Nebraska Newspapers

    VOLUME XXVIL-NUMBER 26.
OOLtJMBtJS, NEBRASKA.
SDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1896.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,380.
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,AN ARTIST'S LOVE.
ARMICHIEL'S sig
nature in one cor
ner causes a can
vas to be scram
bled for in these
countries not
adays, and there
are those who say
that it looks
equally well at the
bottom of a check.
Carmichiel himself
is brown and bony and a little Inclined
to be bald. He is a trifle cynical, too.
and has accumulated a miscellaneous
a -assortment of strange little ways that
. " must be awfully annoying to his wife.
. la fact, she say3 as much in her lan
guid, complaining way.
. Carmichiel's work has always been a
puxxle to the critics. Lately they have
decided that he belongs to the impres-
sionlst school, and perhaps thsseWg-J
: jointed, areen-eyed women, for which!
" he had occasionally been responsible,
do indicate a tendency in that direc-
, " tion. There is nothing of the Impres
sionist about Carmichiel's earlier
"paintings, however, and yet you would
' know that they were his: Just as you
;. would know that the indifferent, bored
looking Carmichiel whom you meet in
'every place worth going to is identical
; . ,wlth the threadbare but always de-
; lightful fellow who used to paint
- .studies of the Creole girls in the winter
v of 73.
. Perhaps, though, you were not
X . .". among the fortunate number who
. ."" knew him before he had painted his
...Y:". V way into the very heart of Phillstia.
..-. Ttfe were only a small coterie, but our
t. . -.s. -Tack of even a bowing acquaintance
, j s' m . with fame was a sad trial to most of
" . fv. ns.. Carmichiel was different, little as
. ... jou would think it when you see him
. today. He never seemed then to have
," ..the least ambition only to do his work
as well as ever he could, and If now
. and- then a sketch was sold, why, there
.... were plenty of friends to pat him on
.the back and to help him eat and drink
. Jthe proceeds.
., And the sketches sold well after a
' . -lime, for that wild artist colony in the
raaint French quarter was a happy
thought for a crowd of out-at-elbows
.'"boys, to the most of whom Paris re
. mained a dream for more years than
' t-we. care to think about. There was
plenty of local color there, and any
.number of saucy girls who were al-
. ways willing to pose for us, and who
" considered themselves well paid if they
rpseived the first rough sketch of what
.. the sanguine artist invariably assured
.: .them was sure to prove "the picture of
..the year!"
.. Carmichiel has several of these glow
,'ing things in his studio new, and
through them all you can tra:e a like
' ness to the drab-skinned water nymph
.''that hangs in the drawing-room of
" Hastings, the porous-plaster man. It's
' another method and a different subject,
but it's the 6ame Carmichiel.
. . 'We never knew exactly how it was
Vw" ,"; -that he came across Carita. She was
'one of the dancers at the little French
: . tlreater or at least they called it a
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"WITH A BLAZE OF WRATH,
theater it was a sort of cross between
a low cafe and a second-rate concert
;hall. We used to. go there occasionally
and throw roses to the dancers, though
Carita was the only one that it paid to
look at twice. She was really a beauty
and quite Spanish in her ways, al
though some of lis fancied that there
might fce Just a trace of darker Wood.
Of her husband there could be no ques
tion. He was a greasy, low-browed fel-
low, and wholly a villain. He used to
"ieat her when his shop was raided
' or se she tcld CarmichieL Carmichiel
had never been in love before, and he
--Joethia head sapidly. So when one
. morning Carita came into our common
stndio ;the Commune we called it
. with her forehead bound up, and the
: contour of one pretty cheek almost ob-
. scored by a livid, straggling bruise,
Carmichiel upset his colors over the
'"peasant's bridal" he was at work up-
on they painted such things In those
.. days and declared that Carita was
done with her brute of a husband for
. ever.
