Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1884, Page 2

JMWAITA, SA LRIy v s — T RE DXL BEE TURLAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1884, fest of the eord, which the family used for yours as cothes linos. A Massachusetts baby haa twelve toos, ten finors and two thumbs, Throe of ita older brothers and sisters have eight extra fingars and toos among them, Town In a groat state for longevity, or els groat liars, Des Moines sends out a report Making Love in tho Choir. She saton the step of the organ loft, Just after the second hymn; And through nave and choir to the osol gray spire The sonnd rous faint and dim, As they sottled thomselves in the church below For the sermon that followod next, And T seatod myself at the alto's side Pale, Poor, Puny, and Pallid. Considering all the ills that attack little children, it is a wonder that any of the poor little youngsters live to grow up. There are children who are truly objects of pity. Thc{ seem al:nost y o) . that a woman 100 years and 7 months old is in ) ina the parson took his text. romarkable good health, and has granddaugh- bloodless. Their cheeks are thin and o e e e I marked the tender flush of her cheek, And the gleam »f her golden hair, The snowy 'kerchief 'round her neck, And her throat all white and bar A throat #o white that indeed it An anchorite entic And I faintly heard the parson’s word As he proached about Paradise, pinched their eyes are hollow; and their skin is tightly drawn over their foreheads. There is nothing hearty about them. They do not enjoy theit lives. They are suffering from the debility that leads to marasmus. Poor things! Do a good deed for the ]'VII](‘, poor, puny, pallid child. Hand its mother a bottle of Brown's lron Bitlcrs. Here is life even for the most deli- D cate, the most debilitated; for _the y child almost given up for dead. Iron in the blood 15 what the child needs, to bring it up. The little digestive apparatus_will recover. The pale c]wecks will fill out. The weary groan of the child will be exchanged for themerry prattle of infantile glad- The wild boy recently eaptured in the Santa Rosa mountaine_ and taken to Tancauhintz, Maoxico, oan not be tamed, and eats only new vegetables and flosh, Ths other day he seized a8 year old child, chocked it to death, and thon devoured its left arm and part of its face, G, Wood_posseased for four yoars Nilo 1aud, & hols in"one o ita sid midfish wae within it. The other day he carefully cut the lump open, and found the inhabitant in good co ubled up, with its tail ov just'ns when it went to sleep more than 20 yoars ago. Threo hippopotamai came down aa far aa the second cataract in the high Nilo of 1882, which s an unusual thing, aud one of the threo has remained thera sver sinco. He foeds himsolf at the expense of the bean fields of the inhabitants, who, in apite of their indignation, have not yet contriyed to put_him out of the way, and Fubs himself rogularly against the telegraph polos whish skirt tho river at that point. ght stole gentle around her waist our fingers met; And a fluttering blush made the tender flush Of her cheok arow deeper yot. Snowy and fair the hand beneath, And brown the palm above, And the brown-closed softly over the white As tho parson spoke of 1ove, Ah, who is wise, when deep blus ayes Meet his and fook coyly down? Who would but drink, nor care to think Of envy's jealous frown? "T'was but to bend till I felt her breath Grow warm on my broath, and then My lips just softly touched hor own As the parson said Amen. My arm it f ness, Your druggist will tell you (Puck, | Tho dovil i s said to bo rapidly multi S 3 . — plying in the waters of the San Francisco what wonders Broun's Iron Bitters HONEY FOR,THE LADIES, Bay. ~ One of tho fearful creatures was ex- hibited in the San Francisco market a faw days ago, and attracted many visitors, The fish was about nine foet in length and pre- sentod a very repulsive sight. fiozwlt}uhml- mf tho latter fact, one of the tentacles was sold to an Italian for food before the monster had been on exhibition over on hour, The has done for very sick children. 