Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1889, Page 13

TOE TALE OF X BIC BOOK. . Whe Contenta of Omaha's Directory for the Prosent Year. ODDITIES OF NOMENGCLATURE. Ourions and Interesting Matters Found in Itd 1,200 Pages—Over 44,000 Residents of the Oty Ohronicled. The New Oity Directory. A very large, vory thick and very heavy book, riot light reading by any means, not n volume likely to form a part of a circulating library, but & huge tome of nomenalature and topography recording on it 1,900 pages the names, addresses and avocations of 44,926 persons in every rank and condition of lifo besides separate street, business and suburban directories--such is the Omaha directory whigh has just made its appearance for 1899, The directory contains, exclusive of dupli- cates and names of firms, 44,926 names. Estimating two and a half to the name the the population of Omaha would be 113,005, Adding South Omaha’s population Omaha in a radius of five miles would have a popula- tion of 122,000, It1s a book but fiftcen years of lro\ the first directory having been published in Omaha in 1574, It was a buntling then, but has had a wonderful growth. And what a change since then. The old roadsido public house with its horse trough, ivs bench in in front for weary travelers and its -wlnx(m{ sign has cxpanaed into a hotel all gilt and glitter. Change and improvement are writ- ten over everthing, Then onc might be in himself a eompetent directory of the town; now & great book is demanded. Looking be- low the suriace and reading between the lines of these printed pages ono will seu thut they record more than barren names and ‘numbers, Here briefly are recorded the biographies and characters of the indiviauais ‘Whose names are registered. As each suc- coeeding year gliding noiselessly on brings ov evil fortune, grandeur or decadence, @ directory canvassor comes along in com- suny of time and chronicles your ups and owns. As long as you are out of tho jail or the poorhouse he wants to know how you are getting on in the world, and the answers 10 two or three simple questions will tell anyone in the whole great world whother you are moving up or down the scale of suc- cess and failure. And when you dio and your name is erased from the book of life it Wwill also be erased from the book of Omaha. From the Aarons, tho first name on its pages, to Zovickey, the last, the directory is full of interest to the curious, the uhilologist and the student of nomenclature. Every- thing has been ransacked to find names for the members of the human family. There are enough Adaws to people forty-nine earths according to the original rate uf dis- tribuiion. The seasons aro represanted by Spring, Summer, Kall and Winter, and the elements by Storm. Rain, Snow, Ral, Breeze, Gale, Frost and Flood. Sinee the first graat orime the Cains have muitiplied eleven-fold, while the number of Abelsis limited to five. Men have recklessly bor- rowed names from every branch of the ani- mineral and vezetable kingdom. There hamonds, Wood, Bear, Grove, Filley, Bowers, Bu Cane, Cherry, Ash, Read Thorn, Hacon, Coots, Thrush, Drake, Horn, Jay, Roach, Shell, Stone, Swan, Beaver, ‘Wren, Lake, Bug Bull, Bullock, Woll, ole, Cheer; Coon, Crow, Fox, Lamb, Steel, rd. Do Pike, Steer, Swift, , Ling, Salman, Trout, v, ‘the Ruinstorm. Religious aund ecclesiastical appellations are there also, such as Elder, Dean, Deacon, Bishop, Church, Pope, Prior, Priest, Cro: Abbey, Abbott, Parish, Not only in palaces do titied oues lives.. Hore, too, are Earls, Dukes, Lords, Kings(butno Queens), Barons, Knights and Princes. Tho colors are represented by White, Blue, Black, Green and Brown. Twenty-five pages are devoted to the rec- ord of the great family, the most numerous in the city, whose names begin with Mc and Mac. There ure 834 Johnsons, the second 1avgest family in the city. Of these twonty- two are plain Andrew Johnsons, eighteen Amos, twenty-nine Charles, eleven Emmas, sixteen Franks, seventeen Jumes, and forty- three Johns; and, yet, the postmin is sworn at when he delivers a lotter to the wrong Johnson. There are 518 individyals of the multitudinous Smith family, bt no longer may the mueh maligned John Smith be the object of ridicule. The plain William Smiths outnumber