Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1885, Page 7

THE OHEAPEST PLACE IN OMAHA TO BUY Foll=fi=N =] =Rt Is AT DEWEY & STONE' Oxne of he Best'and Largest 3tocks in the United Stater To Belect From. NO STAIRS TO CLIMB, ELEGANT PASSENGER ELEVATOR The Mutual Life Insurance Gom B meifortunes of ench otber, world. 06 Hundred and Three Millions of D WHEN SOLICITED TO INSURE IN OTHER COMPANIES, Remember These Important Facts CONCERNING speculation by speclal clssses upon the OF NEW YORK. L=Ib # tho OLDEST ackiva Life Invuranco Company th this eountey, 2.1t isthe LARGEST Life Insurance Company by many millions of dollars In the world. ER than those of any other company, ny part of ita profit e of Insurance 0.—Its present avallable CASH RESOURCES exceed those of any othe: Life Insurance Company in the ) to January, 1886, §270,02 821 Ollars MERRILL & FERGUSON, 1¢ has recelved In cash trom all sources, from February, 154 1t han returncd to the peop cash, from February, 1843, to January, 1885, Tts cash Asscts on the 1st of January, 1685, amount to more than W, F. ALLEN, General Agent for G Gen, Agta, for Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming and | Michigan, Indiana, Tllinois, Wisconsin, Towa Utah Office Cor,Farnam and 13th St.Over 1st Nat'l, and Minnesota, Detroit, Michigan, M. ¥, ROHRER, Special Agent for fowa, Council Bluffs, Towa tah. Bank, Omaha, Nob 1T11CCK, Eng, & Supt, G. P, N, BADLER, Asst, Eng H, W, DIAMOND, Asst, Sec MISSOURI VALLEY BRIDGE AND IRON WORKS OFFICE AND WORKS LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. Man'fg's and Builders o Wronght Iron. Steed, Howe Truss and Combination ‘BRIDGES For Railroads and Highways Tarn_Tables, Draw Spans, Roo Trusees, Piers and Sub- structures, Ins'ey, Shire_Tullock S5 A, McLouth, Agent. , (W | H. A Wise, * Ploasend us notice of all bridgs work {to let. Correspoadence solicited from eagincera and br ntractors, “YOUNC MEN ! Ustab, 1 LARGEST STOCK OF WINRDOW CLASS IN THE WEST. ————————————————————————————————————————— M~ ESTIMATES ON PLATE CLASS CIVEN. @1 1 power, who are S, Who are wealk, THE DAILY BEE--WEDNESD?! FEEDING AT THE Z00. Varions Rinds of Food Provided for the Animls, Some of the Big Hay. Eaters—Diges- tion Spolled by Peanuts, Philadelphia Times, The various representatives of the animal kingdom In the Zoological garden consumed $8,200.69 worth of food last year. This wonld make an average of about §25 a day. The food consumed runs the whole gamut from horseflosh to peanuts, - The carnlvorous animals sub- sist almost entlrely on horseflesh, of which they devour about three hundred pounds a day. This flesh wes substituted for beef about alx or neven years ago and its substitatlon has saved the so- clety about $4,500 a year. FEEDING THE DEASTS, That horss meat Is perfectly acceptable to the brutes was fully attested at feed- ing time Saturday. Fifteen minutes be- foro dinner they began pacing up and down thelr dens and lashing their sldes with ther long talls, As the minute hand crept along toward 3:20 o'clock they became more and more exclted, but every time a door was heard to open or shut they would stop and listen In- tently. When the clock struck the half hour the llons’ house was in an uproar. Every anlmal teemed to know that the dinner hour had arrived. They kept perfectly silent while the keeper passed along with his bucket of meat and every animal took his posltion at the front of his cage and grabbed between his paws his quota of meat as It was flang in. ~The lind llon, who has only two teeth left In his head, sat up on his haunches and recelved his chunk of horseflesh with a gratefal grunt, ‘““The poor old brate would starve to death If he had to hustle for himself,” sald the keeper, glv- ing him a caressing slap on the nose with his hand. The llons and tigers are fed but once a day slx tlmes a week and Monday Is ob- eerved as an involuntary fast day by them. Thelr meal conslsts of about fifteen pounds of meat each, although a lesser quantity Is given to them In hot weather. The wsmaller carnlvoreus animals receive from eight to ten pounds of meat a day, The cubs are fed on mutton once