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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965

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O’NEILL CITY, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1881.
NUMBER 39.
| ^lEWS OFJHE WEEL
rouaanwi, \ * x
Oxford ra the ummi Uoitifotj
£ ta* ne% defeating Oambddga by fonrkngthe.
- It is reported that the Oar baa re
•atfed from the MthfllH committee a priated
• prnnlemation, te % dim thHr erne
to retars tor a oonetitattga, amnesty for all
reratstiooteto. end e few mta»r HwitletM.
The trial of the *-hir of the Oar
««* taMgfct to a 0)0* at Efe Pigtenboif os the
lO^ot April 'Duri*tbb trial the .prison*
wtM-alf attired hi brick, tad teemed to be
Proud of Martini that they belonged te the
terariat petty, by wboee enter the sauuins
Hon wee aocompihhed. AO except Boasakoff
and Jehaboff disrislmcd pay partMpatiea la
tba deed itself. They mtaaU eenteaced to
death on the gallows.
Parnell declares that the Coercion bill
la tba reailt of the deesrtion fit seventeen mem.
here Deal the Irieh parly. Bo thinks pitfalls
are plenty ia the flret portion of the Lead tail,
hat (Mo the oecoad-paithe looka for my im
portant results.
latter advices from Scio indicate that
the extent of ths oalsraity'was andereatimatod
ia the first dispatches, Between 4,000 and
^000 pareons nara killed, and more than doable
that number tniured. - ,
Count Hamilton, Ouanoellor of the
- Dnirendy at Upsoi, 8reden, baa lulled £40, -
M0 in forged paper, counterfeiting the eigne-1
tea of the King and Qaeen.
Hradlaugh was re-elected to the British
Booea of Oommona by IX majority.
< Advices concerning the massacre of
CoL Flatter end hie exploring party ia Tripoli
, > by Urn nativee after a brave reelstanoa against
heavy odds.
* ’ Thomas Carlyle willed to Harvard
Onlvendty the books be need in writing the
Uvea of Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the
Great
It b charged that Germany, while
avowedly in favor of peace, has been secretly
working to bring about a war betweou Turkey
and Greece.
It is reported that the Turcomans sur
prised and captured Naru Kisear, the most ad
vanced fort on the road to Merv, killing the
entire Russian garrison.
Gen. Skobeleff has officially declared
tba Tekkw-Tarcoman war at an end
The military oordon placed around
8t Petersburg was found to bo more irksome
to loyal citizens than efficacious against Nihil
ists. and it has been withdrawn.
The great anti-Jewiab petition has
been sent to Bismarck. It oonsists of twenty
six volumes, aggregating 14,000 sheets, with
355,000 signatures. .
The Rev. William Morley Punahon, a
oelebrated Wesleyan preacher of England, ia
dead. . -
DOMESTIC HfTELIalGENOS.
The large jewelry (tore of William
Wise, In Brooklyn, N. Y., wu bnrgUrixad afew
nights ago. Six large holes were bored in a
safe containing tOQ.OOO worth of diamonds, but
the steel pistes broke the drill; Another sate, -
weighing 400 pounds, was lifted ont of the wall
by jackscrews, and robbed oi 100 watches, val
ued at 10,000.
• * Ex-Attorney : General Devena has
been re-appointed to the Saprams bench of
Massachusetts.
J. L. & L. F. Kuntz, the well-known
lager-beer L rowers of New Tosh, have made an
assignment to their father, their liabilities be
ing *315,000.
Jay Gould has bought Col Tom
Boon's Interest in the Texas Pacific railroad. 1
James O’Brien, better known asBob,
Lindsay, pleaded guntytSnTJfew’YorlToburt to
perjury in the famous Morey trial and was
aenteneed to 8tate prison for eight years.
The conductors and driven on the
West .Division Bail way Company, of Chicago,
struck for an advance of pet pepi. in their
pay. Over half the city was deprived of street
car facilities for thirty-eix hours, and people
had to foot it to and from their places.
of business. The sympathies of the communi
ty were with the strikers, end the corporation
finally yielded to the, dptnanria of the em
ployes. ' ' '■
A strike of the journeyman carpenters
of Cincinnati resulted in ths coaoeaaion of
•ASS per day by lit builders.
Ah Lock, a Chinaman, was hanged at
Nevada City fur the murder of .a countrymen.
OoL M. 0. Garber, Poetmapter at Mad
ison, lad., and proprietor of the Courier, died
* from a paralytic stroke.
Great activity is apparent in the work
of grading tha Northern Pacific up the valley
of the Yellowstone, when 3,000 men will roan
be employed, preference being given those who
intend settling in the region.
Under the escort of Senators Conk
ling, donee, Logsn end others, the remains of
the late Senator Matt H. Carpenter, of Wiscon
sin, arrived at Milwaukee on tha 0th inst, and
were formally delivered to the Governor and
Legulatura of the State that had elected Mr.
Carpenter to the Senate, by Senator .Conkling,
in behalf of tha Senatorial oommittee. Tha
body lay in state at tha Court House on Sun
day, the 10th, and waa viewed by 30,000 sor
rowing people, after which it was buried in
Forest Hill Cemetery with imposing ocremo
niee. - ” •
Tho iron-works of 0. A G. Ooopor A
Co., at Mount Vernon, Ohio, were destroyed by
fire, causing a leas of *150,0001
Gen. Ben Spooner ditd at Lewrenoe
burg, led., last week. He was Colontl of the
Eighty-third Indiana In the war, and lost a leg
at Keneaaw. He wu bom in Manelleid, Ohio;
aged 58.
, Mrs. unaries nation, oi Barauao,
Mich., known as the “ Mammoth Queen," is
deed. When (reveling with exhibition* she
mix bed 870 poonda, but Wee ted ewer to 100.
Hark Beaubien, doubtless the most
noted of ell the pioneer* of Chicago, who kept
the tint hotel end ran the eerlieet ferry across
the Chicago river, diod at Kankakee, 111., a few
day* ago, aged 81 yaan. David McKob, an
other of tbs early pioneers of Chicago, ha*
also passed away, at the aga of 80.
Sioux City dispatches of the 14th
Inst represent that anow oovers the prairie* te
the depth of one to three feet, and fanners in
that section cannot eommenoe plowing for
aoreial week*. An aid society has been farmed
to distnbato relief in the flooded districts,
when the destitute number over 8,030. A
Yankton dispatch of the 18th states that twenty
families residing at a bend in the Missouri
river fifteen miles below Tanktoo wen impris
oned by fields of beery ice. A colony of 184
people, who had been surrounded by water at
Mayvflle for two weeks, had been rescued. Two
mat parties were endeavoring to reach Meck
littyWueru fifty penona were imprisoned by
fiMs of ice from An to twenty, feet Ugh.
