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HUMAN CURIOSITIES.
THE 1 ROUBLES WHICH A MAN
HUNTER EXPERIENCED IN ASIA.
The Todas and the Affctiaa A Btraaice
Kaca 'Whose Kullng- Pasaloa la Avar
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It is two years since Barnum'a show was
in St. Louis, and it will be remembered that
one of its features was the so-called ethnolog
ical congress, consisting of representatives of
eight races found in the Orient, certain
islands of the Pacific ocean and Australia.
Few who saw them stopped to consider the
lifficulty in obtaining the consent of these
people to leave their native homes. Yet one
man spent more than two years seeking after
them. This was Thomas H. Davis, who
was sent to the far east by Barnum in 1883
to collect representatives of various peculiar
people for his circus. Davis executed his
commission in two years, returning to Amer
ica in 1884 with thirty-two people. Two of
thos3 whom Davis brought to America died,
and the others returned to their native land.
It proved too cold for them; they lost inter
est in the country after a few months and
longed to see their relatives. To the students
of the human race the most Interesting speci
mens in the collection were the Todas and
Afghans, the first that had ever been induced
to leave their country. The former is a
strange race, or rather remnant, and have
only been known to Europeans within the
last twenty years.
"These Todas," said Mr. Davis, "live In
the Neilgherry mountains In India, and are
not more than 350 in number. They are
extremely exclusive, and as they kep high
up in the mountains little of their history or
characteristics is known. From what I
learned they live in small huts, not mora
than five feet high, and feed upon milk, re
fusing meat or anything with life. Their j
religion Is different from anything in India,
and no one seems to know what or ho w the
worshiped. They have priests who keep
away from public notice, living always in
huts, fed by the people. It is known that
they are polyandrous, and I saw one woman
who was said to have seven husbands. My
interpreter explained the marriage custom.
When a girl reached a marriageable age her
father sold her. The price is paid in buf
faloes, of which they have large herds.
After this marriage when the wife desires
she chooses another husband, who buys into
partnership, so to speak, by paying buffaloes
to the first husband, who divides with the
father. I had a hard time getting -these
people to leave their mountain, only by
tempting their avarice did I succeed In get
ting two men to go with me. I was particu
larly anxious to get them on account of their
total difference from any race I had seen in
India. They were whiter thanth6 others
and had a decidedly Hebrew cast of counte
nance. Their ruling passion was avarice,
and they used their sharp Intellects to acquire
everything possible. One of them carried
this to a humorous extent. In coming over
on shipboard be learned several English
words, and used them to beg articles. I was
the only one he respected, and he undertook
to supply mo with cigars. When we reached
New York about 300 prominent men were
invited to have a private view of the tribes.
Well, sir, that Toda boned every last visitor
for some article. If he did not get what he
pointed to he would end with:
"Tsigar?" meaning a cigar. He asked
Henry Ward Beecher, as well as the others,
and after the show was over presented me
with fifteen cigars. After that he learned
to discriminate between good and bad cigars,
and only asked well dressed vistors for them.
When he left the country he had a trunk
full of articles which he had collected. His
favorite question was IntwallonJ'' meaning
What's the price' His companion died iu
Providence, It. I., of a lung trouble.
"Afghans are notoriously lovers of their
country, and I gave up the attempt to get
any of them. I went to Cabul to hunt for a
Mongolian dwarf who was said to be there,
and mentioned the object of my visit to the
British minister, whose power in Afghanistan
is almost absolute. He mentioned to me
that two Afghans were chained in a dungeon
awaiting death for having made an attempt
from political motives on the life of a high
official, and suggested that if I would take
them out of the country and never bring
them back he would have them placed in my
custody. That is how I came to have
Afghans in the collection. They were skill
ful swordsmen and gave spectators cold
chills when they got warmed to their work.
' Most of the other people were Hindoos,
Burmcso and Parsees. They were a common
lot, spent their money on opium, candy and
such things as circus life affords. I visited
many tribes, and often failed to get repre
sentatives, owing to their unwillingness to
leave. India is full of remnants of strange
races, that stick to their native soil un
tempted by promises, money or pictures of
other lands. I went into the Himalaya
mountains, but was stopped in the confines
of Thibet. I also heard of a strange race of
whito men said to lire north of Afghanistan
who were described as being of largo frame,
whito faces, blue eyes and blonde hair.
There were traditions about them, but I
could not locate them precisely. I went to
Siam and China, but took none of the natives
of tbo towns, and I feared to pierco the in
terior owing to'the danger.
"I paid a visit to the island of Ceylon,
where I had heard of the Veddas. These are
tho native wild men, and so scarce and hard
to find that many of tho inhabitants of the
island had never seen them. I finally hired
a m"" to kidnap a Yedda. In this way I
got two of them, and they would have
proved great curosities had they been
brought to America. I was .forced to turn
them loose after five days, because they re
fused to eat. drink, move or speak; simply
glared at their keepers. I brought over an
inhabitant of one of the Andaman islands,
in the Bay of Bengal, a vicious, wild fellow,
who grew rather quiet and docile before we
reached America.
