Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 24, 1887, Page 12

“Total, To amount goneral fund collecte Semi-Annual Statement of the Treasurer of Douglas County, _ror the Ovue-Hal_f it State Genernl Fund, Facoww PSR of Princl Amt.of Interost Kinking Funad | vl Intercst. Princip | Interest, Prineip'l (Inte UNDAY State State School Fund, niversity Fund. Pl Interest g2z 4,446 97 $ 4581 50 o 812270 18] o 34 s 3513 State Poni tentin'y 1l Prin € 1,610 Wl rrine. State Capitol” Funa Prin State Normal |~ State ctiool Fund, Bond Furd Ine'l Inter't. Prin. it St Asy Tnm Fond. Prin.| Int Int, Int. | | 021§ 8 ) 24 01 1482 27 $I8dbs (M T 3 0818 840 R I R E 07 16 tol Sémi:Annual_Stateirrientfiot tfié T1'ea§firer mof D‘c)\vlzglé.g QOup‘ty | Fund. | 1| Lnterest. | Prin 6 081 524 13 04 103 5| ‘00l 9 | 3 ) 11 66 County | County 8ink- Count Tax Fund. ing Bond Fund Int._| Prine, | Int, T nd. | Dog $ 0601 10| 2 0] @ 18 00 Old T House Fund Princip'l Interest. Priuc, | urt County Judg Cotint ment Funt, Int. ‘ounty Insane County Fund. Tax’ Prine. _Int__ Princ. 7 ~County | und. Diteh Fund, | Tint Prin e £ 400000 | I 2l | | | |- | ! i [IE At 16750 & 913 6 D) JULY Institu Minded Fund ncipal. Tot 4 40| 1,511 84 Or Sia e ~TWELVE PAGES, Inde 1ot §2 8 B 4 4 53| 10 00) 52 40) 60 22 201,888 12 0] 0| g T wl T County T coud | € Tond Fand. | Btk Fand. . Principal Interest. Prineipal 1nt I T rid ity [County Villuge lorenco Taxes Waterloo Tax's Villuge Milt 1) 211 10 ---Continued. Year, Commencing January 1§t, 1887, and Ending June 30th, 1837, Inclusive. ity Ralicond County Rond nad Bridge Fund, ™ «t. Principnl Interost, Rond Fund. Fiincipal Inter, i o1 1 W ERINY I 1608 16 03| 343 2 01 20,64 | 05 T4 : f & 162 e #2837 o Countys TCounty sehool Prine. |_Int._| Prin I~ | B ~ 18 148 528024 885 20| STATE FUNDS. To amount on hand January 1st, 1887 To amount sinking fund collecte ‘To wmount school fund colle To amount universit fund o y fune normai school fu mount atatc bond fund colle oo t penite collected To amount asylum fund coliected To amount capitol fund cd tod nt reform school t institute for tlive stock inden To amount school la To amount {ransferred from interot mount school mount school lund leuse coljocted. By amount paid state treasus ant paid state treasurer, No. 3,107 ant fransferred to county 83,946 1 COUNTY GENERAL FUNDS. ount on hand January 1st, 187 punt collected ... ... . y sferred from county sinking fund ferred from county poor fund. .. errod from county dog fund wferred from sinking bond fund. unt transferred from old court liouse fuud . und 35 To amount transforred from advertising fund To amount transforred from miscellancous fund . ‘To amount transferred from state fund (collected 1 To amount recoived from siat To amount special school tax To amount dog tax 1857 and p: By amount warrants redeemed By resolutions on genoral M By amount fees for colloction of couuty By amount transferred to ditch fund tax Balance. SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND. To amount on hand January 1st, 1887 .. . ... To amount collected less that of 1808 and pr By amount paid districts By amount collection fee 810183 77 92,084 02 133 43 17 79 634 19 5 01 T 3 04,860 47 4132 4,210 40 195 38 60,507 57 $ 40,408 14 ovious yeurs. 24 8 14,457 67 L] SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT FUND. fo amouht on hand Junuary 1st, 1887 ious yenr vious yoars. To amount liquor license transferced from mise Toamount firics and forfeitures o amount peddicrs license do do Ry amount paid district By amount collection fo Balance. .. SCHOOL BOND, E‘» amount on hand January 1st, 1887. .. o amount collectod. ... Ry amount paid trensuror. By amount collection fee Balance . R. R. BOND SINKING FUND, mount on hand January Ist, 1887 .. wmount collected ... s e awount transferred from railroad bridge tund By amount warrants redcomed. . Dualance . el 8 10,364 11 15 $ 10,09 64 $ 10,400 08 DISTRICT No. 8 AND No. 26. 8§ 1,070 60 609 $ 1,085 78 8 1040 81 oL $ 1,00 42 s .. 8 21,400 00 W B 194 87 £ 05,419 05 - § 27,085 80 $ 97,768 BRIDGE FUND. mount on hand January 1st, 188 ount coliected. .. ... ... By amount warrauts redeemed Balance. . ROAD To amount on hand January 1st, 1887 « amouat collooted. ..., M amount transforred from grade $i6 and poll, $TM2T......... H By amount warrants 1edeemed Bulunce .. JUDGMENT amount on hand January 1st, 1857 amount collected. .. S Bulance INSANE 14 Jauuary 1st, 1867 tod vy amounton h amount wolle: Balance. . FUND. 1 4 6,150 35 $ 7,800 67 FUND. $ 12,667 08 § 12,507 08 HOSPITAL BUILDING FUND. 2o amount collacted. By Rmount wariuuts 1edeemed. $ 20174 % 8 50175 8 84,200 19 CITY OF OMAHA TAXES. To amount on hand January Ist, 187, To nmount collected...... By amount collection fee By amount paid city treasus Bulance........ CITY OF FLORENCE TAXES. .8 00 To amount on hand Junuary 1st, 1877 . SR 17 63 To amount colloeted .. ..... By amount collection fee Balance VILLAGE OF WATERLOO TAXES. To amount on hand Jaruary 1st, 1887, ... ... To umount coliceted incluaing dog tax of viliage By amount paid village trensurer. By amount refunded t C. P, Coy By amount collection fee............ Balance VILLAGE OF MILLARD TAXES. To amount on hand January 1t, 1 To amount coliccted. ... By amount paid villaze treasurer By amount colleetion teo Balance.. DITCH FUND (NORTH OMAHA AND WATE To amount on hand January Ist, 187 ‘fo amount collected A S ‘To amount transferred from gencral fund 1,320 80, By amonnt warrants redeemed................. 2 Toamount colieoted....... By amount supervisors receipts rod By amount transterred to roud fund. PENALTY. To amount on hand January 1st, 1887 Balance REDEMPTION MONEY. ‘o amount on hand January 1st, 188 ‘oumount colleeted..e..... ... ... To amount owitted on lust report. By awount paid holder of certificates.... Bulanc MISCELLANEOUS To amount fines and forfeitures. ‘Lo amount liquor license mount pedle nse mount surplus fees of coun To amount rent of ofti By amount transferred to apportionment fund By amount transterred to general fund ........ FEE FUND, Mo amount {or collection of COUNty tAXe8.................. .. . o amount for collection of district, school knd Kppor'nt taxes o1 g thxes ... To amount for collecti 118 tAxes. To amount for e of kchool bond taxes. To amount for collection of state taxes........ By amount salaries pafd Balunce . RECAPITULATION To amount on hand January 1st, 187, T wmount taxes collected ... . T'o nmount school land, prin To amount school land, 'inc o amount school land, lense. To umount miscellaneous coll To amount miscellancous foes To amount Omahu city taxes oollcoted To ariount res ptions collected /i To amount redemptions omitted on 1t re 4 To mnount received from the state for Apportionment fax To amount received trom the state for collection of state ta To nmount hoepital bullding tund collected 793 50 RLOO.) $ 132000 & 0330 $ 1,053 65 5,501 50 $ 655515 $ 3,82 55 $545,45 08 By amount warrants redeemed Iy amount paid state treasurer . 1By amount paid school district tr By amount paid school bond . ... ....... By amount paid rédemption money. . By wmount paid SAIATICS. ... ... By amount paid village treasirer Ry amount refunded to I.C. Coy. Hy amount resolutions on general fund ... . 11y amount Bupervisors receipts redeemed Ty amount paid city treasuror.. it surer. £135,.221 (05 KA,T60 44 33,458 95 1434 0 1,088 2 200,51 5 $280,580.35 Amount state fund on hand July 1st, 18 : Amount county general fund on hand July 1st. Amocnt school &pportionment on Amount specint school fund on hund July 15t Amount sehool hond funid on hand July 1st, 18§ Amount R. K. connty sinking tund on hand'J Amount bridge fund on iand July Ist, Amount rond fund on hand July Tst, 188 . Auiount city of Omaha taxes on hand Juiy 1st, i Awount village of Waterloo taxes on hand July Amount villuge of Milliurd tuxes on hund July 18 Amount city of Florence taxes on hund July 1st, Amount fee fund on hand duly 1st, 1887 Amount fnsane fund o hand July Ist 187 Amount judiement tund on hand July ist Amount hospital building fund on h ‘nd J'u Amount penalty fund on hand July Ist, 188 ‘Amount redemption money on hand July 18t 1 I hereby certify that the above statem Jannary 1st, 1887, the amounts collected 1 to June 30th, fore; OUR QUEER HOUSEHOLD PET. ts Style Ohanged By the Dictum of Fashion, THE REIGN OF THE CANARY. Popularity of Dogs—The Craze for Marmosets — The Coming Mud Turtle—Queer Uncanny Pets and Thelr Owners. Eliza Putnam Heaton in New York Mail and express: Dick, the canary is dead. He was carried oft by an intluenz during the long, cold spring. Gretchen, the housemaid, opened a window one foggy morning without moving his sage, and there is mourning in the land for Dick. There is a faint tinge of regret for Fido, the pug, who is so delightfully ugly with his black nose and short