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5fesi vo--. m 5A nhmm 3 ' " "J i aSst Jv-tS" f3-. - .''. VOL. XIX.-NO. 49. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1889. WHOLE NCL985. mxmi s i 4 . - 3T c- 1 COLUMBUS STATE BANK. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capita! - $100,000. nilUXTOKS: LEANDER GERKAKI), Prw't. GEO. W. HDLSr, Vice PrwOt. JULIUS A.KEED. "" It. II. HENKV. J. E. TASKEK, Cashier. Baak r eaoiit, DUcouai mad Eichaaee. Collection Promptly IWade ea nil Poiat. y latere? oa Xiate Devo- It. 274 CUBIM OF- COLUMBUS, NEB. CAPITAL STOCK, $60,000. OFFICERS: C. H. SHELDON. Pres't. II. P. II. OHLUICII. Vice Pres. C. A. NEWMAN, Cashier, DANIEL SCIIKAM, Ass't Cash. STOCKHOLDERS J. P. BECKEK, CARL REINKE. J. H. WURDEMAN, GEO. W. GALLEY, W. A. MCALLISTER. mvWEini II. I H. OEHLKICH, II. M. W1NSLOW, ARNOLD OEULBICH. C. II. SHELDON. This Bank transacts a regular Banking Busi ness, Trill allow interest on time deposits, make collections, buy or sell exchange on United States and Euroie, and buy and sell available eecurities. 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Address H.G.ROOT.M.C., I83PtAL$T,tC.TK HENRY G-ASS. TJNDERTAKEE ! COITUS AND METALLIC CASK .WMtpairing of all kind of Vpkol-an-f Goes, 4 COLUMBUS, t a -ista aloat an. talJ-ffjjL aaaaaMsES:aaaBBiEiVNs7SMQ TOILERS IN STKIPES. 8H0EMAKING IN THE KINGS COUNTY (N. VJ PENITENTIARY. Turning Oat Three Thoasand Fairs of Siiom Dwily Wonderful Hadihses Ess ployed Free Labor in the Building. Women Who Work and Xever SatUe. That immense stone structure on Nos trand avenue, near Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Li tiio King's County peniten tiary, one of the most widely known and best managed institutions in tbo United States. About seven hundred men and women are confined there. . The most interesting part of the insti tution is the big shoe factory, which is situated on the eastern end of the build ing. It is a T shaped building, three stories in height Here 500 convicts are engaged in making shoes for the Bay State Shoe am! Leather company, a corporation which has made a vast fortune out of convict labor. It gets its shop, rent, steam power, labor and all for about $5,500 a month about one-quarter of what it would cost the employer of honest labor. The men and boys who work in the prison factory range in age from 15 to 05 years. Some are ninety day men and others are long term men. They wear the rough, striped shoddy garb, the pop ular fasiiion in all prisons. IIACIIIXES WITH BEJUXS. Each man gets a day's task and lie i3 kept at it until it is finished. Some of the inmates are very expert and finish their sliare of the work as early as 3 o'clock. Tluxv thousand pairs of shoes an? turned out of the prison every day. All the instructors and overseers are citizens who reside outsido of the peni tentiary, in passing through the shop they can be readily distinguished from the inmates, who are uniformed, shaved and close cropped. The factory is especially interesting. It is arranged and managed like any big factory of the kind. The machines used are of the most approved patterns. They perform without exciting comment things which would have been consid ered most wonderful a few years ago. They arc especially adapted for the com mon work which the- company manu factures. There is one little simple looking ma chine which, as if by magic, chops and changes tliin little sheets of wood into shoe pegs, and then drives them into the soles of shoes at one operation in so short a time that the visitor is amazed. The cold machine works and throbs as if en dowed with a head, heart and intellig ence. Another machine that is driving men out of the business was working away, guided by a convict mechanic. This machine- attaches a heel to a shoe and then trims the heel as nicely as a human hand could do the work and much faster. It was a powerful implement, and every time it moved it looked as if it was going to crush the shoe into pulp. One or two blows fastened the heel to the shoe. The turn of a crank set the trimmer in motion and it rapidly peeled the rough edges off tho heel and left it ready for the burnisher the man who polishes the edges of the heels or boles. The reporter saw another noisy little machine in operation. It does a great deal of work and does it well. The ma chine not only punched the holes for laces, but drove eyelets into them at the same time. Another machine sent two needles flying and they sewed a double row of stitches at one time. This reduces vamp ing to one operation. Tho reporter was chown every ma chine. It is the custom of tho prisoners to show every visitor a sample of the work they aro engaged upon. They hand it without saying a word. The rules forbid any conversation en the part of