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NEBRASKA NEWS
ABselia is soon to hare a creamery.
-" .-6neak thieves abound numerously in
:. Kebraska City.
. .- Many new settlers are being secured
. .. In Holt county.
' -Atkinson is becoming- a famous re----.
sort for nhorods. ,
Republicans of Omaha nave renomi
nated Mayor Bern's.
; - The county division ball is again roll-".ing"in-Holt
county.
-A fine new school house is being
'' errccted at Yenanga
- German day was celebrated in Frc
. ' asont and Nebraska City.
A. good deal of typhoid fever is re
' jrtcd in and around Palmyra.
-"" fi. L. Hunter of Xickeraoa gets 130
-- bushels of potatoes from one acre.
-. : Every business room in Talmage is
"..occupied and all trade is prospering.
.V The hog cholera is prevalent to some
. '. extent in a portion of Lancaster coun-
--. ty- r
."." The Methodist brethren at Cowles
'.. have set about to build a home for their
" pastor.
.Ladies of the Presbyterian church at
'"Tecumseh have purchased a fine pipe
.organ.
. The Strip racers are all getting back
"toXebraska, content to let well enough
alone.
- The Episcopal ladies of Ord havepnr
. .chased a new organ for their new
"church. .
Jforth Platte claims to have more so-
'cret societies than any city of its size
in the. world. t
S-' E'ev. G- T. Tongeman has been or-
" eWined as pastor of the Congregational
church at Grant.
Voters of Pawnee county have four
tickets from which to make choice in
the county election.
Omaha has a doctor who is said to
have refused to visit a sick man be
cause the pay was not forthcoming in
advance. The man died.
""Beatrice Public Schools. Omaha.
Jeb.," is the way a letter was ad
dressed which reached Beatrice from an
eastern firm which deals in school sup-
plies.
Michael Cannon, east of Atkinson,
. threshed four acres of wheat last week
that -yielded TT bushels of So. 1 quality.
He also threshed 253 bushels of oats off
of five acres.
William E. lilieze of Nebraska City,
aged thirteen, was sentenced to the re
form school. The boy had proved in
corrigible and a few days ago was de
tected in robbing J. H. McLellan's
house ia broad daylight.
A petition is being circulated through
out mxon county requesting city coun
. -cils that no licenses be granted saloons
. next spring. The drvs are organising
. for a tight against whisky to a finish.
The Baptist church of Fremont pre
sented their pastor. Rev. U. W. Tate,
and his wife with a purse of money
, .with which to attend the world's fair
and they, with their son, left for Chl
' cago last week.
J. F. Peddicord &, Co., Hebron, deal
. ers in farm machinery, have made a
general assignment to the sheriff for
the benefit of their creditors. Slow
collections and inability to realize on
. securities is the cause.
A gentleman living in Galveston for
"the time being, wrote a Lincoln ac
quaintance the other day and in speak
ing of a parson who died in the latter
city some time ago, said: "He must
have gone to heaven, at least the poor
fellow is not down here."
The postoffice at Strang was burglar
ized last week. The thieves entered
the office at the front door, twisted the
. knob of the safe off with a large mon
key .wrench, blew the door off and took
the drawers and contents and left. The
loss in stamps is about $1-5, in money
30.
Word reached Sidney of a murder
twenty-two miles northwest of that
place. Andrew Anderson, a farmer,
was shot and instantly killed by Eric
"Wickland, .a neighbor, who charged
Anderson with undue familiarity with
his wife The murderer fled, but was
captured.
Just after Fred Dederman of Norfolk
had started for the world's fair his little
daughter fell from a wagon and broke
her arm. Mrs. Robert Craft of the same
place stood on m chair to reach some
grapes for her little girl and fell in
such a manner as to dislocate her
shoulder.
The Methodist Episcopal camp meet
ing, which has been in progress at Im
perial for the last two weeks, closed on
the 9th. Nearly 100 professed conver-
. sions and about sixty joined the church.
Evangelist lioopingarner of Lincoln
' conducted the meetings, assisted by the
local pastor.
During a fire at Havelock, Lancaster
county, thieves stole ahorse, buggy and
' 'harness from the premises of C. W.
"Shaw. The horse belonged to F. H.
Essett and was valued at 5140. The
":"uggy was a new one belonging to Mr.
6haw and was valued atfSO. With the
harness the value was over $200. Offi
cers are working on a couple of clues.
Some dastardly scoundrel threw a
bomb through the rear window of R.
".A. Douglas' dry goods store in North
-Platte. It blew out the whole front of
the store and the rear wall was badlv
damaged. The windows were blown
oat, and the floors and walls and, all i
goodsin the rear were badly burned. I
There is no trace of the man who tfirew '
the bomb. '
" State Auditor Moore has refused to
" register the S22.O00 bonds voted by abolition of that office and the attach
aehool district No. 11. South Sioux City, I mrnt of the district to Alliance and
.Toted to purchase the building erected I stated their grounds as strongly as pos-
sor court nonse purposes provided that
the county seat was moved thither.and
which was to De occupied as a branch
of the Dixon, 111., normal school, giv-
ing as his reason that bonds cannot be
voted to purchase a school building.
Three Indians from the Winnebago
agency brought up to Dakota City a
ntan. they found wandering around on
the agency who answers the descrip
tion set out by the Sioux City police
as the murderer of John Bohr at Sioux
City. The man has a patch on his face
over a cut and claims to have left Sioux
City Wednesday. He gives his name,
aa Taylor and claims to have a brother-in-law
living near Palmyra, this state.
