Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1890, Page 2

DUN'S REVIEW OF THE WEEK. A Coofident Feeling Prevailing All Over the Country. MONEY A TRIFLE TOO CLOSE. Buat Weports of a Most Encouraging Nature Continue to Come From All the Ceaters of Trade, The Business Outlook. New Youx, Jan. 8.—[Special Telegram to Tk Bee.)—R. G. Dun & Co’s weekly re- view of trade says : The new year opens with a most confident feeling prevalent in all parts of the country, and yet with some features which suggest especial caution. The money markets are strained at the east, close in Chicago, Cleve- land and Detroit, and cioser thun before at Kansas City and Omaha, but other western points are fairly suppl But the advance in the Bank of Kogland rate, and the slgns of possible disturbance resulting from excessive speculation abroad, render the monetary outlook here less clear, The heavy disburscments for interest and dividends, estimated at £66.204,716 at New York alone, nearly 6 per cent more than last year, will doubtless give present relief. Reports from other centers of trade wll show that the unscasonably warm weather is having a depressing influence, but in other respects are generally encouraging. Many iron ana other mills are tewporarily closed for repairs. Chicago foots up_ transactions in 1839 amounting to $1,177,000.000, against $1,125,- 000,000 in 1838, a gain of 31§ per cent, In cured meats the gain has been 100 per cent and in dressed beef, lard ana cheese large, but flour receipts are swmaller, with an in- crease in grain, The dry goods trade was fully up to the previous year, with easy col- lections. St. Louis notes the largest holiday trade on record, and receipts of grain and produce limited only by the transporting power of the railroads. At Milwaukee therc s uneasiness as to the near future, and the weather causes slow colleciions, and similar fears ave entertained st Detroit. At Kausas City and Omaha business is fair for the season. The chief industries are on the whole un- usually prosperous. A fuller statement of cotton Iuills dividends for 1880 indicates that they wero largor than in any previous yoar of specie prices. The leather trade has becom# hopeful, aud the cousumption of boots and shoes is prodigous, but overpro- duction pushes prices too 0w lor healthy protits. The iron trade pauses @t this season, but prices ~are firm at previous quotations. A comoination of glass producers has raised the price of win- dow glass higher than for the past five vears, and expects to make the business profitable. Copper is selling at 141 ceats for lake, with increasing consumption. ‘The woolen business is still the cloud in the sky. Thestocks carried over at the chief cities prove to be 22,000,000 poungs more than a year ago, and sales at Boston for 1550 were 134,000,000 pounds, aganst 106,000,000 for the previous year, a decrease of nearly 20 ner cent. The produce markets have been dull. The decline in prices of all commodities from January 1 to January 1 was 45 per cent, sod the range is now a little lower than in any previous January for thirty years. The stock market bas been weakened by monetary pressure for the past two weeks, but the average of prices is $5 per share higher thun a year ago. The larger earn- ings and dividends would justify fully that advance if the prices of last year were not 100 high, and the recent stringency, with considorable selling on foreign account, have caused but little depression in rulroad stocks. The treasury has put out only $1,100,000 more than it bas taken in during the past week, the large disburse- ments for the new year hav- ing mot been felt yet, but the available surplus has been reduced $9,600,000 for the month of December, indicatiog a large addition to the circulation. W rob USRI CRAMP POtk ony 1.8 per cont below those of the previous year, which indicates an increase of $20,000,000 or more in exports over imvorts for December. ‘The fuilures in 1880 number 10,882 in the United States, or one in every ninety-seven firms, and 1,777 in Canuds, or one in_every forty'tive fivms. The aggregate of labilities was $148,784,837 in the United States, against $123,820,978 in 1883, and $14,713,228 in Canada, against $14,081,160. The business failures during the lasy seven days number 338, e BTATE NEWS, Hobron's Prosperity. Husrox, Neb,, Jan. 8.—[Special to Tne Bee.]