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Y "TtlMrMWTMBBSSSffl " -bf?TE 'f- '-- ""(' .Tp. 7 , Cflkmlras ..." .. .- . : i -, j VOLUME XXVII.-NUMBER i. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY. APRIL 15, 1896. WHOLE NUMBER 1,353. $mtrnm. V: rs F "t.v :": LT I DINED AT THE CAFE. N TWO of tho leather - seated chairs before the big window of the hotel tho Junior and sophomore sat side by side. Each wore a large chrys anthemum and car ried a cane decked "" with streamers of ribbon. The ro tunda behind them was filled with restless groups of young men, all wear ing ribbon or carrying flags, and all talking hoarsely and excitedly. The streets in front or the hotel, al ready filled with the dusk of earthly twilight, through which the street lamps seemed spheres of golden haze, wore much the same look, but with the difference that the groups took the form of a procession moving along the wet sidewalk. Across tho way the shirts In the window of tho "Gents' Clothing Palace" were all of the same color as the ribbons. The entrance to the dry-goods store further down was draped with the same shade. Even the bootblacks and newsboys, perhaps with a view to personal benefit rather than from any strong affection for the col lege, wore knots of the same, Tho sophomore looked out at the moving crowd and tapped the floor lightly with his cane. "Great game, wasn't It?" ho Bald, hoarsely. The junior nodded. Tho fact that he had heard the same remark from the same source a dozen times in the last liftecn minutes did not affect his ap preciation of it in tho least "Wrecked my voice, though," said tho sophomore. "If it were shattered," said the Jun ior, in a thoughtful tone, "I might get a little sleep in the morning." To tills the sophomore made no an swer. He did not feel himself capable of conversing on any subject except tho game. "There were holes in their line that you could drive an ice-wagon through," he said in sudden exultation. said n he turned aliovc the desk. "Let's go and "I don't drive an tnc Junior, shortly, and looked at the cl "It's nearly C," he ; get something to ea The sophomore cf the corner of his ey Liter became immerse the toes of his shoes. "I'm going downtown said, hesitatingly. "WhatjfiaM the Junior. i ne-sopnomorasjijef nientwilh obvious eni junior looked at him aeornWfc g. "Didn't you tell me," herald accus ingly, ''that we'd take dinimr together. ro to the theater, and then catch the l!:$?itrain back? iciUHMMtf H. dwn a strife tAdinafkr' uritWtG at him out nd an instant of he state- LThe Itherlng BxWgL "YOU'LL NEED YOUR NERVE." The sophomore shifted uneasily in his seat. "Well, you sec." ho said, "I hadn't received this invitation then." "That makes no difference," said the junior, sternly. "You made an engage ment with me. Arc you going to break it?" "No," said the sophomore. "Only" "Only you don't intend to keep it," said the junior. "What'H I do now? Wander about till train time?" "Oh. you'll be all right!" said the sophomore. "Unless some one takes you for a hayseed and bunkoes you," he added. The junior looked thoughtfully up at the electric light. Then he turned to the sophomore. "Who is she?" he asked. "It'll do you no good to know," said the sophomore. "I don't want to know," said the jun ior "Was it the one on the coach?" The sophomore nodded. "I met her at the beach last vaca tion," said he. "I never called on her here, but she asked me to dinner to night. She has a cousin in college. I never asked his name for fear she'd want me to look him up." A broad smile came over the face of the junior, but when the sophomore turned toward him he was prematurely grave. "You're going then?" he asked. "Yes." said the sophomore, calmly. The junior looked pensively at his cane. "I think I'll go with you." he said. The sophomore laughed. "I mean it." said tho junior. "I don't see why I shouldn't." "What!" said the sophomore. "You could say that you had brought a friend with you," said the junior. "It would be all right. She'd understand." The sophomore looked at him closely, as if searching for evidence of a joke, but the junior was apparently in earn--est. "I'd look pretty, uould'nt I?" said the sophomore. "I've no doubt of it," said the junior. "You always do." "It would be the most cold-blooded thing on record." said the sophomore. "Why. I hardly know the girl! It would make me look like the very dev il r "You flatter yourself." said the Jun ior. "She'd think mc an ass." said the sophomore, smiling. "Well, what's the use of trying to de ceive her?" asked the junior, coldly. "Of course, you're joking, though," said the sophomore, appealingly. "You