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Ctftemte Imprmd. VOLUME XXV.-NUMBER 6. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1894. WHOLE NUMBER 1,254. m I NEBRASKA NEWS. Work has begun on the Friend walcr ivories. O'Neill was twenty years old last week. A mad dog1 was killed in UufTalo county the other day. An effort is to be made to revive the Lincoln roadster club. Nebraska City is preparing for a pood celebration on the 4th of .July. The Republican claims that Wayne isdiscriiuinated against in freight rates. Fragments of wood were thrown more than thirty feet in every direc tion. Frank Delamatyr of Fremont shipped a car-load of fine horses to Itoston last week. General Kusscll of Schuyler will de liver the Decoration day address at Te cumsch. The new postmaster of Humboldt has received his commission and entered upon his duties. A small boy at McCool pulled two cat fish out of the Illue that weighed thirty two pounds combined. Over 200 men have taken passage at Lincoln for Norfolk, where they will work in the beet fields. lied ("loud is going to have a new Oitholic church. JSids for the building of it will be opened June 1. After a long dispute North Platte has decided that a S2.1.0C0 high school building will about fill the bill. Judge Sullivan of Columbus is being discussed as a possible candidate for congress on the democratic ticket. September Mi, 20 and 21 are the dates that have been set apart for the Hurt county fair, to be held at Tekamah. Pawnee City .Methodists intend to re build the west wing of their church, which was damaged in the recent storm. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Mayer of Stanton slipped on the floor of the house, by which she broke her leg. The Wayne Democrat calls tipon the county board to do business right or get out of the way for men who can and will. A baseball contest between the mar ried and single men of Gothenburg re sulted in a victory for the latter. The score was I'.i to II. Postmasters have been appointed for Nebraska as follows: Canton, I'ox Unite county, l. (J. A. Dickinson, vlee S. If. Wright, resigned. Nebraska fourth-class postmasters have been appointed as follows: Erin, Garfield county, Andrew Phillips, vice Michael O'Connor, resigned. The scarlet women arc being driven out of Sioux City and many of them have pitched their tents across the river on the Nebraska shore. A Nance county farmer dug up two wolf nests and captured a doen little hungry coyotes, which he promptly killed and carried to market. A lodge of Ancient Order of Hiber nians has been organized a few miles northeast of Schuyler, in a district known as the "Irish Settlement." Lightning struck the German church cn miles northeast of Wayne and damaged it to the extent of about S.VM), which is fully covered by insurance. Teachers of Plattsmouth will work the ensuing year at reduced wajcs. Those receiving S15 or over are given a 10 per cent cut; under that amount . per cent. Harry Pinneo, the 1 --year-old boy who was foil nd with the tramps who assaulted Conductor Itrown in Cuming county ivas taken to the reform school at Kearney. Attorney .J. A. Dudgeon of Arapahoe has accepted the invitation to deliver the Memorial day address to the ICear sarge association of naval veterans in lio.ston, Mass. The 1-year-old daughter of .lames Cook of .Julian was run over by a Mis souri Pacific train. One of her little feet was so badly mangled that ampu tation was necessary. The citizens of Fremont arc raising a fund of $.1,000 to further investigate the water powei canal project. Some of the leaders in the enterprise are san guine the canal will be built. The Fxchange bank of Long Pine has ariangedtogo into voluntary liquida tion. The capital stock was S10.000 and when the bank reported m Decem ber it had ?1 3, Got l in deposits. The supreme court has decided that Mike Lamb, the Koone county farmer who was convicted of cattle stealing in the court of Platte county, shall serve his allotted time in the penitentiary. A half-Saturday holiday movement is on in Omaha and promises to become quite general. Wholesale and joubing houses have entered into an agreement of this kind to stand until Septem ber 1st. Henry Grebe, an ex-sheriff of Doug las county and who for several terms served in the territorial legislature, died last week. An unusually large concourse followed his remains to the cemetery. A burglar attempted to break into the drug store of Dr. Langley at North Platte, but was frightened away by a woman who came on the scene with a revolver and barely misled his head at the first shot. Fred Wagner, a farmer living near Norfolk, tried to uncoil a spool of barbed wire, when the wire slipped from his nerveless grasp and an inven tory of the wreck showed he had lost three links of his nose. The crop of small grain promises to be very light hereabouts, says a David City exchange, owing to severe cold weather damaging a portion of it, mak ing the stand light. Some are talking of planting their oat ground to corn. The date of holding the inter-state district Grand Army of the Republic reunion m Superior lias been changed, owinr to the District Fair association choosing the same date for its races, f