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-; . ?v f ,"' - r:- g- - - -?: ' 3 r"H "er-r Fv COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 15, 1895. WHOLE NUMBER 1,305. VOLtJME XXVL--NUMBEB 5 (BMiimlras jomtcd. . '.. ;:'y? - B. S' t !:. F ." u-.-u- fci.- 51"- Sft A -. - , t if -v ;. v 4:-: ' .lr iff . .- CORNER OF ODDITIES; HAPS AND MISHAPS Of Uli USUAL CONCERN. A Satire ea the Xew Woman Hatband sad Wife Reunite To Marry a Second Tlaie A Remarkable Sara-leal base. F, THE NEW fashioned womaii there's much been said Of her wanting; to vote and a' that. And of her desire to wear men's at tire. His coat and his vest and a that. And a that, and a' that. She may wear trousers and a that: She may even ride a horse as men ride But a woman's a woman for a' that. See yonder damsel passing by: She's up to date and a' that. She wears a man's hat, likewise his cra vat. Ills shirt and collar an a' that. And a' that, and a' that His suspenders and cuffs and a that. But do what she can to imitate man A woman's a woman for a' thai. Hoahanri and M Ife Ununited. Lexington. Ky., Special: A most pa thetic reunion of husband and wife, after manw years of separation, took place here the other morning, when Richard "W. Mackey found the woman he deserted sixteen years ago domiciled in a modest cottage supporting herself and child by dressmaking. The wife, although, overcome with joy, was placed in a most peculiar position, since she had thought him dead, and has since he deserted her, been twice mar ried. Her maiden name was Prescilla Hearn, she being the daughter of a wealthy Alabama planter. She married David Spaulding three years after Mac key deserted her. Spaulding lived only a few months and after his death she married Julius Roach of Sheridan, Miss., whom she deserted after living with him only a short time. Mackey went to Lcadvillo, Colo., and afterward roved over New Mexico, Kansas. Arkansas, Idaho and Montana. Tired of rambling:, he set out to find his wife, and It was after much difficulty that he located her In this city. He was sur prised when she told him the varied ex periences she had since she had given him up as dead, and they are now liv ing happily together. She had no chil dren by either of her other husbands, and her boy, born a month before Mac key left her. Is almost grown. Code of Elephantine Manner. The following Incident may prove in structive to some of your numerous readers, illustrating the power of mem ory in the matter of instruction in the code of elephantine manners. While visiting the Zoo some time ago I took my children to see the elephant and to give them a ride. After the ride I wanted to give the elephant a bun, and to make him say "Please" said "Salaam kuro" i. e., make a salaam. The ani mal looked at me hard for some time, with the bun in my hand. At last mem ory came to his help, and up went his trunk, and he made a most correct "salaam." The .keeper seemed very much surprised and asked me what it meant. I told him it was a point of good manners for an elephant to raise his trunk up to his forehead if any one was going to feed him. and that frequently elephants will ask in this po lite manner for something when they see any one pasB by who is likely to feed them. The keeper assured me he had never seen the elephant do this be fore, and If I remember lightly he had been in charge of the animal since it arrived from India, and that It was one of those which took part in the grand procession to Agra when his royal highness, the Prince of Wales, visited India, and where I doubtless saw it. For seventeen years this animal had never heard these words. London Times. Thru I lie Fighting Began. An old woman living some distance from Manchester, Ky., was summoned as a witness to tell what she knew about a fight at her house several nights before. In which three or four people were killed. She mounted the stand with evident reluctance and many mis givings, and when questioned by the court as to what she knew about the matter, said: "Well. Jedge. the fust I knowed about it was when Bill Sanders called Tom Smith a liar en Tom knocked him down with a stick of wood. One of Bill's friends then hit Tom with a. knife, slicing a piece out of him. Sam Jones, who was a friend of Tom's, then shot the other fellow, en three or four others got cut right smart by somebody. That naturally caused some excitement, Jedge, en' then they commenced fitin'." Courier-Journal. Another lktrhrr Shop Innovation. The latest things in barler shops Is a musical box which the boss of the es tablishment regulates to suit the times. On Monday, for instance, he keeps the machine up to light opera aire just fast enough to keep his assistants shaving customers at a nice, steady gait. Tues day being a quiet day in the barber business, "Home, Sweet Home" and "You'll Remember Me." are good enough. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the barber confines his musical box to popular selections of a rather lively nature. On Satuday he puts the reels and jigs on top, sprinkles sand on the floor, and every barber in the house has to "shuffle -ound" pretty lively or lose his job. To Be Married a Second Time. Rev. Murdoch McLeod, a divinity student at McCormick Seminary, Chi cago, and who will graduate within a few weeks, will be married soon to Miss Gratea L. Clark, of Richland Center. This will be the second time the young people will have gone through the mar riage ceremony. The first time was Jan. 21, when Mr. McLeod and Miss Clark were married at the parsonage of the Grand Avenue Methodist and Episcopal church by Rev. A. Hunsberger. As both are Presbyterians it is desired that they be married by a clergyman of that de nomination. On his graduation Mr. McLeod will take charge of a Presby terian church at Austin, Minn. Here In a Remarkable Family. The Bridgewater Democrat says: Near Yankton is the most remarkable family on this continent perhaps in the world. It consists of father, mother, and twenty-four children, and the moth er of the brood is not yet 30. She is a Xorweigan and her husband is a Hoosier. The children were born trip lets, and the oldest of the lot is under 12 years of age. All of them are boys but three, one set of triplets being girls. In 764 the Black Sa was frozen to a distance of fifty miles from shore. The Hellespont and Dardanelles were frozen and the Sea of Marmora was passable for cavalry. fff fefJILDINC A NEW EMPIRE. Ho Rtisftla in Rapidly Developing the Riches of Liberia. 4ri her Interesting letters to the St. James' Gazette Mrs. Bishop1 draws a striking picture of the manner' in which the Russian government is opening up the fertile regions of eastern Siberia. Nikoloskoye is a place of 15,000 inhabi tants, the center of a large government flourmill and elaborate barracks. For many miies on either side the' new Si berian railroad passes through neit villages and prosperous farms. "From Spasskoje," says Mrs. Bishop, "and east of the Hanka lake up to Ussuri, the magnificent region is waiting to be peo pled. Grass, timber, water, coal, a soil as rich as the prairies or Illinois, and a climate not only favorable to agricul ture, but to human health, all await the settler; and the broad, unoccupied, and fertile lands which Russian Man churia offers are capable of supporting a population of many millions. Here. Russia is laying solidly the foundations of a new empire, which she proposes to make a homogeneous one. 'No for eigner need apply!' One thousand fam ilies, assisted emigrants from Russia of the best class, will come out next year, and the number is to increase pro gressively. Each head of an emigrat ing household has to deposit GOO roubles with a government official on leaving Odessa, which he receives on landing in Siberia, the emigrants, on reaching Vladivostock, are lodged in excellent emigrant barracks, and can buy the necessary agricultural implements at cost price from a government depot. Already along the railroad houses are springing up; and if security can be obtained ther6 is nothing to prevent the country from being peopled up to the Chinese frontier, the rivers Sun gacha and Ussuri, which'form the boun dary from the Ilailka Lake to Khaba roffka, on the Amur, giving a consid erable protection from brigandage." NEW SHIP FOR THE NAVY. Amnliitritc Completed After Twenty One Yeant" Work. Another vessel was added to the United States navy recently by the completion at the Norfolk navy yard of the armored coast defense monitor Amphitrite. which has been under construction for the remarkable period of twenty-one years. A telegram reached the navy department from Norfolk announcing the final comple tion of this job. which promised to go on forever, like Tennyson's brook. So great was the rejoicing at this news that, while the spell was still on, the secretary gave orders to have officers and crew ready to put the Amphitrite in commission at once. The Amphi trite has literally been built on the in stallment plan. In 1874 her iseel was laid and work progressed for a time until the partial appropriation then available was exhausted. Other things then occupied the attention of the de partment, and a year or two passed be fore more money was set aside to carry on the work. When this was done, work was resumed and 'ntinued in earnest until this second appropriation was exhausted. Then there was delay again until more money was in sight, and so it has continued spasmodically ever since. In the whole history of the American navy there is no other in stance where the construction of a vessel was carried on for such a re markable period. There lias never been pressing need for the completion of the vessel, and it is probably a wise thing after all that her construction went on by such remarkably easy stages. From year to year changes have been made in the plan of the vessel to keep abreast of the remarkable improvements in naval architecture, and today the Am