the piain John Smiths by thirty- one to twenty-two. ‘The lotter M heads the list of names with 4,483; then comes S with 4,353, B with 3,853, Under U are but seventy names, while not an inhabitant of the ecity writes his pame with an initial X, Love's language is well represented in Dearing, Darling, Love and Lover. No Jokyl is found, but there are a dozen Hydes, ‘There are even fifty Bells without a Belfry. ‘There are just Cuffs engugh for two pair; none of the Bakers are bakers; two Taylors are tailors; one Miller is a miller; two of the Cooks are cook: two Carters are carters; none of the Barbers are barhers. It would require a column to cite the least common names that appear in the book. Mony of them occur under the letter J. ‘Among them, Jagged, Jago, Johndro, Jep- son, Jooy, Jagg, Jakl, Javurak, Jeskrowiz, Jink, Jirku, Juknies, and Juol. Timeis out of joint, there bemng thirty- one Days. and only tiwenty-nine Knights, while there are Eighteen weeks, One Gent and six Gentlewen live in the city. One man is named Money, and there is bot one Cashman, Ten are named Gold, ten are Golden, one is Goldgrabber, aud two are Goldmans, and sixteen Goldsmiths. There are two Goods, two Goodenough,one Gooder, two Goodin, two Goodfellows and fourteen Goodmans, Seven ocitizens are Stout and ninetecn of them Strong. There are fifteen Gates and Burrs euough for four pairs, There are eight Crosses without a crown. There are eight Bridges and a score of Fords for onc River, though therc are thirteen Lakoes and five Ponds. Hope, Faith, Work and Sleep are met with daily and when the last comes for an eternal -ufl and your namae is erased from the book of lifa 1t will also be erased from the book of Omaha, which, large as it is, still is only the spinal column of that great body whose giant heart beats with nearly one hundred thou- sand pulsations on the day and hour that this s writtan, e BONEY FOR THE LADIES, Braid is the most fashionable of all trim- mings. The white cotton drosses are gaily decor- ated with white ribbons, Jewelled hairpins ave being produced in every conceivable design, The latest of vho new oriental laces are mixed in green and white. Chnrm\nf house dresses are finished with 'watteaus of black and white lace. The flower bonnets are the prettiest of the noyeltigy in dainty French millinery. ‘The stylish mode of making a silkk gown is to have it of two shades of the same color, Sashes of surah can now be obtained com- pleto, even to the knouted, silk fringed ends, Piazza aud ball room wraps for young ladios :iwemblu very closely ti talmas of other ays. Large Leghorn hats again appear among thoe atylish hoad coverings for garden party wear, Sowe of the new feg-0-mutton sleeves are buttoned closely at the wrist. Six buttons are used. ‘The long Eallln‘ the Connemara cloak and the bonue femme mantle are the leading long vwraps, The barred and plaided mobair in Light and bright colors are in high favor for littly girls' frocks. Among the dressy yet fuex lals of season are heaul wohairs :Ifl be % late fanoy in neck lingerle is the nfiln: pelisse, and the u:x‘vw. upright i of sulphur-yallow gauze. The latest fancy iu neok lingerie is the dufi lnll(nq p-u&’ and the narrow upright ruche of sulphur yellow gauze. The naw moliairs come in all shades of eolor in “'shot effect and in plaids and cheoks of great beauty and veness. ‘Tue close Freuch bonues prowmises W0 bold sive mater- lly printed G g HL - THE MOTHER OF CEBERCS.' its pwn this season, ju from (he bresent ::am. announcod us the latest for the sum- e, The combination of velvet with ail apocies of tissues will continue to be a feature of costumes for day, and of toilots for evening ‘wear, v Hats and bonnets of straw are now dyed in every tint known to fiature. Several of the colors are sometimes woven in on the chapeau. Sorges for beaoh and tennis gowns are finer and softer than ovet before, and ars highly favored both by English and Amorican women, Very lovoly toilets for bridesmaids and de- butates are made of real China erepe in wil- low green, old rose, and primrose yellow over aoft repped Sicillenne, with fronts of vearlod lisso. Now Marie Antoinette piazza-shawls of primrose-yetlow China crape have flowers in lo-yellow silk nmbroidered m one