Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1887, Page 5

HE GLORIES OF NEBRASKEA, » hey Are Fittingly Set Forth in Lincoln's Invitation to President Oleveland. WAR ON UNJUST FREIGHT RATES. fhree More Cars of Goods Replev- ined From the Union Pacific Road—Clams—~The Parsons Investigation—Brevities. [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLN BURFAU.] e At the meeting of the committee ap- Yointed to invite President Cleveland to wvisit Lincoln on his autumnal round-up * the matter was placed in the hands of a sub-committee of five to draft the reso- lution of invitation in genuine Jefferso- - nian simplicity, George William Curtis could not object to the civil scrvice ap- pearance of this sub-committee, and the mogwumps being 1 the majority, good results may be anticipated. The invita- tion extended is as follows: +, To the Hon. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States: In accordance with a res- olution mh)lpled by the tnanimous vote of the city council of Lincoln, Neb., on the 18t in- stant, the undersigned committee apnointed, appointed in accordance with the resolution and rej rm-uunr all political parties, busi- ness and professional interests of the capital clty of Nebraska, and we wnuduml( aflirm the general and hearty sentiment of her peo- ple in the premises; extend a most cordial in- vitation to vourselt and Mrs, Cleveland to include Lincoln in the lists of visits which, we are informed, you expect to make the various western cities during the coming fall. We are pleased to assuro ou that our citizens will regard your aceep- nee of their invitatton as & very great honor and source of pleasure to themselves and will spare no pains to make your visit Interesting to the utmost. Inasmuch as we believe that your already an_mcled visits will ‘ not take you beyond the Missouri river, wo beg leave to suggest as an important consid- eration that the city of Lincoln and eountry surrounding are fairly within and represen- tatlve of, the wreat trans-Missourl region ‘which in half the span of a generation has redeemed its name and fame as a great desert, with those of a great garden of ines- timable resources and already the acknow- ledged centre of production for the country’s three greatest azricultural staples. The wide extent and unsurpassable richness of this section of the great republic, the proud monument of the reatness and foresight of that patriotic ‘ather, who negotiated its cession, and the 1 character, enterprise and courage of its citi- zens are comprehended and illustrated in our city, which hopes that its celebration of the twentleth year of its life and growth in i that time from an uninhabited prairie to | twice 20,000 people, to the habit of biennially multiplying its population by two, and into & great railroad commercial and educational centre, may be distinguished by a visit from the president of the United States. ‘e feel justified in assuming that it would be both pléasing and profitabie for the chief executive to witness for himself the half B that cunnot be told, the extent, resources and . phenomenal development of this new found haunt of our country, suggesting that to do . this would involve but a slight deviation from the route you have already marked out t for a westéern trip. With great re- spect we await a favorable response. ' ALBERT WATKINS, Chairman. B . REPLEVIN CASFS CONTINUE. The Lincoln wholesalers are contin- uing their policy against exhorbitant freight rates on California shipments, and the railroads will get enough of it before they are through with it. In ad- i dition to numerous cars of goods re- { Ehwimzd heretofore by Raymond Bros. * Co.i and H. P. Law, the firm of Plum- mer, P erry & Co., have taken the re- plevin - business in hand and have replevined three cars of sugar and canned goods recently shipped them from California. The charges on these goods are $1.45 per hundred to Lincoln, while on the same class of goods the rate to Omaha and likewise to Chicago, is but 76 cents. Such an extortionate over- charge to Lincoln, that is equally distant with Omaba from the Pacific coast, the wholesalers consider a direct violation of the inter-state law, and when they tender the regular Omaha rate in payment of the freight and it is refused, they take the case to court and the goods by re- plevin. It looks as though the railroads were alckenlni on the fight and itis stated that on the last car load received by H. P. Law the road tried to get him to take it at 90 cents charges which he promptly refused, and replevined the [} goods as heretofore. 