Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1889, Page 4

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ROSEWATER. k4 a5 shonld be COMPANY yrdars to ympany THE DALY Bl $worn Statement ol Circulat Btateof Net County of Dong rige 11, Tzschuek, secratary of Tha e Pab Wsliing Company, does solemnly swear that the mctual cireulation of Tie DATLY BEe for the weeeh ending January 12 1880, was as follows: #unday, Jan o ALt BTN GEORGE L TZSCHUCK, Eworn o before me and subscribed in my piesence this 12th day of Jannary, A. D, 188 ol N. P. FEIL Notaty Bubli Btute or Nebras a, ) County of Dougias, George 1, Tzschnck potenand kays that ghe iy secretary of the Publishing company, that the daily circulation of i anonth of January, 1<, 1 «; for F Yuary, 18887 15,060 Coples IKSK, 19,650 copies: for ADril, I8, I8, (41 copiess or Mav, 1858, K183 copies: ror June, I, 10,243 cobios : for July, 8, 19,(65) coples: for Anust, 1848, 18,14} cople Tor September, 1858, 18,151 copios; for October TERE W8 IROM coptes: for November, 183, (9% coples: for December, 185, 18,22 coples. Bworn to betore me ani subscriben in my Dresence this jrd day of Junuary 189 N. P. FEIL Notary Public. being duly sworn, de. 1o ago tor tho Ir wouldn't bo a bad idea for the read- ing clerk of cach branchof the lerislature ito devote fifteen minutes every morning 1o reading alond the state constitution tomembers. With athorough knowledge of our organic law, the members would mot introduce one-fourth the bills ably, that they otherwise will push to second reading, to have them die in committees, Tuose who are in the growth of America’s merchant mari will be gratified to learn that within the past few months unusual activity has Boon going on in the vavious ship yards. While it wdly to be ex- pected that our shipping interests will rencw their old-time vigor, it is ple dug to feel that the American merchant - Wirine is not going to decay. prob- interested TEXAs, with her vast area of lands, has no longer any public domain. The only lands on which settlers can find a homestead belong to the schools and® asylums which have been richly en- dowed with millions of acres. The truth is that Texas has acted like a spendthrift with her patrimony. Her fands were most lavishly squandered and to-day millions of acres are in the thands of syndicates and land grabbers. THe Honorable Frank Roustabout Morrissey. who 1s busy trying to vide ithe two horses of Lincoln correspond- ent of the Iferald and® member of the Douglas delegation, prints an editorial paragraph in the last issue of his paper in which he warns the republican con- testauts from this county that cach and *| every one of them are to continue counted out. Is the Honorable Frank Roustabout Morrissey speaking from dnside railroad information TuE boiler of the United iStates and Canada are urging upon all state leglslatures the necessity of pass- ing such laws for the inspection of steam boilers and licensing of engincers us shall be deemed necessary for the protection of life and property. The laws of Nebraska on the subject are in- suflicient, and proper legislative atten- tion should be directed to this matter dn view of the exigeney of the rapidly eveloping industrinl condition of the state. THE storage ¢ s which have been in use on the streets of New York for some time have given eminent satis- faction. They wble to make three round trips of twelve miles each with- out a change of battery But more im- provements are in view which will make this system as economical at least as horse powe When this is accom- plished all difficulties in successfully operating electrie street rvailways will e removed. The opportunity should mot be lost to give the electric storage system a trial in Omaha. setric e Tue efforts which members of the ©Omaha bar are making to raise the sal- ries of the judges of the district court 48 not likely to be crowned with succ even if the legislature be invoked. The ealuries of such judges are fixed at awenty-five hundred dollars a year und B0 judge of the district court is per- mitted to receive any other compensa- gion. This is the law defined in the con- stitution of the state. Unless the ques- tion of salary be made a constitutional pwendment, the petition of the Omaha bar to tho legislature will be labor lost. 55 Tae report that Charles Francis Adams had resigned the presidency of the Union Pacific road to become presis- dent of the intor-state railway associa- tion, could not be confirmed by the local ofticinls of the Union Pacific, but it was thought not to be impossible that Mr. Adams contemplated such u stop. It is very likely the report is prema- ~ ture, for the reason that the inter-state E pssociation is not an assured fact., The mssebt of a number of roads has not Should the arrange- be perfecied, however, under conditions that would conflict with the inter-state Cdaw, it is quite probablo that ~ Mr. Adams would be invited to * tnke the presidency, and doubtless no better solection could be made. He - ppRsesscs probably to as great a degree @8 any other railvoad president the con- ‘fdence of railway managers and stock- bolders, and his ability is unquestion- _Mble. The chancesof effecting the new ~Arrangement appear to be favoruble. has Gemerai Loese in popu- him with npt that been gard ing ox { nof law tism, doc nn honest « ) COPr b It ng evils and n che puo of the state o ont contrary, from