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1 " It I THE JOURNAL. loSUKU KVKKY WKUS1 hIAY. - M. K. TURNER fc CO. Proprietors and Publisher. BATESOFATEMriin a"ulmbtts r. "i -" H -3- ; 1'7'Bmalaesaand profeaaioaalcaida of five lines or lass, per annasafive dollars. For time advertisemeats, apply at this office. - tSTLegal advertisements at statate rates. STor transient advertising, see rates on third page. EbTAII advertisemeats payable monthly. &3 OFFICE, Eleventh St., upstairs n Journal Vu llil fug. TKKMS: L'crycar v Six mouths j Tnree months Siuglecoples fj VOL. XVII.--N0. 12. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. JULY 14, 1886. WHOLE NO. 844. "-1 s i iiitip). lie r j COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, NEB. CASH CAPITAL, - $75,000 IUKKCTOKS: Leanoek Gkbrakd. Pres'l. Geo. W. Hui.st, Vice Pres't. Janus A. Kkk:. K. H. Henry. J. E. Taskbii, C.nhier. lank of Deposit, IttHroiuit aad EichunK'. r Collectiou 8romitly .m1 on al! I'oiBtN. Way lntrl n Time - lt. -'' HENRY LUERS, IfcAiK IN cziAXaumis&& WIND MILLS, AND PUMP. 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Fkaxk Hikth, Carl Simon, and Anton Palm, the anarchist leaders on trial at Milwaukee, for conspiring to bum the court house aud destroy the records and excite mobs to riol, were found guilty the other nighf by fhe jury. They are B'ibject to one year's imprisonment or a fine ot 500. IIunictT Arnica SalTP. The Best Salve iu the woild for Cuts, Bruises, Soies, Uieeiv, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hauds, Chilblaius, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to five perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. Foi sale by Dowty & Heit kemper. Mayl7-ly Mias Alice R. Jorron, attorney and counselor, and solicitor in chan cery of the stale of Michigan, is pusb iug her studies at the Yale law school with marked success. She lately made her maideu speech iu the preseuce.of her class mates ami inauy old lawyers, who received her long and effective speech most cordially. En Hatch, proprietor of a Sioux City gambling house, had some trouble the other night with George Trout, formerly of Denver, but late of Omaha, who drew his revolver and shot Hatch down. At the present writing Trout had not been captured but it is the opiuion that he will be. Emma Connelly, while attending Suuday school the other Sunday at Hunter's chape church, in Burnwell county, South Carolina, shot and killed John Steadly. Tho cause of the shooting was the circulating slanderous report by Steadly about Miss Connelly. Burt Whitfield, of Peru, Neb., the other day accidentally shot him self with a ball from a twenty-two calibre Flobert target cartridge. It struck the lower rib, glancing off and penetrating the liver. John McIlleety's boarding house at Nebraska City was destroyed by fire the other night. The property valued at $3,500. The fire originated by a fire-cracker getting under the building. New Rears. Onions from Egypt are being sold in the streets in Boston. One-fourth the male population of France are bachelors. There are said to be only 250,000 Hebrews in the United States. The gamblers of Columbus, Ohio, have been ordered out ot the city. It is stated that there are thirty seven women in the Universalis! ministry. Eggs are said to be cheaper and more plentiful than at anytime since 18bU A link or steamers is to be put on between San Diego, Cal., and Mexi can ports. A newspaper has baen discovered at Pekiu, China, that was started iu the year 91L A bed of salt thirty feet iu thick uess has been struck iu Michigan at a depth of 1.950 feet. A girl iu Richland county, Ohio, killed a rattlesnake, tanned its skiu and made a belt of it. Last week total cash iu treasury as shown by the treasurer's ifeuera! account was .