4 * THE COMING CLAM BAKE. At the spring meeting of the Nebraska Clam Bakers’ association held at Crete 1t was decided that asecond bake should be held the present summer. In compliance with this order backed by an insatiable appetite for more clams, S. C. McBride, president of the association, has called a nke to be held at Shogo island on the 20th, 27th and 28th of the present month. Shogo Island is situated at the village of Milford and to the bake none will be ad- mitted save the members of the associa- tion and their invited guests. An abund- ance of clams from the shores of old ocean with sea turtles and other acces- sories will be the bill of fare. DELEGATES APPOINTED. Governor Thayer yesterday appointed ¢ delegates to the National Forestry con- . gmnu to be held at Springtield, Iil., on v eptember 14, 15 and 16. The question of forestry on the prairie states has but recently received the attention that it has merited but Nebraska is well to the front in the work and the gentlemen ap- pointed h{uw governor will be recog- nized ag =hle men in the work. The dele- ' tes are ex-Governor R. W. Furnas, rownville; Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Nebraska City; Prof. C. E, Bessey, state ’ university, L{ngo!n; Patrick H. Bar 5 v 0O'Connor; G. W. Hervey, Creighton; C. ¥. E. Osgood, North Platte; L. J. Carring: - ton, Culbertson. MORE OF THE INVESTIGATION, The prosecution in the case against Judge Parsons, the police magistrate, had at the close of their evidence Jailor Baldwin on the stand, who testified to receiving numerous fines himselt from prisoners and that he either paid them over to the police judge or the marshal. He recited some half dozen of these cases and brought his book into court. The book was one of the modern curiosities, and a puzzling book out of which to ex- tract anything satisfactory. The mar- shal's wstimmw, that in part contra- dicted the jailor's, was also taken. The forenovon yesterday wus entirely taken up with the examnation of the police judge in his own behalf. The testimony was a general denial of the charges, but on ex- plicit cases charged as finos collected and not found on his " docket he would not swear that they had been paid or had not been paid. He testified that he knew nothing concerning them beyond his docket. In the case of Lee Johuson he thought bhe remembered the person and fining him, and if the case was not on the docket it must have been omitted. He explained as to other cases charged and that could not be produced on the docket that he could not explain their omission without it had been that the papers in the case had been lost before the cases were put upon the docket. In his examination regarding the paymént of the fines col- lected under the statutes he claimed ig- norance of the law and that his impres- sion was that once in six months was as often as he was called upon to pay over. As an explanation as to why, if he so construed the law, he had failed to make payments once in six months, he testified that he supposed it was carelessuess or thoughtlessness on his part. The test- mony of & few ummportant witnesses was taken and in the afternoon the at- torneys occupied an hour in the argu- ments, The council committee will hold the matter for a report at the next sitting of the council. BRIEF ITEMS. In the announcement of the avpoint- meat of Mr, Plullips as deputy oilinspes- tor at Beatrice, the BEx was In error yes- terduy in stating that the appointment was mude by Governor Thayer. appointments of deputies are made b; Smith Calawell, state oil inspector, an it was that officlal who appointed Mr, Phillips as a deputy at Beatrice. The run was light in police court yes- terday, the number of cases balnfi limited to tour, two for drunkenness and two for fighting. 'The tramp nuisance has been greatly abated for the past fow days and ;wo nights have passed by without burg- aries. e — REAL ESTATE. Transfors Filed August 0, 1887, CE Mayne and wife to Dexter L Thomas, lot 9.blk 6, Kountze's dth supnlementary, w d. 4,000 Eric Kline and wife to ’; Company, ni§ sei nwi{ 27-10-13, Julia pl nd nd to Mary S Allison, part se 12-15-13, 3 acres, 00 N1 D Solomon and_ wife to T H Cotter, lot 16 blk 5, Solomon's add, 50 T H Cotter to Charles L Smith, lot 16 blk 5 Solomon’s add, W d........... 050 Jos H Blair and wife to Lewis' Tiant, lot 6 blk 30, Klorence, 1 G.oiaorioiie C H Krllnqg and wl?e to Western Loan and Trust Co., 14,15 and 16, blk 7, Patrick’s 2nd, G €.... ceoevuse 1 Lyman I Nelson and_wife to F M Sackett, lot 11, blk “E” Omaba, w d 1,700 John H flungate, trustee, to Joseph Roberts and Henry Dorr, lot 14, blk 12, Bedford Place, w d. ........ wee 000 Josenh Glenn to Joseph H Roberts,lot 8 blk 3, Rush & Selby’'s add to S Owaha, wd......... By s 450 Byron Reed to Sophia Lowe, ¢ 22 ft of ot 4. blk 142, Omaha, q ¢.... .. 1 C W Mount and wife toJohn 1 Redick lot 4, blk 14, Hanscom Place, wd... 8000 Martin Ruziha to F J. Kasper, a tract in sw 1§, 281513, w d 500 DByron Reed to the Publle Pl st., thro tax 20 in 9-15-13 N Butler and wife to Pete: land, w !¢ blk 3, Drake’s adad, wd. 2,500 8 H H Clarke, trustee, to Edith M Buzon, lot 8, bk 8, West Side, wd.. 8% George D Phillips and wife to Joseph W V.ard, lot 5and e 4, blk 8, - side Nol, wd........ . 8,500 E E Glum to the Western Land and Investment company, lots 4 and 5, "Tabor place, Wd.......... veewe 8,250 Emma Tompking and Lizzie Parr to Victor G l.:m\rr. lot 6, blk 22, lots 1 and 4, blk 36, fot 1, blk 56, lot 14, blk 104, lot 3, blk 135, Florence, H_ C Chamblin et al to Vietor G Lantry, lot 10, blk 28, lot 6, blk 59, lot 17, bik 9, Florence, q c. .. SRR D Chamblin et al to Victor G Lantry, lot 10 blk 28, lot 6 blk 59, lot 17 bik 96, Flurance.g [ Kt Jos H Blair and wife to Mary M Lan- lr‘-. lot 182, Florence, q €....o.uvuuie 1 H M Hunt and wife to Vietor G Lan- wry, lot 8 blk 2, Florence, q ¢... 