Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 3, 1887, Page 5

WELCOMING THE GOVERNOR. Arrangements Making For a Oorlial Re- ception to Thayer. COMMITTEES AND PROGRAMME. Proparations Being Made For the Coming Republican State Con- vention—Other Items About the Capital City. {FROM TTE BER'S LINCOLN BUREAU. Governor Thayer will arrive home to- day at high noon and he will be given a cordial reception by the staté officers and sitizens generally. kor the past two days committees have been at work ar- ranging the details and it is probable that the avent will be of a great deal of inter- est. Upon the arrival of the train from the east the governor will be received by the reception committee, which, as an- nounced, comprises the following state officers and citizens: Judge Maxwell, Judge Recse, Lieutenaut Governor Shedd, Secretary Laws. Judge 0. P. Mason, State Superintendent Lane Judge Pound, Mavor A.J. Sawyer, Councilmen Bill ngsly, Frass, Dailey, Brock, Cooper, Graham, Burks, Dean, knsign, Briscoe, ¢, Hovey, County Judge Parker, “Treasurer Roche, Sherifi Melick, County Blerk Bell, Ed R. Sizer, G. M. Lambert- son, John H. Ames, R. D. Stearns, T. M. Marquette, A. C. Ricketts, E. E. Brown, E. P, Roggen, Allen Field, W, E. Stew- art, Dominick G. Courtnay, J. L. Cald- well, C. H. Gero, W. H. ard, J. D. Calhoun, Patrick Eagan, John R. Clark, >, T Colonel llyna. R. C. Out- Irwin, H. C, Tmhoff, E. M. . E. Hnrgreaves, H. Clarke. Austin Humphrey, J. D. Kleutsch, Eli Plunner, C. F. Creighton, Rev. E. M, Curtis, Lews Gregory, Rev. Father Ken- nedy, Rev. E. H. Chapin, Rev. A. Allen, Chancellor Manatt, Dr. Lane, Dr. Hart, Dr, Paine, Dr. Carter, J. C. McBride, A. J. Cropsy. Legrand Buldwin and E. H. Andrus. These are the names of the desig- nated committee on reception, but it is evident that the committec on arrange- ments desire as many other citizens as oan to be present and co-operate with this reception committee. 'Ihe friends of Governor Thayer, whose names have not been published in the programme for the recepsion, will know without further mention that Governor Thayer will re- oe1ve their welcome just as cordially as that from any designated committee, and there will undoubtedly be miany of these taking ap active part in the exercises. Unon the arrival of tha train the bands and committees will form in procession. The cudet band from the uoiversity will march at the head, followed by the cadets, the local company of state militia, @overnor and staff, state officers, committees societies and citi- zens in carringes. The line of march will be east ou Q street to Lleventh, south on Eleventh to O, east on O to Fourteenth, south on Fourteenth to the capitol. Arriving there the reception meeting will be held in the scnate cham- ber, which 18 handsomely decorated for the occasion. Mayor Sawyer will deliver an »ddress, the governor will respond and a generai good time will be enjoyed. A telegram from the governor to Private Recrewnry Hill announces that he will ruach the city ‘'on the morning train from the east via Plattsmouth. THE COMING CONVENTION, The coming state convention is already attracting attention in the vity in the line of praparation and the hotels are prepnr- ing to receive and care for a large num-~ ber of guests. I'he convention, it is ex- pected ,ytlm war horses in the capital oity, will be one of the largest attended snd most interesting held for some time owing to the cfforts that the railrounds are meking to defeat Judge Maxwell and the prominent part it is expected the convention will take on matters rogarding freight rates. All these matters will bring a large number of on-lookers and swell the crowds that will pack the hotel lobbies. The hour for the assembling of the convention is fixed at 8 p. m. Wednesday evening, and the E:mpcct thus far in advance1s that 1t will an an all-night session of contest and eloquence. At 4 p. m. of the same day the convention for the Second judicial district will meet at the district court room to nominate two judgesof the district court. Judge Chapmsan will be_renominated by acclamation, and Allen Field, of this city, will probably gather in the succession to Judge Pound, BRIEF ITEMS, The Lincoln branch of the Irish Na- ti-nal league held its regular fortnightly meeting yesterday at Fitzgerald hall, which was characterized by the usual large attendance. Mr. Thomas Barry was the speaker of the day. ‘The Pleasant Hour club; the leading so- cial aggregation of dancers, 1s called to meet to-night at the oflice of Burr & Bie- son to elect a president and prepare for the winter campaign. Harry Newton, the young man burned Baturday by an explosion of gasoline, was doing well yesterday. Saturday’s election for water bonds resulted in a very light vote cast and no one seemed to know that au election was in progress. The total vote was 134 for bouds and 13 against, the amount of bonds being $10,000. The democratic county convention that met Saturday adjourn d wi*hont nomi- nating & candidate fcr county clerk or for clerk of the courts. The unterrified wvidently have little hope and tew men who want to be candidates in name only. The forthcoming grand lodge of Kaights of Pvthias at Omaha 18 awaken- the order over the state. General Dayton will the coming week institute uniform divisions at Falls City, Fremont and Kearney. The telephone company 1n Lincoln has entirely outgrown its former limited quarters and has movea the central office to the fourth floor in the Richards block, and service from the new central com: menced yesterday. State Senator Vandemark, of Saunders, Sundayed 1n Lincoln yesterday. % Deputy Oil Inspector Paine is home from St. Lows and the Grand Army en- campment, Representative Randall,of Clay county, was & sojourner in Lincoln between trains yesterds Mr. and Mrs. J. E, Riggs departed for 8 visit to St. Louis and the exposition yesterday. For fear of losing a d“f 's work, many persons put oft' taking physic until Sat- urday. The better plan is not to delay but take it as soon s needed, it may ou a hard spell of sickness, If you want he most benefit from the least amount of physic without causing you any incon- venience, loss of u‘ipuuw or rest, lake 8t. Patrick’s Pills. Their action on the liver and bowels are thorough, they give a freshness, tone and vigor to the whole ystem and act in harmany with nature. ——— Barbers Organize a Union, Sixty four of the journeymen barbers of this city have organized as a division of the Nationel Barbers' union, and to- night they will be initiated. They have already $265 1n their treasury, and theiwr rospects for the future are brignt. oir object for organizing is simply for protection and for the purpose of aidin, cach other in sickuess, or when out of employment. — A free and easy expectoration is duced by a_fow doses of Dr. Lean’s Tar of hoarsen breatuing. pro- J. H. Mo~ ine Lung Balm in all cases sour throat or difliculty of 205 oents a bottle. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll at an Ind. fanapolis reanio he past rises before me like a droam. in we are in the rent strugglo for nation lifo. We hear e sound of vreparation, the sic of the bolsterous drums, the silver voices of heroie bugles. We see thousands of as- semblages, and Lear the appeals of ofa- tors; we see the pale cheeks of @omen, and the flushed faces of men; and in those assemblages we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowcrs. Weo lose sight of them no more. We are with them when they en- list in the great army of freedom. We see them part from those they love, Some are walking for the last time in quiet, woody pluces, with the maidens they adore. We hear the whisperings, and the swoet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly part forever. Others are bending over cradles, kissing babics that are asleep, Some are receiving tho bless- ings of old men, Some are parting with those who hold them and press them to their hearts again and again, and say nothing, and some are talking with wives, and cndeavoring with brave words spoken in the old tones to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them part. We see the wife standing in the door, with the babe 1n her arms—standing in the sun< light sobbing—at the turn of the road a hand waves—she answers by holdin, high 1n her loving hands the child, He is gone, and forever. We see them all as they march proudly away under the flaunting flags, keeping time to the wild, grand music of war—marching down the strects of the great cities—through the towns and across the prairies— down to the fields of glory to do_ and to die for the eternal right. We go with them one and all We are by their side on all the gory fields—in’all the hospitals of pain—on ail the weary* marches. We stand guard with them in the wild storm and under the quiet stars, We are with them in ra- vines running with blood—in the fur- rows of old field We are with them between contending hosts, unable to move, wild with thirst, the life ebbin, slowly away among the withere leaves. We ' sce them pierced by balls and torn with shells in the trenches by forts, and in the whirl- wind of the charge, where men become iron, with nerves of steel. We are with them 1n the prisons of hatrec and famine; but human speech can never tell what they endured. We are at home when the news comes that they are dead. We see the maiden in the shadow of her first sorrow. We see the silvered head ot the old man bowed with the last grief. The past rises before us and we see 4,000,000 of human beings governed by the lash; we see them bound hand and foot; we hear the strokes of cruel whips, we hear the hounds tracking women through the tangled swamp; we see babes ‘sold from the breasts of mothers. Cruelty uunspeakable! Outrage infinite! Fonr million bodies in chuinst Four million souls in fetters! All the sacred relations of wife, mother, fatherand child trampled beneath the brutal feet of might. And all this was done under our own beautiful banner of the free. The past rises before us. We hear the roar and shrick of the bursting shell. ‘T'he broken fetters fall. These heroes died. We look. Instead of slaves we see men and women and children. The wand of progress touches the auction-block, the slave pen, the whipping post, and we see homes and firesides, and school houses, and books, and where all was want and crime, and cruelty, and fetters, we sce the faces of the free. These heroes are dead. They died for liberty-—they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendercd stain- less, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of the sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars—they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict they found the serenity of denth. [A voice—"Glory."] I have one sentiment for the soldiers living -and dead—cheers for the living and tears for the dead. ——— To Sufferers From Weak Spine. Persons suffering from weak back will take comfort in reading the following letter from Mr. A. W. Barrett, of Oswego, N, Y.: Ten years ago I was afflicted with o lame back. The pain was so severc that I could hardly walk or get about. Hes ing much said about ALLcock's Porovs Prasteks, I applied two to the lower part of my spine. In a week I was very much beteer. I puton fresh plasters at the end of ten days, and two weeks ufter- wards found myself entirely well. (f 1 got & very severe cold, 1 sometimes huy a return of this weuknes, but ALLCOCK's PLASTERS cure mc in three or four duys. - Base Ball Yells, Chicago Times: Itis curious to note the difl in the way base ball crowds cities express their delight or displensure. ln Chieago crackin, good pluy 18 greeted with a chorus of prolonged whoops, clear-cut, penetrat- ing, like the note of a high pitched but not shrill steam engine. ~ It is not un- musical. A poor play, like an expensive error, is met by an explosive “O "’ as if of pain; and a palpably unjust decision of the umpire by a combmation of hisses, cries of “0! O prolonged, while a volley of **What?" i fired at the umpire from all parts of the ground.. In