"You remember there were three Nautch
girls in the collection. I had a great deal of
trouble in securing them, because this class
of females made a living for their parents at
home, and although desirous of going with
me, were compelled to remain, Otherwise
I could havo had them easily, for flesh is
fearfully marketable and cheap in India.
I frequently had offers from mothers to sell
me daughters, and one old woman insisted
upon selling me a very beautiful girl about
4 years of age for 500 rupees, saying that at
least the child would be a pretty plaything.
Whenever I heard of Nautch girls I went in
quest of them, but I usually found them ugly
and unskillful. I grew so tired of seeing a
Nautch (dance) that I at last looked upon it
as a bore. It is generally the recital of some
harrowing love tale, where the girls walk
through their parts to the furious and pain
ful accompaniment of tomtoms. At last I
found just what I wanted at the city of Tan
jore four very handsome girls who could
dance and pose gracefully. They were
dancing before the Mohammedan princess
who ruled the place, and through the cour
tesy of the resident foreigners I was allowed
to witness the performance on Nov. 14, the
Mohammedan New Year. One of the girls,
who has .danced before the Prince of Wales,
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and was the finest specimen of womankind I
saw in India. These girls wanted to go with
me, but their relatives would not allow
them. After another long search I found
three girls at Hyderabad, whom I obtained.
"I did not go in any part of India where I
did not find missionaries, and I kept clear of
them, because I found they bad no influence,
outside of tho French missionaries, who as
sume the costumes and life of the natives. I
did not find a successful missionary iu the
interior. Fow of the natives knew of any
part of the world beyond Calcutta. I found
tho tracks of several Americans, and at
Mysore the maharajah welcomed me with
open arms, because he had been visited by
Blondin, the tightrope walker, fifteen years
before, who had said ho was an American.
He had so pleased the maharajah that he ex
pected to see ine do something wonderful
because I was an American. I pleased him
by giving him several of our colored litho
graphs, which he thought were oil paintings,
and had framed.
"I might add that the tribes hated each
other cordially, and as long as they were
thrown together did not establish social rela
tions. Several'of 'them made each other's ac
quaintance, but the majority of the tribes
held no communication and despised one
another, chiefly on account of religious
prejudices, because not two of the tribes were
of the same religon." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE WORK OF BOOK AGENTS.
Some of the Characteristics of a Success
ful Agent.
In the issues of the doily papers the eye
daily meets with advertisements which offer
in rosa-tinted English the most nattering in
ducements to book agents. These advertise
ments are answered by men of all grades,
ability and appearance-, and the publisher or
general agent then proceeds to "sound his
man" to discover, in fact, whether the
candidate can be utilized or not. Seven men
aro failures out of every ten tried. The book
agent ought to be of good address, good
education, scrupuloulsy neat and extremely,
polite. Such men can usually find more
congenial work, and are only agents tem
porarily. There are many of them, how
ever, who remain in the field year after
year, making a good living and meeting
with all manner of men and experiences.
The average agent makes little more than
a living. One day he is liable to make
enough to keep him a month, and with bad
weather or physical disability he is running
the risk of making nothing for a week. The
business resembles gambling more than any
thing elso in its results. He is deserving of
better treatment than is usually accorded
him. A generation of John L. Sullivan book
agents would do much to place the profes
sion on that plane where it rightly belongs,
and it is a marvel that some venturesome
canvasser does not attempt some of his forci
ble methods.
The profits hi subscription books are very
great. T'le averago commission to agents is
40 per cent., and as high as 63 per cent, has
been paid. Three sales a day will, as a
rule, furnish a good living to an agent, but
he is prone to forget that he must average
nearly three calls to a customer, and that
also much depends on the weather. The sale
of Gen. Grant's "Memoirs" was a big thing
for book agents, yet few of them saved any
thing from It. The work being in two vol
umes, required a double delivery and per
haps four calls to each subscriber. In other
words, the agent must make enough in one
day to last him four days, or his work was
in vain. The average book of travel, remin
iscences or memoir is sold by the agent for
$1. Of that sum tho canvasser receives
1.80, the general agent CO cents and the
publisher has mado a profit of 80 cents.
The manufacture of the book has cost 80
cents. Cheap editions of the works of Dick
ens, Scott, Thackeray, Irving and other
standard writers are being sold at prices
that seem wonderfully cheap, but the facts
are that a better percentage of profit i3made
thou on the early and more expensive edi
tions. The sale of subscription books on the in
stalment plan is a recent venture. Standard
works are sold on weekly payments. This
innovation opened up to the agent a field that
be could otherwise never reach. It makes
snips easier, but the agent's commission is
much less unless he pays the cash himself and
does his own collecting. If he can afford to
do that he can make more by tho instalment
plan method, as he gets a better price from
the customer. Works by a man of world
wide reputation, whether ho be a literary
man or not, always sell best. Grant's name
sold his work, and the sale would have been
nearly as great had it been a volume of
poems. Chicago Tribune.