the of the enemies of real reform tunity purpose deprocinte, if possib wd in public teem, the offi s has in th yrporate ALl the of the They fought bravely mflinchingly interest of th against ¢ ssion and opy wnd inspired ssion. malic power is ¢ satures of corporate (ttor whenevera chance shall offer and upon any That they il under- ted upon the rney genera are man to strike at him sort of pretext and but public confidence un- tiring relentle is will not attorney s he ¢ to taithfully wrlessly represent, as he las thus done, the of the people the rights of the state. THE BEE foremost the papers of Nob smanding the removal of every supernumerary from the publie service. Tt will. in the future as well as in the past, advocate rigid cconomy and retrenchment in each of the branches of the exeeutive department. But it will never choke while swallowing a camel. of organs that 1d the howl senary banditti that prowl in the capitol lobby, ever ready to prostitute the noble profession of journalism to the basest of ends, will receive no coun- from reputable, faiv-minded If Attorney General Leese hag filched money from the pockets of Nebraska taxpayers by employing one deputy at fifteen hundred a year and one shorthand clerk at one hundred dollars a month, let the legislature take him to task. But let them bear in mind that every attornoy general from Trojan Horse Roberts down to General Dil- warth has been permitted to employ as- sistauce when needed in the discharge of his duties, Under Governor Gar- ber's administration the state paid T. M. Marquette five thousand dollars at- torney fees for one single which Attorney General Roberts had grossly neglected. And the force when the broom of reform is set in mo- tion, don’t stop in the attornev gere oftice, If General Leese is guilty of high trenson in employing his own daughter s stenographer at the same salary that any other competent and trustworthy clevk would receive, how will the other officers of state fare who have not only favored relatives with lucrative em- ployment, but drawn thousands of dol- lars for deputies and clerks that are no more needed than a wagon needs five wheels. [t must be appavent, however, to any fair-minded citizen who has any conception of the duties and labors of the attorney gener oftice, that a deputy and a stenographer are abso- lutely necessary to the prompt and eflicient discharge of the duties, and that without such assistants it would be impossible for the 1to keep up with the large and steadily increasing work of his office. The city attorney of Omaha, with a sulary of $3,000 a year, is allowed a deputy at fifteen hundred dollars a vear, and employs a stenographer, and rtainly his duties ave cting ‘than those of the attorney general. As to the point made that the employment of these assistants is illegal, we are quite willing to a cept the opinion of the attorney general to the cont y. Heis a lawyer quite as compatent to construe the constitu- tion as his assailants, and he would cer- tainly not willfully violate it in a way 50 conspicuous that it could not possi- biy escape public attention. Tue Bee has to say that on general prineiples it does not approve the employment of relatives by publi uls. But the practice did not originate with General Leese. 1t has long prevailed in the legislature and the several departments of the state government, and is still in vogue with some of those who profess to be shockea at the nepotism of General Leese The attorney general will not suffer in the estimation of intelligent and fair-minded eitizens by these malignant attacks. Their inspivation and moti are too obvious to work any harm to an official whose record has been clean and straightforward, and who has the strongest incentive in an overwhelming popular approval to continue in the course he has pursued. stood withdrawn from the general mtinues and fe fu and interests as hee 15 heen among iska in at a gnat The areant hypocrisy subsist on public plunde of m tenance men. case reducing 1I's i's less ex A TELLING JUDICIAL BLOW. The dispatches of a few days ago gave avery inadequate idea of the great merit and importance of the decision rendered by Judge Barrett, of the Now York supreme court, in the case against one of the sugar refining companies in the greut trust. The full text of the decision shows it to be by far the most telling judicial blow that has yet been struck at this form of combination. Its clear statement of the law in relation to trusts, its thorough analysis of the char- acter of these combinations, and its vigorous and incisive logic, pro- sont the subject in a fuller, broader and morve comprehensive way than has ever before been done, and cannot fail to have great weight with public opin- ion. Although the decision is not final, it is still & great victory for the people. Having found from the evidence that the refining company against which the suit was brought had, asa corporation, become n member of the truss, the ovig- inal shaceholder in the corporation having thoreupon surrendered his re- lations with it and been treated as a shareholder in the trust board, Judge Barrett, after stating the conditions of the arrangement, concludes that the trust is a combination of cor- porations, regardless of the terms of the coutract framed to give it amother character. The auestion then reached was whether the acts of the corporations in entering the combination