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WAR ON THE RHINE.
A VETERAN'S VIEW OF THE FRENCH
AND GERMAN ARMIES.
The Condition Existing In 1870 In
Favor or Germany Wilt Aid .France
Should Hostilities Ilreak Out Hatred
of llisinarck.
The writer passed some time in the French
and Gentian cainjw on the eve of the Franco
Prtiian war. The opular feeling then was
a good indication of what was to occur at the
first provocation. Germany arose as one
man; it arose for an idea, and France went
ns far as jorsonal enthusiasm for a romantic
figure could carry it and broke down when
the initcriul puppet was removed. There is
an interesting field for study in tbe two
nations to-day as they stand logically pitted
against each other by reason of clashing tra
ditions and opposing principles of govern
ment. There seems to be, however, a com
plete reversal of circumstances; and much
that favored Germany in 1870 is not with
Crennaiiy tolay, butjs with France; and
much that weakened Franco under the second
empire is not with France to-day, but is with
the rival empire across the Rhine.
Prussia has Iwcomo the empire and the old
opposition crj- of lS0f against Bismarck
one man power! has come to full realiza
tion. The states have had union, a national
sentiment and a .national iwlicy, mid what do
tbey think of them? The discontent of the
leop!e lias not subsided; poverty lias in
increased: emigration has gone on at a won
derful rate. The peoplo turned awaj from
loyalty to princes and nobility, the old tie
that Itouud land and ieoplo and government,
and their golden traditions are gone. Great
estates have absorbed Iho land and the young
have no homo feeling and no incentive to
love the native soil. There aro many indica
tions upon the surfneo to show a state of
things far different to that of 1S70. Experi
ence has taught them that they have ex
changed such liberties as their lnzy and
frivolous kinglets allowed them for a menial
Mr ic4 to u mighty and all alBorbing power
that grinds on remorselessly, a power only
great in itself and reducing all outside to a
littleness more beggarly than before.
Tho Germans have stood for independence,
progress in thought and the amelioration
of man. But it is not many years since
Bismarck sounded a warning note of
another kind. It was not aimed at a
foreign foe, but an internal one, namely:
sensualism. lie said that dissi(ation was
sapping the manliness of tho nation. All
of that mighty force of human energy called
up by tho political agitations of Bismarck's
early days turned from tho noble channels of
loftj- endeavor to etty indulgence and base
gratifications. The beer and music gardens
conquered the all conquering Germans and
their warmest friends, liave mourned over it.
In another direction the energies of that
powerful people were turned into fields of
scientific discovery and Virchow and Buch
ner, not to mention Darwin and other out
siders, led the excited minds into all the daz
rling mysteries of organic creation and de
velopment, and the destructive school of Bible
critics at Stuttgart, with Bauer at the head,
iaved the way for a widespread materialism
that has liorue fruit in this age.
But in Franco all is national, all is fixed
upon one idea, ultimately, and that idea de
stroj'S the possibility of any alarming spirit
of neutrality or indifference. legitimist,
imierialist, republican or socialist, believe in
France, and once Franco is exalted the fac
tions can settle somehow which shall rule.
This national ambition is not one of conquest,
bat looks only to the Uheui$h border, to Al
sace and the old provinces w here Germany
stands in the wa'. The name of German
brings up a spectre that all Frenchmen loj'
ally hate.
Now the man of France who nurses this
hatred of German' is the citizen, the free and
independent bourgeois. He is in tho army and
he stands today in the same relation to the
struggle for nationality that his German
couutei part did in 1S70 toward the unifica
tion of Germany. The regular army of Ger
many is a lody of conscripts, and made up ol
lieasants who cannot evade the rigorous
draft. This peasant conscript lives in the
barrack and has all the fraditions of imperial
service to hold him to his work. Ho was a
menial out of the army, and his pickel-haube
and breechloader makes him a man of conse
quence. Beyond what this boorish en
thusiasm for a strong crown amounts to
Bismarck cannot hope for popular support
outride of Prussia. The burgher or citizen
clement in the standing army is independent
It is voluntary in a sense, is self-sustaining,
lives outside the liarracks, and looks upon th
service as an evil and a burden to be avoided.
When this element comes to be summoned ir
the Landwehr for field duty, the crown must
show good reason for its action or the Land
wehr will not stand to its work. The brunt
of battle in a new conflict with France will
doubtless fall upon the ignorant peasantry ol
Germany, Mho can lw held to their posts and
will have a sort of brute enthusiasm, good sc
long as kept in motion. But Bismarck nevei
yet won a light with such material. In lSGi
the Prussian schoolmaster whipped the Aus
trian boor at Sadowa. That was the boast
of the time. In 1870 the schoolmaster and
his enthusiastic young ally from the burghei
class struck together for the unification ol
Germany at Sedan. Both then made wa
under tho empire for a huge standing army ol
tho most illiterate orders tho could noi
escape by emigration, or get exemption
through privileges open to the bnrgher class,
and so the man in pickel-haubo to-day is a
peasant His French antagonist will be a
citizen whose heart is in his work, and whose
nation is his God. George L. Kilmer iu New
York Mail and'Express.
A PISTOL FOR SUICIDES.
Protided for World Weary Prisoners in
a Cincinnati Police Station.