wouldn't do such a thing." "Why not?" said the junior. "You could make it all right by a little ex planation." "Little explanation!" said the soph omore, with great exasperation. "Itj would take a duodecimo of explanation to clear up a thing like that!" "Stick to football English," said the Junior. "Duodecimo is the little kind. When yon get out of your depth you don't say what you mean." "I might tell her you were a lunatic," said the sophomore, thoughtfully. "That would do," the Junior agreed. The sophomore looked at him criti cally. "I believe yoo would do It." he said at last "It's a blessed thing that I'll not take you." "How'll you help yourself?" asked the Junior, with Interest The sophomore studied the question in silence. "You can't turn me over to tho po lice," old the Junior; "and you can't fight, because If you did you'd not be presentable yourself.'" The sophomore glanced over his shoulder at the clock. "It's time for me to start." ho said. "Good-by, I'll meet you at the train." The Junior promptly rose and fol lowed him. At the door the sophomore turned and looked at him helplessly. "I say, now, you'll not " he began. "Come on," said the Junior. "There goes a car." Mo seized the sophomore's arm and they boarded the car together. "Better go Inside, It's wanxM7." said tho sophomore, wildly. The Junior smiled. "I'll stand out here with you," he re plied carelessly. Tho sophomore sighed. "You don't really mean H "That I'll Invade the young woman's home," put In tho Junior. "I do. Under your protection I will have no hesita tion." The sophomore turned his back and gloomily watched the passing lamp3. The Junior paid the fare for two. "If I obliged him to pay my fare," he said to himself, "It might anger him." The sophomore did not look at him when they got off the car. Half-way down the square he stopped at the foot of a flight of stairs and turned his eyes doubtfully from the door above to the Junior. "Is this the place?" asked tho Junior. Innocently. "I'm beginning to get ner vous. I always do when I go calling." "You'll need all your nerve this time," said the sophomore, bitterly. He went up stairs slowly, the junior close behind him. At the top he turned sharply round, and said: "Do you really mean to do so ungen tlemanly a thing?" "it's not ungcntlemanly," said the Junior, stoutly. "All you have to do " "Oh, shut up!" Tho sophomore turned away and put his hand on the belt Then he looked back over his shoulder. The junior was leaning easily against the broad railing of the veranda. "I believe you're fool enough to fol low me in," said the sophomore, angrily. "I am," answered the junior, calmly. "Perhaps not exactly that but we'll not fight over terms." "Well, you can't make me make such on ass of myself," said the sophomore, suddenly. The Junior smiled broadly. "You can take dinner here If you want to." tho sophomoro went on. "I believe that you havo no more sense than to try. I'll wait on the corner to see you kicked out Then I'll go back to the hotel and get something to eat." "I'll go with you," said the Junior, readily. The sophomoro turned and stole quietly down the steps. "I hope no one saw me," ho said, when bo reached the bottom. "I thought I saw a girl looking, out of the second-story window," san tho Junior, comfortingly. - "Oh, you go to the deuce!" said tho sophomore. "Well, perhaps I was mistaken." said the junior. "It looked that way, though. Had you just as lief walk be side me? When you drop behind that way it makes me nervous. It's so easy to hit a man over the head when he is not looking." "It wouldn't hurt you," growled the sophomore. "We'll go back to tho hotel and carry out the original program," said the Jun ior. The sophomore did not echo his en thusiasm. Even when he found himself opposite the junior at a little white table in the cafe, among his friends and in the presence of a clamorous argu ment about the game, he did not un bend. But by the time that the oysters came in his face began to clear. "I suppose you'll tell this thing all over the college." he said, ruefully. "It's a good thing that they don't peel these lemons," said the junior. "One would never know what they were if it were not for the yellow outside." TO EIGHT EOR CUBA. NELLIE BLY IS RAISING MALB REGIMENT. A FE- te Do Deadly Battla Agalaat 1 Behalf ot Cabaa Iadevea- 4amm Interviewed by A He fork ELLtE BLY Is the busiest person In New York, man or woman. In fact, there are few per sons of the billion and a half that toll and .groan on this round earth that are so occu pied as she. And, is always, she & doing something entertaining and noVei and interesting, says