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-j"!".;? JT . Z-ar- -- ' ' " -j". T S. 1iV ' 1- , -- - t - .nt-osa . - .-- - "o jJeatr.-ngswA. i -eS3tSKf - - i- j 1 t" i- - ' m ohvnhm fmxml jS-TCj- . T S4- - ., s'5'" - - 58,;. X4 -" "- t V " - r-.r COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1889. WHOLE NO. 982. VOL. XLX.-NO. 46. A - w A - I" V c. COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital - $100,000. DIRECTORS: LEANDER GERRARD, Pres't. GEO. W. HULST, Vice Pres't. JULIUS A. REED. R. II. HENRY. J. E. TASKER, Cashier. aak of bepwiit, UlacaauBt bad Exchaace. CallectiamN Prmptly Mate ill Fatal. latere! Tlwe - 274 IfM. CflHEMIM -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB. CAPITAL STOCK, $60,000. OFFICERS: C. II. SHELDON. PnVt. II. P. 1L OHLR1CH, Vice Pres. C. A. NEWMAN. Cashier. DANIEL SCHRAM, Ass't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS: J. P. BECKER. JONAS WELCH. CAKLREINKE. H F-Hj02IJM CH. J. H. WUKDEMAN. Hv?Ar wrmrH GEO. W. GALLEY. ARNOLD OLHLRICH. W. A. MCALLISTER, C. IL SHELDON. This Bank transact a rwalar Bankinff Basi net, will allow interest on tim deposit, make collections, bay or sell exchawre on Pa1 State and Europe, and boy anil tell available twcaritien. We shall be pleased to receive your bus inesa. We solicit yonr patronise. We guarantee satis faction in all business intrnsted in onr care. !2lecs FORTHE WESTEMIMEOM -3CALL OS A. & M.TURNER r .. W. BLEat, XrawellasT fwlcnaa. SVTheae organs are first-class in every par ticular, and so guaranteed. SeiUTROTI t rUTI, -DUT.nis is CBALLERCrB WIND MILLS, -Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pubis Repaired start latiee E-Ono door west of Heints's Drag Store. Uth wet, Columbus, Neb. lnovrt-ti street. I CURE FITS! When I ar CURE I do not mean BMrefte stop them I of a time, and then have them re turn arain. 1 mean A UAD1CAL CUKE- 1 have mode the flisefto of A lit e-loac Fiadv. I wxaRaST ay remedy to Cuke tneworst'cases. Bccaase others have ' failed is no reason for not nowrecemsr care Send at once for a treatise and a Fsee BOTTLB of my Infallible Uemedt. Give Express and Post Office. It costs job nothing far a trial, and it will care you. .Addrss H.CROOT,M.C IS3PXMLST..B1 HENRY GrASS. UNDEETAKER ! crms asd metallic cases JT Repairing of all kind of UpAoJ sfery Goods. bbbbbbbbbpeocssv jaBBBBBBSS?? -X.osb) Xeora km. As reflected in the biennial report of the Secretary of State, G. L. Laws, for the two years ending Nov. 30, '88. We give only such portions as we deem of special interest to readers of Thx JTottk-kal: Fees collected 337 Is No. of notarial com mission. Articles of incorporation SIS " Bonds of railroads UBS Amoont of same $1.8M,eB9 " Bridge bonds Amoont of same $ 73,000 School district bunds 1.63) Amoont of same.. $ 91X2M Water bonds 305 Amoont of oaate S 380280 " Coort bouse bood 331 Amaentofaoae $ 33600 An extraordinary item attracts our at tention, viz: That $1,000 was appro priated for advertising proposals for state printing, and only $72 of the same expended. The presumption of course is that the secretary did all the adver tising that the law reqafiSd, bat got it done, cheap. Perhaps if the $1,000 had lieen fully used the state might have been saved five or six thousand dollars on their printing bilL The amount appropriated for printing revenue books and blanks was $25,000, and amount expended $870.65. This item looks as though the secretary has been dealing fairly by the state and not allowing the contractors for printing to over-reach the state, as has been the cus tom too often heretofore. OLD SOLDIERS. The roster provided for by a law of '87 contains the names of nearly 18,000 ex-soldiers and sailors resident in Ne braska, probably about half the number it should contain, remarks the secretary. STATE HOUSE. ETC. By an act of congress in '64, twenty entire sections of public lands were donated to the state for the erection of public buildings at the capitol for legis lative and judicial purposes. The eight hundred acres donated by the village of -Lancaster" were platted, lots sold and a part of the proceeds used in erecting the old capitol building at a cost of nearly $83,000. By legislative authority this old building was sold for $300, tle purchaser agreeing to remove it from the site of the present "main building." The contract price for the new state house, completed, is $639,687.25, of which amount Si",500 have been paid from pro ceeds of state lots. The average number of prisoners in the penitentiary 87-'8 was 335. The state pays forty cents a day each for their care and keeping. The average number of patients in the insane