Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1888, Page 13

To Accommodate Those Visiting the City, and Residents Who have not Yet Made all of Their Clothing for Our Farmers, Laborers, Mechanics, 'l‘flE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY R it SEPTEMBER 2, 1888.~TWENTY-FOUR PAGE THE GREAT MORTGAGEE'S SALE! Of Andrews’ Stock, Southwest Cor. (5th and Douglas St. Purchases, We Have Decided to Keep Open during FAIR WEEK. And with this end in view have placed the balance of our stock on the Main Floor, At Prices Virtually Your Own, Never Before has Such a Retail Sale been known inni Omaha! Never have the People been Offered such Bargains. Sale Begins Monday Morning, Sept. 3d. Lasting Through the Week. Come Earlyor Late; You will Find the Crowd at Our Stand. Honey Catches Flies. Low Prices Attract Sensible People. Don't Miss This Your Last Chance! A / 4 B3 udes or Millionaires.” SOME STORIES OF ANIMALS. A Horse That Pumped Water for the Cows. FISH LIVING IN BOILING WATER. - A Pet Seal and His Antics—A Pair of Wrens in a Coffec Pot—Tho Romanutic Courtship of the Katydids. Fish Laving in Hot Water. Silver State: There is a pond on the hay ranch at Golconda which is fed by the waters from the hot springs. This pond has an area of two or three acres, aud the temperature of the water is about 85, and in some pfaces where the hot water bubbles up from the bot- tom the temperature is almost up to the boiling point. Recently the discovery has been made that this warm lake is literally alive with earp, some of which ave more than a foot long. All efforts to cuteh them witha hook and line have failed, as they will not touch the most empting bait. A few of them bave been shot, and, contrary to the general flu‘)pnsilinn. the flesh was hard and palatable. How the fish got into the wke is o mystery unsolved. Within 100 feet of iture springs which are boiling hot, and the ranchers in the vicinity use the water to scald hogs in the butchering season. Portland Press months old was seen vesterday on the deck of the schooner Avizona, which wis moored at the Commercial wherf, He is the skipper’s pet and t favorite with the crew. The suid: “T have had the little fellow six woeks, having caught bim at § island. Jle was asleep when T ¢ upon him and before he knew it I b him in my arms. In three days from that time he was us *tame as n dog, and will now follow me all over the v T the morning tt ahout 8 o'clock th seal takes his position over the hatch, und there he will ery until some one of the crew goes on deck and fe When we are outside [ throw him e board and let him swim until he is tive and then he is only too glad to be t on hoard The little fellow scemed to enjoy himsclf on the vessel's deck aud was very fond of the caresses of the crew, gWhen hé saw one of the men approaching be would hobble toward him and tease for a mouthful of fish that was generally fortheowing. Wrens i a Coffee-Pot, A most peculiar bridal home, wherein 10 live for a season and teain up children, is that deseribed by a correspondent of the Forest and Stream, One day two his Texan cottage and began exploring it, evidently intending 10 build a nest there. They peeped into every corner and finally went away,with the air of would- be tenauts who say *‘they will look else- wheve.” but in half an hour they r turned, and the inmate of the cottage, wishing to furnish them with a res- jdence all their own, hung an old cotlee- poton a tree near the door tying it socurely, that the wind might not shake it. The wrens presently discovered it, entered,und were apparantly delighted. 1t was evidently just the sort of a house which they had been looking, The next day its furnishing was quite finished, They had lined it with bits of feathers, shrewds of wool and downy vegetwble growths, and it was soft as velvet, Then onc g appeared, and then another, and the little dume belln sitting, while her hushand, perched on tbo hrauch above the coffeopot, poured forth song after song, flying away at in- tervals to bring her a fat worm. When the little ones came, both father and mother began to feed them. They usually started from the nest to- gether,but seldom returned at the same time. If the little man came first, he soon grew impatient, and after delivering his offering would begin calling her. loudly and musically. Evidently her name was “Titty-tee,” for he cried: “Titty-tee! ah, Titty-tee!