Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSORIPTION ¢ Daily (Morniae Edition) |nmmm Nh'vl‘hn Bep, s Year or 8ix Months ‘ v Threo Months The Omaha Swndny i %, milied 16" iy address, Une Yoar, OWARA OFrice, No, 814 ANy NEW YORK OFFIcE WASHINGTON OFFICE, COMMESPONDERCE: ations relating to news and edi- yuld be addressed 1o the Eui- TOR OF THE I RUSTNESS LETTRRS ATl busineas Jotters and romittanos hould bo Addressod OMAA. chiocks and_postof 10 b imade payable 0 the Orderof tho compAnY. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, F. ROSEWATYT ™ Sworn Stateme State of Nebraska, | County of Donglas. { % % Geo, B. Tzschuck,secretary of the Bee Pub- lishine eompany, dovs solemnly swear that the actual circilation of the Dailv Bee for the week ending Aug, 0th, 1885, was as follow: 2,500 DAILY BE t of Circulation. Monday. Puesday, Srd. Wednesday, “Phursday, Sth, riday, Sunday, 1st Averaze, 12,315 175CHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to hr‘l’uwl o this th day of Angust, 1556, N. P F [8KAT.| T\ulm) Publie. Geo, B. Tzschuck, being firetduly swora,de- s and says that he is secretary of the Bee ublishing company, that the aciual averagze daily circulation of ‘the Daily Bee for the month of Jnmuu' 1856, was 10,378 copies; lor ebruary, 1536, 10,593 copies; for March, LS eoples;. for April, 1860, 13,401 m u« for May, 1846, 12,459 copies: for June, , 12,208 coples; for .Jllly,lmh‘ 314 copies. GEo, D. Tzscnvek. Subseribed and sworn to_before me, this 2d aay of Angust, A, D, 1886, [8EAL.| P, Frir, Publie. Contents of the Sunday Be Page 1. New York Herald Cablegrams— Specials to the Bee—General Telegraphic lml ‘lm‘ News—Washington Lette Speclal Towa and Nebraska d neral Telocraph—City New: !flrk Letter- < Page . Lincoln Lotter—Omaha Markets— xl!cvlhm Pago i, Kditorials—Tolitical Points—Press Comments \It'\\n and Interviews — Ll iszt—Colored Gamblers \drick—Gambrinus and ‘A, O"Brien—Connccticut Blue by Harry s—The Old Going, by General Brisbin—Miscel- lany—Advertisément Pages. Cii Local adyertisements, Page 0. Mr. Kecly and his Motor, by W. W. Harsha, President of Belloviie College— nnubialities—Musical an it mpi ties—Hon tional: Page Summer ry by Luke urdette's Sermon of "o IL Tho“Lite htning — Bo Lettor—Short the Toupon Tickot, a iarp—Midsummer Mad— Special advertisements, y xecutor’—Freaks rowed 1'lum & nulxu-d Wall Street Man--A New h 0 12, A Pretty Poetic Plcture: rILlcllIe"—l lié Nature of Co tl;,alhlg the Haddock murder at cnvln‘: no stone unturned to trace rs—The sloop Mavilower aefeats Mexicans massing troops oppo- site Fort McIntosh—Somebody knocked out a6 O'Nelll—Suicide at Sioux City—The pri- s called for the selection of delegates to he conventions—Belfast, Ireland, placed un- der martial la Orange-Catholi¢ riots the ceaunse—Editor Cutting sentenced to one year at hard labor and to pay a tine of $600. Mgr. Henny T. CLARKE has the assur- ance that Douglas county will cast twen- ty-seven votes for him for governorin the state convention TrE only citizens who are not ready to return thanks for the adjournment of con- gress are the Washington boarding house and barroom heepers. — ession of congress was a suc- st one respect. 1t furnished more work for printers and paper makers Ilnuf any preceding session, — oleomargarine mauufacturers do not propse Lo submit to the new law with- out a struggle. Thoy are already getting ready Lo Lest its constitutionality, Tk late i 1 Tue Tue work in the Kirst district has “on a rehigious aspect. The political evangelists are wrestling with farmer unbelievers in the church—Church Howe., Abvick 18 cheap nowadays, but we ven- ture the suggestion that the candidate who Bopes to succeed will do well to refrain " from foolish plodges on the senatorial = fssue. The hotend of the poker will bo ool compared with the handle of such a Boomerang. It may be very courageous for Dr. Miller's substitute to abuse and villify prominent democrats whose bread hap- & pens to be buttered with oleomargavine, ~ but it is not iscreet for a paper that ng its circulation as the great * and only organ of democraey, Misnearonss added twelve millions to Ats asscssment this year, bringing the ~ total up to eighty millions, Minneapolis has a single assessor for the entire city. ‘Omaha, with six city assessors, has an . assossmiont less than the Minneapolis in- - erease for one year. Further comment is ., useloss, E———— GEN. HoLLMAN will probably recipro- eate the compliment which Dr. Mille -pr has bestowed on him since his ap- tment as Indian agent, The ‘:unuml g s to the “slaughter house' wing of the demoeratic party and he naturally looks to tho Omaha Herald for left- “handed endorsement Smm—— - Every dotar saved by Omaha work- 3 en for & rainy day is a nest egg to . ide against want. When work is ? nty and wages good provision should ~ be made for the time sure to come when or will beunemployed and butchers® meat bills, rentand clothes will make dewands on poorly filled pocket Pre Douglas county republican com- oe, which has just issued its call for vention to nominate ten members of the legislature and delegates to the convention, was not only harmoni- in its action, but practically solid on atorial issue, In tu\or of re-elect- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 8. 