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12 \ - ' ' . " : ' THE OMAHA IUlLY _ SEE ; SUNDAt .JULY 24. 1887.TWELVE PAGES. ' Semi-Annual Statement of the Treasurer of Douglas County , for the One-Half Year , Commencing January 1st , 1887 , and Ending June 30th , 1887 , Inclusive. Semi-Annual Statement of the Treasurer of Douglas County Continued. STATE FUNDS. Tonmoiintonhnnd.Taniinry l t , 1887 f 17,351 60 To amount tnmerul fund collected ( II,884 111 To amount sinking fund collected 0.202 K2 To uinoiint school fund collected 12,462 4:1 : To amount university fund collected 4,01i' ! To amount penitentiary fund collected U 25 ToDinount nnrnmlschool rund collected 10 U'J ' To amount state bond fund collected 23 To nmount asylum fund collected toTe To amount fapltol fund ciUlccled 0,00010 To amount rolorin school fund collected 1,634 ol To amount Institute for feelilo minded lund collected 1,511 34 To nmounrllve Block Indoninlty fund eollocted 1,2011 03 To nmount fiohool land , principal collected 7,268110 To Binount Hcliool land Interest collected 1,112542 To amount school land lease collected 15373 i 8121,074 24 fly nmount paid stnto treasurer , No. 3,045 f 17.38409 liy amount paid state treasurer , No.3,107 . ' 66,37575 lly amount transferred to county Kcncral fund ( colluded 1807 and previous years 18568 83,140 12 Balance $37,72312 COUNTY GENERAL FUNDS. To amount on hnnd January 1st , 1887 f 10,161 77 To amount collected 112,084 1C Tonmount transferred from county sinking fund 133 43 To amount transferred from county poor fund 117 71) To nmount traiml'erroil from county IOR fund 094 l'J I'D amount transferred from sinking bund fund 83 Ot To amount transferred from old court house fund 14 04 To amount transferred from Interest fund 7 70 To amount trnnsferred from advertising fund , 148 62 To amount transferred from miscellaneous fund 6M1 60 To amount transferred from etuto fund ( collected I ii7 & former yrs. 185 68 $109,713 71 lly amount warrants redeemed 64,860 47 lly resolutions on Kcnoriil fund 41 32 lly amount foes for collection of cou.ity taxes 4,210 40 liy amount transferred to ditch fund 19538 $ 60.U07 57 , Balance 8 40,404 14 SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND. To amount on hnnd January 1st , 1887 / $ 0,43590 To amount collected less that of 1808 and previous years 32,4S2 88 $ 38.U18 78 By amount paid districts $14,13384 By amount collection feu 32483 II 14,457 67 S Balance $24,45111 SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT FUND. fo amnimton hand January 1st , 1887 $ 2,721 43 To amount received from state 31'JOO 7U To amount special school tux ! 808 and previous years 96 7H To amount don tar 1887 and previous years 2 07 To amount Iliinor license tranxfcrrcd fioin miscellaneous fund 375 00 To amount tine * and forfeitures ilo do . . . . COS 65 ) To amount pedillura license do do . . . . 2000 $ 35,774 7Z By amount pnld districts $ 10,351 11 lly amount collection leu 11 53 $ 19,3 > ! 5 04 Balance $ 10,409 08 SCHOOL BOND , DISTRICT No. B AND No. 20. T.I amount on hand January 1st , 1487 $ 1,070 09 'I'D amount collected 0 09 $ 1,085 7B lly amount paid treasurer $ 1.01981 By amount collection fee , 01 , , S l.Otf 42 30 Balance $ 35 R. R. BOND SINKING FUND. Vn nmount on hand January 1st , 1887 8 21,400 09 To amount collected 43,824 6'.l To amount transferred from railroad bridge tuud 194 37 $ 05,419 05 By amount warrants redeemed 8 27,665 80 $37,75385 , BRIDGE FUND. , To amount on hand January 1st , 1887 ' . $ 2,790 84 To amount collected 12,240 7'j _ $ 15,037 67 By amount warrants redeemed 8 7,73860 $ 7,305 01 ROAD FUND. To annul nt on hand January 1st , 1887 $ 2,81)4 ) 97 To amount collected 30,52s 37 Veamount transferred from tmulc J38a 78 , road and bridge IU2.72 nUjioll , J7H7.27 1,210 71 8 31 040 05 By amount warrants i oileomed $ 27,721 07 llttlunce | 0,31893 JUDGMENT FUND. To amount on