. iWptpbly 8,000 settlers ban bean rendered dee
titptag>n the Dakota bottoms. *
(Qhnrles Marmon, n Caadeilla stage*
dW, entered the theater at Durango, CoL,
and£eUhout provocation, kfllad one man and
wounded another, both atrangan to m— He
was hanged by vigilantes.
The annual report of the itchisofi,
Topeka and Bants Fe road shows giro a earnings
of 48,556,078 an 1 a net (seoxa of 94,218,770.
The length of the road is 1,539 miles, and its
fw*ded debt 418.878,040. J:. :i_
;J At a ahoit-hom sale in Waukegan,
UL, one heifer broeght 44,230, and another
•4.880:
Threo hone-thieves wan “ summarily
*poaad of • by the vigilante* of Johnson
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Four inches of snow fell in Northern
Virginia on tin nhrht of April 8.
■> ■ > i ■ yy f v <
U. W. Gary, a cavalry office*in lU
Confederate army, and always' protWnent in
lav and poliUoa, died at Bdfdtaid.'A <h-,
A party of armed and masked jaen
rods into Toledo, Ark., at daybreak, rarroand
ed the Court HoaJS, tide into thdTreamrer'e
office, and atole about 0l8,000i JChey then re
mounted and escaped.
i. Deputy United states Marshal Sea
graves was recently Uukinated and robbed
in Macon county. Twin.
A negro woman waa lynched at Mar
tin'* Depot, A a, for attempted arapn.^ .
1 A tornado "near*fiemando,
moliabed many houses, killed three pereone and
vonnded eight otbera
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to prop
erty estimated at 815,000. •
Half the peach crop in Middle and
Southwestern Georgia - has ben kilted by
frost; the fig-trees an dead, and plnms badly
Injured.
The notorioas Jamea brothers are lir-.
mg near Andertonvilte, Ky.~ 1* * • ' ^
Heavy frosts have prevailed through
out Teas*, and considerable damage baa bean
done to the corn, cotton, trait and .vegetable
crops.
Mary A. Murray, an employe of the
Baltimore Postoffioe, sued Postmaster E. B.
Tyler for 020,000 damages for aa indecent aa>.
•Salt upon bar. The Jury gave her 05,000.
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' WAimKOTOK HOTtt
Secretary Windom’s refunding scheme
was approved by the Calioet, and he was au
thorized to use his discretion in the matter. It
-s understood that the fJU)^OOO.QQ0 of. new
l ends will be issued at 4 per cent;, and sold to
the highest bidder. The Secretary also con
templates calling in maturing bonds and allow
ing holders to retain them at a reduced rate of
interest. Atty. Gen. HacVeagh is of opinion
that such a plan would be legal.
A panic was created in tlie Postoffice
Department by the summary discharge of
eight clerks, some oii«hofe&ad baaatar posi
tion many years. Their only offense was said
to be incompetency. Postmaster Goneia
James is making, a careful inquiry into the
qua. ticalions of subordinate* with a view
to good of the service.
Private Dalscll 1
Secretary Kirkwood to a
Pension Offl i
.ue wn ico.
Dalzcll has been appointed by
irk wood to a (9,0® clefkship ia (Le
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A Washington dispatoh sap
“Mahone and Alexander H. Stephen* tune
fraternized, and they eeem to agree entirely
with each other in anticipating eomething like
a political millenium, and in believing that they
will bring it about.”
Secretary Windom has issued a call
for *11 the oatstanding 6-Jxmcent bonds which
mature In July next, aggregating $115,690,403.
couli-ued at the ploature of the Government,
at the rate of per cent, interest, by forward
ing them to the Treasury Department to ba
stamped, semi-annual Interest payments'to he
made by check to the holder'a address. The
Government wiU pay no expense o( transpolar,
bon an .bonds received, but will tetgfllaiiwh,
securities by prepaid registered mail.
Mrs. Blaine, Mrs-. Sherman, Mrs. Pen
dleton, Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Harlan and other la
dies well known in Washington and throughout
the country appeal to tho people of the United
Jttatee to contribute to a relief fond for- the
sufferers from the earthquake in Soia. '■
Ex-Senator Brnoei ol Mississippi, was
hnUrel the mission to Brasil, but he deekned
it, the main ground being that a colored man
would be coldly received there.
'' A clerkship in the Interior Depart
ment at (1,800 per year hat been contemptu
ously refused by Private Dsize 11.
'( A large number ol reporta-have been
received at the State Department from Consuls
abroad relative to the interdiction of American
pork. The war upon our products seems to be
incited by joalouay of onr increasing trade, and
not from fear of disease.
; POLITICAL POXPT*. j j
The Pennsylvania House defeated a
resolution approving the coarse of the Presi
dent in the management of his administration
and urging the speedy confirmation of «U
worthy nominees to office. / ?’ i <•'
By advice of the President, Secretary
Kirkwood has rescinded a large number of ap
pointments to the Pension Bureau and ordered
a competitive examination- There are 130
positions to be filled, aud the candidates num
ber 720. * i -r
Senator David Davis lias ^written a
letter to John Martin, of Kansas, in which he
chargee that both the Bepublican and Demo
cratic Senators are not free agents, but are
controlled by monopolies. He saya there
ought to be a reorganization of parties. The
first step toward that reorganization, he thinks,
should be the disbandment of the Democratic
party. He tliinka the Bepublican party would
then become disorganised and demoralised.
John Kelly’s foes inside of Tammany
Hall are n a king a desperate effort for his de
thronement, and, it is said, the disaffection is
really formidable.
ttnoEUAnon Qixinmw.
F. F. O'Brien, a large real-eatateoum-'
er of Montreal, hu been oonvicted of uttering
torged paper for >18,000.
The mercantile fail urea in the UniteJ
State* for the Diet quarter of 1881 were 1,986,
against 1,891 for the corresponding period of
1880.
Tabano, the chief of the remnant ot
Vidor.o’s band of Indians, was captured wih
four followers in Chihuahua.
A terrible tale of suffering for food
was brought to New York by tbs steamship,
Nebo. She enoountered the bark Tiger with a
crew of eleven men, who existed for a week on
stripe of leather soaked in )^np-oil, then de
voured the Captain's dog, jshd for eight day*
had gone hungry end meditated eating eagh
other. Over the ample stores given them they
fought like e peek ot wolves. ^
The Baltimore and OMo road haa de
clared s semi-annual dividend of 6 per cent, on
ihe capital stock of the main stem end the
Washington branch.
