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allen of THE DAILY 1JEE.
TiiKcomotis "expediting the star
routes.
IOWA republicans will march to
victory with Sherman.
BURP.N SHEIIMAX had the longest
polo at DCS Moines and knocked the
persimmons.
MEMPHIS has ono cotton nnd twen
ty-eight gin mills. Cotton isn't king
in that portion of Tennessee.
EX-SKNATOR BLANCHE K. BIIUCK ,
now register of the treasury , will take
the t/hinip / for Governor Foster in
Ohiii this fall.
Now that the state ticket is chosen
the people of Iowa should pool their
issues and elect a reliable antimonopoly
nopoly legislature.
GATII says the profession f n lob
byist at Albany is quits as respectable
as that of the average Now York leg
islator. This is severe on the lob
byists.
THE "Debt Payer" is the name of anew
now paper started in Richmond. The
"debt contractor would bo moro ap
propriate for a Virginia organ.
who desire to find a
connection between Senator Conk-
ling's defection and the comet will
doubtless find it in the trouble about
"comity. "
THE president is now enjoying at
tendance on college commencements.
ITo finds thcmngro.it improvement on
the average cabinet meetings or calls
from congressional delegations ,
SUIIURZ has boon writing again on
the Indian problem. Carl doubtless
finds it easier to write than to wrestle
with the stern realities of the Indian
ofllco and the Boston delegation.
TIIKIIE are 45,000 postofllces in the
United Stntos employing G5,000 per
sons. This force is increasing nt the
rate of 5,000 n year. The postofllco
in politics controls nearly 100,000
votes.
THE government has ordered two
billion of postal cards from the manu
facturers. Sowed together , the cards
would make n string six times the
length of Puck's girdle around the
world.
THE report of Boss Shepherd's
death in Mexico is denied. On the
contrary , the Boss is repealing his
Washington tactics nnd has lobbied
through n largo local subsidy for his
mining schemes.
Mit. PAIINKLL expects to raise § 500
000 from Irish Americans for land
league purposes during his coming
visit to America. Mr. Pariioll evi
dently thinks America is enjoying
prosperous times.
THE United States raised ever four
hundred and seventy millions pounds
of tobacco lost year. At a single
smoking this amount would make n
volume of smoke 18,000 miles long ,
13,000 miles high and 10,000 miles
wide.
WE are all glad to sco the walls o
the now opera house go up , but many
citizens would bo profoundly grutofu
if the planks of its sidewalk would go
down. Six months scorns sufliciont
time to have the street made im
passible.
FxKKiaK iui sometimes obtain exaggerated
aggoratod views of our educational ad
vantages. "There nro two boatinj ,
associations hero , " wrote a Japanese
student homo , "called Yale and liar
vard. When it rains , the members
read books. "
> THE Iowa ropublicaiu have nomi
nated Buron II. Sherman for govor
nor. Mr. Sherman is a republican o.
the Btrongest slainp ; a man of great
I I executive ability and will doubtless
prove the wisdom of the convention
which selected him as the head o
Hawkeye government for the uox
two years.
DOWN WITH PASSENGER
TOLLS.
Four conta per milo in Nebraska
only thrco conta per milo in lowri.
Thrco cents per milo on tlio Council
Bluffs it Kansas City road in Town ,
; our cents per milo on the Burlington
& Missouri road which runs parallel
and within sight of the Kansas City
line on the Nobaaakn side. Why this
glaring discrimination against Ne
braska ? Simply because lown has
enacted a law that fixes thrco cents
per milo on first-class roads as the
maximum toll. But .Nebraska is not
qitito as thickly settled as Iowa , travel
is very much lighter in Nebraska ,
and the roads cannot afford
to como down to three cents per mile.
Why can't they afford it ? Why can
they afford to carry hundreds and
thousands of people frco ever their
roads who have no tangible thing of
value to return for this fruo transpor
tation ? Why should the people who
nak no favors bo compelled to pay for
the transportation of the grand army
of dead-heads ? The pica that travel
s BO light in Nebraska that the roads
can't afford to reduce their passenger
'arcs is all bosh. Look at the B.ilti-
nero it Ohio road. The main line
'roin Wheeling to Ballimuro passes
.hrough the most Godforsaken
en section of America. All
hrough West Virginia there
s scarcely ono inhabitant to the
square milo. With the exception of
, ho Fourth of July and Christmas ,
ho natives of that mountainous region
tovor travel by rail , and train after
rain passes through from Bcnwood
o Cumberland and back , with the
rain hands as their only passengers.