hnnd January 1st , 1887 $ 1,748 33 le amount eollocted 0,150 34 * TSW 07 I 7bM C7 INSANE FUND. To amount on hand January lot , 1H87 $ 8,513 19 Vv amount collovtod ti,0t3 8i $ 12.H7 OS Balanco. . $ 12.N.7 08 HOSPITAL BUILDING FUND. To amount collected ; . . $ P0.174 4 ' lly'Minount wurruulsloJcomcJ , . . , . , . . , , . . . , , . . . . . . * . , . , $ 5,91175 , ' CITY OF OMAHA TAXES. Tonmount on hand January 1st , 187 8 1.031s CiTe : To amount collected 3D 27 ' lly nmount collection fee $ 74 lly amount paid city treasurer 1,098 21) ) * $ l.OUU 03 Balance $ 38 K ) CITY OF FLORENCE TAXES. To nmount on hand January let , 1877 8 00 94 To luiount collected . .v 117 03 ' ' fly amount collection foe ' , 'f\ 1176 Balance $ 17581 VILLAGE OF WATERLOO TAXES. Tonmount on hnnd.Inruary 1st. ISS7 ' . $ 12033 'lo amount collected including dojr tux of village 211 9S - J" By nmount paid vlllauo treasurer -ft 31183 lly amount refunded to C. 1' . Coy 860 By amount collect ion t'eo 23 80 i $ { 34363 Balance . , . $ 8 78 ! " VILLAGE OF MILLARD TAXES. To nmonnt on hnnd January ! M,18i7 . ' $ 9 IS To nmount collected . , , , , 48842 $ 497 00 By amount paid vlllaso treasurer $ 400 00 By amount collection leo 4884 * 44384 Ilftlanco $ < 876 DITCH FUND ( NORTH OMAHA AND WATERLOO. ) To nmount on hnnd .TnniiHry 1st , 1N > 7 t 1"7 75 To Hinount collected : . . . . . 100017 ' ' ' " ' ' ' ' " ' ' To amount transfcrrc'il from general fund . . . . . . . ! . . . . . . . . 'iWi ! ! 8 r By nmo'int warrants roileumoil $ I,3i9 CO POLL FUND" Tonmount collected $ 2,231 27 lly nmount supervisors rci'clptt rcilccMiitd f 1 , < 34 CO Uy amount tuinsrerreil to roiiJ fiuij 7U7 ! i7 * 2 , 31 27 PENALTY. To amount on Imml jnnunry 1st , 1887 t 703 SO Ilalunco ( 70330 REDEMPTION MONEY. Tonmount on hnnd January 1st , 1887 8 2,077 65 Tonmount collected ! MHS1 ! ! " To amount omitted on lust report in 15 t O.COO 17 lly amount imkl holder of ccrtltlcatcs $ 5,099 64 IltUanco $ fioo M MISCELLANEOUS FUND. To amount duos and forfeitures * CM ( VS louinountlliiuor license 1175 noTe To nmount peddler llccnso 8000 To nmount surplusfoosof county olllcors s.litt 50 To amount rent of oltlccs 31,11 IK ) S 6U5 15 Uy nmount transferred to apportionment fund ' . * 1,0.11(15 ( lly nmount transferred to ci'iioral fund 6wi u ) $ 8 555 15 FEE FUND. Tonmount for collection of county tnxcB t 4 " 10 40 'lo amount for collection of district , xcliool tuul uppor'nt tnxcs xw M 'Jo amount for collection of city mill vllliieii tnxes 84 64 I o amount for collection of miscellaneous tuxes joj HI lo aimnim for collection of fcliool liontl tnxcs 61 To amount for collect Ion of suite taxes 8(2J ( 83 I 6,770 ( S lly nmount salnrlcs paid t 8,95000 " * Balance j 3,82065 RECAPITU LATION Tonmount on Imnd Jnnimry 1st , 18S7. f 77,417 43 T.i umount taxes collected ! t4 ! ' 8S5 89 Tonmount nciionl land , principal I'-M < jo To amount Bcliool land , Imorcst 1 ic' . ' ! 42 To nmount school land , leiipe 1KI 7J Tonmount miscellaneous collect Ions ' OJi.Vi 15 To amount mlsocllunoous foes . J21 81 To Hinount Oinnlin city tnxcs collected : KI 27 To nmount redemptions collected \ 21H13 117 To amount redemptions omitted on limt report in 15 To amount received from thotftate tor apportionment tnx 31 floi ) 79 To nmount received from tliotitnlo for collection of stnto tux. . . . . . . . 2iri ! KITe To amount lioepitul building lund collected ygi74 til 1515,143 Ot lly nmount warrnnta redeemed , fl352"l ns lly amount pnld sliito treasurer , KI.7BO 44 lly amount puM school dUtrlcl treasurer. , 3J,4- us lly amount paid school bond , 1.U49 81 lly nmount pnld redemption money 609 1:4 : By nmount paid salaried 8li50 WI lly nmount pnld vlllniro treasurer ; . in KI Hy nmount refunded to I'.C. Coy , a jj lly amount resolutions on Kcneriil fund . 