were illegal. The de- cision says: “The corporations whose conduct we are considering sought by the scheme under review to effect a far broader aud deeper purpose thau mere THE OMAHA DAILY | THE ATTACK 0N GENERAT, LEESE. | made to | [ which it transa BEE: these n ha Wl | not conferre As al defendant’s tly follow consolidation they corporate In doing their privileges them by law. forfeiture ot the wnd dissolution justly It held that the hold same corporate acts, S0 exor- on abused powe cised ot franchis il the inted condition shall not orporation under- condition of for- wias the that otrine franchises ar upon a trust that the cory on rate priviloges abused: that 2. tukes and feiture, that it will so manage duct affy that it shall dangerous or hazardous to th the s up: and con- become safety of ind with and that the 1 for weh 15t condition and perversion of hese rules, in- T'he ron- from Benefit from the corporations are not \te or community in s business, frar L he of the t the objects of the grant says th herent franchise s may be forfeit decision, “rest upon the right of whethor resulting from laws P the sovercignty of the poopl to the country at objects for which th created constitute the consideration of the grant. It therefore follows logic- ally that when these we pe verted, when the country suffers injury instend of receiving benefit, the stat beeause of such may withdraw the privileges and its fran- chise: The whole force the decision, for general application, in this opinion. which recognizes the authority of the state to withdr privileges that have been abused and perverted to objects other than those for which they were granted, thereby endangering the pub- 1i interes and welfare. The position of Jud Barrett appears impreguable, as apphied to the teust form of monopoly. and it is & reas- onable expectation that it will be ned by the higher court. In that event, it must prove fatal to the whole system of monopolistic combinations to which it re But meanwhile there must be no abatement of the cffort to adequate legisintion, national and state, for the suppression and pre- vention of trusts. THE WASHINGTON _1.0A TION. The centennial *hration of the n- auguration of Georze Washington, as the fiest president of the United States, will he observed with unusual pomp and coremony in New York City April 30, In ovder to make the oceasion one which shall most fittingly commemorate the real beginning of our actual govern- ment, the centennial committee in charge propose to hold a loan exhibition of historieal portraits and relies as a part of the celebration. The scope of the exhibi- tion of such porteaits and relics, how- ever, will be confined to those relating t Washington, his eabinet, members of the First congress, members of the con- stitutional convention of 1787, superior afticers of the United States as recog- nized by the Fivst congress, and such other portraits and relics as are con- nected with the inauguration of Wash- ington. There no doubt that the public will appreciate the interest and importance of this exhibition and will co-operate with the committec of which Mr. William A, Cofling, of New York city is chairman, in an cndeavor to make 1t ascomplete as possible. Descend- ants of some of the men who figured prominently in the First congress and fedeval convention of 1787 or who were othecwise conspicuous in the making of our history one hundred years ago can no doubt be found in Nebraska. Their aid would especially be invited to lend whatever relics they may possess of those historic times. In the coming celebration and exhibition the whole country is directly interested. Valuable contributions from all the prominent historical societies as well as from other sources have been promised. And it is safe to predict that the exhibition will be worthy of th t occasion which it will commemor sovareignty 1 or special are ants objects misuses. resume of resides orporate sus- secure EXHIBI col THE hoard of directors of the Na- onal Conservatory of Music of Amer iea, of which Mr. Jeannette M. Thur- is president, has issued its eircular regarding the semi-annual entrance ex- minations, to be held this month. all persons showing aptitude for v ceiving instructions, tuition is given practically gratis, the nominal fees asked in some being merely in- tended as an additional stimulus to the student’s industry., The board desirves to gather from all parts of the United States pupils whose labors after leaving the conservatory will advance the cause of music in their native land, The laud- able object of the conservatory is the development of American mu- sical talent, and its success. thus far has been most gratifying. The examinu- tions, which are held at the conserva- will take place as follows: Janu- 24, singing classes; 23th, piano 26th, violin classes. Applicants are required to show positive aptitude, vdless of the state of progress, and also to have a well-defined purpose. After graduation pupils will be afforded opportunities of making known their accomplishments and thus securi gagements, The conservatory employs the best teachers that can be engaged, and the course embraces operatic and miscellaneous singing, solfeggio, stage department, elocution, pi- ano, violin, harmony, counterpoint and composition. fencing, Italian, ete. This iustitution, which is maintained largely by the contributions of a few wealthy patrons, is