asylum, Lincoln, was 318, average weekly expense per patient, $4.66. The average number of pupils in at tendance at the institute for the blind, Nebraska City, was 32, and the average weekly cost each, $5.54. This includes all current expenses and all salaries. At the institute for the deaf and dumb, Omaha, the average number attending was 10C, average cost per week each, $3.90. The institute owns twenty-three acres of land, and buildings and per manent improvements that have cost the state $96,500. The reform school at Kearney was es tablished on three hundred and twenty acres of land donated to the state for the use of the school. Permanent improve ments, consisting of rive family build ings, work shop, barn, etc have cost the state $145,950. The average number of inmates for -"S has been 204, average cost per week, each $3&L The insane asylum at Norfolk was es tablished on three hundred and twenty acres of land donated to the state. The improvements made, consisting of a three-story brick house, boiler and en gine houses, laundry, barn, ete have cost the state $17L20Q. The average number of patients in the asylum since opening, Pebruary 1888 has been 108, average weekly cost each, $7.40. The institute for feeble-minded youth, established at Beatrice, has cost $71, 239; average number of pupils in atten dance, 64, average weekly expense per pupil $5.93. The home for the friendless, at Lin coln, has cost the state $2895. As the home is supported in part by the state, no estimate of the per capita cost for maintenance has been made. The average number cared for during "87-'8 has been 94. The soldiers' and sailors' home at Grand Island was built on land donated for the purpose six hundred and forty acres. The improvements have cost $30,000, and the number of inmates November 90th was 33. The industrial home at Milf ord is on forty acres of donated land, and the brick building erected has cost $1411. The asylum for incurable insane, es tablished at Hastings on one hundred and sixty acres of donated land, will cost, when ready for occupancy, $74,030. COC5TTJES. From the "roster," we find the follow ing counties working under township organization: Adams, Antelope, Buf falo, Butler, Cky, Cuming, Caster, Dixon, Dodge, Fillmore, Franklin, Gage, HalL Harlan, Holt, Kearney. Merrick, Nance, Phelps, Platte, Richardson, Sew ard, Srwrma", Valley, Washington, Web ster and York, 27, out of 81, one-third of the entire number. PLATTE OOTJHTT CORPORATIONS, ETC. The Columbus Motor Railway Co. filed articles of incorporation May 21, Vi, capital stock $200,000, incorpor ators, J. B. Meagher. RE Henry, H. Oehlrich, George Lehman, L. Gerrard, J. H. Kersenbrock. The Steager Beawvolent Association filed articles Jane 3, '87, capital stock $100,000, incorporators, J. Ernst, John Haney, Ed. Keuscher. Nebraska Real Estate Trast Co. filed articles Jaly 5, W, capital stock $80, 080, iaoorBorators, D. T. Martyn, George Lehman, A. Anderson, L Glack, M.H-White, Colambas Sana Co. filed articles Deeaabar 14,-87, xcml Anderson, J. P. Becker, G. Schutte, Jonas Weleh, J. W. Early, W. A. Mc Allkter, C. H. Sheldon, O. T. Roen, B. TJhlig. The Commercial Bank of Columbus filed articles December 14, OT, capital stock $50,000, incorporators, J. P. Becker, Jonas Welch, C. H. Sheldon, C. Reinke, H. P. H. Oehlrich. W. A. Mc Allister, J. W. Early, & Uhlig, John Sul livan. The Columbus Mining Co. filed ar ticles August 8, '88, capital stock .$5, 000)00, incorporators, C. E. Morse, J. E. North, W. N. Hensley, Henry Bagatz, G. E. WillanLW. A. McAllister, J. J. Sullivan, O. T. Boen, C. D. Davis, W. A. Way, E. W. North, J. Stauffer. Oconee Elevator Co. filed articles Oct 3L, "88, capital stock $5,000, incorpora tors, D. Mardoek, H. J. Hendryx, C. W. Talbitser, Jaka Mwriock. BOXDS. On the bond register Platte county appears only as follows: Columbus township, $10,000 bridge bonds, 6 per cent payable to bearer at Nebraska Fiscal Agency, New York, Dec. 1st, 1917, bonds dated Dec. 1, '87; bonds of the City of Columbus for $30,000, similar to foregoing. SCHOOL DISTRICT BCMUS PLATTE COtmTT, ALL AT SXTKK PER CERT. No. lAm't. Date. Payable. SI j$ 350 March 1. lWJ.IMarch 1. '1HC 31 3,0691 Id, 3. &. 7 sad 8 years. 11 61 33 500jXay..l2. 250(Jaly.Jl. 1.000 " ..2. 500 Dec.. 1. 350, " .. L 4U)Jan..as. 250 Jn!y..li, I May 1Z. 1WZ. I " . " 2, 3. 4 A 6. 7, 8. , 10 and 11 vcars. " (Dec. L1892. 4 1888. 'Jan. 22. 