phitrite is a modern ship of war in all respects, just as if she had been originally designed a year ago. Nickname of the State. Alabama. Cotton State; Arkansas, Toothpick and Bear State;; California, Eureka and Golden State; Colorado, Centennial State; Connecticut, Land of Steady Habits, Freestone State and Nutmeg State; Dakota. Sioux State; Delaware. Uncle Sam's Pocket Hand kerchief and Blue Hen State; Florida. Everglade and Flowery State; Georgia, Empire State of the South; Idaho, Gem of the Mountains; Illinois, Prairie and Sucker State: Indiana. Hoosier State; Iowa. Hawkeyc State; Kansas, Jay hawker State; Kentucky, Corn-cracker Slate; Louisiana, Creole State; Maine. Timber and Pine Tree State; Maryland, Monumental State; Massachusetts, Old Bay State; Michigan, Wolverine and reninsular State; Minnesota, Gopher and North Star State; Mississippi, Eagle State; Missouri, Puke State; Ne braska, Antelope State; Nevada, Sage State; New Hampshire, Old Granite State; New Jersey, Blue State and New Spain; New Mexico, Vermin State; New York. Empire State; North Carolina, Rip Van Winkle, Old North and Tur pentine State; Ohio, Buckeye State; Oregon, Pacific State; Pennsylvania, Keystone, Iron and Oil State; Rhode Island. Plantation State and Little Rhody; South Carolina, Palmetto State: Tennessee. Lion's Den State; Texas, Lone Star State: Utah, Mormon State; Vermont, Green Mountain State; Virginia, Old Dominion State; Wiscon sin, Badger and Copper State. Nutrition in Various Articles of Food. Raw cucumbers, 2; raw mellons, 3; boiled turnips, 4; milk, 7; cabbage, 7; currants, 10; whipped eggs, 13; bets, 14; apples, 16; peaches, 20; boiled codfish, 21; boiled venison, 22; potatoes, 22i; fried veal, 24; roast pork, 24; roast poultry, 26; raw beef, 26; raw grapes, 27; raw plums, 29; boiled mutton, 30; oatmeal porridge, 75; rye bread, 79; boiled beans, 87; boiled rice, 88; barley bread, 88; wheat bread, 90; baked corn bread, 91; boiled barley, 92; butter, 93; boiled peas, 93; raw oils, 94. You Cannot Count a Trillion. It is impossible to count a trillion. Had Adam counted continuously from his creation to the present day, he would not have reached that number, for it would take him over 9,512 years. At the rate of 200 a minute, there could be counted 12,000 an hour, 288,000 a day, and 105,120,0000 a year. The German Evangelical Presbyte rian Missionary society has recently opened a theological academy at Toklo. Its library has 9,000 volumes. A CHUD'S GRATITUDE, I' ME A PENNY, ma'am only a penny!" It was a profes sional .beggar's stereotyped whine; neither louder nor lower than she had heard half a dozen times before In the course .of her morn ing's occupation" pf shopping arid the weird, pale face that looked so intreat ingly Into her own was in no wise dif ferent from a score of other want pinched faces. Yet Miss Fortescue stopped, with one foot yet on the step ot her cushioned landau, and searched In her pocket for some stray coin. "My dear Miss Fortescue, you will take cold," said the soft, measured voice of Mrs. Vinton, her companion. "Go away, child, quick, orI will call a policeman." T t "Don't speak so harshly to the poor little Object, Maria!" chirped rich Miss Fortescue. "It isn't her fault that she's poor and forlorn, and this won't ruin me! Here little one go and buy bread, or meat or anything that will put a streak of color into those tallowy cheeks." The child grasped at the money as a famished wild beast might snap at a morsel of meat.- But she caught at her companion's silken rustling skirts, as she passed forward toward the plate-glass portals of a fashionable milliner. "Did you call her 'Fortescue,' ma'am? Did you say 'Miss Fortescue'?" she asked. But Mrs. Vinton twitched her skirts away from the child's hand, as if the feeble grasp were contamination, and passed on. Still the wild-haired elf hung around the carriage wheels. "I say, you!" she cried to the coach man, holding her ragged garments around her to prevent their being blown bodily away by the merciless winds, "does your missus live in a big stone house just outside the park? Is she an old maid?" The coachman, deeply resentful at being addressed thus familiarly by so pitiable a specimen of humanity, lifted his whip, and called out: "P'leece! I say, p'liceman," in the same breath, and little Jack Morley shrank away out of sight. "Jacqueline" her name was, but no body called her anything but "Jackey." She had no father or mother in fact, no relative that she knew of, and, so far as she knew, she had no earthly business to live no excuse for existing. Tnnr little .Taokpv. Children and animals do not commit suicide, yet there are some circum stances under which we could scarcely blame them if they did. But Jack did not absolutely vanish into the cracks of the paving-stones for when the two ladies once more re entered their carriage and drove away. Jack fastened on behind in some 11m- 4 kitfK, MISS FORTESCUE'S FACE. pet-like fashion, and