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NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. EF. BBIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA- terTroughfor 6tock. He refers to every man who has it in use. Call, on or leave;orders at George Yale's, opposite -Oehlrich'i grocery. 9-6m tLYON&HEALY I SMI Mearea Sts..Chicsge. Wllimd miU t ; nMnw UMir BAND CATALOCUE, liar ISA roo k tmji0 ' iMtnnmu. miu, ip to .. Enalfll. Cvlmm. Cm j. rw. U.mtH Sixf SM L'T - - . . - . .i j ir- 1-. .m.9. h ftuifci. umnv UmuS iQtioan intimwii - m Cliiiii Kmxi ilic h-Imi IV Anm nM. ua A-TT T rZITl Send six cents lor r K. I j ii loi.tage.and receive J. l)U-J. free a costly box of xooda which will help you to more money rirat awav than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from ftrtt hour. The broad road to fortune epess before the workers, absolutely are. At obcs address, Tkub 4 Co., Augusts, Males. WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN Whit Democracy Meamu. Chicago Times, Dem : Democracy is a word of various ami contradicto ry meanings. In Sooth Carolina it means civil service reform ; in Ohio, Indiana, and divers other states it means tho spoils to the victors ; in Pennsylvania it means protection, in Iowa free trade, and in sundry other commonwealths it has no meaning at all upon the subject; in the east it mefcu hotiOBt finance, and in the west it means cheap money ; in the -outh it meaus prohibition and in the north it means free whisky; in the white-house it means economy in public expenditures, in congress it meanq extravagance and jobbery; in theory it rneaus pure administration in practice it means Pan-Electric scandals and river and harbor jobs. To say that a man is a democrat or that ho "belongs" to the democratic party does not afford the slightest clew to his opinions upon the tariff, the currency, the civil service, prohi bition, or any other question of poli tics of interest to the present genera tion. Or, as Mr. Dana would say, "It is not necessary for a man to believe anything" about any living issue to entitle him to good standing as a democrat. All that is necessary is that be should vote the ticket pre pared by his bosses and ask no im pertinent questions. QlavdMtesie est she Irisli Qaetie. Gladstone, in the course of an ad dress at Cbeslehurst on Saturday, said : "The enthusiasm of the Brit ish friends of the home rule idea is an incentive to me to never be beaten in it, but continue to struggle for the happiness of Ireland. Although there may have been prejudices be tween Great Britain and Ireland, the fact tlTut the recent elections 1,400,000 Englishmen and Scotchmen voted in behalf of Ireland showed that preju dice is laBt disappearing. Let me consult any book or nation in the world aud I will not find one which does not 6ay the relations between England and Ireland under the union have been miserable for Ireland and dishonorable for England. If the country desires to redceir. her honor and enable her parliament to attend its pressing business of imperial leg islation the Irish question must be settled." araeira Aaaendweat to the Addreaa. ParnoU's amendment to the address in reply to the queen's speech is as follows: "We humbly assure your majesty that we fear that, owing to the heavy fall in agricultural pro duce, the greatest difficulties will be experienced during the coming wiu ter by the tenant farmers in pay ment of present rents. Many will be uuable to pay, and numerous evictions and confiscations of rights vested in tenants by the land act of 1881 will follow, causing widespread suffering and endangering the tnain tainance of social disorder. We dep recate any attempt to transfer the loss due to inability to pay rent from the owners of the land to the tax-payers of Great Britain and Ireland by any exteution of state assis ted purchases on a basis of rents fixed when the prices were higher than now." W. T. Stewart, who took over $12,000 from the Western Union Telegraph company at Wichita, Kan., and fled, turned up the other day at Winnipeg, trying to pass himself off in some other name as an Ameri can detective officer. He even un dertook to convince some of the po lice force that be belonged to the famous Pinkerton force. Officers commenced to investigate his case and found enough facts and circum stances to justify bis arrest soon after as he was about to take the eastbodnd train. It is probable from what can be learned that Detective McKenzie will take him back. A remarkable freak of lightning occurred at Plainfield, N. J., at the residence of Mr. CorneliuB Paul. The shutters of the bay window in the dining-room were open, and in the center of the window stood a small stand on which rested an old gold Japanese tray. Upon this tr&y the lightning imprinted the photograph of Miss Lillian Paul, a young lady of eighteen years of age, who had just stepped to the table to remove it. The case is said to be the only one on