$492,917,171. The capital ot tho Third National Bauk of Cincinuati, $1,000,000 in mostly owned by women. The Beatrice, Neb, silkworm farm is runniug this year with a force ot 200,000 working worms. A man in New York committed suicide by pushing a handkerchief down his throat with a loug ruier. One hundred tons ot strawberries were scut to Boston week before last from three towns in Massachusetts. A Philadelphia Judge has given uoiice that mere technical defenses iu the law will not be recognized. President Cleveland has ap proved the joint resolution extend ing the appropriations for fifteen days. John Morrison, of Nebraska City, while on his road to, celebrate at Auburn, (ell from a wagon aud broke liU leg. One huudred natives aud ten Eng lish pcrsous lost their lives through the eruption of the volcano of Tara wera, New Zealand. The Japanese have 300 miles ot railroad iu operatiou. They make their own cars, build their own lines, bridges and tunnels. The last weekly statemeut of the banks at New York shows that they now hold 111,031,000 iu excess of of legal requirements. The office ot Surveyor Geuoral for Nebraska has been abolished aud the records ordered turned over to the laud office at Washington. The greatest length ot Lake Michi gan is 300 miles its greatest breadth, 10S miles mean depth, C90 feet ele vation, 500 feet area, 23,000 square miles. The average expenses of this yeai's graduating class at Yale Col lege were $900. The largest sum t.peut by one man was $2,750, aud th? smallest $150. The cour. ot chancery iu New Jersey has just reudered an opiuiou boldiug that a witness in that state who swears by the Bible is not bouud to kiss the book. Hugh Michael, a farmer's sou, rau away from his homo uear Milwaukee, lost his way iu the woods of Taylor county, and starved to death. His body has beeu lotiud. Harry Cole, ot Auburn, Neb., while freezing cream, caught two fingers in the cogs of the machine, injuriug them so badly as to requite imputation at the first joint. Six prisoners oue day last week made their escape from the couuty jail, confined iu a steel cage, at Grand Island, Neb. It was thought that eecapo from that cage was impossible. At oue point ou the Cascade branch of the Northern Pacific the railroad describes a horseshoe which is two aud a quarter miles arouud, and only 1,500 feet across at the open end of it. A teerible explosion took place at the Atlantic Giant powder works Lear Drakcsville, New Jersey, kill ing teu men and badly injuring twelve others. The, cause of the ex plosion is unknown. Cattle are dying by the score on the ranches of Lonake and Prairie counties in Arkansas. The uature of the disease is not fully known, but resembles Texas fever, which is now becoming epidemic. The formal opening of the Kear ney canal was appropriately celebrat ed on the 5th inst. Boat riding on the canal and rejoicing was the order of the day. The citizens believe the opeuing of the canal means a manu facturing city for Kearney. Ik a recent contest of a six days type-sotting in Boston between female compositors three of the women beat the best record made jn a similar contest the week before between male compositors from the leading newspaper bicu. THE RIGHT MAN. The Rev. Anderson Halbcrt, who re cently fell heir to a large tract of land, advertised for some colored man of ex perience to take charge of a plantation. Old Simon Peters, :i well known colored preacher, applied for tho place. "Do you think that you can tako charge of the place?" Mr. Halbert ask ed. "Wall, sah, ef I didn' think so I wouldn' come tcr j-er. I knows all erbout er plau'ation, fur I wuz raised dar." Know all about planting cotton?" "It's right inter my ban'. Ain't neber done 110111111' else." "I understand that you are a preach er." "Yas, sah, dat I is." "Well, it is on this account as well as on any other that I employ you, for I want "no one but a man of "high moral sensibility." "Dat's me." "I am glad to hear it. There are a large number of negroes in the neigh borhood aud I want you to preach to them." "I'll do it. sah." "I want you to organize Sunday schools, and teach the children." "DatV. wliut 1 'low., ter do. l's been lookin' fur er place o' di. kino fer er long time, an' de Lawd ain't gwine ter let yer sutler fur gi in' ine dis heah op portunity." "I hope not." "I knows He won't boss. Gimme yer ban's. We wantster jiue ban's iu de 'junction o' dis gre't Migiou. wuck." "I want you to go at onct. Simon, for it is time to be getting in the crop." "Gwine right erway, sah." About three weeks afterward Mr. Hal bert met oltl Simon ou the street 'How is everything on the planta tion?" "Fust rate, neber better, sah." "Glad to hear it. Land in good con dition?" Mighty fine." "Got plenty of tools?" "Oh, yas, &ah, but 1 wush yer'd sen' down er nuder bar'l o' meal an' er few mo' middlin's o' meat. Hani wuck makes er man eat powerful, sah." "All right, I'll give you an order for what supplies you want." "Thankee, sah. Oh, I sees dat yesse'f knows how ter fa'm." Mr. Halbert was delighted with his prospects. During his entire life he had been in embarra.iiig want of money, but now, with the income of a planter, he could live iu a befitting way. He wrote to several cotton dealers and with one of them he made atitaetory ar rangements. He intended several times to visit his plantation, but something always came up to interfere with hi de sign." He "was prompt in sending .sup plies and it inu.t be confo-ed that oid Simon was prompt in asking for ihciu. "Why, how are ou. Simon?" the min ister one day exclaimed upon meeting his manager. "Fust rate. .