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VOL. XCX.-NO. 51.
COLUMBUS, NEB WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1889.
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WIND MILLS,
Buckeye Mower, combined, Self
Binder, wire or twine.
Pups Eepairei sk.rt natiee
door west of Heintx's Drag Store. 11th
txceCColasbB. Neb. 17noTf
I CURE
FITS!
Whea I mt-Ccax I do aotaaean mmMtrto
aw them tor a twe, aad the ateuew
nun. I krxx A RADICAL CUBE.
I tare made the dmaae at
statfr-. I -wjuuust iai lemedv-to
i cases, iicniir.wafa .
Imwittmi"! fornotaowreceiTingacare
ak eee lor a treaose and a Fkee Borrut
f ar ISOraXXZBLE KEXEDT. urre XprM
HjlfHt Obcc Jt costs you aothrag ior a
tw.t aad K vna care you. aarssa
,IS3PEMLSTal
HENRY &ASS.
UKDERT AKEB !
OtfmSASalJKTALUC CASES
rf mUkindsef UpkU-
H.ceooT,ax h3po.st,wtx
r m BV a B SVS alaW
SMILETS TOUGH FIGHT.
HE LAYS OUT TWO IMMENSE BEARS
WITH A HICKORY CLUB.
Aa Act T
Coatia: a
Hk Ufa A Ficfctl
Carcass at a
telsceww Told by tm Old Hi
On the top of Smoky mountain, at
least five miles from any KttkmeBtor
farm, in the midst of the wildest put of
this rough, moontainoas section, there is
an old hunter named Job Smiley.
Among the many narrow escapes he
has had, one of the most iateresting per
haps is the account, as he himself told it,
of his fight with two full grown black
bears, in which, with nothing but a big
hickory stick, he comes off finally victori
ous, although terribly clawed and bitten.
Tliis is the story as he told it himself:
I was out hunting as usual one day on
one of the cross ridges of the Big Smoky
when I got on the trail of a big buck,
whidi I followed for two hours before I
get close enough to shooL When I did
get the chance the buck was about
seventy yards below me on a narrow
shelf, which overhung a rocky precipice
of fifteen or twenty feet. I drew a bead
un the buck and dropped him dead in his
tracks. Then I did a very foolish thing
one I never did before and never will
again, and that was this: I laid my gun
down against a log. not even taking time
to load it, and climbed down to the spot
where the buck lay.
TEST ALL GOT THESE.
I got there safely, and so did a couple
of thundering big bears about the same
time. They had a den in the side of the
mountain close by, and my shot alarmed
them or they had been laying for the
deer themselves. "Well, they were there
and so was I, and, unfortunately, I was
without a weapon. I saw there was
going to be trouble, and that I couldn't
get back to iny gun, so I looked about
me quietly to see if I could find anything
with which to defend myself.
Down close by my feet I saw a big
hickory limb, which iiad been broken off
in some of the fearful wind storms so
common on the mountain. The stick
was about five feet long and nearly three
inches thick. Now, you can just imagine
that 1 got hold of that stick mighty
quick. It was fresh and sound, and an
excellent weapon against one bear; but
two I had very serious doubts about the
outcome in that case. This all occurred
in a good deal less time than it takes to
tell it in fact, in less time than that
both brutes were coming at me with
open mouths. I waited until the first
one rose to his feet, which they do when
they are in for a fight, when I gave him
a rap on the side of the head that knocked
him down. Then I drew back my club
just in time to strike at the other one.
Somehow that bear knocked that blow
off, and he did is so quickly that the
force I h"' given it came near making
me lose my balance. As it was, the in
fernal brute gave me a swipe with his
fore paw which tore my hunting shirt at
the shoulder into shoe strings and ripped
my hide and flesh clear across from the
shoulder half way down my arm.
Before the liear could close in on me,
however, I sprang back and drew up my
club ready for another blow. The first
one I b"A knocked over was now on bis
feet, and both of them having smelted
the blood were in savage earnest, and it
was now a fight to the death. They
both came at me on their hind feet,
about six feet apart and about the same
distance from me. As they got close
enough to reach I swung the big--club
down on a level, and just as quick as I
possibly could I gave one of them a
thundering poke square between the
eyes. This was the fellow on my left.