Modesty on Sleeping Cars.
"I have just come from that painful lux
ury the sleeping car," said a belle. "How
incongruous and improper it was, for in
stance, to discover that the grumbler in an
upper berth, whose mildest remark in the
course of the long night was, 'It's cursed hot
up here,' was none other than a full fledged
major general. By da f he was a gorgeous
vision of spectacular gallantry, by night a
bowling demon of profanity. But enough
of men, the commonplace creatures; their
ways ore as plain as an opened book, and
their characters as easily read. Let us re
turn to the inexhaustible field for psycho
anthropological resource. The first night in
a sleeper is nothing to the first morning.
"Well do I remember my first experience.
The toilet is accomplished under such har
rowing circumstances. Said a stout young
woman from an adjoining section: 1 have
traveled all the way from San Francisco in
a sleeper, and I've lost the last shred of
modesty.' I believed her when I saw her
sitting on the end of her berth in her corset,
with loosened lacings, drawing on her
boot, -with a lavish display of plumply
filled hosiery, the curtains pushed back, and
men and women passing to and from the
toilet room. It was a needless exposure. The
girl across the aisle, No. 3, emerged from
her closet curtains with not a crinkle In
drapery, boots buttoned, and hair as smooth
as satin to the line where it broke into bil
lows of crirapness over her forehead. How
did she do it? She was in the toilet room
with the first streak of dawn, for I peeped
through my curtains as she passed by In dress
ing sack and skirts, the voluminous drapery
on her arms, and the crimping pins held
by a lovely turban. There was a difference!
She could travel to China aud back without
danger to her modesty." Cor. Albany
Argus.
In some of the great sawmill establish
ments of the west, 6-foot circular saws are
run TOO revolutions to the minute. Run
ning at 730 revolution! to the minute, the
teeth of the 6-foot saw are traveling nearly
three miles a minute. Six-foot saws have
been driven at as high rate of speed as 880
revolutions to the minute. In Michigan, a
few years ago, a Canadian company geared
up its mill to run its 6-foot saw 850 revolu
tions to the minute. A sawmill at Paducah,
Ky., which had a 76-inch saw and steam
feed, cut one day 10,751 feet of l:inch pop
lar boards iu about seventy minutes. In
this trial the saw made no sawdust; each
tooth tore out a strip of wood about one
quarter of on inch long. Michigan sawyers
have boasted of a mill dropping sixteen
1-inch 16-foot boards a minute, but this
seems like an exaggeration. Boston Budget.
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Literary Life.
MEN WHO WORK HARD.
Dissipation of a Delusion Kegardinf the
ttailway Mall Service.
Did you ever notice the United States
Mail wagon en route to the postoffice
from the Northern Pacific train from the
west. If so you liave doubtless observed
a railway postal clerk sitting jauntily
beside the driver and have perhaps en
vied him for his easy work, his opportu
nity to see tlni country and his 1,000 a
year salary. If so, don't be envious
again. No tea men in St. Paul work as
hard or as many hours or begin to know
as they do what it is to be thoroughly
exhausted and "worn out." There are
Lounsberry and Tennis and Yost and
Brown, and they are all numbered among
the most efficient railway mail clerks in
the country, but no man who values his
health and his happin&ss and his free
dom will ever seek "influence" to secure
their official scalps.
The man who would succeed them
must work six montlis tor $b")0 and com
mit to memory every postonice in Min
nesota. Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Wiscon
sin, Wyoming and portions of other
territories and states thousands in num
ber. New otlices are constantly being
added, old ones are being discontinued,
new time tables go into effect and the
lesson is never learned. If you think
you work hard let me tell you of the
work that the above named men do.
After studying night and day for six
months to pa-s an examination they are
ready to take a run. If they go west
Monday they must go to the postoffiee
as early as noon and register ami receipt
for registered letter: and pouches. They
then go to their postal car on the side
track and work four long hours piling in
consecutive order tons and tons of heavy
letter and paper mail. About 4 o'clock
the train starts west and from the mo
ment it leaves the Union depot until it
arrives in Bismarck, Dak., twenty-four
and a half hours after the work is com
menced in the enr, the clerk is on his
feet working with might and main.
There is not a moment to sit down,
sleep or eat, except a hasty cold lunch
from a dinner pail. Mail must be put oft
and taken on at every station night and
day, even where the train does not stop.
The distribution of the mail tires the
mind. The swaying and jolting of the
car tires the legs. The lifting of the
sacks containing tons of paper and pub
lic documents tires every muscle in the
body. The work cannot le neglected.
