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JS?Will nxvitc timu deiKwits, from $1.00 and any amount upward, iimi will iny tho cub tonmry nttu of interest. n fcVe particularly draw yonr attention to our facilitit-i for making liwun on real PHUito, nt lilt) loUOht ntt of interest. ) tSTitjr, School and County Bonds, nnil in dividuHl w-curitiim tiro bought, nyune'fifly FOR TUB CALL ON A. & M.TURNER Or . W. Itllll.KK, Travellac: MalrMntna. tyTlittMi organs nrn fimt-cbu in nvory ir ticular, and m guaranteed. SCHAFFROTH i PLITH, -llKALERS IN - WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Panps Repaired on short notiee 30no door went of Heintz's Drug Store, 11th treet, Columbus, Neb. 17novt-tf HENRY G-ASS. UNDEETAKER ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DKALKR IJ Farnlture. Chairs, Bedsteads, Bu- raana, Tablea, Safes. Lounges, Ac. Picture Frames and Mouldings. tWKepairing of all kinds of Uphol der Goods. S-tf COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. PATENTS CiYEATS, TK1DE MAKES ASD CBPYIIGHTS Obtained, and all other business in the U. 8. Patent Office attended to for MODERATE Onr offiw is opimoito the U. 8. Patent Office, and we can obtain Patent in less time than those remote from WASHINGTON. Band MODEL OR DRAWING. We advise as topaUmtability frw of charge; and make NO CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT. We refer hem to the Postmaster, the 8upt of Mosey Order Div.. and to officials of the U. 8. Patent Office. For circulars, advice, terms and references to actual clients in toot own State or county, write to Opposite Patent OOoe, WashingfoaTDrC. WESTERN COTTAGE OBGAN jsaMB. . wasV COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL. Oration and Essay of the Graduates, May 517th, 1887. OUK PLACE IS LIFE, BY NELLIE LYNCH. That which wo do in this life is what lives and acts after us. Every one leaves lehind him influences for good or evil that will never exhaust themselves. The sphere in which one acts may bo small, or it may bo groat, it may bo their fire side, or it niay be a kingdom; a village, or a great- nation; ho is continually in fluencing those around him, for a blank no ono wants to be. It is said that the grave buries the dead dust, but tho character walks the earth, distributing itself, in good or evil, among the families of mankind. We can see that Mohamet still lives in his practical aud disastrous influence in tho east. Tho glory of Napoleon still exists in France. Tho statesman from his cabinet, the soldier in the field, who all have pasnod away, still live in tho prac tical deeds they did, and in tho powerful lessons thoy left behind them. Each had a particular branch in which they were most successful and m which they won their laurels. Each one oc cupied a separate place and did not at tempt the work of those iu a different station. So with us all; we must find our place and oecilpy that place only, and not try to do what is properly tho work of some one in another position. If a person is a statesman and his speeches are received with rounds of applause, it does not follow that if he wrote pootry, his verses would be very widely read; or if u commander in chief of an army were to dictate to a phil osopher, it seems doubtful that much attention wonld be paid to whut he said, for e-ery one has his own place and the wisest plan is to stay there. In finding our place every one is likely to have his upa and downs, some of them many times before they gain a foothold. They have started wrong, and so will thousands to come jierhaps, but to start again and keep moving, is tho surest way of success. Our aspirations must not le too high. Everyone cannot be an Aloxanderor a Franklin. If we allow our ambitions to rise beyond our reach, wo will keenly experience the truth of the old adage' that "Pride comes lioforo a fall." Still there aro some who novor forget the dream of their youth, boys especially, and wander away to some foreign country looking for the place they were never intended to fill, following the de lusion that their fortune and happiness is always in some far-off country, where there is an exalted position waiting for them; where their powors will have perfect freedom, and where they can make a very bright record. If they keep on, they find in tho end they have been pursuing a phantom, regardless of the truth that one's vocation is never some far-off possibility, but is always tho round of duties the passing hour brings. No day would be commonplace, if they only had oyes to see its splendor. The trials of life are for the most part hard to meet; success and defeat follow each other in quick succession requiring all our ability to overcome difficulties. So we must not be lulled to sleep by tho flatterer, who no doubt means no harm; ho simply says things to please us, thinking it will mako our task lighter, but while he is detaining us, others pass on and take tho prizo we wore striving for. Before one finds his true position iu life while he is striving for eminence, it is necessary that he should have some companions. Next to himself there is no one who will be such a true friend and guide as Knowledge, for she alono shows us the way we aro to go, and leads