til M fli iGjn Aa Ac Weauw Tellr How Her Fata KUljitTIleA!irjJUiJot Chief: A daughter, oT Adam Poe, knowi)to the present piqueer-history readiag geu- ' seaborn aa Adam Poe, the Indian' fighter, Jatiw oldest person living in Wayne county Ohio? writes the correspondent , of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Sheisnearr ,ly $5'ejeara of,' age, the 16th of -next 'month being the first day of her ninety- i sixth year! - She -is in fall possession of - all her faculties. She lives alone in tho little village of Congress, in the north eastern part of the county, where she' has resided for a number of years, c'j Aunt Sallie Cuffle, a name by which she is known 'to all acquaintances, is the youngest child of Adam Poe. She was born July 15, 1791, in Washington county,' Pennsylvania. At the age of 18 she was married, to Adam Cuffle. His death occurred seventeen years ago. Tothem were -born- twelve-children. Sino,herJmsband'sdeath shehas kept - house bviersilt About three vears ao she recelyed.her second sigkLand jxmld readfine print "She" has been "a regular attendant at the village church, walk- ing.a mile in order .to be present at the 'semi-monthly1 meetings. " Her present residence is a homestead left her by her husband, and the house being too large for her alone, a family occupies one 8 art, although she lives apart from them. Ler father, Adam Poe, whose life has been chronicled by different historians, and who occupies a conspicuous position irf the bonier strife of the -Buckeye state, resided .in Wooster in 1813. and worked at shoemaking. Mrs. Cuffle relates the following in regard to his death: A political meeting was in progress in Massillon. Tho large crowd being in formed that Adam Poe, the slayer of Bigfoot, the celebrated Indian chieftain resided in the, vicinity. 'sent a delega tion after him. i , He wasT. brought and carried on' the1 shoulders of the admir ing throng. Although past 90 years of age he enjoyed the sport, but several days after he became prostrated and died scon after. Airs. Cuffle resided at Congress at the time, and hearing of her father's illness she mounted a horse and rode through the night to her father, reaching his bedside just before he died. She was then 47 years of age. In speak ing of the conflict with Bigfoot she states that her father's account of the fight differs from the account given by, historians, who wrote that hor father, Adam Poe, had the encounter with Big foot, when she says that her father al ways told that his brother, Andrew Poe, baa tEe! hand-to-hand fight with the Indfan'chicf, while he. Adam, shot and killed the Indian. Her recital of her father's account is as follows: "A body of seven Wyandots made a raid upon a white settlement on tho Ohio river, near Fort Pitt, and killed an old man who was alone in a cabin. The news of the murder soon spread, and my father and uncle Andrew, with some neighbors, set out to capture and punish the mur derers. They followed the Indians all night, and next morning found a trail leading to tho river. My uncle Andrew did not go directly to the river, but left father and the others and went through the thicket. He stole down to the bank and discovered Bigfoot and a little In dian with guns ready waiting for the pursuing party. Uncle Andrew con cluded to shoot Bigfoot and raised his gun and pulled the trigger. The gun only snapped and dill uot discharge. The suuppmg attracted the attention of the Indians and the discovered Andrew, who saw it was too late forhiui to run, so he sprang toward (he Indians. He caught them both and threw them down. The little Indian got loose and drew his tomahawk to kill Andrew, who kicked backward and knocked the tomahawk from tho little Indian's hand. Mean while Andrew was holding Bigfoot He finally released himself and, seizing a gun belonging to the Indians, shot the Tittle Indian. Bigfoot again grabbed Andrew and they rolled into the water, and Andrew got Bigfoot's head under water, and supposing the Indian was drowned, he released his hold. His supposition was not correct and they both started for shore, Uigfoot reached the shore first and picked up the gun with which Andrew had shot the littlo Indian. At this time my father appear ed on the scene, attracted there by the report of the gun. His gun happened to be empty, and both he and Bigfoot started on a race to load. In his hurry Bigfoot jerked his ramrod out too far, and it fell out of his hand. My father loaded first and shot Bigfoot just as the Indian 'was raising his gun. Seeing Andrew in the water my father looked after him, and found that he bad been wounded in tho wrist by the little In dian's tomahawk. Andrew called to father that he could help himself, bnt father was anxious for his safety and went to his assistance, while Bigfoot,. in his dying struggles, rolled into the river, and, his body was carried off by the cur rent The remainder of the pursuing 8 arty came up, and seeing Andrew in le water took him for an Indian and shot-hint in the shoulder, but he soon recovered. The other Indians were overtaken and killed, and in that fight my father was wounded. ' The Romance of a Nickel. A romantic courtship begun in Balti more under peculiar circumstances has ended in a happy marriage in Rich mond, Va.. writes a Baltimore corres pondent of the St Louis Globe-Dehio-creLiTha bride? is Miss