Sick or well, dead or alive, the work
must be pushed, as a certain amount is
absolutely required to be performed.
Every error is checked and sent to de
partment headquarters at Washington.
Valuable packages must he receipted for
and kept under lock and key. Even
when Bismarck is reached the work is
not complete until the mail is delivered
to Postmaster Slattery, and the regis
tered packages are checked off and re
ceipted for. After twenty-seven hours
of continuous work there are twenty
four hours for rest, and then the same
hard work must be repeated on the re
turn trip. Whenever you see a Northern
Pacific postal clerk on a mail wagon, if
you have an endorsement for presenta
tion to Postmaster General Vilas use it
to kindle a fire with. If you do you will
have future cause to be thankful.
Products of the Congo.
"The products of the Congo, "said Mr.
Stanley, ' 'are very numerous. Of course
there is ivory, and it would be impossi
ble for me to even imagine how many
herds of elephants there are. Let us
suppose a railway to Stanley Pool. I am
quite sure they would get 150 tons of
ivory from the upper Congo alone. Tha t
means 1,000 per ton in value, or 150,
000. Of course that would not pay for
building the railroad, but it would as
sist. The staple products of the country
are rubber, gum copal, camwood, the
orchilla weed, coffee, palm oil, palm
nuts, peanuts and fibres like jute which
can be used for paper. There has never
been a single botanist on the upper Congo
to tell what the botanic treasures are.
Let me say that we don't want colonists.
We want the trader, who goes between
the black man and the commercial man
in Europe; men that go with their cloth
goods among the negroes and barter
them for native products. The Dutch
house which settled at the north of the
Congo paid IT per cent dividend. To
day they pay nothing at all. That, how
ever, does not indicate declining trade.
It proves that these people instead of
combining to build a railway competed
for a trade that was already well estab
lished. It was fierce competition. New
York Times.
Between the Two.
Uncle Billy Latham, an aged colored
man who claims to be able to foretell
the weather for several months ahead,
was asked yesterday as he was wander
ing around the market if it was to be a
hard or a soft winter.
"Am you in de poultry business?" he
queried in return.
"No."
"If you war you'd want stiddy cool
weather, of co'se, so de poultry wouldn't
spile. Am you sellin' umbrellas?"
"No."
"If you war you'd want a soft winter
wif rain 'bout free times a week."
"Well, how will it be?"
"Bein' as you liain't got no 'tickler in
terest in de matter your question am de
clared outer order an' de meetin' am
adjourned," replied the old man as he
moved on. Detroit Free Press.
It is proposed to build a bicycling path
Setween New York and Philadelphia,
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ROUGER1ES OF RACING.
Artful Dodges by Which Some Great
Horses Have Beea Boined.
About half a century ago at New
market several horses who stood lu'gh in
the betting at different times suddenly
went off sick just before tho race for
which they were entered; some died,
others recovered, but all were disabled
for the time being and favorites that a
few hours previously outstripped every
rival would come straggling yards behind
the field. Every one knew they had
been "nobbled," but for a long time the
perpetrator remained undiscovered; at
last, however, a notorious scoundrel,
one Dan Dawson, was caught redhanded
poisoning thn troughs. During the trial
it came out that he had made a regular
trade of these nefarious practices, and it
was more than suspected that not a few
of the biggest men on the turf were his
enployers. But although he was con
demned to death, whether from the hope
that some among Ids influential patrons
would intercede for a reprieve or from
that liatred which certain men of his
class have against "peaclung," he never
betrayed them and remained silent to
the end. The most minute precautions
are taken to guard tho race horse from
such dangers, yet the cunning or daring
of Ins enemies frequently proves more
than a match for the care of his owners.
In 1842 Lanercost wa3 regarded" as the
certain victor for the Ascot cup. While
he was being conveyed to the course in
a van the grooms in charge stopped at
an inn between Leatherhead and Sun
ninghill to refresh, leaving one to keep
watch. Jut after they had gone into
the house two sailors came out of it.
"Hillo," ciied one, "here's Lanercost;
let's have a peep at him;" and he sprang
up on the side of tho van while his com
panion at the same time diverted the at
tention of the man on guard. A mo
ment afterward the first jumped down
again and then the two disappeared into
a copse. It was all done so quickly that
the groom had no time to interpose;
and before he could summon his mates
the men were out of sight. When the
race came on, instead of achieving the
anticipated victory, poor Lanercost came
in last. In the course of the ensuing
month he entirely changed color and
was never fit to run again. There is no
doubt that the pretended sailor liad con
trived to administer some powerful
drug to the animal during the few
seconds he hung over his box.
