Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1884, Page 4

Norvonmess, peian, Catarih, v, dinpotent) Agvie, Prolapsus Uter, efe. Only Kfentifc kle TR Aerieh that sends the Eieetricity and maic Htium Lhrongh (he body. And Can be recharged in an i1 e by Ohe $1.000 Would Not Buy | D, Horxn—1 wha a loted with theumatism and cured by nsing & belt. To any one afflicted with that disease, 1 would v, buy Horne's Any one can confer me by writing at my store, 1420 Douglas strect, Omaha N WILLIAM 1. MATN OFFICE—Opposite postoffice, zor block RarFor ralo at C. Farnam St,, Omal Crders filed ¢ 0 D, EUROPE!! COOK'S GRAND EXCURSIONS leave New Y in A ny And June, 1884, PASSAGE TIC| by ail ATLANTIC STEAMERS it securing GOOD BERTHS. T 8 O] for travel rs in EUROPE, by a'l routes, at reduced rates, DOOK’S EXCURSIONIST, with maps and full par- ticulars, by mail 10 cents. Address WTHOS. COOK & SON, 261 Brosdway, N, Y. 10.w-2-ta-w.whe, oo 4 Fren Goodman's Drug store, 1110 MPLAINT NG DISEASES) DISEASES, b IMPURE BLOOD iLER & CO., Sold by all Wice Merchants aud Groca: i 7 ’x ¥ PREPRIETORS “AND Stove Repair Works, 109 South 14th St. ‘burn coal, 7rates, nreback, dsmpers, &c. constant on hand. ' Tey 0no 0 our stove Py helves lotnes dryer. . ork KETS ake = spociarty of furnishing castings and repalr- i ecoves of all escription, wood stoves, changed to b 4] 2 ' THE DAILY BEE-OMAHA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1884, In Church—During the Tatany, T'm glad we got there early, Nell; We're not obliged to it to day Beside those horrid Smith girls—well T'ma glad they o 8o soon Away. How doos this costume match my dress? 7 think it looks quite charmingly, “‘Bowed sweotly to the Smiths”" Oh! yos- [Responds). ... Pride, vantty, hypocrisy, Giood Lord, deliver us," 1 hato thore haughty Courtanays! T'm sure they needn't feel 8o fins, Abova s all—for mamma saye Their drosses aren't so nice as mine, And one's engaged; 8o, just for fun, To make her jealons—try to win Hor lover—show her how 'tis done [Responis). . .. “From hatred, envy, mischiof, sin, Good Lord, deltver us,” "To-day the ractor is to preach Inald of missionary work; He'll say ho hopes and trusts that each Will nobly glve, noe duty shirk, T Jute to give, but then one must, You know we have a forward seat; Poople can see—they will, T trust [Responds...." From want of charity, deceit, Good Lord, deliver us,’ Did you know Mr. Gray had gone? “That handsome Mr, Rogors, too? Dear me! We shall bo quite farlorn 1f all the mon leavo—and # fow! T trust that wo with Capid’s darts May capture somo-—lot them bewaro— [Responis).... " Behold the sorrows of our earts. And, Lord, with mercy hear our prayer,” —— HONEY FOR THE LADIES, The wife of the Rev. Josepn Cook has gono to lectwing. Such s tho effect of o husband’s awful example. The most exclusive and fashionable dress- makers of Paris announce the rovival of the short, waista of tho first empire. Volvet is pro-cminently the favorite mate- rial of the season, and pink velvet s much liked for ball and recoption toilets. Swins bodices and wide girdles of velvet, pointed back and {ront, are worn with grand: mother drexsen of cashmiere o surah. Misx Emma Latham, the daughter of a San Francisco banker, is oo of the most thand- somely dressed ladios on the Pacific coust. Fashionable young lady, detaching her hair before retiring—'"What' dreams may come when wo have shuffled off this mortal coill” A new London wrap, christened after Mary Anderson, i a jacket of sealskin, opening Zouave fashion over a vost of undyed sealskin, Miss Mable Colling, the novelist, has made wodjeskw'a oarly hife the subjoct of a story entitied “Tho Prottiost Woman in Warsaw,” Lucy Larcom's last poem is entitled “I Climb to Rest.” Lucy should marry some rich fel- low who could afford to have an elovator in the house, In Franco noarly all the railroad ticket and signal clerks are women, who are paid as much as men. They are preferrod becauso of their sobriety. The tournure is reaching quite prominent proportions; but, lot us add, the vld-time hoop 18 not restored to favor, nor in there o pros- poct of its being so. Among favorite monogram decorations for note paper is a sunken square of darker tint thau the paper, with the monogram in a light- or shade raised upon it. A woman can rip and tear and darn and 7ot bo considored aweettempored, but just ot & man do it and people will say all manner