Blanche Thurs field, and the groom is Mr. Thomas Bowers, now a merchant in Richmond, but at tho time this love story opens a resident of this city. One afternoon last June Mr. Bowers boarded an up town Madison avenue car, and was soon deeply interested in an afternoon paper. Presently a handsome young lady enter ed and took a scat beside him. He glanced at the new and pretty passen ger, and as he looked at the pretty face and figure beside him he noticed the youngiady draw her hand from her etcket ana a blush mantle her cheek, o saw that she had forgotten her purse, and as she was in the act of sig naling the conductor to stop the car he politely, asked her if he could bo of any service. The flush again rose to her cheek, and her embarrassment increased when she informed Mr. Bowers of her situation. 'But permit me to pay your fare," re quested the gentleman. "If you will eivo me your card so thai I caa return the money I'will'consent," she replied. t The conductor came1 along and Mr. Bowers dropped tho additional nickel in his hand. "I am ever so much obliged." said the pretty miss. "Now, will you give me your card?" Cards were "exchanged,, and,, the next morning a" messenger entered Mr. Bowers office and handed him a neat envelope addressed in a lady's hand. It contained a nickel .and the neatly-expressed shanks of Miss ThursQeld. Cor .reepondence followed, and the acquaint ance thus formed soon ripened into a friendship and terminated as above re lated. ana the bridal couple are now crossing the Atlantic on their wedding trip. Mr. Bowers is a well-known and successful merchant of Richmond.' m m . ' AS IRREVERENT JOKES. !!' OMdk , The ooeckiag season was opened Maaday, ears the New York Timet, was tae red-bodied coach Tantivy was drive by Frederic Bresson from the Hotel Braaswick to the Cowry clab im AtS.&e aerty left the deb house MHH- i Jt L- i P wpmjm 9mm ,ipwn hjbu wpet sWa mane mmmmmi'mmmmmmm Sa aatil Am drag had passed through Central Park ana started down Fifth avenue. Then the Tantivy's glory departed. Tho guard blew oneTnerry blast and fellback on , his 'perch horrified. J J. R. Roosevelt who was proudly handling the lines, blushed a little as he heard the shouts of laughter which took the place of the plaudits which should have greeted the party. Tho ladies laughed irrcver erentlv. So did some of their escorts. Everyone on the avenue joined iu the laughter, which made the finish of the Tantivy's first trip rather farcial. Ed ward G. Gilmore, the manager of Nib lo's Garden, and a notorious practical joker, was at the bottom of the scheme which made Fifth avenue roar, and led all the dudes wjjo had gathered at the Brunswick to look upon him as little 'short of-sacrilegious. Trotting behind the swell Tantivy on its course down the avenue were two mules mules with extraordinary cars; mules closely clipped and with shitting coats; mules meek and lowly, but array ed in heavily-plated harness, and hitch ed in the most improved four-in-hand fashion to a most thoroughly -English break. "Ned" Gilmore held the lines, and flourished a most gorgeously deco rated coachman's whip. Two colored grooms had seats of honor behind him, af Gilmore' had as his only passenger WV--H.,5;R1pleyt--of Chicago, who had ficked up the team of mules out in ennsylvania for aqueduct contractor W. R. Howard, who is to use them as a fancy team at his country residence this summer. Gilmore looked proud as he drove, and Ripley looked as if he would rather be on the sidewalk. Be ing a party to such a practical joke didn't appear to be wholly to his taste. But he had to grin and bear it and Gilmore had to explain to him that it wasn't his fault that the Tantivy should get ahead of him and keep directly in his way until the Brunswick was reach ed. Ripley is still a trifle sceptical re garding that explanation. "Why don't you get horses, Ned?" shouted an irreverent broker standing in front of the Windsor. "Ten to five you can't pass the swell bus," cried another, who had not that respect for coaching that every well regulated Fifth avenue frequenter is ex pected to have. Gilmore paid no attention to these rude people, but drove on, modestly ac cepting the applause bestowed. "He seemed at home in his triumphal pro cession and perfectly happy. Tho Tantivy drove up to the Bruns wick at precisely 5:30. The grooms sprang out and led the horses in fronj of the main entrance. An instant later four mules halted in the rear, with their colored grooms at their heads. Tho Anglo-maniacs wondered. The Ameri can 'contingent enjoyed the burlesque immensely. The coaching party sought the Seclusion of the Brunswick parlors as quickly as they could gracefully do so. So did Gilmore and his friends, but the parlor they found had a long bar and a free lunch in it "The only thing I regret about my first coachinr trip this season," explain ed Gilmore, as he wiped his lips, "is that it didu't take place last week. If the season had only opened then I could have had a party of 'The Black Crook' chorus girls as passengers, and thou I could have knocked out anything on the avenue for style." m GRASSHOPPER MUSICIANS. I am never weary of renewing my acquaintance with these quaint little meadow musicians, as I stroll afield, these "high-elbowed grigs that leap in summer grass." The weedy pasture or neglected fallow is their paradise. Amid