—Hebron is the county seat of Thayer county and is situated in the midst of & very fertile agricultural region. The successful growth of this town may be sttributed more to this fact than to any manufactured boom, No town in Nebraska can boust of more sub- stantial internal improvements, All classes of business are well represented, tho busi- ness men of the place being noted for their energy, enterprise and financial standing. The financial business of the city is repre- sented by the First National bank with A. @. Collins president, the Blue Valley bank presided over by Captain J. H. Stickle, and the Thayer county bank with H. C, Bigelow at its bead, all of which are solid fnancial institutions with ample capital. Among the numerous unprovements made during the past year are a new brick school building costing $25,000, a three-story brick Knights of Pythis hall costing $15,000. a three-story orick Oddfellows hall costing §12,000, the two story brick store of C. C. Fletcher costing $5,000, J. W, Hughes' adu:- tion to his hotel costing £5.000, a brick church costing $10,000, and C. H. Willard’s private resdence costing $12,000. Many other valu- able improvements have been mude. Hebron is ted in the center of Thayer county which has a population of 15,000 and & realty valuation of $12,000,000. There are five rail- roads operating ninety-eight miles of road in the county and thirteen railroad towns and stations. Thayer county has 505,040 acres of land, of whicn one-fourth is uusettied and which can be bought on easy terms, There are ninety school districts in Thayar county. All have schoot houses und schools well sup- plied with modern improvements. ‘I'he citizens of Hebron are making an ef- fort to get a paper mill located here, They have an excollent water power furnished by the Little Blue river and thousands of tons of straw, which is now wusted, could be mar- keted there. ted as it is iv a ricn a ri- oultural country, far enough away from the cities nothing can prevent Hebron from becoming one of the most fourishing citles in the stato. avparts Ehe Paid the Duty. " BeATnice, Neb,, Jan, 8.—To the Editor of Tue Bee: Tus Bee of January 1 coutainea the following: A Beatrice belle will today receive a hand- some fourteen-karat diamond ring from a gentleman in Germany—providing sho pays @ duty of $12.50 on it, which the said gentle- man in Germany thought to cheat the Unitea States government out of by the smuggling {;oun. The postofiice authorities in New 'ork suspected that something was wrong,- gd marking the package “‘Supposed lisble customs duties,” sent it to the collector in this city, The guess of the New York suthorities was fcund correct, and instead of mean enough—us the girl would proba- biy think—to confiscate it, as he has u per- fect right to do, Collector Alexander simply sent the diamond ring to the postmaster at Heatrice, with instructions to let the young lul.y‘r have it, providing she pays the duty on it ‘I'he foregoing paragraph is correct with fow vital exceplions, ohief of whicn is, that the package was sent by wail from Germany 10 & young lady in this city (Beatrice) as a Christmas present. Heiog ol sealed, the poatal authorities have no right to open and 1t was sent on through by authorities direct to e, ‘inaoud liavie whom it ressed was notitled of the presence of the package at the postofiice und Lhe sume opened 1o her presence sud the dutiable re oLlll‘A munn‘mn;.do kuown to Iml-; tmaster Rigg sent the package to Col bor Alexauder at Omaha, that be wiglt affix l("fln dutios, which, Iater, were loarned to Only this and nothing mors. Thers was no thought, right or intention to ~confiscate, HOF Was there any any resson to bolieve that thore was any intention to defraud the gov- ernmont of tho customs dutics, nor any iv- clination on the part of the gentleman in Germany to smuggle the present into this country. He wus simply ignorant of the customs [aws, 8.8 P. A Frightfal Fall. Sewann, Neb. . 8,—[Special Telegram to Tue B ‘errins, who was at work on the construction of the stand pipe in this city, was precipitated to the eround this afternoon, a distanco of sixty feot, by the breaking of a wrench which he and his fellow workmen were using in tightening a burr. He fell on his feet and the bones of the legs were driven with such force ugninst the hips as to break those bones. The bones of the lower limbs were terribly mangled and broken, and although the victim is still alive, he cannot last long. He was senthere from Chicago by the contractors and is sap- posed to be a recent arrival from England. He was about thirty years of age and single. No one, 80 far as can bo learned, was in any way to blame. Desire n Free Wagon Bridge. Lovisvitue, Neb., Jan, &.—[Special Tele- gram to Trr Ber.]—The citizens of Louis- ville and vicinity had & laree and enthusias- tic meeting at the city ball tonight for the purpose of discussing the advisability of erecting a free wagon bridge across the Platte river at this point. A majority of the voters of the precinct were present and pledged themselves to vote bonds for tho purpose. A petition to the county comtmis- sioners to call an_election was circuinted and m an hour had the requisite number of signers. ‘The petition will be presented next weok and before May 1 Louisville will have a free wagon bridge. Denies Being Confidenced. TiLpes, Neb, Ja To the Editor of Tae Bee: An article recentiy uppeared in your paper which is likely to prove detri- mental to this bank. It represents that one Hall had taken in the vice president of this bank to tho amount of $2.500. Th never operated in Tilden wnor in county. adison G. A KART, Prosident Tilden State Bank. —_—— DEMAND JUSTICE, A Committee of Negroes Call on Gov- ernor RRichardsor Coruwpis, 8. C,, Jan. pecial Te'e- gram to Tne Bee.)