A' rJ i 3 f i4 ! L ; M f 1 IF fc. J t j . li c ;; r V if JL Talk with Vm There are some things in the last letter of your Denver correspondent, thattfe well worth the thoughtful otiMlteation of farmers. ." 3ffifMmPortapt perhaps is, that '''IC'Mr onr intere8'8 looked a'- ft-tAraCMst look after them our- VrVi 5-.JBB8iDeB8 men nor politicians ! - Nebraska is now only an agricul tural state, bnt I, expect to live to see the day whenit will take its place as the foremost" agricultural slate in the Union. Our geographical location, our climate, our soil and not least t:e character of the prominent settlers in our rural districts, I think, ful jietify of such expectations. But this most honorable place is to be gained only by our own Intelligent effort. Most of us have been kept i hard work sinco we commenced on the virgin prairies, while those in other occupations have made uee of combined effort to the advantage of thoir several interests. We have confined ourselves too closely to o n individual interests. But now wo are getting where we have more leis ure and wo will read more and tbi-ik more, and begin to look luto tbe-i-public matters for ourselves more. And when we do thu we will eeq that our interests will bo better cvi erved. Our influence will be felt more in both local and state politics. That it is in the power of farmers to shape, to a large extent, the public matters of our state, there is no ques tion. And this 1b aa it should be. Their interests are by far the most important. Our sister agricultural states understand this matter. As an instance, down in Kansas the busi uesH of the courts had eo increased that it was thought there wa too much work for the three judge?, and last summer the lawyers, instead of net ting about to see bow the business could be expedited, insisted upon having two additional j udgeB. Tni doubtless would have beeu grautc:! by the. people, but those directly in terested had the amendment also nak ed for f.n inureustf of salary from $3,000 to JfS.OUO each. The matter wad fcubniitied to ilia people at the tall election and wan most heavily sat down upon. And uow the farmer? and their most excellent stato paper are being severally belabored for de feating the measure. Their plea is that they could see no good reason for increasing the salaries of the judges so long U9 it was generouB in proportion to the leciuneration re ceived b; those in other occupations. In the same state the farmers think it no more than right that they should be represented in their state legislation in proportion to their interest?. The result is a largo majority of that body is made up of practical farmers. And this is what we should have in Nebraska. Railroad interest are comparatively concentrated, and they have plenty of ready cash or its equivalent and can afford to use law yers or business men or even tarmert to look after tbeir legislative work. Wo farmei s cannot do this ; we are too scattered to direct what wo wani done, aud besides wo lack in having the proper inducements at hand, to have outsiders look alter our aGuirs buccessiuity. Wo must send men from our own calling to do it. I don't meau nominal farmers, who are more interested in politics than in their business. A dabbling farmer politi cian is otteu ot the most unreliable sort. 1 mean men who are generally interested in (heir calling, intelligent suough to understand its intercels aud independent niwl brave enough to btand by them. Now as to railroads. I caunot join in ti.it mdibcriminate cry againti them. They are net an unmixed evil, and it id neither just nor wise to loose eijiht of the good thoy have donu and ate doing us, while we de nounce tho evils that really do exi. t in their uiiimge:ntut. During the past 20 years transportation from Chicago to New York has decieHs.-l from thiee and torty-five-hundreth cunts to sixty-eight-huudreth of a cent per ton per iniic. While In Ohio la..t tummr-r I met many discouraged farmers. They told me that ihc could not longer compete with u in the west. 1 had Juet sold fat nogs in the Columbus market tor as much as they were bringing in towns there, situated on a maiu line road to Nen York. Bu: cattle wore not worl. more than one-halt a cent per pound more than here. I was gettiug &i much for my butter heie as the boe dairjmen were getting there. Who. and corn brought moro than here bu1 the difference in price, even of the, bulky giains was not nearly so tunc as the diffeiecce in the cobt o; rui-. ing. Now it h the railroads that bavt made it possible for Nebraska farm ers to compete favorably with Ohio and New York farmers, and we should give them credit for it. At the same time these railroad corpora tions are becoming powerful, and in ome instances are making use of their power to our disadvantage, and we need to see to it that we have 