The reunion will be held July 30 to August 4. The sugar beet industry has taken such a spurt in the vicinity of Lincoln tnat there is again much talk of a sugar factory. A great manv have planted I beets as an experiment with cxpecta-, ' tion of shipping the crop to the Grand ' Island factory. The Omaha and Lincoln base ball , teams are making a close race for sec-1 ond place among the western clubs St. Joseph stands at the top, Omaha and Lincoln teams next, then comes Rock Island, Peoria. Jacksonville, Des Moines, with the Quincy elub at the foot. On May 11 the Union Pacific depot at Humphrey was robbed of all the eon tents of the safe in broad daylight while the agent was unloading freight. The parties, four in number, obtained S2S and some money order blanks. Some arrests of the supposed thieves have been made. Senator John Thomsen, Sheriff James Miliken and W. D. Thomas have ap praised the real estate that Hon. George . W. E. Dorsey of Fremont mortgaged tc the Farmers and Merchants National bank to secure the payment of a 525, oeo note. The property will 6on be sold to -satisfy the note. Religious excitement turned the head of young Carl G. Carter of Farnam and he has been taken to Norfolk for treat ment. Unknown parties gained entrance through the rear window of O. I. Steele's clothing store in Hebron by prying the window open and blew the safe open, abstracted its contents, amounting to SI 00, and took several suits and other articles. At the approach of an ominous storm in Nuckolls county Al Lapham, who was working in the field, unhitched his horses, mounted one and started for home. On the way he was struck by a halestone as large as an ostrich egg. fell from his hoise and lay in an uncon scious condition until tiie storm was over. Governor Crounse last week received a draft from Washington for S7.S24.03, which represents the state's .1 per cent share of the sale of government lands up to June 30, 13.3. The monew was turned over to Treasurer Hartley. 'The remittance is small this time. One year the state received STIt.000 from this source. The Standard Cattle company of Ames has already planted 000 acres of beets and about half arc up and look ing nicely. The rains of the last week have put the land in splendid condition and the present indications are for an abundant crop. A large number are still plowing and planting, while others have commenced to cultivate those that are up. Lee P. Gillette, grand c::sto;lian of the grand lodge of .Masons of Nebraska, died at his home in Itoatricc last week, after a lingering illness of several months. The deceased was 02 years of age and was probably the best known member of the Masonic fraternity in the state. He was a Unity-second de gree Mason and had lieen grand cus todian for many years. At Lincoln the jury in thetascin which Green S. Gravcley was charged with the murder of Charlie Thomas brought in its verdict, after being out j for nearly forty-eight "Hours. The ver 1 diet was that Gravcley was guilty of I manslaughter and the jury recom I mended to the court the heaviest sen tence permitted by the statutes, which is ten years at hard labor. J. I. Hoover of Lynch, Itoyd county, was taken in charge by the sheriff for practicing medicine unlawfully. He is designated by the other physicians as a quack, who has been repeatedly noti fied to desist by the state board of health and who cannot register. The chief witnesses in this cis:? are the pa rents of a little child, who lately died for want of proper medical aid. Tobias hassomething new in a "Jack, the Ripper." He has made raids and carried off robes, horse blankets, whips, cut iiarncss, took burrs off of buggies and in one case a young man was shot at while returning from seeing his best girl. "Jack's" actions seem to be di rected principally to young men, who are all preparing to give him a warm reception the next time a 113 devilment is done. Five tramps were placed in jail at Niobrara by the sheriff. One of them got into a tight with the others while 111 jail, compelling the sheriff to hand cuff him and pla:e him in a cell. During the night the other four, 1 y some unknown means, got their room on tire, and if it had not been for the arrival of the sheriff tiie court house and other buildings would have gone up in smoke. Strawberry boxes with false bottoms have become so much of a nuisance that the Superior Sun comes out with the announcement that any Nebraska n who will kindly invent a box that has the bottom placed where it should be or have a law enacted that will compel fruit verniers to put the berries in tiie bottom instead of in the top will be re membered in history as a true friend of humanity. The people in the vicinitv of Decatur feel confident that the Illinois Central j railroad will either cross the Missouri 1 river at that point or at least come to the river in the near future. Over 3 t!0J ties are piled up at Onawa, and will either be used for repairing the road bed or extending the line. There is a large tract of territori that will le materially affected as soon as railroad facilities are secured. Senator Manderson in the senate the other day luring discussion of the tariff spoke extemporaneously for an hour