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THE OMAHA. DAILY BEE : MONDAY. DECEMBER 27 , 1SSG , 5 riace-Hnnlors Swarming to tlio Coni'iug Meeting of the Legislature , ALMOST A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY' A Politician AVIio Would I.Ike loHco ( lOVcrnm-Klcot Thaycr Publlolr IniuiRiirnteil News Kroni the Htntc Capital , IrnOM TUB nru'fs MNCOI.V Tlio beginning of the last week prior lo Ihoorgaiii/.ation ol the legislature shows the same delightful state of uncertainty ns to the results of llio contest over tlio organun lions , and candidates for differ ent positions In the legislature arc not rapid In spreading themselves iu public view. The Lincoln delegation has appli cations ranging up in llio fifties for each man of them , almost entirely from Lin coln people , who from renting rooms nt high priccstosccuringelorkships , propose ( o iniiko the most of the ocettslon while it lasts. Ono reason why oulsldo parties who desire legislative positions are slow to como to the front Is the fact that when they come to Lincoln for assistance the corporation politicians hero ask lirst of nil if the local memboitsof the aspirants propose to go into caucus , for on this liliigcs everything that a Lincoln politi cian can do , If a parly is nn applicant for place and the member-elect from his locality will f-ell himself to the caucus that particular applicant can got a bushel of promises , but if lie happens to live in a county wliero u member proposes to act on his own volition ho receives us cold a reception as an ice cream Ircexer in January , wherefore ( he fruntio at tempts to liavo every con dition hinge upon si whipped- in caucus causes the greatest temerity known in the history of the state to exist amidst place hunters. The latest olaim alloal IH thai the class of republicans who claim a preference for a bourbon demo crat rallier than Van Wyck , now c.xpecl to bo able to coutrol seventeen ot the re publican senators and thus organise the bouato. but their desperate efforts on tlio part of tlio house organization have not yet matcrlali/.cd enough , so their claims in that direction sire promulgated. Among the lists of candidates for minor positions in the organization the latest mentioned by their friends are T. JM. Cool : , of Lancaster , for lirst assistant clerk of the house , and Deputy Shorill YcomatiM , of Cass , for surgeant-at-arms. riiKciiuiHrMAS rniK ( hat destroyed the home of J. JM. Rice , al Twcuty-ciehth and ( | street will leave that gentleman .some fifteen hundred dollars lars ilosor above thu insurance. The policies on the property were one for $1,800 on the house hold by the Plucuix , and one for $1200 ! dollars on the furni ture , held by the Lincoln Insurance com pany , of this city , the liist loss of any magnitude that lids company has met .since its organization a few mouths ago. Tiiis lire has awakened anew the fact in the minds of the people living beyond tlio limits of the water mains that some thing must bo done to secure lire protection for the rapidly grow ing suburbs Of Lincoln. Iloyond the reach of the water lines bolh cast and south from the city are located some of the most handsome and valuable private residences of whioli the oily boasts , ami the burning of the handsome residence of ( Mr. Kico shows how utterly incHectual a hook anil ladder truck , located a milo away , is to compote with a lire in tlio suburbs. It is understood that numerous oltl/onH iu East Lincoln , who tire among the heavy taxpayers of the corporation , propose to petition at once for a lire en gine house across the Antelope iu East Lincoln , anil that they will ask for si chemical engine to protect them unti such times come that the city can in crease its water supply and aflord them common protection with the rest of the city. NiltI.V : A TKAOKDV. What might have easily turminateil in a Christmas tragedy was enacted on the eve and the day of Saturday , but no nion serious results tire yet to record than si woman locked in the city jail with u badly bruised head , and who was when arrested in a beastly state of intoxication and who madu it lively around the jtii for several hours after her incarceration. This woman has boon for some time a domestic in the family of a prominent attorney in the city , and up to the present sent break has behaved with becoming modesty , it scorns that her immediatt ( roubles siri.se from ( ho fact that a festive hack driver has boot dividing Ids attentions between tins woman and ouo of llio domi moudo. The hack driver in question is tlio same one who ashorttimo ago was sentenced by Hie county court to tiiirly day.s in iail for larceny of money from Uran Ltislgn After no was incarcerated and was wel on the way lo serving his sentence , the prostitute appeared before the judge and plead with him until he accepted u line of | 15 and costs instead of the thirty day sentence. To celebrate Christmas ho took the domestic for a rldo and when they were passing the rancho where abided thodemi luondo , she sallied fortl capturing her recreant hackoy and be fore the girl could escape slugged her one over the head with a slung shot making an ugly wound that may yet give serious trouble. The girl then , with al tno depravity of the sterner .so.x , put it thu next twclvo hours in becoming bcastl ; intoxicated , and late in