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A MODERN SLEEPY HOLLOW. A Noonday Vieit to the Vilage of Bellevue. A VERY ROMANTIC INCIDENT, A Letter Found in a Deserted House Telta a Tale of Sin and Sor- row—About the Village. Omaha’s First Competitor, Nearly every one has read Wash- fngton Irving’s pretty “Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and as they read it dreamt of droning bees, trickling waters, sighing winds and sweet pas- toral scenes. There is a spot near Omaha which forcibly recalls the tale to mind, and that spot is Bellevue. The little vil- lage down near tho rifle range is unlike the “Sleepy Hollow” described by Trv- ing, only in that it is located upon the hillsides rather than in the valle, Landing from a B. & M. train at a delapidated little station, one looks around for a time at a loss to locate the village, not a vestige of which can be seen. Across the track a farm house nestles among the troes and up back of the depot an old blind horse bumps from tree to tree. A few soldiers from the range and two or three rustics from the village who, in pursuance to their regular custom have assembied at the, depot to see the train go by, have already faded away among the trees. The taciturn station agent, after picking up the lean sack of mail thrown from the passing train, has re- tired behind the wire screen thatin- closes his sanctuary. Spying a plank sidewnlk leading up the hillside, the visitor follows it, und after a graded as- centof nearly a quarter of a mile, emerges upon the plateau. Three houses stand at the top of the hill, and all of them are “vacant. The first is gmall and tumbled-down, and ¢o is the third, but the second is a dwelling of some pretentions as to size and comeli- ness. The yards are all overgrown with weeds, the window glassis broken, and the picture presented is one of loneliness and desolation. One can well imagine thobe old dwellings the residence of ghosts and all other man- ner of spooks and uncanny things. One of the doors in the rear of one of the houses is found open, snd the visitor enters the dusty, mouldy place, but withdraws with more alacrity than with which he went in, alarmed by the whivr of numerous buts, disturbed by the intrusion from their morning sleep. But the desire to investigate the de- sorted manse is 5o strong that tho in- stinctive repugnance to the uncleanly birds of the night are overcome,and the explorer again enters and moves across the kitehen. The falling footsteps make a most gruesome racket and sounds “kinder scarey.” There is nothing much to be seen upon the lower floor. There is a pile of rubbish in one of the corners of one of the frout rooms, but in overturning this with a cane nothing is revealed but a lot of cockroaches, a few of which run up the intruders trousers legs, cousiderably to his discomfort. These are removed by a some- what ~ laborious vrocess, and the investigation continued. Mounting the dust-covered stairway, a small hall is reached, aud from this open three doorways into as many different rooms. In the first two entered nothing is found, but in the third another heap of rubbish is discovered. Not wishing to go through the cockroach experience again, the oxplorer first tied strings about the bottom of his trousers, and then boldly attacks the heap of trash with his cane. Near the bottom a pack- age of old letters, receipts, bills, and the like is found. They are comm place enough except one letter, wh }mfn.spnrklu of romance in it. Here b is: New Havex, Conn., Monday, July 13, 1879 —My Dearest: ‘Though you have cruelly wronged me, my woman’s heart still throbs for you, my dearest one, and if you would only return to me, all would be forgiven you, as it has been me. At last, though my sin was awful, my dear old father and mother have taken me to their arms and forgiven all and, oh, my darling, if you would only come back to me and make the reparation that you can, we may be happy once again. We can move faraway from this place and where no one knows us, and egin life all over again. Oh, my precious ome, I think of you all the time. Isit out under the treesof the old home, and think and think of the happy days you and I once had together before all this trouble came, and ‘when asleep at night [ dream of you alway s, As I wrote you in my last, our babe is dead. I sleeps over in the old cemeotcrsy ‘where you and 1 used to walk on Sundays, but I don't grieve for it so much now, be- cause I know 1t is better for it to be there thau to live always in shame. I am not very strong yet, and the old pain in my head comes back