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VOLUME XXV.-NUMBER 24.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1894.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,272.
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NEBRASKA NEWS.
A largo acreage of fall wheat is be
ing sown in York county.
Governor McKinley will speak in
Omaha on the 4th of October.
Old settlers of Dixon county held
their first annual picnic last week.
William Marker's house and barn at
Crawford have been destroyed by fire.
Fort3 thousand people passed through
the gates on one of the days of the
fctatc fair.
A Schuyler man has invented a fur
nace that is growing in favor as a great
fuel saver.
A number of young people of Fre
mont have gone to Ohio to enter Ober
lin college.
The West Point creamery, destroyed
13' lire a few weeks ago, is to be re
built. Work is now in progress.
The coal dealers' war in Lincoln is
off, and now people who did not get
their hard coal at S3 will pay SO. 40.
The Northwestern Veterans' associa
tion held a three days session near Val
entine, manj old soldiers being present
IJev. C Sandqhist of Oakland was
made the victim of sneak thieves to the
extent of 55 in cash and a draft for
S'-'CO.
Ponca's new steam flouring mill will
Iks completed by November 1. It will
have a capacity of seventy-five barrels
a day.
With the exception of the last day,
when it rained, the state fair this year
did as well financially us in former
reasons.
At Hastings L. ISrown swore out a
complaint against Hcv. Mr. Dean of the
Methodist Episcopal church for cruelty
to animals.
A brother of A. L. IJixby, of the Lin
coln Journal, died in Denver last week.
His illness began in Lincoln about two
weeks ago.
The old soldiers of Hayes and ad
joining counties will hold a reunion in
Paxtnn's grove at Carricc, September
v:,, 20 and 27.
lightning struck the house of Ml
Diuuslakc in West Point, tearing a
hole through the roof. Mrs. 1). was
knocked down by the shock.
The city authorities of York have is
sued notices that all who have not paid
their taxes under the occupation tax
ordinance 03 September 30 will bo
prosecuted.
There is a good deal of thieving in
the country about South Omaha and
the farmers are much aroused, so much
so that the first thief caught will be
vigorously dealt with.
The two-story frame residence be
longing to Mrs. Lucy Woodall, situated
six miles from Grant, was burned, with
all household goods. Loss, S-,.00; in
surance, SI, 000.
Annie Murray, a colored girl at
Crawford, took a dose of laudanum for
the purpose of working on the sym
pathies of her lover. She is none the
worse, nor is he.
Ai I Sea trice William Johnson, aged
70 years, had an attack of apoplexy,
falling on thestrect. He expired within
a few minutes. The deceased had
been a resident of JSeatrice for four
years.
Mrs. J. D. Williams of Randolph sus
tained severe bruises by a misstep in
descending the ccllarway at her home.
She was precipitated to the bottom
with great force and received serious
injuries.
In TSuffalo county S3.000 had been
paid for gopher scalps this year up to
September 1. They are being brought
in fast every day and it looks as if
every man and boy in the count had
gone into the business.
John ISarrcll, aged 10, who resides
with his parents near ISutte City, was
fatally shot while hunting on Snake
river, lie attempted to place his gun
in a wagon with the muzzle reversed.
He died in a few hours.
Location of the state fair for the
next five years will not be determined
until the meeting of the state board of
agriculture in January. It is under
stood that Omaha, Lincoln aud Grand
Island will be competitors.
II. P. Shumway of Wakefield was in
Lincoln last week. He says that there
is a good corn crop in the northeastern
counties of Nebraska. Many fields will
yield 40 aushels per acre. He will have
l."i,000 bushels to sell from his farms.
A meeting of citizens of Neligh was
held at the court house to arrange for
aid for the drouth sufferers It was
agreed that each township will be able
to take care of their own sufferers,
with the exception of seed in the
spring.
Ncal Nye of Wayne county is suffer
ing from severe injuries caused by be
ing buried under a mass of lumber that
fell from a wagon he was driving when
the wagon upset by the falling of a
bridge One arm and one leg were
broken.
The house and barn of William Dar
ker in Crawford were totally destroyed
by lira Darker was out of town, and
the house was unoccupied, but con
tained all his furniture and household
effects There is insurance to the
amount of SI 00.
Louis Martin, a respected citizen ol
the vicinity of Kiverton, was killed by
lightning last week. He was leaning
on a wire fenee, elbow to elbow with
his brother, and the latter did not feel
the shock. The deceased leaves a wife
and four young children.
William Minlcce came to Valentine
from the south part of Cherry countv
with a bullet imbedded in his head.
He went on to Fort Niobrara for sur
gical attention. But little was learned
of how it came there, nor is it known
how serious the wound is.
"lev. A. D. Hoopingarner has been
conducting revival meetings at Plain
view. Owing to the rush of candidates
for conversion the meetings were
moved from the Methodist church to
the opera house and were continued
longer than was originally intended.