Somewhere about the same time a
horse named Marcus was the favorite
for the St. Leger. The day before tho
race, while he and some other horses
were standing at the Doncaster Arms, an
ill looking fellow entered tho kitchen of
that tavern and seated himself beside a
boiler from which the stablo lads were
every now and then drawing water for
their charges. There was no one in the
kitchen save a maid servant, whom the
Etranger sent out to bring him a pot of
beer. When she returned the girl was
going to fill her tea kettle from the boiler,
but the fellow stopped her by saying:
"I wouldn't take my tea water from
there, if I was you, it looks so yellow and
greasy."
"All right; I'll get it outside," she an
swered. When she came back the second
time the man was gone.
The next morning two horses were
found dead in their stalls; while Marcus,
who was just able to run. came in last
and also died during the day. Upon
tho bodies being opened arsenic was
found in their stomachs. The girl then
remembered the incident of the loafer,
who had, no doubt, poisoned the water
in the copper; and had she been as stub
born as most of her kind several human
victims would have been added to the
equine list. By the defeat of Marcus the
owner of a horse named Chorister won
7,000. Chambers' Journal.
From Fat and Flat Lombard?.
The fasting match of Succi and Mer
latti is what now amuses Paris. They
both come from the fat aud flat Lombard-,
where the iowerof money to pur
chase creature comforts and theatrical
amusements is perhaps greater than any
where else in Europe. Merlatti is an
artist by profession and has learned to
fast because he wanted to make fasting
an art. He can equally well play the
part of a Tanner or a Gargantua. There
was never perhaps a stomach so endur
ing as his, either of hunger or of indiges
tible food. In the last respect it is well
nigh a match for that of the ostrich. He
explains Elijah's long fast by indigesti
bility of the cake baked on the coals by
the angels. It was a sort of "damper,"
like what Australian miners used to eat
in the gold fever days. Merlatti is strong
in the jaw to a bull dog extent. He lias
those big bones and big muscles which
show out through the thin flesh of his
cheek, and which, with his prominent
cheekbones and bright, small, sharp
eyes, form as queer a physiognomy as is
usually seen. His power to scrunch
walnuts shells and ingest them with
gusto is remarkable. He ate two dozen
walnuts, busies and all, and a large fat
goose, with the bones thereof, on the eve
of lus fasting period. Merlatti has moved
to the Grand hotel because the air in the
rooms where he was in the Rue Tronchett
was poisoned with the crowd that went
to see him. Chicago Herald.
Not a Humorous Subject.
"Are you married or single" asked a
New York judge of a witness in a
divorce suit.
"I'm not married, but my wife is."
"Now, if you get off any more jokes
in tliis court room I'll lock you up for
contempt of court."
"Why, judge, I ain't joking. I was
married and I got a divorce. My wife
married again, but I didn't. I know
when I've got enough, so you see I'm not
married, but my wife is. You don't
catch me joking on any such serious
6ubject as matrimony." Tesas Sif tings.
Could Not Afford It.
Omaha Girl Pa, there is talk of form
ing an archery club in our set. May I
join. Omaha Pa I saw a girl's archery
club practicing the other day and I am
afraid I can't afford to bear my share of
the expense. "Why, bow and arrows
don't cost much." "No; but it takes so
much lumber to build a mark."
JOURNAL,
WITH THE
PRAIRIE FARMER,
Both One Tear 'For
$2
AUTUMN.
Shut-to the lattice: make it fast;
The wiod has turned anstere and cold;
And. borne upon thn funeral blast,
The fin dead tears poor corpse behold.
Last month the laad was nemmed with sheaves.
And clothed in multitudinous green;
J."o-, shivering under waning leaves.
The furrows gape, the forests lean.
Tho year's warm soul, the honest sun.
Is swoonlnjr; mora and more we see
The silent landscape's skeleton.
The woodland's jnhn anatomy.
A GOVERNMENT CLERKSHIP.
It U No Place for a Young Man of Edu
cation and Ambition.
I recently chatted with a bright young
man who holds a second class clerkship
($1,400) in the war department at Washing
ton. He took the placo ten years ao, after
having been graduated with high honors
from one of tho leading New England col
leges, mtenuing to thus supporihimself, while
studying a profession. His salary at that
time seemed large, and he was able to save
quite a nugget each year. Ho studied less
and less, and after a few months gava it up
altogether. Then he married, and instead
of saving anything, it is all he can do to sup
port his family hi a very modest way. Thojo
are his own words:
"A government clerkship is no place for a
young man of education and ambition. Alas I
I did not know that when I started in, but I
know it now to my sorrow. Such v.ork is
well enough for maimed soldiers or for sol
dier's widows and daughters who have to
earn their daily bread; in fact it is a Cod
send to many such. But let strong, hearty,
energatic young men choose almost nny other
line of work. The work is easy and tho
hours ure from 9 to4 only, with a half hour
for lunch; but it is a treacherous routine
and insidiously works upon a man's mental
powers until it saps them all up and he be
comes no better than a machine.