us not only to happiness but to honor, for "Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left is riches and honor." Knowledge is the means of raising the most obscure to esteem and attention; it opens to the just ambitions of youth some of the most distinguished situa tions, and when we have reached those places, it is with the reflection that it is to our own industry and ability alone that we are indebted for them. Then search where you will you will not find a more agreeable person than yourself, if proper attention is given to the individual. Yourself will go whoro- ever you please, como away when you like- approve your, proposition, 8iid in short be a very agreeable person, if you only practice the true art of being on good terms with yourself. Then, when you have found a good place, no one will so heartily and sin cerely congratulate you, and take such an active part in all your plans and prospects as yourself. Whatever sphere we intend to occupy, whether it is our intention to mix with the excitement of the world or mingle in the quiet affairs of domestic life, let us begin at once and "whatever our hands find to do, do it with all our might," re collecting that now is the proper and accepted time, and if wo were to live till the age of Methuselah we would never err. By managing the present well, we will soon find the place we aro to occupy in this life, that will radiate around us life and power. For looking back upon tho lives of great men who have occupied before us positions in every place of honor, we find there are laurels which can be gained without a crime, and which shed lustre upon tho humblest head. Evictions at Bodyke, Ireland, con tinue with desperate attempts on the part of somo of the tenants to withstand them. In some instances the bailiffs were personally attacked and serious consequences would have followed had not the troops threatened to fire on them. A meeting was held after th threatened riot at which Michael Davitt resist eviction by every means, and defy I the ffomrnmAnt. I Caajcbt by a Big Sqaid. "We were lying about half a mile off the beach at the Barbados, overhaul ing the standing rigging." said James Gillls, able seaman, to a New York Sun reporter, -"when the mate ordered John Webb, an apprentice boy, and myself into the yawl, which had been covered and brought around to the port side, that some painting might be done just abaft the mainmast It was a terribly hot day, with the water very warm and the men having little energy. The paint was lowered down to us, and while I used the brush the boy held the yawl in position. We haa been at work for about a quarter of an hour when the boy suddenly yelled out in affright, and as I turned to him he de clared that he had seen a horribie-look-ing object pass under the boat, and so under the ship. There are plenty of strange creatures floating about in those waters, and a patch of seaweed will sometimes assume a queer shape. I laughed at the boy's fears, but at the same time saw how pale and frightened he looked. "I began to work again, and had been at it only three or four minutes when the yawl heaved away from the ship two or three feet; and at the same instant the boy screamed out again. His voice had scarcely reached my ears when something flashed before my eyes, something caught my arm and Kulled it down and pinned it fast to my ody, and in five seconds more I knew what had happened. A devil Gsh had flung one of his arms about me. Webb was screaming at the top of his voice, and as I got a look at him 1 saw that two of the beast's feelers were clutching him. The arm or feeler which had reached mo pinned my arm 'to my side as if in a vise, making a clean wrap around my body, and the extreme end of tho feeler crept up along my neck and face. Talk of pain; 1 never felt anything like it. The teeth of a bull dog couldn't have hurt worse. It wa a burning, biting, blistering sensation, as if a live coal bad been laid on the flesh. I added my yells to those of Webb, but before any one came to the rail I was jerked to my knees in the boat and saw that the creature's object was to pull me overboard. I heard the boy go down and thrash about, and then three of the men came to our as sistance. "The devil fish had outwitted himself. He had gone under the ship and fasten ed to her bottom or keel, and as soon as he began pulling on us he of course pulled the yawl close against the ship' side. That closed the gap. and he could not pull us overboard, although I think he would have upset the yawl, fox we were both down on her starboard side and she was almost on her beam end when the men jumped down. They began to cut and slash and hack with their knives, and after two or three minutes they had us free not of th arms, but of the creature. We were hoisted on board howling and groan ing, with the feelers still biting, and they had to be cut from us almost by inches. Webb got it far worse than J did, as he wore a thin cotton shirt and was barefooted. He was bitten on one foot, both hands, and across the breast, and it was a long two weeks before he was on deck again, his face swelled up until one eye was closed, and the poi son made me ill for many days. Wher ever one of the cups