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    THE DAILY BEE-OMAHA , MONDAY JUNE 25 , 383.
Sanford's Radical Cure
The Great Italnnmlc DUtlllatlun of Witch Hazel ,
American ; rinr , Canadian Kir , JJailoM ,
( .lour tlliiviimi , Ktc. ,
For theltmnrillato relict and pcrnnncnt citruof c\cr\
form of Catarrh , from a nlni | > l Head Cold or Intlu *
enza In the Loin of Hmell. Tntc , anil HcarliiKtCoiigh ,
Bronchitis , anil Incipient Uoiiniimplloii. llellef In nvc
minute * In anr and e\cry i-aso. Nothing llko It.
( trntrful , fraerant , hole vmic. Cure Ix'trlm from
first application , and U rapid , radical , permanent , and
ne\cr lalllnit.
One Imttlc llfldlral Cure , one llnxJOataarlfal Snltcnt
and Sanfotd'n Inhaler , and In
cine package , fornilni * a
complete treatment , nf all dnnrnUt * for ti. A k for
taiilnnl1 * Itvllcal Cute. Potter Itrnn and Chemical
lo. ! , Uoston.
COLLINS i ! AlSfTtIft
aeh anil IloucN , Shooting
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male Pains , 1'alnltatlon , IM THM > -
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\cr , JlahrU and cpiilcinlcs , ue
> ' riiASTKllS ( an Cf.KO-
- IUTTKIIY CO.MIllNii :
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at pain. 2 . c\ur\wherf.
ThePublie u rtqucttcdturcfulljito n tic < the
Mto and enlarged Scheme tnUdraun Monthly
rfBh ? IT LBIZEl$7B'000' Tickets Only
SB , snares In Proportion.
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Louisiana Tiate Lottery Company
"IVedoliciebttrtfy ( that ue itiptrcitr the 01-
rangemtntt Jnr all thr Monthly and Stint-Annual
llrattinyi nf the Lnutnlana Stitr iMtterii Com ; iuj/ ,
manage and control the Arair/ii >
thtnutfea , and tliat tlif Mint art tontliiettd iritli
nonittvfa\rntt.antl in goad faith touunl nil i > ai.
tiet.nnti tct aiitlwrilt Iht company ta u > c Ihitcer-
lifleatt , uitk fae-tSuiilt , of our tijnatuiei attached.
In ttt adttrtliementi "
CtfUVIMIIOXKIUl.
Incorporated In 1803 for 2S j ears by the legislature
for educational and rharitablo purposes ith a cap
ital of ? l,000,000-to which a rusorte. fund of o\er
$550,009 has since liecn added.
By an'overwhelming popular > oto Its franchise
was made a part of the prc ent fct.ito constitution
adopted December 2d , A. U. 1879.
Tht only Ml > ry'ecer rottdonand endorsed lit
thipcople of any ttate.
' It itcctrSfaltt or foitpone
Its grand single number drawings take
place monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPOHTUNITV TO WIN A KOIl-
TONE Seventh Grand Drawing , Clas (1 , at New Orleans -
leans , TUESDAY , JULY 10 , l&S3-ISSth Monthly
Drawing. * , t
CAPITAL PIU7.K , $70,000.
100,000 TICKETS at FIVK DOUjAKS KACIf. Jrac :
lions , in Fifths In Proportion.
UNTOP I'KUKK.
1 1 CAPITAL PHI/.E $ ? / > ,000
1 do < 1 , . . 25,000
1 do do . ' 10,000
2 TUIZES OF SOOOO 12,000
5 do 2000 10,000
10 do 1000 10,000
20 do 600 i 10,000
100 do ' 200 , 'Jl.OOfl
300 do Kli ) 30,000
SCO do no 25,000
1000 do 25 25,000
A1TROTIX tTlOV PKIZtJ ) .
B Approximation prizes of 37.V ) 0,7W )
9 do do WO. . . . 4W10
8 do do 250 2,230
1867 Prizes , amounting to $205,50
Application for rates to clubs should only bo made
to the otllcc of the Company In New Orloanx.
For further Information wile clearly trUinc full
address. Send orders by Express , llc lstcrcd Letterer
or Money Order , addressed only to
M. A. DAUPHIN ,
or if.A. . DAUPHIN , Now Orleans , La.