—Governor Richardson was called upon at noon today by a commit- tee of sixteen colored men appointed at the convention last night to present an address and urge the governor tv use every effort to secure the punishment of the Barnwell lynchers. General Lee of Charleston acted a8 spokesmen. The governor assured the delegation that not one of their number more deeply regretted the horrible murders at Barnwell than did Lo, nor could any man condemn it more strongly., He gave them his sacred word that nothing he could do to sccure condign pumisament for the lynchers would be left undone. He did not hold the negroes responsible for the acts of a few hot headed and misguided ones and would expect the negroes mnot to judge the whites by a few men who did not represent their race. The whites of the state were with the ne- groes in this matter and they appreciated the conservative, dignified and proper con- duct of their colored friends. There were several preachers here today from Barnwell. One of them said that he wus sure that four of the men lynched for murdering Martin were innocent. They were members of his church. Martin was an aristocrat and was hated by the poor whites. but he had always veen kind to ne- groes and they loved bim & ——— New York's Deadly Light Wires. NEW YORE, Jan. 3.—[Special Telegram to | —The destruction of dangerous ¢ light wires, which was begun four wecks ago, is said to be practically com- pleted. About one-fourth of all of the wires inthe city ‘used for illuminating purposes have been conflseated. the lenpgth in milas DEINR piucea ‘The companies owning the wires have pot interfered with the work of the deswoying gangs, but suits for damages on the ground that some adequate- ly isulated conductors were torn down along with dangerous ones are possible, p i Ak Fitting Up tne Volunteer. BosTtox, Mass., Jau, 3.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.]—In an interview today (Gen- eral Paine, owner of the sloop yacht Volun- teer, stated his intention of fitting out the Volunteer this summar, having engaged the services of Capiain Hafl as siipper. He should not change her into a schooner, and had no ntention of racing her, although, said he, "'1 do not say that I will not go into arace if anytbing interesting turns up.”"| General Paine said he had no idea of cross- ing the Atlantic witih the Volunteer this summer. as there was nothing there of suffi- cient interest to tempt him to go. 2t The Mackey Strike. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 8.—There are no new developments 1n the strike on the Mackey system. The company has been un- able to secure enough new men and no freight has een yet received or sent. Lato tonight it was learned from a reliable source that the switchmen, brakemen and conductors on the Peoria, Décatur & Evans- vitle and the air line roads have been ordered out. Itis also understood the men on the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan, the latest acquisition of the Mackey, will jon the strikers, Cholera in Porsia, ViesNa, Jan. 3.—Consular reports pub- lished say that cholera is raging at Hama- dan in Persis; that it is very fatal and it is feared will reach Tepranin in the spring. B U Not Trading with Brazil Loxpoy, Jan, The Times' Lisbon cor- respondent says commerce with Rio Janeiro is paralyzed, 4 REENER e T . Parnel’s iomance. Loxpox, Jan, 8.—It is reported that Par- nell was enxaged to Captain O'Shea’s sister, who died four years ago. —— Ruskin Very Sick, Loxpoy, Jom. 3.—John Ruskin is again very il B e Life of a Sucoting Star. A small body, perhaps as large as a paving stone or larger—more often, porhaps, not as large asa marble—is moving around the sun, says the author of the Story of the Heavens., Justas a mifihly planet revolves in an ellipse, 80 this small object will move round and round in an ellipse, with the suu in the focus. There are at the present mo- ment inconceivable myrinds of such meteors moving in this manner, They are too small and too distant for our telescopes, und we can never see them except under extraordinary cir- cumstances, At the time we see the meteor it is usually moving with enormous velocity, so that it often tra- vorses a distance of more than twenty miles in a second of time. Such a ye- locity is almost impossible near the earth’s surface, the resistance of the air would prevent it. Aloft in the empti- ness of space there is no air to resist the meteor. 