of hard things about him. A society young lady told her illiterate but wealthy loyer that uho vas going to_givo a german, and he said that he'd b sure to come, s he was very fond of boer. “I'd like to give you a Piscn of my mind, n 8. H. ATWOOD, Plattsmouth, - SO BREADKR OF THOROUGIBRED AND HIGH GRADN HEREFORD AND JERSEY CATTLE AND DUROO OR JRRSNY RNKD BWINN @ Young stook for sale. Correspoudence solleitod, Nebraska Cornice —~AND— Ornamental Work 1 MANUFACTURERS OF)| | GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES Dormer Windovws, FINIALS, WINDOW CAPS, TIN, IRON AND SLATE ROOFING, PATENT METALIC SKYLIGHT, Ilron Fencing! Crestings, Balustrades, Verandas, Officoand Baok Railings, Window aud Collar Guards, Eto, NOR, NDetn STREE", LINCOLN NEB. AAISER. Manager, e SESY X LONG THE LINE OF THE Chicago, St Paul, Minneapalis and OMAHA RAILWAY. through Concord and Coleridge TO EARTINGTOIN, Reaches the Lest portion of the State, cursion ra‘es for land 1ocke Poluts un the SIOUX CITY & PACIFIC RAILROAD Norfoll Oonnect at Blaix Vor ¥ ewant, Oukdale, Xetigh, aud though (o Vol- cutine, &4rFor rates aud all information call on F. B. WHITNEY, General Agent, Hrrauk's Bullding, Cor, 10th and Farnam 8t4., ¥ Streots, A POS Allan’s Soluble Medicated Boug, st are 2. .ain o For irthor T y A e send for Creuler. DISEASES OF THE J, T. ARMSTRONG, M. D., Oculimt land Surist. affloe, on account of fire, with Dr, Par. %’K. Creighton Biock, 16t aud Louglas $T.LOUIS PAPER WAREHOUSE. Graham Paper Co., 217 snd 219 North Main 8t., 8t. Louls. ! DEALESS IN WHOLESALE IPAPERS, ¥ KWVELOPES, CARD BOAKD AND RINTER'S 8TOCK - s o Bag ot 00 Neb Northeast Nebraska gy The pow extenslon of (bis lio from Wakuleld up BEAUTIFUL VALLEY of the LOGAN Special ex- Wayne, Norfolk and Hartingion, and s 1o Biai o , Nor artington, and vi ir to al prideipal “Trains over tht 0., »t. P, M, & 0. Rallway t Cov . Bloux Lity, Ponca, Histlugton, Wayne and maha, Neh. 8 can be secured at depot, corner 14th Cure without med. e box No. 1 will care any case In four days or lese No, 3 will Guro the mosh ODAIBAL 0ass 10 stier o how long standing. lomflnul':mh&.m;rcfl “IA-:' wl produce dywnopsla by the ! the 3 L Mnl:: W:l'.lld Pfl:‘l.IM ySassance;. CURE, Mrs, Smiggs.” “I wou dn’c talk of inpossi: hilitios, Mr, Sniggs. The article you epoak of ia to'small to be divided.” Valvet dresses aro handsomost when made all of ono kind of velvet and_triwmed only with a littlo Ince, black or wbite; or both, or tinted to match the color of the d.css, A mun'y brains, woighs threo and halj pounds. A woman's brain is somewhat light- er, but of finer quality, That is what onables her to taate lard in hor neighbor's pastry. Asinthe spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, it is not un- reumonable to expect ere long to hear of Mr, ‘Dildey's ongagement o *'a’ beantiful young y. Glovas thisty.one inches long in mosue- taire shape, without a single button, are made of reddish tan Sweds leather, to be worn with any eveniog dress, either white, blackor col. ored. Pekin velvet with chocolate ground and red satin stripes is used for the gathered vest and full skirt of elegant costumes that are completed by a long pelisse of plain brown velvef Boston girls never say *“He is a gonegoose.” When a lover Is observed to be idiotically sweeton any particular young lady, the other Rirls refer to him as “‘a departad aguatic flow- er of the genus anser. Literary bracelots are adopted by studious transatlantic belles. The bangle consista of twelve tiny gold books Jinked together, with the name of some favorite author euameled on the back of each book, A report comes from an Tllinols town of o woman falling dead at the plano, We have no destre to make light of the sorrows of an afflicted family, but this ought to be a warn- ing to a great many piano-players, A favorite dress is the front and sides of ono material; the waist or corsage, as it termed, and the train of another. 