007 fcetonth St. , Washington , D. C.
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LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO
B. Frank Moore.
127 La Salle Street. Chicago ,
( Formerly 31 ! ) ami 212 Uroadway , N. Y. )
Now Manager of Chicago Office. To whom apply foi
information and tickets. l ! > Sth Montlily
Drawing ,
Tuesday , July 10th.
First Capital Prixc , 875,000. Ticket * f > . Si.ld In
Fifths at (1 each. See full scheme eUew here.
JAS. H. PEABODY , M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON ,
Residence , No. 1407 Jonc * St. OIBce , Jfn , 1507 Kar-
nam htrcot. Ottlcc hour * , 12 m. tu 1 p. in. , mid U p.
m. to S p. in. Telephone for office , 07. Hiwlilcnco ,
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SLATES AND PENCILS.
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A Qlimpse at tbe Work of the Omaha
Pnhlic Schools ,
The Methods Adopted anil S.VHUMIIS
I'IU-HIKM ! by Ti-iu'lH-rs.
Tlic Lower ( Jriuli.-n UH They Aiu | | > nr
at the Central School.
"The pulilie schools of Omaha might as
well bo in Franco for all Uio people hero
know of them , " said one of the brightest
of the lady teachers nt the Central school
Riday to a repottcr of THE BEE , who
was Bunt there to write them up. Dot
ting the city at all points are its public
school buildings , many of them costly
structures , tilled with busy little boys
and girls working nine months in the
year , yet they are seldom visited andstill
less frequently described. The Central
school building , better known ( us the
High school , was found to bo very much
crowded , rooms and Imllsthat were never
intended for use as school rooms
tilled with desks and ap
paratus which will bo
placed in their now buildings when they
are completed. But this appears to
make no difference with the orderly ap
pearance of the school. The thousand
scholars in the central school building as
cend and descend the stairs , go from
room to room , nrrivo und leave with per
fect system and deportment. There are
twenty rooms in the graded department
with , at the present moment , 8U4 schol
ars , ( Uid in the high school proper are
five mure teac era with about 00 students ,
making 054 in all.
TIIK FIllST DKAIIK.
Miss Schlesinger has in her room fifty-
four little boys and girls , who compose
the A class , the very hrststop in the long
upward course of the eight grades. These
children have never been at school be
fore , and are hero taught their letters , to
spell by sound and to read easy sentences.
The children had evidently bestowed
great labor upon their slates ) which wore
all neatly printed. A class of about
twelve were reading from the first reader
of the Apnlctnn series , a very excellent
work prepared by the superintendent of
the Cleveland and St. L'ouis schools and
the instructor of elocution at Yale. The
children are first taught the words as
whole words , the sounds are then desig
nated , and finally the letters of the word.
It will be seen that the A B C system has
become a thing of the past. The reading
was astonishingly good and entcrely free
from that jerky and discontinuous pro
nunciation of words so commonly noticed
in small children.
Miss * Buchanan has about forty little
ones of the B and C class , quartered in
the front vestibule of the high school
building , which is used as * a schoolroom
temporarily. The children are taught
hero to combine numbers from one to ten ,
and their ciphering is neatly done. In
this room also the first lessons in writing
are given , the letters being copied from
models drawn on the blackboard by the
teacher. The desks in this room are itf.
n new pattern , handsomely finished. At'
recess every book and slate was seen
exactly in the center of each desk , and
there was a general air of neatness.
TIIK 8KCONI ) OKADK ,
Mis.s Mack has the C class of the first
grade and the A class of the second ,
including fifty boys and girls. The
most interesting thin" noticed hero was
the mode of teaching language , known
once as object lessons. There are a
number of highly colored pictures used
in this exercise. Taking up ono of
these the teacher describes the scene rep
resented to the scholars , and then
they write what they can about
it on their slates. The
BKB representative selected a picture
'known as "The Bird's Funeral , " and de
sired that something bo written upon
that , promising that the best essay should
bo printed in THK BFU. There was im
mediately a brisk and excited cleaning
up of slates and a bending over them of
busy heads , while 'little brows were
wrinkled and little lists clenched tightly
about the pencils. Now and then one
would rub his head or gaxo intently at
the ceiling , just as wo all do in composi
tion. At the end of five minutes the
work was examined , and the following by
Anna Kalish , aged eight , decided to be
the best in penmanship and length :
"I can see two girls and four boys in
the picture , a boy mid a girl are drawing
the cart , there is a little dead bird , and
the little bird will bo in the grnvo , the
little boy is crying. "
This room and the two lower ones are
dismissed at 0:30. : Before leaving , Miss
. Mack's scholars sung this pretty verse , in
1 which they are always careful ts substi
tute "Monday" for "to-morrow , " when
Saturday comes around.
