Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 23, 1890, Page 6

THE OMAHA BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS OFFIUE. NO. 12 PEARL STREET. Telivired by carrer in any part of the City, H. W IT0N MANAGER TELEPHONES: Glenson coal. Council Bluffs Lumber Co., coal. Thatcher coal, 114 Main street. CarbonCoal Co. wholesale. retail, 10 Pearl Mrs. Nelile \Westou has been granted a di- vorce from John N. Weston. ’ Robert Stack will have a hearing Saturday for creating a disturbance at No. 119 Pierce street. All Saints Guild will meet tomorrow af- ternoon at the residence of Mrs. L. Luchow, corner of Sixth avenue and Sixtoenth street. The Dodge Light Guards are rehearsing for their minstrel performance to be given at their bazaar about the middle of next month, An enjoyable the Royal Are Prof. classes, Lh first ferm, Motor trains on the main line were again curtailed last evening on account of the snow and single motors were run. The regulur service was maintained so far as time was concerned, The Unity Guild Sociable will be enter- tained by Mrs. Harris and Mis. A. Beno, at their residence on South First street tomorrow e A cordial invitation 18 extended The urguments in the case of Wood, Brown ‘0. v& Reiner & Son occupied the atten- tion of the district court yesterday forenoon. The cuse of Kilpatrick-Cook Co. vs Yoder Was next taken up. After leaving the walks in Baylias park covered with snow for a full week the city 8et 10 work yesterday to clean them off, just in time to receive the heavy fall that set in during the afternoon, The cases aganst Beauregard Miller and “Doc” O'Leary, charced with resisting the scrvice of a legal process, which was set for a hearing in Justice Barnett's court yester- aay, was continued until next Monday. J. A, Murphy declares that he is nota candidate for the oftice of alderman at-large and would not accept a nomination if it was tendered. His time 18 completely taken up With his business, and is worth far more to hiw than any eity ofi Mary Merritt, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Merritt, died Tuesday morning of catarrhal fever, resulting from la grippe. Tho funeral will' take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the famil dence, corner of Fifth avenue and street. The examination against James Duau, the young man arrested for suspected com- plicity in the burglary of tne hardware store of Shugart & Co.,” u few wecks ago, will take place before Judge Aylesworth tomor- Tow. It was sct for yesterday, but was con- tinued by request. A break in a water service pipe at the corner of Tenth avenue and Plain street ne- cosssitated tie toaring up of cousiderable paving and a large amount of excavating yesterday afternoon, The break was finally fourd about fifty feet from the corner, and the escape of water was shut off. A fair audience attended the entertainment given last evening at the Musonic temple, under the auspices’ of the Women's Relief Corps, The principal feature was the read- ing of M K. Murray. ‘The pro- ‘esting, and those who tained. The articles of incorporation of the Odell Investment company have for record. The incorpor Odell, C. S, Lefterts and ‘I'he capital stock js which may be in~ creased $250,000. The incorporation took effect yesterday and is to lust tweuty years unless sooncr dissolved. William Bethers, a resident south of the city, will have a nearing Friday before Jus- tice Barnett on a churge of larceny, informa- tion having been tiled by Cliris Larson, o groceryman on South Main street. Itis al- leged Bethers had a number of articles wrapped up und then called for some butter, and duriug the temporary absence of the clerk Bethers gobbled up the goods done up and skibped, for whick he was placed under arrest. It was talked quito extensively about the political lounging places yesterday thuv an attempt would be made” to nominate John Schoentgen on‘a citizeus' ticket for the office of mayor. Mr. Schoentgen is now a member of tho school board and has a strong follow- ing, The report that there will ve an inde- pendent or ¢ ot in the field is quite commorly accepted as correct. It all hinges on what is done at the convention, The grand jury is busily atwork, as evi- denced by the number of sabpaeias issued. Scveral “witnesses have been called with reference to the Boartz murder case, and yesterday afternoon the august body was nvestigating the case of Benjamin Wright, charged with cheating by false pretenses. About forty witnesses have been subpanued n this case. It will probably require about ten di to complete the grand jury work of the sesson, and it is not expected that a report will be made befure the last of the week, "The Sulvation army has again become in- tercsted iv politics. Licutenaut Hagan and his big buss drum wandered into the clutches of Ofcer Martin and were escorted to the olice station, where they were booked for isturbing the peace. Hagan secured a ut the drum was not so fortunate, and was compelled to abide in the wretched place over night. It was stated that this was the proper course, as the drum was mak- ing more racket than the offending lieuten ont. Both will have a hearing