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COLUMBUS
STATE BANK.
COLUMBUS, NEB.
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$75,000.
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LEN DER G KKRAKD. Pres'tl
GEO. W. HULST. Vice PreVt.
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ROOMS FOR BACHELORS.
MEN IN SINGLE BLESSEDNESS WHO
DO THEIR OWN HOUSEWORK., j
IJgut Housekeeping; Where Women Are
Exclnded Reporters, Actors, .Mechanic
ad Clerks Who Cook Their Own Meal.
A Peep at the Rooms. V
An advertisement in a lute paper, offer
ing furnished rooms for housekeeping for
gentlemen only, was the cause of merri
ment at a fashionable uptown boarding
house. The advertisement was crediteu
with being a typographical blunder, but
the sad eyed actor who was waiting for a
date that never came put all doubts at
rest by affirming that the advertisement
meant just what it said.
'-There is more than one house in New
York," he said, "where single men rent
rooms and do their own housekeeping,
cooking, milking bed, sweeping, anil so
on, ami a nice life it is if a man 1 built
that way. I am'prond to say that while
I was down on my luck I occupied an
alcove room iu this house mentioned in
the advertisement. I paid . 3 a week and
lived for $2 more. A legacy left to me
by my aunt has put higher living in my
tower, and I left my bachelor room with
regret. The life was pleasant, and after
I Itecame a bit expert at cooking I assure
you that I cooked many a dainty with all
the skill of a French chef."
The writer visited the house where the
furnished rooms for housekeeping for gen
tlemen were located. The ring at the bell
was answered by a tidy Irish girl, Tsho
said that they had one room vacant. The
landlady was summoned and showed the
reitorter up two flights to a back room.
"This is to rent with all the necessaries
for light housekeeDing. A closet in the
hall is the place for your coal and your
green groceries ami an ice box for your
meat. The price is $4 per week."
HOME COXYKXIEXCES.
The room was altont fourteen feet
square. It contained a folding bed, a
cheap chiffonniere, on which were two tea
cups and'saucer of fanciful pattern. In
the different compartments were other
dishes of stoneware and glass. A cup
board stood at the right of the mantel, iu
which were two tablecloths, four napkins,
a quilt and a woolen blanket, and in a
lower compartment an iron pot, a spider
and two stew patio. The stove was a Xo.
5, with two covers, and was polished
bright ly. A wardrolie, sofa, easy chair,
two dining chairs and a round table were
placed about the room in convenient posi
tions. You don't rent rooms to women J" re
marked the reporter.
"Xo, indeed; I don't want any women
about my houe. They are more trouble
than tbev are worth. 1 used to rent rooms
to women, but they found fault with
everything. They washed their clothes in
the bathroom ami invaded the kitchen at
all times in the day to Itormw ilatirons.
1 have a houseful of gentlemen who cook,
eat and bleep here, and I never hear a
word of complaint and seldom see them,
only when they pay their rent."
"What class of men do you have;'"
"I have with me now a reporter, an
actor, a street car conductor, a florist, an
eueiueer on the Klevated railroad, a book
keeper, two clerks wuo cook together, and i
a itoliceman."
At this point the lady was informed of .
the object ot the reporter's visit, auu sne
sat down to enlighten him further.
"I am an English woman," she said,
"and kept lodgings in Iondon before com
ing to Xew York. There it is a common
thing for men to do their own housekeep
ing. I came to Xew York as a waiting
maid to an English actress. Liking the
city I concluded to stop here, and con
ceived the idea of renting rooms to gentle
men only. At first I did not meet with
success, but now I can rent all of my
rooms. I pay $100 a month for this
house. I have eight rooms that bring me
iu $140. There is $40 profit on my rent.
Then I get my living from my roomers.
You see, it's this way. A woman nine
times out of ten will throw away her
waste, hue a man won't. My rooms give
me more than I can eat a bunch of cel
ery and other green stuff, meat and fruit
that wW spoil, and of which they hud
purchased too much. My servant girl
costs me $8 a month only, but she doesn't
do anything but laundry work and my
cooking. My roomers make their own
beds, and very handy they are at it."
Til HOUGH THE ROOMS.
The lady then took the reporter through
the house. Only one room was untidy,
and that was the actor's. Clay pipes and
tobacco were scattered over the mantel;
shoes, slippers and clothing were thrown
about the room, while on the beu, siovemy
made up, was a pile of manuscript and
books.
"Tliis man is an actor of good parts,"
explained the lady, "but he is slouchy
about his room. Quite different is the
next room that is occupied by the engi
neer." This room was neatness personified.
The bed was as smooth as could be, the
floor was swept clean, and the tin pans
were as bright as the brasses on his engine
probably were. A small library was sus-'
pended ou a shelf containing books on
railroading, a dictionary and Shakespeare.
Other rooms visited showed the same
neatness, but each had some character
istic of the occupant by way of ornament.