-.ah. fust rate, 111 facie neber better." "Everything is getting all right on the plantation, I Mipjo-.u?" "Lubly, sah, lubly." "Howinany bales to the acre do j-ou expect to make?" "Dar ain't no tellin'. sah, fur de Ian' down dar is de deceibin'ust groun' I eber seed in my life. Yer kaint hardly tell nothin' erbout it Cuis Ian', I tells yer." "I'll be satisfied with half a bale per acre." "I sklaimed dat yer kaint tell nothin' erbout it. Say, bo.s, wit-di j-er'd sen' me down cr under bar'l o' meal an' midlin' mo' meat." """Look here, Simon, aren't you rather wasteful of the supplies 1 scud down there?" Qh, no, sah, not er tall. Yer doan ketch me wasting' imthin' dat's good ter eat. I'se one o' de keerfulet men yer eber seed iu yer life bo.s." Somehow the minister grew anxious, so several days after his lat interview with old Simon he went down to sec how his crop was getting along. As he rode along a lane he was astonished to find his fields overgrown with weeds; and further on, he was horrified upon discovering that not a single stalk of cotton was visible on his land. He hur ried to the plantation house. Before reaching the place his ears were greeted with a hymn. He stealthily stepped up on the gallery and looked in. The main room of the house was crowded with colored jicoplc, and, ou a platform, old simon stood preaching. "Brudderen," said he, "I'se got ter hab some mo' money, er we kain't hab ernuder feast o' tie paisohcr. Dat last bar'l o' meal an' two middlin's o' meat whut I bought wid de las' money I q'leckted is erbout out au' now I wants fi' dollars 1110'." Just then old Simon caught sight of the minister. The colored divine dis missed the congregation ami approached the minister. "You old scoundrel," exclaimed Mr. Halbert, "I ought to kill vou." "Kill me? W'y, boss, whut's I done?" "You haven't done anything, 3-011 old thief. You have run me iu debt, and have ruined my pro-pects for a whole year." "Look heah, -ers er mighty strange pusson, somehow. Wanted me ter preach de gospel an' start up Sunday schools, an' now arter I'se done it yer wants ter raise er kick. Dedayso'de saints ain't ober yit Ixok out, doan fer choke me! Ef yer kicks me ergin '11 hurt yer. Dar, yer's done it ergin. I kaint blay heah wid such er fidgety pusson ez yerae'f is- Good-bye, sah." Arkansaw Traveller. Our Ex-Prcsiilcnts. The Drawer referred sometime ago to the young man who is one da to be President of the United States, and the desirability of his fitting himself for this position. But on reflection the subject assumes a graver aspect. What the young man ought to be thinking of is his ability to become an ex-President. Anybody can be President who gets votes enough; the ability to get the votes is quite distinct from the qualifications to fall the office. And when a man is in, thanks to the excellence of our machin ery, he cannot do much injur in four J ears, except to himself and his party, loderate ability will carry him through respectably. But it requires a great man to be a successful ex-President. The office of President is a very exalted one. And when the man lays it down and re tires and stands alone, and people com are him with the position he has just eft, he must have very large proportions to stand the comparison. This aspect of the case has not been enough consid ered. Men are very anxious to get the office, and their friends push them for it, without thinking of the figure the successful man may make when bis term is over. The fact is that in the contrast he may appear much more in aignificant than if he had remained in private life. There has been great deal of talk lately about giving the ex Prcsidents a pension in ortler to place them in a position of dignity, and en able them to maintain something of the state the people have been accustomed to see them in. It has been often re marked that a king out of business be comes an object of compassion, even if he has invested money in foreign funds. Nothing but the possession of great qualities can save him from contempt. It is so with an ex-President. The prac tical suggestion to be made, therefore, is that the young man to whom we have alluded should fit himself to be an ex President. If he can not attain the character anil the qualities needed for that, he may be sine that the ollice of President will be but a hollow satisfac tion. Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine for April. -- A KENTUCKY CHARACTER. Anecdotes of an OM Ilricaitier Congress man. One of the characters in the house is Gen. Wolford, of Kentucky. When he is at home he wears an old flannel shirt and pants strapped about his waist When he came here he found he had to change his costume and put on a "biled" shirt ami black clothes. At first he was averse to this, but some, friends bought him a black suit He has worn it ever since, ami this is his .second term. But he would not dare go home dressed as he is now. for his constituents would think he had become etV.-minate. Sev eral good stories an told of his first campaign, when he took the stump against Gen. Fry. When he wa. first nominated by the democrats for con gress Ge'i.Kry asked him fo unite with him and i.ake several speeches together. Wolford accepted the invitation. The first meeting was enough for Gen. Fry. Gen. Wolford commaud.-d the 1st Ken tucky cavalry in the union army, and the regiment was known as the "critter backs." He had several of his men on the platform with him when he made his speech. He opened most brilliantly, but suddenly startled Gen. Fry by ask ing the assemblage if they knew what the union had done with Gen. Lee after he surrendered at Appomattox, "Why, gentlemen will you believe it? when he was out walking under an apple-tree near the very house where he surrender ed, they grabbed him. Yes, the men who had granted him a parole seized him, and, sir, they not only did that, but they hung Gen. Lee "to the very apple-tree under which he was walking? Hung him dead!" Gen. Fry at first was so surprised he could not speak, but, jumping to his feet he said, "Gen. Wol ford, you know that is not so. Gen. Lee was never hung." "But, sir," exclaimed Gen. Wolford, "1 was there.and 1 know it is so. Wasn't it John?" and he turned to one of his "critterbacks." The man nodded his head, as did the others who sat near him. Gen. Fry sank back in his chair overcome. "This is not all," said Gen. Wolford, turning to the crowd in front of him. "The union men locked Jeff Davis up in Fortress Monroe, and one beautiful moonlight night when the tide was low, they took him out and tied him to a stake on "the beach. The sea came in gradu ally, the waves swept over him, and he was drowned, and they stood and heard his cries." This was too much for Gen. Fry. Again he protested, and said that Jeff Davis was alive still, but the "critter backs" indorsed Gen. Wolforn, and see ing that his opponent intended to keep the thing up. Gen. Fry withdrew, and Gen. Wolford was elected by a rousing majority. Another story is told of Gen. Wolford when he was trying a case in his native town in Adair county, Kentuckv. His client had been charged with poisoning someone. The chemist for the slate had testified to finding arsenic in the stom ach of the deceased, and then Gen. Wol ford took the witness in hand. "Did you find any flies' wings in the stomach?" asked the General. "No, sir; for I did not look for any. I found arsenic," answered the chemist "Could you swear that there were no Hies' wings in the stomach?" he asked. "No. sir; because I did not look for them." -- "How did vou know thev were not there?" "1 don't say they we're not" "That's funny. You say you found arsenic, but no fly wings. Yet you are not certain as to their not being there, said Gen. Wolfoid. The witness in vain tried to explain, the lawyer had twisted the witness up, and so he addressed the jury. "Gentlemen, I demand the acquit tal of my client The chemist says he found arsenic in the stomach of the de ceased, but no fly wings. Yet every body knows that when anyone swallows one'or two flies they turn to arsenic in the