corner. o shawls have fichu fronts, and are fin- ished with rich silk fringes. The Jano Hading sloove 18 of coat-sleovn shape, and lias nt the top an extra quantity of material that is formed into four down- ward-turninie plaits, the wrise being finished by a roversed portion in the eshape of a cuff, under which is placed a tiny cuff. Straw braids aad stripes, comvosed of braided rushes and straw embroidery on an open ground, give pretty trimmings for hats and bonneta for the summer, many of the former being of two materials, such us guace and straw or gold plait, embroidersd net and straw with silver galloon, Among the usefui and protty gowns made up for the snmner at comparatively little expenseare those of pongee, tussors, and China silk in combmation with plaided surah. Tawney ceru and golden brown are mado great use of in both chocks and stripes, also white aud old rose. The principsl teimmings of tulle, net, [fn\" and laco dressns are ribbons. Some dresses are fairly covered with them. Long loops and ends Hutter from waist to hem and are pladed zigzag across the gown, Instead of baing run row after row around the skirt they are arrangod s0 as to describe van- dykes. The P-otty Mttt Kaavaa Joct Bentou in St. Louis Post-Dispateh, ‘Upon the cars—in spirit gay, AsS rapturous as could ge— T met a girl from Florida Who lives in Kissimmae. Her eyes wore liko the sapphire's blue, Her hair was flowing free, She asked if I was golng too, To kiss—to Kissimmeo. I nover knew the town before, But she was fair to sec, And sho had charms and go!d galore— This maid of Kissimmee. Wa talked with most amazing speed, And did not disugreo; And still she urged, *'I vrust indeed, Your going to Kissimmee." I am not often dashed, I'm sure, Nor prudish can I b But think I blush when she said * You're Now going to Kissimmeo!” The ocars are full-—1 tried to say (She sat s0 olose to me) “Is there a tununel on the way " “Q, yes—to Kissimmee." “Now by old Pouce de Leon's shade— 1f any such there bo—" 1 thought, “Tll kigs this pretty maid As sure as she is she. Reaching the tuunel, near a curve, She cried with a vi &omuu shout (For from my task I did not swerve) ‘‘WHAT ARE YOU, SIR, AROUT" “O, maiden of tha pretty face, How can you angry bet You said (although 1 ask for grace) ‘You're going to Kissimmoet"’ “I could not stand a hint like that— And my mistake you see.™ She smiled and smoothed her ruffiad hat— And turned to Kissimmee. A PEPPERMINT DROPS. The drunken waiter 1s casily tipped. ‘Whether Behring is a closed sea or not is still an open question, To lovers—Neover put off wll to-morrow ‘what you can woo to-day. When a man has a screw loose mend him by making him tight. A hen is a very superior creature, but she could never lay a corner-stone. Women who are fond of musio naturally prefer the uccordion-plaited skirt. Isn't it rather paradoxical for a man to bo wravped in silence for sound reasons? Mol Pitcher is understood to have been the first ball player in this neighborhood. Steamships ought to be very independent, bevause they ara given 8o much latitude, Cuthbert (Ga.) man has organizod an anti-kissing society.” It meets in one chair. A full-grown man playing croquet looks about as dignified as a monarch chasing a en. Lowell is called the spindle city. Ballet filrln are not seiected from among the resis ents of that place. Will General Greoley ploase make a note of this, that a rain storm always comes up before it comes downi President Harrison’s nepotism shows itself in permitting thousands of red unts to hold Dositions in the white house. ‘When a woman is “‘too tired to speak’ she will rattle off 86,000 words au hour to her baby and think it just fun. ‘Tho prince of Wales has chmbed the Eiffel tower. Their two hignesses did well o get acquainted with each other, Lady—I1 thought I told you I wanted our- ried patatoes for dinner. Bridget—The hostler was busy, mum, and I'm no groom. Tell & man that heis a fool and he witl laugh at you; but tell him that he is not as big & fool as he lo0ks and ne will get as mad as blazes. 