Phil- adelphia the good Y.ys of the home team are recognizdd by a deafening chorus of “Hey, Hey !" "with here and there a shrill yell; poor plays and unsatisfactory decisions by ~ hoots, “0o, 0o,"” and groans. In New York pleasure and satisfaction aro expressed hy‘{u)llnx “He!” in a clear, hard tone, ard accompanying this with vigorous stamping and pounding of umbrellas. and canes. Displeasure is manifested by cries of “Murder!” and short, sharp yells of “O! O while diszusted "‘Aws’ stream up from all over the audien Here in Boston the applause is a combi nation of college yells, in which the ex- plosive “Rah! rah! rah!” predominates, with an accompaniment of staccato **Hi yi—yi—yi—"' strung together like se eral yards of linked sausage, and vigor- ous clapping of hands. Newhere in the east has there been met any one in a crowd who can begin to yell like that chap in the smokers’ scection in Chicago. His leonine roar of 'O!" after everybody t]w is through is peculiar to the Gurden Jity. e In another column of this issue willsbe found an entirely new and novel speci- men of attractive advertising, It is one of the neatest ever placed in our paper, and we think our readers will be well re- paid for examining the surProsen dis- Diny letters in the advertisement of Prickly Ash Bitters. —_— Disadvantages of Being a Giant, London Truth: 1 should not like to be as tall and bul? as the emperar ot Rus- sia and afflicted with rheumatism. It's "ri well to be a giant when young, but if the mass of bones, flesh and muscle 56“\ inert through the weight of years or isease the big body becomes u fearful dead weight to the “spirit which has to desert it. I do not know auything more wonderful than the longevity of the Ger- man emperor, who is a very tall man, M. Chevreuil is under the middle height and spare. Turgemeff was as tall as the present czar, but of a less barly figure. He found as he advanced in life, his bulk a fearful load aud envied little men their small stature, e Fred Brown's Jamaica Ginger will re. lieve any sudden attack of maluria, No‘v{‘o to a malarious district with- out i ELECTRICAL COMBINATIONS, The Various - New Tuventions aud Dis- coveries, THE PROTECTION OF DYNAMOS; Similarity of Magnetic and Electric Currente—~The Butz Heat Regu- Iator — Antomatic Railroad Protection—Dynamite Gun, Electric and Magnetic Currents, Electrichl Wotld: One of the most remarkable features of the present con- dition of the science of dynamo con- struction 1s the transition” which has taken place in our method of treatment of the magnetic problems involved. The continued application of analysis has demonstrated a remarkable analogy be- tween the electric and the magnetic cireuits, each of which is subjeoted to well detined laws, in the one oase fairly established and in the other sufficiently 80 even to-day to predicate safe results from their application. Indeed, so far has the similarity of treatment of these two *‘circmits” advanced that one must in the future be explicit in expression so 48 to avoid confusion. Protection of Dyna Elmer A. Sperry in Electrical World: Owing to the extensive use of dynamo- electric machines at the present time, their protection from the eftects of Igh ning is n subject of great importane The subject is especially interesting, inasmuch as it involves the mysterious movements of atmospheric electricity, In connection with this subject it will not be out of place to consider the action and ctlects of atmospheric electricity. When a cloud becomes churged either from the direct energy of the wind, change in the temperature, or from any cause, the charge is gradual, though it is of great absolute votential. The earth and all bodies connected with 1t are, through iuduction, of opposite polarity, or require an opposite potential, in the same manner that the coatings of a Leyden jar becomes oppositely charged when one coating only is connected with the rime conductor of a so-calied static machime. When a discharge takes place, there is an instantancous change of potential through an immense rango. After the discharge the potential of the surfaces, which were sustained at great difference, is found to be al or ng y 80. On the carth, at the moment of discharge from a cloud, there are doubt- less large tidal currents of electricity of momentary duration, which attend the distribution of this change of potential, whereby the entirc surface or mass is equalized a5 to absolute potential. The disruptive discharges between the earth and the cloud by means of which the difference of potential is satisticd tak. place sometimes in one direction, thy from the cloud to the earth, and some- times in the other direction, the flash 1ssuing upwards from the earth, 'he methods of preventing damage arising from these currents are numer- ous. Upou aerial grounded lines the lightuing arrester, us it is cailed, 15 often made by placing'two surfaces close to each other, and separated by very thin mica, one surface being connected with the line and the other with the ground, a large diflerence of potential operating 'to discharge through the mica, and gener- ally burning and fusing the surfaces into contact. Another form is that of two rows of small teeth set opposite euch other, each forming an edge of the two plates, connected as above, and the po- tential jumping across the smallinter vening space between the teeth, torming an arc through which the discharge takes pla In are-light cirenits the same devices have been resorted to with a considerable degree of success. The difieulty, however, arising from their use is that the arc established between the surfaces operates to short circnit the dynamo upon which they are usec the reason that a pair of these are d, one being upon each limb of the circuit. This ditliculty has been overcome to snme extent by usini fuses upon the ground circuit, which 15 de- signed to melt at a current not much exceeding the normal current of a dynamo. When so used the fuse is not very long, and even then there is danger of five resulting