And yet the local passenger tariff is
nly three cents per milo , and wo un-
lorstand has lately been reduced to
wo contsand a half.
It has cost moro to build every milo
of that part of the Baltimore & Ohio
road than it would cost to build
.wonty miles in Nebraska. Why this
outrageous imposition on the travel-
ng public ?
Wo are reminded , however , that
owcr rates can bo had for excursions ,
and limited tickets are issued at lower
rates between certain stations. This
docs not cover the case. The people
nt and will insist on a general re
duction. They are not disposed to
accept as favors what ought to bo con
ceded to them without asking. It
itrikcs us that the time has como for
ho reduction of passenger fares in
Nebraska to th'roo cents per mile to
and from any station , lot the distance
> o ten miles or four hundred.
A PROSPEROUS CITY/
Omaha is enjoying a season of good
imea which give no evidence of rolax-
ng. For tlirco years past the nuild-
ng boom has only , kept pace ufith the
lusincss development of the city and
ho growth of manufactures within
our limits. An unusually hard win-
or throughout the state , while it af-
octod the volume of the spring trade ,
could not materially chuck the onward
narch of our commercial progress.
Iho croakings of a few fossil residents
whoso energies in the past have boon
devoted to decrying nil public im-
> rovcmonts and who have
constantly abstained from mak-
ng any private improvements on
; heir own property , have been silenced
by the onorgolic labor and activity ot
our public spirited citizens.
A recent journal remarks that deal
ers in lumber and brick usually place
the duration of the boom of a local
town at four years. The first year
gets up the niuiio of the place ; the
second is best and enriches those
established in luminous ; the third is
not quite so good , and the fourth
brings the drop. This law , however ,
does not apply to cities located like
Omaha , which are entrepot to largo
Hoctions of country and centers
for wholesale trade. Such need
no local pulling to advertise
their advantages. Every shipment of
goods to other towns , and every or
der for merchandise from the oust in
dicates their commercial position.
Their growing manufactures , heavy
banking operations , and the rapid
growth of population revealed by the
annual school census all place them
above the common laws which'govorn
the prosperity of rural towns and vil
lages.
Bat Omaha 1ms
entered upon no
four years boom. She has experienced
no unhealthy growth in any ono di
rection. The extensive building
operations witnessed by her
citizens during the past throe years
have failed to fill the pressing demand
for moro room for wholesaling , retail
business and homes for actual rosi
donU. Houses nro in such domain !
that the sign "for rent" is hardly tacked
up before it is removed by a now ten
ant. Our brick yards are strainini ;
every endeavor to supply materials
for the now and elegant structures
which are rising in every direction
along our business thoroughfares ,
while the smallest cottage loaves the
carpenters hands ono day only to be
occupied the next by a purchaser or
tenant.
The steady advance in real estate ,
and the rapidity with which every eli
gible location is taken up by willing
purchasers , is another mark of the in
creasing prosperity of Omaha. In
nearly every instance such transfer *
arc made for building purposes , ant
not with a view to land speculation.
The suburbs of the city nro steadily
filling up with n class of small but
substantial cottages , each of which
contains n homo and family and rep
resents A corresponding demand upon
the grocer , butcher and dry goods
dealer for food and clothing.
Omalm's wholesale trade has never
been as great for any corresponding
period as at the present time. The
severe winter and late spring of
course affected its volume greatly , but
it has since moro than made up the
disadvantage , and by the end of the
year will show at least n gain of 30 per
cent , over lost year's sales.
If the clearings of our banks wore
only published , the great impor
tance of Omaha as a financial
center would bo n surprise oven to
licr citizens. No city between Chica
go and Snn Francisco , if St. Louis is
oxccpted , transacts the business done
by Omaha's banking institutions ,
which supply neighboring cities and
towns with currency and exchange as
iar east as DCS Moincs and as far west
as Salt Lake City.
To a great degree the prosperity of
our city is duo to the growth and pros
perity of our state. The rapid exten
sion of .spreading railway systems , the
promise of good crops , the abundant
employment for skilled and un
skilled labor , the immigration
which is settling our counties and
milding up our towns and villages ex
viciso a stimulating influence on the
notronolis of Nebraska. So long as
Jicso continue , a steady growth is
guaranteed to our city even with the
nest ordinary local effort. But a
iumbor of other causes will combine
o make our present boom continuous.