tlio Christmas daj laid out on the walk on P street noai Tenth , whe.ru OIllem-H Post and llyal found her and carried her bodily to jail To dsiy hors would have boon one of the cases upon which tlio police judge wouh pass fcutoncu but for the fact that wluu she became sober yesterday she was ro loused under profuse promises thai slu would go and sin no tuoro , A l'L'111.10 IX.UHil'liATIOX. "I would like to BOO , " said a yclerai politician , "a public outdoor inaiigura lion of ( ienorul Tnayor , one that woiih hit the grounds at the state capito ami bring train loads of the gen oral's ml Hiker * to the city to see hin cuter upon the duties of ( ho otllco ( o which ( lie people called him by such t rousing voto. " The parly expressing this wish was a oiti/.en in ( ho days whei ( he general was in the United Stales son tito and one ot the class who believed n the rehonorliig of thu veteran. Aside from this individual wis'.i ' a number have discussed an inauguration of this cliar.iu tor but the weather bureau will evidently silence any such propositions as too ficci jug a subject. A KIUI : AI.AHM iight out the department in the stern yesterday noon and as itoso cart No , 2 wiib leaving the engine house the axle close to one ot the wheels broke squarely ofl' letting the cart to the ground. Thu hose cart , however , from engine house No. 1 made the trip to the tire that wa founu to bo in the engine room o Btown'a elevator at the foot of O etreet The employes and those lirst on tin Hcunc iovvuvor.sueoedod in pultingoutUie 11 nines before the IIOJQ cart arrived , am the damage was very famuli , not exceed ing a hundred dollars and presumably half the amount would cover it. Thu elevator was wull insured , TOWN Tones. Thri 11 r Oman's fair closed on Saturday evening wiih the luruesl attendance tlu had trembled at the fair li | aio ono evpninc anrt the musical proernmmo was mp of the rcr.v best of tlio'wcok , 1'rof. Wobor's ( ulmir.ible orchestra gendering some oxeeptionailv line selections. Tlio inancinl .success of the fair has not been ; roat owing largely to the fuel Unit so nany nUrnctlous wore in progress at the same lime , however , H has probably natle expenses and Fire Warden New- jury has shown tliocltixens in the face of many nihrrso circumstances what may t > o done in ( ho future in tlm way of a fireman's fair and exposition , and the work of this character will be compara tively easy of accomplishment a year liencc. Mr. William E. Johnson , of ( ho Lincoln Dallv New * , was married on Chrifctmas niflhl to Mm Ullie May Trevitl , ono of the popular young ladies of Lincoln , who for f-omo time has bcciifitonojrrapliur in the ollice of Murqiiclto , Dtiweusu & Hall. 'I'ho ceremony was held at the residence of the bride's brother , Mr. O. L. Trevitt , and the largo number of friends in attendance passed one of the most enjoyable of Christmas night1 ; . A lift Hn ! dollar robe as taken from in. trout ol Ueniils' hat store Christmas niplit and the police wore trying yester day to find a clue to the parly who needed ettra budding. A scnruh of the usual hiding places for stolen goods failed to find the robo. Two now nartios were arrested and lodged in jail yesterday and late the night before. One. 1'at Uaruy , WIH help lessly drunk , and the other , a man named llaggoity , was locked up for not only boiusr drunk but on his miiele. Their hearing occurs this morning. United States District Attorney Lam- bnrlson and I ; . \N . Hilliugsloy will jointly build , the coming season , si four-story block opposite thu Ciipltnl hotel , on Eleventh stu-et , one of the best business locations in the city. The Culled Hack company , which had n crowded house at its Cliustmas ntaht Maud in Lincoln , went west , yesterday to Denver , the place of their next appear ance. The Lincoln poslolliec has been greatly behind in work during the paM holiday gift week , and the panur mail has es pecially fiull'ered in distribution. It is to bo hoped for the convenience of the pub lic lliul this vexatious delay may be speedily overcome. There will bo several important changes in thu location of some of the prominent business houses of the city at an early day , the MeArlhur & Son drug store going' from the Richards to the Montgomery block , and Lumiugs occupy ing the commodious room thus vacated. J'he great amount of travel throughout the city on Christmas day , and especially to and from the church entertainments , tested the full capacity of the .street rail way , extra cars being run far into thu night. The Nyuul Queen is the next attraction booked for the Funko opera house , and it will make its appearance oa 'ew Years day.Mr. Mr. TI W. Hubbard , ( ho managing edi tor of the State Journal , received an ele gant French mantel clock on Christmas day from Ins associates in the editorial department of that paper. The employes ot II. T. Clark's whole sale drug lioitM ) in this city were each the recipients of a handsome gold ring on Christmas eve from their employer. From acquaintances of General E. E. Cunningham , for years a figure in Is'o- braska polities , it is learned that ho is at the present time in California , broken down in health and bus-mess. A waitress at one of the popular dining halls in the capital city received a Christ mas present of $ ( ! 