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WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN
A Word fur Pork.
In this country, where it is the
cheapest of all meat, roast pork is oft
en a rarely used and despised dish, ex
cept bj- Germans and Irish. In En
glish cities, where pork is the most ex
pensive meat, a loin costing more per
pound than sirloin of beef, where pork
sausages are twenty-two cents to twenty-four
cents a pound, while beef sau
sages (a favorite dish with London
working people) are twelve cents to
sixteen cents, pork is looked upon as
a great treat. It is only because it is
cheap that it is despised? I know
many ljelieve il to be unwholesome; is
not this, too, partly prejudice? There
are some people certainly who cannot
eat pork, but there are also some to
whom veal is almost poison. As to its
wholesomeness, I think we ought to
look at the people who almost live on
it. The English agricultural popula
tion, the Germans, who in their various
sausages eat it in all forms. Where
are there healthier people than those
English -or those Germans? Look at
the children who, from the time they
are weaned, eat daily such fat pork as
would make one shudder to think of;
in English rural districts it is not an
occasional, but a steady diet, day after
day all the year around. At the road
side, sitting on the mossy banks that
flank the liclds they are tilling, niay be
seen laborers with a hunch of bread
and a thick slice of pork or of bacon
on the top of it, solid fat, and a
"thumb piece" (a small piece of bread
that the thumb rests on), while they
cut down through fat and- bread with
their knives. This, with perhaps a
raw onion and a drink of beer, is their
daily dinner year in and year out, but
do you suppose they know anything of
dyspepsia? I don't think many of
them ever heard the word, and -one
look at the ruddy skin, the strong
frames even of their old people will
tell you that Of course the out-door
life makes a difference, but the school
children are the rosiest and chubbiest.
Take at random any group of these
pork fed children and there will not be
a sickly one among them.
When these girls and boys go to
Loudon, as in these days most do, they
take places where there is abundant
fresh meat, fare such as they never
dreamed of, and the one thing they
crave is their country po.rk, not that
pork is not eaten in Loudon, but it is
expensive, and it is not the "pickled"
pork with several inches of fat, they
love so well. In the baskets of coun
try women visiting city friends, is al
vrnys a piece of this pickled pork and
sometimes a piece of bacon is packed
and brought away in a trunk.
To the London working classes,
roat leg or loin of pork stuffed, is the
next luxury to roast goose, and the
working people, if they cannot afford
a goose, take pork and sage and onions
for Christmas dinner as the next best
thing, roast beef or mutton being the
usual Sunday dinner and therefore not
a "treat."
I suppose there are no hardier,
healthier races in the world than the
English and Germans, especially the
country people; both are largely pork
fed.
I should perhaps state that I speak
only from observation. I have no
scientific knowledge on the subject.
Pork takes its place in my family in
change with other meats, and we know
nothing of dyspepsia, which we might
do if Jlie American climate made the
use of pork unadvisable.
Another thing urged against pork is
that the pig is an uncleanly feeder, but
no one says this of that dainty bird the
chicken. Is there any tilth a pig
would eat that a chicken would not?
Do not chickens revel in offal? Can
there be a more uncleanly feeder? If
it is the food of the animal that unfits
it for use, then the chicken must come
under that ban.
1 know people who tell me they nave
never eaten fresh roast pork. If there
are any among my readers who do not
yet know the excellence of roast leg of
pork with the crackling neatly scored
and crisped, stuffed with bread, sage,
and boiled onions, and eaten with
apple sauce, let her buy one, and roast
it till it is brown as a chestnut, and
perhaps she will thank me for persuad
ing her. Perhaps in her house Mrs.
Pojser's "stuffed chine" may come to
hold :i place of honor as a savory joint
to have on hand. Catficrine Owen, in
Good Housekeeping.
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Romance of the Mines.
This is indeed a peculiar world,"
said a mining expert at the Planters'
House yesterday. "Here I pick up the
papers and read of Mrs. Mackay's do
ings in Paris how she receives the
scions of royalty, how she entertains,
how she appears at the opera, how she
dresses, and how she does a thousand
other things; and then I can scarcely
conceive that eighteen years ago she
kept a boarding-house in Virginia City
and that I was one of her boarders.