The advantages of our city as a manu-
'acturing point are just beginning to
30 appreciated. Eastoni capitalists win
not be slow to place their idle funds
n investments which promise good
and speedy returns. With manufac-
, urcs will como a manufacturing
population which in turn will support
now wholesale and retail merchants
and call for increased building accom
modations. Above all , the ijonuino
enterprise of our citizens of moderate
means , but moro than moderate public
spirit , will not fail us in the future.
With such men at the helm Onmha'n
boom will cease to bo amatterof com
ment and will soon become recognized
as the natural increase of a city which
at no distant day is destined to bo the
metropolis of the Missouri Valley. t
THE HOPE OF THE SOUTH.
The only hope for the south lies in
Iho downfall of bourbonism , by which
wo mean that cruel , despotic , and un-
American force under the guise of
democracy , which now controls that
section of the country , and acts as a
bar to all political , 'inont.il and ma-
erial progress. Every movement
which has for its object the over
throw of bourbonism , is worthy of all
support. The organization of Senator
Mahono's party in Virginia was the
Irst substantial protest against the
methods of southern democracy , TUE
BKK did not approve of the protracted -
od session of the senate , which
md no other object than the recogni
tion of Senator Mahono by the up-
lointmont of Uiddloborgor sergeant-
of-nrms when such action could as
well have boon deferred until the December -
comber session of congress. In so far ,
iiowovor , as the position of Senator
Mahono and his adherents , was a
protest against bourbonism and not n
bold finesse tor the trump card of of
fice holding , ho received the hearty
support of all good ropub-
cans throughout the Union ,
and the confidence that material assis
tance would bo afforded to any south
erners bold enough to break from the
thralls of party slavery has strength
ened the indopandent cause through
out the south.
The latest movement towards an or
ganized opposition to Bpuronisii ) |
comes from Mississippi. Encouraged
by the example of the anti-Hour-
bens of Virginia , the liberal ele
ments of Mississippi are consid
ering a basis of alliance for
an assault in force upon the
unnatural and unlawful bourbon pow
er which dominates n republican state.
Kepublicans , liberal democrats , and
greonbackors are maturing plans to
clear the decks for action. Ex-Sena
tor Bruce , register of the treasury ,
believes that there is a chance not
only to reclaim the state legislature ,
which will send to the United States
senate an anti-bourbon in the place of
Senator Lamar ,
If a free ballot wore only assured to
Mississippi republicans they eould
cosily carry the state without coali
tion. There are enough republicans
in Mississippi , but unfortuately no
republican party. The shameless
frauds which gave such men as
Chalmers nearly 4,000 majority for
congress out of a returned veto of a
little ever 14,000 have made Missis
sippi a Bourbon state. By throwing out
on the flimsiest of technicalities
4,842 votes for Lynch , colored , in six
counties , and judiciously intimidating
nobody knows how many moro He-
publican voters , Chalmers claims his
seat in the forty-seventh congress.
There are democrats in Mississippi
who have had the boldness to denounce
this Bourbon triumph in Shoe-airing
district us a bare-faced fraud. The
eamo method * give the state a solid
democratic delegation in both houses
of congress.
Every candid minded man believes
that Mississippi is largely republican.
In 1872 , with Oreeloy running atrainst
Grant and presumably drawing off
some of the republican strength , the
republicans polled 82,175 votes , 03.47
per cent , of the whole vote cast , and
carried the state by 34,887 majority.
In 187G Tilden carried the state
auainst Hayes by 49,508 majority , the
republicans polling but 5L'C03 votes ,
31.93 per cent , of the whole , out
of a total vote of 101,778. In
1880 the total vote was but 117,078 ,
Garfield receiving 34,854 , 29.70 per
cent , of the vote cast , against 75,750
for Hancock. In four years 47,000
voters had disappeared , To-day a
solid democratic delegation sits in
congress from Mississippi. It is as a
protest against such outrageous frauds
and tyrannical despotism that the in
dependents and republicans of the
state propose to combine. It is
sincerely to bo hoped that
they will succeed. The movement
once inaugurated in Virginia and Mis
sissippi , will spread to other states.
The \vliolo south is ripe for it. Every
intelligent citizen of liberal tendencies
is eager to cast off the blighting curse
which has paralyzed every industry of
the south , and retarded the growth of
a country singularly blessed by na
ture. In the downfall and destruc
tion of bourbonism lies the hope of
the south.