the inmates. Tho reporter passed through tho building without hearing a single word. The citizen mechanics and keepers alone are allowed to speak. i SILENT AS TOE TOMB. Some of the men become experts at somo part of the trade. None of them ever can learn it all through, because machinery is supplanting hand work. "When they become free they frequently manage to get good situations. Two keepers guard each floor, but in case of an outbreak, a score of men would bo ready for action in a minute. The prisoners there, however, as a rule, are well behaved. Tho keeper opened a door and the re porter found himself in a room filled with bright, cheerful, chatting and neatly dressed girls. They were bent over machines or tables, working busily. They are employed on fancy work by the company. They go to the peniten tiary every morning and leave it every night for their homes. The reporter was then escorted to a low frame structure in the middle of the yard. Tho scene here was altogether different. Tho room was bright and cheerful, but it was 6ilent as a tomb, al though forty women were in it. They were prisoners. Some of them had very hardened faces marked by an I-don't-care expression; others looked as if they had abandoned all hope. Only one turned around to see who had come. These unfortunate women were attired m rougn Diue dresses. i.ney were en gaged in shocmalang. They arc, of course, kept apart from the men prison ers and isolated from the respectable girls who work in tho prison. Some .of them are life prisoners confined for homicide. There were desperato women in that room women who have terrorized men in their time, but the discipline is so per fect there that order is maintained by a single matron seated on an elevated plat form which enables her to see all over the room. Her only assistant is a lady overseer. New York Journal. GOURMETS. IW Varieties C Oataion tatha That Are The story of Paganini and the turkey was particularly good; but here is one about Brillat-Savarin, which I think is better; B. S. was a fugitive in this coon try three years from the reign of terror in Ranee; he was a fine writer and bet ter cook. "I was on a journey from Paris to Lyons once," he writes, "when I stopped at Sens for dinner. I was as labidforfood as a wolf and you saky '"Tir" my feelings when, on my ask ing the hostwkat there was in his larder, he answered: 'Little enoogh.' 'Lefsses about that, "id L I went on to where I perceived spaa astteTnJaf, the air. Whatdojoa tWai.LsawtsTa?Xfi5r fat turkeys actually four browning to a turn! 'Why.' said I, they're good enough for me one of 'em, in factf But the host said. No! They were all bespoke by a gentleman up stairs. Perdi! thought I: this gentleman up stairs must be a sec ond Uargantus! I will go up and entreat him for a bird. And I went. And what think you I found? Who was the glut ton but my own son! 'Father,' said he, 'at home you always devour the pope's nose, the choicest tid bit of all the king of bird's anatomy. I never got one. I was determined that I would have a feast for once, so I ordered four turkeys! Now, as I only want my choice morsel you may have the rest of 'em with pleas ure."' One of the maxims of Hemion de Pon sey, the greatest magistrate France ever had, was that the man who discovered a new dish is of more importance than the astronomer who discovered a newplanet, for the reason that we have planets enough for all practical purposes, while the palate of civilized man is always yearning for the things that make life endurable. VateL the maitre d'hotel of Conde, was the greatest cook that ever donned a chefs cap. His suicide, because of the non-arrival of some fish to com plete a great supper he was preparing, is charmingly told by Mme. de Sevigne; next to Vatel was Careme, whose me moirs have lately been published. Vatel was born in Rouen, in Normandy, as were also Becliamel, Robert and Merilion, whose fame as masters of the culinary art is historical. A genuine epicure has some peculiar fancy of his own as regards cooking. Sam Ward in his day was the model diner out, and he had his Maryland hams boiled with straw around them. An Episcopal clergyman in Poughkeepsie prefers them boiled in wine. Judge Henry Allen considered a mongrel goose the greatest thing in the eating line, and Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania, al ways wants to cook his oysters himself. Secretary Bayard is also a fine cook, and, in fact, a great many statesmen can pre pare certain dishes. Dinners in Wash ington are generally delightful affairs, as the public men give much attention to them, and most of the diplomats are good talkers. The first maxim of the diplomats is to keep a good table and cultivate the ladies. Hero in the United States our choice is