'The waist may have a tiny basque skirt for may curve to « peak, and be edged with Jace or a ruching of the fabric, A country gir', coming from the field, being told by her poetic cousin that she looked as frosh an o daisy kissed with dew, said: *Well, it wasn't any tellow of that name; but it was Steve Jones that kissed mo. I told him that every one in town would find it out.” 1t s said that puffing and draping must go; that tho angulnr stylo s to provail; that Tog flowiug trains (which are alteady worn for full drexs) and the demi-train will be the fashion- able skirt of epring; but lot us hopo this does not include street wepr, for surely women of w-duy aro too sensiblo to ever constitute themselves ‘‘stroet sweepers” again, Tu there any ono thing interests a woman | o than the novelty of some fuvention intended directly for them? Among the latest s the welf-adjustablo corset for Iadies, who require padding (which we all know is Injurious) fer @ perfoot fitting dress, This bust is capablo of being made or small, as o woman's sizo domands. Ventilated, mid of the best of I‘;:;: -p:li:fl l::‘ can ml;n:lla healthy, Very W s made of the same material lenignod for stout women, that|which there in nothing better made, Either of theso cor- sots will prove a favorite when once worn, Every woman ehould have a sealskin nacque, Tn the first place it is rich and becoming ar- tlole of dress, and is excoedingly comfortable heu the thermometer is down fu the neigh- borbood of zero and cold north winds pre. vails, It can be worn in either sunshine or storm without fear of being spofled. It looks well at the theatre or on the fashionable promenade; in fact, it is en reglo under almost all circumstances during at least six months of the year, But thero is another great and con- trolilug reason why this delightful article of attire whould be in the wardrobe of every mewber of the opposite sex. So great is the fascination it possesses for metropolitan man. kind that it never fails to secure for its wearer o seat iu either tho atreet cars or the clevated ronds, Bluck or blue velvet will not o it. Lot sealskin sacque enter one of theso con- veyances; & dozen newspapers will be folded up at onco, & score of sleepy men will sud- donly awaken and tho sealskin sacque will have its choice of thirty seats. o —— EDUOATIONAL Forty students of the Texas university are woume, A tworyear-old child at Gainesville, Ga,, can slready ropeat the entire alphabet, n‘:“p'l'lldunhl: been 7“{;"' the Con- cul lature, asking for the passage of @ law biting the f pu\.uu"'u ng the nse of tobacco in the A primary teaoher asked one of her sche i "dlllwance botwesh goows awi possn One geose Is & goose, and a whole lot of 1 Boosex [s geese I Twenty-tive firms in this country p T Db of all the business. The annual product smounts to about £8,000,000, _\h 8in, the Milwaukee Chinaman who ex- Bicta o enter Cornel uplvorsity sayy ho made 200 in two yoats in the laundry business, Miiwaukeo must be cloaner than it looks. Miss Anna P. Sill has jnst resigned the po- sition of principal of the Rookford (L) ke mala sominary after 35 years' service, = She founded the school, and hins boen remarkably wucoessful in ite conduct. A census of a Philadelphia boarding school of forty-eight girls showod that one could make_brend, ono knew how to fry oysters, three knew how to broil beeksteak, forty-eight could embroider and ferty-soven dance, Now York state expended £1, 1 on its sublic schools during 1883, of which amonnt £11006,341 wan oxpended in tho cities, Though the refurns show the number of children of school age to be 1,685,100, but 1,041,000 at- tended, e —— The Old Elm Tree, As I sat, benenth an old elm tree, the wind went whistling by. 1t bent its boughs and_softly breathed the following with a sigh: “I have lived here for many & yearand seenthe summer come and #o. The spring time withits flowers and rain, the autumn with it fruit and grain, the winter with its chilling blast, when with snow and ice the skies are overcast. In summor time be- b Rod b bk Bve 'of oo do T rbaivio o noath my shade have children often v‘ln%ad. and oh, how oft, beneath my boughs have lovers renewed their plighted vows, and many a time the old and feebls have rought my thade to smoke their pipes or ply the needle; and thus it's been with smiles and tears I have watched them come and go for three-score yours, and many o tale 1 could tell 'of what in that time be- fell. But age is creep- % o'er my head and I fear Ty roots are gotting dead; an d soon 'l we ither and decay like those who sought my shade each day. —[Oheago Sun. —— SINGULARITIES, A rooster at Vorbona, and threo legs. Tt s saidl that tho ducks in Chosapeake bay, Clifornia, subsists ontirely upon wild celery, which, it is reported, grows in abundance in that vicinity. A successfol taxidermist of Irwintown, Ga., rocently killed a