THE monetary conference at Paris
is soon in reassemble , and it is inti
mated that in case it fails to accom
plish its purpose the French and
American delegates will consider a
plan by which bimetallism may bo
maintained in Franco and the United
States. It is to bo hoped that an in
ternational silver union will bo
formed. Unless some- plan can bo de
vised to keep up the price of silver ,
Franco and other European countries
will suffer serious loss. The coinage
by the American government of two
million dollars a month has had some
thing to do with the comparative
steadiness of the silver market for the
past two or three years. This demand
for coinage , together with the silver
consumed in the arts , has been nearly ,
if not quite , equal to the supply from
the American minc.s. The European
markets have consequently had some
seventy or eighty millions less to dis
pose of than if the American govern
ment had not resumed the coinage of
silver dollars. But if the Monetary
conference fails , it is by no means
certain that the United States will
continue to coin silver dollars. Silver
coinage may bo limited to the frac
tional coins , which serve merely as
token monoy. In that ovcnt , silver
would most likely iluprocitvto in the
European markets.
The amount of silver retained by
Germany is estimated at from § 800- ,
000,000 to $20,000,000. This largo
amount Germany has promised to
withhold in case nn International
Money Union 'was formed. Should
such a union fail it will probably bo
thrown upon the market for
sale to the highest bidder.
V failure of our own government
to continue the purchase of bullion
for coinage would compel the product
of American silver mines to seek the
general market and the effect would bo
to greatly depress the value of silver.
The demand for it will bo shut off ,
except oa to India and China. What
would bo the extent of the dourccia-
tion no ono cnn forelell. Franco
might bo compelled to demonetize
silver , and then to add her immense
stores to those of the United States
and Germany.
, But if Franco and the United States
agree to coin silver , and make it
legal tender at the true ratio , they
may prevent any depreciation of silver
below the ratio they ugrco upon
For instance , if the ratio agreed upon
should bo such as would require 42 (
grains in our American silver dollar ,
the two countries might coin silver on
that basis. But if the French adhere
to their present ratio of lute 1 ,
which would make n lighter coin than
our present dollar , equal to a dollar in
gold , the probability is that the Ia\\
of demand and supply would event'
ually drive both nations from the
agreement.
1'jiiLANTiiuoriSTs are not always
practical politicians , and Mr. W. W.
Corcoran , the venerable benefactor ol
Washington , seems least of all. He
has written a communication to the
Now York Nation proposing an amend
ment to tho'constitution of the Uni-
tud States oy which it la to be pro
vidcd that on the meeting of congress
in December , 1884 , and every four
years thereafter , the house of repre
sentatives shall elect thrco members
of the senate , whose names shall bo
placed by the tellers in a box and
drawn therefrom by the speaker the
first drawn to bo president of the
United States , the second vice
president and the third president j > n
tern , of the senate , to succeed cacl
other in the saniu order in the oven
of a vacancy by death or otherwise
This plan , Mr. Corcoran thinkswoul
raise the character of the senate , wouh
prevent intnguo in the managemon
of political conventions and would pu
an end to the turmoil of prcsidontia
elections. One trial of tmch mi ex
) crimcnt would convince the most
oolhardy. The dirty work that would
> o perpetrated around that lottery
> ox on the clay in which the first prize
was announced to bo drawn would
iscouiit Patica's famous performance *
n Omaha.
THE Glcnwood Journal , n demo-
ratio paper in Mills county , Iowa ,
ios the courage to repudiate the state
icket recently nominated by its party ,
n the ground that it does not repro-
ont the interests of the people on tha
vital problems of the day. The
Journal expresses its views in the fol-
owing torso language :
The democratic party , it is evident
rom the composition of its commit-
co , is as completely in the power of
ho railroad ring as is the republican
> arty , and it would bo ns foolish for
ho pcoplo to expect reform in railraod
legislation from their suggestion as
rom a republican committee's. This
s the conclusion wo have arrived at
rom a scanning of the names. Wo
wash our hands of the affair.
GKEKNIIACKISM evidently is not pop
lar in Michigan. The grand green-
jack camp mooting at Lansing opened
'uosday with only fifty persons pros-
nt , where 50,000 had been oipectod.
verity empty gents , Solon Chase ,
General Weaver , West and Ingalls
vero melancholy witnesses of the fact
Imt "fooling with the currency" is at
ircscnt not in fashion.
THE Elmirn Free Press has been
onsulting George Washington
hrough a spiritual medium , and rc-
> orts the "Father of his Country" as
ending the following : "I see that it
s proposed to erect a monument to
'Iroquois. ' Give him mine. "
The Ute Trouble * .
) cnrcr Rcpuhlfran.