1 Or(lzllhl & Florence Land and ' 1 w Phoebe to" Omahin & Florence Land and Trust Ci blk 12, Florence, g ¢... Geo J Fox to Geo Il Parse 78, Omaba, w d... John C Drexel to M| ue, lots 5 and 6 blk 8, Walnut Hill, wd. Fred V. Fowler and wife to Edwin M, Park, south 90 feet, lots 8 and 9, blk. 7, Patrick’s 2d ad,, wod.............. 1 William Latey et ai. to Eivin M. Peck, east 314 of west 435 ot lot 5, blk. 3, 1,400 FoSter's ady We d..o..eesennt tosues 5,950 Theodore Wilhams and wife to Wil iam D. McCague, lot 10, bik. 3, Plain- VIO, W, d.... 500 Barbara Nistel and husband to Annie Baumgerdner, east half of lot 12,blk. 5. Kountz's 8d ad., w.d......ce0n.... Barbara Nistel and husband to Annie Baumgardner, lot 22, blk, 4, Hascall’s sub div., w. d. . areeaeiaae W. G. Albright and wife to Mrs. John A. Swove, lot 12, blk, 5, Matthew’s sub div,, w. d... Lesieieieiiiiene Omaha Real Estate and Trust com- pany to Sarah M. Gw’yer‘ lots 14, 15 and 16, blk.-‘T. Patrick’s 2d ad., w. d. 12,000 Transfers aggregating. e 80 Building Permits, Inspector Whitlock yesterday issued the following building permits : C. E. Hammer, one and one-half-story frame barn, Davenport and Twenty- seventh avenue, to cost $150. R. G, Jenkinson, block of two-story frame and basement tenements, 604-606- 608 Pierce, to cost $4,600. Frank Lemin, one-story frame cottage, Fifteenth near. Willinms. to cost $300, Wm. Sehestedt, one-story frame cot- tage, Hefflehm near Nelson, to cost $500. Hans Nielson, two one-story frame cot- tages. Reed’s third addition, to cost $500. . B. Wood, two-story frame block of flats and stores, Twenty-sixth and Blondo, to cost $4,400. . C. Wilcox, frame barn, Twenty- fourth near Bun‘avard, to cost $250. J. Mulvihll, two-story frame dwelling, Fifteenth ana Conter, to cost $2,900. Eight permits aggregating $13,500. e e Another Anecdote of Herr Krupp. The German papers continue to pub- lish numerous anecdotes of the late Herr Krupp. The Emperor William, when visiting the Essen works, displayed great interest 1n the working of the steam ham- mer, and Herr Krupp took the oppor- tunity of speaking in high praise of the workman who had special charge of it. “Ackermarn has a sure eye,” he said, “and can stop the falling hammer at any moment. A hand might be placed on the anvil without fear, and he would stop the hammer .within a hair's breadth of it.” ‘“‘Let us try it,” said the emperor, “but not with a human hand—try my wateh,’’ and he laid it, a splendid speci- men of work richly set with brilliants, on the anvil. Down came the immense mass of steel, and Ackerman, with his hand on the lever, stopped it just the sixth of an inch from the watch.” When he went to hand it back, the emperor re- plied kindly, “No, Ackerman, keep the watch in memory of an interesting mo- ment."” The workman, embarrassed, stood with out-stretched hand, not know- ing what to do. Krupp came forward and took the watch, saying, “I'll keep it for vou if you are afraid to take it from his majesty.”” A few minutes later they again the spot, and Krupp said, “Now you can take the emperor’s pres- ent from my hand,” and handed Acker- mann the watch wrapped up in a thous- and mark note. Its superior excellunce proven 1n mlilfons ot bomes for more than » quarter of a century, 418 used by the Unitod States Governmen ndorsed by the heads ot the Great Unive 8, a8 tho Stronyest, Purest and Most Health ful.’ Dr, Price’s the only Lakiug Powder that dogs mot contain Ammonis, Lime, orAlum. Bold cns. A CE BAMRING. POWDRR CO., NEW YORK CHICAGO, 8%, Louis, THE COMING SOLAR ECLIPSE Astronomers Everywhere Prepared for tho Interesting Event. LINE OF. FATALITY DESCRIBED. The Most Impressive Sce n Nature —Phenomena of the Sun's Corona —Eclipses in the Past—The Preparations San Francisco Chronicle: A phenome- non which is regarded by astronomers and physical scientists as being of the ut- most importance to the scientific world as likely to set 8 number of theories at rest, will occur on August 19 next. Par- tics of astronomers, photographers and spectroscopists from national and private observatories throughout Europe and the United States will be eagerly watching at various localities for the solar eclipse oc- curring on the date above mentioned. The following interesting account of the event was obtained from Prof. George Davidson of the United States coast sur- vey. The total solar eclipse of August 19, is visible from the eastern part of Europe, through the whole of Asia, across the Pa- cific ocean half way between Japan and the Sandwich islands. The southern limit of the partial pnase passes across the Red sea, the Persian gulf, the heud of the Bay of Bengal, between Borneo and the Phillippine islands,the northern limit being the north pole. The path of the totality is about 1235 miles wide and this phase ins just west of