oysters, terrapin, canvas back duck and turkey. A Greenlander's great lux ury is a half putrid wliale's tail or a walrus liver; and a trapper in the far north has for a relish beaver tail and bear's paw. They eat their rum and chow their brandy, as everything freezes, and an arctic sandwich is a frozen slice of whisky between two slices of beer. Porpoise meat was once a favored dish with the English nobility, but now "there's no hale like the Hinglish hale, and no beef like the Hinglish beef." A delicious morsel to the Australian is kangaroo and the wild dingo. The Ot tomans in South America eat clay as a luxury, but with some people (even in our own southern states) it is a necessity. Baked elephant's trunk, palm worms fried in their own. fat, roasted, spiders and mice are the favorite jnii with the tribes of Africa; and the nations of the West Indies can abide anything but a rabbit stew. In China the diet is sharks' fins, bird's nest soup, ducks' tongues and the chrysalis of the silk worm after the silk. lias been wound from it. And so on throughout the en tire world, each nation having its par ticular specialties. Hartford Times. Tronbleaome Telepl While the telephone in the drug store is a useful and essential feature of the business, it is placed there more as an accommodation to the public than as an aid to the druggist Like the Directory, the telephone has become a pharmaceuti cal fixture, and no drug store is consid ered complete without both a telephone and a City Directory. The Directory usually speaks for itself, but not so the telephone. The average lady who comes in to use the instrument is ignorant of its mechanism, and courtesy compels the druggist to assist her if not to do the talking. I never saw a lady yet who could walk in and work the telephone without some assistance. It is really funny to observe how a lady goes to work at the instrument. If she can call up the party she wishes to talk to, she usually does it in this way, after the connection has been made: "Is that Mr. So and So? No. Won't you please tell him to come to the telephone, I would like to see him a minute?' The lady always wants to "see" the person she desires to talk to, although the per son may be miles away. Really, the public has no idea of the time and pa tience it requires from a druggist to at tend to the telephone in his store. Not only does he have to answer thousands of questions for those who come in to use it, but he is expected to receive messages and deliver them to neighbors in his lo cality. Oh, the telephone is a great in stitution, but it often makes the druggist wish it had never been invented. Drug gist in Globe-Democrat. Aaother He waded through the snow up the front steps and rang the door bell. And when the servant girl answered his ring, he said: " I must see the lady herself on very important business." v The lady appeared, and he continued. " Madam, can I contract with you to clean off this snow?" 'Why I how much do you want? "Only twenty centa. "Well you may clean it oft" "Thanks. Have you a snow shovel?' "There's one in the shed I believe." "Thanks. Is there a boy in the neigh borhood whose services I could secure?' "For what?" "To clean off the snow, ma'am. lam acontractor notalaborer. And, ma'am, it is my rule to begin bossing only in the morning. If you can wait until to-morrow m be around at an carry hour. My rule is to collect in advance, PaVn. and if you happen to haven bit of cold tur key and a cup of coffee and an old suit of clothes I shall feel under many obliga tions." She shut the door on him and he went off declaring that it was aaother evi dence that honesty and iadwtry didn't pay in this comaiHnky. Detroit Free Press. Low satin shoes faced up with silk rib bon are finished at the top by a bow of ribbon nearly an inch wide that will fall over the toe, thai relieving the stiff line about the ankle where the shoe ends. A. fewof thefredaaa laUfcerhal narrow gut or silver braid tiny aaeatfaraKfced all over awl mad torn, MANUFACTURING CORKS. FACTS ABOUT A USEFUL BUT NEG LECTED LITTLE ARTICLE. The Raw Material Comn (rota Spain. Dame Nature Kind to tlie Trees Tho Machinery Used in Cedacing the Baric to "Stopper" and flow It Works. Just at the present time a business which makes about as little as any busi ness can well make and keep itself from swamping is the making of corks. Chicago can boast of but two such es tablishments, and at first glance there seems literally no reason at all why it should not be a most lucrative business. There is ever a steady demand for corks; the employes are kept busy almost continually and receive tolerably fair wages; each of the Chicago houses has a good trade, both wholesale and retail, yet they make no money. -v Some time ago the cork manufacturers formed a league