or twics a week and aro also glvon a small quan- tum of milk, All of the young animals are given a5 much milk as they require. Hay 15 the largest item of subsistencs in the garden, from three and a half to four tons being consumed every week by the herbivorous animals, which constitute about one-halt the Inhabitants of the garden. The marsupials, like the kan- garoo and opossam, are fed principally on bread and vegetables, such as cab- ager, potatoes, carrots, onlons and, when posaible, apples, They are also some- times regaled on ship biscult. BIRDS LARGE AND SMALL, The large birds, such as the ostrich, cassowary and emu, feed on the ssme diet as the marsuplals and rodents. The monkeys est pretty much everything that comes in their way, but their authorized diet conslsjs of apples, pota- toes, bread, milk, onions and corn meal, but the article of food they most enjoy and s best for them Is sweet potatoes. ‘The insectivorous birds are fed princlpal- ly on prepared food and the other birds recelve soaked biscuit, mashed potatoes, meal, worms and, as a dessert, hard- botled eggs. The elephants consume about two hun- dred and tifty pounds of hay aplece every dasy. They also recelve a portion of po- tatoes and bread. The rhinoceros is fed on about the same dlet, only he gets less bread and no potatoes. The hippopota- mus dines on hay, bran, oats and cracked corn. The glraffe subalsts almost entirely on clover hay, All of the ha, ing ani- male, homover, receive a small allowance of corn, oats and bran. The bears live almoet entirefy on bread and some apples. They are inveterate beggars and eat al- most anything that i tossed to them, The seals and lions are the mozt daln- we stopped for orders, and the orders were to slde track three miles beyond at the coal switch and walt for No. 6. That was four miles from L——, where the minister was, That was pretty rough, but ordera had to be obeyed. We ha got nicely on the awitch and stsod wal ing a little while, when the brakeman came running forward as fast as he could ran and from the top of the front car shoated, “‘The old man’s coming on a hand-ear. Look out.” I turned, and sure enough, thirty rods away a hand. cat was coming with four men on it Somebody had betraged us. Yhere was no time to lose. As quick as flash I de- clded what to do, Shouting to the brake- man to uncouple the tender from the car, I told my fireman to jump for the switch. He dld so, and I opened the throttle, Just In the nlck of time the swltch was turned, and weo bounded onto the maln track. The old man made a run for ue, but he couldn’t make it, and then he returned to his hand-oar and gave chase. The question was now, could I make L— elding before No, G left there? If I couldn’t 1 might have a colliston, It was s foarfal rlsk, but I palled the throttle wide open, and while I fired the lass kept her eye peeled along the track. She was a brave glrl, and never faltered, though ty, and, next to the elepbants, the most expensive feeders in the colony., Their food consists entirely of first class fresh R|fish, of which they consume fifteen pounds a day. The otter, cranes, storks, ¢ | pollicans and gulls are also fod on fresh fish, The seals and otter are fed twice a day and the hay-eating anlmals once, al- Mol | though they mansge to husband thelr al- diig to 3 ed by this trestment, aud vigorous Ten, or those who intend to marry, - per . health, vigorous off- long ife and the I b stored to vicor & d before marrl; The Glimax Medical Co, 504, St. Lauis, Mo, Add Edholm & Erickson ") WHOL _!SALE AND RETAIL EWELER AND--~ S MUSIC DEALERS, Steinway, Weber and Haines' PTAINOS Packard Orchetral Organs. Diamonds, Solid Silverware and Jewelry IN LARGE, VARIETY. Fdholm & Erickson Corner’16th and Dodge, Opp. Postofiice. RUEMPING & BOLTE, | Manufacturers «¢ Ornamental GALVANIZED [RON CORNICES, FINIALS Dermes Wisdows, Window Oaps, Motalllc Sky-Lights, &0 Tin, Iron snd slate Beolern, W8 Bouth 134h Blreod, Qmaba, Neb. Work dose 1o Aoy parto Hhy countey, lowance, 80 that they can keep their jaws working all the time. The monkeys are supposed to bo fed but once a day, but the liberality of