The Directors of the Denver and Bio
Grande railway era about to bring to this eonn
tiy 10,000 Flench laborers, artisans end engi
neers for work on the Denver end Bio Grands
extension into Msxioo. ; ’ ‘ '
During the month of Harch, 44,125
immigrants strived in this country. ■ ■ .<•
’ The iron and stool industries of the
United States ere 1,006 in number, with e capi
tal of 6030,971,884. Pennsylvania' lead* off
*i h nearly half the product of the OOUntry,
Ohio taking seooad rank,
A mysterious disease had carried off
mot* ♦*>»" 100 Chinaman employed oa the
-Csnsdim Pedfle railroad in British Ootnmbie.
J>eeth tu.no. within Utaen miantta after lha
Ttetiro is attested. '.'.j,
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The time-killing debate npea every eabjeet
wumawilii the Bee*!* an Monday, April It
The time of that dqr’e session wee oooaptad by Cell,
of Florida, In defense of Am Southern States a
statistical speech Tyom Oaadnr In defense of the
credit of We£ Virginia, * facetious speic% j
Beck on Don' Cameron's dominance In * Penn
sylvania poHUos, a_ retort by Cameron, ant) a bar
angne by Test referring to pretty much everything. |
At the oJoee of Vest's speech .the Senate adJounWL
burin a— of any kind me done. Senator Ed
munds had retained from Florida, and occupied hie !
■cat in the. Senate. He seemed to be In excellent
herif^^^^^^^and^od^Bd^^rixmgratnlaaoae
' rmohrfioa via adopted on Tuesday morning, the
12tb tnet, requesting the President to conununi
«fte to the Senate any iafoitngtioniii the possession
of the Oomrnmenfc' touching the alleged arreM and
[ Imprleonmentof Michael Boy ton, who claims io be a
citiren of tba United States, by the Oorerament of
Great Britain. Tba flendgatee «< talk warn then
opetad, and a number nf.Semtpca.mwkg on any
subject interesting to them, Mr. Beck making the
Erincipal speech. Senator Pendleton oQmmenced a
pg argument, and iield the floor at adjournment.
The proceeding* in the United States Senate
were nr led bn Wednesday, April 13, by tome sharp
and angry passages between Dawes and Pendleton,
and Dawea and Butler, and some excited dahoncia
4ions cf Republicans by Senator Harris. The sea
son dosed with another personal altercation between
Meters. HiU and Mahcme, In which language pnr
I poaely insulting passed between the Senators.
The usual Amount of talk was indulged in by
I the Senate on Thursday, the 14th inst., but no bust
! ness was attempted. When the session adjourned 1*
was to meet on Monday! The following nomine,
tions were sent to the Senate: Postmasters—Isaac
Brown, Cdiuabas, Ind.^ Edwin W. Phelps, Oak
Park, TIL; C. 5. Clark, Ida Grove, Iowa. William
Letcher, of Ohio, to be Register of the Land Office
i at Mitchell, D. T. Cortex Fessenden, of Michigan,
to be Surveyor General of the United States District
of Dakota. _
C«>fr«MiloBBl Contests.
Notices of contest have already been filed
with the Clerk of the House of Representatives,
in accordance with the law, In the following
cases:
Horatio Blsbee, Republican, Jesee J. Finley,
Democrat, Second district of Florida.
- William M. Lowe, Greenback-Democrat, ta. Jo*
tenli When cr. Eighteenth district of Alabama.
K bert Small*, Repub ican, va. George D. Tillman,'
Democrat, Fifih district of South Carolina.
J>hD T. StoviJL, Democrat, yf. George C. Cabell,
Democrat, Fifth district of^Virginia. # „
Samuel Lee, Republican, va. John S. Richards,
Dtfincra^ First 4iatrjc* of .South Carojtta.
Geoige.M. Bitftinnaii* Bepubticui, ya. ‘ Van H..
Mantling, Diinocrfct, Second distnet of Mlaads
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?.• J. C. Cook, .Democrat, f\ Madison £. Cu$«,pe*
.publ can, Sixth aiatrict of Iowa.
A’cx. Smith, Republican, vs. E. W» Robertson,
Democrat, Sixth district of Louisiana.
Jaii.ea G. Smith, Republican, vs. Jamee M. Shel
ley, Democrat, Fourth district of Alabama,
Samuel J. Anderson, Democrat, vs, Thomas B.
Reed, Republican, First.district of Maine.
In addition to the above, it is understood
that the seats of the following Democratic
Representatives will be contested :
M. P. O’Connor,Second district; D. Wyatt Aikens,
1 lord district, and John H. Evinn, Fourth district
of South Carolina.
Thomas H. Herndon, First district; H. A. Her
HMoDd district, dtod William C. Gates, Third
district of Alabama.
Henry L. Mttldrcw, First district; Otto R. Single
ton, Fourth district, and Charles £. Hooker, Fifth
district of Mississippi. •
J. Floyd Kings Filth district of Louisiana, and B.
G. FVost,'fhirdattetrict of Missouri. * -
| Traveling and Drinking.
What constitutes a bona-fide traveler
on Sunday as a question that now a days
is vexing the English courts not a little,
add the more that the English Judges
try to settle it definitely the more hope
lessly indefinite does it become. In a
spasm of moral reetitu 3e an act oI Par
liament was passed compelling the pub
licans to shut up their houses on Sun
days, thus for the good of public morals
forcing all toss-pots, for one day in the
week, at least, to go athirst. But some
kindly soul, doubtless himself a well
soaked, merry creature, clapped upon
I this just hut severe law an easing rider
that excepted “ travelers” from itsoper
j ation. And so he who wonld tipple on
| Sunday and yet not break the laws of
I the land is forced to travel to. do it, and
I the point that the courts are wrangling
over is how much traveling a man must
do in order to justify his indulgence in
I a Sunday drunk. The poeition assumed
! by the topers reduces traveling to amin
! imum, They hold, with the late Pre
j bendary of York—who oertainly is the j
! highest authority as to what constitutes |
I a traveler—that to go “ even to the end j
I of the street” is a journey within the
I meaning of thb dot, and that compassing !
j this modest distance entitles them to all :
i the rights and*privileges granted under j
I the exempting clause. But this is not j
! by any means the view of the matter j
i taken by the courts. Indeed, so harsh- j
I ly hydropathic is the legal conception of j
J Sunday traveling, that ’twould appear
I inhmrian but for the proverbial instinct- j
ive tendency of the bench to a severe
| sobriety. Now all this confusion in re
gard to getting drunk on Sunday is just
like the English—is an admirable exem
{>lification of the national tendency to
itigation and red tape. Here in our
own fair, free land we have a better and
a simpler method of dealing with the
matter. The sternest moralist cannot
find fault with our laws, which in em
phatic terms forbid the sale on Sundays
of intoxicating drinks to anybody at all;
and yet so perfectly is the right of the
individual protected by our glorious in
stitutions tnit there is nothing whatever
to prevent any American citizen so dis
posed from sailing in every Sunday
.morning, in the most open and above
board manner, and deliberately getting
just as drunk as a wheelbarrow.