41 x > lly amount BiinervlsorB receipts redeemed 1,431(0 ( Jly amount paid city treasurer , , , , 1,01)829 ) IS"'MI Jtalnnc.0 , . . . . , , . | * , 35 Amount Unto fund on hnnd .Inly Ipt , 1887 f : i7.7iS 12 Amount county general turn ) on hand .Inly 1st. 1887 4l,40t ( ! 11 Amoent Mjhool apiioiilonnient on hnnd July 1st , 1887 \nW > < > 8 Amount special school lund on hand July Ibt , 1887 24,4111 11 Amount fchool houd fund on hnnd July Kt , 1887 : ir : iil Amount It. U. county sinking tund on Imnd July let , 1887 : i7,7f > ; ) 25 Amount lirldiro fund on hand July Is-t. 18h7 7ioi : ; 01 Amount road lund on haml July 1st , 18s7 ( iJ18 : 1)8 ) Amount city of Omaha tnxus on hnnd July 1st , 1887 118 KI Amount villiurnof Waterloo taxes on hnnd .Inly 1st , IK87 H 78 Amount vilhiKoof MllUnl tn.xos on Imnd July 1st. 1KS7 48 7(1 ( Amount city of Kloreuco ta.xes on liuiid July 1st , 1887 175 81 Amount fee lund on li'ind July 1st , 1M7 DS2il M Amount Insuno fund on hnnd July 1st. 18J-7 12.V > 7 C8 Amount Judjcmontlund on hnnd July 1st , 1887 7M'U ' (17 ( Amount hospital liulldlnvrl'und on h > nd July 1st , 1847 (11-iKi ( 19 Amount pcnnlty lund on hnnd July 1st. 7 79:1 : UO Amount redemption money on hand July 1st , 1887 U'a Kt $ : ! SO,58fl 25 I hereby certify that the above statement shows the amount of balance on hand January 1st , 1887 , the amounts collected in the several funds from January 1st , 1887 , to June 'iOth , 1887 , inclusive , and the balances on hand July 1st , 1837 , and that the foregoing is correct to the bcstof my knowledge and belief. HENRY HOLLN , County Treasurer. OUR QUEER HOUSEHOLD PEf. Its Style Changed By the Dictum of Fashion , THE REIGN OF THE CANARY. Popularity of DOUH The Craze for Marmosets The Coininc Mull Turtle Queer Uncanny Iet8 anil Xhclr Owners. Eliza Putnam llcaton in Now York MuiI and express : Dick , thu ciitmry is dead. Ho was carried oil * by an inlliion/.u during the long , cold spring. Grctehcn , the housemaid , opened a window one foggy morning without moving his sage , and tliere is mourning in thu land for Dick. There is a faint lingo of regret for Fide , the pug , who is so delightfully ugly with his black uoso and short face , but who is out of style or goinfc out , which is worse and so must leave ins soft cushions and take oil' his embroid ered blanket , poor thing. Thn season is ju.st at hand when dealers in birds and animals arc looking about them for nov elties , when the fashions in pots are be ing set for another year , when caprice in feathered and four-footed life are oilered every day to tempt my lady's whim , when the town house is closed , the win ter's menagerie scattered to thn four winds of heaven and the now assortment of favorites taken to the country for a summer's domestication and breaking in. Are there fashions in pets ? Dear mo , yes. The real dog lover or bird lever is rare , and twice in three times owns neither dog nor bird. A few jears ago every man of fashion wore a spitz dog ; now you might go into every house on Murray hill and a good many other hills besides and not find one. Some spitz dog so far forgot himself as to snap at his mistress's white linger , mayhap , and so the rumor got abroad that'the spitz family is surly and ugly it is falso.there are no more faithful and aHeotionato pels in the brute creation and a deal of news paper talk ensued ; but the banishment of the spitz was mostly duo to his getting out of style. Ho had been king , but his subjects had wearied of his reign. And that more recent favorite , the png he who has lorded it over the poodle so long is ho not to give plcco to his hated rival again this fall ? And except at a dog show who over sues a uenumo King Charles spaniel of whoso silky hair our grandmothers made so much of. And the big docs , the mast'illd and setters , that every young lady led about with her last summer , wliero liuvo they betaken them selves ? Assurdcdly fashion | prnscribns pets as well as gowns. When the grand dnmo murtnus in her doggie's ear