the New York World. Nellie Bly Is arranging to add a new terror of war! Could anything be more delightful? Now, adding a new terror to war In this day of all manner of dreadful Inven tions Is no easy matter. And at first thought you would say that It would be impossible for a 3lendcr, comparatively frail young woman to do such a fear some thing. But that is because you are not thoroughly acquainted with Nellln Bly. It is very difficult to get her to talk about her plan. She Is so busy arrang ing details that she has "no time for chat," .as the gentleman said to his friends on the corner who qalled to him when ho was being towed down the street by a wild steer. This Interview was got only by accompanying her in a cab as she was riding from one place can see It all now " she said, leaning back In the cab and closing her eyes. "I must confess that 1 do not quite follow you not quite. And if I could it would not be half so interesting as to hear your plans from your own lips." "It is very simple," she smiled. "From what class would you naturally select officers who had the qualities ab solutely necessary?" 1 faintly remarked that I did not think any particular class had a monop oly of those admirable qualities. "That is true." she answered. "But Bravery you have only to read the newspapers from day to day to learn that women are braver than men. What perils have not women faced with courage? In any emergency In which brute force mere dull, uhihteill ment muscle Is not the deciding fac tor, woman Is always the superior of man. She is oalmcr, more far-sighteJ, less easily upset or panic-stricken." "It Is especially distressing," said I, "that you arc not contemplating prac tising your new idea on the Spaniards first The Spaniards are a most gal lant race, devoted to love and to women. It will be a horrible ordeal to them to have to crder their men to fire upon young and beautiful women." "Again you see It the wrong way," said Miss Bly with somb slight Irrita tion, as it seemed to me. "Tho diffi culty is quite different 1 know the Spanish men, and it is just their strong feeling for women that troubles me for the success of my plan. I fear that when they see these young and beauti ful women, as you are pleased to call them, marching forward, they will fight so desperately to get these charming persons that the valor of the men on our side will be of no avail. They will call out. 'No quarter except to the women. Death to the man who touches a hair of their beautiful heads! Glory FRUif A3 A MEOlGINS, Ik Cm b Always Advaataceeu 1 tata Ferau of Disease. As a medicine I look upon fruit as a moLi valuable al'iy, says Popular Sci ence Monthly. When the body H hi that breaking up condition known as scurvy the whole medical profession look upon fruit and fresh vegetables as the one and only known remedy, t believe the day will come when science will use it very much more largely than it does now in the treatment of many of the every-day ailments. Impure blood means gout, rheuma tism, skin diseases, rickets and other troubles. As it is proved that fruit will purify and improve the quality of the blood It must follow that fruit is both food and medicine combined. In fevers I use grapes and straw r!cs, giving them to my patients in small but frequent doses oranges and baked apples if the others are not ob tainable. For rheumatism plenty of lemons are Invaluable. White girls with miserable, pallid complexions want a quart of strawber ries a day; where these are not obtain able bananas, which contain much Iron, are a good substitute. Probably of all fruits the apple stands unrivaled for general purposes In tho household; either raw or cooked It can be taken by nearly everybody, and it contains similar properties to the other more delicate fruits. To my mind the pear is more easily digested than the apple and for eating uncooked Is su perior to it Dried fruits should be used when green cannot be obtained. If soaked for a few hours before cooking they make a capital substitute for fresh fruits and they come cheaper to the consumer-. INSOMNIA, WHAT IT MEANS TO LOSE THE POWER TO SLEEP. Hm varsi wfflmi . ml mm K I If S K&jai Pvm .BjiSg&SttsaRsss! Ws3aWsWKSaMivla,r'?5sw msKm 7r Ml SaTi i SaTfa ill 1 i i sti.iYs5vsiv .x I A Teaae; Beltlsaere Weanaa frereated Her Frew Keatiag-. From the Herald, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Jessie Shea Is a fOHti$ married woman whose tidy home Is at 855 West Lexington Street, Baltimore. For maiiy months MrK Shea was a terrible suf ferer from a flerv'tiiis affection which resulted In general debility and super Induced that ofttlme lnOUrabk? mal