Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1889)
Rg'-- rrs-a jsw- - r!i"4 ; K! -V - .Si -- s -i -urn-:Twrw ! ir win n in ..i. n. . TtTT. - JttnV nATr , f. qers5rv-.' , fi-jji-, tS : f j I ? 1 ' a ti t l-ki iit'- mHLJ k i. .-A . k-frt !Ui T" J fx i?:' 'vV i i ' - - - V" jt i t ' CoSjMBTJS, NEB,, WEDNE&AY, OCTOBER 16, 1889. VOL. XX.-NO. 26. WHOLE NO. I;0l4. 'vlJ f-BB1 mf- - l lemeeVk ? I ;mf ' U .T " smaw . 2r LW mtmmT i nwnUUT- it 2 VT bbbwB E. -. w. -H Ji ' - - T" MW .v x ' LJi AwFnwU- , p ' HI "" snz .sr ,wa annan nw --. v -annai i t zr aannw r jc . -f- .a- annan . i .anv lasses i C T- r. nBSBBf J j 1 j'jErs 9 f jaBBm afeJ: -?. 'v: -Tjf' : yl W'Ms &$& w5. Vilhmvm'JwL ; 111 JLIfelrJi ' .. t I . ft 1 I-:- r" 1 " Be If' Ik'- idT-Afcsdk; COLtfMBUS STATE BAM. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cath Capital - $100,000. DIKKCTOKS: UiANDKROEHKAUU.Pm.-t. fc K(. W. HULST.TIee Vtf'U "" JULIUS A- REED. It. H. IIENUY. J. K. TAHKKIt, Cahier. k r wpalt, ! 1 BxcliBlT CeAtoctlOBB Promptly M' II rlwita. ray laterewt b Time Be; Ite. coMmniiBM -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., -HA8AN- Awtkorizefl Capital of $500,000 Pal in Capital 90,000 OFFICERS: & II. SHELDON. PrM't. H. P. H. OHLRICH. Vice Ptm. C. A. NEWMAN. Cuhir, DANIEL 8CHRAM. Asst Cmah. STOCKHOLDERS: C H. SfaeldoB. J. P. Becker, HmM P. H.Ocfalrich, Crl Rieeke, Jonaa Welch, W. A. McAUwter, J. HaurWudMBta, H. M. Wiaalow, flaornW.Oallp)-. 8. C Orgy. t,, L FraakRorer, Arnold F. H. Oehlrick. IBaak of deposit; interest allowed on time dupoaita; bay aad aell ezchamre on United Statea and Earope, aad boy and aell araiUblo secaritiea. We ahall b plaaaed to receive joar basiMaa. We solicit your patron agw. 2Sdec87 FORTHE WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN CALL ON A. & M.TURNER r . W. KIBLEB, TntTellma; lalcaaiu. fTliain 1 1 mam an firat claai in every par tiealar.aadeoiraaraateed. SCIAFFMTI PUTI, DEAUBS1K WIND MILLS, wtotlttyB Movrtr, ooiiiUiibbI, Self Blwdtr, wirt or twitto. pBaipt Kepairi 8-rt Btiee t door weat ot Heiatx'e Drac Store. 11th atraet. Oolwibnt. Neb. 17aor8Mf ICURE FITS! WaMlM7CrntsIaMMaanartfTte - - -j. kava tkemr tmasaia. I MXA A RADICAL CUKE- l ana im awaw OT IHmereaaonlaraat fcetfiMrmcagw lateace for a treatise aa a noiomi C jbt UrrrT.n.K Ksmxdt. Gnre szmaa lalrM OaVse. It-ceata voa BDtUaciar a Maw aaa k wui care yoa. awiw M.O.ftOT.M.X, inPiwa.tr.Bl .YGrASS. UNDERTJKIEK ! f mUhimtUof Ua-W- &s. ' S -it 4t COLUJfaXJt, & BaaaawBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatf TUB, EPIUlPtT r - r AUjpo sicoanBas, BmBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBWBBa ' taSSB nwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaw. " .ar.Taaa njHPBBBnWpHBajemjLBSB eennnBBBS77r 'rJannwBmarlaiVQK BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanaB'iSA nawVni MAKING FLINT GLASS. THE VERY INTERESTING PROCESS VIVIDLY DESCRIBED. Ota Daftly tot Thlwca T Owwt ma Cm A 1 Ptore Whera It Tkat AU la fwalon, Bwt It I Jut Um OUmt Flint glaas is either blown, molded or pressed, and frequently all three meth ods may be seen together in the same establishment. A flint glass factory is a most enter taining medley of marvels. As yoa enter the great building that surrounds the huge chimney the first impresskm is that you are in a human ant hill rumbling with inordinate activity. Or perhaps the sensation is better described as a plunge into a purgatorial chamber of in dustrious demons. In the center the openings in the gigantic fwnace.'eawzale you like glaring eyes from Vsoul of fire; but the glow comes really from molten glass in the dozen "monkey pots" about the blaze. Scores of workers, boys, youths and men, throng in restless con fusion. It looks as if every one were running about on some impish deed of his own fancy. But stand still and watch closely, and you will see it is all a great system of human clockwork, each move ment fitting nicely into the whole effect. LOOKS LIKE BE WAS PLAYING. The men at the furnace, who seemed at first to be devils thrusting pitchforks into the blazing depths to toast then victims, are only gathering metal"on their pun ties. When a sufficiently large lump has been collected the man wan ders off with it. You think he will cer tainly burn some one with that burning ball of fire, they are all bustling about him so incessantly. But follow him carefully and yoa see him silently hand the tube to an older man, who blows the glass into a large globe and sits down to tlay with it at a bench, which has a lorizontal bar on each side of him to roll the tube on. Back and forth he rolls it like a toy, and the glass keeps curiously changing its shape. He has made a hole in tho globe and enlarged it into a symmetrical opening, and now the glass is cooled so that he can do nothing more. Will anybody in nil that hurry ing crowd help to help him? Instantly a young man appears, and without a word he holds np to the cool glass his long tube with a disk of red hot glass on the end, which fastens to it. The man at the bench scratches the globe, jars it, and it leaves his bar. Off the other man runs with it to the "glory hole," where the broken