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-Hi-V WWmPW0$ f.-js? ff: L''-. JH i 5?!"- 4 Vtf Yi. arwwrs-aacagca mrrnarMgae i TirfV-r -tfc--J&' tjtjjtjmw rt 3SftSCE5WKa SSi. - -1 -.. -31 V w ' -;& . "' - - So. -"' dSe- .. Vf COLUMBUS, NEB WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1889. VOL. XLX.-NO. 41. WHOLE NO. 977. IS'PfiBJ VbwWA W MaJ l it . A . f i rt- ; COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. ' Cash Capital - $100,000. DinECTOKB IiXAXDKK GERRARD, rres't. GEO. W. HTJL8T, Vica Trw't. JULIUS A. HEED. R. H. HENRY. f J. E. TABKEtt, Cashier. BBsmic r IftepMlfe IMf' el Eichaace. ' CIlectIrttly all lelsUa. fay laterrMt Tlaae IN;- It. 274 HUME OF- COLUMBUS, NEB. CAPITAL ST0r,K. $60,000. OFFICEIIS: C II. SHELDON. Fnsn't. II. P. 11. OULRICH. Vice Pre. a A. NEWMAN, Cashier. DANIEL SCIIRAM. Ass't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: J. P. BECKER, JONAB WELCH. nn CARL KEINKK. H. ILOEHLRICH. J H.WURDEMAN, H.M.WIN8LOW, GEawrGALLEY. ARNOLD OEHLRJCH. W.A.M0ALLISTKK. C.H. SHELDON. . Tliis Baak transacts a regular Banking Basi. nm, will allow interest on time deposit, make collections, bay or sell exchange on United States and Europe, and buy and eell available securities. We shall be pleased to receive your basins We solicit yoar patronage. ""We guarantee eatis fgetiouiu n bosineaa intrusted in oar care. FORTHE WESTERN GOfTAGE OBGAH CALL ON- A. & M.TURNER ' 9r O. W. MIRI.EB, Trmwillir Hatltwaanau EBTbese organs are first-class in every par ticalar, and so guaranteed. SCIIFFIOTI I PUTI, DEALS IK WIND HILLS, Biioktyt Mower, comUned, Slf Bindtf, wire or twin. Pups Repaired em siert metiee door vest of Heintz's Drag 8tore, 11th street, ColaariMS, Neb. .HaorSS-tf I CURE FITS! WwT,yCina8ldoBetBMwry etepearst for a thae. aad thea tev them re lent sava. laaax A RADICAL CUKE. 1 km ante the disease f I vAsaaar mm. Beca It ! for aotaow laHsar Atxaaase aaa traTHTHH" KBHBDT. 6Ie aa JPaat Oav. it com yaa trialf aM a w eara yea. fcfeaKOT.Bm.X.IS3 HENRY G-ASS. UNDERTAKER ! lwf AX WTALL1C CA8I8 Repairing a mil kind ef Upkel- OOLUTOUa.nTMIam's rATT.TWfl SICKafZSS, adsallaaaiaaaaafarBotaowraeatTaiKacara. RMiMBHSfaratHsBMsMa nBBOma ."?!!?, i-zrrr ramlr.annsl "Morti. , iasaasal Baaasawl"BaBaBw"l s JaMaTBTaTaTaTaTsWBTaTaTaBsSaTaaaTaC1 W STAGE SUPERSTITIONS. COLUMBINE SUCCEEDED IN "HOO DOOING" EVERYTHING. r Wattle lata Xas 1 Bar Uastedaw aVaftaa When I first went on the stage I aoan aged to -get.myaelf diaUked ia aaoce ways thaa an ordfauuy mortal would deem it poaafMa. Ths first thing I did waa to Ahoodoo" aTarytUBg. Now, I didnt know what k to "hoodoo" things, but I was alwaya doing it I began in this way: One night I cants to the theater in high spirits; it was raining torrents, bat what cared I for wind or rain? Waant there a swell theatre pai I mads np jot on my account, and woawa't IaUnein the eyes of my old school friends aa a bright particalar star, even though my part was not one offcitnt importance? In spite of my wet feet and dripping umbrella I skipped hilariously into the dressing room and greeted my sister artists with a more than usuaUy cheer ful "good evening." I took off my hat and ulster and hung them up, then I put my rubbers in the corner. We had an unusually large dressing room, and there were tliree or four of us dressing to gether. . I looked around for a place to put my umbrella. Not seeing any, I went out in the passage. There was a kind of sink just opposite our door. I thought that would be a good place for it. so I ojwned my umbrella and set it in Uie sink to drain. Then I went into the dressing room and began to get ready to "make up. Now, ever since I was a small child I have had a reprehensible habit of whistling. I have tried in vain to break myself of it. Whenever I feel particularly light hearted I find myself whistling away as merrily as if the old proverb about "whistling girts and crow ing hens" had never been neard of. SIXO, BUT DO KOT WHISTLE. I took out my cosmetics and began to grease paint my face. Just aa I was about to make an amiable remark to one of the girls she startled me by crying out hi a peremptory tone, "Stop that!" "Stop whatr I said. "Tliat whistling." "Don't you like that air? Well, here's another for you" "StopP they all cried, in a chorus. "What is the matterr I asked. "What am I doing?" "What are you doing? Why, whistling Carrie out cf the company." "What .on earth do you mean!" I said, looking from one to the other in bewil derment. "Don't you know that it's the worst thing you can do to whistle in a dressing room? The ono next the door will be whistled out of the company." "Is that what all this fuss is about?" I said. "Well. I'll stop whistling, but I don't see where you got such an idea." "You don't! Well, you get whistled out of on engagement once or twice and you'll see well enough." "May I hum?" I asked, meekly, "or will that bring down some horrible ca lamity on our defenseless heads?" "You may sing all you want to, but don't whistle."" So I began humming a favorite air, and went on with my dressing. I was heating 6ome cosmetic, and held it in tlv !h::iH too long; it melted, and a - , i i m my lily white hand; it - sd left a big black "s: . '"'ilied, but it v. u . i.t.t cuiut" 0.1. I dor" 1 tuui. 1 never ta. . t....i:tu; stick so! "Take 6ome vaa.