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COLTJMBTJS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1887.
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THE COLDEST COUNTRY.
WHAT LIEUT. SCHEUTZE SAYS OF
THE LENA DELTA COUNTRY.
How the YaJcata Manage to Keap Warm
la Northwestern Siberia. Hata and
Their FUtalness Food sad Clothing.
Eating Batter.
Lieut W. H. Scheutre, of the navy, who
was sent to the Lena delta ia northwestern
Siberia to deliver to the natives gifts from
the government of the United States to repay
them for the aid they rendered him In bis
search for the missing members of the Jean
nette party, says in his report that the town
of Verovusk, Siberia, is the coldest inhabited
spot in the world.' The thermometer stood at
eighty-six below zero when he was there, and
he says it seldom goes above fifty below. I
asked him the other day what the people did
who lived atthia blissful spot; what they had
to eat and how they liked it
"Why," he replied, "they think it Is a pretty
good sort of climate. 'Home, Sweet Home,'
is the song ail the world over, and if the Ver
ovuskers should come here they would won
der what people did where it is so infernally
hot They would another in this climate,
and pine for a stiff northwesterly arctic gale.
It is wonderful the amount of cold human
flesh can endure. The natives of Terra del
Fuego go stark naked the year round, and in
their country It freezes every night It is
much colder in tho Lena delta, yettha peo
ple manage to keep comfortable, and mora
die of amaSpox and scurvy than front the
effects of the intense cold. Yon seldom hear
of any one freeatag to death, and then it to
those only who expose themselves impru
dently who die in that way. More people
aro frozen to death in the United States than
in Siberia.
HOW TO KEKF WAHX.
"But how do they manage to keep wannl"
"Well, in the first place the Yakuts are an
enduring race and are born in that climate.
Then they dress in furs, and have learned
from their ancestor, or from their own ex
perience, how to keep warm. Their houses
are bunt of logs, smeared over on the outside
and "'ri with manure and mud. In each
cabin is a large fireplace, which is used for
both heating and cooking. There is etMam
more than one room in these oabins, and
usually the owner's cattle, if bo has any, oc
cupy one end cf the room in which he lives,
being tied, or prevented from trampling on
the babies by a bar. The houses are com
monly very comfortable, but are awfully
dirty, and smell there is no word to describe
it Often, until I got used to it, I would
rather lie down in the snow outside, with the
thermometer fifty below zero, than sleep in
one of these huts. But you've no idea what
a man " stand when he baa to."
"Have they windows in their housesr
"Yes; ice windows. They use ice as we use
glass. A clear piece is selected, about five or
six inches thick, morticed in the window
opening in blocks two feet, and sometimes as
large as four feet square, and with water is
made solid. The water is as good as putty.
When tho window becomes dirty they scrape
it off with a knife, and when it has been
scraped thin they substitute a new pane."
"Doesn't the window ever melt?"
"Bless yon, no; it is freezing cold that far
from the fire. If the room ever got warm
enough to melt the ice the Yakut couldn't
live in it, and would have to go out doors to
cool off. At night the fire is allowed to go
out, as they have to economize in fueL All
they have is drift wood, gathered on the banks
of the Lena river in the summer time."
"How do they sleept Do they undress when
they go to bedr
"Always. They strip to their shirts, which
are made of a thick sort of Russian cloth as
heavy as our canvas. The men and women
wear the same kind of garments, and never
have more than one at a time. I took up a
lot of thick flannel for them, enough to last
the rest of their lives, and it will be a great
deal more comfortable than the native stuff,
although they don't like it at first When
they undress they get into bunks built in the
side of the house sometimes a man, his
wife and all his children in the same bunk.
They have reindeer skins under and over
them, and curtains of the same banging be
fore the bunks. The last man or woman to
undress hangs all the clothing of the rest
out doors over a pole that is kept for the
purpose."
GITTINQ RXD OF VXBMOT.
"What is that forP
"Tofreesethe lice. They couldnt live if
they didn't do it, and it has becomes national
custom. The lice get into the fur and that
Is the only way to set them out By hang
ing their clothes over the pole every might
they can keep reasonably free from them, but
the fur fills up again the next day."
"Do they ever bather
"Never in their lives; they haven't any
word for bathing in their language, and the
impossibility of keeping clean is one of the
greatest hardships of Arctic life."
"What do they eatr
"Reindeer meat, beef they have cows,
queer looking animals, about half as large as
ours, with a hummock on their backs like a
samel fish, bread made of black rye flour,
tea, and imported food made of chopped beef
rolled into balls about the siaaof a marble,
and covered with a dough. These they pound
up and make into soup. Then there is a wood
that is very nutritious when it is ground up
ami boiled. Mixed with reindeer meat it
makes a good soup. They often eat their fish
raw. Of course they freeze solid as soon
as they aro taken out of the water, and
the native, particularly if he is on the
road, cuts them off in shavings as thin as our
chipped beef and eats them raw. They are
palatable, and I have lived for days at a time
on them, with a cup of tea made over an al
cohol lamp by way of variety. The greatest
luxury they have is butter, and they will eat
it by the pound as our people eat confection
ery. A poor sort of butter is made from the
milk of uie native cow, that looks and tastes
more like cheese, and they prize it above all
other classes of food."
"The amount of butter a native will eat
when he can get it," continued Lieut
Scheutze, "is astonishing. A friend of mine
in Siberia told me of a man who ate thirty
six pounds in one day, and then didn't get all
be wonted, rney nave a way oi ponuaing
up a red berry and mixing it with butter,
which gives it a beautiful pink tint and im
proves the flavor. Their drink is the Russian
vodka, almost pure alcohol, and they will
trade their shirts for it The liquor is scarce
and expensive, so they ere necessarily a tem
gerateeople." Percy Drummond in Chicago
Inter Ocean.