end is quickly heated again into softness. Then he hurries back with it to the bench man, who renews his play. A couple of minutes more and suddenly you perceive that he has made a perfect lamp shade, which a stroke detaches from the iron rod into a small bed of sand. A small boy carries it off on a stick to the annealing furnace, and now the gatherer is on band again with a fresh lump of metal to begin the pttv cess again. Turn to the next man sitting at Iris work and yoa notice him finishing a smaller charge into a lamp chimney, shaping the top by a mold. Here is a man amusing himself with a small bunch of soft glass on hi rod. You are sure he can have no serious purpose in turn ing and bending it into those ridiculous shapes. Quickly a boy seizes it from him and you cannot trace him. It has gone over to a fancy vase, where it was needed to complete the ornament. So each bench has its own little task of skill, and keeps repeating it over and over, and each boy of the multitude (there are two or .more to every man) has his own particular duties. He pops up always in the moment and place where he is needed. WORKDIQ IN TEAKS. All the workers are busy as their wits can make them, for they work by the piece, and the number of things made determine their wages. They are grouped into sets or "6hopsn of three or four, who work together and share profits together on a well understood grade of division. Generally four constitute a shop, the most skilful workman (the blower) at the head, the gatherer (a young fellow) next, and two boys, one handling molds or tools, and the other carrying the prod ucts to the annealing oven. The only way to learn the glass trade is through long apprenticeship in these four stages. And no apprentice is permitted to enter the full privilege and wages of a master workman without the consent of the or der. By this severe means of apprentice ship the glass workers keep the skill .of their trade in their own control, much like the old Venetian artisans, and prac tically dictate their own prices to em ployers. The best wages in the glass industry are received by the window glass blow ers, sometimes reaching 112 per day. The master melters rank next, though they seldom get more than half thai amount. From these earnings the prices slope down to the small tending boys, who are paid thirty cents for ten hoars' work. The blower's occupation is labor ious, but not nnhealthfoT. He works eight or ten hoars at a stretch, finishing one melt of glass. There are four or five melts every week, each requiring six teen hours to fuse, ten hoars of blowing and ten hours of flattening. The work is always by the piece, and in teams or in "shops," each composed of one mas ter workman and several younger assist ants. There are in operation about ltO fur naces, at which there are employed about four thousand blowers, gatherers, flatteners and cntters. They are bound together by a onion that dictates the quantity each workman may make, the number of apprentices that maybe taken (generally not snore than two to a fur nace), Oat prohibits any foreign werk- man from gMtiii&aplacein the factories, J or any glass from being made in the months of July and August. The aver age time they have worked in the last (four years has been less than eight months and a half. Much of the time kfet has been spent in strikes or disputes with the manufacturers about wages. Harper's Magsrme. In the Dakotaa two words, "nastier" and "1 with irked frequency in every nation. The rasttsr if the direct product of. blixxard. He mores with, a quick, restless force. He for sleep or food. He of ts He will taUsls .or n street nsotor rairwYy lawjnt nrairJe and waj for a town to 'j3kgri2&.ZJt& - irT"a;v--- w.--i- -r-fi5iy bootm-waioh featm.-He of IsM. j P arottnd.ik The town always if he be a Yon cant tell Msm by Ws looks nor the cut of his clothes. 'Htogranvwaariseften anldlwd a lie saJus a hi OC nwfcpUn at the table. But when he turns himself loosenpona project with saoneyin it the project projects. Itlooms. It yawns. He keeps it ever in the way of your eyes and bsCore you know it ypa begin to see rainbows around ft. He cares nothing for saoney after it is made. Ask and it is given you. Tell him a tale of woe and out comes his parse. He would molder in s week be blndadeskorin a oonntins room. He isalwayson the lope. Today he is getting options on cornet lots in Pierre. To morrow he is boilding mills at Yankton. Then heisosTtoStFaal sanldosing "Jim' HiU fcrsocre nifeeds,or off to New York placing the stock of a new loan and trust company. He it interested in everything. He lete.no.enternriss es- TheyTl at pay, iw says, or .1 TJaBreisnsaydWBae her&-Ccr. New York Tribune.0 " I came across a trio of reminiscent managers the other night just in time to hear the following, which the narrator, Ben Stern, of the Carleton company, says he has never sesd in print: "Andy McKaye was managing 'The Seven Bavens when they got stranded in Chicago. He didnt lose his appetite over the event, however, and he sat inn restaurant eating one night when Wain ratta, the rope walker, who was one of the company, came in in great