"Our | diiy is o'or , our work in tlono ,
Our hooks nro in their iilncpn ,
And to our homes we'll quickly run ,
With cheerful heurtu and faces.
So now wo l > rt , w ith right good cheer ,
Without n thought of sorrow ,
And nay "Rood night , " our teacher lenr ,
Wo'll all coino buck to-morrow ! "
THE TIUKD aitADK.
Miss Johnston has fifty-four scholars in
the B and 0 classes of this grade. We
wore just in time to listen to the morn
ing exercises , first n rousing negro melody
and then a number of admirable selec
tions declaimed in mmon. The pupils
stood in lines down the aisles , "rows of
liquid eyes of laughter , " and recited
vividly , intelligently and with excellent
gestures , ' 'Old Time Punishment , " "Tho
Smack in School , ' , ' Jio famine scene in
Hiawatha , and Oaribaldi'ti address to his
soldiers. They know who Oaribaldi was
and his wife tees : questioning showed.
They had become interested in the noble
old son of Italy from a portrait of him in
some copies of The London Graphic , con
tributed by one of the boys. Everybody
seeemed full of life and voice , and made
their gestures full length and vigorously.
The sobs of "William Willith , if you
pleatho , " and thu moaning of Hiawatha's
forest wore perfect.
Mian Cushman lias the third A class ,
numbering fifty-five at present. There
was n lesson in spelling going on in this
loom , and some pretty tough \\ords at
tacked , such as "passengurs , " "oriole , "
and "menafjorio. " They also spelled by
8ound , writing the words on the hoard
and marking out the silent h-tlera. Very
few \ > i > rds'\uio misacd. They luad the
third reader of the Appleton uries half
through , and make original sentences ,
using the words they have had in their
lessons. They write model letters on
their slates , and make the common error
of commencing all their epistleswith "I. "
They write numbers in this grade up to
ono thousand , and Ifeim to subtract
where the bottom one is Iarg6r that ) the
top , and learn to multiply where the pro
duct is not more than nine.
Miss T , McChcane hiw fifty-five schol
ars of the tJiird 0 class , who are doing ,
however , fourth grade work , and they
alHook as though they might bo capable
of it. They have finished the third read
er this year , something never before ac
complished , we believe. They were do
ing some sums on their ( dates.
Their teacher naid. "if there are 1WO
inarbles in one box , 428 in another , X8
in a third ; how many ii alU" In less
than half a minute by the watch half a
dozen hands were waved aloft and the
answer given , 1002. A sum in sub
traction was given , the names of familiar
persons being used instead of the stere
otyped Jones and Smith. "Mr. Miller
lias 8,105 bushels of potatoes and Peycko
Bros , buy 4tr ! > bushels , how many bush
els lias Mr. Miller left ? " The work was
performed immediately and proved by
addition. Several little boys and girls
brought up their slates to show how neat
ly they had done their work. They then
1'ave , definitions of addition and sub
traction and told what the commission
business is. Miss McCheano has four
rows of scats in her room which indi
cate four orders of merit , the
first row being the most hon
orable , and aristocratic in its bearing to
the other rows. They are all "bees in
the bee-hive" with a "ijuccn-beo , " and
the "busy bet's" have their names on the
blackboard. Hero also are the names of
the ' 'little raindrops , " or scholars who
come whether it storn/s / or not. In the
dreadful rain and hail of last Tuesday
morning , there were thirty little rain
drops.
Tin : FOUKTH ISUADI : .