4 Tne discussion of the selection of a na- tional flower is still gomng on—and what's the matter with the pink of politeness! Is it too rare? “Now, that's what I call a blow i the dark,” said a Dakota man to his wife. “What is?" she asked. ‘“That hurricane that came along last night.” L Denver has a paper called the Frog, but the publisher will have toad-mit that the prospects of his frog J“mp'" into a lurge cireulation are rather discouraging, An Euglish wit who has evidently Mor- monistic leanings, advances the atrocious oplonion that a wife of forty ought to be like @ bank note for £40—exchangeable for two of twenty, Two nines, composed of drug clerks, are about to play u gamo of base ball in St Louis. As they huven't yet decided on a name, we would suggest that one bo called *Qui-nine” and the other *Strych-nine.” A Tennessee man suggests that the pie lant be selected as the national flower. That nteresting botauic boon would fill the bill very well, But what is the matter with the cucumber? Still, we believe if the ladies were allowed to vote on the question the orange blossom would bear away the bell, Much complaint is heard wbout the hog- gishness of Pittsburgh people who want to run things in the Conemaugh valley to suit themselves, Well, why shouldn't they?! It was their flood, wasu't 1tt The postoMice address of the South Ford Fishing and Hunt- ing club is Pittsbure, A New York clothior advertises ‘‘bathing suits by mail.” A Z.cent stamp will carry one, he says. Persons thinking of purchas- ing might save time and trouble by making the stamp serve the purpose of the garmant =-if tho summer fashion notes are ta be be- lieved. Somebody says that Keely's motor is ‘‘the oceult force pecullar to theosophy. Now that everybody knows what it is, there is no ®ood reason why everybody shouldu't have a bucketful in the house to run the churn and the washing achine, It is tough on thae stockholders, though. 4 e B American Pigkpockets in” Paris. The American Flokpoakau who visit the Paris ex tion are having a hard time, My, Byrnes, of New York, sent pbotographs of nearly five hundred thieves, pickpockets and burglars to the chief of police of Paris, and now as 800N a8 an Awerican rascal steps into 0 exposition he is hailed by name and nouified to keep his hands in his own pockets and out of the pookets of other e, If he takes his hands out of his s he is locked up. you can not How the Mighty Muir Oasts off . Smaller Glaciers. MIDSCENES OF AWFUL GRANDEUR A Mighty lce-Wall Tarreted and Pin nacled, Upon Which Iris Flings the Hues of Amethyst, Tar- quoise and Sapphire. +The Great Muir Giacier. Prof. Horace W. Briggs writing about icobergs in the Sitka Alaskan says: The most notable of the glaciers in southenstern Alaska isthe Mair, named from Prof. John Muir, a geologist of some reputation, since he gave the first uncolored deseription of it. TItis forty miles long, and back on the land, in a basin of the mountains. Being rein- forced by fifteen tributaries coming dowd the glens from different points of the compass, it swells to an icy sea wenty-five miles in dfamoter. Thence it moves with resistless power, bearing rocks and long lines of detritus on its billowy surface. Justbefore it reaches the bay it is compressed by two sentinel mountains into and is forced through a gorge one mile in width. Emornin} from this narrow gatewny it moves on, at the rate of fortyto sixty feot a day, and the waters whence it originally came, buttressing the bay with a perpeudicular “wall 800 feet high, 800 feet of ultra- marine orystals tipped @ith purest white being above the surface, and, being pushed vevond its support in the underlying rock, a battle bogins be- tween cohesion and gravity. The lat- ter force always ‘prevails, and vast masses breax from tne ‘glacial torrent with the combined erash of falling walls and heavy thunder, & tumble into the bay with a dash and a shock that agi- tates the water far away, making navi- gation periious to crafts of all sizes. The almost deafening roar made when these masses aro rent away, the splash- ing baptism they receive in their fall and the leaping waters are lively wit- nesses to the BIRTH OF AN ICEBERG, which henceforth, as aun independent existence, goes on its mission of grind- ing the shores, butting against its fel- lows, and of acaring navigators, While the ship was resting unmoored near the frontof this icy barrier, we were startled by the sudden appearance of n mass