distress and asked McKaye how on earth he was toget back to New York. It was the first time he was ever stack in this way and he couldnt stay in Chicago and starve. " 4 Well, there's nothing to keep you from going back to New York, said Mc Kaye; the company's broken np and the way is open.' "'But, great heavens, I haven't a centr "'Now, look here,' said McKaye; 'aren't you the greatest wire walker in America? " -Of coarse Wainrattn said. "Well, there are wires all the way from here to New York. Fd advise you. by the way , to travel at night; tne tele graph company charges only half rates then.' "Philadelphia Press. Ctoad'a OraawHawglitwr Writes. The following is a copy of a letter writ ten by an Indian girl to a friend: OattiiiiA Boissraa Scaoou I Bum a wrr. P. T., J a. lam f No Plena. Pom KvDsuiCbosac last grans to drop them few to let yoa know I an cohtf to iaterlbiaUtoa toroabatlaKnotgoteg-tolneanaaatTounuuiy words, ww si Sjoias; to hare vacation next three weeks. I did not accept yoar acceptable letter loaf ago, bat yoa sanwt excuse aw ayceasin you bum iateUectaaOj whatlaaja I aaaiahnrryto interlineation so I mat tnterHntfitton la cotnpae sionate words so roanraat ask your teacher tnetr wutbelptaenm JatrmcaHnw and dear coaaja two gfaiatnterraptme I lutwanention tain letter bat their do thatsotkai I sanea black nil ever that Coin to tail yoa who L stay with her in this boarding lohcol Mm Jaha HamnaflarencnHawk taeaitgwhilataywahthaniln hara nest tana hT yon sand ant owe of yaarntetamalwnloend yoa oneaeearate ribbon or one of atypletareahinot incoiaaaanoaateto take thanr nictawsoHyoa accept my indigent letter I wttl aceast yoar latter before' the taatnoaant make as have vacation. Nowthteal I ant going to work now beU nag ao I mast going to work I work in laaadry this after noon ask yoar abecedarian thai one anmna teacher ao you mast let yoar teacher read tbJaletternow I am your cousin that Is me Mi EmOy Bed Ctoad tobercouata Mia MaMe NoFlethgoodbyAby write noon I amaataaiahni harraa. The above letter was written by a granddaughter of the old chief Bed Cloud. Omaha Herald. Mount Rainier, which rises to a height of 14,444 feet from the shores of Paget sound, is the most beautiful of the moon- tains of the United States as it is the? most difficult to ascend. A party of nine men, including Mr. John Muir, the well known student of the Cordilleran glaciers, gained the summit and were fortunate in obtaining a large number of photo graphs of the mountain and of various aspectsof vegetation encountered daring the journey. One of the party writes: "This partimlar meadow on which we encamped lies between glaciers of the Nisqually and Cowlits' rivers, on the south- side of the mountain. It covers probably four square mOes and ranges inaltitade from 5,009 to 7,000 feet. The meadow on the east side of the moan tain, between the Cowlits andNatchess glaciers, is about the same sins and dif fers but little in vegetation. The other meadows on the main mountain are much smaller and, with one exception, difficult of access. The meadows on thAanwmpM of the surxoondmgjjpwer mountains are quite extensive, however. The timber on the meadows is confined aaainly to the crests of the ridges running up the mountain." Garden and Forest. "A certain gnneish lover;" "the same sreUmental lookine; person with the open naooth, who, need to go about catching flies in Edmhqrgh;" "lie retired to his inn aad vapored back in the course of an hour or so in all the pride of two waistcoats, one of figured velvet, the otherbf sky bine satin, gos samer suxntocahs arid Morocco lesther slippers."' ' ' "He-is soawsthing. likcr to ScPrewzthu George Craig is toWolmar. Ha has his tilsnti, his vast and cultivated, amind, his vivid iaugina tioa, his nadefMMndwnos and his high souled prhwdplss.of honor. Bat then ah, these butsI-St Preux never kicked the fire irons ,Tor' made paddings in his tea cupt Want of elegssteel 'Want of elegance, nomu -says, is a defect which no-woman can overleok." Early 'setters of JaneWenm.Carlvle Ritchie. in Denver who has aa idea, that the to give on toff dead bodies nad avion one which he suggests. Ha does not advocate namsliisi, nor asTthissrelse wnkh. so far as ia known. to have asnswassssd by nay .is to frees talcs the block It to the on the shores of one of tan Hesaysthsit shnaiready favorable arogreaaTsnd that syndicate is rmwidsfing the establish- of an a rjassstn amy. wnsrs be ears gttefind r numjransMJB) nssnanjaryl SSLi r v - - t - "?. js-n, grow aaan,inyotioadam id deposit ft Arctfeswss. English naaw lanora Baaantagan away Nina. tsensn oenanwyas anwaaajaa) ana. Mew YoritSjon. CATCHING CODFISH. 