or suckers took hold the skin was entirely taken off, and it seemed as if pins had: been stuck into the raw flesh. A native doctoi brought me some herbs of which tr make a poultice, and, though that re lieved the pain and helped me to gel around again, it was months before my face was entirely wolL Toe devil fish minded the loss of hi three arms for only half an hour, ai the end of which time he clutched the empty boat, half capsized her, and swam twice around the ship as a defi ance to the crew. Two or three musket balls were fired into him and he sank out of sight to be seen no more during our stay. ' Philosopher and Walter Girl. He was stout, of medium height, about 55 years old. ruddy face gray eyes, iron-gray hair and chin whisker, and with a prominent nose, upon the extreme tip of which was balanced a pair of steel-rinnuod eyeglasses, through which he peered at the bill of fare. She, tho waitress, was slight and fragile; her face was pale, her hair flaxen, her eyes light blue, her voice so low that it seemed as if it wero modu lated so that the sound of it should not startle its owner, her manner t'inid and shrinking; a creature to be potted, and one whom it seemed that a sudden gust o( wind would blow away or a harsh word kill. She was uot the typical pert, saucy, smart, "ninsbable" waiter girl. She glided silently up to the tablo and laid tho writer's check upon it as noiselessly as a cat "H'ni, said the philosopher, study ing the bill of fare, "do you suppose But the girl was off like a flash before he could complete the sentence. "H'm," grunted he. "she doesn't s'pose nothin'." By this time the girl had glided back to the table again. "Do you s'pose the potted pigeon's readyP "1 don't know, but I'll see." was the answer, and she was off again like a shot "Well, hold on; s'poein' you wait and get the rest of my order." But the girl was in the kitchen in vestigating the potted pigeon business long before he had drawled out his hall angry command. In a second almost the bunch of nerves was back again. There was just the slightest suspicion ot color in her face, her under lip was trembling imperceptibly, the light blue eye had taken on a trifle darker hue as though a rain-oloud had passed over its sur face, and ner tone was even yet lower than before. These changes might have been due to the hurried manner in which she did everything, and they might have been caused by the philoso pher's remark. Perhaps the philosopher saw these things too, for he said in a kinder tone after the girl had said that the pigeon was all ready: "WelL give me some potted pigeon, cup er coffee, and er corn cake with it." There," said he, addressing the writer, "that's just like a woman. Oil she flies, the minit yon ask her to do anything for her. Yer might just at well put er two-year-ole colt in a pas ture and tell him to come to yer. He'd be off all over the field in a second, kickin' up his heels and yer couldn't ketch him at alL "It's just so with a young woman. When a man goes ter work in a public place he understands that he's a wage earner. But a girl, when she comes in to a place like this, she soon gits pre ferences, aad pnfcrcnoss means ad mirers, and admirers means lovers, and a lover means a husband. "And so she acts all thcr time as il she were saying: 'I'm an amatoor; I ain't a perfoshonal; this is only a step pin' stone; I ain't doin' this ter earn my livinV It's just like a dog, a cat, and a mouse. "Yer take a Skye tarrier and say tei him, 'Here, I've got er mouse for yer,' and he'll grab it quick as er flash, and yer can't stop him. But yer let a cat have er mouse under a chair and to try in' to git at it, and yer come up and try to poke the mouse out from under thex chair for her, and Lord! off she goes and hides in a haymow in yer nabur'i barn." She Wanted A Goat. The firm of lawyers from which Presi dent Cleveland graduated into his pres ent high office still maintains its or ganization and standing in the profes sion. The gentleman who succeeded to the president's place in the firm is known as the "Tall Sycamore." Be siues oeing a gooa lawyer anu asruie politician, he is also the father of the trettiest of blue-eyed and blonde-haired ittlo lassies. This little maid has reach ed the mature age of 4 years. Some times she comes to the historical office in the Weed block to pay her respects to the members of tho firm, and inci dentally to bring a bit of sunshine into the ordinary gloom of professional work. On one occasion whon the Tall Syca more's littlo girl was at the office her father was busy with a number of gen tlemen. Tho little lass wandered into the senior's office and entered into con versation with that gentleman. After the manner of lawyers be man aged to get into her confidence, and. after tho manner of her sex, she poured into tho professional bosom tho narra tive of her woes, and besought the counsel of her learned friend. Briefly stated, ber case was this: She hud made several motions to that effect in tho paternal court, but on one pretext or another the hearings had been ad journed and postponed to an extent which made her doubtful of ever secur ing a final decision in the matter. Having accepted a kiss as a retainer in the