". It really made very little difference
. to any of us. Carmichiel was the same
' jolly comrade as before, and worked
r away furioaaly in the queer little house
. which Carita had furnished to suit her
self. She figured in most of his pic
tures that .year, and after a time came
the little Julien. and Carmichiel turned
.his attention to a hitherto neglected
branch of art, and his canvases began
' to gleam with the pinky flesh of dark
"eyed babies. The little Julien was a fas
cinating model, and his father proved
.himself a genius by the facility with
which he interpreted the baby graces.
.All of which would have been very well
had not Carita suddenly grown jealous.
Her temper was never of the best, and
. in her ailly litle heart she considered
herself highly aggrieved and neglected.
Them they quarreled, and matters grew
worse and wane, until Carita actually
threatened to go back to her villaln-
oos husband, who had never ceased
. chuckling over the good bargain he had
with the great artist. Carmichiel
never meek at any time, but yet
the matter might have ended differ
ently had not the old uncle who gave
him his start in life chosen at this time
to introduce himself. But the fateful
letter came and Carmichiel went to the
big hotel across the river, aad there
was an interview. It was late when he
retsned, aad Carita met him with, a
blase of wrath. He had not told her
where he was going, aad she was diA
enlt to pleas tksse days. She ther
eaghly nadei stood the art ef making
and r a msmt at
Carmichiel caught himself eavyisa; hia
predecessor his enormous biceps and
big stick. What he had to say was
spoken in a few words, and with a last
good-by to the little Julien and a mock
ing message to the woman, Carmichiel
turned his back upon his threadbare
past, and upon Carita.
He slept at the Commune that night,
and when we opened the door in re
sponse to a gentle tap next morning,
we found no one in view except the lit
tle Julien, who beat his tiny fingers
against the door panel and laughed
gleefully up in his young father's face.
Little Julien had come to stay.
About Carita? The city is large.
Perhaps she went back to the rullanly
husband, or, if not well, it would met
be the first time that the turbid yellow
river had been intrusted with a secret.
Julien is a fine young fellow, an upr
per classman at Tulane, and occasioa
ally he pays a short visit to his guar
dian's home, althoagh
him. Whether she suspects what a
few of us know is uncertain, but some
of us have wives, and Mrs. Carmichiel
possesses more than the usual quota of
feminine friends. L. M. W.
THE FUNNEL TRICK.
Am Iatereatlag- FraWeai Devlea af
Faartlva CallYeralaa.
Jerry Lynch has finally learned the
funnel trick. He took it in two doses
one on one evening and the other
the next The senator sauntered up
to the Bohemian club the other day and
saw two or three of the younger mem
bers attempting a new feat, and he
watched them with interest One of
them stuck a funnel in the top of his
trousers, threw his head back, placed
a fifty-cent piece on his forehead and
tried to drop it into the funnel by
slowly lowering his head. After all
had failed Jerry insisted on trying it,
though all had tried to dissuade him
from attempting a feat too difficult for
them. The funnel was placed in the
waistband of his trousers and he
threw back his head to receive the
coin on his expansive brow. At that
juncture a pitcher of ice water was
emptied into the funnel, and by the
time Jerry got through dancing the
jokers had vanished. The senator's
temper improved with dry raiment
and the next night at the club he start
ed In to show a couple of friends the I
funnel trick.
"It's this way," he explained, "you !
put the funnel In the top of your pan
taloons, so, then throw your head
back, so, and wow!"
Again Jerry was forced to change his
raiment and he Is not showing people
what he knows about the funnel trick.
San Francisco News Letter.
THE FAMILY'S MAIN SUPPORT.
Tfa OM Uadartakar Dcpians t
mies H Had to Practice
From the San Francisco Post: "Now.
now, now; there, there; don't criticise j
those white gloves because they've been j
darned. Don't jump on these poor old '
black rosettes because they're a little !
rusty," pleaded the country undertaker. '
"For fifteen years they have been the
mainstay of a large and interesting'
family. Tea, I know those gloves have '
been washed aiA darned and stitched !
till they look more like salt sacks than
gloves, but they still sellat the same old j
price 11 per pair. Crape rosettes for
the pall-bearers still go on every bill
at o.
