The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 21, 1887, Page 12

BAAR ¥ | Which require that at least one half of the Capital Stock be paid up in Cash. This Company always stand ready to make the Very Lowest Rate Real Estate Loans, On Bates County Land. Makes and certifies Abstracts of Title To any Land «1 Town Lots in Bates County. Call on ‘Managers, west side square, Butler, Mo. ~ PC. FU KERSON OR GEO. CANTERBURY, FULL OF FUN. —There is no beauty so deep or Jasting as that of s loving heart. Don't be too hasty, Judge. That ‘cardinal nose may belong to a tee- totaler who courts a girl with ronged ehoeks.— Binghamton Republican. ~The forming of a pool by the peppermint growers indicates that #tomach ache will be something of » pours next year.—Pittsburgh Chron- —Since young Popinjay became en- gaged his affianced has grown domi- Deering. The young man says that if, this sort of thing doesn’t stop pretty Soon there is going to be a fight inst a ring rule.—Burlington Free 3. —A Texas woman has invented and patented a pie-safe. But no pie is safe if it is within reach of a young wan boarder when he returns at a date hour from a courting seance.— Yorristown Herald. A No, 5 Shoe on a No. 6 Foot— Every boot you e‘er made for me pinches, You destroy an existonce once sweet; I8 is tough to be dying by inches, But it's worse to be dying by feet! —Tid-Bus. —*This here paper says boycotters is tramps, as a rule,’’ said a farmer to his son. “Yes, papa.” Dlamed if I don’t wish that the tramps would take a notion in their heads to boycott me,” rejoined the old man, wearily. — Merchant Traveler. —Mr. Newgolder—“This is Mr. Lewis, our architect, Marthy. He's goin’ to begin to work on the new | house at once!’ Mrs. Newgolder— “Mornin’, Mr. Lewis! (To herself. )— Don't like his style for a workman. Bet ho never had a pair of overalls on in his life!” — Puck. —Naomi—“George, are you sure that you never before loved a woman as you love me?” George—“Sure? As well ask me if I love the idolatrous creeds of the heathen as well as tho pore religion of my fathers." Naomi —“How charmingly you say that.” George (absently)—“T' ve said it often enough in my life to do it charming- ly."—Nebraska State Journal. —One of our Somerville ministers is | complaining th against the news of the country. supplied with slippers all the time, you fellows about the y tun at the fai day Thad to go and bey Somervilie' Journal. a old gentleman speaking toa y and commenti “Well, I'm | | | Sought to find a woman that, as he | took a seat by herside. She was young “An, my dear, may you long retain them. Yours 1s a happy period of life. Youknow nothing yet of the jealousies, the heart-burnings, the contentions, the rivalries that beset the pathway of existence.” “Don’t L though!"’ she interrupted. “I want you to under- stand that I belong toa church choir.” N.Y. Weekly. —The Reporter hasn't had the atten- tion it should have had, owing to the fact that the oditor was off two or three days in Atlanta. H» means what he says, and won't get off—in Atlanta —soon again, and the Reporter will be made as interesting in the future as the editor knows how to make it Bear with us this time. Editors are like other folks a little, you know. Anyway, they don't live always, and we don’t want to since our return from Atlanta. We are tired yet.— Bronwood (Ga.) Reporter. —Anu old bachelor, who had long used to say, ‘would be a fitting mate,” at last found her in a railrod car, and and innocent in appearance, and after a short time the bachelor softly whis pered to her: ‘Are you married, my dear?” “Me married!” she cried, in tones that rang through the car; “me married! No, but I’ve sued a feller for breach of promise!’ The bachelor left the car at the first station it topped al —. ¥. Ledger. SHE WAS HAPPY. A Chivalrous Old Gentleman’s Encounter With a Dakota Maiden. He was a poetical old gentleman. He was traveling in Dakota when he ran across one of the maidens indigen- | ous to that soil. She was a barefooted, simply-clad lass of twenty, with a wild-wood air. The old fellow chucked her under the chin and gushed forth: “Ah, my little maiden with the roses in your cheeks and the sparkle ot health and happiness in your eye, | tell me, are you not happy, living as you do so near to Nature's heart? Ah me, how I envy you, so far removed from the sordid cares and toils and sinfulness that vex and fret we dwell- ers in the city Tell me, are almost as prey among the Paci coast Indisns as among the Chine 2, from whom they have learned it WASHINGTON'S HOME. Visit to the Hoom Where the Father of His Country Died. The interest of the wholo centers in the room where Washington died— “The Gen’al’s room, the room 1 likes de bes’ in de house,"’ as the servitor called it,in atone of genuine and reverent affection. Just where the great man lay a-dying eighty-eight years ago, the bed now stands, and be- side it the light’stand on which are the rings left by his medicine-glasses, un- changed since that day. The secre- tary at which he wrote, the hair-cov- ered trunk in which he carried his posses-ions, the surveyor'’s tripod he had used, the cloak he threw about his shoulders when he went over tho farm, the leather chair in which he sat, the covering cut away by vandal hands, are allthere. There wassome- thing, in spite of these few discordant notes, that seemed peculiar to that room. I could not feel that thousands of eyeshad looked upon it with idle curiosity, but as though it had been set it apart forever. “Many wonder,” said our guide “why Mrs. Wash’n’ton died up in de attic, and not in de Gen’al’s room. It was de custom in de family to shut up a room for two years after a death had happened in it, an’ dis room was sbut up. Mrs. Wash’ n’ton went up in de attic and dere she staid for eighteen mu'n’s till she died dere. She never had no fire in de winter‘ au’ in de sum- mer it was very hot—but dere she staid wif only her cat fur comp'ny.” The corner cut off from the lower part of the door he showed us was for , the easy egress and ingress of this familiar friend. The attic room is pretty and attractive-looking, but nas init now only one piece of fur- niture used by Mra Washington—a little three-cornered washstand. —Cen. tury: = oes Seine lee —Three yea agoa b st from an ecidentally-discharged n in the ds of B rpe ef Adiron- kK, N. Y.. imbedded itself in the n of C son. The de ot pos four ho geod hea THE JAPANESE CAPITAL. An American in Tokio Would Think Him- self in a European City. Your readers are all familiar with the great cities of Europe, either by actual observation or through the eol- umns of current literature; but less is known, perhaps, about the great cities of Asia, and it is about the city of Tokio, the capital of Japan, that I wish to write to-day. Itis larger than any city on the American continent, with the exception of New York. It! contains fully 1 tends over an areanine miles long by eight broad. Itis acity of immense distances. the station a3 you come in from Yoko- hama to the station you leave to go | into the country you cross a distance of six miles, or abowt twice as far as from the Battery to the Central Depot in New York. The city is curiously laid out. In the very center is a large round tract of land containing the castle and some other public build- ings. This is surrounded by a moat, or rather 4 canal, which is in the form ofaspiral. It goes around the castle two and a quarter times. Within the second ring are the houses of many of the noblemen and some more of the public buildings. Outside of all this is the city proper, which is intersected in all directions by canals. Never was there seen a city in which it was easier to lose one’s self than in Tokio. This spiral canal and the many heavy stono walls and frequent turnings make ono lose his bearings even on a sunny day. The history of Tokio has been called a history of fives, plagues and earth- uakes. Perhaps no one city can com- pare with this in the number of its isastrous a ents. In 1500 it was nothing Lut le fishing village, but it was at that time made tho capital of this section, and from that time its growth was extremely rapid, a3 can be gathered from the — fact that in 1667 a great fire, called the fire of Mei Reki, destroyed 107,046 people and swept away 500 mansions of the first nobility, 770 of other nobles, 350 temples, and 1,200 streets; again in 1678, only eleven yoars later, almost the whole city was burned. In 1703 an earthquake carried away 37,000 people. In 1773 a pestilence laid its hand on the city and took the almost inconceivablo number of 190,000 souls. In 1856 30, 000 buildings were destroyed by earthquake and 100,000 people per- ished. These are only the greater calamities that have befallen this city, and it is a terrible record. It was in 1878 that the Mikado made the change of his residence from Kioto this city. Sinco that time the two cities have grown apart, so that it 13 hard to believe that they belong to the same nation. Kioto is old Japan, Tokio is newJapan. Through the cen- ter of Tokio runs a long street, her “Broadway,” and on cither side are fine buildings in the European style of architecture. Every thing that a 2 Be 250.000 people and ex- | For instance, to go from | | Venice. Toreigner Would wish to use in furnisn- ing a house or replenishing his ward- robe can be found on this street. All the signs are in English, although often secompanied by the native language. A thorough system of psving, sewerag umination and horse-ear transportation ma kio more European than some cities in Europe. Of cours: I went through the bazars, and temples, and parks, all of which were interesting. One “curio” in the museum is worth men- tioning. It was a stuffed specimen of as native domestic fowl, now almost extinct. The peculiarity is its tail, which by measurement is thirteen nglish feet long. Tho body of the bird is about the normal size.—Cor. Newark Advertiser. ——___~oo—___ THE NUMBER THIRTEEN. ze, ane Important Part Which It Played in Composer Wagner's Life. Wagner was bornin 1813. and died | on the 13th day ofthe month. There are 13 letters in his name, and the sum | of the figures in 1813 equals 13. ‘The full date of his death was the 13th day for the second month in 1883; it makes 18 twice, viz: First 13. and again 2x8x3=13 He composed just 13 works, His first and determing im- pression in faver ofa dramatic career was formed on the 13:h of the month. | He was influenced in his choice em- phatically by heaving “Freischutz’’ and by Schroeder Devrient. The latter went on the stage October 13. 1819. and “Freischutz’’ was completed May 13, 1820, and first performed in Dresden Wagner's home, 1822 (1x8 2x2= Weber died in W vs Ih ye Wagner's first public appearance musical personage dates from the he entered the Leipsic University student of music—1813 (1x8x1x3 The stage at Bi director, was open: 1837, and he there b n the composi- tion of “Rienzi,” which he completed in Paris in 1849 (1x8x4—13). April 13, 1845, he completed ‘“lannhauser,”” and it was performed in Paris March 13, 1861, and August 13, 1876, he be- gan the first of his Bayreuth dramas. September 13, 1882, was Wagner's last day at Beyreuth before leaving for He saw Liszt for the last time in Venice January 13, 1883, and ho died February 13, in the thirteenth wees OCanfadaratian Wilhelmine par —Rev. B. C. Henry states that the fan palm of China grows only in the San Ui district, some twenty miles long by ten miles wide. The trees do not yield leaves suitable for fans until six years old. Some trees are said to be over one hundred years old, but the tallest measure only about twelve feet. From April to November the leaves are cut monthly, from one to threo being taken from each plant. From 10,000 to 20.000 people are em- ployed. —Arkans aw Traveler. Weber's | 3). | * |for the remainder of her days. This as al How a New York Girt’ a Thing ortecuye wate I went with a girl friend tho other day to seo her beautified. The place was no factory of hair colorings or complexion washes bat the highly professional New York hospital, “one of our great public benefactions The? maiden was already protty save thas she had the distiguration known as harelip, The improvement will make her entirely kissable. Too few par. ents are willing, through ignorance to submit their little ones to the knife of the surgeon at an ear Y age, and as a result we have around us unsightly’ persons who might have had their features molded into those of good. | looking men and women. The case in point was that of a girl of about seve teen who had a. single harelip with protusion of the teeth of the upper jaw. There was also a cleft in that jaw, which, ot course, complicated the deformity. Had the operation been performed in infancy the chances are that the woman would have shown very slight, if any, traces of the si | geon’s work, but as it is amore less plain sear will always | be visible. She was put unm der cther and a small Slica cut off one side of tho fissure in the lip and a slice off the other side, nearly, but not quite to the bottom of the lip. Then these two raw edges wore brought together and stitched; and the | piece of flesh that remained from the second incision was carried along the | base of the lip so that no indentation {should be afterward observed. The /Surgeon’s plastic hand now went to} work to fashion the disfigurod mem. | ber into one that should serve her well | then completed the lip, and there wag left only the protruding teeth to reme. dy. With two or three sharp blows of the mallet upon the chisel the top part of the two sides of the jaw were sep rated, brought in opposition by de pressing them and secured in place. Then the operation was ended, and it showed immedate signs of great and lasting improvement in appearance, §- one which can not fail to be of vast e benefit to her as a woman. She has never voluntarily smiled since she was old enough t know of the disfigura- tion, so fearful was she of displaying it A month hence she can begin s life of smiles.—N. ¥. Mail and Ez. press. —_—< = ____ —There is not much justice 1s tas land of freedom, after all. A residen of Lancaster County, Pa, who had} been confined two hundred and nines ty-eight days in prison to insure hig presence as a witness at a murder. trial put in a bill of one dollar a day for his time, but the court not only 4’; disallowed the bill, but charged the | / witness two dollars a week for board. | / To make the case complete, the mag {/ should have been sent to jail at hard labor to work out his board bill : JEWELER — Leads but | ever Follows. Call and ex amiue his magnificent