The most prevailing idea that seizes pris
oners locked up at the station house is that
they can not survive the shame and disgrace
and must kill themselves. Hardly a night
lasses but that some one of these desperate
unfortunates is placed behind the bars at
Central station. Often a young woman, who
has taken the false step, finds herself in a po
sition where she must face the terrible judge
in the morning. Probably the wine got the
better of her senses, she is pounced upon by
tbe police for some breach of the peace, and,
deserted by her companion in the night's
frolic, finds that publicity is forced upon her
in its awfulest form. It may be that sho has
been enticed to one of those places provided
for the unwary, and a sudden raid groups her
with a lot of crc&tures who have lost all sense
of the shame she feels so keenly for the first
time. No doubt the dark side of her life has
been kept secret from the home circle. But
now her disgrace muse be exposed to the
family and the world. In such a moment
death would seem a relief.
Probably the unfortuno may be a young
man, whose discrepancies have at last brought
him within the grasp of the law. He, too;
would rather meet death than the terrible ar
raignment in court. It is not unusual for
these classes in their desperation to call for
means to end their existence. Of ten they will
call the turnkey to their cell and plead for a
weapon with which to blow out their brains.
Equal to such emergencies. Turnkey Wright,
at Central station, has provided what he calls
the "suicide pistol" It is one of those small,
seven-chambered affairs that shoot a hole tbe
size of a little pilL Long ago the spring dis
appeared, but to outward appearance it is as
dangerous as it ever was.
"Oh, for a pistol to kill myself with," will
come tbe agonizing cry from a celL
"Is that all you wantP replies the accom
modating turnkey; "we keep one here just for
that purpose."
The harmless weapon & brought and eager
ly grasped through toe bars. The would-be
suicide is probably in neb a frame of aaind
that be does not notice that It Is unloaded and
tbe hammer will not work. Borne nerve
themselves to the point of placing it to their
beads and pulling tbe trigger. Others will
raise the impotent weapon hesitatingly, let it
fall and finally conclude that disgrace is pref
erable to death. It was with this weapon that
tho pseudo Duke Scbaat tried to eoaunit sui
cide before his removal to jaiL The look, of
disgust that overspread his features when be
saw its harmless nature cannot be pictured.'
It does not hurt tbe prisoners, and, as Turn
key Wright says, has a wonderfully soothing
effect. Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Distinctly American Decoration.
It is getting to pass at our theatres that tbe
managers will presently have to provide a
special section, with ample troughs and con
duits connecting with the sewer, as a tobacco
cbewers1 sty. I have often noticed in the
court rooms and corridors and ante-rooms of
our public buildings how tbe decorations
were enhanced by original designs in sepia.
The cuspidor Is a familiar accessory of every
hotel parlor, and a good many private ones.
There are aesthetic cuspidors made specially
for the drawing' room, and humble but ca
pacious ones for the bar room. But it is,
anyhow, impossible to wander anywhere ia
public without encountering something;, from
the modest box of sawdust up to tho gilded
majolica urn, provided for the salvation of
the carpet on the floor.
The theatres have not yet adopted tbe cus
pidor as an attachment of every seat. Con
sequently tbe men who chew tobacco during
a performance are reduced to the more prim
itive methods of relieving their overburdened
mouths. The other evening, at Mr. Harrl
gau's theatre, my neighbor was a well knows
man about town. He was sumptuously ar
rayed in evening dress, and when he came in
wore a bran now silk hat of the latest London
make, which he deposited under bis seat.
When he prepared to depart be discovered
that the person behind him had adapted bis
bead gear to tbe uses of tbe old time sawdust
box, and had resorted to it so diligently that
itsvaluoasa hat was over for good andalL
The disgusted flaneur had to go home in a
coach, swearing that ho would hold tbe
management responsible for his defiled tile.
Tho author of its destruction sat placidly
chewing bis cud while bis victim was de
nouncing him, and said never a word in re
ply. Alfred Trumble in Nevr York News.
The Chinese Inveterate Gamblers.
"Tbe Chinese are tbe most inveterate gam
blers in the world," says an Orientally in
clined friend of mine. John Chinaman will
work all the week, night and day, for the
sake of gathering together a few dollars with
which to play his favorite game on Sunday.
He will "blow in" every cent and start for
home in the small hours of Monday morning
completely cleaned out, but apparently at
happy and contented as ever. In the Chinese
quarter of New York tbe re is a clique of Ce
lestial sharpers who regularly fleece their less
sophisticated countrymen. Some of them are
worth all tho way from fSO.OOO to $100,000,
and it is simply impossible for their compara
tively poor victims to get the best of them
The majority of Chinamen play simply for
the sake of gambling and will go back again
and again to the dens where they have been
repeatedly robbed of their hard earned dol
lars. This fact is but too well known to the
blacklegs running the fan tan games, and I
understand that few, if any, of the dens are
conducted "on the square." Brooklyn Eagle.
Monkeys In a Race
Monkeys are susceptible of anger, and tes
tify it by the same actions as men. Du
Chaillu's bald chimpanzee, as has been seen
already, showed marked preference for cer
tain -food. When one kind was given him
and bo liked another better, be would become
irritated, throw what had been offered him
to the ground, stamp his foot, and utter a
particular cry. He conducted himself like a
completely spoiled child.
Dr. Abel's orang-outang (simia satyrus)
would get into a rage when refused tbe fruit
he demanded. He would roll on the ground
like an angry child, uttering piercing cries.