face, but who is out of style—or going out, which is worse—and so must leave ms soft cushions and take off his cmbroid- cred blanket, poor thing. The season is just at hand when dealers in birds and an s are looking about them for nov- elties, when the tashions in pets are be- ing set for another year, when caprice in feathered and four-footed life are offered every day to tempt my lady’s whim, when the town house 1s closed, the win- ter's menagerie seattered to the four winds of heaven and the new assortment of favorites taken to the country for a summer’s dome: tion and breaking in. Are there fashions in pets? Dear me, ) The real dog lover or bird lover is rare, and twice in thrce times owns neither dog nor b Afew years ago every man of fashion wore a spitz dog; now you might go into every house on Murray hill and a good many other hills besides and not find one. “Sowe spitz dog so far forgot himself as to snap at his mistress’s white finger, mayhap, and 80 the rumor got abroad that the spitz family 15 surly and ugly— false, there are no more faithfuland affectionate pets in the brute creation-—and a deal of news- alk ensued; but the bamishment of the spitz was mostly due to his getting out of style. He had been king, but his subjects had wearied of his reign. And that more recent favorite, the pug—he who has lorded it over the poodle so long —is he not to give place to his hated rival again this fall? = And except at a dog show who ever sces a genuine King Charles spaniel of whose silky hair our randmothers made so much of. And the big dogs, the mastiffs and setters, that every young lady led about with her last summer, where have they betaken them- selves? Assurdedly fashion [prescribes pets as well as gowns, When the grand dame murmus in her doggie's ear that he is darling it is always with the clause unexpressed, “'so long, de you are the style, when thatchanges, pet, you must go.” The dog's speeial phy-i- cian and nurse, his daily wirings on the promenade, his receptions to other elite doglets—that are all mockery and empti- ness, and deceived not the electf their object s to make the beholde ve that there is once i a dozen times any affection wasted on the pampered beastic. People can like dogs, I am inclined to believe that Lottie, the actress. likes the enormous mastift’ she is frolicki with this summer, as she ha hata great many sumimers off duty Olive Logan is fond of the F h terrior she has had for almost twenty years; but folk of fashion take to one dog this year and another next, us they foudled the breeds that Sir Walter Seott preferred until Byron eclipsed the older poet, af- fected the Newfoundland and led the whole English speaking world after him The worst of familiars of the animal Kingdom, a good deal affected by New York women jusi now, are the mur- mosets, not quite se big as a new born kitten. They cost from $1C « pair up- nd July 1st, s 12 40,406 14 16,400 08 24401 11 LT 1887 uly it 1887 18t, I8 is nent shows the amount of balance on hand n the several funds trom January 1st, 1887, 1887, inclusive, and the balances on hand July 1st, 1887, and that the ng is correct to the bestof my knowledge and belicf. HENRY BOLLN, County Treasurer. wards, and last winter you might have seen u woman or two sieighing in the park with marmosets nstead of a muff in her lap to warm her hands. There are monkeys which are sometimes taken into houses for pets, but which are usually bundled out agsinabout a8soon—women almost never like monkeys—and, espe- cially since the rush to southern resorts began, alligators, which have a way pe- culiarly their own of making themselves at home in New York drawing rooms. These latter sustain life on a diet of raw beef, They require only a slanting log to bask on and a tray of water under the piano to be reasonably happy, and, for- tunately for their carecr as pets, they are in no haste usunlly to grow big enough to swallow the baby or commit much havoce in a weil regulated home. Why," smd an old man who keeps a curiosity shop the other day, "' have sold over fifty alligators this spring, some for women to carry in their pockets, and as I promised to come around and feed some of them, it keeps me pretty bu 1 reckon some folks'll wantto be keepin' whales nex There is less change, probably, in the fashion in hirds than in animals. The canary holds his own, as he has for years. He is small, he is neat and dainty, he is