Yet it is true, a'nd I often ponder over
it. She was a young widow then,
with an interesting child who has
since matured into a young lady and
was recently married to an Italian
Prince of some kind. That little girl
has often sat on my knee with a little
tin can in her hand which contained
the contributions of her admirers. In
those days we lived principally on can
ned food, and Mrs. Mackay's back
yard was paved with tin cans. The
child had selected a very pretty can,
which one of the boarders transformed
into a little bank. This was partly
filled with coin, the result of a tribute
which she levied on her friends. She
would climb on the boarders' knees,
and, shaking her little bank, would
say: Is you lucky to-day?' This
query had the desired effect", and the
bank receipts were increased. Even
in her days of distress Mrs. Mackay
was a good woman. . She personally
superintended affairs and made her
boarders as comfortable as possible. I
was then a superintendent under Fair,
and Mackay was already a millionaire.
Mining stock was the rage then and I
remember often how she would come
to me and some of the other boarders
and ask our advice about certain stocks,
and I am happy to say that the advice
I gave her was good, and if I had
taken it mvself I would now be $5,
000,000 or$6,000,000 better off than
lam.
"Then Mackay took a shine to the
widow, and being reputed one of the
wealthiest men in the camp he found
smooth sailing. He couldn't wiu on
his shape nor his beauty, for everybody
who has seen Mackay knows that he
wouldn't take a prize in a congress of
beauty. They were married, and the
little girl no longer sat on miners'
knees, and 'mamma's' delicate hand
no longer placed cornbeef and cabbage
on miners' plates. They rose faster
than Sheridan stock ' did last summer,
the only difference being that their rise
was backed by hard coin. The great
Comstock lode continued to pour forth
its riches and Mackay and his partner
became immensely wealthy. Although
reared in poor circumstances, Mrs.
Mackay showed her good sense by se
curing a private tutor, by whom she
was drilled and educated for five year.
The little daughter was put through
the same course and fitted to shine in
the most cultured society of the Old
World. Then came the conquests in
New York, San Francisco, and finally
the trips to Europe. A year ago I was
in Paris and one evening attended a
performance at the Grand Opera-House.
It was the first night, and prominent
in a private box were two ladies be
deckixl with diamonds and festooned
with flowers. They were the cynosure
of all eyes and, leveling my glasses, I
discovered behind the silks, flowers,
and diamonds the face of my former
landlady in Virginia City. The out
lines were the same, but time had
wrought its changes. The young lady
with her was the little girl who used
to play on my knee. She had grown
out of my recollection. As I stood
looking at them 'midst the flashing
lights, the incense of flowers, and the
delicious music, I could not help re
calling something of
Some one who breamed hljrh water.
Swam the North Koik and all that.
Just to dunce with old l'olhmsbee'a daughter.
The lily of Poverty Flat."
SI. Louis Republican.
He Met Macaulay.
Not long ago I was talking with an
old gentleman who has for years been
in the iron business as a commission
merchant in a Western city, who.
early in his career, went to England to
make a study of irou manufacture in
conjunction with a visit for pleasure.
"One day," he said, "I went to a
London book store to find a certain
work on metallurgy I could not find in
America, and while there a pleasant
old gentleman came in and began look
ing around pretty much as I was do
ing. We came together presently, and
soon were chatting pleasantly on books
and other matters, and I told him who
I was and what I was seeking. He
told me he knew the work, and, though
it was rare, thought he might find it,
and at once began a search through
the nicks, shelves, and out-of-thc way
corners, and finally came up smiling
from a dark place with the book iu his
hands. I thanked him, and, taking
the volume to the dealer, I ordered it
laid aside, aud at the same time order
ed the late numbers of Macaulay's
works, which were appearing in parts
and some of which I had bought in
America.
"I told my new friend that in my
estimation Macaulay was the greatest
English writer, and that I had read
everything he bad written, as far as I
knew. He smiled pleasantly, and after
a few moments' further conversation
we parted, with the hope of meeting
again. The next morning I left Lon
don for York, and when I had settled
myself iu the compartment assigned
me I found my traveling companion to
bd the old gentleman I had met iu the
book store the day previously. I was
glad to see him and told him I wtts
bound for York, and he said he was
going there, too. This pleased me
and I settled down for a good talk, for
ha was exceedingly eutertainincr ami
thoroughly the gentleman. We made
no stops for some time, and when we
did I noticed a large crowd at the
station.
" 'There must be some distinguished
person aboard the train,' I said, 'and
these people are here to see him.'
" 'Possibly,' he answered, with a
smile like the one he gave me the day
before among the books, and we con
tinued our talk. At the next station
there was a larger crowd, and getting
outside I asked what was going on,
and some one told me Lord Macaulay
was on the train. I went back to re
port to 1113- friend.