oase, the president's former part ner proceedod to advise his fair client. His legal intellect grasped the situation at once. His experience and quick working mind immediately seized upon the remedy. "The thing for you to do," said he, "is this: Go right into your papa's office and, no matter who is there, tell him you want a goat If you only tell him once he may not hoar you, so you had better tell him several times. Yes, you had better keep on telling him until you are sure he understands you." This little woman ojiened her big blue eyes in admiration at her lawyor's ability and immediately proceeded to act on his advice. She marched sober ly into her father's office intent upon her mission. So absorbod was she in tier purpose that she paid no attention to the seven or eight prominent railroad men who were receiving and treasuring the precious and expensive words of counsel falling from the lips of the Tall Sycamore. She lifted her dimpled chin to the level of the paternal desk and re marked in bell-like tones: "Papa, I want a goat" Tho matter under dis cussion was an important one, and her remark was not noticed. She resumed: "Papa, I want a goat I want a goat I want a goat papa. I want a goat I want a goat, I want a goat Papa, I want a goat 1 want a goat I want a goat, I want a goat I want a goat Papa, I want a " "Here, you run along into the other room like a good girl and you shall have a goat" It had at least been made clear to the paternal mind that something was wanted and wanted badly. The little maid turned to her adviser's office and told him of the success of the mission. "You know how to get goats," she remarked approvingly, and reward ed the lawyer in a coin which does not usually pass current in a law office. Buffalo Express. A Mountain nully. A few years ago there died in a mountain county in east Tennessee a man who was a noted bully. He was a splendid srtocinicn of physical manhood, and was in every respoct a fighting bully. He would tight'at the drop of a hat and could knock out a half-dozon ordi nary men in ono round. Ho would fight for the fun of it. nnd ho who would dare cross his path was indeed a reck less man. In the old days of Stato militia and "muster" he was a promi nent man in his neighborhood and col onel of a militia regiment. On niustor days, when the drill was over, he would proceed to clean up the regiment When ho shod his coat, twisted his hue fist around a few times, and yelled at the top of his voice: "Hide out little 'uns, I'm a coniin'!" there would be a general stampede. This was how he came to be called "Old Hide Out" iu after years. When the late war came ou he joined one of the confederate regiments, and made a brave, fearless soldier. During a slight skirmish his company had with the federals down in Georgia, he took his gun by the muzzle, and, with his old-time watch-word. "Hide out little 'uns, I'm a coming'!" rushed into the midst of the federal soldiers, putting them to flight not however, without receiving a serious wound in the head, which put him into the hospital for months, and permanently injured his mind. When he returned to his native coun ty he was not the fearless bully of old, but a much-broken, stoop-shouldered, and crazy old man. He would stroll through the neighborhood aimlessly, and seemingly unconscious of his whereabouts, always muttering to him self as be went: "Hide out little 'uns, I'm a cotnin'." Little boys and girl would make sport of him, and Old Hide," as they called him, paid no heed to tneir mockery, lie bad become per fectly harmless. At last the old man became mortally ilL He was alone in a little cabin pro vided for his use by an old comrade in the army. A few friends who had known him in his better days gathered around his humble couch expecting the end. It was now late in the afternoon, and the old fellow had not spoken fot days. He was rapidly sinking, and someone remarked that he would go down with the sun, which was then pouring its last rays through the chinks and crevices of the cabin wall Just then his face seemed to lighten up, his eyes twinkled, and he opened his lips: "Hide out little 'uns, I'm a com " But he never completed the sentence. He had gone. Louisville Courier-Journal. I South Carolina has no divorce laws upon its statute-books "and does not grant a divorce for any cause whatever. Lady Miners. A. female speculator who is interested in Colorado mines was interviewed re cently by a reporter for tho St Louis Globe-Democrat. On being requested to tell something of tho women who have gono out west and made money, she said: "I have been asked about ladies' prospecting. I have a lady friend who, while on a summer trip on the mount ains, 'found an outcropping of ore on the surface and located a claim which sold for $5,000. Mining for gold is a fine art for in a whole ton of earth you will probably get no more than an ounce of gold, and that in such minute particles that one would need a micro scope to find them. I have another lady friend who is a fine judge of ores and lives in a beautiful little cottage, with her husband, near some large mines that he owns. There is also a lady in Gunnison county who owns and works a large mine and gives it her per