The Ute disturbances reported from
ho far southwest may develop into
omothing generally serious and alarm-
ng , and may not. The reports as far
.3 received hero , nro so incoherent ,
disjointed and indefinite that it is a
ittlo difficult to determine exactly
vhat has occurred and how much
larm has been done. It appears that
some seven or eight white men have
> ccn killed , or wounded. This is ,
> crhaps , enough of loss of life , and
ind has enough of suggestion
of sorrow and of desolation to
neasurably satisfy the humani
tarian Indian admirers of the
jast. They have very little to gratify
horn since the slaying of poor old
Father Meeker and his companions ,
ind the dark and cruel experiences of
lis wife and daughter. But then , on
; ho other hand , they have not been
distressed by the spectacle of von-
jcanco wreaked OH any of the Ute
ihief.s. The only pain inflicted on
; hpm has been caused by the impris-
mHonineiit of Chief Douglass. So in
; hp present case they ought to bo sat
isfied with the murders already com
mitted by the Utes , and not call for
the infliction of further punishment
upon the settlers on the southwestern
frontier.
The history of the ( Disturbances ,
from their cause to their development
in desultory battles in the forests and
until the mountains , seems to bo , in
substance , .about us follows : The
Urcs made depredations upon the set
tlempnts , murdering ono man and
stealing a largo amount of stock , in-
eluding about a hundred horses. The
settlers , chiefly stockmen too impa
tient to wait for the traditionally slow
and hesitating methods of the govern
ment , took the work of reparation
and vengeance into their own hands.
They organized into an armed band ,
well mounted and equipped , and in
vaded the Indian country for the
double purpose of recovering
the stolen Block and avenging
the murder of their companion. The
result of this movement is indefinitely
indicated in the reports that have ap
peared in the papers. Some of the
stock has , perhaps , been recovered.
But whether or not any Indians have
been killed still remains u matter ol
mere conjecture.
The settlers seem determined to
continue this work of protecting themselves
solves and avenging thpir wrongs ;
and they are likely to do it , thorough
ly , affectively and promptly. They
doubtless have among thorn enough
of the old soldier element to sup
ply all that is needed of organ
ization discipline and method.
Too much of those things , as has been
learned in dark , sad lessons of dofeal
and massacre , are ruinous to the
efficiency of troops in fighting the In
dians. The aroused and enraged settler
tlor may possibly settle the whole
business , and also settle most of the
Utes before the government gets any
troops on the scone of action , or be
comes really aware of wlut is gohi {
on.
on.Who
Who in Colorado , or in the wostcan
blame the settlers for the course they
have taken ? With the story of White
river fresh in their recollection , how
much of protection or reparationcouli
they reasonably expect of the govern
nient ? And can strong , courageous
men , with arms in their hands , bo ex
pected to stand idly by whiledopredat |
ing savages are despoiling them o :
their property and murdering their
companion * * ? The only wonder is
that the frontiersmen have not sooner
done as those of the far southwest are
now doing.
The Now Version.
Never , probably , in the history o :
the world was so much Bible reading
done in a brief time as since the ap
nearanco of the new version of th <
Now Testament. Its sale has beoi
immense , far beyond all expectations
Nearly 3,000,000 copies were pur
chased in England , and The Philadel
phia Times relates what the domain
has boon for it in that city and else-
where. Lippincott & Co. alone say
they could have sold half a millioi
copies in a week if they ha <
them , instead of 100,000 , Clax
ton it Co. report the same extraordi
nary demand ; Porter & Coates , Join
Wanamaker and Holman it Co. con
firm their statements. Philadelphia
in all , has disposed of over 500XX (
copies. Porter & Coatca have isauec
what is known as the comparative edition
tion , containing the old. version am
, ho now in parallel columns , and al
ready report that they have orders in
excess of their present supply to the
txicnt of four thousand copies. Hub-
jard Brothers have also issued _ an
American edition , of which
they report 40,000 copies or
dered inside a week. A list of
other houses in Philadelphia and Now
fork is given , which have heavy or
ders on hand to bo filled when they
shall have received further supplies of
lie work. Every town and city in
his country and England has had , or
will have , its proportionate number of
lie book , so that it can bo well iniaij-
ncd that it has a vast sale , from which
ho profits to the publishers will , in
ho aggregate , bo very large.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Cisterns ami tanks may bo mailo water-
Ifjht by painting the inside thickly with a
mixture of eight parts of melted glue and
our parts of linseed oil. boiled with
Ithargc. The cistern may be filled in 48
lours ,
Algiers possesses a river ol veritable ink ?