from the arc produced incach limb near the dynamo. Fuses upon the main line are better adapted (o incandescent than to arc systems, for the reason that after the main cwcuit has baen severed by the fusing of these strips, the remaining poten may cre ate currents which will ape to the ground by other means, such as through the supporting fixtures of lamps, or through the W st insulation in the line, doing I some cases more diflicult to repmir than if the poten- tial waore allowed to dissipate irs through the large area afforded by the machine. Another method has been used in connection with the ineandescent system. It consists ot stringing a grounded line on the top of the poles immediately over the system of wiring, which independent wire is supplied with numerous points. In pi co the wire consists of & picce of barb-wire fencing. When there is an instantaneous chango of poteutial of great magnitude between the system of wiring and the rth, this method is not found to be »" i, inas- much as the line is not thereby i1stantly relieved, The line is protected from a diroct discharge by the ground wire which offers a more direct path. ° The Butz Heat Regulator. Electrical World: While the dictates of hygiene have for a long time been maintained in hospitals and oceasionally 10 public buildings, the same precautions have until rccently been practically completely ignored in private dwellings, This has been the case especially in t matter of ventiiation and heat regu tion, two closely allied factors in dom tic hygiene. In our climate the se winters, to] r with the rapid ehan; in temperature, make some device by which a uniform temperature can be mafotained within doors of the groatest importance, and electricity 1s eminentl adapted to perform the oflice of h regulation. For this purpose the the: mostat can be brought into play, to- gether with other devices which operate to effect the regulation aocording to its indications. In a system of this nature, recently devised by Mr. Bhtz, a simple apparatus maintains a constant tempera- ture by regulating the supply of air to the furnace iu accordance with the teme perature of the rooms. The entire apparatus for this purpose consists of only two picces, one a ther- mostat, which operates n accordance with the change of temperature, and a small spring motor, the movement o which is controlied by the thermostatf and which operates the dampers of the furnace or other source of heat. Auatomatic Railroad Protection. Philadelphia Record: Successful exper- iments have been made with an electric gate which has for its object the auto- matie protection of railroad crossings by the cars which run over the tracks, As the expense of attending to a railroad crossing said to $900 per ver annum, while by the eleotric gate the same work., it is claimed, can be better and more safely done for $30 per annum, it is possi- ble that the road companies may adopt the new plan. The Dynamite Gun, Electrical World: Some_ very success- ful experiments made in New York bay last week by Lieutenant Zalinski with the dyuamite gun, whose ohn?m is ex- ploded by u small electric oell, go to show that the prevalent ideas of shore THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. OOTOBER 3. 1887.° defense may have tobe greatly modified. Although the minimum eharge of fifty- five pounds of dynamite was used, two shots served to blow the targetship to atoms, and it was evident that no man- of-war would be of use. after being simi- larly struck, The firing range is already two miles, so thut a battery of these guns established near theentrance to the bay might keep the largest fleet of invading men-of-war at a very respectful di tance. This gun, by the way, will proba- bly have a direct beariog on the war ship of the future. Electricity on Wheels, New York Times: They tried an elec- tric car on Fourth avenue yesterday. It created an_amount of surprise and con- sternation from Thirty-second street to One Hundred and Seventeenth that was somewhat like that caused by the first steamboat on the Hudson. Small boys yelled “Dynamite!’”’ and “Rats!” and made similar appreciative remarks until they were hoarse. Newly appointed policemen debated arresting it, but went no further. The ecar horses which were met on the other track kicked without exception, as was natural, over an inven- tion which threatens to relegate them to 8 sausage factory. A teamster at Forty- third street, seoing no horses, surmised that its forward end was the rear end of an ordinary car going the other way and mixed things up somowhat. Ho stared atit as it went away with an amazement that probably still continues. Out in the suburbs Shantytown puiled its pipe and made all the comments lying between "Unl;nrru! " and *‘Begob!" The car going at full horse-car speed, without any horscs or visible means of locomotion, created very general curiosity and surs prise. Under tho seats in the oar are storage batteries from which the elec- tricity 1s conducted to an armature underneath. This armature's revolutions turn an axle which, h}v means of cog wheels, turns the axles of the car wheels. A big hardswood box on either dash- voard has a sliding bar by which the amount of clectricity used is graduated and the car stopped by cutting off the current. The trial was” eminently satis- factory ns far as locomotion went, the car being under perfeot control and #oing up some rather sharp grides with case, Self-Registering Targets, Washington Dispatch: Some very in- teresting trinls have been recently made at tho arsenul of the new Ullman electric annunciator target. Jt is a time and money saving device for rifle practice. ‘T'he target can be made for rifles of any calibre and range, and the value and location of each shot striking it as accu- rately registered on the annunciator, which is located at the firing stand and connected by seven wires withthe target. Its face conforming in every respect to regulation targets, this target is made of a solid metal plate, or of solid rings, or with the latter