Then I swung the club to the right, and
got in a pretty good one on the other
one's neck. The bear I had struck be
tween the eyes was badly hurt, as he
laid right down and whined. I hap
pened to turn my eyes in his direction
and this gave the other one an oppor
tunity, and the first 1 knew 1 was
knocked backward and came near fall
ing, with the bear close upon me.
Df A TIGHT CORSKR.
There was no getting away this time.
He had his fore paws around my left arm
and waist almost before I knew it. For
tunately my right hand was free, and I
shortened the club and battered him
over the head while he clawed and bit me
on the shoulder and across the back. We
h;1 ir forward and back, the bear trying
his best to get a bold on my neck or face,
while I kept beating him over the head
and body with the club. At last down
we .went on the ground; but just as I
was going over I fortunately struck the
bear on one of his eyes and knocked it
out. The p"" made him loosen his hold,
and he never got another, for I got on
my feet as quickly as I could, and
brought that big club down square
across his throat and killed him. I was
pretty badly hurt and rather short of
wind', but I knew I had better finish the
other one mighty quick, for if he got up
and fairly at me again I would be wiped
out, so I jumped for him, and got close
to him just as lie was gettirg en his feet.
Lord! how I did batter that' fellow! 1
knocked him over and pounded him un
til I was out of wind and the bear beaten
almost into a jelly.
Then I sat down and did what I never
did before keeled right over and fainted.
I must have lain there an hour or more
before I m"" to. It took two full hours
to walkabout two miles to my cabin,
where, luckily for me, I found old Tom
PfofcWfc, another hunter, laying out a
supper for himself . Old Tom soon had
me spread out on the shakedown in the
coiner, and then he went to work to wash
my wounds and tie me together again.
After he ' fixed me up in some sort of
shape eld Tom went to the place where
I had the fight tad skinned the bears and
hung them up. When he came back the
old fellow was draggingalong'threecafas
about 3 months old. iBe found the bears'
dea and captured the cubs, which be
pulled out wtth apiece of rope he always
carried. That fight laid me up for about
two nytK but I carae out as sound -as
ever. Cincinnati Enquirer Letter from
Graham county. N. C
WHY THEY GET IT WRONG.
ItwaBtBeeresuag U the
exercimapauanthjopjcal
Said the reporter to the kdyki
charge
riwtliaaroMd in th dignity of a aew
ssackaak:
"TTim aisaj juiImIh have year
"Oh. iw in, an yom a iiifnlaT I
It is too
"Bat will you tell aw the
graduates?
VOh, ever so suaay, and they are
tto brightest girk. Oh,itiss3Cha
derf al thine that this inatkatkn
educate them ask does. It is perfectly
spleadid. I doa't suppose si's aay use to
tell you about it, for you wom't get it
right any way."
"What do they graduate inT
"Why, everything boo. That's the
idea of the iastitution, to make them so
self reliant and ready for eoaergescies
and
"Who are the patrons of the institu
tion?' "Oh, nice people. Everybody ought
to be intr rested in it. They would be.
too, if the papers took it up in the right
way, but they wont. They sever get
anything right, the reporters oh, I can't
teU you how they twist things.'
"How many instructors do you em
ployr "Oh, we have the loveliest teachers.
Til go and ask MissB to come and
tell you about them. She knows them
personally all the little family history,
you know. Bat of course we don't want
you to publish that. Papers are just
filled with every one's private affairs
now. It is just horrid, but I suppose the
reporters don't care what they say if
they just get their pay. Excuse me. 111
go and speak to Miss Smith, and she
rustled away. The reporter waited while
they counseled together, and approach
ing, heard: "Oh, I think she's lovely in
that dress. You know I advised her to
put those revers on so much more be
coming than a plain waist. Oh, there's
that dreadful reporter. I'm tired to
death telling him about these things.
You tell him about the teachers, won't
you. dear, and put those violets up a lit
tle nearer your chin."
"D Why, I don't know anything about
it. and I'm too busy; I'm on the flower
committee."
"Well, we might as well let it go. I've
told him all about it. but hell get it all
wrong, anyway. It is perfectly awful
the way those reporters misconstrue
things and never get anything right.''
New York Sun.
LoU ia Detratt.
There should be a moral with a sharp
point to the following episode, and, un
sop like, it will not be appended, but
left to the reader to affix. A Fall River
gentleman was last spring in Detroit.