-hno." said Lou. "It's no use," I groaned. "All the perfumes in Arabia will not sweeten this little hand!" I was startled by a shriek of horror, and was amazed to see consternation in every face. I was frightened by their looks, and said in a faint voice, "What isitT "Do you know what you said?" whis pered Carrie in blood curdlingaccents. "Why, yes," I replied, wonderingly. "I said, A11 the perfumes " "Stop," they screamed. "You must be cray! Don t you know better than to quote 'Macbeth' in the theatre?" I breathed again. "Is that attT I "AH it's enough. I'm not going to stay in the room with her. She'll Jonah every one of us before the curtain goes up. rm dressed and I shall go upon the stage and wait," said Carrie. "QUEERDXO" THE WEEK'S BUSINESS. She walked to the door and opened it Instead of going out she fell back with a gasp. "WhodidthatTshesaid. "What?" cried Lou and I together. "That," point ing with a rigid forefinger. I hardly dared to look. I feared to some guosuy surnt. cm l screwea my courage and followed the direo a of her finser. What met my case? Up IB tion Nothing in the world but my harmless mainreUa set up to dry I "I dont see anything but my um brella," I aM. "Is it yoursTthey ex claimed. "Why, yes; lset it up there to dry." They looked at each other and walked away in silence. As I stood rooted to the spot a stage hand came along and said: You must want to hoo doo the theatre," putting an open um brella in the hali I took it down and shut it. I went silently about the dressing room. My high spirits were all gone now, and I felt sad and depressed. As soon as I could I went upstairs. The overture was on, aad I stood listening to the music and aanataf 4m the mutability of human aJtairs, when I happened to remember the theatre party. "I wonder if they are hare yet," I thought. I went up to the curtain and looked through the peep hole. TJieliousowasnotfulLbutitwas not had for a rainy night I espied my friends just coming in; now nice they all looked. As I waa thinking how well Jennie C looked in her new theatre bon net some one touched me on the shoul der. "Do yon want to queer the business for the whole week?" said a voice in awful accents. "You must never look through the peep hole when the orchestra is play- I was oinpfetely discouraged. Was fhare anything I could do that was not bad lack? Thlsisonlya specimen of the "ways that are dark" that a poor novice aaast learn before she can really be con sidered 4nitiated."--Columbine in Chi cago Tribune. . THE SECOND HAND LVER MAH. near cap Cod a spry WO awn oat of a diTaiaiiated penary aad i a country store. Any plugged or clipped silver yf The asked of the merchant. toasUtoiayrlM "WaLFd'ao; hain't got time to look it np. Next tune you Oh! Iaiat anno hurry; look 'round aaa, wiuye, anTU hang Youndaspeu." "Do you lad the old aOrer tnHal laso who sat naryes c "My ole man waa a Cabforay forty-niner, be I aajtap at every tai MsSaadlBaal arettv fair thine oat oat year ia an Down - am aoaaur ana ncsaurnis teeth wiA a Taunton herria -year out. i rjuyunaereniutuaxeascmi by Troy weight an' sell it to the bullion brokers." "How do yon fix the price?" "'Cordin'to market rates," said the little man pompously. "Then I get lots of old teaspoons an tilings that's bent or broke from some o the farm houses. T'other day a feller thought he's goin' to play smart on me. He'd a lot of silver odds and ends, and weighed 'em on awerdepoy scales 'fore I cum along. I weighed em on these Troy scales, an' told Tbim the ounces. 'Hold, on,' sea he, there's morent that, 'cause I weighed it,' an' I couldn't make the critter believe I warnt tryin' to stick him." "Ever get any antique silver that isn't broken up?" "Sometimes, but folks genly hold outer them old heirlooms. Taint long, though, sence I got a big, long, chased spoon with a twisted handle that looked as though it come over in the Mayflower, and "oncet I got a silver porringer or christenin' cup, the feller called it when Isoldit tohim. "My biggest holt is out to them big piggeries 'round Dedham aad -Hyde park. The bogs are fed on city swill, and Iota o forks an' spoons gets chucked in by careless help. A good deal on't's plated stuff, an' that I dont have no call to meddle with. I know an ole woman that own a piggery that got a half a barrel full o plated forks an' spoons. She can't sell 'em, an' she's too mean to Sire 'em away. Sometimes rings an' lings gets in. Then, again, I buy old watch cases, pins an rings with stones blocked out, or anything that's gold or silver. "Say," continued the spry man, in a fit of confidence, "I'll let ye look into my box if you want to." Ho had a curious collection pieces of little thin, old fashioned teaspoons, 3uaint time blackened iewelry with cep chasings, old Spanish milled dol lars and nistareens a heterogeneous heap of worn, battered, clijrd and perforated coins: the lid of a silver smii? box and the handle of a gold headed cane. "Should think you'd be afraid of get ting robbed," suggited the admiring young man. "Lord! there liain't no highwaymen about here," said the bonanza