Berlin, which it envelops; passes about sixteen miles north of Moscow, and thence through the southern part of Siberia, across Japan, embracing Tokio, (where the nited States observers are to be stationed) and soon to the Pacilic ocean as far as the little island of Rico de Oro, latitude 89° north and 157° east longitude. This lit- tle island is diréctly in the midst of the path. 4 On the earth the eclipse commences at 8:05:05, Greenwich mean time, in the northeastermost_part of the Meditterran- ean sea. The last point of contact is among the Caroline group of islands, latitude 10° north, the total duration being four hours, fifty-six minutes, four seconds. The length of the total phase varies from two minutes, twenty-one seconds to three minutes, forty-eignt seconds, In the longitude of Moscow the Jength of totality will be two minutes,thirty-two seconds; but in Siberia, in latitude 51° and longitude 141°, the length will be three minutes, forty-eight seconds, while in Japan the time will be three minutes, ten seconds, In the Siberian path the light of the sun will be only 16° or 17°— an unfavorable condition. T'okio, 1n Japan, offers superior advan- tages over any locality in the Russian path that is accessible, because the sun at that place will be 86° hizh, and the duration twenty to twenty-tive seconds longer. It s, therefore, the best point that could have been selected hy the United States for observing, and we may look for valuable results, weather per- mitting. T'he length of the total phase is about the average time of the phenomena, as they runge from nothing to seven min- utes. In these few minutes the Russian, French, German, Eaglish, American and Japanese parties, at their respective stations, hope to be able to solve some of the delicate questions in the sun’s corona. Ther= is a decided value 1n the line tra- versed by the cclipse, s telegraph wircs are in the path, and if the wires are abso- lutely available, the western station ob- servers being the earlier ones, can send forward to their eastern colluboratours what they have seen, what they bave missed, and what is needed for confirma- on. Professor Young, of Princeton, and tormerly of Dartmouth, where he earned nis fame, has, in his recent paper upon astronomical work of the last decade, told us what had been done on this an subsequent occasions. Those who observed all or some of the total solar eclipses of the past eighteen years, from 1869 to 1886, confirm the earlier observers who haye declared the phenomenon to be the most impressive scene in nature, far exceeding the glory of the greatest comets—at least those of 1843, 1858, 1861 and 1882, As the biack disc of the Inusmepling moon moves slowly across the sun's burning disc the light gradually de- creases, but not so much as one wouid suppose, at least, one's senses do not ad. mit that when the sun’s disc is half hid- den there is much apparent loss of light, or even when three-fourths of the disc is obscured. When the disc is decreased until the merest narrow band of bright and living light is visible there is nothing around either body to call for atiention. The sky is blue, the stars have not ap- peared, and no one can predict the pos- sible changes that in a few seconds only must appear. The last brilliant point of sunlight disappears and suddenly the wonderful rose-colored tlames burst out far beyond thedark spherical body which now hangs in the heavens as if we could almost reach it. Far outside these red flames, which are in broken masses here and there on the circumference, the fleecy, delicate white'wigps of the corona stream out from the sun's disc mullions of miles. Near the body ot the sun for a depth of 100,000 miles the corona has a moderately dense texture with & certain regularity of depth; but beyond this the texture and regularity is less than the most aerial cirrus clouds, A tendency to an_equatorial extension is certainly determinea and a weakness of development 1n the polar regions. We can with our present means reach and study the chromosphere and the promi- nences of red tlames, and follow the cy- clonic action of the red spots; but this marvelous corona is yetinaccessible save m a few precious seconds of a total eclipse. No wonder expeditions for ob- serving went to Alaska in 1869, to Spain in 1870, to Colorado in 1878, to the South Pacific in 1883, to Africa in 1886, notto mention the solitary occurrence on our coast in 1880, There are hundreds of contingencies and accidents likely to operate against success. Next to the total obscuration by clouds is the haziness and unsteadi- ness of our own atmosphere; the deftress of the observer in rapidly sketching a certainty of what he sees, his sensitive- ness of vision, & collectivness of the whole phenomena as to extension, and reiative tone and position. It seems impossible to tind two observ- ers giving aven similar drawings of what must be the same phenomenon, Even practices observers are apt to subordi- nate one phase to another, and it is a notable fuct that few observers have suf- ficient facility as draughtsmen, or as rapid draughtsmen, to