all their intense vibratory I can gener ally catch a certain familiar strain, and follow it to tho end tsip, tsip, tsip, tsip, tsee-e-e-e-e. It emanates apparent ly a rod or so in advance of me. I ap proach stealthily, starting up the in evitable swarms of flying locusts that pitch wtih headlong momentum into the auivering herbage on right and left 'hey certainly would break their pre cious necks were they not so re-enforced by that stiff protecting collar an armor in which those close-fitting, ram-shaped heads revolve as in a socket joint The song now rises again amid the din of thousands which might be its echo, still apparently some distance in advance of me, thus with a certain alluring quality decoying me on aud on, until at last the one particular strain on which my at tention has been focussed is positively approached, and seems now to rise directly from my feet Seating myself cautiously, I await developments. A branch of bramble bends in the breeze and sways against my face, and as I look up beneath the foliage my eye is arrested by a small but sharply de fined shadow plainly transmitted through tho sunlit leaf close by a shadow rendered all the more sug gestive by the projecting tips of the two slender antenna; exploring so gin gerly out beyond. "Zip, zip, zip, zip, ze-e-c-e-e-e." The gauzy minstrel has endured the limit of his silence, and now again takes up his strain, and is almost immediately answered from nu merous mysterious sources on every side. But he has evidently caught a glimpse of my unguarded movement for the "high-elbowed grig" kicks off suddenly from his percu and pitches haphazard into space, alighting upon a swaying stem of timothy-grass, and at length straddling with an air of comical solemnity upon a spray of cap sella, where he seems to gam confi dence, and permits a full view of him self. This is the common diurnal meadow grasshopper (Orchelimum vul gare). Ho is a pellucid green creature, with the outline of his body readily seen through the filmy wings. lie is about an inch iu length, and the long legs suggest the fragile consistency of flass, and one involuntarily wonders ow these slender members could have survived intact such reckless gymnas tics as they are continually called upon to sustain as well as instigate. Turn ing upon his perch, ho brings to view his "glassichord," or shrilling organ, upon his back a glass-like spot upon his wings just behind the thorax, or what might appear to tho facetiously inclined as an exceedingly uncomfortable-looking collar. Even as we take our first glimpse of this diminutive, filmy taboret a strange tremor seems to havo taken possession of the insect the edges of the wings seem blurred and indistinct in the, rapid vibratory movement, and then follow a few quick, convulsive efforts,- resulting in the stridulous strain, already described, and whose multitudinous repetition on every hand so saturates the quivering ether. For this is perhaps the most omnipresent meadow sound of the New England summer noon; certainly the most prominent And yet singularly enough, few of our entomologists seem to have discovered the fact even associating the song with "evening gloom" and "shady places" conditions under which my minstrel is comparatively silent On a cloudy day, indeed, our fields emulate the downs of Britain, and are almost still, our present musician among the rest He is a "lover of the sun,1 and revels in midsummer tropio heats. There is another mysterious dweller in the sunny meadow, who claims our recognition in positive and rasping ac cents, "tsip, tsip, tsip, tsip," a continu ous, rapid, exasperating stridulation, a reiterated noisy parody, simulating the prelude of the meadow grasshopper al- ready described, always foreshadowing j osee BMMicai ieat tbat shall distance hie HtHe rival, bat never getting any j farther than a brag. This k the loud-j cs an4 most peremptory challenge we ' hall Meet in the eattre meadow, in -its grain and fibre suggestive of la- After having oacadiscsjweel'aiavaBa separated his green individuality from the surrounding herbage, and fully sat isfied yourseif that his. loug wings are actual insect membranes'' and not a Aracu of abbreviated blades of timothy grass, it will interest you to observe him closely. Tiiis insect. is known as the "cone-headed grasshopper" (Cono cephalus ensiger), and may be fittingly called the clown of all this'heyday. With what an air of solemn mock- gravity he straddles around among the herbage, keeping you ever in the field of his view, with the jet-black pupil of the one white eye turned in your direc tion! It matters not what his position, that pupil is iucessantly riveted upon you. traveliug to the upper or the lower edge of the eye, as the case may be. Aud if perchance he now rears up and faces you, what was true of one eye is now true of both, and you are confront ed with a cross-eyed grin that brings! your long suppressed laugh to a final outburst which for the time being dis concerts the merry-andrew. Now he confronts you, "bows on," lifts one hind-leg like a mast high in the air. wriggling his long series of terminal toes as if to simulate a pen nant his slender antenna? thrown back from the apex of his long bowsprit like jib-stays. And -have I not seen similar glassy bull's-eyes op light-holes in the prows of ocean craft? Yes; and look! now the