doing an excellent work for musical culture in the United States and merits the heartiest encourage- ment, cascs Tug election of a United States sena~ tor takes place in the Nebraska legis- lature on next Tuesday. Balloting will occur in each house separately between 12 o'clock wuoon, and the hour of ad- journment for the day, If on the first ballot any one person receives & ma- jority in each house, that is,in caseany one candidate receives seventeen votes in the fenate and fifty-one votes in the house, no further balloting can take place; but on the day following— Wednesday—the two houses will meet in joiut convention at noon, and the leutenant goveg two houses The will order. th of secretary o senate read tion taken the ele the 8 roport a to enator, and call the to ker of the ho upon the minutes the on United State (o in the he hen, od amajority in cachi of the two houges, no further ballot ing takes place in the'joint convention. and nang that the candidatd majority of the memb eceted United States from the dth duy of March 1th of Marel convention wil 1se on the preceding day n case any one candidate hasrec the lieu governor declares having received a the th 1t is General in the houses is ¢ s¢ 1850, to day 1895, Then adjourn sine d A that cceive o majority next now Mand sneeally cotce rson will day, n on <0 contingency of a joint con- vention is not w reviewing Tite service which St. Josoph's hos- pital renders to Omaha should be ree nized and duly appreciated. Durving the past year nearly nine huudreed pa- tients were and treated, of which three hundred and twenty were To all intent and purpose ritable institution, supported by private gifts, has become a city pital. The completion of the county hospital this spring, it is expected, will relieve St Joseph's of a great shave of the burden which the city has imvosed upon it for yea But the and distressed will never ery in vaia for help solong as there is o cot vacant under the roof of St. Juseph's hospital. received The Sweets of Adversity. New York World, The victims of the electric sugar cous acy should comfort themselves with the thought that “sweet ave the uses of adver sity = e The Watch Dog of t Ketnsas City Times, Congressman Holman 'ms to have de. generated from a wateh dog into a rather inferior order of shepherd dog and in the in- terest of the cattle syndicate. Bismarck Honored. Lowisville Courier-Jorrnal, Bismarck is probably not aware of the streets of Louisville bears and that no American or other hogs lowed 1o run on that thoroughfare g funtington. Froucisco Examiner, reasury. that ons his name, are al- Corlis P, Huntington, he 15 exceedingly fond Of the heathen Chinee, R Franklin an Annexationist. Roston Jowrnal. amin Pranklin had only stuck to his original idea of makfag a part of the treaty of peace with England that Canada should be ceded to the United States, what a heap af trouble might have been saved. But andwould not listen, and the idea was abandoned, What's the Matter With Congress? Chicagn News, The house of representatives at Washing ton is in a bad way. ; It3 anembership soems to be made up of a fuv%pulwur_ uranks and great many peaceful lunatics. The whole outfit should be supplied with conservators and keepers without delay. The congress- men apparently do nothing but empty schooners and filibuster. The spectacle is very depressing on the spirits of sane men. What May Be Looked forin Om: Chicago Tritune. What people are pleased to call the “‘un- seusonable weather'” of the last thirty odd days is now over for a time at least. The: are to be no more rains and no mud. The thermometer is to go down to zero, The coal and ice men, the furriers and the plumbers will rejoice. There will be skat- ing in the parks and shivering in the homes of the poor. The only out-door work will be the clearing away. of snow and the sale of ear muffs, ,Rails wil snap from the frost and railway trains heated with coal stoves will be thrown dowu high embankments. Pleurisy and pneumonia, which have been much discouraged by the recent mild tem perature, will take heart and come outof their hiding places. There will be merry sleighing parties, but there will also be bursting ranges and freezing water pipes. Eternal vigilance will be the price of the water suppl, There is, in short, a bad as ell us a good side to cold weather - glellow’s & A Boston paper publishes the foilow- ing poem which was written by Henry W. Longfellow, while a professor at Harvard, fifty one years ago. WO OFFERINGS. The day was Easter; like a pisin The organ groancd aloud The while the suntight, window's st. 1%ell on & motley e y Pocmg, dying God in chastened by the On lord and peasant, prince and parial, who bore As down the As they had prosper store, An Easter gift to God. isle they trod, ed, each according to his Among them walked a lordly prince of line- .age fair, ‘With lips of scornful curl, N Who laid upon the altar with a lofty air A priceless Indian pearl. There als me a woman, in whose face v scon Shame, sin and sorrow blent; A woman of the town, & second Magdalene— An harlot penitent— Who seemed the figure of ficarnate sin and vice As down the aisle she resled Andon the altar laid, bgside the pearl of price, . Alily of the fleld. The priest blessed him who gave the pearl, said mass an hour That God his soul might save, But with contemptuous’ hand swept to the ground the flower 3 The outcast harlot guve. was praised . by by Bishop, Lord and churl; “I'was God alone couid tall ‘That while he unto Him gave nothing but the pearl, She gave her heart ag well. o Hexiy W. LONGPELLOW. CAMBRIDGE, April 10, 1835, R . SOMI PROMINENYT NEBRASKANS, His pi The Lincoln Call announces that Colonel Colby will ride Linden Tree through the scnate chamber at 2:30 to-morrow afternoou. 