He went on Sunday evening to attend a
fashionable church, r"g with him his
religious views and a handsome silk um
brella. The latter he left in the inside
vestibule in an umbrella stand with
numerous others, while the former he
kept with him The service being long,
he went out a few seconds in advance of
the benediction, and, on looking for his
umbrella, found it not. So, beirg an
honest man, he took the next besi cne
and went to his hotel Last Friday
while in Boston he stepped into the
Parker house. Therewith others on a
large settle hat rack stood his nmrnplla
Ho knew it, for besides the peculiar
handle there on the gold plate were his
name and address. He claimed his prop
erty, explaining to the clerk at the desk.
So the two watched for the man who
should walk in and take the umbrella.
Soon he came, lighted a cigar, buttoned
his top coat, took the umbrella, and was
stopped. "Whose umbrella is that, you
want to know," he said when asked.
"Last spring I was in church one even
ing in Detroit, and some sneak stole my
umbrella out of the vestibule, where I
left it, and I took the next best one.
Next morning I found a fellow's name
on it, but that didn't make it leak, so I
kept it." Thorp nrac m g'rplawarirm nnA
while the Fall River man got his um
brella back, the other one got a new one
at the expense of the man from the city
of spindles. Providence Journal.
Aa Alaaaatt Ghoat.
A ghost has caused a divorce suit and
broken up a once happy family in Blount
county, Alabama, About five years ago
James Martin married a Miss Noel, one
of the belles of the county. The young
couple went to live at the old MVTrin
home and all went well until about a
year ago. Mis. Martin, naturally very
timid, heard a ghost rambling through
the old house one night and was badly
frightened. She told her husband about
it, but he could hear nothing, he said.
From that time it became a nightly
visitor at the Martin home. Mrs. Martin
wanted to leave the old house at once,
but her husband objected, declaring the
strange noises heard were made by rats.
Several times Mrs. Ulartin, so she says,
aaw a white rofartl figur-s wandering
through the old house, and soon her
nerves and -health began to give way
under the strain. She was finally pros
trated by her fear of her ghost, and went
to the home of her pere&tB to recover
her health and atwptwth Fear of the
ghost overcame love of husband, and
Mrs. Martin refused to live with him
again. Martin tried in vain to induce
his wife to return to the haunted house
to live, but she rerased, and he filed a suit
for divorce on the ground of abaadou
ment. Chicago Times,
OUH
Mr. Crumpton, who lives in the Arkan
sas flats, seven miles sooth, of Quanah,
hi an ""ftMiW8nfihigwafl going
wrong around hinphMf, and detrrrnrrifd
to seek out the trasfSMser. Going a short
distance from his house, he entered a
cave, and in the darkness was confronted
with a pair of fierce, glaring eyes and
rambling growls. Whipping out his re
volver be shot at his mark, when a
scream was uttered and suddenly an
enormous panther sprang upon him,
knocking him some feet backward, when
a hand to hand fight ensued. After a
fierce struggle and being violestly
scratched in the face, Mr. C finally suc
ceeded in firing the fatal shot which
stretched his game out. The animal was
dragged from the cavo and measured
over nine feet. Carter Eagle,
t.
An interesting case of trial for at
tempted ragaray was buuuiaiily disposed
of by Judge Sidley in the criminal court.
a negro, upon an n-
bscaxayhe'
cam the other day to
of attemntiig to rraamir fasgaaty by
aabag a bogaa Mr Use facts were
fatty eatafclUaKL has Act jadge gave a
verdict of not gafli j . "Tlierecaabe ao
liramr or attewif at bigamy,' he said.
"takes the license is asiii " He
therefore aamssed the case. Beady
was sdsl aa csavatiy, aflsfever, as js at
aavBjS-SS BSBSSSwBasSSKVaVj jasssescsss.
THE SLOYD SYSTEM.
IT IS BEING INTRODUCED INTO
THE SCHOOLS Or ENGLAND.
I to Teach tkw T
rse
Their Hand-Saaaeftilm
Ukm
TralaiBK Eaaweianj
to ttfefet aObe Wealth? FaaUli-a.