this morning, and Judge Aylesworth will decide on their relative guilt, ancing party was given in m parlors iast evening by and the pupils of his dancing © occasion being the close of the i nth AR Bush & Gert's pianos, 533 Broadway. bl \Xraveling men, Hotel Jameson is first~ ¢l e —— West, guaranteed dentistry, No, ver BEE ofice, Dr. H. 12 Pear at., Towa lump coal, spot Council Blufts Fiel Co. sh, $3.50 per ton, s e T Dr. C. H. Bower, 526 First ave. Tel, 220, ALl LR The Itoss Investment and Trust company, Sl C. 8, steamdye works, 1013 Broadway, Save 80 per cent on tombstones and monu- ments, Design sheet ana price list free, L. Kelley, 203 Broadway, Couuncil Bluffs, oPlaf Thoroughly Satisfied. The opening day of the great clearing sale &t tho Hoston Store was an mmense suc- cess, The store was crowded in all depart- uenta all day and until the hour of closing last night. Purchasors were thoroughly sat- dsfied with the bareains they carried bome, ‘They made the discovery that a little money foos s long way and gets the best goods at e Hoston Store, Recollect the sale ten days. e Personal Paragraphs. Rev, Heory Mackay, rector of the Epis- copal chureh at Fort Scott, Kan,, is visiting his son, Rev. T. J. Muckay, of this city, City Treusurer Spetman is confined to his home with typhoid fever. —-— The handsomest aud cleanest market, best meats aud lowest prices, J. M. Scanlan’s. The Council Bluffs Iusurance company's nvenn annual income since orkunfl:uon a8 been §120,000.00, Disbursements since organization for losses and other ex- penditures now exceeds $1,000,000.00. Risks written since organization, $42,770,545.00. Every property owuer should patronize this howe nstitution, aud in that way encourage and build up our city. J. B. Allen is the city tof this company, and a more honor~ le, reliable and trustworthy man can not found. The directors of the eou;&m: are on. W, " Supp, E. Ly Suugart, 1. M. Gavlt ~Jobn Renuers, M, C, Brawerd and J. Q! Anderson. D F. Junssen teaches zither music. Terms reasonable. 027 8d avenue, —————— Drs. Woodbury have removed their dentul office to 101 Pearl street, up stairs. R 4. G. Tipton, real estate, 527 Broadway. THE DOINGS IN THE BLUEES. An Effective Way of Standing Off a Bill Oollector. EXPENSIVE STREET LIGHTING, 8. 8. Stevens Meets With a Accident—=Oriminal Oases This Term—How Prohi- bitton Works, Painful For Not Down On the Dockst, There wax an interesting little by-play in the superior court room yesterday afternoon, but it did not last long and no one was hurt, although it looked very threateniug for & tume. A bill col or named Joseph, of the firm of Vien & Joseph, waited upon 8 city employe and requested the latter to give him an order on the city treasurer for §20 to settle a claim held by one of the aldermen. The request was not pleasing to the member of the clerical force to whom it was ad- dressed, and he ordered the collector of baa aebts out of the room. The latter had evi- dently been there before, for he refused to budgs an inch “Now you're a —— pretty cuss, ain't you," finally broke forth the irate indiviaual whose account was in arrcars, ‘‘You and your Frencli pal, Vien, ought to both be in the penitentiary. You would hector the life out of a man. ‘Why don't you go into some legitimato business * O, seo here man long enou somothing. V ness to look you are, and — “This was too much for the dignity of the city employe, and seizing the fire shovel, he started after the offending collector, He brandished it threateningly about his head, but it wouldu’t work, and after the shovel had been rey erk had resumed his seat, tho colicetor coolly bid him good. day and walked vut and the clerk expressed the opinion that it was u very foolish thing for the alderman **to plug up such a job as that,” almost on the ¢ 've boon living off this 1, and it's time for you to pay nd [ have to sty 1n busi- after just such dead beats as Home restuuraut, . Davis, Prop. 337 Broadu AN L The Mantattan sporting headq'rs 415 B-way. 1t Taps the Pubtic Till. “We didn't @et our new electric lights located early enough in the fall,” said a mem- ber of the city council yesterday, “aud it is costiug the city dollars and cents to pay for it, but it can’t be helped until the frost is out of the ground. 1 mean these oil lamps that are located all over the city. You see, the location of the new elestric hights will do away with several of the oil iamps; that is, it will render their ren.oval to other lo~ cations advisable, but it can’t be done as long as this weather lasts. On several of the corners where the new lights have been placed there are ulso oil ights, and of course the oil light doesn't ake a shadow four feet wway. We have to pay for tnem, for the company has a contract to furnish so many lights. 