Miss ,1. Wilson has a room in thu baia-
meiit , where are seated forty-six scholars
of the A and B classes of the fourth
grade. She had a clans spelling words of
thu samu sound , spelled difiercntly , and
there were frequent changes of position
made by the unlucky ones who
missed. A smart-looking little Gor
man girl was at the head of
the class and kept her place
through the recitation. The tow-hea ls at
the foot of the class looked as sheepish as
they usually do in that position. This
room having finished the third reader ,
the board of education has loaned copies
of the Webster-Franklin advanced third
reader for supplementary work. The
study of geography is commenced in this
grade , twenty-two pages being taken in
the first of the Eclectic scries by _ Van An
twerp , Bragg & Co. , Cincinnati.
Miss Stull has the B and C classes of
this grade , forty-nine pupils.
They : were reviewing for
the " examinations which begin
next Monday , and wo were given an op
portunity to see the modern method of
teaching geography. On the wall hum. ' '
a largo outline map of the United States ,
without any printed names of localities ,
all the cities being indicated by itaru.
With a pointer one of the scholars would
indicate all the rivers in Illinois , for in
stance , or the towns , 'or the principal
places in Michigan. Being questioned
about Nebraska , they showed a .very in
telligent appreciation of their own state.
Miss Stull gives them a breath
ing exercise for invigorating them
after study , in which they rise
on their toes and inhale , holding their
hands in different positions on the wrist
and retaining the breath for a considera
ble interval. This very healthy exorcise
is pursued in many of the lower grades.
THK FIFTH (1HADE.
Miss M. Wilson has the A class of the
fifth grade , about fifty scholars. She had
just read to them a shoit description of
carrier pigeons , and they wcro writing on
their slates from memory what they had
heard. Some gave a very full reproduc
tion of the matter , others caught only at
the main ideas. Two or three wrote
enough to cover two sides of their slates ,
but nearly all were without proper
punctuation and capitalization. They
study arithmetic as far as compound
numbers in this room , the geography of
the United States , Canada and Mexico ,
and read one-half of the. fourth reader.
Miss Morse has about fifty scholars ,
who , when wo entered , were doing some
blackboard work in the reduction of de
nominate numbers , such as reducing
Ur ! ) , > ( i7 inches to higher denominations.
As'a test of rapid work. Miss Morse desired -
sired the BKB man to give out some table
to bo written on slates while she counted
ten. The table of square measure was
first taken. One young man had it all
neatly written out before hia teacher had
counted six , and others followed rapidly ,
the count occupying ono minute. The
bible of avoirdupois weight was done in a
third of a minute by some , and thu writ
ing was neat , thu lines straight and oven.
Some physical exercises were then token ,
'
but the pupils at this ago do no't show
the interest or animation in
this work that is displayed in the
lower grades. The vocal exercises
were better , "The Two Vagabonds , " and
that beautiful selection commencing ,
"Tho golden ripple on the wall , " were
well rendered in unison. Portia's speech ,
"Tho Quality of Mercy , " was given , and
Shakespeare and this character dis
cussed.
Miss Andrews has forty-five in the B
class. On the board were three largo
maps in colored chalk , two of North and
South America drawn by thu girls , ami
ono immense map of the United State. '
by the boys. These were drawn by all
in turn , and in sections as the work pro
gressed. Completed , they are very per
fect in outline and finish. They
were drilled on the maps , Miss
Andrews pointing to various parts
which were named without hesitation ,
rather too nervously and quickly , per
haps. All the places in South America
with difficult names were pronounced
glibly , and when the straits of Magellan
were struck they had something to Hay of
the early explorer who took three years
and twenty-eight davs to make the voy
age around thu earth , which can now be
accomplished in eighty days.
SOMETHING
EVERY LADY
OUGHT TO KNOW.
There exists u , menus of so-
cnring a suit nnd brilliant
Complexion , no matter how
poor it mny naturally bo.
llngnn's Magnolia IIaim is a
( lolicato ana harmless arti
cle , ivhich instantly removes
Freckles , Tan. Redness ,
Roughness , Eruptions , Vul
gar riushings , etc. , etc. So
delicate aim natural are its
oHccts that its use Is not
suspected by anybody.
Jfo lady lias the right to
present a disfigured face in
society when the Magnolia
Balm is sold by all drujglstu {
for 75 cents.