An association has been formed in
England for promoting the teaching of
"sloviL" This new svstem has for some
time past been an important factor in
the educational systems of several coun-
tries The great beauty of it lies in the
fact 'that it educates a child morally-,
physically and mentally. Sweden wasthe
originator of this system of mnnnal in-
struction. which is not, as is frequently
supposed, merelv wood carving, but is
the svstem applied to the different kind,
i-a; ' 1 - aajinf
JrT, o fTST'
Slojd,the Scandinavian mfcrd, which
is termed "sloyd" in England for con-
venience. means originally "cunning,"
"clever." "handy." The result at which
the system specially aims is to implant
rtnuutf fst wy-ia"L n rrariA1 nrOM VV1T till
coarser forms of manual labor: to do-
lCOL-rA.b LUt IkUlik Ul iiCUClO. -CtA V. Mw ,
velep activity, to foster order, cleanli
ness, nfit"" and accuracy: to encour
age attention, industry and perseverance:
to develop the physical powers and to
train the eye and tlie sense of form. It
is intended to teach all classes, from, the
highest to the lowest, how to use their
hands as well as their lieal. so that each
man and woman may be placed in a
position of independence and be capable
of earning an honest livelihood.
IT IS XOT LEABX1XG A TRADE.
The first article which learners have
to make is a little pointer, using merely
a knife and glass paper: from such ar-
KW flmvni'npnM! tn mnrmtffiMilt. rmo
making rulers, inkstands, brackets, and
-
so forth.
Attendance at the classes is volun
tary on the part of pupils, so that there
are certain conditions which the work
must fulfill It should be useful, and
not too fatiguing; tlie articles made
should offer variety, and should not be
articles of luxury; they should be accom-
pushed without help, and they should be
real work and not play. A necessary
feature, too, is that they should demand
thoughtfulness and not be purely me
chanical work. Many will no doubt
here say: "It is nothing more nor less
than ordinary carpentering."
On consideration, however, it will be
found there are several differences. First
and foremost comes the difference in the
object of sloyd, which is not to turn out
young carpenters, but to develop the fac
ulties, and especially to give general
dexterity, which will be of value no mat
ter what line of life tlie pupil may af ter-
wards pursue. Other differences are the
character of the objects made, which are arm is outstretched, the hand encircling
usually smaller than those made in the , the neck of a duck, which is as care
trade; the tools used; tlie knife, for in- t folly reproduced as the figure of the
stance the most important of all in j hunter. The left hand liangs by the
sloyd is little used in ordinary carpen- Uide. holding a shotgun. At the feet of
tery; and lastly, the manner of working the hunter lies the figure of a retriever.
is not the same; the division of labor
employed in the carpentering trade is
not allowed in sloyd, where each article
is executed entirely by each pupil.
Truancy has almost been done away
with in Swedish schools since the intro
duction of sloyd. Jt has been found in
all the schools where it has been intro-
duced that greater and mere intelligent
progress has been made in the ordinary
school work. It makes children think
for themselves. The system demands in
dividual supervision and instruction,
which is an advantage, as the teacher is
enabled to gain an insight into the char
acter, and to establish a personal relation
between himself and his pupils.
THE EFFECTS VESTA I.T.Y.
In regard to the statement that it pro
motes the physical, mental and moral de
velopment, we find that morally it im
plants respect and love for work in gen.
eral; it strengthens the bond between
home and school; and it fosters a sense
of satisfaction in honest work, begun,
carried on and completed by fair means.
Mentally, sloyd acts in drawing out and
exercising energy, perseverance, order,
accuracy and the habit of attention; it
causes pupils to rely on themselves, to
exercise forethought, and to be constant
ly putting two and two together. Phy
sically, the system brings into action all
the muscles, and exercises both sides of
the body.
Pupils work with the left hand and
arm, as well as with the right, in sawing,
planing, etc Sloyd is particularly use
ful to the girls of our higher schools, and
is more important for them than their
sisters of the working classes. The
former are sadly in want of some inte
resting active work to counterbalance
the continual siitmg and poring over
books and exercises. Besides the gene
ral development it furnishes, the positive
knowledge gained is of the greatest ser
vice, and serves to stimulate a growing
experience of sympathy with men's work.
The first course for training teachers
in fngimA commenced in August, 1SSS,
at the Ladies' college at Svdenham,
which has been kindly lent for the pur-
nose. Hitherto, those who would be
teachers of sloyd have had to travel to
, l i- , a ..
the seminary at Maas, on the beautiful
shores of Lake Savclangen; and after
going through the course there, have had
to face the difficulty of applying thasys
tem to Fng?A tastes and customs. Now
they will not have quite so long a journey
to undertake to gain instruction; and the
knowledge they do gain will be such as
they can impart straight away to pupils.
