Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1888, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY JULY 22, 1888 —~TWELVE PAGES, THE SUICIDE CLUB. The Poisons and Suicidal Appurten- | ances Used. An Omaha Man's Attempt at Passive ry Geaphicaily s Suicide for -0 WAE, # ler monKey, s we umunition’ from the rs while t into the 11t, 18 to only 13 y shipw e L en ry port in th Jertmence 14 11l & good and make very intere rewds n referred to s MR D, WATTHEWS, HATTER, whose pluce of Dusiness i i room 1%, Hel bullding. To the writer Mr. Matihews wa Tating some of his experience, and being quainted for some time with MM asked him to tell him now it was that Jost the hearing of his Isft car, “Why, dou't you know that I hav ined my heirin win? 1 you did not know it, 80 1must tell you, but | must first tell you how 1lost it The two it thelr clgirs and good chat, and Mr. narrattve, Y ousce, Wiile Twis i @ powder monkey my dutics often Idown at the turret and while every discharge of the gun 1 coneussion and to u turrets it was strong sometin u - comiug afre i of the gun nery and [ went to the surgeon on board, who told me that Le could do nothing for me exeept that Thnd better use cotton in my cars, 1 did ing of my frement fre the nuvy 1'to grow worse and I lost entively, In my business 1 travel coi wd fiave haid an oppor- tunity to of the finest auris the country and 1 did co presume that I have had two dozen of them Working on niy ears, but they toldme one and all that the drum was entire pstroyed and 1 would ne e able to he 1 got accus- tomed to hearing with only the one ear, and had about made wp iy mind that [ never woull i oagmn with my left ear. I became acquainted with & young man who is connected with D, MeCoy in the Ramge Rlock, and became he said, of DAVINE to repeat his conyersation tome md (ol me to come up and have the doctor examine my ear and see what he could do for it. | only Tanghed at him and did not go, but o few weeks aK0 the ear commenced dischirging again and Twent to Dr. MeCoy's ofie to have it attended to; he amined my ear und said that the drum was almost entively destroyed, and (hat Ge did not know as he coitlld do anytiing for it. but would do what he could for i wealed ear up, and then made an Appariti to put the enr Which e pluced there and o couid T At one ard a watch tick held one toot from th [ L not done for twenty yi it was with the riEhit car osed that ear and I was very wwprised to hes very plainly With il OF course it will take some fittle time until 1 beco 10 wearing the apparatus n my en soon overcome that. 1t {s yery neat ind 48 you cun tell canuot be seen at all. You would not Know there was anything iu my ear unloss [ wonld pull ftout, but it I puil it ont [ cannot Bear, 8¢ 1kept it In, and 1 hear now as well everdid, 1 im very #lad 100k my friend’s Vice and went to seethe doctor for he b for me what many another hos tried falled, 1 am more than satistied ‘way he treated me nnd foel satist: son that | ment will o cause The writ. M ness and asked Lim wh having his cony of u testinon “Not at all, d that ean blish it lcome, and just ndd me that if there s anyone who doubts the truth of it they may call on e at room 18 Herald build- ing, and Tean convince them that it is trie, every word of it. V'hy | could not hear a word ®man soid if 1 was not on the left <ide of him and then only heard it i distinetly, but now 1 can Near it wil right no matter what side I on. Mr. Mathews as ahove stated fs engaged in ‘Dbusiness as a hatter in the Herald building at the corner of 1ith and Harney streets, and is willing to coroborate the Above to any ac s ho ne dow navy as ired thut down tnere ex an awful it s for s kind- he would object to on published in the form entleman, “you A Few Symptoms of Discase That May F Serious to You, Do you hive frequent fits of mental depres- slont + Do you ex, in your eurs! Do you feel as though when lying Ara you troubled with & hacking cough and gemeral denility ence vinging or buzzing noises you 1ty offensive from some Haveyou ipressive headache, gener- aily located {le ey es? Do y' and cough frequently in the your throat? ‘Are you losing your sense of smell and is your sense Of taste hecoming