The policeman had two clubs crossed over
his mantel with a pair of boxing gloves
between them. The clejk's room was
fixed up with plush holders for brushes
and papers, with the photographs of noted
actresses stuck here and there on the
walls. A pile of poker chips and a pack
of cards were most conspicuous iu the
bookkeeper's room, but the beds were
well made and the floors and dishes clean.
"These men," said the lady, "are up
early, get their breakfast, wash their
dishes, dress for business aud are off, all
of them Itefore 8 o'clock. They return
from 4 to 7 at night, get their supper and
go out again. They are quiet and better
tenants than any I ever had."
"Is poverty the cause of their living in
this way"
"Oh, no, I guess not. Yon know the
old saving that one half the world doesn't
know how the other half lives. I saw the
bookkeeper's salary envelope one week
and it had $50 marked on it. lam sure
that all of my lodgers except the actor get
good salaries. He sometimes doesn't get
any; but I let him btop, for he pays when
he can."
At this juncture a neatly dressed gen
tleman came in and passed up the stairs.
It was the bookkeeper, and the reporter
recognized him as a familiar sight in the
hotel rotundas, a good fellow all around,
and supposed to live at a fashionable
boarding house up town.
The shopping for the roomers was done
by the girl, who bought whatever the
lodger wished, taking his book to the store
and entering each article of provision
purchased, for which the men paid weekly.
Xew York Evening Sun.
BATHTUBS ON WHEELS.
A Parle Lusty Sagseated for Iatrodue
Uoa late Xew Terk.
"Talking about new enterprises spring
ing up here," said a geutlemau to a re
porter, "why there are thousands" of
schemes yet untried that you will be bear
ing of some time. Now there is the Pa
risian bath, for instance. Do yon know
how the Parisians pursue the .practice
saidtobenexttogodlineast"
Having- received the reporter's admis
sion of innocence" as to Um subject, the
gentleman coatiaued: "Well, to begin
COLTJMBTJS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1888.
itn, eceeiuugiy rew nouses tu. I'arw,
except the big hotels, have bathrooms.
You might conclude from this statement
that the Parisians are not particularly
fond of bathing. But they are, and now
I will tell you how they do it. We will
Mippose you are a Parisian living com
fortably iu a suite. Moreover we will
suppose you take a morning bath every
day in the year. Xow all that is necessary
for you to do is to leave your order at a
bathing establishment and a man will
come at the specified hour with a
shining, roomy tub and deposit it
near your bed. Then he will bring
in a copper cylinder-shapad oven contain
ing what they call a peignoir, which is
thus kept warm until you put it ou after
stepping out of the tub. The man covers
theltottom and sides of the tub with a
sheet, and then fills lite tub with water
of the proper temperature, which he
brings with him in his cart, a peculiar
looking vehicle, by the way, resembling
about as much as anything a gayly
painted oblong boiler on wheels. Having
thus prepared the bath, he adds one finish
ing stroke to it by dropping into the
.Ateamiug water a considerable .quantity of
Itathing powder, which serves as a skin
tonic, and at the same time emits a lovely
perfume, suggesting resinous odors of the
woods. The man now withdraws for an
hour and leaves you to enjoy your de
licious ablutions.
' Ym emerge from the bath in half an
hour toeiing like an entirely new man.
It seems as though the exhilarating per
fume of the water has entered your very
eoul. You step lightly out of the tub and
lip on the warm peignoir as though it
were a linen duster, which it slightly re
sembles, and by means of which you do
not get to shivering while you are drying
yourself.
"That is the wny the Parisians bathe.
This kind of bath costs three francs (d)
cents) in "Paris. In Xew York it should
not cost more than half that sum. I
think it a very good system to introduce
!n this city, and I have had some idea
myself of starting an establishment of
the kind. It possesses superior advan
tages for the people who do not live in
house where there are bathrooms. And
the medicinal benefits of this powder
stirred in the water are a great thing in
addition to the fragrant quality it im
parts And then another advantage is
that the tub is brought to you and every
thing is prepared. You cau step out of
bed in the morning into your tub and have
n splendid scrub before dressing. For the
reasons I have mentioned I am sanguine
that the Parisian style of bathing would
prove very popular in Xew York." Xew
York Kveniug World.
Name of Old lum.
The Listener observe, not without a
certain regret, that there i a tendency to
introduce certain reforms in the pronuuei
ation of the names of old Ma--arhu-.eits
towns. The pronunciation brought from
Kngluiiil is lteiug gradually dropped, and
the ound approximated to the .spelling of
the word. What were once Stoiie'nui and
War'am have liecome Slonehnm and
Warehain, and what was Woohurn is now
Woburn. Leominter was Leiapster to
beirin with, and to the town in Xew
Hampshire, which was named in Lonorof
old Leominster in Kugland, the name of
Lempsier wa actually given. Perhaps it
was the oldest inhabitants ignorance of
orthography that hah preserved this testi
mony of the original pronunciation of the
name. Hut iu the mouths of the people
of our Massachusetts Iemitister, the
name has first become I'miiister, aud
will, after awhile, it is to Ite supposed, be
reformed another stage into Le-o-mitister.