Governor Crounse has appointed the
- fallowing parties as delegates to the
thirteenth annual session of the far
mers' national congress which meets at
.Savaaah Ga: At large Robert W.
BrownviHe, Neb; O. M. BakerCSilver
Creek. First district H. -ET :Heath,
Lincoln: C. VL Barnard-Table Kock.
Second district J. H. .MarkeL Omaha;
X. Daniels, Gilmorc. Third district
Mrs. A. Mx Edwards.. Fremont; W. R,
Artman, West Point. Fourth district
J. B. McDowell, Fairbary; Wm. Doo
ms, Germantown. Fifth - district
Smith Caldw?U. Edgar: J. It. Diaa
more, Suttee r. Six.b, district L. B.
Carey, Sidney: W. S. Delano, Lee Park.
Somebody is flooding Sosth Osmaha '
with silver dollars. The cosatsrlsite
the clnaasiest lookinr mieosa that I
ever been "shoved" isi that alara 1
Tkey were .evidently JMde oat mi aid placed it to her mouth and liegan to had no Jlowera like those she -wore the
type and should be satdlv detects by ' inhale it Physicians were called and , other tame. 'She saadr1 'Jessy;' you
any one. The dates of 1891 and 1M2 ! she "as saved. She assigned as a cause ' awst take Uncle Bog's fur-lined great
arc the one u&ed. ill treatment at home. 1 coat oat of the trunk aad mend it, if
The democrats of the Ninth judicial
district have nominated John S. Robin
son of Madison for the district bench.
Captain J. U. Frcas women's relief
corps No. 80, of Beaver City, gave a re
ception in honor of Mrs. Julia F. Main
of Orleans, assistant department in
spector of the W. R. C of Nebraska,
who was in that place for the purpose
of inspecting the corps. The post and
its friends were in attendance. Re
freshments -were served and appropri
ate addresses were made by Mrs. Main,
Rev. McFadden, and others.
The order of Knights of the Macca
bees, which has obtained quite a strong
foothold in Lincoln and over the state,
is to receive a visit soon from the
founder of th order, Major N. S. Boyn
ton of Port Huron, Mich. The major,
who is the supreme recorder, will give
a scries of lectures for the benefit of
the-order in different parts of the state,
beginning at Lincoln. He is a very
forcible and interesting speaker and
draws crowded houses.
In the settlement of this section of
the country says the Chambers Journal,
we have been peculiarly fortunate in
having a class of people who are moral,
intelligent and industrious, forming
a community whose aim is to pro
mote mutual goodwill and enter
prise, causing the country to blossom
as the rose. This state of things may
be seen on every hand, so much so that
the hard times about which we read,
seem to have but little effect.
William Resselgrave of Amherst met
with a fatal accident while on a hunt
ing expedition. He was walking along
the road when his friend and neighbor.
Albert Fellows, overtook him in a cart!
Upou invitation Mr. Hesselgravc got
into the cart to ride a short distance,
and in some manner the gun which he
was carrying slipped through the slats
of the cart and was discharged, the en
tiro contents entering Mr. Hesselgrave's
body just below the heart, killing him
instantly.
S. II Gove met with a very serious
accident the fore part of the week, says
the Bennett Union, while shcliingcorn
at Mr. Mahaffys pla-e southwest of
town. W hile the corn sheller was run
ning, he attempted to oil some of the
machinerv when his left hand jrot
caught in some cogwheels and tore off
the third fingerand badly mutilated the
fourth. A physiciam amputated the
bruised members and dressed the hand.
and he is reported as doing nicely at
this writing.
John Hartnell. one of the nioneer
settlers of Dakota county, aged about
sixty years, residing a mile north of
Hubbard, was found lyintr on the right
of way along the track of the Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis .fc Omaha rail
way last week, with one foot cut off
above the toes, the right leg broken
just below the knee, one hand "cut off
and tcveral bad cuts on the head. He
was removed to his home early and died
about an hour later. He is supposed to
have been intoxicated at the time he
received injuries.
An attempt to end his life was made
lirnnonfMnrmnKir-crnnnf..
says the Randolph Independent. He had
a lew unloving words with a female i
friend and after they parted he secured
a revolver and went into a corn field
close by his home with the inten-
lisn of making way with himself but '
Avas followed by suspecting relatives
who prevented him from committing
the rash act. However not successful
in his first attempt, a second one was
made by taking a dose of strychnine, J
which certainly would have accom-1
plished had not a physician came to
his rescue. "
During the summer season the farm
ers living in the vi:inityof Waterloo
iutTered the loss of pigs, calves and
chickens, and now the raiders have
commenced to steal the agricultural
pro lucts of the farm. Saturday night .
thieves visited the house of John Mc
Given and stole CCO pounds of cucum
ber seed, valued at S120, and got away ,
without leaving any trace behind other j
than the track of a wagon. The seed '
was in an iron tank near the river, a
few rods from McGiven's residence, and I
during the night the thieves happened
mat way, took everything out of the
tank and drove away.
A Beatrice dispatch says that a sur
pr'sicgly large number of voters have
signed the petition asking the board of
supervisors to submit to a vote the ques
tion of a repeal of the supervisor sys
tem in Gage county. Petitions were
fi ed with the county clerk bearing over
i.500 signatures. It is said that others
wll come in making about 1,0C0 addi
tional signers. The number required
to secure its submission was about
2,-'25. Those who favor repeal, and
who have taken enough interest in the
question to keep tao on public senti
ment, say the requisite vote to secure
repeal wiil be far more than reached.