Two stre.im.i , one starling from a region
i-hcre the soil is ferruginous , the other
rom n iicat xwamp , tnect and form the
ivcr , whose inky constituency is due to
lie mixing of the iron and gallic acid
ylilch the two tributary streams respec-
ively contain.
An English nobleman near Newcastle
gets the benefit ot the electric ligjit for nl-
neat nothing , ns ho gets Ills motive newer
rom n brook , nnd so has no engine to cat
up money. The slreain turns n turbine
water wlieel , that runs a dynamite-electric
imchinc , anil enough electricity in secured
o keep 37 Swan lamps burning.
Fontaine , the Georgia land and immi-
, 'rntion commissioner , argues the case of
outhern manufactures with Mr. Atkinson.
: Ie says Georgia cotton mills have an advantage -
vantage of 910 a bale in the cost of cotton ,
andiot 33 per cent , in the cost of brick and
iC per cent , in that of lumber. At Colum-
MIS , Ga. , arc mills employing 1800 white
operatives.
The president of the New Orleans Water
company states that in his opinion the fur
nishing of water to consumers who desire to
connect with the new sewers ought not to
10 made an additional cost to the consum
ers , because , in fact , the generaluse of
sewer connections will be n benefit rather
, ban a disadvantage to the compa
ny , as BO much leas water will be used
From the fire hydrant * for flushing out the
gutters and washing away the slops and
filth now thrown into the streets.
The number of the plate works in Great
Britain is ninety-Mix , with 372 mills. The
annual capacity of theao works is placed at
3,213,000 boxes , but an some thirty mills
Imve been stopped on account of the strike
l > revailing in the tin-making districts , and
as about forty other milts have ceased op.
eraliung from other causes , the present
rate of prpduction iu reduced to 0,1315,500
Ixntes annually. The home.consumption
of plates is placed by well-informed Eng
lish writera at 2,000,000 boxes annually.
The scientific newspapers for the past
few months have been explaining the
meaning of the different names applied to
steel. An exchange sums up M follows :
Blister steel ia made by causing the carbon
of charcoal to penetrate iron in a heated
state. German steel is blister steel rolled
lown into bars. Sheet steel is made by
hammering blister steel. Double shear
Bteel is made by cutting up blister steel and
[ nittiug it together and liammering again ,
pruciblo steel is mode by molting wrought
iron and charcoal and scrap. Bessemer
iteel is made by blowing air through cast
Iron , burning the silicon and carbon out.
Open-hearth steel is made by melting pig
iron and mixiui ; wrought iron , or scrap
steel or iron ore to reduce the silicon and
carbon.
_ The details of the recent watch compe
tition at Melbourne arc calculated to
moderate somewhat our pride in Ameri
can watches , as they were shown to be in
terior as time-keepers to both the Swiss
and English. The Loclo watch , which
gained the first prize , seems , indeed , to
have reached perfection in respect to ac
curacy , having -scored COO points in a
posiible COO ; a London watch came in
second with 405 marks , whil * their best
American competitor bcored but 430. AB
regards finish , however , and general ap
pearance , the American watch leads the
world , scoring 445 points out of COO ,
while the Locle watch had but 403 , and
the London wan last but ono in ft list of
eight , with only 31 points to its credit.
The moralh , that England has paid too
much attention to accuracy , and too little
to appearance , while America has sacri
ficed real merit in a measure to good looks.
The new discovery of n method by which
electricity may be stored in a box and
transmitted from place to place , suggests
unlimited possibilities of practical appli
cation. Sir William Thomson states that
his colleague , Prof. Buchanan , carried
away from his laboratory in his carriage
one of the lead cells , weighing eighteen
pounds , and by Its use was able to per
form a surgical operation in one minute
which would otherwise have [ occupied ten.
The operation was the removal of a tumor
from-a boy's tongue. Sir William Thom
son hopes that a very short time will be
allowed to pa s before the Pauro battery
is made to do for the electric light what a
water cistern docs fora water supply , lie
also foresees another very important ap
plication of the "accumulator" for the
electric lighting of ships. Altogether we
seem to bu on the eve of one more great
revolution in the matter of motive forces
and artificial liifhts.