0t is reported that the third bouse will convene the 15th, and that Captain Lee, of the second house, aud Church Howe, of the first house, will sing @ quartette or sowe thing like that. ‘The Lincoln Journal tries to protect Frank Walter from the thrusts of the Cull, claim- ing the right for this protection from the silly pretense that the Call wants to ‘ex- terminate” all railroads. Tt s said that David Butler is at Lincolu 1 to sh the Call, however he is there to s nks the chances to it that the fr: aro that widulent commission i8 sustained Paul, o Paul, has de 1 Island land oMice. But Jines the same thing that Jim f St on the Gra: tia Herald Paul out of will k him ou friends will s The Cr nt y say sizns beat his chances for tof this a vernor wock nbition. His ) it Globa notes that the first name setition for a saloon license, p by “‘one of the most defiant and ' Omana cading light rusade nruly that wvapaper rFoom proprictors 1. Yost, the which made last fall was it ( gainst the wine A counle 1 Jud day, w trial, was 1 of lawyers wore explaining to lattsmouth man VA case the othor for vired our clien here this and they failod better ‘rope them hat had baen set t read, W atedly to by down duy, roj norn 1, but we are disappointed L her You had in’ noxt tin and an aadibl ter court room Speaking success in Fremont T matter with Iate of Nebraska C business ! dinary of W i} th Tascott’s remarkal th 3 to inquire what's the the success of Quin Bohaunon, ty th line of T'o be sure Quin ouly kil wtal with no particala wealth, but some people believe it me to K that sort o atil Mre. Bohan non is brought his constitucnts no loyal Nebr be guilty of point ing with pr ccord made by Tascott BRIEF STAT in samo 1Lan or amount of s aman, U home to skan should 1o to the NOT “Wheu tie Robins € apply to Nebraska, says the Boatrice Demo crat. The robin s here now, hunting for n nest, all of which is the best s of the near approach of sprit ma Azain,” d evidenc 1 young man w ¢ irrecular, hus had all his molars extracted 1o please the fancy of his swoeot heart. The coupls will be married us soon as s store teeth are seeured It is said that a Beawice editor has a me on foot to skim the foam off the river and compress it into meerschaum pipes, Th entleman’s head must have been befuddled with foaming beverage when he evolved the plan A mceting county) vigil se teeth, though of Mariette (Saunders s was called for last night and a full attendance requested, as “impor tant business” was to be transacted. 1f any body was whitecapped or hung, the news bas not yet reached Omaha the A social eruption s liable to sta people of DeWitt any day now, for the Times of that obsarves: “We have been watching certain procoedings in towa for some time, and if everything continues to move as they now do w shall before long be uble ty our veaders a choice bit of sensation place give Al new: s Videtto there s s i brouch exists batween the the local From verusi r on to beli editor of that paper and gentlemen of the cloth, “We hope,” arks the Vidette, “our good brother will forgive us for having our house painted the same color that his was, and thus made it necessary for him to ineur the ex- pense of repamting. We are also thankful o be spared that expense ourself.” one of The Boston § entertainment at Kearney to At a csrtain point i the progrean it be- came the duty of the leader of the orchestra, Mr. Willis Nowell, to visit the winzs to cort Miss Cnshing to the footlights for har solo. e rose gracefully from the maple chair in which he was sitting, and which 13 part of the regular furnishing of the opera housc: then from batween his vest and shir front, he pro fuced a dalicate white bandler chief; this he spread upon the highly polishied seat of the maple ehair, laid his violin upon it and ecarful thirew. Owingto this precantion the ehaiv did not suffer in theleast fron abrasion or contu Notimg this circumstances in all the ateness of detail, the Flub thinks that Nowell would be a good renter of a furnished house, and dres him that e which his though.fuluess and con sideration cal LA e an other night. ne - 5 OF THE There isa boy in lowa who nas lost hoth hands, both feet, poth cars and most of his nose by frost bites, and, as he has withing else to lose, he is having lots of fun out doors this winter. An exchange remarics that in 1333, 141 vie tims weve strung up without the formality of a trial, as against 123 during the previous year. The western industry of hanginz peo ple in walking a fatteriy »wih Mrs. Fravk | wAY wWilsT. slie will s00u start to soutl ern California with a corps of artists and deseriptive writers, Sne would find a better and less w field in the Black Hills, At least so thinks the Rapid City Republican s of a will left by an lowa Id watch was left to thir- teen different persons. He was not friendly with any of them, and he probubly did it ing they would Aght each other, which they are domng in a lively ruunner. Thetown authoritics of Clarksville, Lu, are experiencing trouble in eollecting