1 th it is about two hundred, and 1t runs about u year longer. We have to pay for the Jights whether they burn or not, so I suppose they migzht as well bura. If the elegtric lights could liave been put in place a hittfe earlier we could have made tie change before the ground froza, Yes, I suppose 1t was an oversight on the part of somehody, but it is too luts to belp it now. We will fix it just as s0on as the posts can be moved. [ know it l0oks as if wo were throwing away money, but that is the way it 1s.” e Tho Lenders of fine watches and jewelry in the city, and the place to buy the bést goods ut the lowest vrices is the establishment without rivals, the most reliable firm of C. B.J A Severe Accident. General Agent S. S. Stevens of the Rock Island met with quite u severe accident yes- terday afternoon. He was coming from Owmana on a motor train aud attempted to get off opposite the postofiice, but slipped on the icy vavement, and was thrown violently to the ground. He was rendered insensible by the fall, and was carried mnto Boquet's stable, where he was revived and later was removed to his home. . Dr. Huauchett at- tended him. he back of Mr, was badly gashed, and he bled considerably, but after the wound was dressed he desired to take ti.e train for Chicago, as he had pre- viously intended, but the physician would not aliow it. Tha injury will not prove seri- ous unless trouble eusues from the shock, The doctor expects to have him about as usual in two or three days. Mr. Stevens was about to make his last trip to Chicago preparatory to starting for California about the first of the month, to remain for several montns for the benefit of his health, His family has been at i.os Auvgeles for some time. cQueMIN & Co. . The acknowledged leadinw photozrapher 1 Council Bluffs is Schmidt, 220 Maip street —_— The Criminal Casa The criminal cases to be tried at this term of the district court number thirty-soven and the principal ones aro as follows Larceny, Jacob Hartels; contempt, . Dorchler, Joseph Howarth, William Ander~ son and Herman Lakeman; perjury, Thomas McGrew; assault with serious intent, George and Joseph Wolff, John Farrell and’ Henry Stewart; cheuating by false pretenses, W. H. Pontius, Allen Price, F. S. Ellis and R. T. Bryant: larceny from building, J. F. Peterson; murdor, Poter Hansen and D, M. Helmick; rape, Georgo Rust; seduction, H, 13. Benson; swindling, William Crissman; highway robbery, fred Kissell; uttering forged instrument, Wade Woodward, ins whon Bixby plumbs, ——— Both Were Hurt During the storm yesterday afternoon two farmers started o their countrv homes in a wagon, It was cold, and to guard against dangerous effects from the inclemancy of tho weather both imbibed & very large quantity of stimulants bofore leaving the city, When half way to Lake Manawa they evidently got into a dispute, which ended 1n a fignt, ‘The staid old farm team jogged right along regardless of the exciting eveats that were transpiring in the wagon, and the drunken but belligerent farmers might have gone out of town without attracting any more than passing attention if both had not fallen from the wagon while locked in a bulldog em- brace. They foll beneath the wheels and both were run over aud severely injured. When the wagon wheels passed over them each apparently thought the crushing hug was eoml;i!f from the other, and fought the harder, ey were finally. found ana sepa- rated by some ice haulers aund put aboard their vehicle, Hoth were sevarely cut and bruised. B Cash for sccond hand furniture, stoves and carpets. A. J. Mandel, 325 Broadway. —_— - TRACKING SNAKES BY SCENT. The Wonderful Hunting Powers of the Australian Native, ‘When the Australian black fellow is pushed and can find no other game he catches snakes, lizards, iguanas an® kuangaroo rats, the wiliest and most agile of all wild animals on their own ground and amid surroundings the most favorable to their concealment, by siw- ply exercising the faculties of a supe- rior wild animal, says Forest and Stream, With those wonderful great brown eyes of his he can see the faintest trail where a snake had zigzagged through the dry moss and leaves, or the slight- est footmark where an iguana had Hed from his approach to its refuge in a hol- low tree. \klben daylight fails him and the dews of evening begin to fall his broad nostrils take up the chase, and, stooping down nmnn( the bushes, with @ wugh forked stick in his hand to sup- port him in his attitude, he fol- ows the track as unerringly as any bloodhound. When he runs a snake to earth, if he cannot surprise it in the open and kiil it by a Rlll{(]l‘" blow of his stick he squats over its hole, holding the forked end of his stick downward, and mukes a low hissing or whistling sound with his lip Soon the snake puts his head out of the hole and peers around. In an in- stant the forkea stick descends and fixes it to the ground by the neck, and the black fellow, seizing 1t firmly with his muscular hands just behind the head, so that it cannct bite him, drags it out of the hole and twists its head off; or, ifit is to strong for that, pounds it on the ground till its buck is broken. Sowith theiguanas and all other animals. The black fellow never looses their trail when he once gets upon it, and having followed them to their lair he patiently awaits until they come out or until he is able to get a hand in and pull them out. The black fellows declare, and prob- ably with truth, that nota single animal van escape them if they have time to hunt a piece of desert country thoroughly, When they want