upon the amendment increasing the duty upon boracic acid. He asked for continued protection to this western industry, the product of which was obtained from the alkali deserts of the west, and showed by statistics how the price had been reduced by nearly four fifths since the development of Ameri can borax. J. M. Giltner of Fairview is a lover of Galloway cattle, and has a fine herd of tlior ughbreds He has bred these cattle for years and the strain is pure. One of his thoroughbred Galloway cows has dropped a perfectly white calf. This calf was sired by a thoroughbred as black as night, and the calf even proved a curiosity to the rest of the herd, for they surrounded it and bel lowed, evidently realizing that the calf was a f n ak. The comptroller of the eurrencj- has directed Receiver Fogg of the Nebraska National bank at Ileatrice to issue checks for another 1.1 per cent dividend to all creditors of the bank. It is thought by National Rank Examiner W. C. Stanisby, who was in Ileatrice a greater part of lat week examining into the affairs of the bank, that the bank will be able to pay about SO rcr cent of it-, indebtedncs in time. A meeting of depositors was held and as surances to that effect given. lJrcomsticks and a strong woman's courage did it. says the Antelope Tri bune. Oi'r old acquaintance, Mrs. Mc Millan, formerly of Winner, now of Nor.'olk. saw two suspicious men enter ! a neighbors house the other day when the family was absent Hie didn't send down town for the police. She didn't scream to frighten the men away. he didn't lock her own doors and peer through the window blinds to sec when they would leave. Rut she did sum mon her girl and the two marched over and surprised the intruders, whom they routed. Word reached El wood that a tramp. supposedly an Italian peddler. attempt- cd to criminally assault Mrs. diaries Montcricf the wife of a young farmer . living ten miles south of that place. The victim managed to break loese frcm her assailant and ran to her hus band, who was working in a field some distance from the house. Mr. Mont crief and a neighbor pursued the tramp and administered punishment which left him more dead than alive. They then released him and gave him sched tiled time to ret out of the neighbor hood or stretch hemp. Walter Sholes of Lincoln committed suicide the other night between the hours of 12:30 and 1, in the larn back of his father's house. His body when found w-as lying just inside the front door of the barn and the Winchester shotgun which did the fatal work was partially covered by some hay that was strewn about the barn floor. The causes leading up to the awful act of self-destruction are perforce somewhat covered, but the friends of the young man have no hesitancy in ascribing the act to melancholy and family troubles. PI PLAIN LL rcadv. moth- out John Rycliffe, fheerilv. The "little old lady in the sitting-room gate a pat to her bon net strings, a tug to her sachel, a irlance at her lunch basket, hnd a rub to hdr gloves. "All ready, John,"' she answered. She seemed to fit so delightfully into her surroundings, that evert a brief absence was to be regretted from the point of picturesqueness. Her lioine, Grassnook, was far more charming than is the ordinary farm house. It was low, rambling, galjldd, with all kinds of cunning windows, and odd shaped rooms. And within it was the embodiment of quaint com fort and shining cleanliness. Its mis tress was 00, round, rosy, old-fashioned, with the kindest eyes, and the prettiest little neat ways, and the most hcartsome smile a body ever be held. "Seems like I was going away for U year, instead of two weeks," she re marked, as John drove her to the de pot in the phaeton he had purchased for her particular benefit. "Rut I feel as if 1 ought to go. after that let ter from Medora. It sounded really pitiful." John closed his handsome, stub born lips, and remained silent. "I said, if you remember John, that we, living hercn plenty, couldn't re alize the struggle she found it in the city to support herself and the chil dren on the paltry income, which was all they had from poor Peter's estate. Then she put it pretty plain, what she wanted me to do. Send her a handsome sum, or promise to leave her Grassnook and my share of the property. Wasn't that it. John?" lie smiled grimly. "Mie stated her expectations defi nitely enough," he answered. His mother sent him a shrewd, side long look. "You never liked Medora. John." Medora was the daughter of a dis tant cousin of Mrs. Rycliffe. Seven years previous site had come to live at Grassnook. She had been practically ndopted by Mi's. Rycliffe, and treated with all affection. Rut, after numer ous attempts to capture the heart of John Rycliffe, she had married the loud-voiced, showily-clad drummer for a New York cigar house, and had gone to the city to live. Of late Mrs. Rycliffe had received many letters from her, bewailing her husband's in ability to get work, her own hard life, nnd her conviction that "auntie" would do toward her what was kind Air. .x impostoi:, 1 snr. and right. The latest letter had been so much more importunate and imper ative than usual, Mrs. Rycliffe had decided to answer it in person. Only by