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- - jr- .- vs '" ny-vr r- i. . fci 3 1 ?3 ' -it.? 9j 3 ?srrkh - - j "--"anf J'.'- - -at L fe te i " H j r - " - a -f o o o o A " a .x'' - - . Jijiru Si - Vi 8 o C - A w, X- VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 8. jL COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1, 1898. vt WHOLE NUMBER 1.464. ..?-.. zz--- IC"?"" "k " CMurn m iKm aaal r" ? iws Mttrnai. IIP' gg - gp j.- fc . '. - . . ' o o o o5 o o Oo o o o 0 . y . r LrfflRi if . -1. o o o - o . o . o ? O e o " s e o .- A' ft CAMFFIBE SKETCHES. GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. tlic Character af the Soldier Ahoat Wan, Sfcart aad Vang Aaeedate of Joha Haaeaek Gea. Gnat's Ceasla aa a "Kcwshey Xehma'a Faasaas Slaaal. Two sturdy tars of Scotia's stock in famed Trafalgar" Bay. Where glorious Nelson's gallant fleet es tablished Britain's sway. Where standing on the Sovereign's deck. like herd lads eating honey. Anticipating lots of fight and more-esteemed prize money. Their criticisms of the foe were more plain than polite. And clearly pointed to their minds the issue of the fight. They called the Spaniards "hull stickers" and "lubbers" every one. And swore that ne'er a one of them knew how to lay a gun. The Frenchmen were but "frog spitters;" and Sandy would give bail That ne'er a one In all the fleet could hand or reef a salL And Jack vouchsafed that none of them could either con or steer; And swore the gibberish that they spoke to decent folk was queer. Just then the signal grand and terse la all its simple beauty. "England expects that every man this day will do his duty." Flew from Victoria's tallest spars, was welcomed with a cheer The last from many a gallant throat that Britain held so dear: But Jock he turned to Sandy, with a rather injured air. Aj1 said. "There's ne'er a word at a' about Auld Scotland there." Quoth Sandy. "Jock, yer but a gowk. or else ye weel mlcht ken That Ilka ane kens that Scotland's sons aye dae their part like men; It's only thae pock puddlns. wilk you should regaird wi' pity. That need remlndln noo an then that they maun dae their duty." Scottish American. I The Character of the Soldier. It Is a matter of congratulation that the character of the United States ar my has much Improved within the past few years. The standard for admission has been raised, and this particularly in the gen eral appearance and personal habits of the enlisted men. There is no rea son why the army should not be com posed entirely of high-class men. Sure ly Uncle Sam is not reduced to the ne cessity of talcing up all sorts of ma terial and trying to make It Into sol diers. If it is necessary to maintain a standing army, that army should be remarkable for quality as well as quan tity. It would be an excellent plan to establish In various localities training schools for the rank and file of the army schools where boys could be brought up under the watchful eye of competent instructors. These nurser ies might be filled with boys without homes those who are orphans, or, worse than that, with parents who re fuse tb.cm proper support and care. Military discipline is an exceedingly healthful regime for young persons. It may be a little severe at times, but the results are salutary in the extreme. A habit of obedience to orders is one of the most Important requirements, and even though upon arriving at suitable age the boy was found not quite fit for active service, there are many channels into which he might be drifted where he might find suitable and lucrative employment At all events, he would be educated in the elementary branches, and would have a hopeful and helpful knowledge of some of the higher studies. He would be well bred, courteous, prompt and energetic, as these qualities would be the legitimate result of his training. Except in times of war excitement, like the present, our home troops play a conspicuous part in the possibilities of the nation's defense. It is, however, well agreed by all practical persons that a reasonable number of regular troopers is absolutely necessary. The Unite! states is able to maintain a creditable army, and surely there is no lack of material out of which to make it. It is a curious experience, however, to spend some time in a re cruiting office. The army does not want men who enlist simply for the sake of rations and a place to sleep, but a great many men visit these of fices in the hope of being taken just because the life of a soldier is better than occasional nights in a station - house. If the common soldier got a little more pay and a little better quarters, no doubt a better class of men would apply for enlistment, but the compen sation seems very small to them, even though it may be more than