dulled? Does your nose always feel stopped up, forces you to breathe through your momhb? % you frequently focl diay, partionlary when stooping to pick anything ol the toor? Does nfl cdraft of awr and eve change of temperatire give you a Are you annoyed by constant desire to hawk and spit out an endless quantit m? Do you rise from bed as tired ana weak as you waore ‘the night hetore and feel 15 thoush you wanted to lie iere forever: The above are san any symptoms of eatarrh and the beginnd lung troubles, Not one cnse in a hundred will huve all of them, but every omo affectod will lave a fow or mamy of theni. The 5 your symp- toms, the 1 claxs of Dr, Met'o; ported th Provesthis & stanefally the Dr. Melo; trnms, bt cu nation of the ho most Approved manne atest and most highly re NoWN to the profassion. Bits that speak for th tlentscured, and we nssu embiient Physicfans hay curing disease which few or 1o can duplicate ect to cle iny Ar skillful com nedies, applied . and Dy using the Jed wppliances thns produce re- s in the many pa- rs that these OCT( J. CRESAP McGoY, Laste of Dellevie Mosnital, New York,! (Late of the University of New Y Howard University, hingt HAS O No. 310 and 311 Ramwve Building Corner Fitt-cnth ui rata, Neb, where all With suceess, ‘.)'l.t:ul Clnrles . doudon has D physician for Dr. MeCr the year and 15 ¢ made the cures that weekiy in this paper. Metlicul discases treuted skilltall thon, Bright's discnse, Dyspeisia, nd all NERVOUS DISEASE culinr o (he vexes n specially. CURED. SONBULTATION ut oftice or by mull, e Boura-4to 1) . i, 2 Lo p. y o, Sanduy office hours from U a. i, 1] P 5, Corvos) Muny diseaes ure frdon throngn the naMs and 18 i {hose uable 1o RI HOMES. 0 letters anewer physichun w bean pub i Loustim thensiatism, 1 Qiscases pe: CATARKH INCIDENTS OF THE ALTAR. Haps and Mishaps of the Matrimo- nial Market. FORCED THE MARRIAGE ON HER. An O1d Maid's Story the “Extra” Lady Her Boot —Abducted Heiresses, A Screnade, Mevehant Traveler, Come out neath the stars, love, where nature is sleeping; Where the leaves and the drinking the dew Come out where Diana her vigil is keeping, Where nizht-birds thew sweet plaintive love songs rene Pogetl blossoms are e we'll wand will we ke past we will sunder, > nature's aslecp. od guitar with moves her to open |'The soft-to love %oon above. | its music of the lattice Fain, fain w wdow, and my father prevent oy out with his lantern—alread shadow I sce round the woodshed suspiciously pass The «h n is loaded 1 superfine, And Towser is hungry for trousers like thine, uld I wander with thee in the alas, his Maid's Story. wiry Queen, Golden hair, Willful maid, youths upbraid, Twenty-one, Will have nonel Twenty-cight, Rathe Years advan Thirty-six. Getting late, vexed—unannexed. ed. Lost the chance, Cross as sticks, A Mermerized Wife. ilohe-Demoerat: Professor Louis B Kline, a New York man who has been ‘hed to Barnum's circus and left it ently, was at Detroit Kk on his wedding trip, the guest rd Sh While in Sault Mich., two weeks ago, he mes 1 peoplent @ parlor en- tertainment. Miss amie Leroy. one of the subjects, remained mesmerized, and nothing Kline coulddo would break the speil. Doctors were unable to help him out of the predicament. She lapsed into insensibility when away from him, and her futher insisted on his wareying her. The authorities were eanlled on and the wedding celebrated. Kline being a bridegroom becuuse he was eng W York girl. Mrs, Kline She still und The “Super ady. There was a ripple of excitement mong the ballet girls of Tmre K i Nero:™ at St. George, Staten Is the other evening.owing toan elopement of one of their numb Her daylight name is Mary Ann Smiiey, and her par- ents live in ‘West Tenth street, w York. She fell in love hadry clerk named Thompson. and he 'fe love with | Her parents wet posed to him. At Mary Ann's sugy tion, she and Thompson applied for an gement with Manager Kiralfy, and ced them on the pay voll, she as lady™ and he as a 2 n oan opportunity The other night they and yesterday one of Mary's companions got a note from her announcing their clopement and mar- riage, influence oods 1l in op- Cupid's Geography. W. H. Hayne in Life. When we are far my love, The world