighs fourteen pounds. Dick, a maltese, follows like a dog. A jot black cat with eight toes on each fore Saw weighs twenty-three pounds, ack, owned by the men of steamer C, of the New Haven Are department, has one yellow and one bluo eye New Haven Register. The California girl doesn't get left often, says the San Francisco News Letter. The T. C. traveled on the samo train with her not long ago, and sho wanted to stand on the platform and view the scenery, and tho conductor E referred she wouldn't Shofixcdupon im a haughty store and remarked grandly: ''Do you know who I am? Perhaps you are not aware of the posi tion my father occupies in this com pany." Conductor withdrew his ob jections and retired, and the pretty girl smiled on the T. C. and observed affably : "As long as he didn't know it's all right My father took the tickets for about a week when the man at the office was sick," and she proceeded to enjoy the scenery. One of the quickest horse trades on record was mado recontly in Central Falls. A man was driving his horse, attached to an open carnage, along Central street, whon another person', also in an open carriage, tried to pass him.. Just as the carriages were abreast the man in the second named carriage shouted, "How will you trade horses?" "Even," quickly replied the other, and without any further talk about the merits or demerits of either horse both were unhitched, harnesses changed, hitched up again, and away went the teams, each driver apparently satisfied with the trade. A strange fact is that neither of the traders knew the other. Providence (R. I.) Journal. Electric Lights for Carriages. ' The success of the incandescent electric lamp for private carriages in Paris, as a substitute for candles and oil lamps, is pronounced complete. Not only the regular side lamps are in cluded in this plan, but the interior of the vehicle is illuminated by a lamp sufficiently powerful to read by, and in some instances a similar lamp is placed, for a novelty, on the head of the horse. The lamps are connected by wires with with small accumulators placed under the driver's seat; they are small in size, being only about eight inches square and four inches high, each of each accumulators being able to supply a lamp of five-candle power for the space of some six hours. Duriar the day they are moved aad chargea with electricity from a dynamo ma chine or otherwise, ami at nicht the' are reeay wr nse. r. 45 V?-