to re- turn to cemp they can follow their own i ight h the greatesy ease, siy they cannot follow their owr trail by scent at all. It has no scent ior them, though another man’s has a strong scent. Thisis one of the most curious facts connected wich these stranige people: but is only in accord with the weil-known natural phenom- ena. Ladies who value a rofined complexion must use Pozzoni's Powder—it produces a soft and beautiful skin, ot AT, CAME DOWN A FEW PEGS. How P'resident Juckson Was Pesterad by an Office Seeker. One morning scarcely a fortnight aftor General Jackson's arvival at the white house a shabby-genteel-looking man presented himsell at his parlor, and after the usual salutation and shak- ing of hands expressed his joy at secing the venerable old gentieman at last hold the situation of chief magistrate of the v, to which his brave his tal- nd his unimpeachable rectitude entitled him, says the Yankee Blade. **Wo have had a hard time of it,” said he, “in our little place; but our exer- tions were unremitting; I myself went around to stimulate my neighbors, and at last the victory was ours. We beat them by a majority of ten votes, and I now behold the result of that glorious triumph.” The general thanked him in terms of studied politeness, assuring him that he would resign his oftice in an instant if he did not think his election gave satis- faction to a vast majority of the people, and at 1. regretted his admirer’s zeal for the public weal should have been so severely taxed on his account. *‘Oh, no matter for that, sir,” said he; “T did it with pleasure—I did it for my-~ self and for my country” (the general bowed); “and” I now come to congratu- late you on your success” (tho goneral bowed again). *I thought, sir, that, as you are now president of the United States, I might. perhaps, be useful to youin some official capacity.” (The general looked somewhat embarrassed “Pray, sir, have you alveady ms choice of your cabinet ministors?” “T have,” was the reply of the gen- eral. **Well, no matter for that: 1 shall be satisfied with an embassy to Europe.” I nm sorry to say there is no va- Ao ‘Then you will, perhaps, require a head clerk in a department of state?’’ “‘These are generally supplied by the respective sccretaries,’ **I am very sorry for that; then I must be satisfied with some 1nferior appoint- ment.” *'I never interfere with these: you must address yourseif to the heads of departments.” “But coula T not be postmaster in Washington? Only think, general, how I worked for you!” *Lam much obliged to you for the good opinion you entertain of me, and your kind offices at the last election, but the postmaster for the city of Wash- ington is aiready appointed. **Well, I don’t much care for that: I should be satistied with being his clerk.” “Thus is a subjoc to the postmaster.,” “Why, then, general,” exclaimed the disappointed candidaie for - office, “haveu’t you got an old black coat?” You may well imagine that the gen- eral gave him one. you must mention e Durno's Catarrh Snuff. ‘When suffering with catarrh, cold in the head, nervous headache, etc., use Durno’s Snuff, it will relieve you at once. Price 25¢ wt druggists, — —— JEWELERS' NOVELTIES, Designs From Which You May Choose if You Havethe Cash. Here are some ‘‘pointers” from the Jewelers’ Weekly: An exceedingly pretty scarf pin represents a bright gold windmill with a platinum band around the roof and with the sails studded al- ternately with dinmonds and rubies. Etched pansies, with the centers in relief, form a pretty decoration for a coffee service, Delicate and attractive is a bonbon box of open lace work in gold, which al- lows the coutents to be seen from the exterior of the box. Cat-tails entwined with grasses of variegated gold constitute a lace pin that shows the result of artistic design and skiiled workmanship, An oxidized silver horseshoe nail twisted into a knot in the center of which rests & tourmaline within bright gold claws, forms a unique scarf pin. The pieces of & tea service produced recently are ornamented around the top with a band of etching, while the re- mainder is but a series of deep identa- tions. Three balls—the emblemof the pawn- broker—each of different colored Eoln, form a scarf pin that will command at- tention from lovers of the unique. Ragged edges and ancient looks make the most recent silver fruit dish conspicuous, Two apples on a tranch, with leaves, rise in relief from the bot- tom of the interior of the dish, Gold and platinum leaves around the edge of a comma of alternate diamonds and sapphires, with variegated gold pansies, make u hairpin that caanot fail to be received with favor. Moonstone cuff links, representing ordinary mother-of-pearl shirt buttons, are an innovation. Gold threads cross the buttons, their ends being inserted in the four holes usually seen in but~ tons. A moonstone cupid bowing roguishly in the curve of a crescont of brilhiauts deserves more than passing notice as a lace pin. Avound the throat of the lit- tle 10«1 a necklace of rose diamonds and small ruble is shown, terminating in a star of similar stones, R Somewhat massive, yet very artistic, isun elaborate silver cake