is very wid But it assumes a_different shape When we are side by side. For then 'tis so diminutive To our cestatic view, We half imagine it was made Just large enough for two. He Porcad the Marriage on Rer. One of the members of the late I peror Frederick’s personal staff, when he was only @ crown prince, was Bavon von Oveardon, A teh to the New York World. He had a beautiful daughter, the Countess Marie, whom he wanted to marry to an old nobleman who was immen&ely rich and quite ugly. The countess fell in love with a dashing young surgeon in the German army. She married the surgeon and Ler father disinherited her. One night in 3 the surgeon shot by an mbush. On h deathbed he told his wife that he was sure his murder the rich old suitor whom he had jilted, and he made her swear that she would never listen to his suit. The widow, with her sis! and brother-in law, came to America and took up their residence in Chicago. About @ year ago a young German i on his w to San retinue was an old nobleman, accompanied by & young friend. They ealled upon the countess. and she recognized herold lover to whom her father wanted to mavey her. He renewed his suit, but she repulsed him, The young mun claimed to he her young brother, but he was an imposter. She drove them out of the house, and the old lover went away vowing veng He hived detectives, who made her 1 srable. short time ago the countess sud- den'y disappeared. Her friends be- lievod that she had been abdueted by the agents of the old lover, They put” de- teetives on the case and to-day discov- ered that she had corresponded through tl rimonial agency of a friend with K, Maresch, o merchant of W comb, W, T., and two weeks ago they had been married by Rev. Father But- ler, of St. John's church, who knew the countess well, and who says she took this step to rid hevselfl of the old bar- on's spics. Two Pictures, New York Sun. Last night T saw _her at the ball, In beauty's circle proud and gay, ely figure grand snd tall; e was the belle, | heard them say. To-day 1 see her us she stands, The f h wind blowing from the south, With pillow cases in her hands And several clothespius in her mouth Yet sne's as fair to me to-day, As winsowe, beautiful and bright, As when wmong the dancers gay I saw lLer at tho ball lust night. A Ring in Her Boot. A young lady of Jamaica became en- gaged to be married o few weeks ago, ays the New York Journal, and in ex- change for her *‘yes” her lover gave her a handsome diamond ring, suitably inseribed Something went wrong onoe of this young lady’s boots a day or two ago, and she took it to alocal shoe- maker to have it fixed, It was rather a nd after the owner had spin picked it up and | turned it over in-his hunds admiringly. As hie did so something dropped to the Hoor with a metallic clink, Crispin | found that the something was adianiond ring which bore the initials ** I 3 spin sent word ‘of his find of the boetyana sho cuwme with in haste and with great joy. for she hud I grand bit very wis ihd i ne missed the pretiily us sh very much af al her ring ring. She blushed expluined that she vid that lars w and therefor o custonmied to hide it in the toe of boot at night. On this morning she had forgotten to repluce it on her finger ing the boot 1o the shoemuker. bu Heiresses Carried Off. New York Journal good American doll York's most heaoti to England. into th English noblemen! It transatlantic marringes go on at this rate there will soon be nothing and no one left for us.” T'his was the complaint of a fashiona- ble young elubmun who has heen tryin to marey a beauty and heivess for couple of ye Of cours ared marringe duke of “Ten millions of rsand three of New women, ull to go possession of th to the recent Hammersley to the ugh, and the matri- monial en ments which are just now the talk of the town and of every fash- ionuble watering place where New Yorkers co ogate These Mix. Ma 11O, Roberts to the earl of Arvean. This is not officially announced, butall people who know ' both partics suy that it will be ax soon as all finan- cinl matters ave concluded. Theother engagement isannounced by the expectant bride’s pavent in the usual formal social and is of the deepestinterest to the pretty