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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1896)
THX COURIER. tf z W'f Mrs. Thomas Marsland and Mrs. Geo. Seybolt returned Saturday from Mom phis. Canon City coal at the Wb!tobrast Coal and Lime Co. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Dorgan entertain ed on Christmas day with an elaborate dinner to near relatives. All sorts of merry plans were arranged for the etc, that Christmas day found the guestF. Again the forest lured tho revelars by its tempting!. The moon waB still shining at the oil stand. One could fairly hear the wind whistling or cracking through the pine boughs. It may not hare been the wind but only tho unpretentious looking mistletoe get ting in it3 deadly work. So charming young people, and Master Wilson Mulr waH hiB Pary hat llk the!r Rrand of Denver acted as Santa Claus to the parents , tho guest danced until tho low delight of everyone. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. MacFarland, Mr. and Mrs. "Vm. Dorgan, Mrs. "Wil son, Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Mulr and Wil son Mulr of Denver and the Misses Jane, Jessie, Ruth, Helen and Jack MacFarland. Mr. Elmer Merrill expects to leave Lincoln soon to take a position In Chi cago. Prof. DeAlton Saunders, last year teacher In the High School, but now of South Dakota Agricultural college, is exepectcd here for a visit during the holidays. Miss Clara Conklin, assistant pro fessor of romance languages at the state university, left Wednesday for Kansas City and St. Louis. She will attend the meeting of the western mod ern language association at St. Louis. Mrs. Link's mother has returned to her home. Mrs. Miner of Winchester, III., who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Taylor, will return to her homo on Mon day. Mrs. Chas. Robinson returned to Chicago on Wednesday. Whenever she cimes to Lincoln society is gay and in dicates its predilection for her by din ners, balls and receptions. Miss Dora Harloy will spend Christ mas day with her frionds in Beatrice. By far the most unique and merry entertainment given this winter was Ye Olden Times party given by Mr. and Mrs. Bigger in honor of Miss Minnie Caylord of Buffalo on Christmas 'Eve. The guests were received in the west pirlor, where graudmama's 6torics of tho parties given inolden time& when she was a girl wero illustrated. The room was filltd with a soft light from innum erable wax candles prranged in antique condlesticks tho candles wero snuffed at proper intervals. The walls were hung and the floors covered wiJh fur skins and lugs of every desciiption. A graceful spining wheel standing by a largo wood grate fire. An abundance of holly, mistletoe and-white hyacinths completed tho affect. After a brief time spent in social con versation, the guests were invited across the hall into an apparently dark room but proved to be the dining room con verted into a pine forest; through whose branches shone tho silvery light of a stationary moon. It was not long before a keg of cider was discovered in a bank of ferns, and it might be added that it was not long full. A few couples strolled into the forest to find the most remots Beat, others were contented to simply collect themselves after a trip over the ever present tree etumps. Here the '-fiddler'' was sawing out tho stirring strains of the "Arkensaw Trav eler," "The Irish Wash Woman" and similar tunes which have seen better days. In an instant the scene was changed as if by a fairy wand some body moved the trees, and in the clear ing such dances as Old Dan Tucker and the Virginia Reel ere performed such grace and enthusiasm as gladdened the heartB in the good old times. Whilo resting all sorts of games wero tried some are still wondering who was "it." The kitchen then became the spot of in terest. For there in true old homestead style, the table and sideboard were fair ly groaning from the abundance of goodies that mother used to make. It was at this fascinating occupation of eating pumpkin pie, doughnuts, turkey, burning candles warned them that the morning was approaching. We have purchased (because It la Just the thing we have needed) the Columbian Cyclopedia Library, con sisting of the Columbian encyclopedia, which Is also an unabridged dictionary thirty-two volumes of onvenient size neatly bound, four volumes of thean nual cyclopedic review, lour volumes of current hlstoryfor 1S96, one Columbian atlas and the neat convenient revolving oak cas ewith glass doors. From tho evidence obtained we And that some part of this work Is placed in the bpst private and public library In this country an dabroad, for the reason that they cover a field relative to the past, present and future progress and achievements of the human race not attempted by others. The plan is original, and the work throughout Is carefully and ably written. Current history contains 220 pages, is issued two months after the close of each quarter, this length of time being taken to reduce all Information received to be an absolutely reliable and authentic basis. If these are kept on file, this magazine will prove a permanent and Invaluable record of all Important movements In political, social religious, literary, educational scientific and industrial affairs. The magazine will be Indlspenslble to all people who have encyclopedias, as It will be needed to keep these works up to date. To those who do not own encyclopedias It will be doubly valuable as their source of Information is more limited. About March of each year the four volumes of current history are bound Into one volume, known as the Annual Cyclopedic Re view. There are now four of these bound volumes covering yearsl892-3-4 and 5. The work has for endorsers and subscribers in this city and state such people as Mr. Gere. edltor-Inchlef of the Lincoln State Journal., Hon. Joe Bartley. state treasurer, Hon. W. J. Bryan. Mr. Miller, editor of the Northwestern Journal of Education, Hon. H. R. Corbett, state supsrintend ent of public Instruction, Dr. R. E. G'iffen. ' Every reading person has felt the need of brief summaries of current topics and events. The dally, weekly and monthly periodicals and papers may furnish data sufficient, but the labor of collecting and digesting It Is frequently out of propor'Ion to the re sult obtained. A most satisfactory summary may be found In the quar Journal has been of Invaluable service terly Issues of Current History. This in the library covering a field that no other attempts. Subscription price, $1.50 a year In advance; bound volumes, cloth. $2. half morrocco, $2.50: library sheep,$2.50; embossed sheep, $3.50; three-fourths persion, $4. Complete library from $3G. to $10S; cases from $5. to $44. The complete library Is sold on monthly payments to suit purchaser. City subscriptions will be received at the Courier office for a limited time only, or at Mr. H. W. Brown's book store, direct all other correspondence to C. S. Borum, general agent Lincoln, Nib. Itfpettlns Itlf!e. The king of Denmark's "sort of new invented guns, which being but once charged will discharge many times, one after another," in 1C57, would seem to have had rivals about the same period. Pepys twice refers to such. On July 3, 1662, when "at the Dolphin with the officers of the ordnance, after dinne was brought to Sir. W. Comptoa a gun to discharge seven times, the best of all devices that ever I Eaw and rery serviceable, and not a bawble, for it la much approved of, and many thereof made." And on March 4, 1663-4, he mentioned "a new fashion gun to shoot often, one after another." Notes and Queries. Tlie Baseball I'ltchcr. The famous base ball pitcher had walked the floor with the youngest of his family for an hour or so. 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