An El Paso (Texas) dispatch says;
Dell Aiken, in charge of Matt Daugh
erty, agent of the state of Nebraska,
and accompanied by Sheriff Frank Si
mons of this county departed yesterday
for O'Neill, Neb., via Lincoln. Simons
accompanied Agent llaugherty in the
hope of securing a part of the reward
offered by Holt county for the return
of Uarrett Scott, the defaulting treas
urer. Both Daughertv and Aiken feel
very kindly
invxrii .imnnc nnr 4-ia.
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7 ZZT ? - ufa xerm? "e course . as dry as thev, began to fo'low their
of Sheriff Cunningham of Santa e. N. example. Jessy, hugging him affec
M., who, they say, secured Aiken s ar- i tionately, cried: "Look look. Uncle
rest to prevent his securing the return Bog. That's heaven." (She ponied
of Scott without the sheriff s aid. j through the leaden-cased panes at the
A Washinirton disnateh javs: SnntoTK ! Hrrht. Kln nfth niri ti,- ; u-
Manderson and Allen today called upon
Secretary Hoke Smith and Land Com-,
missioner Lamoreaux in respect to the
abolition of thft land nffW nt fTinrlT-nn I
They submitted their objections to the
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sime. Aney were requested to submit
the proofs in their possession from
those directly interested in maintaining
the office at Chadron. and these will be
transmitted to the interior department
early next week, together with a writ
ten argument in favor of retaining the
oce at Chadron. It is believed that
the office at Chadron will be retained.
Young Gillespie of the Ponca reser
vation, was again attaked last week by
Campbell, the same Indian who waylaid
him about two months ago and G'illes
pieshotin self defense. Campbell had re
covered from his wounds 'and started
out to hunt Gillespie down, lie hid in
the grass near the road where Gillespie,
generally traveled and when he came
along the Indian leveled his Winches
ter and fired. The bullet passed through
Gillespie's hat and, knowing what kind
o'f a man he had to deal with, Gillespie
fill from his horse as thoutrk killed.
The Indian immediately started to-
ward his victim and when within a few
feet of him, the supposed dead man
raised, and sent a bullet throueh the i
would-be assassin. Campbell will un
doubtedly die.
Leah Ryan, fourteen years old and a
pupil at Lake school, Omaha,attempted
to commit suicide in the school room by
taking chloroform. She addressed a
note to Nettie McConnell. a crirl who
sat near her, in which she bade good-
LTC to ner teachers, schoolmates and f
parents, and then wrapping a vial of
chloroform in her handkerchief, she i
HERE lived in
indon, during
the reign of Eliz
abeth, a scholar
named Bog, who
was famed, under
lhe appellation of Bogus, for an "essay
an "Human Errors," which nobody
had ever seen.
Bogus, though he had toiled at his
work for twenty years, had not yet
published any portion of it, but his
manuscript, neatly copied and ar
ranged on shelves in the recess of a
window, contained material for no less
than ten folio volumes The first
treated of the error of b?ing born, the
root of all the others. The following
ones related to the mistakes of little
boys' and gifls, youths, men of mature
age, and gray beards, and those of per
sons belonging to the var.ous profes
sions, statesmen, shopkeepers, sol
diers, cooks, publicists, etc The last
.volumes, which were still unfinished,
"dealt with the errors of the republic
which result from the sum total of in
dividual and professional blunders.
And mch was the connection of ideas
in this noble" work that not a sinjrle
page could be omitted without destroy
ing all the rest. The demonstrations
rested upon one another and the last
clearly proved that evil is the essence
of life, and that, If life is a quantity,
it may be affirmed, with mathematical
precision, that there is precisely
the same amount of evil as of life in
the world.
Bogus had not made the mistake of
marrying. He lived alone in his cot
tage with an old housekeeper, named
Kat, that is Catherine, and whom he
called Clausentina because she came
from Southampton
The philosopher's sister, whose mind
was less transcendental, heaping er
ror upon error, had loved a dry goods
dealer, married him. and given oirtii
, to a little daughter, narad Jessy.
Her final blunder had been to die,
after ten years of wed led life, thus
, causing the death of her husband,
who could not survive her loss. Bogus
. took the orphan home, partly from
I pitv, partly from the hope that she
would furnish him a good example of
childish errors.
She was then 6 years old. During
the first week she spent with him she
did nothing but wejp. On the morn
ing of the first day afier that, she
said:
I saw mamma. She was dressed
all in white, and had flowers in the
folds of her gown. She scattered
them over my bed. but I couldn t find
them this morning. Give me mamma's
flowers."
Bog noted this error, but remarked.
i in his comment, that it was aninno-
( cent and even Peasant one.
JESSY ASD UNCLE BOG.
Some time after, Jessy said to him:
"Uncle Bog, you are old and
, "but I love you dearly, and you
must
iove me.
Bog took up his p;n. but acknowl
edging, after some mental conflict,
that he no longer had a youthful ap
pearance and that he had never been
very handsome, did not note down the
child's words. He merely said:
"Why must I love you, Jessy?"
"Because I'm little."
"Is it true?" Bog asked himself. 'is
it true that children ought to be loved?
Perhaps it may be. for they are cer
tainly in gre.it need of it. That would
excuse the commou error of mothers
who give their little children their
nursing and their love. That chapter
in my treatise must be revised.''