man, re provingly. "A feller btopped rae oncet down in 'Plymouth woods, but 1 told the durn fool tcr git out, an he did. I guess he'd been a drinkiu' rum. an callatcd to skecr me a little." Boston ileiald. si CoL Ryan, theBanager of Prescott & VarnelTs museum hi St. Louis, tells the following narrow escape which he had from being killed by the snakes of his show: "We had ninety-seven ser pents csexhibitkm, and some were enor mous specimens eighteen to twenty-five feet long. These were confined in a glass covered cage, the top of which, having been broken, was temporarily held m place by a stick. Maj. VarneU and myself Iiaa sleeping apartments at the head of a stairway, directly above. One night we returned and dropped languidly into bed without lighting the gas. After a little I felt something en cumbering my lower limbs and heard a harsh, grating sound all over the room. Attempting to rise, I found to my horror that my feet were bound, and by a flash of lightning that passed at that mo ment I saw an immense boa constrictor wrapped olioutthem. Striking a match I awoke VarneU and we found ourselves shackled together by ths serpents. One huge anaconda was also coiled on the Major's breast. "To i:::;!:e matters worse, the flicker ing m:t: l:!i;;!!t in the gloom had at tract'fl i - f ;f reptiles, and anacondas, - .i...fc snakes, vipers, coi t "-. on began to conj;iH-3,,e. i.t . "- rarp like. scaly IxwbuuT our ran. rrr.v.l .hcr clammy wives over our faces and breathe their bienth upon our ilesli. Great drops of perspiration stood out on our faces as we signaled each other to keep still and silent. To speak would have been but to transfer the attention of the reptiles to ourselves. The snakes in a short time began a fierce battle between themselves, and the suspense grew awful, as help less we lay, not daring to move if we could, and listened to the writhing, struggling forms and fangs in the horrid work: of wasting their hateful venom upon each other. But soon our jailers, to our delight, took a hand in the row, and unwound their coils from our limbs. Once free, it was but a few moments' work to light the gas, get brooms and by the arts known to the profession, drive them into a big box that was convenient We found that they had knocked the stick down, escaped through the roof of the glass case and crawled up into our room for warmth. St Louis Globe Democrat. Early Hallow Ascents. The following, taken out of an old book, says a writer in The Leeds Mer cury, will give an idea how the early balloons were inflated, and will show, also, that Baldwin's decent in a para chute is an old invention: "On Sept 21, 1802, M. Garnerin filled his balloon with hydrogen gas at St George's Parade, North Audley street The gas was made from diluted sulphuric acid, together with a quantity of iron filings, placed in thirty-three casks to generate, and by communication with three larger casks or receivers, and then by tubes to the balloon. At 0 o'clock the balloon rose with its long appendage of the parachute, the aeronaut in the little basket Tens ; of thousands of spectators were fixed in astomsmnent ana aamiranon ax tne gal lant 'adventurer. For eight minutes the balloon continued to ascend till it ar rived at such an immense height as to be scarcely visible. When Garnerin cut away from the balloon the parachute did not expand immediately. It fell with great velocity for a short space of time, when it opened, and the descent became gradual, but attended with a remarkable oscillation like a pendulum of a clock. These vibrations became less as the ground was neared. The balloon wit de scended in a field near the smallpox hos pital at St Pancras without injury to himself or the parachute. A village in New England came into possession of a neat .and much needed town hall, the gift of public spirited citi zens. When completed, a meeting was held to dedicate the new building. Speeches were made by prominent citi zens, and special reflareim was naturally made to the chief benefactor, and to those who had been most active in for warding the enterprise. One speaker mentioned the names of five or six of these citizens, and sug gested that a vote of thanks be tendered mem. This was done. A moment later a little wisen faced old man arose in the back part of tbefaau, and, ia a sharp, penetrating voice, called: "Mr.' Cheenaan! Mr. Cheerman!" The speaker being recognised, be pro- "I iist wanted to say that there's them echalatbeea aMationed, ea bes donees matches tbeaa ea hes." Youth's Com panion. Lady (as a blood cmrWmg war whoop is heard from the kitcliea-What ii lalways ia the. it EXECUTIVE EPICURES. SOMETHING ABOUT THE SWELL DINNERS AT WASHINGTON. Eztxavagaace aad Uuary iBtraaawad ar PrcaMeat Baeaaaaa Tha Calo 1 U Bs asperated by the laaotaMoa Karaaaaa Bttatteis Who Splaxgef. It was at the time of Mr. Buchanan's administration that the most marked change in dinner giving commenced. A new mode of serving dinners came in, more expensive, of course, for it necessi tated additional servants and other auxil iaries. Gautier had opened a large con fectionary and restaurant and had, with Wormley, a monopoly of serving swell dinners. Some of the more old