THE SEWERS OF PARIS.
A Pleasure Trip Under the Streets of ths
Gay Metropolis.
Excursions under Paris farm one of the
features in the movement for the benefit of
the sufferers from the recent floods in France,
and the gorgeous sewers are liberally patron
ised by the fashionable world. A reporter
of Ths Oil Bias gives thte description:
"We started from the Place Chatalet at 3
o'clock and descended a little winding stair
case, the steps and walk of which wars cov
erad with a green cloth fringed by a red bor
der. There is not the slightest danger of soil
ing your clothes or of encountering the
slightest disagreeable odor. On arriving at
the foot of the stairs a fine display of fruits
and vegetables was ths first thing to great
our eyes. These products were from Genne
uliers, and were grown" in gardens that are
watered by the sewers. We got into a
wagon, fee which were stats for twenty per
sons. Off ws went, shoved along by solid
looking fellows, all neatly dressed. Above
as was a mass of tubes and pipes. They are
ths water pipes, the two largest containing
our drinking water from ths Vaaas and
taw water of ths Ourcq, whieh is used for
washing ths streets and sidewalk. Than
there ars the pneumitio tubes. In which we
can hear the rattle of ths dispatch boxes as
they shoot along.
"flsddenly ws heard ths passengers laths
wagon ahead of us uttering cries of admira
tion. We were under the Has dsBivoli, but
soon we reached the srosttag of the Roe du
Pont Nest This tunnel is lighted from end
to and with garlands of colored lampa The
effect k fairylike. Ths same effect to repro-
i duced under ths Ras da Louvre, ths Rue de
Richelieu and tasFIaos des Pyramides, where
precisely under ths statue of Joan of Arc ap
pear in luminous glass ths arms of ths city of
Paris. Ws passed along, still following the
Rue de BlroU, where each house has its num
ber la the sewer, Just as in ths street, until we
reached ths Place de la Concorde. There the
electric fights, erasing their fires with ths re
flections of ths Venetian lamps, turn the
square into a sort of ball room. Nothing is
wanting, not even the music. Ws all got out
of the wagons to embark in large boats fur
nished with cushioned seats. Ths music was
in the first boat, which was decorated with
flags and lamps. Ths boats were started.
We followed the entire routs of the Rue
Royals by ths light of fifty dascling electric
lights.
"After a quarter of an hour m this boat ws
landed at the foot of a staircase, whtoa we
mounted, and m three minutes ws were
above ground at La Madeleine. It to much
colder in ths sUeess than it was ia ths sew
ers, where the temperature, summer and
winter, is always uniformly pleasant" New
York Sun.
Table Land of Tennessee.
There are peculiarities of climate that are
not easily accounted for. Perhaps were any
one of them to be left out. the charm would
be gone, but altogether make it a marvelous
place. The altitude ia but a little over 2,000
feet, but there is such a delightful breeze
sweeping over the plateau, uninterrupted (by
surrounding heights, .that no vestige of
malaria could possibly lurk there. Then the
water, while limpid and pure as spring water
can possibly be, is strongly Impregnated with
the minerals that underlie the mountains. If
there is disease of any kind in the system,
these waters will bring it to the surface,
either in the form of boils or a fine eruption,
which is not agreeable at the time, but which
leave the patient well at last It must be
the cfimate and water combined that do this,
for until a few years past the diet was cer
tainly adverse to health, being confined to
bacon and corn bread. With the new civili
zation, all the comforts and manners of the
outer world have crept in, and as wjjd game
abounds, the table need never be limited. In
deed, I think the menu of a supper fgiven
there a few weeks ago would compare favor
ably with any one in our larger towns, be
ginning with oysters and ending with Nea
politan cream. Cor. New York Sun.
Organised Charity la Chicago.
The Provident wood yard is an institution
for the confusion and discomfiture of tramps.
It is in charge of a stonyhearted young fol
low named McAuliff. It to under the direc
tion of the Charity Organization society, and
is self-supporting. When a tramp asks a
charity organiser for help the charity or
ganizer refers him to the central office and
the central office sends him to the Provident
wood yard. When he gets there Mr. Mc
Auliff helps him to a bucksaw and a few
large bundles of wood and shows him how to
saw for a living. The tramp saws may be
half an hour, and then goes on a strike, curs
ing charity organisations and monopolies in
I general, and the man who invented a buck
saw in particular, cut u ne sucks to work
for two hours or so, until he has one-sixth of
a cord of wood sawed into kindling, he earns
a ticket which is good for a 10 cent meal or a
10 cent lodging. Then, when he has walked
two mile or ao to the satin house and gorged
himself on what his ticket calls for, be has
received a good practical lesson in ths virtue
and reward of honest toil. Chicago Tribune.
Queer Funeral of aa Epicurean.
A funeral of an extraordinary character
took place in Yorkshire, when Mr. J. 8.
Broderick, a well known follower of Epicurus,
of Haws, in North Yorkshire, was buried.
The interment took place in the deceased gen
tleman's own land at Spring End, on the top
of a bill. Mr. Broderick, who believed in the
transmigration of souk, bad directed that no
minister of religion should attend bis burial,
and that no religious ceremony of any kind
should be performed over his remains. Tho
funeral, therefore, was almost of a unique
description. The procession had to pass over
Stagef ell, one of the spurs of the Pennine
range, and as ths road was blocked in places
over twelve feet deep with snow drifts the
mourners had a most difficult task. The im
mediate place of sepulchre was very rocky.