ady. Insomnia. A Herald reporter called at her residence recently nnd Was shown Into tha t.eatly furnished parlor" and told that lira. Shea would be" down ill a few min utes. Soon it light step was heard tripping down the ftalrway and Mrs. Shea, radiant with health and the vigor of young womanhood, entered the room. When asked If she had used Dr. Williams' Pink Pins, with a smile which betokens the utmost satisfac tion, the ?6iifig lady replied "Ten. I have used them, and had I not heard of them I doubt If I would have been here to answer your call." Continuing, she said: "About Wd months ago I had an attack of what the doctors termed nervous prostration. My appetite left me entirely and what little sleep 1 got, and It was very lit tle. I assure you, was not by any means refreshing. On the contrary, when 1 awoke from a nap I had such n tired and exhausted feeling that I was loth to try to .jet to sleep again. I continued to lose flesh day after day i until I was almost a shadow compared wun my former self. "As soon as I began to take the Pink Pills 1 commenced to Improve. I am no longer troubled with nervousness. I have a good appetite, experience none of the feelings Incident to indigestion, and I sleep as sound as a healthy child. The pills are certainly all they are rep resented to be. and. as I believe I owe my life to the fact of having used them. I shall always cheerfully recom mend them to my friends and other persons whom I find to be suffering from similar maladies. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, In a condensed form, all the elements nec essary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. Pink Pills are sold in boxes at 50 cents a box. or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mall from Dr. Williams' Med. Co., Schenectady, N. T. ' likl "It makes me fel pretty mean." sakl the sophomore. r "They call these two-by-four mon strosities "blue points' on the bill, don't they?" said the Junior. "What troubles me most." said tho sophomore. "Is what the dickens the girl will think of me." The junior lifted an oyster on his fork and looked at it closely. "Don't worry about that." he said. "I'll fix it all right with her." The sophomore stooped his glass half way to his mouth and looked at him over the rim in amazement "I'm the cousin at college whose came you never asked." said the junior. foea a Rlrjrle In FrUon. A new use for the bicycle has been discovered in the New York State Re formatory at Elimra which Is much commended by the General Superin tendent The captain of the watch makes his rounds within the prison proper through the ,maln corridors on a cycle. The distance is over half a mile. His trips are swift and noise less, and he is thus enabled to keep his subordinates on the alert at all hours of the day or night as there is no telling when he may bear down upon them. New York Journal. Xarrlayfr. The highest most important of all life's duties and labors must be per formed strictly in accord with the di vine laws of marriage, known to man as revealed from heaven. The bond that binds man and woman is no less than that of an pvprlnstinfr mrrni.n) - "HMO VWT1.UOUI, to another. She was looking charming, but decldely weary. "I am going to war myself," sho said In an unconcerned way, with a weary smile. "To war? You? What war? Why?" "The Cuban war," she replied, closing her eyes. "There Is going to be a war for Cuban independence a real war on land and sea. I am raising a regiment." "Oh, you are just raising a regiment You are not going yourself?" "My dear sir, you quite misunder stand me. I am going to lead the way. I have selected my uniform." "That is a very serious Bign." "Not at all," she laughed. "Selecting a uniform is no 6lgn of war at all. Iu fact it is an indication of peaceful in tentions usually. But, as It happens, not in this particular case. Besides it was by no means the first thing I did. It was one of the last things. It was quite accidental. I couldn't sleep well the other night and my mind began to turn on trivial things and I planned a uniform. I think It will help me a great deal In recruiting my regiment" "Are you going to wear it at your re cruiting headquarters?" "Still you misunderstand me," sho said with a patient, forbearing smile. "I mean that the women will like the style of uniform so well that it will en courage them to recruit. Or rather, to put it more clearly, they will realize that it is quite possible for a woman to be comfortable and happy in a uni form." "Would you mind telling mo your plans?" "Not In the least There Is no secret about It I am going to war by com mittee. That is thrr