fashioned in social life regarded hk mode aa in novation aiid refted to acknowledge its superiority. The most marked diflsrenea coaamstH m reforming the entrees and the wines, ete., served with each. He it was who, in place of the Sauterne or wine of that character, served with the raw oysters, with which all dinners commenced, fur nished a frozen punch called Arabian punch. It waa white and frozen to the consistency of cream. An amusing inci dent of this innovation occurred atadin ner given by Marshal Hoover. Among the guests was CoL Sam Stambaugh, of Pennsylvania, a very noted political leader in that day and a friend of Mr.. Buchanan. BAD BLOW AT FTJHCH. The colonel was late, and he arrived after the guests had finished oysters and punch, and were on the soup. He made his apology and took his seat His oys ters and punch awaited him, and con versing with his neighbor, he commenced spreading the punch over his oysters. It was observed, of course, and the gentleman next him said: "Colonel, ex cuse me, but that is punch.' "The it is!" said the colonel; "I thought it was horse radish." The table was in a roar, and the colo nel, a recognized authority in such mat ters, denounced this new style and pleaded in favor of the old fashion, and gave adinnerafeweveningsafter, which was served in the old style. It made no impression on the new style, however, which continued to be the rage, increas ingin variety and expense. The colonel's experience of the new order that evening did not end with the punch. With the dessert was served what was then entirely new biscuit glace in different colors and in paper cases. He looked at the one placed be fore him and said to his neighbor, in tones of disgust audible to the whole table: "Shaving soap, by 1" Fashion, more powerful than any op position, was on the side of Gautier & Wormley, and the old style gradually was wiped out The dinners at the ex ecutive mansion were more lavish under Mr. Buchanan's administration. ," There was a very perceptible change in mode and expensiveness, and of course it pre vailed in the private dinners. Slidell and Benjamin gave expensive dinners, and one of your representatives at that time, Gen. Sickles, occupied a fine house on Lafayette square ana gave most elaborate dinners and suppers. He lived most expensively, entertained lib erally, and from one of these dinners of exceptional elegance, given on the Thurs day before the fatal rencontre with Bar ton Key, which occurred on Sunday, he was caUed to learn, as was testified to at the trial, the particulars of the affair which led to the killing of Key. Senator William M. uwin represented California, and occupied the large man sion on I street near Nineteenth, where his dinners and entertainments were no table. Mrs. Gwin's fancy ball furnished as much talk and exhausted as much preparation, in the costumes worn, as the great ball of the Vanderbflts a year or two ago. It was a very fine affair. GORGEOUS FOREIGN FETES. There was a good deal of the swell attributes in the entertainments of that period which might be attributed to the example set at the White House. There were several distinguished foreign vis itors during the administration, and they were entertained with lavish and elegant hospitality, and the example of the president was followed. The English minister at about that time, Lord Napier, entertained fre quently and with great elegance. He was popular beyond any of his prede cessors, was vcrv general in his invita tions, and mixed a good deal with the people of Washington, attending "stag" parties, then prevalent in the club, con gressional ancf official life of Washing ton. Before Ids return to England a ball was given to him and Lady Napier by senators and members of eonj;res3. cfii cials and citizens, and a very Landmine affair it was. The foreign legations have always ex ercised a very potent influence in Wash ington society. Naturally so, as they enjoyed a position that entitled them to every social attention. The influence of wealth had, up to the close of Mr. Polk's administration, made but little impres sion. The old families who, with the army and navy and ofiicials, made up the social lifo of Washington, were as select as McAllister's 400. There was but little wealth among them; competence and comfort were about the standard reached at that time. A few years changed it alL The inroad of wealth drove out the old substantial style, and the new regime brought new modes and larger expenditures. Each season newer styles; each season more expense and, of course, more ele gance. The cost of dinners and parties swelled into thousands, where hundreds were formerly expended. This increase of entertainment and the general invita tions extended to official receptions brought to the city a class of people, male and female, who, witliout the so cial recognition at their homes entitling them to the entree, forced themselves into every entertainment without invita tion and with no acquaintance with those upon whose hospitality they in fringed. That style of thing continues to this day, and some efforts for protection from these hordes is needed. Cor. New York Telegram. JUST BY CHANCE. lataarlaat Valuable