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rHlSc?i?SS- u'' 2 "l- . , , ..iteA.-. "sjwjtSw- ti-r . V 4--v - " 7 vr -eV-' js- ---? - ---f r"" --r tr;:-s - VAA U.J. .... fisrfcSTByTTSayTSaijji ,. -. . : ft xe , v .: ' f '-i' Stt - . 5 1 wsl i - " -. VOL. XX.-NO. 4: COLiMBTJS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1889. WHOLE NO. 992. 14111 ItttrnaL mt ' -r fa i'--T"";' & na 1 '' - 1- l- i. n IV -fe COLUMBUS ?7 STATE BAM. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cart Capita. - $100,000. y DiKKCToiw: V JUMWKOKBRAKD.ira.t..r . GEO. W.HUL8T. Vice Pres't. JULIUS A. REED. R. H. HENKV. J. E. TASKKK. Cashier. flBk eC svepewlt, avlecasmt mel Bxeamasre. CeflectleasFraaaeUly Made ee. til aeIa. ly lattere Tlaee I to. 274 COMMEMIM -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., -HAS AN- Avtfcorized Capital of $500,000 Paid in Capital 90,000 OFFICERS: C H. SHELDON. Pres't. H. P. H. OHLRICH, Vice Free. C. A. NEWMAN. Cashier. DANIEL SCHRAM. Aas't Cart. STOCKHOLDERS: C H.flhnMmi. J. P. Becker. Henna P. H-Oehlrich, Carl Wke. Joaaa Welch. W. A. McAllister, J. Heary Wardeman, H. M. Wiaalow, George W. Galley. 8-c-19Sjrw ., u Frank Borer. Arnold F. H. Oehlnch. IVBaak of deposit; interest allowed on time deposits; boy and sell exchange on United States sad Karope, and bey and sell available secarjties. We shall be pleased to receive your business. W solicit yoar patronage. 28decCT FOBTHE WESTERN GO TTIGE OKGAN CALL ON A.&M.TURNER TnTdtaff atal orsaa are first-class in erery par r. aad so ajaaranteed. SHIFFim i PUTI, DBALBBSIK WIND MILLS, tfokaya Mowar,ooMiitdSlf Bindtr, wire or twin. Pmaiaa Eepairet am aaart aatiee dnor mtmt nf Heintz's Dmc Store, 11th Oalaaibaa. Neb. UaoTflMf tarnmlsi aetatea -fiM udtkai stava 1 I MBAW A JUUMWAJ4 MJS ." ' Tzr TiTVTiw Mi. AMaa 1 K atady. I itauust Vfsaafr cbjsjb tkaworst eases. Becaaae utbexi aava aas4toaieaaoa(oriMtBWieiciiUaen aadafaoeloratreanaeaadFgOTn Sbt livaixiaXB Ksmbdt. Gwy.g' ai res OaW. It coata yeaaotMaa; tar a iiL aad It wUl care yoa. Aodivaa H.O.aWOT,M.i, laSKMLST.. HENRY GrASS. -TjiiTIERTAKEB ! ctrrors asd metallic cases L'aJBaff i mi ff ell kinds of Ufhoi- "mtnf coMjmca, aaaaHHaPV 1VWaXv I CURE mrsi ".SJJKlAlBnVJavSaa nJBrt9ctaBhfjL FROM THE MUSTY PAST. MANY SUPERSTITIONS ROOTED IN OLD PAGAN "BELIEFS. C taw raat aa Wall aa to tta Wliissa Tha Oataaky Day TIm Bandag Daf-ttla Katla aad Hair by tka Msta, I want now to look with a Uttto aaore pmrticuUrity into tbeorigfaof aoma of oar mptn&tioBM, I harm slremd j told job, in m general way, what I now with to emphasise, that tha largMt part of them an aaodern aurriTak of old natura aytht and pagan raligiona. That tha old world is still vital in us waare giv ing evidence every day of our Urea. Our coauaon speech is fall of traces of old beliefs, just as the rocks under our feet are full of fossils and tracks of creatures long since extinct. Our carnivals, Mardi (Iras aad yule logs, gift and evergreens; our New Tear and May day festivals; our Easter rejoicings, Easter eggs and carols; all of there are thousands of years old and have their sources in all nations and all religions. The peasants of England still kindle their Bel Ares which across the darkness of the centuries flame out an answering signal to the old Phoenicians; and they were kindled at the still more antique fires of the older Persians; and 'even these last are only modern representa tives of the old first fires of the first wor shipers, who, in far off (dimness of the years, first made on earth a firo in honor of their heavenly god, the sun. The past, then, where is it? It is all about us and in us; its wisdom not only, but its folly. We clothe ourselves in its robes of wisdom, and we still gather about us the tattered and grotesque rags of its ignorance. WHY FRIDAY IS AX UHU7CXY 'DAY. We will now particularise just a little. Why should Friday be now regarded as an unlucky day? Nobody ever proved it so. As many facts against the notion can be found as those that favor it Only if people get a fancy in their heads, they always forget the times when their fancy misses fire, and only remember when it hits. Is there anything in the nature of one day in the week to make it differ from others? Nothing. All days equal ly are caused by the turning of the earth on its axis, and thus bringing its differ ent sides successively toward the sun. Suppose we should begin a new count, and call Wednesday Monday, and so on, would Friday, when we got to it, still be unlucky? No, friends, the reason is here. In one of the old forms of paganinn this relic of which has still survived Friday was dedicated to Freyja, the Pa gan Venus. Christianity naturally cursed the day and its worship, which was cor rupt and corrupting. So poor Friga's day was given up to a fish diet and ill fortune. I wonder they kept the fish, for