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THE DAT LY BEE: DECEMBER 6. 150. . the Museum of Bergen, Germany, a numher of his jewels, medsls, and iccorations, given him in his long orofessional career by kings, emper- 8, and other titled personages. In- laded in the bequest is the golder crown, set with diamonds and pearls, re ented to himn about ten years ago by c1uizens of San Francisco. Gounod’s new opera, “Le Tribut de Zamora,” is under rehearsal at the | Paris Ogera. : It reported that Miss Clara L vise K+llogg and Carl Rosa will be pariness in an English opera enter- tise nextseason in America. burg, Pa. He feeds them regularly and protects them from hunters. A very intell'zent and gantlemanly dog is the proper:y of a gentleman of Napa street, San Francisco. W? on the strect in company with cther dugs, apon arriving a: their destina tion, he trots in v-hlch he opens and weits till the oth- er dog hss gone through, then passes in himself, closing the gate behind THE OBELISK Its Appalling Weight Crushes the Pipes and Sewers Un- der the Streeits Upon “Which it Travels. It is seven weeks since the obelisk arrived at the foot of West Niuety sixth street, New York. In that tiwe the stone has been lifted from the pontoon which brought it from Staten Island and carried exactly one tlock and a half, or about 800 feet. Movinz at that rate, it would have taken Lieutenant-Jommander Gorring= 3000 years to bring it from Egypr. Bu the whole work of getting 1t from its present position at the Broaaway boulevara and Ninety-sixth street t. the site prepared for it near the m ropolitan Museum of Art will not, in the opinion of wood judges, take longer than the time used in getting it up the steep incline from the North river totne boulevard At every siep the roadway broke under the 200 tons, and the sewers and pipes zave way and flattened our, even when protected by enormous beams which stretched from ons side of thestreet to the other. m th point at which the vb.1 road-bed is strong smo. Tae stone will fillow t down to Ei_hty-sixth street will be turned into t road which entera Ceut tha! nt and emerg stréec aifd Fifth avenue 80 scwers in this road,which is admira- bly buaii- aud incladesonly b bridg:s, under which .he obilisk have some trouble. Last week the work of turning the stone srcund, ready to be arawn down the boulevard, was successtully accomplisked after thurty-six hours' hsrd work. Lieutenant-Ccmmender Gorringe’s first intention was to place the store upon an immenss track with fifty pairs of *steel wheols, after it had beeu carried up the steep inclne, and to drag it to its site with forty yoke of oxen. Ho bus now civen up this project, and will take the menolith t. the pack with the aid of the st an give which has pulled it vp the hill The obelisk now rests upon a frame- ! work of keavy timbers wichty feet lorg Upcn thke foot of th teu fe-t wide, mede of timbers f. te:n inches square, is an which winds a windlosx of un power. Dack of the engive is ihe obelisk, boxed up so completely that only a few equare feet of its pink grauite surfage g3n be secn., two outside besms of the platfora which is bolted together nto one | s0lid plank ten fect wide and forirteen inches thick, are provided with smajl cast-iron whoels ten fuches in diame- ter This constitutesthe carrisge, The road bed i mads first by placirg beams a foot square and twenty-five fong at right angles with the street and at distances of five fest apart. Those form the sleepers for the rails. The rails are beams fourteen inches square covered on tpp with stripa of =% . inch steel, upon whith the wheols of the obelisk carriage may run. These siripe sre all greased. When all is ready and a block of rail bes been laid ahead, & post two feet thick is driven into the earth at the end ofsthe line of rails, andan irom cable, the links of which weigh twelve