doing so could she convince her self how pressing were Medora's ne cessities and how exacting her own duty. "I never could think her sincere, mother. She always appeared to me scheming, selfihand hypocritical." "Rut she thought a heap of you, John." Again he was obstinately silent. His mother was too wise to say that which was on her mind namely, that John had been indifferent to Medora, and to all other women since the year before Medora's advent at Grassnook, the girl on whom he had lavished the most passionate love of a strong na ture, had thrown him over for a man whom he knew to be in every sense of the word, his inferior. "Won't Medora be surprised to see me, though?" chirped Mrs. Rycliffe. as she and her son-stood waiting for the train. "I always said to her I'd never go another journey 1y rail, and here 1 am doing it. Well, good-by, John. Re sure you water the house plants, and give Snowdrop her milk regularht and see that the shutters are fixed so they don't slam and break the glass. Good-bye, John." And then she w; as whirling awav to the great city. "Re you going to New York. Mrs. Rycliffe?" queried a voice behind her. "Yes." turning to face a neighbor. "You're jroing to see Sarah Jane's new baby, I suppose, Mrs. Ryan?" "Ye.s'm. You ain't forgot Elsie Cameron, I dare say?" "No." answered Mrs. Rycliffe, stirred by the resentment the thought of Elsie invariably aroused. Whv couldn't the girl have married her fine son .,., ,,,. ., ril,Iltrilt tn w., son. and been a daughter to her: "It 'ud be a charity," declared Mrs. Ryan, "if you'd go to see her. I heerd as how her husband was dead, and she had a child to support, and wasn't ovcrstrong. She'd be mighty glad to see you. Here, scribbliiijr a line on a crumpled envelope she fished out of her pocket, 'is where Sarah Jane said she lived. "The poor thing!' Rycliffe. hor kindly "Yes. I'll go." ejaculated .Mrs. spirit touched. When she arrived in New York she gave a cabman both addresses, her niece's and Elsie Payne's. "Drive me to the nearest first," she ordered. And the nearest happened to be a tall, dreary tenement-house, in a nar row, dingy street. She found Elsie in a bare, clean, little sky-high room. Pretty, gay, rose-cheeked Elsie Cam v. xm XL! UaKSSA er?" culled Ml kssTtRsSSI 44 eron! Not gay, nor rose-cheeked now, but slender, pale and still very driini ly fair to look upon. She wore a black gown. A beautiful child clunj to her hand. "Oh, Mrs. Rycliffe!" she cried. The sight of the dear old face was precious after her long exile among strangers. She kissed her guest, drew her in, took off her bonnet, and made her a cup of tea, all the time full of words of welcome, and of inquiry, but hot once mentioning her own poverty, which everything in the roonl pro claimed. "How arc you getting on, is what t want to know." the did lady said, straightforwardly. "Oh, I manage. I do 'plain sewing, you know. Sometimes L find it hard to get all I can do, but a week ago a hidy called and left me an order that has kept me busy siritia. She asked my prices for" making plain" garments, nnd I mentioned them, butt the Ma terials were accompanied Jy directions for much elaborate work! Of course, I have no doubt she will pay me what my labor was worth. You may see it." She displayed four nainsook dress-ing-sacqiies. having insertions of Tof ehon lace, clusters of fury tucks, and hemstitched miller Mr.s. Ityelitfe ex pressed her admiration. "What do yon ask for them?" "When they are quite plain, twenty five cents each, but as these have so much work, I thought fifty would not be too much lo ask." "Well! I should think that pretty cheap. Hark!" There was a step in the passage without. "That is my customer, 1 suppose. She said she would call to-day. Don't stir." Rut Mrs. Rycliffe vanished behind the Cretonne screen that partitioned off the oil-stove and fe"w cooking utensils from the rest of the room. There was a tear in the cretonnej howevei', and she saw the person who entered, a large, florid woman, attired in a furred cloth skirt, a coat of many capes, a flaring hat on which black birds bobbed, and yellow kid gloves. "Ah! the work is done. Yes, satis factory quite. Really, I shall rec ommend you. A dollar, I believe. There it is." She tossed a coin on the table, and took up the parcel Elsie had tied. "Mrs. Pugh," remonstrated the seamstress, "I said J woilld make those with only rutlies at neck and sleeves for the price named. These are worth at least fifty cents each. 1 he sewing on them has taken me a week. Her patron turned from the door lo freeze her with a stare. "Ah! an impostor, I see like all of your class! You make one contract, and demand pay that was not stipula ted. I shall not again employ you." With which appalling threat she swept away. Little Mrs. Rycliffe came out from behind the screen, white and trem bling. "What a wicked woman, Elsie!" she cried. Elsie smiled faintly. "They are not all so unjust," she said, trying to speak cheerily. Dusk was closing in when Mrs. Rycliffe reached the house of her niece, a showy, imposing house. Her mistress, the servant said, was at the lnatincc. Would the visitor wait? Mrs. Rycliffe sat down in a chair in a corner of the parlor, waiting, nodded, fell