Monkeys in a state of liberty show similar
signs of anger and hatred. The green apes
that Adamsou pursued in tho forests ol
Senegal, would knit their brows, grind their
teeth, and scold furiously. Henry Howard in
Cosmopolitan.
Oldest Christian Church.
The oldest specimen of Christian architect
ure in the world is the Church of the Nativity
at Bethlehem, which was built A. D. S27 bj
the Empress Helena, mother of Constantim
the Great An altar in this splendid basilica
is said to mark the spot where were buried
the 0,000 children massacred by order ol
Herod. Here also is a low vault, called the
Cliaiiel of the Nativity, with an inscription
which says: "Here Jesus Christ was born of
tho Virgin Mary." The ancient church fa
now used by all sects alike, and it is in a state
of great neglect. Adjoining it are Roman
Catholic, Greek and Armenian convents, and
connected with it is a chamber which was for
merly the study of St Jerome. Boston Bud
get The Lord Mayor's Mistake.
Tho lord mayor, a few years ago, was try
ing a case at the Mansion house. Not satis
fied with the testimony of a witness, be cau
tioned him to be careful, saying: "You must
be very careful in your statements, for I
could have sworn that when I arose thk
morning I put my watch into my pocket,
and I have only just missed it; and now recol
lect that I left it on my dressing table."
On his return home, tbe lady mayoress
asked what had caused him to send so many
messengers in such quirk succession for his
watch and chain, as but one could take it to
him. His lordship then saw his indiscretion.
Several professional thieves had started im
mediately for that watch, and the first one
bad obtained it Youth's Companion.
Actresses and Their Jewels.
It is strange that actresses have not learned
to appreciate tho risk of carrying their jewels
with them on their professional tours. Another
case of robbery of a distinguished artist's
diamonds and pearls has been reported. In
cJden times, brass mounted bits of colored
glass answered every purpose on the stage.
But those were the days when salaries were
more equitably apportioned than is now the
rule at the theatre, and the idea of giving
90 per cent of the receipts to a star or
leader of a company had not been conceived,
Ikistou Transcript
Salvationists in Ceylon.
Miss Anna Ballard, wj?.'. known among
journalists in New York Tity as the only
female member of the Presa -dub, writes from
Colombo, Ceylon, that thc Salvation Army
has attacked the island, bu 'iiat tbe soldiers
are regarded there with li tie favor. The
natives haven't the least '"da what tbey are
np to, and think that then peculiar antics and
goings on are only amuriti: illustrations of
the peculiarities of theErg'ish people. Tbe
Argonaut
Gen. Zackary Taylor.
Walt Whitman rememle.'s meeting Gen.
Taylor in New Orleans abut forty years ago,
and found him, in civilian s rlothes, "a jovial,
old, rather stout, plain vat r, with a wrinkled
and dark, yellow face, ani in ways and man
ners the least of conventional ceremony or
etiquette I ever saw; he augbed unrestrain
edly at everything comiciL He had a great
personal resemblance t Fenimoro Cooper,
the novelist." Exchange.
Loaklns; Oat for Hist.
Countryman (in an uptown hotel) What
time is supper ready, mister r
Clerk Six o'clock, sir.
Countryman (with an air of vexation)
Well, I've got some business to tend to afore
I eat, an' I'm 'f raid I wont git back till 'bout
seven.
Clerk I'll have the cook pat soBaething
away for you on a plate. New York Bun.
LIBRARIAN SPOFFORD.
PROBABLY THE MOST RAPID READER
IN THIS COUNTRY.
Reading a Dally Newspaper Plcklag Oat
the Sleat or a Book A Time Wasting
Habit Arrangement of Books ia the
Library.
Mr. Spofford, the librarian of congress, is
probably tbe most rapid reader in this coun
try. The other day a reporter sought some
information of him. Simultaneously, within
a space of five minutes, be conversed with
the reporter, "read" through completely a
twelve page New York paper, dictated a let
ter to a stenographer and gave directions to
two assistants. He commenced all at the
same time and finished them together. A re
mark, a sentence dictated aside, a direction,
a sentence dictated, a remark and so on, ap
parently without an effort, and all the time
his eyes were running over the paper almost
as fast as he could turn from page to page.
The reporter asked him afterwards how he
did it
"Oh, it comes natural for me to give my
attention to two or three things together that
way. I do it by a sort of intuition without
thinking of it"
PICKINQ OUT THE MEAT.
"But how do you read so rapidly f
"I acquire the subject matter," said Mr.