rode too! Not un til the carriage had stopped, discharged its freight, and started again for the stables at the rear of the gloomy old mansion, did the small parasite drop, like a caterpillar shaken from a tree, into the road. "I thought so," said Jackey to her self. "They shan't no. they shan't! She smiled when she looked at me and she patted me on the head like I was like other gals!" And with these disconnected medita tions floating through the chaos of her brain. Jack pattered down the area steps, and knocked softly at the base ment door. A plump cook answered the sum mons. "Murther!" she cried, brusquely, "what's a-wantln here?" "I want to speak to Miss Fortescue, please." "Do you?" cried the cook, surveying the bold petitioner in blank astonish ment. "Well, then, you can't, so there, now! Go along with you, do." "But I got su'thin' very pa'tickler to say to her. Please let me in!" pleaded Jacqueline. "Yes, and let out the spoons and the table-napkins at the same time that would be a smart speculation!" sniffed the cook. "Clear out, I say, and there's an end o the matter." But Jack, who had not expected any more favorable response to her ap- MISS FORTESCUE'S FACE, plication, and was quite prepared to fall back upon strategy, made a- sud den forward rush, and had left the cook far behind ere that plump person age had leisure to surmise what was going on. "Well, I never," quoth the cook. "Here, John Thomas you man where be you?" But while she was crying aloud for aid. Jack Morley had darted upstairs, straight into the presence of Miss For tescue, who happened to be standing on the first floor landing, with her jacket .and hat hanging on her arm. "Hush-sh-sh!" she whispered, laying her dlrt-incrusted finger on her lip. "I've a secret to tell you. They're goin to break into your house at half-past 2 o'clock to-morrow mornin Slippery Jim, and old Joe, and Long Lyman and Fm to be slipped through the back cellar windy to open the doors, 'cause I'm little an spry." "What?" cried Miss Fortescue, star ing. "I've got to go back now, 'cause if I'm long gone they'll suspect some thin'," went on Jacqueline; "but I wouldn't see you wronged, 'cause you patted my head, you did. Just don't you let on, but have the p'leece handy, and you'll see." BwC.Sdfl,e.!JfCIa.HeSirov2r" . Car tba first time aUfflClentlV OVer- cue, for the first time sufficiently over- coining iter amazement to speak, "stay here with me". What do you go back to these people at all for?" Jack stared at her. "I've got to see Daddy Lyman at 5 O'clock, and to let him know as Slip pery Jim's back all safe." said she: "and, besides, if 1 didn't go. Kitty Emmons wouldn't get no supper. Kit ty's sick. Kitty Is. and them as don't work can't eat. Mother Jones says", so I saves her a lick and a cut out o-" mine", Lemme go now, and just you1 mind what I says." Miss Fortescue had opened'her mouth to plead further, but almost ere she knew It, the strange little apparition had vanished'. . . "Well, I never!" exclaimed Miss FoT tescue, using unconsciously the same" words that her cook had selected for the expression of her great amazement. And she went straight upstairs and told the whole story to Maria Vinton. Mrs. Vinton scoffed at it, as, indeed, it was quite natural she should do. "And you believe it all? aid she. "I couldn't help it while I looked In her face." "But, my dear Miss Fortescue. Just see how very improbable it all is. Pray, use your common sense." "At all event, 1 mean to have the police," said Miss Fortescue, nodding her head. "You'll only get laughed at for your pains." "I'll risk that," said the little old maid. The gray-stone house was quite dark when the clocks struca 2, the quarter past, and the half.hour; but Miss For tescue was wide-awake, sitting in front of her fire, with a heart throbbing with quick, uncertain beats. She would have risked much on Jacqueline's truth, yet now that the hour of test ap proached, strange doubts crept over her mind. Silently rising, she stole downstairs on tiptoe, and stood at the head of the cellar stairway, with Mrs. Vinton at her side, both trembling, partly from cold, and partly from undefined appre hensions. Suddenly there was a dull, scuffling noise, the sound of hurried movements and then the sharp crack of a pistol, and then a child's cry. "You'll blow on us ag'in!" snarled a deep voice. "It's all Up now but you shan't go scot free, you. Jackey!" More smothered scuffling noise, the sound of hurried movements, and then a sudden upblazing of light; but through It all Miss Fortescue's strained ears could hear the low moaning of someone in mortal pain. "I can't endure this. Maria," she whispered. "I must go down." "And be killed in the melee!" cried Mrs. Vinton, holding tight to her arm. "No, indeed; you shall not stir a step!" And at this instant the light flashed i into brilliancy, and from her elevated posltion Miss Fortescue could see the whole startling scene. The rutlians, bound