sonal supervision. She has her own .hom-i, -where she. boards the miners and tends them in sickness. My last yoar has been very profitable in a financial way, and I could havo done nothing half so lucrative in any other business. Of course, I havo bought my experi ence dearly, but I havo spent a groat deal of time in studying the matter up. I own miues in Eagle. Summit and Bouldor counties, aud to peoplo who understand mining districts they are three of the best counties iu Colorado for both silver and gold. Then 1 own one-fourth of a claim of a group of twenty mines called tho Tablo Group, eleven of which aro developed. Tho deed stands in my namo and the mines aro in the hands of Loudon and New York firms. In these days when all the professions are studied by ladies, hotel and manufactories run by them, and even a steamboat license obtained by one of our sex, it seems to me that milling is one of the easiest of all these. The wealthiest woman iu Colorado, Mrs. Bishop Hill" Warren, made her own money, and is now worth $10,000,000. She made her money on cattle. Ladies are too apathetic, aud are bound down by conventionalities, and we aro too often kept back by advice from tho men of our families, who are always egotist ical enough to think thov can make enough. The women of Chicago and New York deal in stocks, in wheat oil. and consols, and why not in mining stocks? This is tho only place outside of San Francisco and New York where they have a mining-exchange, and it does not amount to much, but it ought to be made good." New Facts About Cannibals: It has long been known, says the New York Sun, that a few tribes of cannibals lived in Africa, but thero was until recently no reason to believe that the tribes of anthropophagi are numer ous and that cannibalism is practiced in quite a largo part of that continent The new discovery is the result of ex- 1)lorations in tho Congo basin, where it s now believed that cannibals are mora numerous than in any other part of the world. Thero are some striking differ ences with regard to this practice among the various tribes. Wheu Lieutenants Kund and Tappon beck were traveling between the Wambu and Kwilu rivers they came among the gentle and timid tribe of the Pamballas, who confessed that thoy were men-eaters on a small scale. "It is true," they said, "that we eat people when we have any people to eat but that is not very often." This announcement has a tinge of sadness, dosto tho fact that the Pamballas, not being warlike, are generally the under dogs in the fights that surrounding tribes force upon them, and they think themselves lucky if now and then an enemy falls into their hands. Quite different was the conduct of the men-eaters whom the samo travelers met a littlo farther east "Why," they insolently shouted, "do you not give us some of your men to eat? You are no friends of ours. When the Majaccas come among us thoy never fail to bring us some men to cat They are our friends." Other tribes iu tho Congo basin deny that they are man-eaters, and will not admit the truth as long as thoy can conceal it Few of the Bangalls will talk ou the subject to whito men. The practice in their tribe is generally con fined to their chiefs and leaders, they boing considered as specially privileged. It is impossible as yet to say what causes conlirm somo tribes in tho prac tice of cannibalism, while nearly related tribes abhor the very idea. The Mon buttas, on the Wello Makua, who are exceptionally advanced in their arts and industries, are cannibals. Tho Wag andas, on the othor hand, who live about four hundred miles southeast aud who are of tho same stock as tho Mon but tas, and like them iu their devel opment wouldn't dream of eating a human body, notwithstauding tho fact that they are very fond of meat which is tho greatest luxury the common peo plo can have, as they are confined almost wholly to a vegctablo diet Hilent People an Misjudged by the Noiny. When a number of good-humorei people are setting out, bright and earlj in the morning, on some exhilarating expedition, it is pleasant to notice how lively and expansive they arc. For th first hour they talk all at once, laughing their words rather than speaking them But as tho forenoon goes on, one aftei another drops gradually iuto compara tive quiet and silence. It is not tha they have ceased to enjoy the excursion and each other, but tho first efferves cence of the uncorked animal spirits ol the morning has spent itself. In a similar fashion, as we get on in life past the period of obstreperous youth, wo incline to talk less and write less, especially on the topics which we have most at hoart The younger peo pie notice this, aud think it is because we are growing .lukewarm on these matters. They deplore us, among them selves, as being "lost leaders," or los followers, of this and the other lint cause. But they do not understand. The thought is dcopcr and stronger io us now. perhaps, than when it was visi ble at tho surface and made more noise We are beginning to realizo tho useless ness of perpetually talking, that is alL If there is a thing to be said, we prefei to wait and say it only when and where it will hit something or some body. Moreover, if the youngsters