6uch legislators as will look after our righti. The out look for favorable railroad legislation certainly looks encour tiging now. The interstate commerc bill or which Mr. Millett speaks wi. doubtless pass before the present set f:ob of congress closes. This wi: prohibit pooling-rebates and discrim natioBF, and regulate other matters t great importance with shipping o freights. This, with the recent de iiciicof Judge Greebam ot the' U. S. conrt at Chicago, by which be se verely cripples Jay Gould and other railroad magnates in one of the mot: gigantic attempt8 OI fraud evcr Per petiated in this country will tend ... ftiflen the back bones of our state legislator so that we may look ftr tone work in the right direction frothe. A to the eBtership, whllellr. Van Wyck has made mistakes, it seems to me there is no question but that he can do more for us In the next six years than any other man that can possibly be put in his place, and I am satisfied this is the opinion of a very large majority of the farmers of this, state, who are intelligent in the matter and are unbiased in their judgment. J. II. K. Daa't Kxperlaaeat. You cannot afford to waste time experimenting when your lungs are in danger. Consumption always seems, at first, only a cold. Do not' let any dealer impose upon you with tome cheap imitation of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, but be euro you get the genuine. Because he can make more profit he may tell ou he has something just an good, or just the same. Don't be deceived, but insist on getting Dr. King's New Discover)7, which is guaranteed to give relief in all Throat, Lung and Chest affectionn. Trial bottle free at Dowty & Heitkemper'fi drug store. It is stated that Germauy, France, UusBia and Turkey are iu accord ou tho Bulgarian question. Gkeat stir has already commenced at Denver gettiug ready tor the grand inauguration of thoir Governor-elect Alva Adams, which comh offllJan., '87. Mb. F. H. Goodrich, a'tS. Louis Traveling Man, representing the Graham Paper Co., contribute the following, it may be ol value to you: "I have beeu troubled with colds and soreness of the breast the past year and find groat relief in Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. 1 cheerfully recom mend it to any ore troubled with coughs or colds, give it a tri::i." L. Harry, a merchant of Sweet Uomi, Mo., has aUo usod it tor several years and knows its value; he says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy never fails to j-ive quick relief, and thai ho always keeps it in the Iioum and would not be without it for five time- its cost. Sold by Dow t & Hei'ketnper It is claimed that a ll iwiny; oil vell has been diecoveicd near Ulysses, Butler county. Mavd 111. I.lfo. Mr. D. I. Wilcoxsou, of Horse Cave, Ky., says he was, for many years, badly afflicted with Phthisic, also Diabete?; the pains were almost unendurable and would sometimes almost throw him into convulsions. He tried E ectric Bitters and got re lief from first bottle aud after tak iug nix bottles, was eirirely cured, and he gained in fieb eighteen pounds. Says he positively believes ho would have died, had it not been for tho relief afforded by Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Dowty & Heitkemper. Next month has been fixed upon for St. John to talk prohibition to Nebraskans. A Flut Contradiction. Some oua has told you that your catarrh is incurable. It is not so. Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy will cure it. It is pleasaut Jo use aud it always does its work thoroughly. Wo have yet Jo hear of a case in which it did not accomplish a euro whr-n faithful ly used. Catarrh is a disease which it is dangerous to neglect. A certain remedy is at your command. Avail yourself of it before the complaint assumes a more seriouB form. All drnggists. A coal cornpam ie a new organi zation at Red Cloud. The Caaxe or Consumption. Scrofula, manifesting itself in blotches, pimples, eruptions, salt rhein, and other hlcumhe ot the skin, ia but too apt by aud by to infect the dr-Iicato tissues of the lungs also, and result in tilceintion thus ending iu consumption. Dr. Pierce.' ''Gol den Medical Discovery" will meet and vanish tho enemy in its strong hold of the blood and ca6t it out of the system. AH druggists. Tiieke are now seventy-soven or ganized counties iu this state and eighteen of them aro under township organization. The Population oTCeluinlms Is about 3,000, anil we would say at leant one half are troubled with some affection of the Throat and Lunga, as thoe com plaints are, according to statistics, more numerous than others. We would ad vise all not to neglect the opportunity to call on ub and get a bottle of Kemp's Balaam for the Throat and Lungs. Price Wc and $1.00. Trial site free. Kcs peet fully. Dr. A. Hcintz. KtrouT comes from San Francisco that tweuty-seven persons were drowned by the wreck of the Atlan .ic near the biter place. Sylvester Gkanda, has been cap tured at Kansas City, another man implicated in the Haddock murder case. A Great Surprise Is iu ctore for all who use Kemp's Bal s nm for the Throat and Lungs, the great guaranteed remedy. Would you believe that it is sold on its merits and that each druggist is authorized to refund your money by the Proprietor of this wonderful remedy it it fails to cure you. Dr. A. Helntz has secured the Agency for it. Price 50c and $1. Trial site Jree. it is stated that a counterfeit $20 silver note has been put into circula tion, and detected by tbe secret e vice. Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches ot every kind cured in 30 minutes by Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no 'her. This never fails. Sold bj C B. SMIlman, druggist, Columbus. McQcADr, ot New York. City, was finally loand guilty after the jury had deliberated less than half as hour. . Chahbeblain's Colic, Cholera and DiarrboBt Remedy never falls and is pleasant and safe. Sold ky Dowty A Ueltkemper. A TRAIN DISPATCHER'S STORY. Several .years ago T was employed as train dispatcher on a southwestern American railroad. As usual there were three of us in the office. I had what is called the second trick," my hours of duty being from 4 p. m. to 12 p.-m. Tho 'third man. Charlie Burns, who came on at, midnight and worked till 8 a. m., was a particular frieud of mine. He was a young man of high character, a fine dispatcher, and very popular; aud when, during the burning days of July, it became known among the men that he was confined to his room by a severe attack of malignant fever, many were the expressions of re .gret and of hope for hisspeedy recovery. During the trying days of Charlie's illness r spent alb the time I could spare by his side, but on account of his absence from the office it-was necessary for the remaining two of us to "double up" that is, work twelve hours each, my watch-being from 8 p. in. to 8 a. m. I came on duty ono evening feeling very bad. The weather was so warm X could not sleep well in the daytime; "be sides, I had spent a considerable part of the day with Charlie, whose illness had now reached a critical stage, and seemed to show little prospect of im provement. Hence, as you may imagine, 1 was not at all pleased to find that I -was likely to have a busy night of it. A wreck on the road during the day had thrown all tho regular trains off time, and besides the usual number of special freights there was 'a special passenger train to leave Linwood, the eastern terminus of our division, at 11 p. m. with a large party of excursionists re turning from a picnic. For several hours I bad my hands fulL There was a special tram of live stocc bound east which had to be kept moving, but was being delayed by hot journals; never theless, I hoped to get them into Lin wood before the excursion train started west As usually happens in such cases, the excursion train did not get ready to leave on time, and it was 11:40 p. m. when they reported for orders at Lin wood. 1 fixed up their orders, got the report of their departure from Linwood at 11:45, and entered it on the train sheet Then, having' for the first time that night a few minutes breathing time, I rose from the table and went over and seated myself by the window, where- it was cooler than under the heated gas-jets over the table. I was alone in the office, and as I sat there enjoying the cool brceza which came in through the open window a neighbor ing church clock raug out the hour of 12. From force of habit 1 glanced at the door, almost oxpecting to hear Charlie's light footstep on the stair aud see the door open to admit him as of old. -Poor fellow," I thought, "it will be :i long time before he enters that door agaiu. if he ever does." Just at the last stroke of 12, and while my eyed were still fixed on the door, it opened and Charlie Burns entered. My aston ishment may be imagined better than I can describe it My first thought was that in the delirium of fever be had escaped from his nurses and made his way to the office, but when 1 left him a few hours before 1 could not have be lieved that he had strength to get odt of bod. I sat and watched him in speech 'less surprise, which was increased by his strange mauner. Instead of his usual hearty greeting ho took no notice of mo at all, but walked directly to the table and snt down.. Placing his hand upon the key he began calling 'Q," which was the signal for Elm Grove, the first station, six miles west of Linwood. "I, I. Q." came the response. "Put out signal for speeial passenger west and copy." "Ro," "Ro," "Ds," rang out tho sound er with Charlie's nimble fingers upon the key. "Ro'' was the call for Rose dole, the second