4 GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THEIR CAPTURE AND CURE. The Twtp Waa Better Sara Six Mentha whlntna; Baawtlea front taw MBXMtatlM Salted PUa. On the right and left of the fisherman as he stand at the rail are pegs driven into and extending some two inches above the rail. These are the "pull bobbles" for the lines to run against. Astnallcleatis attached to the bulwark, to which the line is made fast, each man having two lines, one at each hand. A small pen or "kid" is built against the side of the vessel near each man's fishing berth into which the fish are thrown when taken from the hook and a larger one catted the "gurry kid" is built amidships for the re ception of the offal Jront taw down tables. Two large butts are to the bulwarks amidships into which the cod livers are thrown and left to "try .out" of their own accord, the oil being drawn off now and then as occasion re quires from a spigot near the bottom of the butt. Everything is now ready and I commence fishing. BETTER THAN MEDICIKE. Two or three partly pickled clams are placed on each hook and the leads are then thrown over the side and soon I feel them thump on the bottom. The lines are then drawn in about three feet and made fast to the cleats. Now I stand with "nippers" on my liands and arrayed in my barvil, or long oilcloth apron, and grasping one line in each hand "saw" them back and forth alter nately against the pull bobbles, thus striving to entice the finny beauties to take my bait. Soon a dispatch is sent from the bot tom of the Atlantic up along my hempen telegraph that some poor victim has par taken of his last meal and, dropping the other line, I quickly haul in band over band and soon have my first fish over the rail and into the kid. Baiting my hook once more I throw the lead overboard and while it is run ning down, I grasp the other line and find that this too has secured a prize. Surely this is getting exciting, and as I pulled in our second line, its dripping coils formed graceful circles on the little platform at my feet. I forgot that I was ever an invalid and our whole thought was centered on the one idea of dis covering whether I have one or two cod fish at the end of that line. It surely draws more steadily and with lesslflurry than did tho first one, and as the lead shoots up through the sparkling water I discover that both hooks are treasure laden, and with a loud and joyful hurrah 1 lean over the rail. Talk about pills and boluses to quick en a sluggish circulation! That last haul really did me nioro .good than all the drugs I had taken for the past six months. LOCK A LARGE SLAUGHTER HOUSE. The fish were all gathered from' the several kids and thrown into the one amidships which adjoins the "gurry kid." The dressing table is then set up against the side of the latter, and, tak ing our several positions, we are ready for action. Our throater, Lowell by name, stands facing the dressing kid and, reaching down, seizes a fish with his left hand, the thumb grasping the under jaw and lifting him, places the back of the fish's neck across the edge of the kid, and with a quick slash of his two edged, dagget shaped knife, cuts a deep and wide gash across the throat. A deft movement of the knife then removes the tongue, which is thrown into a tub near by. He then rips the fish down the belly far enough to expose the entrails and quickly flipping out the liver slides the fish across the table to the "header," who stands ready upon the opposite side. During the re mainder of the voyage, I represented that individual, and was indeed thankful that our first catch was not a large one, for I was certainly anything but an ex pert when I tackled my first fish. The operation of heading is after this manner: The header is provided with woolen mittens having a thumb and fore finger. As the fish is slid across the table by the throater, the header seizes it by placing the forefinger of the left hand firmly in the fish's eye and the thumb under the lower jaw. Then with tb forefinger of his right hand he grasps the principal intestine where it is joined to the body and with a quick jerk tears it loose; then with a forward scooping mo tion he removes the whole internal ma chinery and slides it into the gurry kid. He then, with the left hand still retain ing imposition, draws the fish forward untfl it lies upon its back, the back of the neck resting over the edge of the table. He now with his right band extended grasps the fish by the throat and with a quick push sgainst the napes with the right hand and at the same instant a sadden downward jerk of the fish's head with the left, the head is broken off and falls into a tub between his feet, while the beheaded fish slides over to the splitter, who stands at the front of the table with the throater at his left and the header at his right hand. The splitter now seises the fish by the (nape with the left hand and with a quick slash with his long knife splits him down to the root of the tail. He then places the lip of the knife under the lower end of the backbone and with a sudden forward and at the same time ,Hftimgniotion,whirk the backbone into tint air aad the fish to thrown down into the hold to the salter. The fish are laid up in tiers like stove wood in a shed, the tiers running trans versely across the vessel's hold, each layer being thoroughly covered with salt. When the "sounds" are to be saved the backbones are allowed to drop into a tub at the feet of the splitter until tne fish are all dressed. Hethenemptks them upon the table, and wit his knife deftly removes the "sound" or air blad- the inner aide of the