dlug of Awer- ican workmauship., Three hippopotaini rluu(lng among tall water grasses and held under control by a small figure vepresenting an Egyptian boy, con- stitute the group at one end of the ece. The dish proper is I d in mitation of a Red sea fishing o | street by a large bay mule, which FUN WITH A MULE, Exactly Forty-Five Minutes of Lively Kicking in Baltimore. The steamer Joppa was last night delayed in leaving her pier at Light was 1o be shipped 1o Easton Point, says the Baltimore Su The animal in com- pany with a pair of horses, arrived at the wharf at 8:30, The started to load this stock on the steamer. The horses passed up the gangplank without_objection: Not so with the mule. When near tke entrance of the boat he 100k a few steps forward and then, us if awakening from a dream, planted ail four feer in different divec- tions and stood like n statue. This action on the part of the mule was done 80 quietiy that few of the many persons on the wharf knew what was going on. The driver began to coax, and then to swear, and then to whip and pull, but all % no avail. The mule stood the storm with eyes closed and tail down. Everybody on the wharf made some suggestion to the driver as to tho best wiy to start the mule. Finally n rope was placed around the animal's tail, and when the line was in rea ss the entire crew took hold of oune end, by which they expectea to haul the mule on board. © The operation was watched by the crowd in breathless suspense, and when the word was given to “‘hau away” the men gave a mighty pull. A second later and the scene had changed. Mule, rope, overalls, trucks, trunks, miscellaneous freight, men and women_ could be seen scattered along the wahef s if prostrated by a cyclone. A few hatless men flew in terror to the opposite side of the street. One gen- tleman of about 250 pounds. who had only a fow seconds before 1mpressed his heurers that ho knew all about mule and was not avall afraid of them, was found wedged in an empty burvel, from which he was loudly calling for assist- ance. The mule was indeed master of the situation as he stood surveying the havoe he had wrought. And "he had done it all by an imcessant cannonade of his hind logs. The force agni another strategical blindfolded the animal, But it was all to no purpose. The scheme wouldn't work. Time was being lost, and some- thing had to be done at once. As no further suggestions were forced by the onlookers on the wharf, Captain Wheeler ordered a l: t around the mule’s hind legs. done, and with the aid of all pres mule was hauled on board. The ex time occupied, according to Patrolman Hughes, was forty-five minutes. collectod and tried movement. They —~— Our druggists would not recommend Chamberlain’s cough romedy 1if they did not know it to be perfectly reliable. It is made ly for coughs, colds and croup and is the most prompt and most effectual remedy known for those diseases, e AN ARISTOCRATIC MANSION, Which May at Last Be of Som: Use to the Pablic, The following editorial from the Sun Francisco Report is not without interest to those who are familiar with the city at the Golden Gate: The Flood mansion stands on the sumint of Nob Hill,virtu- ally deserted. The Flood family does not intend to inhabit it again, and it is vory unlikely that any other fams ily will eve desi it. It is a very fine mansion. But it is not the kind of a house ‘that our millionaires like to live in nowadays. It occupies a commandjug. position,but. the, glory, of Nob Hill. has departed. . No one will over build or buy another “palatial res- idence’ on Nob Hiil. The summit of Nob Hill is not the aristocratic quarter par excellence now, and will steadily be less aristocrat; The drift is west- ward. But the Flood mansion 1s for sale, and it will be sold finally for some purpose or other. What will its ulti- mate fate be, with its massive walls, 1ts $20,000 bronze fence, its spacious and gorgeously decorated apartments? Quien sabe? What we would like tosee it bought for and transformed into is an art gallery and museum, Itis al- ready well fitted for the latter, for the rooms are large and high and well ar- ranged, and the alterations to fit it for proper display of pictures would not be very extensive or costly. Of course wo would rather have the city’s museum and gallery out in the vark. But Nob Hill is our secondchoice, 1t is very ac- cossible by cable car now from all parts of the city, and the beautiful view the building commands would be an addi- tional attarction, of our rich men will con bute the money necessar to buy and fit up this mansion and thus establish an institution such as all great cities have and San Francisco must have, not only as a standing at- traction, but s a means of educating and refining its people. No few, but plenty of contributions would soon come in, once u handsome and safe place for'their display had been pro- vided, e - The Only On The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway is the only line running solid vestibuled, electric lighted and steam heated trains between Chicago, Coun- cil Bluffs and Omaha, The berth reading lamp featire 1n the Pullman sleeping cars run on these lines if