station from Linwood, eight miles west of Elm Grove. "L L Ro," came back the answer. "Is special east coiniug? Ds." Then, as I sat by the window as one paralyzed, the awful truth flashed across my mind. I had overlooked the stock train, thundering eastward twenty miles an hour, and made no provision for its meeting the excursion train. My blood seemed turned to ice as I heard the reply: "They are at the switch. Ro." Another minute and it would have been too late. Still apparently oblivious of my pres ence, Charlie reached for the order-book with his left hand, while his right con tinued to manipulate the key, and 1 heard the sounder click: Out signal and copy Ds. Order No. 734. To C. and E. Eng. 34 Ro. C and E. Eng. 19 O. Special cast eng. 34 will take siding anu meet special west eng. at Hosedale. 12 J. W. M. Quick as a flash came back the re sponse from each station, and in less time than it takes me to write it the order had been repeated and signed by the conductor and engineer of each train, while Charlio copied it into the order-book and returned his "O. K." Then, as I realized that I was saved and a great disaster averted, tho revul sion of feeling was too much for my overstrained nerves, and I lost con sciousness. An hour after 1 was awakened by a familiar voice, and looked up to find Frank Dwyer, one of our conductors, who had volunteered to watch that night with Charlie, standing over me. "Wake up. old man," said Tie, "1 have bad news for you. Charlie died just as the clock was striking 12." I roused myself and went to th' table. There on the order-book was the order just as I had heard it clicked ou by the sounder, and "Ro" was calling me to report the two trains safely by Had I been drcamiug and sent the order in my sleep, or had my friend redeemed his promise? Tho writing in the order-book was in his hand, and I have never been able to account for it Detroit Free Press. How the Thistle Defends Itseir. On the other hand, the -thistle family are far more truly rural and agricul tural in their habits, being deuizens of the open fields and meadows, less de pendent than the nettles upon richness of soil, aud readily accommodating themselves to all vacant situations. Hence they have only felt the need of arming themselves in a rough-and-ready prickly fashion against the prob able assaults of their natural enemies. They have forged darts, but have not learned to poison them. Their prickly leaves and wings arc nmplv sufficient for defense, without the necessity for developing a virulent juice, to be in jected into the very veins of their sav age aggressors. Natural selection can never push any special line of evolution further than i's imperatively called for by the wants and circumstances of tbe particular species. It always necessari ly leaves off just at the point where the protection afforded is fully sufficient to guard the kind from the possibility of extinction. The thistles have found in actual practice that prickles alone are quite enough to secure their boasted immunity from extraneous attacks; tbe nettles have practically discovered for themselves that without stings they would soon be landed in the final limbo of utter nonentity. Mr. Grant Allen, in Popular ScUncc'Monlhly. Base-baller'Cto poker player) "Well, the clubs made it livefv for the bovs this afternooB." Poker player 'Two dubs? What fool drew to rmF And tiled, did ber-r Jtemftfer. How to Read. Nobody can be sure that lie' has got clear ideas on a subject unless he has tried to put them down on ax piece of paper in independent words. of his own. It is an excel Ion t plan, too, when you -have read a good book, to sit down ami write a short abstract of what you can remember of it. It is a still hotter pinu. if you can make .up your mind to a slight extra labor, to do what Lord Stafford and Gibbon and Daniel Web ster did. After glancing over tho title; subject, or design of a book, these eminent men would take a pen and write roughly what questions they ex pected to find answered in it, what difficulties solved, what kind of infor mation imparted. Such practices keep us from reading with tho eye only, gliding vaguely over tho paire, and they elp us to place our new acquisitions iu relation with what wo know before, it is almost always worth while to read a thing twice over, to make sure that nothing has been missed or dropped on the way, or wrongly conceived or inter preted. And if the subject be serious, it is often well to let an interval elapse. Ideas, relations, statements of fact are not to be taken by storm. We have to steep them in the mind, in tho hope of thus extracting their inmost essence and significance. If one leu an interval Eass, and then returns, it is surprising ow clear and ripe that has become which, when wo left it, seemed crude, obscure, aud full of