0 in cash from the boarders who in the past year liavo been successful in the struggle to sit at her table. A large delegation of the ( raveling men who have their homes In Lincoln de parted to-day for Omaha to attend the state convention of the Travelers' Pro tective association that assembles there this evening. - m - air. D.ivtH lloai-8 Somctliln ; ; l n- lioston ( Slobe : "One morning my train , which was the 1'irF.t one to co through to New Orleans , ran considerably past Beauvoir station , and the engineer had to reverse and co back and pick no a couple of passengers. One of them was Mr. Davis. He boarded the last car and sat down in a scat hehind n coupli who got on just above Mississippi City. They had evidently just been married , and were Yankee to the backbone. She was very pretty , but evidently di.sgusted with the south. Presently 1 sat down just be hind Mr. Davis in time to hear the young lady say , 'what place was that where wo slopped just now1 ' " " 'Heauvolr , I believe,1 answered the young fellow , wilhojtl looking up from his newspaper. "Why , that's where Jon" Davis lives , " she exclaimed , anil then in an undertone , 'The old rebel ; he ought to have been hungl1' " 'And pray , Mi ,1 said a stately voice at herolbow , 'why do you. a young , inno cent girl , pronounce such a harsh con demnation on him ? ' "Ueeause.1 she replied , not recogniz ing the speaker , 'because ' he deserved it. He tried to ruin our country and caused thousands of bravo men to die. He made widows and orphans , he made mo an orphan,1 and tears .swelled into her eyes. ' "DidJelV Dayis do all thatV asked the man huskily. "The girl looked curiously over her shoulder anil Paid : 'I believe ho was re sponsible for it , ' "Tho stranger bowed in silence , and when ho raised Ids head tears foil on his coat hleovo as he saids ' 1 understand the spirit which prompted you to npeak , but 1 wish to correct the view yon entertain of Jullur on Davis. Uu is not the cruel person your imagination paints him , young liidy. Hero in thu south , as well as in the north , arn thousand.- mourn ers for dear ones who fell in llio war. Jellorson Davis sympathizes with all. Whether tlin blue or gray makes no dill- eronec now. You , 1 take it , arc a soldier's orphan. In thu loss of your father you have Mr , Davis1 sincere pity. If ho can aid you in any way ho will gladlydo so.1 With the words tlio stranger took a card from his pocket , and presenting il to the young lady left ( he car. Klio read the namu in silence and handed it to her somewhat annoyed companion. Much to Ids surprise lie saw inscribed in a plain , linn hand the name : Heauvolr. essi l 3RPRIGES epEcm , swuiwirnn .TUWCIKk- MOST PERFECT MADQ r * pit d with ctrtct Tapird toPnrJrr , Btren gtb. uni U aUbfulne . I > r.IVlc > Diking Povrdarcoutaltu noAniraorJ4.IJmeAluaorrho phtt .lr.Hrlco'a t , YvMlh , Lcmor , etc. , CaT delldonJj. fr.tair * . SOME MINING SENSATIONS , Extraordinary Developments in the Rocky Mountain District. Tlio Larccst Smeller In the \Vorltl ailnlnc Cnmn Peetillnrlttcs Sliuiit > lliifon n Fortnnc In a licar'H Ucn , ANICOMIA , M. T. , Dec. 10 , 18SO. With the stalling up of ( ho gteat Ana * conda smelter , writes the Anaconda , M. T. , correspondent of the St. Louis ( Uobo- Democrat , COIIIBS n revival of busi ness for Anaconda , Uutto and vicinity. Anaconda has n population of about U.tiOO , which shows n remarkable growth lor a three-year-old town. Half of the population arc young , able-bodied men of [ wcuty-oiio years or under. Tho'prospccl- lug now being done in this\icinil.yo\i- donees natural wealth enough to assure the steady growth of the ( own for years ( o come , even if it had not the enormous smelting works to depend upon. Taken in connection with Hullo , of which this district is but a part and par cel , it is the greatest mining cam ) ) in America , and what follows , as a mutter of course , the greatest in tlio world alw > . No other mining camp on the continent pives employment to more mincis , and m no other place do the dishurMcmonls reach so large a sum. The n vertigo wages for miners are $ l 51) ) a day , or rather were before the late reduction look ell'eet. Tin ; eighteen loading companies in ( ho tin- ( net with their average monthly pay-rolls are the Anaconda , Sno.O'K ' ) , Lexington , Sf.0,000 ; Alice , $00,000. Colorado , $30.000 , Moulton. * ; ! 5Kii ( ) ; Mont.Mia , sf.Vi.DOO ; Par- rott , if 10,000 ; Hell and Dexter , ? ( iO,0)0 ( ) , be- t'dos numerous others ranging till the way from ? 30,000 down. A GIGANTIC SMEI/IKU. Speaking of the smelter in particular , il is a regular monster. It is the largest enterprise of the Kind in thu world , and the concentrator and .smnlter buddings are ceilainly the hugosl structures erected by man in the It-ocky mountain country. 'J'he main building is 81)0 ) leet long , 08 leet wide , and contains twenty- BIX roasting and calcining furnace * and twenty-six matting furnaces , which daily reduce 000 tons of ore , producing ninety tons of mattce , which acs-iys 00 per cent pure copper. The machinery in the entire - tire plant is run by water-power , but the present head is InsuUiciunt and iuade ( Plate to keep the great Swansea in full blast. In consequence , a contract was let ti short time ago for furnishing 000,000 feet ot lumber to build ti new Hume in French Oulch which , when completed , will be no less than twenty-ouo miles in length. This con tract was secured by Caplicc & McCIuuo , and il calls for one iloni of 5500,000 cords of wood tit a coat of over $1,000,000. , The cord wood item alone will give some idea of the Immensity of the works. Caplioo McCIuuo have commenced chopping wood for thu smeiler on tin extensive .scale. In order to secure more chopper.