" 'Lord Macaulay is on the train,' I
said; 'that's what brings the people
out, and I'd give a good deal to .see
him myself.' He smiled again. 'I'm
Lord Macaulay,' he said, with almost
a schoolgirl blush; and I reached out
with American enthusiasm and shook
hands with him so heartily and earnest
ly that he laughed till tears ran down
his cheeks.
"When we reached York he invited
me to dine with him, and at the dinner
he extended further invitation for me
to visit his home and his family, and I
did it, aud to this day Macaulay is one
of my brightest and pleasautcst memo
ries." Dramatic Times.
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Odd Antics of Birds.
A relative of mine had a large marsh
upon his estate, and here the great
cranes made their summer home,
building their curious nests there
and rearing their young, says Prof.
Holder in the San Francisco CalL The
marsh was surrounded by high grass,
and it was his practice to creep through
aud watch the birds unobserved. The
antics they went through it would be
impossible to describe now they would
caper along in pairs, stepping daintily
with the winning gait of the ideal ex
quisite, lifting their feathers or wings,
taking short steps, and gradually
working themselves up to a bird
frenzy of excitement, when they would
leap into the air and over each other's
backs, taking slusrt runs this way and
that, all for the oiification of the fe
males standing by, and finally, after a
series of these exhibitions, the differ
ent birds selected their mates. Among
the birds of the western hemisphere the
cock of the rock ranks next to the
crane in the strangeness of its" evolu
tions. The bird is confined to South
America, aud is about the size of a
small pigeon; has a bright orange web in
the male, with a plume-like arrange
ment upon the head. It is a proud
bird, principally building its nest in
rocky places not frequented by man.
At the commencement of the 'breeding
season a party of birds, numbering
from ten to twenty, assemble, and se
lecting a clear space among the rocks
form a ring or circle, facing inward.
Now a small bird takes its place in the
center and begins to hop about, toss its
head, lift its wings, and go through all I
h strange movements possible, that
appear to be watched with great in
terest by the rest. When the per
former is thoroughly exhausted he re
tires to the circle and another bird en
ters the ring, and so on, until all have
been put through their paces, when
the pairs probably make their selection.
Often the birds are so exhausted after
the dances that they cau hardly fly, ly
ing panting on the rocks.
Near the borders of southern Cali
fornia is found a bird, called the
sunate, that has a strange courtship.
It is about the size of a magpie. Dur
ing the mating season four or five
birds collect together and seem to vie
with each other in the extravagance of
their posturing wooing now in rows,
now single, in a regular dance, and,
by the way of music, uttering loud,
discordant squawks. Their long tails
are lifted high in the air during this
performance, and their entire behavior
is remarkable in the extreme.
A Curious Gas Well.
"There are many curious phenomena
ever present at the natural gsis wells
in this vicinity," said the owner of
several wells, "but I have never seen
any that struck me as being so pecu
liar as those that were witnessed a few
jjears ago at a well iu the Canada oil
field at Sarnia. The well was being
drilled for oil, and at the depth of COO
feet a great volume of gas was found.
The gas was accidentally set on tire as it
rushed from the well. A fountain of
flame more than fifty feet high was the
result That in itself whs a wonderful
phenomenon for that district then, but
is as common as "water hydrants in
this region.
"The peculiarity of the well was that
ever)' fifteen minutes, as regular as a
clock could mark the time, a stream of
water three inches in diameter spouted
from the depths and mingled with the
burning gas. The force of the water
carried the flames up more than a hun
dred feet, and separated them in sprays
and showers of fire. The chemical
composition of the water was such that
there were certain inflammable quali
ties in it, and these would make bright
ly colored lights to mingle with the
dull flame of the gas itself, creating a
natural pyrotechnical display that I
never saw equalled artificially. Streaks
of bright yellow, globes of purple, and
fantastic shapes in red. pink, and blue
leaped and danced and whirled about
in mat, warring mass 01 lire in a man
ner that was enchanting. The eruption
of water lasted exactly three minutes,
when'it would cease, and the flame of
the gas would resume its normal con
dition. While the water was mingled
with the flame a strong smell of sul
phur pervaded the air.
"A strange thing connected with the
burning well was the way birds of all
kinds were attracted to ft during the
time the water was spouting. They
would circle about the pillar of lire"
uttering their different cries, and acting
as if they were frantic. Frequently
the flames would catch some unfortu
nate bird in its flight, aud it would fall
either dead or dying to the ground.
