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WE will gladly exchange the "cold
wavo" for ii "wet wave. "
JIM LAIUD Is good on his muscle , but
the question is whether Nebraska wants
to bo represented byrowilics in congress ?
Tun best publicity for such a villain as
the man Wooldridgo would bo as an at
tachment to a telegraph polo or conve
nient tree limb.
THE Provident Savings bank of St.
Louis , whose cashier ran oft" with every
thing but the safe , ought to have its name
cnangcd to the Improvident bank.
A JURV has been finally secured for the
Chicago anarchists. The general impros-
fiiou is that it will bo as dilllcult to secure
nu agreement as it was to obtain a full
jury box.
SENATOU VEST tried to do a good thing
for the old Missouri river yesterday by
moving to increase the appropriation
from $375,000 , to $500,000 , but the sonata
voted It down.
Oi'EN cesspools , stagnant water , filthy
alleys and slaughter Itouscs sending out
their steadies over the city arc good hot-
lods for cholera germs. The board of
health should roll up its sleeves and got
down to business.
WHEN you meet a candidate for a state
ofh'co in these days , ho wants it distinctly
understood that he doesn't want to bo
committed on any vital issue that affects
the people's welfare until after the con
vention has adjourned.
Tun First district will nominate a can
didate just one week before the state con
vention. Church Howe has sot his mouse
trap as skillfully as if his nanm were Jay
Gould , lie now can pledge the Ncmaha
delegation to half n dozen candidates
for every state oflico and ho will not bo
obliged to show his fine Italian hand
until after tlio sold out delegations have
delivered their goods to him.
IT appears from a report just received
Jit thostuto department at Washington
-from Consul General Itain at Berlin ,
that cases of trichinosis have not boon
decreased in Gormanyslnco the exclusion
of tlio American hog from that country.
Tjio consul states an instance in which of
twenty hogs of Gorman growth micro
scopically examined fourteen were found
full of trichina ? , and ho says that such
developments nvo convincing people of
the fallacy of the theories which led to
the exclusion of American pork from
the Gorman market. The fact is that
there was never any bettor reason for
such exclusion than the clamor of the
Gorman hog producers who wished to
control the homo market.
TIIK reports submitted iu tlio United
States senate on Thursday , adverse to an
investigation of the alleged use of cor
rupt moans in the election of Senator
Payne , do not exculpate the accused ex
cept to the extent of saying that lie is not
personally Inculpated that is , ho did not
Jiimsolf engage in buying up members to
vote for himself , Nobody over suggested
or supposed that ho did ; hut is not n man
responsible for the acts of his authorized
agents ? The report of the republican
members of the semite committee who
Toted pgalnst an investigation is a mass
of special pleading wholly unconvincing
iud inconclusive , and while it may have
the effect of throwing tlio case out of the
only tribunal having jurisdiction , does
not vindicate Mr. Pnyno.
Tiir.iiK Is very great probability that
the river and harbor bill will die cither
at the hands of congress or by the
veto of tiio president. It is not an en
tirely simple matter to got at the mo-
livcw which tro behind the conduct of cer
tain members of both houses of congress
iu relation to this hill which by tlio way
IE always a bouo of disagreeable conten
tion , and has for several years become
inoro and inoru n source of Fictional dif
ferences but there is nn evident disposi
tion with bonio to handicap the bill for
ilcfoat. The consideration of the bUl In
tlio senate Thursday elicited nu acrimo
nious tloTjnto that did not improve the
situation , though it served to show the
aountry something of tlio feeling that
respecting this measure. It up-
to lo : understood that unless the ap
propriation under tins bill is kapt within
juodcrnlo figures the prc-slrtout will not
Tliloknml Thin ,
General Tlmycr has boon subjected to
the exhausting pump of the Lincoln
organ of railroad republicans. Tlio gen
eral declared upon his honor that ho hns
rntered into no political alliance with
Senator Van \Vyck and ha * made no
pledges on tlio senatorial issue to any of
A'an U'yck's friends. General Thaycr
has doubllcss told tlio truth. Senator
Van Wyck 1 ? not trying to enlist candi
dates for state offices to fight his battles.
The people whom ho has served faith
fully nnd well will take care of his cause ,
oven if the candidates for state otllccs
hang back for fear of ofTenJing tlio rail
roads and professional politicians.
General Tliayor has also assured the
pump handle at Lincoln that he has been
n staunch republican through thick and
thin and has never failed to support any
candidate who had the seal of a conven
tion on his coat tails. This will doubtless -
loss bo very satisfactory to the machine
rcpublinans who believe that conventions
cannot err and prefer a disroucst repub
lican to an honest democrat. l''rom our
standpoint this thick and thin party de
votion docs no credit to General Tlmycr's
Intelligence. A man must have a cast
iron digestion to stomach some of the
candidates that have been foisted upon
the parly in Nebraska by
railroad corrtiptionisls within the
past ten years , and an unusually
elastic conscience to say grace after such
a foul imal' We have had not only vor.y
bad men nominated for high position * ; ,
but men who were utterly unlit for the
discharge of the trust by reason of notori
ous incompotcnoy , dissipation or want of
brains , Tlio refusal of largo numbers of
republicans to support such candidates
has been no discredit to their patriotism
or integrity. It takes greater moral cour
age to oppose party candidates improp
erly nominated than to follow the boll
weathers. Good government can only
° y-
ally to country should always stand above
loyalty to party when the party is wrong
or is being used for disreputable ends by
bad men.
A DiRRrnoo to tlioStnto.