pa, for lots m the cemetery, and an ordinance will be pasaed providing for the ramoval of all bodies to the potter's field if payment for the lots Is not made in six montis from tho date of interment California’s eclipse was a brilliant success, s everything Californian is, says the Sun I rancise Exumine Those supercilious European astronomers who deelined to come here on the ground that the weather was too uncertain will now have un opportunity to potnt the finger of scorn at themselves The Kansas State Teachers' association recently adoptedia resolution condemning the use of tobacco i any form by the instructors of the young and recommending that the use of tobaceo by pupils iu or about school buildings be entively prohibitel. Kansas s thus ready to take another step forward in the great work of reforu An lowa editor wrote an editorial and a love letter. He put the love letter on the ed- itorial hook, sent the editorial to his wirl, und left town for a short visit. The love letter appeaved in the paper, and a wild-eyed, tan gle-haired editor is roamiug around the country chasing compositors with toua huwks and scalping knives. Thursday afternoon a dilapidated-looking man, who has been noticed loafing about Armourdale, Kan., for some days, entered the Armourdale bank, and drawin on Cashier P. F. Pocock with a hea ver, ordered him to hand over the #§1,: gold which he was counting. Assistant Cashier A, 8, Lemon grasped a revolver Iy ing couveniently at hand, and, pointing it at the would-be robber, told him to hold up his hands. The mun was taken by surprise, and did as he was told. He was then disurmed and handed over to the police, Loudor McCormick and daughter of Joaquin Cherokee, Kan., and destitute. They have been playing “40" in western Kansas and met with poor success. A hotel kezper from McCane followed MceCormick here, and the pair adjourned to the street to s their dispute. [u the fight that followed the actor kunocked his man out. This exhibition of pluck made many friends for McCormick, and he was given the Opera house for & Under the t man tne sume 20 his wife, Maud Miller, wre at | tacked 1y iight. As scores of citizens interested them- sclves in his behalf he had a profitable houso. - . POINTS FOR LEGISLATORS, The Crete Globe s that tho * of the 14 slature employed anit 108t one for every ty | bors, I \ no ippor six Y me A mattor house t | teen st 1oy suggestod as of be made to scraper, Some at an - a purchase a door mat would even go f and have a card loor leading to the chamber embors that it is no | of @ to spit on wipe foot on the ful if cutting trifie would to work them eding wrocks of " The the and rther notifying the u isidered o nark ntlo birth windows or their Aand yet it is dou force of jar many o nto heartr cushions. down the tors 8 left compe those selvos nding, o 1, manl martyrs, same 08 ato poet m same He was younz, A wreck, a g A victim of the janitor by not twenty five, framo, red, e mark sonate’s namoe rfolic News hopes Ispare time cut de expenditures sossment laws. question to wnd improve the o It as would hiave to pay siderable notor S the We resentative wn law-makers ot con 100k now though our rilrond fare ¥ by accenting passes, ro g Water Republic Gilbert's in speakin home paper, the of that wantloman's Mooy nerally There the peo ot wsury oat. It Pstiga. nes, usury bill, says are opposed to it, as also are is, however, an fmpreseion ple generally that a more law will reduce the rate of loaners among st inte arof a question which will bear tion, und is worthy of study. The bill prohibitine the bringing of foreign detectives into the state ty should he passa, saya ¢ ian. Ihe expericnce during the @+ appko should be suflicient argament in its favor This practice, which has bacome quite popu- lar of late among large corporations, an outrage of the sovereign authority of a atate 1t breads a contemnt for the officers and laws of the state, which are, 0% should be, sufl cient to protect the citizens and their prop- erty thevein. If they are not suficient, an inteiligent people can make them so. But, prohibit the bringing of bums, reckless and lings into the state for the itis giving i do police duty, » Tekamah Burton irrespousible h purpose of over-awing the people, the law into the hands of individuals corporations —an element this state must protect herself against, The Lincoln Call, ve stock commission Lansom, who has introduced a peal the law, will be found bac measure with some facts and fi show just about what it has cost and discased stock Connor, of Kearney, in the worl lizht on this commission. When the statement that he has called for shall be forthcoming, the Call predicts that it will be of more than ordinary intercst and that it will open the eyes of the legislators to the necessity of a vadical praning of the ways of the live stock commission appropriations, crusade remarks in its against Mr to ihg up res that will to remove per head. s0 his valueless General assisting is of shedding The scheme of passing a county option liquor bill is attracting some attention, and a state exchauge comments on the matte follows: “This, it is hoped, while it will hardly satisfy cither extreme of the liquor auestion, will win the support of the major- ity. There are counties, Douzlas for in- nce, where prohibition would always be a practical failure, while at the same time hore arc many cowtities i which a decided