On the morning of his birthday,
coming into the room where he kept
his books and papers, and which lie
called his book-store, he perceived a
delicious fragrance and saw a pot of
carnations on the window-sill. There
were only three blossoms, but they
were bright scarlet ones, on which
the sun shone radiantly. Everything
in the learned room looked cheerful
the old armchair, the black walnut
table, the backs of the ancient tomes
in their fawn-skin parchment, and
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earth, , the blooming earth." (She
pointed to the pot of carnations).
"Then down below, where the bin-
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The big black books were the ten
Tolumes of the , Treatise on Human
Errors, ranged in a row under the
window. This mistake reminded the
scholar of his great work, which he
had neglected for some time, to walk
about the streets and parks with his
niece. The child discovered a thou
sand interesting things and showed
them to Bogus, who had spent little
of his life out-of-doors. He opened
-his manuscripts again, but no longer
recognized work which he had done
when he had neither flowers nor Jessy.
Fortunately, philosophy came to his
aid by suggesting the transcendent
idea that Jessy was not wholly useless.
He put more and more faith in the
belief that she was necessary- to the
economy of his work.
One day, while reflecting upon this
subject, he found her threading a
needle before the window where the
pot of carnations stood, and asked
what she was going to sew.
Jessy answered:
"Don't you know that the swallows
have gone, Uncle Bog?"
Bogus knew nothing about it, as ths
fact was mentioned neither by Pliny
nor Avicenna.
Jessy added:
"Kat told me yesterday."
"Kat?" cried Bogus, "the child is
talking about the worthy Clausen
tina." "Kat told me yesterday: 'The swal
lows have gone earlier than usual this
year; that means an early and severe
winter." That's what Kat said. And
ithen I saw mamma in her white dress.
nth -aialo roaad her hair, only she
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it needs repairing.' I woke, ami M
soon i& I got up, I took the' overcoat
oat of the trunk, and as there are rip
in several places, I'm going to sew it:"
Winter came and fulfilled the swat
lows predictions. Bogus, ia his great
coat, with his feet close to the fire,
was 'trying to revise certain chapters
of his Treatise. . But whenever he
succeeded in reconciling his new ex
periences with the theory of universal
evil, Jessr upset bis ideas by bringing
in a mug of nice ale or merely letting
him see her eves and smile.
When summer came, uncle and niece
took long walks in the fields, where
Jessy collected plants which he named
and she arranged in the evenings ac
cording to their properties. During
these excursions, she showed a keen
intelligence and a charming disposi
tion. One evening, while she was
snrcading on the table the plants
which they had gathered during tha
day. she said to Bogus:
"Now, Uncle Bog, I know by name
all the plants which yon hare showed
me. Here are the ones which care
and those which relieve. I want to
keep them, so that I can always recog
nize" and describe them to others. I
need a big book to dry them in."
"Take that one," said Bog.
And he pointed to the first volume
of the Treatise on Human Errors.
When" it had a plant on every page,
the next one was taken, and in three
summers the scholar's masterpiece was
converted into a herbarium.
CUCUMBER SNAKES.
A Vegetible Which Grows Lone aad
Slim and Look4 Lika a Snae.
Down in Miles River Keck. Talbot
county, there is a spot where the
average Chinese would delight to
dwell, says the Ealtimoro Amsrican.
It is a placo whore Chinese cucum
bers grow to an enormous size. This
vegetable, however, assumes some
times a shapo which frightens the
natives of tho neighborhood, in spite
of the fact that lalbot is a local
option county. The cucumber grows
long and slim, and at times twists
itself into coils resembling a snake.
A man going from Easton the other
day to Miles Rivor ferry, in passing
a little clearing in the woods noticed
a green-looking object in a patch of
VAfVAtn Vkl nn n s3 V a wa nns 4 W x a a h a a.'
.cwura, uhu. iio (jui, mcr tua icuco
to make a closer examination. He
almost fainted. Another citizen
came along soon afterward. The
firct man had revived and was leaving '
the patch at a Aancy Hanks gait
When accosted he said to his friend:
Been bit by a snake; woods full of
'cm.' Citizen .No. 2 persuaded the
frightened man to go back, and upon
examination the snake proved to be
a Chinese cucumber, about twenty
seven inches long, which in the
course of growth had twisted itself
in the form of a snake.
The cucumber was sent to the
American office by express. It was
grown on tho farm of 1 W. Trail
of Miles River Neck, and its shape
is perfectly snake-like. Mr. Trail, it
is said, has a quarter of an acre of
them. The Chinese cucumber is not
eaten to any extent in this country,
except by the Chinese and a few
foolish cows. The former, however,
import them in a dried condition
from their native land.aa they do stale .
eggs and other odorous luxuries.
The Chinese liko to ees cucumbers
grow, and they often cultivate them
in their yards in the cities over here. I
The tnake-liko appearance of
the
vegetable does not frighten th9
slant-eyed foreigner, as he would eat
with a relish a green garter snake if
he didn't happen to have anything
else handy.
STRANGE ANTIPATHIES.
Certain Dislikes That Sent Some People
Into Spisms.
Amatus Lesitanus relates the case
of a monk who would faint on seeing
a rose, and who never quitted his
cell at the- monasters whiln that
flower w.ic! hi nomine. Orfiio & ioo
auestionable authoritv. tll na nf
how Vincent, the great painter.
would swoon upon going suddenlv
into a room in which roses were
blooming.even if he did not see them.