The Knglish Loter. ror Ieiccster. lias lie
come lcester with us; heaven pre.-erve
us from Ljcester or Leecester.
One always hears Woorcester for
Worcester; shall we presently hear War-ces-ter?
Happily there is an Ohio town of
Wooster. which presenes in its spelling
the original pronunciation, just as the
Xew Hampshire Lcmpster keeps the orig
.ual sound of 1eoiiiinstcr. The Listeuer
has even heard the crowning enormity of
Portsmowth. This is worse than Porch
mouth, which used to be heard. There
are old people iu Gloucester who call the
name of the town Glockster. The Listen
er tloes not know where the usage came
from. It is not as bad as Glow-ces-ter
wculd le, which, it may fairly be sup
posed, will be the eventful pronunciation
of the name of the town, if the present
phonetic tendency coutlnues. Boston
Transcript.
The Science of Hypnotism.
The science of hypnotism, not long ago
sneered at aud ignored by medical meu,
has secured at last au astonishing recog
nition from them. The medical thinners
of France ore now considering it as one
of their most reliable means of producing
results tliat are out of the reach of their
ordinary remedies. They lately made in
Paris a number of very successful experi
ments upon children from the house of
refuge, some of whom were supposed to
be irreclaimably bad. They were hypnot
ized, aud while in this condition they
were enjoined to obey 'their teachers, to
study, to keep themselves clean and to
stop swearing and lying, habits which the
iefuge wardens had asserted could not be
abandoned by their depraved charges.
The influence of the hypnotism lasted
for months, and the boys that had been
influenced were changed during that time
from troublesome prisoners to pupils
of roost exemplary conduct. One of the
boys who was hypnotized had been a leader
among his companions in all sorts of un
ruly and immoral behavior. The change
iu him was so radical after the hypnotism
that it frightened both himself and his
companions, and having reasoned, about
his conversion he nlisolutely refused to
submit to the mesmeric passes again when
the physicians wanted to repeat the experi
ment. Physician in Globe-Democrat.
Atuminntn Dental Platte.
The early use of aluminum was not
satisfactory, as the metal was impure,
owing to the presence of iron, and it soon
succumbed to the fluids of the mouth.
This was more generally true of cast
plates, which were not only more difficult
to make, but were not as good. The
metal is not very easy to cast, as it does
not flow freely like other metals, and
the contraction is considerable, causing
cracked blocks. When made from rolled
plate and pure metal, aluminum for upper
cases has proved very satisfactory in my
hands, and not being very expensive is a
recommendation, as it is a metal, and is
thus better than rubber and less in cost
than gold. Ic is very light and strong,
perfectly tastqless and odorless, and as
healthy to the gums as gold or platina.
The teeth are best attached with rubber.
George H. Swift in West. Dent. Journal.
A Perfect "Mortar.
A uew building -material called stone
brick, harder than the hardest clay brick,
is made from simple mortar, but a scien
tifically made and perfect mortar; in fact,
a hydraulic cement, and the grinding to
gether of lime and sand in a dry state
including, also, some alumina, which is
usually present in sand and the subse
quent heating by steam, give the mixture
the properties of the burned hydraulic ce
ments at present in use. Public Opinion.
The Elevator Xet Daagerou.
"It isafer to ride than to climb,'' said
one of the leading builders of elevators in
New York the other day. "We earry
over 900,000 passengers on our elevators
In this city every day, and yon cau judge
for yourself what per-cent of them are
killed as compared with the number that
are hurt falling down stain." Chicago
Herald. - -
CARELESS WITH A 0M.
A SENSIBLE MAN NEVER FOOLS WITH
FIREARMS "NOT LOADED."
Story or the Boj wlfu an Kuii:y Mnt
irun X Lemon for Life Annthvr Illus
tration of Criminal Carelene The
Only Safe Way.
Xever handle firearms carelessly. I
used to do it, but of late years it iu.ikc.
me boil to have anybody poiut a j;u:t t.r
pistol toward me. Two events in my life
have .done more to inspire within me a
wholesome respect for firearms than any
thing else that ever happened to me.
When I was about I "J years otd I bor
rowed a shotgun of a chum.
"Is it loaded" was the first question I
asked.
"Xo," was the reply, and I, like ft
goose, believed what he said.
On the way home with it I met another
boy, who began dodging behind the shade -trees
as I approached, Indian fashion. !,
of course, must do my part of the trage ly,
so cocking the guu, I began to skulk too,
until, when we finally met, to show that
he was plainjy in fsy power, I put the
muzzle of the gun up close to his nose and
pulled the trigger.
I thought no more of the circumstance
until evening, when I begnu cleaniiu; the
gun, and found that it was clogged up su
I could not blow through it. Procuriri" h
cap, I plated it on the nipple, nud, goinn
to the front door, pulled the trigger, and
away she went, with a report that awoke
the neighbors lor blocks around and filled
the leaves of a cherry tree near by u full
of holes as a skimmer.