will ob serve us a little, they may see that wr say a number of things and prettj forcibly, too by simply taking them for granted. They might follow uj around, A and B aud C, and a half dozen more of us ciders, and listen tc our talk for a whole week without ever hearing from us a single argument m exhortation on the subject say, of the Intellectual Rights of Women, ortbf Rascality of Thick-nd-Tbin ";- or the Curse of the Ignorant Vote. But they would soon notice that what we quietly take for granted in our talk would furnish a number of tolerably strong creeds or platforms. They might come to the conclusion, too, that this quiet taking of certain things for grant ed by sensible and vigorous men and women is not to bo despised, as a work ing force, in comparison with whole parlors-full of vociferous chatter. At lantic Carnegie and Krnpp. Andrew Carnogie and his partners pay out more monoy in wages every month than Krupp, tho celebrated gun maker of Easen, Gormany, disburses among his men. Krnpp employs 10, 000 men aud Carnegie's various Pitts burg mills aro operated by 6,000 men. The difference in the aggregate of salaries is tho difference betweeu Amer ican and European pay. The monthly pay-roll of the Pittsburg iron-master is over half a million dollars every month. Eight of the Carnegie blast f urnacos produce each day 1,500 tons of metal. For making a ton of any kind of metal it requires four tons of material, con sisting of ores, llmostoue, coke, and iu mill-metal cinder is used, making for each day 6.000 tons of material handled. Estimating this iniraouse amount at twenty tons, or 40,000 pounds, to a car, it would require tho use of 300 cars. In addition to this tho firm finishes every day at least 1,000 tons, requiring fifty cars more. Besides this. 150 tons of unfinished old iron and raw steel aro haudlcd at Thirty-third street The liquid metal. 650 tons daily, handled at the steel-rail mill, is transferred in what are called ladles. Iu making an esti mate fully within bounds it is safe to say that 375 cars aro required ever3' day to handle the raw and finished material used by Carnegie's mill. Twelve engines, or one locomotive for every forty cars, each boing thirty feet long, added to the 375 cars, would mako a train of 12,380 feet or mora than two miles in length. For 300 days it would tako 111.000 cars. This would make a train 3.330,000 feet long, which would reach over a distance of 630 miles from Columbus to New York. Tho plants owned by the Carnegies cover 200 acres of ground. Upon this there aro laid and maintained thirty five miles of tracks, and the firm own twenty-two ocuiuoUes.-ltUsburg Com mercial Gazette. Paper Collars and Caff. "Paper collars and cufls are becom ing popular again." said a Fulton street haberdasher to a reporter of the Brook lyn Eagle. "In late years it was con sidered vulgar to wear them, but now they are alluded by all classes of so ciety. I havo many wealthy customers who will wear nothing else. They are mostly elderly gentlemen who 'have been educated to the idea from boy hood and are loath to discard the style of linen worn by their daddies. Paper collars have the best sale in the rural districts. Farmers, if they wear collars at all, affect paper oues. A linen collar is almost unknown in some parts of the country, particularly in the west Of late 1 havo noticed that many young and dressy men wear paper linen, and more especially in warm weather. Paper collars come cheap. Some brands are worth more than others. An excellent quality can be bought for 25 cents a box, which contains ten col lars. Cutis cost the same for a box containing five pairs. In hot weather paper collars are luxuries to men who pcrsniro freely. They cau be changed as often as desired, and are compara tively cheap whon it is taken into con sideration that a box cau bo purchased at about the same price as would be paid for ono linou collar. But few men can tell paper collars at a glance. Some brands make nearly as good an appearance as linen. Celluloid collar. and cuffs are now seldom worn. Some years ago thoy wore very popular, but only in hot weather. False, or paper bosom, have also almost wholly dis appeared." Do Birds Fly Down? I see, in a back number of .S7. Nicho las, that one of your young correspond ents appeals partly to me in regard to birds fl3"ing down. But all who have written seem so well po-.tcd that I doubt if I can add anything to their knowledge. However, I have seen California quail, a wood-dove, and a humming bird flying downward; but iu slow fly ers, with large wings and heavy bodies, the wings are used more or lens as par achutes in going down; iu other words, the birds spread their wing-; and rely upon gravity. This I have noticed in the sand-hill cranes in their migrations along the Sierra Madres. A flock, of say a hundred, will mount upward in I a beautiful spiral. Hashing in the sun light, all the while uttering loud, dis cordant notes, until the- attain an al titude of nearly a mile above the sea level. Then the' form in regular lines, and soar away at an angle that iu five miles, or so, will bring them within one thousand feet of the earth. Then they will stop and begin the spiral upward movement again until