1898. UoJrU,M. 51 58 A .! Drive Kangaroos are a great scourge to the farmers in some parts of Australia. They detroy the grass and literally starve the shwp off the plains. This forces the farmers to devise means for killing them off. and a drive"" is the one generally employed. A yard with a high fence is built on tiie plain, and two fences run from it for a long distance, coming to gethcr like the letter V. and all the men. boy ami blacks in the neighborhood are mounted on horseback and scour the country for miles around. They drive the kangaroos Into the jaws of the V, and thence into the yard, where the blacks enter with clubs and begin the work of slaughter. Mr. Knox describes a little "drive" his Kirty had on their own account: There were ten or twelve kangarous feeding quietly, and we were within a few hun dred yards of them before they were aware o it At the first alarm they rose on their hind legs and took a look all around, ami a second later they were away. How they did jump! They seemed to go thirty or forty feet at a time, but our liost said it was little more than fifteen feet We let loose the dogs, which up to this time liad been kept be hind us. and they went away without any urging. The dogs are kept for this purpose, just as fox hounds are kept in England and France, or deer hounds in Scotland. The dogs soon overtook and pulled down a young kangaroo, and then they were put on the trail of an "old man" kangaroo, as a full grown male is called. The "old man" led the dogs a lively chase. He made directly for water, sev eral miles away, which is their custom. If he cannot reach water he takes his stand with his back against a tree, and in that positioa is a dangerous creature to approach. We followed the dogs as closely as we could, but did not come up to them until the kangaroo was at bay in a pool where the water just left his fore legs clear as he stood upright The dogs swam around him or stood on the shore of the pool when we came up. The pool was a small one and the creature real ized that it was his safest retreat, and he was evidently determined to die game. A shot from a rifle in the hands of one of the men finished liim. Philadelphia Times. Hiranhnn sfftrnkktr. The proposed substitution of India rubber for metal in the manufacture of horsethoes is based upon various sup pnsed advantages, one of these being that the former enables the horse to go easier over all kinds of roads and rough or slip pery ground without slipping. According to this design, the shoe con sists of an India rubber bottom piece molded to fit over or around the frog of die hoof, with a ledge or protecting rim rising up the front and around the level wLcrv the nails are damped, the protec tion having a ledge under which a steel band or other apptiaaces can be drawn and nipped tight to retain the rubber shoe. The band is connected by studs, which pass through the heel part of the hoof, this being cut away from the inner side for the purpose, and the stud or studs may work eccentrically to obtain grip or fixing. If the rubber shoe is used with an iron shoe the frog portion, or pad, has a front plate and two side wings partially bnbedded in it to hold the rubber shoe place. If the rubber shoe be divided or .made thin in the center a swivel or 'other bar can be con tracted from the rear to reduce the width of the pad, so that it enters easily and also expands so as to fix the rubber shoes in positioa. New York Telegram. The minister's wife sat on the front porch the sloshes of eaeof her stopped in U chat A large half fall ef the floor of the porch. After various re marks of a fcoasipy nature the visitor said: "You seem to be well supplied with buttons, Mrs. Goodman." "Yes; very well, indeed." "My spacious! If there ain't two of the same bwtsoas my haabaarl had on hk Is winter's safe, rdkaow'emany- "Iadeedr said Ike minister's wife, calmly. "I am suipiised to hear it, as all of these buttons were f ouad in the coatribatioB box. Se I thought J might what! avast you an? WeB. be sate to cal agsia.- West Point AMiaace. "Dont yoa thJakthrrH Is soawthiag SfssaTs parya atmwnarr "Indeed 1 io-. I anlMisajMathw he had been at ha went oa for m Brooklyn INFLUENCE- l Jrcwea a pebhto is the ai ; It ikf uwu fjua ay at; AetrcKsasaisasrfaiaHt. Cstfl at laa fc Many swat Asd waaass aa um taitasr am A ftewa. a seowi, aa Aaaayor a rS A fetaal bow. a leak PEDRO. Nobody knew much about Pedro. In fact, he was a mystery and had been for a great many years for exactly how many years, though, nobody but Pedro himself could tell you. Certain it is that he had been a mystery since It, for in that year the town was settled, and Pedro was living in Judge's Cliff when the first settlers came to Beachton. How he came to be there nobody knew, and nobody would have cared had it not been for the last act of his life. Nobody knew who lHiih his house for