This fire had such an effect on many
kinds of birds that they would light in
the midst of spectators, and suffer
themselves to be caught. The owner
of the well tried every means then
known to extinguish the burning gas,
but all to no purpose. It burned with
out any show of ever giving out for
two years, and then went out one day
almost as suddenly as it had appeared."
Washington (Pa.) Letter.
A Spanish Execution.
The condemned man mechanically
yielded himself up to the executioner.
The latter made him sit down at the
foot of the post with his back to it,
and then tied his hands aud feet hard
and fast. He did all this without hurry
ing himself in the least, and with all
that dignified indifference which char
acterizes the Spanish functionary in the
discharge of his duty. If the prepara
tions had lasted even a few seconds
longer, I believe I should have lost
my own self-control. I could hear my
heart thumping in my breast, -and
every moment or two something like a
veil came before my eyes. You could
not here even a whisper in the crowd.
While one of the priests pressed a cru
cifix to the colorless lips of the suffer
er, another was murmuring words of
consolation and hope into his car. But
the wretched man was not listening.
His expressionless face had a waxen
pallor, and his eyes, as they wandered
over the ocean of faces before him, al
ready seemed dim with the dimness of
death. He started considerably when
the executioner placed the iron collar
about his neck, and I observed his
mouth contract. Then, however, a
white covering thrown over his feat
ures hid them from further . observa
tion. The executioner then gave two
or three turns of the screw connected
with the instrument of death." The
bones of the neck cracked, a long
trembling ran through the whole body;
the arms twisted outward, the legs in
ward. Alvarex Oliva was dead.
The priests took off their square caps
as if to salute the soul passing by; and
the executioner removed the covering
that concealed the dead man's face.
The face which had been so pallid a
moment before was now purple. The
tumified tongue protruded from the
mouth and the bloody eyes had spurted
out of their sockets. The head had
fallen slightly toward the right shoul
der, and the black miter with a white
cross that had been placed upon it
seemed about to fall off. The crowd
ebbed away silently, evidently much
affected, while two gendarmes with
rifles mounted guard at the foot of the
scaffold where the corpse was to remain
until evening when the corporation of
female public mourners would escort it
to the cemetery of executed criminals,
with long piercing cries of lamenta
tion like the yu! yu! yu! of Arab wo
men. Madrid Letter.
A Maine woodsman saw a rabbit on
the ice, and it did not run away as he
drew near. It had hopied into a shal
low puddle of water and had stood still
till its feet were firmly frozen to the
ice.
Dolphus Dat am a fine turkey yo'
got. Rastus. Am it. dry picked? Ras
tus No, Dolphus, hit wah raiuiu'
wery hard when I picked dat bird.
New York Sun.
Why is a man who keeps his eyes shnt
like an illiterate schoolmaster? Because
keeps bis pupils in darkness.
MISSING LIXKS.
A Popular Science Hfonthlg i writer
says monkeys have conversation.
It is again reported that Mrs. Lang
try will marry her devoted admirer in
June next.
There are 408 members of Congress,
but only 283 are connected with
churches.
Queen Victoria is the oldest reigning
sovereign iu Europe excepting Em
feror William.
The late Helen Hunt Jackson left
an estate worth $12,G42, almost all o!
which she made by her pen.
Miss Edith Chester and Mrs. Blanche
Horlock, actresses, are the reigning
professional beauties in London.
John Ruskin rises to remark wrath
fully that civilization is putting its best
iron into "iron-clads aud stink-pots."
The oldest brass band in this coun
try is the one at Barnstead, N. H. It
ill. shortly celebrate its fiftieth anni
versary. Montana lacks one qualification of a
state. She has no big debt. On the
contrary, she has a neat sum in her
treasury.
Senator-elect Reagan is now living
with his third wife, and intrusts to her
supervision his not very profitable
Texas farm.
Jay Gould is said to be writing a
book on the railway question, which
will doubtless conceal what its author
knows on the Mibjeet to be treated.
William F. Cody, otherwise known
as "Buffalo Bill," never drinks airy
thing stronger than lemonade, because,
fire-waters do not agree with him, he
says.
William K. Vanderbilt will hereafter
spend most of his time in Europe. His
new private yacht, the Alva, which
cost $1,000,000, will &0011 be ready for
use.
George R. Sims, the EugliMi play
wright and story-writer, has received
nearly $100,000 from his plays pro
duced in the United States during the
past live years.