Nebraska has boon disgraced by the
bloated rowdy who represents the Second
congressional district in the halls of con
gress. Tlio use of vile language followed
by personal violence ma3- commend Jim
Laird to tlio cowboys and saloon bum
mers , who have been his mainstay during
his public life , but respectable citizens ,
regardless of party , will hang their
heads in shame over tlio spectacle wliieii
ho made of himself in the affray at tlio
national capital. It was bad enough
in Laird to have been connected
with tlio gang of bogus pro
em ptors on Slinking Water creek. It
was the height of brazen impudence in
him to champion these land swindlers in
the house by attacking the commissioner
of public lands "and moving to strike out
the appropriation for paying snccial inspectors
specters of land entries. In his encoun
ter witli Mr. Cobb last week on this ques
tion Laird was confronted with his own
record from the reports of republican inspectors
specters who had exposed the true in
wardness of .the Stinking Water frauds.
Lashed into a fury by the stinging re
buke which tlio house adminis
tered In refusing to sustain his mo
tion to abolish inspection of entries ,
Laird sought to reopen the controversy
and to make a personal issue witli the
chairman of tlio public lands committee.
In place of argument this whisky bloated
congressman used his list to convince his
opponent and made a scene which ought
to retire him forever from nublic life.
If the republicans of the Second district
attempt to inllict this man on tlio state
again they deserve to bo disfranchised
forever. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The Limit of Tariff Taxation.
"Those who refuse to bo encouraged
by prosperity , " declares the chairman of
tlio ways and means committee in his
able exposure of Sam llandall's apple
jack tariff bill , "mav still take comfort
in that public necessity which requires a
revenue ol $100,000,000 to bo derived an
nually from custom house taxes. "
"It is to bo assumed , " says Secretary
Manning in his last report to eong ss ,
"that during the present and tlio next
fiscal year quite ono hundred and lifty
millions of dollars must annually bo
raised by duties on merchandize. "
"Figures won't Ho. " The estimates of
the secretary of the treasury and the
chairman of the revenue committee of
congress arc given as the basis ot tlio
15ii's : : assertion that an average reduc
tion of little moro than ten per cent iu
existing tariff dues will bring the ro ,
ceipts down to the revenue requirements
of the government. Tlio fact that a
heavy deficiency in last year's appropria
tions has made an apparent increase in
the surplus revenue must bo taken into
account in estimates for the future. The
certain expenditure of many millions
in naval construction , sea coast defense
and an increasing pension list cannot bo
overlooked. The revenue requirements
of tlio government when thosu expend
itures are considered , will bo greatly in
creased over the total of $245,000,000 , of
the last fiscal year. With tlio internal
revenue taxes as they are and tlio tariff
cut down by tlio amount named , though
a wise enlargement of the frco list and a
reduction in tlio duties imposed on tlio
necessities of life , the receipts of the aov-
eminent will bo brought very nearly to a
revenue basis. This is tlio view of men
who look beyond the present to tlio fu
ture.
To talk about the abolition of internal
revenue taxes is absurd.
Humors of Cabinet Changes ,
Our Washington correspondent notes
the fact that there Is a good deal being
said just now relative to impending
changes in the cabinet , the gentlemen
atl'eotod being Secretary Manning and
Attorney-General Garland. Regarding
the former the correspondent expresses
the opinion that U is as near a fixed cer
tainty as anything can bo In politics that
Mr. Manning will not return to the sovcro
duties of thn treasury , while regarding
Mr. Garland the oft-reported statomcntis
reiterated that he desires to leave the
cabinet whenever he oan do so with credit ,
both for personal rousons and to relieve
the administration of nil onbarrassmont
incident to his being a part of it.
With respect to Mr. Manning , apart
from the considerations touching his
health , another very strong reason that
maj impel him to retire from tlio treasury
portfolio is the action ot the house of
roprusontativcJi a few days ago In dvelar-
intr , by nn overwhelming majority , a
"want of concdcnuo" in his method
of managing the department with
reference to the public debt.
If wd do not misapprehend tlio
character of Mr. Manning , ho is not only
very tenacious of his opinion ? , btu is
very sensitive under rebuke , and ho
must therefore feel keenly the con
demnation vKilcd upon him in the passage -
sago of tlio Morrison resolution. Ho can
not do otherwise than regard that action
as a notiro from the largo majority of
lii < i party In the lower branch of congress
that his llnp.nriat views arc not esteemed
ol any value , and that so far as his party
associates in the house are concerned
they would require and cxpcet from him
nothing moro than a faithful perfor
mance of the executive functions of the
office. Tlio situation must bo particu
larly liumilatlng , also , to Mr. Manning
when ito remembers that during republi
can administrations no democratic house
of representatives over felt called upon
to pass such a resolution as that of Mr.
Morrison. Under such circumstances
few men of self-respect would remain in
office , and since Mr. Manning has an ex
cellent excuse in his broken health for
retirement it is moro than probable ho
will not resume the duties of secretary
of tlio treasury.
With respect to MB. Gar
land , it would bo gratifying
to know that that gentleman
had definitely determined to satisfy a
very general pttpllc desire for his retire
ment from tlio department of justice , but
ho has so persistently hold on in despite
of this desire that very little conlidenco
can be felt in reports that credit him
with n purpose to surrender an office in
which his usefulness has been greatly
impaired , if not wholly destroyed. If
Mr. Garland is awaiting llio time when
he can leave llio oflico with credit wo are
quite sure ho will never find a period
moro propitious than the present , with
respect eitiicv lo himself or ti 'l ; * ; ; , ' :
tration. That remaining in office wiH
not remove whatever blaln attaches to
linn or rehabilitate him in public confi
dence , lie ought to be able to understand
us clearly as every other rational man
does. He ought also to see that his pres
ence in the government is a source of
embarrassment to the administration
whieli it is a pieee of gross ingratitude to
continue. Even if it be claimed that the
president has desired him to remain , tlio
answer is that there was a point of honor
involved which , with a nonsltivo mini ,
would have outweighed the president's
wish , while if it bo said that Mr. Garland
has remained in office with the idea of
living down public opinion , it ought lo
be plain to himself and his friends that
tlio effort is futile , and that del'mneo of
public opinion is not tlio route by which
to regain popular confidence.