Valtaid tells of an army officer who
was frequently thrown into violent
convulsions by coming into contact
with the little flower known as the
pink.
Orfila, our authority on the case of
Vincent, the painter, above related,
also tells of the case of a lady 46
years of age. hale and hearty, who if
present when linseed was being
boiled for any purpose, would be
seized with violent fits of coughing,
swelling of the face and partial loss
of reason for the ensuing tventy
four hours.
Writing of these peculiar antipa
thies and aversions Montague re
marks that he has known men of
undoubtea courage who would much
rather face a shower of cannon balls
than to look at an apple! In Zimmer
man's writings there is an account
of a lady who could not beartb' touch
either silk or satin and who would
almost faint if. by accident she
should happen to touch the velvety
6kin of a peach.
Boyle records the case of a man
who would faint upon hearing the
swish" of a broom across the floor,
and of another with a natural
abborence for honey. Hippocrates
of old tells of one Nicanor who
would always &swoon at hearing the
sound of a -flute. Bacon, the great
Englishman, could not bear to see a
lunar eclipse and always collapsed
upon such occasions, andVaughelm,
the great German sportsman, who
had killed hundreds - of wild boars,
would faint if he but got a glimpse
of a roasted pig.
The Smallest Ratios.
Goust, the smallest separate and
independent territory in the whole
world, is situate in the lower Pyre
nees, about ten miles from Oleron,
between the boundaries of France and
Spain. The people speak a language
of their own, a cross between French
and Spanish.
A Horrible Nightmare.
Weary Watkins 1 don't want
no
more sleep again for a year.
Wandering Willyum Wot's eatin'
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trvit
Weary Watkins I slep' las
night
and dreamed I was workdn'.
Chance for Reciprocity.
Neighbor's Boy "SJawsentme over
to see if you'd lend her your bottle
of cough medicine.
Mrs. Kneer You tell your mother
we keep our congh medicine strictly
for home consumption.
AilERICAN DOWRIES.
A Ot tfc fwrttfrife Which
vim C
1 im Tot Torclcaerst
Ad eriitfrpTming: calculator nM
sized tip some American eontribd-'
tions of glittering coin to the noble
social swim of Great Britain, says
the New York Advertiser. He be
gins by stating that the Craven-Bradley-Martin
marriage exports
$1,000,003 or United States cash
fot the English dowry fund. He
adds the following matrimonial finan
cial facts as Yankee "dots" that have
settled abroad:
"Miss Eva Julia Bryant Maekay.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Maekay. of San Fraucisco, princess
offGalatio Colonna and Stigliano,
$5,030.00 J. Mrs. Frederick Stevens
married Maurica, marquis de Talley-raad-Ferigord,
duke de Dino. in
1SS7. $3.O3).0X Miss Mathilde
Davis married the duke of San Croce
de M.iglione in J8:. $8,0) 3.000.
Miss Medora Marie Hoffman, daugh
ter of the banker, marriel Antoine
de Manca-Smat de Vallombrosa de
Mores and Monte -Maggiore in 1832,
$5,000,033. Miss Anita Theresa
Murphy, married Sir Charles Wolse
ley, iflVOOO.OJ'l Miss Elizabeth Liv
ingstone, married William Cavendish
Bentinck. M. P.. in 188o, $1,500,000.
Lady Arthur Butler, who was Miss
Ellen Stager, or Caicago. $1,033,030.
Mmc. de Barrios, who married the
marquis de Roda. had three or four
times that amount. The widow of
George Lorillard, now the Counte3s
Casa de Agreda. took $1)33,033 to
Lurope with her. Mrs. Charles
Livermore, who married Baron de
Seillierc, over $1. 030.03". Miss
Hunting ton's (now Princess Hatzfoldt)
dot was $1,033,033. Miss Minnie
Stevens, daughter of Mrs. Paran
Stevens, who married Captain Ar
thur Paget, nea-ly $1,333,033. Miss
Edith Fish, who married Sir Stafford
North cote, a good sized dowry. Lady
Vernon took $1,033,033 to England.
Isabella von Linden, wife of Count
von Linden, about $1,030,030. Mrs
Hamersley. married to the late duke
0f Marlborough, took with her the
. s.h.i-x...jx -m
yearly interest on ,ujj,uj j. miss
Cecilia Biggs, who marrici Henry
Howard, $503,003. Lndy Harcourt,
daughter of J. L. Motley, the histor
ian, brought her husband $253,033.
Besides these Miss Jennie Jerome,
who married Lord Randolph Church
ill, in 1874; Miss Consuela Yznaga
del Valle, who married Viscount
Mandevillo. afterward duke of Man
chester, and her sister. Miss Natica
Yznaga del Valle. who married Lord
Listtor-Kaye, had good sized dow
ries. "'
An Unpleasant Situation.
Miss Antique Why, how do you
do. Mr.'Globetrot? I am delighted
to see you back. Of course you re
member me.
Returned Traveler, wrestling with
his memory Of course, of course.
Delighted to see you-looking so welL
And how are the dear children?
Children."
I meant to ask how is your fam
ily, meaning,, of course, your hus
band." "Husband! I nover had a hus
band." "Er of course not; just a little
' pleasantry of mine, you know. I
mount nf pnnrcn vnur Hrnt.nni vTinm
... , j. ,
you iovo as mucn as any one couiu
love a hus "
"I never had a brotfier."
"Urn er of course not; just jok
ing, you know. How is your your
er . Did you ever have a motn
er?" Boston Globe.
Where He Wanted film.