Congressman Buck, of Connecticut,
has received a letter from a female
constituent asking him for all the
details of the fisheries question, as she
is "interested m botany."
An Indian called upon the editor of
the Crescent City (Cal.) Record a few
days ago and threatened to scalp him
for publi.-hing his name in the paper
for getting drunk and raising a row.
Jim Feathorsfonaiigh, of Big Tom
Canon, N. M., says he can whip any
man in America." He will make ail
Eastern trip in the summer, as he says,
to "shove his fist under Sullivan's
nose."
Charles Heyne, a poor umbrella
mender, of Pittsburg, Pa., who is now
dyiug of consumption, served as a sol
dier in three great wars the American
civil war, the Austro-Prussiau, and the
German conflicts.
ouraii Deruuarut, wuose purse 13
always as slim as her form, has re
ceived from her numerous engagements
since May last nearly 1,800,000 francs.
What becomes of her money she is un
able to tell herself.
Ex-Governor Bate, who is to repre
sent Tennessee in the Senate, was at
Bull Run, was dangerously wounded
at Shiloh, had three horses killed under
him at Chickamauga and was again
wounded, aud is now a poor man.
The biggest fool in the world, ac
cording to Sam Jones, is the female
who marries a man who.c breath smells
of whisky. The revivalist won much
applause by making that assertion in
one of his talks to a Boston audience.
Mrs. John F. Cleveland, the sister of
Horace Greeley, and her daughter have
been in srreat want durinir the winter,
the property left them having melted
away. They have both been quite ill,
and their friends were obliged to assist
them.
Metz is perhaps the most agitated of
all the cities on the continent. Her
young men, faithful to France and
fearful of being drafted into a fight
igainst her, are moving away, and
whole families hold themselves in
readiness to start at any time.
Senator Jones of Nevada has struck
no such rich streaks of luck as lately
represented. He has had no great
stroke of fortune. He has done well
in business, but has had nothing like
the success which the numerous para
graphs printed have attributed to him.
Frederick Anierling, the celebrated
Austrian painter, died recently in his
eighty-sixth year. Among his greater
works are "Dido Abandoned by
JEneas" and "Moses in the Desert."
Anierling was four times married and
his youngest child is but twelve years
old.
Miss Anna T. Howard, following the
suggestion of- her father, Charles T.
Howard of New Orleans, will begin in
the spring the construction of a free
public library as a memorial of him.
The building will cost $50,000, and
have a capacity of 100,000 volumes.
The library will be under the charge of
the Tulane University.
Senator Hearst's objection to the
marriage of his son to Miss Calhoun,
it is said, arises from no nonsensical
pride of wealth, but from a feeling that
"the disparity in age and experience
between the parties makes the union
undesirable" iu other words, the lady
is too old for the young man.
Ex-Senator William H. Baraum, of
Connecticut, is very active for a man
of his years. He is a frequent visitor
to New York, and travels about the
country a great deal. Mr. Barnum
says that he is personally out of poli
tics; that he has retired from the stage
to a front seat in the orchestra.
Samuel Murlitt, who died the other
day in England, was 6 feet 1 inch tall,
weighed 500 pounds, measured 100
inches around the waist and 20 inches
around the calf of the leg. No hearse
could be found big enough to cany
his body, and it took twenty mpn to
get the coffin through the window to an
open wagon.
The Emperor William's favorite dish
is the Russian batwinia, a cold fish
soup, in which beer, cider, rancid her
rings, and salt cucumbers are ingre
dients. The emperor is also fond of veal
stewed with cloves and cinnamon, and
of pork stewed with nutmeg and marsh
mallow, while a frequent sweet is a
large sponge cake well steeped in rum.
Secretary Whitney recently .had the
Marine baud to play at his house and
afterward gave it luncheon. When he
invited them to the table he asked their
nationalities, and said, "I have ho"
and hominy for the Americans, niac:T
roni for the Italians, and sauerkraut
for the Germans." Then he ordered
out terrapin and champagne for them
all.
A number of Boston capitalists are
building a railway car of steel. Instead
of forming their car by the current
square-box pattern they will use. as far
as possible, a curved design. Hot-air
pipes will heat the car, and a compress
ible platform will render telcscopiug
an impossibility. The general adoption
of such a car would be a most desirable
result
One of the shortest bills, if not the
shortest, ever introduced into any
legislature is that recently presented
by Mr. Glover, of Maine, "which read:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives iu Legisla
ture assembled, as follows: Section 1.