Then I thought of Tom, into who-e face
I had snapped the gun. The fact that th
cap had become damp alone prevented the
gun from Iteing discharged and blowing
Tom's head into smithereens.
Though his after life was a fizzle, and
he filled a drunkard'.s grave at nit cat ly
ai;e, yet how my life would have beets
bhVhtcd if, through my boyish careless
ness, he had been killed. I vowed a ow
at that time never to be careless with fire
arms. ANOTHER IXriDi:ST.
One more circumstance occurred after I
had growu to manhood. I was stauding
on u pile of lumber, busily engaged i:
measuring lunilier, when, hearing a
"click' behind me, I turned, and thctv
stood a boatman pointing an army musket
squarely at my head and sighting along
the barrel. The muzzle of the gun was
only six feet from my head, and ha had
jusi snapped it at me. He was a man oO
years old, and, under the first ungry im
pulse that came over me, said:
"You old fool, you ought to know bet
ter than to .snap a gun at a lellow s head
iu that careless way."
"Aw, pshaw!" .said he, "it :-n't
loaded."
"How do you know that"
-Because It has been lying around tny
ltoat for more than .six months, t"d I
know it isn't.'
That's jiist the reason you il.ta't know
anything about it.': .said I.
"Wall, now. you're making 'ucli a fuss
about :t, I'm going to get a tap .iiul .vJiow
you. Here, hold the gun till I coaie
"back."
While be was ;one I ran the ramrv.l
down the barrel and found that it wa.s
loaded.
When he returned with a tap I removed
the old one and teplaced it with a new
one. Pointing the gun upwaru I pulled
the triggei .:nd a report followed, the re
coil from which nearly knocked me oil the
lumber pile and raised the bodtmin's hair
on end
What do you think now.4' I asked.
"Well," said he, "that's the last time
I shall point a gun at anybody if ! live 100
years."
A damp cap alone saved ine that time,
and though I should not hav been to
blame. yetTthis event would have blighted
my life still moie effectually than the first
oue, for it would undoubtedly have blowu
my head off my shoulders, aud a 'i.v: who
finds himself "in that condition can but
acknowledge that his life is, in a measuie,
itligliteu, anu nis iuiure piaus ami pros
pects somewhat interfered with.
Don't fool with firearms. If a gun is
loaded, and k erybody knows it is loaded,
there is little danger. It is the guu and
the revolver which is not loaded that goes
off and kills lolks or maims them for life.
So the only safe way is to handle them at
all times as though they were loaded.
Get into the habit of so doing; then it
will become natural and easy to you, and
you may be spared the agony of gazing
upon the mangled form of some friend
through whom you have let daylight.
Always keep behind a gun yourself, and
IKiini. the mu..le away from other people,
Miushinc.
How Charles Sumner SL.de Tea.
Mr. Sumner was a man of simple tastes.
When lie dined alone and knew that he
wa9 to have no company but one dish was
served, and that was often a porterhouse
steak dressed with oysters. This, with
bread and butter nnd a glass of claret,
composed his solitary dinner. Occasion
airy he would treat himself to a dinner of
corned beef and cabbage, if he was sure
there would le time enough before the
arrival of visitors to disinfect his house of
the scent. His breakfast, when alone,
would be without meat or fish, and would
consist, of tea, toast, eggs, fruit and some
sort of pancakes and butter; but the tea
would te selected as carefully for the
breakfast as the wine would be for the
dinner. He would brew it himself with
great care. He took the tea from the tea
caddy himself, placed it dry in a cup,
which had previously been heated by fill
ing with boiling water from the urn; a
teaspoon, which stood in the cup when
the boiling water was poured, remained
iu the cup: then tailing water was drawn
from the urn on to the tea; a saucer was
inverted over the top, and after it had
stood for several minutes it was consid
ered ready for drinking.
Once when I was breakfasting with
him he asked my opinion of the particular
tea he had given me, and he was disap
pointed in my answer. He seemed sur
prised as well, and tasted the tea from his
own cup, snuffing its aroma. Then dip
ping a teaspoou iu hot water, 'he tasted
the mixture iu my cup and inhaled its
perfume. This seemed to solve the riddle.
"Why," said .he, "I must have given you
a cold sjioou; that spoon in your cup car
ried off the flavor. Throw out those slops
and let me give you a fresh cup." Ar
nold Burges Johnson in The Cosmopol
itan. Tyntlall on Lightning Kods.
Professor Tyndall, Ju n letter on light
ning conductors, points out that the
abolition of resistance is absolutely neces
sary in connecting a lightning conductor
with the earth, and this is done by closely
imbedding in the earth a plate of good
conducting material and of large area.
The largeness of area makes atonement
for the imperfect conductivity of earth.
The plate, in fact, constitutes a wide door
through which the electricity passes
freely into the earth, its disruptive and
damaging effects being thereby avoided.