uiu!er which they bound themselves to certain things. For a time all went well, but boon it was dis covered that several wore not fulfilling their agreement and the entire thing was, to put it mildly, "busted." At present, therefore, they are pro ceeding on the "go as you please" plan, and each one is heartily sick of it. Ob stinacy and the hope of better things in the future are all tliat prevent many of them from selling out. Wliat would champagne be without the cork, and yot when it leaves its sanc tum in the mouth of th" ht:2e, with its soul inj--jiri!i "jxjj," so much anxiety is felt to get at what i.; iieycnd it that no thought whatever is given to tiu insig nificant cork: yet had it the gift of speech of what wonderful things it could tell. THE BARK AND ITS CO.ST. Every piece of cork which enters this city ha3 been brought all the way from sunny Spain. In the climate of no other country will the cork tree, whence it all comes, thrive as under the blue skies of Spain. Large quantities are shipped every year from Madrid, Lisbon, mid one or two other cities, one of tho Chi cago houses alone using nearly C.0G0 bales last year. The entire bark is stripjietl from the tree trunk, leaving it naked and bare, but Dame Nature i.? kind, and soon a new covering begins to appear, of which it is again deprived by man, rapacious of gain. Seldom is the bark of much more than an inch in thickness, for the good reason that it is usually taken oil ere it lias time to grpw thicker. However, the tree can not live and l robbed of its bark of tener than once in six years. The bark U broken or cut into pieces averaging a foot or more in length and various widtlis, pressed out flat, and packed in bales. These are transported to some seaport town, stowed away in vessels, and carried to New York. The average cost of a bale upon landing runs from $13 to $50 or $G0, depending, of course, upon the quality of the material. Some of the bark is exceedingly porous, with streaks and holes running through it, which does not bring the price, natur ally, which is paid for that which is en tirely free from blemish. The last men tioned 3 called "velvet cork," and used only in bottles filled with the finest wines. Such a self willed substance as cham pagne otherwise might make its way through the cork. Upon reaching the factory the bales are unpacked, and piece by piece soaked for a short time not more than ten or twenty minutes in a vat filled with boiling water, after which the cork is softer and much easier to handle. A cutter takes the pieces, places them within reach of a rapidly revolving wheel, with an edge so sharp that it is best to keep one's fingers at a safe dis tance. The bark is cut by this wheel into strips, the width of tho diameter of tho required cork. The strips are then placed in front of a cylindrical instru ment, which moves back and forth at the will of the nr nipulator, and punches out the corks, -nucli after the same fashion that our grandmothers punched out those good old fashioned cookies, which were the delightof our childhood. The next machine with which the cork comes into close contact is a most com plex one. A cup like receptacle is ex tended, the operative, in the case spoken of, a young girl, quickly places therein the cork; it is withdrawn, held against a horizontal, sharp and rapidly revolv ing wheel in such a manner that the out side is pared off with that peculiar soft crunching sound that cork makes, leav ing one end reduced in size and the whole cut in a uniform shape. The waste material and finished cork are then dropped by the machine into receptacles placed to receive them and the cup extended for yet another cork. The whole thing is done in the twink ling of an eye; almost before you see the cork in place it is trimmed, dropped, and the machine is ready for another. The operator sits in a low seat beside the machine, 'and as she feeds it per forms with head and body a peculiar weaving motion back and forth, al though she herself is evidently uncon scious of it. Everything in this country is done by machinery, but the reporter was shown come beautiful carving from cork done by hand by foreign workmen. A maH co&age was complete even to the shingles on the roof and the palings of the fence. A linked chain, which had been over a yard long and all made of one piece of bark, was also quite a curi osity, as were the neatest of wine glasses and several other small articles. Chicago Tribune. Ghosts ia the Maintop. The scene of ghostly experience lias been shifted to the sea. An English newpaper says the mate of a ship, name not given, ordered some cf the youths to reef the lnainiopsaiL When tlw first got up he heard a btrange voice saying, "It blows hard!" The lad waited for no more; he was down in a trice