11 Imported Beer Baugs and bangles still hold their own, Hoalskin sncques are made smaller than for- v, but the wearers feel just as big in them a over, IN, BOTTLES, “m{;'n‘;'lgf‘:;"‘mf;_‘ embroldered valvet are| oo of Tialy pries. the tentacles most highly, Y « | the ordinary mode of eating them being to fry .| Poacock green with metallic blue is a fash- | iem or boil thom in o Erlanger,.cioivunin . Bavaria, | fonable French combination, bt O Cglmbgcher, " Bavaria, | Jet belts and belts of jot mingled with sil- A Cruel Itepartee, Piliner. b Bohemian, | ¥r and steol beads are in favor. Bisilein A Somerville, Mass., young lady is said to Kaiser.... She will The game wont on, "twas fair to ee, Lawn tennis callad, and he and she Did actively angage therein, And 'twas a toss-up which would win, .Bremen. DOMESTIC. «+..5t. Louis St. Louis. Milwaukee. Milwaukee. . ++0s.Omaha, Domestic and Rhine . MAURER, 1214 Farnam. McCORMICITS Patent Dried Fruit Lift possess amania for atarting firos, got over that when she is married, They call them ‘‘sunsetsheaded” girls now, Tt is more esthetic than to #peak of rich, flow- ing auburn locks. - [ Hartford Post, Bachelors should ascertain without further delay if a man who rejocts & leap-year pro- posal can be sued for breach of promise, Ta is said that gray satin and gray velvet with steal will be as fashionable, or more so, in the spring ns it has boon during the winter. Knots of duck and woodcock feathers, three or seven in the bunch, make pretty trimmings for the simple felt-walkivg hats of yonng oa, Dog collars in now designs are imported, mado of massive gold, heavily chased, and set with diamonds, omeralds, poarls, opals and rubies. Fashionable overskirts are now cut with #omo kquareness, and often have a plain back breadth, gathered slightly, aud formod into one pout. A New Ham| anin for colleoting buttons, Budweiser. Anhauser . Best's. Schlitz-Pils Krug’ ‘Ale, ‘Wine. Both were young, she was fai Poarly toeth and nut-brown hair. Talked too much thongh, people said; Hia noso was large, likewtso his head! At last to him there came a ball, Which ho returned, and then did call Alond: ““Ha! ha! I've won the bot, That surely makes it game and set,” een ner Porter, erene Tis true, alaa!” she said, and then soked cross, and muttered “horrid men.” on, pouting, said—this time alond - “0f course you won; don't feel 8o proud.” er, - He was elated, though, *twas plain; Succoss, mayhap, had ‘turned his brain; And standing there in graceful pose, Balanced his racket on his nose, Gaily he cried: ‘“‘Can you do this?" *'I've not the kind of nose,” sneered miss, Then answered he —'twas most a sin— AS USEFUL NO DEALER hire married woman has a When they radfal ™ gatuonrco 7;'"' :;unlht;u find she just clips » few | *‘Suppose you try it on your u&"w Ea v off her husbaud's shirts, - Davis. GROCERY Groceries | my o, fomalo dontists have opened offices in TIMPIRTIES, Chicago. The number of male patients they % . STORE CAN A¥rorp | may got will depend upon the attractivenoss of the fair tooth yankers, Whitnoy, a_spiritualist has boen arrested A6'A pith o Tonm *No love,” he aald, ‘I eannot afford to take | and fined in Bangor, Me., as a fraud. you sleighing, but I'll do tha next best thing. | It takes nipety-eight policemen to keep or- COUNTER SCALES. W}thout Ay, | Come down 1o the store any day and U'lllet | der on the lmukf‘yn \'umu. Talmage and you see me shoot a rat, Beecher both go over to New York to the Fur trims everything this winter, from the | theaters now, crown of tho hat to the top of the walking[ Widow Van Cott says, “No Christian can boot, Italso trima tho inside of a pocket |aford to uso tobocco.” "obaceo is_awfully boolk until it looks like freshly-mowed lawn. | high, that's n fact. We hope Mrs. Van Cott White toilets of all kinds appoar to be more | will use her influence to have tho tax reduced. than ever the rage in the fashionable world | —{Philadelphia Call. this winter; cream, snowdrop, and ivory being | Talmage's congregation has 414 more mem- xennrdl( preforred to tho very trying bluish | bera than Beochor's. This apeaks as badly for or pearl white shades, the morals of Brooklyn ns would be the Pale, almond_colored laces satin brocade, | case if