stomach, yet no fly wings were found, therefore I doubt if there was any arsenic there either." The man was ac quitted. Minneapolis Tribune. m m Street Scenes in Naples. The street scenes of Naples are a study in themselves, and would enter tain a traveler for days even if he never entered a building. The curious garbs of the ecclesiastics, who seem to form a large proportion of the inhabitants, the grotesque appearance of the street venders, with their wares piled up above their heads, and hanging to all parts of their bodies, tho brilliant dresses of the middle-class women, and the fantasti costumes of the beggars, who are pic turesque in their very nakedness, give variety to the scene." The cat's-meat man, "with his viands strung on a long pole, from which he detaches a piece anil carves it with his knife for each of his four-footed clients, is a most extra ordinary sight. The public scribe, pro tected from the rays of the sun by an umbrella, as he sits'at a table inditing a love-letter, perhaps, for a Neapolitan damsel as beautiful as she is illiterate, is useful as well as picturesque. Another remarkable personage is the cigar scavenger, who at night goes about with his lantern hunting for old stumps, which he sells to manufacturers to be converted into the filling for fresh cigars. To these may be added the zampognari or bagpipers, and a host of other curious characters, ranging any where from a cardinal, attired in crim son and riding in a gilded coach, to a baby, bound up, after the manner of Neapolitan babies, in the straitest of swaddling-clothes, and looking more like a roll of linen just come from a draper's shop than a human being. The advent of the zampognari in Naples always heralds the approach of one of the more important Church fes tivals. They come from their distant homes in the mountains of the Abruzzi to Naples and the surrounding towns to celebrate the Immaculate Conception and the advent of Christmas. Wearing pointed felt hats, wrapped in long brown cloaks, under which occasionally appears a goat-skin jacket adorned with ' jgifaiB meiai Duupns, weir i" nj ? --r '".-'"U in "tight-fitting breeches as far as tho knee, and their feet adorned with rags fastened by leather thongs about the ankle and calf, they are most pictur esque objects. Thus attired, the zam jiognari go from house to house, sing ing and playing before the little gilded images of the Virgin and the Child, und stopping before the street shrines, where they repeat their monotonous song. On Christinas Eve. when there is a spirit of liberality abroad, the zampognaro usually receives a large number of cop ers, and as much iu the way of food and drink as his stomach can accom modate. When the festival is over they return to their mountain homes, there to pass their time as laborers or shep herds until the next occurs. The bag pijes of the Abruzzi frequently act as models, their picturesque costume adapt ing itself readily to artistic purposes. M. E. Vandqne, in Harper's Magazine for April. HISTORICAL METHODS. Von Ranke, after turning ninety, keeps dieerfully ou with his Universal History; a score or more of learned men associate themselves in writing the history of a single American town. Which is the truer method? Which produces the better results? The an sw M depends greatly on what one wants of history. If it be'a view of the broad stream of tendency, then a philosophical historian like Von Ranke, who has the insight, the power of seeing the end from the beginning, the jierception of ruling ideas, is the writer to surrender one's self to. But there are other at tractions in historic study. There is the ossibility of wresting from some limited series of events the secret of their cause aim effect; the ever-elusive search after indubitable fact; the exercise of one's imagination upon the material thrown up by the spade of the indc'H'ndcnt in vestigator; the tracing of the founda tion upon which some political com munity has built so broadly as quite to hide from ordinary sight the source of its power. If one" cares for history in this fashion, then nothing will content him save the opportunity to get as closely as possible at the original docu ments and monuments of history. There is another aspect in which his tory presents itself, somewhat different from either of the above. It is an in teresting story, not fabricated in the