The Mexican Pension
Uoth houses have passed the bill to pen
sion veterans of the Mexican war and the
measure has now cone to President Cleveland -
land for Ills approval. It will scarcely bo
withheld. The survivors of the struggle
of 1818 aie few and in the natural course
of events their remaining years cannot bo
many. The demand upon the treasury
by the annual requirements of the bill
will be a steadily decreasing one.
Under the provisions of llio bill , $8 a
month is granted to all soldiers and sail
ors who served sixty days in tlio Mexican
war or who were employed an equal time
en route to the scat of war , or who worn
in actual battle and were honorably dis
charged Tlio same sum is granted to
surviving widows not remarried.
Every soldier , disabled or not , who is
now sixty-two years of ago , becomes a
beneficiary under the act , and tliosc who
are not thus advanced in years will draw
the pension when that ago is attained.
But all soldiers , without reference to tlio
ago limit , who have the infirmities recog
nized in other laws as a claim to pen
sion become at onto entitled to the pen
sion named. Soldiers drawing pensions
for disabilities incurred in the war of the
rebellion are cxeopted. In case a soldier
lias lost his discharge papers secondary
evidence will bo accepted us proof of his
service. Nebraska has a number of vet
erans of tlio Mexican war who will bo
bcnelitted by tlio operations of the bill.
EDMUNDS and Logan had a tilt yester
day in the senate. It was only a war of
words , and did not amount to anything
when compareu to the pugilistic sot-to
between Laird and Cobb in tlio house.
Other LutiilM Than Ours.
The elections have decided Mr. Glad
stone's downfall. The majority of thirty
against his measure for homo rule has
been swelled at the polling booths to
seventy-live. A coalition ministry will
probably bo formed within a few weeks
witli Salisbury at the helm and Lord
Ilartington assisting. The programme
proposed is said to Include a local govern
ment bill for England , Scotland and Ire
land , together with other tempting meas
ures which might bo described as
ipringos to catoh woodcock. " It is not
the first time that the torics have stolen
the thunder of the liberals , and it is there
fore not unlikely that some such scheme
is in contemplation , especially as tlio
calmness and moderation which Irish
men have shown diinn < r the recent polit
ical excitement have loft no excuse for
the ro-establishmont of a policy of coer
cion , i'or years it lias boon argued that
Irishman were naturally Incaoaciated for
self-government , and if any suggestion
were made as to giving them legislative
independence it was based brutally and
sarcastically on the ground that they had
"a. right to go to tlio ilovil In their own
.way , " Now , however , when defeat has
not oven raised tlio semblance of retalia
tion , it is seen that coercion would not
bo a question with which to como before
the country , and Lord Salisbury mav ,
therefore , bring forward something
which , of course , will not satisfy Ireland ,
but the rejection of which ho will use as
an argument to prove the inherent dis
content of Irishmen.
*
The czar is not waiting to hoar from
the other European powers before pro
ceeding with his warliKe preparations ,
and all the news from St. Petersburg in
creases the general impression that llus-
sia means war. Two regiments of the
imperial guard have joined the other
Russian troops in Bessarabia , and are
quartered m Kishinev , the capital of that
province , wliouco Russia invaded lion-
mania niuo years ago , Tlio sum of 10-
000,000 , roubles has also been set apart to
improve the ports upon tl.o Black sea
and the Sea of Azov , which increases the
prospect that the czar may attempt ttio
i mined Into conquest of Turkey , Mean'
while , Lord Uo oborry is preparing u pro
test to be forwarded Jo Uussla , which will
probably be signed by Germany , Austria
and Italy as well , Itis thought that , in
case of war , the o jfowcrs will act
together , Great Britain taking the initi
ative. Tlio circumstances that a lory gov
ernment is likely to conduct these oper
ations makes tlio probability of resolute
and warlike notion by tlio British greater ,
and In this case HIP homo rule fi'i tion
may be Indefinitely /Icfcrred. / The c/ar
possesses ono great advantage over
England , in that , being an absolute mon
arch , lie can move 1m troops and appro
priate his revenue at will , as the occa
sion demands , insto.id of being obliged
to defer to popular sentiment or await a
vote in parliament. It seems hardly
possible , however , tiiat the other states
will overlook Russia's violation of the
treaty of Berlin , or that anything but
force will prevent the czar from keeping
the port of Ualoum closed ,
*
#
The ninety-seventh anniversary of tlio
taking of the bnotilo was celebrated
Wednesday evening under the auspices
of the French Americans of St. Louis.
From tlio time of its foundation in liG ! )
to its destruction July 11 , 178l > , the bastilo
was the emblem of the arbitrary tyranny
through which the anointed kings of
Franco assorted their divine right to rulo.
Liberty in America has been constructive ,
but In Franco it was destructive because
until tyranny was overthrown it could
have no foundation. The ono act in tlio
French revolution which all lovers of
genuine liberty may approve without res
ervation was the razing of the structure
whieli for for so many centuries had
menace' ! an enslaved people. The -Uh
ami 11th ot July will always bo sacred to
liberty , because on tlio one day a frco.tom
was established ami on tlio other a
tyranny overthrown.
* *
The iluka ot * Aivrvlu has umU'rlaKcn lo
explain to America that tli&y are in u'O-
found Ignorance as to the relation which
.Ireland sustains to England. This may
be so , but tliu duke's ignorance of mat
ters pertaining to British affairs is equally
as profound. When lie was secretary of
suite for India , and Russia had occupied
Murv , he announced in parliament that
tlio place was only a collection of mud-
holes , whereas.its alratczio importance
was so great that its possession enabled
Russia to got much nearer to her long
cherished desire of seizing upon eastern
India.