it was sacred to Freyja, and this is the reason why Friday is fish day stilL Saturday used to be the unlucky day Saturn's- day, and hence the name. And as Saturn was always a gloomy and malignant god it came to be thought un lucky to begin anything on his day. Ami did you ever think of it? This is the old Jewish Sabbath or day of rest And beyond question here is the origin of the SaLbath. First it was unlucky to do any thing on that day, because they were aft aid of the god who ruled it; then, as th conception of the god changed, they rerained from work, because, for soma reason, they supposed he wanted them to. Our 8unday'is still Saturday, Sa turn's day, to thousands, and they still keep it, because they are afraid of the God who M3 suppoeed to have made it his on. THE WttD-aTOHTSJCAJi'S DOO. Take one more-illustration. It is still a bad sign for the dog to bark at night ucder the window. It portends a death in the family. I haven't time to go into this at length, but this is a remnant of the old myth of Odin, the wild hunts man. John represents Jesus as saying that be would come for his disciples at death and receive them to himself. In all ages and in all religions it has been believed that at death the father of the tribe as the god of the dead came for and ted away his followers to the land ot the departed. This faith has assumed a thousand shapes. Odin used to be the god of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Un der the name of Wodin we still have his name in our day of the week, Wednes day Wodin's day. In the dark nights when the storm was up and a rushing of winds could be heard through the groaning tree tops, the frightened peasants fancied they heard the rush of the Wild Huntsman's troops, accompanied by shrieking trump eta and hurrying horses and baying dogs. To pick up one of the horseshoes was lucky, for, as lightning doesnt strike twice in the same place, he wouldn't be hkdy to pass that way soon again. But to hear the harking of one of his dogs meant that the death call had come. Odin la forgotten except by scholars; but his horseshoe is remembered for luck, and his dog's bark at night still makes us tremble. Another origin of many superstitions is to be found in fanciful analogies or ignorant mterpretationa of nature, or mere coincidences of color or form. For instance, why cut the hair or nails on the increase of the moon? A mere fanci ful connection with the idea that as the moon grows ao other things would grow also. The witch supposed that as her wax figures melted aad wasted away be-' fore the fire, ao the man it represented would waste away. Hereistheorigiaof thefasaoua cares for warts wa used to know aa boys. Bab a bean on them aadjkrawtt away, and aa the bean de cayed the warta would go away. Or if another boy picked it up he would pick up the warta along with it All the of a like kind. The fall of the mandrake root was forked. and supposed to ressaableansan,iftwaa conceived to possess rar.iarkaMe cnratjvs powers. Rev. M. J. Savage in Boston Globe. THE NEWLY WED, IttaaPuIlawaperter. who is talksss; to aa attentive acriba. 4Hardry a weak goes by," says the porter, "tat I don ase a bridal I don't exactly knew how I hat they are aa nlainly asarked -to eyas naif they had the worts ferJdV rrtssus rector Tans slaw sto Ipeas Taass sTiski a eke Bias attsex, ' torelieads. Taert AT aofsfning about thasa that gives the whole situation away; asjadofachnerigat-next-to-me-darling air. Of coarse, I have made a mistake now and thea, but k is Tery ad domldo,aadrvaoftmf6aadout,after changing my awai two or three times, that I was right after all, though certain appearances were sgainat it. We gen erally hare a test which never fails, and when a doubtful party comes along we spring it on them, just to be euro, you know. "What's the test? WeU.ni toll yoa. Not many weeks ago a couple cot into my car and sat down vary quietly in their arm chain as If they had been used to it all their Uvea. These didnt seem to have the bride and graosa air about them at all, and from external appearances they might have Iwen brother and sister or married for years, bat still there waaa something there mat made me suspicious, so wkjsal saw them together I went to the news cosaaasrrsboy and 1 aays: BiU, heron aeVmNfal party; get out the sampto ceases.' t. - "So BUI got hit tasta and started through the car. He handed books to everybody, and when he came to the sus pected party he took out of bis pile two little books, and said, ao nearly every body could hear him: 'Very useful books, sir; hints on housekeeping and hints to newly married people. Only 25 cents.' "That did it The girl got as red as a rose and the man blushed and said a weak sort of N-n-n-no.' Then they looked at each other and sort of snick ered, and I caught him f uU in the eyes and smiled a sweet