record, and will be scientifically in vestigated. The traveling men of Nebraska held a meeting one day last week at Hastings and formed an organization to be known as the Nebraska State Traveling Men's Association, with headquarters at Hastings. G. Spang ler was elected president ; J. Callan, secretary ; T. C. Harst, treasurer ; S. Thrin, firBt vice president ; T. B. Beal, associate vice president, and a board of directors consisting of ten mem bers. The association starts out with a membership of 125, eighty of whom were present at this meeting. James G. Blaine delivered a masterly speech the other day at Sebago Lake, Maine. He discussed in this speech the tariff policy, the labor question, the fishery question and dispute between the United States and Great Britain, relations with Mexico and the third party prohibition action -in Maine. 'This speech cornea from a man of great experience and intelligence and should be rend by erery rotor in the United States. We heard a good one on editor Price this week, from a lady who is a regu lar reader of the Tribune. She had made up her mind that the man who writes such majestic sentences, which rumble across the horizon of human intelligence like a pumpkin over a barn floor, must be sixteen hands high, a yard wide and buttons up the back. She never saw the president of the Blue Ribbon Club until last Sundayand on the way home re marked "Why, what a little shrimp he is ! I was never so disappointed in all my life !" You can send the cigars over by his Satanic majesty Brothor P. Press. All right! And here are your ci gars. Which reminds us that upon the same occasion Editor Casper was on the program of the Blue Ribbon club for. a tbree minute speech, dur ing the delivery of which he took occasion to refer to himself as a "self made man," and really seemed proud of the job. "On the way home a lady who is a regular reader" of the Press remarked: "Well, Brother Casper has certainly relieved the Lord of a great responsibility I" As we don't 6moke you can le:ive your order tor ice cream at the north side restaurant, Brother C. David City Tribune. Mbs. Cleveland bad the pleasure and honor, by request, ot setting in motion the machinery at the Minne apolis Exposition on the 23d ult., at 4:30 p. m. When tho circuit of elec tricity was ready Mrs. Cleveland closed the key at Saranac Lake, New York, at the hour named, more than a thousand miles away, and within two minutes after the reply came from Minneapolis to Mrs. Cleveland that the machinery was working beautifully. A !VsMrew Ecape. I was suddenly taken very ill at Eagle Lake, this state, the other day with cholera morbus, and used morphine to no avail, and I grew worse and despatched a messenger for a physician, who brought with him a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and gave' me a dose which relieved me instantly, and 1 firmly believe that to it I owe my life and the physician who was unprejudiced enough to administer it when all others failed, and I repeat again, I owe my life to your great preparation. I remain yours gratefully, G D. Waite, Prescription Clerk, With Chas. A. Gray, Waterville, Minn. Sold by Dowty & Heit kemper. 15-4 Fhaok Hall, 4i printer of Burling ton, Iowa, fell the other night from a third story window of the Gazette composing room to the basement. He lived but a short time. It is sup posed he went to sleep and fell out of the window. A CaptalaTit Fertasmte Dis covery. Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth, plying between Atlantic City and N. Y., had been troubled with a cough so that he was unable to sleep, and was induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. It not only gave him instant relief, but al layed the extreme soreness in his breast. His children were similarly affected and a 9ingle dose had the same happy effect. Dr. King's New Discovery is now the standard remedy in the Coleman household and on board the schooner. Free trial bottles of this standard remedy at Dowty & Heitkemper's drug store. Two explosions of gas occurred at the South Mountain colliery at Lyken, Pa., the other day, which burned twenty men seriously. The explosion was caused by the lighting of a lamp in an air hole. Oood Keewlta 1st Every Cause. D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer of Chattanooga, Tenn., writes that he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that settled on his lungs : had tried many remedies without benefit. Being induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption, did so and was entirely cured by use of a few bottles. Since which time he has used it in his family for all Coughs and Colds with best results. This is the experience! of thousands whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles free at Dowty & Heit kemper's Drag Store. Two horses were stolen from a pasture near Bine Springs, Neb., the other night. One belonged to Dr. J. H. Quinn and the other to F. W. Burke. A