intelligent way." By committee?" "Exactly. I am getting together a committee of prominent men, men whose names will carry conviction to the community. I am selecting them from the various first-class clubs. Oh, It will be a great committee. They will have charge of raising the necessary funds, taking charge ot subscriptions, sending money and supplies to tho regi ment at the front looking after the wounded, when they are brought home, and arranging the funerals of those who have died gloriously on the field of honor." This sounded rather formidable. But Miss Bly has a plain, matter-of-fact way of speaking and such a record of daring and unique achievement that It was impossible to suspect her of indulg ing in illusions. Miss Bly is not a dreamer. "Why not?" she exclaimed energet ically and with a glow in her keen gray eyes. "Why not? War Is no longer a matter of muscular force. The hand-to-hand combat is gone forever. Any sort of healthy raw material will do for private soldiers for cannon food. The point is to get a lot of soldiers together who will obey implicitly, will follow their officers anywhere. The great thing is to get the right sort of officers officers who are brave, capable of en durance, faithful, sober, intelligent, full of the personal magnetism that will in spire the soldiers to do and dare." women have them oftener and to a greater degree than men." "Women! Women officers?" "Precisely. Women officers. Yon, my dear sir, are still in the dark ages. Yon do not realize that women, the highest class of women, to-day havo more of the qualities esential to grea. military leaders than men." and a prize to htm who takes a woman prisoner!' It is a question whether a man will do more when ho is fighting with a woman or when he is fighting for possession of her. What do you think?" "It is Greek and Greek," I said, with that natural access of the commonplace characteristic of the state of being overwhelmed by a superior mind. "Yes," she said, and the cab stopped. "Here I am, and I must leave you. It Is a great undertaking. But I shall carry it through. And I shall raise up such friends for poor, harassed Cuba as no nation fighting for liberty ever had before." She was gone Instantly. You may believe what you liko. But for my part I shall not bo surprised to hear from Havana before many months that Col. Nellie Bly. of the First New York Femalo Regcment, has been pro moted on the field of battle for gal lantry. Cecil Rhodes a a Hoy. The old nurse of Cecil Rhodes tells some interesting stories of tho cele brated Englishman which go to prove the old saying that in his case tho child was father of the man. He was con stantly getting into trouble of all kinds. Having been scolded by his mother one morning while he was get ting out of bed he jumped through a window with nothing on but his night shirt and ran around the grounds chased by the entire household. Fi nally he succeeded in climbing up a high wall and refused to come down until his stockings had been banded up to him. One of his weaknesses was a fond ness for jam. The nurse tells how she made some on one occasion and put the pots, as she thought, completely out of his reach. "Two of them," says the nurse, "were gone in a few min utes." Cecil admitted the theft "It was very good," he said, "make some more," and went off whistling. His mother was lenient to him. Let him alone," she used to say, "it is best as long as he speaks the truth." No Stnoiclnc In the Honsr. "Speaker Reed has made a reforma tion in the habits of the house. There has been a rule for lo! these many years against smoking on the Door. It has been openly violated, most shame fully so in the last session. Reed be gan to enforce it at the very beginning. Now, after the pages have acquired the habit of speaking to every offender as soon as detected, even when the house is not in session, the fight has been won. Smoking may still be indulged in in the cloak rooms, but the smoke no longer rises from the places of men who formerly smoked publicly while they listened or worked in their seats." Providence Journal. I murmured something about their - - i - . - - .... never to be broken, and the violation always naving baa more aomty as of any of the laws upon which it is strategists and tacticians, but she paid founded cannot fail to reap the penalty no attention to me. that so great a sin demands. Elder S. "Take the qualities In their order. W. Richaras. B1 paused to rest a moment i She looked very tired, Indeed. "Ton A MUsoarl Cariosity. In Nevada, Mo., a young catalpa tree, about twenty feet tall, is growing with a section of a coal-stove grate firmly