machinery begius to work, you can almost hear the propeller as the hulk begins to sway and tremble, and the spinning engine lets off its noisy calliope, as already described. For it is a fact that in no other grasshopper is the sound of the shrilling mechanism so plainly perceptible beneath its song, a suggestion of axles, cogs, and cams, all the worse for wear. All through this mimetic exhibition our clown has been accomplishing the feat of looking cross-eyed over the back of his head. He would seem to afford a perfect though an exaggerated an exaggerated embodiment of the simile of Cicero that "the eyes are liko sentinels, and occupy the highest place in the body." Nothing escapes the sentry of this "watch-tower, it is cer tain, with its two goggles suggesting prospecting windows in the summit of a minaret But our harlequin is not yet done with us; wo need not be sur prised at anything. He will now per form the contortionist act Lowering his elbowed thigh almost to a cor responding position below his wing, he will presently work the shank of tho leg around beneath his body, thus bringing his jointed toes between his fore-feet After repeating the exercise with the other leg, he next lifts his fore foot and pulls down his long tapering autenmu into his crimson mouth, draw ing them through his palpi or teeth, with tho two loops gradually enlarging iu front of his face. This is his magic act, for how else could those exquisitely fragile members escape unharmed the cutting edges of thoso hard mandibles? And so on until tho programme is finished and our cone-capped pantaloon takes a sudden notion to skip. W.J. Qibson, in Harper's Magazine for July. THE LIFEBOAT IN SERVICE. A Sketch or the Work Ferformed oa the English Coast. Wo will imagine the watch set and all the other good. Caister folk in bed. The night wears away, until as day be gins to break a longer look than ordi nary is taken through the glass aud a discussion of bearings, etc., ensues, with the result that a vessel is descried' fast aground on the Cross Sand with a heavy sea breaking over her. Out dash the men on to the staging. One lays hold of the cord attached to the clapper of the bell and the other rushes at breakneck pace down the steps and up the gap, shouting and ham mering at the doors as he goes. Then breaks out a Babel of sounds. Men rush from every door and side road, some of them with their trousers on. pulling on their shirts as they run, stumbling in the dark, through the heavy sand, but all making for one point the shed. There, hung up to the rails at the roof, are their oilers, sou'westers. and boat stockings; under the benches their big sea boots. In a twinkling the men have donned their seagear, and are making a bee-line across the sands for the life boat The surf is smashing on the beach in tons, and the wind is howling across the beach and up the gap, bringing with it clouds of sand until the air seems almost solid with it The red tanned lugsails are car ried down and placed in the boat ready for 'hoisting, and the skids laid down forward of the boat; the logs which kept the boat on an even keel are taken away and replaced by the broad backs of the sturdy beachmeu, amid shouts of "Hold her up;" the hauling off warp, which is anchored out to seaward, is taken in over the pulley in the bow, and the boat begins to move on her porpoise-oiled skids. As she goes oyer and clears the ono at her stern it is caught up by the side handles by two beachmen and taken to her bows, and placed in line ready to pick her up again as she comes steadily on down the sand. Then the men tumble on board and haul at the warp. The remaining men keep her moving over her skids until she dashes her bows into a mass of water just break ing and thundering on the beach, and, shipping tons of it and giving her crew the first smother of many they will have before they return, she moves slowly on. Another breaker catches her ere she has fairly gathered way and sho looks al most like coming back, but the beach men on shore have had tho sett ready. They ship it on to the stern and shove her off into the smother. Up goes tho foresail with a run; up goes the mizzen, and the boat thrashes through tho broken water; overboard goes the haul-ing-off warp aud she is clear of the beach aud lighting her way through the heavy seas to the wreck; sea after sea breaks over her until they can see noth ing of that boat only feel it under their feet hang like grim death to the ridge ropes and tike a breath when the sea gives them a chance. Over the Barber they thrash, then over the Scroby. They have to make a long leg to fetch the wreck, and as they rise on a wave they can sometimes make her out dimly with seas spouting fountains over her. She is a small schooner, and her crew two men and two wretched, half-starved looking boys and an equally wretched-looking mon grel cur are huddled together in the weather shrouds of the foremast; the mizzenmast has already gone over the side. The lifeboat -fights her way to windward, then anchors, and lowering her lugs veers down' to the wreck, drops alongside and takes in the poor half drqwned .wretches and their poor dog, hauls back to the anchor, then up sail and away to the beach, where the rest of the company is awaiting them. En glish Illustrated Magazine. Fourteen years ago a German officer who had deserted and come