Edwin J. Church, a young man liv
ing south of Nebraska City, has com
menced suit against his father, Reuben
Church, for damages to the amount of
SL000. The plaintiff alleges that his
father has treated him in a shameful
manner for the past eleven years, pre
venting him from obtaining employ
ment, putting poison in his "food, eta,
and also tried to compel him to marrv
a woman who is distasteful to the
plaintiff. Young Church is the man
who talked of suing the state univers
ity for damages because he was not
given a diploma.
There is great rejoicing at Grant over
the news that the irrigating bonds
were registered. The people now feel
that they can go to work and will not
have to call on the county for aid.
Owing to the shortage of crops and
. the prevailing hard times, the manage
ment of the Johnson county fair has
declared its exhibition off for this year.
Gage county pioneers held their pic
nic last week at Beatrice. The princi
pal address was delivered by II. J.
Dobbs, giving a history of the county,
und its early struggles and settlers.
The remainder of the program con
sisted of recitations, reminiscences and
i grand basket dinaer.
Arrangements have been completed
for holding a grand band reunion and
picnic in Fremont on the 27th of this
month. Bands are expected from Ar
lington, Hooper. Scribner. Wahoo, Ce
dar Bluffs and other towns. Prof.
EHsworth Smith of Fremont will have
charge of the music. Music, athletic
games and dancing will be the pro
gram. Tom Cromwell, a young Cass county
farmer, sold a nice bunch of shoats, re
ceiving in payment therefor SHj. It
was too late to take it to the bank, so
at night he placed it under his pillow
and went to sleep. In the morning he
awoke to find his money gone. His
hired man also had a splendid watch
and chain and S5 in money stolen. It
is supposed to have been done by
tramps.
At the meeting of the state board of
health in Lincoln, Dr. O. S. Wood of
Omaha was appointed to succeed Dr.
Allen. Dr. A lieu was charged with
unprofessional and dishonorable con
duct, but the board found him not
guilty. He sent in his resignation at
the same time, and the appointment is
to fill the vacancy. It is reported that
Dr. Allen has'sofd out and will leave
the state.
John Mclvcen, superintendent of the
bridge across the Missouri river at
Blair, brought to town a sample of a
Russian thistle. It is the genuine, old
fashioned one. It was found growing
just over in Iowa along the banlc He
says there are a few on the Nebraska
side, but lots of them in Iowa. The
seed is supposed to have been washed
down from South Dakota and lodged
on the bank.
The rapid and continuous growth of
the State University is a matter of
pride to every Nebraskan. The en
rollment during the past year reached
the phenomenal figure of 1,324 stu
dents. The statement made by Chan
cellor Canfield during the last session
of the state legislature "1,000 stu
dents in ISO..; 2,000 students in 1900"
bids fair not only of complete verifica
tion, but of being surpassed.
Mrs. C G. Hulse of Central City was
murdered by her husband. The awful
deed was done with an ax while the
woman slept After committing the
deed, Hulse walked about twelve miles,
where he was found. He had shot
himself twice, once in the hand and
once in the head, ncitherof his wounds
being serious. Hulse is believed to be
crazy, as he has shown signs of insan
ity lor years. He is 72 years old, a
Mason and a veteran of the rebellion.
He is now confined in the county jail
at Central City.
A Schuyler correspondent sas:
There are numerous specimens of the
Russian thistle at various places about
town, most of them coming from Rich
land precinct, six miles west Oelrich
Bros', ranch and Reisch Bros', ranch
are the principal places where they are
found, the latter ranch having been
seeded to thistles through the sowing
of grain shipped from the north. Some
have been found iu the northern part
of the county. Railroad companies
have ordered their extermination along
their rights of way.
Prof. Charles 11 Besscy has made his
report to the state board of agriculture
on the grasses and foliage plants ex
hibited at the state fair. This shows:
York county, forty-eight No. 1 grasses,
forty-one No. 2 grasses and five clovers;
Richardson, thirty-five grasses: Thayer,
seventy grasses; Thomas, seventy
three grasses: Box Butte, twenty-nine
grasses and three clovers; Washington,
sixty-four grasses and four clovers;
Dundy, twenty-eight grasses and two
clovers: Sioux, fifty-seven grasses and
two clovers: Scott's Bluff, sixteen
grasses. There were ten exhibits in
alL
William M. Grates was arrested at
Springfield, 111., for the crime of for
gery. About seven years ago he en
gaged in the sewing maching and bug
gy business at Alexandria, Thayer
county. His method was to forge the
names of well-to-do farmers to notes,
which he would hypothecate as secu
rity against his notes with the banks.
In this manner he victimized two Fill
more, three Jefferson and three Thay
er county banks, in the aggregate i8,
000. Before the maturity of his notes
he left for parts unknown until the
other day, when he was located and his
arrest ordered.