"The government clerkship accomplishes
the destruction of one's mind just as the
galleys used to do of the body. I would
gladly resign this very day, but what would
become of my family I know alisolutely
nothing about any profession or business oc
cupation; aud were I to start in now I would
have to begin at the bottom and work up,
and it would bo several years before I could
earn what Uncle Sam now pays me so regu
larly. Thero ore hundreds of men in Wash
ington similarly situated. Their ambition
is gone, their talents are gone, ami all they
desiro is to hold on to their clerical positions
as a drowning man clings to a rope. I want
to make a desperate effort, even at this late
day, to get into business and be an active
worker; but I see no opportunity, and tho
chances aro that I shall continue to be fed
with government pap to the end of my days
unless I receive tho grand bounce wh-n tome
change occurs in the administration." Cor
New York Graphic.
Stephen A. Douxlait' Name.
Stephen A. Douglas was always careful
to spell his last name with one s. Nothing
angered him more than to receive a letter
containing a superfluous s in the superscrip
tion. Speaking about the Little Giant's
sensitiveness in this particular, Stephen A.
Douglas, Jr., said one day last week: "It
was the double s abomination that one: beat
my father out of a seat in congress. Away
back in 1841 father was running for ou
grcss in a southern Illinois district against
a man named Stewart. The contest was
exciting despite the fact that the district
was Douglas' by a good big majority.
When tho oll closed on election day it was
found tliat the Douglas tickets had been
printed with the single s and tho double s.
"As father spelled his name with but one
s it was held (there being no law to the
contrary) that the ballot3 with the double s
were illegal and should be thrown out.
This was done, aud it was found that Stew
art, tho Whig candidate, had a plurality of
flvo votes. Douglas was urged by his
friends to contest the election, but the de
frauded candidate refused to entertain such
on idea, saying that under no consideration
would he be the beneficiary of so obvious
a fraud. Father returned to his law oiQce
while Stewart went to congress. Two
years later Douglas again received tho
nomination for congress, and in the elec
tion which followed fairly mopped southern
Illinois With his rival. As before, several
ballots bearing the double s were cast for
father, but tho law now consulted the in
tentions of the vote, and every cue was
counted for the man for whom it was
thrown." Chicago Herald.
Tbe Ijttet Thine In Swell.
The dude is dead and with him has de
parted from the manners of the town the era
of vacuous and owlish gravity. He was a
surly, sullen and inert protest against loud
ness and displays; but he's dead and out of
fashion, and men aro hurrying to exploit the
very things he most abhorred. Now the howl
ing swell, with a dash cf the old timo fop. is
in vogue. By day he wears showily embroi
dered silk and satin waistcoats, with over
gaiters, brilliantly hued scarfs, gaudy gloves,
horsey shirts, flowing trousers and clothes
of many shades. At night his shirt front is
figured and frilled; he rports gold buttons on
his waistcoat, satin stripes on his trowsers,
and adds a dash of color to it all by thrust
ing a bright crimson, yellow or bluo hand
kerchief into lus breast. Now has he the man
ners of the solemn apo of a year or more ago.
Ho bobs along at a lively gait and grins
hilarious greetings to his friends. He's cheap
and onerous at times, and hence men feel for
him momentary spasms of dislike; but he's
better than the dude,-for after looking at the
dudo a man was apt to lute himself. Wash
ington Star.
Kecognlxed Her Doe;.
She bod advertised for the return of her
dog, and it was a long haired skyo terrier
a regular valuable thoroughbred. Tho re
ward was to bo ten shillings. A stalwart
Celt came timidly forward and asked If
that was the dog. Being answered affirma
tively and paid the reward, the affection
of the lady, who kissed and hugged her
"poor, dear, "darling little Dandy," at
tracted his attention, and the following
skirmish ensued: "Where did you find the
darling?" "Small comfort would it do you,
madam, did I tell you!" "But tell me,
while I caress tho angeL" "I can't tell you
because you wouldn't like it.'" "But,
dear, darling Dandy was Dandy cold?"
"Shure, madam, I don't know. I saw jour
advertisement in the paper, and I recog
nized him tied to the end of a-long stick,
and a woman a-washin' of winders wid him.
I told her she must shtop a-washin of win
ders wid my dog." Chicago Tribune.
"Jut Like Him."
A young lady mho was sought by two
lovers, who hated each other cordially, said
to one of them one day:
"Oh, Fred, just look at 'this sweet little
puppy that Will has just sent me! Wasn't
he kind?"
"Yes, growled Fred, scowling at the
puppy, "it's just like him!"
OretmcnU ot Cow's Horn.
Who would think that a section of a cow's
horn when polished would make anything
so beautiful in its variegated tints as soma
of the late devices?
2 a year.
ADVRRTISE IN THE JOURNAL.
If you want to ell or buy
suiytblnsrt Ifyou -warn to. lend
or borrow suiytnlnir It you
want s& situation, or lr you
-wrantxtsap.