every once in awnile, but the doctor says that I will get well and be strong again. But, darling, ['don’t want to live if you won't some back to me. Oh, come to me, my one love, come buck and take me away with you. I beg you, on my bended knces, 0 come. Iam 80 tired now that { must stop, 1 shall wait for you. dear. I shall wait and watch the train every day until you come back to me. With all my love, Louse. Poor girl! Did she wait and wait until the passion wrecked heart grew sick and the frail body grew more frail and the tottering steps wenker still? Did she watch and wait, longingly, lov- ingly, forgivingly, but in vain, notil at last the heart strings broke and all her trouble was over, or did he who had wronged her so cruelly bring happiness to her wounded heurt by returning to her ngain? Which? No use to appeal to the faded letter lying there It is mute. Those who reud these lines will pever know the end. It will die one of the unwritten romances of life. Leaving the house, the wayfarer takes his way along the grass-grown road, passing other torn-down and de- sorted dwellings. 1t is noontime and not a human being 18 to be sven anywhere. A way up on the crest of the hill perches the college building and well out towards the prai- rie is the large square stracture which looks as though it might be a public sohool. These are the only modern ap- pearing buildings in the place. Up at the other end of a long, ram- bling street, upon opposite sides of the thoroughfare, are two general stores representing the entire commercial interests of the village. Upon oune corner of the street stands the re- mains of a chalkstone building that bears a strong resemblance to a village calaboose. The entire street is tray- ersed, and not a man, wowan or child seen. Turning into a road leading to- ward the west, au old church is diseov- ered. Elm and maple trees grow so closely together in the church yard that their blending foliage totally obscures the sky above. The place is damp and oductive of cold shivers. All the linds in the church windows are closed, :ud the sacred edifice looks as though it ad not been used for years. Everything looks unused and decayed in this almost deserted village, Qut across the prairies a little way is another church--an old red building, with a pitched roof and peaked window frames. The window glass, however, is all gone, and so ave the doors and pows. Retarning towards the river, a differ- ent route is taken, and a path follewed which leads through a long, winding ravine rank with folinge and suggestive of snakes and othe: and erawl, this, it is not difficult to liave the stories about counterfeiters and their dens said to be located in the vicinity, and when a little timorous rabbit jumps ncross the pathway it is sufficient to send such a cold chill up the traveler's back, so cold that he im- mediately climbs the hillside back into the sunlight. There is a pretty view from the crest of the hill. The river glistens in the sunlight; the folinge is bright and een, and the bright,golden rod decks the hillsides. Up he: out of th hill and damp of the ravine, everything is conducive to day dreams and rovery, and throwing himself upon the lus ious grass, the thoroughly tired out ex- plover loses himsell in lazy retrospec- tion. And such is Bellevue! 3 sleepy as the “Sleepy Hollow” of Irv ing.and us one follows the winding rondways, the appenrauce of Ichabod Crane and s giant charger would he in perfect accord with the scene. ———— Two Loves, Cora Stuart Miller in the Centurg. I wonder if & certain lane So hapily is faring As when my tirst love, Ellen Janc, There 1004 her daily airing. As lazy and My lollipops I shared with her, And, daintiest of misses, For every sweet, without demury She paid me off in kisses. My latest love is Elean The June is quite derided, And though T still divide with her, My pay is undecided. Sometimes when sweets and flowers rare 1 on her shrine am showering, Her smiles with sunshine fill the air, But ah! too oft she's lowering. No matter how I strive and woo, No more for me such bliss 18+ To see her- she used to do-- Put up her mouth for kisses. Sweet Eleanor, though grown are we, My love bring more of pain Than wheu your sumwers numbered three Aud you were Ellen Jane. ——— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Miss Eanies made her_socoud debut at the Paris opera as Marguerite in “Faust.” ‘Tessi Butler hus been engnged by Jobn A. Stovens to play the comedy role in “Wife for Wife." othern will reapp in the Ly- ceum theatre in *Lord Chumley' on the 20th of August. Mr. Charles Hawtry’s next