divided into segments, Electrical contacts are made by the mo- tion communicated to pendulums through pis by the force of the bullet in striking. An Elcctric $care-Crow, Boston Herald: A resident of Plymouth protects his grapevines from fruit thieves in & novel manner. The supports are of wood, but the cross pieces are of wires insulated from the ground and conuected with an_induction coil’ capable of deliv- ering a heavy spark ‘through au inch of air. ‘Lhe other pole'df the coil is con- nected to the ground. Six good-si bichromate of potush cells furi electro-motive force for the coil. ¢ wires hanging among the vines are secured to the large®wires, and when anyone monk with the grapevines while the batter) connected the neigh- borhood is apt to noar from him. [t works every time, and 'no one comes for a second dose. An Electric Fraud Exposed. New York Letter: Johnny Norton, who a fow years ago was pretty well known all over country as Bunnell’s “Blectrie Bo; ug in this y as a compositor. In 1y to the query of a reporter as to what had be-- come of his electricity, he smd: ““I'nat was one'of the best ‘fakes’ of the time, and tihere was lots of money in it, tuo. When [ was on exhibition I was enclosed n an oblong stall, about sevea or eight feet long, the front of which wus like a narrow counter. Opposite the counter wus a rail which onlyallowed the visitors to p i single file. A long strip of cocon matting served us u cover for the P agewny, and also as a cover for a sheet of zine which extended beneath it, running the length of the stall. My box was similarly 1nvested with zine and matting, Attached to the sheets of metal, but hidden from view, were the two poles of a galvanic battery, one under my feot and the other in the passagewny. Now anyone pussing over the zine and touching me behind the counter completed the circuit and re- ved a shock. So did . The matti of course, had to be kept damp, water being the conductor. It was surprising what intelligent people were duped by this trick. ~ Why. was kept shuking hands and hemg red from morning unul nigit. Many’s the two-dollar note I reccived from doctors and others f coupie of drops of my blood for In fact my arms were covered with scars made by scientific dupes boring for my clectric gore. One evening three or four young st nt8 came in to unmask me, One of them made a wager that ne would electrify the audience th ne way 1f he was in the box. Limmediatel invited him in and he accepted the chal- fenoe, 1 then retired, but before doing so I preased a hidden button that cut off my wire. He, of course, failed, and ignonuntously retreated after being guyed unmercifully by thcse present, 1y I'his proved me genuine to the s atisfa - tion of cveryone in that town L oes came famous. There was lots of fun in the business, but I had to give it up, as the constant strain caused by the butter'y was too much for me." The First Lightning Roil, If we are to hel N Austrian paver, SAVS Lumiere Eleetrique, the first htning rod was not constructed by Franklin, but by a monk of Seuftenberg, in Bohemma, nnmed Prohop Diwisch, who installed an apparatus the 15th of June, 1754, in the garden of the curate of Prenditz (Movaria). The apparatus was The composed of a pole surmounted by an iron rod supporting twelve curved up branches, and terminiting in as inany metallic boxes filled ‘with iron ore and closed by a boxwood ‘eover, traversed b twenty-scven sharp iron points, Chita plunged at their base in the ore. All the system wus united to the earth by a large chain. The enemies of Diwisch, jealous of his success at the court of Vienna, excited the peasants ‘of the locality against him, and under the pretext that his hghtning rod was the cause of the great drought, they made him take down the lightning rod whjch he had utilized tor six years. What i3 most curious is the form of this first lightning rod, which was of multiple points like the one which M. Melseu afterward invented. A Sensitive Telephone. Says a Milford (Mass.) dispatch to the Boston Journal: By invitation of W, A. Hayward. manager of the Pulsion Tele- phone company, the Associated Press agent and other newspaper men insnected their private wire this afterncon. The transmitter contains a most sensitive vibrator, fully covercd by patents, and uses no electricity. Two transmitters were placed in the attics of two different buildings and connected by 1,000 feet of bale copper wire. The party stood in the orchard and Mr. Pfince went to one of the attics. Conversation was carried on by sumply standing nesr and talking toward the limb of the tree that the wire was attached to. The lowest whisper A the ticking of a watch were dis- tinotly heard by vlacing one end of a broow-handie or a stick against the tree and the other ond to the car. A hat was held against the wire, und the Associated Press agent walked sixty foet by aotanl measurement from the hat and yet dis- tincuy heard all the conversation. The laying of a harmonioa and singing were eard a distance of seveniy-five feet from the hat. The party then went to the attic of the house where one trans. mitter was stationed, while Mr. Prince remained at the other end, nearly half a mile away. The lowest conversation was heard in nn{ part of the house, also whispuring, singing, ete. The party then went out of the house downstairs, and heard Mr. Prince sing and talk. Mr. Prince then went downstairs in the house where his transmitter was located, and talked in an entry away from the trans- mitter and wire, and could be plainly heard by parties at the other end. Electric Brevities. Mr. T. A. Edison 1s busy carrying out a plan that hus been the dream of his life, in the erection of five large laboratories at Llewollyn Park, Orange, N. J., near his residence. The American Manufacturing and Sup- vly company, New York, have just put on the market n handsome line of self- ‘winding mantel clocks, which are wound automatically by electricity and require no attention for at least a year. In a recent divorce case at Lafayette, Ind., one