It had been chosen by tho deceased gentle
man, and Masting operations had to be car
ried on during the whole of two days to com
plete the grave, wBSch to nearly twenty feet
bdow the surface. Pall Mall Gazette.
Dinners la Large Cities.
Dinners in New York, in London, in Wash
ington, in Philadelphia, in perhaps all large
cities, ars conducted on debt paying prin
ciples, and therefore they grow very dulL
Not that people desire Sdecorous pleasure,
hut they get bored to death by gilded and
overburdened splendor. Almost all hard
working men in America are dyspeptic and
only look at their hands during the three or
four last courses. Two people ars brought
together, perhaps, who have never met be
fore. They have positively no subject in
common. To relieve this awkward moment,
to raise the dull, depressing cloud which set
tles over the jaded senses, what better that an
ingenious dinner card, with a quotation from
Shakespeare or a few lines of original poetry f
Here at least is an opening wedge, a text, a
beginning, a subject of common interest It
is worth a world to an anxious hosteaa. To
see her guests thus amused, introduced, and
put at their ease at once to worth much
money. Mrs. John Sherwood in New York
World.
A Congressman's Troubles.
Ahram 8. Hewitt, the new mayor of New
York, when he was in congress, hired the up
per story of one of the houses of Wormley,
the colored caterer. He had three bedrooms.
and it was his custom to go from one to the
other in the hope of finding sleep in tho sec
ond or third which he failed to find in the
first The first night he was tormented by
dogs. He complained, and Wormley re
moved them. The next night, in bedroom
No. 2, be found that the cats kept him awake,
and he came down next morning and growled
about them to Wormley. The third day he
had a complaint to make about the birds, and
Wormley was in despair. He said: "Mr.
Hewitt, I have killed ths dogs and I have
hopes of getting rid of all the cats, but the
birds are beyond me." Ths matter was finally
compromised. Mr. Hewitt to said to have
bought up and killed all the cats and dogs in
his present neighborhood. Ben: Parley Poors
in Boston Budget.
Life Insaraaoe by Telegraph.
A Chicago merchant decided to surprise
his wife by presenting bar with a $20,000
policy on his life; but be neglected to apply
for the policy until ths day bsf ore Christmas.
Then he was told that the application and the
report of the medical examiner would be sent
to ths New York office, and the policy would
come back in a few days. This wouldn't do.
The merchant suggested telegraphing. The
medical examiner was sent for, his report and
the application was telegraphed to this dry,
and in less than six boars from the time of
application the report was accepted in Nsw
York and the policy received ia Chicago.
This to said to be ths first traasactioa of ths
kind. Nsw York Sua.
A Disk for ths Shaku
The shah of Persia and his wives were re
ported some time ago to bs greatly delighted
with a new dish prepared for them by a
Viennese cook. Investigation showed that
the new dish was nothing ska than simple
Viennese rolls. Chicago Herald.
VALENTINE'S DAY.
HOW A BISHOP'S NAME CAME TO BE
PERPETUATED.
Ths Vulgar Valentine and Xta Baas Usee.
A Weapon la Vogne with the Coward
ly and Vile Demons of Spite School
boys' Opportunity.
The revenges of time aro very peculiar.
There was Bishop Valentine. See what he
was made to suffer for nearly 2,000 years.
It was about 1,026 years ago that he was
foully set upon, arrested, beaten with clubs,
and finally beheaded. This was, to say the
least, very harsh treatment of an elderly and
respectable prelate. He had aroused local
feeling in some way, of course, or all this
would not have happened. But how! Many
believe to this day that he was the author of
the practice of sending love messages on
Fob. 14, and that his punishment was
not incommensurate with his crime. But
history exonerates him from so serious a
charge. Ths poor old man had nn pnpfdXL
experiences that any one ever heard of. His
offense was no worse than befriending the
Christian martyrs in the persecution of
Claudius IL On Feb. 14, 270, he was be
headed. After that event some of his friends set
about doing him honor. Pope Julius built a
church to perpetuate his memory near Ponto
Molle. "The heathens," as the Christians
called them, were in the habit of having a
festival on Feb. 15. The boys drew
the names of girls in honor of their goddess,
Februata Juno. In order to abolish this cus
tom several zealous pastors substituted tho
names of saints in billets given on this day,
Feb. 14. So Dr. Valentino's name got started
as belonging' to this day, and it was no time
till the world was ready to give him the
credit of the whole business. There was,
however, no connection between the good
man and the custom of St Valentine's day as
it has been known ever since. It to sup
posed to be of pre-Christian origin.
DEQEA1RATE FESTIVAL.
In a very modern work the 14th of Feb
ruary is described as a "degenerate festival,"
upon which "jocular anonymous letters aro
sent to persons whom one wishes to quiz, and
these chiefly by the humbler people. Maid
servants and young fellows interchange such
epistles with each other, no doubt conceiving
that the joke is amazingly good."
This is a very tame description of the de
generate side of 8t Valentine's day. In the
vulgar valentine Love's mortal enemy. Hate,
is represented. The other side of the story
has a hearing. Originally Momus had a hand
In it, but the returns became too heavy for
him and he fled the field, leaving it to all the
little demons of spite, revenge, envy and jeal
ousy. The coward who wants to hurt some
body and not bo known as striking the blow
finds a weapon all ready to his hand in the
vulgar valentine. He sends it and then sits
down and laughs over the rage of the re
ceiver, as ho pictures it In his mind. He fan
cies that he has perpetrated the most uproari
ous joke. It is a one-legged joke, and he
owns tho leg, but that doesn't disconcert him.