fast asleep. She was awakened by a man's angry tone, demanding with an oath, if he was ever to have an- supper. The next instant Medora's voice admonished him. "You must wait I've just got in from the matinee. Don't scold. I didn't buy my ticket out of the grocer's inonej-. A woman did four dollars' worth of sewing for me. I paid her. and had a good time out of the amount saved. Why, Aunt is it Aunt Mary?" Mrs. Rycliffe rose with a stiff effort. She was cramped and tired. "I think it is," she replied, dryly. For four das was Mrs. Rycliffe the guest of Mr.s. Pugh. And she saw more than the interview with Elsie, to convince her she was under no ob ligation to give money or its equiva lent to Medora. She saw an extrava gant, ill-regulated household, where prevailed all manner of schemes to make a show of opulence, and all kinds of petty subterfuges to evade responsibility an I payment of just debts. She saw a selfish man and woman, both devoid of any sense of rectitude and honor. When she an nounced her intention of going home, Medora said: "As soon as the weather gets a lit tle warmer, we shall go down to Grass nook, and spend several months with you and dear John." "I'm afraid I sha'n'thave room,"the elder woman declared. "Elsie Payne is coming home with me." "Elsie Payne!" she repeated, blankly. "Yes you've heard of her as Elsie Cameron. She's been doing some plain sewing for you. I believe. I was there the day you called and paid for those sacques." Medora was silent, understanding the futility of explanation or excuse. John was at the train to meet his mother. Elsie, and the child, lie kissed his mother, and the baby, and held Elsie's hand a long time. "I'm glad you have come," he said, simply. A wave of the old rose-bloom flick ered is her pale cheek. She looked up at him, thinking how handsome and manly he had grown. "Thank you." she said. There are those that assert that there is to be a wedding at Grassnook. when the May flowers blow. At all events, the quartet there is a very happy one. And if plaintive tales of woe no longer arrive from Medora, the reason is understood. "If you want to find out a thing," Mrs. Rycliffe says, sagely, as she rocks the little one to sleep, "find it out yourself!" A Keautifni Hand. S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of the i lutegrapii, naa oeauuiui hands, a fact that caught the attention of Benjamin West while Morse was yet an art student it was Morse's hand that furnished West the model for the hand of Christ in ono of West's most famous compositions, and it Is said that West had the hardihood to say to Morse that he might hence forth assert that he had " a hand in the picture. KILLING A GRIZZLY. A Tcmlerfoot'fl Cnriouv Desire and Hovr It tVa Satisfied. "The avcrago young" icllo who goes from tho East to the WcSfc te filled with tho notion that he'd liko to meet and kill a grizzly,' said Mr. Shields to a reporter. "About twenty years ago I was doing a little placer mining, near what is now CbloYado Springs. It was a little one-horse mining camp then. I had struck a pretty good streak, and thought I'd stay there for some time, so I ?ook a cow up to my cabin from the springs, and a few chiciteiis, for the eggs and milk. Ono afternoon a grizzly killed the cow while I was off working my claim. I was almost clean out of ammunition, so I put o!T that night for tho springs to lay in a supply. "Thero was a young fellow jtiat from New York by the namo of -Harry Curtis, that I mot tho day 1 got to the springs. Ho had hi head full of fool ideas about grizzlies, buffaloes and the West in gencral.and when ho heard about the bear killing my cow, nothing would do but that ho must go up to the hills with me and Kill that bear. So wc started the next morning and got to camp about D o'clock at night. The cow was lyin? about seventy-five feet from the cabin, and there was a twenty-foot gulch between. She was half eaten, but I knew Mr. Rear would bo back in about an hour, eo I told Curtis ho could get a crack at him pretty soon, if he like. Up thero in tho moun tains ho wasn't so keen ns he'd been in town, but ho took his rifle and ex amined it liko he was an old ranger, and then he crossed tho guicli on the log I'd brought up from the timber lino, and J saw him lay down behind a big rock. "It wa-i a bright moonlight night, clear and a bit chilly. I stayed on this side of the dit:h. May bo half an hour vent by and then I saw a big grizzly step out of a clump of hushes just at the top of a little knoll and stand there, looking as big as a buffalo, outlined against tho sky. He was sni'lling cautious like, with his head thrown back and his nose up in the air. Presently ho came down the hill, swaying from side to side, and I knew he was a whopper by the way ho walked. He got to tho carcass of the cow an i put both his front feet upon her and stoo.l thero looking around sharp and sniffling. I reckon he smelt ti3. Then he gavo a low growl and started to tear the cow. Next morning you could so3 where his nine inch c law's would start into the llesh as fine as a needle point, and he'd null out a chunk that would weigh ten pounds. "I began to think Curtis' nerve had gone back on him, ho