"When I first went into business fif
teen years ago now this, of course, is
on the dead quiet I bought half a
dozen pairs of white cotton gloves for i
25 cents, and I think the crape for '
those rosettes cost 50 cents. Every
funeral brings me in $6 for gloves and
5 for rosettes for the pall-bearers, and
in the last fifteen years I think I have i
realized about $6,500 on them, and I've '
still got them almost as good as new. !
Some day, when I can afford it Til buy
some new ones."
Kipliafa World Toar.
Just before the steamer Lahn sailed,
Rudyard Kipling talked with a report
er. He said that leaving the Lahn at
Bremerhaven, be and Mrs. Kipling
would spend some time on the jsm
tinent going from there to Eng
land. How long a time he would
spend there he did not know. Event
ually he would go to India, he said,
the country of his birth, and possibly
he would visit Samoa and other of the
islands of the Southern Pacific
"Will you return to America, ani if
so, when?" Mr. Kipling was asked.
"Oh, yes, I expect to cost back
again, when I get ready. I have not
the slightest notion as to when mt
will be."
"Do you call America your home?"
"That is my heme where I choose ta
live." New York Advertiser.
Cloooatraa Bfaaiaij-.
Where does Cleopatra's body rest?
Scarcely a layman who would not an
swer, "Why, in Egyptr After her ca
joleries, her wiles, her life of intense,
if not very exalted, loves, Clec$atra
was laid in one of the loveliest tombs
that have ever been fashioned by the
hand of man. But what a change 206
years have brought about! Today an
ugly mummy, with an emblematic
bunch of decayed wheat and a coarse
comb tied to its head a mere roll of
tightly swathed dust lies crumbled in
a hideous glass case at the British
museum. It is Cleopatra, the once
great queen, a Venus in charm, beauty
and love.
DlBioamacy, Tay 5aai la 1
Bridget (applying fer a situation
"Oh, yis, mum, Oi lived in my last
place tree weeks, mum." Mrs. Tan
Nobbs "And why did you leave?
Bridget "Oi conldn't get along with
her, she was owld and cranky. Mrs.
Van Nobbs "But I may be old. and
cranky, too." Bridget "Cranky ye
may be, mum, for faces are sometimes
deceiving; bat owJd, niverr And Brid
get got the place. Philadelphia Times.
CaB tm
"What would you
steady job of work?"
say ts.agaad,
asked tha kind
"What weald I say ta a jo ef
work?" isaasUid Parry Fatsttic "MTs
saa, it wamld ha impossible far ma ta
repeat ta a lady what I would say
at-
RIDING ON A DESERT.
A till OVER THE SAHARA NOT
ALWAYS UNPLEASANT.
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f Wikk KlpUag towoy Caspar
i ISHING ta give
baggage camels an
other day's rest Be
fore starting on the
trying jouraey from
Murst Wells to Wa
dy Haifa we profit
ed by the delay ta
take a long ride oat
om the Aba-Homed
road with our good
friend Abdal Asia
TW eateaaihte
was to see a huge rock. In the shape ef
a crocodile that Abdul Azim had dis
covered not long since about a couple
of hours out from Murat and a few
hundred yards away from the Abu
Hamed caravan track. This rock, said
our guide, had never yet been seen by
Europeans.
Mounted on a couple of our friend's
best bred running camels, and escorted
by some half-dozen well-armed tribes
men on small, active beasts as swift as
our own, we set out at that fast trot
which is as pleasant on a well-bred
Hadjuy, as on a rough, hard-set brute it
is excruciatingly painful. It was just
after dawn and the air was delicious,
for the sun does not begin to get really
fierce until after 7 a. m., and as we
wound down the Khor and out among
the Kopjes of the dosert, with a pleas
ant breeze fanning our faces, with the
camel's pad striking crisply on the firm,
gravelly sand, and the men's accouter
ments jingling rhythmically as they
jogged along, we felt our blood tingle
and our spirits buoyant with the exhil
aration due partly to the glorious cli-
Time has brought many changes to
the American continent A trifle of one
or two million years ago the region
that is now Dakota, Utah and other
states in the Rocky Mountains was
blessed with a tropical climate, the arid
plains of the present were lagoons filled
with warm water and surrounded by
waving palms and other vegetable
growth to be found in torrid zones. Tha
region was inhabited by animals,
strange and weird animals which have
long since become extinct and their
bones are now buried under three miles
of solid rock.