vatented and” cannot be used by any other railway company. It is the great improvement of the age. Try it und be convinced. Sleeping cars leaye the Union Pacific depot, Omaha, at 6 p, m. daily, arriving at Chicago at 9:30 a. m, Puassengers taking this train are not compelled to get out of the cars at Council Bluffs and wait for the train to be cleaned, Get tickets and sleeping car berths at Union ticket office, 1501 Furnam st. F.'A. NAsH, Gen, Agt. J. E. PRESTON, Pass. Agt. FOLLOWED BY APPETITE. How Two Young:Men Attempted to Escape Their Love of Liqaor. A favorite device of dissipated young men to cure the appetite for drink has been cllpKBr sg;l trip avound Cape Horn from New Yark o this v, s0y8 & San Francisco paper. This method proved a dead fajldte in the case of two young fellows, ong; of whom died this morning at the\dalace hotel. The other is in a dangéroug condition from aleoholism. The dead man is George Maris, son of a Philadelphia millionaire glass manufacturée, ‘The other 1s Clif- ford Harris, a handsom« young English- man, They took passnge on the clipper ship Elizabeth, Captain Colcord, which arrived here on December 28, after a passage of 136 days. During the voy- uige the captain saw that they did not get a droo of liguor. ‘When they landed they asswred him that they were cured and would not fall iuto the old babits, but thut uight they went on a spree and Harvis lost a draft for £500, Then they pawned their watches for money. Their fayor- ito tipple was brandy and soda. The hotelkeeper warned” Captain Colcord and he tried w0 brace tham up, but without avail, Finally, two days ago, they became so ill that Dr, Deunis was called in, He warned them both that unless they stopped drinking they would die. HBoth promised to stop, but when he called y.mrdn{ he found that they had broken their word. driver then | Agnin he warned m. Farly th morning the bell was rung from Mari room and the servant found the young | Philadelphian lying on his face on the | floor dond, Wilo e wwas trying o 66 | whethor or not there was Harrs staggered in g room, but was too stupid to understand the fate of his friend. after ho seized with delirium and the doctor fears he will ver. Word has been sent father, from on ad- — Fits, spasms, St. Vitus dance, nervousness and hysteria are foon cured by Dr. Miles' Nervine, reo samples at Kuhn & Co., oth and Douglas. THE PRECIOUS METALS. The Coinage of Gold and Silver in 1887 and 1888, The treasury departme of hoth England and the United States have for o couple of years past made groat efforts to gather as r ble and com- plete data as pessible relating to the coinage of precious metals, says the Iron Age. These efforts prove the 1m- vortance which attaches to such statis- ties, especially in view of the future of silver, The mints still absorb the greater portion of the gold and silwer production, and consequently exerciso o decisive influence on their 1eclative value. From the nature and extent of a country’s mint operations we are best enabled to form a judgment us to the tendency of the coinage poli it pur- sues, for the ease or dificulty” in mak- ing monetary reforms in the future greetly depend on the coinage which preceded them. With refe: ¢ tosil- ver, for example, the provailing policy of leading nations appears to be an ex- pectant’one 1888, $ 10,105,000 034000 50,000 England, ... Australia. .., United France, Italy um_and land . Germany .. Holland . Portugal Japan.. Total...... The coinage in 1887 ropresents 173,000 kg. of gola, and that of 1888 190,000, while actual gold production in 1888 did not exceed 150,000 kg., so that the coin- age notably exceeded current produc- tion last year. If we take, furthermore, into consideration that usually about 50 per cent of a year's gold production is converted into jewelry and used for induste xeeptionally ppears altogether out of proportion to production. The presumption therefore arises that either the latter has been larger than the gold-producing countries officially re- ported or that a notable portion of the new coinage was drawn from the stock of gold burs or was a mere recoinage, or both. The impression among men od in matters re= lating thereto is that more gold has been produced than the roturns show, but even assuming this to have been the case to the extent of several thousand kilograms, it neverthele: ins an indisputable | year theye is a considerable melt- ing down of jewelry and gold coin and recoinage, and that the amount derived therefrom for new coinage is not un- likly as abundant a source of supply as the new current product of the mines, In the United States it has been shown that in 1885 $11,152,120 wore used for jowelry ‘and industrial purposes, and that to obtain this amount $84 old jewelry was melted down and $2,827,878 gold coin; but these are only partiul statements, and the belief is still entertained that year after year one- third to ond-hal!f of the gold produced finds its employment in jewelry und other industries, The silvor coinage of the world was as follows: SILVER COINA England, land ... Cochin China' . Germany 750, L 10,575.000 ) 81,000 Denwark, ” Norway and Sweden Russia Austria-Hungary Spain ... Portugal. Japan... Totals. . 