A common way of dealing with light
ning conductors adopted by ignorant
practitioners is, Dr. Tyndall remarks, to
carry the wire rope which forms part of
the conductor down the wall and into the
earth below, where it ends without any
terminal plate. Such a "protection" is a
mockery, a delusion and a snare. Some
years ago a rock lighthouse on the Irish
coast was struck by lightning, whea he
Jound by the engineer's report that the
ngntmug cununctor nau neen carried
down the lighthouse tower, its lower ex
tremity being carefully imbedded iu a
stone perforated to receive it. If the olt-ject-
had been to invite the lightning to
strike the tower,. a better arrangement
could hardly, he believes, have beeu
adopted. He vetoed the proposal to em
ploy a chain as a prolongation of the con
ductor, as the contact of link with link s
uever nerfect. Scientific American.
The Secret of Advertising.
"The business man who has learned to
advertise has acquired one of the principal
elements of success," said a printer of
some experience. "The secret of adver
tWng is not so much to have the notice
read us to have it believed. To lose the
confidence of the' public is to lose your
trade. If you advertise in au undignified
manner people begin to look upon you as
a fakir and your goods as shoddy. The
largest advertiser in Philadelphia set the
example of taking the public into his con
fidence aud announcing his goods in au
uuaseaming manner. His style has be:n
adopted by nearly all the leading houses.
A person of refinement doesn't liko to be
admonished by a tradesman not to be a
chump, and he pays little heed to the man
who tells him that his prices 'knock the
spots off a speckled pig.' When you want
a suit of clothes the last place you think
of going to is the store that advertises
'geut's pants ' To come back to my own
trade, there are few printers in the busi
ness now They are all either typograph
ers or typographical artists, and I know
of one man who advertised himself as 'a
worker in the black art and a manipu
lator of the adjustable alphabet.'
"There was a personal in one of the
Sunday papers some timeagoof a 'literary
gent of world wide reputation.' That
fellow betrayed himself by oue word, and
probably never knew how he did it. One
needn't go far to see the questionable
taste of many storekeepers. Boots aud
siioes are aihertised as 'foot gear,' Ush as
'sea food" and liquors as 'wet goods.'
The men who peddle grape3 from push
carts at three cents per half pound have
a habit of turning down one end of their
paper signs ao that the word 'half is
hidden. The man who complains of short
measure has the sign straightened out for
him. When he has gone the sign Ls bent
back again. New York Evening Sun.
Older Than the Obelisk.
"A fine tree, that"
"Yes, but it is rather young."
' 'Rather young' Why, it Ls over V 0
years old."
"That may be," returned the second
speaker, who combines with his profession
of architecture a profound knowledge of
forestry, "but that Ls not very old ior a
tree."
. "Perhaps not for Europe or Asia, but
recollects hat this is a new country," ob
served the reporter, who had accompanied
him to Central park, where a handsome
oak tree attracted their attention.
"How old do you think that obelisk is"
inquired the architect.
-A littleover 3,000 years."
Well, what would you say if I told
you that in one of the younger states of
the I'liiou I had sat under a tree that was
full grown and vigorous when the Egyp
tians were toiling on that shaft1'
"I presume 1 should have to believe
you '
"As you please about that. But I have
chipped' bark off a pine tree in Calaveras
county, Cal , that spread shade over many
sttuare feel of ground Itefore those pot
hooks were carved ou the side of that col
umn. This tree that I sjteak ot is sup
posed to lie the oldest tree in the world
Its age is estimated at "J,o00 yeais. The
climate of the Pacific slope seem to be
wonderfully ptoervntive lor trees of its
kiud "
"Could a tree ever live that long in this
climate?"
1 doubt it. No tree certainly ever
has. But when you speak of this being a
new country, bear iu mind that all coun
trieswere made altout the same time aud
trees were not made by men." Xew
York Mail and Express.
The Colored Folks in Maryland.
The average negro cares only for the
present. He forgets the past and disre
gards the futme. Prospective rainy days
have no terrors for him. If he uiakes $1
today instead of his usual fifty cents, he
will not work to-morrow. There are four
preferences which are common to colored
men linen dusters, razors, chickens and
cathartic pills. To the country darky a
liuili duster is the insignia of prosperity.
He generally gets it a size or two too large
aud has it well starched. He wears it as
ofteu as he possibly cau. Xot long ago
au excursion, by water, of colored people,
came here from over the bay. Xearly all
of them, women as well as men, wore
linen dusters. Just why nine negroes out
of ten carry razors cannot be explaiued,
but that they do carry them is a fact, and
iu every free fight some one always gets
slashed. At a colored camp meetiug held
a few weeks ago this notice was conspicu
ously posted:
Dinner, & cents; with chicken, 90 cent1:.
It was the most eloquent kind of evi
dence as to the negro's appetite for this
fowl. The boarding tent keeper was a
man of experience, and although chicken
was very cheap lu that section, he knew
that a twenty-five cent dinner would not
pay for the chicken u colored man could
eat. As to the pills, the darkies are al
ways imagining themselves sick. They
know of but one remedy pills. Cor.