portray the fea. tures of the eclipse. They rarely do so, even if plenty of time is afforded, as in wnu:hlnf a comet. But this phenomenon has apparently exhibited & wonderful power of change in itself, for the!lnter observations of ob- servers along the line of totality for the development of the corona at the western station would differ from the character- istic at the eastern station, It is to study thus almost infinitely ex- panded solar appendage that the actual observers have been hoping for satisfac- tory and conclusive demonstrations as each total eclipse. Every one hopes, every one believes that he has made accurate drawings as to shape and even a8 to color to add to the conclusive denfe Jansen has been at work for years at Mevdon, near Paris, studying the sun, Huggins thougll;t he had photographed the corona in broad daylight, but was satisfied that he had been mistaken after the eclipse of last year. Every effort will now be made, not only to photograph this inscrutable en- velope, but to determine with the speo- troscope and polariscone the character- istics of its constitution. So far we know more definitely than a fow years since that the corona is a real solar appendage more cxpanded In the equatorial than in the polar regions; thay it is an excessively attenuated envelope of gas and infinitely fine matter intensely luminons, and tlkm;f shape according to the activity of the solar forees. The United States expedition left Van- couver for Yokohama on the steamer Parthia, on July 6. —_— Peculiar In the combination, proportion, and pre- paration of its ingredients, Hood's Sar- saparilla accomplishes cures where other preparations entirely fail. Peculiar in its good name at home, which isa “tower of strength abroad,” peculiar in the phenomenal sales 1t has attaned. Hood's Sarsaparillais the most success- ful medicine for purifying the blood, 51';1n¢ strength, and creating an appe- e, A VARIED CAREER OF 100 YEARS. The Strange Long Life and Pathetic Death of Jean Durand. New York World: A death certificate which calls attention to the checkered career of a man who lived over a cen- tury, was tiled in the bureau of vital sta- tistics yesterday. Jean Durand died Thursday in his miserable tenement home, No. 94 Frahkfort street. His bones will repose in a pauper’s grave in Potter’s tield. He was 100 years and 20 days old. Hus life was full of ups and downs. His boyhood days were darkened by the suicide of his father, who blew out his brains in New Orleans because he had squandercd a handsome competence in gambling and riotous hiv- iug. The elder Durand had been a com= modore in the early Amer navy. The son, then teu years of age, started out in life for himseif as barber. He settled in Baltimore, where he owned the most fashionable shop in the city. His patronsincluded congressmen, judges and senators, and as wealth followed thrift, he gave choice entertainments at his home, his guests being the leading states- men of the duy. One day he accommo- dated a friend by the loan of his name to several notes. His fortunc was swept away in meeting the disnonored paper. He became a journeyman barber again, but he was growing old and the younger men outstripped him. Eighteen years ago Jean married for a second time. His wife survives him in the wretched rear room which the old couple called their home. She visited the morgue and endeavored, amid tears and sobs, to arrange e corpse of the centenarian as well as she could. In the plain pine box, in which the white-haired and wrinkle-faced veteran lay, she placed a bundle of old carpets for a pillow so that the head might be elevated. Then she put on his emaciated frame a linen shirt, in the bosom of which she set three plain gold studs, the only jewelry the old man had owned, When reminded that these baubles would purchase food, the poor woman broke down, and ex- claimed: “They must be buried on him. If they were diamonds they would not be too rood tor him, for he was the Kkindest, best and most generous man that ever lived.” She kissed the dead man’s lips for the last time. With tears flowing down her wrinkled cheeks, she left the morgue and returned to her desolate and poverty- stricken home in Fraukfort street. £ e SR P Frequently accidents occur in the house hold which cause burns, cuts,sprains and bruises, for use in such cases Dr. J. H McLeaus Volcanic Oil Liniment has for many years baen the constant favorite family remedy. — Professor Gardner's Philosophy. Detroit Free Press: “‘One fing dat con- vinces me dat de Lawd am a good Lawd,”’ said Brother Gardner, as the mcc(mfi opened, “ar’ de way he puts up wi human natur’. One has only to put on his hatan' take a walk aroun’ de block to convince hisself dat 1if we had any odder Lawd 'cept de one we've got dar’ would be a powerful shakin' up of dis airth ebery day in de week and twice Sunday. > *‘Las’ week Pickles Smith went off fishin'. He had no bizness to reason dat he'd eben git a bite, but_he just sot down an’ figgered dat he'd bring home six tons of bas; ' pickerel. He went,. an' he fished, an’ he bobbed, an’ he spit on