State Superintendent Goudy has com
piled some figures showing the propor
tion of the enrollment in the public
schools to the total population of the
state. The total population of the
state in 1S00 was l.o:S,'.10: school pop
ulation then, 332,243; school enroll
ment, 240,300. The total population in
1 v.i3 could not be given, no census be
ing taken, but the school population in
this state was 353.17.i; enrollment, 260,
330. The percentage of school popula
tion enrolled was, in 1S70. 30.0 per
cent; in 1S7., 00.1 per cent; in 1SS0,
05.0 per cent: in 1SS5, 70.S percent: in
1S00. 71.1 per cent; in 1S03, 73.0 per
cent
Washington special to the Chicago
Tribune: Ex-Senator Van Wyck of
Nebraska has given the society pc pi
here something to talk about by tal n ;
up his residence in the picturesque
little church on Massachusetts avenue,
just opposite the residence of Chief
Justice Fuller. It is in the swellest
portion of the city, aud for the last few
days Mr. and Mrs. Van Wyck and their
daughter have made their home in the
edifice formerly devoted to divine
service. Mrs. Van Wyck owns the
property, it having been bought by her
husband and presented to her as an after-dinner
favor the day they were
leaving Washington for Nebraska at
the conclusion of the latter's senatorial
career.
KU'lncs on School Juetlons.
Following are some decisions made
by State Superintendent Goudy on
points recently submitted:
A school district cannot legally bor
row money for building purposes, ex
cept by the issuance of district bonds
A legal voter who is a taxpayer is el
igible to membership on the board of
education in cities.
Saloon license moneys paid under au
thority of village board or city council
should be equally divided among all the
school districts lying wholly or in part
within the corporate limits of said vil
lage or city. (See 29 Nebraska 2SS, and
2S Nebraska 254. )
The endorsement of a teacher's coun
ty certificate merely transfers it to the
county by whose superintendent it is
endorsed.
Children residing in "unorganized
territory" cannot be legally enumera
ted in any school district
The powers of the county board arc
limited to the fixing of the per diem of
the county superintendent's pay (or to
the annual salary in case of a county
with salary); this board cannot deter
mine the number of days nece'sary for
the proper performance of the duties of
the county superintendent The coun
ty superintendent may recover from
the county his claim for service ren
dered, at the per diem fixed by the
county board, for as many days as in
his judgment the conditions in his
county demand.
A county superintendent has no legal
right to issue a teaeher's certificate on
a college diploma as evidence of qualification.
(MSny&j
Gst.,
E behold the en
trance of an office
building on State
street, Chicago.
Before it stands a
stalwart, coarsely
dressed man, evi
dently a miner.
His bronzed, good
natured face is
'lighted with con
tentment, as if the
world had at last
rewarded him for his hard work. He
intently regards a sign upon the wall
at the foot of the stairs. The sign
contains these words: "Portraits and
landscapes painted. Room 39."
Whatever his intention, he seems
half-ashamed of it, for he takes a hur
ried look up and down the street, and
hesitates again before his resolve is
taken, and his lumbering boots go
heavily up the stairs. In a little room
on the top floor sits a shabby man, the
physical opposite of the first The
well-worn books upon the shelves, and
the bulging portfolios of "studies,"
all about show that he, too, has been
digging after treasure, but of another
kind, and his face gives evidence that
he has found it
His wide, shadowy eyes see more
than they rest upon, and his high
brow teems with fancies far above the
groveling horde about him. He is
thin, weak and miserably poor. Strive
as he may with his unbusinesslike na
ture, he can but keep himself half-fed.
The day is bitterly cold, and he
pauses often in his work to beat togeth
er his blue fingers, almost as numb
and lifeless as the little, rusty, un
used stove in the corner. How un
equally the goods of this world are
divided!
Perhaps he was ruminating some
what to this effect when the clump
clumping of the boots followed by a
vigorous bombardment at his door, in
terrupted him. He rises and opens
the door, starting, half with fear,
half with pleasure at the stalwart
figure before him.
"Good mornin', sir, says the miner,
still speaking with the accent he had
picked up in the California mines.
"Good morning; come in," the other
replies, holding the door hospitably
open.
"Can I look at the pictures?"
"Certainly."
The visitor steps over the threshold,
and by the time the artist has closed
the door and seated himself at his
work, he has gone round the room,
has looked at them, and plainly failed
to find something he had hoped to
sec. He stands now and watches the
artist laying the colors on the canvas.
"Ah,"' he says. "I don't care much
for pictures. They don't look like
outdoors. They don't look like the
place I want to sec. Now, could ye
paint a picture jist as I'd describe it
to ye, so it'd look like the very place?"
"I am afraid not Words are not
readily transmitted into form and
color. The usual terms of description
arc too indefinite, capable of too many
and too varied interpretations; too
liable to distortion through the trans
forming influences of the painter's
own imagination to render success
probable."