In order to counteract the evil of spuri
ous teachers cropping up. there will be
Inspectors appointed who will be allowed
to visit any places where sloyd L taught
at any time, to see that the system is
carried out properly and faithfullv.
('Journal
CLOTH MADE FROM WOOD.
Mxtscheriidi has applied the bisulphite
process for reducing wood to the pro
duction of a fiber frosa wood which can
be spam.
TTkia beards or laths free from, knots,
but of any desired width, are ess into
strips in the direction parallel with the
grain, and are then boiled in a faoOercosr
a-sahrtioatof saJphsroas acid or
This bofliag effects
requiring that the
shall
After boffinc the wood, it fe
ithe
By
tte4Bct,tansw,w'cfc.tericinlly
l-i-a-T weak sad tea to 1m at the
afssaaaSBr SfeaiauTkBeaaaam aaaaaaaasivalr
strong ami does nut' resume its very
breakable condition on the addition of
water. The operations are carried out as
follows:
The damp masses on the frame are
transferred to a traveling endless cloth,
which leads tiiem to a pair of rollers,
which may be plain or provided with
corrugations in the direction of their
length, the ribs of tlie one roller be
ing made to gear into tlie re
cesses of the other one, where
by they effect a simultaneous strong
bending and squeezing of the masses.
Thef cutting of the material in passing
avoided bv g cMh
to -p over the j mUer
Dy placing a canvas covering around
the upper roller. The pressed masses
i fall from tliese rollers on to a second
, endless cloth, which conveys them
to a second pair of rollers, from which
f $& conveyed to a third pair, and so
i on- T being preferably pressed inthis
wa"f- SIX tunes- ? continued treat-
aeeawTsftfe wood the fibers-become at
fengUl pHabIe from eacfa
other Ui they can ba employed directly
for coarse filaments.
For obtaining a perfect isolation of the
rhMt-ttrrli tliA smm a aj rt lam
fibers, however, without material de
terioration, these operations alone are
Eot suitable, and their special purpose is
to loosen the fibers ia the transverse di-
I rection. so tliat in the following opera
tion a thin. long ftbor may be obtained.
For this purpose the boiled and pressed
masses are completel v dried. After drv-
I ing they are combed in the direction
- parallel with the fibers by means of de
vices provided with pins or teeth, in a
manner fcinu'lar to the operations for
combing flax, cotton, etc.. but with the
I diSerenee tliat the pins or teeth of the
apparatus must be made very strong.
The separation of the extractable matter
from the fiber produced by boiling the
gums and solublo organic matter can be
effected at any time. It isT however,
.preferably effected after the fiber has
twin vvvfjv thnnilr i . Sf AT-tS
been spun
into threads, etc Scientific
I American.
A 3fadaaan Insennity.
John B. Leoni, a young sculptor,
whose parents are supposed to reside in
Jersev Citv. who for some time has been
f an inmate of an asylum, escaped from
( keepers some time ago and wandered
to Burlington. N. J., where a livelv in
terest was taken in him. Ko was found
roaming aimlessly around the streets,
and. pending the result of inquiries as
to his identity, was placed in the city
jaiL
Shortly after his incarceration Leoni
obtained possession of a piece of soap
and proceeded to astonish the jailers.
With his finger nails he dexterously be
gan carving the soap and gradually it
assumed human shape. When through
his labor Leoni Iiad produced a model of
an Alpine huntsman. The figure, which
is now in possession of Mayor Silpath. is
about seven inches in height. The right
wistfully gazing at the game his master
holds aloft.
Leoni is said to have a brother in this
city who is an engraver. New York
Press,
Secret Hidinc- Places.
One of the most interesting features of
ur country houses is the secret hiding
place. This generally has been contrived
with much architectural skill, and in
days gone by bafned discovery from the
most observant and experienced eye. In
certain case3 it would appear that, for
some reason or other, the liiding place
has bt-en specially kept a secret among
members of the family. Thus, in the
north of England, may be mentioned
Netherhall. nearMaryport, Cumberluid,
the seat of the old family of Senhouse.
In this time honored mansion there is
said to be a real secret chamber, its exact
position being only known to two persons
the heir-in-law and the family solicitor.