Spofford. "I pick out the meat the pith. I
pay no attention to the verbiage. I scarcely
see the words and never note the form of sen
tences. 1 have learned, by long practice and
having a natural tendency for it, to get the
information without the rhetoric. In this
way the thought is got at a glance. It is not
tbe words you want. When your time is all
too short for your work you can't afford to
waste it on words. In reading there is so
much that is of no use to you u worthless lot
of verbiage. By practice you can avoid all
this. Nearly all books or papers are taken up
mostly with rhetoric, and have the fact and
substance stored away in a very small space,
if you only know how to find it I seldom
spend more than half an hour and never
more than an hour and a half in reading or
reconnoisancc of the largest volume. For in
stance, I take this," and he took a volume
from the shelf. "No," looking at the title,
"this is hardly the proper book to illustrate it
with. This is Carlyle; he has to be read;
every word. He is one of the few authors
who cannot be read as I have described. You
must read ever' word, and well It pays you
for the time. But it is only such a rugged
and extraordinary writer that it is necessary
to read that way. AH those thousands of
books with smooth, easy running sentences,
they are all alike, and you don't want to
waste time on tho language you want to
seize on to the soul nnd devour it in an instant
Like this, now," and he reached another book
(not Carlyle), and went down the pages one
after another, as an expert accountant would
go down a column of figures. "Nothing there
1 want, nor there, nor there." Then occasion
ally striking something to the point and get
ting the thought in an instant He went over
probably fifteen or twenty pages in this way
in a length of time hardly worth reckoning,
and without even making a break in the con
versation. "Many people," Mr. Spoffonl went on,
"have tho time wasting habit of pronouncing
every word in their mind and noticing every
pause and punctuation as they go along as if
reading aloud. All these words and sen
tences, with tbe capitalization and punctua
tion the commas, the colons, the semicolons,
the periods and paragraphs, are only tbe signs
to be followed, but not to bo recorded in tho
mind. Many readers, perhaps most readers,
chuck their heads up with commas and colons
instead of thoughts."
ARRANGEMENT OF THK BOOKS.
"It is said," suggested tbe reporter, "that
you know every book in the library P
"In a general way. I know where to find
every book, its size and general appearance,
and its subject matter. I could not tell you
the contents of the !ooks, but merely what
they are about There are some 600,000
volumes, arranged in forty-four subdivisions,
which are again subdivided. I have the
library arranged according to what I con
ceived to be the common sense plan. The
books are arranged alphebetically by subject,
the fiction only by authors. You are now in
tbe alcove containing biographies of English
men. The alcoves are arranged alphabetic
ally by subjects, and the books within ar
ranged in their alphabetical order. For in
stance, take Cromwell; all the biographies of
Cromwell are together, and next is another
"C" progressively. Supp-ise some one wants
a certain work on finance. I know it is in
that alcove up there. I know what book it is
by association, and just where it is. But
that alcove is overflowed, and the books are
all piled up on the floor and along there in
front Suppose they ask for a book of com
paratively recent date. I know it is not on
tho shelves, because they were filled long be
fore its publication. So it must be in that
pile somewhere. I know tbe size of the book
and its appearance; I can recognize, it, for it
passed through my hands to get into the
library. For tho past twenty years every
book that has come into tbe library has gone
through my hands, and I remember it. In a
general way I know its size and appearance,
and about what is in it Any one of them
you mention I will remember it and what it
is like. It is all a working of the mind by
association."
"How about finding quotations " asked the
reporter.
"Well, if a member wants to use a quota
tion that is not in 'familiar quotations' and
is from a poet who has no concordance
Byron and Burns, for instance, have no con
cordanceand he wants to know the exact
words and where it comes from, be will
probably come to me. He will likely remem
ber in a general way what it is a few of the
words or what it is about and the meter.
I may be able to tell by its sound who its au
thor is, and I can form an idea anyhow as to
the period it belongs to. Then I discard all
poems of an earlier or a later period, then I
discard all authors I knew could not have
written it, and then I discard again all poems
of a different metre and all upon subjects
wherein the quotation coild not occur. In
this way I harrow my field of research, and
then I generally have little difficulty in find
ing what I want
"It is the same principle throughout dis
card all that you don't want" Washington
Star Interview.
? FINGER NAIL INDICATIONS.
Bigas that Show the Temper and Dis
position of People.
He who has white spots on his nails is fond
of tbe society of ladies, but is fickle in bis at
tachments. He who keeps them well rounded
at the tip is a proud man. He whose nails are
detached from the finger at tbe f ursjier ex
tremity, and when cut showing a larger pro
portion of tbe finger than usual, ought never
to get married, as it would be a wonder if he
were master in his own house, for short nails
betoken patience, good nature, and above
all, resignation under severe trials.
Nails which remain long after being cut
level with tbe finger end are a sign of gener
osity. Transparent nails suffused with ligbtred
mark a cheerful, gentle and amiable disposi
tion. Lovers with transparent nails usually
carry their passion to tbe verge of madness.
If you come across a man with long and
pointed nails you may take it for granted
that be is either a player of. tbe guitar, a
tailor or an attorney.
He who keeps his nails somewhat long,
round and tipped with black is a romantic
poet Any one having the nail of his left
thumb all streaked, as though it had been
stained with snuff, is sure to be a school
master. Thick nails indicate obstinacy and
ill nature. He whose nails are dirty all over
is a recluse, a philosopher, a compositor or a
dver. A man with yellow nails ia one who
1 indulges in every species of vice, that of
I smoking being the most predominate. Be
careful not to confound with these such aa
are in tbe habit of peeling their oranges with
! out a knife.
The owner of very round and smooth nails
is of a peaceable and conciliatory disposition.'
He .who has the uail of his right thumb
Uightly notched is a regular glutton, even
nibbling at himself, as, when having nothing
eatable at hand, be falls to biting his own
finger nails. And lastly, he who keeps his
nails irregularly cut is hasty and determined.
Men who have not the patience to cut their
nails properly generally come to grief; most
of thesa commit suicide or get married. We
advisatbe fair sex to keep their eyes on the
nails A intending husbands if they are to
look ftr happiness in their wedded life. Ex
changb. The Gypsy's Teat Home.