The dog is hereby declared to be a
domestic animal. Section 2. This act
shall take effect when approved."
m 1
The Use of Words.
A Canadian says that the word "to
boggan" should" be pronounced with
the second o long, as in open.
Citizens of Depere, Wis., are about
to take a vote to determine whether the
name of their city shall be spelled with
a small or with a capital P.
A student of Indian tongues declares
that the word "Chicago" was used by
the Pottawatomie Indians long ago to
designate a place where wild onions
abounded literally, an.onion patch. -
The word "polyg" is in constant me
among the people in Utah in conversa
tion and in print to designate a Mor
mon. "Cohab" is applied to a person
convicted of unlawful cohabitation and
less frequently to a person of improper
habits.
The verb "to jounce" and the sul)
stantive, "jouueer," are becoming cur
rent in certain society circles as terms
by which to denote respectivelv "mash"
and "masher." The idea involved is
that of the reduction of the victim to
the condition of jolting helplessness
typified by the jellyfish.
The term "pigeon English," used to
designate the lingua franca which
passes current between English-speak
ing people and tlie Chinese, is said to
be a corruption of "business English,"
the word "pigeon" being the nearest
approach that a Chinaman can make to
the pronunciation of the English Avoid
"business."
Miss Fortescue, the actress, told a
Chicago reporter the other day that the
adjective "elegant" is never used in
London in cultivated conversation.
"Over here it is rightly, and, I notice,
frequently used," said she; "but in En
gland we use it but for one thing in the
whole world, and what do you think
that is? In advertisements of flats,
elegant new flats to let,' you know."
It is the proper thing iu St. Paul and
luiuucupuiia now 10 can a tiuue 01 a
certain class a "fade." To come strict
ly under this designation a dude must
not be too old nor too stout, and his
most prominent characteristics must be
a melancholy mien and a habit of pro
found silence where speech is not abso
lutely necessary. He should smile on
ly rarely, and in taking leave of a per
son should vatiish gently as if fading
away,
Dead Faces in Hat tie.
When we got into the Brock road in-
trenchments a man a few tiles to my
left dropped dead, shot jut above the
right eye. He did not groan, or sigh,
or make the slightest physical move
ment, except that the chest heaved a
few times. The light went out of his
face instantly, leaving it without a
particle of expression. " It was plastic,
and, as the facial muscles contracted,
it took many shapes. When the man's
body became cold, and his face hard
ened, it was horribly distorted, as
though he had .differed" intensely. Any
person who had not seen him killed
would have said that he had endured
extreme agony before death released
him. A few minutes after he fell,
another man, a little farther to the left,
fell with apparently a precisely similar
wound. He was straightened out and
lived for over an hour. He did not
speak. Simply lay on his back, and
his broad chest rose and fell, slowly at
first, and then faster and faster, and
more and more feebly until he was
dead. And his face hardened, and it
was almost terrifying in its painful
distortion. I have seen dead soldiers'
faces which were wreathed in smiles;
and heard their comrades say that they
had died happy. I do not believe that
the face of a dead soldier, lying on a
battlefield, ever truthfully " imiicated
the mental or physical anguish or
peacefulncss of mind which he suffer
ed or enjoyed before his death. The
face is plastic after death, and as the
facial muscles cool and contract they
draw the face into many shapes.
Sometimes the dead smile, again they
stare with glassy eyes and lolling
tongue and dreadfully distorted visages
at you. It goes for nothing! One
death was as painless as the other.
Jtccollections of a Private.
First Lesson iu Painting.
A celebrated miniature painter who
was unusually hard up sometimes con
sented to take a pupil to help inllatc
the cash account, though much against
his inclinations. A wealthy gentleman
called at the studio one day and be'"ed
the'artist to take his son, a young man
of 1G, as a pupil, promising to pay him
handsomely for the instruction. " The
boy was admitted for the sake of the
money it would bring, but, much to
the painter's disgust, it was discovered
that he knew absolutely nothing of the
first principles of drawing. The youn"
man sat around for half an hour the
first morning, watching the master at
work, much to the latter's annoyance,
and finally ventured to ask that he be
given something to do.
All right! all right!" the artist re
plied, goinj to a closet and returning
with a pair of muddy boots and a
blacking brush. "Here, black these
boots, young man, it will give you
breadth." Boston Record. '
The new city clerk has erected the
following sign: "Lady applicants for
positions will please weep in the ante
room, as the cleric suffers greatly frpta
dany tL"San Francisco CalL
Washington' Whispering Stones.