According to the popular tradition the
secret of the hidden room has never been
revealed to more than two living persons
at a time! This mysterious room ha3 no
window, and, despite every endeavor to
discover it, has, it is said, defied the in
genuity of every visitor staying in the
house. With this secret chamber may
be compared the one at Glands, the lat
ter possessing a window, but which has
not led to the identification of the mys
terious room. Liverpool Courier.
The Prince of Coolavla.
Wo arc told of McDermot, known as
the Prince of Coolavin, who belonged to
one of the principal Connaught families,
that his income in 1776 barely amounted
to 100 a year, yet he never suffered his
children to sit down in his presence.
Lady Morgan adds that his daughter-in-law
alone was permitted to eat at his
table; even his wife was not accorded this
privilege, as, though well born, she was
not of royal blood. When Lord Kings
borough, Mr. Ponsonby, Mr. O'Hara, Mr.
Sanford, and others, all men of position,
came to see him he only took notice of
the two last named,, whom he thus ad-
dressed: "O'Hara, you are welcome!
Sanford, I am glad to see vour mother's
crin lira rnnthoi ma nrt IvRmairi Ac
son tuis mother was an U cnen). "As
to tlie rest of ye. come in as ye can.''
Blackwood's Magazine
Tea Hoars of Sleep.
James Payn, the novelist, says that the
only salvation of our writers and liter
ary classes in general lies in going to bed
earJ. getting ten hours' sleep and under
standing that brain work needs more
complete and certain recuperation than
ordinary physical labor. The office and
necessity of sleep is getting to be better
appreciated. Little is heard nowadays
about burning midnight oil Obedience
to physiological laws alone will enable
a man to escape mental breakdown at an
early age. Genius cannot override nat
ure. It is impossible to turn night into
day, or to habitually do two days' work
in one. Common sense and method are
better than brilliance, and judgment is
in the end ahead of genius. New York
Star.
Oat ia
One of our county physicians, who
"Ti
s called to see a
very tall gentleman who lives in the
neighborhood of Brantly, and who was
sick with the measles On account of
the exceedmg height of the man the doc
tor advised him to paint a ring around
his body with iodine and he would pro
ceed to bring the measles out on him one
end at a time, as it would be impossible
toaccosapliah the whotejob at once. Our
mferaBant states that the ring was drawn
and the measles brought oat in
YiM-.(Gts,
THE BOGUS JSOBLEMEX.
A SIMPLE METHOD OF UNMASKWtG
T-IE PRETENDERS.
Kaatlr Takea la.
On any fine day you can see a
fraudulent noblemen airing themselves
on upper Broadway.
A bofcos baron, a counterfeit count, a
miscalled marquis, should never impose
on anybody.
How can they be detected? "
Easily enough. Suppose you have a
nobleman presented to you; the intro
ducer should be able to vouch for him if
the matter of title is a point in question.
But your bogus nobtessan nearly al
ways presents himaflf Then go to the
consulate of his country.
a stm DKrKTOir.
There it is easy to satisfy yourself of
bis identity. Generally speaking, al
though not always, real noblemen regis
ter at the consulate on their arrival in
New York; but every conciliate, even if
the gentleman has not recorded there, is
more or less able to give information as
to noblemen belonging to their country.
Thanks to the English Peerage (Burke's
and Debrett's) and the German Gotha
ische, Grafen and Freiherrn Calendar, as
well as to the armv lists of both coun
tries, it is pretty easy to get at the facts.
And there are so many real noblemen
and officers of the German and English
armies here in this city that the bogus
article could easily be detected by being
confronted with the real one.
The impostor L generally good looking
and ditingue and has a dangerous
knowledge of what he is talking about,
depending on his good looks and his
cheek to carry iiim through. And our
rich girls, blinded by what they believe
to be tlie honor of being courted by a
real live lord or count, fall an easy vic
tim to the unscrupulous fortune hunter.
Counterfeit noblemen and real noble
men, who have so far forgotten what is
due to their name that they closely re
semble the bad article, abound and al
ways will abound in a great cosmopol
itan city like New York. As long as the
present inordinate love for titles exists
in this enlightened republic, people must
not be astonished if they are the dupes
of such as have a smattering of educa
tion and the cheek to call themselves by
a high sounding title.
Ail these counterfeit noblemen have
oSe characteristic that is. on all possi
ble occasions they will brag of their noble
descent and will tell the most wonderful
stories of their doings at home and of the
doings of their ancestors generations be
fore them.