Beecher’s congregation had 414 more almond colorad bonnets, stockings, dinner | members than Talmage's. robes, and other entire costumes made upin| Mr, Heber Newton oxpresses the opinion conjunction with dark brown plush or velvet, | that the story of Josoph and his brethren i 15 a lato French fancy in dress and garniture. { only an anclent drama. The tradition that In response to her mother's question, the | Joseph was put into a pit by his brethren be- sky, the celebrated pianiet, have been asked to participate. The Vienness aro so well pleased with their operatic managoment that in a few weeks $00,000 were wubscribed for this year. Tho recent Wagner cyclus yielded 80,000 florins, of which 10 per cont (81,200) wore, as usual, for- warded to Wagner's widow. This year Rubin- stein's “Nero" and Berlioz' “Benvenuto Cel- lini” will be among the noveltie. This weok the two great Ttalian opera com- paniea are holding forth in Chicag #on is demanding $6 for his bast e naked for the last row in the orchestra circle; those who wish to ocenpy the first row in the balcony must pay £5, whils the other rows de- mand General admission is placed at $1.50. In the family circle #1 wocures a ro werved seat, and the gallery may hear the di- vine diva for the outlay of 40 couts, ¢ — Leap Year's Victim, Breathes there a girl with soul so dead Who ever to herself hath said T'll never wed? Whose changing heart hath ofttimes turned From love to flirting that hath burned Tn her wenk hoad? If such there be, now shed a tear For hor, No "‘marriage bells” you'll hear With ringing cheer, In rapture o'er her change of life To blessedness in being a wifo, This fond loap year. e — OONNUBIALITES, Walter Gioldschmidt, eldest son of Jonny Lind, i shortly to be married. “Aunt Milly," of Nashville, 100 years old, was marriod the other dayto a man forty yoars her junior, Rev. Levi J. Coppin, colored, of Philadel- Khh, rocently marriod, has been sued by a usky maiden for breach of promise, Miss Wilkinson, of Georgia, aged 60 years, was_married the other day to John South, aged 88, Ono hour after the ceremony the bride waa stricken with paralysis. Miss Josie M. Broderick sues Tra M. Stur- 0s, at Portland, Oregon, for $25,000 for each of promise. She is young, protty, and a poetess, but Ira wanted another, A lady aged 40_years, who lives in Worth county, Georgia, has had an eventful life, Sho rocently murried her fifth husband, Her first hushand was killed in the war, her second waa killed in a difficnlty, her third was di- vorced, aud the fourth died a natural death. H. T. Rasin arrived in Galveston on the 21st ult,, and was taken ill in the Gerardin house. He telegraphed to his divorced wife, from whom he had been rejarated seven yoars,and she reached his bsdai(‘s on the 30th, 3}"’4 was re-married to him. Two days later he od, PHILADELPHIA, January 19.—The father of Bertha I, Clear, secretly married a fow days since toJ, B. Garrrison, the “living skeleton,” haa filed a bill in equity, praying that the marriage may b declared null and void, as his daughter was a lunatic, and incompetent to enter into any contract, Miss Lena Goetigg, of Baltimore, aged nine- teon, a bello in a suburban village, was to have been married Thursday, but was, instead, carried to the grave. Six young ladies attired in deep black were bearers of the casket. They were the same whom the disaased had selocted as her bridesmaids. Joneph Gilmore Chandlor, son of Secret: Chandler and grandson of the late Goy. Gil. more, of New Hampshire, was married a fow days ago to Miss Ada Cook, o sister of Judge Cook of Providence. The young couple wi 1 make their future home in Dakota, where Mr. Chandler holds a government pokition, The experience at Oastle Garden of Jacob Koempf and Katherine Muller, if widely dis- seminated abroad,should wonderfully incronse emigration from the old world. These young poople were lovers in their distant home and came hither to get married. No sooner had they reached the Battery than they applied to an official to get married. No sooner had the official heard their request than he said he had a placoin Massachusetts for » husband and wife. So, within a few hours after landing, they were married and engaged to lead o life of Iuxury on a dairy farm, The latest excitement in the soefal world of Denver is the reported marriage of Mrs. Au- brido of three months replied that hor hus- [ cause thoro was no roon: for him inthe family band had proved all her fancy had painted | circle, would seem to bear out Mr, Newton's him, She had fancied that she could down | opinion.