blackbird which he has skili: fully mounted and turned into » very unique and pretty neck-scarf or cravat, Awild duck took a direction parallel to a locomotive leaving Tarrytown, and it was close race for two miles, but just before reach- ;.g Trvington the bird forged ahead of the en- ne. A gold watch with o bullet in the back of the case, where it lodgod after going through the time pioce, bolong to W. It McGunnigle of Saginaw, Mich. 1t saved his father's during the war. Samuel Fogely, of New Philadelphia, 0., put heavy load of powder into a log, and, as the fuse failed to firo it, he went up and sat astrido the log. Then the charge exploded and Fogely will die. Mrs. Loulse Lyman, of Cabot, Mass., made a clothes line from the combings of her hair. 'She began the industry in 1829, and made 100, foot of the cord, which the family used for years as clothes lines, A walkdog skeloton in Lille, France, can a0 contraot his diaphragm ax to drive the air completely out of his chest, 5o that not mere that one inch of spaca remains hetween his heart and his backbone, Archdeacon Rruges wontions gentleman who was #0 thoroughly n gamestor that he leftin his will an injunction that his bones be made into dice, and hi» skin o prepared as to be a covering for dice-boxes. Forty conts & week is_all that it costs John W. Nissley, of Mount Carmel, Pa., who is years old, and weigks 175 pounds, to live, His diet is dry bread and hot water, and has been 80 for the last soven yoars, A flock of wild turkeys walked around the public square of Perryville, Mo,, apparently without ear, but were gone again before the poople recovred from their surpriso. aud could capture any of them. Threo months ago a resident of Preston Qity, Coun partially swallowod o fsh bomo, Tt lodged in the back of his mouth, between the lower jaw and cheok, and being unable to removait, waited for it to work loose. Tn. stead it disappeared, and a fow days ago was taken out below the chin. It had traveled four inches, and finally produced an uleer and found its way ont, Thers Is a Malteso cat in Babylon, N. Y. that attends the Presbyterian church reg larly morning and evening. - Tabby is alway found by the sexton itting on the door steps when he opens the church, The cat patters up the aisles and takes up a position near the stove, whero he remnina throughout the ser. vice, After the benediction Tabby leaves tho church with the congregation, and disap- pears. The animal has becowmo £o be known a8 the religious cat, A cat that had in some way become a pris- oner on the top of u house in Philadelphia soventy feet high, became frightened at the frantio offorts of 'the crowd below, and afm clinging to the eaves of the building for some timo suddenly dropped to the ground, Of course the cat wasn't killed, for if the Phils- delphians are to be beliaved the tough feline 1it on all tours and immediately msde u bee: line for tho backyard fonco, whero ho is now tuning himself for the coming concert. A gentloman whilo passivg along a Hort. ford, Conn., street recently noticed the singu- lar actions of what first appeared to be a lo of sparrows in tho [roson aleet of tho Rutter, tied together, neck and lege, Upon further examination, however, he discovered that one bird was foeding the other. The beu- ovolent bird started off when the gentleman cao 0o close, and attempted o carry off it helploss companion, but was of courss unsuo- cessful, It was o clear case of sympathy for suffering helplessnoas; pure birs philanthropy. Wi liam Fergison, of Philadelphis, although 40 yoars old, 1y il aflcted b poctiliar and terriblo birth-iark, which wa the re-ult of his mother, shortly before his birth, wit- neuing the ‘contortions and ovidences * of agony Iu a vnake which had been thrown into a fire, Kvor since the viotim of that serlous afliction was 7 yoars old he has been annu. ally attacded, and euch time ho suffers more than the prebesding. At exactly the saue period of the year conviltions aud paroxysms visit him, and at the same hour of the even- ing, He'is now undergoing the tortures fn & worse form than any before, and, although soores of physicians have visited him, have beon able to suggest a sufficient remedy, Afow days ago o largo mountain awooped down, guthered wh the et dog ot woman living near Glendive, Montaus, and attompted to wake off with it, The woman Was not, a8 some might think hecause she had & pot dog, a