A Chicago attorney, noted for his
sharp practice, sent his client one
day to watch the case. Word came
to him that his ca3e
was next on the
I docket, and he hurried
over to find
the opposing counsel already begin-
! nin-
In vain he looked for his
. He wai nowhere to be seen.
client.
In vain he asked for delay; but the
court told him tho carelessness of a
client would not allow such a thing, j
At last he glanced into the jury-box lo get to be postmaster didn't
and saw his client there. The stupid i git. J
man had thought he heard his name To pay interest on other moi tcacr.
called, anu nad marched in with the
rest. The opposing counsel was so
.. , ,.. .-. .1
anxious to hurry the case along that "
he neglected to examine the jury.
Seeing the thing was in his own j
hands, the Chicago attorney turned i
to the court "I withdraw all ob- I
jection," he said; "I have my client
where I want him." Argonaut
How to Clean a Watch.
"Watch stopped, has it?' asked
one traveler of another. "Now, 1
ssgposn you'll pay a dollar to clean
ifBut let me give you a tip. Open
both of the back cases so, hold it
with one open side down and tap it
with your finger nail a dozen times.
Don't be afraid. Snap it again.
Now move the second hand. Is it all
right? I thought so. A drummer
put me up to that trick. Probably
there were only a few specks of dust
kin the works and you tappojl them
out Very likely it will run now for
a year and you've saved your dollar.
If it doesn't run alter the little Jar
that you gave it then It is time to
take it to the jeweler." New York
Sun.
The Ballderor Cortl Islands.
The polype is the most romarkablo
creature on earth. If cut trans
versely into several parts each will
become a perfect animal- Trembly
turned them inside out and they ate
and enjoyed themselves as much as
ever. He slit two longitudinally,
placed the halves together and united
them into two animals; he divided
two transversely and created one
arith two heads; he pushed one down
the throat of another, a third down
the throat of the second and thns
f jrmed a creature with three heads.
Fori ones of the riann.
The ancestors of the Finns, ac
cording to John Abercromby, of Ed
inburgh, Scotland, went in for magio
extensively. They lived originally
in Siberia. z The first historical men
tion of the Finns which the present
day possesses locates them about
1,930 years ago as living in Poland.
KippeJ in the Bad.
"I think." he was saying, when
rshe interrupted him severely:
Bui you don't think, you only
think yon think, and he never fin
ishes! what he was going to say.
SOME QUEER EXCUSES.
ODD REPLIES TO THE MORT
OaQE INQUISITOR.
CariM f th CeaM Jmt Breasht to
Light The Xaa YTbe Sad Triplet and
th Waau Who Married tM Mort-
"Hiadaicat.
The whole number of actual .re
plies to the census bureau's questions
seat out to learn how many persons
own their homes, and most especially
how many farmers own the farms
they cultivate, was more than 4,030.
030 40,000 of them arriving in one
jiay's mail.
The object was to learn the value
of mortgaged property, the amount
of mortgage debt, the ratos of inter
est paid, and for what purposo tho
debt had been incurred.
Three mortgagors in Moatananaye.
agreed to pay sixty per cent intorct.
an 'thcr in Iowa eighty per cent.
while Massachusetts is awarded the
palm with a single mortgage the
f:ce of which is $2,403, and which
calls for interest at 144 per cent per
annum, payable monthly.
All settfe'd. God bless your good
soul," writes one woman, while an
other says that there is no claim
against her property unless it be the
lien of a neighbor who is suing her
for $20,033 damages for in uries re
ceived from her ram. The writer,
however, contended that the neigh
bor was tho aggressor, and that the
ram acted on y in self-defenre. and
then proceeds to minutely describe
her holdings und to ask the govern
ment to set a value on them.
There were people who misunder
stood the matter entirely. Ono of
them writes:
"Di.v:: Sr I received aa act of
congress and wood say to you I
don't know what you want mo to doo
if their is eny thing I can doo i am
Ever willing to doo it but you Must
instruct me by Mail an let mo Know
what i hev to doo and state my Par
and when I get it and i wood be only
to glad to do it but could not spend
my time for no Pay as i hev to work
for a living Hoping to Here from you
soon "
And here is another from a
woman's pen:
I received your circula-on the ICth
I nf March. I do not want to borrow
no money at present if the crops fails
I may want some cf the 1 of March
1S94. I will lot you know if I want
seme.
Women sent pictures and locks of
hair and similar trifles along with
their documents, while the men
would send family histories, thou
sands of words in length, requests
foj pensions, and green goods circu
lars, which they would want to know
if it was safe to answer.
A man sent a photograph of trip
lets and requested contributions for
their .support, according to Kate
Field's Washington.
By. far the most curious of all com
munications are those which assign
reasons for having incurred the in
debtedness which the mortgaje was
intended to secure
j 'Ihe researches have developed the
; curious fdbt that in nearly every
county in the United Ftatcs thero is
i . . .
at Jea&t nno
man who incurred his
indebtedness" for the purpose of
furnishing a substitute for himself
in the civil war.
Seme of the victims had plenty of
room in which to give the object of
their debt Here are a few instances:
Whisky at twenty-five cents a
drink.
An Education on Biblical Pro
phecies. Not for whisky or women.
Bailing my husband out of jail and
for lawyers crime, shooting a negro.
Made it while drunk; no value re
ceived; ain't paid a cont oa it nor
won't.
Tor clothing. The face or this
mortgage was $6.
Bought organ to keep boy home.