visltors makes every day a continuous feast for them, THE MISCHIEVOUS PEANUT, | “‘The digestive organs of a zdological monkey are broken down socner than thoee of any other man or beast,” sald a keeper at the garden. ‘‘Why, look at the stoff they eat—candy, cake, fralt, bups and pesnats, eepeclally peanuts, which do more harm than all the rest of the truck pat together.” Superintendent Brown corroborated the keeper's words. “The feeding of animals by visltors,” he eald, ‘does much harm, but peanuts more than any- thing else. Tt fs impossible to stop it. It would take one hundred policemen to break up the custom, and by the time that was accomplished tho people would stop comling., Half the time the an- tmals can’t eat thelr meals on account of the indlgestible stuff given to them by visitors,” o —— Train Talk, The englneer stood oiling his locomo- tive and walting for another train, A wedding party was on the statlon plat- form, bldding effusive goodbyes to brlde and groom, “I'never eee 8 wedding party get on my train,” sald the englneer, ‘‘that I do not think of the tlms% got marrled my- solf. That was several years ago, Though an englneer I was rather wild, and when I courted the daughter of the section boss—as pretty an Irlsh lass as ever lived—the old man objeoted. He sald If 1 didn't reform my ways I'd be killed some night o0 my run, and he didn't want sny widows and children cn his hands, But the gal and I made up our m!nds that we'd get marrled any way, and trust to luck for the fature. ~Thal ou know, is the kind of risk the best of em have to take. So I made sll prepar- atlons for an elopement. 1 had 'a day ran, but I changed off with another en- gloneer on purpose. That run brought me to the little statlon where the section bess lived durlog the night. It was all arranged that she shonld come on board my ecglne, ride to the second station with me, and there a telegraph operator, a frlend ¢f mine, was to have a minister ready. Everythiog worked all right, the lass was soon seated behind me fn the cal How the old losomotive did ruu that night. She seemed to fly through the alr without touching the ralls, but even then ehe dldn't go fast encugh tosult me, At the next atation we ran so fast. that the engine bounded and swayed aa {f it wonld leave the ralls, Soon she called to me, ‘I see a light.” 1 looked, and It was the headlight of No. 6, Bat I looked again, and could see the switch-lights this slde of hor—she was standlng at L——. I whistled fiercoly for the awltch, agaln and agaln. I vould eco the engine of No. 6 begln to puff— they were moving out. Again I whistled and at last they heard me, No. 6 stopped pufling, the white switch light gave way to a red one, and In a few seconds we glided upon the aiding, At the station was our minlster, and in five minutes we were marrled. Then we followed No. 6 back to the coal swltch, and I moved on with my train without the loes of any tlme. The upshot of it all was that when ho heard of it the superintendent over- looked my ‘wild run’ for a wife, and the old man came down and did the hand- some thing by us, I never seo a wedding party but I think of that night’s ride.” —— SOENES IN THE BARGAIN STORES, ‘Where People Forget Everything Else in their Eagerness to Buy Oheaply, Chicago News, The bargain.store trade has grown to be a distinctive feature of retail bueiness, 1t bas its peculiarities not only In what is there for sale, butin the class of pa- trons. It does not eoven cater to the medlum-priced trade, but to a grade ba- neath it. There s neyer a day in the week, except Sunday, when the bargain stores are not thronged with a miscellan- eous crowd of pushing, jostling people cf both sexes. These stores are crowded with women of every known typs of fea- ture and every mauner of dress, They push each other so rudely that it s a ULY 8, 1 COUNCIL BLUFFS. TADDITIONAL LOCAL. TEACHING TEACHERS, The Normal Institute Fairly Opened and Promising Well, The normal Institate for the teachers of this part of the coun'y was really opened yesterdsy, the day before belng glven over to the preliminary wotk of organlzation, The attendance Is very falr, there