Prof. Henry F. Osborn, curator in the
American Museum of Natural History,
has written an interesting story of
these prehistoric animals, which ap
pears in the September Century. Chaa.
Knight has drawn pictures of them
mate and partly to the thought that we
really were at last well within the ene
my's borders.
For, as Abdul Azim said, when we
had ridden an hour or so, only one Eu
ropean since the Nile campaign had
been nearer Khartoum than ourselves.
This adventurous spirit was CoL Run
die Pasha, who in 1S83 or 1886 rode so
far toward Abu Hamed that from a
hilltop he was able to see that town
and the Nile.
Not alone were we affected by the
lovely morning. Its glamour was over
our escort of Abadeh (generally the
most taciturn of folks), four of whom
were conducting an eager argument at
hot speed in the quaint, primitive lan
guage, with its absurd, bewildering
"cl k" interjected, it would seem quite
involuntarily, at every third word. The
others ef our escort were rhanttng al
ternate verses ef a lugubrious song, in
whose refrain the moan of the sakeeah,
the buzz of a saw and the creaking of
an ungreased wagon wheel appeared to
be deftly blended with the grousing- of
a refractory cameL
The camels themselves appeared to
he affected by the merning, or perhapa
it was by the song. All of them de
meaned th selvrn quite skittishly
and asm was aa overcome by his saasa
aC tha joyauaness f things that ha be
gan suddenly to buck. Now, a bucking
camel m, of all the pleasant sights in
BBtara, the moat Taaghable. Tha great
beast seems at these moments of ex
paasina ta act at! his camel nature and
te imagina himself literally the hum
ming; bird to which Mr. Kipling's fancy
has compared him.
Far teataais, wnen the spark neves
him ta bask, the camel at a sadden
hurlB himself high into the air, spread
in eat an his splay limbs at right an
gles ta his unwieldy carcass. And ha)
allghta, after this grotesque effort with
hfe fast all abroad, and a rock-splitOng;
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It la a soul-stirring iifnfnrmsMsa Ha
briaga a marvelous perseveranoa ta th
exerdae and win keep It an over half
a mile of country; But it ir the hum
ming bird he is aping all the while,
the graceful colibri flashing jewel-like
into the air (here the camel projects
himself into space) or poising feather
light om Die oleander blossom, (here he
cracks a mountain on alighting). And
he seems quite satisfied with the meas
ure of success he attains, though, it is
at best 2 success de'estime.
Aa Iitcenloos liicyclo Lock.
A. locking device is locked upon as
an esesntial feature to every wheel by
all .bicycle riders An invention, pa
tented by Max Gessler, and known as
the "Gessler lock," is being placed on
the market by Walter E. Lindsay &
Cs of Milwaukee. ..Ta.. lock
frame, and does not mar its appearance
in the least It is cylindrical in form,
one inch long, and secured by means
of a rubber washer expanded against
the side of the tubing. The locking
and unlocking is effected by means of a
key which engages the bolt directly,
forcing it outwardly or inwardly, lock
ing the front wheel at an angle and
thus bringing the bicycle out of opera
tive position. Some of the points of
superiority claimed for this lock are:
First, it engages neither spokes nor
sprockets, doing away with the ruinous
effect produced by attempting to ride
before unlocking the machine. Sec
ond, hammers, files, pliers, nippers are
harmless. The lock is out of sight,
and cannot be gotten at Third, it is
non-pickable. Fourth, weighs less than
two ounces, is easily operated, quickly
adjusted, is always in the machine
when needed; not' in your pocket or at
home. Indianapolis Sentinel.