THE PAVING PUDDLE.
The Colorado Sandstone Syndicate Snc-
. - cessfnlly.Bnlldoze the Board ,
Tlio ItlilH fi r CPONK Sltrrl Paving
Itnrlior Holli'vet * In Asphalt unil
M.S. " CSrnvltiitemin Grnnllr.
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IllilH for ravlnn Cross StrcetN Itn-
eolvi'il
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Tlu > board or public works hold n mooting -
ing Saturday evening and opened bids
for the paving of the cross streets bo-
twcen Dodge mid Harnoy street * , as fol
lows !
UAUnKU it CO ,
Shoot asphalt Grading , ballasting and
paving , complete , as per plans and speci
fications ( live years guarantee ) , per square
yard , & .MI8.
Sheet asphalt Same as above , ( with
ten years guarantee ) , per squire- yard ,
$1.50.
llesetting and adjusting gutter , where
needed , to the crown uf paved street , pur
square yard , BO cents.
Resetting and adjusting old curb , per
lineal foot , 10 cents.
Furnishing and netting now euib stone ,
where needed , per lineal foot , 85 cents.
MACK it ( X ) .
Sioux Falls granite , concrete founda
tion , 94.85.
Sioux Falls granite , with broken atone
foundation , 94.25.
Limestone , with - concrete foundation ,
$3.1)5. )
Limestone , with broken stouu founda
tion , U.i : < > .
Gutters , etc. , corresponding with Har
bor's bid , 75c , 15c and $1.
JAMEH HTKI'IIKNSO.N.
Sandstone , with broken stone founda
tion , 8. } . (111. (
Clutters , etc. , 45c , lee and 81. 50.
JHHKINSON ifc CO.
Sandstone block ( Fort Collins ] , with
broken stone foundation , 1.40.
Gutters , ete. , 81.85 , 15c. and 81.75.
The bid was claimed to be informal ,
and a protest was entered by Stophcnson
against its being received.
The board rocpnTnicnded , by a vote of
two , to' one , that'jdistrictfl 3 , 4 , 5. (5 ( and 7
bo payed with Colorado sandstone. i ,
Pnvumriil.
"OMAHV , JunoL'3 , 1881) ) .
To the Editor of Tnr. Ur.r
DKAH Sin. In reply to some criticisms
on asphalt pavements , lately made bv an
other paper in this city , I desire to otato
the following facts :
1. Over six , hundred thousand square
yards of the Trinidad sheet asphalt pave
ment iu use for from one to * ten years in
the cities of Boston , Now York , Phila
delphia , Washington , Buffalo , Erie and
elsewhere , prove most conclusively that
the fear you express , that the marks which
appear during n few hot days in Summer
on the sides of streets freshly laid with
asphalt , is groundless and that they will
all disappear in a short time. It is no
new thing for non-exports to be alarmed
at this characteristic. Time will prove
to you as it has proven to others , that
these marks are temporary blemishes
only. Proof of this in found in the fact
you state that these marks are not visible
in the center of the pavement. And yet
the center of the pavement is exactly
like the sides in every respect , as far as
its composition in voncorncd. A little
tratlic will leave marks in either place ,
these will disappear as the trallio increases
and thus the pavement is constantly im
proving for years.
U. As to bonding for five yearn or more
wo are ready to bond for any length of
timo. You simply pay your money and
take your choice.
For ten years our price is 8U.50 per
square yard. If you will pay us what
Htone pavement will cost in Omaha , laid
with first-class material , in first-class
manner on a concrete base like ours ,
( and the peculiar soil of Omaha will per
mit of no firot-ulaps work without such a
base ) , wo will guarantee our pavement
for fifty years.
3. As to absolute perfection in a pave
ment I do not expect to find it until I
travel the golden streets of the Now
Jerusalem , where all good paving men go.
Meanwhile I maintain that for earthly
use , no other pavement can compare
with the smooth sheet asphalt properly
laid on a solid concrete base , and for the
following reasons :
1. ItTis a sanitary pavement , it has no
joints into which offensive matter can
settle , to return in noxious vapors Unit
produce sickness. It promotes the health
of the city.