reward of $25 is offered. liacltlea'e Aralem Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruftioms, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to five perfect satisfaction, or money refanded. Price 25 cents per box. Foi sale by Dowty A Heit kemper. Mayl7-ly ' Reports caste from a number of of places in sonthern Mich igan last week of storms, doing much damage to crops and farm buildings. Three Remarkable Men. The Rev. Dr. Harsha of Omaha nar rates the following incident as told to him by John Dixon of Dixon, 111: Gen. Winfielil Scott when a young man was stationed at Fort Snelling, at the time perhaps the remotest outpost of the United States. When the Indian outbreak known as the Blackhawk war was inaugurated some militia from Illi nois proffered their services to aid in conquering the savages. With a view to mustering them into the service of tho United States two lieutenants were sent by Scott to the then village of Dix on. One of these was a very fascinat ing, good-looking. easy-mannered, affable, and lluunt j-oung gentleman. The other was equally pleasant looking but an exceedingly modest young man. On the morning when tho mustering in was to take place a tall, gawky, slab sided, homely young man, dressed in a home-made suit of blue jeans, presented himself to the two lieutenants as the captain of the recruits aud was duly sworn in. This was he who afterwards became president of the United States the lamented Lincoln. Ouc of the lieu tenants, the modest youth, was he who fired the first gun from Sumter. Maj. Anderson. The other, and he who ad ministered the oath, was in after years president of the Southern Confederacy Jefferson Davis." Corroborative of Dixon's story Dr. Harsha relates that lie was afterwards in the book-rooms of Carter Bros., New York, where he chanced to repeat these coincidences in the presence of several persons who were listeners. One of them, an elderly gentleman, arose and remarked that he was happy to be able to confirm the facts as given by Mr. Dixon, as he was the chaplain at Fort Snellinsr at the time, and was fully able to corroborate each statement Another by-stander added: "Mr. Lincoln had often been heard to say that the first time he ever took the oath of allegiance to the United States it was administered to him by Jefferson Davis." m Two SideH or City Life. It was on one of the hottest of the re cent severely hot afternoons that a New York Times reporter, waiting near tho corner of 23d street and 5th avenue, as sisted briefly and unintentionally at a meeting between two friends. " Both were ladies of matronly bearing, comely, well dressed, presumedly intelligent, and this is what they said two feet away from him: "What dreadful weather." "Not so hot as yesterday, do you think?" "It seems so to me." "I judge more by Nan my dog's feel ings, really, than my own." "Oh, yes, poor little creature. She must suffer this weather." "She fdt yesterday's heat more than any day yet Why," I had her in the coolest room in the house and then fan ned her most of the day." Here the reporter's car fortunately bore him away. A half-hour later his way took him through one of the streets of the hospital district in upper Lexing ton avenue. It was dispensary day at one of these excellent institutions, and the block was crowded on the shady side of the street with waiting mothers bearing in their arms the sick babies whose Tittle lives were weakly gasping out under the accumulated burdens of stilling heat, scant nourishment, and the polluted air of crowded tenements. The sight was pitiful the weary, hope less expression of the women, and tho pale, sodden faces of the babies, who lay most of them with closed eyes and hanging, nerveless hands. In forcible contrast rose the spectacle of an enerv ated pug lolling on its cushions in a cool, airy room, while its devoted mis tress tirelessly waved the refreshing palmleaf before its wrinkled and expres sive countenance. Nellie Grant's Sad Lot. A relative of the Grant family in this city is authority for the statement that the married life of Nellie Grant Sartoris is far more humiliating aud unpleasant than has yet been made public, writes a Washington correspondent of tho Bos ton Herald. Mrs. Sartoris makes her home with her husband's father in the north of England. Here, according to all accounts, she is treated as a sort of Sioor relation. Two rooms arc set aside or the use of herself and children, and their meals furnished, but nothing else is given to them either by the husband or Mr. Sartoris, Sr. So far, indeed, as the younger Sartoris is concerned, it is said that he has not contributed a penny to his wife's support for years. It is a well-known fact that for a couple of years prior to Gen. Grant's death remit tances of money were regularly sent to Nellie to provide her and her children with clothing and other useful articles. When the general became impoverished through the rascality of Ferdinand