his bait, an’ he cotched one little sunbass about as big as a two-cent piece. He cum home mad s a wet her, an’ de way he took on an’ skipped Thursday evenin' pray'r meetin’ was awful to h'ar. The fact that he hasn’t been jerked outer his butes an’ tied up in fo' hard knots proves how witlin’ de Lawd ar’ to gin human natur’ anoder chance. “A few days ago Trustee Pullback drawed §25 outer de bank—his savings fur de Iast ten y'ars—an’ purchased him a mule. He calkerlated that mule was worf $75,an’ dat he had made the bifigcst kind of a bargain. He slapped hisself on the leg an' chuckled, an' he went to Im\y‘r meetin’ an’ sung till he could be heard a mile, but arter fo’ days he went out to de ba'n an' found dat mule stone dead. Den what happened? He sulked an’ ripped,an’ cussed an’ declared dat de Lawd was agin him. De Lawd was all right as long as Pickle was makin 50, but all wrong when he was losin' $25. He am heah to-night an’ still alive an’ in 0od health, which ar’ proof agin dat the .awd forgives ninety an’ nine times an’ realizes the weakness of human natur’! “I war’ passin’ a saloon de odder day in which war’ schen or eight drunken men. Drink war’ makin’ beasts of 'em, Drink war’ takin' bread from de moufs of deir chill’en. Drink war’ soakin'up deir brains, bluntin’ deir manhood, an’ dullin’ ebery sentiment .of goodnesss in deir hearts.” If I had been de Lawd I should hev brung about an exploshun to lif that hull bizness sky high, an' to hev sent de saloon keeper about a mile higher de anybody else, but dat suloon am dar’ yet an’de same crowd kin found dar’ any day, an’ dat's proof of sich forbearance an’ liberality as we kin skeercely comprehend. “If I'should sot out to ve an infidel I should stop short as I looked at the sun an' moon—at de mountains an’ valleys— at de brooks an’ forest—each one a proof of de power of an 1nfinit bem’. I should sot out to deny de Lawd I wouldn't hev to'go a block to find plenty of proofs dat He not only exists an’ rules and am present wid us, ‘'but dat His gen- tleness an’ forgivin' disposishun ar’ all dat stands between us an’ sich a rattlin’ of dry bones as would keep de h'ar on mlmltxll from Sunday mawin’to Saturday night. —————— The Decay of Romance, Williamsport (Penn.) Grit: “There is, atter all, a deplorable lack of romance in this pr ive age of ours,” said a gen- tleman in one of our jewelry sto “In d?l gone by the betrothal ring was con- sidered as a sort of love token, and the maiden who received it wore it and doted upon 1t becauss of the spirit in which it wasgiven. Now, however, the girls are very pariicular, and it is no unusual thing for them to come here with their engagement rings and have settings changed or some other little matter that doesn't just suit them corrected. Now, that sort of thing is caleuluted to knock romaunce bigher than a kite.' Terrible Pun The Foochow Echo says: At a place close by the woll known tea house on the road to the city is to be scen a man n a cage, with a cangae on his neck to keep him standing on his toes only, and in this position he will be left till relieved by death. Upon inquiry we were told that he is & Taoust priest, and the crime he committed was that about a fortnight ago he put on & woman's dress and went into a house wliere no one but a newly mar- ried young girl was left. He boldly in. formed the girl that he was her aunt, and come xzurgx‘oselx to see her, and, of courso, the girl believing this, nothing was left undono for the comfort of her supposed aunt during the whole day. At night the young girl offered her room lndfi)ed to her aunt, #o they both were in the room talking, when suddenly the girl observ- InF that the logs of her aunt were covered with hair, at once suspected that some mystery existed, because » woman never bas bair on her legs. Showingno excite- ment she told her aunt that she must go and get her clothing that had been left on the terrace und thatshe wouid cpme back shortly. As soon as she got ou&he shut the door and went into the next houso and called for assistance, when at once a crowd of men rushed in and arrested the man, and they found on his person a pair of Chinese daggers. He was at once taken to the magistrate, and is now in the cage to die that horrible death, P. S. Popoft, Chinese sceretary to the Russian legation in Pek has just pub- lished a pamphlet on the Chinese popula- tion, in which he states it to be 882,000, 000, as ogainst 418,000,000 in the year 1812, His statistics are derived from™ Chinese ofticial sources, There was a distinct upheaval of the ground in Shanghai, as if from a slight |‘)|r1|l(1llllkc, at 8:25 p. m.,on Saturday,the 25th ult. Admiral Ting has retired from the Pei- yang squadron, and H. E. Chou Fu has recommended Liu Taotai as his succes- L As L, though a very zealous ofti- , is & landsman, and suffers from sea- sickness, Chou Fu has kindly arranged that Liu shall manage the evolvtions of the flect from his house on shore. He will, in fact, be port admiral, and will combine in his own verson the superin- tendence of the harbor works at Port Arthur, with the command of the fleet. The Chinese native papers contain the following items of interest: A thguu of sudden death is raging at Nanking. 