backbone. are then scraped and salted in barreJs. Edward Wiggin in Lewiston Journal. tne rokuma vr tteix. JORDAN. of events lay be hind the, recent --mtinn of Gen. fopmJoidanin the streets of Buenos Ayres. Jordan was n violent, Tenture- uan.who had ex all the una and downs of an He was hern in Uruguay . m lust. Ha in ton Jesuit mileg din 1841 entered theArgsur A drsmstio sequence J JSr53i.SSStfgS&Sr2 tans army a Hewtsnsst In the nsttmary timet of lSet ho wa aitof his native town. Ha agar, even among; his own people. was owarrelsoaie, imperious and lent, and always ready to meet any re sentment which his conduct excited with a challenge to a duel. In the disturb ances of ial he took sides with the tyrant Rosas against the rebellious Gen. Dqurfla. Under the protection of his chief he committed all sorts of saisdeed. His most atrocious crime was the murder of Maj. Casus. In tan shadow of this crime . he passed the last years of his life, and , in consequence of it he met n violent .death. Cams was the prefect of the city ' of Palmas, in the province of EntreRios. Be was a landed proprietor and a cattle nun of great wealth. In 1873 he made strip through the province forthepur psseof seUtogl.tOO sheep and n large strips of woodland. In returning home with the proceeds of the sales in his s he psawn tvouch the resion pMtd by Jordanstroops. Jordan heard of his presence, and ordered that he should be arrested. It was done. Jor dan received Cases in his tent, questioned him as to his possessions, and then, with out a word of accusation, complaint or explanation, commanded that he should be executed. Cases was tied to a tree and slaughtered like a sheep. Jordan seized all the money found on the dead man's body, and afterward Uripped bis victim's family of all their property. Justice is pretty leaden footed in the Argentine Republic especially when she is after generals; nevertheless, she be gan to overhaul Jordan almost immedi ately after the despoliation of theCa sases. One by one his crimes were turned against him until in 1878 he waa imprisoned in Parana on the charge of murdering Cases and Gen. Urquiza. By bribing the guards he made his escape from jail and left Parana in the disguise of a beggar on the arm of his daughter. He concealed himself over the border for ten years. After the amnesty of 1888 be returned to Buenos Ayres. In the meantime the young son of Maj. Cases had become a man. He had seen many black days since the despolia tion of his family. His mother bad died of a broken heart, in extreme poverty. On her deathbed she made him swear to avenge his father's murder. A keen struggle with the world to obtain food and clothes for his sister and himself kept this oath fresh in young Casss' memory. He knew that Jordan would come back to Buenos Ayres some day, and he watched carefully for news of his return. A few weeks ago news of Jordan's reappearance came to Monte video, where young Casus, as a reporter, was making a fair living for his sister and himself. Casas went at once to Buenos Ayres. One Saturday noon Gen. Lopez Jordan stepped from his house into the most crowded street of Buenos Ayres for his midday stroll Some hundred steps from his door a young man sprang be fore him and asked: "Are you Gen. Lopez Jordan?" - "Yes." "I am Aurelio Casas, son of Maj. Casas, whom you murdered sixteen years ago. I am come to shoot you." Gen. Jordan stood quite still and spoke a few words of apology. Aurelio Casas did not heed them. He motioned back the gathering crowd, drew a revolver and shot Gen. Jordan in the throat. Gen. Jordan did not move. Casas fired a sec ond 8ltot. It passed into Gen. Jordan's heart, and let fell dead to the ground. Some one shouted "Murder!" "I am no murderer!" shouted back Casas, who remained beside his victim's body. "I have merely killed the man who killed my father." Then he threw down his revolver and walked away. Subsequently he surrendered himself to the police. The body of Gen. Lopez Jor dan was carried to his palace, which had been built and furnished with the pro ceeds of the crime just avenged. New York Sun. The HLt Cabin. On Aug. 4, 1866, Charles E. Burnes and Nathan Fubbard left Linkville, Ore., on a prospecting tour to find the "Lost Cabin" in the mountains. For years the Lost Cabin has been one of the tradi tions of that section, and many a search has been made for it and the gold that is supposed to be waiting for the finder. Nothing was again heard of the two ; men until a few weeks ago, when a cat tle herder found their camp and their skeletons in a dense wilderness near Dia mond lake, fifty miles from Fort Kla math. The skeletons were found near together, wrapped in their blankets and clothed. Their guns stood against a tree near by. A small sum of money was in one of the men's pockets, and a watch, so that it seemed certain that they had not been murdered and robbed. A diary and a postal card addressed to Barnes' mother served to identify them. The diary was carried to Aug. 21, 1888, so the men had been dead nearly three years. But how they died will probably be one of the mysteries of the Diamond Lake regktL--Chicago Herald. Do