him. or how it came to be where it was. though as to the bitter point the village scions declared simply that some terrific storm that liappencd long ago must have been responsible for the loca tion. All of which rather anticipates the statement that Pedro's home was the wreck of a boat a queer, lubberly okl wreck that was lying keel uppermost full twenty feet above the water's edge. A narrow ledge, not more than ten feet wide, and running perfectly horizontal for a distance of forty or fifty feet, was all that Pedro could claim in the way of a front or back yard, and outside that limited range the old man ventured but once a week. That was on Saturday afternoon, when he would take his willow market basket on his arm and go to Beachton market Pedro himself was getting old. very old, for few people could remember when Pedro's hair was other than scant and gray, or his sU-ps other than lialting and feeble. The even tenor of the old man's way had brought liim in contact with few people, ilf had made no enemies and no friends, ami people were content that old Pedro should remain a mystery. Thus it liappened that when the old man came and went on market days there was no kind word for him. no handshakes, no cheerful salutations. He came and went like a shadow, and the school children hurriiHl past him as if his very silence frightened them. Now, between the market and Pedro's home, and no situated, therefore, that Pedro passed in going and coming, was Maj. Deal's home, a beautiful old fash ioned homestead, with a long shaded walk that led down to the gate. And the major had killed Pedro's dog. Of course, the major never did admit that he had done wrong. The little terrier had barked at his heels and he had struck at it with his cane. He never intended to kill the dog, but it was only a dog and only old Pedro's dog at th?t Of course Pedro viewed matters a little differently, and as a nat ural result of the difference the major forgot all about it while Pedro remem bered tt very distinctly. In fact, there can be no doubt that the major's baby saved a great deal of trouble about that dog. When the weather was fair the baby would be at the gate as Pedro passed on Saturday afternoon, and she Lad learned to recognise Pedro, while the lonely old man had learned to love and yearn for that baby welcome. He al ways paused a moment in paming to raise his tattered old hat and smDe at baby Maud. So, while Pedro remem bered very distinctly that the major had killed his dog. his thoughts of revenge had given place to other and better thoughts, for all of which the major's baby was entirely responsible. One beautiful Saturday afternoon in the autumn of 1879 a group of school girls were gathered at the major's gate, and in their midst was the major's baby. Right royally the little queen was hold ing her court Pedro saw all that as he came on with his basket. Suddenly a shout of warning was beard, and pistol shots were fired at Mayor Weed's house, just two doors above the major s. "Mad dog! Mad dog!" shouted half a dozen voices. The frightened girls turned to see the vicious brute only a few steps from them, and ran screaming toward the major's house. The major's wife met them at the door. "Oh, Mrs. Deal a mad dog!" The youBg.mother's face was deathly pale, and without a word she ran toward the gate. Before reaching the gate, however, she saw that her baby was safe, and she recognized Pedro. He had placed the child carefully upotf the grass just inside the gate and then closed the gate. Then the dog, had attacked Pedro. The huge maddened brute was biting savagely. The blood was towing freely from the okl man's arms and hands, and from an ugly wound in thecheek. Pedro was nearly rrhansted, and his feeble blows with akaifeavailed but little. The mother had picked up her baby and was watching the contest inu agoay of sue asase. Throwing all his strength with his blow, the old ma drove his knife to the hik in the dogtfcfoat, and as the brute lay foaming and writhing at his feat the old man dropped his knife and Issued wearily against the gate. A group of people soon gatliered about him, and the major's wife called his name, but the ok) man said no attention. As he rested the baby's hands were upoa "Pedro," again said the major's wife. Stowrythe old nam rasnd his head He didst seethe youag Brother, or the people around him; hemwoaly the baby. Ho took the child's hands in ha own a away. Pick up his asqity basket, the aid maa areafl ma old aVCeBsm sssK Ts twasjEai 4aH8 CaTMaraawa aaaavaj A wort, a leak of araasnjy, Asisyisaetaf osarfcay. Aalfatfcaalaamralsat- UtoriantacattaraxlaBaaa, o'er taeftastiaaa at