brain of some clever inventor, but worked out by some invisible power through the a'ctivity of real men and women; it is a drama of -lersons, set upon the stage of the world, to be re solved into order by the selective jM)wer of the imagination;" it is a succession of events, having now and then a denoue ment, only to go on once more in a new series. In the hands of a writer who has a clear sense of perspective, the his tory of a nation or of an epoch may be come luminous, and as attractive as the story, the drama, or the narrative, which deal with imaginary beings. Of the three methods of historical writing which answer to these demands of the student and writer, the philo sophical, the scientific, and the literary, there can be little doubt that the sci entific method is now at the front. It agrees most perfectly with the spirit which dominates ail departments of in tellectual activity. George Eliot in her Middlemarch turned restlessly from one to another of her characters, iu the hope of finding one that was built upon an unyielding foundation. Caleb Garth was the only one whom she heartily ad mired and respected. He was wont to speak of business, as many of religion, with reverence and a profound sense of its reality and comprehensive power. His character is built fron? this idea and for the expression of it He is the in carnation of that consciousness of reality in one's self and firm fulfillment of the ond of one's being which is the cry of Middlemarch. The historian is im pelled by the same spirit which drove George Eliot He wishes to get down to hard pan. He is skeptical, not as one who doubts from choice, but from neces sity must push his inquiries until he comes upon the hist analysis. Hence the historical student of the day is atter facts, ami he is ready to put his hook into any unlikely dust heap, ou the chance of laying bare a precious bit. There is patience in the silting of his torical-evidence, steadta-tness in the fol lowing of clues, and a high estimate of the value of accurate statement We have instanced George Eliot as an example of the scientific spirit, be cause the historical student joins with the creative novelist on one side, with the scientist on the other. It is impos sible to exclude human nature from his tory, and the historian dealing with the concrete facts of human activity is sure, sooner or later, to part company with the physicist or bio!o-t who "is en gaged uiKHi tin dis-cclioti ami classifica tion of facts belonging to inorganic matter, or to organic matter below the order of man. 'I he arclueologist, groping about in the cave after the guttural-voiced dweller with his club and his little stone chips, trying to make out how the poor devil lived, and what he thought of the world into the light of which he had scarcely crept, may use the same method n his brother-worker who is measuring the wings of a pale ozoic cockroach, but he is in a vastly wider range of human .sympathy, and may give points to a Shakspeare reflect ing upon Caliban and Setebos. April Atlantic Napoleon's Liberality. Napoleon I. was a great admirer of Mile. Georges, but by no means lavish in his ideas of liberality. One day, how ever, after alluding in terms of satisfac tion to her performance on the preced ing evening, he signified his intention of bestowing on her a mark of his ap proval, and asked her what she would like to have. "Sire." she replied, "my great ambi tion is to ixtesess a liortrait of your ma jesty." "Your wish is easily gratified," said the emperor, with a smile, and putting his hand in his jocket, he presented her with the desired effigy in the shape of not, as she probably expected, a miniature enriched with diamonds, but a 6-franc piece! All the Year Round. m -w Two bales of cotton raised by slave labor in 1862 were sold the other day at Rock Hill, S. C. The owner had been offered 33 cents in gold a pound, but. for some unknown reason would not sell, and when he died he still had it stored. It was in excellent condition, although twenty-four years old. and was sold for 8 cents a pound, the lowest point touched by cotton since those bales were grown. One plank 9 feet wide and 20 feet long, without knot or blemish of any kind, and another 12 feet wide are among the contributions of British Co lumbia to the Liverpool Exhibition. National Bank ! OK COX.XJBCBX7S. NEB., HAS an Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $15,000, And the largest Pa ill ia Cah Cap ital of any baiiK in this part of the State. USf-Deposits received and interest paid on time deposits. SSTDraftson the pritieip.il cities in this i-ouiitry aud I'urop. bought and sold. 33CoUectious and all other business given prompt and careful attuntiou. STOCKHOLDERS. A. ANDKUSOX, J'res't. SAM'I. C. SMITH, Vice Pre? t. O.T. 1JOKX, Cashier. .1. I'. I'.KCKKi:. 