™ repeating the vote until she avrived. Like the hero of ‘*Never Too Late to Mend:” he could not bear to enter his lonely dwelling until his wife appeared. Courtship of Katydids, Chataquan: In the twilight of an eventful August my attention was drawn to quite an unusual syllable sound—ka, ka, kat, ka—write Mary Theat. The ition was sharp and incisive indi- :ating that the musicians were young and full of hife, and why they did not complete the sentence—Katy did, Katy did it—aroused my curiosity sufflciently to incite an investigation of the matter. Stepping out on the veranda I soon found Miss Katy on a vine which ran over the piazza, surrounded by a group of gallants. Whether she was a sad flirt and had brought the infliction on herself of so many calle or whether 1t was b own inherent lovliness and beauty that atfracted so many at the same time was not for me to know: | could see only the result of some law or katydid etiquette which was inexplic- able to me. There were five of these ors looking precisely alike, and, so far as I eould see, no preference was shown to one more than to another by the fair Katie, who was seated on a spray of honey-suckle and embowered by overhanging clustor of belated flowers. Her visitor zed around her in a siow, courtl v long antenne ly ok ever their wings. But every little while one and then another of the number would po- itely salute her by ng for is antennm and gently waving it over then would come wp chorus i 0 kat, kat—all talking at once, when the suitor would subside and replace his antenne ovee his back and tall into rank with the othic Happengng to know that ano male was not far oung suit- wor fe- 2ured her up, think reby to divide their attention. 1 put her helow them, knowing her ten- dency won'ld be to to walk uy rd rather than down. She no sooner reached the party than the st Miss Katy began to vise up until she stood on the tips of her toes, looking like & young giantees, and all the time waving her antennwe as if to dismiss her, while the sharp click of the juales resounded on every side, as if as- suring her of their entive devotion, and that they would not be swayed in their luyalty by this unbidden gucst. She did not ry long, however, but walked away with a single follower, and only one of the gullants saluted her as she passed, touching her with his antennwe, The mode of communication among all insects is with these organs, and for aught we know their languag emay be as perfect with them as ours 1s with ua. A Horse that Pumped Water. Giobe-Democrat: J. T. B. Steele, of McLeansboro, 111, was not long ago the owner of a most intelligent horse. The animal wasof the Morgan stock, and in color was coal black. The judge boa ed with a gentleman and kept his horse in the latier’s barn. The judge, while extremely foud of the animal, at times noglected to care for him as woll as the horse perhaps thought he should and “Old Charlie,” as the black was affectionately called, was consequent! compelled to hustle for himself, and he displayed wonderful ability to get what he wanted on these occasions, In the lot which surrounded the barn was a pumop with a loug wooden handle, and under the spout was usually a bucket. One evening as the juage’s landlord came home bis wife asked him to go out to the lot and he would see something funny. He went. He saw the judge’s horse .drinking from the bucket at the well, and then, when the ket was emptied, he suw the animal e long handle in his mouth and pump the bucket full. The horse was not given any more water that night, and when he was turned out the next morning he was watched by the people of the house. He trotted out to the pump,and, finding the bucket empty, proceeded to fill it in the same mannar as he had on the previous evening. At other times, when the bucket had been removed, he was seen to give the long handle a few vigorous jerks and then quickly put his mouth under the spout and i ettt iwfell. He repeated the performance until his thirst was satisfied. On other oceasions he pumped water for the cows when there was no one else to do it. amous Resort. Globe Democrat: The club house is still one of the institutions of Saratoga. John Morrissey has passed away, but his partner does business at the old stand. Public sentiment has been crowding the otd gambler further and further w ard, One city after an- other has put the seal of condemnation upon “‘the layout™ and banished it. To find the gnmbling house run wide open and without fear of pohice interference it is vecessary to go to the frontier, to the mining camp or to Saratoga. New York has & gambling law almost as