The, observance is universal of the rule
which prevents all men and women from oc
cupying the inner compartments of the tents
only at night, or when driven to the same by
storms; though you may lounge in the front
of the taut to your heart's content day and
night , Incase of quarrels involving serious
strugfUag.and possibly endangering life, no
manWWKBfrg himself mayne pursued with
in hi tent 'Inis Is an inviolable law, and tbe di
rest penalties will surley follow its infraction.
Gypsies cling to an old tent to the but moment
it can be spliced and patched together, out of
pure affection for it "An old tent's an old
friend,'" in otie of their sayings. Any gypsy
born under a tent preserves a piece of the
bows or the woolen covering until his dying
lay, and it is then burned with his effects.
Nothing can make them confess it, but there
is clearly discoverable a superstitiou that this
bit of tho old tent homo will somehow accom
pany them and serve them a good turn in the
future world. That place, or condition, is
expected to provide them with all prized ma
terial things, especially inclusive of splendid
horses end limitless free grazing. To be born
in tho tent carries pride as does a good strain
of blood. Those born in a bouse are regarded
as unfortuuate. They are often called in de
rision kair rajahs or "house lords."
The tent almost invariably faces southward.
The natural inference regarding this is merely
the expression of a denire to secure the health
ful and genial sunshine; but a deeper signifi
cance attaches. It is not difficult to trace, in
this fact, a lingering recognition of tho adora
tion taught in the sacred Zend A vesta. Ed
gar L. Wakeman in Chicago News.
A Senator's Wayward Sou.
Senator Fair's son and namesake is known
as a "terror" at home, and with all the ad
vantages that unlimited wealth could com
mand for him, there is nothing of character
or refinement about him. He was sent
around the world with a tutor as a measure
of education and escape from bad company
at home, and the tutor had the sympathy of
all the nations be visited. He has gone
around tho Horn in sailing ships and been
sent on other long sea voyages to break up
bis bad habits on land. Last spring his father
offered to give him a round million of his
own if he would stop drinking for a year.
Hu kept the pledge for seven mouths, and
then leaving his lather's room the other night
in twenty minutes was crazy drunk with his
first tate of liquor and flourishing a pistol
wildly. The irate futher had the youth
caged for thu night under his own eye, and iu
the morning shipped him to Panama. That
or any other tropical town is a poor place to
bend a boy to reform, the more usual experi
ence being that the climate and tho intemper
ate habits of such places carry off a riotous
newcomer iu short time. Washington Cor.
Globe-Democrat
Quail a Nulsauce in California.
Quail have multiplied so hi California that
they are a nuisance. When the game law was
being discussed in the assembly the other day
Assemblyman Young said that there "was a
revolution" in his county (San Diego) against
quail, which come down in swarms upon
vineyards and destroy them. Owners of
vineyards have persons employed to do noth
ing else tbun kill these birds, which ho de
clared have become an intolerable nuisance
hi bis county. He recited an instance where
a swarm of these quails ate up tho pasturage
that cattle fed upon. His constituents de
manded that a remedy be privided. The
bill was so amended that quail may be killed
between March 1 and Sept. 10, whilo during
the grape season they may lie also trapped.
New York Sun.
From London to Madrid.
The establishment of n bi-weekly swift
train from London to Madrid in fifty-one
hours a gain of twelve and from London
to Lisbon in thirty-six hours a gain of seven
teenhas more importance than seems. It is
tbe first tangible step toward the realization
of tho king of Portugal's dream to make
Lisbon the Liverpool of tbe south, in which
cables and steamer lines will later figure.
The train will run irom Lisbon to Calais
without change of cars. The break of gauge
ou the French frontier is obviated by lifting
tho carriages by derricks upon new platforms
with other wheels. Luggage is sealed to its
destination. Tho Argonaut
How Uarlng Began at West Point.
"I think that hazing began at West Point
in 1K27, my plebe year, and the same in which
my old friend, Jefferson Davis, graduated.
That year a young fop- you would probably
call him a dude in thene days entered the
academy from one of the New England
states, I forgot which ono now. At any rate,
the boys made him the first victim of the
persecution since known as hazing. The
treatment was very m'dd, and consisted of
puns and satires upon his appearance, mim
icry of his airs and graces, and, lastly, a
seemingly accidental fall into a horse trough."
Gen. William Emory in Washington Post
Pugilist and Pupil.
There are some disreputable pugilists, who
have played a mean ame upon ambitious
yoimgmen. They engage to give a pupil a
dozen lessons for a stated price and demand
the money In advance. They give one les
son, but upon the second occasion make their
appearance in a seemingly intoxicated con
dition and astonish the pupil by knocking him
all over the room and leaving him in a gener
ally battered and broken up condition. The
pupil has no desire to continue the study and
the "professor" pockets the money and looks
out for another pupil. New York Journal
The Paaafna Canal.
The following items regarding tbe progress
of work on the Panama canal are of interest:
Twenty thousand men are on the isthmus; 415
miles of special railroad have been built; 14,
000 cars, 29 steamers, iXX) vessels, 304 small
iron works, 48 drags, 96 herculean excavat
ors, 36 powerful perforators, and 468 im
mense pumping engines are at work. Light
for night work is supplied by 7,000 lamps, and
173 engines are constantly engaged. Boston
Transcript
Endurance of Big Gnus.
Gun makers record with satisfaction that
not one of the Rodman guns has ever been
exploded, even though tbe pressure goes as
high as 200,000 pounds to tbe square inch.