Men of cruel and low instincts have always
laughed at the wounds they have inflicted
upon others. There are still living persons
who find cause for mirth in pulling a chair
from under another person. Ideas of humor
keep pace with the intellect The fun a boor
expires over would be only gross and unpar
donable rudeness to a gentleman.
About this time the landlady of the board
ing house gets a very large maiL She sees
herself and her table, her daughter, her dress
and her tastes caricatured without mercy.
8be knows that tbese printed and painted in
sults emanate most likely from the men and
women who sit at her table, but she is not in
a position to escort them through the street
door and tell them never to return. She feels
these knives of malice very keenly, but she
pockets her wrath and says nothing.
COWARDS' VAKTAOK GBOUXD.
Unmarried women in their thirties are
blessed on St Valentine's day with numer
ous coarse reminders of their years. Pictures
of hideous hags are sent them as gentle hints
that their youthful charms have departed;
or they are represented as flinging nooses at
every male creature they see. These polite
offerings emanate from coarse minded rivals,
or snubbed beaux of no particular decency of
thought
School teacbess are apt to get plenty of
sealed envelopes on St Valentino's day.
Many a small boy nurses his grudge patiently
until the dreadful time comes round, and
then unloads his pent up wrath by means of
villainous lampoons, whose depravity he
isnt even large enough to understand.
It may be that a day devoted to exchanging
insults is a necessity with a low order of mind.
Otherwise the ebullitions might be more fre
quent At all events, the day viewed as a
vantage ground for cowards to mail lam
poons to those they either envy or hate has
become Important enough to establish a trade
in its vile merchandise. Flash news stands
drive a lively business for a fortnight before
St Valentine comes round. The person who
stands in need of a particularly incisive lam
poon to send to his enemy can find one ready
made and colored to his hand. The authors
of these fearful documents have left no body
unprovided for. They have the list of types
of men and women made up with a complete
ness that savors of genius. And they have
brought printed insults down within the
reach of the humblest and poorest For five
cents one can get a valentine of the most in
cisive and offensive description. Thk is no
trade that caters to the rich. Anybody with
a nickel ahead can treat his rival or his
enemy, or even his benefactor, to a pang of
discomfort Attacks on one's self-respect are
thus made so cheap that anybody's enemy
can arm himself with one or more of them.
Gkbtbcde Garrison.
A SADLY DUPED EMPEROR.
A Curious Story Concerning Napoleon
III and a Contract.
I was lately told by a southern gentleman
a very curious story, going to prove how
thoroughly duped and deceived was Napoleon
HI at the close of his reign, and how gigan
tic were the frauds and peculations then
being carried on by the imperial officials.
This gentleman's father had been on intimate
terms with Louis Napoleon when he resided
in the United States, and the future emperor
had often been his guest on his plantation in
Louisiana. My friend was traveling in Eu
rope in the year 18G9, and on arriving in
Paris, and wishing to be presented to the em
peror, whom he well remembered as having,
when a boy, seen at his father's house, be
wrote to one of the imperial chamberlains,
setting forth his desire, and also the facts of
the case. The emperor, whose kindly feel
ings for the friends of his adversity was well
known, at once granted him a private inter
view. The French sovereign and the American
citizen conversed long and pleasantly, and
when the latter arose to take his leave Napo
2on asked him as to his next point of destina
tion. "I am on my way to England, sire,"
was the reply. "Then," said the emperor, "I
wish you would go to the establishment of
Messrs. M , the great gunmakers, and ask
them how the order sent them from our war
office for 250,000 guns to progressing. They
ought to be nearly completed by this time."
The American undertook the commission, and
called as requested at the office of the firm.
The clerk to whom he first addressed his ques
tion simply laughed in his face. "You must
be out of your senses," ha said. "Such
an order has never been given and the guns
do not exist" My countryman became in
dignant, and insisted upon seeing one of the
members of the firm. Mr. M -, the senior
partner, was summoned, but could only con
firm the statement of the clerk. "I assure
you, sir," he said, courteously, "that ws have
never received an order of any kind from ths
French government for ao much as a single
gun." Yet these guns had been paid toi,
though unordered and non-existent A strik
ing proof was this incident of the vast pecu
lations that took place during the later years
of the empire. My friend forwarded a state
ment of the facts to Napoleon III, but doubt
less all precautions had been taken to prevent
any such information from reaching the de
luded sovereign, whose bright days were then
fast drawing to their close. Paris Cor. Phila
delphia Telegraph.
Need of a Written Code.
If a written code were enacted we should
be able to set an example to foreign aristo
crats, who baso precedence on real rank and
defend it as a part of a system, a necessary
adjunct of nobility. We could show that 'it
may bo founded on tho most short lived
grandeur or unsubstantial consequence; that
it requires neither distinction, nor character,
nor attainment, nor ago, which in certain
spheres are supposed to be reasons for social
deference but only rotation in office. Like
logo's purse, " twas mine, 'tis yours, and may
be slave tojtbousanda."
But above all we could definitely extend
precedence to wives. The English, whom I
I mention because they are so generally ac
knowledged as models for our social study
the F.ngl h scorn the idea of a prime minis
ter s wife having rank because of the official
position of her husband. Mrs. Gladstone fol
lowed every peeress in the land when Mr.