'I'he pcople are dying in every quarter. There are many instances of very sudden deaths; the people are ap- parently well in the morning and dead in the afternoon. The Hu Pao says that over 1,000 tele- raph poles belonging to the Yunnan E!Muu -tsz district) and Kweichow line have been pulled down by the people, who say the telegraph is a diabolical European artifice and harms the geoman- tic influence. Troops to the number of 2,000 have been ordered to the spot. Last week, according to the Shen Pao, no less than eighty-four persons were summarily executed nea glmughui for belonging to secret societies. The Shen Pao says that the viceroy li has sent a launch and eight gunboats to Peking as a tribute to the emperor, and they are to be transported by a movable railroad, which will traverse tive lis per day, and reach Peking on the 8th inst. The Shen Pao gives a most harrowing account of the floods at Ch'u-chou Ku, up the Wenchow river. Over athousand human beings haye been swent away and the destruction of growing crops is im- men . ————— Walking adyertisements for Dr, Sage's Cflm‘;rh remedy are the thousands it has cured. e STYLE IN UMBRELLAS, The Very Latest Thing in Rain-£ro- tectors—Artistic Handles. The umbrellas of our daddies was not & pleasing sight upon the earth, Its center-pole was more formidible than shape and expensive drapery more generally adapted to sonk up and retain the rain than make any attemp to divert it, It wus short, fat and clumsy, with- out the slightest pretension to bodily grace, and every line offered & direct re- pulse to any grateful instinct which an- tique swelldom might have felt to ad opt it as fashion's m\nurly. The transition, however, is a matter needing little comment. Suflice 1t to say that the umbrella, parasol and cane do- partments of the dozen branchesof trade which regard such as a legitinate feat- ure of their business are the moslL care- fully kept and best patronized of all. It will be pleasing intelligence to these and to connoisseurs of a good *'stick” to learn that several radical innovations on present styles have been decreed, and that steps to secure the sume arcinactive progre. z\mun{.: the accredited makers of the best goods. “The umbrella is, following the English custom, rapidly usurping the place of the cane in dry weather, as well as obtain- ing a much more decided hold on the af- fections of Americans where its own sphere is concerned, In its adoption as the correct carry for promenade pur- poses—which is s comparatively jrecent fiat—the umbrella hns become ehigible to a degree of claborate ornamentation as surprising as pleasing to the eye. I\I)ost of the handles, which form, from a manufacturer's poiat of view, the basis of the entire structure, will this year be of local fabrication, although large importations of the latest London fads. are compulsory. In direct contrast to the bulk of last season’s mode, they will this fall tend to light and simple shapes. In canes as well a8 umbrellas the most favored handie seems to bo a short crook or crutch, with a stem of not over two inches in lonFth from bar to band, ‘The fact, adduced by a prominent im- porter, that over two-thirds of the han- dlesin use in London to-day are of the conventional buckhorn, will not be with- out its effect on locul prejudice. Novelties in gold_ and" silver handles will be much in demand, The_ latter metal has been put into several strikingly original forms, among whi the etched und electrotyped varicties are best cal- culated to tickle popular faney. In one the surface of the smooth silver is deeply grained with acid to represert in relief all sorts of floral, sporting, rac- ing und coaching designs, These figures are minute and liberally crowded to- gether, so that a very small handle may combine the functions of a very enter- tnininf picture book, with its natural of- fice. In the other a charming effect is produ by coating the knob of natural wood h graphita and heavily electro- !ypin{; t in pure metal at least a six- teenth part of an inch thick. This coat- ing is left on the stick oxidized and pol- ished in faitbful imitation of its grain, Large importations are reported of carved wvory handles in grotesque floral and animal patterns. The favorite umbrella stick will be that of reed, strengthened by a stout steel rod run through the centre, but for eanes more Weichel and Numa sticks will find favor than ulli‘llllll else. In spite of the hi, duty of 50 per cent charged on so-called Spitalfield silks, these, both twilled and taffeta, will ob- tain over any American production. The correct sizes will be in Jengths from twenty to thirty inches by gradation of two-inch lengths. Jupanese or porcelain handles for either canes or umbrelias will not be al- lowed, and, in fact, the most serious deviation from the foregoing arrange ment which will be permitted-will be in a revival of the old carved dog and ani- mal heads in wood from a style halt a ) dozen yeurs old. - THIRTY