cheap, he 18 reasonably pretty, and he is an unmatched songster. But the big wholesale bird storcs, like Relche's on Park row, whero the fashions are seen a year ahead, and where fortunes in pets change hands yearly, could tell you of scores of singers of some of which you uever heard, perhaps, of which there 13 constant demand, with now and then a well-defined craze. Parrots which talk may cost $300, and parrots that don't may be bought for a song—no pun in- tended, for parrots don’t sing. Paroquets and macaws, with their brilhant plumage, are chosen not infrequently to match the furnishings of a richly colored room, while even such course birds as the blac| bird, and such quite unmusical ones as wood pigeons, find some favor as pets. Among the most pathetic of pets are “mules” or hybrids. The commonest are the hybrids of the goldfi anary, and of the linnet and ch These betray some of the chai of both parents. The half goldtinch, for example, has some of the canary yellow about it and some of the finch's bulki head. It is a fine singer, as is the chaflinch hybrid. A moderately popular bird is the grosbeak, an orderlv fellow of sober plumage and docile behavior. The African waxbillis a tiny, sad-colored pet no larger than a humming bird. He never sings, but has a prettily hetic air about him that captures the feminine heart now and then, The mocking bird is less liked then he would be if he haa not such an aversion to living. He doesn't like the climate and rarely lasts over his first winter. The orchard oriole, the car- dinal bird and the bobolink are growing in favor as pets. Imagine botiling up the mud music of the Robert of Lincoln nany dollars a parcel. Itis sheer pation, as bad as shooting him, as the Baltimoreans do. Stuffed birds are a recent faney. Since society men have taken to gunning, it is the thing for the women ol the house to perch the spoils of the day about in all of odd places. Stuffed owls hav been in vogue for the library, indicating an :lrprvmmiun of wisdom in others, if you haven't much yourself, though why would be hard to say, for they are vro- verbially stupid, but, like some human beings, possess the faculty of keeping still and not letting people lind out Low foolish they are. In the window of a bird Broadway half a bushel of mud tarties are erawling about. People have t to buying them to put outin gardens s they do well enongh where or l.\\l\k n of mud. An unusual is & big bull frog. One thatl saw the other day was reported to be pinng for its mate, which an artist had_borrowe hoping to induce it tosit for its picture, and the third of the famly group had been taken by o gentieman to € to domonstrate how much fatte more musieal wiid more noenrly yof swelling o an ox the Au store on munner of odd positions, in all m:n}nmr | ong | the owl should be tiie type of wisdom it | frogs are than_the fro, despotisms of Europ A pair of Texas horned frogs would ba just the thu for a philosopher with little todo. They are queer, spiky looking creatures, with every appearance of be- ing dead, beeause they do not condescend to change their position more than once in two or threedays. There 15 a New York jeweler who has put a gold band with padlock and chain about one of these creatures, by which he is now sus- pended to the wateh guard of a young woman, who is climbing the Catskills a penstock in hand and I think they have cen fastenced in the hat ple take to Sal. nders, which stupid but harmle pets, and the distinet fancy for fishes just now aquaria ure seen everywhere, sone fitted into conservatories ingeniously, but about the only curiosity ever found in them is an old Japanese goldfish with a fan shaped tail. ~ The kio, as fanciers call it, brings 500 sometimes, though I haye seen as strange malformations in goldfish out of the Hudson river. Inscets for pets are more rare than sensationalists would have one belicve. I have seen just one myself, an ugly beetle that a lady had worn m:u-luulfily a chain to her corsage. Some accidents happened to his harness and he wag Inid up at a jeweler's for repairs. 