young mai- dens of New York, for it takes one of their number to transplant her in an avistocratic home. She Miss Belle Wilson, the wwhter of . s Rovert T, Wilson. and h Hon. Michael H. Herbert, of the Brit- ish embassy at Paris. son of the late Lovd Herbert, and a_ brother of the earl of Pembrok The cment s made in | i the young lady is now on her way home to preparve for her coming wedding These three mar es will, as was first stated, take some $100,000,000 of money to Englund, as well as our two most beautiful young widows and one of our most populir nelles. They will also hink many familics to the English aris- tocracy. The” marriage Roberts to the ¢ most as interesting as that of Mrs. Humersley. Mrs. IRoberts and the ear are now in London enjoying the gayety there. the former haying taken a house for the season with her step-daugh Mres. Ames Van Wart. The latter older than her step-mamma, and ha young lady daughter who has been pre- sented at coart, and is faivly launched into English society and may perchance marry an carl hersclfl Miss Van Wart and Mrs, Robert’s young son are to have the mitlions of Murshall O, Roberts divided them some day. BEach will have about #3.000.000. "My berts has her own $5.000.000 besides the in- come from the rest until her son, now ten wes old. reaches twenty-one. She is sitid to have suved a goodly sum al- ready and may be called a very rich mian She is also haadsome and not more than thirty-two at the most. Sheis Juno-like in form, has beautiful golden- hrown eyes, hair of the same color and snow-white skin. She was a Miss Endi- cott, of Massachosctts, before her mar- ringe and met her hushand ahoard one of the occan steamers. He w out forty years her seuior, but the marriage proved i happy on Mr. Roberts died about five years ago, and itis only the last three years that his widow has entertained much. She lives on Fifth avenu the southeast corner of Eighteenth street, in a man- sion which is really three houses joined nd Ps an expensive es- shment. is poor, but handsome. He owns the isles of Avean, off the west coast of [reland, hus an immense estate in the County Mayo andone in England. His only child is & daughter of ninetcen or twenty. “Miss Belle Wilson is keeping up the family repulation for making good matches,” said au old dowage “The Wilsons are southerners lived in Georgia before the war. At that time they were in modest circum- rces and lived very plainly. but Me. Robert T. Wilson, the father of the young lady, made a vast fortune out of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, moved his family to New York, and his wealth was soonan open sesume to the most tashionable society. His old. daughter, Miss May Wil- son, is married to Ogden Goelet, who is worth $20,000.000 at least. The oldest son, Orme Wilson, marri Miss Car- e Astor. the youngest of the Astor girls, some four years ago. Besides Miss Belle, who is soon to become Lady Herbevt. there remains yet a young son and a daughter “The Wilsons are none of them hand- some, but are all of them fascinating,” said one who knows them intimately Miss Belle is tall, slender and has blue eyes and brown hair geaceful and accomplished. abrond with her sister two and then met her fiance for time. The of M rl of Av Marshall O. n will be al- Ke and air, and is he went years ago the first family : in Tondon at the time and Miss Wilson had been pre- sented to the queen and introduced in fashionable society. where she at once heeame popular, 1t is said that young Lord Herbert offered himself at that time, but was rejected. Miss Wilson enjoyed a seuson of great social sucee visited at al of the noted countr houses, and returned home a y 120 last spring, after a few months spent at Pau This spring she went abrond ag: with her rents, met Lord Herbert and accepted his second offer, [t is expeeted that the wedding will take place late this summer ov early in the fall, and will probubly be celebrated in London., although the expectant hride ab first intended to be marrvied at home. Lord Herbert was born in 1 Another brother officer 1s Hou Heriert, member of parliament for Croydon. Miss Wilson has a fortune of at least half a million, and is expected that her