asm. Pol . a and they watched him untfl he was lost to sight. Dead or alive he was never seen again. -Before night everybody in Beachton kaew how Pedro had saved Baby Maud's life, at what must inevitably be the cost of his own. The major was off at court and was to be home on the 12 o'clock train. The night was dark and lowering, and the major had barely reached .his home be fore the storm came in all its fury. It was a fearful storm. The heavens ware flashing continuously and the thaadsr rolled in quick, deafening peals. The ram fell in looda, and unceasingly. The wied bowled and shrieked like a thing of life, the houses rocked and tottered upon their foundations, and all that night not a soul slept in Beachton. .Next morning the storm slacked, and gradually the wind died out The rain to fall for two hours, but by it had oeasai. Sooa after dinner nut oa his-rusaarbeets and waded through the mad to the mayor's home. Then the mayor put on his rub ber boots, and together may went to Dr. Elder, the deacon's. Maybe the deacon didn't have any rubber boots, for be simply tucked his trousers Into Ids boots, and they all went together to Pedro's home. The major was a few steps in advance where the path ended at the top of the cliff as he stopped and looked almost straight down upon the ledge where Pedro's liome had been since 89. As he looked the major's face paled, and uttering an exclamation of surprise he pointed downward to the ledge. The panun and the major looked, too. and not a word was npoken. Pedro's home was gone. Chicago Herald. Jack was one of the train of mules with which the earl of Dunraven made an excursion in the Yellowstone park a few years ago. It is not often that a mule gets so good a character from his master as Jack receives, but it was well earned. Jack would ascertain, by some means best known to himself, the exact width of his pack, and would measure his dis tance between the trees to an inch, run ning through apertures that looked far too narrow for liim. but never striking or getting jammed. He had some extra ordinary method also of determining the height of his pack, and could tell pre cisely whether he could pass under an overhanging bough without stooping, and, if not, how much be would have to stoop. If necessary, without pausing for a moment in his trot, he would double down until hit belly almost touched the ground, and wriggle himself through under a fallen tree in the most ludicrous manner. It is no easy task for a man, even though he be accustomed to the moun tains and the forests, to make his way through the matted labyrinth of these 'priaieval woods: bat through such places, if they were practicable at all. Jack would run, jump, climb or crawl, picking his way without pause. His faculty of stooping under branches, though very useful at times, was incon venient when he was required as a riding animaL He would forget for a moment that tie had not a tall pack upon Ids back, and in passing under some leaning tte, to avoid which the rider would merely stoop his head, not expecting for a moment that the mule would stoop also, down he would go. and with a twist and wriggle of his body writhe himself under the supposed obstacle, much to his rider's surprise and discom fort. Youth's Companion. Gottlasj Evea. When the "Tin Soldier" was done in Chicago for the first time I played the plumber. Eugene Field was present and seemed to enjoy the performance im mensely. Next day be gave the piece a very nattering criticism, and said that all the people played their parts well with a single exception. The actor who played the plumber seemed to have no conception of what the author intended. I had to good naturally take the general laugh at my expense and foot up the bill for numerous "smiles," whose combined frequency was sufficient to make a very respectable laugh. I determined to get back at Field. He is as well known and as familiar a figure in Chicago as CoL Ochiltree is in New York. On the follow ing evening I had him occupy a box at the theatre. In one of my scenes I took a copy of The News, and advancing to the front, pretended to read. "Gen. Field's Sharps and Flats," I said, as if just com ing to the column of his bright exploita tions. Then, with a bread smile, I apparently continued reading. After a while the smile gradually faded, and was succeeded by an expression of positive pain. The paper was thrown to the floor, and, with a very tired expression, I threw back the lapel of my coat and rang a chestnut belL The chestnut bell was something new in Chicago then, and the little piece of business went tremen dously. Field's box was so situated that he could