to this country under an assumed name mar ried a young woman in Toledo. Four years ago thoy moved to Terre Haute, and now there are six children. The wife never knew that her husband was living under an assumed name until quite recently, when she learned it by accident She questioned him and he acknowledged it Then she insisted on a second marriage, and at a late hour one Sunday night, in the seclu sion of a justice's office, the two, after fourteen years of happy wedded life, were again married. i m Italian bees are sold at $5 s colony ta parts ot Ueorgia. They Increase at the rate of 100 per cent per annoax One bee keeper reports naving taken 1,800 pounds of honey from forty colonies this crin?. The honev. extracted from the aomb sslkfor tea eeats a poend. -- Imgendn oa Naaoleea. A little while ago I stood by the grave of the.oW.Napoleon-r-a. magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity and "gazed upon "the sar cophagus of black Egyptian marble, where rest at last the ashes of that rest less man. I leaned over the balustrade and thought of the career of the great est soldier of the modern world. Isaw him walking upon the banks of the 8A contemplating suicide. I saw him putting down the mob in the streets of Pans; I saw him at the head of the army of Italy; 1 saw him crossing the bridge f Lodi, with the tri-color in his hand; I saw him in Egypt in the shadows of the pyramids; I'saw him conquer the Alps and mingle the eagles of Frauce with the eagles of the crags. I saw him at Marengo, at Ulm and Austerlitz; I saw him in Russia, where the infantry of the snow and the cavalry of the wild blast scattered his legions like winter's withered leaves. I saw him at Leipsio in defeat and disaster driven by a million bayonets back upon Paris, clutched like a wild beast, banished to Elba. I saw him escape and retake an empire by the force of his genius. I saw him upon the frightful field of Waterloo, where chance and fate com bined to wreck the fortunes of their former king; and I saw him at St Helena, with his hands crossed behind him, gazing out upon the sad and solemn sea. 'I thought of the orphans and widows he had made, of the tears that had been shed for his glory, and of the only woman who ever loved him, poshed from his heart by tho cold hand of am bition. Anb! I said I would rather have been a French peasant, and worn wood en shoes. I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing ovor the door and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the sun died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me; I would rather have been that man and gone down into tho tongueless silence of tho dreamless dust than to have been that imperial impersonator of force and murder known as Napoleon the Great And so I would, ten thousand times. Beauties of Mexican Taxation. So much for the tariff system of Mexi co. The "excise" or "internal revenue" system of tho country is no less extra ordinary. It is essentially a tax on sales, collected in great part through the agency of stamps a .repetition of the old "alcavala" tax of Spain, which Adam Smith, in his "Wealth of Na tions," describes as one of the worst forms of taxation that could be inflicted upon a coqntry, and as largely re sponsible for the decay of Spanish man ufactures and agriculture. Thus the Mexican law, re-enacted January, 1885, imposes a tax of "one-half of one per cent upon the value in excess of $20 of transactions of buying or selling of every kind of merchandise, whether at wholesale or retail, in whatever place throughout the whole republic." Also, one-half of one cent "on all sales and resales of country or city property; upon all exchanges of movable or immovable property; on mortgages, transfers, or gifts, collateral or Iwqueathed inherit ances; on bonds, rents of farms, when the rent exceeds $2,000 annually; and on all contracts with the Federal, State, or municipal governments." Every in habitant of the republic who sells goods to the value of over $20 must give to the buyer "an invoice, note, or other document accrediting the purchase," and affix to the same, and cancel, a stamp corresponding to the value of the sale. Sales at retail are exempt from this tax; aud retail sales are defined to be "sales made with a single buyer, whose value does not exceed $20. The reunion, in a single invoice, of various parcels, every one of which does not amount to $20, but which in the aggre gate exceed that quantity," remains subject to the tax. Retail sales in the public markets, or by ambulatory sell ers, or licensed establishments, whose capital does not exceed $300, are also exempt Tickets of all descriptions railroad, theater, eta must have a stamp, as must each page of the reports of meetings; each leaf of a merchant's ledger, day or cash book, and every cigar sold singly, which must be de livered to the buyer in a stamped wrap per. Sales of spirits at wholesale pay three per cent; gross receipts of city railroads, four per cent; public amuse ments, two per cent upon the amount paid for entrance; playing-cards, fifty per cent paid in stamps on the retail price; ana manufactured tobacco a variety of taxes, proportioned to quality and value. Mercantile drafts aro taxed at $10 per $1,000, which means a dollar on every hundred. Hon. David A. Wells, in Popular Science Monthly. m s Tact. "You talk