Autnors an u xneir noru.
It is unfortunate for those who think
with Mr. Pope,
The proper study of mankind Is man,
that few authors put themselves into
their works. No one knows what Shaks
peare thought or believed. Byron’s
poetry is disfigured with cynical sneers
at the world and with contemptuous
smilea at its judgments. But Byron,
the man, was over-sensitive, sad listened
at the worlds'keyhole to’ lean what it
’thought of him.
. The reader' of Thomson’s “ Seasons ”
i would scarcely think he wrote his de
“scriptionsof “ meek-eyed mom—mother
of dews," in bed, because he was too
- lazy to rise and dress himself.
Yet, to the nndiseeming many, the
author and the man are one person.
■ Thackeray’s wit, for instance, is cynical.
j His works show the mean side of human
' nature. He has an eye for repulsive
characters. Kind actions are traced to
sordid motives.. The shams of modem
society are congenial themes.
To kindly, cheerful, refined readers
his toner is as irritating as the filing of a
saw. They reject him as they would a
book descriptive-of skin, diseases. But
the friends and- foes of Thackeray’s
novels would alike err should they
identify the satirist with the man. For
he was an affectionate husband,' an in
dulgent father, a generous friend, and
one who has been known to sacrifice
time and money to serve those having
alight claims upon him.
: cum mm
. Com says, in preserving beef, the
rib* will keep longest—five ormxday*
in summer_the twiddle of the loin next,
the ramp next, the round next, and, the
shortest of aU, the brisket, which will
not keep mere than three days in hot
weather. *
To fix pencil marks so they will not.
mb ant, ™ well-skimmed milk and
dilute with an equal bulk of water*
Wash the pencil marks (whether writing
or drawing) with tuts liquid, using a soft
flat camel-hair brush_gjnd avoiding all
robbing. Place upon'a flat board to
dry.
Hawodm Meat.—Heat should he
hhng long enough to grow tender; 3 too
•ktog it becomes dry, loses its,'
/Weight, amtll MtXdhg lmig
is tough and hard. It should also
hung where the air is olear and cool,
but not in a strong current, as then it
will dry out its juices. It is said that
jf you steam a tough piece of meat for
half an hoar, then roast it in the ordi
nary manner, it will be tender.
Calcimine.—Whitewash rubs off the
walls upon the hands and clothing ; cal
cimine does not. Calcimine—prepared
kaolin—can be obtained at almost any
drug store at trifling cost. To prepare
it for use place it in a vessel of suitable
size, then scald it with sufficient water
to make it the consistency of hot mush;
let it partially oool; then thin down with
skimmed milk to the proper consistency
far use. Skimmed milk is best, ss the
fatty or butter part of new milk would
spoil the mixture. Observe these direc
tions and the material will be ready for
use. Apply with a whitewash brush.
This mixture will work smoothly and
not drag under the brush as most other
mixtures for whitewash. It can be
colored to suit the taste of those
using it.
Fob the Hands.—In order to pre
serve the hands soft and white they
should always be washed in warm water
with fine soap, and carefully dried with
a moderately coarse towel, being well
rubbed every time to insure a brisk cir
culation, tlnm which nothing can be
more effectual in promoting a transpar
ent ard soft surface. If engaged in any
accidental pursuit which may hurt the
color of the hands, or if they have been
exposed to the sun, a little lemon juice
will restore their whiteness for the t.me,
and lemon soap is proper to wash them
'with. Almond paste is of essential serv
ice in preserving the delicacy of the
bands. The following is a serviceable
pomade for rubbing the hands on retir
ing to rest: Take two ounces of sweet
almonds; beat with three drachms of
white wax and three drachms of sper
maceti ; put up carefully in rose water.
Oloves should always be worn on expo
sure to the atmosphere.
Under the Snow.
The remarkable case of Elizabeth
Woodcock, who was buried under the
snow,'"1s especially striking; In the '
winter of 1799 she was returning on
horseback from Cambridge, Eng., to her
home in a neighboring village, and, hav
ing dismounted for a few minutes, the
horse ran away from her. At 7 o’clock
on a winter evening she sat down under
a thicket, cold, tired and disheartened
Snow came on; she was too weak to rise,
and the consequence was that by morn
ing the snow had heaped around her to
a height of two feet above her head as
she sat She had strength enough to
thrust a twig, with her handkerchief at
the top of it, through the snow, to serve
as a signal, and to admit a little day
light. Torpor guperyened, and she knew
little more of what passed around her.
Night succeeded day, and day again
broke, but there she remained, motion
less and foodless. Not senseless, how
ever, for she could hear church bells and
village sounds—nay, even the voices and
conversation of some of her neighbors.
Four whole days she thus remained, one
single pinch of snuff being her only sub
stitute for food during this time, and
even this she found had lost its pungen
cy. On the fifth day a thaw commenced,
and then she suffered greatly, but still
without means to extricate herself. It
was not until the eighth day that the
handkerchief was espied by a villager,
who, with many others, had long been
seeking for her. Stooping down, he
said:
• “Are you there, Elizabeth Wood
cock?”
i She had strength, enough to reply,
faintly:
“Dear John StitUe, I know your
voice. For God’s sake, help me out.”
She died about half a year afterward,
through mismanagement of frost-bitten
toes; but it was fully admitted that ne
one, unless cased in snow, could have
lived out those eight days and nights in
■uch a place without food.
An Outside Whitewash.