The latest specimen who has been an
noying various families, particularly that
of Mr. William Steinway. represented
himself as a nephew of the latter, called
himself at various times Count Bon in.
Count von Arnim, Baron Fedwitz and
various other names. What his real in
tentions were have not been found out as
yet. Inspector Byrnes of the metropol
itan police has nipped his career in the
bud.
SPF.CI3CESS OF THE SPURIOUS.
A peculiar and rather amnsing case
once came under the notice of the writer,
himself for long years an officer in the
Prussian service. He used to lunch reg
ularly at a down town restaurant, when
one day he was told by the proprietor
that he had an ex-officer, who was down
on his luck, as waiter.
The said waiter claimed to be a Count
X , and said tliat he was a first lieu
tenant in a crack cavalry regiment of
the Guards. The writer was rather curi
ous to see the waiter, as he had person
ally known Count X . He was rather
skeptical as to the waiter's identity, see
ing that he told wonderful stories of his
prowess during the Franco-German war,
the count in reality having entered the
army only after the close of the cam
paign. At last the waiter made his appear
ance, and after having been taken to
task he acknowledged that he was not
the count, but was once the count's ser
vant. The latter fact accounted for his
intimate knowledgeof the count's family
affairs.
Many are the cases where American
wives have married bogus noblemen and
suffered bitterly for it afterward, simply
because they did not take the trouble to
make inquiries, but believed everything
the smooth tongued rascals said.
The writer was talking on Fifth avenue
with a gentleman, when the name of a
marquis well known in New York was
mentioned. On asking what national
ity the marquis was, he received as
answer:
"Oh. he is not really a marquis, only
we all call him so."
The most dangerous are the Italian,
Spanish and French marquises and other
noblemen, as titles of nobility exist in
those countries to such an extent that
they are really difficult to classify.
All this makes it very hard for such
noblemen who come here to gain a foot
ing in good society, as people have been
au oiiea duped by the spurious article
that when an authentic man comes he is
apt to be looked on with a dubious eye.
If the consulates here are not able to
give information, it is easy enough to
write to the American consuls in Lon
don. Berlin, or whatever country the
claimant of the title comes from, "to re
ceive authentic information.
But as long as the inordinate craving
of Americans exists for titles, so long
will the American store keeper ana
tailor, as well as the American faeireav
tali an easy victim to tne i ore-am
turc-r who' comes with a big as
title. The more names and the longer
the title the better. New York Journal
The Carat lilaaai
' It has long been the opinion of geolo
gists that tii3 curious atolls of the Pacific
and Indian oceans, the circular coral
islands, inclosing a shallow basin of the
sea, were to be explained as was first
suggested by the late Charles Darwin,
through the long continued
of the sea floor on which they
The idea was that the coral first found
foothold around the shores of a volcanic
or other mountain peak projecting above
the sea. It was further supposed that
the subsidence of the ocean floor gradn-
aliy lowered the original island
the level of the sea, while the coral
growing steadfastly upward.
I after the mountain had disanminrri to
mark its original site.
Ill i null i n,ili and John
have recently held to the
the greater part of oar atalla at
not than formed, and that the
cams theatslKia net doe to the fact
that k osceattm the Matte of
am. out that it HosajM
process of inletiia by which
ahoetbya
the coral rocks;
Dr. H. & Qf-py,
server, has. during a
the KeeU-sg atoll in the
enabled to confirm the
Murray and
fore seesas probable that
reefs attain the surface of the asm
circular basin will naturally be
aad that if Mr. Darwin's explaaAtkn has
aay truth in it. it is to be accepted only
in rare and, a yet, UBsacertained cases.
Boston Herald.
ToaacFaaai
A pleasant faced old gentleman, who
looks as if lie had forgotten asmach aa
some people know about editing news
papers, comes over frosa the peaceful
shades- of Newark bow and then to
mingle in the busy metropolitan whirl
of which he was once aa important
figure. He is Noah Brooks, long time
an editor of the Tribune, a coneuscaee
Journalist in San Francisco during
vigilante times and one of the most popu
lar writers for children who wield quills
today. Mr. Brook is a tall well hoik
nun: his white hair has thinned out on
ton. his eyes keep their light, and his
short, white side whiskers and mustache
give him a venerable appearance. He is
well over sixty and curries his ago "like
a major." As editor of The Newark Ad
vertiser Mr. Brooks continues the active
intellectual work which has char
acterized his life. He has given that
journal one of tlie oldest in the conn-
rtry. by the way a standing it was un
likely to get otherwise. Besides, in St.