a high elevation is reached, when, away they go again sliding down hill in the air, towanl their winter home. It is very evident that a vast amount of muscular exer tion is saved in this way. In some of these slides that I have watched through a glass, birds would pass from three to four miles, I should judge, without flapping their wings. St. Xicholas. s Andreas Wakenian, of Vista, Conn., is a might- hunter, and wonderful stories are told of his skill. One of the last is the effect that the other day his dog ran a red fox into a big pile of stones. While Andreas win trying to capture the fox he spied a gray one hi the same hole. He seized the grav one by tho hind leg. and commenced to pull. The fox finally let go so sudden ly that Mr. Wakenian fell over back ward, and as he lay on his back, still holding on to that fox's leg. his dog and a big coon tumbled on top of him. The two foxes, the coon, the dog, and Mr. Wakenian were all tangled up, but in the end the two foxes and the coon wcrejdllcd, and Mr. Wakemau and his dog were happy. a The Oregon state officials were thrown into a bewildered stato of amazement recently when the secretary of state re ceived a bag containing $529.50 from the county court of Josephine county. The legislature at its last session made an appropriation for a bridge across the river at Grant's pass. The bridge and another were built out of the anpro- (iriation. and the above was the balance eft which was sent back to be placed IB tb ttata treasury. 'No Bottom Here." In the early days of Chicago, before its enterprise had raised it out of tho mud. and at a time when it was not an unusual thing to see a board nailed to a stick driven into tho mud at somo street crossing bearing the inscription "No bottom here." John Brougham, tho genial Irish actor, had a benefit at McVieker's Theatre. It was in tho spring of the year, ami during a week when Chicago was onjoyinga wet spell. The day and evening of his benefit was an unusually rainy one. Still, his friends managed to mako their appear ance, and eagerly awaited his always welcome little speech before the cur tain. After the first act ho enme before the curtain, and all was still to listen to his expected humor. The silence was so great that the pattering rain drops on the road could be plainly heard. With his genial smile lighting up his face, he commenced. "Ladies ami gentlemen, I presume I am addressing tho?jfoftny-population-of Chicago."--.' The balance of the speech was lost among the roars of laughter, for he had sustained his character for wit and hu mor. Editor's Drawer in Harper's Magazine. i Why It Is a Dull Society. "What do I think of 'Frisco society?" said a prominent gentleman recently arrived from Australia. "Well. I must say it is about the dreariest and dullest I ever saw." "Yousurpriso me," said tho inter viewer. "It surprised me," retorted tho stran ger in our midst "Why. I was invited to a stag dinner the "other evening. Thero wero a lot of noted men in tho company, but hardly ouo of them open ed his mouth. They sat like mummies all the evening tho most wretched, dreary, depressed-looking sot of sober sidos 1 ever saw. When 1 tried to liven 'em up with a story or two thoy looked at mo with pity and amazement." "Singular." "Singular! it was astonishing. The company was positively rude, too. Why, thero was ono guest a Mr. Skill more, they absolutely insulted; hardly spoke to him, in fact." "Skidmore! Was Skidmore there?" exclaimed tho resident "Why. that explains the wholo thing. No wonder tho affair was gloomy. Skidmore is one of those idiots who carries a chestnut bell!" San Francisco Wasp. m liove and Ahes. San Francisco's pretty women who are given to flirting have a way of mixing up poetical sentiment that, as a writer in the Chronicle observes, takes the angel cake. One of these fascinating creatures, who gets great numbers of love-letters, was asked what she did with them. Her answer tells the story: "I burn them at once. I have a vase in my room. I have had it for a year or two. When I get a love-letter, it does not matter from whom, I light it and throw it into the vase. It burns, aud I never disturb the ashes. That jar is half full of ashes now, and heaven knows how many declarations of love aro cremated there." Gen. Iiee'H Demijohn. A short time after the battle of Fred ericksburg the soldiers observed a ser vant carrying a big demijohn into Gen. Leo's tent ViMonsof toddy flitted be fore the eyes of the General's Ktall. At 12 o'clock Gen. Lee walked out and with a twinkle in his eyes remark ed: "Perhaps you gentlemen would like a glass of something?" The verdict was unanimous. Everything was arranged; the gentle men drewnoar; the cork was withdrawn and the steward poured out butter milk. Aliunta Constitution. E. Berry Wall, once tho king of the dudes in New York, is in Washington and bis garb at a recent ball is thus de scribed: "He wore tho conventional suit of broadcloth, claw-hammer coat 'white vest and trousers with silk stripe down the side. With a white tucked shirt was worn a high, plain collar, the edge meeting in front and rather high er than at tho back. His feet were en cased in danciug pumps and black silk stockings, with lino