of dark orystal, vastly larger than our own ship, shooting up from the depths and tossing our steamer as if it were an eggshell. Astho vessel careenod, tho frightened passengors were sent whirling against her, over chairs, or prostrate upon the deck. This strange visitor had doubtloss been broken off from the roots of the icy mountain hundreds of feet below the surface, and hence had unexpactedly appeared upon the scene. Had it struck the ship fairly nothing buv a wiracle could have saved us. Having recov- erea somewhat from our dumb amaze- ment, about twenty of us were sent to shore in tho captain’s gig. Landing some distance below the ice wall, we climbed seventy feet up a lateral moraine, crawled, shoe-deep in wet gravel, down into the valley u})u. glacial river, forded 1t, padaled through glacial mud covered with shingle just deep enough to hide the creamy pools, slipped pros e made treacherous b i e of detri- tus, and bark ns and cut our shoes on the sharp angulur blocks of granite and basalt strewn for two miles in great profusion, along our perilous route. Biocks of the finest marble hedged our pathway; we trod upon chips of jasper and chalcedony, the product of different mountains far up on the peuinsula, and we passed two exquisite ly beautiful boulders of veined por- phyry, weighing two hundred or thiee hundred pounds each, rounded and polished by centuries of attvition, They were of “aark purple, streaked with quartz spoilessly white, very desirable specimens for a cabinet, or for out-of- door ornamentation. After more than an hour of plunging and sprawling, and of pulling cach other out of gray mire, about. half of our number reached the uncovered glacier, and at the first glance we felt that here we SHOULD STAND WITH HEADS, for we were in the presence of the mar- velous manifestations of superhuman power in action, and looked with un- veiled eyes upon the potent agencies by which much of this planet has been fashioned. Away in the distance was the white lake, fed by numerous frozen rivers, and these rivers were born of mountain snows fifty miles distant. The white- rohed mountains themselves, mons in the past, were smoothed and grooved far up their Hinty sides when this same glacier was throe-fold deeper and many times more ponderous and mighty than it is to-day. Stretched along the base ot the mountains till théy‘are only a line in the distaace were the records of those gray old years in the form of moraines, 100" feet high, and appearing like a range of hils. The, larger portion of this erystal river, Porhups an eighth of a mile in width, is heaved into rounded hills and beetling precipices, quite resombling the sea in a storm; while the middle and mueh the wider part is splintered nto countless spires and needles and innacles, ten, tweoty, thirty feet in eight, and of a beautiful ultra-marine at the base, shaded to a dead white ae the summit. On the onward march of the glacier these pinnaclés ave oceasionally wrenched from their seats in the solid UNCOVERED ice beneath—they nod, then totter, and. then make a‘rlunga. and arve shattered into a cloud of acicular orystals that sparkle like the frosted snew under a full moon of a winter’s night, only with wmore of color—they are DIAMONDS ON THE WING, Again the whole surface is riven by a thousand crevasses, along the bottoms of which streams of clear water find their way, often broken by waterfalls that plunge further down into the dark blue abysses out of sight. These chasms are h-lfihuul gans to one peers ing down a hundred feet between their turquoise walls. A slip, a frail alpen- stock, a feeble grasp of the guide’s rope, and gravity would close the scene without further ceremony, . The molecular structure of the glacier is continuall; uhlnuln!, adjusting itselt to the elevations and depressions of its rocky bed, and hence there is an inces- sant cllukfnx and crackling, interrupted here and there by an explosion heard gver every inch of the surface, The whole scene 18 weird and strange in sight and sound—in the voices that riso to the air from the azure depths— fascinating because every step is peril- ous, majestio from its massiveness, and awful because its march is irresistible. Consider what a force in wearing away mountains and glens