"No, no; I don't mean anything like
that Just make it the way I'll tell
ye. Try, and I'll help ye to strike it
IIE DASHES AXD DABS AXD SLArS AXD
SPATTERS.
Try it stranger. I'll stand the dama
ges, and if ye'll make't look like the
place. I'll pay ye well for it."
The inducements are irresistible to
the hungry Bohemian, sd he puts a
fresh canvas on the easel, and seats
himself, palette in hand, to make the
attempt The other shuts his eyes
for a moment in retrospection, and
then says:
"Well, there's a river runnin' right
through the middle of the picture,
that is what I want to see. Not a
big river. Just a kind of overgrown
creek. But that an't much of a de
scription, is it?" And he scratched
his head and tries again.
"Well, this river is about forty feet
wide on the average. Just paint it
about that wide, right across the
middle there, will ye? kinder windin'
around like this."
But the other doesn't paint it In
stead he says:
"There is nothing tangible in that:
the water itself is of little conse
quence in a picture. We only see it
as it contrasts with other things, as
the objects upon its banks or the skies
overhead. Tell me what its surround
ings are, and I will try."
"Well, across on the other side is a
row of hills that stand right up
against the sky. Just make a row of
hills there, will ye?"
The artist can do that He was
born among the hills, and now he re
calls a certain group of them in every
detail. First, laying in a summer sky
for background, he sketches in their
forms in flat color.
"No," says the other, "not like that
Big hills, with rocks cropping out
next to the river "
"Wait," says the artist, and he
dashes and dabs and slaps and spat
ters the mingling tints and shades of
color all about with a speed that is
bewildering.
The gold-digger in his anxiety,
bends over him closer and closer, as
though he would look through the
canvas for the sceue he longs for.
"No," he says. "2o, 'taint like it
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Try the turn of the river and soma
land on this side."
Even as he speaks the" form arid"
color of the sky and hills are rippling
there, and at ft sweep the painter
describes the line of the nearer shore,
and then the foreground seems to un
roll across the canvas.
"That is iike the turn o' the river!
Try a stone wall down there t'ward
the left Is that ft stone wall?"
"It will be."
"It looks to me like a streak of
brown paint'
"It is like a stone wall I have in my
mind,'' the attist replied. "But just
here it was tumbling down, and the
loose stones wero scatt3red about,
half-hidden in the grass, like this; and
here the cattle and the sheep came
through.anu had worn a little crooked
path down to the water."
"Yes, that'B it That's just what I
want, but I don't get it yet I don't
seem to see it for the paint"
"You look toocloselv. Stand back a
little."
"Well, by the eternal! It is like it.
stranger! It is like it to a dot! How
could ye hit it so close?" he asks in
amazement "But ye left out a house
here on this side," ho continues, "a
little house with a thatched roof, and
a tall oak tree bending over it."
The painter starts at this. It
is his turn for amazement now.
What a wild hope thrills him
for a moment! What is this Pshaw!
What a foolish fancy! A thousand
homes would answer that description;
and he goes on with his work. He
paints the little house where he and
his brother Tom were born where
they spent their childhood together
the little house from which Tom, his
brave, big brother, his hero, grown
desperate over the hard lot of their
widowed mother, had gone away with
a bold front to seek his fortune their
fortunes.
He paints the little house from
which their mother, broken-hearted
for want of tidings of her absent boy,
had been borne to her grave the
house, no longer home, from which he
had wandered, a weak, forlorn, help
less little lad, out into the big world
alone all alone, vainly wishing that
he might find Tom.
"Now you strike it, stranger! That's
it It's the very place! How much do
you want for it? Name your price."
"I can't part with it," said the
artist
"But ye must, I tell ye, yc must!
Don't trifle with me, stranger. I or
dered that picture, and it's mine. Ye
won't go back on that But go on.
There's a winder on this side, an' a
door here that's all. I can fairly
see two mischievous youngsters
a-hidin' behind that wall, and mother
standin' in the door a callin'. Say,
stranger, could ye just put u woman
in the door there, shadin' her eyes
with her hand, like this? a little,
tired, anxious-lookin' woman, with
the ki ndest face, the dearest face.
Could ye, stranger?"
"No, the space is too small. I
couldn't do it so that you could see
the face."
"Paint me her face, will yc, stran
ger, will yc? See here." And he goes
down into hs capacious pockets and
heaps a great pile of golden coin upon
the table.
"Don't tell me you can't do it stran
ger. Ye thought yc couldn't do this
but yc have. I'll try and tell ye how
she looked. I can see her face yet,
but it's kind of misty. If I could sec
one suthin' like it I could tell yc how
it were different." And he takes an
eager, impatient turn about the room.