dudine, but a determined woman, aud sho dotermined to have that dog, | She bounced into the house, seized her husband's trusty old rifle which had put an end tr mauy & poor Lo, and in a_ moment she had her trained eye along the harrel of the gou divectly against the emblem of our national liberty 'who waa robling humanity of its . lowsico of saustage. Tl plucky woman st her oyes, turned her head, and pulled the er, with the result -namely, an eagle froed from its load, aud the remains of a yel low poodle scattersd upon the ground, and o wouwian with a dislocated shoulder, e — ARE YOU GOING TO EUROPF? In another column will be found the an. ouncement of Messrs, THOS, COOK & SON, “‘lm‘rlm aganhl, 201 Broadway, Now \'url:. ative Vi array ull)'l lu;‘ l:r-d\.nr complete gements comiog d 8 3 diniek oo thd S ill be mailed to any ocents, ., has two tails “Cool’s Excur- ., and full on receipt of 10 i A Vnlentine, A valentine! Ah, can it be That some one has addressed to me These lines, 8o sweot and tender? Name or initial is not set Upon the jage, and yet—and yet F'Ehink | Jnow tho sender. What though the writing be disguieed, And many a littlo trick devised T aid the fond deception; St. Valontine provides the key That spoils the little mystory The moment of reception, We may be right, we may be wrong; For lack of confirmation strong We give the rein to fancy, And let hor wander at her will, And her bright destiny fulfill In fields of necromancy, And valentines would lose their charm, If they at once could doubt disarm Fre yot the seal was broken; And 86 the deepsr the disguise, The more delightful the surprise, And sweeter i the token, [Jonephine Pollard, CONNUBIALITIES, Mgr, Capel ia no longer popular with the ladies ot Washington. They have awakened to the fact that he cannot marry, A novel wedding gift is that of the Mar. quis of Kildare, who has ordered watches to be prepared s his gift to each of the brides. maids, The consus proves that the number of por- #ons in a family inthis country is a small frac. tion over five, " Insome families the husband is the small fraction over. “Your hushand always appears to be in very high spirits.” **Yes,” returned his wife, “if they 't come 80 high I should have had & new fur sacque this wintor." M. de Fay, the great Paris matrimonial agent, has made an enormous fortune, and has retirod to private lifo, refusing to part with the good-will of his profession. “Come, lot's bill and coo a little, as we used to,” said Mixey to his wife, aftér they had been married u yoar. *‘Yes,” sho replied, you louk out for the bills and I'll do the coo- ing.” “My dear,” said a dying husband to his wife, “when I ani dead will you see that my grave is kept green” *Yes,” sobbed the heart-broken woman, will for a little while,” “If it b true that the huirs of one's head | numbered,” said the man after he had ped from his wife's clutches, ‘‘there will be ono angel at least who will show up with a big dencit.” W hat this country is yearning for is a pub- lic school system ich will teach the wives of the future that light housekeeping is some- thing more than reading novels and starching their husband’s stockings. *‘Fred Douglass first met his new wife when she was eix yoars old, Sherefused to kiss him at that time. Mrs, Douglass must have been a six-year-old girl of considerable Intelligence, but she seems to have lost it. Capt. Paul Boynton, heretovore the lone voyager, is to be married in Chicago on the evening of the 1dth inst., to Miss Maggie Cunnufly, daughter of Mr. Gornelins Connolly, of Chicago, and will bring his bride to his home in New York. A barbed wire fence will be built in the In- dian territory and New Mexico 200 miles long. ‘The modest young woman who prefers to go around that fence rather than climb over it, will never reach the other side until she is too old to getmarried, A Vermont woman who has just had the mumps says sho hopes to gracious she will never have to go through such an experience, l\gnin. ‘or two whole weeks ehe hasn't been able to juw her husband or to let out a single reighborhood secret; awful martyrdon! Perhaps the reason the young ladies do not take advantaze of their leap year prerogative is that the business outlook is not very encour- aging. Of course the dear creatures hesitate to add their support the expenses of a man with an already restricted income. But to hesicate is to lose. There is a