Met Better ta rann UfS. Wat a gypsy dies that la tbeend. Every member of the race has a horror of death, because no gypsy lives who has faith ia a hereafter. They cannot be induced to contemplate it No genu ie gJPy ever accepted Christianity. Borrow in his many years of Bible and missionary work among them never claimed to have converted one. Iaall countries, as is true of a goodly number of other folk, tlieyoccasionelly profess a sort of atturhineirttotaarulmgcresd. For instanoe, we hear of a "gypsy ex horter" in Ohio, and the other day a good bishop of TJelaware was allowed to Aftoten a gypsy child in a camp near Wilmington, But then little avpoori sies are all In the way of gypsy thrift Springfield Republican. ai(Mi Clinton A. 8nowden, of Tacoma, saw bees going and coming' from a hollow tree. He built fire, smoked out -the bass and cut down the tree to get the honey. He f oawl a great lot of it; but, better still, a lai quantity of gold was lathe hollow trunk. It had evidently been deposited there by nature, and the wise men out there think that it was "gradually washed up every year by the flow of sup, andiuoouneof time accu mulated into a solid mass." Mr. Snow den got over $7,000 for the gold. New York Sun. Tlw American Iron and Steel tku report that the production of pig iron in the first six months of 1888 was larger than in nay preceding stxeeouths the history of the Aawsrican iron trad. 3tmC .l-?' C-r, ORIGIN OF SOME SLANG. INFORMATION ABOUT SOME CWwOOt WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS. This may be culled in on sense the age of slang. But after all what is called slang to frequently the giving of anew meaning to old words or the wvention of new words from old roots. The slang of today becomes the elegant language of tomorrow, it to iaterestiaur to bow many of the even phrases which as slangy and inelegant heeusne part of the potite language of the tintes. Words., like lives, have a biography. Many words, indeed; have histories which are histories of important events aa the affairs of the makes the history of a word efts aa in teresting andas ysJaabto u that of iacu-, viduala, "Dun" to a word now whose aaeaning to known to every one who understands the English language. Too many wish they did not know it. Yet at the begin ning of this century it was unknown as a verb. About that time a constable hi England named John Dun became cele brated as a first class collector of bad ac counta. When others would fail to col lect a bad debt Dun would be sure to get it out of the debtor. So well known did this become that people from the sur rounding country sent him their ac counts when they could not collect them. It soon passed into a current phrase that when a person owed money and did not pay when asked, he would have to be "Dunned." Hence it soon became com mon in such cases to say ."You will have to Dun So-and-so if you with to collect your money." "BOOM" IS A SEW OWE. Until the nomination of Franklin Pierce for the presidency the word "out sider" wss unknown. The committee on credentials came in to make its re port and could not get into the hall be cause of the crowd of .people who were not members of the convention. The chairman of the convention asked if the committee was ready to report, and the chairman of the committee answered: "Yes, Mr. Chairman, but the committee is unable to get inside on account of the crowd and pressure of the outsiders." The newspaper reporters took up the word and used it. "Boom," in its new sense of meaning a popular clamor foe a man, or for any question or movement, is a recent word being first used as such hi 1880. Grant was being run for a third term. This brought a bitter opposition. One paper said the movement was like a boom across a swollen stream, taking in all that was worth having. A St. Louis paper took it up, and said the third term movement was properly called a boom, as it raked in everything on the top of the muddy stream of politics, mostly trash and scum. This gave a new meaning to the word. "Chestnuts," in reference to repeating stories which are old, is new and not much can be said in its favor except that, being a word that is not inelegant either in sound or origin' and expressing so much in two syllables, it has prob ably come to stay with us. Its origin to not positively known and only two prob able sources are given. One to that some shrewd wit, seeing an analogy be tween the propensity of n joke to be come stale and flat quickly and the chestnut to become wormy in a few days, applied the word "chestnut" to a joke when repeated too often and palmed off as new on a company which had heard it so frequently as to become bored. This may be its origin, bat many are inclined to attribute it to the other al leged source, to wit: That a theatrical party, traveling on n train and trying to beguile the weary hours by reading and telling stories, bought a lot of chestnuts at a station to help pass the time. A member of the company proposed that they tell stories and that whoever told a story that had been told recently should be pelted with chestnuts. A little bell in the party was to be rung