brother-in-law, Ogden et, whois atly pleased at the mateh, will add unother million to it ‘The trousseau is being made in Paris and is to be the gift of Mrs. Ogden Goelet. Tt is to be of the most costly aud beautiful deseription, and will 1n- clude some vare pearl and diamond jewels which the Goelets purchased at ale of the French crown jewels two R CONNUBIALITIES, Nat Goodwin v i wealt 0. Johnso elojied with his stenographer. of dictator has been transfe s Phylis_Broughton, the London actress whom Viscount Dangan refuses to marry, hias brought suit for #100,000 damugos. ‘The only way for a young man to get mar ried comfortably on X a year is to throw himself ou the generosity of his father-in law. A man in Massachusetts who advertised for a wife u few weeks ago od 2,749 answers within twenty-four hours, and the country in dismay A sweet girl graduate” in. Hemineford, Neb., lectured last season on ' “The Bright Possibilities of the Broow.”. She waden the comedian, is soon to widow of Providence, of Memphis, Tenn, has The position particular | | ten hours at a | scatte nts are, first, that of | 1ast r, Broome. oIn Chestout and EdwinaArrowsmith wedded at Grafton, Nehs, last weck T'he bride’s reply to the usaal formula, ‘Do you take this Chestnut(* wasa puinful struin on the solemnity of the occasion of Oswepo, testified on her breach of promise suit against Edgar Swith that “she had often sat an his lap for treteh, If a jury finds that poor, crushed man guilty they ought to be ducked ina mill pond w suid that J. W. Brown, the cham- 8 been married no less than two tines, and wives from New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, Chicago and several pluces in Michizan are expected to be present ath ninution. Lorena Hart, a St. Louis book agent, is one of the most enferprising of her eluss. * She is «aid to liave no_less than twelve husbands, nind the country, and with true St. Louis persistency is on the warpath for more. Her plan is to marry a_man, get all the money she can, and then ski The re ten prominent young society women at Saco, Me.. who have formed an clu nd each June ihey have v picture taken. The first was taken in when all were standing. but now there e two sitting, which signifies they are en- gaged. This year one of the women has been 1 will not be allowed to be photo. graphied, and these rules make up the consti- tution und by-laws of the club. Harvey Goodson engaged to murry Peter Grant's daughter at Leavenwort! Ind., and at Goodson's request Grant had pared a wedding dinner, and _invited the whole ncighborhood to the feast. The guests assembled, but Goodson failed to ap- pear. He had fled the country, but left be- hind a yoke of oxen which have been levied upon by Grant for the expense of the dinner which s placed at $10. The White Caps have tendered Mr. Grant their services and will give Goodson a warm. receptiou should he return, e chmax of a rom; week she was married to Miss Susie King e was reached in Justice Mitchell's court, New Brunswick, N at a late hour last night. Mrs. Alicia 1 been left at the ver one . at the home of a f Addison Lent had ag rlors were filled with guests clergyman stood with open book awaiting the bridal party, when the guests were informed that Lent had disappeared. He was found at midnight at the village tavern. The next disappeared, but Mrs, Space was on il. Lent was compelled to return to New Brunswick, whera she was married to him by Justice Mitchell agement of Dr. J. C. Clark, of i Miss Blanche Aspinwall, ¢, is now positively an- s wedding will take place on The happy pair will sail imme. diately after the wedding and will spend their honeymoon traveling on the continent. Miss Aspinwall is in receipt of profuse ations from her many friends wh knew her as a pretty little school girl some few years azo. She is still considered rather young to be married, being just 193 but her youth will be more than counterbalanced b that of the ¢ old bridegroom, w widower, an a40-year-old son, Dr. Clark, alsoa physician A who advertised for a nswers. Of these widows, in ap to fifty-f Idren. dnd tw entively under their own 00 to £20.000. Four ladies parated from their husbinds e to express a desire to try their marriaze