Among the first curiosities shown
the visitors to the capitol are the whis
pering stones in the Statuary Hall,
which used to be the old House of
Representatives. There are several
sets of these stones, and a person
standing on one can hear a second per
son whisper, if that person is on the
corresponding stone on the other side
of the hall. One of the most curious
of these stones is the long distance one.
The stone, is near the north door of the
hall, which the person who talks must
stand on the threshold of the doorway
of the south entrance, some twenty feet
away. Any one standing on the stone
near the north door can hear the
familiar whispers uttered on the door- '
steps of the south door. The other day
a bride and .groom were among the
visitors. They were from New York,
and one of the groom's friends was
showing them around. Of course, he
was explaining the whispering stones
to them. The bride was on the north
stone and the friend stood upon the
steps of the south door. He was whis
pering to her several little things of
interest about the hall. She hail her
back toward him. A page from the
house came along ami got interested in
the conversation. Suddenly he thought
he, too, would talk to the bride, and
when the friend stopped for an instant,
the page said:
"Say, old girl, how old are vou, any
how?" As quick as lightning, the bride hop
ped off the whispering stone. Her face
was crimson with blushes, aud she took
her husband's arm and walked off.
The friend had heard the page's re
mark, and saw its result, but before he
could grab the boy. the naughty page
had fled. He followed his friend and
his young bride, and tried his best to
explain matters, but somehow the bride
doubted his story. Baltimore Ameri
can. PcculiariticH of ltcagan.
Representative Reagan is now near
ly 0 years of age, but he looks at least
ten years younger. The gray has not
yet crept into his short black "hair, and
his round, dark face is unseamed with
wrinkles. He walks about briskly,
rides to and from 'the capitol in the
street cars, and is as approachable as
any public man in Washington. He is
of medium height, rotund fu form, and
weighs, I should judge, over 200
pounds. He wears a black slouch hat
and clothes of rough goods, which are
made with little apparent care :is to
their style and cut. His face is al
ways smoothly shaven, and it reminds
you of the colonial statesmen whom
you see in the picture of the signing of
the Declaration of Independence in'the
rotunda of the capitol. He has black
eyes, a fat nose, and a rather heavy
jaw. He talks iu si guttural tone with
out gesture, and he is not an attractive
speaker. He is very earnest iu his
speeches, however, and does not often
talk buncombe. When he speaks he is
never at ease unless he has a striny in
his hand, and he keeps pulling this
through his fingers as he talks. His
favorite position, when listening to a
discussion iu the House, is sitting back
in his chair with a piece of whittTletter
paper iu his hand-,. This he folds up
carefully, aud with his jack-knife cuts
through the folds. The two piece-, of
paper he now lays together, fold's
them, and cuts them iu pieces. He
reduces these pieces still smaller in
the same way. ami when he has used
up one piece ot paper lie takes another.
So he goes on for hours at a time,
until his de-k is littered with scraps of
paper. Cleveland Leader.
On Her Dignity.
The wives of the justices' of the su
preme court have more of the feelino
of a home and permanence in Wash
ington than any of the other ladies of
official circles. Some of them have
moved iu society here for more than
twenty years, and they are supposed
to be well-known everywhere. One of
them in calling the other day fell into
the hands of a voluble assistant, who
poured upon her a steady stream of
machine conversation. The assistant,
after rattling along for a while, said to
the justice s wife:
"Have you been here long? Is this
your first visit to Washington? Don't
you like it?" v
"I have been here twenty "
Oh! then you're a resident, and
how much you must enjoy living here,
and how nice it must be for you to see
all the high ollicials and handsome
houses; and of course you go to tho
white house on Saturday afternoons?"
The justice's wife was fast redden
ing under this stream of misapprehen
sions, but after the glib assistant had
asked if her husband was in business
here the justice's wife sat down her
teacup emphatically and said:
"My husband has been justice of the
supreme court for twenty-five years!"
Cor. N. Y. Herald.
The ice gathered in many New Jer
sey ponds has been found of late to be
filled with small particles resembling
little worms, which have come to be
called icc-wonns. A gentleman near
Dover, who found the ice in his pond
affected iu this way, made an investi
gation. He says the pond was filled
with little wrigglers, ami these were
shedding their skins. These skins
floated to the surface and adhered to
the bottom of the ice, and, as if frozen
from the bottom, filled it with what
looked like great numbers of little
worms. He has noticed that ponds
plentifully stocked with fish arc fres
from the rijrjrlers.