Gladstone was at the head of the govern
ment; and even the wife of the archbishop of
Canterbury goes behind tho wife of an in
ferior bishop who happens to be noble by
birth. But we would give tho wife of a
judge precedenco forever over tho wife of a
senator, and entitle tho wife of a cabinet
member to tho first visit from every Ameri
can woman not in the government Then
there would be no inoro New Year's disputes
at he White House. No one could ask:
"Whogavo these ladies tho place they de
mand?" or "To what office wero they elected
or appointed!" As it is, theso questions ore
embarrassing, and the ladies should be re
liovod. Tho rank of the widows would of
course be determined, and tho ploco of the
sous of senators and the sons' wives. There
is a mighty task before the legislators, and, I
fear, a still mightier before the political ora
tors. Adam Bodeau in New York World.
Boston Girl on a Toboggan.
The Boston girl is herself on a toboggan, as
everywhere else. In the first placo she modi
fies and subdues the costume to suit her own
personality. The wild eccentricities of the
St Paul or the Montreal maiden are tamed
by her to a charm as delusive and delightful
as herself.
The Boston girl does not take up toboggan
ing because it is a craze, nor because of its
possibilities of picturesqueneu and effective
ness, as the New York girl does. Sho accepts
it as one of the developments cf the progress
of this last quarter of tho century, and goes
into it with concentration and tho certain
charming seriousness which is a part of her
way of looking at everything. Sho is con
scious first and last and always that all pleas
ures are elusive and fleeting, but sho sees the
philosophical beauty of change, and accepts
tobogganing as she will presently accept
whatever other good tho gods send her iu the
way of fun.
Tho Boston girl makes her own suit and
gets up a gay little costume at a cost of f3 or
$10, which would cost at least half as much
again in the stores. Then she goes forth to
Cambridge or Corey Hill or some other on
chanting suburban slide and enjoys the moon
light and the fun, and if she catches cold
from overoxerciso or from getting tipped over
into the snow she goes home and mindcures
the cold away and comes forth the next day
brighter and more self-confident than ever,
with a new flush of pink arbutus for her deli
cate face. Boston Record.
Fainting; Still Life.
I used to know a Frenchman who boasted
that he could make money go further than
any one alive. Ha was a dexterous painter
of still life, and one of his favorite subjects
was a sack of guineas and a package of bank
notes lying on a desk with an account book
and the trappings of a cashier's dok. He
painted this picture over and over again, and
got high prices for every replica he made.
The original money had been loaned to him
by the picture dealer for whom he bad
painted the first picture. Now he has enough
of his own to make studies from.
We have in New York a very similar
genius. He is also a painter of still life, and
his microscopically accurate transcription of
a 5 greenback, supposed to be mucilaged to
an ebony panel, has been decided by the gov
ernment to come under the head of a danger
ous counterfeit He makes his money go
farther than my Gallic friend, I fancy, for
he can sell one of his $5 bills for $500, while
it took some thousands of pounds of the
Frenchman's manufacture to command as
much.
The painting of still life takes some curious
turns, by the way. Portraits of men and
beasts are common enough. Last week a
musical enthusiast brought to a painter of
my acquaintance a commission to paint him
a picture which should include a portrait of
his pet Stradivarius. The fine old fiddle is
now in progress of pictorial immortalization,
as the center of a composition which includes
a music book, a rose in a glass and a tankard
of Rhine wine. Alfred Trumble in New York
News.
Bismarck's Admirable Notion.
Prince Bismarck is noted, at least, for his
practical ideas, as may be shown by a recent
circular he issued to ail the officers of his de
partments commanding the adoption of a
plain signature to all documents submitted
for his inspection. This is an admirable no
tion that might be utilized in other countries,
as instanced by a very amusing incident that
occurred recently at a session of the Flint
towu council. One of the items for considera
tion was a letter received by the mayor from
the Prince of Wales relative to the celebration
of her majesty's jubilee. The mayor read the
letter and his reply. Ho said he had been un
able to decipher tho signature to the royal
letter, and consequently in sending back his
reply to Marlborough house ho imitated the
signature as nearly as ho could. The letter
found its way to the dead letter office, where
the imitation signature was deciphered as
"Albert Edward." On bringing greater mag
nifying power to bear upon the original sig
nature he found that it really was "Albert
Edward." The statement was received with
great laughter, and the suggestion was made,
that in future the priro sa. !d lie more care
ful of his P's and Q's, clts,. those letters
are conspicuous by their absence in the
prince's signature. San Francisco Chronicle.
A Prlte for an Answer.
The Berlin Weekly Echo offers a prize of
twenty marks for the briefest and wittiest
answer to the following conundrum: A young
spendthrift who is able to borrow money only
because his affianced has promised to pay his
debts after the wedding, falls into a river to
gether with her before the wedding has taken
place, and both are on the point of being
drowneo. A miserly creditor of the young
man happens to pass, jumps into the water
and saves whom and why?
A New Marriage ltltnal.
Tho Marquis of Qtieensberry, who is be
ing sued for divorce, once proposed to substi
tute in the marriage ritual of tho English
church for the words: 'Whom God hath
joined together let no man put asunder" the
words "Whom tho government or nature
may put asunder let no man attempt to keep
together." Chicago Tribune.
Lengthened Hla Days.
"Stop smoking," said a Boston doctor to on
ailing patieut the other day, "and it will
lengthen your days." The patient stopped.
The doctor's prediction was verified. The
first day the patient declares was as long as
hto whole previous Mfe. Boston Transcript
A GREAT INDUSTRY.
UTILIZING A PRODUCT WHICH SOUTH
ERN FARMERS ONCE THREW AWAY.
Millions to Be Made Oat of Cotton Seed.