1836 —~TWELVE PAGES, Honoring American Science.' The five hundredth anmversary of the University of Heidelberg, which has been celebrated with so much enthusiasm and magnificonce in the old Palatinate during the past week, has been rendered doubly interesting to Americans by the warm recogmtion given to our countrymen. Among the few honor degrees con- ferred by the faculties of the great insf tution of learning the United States re ceived a larger proportion than any other country outside of united many. Prc ors O, C. Marsh and ward Cope, Alexander Graham Bell, W. Powell and Professor Simon New comb were sclected as the representative American scientists worthy to receive high honors Honorary degrees in America mean n thing. Three hund so-ealled universi- ties and collegos scatter them abroad annually. Broken winded preachers, ob- seure authors of text books, lawyers wliose only claim is an oceasional attendance at hoard of trustee meetings, and merchants whose donations of a few books to col- lege libraries are considered worthy of cheap reward, are weighted down with D.Ds, P. H. Ds. and L. L. Ds. until the letters, which abroad carry evidence of worth and learning, in America become empty titles of colleginte favor. Heidel- berg, Cambridge, Oxford, Gottingen, Berlin - and other great centers of learning are chary of their honorary degrees. In every instance they arc granted only after patient inve tigation into the merits of the author or divine or scientist upon whom they arce proposed to be conferred. When giyen they earry with them the stamp of learn- ing as the pledge of merit, The American scientists honored by Heidelberg are well worth recognition 1;3 at university, Professors Mars pe have x(mly of the fossil fauna of Amer and their work will forever stand as a monument to the thoroughness and abil- ity of American paleontologists. Pro- fessor Bell, as the patentee of the first working teleplione, Prefessor Newcomb as the leading astronomer of our coun- try, and Professor Powell as head of the national geological survey, have won fame in the annals of science ‘which 13 appropriately recognized by the Heidel- berg court of reward. The Road We Need, Nebraska and Wyoming will consume more than their usual proportion of ste s year. The railroad extension boom shows no signs of abating. The energetic Northwestern is pushing to old Fort Fetterman and a hundred and fifty miles beyond. The Cheyenne & North- ern is reaching northward towards Fort Laramie, while the Black Hills have al- ready been topped by rail, and Rapid City is brought into communication with the markets of the East. The Burling- ton road is forcing its way into North- western Nebraska as fast as men and teams can grade, line and lay track. Sefore snow flies this company will be also in a position to bid for its share of traffic in a section which it 1 en over up to the nresent time to the Northwestern, In retaliation the Elkhorn Valley line is building into Lincoln and the Scribner braneh will tap territory which the Union Pacific has held safely for many years. South of the Platte the dirt is flying on both sys- tems, while the Rock Island has entered the ticld to divide a rich traflic in the southernmost counties of the state. The road i whose construction Omaha would be most interested is a direct line up the Elkhorn valley from the city. In spite of the solemn assurances and pledges of the Northwestern oflicials, it is n fact that our- merchants and stock yards are being steadily discriminated against by that corporation. Every nerve isstretched to divert trafic to Chicago, and to secure the long haul, A railroad up the Elkhorn valley,built by local capi- talists,and operated in Omaha's intere: would be a paying investment for this city if it never returned a dollar's worth of dividends on its stock. The Meanness of Princes. The fact that the expulsion of the Or- leans princes from France excited so lit- tle populs yond the comp 1l following which with the proverbial Bourbon biind- ness and bigotry remains faithful to them, is to some extent explained by a Paris correspondent who states that with the exception of the Comte de Paris they are an exceedingly mean crowd. All their property came into their hands by base means and has been retained by illegality,and the career of nearly every onc of these descendants of Louis Philippe has been marked by petty penuriousness, oppression of the poor and general meanness which few of the proletariat would not be ashamed of, They seem, too, to have come honestly by their characteristics in this direction, sinee Louis Philippe was everlastingly en- gaged in petty law suits with peasant proprietors and fishers on the coast of Normandy, whom he generally suc- ceeded in robbing. The title of the Duc «’ Aumale to Chantilly was a forged will drawn up by the English mistress of the Due de Bourbon, and while it gave him an abundance with which to ostenta- tiously gratify his excessive vanity, he is guiltless of ever having performed a gen- erous or publie-spirited action, though he has committed many that were paltry and menn. It issaid that his suits against poor old women who are guilty of the of- fense-—-sanctioned by usage in France— of picking up dead wood and gathering withered broom in his forests, are of con- stant reeurrence, and in this respect he is not worse than the rest of his family. They own jointly a forest near Amboise, and it is tuld that they are often plaintifis against poor old creatures who are charged with picking up the dead wood that falls to the ground. With regard to the Comte de Paris, it is said that he bas inlerited his mother's charitable feelings towards the