ness, by agreement, was sworn and gave his testimony by tele- phone, being too busy to attend court in person. . Mr. H. W. Grady, editor ot the Atlanta Constitution, has become interested with other gentlomen in the Georgia magnetio well. “This well 18 a shaft in the ground, which is said to have cleetro-therapeutic properties, o that a person sitting there with rheumatism or other ailment will be charged electricully and cured. The well 1s full overy day of people who say that they experience benefit and perma- nent reliof. It is said that the telephone service in New York eity will soon be done by me- tallic circuits. If this be the case, a great imvrovement will be effected. All the arrangements have now been closed for the electric railway® at the Dallas, Tex., exposition, to begin Octo~ ber 20. In contemplating the improvements and progress made in the more modern departments of applied electricity in which heavy currents are employed, we are apt to lose sight of the fact that the last few years have also scen remarkable improvements in telegraphy. What was considered as fast speed in telegrapby ten years ago must to-day be looked upon as decidedly slow, nnd even within the last three or four years the speed has boeen increased 100 per cent and more, 80 that to-day it is possible to transmit 600 words per minute, 5 Swift and cheap pussenger transporta- tion between St. Paul and Minneapolis seems to be near at hand. A new rroject of the South St. Paul Rapid Transit com- pany is announced. They duclare their intention to build an elevated electric motor line between the cities very soon. There is a new m‘n{nol for a Paris rail- way. A. M. Berlier has offered to build within two rs, and before the opening of the exnibition, a metallic tube, n which trains may be run from Porte Dauphine to the tile and all along the boulevards and Rue de Rivoli. Trains are to b2 moved by eleetricity at a sveed of twenty Kilometers per hour. A dealer 1n musical struments in a vrovincial town in England was recently required to supply a piano which should bein tune with « certain organ. As the organ wasat a distance, and there wasno time to lose. the dealer happily bethought him to try the telephone; and the result was that by getting the distant organ played the dealer was able to hear its notes by telephone, and to select a piano suitable for it. ‘I'wo men in the section house at Daw- son, Ga., occupied a bed, the headboard of which was cut into kiniling wood by lightning. Other furniture of the room also knocked into fragment# and dishes were hurled in every direction, yet neither man was even stunned. A farmer living between the south and middle Loup rivers, by the name of Ben- sengburg, had his barn struck by light- ning one dav last week, and four horses, one calf and fourt head of hogs were killed. A special says: The dispaten from American Bell Baltimore ‘Pelephone compuny magde a move m the Umted here States circuit conrt to head off Count Mitki telephone sc! tem that Mitk into China is the one invented by William C. Turnbull, of this ecity. The first of November is fixed for the hearing. ———— . A Usefnl Precantion. It is a useful precaution for the tourist, the commerciul traveler, or the emigrant to the west, to take along Hosiettor's Stomach Bitters, Invalids who travel by stewmboat or rail should provide them- selves with it, in ord to prevent or remedy the nausea which the jarring and vyibration of vehicles i transitn often eauses them, Vastly preferrable is it for this simple, but negdful purpose, 1o the heady unmedieated stimulants of commerc On board ship, it not only remedics sea sickness, but neutralizes the pernicious effects of water slightly bra , which, if unqualified, is apt to give rise to _irregularities of the bowels, cramps in the abdominal region and dys- pepsia. To tha aerial poison of malaria it is an eflicient antidote. Sick headacho, heartburn, and wind upon the stomach, are promptly banished by it. It health- fully stimulates the Kidneys and blad- der and nullifies the early” symptoms of rheumatism, e JOLLY GENERAL SHERMAN, How the Vete; Spends His Time in th etropolis. Pittsburg Times: General W, T. Sher- man arrived in this city yesterday morn- g from New York and went imme- diately to the residence of his son-in-law, Licutenant Fiteh, at Edgewood. The general will spend<o-day there, and this evening leave on a special train over the Wabash for St. Louis to take part in the Grand Army demonstration there. As the blunt old soldier sat on the veranda of the lieutenant's residence lnst might, surrounded by a‘group of triends who had called to pay their re- spects, he divided his carcsses botween a sturdy little grandson who elung about his knee and an equally sturdy cigar. Although recently he has undergone the turmoil of a Grand Army reunion in Detroit, from whence he hurried to New York, and then came direct to Pittsburg, the hero of Atlanta and the “March to the Sea” looked the very embodiment of health and seemed determined to enjoy the dolee far niente of advancing years he has 8o well earned in his own *'I did not see the Philadelphia cele- bration,” the general remarked, cause 1 was with my old comrades in Detroit. Now I am on my way to meet them again in St, Louis, my old home~-"' Whh:u you shamelessly abandoned, f:n'ncrnl, for New York," interjected a ady. "{\'ell." responded the grizzled vet- eran, “‘St. Louis is not the place it was when the river was the wreat highway of commerce. I had many friends there, but most of them are gone now. ever, [ shall always cherish th feelings towaras the old eity. Yet I must confess that she shows hut little progress. At one time the people thought the would revive her by iron manafactorics and built the Iron Mountain road, but it , general, you are hecoming a reg- ular New Yorker, and think the world is bounded by Manhattan Island," pleas- antly replied the lady. “No, I haven't,” responded General Sherman, quickly enongh to show that ho did not_relish even a jesting imput tion upon his