was so long in getting ready to shoot. Then I saw hint shift to ono side a little, behind the rock, and bring his gun up. The boar heard him, and stopped crunching. Tt was as pretty a shot as a man could want. I got a bead on him, and pulled awa' just as 'Curtis let go, too. "Ever sea a bear when he's hit? He'll grab at tho spot where you striko him half a do.en times, and cavort around for about ten seconds, and then he'll come your way. Curtis rose up. and the bear saw him and made for him. Curtis turned an 1 headed for the gulch. "He had a repeating ritlo. but ho threw it away and camo flying toward tho cabin. He cleared the twenty foot gulch, with lots to sparo. I just beat him 10 the door I only had a single-shot gun and wc banged tho uoor shut andjthrew tho bear down. 1'e was as white as a sheet and his teeth wcro chattering lik dice in a box. He sat down on the bunk and looked at me in a dazed sort of a way. I had to laugh, though I hated to do it. I got him somo whisky and tried to brace him up It was ten minutes before he could speak a word. -Two days afterward I took him back to the springs. He wasn't looking for any more grizzlies." To Remove tho Smell of I'ulnt. For removing tho smell of paint from rooms the simplest remedy of all is to be found in opening tho doors and windows to let in a con stant supply of fresh air until tho paint has hardened. If, however, time is an object, the same result may bo obtained by burning a few handiuls of juniper berries on a charcoal lire in the middle of the room in precisely the same way and with the samo precautions in disin fecting with burning sulphur. The windows and doors must be stopped as closely a possible, an I if the room b" opened after twenty-four hours the disagreeable smell of paint will have gone an 1 nothing that has been left in the room will sutler in jury from the fumes. Hay sprinkled with a little chloride of lini and left for an hour in the room is a'so an eflieatituis remely; and if some open vessels containing water stan 1 in the room. after a time the water will be covered with a film and the smell diminished. Weights or WnoiU. The weight of diiTcrcnt kinds of wood is ex eedingly ariable. White pine is the 1'ghtest of the common woods, a cubic foot of it weighing 31 pounds: willow wood weighs .'.', ied pine 'M, yellow pine .'J and pitch pine IS. Poplar weighs 40 and hickory :rJ. Logwood ireighs 57, mahogany )!, live oak (J7, and lignuin-vit i the heaviest of all, weighs 83 pounds to tho cubic foot. A block of lignum vit e. th own into the water, wil) sink like a stone. New York Anglomania-. Some idea of tho numb r of New York men who get their clothes in London may bs gathered from the fact that this week there are twenty th ee agents for English tailoring houses in that town. Most of the goods are brought into this country f.co of duty and cost the wearer a little less than the same clothes made here. All tho big London houses have plac?s in New York city where alterations aro made fres of charge. A Long Trip on Horseback. Ninety-two days of a horseback ride for pleasure, covering 2,14 miles, fro n San Francisco to Galves ton, is the trip just completed by Harry La Verne. He averaged nearly twenty-four mile? a day. the work was light, tho traveling inexpensive aad the healthful results great. IN AN INSANE ASYLUM. PATHETIC VAGARIES OF UM- . FORTUNATE INMATES The rat lent WKfl ffa Clllrkrn in Ills Stomach The Fair OpilclAnnl'. the Actress Whose Favorite ICols Is That f Queen Elizabeth. v-w.. To tho aVer'ago individual tho word asylum has an ominoifs sound. It conjures up thoughts fit straight jackets, manacles and subterraneans dungeons, brutal keepers, with sinis ter faces, armed with clubs and in struments of torture. Tho air is resonant with shrieks and moans and Clangs of chains. How different is the reality! To dispel tho gloomy picture of the im agination it is but necessary to visit Longviow asylum, now Called Long viow hospital, located at CartlJage, its sloping lawn, as you enter the grounds, wearing its mantle of green smiles and inviting wel come to tho visitor. Tho fountain playing at tho ontranco to tho build ing adds to the general attractive ness, and here a Cincinnati Enquirer representative stood surveying the front of the colossal structure, which shelters 899 unfortunates of both sexes from all parts of the state, who aro bereft of heaven's bst gift to man a sound mind. When contemplating tho sccno a man approached, who looked to bo about 6 ) years of asro. dressed in a black Prince Albert suit, black tie and hat. His white hair and beard added to his professional appearance and gavo him a general air of cul ture. "A pleasant afternoon." ho said, and continuing ho began a pleasant conversation. Ho gradually turned tho subject to military affairs, nnd Bpokc about tho war like a man who had been through many thrilling ex periences. Suddenly ho took out his watch and looked at its face his own assuming a startling change. His features became livid and distorted ns if with pain. "Ah! just to tho minute. Don't you hear it cackle?'' Tho reporter's astonishment could not find expression in words, but sud denly tho truth flashed upon him that tho man