stringent as that under which *the in- dustry of chance™ was paralyzed in Mi sourl. But somehow it doesn’t reach Saratoga. Hore is all the license of Monte Carlo. It is the policy of the Saratoga publie y little and do less about the club house. *“*We recognize.” said a staid and entirely respectable old resident when pushed for an explanation, *‘vhat the prople who come here and spend their money must be permitted to in- dulge in this diversion if they desire, and it is the understanding that the elub house shall not be interfered with “Then the law in violation of which the club house exists and does business is ignored by the authoriti ” he replied. “We 1 that ation here is a little different from anywhere clse. The club hou s a'want, and we_don’t dispute it. Those of you who have interests see to it that men are put in office t not enforce the law,” was sug- hor replied the resdent, as if jon of the subject was nob 4 public sentiment here is in avor of the club house, and it runs. Pepole who are curious about the ef- ficiency of the law when public sel ment does not back it up ought to visit this Saratoga institution. The build- ing, three stovies, of prossed brick with stone trimmings and solid ornamenta- tion, stands on a cross street just behind Congress hall,und looking into Congress spring park. Stone steps lead up be- tween lions couchant. What was the designer thinking about that he did not substitute tigers rampant? The heavy double-door, with its ground glass front, standsajar. If the visitor pushes it farther open it swings buck--not shut, byt about half-way---und there it stands invitingly to the next comer. You walk into a lm(l\\'u\' paved with tessellated marble, past the dignified darky in swallow-tail,white tie and pumps. Then your shoes sink into the velvet carpet, an@ you are in the lair. There is no watchword, no scrutiny through a vicket, no rattling of chains and draw- ing of bolts, no outside or inside senti- nel. The club house is one of the few places a Saratoga visitor ean enter with- out paying, But it generally cosls some- thing to get out. THE SLANG SHE SLUNG. S Captain Javk Chawford in New York Clippe She was a Boston maid of high dogres, With eyes that shone like incandes lights, And just such pouting 1ips s The kiss invites. I met her on the cymmon’s grassy sod, Near where the fountain plays in squirtive ‘mood; She stood reflective, while a plastic wad Of gum she chewed. “It does one good to seok this spot,” said “When weary of the city’s hum and buz She ceased her waxic pastimo to reply “That's waat it does.” ““This sylvan spot,#’ then softly I averred, ““T'ne foot of man seems almost to defile.” Her voice came sweet s notes of woodland ent ems to me “Well, T should smile.” “The balmy breezes whispering overhead With_such softness kiss the brow I In toncs of liquid melody she said: ““You're shoutin’ now " “And have you noticed, fair one, how each bird Seems here to choose its sweetest vocal gem1{" I dwelt in rapture on her every wor “I'm onto them.’” *And how the leaves like moving emeralds scem When in response to the sweet breeze they shake.” Her voice cime soft as echo from Mhey take the calk dream : “*And do swe From yonder garden, where the soft wird blows " She answercd, as she viewed m, “You bet your hose “Dost wander often to this sylvan spot, The dreamy seuse of quictudo to seel Soft purled her unswer: **Well, T take u trot "Bout onco & week.' ‘In converse sweet I lingered by her side, And felt that there fo er [ could dwell, And as I left her after me she cried: “So long, old fel!” I was not captured by her voice so rich, Nor with her lovely face so young. But by the sweet dexterity with which Hor slang she slung. SINGU you catch the flowers' fragrance rugged feet: B — LARITIES, A calf with a human head attracts atten- tion in Moaroe township, Ohio. Georgia has on_exhibition at the Cinzin- nati exposition a itled watermelon, A Bridgeport newspaper says that a was caught by alocomotive the othe and cut in two by a wheel which | the body back bf tie shoulders. locomotive had passed,” says the pap forward parts of the cat's body dragged 8 to the home yard, two or thr rods distant, and toere the little life remain- ing flickered out in a few seconds.” There is a wonderful mirage in Glaciet 7, Alaska, reflected from the glassy su »' of the Pacific glacier. It is said_thar just after the change of the moou in June, soon after’ sunset and while the moon is climbing above the sky, a city appears above the glacier.’ It/ is 8o distinct that a photo- graph is said to have been made this scason by a resident of Juneau, who learned of the mirage from the Indians and has seen it ap- pear aud disappear for four years. While walking along a street in Boston a Chelsea (Myss. | woman was struck behind the ear with a base ball thrown by a boy. The blow was & severe one, but ehe felt vo ill effeots untif shé reached Chelsea, when her memory entirely deserted her. She wan. dered aimlessly/iabout the streots, and was unable to tell persons whose attention her cer actions attracted where she lived. iventually an acquaintance chanced to como along and took the unfortunate woman home. Her physician thinks her memory will re turn in a few days. The chief steward of the steamship Circas- s1a, which arrived at New York lately from Glasgow, exhibits a curious fish that was captured during the voyage when about mid- ocean. The spocimen is about six inches long, with asilvery body, black on top, and *a bony peak which resembles the sword of a swordfish.” The struggle incident to the capture was between the head cook and the fish on the deck of the Circassia. A heavy sea had been shipped forward, and as it ran n the scuppers the little ilsh was seen trylug to make its escape into the sea. This e cook succeeded in preventing. :ing, while the street gang under hnufinn Was culting some weeds in cat fresh and | Messrs. Fowler & Morrison's lot on_ Wate street, savs the Wilmigton (8. C.) Messen- ger, they came across two beautiful spide webs | was inhabited by four larie' yollow spiders. When the weeds had been cleared away o as the webs could be seen, the discovery was male b 1 thé words “Wilmington, N 08s the face s 1f photogi one who saw the curi acle was strack with wonder, and at twenty-five people, white aml biack, ered around to get a glimpse of thec ! The words were sufliciently plain for oach te readily sce them, and one of the webs, which was placed on @ sheet of paper, re: taiued the outlines for a considerable lengti of time. The two webs were about five feet apart when discovered, and were of a gz, fan-like apnearance that made them things of beauty. “A most singular scenc,” says the Hart- ford Times, “was witnessed on Long Lake during a recent storm. The lake is three miles long, and is divided into three bays. About 3:15'a vivid flash of lightning lighted up the seenery, followed by a terrific peal of thunder. The'wind by this tine was~ blow- ing with cyelone force. Suddenly there came a roar, and far down tho lake a’ huge flame could 'beseen. The water for yards ahead parted as though by a gigantic plough, id the billows seemed to rise at the side of the furrow for fully twenty feet. The ball of fire appeared Lo force the water aside, und 80 deep did it_go that the bottom of the lake could almost be seen as it passed through the narrows. The parted waters,with the singu- lar propeller, advanced towards_the hoad of the lako with great rapidity. When within 100 yards of the shore thero came another flush’of lightning, and the firo disappeared as suddenly ns it had come. The residents the lake who witnessed this strango aenon were greatly alarmed. They at the ball of fire was fully ten foet long, and half of the mass appeared to be buried in the water of the lake. It was many Hours boforo the waters of the lake became calm.” P e EDUCATIONA L. holic lady in New York has just ),000 to the American Catholic uni- on of President Tyler has en - chosen dent of William and Mary College, at liamsburg, Va. Mommsen, the great German historian, de- clines an_honorary degree offered him by the University of Bologna. Dr. Ernst historis at the s Ranke, brother of 74 years. theology at the University of Marburg. The late Henry Winkley, of Philadeiphia left £50,000 to Willinms college,£30,000 to A lierst (in addition to £0,000 given duringlife) £25,000 to Bangor Theological Seminary, and #20,000 each to Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Exeter, Aundover, the American_ Bible society, and the Philadeiphia Y. M. C. A. President Hyde of Bowdoin college, the colleige president 1 the countr, n Harvard in 1579, and o f from Andover theologi nary. > was recommended to his present position by Prof. Egbert Smyth, to whom it st offered. President Hyde is thirty years old. Scott, of Mobile, Ala., Who has been inted professor of mathamatics ish in the National college at T ima, Japan, is only twenty-fiva years of age, but has demonstrated his ability as an in- structor by two years