He staid.
I am proud of it.
- - . . o
and feed cattle which 1 had better '
sold for ten dollars a hed and sold '
what feed I raised (this is hindsight -
Xeed be few mortgages in S. W.
Iowa if men would stop running in '
debt for tobacco and whisky,
from a woman.!
jThis
Mortgage satis
tisfiad. Ma-ried mort- ,
gagee. who ha$ died since and be-
queathed all property to mortgagor.
You see by the census returns that '
my wife has presented ma with the
third pair of tains, so wc hal to
t have more room.
Breach of promise suit girl won.
Wife went oT with another man i
threw the mortgage in.
This mortgage was made to buy a '
farm for my son. t-ince I have pur- '
chased farms for four other sons with
the same money. Have property on
tho farm to pay it all right. My own
farm is t'J2 a.-res. G40 in cultivation. J
One man seems to havo been a
biblical student perhaps he whs the !
same one who spent his money for an
education on biblical prophecies.
Here is his contribution:
You have asked me a good many
questions. I am going to ask you 2q.
1. Where did Cain get his wife. !
2. Who is Christ Grandfather. '
3l What is Moses Father name. j
Yet another communication bears
the earmarks of a Salvationist's pen: .
Tear Sir 1 don't no how to fill this :
raper out i nave a louse or 4 rooms
and lot I have it ail paid I give S
hundred Dollars for it but it is not
my own it belongs to Jesus he has
bought me and all I hav so vou can
fix it up as it suits you.
Many curious names were brought j
to light How Mr. Josep Wdzyneznv .
pronounces his name nobody ha been
able to determine. Christ Alive. I
am assured, means no irreverence or
disrespect when he writes his name.
Mr. and Mrs. Branch have four chil
dren, whom they have named re
spectively Olive L., Leafy D., Forest
and Oak.
It is now thought that the outcome
of this inquiry will be as useful and
interesting as it is novel.
A Saake That Cllmha Glaaa Walla.
In the natural history museum at
Paris there is a snake that climbs np
the polished glass walls of its cage.
This process is described as follows
and is vouched for by Leon Vaillant,
professor d'erpetologie": The snake,
i which is thirty centimeters long.f rst
raises its head some way against the
glass, and proceeds to disgorge from
its salivary and lachrymal glands an
adhesive viscous fluid, by the' aid ef
which it succeeds in drawing its
whole body up the cago. A curious
fact is that tho end of tho tail is kept
tightly curled, so as to afford a
broader and more substantial base of
ope ations. This phenomenon seems
to dispose of the question whother
water snakes arc able, as reported,
to climb up walls and pcnetrHp the
ceilings of houses.
ANOTHER EXPEDITION.
It Will Explore the I.ttttc-Kmwn Land
of Klleseanre.
An expedition for exploring an
unknown region of tho Arctic is be
ing organized in Washington. Robert
Stein, of the geological survey con
ceived the idea of it triginally. The
party. tD conj'st of not less than
eight men. proposes to lcavo t
Johns, Newfoundland, in May, 1394.
Thii3 only one summer will bo occu
pied in prosecuting the enterprise,
which will be conducted en a rather
novel plan
The cu t mar avenue of approach
to the pole has been bj wav of Smith
Sound, tho no.'thwurd continuance of
Ea3In bay. becauso that route
seemed ta pjiut to the loag-sought
goal of Arctic o plorers- As a result
the bhores on both sides of that
route have been pretty well mapped
out by a series of expeditions, be
ginning with Inglefield's and ending
with Grecl's. At the same time
tho rcadilv accessible avenues lead
ing westward havo been neglected.
Thus, though the cast shore of Klles
mere land is well known, tho west
shore remains uuoutlineJ on tho
maps. It is now proposed to trace
this unknown shore, so far as can bo
doi.o in one summer, from a baso of
operations always within easy reach.
Special attention will bo givon to
the geology of the region. There is
no reason why the rocks of that land
should not contain as valuable miner
als as any in lower latitudes, and.
since in summer a large pa-t of
Ellesmcre land is certainly frpe from
ice and snw. the rocks will be ac
cessible to observation.
The whales leave Lancaster sound
in August, and nobody knows where
they go. Since they do not go north
tormith sound, it is not impossible
that they go northwest, and in that
case the expcd.tion may discover
new whaling grounds as profitable.
perhaps, as those of Lancaster sound.
How va'uable this discovery would
be may be gathered from tho fact
that a single largo whale is worth as
much as $12,003. and a whaling ship
has teen known to return with a
cargo worth $4OJ0.
The Mohammedan Hearts.
The Mohammedan paradise is a
fairyland. To enter it the believer
must cro-.s seven bridges, "at each of
which ho must answer questions re
lating to his pa -st life. Havinjr crossed
the bridges he is at the entrance.
There aro thirteen doors. The first
act is to take a bath, which gives to
the body great brilliancy. This abode
of delight is built of bricks of gold
an I silver, held together by a mortar
of music. Spring is eternal. Four
oceans soothe the senses one of
water, one of milk, one of honey and
one of wine. Waves of perfume en
velop them, so powerful as to bo
noticeable 500 days' march away.
Lastly come the castles of the houris
seventy castles with seventy rooms
containing seventy state beds and
seventy tables already set. and in
this ca'stle 1,630.700,000 houris. This
to each of the elect. He himself has
seventy robes of green brocade em
broidered with rubies and topazes.
The It.c4 Ilar.l bay' Work.