*
*
The expulsion of the French princes
has evidently given a new impetus to the
monarchical propaganda in Franco.
Several royalist journalists have been
clyen a lengthy confcYenco with tlio ex
iled Comte do Parig , and | tlio consequences
quences of this meeting arc already
manifest. The army is sitid to bo almost
ready for n change in tlio government , in
every part of the republic a new stimu
li s lias been given the "reaction , and it
need surprise no orjo ij ! Henry V. is
called back to the tlironp of his fathers
before another year has passed away.
The crowing power of roValty was offici
ally rccogni/.cd anil advertised , not
chocked nor impeded by'driving out the
pretender ,
V ' :
While the daily mortality from cholera
in Italy docs not raimjly . .increase , the
death rate among these who are attacked
is exceptionally largo. The number of
new cases in Brmdisl for the first three
days of tlio week was 310 and the number
of deaths was 132. The number of now
cases in L on tana was M7 , wlulo the num
ber of deaths was 75. The largo death
rate is accounted for by tlio statement
which comes from Rome that thosu at-
taqked suffer terribly , and that in many
cases the patients die within an hour
after the appearance of the disease. It
is said that the villages near 'Iriesto and
Finnic arc now affected. Probably the
reports of mortality do not cover half of
thu deaths , ami tliero is reason to behove
that the disease is at work in many places
from which reports are not sent out for
publication.
UENATOlUAfj POINTERS.
Fully half the heads of United States sena
tors are bald or silvered.
In the seventies there aio but two senators ,
Payne being 75 and Merrill 70.
Out of a total ot seventy-six senators thirty-
four have been born In the states they repre
sent.
Senator Morrlll has been In congress thirty
years , and is twenty years older than Ed
munds.
Duller , nt no , from his thin gray hnlr and
white moustache , looks ncnily us old as Con
ger at 08.
Kino persons out of ton would say that
Blackburn , at 47 , presents as old an appear
ance as George , at 69.
Senator Vest has nn Idea of challenging
thu executive to n fishing bout , but hu 1ms no
chance. Lnmont selects tlio bait.
Nine senators appear not to know the
month in which they were born , and two ,
Allison and-Van Wyck , knowing the month ,
know not the day.
Vest at llf ty-livo looks as old as Pugh at si vty-
five. Sawyer is sixty-nine , yet few persons
would take him to be ten years older than
lloar , who will bo sixty next August.
Sherman at slxty-thiee , although some
what lacking by nature In vitality , is a well-
preserved man , not a bald spot being visible
through his Iron gray hair. .
Warner , of Missouri , MdConias , of Mary
land , Held , of Noith Caiollnn , Crisp , of
Georgia , Hepburn , of Jovfti , and liolmont , of
Now York , aio quite pissaljlo billiard play
ers.
ers.Kvarts
Kvarts , at sixty-eight , although his hair Is
darkly gray , shows not a sign of baldness ,
while Miller thu oilier Mown York henulor ,
nioio than t won tv years his Junior , shows a
deal of top head tluougli lib ; line silken hair.
If the shoulders of Morflill , the oldest sen
ator In the chamber , weiede.sdbentho would
iiH | > ear younpor tluui the "nsh-pole bachelor , "
Snulsbury , whoso iccoidcul jw.ira aio sixtv-
eight and therefore eight yenis less than
these of tlio Vermont senator.
An examination of ages shows that In the
thlitles there la but one , Senator Kennn ,
whoso age Is tlility-olghtuud who is therefore
the youngest member ot'iilie upper branch of
congic.v ) . In HID fottle-iUhoiu aio tuiutcen
senatois , Itlddlebercer , the second youngest
senator , being ; Sabln and Snooner , 43 ; Al-
drlch , 44 ; lioiry , 45 ; tiiay and Jones , or Ar
kansas , 40 ; HlacUbuvii , lioiman , Miller and
Mitchell , of Pennsylvania , 47 ; Plumb 43 ;
Manderaon 49.
Senator Hurry's uilncipal recication Is till-
Haul playing. He lias certainly had practice
enough to make him an tixpeit Whlloho
was governor of Arkansas he was widely
known as n patron of thu science. A good
player always found a welcome nt the execu
tive mansion and liad social attentions .show
ered on him. The governor had ono of Col-
lender's costliest tables and a sot of cues
which cost a year's salary.
Cockroll , whose years number half a cen
tury , plus one , looks to be ten years older than
hosjau , while in fart ho U nine years-
younger , the hair and bcaid of the former bo
ng a light gray , the hair and mustache of the
latter being comparatively as black as the
pluumgu of the raven.
Only Jlfty-tUiee years of this world's life
lm < McPherson seen , yet from his whitening
looks , hollowed checks and treble gait ho
would quickly bo laken to be eight or ten
years older than Heck , who is cloven ye.irs
his senior , but who , In appearance , nt least ,
Is as muscular n1 * nn ox. On Heck's bend ,
which Is covered with a kinky coat ol brown
mlr , not a baiel pot as laigo as a dime can
bo seen.
Wnslilneton Halcliet : "What Is your opin
ion ot the Hacon-Shak'ipu.iroconirover.sjV"
.Senator HrniKt was nskt'il. "What Is it
'bout ? 'Xuthcr ono of Sparks' iiillnes ? "
tiuerlt'd the senator. "Oh , not it's a litciary
dispute. They say now that Huron wrote
Shnk'.ppaio'a plav * . What do you think
about itV "Don't kuo\v anything about It.
Don't care , neither. Always some fuss'bout
who writes things. Why , It was only the
other day that I see suiuetlilne about who
wiotn 'Ileaullful Snow. ' Andiiowlieie's an
other hullabaloo. "
The ScletiUllu Molocli.