Americanism. *‘Ilike Now York city—it's -‘gron piace—but after all it's onlu dot in this country, [ enjoy life there, because I meet so many people 1 know, and I have reduced my existence there down to a fixed und pleasant routine.'" The theatres and pretty girls," sug- ested a gentleman who ‘was evidently amiliar with Tecumseh's weaknesses, The general laughed merrily and reo- sponded. “‘Oh, I go to the theatres on an average twico a week, and I'm never ashamed to express my admiration of pretty girls; on the contrary, I'm proud of it. They're God's most perfect handiwork. CRY tule, however, I first read the papers in the morning, and then look over the mail, You've no iden what a bulky one lnel.5 Lettors from overy Grand Army post in the United States, upon nearly every variety of subjects; letters from old soldiers ‘and lettors from their wid- ows and orphans. These latter [ goner- ally answer personally, but the rest I turn over to my secretary. A drive, and then [ haunt the clubs—particularly the Union League—where I meet the most congenial companions, until evening." HACKMAN'S TROUBLES, The Trouble n St. Paul Hackm | With Ilis Wife, Years of Untold Mi lief a* L. ry and Pain---Re- An Interesting Interview Other items, Ete, The subject of this notice, Mrs. Katlo Bwan, wite of Hackman Kugoene Sivan, well and fa- Yoeubly known in St. Paul, was' found at home, No. 18 Kast Ninth_street, by & roport Who went thore fter an item, having been she was suffering ::ntold misery from some cause or other. The door of the mansion opened when tho mothor of Mre. Swan np- onred. In re#ponse to the query us to whethor win lived, therd, tho reportor glanve t liko a8 if sho was u groat sufferer. Upon bein, asked in regurd to the revort she repiied, es. 1 have suffered in tho worst form. About A year l'o 1 contraoted & slight cold, it got bet- ter and I thought well. Thon I bogan to dis LOVer PRing over my eyo and through my hoad. My or ached me noarly tho time, There Was a ringing noiso in my head, aftor awhile [ found 1 COULD NOT HEAR inone of my ears. 1 Leoame alarmed. Then & nervous fear overtook mo and I foit vory b, d, indoed I niny say midorablo: could not Slep o' The liver and kidneys must be kept in good condition. Hood's Sarsaparilla is # great remoedy for regulating these organs. P —— THE OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS, The Man Who KEetablished 1t Still Strong and Active at 73, A bright-cyed old man with a step as light as a boy's and the general aspect of # well-preserved man of fifty is engaged in the common-place occupatior of soap- making on West Ninth street. He will be seventy-three years old the 4th of Oc- tober, and his career is a part of the his- tory of the United States. His name is Alexander Majors, and he is the man that established the first pony-express line on the plains, Mr. Majors is a Kentuckian, and the century was only fourteen years old when he was born. He was brought to Missouri when two years old, and was reared about five miles east of Inde- endence. His first experience with a AZEAZe Or express train was in 1848, when he took a caravan to Mexico. When he established the pony express from Sacramento to St. Joseph the shortest time in whioh San Francisco had communicated with New York was tweonty-one days, Majors’ riders, roceiv- ing the dispatches at Sacramento and carrying them at n gallop to the tele- A‘mpll office at St. Joe, shortened the time to ten days. One hundred and fifty riders and wverhaps 600 ponies were in the service. The way sta- tions were ten or twelve miles apart along the route. As the rider neared a station another pony was brought out, the foaming steed was drawn up with a jerk, the rider slid from his back,the saddle and dispatch pouches MRS, KATIE EWAN. had no appotite: was dull and had a constant tired feeling: never seemed to' got rosted: was very rostless at night, and very seldom, if over, Kot to s.cep before mnrnlnf: 1 was nrldly wing worse all the time. tried to believe In every hindg( patont medicine t WAS n ob me and od no benefit. Eeeing Dra. 7§ Honew'e mdvortisament in the papere, nusband told e to consult them, which 1 did, placing myself under their oare at once, 1 be' rnn to Imrr«ve from the start and gainod rap~ laly in welght, honith and strongth, until to-lay you see mo robust and hearty, and I know that through Drs. McCoy & Henry's treatment [ am entirely well."” Mrs. Swan will fully corroborate everyt mentioned to those doubting it, and will most cheorfully endorse the dootors, ATARRA DESCRIBED. The Sym; toms Attending That Dis- ease Which Leads to Con- sumption. When catarrh hag existod in the head and t upoer part of the thros t for any length of ti ~-tre pationt living in district where people pouches were changed in o flash, and the ‘lfl 0::::’"”'-_"5":?: .Irll- courier was away ou his journey, exactly | aily. sometimos siowly, ¢xtends down ' tno as is done in Buffalo Bill's Wild West | windpipe and nto the bronchial tubes, whioh show. A'rider usually traveled three tuasnoonveytiie it itol the dmm;mh!:]m'uo( lengths at a stretch, but there was one HAPLL ) R ROy A rom mau in the force who every day rode six | Theaamea and, the mucous arising from nd, In s0mo instauces, bocome plugwod up. 80 that the air cannot got in s froel should. " Shortness of brenth follo patient broathes with laborand dificulty. In elthor caso thero 18 & sound of crackling and whouring nsido the chiost. At this stago of the disease the broathing is usunlly more rapid than when in health. Tho pationt hng also hot dnshes over his body. The pain which accompanies this condition of a dull charactor, felt in the chest, bohind broust bone, or under the shoulder binde. The ain may conre and go--last few days and then bo nbsent for sevoral others. The cough that oceurs in the first stages of brouchial oatarrh is dry,comes on at intervals, hacking in charncs tor, and 18 usually most troublosome in the morning on rising, or Zoink to bed at night and it may be in the first eyidence of tho disensc ox- tending