attached near its roots. The tree has grown through the bars of the grate from the seed, and, as it increased in diameter, the wood lapped over and under the bars, holding it as in a vice. The grate was lifted off the ground several inches as the growth of the tree progressed. Youaz Women Oulr Glow. The fashion writers say the summer girl of 1S96 will wear the sweater at mountain and spring in all sorts of becoming hues. The new woman Is different from the old. "My dears,' said the head of a finishing school of the- past to her girls, "a horse sweats, a man perspires; a young lady can only glow." NELLIE BLY, THE MODERN JUAN OF ARC. For preserving fruit I look upon bot tling in glass bottles as the coming thing. Not by the use of chemicals, such as salicylic and boracic acids and the various preservatives made from them, but simply by protecting it after cooking from the fermentive germs In the atmosphere. It keeps for years, turns out even more palatable than green fruit, is equally digestible and contains all the virtues of freshly cooked fruit Canned fruit Is not so good; the acid of the fruit dissolves up tin and lead from the tin and I have seen very serious cases of illness as a result Besides, fruit should be sold much cheaper in bottle than In tins, as the bottles can be returned and used again. BITS OF KNOWLEDGE. Ruskln once wrote to Dante Gabriel Rosetti: "If you wanted to oblige me you would keep your room in order and go to bed at night. All your fine speeches go for nothing with me till you do that" One of the first acts of the recently formed waiters' union in London has been, strange to say, to declare war against "tipping." It seems that the objectionable practice results unsatis factorily to tho generality of the men. The use of colored ink is the latest craze which has taken possession of fashionable people. Five or six differ ent colors are now used in writing one letter. Of course, gold ink is used for terms of endearment and warm affec tion. Germany's new census returns twenty-eight cities with a population of over 100,000. The city of Hamburg has 622,745 inhabitants. Munich and Leip sic are running a close race, the former having reached 40J.002 and leading Leipsic by 1,554. Balmoral is the home of Queen Vic toria each year from the middle of May to that of June, and again from August to the last of November. It is situ ated in the very center of the Dee side Highlands, walled around by the frowning Grampian mountains. Sailors declare that a dark, gloomy, blue sky foretells wind, but a bright, light blue sky indicates fine weather. Generally the softer the clouds look the less wind (but, perhaps, more rain) may be expected, and the harder, more "greasy," roiled, tufted or ragged they HINTS OF ALL SORTS. A dish of water placed in a hot even where pie3, cakes, or puddings are be ing baked will prevent them from scorching. Old leather can be made to look like new by applying a coat of French pol ish with a camel's half brush. The skin of fruit should never be eat en, not because they are not palatable 6r digestible or are unhealthful iu themselves, hilt 6tk account of the dan ger arising from microbes', which maj have penetrated Into the covering of the fruit- People w'hd are susceptible to the cold should make a point of -wearing loose clothing in cold weather. If you have butter that is not entire ly sweet put It in a porcelain dish with & little salt and a tiny piece of soda, place over the fire and bring to a boil. Turn it into' a stone Jar and set it in a cool place. The butter will be found perfectly sweet and not too salt for cooking. The. impurities will settle to the bottom of the Jar. A cement for mending broken glass or china is made by dissolving half an ounce of gum arable in a wincglassful of boiling water and adding enough plaster of Paris to make a thick paste. Apply it with a brush to the edges o? the broken parts. Hold the pieces carefully together until the cement has hardened sufficiently for them to ad here. If the article to be mended is broken in several pieces, do not at tempt to cement a second piece before the first has thoroughly hardened. A tested cough mixture recipe comes from an English lady. It is palatable and very effectual. Boil three large lemons in water seven minutes, drain off the water and slice the lemons as thin as possible. Put them In an earth en bowl with one pound of the best brown sugar and stand the bowl on the stove until the mixture is at boil ing point. Then draw to the back of the stove and let the mixture simmer three hours. Remove from the fire, and when it has stood half an hour add small tablespoonful of oil of sweet al monds. It is to be used warm. Stir nnd take in teaspaonful doses as Ion.