W. 11. ( Hldorntul W. II. (5iinltli starlcd
fiom New London , Conn. , last \\eclctoilnil
the north pole. It Is hardly time , ns yet , to
take up n collection to scud icllef to them ,
but wo may as well be ln wcuk on the
monument.
Omnlia Hcnl Kstnic Dealers.
AMidim Globe.
Tlio dealer In Kansas City real o tate
options is very proud and haiuthty In AtchIson -
Ison and St. .Joe , but when ho goes to Omaha
hu conducts himself with gicat humility , tor
llio Omaha dealer in ical ratato options not
only spot N clusters of diamonds , but wc.iis
silk diawcrs with gold buttons ,
SttcUs to Ills I'iin-Klectrlc.
St. r.tiiilsdhilic Ucinocnit.
We are Indebted to a iccenl Interviewer
for the Information that Attorney ( jcncral
Gal land has "lost the elasticity of his sena
torial days. " Ho has also lost thn popular
lespccl which used to go with said "elasti
city. " Hut ho still retains his telephone
stock.
Will no Settled Homo Dny ,
C/ifwiyo Tribune.
At latest accounts Dakota had not been ad
mitted into the union , though having every
claim to the tiling. At latest accounts , too ,
UakOta VCl > a- OH---1 ' - fnnllltK I' " - > " '
. . * . .ut'U 111 iui- , , . . , | . , l uill
against the dcmociatt ? vaity which will bo
settled some day.
The Suicidal Mania lit Iowa.
Kcw I'oit , Times.
The village of Wilton , twenty miles west of
Davonpoir. la. , with fioo Inhabltanls , has lur-
nlslicd seven suicides since January 1 , and
thirteen Instances of self destruction within
two yeais. It is believed that , In proportion
to the population , more deaths have resulted
fiomtlie suicidal mailla in Wilton tlmu in
any other village In the United States. The
desho for self-destruction was made the spe
cial subject of discussion by the members of
the Iowa nnd Illinois Dlstiict Medical soci
ety. The doctots expressed the opinion that
suicide i.s due to the absence of racial train
ing. H
How Frnitlclo Stirrcil up the Olil DInn.
Krclianac.
"Otovor , dear , Is this n democratic admin-
istiatlonV"
"Of course it I.s , Frankle. For heaven's
sake don't let anyone hear you ask such a
foolish question. "
"Well , if It Is , why nicn't the dciuocints
all in office1.1'
" 1 haven't had enough time yet to make al
lhi > changes. "
"Well , as you aio n candidate for anolher
term , don't you think yon had better stay
home Irom tislilug and make a few thousand
changes1
"Frankle , that's my business. "
"Oh , dear ! You are getting cro ss already. '
Chicago Gets the Kose.8 !
Sumlcii irulofno In Cliicnyo Tribune ,
In coming to us , fiiire- Itosc ,
Von show , n e'er your wont Is ,
Wisdom and taste ; none better knows
Where the Pierian font is.
Come West , and grow up in thoscat
OL poetry nnd learning
And packing hogs and s llins wheat
And real artistic j earning.
Hero flowers of thought of centle mind
Have atmosphere for blowing ,
lloio lofty aspirations Hud
Hoom , and to spare , for growing ;
You'll feel at home It must bo so
Here no harsh critic's rigor
Shall blight your muse ; It's bound to grow
With occidental vigor.
You'll surely como ; the steel must near
The mngnct , where Its place Is ;
You'll come ; your pioperhome is hero ,
The homo of all the irrnces ;
It must be so ; while other towns
31 ay gather common osie. < .
In Fortune's honlc 'tis written down
Chicago gels the Ilo.ics I
Why Is It ?
OMAHA , July 10. To the Kditor of the
JJii : : : A number of citizens of Douglas
county are anxious to build on West 1-ur-
nani street. Plans for their houses have
been drawn and lots purchased. The
board of county commissioners have
been appealed to time nnd again to'ox-
tend tlio grade of the street. All the par
ties interested imyo petitioned the board
to assess u third of tlio cost of such im
provement upon tlio adjacent property ,
and thu petition lias been signed by
seine thirty odd lot owners. Under tlio
stnto law the commissioner * are fully em
powered to proceed with the work. But
moro than two months huvo now
been frittered Mvay in needless obstruc
tion on the part of the county surveyors
anil neglect by tlio board. The total
amount of earth to bo moved is only 4,500
yards. The last reason given for delay is
that the county surveyor objects to the
trouble of making out n detailed assess
ment for each of the lots improved , Prop
erty owners are accordingly asked to put
up tlio nionoy in advance to suvo the
county surveyor and clerk the work of
entering the special assessment on the
records.