belng over a hundred already enrolled, and others to follow. County Saperintendent Matthews is in charge, and has for his asssstants Prof. Mec Naughton, the city superintendent of schoole; Prof. W, O. Davls, superla. tendent of the Avooa echools, and Mre, 1. T. Ware, principal of the Bloomer school of this city, The programme ar. ranged for the session opens each morn- ing by exerclses conducted by Sapt. Matthews, inclading rudimentary music lostons; school management, by Prof. McNaughton; primary work, Mrs. Ware: oral general lessons, recess, arlthmetlo, and language. In the afternoon, after the cpening exercises, there will be class exorcises in arlthmetic and physlology, geography and history. These normals are productive of great good to those who attend, and have a great Indirect value to the schools, The names of those who have this normal in hand are eufliclent assarance that this marvel any escape without having thelr garments torn from thelr bodies. Kach one is in search of something which may be obtalned for less than its actual value. As the bargain stores contlnue to thrive and the proprletors become rich, It 1s safe to conclude that at least a fair profit is realized from ghe sales, and that few of the customers succeed in getting any goods for less than they are worth, “‘Of course, the bargaln stores do not buy the best class of goods to begin with,” said one of the merchants. ““Then the stocks are bought in immense quan-— tities, odds and ends are picked up, auc- tlon sales from fallures are watched for, and In this way we are enabled to offer merchandlse for a lower figura than retail stores that carry fine, expensive lines and cater to the best trade, Thera is 1it- tle varlation, however, In the prices of staple goods, such as sheetings, muslins, etc. We make a run occaslonally on something that we have picked up cheap* or for advertlsing purposes sell below the actual cost. Do we lose therebs? Not much. Such a sale will draw a crowd, and nine-tenths of the number who come buy something else. The percentages of profit ‘are not as high as they were, though, In thls line of buslness, for mar- gins have been cut down 8o low by the other grade of ehops that, in order to keep up the character of a bargain etore, we are obliged to o still lower.” “‘Do women who come here lose thelr purses or packages often?” They drop small packages frequently, but there are not s0 many pocket-books missing as there was a while ago. When a pocket book s lost It is Invarisbly through the carelessness of the owner, Theroare few professlonal pickpockets who frequent the bargain stores now for the survelllanze has been so close and the punishment go rigld for the last two yoars that they have been drlven out, We employ two girls whose sole business it to look oat for pickpockets. Women from the country lose thelr children more [frequently than aoything clse. There is seldom a dsy when some women Is not rushing frantically around seeking her child, or when we don't find eome small speclmen wandering around crying for its mamma, The other day s woman wear Ing a red woolen shawl was raging sround like a cyclone. Clutching her sklrts and bellowing lustily were two small boys about 3 and 5 years of age, The young- sters telpped and stumoled, but never let go thelr mother's ekirts, while she gave no heed to them, but caught hold of every one in her way and screamed, ‘S a-y—hev you seen my baby? hev you! Good ¥ ght months old with red hLair, graclous, where 1z my baby?’ ‘‘Well, we found "the baby. She had lald 1t down beside a pile of ‘dress goods, It had gone to sleep, and elther she or some one else had carelessly thrown a plece of gingham over {t, hiding it from sight. The mother had forgotten it and walked away.” “‘Are the wages of the clerks less In the bargain stores than In others?” ‘‘There Is littlo difference between the salaries pald here and In high-priced stores in {lar capaclties, The heads of our departments get as good pay they could in the ssme places anywhere else, The salaries of the girls behind our glove counter range from $7 to $10 per week. The little cashgirls get about the