A Sar Way of Locatln; m Faaetorr.
"I picked up a new thing for riders
of the wheel in New York a few days
ago," suggested a popular wheelman.
MAMMOTH MONSTERS THAT LIVED IN AMERICA AGES AGO.
from descriptions furnished by Prof.
Osborn and other scientists.
The great four-horned uintathere
was found in the Bridger region of
Southern Wyoming and Utah. A pic
ture of Its head is reproduced, show
ing the peculiar formation of the horns
and their arrangement The body was
longer, but in other respects resembled
an elephant, and when grown it
weighed two tons. Its brain weighed
less than a pound. The uintathere had
less brain in proportion to Its size than
any ether warm-blooded animal. With
its tremendous body its brain was as
small as that of a dog, and to this fact
Prof. 03born attributes the animal's
early extinction.
The titanothere was another giant
that flourished perhaps a half million
years after the last than those of the
"Those who have had trouble in finding
small punctures will appreciate it You
know the customary way to locate a
puncture is to immerse the wheel in a
tub of water. Wherever the air bubbles
there will be found the puncture. In
some cases, however, the air pressure
is not sufficient to make the air bub
bles. In cases of this kind lather some
soap and smear it over the tire. A
soap bubble will form then over every
puncture, it matters not how small It
Is. Once, located, nearly every rider
knows what to do, or thinks he does,
which is the same thing, for the great
majority send them to the shops to be
repaired, anyhow." Washington Star.
Kaaia Has 3 Girl ITaeScaaltb.
A Kansas girl of seventeen not long
ago won the prize in an unusual con
test in competition with two men. She
iiad learned to turn a horseshoe in a
blacksmith shop, and at an entertain
ment for the benefit of the church she
matched herself against two" of the
most expert blacksmiths in the city.
Three portable forges were placed on
the stage, and each contestant was al
lowed a helper to blow the bellows.
Both men and the girl wore the
leather aprons peculiar to their calling.
The men smiled indulgently at their
girl rival as they waited for time to be
called, but became anxious, then
alarmed and finally discomfited, when
she turned a perfect horseshoe before
the audience' and jvsges in less, than
fbttr minutes. The curtain dropped' on
a pretty tableau of glowing forges and
the smiling girl victor, who speedily
appeared among her friends daintily
dad In white.
Tha Oalr Oaaortaalty.
Mrs. Talkalot What does make yam
talk so much in your sleep. Joseph?
Joseph Gosh! It's the only chaaae
I ever get
ESSAY ON SHARKS.
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ef lads under If far the
rice fnmmissf gat far a
-Deacri be the hahtta ef frV
Caarch Times. Here
traaseriBt C asa ut f a
of seme hasdreda ef aamwsrs:
shark is about twenty faat iemg.
five rows of teeth wham the
la going te catch its pray it turns
The sharks are fauna m
where they are Tery snmeroma in
etc. The way ta catch sharks
a piece of meat on a sharp
(and sailors will do it for amnse-
aad the shark Is very hungry
that he will grab at the meat
himself caught
af his foes are the sord fish it
prand run its sword throagh its
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about am the wai
gets a lot of small fish in its mouth
and they will go and lay on the beach
and let small blrd3 come in their mouth
and pick them oft and will not heart
them. The shark can live in water and
on land. Going from England to In
diad, you will see sharks in the nile,
they will follow ships for many mile3
on purpose to get some meat and then
perhaps not get any. They are differ
ent kinds of sharks, the Black shark,
etc.
"The shark is a very curious animal,
it can lay its teeth down when not
catching any food.
"Once upon a time there was a ship
going to america, and on board some
slaves the slaves were packed so close
together that they could not live, and
the captin of the ship you'st to let some
come upon deck, and many of the
slaves you'st to jump oveboard, and be
cat with sharks, so the captin deter
mined to stop it if he could. So one day
a black slave woman was just in the
acted to jump overboard when the cap
tin caught her, and had as many slaves
as he could upon deck. And then he
unitathere, thus proving that the
bones are plentiful in the South
Dakota Lake basin, and are al
ways found in a strata higher than
those of the uintathere, thus proving
that its family tree does not extend
backward so far. The pictures show
what the animal looked like when alive.