Tlio question is which h supreme , the
law or the commissioners * Hundreds of
thousands of yards of grading have been
done in the county and city during tlio
past year without u dollar's worth ot cost
to the property owners bonolittisd. Men
who are "solid" with the commissioners
find no difliculty in having their propurty
improved at little or no oxponso. In the
present case , the property owners apply
for grading under tlio law and ask to bu
allowed to boar their share of the cost
Himply in order to hasten the work so
that they can erect substantial residences
and build themselves homos. Tliaco.it
of the work is so flight that it is dllllcnlt
to sue what good reason can bo advanocd
for the continued delays , W ,
Good Work ,
To the Kditor of the UKB : Allow me
simply as an outsider to speak of a work
that is being curridd on in this city by &
few Indies that I am sure i.s not fully up-
predated by most of our oitiy.ons. In
f act it is impossible to realize the extent
of the work without seeing it. Hut allow
mo in a few words to tell something of
the worn that the ladies ara doing at the
Buckingham on Twelfth street. Only a
day or two ago a young nun from ono of
the first families in the cast , n graduate
f Yale college , was brought there verg
ing on delirium tremeus. The ladies
kindly nursed him , and with the assist
ance ot ono or two young men , labored
with him hour after hour all tluou < ; u thn
night and day , bringing him back to
reason and manhood , and pontiu ! < f him
to a higher power to save him from Ids
appetite. That eamo afternoon
four men came in to sign
the pledge , and one stood at the door in
ho took his bottle lillod with whisky and
dasliod it on the crouiid , These ladies
have in the last six months rescued over
llfty 3'oung men , most of whom have be
come good eiti/.ens and liiembers of some
of our churches. And yet these ladies
have to beg day after day for the means
of support. \ \ lion they give their time
nnd nil to this work , should not the citi
zens of Omaha support It , and not leave
them to fear that each mouth will be the
last' Jlrs. ( "lark i.s peculiarly adapted
to this Work nnd Is accomplishing grand
things. Iu conclusion 1 want to say Hint
1 am writing this without the ladies
knowing U , and with llio desire that it
may arouse someone to como to their
help. U.
'A Victory for \Yotncu.
Itoitun Itemltl.
The victory won by women nt tlio pres
ent season of college anniversaries is
nothing sliorl of a revolution In tlio ideas
of what Is proper to 1m done within the
walls of a college. Ten years ago it was
n bravo man in most of tlio colleges who
dared to say anything in favor of tlio ad
mission of women to tlio privileges of a
collegiate education. The Harvard Anuov
began by apologizing for itself , and hits
not yet hud u fair show at Harvard , and
NVi'llpsloy and Smith and Hryn JIawr
colleges are yet in the gristle of experi
ment ; but public Ronliniunl lias shot be
yond the heads nnd trustees of the older
ami moro conservative institutions , aiid
now there are but three colleges Yale ,
Amlicrst and Williams among the older
Institutions that are not open to women
in some form. This is a revolution in
female education , and Is destined to work
a great change in the culture of the noun-
try and in professional lilc. Women
spread culture better than men , because
iliey have more time for It. If the pres
ent demand for the higher education of
women continues , aiid tliero is no reason
that it should bu less , it will shortly como
about that co-education will bo an ac
complished fact in the higher institutions ,
as it is n reality in many of tlio country
schools and in moat schools whore pri
mary instruction is given. It would scorn
as if tlio drift at tlio present moment
wcls ! \ ( ' . ' | ; ( | ' l l'1' ' ' * 'lectionTito '
revoiuiiOn is ono iiiat might have been
anticipated , mil H has como almost with
out observation ' 11 many of the older col
leges. Brown University , for instance , is
said to have yielded the point rniite as a
matter of course ; while at the wc t , and
in many of tlio state eolli-gos , the. two
sexes have for some time been on sub
stantially the same fooling , The good
results of the higher education of women
have vindicated tlio action of the lending
institutions which had already opciie'd
their doors to women , and llio full enjoy
ment of collegiate education of women
is now only a question of time every
where. To have readied this result
without special ufl'ort , and as an act of
justice to the other sex , is one of the great
educational victories of the ago. It i.s
also one of the signs that the ideas of our
own people ate working toward great
practical realities in American life. There
is no aristocracy in the United Stales but
that of the intellect , nnd the opening of
our institutions to women on u large
scale is ( o be ono of Ilia sources of tno
suslcnlulion of the larger culture and tlio
wider sense of tilings tnnt is growing up
among us. It will make itscll felt in the
elevation of the middle class to thn plane
of a gentler nuJ more subdued life. It
will help powerfully to create tlio sense
of refinement that is now largely lacking
where one expects to find it. The victory
for women is , in fact , so wide-reaching
that it is dillicult to point to a department
of jifc or society that will not be afl'eetcd
by it. The change has como not a mo
ment too soon , but it will be well to ad
vance slowly enough to avoid the dan
gers that are usual with revolutions , even
when they are bloodless.
At ilnilette , Mich. , the other day , two
young childicii ate sevcial nutmegs. They
\\cro taken ill , and bcloie moininu the
younger , a boy about six years old , died.
A clam opener In a Wcstchester , Pa. , res
taurant touiid n live mouse among Ids clams
the oilier morning , ono clam holding it se-
cuiely by the fout and another by the tall.
A Kentucky farmer says he galheied about
twenty of tlio cut-worms which have been
devastating the crops of bis section and put
them in a cigar-box half tilled with diit , cuv-
oiod tlio same with a pane of glass , and set
It in the HUH. Tlui rnhiilt in k > .ss than two
weeks was a brood of grasshoppuis.
Two summer visitors at Mayport , Fin. ,
caught a shark , shot it and tiled to pull it
ashore. As they weie hunting with might
and main , another huge shark swam up and
blttliecnptuiedllsli in half. When the hall !
on the hook was haulcil to laud the lishcr-
meu found In It live young sharks alive and
kicking.
A San Fianclscocltl7.cn has a chicken that
I.s hacked like a camel , has two tails anil
thico well-developed less. When the fowl Is
In repose it rests on all three legs niter thn
man tier of a milking stool. When it walks it
uses but two , the tlilid , It is said , "sticking
out behind like a ship's spankcrbooiu. "
In Indiana a rattlesnake was recently cut
in two with a M-ytlie by n tanner while mow
ing gi.iss in St. .losunli county. The snake
retained enough vitality to lastcn Its lang.s
In the loot of u woman who iollowed the
scythe with n laljcand it rc < | iilii > d tlio IIM ; of
tongs lo piy the teeth apart in older to ic-
niovo the loot. The woman will recover.