27,327, The weight of the silver empioyed was 2,620,000 kg. in 1857 and 2,767,000 in 1888; reduced 1o gold value, the amount was $79,920,000 in 1887 and $84,480,000 in 1888. The amount coined in 1588 up pretty closely to the actual product- ion, there having been but little recoin- age, except in Spain and Ttaly. A fair estimate of actual production places the average for 1887 and 1888 at 3,000,000 kg. Out of these averagesthe United States, British India, Cochin China and Japan absorbod for coinage 3,00,000 kg. A part of the remaining 1,000,000 kg. was shipped to the far East and Africa, and a part was consumed for industrial pur- poses or remained in the hands of miners and dealers, KEurope has used very little new silver for coinnge, and it is admitted pretty much on all hands that the continued coinage in the United States is about the only thing preventing eilver from declining ~ below 22 er ounce in the ILondon market, Auy serious modification in this respect or the repeal outright of the Bland bill threatens the world with a catastronhe in silver, Hence it is believed that the coinage per annum of $25,000,000 more gold or as much less would exercise no influence whatever on the monetary question as itstunds, whereas any nota- ble decrease of silver coinage would ef- fect the value of the white metal at once. Still, at present there is little prospect that silver production will ma- terially diminish or that the extreme east will in o permanent manner absorh reater amounts than of late, orthat in- dustry will soon use it more freely. Leuving out of the question renewed ut- tempts at reconstituting bimetallism in- ternationally, there are consequent some lingering wishes or even hopes that some means may be devised to cre- ate a freer monetlary use of silver, and thus impart te it a certain degrece of practical stability. Ask your grocer for Cook’s extra dry im- perial champsgne. 1ts bouguet is dellcious and it is perfectly puge. e ANIMAL LIFE SUSPENDED. Curious Experiments with Frogs and the Spawn of Fishes, Familiar instances of suspended vi- tality, or rather latent vitality, are af- forded by seeds, which may be kept for years without showing action, but are vet capable of being recalled to the ex- ercise of ‘the functions of life, says la Monde de la Science. Other instunces are afforded by the lower organisws, whieh will remain dry and sterile for indefinite periods, to be brought into full activity at any time by supplying life in the | PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. H. BIRKINBINE N. SCHURZ ~Justice of the Peaco. Broadway, Council Bluf at Law. 'STONE & SIMS ~Hydraulic and S Specifications. Building, Coucil Blufls, Idwa, ingineer. Plan Supervision of Public Work. B Offico over Amerioan Expross lowa. Practice in the State and ede Rooms 7 and 8 Shugart-Beno Block, Council Bluffs, Towa. | the due degree of moisturo and warmth, Comieg up to higher forms of life, the | samo phenomenn are usually mani- fested in iusects, one of the normnl con- ditions of whose life—the nympha or chrylis. state—is churacterized by the exhibition of external appeara of death. During this stage the vital vrocesses are tempered down till only enough arve in effect to maintain a | merely vegetative exister yet the | insect is capable of stight motions when subjected to n shock or pressure. The duration of this appavent death varies according to the spocies and ) external conditions, There aro species that require two years of incubation before g through their metamorpho: Others pass to the perfect stato v days. Butterflies demand a cc reo of heat, below which they will not issue. The opening of the chry is takes place naturally when these atmospherie conditions are realized. 1f tho senson is late, the hatching is also late. Heneo wo can prolong the duvation of ch sals state indetinitely by properly ad- justing the temperature, delaying to that extent the metamorphosis of the imprisoned mummy into the free and winged insect. I putting chrysalides in an wus able to keey them alive and retard their dev opment several yi Going up higher in the animal serie —eggs. which are analogous to tl sceds of plants, presents a remarkablo example of retarded life, One of the most interesting features about them 1s the independence of their vitality, which persists even when the ual that has produced them, and within whose organism they ave still con- tained, has ceased to live. This fact has been recoguized in pisciculture, al fecundation las been eggs taken from dead The persistence of life in is very iong. Spallanzani co preserved some frogs in o mass of snow for two years. They became dry, stiff and almost friable, but a graduul heat brought them back to life. Toads have been shut up in blocks of plas and then, having been deprived of allair ex- cept what may penetrate through the material, and of all sources of food, re- tated several y afterwards. question presents one of the most curious problems that biological science has be called on to explain. The longevity and vital resistance of toads aro surprising. Besides the experiments we have cited. nature sometimes