The great Krupp works at Essen , Ger
many , illustrate the immense progress
which the metallurgical and mechanical
industries have made in the westeni pro.
vincca of Prussia within the last thirty
years. In 1851 , 250 hands were employee
at these works , producing CCO tons of cast
steel , or 2.24 tons each hand. In 1861 ,
the number of hands had increased to 2130 ,
tbo turn-out being 5000 tons of steel , or
2.3C tons per man per annum. In 1805 ,
the production ro-e to 50,000 tons , and the
number of hands to 8167 , BO that the pro
portional production amounted to aboul
0,10 tons a man. ly ! 1872 the quantity ol
cast ateel turned out by the ' 'Kanonen-
konig , " or "comon king , " had risen at a
bound up to 125,000 tons , and the number
of workmen up to 12,000 , HO that each man
turned out as much as 10.42 tons a year.
In 1870 , the proportional production tool
a further Htep forward , and the great stee"
manufacturer was generally credited wit )
having taken a leaf out ol
the book of Herr Camphnuien ,
the minister of finance , whoi > e
notions of political economy were peculiar.
In that year the firm kept 8,237 men , nut
produced 153,400 tons of btee ] , being at a
rate of 18.70 tons of steel per man a year ,
Thus , in the course of 25 years , the pro
duction of steel per man per anunni at Kg
sen rose from 2 tons C > cwt. to 18 tons 1 !
cwt , The proportion j > er man since 1870
is not known , but the aggregate produc
tion ID supposed to have increased.
A Sleniflqant Tact-
The cheapest medicine in use is THOMAS
ECLECTIUO OIL , because so very little of it
is required to effect a cure. For croup ,
diphtheria , and diseases of the IUII N am
throat , whether used for bathing the chester
or throat , for taking internally or inhaling
it is a matchless compound.
, , Proiudioe Kill. .
"Eleven years our daughter suf
fered on a bed of misery under the
care of several of the best ( and some
of the worst ) physicians , who gave
her disease various names , but no re
lief , and now she is restored to us in
good health by AS simple a remedy as
Hop Hitters , that wo had poohod at
for two years before using it. We
earnestly hope and pray that no ono
else will let their sick suffer as wo
did on accouut of prejudice against BO
good a medicine as Hop Bitters. "
The Parents. [ Telegram , codjy ]
CHEAP LAND
FOR SALE.
1,000,000 Acres
OF THE
FINEST LAND
EASTERN NEBRASKA.
SELECTED IN AN EAIUY DAT NOT HAIL
OAU LAND , BDT LAND OWNED nr NON-
llESlDKNTSVI1C ARE TlnKt ) PATINO TAXE3
AND ARE OKKEIUNO TIIKIU LANDS AT TUB
LOW rniCK OP SO , $3 , AND $10 reit ACHE ,
ON LONO TIMK AND EAST TKHUS.
WE ALSO OFFEIt FOR SALE
IMPROVED FARMS
IN
Douglas , Sarpy and Washington
OOU'JWXXIEI.
ALSO , AN IMMENSE LIST OF
OmahaCityEealEstate
Including Elegant Residences , Business
ind llcsidcnco Lots , Cheap Houses and
[ jots , and n largo number of Lots iu moat of
-ho Additions of Omaha.
Also , Small Tracts of 5,10 and 20 acrcca
n and near the city. Wo have good oppor
tunities for making Loans , and in all cases
panon.illy examine titles and take every
precaution to insure safety of money , BO
invested. f
Bo ow wo offer n small list of SPECIAL
BARGAINS.
BOGGS & HILL ,
Eeal Estate Br okers ,
14OS
North Side of Farnham Street ,
Opp. Grand Central Hotel , l
OMAHA , NEB ;
FOR SALE A beautiful residence lot on
California between 22nd and
23d Direct * , $1COO.
BOGGS k HILL.
CAI C Very nice house and lot
. w. . OHLC ouOthand Webster wtrccts ,
tt Ith barn , coal house , well cistern , uhadc and
frulb trees , ever } tiling complete. A desirable
piece of property , figures low
UGS & HILL.
FOR SALE Splendid famines lots S. E.
corner of ICth and Capitol
Avenue. BOGGS & HILL.
House find lotcorncrChlcago
FOR SALE
and 21st struets , & 000.
BOGGS & HILL.
OAI C Large house on Daicnport
OHLC street between llth and 12th
goop location for boarding house. Owner will
sell low HOGGS & HILL.
CAD CAI C Two new houses on full lot
rUIl OHLC in Kountze & Ruth's odtll-
tion. This property will be sold very cheap.
LOGOS & HILL.
T710K SALE A top pheaton. Enquire of Jos.
Jj Stephenson. KH-U
Comer of two choice lots in
FOR SALE
Shinn's Addition , request teat
at once submit best conh offer.
offer.BOGGS
BOGGS & HILL.
A good an desirable res
FOR SALE
deuce property , $4000.