pounds each, is fastened to the end of a chuin secure- Iy bolied into the timbers of the gi- gantic plank A rope is- made fast to the chain and post, and afier passing througlh eeveral enormous blocks 1s oile {around the drom of the donkey engive. As it is drawn in, the plank, witi the obelisk and eng upon moves along the ruils nearly as fast as a wan can walk. 3 The greatest strain in puiling the stone up hill was in starting, the ropes Monterey, Cal. half of which was a mountain brook trout, having the eye, heed. scales spots and thape of the fish. 1t had a pair of fins at the usual place b hin the gills; an inch or two back of this it suddenly char ges into a silver eel, the shae, color and absence of scales be: g perfect. Water mocasins use their body as « sort of sieve in catohing smail fish. Lu a Texas pond cne was briskly turi- ing and twisting in all directions, forcing minnows into spaces betweec him and the bank. The fish endeav ored to escape by leaping over ih snake’s body into the water beyoud while the moccasin, with el ted head, caught the fish in his wouth a hey pissed thr.ugh the air. A Toronto dog knows just when y comes, is not the sam gihen ason other days. He i mes, encourage: 1 Joseffy hes paraphrased Gilmore's “Columbia” for the piano, and an ex change thinks he will get another soze finger when the American rhyme nits the piano, The lovers of Wagner's operas may look forward to a great treat mext spring. “Die Meistersinger” is to be stven in London, as *‘Lohengrin” was last seasim, under Richter’s baton Richter s.ys that “The Meistersinger” is the cne he likes best of all Wag- ner's operas, and he ought to know. ssobn’s ““Elijah” was given w York last Monday evening orio society, with the fol- M Louise Swift, Sanger, 80 Anna Draisdil, contralto; Heoschel, baritone; ; and Mr. in by the ( (l sk lies P in the o ) 10 has a snot young and c of the well known »on to meke her debut y theatre in London, isa urt of chancery, aud an nov pending before the rells for his sanction to wlow the youne lady, wha is scarcely follow the profession of an ac'ress. Her guardiaus offer no oppo- sition to her strongly expressed desire to do so. Loster Wallack has secured a loca tion for a new theatre in New York. It is at the corner of Broadway and Thirtieth sireet, disgonally across the strect from Daly’s Theatre. Mr. Walt .-L has leased the ground for ) years with the privilega of ty. Thenew house will 1 May s e (vl ready upancy by fhie opening of Wal- vi rd of doctrr: ~Thero are ward of the e anplicazion is 188 of th at servic Just cutside the prizon Agra1s a tank of water, in w s large number of fresh water tur This prison is also the roosting p of great numb of blue p The e pizeons must drink at this but every attempt mcurs tie ris their head, tor the turt | wait just uuder the surface . 16 water aud at 18 edge. Many head lees bodies have been picked up near the water, showing the fate of soms of ‘them, A driver on one of hington) on .h'u may 18, to losiny Fourteenth gy rEes count skes nincteen four Lorsis ipsand o1 ter these stated t v reason it i 1 car back, it s zImost B1% get the iorse out of (he [\\m he drivers end etablemen, who frequently witnoss such exkibitions thercis a firm belief in the marh ical abilities of the horse. Aldog’s ides of value was ¢xhib in Rapid City, Dakota. At a d st the Buildog rinch list Sanday, Joe Piper was there with a fine pointer dop. All had were geated at the table whei the dog weut te his master, and comfuenced whining, The master asked what he wanted. The dog reached up and dropped & gold hedge in his hand ‘that he had picked up somewhere, Dr. Meyer racognized it at as one that he haddroppea irom his vest, but knew nothing of the loss un- til the dog found it Animated shot It 1s iytended that the theatre be as berutiful ag money and PRI, | fonr trips; + was president,an Murphy kept sn in front of »man name ! s and peanuc stand srtment building. While around the world, the a womaun in the streets of dressed him, and cxtending her haod asked him if wembered her. He replied that ho di¢, and told her where he had koowa her. He then asked her what she was doing there. She replied that she had a son with a good voice and degided musical talent, and she had savedl her money and was Jwith him there 'x.xwv huuamumcnl education. | That son 15 now the bassg of the Strakosch-Hess Opera company, and warbles uuder the name of Signor Mo tegrifiv. He is an Tiaiian from Cork. guns are a favorite pet tish of the Chinese. They look very much liks rerch only more beautiful. They are of a greenish color above aud silver-gray belc Across the back are four short, Jak- brown stripes ehadowed with grecn. | As they flash through the water they ar> a series of lovely and ever-chang- ing hues. The Chinese keep them in | jars as we do gold-fish. Tt is said thet | their aim is so accurate that they cau bring down an insect frem the *heigut of three or four above the water. A strangs kitten was given g home | on the alurnshlu Dlinots, w then in her dock in Ph ia. When the steawer left Ln pool | recently for home it was found that and chaius tightened and tightened § the kitten had been left behind, The until it scemed a8 if something must §captain and suilors were much gricved, | brealk, «nd yet the stone would refuse § because ihay never e xpezted & to wove. Tu order to etart af er cvery § her When the British Lm.y ! stoppage, compressed air jacks, cap- { the next steamer of the American line | | able of lifting ihicty tous, were made jto ®ml from Liverpool, arrived i to pu- h the stone from behind, and { Phil delphia, :l i e send it forward a few inches. When [ creep ashore “was p With “ once started the load moves easily to{anc nnnec ect she flsw on board the the end of the temporary rails. Tnen Iliinois, and began to race about + the eleepers and rails which have beer | decks, in every way gone over have to be ved to “,l,, dumb nsture would allow the new positions in front > stone, | Was in her heart at gatting and another post has t old h ne. the cable to be tied t Raiph was a raver aid of {wenty men, | Red Lion Inn, B - to remove and arrango the eleepe ra' founaland do and rails for one block’sjourney. vere hruis Tf‘el‘(‘l”‘llmtlllLh(XSEU"\ . y thing appailing. Tt is only by disiri- | him buting the \'o'vl‘ eq over the | ¥ road by means of slecpe I stone is prevented from sinking ) depressions in even yoad-bed as the be the men engafed in the o to swear that if a steip oY under the rollers whick lisk, this steip will basszys of the st waner apparenily ed out of the § other trouble of theiron ¢’ strain fall ing o times WaB a® hor (-n tha % to her | showing | { | B iEUMATISM Neurulgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell- ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, | Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. > Preparation on earth equals Sr. JAcoms OI. ata mf-. sure, simple and cheap External A trisl ils but the comparatively v of 50 Cents, and every one suffer- pain can have cheap and positive proof h the work | - ®elou orford it i % to the { .an had been Geprived of ] pany all night, but | in tae moruing, the | that, had it not | Reme h our Ralph | trifiin woald have mede his own_entrance. | of its landlord not only confirmed the | Directions io Eleven Language. but mentioneimany | SOLDBY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDI( -1v ther the ob | after the to be wet, the | he " t -~ C other \(“i of kind A bird to all dogs [ mors_particularly wonnded one MT'QIU.AL A An) DRAMATIC. | TS S CINE. A.VOGELER & CO., in general, but Battimore, M., U 8. 4. ores of the jro maimed or| bhae been the |»r5‘-lm“ which the -hn!o‘ n the obelisk is mov- | Jexk has to b stopped some- for several hours in order to s tha chain mended. A weight of admirably calculated to de- PASSENEER HBCGMMODAIION LIKE OMAHA A'\ID FORTOMAHA | (‘omwrh With Street Ca ¢Daniel Rochat” is now in the sec- | ond month of it successful car the Union Square theatre Miss Thursby winter under ction of Mr. Maurice Strakosch. il a m = will FORT OMAHA: the | d 12:46 p. m. 5p. m. Omaha, t plasterers ara engaged | a bust of the bas o in Paris obelisk which has been worn | XTTORNEY AT LAW—Loans money, buys and the | DOUBLE AND SINGLE AUTING POWER AND HAND PUMPS Steam Pumps, Engine Trimmings, Mining Machinery, BELTING HOSE, BRASS AND IRON FITTIIIGS, PIPE, STEAI PAGI(III: T WHOLESALE AND RETAIL A’ HALLADAY WIND-MILLS, CHURCH AND SCHOOL BELLS A. L. STRANG, 205 Farnham Strast Omaha, Neb HENRY HORNBERGER, STATE AGENT FOR V. BLATZ’S MILWAUKEE BEER ! In Kegs and Bottles. Jpecial Figures to the Trade. Families Supplied at Reasonable Prices. Office, 239 Douglaa Straat. Omaha Gérpetings I Carpetingsl| J. B. DETWILER, Oid Reliabie Carpet House, 1405 DOUGLAS STREET, BET. 14TH AND 15TH (ESTABLISHED IN‘1888.) Carpets, Qil-Cloths, Matting, Window-Shades, Lace Curtains, Etc. MY STOCK IS THE LARGEST IN THE WEST. 1 Hake a Specialty of INDOW-SHADES AND LACE GURTAINS And have a Full Line of \f lats, Rugs, Stair Rods, Carpet-f Lining Stair Pads, Crumb Clothes, Cornices, ‘ornice Poies, Lambrequins, Cords and Tassels In fact Everything kept in & First-Class Carpet House, Orders from abroad :plicited, satistaction Guaranteed fall, or Address JCnn B. Detwiler, 0ld Reliable Carpet House, 0MAHA, ATTORKEYS-AT-LAW CHARLES POWELL, ¥/STICE OF TRE PEACE_-Comer 16th and nam §t3., Omaha Neb. WM, SIIEHAI. ORNEY AT LAW-Roum S, Oreighton IMk,'lbthl , OMARA, NEB. 0. L. THOMAS, and sells real estate, Room 8, Creighton t‘ I A. C. TROUP, RNEY AT' LAW—Ofice In Hlnmmr T ook, with George E. Pritchett, 150% bam St. ~ OMAHA,NEB DEXTER L. THOMAS, 1~‘an! AT LAW—Cruicksnank e Sulid apestt l “A. M- CHADWICK, . TTORNEY AT LAW—Offico 1504 Farnhao | A 8tret. Wi, L. PEABODY, + AWYER—Offico—1n Crelghton Hlock, next te [, Vost Ofce, OMAIIA, NEBRASEA. } mo~Patents Procured. SR { LOTARY PUBLIC. mr.um'lolisr P.ADI ~O'BRIEN & BARTLETT, 'Mtorneys-at- Law. BY THE USE OF 'DR. BOSANKO'S " PILE REMEDY. NTERNAL, EXTERNAL, AND | VICHING PILES | fierd at once on the applieation of D | Bosnnko's Pile Remedy, which acts npecmanentcurewher | ia merits. DO NOT DELAY yotfl the drain on the system sermanent disability, bat bay it, TRY IT* CURED PRICE, 50 CENTS. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR IT, | | | ATTORNEY AT LAW. AIBACH BLOCK, COR. DOUG. & I5TH 3TS. OMAHA, NEB. , W. J. Connell, Attorney at-Law.| Office:—Front rooms, up stalrs, in Hanscor:'s 2w brick hufldlmz,ml W. comner Fifteenth and [2 8 | w application. Address , BOSANKO MEDICINE CO. B A NG Cias. R. RavicK [ § REDICK & REPICK, fttorneys-at-Law Spocial attentlon wilt be given to all sults ainst corporations of evary description ; will jernhardt is sup reme; but, darn my skin, give me Rio Van Winkla!"—[Nycum Ad- one piscs | vertiser Man. l\\* n\ selisk will} Upwerds s )wd a new concert-room | ‘.fi.rqhe Gewandhaus concerts at Leip- | used to ! sic. But $60,000 more is, it is said, | required. Nchuman's cpera, “Gencveva, | which on its first production was com- | paratively unsucceseful, seems to be t length taking the place it de It has just been p or the first time at Fr d enthusiastical \3 re- lic. broken off uatil it could v to stand without supp is now more rouud th missing parts will be e, into which be fitted. This spec bronze saucers will take the place of the bronza crabs whicn wer keep the stone straight in F are supposec. to have been ther: it was moved to Alexandria. — LIFE IN THE CHURCH-GOING TURTLES—H( n regular passengers. made from the post- th snrchts. s BN STRE . F. COOK, UNBERTAKER