smile, giving him a respectful wink at the same time. It was all settled in a minute, and there was no doubt about it Well, he took it very good naturedly , and asked me after ward how in the world he had given himself away he couldn't imagine. I believe wo could always tell, and talked so nicely he gave me a dollar when I got through with him. "There are plenty of other giveaways by which I can spot a brideanda groom, and they are safe generally as the test One day a couple came in the car which, by the way was jam full and the moment they entered it was plain as day that they were newly wedded. I passed by them once or twice, and then went in my closet and got the dust pan and brush. I walked right up to where the bride was sitting and dusted up a panful of rice that lay on the floor around her in a complete circle. Well, if the people inthatcar didnt laugh, I'm another. "The custom of throwing rice altera bridal couple always makes it unpleasant for the party, aa lots of rice is almost sure to stick to their clothes, hats and in their hair. About the funniest rice thing I over saw was that which hap pened in my car just two or three weeks ago. A couple came in and the test re vealed to me that they were bride and groom. They didn't seem to take kindly to it, however, and we couldn't git any satisfaction oat of them at alL Fyand by the man said to his wife: "Seems to me this umbrella is not rolled up very nice.' - ,- "Then he carefully unrolled it, and," hexing! out' came three or four pocket fubof rice all over the seats and floor. Their friends had rolled up a lot inside the folds of the umbrella, and, next to the young man I heard tell about who, when be went to sign his name in a hotel register, dropped a. lot of rice on the book when be took off his bat, it was the most binding thing I ever knew." Philadelphia Record. ateBMart The listener was about to write a chapter on the professional men who be long to the church for professional pur poses only, and who come to regard their church aa their peculiar preserve, upon which other men of their trade have no right to poach. On second thought, however, he has decided not to write the chapter, but simply to teU a story. Dr. Plagium, an able dentist, who has his office in that handsome thorough fare which, from the frequency of its dental establishments, is coming to be Molar avenue (Plugham, of course, like the rest of the dentists in that aristo cratic section dow not give a hint of his occupation in lus sign, but simply decor ates his door with a very modest plate bearing only the legend "Dr. Plugham"), belongs to a fairly fashionable church and is very faithful indeed in his devo tions. No Sunday ao stormy that it does not find him in lus pew; he teaches a class in the 8unday school and takes a prominent part in all church and society proceedings. The other Sunday several of the con gregation at Plugham'a church noticed a well dressed stranger at church, upon whom Plugham bestowed a glance of slight recognition, and after the service Plugham and the stranger were seen in conversation for a moment or two in the vestibule. After the stranger had passed out one of the members of the church stepped up to Dr. Plugham and remarked: "Who waa that stranger that you were talking with, doctor?" "He?"ssid Ptagham, as a scowl dark ened his handsome" face, "oh, thai was DfeSnagge, the dentist, and I dont see what in thunder he's prowling around here f or!" Boston Transcript I know one saamrmr of congress who baa thought it necessary to keep two of his elder children from school that they might help him out with his office seeking corraspondenco. One day last week a western senator, recently re elecssd for six years, threw aphia hands ia despair aa the raapiring ossil carrier threw upon hk desk another huge bun dieofkAsers,sauldedaredbewouldnot write another reply or wasta another postage stamp on the horde of place hnn ters. Hkwffe knew this would never do, for a aenator or representative might aaweUgo but and' commit political sui cide as to refuse to answer the letters of hia eonstataanas. Oace let the wor' pass round a dearie or state that the Uon. Sossdo fa too proud or lazy tor .swer lattsrs, and bis days of power re at csK?e numbered. So this good wife said to her despsirinf lord, "You go and take walk. The air wffl do yoa good; aad while yoa are gone I wiU look over the when the aenator retained he m letters opened and nicely as Inone pfle ware those which ism; in aa icr a few days, and in a thhw those which couM la a'laanfc ha atoasiliiii sjlsisad This bwoffaassssnairliiMniiilstonaorder Mill WssanaSasaatlaav j9?" HUSBANDS, STAND UP! AMBER THINKS IT IS TIME SOME ONE TOOK YOU IN HAND. Ways C Aettoa; Wheat Y Mease ThtoaaTaa MsaaM Da aad TaatSfcoald Nat Da OTCeane This Mean Yaw. bat It Ftta Yeaw Katrhhar. There to so