- . * they raised the price for chopping from $1 to § 1.83 per cord , ami for a time hired all who came along. The season is late , however , and they liavo been compelled to suspend limning for thu balance ol the winter. Thirty-live thousand coids have been llumcd .so far , aim they now have 0,000 cordy banked ruady to lltimo in the Bpring , and expect to have 35.000 orID , - 000 ready by thu time the season opens next year , .Just wusl of the main plant is mled 12,000 cords ot fuel wood , which is all to be swallowed up by the .smelter sooner or later. Nearly a hundred cords a day tire devoured by thu uiou&ter when in action. To boil it down , the Anaconda miuo is , beyond all question , the greatest copper property in America , and wuon the contemplated increase if. made in the capacity of thu concentrator and smelter , 1,000 tons of o-o will bu daily extracted and reduced. When running full those works give direct and indirect employ- incut to BOO men. During the late shut down c.xtensivo alterations were made looking to a large increase in the capac ity of the works. A now concentrator ot about 800 tons daily capacity was erected , which is an improvement on anything of tlio kind yet introduced in ' tin's section , The crushing is done by a steam stamp , which has an upward stroke of sovcnty-si : ; to the minute. A TVl'K'AI. MINING CAMP. Matters in and about this stupendous copper camp of liiitto arc in a most prosperous and thriving condition. The only drawback to Hullo is the great number of gambling ami drinking saloons , and the unfortunate habit of the mine and mill employes in wasting their earnings on cards uiid drink. The swarm of idle iiartendcrs , distillers , brewers and gamblers which these honest men sup port IB something appalling. The num ber of beer and whisKy shops could bo cut down at least 100 per cent , and .still Itutte and Anaconda would have far above their proportion of those evils. To stand on any of the peaks and emi nences around Itutte and take in tlio sur rounded country at a glance would con vince the most skeptical thai hero are gathered more mills , smelters , slmft- liouscs , and more producing mines lo the aero , than upon .1113' Other portion of the known inhabited globe. The amount of prospecting now being pushed eclipses anything that Virginia City and the other great Nevada camps could boast of in their palmiest days , Thu Itlue bird mill , which is a namesake of the great mine it represents , is thu most complete in all its appointments uvorurcctvd. Of course it cannot compare in si/.o to thu giant smelter at this point , out for com pleteness , improvements ami speed , it ttaml.s without a rival on the continent. This rushing town supports four daily newspapers , live brass and string bands , three variety thuatres , ouo opera house , any number of gambling and drinking establishments , has a population of Ov',000 or better , is out of debt and hits $1-1,000 in the treasury. The mines in the district for tlio year 18Sj ( will produce close on § , ' ! , 000,000 , While tlie discovery of most of the great minus hereabouts was the ro- unit of hard , systematic labor , yet around some of thorn lingers much of the ro mantic in the mannur they were stumbled upon when least expected. Two prospectors , while sinking a shaft some years ago , foil inlo a subterranean chamber in which wore the bodies of fix pntritied Indians sitting bolt upright and covered with ornaments , ot hammered gold and ailyor. Soon afterward , by washing In the gulch oloso by , placer gold was discovered , from whoucu it is fair to prostimn thu ornaments on the aboriginal mummies weic ol taiued. A sorlos of wonderful caves wi-ro tapped by the shaft of the Gulden Loaf this year , which mine was formerly iuo\\n as the liannuck. A BKAU IN A I IN : or SILVKII The caves nroof unknown extent ami include - cludo a number of immense chamber * , beautifully decorated with crystals ami stalactites. In one is a bottomless pit into which the discoverers rolled bowld- era that produced lingering and rumb ling pounds , which gradually died away- The owner , Mr. Phillip Shenon , lias been driving a tunnel to tap the cave at a lower level , upon accomplishing which he expects to make some remarkable dis coveries. This cave has no motallio value , but is timply given to show the curious not-work sydtt'iu which underlies the country in and around Hutto. Perhaps the bust illustration of tumbling on a fortune was the experience of Mr. Louis Do Rivers , oo August H last. While nut 600 day prospecting at ( ho head ot Moose creek , about thirty miles from UutU * in a southerly direction , ho cama to a hole in the clifi" , which on nearer inspection proved to bo a bear's don. The interior of the cavern and the ground in front of its mouth was strewn witli uone-Sj but ho discovered something about these boucs which interested him moro than these signs of bcar-fca lm < j. He picked up some pieces of valuable quartz wiiioli his experienced