not withdraw from the view of the house, and he had to take the laugh Mke a good fellow. The "Tin Soldier" has made oa an average about $24,000 a season. Charles H. Hoyt. Luellen Haley, of Ocala, a lover of hunting, was taking his favorite recrea tion in the fields northeast of Ocala and filling his game bag with quail, when an accident happened to him that came within a hair's breadth of ending his ex istence. His dog had set a quail and he shot it, and was in the act of drawing the trigger on another when a strange dog came rushing towards him from the rear, ran under his legs and upset the young sportsman, while his gun was hurled from his grasp. The butt hit a stump, rMsring the weapon to discharge, and the charge struck Haley in the left side, tearias; away every particle of clothiag aad Narkrainc his flesh. Sa vannah News. Watcnmi. A recent traveler in New Zealand de scribes the great Sutherland waterfall. "The water." he says, "dashes over the cm? in three grand leaps, and constitutes about one-half of the entire volume of the Arthur river. The first leap is over adixxy chsTintoa rocky basin 815 feet Jumping forth again, it makes leap of 751 feet, aad then goes tumbling and leaping in one wild dash of SV3 feat mto the pool at the foot of the The total height is 1J04 feet, the waterfall the highest yet dis- k shmms; raav bows of all sasat hang over thefaJLaad 111! SSTllS ll loiliwilliilili liiilifii- FEMALE DETECTIVES. CASES ON WHICH THEY CAN DO BETTER WORK THAN MEN. Mr a to of Vton for tlM Secret largo Citfoa They Beadcr Tol- Sorrlco to the Pellco. Althougb for a long time detectives of the fair sex and some of them of good social status have been employed for the discovery of crime and grave politi cal offenses, and also for making private inquiries where delicacy and tact m requisite, female detectivism has but oc casionally been employed in the United Kingdom for public purposes, and even then with merely insignificant results, la a recent government report upon the Scotch police by CapC Monro, her majes ty's inspector for constabulary for Scot land, be says that the employment of a few women on the detective staff in large and populous places might possibly be of valuable service. Owing to this state ment, and the important fact that the employment of women as private detec tives in London has made great progress, a writer in The London Queen has care fully investigated the subject of this article, on which he has received some appreciable information from those who are the most competent to speak with authority on the question. WOMXX FOR "SPOTTERS." As regards the engagement of women for the detection of crime in this coun try, it Ls not only very limited, but merely extends to few otrences, the most important of which appear to be shop lifting and ptM.'ket picking cases and other thefts. In these anil other instances they generally act under the guidance and vi supervision of regular mem bers of the deteetive staff Some years ago a lare linn of omnihus proprietors always engaged women to rind out the dishonesty of the conductors of these vehicles in robbing their masters of a iortion of their f;ues. and it Ls stated that women are even now employed for this purpose. As competent and trustworthy women are difficult to secure for secret service in poli'-e forces, and as no effectual means exi-st for training them for this delicate duty, and as thyy are indiffer ently paid for their work, there u a general feeling among poUeemen of all ranks thai under present regulations it would be uu wise to permanently employ women on detective staffs or as agents or as assistants to the members of such in connection with criminal and politi cal investigations. On the other luind. in iaris. Berlin. Vienna. St. Petersburg and other large centers of population on the continent, the detective service ren dered by women to the police in these cases is very valuable. The social position of ladies employed is often of a sujierior order, wlule their general knowledge is very advance!. The dip lomatic cnr of some continental na tions engage ladies as detectives out of their own country. It is stated that a few of the fair sex are employed in Lon don on belialf of the French and German embassies and render very efficient help to those to whom they ure responsible as such. STROXO ox DivoacE CASES. Now, for private detective work in England as tliat required in divorce cases, tracing missing friends and other secret inquiries a great numler of wo men are employed, and their number and services have immensely incre:tsed dur ing the last ten years or thereabouts, when female detectivism