of tact!" said the short hand reporter. "I remember a case of tact that was as pretty as anything I can imagine. It was at the house of a governor of a western state. His wife was one of the most refined and charm ing women I ever knew, and she was just 'chock full' of tact The governor had to giye receptions to influential men in the state, and you oan fancy thatsomoof them were very uncouth and uneducated. One evening there was a large dinner party, and a rather rough old cove, a wealthy and import ant man. was tho chief guest Thedin ner went along very nicely. Beyond making a few rather gauche remarks, the old western fellow behaved protty well But when the finger-bowls were put on the table he was rather knocked over, and like many other heroes of such stories he took his up and drank out of it Nobody happened to see him except the hostess, and quick as a wink she signaled to tho servants. They re moved every finger-bowl before anybody could touch them, and the old fellow doesn't know to-day, if he's living, what a mistake he made. Now that's tact!" "That you call tact!" said an Irish man, sitting opposite- the stenographer. "I can beat that myselt I got out of a scrape the othor night at the Baldwin theater. 1 bad a seat in the middle of a row, and there was a mighty pretty woman I had to pass to get there. I was squeezing my way along, and I could n t help casting a squint at her as I went While I was doing that 1 trod on her toe and she gave a little scream. The fellow with her looked as if he was going to lick me. "I beg your pardon, madame,' I said politely. 'I could not judging by your hand, imagine your feet were so large. What are you laughing atP" "Oh, nothing.' San Francisco Chronicle. Just Like Many Older People. A boy brought his teacher some very beautiful and sweet-smelling spring flowers the other morning,- for which she thanked him very kindly as she E laced them in a tumbler of water upon er desk. In the course of the morning the youthful giver held up his hand and said: "Please, marm, can (wet my sponge?" "No," said the teacher; "not just now." The boy, however, was per sistent He apparently thought he was entitled to some special favor, and he repeated his request in a loud tone. The teacher, however, said "nay" the second time more decidedly than the first, and at this the petitioner gave vent to his anger as follows: "Say, teacher, yon know the flowers I brought you just now; I only lent 'em to you; I didn't give 'em twwuwFp. 4iaw9iiawuai of human aature in this. Children of an oWer growth sometimes show a suni- lar disposition. ggtfga Budget. . M mrm.x -i-MAMik was - j TKET1T. Good One an li-tll-nlbl1 'AHJejict of i;-:r. A mouthful of hm! te.jih is one of the rare gifts of nature. Liki bright eyes, piuk-mooned finger-nails, or a tine complexion, they indicate the bequests of heredity, nud'are symbolic of a sweet breath, guod digestion, and a whole some stomach. A wealth of dentine is not as highly pnzed as formerly owing to the remarkable progress made in dentistry within the Uvt quarter of a century! Molar-makers think nothing of working a chev.nl-de-fri.xe sort of a set of teeth into a double row of most presentable ivories, and the skill with which china teeth are made to dupli cate nature is .ufticient to keep the genuine articles under a constant ban of suspicion. All these facts were doubtless known to the fashionable mother, who prayed for "just good eyes and a fine complexion" for her little daughter. Eyes aud skin from nature, and art can man ago tho rest at least to the satisfaction of the modern beau ty. In remodeling teeth, everything fails before the final surreudcr to a false set Where the overlap space has to be made at the sacrifice often of good material, and where by accident, a tooth is want ed, the gap is filled by spacing the whole row. Iu the color of teeth almost as much variety exists as in hair and eyes. Some teeth are naturally grey, yellow, or bluish in cat and to try to whiten them is time wasted. The only solace lies in keeping them clean and straight. It is inmaterial to anyone with a mus tache or a very long upper lip, whether he has any front teeth or not With ladies or beardless men. especially those who laugh much with the lips, a rem edy is sought among the Del s'Arte people. These refiners of nature at tempt and with success too. to culti vate a very low voice iu speaking, for bid the license of heated discussion, aud endeavor to cultivate a laugh iu the eyes, rather than about the lips. The training is a long and severe task, but there aro few .ordeals too severe for a fashionable man or woman to eudure, when the goal is good looks. It is almost impo-wible to say any thing new on the subject of powders. The best powder is the one that docs the least harm to the gums aud keeps the enamel clean. Wintergreen Ls as safe as any polish, but a frequent uso of soft brush aud warm water renders much of that cleansing powder super fluous. Teeth that are brushed four times a day will not need a powder more than once a week. Toothpicks are indispensable, and even with them it is often necessary to run a throad be tween the teeth to remove any possible accumulation or splinter. There might be a diminution of den tistry bills if tliov! who had teeth would take the trouble to clean them once a mouth. Five ceuLV worth of ptimice stone