Xew York Times.
The VMitderbilt Children.
Mrs. William H. Vaiiderbilt, relict of
the man, who, when he lived, was the
richest man on earth, was a Miss Kissam,
daughter of an American clergyman,
whose stock was originally English. She
had the extreme good fortune to marry
Vaiiderbilt when lie was working for his
father for $1,000 a year, jtoor, dependent
and as thoroughly in awe of the old com
modore as when he was a lad. She bore
Vanderbilt eight children Margaret, now
Mrs. Eliot F. Shepbard; Cornelius, Wil
liam K., Emily, now Mrs. Emily Thorne
Sloan, wife of the great carpet dealer;
Frederick W., Florence Adele, now wife
of W. McK. Twombly, the pushing
westerner, now iu charge of some of the
heavier Vaiiderbilt interests; Lela, who
married Dr. W. Seward Webb, son of tile
old fighting editor, Dr. James Watson
Webb, and now head of the Xew York
Central Parlor Car company, and George
W.j the eighth child and fourth sou. Xot
a girl has married what in England Is
called au "aristocrat" ou idler. Every
one of their husbands made his way iu
the world before be married a Vanderbilt.
The boys also took care of themselves.
The Argonaut.
Better than Doctors' Stnn.
The doctors may all talk, and they may
blow and say they can core this and core
that, but when it comes to telling any
thing about a man's stomach they're not
there. I have come to the conclusion that
the less medicine a man puts into his
stomach the better for himself. Since I
have quit taking medicine I have been all
right. If I had kept on putting an apoth
ecary shop under my vest I might now be
out where the birds are singing and the
leaves are rustling. The best medicine
for a man is a good, healthy meal. That's
what I am taking now. It beats pills,
and it knocks teaspoon and tablespoon fuls
of nauseating stuff higher than Gilderoy's
kite. Globe-Democrat.
.somebody says that the "best people"
now travel in private cars or their own
steam yacht.
THE FONDEST LOVE9.
As some dear friend departing backward looks.
And then return for one more sweet embrace
With tender, clinzing lipsaad misty eyes,
And sorrow on the erstwhile happy face:
So lingers our dear summer, clinging still
To the broad meadow's breast aad sunny bilL
It flings a hundred sunbeams on the wall:
It warms to life the badding marigold;
It nestle dose upon the forest tall;
With daisies white it spreads the open wold,
And then it weeps aad weeps its heart away
To think how soon this beauty must decay. .
So love, like summer, strives to keep its placa
With lightsome smiles anl gentle, winning
ways
Recalls the wandertag heart, relights the fait
With some faint semblance of its early pha.se.
And then it weeps and weeps its heart away
To see bow soon tn fondest tores decay.
Elisabeth Baker Bohan.
HOW BILL NYE WORKS.
A Talk Conevrnlas; On of the Most
Popular Fanny Men of the Day.
Ik. 'Marvel says: "A man asks me to
write something; he might as well ask
the skies to rain." BUI Nye says: "If you
want me to write just tell me to writu
something and then let me alone."
He generally keeps a supply of some
twenty subjects pretty well in haud that
cau be written up ou short notice. He
keeps a note book just liko tite rest, a
literary rag bag "into which lots and lots
goes in, and nothing was ever yet known
to come out." He thinks there is a fortune
in store for the man who invests manu
scripts with some property like a magnet
that by passing them over the rubbish of
a note book will attract to themselves
just what belongs.
Ho cannot write "In order." He has
attempted a few times to write by meas
ure, so many words, so much pay, such a
length, such a subject. "Why, you might
as well pack me down into my trundle
bed and tell me to Bleep. I can feel the
cramp iu my limbs yet." He cannot
even write under headings, as his subject,
like a stick in water, is apt to turn all
sorts of crooks and elbows before he .gets
to the bottom.
One of The World's staff brought him
a piece of his manuscript the other day,
his thumb resting on a spot of it that was
bursting with laughter. "For heaven's
sake, Bill, how did you ever get this
turn on that? Did you sit down iu cold
blood and manufacture it, or did it come
on you all of a sudden" "The pen was
half through the joke before I saw it,"
said he.
He uever rewrites an article by any
chance, often interlines, crosses out or
doubles up, .but the copy goes to the of
fice just that way. It all conies just
about as he wants it, faster than he can
write it. He sometimes has to stop t
spear a word which is careening about in
vacancy, but never au expression. He
must finish oue article whilit iu that par
ticular mood. It is useless to try to re
call it in any particular shape if inter
rupted, and he has loi much valuable
matter iu this way. He intends making a
study of more continued writing, but
dreads the attempt.
On his first writing he used a high desk,
but later on, finding that height abso
lutely necessary to composition deliber
ately broke himself of the habit by writ
ing on his knee, which now constitutes
his desk on all ordinary occasions. He
uses a little pencil, likes a very fine pen
point. He makes the finest copy of any
writer he knows except one. He hates
proof reading, and says a man has to suf
fer so little nowadays by mistakes, owing
to the excellent proof work doue by the
newspapers, that he had much rather suf
fer that "little" than read the proof so
"long."