they get above their living when they are en- ' gaged in other occupations. Iioag Wars. It is argued by many philosophical writers of the day that there never again can be a long war. The facilities of modern communication, the im provements in arms, and, above all. c the mighty interests of modern com merce, forbid, in the opinion of these writers, the possibility of such a de plorable event. Let us devoutly hope that the conclusion is just. Humfp .vassion8, however, when .thoroughly aroused, cannot readily be governed by rules of policy. It will not do. however, to trust too much to modern civilisation as a pre ventive of protracted aad vindictive war. The taste of blood that converts the tamed tiger into a sanguinary mon ster has pretty much the same effect upon civilized and Christian man. The latter, it is true, makes his onslaughts under certain rules and regulations, and gives quarter to his prostrate and bleeding foe. But let the war last long enough, and even the chivalry and mercy that should mitigate its horrors will at last be forgotten. The true o way to prevent a loag war is to make a strong war. Every overwhelming blow is a mercy stroke. In a short thae combat, when one party has no hope of victory, he cries "enough." and as It Is with mas the individual, so it is with aggregates of men. The policy, the true Christian policy, ia war is to smite irresistibly and then tender the olive branch with brotherly band. Called "a Cool Ta." He's a cool 'ua." is the way the sol 41ers ia a certain English regiment de scribe one of their officers, a yoaag miia whose self-posseetioa ia a time of danger sarcd ate mea from defeat, aad probably from death. The circum stance which gave this osscer his reaa tatioa is selated hyRmdyari Kiallag. Ha writes: - - -- A very yoaag ofJker. wk fcM goae alamo straight from echoel ta tha amy aad theace to India, was teadjag his company throagh a -rocky aaas, om retaralag from a scoatiag arasdltloa. They were beset by tM enemy, who Ired at them from behind the rocks, and the nea were growing Yery ma steady. Those in the rear besaa to bo Inpatient, and shouted to the atoT la frost. "Hurry up! What aretyoa wait lag: for there?" The young officer answered quite coolly: "Hold on a minute! I'm light ing my piper' And he struck a match and lit it There was a roar of laughter, aad a soldier called out: "Well, since you're so pressln. I think 111 have a pips myself." And he, too, struck a match and began to smoke. This bit of faa steadied the men, and they came throSjh in good order. Westmlaster , Magazine. Major Has a Ward. "Well," said the major, as he sawed oS a plank for his political -platform, "they may talk war. aad talk war, bat here's one feller who woat be in It! The war betweea the states was eaoagh for me. It cost aw a fortaae." "In property, major?" "No, sir, in cold cash. Too see my family had the measles when the war broke out, and I had to stay at home and nurse 'em." , "Certainly." "But I was so patriotic " ' "Of course." "That I employed a substitute at $3 a day." "Exactly." "And when they killed him " "You hired another?" "Yes, sir. I did." "And they killed him, too?" "No! and that's where I lost- my money. The infernal fool fought for three solid years without a scratch. He was In the worst battles of the war, but not a bullet struck him. They took him prisoner, but exchanged him im mediately, and the blamed idiot went to fighting again at S3 a day. And when the war ended he turned up all serene and demanded the remainder of his money. You see, I had paid his wife a good deal of it in monthly in stallments, but I still owed him a big balance, and as I wanted to keep the thing as quiet as possible I bad to shut up and pay np; and the fool charged me Interest for the time I'd bad it on hand, and wouldn't take con federate money, either! Down with war! Is what I say. It's the ruination of mc. John, pass the jug." Atlanta Constitution. lie fa flraat's Coaala. Simon Petal Walter, although eighty-three years old, sells, daily pa pers on the streets of St. Louis, crying out his wares as lustily as do the boys engaged in the same business. His old age and poverty are always forgot ten in his loyal mind when he explains that he is a cousin, once removed, of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. He has a marvelous memory and rebates his country's history with a warm en thusiasm St. Louis Star. Joha Haaeorfc. 