production in London wiil bea new comedy by Sydney Grundy, The fort of ‘‘Bootiess' Baby" are fol- lowed with interest at the Madison Square theatre New York. More than a dozen of the principal theaters in Londou are closed, and the drumatic tide there is at its lowest ebb. Miss Mary Anderson house in Wetherby dens, in her stead. English opera has had a heariag in Lon- don, the Italian season having closed. Wal- laco's *Marituow” was chosen as the openiug work. Our gifted compatriot, Miss Callioun, is under an engagement to act with M. Co quelin aine in Paris and the LFrench pro- vinces. At Kroil's Garden, Berlin, recently, as there was no_contralto available to play Sie- bel in “Faust,” the part was intrusted to a baritone. In addition to M. Godard’s “Dante’ M. Deffo's “Shylock,” the Paris opera C 1que will this winter offer a revival of ) Jonciere's “Dimitri."” ‘The Belgian baritone Blauwert ha the part of Gournemanz in *Pa:sifal” with marked success. A report, however, that he did s0 in French is denied. Kate Putnam is to close her Australian tour on September 28 and to sail a few days later for San Francisco, where she is booked to appear early in November., Leonora Bradley will not be in the cast of “The Lion and the Lamb” after to-night, She will probably return to melodrama as it is in that class of viay that she is seen at her best. Charles Arnold will play his first Ameri- can engarement in America at McVicker's theater, Chicago, during the two weeks of vill‘:!a Hex]munmn there, beginning on Septemn- r 8. The volume by Mr. Edwin Drew, shortly to be published in London, will be entitied ““Harry Irving, On and Off the Stage,” and will bé more comprehensive than was origin- ally intended. Florence Beli, who won much favorable notice in the original “‘Ermme’ cast, is to again appear at the Casino this season.” She is cast for an important part m *‘The Drum Major's Daughter.” Two concerts of Scandinayian music were gven recently at the Trocadero, in Paris, at which 120 Norwegian singers participated and in which compositious by Grieg and Svendsen were heard. The violinisy Herrmann is reported to have paid 21,000 marks for a collection of instru ments which included a Stradivarius violin dated 1712, a viola and an alto of Guanerius and a 'cello of Guadagnini. Mme. Patti will begin a concert tour in London and the English provinces on Octo- ber 10, receiving £700 for each concert. She will make her reappearance in America on December 9 or 10, at Chicago. with the Abbey company. It is possible that 'the American people have not heard the last of the recent attempt to dethrone King Kalakaua of the Hawaiian islands. Gilvert and Sullivan have been ud- vised to make the outbreak the busis of another comic-opera. Manager Max Strakosch, the well known impresario, is lying at the poiut of death in the home for incurables at Fordham. Mr. Strakosch was taken to the Fordham asylum Thursday afternoon. His sickness is de- scribed as paralysis by Dr. Todd. Mr. Goring Thomas’ opera “Nadeshda” will be brought out in course of the coming winter at Hamburg and Breslau. The idea of producing it at the Berlin opera has been abandoned, although most likely “Nadesh- da" will be given later on at Kroil's theater in that city. Mrs, Yeamans will make her first appear- ance in New York since she went away to the far west at Daly's early in October. “Life," the play whicih Mr. Daly produced at the l)rcnunh Fifth Avenue theater when he was n mavagerial control of it, s the one in which she will effect her reappearance. Hattie Dolaro, of comic opera fams, whose marriage to Mr. Barnes of San Francisco, a son of a miving millionaire, about a year ago caused considerable commont, wants pub- licity given to her assertion that she is obliged to return to the stage in order o sup- port herself, and that she will ever, never, never be reconciled to her husband. R Half-Hearted. MoMillan's Magazine, It I could love thee, Love, a little more, If thy fair love outlived the brief sweet rose— If 1 my golden flold were all thy store, Aud all wy foy within thy garden ¢loto— Then would I pray my heart to be full fond Forever, and a little biz beyond. 