rye ( old him was exceedingly rich in silver. Ho had been previously u little chary about approaching bruitrs retreat , but ho now went boldly up to its mouth just in time to find bruin' * ugly no .o . pro truding and smiling the air euopi- cioiisly to lind the liost'lity ' or amia bility of tlio visitor's intentions. Do Hivcrs promptly killed the bear and jumped the claim , putting up a qurrtx location notice on tlio spot. The bear had actually made his bed right in a vein of quart-/ , which Do Ki\ers saw at u clnuco was sparkling with silver. A development of this mine has shown eighteen inches of line milling ore , which averaires COO ouncna to the ton. Three thousand pounds of ore taken out by him at the time and brought to Hutto for ( leatment netted tiie lucky French man JCUt ) . Ilia bonanza is still producing at the same rate with tlio most bountiful promise of richer yield as the shaft gets deeper into ( ho earth. There are many clieap cosmetics of fcred for sithi , which claim to contain nothing Injurious to the skin. This is all { os/i / , all , or very nearly all are com pounded from the most deleterious and iuii&onous drug * m tin * mateiia medica. They destroy the vitality ot the skin , malvimr the consumer prt maturely with ered and old. J. A. PO//OII ! guiinuilens ids medicated complexion powder en tirely free from all injurious mutti'r , ami will'gladly pay § BOO to any practical chemist who can find upon analysis ( he slightest trace of white lead oraisonic.- llso none other and von will never regret. Price50 centami $1.00 pur box Sold by till druggists anil pertuuu'r. * . * HE HAD AM IDEA. Tlio Simple Invention Which n l-'orliini- n 1'loil.iluir German. Chicago Herald'Iran across one of those men with an idea Ihe oilier day , says a writer iu tlie Brooklyn Kaglo. Uc is a mii'dlc-aged ' Gormim , and lie Ihcs on Vanderbilt avenue. A few years ago lie was u very ortliuarv fellow , drudging away at a trade , willi the prospect ot always being pour and a drudge. That was what hib neighbors thought of him. But while he was pounding away , ho emulated the example of the widow'n fa mous row , "didn't * ay muchbut kept up a divvil of a tliinkin1. " One day he pot up from his bench (1 ( think it was a bench , though it might have been \ tailor's table or a.'butcher n block ; any how , the plod ding German knocked ofl from his trade ) , atulho wont out of the shop with an idea. His triends noticed no change in their neighbor. If they noticed him at nil it was to rolled what a hopeless drudge of Herman he was. Meanwhile he went right ahead with Ins idea. Then some of his friends discovered that he did not come back to his bench. That worried them a little. A few weeks later they observed that lie went over to New York every day and was beginning to drc'r- better and spruce up a bit. That really gave them a great deal of concern The next tiling they took note oi was that tlie petty German tradesman had begun to build a new house. Then they'were terribly cut up. 1'iiitilly the whole thing came out. The Vanderbilt avenue Her man's idea was simple enough , but it has already made him rich and the money keeps coming in. Ilis idea originated the .small cardboard signs , with varie gated letters upon them , seen around the walli of ever } ' popular rcataurant. The letter * look Hue ) otter > out out of wall paper. Al lirst they were. Then the German thought of an improvement , and he tried making the letters of prettily ligured calico. That jrave the little signs greater durability , ami as he hail pre pared a glue especially adapted to stick ing on the letters , it struck him to apply for a patent. Simple ai was the whole tiling , he got his patent. It has filled his purse and lifted him out of the life of a drudge. Not only in every popular restaurant in Brooklyn aie llie.io attractive little signs to be found , announcing specialties ou the bill of fare each day , ami thus mak ing the demand constant , but in many bar-rooms , drug stores , waiting-rooms , hotel corridors , olliccs and scores of other places they servo a diversity of purposes. From Brooklyn and New York restau rants the popularity of the little vane- gated card signs extended to other cities , until now tlio little signs are iu common use as far cast as Boston and no far west as Chicago. Itcmnants of cloth arc used in making the letters , and the cost i , therefore , very little The demand has been something ; Ireniendoui. mid the plodding German tradesman of Vanderbilt - bilt avenue has risen to the dignity of a solid business man , with Ills ollice iu Now York , his tamily in a new hoif-e , and prosperity all around him. Iryour kidneys are inactive , you will feel and look wretched , even in the most cheerful society , and melancholy on the jollii'xt occasions. Dr. .1. U. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm will set you right ag-uu. ? i.OO per bottle. Taxation of IJaoIiolor * . Philadelphia Kecord : Tiio proposition in the French Chamber to put a pro gressive inconi" tax on bochelors scrvi-s to indicate tlie financial resources that yet ret remain untouched for nations whose exchequers liavo been exhausted. But this is by no mean. > a modern scheme for replenishing bankrupt treasuries , In England iu thu reign ol William and Mary parliament assessed a graduated tax not only on bachelors and widows but upon marriages , births and burials. This was literally taxation from the cradle lo the grave , and exceeded in brutality some of the worst featmes of the Knglish protective system of the same period. Tlio social rather .than tlio financial condition of France H < J8ut , the bottom ot this scheme to put a U\x \ ou bachelors. It is siiown by statistics of last year that iu Paris there are lUO.tnj . unmarried men and : tSl,7&l single wpmon. In these liijiires widows and wiiiowera are not In cluded. Kstimating a ( ; : Ou,0W ( the per sons of both sexes tjiat are not ot mar- riagcablo ugo , it appears that in 1'aris thereare about as many poivoiu who live contrary to the dcpiee ot nature as , then ! are married 1110,11 , tind women. In. the rest of Trance tlio proportion does not * ditler very materially. There are about 2,000,000 imirriiignablo 'Frenchmen who prefer what they regard as the con venience of celibacy. The cause of this indjllcrcncf ) to mar riage lies iu the fact tluit in Paris , as well to in other cities of Franco , young men liud it moro and moro dillioult to support a family according to their condition in life , while it is quite easy to establish re lations outside tlio marriage tie. In tlio 'French republic the pressure tolill places jn thn government Is far greater than it is in this country , with alitho cry about our national greed for ollice. A young Frenchman's lirst ambition is to tecure as high u position as possible in the civil service or in the army In the crowded condition of the universities nml milituiy schools , whose graduates slrutrglo for government poits.promotion is extremely blovri and by the time the average Fioueli ollicial has attained the rank and salary which would euublo him to support a wile his dcsiro to found a family has been , us , a rule , considerably lessoned. When mar ried 1m nniat live in accordance With Ins station , which cost * much money , while official salaries are not by unj mean.s v high iu France as they arc ou the other side of Ihp English channel. But thom - married Frenchman , whether ofllolal , clerk or artist , can lite well on a small income , ns IIP can occupy a cheap and nariow apartment and make modest ex penditure for food without Injuring hto .social position , to which ho attaches much iMportnnce. It Is not ftrango , under those circumstances , that so many Ficiichmeu prefer single life to the mar ried relation. Whether n tax on bache lors would arro.H the leiidenev to celib acy , nu.l promote floctnl morality , may well bo questioned. There would , ot course , be much complaint among the bachelors over ( ho paitlaltty of Mich a tax. Hut it ha long been ( ho policy ot the law in Franee to give encouragement to thp fathers of larg famtlie.s To tax bachelors at n highoi rate than thn hoad.s of families would be in liaimoay with this policy. Forth-only years Henry F Haircut , of Shirley , Mn $ . > . , .suffered with rlimtmtilipiii. lie found no relief till ho look Hood's Sarsaparilla. Champion Moan Men. Philadelphia News : Old Billy W. was one of the richest men who lived , MMUU lifleen years ago , in that part of West Philadelphia called Mantua , and one of llio meanest men who over drew breath , One day he took a Lancaster avenue car for ( he city , carrying in his hand a bas ket of superb white grape ? , raised in his own greenhouse Old Billy W. sat in one comer of the car and a poor mother with a sickly child in her lao fat in ( lie corner opposite. The child looked at the grapes wistfully , sis the car rolled on square after square. At last the old man , in a tone of rasping curiosity ; asked the child whore she was going. "To the park , sir , to see the grass and the birds.1 * "Do like . ' you grape'.1' "Yes. sir , " and the pale little faeo biightoucd up as the child half rose from her mother's lap. The old man lifted up his basket of lus cious fruit and plucking one grape from a cig'iutic bunch , gave it to the child. The rest of the passenger * paid nothing but the way they looked tit the old man would have split a stoiio po-.t. t One of the meanest men in the country lives In Indiana : He has plenty of money , ho can 'I spend one-fourth ol his yearly income , mid yet it is an almost daily habit of his to go into the stores of the country towns in which he lives and take from ( lie match boxes kept for the con venience ol ( heir customers three or four matcher , put them slyly Into his vest pocket , and then lire his pipe with a piece of waslo paper , which ho lights sit llio stove. In this way he procures all the matches used iu his home. The surperlativcly mean man of Vir ginia lived a few years ngo in Petersburg Ho had been a spendthrift in his early days ami had disposed of all Ids money in sowing a plentiful liaivosl of wild oats. In his extremity his grandfather , who lived in an adjoining county , died suddenly and Ml the bulk of his property to his wayward gnmdyou , bequeathing his aged who a small sum only , ' 'be cause , " in the language of the will , "she can tit least live only si few years longer , and 1 do not wisli to incumbor her wilu business cares " He then enjoined ids grandson to take faithful care of his grandmother for the rc t of her days This mean man in Virginia then brought the aged lady to his house , and for a vear or more she lived in his