A Fertilizer and Stock Food Extrac
tion of ths Oil Tho Poaalblo Futare.
Stripping Lint from the Seed.
For nearly a century the southern farm
ers destroyed their cotton seed. One of the
farm problems was how to get rid of it A
few years ago somebody discovered that
cotton seed was the one perfect fertilizer for
tho cotton lands; that the seed held tho
essential elements that the cotton crop took
from the soiL Then everybody was ashamed
of having destroyed the seed for so many
generations. Slowly but surely every ton
was utilized as a fertilizer. Later some
body discovered that it was an excellent
food for stock. Then the farmers began
feeding with it
Along in '70 an objection wasfoindto
cotton seed as a fertilizer and stock food.
It was too rich. The excess of oil in the
seed prevented quick decomposition in the
soil, and made tho wool of sheep too kinky.
At the some time somebody discovered that
tho objectionable oil would sell well in mar
ket, so the first cotton seed oil mill was es
tablished. The industry was immensely
profitable, and in less than, five years 150 oil
mills sprang up in the south.
AN ENORMOUS INDUSTRY.
A ton of cotton seeds yields forty gallons
of oil, worth in its crude state $10. The hulls
of the seed are used as fuel to run the f ir
naco, and the ashes thereof sold for potash,
and cotton seed meal stripped of itsoil is
more valuable to the farmer as a fertilizer
aud stock food than it was when it held tho
oil. This season 500,000 tons of cotton
seed have gone through the nulls, from
which o,000,000 worth of crudo oil has
been taken. Tho meal cake returned to
tho soil without the oil has lost nothing, while
tho south has gained $5,000,000. Tho crude
oil, however, is ronfied, which quadruples
its value. It is sold mostly for export, and
returns to America as olive oil. The mills
pay the farmer about $10 a ton for cotton
seed, three tons of which will moke ono ton
of cotton meal, which thoy sell back to the
farmer for $18 for fertilizing or feeding
purposes.
Now, see the progress. Twenty years ago
cotton seed was burned or destroyed on south
ern farms. Then it began to be used as a
fertilizer or stock food. Last year $o,000,
000 worth of crude oil was taken out of 500,
000 tons of seed without injuring its value
for other purposes, which oil was refined up
to a value of perhaps $20,000,000.
This enormous industry, which as yet
treats but 500,000 tons out of 3,000,000 tons
of the full crop of cotton seed, has lately at
tracted the attention of northern capitalists,
it is said, especially tho Standard Oil com
pany, and a remarkable company has been
formed. Last season produced acid seed,
very unfavorable for oil purposes. Tho
mills, which had been making immense
profits, lost money. Several of them applied
to New York for money. Others were offered
for sale. Tho American Cotton Oil Trust
was organized. A score of mills were
pooled, and agents of the company went
to buying up until out of the 150 oil mills
in tho country the company owns about
126. T'lese nulls represent a cash value
of $3,000,000. Tho stock of tho com
pany is $35,000,000. It is listed in tho New
York Stock Exchange, and is now selling at
about CO, so fiat tho $3,000,000 worth of
mill property now has a selling value of
$21,000,000.
THK POSSIBILITIES.
The possible expansion of this business
is startling. Less than one-sixth of tho an
nual supply of cotton seed is now being
treated, and yet the crude oil alone yields
$5,000,000, and tho cotton meal $3,000,000
and more. Tho oil when refined will yield
$20,000,000. Multiply thus figures by six,
and you see what the present income of this
company will be. Tho monopoly once es
tablished, the company can make its own
prices for cotton seed. Already tho price
has been reduced about $2 a ton. By shut
ting up the small mills and concentrating
machinery and management in the large
ones the process can bo cheapened. The
demand for oil is limitless. The export trade
alone would toko the product of the entire
cotton seed crop. The demand for cotton
meal in Engand alone would exhaust tho
present annual supply, but the farmers ore
obstinate about letting it go from their
land, and buy it readily at $13 a ton, which
is $12 less than they receive for the three
tons of seed necessary to make it, and out of
which $30 worth of crude oil has been taken.
Without counting tho sale of potash, the
mills now get without refining the oil $48
out of three tons of seed, for which they
pay$24.
A short time ago the company paid
$1,000,000 for an invention of a western
chap for stripping the lint from the seed by
aulphuric acid bath. The purpose was to
make export of the seed in bulk, the lint
left on the seed by the gin making it sweat
and spoil in the ship's hold. Tho sulphuric
acid burns into the black of the seed which
holds the oil. After being tried the project
was abandoned, but the western chap still
holds his $1,000,000 worth of stoc The gin
makers have improved their machinery, un
til the seed is denuded entircry of lint.
Another process which the company will
probably buy is that of treating the ctton
seed with naphtha, as flax seed is treated in
the west This process, it Ls said, will yield
a larger percentage of oil at much smaller
cost It has been tried iu a casual way in
tho southern mills, but abandoned. Now
York Sun.
BATTLE OF CHICKASAW BAYOU.
A Desperate and Gallant Charge Made
by Gen. Frank Blair's Brigade.
A charge made by Gen. Frank Blair on
Monday, the last and bloodiest day of tho
battle, was one of the most desperate and gal
lant feats recorded in history. Separating
him from the steep bluffs occupied by the
enemy was a cottonwood grove, which had
been felled by the Confederates, and which
was an entanglement through which an un
armed, unincumbered man could pass with
only tho greatest difficulty. On the sido of
tho cottonwood maze, next to the enemy's
position, was a deep bayou, whose opposite
bank was some ten feet in height On this
bank was a series of abattis, whose pointed
limbs barred the approach of a hostile force.