noble old oak on the line of Maryland and Virginia noar the little village of New Church, which has been famous from time immemorial as a place Where eloping couples have been joined in wedlock. A run- away Virginia couple were married under its spreading branches on Thursday of last week ““My views on the marriage tie,” said Mon. eionor Capel recently, “are, briefly that woman was made by God Almighty to be either married or to become nuns, and that there is no such state as old maid recoguirible. My advise to all young women is to accept mirriage proposals instead of rejecting them.” none [« o tours i tascps thy | di An intimate friend_of Misy Ella Wheeler, the pootess, now in Now Orleans, says that younglady is to bo mareled n early spriug to Mr. Yorke. of New York. It is reported that tho final 0 of Mr. Yorke's uame 18 the spark which caused the conflagration of love now said to bo roaring and seething in Elllws heart, Tt is rocorded of arich old_farmer that, in giving instructions for hix will, he_directed a logacy of 8100 to be given to his wife. Being informed that some_distinction was usually mado in case the widow married again, he doubled the sum, and when told that this was quite contrary to custom, he said, with heart- felt sympathy for his possible successor: ““Aye, but him as gets herll’ deserve it.” A Pennsylvania mister who is very popu- lar smong the matrimonially inclined, says wealthy bridegrooms do not pay_bstter than those of more moderato means, Ten and twen- ty dollurs and expenses a.e tho averuge fig- ures, but $100 and $200 fees aro given to big preachers. Sometimes a generous brido hears of the small fae paid by the groom, and at- tempta to remedy the matter by sending the preacher handsome present. . But this is rare, Charlas Richurds, & young Engl'shman, died fa New York of pueunioniu, and was burled in Evergreen Cemetery lust’ Saturday. The only mourner was Miss Winfred, a goveruors in & well known family in New 'York. Miss Winfred and Richards were lovers in England but a brovher of the young lady tried to sspa- rate them. Finally Miss Winfred left her home and came to Now York, whither sho was folluwed by Richards, They were about to b married and roceived the blesing of the young lady’s father, nccompanied by @ check e w100, when Iichards. becawe”sick and led, o ——— RELIG1OU! 014 St. Poter's church, Now York, has en- tered its ono hundredth vear. The Rey, Mr. Spurgeon, the noted Bantist preacher, hius fully recovered from his recont slcl General McClellan may froquently be seen ot Dr. Jobo Halls chursh, Now "York, of whose preaching he is very fond, Bishop Garrett, who presides over a mis- slouary jurisdiction of 100,000 square miles, extending from Toxarkana to New Mexico, lives in Dallas, Tox. Mrs. Ayer, wife of the late Dr. Ayer, is an piscopalian and attends Grace churchk, New York. She drosses very quietly and gives o great deal to charities, Dr, Deams, of New York, has about recov- ed from his illness. Last Sabbath was the first occasion in twenty years that he has been abseut from the pulpit on account of iilness. Father Stephan, the famous Catholic mis- sionary who is now in. Washington, has had & lifo full of adventure, Fora long time sittivg Bull was under his charge. Ho is the trusted counsellor of all the Northwestern Indiaus, and is said to have 1more ufluonce over them than wny other white man, “*Camp Meeting” John Allen, of Wilton, Me.. has reached the age of sighty-nine years. “1 find much time to read,” he said the vther day, “and have read tho Diible through, aud half the New Testament tho second time in the Lt four wonths, 1 have read the Bible through many times, but nover before quite 80 quickly,” Bellefoutaing, 0., is now the scene of one of the yreatast religions revivals ever held i the state. Peoplo from thirty miles around are Hlucking to the town, and couversions are tuk- ing place daily, ‘One huudred converts have been udded to one denominution since inflnence and prominence, and some whose names are as familiar as household words, At the last Methodist Episcopal General conference, held in 1880, a resolution was passed requesting all the chnrches in the Uni- ted States to pay off as much of their debt« as possible before the meeting of the next gen- eral conference, to be held at Philadelphia in May, 1884, 80 as to make as good a showing in the centennial year of Episcopal Metho- dism