perplexity. All this takes trouble, no doubt; but, then, it will not do to deal with ideas that we find in books or elsewhere as a certain bird does with its eggs leaves them in the sand for the suu to batch and chance to fear. People who follow this plau possess nothing better than ideas half-hatched and convictions rear ed by accident. Thoy are like a man who should pace up and down tbe world in the delusion that he is clad in sumptuous robes of purple and velvet, when in truth he is only half covered by the rags and tatters of other people's cast-off olothes. John Morlcy. m Orthodox I:v tucket. Some time a;o the Pawtucket ortho dox church was in need of some repairs and embellish ments. and a carpenter was sent aloft to patch up the steeple and put it in thoroughly good shape. Tbe reluctanc; of the weather-vane to record the changes of the wind had long been proverbial iu the town, and the carpenter elimSmd clear up to see if he could find out what was tin; matter with it What was his astonishment to dis cover that a screw had been put J h rough, apparently in recent year.-, in such a way as to impinge upon the pivot and prevent tiie vane from turning except under very great pressure. The carpenter was astonished .that such au attempt should he deliberately made to cripple the church vane and impair its usefulness, but he thought be fore ho removed the screw he would re port the mattet and see whether by any chance it had been put there by au thority. So he appealed to Deacon X.. the most prominent member of the board of trustees, and told him tbe dis covery. "Have you any idea how the screw came there, deacon?" the carpenter asked in closing his story. "Yes, I have," said the deacon. "Why. how.was it?" "I ordered it put there mvsclf. We're an orthodox church here. I want you to understand, aud we don't want our weather vano to go whiflin' 'round with everv breath no niore'n we do. I order ed that screw put m so's it should take an all-hred breeze to make it Boston Record. "- Escapes From Siberian Priaonan The Russian police are said to be growing nervous over the frequent es capes from Siberia this year. The few who have ventured to return to St. Pet erhurg have been recaptured and re turned, but the majority have made their way to Geneva auu London, and the plotting against the government has been renewed with redoubled fervor. Since June at least twenty Siberian prisoners have escaped, including two cavalry officers and beveral students, some of them escapiug by tbe way of Cambodia. The precautions which are observed throughout Siberia are so striugent that tho government is per suaded that the escapes could not have been effected without connivance with the prison officials. So great a commotion has been caused by these repeated jail-deliveries, that a Bpecial commission has been sent to Siberia to inquire into their causes, and to reorganize the eutire system of prison government. A number of high officials, under whoso charge the es caped prisoners were, have been sus pended, aud some officers, who were either criminally negligent or else as sisted in releasing the prisoners, have been arrested and thrown into prison. The refugees report that the Siberian prisons and mines are crowded with ex iles. Disease is rampant, and scurvy is especially severe, 1 he mortality, they say, is frightful. The nihilists are greatly excited and rojoiced over the many escapes, but declare that they will not strike again until they are sure of their mark. Mrs. Cleveland's Social Assistants. Mrs. Cleveland will have some lovely young ladies inside the cabinet circle to assist her iu her receptions this winter. The Misses Bayard will appear very sel dom in public, nut their places will be filled by the Misses Mauning. Eudieott, Vilas, and Lamar. Miss Vilas is hard ly a debutante yet. but will bo allowed to take part in the festivities in a limited degree. Miss Mauning, tho secretary's daugh ter, who is ''just out," ib quite attractive. She assisted her stepmother at her re ception last season, and was quite popu lar. Miss Eudieott is a full-fiowu so ciety lady now, and is verv elegant and stately in her manner and movement. The prettiest one of them all is Miss Jennie Lamar, the debutante daughter of the Mississippi secretary. Her moth er died over two years ago, and she hat been living with her married sister in Memphis, Teun., until this fall. She is 18, tall, graceful, and bright Her hair is golden and iter eyes a rich-hued hazel. She has the gentle ways aud tender, poetic expression of the runny south. She will be the belle tbiwinter, and will present a charming contrast in blonde points to Mrs.' Cleveland as they stand in line to receive their fellow-citizens. Minneapolis Journal. WIT ASO jjci fOll. "What is the PotterV. Field?" asks a correspondent It seeius to be