poor, and was extremely good to his humble and poyerty-stricken neighbors at Bu, After all, princes and princesses are but human, and the Orleans pretenders would scem to have rather more than their pro- vortion of the small weaknesses and meaner instinets of the race. S—— tlonons continue to shower upon the “Autocrat of the Breakfast Table' from English hands, No American has ever roceived a welcome more heartfelt or & reeeplion more genial than the Boston doctor and literateur, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Physician, voet, essayiit, a writer whose works alternately seintil- late with wit, glow with humor, throb with pathos and teem with wise philloso- phy, America to-day contains no author whom she holds m higher esteem, or whose characteristies reflect more thoroughly the varging genius of his countrymen. — ussing Bduoational Matters, he vacation period in the school year is most valuable to educators and those who interest themselves in educational matters in the opportunity it gives for an interchange of views, a discussion of the- ories, an examination of results and a comparison of methods and experi All this of course contributes to improve- iment and progress, and excellent though the public educational system of tho country unquestionably is, it may still be improved and advanced, the duty of doing this resting very largely with those who give to education daily practical work and study. The present interreg- num has not been less fertile than those of preceding years in the attention de- voted to this most important of subjects, and a great deal of valuable information, opinion and suggestion have been added to what had been before presented. The convention of the national teach- crs’ association, recently held at Topeka, Kan., is said to have been the most suc- cessful yet held, in the matter of attendance, illustrating in this respoct the inercased interest of the teachers of the country in their work, a fact most gratifying and reassuring. The attendance on the general sessions of the association reached between seven and eight thousand, and the mectings were characterized by » notable earnestness and interest which showed a thorough appreciation of their purpose, and this is snid to have been especially marked in the casc of the western teachers in attend- ance. Consideration and discussion were given to a wide range of topics, of which it is practicable to refer to only the most prominent. On the subject of elementary schools, Me. Alvert G. Boyden, of Briage- water, expressed the view that their func- tion is to draw out the powers of the child and develop its faculties, so that habits of right-thinking, feeling and willing shall be established. The mental train- ing shonld unfold the whole nature—in- tellect, sensibility, will and conscience, and produce knowledge at first hand, acquired from the object of thought. The greatest error in our elementary schools is the fact that the children are allowed to learn words without idea The report of the committee on the education of girls was presented by Mr, H M. Jones, of Omaha, and was a strong argument in favor of training girls for industrial occupations, so that they may bring skilled labor to the task of breadwinning, rendering them more independent and lifting them above menial labor, The lines of industry sug- gZestea are such as are entirely within the scope of woman’s physical and mental conditions, as the professions of teaching and medicine, scientific or learned oc- h as pattern designing, en- graving, architectural drawing and saying metals, such mechanical oceups tious as printing, wood carving, and the manufacture of watches and jewelry, together with cooking, dressmaking, millinery, ete., which would be elevated as employments if girls were trained for theirsuccessful pursuit. A technical school for girls should have a good academic education as a prerequisite, as in such schools for boys, and the course should be determined by the occupation in view. The discussion of the report brought out some interesting facts regarding the operation of technical schools, all of which were favorable to the system. The agricultural school of Kansas provides a course of study in technical education for women which has been eminently suc- cessful, while the manual train- ing schools in Cleveland, Ohio, and in Omaha, werereferred to as very beneficial in their results to the pupils. In the former 150 boys in the high school are taught, and thoy do regular school work better than the boys who do not attend the manual training school; in Omaha there are 75 boys in the tramming school and a result similar to that in Cleveland is noted. The concensus of obinion among the debaters that the school workshop should be advocated as an educational instrument, and not to teach trades. The subject ot art education received .extended consideration, and was forcibly presented in an address by Professor Carter, of Massachasetts, on manual traming through industrial drawing. But perhaps the best argument in favor of art education was the exhibit of results made by a number of schools, which was a most interesting feature. Musio was also discussed, and of other subjects than those strictly relating to education perhaps the most important was that of “*Moral Training inthe Public Schools,’" which was very ably considered m an address by Professor White, of Cincin- nati, who enrnestly advocated such training as indispensable. ‘At 'least three