He was about the same size as the uin
tathere, but had more brains and should
have lived longer, but he failed to do
so.
Among the fossils and skeletons of
animals that have been extinct for a
million years are found skeletons of
turtles, alligators and garfish, exactly
like those te be found at the present
age. They have survived, wnetner
they were fittest or not, and live to-day
- as their ancestors did two million years
ago.
had a reap fastened around her waist
and lowered her overboard, when a
shark came and bitt a half off her off,
and then the captin had the other hnH
pulled up and sown to the slaves on
deck, and then said to them that he
would do any one of them the same ii
he jumped overboard."
Fctlaa Woan.
Why is it that "felinity" for want
ef a better word seems to be an almost
wholly feminine attribute? Rarely, if
ever, de you come across a man with
that small, sly, stealthy streak in his
nature that -e recognize as "catty."
It isn't innate to man, and he hasn't
time to cultivate it Yet among wo
men it is unusual not to find some
traces of it even in the largest kind
liest natures. It is chiefly engendered
by sewing societies and the like; is
other words, narrow lives. Although
"small" in one sense, and although, oi
course, by no means ranking with th
seven deadly sins, this feline quality
manages to play some pretty desperate
havoc in the world. It makes mischiei
wherever it goes. Gossip, busybodiness,
malice, uncharitableness, slander, and
many other peace-destroying things
must follow directly in its wake. In
directly it induces all sorts ef evils.
Every one who has taken the trouble
to reflect upon the "sisters three and
such branches of learning" must ac
knowledge that it is the little things ol
life that really count for the most; it
is they that have a way of turning the
tide of events, the most in sign feast
word er act sometimes shaping destiny
itself. Bat there la aa small thing re
sponsible for larger, more impressive
resnlts than this same feline quality.
And as am altogether feminine prerog
ative it ia one that women need not he
p read at New York Eveaiag Sua.
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I ANEABPIJT ON A BABY.
DOCTORS PERFORM AN ORIGI
NAL OPERATION IN SURGERY.
Iataat'a BUaaitla Vat Iai
la rravMa a
tmmw mt Slash MmuOmg Kat
tana
ASS can be made
te order now al
most "while yon
wait"
If your next
baby, instead of
having a fine,
shapely shell of an
ear that th nurse
and all the women
in the neighbor
hood will rave over
VZ3
at all don't be discouraged says tha
New York JournaL
Modern surgery is not dismayed by
any such trifle as that It goes to work
and builds noees and ears and almost
anything else that the human face and
figure lack to be symmetrical.
One of the most ambitions, most deli
cate, as well as the most successful of
the recent ventures of the new surgery,
was the construction of an ear to sup
ply the sad deficiency of a Connecticut
baby.
The patient in this very skillful oper
ation was an infant with the euphoni
ous name of Michael Kopeske. The
child's parents keep a thriving board
ing house In Union City, Conn.
Michael was a healthy baby and
comely in all respects, save that some
mischievous fate had sent him "into
this breathing World" scarce half made
up in the matter of ear 5. It was the
source of vast embarrassment to the
fond father and mother that the baby
should be thus incomplete, and they
knew that their discomfort was small
compared with that which the lack of
the ear would cause little Michael when
he grew older. His left ear was noth
ing more than a meaningless lump, and
the absence of a genuine ear made the
child lodk sadly one-sided.
The father and mother consulted
three doctors in Bridgeport They de
cided to see if some means could not
be devised of making an ear not alone
an outer ear that would improve the
youngster's looks, but an orifice
through which he would be able to
hear, for there was no ear with which
nature had provided him.