Ward the greatest regret he is said to have ex pressed was that his poverty would pre vent him from further assisting Nellie, who was practically supported by his bounty. AH the members of the Grant family, who still contribute to the sup port of Mrs. Sartoris ami children, have urged Mrs. Sartoris for 3-ears to separate from her husband and return to Ameri ca. It is said that Mrs. Grant made sucn a request only a lew months ago, after learning of some fresh indignity on Sartoris' part But the daughter re plied that she would not entertain such a proposition a moment and added, in dignantly, that she would refuse to sus tain relations of any character with her family if these importunities did not cease. Meantime Sartoris is racing about England spending the meager al lowance his father gives him among companions of his own kind. The re ports which reach here from New York say that Sartoris has been absent from his wife since last spring, and that she hears from him only at rare intervals. o Bagley "I can't imagine what has become of that $10 bill" DeBagg "Have you lost $10?" "I don't know. I had an awful headache yesterday and can't remember what. I did. I was ." "O, I remember now! I saw you pay Ponsonby $10 that you owed him. That is where your money went" "There! I was sure I was out of my head." Phil adelphia Call. m o Farmer (to country minister) "I kin bring you in a couple of bushels of ap ples, dominie, if you'd like 'em. I've a lot of 'em goin' to rot" Minister "Thanks, Mr. Hayseed; I would be very glad to get them. Have you ever tried feeding them to hogs? I hear they are very fattening." Farmer "Yes, I've offered 'em to the hogs, but they won't touch 'em." Harper's Bazar. i m The fact that the Home-Rule bill has been defeated in the English Parlia ment does not give American henpeck ed husbands any additional privileges, -z&iladtlphia Herald, WIT AND HUMOR. THK WANTS OF A MODERATE MAW. He said he had no wish to bo onulcnt. with a bank-book rotund, nnd distended, mid corpulent; hut he didn't wish to live like the primitive Quakers, or butchers, or bakers, or candle-slick makers, but in a fine brown-stone surrounded by statues, and set in a luwuof souio forty-seven acres. Applause for dear clothing' was not worth tho wiunitur, ho desired no wnrdrobo of pur pic or linen; but bo didn't wish to go at tired like a sailor, or dress in a uniform Euit like a jailer; and nil that ho wished was some two dozen chances mado up in good style by a fashionable tailor. He wished no rich viands to pladden bis pep tics, or coddle bis stomach like chronic dyspeptics; but ho wished a cuisine and a French cook to cater, a profession al expert, no commonplaco waiter, no statuesque, boarding-house, imbecile bungler to scatter bis chaos of pio and potuto. He wished no small army of liveried depend ents, no uniformed lackeys and cring ing attendants; but bedidu twish tolivo liko a hermit or miser, but in plentiful leisure as better and wiser; and somo twenty scrvauts and forty good waiters would make lifo worth living for him and Eliza. Lynn Union. An English burlesqucr Miss Mont- morenci "No, sir; there arc no clothes in those trunks. I earry mv costumes in this satchel." Officer "And what do the trunks contain, then?" Miss Montmoreuci "My press notices." Humbler. Mr. Pauper Cheek Doctor, what's my bill? Doctor Well, Mr. Cheek, I understand you are poor, and I've made up my mind not to charge you auv thiug. Mr. P. C That's all right enough! But what I want to know is who is going to scttlo the druggist's bill? Pittsburg Chronicle. "Arc we all here?" inquired Mr. Bru tal Joues of his landlady the other morning at the breakfast-table, "I think so, one two three four yes, j'ou are all here I believe," and she smiled sweetly; "why?" "Nothing much; only 1 see by the morning papers that a human skeleton was pick ed up just outside of the city limits." Tho smile vanished Merchant Travel er. In the police court: Judge "Stand up prisoner. What is your name and age?" Prisoner "Is it possible that your honor does not rccognizo me? Your honor has seen me fully a dozen times before." Judge (surprised) "Why no!" Prisoner (with condescension) "Ah. well, it does not surprise me. Since I have changed the cut of my beard none of my friends recognize me. Frencfi Joke. Mrs. B. is one of those energetic, quick-motioned women who carry their work by assault One day she had started across the room on some errand, but midway forgot what it was. "What was I goin for?" she asked aloud. Two-year-old, seated on the floor and always liable to be swept up in one of her mother's hurricane passages, asked meekly: "Was oo goin' for me?" Chicago Living Church. Illustrating the unccrtainity as to what Chicago might not attempt to ac complish, Prof. Fisk, in his recent ad dress at the Boston ministers' meeting, referred to an Irish physician who, making a speech in the country when slightly under the influence of evil spirits, said: "We have been lying all along about the growth of Chicago, but Chicago has got ahead of our lying." Boston Congrcgationalist. An Atlanta, Ga., reporter, who once "pulled a hand-press" ou a country weekly, tells this: "One day while the papcrwas being worked oft' a man from the country came in and walked all around tho room, finally stopping near the press and watching the work very earnestly. "Anything I can do for you?" asked the man at the lever, paus ing between impressions. "Naw, was the reply. "I don't want nothin', jist came in to see ye edit" The other evening the little daughter of a congressman was paying a visit at a neighbor's, and the respective moth ers were talking of pirysical ailments and their remedies. After a while the little girl saw an opportunity to make a remark. "My papa, she said, "always drinks vhiskv when he is sick." Then she stoppi'd for a minute, her eyes softened and saddened, and she con tinued slowly: "And poor papa is sick nearly all the time. Washington Critic. Country editor "We give you a nickel watch and the weekly Clarion for one year for $3, Mr. Smith." Mr. Smith "How much for the watch with out the Clarionf Country editor "The retail price of the watch alone is $4." Mr. Smith "Well, I guess I'll take one of the watches." Country edi tor "But it will cost you a dollar "more than if you included the paper." Mr. Smith "Yes, I know. But I don't mind the extra expense." New York Times. It was in a bank in a Nebraska town. A farmer slapped down $80 on the counter aud proudly remarked: "There's the last dollar I owe on my farm, and 1 am now entitled to a deed." "You must feel good?" observed a Boston man who was in the bank on business. "1 do." "And you will now go ahead with better spirit?" "1 will now take the deed, and go over to the loan office and mortgage the durn land for what I can and skip," was the feeling reply. Wall Street News. A citizen of Detroit has had his faith in human nature rudely shaken. One day when the rain was falling fast he saw a young man and a young woman E addling through the wet umbrellaless. e was near his own door. So, with rare philanthropy, he thrust his silk umbrella into the hand of the astonish ed young man, saying: "Take this; yon have a lady with you. You can bring it back to-morrow to that house there." The young man took the umbrella and the good citizen of Detroit hasn't seen it since. Manager "My dear sir, you have no idea of what a charming creature this Irene McGillicuddy is. By Jove, she's been a tremendous success everywhere. She played 'Olivette' 7,000 nights in London with immense success, and she created a furor in 'The Mascot" in which she played over 5,000 nights. And she's just "17 years old." Critic "But my good fellow, if she's plaved 12,000 nights she must be at least 34 years or age." Manager "Hold on a minute! I guess I've got this thing mixed somehow." Chicago Rambler. "Please, sir, will you buy a ticket for the Cedar Street Church strawberry fes tival? They're only 25 cents," said a little mite of a girl to a gentleman sit ting on the piazza of a Swan street boarding-house the other afternoon, tendering him a square of yellow paste board as she spoke. "I'm sorry, but I'm going.out of town, and will not bo able to attend," replied the good-natured man, desirous of avoiding a point-blank refusal "I have some 10-cent tickets for those who 'can't attend," promptly responded the quick-witted solicitor. She went out of the gate a dime richer. Buffalo Courier. I make it a rule not to chronicle children's sayings, but I have just re ceived one from England that is so good that for once I will break my rule. The 4-year-old daughter of one of our pecrcsi.es was passing a church in London the other day as a wedding party came out She announced to her nurse that she intended some day to be married. The nurse rebuked her for mentioning such an improper subject as matrimony, and told her it was quite on the cards that she might never marry. "O, but I must marry," re pliedthe child. "I must have a father for my children." Town Topics. A worthy musician of Boston by over work had inducedan attack oi dyspep sia. On goiug to a physician he was advised to take a tonic. Two months after the doctor met him and asked: "Well, how did tho tonic worn?" "Per fectly, doctor; I am quite weil again." "Let's see, what tonic did you take?" "I took a course of touic-solfa." The same physician was once called in to prescribe in a very mysterious case. A vocal studeut was in a state of high fever and delirium. The doctor at first prescribed quinine. "She sat up all night, singing. 