and told his adventure. A second immediately ascended, laughing at the folly of his companion, but returned even more quickly, declaring that he was quite sure that a voice, not of this world, had cried in his ear, "It blows .hardP Another went, and another, but each 2came back with the same tale. At length the mate having sent up the whole watch, ran up tho shrouds him self, and when he reached the haunted spot heard the dreadful words distinctly uttered in his ear: "It blows hard." , "Ay, ay, old one, but blow it ever so hard, we must case the earrings for all that," replied the mate 'undauntedly, asidlooldttaronadliesm-ir alnemrrot parched: oa one of" the "'Mewsr-the thoughtless author of the false alarms which had probably escaped from some ether vessel to take refuge on this. Another of oar officers mentioned that on one of his voyages he remembered a boy having been sent up io clear a rope which had got foul above the mizzentop. Presently, however, he came back trem bling and almost tumbling to the bot tom, declaring that he had seen "Old Davy" aft the crosstrees. The mate, in a rage, at length mounted himself, when resolutely, as in the former case, searching for the bugbear, he soon ascer tained the innocent cause of so much terror to boa large horned owl, so lodged as to be out of sight to those who as cended on the other side of the vessel, but .which, when any one approached the crosstrees, popped up its portentous visage to see what was coming. New York Mail and Express. -xjj Save you any idea how many miles a dancing girl gets over in a singleevening? I don't mean a more or less wall flower, or one who sits out her dances alone or otherwise but a real lover of waltzing, who dances everything from beginning to end, and looks almost as fresh at the end of the evening as she did at the be ginning. Tom who is very fond of hav ing all those sort of things at his fingers ends had learnt it all up. Some man has been attending several dances with a pedometer in his pocket, and he finds that the average distance traversed dur ing an evening of twenty-two dances is thirteen and one-half miles! If any girl of one's acquaintance was asked to go on an equally long walk, she would just say it was impossible; at least, I know I should; but somehow, when one has a pleasant partner, good music and a good loor in a well lighted room, one scarcely ..tops to consider how much ground one lias got over. The average length of one waltz is half a mile, while a polka is ihree-quarters; and even the lancers are :i quarter of a mile long. London Figaro. Writing BoswB Kaaierals. Everybody who has been, to school knows tho Roman numerals, and they ere always used on clocks and watches. What everybody don't know, however, Li that the representations of the fourth figuro on the dial of a timepieco are never made as they should be, according to tho arithmetics, for instead of being IV it is invariably written HH. Just why this is done has never been reason ably explained. Some watchmakers say it is to avoid mixing up IV with V and VI, and that is really the only reason that I have ever heard. But nobody ceems to know, without looking at a timepiece, how it is written, and I have never yet met any one who did not, when asked, write it IV instead of HH, and I never yet saw a timepiece on the dial of which 4 o'clock was written IV. New York Graphic. Her Cable Cipher. His daughter was going to Europe. Ho is a very rich man, but a millionaire will always make up a telegraphic code to savo money. It would bo nothing to him if Ehe 6ent a hundred words, but he will always get as much as he can for nothing any way and ho will have a telegraph code. I don't know, though. Perhaps he thought she might take as many words to say a thing by telegraph as ladies ordinarily do in conversation, and that would bankrupt a millionaire. Let us acquit him of economy. Let us say that by confining her to one word ho would understand what she telegraphed, whereas if be left her to express it her own way ho might never have found out what 6he meant. He left her to make out tho code. She made one quite to the point on all important matters. She se lected the words herself, wrote it all out and handed it to him when she left. He locked it in his desk and it was all right. Last week he got a telegram from her. It consisted of one word 'Laugh." He laughed. It seemed to be something quite pleasant. His code was at the house. Ho went up there in tho best of humor, llo got out the code and be read: "Laugh Send mo $500." San Francisco Chronicle. Counterfeit Bills. "No matter how expert a bank teller may become in detecting bad money, there are counterfeits extant which will stump the best of them. I was for many years a United States treasury expert, and have