as a system is said to have commenced by Unas of private inquiry agents in the metropolis. The writer lias been informed by the principals of two important private in quiry offices in London in both of which a large stall of women are employed that the latter are far more efficient for their duties than men would be. Great care is taken in their selection, and they are better paid for their services than women who are temporarily employed in police forces in proportion to the time they are respectively engaged in their work. One metropolitan firm, at least, not merely engages a great number of fe male detectives permanently to devote their whole time to private inquiry busi ness, but pays them a liberal salary in addition to giving them a bonus in re spect of each investigation which they have been mainly instrumental in bring ing to a successful termination. The amount received by the employers of these women in several of such cases i3 very large, and the latter are paid ac cordingly. One firm of inquiry agents has a very clever lady in their service who in the discharge of her duties has traveled many thousands of miles. Her remuneration has approached 400 a year from detective work alone. An other firm has paid one of their fair sex defectives as much as S0 for a month's service in private investigations. In ad dition to the remuneration tho more effi cient of these detectives obtain from the employers, their incomes are materially supplemented by lumdsome gratuities they receive for succcshf ul services ren dered to those who pay their masters very liberally for buch. New Orleans Picayune. off HU Grace Xuummko. Some idea of the extent of territory of the Can'1an diocese may l;c gath ered from the fact tiiat the Bishop of Moosonee exercises jurisdiction over on area as large u& Europe, extending all around the Hudson's bay territory and reaching up to the North Pole. Ten thousand people are under his care in this vast region, and there is no resident minister of any other body of Christians besides the Ltahop mid his seven clergy. The distances are enormous, and the bhortgfct way to tho northern part of the diocese is to go to England first and then go out in the yearly hiiHvhkh en ters Hudson'? bay. The bishop has everything to do for himself, ucd is a good printer, bootmaker, carpenter, bricklayer, etc He has been a worker in that far away locality for nearly forty yefcxs. The Church Worker. Omem m. Traaap. TUca a Gernur. Your correspondent, while passing ap Pennsylvania avenue with a bureau offi cer, passed a man named Wilkinson. who was recently turned out of the office of the comptroller of the currency on ac count of "offensive partisanship." The bureau officer, after passing Wilkinson, turned to me and said: "You recognize that man? Yes; well, there was an incident in the early part oTlasfife which connects him iBaway with on of the most prominent A gaamyvsam ag Wilkaaoa Springfield, bow oae of the peroue manufacturing towns in the tral part of the Buckeye stat his goods were hakaraut iatol and those helnagmg- to the tenant were bssag pat oa a seedy looking tramp came up quired if he could get something; to offering to assist in the work if he accommodated. The outgoing referred the tramp to the incomhar tea ant, and the latter took tbewajftderer into the house and gave him a dinner There was not much attention paid to that tramp, and for years those who saw him oa that day lost sight of him. Finally he reappeared, however, entered into tho business of the place and began to grow. He grew in every sphere of life. He became wealthy and Inimatisl A few years ago he was go1 now he has more property than any man in hit section of the It is not necessary for me to mentina hw name. He lives at Springfield yetand is a very rich man. His name is a house hold word throughout Ohio." Washing ton Cor. New York Press. 9afarlt of The American love of bombast has made way for the American love of "smartness." Fourth of July firecrackers have outlived the pyrotechnics of Fourth of Jury orations. We still praise our selves freely, as our ancestors did. but we do so with less "fuss and feathers." At the bar a amiTay change may be ob served. It is harder than it used to be to "enthuse" juries to borrow a word which, like "hifalutin," seems to imply that what was once sublime has become ridiculous. Lawyers talk to twelve men instead of "addressing the panel." Gufus Choate. were he to come to life again, would find it difficult to win such cases as he did win. unless he kept Ids imagi nation in a L-n&h. shortened and simpli fied his periods and made his delivery more conversational. Even