much excellent advice given to wives, suppose, for a change, wa tarn around and read the husbands a nice little manual of correct behavior. It is high tune some one took them in hand; but although I hare had my eye upon them for a good while, I have been both ered to find a npe opportunity. In tlie first place, to plunge right into the midst of things without further wait- ing, nowuo you go norneto yrwu uhsuu i,uro w.. now sne ougnc to recve jo; aw is sae say a wora aooutue outer aasw-aa- &;oionr When-you ttygST utile woman wno uas neen so naru a WUIK uu U4JT nun live WUKI uu mmm - competent girl, callers, and miscellaneous jobs of mending, pastry making and pickling, that she lias found' no time to curl her hair and put on her best gown to meet ycu. what do you do? WHICH IS YOUR WAY? Da'tmi. like a. denr Old BVmnalhizine ii - - & -a n . & iuki.in Ba sias fellow, take her worn face into a warm - . T -- -- - r a embrace and whisper in her ear: "Never mind, dearie: l nave got iiome.anu we ii got share the cares for the rest of the day. You go and rest yourself wliile I put Johnnie and Trot and baby to bed? Do you see that she sits in the easiest chair Lwhile you skip around and minister to her wants? Do you keep silent while she reads the evening paper (to herself), and are you mindful of draughts and slam ming doors while she .takes her case in slippered content? Do the stars dance the Newport and does the moon sing psalm tunes? Just about as much as you do all this. You expect the hushed home. and the siesta with the paper, and tho slippers for yourself, to be sure, and if you don't get them you think you're ter ribly abused, and ten to one flounce off to the club to escape the noise and con fusion, but you never take it into your head to consider that the day has been just as long, and just as busy, and a thousand times more full of .petty cares for her as for you. You bolt into the house, and the first tiling you say is: "Why isn't supper ready? I'm as hungry as a houndr "Great Scott! Can't you keep that child quiet?" or, "What's the use of burning so much coal? Turn off the damper! You are enough to ruin a VanderbUt!" That's the keynote of the song you sing, and yet you think it is dreadful if she ever makes a remark harsher than the bleat of a lamb. Suppose you had been a hansom cab driver, a board of trade man, cook in a restaurant, cash boy for a dry goods house, a kindergarten teacher and a hospital nurse aU combined for the whole day long, wouldn't you be more tiredVand wouldn't there be pore excuse for your irritability than when yod have' simply attended to a single system atised branch of business. A woman is required to be everything from a reception committee to receive calls in the parlor, to a nurse in the nur sery , and a chief executive in the kitchen, while a business man devotes himself to a single trade or profession. DON'T DK AFRAID OF "SPOONEIO." And next, bow do you entertain your wife evenings? If you were invited into a neighbor's house to spend a couple of hours with his wife and daughter, how would you entertain them, I wonder? .Why, you would put a posy in your but tonhole, and slick up your hair, and blow a little perfume out of the atomizer all over yourself , and throughout the even ing you would overflow with bright anecdotes and be ao racy and charming that after you had gone away everybody would say: "What a perfectly delightful man Mr. Perkins is! What good com pany!" Now let us see, sir, how you entertain your wife. You stand in front of tho fire and pick your teeth with a wooden toothpick until she starts to put the chil dren to bed, and every now and then you make a few cheerful remarks about the scarcity of money and the general cussednesBof children who run through shoes and clothes so fast When the time comes that all Is stiU and every thing nicely adapted for a chat or a game, you draw out your miserable newspaper and begin to read. And you read that paper aU to yourself, word for word, and line for line, straight through from edi torial to market report, as if it contained the secret of youth, wealth and eternal sa ration! In the same way one might drink soda water by the pailful, or con sume caramels by the ton! Newspapers, read by husbands in selfish solitude, are answerable for many wifely heartaches. How many good stories and racy anecdotes do you teU your wife to make her laugh? How many roses do you pin on your coat and how careful are you of your appearance in the long evenings, wheithove-tls, nobody by but her to be captfvaiedRty your charms and bewildered by your manly beauty? There is just exactly as much excuse for. her (and a little more, it may be,) if her dress is slatternly and her hahr untidy as there Is for you, and there is precjona little for either of you. You excuse your indifference and neglect and