The endurance ranges from 200 to 2,400
rounds. The average pressure iu Krupp's
guns is 20,000 pounds to tbe square inch.
Boston Buiget
After the Battle.
Two youngmen at Sbelbyville, Ind., fought
thirty-five rounds to see who should marry a
certain young lady. When the battle bad
been decided and tbe ambulance sent for, il
was learned that tbe girl had been married
for a week to a chap who'd sooner run than
fight Detroit Free Press.
Pope Leo XIII will not touch the $3,500.
000 placed in a Borne bank to bis credit by
tbe Italian government, and about 7,0ttV
000 has been forfaJtml Unrnw nitR& !.-
.Pna IX would touch it. Chicago Herald.
SNEAKING AND CLEVER.
I A - BROOKLYN DETECTIVE TELLS
I HOW THIEVES OPERATE.
1 Ingenious Methods at Sneak Thieves la
! the Cltv SwlBdllasr Customs r
stress Cempaales The Roesa Huater.
'joBseteaee!ese Sesandrela Poverty.
"I suppose that "Brooklyn has some of the
cleverest sneak thieves in the country," said
a detective attached to one of the uptown
stationawhen be was asked about this form
of crime." "Tbe ingenuity and labor which
some of them devote to their dishonest efforts
would, if applied to respectable industry,
make them rich. They are constantly devis
ing something new or giving an old trick a
new and unexpected application. A man has
to be on tbe alert to keep up with
these people. One day hut week a body who
lives near here came in and complained that
she had been robbed by a census taker. Ho
1 had .come in and taken down tbe names of all
tbe members of tbe family. A moment after
leaving be bad returned and politely begged
r her to see if be-bsvhnot left Ws notebook ia
tbe room. While she had gone to look ho
had coolly 'pinched' a gold beaded cane and a
beaver overcoat from the bat rack and
marched off with them.
"Did you notice the arrest of two men iu
New York tbe other day for swindling the
customers of express companies, by calling
with the cards that are hung on store fronts
and taking away the packages which are in
tended to bo shipped? Some people thought
that was a new kind of audacious robbery.
But. it' isn't There are three men La the
Kings County penitentiary for playing just
that same game in Brooklyn years ago. It is
a stupid trick, because the victims quickly
discover they hare been robbed, and tbe ex
press companies take hold of the matter and
make short work of tbe thieves. Another
variety of the same game is to call around
with boxes purporting to have come by ex
press and collect charges on them. It used to
be very common during tbe holiday season,
but we have broken it up of late years. Some
times the thieves deliver what purport to be
packages of expensive dry goods from well
known firms on which small charges remain
to be paid. Sometimes tbey delude some
avaricious woman intothinkiug she can profit
by tbe apparent mistake. Of course the pack
age fa found to be filled with hay or rags
when it is examined.
AX OLD METHOD.
"A once familiar method of wholesale rob
bery here and in New York was to visit a
bouse that bad been closed by its occupants
during the summer months, and making an
entrance within, boldly proceed to carry off
all the contents in broad daylight on a truck.
It is not often heard of lately, because it takes
a great deal of nerve and the chances of de
tection are very great I understand that
thieves iu western cities have just learned the
trick, and are making things very unpleasant
for famines that go out of town for the
summer.
"A very common guise for the sneak thief
to assume is that of the room hunter. He
scans tho newspapers for advertisements of
rooms to rent in available quarters. Then he
calk and inspects the premises. Every time
the landlady's back is turned he picks up
something of value. Sometimes be drops his
glove or bis handkerchief and then goes back
to look for it and gathers m whatever he can.
Or if he sees a good overcoat in tbe hall he
will send the landlady back for the handker
chief while be disappears with the coat It
takes a well dressed and plausible tongued
thief to do that trick.
"Tbe telephone in the bands of an expert
thief often becomes another innocent means
for robbing unsuspecting people. You know
in the drug and grocery stores in the out
lying districts the telephone is usually placed
by the proprietor's desk, where it win be nice
and baudy. Tho stranger who requests to
use it asks for it so politely that it would be
tbe height of discourtesy to refuse it But
look cit for him when he comes hi when you
are all alone in tbe store. While he is having
a hand to hand struggle with the intelligent
artist at the central office, and you are wait
ing on a customer in the front of the store,
he is quietly filling his pockets with what
ever he can see about him.
THE MKANKR CLASS.
"But as I was saying, these men that I have
described are the aristocrats of the sneak
thieves' profession. After them comes the
hoi poUoL Tbe scale runs down through the
men who call to get furniture and silverware
to repair and the men who takeaway umbrel
las to fix up and never return them, the men
who steal up the front steps and try the front
door while the family is at supper, down to
the man who has a stick with a hook in it and
reaches over back yard fences and lifts clothes
from the line. He is about the meanest, be
cause he makes tbe most trouble for poor
washer women, who cannot afford to replace
the costly raiment of their patrons which he
has stolen. He has cast doubts on the hon
esty of many a poor woman who wouldn't
steal an old handkerchief to keep herself from
starving.
"Somewhere near the bottom of the list I
should pot the conscienceless scoundrels who
used to go around and beg money for alleged
charitable institutions, but we have broken
up their business of late years and that is
worn out The men who used to do that I
suppose are now stealing the papers from
blind newsmen aad women. Tbey are mean
enough to do anything.