1f daffodil and primrose were not frail, 1f snowdrop died not ere the dying day— If I were true as Daphnis in the tale, 1f thou couldst love as Juliet in the play— Then would [ teach my heart to feel fond Forever, and a little bit beyond. But since [ fear T am but wayward true, And wayward faise, fair Love, thou seenr’st to bo— Since I some day must sigh for something uew, And each day thou for Life's monotony— Prithee, stay cre yet we grow 0o fond, And lot' me pass & Little bit beyond. has taken a large road, Lyndharst Gar- favorite locauty, Hamp- sung AUGUST THE ARMY TARGET PRACTICE. Not Many Years Ago There Was No Such Thing. HOW SHARPSHOOTERS ARE MADE The Origin of Sharpshooting in the Regular Army of the United States—Its Subsequent Development, Shooting at Bullseyes. For several weeks past the crack of rifles, carbines and revolvers has dis- turbed the usual Sabbath stillness of Bellevue, and has awakened a thou- sand echoes in the ravines that sur- round the vifle range of the Depart- ment of the Platto. The infantrymen came first, then the and now the distinguished men of all departments are en- gaged in preliminary practice for a competition to begin Tuesday. Bellevue range, in its appointments, is one of the best in the rvice, but at the same time scores will not run so high here, as the skirmish targets are elevated above the level of the earth, making a ecichochet shot, so often scored on other ranges, impossible. It only been for nine years that the United States troops have had the advantage of regular rifle practice. Before the war, when the army was armed with muzzie loading rifles and minnie balls, the old guard used to march out to a sort of vifle range and discharge their pieces at targets in or- der to unlond, being unuble to daraw the charge. This was all the practice with a ritle they had in those days—one shot for ench man when he was relieved from guard. TIf the man hit the target ata hundred yards it was considered that the man had achieved a note- worthy feat, and the incident was re- lated and discussed about camp for day: Major W. D. Henry, father of the genial Colonel Guy V. Henry, inspee- tor of small arms practice for this department, in a- collee- tion of sketches of camp life, relates that once ata post on the Rio Grande a man attempted to desert, but the guard fired and hit him at seventy vards, This was considered a wonderful shot, and v i sed throughout the army No if a soldier could not achieve the same 0 at 500 yards he would he considered a *‘dub shot.’ The first book on rifle practice for the army was written, ar rather translated from the French, by Captain Heath, of the Tenth infant some time previous to the war. Th had but litle effec however, and failed to bring about a general system of rifle practice. Some years later Colonel Luidley, of the ord- tance department, compiled a man: and at the time accused of havir. purloined his ideas from a book wr! by Colonel Wingate, inspector of the New York state militia, written by him to govern the rifle practice of the cit soldiery of that state. The Ne York militia had the beuefit of training in the use of their weapons long prior to the regular army and had a most excellent rangp at Creedmoor. As result, the troops of that state became very proficient in the use of the rifie, and it was principally due to the Its obtained in that regular target practice red for the army ilar army” the first par- ticular interest in rifle practice was d ayed in the Department of Dak tnen commanded by General T This officer was fortunate in having f his inspector of small arms practice Captain _Blunt, who took the greatest interest in improving the marksman- ship of the troops, and who, encouraged by General Terry, compelled the sol- diers in that department to pra regularly in the use of the rifle. good results were obtained th terest awakened among the officers and men in the Department of Dakota spread throughout the service, and be- came general. Soon ihore was great rivalry among the troops to exzel in marksmanship and to lead in the pub- lished figured merit reports. From that time rifle practice became compulsory throughout the army. Four years ago Captain Blunt was or- dered to repair to Washington and pre- pare a manual upon target shooting, which ne did,and as a result of his labors the army now has a most excel- lent manual upon thissubject. Soon after this Captain Biunt was made a lieutenant-colonel on General Sheridan’s staff in recognition of the services he had rendeved in prepaving this book and stimulating in the troops a desire 10 attain proficiency in the use of their arms. Last year Colonel Blunt revised his first manual, making such changes as e years’ experience in its use would The principal change made was in requiring additional points at individual skirmish firing, to make the man a sharp- shooter or marksman. This was a sens.ble change and resulted in in- creasing the efficiency of the army in marksmanship. This was demonstrated by the fact that in the last department