the withdrawal of fond and foolish attentions, just aa dear to her at forty as at twenty, with the thought: "O, well, she knows I love her; what's the use of 'spooning' at our ager ByandbytberewiUcoBieathnewheQyou shall see her lying in her coffin, perhaps, and you would seU your soul that day to be able to shine away long years of cold neglect with the manifestation of the love that was alwaya in your heart, cer tainly, but carefully kept on ice. Gall it "spooning," if you Uke, or any other name of contempt, but I teU you there fa nothing sossd in all life's history aa the vanished opportunity to manifest a lore for which tome friend went hungry through slow years of undemonstrative and stupid reserve. Amber in Chicago Tribune. OLD PICTURE SALES. Ait Ai l4r before the duke of DarcaFa col lection of paintinga had bem taken from the ancestral walla to be brought across the Atlantic, New York was noted as a picture buying town, aad many of the asKtion salsa of "rare and antique" paint, ingsof fifty years ago were quite aa far deal aa those of today. Excellent, alo- by chance frequently, bat the critical eye etart lovers of that time waa too practi cal to allow any undue iadulgence where snare than a trifling sum was asked for a' work even of unusual merit It's nothing new in New York that the works of old masters ahould go sagging for a price even near their value.' said an old artist, as he proceeded toteU a story of some peculiar auction sales of years ago, several prominent actors ia which saay be familiar to old I Haw Yorkers of today. In the early forties aa undersiaed, dark browed, keen eyed art desJsr,.Lsvy by name, opened a small auction room for the sale of paintings on Broadway, near Oortlaadt street There ha sold at auc- -iioa every Saturday night old paintings. i - l-- . z u t'-aaauy oi wnicn uore uw sjamsa oc www renowned artists of past guaerations. Paintings of all kinds, many merely old :1jHnoitcanxaaaMamm9 framed. Ipaoefaai down at prices that would not j!,.., a dealer in chromes nowadays. -q w a traveler, whose funds had i,,-,a,IMf Had i- .-j twSSSJS toran M j Ut- fcU - .-' what he paid, nobody ever kuw, bat certain it is that he bought them at a low figure, and on the following Satur day night, placed them in a row on the wall and asked the assembled critics, consisting mostly of neighboring shop keepers, "What am I offered for the whole Csar family by Raphael?" Mr. Levy couldn't sell them very gUy, but finally a bid of five shillings apiece bought tr apiece bought the collection. A year or two later Brett, a London picture dealer of some note, whose spe cialty was collecting the lost works of great masters for private collections of the nobility, came to New York on a hunt for the Caesars. After a long search he found them in a small restaurant on Nassau street- He offered the proprie tors $50 for the lot The offer was ac cepted promptly, but two of the por traits were missing. Inquiry developed . the fact that the thrifty restaurateur had used tnem to kindle a-ur during a heavy snow storm when it was difficult to get wood. The ten portraits accompanied Brett on his voyage back to fioadon, and were handed over to a delighted purchaser for $40,000. Pierre Flandin, the old time dry goods prince, was at-that time an art dealer, aa were also Paff and Beau mont. At a sale in the auction room of the latter a work by Durand waa sold for $350, and for days the sale waa the talk of the town. One of the largest collectors of pic tures at that time was Laman Reed, a successful merchant who Uved in Green wich street Mr. Reed's -'gallery con sisted almost entirely of works by Ameri can artists. Many weU known people at that time were visitors at his gallery. These pictures are now in the possession of the Historical society, t Second ave nue and Tenth street About 1840 Ernstpusch, a German im porter of pictures, brought over the greatest collection of pictures ever im ported atone time. In all there were 4s).0t0, saostly by German artists, but aaiong'tbem the works of Spasisb.' Ital ian and French artists. Levy sold nearly the entire collection at auction at prices of from 1 shilling to $100. The last really large auction sale of pictures was the sale of the Robert Smith collection about twenty-five or thirty years ago. The Smith' collection was mercilessly assailed on all sides and the prices realized, with a few exceptions, were ridiculously low. One picture by Van Dyke,' however, brought a very good price. New York Commercial Ad vertiser. ACaaala Bird. Canary birds are easily trained, as we told you recently. Two of our girls send us the foUowing letter' about one belonging to their aunt Everybody de lights in a trained bird and there is no reason why boys and girls should not teach their little pets all the tricks our young friends here teU us about Dear