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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1896)
THE COURIER. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOsOOO TONCUELiSSS MAN TALKS. i ItK- '& W , -rfi ." KS p: EW 0 -t." tf- V 'V nnBMaavnvnnvavaaaaaBnVeneaflejejejBaaeaaaaneaejnwSBaaaaaej H "bQClAL AND PERSONAb g rpw3 st ri s ft cpjlp fl ?i.j- r'u- d".. V.J3 ll Mr. Will Hyers, from Plattsmouth. is In the city. Miss Edith Sheild of Ashland la a guest of Miss Nora Upton this week. Mrs. Guy Hrown left Tuesday fur Burlington. Kas.. to visit her sister. Mrs. Frank Brown went to Omaha on Thursday to visit her parents for two weeks. Miss Helen Nance and mother ex pect to leave next Wednesday for Hot Springs. S. D. The W. C. A. met Thursday to talk over some Imiortant business to furth er plans for making money. Misses Ethel and Alice Dovey re turned home Wednesday. It is their Intention to go abroad soon for further voice study. Mrs. A. W. White of Plattsmouth and her daughter. Mrs. Jack Donley of Weeping Water, are visiting Dr. and Mrs. Latta. There are four weddings announced for the fall. One young lady marries and goes to the far distant town of Buenos Ayres. Such charming young ladles as the Misses Burr, Tokey and Hoover will be welcome additions to the dancing and sailing parties. Letters from the camping party who have taken the Baum cottage at Lake Okoboji report a delightful outlook for summer gaieties. The ladies turn double somersaults into the water and perform feats that men have been In the habit of spring ing on dazzled womankind. The social afternoon session of St. Paul's church met at the home of Mr. Lahr last Wednesday night. A very enjoyable evening was spent. A farewell picnic Is being planned for Miss RInehart, to take place Fri day at Lincoln park. Will Johnson Is the prime mover and everyone expects a good time. The Lincoln Light Infantry gave a pleasant dance at the lake Monday evening which was largely attended. Miss Lulu Clark left on Thursday for a visit with relatives in Ohio. Miss Smith entertained this week at her home on F street. The yard and porch was brlshtly decorated with lanterns and a gypsy looking tent erected at the rear of the house. There have been some small porch parties given during these hot even ings and it looks very pretty to the passer-by to see a few tables of cards on a brightly lighted veranda or friends laughing gayly over a water melon. Beeman Dawes was in Lincoln the past week transacting business. It Is learned with regret that Mr. and Mrs. Dawes expect to make their future home in Newark. O.. and not return to this city. Mrs. Stive of Ord, who has been vis iting Mrs.BaldwIn, returned home Tuesday. The camping party at Meadowbrook farm, of which Mrs. Stive was one of the most pleasant members will soon disband and re turn to their Lincoln homes. Messrs. and Mesdames Raymond. Ladd. Oakley. Wright. Wilson and Yates enjoyed a delightful family pic nic Thursday. It was at first thought It would-have to be a porch picnic, but later In the afternoon the sun came out brightly and It was decided to oat In the grove in true rural fashion. Those coming back from the Crete camping grounds say that everyone is sunburned and happy. Mr. Will Clark and Miss Miller of Pine Ridge drove down Thursday to Join "the push" and others are expected by train. The dance last week was so successful that another is contem plated for this Saturday evening, than the young people will return home the following Monday. Mrs. D. A. Campbt'll gave a party Tuesday evening for her little guests. Misses Ethel urn! Alice Dovey. The children were Invited from eight to eleven and the time was spent In the game of "Hidden Flowers." disposing of the refreshments and awarding the prizes to the most successful guesser. The young ladles of the flower mis sion met Monday with Mrs. Lew Mar shall. They are doing a good work and I know are most welcome when they visit the hospitals every Thurs day morning with their pretty flowers and bright faces or vice-versa. The "perquislts" attached to certain positions sometimes amount to more than the wages for the work done. One of. the agreeable results that a presi dential candidate has to accept Is the haunting, hellish presence of brass bands and horns. They come at night like severe pains and the worst storms. They wake up the sleeping children of a whole neighborhood, and the players think their music Is Injured by the Juvenile howls. There are others who like a chorus with a band. In this connection I might say that Mr. Bryan was serenaded on Tuesday night. On Tuesday It got out that Mrs. Bryan Intended going in to the plunge at the Sanitarium on Wednesday. Wednesday morning the plunge was full of swimming ladles and the bal cony contained a number of visitors. Besides Mrs. Bryan and Ruth the swimmers were Mesdames C. H. Im hoft, Patrick, Plummer, Waugh and daughter. Harris and daughter, Parker, Humphrey. Hlgby, Shel don. Beeson. Green, Haydon, Leon ard, Wilson, I. M. Raymond, Misses Elliot, Cox, Nancy and Marjorle Lam bertson, Frank and Bailey. Mrs. Ladd and Miss Griflls and a number of others sat on the balcony and watched the swimming. A St. Louis paper recently gave a picture of Mrs. Bryan swim ming In her favorite position. The Il lustration shows her swimming on one side with one hand streched over her head, a position which she does not affect at all. Mrs. Bryan Is a good swimmer and can dive from the rail ing and swim under the water with out coming up puffing or frightened. If the ship of state strikes a rock while her husband Is captain, why all the family can swim. Faaaeylvanla I'lijralrlan Who Ketatna Hb-Ii l)eplte the Law of Natar. Philadelphia Record: A remarkable case of special Interest to the medical world exists nt Bradford, Pa. The caie is that of Dr. B. A. Williams, who, although he recently had his tongue removed. Is able to talk. He Is un able to tell the nature of his disease, which, he says, was undoubtedly malig nant. It wns a sort of cancerous growth, nnd In order to save his life he went to Buffalo. N. Y., und enter ed a hospital, where he had his entire tongue.lcft tonsil. left submaxillary