for a second time-one of ird time. Of the remaining 156 their age as over thicty: cighteen of them professed to be just turnid sixtecn centy-one photographs were in- closed, and thirty-one of them arc said to represent remarkably pretty girls; stnesidd SINGUIL, TIES A citizen of Canton, Miss., pet bears in a bu; Mrs. Krawer, gave birth to a U ago. It 1s healthy Carson, Ne ing ten tons t and fell upon inea jocks at the time. A natural soap well has been discovered near Buffalo Gap, Dak. Thesoap is skimmed from a boiling spring and hardens by expo- sure to the It is 4 mixture of porax, alkai and lubricating oil. The quality is excellent und the supply is believed to be in- exhaustib On April 29, when off the Westman Is- lands, lccland, the captain of the Danish mail steamer Laura threw overboard a letter written in Danish, On May 6 the letter was found in the stomach of a ced caught by French fisherman off Reykjanms, about 120 miles distant. The man® showed 1t to the French consul at Reykjuvik, who submitted it the captain of the Laura. It was much decomposed, but still readable. A frisky young eyclons cut u few capers in the villagé of Dodge, Dodge county, Ne- braska, recently. On the way to town it struck a cultivator iu a cornfield, whisked off one wheel and sent it rolling over the county, A hitehing-post was jerked out of the ground and slammed agaiust the chimney of a black- smith shop. ‘The sign of a print shop was nailed to a wagon box and the tongue of the wagon torn from its fastenings. As a fare- well brush the blast struck the rear of acow, shaved off every hair from her tail, and then disappeared. The other day a dense cloud passed over Marquette, Mich., and out over Lake Super- jor. Immediately after the water in the har- bor fell twenty-8ix inches in a few minutes. The lake and bay were calin at the time. After thirty-three minutes the water re turned again. It is belicved that a cyclone passed over the region, dropping down'in the lake miles uway and scooping out the water at such a rate as to create this singular dis- turbance. At any rate, noother reason for the remarkable occurrence can be conjec- tured. A crazed and drunken wretceh, to satisfy his rage, staggered up to a_horse standing at a hitching rack in Vanderburg county, In- diana, a day or two ago and plunged & knife mto the animal's neck. It reared and tore away and ran down the road until it came to a drug store owned by Fulton & Kyle, which it entored and neighed pitifully. Tts "wound a5 sponged with cold water and dressed b, Mr. o, and then the poor brute turned and walked away. M, vé this is the clearest case of brute e ever wit- nessed and points to the blood-spots on the floor to prove his story About two years August 2. Fred cighty seven wore from’ twenty-fi them had no ¢l sessed fortunes control of from $ who had been s also wi nty- drives a pair of living n Moxley, Ga., o-caded baby a few weels nd well developed ports an aerolite we aked with horn sil v miss’ U there 0 Mrs. Henjamin who lives on East Fair street, Phil adelphia, cut the hair from the head of her little two-year-old child, and saved one curl, about an “inch and a half in length. A few weeks later the child became ill and died. Yesterduy Mrs. Baughn opened the box in which she had laid away the little ringlet, and was astonished to find that it had grown to be two feet in length. No one had touched the box, and Mrs. Baughn is certain that the curl is the same one she PUt away two years . Che fact that the hair was clipped ve close to the head may account for the strangs oceurrence. A coon was found several woeks ago in the southern part of Conneeticut hung by the neck from a hollow tree, and @ving appearance of having taken away his siy Jife His head had become wedged into the hollow 1n such @ manner that he could not remove it 1tis a mountainous region, and the farmers huve o bard time raising 4 scant liv sowie of the people believe the de aulmals act was justifiable. A stran, than this was noticed a few weaks ago Worcester, Mass. A swallow was found hunging from a slender limb by am almost in cord fastened about his neck. The ad become entangled in some of the terial used in making bis nest. The cord