au ioy tore rent must be, one mile wide, eight hun« dred feet deop, andiin the middle flow« ing sixty foet a ddy: it goes grinding groaning and erabRing in starthing ex- piostons, &iF iinged in a loud wpil like that from the Tigans imprisoned unddi Mount Etna. Now, let any oge in fancy frame for himself this pictur mountains in the . bacl them, Fairwent! sand Crillon, more than fifteen thou?r;l feet high, thick set with glittering’ goaks and clear cut as silhouettes o) dark sky; the great glacier, uh’al{‘ol Arctic snows, turretted and pi cled and splin- tered into a thohshnd strange forms upon which Iris has hung the varied hues of the amethyts and turquise and sapphire: huge masses riven from the erystal river with a thundering roar, reeling and toppling into an amber sea, thickly dotted with new-born and va- grant icebergs; and all this scene glo- rified and traosfigured by the setting sun. Looking upon this picture through the creative power of imagination, one can readily conceive that the enrap- tured tourist, standing in the presence of the realities, would call that day spent with the Muir glacier the day of allghe days ho ever passed gozing upon and listening to the wild wonders of our planet. But hark! That wasnot an explosion of the glucier’s artillery: it was the ho of the steamer’s whistle ringing along the glen of the mountains, soft- ened, indeod, by distanco, as are the notes of the Alpine horn. In just one hour we must be on the ship or be left without couch or wood or fire in these wild and awiul solitudes, ninety miles from tne nearest hubita- tion, and we made itin time, regardless of shoes or shins. Pacific. Dora. 7\ Cosgrove in Chicago Inter-Ocean, On yestermorn, bencath a risen sun, Like to a shining shield thy surface lay, Yet changeful in thine own all-perfect way, And blonding Hght of earth and heaven fn one. Snow-capped lfl'oum‘l, two of At noontide we beheld thy blue expanse Soft with such meanings as do lie within The oyes of childron; and as free from sin As theirs thy radient, upturned, smiling glanca Tho evening’s sunset banners, fold on fold, Floated aboye their harbor on thy brim, Displaying hues, at first pale, faint and im, That deepened soou to crlmson barred with gold. By night's rare noon, the moon her scep- tored right To thy domain proved by claim. She decked thy purple waves with plumed possession’s ame. And low she bent and owned her sov'reign might. This morn thy breath was unto me as wine. ‘Thy beach hala%&urc! none eyes eise had seen, A tow'ring billowf#att in strength I ween Had never broke at other feet thun mine. What now to me cool depths that silent sloep? Twill sleop in them when sloep's hour is come, Life's low voice sayeth: '‘Sea, bo mine the sum Of surfuce tones gug tints thav o'er thoe sweep ™ Sing not of restful, sunleas realms to me. How should 1 care for the insipid balm Of wuves that wake uot from unruffled calm? Thy atill depths keopisuch as prize, O, sea! - “YES, DEAR." A Soft Aunswef That' Touched a Ragged Urchin’s Heart. Indianapolis News: He was so small and frail the chilly March wind seemed to blow him about like a wisp of paper, His pinched face was blue with cold where the dirt allowed the skin to; be seen, and hia hands wore pushed far down into two holes, which he doubtless called pockets, in® his trousers, Little stronmers of rags blow out from his tat- tered clothes, giving him a fringed ap- pearance, and as he drifted uncertainly along he ocecasionally raised a shrill, bubyish voice in an attempt to sell a soiled paper which he held under his arm. Presently hie met asweet-faced, moth- erly woman, and, holding out his crum- pled stock, he said sturdily: *‘Buy a paper, ma’am?” The old lady looked at him. She saw in vhe pathetio little figure that which called up memories of a time long ago, when babies filled her home with life and childish prattle. She thought of their happy freedom from care and com- pared their comfort and ease with the wretcheduess of the waif before her. She did not want the miserable, dirty paper, but her heart softened. **Yes, dear,” she said. The unheard-of tone and words of the reply astonished the child for an in- stant, so that his mouth dropped open and he stood as though dazed. Then, with a broad grin