family. Then his avarice asserted itself. Having received $100,000 from the husband ol the old ladylie still covotoil her little weallh. Ho demanded board Irom her , and when she indignantly refused to pay for it , ejected her from his house and brought suit to recover the amount. It is hardly necessary lo say that ho did not recover damages , and that he stands on record as the monumentally meanest man of Petersburg's modern aunals. Some years ago there lived in Cumdon. N , J. . an old gentleman well known to the residents of the southern portion of the metropolis. Ho was worth upward of $00.000. Ho lived alone iu rather u dilapidated house and his daily fare con- aisled of potatoes , a scant supply of bread and a sort of soup made of hot water , bread crumbs and plenty of salt. One suit of shoddy clothes sulliced the old chap lor six years and ho always looked fairly respectable , although ho never wore a shirt and did his own wash ing in a borrowed washtub. Ho was in terested in real eslalo and daily pur- cha-od a copy of the Ledger to scan tlio advertisements. Alter carefully rending the paper ho traded it ofl1 every day to a milkman for 2 cents' worth ot milk. Ho remained the champion mean man ot Camdcn unHl llio advent of a man from Trenton , who rewarded his non on Christmas day by letting him lick the sweet mucilage on litty iiosttigo .stamps that wore used on onvelope.s enclosing bills lo llio moan man'n customers , * * * An incident of monumental meanness and which is paid to be characteristic of the man , occurred at the lirst dock north ot Vine street Just summer. The man is a Jersey farmer , whoso board acres lie along the banks of the Hancacos creek in Burlington county. Ho raises a large number ot watermelons each year , and brim- , his produce to the Philadelphia markets , like many oi his neighbors , in a .sloop. Watermelons wore selling at from $ : t to $ . ' > per hundred when he name down with his boat loaded. Near the ) bottom of the load a little sickly-looking melon , with a rotten end , was lound , and jaid aside for the time \ \ hen he had an op portunity the farmer dipped a brush in a pot of green paint , and painting over the rotten spot nold it as a good melon. lie always 'carried tlio paint for the pur pose. If you are bilious , take Dr. Pierco's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets.11 llio orig inal "Littlis Liver Pills. " Of all drug gists. Coiner & Archer' * add. to South Omuliu chf.'ipcsl and best properly In that vicinity for tale by C. K. Muyno. Snull boys are occasionally as ab enl- minded a.s their elders. Jn Johnstown , PH. , one day recently , a lad rushed into the ollieo of the Western Union Tele graph company , grabbed his hat from his head as politely as his hurry would permit , laid it on the counter and split through the door and out the gate. A few minutes later ho came back , looking very crestfallen , and laid a telegram on the counter , picked up his bat , and hurried out before any one could .speak to him , Prof , Glias. Ludwlg Von Seeger profonoruf Medicine ut thu Itornl Unirorrltri Knlsht of tha lluynl Austrian OrJ r or ih ? li in ( Town. Knlalit Ct > niuiatulur of Ilia lloral rllianiiti Onleruf Unbellu , idilulitof tlis llojal I'ruitl in Or- derotllialli'd inilniii ; riller of ttio li. l.i of Jlonor.etc. . etc , mtt LBIIIKJ co.s hiOA IIIIK : TONIC houii nut tit confounded rtb | UielmrJe of Ir.iJhr cure H . Ill ) In mirunioof llio rrurda patent rrmed > . 1 oru thof oujtilr couverfant "Hh ll mo-to of preplrutiun nu4 know It to ke nui only a lOKltimito pnjnuaioutlc l product. but iiltanorturof toe liljli ( ouicno.nlutloai It h > rut fir I'd jnull pArttof tba wurM. 11 contjlut iun-nci ) uf Heel , C'jnMjulnlB ' * , Imn'nd I'Mtnr * . wlilcli are dUtoUed la pureceiiuluo SpauliU IciptiUl Crown Hherr/ . " Inraluublttto nil tn nr Hun Down , Nenom , On- ppptlr , Ulllom. MaUrlou * or aalctol nllb woi UJ' ' HsrMajesty's Favorltle CosmeticGlycerlna n < e < ) br Her ltor IHlirlino ttip IVIncwM of Wulet * ndlb9 noUillir. Kur Ilia Mi In. , Cunplviion. Krup. lliin . < 'liiipilnii.lUiujliiiti | . ) l l. Of drj//i t . 1.IKII1U CO'S ' ( ioiuiliio rruu aalbtr4ptrilla.li tuarauieel Display nt their warerooms , 1305 nnd 1307 Farnam Slroot , the largest assortment of Pianos and Organs to bo found at any establishment west of Chicago. The stock embraces'tho highest class andmodlum grades , Including ( STEINWAY , FISCHER , . u H w * w m m , * LYON&HEALY ! BURDETT , STANDARD , LYON&HEALY Prices , quality and durability considered , arc placed at the lowest living rates for cash or time payments , vvhllo the long established reputation of the house , coupled with their most liberal interpretation of the guarantee on their goods , affords the purchaser an absolute safeguard against loss by possible defects In materials and workmanship. LYQSM & HEALY , I30S A. 1307 FARNAM OTRCET. Lawrence Ostrom & Oo. "BELLE OF BOORBON. " Is Dpnlli to Coii'Miiuplion , Jliilurfn , Sleeplessness , Chills and Fevers Or Insomnia , nml Typhoid Feyer , Dissimulation , Indigestion , Or Food , Dyspopsln. Ton YoarH Old , Surgical Kcvet1 ! ? , No Ftisnl 0)1 ) , ' Absolutely Jur ? Blood I'uisonitiir , The GREAT APPETIZER Thin will r-rliff that I Invo examined tlie I1EM.K Or IIOCKDON WHISKY , roeolreilfrom IMW- KLMI I-lit MI \ ( o. , iiMilfnuml tlio n'line l < > liu porfi'C tly Iruo from Knurl Oil uncJ nil other ilmolorl- ous subjtaiuouiKi strictly imn1. 