"But with all then ingenuity and smartness
tbey cant make enough money to keep out of
poverty's grip. Titers isn't one of tho clever
thieves that couldn't tell you that there is no
money in being dishonest Sooner, or later
we are bound to get our clutches ou them and
then all their smartness in scaring women
and robbing children seems very mean and
pitiful when it is brought out in court and
lands them in tbe penitentiary for three or
four years." Brooklyn Eagle.
IMPURITIES" FOUND IN ICE.
Epidemics Traced to Ice Cat from a Con
taminated Pond Timely Advice.
Questions as to the dangers to health con
nected with tbe use of ice taken from certain
localities are of great interest, the more so
since disease produced by the use of contam
inated ice could rarely be traced to ita true
cause, which in most cases would probably
not be even suspected. Attention was in fact
not called to this matter until 1S75, when an
epidemic of diarrhea at Rye Beach, N. II.,
was clearly traced to ice cut from a contam
inated pond. Since that time tbe same cause
has been suspected or proved in about half a
dozen cases of occurrence of typhoid fever or
of diarrhea. Certainly this is a very small
proportion of bad results as compared with tho
almost universal use of ice, especially when
we remember that people will cut ice from
streams or ponds that they would consider too
impure to furnish drinking water, because
they think freezing purifies water. While the
purification of water by freezing does occur I
to a considerable extent, it is by no means
complete or to be relied on. Freezing does
not destroy tbe vitality of some bacteria, nor
does it specially tend to free tbe water from
dead organic nutter. That freezing will not
destroy the life of tbe bacillus of typhoid
fever is shown by Dr. Billings in a communi
cation which is given in another column of
this joarnaL
It will be seen from what has been said that
when a health authority is called on to decide
whether tbe water of a particular stream or
poad is or is not so impure that ice cut from
it will probably be dangerous to health, it can
only proceed on probabilities, since it will
very rarely be possible to prove that ice taken
from that particular locality, or even the
water from the same place, has caused dis
ease. Nevertheless, these probabilities may
be quite sufficient to warrant the forbidding
the sale of ice taken from a particular spot.
This sseaas to have been the case as regards
ice cut from Onondaga lake, which the city
board of health of Syracuse, in this state, for
bade to be sold for uny use which would
bring it into direct contact with articles of
food or drink. The firm engaged in packing
and selling this ice objected' to this interfer
ence with their business, whereupon Mr.
James T. Gardner investigated the matter for
the stato board of health, which has published
his report. Mr. Gardner fouud that Onon
daga lake is contaminated with sewage; that
the contamination is increasing from the
sewers of Syracuse, and that ice token from
it contains living bacteria of various kinds,
and about 10 per cent of the sewage matters
in the water from which it is formed. Ho,
therefore, approves the order of tho city
board of health, and the propriety and wis
dom of this decision can hardly be questioned.
Sanitary Engineer.
THE MOONSHINERS' ANCESTORS.
A Speculation Vaoa the Origin of tbe
Kude Mountaineers.
The origin of the mountaineers that in
habit the ranges from Virginia to Aikansas
is a subject that might tempt the curiosity of
a serious historian. Tbe vestiges of the early
population, and of some of the singular epi
sodic inroads that accompanied, the steady,
flow of English colonization, are still plainly
perceptible. From tbe semi-ducal plantations
of the king's favorites in Virginia and the
Carolinas many of those unfortunate or
criminal wretches who were transported from
the mother country to be penal slaves in the
fields of heartless, and mostly absentee, mas
ters, escaped into tho refuge of tho moun
tains nd animated by a despairing hojie of
freedom, sought the most inaccessible biding
places.
To the escaped convict, trembling under
tho remembrance of a master's huh and will
ing to dare any nativo danger to escape the
shivery he had fled, the approach of another
refugee was as full of terror as of comfort
The runaway felon could trust nobody; or
perhaps, he had a brand upon bis forehead to
bide from curious eyes, and wherever he made
bis home it was kept remote from neighbor
ship, and made as uninviting as possible to
adventurous or suspicious eyes. There is
little doubt that among the first settlers of
the mountains were these British convicts
sold into slavery to the American plantations,
and condemned to a life of laborious servi
tude, which they only escaped by such hard
ships as could tempt no freeman. Tho free
pioneer and the woodsman pushed on across
the mountains or through the passes and
cleared for himself an empire and garden in
fertile Kentucky and middle Tennessee, or
sought tbe softer air and cotton lands of tbe
Southern states. The escaped convict was
afraid to venture in either direction, lest be
should rush into the hands of a former master
or overseer, who would identify and re-enslave
him.
So, with that last instinct for personal free
dom that has always possessed the Caucasian
race in every land, he clung to tbe mountains
of his refuge, secure in his solitude and get
ting his peace in the impregnability of his re
treat It was, perhaps, an inherited instinct,
therefore, that made the mountaineers bute
negro slavery as bitter as the most determined
abolitionists of tho north, and which led them
by force of fate to join the Union armies
when the civil war came on. The mountain
regions not only furnished the northern armies
thousands of soldiers but also maintained
warm sympathy for the cause in the rear and
front of the Union lines, and it is not singu
lar, perhaps, that thoy have continued in
sympathy with the Republican party as in
stinctively as has the emancipated negro. Y.
E. Allison hi Southern Bivouac.
Consumption Cured by a Car Plattorui.