competition at Bellevue the competit- ors gained over 2,600 points over the same number of competitors of last year, The highest skirmist: run in the com- petition of 1888, was 164, this year one man made 222, Last year 34 men out of 66 competitors, attained an average of over 100 per cent, but this year out of the same number of compet- titors, 544 men made higher than 100 in skirmish runs. Av the last competi- tors the lowest skirmish percent ot any man was 50, but last year the percent- ages ran as low as 21 Said Colouel Henry, years has hud churge of the competitions at Bellevue, to a reporter last Tuesday: as he glanced over the above quoted figures. *'ull these points go to show the rapid progress and improvement in the use of the rifle, carbine and revolver, vow (aking place in the army. These results attained, and shown by those figures, are beyond question. The range markers are in the pits under rge of an officer, and auring the firing do not know when any individual man is shooting, but in the army, as in all other trades and professions, there are a number of doubting Thomases, a class of men who are too lazy or indif- ferent to exert themselves to excel in anything, and so spend their time scoff- ing at the men who have ambition to porfect themselves in their calling. These men will scoff at and ques- tion reported scores of others, but despite these fellows, the sccres made at this lust competition show beyond a doubt what can be done by zealous, am- bitious officers who can enthuse their troops with a desire to excel. While there are other duties required of a sol- dier, he may be perfect in them all and vet, if unable to properly use his arms, he is of no venefit to the service in case of actave service.” During every year, at every post in the service, the troops are required to practice at target shooting daily for two months, and recruits are given in- structions in sighting wnd the use of the rifle in the galleries, using reduced who for four 95, 1880-SIXTEEN PAGES. BROWNING, KING & COMPANY, The Largest Manufacturers and Retailers of GLOTHING e . e s e —— prmaem—— IN THE YORIL.ID. ANNOUNCE to the public of Omaha and vicinity that THEIR FALL STOCK HAS ARRIVED. Monday:. We will be ready to offer for your inspection, the Finest and Most Perfect fitting’ line of Fall and Winter CLLOTHING EVER SHOWN IN THIS WESTERN COUNTRY. Favor us with a call and allow us to show you this breally magnificent line of goods, even though you do not care to buy at present. WARNING AUE. =28 To lovers of Fine Clothing OUTSIDE of Omaha, DO NOT FAIL WHEN IN THIS CITY TO VISIT OUR STORE, as you surely will be amply repaid for so doing. Owur motto: “One Price and that the Lowest.” Browning, King & Company, Southwest Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts. Special attention to Mail Orders. charges of four grains of powder instead of seventy. Speuking of charges, the troops now complain that the cartridges now in use are unnecessarily overcharged. Seventy grains of powder will ry o mile, and that is entirely un- ¥ As a result ot sorcharge the rifle, carbine or s the case may be, hasa recoil of 160 pounds, and when the men are compelled to lie prone at 500 yards. they get the full benefitof the **kick.” Their become black and blue and or, and when they five their piece, instinctively flineh, by disarranging the arm. When y can use the “Texas grip” ’tis not bad. To show how ignorant the officers and men of the service we n the use of the Springfield rifle, prior to the be- ginning of regular practice, it is only state that in the first com- Snelling, the men be- ng at fifty yards. Now at tar- \ctice no shooting is done at less than 200 yards. i LIGL1OUS, Southern Methodists will try to raisé $300,- 000 for missions this y Ths order of the King's Daughters now numbers 97,000 active members. Dr. Horwio Bonar, the eminent Scotch divine and the friend and biographer of Mc- Cheyne, died in Edinburg July 81st. Scranton has @ christian science or faith numbering 125 members, which every Sunday evening. "Ihe thirty-fourth annual convention of teh German Catholic Central Verein will be held in Clevelund duriog the Arst three days of September, “Thibec is the only country not yet opened to missions. Mr. and Mrs. Turner, of the China inland mission, huve begun to work in Tmbet from the Chinese side. The Cumberland Presbyterians propose to raise $50,000 for missions this y I'his de- nomination will make un effort to establish a school for colored people ut Bowling Groen, Ky. The German emperor has given 5,000 marks towards the erection of