2 , It is a noiseless pavement. It pro
motes the comfort alike of people driving
over it and of people in the shops , stores
and ollices where it is laid. Sick people
and invalids can ride over it when they
cannot ride over Htone pavements.
! ! . It is an economical pavement us re
gards the trallic over it , i. e. , the saving
in wear and tear of vehicles is of incal
culable advantage. The amount so saved
annually would make an income sufficient
to pay the interest on the cost of pave
ments in any city , and create a sinking
fund to redeem the principal. In view
of this fact it would bo wiser to pay even
more for this pavement than stone would
cost , for that difference lias to be paid
but once , while the difference in wear
and tear of vehicles is a perpetually re
peated one.
4. It is the cheapest pavement as re
gards motive power. Two horses will ,
on it , do as much work bv hauling as
heavy loads as five horses will do on stone
blocks , if well laid , or seven if poorly
laid. Rudolph Herring , president of the
Engineer's club , of Philadelphia , is auth
ority for this statement
To sum up , in view of all these facts ,
and in view , also , of the fact that the
available money to be spent in Omaha for
paving will go further and afford a larger
number of streets the advantage of a
good pavement if expended in laying
Hheot asphalt on a concrete foundation
than if Hpcnt in laying any stone pay
ment , it would seem that there is no
room for reasonable people to hesi
tate , As regards Hartley and Farimm
streets they form no exceptions. The
sheet pavement stands in Court street ,
Boston , wheio all thu express wagons re
ceive and deliver their loads ; it i in
Kirby street in the same city ; it is on
Sixth street , Philadelphia , between Chest
nut and Walnut , and on liroad street
north of Columbia road.
Everybody knows of it being on Penn
sylvania avenue , Washington , the princi
pal business street of two hundred thous
and people. In till these places it lias
proven successful after one to ten years
use. Gen. M. C. Meigs recommended it
for all the streets in Philadelphia. We
are therefore quite ready to lay it on Har-
icy and Farnant streets and guarantee it
: ho same as the other. 1 am yours , very
respectfully , AL. . 1t < vumu. :
Tlio I'uvlnn Problem.
At a meeting of the board of public
woiks held on Saturday , bids were
opened for the furnishing of necessary
material to pave certain districts of this
city , llids were received for
Sheet ax | > tmlt on ( i year * Kiininnteo forl'J8 !
[ KT square yard.
Shift inplmlt on lUypant gunrntitco for SUM )
| K > r wmuro vnrd.
Sioux Falls grnuitoltli concrete foundation
nt 8-1.85 per sqimro yard.
Sioux FnlU Krnmto with hroketi utonn mid
Kiind foundation nt $1.25 | HT Mninro yard.
Hiuuhtmia \\lthlirnkciiftUmfl nniU'nnd
foundation , $3.40 per Miiara | yard by It. 15.
lonkliiKon.
Saiulxtouo blocks with broken nton and ontul
foundation , $3.00 per wimro | yard by .linnet
Ktrplicnmm.
As far as the character of the asphalt
.lavement . is concerned everybody can
observe the same , at present , while it is
laid upon our streets , and form his own
judgment about it. Regarding the two
iids ) the company puts in as to the price
demanded by them for a five or ten yearn'
guarantee , it ajipears that thu company
icknouledges the fact that after a five
years' use their product will need a re-
[ iair of at least 52c per square yard , if the
material should bo serviceable for another
five years , and this only should they bo
able to control the repairs of the
streets themselves. It is reasonable
to suppose that if only five years guaran
tee is desired that after the expiration of
that time the cost to keep the streets
liaved with asphalt will amount to 81 or
oven more per square yard , which would
amount to 120 cents per square yard per
year , or in fifteen years it would cost the
amount paid for when originally laid
down , or in twenty years it would reach
the cost of granite- pavement , which does
not need repairs for fifty years. The
[ granite is no longer a paving material
for trial , as thu same has , throughout the
world , been announced as the only pav
ing material fit for use. How admirably
it works on Tenth street , notwithstand
ing all climatic influences the contractor
has encountered HO far , is too well known
to need any further comment. In letting
ting the contract for paving with granite
no questions wore asked as to how long
the guarantee for durability of that kind
of material would bo given , iis it was too
well understood by the city engineer and
board of public works , that the guarantee
was unlimited.