-? as needed. To make a wax for polishing hard rood floors cut one pound of beeswax into small pieces, put them in a dish and place it over the fire in a pan of hot water. Allow the wax to melt and then stir in three pints of turpentine. When the ingredients have thorough ly blended, place come of the wax on a woolen cloth and rub it on the floor, treating one board at a time and rub bing lengthwise. Then cover a heavy brush with flannel and with it rub the floor until it is perfectly smooth. It is usually the case that some parts of the floor arc subject to more wear than others. When the polish has worn off in these spots warm the wax and apply to the worn places and then polish. Whenever God is loved, the man who loves him is blessed, no matter whether he feels that way cr cot. The more zealous we are of good works, the more we r.re In danger of wronrly judging other people. SCHOOL FOR MONKEYS. Caleatta'a Novel laslltatlen Where Oar Paeeealeas Aalnale Are Taesat. There has Just been fonnded at Cal cutta an institution for the education "of monkeys, says the Paris Journal des Debats. Probably the prime movers of thd affair never heard of Prof. Garner, the celebrated American slmiologist. who has again gone to Africa, to make am exhaustive study of the language of mockers, or else tbey have deemed It easier lo teach the monkeys than to learn from (hem in simian tongue. At any rate, one of the methods employed tn this strange educational institution is the following: A young monkey is taken enj be fore him Is placed a set of blocks on which are painted in capitals the letters Of the alphabet. These blocks are, in fact, exactly similar to those which children play with in every civilized country in the world and they are used in precisely the same way as If the mon key was a young specimen of the hu man race. There Is one professor for each monkey and the monkey is taught by fneags of the blocks to opell certain words. If the word Is "fruit," for ex ample, the monkey, after haJng been taught to arrange the blocks so as to spell the word quickly and without er ror, receives a bit of fruit as his re ward. Tho same exercise is repeated with other words, and it is hoped that in time the simians will learn how to reed and spell and understand English if they cannot speak it. Only young animals arc taken, for they learn more quickly than the old ones. There is no danger of this queer school lacking scholars, for there arc thousands of monkeys to be found in that part of India where Calcutta is situated. An effort will also be made It is said, to educate these wild boasts so that they may become fairly effi cient domestic servants. The school is so young, as yet, however, that what it will accomplish Is entirely a matter of speculation. Its "professors" are enthusiastic about their novel work and seem to think that n new field of use fulness will soon be opened up for these chattering little beasts. fthmbru- State -Bank fAUnt fin OtftfB. Ub Ins n Id Eriafc i maium Maw Yk aft HZX1 t affliWIaTR : ffNKIH. BUYS GOOD NOTES OTVICEK8 AHD DIRECrOBSt Lxakdek Gerkasd, Pres't, B. H. Hbhxt, Vice Preet, If. BKuao.EE, Cashier. John Stavffkr. Wm. Hitcher. n w SHOES FROM THE MAYFLOWER. Feoteear of 480 Yean Ago Very Llfce the Madera Style. Mrs. Eliza A. Brown of Brownsville. Me., has in her possession a pair of shoes which came over on tho May flower, say the New York World. Thin particular pair of shoes was made at Chatham, London, in 1417, by John Hose, whose trade-mark can still be observed. Mrs. Brown inherited the shoes from her mother. Mrs. Lydia Gilman. of Acton, Me. Mrs. Gilman had her choice between two pairs, the only authentic rVllcs of this nature of the famous puritan ex pedition. They are of green brocade satin with buckles and tie over the in step. The heels are made of cork and ore very light Between the soles and uppers there is a piping of white kid. The stitching, which is visible, is don? as neatly and exactly as in any speci men of latter-day machine work. The shoes are an interesting example of the rotation of fashions. Although 480 years old they are exactly in the style of the fashionable Indoor wom an's shoe for 1836. The toes are of the toothpick variety, as pointed as they can be, and turned up a little. The ancient shoes seems to bo broader at the ball of the foot than is the vogue today. The uppers are of a curious looking green brocade satin, the color of which has not been impaired in all these years. This rare old pair of shoes could be worn By a fashionable New York