YEARS IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO. ——— One of the Oldest Inhabitants Gives a Thrilling Experience of His Rescue from Death. —_— From the Chicago Dmly News Juno 23, 187 In public places, especially in the summer season, the eye is often attracted by neat decorations ‘which embellish chandeliers and ceilings as protection againsi those hu- man pests, the flies, which, however, serve lheirrupme as the scavengers of the air. The tli%ns employed are ofttimes reall works of art. and the deft way in whic they are attachted to walls and ceilings so as to propect them; gives an impression of airy lightness which is pleasing to the eye. No man has probably spent so much time in Chicago on this line of trade as the sub- ject of the following sketch; He has been a resident of Chicago for thirty years, coming here with his parents when only 10 years of age, and having grown up with the city his name is known to thousands of her people, Within a short time such a wonderful change has taken place in his personal ap- pearance that it has attracted the attention of his friends as well as that of a reporter, who called upon him withina day or two and obtained the following sworn statement Personally appeared before me, George ‘W. Hoover, No 278 West Twelfth street, who, being sworn according to law, doth depose and say: That I have been ill for two or three years with a lung trouble, which a short time since resulted in hemorrhage, so that I re- marked to my wife: Ithink about next fall I will finish up. That I have paid out hun- dreds cf dollars in the past two years for medicine and advice, but nothing did me any practical good. I would stop coughing foran hour or so, but it would come again next day. The relief afforded me was only temdorary. I read of the numerous cures which had been effected by Dr. McCoy in the papers, and they described so closely my symptoms that” I called upoa him at No. 10 Park Row. Dr. McCoy told me that I had catarrhal bronchitis, and there was serions trouble with the right lung in the form of an abscess. I was put under the treatment, and he gave me relief right away. The night sweats with whichl had been troubled have left me and I now rest well. I began the ‘featment on the 23d of May last, I used to cough ever; morning; would get sick at the stomach. have been very nearly strangled trying to get something up when there was nothing to come up. But now I am doing splen= didly. Have a clear head. I am not clouded up. I can travel all day and not tire out, and I can assure you my work re- quires me to go about a great deal. Iam satisfled that it I had not gone under this treatment I should have been compelled to stop work entirely, and this is my busy season. I was obliged on account” of my trouble to leave a very easy situation about a year ago because I could not stand the night air aud was constantly taking cold. I have not felt so well for years as I do now, and I work hard, too. My friends remark my improved appearance, and I have gained five pounds in the little time which I have besn under treatment, and I am convinced that a cure will be effected. GEORGE W. HOOVER. gworn and subscribed before me this 22d day of June, 1887. RANDALL H. WHITE, Justice of the Peace. Dr. McCoy {8 now_located in Omaha, at the corner of 1oth aue Harney sts., Ramge Bloc) LEADS TO CONSUMPTIO Interesting Evidenee of a Condi- tion Not to Be 'Trifled With. The disease from which Mr. Hoover suf- fered was catarrhal consumption, The disease originated in a cold, which became, chronic, As a result came the formation of mucus, which was partly discharged irom the h:ad or dmpch down the throat and was partially hawked up. A large portion of it, however, was swollowed, passing into the stomach and causing catarrh there. ‘The mucus formed by catarrh decomposes, and when it reaches the stomach is cither absorbed in the blood, yproducing all manner of evil symptoms, or else coats over the food with a slimy material, which prevents the food from . coming in contact with the digestive juices in the stomach. The food itself decomposes, forms gas or wind in large quantities, and cau-es a feel- ing of bloating or fullness after eating. When the catarrh has existed in the head and the upper part of the throat for any length of time—the patient living in a district where people are subject to catarrh- al affection—and the disease has been left uncured, the catar:h invariably, sometimes slowly, extends down the windpipe and into the bronchial tubes, which tubes con- vey the air to the different parts of the lungs. The tubes becomc aftected from the swelling and the mucus arising from catarrh, and in sonie instances becomes plugged up 80 that the air cannot get in as freely as it should. Shortness of breath follows and the patient breathes with labor and difficulty. In either case there isa sound of crack- ling and wheezing inside the chest. At this stage of the discase the breathing is usually more rapid than when in health, The paticnt also has hot flashes over his body. 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