avenues,” said Mr. White, *‘ure open for the introduction of religious ideas and sunctions into the public school. These are sacred song, the liter- ature of Christendom, and the best of all, faithful and fearless Christian teuchers, the living episties of the Most High," ‘Who Will Leaa?] The art movement in the West has made such rapid strides as to ecall for comment and illustration from the lead- g magazine of the country, The de- velopment of artistic interests in Cincin- nati which enables that city to boast of the richest endowments and the largest facilities for art study of any of 1ts west- ern sisters, was fostered and developed by generous citizens like Reuben Springer and John Longworth. St. Louis points with pride to her art museum, which stands as a monument to Mr. Wayman and Isabella Crowe. Milwaukee shows to visitors the nsing walls of a mag- nificent public art gallery, and couples with it the name of Fred- erick Layton. Detroit is raising a fund for art study, and James E. Seripps has hended the subscription with his check for $50.000. In all these cases it will be noted that private generosity has been the lever which has cleared the way for public advancement. Western cities have too many calls upon their resources for materiai improyement to appropriate funds for art and the study of art. The fiewd is left open for private citizens to fill, Omaha is now large enough and wealthy enough to make & beginning to- wards & public art collection. Who is the citizen who will lead the way? Farmers and the Elevators. The continued complaints of Nebraska farmers agamst the efevator monopoly ie based on the factthat 1t strangles ail competition at many pomnts in the state and compels p oducprs to sell their grain at prices fixed by the railroads and their partners, the grain dealera, The elev tors along the Uniofi Pacific system are controlled by a sidgle firm. Those on the ine of the B, & M. and Northwestern are maintainea by several dealer: But all the grain dealers in the state arve united in_ an orgamization, whose opera- tion results in lowering prices, by pre- venting what its “eut at competition.” ilroads minating against the bwlding of ors and the elevator men pooled to vrevent competition among themselves, eller finds himself ground between the upper and the nether mllstone. The public have a right to insist that the railronds shall confine themselves strietly to the legitimate business of car rying passengers and hauling freight. These powers and these alone were dele- gated to them by their charters as com- mon carriers. They have no shadow of authority to build up one industry at the expense of another or to enrich a single firm of favorites by making it impossi- bla for other citizens to compete with them in trade. The law of Lllinois es vecially prohibits common carriers from ontering other lines of business and the courtsof that state have enforced the Jaw and imposed the penalty within the lust two weeks. The protests of our farmers agunst the olevator system as it is carried on in Ne- braska are well timed. No monopoly is more odious because it is built on another monopoly and aids still farther in de vressing the prices of the farm products of agreat agricultural state. WY these continued slurs at Patrick Egan from the democratic press? What has Mr. Egan done t so disgruntles the bourbon quill drivers? And what object can there be in fomenting discord and factionalism among the Irish-Ameri- cans whose united support is needed to hold up the hands of the nationalist leaders at Westministe When the next convention meets, if Mr. Egan is not a satisfactory ofticer, let him be re- placed by another and betf man. In the meantime slaps and drives at Presi- dent Egan are the very best way in which to please the enemies of Ireland and ob- struct the work of the organization in this countr, A prive to Fort Omaha is quite the tashionin these summer evenings to wit- ness the dress parade which takes place at sunset every day except urday and Sunday, and to lsten,to the stirring strains of the Secend ‘nfantry band. There is no prettier sight to those who enjoy martial surrowndifgs than to see the evolution of a Body of well drilied men on a generous parade ground such as is afforded by the present garrison at Fort Omaha. Colonel Wheaton, the com- mandant, was with us years ago when Nebraska was a disttict. He has returned at the head of a regiment whose bearing and morale will cumpar‘ favorably with any in the service, &% ondst’ enforcement of the high license Jaw.in Omaha. That will be by all odds the: strongest argu ment against the prohibition fallac; When honest prohibitionists recognize that high license means no license wher- ever the people so elect and a greatly re- stricted license in communities where public sentiment will not sustain prohibi- tion, they will be ready to admit that the ground is out from under the feet of those who attempt to stand on a prohbitory platform. Tue item in the river and harbor bill of particular interest to Omanba is that ap- propriating $875,000 for the improvement of the Missouri river from Omaha 1o Fort Leavenworth, the sum to be disbursed under the direction ot the Missouri river commission. Mr. Broatch can now show how many pounds he pulls in the com- mission, in securing for this city her share of the river and herbor pork. Mpg. Jix PAurL has a few aflidavits in his inside vest pocket which he exhib- ited confidentially in Buffalo county two years