"No, 'tan't like those, none of 'em,"
he says; "these gay oucs is all well
enough, but an't ye got no plain look
in' little women, with home faces,
with mother faces han't vc stran
ger?" The painter dare not speak. He
dare not look into the questioner's
face, lest he should lose the dear hope
still growing in his heart Instead,
for answer, he rises, and, going to a
corner of the room, lifts a faded cur
tain draped as it might be over a
shrine and reveals upon a low easel
the worn face of his saint, his mother.
The gold soaker with a quick spas
modic catching of his breath, is on his
knees before it clutching the frame
in both big, sunburnt hands, as if he
feared this might be an illusory, fad
ing vision.
His eyes are fixed upon the face, and
for a time he does not move or speak.
Wlup-cords gather and knot them
selves under the brown skin of his
temples, and scalding tears well up in
his eyes, and overflowing the rugged
uplands of his cheeks in briny rivu
lets, lose themselves in the wilder
ness of his shaggy beard, that quakes
and quavers like a stretch of stand
ins; corn in a storm. Then he
presses his face against the cold
canvas, kissing it over axiil over again,
and giving great convulsive sobs.
"Oh, mother," he moans, "after all
I was too late!"
The shabby little figure is down
beside him, hanging about his neck,
and crying: .
"Tom! Tom! Brother! Don't you
know me?"
The brawny giant, never turning
his eyes from his mother's face,
gathers the other in his strong arms,
with an embrace like a grizzly bear,
and murmurs between his sobs:
"Oh, Willie, Willie!"
Her Mental Memoranda.
Mrs. Nickelhoff boasts that shi
never forgets a name, because she
always makes a mental memorandum
of the letter of the alphabet with
which any new name begins.
On one occasion she remarked
to an acquaintance: I met
last night your friend, Mr. ,
Mr. . Mr. " --Mr. who?" "Why.
I remember the name perfectly well.
It begins witn an M." "Mr. Mor
rill?" "No." "Mr. Martin?" -No-no.
But I'm sure it begins with an
M! Ho has very red hair and is
bald, and wears gold-bowed specta
cles." "Oh, yes you are quite
right His name is Emerson!"
"Didn't I tell you so?" Youth's
Companion.
iMilnje Him Up.
Heine said of Savoye. a mediocrt
diplomat appointed embassador to
Frankfort by Lamartino in 1848:
"Ordinarily he is insane, but ho has
lucid moments when ho is only
stupid." Argonaut
"Does your wife put up all her can
s,tuff herself?" "Certainly. Self-preservation
is the first law of nature."
AT THE SIGNING.
It "Was d So'emn Occasion, But a Few
Tokcs Could Ntft lie Saftlressed.
The signing of tbd doclafallolt of
independence was a 60lemrt act Thd
signers were subjects of King George,
and their act was treason. If tho
king could havo caught them ho
would have hung thenl, every one,
aud this they knew; but, according
to the traditions that have comd
down to us. this knowledge did not
deter cortain of them from relieving
the solemnity of the occasion with
tho natural lloW of thoir wit and hu
mor. The remarks attributed to
them are not exactly authenticated
by history, but they arc too good
not to be believed. It is said that
when John Hancock atlixed his bold
autograph ho remarked. "Tho Eng
lishmen will have no difficulty in read'
ing that," that when Franklin signed
ho said, "Now. we must all hang
together or wo will hang separate
ly," and that Charles Carroll, of
Carrollton, when asked why ho wroto
his place of residence replied that
there was another Charles Carroll
and he didn't want them to hang tho
wrong man.
The most enthusiastic advocate of
tho great measure and ouo who led
tho debate in its support was John
Adams of Massachusetts, and when
tho declaration was adopted ho
wroto to his wifo in the&e prophetic
words: "This will bo tho most raem
orablo epoch in the history of
America; celebrated by descending
generations as the greatest anni
versary festival, commemorated us
tho day of deliverance by solemn
acts of devotion to Almighty Go.l;
solemnized with pomps, shows,
games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires
and illuminations from one ond of
the continent to the other, from this
timo forward, forever."
Of all the eloquent words uttered
regarding tho declaration of inde
pendence by tho orators of tho gen
erations which havo succoodod its
inception no moro Impressive feen
tenco was ever spoken than one pro
nounced by Ralph Waldo Emerson
in an address delivered in Boston
during the civil war. Referring to
a contemptuous characterization of
a certain political speaker ho said:
"Wo have been told that tho declar
ation of independence 9 a glittering
generality; itis an eternal ubiquity."
Among America's later statesmen
no ono entertained a more excellent
regard for the declaration, or moro
pcrsiatontly emphasised its import
ant relation to legislation, than
Charles Sumner. He always hold
that the constitution should be in
terpreted in tho spirit of the fcclar
ation Ho said: "The declaration of
independence hus a supremacy grand
er than that of tho constitution,
.very word in the constitution is
subordinate to the declaration. Tho
declaration precedes tho constitu
tion in time and is more elevated in
character. The constitution is an
carthlv bod, if you please; the dec
laration of independence is tho
verv soul itself."