handled all the famous counter feits ever made. I have in this roll of bills $5,000, about onerhalf of which is good and tho rest worthless. I often test bank tellers by offering this money for deposit, and you would be astonished to learn how large a proportion of the counterfeits are passed by some of them as genuine. In fact I have never found one who rejected every bad bill, some of them accepting as much as $1,700 of it, and from that down. I havo been testing some Kansas City bank men today, with varying results. Four hundred dollars was tho least counterfeit passed by any of them, and one hank, if it had taken the teller's decision on the money, would have been stuck for more than $1,000." Expert in Kansas City Journal. The Higher Edaeatloa of Women. Miss Bacon (they have been ?amging orchids) And now, professor, I want you to tell me all about the plant from which electricity is made. Professor Hohonthv (aghast) Tho which? Miss Bacon You certainly must have heard of it- Father says its high cost prevents the general use of electric light ingI mean the electric plant. Har per's Bazar. Alaska aad Its Seals. The Algal, seals havo paid Uncle 8am for Alaska, which cost him $7,000,000. Since 1870 the Alaska Commercial com pany has paid the government $5,597,100 or seals killed. The customs duty from Alaska seal skins dressed inJEuropehave yielded in round numbers about $4,000, 000. By the new contract with the com pany the United States is to receive $50, 000 per annum for ten years and $3.50 per head for each seal taken, the annual catch to be limited to 100,000 seals. Frank Leslie's Newspaper A Chicago MflUsaaira. Potter Palmer, the Chicago millionaire, earned his first salary as a clerk in a lit tle country store in a Pennsylvania vil lage. He made his money by judicious investments in real estate in Chicago, and though lie lost $3,500,000 in the great Chicago fire and had to borrow on mort gages $1,500,000 to retrieve himself , he is again on top, with several spare mill ioaa to push hie schemes along. New York Telegram, - A LITTLE BUTTERCUP. SHE IS QUEEN AMONG THE JACK TARS AT THE NAVY YARD. Mb IK lia Koblasoa. taa Wowou. Who Us All tho Tlrtaas Nouo or tho Foibles of Gilbert aad Sal livan Utile Kuttereap. When Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan first introduced their nautical comic opera of "Pinafore' to an American public one of the most taking characters that aided toward the success of the distinctively English production was tliat of Little Buttercup. little Buttercup was represented to be what, unioug the hardened tars of the imeen's navy, is commonly known as a bumboat woman, whoso mode of obtain ing a livelihood is by going aboard the different war vessels and supplying the crews with tobacco or knicknacks of general use from a stock carried in a basket or receptacle upon each arm. The idea of a lone woman venturing among an army of sailors and blasphe mous followers of these a to sell her little wares and run the risk of meeting with no KliU' treatment, as the bumboat woman was pictured, seemed quite a novelty for Americans who saw tho opera of "Pinafore." Thus, it may come as somewliat of a surprise and an interest ing point of information to be made known that of late the navy of progres sive Uncle Sam has not only become identified with a veritable bumboat woman, but with a Little Buttercup whose avocation is that of the identical Buttercup of flecsrs. Gilbert and Sulli van's cluiructerization. i'HK I'ATUONS RESPECT HER. The modern bumboat woman who is now gaining local fame and any number of ready patronizcrs to her stock in trade, can Ik seen at present almost any day upon her rounds among tho ships of the United States navy anchored in tho navy yard in Brooklyn. She usually appears about midday with a basket on each arm filled with palatable pies and cakes and a good supply of bottled beer and tem perance drinks, which she readily dis poses of among tho crew of tho war 1 a . li a snips. an:i to aii is simpiy mown as "Little Buttercup." It is said "Little Buttercup's" profit easily amounts to five and six dollars a day alone from the sale3 of her good tilings among tho jolly tars of the war ship Bttotcu, who number over 350, irre spective of the officers. From Commander Francis M. Ramsey down to the most ordinary seaman, "Little Buttercup," instead of being the butt of the ship's crew- and target of their unfeeling jokes, as might be sup posed, is recognized and looked upon as one of the most worthy of her sex. Tho income derived from her occupa tion goes to support her aged mother and father, who reside in a small house in what is called Irishtown, a quarter mainly inhabited by natives of the Em erald Isle and lying just on the outside of the navy yard. "Little