'Sweet. Sweet Bird,' over and over." added the nurse. "O," responded the physician, "in that case I should recommend change of air." Musical Herald. m t s John Kelly's Km I mate of Himself. When our townsman, Mr. George J. Magcr, was a resident of Lowville and treasurer of the Lewis County Agricul tural society, in 1882, he secured a promise from the late Hon. John Kelly and Hon. Thomas F. Grady to speak at the annual fair of the society. Shortly before the date fixed for the fair he wrote to Mr. Kelly for a few facts in his history and Mr. Grady's for publication in the Lowville papers. In reply he received the following letter, marked "confidential," and which he still has in his possession. Mr. Kelly's death having removed the injunction of sec recy, Mr. Mager has consented to let us publish the letter: Confidential. Grand Union Hotkl, Saratoga, Aug. 18, 1882. My Dear Sir: Yours of the 15th is at hand, and contents noted. Mr. Gradv and mvself will leave here or - New York on the 12th prox. for Lowville, arriving the same evening, barring accidents. Hon. Thomas F. Grady was born in New York, served four years in the state assembly, and is at present in the senate. " He is of Irish parentage. I consider him one of the ablest young men of his age in public life. As a speaker he is very superior in argument and style to most of his colleagues in the senate. He is about 29 years of age, height five feet seven inches, square-shouldered, and weighs 170 pounds. He has a thorough command of his temper. His analysis of difficult subjects is natural. John Kelly is 60 years of age and was born in New York of Irish parents. He served two years in the board of alder men, four years in congress, six years as sheriff of the county of New York, and four years as city comptroller. He is five feet nine inches and a half in height, and weighs 236 pounds. I have given you Grady's history and my own, and you will probably laugh at the description, but as you requested me in your letter to state our pedigrees. I might add that we are clinker-built and coppered nnd fastened, sound in wind, and well up on our pedestrian joints. Grady is good for a long race, and is well broken to double and single harness, and trots well under the sad dle, stands without tying, and is not afraid of locomotives or other vehicles of doubtful structure. For myself, I am nothing to brag of. and have passed the meridian; too old for a speedy gallop, and fair for a long race; not easily scared, and very docile under trying and difficult circumstan ces. When the driver is tyrannical, usually take the bit and kick clear of traces. Usually halt when there appears to be a willingness to give and admin ister fair treatment but will lead by the halter only for short distances. Will drive with a curb bit long enough to breathe stcrtorously. Yours truly, John Kelly. To G. J. Mager, Secretary and Treas urer. -Cortland (M T.) Standard. An English naturalist remarks that it is a sad reflection that while the tur bot lays 14,000,000 eggs, not more than one, on an average, ever lives to reach maturity. In fish, generally, it takes yearly at least 100,000 eggs for each in dividual to keep up the average of its species. In frogs and amphibians, a few hundred are amply sufficient Rep tiles often lay only a much smaller number. In birds, which hatch their own eggs and feed their young, from two to ten eggs per annum are quite sufficient to replenish the eartii. Among mammals, three or four at a birth is a rare number, and many of the larger sorts produce one calf or foal at a time only. In the human race at large a total of five or six children for each married couple during a whole lifetime makes up sufficient for infant mortality and all other sources of loss, though among savages a far higher rate is usi-ally necessary. In England an average of four anil a half children per family suffices to keep the popula tion stationary. m Mid-Summer Marines. The silly young graduate who writes A. B. after his name on the hotel regis ter. The silly old maid with a fuzzy lap dog that she fondles and calls "her baby." Tiic silly nursemaid who wears Rhine stone ear-rings and gets Herself up in cheap imitation of her mistress. The silly snob who tries to impress strangers by talking familiarly of im portant eople he doesn't know. The silly widow who makes her eve ning toilet at her window on the ocean front without pulling down the blind. The silly old married woman who wears short skirts and sashes and skips around the hotel porch like a girl of 16. The silly hotel clerk, with a Cape May diamond pin, who supposes that all the heiresses arc enraptured with his beauty. The silly bather who goes out beyond the stake to show that he's not afraid, and has to be lugged in like a soaked rat by the life-guard. The silly girtat the sea-side who plas ters her complexion an inch thick with cosmetics and thinks nobody knows the difference. The silly fat woman, with proportions like a hippopotamus and dressed like a guy, who insists on dancing in all the sets, and thinks she is as graceful as a gazelle. The silly old fellow of 40 who decks out his pudgy proportions in Knicker bockers and a Norfolk iacket and strata about under the impression that he is an i AoUo. Philadelphia Times. ' TBS FIRST