same pn{‘ that cashboys do in other stores. he lowest pay received by any cashgirl with us ls é per week, The highest is §4 per week. The work ls harder here than In shops of different type, and the class of custom, as a rule, more difficult to deal with, Complaint 1s often made that the clerks in bargaln stores are rude. You can't expect to 860! the services of many refined young ledies, even at better compensa- tion than they could get elsewhere, 1f a girlis a thorough lady in her manner, and fs often subjected to the rudeness showa so often to employes by many cus- a | tomers, she scon forgets that she may encounter any other claes,” Col. Will H, Lowdermilk, late post- master, Cumberland, Md., writes there can be no two questions as to the efficacy of Bt. Jacobs Oil, will prove one of the best and most profi- table yet held here. ————— PERSONAL, B, F. Clayton was visible here yostorday. Miss Bessie Huntington ia to spend her va- cation with relatives in Glenwood, A, Riley and 0. P, Wyland, of Harlan, were among yesterday’s visitors to the Bluffs. £4 G, Drake, who is one of the tourists of Keeline & Felt, roturned yosterday from a successtul trip, Mrs, Colwell, of Cameron, Mo,, who has been visitlog Mrs, John B, Rue, left for her home yesterday, Thomas Godfroy, of Atchison, the tra ling passenger agent of the Burlington & ouri was in the city yesterda: Gen, Joe Johnon, of Virginia, was expect. ed to arrive via the Wabash railway yester- day but for seme unaccountable reason did not H. Barnaby, finding work a little scarce bere, has gone to Villisca, to spend the sum-— mer months, having secured employment there, Mrs, £, E, Sloan, of Cameron, Mo, who has been ting her parents, Mr, and BMrs, James Craig, in this city, retarned home yes- terday. Joe LaChapello, of the Glenwood Journal, was married last Thursday evening to Miss Rose Lyons, one of the popular young ladies of that place, G. G. Rico has retnrned from Vermont, where he has been attending a reunion of his old college class and visiting old triends and familiar places, S, S, Walker, of Salt Lake, passed through here yesterday, en route home with his two sons and two daughters, who have been at- tending echool in New York, He is one of four brothers who own a very valuable silver mine 1n the west, Mrs, T, A, Clarke and daughter left last evening for the west, expectiog to join her husband, whose engineering corps is engaged on the line between Port Coll nd Long Mount, in Colorado. Mrs. Clark will be ab- sentseveral weeks enjoying the delightful cli- mate and scenery, e IOWA ITEMS, E. Drunkenness is in Ida Grove. The elghth seml-annual meetlng of the sheriffs of Iowa will convene at Spirit Lake July 14, A little daughter of a Mr. Dorrington, of Dubuqve, feli into & vault Thursday evenlog and was rescued with great diffi- culty, There has been but one safe robbed and one sermon preached In the town of Berwick, near Des Moines, during the past two months, The ceremony of the laying of the cor- ner stone cf St. Ambrose seminary, Davenport, was witnessed Monday by about 2,000 people. * Polk county pald ou% £39,761.60 for the prosecution of its criminals last year in Judge McHenry's court slone. Fines daring the same perlod amounted to but $1,415, Dick Smith, who stabbed John McGran at Bloomfield a short time ago, surcen-— dered to the oflizers at Drakesville on Thureday, He walved examinatfon and gave ball to await the acticn of the grand Juryg, The reunion of northwert Iowa soldiers at Spirit Lake, commencing on the 14th, 13 belng enconraged by the Grand Army posta throughout the disteict. The state regetta at the rame place covering the same dates will ba an added attraction, Mra, Harman Evape, living in Ander- son townshlp, north of Enerson, has hatched out over 900 chickens this sum. mer, 760 of which are alive now. She ls also raisng three goslings, ten ducks and four turkeys, Mrs, Evans has done all the work connected with the business heraelf, beeides attending to her house work, Mrs, Evans is the darling incuba- tor of western Iowa, The Iowa supreme court recently ren- dered a decislon which will shake fash- ionable soclety