was not a medical at tendant but an inmate, an 1 before tho reporter recovered his equilibri um the man continued. "l on sec I havo a chicken in my stomach, and every hour that chick en lays an cgs. uud that is what gives me this excruciating pain." Superintendent Dr. Harmon just then stopped out upon tho pia:za, and, recognizing the visitor, camo forward. I sco you havo a visitor, Mr. Jackson," said Dr. Harmon to tho professional - looking gentleman. Rut, as your dinner is ready. I know your friend will excuse you." Mr. Jackson withdrew with a Choj terfioldian bow. This is ono of tho taddes't cases wo havo in the institution," said Dr. Harmon when Mr. Jackson was out of oarBhot "He came hero ten years ago, and in all that time has given us very Uttlc trouble. lie is mild, courteous and a perfect gentle man, except at times when his strange hallucination overcomes him." Dr. Harmon led the way to A" ward. In the dormitory iron bedsteads ranged along the wall, and tho bedding was as white as driven snow. The floors were waxed, and a strip of heavy carpet running through tho center deadeno 1 the footfall. Handsome steel engravings hung in the corridor, and at the ex treme end stood a lot of potted plants beside an open piano. Miss Bishop, the supervisor, as sho is called, un dertook the task of telling tho his tory of tho most peculiar cases in that particular ward, which con tains about forty women patients, all laboring under a different hallu cination. This is Hannah," by way of in troduction, going up to a girl in a wheeled chair, who sat in a pensive attitude with her hand supporting her check. When Hannah raised her head, the reporter was struck by the marvelous beauty of her face She appeared about 2 years old, and her manner was so mild and gcntlo that the visitor could scarcely be lieve that out of such a casket its most precious jewel was gone. "This is one of Hannah's good ( days," explained Miss Bishop. and she is as gentle as a lamb. But 1 when she has her spell, in which sho believes herself pursued by evil spirits, who, she imagines, lock her up in a cage of red hot irons, then her cries and moans arc pitiful to hear. Hannah is paralyzed from the hip downward, and is obliged to get around on a wheeled cha'r. Poor girl!" and Miss Bi-hop laid her hand on the patient's had as she whis pered, ''She is incurable." Hannah appreciated the kindly action with out hearing the words, and took the matron's hand and kissed it. At this juncture a tali, blonde girl swept down the hallway muttering to her self as she passed. She was dressed in a loasc-fitting gown, and wore an Elizabethan ruff cut out of paper, and her hair was arranged in a Psyche knot. "That is Annie, the actress, as we call her," said Mi-s Bishop. "It is now four years since she came here, and as you see her now you will see her always. What you heard were fragments of plays she has memor ized, and sh ; repeats the disjointed iines from morning until night. She was a saleslady in one of our largest dry goods stores and early developed a love of tho drama. Her leisure time was spent in reading Shakes peare and modern playwrights until her mind was unbalanced. At times she identifies herself with the char acters of the plays, and her favorite role is that of Queen Elizabeth. You see she wears the collar which de rives its name from that great English queen even now. Hcl rarjsol". It is said that a red parasol de stroys in a great measure the actinic power of the sun and must, there fore, keep the skin from freckles. Photographers long ago availed themselves of this peculiarity of light transmitted through a red medium, and it seems reasonable to suppose that a red shade might pro tect the complexion. DARK AND COLD A ZERO. An experiment Showing the Vst Tre Mire in the Ocens lowest Dcptli Tho peculiar physical conditions of tho deep seas may bo briefly stated la bo- these: It in absolutely dark so far as actual sunlight is concerned: tho temperature i only a few dogrces abovo freezing point: tho pressure is enormou?: thore is littlo or tta movement of the- water; tho bottom is composed of a uniform, lino, soft nltidV and thero is no plant life. All of these physical conditions ono can appreciate, says the Phila delphia Press, except tho enormous pressure. At a depth of '2.&)J fath oms tho pressure is. roughly speak ing, two and one-half tons per square inch that is to say. tho pressoro per squaro inch upon the body of every animal that Hvc at tho bot tom of tho Atlantic ocean is about twenty-flvo times greater than tho pressure that will drivo a railway train. Professor Moseley describes an interesting experiment in point made during tho voyage of the Chal lenger. Mr. Buchanan hermetically sealed at both ends a thick glass tnbo fuli of air several inches in length, lla wrapped it in flannel ancf pin-ceil it in a wide copper tubo ono of those tisca to protect tlio deep sea thermometers when sent down with tho sounding apparatus. This copper tubo was closed by a lid fitting loosely and with holes in tho bottom or it. tind the copper bottom of the tube similarly had holes bored through it The water thus had frso access to tho interior of the tube when it was lowered into