into the lungs. Somctimes there aro fits of coughing induood the tough mucus so violent as or on the mucus that is raised, 18 ontain small particles of yollow mat- indiontos that the cA {0 the 1unks are now affec With this there ara otrten streaks of bloos ixed with the mucus, Insome cnses the patient becomes very pale, has fever, and expoctorates beforo any cough appenr n A lengths, about seventy miles, changing ponies live times. There was very little trouble from the Indians. The ponies entering into the spirit of the occasion, sped along the trail 80 rapidly that the riders were in no dan- &er except from ambush; then, too, the Indians had n suverstitious fear of the service, the objects and effects of which they couid not comprehend. Before the Sacramento line was de- signed by Mr. Majors, transcontinental communication was accomplished by wny of San Antonio, Tex. The new route shortened the distance consider- :\b}y. The riders covered about 200 miles a day. 1n'1858, Majors and his partner, Rus- sell, transported the government exped tion, in commund of Albert Sidney Joh son, from the Mississipp1 to Utah, Six teen million pounds of baggage were transported a distance of 1,250 miles, and it required 40,000 oxen and 8,000 teams cases smal /musser of chees) gub- be- : Are 8| ch, when pressed sters to accomplish the work. tweon the fin bad odor. In othee e ———— cases, particl chalky nature aro spitup. Tho raising of chéoesy or chalky lumps Indicate #orfous mishiof at work in the lungs. In some cases catarrh will oxtend into the luna in & fow we n other cases 1t may be months, and even ycars, bolorc the disoase at- tacka tho lunvs suiiciently to cause serious ine terforonce with the gener TULL WEIGNHT PURE With bronchial catarrh there 18 mor fever which differs with the different the day—slight In the morning, highos afternoon aud evening. Sometimea durine tho duy the patient has s creoping, ohilly sansation, which may Inst {rom half an hour to an_hour, the surface of the body feeling dry and hot.' During the night, near the morniny, thero muy he swents. Such BWORLK Ar0 KNOWN A8 NIRHT Swonta, The pule is usunlly ynore rapid than normal and the Jml nt lores flesh and streng A frosh cold is all that (s necded at this pof lop rupid consumption. In gome insta t tiont loses strongth und ilesh slowly ‘The muscles graduslly waste away, Then the patient gradually regwins some of his strength, only to lose it again. A wenk stomuch and a disliko for food, which soems to_have loat its tasto, causcs the patient to think he has disense of the stomach instend of tho lungs. With these diarrhoca usuully oo- curs, and thero is some disturbaice of the kid- neys. In bronchinl catarrh the voice often be- comos wouk, husky and course, Thoro is burniog pain in throat, with difliculty in swal lowing. to . SNEFZING CATARRH. What It Means, How It Acts, and What It Is. You snoezo when you get up in the morning, ou try to sneeze your nose off every time you Hre exposed to tho lest draft of ait. You have a fullnoss ovor the front of the forohend, the nuse tools as if thore was nostril which you cannot dislodge your nose until your ears crack, b g00d, and tho ouly roault {3 thi coed In gSUing up o very rod nose, irritato the lining membrane of 'that oryan that you are unnble to breatne through it at ail, 'his is & correct and not overdrawn picture of of catarrh, or ‘‘Sneezing oalled. 'y does this condition indicate? First, acold that causes mucus to be poured out by the glands in the nose: then thoso disonsod glunds are nttacked by swarms of littlo germs the caturch germ~—that float ir locality where the disenso 18 pre Itssuperior excellence proven in millions o. homes for more than l&ulrmr of a century Itis used by the United States Government Endorsed by the heads of the great universi ties, aathe Strongest, Purest and Most Health- ful.' Dr.Price’s the only Baking Powder that does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in 0ans. (e PRICE BAKING POWDER CO,, New York Chicago 8t. Lou 13_ your retailer for i EANS $4 SHOE or the . JAMES MEANS $3 SHOE, according to your noeds, ositively none genuine unless one lent. “Thesa animatculae, in their efforta to find u lodgment, irritate the sensitive membrane lining the nose and nature undortakes to rid herself of them by producing it of snoosing. hon the nose becomes filled with thickened and diseasod mio the naturul channels for the introduetion of alr into the lungk 15 inte: fered with, and the person 8o offcted mu: breathe through the mouth, and by such means tho throat bocomes pirched and dry knoring is produced, and then the catarrhi disenso gains ready’ access to the throut and lungs. DOCTOR J.Cresap M’Cny Late of Bellevue Hospital, N. AND DOCTOR Columbus Henry st isfy the mo ASk for the James Mearis $2 Stioc for Lioys $70r88. JAMES MEANS 83 SHOE is 1l 81 Shoe_and is absolutely (e only shoe of its price whiich has xtensively on the market throughout th ull line ot the above 8lioes for anie in OMAHA North 16th street: Huyward Bros.. 407 South & 15th street. In CouNCiL BLUFFS by Sargent & Have Offices 08, 412 Broadway. o GLUCK & WILKINSON. s PARTS unevELOpiD AN 1 O of the body enlarged and strengthened ulars (sealod) free. KRIE MED. CO., Buftalo, N, Yo 310-311 RAMGE BUILDING Cor. 15th aud Harney Streets Omaha, Neb. Where all curable cascs are treated ‘with suo coss. Modical disenses troatod skilfully, Con. sumption, Bright's Diseuso, Dyspops matism, and ull NERVOUS' DISEASE BERNOS PCONIIAF 10 tho BEXEE @ 8P TARKH CURED, CONSULTATION at office or Offico nours: § 1o 11 a.m,; Sundays inciuded. \dence roceives prompe attention, '8 1 troated Ruccesafully by Dr nails, and it s this posai, those unable to mike 10V 10 o —_ - win su ul hosp tal treatment at their ST“Auuoon.\: thiul, 1 homes. Lers nnswered Unloss KCCOL pae udcuce, Nervotsbebilityeausea | nied by 4o i a through errors and bad practicos G| RED. | L Audressall lotters 1o Drs, McCoy & Honey, eoub, EAL €0, 19 Locust st 5t Lould § Rooms 510 and 511 Kemye Building,Omahs,Ne