hand and foot, with sullen faces, and bloodshot, rolling eyes the trium phant myrmidons of the law exulting in the capture they had made, and one little figure darkly cowering in a corner little Jacqueline. Heedless of the attempted explana tion of the officers. Miss Fortescue broke from Mrs. Vinton's detaining hand, and ran to the child. "My dear, you are bleeding you arc hurt?" "Yes'm." Jack answered, phlegmatl cally, "I'm hurt. Slippery Jim mis trusted as I'd blown on 'cm, and he shot me. I think I'm goin' to die! I somehow can't breathe easy!" and, thus speaking, poor Jack fainted. "Lawk! ma'am!" said one of the of ficers, as Miss Fortescue tenderly lifted the helpless mass of rags, dirt and blood in her arms, "she's just as bad as any on 'em, Mother Jones' Jackey every body knows her!" "I know her," said Miss Fortescue, quietly. "It's to her I owe my preserva tion from robbery perhaps assault, and even murder this night. Hence forward, she shall be my care." Mrs. Vinton held up both hands in amazement and wonder. Was the rich spinster going mad? When little Jackey came to herself, she lay among soft, scented pillows, with the odorous breath of hothouse flowers filling the air, and a kind face bending over hers Miss Fortescue's face. "Oh-h-h!" said Jackey, with a long breath; "I thought I was dead and gone to heaven, but I ain't, be I?" "No, my dear." said Miss Fortescue, her tears dropping softly on the little fevered face, "not yet. We hope you will soon be well, and then you will be my little girl." Jacqueline stared vaguely at her pro tectress, whose kind eyes seemed so dim and far off to her fever-weakened vision. "That would be better tlian going to heaven." she said, with a long, flutter ing sigh, and then she fell asleep. Miss Fortescue wept as she pondered over the words, which too plainly be tokened the life the poor little waif had led. And Mrs. Vinton, ever ready to misjudge her fellow-creatures, thought spitefully as she measured Jacqueline's drops for the next dose of medicine: "What a skillful little actress that beg gar child was!" Miss Fortescue kept her word, and when Jackey recovered from the long and dangerous illness consequent upon the pistol shot, the child was her own henceforward, loved with almost as ten der a fondness as if some tie of actual consanguinity had existed between them. The piece of silver which the rich lady unthinkingly bestowed, with a smile and kind word, upon the forlorn street beggar had drawn interest. A Milwaukee woman who Is a re ligious fanatic- has been traveling about ""Irs "'""f ! hUm' I nei nf ir nvn ilnnnm nut nn ILLS OF ANIMALS. THEV HAVE physicians when THEY ARE SlGK. Cats, Dogs and the Xolile Horse How They Act When tinder the Doctor's Care Sotne Instrument That Are t'sed -luting .Medicine. ATS,"' said art fex pert on the dis eases of animals, "are very hard to treat, for the rea son that they be come homesick and droop more" from that cause than actual ill ness. Colds and Indigestion consti tute, four-fifths of feline (rouble-; and if a cat is given chloroform it never ral lies. Rabbits take cold very easily, and have little stamina to resist dis ease. Pigeons are brought to me some times for sore feet, from treading on sharp or pointed substances; or. .like chickens, they sometimes get the pip, which is but another form Of indiges tion. You treat them by putlingg the medicine in their food. If the roosts" arc kept comparatively free from ver min there will be less disease among the feathered pets." "How do you diagnose cases?" 1 asked. "Much the same as in human beings; listen to the breathing. If a dog or a horse has pneumonia, which is as prev alent among them sis with us, it will have all the symptoms of a human be ing; labored breathing, coughing, and the various signs by which we know exactly where the trouble lies." "Do they make irritable patients?" I queried. "Not as a rule," he replied. "They realize that you are trying to help them, and if you go to them, and speak kindly and pat them a few times, you gain their confidence and can readily manage them. A dog docs not get as homesiek as a cat, for he will play with other dogs as soon as he begins Id Im prove. This is one of the most useful of our instruments," he continued, taking from the case a pair of blunt scissors, curved at the end very like the nail scissors used by manicures. "That is to take a bone from the throat. You hold the dog's mouth well open, and the instrument reaches down into the larynx; then you can easily loosen it and remove it. We have many cases where a dog is brought almost choking to death, and a very few moments suf fice to relieve him." "Do dogs really suffer with tooth ache?" I asked. "Very frequently. For that reason we always examine the mouth fir3t. A dog will submit very patiently to having a tooth, drawn": it is the only remedy." Continuing, he called a silky little Skye terrier, and, opening its mouth, he showed me, on the outer gum on the