prohibition sentiment prevails. Such a bill as the one proposed would be most satis- factory to all concerned. Counties that wanted saloons could have them, and they could readily and effectively bo dispensed with where they were not wanted." BRIGH HORT NGS. tte: The stuf the Chinese pudding. Time: Wool trimmphed this year, but in the long run it will be worsted. Life: President-clect Harrison's pathway is strewn with flowers—forget-me-nots, Puck: *De darkey's hour am jos’ day.” said Uncle Aaron, as he v neighbor's chicken-roost at 3 a. m. Rochester Post Express: Artificial cgis are manufactured ima Pennsylvania town, “The inventor probably wanted to help the hens bear their yolk Boston Gaz that dreams are made of hefo’ ed his Burlington Pree Press: A Chicago cler gyman married three couples on the cars the other day. ke has refused to allow himself to be patented as a car coupler, however. Boston Bulictin: A spintualist may tip the table, but it is the chap who tips the waiter who gets the inost attention. Omaha Dame (waiking with her little son on a Philadelphia stree)—Now, if you do that again I'll punish_you severely." ~Little San (pertly)—“You ean't whip me before folks.” *No, but PIl—=LI1 put you in a ha CURRENT 1OPICS, Tt scoms very certain tho charges made against the Als K& company in two Now York papers were utterly falss, One of these, though tho loast sensational of all, referred to the wh alo staughtor of tho fur soal 1d was a ccepted by many as tr 10, for there have been so m s of the very samo thing in other localities that it was very likely to be truo. But all tho samo it was falso, So far from boing true it was & tetal misrepresentation of the situation, T'ha Alaska company Yrom tho first droaded tho possibility of the seals being frightoned nway from their breeding places, and dotormined to domesticate them, which is by no moans & dificult thing, for they are very affoction: ate and grateful for kindness, The soals are caught near vhore by their employos and driven to pens prepared for thom whoro thay are ket and fed on live fish until killing time when thoy are Qispatehed by blow on tho nose, which it soems is thofr vilnorable point. None are killed under two years, nop over four, bec that Al se the former are kept for breeding, and the skins of the latter are too tender. The skins are packed in brine and sent to London, where they aro proparod f dyeing and then colored. 1t is first nocessary 10 get rid of the long coarse hair which coni- pletely hides the fur, and this is dono by cut- and ride you over these cobblestone pave: ments.” ville Journal: The reason Lot's wife was turned to salt was evidently he cause she was too fresh, Binghamton Repubtican: vhiaps most, potential letter of the alphabet is *n,” because it can make a man of Merchunt Praveler: 1t is ha the to tell at t time of year whether a man hus his mind or a piece of mince pie stomach San Francisco Wasp: What is the differ ence between grand and comic operal At comic opera you ought to laugh, but can't; at grand opera you must not luugh, but ant 10, ditor Cheap males a man feel good 1 sleop well to-night.” vou rescued 10 cruelty or saved a ljfo, m, no, not exactly; but to-duy @ young woman who has been furnishing us with beautiful poctry for three years without eharge came 10to the office and 1 gave her 70 cents.” - Next Week s Attractions. vival of William Gillette's *Private y" utthe New Grand Opera house to-morrow evening will be a dramatic event of great interest. It wili be interesting to tke public to know that nearly ail the old members of the company arve in the present cast, the only ones of importance hauds of the old members and Kdith. Mr. David 17, Ste make 4 great hit in the part ¢ Mr. Gilleth credited by some with even in_ some particulurs. this company ery attention 10 ly and the repu e on in his Monthly 10 do 3 Admi tell you it »hie action g Wife child ar? is said to It goes withont will present the p detail that the fumous coms 1 of the company e . Phe engage ment is limited to three nights and W duy matinee, commencing Monday ev The Irish drama, The Ivy Leaf, will be presented at the MBoyd Friday and Saturday evenings. The b character of the play is well known, The company uas been selected rather with a view to singing than acting ability In tne secona set there is a serics of special performances, cousisting of a eute dance by a child, more or less musical pe formances on the Irish bag pipes, three or four touching Irish ballads, Smith O'Brien's song, “When Ireland Has an Army and Navy of Her Own," with dances and jigs thrown iu, ning, F. Fitzwilliams, known as the American Hercules, s the attraction at the Eden Musce during the coming weel. A!l the attractions will be good aud the show interssting to all. ting away the roots, for it happens quoerly cnough that the long hair seuds down its roots deeper than the fur, so that by varing away the skin they are got rid of, and then the fong hair can bo pulled away as casily as feathers can be plucked from a chicken One of the greatest discoverios of modorn times was the treatment of caoutchouc or India-rubber witi sulphur, or vuleanizing, by Goodvear, and it is painful to reflect that h a8 cheated out of his rights and died a poor n 1l The application of vuleanized rubbor to overshoes really marked a new era in our daily lives, and has been adopted every where i the civilized world, that ( it statue iafinitely more than one half 1) receive that posthumous flat tery. The weare. 