Few people know how easily white
wash is made, and hqpr valuable when
properly applied. It hot only prevents
the decay ot wood, but is greatly con
ducive to the healthfulness of buUdings,
whether wood or stone. Out-buddings
and fences, when not painted, should be
supplied once or twice a year with a
good coat of whitewash, which should
be prepared in'the following way:
Take a clean, water-tight barrel, or
other .suitable cask, and put into it
about half a bushel of lime; slack it
by pouring water over it boiling hot,
and pnt in a sufficient quantity of water
to cover it five inches deep, and stir it
briskly untU thoroughly slacked; when
the slacking has been thoroughly ef
fected, dissolve it in water, and add two
pounds of sulphate of zinc and common
salt. These will cause the wash to
harden and prevent its cracking, which
gives an unsightly appearance to the
work
If desirable, a beautiful cream color
may be given to the above wash by add
ing three uponds of yellow ochre; or a
good pearl by lead, lamp, vine or ivy
black. For fawn color, add four pounds
of umber, Turkish or -American—the
latter is the cheaper—one pound of In
dian red, one pound of common lamp
black.—Farmer!' Magazine and Rural
Guide. '_
Bats that Lore Tobacco.
It is well known that rats and mice,
in addition to their proverbial slyness,
fall into astonishingly disagreeable hrb
its when their surroundings are such as
to tempt them to depart from the tem
perate course characteristic of rodent
life. At a celebrated tobacco house in
St. Louis is a bright, grayish-colored
rat, fat and plump, that emerges from
[ his hole during tne daytimo, leaps upon
a pile of leaf tobacco, and eats and rel
ishes the picotine weed the same as it
would a dainty bit of toasted cheese.
This animal is perfectly gentle, and its
carious appetite has vouchsafed for it the
the freedom of the entire factory, it is
looked upon in the establishment as the
greatest fl living curiosities, and poe
tiossod, as it seems- to -be, with intelli
it is permitted to feolic about the
ttftray unmolested, and-allowed to taste
qphnijdraf the choicest importations.
'*■ Mrato-Warfc tad SlMf,
r as the bnin-work«r is abia toi
\ to eat well and to taka a fait
of oat-door exercise, it la not
t fmpoa say special limits on
tamberof hoars he devotes to
Bat wind what is generally
as any stays in ttv complicate
ahea , pares connected with tam
, or with those nnmer
i which we can ael
, or when the daily
i of life i* tat itoalt a fertile
own. Probably the man of business or
the successful lawyer fails to shake him
self free from his anxieties at night, and
slumber becomee fitful or disturbed.
The nervous system, unsettled^ by the
mental strain, brings about various de
fects in nutrition; the appetite fails, and
then we meet with the sleeplessness,
the dyspepsia, the irresolution, the ir
ritability and the depression which are
the chief miseries of the overworked.
The great thing in these cases is to
get a rest at any cost. By rest we dc
not mean doing nothing, but rather
change of scene, of thought and occu
pation. If you tell a busy man that he
mnst do nothing, he may endeavor to
obey you, but he will soon find out that
he cannot, for his brain keeps on work
ing in the same old groove, and he is as
much, or even more, worried about his
business as if he were still in the thick
ef it. The great thing is to get a rest
by substituting one kind of work by
another, to have for a time a nice, com
fortable sort of occupation to replace
the old weary round of troubles. One
of the most important remedial agents
is outdoor life and exercise, which may
be taken in any form most congenial to
the individual—riding, walking, field
sports or what not. This is at once
the most natural and often the most
effectual promoter of sleep we can em
ploy.
Active bodily exertion la well known
to be incompatible with the maximum
of intellectual work, and full advantage
should be taken of this fact, The only,
thing to avoid is excessive fatigue. It
is a remarkable fact that a very large
number of distinguished literary and
scientific men have suffered -severely
from megrim, and it would seem that
some of them have succeeded in ridding
themselves of the malady by the adop
tion of some simple hygienic measure.
One, for instance, cured himself by fol
lowing the prescription of a farrier, who
advised him to drink water, eat little
and take exercise. Another was cured
by drinking every day a large quantity
of fresh water, and exchanging a highly
nntiitious regimen for a much-lighter
dietary. A third got rid of liis old en
emy by the same means, and by taking
exercise every day before dinner. There
can b« no doubt that in many cases great
benefit would be derived from a thor
ough change of locality or climate.
Long sea voyages are not infrequently
attended with excellent results, the at
tacks being absent for months at a time.
Unfortunately, these are remedies not
within the reach of all.—Family rhy
tician.
A Deserted Tillage.
Tears ago Mr. Boomer, a young man
from New England, appeared in the then
and still solitary country on the lower
Osage river, in Missouri. Missouri was
a slave country and this was about the
most unprogressive part of it. though
near the capital of the State. The young
New Englander set a thousand men at
work getting out lumber in the forests
that line the stream. He conceived the
idea, too, of founding in the Missouri
woods a Now England village, and stores,
mills and many dwellings arose on a slop
ing hillside on the river qpd the village
was called, alter a cliff on the opposite
shore, Castle Rock. The enterprising
founder built a little church, with the
proviso that any denomination of Chris
tians might occupy it.
All went well and for a time there was
no such village anywhere as Castle Rock.
Then came the war. The people of the
country were divided in sentiment.
Boomer rallied the loyalists of the neigh
borhood and joined a Missouri regiment,
marched away to the southward, rose to
-a lieutenant colonelcy and fell in one of
the battles around Vicksburg. With his
death a blight fell on his ambitious
plans, framed, as his letters published
after his death showed, not in the interest
of business alone, but for the best good
of the people among whom his lot had
been cast. No friendly hand took up his
work. The sound of the ringing ax was
heard no more along the Osage. The
great business he had built up ceased,
and a few years ago the village of Castle
Rock had almost ceased to exist, except
in name. The mills were silent. Dusty
and forlorn weeds encroached upon the
highways and the door of the deserted
church swung idly to and fro. The dream
of a New England village, with its week
day business and its Sunday calm, in the
wilderness had faded away forever.
Culinary Hems.
The stew in the great dish of the
future.
The uncertainty of meal-taking brings
with it a craving for stimulants.
Stews should not be cooked too long,
as then they evaporate valuable par
ticles.
It is impossible to get warm in cold
weathel with undigested food in your
stomach.
Fish should never be boiled, but
steamed, so that no fine properties are dis
solved in the water.
Exclusive diet on peas, beans and
lentils do not develop the brightest and
quickest tone of mind.
Food is only coarse when coarsely
'cooked, as the plainest materials contain
nutritious and dainty elements.
It’s a groat mistake to eat half-raw
steak on a cold winter’s day. Half-raw
meat yields much less nutrition than
well-cooked meat.
Vegetables are the life and soul of
healthy living, and should not be neg
lected at any meaL
If meals are kept irregularly in youth
something creeps up in adult age which
shows diminished vitality.