"You see this car platform'' inquired one
passenger of another on an Illinois Central
suburban train. "Well, that platform cured
me of consumption and saved my life. You
think that's strange, don't you J Well, it is a
little strange, but it's a fact. You see, I come
of a consumptive family. My mother died of
consumption, a sister and two brothers, and
a year ago I expected to go In tho samo way.
Don't look like it now, do II Wellall thanks
are due to this platform. It was in this way:
As soon as I saw that I was going down 1
made up my mind to take some desperate
means of salvation. I wasn't financially able
to go to California, or to travel anywhere
except to and from my work. So I did the
next best thing. Every morning in riding
into town I stood out on tbe platform, and,
drawing long breaths, filled my lungs full of
tho fresh air from the lake.
"At first I couldn't inhale much, but by
and by my lungs gathered strength, respira
tory cells that had long been unused began to
open and admit nature's life giving oxygen,
and in a few months I was surprised at my
own strength and good health, as were my
friends. Four times a day for I rode home
to dinner and back again I stood on the
platform and inhaled as much of the air as
possible. Tho weather inado no difference to
me rain, cold, snow, blizzard for more than
a year I haven't sat do wn in a railway coach.
Now I can draw a longer inhalation than any
mau I know, and a long inhalation simply
means filling with air all of the cells of tho
lungs, bringing the whole system intoservico,
as it were and I have no more fear of con
sumption. People who work indoors, and
who never, under ordinary circumstances,
get their lungs more than half filled with air,
had better try my prescription. It is a won
der." Chicago Herald.
Fashion lu Gravestones.
"I suppose there are fashions in grave
stones as well as in anything else?"
"Certainly there are. The heavy style,
such as one used to see universally iu bury
ing grounds up to twenty years ago, is be
coming antiquated and going out of fashion.
What takes now is the light, airy kind of
work, with graceful outlines, and of fine ma
terial. Angels, small statues after the Greek,
doves and fancy figures are now most in
vogue. Next to them there is tho rough
style just the hewn rock, showing the un
polished surface. That seems to be the best
liked by mourners of a serious, contempla
tive turn of mind, while sentimental people
prefer the other style."
"As to the degrees of grief now," it was
asked, "did your experience teach you that
young people sorrow more visibly and expen
sively over their dead than do mourners of
sedate age 1"
"From my own experience I should judge
that aged people are more apt to spend their
money freely in fine tombstones than younger
persons. It may be that young folks feel it
as much as older ones, but they haven't got
tho money to spend, you see, as a rule. I
know I often have trouble enough collecting
my bills from such people, even if it's for
nothing heavier than a little baby angel.
Widows, I must say, as a rule are good cus
tomers; widower, not nearly so much. And
that's as true of the young as of the old, per
haps even truer of the young ones."
"Do widows who have buried successive
husbands show just as poignant grief as ex
pressed ou tombstones on the demise of their
second or third husband as on that of the
first.'"
"Well, now, that's a ticklish question to
ask," replied tbe artist "I couldn't be sure
of it; still, if I can judge from what I've
seen, I should say that the widow's grief be
comes all tbe stronger on putting her second
or third one under tho sod.'" New York
Mail and Express.
OsT the Stage.
When Mr. Joseph Jefferson was campiu
out lost summer one of his mates asked hit i
to recito a certain scene from "Rip Vaa
Winkle"; but the actor declined, saing tin t
he could not repeat any long passage from
his parts away from the theatre. The Ar
gonaut The world is a comedy to tboM) who think,
a tragedy to those who fccL Horace Wal
pole. Fashionable young girls iu London, bars
abjured bracelets this season.
THE FIRST
National Bank!
or
COX.UMBUB. NEB.
-HAS AN-
Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
And the. lariat PaisMa Cask Camital of
any bank in thin part of tbe State.
J-DeiMwit received nud iuterect paid on
timedeporfitti.
SST'Drafts on the prim i nl cities in thin coun
try and Kurope botiglit and Hold.
vWfolWtioni and all other buninetts Riven
prompt and careful attention.
STOCKHOLDrRN.
A. ANDERSON. PreVr.
H Kit MAN P. H.OKIILKICH.
Vice Prea't.
O.T. HOKN. Cashier.
il&'Hg- (vKAMALtfflU-
KOBERT UHlJo. CARLKKlNKi
Aprta-ldtf
gusiness ards.
D. T. Martyn. M. D.
F. J. Scuuo. M. D.
Dm. MJLRTYH 4b SCHTJG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons.
BandSlTMlK.0-4
Consultation in Herman and Knaliith. Tele
phone at ottice and rrffidencm.
S3"Oiliion Olive strtnt. next to Brodfueh
rer m Jewelry Store.
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Vy M. OKM.4,
LAM' AXI COLLECTION OFFICE.
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pom.ri.furnwhr.1 m any pan of city or on hoard
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HOMCEOPATHIST.
Chronic Diseases aad Diseases of
Children a Specialtv.
...sr.PHir' on Olive rtreet, three doors north of
tiret -National Br.nk. ;y
C H.RIi'Nt'HE,
llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel.
Sells Ha-m-sri, Saddle,,, Collar. Whipo. Blankets.
nrr . i.mbi. lirnh-M, trunk., valifen. hujrKy
topH, cushion. i-arriuK- triiumini:. Ac. at thw
Iowtt portable pricen. ReiMiint promptly at
tended to.
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Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter
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KrodfurhrtrVi Juvelrj Store. SMf
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