reading 'Ostler Joe." Rambler. A new book is out called "A Girl's Room." It is not so pxxl as her com pany. New Orleans'ticayune. It -takes nine tailors to make a man. but one tailor can make a woman that is. he can make bef. proud. Philadel phia Call. What we want is not to see ourselves as others see us. We want to have others see us as we. see ourselves. Somervillc Journal. First oyster "Whe r are we?" Sec a church." "A ond ovster "This ,'fe church? What do A want with both of us, I wonderP" A, urg Dispatch. aavs a writer. "Take her all aroun "she is the best prodi t of her sex." xes. out am tnarKril the expense of tatlng ever think of r all around? new uaven Aem. At' the examination foi the bacealaot reate decree, tb of Physics asked the candidate Wfljat if th h insulator known?" "Poverty," was the reply. French Fan. A scientific journal gives au example of "weight sutained by vacuum." It must be this sanm forcu that prevents the top of a nude's bead from falling ' in. S'euf Haven New.-!. Young husband (to wife) "Didn't I telegraph you not to bring your mother with you?" Young wife "I know. That's what she wants to ace you about j She reail the telegram." Texn$ 8ifi- ittgs. "Pa, what's this that's always. in the I papers headed Fotuign and Domestic'P Can a thing be foreign and domestic. tooP" "No. my son, of course not." j "Yes it can, too. Look at Bridget." ' Rambler. I Marv Anderson advises young wo men to have nothing to do with private theatricals. She says they have a bad effect ou tho nerves. We have noticed .this in the case of audiences. New Uaven News. Friend (to young artist) Isn't your shirt a little ragged, Charley? Young. Artist I'm afraid it is. Friond Well, whv don't you change UP Young Art istBecause the other one is ragged, too. N. F. 8un. "My pen is weary, I shall write no more, warbles a poetess. We can't find it in our heart to blame that pen from being weary, and we thank the poetess most sincerely for her good re solulion. New Uavan News. Prince Henry of Battenburg has, after much practice, succeeded in learning how to wear a Scotch kilt He has posi tively dceliued to eat haggis. There is danger in consequence of a civil war between him and his mother-in-law. Minister's wife (to husband) I me Mrs. .Tones tli in uftiirnoon. and hftr huo. band, the deacon, who is sick, is anx- ious to have you call and see him. Minister I will go to him at once. He must be hopelessly ill. A". T. Sun. "We can't all be President of the United States, Bobbv," said tho minis- .- ..i un u " hm. ,ni.i - his clear, honest eye shouo with lofty ( iCl. HVTW , WVSJ lUIIIC, CUM ambition, "an l uout want to be. I'm ' goin to be a drum major." New York j Sun. Mistress What! tho cream all gone j again? 1 re.illy cautiot understand it I ! Servant Please, mum, thecal! Mistress I Nonsense! when we haven't one. j Servant But, please, mum, you said as you was goiug to get one! Ftiegende lilueller. A Chicago Anarchist named Ducoy ' declares he will tell tjie truth if ho "has ) to do so iu front of n Gatliug gun and j with a rope a round his neck." Well, it requires just about those very induce i menu to iikiko aoiuumeu tell the truth. Jinntetle. j "1 hope ami pray." remarked a gen l tleiuau as he left the steamer, "that I shall never have occasion to cross the Atlantic again." "Rough passage, ehP" queried a frieud. "Rough is no name for it. I had four kings beat three times." N. V. .S'mm. A Somerville girl has had her room papered with old love letters written to her by rejected suitors. Young men who propose to pay court to her in fut ure will be more likely to win her favoi if they write only on one side of the pa per. tfuwervJIc Journal. Old Mrs. Bently 1 see, John, that this new faith cure has been the means of savin' a great many people. Old Mr. Bentlv So I've heerd. Old Mrs. Bently Well, the fust time you pass a drug-store, Johu, 1 wish you'd stop and get a bottle of it. N. Y.'Sun. Needy man Yes, sir, if you'll give mc a chance in your store I'll do two men's work. I've been out of employment many months, and I'm willing to work for starvation wages. Merchant Now, about how much do you think you could starve on a week? Tid-Bits. Eight millions of umbrellas are made in this country overy year. Half a mtl lion are imported from France. This makes about one umbrella to every seveu persons. One person buys the umbrella; the other six steal it from him and use it. Pittsburg Dispatch. Witty men sometimes get into bad K laces." Judge Gould, of the Portland, Ie., police court, recently said to criminal: "ixOK out tuat no more liquor is found in your back yard." "I will, your honor." was the reply. "I'll only keep rats in my back yard aftei this." Mrs. Jones "lam told that your hus band is worth a great deal of monev in tbe old country, Mrs. Macnamara?" Mrs. Macnamara "Trotn an he is, ma'm. Tbe Government over there will pay $5,000 for Mac any day they can lay their bands on him." Lowell Citizen. Kindly old lady What's the matter, little boy? Little boy (crying bitterly) I jes lost ti' cents. Kindly oM lady (giving him a nickel) Well, here is five cents more for you, so don't cry. How did yon lose it? Little boy (feel ing better) 1 lost it pitchiu' pennies. Harper's Bazar. "John," she said, as she entered his office one day and snifted suspiciously, "I thought you had promised never to drink again." "My dear," he replied deprecatingly. "your suspicions are un just I have just had a call from a Chi cago Alderman." "Ah, that explains it Forgive me, John." Rambler. A novelist makes his heroine throw $100,000 of her own money into the sea so as to relieve her lover of tbe suspic ion of being mercenary. She should have given the money to her lover to start a paper intended to fill a long-felt want. She would have lost it just the same ana it wouiu nave oeeu a i)tue more natural. New Haven News. , They had been quarreling, and she was railing against inarriag& "But, my love," expostulated the"' husband, "marriage is made in' Heaven." "I don't care if it is." alie suapped. "It isu't made for home consumption, and they ship it down to oarth just as soon as they can fill the orders." Washing ton Critic. It isu't always best to be entirely sat is lied with everything. "Mother," said a young lady, recently, "how came you to marry such a very plain, unpreten tious man as father?" "If I bad known that his daughter would ever have ask ed such a question 1 presume I should have hesitated." "Then you are not satisfied?" "Not entirely. I'd most wish that our daughters had beon all sons." Hartford Post. "What is this I hear." said Mrs. Spook, "about conipulsorv prayer being abolished in Harvard? bid they use to compel the students to pray?" "Yes," said young Spook, who had just come homo from college ou a vacation; "yes, tbe janitor used to go round three times a day and make every student get dowu on his knees and pray, and, if the stud snt resisted, sworn at him like a pirate." "That's just right," said Mrs. Spook; "If a young fellow won't pray he ought to bo sworn at until he is ashamed: uf himself." Lynn Union. ill Edison says that no experiment which he has tried" at nibt ever failed. Now what we want to know is, did Mr. Edi son ever try at night to find tbe matches in his bare feet without disturbing any of the furniture or stubbing his big toe agaiust seventeen different obstructions. New Haven News. i "Around the world in eighty days" no longer is heard from tho lips of tbe wideawake. It is, liko tht old "2:40 ou a plank road" phrase, out-dated. "Around the world in sixty-nine days" ie the true time, Aa Owl's Pecmliar Trick la one of tbe Bowery museums, in a wire cage, is a monster owl. with eyes as big as five-dollar gold-pieces. A solemn-looking man wandered. from the serpent's den to tbe owl's cage, and bis eyes met those of the cantivo" bird. As he walked around the-cage, the big, flat eyes of the owl remained fixed upon him. He kept on, and, while tho claws tjf the bird clutched the rod on which it perched, the eyes neither winked nor waved. Three times he made the cir cuity the cage, keeping his eyes fixed on those of the owl, then baited, still eying the bird, and a perplexed look came over bis face. Again he started on, with quicker step, and as often as be made the circuit of the cage he closed one finger of his open nand. After he doubled over seven fingers an attendant in the museum came up and asked him what it was all about '"Go 'way," said the man without taking- his eyes from the owl. and he kept on around till he had closed the other finger and both thumbs. Then he halted, and still keeping his eyes fixed on those of tbe owl. be said: "I've walked around that owl ten times since I began counting, and three or four times before, and he hasn't taken his eyes off mo yet. nor let go the perch with his claws." lie ought to be pretty near wound up, hadn't he?" The museum man thought tbe stranger was a crank, and went off to attend to some boys who were pestering the monkeys. With the observation that he could keep on walking as long as the owl could keep turning his head around without letting go with his claws, tbe stranger started on. Ho made eight or ten more circuits and then halted, and waited to see the owl's head fly back like a piece ox twisted lnuia-rubber. j Bat tbe owl's eyes remained fastened j upon him with a placid look. j "Well, that beats me." said the man. and he disappeared down the stairway. ! T1' Pll the man has been a Pto to naturalists also. One of the i solutions is that after each turn the owl's head flies back so quickly that the human eye can not detect tbe move ment. N. Y. Swu The Grown-Up