of delight breaking the crust on his face into ridges and furrows, he impulsively handed out his entire stock in trade and said eagerly: “‘Here ’tis, ma’am. 1 don’t want no pay.” i T A LION-HEARTED SCOTCHMAN. The Noble conduct of Alexander Bry- den at Oarbondale, One of the most notable instances of personal courage oocurred during the grent mining accident in Carbondale, Peun,, in 1846, when sixteen miners lost their lives by ugl‘ent fall of roof, and over two hundred were for some time cut off from all meansof escape, says the Philadelphia Press, Alexander Bryden was at that time one of the mine superintondents of the Delaware and Hudson coal company, and wasin an~ other part of the mine when the fall oc- oury John Hosie, another superin- tendent, was nside. For two days Mr. Bryden, after making his way into a heading where higsgn and a number of other meu had en refuge, and pilot- ing out the party sufely, soarched the mine while the pillars were crashing around him. o ; Mr, Hosie got optsafely. When the fall took place the miners fled, and one of them reported thiata com panion was left behind, a stone having fallen on him, but in their terror they had left him to his fave. ., Mr, Bryden made bis way through the rumbling Wi until he found Dennis Farrell, apd with a tremendous effort lifted the rqclf from his prostrate form and_carvied, the injured minor over a half mile , hig ck out to safety. In some @8 the roof had so settled down that'he had to draw the wounded miner thyough the contracted passage. Kinally it olosed up, and some of the bodies of the men wers never recovered, but to this day among the old miners of the region 1is cher- 1shed the momory of the lion hearted Beotchman, Alexander Bryden, ———— Two Billion Tons of Water, Some idea may be formed of the vast uantitios of water discharged by South 'ork lake into the Conemaugh valley when compared to the flow over Niagara Falls, Estimating the Niagara supply at 83,000,000 tons of 86 cubic feet per hour, and taking the measurement of the lake to have been 34 miles long by 1% miles wide, with a mean depth of 30 foot, we have the enormous volume of 1,000,000,000,000 tons of water, which would require thirty bours in passing over Niagara Falls, B SR e S T T0 OFFICE SEEKERS. ¢ Palace Ofice Bulding of Omaha THE BEE BUILDING. A Superb Court, Perfect Ventilation, Thoroughly Fire Proof. WELL LIGHTED OFFICES, HARD-WOOD FINISH, TILED CORRIDORS Fifty-Eight Vaults, wmsx Lighted by Electricity, Night# Day Elevator Service THE BEE BUILDING, Scventeenth and Farnam, offers attractions for Professional Men, Insurance Companies, Brokers, Real Estate Agents and Business Men, who desire elegant, commodious and fire-proof offices at reasonable terms, For particulars apply at the Counting Room, New Bee Build- ing. P e ] JOHNSTOWN KEEP COOL. The Johstown Disaster is the subject of 18 i lllui;’rlunns in HAwpRws WEEKDY, Dub THE LEO"AHB DRY = R| BLEA“A LE REFRIGERATORS. lished June 12th, including The Scone at the Bridge (double page) Five walls to preserve the ice. Flues removable for cleanli- General View from South Fork Turn- pike (double page)—Crossing Tempo- rary Bridge (front page) Avrest of ness. Doors with air-tight locks. Ice saved. Money saved, Plunderers (full page)—Ruined Roman Catholie Church—Main Street After They are the best; take no other. theFlood—Wreck of Vestibule Train— Ferrying the Dead at Night — The Broken Dam—Relief Station.—Map of Johnstown and Vicinity—Waif of tho Flood —Locomotive Rescued--Telegraph Operators in the Old Cement Mill— Ca g Home Coffins—Guarding Sup- plies—Encampment of Relief Farties— Rescues at the Signal Tower. GREAT FLOOD 1llustrated by 23 engravings and graphi. cally deseribed, In addition to the illustra tious of the Johnstown Disaster, this issue contains the foilowing illustrations: SOLT ONLY BY MILTON ROGERS & SONS Gorner 14th and Farnam Sts, Flood at Harrisburg—Two Views in Washington--Williamsport Court House —Map of the Area covered by the Floods—ete. SEATTLE. arassraron. 20 Pages and Cover, 10 Ceuts, For sale by booksellers and newsdealers, Subseription, $1.00 a year, Harper & Broth- ers, New York. 2| Easven) Mortgaee Papar Bought CAPITAT] At'Lowest Rates. 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