The want of a worm meal in the mid
dle of the day is, to people who have had
perhaps but a slight breakfast and have
been m the cold winter air, the cause of
rtismtf and want of vitality.
“And in France, you know, Parker,
they speak French. Instead of saying
‘Yes,’ for instance, they say ‘Wee.’ ”
“Lor, miss! How paltry!”
Yous usefulness and your sucoess in
life depend quite as much oh what yon
consent to leave unfinished S» on what
you insist on finishing,
*■’ BUB Of DCT01UUTI05.
A suhutume in lead pencil is ssjegal
•• any other, v. . ^
C Thebe were no hoiwa on this conti
nent at the time of itsdiscovery.
"■ Tn estimated vain* ot railroad prop.'
erh in the United Btales is $4,416,510,
647. “
' The annual expenses of the British
Government are mare than ansAhird
larger than thoeeof the United States,,
Tn pay of privates in the regular
army rans from $156 ($13 a month and
rations, for first two years)' to $21 a
month after twenty years’ service.
The Greet Pyrsmid ooveiwen aiea of
22SZ&USg88Bt&
the length of the sides is 746 feet. The
masonry consists of over82,000,000 enbic
feet.
Thb yonngestof our Presidents at the
time of inauguration rras Grant, who
was 46. The oldest was Harrison, who
was 67. Our military heroes were chiefly
advanced in years, Jackson being 62 and
Taylor 65.
Chablbb Limb, at the age of 20, was
confined in a mad-house few six weeks;
but this tendency to insanity never
manifested itself again. His sister,
Mary, was subject to paroxysms of in
sanity, ana in September, 1786, she
killed her mother.
The first Greek Testament printed on
this continent was published by a noted
old printer—Thomas, of Worcester—in
1800. The Worcester City Library has
a copy of it, and, by an interesting co
incidence, it once belonged to Emerson,
and he has in it his autograph.
• New Guinea is the.only large island
iu the world the interior of which has
not hitherto been explored by Euro
peans. British and Latch navigators
have mapped its periphery, travelers of
nearly every nation of Europe have ex
amined a number of localities near the
coast, and Dr. Meyer has even succeeded
in crossing the narrow neck of land
separating McCuer’s inlet from Geel
vink bay; but of the main body of the
island we know next to nothing..
Envelopes are said to have originated
as follows : A Brighton (England) sta
tioner took a fancy for dressing his show
window with piles of writing paper, ris
ing gradually from the largest to the
smallest size in use; .and, to finish his;
pyramids off nicely, he cut cords to
bring them to a point. Taking these
cards for diminutive note-paper, lady
customers were continually wanting
some of “ that lovely little paper,” and
the stationer found it advantageous to
cut paper to the desired pattern. As
there was no space for addressing the
notelets after they were, folded, he, after
mnoh thought, invented the envelope,
which he cut by the aid of metal plates
made for the purpose. The sale in
creased so rapidly that he was unable to
produce the envelopes fast enough; so
he commissioned a dozen houses to make
them for him, and thus set going an im
portant branch of the manufacturing
atationery trade.
“ The Grey Mare to the Better Horse."
This proverbial saying, instead of be
ing Flemish, is more likely of British
origin, and may have taken its rise from
the following circumstance: A gentle
man having married a lady of considera
ble beauty and fortune, but whose dom
ineering temper aHd disregard of marital
authority on all occasions made his home
wretched, entreated her father to take
back his daughter, and her dowry into
the bargain.
“ Pooh, pooh!” said the old gentleman,
“you know not the world. All woman
govern their husbandB and it is easily
proved. Harness the five horses in my
stable to a cart, in which I will place a
basket oontainiug one hundred eggs;
leave a horse in every house where the
husband is master, and an egg only
where the wife governs. If yon should
find your eggs gone before the horses,
you will think your case is not so uncom
mon; but if your horses are disposed of
first Iwill take my daughter home again
and you may keep her fortune.”
At the first house the son-in-law came
to, he heard the wife in a shrill and angry
voice, bid her husband open the door;
here he left an egg without any inquiry.
He visited a second and a third house
with the same result. The eggs were
nearly all gone when he arrived at the
seat of a gentleman of position in the
country. Having asked for the master,
who happened not to be stirring, he was
ushered into the presence of the lady.
Humbly apologizing for the intrusion,
he put the question of obedience; and on
the lady replying she was proud to obey
her husband in all things the husband
entered the room and confirmed his wife's
words, upon which he was requested to
choose which horse he liked, A block
f elding struck his fancy, but the lady
esired he would choose the gray mare
as more fit for a side-saddle. Notwith
standing the substantial reasons given
why the black horse would be more use
ful, the wife persisted in her claim for
the gray mare.
“What,” said she, “and will you not
take her, then? But I say you shall;
for I am sure the gray mare is much the
better horse.”
“Well, well, my dear;” replied the
husband, “ just as you please, if it must
be so.”
“ Oh!” quoth the gentleman-carter,
“you must now take an egg, and I must
take all my horses back again and en
deavor to live happily with my wife.—
Notes and Queries.
Itrndder Gardner oa the Virtue of Dogs.
“ I was reactin' a newspaper paragraph
de odder day to de effect dat de keepin’
of so many dogs aroun' ’em would alius
keep de cull'd race poo’,” said the old
man as the meeting came to order.
“Let us analyze dat statement a hit. It
am estimated dat de cull’d people of dis
kenfry own an open 2,000,000 dogs. To
feed aese dogs requa'rs at least 1,000,000
pounds of crumbs, scraps, ’tatcr skins,
apple cores, ole bones an* sich, worth
about 2 cents a ponn’. In odder words,
it costs abqnt 15 cents per week to feed
a big dog which am tied up an’ can’t
forage on de nayburs. Now, what am
de companionship of a big yaller dog
wurth to a family ? Would ten times 15
cents per week offset dat? When de
cold wind howls an’ night shuts down
isn’t it wuth a $2 bill to see de ehill’en
gather clus aroun’ de stove to h’ar de
teakettle sing—to watch de fiali snap,
an’ to know dat de dog am takin’ a sweet
nap under de bed ?. Who created de
dog? Why, de Lawd, of course. What
fur? Why, to be a companion to man,
an’ purtect bis pussun an’ property.