Nicholas end such periodicals, where one
looks for tlie lighter touch and the finer
fancies, his name is always welcome. not
only to the editors, but to hundreds of
the little ones who have learned to look
forward with eagerness to his stories for
children. New York World.
Watar Tlch Match Baa Wi
Bishop, who made a thousand mfle
voyage in a paper canoe, says that B. B.
Forbes, of Boston, once gave him a
water tight pocket match box. that he
lost it. and was never able to find an
other. Thousands of hunters, canoeists,
and others have hunted and longed for
a match box that would be water tight
one that would preserve its contents
dry even though the owner was com
pelled to take a swim with the box in the
pocket of his pants, and the pants on the
swimmer. An upset in the wilderness
or on the coast, away from dwellings,
often destroys every match a man has
with him, and places him in a position of
great danger.
Though match boxes are made in in
numerable styles, we have never been
able to find one which was "a7fr for
carrying matches in the pocket and
would attho same time protect them
from water. There are some dimculties
in the way of inventing such an article,
because when carried in the pocket the
air within the box is rarefied by the beat
of the body. When the box is plunged
into cold water a partial vacuum is
formed, and tliis aids in forcing water
through tlie joints. Scientific American.
The duke bald: "After the retreat of
Bonaparte from Leipsic, he never, in
fact, had any hope of getting over his bad
fortune. Mole, then minister of war,
told me that shortly after Napoleon's re
turn at that time to Paris lie was playing
at billiards with him when he became
thoughtful and, laying down his cue, be
gan talking to him of the impossibility of
ever reviving the spirit of tlie nation suf
ficiently to expel the northern powers.
Had these reverses, he said, occurred in
the first days of the republic, there would
have been a freslinvsuof spirit that might
have saved the game, but that spirit was
how worn out and never could again be
expected to revive. Yet, with this de
pressing conviction upon his mind, he
went through his wonderful campaign of
Champagne with an activity perhaps un
paralleled in his former wars." The
duke's invariable comment on Napoleon
was: "He was not a gentleman." Per
sonal Recollections of Lady de Bos in
Hurray's Magazine.
Two spinster sisters up in Maine who
run a sixty-five acre farm, are credited
with being the smartest women in the
state. One of them ehons everv winter
the year's supply of fire wood, going into
the woods early in
maininz until the
the
and re-
work
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completed.
She works in the hayneld in summer and
digs from seventy to one hundred bush
els of potatoes yearly and puts them in
the cellar. The other sister ia the car
penter of the family and has added all
manner of improvements to the farm.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The steward of Mr. Yanderbilt's yacht
Alva entered a large fruit and confec
tionery store on Baltimore street just be
fore the yacht sailed and pun 1 awiT
nearly $75 worth of confectionery and
fruits. Before leaving he asked for some
hothouse grapea,aitd was told by the
proprietor that the price would be 86 per
pound. The steward gave an order for
ten pounds and asked that they be sent
to Mr. Yanderbilt's yacht. The store
keeper declined to fill the order, Iwiih
he did not know of Mr. VanderbOt. Phil
adelphia Times.
The societies of Christian Endeavor in
an esssalved awav.
LWiea sca-am.
osmioH of
Agassis. It there-
the
advenjlmittee." whose duty it is to see tliat
2very arrival at the hotels after noou on,
3sch Saturday is furnished with a cordial
invitation to attend divine service at one
sranother church, a full list of the
murches acaxnpanying the invitation.
St. Ijitiia FZepublic.
At a seaport in the south of France, an
old salt had his leg 1 1 lashi il during the
launch of a man-of-war. He had to un
dergo amputation, and bore it all with
out speaking a word and nktrng his
pjnethcwhihv The snrgeon was about
to leave when the sailor, ""e an
effort to rise, called him back and said:
"Beg pardon, major, for not showing
you out, but yon see it's your fault."
LTAutorite.
"People think that I actually
Siddorav shoes," said Mm. Ellen
Terry, "but of course I don't. I cherish
them much too dearly for that, and only
to tarns: they were on the dear.
lady a feet. A pr-aft from one
to another. Here are the shoes.
are made of silver antin, bonsai ami
trimmed with ted silk, adorned with cflt
t rnanTr i and apld embroidery ."
National Bank!
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