1t.may have been moving round and round the sun thousands, per- haps for millions, of years without let or hinderavce; but the supreme moment arrives, and the meteor perishes in a streak of splendor. In the course of its wuudsrlugl the body comes near the earth, and within a few hundred miles of its surface, of course, begins to encounter the upper surface of the atmosphere with which the ear'h is in- closed. Toa body moving witt the ap- lling velocity of a meteo. a plunge uto the atmosphere is usually fatal, Even though the upper layers of the air are excessively attonuated, yet they sud- denly check the velocity, almost as a rifle bullet would be checked when fired iuto the water. As the meteor rushes THE OMAHA DAILY BHEE: SATURDAY, through the atmosphere the friction of the air warms its surface, Gradually it becomes red hot, then white hot, and is finally driven off into vapor with a bril- liant light, while we on the earth, 100 or 200 miles below. exclaim: “Oh, look, there is a shooting star!” Unstolar’s Prophetic Vision, Castelar, the famous Spanish patriot, orator and philosopher, and ouce upos a time himself president of a republic in Spain, is naturally buoyant in great expectation of the business-like revolu- tion of Brazil upon the monarchial gov- ernments of Europe, says the Boston Transcript. His remarks, sent us by cable this morning, are 1nspiring, even if they be a iittle impatient, not to say premature, Castelar is sure that another lifty years will see all the “king business” closed out in Europe: the people, realizing that, after all their respective countrics ave theirs, not their rulers, will change their government as one changes an old coat for a new one. without vielence or shock or bloodshed; they will simply he door and say to the princes, "and it will be o beautiful sight the emperors, kings and queens moving out, and very much obliged that they are allowed to go in peace, after having imposed upon the world so long. This is Caste prophetie vision; we only hope it may be realized sosoon. But the people are making wonderful strides through popular edus cation. As the great Spanish states- man says in regard to that ancient re- liance of all sorts of reactionary states- , international animosity: Mankind have entered upon an era of reason and are no longer to be driven against their fellows in murderous herds, and slaughtered by thousands like unreasoning hrutes, to suit the ca- prica of some yain autocrat who boasts that God made him their master.’” But the inherited habits of thought und speech die slowly. Men still idol- ized military heroes, and it is not long since the history of nations was written simply in their wars, In great civilized states, where the old aboriginal taste for the blood of any man outside one’s tribe is outgrown, it is still considered patriotic to despoil the foreigner of his trade opportunities, and even of his property, if that be a book or manu- script. ~ Mankind at large is_still some distance behind Senor Castelar in rea- son and reasoning. —_——— Transplanting ot Sxin From a Corpsc. Dr. Bartens has successfully trans- planted the skin of a corpse to a living person who had been severely burned. His method of procedure, as “described in the Brooklyn Medical Journal, was as follows: On December a lunatic died in the hospital of pymemia following acompound fracture of the arm, und about twenty minutes after his death two large, well-conditioned flaps were removed from the legs of the cor; These were laid in warm water 1o which a little salt had been added, and then were taken to the dwision of the hospital (200 or 300 yards away) in which the scalded bhoy lay. These flaps were then carefully washed, and cleansed of, their subjacent fatty pan- nus; this done, they were divided into smaller pieces of from one centimeter wide to about one to two centimeters long (the ulcerated surfaces of the boy’s legs had been cleansed in the same manuner as the flaps in the meantime); then these pieces were laid on to fit as nearly as might be, dusted over with iodoform and covered with batting, and compresses applied. This whole pro- ceeding took about one hour and a half from the time of the decath of the old man. There were twenty-eight pieces applied in alli: as it happened, too, fourteen on each- limb. On' December 19 the bandages wera removed for tho first time, and it was found that there was uuion of t four of these grafts. —— e Mothers Strangly Equipped The author “King Solomon’s Mines” and *‘Allan Quatermain’ has had much 1aid to his charge—from plagiarism to downright lying—but as time goes on it becomes ever; 511 more apparent - thut the only South African romancist has a considerable modicum of truth at the bottom of his seemingly most barren’ conceptions, the Standard. Talke, for instance, the Mapai, a small tribe of bush people living between the Kavereziand Yankotol, who, among a number of other curious habits, slit the skin over both shouiders in the form of a loop, and which, by being up- held, permits the second cutical to grow beneath, A corresponding slit is made on each side of all the young ladies of this interesting people, the loops, when the girls develop into womanhood, forming four ‘‘natural” resting places for a ehild, either at the breast or back, the straps of flesh on the shoulders be- ing for the hands or arms and the oth- ers for each baby leg. says Johanisherg e Decline of Canadian Exports. It is announced that the exports of Canada for the last year were $89,189,- 