The bids for sandstone were made by
B. G. .Tonkinson , Esq. , for $ ! 1.40 per
square yard , or broken stone and sand
foundation , while the Hon. James Stephenson -
onson made his bid for the stone at $ * i. ( > 0.
The sandstone .proposed to be furnished
is understood to bo Fort Collins , Colo. ,
sandstone. In this connection it would
bo well to state that if the samples pre
sented to the board of public works are
on average product of the Fort Collins'
quarries , it should be borne in mind that
that class of sandstone is hardly fit for
use in foundation walls of very common
buildings. It will never stand the test
of the specifications submitted by the
board of public works , if such specifica
tions are. enforced ; which calls for a sand
stone of good quality , free from grain and
texture , cracks and seams of every na
ture. The samples submitted to the
board by the above named gentlemen ,
which can be examined by ( no public ,
show the layers of stratification and lam
ination , with a mixture of iron already
in a state of decomposition. It would
be unfair to suppose that the gentlemen
commming the board of public works
would hesitate a minute , while their abil
ity to judge the quality of sandstone re
quired for pavingpurpoacsis so wellknown ,
to accept material proposed to bo used on
our public thoroughfares in accordance
with samples submitted.
In conclusion , it would be well to state
that standstono of the quality proposed
could not , under the most liberal con
struction of thu specifications , be regard
ed as a fit material for paving. J. S.
1 1 KAVYVKI 1I T8.
An Accidental Mrotlni ; ol'Holld Men.
A curious and entirely accidental moot
ing took place at the breakfast table at
the Millard hotel yesterday morning ,
which is worthy of note.
Six gentlemen , all commercial travel
ers , sat down to breakfast together , and
it was found upon reckoning up that
their aggregate w ight was 1,2 , ! 2 pounds.
The names and weights of the gentle
men wore as follows : A. L. Klonfoltcr ,
of Joliet , 111 , , 201 ; G. E. Uennott , of St.
Louis , 210 ; II. S. Brown , of Chicago ,
233 ; C. A. Hoffman , of Uockford , 111. ,
250 ; G. C. Walworth , of Chicago , 200 ,
and F. E. Dead , of Medford , Mass. , 11)0. )
M. AV. KI2NNUDY.
The II. M. A. lloincnilicrliifr Tlicli-
Dead Itrct liren.
The E. M. A. adopted the following
set of resolutions at their meeting on
Thursday evening last , anent the death
of their fellow member , M. W. Kenned } ' ,
whoso death was recorded in our issue of
a week ago :
WiiKUEAH , . Inexorable death has again
assailed our ranks , a most worthy
member of our organization has boon
snatched front us in the meridian of Ids
manhood and usefulness , a veteran in the
cause of humanity and liberty has boon
called from his work ; therefore ,
HKSOLVKD , That while we bow with
humble submission to thu will of God ,
who does all things for the best , wo can
not help from expressing our sorrow at
the irreparable lops sustained through
the death of our late brother M. W.
Kennedy , not only by his immediate rel
atives and friends , nor by the E. M. A. ,
of which ho was a valued member , but
by the entire community. Possessing
the noblest qualities of mind and heart
ho was always foremost in the ranks of
Irishmen in their efforts to better the
condition of their persecuted mother
country ; generous to a fault and ov < Sr
ready to forgive un enemy or help a
friend , although gone from our midst lie
will ever live in our memory as a man
worthy of emulation , and entitled to es
teem , respect and veneration.
KIM : > IVII : > , That we tender to the
stricken mother , wife and relatives our
heartfelt sympathy ; may they bo sus
tained in this , their hour of trial ; may
their sorrow be at leant mitigated by thu
thought that his life was pure , his con
duct exemplary , and his death uiiivur-
rally icgrottcd by all who knew him.
HKSOLVKU , That a copy of these reso
lutions be sent to the family of thu de
ceased ; that they be spread upon the
minutes of the organi/ation , and pub
lished in the Omaha papers , and our
dlicors wear a badge , of mourning for
four meetings following their adoption.
Dr , Oscar Hoffman , physician and sur.
goon , graduate of Uollovuo college , N. Y-
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