Buttercup's" real name is Delia Robinson, and her father, who lost one of his leg3 in tho late war, had a small pension granted to him that will barely go to secure him a comfortable subsist ence. When Delia first went to the navy yard to sell her wares some of the more hardened members of one of the crews attempted to take liberties with her. They bantered her upon her good looks, attempted to purloin a pie or bottle of beer when her back was turned, and one Jack Tar in particular even ventured to approach Little Buttercup for the pur pose of chucking her under the chin and planting a kiss upon her pretty cheek. This latter effrontery was more than Delia cared to put up with, and dropping her stock in trade she planted a stinging blow between the eyes of the foolhardy sailor that sent him reeling over tho deck as if struck by a marunspike in the hands of one of liis own shipmates. SUE GIVES THEM CREDIT. From this out "Little Buttercup" has never had occasion to expect affront, ill treatment or disrespect at the liands of any of Undo Sam's tars, whether high or low, and her coming is as eagerly looked for in the navy yard as the stroke of the bell announcing all hands to din ner. If any of the Bolton's crew have not tho money at hand "Little Butter cup" is not the one to refuse them the pleasure of enjoying her pies, cakes or beer on trust. The bumboat woman re lies upon their honesty and knows that when the paymaster makes his custom ary visit her accounts will not be over looked. In fact, there are no bills paid by tho sailors at the navy yard before those of poor "Little Buttercup." "Little Buttercup," while disposing of her wares among the marines, sailors and officers at tbo navy yard, in dress and bearing is strictly the commonplace appearing bumboat woman of business, with a pleasant 6tnile for one customer and a friendly greeting for some tar who has returned from a week's furlough. When at home or in social circles, the identity of the "Little Buttercup" of Undo Sam's navy is completely lost in the personality of Miss Deiia Robinson. Instead of the matronly, conditioned individual cf Messrs. Gilbert & Sullivan's cliaracterization. one beholds a really handsome young miss of 19 years, with ckibbical features, natural blondo hair, a full and strikingly symmetrical and com pact figure and manners appropriate for a lucl'.ess. New York Journal. THE ROTHSCHILDS. CI nracteristics of tho Fareat H afUss Financial FaasOy. Some ten years ago old Baron Roths child passed away full of years, leaving behind him a gigantic fortune. His three nephews. Nathaniel, Leopold and Alfred, sons of Baron Lionel Rothschild, inherit ed the dty business, while his vast riches in cash, lands, house property and se curities were for the most part be queathed to his daughter, the Countess of Rosebery. The three London Roths childs of today bear little resemblance, either in face, form or business habits, to either their late father or uncle. The dder, Nathaniel,, lately created Lord Rothschild, is a far seeing man of great business capacity, and under his 'gui dance the great house still nwnt its supremacy in the world of London finance. He is. however, a man who de votes his attention only to great enter prises, and consequently a vast "Tonnt of minor business of a very profitable nature that used to be executed by the Rothschilds has of late flowed into other channels. His lordship excels asm diplomat, and his relations wn -Gladstone's rovam- ment'Trarmg the Egyptian affair close and mvahiable to hie hoaM British tax payers who naid any tion to the part England waa plajfa; ia the khedive's affairs for a year or two previous to the slaughtering of the he roic Gordon at gitfHMn. Hsjaulj as serted that Iter expensive interference ia Egypt would never have been piihirfl so far but for the vast interests of the Rothschilds and their clients there at stake." The head of the firm does not inherit his uncle's love of sport; he neither breeds nor rune thoroughbred race horses, and is rarely seen in the hunting field, though in a perfanctory manner he still keeps up the famed pack of ataghounda. His counsel in financial matters is highly esteemed by her maj esty's government, and his life, like that of his predecessor, is devoted to money getting. More Jewish in appearance than either of his brothers, his character and habits also more dearly indicate his Hebraic origin. Alfred de Sot hachild is also very regu lar in his attention to business ia "the lane." He is not generally credited with any particular aptitude for playing the great game of finance, but has charge of the routine business of the firm. Almost any morning on the stroke of 11 his neat brougham may be seen pulling up at the corner of Cannon street and St. Swithin's lane, whence