the sea and tho tubo was necessarily con structed with that object in view, so that, in its ordinary use, tho water would freely reach tho con tained thermometer. Tho copper case containing tho scaled glass was sent down to a depth of '2,0)0 fath oms and drawn up again. It was then found that the copper wall of the case was bulged and bent inward opposite the place where tho glass tube lay, just as if it had been crum pled inward by being violently squeezed. The glass tube itself, within its flannel wrapper. was found, when withdrawn, reduced to a tino powder, like snow almost hut had happened was that tho sealed glass tube, sinking to gradually increasing depth, had held out long against the pressure, but this at last had become too great for the glass to sustain and tho tubo had suddenly given way. So violent had been tho col lap e that the water had not had time to rush in at the perforations, but instead had crushed tho copper wall and brought equilibrium in that manner, and this process is exactly tho reverse of an explosion and is termed by Sir Wyvillo Thompson an "implosion." The Wliatc Fishery The whale fishery was at one timo an enormous industry in tho United States. Jt reached its heigh c in 1K5I, when i)'2 ships and barks, twenty-eight brigs and thirty-eighty schooners, with a total tonnago of ti)S,3!)!, were engaged in it. By 1870 the fleet had dwindled down to 16t vessels, and it is doubtful if fifty aro now at sea. Tho introduction of kerosene and tho increasing scarcity ol whales seem to 1 c the causes of this decline. Some remarkable voy ages wero made in tho o'd days. The Pioneer, of New London, sailed in June, l-t(l, for l'avis strait and Hudson's bay, returning in Septem ber, 1S5. with LWl barrels ol oil and 22,0o0 pounds of bone, valued at l."i.000. In 1S17 tho Envoy, of New Bedford, was sold to be broken up. but her purchaser relittei her and she made a voyage worth 132, ir'). On the other hand a vessel made a five years' voyage and on her return the captain's lay was only X5. But. as the Nantucket captain, whose vc-sci returned from a three years' voyage as clean as she went out, remarked: "She ain't got a bar' I o' ile, but she's had a mighty line sail." Bible SnrictlfM X it Kelishctl. Hitherto the English and Ameri can bible societies have enjoyed tho privilege of circulating magazines and tracts and of maintaining travel ing agents in Russia. But recently the various establishments at Kief and other largo cities in the domin ions of the e.ar havo been closed by the police, the doors locked and sealed, and tho employes ejected. Moreover, steps are now being taken to put a stop to the facilities which the societies have hitherto enjoyed in the exercise of their labor.s and in the extension of the sphere of their operations. Trying to t m-ap; There! said the young wife proudly, as she deposited the hot plate carefiitly on the table "That's the first mince pi'j that I ever made 1 without any help, aioae myself. ".io it i- " exclaimed he husband enthusiast iea'ly. looking it over critically meanwhile. "And as long as it is the very first, my dear, don't you think that instead of cutt'ng it, it would be nice to keep it for a souvenir? How would it do to have it framed?" lratrat!tiit Kpis-opIs. 'Ihree of the Protestant Episcopal dioce-es of New York state have more than 1.0) ),())) inhabitants each, and on'; of the three, the dio cese of New York, has more than 2.000.000. The diocese of Long island is the mo-.t densely populated. It has an area of about 1, 100 square miles, and a population of more than 1.00),00). The diocese of New York has an area of about, .",0')) square miles, with a population exceeding 1,000.000. Tl:e Iust Z iizp Above Us. If there was no dust !:ze above us vhe sky would be black. That is. wo would bo looking into the black ness of a limitless space. When in fino, clear weather wo have a deep, rich blue above ns. it is caused by a haze. The particles in tho haze of the heavens correspond with thoso of the tube in the koniscope, and tho blue color is caused by tho light shining through a depth of lino luiio. Ii'ow Kussia Treats I)rank:trds. Anyone found in the streets of Russia in an inebriated stato is im prisoned, and when sober is ordered to sweep the streets for a day. Well dressed men may be seen sometimes fulfilling this menial office. THE OLD RELIABLE Columbus - State - Bank ! (Oldest Bask Im tk fJUUt) fajs Interest on Time Deposits A2TD Hales Loans on Real Estate SIGHT DRAFTS C Ommkm, CMcaga, lfw Tark aai all Fvreicm Ceaatrlaa. XLt8 : STEAMSHIP : TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES Aad Help it Ctutomen whan thej Nacd III fttCKBS A5D DIMCTOlIl LEAKDER GERRARD. Prcs't. B. H. HENRY. Vica Pret. JOHN BTAUFFER, Cuhltr. If. BRUGGER, G. W. HULST. -OF- COLUMBUS, NEB., -HAS AX- Authorized Capital of - $500,000 Paid in Capital, - 90,000 OFFICERS. O. n. SHELDON. 1'nVt. II. 1 II. OEIILKICH. VIco Prcs. CLARK CRAV. Oasliifr. DANI EL SCH RAM. Asa't Cash DIRKCTOU. II. M. Wi.nsi.ow. II. P. 11. Or.nr.nicn, II. Siikmion, Jonas Welch, W. A. McAi.mstek, CAUL. K1K.NK.K. STOCKHOLDERS. S. C. C.n.KY. ISr.KIIAUO LOSEKE, Cl.AUK (.iUAY. 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