Just beyond the abattis was the first line of
rifle pits. Gen. Blair, with four regiments,
was assigned to carry the position in front of
him. Ho must make his way through the
dense fallen cottonwoods, he must then de
scend into, cross the deep and muddy bayou,
climb its steep bank beyond and then break
through the deep abattis that crowned its
top, where he would find himself on a level,
uncovered space swept by rifle pits, scores of
guns and other lines of defenses which cov
ered the foot of the sloping bluff beyond.
One would fancy that the feat of charging
across this space, every inch of which was
swept by riflemen and artillery, would be an
utter impossibility. Mounted and in full uni
form, the gallant Missourian led the charge.
How he ever forced his way through the
fallen timber, descended into and climbed
out of the bayou, gained a passage through
the abattis, and all the time covered with a
tempest of shell and bullet, and escaped an
nihilation cannot be told. But he did it all,
and accompanied by a single man, also
mounted, bs rods into the first line of rifle
pita, His regiments struggled after him, and
secured lodgment in the first line of works,
and held them for a time, but, being unsup
ported they had to return to their original
position.
Blair waa a moat interesting man in every
respect TaQ. wall formed, with a "sandy"
complexion, light gray eyes, heavy mustache,
clean shaved face, and a fine forehead cov
ered with a mass of reddish hair, distingue in
style and bearing, he wss handsome sad
commanding. Ha was alow and deliberate
in speech, like one accustomed to addressing
large audiences; he was versatile,.. doing
everything well, from leading a charge to
uncorking a bottle, and in all instanows char
acterised by a calm, dispassionate manner
and a manner full of dignity. He never
seemed to have the slightest knowledge of
the composition of fear if he did, ha con
cealed the fact so completely that oa no oc
casion was its existence discovered. In con
versation ho was a polite, attentive listener,
and an engaging, unaaBuming talker. Be
neath all his outward mlmmas be had a tre
mendous force, a fact which was demon
strated by the momentum with which he
throw his columns against the bristling,
deadly heights of Chickasaw bayou. "Po
linto" in Chicago Times.''
Baby Kins; of Spain.
To BaVJrview an adult emperor, king or full
fledged president is not very extraordinary,
but to look up a majesty only 0 months old
implies that the force of interviewing can no
further go-AJphonso XlH of Spain and his
nurse Raymunda have been subjected to that
Nineteenth century inquisition. Ths baby
king to well and is engaged cutting his first
teeth. All hisantourage whan alluding to
him say "His Majesty." His mamma and
wet nurso adopts tie familiar title of "baby."
Indeed Raymunda a name of Madagascar
origin occasionally alludes to him as her
mioche. There was onco a Bourbon princess
interred at St Denis at the age of 2 days.
She was alluded to in tho court circulars as
"The high and mighty princes3," with a
string of et ceteras that would crack the
brain of even a Spanish lord chamberlain to
remember.
Alphonse eats, sleeps and laughs sad plays
welL Raymunda's sole duty is to give him
the breast The couple are visited twice a
day by ths doctors, the baby is weighed
every ten days and the nurso' s milk analyzed
weekly. Thero may bo death in tho breast as
well as in tho pot His majesty has his own
household; quite an army of mojor domes is
told off to attend to his sjightest wants. A
special guard of beefeaters watch the nurs
ery, which is close to the queen regent's
chamber, and for sixteen years still tho samo
precautions will be taken. On that depends
the stability of a throne and the happiness of
16,000,000 people. When her majesty wishes
to pay a compliment to a friend or a dig
nitary sho takes baby into her own arms and
makes a double presentation. Whenever Al
phonse looks supremely happy she has his
photo at once taken. Quite a picture gallery
could bo furnished of portraits of tho queen
embracing her son-in-heir. All her husband's
family are as true to tho widowed queen as
tho needle to the pole, and sho finds in the
routine of her state business the best anttdote
for her bereavement Foreign Cor. Chicago
Journal
An Irish Horse Trade.
The following story was told to a
clerical friend in the west by a country
man named Dinny Cooley: "Good mor
row, Dinny; where did you get tho horse?"
"Well, I'll tell your reverence. Soma time
at) I went to tho fair of Ross, not with this
horse but with another horse. Well, sorra a
man said to mo: 'Dinny, do you come from
tho aist or do you coma from tho wesht?' and
when I left the fair thre washtn't wan to
say: 'Dinny, are you going to theaist or are
you going to the wesht?' Well, your rever
ence, I rode home and was near Kilnagrosa
when I met a man riding along the road
fornins me. 'Good evening, friend,' said
he. 'Good evening, friend,' said L 'Were
you at the fair of Ross?' sez he. 'I was,'
sez I. 'Did yon sell?' eez he. 'No,' sez I.
'Would you sell?' sez he. 'Would you
buy?' sez I. 'Would you make a clean
swop?' sez he; 'horse, bridle and saddle and
all?' sez he. 'Done I' sez I.
"Well, your reverence, I got down off av
me horse, not this horso but the other horse,
and tho man got down off av his horse, that's
this horse, not tho other horse, and wo
swapped and rod away. But when ho had
gone about twenty yards ho turned round
and called after me. "There mver was a
nmn from Ross,' sez he, 'but could put his
finger in tho eyeav a man fromKilnagross,'
sez he; 'and that horso,' sez he, 'is blind av
an eye,' sez he. Well then, your reverence,
I twjpcd upon him and I called out to him:
"There niver was a man from Kilnagrcss,'
sez I, 'but could put his two fingers in both
the eyes avaman from Ross,' sez I; 'and
that horse that I swopped with you,' sez I,
is blind in both his eyes, 'sez I." The Spectator-
Not So Expenstvo Now.