discoveries have bean made, and valuable mventioat nrrnntrnl. by the veriest accidents. An alrhamisf. while seeking to disooraramixtare of earths that would make the most dur able crucibles, one day found that he had made porcelain. The power cf lenses, as applied to the telescope, was discovered by a watchmaker's appren tice. While holding spectacle jrisases between his thumb and finger he was startled at the suddenly enlarged appear anceof a rieighboring church spire. The art of etching upon glass was discovered by a Nuremberg glass cutter. By acci dent a few drops of aqaa fortis fell upon bis spectacles. He noticed that the glass .became corroded and softened where the add had touched it That was hint enough. He drew figures upon glass with varnish, applied the corroding laid, then cut away the glass around the drawing. When the varnish was re aved the figures appeared raised upon Meaaotiato owed its ahnple accident of the gua barrel of a swaymg to una xroor a cnaadeuer m a cathedral suggested to Galileo the appli cation of the pendulum. The art of littographing was perfected through sug gestions made by accident A poor niu skiaa was curious to know whether music could not be etched upon stone as well as upon copper. After he had pre pared his slab his mother asked him to make a memorandum of such clothes as slio proposed to send away to be washed. Not liaving pen, ink and paper con venient, he wrote the list on the stone with the etching preparation, intending to make a copy of it at leisure. A few days later, when about to clean the 6tone. he- wondered what effect aqua fortis would have upon it He applied the acid, and in a few minutes saw the writing standing out in relief. The next step necessary was simply to ink the stone and take off an impression. The simp of a Dublin tobacconist, by the namo of Lundyfoot, was destroyed by fire. While he was gazing dolefully into the smoldering nuns, he noticed that'hia poorer neighbors were gathering the,anuff from the canisters. He tested thansnuff for-bimadf, and discovered that'the fire had largely improved its pungency and aroma. It was a bint worth profiting by. He secured another shop, built a lot of ovens, subjected the snuff to a heating process, gave the brand a particular name, and In a few years became rich through an accident which lie at first thought had completely ruined him. The process of whitening sugar was discovered in a curious way. A nen that had gone through a clay puddle went with her muddy feet into a sugar house. She left her tracks on a pile of sugar. It was noticed that wher ever her tracks were the sugar was whitened. Experiments were instituted, and the result was that wet clay came to be used in refining sugar. The origin of blue tinted paper came about by a mere slip of the hand. The wife of William East, an English paper maker, accident ally let a blue bag fall into one of the vats of pulp. London Tid Bits. Curiealtlea la Names. Curious names are always interesting to the general public, and there are probably few persons who would not throw a second glance from a Broadway car as they passed the dry goods house of Mr. Jxiques, or the barber shop of Mr. Yf. The Lnglish speaking public have become more or less accustomed to the odd appearance of German proper names, but there are few persons comparatively who appreciate what peculiar meaning is hidden behind the average jumble of consonants and vowels which forms the Teuton name. One cannot imagino the possibility that the English transla tions of some German .names could be used for. the same purpose among an Anglo-Saxon people without at least causing a howl either of indigna tion or of hilarity. In New York's di rectory, for example, there are such names beginning with "F" alone, as Feigenblatt, meaning "fig leaf;" Fahne stock, "flagstaff;" FauL lazy" or "rot ten;" Faust, "fist;" Feuchtwange, "moist cheek;" Fleischhacker, "meat chopper," and Frauenheim, "home for women." And when these facts are considered there arises at once the conviction that Smith, Brown and the rest of them should feel grateful that they are not approached every day and addressed: "How are you, Mr. Home for Women?" etc New York Tribune. Exceptions to the Xtale. "The maddest woman I ever saw," re marked Conductor Sam Bones, "was one who had just been saved from death. She was an old woman and was stand ing on the track used by the local trains. Tho engineer whistled, but she was somewhat deaf and had her cars all muffled up, and did not hear the whis tle. Tho engine came on and on and the old lady stayed calmly on the track, with her back to the oncoming locomo tive. Two young men ran from across the street and dragged the old lady from the track just in time to save her life. Well, you would have thought that they had done her an irreparable injury. She stormed and raised a row, and all the thanks the young men got for risking their lives was a torrent of abuse." "That reminds me," said Billy Norton, modestly, "of a little incident out in the San Joaquin Valley. I happened to be there at a little station when a young lady tried to step upon a moving train, and fell under the cars. I dragged her out After she bad