—[Boston[Transeript. him at the firat tussle,and her fancy had proved | The Presbyterians in Mifflintown, Pa., are correct,—[Chicago Telegram., in tribulation. At a church meeting on Satur- A London paper aays that English girls aro | day evening last a score or more of the mem. wearing patent leather boots wif yeffo kid | bers were arraigned for daucing, and an in- ‘o would like to make that paper sick by telling it what awful nice things our Amer- Sop. discroot youth went so far ns to accuse the puator of engaging in social games of cards, ican girla are wearing, but tho fact is we don't know,—{ Philadelphin Call, Aneffort is being made in New York to have church bells silenced. A man who at- A society belle of Columbus, who has for a | tends a dog fljm or shooting match on Satur- Jong time been in the habit of hiring a mes- seugor boy to satchel when out shop- duy night and does not get into bed until two onrry ping or walking, now carries & nine-pound o'clock Sunday morning, naturally dislikes to have his slumbers disturbed by the clangink poodle from one end of the town to the other without & word of complaint. 1t is the of a church bell a few hours later.—[Norris- fashion, town Herald, The Presbyterian Ministerial association at 1 If compelled to use canned fruit that is not wut up at home, seek to render it Ynlnubla Philadelphia has opened a war on Moody and Sankey's hymn buoks. One minister declared hus:_Open the can and drain off all the lig- uor. Put tho fruit in » proper dish. To the that most of the hrmna wore miserably writ- ton, and that he did not believe in teaching liquor add sufficient sugar to make it like syrup; lot it “‘come to a boil” but do not let it hildran fifty-rato pootey, and anothe thought Moody and Sankey hymns were énough to boil; then pour it over the fi “Poarl slesves” me worn with many hand. turn thestomach of & spiritual man, Spoaking to 8 roomful of people, at a relig- some evenig dresees of white brocade or satin, | ous meeting in Briageport, Conn., last week, These sleoyes aro formed of close network of | the female exhortor cried ontz,'There yon sit, yearl beady over white chenillo, They are | night after night, liko blocks of stone. We about four inchos deep, and aro edgod with | avo boen talking aud praying for you day in fringe of pearls which’ droops over the arm, | and out, yet you hang back and seek not the Hoop ecar-rings, bangle bracolets, aud d Gollies oumposed of Dearla ate usaally added. 'OLE PROPRIETOR, OMAHA, NEB. ] s £ morry seat. We can't go on this way, Why don't you hurry up and get converted? What's the miatter, anyhow—has the deviljgot you ull?" Bridgeport News. mat T hoard pap say his prayers A York state woman makes it a rule that if her husband is not at home by 10 o'clock she locks the door and he has to get in the house by climbing a ladder up to a side window and sny to his wife, who is then in bed, ‘‘Please let me in,” He says ho is so used to climbing o lndder that he is thivking of joining the hook and lpdder company.—[Keutucky State Journal, Iin:{ Euglish kersoys and domestic Mid. dlesex cloths are much employod for the tail- ormade costumes this winter, while tricots, vergos, d plaids compris the. ger Now_serges exhibit plaids of two or many colors, and thers aro alao, the old favorite Madras svllldl whieh come in improved colorings and soft-bodied woolens, Tt is ploasant just now to see & women show » mun bow snow should be shoveled, She uts a shawl about the size of & napkin on ru head, takes a lif fire-shovel, opens the door, h n Inst night.” ‘Why, whon did yon hear him, child! “Don’t you remember?” “Cartaiuly not; you must be mistaken.” +Oh, no, I ain'tugither, I hoard him say *om just after he Yound out I put some red popper iu i pipe. Ho praved awful hard, e e ——— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. ‘The oldest opera house in the United States isin Savannah. 