1 clieorf ully roooniMicml the BHIIIO for Kuniilr nnd Medicinal | mn > oio . .1. l . IIAKNUM.M I ) . , Ar.uljtlr.il Clieailit , l.uuUnlfo. Kf. ror'aleliyDruecliK Wlno Men-hunts find arocern nvcrywhe. l'il < > o Jl.si per l > ottn. ! II not finim ! nuho iiboTf. hnlnior.en boiilo" , nipium imW.in plain l > or.cs , nlll be Bout , to any uddrtsa In the Untied btutoa or Camuln , < m icix'ipt oC alx dollnrn. LAWRENCE OSTROM & Co. Louisville , Ky Wholesale and Distributing' ' Agents , ttOOTHMAN Dltra CO. , tnnl } ItTLKV < ( , ' UflsLON , n'holemile Llijuo ) ' Dealers , \ ( F < imiUeaupi > UfiUni GLADS'IOXV HKOS. < SCO , , Oinutm. jr. T. vLAitk nitua co. , MEATS ROASTED IN THEIR OWN JUICES , BY USING THE WiRE GAUZE C'JEii ' DOOR FOUND EXCLUSIVELY ON TIIE STOVES @ RANGES. Thfrn In not a eooklna nppiralui cnad * oitnn tinSel Sol id Oven Door , liut llmt t'un loss I n wl ihlot mm , ! * < Ij oin tvrtintf.llva to forty | > r cvnl , of the meat ronhteil. la other wonln , a rib of b f , wotnltlnR ton smundi 1C rcmbtod medium to Wjll-Uouo will IOHO tlirwi pounds , The same roasted in the Charier Oak Rnuifn uslntr the Wire GnuzaOvcu Door IOBOO about ono pound. To allow tnnattneliilnlc U to loins Ursn portion of IU jalrna nnil fluvor , 'Iho litue * donutM jiarutu. bud Stiio rott ILLUSTRATED CIRCULAR Aha PRICE LISTS. It bocojubs touuh , tnbtelusa aud. unpalatoublo. CHARTER OAK STOVES and KANGE3 are SOLD IK NEBRASKA as followi : Ml I/TON KOGUtS & SONS OMAHA. TAN.N'FM , & SWH'NtV FAIRXUnY. r. rm .i ) ! . . ! , UUKI > O- 4. CM I'M. & IAOI.ll. FRANKLIN. UAI.LAR& I.USON , IlA9ir.r.s. N I JOHNSON Nomii UEM > . K.C. 11RKSV1 R , HAY SmiNc.s. . . , McCAlTHKTV. O'NHIL CITY. It.AIKU&CO. . NkBKAiKAdlV U HAXI.KWOOU , OSCKOLA. W. K. TKMI'I.EION , NFISOK. I S DUKK 1'J.VTTSMOUTH. I II Slimni.VAVr & .SON , . . ATKIHFON. A. I'liAKSON STURIINO. J.KAbS&CO , . . . CIIADRON. J G. ORKKN , STROMSI.UI.G. KKAUHE , I msKKlt fc WELCH , COIUMHIS I A PArfiN ftSON Surunio * OLDS 1JKOS . . . . UuuAK. TlMMT.KMAN & 1KAICEK. . . V BOOW. RELIABLE JEWELER , Silverware All work wurrunt- \Vriteiunukcr for the Union I'ucilic Knilronit com puny. The C. E , Mayno Eeal Estate and Trust Co N. W. COB , 15th AND IIARNJKY , OMAHA. Property of every description for uale in all pnrli of tha city , Untuls for snlo In ory county iu Nebraska. A COMPLBTK .SET OF AHSTKACT3 Of Title's ' of DoiT lus county koi < t. Al.iia of the city slate or county , or any ollior information desired , furnished fruo of charge upou application. Vflfcflt ) bit liiroojh taill f.r . I..J V llUnjtttkr. tu. ) l. . | > ci ! > I./ . . .i . .M i jf n u Ciwin Urethral ' e m wlilui' i J < - . V. TO A III H ITU I'S AND m'JMUJUS mill tpcoilli'iiUons xrp toi-loil | by ( > io lloitnl of LilufiUIon of the Silmol Ultliittot Omulm , County ol DuiiKliu. i-lutc nf Nolir.i tkrt , until fi o'clock p in , Tu siiui , ioli. 4lli , ( hlT , fornl'J or Id loom Itvu atury anU li.iaHiiwnl lirlcl. ftcliuol Imllillur lo Itc c. uolo ! in. tinIlik'h Hchool grounds ni uu outlMitt < ) i < . < - ! of Ji'i- OKlUUIorn IHO htory luul lniMnuiiit is loom Illicit School hiiililllli. lo ! ' ! cui-U'.l nn Hid ecjuthwi.it rorncrrjfnli ami N ) rbtti'S t > tr < is in nn ofctim.itoU i-ott t $ ii , > WO'i. ' i. nil lor mi x room Hiid Imsotncnt lirlcsl. tcliool I tiiiJi'ii lobe orccled nn lliu iinrllicHHl onrnrr m : iili : inn ) l/nnl sin-i-is nt an cnuninol io t nf t-tt.'fil.tfi. Tht Itouiil of r.iliicatlrin oili is tlio luiln1 , in- PICIUIHIII * . for Hit ) HIIOO 1'i'st | , lr.i in hv & ' locltnl by Ilicin , for tliu Imil Ilii - - ( i.i li.ii Hi U ticbool yrouiM nii'J5lli ' : ; rtiuVul ! > siut dltuci : Ifi 1'rvmiuni. . . . . { jr/u w i'J " , . . . . | VI 01 ya " . . . . . . : &oo I'rniniuiii lor plnjimiaJ tjifcillculltins mlo | > tO'l > > y tlu > Hoard slmll bo ciu ! ilou- l part imyiiicn If Midi liiiildlUHa xro croctml. Tt.B II iml re ervM Hie rlt'lil lo rolect DII > - or II iilftus , mid no money nil ! tie ( JnlU fur rejtxlej } > lung lly order of thn llOKid of r < liir.\tlnii CIIAItl.Krl OOiVNOyLK fcielorr Owra.n , lc ) , iiitb , UsS. Due it i"- P , BOTEB & CO. jn.Ai.cits m f ! Work , ij'id ' l-'arimm btrect U.naliit. UuttcU Murslial'a Halo , N Till ! ( ' ifinl lUji 1 ( il Hid fultixl Suite fur 1 ill' 1)11 r.i tof Kr " \i. ' y I ) I. Cramer mill 1) V IJoe , 1 iMdlio iiiiiku IP liouli > Kiuu.iliat In pin-in- i"P lij iirliiunf nnoiilnr ol Hilo intc'icil ' III til" lllmVI' C'lltlM' , < > M tllU Jltll lilt ) Ol l.dCUIII' Ij. r , ! . , I. Kiln I. . Illorliowcr. Muubul < if HID I Jilli.l ui'co ' tot tlio Dmtiicl ot Nuli ii < ki\ \ , will , MI V.,1 .1 . , ia. . fie Mil d.iy ol .liinuiiry , lt-47. mil' i. .1 oi 1" o'clock In Uic foi cijooii of mill du. , m UM hi no Ijuildiiik' 1'oriinirly ooonplod lir MI I il in. 'iia in Dt'loit pout oil co , llolf luiiiily-i-lo iiixl illdliicl ol NulinMkn , "fill nt llllllllUU.I | . : lUCrilllll BlCK'kOt Kl'OllKUIll' ' loU.i'oa u , iiKol iiKi'iii'rnl mock ( if dry i I'lociiu'hooii U'xl ln ) i4 , jflnmi < , liJI ( > 3' i IIIK ii | > | ] iin-l. ciitlciiicn'a luniUliltrK'd'nls ami llOlllilld. I \'lll bl-IUulJ KOUClS UIlU tllUllcl. ill bulk , or In lulu or pl ci , | , y pl < < oi in ilnluil. Ul.J.lri I. . IIII'-.IUIOU'KU. i ) . a Mui iiuUj ; trict r - t. Attoruoya lor I'lit mill * , uas-si