a Young Men's Christian association building in Ber- lin, and Bismarck is one of tuo trustees of | the association. Lee You Chin, & pleasant-faced, gray- haired Chinaman, is doing_missionary work among his countrymen on the Pacific slope. He is a christian, and preaches exiremely well, but he does not seem to make much 1mpression on the celestials of the west. ‘The city of Guthrie, Oklahoma, was started April 22, 1839, and through the efforts of Mr. J.'C. Sexton, a church of forty-six members was organized, with five elders, the last Sab- bath of June. Since then threo porsons have d upon profession of faith. Rev. Mr. rge of the enterprise und holds ervices in tent, 80x36 foet. ‘fo Mistross lHose. Louise Chandler Mowlton in the Century, A rose by any other name! Nay, that could hardly be— No other name, my Flower of June, Could be the name for thee. Dear darling of the summer-time, Aond love-child of the sun— Whether by thy sweet breath beguiled, Or by thy thorns undone, 1 know thee for the Queen of Flowers, And toast thee by thy name; Here's to the sweet, young loveliness ‘I'nat sets our heart aflame. —— August. Sarah D, Hobart {n. the Century, She stands in the flush of noon The year's triumphal queon, And river, and lone lagoon, And spreading lavds between Lay tribute at her feet And crown her hair with gold, Who dreams, mid rapture sweet, That the year is growing oldt But tho shorn flelds glow like a coral reef, And the'lorn acacia casts its leaf. e e Elecotric Communication forFPrisoners Electric communication has been es- tablished at the Shire Hall, Chelms- ford, England, for the use of prisouners who are ill or who want to see the police for other reasons. In each cell there s the usual electric button, which on being pressed rings a bell in the office. By an arrangement of discs the officer in charge can see from which cell the call comes, and underneath there 15 a cell to disconnect, if the prisoner is unruly and keeps on ring, iug. TAKING HOSTAGES OF CHANCE Men Upon Whoss Lives Heavy Pricos Hava Bean Sat. FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN ALL. Eleven Risks Whose Families Would Get This Amount if They Sho: Die—Large Policy Hoiders in Omaha, Insuring Men's Lives. Despite the fact that Dr. Brown- Seauard’s newly discovered “‘elixir’ of life, with its alleged death-defying properties, promises to open the gates of immortality to mankind, it is a fact worthy of notice that the business of the many life insurance companies goes on just the same as it did belore the wonderful compound was brought to public notice. 1t1s possible that the magic mixture may be of such a nature as to keep up a constant renewal of the worn-out tissues of the human body, but in case of accident, where a break occurs, it will doubtless be of liitlg use. Were the earth man’s eternal abiding place there would be no necessivy forlife insurance, but where gaunt disease with its bony hand stalks abroad, scat- tering contagious microbes and di tributing insidious bacteria it is pe haps well to think of those who will be left behind and provide, if possible, for their comfort and welfare. It is much more comfortable to die among th debris of a railroad accident ov perish in a flood when one’s last thoughts are of a family whose future will bo marred only by the thought that one of the number is absent. Life insurance is very popular in the United States, and nearly every man of prominence carries a greater or amount. Postmaster General Wana- maker is perhaps the heaviest insured man in the country, or even the world, the aggregate being $1,12 Chaun- cy M. Depéw carrics $500,000, while Cyrus W, Field 1s insured to the amount of $250,000. If Wanamaker, Depew, Field, Edwin Kuth of Chicago W. H. Langworthy of Ohio, C H., Call of Mar- quette, George R. Anderson of New York, Hamilton Diston, and John B. Stetson of Philadelphia, George K. An- derson of Titusville, Pa., and George Goodesham of Toronto, were to die about the same time, the combined events would cost the insurance com- s of the country the enormous sum of $3,000,000. And "this figure is but a fraction of the amounts represented in the many hundreds and even thousands of policies held throughout the country. Life insurance companies are foundéd as a rule upon a strong financial basis, and the business is very carefully con- ducted, The exceptions cannot be classed as insurance companies. There are risks thatcan be taken and others that cannot. For instance, a lahorer without any estate could not get his life insured in an exclusive life com- peny for $250,0000r even $50,000. Why? Jeceuse