BOGUS & HILL.
RESIDENCE Not hi the market
ACIIJC Oner will sell for $0,500.
BOGGS & HILL.
rnn CAI C 4 food Iot8 > sl > lnn'a 3d ad
rUK 9MLC dition 150 each.
BOGGS & HILL
CAIC A vcry "no residence lot , to
OHLC eoiiio party desiring to build
a line house , 82,300. UOGGS & HILL.
CAIC Abo"t 200 lota in Kountzo &
„ OHLC Huth'a addition , just south
of St. Mary'e tuenuu , 84M to { 800. These lots
are near business , surrounded by fine impro\o
racnts and are 40 per cent cheaper than any othe
loU in the market. Save money by buying then
lois. HOGGS & HILL.
CAIC 10 l ° to > suitable for fine red
OHLE. ilcnce , on I'ark-Wild avenue
3 blocks S. K. of drpot , all covered nlth fine larg
trees. Price extremely low. &COO to $700.
BOGGS & HILL.
Some very cheap lots In
FOR SALE Lake's addition ,
BOGGS & HILL.
FOR SALE Cheap corner lot , corner
Vougkut and Jefferson tits.
BOGGS & HILL.
CAI C 93lots on 20th , 27th , 28th ,
OHLC 29th and 30th SU. , between
Fnriihain , Douglas , and the proioticd ) extension of
Dodge street. Pricca range from $200 to 8100.
We haxe concluded to glo men ot email means ,
one more chance to secure a home and will build
housas on these loUon email payments , and will
sell lota on monthly payments.BOGOS
BOGOS & HILL.
100 acres , 0 nnlca troin city ,
OALt about 30 acres very choice
\ulloy , with running water ; balance grutly rolling
pirirle , only 3 nilles fiom ruilaoad , $10 cracje.
BOGGS Sc HILL. 1
400 acres In one tract twelv
FOR SALE
uillcn from city ; 40 acroo cu
tlvatcd , I.UIng tiprlngof water , boino ulce > a
leys. Tbo land la all tint-class rich pi iralrle. Trio
* 10p racr . BOGds&IULL.
FOR SALE 720 acres In ono body , 7 milca
_ _ west of Fremont , ls all level
land , producing heavy growth of gratia. In high
i alley , rich soil and J mle from railroad ana
side track , In good settlement and no better Ian
can be found. BOGUS & HILL.
CflD CAIC A highly Improved farm of < f !
rUn OHLC 240 acres , 3 inlleu from city.
Kino inijiromnenta on this land , owner not a
practical farmer , determined to Hell. A good
opening for wmo man of means.
means.BOGGS & HILL.
CflD CAIC 2,000 acres of land ncnr Mil-
Tun OHLC land Station , 3.SOO near Elkhorn -
horn , 98 to $10 ; 4,000 tu-rea In north part of coun
ty , $7 to ? 10 , 3,000 acres 2 to 8 miles from Flor
ence , $5 to 410 ; 6,000 acres west of the KlKhorn ,
84 to $10 ; 10,000 acres scattered through the coun *
ty0to$10.
The aboie landi lie near and adjoin nearly
e\ cry farm in the county , and can mostly be sold
on viuall caah paymtnt. vt ith the balance In 1-2-IS-
4 anil 6 vwir's Umo. BOGGS i ; HILL.
CAD CAI C Several fine residences prop
HUH OHLC ertles never befrre offered
nnd not known In the market as > .oing for tale , I
Locations will only bo made known rj purchaser !
"lucaulntr buslncs. BOOGS It HILL.
IMPROVED FARMS
Improt o farms around Omaha , and In all partH of
Douglas , Sarpy and Washington counties. Also
faniu In Iowa. For description and prices call ou
us. liOGOB & II1LU
Business LoU for Sale on Famunand Doug *
10 la streets , from $3,000 to fci.WX ) .
isodas & HILL.
CCflD CAI C 8 business loU next west
CrUn OnLC of Masonic Temple-price
advanced of | 2,000 each. BOGGS & HILL
S business lots wett of Old
FOR SALE
Fellowi block , tt COO each.
UOGGS & HILL.
builncw lota south eide
FOR SALE I
Douglas street , between lilh
and 13th , $3,600 each. BOOGS & HILL.
CflD CAIC 1 CO acre * , ocvcred with young
rUK OJILC Umber ; llrloy water , ui-
rounded by ituprored rmi , only 7 mile * front
clt , Cheapen land onhaod.
onhaod.DOOOS * HILL.