ago while he was running for the state senate. They proved conclusively that the partics who made them had stuffed their ears with cotton to avoid hearing anything about that scandal. Ir is not surprising that the railroad organs, both republican and democratic, are astonished to learn that there is any such issue as the anti-monopoly issue in Nebraska politics. They are always as- tonished at discovering this factional question in every campaign, S— TrAINS now run from Omaha to Lake Manawa. The study of bathing suits in their application to dripping humanity is becoming the fashion of the day in this section of the Missouri Valley. THERE were a number of items stricken out of the sundry il bill, but the ap- propriation of $5,000 for Nebraska City's public building stuck there as if glued with mucilage POLITIOAL PQINTS, General Butler will run far congress in the Lowell district if he M\u raly on the labor vote, Don M, Dickinson ewlh-nly denies that he is a candidate for tle Sflllluv to succeed Senator Conger. " It is probable that Hgh. Andrew D. White will run for congress ju uw Twenty-elghth New York distriet.. | ‘The most exciting congressional fight in Massachusetts this yean swilfbe in the distriet of Congressman Rice,who wants a sixth term, ) Abram 8, Hewitt is said 0 have been in vited to put money into the@ssembly canvass and become a candidate f0r United Siates senator. The apprehension that Keifer will really wet back into congress coutinues to bea cause of unrest to republicans outside of the district in which the ex-speaker re- sides. In Douglas county, Illinois, tie Woman's Rights party is running & wan for sehool superintendent and the republicans are try- ing to elect a woman, Spencer E, Pratt of Mobils, lately nomin- ated for minister to Persia, was the Ala- bana commlissioner to the World's exposi- tion, Governor Alger of Michigan, says he isnot acandidate for re-election, and would not have the United States senatorship if it were offered him on a silver salver. The Mexican editor who talks about Lis “warliko anid valisnt nation” should remie me bor that Mexico 18 about tne only nation of any size that has no. navy—the only one that at war could do Unele Sam no harm. Chas. 8. Wolfe, prohibition candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, fs an indefatiga- ble worker and has a strong bias for mischief making. He is showing great industry on the stump and it is evident that the submis- sion resolution adopted by the republican eonvention is not eousidered satisfactory to the temperance people. Grace by Wholesale, Notes and Queries, There is a New England tradition that when Dr. Franklin was a boy the longe- winded blessings asked by his father at the table scemed to him tedious as well as long, In order to avoid wasting time, and yet so cure the divine benediction, he begged his father, at the time pork was salting down for winter's use, to say wrace over the whole sup- ply once for all. - .A Great Convenience, Texas Siftings. ‘The bibles printed in Chicago have three blank pages for divorces and one for elope- wments. The blank are so arranged that the newspaper articles on the family topies can be mmd in by the column. e or Course. Topeka Lanee, “Mercy on me, Mary, where have you been? The back of your dressis covered with dust. You have not been sitting on the front steps, Thope?” “No, ma, I couldn't eet the piano stool high enough, so I put the big bible on it.”” i Strict License Practicable. N. Y. Christiun Intelligencer. The great body of those who wish to restrict the power of the saloon as far as possible, do not be- lieve that in this or adjoining states the traflic in liquors can be abolished, "I'hey ace convineed that if a prohibitory statute were enacted it could not be executed over a large part of the territory of these states, - The Preacher, the Pitcher Revivalist. Bost Transcript. Sam Jones says *'there is something wrong when a preacher gets $400 and a base ball pitcher 00,” But Samn should remember that the §5,000 pitcher has a much better de- livery than the $400 preacher. Norristown Herald. And the preacher says there is something much more wrong when a sensational reviv- alists gets 81,000 a week and the preacher gets only $100 a and the Cornering Keely. Philadelphia Ledye What we would have had Mr. Keely do, and, until he does it, his operations have but littio practical value in the sight of the Led- ger, would have been to har his motor to do some useful work, to gear it by cogwheel or by belt and puiley, or by some other me- chanical device to a main shaft that is driv- ing lathes, or planers or other machine: something that was doing actual useful work day in and day out us other machines do. SRR e Queen City of the Missonri Valley. Chicago News. Omaha is beyond all question the queen city of the Missouri valley. We do not know that we think she is going to be the largest city west of Chieago, but we don’t hesitate to say that she is at the present time the most metropolitan. Her only rival is Kansas City, but those who know Kansas City right well know that about ninety yer cent of her claim is buncombe. There is very little buncombe about Omaha. While her neighbors have been bloviating and braeging she has been at work, and the consequence now is that, while her neighbors still wear that ragged, dirty appearance, which is said to be a west- ern characteristic, Omaha is as tidy and as clean as a model by ife. She is perhaps the best paved city i she has fine hotels and the best class of business blocks, and her society Is as select and as cultivated as you can could expect to find outside of the New England lines, e Life is a Shylock. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox. Life is a Shylock, always it demands 'llu. fllllesl usurer’s interest for each treas- Gifts m‘c "not freely scattered from iis hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure, Each talent, each achievement and each ain Necessitates some penalty to pay. Delight imposes lassitude and pain, As certainly as darkness follows day. All you bestow on eauses, or on man, Of love, or hate, of malice or devotion, Somehow. sometime, shall be returned again There is no wasted oil, no lost emotion. “Tho motto of the world i, “Gilve and take.s 1t gives yon favors—but of sheer Buit iin'ess speedy recompense you nake, You'll find yourself presented with its'bill. When rapture comes to thrill the heart of you ’lulu. n with tewpered gratitude; remem- Some mm- time the interest will fall due, No year brings June that does not bring ecember. ———— VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS. An Ape Trained to Perform the Duties of a Railroad Switchman, “Those trained paroguets show consider- able intelligence,” said a gentleman, who was watching the fortune-teller and his trained birds at the corner of Farnam and Fourteenth streets, the other day, “but two years ago, when I was in South Africa, I saw o performance that will discount the birds, five’ times over. 1 happened to be in South Afriea for a New York firm of ex- porters, when I was informed that eigt iles up the railroad, which runs from Cape- town north, there was a trained ape which acted as a switchman and drew a regalar salary for his master. Of course I believed the story to be a canard, but felt that it was worth while investizating. 1 stopped ata little station on the railroad in Cape Colony and was directed to a small swilch-liouse, two hundred yards up the track from the place where the train had stopped. The switeh-tender was sitting outside the door in an armchalr, and by his side stood or rather crouched an enormous African ape, which was fally five feet high when erect. As the switeh-tender arose to answer my inquiry 1 noticed that he was armless, 1 asked him whether it was true that his ape performed the duties of switchman, and was told to wateh for five minutes and see for myself. A few minutes later the rumbling noise of an approaching train was heard, As the noise increased the ape jumped from his crouching position and accompanied the switchman to the place where the white arm of the switeh stood thrown to the ieft. At a signal from the switehman the ape jumped forward, seized the key, unlocked the pad- lock which held the switeh in position, and grasping the lever with his museular arm threw it to the right. The train dashed over he switeh to the sidetrack of the station, snd in a second the switch was thrown back into position, and the ape again took his seat by his master to wait for further orders. It was certainly a wonderful performance, and I would not believe it unless I had seen it. ‘The man informed me that he had lost his arms in & railroad accident while employed by the company as a switeh-tender, During the five years previous to the aceident he had wained the ape wore as a matter of roerea- tion and to employ his leisure time while stationed at that lonely outpost of the Cape- town railway. The work of aumusement turned him in good stead when Lie was able to satisty the company that without arms Le could as fully protect its interests as when ha was in possession of those limbs, For more than two years the ape had performed the duties of switchman and had never made a mistake, More than this, the ape was trained to feed his master, as well to dress and undress him, when necessar; The Biggest Turtlo in the World, “You may think that fsa culons stovy,” continued the gentleman, “but I can tell yon another abont an enormous turtle. This turtle is the largest in the world, and is owned by a friend of mine in New South Wales. His name is John Me- Donald. He received this turtle forty years ago as a gift from an Australian chief in whose family the monster is said to have been for more than three hundred years, This gigan- tic turtle measures twelve feet in length and stands four feet in lheight. Mr McDonald has bullt for his t ite pet a large pen enclosing seve acres, In the back part of his beautiful coun try seat In Australia, andie entertains his guests and children by giving them rides upon the monster’s back. The turtle knows liis master’s voice, and answers to his call, besides performing several tricks, showing that hie 1s possessed of some considerable in- tellicence, Mr, McDonald has several times had the turtle hitched to loaded wagons, for the purpose of testing his strength, and has proved by experiment that he can haul a load which would require four of the strongest norses to move.” An_ Adventurer's Exploit in Omaha. “The arrest in New York of Ross Ray- mond, the celebrated swindler, who, for the past six years has lived sumptuously in Amer- fca, the East Indies, and Europe, ing tobe a correspondent of v York papers and plying his trade of forger and swindler,” said an Omaha newspaper man, “recalls an iucident in this city a few months ago in which Dr. Miller was the vie- tim, and, it is believed, Raymond was the principal. The doctor was called upon by a gentlemanly-looking