Acat owned by a larmor in Wert county ,
Pn. , has long been noted for Itsint-kllllng
( liialitles. One day last week , when her
owner went to the barn , ho saw-n Inruernt
lump 1'iom a bane ) , hooking Into the band
ho dbcovcied a litter ot young nits. Ho Im
mediately went for his famous cat , expecting
to see her exterminate the Incipient pe.it.sbut
to his surprise she tientcd. them with the
gieatest tenderness , as a mother would , and
after a few days ho had to kill them himself ,
Sir John hubbock , at a ircent meeting of
n natural science association in London , ex
hibited a very strange pet. It was a tame
wasp which had been In Ids possession for
about three months. It ate sugar tiom his
hand and allowed him lo stroke It. The wasp
had every appearance of health and happi
ness ; and , although it enjoyed an "oullng"
occasionally , It readily leturncdto lla bottle ,
which It Pecmcu to rcgnid as n home.
The buffalo gnats , the pest of the lower
Mississippi valley , have done n work of de
struction among the stock of Tennessee. Ite-
poits of cattle , horses and mules having
IIPOII goaded to death by these Insects aie re
ceived dally. A colored ninii was recently
stung and choked to death by them. Jin bad
been In the Langulllo m\amp , nnd It Is sup
posed that hu tried to inn HWtiy fiom the
gnats ; thai llio Insects iliovo him wild and
Dually , becoming exhausted , lie full pios-
tiale , and was then smothcicd by the swarms
Of { 'lIHtS.
Tlio female spider Is Ilorcer and Inigorlhan
the male , in ono tribe of spiders thu female
is lo : : ) limes laigcr than the main. The
spider's thread Is composed of innumciabld
small tlneads of tibeis. One of the o small
tlncaiU has oeen estimated to bu ono two-
milllouth of thu thickness of a hair , A sclen-
tblRcxpcilmeiiter once diowout fiom the
body of a single spider V. 0 yards of ihu-nd
or spider silk a length a little t.liort . of tlituo
milert. Silk may Iw woven of spider's tluuad ,
hud It Is more glossy and brilliant than that
of the sill : w im , being of a golden color , An
cnthuxiastlo entomologist nccurcd enough of
It for the weaving of a suit of clothes for
Louis XIV.
Tliln\ District Central Coniiiilttnn. aTe
To tiie feudal Cominltteomen for llio Third
Congressional Dlstiict ;
There will be n commitleo meeting at
tlio Kno hotel , in Fremont , Neb. , on l-'ri.
day , July 23 , 1SSU at 7 p. in. All mem-
bcrs are requested to bo present.
. ) . W. LOVE , Ulii'.irman ,
L. S , Hwi.v , Secretary.
Fremont , July It ) , IttdO.
'Wlion flub ? TTM ilelt ,
\Vlioii iho WM a Chllil , h cried for Cutoria ,
When ilia became UUi , lo clang Ui CastcrU ,
Wbiu ilia hid CUUditn , tlie gnr Ihim CwtoiU ,
The Political Situation in Tnnt
County.
Srr.txoFiEU ) , July 15. [ To tho. Editor
of the llKUi Our political campaign is
scarce open yet , 1mt already tlio several
'elements are getting ready to work the
conventions of tlio two parties , which uro
usually held in this county but a few
hours before election day. Sfneo the year
Sarpy county was organized tlio demo
crats have always had a good working
majority , and have , until last year , gen
erally tilled every county olllco. Quar
rels within tlie party have cost them
severely , until now tlio eiilire board of
commissioners is republican , nnd a re
publican ( ills the ollice of superintendent
of schools. Harpy county has always
been considered an anti-monopoly strong
hold , but contrary to the usual order of
things , tliis anti-monopoly sentiment is
largely in tlie democratic ranks. Not n
dollar's worth of railroad bonds has been
or ever will bo saddled on the countv.
Tlio people are not opposed to railroads
coining to this county in a legitimate
manner , but wclcomo them warmly. Hut
our people , irrespective of party , rccog- ;
ni/.o the fatal inlluoneo of railroad attorneys - '
noys upon state Hairs at Lincoln , and ;
are going to send to tlie legislature next *
fall n man who will labor for the inter- f
cats of this nnd other agricultural com- >
munitius , nnd ono who will bo lirst , last f
nml nil tlio time in favor of returning to I
the United States senate from this state I
that noblest champion of the rights of
the people ( loneral Van Wyck. So
strong is tlio Van Wyck sentiment that
evuti with their ono hundred majority in
the county , it will bo impossible for the
democrats to elcot their legislative can
didate unless ho be n pronounced friend
of Van Wyck , and will promise to sup
port him , provided the democrats do not
hold a majority in the next legislature.
If the democratic candidate will not
make such promise , then the Van \Vyck \
men will uuilo upon a Van Wyck repub
lican and will certainly elect him. The
prohibitionists will nut up a full ll kfc
next fall , ami will " - ' - * , . . . .
"
. ' v .
- . .on a iiuutir vote than
u.or uetoro , Altogether politick in Sarpy
county are rather mixed , but olio truth ii
plain the great mass of voters favor thu
re-election of Van Wvck , nnd will faithfully -
fully guard his interests here. You may '
bo assured that Sarpy county's ' represeii-
ttitivo in tint next legislature , be lie dem
ocrat , republican or prohibitionist , will '
vote always lor our favorite Senator
Van \Vyck. \ H. ! ; .
I in Japan.