4 Salwini, the Italian tragedian, makes a tour of America next year. Thomas W. Keene appears this week in Now York for the first time as a tragio star, A daugnter of Senator Voorboes is pursuing hor miusical studios abroad,and will not retarn before next summer, Twenty-three new operas were produced at the various theaters of Italy during the past year, They all died young. Edouard Remenyl, the wiolinist, is in Ha- vana, W) he has become the especial feature solress of high society, Maploson's new tenor, Andres Anton, is sald to be remarkably handsome, and a tine actor, a4 well as gifted singer. Mr. Wilson Barrett d coming over from London to make & professional tour of Awer. ica with the play of **Clandian.” Edwin Booth's repertoire for next week in- oludes *‘Haml “The Fool's e “‘Macbeth,” and *‘The Robbers. On the termination of his season with Law- rence Barrett, Otis Skinver will join Mrs, Langtry's company as leading man. At Brussels the great musical event of the weason has been \h&:odmun. on January ;‘th, of “Sigurd” , new opera by Krnest oyer, The London orlfied-hflnln highly the aoti Miss Ada Cavencish, in the recent revivs Magdalen,” at the Novelty ut three Kitchen, stamps the mow off her feot, and de- Y | olares thet men nover know how to ‘do any. thing anyhow, and that if it were not for the ‘women avlryt-'hln; would go to the dogs, A handsome B}nnhh opers cloak from Worth's is made of silver and white brocade, hout with rm-h. and adorned out- ostrich-feather trimming. An sent over for & _prospective bride, white and gold brocatelle, an e —— SINGULARITIES, ——— was recently eaptured Gray, of Darlen, Coun, been toothless wany year is now cutting an upper front tooth, Ann Dunn, who died in Tondon a fow days wt the age of 39, over 500 por m ‘measured 3 feot 6 inches around the oounty, Indiana, boasts of a girl wh Cass i a rirl whosn located on the right side. The med- mfldfi:‘mq ‘wrestling with the problew. sl e S | bofore ho Place | | otiurch Abraham an gustus Tabor No. 1, to an adventuror named Artman. Mrs, Tabor loft the city one day last week to join her son _of St. Louis, and to accompany him on his bridal tour te Cuba. Artman, knowing that she was going, circu- and ho kept & goldon calf and worshipped braizen snakes and et nothing but kwales and manna for forty yoars. He was cot by the hair of the hed” whils riding nnder the bough of a tree, and ha was illad by his son Abso Tom s he was hanging from the bough. His end was pease, questioned in nat ural history, rey ““Tho hog has five toer on lis for feet and four toes on his hind feot; the cow has no toes and cannot batk,” | — PEPPERMINT DROPS, Boer in Kansas is “‘sen foam.” Indiana leads the country in its crop of of- fico seekers and rabbits, 1t is claimed that a jackass will live longer in the south than in the North. We see no chance for an argument here, The greatest oleomargarine frand yet per. petrated is labeling the buckets with a ure of a ferocious-looking billy goat to in. dicate genuine butter. 1t in much feared that the present crazs for % whits ¢ 4 among circus men will lead to a good uy white lies on the part of the advertistg agents next, summer, “You just take & bottle of my medicine,” said & quack doctor t0_a_consumptive, “and yon'll never cough again,” “Init as fatal as thatt” gasped the ~consumptive. — (Boston “Did you put it in with tacks or putty?” asked & morchant traveler for a Pittsburg glass house, as he gazed, in an absent.minded way, at the hotel clerk's diamond. — [ Merchant Traveler. A New York chomist says he wants noth- ing more than three pails of water and twenty cents worth of drugs to make siz gallons of Just such charmpagne as fools psy a dollar a pint for. “What shall we do with our daughterst” book. Give it up. Why didn't you take ‘em to some seaside resort and risk your chancos? [Burlington Freo Press. A oung man who has boen studying music in Boston has mysteriously disappoared. His neighbors have always been regarded as law- abiding people, but at tho same time if a Wekotlve ahiold WaArcl LHNIF Hotiaed he might possibly find a bootjack with blood on it. A Cheyonne man is o fall of elegtricity that ho lights the gas by merely snapping his fin- gors. A Philadelphin man can start a con- fiagration by simply touching any inflammia- ble material with his nose; but this phenome- non is not ascribed to eloctricity.