Me. Editor After reading about canary birds in your paper we thought you would like to hear about one our aunt baa in Washington. It is very tame and flies through the house, both up and down stairs. One day be follow ed grandma out into the front yard with out her knowledge. She waa scared when she saw him on the step, but spoke sharply to him, saying, "Pete! you ras cal! go in the house!" Rather to her sur prise he turned and hopped in. When any one uses the typewriter be gets on the carriage and rides hack; una forth, soosetlmes running guong on ft as if trying to beat ft. He will go to a stranger when spoken to and he never gets tired playing with any one. He will also lie on bis back in the palm of your band and play "dead bird." Peopte often bring their friends to aee him, aa beiseo very amusing. Besides he is a beautiful singer. Philadelphia Times. Ha Was X Eva the Devil. The email boy is a terror when bahae an inquiring mmd Such a boy strolled into M editor's room the other day, and atones proceeded to down the patient man at the desk. "Are you on the paper?" asked the boy. "Yea." 'Whatdo70udo?n Write for it" "Write all tbe timeT "Yes." Don't do anything efaeT "No." "Just wait for somebody else to do something, and then write about itT "Yea. "Urn!" ejaculated thesjnajl boy. with a look of deep dkarust,Mhe walked off. too totter atthedeskdid not hvagh. Never before had hefeltao assail and mean. He had been niede torn himself from a new and original point of view. Atlanta Constitution. a caw. Horses aad castle, it fa frequently said, rarely, if ever, suffer death from the bite of araatlssaake. But a hunter fa) the Potoeeao valley came upon the evidences of a double tragedy which goes to dis prove thfa opinion. While bunting the other day I found the dead body of a cow. She had not been loss; dead. Iwaespecalatingaeto the cause of her death whoa I noticed a large rattlesnake dangling frees one of her crumpled horns. The indications were that the cow had seen the snake coiled and in the act of springing upon her, and had accordingly hooked the reptile, the born the snake's body ao that the rattier aaahle to free hisjsaflf Thecoars haw pierced and tilled the rattler, but ts snakes fangs aad fcaUsd the cow.- XOVSas PHOTOGKAI'llKD IN BITS, DISMEMBERED PHOTOGRAPHY HAS BECOME QUITE A CRAZE. rrettr Artist Talks ef the rails WaVs "She is a crank oa dlsaiasnnarnd pho pieces,M one lady lessened to another. j "Taken in nisoaaT ! "Yes, her hands, her arms of course J they are nice and plump and her feet, !too. Why. aha has even had the hack of . her neck takenr i AU this, thespeakersaid, was done "ia . theeast But wesamreoer "creaks" ' aad oar "dissseaahered pbotographyM in the west ! "Yes." saW a Woodward arenas artist, . "we have for some tins taken hands or tatUs gallery. It k a fad, popular wkh symmetrically shaped ladies. It pays aa well and we have ao fault to find." Some negatives of dismembered photo graphs were brought out KXARLT ALWAYS SATISFIED. The background in all cases waa of dark plush, laid in heavy lustrous folds. Against this rich curtain a handsome hand, phaap, slender, and with delicate nails, fa really an object of admiration. No jewels are worn, as this detracts from the beauty of the member in itself. Some hands are laid carelessly against the plush, some show study in the seem ingly idle way in which they are held up, A cute row of dimples add beauty to a few of the photographs. One or two belligerent ladies have had their fists taken, "to show. bow formidable they would be on the defensive racket I suppose." said the potographer. There were photos of bands, fists, feet, arms, shoulders and the backs of necks with bewitching little curb. Some amus ing stories are told by the photographers iu connection with dismembered pho tographs. "A lady wUl come in and want a pho tograph of this sort 8he has money, but not many classic lines that would bear reproducing by themselves. 'Will 1 have my hand and arm, or only the hand taken? she asks. WeU, we must j manage to find out what she thinks of j the member as a whole, and advise her t accordingly. She is nearly always satis i fled with the photo, and some of them j are freaks of nature, I teU you; but 'So and So has one, and so must I,' fa the : principle on which society moves." ! "What do ladies do with such pic tures?" was asked. "WeU, now, when a young lady be ' comes engaged the first thing she does, if , she has a good hand, is to give a photo graph or it to her fiance. Then wnets or shoulders are taken for the oddity of the affair. Some coquettish misses -sometimes not over young ones, either wttl have the backs of their necks .taken to give to an admirer. Ladies have their own aad tlaeir children's feet taken aa souvenirs fortheir husbands. ' Some of them are plump and handsome. DETROIT'S "KATI8HAS." "They