middle-aged man, who presented to him a letter ot introduction, purporting to come from his old friend Stiil son Hutehins, of the Washington Post. The itly well-bred and had a man of weans. Miller took quite an interest in his new acquaintance, showing him around the city, and finally endorsing a deaft for something less than a hundred dollars on an eastern banking house, and identifying him at the Merchant's National bank. A few days afterwards his guest left the city and not many hours later the kind-hearted doe- tor-journalist was paralyzed upon receiving a notification that the draft had been rejected by the bank to which it had been sent. A letter of inquiry was promptly dispatched to Mr. Hutehins, who as promptly replied that he had no such acquaintance. The letter of introduction had been carefully compared by Dr. Miller with those of Mr. Hutehins, and they bore every mark ot being genuine, It was suspected at the time that the clever swindler was none other than Raymond, and telecrams announcing his arrest in N&w York confirm the statement that he had re- cently been in Omaha, Dr. Miller, who is now in New York, can easily renew his ac- quaintance withi the gentleman,” Ba Stokes' Bar-room and Art Collec- “Talking about bar- York gentleman, now visiting in Omahe, “few persons have any idea of the receipts of Ed Stokes' toffman Jouse bar, There are sixteen bar-tenders on duty, divided into four watches of six hours each. I was told by one of the: nployes that it was an or- dinary day when the wateh between 6 o'clocle and midnight did not turn over to the cashier from $2,000 to $2,800, There have been days and days when the receipts have run as high as $8,000. The sporting fraternity frequent the place, and the stock operators and wealthy actors and theatre managers are among the best. patrons, These rarely eall for anything but wine by the bottle. In ad- dition there is a constant stream of visitors to view the magniiicent art collections, aud of course they all patronize the bar, e “It takes a good deal of money to pay In- terest on the investment fn Stokes’ beautitul bar-room. Before a single glass was placed on tho shelves Stokes had paid a_ Cincinnati firm 874,500 for the bar fixtures alone. The works of urt which decorate the walls, the mazniticent paintings, the rare and uniaue bric-a-brac, the costly wood carvings, could scarcely be replaced for a quarter of a million w*a 'lie chief attraction of the ba several years has been Bougereau's and Satyr,” and Faleri’s *Vision of Faust.” nting Stokes has just sold for Walters, of Baltimore, who purchased the famous Morgan peach-blow yase. As Stokes paid $12,000 for this paint- ing Lie made a neat little profit by holding it. He can now place the money in some newer work of art for the delectation of his patrons. Bougereaw’s painting has rather a singular history. It was formerly owned by Mr. John Wolfe, of New York, and occupied a prominent position over the mantel-piece in his varlor, before he built his art gallery, which now contains a magniticent collection of works of foreign artists. The picture, as you know from the many photographs and lithographs, is very warm in subject, and even warmer in its coloring, Mrs. Wolfe, who is promiunently connected with church circles in New York, objected to this speci- men of the nude occupying a place in her pavlor, Mr. Wolfe had paid $5,000 for the painting, and enjoyed the subject and its treatment thoroughly, One day, while he was at his office, the servant kindled & fie in the grate, and building 1t of green wood, in half an hour it smoked the roow, blistered the picture, and well-nigh ruined the work of art, When Mr. Wolfe returned home he became furions. The arms of the nymphs were blistered, the picture was begrimed with swoke, and the great production was almost as indistinguishable as some of the works of the old wasters, Mrs. Wolfe was atonce called to the scena, and she said she was glad of it. This led Mr. wolfe to dis- pose of the picture. It was placed on the walls of the gallery of an art dealer, and ad- vertised for sale at auction, Only two bid- dors were present who were prepared to run the price up to high figures. Stokes wanved it for his barroom, and Mr. Col of St Louis, who has made a fortune speeu- lating in works of art, was anxious 1o got it, Atthat very thme Cole was negotiating the sale of oue of his paintings to Stokes, and Stokes used this fact as a lever to pry Cule off the track, Cole accordingly bid $10000 for *Nymphs and Satyr,” and Stokes raised him $10 and ved the prize. He was after- wards offered $20,000 for it by William H. Vanderbilt, but the offer was promptly de- elined. It cost Stokes $2,400 to send the painting across the water Lo the artist to have it retonched and revaraished, after which it was as good as new.” In the County Court, The case of Rice vs. Dorlin, a suit for comunission in a real es tried before Judge N and taken under advisement. of Enewald vs. Lingouuer, suit to re- cover judgment for goods delivered, was tried yesterday afternoon. A decision will be given to-morrow in the cases of Mys. Perkins vs. M. ¥, Martin and of Jellersou vs. The estate of J. B. Erench, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BE Compliments of the Press. Omaha Herald: Omaha Republican: Omaha World: [*“They do like enterprise Will Be Appreciated, Springfiela Monitor: The Omaha Ber agdtn comes to the front, and shows its ent prise by publishing a Sunday