right side, a kind of little sack, or perhaps it might be called a fold of flesh: but it looked like a little pocket in the gum. Into this the medicine is put, and the mouth held tightly closed until Mr. Doggie has to swallow the noxious dose. "These poor creatures have rheuma tism, and all the diseases of the eye and ear even that humanity is heir to. and the purer the breed and the i more delicately they are reared the wider becomes the range of these trou bles. At times they become the vic tims of chorea, which corresponds with our fashionable nervous prostration. There are dogs that become absolutely dyspeptic wrecks, with colic, cramps, and all the varieties of indigestion. "Now, tell me about horses," I said. "Can you set their broken bones?" "Very rarely," he answered. "If a horse meets with an accident of that kind it is more humane to kill him at once; and many people, if they love a dog or a horse, prefer to have us kill it with anaesthetics. If a horse could be suspended long enough for the bones to knit together, recovery might be successfully accomplished; but a horse has very little vitality in proportion to its size, and would not live under the heroic treatment necessary. If he did it would leave a lump or blemish that would detract materially from its value. With a horse, as with a dog, we first examine the mouth. When an animal refuses its food it brings on indiges tion and attendant ills. A horse's teeth often become very sharp and cut the tongue when masticating. He then swallows his food whole, which, as we say, of course, does not digest. When we find this to be the trouble we file the teeth." He took from the case an instrument about eighteen inches long, having on one end a file about an inch wide and about three inches long, which, he said, was used for that oper ation. Then he explained another instru ment, with a handle like a corkscrew, only instead of the spinal screw it had a round, open knife about three-fourths of an inch in diameter. "This," he ex plained, "is used when a horse has had a fall, and a portion of the bone lead ing from the eye to the nose is indent ed. We take this, and by a quick blow cut a hole through fiie lower section of the hone. Into this orifice we insert a probe, and gently raise the injured part into position; then the piece first cut out is reinserted. In a week or ten days it is reknit and the horse is as good as ever." "How do you give them medicine?" "We fix it into what we call a bolus. It is cone shaped, about three inches long and round in proportion. We open the horse's mouth and put the bolus deep into the throat. You must be sure that he swallows it, for if he gets the chance he will eject it" Washington Star. WHY DON'T IT WOBBLE? The Earth' Balance MiihI Have Changed Since C'olumhu. A New England scientist says there's going to be dickens to pay if the rest of the United States continues to cart away granite and marble from the land of the Pilgrims and Puritans. "It is not unlikely," says he, "that the equil ibrium of the earth is already consid erably disturbed, and that we shall shortly feel a pronounced wobble. Of course, if there is to be a wobble any where we would prefer it in New Eng- nd, but perhaps the outlook Is not so ' desperate as at first glimpse. The tm mef ftish ot people to the Thite moun tains. Bar Harbor, Newport, and a thousand other fie England summer resorts must in a very grU degree restore the weight which existed before there were quarries in New England. Add (MefS Is another thing. It is com puted that there ireYe in the Western hemisphere, when Cofambus set foot on it, not more than 1,000.06(J human be ings. There are now, at a very low estimate, 101.000,000. These lOO.OOOr 000 of additional persons have in creased the weight of the western hem isphere some ,OO0,OOO of tons, in the roundest of roUttd numbers. Surely there is an opportunity (or a wobble in this state of affairs, and we ought to be conscious of it br this time. If there has been no wobble an explana tion should be demanded. Some men of science should rise to tell us why we don't wobble. Nothing Is more dreadful, says the Buffalo Courier, than the uncertainty when anil .where tho commotion will begin. Probably only tliose who are holding to the car straps at (he time will keep their feet. A MIXED-UP FAMILY. A Man Whoc Hon Is JIU llrother-ln-Law. Here are the raw materials for a heartache. Dr, fcing, of Adelaide, a widower, married a MIbs Norris. Short ly after the doctor's honeymoon, the doctor's sod married a sister of the doctor's wife. Then a brother of the doctor's wife married the doctor's daughter. In other words, the doctor's son became his stepmother's brother-in-law, and the doctor's daughter be came her stepmother's sister-in-law. The doctor, by the marriage of his son to tho Bister of the doctor's wife, be came father-in-law to his sister-in-law, arid the doctor's wife, by the marriage of her sister to her stepson, became stepmothcr-in-law to her own sister. By the marriage of the" brother of the doctor's wife to the doctor's daughter the doctor became father-in-law to his brother-in-law, and the doctor's wife became stepmother-in-Iaw to her own brother. What relations, asks Pica roon in Pall Mall Budget, are the chil dren of the contracting parties to each other? The Most Dreadful Earthquake. The most dreadful earthquake on rec ord is that which, November 1. 