make a pretty picture, too, t when resting on a plush cushion. A lady , from an interior town had a very pretty foot She was in the city on a shopping , tour, and waa impressed with the dis membered photograph idea. She had one taken for her husband, who had often complimented, her on the beauty of her feet She sent it home, with strict orders to gaae on it aa often as ha was inclined, but to show it to no one else. "A day or two after we received a note ordering a dozen of the photos. The order waa filled, and when the lady got nomeana wens visning sne waa invited by her friends to Inspect the family al bums, In each of which that awful hus band had inserted a photo of hb wife's foot SbewiU have no. more pictures taken for exclusive contemplation here after. "Some ladies come in with another parson whose hand or "arm fa taken, and sent to the distant friends of the sup posed owner. This fa often the case with ladies who expect to inherit property front rebtivea they are never likely to mast, and whom they wbh to impress ! with their good points." Katiahahadaleft elbow that people j "had coene miles to see," There are evi dently gatbhaa ia Detroit who hare elbows worthy of admiration. A few photos of. f Jbowa-dimpled and pink tinteoiare been taken in this city. It f cannot be said that an elbow has any ipejlkntbr beauty when transferred ton ! photograph, but "everything goes' aa wag as we "iau -aists. A lady artist lathe Whitney block has a "run" oq plump hands and dainty feet. She transfers them to canvas, and vary lifelike they look, with some rich shade of plush for a background. It fa said that this artist has an abundance of work of tab character from the beat families of the city. Thasa paintinga are not in tended for the aarlor'merarjr the pity, but ornament asJladyV' boudoir. Dis membered photographs cost the full price, $t to $5 par dosen. Miauettes a $1.00 amj f.$Q make a convenient size for carrying one'a hand or foot in ones pocket Detroit Free Press. r.Jsfa "Job's Tears for Sab," fa the legend displayed ia the window of an up town drag store. "What are Job's Tears, aad what are they used for?" inquired a curioua re porter, whose eyes fsU upon the inscrip- The druggist in reply exhibited a assail pasteboard box. The box looked Uke other boxes, suggestive of pUb and other uncomf brtable things, but when the top waa ressoved a number of small, bead Uke asada were exposed. They were about the aise of pea beans and ahaped like Priace Rupert's drops, These are Job's Tears," said the pill compounder. "Yoa see they are ahaped aa a tear fa supposed to be. They are the seeds of a assail, grass like pleat tnat is a native of India bat grows largely In New England. . It fa i saom plant, bat soaaehow, year by that k they are harder to obtain lathe ssarket Aad year by year the demand for them has iacrtaata aaaoag a certain class of people; Have they any assdicsaal propartaaf WeU, only so far as the gmamcation of a whfaa saay be attended with good results. "" I ! ! IfclH. away hack la the ahadowy the story if ssraac Uke -hatafaaakt laaagalsmt " tafssaVa aeek wssasg tat IsstUac sawfad. wasjMaaaaW caas operation a aula ana pleasant time, ia fact almost a joy forever to the child. I cannot say whether thfa is true or not. yet I know that Iota of young mothers buy Job's Tears, and say that with their assistance it is really a pleasure for the baby to introduce its BBolara to the world. Job suffered enough to be of vicarious assistance to the little ones, to say the bast, aad there may be something in the whim. Balti more News. Cassjht hvaa As a southern railroad train wassweea ing round a curve near Chattanooga, the fireman espied aa enormous bald eagfe on the track, and before the bird could fly the engine was upon him. He waa struck and lifted upon the cow catcher, where he clutched a beam with hb great big claws, and held fast Be fore he had time to recover from hb fright and the shock of the coUsnoa. the nreeaan had climbed along the footway and attacked him. The man was deter mhied, tojtake him prisoner and the, eagNwaaeqaaUy'determmedaot to be captured. The struggle was Romething unique and terrible. The train was going at the rate of forty-fire miles an liour. The man had to hold by one hand with all lib power to one of the iron guards be low the headlight to keep hb footing, as the engine swayed from side to side and bounded over the inequalities of the track, white he managed the eagle with the other hand. But hb birdship was finally secured after he had nearly torn the man's over aUs to shreds with hb powerful talons, which are fully four inches long. He waa carried back over the footway, fight ing Uke a demon. Once in the cab, the engineer went to tlie fireman's aid. and by hard work they tied "the king of the upper ether" se curely, though their task