A German chemist has invented a
new kind of amesthetie bullet, which
he urges will, if brought into general
use, greatly diminish the honors of
war. The bullet is of a brittle sub
stance, breaking directly when it comes
iu contact with the object sit which it
is aimed. It contains a powerful an
aesthetic, producing instantaneously a
complete insensibility, lasting for
twelve hours, which, except that the
action of the heart continues, is not to
be distinguished from death. While
in this condition, the German chemist
points out,, the bodies may be packed
in ambulance wagons and carried off
as prisoners.
The board of tradsat Chattanooga,
Tenn., has decided to do Terythiag ia
ito power to JMoaracs tho buildiag of
ihswwh taotasss
TBI FIRST
National Sank!
-OY-
COLUMBU8. NEB,
-HAS AN-
nd the iariceot Paid la Cask Capital of
any bank in this part of the State.
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
CBDeiHXtita rtt'bittl and interest iaid on,
tiiuedepoit.
CrDraftti on the principal citiea iu thineoun
trjr and Europe bought and sold.
Collections and all other buaineita tfiven
prompt and careful attention.
MTOCKHOLDEIIS.
ANDEltSON. PiWt.
A.
HKKMAN 1 H.OKHLKICH.
Vice l'rew't.
O.T.KOEN.CaMhier.
J. P. HEOKEH, HKKMAN OKIILKICH.
li.SCHUTTK, W. A. MoALUSTKK.
."'XtS'111 JOHN W. EAKLY.
P.ANDEHSON. O. ANDKKSON.
1MJHEIIT UHLJG. I'AKL KEINKE.
Apr-JS-'SCtf
justness gnrds.
D. T. M MiTYN. 51. D. F. J. Soiiuo. M. D.
Drs. KABTYH & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local SuriMtuiH. Union Pacific. O.. N. &
U. II. ami H. X M. K. KV.
Connultntion iu German and EngliM!. Teltw
plionef at oiKre and ret. idencett.
tOfKc on OHp tttrti-r. next to Drodfueh
rer Jewelry Store.
COLUMHUS.
NEBRASKA,
t'iy
TJA.Mll,TO MDAUi; 91. .,
I'llYSICTAX AXI svkgkoa;
Platte. (Yut-r, Nebnutkn. Ity
Z..1IJ- .tlAD COLLECTION OFFICE.
Uphtiiirti Ernht building, 11th street.
OII.I.IVA & RKEUKK,
-1 TTORXE 1 'S A T LA J 1 ',
OHk-e er
Nebraska.
First National
Hauk, (oltimbni,
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C.
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I'HYXlflA.X AXU SL'HCEOX.
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Mreet. Telephone eoniiminicMlon. 1-y
11 fcAI.I.IM'l'KK ItttOM.,
ATTORKE S AT LA 11',
Office niwhtaim
Olite and Uth
tury Public.
iu lienrj Luildmir. corner of
Henr:
Htrtitx. V. A. McAllister, Nt-
COUXTY SURl'KYOH.
SPrtie8 desirinK surveying done can ml
dtt bH meat Columbus, Neb., or call at my otlico
in Court House. SmajWl-j
XT TICK TO TKAC'IIKKN.
W. H. Tedrow, Co Supt.
I will be at mj orhce in tlieCouit ITonnotht
ttnril biiturday or etich month lor the examina
tion of teuihert,. IftMf
T-K. J. CHAM. UHJ.l,
DEUTSCHER ARZT.
Columbus, Nebraska.
3T Office llth Stnet. Consultation. in En
Klish. trench and German. i.'mnrnV
JOHNG. JUGGINS.
C. J. GAltLOW,
Collection Attorney.
HIGGINS & GABLOW,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty made of Collections by C. J.
Gnrlow.
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Chroaie Diseases and Diseases of
Children a Speeialtr.
B' Office on Oliw-stnet, three door north of
rirst National hank. 2-ly
P H.KUNCHK,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sell Ilarut-fi, Siidilli h. Collars, Whips. Blankets
( urry (Vnibs. Iinislns. trunks ulifes, buk-y
Nips, cushions, ci.rrii.ne tnu.11.1ukb. ,U, at the
.owtst pctsible pricis. Ktpahs pri.niptK at
t mlt d to.
T M. nlCFARI,A.,
ATTOKNKY AND NOTAKY PUW.IC.
LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE
or-
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Columbus. Nebraska.
'E.CBOYD,
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Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware !
Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter
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