caught in the bark, and, trippng the swallow as e attempted to fly away, caused his death, It was a singularly pathetic sight, and many people visited the pla A case has been reported very recently from~ Hartford that has no explanation as the above, and would seem to be a premeditated suicide. A pet dog voluntarily threw himself from a window several stovies high, und was in- stantly killed on the sidewalk. The oye witnesses of this scene state that there was nothing to call the dog Without, and as far as it is possibleto learn the animal was deter- mined to die, Wh - i the stomach lacks vigor and regularity there will be flatulence heartburn, nausea,sick headache, nery ousness, use D J. . ‘McLeun’s Sstrengthening Cordin! and Blood Puy fier. to give Long und vegularity. 10 the stoutach §. L. ANDREWS & G0, §.W. Cor. 16t &Doug'a; §ts. WE THINK BEST 5. L. ANDREWS & C0. $.W. Cor. 15th & Deugles §'8. As the season for CUTTING PRICES is approaching to Kire The Xirst Gun? ST LOAD SECOND LOAD--Lig We wili colored SA UK SULTS, former prices 8 light weight ‘Mt remains 00 1o $20.00, now 8§10.00 and 812,00, taway FROCK sSUI'TS, o prih from $14.00 10 §232.00 AT $10.00, $12.00 AND $15.00. THIRD Lg i $30.00. W By inve close out ever, tigation this will be found NO W ALNUT, but A NU light-weight garment on our wis sold at $23.00, 82 casier to crack d PRINCE ARTHUR SUtT .00, $27.00 und Las we propose PRICES which will Keep a look out for our special sale of Children’s and Boys' wear on Monday, July 23, 1888. S.LANDREWS&COMPANY DAYLIGHT CLOTHING STORE, S. W. Corner 1656th and Douglas Streets CLIPPINGS FROM THE COUNTRY The Most Important Happenings That Have Happened. AN ANTI-DILUVIAN ANNUAL. Squire James' Generosity—A P pective Wedding on Sand Creek The Glorious Fourth— Other has been re- occurences, The country newspapers ave filled with choice chunks of correspondence hoth interesting and important. In fact, it has been a great week, and the number of occurences oceurring has exceeded that of the previous week by at least 20 per cent, while the comparative table issucd by the inter-state press commis- sion indicates an increase of nearly 100 per cent as compaved with the corre- sponding weelk in 1887, This is official. Perhaps the heaviest picce of news in the entire collection is the following from Alexandein: Mr. Higby showed us a large tooth of come anti-diluvian animal that he discovered a few days u tooth is ov three inches long f the gums were attached, three ing ircumference and one inch in diameter. He will send it to Smithsonian Institute for identitication Never since the day the fossil remain of the first animal who roamed over the undulating and thorny surface of this side of the composition of clay and aqua pura_which floats around the sun once in 865 days, three years out of four, until this time has the tooth. forearm, toenuil or any portion of petritied anat- omy belonging to a quadruped of this character been discovered. Ev last one of them have been diluvian. But here comes one anti-diluvian. The British museum is on the lookout for a curiosity like this and will pay hand- somely for it. Itis cheering to know that even prior to Adam’s first term there was opposition in matter. From Gundy comes the following: Squire James donated two fine brooms to the proprietors of the temperance billiard hall one day last week, The squire has a heart like an ox. Of course he has. do a thing like that if he I of it. Two brooms, and to a billiard hall at that. On always been considered the the ‘squire has broken the record. And the market price on brooms is advau ing too. There is one thing certain, There are no flies on the ‘squire. om Papillion We learn that F. . Stroch has improved the appearance of his property bygiving it a coat of paint. A man cannot, may he try ever so hard, take any better measure for im- proving the looks of his property than by supplying a coat of puint. Especially s this so if perchance he desires to seil out to some city man. If the grassin the meadow looks dry and parched ow- ing toalack of rain a coat of green paint applied the day previous to the would-be purchaser’s visit tones things up amazingl The Canada thistles which grow vank profusion