will cover u year, and nothing' but a match is ueedi-d to start with. Dip the pine in tiie stone and rub about aud between the teeth till all trace of mineral accumuiatioii iiat been removed. The inside Mirfaee imut be cleaned separately, and the ta-k lini.ihed by rubbing the face and crown of the tooth with a sort handkerchief di'iped in the ljowder. Utile. ih' wperalioii is made habhual it .vi!l run-tnim the best part of an hour to produce any good effects. British Agriculture. It seems now to be settled that under existing conditions it d,.c.s not pay to grow grain or rates cattle in tho best fiart ot the Continent and the British sles. For this curious and alarming state of things the world is indebted to the extension of steam navigation to all parts of the earth. Wheat, barley, oats, etc.. can be grown on almost any arable land. It follows that wherever the factors are most favorable that region gets tho benciit of this cheap access to the consuming market. A fow years ago India contributed but 1)0.000 bushels of wheut to countries outside of the pen insula. Its export supnlv is now about 50,000.000 bushels, ami with the exten sion of the railway system it will have fully 100,000.000 for outside consump tion. The secret of India's ability to sell in distant markets is the extraordinary cheapness of labor, which does not com mand more than 10 cents a day of our monev. The United States. Australia, and New Zealand can produce wheat and lay it down in Liverpool at a price which is simply ruinous to the English and European wheat-grower. This is because of cheaper and more fertile lands and the uso of machinery on the broad prairies and plains, which dis penses with costly labor. Recent statis tics show that tenant farmers in the British Islands who confine themselves to cereals and cattle-raising cannot make both ends meet if the undertake to pay their rent This accounts for the distress umong the agricultural classes in the Old World, and more especially for the abject misery of the Irish people, who have no diversified industries, be cause the island is without coal or iron, and British laws discourago manufact ures of any kind in that unhappy coun try. This inability to raise grain is effect ing a social revolution. It has struck a fatal blow at the authority and prestige of the Peers, who arc the great land owners, and it will end in agricultural laud being transferred to the peasants in England and Scotland as well as Ire land. These agricultural workers, hav ing no rents to pay, will be ablo to make a living out of the soil, for they can raise perishable vegetables, poultry, eggs, and dairy products, as these are safe from foreign competition. In the meantime the cities of Europe are grow ing rapidly, and aro yearly consuming more and more, uot only of tho grain and cattle raised in distant regions, but also of the vegetables, poultry, fruit and dairy products of near-by produc tion. This explanation of the agricult ural situatiou throws a good deal of light upon tho political and social changes now taking place in the Old World. Demurest1 s Monthly. Two Peculiar Gate. A Newark hardware dealer has two female eats whicli have heretofore evinced a strong hatred for each other, but now are on the most friendly terms. They patehed up a peace ou Sunday night after a very noisy light in the cellar, where each old cat had a litter of kittens in separate nests lined with hay. The owner of the eats beard the battle raging until' midnight, and con fidently expected to fiuil in the morning that it had been a war of extermina tion. He went down-stairs early to gather up the slain, and to his intense surprise found the two old cats com fortably curled up together in one of the nests, while both families of kittens oc cupied the other. A few hours later the old cats concluded to move their fami lies tip-stairs. They succeeded very well until the last kitten's turn came. It was the most robust in the lot, and the tired mother failed in her trial to carry it op the fourth step. A plaintive mew brought the other cat to her assistance. Taking the kit ten by one of its hind legs, she helped the mother to carry it up the steps. On reaching the top the grateful mother showed her gratitude by licking the other old cat's coat, and then bestowed the same attention on the kitten. Jf. T. Sun. aaue uooa.ii years old, carries a ladder and lights street lamps ia Laa- carter. Pa. See says she does it to hale her "pop." -mr w w . A Gjraey Beaacy. -'Under-the 'above title. In the August Ceulury, Chariest G. Leland writes of Charlotte Cooper, one. of the oldest and most famous of the Romanies: '"Fifty or sixty years ago the gypsies in Eu gland were a much more remark-1 able race than they are at present The railway had not come to break up their habits, there' were' hundreds of louely places iu dell and' dingle where they could hitch the tan, or pitch the! tent their "blood had been little mixed with that of the U'orgio, or Gentile; they spoke their language with greater purity than at 'present, and still kept their old characteristics jmchanged. If they. had the faults of the Arabs, they had also niauy of their good qualities. If they stole horses and- foraged on farmers, if their women told fortunes, lied, and sometimes' cheated a. man out of all his ready money by pretending to ' find a treasure