W:-n I't Scaretl lilt.
A well-known New Kuglanrier was
South soon after tho war. and vis
ited Murfrccsboro. Tcnn. While
looking about he met an old colored
man who looked as though ho was
indigenous to the soil. Tho follow
ing conversation rcsultod:
"Well, uncle, were you raised
about here?'
"Yos, massa; I'scallors lived right
here."
'Then you must have seen tho
big battle here; do you remember
much about it.-"
Oh. yes, massa: I 'members all
about tho big battle; I was right
here."
Well, then, tell me something
about it: how did you feci? Weren't
you scared?"
"Oh, no. massa; I warn't scared a
mite. I was whero I could see de
sojers all about marchin' and shoot
in', an' I jess dumb up on top of a
rail fence an' sot there an' sac the
fight go on. Jess then along come a
big boom, an' it knocked out about
forty rods o" that fence out o' sight,
an' next I knowed was three weeks
after when I was 1 JO miles up the
country, workiu' for my boaM; but I
wasn't skart, no sah!" Boston Her
lld. Oris! i of tho Word Honeymoon.
It was formerly a custom among
Teutonic nations to drink a liquor
made from honey, and called hy
droracl, for a moving age (a month)
after the wedding feast Hence tho
name "honeymoon." Tho Teutons
knew very little about treacle, as wo
learn that the name Teutoni was
given. 230 11 C., to a race of peopio
who had long been settled in tho
country, and in the provinces which
arc now known respectively as Den
mark and chelsvig-Holstoin, but
whi h were then known collectively
as Chersonesus Cimbrica. The Ton
tons may even havo brought the cus
tom to England with them when thny
came over tho Kimmerian Boaphorus
-.bout 630 B. C
Ilio I.nii-liinii Owl.
One of tho most fantastic ol birds
is the laughiug owl of Florida and
some other Southern parts. He sits
well up in a tree late at night and
emits a series of loud, strange
ha-has that sound like half human
laughter. The sound is sufficiently
terrifying to a nervous camper un
acquainted with the habit of the
bird, though less gruesome than the
unearthly call of the Chesapeake
loon, heard at all houri of the
night along the shores of that bay.
To ! rmluce Frosted !o!l.
In boiling pure gold plates ano
fo'l in hydrochloric acid. Professor
A. Livcrsidge. of Sydney, has pro
duced on the surface a beautiful
crystallization or frosting: The
crystals aro more or less regular and
very small; giving an appearance
somewhat resembling that familiar
to us in tinplate and galvanized iron.
It is suggested that the effect may
bo utilized for decorating jewelry
and other articles. Invention.
Cirramttanres Alter r.ie.
She Didn't you say before wo
were married you would always lovo
me and be kind to me?
He May be I did.
She Then please don't go down
town to-night
He -Who is running this ranch?
Texas Siftings.
THE FIRST IRONCLADS.
THE GERM CAME CENTURIES
BEFORE THE MONITOR.
A narbor Defease Vessel Like the Circu
lar Rastlad Moaltors Metal Ram-Bow
of the Ancient Creeks The UUtorlc
Dutch IroncLtd.
Tho modern ironclad probably had
its origin in the very beginning of
the century and in tho brain of that
great statesman and ouginecrv
Colonel John Stevens. He, in 1812.
or earlier conceived the idea of con
structing an iron-plated vessel-of-war
with a sftUcor-shaped hull, pro
pelled by screws so arranged that
direction as woll as forward motion
could bo given them. The battery
Wat to bo of the heaviest ordnanco
of tho time, and tho plating heavy
enough to resist tho shot of similar
guns at short range. Tho main pur
poso of the ship was tho defenso of
our harbors, and tho plan of action
was to moor tho ship by a chain
leading down through tho bottom of
tho Vassal at its center, and to spin
the craft around this center, firing
gun aftor gun as it came in lino of
lire, thus anticipating tho later Tira
by turret which, iv turn, was the
germ of tho modern "monitor" iron-
ad. Such a vessel was actually
built, a half century 'atcr, by the
Russian government, and tho Pop
oflska is t.io contemporary represen
tative of the first Stevens battery.
The motal ram-bow was familiar
in tho days of the ancient Greeks.
Tho inscriptions on stone, unearthed
in tho Pir.cus in 1334. gave us in
formation that three-banked war
Vessels wero in Use several centuries
before the Christian era. and that
four banks of oars canio into uso
about -131 B. C. The si e and pro
portions of these voxels wero given
in great detail in this ancient
record, and, amonir other data, tho
weight of iron require J for the ram.