wom an today without exciting any comment. COLUMBUS. NEB., -HAS AS- Aittorizt. Capital if - $500,000 Paid in Capital, - 90,000 OFFICERS. O. H. 8TIELDON. PrcVt. II. P. II. OEHLRICII. Vice Prea. DANIEL SmiKAM. Cashier. FKANK KOKKK". Ass't Cashier DIRECTOR?. i It. Sii ri.no x, II. i if or.nrmnii. Jonas Wkmjii. W. A. McAllisteu, Cam. Kiexhk. S. C. Ghat, Fkank Rouer. STOCKHOLDERS. GRRnARD LOSEKr, J. Hr.MtT WlTRnEMAN, Clark Crav. He.nrtLoseke. Damei. Sen ham. ceo. W. ;am.ky. A. P. II. OKIILUICII J. I'. ItlX'KKK ESTATE, Rebecca Decker, II. 51. AVinslow. Baak of deposit; Interest allowed oa time, deposits; buy and sell exchange oa Carted States and Europe, and buy and sell avail able securities. We shall bo pleased to re celre your business. We solicit jour pa t-foaage. Inequality In K70. You are either left-eyed or right eyed, unless you are the one person out of every fifteen who has eyes of equal strength. You also belong to the small minority of one out of every ten per sons if your left eye is stronger than your right. As a rule, Just as people are right-handed, they are right-eyed. This Is probably due to the generally great er use of the organs of the right side of the body, as for example, a gunner, using his right arm and shoulder, uses his right eye, thereby strengthening it with exercise. Old sea captains, after long use of the telescope, find their right eye 'much stronger than the left This law is confirmed by the experience of aurists. If a person who has ears of equal hearing power has cause to use one ear more than the other for a long period, the car brought into requi sition is found to be much strengthened and the ear which is not used loses its hearing in a corresponding degree. Scientific American. Columbus Journal! A weekly newspaper de voted the best interests of COLUMBUS HIE CORNY OF PU1TE, The State of Nebraska THE UNITED STATES MD THE REST OF MANKIND witk SPEAKING OF PEOPLE. The queen of Roumania fairly revels in literature. The duke of Saxc-Coburg and Gotha plays the fiddle with fervor and skill. King Humbert of Italy is a strong man. but his oniy son and heir is slight and delicate. Crown Prince Wliliam of Germany, now 13 years old. Is not half so bright end strong as his younger brother. Speaker Reed denies the report that he studied for tnc ministry wncn a young man, but admits that his folks wanted him to do so. The Thames of England is 220 miles long. The river of the same name in Canada is 160. The Rhine is only 900 miles long, but drains a territory nearly double the area of Texas. There are twenty creeks in the coun try which have been dignified with the name of the Tiber. The Columbia river of Canada is 1,400 miles in length; the stream of the same name in Oregon is 600. A Woman raptares a liurglar. A plucky New York woman was aroused about 5 o'clock the other morn ing by footsteps in her room, and sprang out of bed in time to see a man disappearing with her husband's ne.v suit of clothes. Iu her nishtrobe and with bare feet she followed him and caught him on the stairs. He struck her several times in the face and trod on her feet, but she held him and screamed for help. Her cries brought several of the male tenants in the house, and the burglar was secured. $1.50 A YEAR. IF FAH MC ASTAjrCB. BntewlksHef Msfalaesa fa aot prescribe by dollars asd coats. seat freo to say t HENRY GASS, fsjvjf afl aa J TJNDERTAKEE ! Cfls : aii : Metallic : Cases ! Cf Repairing of all kinds of Uphol tierg Goods. J4X COLTJMBTJ8. CTll ASIA Tho Arkansas river Is 911CI tnitoc appear the stronger the coming wind ,onf f but at wlou, pelnU ln lt, WWH will prove. Russell Safe's fafeuard-t. It Is a certainty that not a man alive will ever get into Russell Sage's office to throw another bomb at him. His outer room is furnitured likeva bank, and the visitor's card is shoved through a small hole in the high fence just such a hole as that through which the paying teller hands money for an hon ored check. Outside of the fence, against the white plastered wall, stands a long bench, upon which visitors eiL One Pals or Klng Col. North, the nitrate king, has bought up one of the King of Belgium's estates, the castle and domain of Ar denne. The castle extends to 16,000 acres, and affords splendid shooting. The Colonel will have the King for a neighbor there, as the shooting box of Ciergon, which was a favorite resort of hit father, and crowns a rock within sight of Ardenne, does not form a part of the transfer. Of this great number of women about 6,000 are at the heads of homes and 8,000 are employed at almost every kind f work. 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