1775, destroyed the city of Lisbon, Portugal. The only warning the inhabitants re ceived was a noise like subterranean thunder, which, without any consid erable interval, was followed by a suc cession of shocks which laid in ruins almost every building in the city, with a most incredible slaughter of the in habitants (60,000). The bed of the river Tagua was in many places raised to the surface, and vessels on the river sud denly found themselves aground. The waters of the river and the sea at first retreated, and then immediately rolled violently in upon the land, forming a wave over forty feet in elevation. To complete the destruction a large quay, upon which great numbers of the peo ple had assembled for security, sud denly sank to such an unfathomable depth that not one body ever after wards appeared at the surface. I.ikes Our Women. During the stay of the Prince of Wales at the Riviera his partiality for Americans, especially for American ladies, was again remarked with many ill-natured comments from expectant Britishers hovering near. BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Sin feels safe as long as It can hide its head. A fool has to find out for himself that fire is hot. No fish gets away that bites at the devil's hook. The devil's favorite pew in church is near the front. We may kill God's man, but we can not kill his truth. The man who deserves riches can be rich without them. It is a waste of breath to talk any louder than we live. The older the Christian, the newer he will find God's book. No man Is fit for heaven who wants somebody else kept out. If you want to do something, find one who believes something. It Is better to be a mustard seed than a mountain of dead rock. Our lives please God when they make sinners want to know Christ. It never hurts God's work any for people to get mad at bis truth. An extravagant man loves to lecture his wife on the beauty of economy. God can see jewels where we would see only common sand and gravel. How small God's army always seems to be when we take upon ourselves to number it. Next to hearing a hypocrite pray, the devil loves to hear a stingy man talk in church. An opportunity to help the poor is a chance Christ has given us to do some thing for him. Open the door of your heart to Christ, and he will open the windows of heaven for you. God will give us strength to resist temptation if we will use it to walk away from bad company. WOMAN AND HER WAYS. The Czarina Is an expert swimmer. Rochester has an organization of wo men called the Fortnightly Ignorance club. It has been discovered by a German scientist that thinking is one of the j chief causes of wrinkles. Among Hindoo women there are in stances of the highest attainments. Cal cutta can boast of several that have taken high degrees in medicine and science. The "Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other" club is reported to be the latest addition to the society organi zations in Gardiner, Me. It is a ladies' whfst club, and the name is very appro priate, inasmuch as six of its members are maidens and six are matrons. In making tea in Japan, the hostess pours the powdered tea from the caddy, and the water from the kettle simul taneously into a bamboo dipper, as a French waiter pours hot milk and cof fee, and stirs it carefully with a "chosen" bamboo, one end of which Is split into small slivers. A New York paper says that eggs are the latest fad among the women of that city. "It has become a common sight at leading ladies" restaurants in the shopping districts to see whole regi ments of women file past the man at the counter busy breaking eggs in wine glasses. The beverage is then rossJed down in a single swallow." AN IMPORTANT CASE. IT COMES UP BEFORE THE UNITED STATES COURT. A Suit for an Eatoppel The Kareka Chemical Company, of t Croaae Makes the Trouble. Papers have been filed ia the Unite States court of the western district of Wisconsin, by Tarrant & Kronshage, attorneys for the Sterling Remedy com pany, of Chicago and New York, ia a suit for estoppel and damages against an imitation of Xo-to-bac, the tobacco habit cure. The action is brought against n concern called the Eureka Chemical company, of La Crosse, Wis. The principles involved in these pro ceedings are of the utmost importance to tho proprietary interests of America in general, and form in many respects, a test case, the outcome of which will be carefully watched by the many oth er important concerns similarly imi tated. Not only the question of imita tion