The baby, now scarcely seven months
old, was taken tq the office of one of
the doctors and the council of physi
cians set to work upon it
The child was carefully examined,
but it was impossible to find any sign
of an opening whereby sound might be
transmitted to the ear-drum and thence
to the brain.
The first step after an anaesthetic
had been applied and the child made
unconscious was to locate the spot
where the opening should have been.
Then the operation began an opera
tion which, so far as records tell, has
never been undertaken before.
An incision was made in the place
where the ear ought to be and a way
found from the exterior of the lump to
the tympanum. It was found that the
interior formation of the hearing ap
paratus was all normal. Dividing and
turning back the unornamental knob
of flesh which had disfigured the In
fant, the three doctors sewed the flaps
to the head to hold tbem back and
stitched the four sections together.
That was plastic surgery with a ven
geance. Then a spectrum was inserted
in the opening, to prevent its closing as
the healing process went on. Altogeth
er, the operation was a very successful
otte. It was a bold one, too, but was
performed deftly and very quickly. In
all the child wa3 under the influence
of chloroform for less than an hour.
His health and strength were not im
paired by the ordeal and the made-to-order
ear is growing into a really good
looking member. The doctors are
afraid that aa an organ of hearing it
will not be in any great degree ser
viceable. They think that the carti
laginous structure about the Inner ear
may have developed a tendency to os
sification from having been so long
kept in an unnatural condition.
JAVA'S NATURAL WONDER.
Kama of the Hot DctIU Pom
4Irat
latarrst to Travelers.
The greatest natural wonder in Java,
if not in the entire world, is the justly
celebrated "Gheko Kamdka Gumko," or
"Home of the Hot Devils," known to
the world as the "Island of Fire," says
an exchange. This geoglogical singular
ity is really a lake of boiling mud, situ
ated at about the center of the plains of
Grobogana, and it is called an Island
because the great emerald sea of vege
tation which surrounds it gives it that
appearance. The "island" is about two
miles in circumference and is situ
ated at a distance of almost exactly
fifty miles from Scio. Near tha cen
ter of this geological freak Immense
columns of soft, hot mud may be seen
continually rising and falling like
great timbers thrust through the boil
ing substratum by giant hands :nd
then, again quickly withdrawn. Be
sides the phenomenon of the boiling
mud columns there are scores of gi
gantic bubbles of hot slime that fill up
like huge balloons and keep up a series
of constant explosions - varying waih
the size of the bubble. In times past
so the Javanese authorities say, there
was a tall, spire-like column of baked
mud on the west edge of the lake,
which constantly belched a pure
stream of cold water, but this has long
been obliterated and everythli is now
a seething mass of bubbling mud and
slime a marvel to the visitors, who
come from great distances to see it
Slow Pay.
"The wages of sin is death," quoted
the preacher.
"It that is the case," remarked Mr.
Grumps, sotto voice, "there is a great
delay in paying off some people I
know.'
Uoh! Ltna Blda
Yaong Husband Didn't I telegraph
you not to bring your mother with
Yaong Wife That's what she wants
to see you about She read the dispatch.
SHE ROOC A WHEEL.
tha Xaal
BUaa froaa t!a Hiw.
he began, as tha tody af
th house omened the door in aaawer
to his ring, "yen ride a bicycle, do yoa
Bat?"
"I da." she answered. Broadly, ac-
cerdiag to the New York Telegram.
"I thought as much," said ha with a
sad flickering smile -Anting ub his
features.
"Your bright eyea and ruddy cheeks,
the glow of health that mantles your
brow proclaimed that fact even before
yon had spoken. Bat what m one per
son's meat is another's poise aad tha
aame tay, plaything or vehicle, call It
what yoa will, that has lured tha roses
to yeur cheeks, madam, and seat tha
blood bounding throagh your rejuva
nated veins has driven them from
mine, dried up my life's jakaa aad sent
ate lerths. broken down, hopeless
Yes. madam, that ia anf ertam-
ately what bicycle riding has done for
me."