Every head of clover consists of
sixty tlower tubes, each of which con
tain an infinitesimal quantity of sugar.
Bees will often visit 1 ) ) different
heads of clover before retirinsr to the
hive, and in order to obtain the sugar
necessary for a load must, therefore,
thrust tbeir tongues into about G.O0J
different flowers. A bee will make
twenty trips a day. when the clover
patch is convenient to the hive, and
thus will draw the sugar from 1:2 ).
OJJ difTerent flowers in tho course oi
a single day's work. Mvn think they
hac hard work to make a living,
but their employment, however
a duous, is an easy and pleasant
task compared to that of a working
bee. St Louis GIobo-Democrat
I
Cu ;hr Nappinc.
Uncle Dear me, Karl, what a poor
memory you have
Nephew A poor memory, you say?
Why, I can repeat four pages of the
names in the directory after reading
them through only once
Inole I'll bt you a hamper of
champagne that yo i can't do it
The nephew sends for a directory,
attentively peruses four pages and
shut3 up the bocrC
Uncle Well J
Nephew Mullor, Mulicr. Mullcr,
c-T ad infinitum
All the four p.tcs of the directory
bomg tawen np with ths familiar
patronym e. our student won lib bet
in fine f-ty!e.
Flic Ttlan VI ho Like Criiwlo
A gentleman who bad promised to
meet .his wife i t a largo establish
ment where a I sorts of things are
sold at low price, was making his
way, says the Bazar, through the
throng of women. Forced to pause
for a moment near a counter behind
which stood a pretty saleswoman, he
blurted out: "Is there anything on
ea-th that would reconcile a man to
such a crowd as this?" "Yes, sir."
was the quick reply; belonging to
the firm."
The Unrrani'iiitical I'otatn.
"Why do they call it the early roso
potato?" inquired the sweet young
member of the cooking class.
"Because that is its name." re
sponded the teacher, smilingly.
"Yes, 1 know, but they might have
been grammatical and called it the
early rising." she said, as she dumped
a spoonful of yeast into a batch of
dough.
He Was Coute-it.
Ah! John,' said the wife to her
ambitious husband, "you arc not a
Brooks, a Butler, a Have?, a Blaine
or a Lamar."
"I'm darned glad I ain't." he said:
Tin alive."
Colnmbu - Statt - Bask I
PmlitotfiiTiieDciiafl-
f ate Um m M fthfr
nan sura el
Ttmw Ts asht si
lILIl : fUAaUHE? : fiaKm.
BUYS GOOD NOTES
Aad Mslat its Caateaen i
Htmm in Mncttai
ZA1DD GSBBAID. IWC
B. M. KEtBY. Ties FtsSt,
JOHN 8TAU1TOB,
M.BBTJGGEB, O.W.HULiT.
-or-
COLUMBUS, NEB.,
-HAS AX-
Aathtriztw Capital if - $500,000
Paid in Capital, - 90,000
OrFICEKS.
C. H. SHELDON. Pres't.
H. P. II. OEULRICH. Vice Prcs.
CLARK GRAY. Cashier.
DANIEL SCHR.VM. Asa't Cash
DIRECTORS.
n. M. Wrssxow, II. P. n. Oebxricb.
C. H. Sheldon, W. A. McAixisxza,
Jonas Wxlch, Cabi, Rieskk.
STOCKHOLDERS.
3. C. Gbat,
Gebhabd Losxxb,
clabk Gray,
Daxrl Schrax.
J. HCXRY WCKBKVAS,
Hexry LOflEKX.
Geo. Vf. Galley.
A. F. II. Oehlbich.
FUAICK KORER.
J. P. Becker Estate,
Rebecca Becker.
Bank of deposit: Interest allowed on time
deposits; buj and sell exchange on United
States and Europe, and buy and sell avail
able securities. W e shall be pleased to re
ceive your business. We solicit your pat
ronage. -THE-
First National Bank
TJ.
orncECS.
A. ANDERSON. J. H. GALLEY.
President. Vies Preset.
O. T. ROEN. Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
6. jJtffeBSOX. P. AKDKMOIf .
JACOB OBSISEN. HEN1X RAQATZ.
v JAMZ8 Q. SXXDEB.
Statement ef Ike Csniitisa at tke Clesc
er Basiaesg Jalj 13, 1893.
BESOUBCES.
Loans and Discounts 241,427 I"
Real hstate Furniture and Fix
tures. 1C.794 91
U. S. Bonds 35.2JO 0)
Due from other banks.... .$37,ST8 31
Cash on Hand .21.667 So 59,743 K
Total...
...4333033 38
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid In.
Purolus Fund
Undivided profits
Circulation
....$ 60.000 00
.... 30.000 0)
.... 4.576 00
13J00GO
.... E5JW 37
....$333,1; 36
Total
LOUIS SCHREIBER, .
i BlackSsWtli and Wiason Ha&er.
i
(All kills f Reiairiig die ei
I S.rt Ntice. Biggies, Wag
tig, etc., Male ft trier,
aid all vTtrk Giar
aiteel. 41m tell the wttH-iaaoas Walter A,
Wood Mowers, Stivers, CoKoin-
td Xackiiea, fiarratttrt,
arsi lelf-bimdaw-tlit
Tttstaudt.
Shop on Olive Street, Columbus, Neb.,
four doors Bouth of Borowiak's.
HENRY GAS&
UNDERTAKEB !
Coffns : aad : Metallic : Cases !
Repairing of all kinds of Uphol
ttery Goods.
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