National Bank ! -OF- COLUMBU8. NEB. HAS AX Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $15,000, And the Iar-ct lll ia fjMnh Cap ital of any bank in this part of the State. J3Jleiosit. received and interest paid on time deposits. SSTDraft on the priucipal cities in this country and Hurope bought and sold. BSTC'ollections aud all other business giveu prompt and careful attention. SrOCKHOLUKKS. A. ANOEKSOX, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMI Til, Vice Pres't. O. T. HUKN, Cashier. I. I. BECKBK. HERMAN OKIILRICII, . SUHl'TTK, W. A. MCALLISTER, .JONAS WELCH, .JOHN W. EARLV, I. ANDERSON, G. ANDERSON. AprSS-'NUf BUSINESS CAEDS. D.T. Maktyx, M. D. F. J. Schug, M.D. Drs. If ARTYN & SCHUG, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Local Surgeons. Union Pacific, O., X. & B. II. and R. & M. R. K's. Consultations in German and English. Telephones at oilice and residences. ETOnn-e on Olive .street, next to IJrod feuhrer's Jewelry Store. COLUMBUS, - NEBRASKA. -12-y W. .11. OBELlUi, LA W AND COLLECTION OFFICE. Upstairs Ernst building 11th street. OUUL1VAN 4k REEDKII, ATTOnyjsrs at law, Olliee over First National Rank, Colum bus, Nebraska. f0-tr c. . KVAiVS, M. ., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. JSTOlliee and rooms. Cluck building, 11th street. Telephone communication. 4y H a.uii,to: .iiEAui;n. ., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Platte Center, Nebraska. 9-y TTERJIAiV Ali:NTEDT, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKER, R5th street, east of Abt's barn. April 7, 'bG-tt T)OWEL.L. IIOUSI-:, PLATTE CENTER, NEB. Just opened. Special attention giveu to commercial men. lias a good sample room. Sets the best table. Give it a trial and be convinced. fdKJiuo TOIlft KUSDE.H, COUNTY SURVEYOR. STParties desiring surveying done can address me at Columbus, Neb., or call at my office in Court House. fniayS-y TyOXICK TO TKAtllEKM. W. H. Tedrow, Co. Supt. I will be at my office in the Court House the third Saturday of each month for the examination of teachers. 3J) tf F. F. MUMMER, M. IK, HOMCEOPATmST. Ckroaio Diseases and Dlseaaea of Cklldren a Specialty. B3TOffice on Olive ?trcet, three doors north of Firnt Nation! Bank. 2-ly 1l,rcAE.E.IS'rER IIKOS., A TTOIilTZrS A T LA w, Office up-stairs in McAllister's build, ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. J. M. MACFAHLAXD, B. K. COWDKRY, CoUsctor. Aturei7al saiitj fiW e. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFAR1.AND& COWDDRT, Columbia, : - ; Nebraska. John a. ii inn ixs. c. J. garlow, Collection AttorAey. HIGGINS & GABLOW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Collections by C.J. Garlow. 3l-ni J? II.RIJSCIIE, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips. uiauifiB.vurr) comos, lirusnes, trunks, valises, buggy tops, cushions, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the lowest possible prices. Repairs promptly attended to. TAJIKS NALnO, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52mo. C AMPHELL St CO. DEALERS IX Raors and Iron ! " The highest market price paid tor rags and iron. Store in the Bubach building, Olive 9t Columbus. Neb. 15-tf JS.MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. flavehadan extended experience, aaa will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kinds of repairing done on short notice. Onr motto is, Good work and fair prices. .Call and give us an oppor tunitytoestlmateforyou. 0"Shop on 13th St., ane door west of FrUdhof & Co's.stora.Colusabus, Nabr. 48i-T CROWLEY'S RECREATIONS. HI Promenade About the A: neaal aad HI Tricks on Other Moakeys. One of the features of the menagerie at tho arsenal in Central park, says the "Now York Tribune, is the transfer of Master Crowley, the chimpanzee, from his private apartments in the arsenal to his reception-room in the monkey house. Only a few visitors are about the grounds when the transfer is made, usually about 8 a. m., and "Jake." the keeper, who has entire charge of the chimpanzee, always takes advantage of a bright, warm morning to enjoy a promenade with tho animal on the path near tho menagerie. "Jake" is a mar ried man, but baving no children of his own ho has formally adopted Master Crowley, "lie is not very good-looking, to be sure," observed "Jake," "but good looks is only on tho outside, and no young one could be more affection ate than that boy is." Crowley enjoys the promenades with "Jake," but he will take them with no one else. Before leaving the arsenal he has his breakfast of rice and milk fruit Then his face is washed, his teeth cleaned, and his hair brushed. If tho air is chilly a red shawl is thrown over his shoulders. He continues in excellent health and is growing in weight and height When they walk along the paths Crowley walks upright on bis leet, clasping one hand of "Jako" in one of his own. He does not stand quite erect; thero is a perceptible stoop in his shoulder under the red shawl and a slight