1 1
The Diamond' Ceaseless Twlakle.
Many people, especially those who
make a habit of noting such things,
have been puzzled to understand why
the diamonds worn in earrings by ladies
nowadays maintain such a ceaseless
quivering motion. It makes no differ
ence tliat the head of the wearer is in
perfect repose or that she is even speech
less and therefore exerting no muscle of
facoor feature. Tho ceaseless twinkle
of the diamond goes on, enhancing
greatly the flashing beauty of the gem.
I was curious enough to try to solve the
mystery of what seemed a very close
approximation to perpetual motion, and
I asked a jeweler the secret. He told
me it lay in the setting of the diamond,
and that the method was a patented
device. The patentee was reaping a
royalty of 50 apiece from every manu
facturing jeweler to whom he sold the
privilege of using it.
The stone is set in the usual manner
except tliat a band like the handle of a
diminutive basket is attached tew the
framework. On the underside of this
band is a cup-like cavity. On the lower
part of the hoop is a projecting pin
pointed with rodium, a metal which
never wears out somewhat like the
iridium with which gold pens ate tipped.
Now, when the diamond is put in posi
tion on the hoop the rodium point pro
jects into the cup. The consequence is
what scientists would call a condition of
unstable equilibrium. Like the pea
blown with a pipe by a schoolboy the
diamond is given no rest, with the differ
ence that no effort is required to keep it
dancing. The metal point never wears
out. The diamond is ever seeking to
balance itself upon the point and never
succeeds. With a microscope I examined
an earring which a lady friend detached
for my benefit. Then I saw at a glance
the ingenious mechanism of the inven
tion. Brooklvu Citizen.
PUtylng Tricks on the Queen.
A post on the royal yacht a happy
episode of two years was held by Hobart
Pasha for a time. He tells in his rem
iniscences how the prince consort
would often good natuiedly smoke his
cigar with the oflicers, and adds:
"Apropos of smoking I cannot refrain
from mentioning a little incident that
hapiiened on board the Victoria and Al
bert that I, for one, shall never forget.
Her gracious majesty never approved of
smoking, and it was only through the
kind consideration of the prince consort
that we were allowed to indulge in an
occasional cigar in the cow house. The
cow house was a little place fitted up for
two pretty, small alderney cows, kept
specially for supplving milk and butter
for the royal table. Her majesty was
very fond of thec animals, and had the
habit of visiting them every day, and the
young princes used (o Ik? held up to look
in at the window, out of which there
was room for the favored cows to stretch
their heads.
One evening we were smoking as
usual, when I espied a pot of blue paint
on the deck of the "cow house, with, as
bad luck would have it. u brush in the
pot. I cannot say what induced me, but
I deliberately took the brush and painted
the tips of the noses and the horns of
both animals a pretty light blue. Hav
ing done this, I thought no more of tho
matter. The next morning her majesty
well, I think I had better say no more
about it. I, the culprit, was denounced,
and had to keep out of the way for a day
or two. Then it was that the good na
tured prince proved himself a friend and
got me out of my scrape. Exchange.
Ked Hot Shot at Fort Sumter.
Beauregard determined to give the
fort a dose of red hot shot.
You never saw cannon shooting red
hot shot, did you, young reader.
A cold cannon ball is bad enough, but
when you see a red hot ball coming it is
time to stand from under.
This is the way they did it.
Into a furnace they droped a solid
shot. Then they charged a cannon with
powder. Down the cannon was rammed
a block of wood. Then a wadding of
wet hempen packing. Then another
block of wood.
The iron shot was glowing with heat.
Looking like a miniature sun as it lay in
the furnace.
A. man stands at the lanyard of the
cannon. All is ready. Two men with
tongs seize the red hot ball and dash it
down the cannon's throat. Quick as a
flash the lanyard is jerked.
Boom.
Whizz.
Away goes the red hot shot and falls
into the fort.
A thin smoke curls upward. It grows
denser and denser as it rises in the air.
Forty rounds of red hot shot thrown
from an 8 inch columbiad at Fort Moul
trie liave done the work; and Sumter is
on fire Atlanta Constitution.
Aroma of Itcd Cedar.
The aroma of red cedar is fatal to
house moths; the aroma of black walnut
leaves is fatal to fleas. It is a matter of
common observation that persons en
gaged in the business of making shingles
from odoriferous cypress timber in
malarial districts are rarely if ever
affected by malarial diseases, and tliat
persons engaged in distilling turpentine
do not suffer from either malarial dis
eases or consumption. It is said that
when cholera was epidemic in Memphis,
Tenn., persons working in livery stables
were entirely exempt from it. It is
affirmed that since the destruction of
the clove trees on the island of Ternate
the colony 1ms suffered from epidemics
unknown before: and in times when
cholera has prevailed in London and
Paris thosja employed in the perfumery
factories have escaped its ravages. Bos
ton Journal of Chemistry.