Rev. Jnines 11. Pettec : The cntpcror
has come out from his seclusion , makes
tours through the country , li < seen by
common people , even dines with liismer-
citunts- , who , us n class , stood lowest in
Iho old-lime social .scale. Three hundred
milc.s of railway , steamship lines , a telegraph -
graph business that amounts to $ r > 0.000 n.
day. 11 complete postolliee department ,
embracing postal order and bank sys
tems , liglitl'oiisos ' , telephones , steam mills
with complicated machinery , a new civil
and criminal code based'on that of
. ! ranee , a well-equipped army and navy ,
a line mint , ollieial observance of ll'm
Sabbath , adoption of the Christum calen
dar and complete religious freedom
these uro the striking tentures of new
Japan. She also has one university with
iilhliutcd colleges , and in all UO.Oti'J
schools , with ! ) , < ) ! )0)18 ) ! ) .students two-
twenty-iit'ths of her whole population. A
society for Romanizing the language now
numbers 0,001) ) members and publishes a
paper. English is taught in some of thu
schools and will be in all as soon as
teachers can be prepared for the work. U.- *
December ill , ISSo , only llfty-threo for- Jlfl
eignors were in llio employ of various
government departments , including that
of education , as compared with sovcra
hundred a few years since. Japan's ' for }
eign commerce amounts annually lo $ 17 ,
000,000 , against less than one-qiiarter of
one million in 1830. During the past two
years -1,000 laborers have emigrated to
Hawaii under a contract to work on
sugar plantations. They send homo their
surplus earnings.
Origin or a Kuniilmr "Word-
Tinsloy's Magazine : The word "queer"
has u remarkable origin attributed to it.
One night , when the performance-
Drury Lane was finished , the celebrated
Quin. many of whoso joked are still re
membered , offered to bet a voting noble
man A'100 that next morning a word
would bo in universal uo which had
never been heard before. Tlio nobleman
accepted the wngor and left the theatre.
Then Quiii summoned all the "supers"
who happened lo bo very numerous , and
gave each a large piece of chalk. Ifo
told them to go through .ill tlio leading
thoroughfares of London and write nt
intervals on the lings the word ' 'queer. "
Quin's orders were faithfully carried out ,
and on tlie following morniug , of course ,
people were astonished tint word was
in everybody's mouth. The great actor
with little difliculty made good his olaim
to the nobleman's bank-note , while be-
qucnUiing a new word to the language. '
A Suburban Kobbory.
Paul Wcock , a ( jnrman living beyond
the city limits on the Hcllovue road , reported -
ported at police headquarter * to-day that
n. Jew peddler entered his house yester
day , while his wife wns in tlw bank part ,
and stole a .silver watch , double gold
chain and other articles of jewelry. No
oluo.
SUin Diseases IiiHtnntly Uollovod hy
CuUoura ,
rnilRATJIKNT.-A wixrm bath with Cutlcitrn
-L Boup , mill u sIiiKlo application of Cutlcuni ,
tlio Rii-tit. Skin Cuio. This rci4'iilcil | dully , with
two or tlnvu dost'S of ( 'ntkmm Itosolvunl. tliw
Now I Hood IMiilllur , lo keep tlui Mood unol , th
perspiration mire and uiilirltuthw , the Ixiwold
open , thu Ilvur inn ) Milnuyu uutivu , will spi-mllly
euro Ec/iiiu'J'oltoi. Itliixwnini , I'MirliiBlf , I/lull-
en , 1'nirlliin , Htnld-lload , Diimliiill unit nvury
Hiunlea ofllplilnir , Hunly nnd Pimply HuinorHof
tlio Htutlp nnil Mtlu whim thu bunt iihyMclmis anil
roniL'Ulos tail.
KC3HMAON A CIUM ) .
Voiir most viilimlilo Cutlouia Ilcmrdlos Imvo
dcmomyclilld no miioliKooil Hint I IVul Illto sny.
In ; , ' this lor tlio lion llt of Itioso who inu HOMliI'M
with uklii illbcaso. My llttlo Kill win tumbled
with i.onm i : , mill I tilctl fiovural iloutotu
unit snudlcliiiH , but did not do her liny oed inilll '
1 nsod thu Cutlmira llimiudk..i , whluh gpocillly 1
ennui her , lor which 1 own you many thanks '
nnil nmiiy nUhtaol' IDSI.
AN-ION lliHSMiBii , TMhibtirsh , lad.
Tin-Tim Ol'TIIIJ SOAM .
I wp.s almost perl'oclly Imlil , cmiseil lirTuttor
OMihu jojiot the sculp , I uitrtl your Cutlcum
KumiitUoi about six weel.s , mid they oniuil inv
Eciihi iioi'loctly , mul now my linlr U com In buck
AS thick us It live i' was.
J , 1' . Cnoici : , Whltoslioro' , Tuxui.
covruu'.Dvrric JJLOTCIIUS.
1 wnnt to loll you that yumCuiluura itotol-
vent la jmiKiillUx'iu. About thico moutlis mr (
mvtacowtu covouM with blolcliua. uiui nttnr
ushiK thine bottloa of Itcsolvenl | wiisiicil'ucily
Si St. Chm-los St. , Now Oi li-nns , IM.
HK3T I'Oll ITCIUMI DiSUABKS.
One of our customers say * your CiitloiiM ram
edict uio llH'liosL ho run llml tor Itcliin.fol ihu
Mtlii. Jlo iritxl all othuis and tomul no teller
until hu lived yours.
1' . J. AUMMl'M , Druwigt , Jilslim Hun , 0 ,
Polil cverywl pro ,
I'u
Co ,
OUiOS.
pMI'rS ] ! ! , IllncUhpiids.Hkiu I'.V.mUhcinml llnby
* Jl Humors nw ) Culluuru > 'owi.
(5now MIT. tiir/ANii / WJNIS to iho
1 * CXA ! < i | * ' 6 < l ol oU U u ( ulicurAutl -
Af iOi.1 ml'"itcr to ilia ucUm ' , nit * * mid
T-C.JK7 'muk ' , tli"wo l. mvl pjJol'Jl mu l-s ,
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3 dKa"le k < " ° i'lif-dt nnil iiuckmr " '
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