167, the imports $115,254,931, and the goods entered for consuraption $109,678,447, says the Toronto Globe. As compared with last year, the exports show a decrease of a million dollars, the imports an incrense of $4,400,000, and the goods entered for home consump- tion an increase of $6,800,000. Protec- tionists and free traders will agree in regarding the decline in our exports as an unsatisfactory thing. The fact that while our exports declined we used nearly seven million dollars more of foreign goods than in the preceaing year is a pecutiar phenomenon, and one that cannet be fully investigated until the details of the importsare published. in a normal and healthy state of trade an increase of exports means simply an increase of consumption. But the com- laints of our millers and manufacturers ead to the belief that the 87,000,000 worth of foreign goods have, in spita of a high tariff, displaced that quuntity of goods of Canadian manufacture, Dismonds >ow and Then, A day or two ago I was reading in a contemporary asevies of interviews with persons engaged in the diamond trade, says the London Truth. Twenty years #go diamonds were three times thewr present value, The discovery of the South African mines, and the competi tion between the mines, brought down the price. Amalpamation bhas put it above )00';\01- cent in the last tweive months. The rough estimate is that during the last few years the output of diamonds has been 4,000,000 carats per annum, and that £4,000,000 has been spent per annum in acquiring “these 4,000,000 carats when couverted by cut- ting into saleable articles. These 4,000,- 000 carats of rough diamonds only vro- duced 1,600,000 of cut diamonds, and iy cost ten shillings per carat to cut them, The South African mines being now amalgamated the output is reduced to one-half, i. e., 2,000,000 carats, and it is estimated that this will still produce £4,000,000, bebause this is taken as a fixed amount which, no matter what the E:me of diamonds way be, will annually spent on the gems. Whether this will be the case or not is the x in the problem, An lmitative N, nce. Puek: Mrs. Fussy—Dear, dear! [ wonder whuat makes the parrot swear 807 My, Fussy (who has his own views on the subject)—I suppose he has picked uj \hah;;emlrku that the neighbors make ut him, | CAUGHT A GUBAY DEFAULTER i A Distingufsfod Forelgn Gentleman in tl'\g Law'a Tolls. 1 COULDN'T [ §5CAPE DETECTIVES, 1t ) The SecretAky of the Treasury of the 1sland o/ §iy Individual, But He DMn't Know How o Run Away. Tn Ludlow Street Jail v Youk, Jan, 8.—(Special Telegram to —A distingmished foreign prisoner was landed at Ludlow stroet jail ata late hour last night. - He is Luis Oteiza y Cortez, secretary of the treasury of Cuba, and he is charged with forgery and the embezzlement of public funds to the amount of $190,000, He was captured by Superintendent John G. Meehan,of the Meehan aetective agency, who bad been shadowing him foracounloe of days. On Monday morning last the Spamsh con- sular general, Miguel Savarez of this city, received a long cipher cablegram from Cap- tain General Salamanca of Cub, telling him that Cortez had fled the country and asking that he bo arrested. Tt was said that he was apoard the steamer Olivet. Superintendent Meehan telegraphed to his agents in Port Tampa to watch for Cortez, and to have n detective shadow him on his_arrival, The steamer Olivet arrived at Port Tampa on Tuesday morning and a detectivo readily singled out his man from the description given, Cortez hurried at once to the rail- road station where he bought a ticket to New York. ThLo detective also purchased o vicket for New York. A good deal of pieasantry was indulged in when one of the detectives hauled out of Cortez’ trunk several beautifully embroi- dered silk petticonts, Cortez joined in the mirth as he explained that those were for a present to & young lady whom he was going in in Paris. She was u gay young airl, . Many of her his trunk, A lot of documents and papers which may be of value to the Cuban government in proving thew case against him were found, together with a persoal outfit good enough for a prince. There was no _money, however, nor none of the bonds that he is said to have had before he left Havana. The hearing of the case against Cortez went over until tomorrow in consequence of the accused not having had suficient timo to 860 or employ counsel. et R U. P. Wreck at Col us, CovLusnus, Neb, Jan, 8.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Brr,|--Union Pacific passengor train No. 7 was delayed here five hours this evening. The engine and baggage car run off an open switch, doing considera- ble damage and shaking up the passengers, vt i letters were AN EGG WITH WINDOWS, The Process of Incubation Observed and Described. A French scientist who removed the shell on each side of an egg, without in- juring the membrane, in patches about the size of the diameter of a pea, and snugly fitted the openings with bits of glass, gives the following report of the wonderful expariment, says the London standard: I Jpleced the egg with the glass bull’s-eges in an incubator, run by clock-work and, revolving once each hour, so that I had the pleasuve of look- ing through and; watching the change upon the inside at the end of each sixty minutes. L Nochanges tvere noticeable until after the end of the twelfth hour, wnen some of the lineameats of the head and body of the chick made their appearance. The heart appeated to beat at the end of the twenty-foarth hour, and in forty- eight hours two els of blood were aisttugutshed, ‘i pulsations being quite visible. At the fifueth hour an auricle of the heart appeared, much re- sembling a lace or noose folded down upon itself. At the end of seventy hours we distinguished wings and two bubbles for the brain, one fora bill, and two others for the forepart and hindpart of the head. The liver appeured at the end of the fifth day. At the end of 131 hours the first vol- untary motion was observed. At ihe end of 138 hours the lungs and stomach had become visible, and tour hours later the intestines, the loins and the upper mandible could be distinguished. The slimy mater of the brain began to take form and become more compact at the begiuning of the seventh day. At the 190tk hour the bill first opened and flesh began to appear on the breast. At the 194th the sternum appeared. At the 210th hour the ribs Fm(l begun to put out from the back; the bill was quite visible, as was also the gall bladder. - At the beginning of the 236th hour the bill had become green, and it was evident that the chick could haye moved had it been taken from the shell. Four hours more and the feathers had commenced to shoot out and the skull to become gristly. At the 264th hour the eyes appeared, and two hours later the ribs were perfect. At the 331st hour the spleen drew up to the stomach and the lungs to the chest. ©When the incubator bad turned the egg 335 times the bill was freguentl opening and elosing, as if the chick wero gasping for breath. When 451 hours had elapsed we heave the first cry of the little imprisoned biped, From, that time forward he grew rapidly, and came cut a full-fledged chick at the proper time. Aol AR A Tragedy in Righ Life, Brooklyn Citizen: She sat in the Long Island depot and fondled a dude dog, while the nurse girl carried a lit- tle human member of the family. The dude dog’s hair was banged over its forehead, and all-it wanted was a pair of . knee-brecches and a but- ter-cracker hat to be mistaken for a lawn tennis player lookin, for some girls tohave a game. Its tal was shaved off;almost up to the term- inus, where theve was a miniature duster that gavefit the apvearance of a putty blower ha feather stuck in the end, The clepk“opened the window with a bang gnd the fashionably dressed lady fuiped to purchuse her ticket, leaving.she dog on the floor, Two horny-haunded sous of toil entered the waiting roowphearing a trunk the size of a canal7bbat. They evidently mistook the duaaflog for a door mat,for they placed thi nk on itsouter edgo, A man who s peside the lady at the ticket, window remarked : “Be huvins, Oibdo be thinking that wan of yer family® in trouble!” She thought He'referred to the baby and took no notigtof the remark. Sud- denly there whs§ A seream from the nurse girl. Shelet the baby drop and hurried to the rescue. The lady turned and took in the situation at a glance, Then she swoouned. She kept on faint- ing up to the time of the arrival of the trmn snd then revived long enough to berate the nurse for her care- lessness. When they took the dog from under the trunk the poor little fellow looked for alk the world like u surro- ate’s seal and bis tail wasn't fat enough or & paper eutter. The station hands hauled the for- fnn.en baby into the train just as the atter was moving off, aud it was clapped down ob a seat and spanked until it looked like the Fourth of July, Farmer's Home hotel, Webster st.,be- tween 15th und 16th, Boarding from #4 to 35 per week, Everything nice. JANUARY 4. 1800 NEW NATURAL HISTORY, The Spider and the Fly Socially and Inteliectually. The spider is an animal of the family araneidwe, while the fly is only an in- seot. Musca doraestica is the classical name by which entomologists and other big-headed bipeds kunow him, but the single woed fly is suggestive enough to people with an ordinary sin- gle-decked braing The is “ native of y civilized and uncivilized country on the globe. Of all animated beings the common house fly secems to have the smallest share of every day common sense. His one object in life seems to be to feed, and of that pleasant occupation he sel- dom grows weary. He is not the least bit particular as'to how the table is set or what kind of a dish you happen to give him, so that he has plenty, says the Philadelphia Times. The ordinary fly can’t distinguish be- twoen afly teap and a beehive, and don’t know the difference between ar- genic and wheat flouf, He will eat any- thing, dead or alive, from baked dog to raw crow, but seems to be es- pecially fond of sweets, and can eat between meals such things as sugar plums, ice cream, molasses candy and corn salve without a single cramp or symptom of dyspepsin, A fly wants plenty of light and will even desert his dinner to seek it if the room be darkened. The fly pelongs to n very numerous family and the killing of a fow thousand seems to make no appre- ciable difference in their numbers. He lives only for today and never stores anything away for future use, as he is quite content to take things as he finds them, and no doubt helieves man to be made especially for his use. Every fly is o tramp and each lives us best he can off the general public, and in a_general way they make out better than the average tramp, perhaps on account of their having wings. The spider is a very curious little ani- man, and, although he has no wings and cannot fly, yet he 1s classed higher than the fly, becuuse he feeds mostly on them. The spider, when 1ntrenched in his own home, is not afraid of anything, living or dead, and should a beetle five times his size, oreven a snake, become en tangled in his web he doesn’t hesitate to go out to it and make an_attemnt to further secure it. The spider carries a lifo-preserver with him all the tine, consisting of an 1mmense coil of elastic rope, with the necessary machinery to work i In case of fire he can, with this contrivance, instantly let himsetf . down from the top floor of his dwelling, and if the alarm should prove to be a faise one he can use the same rope to con- veniently hoist himself again. In con- structing his web he is quite independ- ent of hired hielp or a labor and not only does the work of construction him- self, but also manufactures all of the raw material he uses. In poli- tics he is a high-tariff protectionist and uses only home manufactured products. Every spider is the proud possessor of a domicile of his own, none of them ever become tramps, their chief oceupation is the manufacture of nets and the trappingof game: many of them become expert. trappers and all excel as ropemakers. Sociully he isa miser and a recluse, seldom going abroad, but is always at home to receive company. The spider is methodical in his habits and attends strictly to business. He never puts off until tomorrow what can be done today. The spider, althoughnot a criminal, commits a grave errorin the eating of the nasty fly and' finds some way of purifying him before lunching on him. @6 has the instinets of an artist and nis web is deftly woven geometrical in form and pleasing to the eye. Knows all “‘the ropes” and keeps himself in daily practice. Tosee him swinging at the end of a long silkek web, looking sym- metrical as a bullet, he seems to be dancing a hornpipe on the ragged edge of nothing, but although he may seem to be amusing himself, in reality he is manufacturing and carefully testing that coil of elastic web, which he keeps so mysteriously concealed in his little round body. eve B A Legal Frecedent. The question whether the friends of a man with an unfaithful wife should give Lim a hint of her conduct or leave him 1n ignorance has become the subject of legal consideration in nce. The precedent established inclines against any revelations to the husband. Some years ago M. de Verneuil, a watchmaker, was informed by a couple named Dameron that his wife was “carrying on” with a member of the Cirque d’Hiver, named Brelle, The Damerons further told him that Mme. Verneuil would meet Brelle that night at the circus door and they urged him to go aad see for himself, and inflamed him with wine and also provided him with adagger. When he actually saw Brelle with his wife he rushed upon them ana killed the lover with a stab in the breast and seriously wounded his wife. The Brelle family sued Verneuil and the latter was con- demed to pay 3,000 francs. Then the Brelles carried war into the Dameron camp, 2ud the case has just been set- tled. The latter are sentenced to pay 1,000 francs to the family of ‘‘their vic- tim.” It was ruled that the fact of re- vealing to a husband the misconduct of a wife did not in_itself repder the in- former responsible for what might ocour subsequently, but that if efforts were made to excite the in- jured man to revenge, and if assistance were given him into the bargain, that was o different matter. If, therefore, the disagreeable revelation is simply confined to a friendly warning, the in former will not be regarded ns responsi- ble for the result; if, however, any re- marks calculnted to lead to u breach of the peace are added, he must abide the congeguences. B A Little Girl's kiffective Plea. This pathetic little appeal came in Mayor Grant’s mail-bag yesterday morning, says the New York Times: Dear Mavor GeaNt: I am a litue girl ten years old, and 1 am going to ask & favor of you If you will grant to me it will be the happiest Christmus that I have spont in my lfe. Dear Mayor, I was going to the store this morning und my dogie Nellie foi- lowed me and tne dog-catchers took him away from me and put him into the wagon and all wy crying and bemdns did not do any 5ood 8o 1 thought I would ask you if you would please get my dogie for me. I wish you & Merry Clristmas und o Happy ear, 1am Lazzik Ga 100 Sullivan street New York City. Please give me my dogie Nellie. The letter came in for his honor's immediate attention, He sent word to the dog pound that Lizzie's pet must be released and veturned to its owoer, and Nellie and Lizzie will be united fora Merry Christmas, . The French government seems de- termined to make the **pleasant land of France” as unplensant a iand a8 possi- ble for foreigners tolive in, An order ‘has been issued by the minister of the interior with a view to rendarinfz still more stringent the existing regulations about the residences of foreigners. Ac- cording to this a foreigner domiciled in France will have to go through- the whole elaborate business of reporting himself to the police every time he wighes 1o move into another commune or depurtiment TIPPOO TIB, THE ARAB. Something About the Man Who 1s in the Afrioan Stave Trade. The Buffalo Express prints the fol- lowing about Tippoo Tib: “Our_portrait of Tippoo Tib is un- doubtedly a faithful one of this crafty old Arah—for Arab he is, although ho looks like a genuine Afrvican, He is othorwise known as Amud ben Ma- homed, He is an Arab chief, who went intdthe slave-trading business appar- ently with something of tho same en- ergy and ability that characterize some of the great financial kings and indus- trial monopolists in our own land. But instoad of being born tn a Chris- tian land Tippoo Tib, like a good Mo- hammedan (there secem to be no bad, faithless Mohammedans, as there aro faithless Christians) Tippoo Tib grew up and flourished under the comfortable precepts of the Koran. He saw that the equatorial provinces and the no- man‘s-1nd beyond were full of negroes waiting for sote man of enorgy to vt them in their proper slavery. By in- dustry and solid business ability he built up his trade until he became and is today the best known slave dealer in the world. Independent of government, he is stronger in Africa than all the governments put together, and an army of 100,000 men will rvise at his bidding to do his will, He has had many difficulties to con- tend with, difficulties that only a strong wiil could overcome. The goods he deals in—the merchandise with which he buys ivory—are exceedingly perish- ablo—worse than fruits or live stock to teansport. 1 biack skin that he gets into market i to represent , have spoiled It is fair to allow that Tippoo Tib, is said o be the case with the devil, isu’t as black as he has been painted. Stanley has had dealings with him, and, as near as we can judge, was well served by him on more than one occasion. He has many good traits, no doubt; but one thing that centers est in this singular figure is that it stands as the cmbodiment and symbol not merely of the slave power, but of the Mohammedan type of civilization. The latter of these forces isas much op- posed to the ideals of christendom as slavery itself. We bave referred to this master- slaver, not quite clearly, perhaps, as “*a man with a mission,” and such, in a su- preme_degree he The “awful e ample” is_as indispensable as the r former. Noune of the disciples had a more important mission than Judas. Tippoo Tib I be regarded as the personification of forces against which Christinn nations, by their faith and their present standards of right, are pledged to fight. In the fulfillment of his mission Tippoo Tib, and not King Leopoid, has brought about the Brussels couforencs What the sequel of that counference will be only the years can tell. In the mean- time there are few more picturesque figuresamong the powerful of onrth than thatof Tippoo Tib, the autocrat of Africa. Ll S Paris Cab-Drivers, ers of Paris, who were so utterly spoilt by the exceptional de- mand for their services caused by the Paris_exhibition, are not unnaturally suffering from the very decided reac- tion which has set in. Now, instead of arbitrarily and insolently choosing his faves, the Paris cocher is represented as humuly approaching a possible c tomer, hat in hand, and politely desir- ing if it be his pleasure to take a cab; on which, according to the Charivari, the fare thus addressed replies with a stern hauteur: *Very well, you may drive me Porte Mailliot (a four-mile drive well-nigh from any part of contral Paris), and Il pay you half a franc, and no pourboire, remember! And look heve, cocher, I shall ax‘mct you to offer me a ‘bock’ on the way!” e e v A Dainty Dish. The Arabs, when there 1s a famine, grind locusts in their hand mills, or pound them in wovtars, and mix the flower and water intoa dough, which they bake as ordinary bread, says the Philadelphia Times. But they do not employ locusts during a scarcity of corn, but at other times eat them asa deli- cacy. They boil them for a good while in water, and afterwards stew them with butter into a kind of a fricasse of good flavor. 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