whenever n stale joke was perpetrated as a signal that all were to fling a chestnut at the offender. FBOM DICKENS. "You are a daisy" is considered very slangy by those who use it indiscrimi nately, and oftentimes it is. But if used in the sense in which it inventor, Charles Dickens, intended it it to good and forcible. In "David Copperfldd" it J is nrst used w the sense of calling a per son a daisy in a way to express admira tion, and, at' the same time, to laugh at one'scredulity. Steerforth says to young Copperfleld: "David, my daisy, you are so innocent of the world. Let me call you my daisy, as it to so refreshing to find one in these corrupt days so inno cent and unsophisticated. MydearCop perfield,the daisies of the field are not fresher than you." "Too thnr to a two worded phrase lieard in all classes of society. By some it is used in a vulgar sense, and it is ob- jectionable slang; by others it is used in the manner which gave it tons as a good word. To my, when speaking of an ac tion, "O, that is too thin," is vulgar slang, because enaction cannot be thin. But to say, when a person makes astate ment which to calculated to mislead, "O. that to too thin," is not slang. It was given currency by the Hon. Alex ander H. Stephens, of Georgia, in the United States congress in 1870. Some niemher had made a reply to Mr. Stepliens and the latter had his chair wlieeled out in the aisle and said in that shrill, piping voice which always com manded silence: "Mr. Speaker, the gen tleman's arguments are gratuitous as sertions made up of whole cloth. And cloth, sir, so gauzy and thin that it wui not hold It toesirlytootbin, str. . RIGHT. dry Saturday wan Charley Barrett, tun good looking and talkative traveling pau sengerscentcf the IfJsfouri Pacific. Ha had spas four or five days in essuhern rf l"rBs awWBmyBJ "ByBUBJ jBBannjankuw ffjB KBUB ' BavavBJi BWwaBJBJBjhBBue UU, " wmVBfanwBg) tnwwMaV he was- anhusad by a Times KANBAt ALL aery one 'who comas to Kaasss Csty from aUanuw these days has Iris own par timlsr stock of stories to toll about the wosaisfful craps ia that state. v ftmonf taeatoanV)wwrr4'runswholasxledmthe "WuessT auesmhhunhtd. "Yeuanmr saw the afsel The liimin dew it SHU Sal a Kanwmaawwief to Cat Wasn't to hold the stacks. Isaw "How to the fruit cropT "Fruit! You never saw the Uksl Ap ples as big as cannon balls grswing ia apple that" "Dent the trees break uowaT "Trees! You never saw the Hkel The farmers planted sorghum fat Um er csausnd the stalka grew np like tele giup poles and supf)ertod thn Untba, I mw one stalk of sorghum that feet" "How to the broom corn croaT "Broom com! You never tike! Tawre haea't been a cloudy euy in southern ffsnms for a anouth. Cunt cleudup. T!.e broom eorn grew ao high that it kept the clouds swept off the face of tie sky as clean aan new Boor. They wiMhavetoewathecoradewnif fcgwte too dry. Soueof the broom corn stolmr are so high that" "Hew is the eorn eropr "Com! You never saw the like! Down in the Neosho and Fall River and Arkan sas bottoms the corn to as high as a bouse. They use stepladders to gather roasting ears." "Aren't stepladders pretty expensive? "Expensive! WeU. I should say so; but that isn't the worst of it, The trouble is that the children climb up into the cornstalks to hunt for eagles nests, soanetimes fall out and kill thenuw Fourteen funerals in one county week from that causa. I attended ail of them. That is why I am so sad.- And. mind you, the corn to not more than half grown. A man at Arkansas City has in vented machine which he calls The Solar Corn Harvester and Child Pro tector.' It to inflated with gas like a bal loon and Boats over the corn tops, and the occupants reach down and cut off the ears of corn with a cavalry saber. Every Kansas farmer has a cavalry saber, aad" "Do they make much cider in Kan sssT . "Cider? You never mw the Ukel Oceans of it! Most of the farmers ia Crowley county have filled their ctoterne with cider. A proposition waa made few days ago to the water works com pany of Arkansas City to supply the town with cider through the mains, but the company was compelled to de cline because they were afraid the cider would rust the pumps. They were sorry, but they said they would have to con tinue to furnish water, although it cost more. I saw one farmer who" "How to the potato crop? "Potatoes! You never saw the like! A man in Sedgwick county dug a potato the other day that was so big he used the cavity it grew in for a cellar. I saw one potato that" "The people must be happy over their big crops?" "Happy! You never saw the like! I know men in tlie Arkansas valley who were too poor thto time last year to flag abroad wagon, and now they have pie three times a day. One fellow that" But the reporter just at this point had a pressing engagement elsewhere. Kan sas City Times. TboCedaa Wide publicity has been given lately to the reported discovery by the United States fish commissioner steamer Alba tross of the extensive cod Ashing banks off San Diego. The journals of the southern coast towns have been much impressed with the importance of the discovery, and have had much to my about it. Old