'Daring the siege of Boston. General Washington consulted congress upon the propriety of bombarding the town of Boston. Mr. Haacockjwas thea pres ident of congress. After General Washington's -letter was read a sol emn silence ensued. This was broken by a member making a motion that the house should resolve Itself into a committee of the whole in order that Mr. Hancock might give his oplnioa upon the important subject, as he was deeply interested from having all his estate in Boston. After he left the chair he addressed the chairman of the committee of the whole in the follow ing words: "It is true. sir. nearly all the property I have in the world is in houses and other real estate in the town of Boston, but if the expulsion of the British army from it, and the liberties of our country require their being burned to ashes. Issue the order for that purpqse immediately." Kthles of Sleep. The ethics of good sleep should'fora a part of household morality. It is hardly an extravagant assertion that comparatively few people, after child hood has passed, know by experience what perfect sleep is. and satisfy them selves with a poor apology for this most perfect refreshment Rising tired and weary from a disturbed, imperfect sleep, they proceed to summon up lost energies by strong tea or coffee, which ia its tarn again interferes with perfect rest at night; and this process of life, more than mental or physical labor, wears women out and makes them pre maturely old. "I have been reading myself to sleep after retiring." said a lady the other day; "and when I have done this for two or three nights I can see that I look five years older." It is aa experience that any woman can verify, and, conversely, she can see that sleeping ia a perfectly dark and well-ventilated room brings back the contour and the roses of childhood or early youth. New "York Ledger. Golf can positively be traced ia Scot land history to 1457. aad it Jc believed to have been played much earlier than that date. Don't let your aeighbor know the fall exteat af yoar igaocaacc sasasa X&Sbsbb7 VBmaflaUaBBBBBBBW sbbTsbBBbV Wl" MR. VEST'S DEAL IN EGOS. . Tee Tla Cam a "BalM Meats" a tha T BHHit stack .SSI. Nearly every maa who has come oat of DawsoB during the last two moaths or store has had something to say' of the "frosea-egg maa." They met him at various potats betweea the Chilkoot summit aad the Yakoa river trudging aloag with one companion and four, dogs, pulling a cargo of frozen eggs bound for the Klondike, says the Seat tle Post-Iatelligeacer. Eggs at Dawson are worth $1 or atore each and this high price proved such aa incentive to a Portland man that he resolved to freeze a lot of them and take them in. The egg man is in Seattle. He has sold his. eggs and returned with a sack which many a Klondiker might weU envy. His name is Charles Vest. Vest left Portland last October on the steamer Elder. Before leaving he obtained 1,743 dozen eggs. He broke aad packed them ia tla cams holding were sealed, frozen and put on ice. They weighed 2,025 pounds in cold storage. With one man to help him and his dogs Vest hurried the eggs up to Sheep camp and buried them in the snow. He put four cans in a sack and tied the sack over the dogs' backs. Each dog carried twenty-eight pounds In this way. Once over the summit the cans were piled on sleds, pulled by the dogs, and the journey con tinued. Dec. 21 they stopped at a cabin and bought supper and lodging. In the morning one can of the eggs, now be-, coming more and more precious was gone. Vest had his suspicions but had no evidence. There were others camp ing at the cabin and from these two or three days later Vest obtained cor roborative evidence as to the guilt of the suspect. The thief had gone toward the coast but Vest followed him and took him before the police. Confronted with the evidence of his crime the fellow confessed. The police decreed that the man should be punished by giving up his outfit to the man he had wronged. This was done and Vest got $185 per dozen for the can of eggs, or $1,110 in all. Vest reached the Big Salmon, where Major Walsh was camping and bought Vest's eggs at $3 per dozen. The eggs yielded $5,211. which, added to the $1,110, amounted to $6,321, as the to tal product of Vest's undertaking. Ofcaerre Ills Delicate Flattery. Woman of the House "I don't know much about politics, but I don't think any the more of you, my poor man, for boasting of being a free sllverite." Tramp (with bis mouth full) "I ain't boastin' of it, ma'am. I said' I hap pened to be bono that way. We was natchelly a free silver fam'ly. They was sixteen of us and one gaL" Chi cago Tribune. Method. Tod "What made you "tell Dolly you would give up drinking during Lent?" Ned "Because every time I call to see her she kisses me to find out if I have been doing so." New York World. A Told. He "Such a thing never entered my head." She "Probably it couldn't stand solitude." New York World. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. A handy pencil sharpener just out has a casing in which a roughened flat grinder is fixed, with a sliding socket for tne pencil, and a cord fastened aronnd the pencil to rotate It as the socket slides along. An Englishman has designed an ap paratus for determining the proper ad justment of the saddle, pedals and handle-bar of a bicycle, thus enabling a purchaser ta get the right size of frame without a trial on the road. In a new musical invention the words of a chant or similar music are ex hibited in proximity to tho notes by being inscribed on a band carried by rollers at the sides and a thumb wheel turns the rollers to adjust the words. In a newly patented belt both sides can be used and covered with cloth to match any costume, the belt being in two' sections which are united at the center and the edges are left open for the Insertion of the cloth and drawn tight when the belt is buckled. Envelopes are being made with a strip of wire lying Inside the flap, with the ends bent downwards and doubled to fit over the ends and hold it in place as the envelope is sealed, leav ing a small section of wire in view, to be pulled upward to cut the flap. Machine guns are mounted on a pneumatic-tired motor carriage In a new English patent, the power being obtained from oil motors, which will run the carriage at a fair speed on the road and may be geared to the firing mechanism of the guns when in action. Picture frames are being made which are adjustable to fit any size picture without cutting, each side being made of a plurality of sections, which fit closely together and' engage corre sponding sections at right angles, with the interior sections removable to in crease the opening in the frame. Oil and gas lamps can be automatic ally lighted by a new match holder which has a flat chamber In which the matches are placed, with a spring at one side to push them one at a time into a tube having a push-rod at the bottom aad roughened Jaws at the top oa a line with the buraer, to light the match as it Is pushed through. Door keys can be securely fastened to prevent tuning from the outside by a new attachmeat consisting of a plate fastened to the knob spladle and hang ing down over the keyhole with a slot for the lasertioa of the key and a screw threaded section at the bottom of the slot te hold a bolt which fills the key hole aad keeps the key from tnraiag. A Pennsylvania womaa has designed a hat holder aad mirror for opera chairs, which has a horizontal roUer pivoted oa theback of tha seat wit tha mirror suspended below it, scd a wire hail below the mirror with a sec tlealbeat eastward ta support a prop which holsa the' hat aad ajasts the amlrror at nay angle, the whole device foJdmg aaaJaat tha seat when act ia WINSLOW IS AVENG WILMINGTON POUR3 CO LI STEEL INTO CARDENAS , BATTERIES. Pawtaida All Daacer Dead and Ara Left la tha Kalas of S MatkMs, Buukad Batteries, Shtaa facta. On Thursday morning, May 12, th gunboat Wilmington steamed close in to the coast and keys off the town of Cardenas, Cuba. Its gun crews were at their stations -and every man on boards from Captain Todd to the signal boy. bad but one burning idea, "Avenge thi Winslow." The watchword along the crowd decks and in the heated engine roo where the blackened giants toll stripped to the waist, was "Remembe: the Wlaalow " aad "Dana a Within range of the powerful four Inch broadsides were the Spanish gun boats which had decoyed the Winslow op to the masked batteries and had dealt out sudden death, and near the forts lay two schooners at anchor. Reports of mines planted in the en trance to the channels were disregard ed. The Wilmington was no longer a blockader. It had become a destroyer, and for an hour a hurricane of explod ing projectiles bellowed and shrieked into the harbor of Cardenas, not against the town, but against the ships and defenses, and the Spanish troops and sailors. The gunners of the Wil mington do not waste ammunition, and the execution was remarkable. Nearly 300 four-inch, one-inch, and six-pound shells screamed shoreward like a steel cataract, and afloat and ashore signal stations, masked batter ies, and forts were knocked to pieces and the Spanish had to flee like rats from a sinking ship. They left behind many dead and dying. It was the most destructive bombard ment yet attempted on the Cuban coast. In the harbor two Spanish gun boats without steam up were riddled and' sunk, their crews having fled to the shore in small boats. They had no time to offer a show of fighting their guns. The two schooners at anchor were sunk where they lay, and one block house caught fire from an explod ing shell and flamed out like a war beacon. The Wilmington was not touched by the few shells flung at it. The attack was sudden and superbly effective. The Wilmington in an hour swept Cardenas bare of defenses as