1 gave him sugar and he ate it greedily Itisa usual fiction that women are the chief buyers of pets. Men buv as many birds as women. They buy more dogs and more expensive “ones. The l:nol"" has his place in the world, per- aps, as well as the Irsh setter or the dachshun. The taste for queer, uncanny pets attributed to women is simply an exaggeration, Sarah Bernhardt may get herseif seratched by a young tiger, but most women prefer a safer and more seemly pet. s of the effeto Home ~— The Color Line in New York, New York Commercial Advertise A negro lawyer of this city gives an inter. esting account in the Freeman of his own experiences of color prejudice New York restaurants. He went into a res- taurant in Fulton market, where scveral people were eating, and his order was refused on the ground that they were not cooking anything at the time. In a Cedar street restaurant “the waiter threw napkin, kmife, fork, plate, food, ete., at me as 1f were o wild ammal and he was afraid of being bitten;” and when he paid his, bill the proprictar told him that, although he had no personal objections to serving a negro, s customers didn’t lit. He patronized a Broadway restaurant several times until the proprietor told him_that his white guests told him that his white fim'sls made complaints, Lately he has cen on a trip to the south, and after ob- serving the freedom with which whites and blacks scemed to mingle i work and in conversation on the train and at the stations, he said to a negro friend: “Really I believe that in_some respects there is more color prejudice in the North than in the South.” His frierd agreed with him, and he was a maa _entitled to speak with authority upon this subjeet, for he is the pastor of a church in Georgetown, S. C., and has traveled in the North, 'wherd he was “subjectud to numberless insults by men who keep hotels and restaurants,'” ——— The Difference, Workingman in the Boston Herald: The English workman lives in a small, stuffv tenement—perhaps he has a small, stufly house by himself. Somehow hig place never seems so airy and bright ag the Frenchman's, even though he may spend more money onit. The other day 1 was going through a Boston street n- habited by the families of laboring men. It wis a fearfully hot day and all the i were open. But what struck me as a singular thing was the fact that a great many of the windows were prac- tically elosed up by the ligh kead-bourds of great wooden bedstends shoved against the window,thus excluding air. 1thought how differently the I AN WOrKing- man's wife would arrange her apartment, In the tirst place she would not kave this Fn' ugly bedstead. There would be a ow iren” one, or wooden cot, ple large enough, more easily kept clean, occupying much less spnce, and exelua’ ing no daylight or air. Then, our French- man's windows are always clean; there are light muslin curtains, too, and, per- haps, a fow bright flowers or plants in the window. ‘The floors have no cary or coverings, Carpets are a mistake, any ¢, I hiive none in n y own house, pre ring the hard floor with rugs. ‘I'he ‘rench artisan gets along without car- pets or oil cloth.” Perhaps the tloor is stamed, perhaps not. At any rate, it al- most shines with frequent applications of the ser ubbing brush, It 18 very cusily kept clean, e Water as a Purifier. ‘Water will absorb all the filth of the air s readity as it will dissolve sugar, salt and similar matters, such poisons being rapidly diffused, similarly affecting all parts. For this reuson water which lng been standing in the vicinity of filth soon becomes unfit for culinary purposes. In- deed, that whieh has stood in an ordinary Kitehen during the night should not be used as u drink or in cooking. Vessels of water—particularly if a little copneras is {ded—placed in the sick room, will do much to purify the room and prevent the attendunts from contracting the d A It is woll to remember that if medicines are reduced in water, they should be Kept in covered cups, or, better still, in vials, 1f water purifics' the air, mulk, which is mostly water, even when the purest, should never be kept in filthy place, the covering being insufs nt'to exelude foul gases. Such un 1, or partially protected vessels of 1k will purify the mir of the collar— er and the copperas will do as well-- will not vurify the system of the child, or that of duy one using such partialiy med milk, It may be re- marked 15 purifythe sur- roundin, wimty of filthy but s0ils in the | onthouses, rendering the water to that extent unfit for use vielnity of stables, piggeries and the like, on the average, arc too foul to sup ply the family water, or that used by the since the milk and the esh of stock will boanore o less ulicled b g The wells in the stoek sdo by