toits foundatlons, It cides that brandy Is Intoxleating, To those who have never loooked upon the llmpid llquid which cheers and makes men hilarlous this will come like a rev- elation. But the question which agitates the minds of the sober cltizens of the Hawkeye state How did the supreme court ascertaln the fact? Samuel Baker, & promlinent farmer near Dayenport, sat down with wife and three guests to dlnner Sunday, Wine graced the beard, Each took a glassfull and in ten minutes all experi- enced qualms of the stowach and gripes that called loudly for a stomach pump, After three hours’ suffering, # doctor brought the party out of danger. It was then learned that Mrs, Baker put jlmsen root linimert in the wine, mistaking it for prickly ash root. The Chloago, Rock Island & Paclfic railroad company has made a settlement for the damages sustalned by Miss Nellle Young, of Monticello, through brulses and burns loflicted in an accldent In Falrport In Janusry last. The settle. ment provides for the payment of £5,000 to Miss Young’s father, a8 her guardian, and the surgleal, hospital and other ex. penses, which amount to about §1,000 more. A draft for §5,000 was forwarded to Miss Young's father. Increasing 7 RealEstate Bedtord & Souer 213 South 14th Street, Have a large list of inside business and resi- dence property, and some of the finest suburban property in and around the city, We have business property on Capitol Avenue, Dodge, Douglas, Farnam, Harney, Howard, 9th, 10th, 13th and 16th sreets, We have fine residence property on Farnam, Douglas, Dodge, Davenport, Chicago, Cass, California streets, Sher- man, 8t Marys end Park Avenues, in fact on all the best residence streets, ditiens. Hawthorne. Millard& Caldwell’s Lakes, Elizabeth Place’ E. V.Smith’s, Horbach’s, Patrick’s Parker’s, Shinn’s, Gise's, Nelson’s, Armstrone’s! Godfrev’s, Lowe’s, Kirkwood, College Place,’ Park Place, Walnuo:Hill, West End, Boegs & Hill' Capitol,: Reed’s First, ‘We have property in the following ad- McCormick’s, Kountz & Ruth’s, Impr’nt Association Wilcox, Burr Oak, Isaac & Seldon’s Hanscom’s West Omaha, Grand View, Credit Foncier, Kountz’ First Kountz’ Second, Kountz’ Third, Kountz’ Fourth, Svadicate Hill, Plainview, Hill Side, Tukev & Kevsors, Thornburg, Clark Place, Mvers & Richards. 2 Bovds, And all the other Additions to the City.- South Omaha. We have the agency fo tae syndicate lands in South Omaha. These lots sell from 225 upwards, and are very desirable property, The development of the packiag houseand othar interests there, are “rapidly building up that portion of the city, Kirkwood. We have a few lots left in Kirkwood addition, which we offer at low prices, terms $25 down balance $£0 per month, level ground and are desirable, These lots are on high Hawthorne,| This addition is more centrally near the best Schools in the city. located than any other new addition All the streets are being put to grade the grades have peen established by the city council, and is very desira~ ble residence property, only 15 block adjoining additions for a home or investment, beaten, For SALE—Lot InWalnut hill, 8200, # For Saue—Lots on 20th, 8550 each, 2 acres with elegant residence, ne trees, shrubery, fruit, hot and and all conveniences; first class respect. foet on Farnam street, near 3 ess property cheap. For ReNt—Room 44x75, 3d floor, on 14th treot, from Post office, prices lower than These lots cannot be ALe—House and lot, 25th and Chica plendid corner, $3,600, OR SALE ~ First class business block, 845,13 00 ¥or Sate—} lot on Wheaton St;; goo house, $1,600, } §ood Yox, SaLe—Tine corner lot in Shinn's addi tion, §750, For Sate—Lot in Millard Place, special bargain. Fon LeAsz—Fine business property on 16th St., and St. Mary's Avenue, Hox Sawi—3 lob on Chloago St between 13th and 14, with good house, $3,000, We will furnish conveyance free to any part of the city toshow property to our friends and customers, and cheerfully give informa- tion regarding Omaha Property, Those who have bargains‘to offer or wish property at abargain,are invited to see us. BEDFORD & SOUER Real §Estate Agents 238, 14th8t,, bet. Farnam & Douelas