collected her wits she flew into a passion because I had spoiled her bonnet, forgetting that her life had been saved ingthe act Oakland (CaL) Tribune. A Goad WaaUagtoa Hotel. Actor James T. Powers is the latest practical joker of note. In his lost joke Richard Cummmga, whoplays the part of Wilfred Sbadbolt in "The Yeomen of the Guard" road company, was the vic tim. Cummings, who is an Englishman and unfamiliar with American institu tions, wanted to know of Powers where he could find a good hotel when their company arrived in Washington last Sunday. "Do you want to put up at a $3 or a & or a $5 house?" Powers asked. Cummings thought he would be satisfied with a comfortable 4 house. "The Wliitc House is the best $1 house I know in Waslungton," said Powers, putting on his most serious air. "It's right in the heart of tlie city and everything nice. I can recommend it" Cummings called a cab, said "White House" to the driver and in ten minutes was having a heated argument with the gatekeeper of the White House grounds. The controversy ended in the gatekeeper's favor and Cummings went in search of Powers with a club.- PhiJadalphia Tunes. The Growth of BerUa. One of the morning journals recently published statistics snowing tho growth of Berlin during the last seventeen years. Removed as it is far from tho eca coast, and situated upon a river which is only 6uch in name, tho rapid development of the Prussian metropolis is one of the marvels of the age. From 1870 to 1887 Berlin almost doubled its population, adding 639,100 to its numbers, averaging 37,502 each year. During the same period the number of lots built upon grew to 0,187, or an annual increase of 864. In the year 1870 there were fifty-six persons to every lot upon which a houso stood. In 1873 this had increased to sixty, in 1870 to sixty-one, in 1883 to sixty-five, and in 1887 to seventy-one. The density of the population has constantly in creased. The average rent of a dwelling in 1870 was 470 .marks, which in 1867 bad risen to G49 marks, or about $160. Berlin has over 1,500,000 Inhabitants at the present time. Berlin Letter. Heaey ffa Oajeat, You can trust the average- Hajtiaa negro with large sums of money, aad be will not steal A French merchant informed me that he had on more than a hundred occasions sent thousands of dollars in gold coin and in paper cur rency over the wild rnonntain road from Jacmel to Port an Prince by a single messenger, without losing a cent On the other hand, a fondness for petty pil fering is universaL The same gentle man stated that after the black messcn ger delivered the money he has known him to sneak, into the room and steal the canvas wrapping of the parceL New !W? hare been kffled than aver BIS VERT LAST CIGAB. FrCKLEBVS 0!ZZY EVENING AT A FIVE DOLLAR BANQUET a BUmI to a T Wevth a? BaM TaaaatlfaUy CaUl Oat aa Ita Wle! "It was my last cigar," said Mr. Ffckleby, and, carried away by the flood of aad memories, he leaned nisnead apon his hand and wept "You see," said ae, "the fellows in our set determined to have a banquet and we've been saving up since the last Fourth of July. It was to be a five dollar affair, and for a week beforeliand I lived on husks and abjured pie. I was determined to eat, drink and be merry, and I forced myself intoa vast capacity. The night cams. It took me two hours to dress, but it was worth while, and wliea 1 looked oa myself at 9 o'clock I beheld a glass of fashion and a mold of form. There must have been fifty or sixty of the fellows at the banquet Be sides our set there were a large number of in vited guests. It wasabout lOo'clock when we sut down, and I was so ema ciated from continued and rigorous fast ing tliat I could hardly hold myself straight THAT FIVER SPURRED HDI ON. "1 rarely touch wine, but when I pay 5 for a single meal, when at my board ing house I can get twenty-one for the same money, I stop at nothing. So I permitted the mental to replenish my sherry glass as often as I emptied it. while oysters, bouillon, salmon, sweet breads and lamb chops vanished behind my waistcoat Nor did I permit the claret to flow past me, but sipped it while I discussed a tender bit of beef with asparagus. I have heard mach of the seductive and insidionB influences of punch, but I must say that the punch we fellows had at the banquet seemed to me more like lemon ice cream soda water than the fiery untamed spirit of the alcoholic flask. "Cigarettes came with the punch. I may as well confess that I am not an In veterate smoker. In fact, two or three cigarettes a year generally is sufficientto auay any cravings I have for the noxious weed. But on an occasion like a five dollar banquet I am possessed to indulge in the most reckless nwripation, and after the punch I made away with two cigar ettes. Partridge and a sip or two of claret followed. I dealt liberally, as is my wont with the ice cream and the cokes, the coffee and the fruits, and when the toasting began, and the champagne was pourea out, I began to feel glorious. "Tho speeches were capitaL Some of the most learned and witty men I ever heard answered to the several toasts. Every man around me was smoking. I summoned a waiter and bade him bring me a cigar. It was