in orations on memorial days, or at college festivals, colloquial English is heard; and the essays spoken at college commencements are ceasing to be "mere emptiness." In the northern, and especially the north western states, the taste for colloquial, rather than oratorical English is, for obvious reasons, stronger tlian in the south and extreme west: but it is show ing itself in all parts of the country. It is a taste that should be encouraged by all who prefer the simple to tho ornate, the natural to the artificial, the sensible to the sonorous. Harper's Magazine. The Aatipyrln Uitblt. Tho new coal tar product anti pyrin has already started a vice of its own. Tliis singular compound was discovered by a German cheniiit, and on account of its remarkable qualities is now used the world over. It lias the power of reduc ing the temperature of the body by several degrees, and so is of vast utility in treating fevers and feverish stages of many diseases. It does its work by de pressing the action cf the heart, and generally when employed by physicians it is accompanied with digitally to neu tralise its influence in the latter regard. Women use it partly because it is a seda tive and partly because it makes the com plexion beautifully clear and pale by keeping the blood away from the sur face of the body. The habit, like all others, grows upon the person who prac tices it It does liarm, however, from the first. With women who are weak it increases their weakness; with those liav ing a predisposition towards heart dis ease of any sort it increases tho tend ency to a terriblo extent Besides these results antipyrin exerts a peculiar in fluence upon tho blood, which is not yet thoroughly understood by the faculty. It seems to undergo some decomposition or breaking down wh n absorbed by the system.developing unknown compounds, which either attack the blood itself or else powerfully influence the nerves and ganglia, which control the vital func tions. Richmond Despatch. Had the Call. I heard a good aftry about the late Judge Grosvenor, of Dunkirk, who was the local attorney for the Dunkirk and Warren railroad, and at one time had a cow killed by a locomotive of the road. He presented a claim of $25 to the proper officer of the road, who, following the ordinary custom, had it referred to the judge, as attorney, to give an opinion us to the liability of the road. The judge had the facts set forth and wrote an elaborate opinion, holding that the road was not liable in the case, as the killing of the cow occurred by reason of the plaintiff's negligence, and cited numer ous authorities to sustain his position. The claim was consequently disallowed, but the judge's bill of $50 for an opinion "in the case of Grosvenor against the Dunkirk and Warren railroad" was pre sented to the proper authorities, and in due time he received a check for that amount. Albany Argus. FUa CoBiuiSariao Experiment. Marshall McDonald, United States fish commissioner, is making a comprehen sive experiment in salt and fresh water aquariums. He lias already constructed several aquariums on the lower lloor of the building, and stocked them; and he is now building a large cue, 120 feet long, under a separate roof, Tho commissioner said to the correspondent, "1 am going to brin the seashore to Washington, and' assemble hre a full representation of our nsriiu lire." lie has sixty or seventy specir.t already spurting in salt and fmh water tanks, one of the Litter containing specimens of the earliest type of frebh water fish tho ganoids. Science. A Dee Fa rains. Old Nero, the mammotb bull dog be longing to A. J. McDonald, of this place, is earning $10 a month in McPbee & Michel's logging camp. He totes dinners to the men mid does his work as well as acookee with a pony could do it He know when it is tune to be around, and nothing can keep hun from being at camp, ready to be loaded down, at 11 o'clock. Nero is a monster, and the camp can rest at night in perfect safety from any kind of a foe. Hu can whip all comer hi tlie shape of dogs, and lie would tackle a bear with all tho confi dence hi the world. Rhinelander (Wis.) New North. There has been begun in Paris a cam paign agaiast trained nurses, and a re turn to the old system of nursing by Sis ters of Charity has been otrongtyadvo catad. It if alleged that the mortality uhesastabv ottper coat, higher tawiatrodactioa of trsiasd ai la Ohio. National Bank! -KAS AK oTQsBrtEMI VaRsBstl W BBSBtMftTW0 thof -DiaftaoaUMfcaKlselessooiatafc A. AMDSMOit. P. J.M.6ALLKT.tios at G.ABtoamom, p. JACOB 6REIBXK. JOHMU.BULUTAM. J. ft J." 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