service i the Univer- sity of Alabama. He is a step-son of Collec- tor Clack of the Port of Mobile. The records of all the men at Cornell col- lege who have been engaged in inter-collogi ate contests since the opening of the institu- tion have been examined to seo what effect the pursuit of athletics had umon scholarship. It was concluded that the scholarship and athletics did not affect each other. Crew men averaged 70 per cent, ball players 73 per cent and track athletes 76 per cent in scholarship for the year. Seventy per cent was necessary for graduation. There are other colleges” where devotees of out-doar sports do even better than this, The Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., has tho oldest pupil of any educational ‘institution in the United States. He is more than sixty years of age. Crazy Head is his name, and he was once chief of the Crow vation. He was a bold warrior and an able ruler. He is anxious to learn the ways of white men, and is now receiving instructions in blacksmith- During the coming winter he will at- tend school. He is a man in vigorous health, and has @ more refined face than is often found in his vace. He is docile and n&llom, and there is somathing aimost pathetic about lus longiug to learn customs of civiliza- ion before he dies. RELIGIOUS, thof the Methodist Ipisco- in the soutis is shown by the fact ¢ than four thousaud churches have been built in sixteen statos since the war. The first unmarried colored woman sent out by the American board of foreign mis- sions is about to start for southeastern Africa She is a graduate of 17isk universit 1co, & Congregationalist paver, “Nine hundred Congrogational churchos last yoar did not give a dollar, and 0 o contribution toour Homeo Missionary society.” In St. Andrew's Episcopal churchyard, at Mt. Holly, N. J.. Saturday, at the funeral of a prominent Odd Fellow, the tors of the cemetery declined, it is _said, to_allow the ceremonies of the Odd Fellows’ or Masonic lodges. A Buddhist priost who came to this coun- try to beg moncy to build a Buddhist tem- plo has gone buck to Japan with empty pockets, having discovered that it is no time to talk religion in this country duriug a pres- idential campaign. The Roman Catholic priests of Lawrence, Mass. havo boen working hard to pay off the in tho Augustin bank. whose sus- pension five yoars ago created such a sensa- ton. During the past two years $1,000 paid to_depositors, and 1t is hopod cent will b clearcd off. el A. Rudd, a colored nawspupar man, ke at the Cinciunati meoting of the Catholic Younz Men's National anion, said that the number of negroes in this colntry who aro “practical Roman Catholies” is 200,000 at least. Soveral nogcoes have been ordained, and several bright yoing colored men are studying for the puesthood Rov. Dr. Harris, of San_Franciseo, who has Just returned from i visit to the Japanese Methodist mission in Honolulu, informs the Chroniclo that an_active revival is in pro- gress there among the Japancse, and says the converts do not consider themselves wt all safo until they are baptized. The moment that is dou are all right Oneof them, instend of his communion bread,asked sut to his relutives inJapan Twenty-lye vears ugo Peter Rasmussen came from Norway y. Shortly s converted ata re- vival i the Fiest nan Methodist church in Baltimore. He then vowed that it God would bless him inbusiness and give him £nough money ta enavle bim to go back to Norway and pre; pel W his yuen w uld go bac He did p in business, ailed for No h his fa tending to yo winong his countrymen evangelist, Boston is_supposed to Catholic ¢ty in the eountr there have aiinost nadi control in politi al afla But the Hoston New York is oueof the strongest C : citios in the world, It 75 gparish churches, 40 chapels, 300 prie s, 300 hroth 000 religious women, 40,00° pupils m ees, acadamics and parochis s, and 15,000 poor or sick or orphane forin its howes, hospitals Pully 50,000,000 are mvested jurchies and institutions, and 500,000 Catholics within tho' city limits. According to Chancellor Hortsman, of thearchdiocese of Philadelphia, the Cath- olics of that city number 152,000, and in the archidiocese 40 be the strongest The Catholics desire o be rovi book 1 ageuts and stu A mimster down in Gaorgia bas baptiz bis own wife. This is said 10 bo a case hover before heard of outside of novels, Peter Andorson recently died in aud left his estate, by will, to Andersen’s mother will eon: “Pote, dear, T wonde like in hewven!" He vory