one would brush crumbs from a table cloth. The town of Cardenas is three miles back from the gulf entrance to the har bor, so that non-combatants probably suffered but slightly. Of course, it is impossible to know the Spanish losses, because no landing was made, but for the last two weeks troops have been, massing m iront or cardenae :n.4ltrr4HUyrau-wiMB-awii-uou.u-ijein-- pation ef a possible choice of this point for an invasion as the base of supplies by the American forces. Hun dreds of men were working on earth works and block houses overlooking the harbor, and masked batteries were being planted, one of which sur prised and made sad havoc on the tor pedo boat Winslow. This death trap was located by the Wilmington and men and guns were blown high into the air. It was terrific punishment at close range, this fierce onslaught of the Wil mington, and it was the first real dem onstration against the Cardenas Span ish, who had become indifferent to American warships that were always hovering outside, while only smaller torpedo boats had opened fire and dash ed menacingly shoreward. It was an other matter, however, when the Wil- GUNNERS THE WILMINGTON miagton, with its eight four-inch guns aad secondary battery and a nest of machine guns in lta formidable fight ing top, slowly circled over the smooth sea which'gave its gunners a platform aa steady as solid rock. It was no longer target practice, but a spectacle. It was death in the spurting flame and enveloping smoke cloud, and the only respite came when the sweating gun ners paused to let the smoke fog drift away. The commander of the Wilmington hailed as next morning and reported tersely that "he had thrown nearly 300 shells Into Cardenas, inflicting consid erable damage." He was overmodest Inreality he had caused a considerable measure of annihilation and absolutely so ia particular instances of certain gunboats, batteries, small fortifica tions, aad aa unknown aumber of Spaalards. Caatlaas. Mrs. Flgg Why can't you wash yonr face once In a while without my hav lag to tell you every time? Tommy I'm afraid you'd think I'd beea la swimming. Melbourne Weekly Times II aamBmBa"' , . II a J aamV VbBSbbI rnai am jBatstBaJfcaasaw J M - B M TJaJ. w9fm 1) ' JmSlUw9Lm attVeflamJaaBaHmal T afl IH aSSa I BaBBsC! BaaasasasaaaaaaHWWaKJal JU m tmH taw I BBaWBaLL-P5 JBaarw aflavUSBaal IBav 3am MmM aaaaaH BaaHawaanLjm-J Lfl VaEaBBLsBaBBsBWaaViV daffaBBBB llsB mH Hf jHrjfjsf I BbLbbbI BBr bbbb! BaHHBHBHBaBMMaHMMMMBaMMMMnXaahaaBaBaBsBaaaaBBBsaaBBkBBaBBBBaBBBft i a i BB!rz "" - " ' OF tlfetakfta af Balarsa Ma One of the greatest mistakes a maa i make Is that of paying too little at tention to his diet, for the aeglect is aftea the cause of ailments that some times develop into seriods disease, Do we not all knOW the ftlaft romewhat past middle sge btit whose years do not imply any senility or decay, who be eomes fidgety, unfit for business, de- i pressed, and melancholic even to the .verge of insanity? We know him td have been a hard-working man of Ebaslaees, always perhaps a little nerv raas aad very probably an indifferent sleeper. He is more tired when he CAPT, ought to get up than when he went to bed; he rises at the last moment, and, bolting a mouthful of breakfast, rushes off to catch the train or trolley, wor ried and anxious lest he be late at his office. At lunchtime. particularly if he is busy, he takes, not a meal, but a biscuit, a sandwich, eaten perhaps standing, and often bolted in such a manner that the grim fiend indigestion instantly claims him as his own. more particularly if he indulges in frequent' "nips." Very often bis reason is that if he makes a heavy meal he renders himself unfit for the duties of the after noon. But there is moderation in all things a quiet, simple lunch taken dulged in. In the evening he cats his dinner, very often a heavy meal, and perhaps not before half-past eeven or eight o'clock. Now. granting that this meal is amply sufficient, such a man lives virtually on one meal a day. Re sult, in time a breakdown. A holiday sets him up again for a time, but, if he persists in this evil course, only to break down again. We cannot too strongly impress upon our readers the absolute necessity In the interests of their health devoting a proper atten tion to this all-important question of careful eating. To get up in plenty of time for a comfortable breakfast Is after all only a question of habit, and we ought not to forget that a good breakfast, with plenty of time to eat it in is the very best foundation for the day. Again, a moderate lunch, taken leisurely, and not bolted, is a necessity. POURING THE CONTENTS SPANIARDS AT CARDENAS. OF To neglect this is to court disaster, and it Is false economy at the best Dlda's Uka Her Speoa. She was not much more than 2 years old. and she wss having for the first time a meal with the grown-up people. It was a great occasion, and she was consequently much elated. She sat up in her high chabr with a knife and fork and napkin in front of her just like the rest of the people. But what was mamma's surprise to see her little daughter, after examin ing carefully the table utensils, take up her fork and throw it across the table, her face all wrinkled up, and the tears in her eyes, as she cried: "I don't want a 'poon wiv slits in it" KeUaaaa of tha Carreat Year. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon July 3, an annular eclipse of the sun July 18, a partial eclipse of the sua Dec 13 and a total eclipse of the moon Dec 25. WaH Baaslled with Kewsaaaers. The republic of Uruguay has more newspapers in proportion to its popula tion than any cpuatrv in the world, ajBMasaeK2Ss ssaanajmw imKL wl . WzillWgmhgmfKSWKJHMS. at SBBrManssBaaLsaSBaBBm aaalaBamS) BafVKaWVw&BBuY WORLD'S BEST GOVERN SD CITY 6UaaWs Saecaas la the sfaalelpal Affairs. The leading and 'most commend able feature of the management ad public affairs is the principle of the silking fund, which Is applied to every enterprise or business la which the municipality is interested. Whatever debts it baa are on the sure aad safe road to liquidation by the automatic operation of the slnkiag-fuad device. By this' means the city of Glasgow will, inside of fifty years, furnish free water party politics enters into no local elec S-te7- trie lights free; electric or water er at cost; allow them to ride on its electric road at the nominal fare of 2 cents for any distance and furnish to all free use of a magnificent public li brary. The city affairs are maaaged by business men with the same pru dence with which they would man age their own affairs; the question of party politics enters into no local elec tion and it seems to be the object of the municipality to administer the city's finances in an economical way, to improve the public health in its physical and moral basis, and to give brightness and the possibility of hap piness to civil life. Its success la all :hesfthaa,hpp.n,anmar1ril- , maoa me aamirauon oi ine civilizea world and to gain for itelf the appella tion of the best governed city on the face of the globe. Ro Head-Covering for Girts la Japaa. Miss Ida Tigner Hodnett writes of "The Little Japanese at Home" ia May St. Nicholas. Miss Hodnett says: There is no special head-covering in the na tive costume for girls. Indeed, the mode of dressing the hair would not admit of hats and bonnets such as ours. There is rivalry among Japanese girls as to whose hair shall be most becom ingly and artistically arranged, whose girdle be most gracefully tied, and whose robe show the most harmo nious effects; and they are quite equal to their western sisters in the taste for personal adornment. The Japan ese parasol is used as a shelter from the sun, and the European umbrella la REPEATING RIFLES INTO THE gaining favor. For going out in the rain there are rain coats and rain hats made of oiled paper. ABOUT COOKING. Never pierce meat while cooking, or the juice will escape Veal must never be laid on a dish, but hung in an airy place till cooked. Egg shells should be thrown Into the stock-pot directly the contents are used. Choose butter by Its fresh odor, free dom from buttermilk and streak of color. Fish for frying should always be dried thoroughly and dredged thickly with flour before. being brushed over with egg and bread-crumbs. : FACTS AND FIGURES. The diameter of the moon is 2,1 miles, and its distance from the earth 238.(50 miles. In a bushel of wheat there are 55t. 200 seeds; rye. 888.400; clover. 1C.4M, 900; timothy, 41.823.4t0. A horse power is calcalated to he sufficient to raise 33.090 pounds to tha height of oae feat la a mlaute." . TODD. TT IS NOT MCXHINE. PROFESSOR MALLET CORRECTS CIGARETTE CRITICS MISTAKES. 1m la tho "aetoatMa A Matt? af Is Xe Tset At AM. J. W. mallet, professor of chemistry ia tho Ualverelty of Vlrgiata. la a com munication to the carreat aamber of the Scientific American, says with ref ereaee to cigarettea of Americaa man ufacture: "Igaoraaca of aaslly ascertainable scientific facts Is. howerr, commoa enough, as la often Illustrated by the brown, oily material formed la the smoking of tobacco belag potated oat as alcotiae. though In reality this Is merely tha tar produced by tha actlea "Nicotine when pare Is a colorless fluid of somewhat oily coasisteace aai strong, peculiar, penetrating odor, bat it darkens on exposure to air aad light, becoming first yellow and then brown, so that It looks. In this darkened con dition, something like the tarry matter which soils a smoker's fingers