the risk is too great, The ben- oficiarics might become imbued with the idea that they could enjoy life bet- ter were he in the land of shadows, and push him off a bridge at midnight, or something of that sort. But a man worth $100,000 is not considered a bad risk for 325,000 or even more, as it is presumed that neither he nor his rela- tives would conspire to defraud an in- surance company outof the face value of the policy. Life insurance policies are taken out for various reasons. The first, of course, is the provision for one’s family, Mar- ried men who have no estate, but who carry good sized policies are frequent. Men there are who are in debt, and not wishing to sacrifice the welfare of their heirs, insure to an amount sufficient to protect their property. Some men in- sure, get a policy and negotiate loans upon it. These are the more impor- tant reasons, Nebraska is well represented in the line of policies. Outside of Omaha are muny men carrying an amount_equal to a good ved fortune. Buffalo Bill’s heirs would, in the event of the Eiffel tower falling on him, receive the sum of $50;000. Banker Mosher, of Lincoln, carries a liko amount. Gus Koehler, of Grand Island, leaves his handsome fish pond to pay the premium on his $30,000 documents. Henry Koenig, of the same city, carl $30,000. In facy all over the state are men carrying from $10,000 to $35,000 insurance. The following table will give the reader an idea of the amount of insur- ance carried by the leading citizens of Omaha in the order named: William A. Paxton Edward Rosewater. E. H. Sherwood John A. McShane W. G. Albright Herman Kountze H. T. Clarke. Edwara Nash Frank Colpetzer S. P. Morse. . Moyer Heilman Andrew Rosewater. C. N. Deil 0. M. Carte W. H. Holcomb. John M. Thurston . James M. Woolwort! Erastus Besson Guy C. Barton A. L. Strang . Max Mever.. S. D. Barkalow. Je0. A, Joslyn F. W. Gray. L. P.Pruyn. C. F. Goodman W. [. Seaman. A.'P. Hopkins G. M. Hi cle. . Joseph Garneau. 8 In addition to the about forty persons w ance in _amounts v down to $10,000, which makes a total of ,150,000 in round numbers. A well- isurance agent estimates that than $10,000 there is v to bring the amount up to $4,000,000, if not morc, o EDUCATIONAL, © 120,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 * 100,000 100,000 3 000 bove there are 0 carry insur- ing from $30,000 ‘The Transvaal volksraad has appropriated $100,000 for the endowment of the first col- lege of the republic. Prof. E. G. Coy, for fifteen yoars a mem- ber of the faculty 'of Phillips Andover acad- omy, is to leave that school to become prin- cipal of Phillips Exeter academy, Miss Kate Drexel, the wealthy young ledy of Philadelpnia who recently entered a con- yent of the Sisters of Mercy at Pittsburg, has decided to build a college for the exclu- sive use of colored people. At a teachers’ examination in an Ohio county one of the candidates stated in an- swer to a question that Chicago was situ- atea in Wisconsin, He didn't know the 8izo of it, “but reckqned 'vwas about as big as Columbus,” There are now 500 Awmerican schools in Turkey, all of which, except one, are open daily. An order was recently made by the Turkish government probibiting any inter- ference with the schools, which had besn i peded and interfered with by the local au- thorities, St. Joseph's academy at Greenburg, Pa., has adopted the phonograph in teaching elo- cution. It magnifies the defects of ennuncia- tion, and ata recent test a pupilhonestly tried to repudiate as not his own a speech it had recorded. fe could not believe that he was 80 fuulty. The hohdays of the Paris board-school children are holidays indeed, The munici- pal council allots a considerable sum of money to the school authorities for sending the most deserving pupils on holiday tours. In former years the tours have boen to Rouen, Havre, Mont St. Michel, etc. This year, in order to enable more children to share in the treat, the tours will be confined to Verseilles, Foutainebleau and other en- virons of Paris, There will be opened at Tahlequah, I T., on August 26, a new female seminary, of whien the Cherokee inhabitants are very proud. There have already been received 124 applications for admission from Chero- kee waidens, and but thirteen out of its 106 rooms remain to be filled. The building is of brick, three stories in height, of hand- some architectural appearance, and cost 78,000, IMPLETIE Whenever trouble arises in the church choir everybody simply takes bis chants, The christian scientists should proceed agawnst the Elixirites for wnfringement of the faith-cure rights. Some Salvation army people, arrested in Janesville, went to jall singiag. They prob- ably wanted to furnish a fow bars thom selves, Train up a child in_tae way he should go, and when he is old he will not be looking about for an elixir to patch himself up with. Clergyman—*How can wo reach the young men of the present day!” Father of five daughters—*‘\What's the matter with the old- fashioned of a boot Rev. Primrose—The tide waits for no man- my young friend. Morritt—So they say. Still, when one lies down on the sands, it seems to wait till he's asleep. Giovauni Morosini was recently asked by a Saratoga clergyu Gould “keeps tho Sabbath?’ “Of cours > does,” answerod Morosin. **He keeps everytiing he lays his uands on.” The religious paper w becuuse the Rev. v, of Hollywood, Mich., recently kill 1 with & bung- starter. Some people soem to think that be- CAUS? & man is a min r he ought to kil burglars wich a rosewood croquet mallet. Some devout person has discovered a rof- erence to the notable receat discovery in the thirty-uinth chapter of Job, where, "after a man 18 80 red d that ‘‘lus bones stick out"” the application is made, and ‘*his flesh be- comes fresher than a child’s, and he returas to the days of his youth.” “Is your father coming to church this morning, Henry "’ asked the minister of & small boy whom he mot in the street. ‘I guess 80, replied Henry. *‘Somebody stole his fishing tackle last night, and I heard hum tell ma at the breakfast table this morning that the fun for the day was spoiled, and he w’posed he might as well go to church,” A greav stew SINGULARITIES. A goose with several links of a gold chain in 1ts craw was killed atSan Lucus, Cal., re- cently. John K, Davis, of Cleveland, O., has the smallest hand of any man in the country. He wears gloves which woula be too small for a girl of ten. The colored giantess, Laura Wolford, who diea at Lafayette, Ind., Friday afternoon, “weighed 9041¢ pounds and measured threo yards around the waist. A tree at Jamesburg, N. J., it is asserted, produces three kinds of apples and one kind of pears, The apples ripen at different times, and one crop follows another through the summer. The Homer (Cal) Index says J. C. Thompson has discovered a spring of flow- ing vinegar on his ranch, and will start a pickle factory. The fluid is equal to the best cider vinegar, A bird, snow white, and standing seven feet hign, is reported to have been skot av Dundee, Ind. It weighs less than four pounds. For want of tLe proper name the people call it the “‘phantom beron.” A. M. Snow, a farmer near Athens, O., forty-two years ago discovered a land terra- pin on his farm which bore on its under sur- face the carved legend “A. H., 177L" He has muny times since run across the same croature, and yesterday again found it,being able to certainly 1dentify it by the iInitials and date given. The Texas & Pacific company sank a bored well some years ago near Eagle F'lat station in Alabama, in order to obtain artesian water. The well was abandoned when it had been bored 800 feet, but the tubing is still intact in it. For twelve hours each day afurions gust of air rushes into the tubing, and the next twelve hours an equally strong gust rushes out. A strange ammal that made its first ap- pearance last May 18 frighteniig the nouple of New Gloucester, Mo, Its size is said to be about that of a medium-sized Newfound- land dog. It has shaggy gray hair. Almost every evening his serecching has been heard, Sunday evening, August 11, he came sud. denly upon @ boy while gotting the cows. ‘I'he boy begau to run, the animal following him. The boy succeeded in chubing @ tree, and remained there for about fifteen minutes, during which time the animal remained undera tre reeching continually, The boy deseribed bim as having silver gray hair, with large eyes, and tweeth two or three inches long, which came up above his upper Jaw. His mouth 18 very larg o His Desive, Florence I'eltior. A waft of incense mingled with the breath Of roses m light shining through a glass Of amber; heavy swings a sombre brass Old lantern, pouring on Blizabeth soft (;undlwll%ht through jewelled eyes, Who saitl This maiden is not fair must be —alas— With gricvous envy filled. Shall one sur- pass . Mein her heart, mayhap! Then, welcome death! Her classic gown free from her shoulder alls, Hor Pysche koot shows 1iutle curls astray; 1 gaze and Listen, while her fingers toase Sweot music from cold keys, and deep en thralls Mo a fierce longing; how can 1 allay “This irresistible desire Lo—suoose |

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