beautiful, Why, hotv shall Fioland the Devil, he will, shall look all donbtless 3 18 (inmo- we know each cernan whose Louse was refuscd 10 use insect | ve, They all atment will ssfuily telod on d. I is style of tr do for bugs may it not bo su democratst “My beloved brethren,” sald a Dakota preacher from his pulpit, “on looking over the coilection of lust Sabbath morning you can imagine my pleasod surprise to discover thoroin a blue chip. Our dear brothor, | Deacon Dewrite, kindly casved it in. The Lord loveth a cheorful giver." | A distinguishod Baptist preacher, who bas | | steam is placed. ently returned from a pastorato in eastorn rginin to_one in southwestern Virgini : his debut in his present fleld. A gre crowd was present from the region around to grect the new pastor. An old Padobaptist preacher was called upon to make the open- ing prayer, and he did it in a most earnest and fervid' way. Awmong his potitions was this: O Lord, lev it never come to pass during this brother's ministry here that he shall do anything that may cause him to be hung as high as Haman,"’ et PEPPERMINT DROPS. Banana skins and carcless people continue to throw each other on the pavement. The reason Mohummed refused to go to the mountains was because the hotcl rates were 80 high. ‘The first assisted [talian emigration to this country was a person named Chistopher Co lumbus, Judges are the onoes who lay down tho law, aud when it is nicely laid down the lawyers jump on it. You can toll whena dog is warm the same as you can tell a dude when you meet him os - the street—by his loud pants. Mr. Soup is going to keep_hotel at Union- town, Dakota Territory, and his patrons hope there will be no flies about him. When young men and maidens go out ea- noeing together thewr thoughts are sailing to the port of canoebial felic A boy's ambition is to go back to school in the fall all tanncd up. The schoolmastor’s ambition is to tan him up some more. The present scarcity of sea-sorpents have some connection with the fact that ail the liars haye been engaged for the campaign. We pity the young fellow who wants to vote, but will iack a day of being twenty-one on election day. He wmust feel lacka-day- sical. North Carolina's tobacco crop has suf- fered from drought, but the crop of ‘“honor- ables” lying around loose down there is simply appalling. A Kentucky physician has discovered that St. 1.ouis is built on the original site of the gurden of Bden. St. Louis people will have 1o dress differently, that's all, Such is the effect of the climate in Kenm- tucky that even the ladies, when cutting & dress, gives special attention to gore. “Robert,” said s wife suspiciously, e have you beeu! You're late to dine “I've been assisting in a humble way, my dear, towarl improving the breed of horses." ' “0, T was afraid you wero at the races." When a freight agent telis you that your trunk is waxing shaky, and needs & strap, ask him if ke has any straps for sale. If he has you assured your trunk is all 1ire one, any more than 1s & diploma. Aunty,” said a little New Jdersey boy who isit, “'1 thought you said you dwdn't 3 itos in this part of ‘the coun- *Wo don't my dear.”” “But I can thom singing just as they do fat home," Tommy; that is a saw-mill you hear.” Elcctric Notes, Prof. Gray's telautograph, with which telographic mg are to be sent in one’s own handwriting, is said to be based on a newly discovered eleetrieal principle, and 1% also reported to work so accurately and rapidly as to give }n'umlw\- of being commercially success= ul. Several attempts have been made to devise apparatus of this kind, and Edison had so far succeeded six or eight vears ago that at Menlo Park, with ory apparatus, autograph inessages were sent with entire success, so far as the reprdduction of the message at the other end of the line was concerned. I workod at a fair rate of speed, but not as rapidly as s desired. Edison's otker work drew him away from this appuratus at a time when it seemed to b pronching y tion, Prof. Gray has no doubt reached the smne end by other means. The limited train of vestibuled cars on tha Pennsylvania railroad was lights ectricity for the first time last id the innovation is giving exs nt satisfaction, The Pullman com= pany has been busily engaged for some time in meking & combination Mgnlgt n by cur in which » dynamo to be rui Kicetrie lights and the necessiry wires have been placed in all A tho cavs. L one tlll'l.l‘uld‘pv‘{lyhufl . name & wire grating is a smal at supplics fionhn hul: 4 ! i