horizontal stripes of white about an inch apart and small diamonds embroidered between tho stripes. Light pearl kid glove, with three rows of heavy black stitching on tho back, encased his hands. The regu lation white tie was worn, while as a boulonnicro was fastened a large white convolvulus." Mrs. Horace Helyar is still tin- re cognized belle of the diplomatic i-hvle at Washington. A correspondent writo of "her large, ruddy, Alderney-cnw style of beaut," and add-: -To ;.,- her striding into her little coupe, her 150 pounds of solid Ilc-di and imiM-Ir enveloped in the reddest of red cos tumes, with her cheeks like two ro-y apples and her pretty but oniewhat stolid face glowing with health and complacency, gics one a refreshing sense of perfect health and animal well-being. She is what is commonly called a bouncer, but she has the charm of a thoroughly well-kept and well governed human being." A dentist at Bridgeport, Conn., was called on a few days ago by a woman, who brought with her a chunk of gold the size of a hickory-nut. which she said had dropped out of one of her teeth while she was eating break fast The dontist assured her that she had no filling of that size In any tooth, and a careful examination show d that she had lost no filling whatever. The question now agitutiug the lady is "Where did that nugget como from?" One of the-greatest enemies of tho salmon and the salmon fisheries in Oregon is the sea lion. It is estimated that half the salmon that come into the Columbia Itlver In the early part of tho season are captured by these big beasts, which also damage nets to the amount of thousands of dollars. Vast numbers of them congregate at Tillamook rock and at Seal rocks, and it is suggested that dynamite be used to force them to seek other localities. A young man in Nebraska City offer ed a prominent citizen $50 to get him a wife. The offer was accepted, and the girl selected agreed to the proposition in consideration of a sewing machine. The two were married, and apparently are as happy as two turtle doves. National Bank! or COX.TJ3IBXJS. MEB. -HAS AN- Authorized Capital of $250,000, A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, And the !arK.t Paid is Cask Capital f unr Iwmk in thio nrt of tlu Stale. Pg-DttpottiU riH.-1-ivcd un.l intcrtft jid u time tIeHMitt. 5Wl'rflH tn tlm principal citun in tliix coun try mul Kumim bought nml Milii. tf"(il lection uml all llnr liiiut'H kivou prompt aiut cnruful attention. Jr-'. HrOCKIIttl.liKKH. A. AXDKItSON, l-ni.'!. HKItMANI'. ll.UKItl.ltlril, View Fivm'i. O.T.KOttN.('ahit-r. - !!;.,i!';V,;'-' hkhsian okhluk'H, is.sritu'm; v. a. m.-allisthi:. JONAS WKI.rH. JOHN W. KAHLY. I. AMiKKSON, l!. ANHKICSON. KOKKItT UHI.it. fAKLHKINKK! AprUS-'Nilf Easiness ;trtls. D.T. MAun.N-.3l. I). V. J. Seiiuo. M. I. Drs. MARTYN & SCHUO, U. S. Examining Surgeons, Ih-:i1 HiirKeoiix, rninn I'lu-ific. O.. N. .V 1$. 11. mul II. A.M. U. KV. ronxiiltulinii in I ;..rin.'.ii ami Kn;lili. 'IV!t-pliulii-. at otlici-aiiil rrf iileiirt-.. irtMlii li OIie rfni't, iwt Io I.'roilfm-li- rer's Jowclr Slur.-. COLUMBUS. NEBBASKA. r i a m i .to mi : a ik. ji. ., I'HYSICIAX AXl SCRCEOX. I'lnlle (Vntr, Nclmuika. '.- W. n. cokij.ils LAW AiXD COLLECTOX OFFICE. UpMnirn Kmst liuiMin, lltli xtnt-t. oiji.i.ivai Ac ki:i:ii:k, ATTUKXEYS AT LA W, Otiice oit Kirxt Xntimml Bunk, (VIiiiiiIhih, Ni-liniMlwa. WUf 1 i. i:vaiv, M. IK, rilYSIClAX AXl SURtiEtfX. Sf Otiice and riHiuiH. tiluck ImiMItiK, Utli btrevt. Ti'l.-iihunet-iiiuiuiinii-ntii'ii. t-y M eAIJJN'I'KK ItKCS., ;1 TTOliXE V A T L. I l.l ', Otiico uiwetnirH in Henry Imililini;, curniir of Olhi nnil 11th btreetM. V. A. Mt-Mlitt r, No tury fnhlie. roin i:ijmii-:, COUXTY NL'Rl'KYOlt. SSfVuttu- (l.firiiitf Minrej'inK lne ran nl ilrrxH iiie at rolimilma. Neb., or call at in ollico in t'onrt Hotiw. Smajsti-y vro'riiji-: to Ti:Ajfii-:it. W. H. Tedrow. Co Supt. I will lie at my otli- in tli Court IIotiHtli third Saturday of iiich mouth tor the examina tion of teachers. HLtf D K. J. CHAN. W 11,1.1', DEUTSC1 1 VAl A RZT, ColuinbtlH, Nebraxka. W!011ire 11th Klreit. Con-ult.itioiiH in Kn-Klii-h. French aud (icrumn. mais" JOHNC.IIKiCINS. C. J.t.'ABLOW. Collection Attorney. HIGOISS & OARLOW, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty made of Colleclionn by C. J. O'arlnw. 31-iu -'. r. Kl WMOIC, .U. IK, HOMOEOPATHIST. Chronic Dtaouses and Diseaaea of Children n Specialtv. " Olliee on Oliw run I. thne doom north of First National I tank. J-ly ip ii.ki;n4'!i:, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sell HNriie-H,Saddlit,rl!nr, Wilis. Blanket. Curry dniilm, llm.-li. j., trunk, tidi-in, buiriy loj, ctjfl.ii.n-, carriaci trimminc. Ac, at li.u low-.t p-mIi1m pruer.. I..iniii ir..riilly at tended to. J. M. .11 A 4 I'Alti.AtK ATTOIiNKY AM) NOTABY PUBLIC. LAW ANU COLLECTION OFKHE OK J. M. MACFAEUUD, I oliiiiihtf, Nebne-kii. K. C. BOYD, - MiNUF.tr-intKit or- Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing; a Specialty. tyShop on Olite clr-t. door" north of Brodfuchrer'n Jeuelrj btore. iS-lf A.J.AKN0LD, IKAI.KK IN DIAMONDS, FINE WATCHES. Clot-ks .BVwrlry AMI SILVERWARE. Btrirt attention iriven to r pairing of Y:iti-li and Jeuelry. 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