11KUMAN OEHI.UK'II, U.SOirTTK, A..MCALMSTKK, .JONAS IVKI.CII, .IOHX W. KAULY, r.AXDKKSOX, (i.AXDKKSOX. AurJS-'MUf BUSINESS CARDS. O.T. .Maktyn, M. O. F. .1. jSchug, M. O. Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union l'auilic, O., N. &. It. If. and It. A- M.K. U's. Consultations in Ueriuiu and Hnglish. Telephones at office ami residences SSTOiliee ou Olhe street, next to Hrod I'euhrer's Jewelry Stoic. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. T'-v W. .11. roKrtt'i.iiis, LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Krust lmildiiiic llth street. oi;i.i,ivaiv Ac ki:i:di:k, ATTOUXEYS AT LAW, Office over First X.itioii.il 1 ink, Colum bus, Nclrask.i. ."0. C 1 IK t-:VAIV4, 31. 1., PHYSICIAN AND SUE I! EON. S3J"Office and rooms. Cluck building, Ilth street, telephone comuiuuicition. H AJiuro: ji :.:, ti. ., PHYSICIAN AND SUHUEON, Platte Center, .Nebraska. !-y HK kjiai ." at :.- rKl'l I:LACKS.M1T1I AXO WAGOX MAK'KIt, i::th street, east of Aht's b-ini. April 7. 'fcO-tt powi:i.i. iioii.si; PLATTE CENTER, NEB. lust opened. Special attention driven to commercial men. I his a j-ood sample loom. Sets the lel talde. Oie it a trial and he convinced. f.O-Umo IOHX KUKUKA, COUNTY SURVEYOR. ISJTarties desiring surveyim? done hi address me at Columluis', Neb., or rail at my office iu Court Houe. rmaSt-y fo'i'iCG to ti:a:ii:ks. W. H. Tedrow, Co. Supt. I will be at my office in the Court House I lie third Saturday ot cum month for the examination ul teachuis. .".: tf 1 V. Kl'.MXI'K. .11. IK. HOMGEOPATHIST. 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Shop on l.'tth Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 b'ino. c A.HPKELL A. CO. DEALKKS IN "J !RaorS and Iron ! " The highest market price paid tor rag nnd iron. Store in the llubarh building, Olive at.. Columbua. Neb. l.Vtr JS. MURDOCH & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Ilavebad au extended experienco, sad will guarantee satisfaction in work. All klads of repairing done on short ndtlce. Our motto is, Good wort aad fair prices. Call and give us an oppor lunity toestimatc for you. )Q7Shop on l.'tttj St., one door west of Fricdhof A Co'n. store. Columbus. Nebr. 483-y The Wit of Women. If steamers are named the Asia, the Russia and the Scotia, why not' call one the Nausea? Louisa Alcott. A friend said to the sister of President Cleveland, as she was leaving Buffalo for Washington: ! hope you will hail from Buffalo." "Oh, you expect me to hail from Buffalo and reigu in Washing ton." If the Venus de Medici could be ani mated into life, women would only re mark that her waist is large. Ouida. We shall be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any' flesh "on our bones. Marguerite de Valois. One loves to talk of one's self so much that one never tires of a tete-a-tete with a lover for years. That is the reason why a dovotce likes to be with her con fessor. It is for the pleasure of talking of one's self even though speaking evil. Mme. dc Scvinge. -' 3 When you wish to affirm anything, you always call God to- witness: because He never contradicts you. Queen of Roumania. Her neck and arms were as naked as if she had never eaten of the tree of knowledge of jrood and evil. Jane Car- lylc. Judge no one by his relations, what ever criticisms vou may pass ,upon his companions. Relations, like" features, are thrust upon his; companions, like clothes, aro more or less our own selec tion. Kale Field. Marrvin' a man ain't like settin' along side of him nights and hearing him talk nretty; that's the fust prayer. There's lots au' lots o' mcetin' after that Rose Terry Cook. No! 1 ain't one to sec the cat walking into the dairy and wonder what she's como after. George Eliot. "What would you do in time of war if you had tho suffrage?" asked Horace (Jreeley of Mrs. Stanton. "Just what you have done, Mr. Greeley; stay at home and urge the others to go and light," replied the lady. Mile. Mars, a favorite of the Theatre Fraucais, had offended the Gardes du Corps, and they went to the theatre to hiss hen down. She came to the edge of the stage, and, referring to the fact that they never went to war, said: "What has Mars to do with the Gardes du Corps?" 