2fgums in Boston, and of rubbers elsewhere it Tnitod States are not mindful of the extrabmime " trivances which were in vogue beforo 1119 beueficent discovery of vuleanized rubl So completely have overshoes rubbod terns and clogs out of people’s memorics that it was found dificult to recall thom when an analyzer of words sought to find the origin of goloshes, the fearful nama which the English apply to the beautiful rubber overshoes with which American fivms Kindiy supply them. But by dint of trying first one trail, and then another, it was dis- covered that the word originally meant a wooden clog strapped over the shoo in wet weather, and that it through Prance to and. It was orig- inally in Spanish, and galoche in Erench, and then became goloshes i B lish, and the beefy-brained Britons actually retained the name of the old thing for tha new Ameriean invention, which was a philo- logical crime of the worst churacter. came from the Spanish ng Almost every has what is cal part of the pa- per devoted to a continued story, and many journals i nk, not by the n 1ts of the news columns or the forea of their editorials, but by the success of their feuilleton. 1t has bocome apparent co Wt many American papers are dis- posed Lo cony the French in this respeot. Some of th have th story, only on Sun- days, but there are others in Chicago and m Boston and in New York, which have every day an installment of a romanc It wnot be swid that thes, papers.ghavo ot with the same success as thoir Froneh models, for there 18 4 marked difference in the public to which they appeal. The Krench, asa people, are not particularly fond of road- ncither are they desirous to keep them- Ives well-informed upon current events, and therefore they prefer to get as much general reading for their money 4s they can. T3ut this is not the case with Americans, who fond of reading, and who make u point iz informed on all the topics of tha I'hey, therefore, vrefer to have their d Uieir novels in separate jugs, so to speals, and this is why the American ton papers have not scored a bewildering success, of L day. new The sugar swindle started by the Fr has fairly startled the whole country was commenced some five years ago by a man known as Prof. Henry M. Friend, and after his alleged death, which was said to havo red in the month of April of last yea the woman, Mrs. Fricnd, bocame the activo spirit in the company. Friend’s scheme wus to make refined sugar out of raw sugar or syrup by electricity, and a company w formed in Brooklyn which proposed to carry ou business on n largo seale whenever things worked thoroughly well. Friend received in hard cash £150,000, and 5,250 of the company’ stoclk, and it is pretty nearly certain that the widow disposed of these at about 50, though the par value was only $100, 5o that she must have netted a very large sum. Her business affairs were managed partly by he self and partly by her father, a Mr. How and it is believed that though thy escape prosecution, her father has put him- ly, forhe swore before a notary public that he Ead seen the professor rofine raw sugar by electricity. The treasurer of the compang, a Mr. Robertson, made the dis- covery that the process which had been kept secret by Mr. Kriend consisted in manipu- lating sugar that had already been refined, and that the raw sugar which was bronght into the “dark room” remuined untouched. The losses of people in this country and in England amount to nearly £2,000,000, and tho edinary fact remains that so muc money should have been paid out by the directors of the company, who wore thorougly honest, without a full knowlodg ct. But they were carried away of the word clectricity, and spont §50,000 in a bwilding and in @& transaction which was 0 putting up & bind ab draw oce 1, self in jeoy extr of the sec by the actually machinery equivalent noke The poor old Cowstock lode! Silver is gotting very s there, but th strange and abnormal development of fui in two of tho mines which the superstitious men of Nevada regard with awe, and con- sider portentous. The two mines that are thus fungified are the Mexican and Ophir, and the formations on the timbers of the gal levies, as described by Mr. Donaldson, of Virginia City, are undeniably queer, Some of them are three feet long and look like forins covercd with sheets; othors lave younded heads like owls, and others, again, ba ¢ nondeseript fovins, but are topped with human-like heads, with long beards, and s curling like rams' horns, These fungi emble the stalagmites and stalactitos ot caves in one particular, for thoy grow from the bottom and the top indiscriminately, and in some arifts the two have joined together and have formed a wall. Some of the growths arc in strun fine us human bair, and others a s o broom handle, and have lifted stones weighing from fifty to a hundred pounds several feet into the air. The heaviest growth Is iu the darkest part of the mines, and no miner would go there without a comrade for untold wealth, for in these depths the walls are covered with the fungi, as well as the top ana bottom, and these side growths are like snakes, Oue cannot help conjecturing that the gruesoma Oainan dosribtions af magloal ‘roads to enchanters' caverns originated in some such fungus developments in deserted sives mines in Saxony. urce as