in_the United States, 1884, as y ossible, Tt is not possible to get an absolutely correct statement of the total amount paid in response to this advico. Last year the ‘‘spring con- ferences,” which are most the conforencos situ- ated in the east, paid off £1,000,000 of church debt and improved their church property to the extent of § 5 The “fall coafer- ences” for 1882 paid off $782,000 of church pebts, It is probably an underestimate to sa; % in four years the churches have paid of 5,200,000 of dobt, and probably improved church property to the extent of £3 500,000, a total of $4,700,000 for the eutire country. This does not include either the Methodist Protestants or the Methodist Episcopal Church South, o ——— Wendell Phillips Ho stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide The din of battle and slaughter rose; Ho saw God stand upon the weaker side, That sank in seeming loss hafore its foes; Many thlulrn were who made great haste and sol¢ Unto the common enemy their swords; He mflnlm;:l their gifts of fame and power and gold, And, underneath their soft and Howery words, Heard the cold rerpent hiss, therefore he went And humbly joined him to the weaker part, Tanatic named, and fool, yet well content So he could be the nearer to God's heart And feel its solemn pulses sending blood "Thro’ all the widespread veins of endles« grod, ~[James Russell Towell, —— PEPPERMINT DROP A gasman always sing in long meter, 1f eggs keep on gotting much higherin prico millionaires will wear them as shirt studs, Deuis Kearney has found that tho only way ho can reach the upper crust is by handling ples. There s a man in the Mississippi legislature named Christinas, He isin favor of annual meetings. John 1. Sullivan boasts that he makes 825,000 a year, Young man, strike out from the shoulder, Tvery cloud has a silver lining, but it is not 80 with solid silver water pitchers, They are nickel-plated. Anothor baby left on a Pittsburg door stop. Another Pittsburg man wonders if this makes hitn o step-futher. "They say that dogs can’t reason, hut no one will doubt that a dog tries to reach a conclu- sion when he chases his tail. Shakespeare said: “Theres good in every- thing” William had evidently never tackled a railroad restaurant turnover. When Hamlet said, ‘‘But I haye that with- in which passoth show,” it is believed that he had in his pocket a complimentary ticket for a circus, Hon, J. L. Sullivan called his San Francisco audience “'loafers,’ and referred to himself as “‘a gentleman,” A Bostonian never for- gets himself, An exchange says that Noah was the first pitcher an record.” He *‘pitched the ark with- in and without.” The game was finally called on account of the rain, A perfect rush of Italian artists with their attendant original dudes is expected in Amer- ica in a fjew days. The organ-grinders are to be banished from Paris. 1 say, Jenkins, can you tell a young, ten- der chicken from an old, tough one?” “Of course I can.” **Well, how?” **By the testh.” "Chic,kenh don’t have teeth.” “No, but I have.” The following is a copy of a bill posted on the wall of a country vill: “A lecture on total abstinence will be delivered in the open air, und a collection will be made at the door to defray expenses, I say, Mr. Painter, can you doa job for mo to-day?” “‘Certainly, cortainly; What is it?” “I want a sign painted.” “All right; what kind of a sign?” A siga of rain.” (Exit, dodgiog a paint pot.] Ths man who discovered the key to the. an- cient Azteo writings was formerly employed on The New York Tribune, and acquired the talent ho has used to such good advantage in deciphering Greeley’s manuscript. Queen Victoria’s new book will be illustrat- ed from drawivgs by herself and daughter Beatrice. It 14 believed that Daniel wall be easily distinguished from the British lion by the green cotton umbrella under his arm. Florida strawberries have fallen to 85 a quart, They are quite small and decidodly acid, Some people who like sour things may enjoy them, but for our part we lose taste for tchalx‘n after the third plate.