in his cellar, on the other haud they" were extremely grate ful and honest to thoso who befriended them, and manifested in many ways a rough manliuess which partially re deemed their petty vices. They were all, as are many of their sons at present indomitable Tough riders,' of the horse horsey.' andto a man boxers, so that many of them were distinguished in the prize-ring, the last of these being JenrMacc. At this time there prevail ed among the English Romany a strong mutual faith, a tribal honesty, which was limited, but all the stronger for that even as the arms of a man grow stronger when he loses the use of his legs. Thoy were a people of powerful frames, passions, and traditional princi- ries. Their weak children soon died torn the hardships of nomadic life, the remainder illustrated selection by. suf fering, and the survival of the fittest to fight "With such characteristics there could not fail among the gypsies many strik ing instances of warm friendship, in tense love, and the fidelity which en dures even till death. This was known of them when little else was known beyond their most apparent and repul sive traits. Walter Scott indulged in no romantic license whon he depicted Hayraddin Mangrabin as devoted to Quentin Durward; even at present the incident of a thoughtful gift or any like act of kindness to them will be remem bered with a gratitude out of all propor tion to its value, and go the rounds of all the Romany in the United. States. And therefore when men fell in love with women there often resulted those instauces of intense passion and steady faith, which at the present day are real ly becoming mythical The gypsy in this, as in everything else, has been a continuation of the middle ages, or of the romance'era. "Such a passion was inspired more than half a century ago by Jack Cooper, the Kurumengro Horn, or Fighting Gypsy, in a girl of his own tribe. Her name was Charlotte Lee, and it was about 1830 that Leslie, the Royal Aca demican, led by tho fame of her beau ty, painted the picture, now in New York in the possession of his sister. Miss Emma Leslie, from which the en graving here given was taken. The fame of her charms still survives among her people, and when a few days ago as I write, I was talking of Charlotte to some gypsies of her kin near Philadel phia, Iwas asked if I meant the Rinke ni; that is, the Beautiful one." A Royal Printer. It is not generally known that Prince Ludwig of Batten berg, son of Prince Alexander of Hesse, is a practical print er. Like most of the princc3 of the Prussian royal house, who have been taught either an art or a trade, Prince Luuwig of Battenberg was early called upon to choose a calling, and his choice fell upon the ait of Guttenberg. In the palace of his father the prince has a printing office completely fitted up for ordinary printing and book work. Prince Ludwig prides himself on his ability to compete with compositors and Erinters who follow typography for a velihood. What is still more interest ing isthattheprinccus.the eldest daugh ter of grand duke of Hesse, is a printer, too, and that the high-born pair work regularly together at the case. The latest work which has come from Prince Ludwig of Balteu berg's press is a vol ume of notes on travels written by the prince's sister, the countess of Erbach Schonberg. The book is said to be exe cuted in a thoroughly printer-like way. Pall Mall Gazette. m m A Shrewd Dog. A family let their house furnished, leaving in it a large dog. The tenant was an old lady who liked to sit in a particularly comfortablo chair in the drawing-room, but as the dog was also very fond of this chair, she frequently found him in possession. Being rather afraid of the dog, she did not care to drive him out, and therefore she used to go to tho window and call "Cats!" The dog would then rush to the window and bark, and the lady would take pos session of the chair. One day the dog entered the room and found the old lady in the chair. He ran to the window and barked excitedly. The old lady got up to see what was the matter, and the dog instantly seated himself in the chair. Youth's Companion. m t In a lecture at the Royal Institution, London, Professor Oliver Lodge has en deavored to snow that electricity might be employed to clear tho upper atmo sphere of great cities of tho overhang ing clouds ot dust aud smoke. He ex hibited bell jars tilled with denso smoke, and rendered them clear in an instant by an electric discharge from a friction machine. A simiiar discharge of elec tricity on a large scalp into the dust and smoke laden air over Ixmdon would, ho thinks, produce a iike effect, and he is desirtous of making exjperi llionts of sufficient magnitude to test the correctness of this view. There is still flourishing in the porch of tho Convent of Santa Sabina, in Rome, an orange tree that is said to have been planted in A. 1. 1200. An other, iu the Monastery at Tondi, is supposed to have been planted by Sir Thomas Aquinas in 1278. In the Moor ish Alcazar, at Seville. Spain, exists one that was planted during the reign of Pedro I., between 1350 and 13G6. Others there are known to be 340 years-old. i The interesting discovery has been made in Switzerland of a bright green moss growing on calcareous rocks 200 feet below the surface of Lake Leman. 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