in the back pasture can by an_application of ochre be made to look like a lemon orchard from a dis e, while a judicious application of various colors can transform the old brier patch back of the barn into a flower garden, Paint is n great institution and Strodh made a hit when he caught on to this idea. The Kennard correspondent prefuces his half column of good readable read- ing by this puragraph: Owing to rush of business and the excite ment of the Fourth, and other things too nume to mention, we were unable to get our correspondence in last weck. “The excitement of the Fourth™is good. The e severnl instances of this kind on ord. *Other things too numerous to mention” is also very choice. Tt is supposs to include red lemonade, peanuts, cigars, cte., and the facts of one’s failure to (it his chapeau to his cranium_can also be attributed to *other things" ete. The Sand Creck young man writes as follows: Amos Still finds busine about three tin a week pect—no, we won't pre your tin bans, ete., ready. the tone of the above it is readily rned that there is going to be i wedding in the vicinity of Sand Creck, and following the eceremony and supper. just as the bride and groom are getting ‘1o sink into quiet slumber, forty young mps with a bu aw hung on crowbar, a dry goods box with a two- hy-four well rosined, cowbells and old tin buckets, perhaps a shotgun or two, will come under the window and will pound and shoot, yell, seream and Howl, Until Amos has to get up and dress himself and get outa box of cheap e and pass 'em around. 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This s weil for the female college student v £ of the $700 11 h juired to pay the expenses of an ] werican scholar in the tield of Exyptian ex tion has been raised, and 1 il v Harvard graduate, is 1o join the staff of the Bgypt exploration fund ‘the coming season, The business meeting of the Am stitute of mstruction at Newport was held can in- M yesterday morning, and resolutions were passed favoring the towa system of admin- istering schools, and advising teachiers to work 1 close co-operation with village im- proven: ties. These officers were o A. Littlefield, of RiET. Ruy Greeno Huling, of New Bedford. The university of Be:lin recently returned of “doctor his h {was not of a durable material. He v uired to incur the cost of having it repri Prussian universities it is obligatory on candidates to print their theses at theirown expense and, according to a regulation recently issued by the ministry of public worship and instriction suitable paper must e used. The trustees of Clark university at Wor- cester, Mass., have ofiicially announced that, although the buildings have made sufficient Progress so that it can be opened in October, a8 was the original intention, there are ad- vantages to be gained by further preparation andet will not be opencd till 1550, An an- nouncement of the courses and fees will be made in the spring. Several engagements of the faculty have been made and others under consideration. Work is under way the second building and is being pushed rap- idly forward. The annual meeting of the national spell- ing reform association was held in Atheni hall at Amherst college, a few days ago. The object of this association is the simplification of English spelling, _To this end it secures the delivery of addrésses, publishes articles, cireulates vooks, leaflets ‘and charts and in prover ways urges the matter upon the at- tention of the Prof. Francis . March. of Laf: s, 18 its presid and Melvil” Déwey, librarian of “Columbia college, is its secrciary, while its list of vi presidents meludes many men of note in the literary and educational world, The closing excreises of t sociation ut Amherst The session has by ful one, und of the papers announced ull but three were presented. The association has 300 members, fifty-five of which have been present at the meetings this year. Muny prominent scholars and educators whose names have not been given in the reports of the mectings were in_attendance, among them President-c Stanley Hall, of Worcester's new university, Col, Thomas Wentwe sinson, of Cam bridge, and _Pri il . . 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