that ho is her darling it is always with the saving clause unexpressed , "so long , dear , as you arc the style , when that changes , pet , you must go. " The doc's special ph.yci- cian and nurse , his daily airings on the promenade , his receptions to other clito doglets that are all mockery and empti ness , and deceived not the elect if their object is to make the beholder believe that there is once in a do/.eu timu-s any allection wasted on the pampered beastiu. People can like docs , J am inclined to believe that Lottie , the actress , likes the enormous mastilV she is frolicking with this summer , as she has played with it a great many summers while oil' duty. Olive Locan is fond of the French terrier she has had for almost twenty years ; but folk of fashion take to one dog this year and another next , as ( hey fondled the breeds that Sir Walter Scott preferred until Byron eclipsed the older poet , af fected the Newfoundland and led the Whole English speaking world after him. The worst of familiars of the animal kingdom , a good deal atl'ected by Now York women just now , are the mar mosets , not quito < io big as a new born kitton. ' 1 boy cost from flC a pair up wards , and last winter you might have seen u woman or two sleighing in the park with marmosets instead of a muffin her lap to warm her hands. There arc monkeys which are sometimes taken into houses for pets , but which are usually bundled out agun about as soon women almost never like monkeys and , espe cially since the rush to southern resorts began , alligators , which have a way pe culiarly their own of making themselves at homo in Now York drawing rooms. These latter sustain life on a diet of raw beef. They require only a slanting log to bask on and a tray of water under the piano to bo reasonably happy , and , for tunately for their career as pets , they are in no haste usually to grow big enough to swallow the baby or commit much havoc in a well retaliated homo. "Why , " said an old man who keeps n curiosity shop the other day , " 1 have sold over fifty alligators this spring , some for women to carry in their pockets , and as 1 promised to nome around and feed some of them , it keeps mo pretty busv. I reckon some folks'll want to bo kcopiiY whales next. " There is less change , probably , in the fashion in birds than in animals. The canary holds hU own , as he has for years. Ho is small , ho is neat and dainty , ho is cheap , ho is reasonably pretty , ami hn is an unmatched songster. Hut the big wholesale bird stores , like Kelcho's on Park row , wliero the fashions arc seen a year ahead , and where fortunes in pets change hands yearly , could tell you of scores of singers of some of which you never heard , perhaps , of which there is constant demand , with now and then a wcll-delinod cra/.o. Parrots which talk may cost $ : ! ( K ) , and parrots that don't may bo bought for a song no pun in tended , for parrots don't sing. Paroquets and macaws , with their brilliant plumage , are chosen not infrequently to match the furnishings of a riclily colored room , while oven such coarse birds as the black bird , and such quito unmusical ones as wood pigeons , find some favor as pets. Among the most utitlietio of pots are "mules" or hybrids. The commonest are the hybrids of the goldfinch and canary , and of the linnet and ehafllch. Thc.su betray some of the characteristics of both parents. The half goldfinch , for example , has some of the canary yellow about it and some of the finch's bulkier head. It is a line singer , as is the ehaflinch hybrid. A moderately popular bird is the grosbeak , an orderly fellow of sober plumage and docile behavior. The African waxbill is a tiny , sad-colored pet no larger than a humming bird. Ilo never sings , but has a prettily pathetic air about him that captures the feminine heart now and then. Thu mocking bird is less liked then ho would be if ho