Mrs. Muggins And so your daughter has
married ono of your boarders? Mrs. Wug
gins Yes; he was tho most expensive boarder
I've had sinco I came to Omaha always in
the house, keeping the fires blazing and the
gas burning; why, he liked to ruined me.
"But your daughter married him" "Yes;
ho spends his evenings at the club now."
Omaha World.
The Coast of New Jersey.
The Atlantic coast of New Jersey is ninety
miles long, and a generation ago was a bar
ren waste of sand and scrub oak. Then the
property, where aro now thriving hamlets
and prosperous seaside resorts, was valued at
less than $3,000,000; to-day the same property
to assessed for taxation at upward of $100,
000,000. Boston Transcript.
Good Management.
One of the partners in an Indiana grist
mill which had been closed up by the
sheriff was explaining to a New Yorker tho
other day that it all camo about through
tho good management of his partner.
"Good management in a failure!" queried
the Yorker. "Exactly. We keep no books
and cashier. Tho ono who was around tho
most pocketed tho most money, and he
managed to be around tho most."
Object to the Word "Daco."
L'ltalia, an Italian newspaper of Chicago,
objects strongly to tho word "Dago," as
applied to Italians, and says that they
consider it a gross insult This word
which is used very often in the west in
speaking of Italians, particularly of tho la
boring class, is almost unknown in tins city.
Now York Sun.
The Diamond of Kimberley.
The United States consul at Sydney, New
South Wales, in his last report on tho dia
mond mines of that region, oints out tho
suggestive fact that the famous Kimberley
mine, of South Africa, has produced more
diamonds during tho last fifteen years than
tho wholo world had produced for two cen
turies previously. New York Commercial
Advertiser.
The Kara of Criminal.
Tho president of tho Berlin police calls at
tention to the advantages accruing to police
authorities every where by taking profile pho
tograplts of criminals which will distinctly
show the left ear. He says that while the
features of tho faco change in the courso of
time, the car retayis its shape forever, and
furthermore, there aro no two persons whose
ears aro identically formed. Boston Trans
cript A Splendid Memory.
Wealthy Slerchant What! You here
again! Why, I kicked you down stairs and
out into the btrcet thb morning, you impu
dent fellow. 1'edillpr Tsh tint sn? Vm a
splendid memory! I bad forgotten all aliout
ic uoirt you vant to puy a icuuer duster
peforo you kick me out bomo more. Texas
Siftings.
Metal llts, worn by a certain class of
women in Paris, have already lx-en intro
duced here.
Tiny toboggans now "dangle from the
bangle" worn by the progressive girl of the
period.
National Bank!
OF
COI.TJ3IJ3TJ6. HEB.
-HAS AN-
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
And the largest Paid ia Cask Capital of
any bank ia this part of tl-e State,
ESDeposita received and interest paid on
time depoeit.
J3PDraft3 on the princ iral cities in this coon
try and Europe bought and Bold.
"Collections and all other business given
prompt and careful attention.
STOOKnOLDKBS.
A. ANDERSON. Pres't.
HERMAN P. II. OEHLRICH,
VicoPrea't
O.T. ROEN, Cashier.
J. P. BECKER. HERMAN OEHLRICH.
G. SCHUTTE, W. A. MCALLISTER,
JONAS WELCH, JOHN W. EARLY.
P.ANDERSON. G.ANDERSON.
ROBERT UHL1G. CARLREINKe!
Apr2S-'S6tf
justness ards.
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F. J. Schco, M. D.
Drs. XABTYff & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Snrgrons. Union Pacific, O.. N. &
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Consultation in German and English. Tele
phones at office and r-idencet..
JSF-Offic on Olive ttre-t. uest to Brodfaeh
rer's Jewelry Storn.
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bus, Nebraska.
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BE" Parties d-siring surveying dono can nd-dre-.
me at Columbus. Noli., or call nt mv office
in I ourt House. 5inajeC-y
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I will be p.t my office in tho Court House the
third faiuruaj vi each month for the examina
tion of lPaoiiTs. iU-tf
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Convey goods, betw.-eu nny point.- of th city.
bfind suitable for pIistcn-K and building pur
poses, f umihed in any part of city or on board
cars, at reasonable prices. 30mar&7y
JOHN (i. IIIuClNS. C J. GAKLOW.
Collection Attorney.
HIGGLES & GAB10W,
ATTORSEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty made of Collection,, by C. J. Gorlow.
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Chronic Diseases and Diseases of
Children a Specioltv.
J2Office on Oiive stre t, three doors north of
hin-t National I5jjik. 2-ly
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llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
SelN Harness, Saddles. Collars, Whips, Blankets.
I urry Combs, Brushes, trunks, valicce, buggy
tops, cushions-, carriage trimmings, Ac, at the
lowest po-sible price. Rejairs promptly at
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Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter
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iyShop on Olite strtt. 2 doors north of
Brxifuehrers Jewelry Store. 32-tf
can live at home, and make moro
Wmoney at work for us than at any
I llllthinv eLse in tho world. Capital not
W arneeded: joa aro started fre. Both
sexes: all ages. Anj one can do the wi rk. Larga
earning sui from nrst start. Ctly outfit and
termi f re. Better not delaj . Cot j ou nothing
to send us your addiest and find out; if jou aro
wis you will do so at once. II. HAiiiTT & Co..
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