—( Philadel- phia Call. A Chicago man advertises: “‘When you suf- fer a_sort of weak feeling, with a gnawing in the stemach, and a_desire for something you know not what, do not swallow the yile nos- trums that are represented to cure everything, but come at once to my place and get a good dish of oysters, cooked 1n uny style.” In playing a gamoof seven-up with a young 1ady from St. Banl, s wisked Bismarker told her that overy tima she held tha jack of trumps it was sure sign that her lover was thinking of her. Then tho impenitent fiend watched her face at each deal, and every time #he blushed and looked pleasod”led ont and caught her jack.—[Bismarck Tribune. A professional prizo fichter says “blame if he wouldn't shake the prize_ring if ho could ot o docent job, at which he could make a iving.” Well, a Rochester man is paying 8500 apiece_for now comets, and a Boston publisher_offers 33,000 in prizes for the best short stories for boys and girls. And there are other avenues to an honest living standing wide open. - [Norristown Herald. A peculiar and grotesque outfit attracted a good deal of attention on one of tho streeta of Kansas City last weok. It consisted simply of o store box ou runners, harnessod ton raw- boned horse, In the box, which was far from large, wero & woman, » baby and a boy, all smiling and happy, and as it slid along the dirt and suow with a_Hideous, grating_ noise, they beat the horso with a board, and ull went mer- ry as & marriage bell. “Have you auy champagne on ice?” The question was asked by a well-dressed, sad- eyed man, as he strolled leisurely into the pharmaceuticnl_establisment prosided over by Dan Hill, “We kavo,” answered Daniel, in hus most dignified manner. “Mumm’s extra dry?” “Yes, sir.” *On ice?” “Yos, sir.” “Wall ploase give me small pieceof the foel Then Dan commenced looking around for the lomon_ squoezer and the customer took the tooth pick and walked thoughtfully away.— [0il City Blizzard. e —— RELIG10US, lated the story that he was to marry her an our Lefore hur departure. ~Ho disuppoared about the same ime, but friends of Mrs. Taber declare that she had dehied the fellow admission to her house, and knows notbing of the stories he has putin circulation. Artman claims to have boen a grea traveler, and is doubtless & Munchausen as well as'a dead baat, e EDUCATIONAL, Last yoar Milwaukee had 24,316 children in and 21,618 out of the schools. Teachers of French in England have organ- ized a society for mutuul protection and ad- vancement, Six ladies have graduated with honor from the London Collega of Cheistry aud proposs wotting up as druggists, Tho ladies of a prominent New York city, are circulating a petition to the legislature requesting that body to enact a law that will compel the teaching of hygieno and phyaiology in the public schools of the stats. . A census of a Philadelphia boarding school of forty-eight girls showed that one could make bread, one knew how to fry oysters, threo knew how to broil beefsteals, forty-eight could embroider, and forty-seven dance. The Harvard Union a fow days ago dobated the following: ““Resolved, That the require- ment of Grooek for admissivn to Harvard Col- lege should be abolished.” A ballot taken aftor the dobate resulted: ayes fifteen, noes twenty-one. A war against the German language in the public schools has been begun in Iowa, and & .wan.h. reform is called for. Accordingly, petitions aro being circulated ‘asking the pres- out loglslature to pass » bill providing for the exclusive use of the English age in the schools supported by taxation, ether this i wuggested as a retaliatory stroke, resulting from German prohibition of western pork is not stated. A curious thing in the Texas school system i tho *‘community” organization. There are no distriets and o geographical subdivisions at all, but a8 many persons as choose may unite for sch~ol