Much greater facility has come to him
by practice. Also he has a consciousness
that there is a marked improvement in
the pith aud finish of his work. Iu this
lie is supported by the opinions of his liest
friends, who are "always prompt to give
helpful criticism," and by the distaste he
now has for his earlier efforts, some of
which are quite unpalatable to him now.
He has no fear whatever of "running out"
or becoming stale, as he does not claim tw
create, only to clothe old subjects of liv
ing interest in new form, and this cau
walk side by side with humanity just as
long as it or he lives. He has written iu
all only about twelve years.
He gives his besc mind work to his
every day friends, saving nothing because
it is more valuable written. Before writ
ing he was an inimitable story teller and
joke maker of that delicious type that
shows the fun only with his eyes. The
only reason that he is less humorous nuw
in conversation than in his writing is ou
the principle of "turning over ou the
other side to rest a weary muscle." The
humorist, as the comedian, must turn to
"the grave" for relaxation. Fanuie Ed
gar Thomas in Inter Ocean.
How a Gull Opens Clams.
"I had a very singular experience last
Sunday," said a tradesman, whose shop
in Oakland Ls adorned by the sign, "Orni
thological Rarities," but who, on a pinch,
would sell a dog or a rabbit. "I was
walking on the beach, not very far from
the Cliff house, and I had jnst noticed that
an usually large number of sea gulls were
flying over the sands, when a hard sub
stance struck me violently upon the head
and staggered me. Luckily my hat was
very thick and I am blessed with a tolera
bly solid skull. So I soon recovered my
self, and I was looking about to ascertain
what had hit me, when I was greatly
startled by a weird and ghostly fluttering
of wings a foot above me. A great gray
gull had narrowly escape"! alighting upon
my shoulders. He just succeeded in check
ing his impetuous descent as his feet al
most touched me. With a queer kind of
half frightened cry he was again into the
air. But what had brought him so close
to me I soon found out. Lying on the
saud was the thing that had given me
that blow upon the head. It was u large
black mussel, and the sea gull had dropped
it from a dizzy height upon my unoffend
ing scalp.
I have studied the habits of these
birds pretty carefully, and I know very
well why he had done it. He was trying
to get at his dinner, nnd os the shell of
the mussel was still unbroken, and I
wished to see him try again, I walked a
couple of hundred yards away and then
turned to watch his movements. See
iug that the coast was clear, he quickly
flew back to the place where the mussel
had fallen, seized it in his beak and, again
rising high into the air, he let it drop.
He followed it closely as it fell, keeping
almost beside it during the greater part of
the descent, and only moderating his
downward rush when he was in danger of
dashing himself upon the beach. The
mussel struck the sand, but the shell was
still unbroken, and, indeed, it was very
evident to me that the soft ground that
received it would never lay it open. Then
I flung the mussel to a distance, and the
gull, seeming to take this as a hint that
my bead was not a chopping block, seized
his troublesome delicacy and flew away.
I saw him turn a little inland, rise ouce
more to a great height, dart swiftly down
and then wing his way out to sea. I
found that many stones lay at the place
of bis last descent: so, doubtless, his per
severance was at length rewarded, and he
had gone off to some lonely rock to dine-."
San Francisco Examiner.
A Barfed City.
That one of the greatest of all of the
cities built by the Buddhists in the east
should have been forgotten and lost in
the depths of a trackless forest for 1,000
years is a fact that lays a powerful hold
on the Imefcutatiou. Readers of Mr.
Ferguson, sad Sir Emerson Tennent have
heard something of tlio architectural won
ders of Anuradhnpura, the ancient "city
of granite," in the island of Ceylon, and
of the unparalleled immunity of its struc
tures and rich monumental remains from
the ravages of the spoiler and the religious
fanatic.
Since they wrote great progress has
been made in the wny of clearing the
jungle. Mr. Burrows, who has lately
vLsited the city, gives in Macmillan's
Magazine a remarkable account of the
progress made in local archaeological re
searches since this marvelous record of
the past was accidentally rediscovered.
The ruins at present disclosed are de
scribed as already extending for a dis
tance of at least four miles by two and a
half. The wonderful Cingalese palace,
supposed to hae been built about the
commencement of the Christian era. of
which Mr. Burrows gives an elaborate
description, was discovered only last yeur.
So far the clearings and excavations are
stated to yield results which entirely
agree with the most authentic account
extant from au eye witness of ancient
Anuradhapura the Chinese traveler, Fa
Hian, who visited it in the early part of
the Fifth centnry. Chicago Times.
llasket Work of tlio Indians.
The annual report of the Xational mu
seum for 188-1 contains several interesting
ethnological tapers. Professor O. T. Ma
sou gives a sketch of the basketry of
North American aborigines, which is
amply illustrated with drawings of speci
mens aud enlarged tortious of the basket
work, in order to illustrate exactly the
manner of weaving. Mason discusses the
methods in uso all along the coast of
w estern America from tho Arctic ocean to
California, in the interior, nnd among tho
tribes of the Atlantic coast, and distin
guishes three types of basketry, which he
calls the twined, the coiled and tho woven
oucs. The first is most frequently found
on the northwest coast. Coiled basket
work is almost exclnshely used by the
northern Tinnc and by the Apache, while
many tribes apply all methods of manu
facture. A great difficulty in determining
the area of characteristic forms is encoun
tered through the deficiency of the meth
ods of many collectors, ami tho frag
mentary state of collections; many speci
mens which are seemingly characteristic
of one tribe having in reality n far wider
distribution, while other characteristic
types are wauting in the collections.
Science.
A Uniqno and Famons I'esirl.
Xo explanation ever has been, or ever
will be, forthcoming of the extraordinary
freak of nature in the formation of the
famous pearl known as the southern cross.
Originally discovered at Iloeburn, in
western Australia, it consists of nine
pearls adhering together in the form of a
Iatiu cross, seven iu the shaft and two in
the arms, one on each side of the shaft,
nearly opposite the second jtearl from the
top. The pearls are slightly compressed,
like peas in a pod, ami no trace of any
artificial junction can lie observed. It
has been suggested that n fragment of
sea weed may have got into the shell and
formed the frame of the construction.
The pearls are of fine quality, though
slightly misshapen at parts, and the value
of the gem is very high. Its character is
unique, aud so filled the owner an Irish
man named Kelley with superstitious
awe that for a long timo he was induced
to hide it away and keep his possession of
it a secret. Boston Transcript.
The Cliilil tf Mount Vernon.
George Washington Parke t'ustis died at
Arlington, near Wushiuuton city, ou the
10th of Octolter, ISTjT. He left one child,
the wife of Robert E. I.ee. afterward the
Confederate general. Closely allied to the
Washington family, fond of calling him
self the child of Mount Vernon, he was
never so much in his element as when he
was talking or writing of the reat chief
and the men and times of the Revolution.
As he said of himself once, "his was the
destiny of no common man," for he had
been fondled on the knee ot" the Father of
his Country, nnd received from him the
kindness of a parent. He repaid that care
and affection with filial devotion, and to
the day of his death all the recollections
of his" life centered around or radiated
from the time when he was one of Wash
ington's family. He lived to a good old
age, retaining his mental faculties to the
last. Though Mr. Custis was never in
public life, he was in his younger days un
eloquent and effective speaker, and had a
fondness for oratory as long as he wa3
able to gratify those who constantly called
on him to make public addresses. Ben:
Perley Poore's Letter.
A Itemedy for Toothache.
The advantages of employing injections
of pilocarpine for toothache are warmly
set forth by M. Kurzahoff in The Revue de
Thera politique. It is used in the form
of a solution of ten centigrams of the pilo
carpine to fifteen grams of distilled water,
this Iteing injected into the temporal re
gion on the side of the affected tooth. Iu
two cases, one-eighth of a iirnin was in
jected, and in a third case, one-fourth of a
grain, the pain always ceasing permanently
about an hour after the inject ion- in about
the same length of time the pcispiration
and salivation, determined by the pilocar
pine, also disappeared. In one case only,
that of a man aged 4fi, affected with rlieu
matlc periodontitis nnd severe pains iu the
ears, the injection of a quarter of a grain
produced copious vomiting, cyanosis, gen
eral weakness and drowsiness all these
symptoms, however, in thi exceptional
case, disappearing in about an hour ami a
half after the administration of twenty
drops of the tincture ot valerian. New
York Tribune.
The Color of tlu Ejet.
Extensive tevearches into the heredity
of eye o!ors have led M Alphon-e de
Cundolle to consider it certain Hint u.mien
have u laiget pmportion of brown -yes
than meu, that wheie both p.m'iits have
eyes of the same color the i I;.mcv.- are
eighty eight to twelve that the childien
who teach the age of 10 years (when the
colors of the eyes are fixed) will have eyes
of the same color: and that where tho
parents have eyes of different colors tin
chances arc forty five in favor of blown
as ugainst blue or gray for the childien.
He claims that brown eyes are more ta
voraMt-to health and longevity t La:: the
blonde tvpes Arkansaw Traveler.
.St. lit riutrilV Telfjitioiu-.
The monks of St. Bernard have brought
,he telephone into their service of mercy.
The famous hospice is now in telephonic
communication with flic Cantine de Proz
and the village of St. I'iorre, us also with
the Cantine de Foutiute aud the village of
St. Chemey, on the Itaiiar oide. Boston
Budget. 1
The Confederate) Constitution.
Mrs. Gen. T. K. R. Cobb, of Atlanta,
Ga., has the original draft of the Confed
erate constitution as it came from tho
committee who drafted it. It h said that
Photographer Sarony, of New York city,
owns the constitution as fina"y adopted
by the Confederate congress. New York
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