Tomboy. The girl romp, otherwise known as the tomboy, is an eager, earnest. Im pulsive, glad-hearted, kind-soiiJed speci men of geuus feminine. If her laugh is too frequent and her tone a trifle too emphatic we are willing to overlook these for the sake of the true life and exulting vitality to which they are tbe escape valve; aud, indeed, we rather like the high-pressure nature which must close ou its superfluous "steam" in such ebullitions. Tho glanciug eye, the glowing cheek, the fresh, balmy b'reatb, the lithe, graceful play of the limbs tell a taleof healthy and vigorous physieal development which is Nature's best beauty. The soul arid the mind will be developed also in due time, and we shall have before us a woman in the highest sense of the term. When the tomboy has sprung up to a healthful and vigorous womanhood she will be ready to take hold of the duties of life, to become a worker in the gre3t system of humanity. She will not sit down to sigh over the work given her to do. to simper nonsense or to fall sick at heart, but she will be ever ready to take up her burden of duty. In her track there will be sound philosophy, in her thoughts boldness and orijnnalitv, in her heart Heaven's purity, and the world will be better that she lived in it To her allotted task she will bring health, vigor, energy, aud spirits; these will give her both ' the power aud the endurance without which her life must be, in some respects at least, a failure. Civcinnati hnqutrer. Core Tor Most Dangerous Wounds. An intelligent and trustworthy cor respondent has sent us the following: The smoke of woolen rags is a cure for the most dangerous wounds. A lady of my acquaintance ran a machine needle through her finger. She could not be released till the machine was taken to pieces. The needle had broken into her finger in three pieces, one of which was bent almost double. After repeated trials tho piece wore extracted by pincers, but they were very strongly embedded. The pain reached to the shoulder, and there was- every danger of lockjaw. The woolen rags were put over the coals, and she belif her finger over tbe smoke, aud in a very short time all the pain was gone and it never returned, though it was some little time before the finger healed. This is but one of many instances of such cure, some of them taking place after several days from tbe time of the wound. Let woolen rags bo kept sacredly and al ways at hand for wounds. The smoke and stench will fill the bouse, perhaps, but that is a trifle when the alternative is lockjaw, or even a long, painful 'sequel to a wound. Another instance, was the wound made by an enraged cat, which tore the flesh from tbe wrist to the elbow, and bit through the fleshy part of the hand. One ministration of the smoke extracted all the pain, which had beeu frightful. Boston Trat script. Methods of an Inventor. There is a president of a tool-building company in one of our eastern cities who is a" thorough mechanic and a suc cessful inventor. In one of the draught ing rooms is a table with square, rule, peucil, and a few other appliances al wavs on it Perhaps this table may be visited three or four times a day by the president, who will jot down figures, JrawafoWUhes or make a sketch. He may not come for several days, and he may work at the board or table for several hours at a time. At last the work is thought out and its elusiveness is fixed by the penciling. The result is then properly drawn, patterns are made, the castings are finished, and tbe ma chine is completed. All this is the pro cess of thought-growing, lasting per haps for weeks or months. During that incubating time the idea possessed the inventor in as true a seuse as that he possessed the idea. Probably no merely literary effort required greater devotion to its subject, more intense thought, or more exercise of tho reason and judgment Boston Budget. tvy Will Swear OCT. Solomon Levy and Mose Schaumburg had a settlement of accounts not long since, and Levy paid a small balance which was due. Levy had been taking too much wine, and" paid Mose more money than was coming to him. Next morning Schaumburg's clerk came to Lew's place of business and banded him a $o bill. "Vat for is den dot?" asked Levy. "Mr. Schaumburg says that when you settled with him yesterday, you paid bim $5 too much." Levy clasped his hands and an ex pression of intense anguish came over his face as he said: "I vonder how much too much I have paid ven a man like Mose Schaumburg ends me back five tollars. I eggspects I paid dot schoundrel a hundred tollar bill for a one tollar bill. Ven it vas less den dot he vouid have send me pack noddings. I vas a ruined man. I vas all broke up. Vine vas mockery. I schwears off ride avay. Stbrong drink tm raging." Texas Sitings. 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