just glorious. Through the blue wreaths of smoke I could just see tho orator flinging out his arms over tho china and silver. I sipped the spark ling wine. Everything was happy. I sat and laughed and let my head roll where it would. "The cigar finished I sat back finger ing my vine glass as I listened to the speakers about me. Suddenly I felt something like a dark, damp green mold creeping over me. I broke out in a pro fuse perspiration. A vague feeling that I was full of protoplasms possessed me. A strange jpower seemed trying to raise my lungs into my throat Thespeech lost its brilliancy. I shaded my eyes with my hand and gazed earnestly at the table cloth. The plates began to move about strangely. Through the cloud of smoke about my head came the sound of clap ping hands. Who had been speaking I neither knew nor cared. There was a wild, turbulent feeling of rebellion in the region of my diaphragm. "HE'S UNDER THE TABLE." "Somebody rose and began to speak. I dared not raise my eyes to see him. The plates swam round and round. How the damp perspiration gathered on my forehead! I could endure the suspense no longer. I felt that something was about to happen. Without a moment's hesitation 1 slipped under the groaning board and began myself to groan in unison with it It may bo said tliat the cause of our groaning was identical a heavy load, if tobacco smoke can be called a load. 1 languidly raised my eyelids and looked around. I saw a forehtof legs belonging to the leading preachers, doctors and lawyers' in town, a vast forest of legs. I heard more hand clapping. The legs began to dance, the table rocked, a chasm opened some where. Somebody cried. 'He's under the table! Then there was laughter. "All at ouce 1 went to pieces. I re member nothing save a confused ap pearance of black faces, and wondered if I was with Stanley. They hauled mo along. 1 tried to think whether I was Einin Bey or Gerard Fickleby. If I was the former I knew Stanley would rescue me. If I was the latter I knew that 1 was not feeling welL 1 asked the colored person who was supporting me, and whom 1 believed to be the king of Sene gambia, if we were anywhere near the Congo river. Ho said something about Genesee, and I believe I argued the point with him. though I am not sure. I know I looked at the floor just a second, and when 1 raised my eyes the stars were shining over my head and the ther mometer was below zero. "It seemed to me that the common re ports of African torridness were all wrong. I looked about for a chair, but could find none, and was forced to sit down on the sidewalk. A policeman, I believe it was, came along and tried to carry on a social conversation with me. He was an ignorant man, however, and failed to follow my train of thought, and I told liini what 1 thought of Iiim. I re member nothing more until I found my self in bed with a large wet cloth on my head. No, I am firmly resolved never to smoke another cigar.- Buffalo Courier. Skating bone of Oa beat of sports, and it is also one or. tae It is always best when the poads and rivers are first frosen,but that islike wiso the time when the ice Is of unequal thickness and strength because of car rents and springs oelow. The weak places in the ice are called air holes; they constitute the chief dingers hi skating and traveling untQ they are marked by boughs set m the ice. Should an unsuspecting traveler fall into one of these open air cavities he will most assuredly be carried udder the ice if the current is strong, hk only chance, in the absence of assistance, being to swim against the current One afternoon, says the author of "Field and Forest Rambles," I saw a sk:;ter plump into one of these danger oat places, when suddenly another, ob serving the accident, pulled off hk coat, and as he skated past the man in the water, tossed it toward aim, wno caught the sleeve and was dragged oat by the impetus with which the other was going. The feat was done so cleverly that I asked the performer if he had been ac customed to save persons in that way, and he told me that he had pulled many men out of the air holes, and that pro vided oneka good skater and can get near enough to the indrriduel, there k no naore ready aad enVacaoaaBaethod., On another occasion I observed a skat er fail when unmedktery another palled off hk coat and dashed toward the arownrngmaa, who caught h aad was iTfnvmtlHs faam a state timt)ttn I take' to write down the fact Youth's Goeasemba. The growing popular knowledge of in visible impurities aad the deepening im pression upoa the minds of people, the necessity of a pure water supply, have caused a demand for a simple aad con venient test As yet there k no certain and reliable test oy chemical aaalysk. The following' tests are recommended: "Fill a perfectly clean quart bottle half full of water, cork and shake it; remove the cork and see if any odor can be de tected at the mouth of the bottle. Cork the bottlo again and put intoa warm place for a few hours, or set into a pan of hot j waterfor an hour. Shake, uncork and again test by ainelL If an unpleasant or faint or musty odor k perceptible, the water requires more minute investiga tion, i lie second simple test