—[Philadelphia all. ‘While scattering a few crumbs for the spar- rows this severe weather don’t forget to throw ont a lot of 0ld tomato-cans, barrel-hoops and cast off shoos for the poor goat, which has as much right to live as the imported feather biped. Crushed strawborry color is not now consid- ered the correct thing, The newest color in fashion is “the inside of a mule's ear by star- light.” The outside of a mule’s heel will tar- nish tho starlight at short range when the sky is cloudy, A fat man in this city is making quite a for- tune by a shrewd trick. He secretes two cats under his vest, snd when visiting music halls ho makes them yell by squeezing their tails, People not posted on the trick 1magine him to be a groat opera. singer. ‘‘Where shall we bury?’ asks a scientific writer, Did you ever try the earth! Thatis considored a very appropriate place by many people. 'This practice of burying a corpse in an ash barrel or throwing it over the back fenco into & meighbor's yard cannot be too strongly condemned, At a theatre in Dublin a gentleman request- ed a mun in front of hini to sit down, adding, sarcastically, “I suppose that you are aware, sir, that you are not opaque.” “I shall sit down when it sults me,”. was the responso, “and if you want to handle my name, mind its not O'Paque at all, but O'Brien.” —————— Petroleum V. Nasby, D. R. Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby (Editor “Toledo Blade,”) writes: T had on o forefinger of my right hand one Has_the Larcest Stook:in Omaha andbMalces thi BEDDING AND by PASSENGER ELEVATOR To All Floors. Lowest Prices. GCHARLES SHIVERICK, | L Furniture' A MIERORS, Purchasers should avail themselves of the opportunity now offered te buy at Low Prices by taking advantage of the great inducements set ouf CHAS, SHIVERICK | 1206, 1208 nd 1210 FarnamSt — OMAHA, NEB, RICHARDS & CLARK Proprietors. l WATER WHEELS Celebrated 'Anchor ODELL ROLLER MILL. Flouring Mills, fremStone to the Rolle to prompuiy. Address MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS (IN Steam Engines, Boilers ROLLERIMILLS,: Mill and Grain Elevator Machinery MILL FURNISHINGS OF ALL KINDS, INCLUDING THE Brand Dufour Bolting Cloth? STEAM PUMPS, STEAM WATER ANDIeAS PIPE. BRASS GOODS AND PIPE FITTINGS, ARCHITECTURAL AND BRIDGE IRON. ol Y W. A. CLARKE Superintendne Omaha Iron Works U. P. RATuWAY - - - 17TH & 18TH STREETS TN 94TTI0Y TTId0 We are prepared to furnish plans and estimates, and will contract for the erection of Flouring Mills and Grusin Elu\;utors, or for changiny ystem, §37~ Krpecial attention given to furnisning Power Plants for any pur— pose, and estimates made for same. General machinery repairs attended RICHARDS & CLARKE Omaba, Neb. 102t North Eighteenth of thoso pleasant pew, » “run-round,” The finger became inflamed to a degree unboarable and swollen to nearly twico its natural size. A friend gave me HENRY’S CARBOLIC SALVE, and in twenty minutes the pain had 50 much subsided as to give me o fair night's rost, which T had not had before for a Week, The inflammation loft the finger in o day. I consider it & most valuable article for the household, Cures the Piles Too, Edonard Reintard, of New York, writes: It gives me great J-lamun to say that a sin- gle box of HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE offectad complete cure of Piles, with which T had been troubled for over a yedr, and which nothing else that I used wonld cure. o — ‘When the World Will End, ‘When lawyers fail to take a fee And juries never disagreo; Wkei politicians are content, And landlords don’t collect their rent; When partica smash all the machines, And Boston folks give up their beans; ‘When naughty children all die young, And girls are born without a tongue; ‘When ladies don’t take time to shop, And office holders never flop; When preachers cut their sermons short, And all the folks to church resort; ‘When back subscribers all have paid, Aud uditors their fortunss made; 9 iness must sure portend wust 800n come to an end. —[Piftsburg Dispasch, —— Such hay This world ExtremeTired Feeling, A lady tells us *‘the first bottle has done my daughter a great deal of good, her food does not distress her now, nor January 19, and the conversions in some cases aro wald to be very rewarkable, | A new religious sect in Boston holds that iseaso is caused by the absence uf Gud from | the body, und that it can be cured by the pas- of divine affiuence from the well to the sick as they sit with their spines in contact. 1t I is said to number umong its yotaries people of does she suffer from that extreme tired feeling which she did before taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” A second bottle fected & cure. 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