purposes by registration, and are then recognized as & ‘‘community” given a share of the public money. There is 10 loeal taxation and no regulation as to the size of the communities. As a matter of fact shay vary greatly, and overlap each other so as to make endless ical inconvenience. A man onco included in a community cannot leave it except by permisaion of & court, Lecturing In Boston upon *‘Education in ussin,” Dr. Théodore Vetter said that the Russiung’ reputation as linguists is due to their pecullar instruction in childhood. The fnfant has o French nurse for a sole attendant until it is six yoars of age, By that time it has learned to speak the French language. 'hen the German governess comes in, the child’s constant companion. Later Euglish i acquired in the same way. At twelve the girls continue their studies at home and submit to mamma's m: The boys go away to the gymnssi: course there embraces seven years, aud fits the youth fora professional course at the uni: Vorsity, Mezzofanti's hitherto unique position amo: linguists, says The Moscow Gazette, is throatensd by a ygong Rusisn officer Who, R e ‘rench, German, 1 wedish, Ttaliau’ Polish, Finnish, Sorbaan, Czecl, Iav ¥ languages. with three differ- Chinese, and Mala sides theae ho is acquainted African, aud two ent J South Shahim without h:m after l?i‘ o s O motbod " Mazofant e 1 ho was 75, and died he spoke 53 tongnes. (Ata receat scheol board examination in Eogland some extraordinary snswers were iven to the exawinors by the childrem. One unocent was asked to fn a biography of the d replied: = “Abrahw huigls s (o olher Hogor ury i ‘e othor was the father of 1 One was called Il he hk‘ one at homo and turned into the desert, where she became salt by day and » pillow of fire Another juvenile said: **Moses sl 0 lived io an ark made illow of t. - by ight an P ull California has 900 churches. There are 16,823 Quakers in Indiana. Cincinnati has a colored Mormon society. A Swedish Baptist church has been organ- ized in Brooklyn, The Second Church, of Holyoke, Mass., has contracted for a new organ, to cost $10,000 The Lutherans have in this country 5§ synods, 8,666 ministers, 6,302 churches, and 816,718 communicants, The German Evangelical church numbers in the United States 650 churches, 430 miais- ters aud 80,000 communicants, The trustees of the St. John's Presbyterian Chureh, St. John's, N, B., have decided to illuminate the edifice with ' the electric light. Mr. Moody, the evangelist began his mis- sion at Stratford-le-Bow, England, Sunday. Bix. thousand Deople wero rasent, notwite: standing a great storm, The First Baptist church, of Chi povta a total membership of 860, Dy past year 140 members were receiyed by let- ter and fifty-one on confession of faith, The eiglith annual retreat of the Protestant | | al clergy of the dioosse of Chicago will ebruary twenty and coutinue for Tt will be conducted by the Rev. . Hall, of Boston. The Reformed Grerman ohurch has incrarsed during the past ten years from four synods to neven; from thirty-five classes to fifty-one: from 109,507 communicant members to 159, 530, whilo the organized churches number 1,460, "The United Presbyterian Synod of Noew Yok consists of nine Presbyteries, with which are connected 96 ministers and 94 con- vegations. Kive of theso Presbyteriss ave in w York, three in New England and ono Philadelphia. There are four ecclesiastioal orgauizations in South Carolina which are undes the general name of Mothodist Church. The Protestaut Mothodists have only one or two congrega- tons; the A. M. E. Church has a celored ministry and memebrship; the M. K. Church South is composed almost’ entirely of white communicants, and the M. K. (or Northern Mothodist) Church.is composed in that state very largely of colored people. ‘The Wesleyan Mothodist Calsndar for 1584 b‘:- Jub beon publisbed. ~The fgures show that t y is in » highly ‘prosperous condi- tion, In Great Britain the chureh members are 407,05, in Irelaud and Irish missions the Episcop: bogin in nsks Mrs. Livermore In a recently published |. Has the Largest(Stook in Omaha a.nd':Makea tl_a-e ‘ Lowoest Prices. fl CHARLES SHIVERICK, A Furniture! BEDDING AND