hau not such an aversion to livmtr. He doesn't like the climate and rarely lasts over his first winter. The orchard oriole , the car dinal bird and the bobolink are growing in favor as pets. Imngino bottling up the mad music of the Kobert of Lincoln at * o many dollars a parcel. It is sheer profanation , as bad as shooting him , as the Haltimoreans do. Stull'ed birds are u recent fancy. .Since society men have taken to gunnintr , it is the thing for the worn on ot the house to perch the spoils of the day about in all manner of odd positions , in all manner of odd places. S'.ull'ml owls have long been in vogue for thn library , indicating an appreciation of wisdom in others , if jou haven't much yourself , though why the owl should bu the t peof wisdom it would bo hard to say , for they are pro verbially stupid , but , like some human beings , possess the faculty of keeping still and not letting people'Had out how foolish they are. In the window of a bird store , on Itroadwav half a bushel of mud turtles are crawling about. People have UIKIMI to buying them to put out in garden.1 : and they do well enough where then ! is grasser or a suspicion of mud. An unusual pet is a big bull frog. One tnat I saw thu other uay was reported to bo pining for its mute , which an artist had burrowed , hopinu to induce it tot.it for its picture , and tli ( : third of the family group lind boon taken l > y a gentleman to ( iurmnny to demonstrate how much fnttor , burger , more musical and nuni | m > : iry ! oapah.l" of swelling into an ox the.Amuriuun . frogs are than the frogs of the ofToto despotisms of Europe. A pair of Texas horned frogs would bn just the pots for a philosopher with little to do. They are queer , spiky looking creatures , with every .tpptwraueo of be ing dead , because they do not condescemt to chance their position more than once in two or three days. There is a Now York jeweler who has put n gold batul with padlock and chain about one of these creatures , by which ho is now sus pended to thn watch guard of a young woman , who is climbinc thu Catskills n penstock in hand and I think they have- been fastened in thu hat baud. Some people take to Salamanders , which are stupid but , harmless pots , and there is n distinct fancy for fishes just now. . Homo aquaria are seen everywhere , HOIIIO lilted into conservatories ingeniously , but about the only curiosity ever found hi thnin is an old Japanese goldlish with .a fan-shaped tail. Thu kio , as fanciers call it , brings $500 sometimes , though I have seen as strange malformations hi goldhsli out of the Hudson river. Insects for pets are more rare than sensationalists would have one believe. I have seen just one myself , an ugly beetle that a lady had worn attached by a chain to her corsage. Some accident's happened to his harness and ho was laid up at a jeweler's for repairs. I gave him sugar and he ate it greedily. It is a usual fiction that women arc the chief buyers of pots. Men buv as many birds as women. They buv more dogs and more expensive ones. The poodle has his place in the world , per haps , as well as the Irish setter or the daclishun. The taste for queer , uncanny pets attributed to women is simply an exaggeration. Sarah Uornhardt may get herself scratched by a young tiger , but most women prefer a safer and more seemly pot. Tlio Color Ijliio In New York. New York Commercial Advertiser : A negro lawyer of this city gives an inter- csting account in the Freeman of h is own experiences of color prejudice in NOT ? York restaurants. Ho went into a res taurant in Fulton market , where several people were eating , and his order was refused on the ground that thej were not cooking anything at the time. In n Cedar street restaurant "tho waiter threw napkin , knife , fork , plate , food , etc. , at mo as if I were n wild animal and ho was afraid of being blttun ; " and when ho paid his. bill