its elegantly attired owner proceedn on foot to his office. He is a handsome man, of medium stature and dark complexion, and his features are only slightly indicative of his Rw'H origin. In private life he is something of a sybarite: his teste in works of art is highly cultivated; ho is a liberal patron of some of the first painters of the day, and an ardent and discriminative col lector of old china and bric-a-brac, Leopold do Rothschild does not resem ble his brothers either hi his features or mode of life. The younger brother takes but little part in the business of the great house, and rarely puts in an appearance in St. Swithin's lane. He is a aoaaewhat delicate looking man, of fair complexion, with a mild, kindly face. A liberal patron of the drama, he is rarely absent from his box at the opera or his stall at the theatre on "first nights," and he numbers among his friends many of the leading members of tho profession. Ho is in the Prince of Wales' set and is on terms of intimacy with the heir appa rent. But it is as an owner of race horse' that Leopold do Rothschild is, perhaps, best known to the English people, Whik lacking his late uncle's enthusiasm in lib pursuit of the national Bport of Britons, he maintains a largo stable of thorough breds at Newmarket, where ho also has a residence, and it may fairly be said that there aro no colors more popular on tho turf than the Rothschild blue and yellow. One estimable characteristic of the English Rothschilds may be noted as the common possession of each of the three brothers. Their charity knows no limit, their sympathy once enlisted on behalf of a worthy object. Their names are never missing from any public subscrip tion list, while their private benevolences are ever dispensed with open hand and presumably cheerful heart Philadel phia Times. A Danger I'cculiar to Residence la Flats. Tho Lancet (London) raises its voice of warning to apartment bouse occu pants, which is worth considering. An ordinary householder has access to every portion of tho building in wliich he lives, and should he suspect n defect, he can ascertain how for his suspicion is correct, and remedy it. But in the case of flats, while tho actual apartments rented may be free from all risk of evil, the tenant is, in point of health, almost entirely at the morcy of lus landlord and of tho oc cupiers of the basement, in so far as the main drainage of the premises is con cerned. If this latter be wrong, the whole mansion is apt to be filled with foul air frow below upward. A number of cases have come under our notice in which very serious ill health lias been thus induced, and in which tenants have only been too glad to pay what was de manded of them in order to get out of the premises with the least possible de lay. While no one should take a resi dence without skilled advice as to its sanitary state, this precaution is more than ever necessary in the case of flats, where the entire premises, including, abovo ell things, the basement, should bo tliorougbly overhauled. egal nights of a Sieycllst. A case has been decided by the court of appeals of Rhcdo Island affirming a decision of a lower court winch laid down the law that a cycler has the same right on a road tltat a man lias who iTw a aicrsd iwu nrgon. Acycler end a man driving a wagon approached each other on a road. The cycler turned to tlie right, but the man driving the horse refused to turn out. There was a collision. The court decided that the driver of the horse liod violated the law by not driving reasonably to the right of the travded center of tho highway. Kingston Freeman. Twlee to Salad aad Sm Dr. Anthony Ruppaner usually hdps the members and guests to salad at the sappers of the Goethe dub. The doctor has made a rule that is well known among his fellow members never to in vite a guest a second time who asks to be helped to salad more than twice. I am told that among the many who lave enjoyed the dub's hospitality at the doc tors invitation only one has been tabooed from further entertainment by th en forcement of this rule, and to this day he is in doubt as to the cause of the sud den coldness in the doctor's treatment of him. New York Star. Pair raltbor. .Having lost his wife when his littie girl was but C years old, Sandy McPher on married again. His new wife was very kind to Maggie, the little girl, but she ruled Sandy with a rod of iron. An old lady meeting Maggie on her way to school, kissed the little mite warmly, bought her a big poke of sweets and said: "Pair wee lassie, ye've only a step mhher the noo, eh bit I'm gey sorry for ye, dearie." "Ye're no' needin'," said Maggie, solemnly, "but Td like ye tae feel awfo sorry for ma pair faither." Youth's Companion. 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