hitch in his gait, giving him the appearance of a cross between Richard I1L and Cardinal Richelieu, as those characters appear on the stage. He stands over three feet in height when erect, and when out walking he always preserves the great est gravity and decorum. On being placed in the cage his deportment changes immediately. He leaps at once upon the springboard within the cage and when he has tilted it to its highest position vaults from 'it into tho trapeze and swings to and fro, turning somer saults, hanging by one hand or with one foot with his head downward, let ting go and catching himself with an agility that would make the reputation and fortune of any gymnast in the ring. Other monkeys, apes, and baboons in the monkey house are struck dumb when Crowley begins his antics. They can only sit on their haunches aud watch him with amazement Crowley is much interested in them, and when he gets tired of violent exercise he will lie down in the corner of his cage near est the cage next to him and watch tho monkeys for half an hour without mov ing. At first he would hold out his hand in a friendly overture, but they declined to accept it. grasping instead their own paws ami shaking them knowingly. Then Crowley obtained a short stick which ho held out for them to take. After a time one of the baboons ventured to reach out for it. but just as he touched it the stick tlew up and rap ped him over the knuckles. Crowley went into ccstacies over this trick, and the baboon retreated with his face twisted and whimpering with the sting of the blow. For a time after that Crow ley could not induce them to touch the stick, although he griuued and grunted in the most affectionate manner. But the baboon was waiting his time. Whilo Crowley was still holding it out to him his attention was attracted for an in stant to another object Tho baboon snatched the stick, rapped Crowley over the knuckles, and shrieked out derisive ly, setting all the monkeys in a chatter. The chimpanzee was angry at being caught lie shook his list liercely at the baboon, and would have purameled him well if he could have caught him. Not being able to do that he vented his spite on the nine pins, throwing them around in a reckless fashion, and grasp ing hnndfuls of sawdust, which he cast at the visitors who were enjoying a laugh at his expense. Afterward ho set tled down in the corner of tho cage again with a friendly grin at the baboons stretching across his mouth, bnt they could not be prevailed ou to give up" the stick. m Where Girls Abound. I tell you that from careful observa tion and actual count there are just forty-four young ladies at Chautauqua where there is one young man. At the approach of nearly every steamer to tho Chautauqua dock during the week a bevy of maidens, fair and sweet crowd ed around with spy-glasses and opera glasses in their hands, anxiously gazing at the decks of the approaching steam er, looking for the possible coming of some more young men. It is absolutely unsafe for a young man to stroll about here alone and unprotected. To walk down one of the avenues like Palestine or Simpson avenue alone, all alone with one's self, and to pass by cottage after cottage whose balconies are crowded with heavenly beings dressed in white lawns and dainty-tinted wrappers, is really and truly a sort of soul torture. One must close his eyes and think of other things, of other worlds, and well, simply walk on about his business and walk all-fired fast at that A young man met a young lady. "Good-morning," baid he, raising his hat and passing on. "Why, how do you do?" said she, rushing up and grasping his hand. "Where are you going?" "To dinner," he replied. "What's the matter with taking mo along?" she said, smiling sweetly. And he took her. Another young man was rushing for the boat He met an old-time lady acquaintance. "Where are you going?" she asked. "To Mayville," said he, as he hasten ed on. "Guess I will go, too," said she, and she did. Then a yonng friend of mine, who only arrived here from Cleveland yes terday, showed me a note he had just received. It read as follows: Dear Friend: Can't you take me out boat-riding this evening at 8? I am just dying to go out on the water. Sincerely yours, Beshe. And the poor fellow will doubtless blister his hands to-night rowing Bessie over the rippling bosom of Chautauqua. Just think of it He was only intro duced to Bessie last evening. Chautau qua Letter to Cleveland Plain Dealer. A countryman strolled into the Petro leum Exchange yesterday and watched the proceedings with great interest "What are they doin'?" he inquired of Frank Tack. "Buying and selling oil." replied Mr. Tack, indulgently. "What's oil wnth?" "Sixty-five cents a barrel." "What?" whispered the countryman, with suppressed excitement, "only 65 cents? You buy me all you can git, mister; the barrels alone '11 fetch xnor'n that" Puck. m m There are 7,370 women employed ia (to Esglisa Civil Service. 2j?-