Would it look berry well to see a poo
cull’d man git up an’ sniff at de hanelh
work of the Creator?. Shall we refuse
to accept de gifts created fur us ? H de
Lawd didn’t know what He war ’bout
when He made an animile op1 called it n
dog, den adwioe from newspapers am all
right, | have eetuppw! (1st de 2,000,00(
de canseof 6,000,000
chickens not bein’ stole; likewise half s
million cords oi wood; likewise ober
,900,000,000 axes an’saws. ! dean’be
lieve in dog'worship, but I do believe
dat it am our dodty t6 takede gilts of
our Creator an’ make de best passible
nse of dem.; X keep a Scotch terrier to
bite Sootcb bnrelors; an Irish setter to
sot down on Irishmen; an'I has one -or
two odder* who pay dar way by killin’
rats an'bitm', tramps. Ne»'to oe glori
ous sight of seein' a 800-pound man
wheelin’ a ten-pound baby along de
streets, am dat of ssein’ a cull'd man
pacin' his way down town arter a codfish
wid five dogs foUerin’clus sit his heels hi.
ringle
i . Queer food. T*b s*
The Germans of New York here store*
in which specially Teotonio delioaciea
are vended. Dried, or rather smoked,
goose is an odd feature of these. Smoked
geese oome from Pomerania, where
their living originals are raised in vast
flocks. They are plucked for their
down, and then killed, out in sections,
very slightly salted and smoked. Pom
eranian goose, however, coats 25 cents a
pound, and is esteemed a great dainty
among Oerman epicures.
There are a couple of stores here where
Spanish edibles are dealt in. These
consist chiefly of nuts and dried fruit
Dried goatmeat forms a favorite feature.
It is prepared very muoh as our dried
beef is. The Spaniards seem to rely
more on their peculiar methods of oook
ing what they eat than on any peculiar*
ity of the food itself.
The peculiarities of the Frenoh food
stores are beyond scrutiny. The ques
tion with regard to them is not what
they do, but what they do not sell.
There is probably nothing from a section
of boiler-iron or a cobble-stone down to
a bent pin or a broken horseshoe nail
that a Frenchman can not provide a
dressing for to make it appetizing. An
odd feature of the French shops to an
A merican is the -horse-meat department
They all deal in horse-flesh, both fresh,
dried and salted. Horse-flesh sausages,
made, or supposed to be made, in Lyons
and called Lyons sausages, are very pop
ular. Sausages made of a compound of1
asses’flesh, pork and veal also have an
extensive sale. . t ....
Sharks’ fins, dried, are sold in every
Chinese shop in New York. They are
imported from China. There are three
kinds, of which the beet are the fins of
the white shark. These are worth $3.50
a pound. The poorest kind, which is
known as black shark fins, is sold for
half as muoh, and even lees. Shark’s
It is sailed and dried for ^export, and
| looks like a section of whalebone, when
raw, but boiled in water a gelatinous
substance is extracted whioh is esteemed
very savory. A species of stew made of
shark’s fin, dried oysters, rice and pep
pers is a champion Chinese dish. Dried
oysters are ordinary bivalves, extracted
! from the shell, dipped in’sklt andstrutlg
on strings to dry m the sun. They come
from China, and look for all the world
like figs. John Chinaman infinitely
prefers them to the freshest of fresh oy
sters he can buy here. Mussels, oonks
and clams are preserved by him in the
same way.
The famous bird’s nest isalsoafeature
of any1 respectable shop in Mott street.
It is queer stuff to look at, for it rather
resembles gravel than anything vegeta
ble or animal, and tastes a little like
gum arabio. The nests, it seems, are
dried and rubbed into these fragments
in the hand, when they are packed for
transportation. Bird's, nest is worth
from #10 for the commoner variety to
#25 a pound for the best. It is essen
tially a luxury, for a pound of it will
will only make soup for at most forty
people, so that it rates higher than tur
tle soup in the dearest season. Another
dainty, whioh Ah Sin has to have im
ported all the way from China, is dried
cabbage.
Some score or so of contributors to a
French sporting journal dined one day
upon the ham and heart of a lion, killed
by Constant Cheret in Algeria. The
flesh of the lion was found to be par
ticularly firm and close-grained, like
that of ahorse, but although pronounced
palatable, it only achieved what is termed
a tucces d'estime, while the heart, skill
fully prepared with truffles, was unani
mously voted tough and indigestible.—
New York Newt.
The Language of Sweet Sixteen.
‘ ‘ My daughter never uses slang, ” says
some staid pater fumiiias, who is denounc
ing the idea that the American young
lady speaks any other than the purest
college-taught English, and he is sincere
in his belief. But should some ourious
senior, with an eye to the truth, linger,
near this young lady and her school
friends, ten to one this is an exact and
not overdrawn description of what he
would hear.
“ Meet me on the are’ this aft’ and we
will go to the mat’.”
“ No! not this oft’ on the ave’.”
“ Well, good aft’l “
“I had a perfectly mag* tune, and
don’t you forget it.”
“Don’t give me away, Kate.”
“ Well I should softly exclaim.”
“ I should blush to murmur."
“I should remark.”
“I should mutter.”
“ I should smile.”
“ Are you going to the musicals?”
“ You just bet I am.”
“ Have you got your lesson in physi
cal geography?”
“What do you take me for ?”
“I told the Guv’ 1 wanted a new
handkerchief dress.” <
“ Did he tumble to the racket?” *
“ Did he trail ?”
“ Did he catch on ?”
“He forked over, girls, and it's my
treat.” ,
These are the sweet girl graduates who
stand up in the month of roses and read
charming essays on “ The Beal and the
Ideal,” “ Life as it Should Be," “ Be
forms,” and other practical subjects, and
who turn from ..admiring teachers to
whom they have listened with tears in
their mock-serious eyes, to say in a low
aside, “He’s giving us taffy, girls,” and
who christen everything that does not
please them as “ snide.”
This period of slang among school
girls is infectious. They catch it just as
they did tlie-ineasles and whooping
cough at an earlier age, and it runs its
course and leaves them about (uekanu
lessly. Their good, proper mothers and
groddmothers said all thait lives, “ Will
you take a walk ?” . The “ Dare-to-be-a
Daniel” of this age says to her chum,
“Take a^rawl on the ave?”—free
. Presij. -- '
,'' A poob old rheumatio lady said to her
physician: “Oh, doctor, doctor 1 I suf
fer so much with my hands and feet 1 *
“ Be patient, dear madam,” he soothing
ly responded, “ you’d suffer a great dea>
more without them,”
HMBAfMMr-MWWfcr
FnunrpM is inoprppjwWL
F*WBDBt of ■**
FsiKWnuiB has, 24?, eliMM* ■s#*0'^
school age. _. J ?_
North Platt* has organisi! • sp
men’s club; T u r < '•
*‘8b'Al’
Hxbsok report* the that rattlesnake el,'
the season.
There is not an unbroken'
the Platte river.