of name, trade-mark, form of preparation and package, enter into the case, but also the proposition whether the actual advertising litera ture used in establishing the publicity of a preparation can be stolen with im punity, word for word, by an imitator. The decision in this case will settle one of the vital points in the United States trade-mark and copyright law. Madi son (Wis.) Democrat. IN THE BEGINNING. Combs are found in the earliest known graves. Buttons were used in Troy. Schlie mann found over 1,800 of gold. mps were used before written history. Thousands of ancient lamps have been found. Curtains were employed for bed steads in the eleventh century; they were afterwards transferred to win dows. Tea pots were the invention of either the Indians or the Chinese, and are of uncertain antiquity. They came to Europe with tea in 1610. Dishes of gold and silver used in table service in 900 B. C. were found at Troy by Dr. Schliemanu. One of these was about the size now em ployed. Outer blinds for windows were un known until the fourteenth century. The Venetian or interior blinds are so called because they were first used in Venice. Pepper casters were used by the Athenians, pepper being a common condiment They were placed on the table with the salt in England in the sixteenth century. Kocking cradles for babies were used by the Egyptians many cen turies before Christ. Among the pic tures copied by Belzoni is one of an Egyptian mother at work with her foot on the cradle. Tumblers of nearly the same shape and dimensions as those employed to day have been found in great num bers in Pompeii. They were of gold, silver, glass, agate, marble and other semi-precious stones. Lucifer matches were patented in 1831, while friction matches preceded them by thirteen years. The im proved machinery by which matches are now made by the million at a trifling cost were the inventions of comparative' recent years. Coffee pots are an oriental inven tion, and are supposed to have come from Arabia in A. D. 1400. About the same time they were used in Persia, but they did not come to France until 1CG2, and made their appearance in England with coffee in 1650. WOMEN AND THEIR WORK. Margaret Allen fell overboard at New York and would have drowned had not an intelligent pig on board the same schooner raised an alarm that saved her. "Did you hear that Mrs. Smith is having her picture painted?" "You don't say! That old thing!" "Yes, in deedpainted in oiL" "Well, I never! In oil? If she ever wants a good likeness she'll have to le painted in vinegar." "This is my last birthday," said a handsome girl to her adorer. "What do you mean?" he exclaimed, clutch ing at his heart "You are not going to die, are you?" "Well, I should hope not I'm 21 to-day, and a wo man never has a birthday after that, you know." A young ISath. Me., couple, New Year's eve, at a company, joked each other on the fact that neither was wedded. The young man went home with the maiden and proposed that if neither of them found anyone he or she liked better during 1895 that they become engaged to each other next New Year s eve. She agreed, and the result is awaited with interest A piece of evidence in a Quebec breach of promise cas.e was a cuff with an offer of marriage written on it One night while the defendant was holding the plaintiff's hand and whispering fervid words, he popped the question in manuscript on the smooth linen at her wrist She was sentimental or shrewd enough to keep that article out of the wash.and now it is of practical value. Mm. Eliza A. Leach of New Boston, N. H., recently gave a friend a silk quilt, made by herself, of a "crazy" pattern, that is decidedly unique in colors and design, intricate in needle work and complicated in the arrange ment of its more than 400 parts. Each piece is distinct in its shape and ar rangement, no two pieces resembling each other in outline and vcrv few of like color. Mrs. Leach is 84 years old. ' EXAMPLES OF LEVITY. "Does Illykins understand horse races?" "He must I never see him at the track." Caller Is your daughter learning to speak French? Mamma No; she is only studying it Editor Somehow or other I don't see the sen.c of this thing. Poet My dear sir. that's poetry. "I'll tell you a tale that is positirely hair-raisinir in " "For Jupiter's sake tell it to Gibson he's bald-headed. "Docs your father object to my suit?" Miss Jewell No, indeed; he said he thought it was much better than you could really afford. It i e'Rirned that Lake Erie produces j more fish to thesminre mile than any other WAJ V tfcV . W Cohmlms Stab Bask I, Pari iiimrtiiTiii wis Iita lias n Seal Estate Wv Tk aal a OIII t IRAMHIf : fXOXKI. BUYS GOOD NOTES aaAXMatas OIIICEU AND directors: Leander Gkrrard, Prea't, B. H. Hrhry, Vice Prest, M. Brugger, Cashier. Join Stauffer. G. W. Hulst. COLUMBUS, NEB., -HASAN- Aitiwrizi. Capital if - $500,000. Paid ii Capital, - 90,000 OmCERS. 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