'Tray," said an army oflicer who had been oil guard duty in 'Washington sev enteen years, to Miss Cleveland, "what do ladies find to think about besides dresses and parties?" "The heroic deeds ofour modern army ollicers," replied Miss Cleveland. A lady once told ine she could always know when she had taken too much wine at dinner her husband's jokes be gan to seem funny. "Have you seen Mrs. lately?" a ladv who did all the talking. ""No, I hail to give up her acquaintance. I tried for two years to tell her something in particular." Collected by Kate San" born. WIT AND HUiMOK. Customer (in restaurant "Waiter, this chicken soup has leathers in it." Waiter "Yes, sah. It'o' want soup made outen chickens dat am old 'noiigh to be bald, sah. yo' 'II have to go to some odder 'stablishineiit." Ar. Y. Sun. Bidon, a soldier ot" the line, arrives in Paris from FuriiKwa with a wooden leg. "Noble hero." sijs M. Opportim l'rud houinie. "thanks to you. France has one foot in China." Bidon, innocently "It is indeed true, and it is I who left it there." 1'ari.i Figaro. "What is your full name?" asked the magistrate of an individual who had been absorbing more mountain dew than he could carry. ".Same as when I'm sober (hie). " lhd er think I changed it (hie) when I took a drink?" "Sixty days." I'itUburg Chronicle. A London correspondent says: "Vou cannot be asked to the Queen's ball un less ou have been at court the same year' That settles it. Wc shall not look for an invitation this season. Ow ing to a rush of job work we could not have attended any wa". Xorristotvn Herald. An exchange says; "To save them selves from starvation an 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' company, while caught in a Western bli.ard. ate their donkeys." A thing like this cannot be too severely condemned as long as first-class dra matic talent is so scarce. Detroit Tribune. "Bobby," said mamma severely, "get right down. If you stand on that chair you will fall and hurt yourself. If you do it again I shall havo to whip you." "Well, if you don't want me to get hurt." argued Bobby, "what do you want to threaten to whip me for?" But he got down off the chair. First landlady "I don't give my boarders hash nowadays." "Indeed! What do you do with vour odds and end of cold meat? You don't surely throw them away?" First landlady "O, no; I make them up into croquets." Second landlady "Ah, I see; your hash is idealized." Boston Budget. It is announced that Gen. Husted, while acting as Speaker of the New York Assembly, "wears three diamonds and a dress coat." Unless the building is well heated it may occur to some per sons that he would find three diamonds and a long ulster more coinfoi table. It would look better, anyway. Norris town Herald. The young Vicomte is a notoriously bad shot. As he was going out to hunt with his two dogs he meets one of his friends. "Poor brutes," says his friends, looking at the dogs. "Why so? they adore me," and he puts down his hand for the dogs to lick. "Morituri salu tant!" says the other in a melancholy tone. Paris Paper. Speaking of wives wages, it is men tioned that a happy couple agreed to bear equally the exjenses of the family. One of the children fell ill. and a differ ence arose as to which should buy medi cine for the little one. Both held out firmly. The result was that the child, fetting no medicine, was soon well. miisville Courier-Journal. Saloonkeeper (whose place of busi ness adjoins a theatre, to manager): "Vot vas dot next play von dot pill board, Mr. Dropcurtaiu?" Manager: " 'Hamlet'." Saloonkeeper: "How many acts vas dot 'Hamlet'?" Mana ger: "Five." Saloonkeeper (with great satisfaction): "Five acta mit dat 'Ham let'! Dat vas a beautiful play. N. Y. Sun. Regular rates: Young father (to coun try editor) "What do you charge for birth notices, Mr. Shears?" Country editor '-Only 50 cents." Young fathor "You may say in your next issue that Mrs. Sedgwick-Smith has presented her . husband with a bouncing pair of twin . boys." Country editor "AU right, Mr. Smith." Youngfather "Er 50cents?' f-ruiatrv editor "On dollar, please.";