and sublingual glands and some cervical lymphatic glands removed. With these gone, according to general belief, speech would be Impossible. Yet Dr. Williams can speak and speak quite well. He began to study out the sub ject of speech and discovered that per sons were "right" and "left" In the use of the organs of their throat. Just as they are "right" and "left" In the ubo of their hands. In this case he was "left" In the use of his mouth and throat muscles, a circumstance that made his condi tion still more desperate, because some of the organs of the left side had been removed with the tongue. He Is In clined to the theory that, while the preferred use of the right Instead of the left hand Is generally a case of education or choice, the involuntary discrimination that leads one to use ft set of mouth or throat muscles or re frain from using both sets is. In most cases, the result of heredity. Examina tion of peculiarities In their pronuncia tion of certain letters, wherein Dr. Williams and several of his descend ants agreed, but were at variance with most other people, and which peculi arities were In no wise due to defect, of vocal organs, led him to form the conclusions above stated. He has finally succeeded In being able to talk. In conversation he never resorts to the pencil. He has been out of the hospital five weeks, and can speak so as to be fairly well understood. The doctor Is confident that within a short time his speech will greatly Improve. She Wanted to Know, However. Amusing Journal: "Now, dear, I have one favor to ask of you." "It is granted." "Then please don't tell me that you have never loved before, that you never dreamed that you could love, that I'm the only girl you have been engaged to, that " He (interrupting) "I won't." She (anxiously) "But you have never been engaged before, have you, dear?" An Ancient Alabaster Box. A curious box was recently found amid the ruins of Pompeii. The box was marble or alabaster, about two inches square and closely sealed. When opened, it was found to be full of pomatum, or grease, hard but very fragrant. The smell resembled some what that of roses, but was much more fragrant. What He Knew. In announcing for office a Georgia candidate who evidently desires to make his record plain, a newspaper says: "I never was in the war; never hollered at the surrender and never killed anybody that let me alone, and the only thing I know about the finan cial question is this: I need money." i'lr.atji Constitution. O GO TO California Ira f i Tuui'lat alvopor It is the RIGHT way. Pay more anil you are extravagant. Pay losa and vouuro uncomfort able. The newest, brightest, uJeunoHt anil easiest riding Tourist sleepers aroused for our Personally conducted excursions to California which leave Lincoln every Thursday at lO'lO u. m., reaching San Francisco Sunday evening, and Los An rcIcb Monday noon. Ask G.W.Bonnell city ticket ugent, cor 10th and O Sts., Lincoln Neb for full information or write to J. Fkancis, G. P. A. Omaha, Nf.h. 09OO0OOO003OO OOi A MOTHER-OF-PEARL HOUSE. Ballt by Chinese riaherman Many Yara Ago. Old habitations are to be found nil over California, says the San Francisco Call. Sometimes there Is good reason for them being odd, but often It Is the result of some crank Idea. On the beach near Cypress Point, in Monterey county, there is one that cannot come under the first head and hardly under the last. The residence belongs to 3 Chinese fisherman and is part natural and part the work of his own hands. The natural portion of the house is a small cave in one of the many rocks that stick up all over the beach. The other part is a sort of wooden shed which has been built in front of thU opening. The lumber used Is of the roughest kind but the esthetic China man overcame this objection by cover ing the whole outside with abalone shells, the hollow side being turned out. The Chinaman evidently did that many years ago, when the shells were plentiful and had scarcely any market velue. Every shell used has been de stroyed as one or more nails have been" driven through them according to th'jii size. Some of the shells are magnifi cent in color and enormous in size There is one at least fifteen Inches in diameter, and a duplicate In good condition could not be bought in San Francisco for any price. Most of the larger shells. If they were not punctured with nailholes, would read ily sell for from $3 to 5 apiece. But that size cannot be had in the market now, and would be difficult to find on the rocks of any part of the coast. The general effect of the house, when the sun strikes it at the proper angle, Is dazzling. The polished, pearly sur faces sparkle with astounding bril liancy and flash with all the colors of the rainbow. It is a pleasing and sur prising sight and the only pity is that so many beautiful shells were de stroyed to produce It. WHAT! The Great Enquirer ONLY 50 CTS. A YEAH? YES! And any one sending two yearly subscribers at 50 cts. each, gets a Free Copy One Year. An 8-page paper and 9 leng col umns to a page, makes it the Largest in Size ! Cheapest in Price! Always Most Reliable for Facts, Truth and Markets THh 5T Faii.nv Newspatc .n United States or News, Intell.gtnce, Fashions, Household, Geneiai Miscellaneous Reading M-ue.. otories, etc. PAY I'O AGENTS oublc Jiat w. other papers. An excelltiiC opportunitj for those out of employment to make money. Try it. Samples free. Address, ENQUIRER COMPANY, CINCINNATI, O. The same man was elected In Wil liamsburg, Maine, the other day, with out any opposition, to seven different cflUes. Ex. A SUMMER KKSOUT. A delightfully cool and attractive place these warm days Is the handsome store of Sutton & Hollowbush. 12th and O street. A new addition is a large and beautiful onyx soda fountain, one of th finest in the state. This is presided over by an expert fizz clerk. This sea son nut Ice-cream and many new flavors In cream and Ices are strong favorites Mr. Sutton's cream has a state reputa tion: he fills orders dally from many outside points: and Is making a special ty of this trade. The line of candy Is now larger and finer than ever. Confec tionery always fresh: many novelties.