"Why, my poor man!" she gushed,
with a look of tender pity in her blue
eyes;, "take this half dollar sorry I
can't give you more, but it's all the
change I have. Them sit right down
and rest while I get you something to
eat"
Half an hour later, when he had eat
en all he could hold and was preparing
to travel on, she sympathetically ob
served: "Poor fellow! You must have suf
fered a great deaL Were you laid up
long?"
"When? he asked, with a puzzled
look.
"Why, when you were injured bicy
cling." "Injured bicycling? Why, I never
mounted a wheel in my life."
"Never mounted a wheel!" she fair
ly shrieked. "I thought you said bi
cycling was what reduced you to your
present state?"
"Correct, madam," he responded,
hastily backing down the steps. "The
bicycling of others is what did it. I
used to be the proprietor of a livery
stable!"
ohe dived behind the door, but a sec
ond later when she emerged with a
broom it was too late. Her caller had
disappeared.
Xaktac It Plata.
"This here piece in the paper makes
use o the word 'superfluity' several
times," remarked the man who wa3
sitting on the empty soap box. "Now
what do ye take superfluity to be?"
"I dunno's I kin exactly tell it"
answered" the man with the twine sus
penders. "But I sense it all right
enough."
"Kin ye illustrate It?"
"M yes. I reckon I kin. Superfluity
is a good deal the same thing ez a fel
ler's wearin' a necktie when he'3 got
a full beard." Washington Star.
UnoaarU Facilities.
Unusual facilities for matrimony are
offered at Americus, Ga. Justice Gra
ham, while walking on the street one
evening lately, was approached by a
negro man and woman, who asked to
bo united, and he joined them in tha
solemn bonds then and there.
' Panlod.
"Paw," said the little boy, "did you
know that the housefly lays more'n a
million eggs?"
"Maybe she does, Willy," answered
his baldheaded parent, "but I'll be
eternally dinged if I can tell when she
takes the time."
Hm Stopped SaioklBC Clgaratta.
Charlie Parsons, aged 19, for nore
than a year smoked three packages
of cigarettes a day. He died a -.short
time since at his home in Kokomo,
Ind., after being in convulsions for
four days.
FIR TREE BLOSSOMS.
A covetous man is continually rob
bing himself.
Truth ia always ready to be bap
tized with fire.
The better we know ourselves, the
better we realize how much we need
God.
Have nothing to do with a little sin,
or you will soon be In the power of a
big one.
Disinterested kindness will burn
like fire, when we know that we do not
deserve it
Better go to bed hungry, sometimes,
than get up every morning head over
heels in debt
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.
People who wore shoes in Italy dur
ing the fourteenth century had to pay
a tax for the privilege.
In Germany the men as well as the
women wear wedding ring3. When
either dies the survivor wears both.
Fashion plates containing designs for
clothing for pet dogs are regularly
issued by some of the Parisian tailora.
The longest tunnel in the world is
St Gothard, which is 48,840 feet The
next longest are Mount Cenis. 39,830
feet; Hoosack, 25,080 feet; Severn, 22,
992 feet; Nochistong3, 21,659 feet; Sutis,
21,120 feet
The following are said by a Swiss
hunter to have been found near the
nest of an eagle recently discovered
in the Alps: A hare, 27 chamois' feet
4 pigeons' feet 30 pheasants' feet, 11
heads of fowls, 18 heads of grouse and
the remains of a numher of rabbits,
marmots and squirrels.
A careful examination of the trees
that are struck by lightning shows that
over half of them are white poplar.
From this fact scientists conclude that
the poplar has some value as a con
ductor of lightning. This being the
case, agriculturists are advised to plant
these trees in the vicinity of their farm
buildings.
One of the big steamship companies
is about to make a novel departure. It
has ordered a steamship to be built for
the "sole use of invalids." It Is to be
a vessel of the largest class, fitted up
with luxury heretofore never attempt
ed, to be devoted entirely to tha ser
vice of the wealthy sufferers" of that
class who are afflicted with pulmonary
troubles, and who can only prolong
life in the dry. salubrious cllmato af
Beraetual summer.
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