edition. The arrangements by which the Ber has secured for its readers the special cablegrams of the New York Herald, and the demand of its patrons, have necessitated this step and will be appreciated by its numerous readers in this section, A Great Paper. Plattsmouth_Journal: The first Sunday edition of the Omaha BEE was & great paper, and a great “seiler,” if we may judge by the fact that all the news stands in Plattsmouth were sold out of them long before thie do- mand had been supplied. The Liatest Enterprise, Arapahoe Mirror: The Omaha Biw now appears every day in the year, a Sunday edi- tion being the latest enterprise inangurated by its publishers, Bully for the busy B, In the Front Rank, Schuyler Herald: The Omaha Ber comwes menced its Sunday edition last Sunday, and will hereafter publish every day. The Brg fmmls in the front ranks of western journak sm, Booming. Hastings Gazotte-fournal: There scems te be a boom in the newspaper business in Ne braska. ‘The Omaha Bir: has contracted fof another perecting press and will hereafter issue a Sunday morning edition, lying High, Kansas City Journal: 'The Omaha Bre now puolishes an_excellent Sunday paper. Journalism in Nebraska is flying high, 1A Big Swarni Fremont Tribune: The Om edition eame out last y swarmed in great numbers—13,000, lHlllnz on the 'lnlu Wave. Y1t will be Issued every Sunday in Omaha is booming, and the Bex is riding on the (n‘ wave, May it continue to be successful. - Wae do like enterprise. Metropolitan. Lincoln Journal: The Omalia B has commenced a Sunday edition, giving it an issue every day in the week. This is metro« politan, The Sunday lssue. Ulysses Dispalel The Omaha Bee now prints a Sunday issue, and has ordered a second $15,000 perfecting press, Keeping Up With the State, Gottenburg Independent: The Omaha now publishes a Sunday edition, The B believes in keeping pace with the growth of thie state and its enterprise is duly apprecis ated. Still Leads, airmont Signal: The Omaha Ber greets us with a beautiful Sunday edition. Rosewater still leads in Nebraska journa Full of Enterprise, tic, Iowa, Democrat: ‘T'he Omaha s publishing a Sunday editi The s as tull of ent asthe insect of the same name is full of he A Mignificent Paper, York Times: The Omaha B 5 coni menced the publication of a Sunday paper. “The first namber appeared August 1, and is a wagnificent paper. A Rustler, North Bend Flail: The is out-in a Sunday edition. The Bek is a rustler. Six papersper week were not enouzh for the purposes of that ene terprising office, and now, like its little namesake, it “gathers honey every day from every opening flower.” We may think as we please of the political aspects of this leading state contemporary, but the fact that it is & rustler cannot be gainsayed, Omaha Bee The Irrepressible Bee. Plattsmouth Herald: The Omaha BrE has fallen in with the “do like enterprise” idea and gone 1ts contemporaries one better in is+ suing a Sunday morning edition that com- pares favorably with the great dailies of our country, The publication of three columns of cablegrams the same moining that they appear in New York is now an every day oc- I the irrepressible Bk, and is 1€ 5 ¢ that speaks loudest for its nluvn el suee A Daisy. Indianola Courier: The Omaha Daily BEE, in addition to its recent arrangements for improved telegraph service, has decided to issue a yogular Sunday edition. That of the 1st inst. wasa “daisy” and speaks volumes for the enterprise of the BEx: management. Best West of Chicago, Dunlap Reporter: The Omalia BEE, the best paper west of Chicago, issued the firse mumber of its Sunday edition the 1st inst. 1t starts out with a eirculation of 13,000, On an Equal Kooting With all the G at Dailies. Eduar Post: The Omaha BEE now prints A Sunday edition. The first iss Iast Sunday, and will place the B cqual footing with all the great dailies, 1t Will Keep There, Wood River Gazett e Omaha now comes to the front with a Sunda; tion, and will hereafter reach its r seven times in the week, The Dee seems determimed to be in the lead of Omaha jour- nalism, #nd the public can vest assured it will keep there. Ber edi- wlers Determined p on Top. West Point Progress: The Omain Brm has taken another ente & turn, and now issues a Sunday edition, The Bkw iy deteninined to keep on top in newspapers dow, A Handsome Sheet, Blair B:publican: The Sunday Ber isa very handsome sheet and is full of entertaine ing news and miscellany. One of the Most Enterprising Papers. Cheyenne Leader: The Omabn Bir, ale ready recognized cas one of the most enter- prising papers in the West, lus commenced the issue of a Sunday edition, A Ten Strike, Neligh Leader: The Omatia Bek come menced Sunday 1o issue o seven day paper, puiting out its first Sunday issue on thay date. Tie Brr has made o ten strike, Omann las wrown too large to get along with six-day papers, and the only wounder is that all of the papers there Lave nct seen it that way long before, The Banner Paper. hrey Independent: The Omaha ik prints every diay in the week, Its Bunduy edition promises to become the ban- ner paver west of the Missouri, It nas added another fast press W its office to pring its vapidly 1 rasing edition, Auotber New Feature, Webster Winner: The Omaba Dairy SBeg has added another feature to its alreauy many prominent ones. T'he latest is a Suns duy edition and another new perfocting press 10 be put into its ofilce in & few weeks, Lhe publishers can boast without avy compung- Jonot eousclence.