is to evapor ate a quart of water to dryness ia a new tin pan or cup, and note the character of the residue, and what happens when it is strongly heated in a metal spoon. If the sediment left after evaporation k small, and on being burned in a metal spoon gives rise onrjr to such an odor as comes from burning vegetable matter, the water is uot greatly contaminated with sewage. But if the sediment is iu considerable quantity, dark in color and burns, giv ing off the peculiar odor of burning liair or other animal matter, then the water is fouL"-New York Graphic Stc beat Disaster. There seems to be something remark able about steamboat disasters. While they are few and for between, years of practical experience as an agent has taught me tliat they never como singly. One occurs, and nine out of ten times two more follow within a few days. It appears strange, but the records will bear me out When we do liavo a disaster on the river, it is not generally ono followed by great loss of Ufa There arc no more careful or cautious men in professions than our river boatmen, and it ba rare thing to hear of accidents or fatalities. In late years the most serious disasters have occurred on the Mississippi river, and generally come from sinking by running into unearthed bnags of old hulks of gunboats sunk during the re bellion, or are caused by spontaneous combustion and sparks setting fire to cotton aboard the steamers. 1 here are. however, fewer accidents on steamboats than on railroads, and the percentage last year was aliout ten steamboat acci dents to a hundred on the rail. Cincin nati Commercial Gazette. A Story of Daniel Roone. The party of surveyors "camped" on tho bank of the Missouri river where Boone was then located. A number of gentlemen from Kentucky who came west to look at tho new country (Mis souri) were in camp with Boone. In the evening, while they were all sitting around the camp fire, expatiating on the beauty of the surrounding territory they had visited that day, saying it was cer tainly tho best of earth, Boone, who had taken no part in the conversation, said: "Gentlemen, you liavo not seen today the best country on earth." Tho Ken tucky men, supposing that Boono had been further west and had seen, if pos sible, a better country, asked him where the better land lay. Boone, in reply, namedTfour counties in the bluo grass region of Kentucky, the homes of the men he was entertaining. They were greatly surprised, and after further con versation agreed that Boone was correct St Louis Republic. Am Unhappy Coincidence. Dr. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven, after bis activo pastorate had ceased,was accustomed to sit in the pulpit, and, if a stranger preached, to introduce him to the congregation. One Sunday he said: "The first pastor of this church was the Rev. John Davenport," and ho proceeded topronounce a brief eulogy upon him. 'The grandson of that pastor was the Rev. John Davenport, of Stamford. The iionof that pastor was the Rev. James Davenport of Southold, L. L We aro today to be addressed by a lineal de scendant of John Davenport, our first pastor." The minister thus introduced was observed to be blushing violently, and the occasion of hk embarrassment became evident when he announced hk text: "Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." San Francisco Amonaut Fopalnr Errata. Misnomers are responsible for many of our erroneous impressions, Prussian blue does not come from Prussia; Burgundy pitch does not come from Burgundy, and it k not a pitch; Brazilian gross dossnot come from Brazil, and it knot a grass; black lead has no lead in it; sealing wax has no wax in it; kid gloves are not made out of kid; whalebone k no bone at all, and salt k not salt, for it has been long ago excluded from the class of bodies denominated salts. Frank H. Stauffer in tho Epoch. William Perkins, of Owensborough, Ky., k blind and ingenious. The result of his affliction and hk genius ba writ ing machine for the blind, which the boy has just perfected. It is said that a San Francisco firm has paid him $5,000 for tho right to manufacture and sell the machine in the United States. Papalnr Paaaa la Who wrote the most popular poem in the English language? Clement C Moore. It commences: "Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse," and it lias-given enjoy ment to more people tlian any other liv ing verse story of its length. Cincinnati Enquirer. It is Absurd For people to expect a cure for Indiges tion, unless they refrain from eating what is unwholesome ; but if anything will sharpen the appetite aad give tone to the digestive organ, it is Ayerfe Sar saparilla. Thoasaads all over tbe land testify to the merits of this medicine. Mrs. Sarah Burroughs, of 218 Eighth street, South Boston, writes : " My hns band has taken Ayers Sarsaparilla, for Dyspepsia and torpid liver, aad has been greatly benefited." A CoiifKriMd Dyspeptic. C. Canterbury, of 141 Franklin st., Boston, Mass., writes, that, suffering for years from Indigestion, he was at last iadaced to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla aad, by its use, was entirely cured. 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