or a handkerchief through which tobacco smoke, is exhaled, er Is of tea aotlced as deposited la the stem of a pipe. "This tarry deposit has nothing es sential ia commoa with nicotine, aad contains but traces of this alkaloid, when any at all. "A part, but only a small part (about one-seventh in tho experiments of Melsens). of the real nicotine of to bacco Is volatilized without decompo sition; the remainder is burned and destroyed la the process of smoking." The simple facts are, that such cigar ettes as I have examined, representing a large part of those in general ase throughout the United 8tates. are made from pure, light-yellow tobacco of the high grade produced oa certala special soils, prominently la certala of the southern counties of Virginia aad the adjacent portion of North Carolina, with, wrappers of the best quality of harmless vegetable fiber paper, aad are entirely free from the adulteraata which it has been asserted are present, with no evidence In favor of rnch as sertion, aad la absolute contradiction of the scientific evidence actually avail able. Laok aa This Fletare aad aa "All's fair in love and war." Is a commoa but, it is to be hoped, aot wholly true saying; otherwise some of the meanest acts would be excused. Napoleon was not above the paltriest deeds. At the battle of Dresdea. la 1813. he noticed that a group of offi cers had ridden within gunfire, and bade bis artillery send a shower of shot amongst them. "There are." he said, "perhaps some little geaerals la uien uiiuav--mmo aiujivtor waatuw he was the only great general. A gun was discharged at the group, aad Mor eau, a famous French soldier who had joined the allies, and who was almost as fine a general as Nspoleoa. was fatally Injured. Curiously eaoagh. la the course of the battle of Waterloo (1815), a colonel In command of a bat tery of British artillery reported to Wellington that he had the range of the spot where Napoleon and his staff were standing, and asked if he might pick some of them off. "Not at all." said the Iroa Duke; "generals-la-chief have something elee to do ia battle than fire at each other." Tha Adjective. A writer In Longman's Magazine says that everybody nowadays In prose or poetry claps on an adjective to every noun. It degrades the adjective aad enervates the noun. Then, too, there are a host of vulgar, over-dressed peo ple Introduced into our corapaay.whom we, the old-fashioned adjectives, hard ly recognize "strenuous," "Intense." "weird." "fiery," "sympathetic." "splendid," "secure," "naive." "im pressive," "poignant," mostly attached, too, to the wrong nouns. There are too many adjectives, and they carry too much sail, like Delilah, bedecked, ornate and gay. I noticed, as an In stance, the other day, a criticism la a French review of the academlclaa sea captain who calls himself Pierre Let!, whoso style Is so defecated that he seldom or never uses sn adjective more startling than "good,"-"bad," "green." "red." "dark." "light," and so oa; and yet so orders his sentence that the ad jective shines out like a rose oa a brier bush. Btraase Star Clasterlaa;. " Among the remarkable discoveries of the Harvard College observatory Is that of the existence of many variable stars la four well-known star chasten la the southera hemisphere, the moot celebrated of which is the oae called Omega CentaurL The latest observa tions show that no lees than Iff vari able stars are contained in these clus ters, and there may be many more. It seems sufficiently remarkable that these stars should be assembled la such swarms for in some of the cluster they are almost Innumerable bat the Interest is greatly heightened hy the discovery that so many of them sre unsteady in their light, alteraately flaring up aad dylag dowa ia oae an other's presence, like flJckeriag torches In the night of space. Hoary wtfh Aga. Whippiag tops come from the land of the Pharaohs, hoops aad awiagiag are met with ia classical Rome, while bliad man's buff was aa excuse for the eqaivaleat of horse plsy la the day of the megatherium aad the mastodoa. Tha Malay islands give as cat's cradle. Kite flyiag has beea popular la Japaa for many centuries, tha kites deplet ing the most absurd figures, generally of aged geatlemea. birds or pappy dogs. Games of ball have alwaya ex isted, bat the bat. with all the sports which fallowed la lta train, was aot la- troducsd till after the Christian Anxious Mamma: "Yes, Mr. Lake side, the fact is I have three daugh ters who ought to be settled la life. Ia this weatera friend of yoar a mar rying maa?': Mr. Lakeside (of Chi cago): "Not to any great extent, mam. I'm afraid be wouldat waat to take mora than, one of 'cm.'V-New York Weekly, TmOUMUABLK. 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