It is an interesting and curious fact
that tiio old Greeks and Romans, as
well as the old Scandinavians, had,
before tho dawn of tho historical
period, apparently learned tho best
forms for their ships and had
adopted the very proportions adopt
ed by nature herself when endeavor
ing to secure high speedy. This
proportion was about seven or seven
and a half times the breadth of beam
for tho length of tho ship on tho
water lino.
The first ironclad actually laid
down was tho Stevens battery of
18-12, designed by Robert L Stevens
in consultation with his father. Col
onel John Stevens, and under a con
tract with tho United Mates t'ovorn
ment for "a war stoamer for harbor
defense, shot and shell-proof, t j be
built principally of iron." The ship
was never completed. The first iron
clads actually built and employed in
warfare were those of the French
navy, of 1854, the Devastation, tho
Lnvo and the Tonnage, which did ef
fective work in the Crimean war, be
side tho ships of the British licet
Tho French built the Gloire m 15,
and tho British ship Warrior was
ordered in ;VJ. Ironclads havo
sinco that dato been admitted the
only really formidable war vessels.
Without them it is doubtful whether
tho operations of our own navy dur
ing tho -civil war could have been
successful. This is tho authentic
history of tho ironclad of our day.
According to some authorities tho
Dutch were the first in tho modern
period of history to build an iron
clad, and it is said that during the
siogc of Antwerp by tho Spaniards
in 1535, the people of that city built
an enormous fiat-bottomed vessel,
armored it with heavy iron plates,
and thus constructed what they re
garded as an impregnable battery,
which they named Finis Belli. I n
fortunately, the vessel got aground
before fairly in action, and fell into
the hands of the onemy. it was I
held by Alexander of Parma to the
end of the siege, as a curiosity, but
was never employed by either side
in any action.
It is not at all certain, however,
that any modern engineer or inven- I
tor can elf im to havo had the first !
conception of an iron-clad ship, says
Cassier's Magazine. Curiously
worded sentences in early literatures
of ull nations indicate, often, the
possession of modern ideas at a time
when it was utterly impoaiblc to
carry them into effect, in conse
quenco of the inability of the me
chanics of tho time to perform tho j
work. The earliest of these which I !
havo as yet noted is to be found in i
tho "sagas" of Thorstem. a sup- i
posed pirato viking. I
In this old storj of Thorstcin I j
find tho following bit of possibly i
authentic history of naviej. 1'ho
story goes that Vikinr, son of Vifil
and Eimyria, is poison d by drink
inir from tho magic drinking horn of
Dis. sister of Ilarek and daughter of '
Kol. the former of whom had been
killed by Viking in a duel, receiving
a thrust from the irresistible sword i
Angervadil. Tho sea king, become '
the leprous victim of Dis. sails for
home and meets on his way another
powerful viking, Ilulfdam who be- ,
comes his friend and en leavors to
aid him in his effort to in turn se
cure vengeance upon Dis. Of this
a cat captain the tradition says: ;
"Halfdan had a great dragon '
(warship) called the Iron Ram, and
all of this ship which stood out of '
water was iron ciad; it rose high
out of tho sea and was a very costly j
treasure."
Viking recovered and lived to
fight many days. Halfdan remaining
a faithful all-, und his eldest son,
Thorstcin. lived and fought after J
him until ho, too, died at a great '
age. also leaving many sons and .
daughters, but no moro is said of
tho Iron Ram, and it is to be pre- i
sumed that the t.-caaurc of their !
kingdoms was insufficient, in those
days, to continue the construction of i
such costlv war vessels. The story J
is. nevertheless, a mo.-t interesting i
and suggestive one Whether iron '
clads were built or not by the Scan- '
dinav.'an vikings. Thorsti'n's legend j
at least proves that the idea existed,
and that, the invention of tho iron
plated ship is due to our forefathers
of centuries, and possibly of more
than a thousand years ago
C'lulis and Cliih I ife.
Club life in Philadelphia is a very
different thing from club life in New
York. The smaller Philadelphia
clubs aro little used, while the
larger ones have a class of habitues
little known in New York, men who
take Philadelphia society seriously,
who breakfast late at tho club, call
there for cocktails beforo dinner,
drop in after calls or tho theater for
a nightcap, and rise periodically
from tho contemplation of Walnut
street's mild gayeties to have drink?
with some nowcomer.
TWO STUPID BOYS.
Incidents of the Iloybood of Dean Stan
ley and William f. Glailstouf.
Dean Stanley onco said to a little
boy. "If I toll you that I was born
in tho second half of J815. can you
toll mo why I am calldd Arthur?"