the proprietor told him that , although ho had no personal objections to serving a negro , his customers didn't lit. Ho patronized a Broadway restaurant several timea until the proprietor told him that his white guests told him that his white guests made complaints. Lately ho has been on a trip to the south , and after observing - serving the freedom with which whites and blacks seemed to mingle in work and in conversation on the train and at the stations , ho said to : i negro friend : "Healjy I believe that in some respects there is moro color prejudice in the North than in the South. " His friend agreed with him , and ho was a ma.i entitled to speak with authority upon this subject , for he is the pastor of a church in Georgetown , S. ( J. , and has traveled in the North , where ho was "subjected to numberless insults by men who keep hotels and restaurants. " The Workingman in the Koston Herald : The English workman lives in a .small , stufi'v tenement perhaps he has n small , study house by himself. Somehow his place never seems so airy and bright a the Frenchman's , oven though ho may spend moro money on it. Thu other day 1 was going through a Iloston street in habited by the families of laboring men. It was a fearfully hot day and all the windows were open. Hut what struck mo as a singular thing was the fact that a great many of the windows were prac tically closed up by the high hoad-boarda of great wooden bedsteads shoved against the windpw.thus excluding air. 1 thought how differently thu Parisian woricing- man's wife would arrange her apartment. In the first place she would not have this great , ugly bedstead. There would bo a low iron one , or wooden cot , plenty largo enough , more easily kept clean , occupying much less space , and uxeluit- _ . ing no daylight or air. Then , our French- . J man's windows aru always clean ; there are light muslin curtains , too , and , per haps , a few bright ( lowers or plants m the window. The floors have no carpets or coverings Carpets are a mistake , any way. I have none in my own house , nrufomng the hard lloor with rugs. The French artisan gets along without carpets - pots or oil cloth. Perhaps thu tloor is stained , perhaps not. At any rate , it al most shines with frequent applications of thu scrubbing brush. It is very easily kept clean. AVntor OH n furl tier. Water will absorb all the filth of the air as read ! ly as it will dissolve f ugar , salt and similar m.itUm , such poisons being rapidly dillused , similarly alloetiug all parts. For this reason water which has been standing in the vicinity of filth soon becomes unfit for culinary purposes. In deed , that which has stood in an ordinary kitchen during tlu night should not bo used as a drink or in cooking. V .s.iuls of water particularly if ti little copperas ly added placed in the sick room , will do much to purify the room and prevent the attendants from contracting the disease. It is well to remember that if mcdic.incH are reduced in water , they should \ > t > kept In covered cups , or , bettor still , in corked vlali. If water purifies the air , milk , which is iiio-tly water , even when thu purest , should never be kept in a filthy place , the covering being insuf ficient to exclude foul gases. Such un covered , or partially protected vessels of milk will purify tlin air of the collar - wali-r and the copperas will do as well- but will nut purify the syMom of the child , or that of any one using micli partially poisoned milk. It may Im re marked that many wells purify the sur rounding soils in the vicinity of liltliy outhouses , rendering the water to that uMont unlit for use. The wells m 5hc vicinity of stables , plggwh's and thu like , on tliu average , nru too foul to sup ply the family water , or that used l.v tlio stock , since the milk ami the tli-ili ol sdcli stock will Im. more u.c less uU'-ctcd by a-.uih imiiurli ( ! > .