was no easy one. as the eagle fought savagely with beak and claws as long as onu of luscap tors was within reach. When tied he was spread out on the cab floor, and found to measure seven feet from tip to tip of thewings. When fully erect lie stood nearly two feet liigh, and was altogether a splendid specimen. Youth's Companion. Tha Cahasea'a Shelters. In tho Uttle pocket book which tho late Emperor Frederick, then crown prince of Germany, carried on tho day of the queen's jubilee b the following entry: Tbe ambulance arrangements on the day of the jubilee, the drinking troughs for dogs and horses and the cabmen's shelters in the streets of London." It was hb habit to jot down whatever he saw in foreign countries which he thought might be advantageously in troduced into Germany. AU over rainy, foggy London at con venient distances are cab stands where hansoms and four wheelers wait in a row for patrons. Until the erection of the "shelters" the cabman liad no place of refuge from cold and damp except behind the apron of his cab. These "shelters" stand directly in the middle of the streets,, and with their rows of Utile windows all around look more like playhouses for children thau establish ments for the comfort of cabmen. They are picturesque little wooden buildings, all over gables end miniature balconies from which are suspended hanging plants. Plants also blossom in pots in the windows. Here the cabman cannot only warm hb benumbed fingers, but can get a hot steak and a steaming cup of tea; ao a policeman told me one morning on the top of the omnibus as we trundled along by the cabmen's shelter on Regent street April Wide Awak. Tastlaa; Wltheat a Teaaa. There exists a mistaken notion that the tongue b the sole organ of taste, just' aa the Idea, natural but erroneous, fa ex tant that it b necessary for purposes of speech. Aa a matter of fact taste is as hugely resident id tlie palate as in tlie tongue, while numerous cases are on record in which persons who have suf fered the loss of the tongue hare been able to speak with clearness. Recently a proof waa given of the widespread nature of the taste sense in the mouth. In a patient from whom the tongue had been very completely removed, it was found that sensations of sweet, sour and bitter nature were still present Curious ly, too, no sense of salt taste remained. These facta would almost seem to prove that various parts of tongue and pal ate are set apart for the appreciation of different "tastes." This idea bupports the fact that the tongue possesses on its surface papilla? or taste organs of differ ent shapes and sizes. It is consistent to assume that such variations in (he ends of the nerves of taste imply variations in their functions. New York Telegram. Correct FreemaclatloB. I heard the other day that a prominent clergyman recently lost a call to a lead ing church because when preaching a sermon aa a candidate he pronounced a single word incorrectly. "Oh, doctor, that was a lovely sermon you preached this morning." said a lady recently to her pastor In a large New England town, "bat if yoa wUl pardon mc for men tioning it its effect was very much un paired by a little aUp in pronunciation: oa placed the accent on tlie second syl lable of the word 'obligatory' instead of on the first" The lady in question was one of those dangerously intelligent women to be found everywhere in New England, and was a member of a ladies orthoepy society which made life a bur den to everybody in the town. Know ing this, the clergyman tried to keep up with aU the recondite pronunciations in vogue, but once in a while bo made a aUp, aa in the above instance, and at pace heard from some of tha good ladies. Correct pronunciation fa of course desir able, but it belittle absurd tomakea fetich of it New York Tribune. A V A weU known Parisian bibliophile, Beroa Double, baa just discovered the presentatioe copy of a book written by Marat and given bv him to the queen, Maria Antoinette. Thfa book, entitled "La Feu," fa bound in green morocco and bears the arms of the queen of France, that is. the crests of France and Austria interlaced. Marat, who, before becom ing a revolutionary hero, devoted him self m the study of science, treats of fire aad light in tub book. New York Com saercial Advertiser. 'Boltoa told me he had borrowed from you. I waa surDrised.be- 1 never 'heard yoa say anything "Jfo: I ftatt hope to get it back."- National Bank! rMWVM. -MAMMM- AhihwfizstJ Capital wf $250,000. sar sank iasUs aact f t? efttsMwV aayDsacstts received aad iatewat paMea. tiawcUpesita. taVDrafta ea tea arise ipal citiee ia tkiecoea. all atraa STOCXBOLBCaa. A.ANDElB90N.rWr. J. H. GALLEY. Yiee PMaX O.T.BjOKN.Caaaier O. ANDERSON. P. ANDERSON. . JACOB GRKttiN. HKNRT RAOATZ. JOHN J. SULLIVAN. J.O.RXXDKR. 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