Block. e wnen | or a2 ‘ C. VAPOR, A DOG—INTELLIGENT | formed ESES THAT 'CALCULATE | —EKNOWING ELEPHANTS, Japitol Ave,, Opp. Masonic Hall, OMA HAT DJL.N'I‘ESTRY New York Sun Bears are d.w.n i Maine. In young { Carlotta Luch‘rrq was s danecuce, 80 s Mmo. Celeste, so was Polly Mar- m, a0 wan Lydis Thompson, 20 was otte Cushman so was Mrs. ted | Kes in “H‘wr-m and | From farm | many lish operas. | Dental o Dr. Porte, who live dear 1 arris_| Ole Bull by ks last will bequeathed | tw vry-t their o0 tr efforts tc w rantees to do first-class work. 16th and Douglas. se9-2 Dmaha, are usnally | can | A i l m by telezraph, | m..re'*w TAILOR| NHB. S F!XTCHCCOK, M.D. S, New York has Jocated in Omsha, and over A. Cruickshank & Co.’s, Cor. émlce 0 al he Courta of the State fud the | nited States. Offico. Farnham St., oppoeite | Gourt House. EDWARD W. SIMERAL, TTORNEY AT LAW—Room 6 Creightcn ot A new and hitherto anknown remedy for al dlseases of the Kidneys, Bladder, ana Urinar; Organs. T Wil positivaly cure Diabetes, U Block, 16th and Douglas strects. ~ S. F. MAMDERSON, TTORNEY AT LAW—%3 Famham Stroet | O Nt T Bricht's Discase, W, T. RICHARDS. G.J Host | f" ine, Catarrh RICHARDS & HUKNT, Attorneys-at- La,w.; o7, 15 South Fourtee dicines, nothing oids Internal © d cures w e oy all D: eceipt of the price, $2.00. NEY PAD GD-, PROP'RS, Toledo, O. ur address for on 25 Saved.” K ISH Agent for Saheasks 3 BUSINESS COLLEGE, 'THE CREAT WESTERN | Geo.R. Rathbun, Principal. | DAV . CHARLES RIEWE, UNDERTAKER! Metalic Cases, Coffius, Caskets, Shrouds, Fam mStree . Othand11th, Omaha, Ni Telegraphi: orders promptly attended to. Creighton Block, - OMAHA'{‘ i Send for Circular. nov20d&w tt | ‘ake no other, and tell your neighbors. produce | e when you ean notobtain itofbim, w | will send it, prepaid, on receipt of price | Dr. Bosanko’s Treatise on Piles sent fre, | ttle book, 1B8656. 1888C. We call the attention of Buyers to Our Extensive Stock of GLOTHING AND CENTS’ FURNISHING G00DS. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. We carry the Largest and BEST SILECTED STOCK OF GOODS W GUARANTEED CUR IN OMA hich We are Selling a L me 5 3 4 MERCHANT TAIL¢ DEPARTMENT I E q 7 Isin charge ot Mr, THOMAS reputation has \LLON, whose well-establishe fairly earned. e — We alsp Keep an immense Stock of HATS, CAPS, TRU: i nr ak i REMEMBER WE M. HELLMAN 3¢ & PIANOS = ORGANS. J. S. WRIGHT, "“tn GHICKERING PIAND, FOR And Sole Agent for Hallet Davis & Co., James & Holmstrom, and J. & C. Fischer’s Pianos, also Sole Agent for the Estey, Burdett, and the Fort Wayne Organ Co’s, Organs, Have had years’ I deal in Piancs and Organs exclusively, experience in the Business, and handle only the Best J. 8. WRI'HT, 218 16th Street, City Hall Building, (nmh 1. Neb. HALSEY V. FITC H. Taner SHEELY BROS. PACKING CO. PORK AND BEEF PACKEF ALK Wholesale and Rena‘ FRESH MEATSE PROVISIONS, GAVE, POULTRY, FISH, ETC, CITY AND COUNTY OPDZRS SOLICITED. OFFICE CITY MARKET—-1 ouglas Si. Packing House, | Opposite Omaha Stock Yards, U. P, R TERELEFEONIE OO ISH & i} Successors to 7. 18 'DRUCGISTS A*D Dealers in Fm, Importe (, 'Exmats, Toilet Waters, Colognes, Soaps, 1 | A full line al Instrum Drugsand ¢ used in 1 Jas. K. Jsh. AT2ATF S 293 © R. | | | K. lqh ur, Lawrence M MORE POPULA‘Q THAN EVER. The Genuine SINGEP NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. L The popula 1 fed th any previous y Ol % ara In 1878 we sold 356 Machines. Excess ove 5 Machine Our salea last year were at the rate f' ver I400 Sewmg N'achmes a Day| Every REAL Sewing Ma- c¥ahon. ~ T | DT EL LT | i | which this | i | 422 In 1{;'::;lmw,;,,p o 8. v | il That Singer chine has this Mark cast Trade into the Iron Stand and bedded in the Arm of am- the Machine. 1 THE SINCER MANE Ff. Principal Office: 24 Union Squa ,500 Subordinate Offi th ( th An,A nIND N7 RING Cf w York. wn nthe O wtf nT i t re T nad ad So ea.