Hong of the Opposition.
Thiers and Guizot once met on neutral
ground, the latter being prime minister
and the former leader of the opposition.
"But, M. Thiers," said Guizot, in course
of political argument, "you and, your
friends do nothing but criticise us.
What would you do if you were in
power in our places?" "We would sing
the same song you are singing," replied
Thiers; "only we would sing it better."
Chicago Herald.
TBacltlea's Aralcm Salre.
The Beat Salve in the world for
Cots, Braises, Sores, Ulcer?, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all
8kin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or do pay required. It. is guar
anteed to ;lve perfect satisfaction, or
money reloaded. Price 5 cents per
box. Foj Sale by Dowty & Uelt
kcatptr. may!7-ly
FIRST
National Bank!
OF
HAS Ail
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
Aud the largest sFssM 1st Caah Cap
ital of any baas la this part
of the State.
asT Deposits received aad interest paid
oa time deposit.
ETDrafts oa the principal cities la this
couatry aad Europe bought aad sold.
'Collections and all nthr liuln
given prompt and careful attention.
STOCKHOLDERS.
A. ANDERSON, Prejt.
HERMAN P. H. OEHLRICH,
Vice Pres'i.
O.T.ROEN, Cashin.
J. P. BECKER,
HERMAN OEHLRICH,
G. SCHUTTE,
W. A. MCALLISTER.
JONAS WELCH,
JOHN V.JSABLY.
P. ANDERSON,
G.ANDERSON,
ROBERT UHLIO,
CAltt, KEINKE.
Apr2S-'80tf
lUfLES8 CAEDS.
D.T. Martyx, M. D. F.J. Schog, M.D.
Drs. MARTYN 3CHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeon. Union Pacific, O., N.
& B. H. and B. ft M. R. R's.
Consultations in German and English.
Telephones at office and residences.
EsTOfiice on Olive street, next to Brod
feu brer's Jewelry Store..
COLUMBUS,
NEBRASKA.
42-y
OULLIVAI A HEEOEB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office over First National Bank, Colum
bus, Nebraska. 30-lf
W.
M. COKIV1ULIU,
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE.
Upstairs Ernst building ltb street.
c.
. EVAXM, M. .,
PHYSICIAN AND SUJiGEON.
I3r0inee and rooms. Gluck building,
lltb street. Telephone communication.
4y
H
AniLTOl -HKAIVE,n. Ik,
PHYSICIAN AND SUIiGEON,
Platte Center, Nebraska. !-y
J. M. MACFAKLAND, B. K. COWDKKY,
Aitnsi? al HeUr? Fcbl e. Colltsm
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
OF
MACFARX.AND& COWDBRY,
CoIumIhs, : : : Nebraska.
I)
K. J. CHAN. WII..I.Y,
DEUTSCHER ARZT,
Columbus, Nebraska.
tSTOflice 11th Street. Consultations
in Euglibh, French and German. :!'Jniar87
BOWELL IIOIIHt;
PLATTE CENTER, NEB.
Just opened. Special attention given
to commercial men. Has a good sample
room. Sets the best table. Give it a
trial and be convinced. !0-3mo
TOHft EU!DEi,
COUNTY SURVEYOR. .
El'arties desiring surveying done
can address me at Columbus, Neb., or
call at my office iu Court House.
3mayS6-y
ItfOTICE TO TEACUEKS.
W. H. Tedrow, Co Supt.
I will be at my office in the Court House
the third Saturday of each mouth for the
examination of teachers. 30 tf
V. F. RIJrVEK, 31. D,
HOMCEOPATHIST.
Careaio Diseases aad Diseases of
Caildrea a Specialty.
ITOffice on Olive street, three doors
north or First National Bank. '.My
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A TTOJRNEYS AT LAW,
Office up-stairs in Henry's building,
corner ot Olive and llth Sts. W. A. Mc
Allister. Notar Public.
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Collection Attorney .
moons GABLOW,
ATTORNEYSATLAW,
Specialty made of Collections by C.J.
Garlow. 14-m
P 0. KUSCHE,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Harness, Saddles, Collars, "Whips
Blankets, Curry Combs, Brushes, trunks,
valises, buggy tops, cushions, carrisge
trimmings, Ac. at the lowest possible
prices. Repairs promptly attended to.
pA9laBELl A CO.
DSALKBB IN
Ras and Iron !
The highest market price paid for rags
and iron. Store in the Bubach building,
Olive St., Columbus. Neb. 15-ti
A.J.ARN0LD,
DRAI.KR IN
DIAMONDS,
FINE WATCHES,
Clackfs Jewelry
AND
SILVERWARE.
Strict attention given to repairing of
Watches and Jewelry. s7Will not be
undersold by anybody.
MeWATeaae, Oppasito Clotaer Heaee.
F.