fishermen, who know well the habits of the cod, have been loth to believe that the fish could be found in any great numbers in such wvm water and such an exposed position as desig nated, in the region of St. Nicholas Isl and. Evidently there is something wrong about the announcement. As far as the banks and shoals are concerned, these "discoveries" have been marked on coast survey charts for the past thirty five years. The coast survey vessels have often sounded in the locality men tioned, and there has been more or less fishing done by them, but never has there been any cod found. Tbe currents there are very strong, and any vessel of size can remain near the banks only with much difficulty. That the reported cod banks near Cape Lookout, on the upper coast, will prove of value to con sidered very likely, for there are many of the surroundings that fishermen con sider most favorable to the cod. San Francisco Bulletin. Pont of tho Grand Caayeaw I went to the bottom of the Grand canyon of the Colorado last winter and am one of the few men who ever at tempted tbe descent. I went there to examine a mine said to exist in the bot tom of the canyon. I have been all through the Rockies from Montana to Central America and know what a chasm to. but the sight of that abyss took my breath away. . From the top to tbe bottom it fa full 8.000 feet. Over a mile below you can see the river tearing through the gorge, but not a sound can be heard, it fa so far away. From one bank to the other it to apparently not over a quarter of a mile, but as a matter of fact it to fully nineteen miles. My guide told me I would never be able to reach the bottom, but I was determined to go and I went. It was a terrible climb aad it took us eight hours to reach tbe bottom. It to certainly tbe most desolate place in the world. There is no living thing down there no insects, rep tiles nor animals of any kind. Every thing to absolutely dead. The mining prospect was worthkfea. Before the sun was up the next morning we were on our way out, and it took us until 10 o'clock that night to climb the wall of the canyon. St. Louis Globe-Democrat "Did Mr. Grandenan er speak to you, papa?" . "Yes; he amid that he had asked you k marry him, aad you had ronsenled, and then he wanted my permission." "Aad what did you eay. pap dear? You consented, of courser "No. I told him if you had said 'yes that settled k. And an ytWag I might say or do wouldn't make the slightest uwterence."-Grin. Masher Gad! what a lovely young bather. Who fa she? Big Stranger (qutoUy--Mrs. . "Any incumbfanceaf "Yes. one." "Ah! how oldr (ConirtouMy)-Caanlng 9S-4on't look 0oir-Enoah, .SJJiWS J.&eaUaTtV a t.sWftK. Dander. ; ..? e.AM JACOB SO LLtTAJr: Rrst lUtiwii tok v. vjjIj : - U. Caen ca Band ., n.ajtr.js,eir; . uAanxnas. Capital and .a ,)) 7,Ks unatvMas DaeDeBoskore.. ApraaVaetf 14 erBjtVwsnw We anjssst gwAuMMfanbL J n.MILlAtW, DEUTCHER ADVOKAT, Nebraeka. Q UIXJTAN 4 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Fitst National Nohraaka. TfiVB aWMMta, county sumrmYom. tw-Putt j.-.-.. , . frtSJ? JihMnst-. Nl. or esll at mm ow Mtvmm. aanHMaw T J. CatABflBW, CO. SVP'T PUBLIC SCHOOLS. tioaof applicant for teaehare'aa ioLSr " wwmr wssot l X BL Cfcijaj, DRAY and EXPRESSMAN. Lttjt and heavy hanlinw. flosda handled w Telephone. 33 and 31. SShnajsWf FAUBLE & BRADBHAW. Suecetton to Fumble r JtaaneM), BRICK MAKERS ! We are abo prepared to do all kinda of brick wock- lSawrSm nTTTJsuremcrx, Proprietors aad Pnblinhers of the coLrnrtra jovkval ma oe an. rAtur BttvAL, B&,pn,-pd to . ddreaa. for ftZSS a rear atnetly in advanceYAWLY JocnlTu, $fi2 a W. A. MCALLISTER. W. M. CORNELIUS JJcALLlMTKat 4ana:i.J ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ColaaUme.Neb. raovertarJehwao. JOHN O. HIGG1NH. C. J. QARLOW, K0wJJI14k0AJLIw, ATTORNEYS-ATLAW, Specialty nuule of Collertioaa by C. J. Garlew aan R. C. BOYD, AxrvAcrsmna or Til aid Skttt-Irt. Wire! Jee-Werk, utter- ataad on Thirteenth atrwL aWe eld SStf Cjm. P. KxArr. Pbask K. Km Arr Ceitracfirs . BiiMirs. KrtiHjetw.fBraiatwloa brick and atono work aattinnT boilera, -atka ate. HuiaiS. aaa tnrfc noiBtts.M .ZitTL "aianT HI tack nointiw M ,v -V-?TL Jr"!1!"" .eTai Snuyly KNAPP BtOHL. ColaniBwa.Neh. A STRAY LEAF! DIARY. THE JOURNAL OFFICE ron CARDS. ENVELOPES, NOTE HEADS, BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS, DODGERS, ETC SUBSCRIBE NOW -ASB THE AXMUCAN MAGAZINE, lie Oger Beth fmr a Year, ut $4M. TaeJewmTALto W nVa sVa lua. amy.. - . .BByaannml ABC Tinea, fare jailing in a year over UOpasno of tho cBoiceac iHeratare, written bjr rheal Anwri. alluM itu rich with charndnc audio and abort Nt nwaflMt Tt wlTTintfraaataa thanayeare aahecriptioa to It be laptiially brilliant dnriagthe M. The price of Jocsx.ti. la at, aad Tan tan Migaitu aj us, WeeSbraaanaav -:?! en-. mtiaiaif af Cti at tk Cam f SyyJ BJuTTSBBuannnnnna ,,, apnancnTUI wts arts 555t Zi amBBPfJaB ?:BBBaT BBjgUfannni BBBBnTanunV gMhanwBT) mm - ir n ti ii shsb lyrasgfaa lata, aaaaneaa Xhsaewt and ruinnaa. aad ia tto only decided exponent of ft aientaa Inililu Haaa. ItUMMml mm m mM tm. X ii -r -N' v mmtmmmmmmmmmmtuaimu wK :5ffS0 'S&-fi c y.f i- ,4