MIRRORS, Purchasers should avail themselves of the opportunity now offered to buy at Low Prices by taking advantage of the great inducements set ont by rasszyeze zLevazor [HAS, SHIVERICK, | 1206, 1208 nd 1210 Farnam8s To All Floors. *OMAHA, NEB PER.IE;EC'I‘ION Heating and Baking Is only attained by wsing CHARTER OAK Stoves and Ranges, WITH WIRE GAUIE OVER DOORS Fot sale by | MILTON ROGERS & SONS OMAHA- Anheuser-Busch = BREWING ASSOCIATION CELEBRATED V' ORDERS FROM ANY PAKT OF THK STATE OR THE ENTIRE WEST, Promptly Shipped. ALL OUR GOODS ARE MADE TO THESTANDARD OfCur G ruarantee. F. SCHLIEF, Sole Agent for Omaha an fhs West, Cor, 9th Street end Capitol 4 7onr. “BURLINGTON ROUTE" (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railiroad.) = - — » Ty R [ MwrxoxiNae “ COINGC EAST AND WEST., Elegant Day Conches, Parlor Cars, with Reclin ling Chairs (Seats fraey, Smoting Cars, with Re- volving Chairs, Paliman Palace Sleeping Cars and [the famous C. B, & Q: Dining Cars run daily to and \from Chicago & Kansas City, Chicazo & Council Bluffs, Chi & Des Moines, Chicago, St. Jo- iseph, 'Al ka. Only through line bo- in & Denver. Through cars COING NORTH AND SOUTH. Solid Trains of Elegant Day Coaches and Pull{ man Palace Sleeping Cars are run daily to and from 8¢ Louis, via Henaibal, Quincy, Ki Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Albert y Paul and Minneapolis. Parlor Cars with Reclinin’ Chairs to and from St Louis and Peoria end( and from St Louis am Ottumwa. Onl, 3 change of cars between St Louis and I , Linc ianapolis & Council Blutts via Peoria | Moines, tows, Lincoiu, Neoraska, and Denv: ions made in Union Lepow. 1% -(o:»:oman. & i lkknown as tne reat THROUGH CAR. It 15 universally sdmis & to be ihe Finast Equipped zallroad In thn World for @il Gisses of Travel. T, J, POTTER. 8d Vice-P'ros’s and Gen’s Manager. SUKCRV AL LW BLL ek, 1035, AR't, Chicass ) M. HELLMAN & CO, Wholesale Clothiers! 1301 AND 1303 FARNAM STREE) COR. 13Th OMAHA, VAR church members aro 24,084, and in foreign wmissons the charch members ave 70,745, The church is well representod in Seuth Africa, in Frunce and different parts of the continent and Australia, and in Canade. At the leavo-taking of the Pope, at Rome, from the bishops of the United States, t former, in wemorial of the vecasion, offered ns a gift to the episcopate of America in general, full lengsh portruit of himself, handsomely framed, from the brush of the colebrated artist Braun, of Germany, There are to be two councils in Baltin d., the first in the ing, and the second, a great Plenary Coun- in the fall, when &' geueral episcopal de- liverancs to American Cutholios will be issued Serlows differences have arisen among the Jews of this country i vegard to their auciont faith, which seoms In dunigr of belug seded by modern notions, This state of things iu atributed largely to Kev. Dr, Wise, of Cin. cinuati, who is one of the oldest” and most widoly known rabbis of the country. He holds that Christians may be received into Judaism by a simple acknowledgment of the binding charactos of the Ten Commandments; ed | that there is no Biblical prohibition against Jows intermarrying with Christi; or with Mahomeotaos for that matter; that the rules attending Lh:m‘pufllou of aninal food for Jews can be doned at pleasure, aud that s God has not any unelean animal, Jews may eat anything thoy please. These expressions have given rise to hoated controv- ersy in Hebrow circles. i Sowing Wild Oats, How many waste their Mme and resources in foolish experiwonts, with pasty worthless wedicine that can never do them a whit of good. If you aresick aud want help got a. roputable remedy of established meris. The ourative virtues of Bwrdock Blowl Bulters have never been qestioned, For au enfeebled cir- culasion or & weak stowach they are splendid, INNEYRT CARPETS GARPET SEASON! J.B. DETWILER. " Invites the attention of -the public to his Large and Well Selected Stock Embraeing ali dhe Late Patterns n everything in the Carpet Line. Mattings 0il Cloths and Window Shades IN LARGE QUANTITIES AND AT Bottom Prices. LACE CURTAINS A SPECIALTY J.B. DETWILER, 1313 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb,