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VOLUME VII. NUMBEfl * “
The Eifiel tower comes high. It
J«id 425 peF cent, to ite stockholders.
There are over 11,000 millionaires in
‘the United States, according to a recent
estimate.
The Sioux are to bo paid $14,000,000,
or about a dollar and a quarter an acre for
,their lands._
The example of capital punishment is
certainly effective in one way. The man
who is hanged never commits another
murder.
Kerosene makes up about one-half the
stuff we sell to Japan. Great Britain sells
five limes as much merchandise there as
we do. We buy #16,000,000 worth of
teas and silks from that country. Steam
ship lines are to be established on the
Pacific coast to run to Japanese ports.
Since the introduction of mastless ships
8onfe sort of a gymnasium has been rec
.Ognized as a necessity for providing the
seamen with the proper ampunt of cxer
cise, formerly found in the work aloft.
Each war-ship will now have the needed
arrahgements. .*
The Austrian Government, which con¬
trols the tobacco trade, made a great
financial loss by raising the pricp of cigars.
in Vienna alone So,000,000 fewer tig ars
have been sol4, with a corresponding in¬
crease in the consumption of cigarettes
and pipes. In all the loss amounted to
710,000-florins.
A European savant says th*at life may
be indifinitely prolonged by regularly
drinking the juice of the lemon. And
another European savant, who knows just
us much—or as little—says that the sur¬
est way to shorten life is to drink lemon
juice. Life would be a very plain and
sjpiple problem if it were not for the ad¬
vice of the wise men. '
The Chicago Tribune nates that on a
recent Sunday able sermons were preached
bn such subjects as: “The Perils of Immi¬
gration,” “Rum’s Everlasting Curse,’
“The.Dolan Double Tragedy,” “From
Turkey to Japan,” “The Gambler’s
Trap,” “The Male. Gossip,” “Oriental
Despotism,” “Unconvicted Felons, ” 1 ‘In
fluence of Heredity on Relr’gious Train¬
ing” and “What I Saw in Mexico.” Aud
it wonders why no sermons on Biblical
topics were preached. *
The list of summary punishments in¬
flicted in the discipline of the British
navy during the year 1887 aggregated
49,643 cases. Of these thirty-nine were
discharged as objectiouable qnd 263 boys
were punished by the administration of
the birch rod; sentences of imprisonment
for short periods were passed in 1489
cases, and 2711 were relegated to the
cells. The, remainder were subjected„to
minor punishments proportioned to the
nature of the offense committed.
Peru isdaking Ter place among the
civilized countries of the world. Arrange-'
ments are being perfected by which her
foreign indebtedness is being placed on a
living basis, such that not only shall the
bondholders be secured, but the Govern¬
ment be released from undue pressure
and be left free to develop the country’s
resources. Little by little South Amer¬
ica is coining into line, and will, ere
many years, be a positive influence in¬
stead of a blank in the world’s progress.
A San Francisco newspaper thinks
that $12,000,000 is yearly “drained” by
the Chinese through various channels
from a city of 300,000 inhabitants. It
figures this way: There are 40,000
Chinese in San Francisco. These per¬
sons earn at least one dollar a. day each
over and above their board. That is
$40,000 a day, $1,040,000 a month of
twenty-six days, and over $12,000,000 a
year. Most of this money, it thinks,
goes directly or indirectly to China,never
to return.
There has been a considerable decline
in the volume of immigration into the
United States during the last fiscal year,
the number arriving being 438,614, as
against 539,815 during the fiscal year
1888, a decrease of 101,201. This de¬
cline was mainly in arrivals from the
following named countries: From Great
Britain and Ireland, a decrease of 27,-
607; from Italy, 26,229; from Norway
and Sweden, 24,196; froth Austria
Hungary, 11,637, and from Germany,
10,133. .
According to the Boston Globe it is
not rash to predict that before many
years there will be more money invested
in electricity in the United States than in
railroads. It is roughly estimated that
there are already invested in electrica
contrivances in this country over $600,
000,000, and that over $80,000,000
have been invested within a year. We
have already upward of eighty-five elec¬
trical railways in operation, and nearly
one hundred are reported to be in pro¬
cess of construction. Over 200,000
arc lights and 2,600,000 incandescent
lamps blazing every night, and there m
8650 central electric 'stations generating
power end Ugbt,
— TO THE OK = i ,- COUNTY.
GOOD R
j ,
MTHBg, world r On the window seat
■ iced her two little timid feet;
steRfisiisair
The clambering vines hung low and green
Round the sunniest curls that e’er were seen,
ADd With ■*> •
And bads “Good morning” to all the world.
“Good morning, world,” and the great world
Each rustling heard; jp ^
tree, and each ringing bird.
The dancing flowers ahd the fields of gras* ”
Nodded and waved at the little lass; ‘
And Listened the and far-off beamed hills and the sky overheads}
as the word
And the old sun lifted his head
“Good morning, world!”
child!”
—Wo 1 Journal;
FOLLOWED,
I was acting as Paymasrer and Chief
Commissary Clerk forta fftj of grade
contractors upon the Noraw a road,
which was then pushing throug ;North
ern Nebraska into the adjacent ' 7S r
of Wyoming. -
We were doing some heavy
and rock work, aud with a large force
order were pushing the work day aud night in
to get out of the way of the track,
which had then advanced to a point with¬
in a day’s ride of us.
.We had let pay-day slip by without
paying the men, and hoped to satisfy
them by the issue of time checks until
the track should overtake us, and our
money could come to us with little risk
on the construction train. But, three or
four days Bfter “paying off” time, some
of the men began to grow suspicious and
until t* grumble, aiyl threatened to quit work
their checks were cashed; They
Were afraid we might somehow slip up
on them and they wouldn’t get their
money.
As we were in desperate need of every
available hand,, it was necessarv that
the ' men should be satisfied. " So
it was determined that I should go to
Chadron, our supply base and banking
point, and bring up enough money to
pay the men their last month’s wages,
which amounted to about four thousand
dollars. •
I decided to go alone. I set out that
night on horseback, and .1 reached the
1 ‘end of track” at Crawford siding the
next at morning neigboring in time to leave my horse
a ranch corral, and get
aboard a supply train which had just
unloaded, and was now going back.
At Chadron the supply store of the
main contractor,, a huge, roughly built
shed, stood at a side track about forty
rodsJhsfm.tiiejaain-ttreet Of the town.
Here I was accustomed to order supplies,
and get drafts for money from the book¬
keeper from time to time.
That morning, after finishing tny busi¬
ness with the supply department, I went
to the book-keeper to procure a draft. A
crowd of railroad laborers were waiting
before his window to get their time
checks cashed, or secure passes to go up
or down the road. I noticed that two
of these men were better dressed,than
the others, but thought nothing of the
circumstance.
- I awaited my turn at the window, and
handed the book-keeper a slip of paper
on wMeh was written, 1 ‘Four thousand
three hundred and forty-seven dollars
and fifty cents, Pay Roll—Rodney aud
Curtis,” He made me a draft for the
amount thrust named, folded it carelessly,
it through the window, and took
the receipt wliich I had just written, and
then turned to the next man.
As I left the store I passed the two men
whom I had noticed at the window, and
it struck me, upon a more attentive view,
that they were rather sharpers than work¬
ingmen, although I had seen them cash
two time-checks, and get passes for some
point up the road. The construction train
did not leave until 3 o’clock that after¬
noon, and I lounged upon the shady stoop
of the Chadron House watching the
passers-by and chatting with the landlord,
Who was an old acquaintance of mine
when I lived in the East. I had a pleas¬
ant dinner with him, and after the meal
was finished, I walked across the square
to Lake & Haley’s Bank, at the corner of
the two principal streets of the town,
where I cashed the draft.
The bills I received I stuffed into vari¬
ous side pockets of my clothes, and stowed
a sack of silver change into a small leather
“grip” which I carried in mv hand.
I heard a locomotive whistle and, turn¬
ing walked quickly out of the bauk. As
I reached the sidewalk, I was startled to
see the two men who had before attracted
my notice step rather hastily away
from the sidewalk in front of the bank
windows,- and walk across the street. hatched
I wa@ satisfied that they had
me as I cashed mv draft. bf My suspicious
were thoroughly aroused this circuin
stance, and when, an hour later, I
stepped into the caboose of the construe
tion train, and discovered the men loung
ing their upon two Cracker barrels smoking
pipes, it did not need their evident
avoidance of the direct stare I gave them,
the moment I entered, to convince me
that they were after me.
I now heartily berated myself for not
having exercised greater caution while at
Chadron. I should have waited until I
could see the bookkeeper alone before I
obtained mv check, and should have had
my cash made up by the clerk at the bank,
and brought to my room at the hotel, as
might easily have been done. But it is
easy enough, after you have done a fool
ish thing, to think how much better you
mighthave managed it.
While I sat upon one of the hand
benches in the caboose, with iny “grip”
k-ing-beneath the seat. I considered how
1 should dodge the two fellows at Craw
ford. There was no danger that 1 should
be robbed on the train, as there were at
•least twentyjiasseugers on board. PreS
eatly one of the men sauntered up to my
seat, sat down by we, and began-to
talk, *
“See?" said be, “You're with Rodney
Curtis, yeh. one 0 ’ their fore
—
FRIDAY, NOV JER 1, 1839.
thelr employment.
“PaulV I’, goto’ up the rood lookin’
-£»$“& badly, especially sw. «. Could -■■■
give dollars good strikers.
you two a day,
works part of the night j if you
Then, as un cerned# a* I could, I
pajbout bur work, and
to find our headquar
ters. J m I should leave Craw
>yd after breadefast the next morning on
orseback, and that he and his partner
auld undoubtedly find a freight wagon
lere on which to take passage for our
After some further conversation with
the man—a young-looking, wiry, dark¬
faced fellow—he went over to talk to his
“pard,” and no doubt they congratulated
themselves on his success in throwing me
off my guard.
On piy arrival at Crawford I went to
the company’s tent, where food and other
supplies trains brought on -the construction
were stored until they could be
shipped forward by wagon to points
where our forces were at work. There t
explained the situation to the two clerks
in charge of the tent, and said that I
wished to spend the night with them,
I was armed with a good “six-shooter,”
and the clerks had each a light Winches¬
ter rifle. They said we could guard the
money without trouble that night, and it
was arranged that I should start for the
grading camp at three o’clock the next
morning. By leaving at so early an hour
I believed that I could baffle pursuit by
any robbers who might have • conspired
to follow me.
My pony—a tough Oregon half-breed
—was picketed that evening heMnd the
supply tent, and the clerks and I took
turns in sitting on guard at the opening
of the tent. I saw nothing of the two
“strikers” after we left the train, and no
suspicious person approached the tent
that night. I shifted the silver from my
“grip” into a pair of saddle-bags, and,
armed with my revolver and a borrowed
Winchester rifle and a belt of cartridges,
mounted my pony at three o’clock the
next morning to complete my journey.
Day was just breaking when I came to
the fork of the trail at Fort Robinson,
two miles out from Crawford riding,
Both routes led to the grading camp—
one trail lay through White River canon
and the other led to my destination by
way of Driftwood. One of these routes
I must take, and as the men who were
“shadowing me believed that I would
proceed by way of Driftwood I chose the
White River canon route, a rough, new
trail that for seventeen miles led through
a tumbled, rocky gorge or canon m the
bottom of which rippled merrily the little
streamlet that is the beginning of the
IV hite River.
I urged,my pony at a good pace until,
after sunrise, I passed a camp of freight¬
ers who were preparing their breakfast,
and later met several w^;ons on the
move, which relieved ttyt loneliness of
my ride and caused me to feel more se
cure. As the morning was hot and op
pressive I now proceeded more slowly.
About half an hour after meeting the
freighters I halted at one of the ntimer
ous creek crossings, and dismounted to
drink and to eat a part of the lunch ot
crackers and dried beef which I had
brought from the commissary tent. As
I had no cup I stretched myself out upon
the rocks at the edge of the current, and
buried my nose in the cool water of the
spring-fed stream;
As I lay drinking, v. ith my head just
above the water, a distant sound of
hsrses’ hoofs struck on my ear. I ceased
to di-ink, listened intently, and soon
heard distinctly the noise of horsemen
coming rapidly up to the canon.
I sprang to my feet in alarm. My first
impulse was to mount my pony aud apply
the spurs, but as his gait, a racking gal
lop, was a very slow one, I came to the
sudden conclusion to dodge into the
brush and let the horsemen, whoever they box! I
were, go by. There were a few
alder-trees and several clusters of plum
bush close ueder the rocks on the right,
I grasped the bronco’s rein, and led him j
in behind the thickest of the thorn and ;
tied him. • <
I had little time to think or act before
the horsemen came-up at a gallop. I
r‘aml on, and rcovered discovered thaTtoere that there ”ere‘S were six
riders, and that the two strikers were in
the lead. They passed my hiding-place
without an apparent suspicion that I wus
concealed there, and, though still much
alarmed, I was congratulating myself that
I had outwitted them when, just as they
rode into the water, my pony lifted up
his head and uttered a shriii, inquiring
whinny.
The party instantly halted. Every
rider turned his face eagerly in my
direction, and a half-dozen rifles and re
volvers action. were My jerked whinnied into readiness again before for
pony
I could get a grip upon his muzzle, and, I
felt that unless some unexpectedly fortu
nil te circumstance intervened 1 should
lose the money an,^ determined, probably my villain- life,
The horsemen were
ous-looking men, an<Las I glanced about
1 sa « r they had. a great advantage over
me. The scattered patches of pine scrub
011 the steep bare sides of the gorge
offered me but little shelter for a retreat,
and the bushes behind which I stood
bullets. were hut a At slight second protection whinny against of heavy j i
a my
horse the men dismounted and stood be-j
hind their animals. j
“He’s in there, sure,” I heard one of j
them say. “Spread out, boys, an’ let’s ;
surround them bushes.” - ;
'Without waiting to hear any more I ;
thrust the Winchester through the tops .
of a plum bush and fired at the nearest j
horse, aiming at its bodV back of the |
shoulder. The animal went down with
a back groan, with and fierce the man oath. behind it sprang j j
a
My only hope now lay in swift action ■
and certain aim. A quick motion of the j
lever reloaded and cocked my Win
Chester, and almost before the horse had j
fallen to the ground I had aimed and for! j
tired at the fellow ft* ho turned to run
cover,
3&2R and a raa fire
upon the other h rees The
robbers retutned . few taef
fectual spots and t ten u in flight.
When I had firet the
horses which emptied mj repeating rifle, three
lay on tlml orders of the cahon at
various distances away, and one man
toward with a broken leg'was dragging himself
the shel of the creek bank,
His companions d fled down the canon,
two on foot ahd e others on horseback,
Three or four of eir shots bad struct in
the brush about !, but none had hit
me.
The sudden, i fierce determination
which had seized, upon me, and the
swift, effective firing which followed,
were as much a surprise to myself as they
could have been to the. “road agents,”
who no doubt believed there was more
than one shooter behind the bushes that
sheltered me. I (hired not stop to look
after the wounded, man, who undoubted¬
ly would have fired at me if I had ap¬
proached Mm. Mounting my pony and
keeping as much as possible under cover
of bushes, I rode my animal at his best
speed up the canon.
About five miles from the scene of the
shooting I came upon a graders' camp,
and sent some ol fl-» men to look after
the wounded robber and to secure the
saddles of the fallen horses.
I afterward learned that they got the
saddles- but could find nothing of the
man.— Ymtih's Companion.
—
The Prince of Montenegro.
The palace of this absolute monarch.
says David Ker, in Harper’s Bazar , was a
meek little wMtewashed cottage with
green shutters, bnt the giant guards at
its door—one blaze of crimson and gold
and wMte from head to foot—were wor
thy of Napoleon Mmself. The Captain
was fully seven feet Mgh, his men But
little less; and as they clashed-their gfit
tering swords over our heads with a
hoarse shout of welcome, I began to un
derstand how this little eagle’s nest had
defied aU Turkey for lour hundred years.
On the map of Europe Montenegro is a
mere speek, recalling the French envoy’s
biting answer to a microscopic German
Grand Duke, who bade him quit his do
minions witMu twenty-four hours: “If
your Highness ofctite will take the trouble to
look out window, you will see me
crossing yourfirontier in less than
minutes. ” Bui no
which, with 100,000 men, has go sue
cessfullv harrassed ail empire with 40f
000,000 as fully to be^ shouqjbe pafeJhe pithy
national saying, “Lest we strait
ened, God gave us the Turk. weWriust
Passing on into the house, French
time to notice the neat fundtore
of the inner parlor, and its full kmgth
portraits and of the Princess of Montenegro
Ire r children, when a man .entered,
v.-ho needed no introduction to
him to us as no. other than the
himself. * pp
.
Like nearly aii of the greatest men
whom I hate ever met, this famous leader
owed little to mere external marks of.
distinction. His giant stature Wd Her
culean frame, though dwarfing ns into
absolute nothingness, were fully equaled
by many of his stalwart subjects; and his
dress was that of an ordinary Montene
grin warrior—snow-white tunic open in
front, crimson vest richly-embroidered
with gold, partly colored sash around the
waist, loose blue knickerbockers, white
stockings, and close fitting sandals-—the
only difference being that he carried no
weapon, and wore a small Greek cross of
silver on his neck. But the strong hand
some features, with their bold martial
air, the firm lips and massive jaw, the
dark hair and soldier-like mustache, the
large fieiy eyes, now melting into tender
ness and now-flashing like a drawn sword,
and, above all, the look of calm dignity
natural to one whose lightest word was
implicitly obeyed—all combined to
stamp Nikita Petfoviteli as a man whom
no change of fortune could make one
whit Jess or greater than he was.
PorUble Boats.
0 ue field of monopolv, about which
the world at Urge knows little, savs
Blakely Hall, in Once-a-Week, has been
very rapidly filled up of late and the de
velopmeuts are going on constantly. I
refer boats. to the construction who have of portable
People done anv shoot- '
^ i “ n0,t ^ rn T °f tWs
ol . who have gone after heavy game in
the extreme northwest know Whatit is to
find themselves separated from the stream
j n which they tie paddling by a strip of
hillv ground jast jiqross which is a bit of
water that may lead to almost anything
that is attractive. To the ordinary canoe
or boat, the transit across the land is an
impossibility with the means usually at
hand. This jjircdicament has been met.
by the manufacture of cloth, rubber and
canvass boats which may be packed up
into square boxes, and shipped by ex¬
press, carried! on the shoulders of men or
packed on a mule’s back with equal faeil
ity. A boat fourteen feet long may be
packed in the space occupied by an ordi¬
nary trunk, and this space includes abso¬
lutely everything; for the oars and pad¬
dles are jointed so that they may be
shortened to one-quarter their length,
tftd every detail of the little craft is per¬
fect. The boats are neither cranky nor
soggy in the water and the result of brisk
competition has been the turning out of a
sort of craft that Stanley used to wish
for during his first exploration of Africa,
Sport in Scotland,
pile value to Scotland of the opportu
nities for eports is very large. The deer
forests, of which there are 109, covering
3000 square miles of laud useless for ag
rieulture, rent for $500,000 aunually.
About $62,000 of this goes to the local
taxes. If any forest fails to be rented
the whole neighborhood feels it greatly
the diminished amount of money ox¬
pended there. The grouse moors rent
f ov $2,200,000. and pay $225,000 in
taxes. Most salmon rivers are let with
the moors, but some are routed alone,
and add a considerable sum to the total
pheady *-----—■ given.
The number of locomotive* in th*
United state* w now oyw #9,000,
WIDGET OF FUN.
™Tgm
V SOURCES. ^
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Hi* Cboic
Had There—Making
Etc.. Etc.
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To hold tiff fair right hwe.” j
—Lift . j
sojffcranfs nr a jsahe. |
_____—“Why Friend do you call your insti
tution ‘The Healthcry’ when you h^veso
“off DSi-Because I should
sftssse , “ 1 -r “ Tta
HAD BEEN THERE.
Mrs. Blotterwiek—“Joshua, there was
» (ramp here this afternoon, and he
looked so hungry that I gave him a large
piece of gooseberry pie. I wonder how
Blottenck ,, n .°7 (gloomily) . .. . -T . _ know how .
he feels. I had a piece erf that me at
dinner, you remember ,-DroU* JTaoa
zlne ’
suinie.BiriD fboozeus.
Tucker—-“I saw your son in the eoun
try to-day, Parker. He had his camera
with Mm, I believe.' •
Parker—“Yes, he went out to take
some views, I suppose. Was he makii%
good progress?”
Tucker—“Y'ou bet he was; and dust %
too. Somebody’s red bull was after Mm.
— Time.”
- ;
how long, oh. how long!
Boarding House Jones^rtlf«Otr^ou Mistress {at
d#v ^ d i I1 nen^“Mr.
cat Kome rhie kf p^-* - ;
Joneg {who fifteen mifluISS
trying to carrel leg)-—“Thanks, I never | !
work .bn Sundav ’__ .”—Lire ’
4 ;
jT vr/knd no i ovcfh '■J r
,• . Ke si ;
■ ^ oar r?®T’ ^
“T.1' Jg* y 1<m 8 er ,,
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<5n t "TP 08 ?."“ 40 for * !
, Le
g' ve me or 1 . jo t/er.
No one lived the&e.
Book Agent—“Can you tell me, sir,
who lives in tMs house? ’
Buggips—(who is standing outside his
boardinghouse door)—‘-No one lives in
the house, my friend, but a number- of
poor creatures, including myself, drag
out a miserable existence within its
walls. —Hotel Mail.
THE ADVANCED METHOD.
First Omaha of‘The Miss—“I’m so glad you
like the story Phantom Mistg* or
the Shadow of a Sound. ’ How far have
you gotten with it?” \
Second Omaha Miss-i-H’ve read the
last three chapters and a Tittle in the mid
dle of the book.”
First Omaha Miss—• : ‘W*U, you will be
charmed when you read the opening of
the story.”— Omaha World-Herald.
COULD recommend it.
Jobson (to his druggist)—“We have
just finished the first bottle of Dr.
Helpem’s Wonderful Relief.”
Druo-o-ist—“Well?”
Jobson—“It has deprived mv wife of
‘
the power of speech.”
Druggist (alarmed)—“Great ' heavens!
„ c t
Jobson—-“No, sir, I want a bottle for
my mother-in-law.” — Brake's Maga¬
zine.
HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE.
A nephew . to Ins old and wealthy uncle:
■•I am desperate and unless you send me
two thousand dollars by this evening 1
shall take my life: by midnight I shall be
no more.”
Reply of the Uncle “Yours of this
date received. When, some time ago.
V ou sent fsent me a missive of similar imnort
and voumy revolver, what did vou
'
J®' ^^ v,,., ’ „ •“ t 1 1 ^
A LONG SEARCH.
Tired YVife—“William, I wish you'd
bring up a scuttle of coal. ”
Husband—“There, that's the wav with
women; always expecting a man to do
half a dozen things at once. Can t you
see I'm busy?”
“You didn't seem to be doiug any
thing except rummaging around.
haren’t asked you to do anything for
about three weeks, and then 1 told you
4 “ _ like to have the legs of my sewing
chair made shorter.
“Weil, I’m looking for the _
saw. —
Exchange.
A CHANGE OF SENTIMENT.
Miss Mabeile Hartless (reading letter)
—“Why. mamma, this letter is from
Cousin Fred, and he says ' that Uncle
David Whyte is dead.” ” |
Mrs Hartless—“He is, ehi Well, it’s
a small loss. The stingiest old skinflint
on earth! I nevercould endure the man!”
Mabelle—“But. mamma, just listen—
he had his life insured for ten thousand
dollars in our favor’.”
Mrs. Hartiess—“He did!” It can’t be
—dear, good old soul that he was! \
always knew he was kind at heart. Ten
thousand dollars! We must go into
mourning at once!”— Drake's Magazine.
WHAT SHE WANTED.
‘ ‘Pa, do you know that this is my
eighteenth birthday?”
'“Yes, my dear.”
“Pa, I want you to do me a great favor
on my birthday,” and the beautiful girl
buried heT glowing face in the paternal
'
bosom.
“Aud what ti tlm favor my little girl
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• Pa, you have infleunce with the ves
try, haven’t you?”
from right infrtfnt of our gate.”
, ffaoa xt Yiaa that the fond father -ktS'”
^ »I teU faf friend, Tf have
btfeineas you, thStWfc” in, yon
no in said Theodore
one day to a fat map ’> in a dinghy
on the Thames.
“No business in this boat. Sir? What
d’ye mean?” ’’ responded
“f mean what I *ay, coolly
Hook. “You have no business In it,
and I will prove it.’ r |
“I think, sir, you will prove no #ueh
*»««;” ““f the ‘ iPe * te ®‘
a ** *■ tew, sir. this u my own
•-That's it,” said Hook. *■lfefj|
TOO FRESH.
Jones was sitting on the front
an ^ Austin mansion one night,
Us sweethe4rt * come
k „ ew what timft to come? .Jones
didn't wish to ring ^ks. the bell ' fear of
aUrmi S the oW
Prese ntl he heard the door open, and
the old mnttered about
somebody’s being “too
“Did you address tourself t., mci”
asked Jones, springtogup ' with a flash
ing ‘-No,” eve. »
replied die old gentleman,
the mildly, “I waaipeaking of the paint on
steps. It yf&s put there oalv this af
ternoon.”
Jones found with dismay that the
statement was true, and it only required
aboufkwo minutes for him to reach Iris
room and’soap and water.— Texas
into. .-•"'LA* '*’
The D * ffl ** Steer '
According to George Wilson, a Wyo- of
sting cowboy, says a correspondent
the New York Sun, there has’ roamed bn
tte ranges adjacent to the Platt and the
Laramie Rivers for these many years a
mastodon wild steer whose aggressive
ness and power make Mm the dread of
every round-up outfit. This combative
beef tiears not a brand, but no “rustler”
'
dare appropriate Mm.
*-The demon steer,” as the pugnacious
briite is called, knows no fear, and with
lowered head, glistening eyes and son«r
ous bellow will charge upon* anything
in his course. Time upon time has he
been rounded up with his comparatively
docile companions, but he invariably
rushes past the line of riders as if no
obstruction to his flight existed,
Onee an outfit determined to effect the
capture of the Mg fellow, but after he
Rad gored two horses and scared the wite
half a dozen riders the undertaking
was abandoned.
This prairie terror only kst season, in
.a fit of rage at those who dared intrude
on the peaceful solitude of the range,
charged at midday into a camp, creating
,l !«nic to wMeh was ideal quietness the
clatter incident to the stampede of the
fabled bull in the imaginary cMna shop,
was a grand scattering of equip
age and a disordered flight of the diners.
° De of latter was so incensad that^
contrary to all orders, he sent a six
shooter ball after the massive steer, but
the missile flew wide of ita mart,
Wilson asserts that he will undertake
prove tMt the “demcm steer’Mlled a
^ bear ^ 3n 8 on toe ^ Sabylle
alt thelr ( ' anill Y belongings that Demon
.
con T' er in the T^riroiy.
The combat with the , bear was a terrible
aff;Ur Brum was forced to the defen
from f the start, and for a. tune
the pW^ily fighting met steer, the jarring fearful the onslaughfe great form of
j with blows from his paws. The activity
of the steer was marvelous. He played
around his antagonist as the sparrer an
novs his foe, and at nearlv every charge
r!)u ] ou & sharp horns into the blood*
matted sides of the bear with the wicked
*-swisli " of the effective sword thrust,
Wilson thinks the - demon steer” will
die of old age. The man who attempts
his capture takes his life in his hands,
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Some Data About Socialism.
’
Socialism was known in ancient Rome
under the name of the Gracchian move
meat. Its tendencies Mjritffe were forgotten
during the brought into Ages, general but notice were re- by
vived and
Noei Babeufiu 1794. His doctrine was
••the equality of all French citizens be
. fore the law.' That there shall be no
differences but those of age and
sex. All men have nearly the same fac
ulties and the same needs; they-ought,
consequently, to have the same education
and the same food.” Before this prinei
j,] e the idea of personsal property disap
peared, and it became the duty of the
Government, its highest function, to reg
ulate the application of labor, and to dis- of
tribute its funds. After the death
Babeuf, nothing was beard of his system
until 1834, when Buanorotti attempted
its propagation. Y r ain attempts were
made in France on a small scale to carry
out the principles of Socialism under va
rious names, such as St. Simonianism
and Fourierism; but ail resulted in fail
ure. Socialism holds an intermediate
position between pure Communism and
simple co operation. Unlike Commu-
11 ism, it does not advocate the absolute
abolition of property, but aims simply at
a more just and equitable distribution of
it .—Boston Cultivator.
Slaughter of Swallows.
The Zoological Society, of France, has
noticed with alarm that the swallows re
turning from Africa have this year
avoided their accustomed landing-places
aud have flown to other parts of Europe,
cast or west, evidently to avoid the many
traps set for them oh the low-lying French
coast. The slaughter been of the birds for for
Parisian milliners has enormous
several years,
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Au •lootrloal motor cur-works is to
ire established at New Orleans,
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, ODER THAN V
,
*
Dear
Holding ob to dreary life to
be free; Z$sSr
a tender esrvwg
lift that all werid^t f
yourselves, the
may brerf, such -ghte to ted ^
Dear little pale Kpe, where no Other’s
„ kieses f
Leave the print of mother k>W„to V* sink
into the heart;
tips that could not tril me aught ofl
hood’s tiny blisses,
Cry Svorld aloud your loneliness, to*
may start,
That all the world of pleasant
fike yours may start.
^ welghte d down
OpJ^tyday to ills that harder'
- a.
Ix»k reproach that all the world may
. to know and care.
Dear little bent forms, in your narrow alley
Hidden from the Searching sun that lon«
: to make writ, k
you
Forms that never ran and leaped in grassy
groves and valleys, \
Stand before a startled world that knows ’
not where you dwell,
That all the world may shudder at the
r places where you dwell.
— Mari/ Plummer .'
PITH ASD POINT.
A string of lies—Tarn.
Downhearted—The pillow.
A dog is a good sailor, yet he aban¬
dons Ms baric when he goes under the
water.
A Niagara guide is called “Pride.” be
cause he goeth before a fall.— Drake's
Magazine.
If some men were half as big as they
tMnk they are the world would have to
be enlarged. *
The prudent fanner husbands Ms corn,
wMeh is unkind, as corn is very apt to be
hen-pecked.
#60,000 Baldwin, tjie balloonist, has made
by his parachute descents in
England. That’s what may be called
dropping into a fortune.
Short Chap—“Do you think that 5
man can live too long?” Tall FSllow—
“Indeed I do. I'm six feet six and am
always smashing my Mgh hat.”
Judge—“Describe assaulting the man whom you
saw the complainant.” Police¬
man—“He was a little, insignificant—
looking creature, about your size, yoi
Honor.”
"“Healthy f in our town? I should thin
so We have only had one funeral foi
ten years, and that was the doctor, who
literally starved to death .”—Fhegende
Blaetter.
“Been on your vacation?” “No.
Why?” “I saw you riding home in a
hack the other day, and thought. likely
you had just returned.” “Do you Sup
pose I could -have afforded to ride home
in a hack if I had been on my vacation?”
—Lowell Citizen.
A tMef who broke into London *»
?
house some mornings ago was f reed to
hide in the music room, and for four
hours compelled to hear the various mem¬
bers of the family take piano lessons.
Then he came from Ms concealment and
begged to be taken to a police station.
Invention has made it possible, accord¬
ing to an exchange, to walk as well With
artificial legs as with real ones. Ah, what
an immensity of rheumatism is thus taken
out of a suffering world! And when in¬
vention shall supply the wooden in place
of the genuine head what agony of neu¬
ralgia will be swept away Judge.
“Charley stayed pretty latejast night,
didn’t he, Lil?” asked sifter Kate the
next morning. “Yes,” sajd Lil, sleepily;
“we were trying the {figs in the clover
puzzle till nearly II “o’clock.” “And
did you get the pigs in the pen, Lil?”
asked Kate, eagerly. “No, we didn’t;
but I got my finger in this solitaire dia¬
mond ring .”—London Bare Bift
Forests Increasing.
Illinois is probably the only 8cate in the
Union in which forest trees are increas¬
ing, but here the gain is great, says a
writer in the Chicago Herald. The vast
level plains that were onee called ‘ ‘tree¬
less prairies” are now dotted with beauti¬
ful groves in wMeh song, birds congre¬
gate and raise their young. Many towns
in which all the buildings were conspicu¬
ous for a distance of twenty miles are
now completely hidden by trees. On a
great number of farms the rows of trees
that were planted to serve extended as protection till they
against the wind have
occupy several rods of ground. Small
natural groves that were prO l \‘ted from
prairie fires have extended oh. each side
till they now coyer many acres. In several
counties there are artificial forests of con¬
siderable extent.
The increase , of forest trees in Illinois
is due to several causes. tipF coal is
cheap, and it has been generally planted used in Il¬ as
fuel More hedges were
linois than in any othff of the States.
Barbed wire wasyUvented and first
brought into use h<V J. These two sub¬
stitutes for boards-and rails in makin of
farm fences have saved a vast amount
lumber.
The President of France.
s Says a correspondent, speaking of is
President Carnot, of France; “He
dressed with notable care. Good taste
as well as good tailoring characterize*
Ms shapely figure. The^ short coat in
„closes a slim but compact figure. His legs.
as he strides a spirted horse, are those of
a man of quiclj-^rid.easy digestion; there
is no sugge^tibnorg^ut in the calves. His
face is a studyrin bUck and white. The
skiu is palp, almost transparent, The
beard and ‘inflstaebe, both carefully
trimrnp8i *e even, The nose, slightly de
aq^fline. would^e Romsi; but lor a
M dwtstt wef whicb the entire
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