The name of tho hero of" Waterloo
was then on all men's lips. Whon
l years of ago Arthur was sont to a
preparatory school. Ho was bright
und clover, but ho couldn't learn
arithmetic Dr. Boyd writos in
Longman's Magazine that tho master
of tho school. Mr. Rawson. declared
that Arthur was tho stupidest boy
1 at figures who over camo under his
care, save only one. who was yot
I moro hopelcs. and was unable to
I rrruqn iniiilr siddifinii and multipli
cation. Stauloy remained unchanged
to tho ond. At Rugby ho rose like a
rocket to every kind of eminence,
except that of doing "sums " In
due timo ho took a first-class at
Oxford, where the classics and Aris
totle's Ethics wero tho books in
which a student for honors must bo
proficient Ho would not have done
as well at Cambridge, whoso senior
wrangler must bo an accomplished
mathematician. On tho contrary,
that other stupid boy. "more hopo
less" than Stauloy, developed a phe
nomenal mastery of arlthraotic. Ho
became tho groat finance minister of
after years, William F. Gladstone
who could make a budget spcoch of
throo hour' length and full of
figures, which so interested tho
members of tho houso of commons
that they filled the hall, standing
and sitting till midnight Tho story
has two morals. One is that a boy
may bo stupid in ouo study and
bright in all the remaining studies.
Tho other moral is. and it is most
important, that a boy may overcomo
by hard study his natural repug
nance to a certain study, and ovon
become an omincnt master of it
furnoi and .lean Carrie.
The death of Jean Carries, tho
sculptor, recalls an anecdote in
which ho and tho lato president of
tho republic were the principal
uctors. The artist's busts and figures
at. the Champ do Mars excited tho
admiration of all. and they wore dc
servc'lly classed in tho first rank.
M. Carnot. when on a visit to tho
salon, notice I an old man. who
seemed much moved on seeing him
standing before tho works of art of
the sculptor. Some one said to tho
president, after pointing out the
artist: "Here is need of reparation,
M. lo President. Carries 's ono of
our most skillful men of art. and he
is not yet decorated." Forthwith
M. Carnot detached from tho button
hole of ono of the ollicers of the
military household in the place of
a cross of tho chevaiier a cross of
an officer of the Logion of Honor and
placed it himself on the breast of
Jean Carries. The next day in tho
Official the artist was named a cheva
lier of tho order. London Figaro.
A lrti-i on the Market.
"Hero they aro! All male birds
and good singers! Only sovonty-five
cents each; dirt cheap, because
they'ro a drug in the market!" cried
a man in the German quarter of New
York, with a dozen caged canaries
at his feet on tho curb. The price
was really about half tho usual rate,
and the hawker explained that Ger
man canaries had been overimported.
One dealer had received 3.0 )) birds,
and many others had got in large
numbers The birl fanciers would
not buy becauso hard times made
trade dull, and prices had to come
down. Ho had already been two
days oTering birds dirt cheap in a
reirion where canaries are dearly
beloved.
A Maine Philosopher.
Captain John Farrow of Islesboro
Me., was at his desk writinc when
the house was struck by lightning
and considerably damaged. He
looked over the ruin, drew his table
nearer the window and finished the
sketch. He then arranged as best
he could for supper.us tho stovo was
lying in a fragmentary condition
around the room and his wife away
for an indefinite visit, sought hid
bed and slept soundly.
A SurprUs "Te'ld'niT.
The newest idea in society is the
"surprise" wedding. invitations
arc sent out for a dinner party and
when the dinner is over the parson
is introduced in "a few well chosen
words." the bridegroom takes the
guests into his confidence, the bride
blushingly tako her place and the
marriage is solemnized ivithout fur
ther ceremonv.
SCRAPS OF COMEDY.
Pipkin Positively, I must go home
after the next jackpot Potts Wife
been scolding you again? Pipkin
Worse than that: she has haJ a time
lock put on th? street door.
"I low did you com-.' to make friends
with that horr'd Mrs. Scratch?"'
"Why, she had an importeJ gown that
fitted her h jrr'bly. anil wanted a
chanee to tell her of it."
lie I wonder if thorj is another
girl in ths whole wid-; world as sweet
as my little sweetheart? She What's
that? How dare you think of another
girl? I shan't spsak to you for a
week.
Great Editor I advertised for a pri
vate secretary, whose chief duties will
be to sit in the ante-room and keep
bores and other undesirable persons
at bay. The position requires some
thing of a diplomat as well as a fluent
linguist. Yc would not do at all.
Ricketts, who stutters a trifle That's
wh-wh-where you make a inum-rnum-mistake,
squire! As sus-sus-soon's a
bub-bore cuc-cuc-came in I'd bug-bug-begin
to tell a 1-1-long s s-story, and
before I'd gag-gug-got half through,
bub-bub-between whu-wh-what I'd
sus-sus--ay and what I'd tut-try to
sus-sus-say, I'd have him cum-cum-completely
tut-tircd out I ain't mum-muiii-much
of a ilu "-diplomat, per
haps, but as a 1-1-linguist I'm a cuc-cuc-
caution
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