(Ujujxkt is a new and protniaiog Muta
in Custer county. :rA -'di »*v» 1;
Deeb are being killed, contrary ISfvi
la# in Wayne county. „T
Seeding haa been ooSunenoed ift;th*,
Republican valley..,*; -> --tb’kei.-MJ
L desk was oatight by do$s- fit. wa■
Streets of Fullerton.
Foes marriages '& Bedard oottftty i®
onq deek is worth notice. V -WH*
■■■■ Mxbbtok oountyis reoeiving;a larget^i'i
number of new setters.' , , -.d3e.iWqjfitb£
,: The loss of bridging, in Howard conn
ty is estimated at gl#,000.. 1 '
Ihohas HopmiE, near■
three children from diphtheria*
' JLW.Tubnbb trill btiild animintf*h “A
elevator at Harvard during thesnmmef. - S
' Una.' Soon Knrtn, ■ * North FWK ' *
presented her husband dith triplets ell ' v :
boys. .. , ,. <■.
Tmfs am thlrineri ili'
'the- Oto? ootut&fdifi^,
4nm. ' ;• ' .•>&
the'.
OMW* ; « iraarman
county, baa captured and tamed a '■
beaver. ' ■
'TThb Christiana are erecting a church
at Waterloo^hat will coat #2,800 when
completed./
1 Two wildcats were hilled near River
ton last'wveek. One weighed twefity-""
three pounds.
Mn£ Louis CAanru, erf Knox county, . ■ >;
loatfher way on the prairie at night, and., k,
was chilled to death.
A. white prairie chicken waa killed .
near Ulysses a few days ago. Its akin
will be preserved. ‘ !
Citizens of Bearer Creek, York ooun- * ■
ty, presented a poor neighbor with a ■
yerpfine coiw.
, A. A. Hammond, of Ponca, who was
’badly frozen last winter, has just died
from the resultant lever.
The Farmers’ Alliances of this State ; n
are nearly 200 in number, with a total
membership of alxjut AOOO.
Cattle in Dakota county are ooming '
through in good shape, though at con
siderable expense for feed. • i i
A oaxe of ice ;thrown out upon the
prairie by tlip Loup measured tire feet
three inohes ipjBdwnesa ji;. ,
A family named. ^Lietz left Crete .for,
New Merino recently;' 'Two of the chil- '
dren sickened and died OU the way. : ’>'■•
■ David Pratt, of Greeley comity, tree
drowned in the North Loup, by the cap-.
sizing of a boat. Two others escaped.. , j V;;
The Agent of the Qtsejndians will not
allow anybody to sqnat on the reserva-..
tion before it is placed in the market. > ■ •1
’ Three residents of Missouri, attempt*
iiig to cross the river.to Bulo, were J-c.;
drowned by the upsetting of their boat, a,T-.
Wore has been resumed on the rail- ,;; \
rood grading in Nemaha county, , in,
places where the ground is dry enough. ' ' ‘
The little danghter of G. W. Fisk,
Johnsbn county, was fatally scalded by
overturning upon herself a bucket of hot *! i
water.
Mbs. Sabah Wicks, of Falls City.
was seized with a fainting spell and fell
with her face into a tub oi water and ■ *
browned. - • J
Ora Hunteb, Idavalet has discor
ded two pigsthaT lm3 been tinder th#
mow sixty-five days. They were alive
md kicking. ‘ ,
R. R. Hudson, of Seward, capiureda
vild goose by throwing a pair of boots
icross its neck as it was trying to fly
igainst a strong wind.
A tumor weighing nearly fifty pounds
vos removed from the side of Mrs. S.
kfcKinley, in Dixon county. She died
inder the operation.
The Nebraska City distillery is be
soming remarkable for the-number of
ittle explosions it.gets up. This time it
s the manlxead of the cooker.
Hon. W. H. Somers him, been finally
appointed and confirmed to the place in
;he Beatrice Land Ofliee resigned by
Eton. R. S. Harrington. «
The Congregational Church at Har
rard has received a donation of sixty
volumes from a church of the some do
lomination at Wore, Mass.*
A 10-year-old negro boy, Tommy
3urrv, of North Platte, was killed by
:he discharge of a shot-gun which he.
mas trying to puli away from uuother
i Ml!
The corn crop in the Elkhom valley
being rapidly husked, and is reported
i be iu good condition, notwithstanding
le snow and wet to which it has been
exposed.
A youno Bohemian couple, living near
Glencoe,-met with a peculiar experience
during the last snow-storm. They were
living in a little shanty under the hill,
which was covered in a drift, and the
husband dug his way out and went over
to one of the neighbors. Another storm
coming up, he waa unable to find his
way back, as nothing of the house could
be seen. It was throe days before they
could find the house, which was finally
done by “sounding” with a pole.—Fre
mont Herald.
Rats and Mice in Rills.
A large cotton-spinner has a Arm con
viction that many unexplained fires in
mills owe their origin to rats and mioe
which infest them. Those vermin carry
into their holes and under the floorings
considerable quantities of waste, which >
only awaits the development of favora
ble conditions to burst into flames.
Accordingly, he has for many years past
done all he could to keep his premises
clear from them. The means that he
takes to accomplish this is to stop up all
holes that can be discovered, and to
keep the rooms clear of nutriment.
Every evening, or other stated period,
it is the duty of one of the day men to
go round the rooms and gather up the
bread and butter, dried crusts and oth
er food from the windows, mulehouses
and floors, or wherever he can find any.
This is utilized in the maintenance of
stooks of poultry, and he states that he
has but little occasion to provide the '
latter with any other supply. He thus :
gets abundance of eggs for nothing, and
adds to the security of his establish
ment.
A histobt almost as sad and romantio , ,t
as that of Itpmee and Juliet is attached
to Green Mount, tho well known ceme
tery at Baltimore, Md. The property
was once owned by John Oliver, a
wealthy English merchant. His only
child, a beautiful girl of twenty, was
loved by a young man whose only unfit
ness to become her husband lay in the
fact that a personal feud existed between
> him and the girl’s stem father. They
met clandestinely and planned an elope
ment The father found it out, and gave
orders to his servant to patrol the grounds
by night and shoot all trespassers. Dis
guised in man’s clothing, the girl at
tempted to esoape, and was shot dead at
the gate. Grief stricken, her father
erected a mausoleum upon the spot, and .
deeded the entire property to the city for
a cemetery.
In the truest and deepest sense all life
is a providenoe—that is, a wise forsoeiug
and provision for the best good of every
soul th at is willing to be guided.