pre- sents some alrendy made, and vastly more astonishing. said to havebeen Such cases arcarre. but it would b unremark- able to doubt them as to believe in some of the miraculous explanations that have been made of the mutter, The phenomenon is marvelous, it is true, but it is supported by evidence that we are not able to contest: and scepticism. which is incompatible with science, will have to disappear if rigor- ous observation shall confirm it. The toad was observed in one case. in the stone itself, and before, recovering from its long lethargy, it had made any mo- tion. One of these toads was presented to an academy, with the stone which had served it as a coffin or habitation, and it was ascertained that the cavity seemed to correspond exactly with the dimensions and form of the animal. It is remarkable that these toad-stones are very hard and not at all porous, and show no signs of fissure. The mind, compietely bafiled in the presence of the fact, is _equally embarrassed to ex- pluin how the toad could live in its sin- gular prison, and how it became shut up there. Mr. Charles Richet had oc- casion to study this question some months ago, and came to the conclusion that the fact was real, observing that even if, in the actual condition of ience, certain phenomona were still in Jainable, we were not warranted in denying their existence, for new dis- coveries might at any time furnish an explanation of them. s true may sometimes not be probable.” But ence takes accounting of the truth, not of the probabil e Change of life, backache, monthly irregu- larities, hot flashes. are cured by Dr. Miles Nervine. free samples at Kuhn & Co., 15th and Douglas, At Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children tecthing cures wind colic,diar- rhaa, ete. 25 cents a bottle. e The Young Man Did Not Go In. I was riding across town an evening ortwoago on a Tweniy-third street car bound toward the North River, says a writer in the New York Star. It was raining and the car was filled with peo- ple, most of them going to the Grand opera house. I stood on the rear plat- form, the only other passenger on the outside being a tall, broad-shouldered man and the conductor, At Broadway a spruce young fellow, nicely dressed, stepped on the platform and was just about to push his way into the crowded car, when the handsome young man with the blonde m#tache touched him ou the shoulder and said pleasantly: “‘Stay out hoare, please.” “What do you mean, sie?” flercely demanded the spruce young fellow, turning around. When he saw the man he was talking to his face fell and he sesmed much disconcerted, The handsome meg man smiled and re- plied: **Well, I'd like to huve you in my company for 4 little while, and besides, if you stay out here you will save me the trouble of making a speech in the car.” The spruce young man stayed outside until Seventh avenue was reached, when he jumped off the car with a grufl ‘‘good nignt.” “Good night,” pleas~ antly replied he of the blonde mus- tache, I turned to him then and asked him what he meant. He laughed and gaid: *“Oh, if he had gone into the car I would simply have said: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, look out for your valu- ables. This man is a pickpocket,’ knew what my speech would be, and he remained outside, you see.” The hand- some young man with the blond mus- tache wuas Sergeant Detective Thomas Murray, one of Inspector Byrnes' best "ll:elni and the spruce young man was a thief. SJACOBS Q] CURES PERMANENTLY SPRAINS and STRAINS. Athletes Fralse it Highly, 666 Minna St., San Fraycisco, Col,, May 3, o Bome time ago, while & member of the Olympic Athletic Club, 1 sprained my knee S A e iy aud com Y cul y acol A JOHN GARBUTT, Jumped from llslu. 0098, 17t Bt., Omalis, Neb,, Bept. 22, 1458, 1 froin an cugine o collision, and Veeks.” . datoin Ol Sompleialy chred 5 o1 curc (4 AT DRUGOL T4 AND DEALERS, THE CHABLES A. VOGELER CO., Baltimore, Md. individ- | | ate means to their _— e a SPECIAL NOTICES, COUNCIL BLUFFS. = = FOR SALE AND R:NT. NOR TRADE partly fmp SLock of dry 8) acres for W2 Avenue ¢ W eenen FoRE0mor #100 cloan sto, 10 one of tho best It you want n = 160 acros of clear Kansas laud, edi Wil trade for a $1,000 i groverias, or will teade f eroccries. Address Buirs, I nt giel, Inguire at 117 Jou chu buy a nice, new ware, stove and tinshop Town dware business woull b pleasad to refor you to reliable parties thay Know allabout our business. Very satistact reasons for Selling. 1% Wil pay you to inve katethis, Aadress U 6, les office, Cou Binrs, Tiave Foal sstate or ciiatioly dispase of qaick, st the i Wit T & Gray, Conncil Bluts, In, NOR E: ANGE—A goo 1 now f-room hoise %o exchiange for an improve 18) acre farm in wéstern or central lowa, Kewr X Giray FIE WEST SIDE BUILDING SOCIETY of Council BIUITs invites tho attention of men working on salarles and other persons of toaer- -operative plan for securing homesin thiscity. 1t {5 belleved that better teris of purchase and credit can he effected under this plan than by individual action ihat a better site. netghborhood and surround- ings can bo secured than by purchasiige and proving (ndependently wud 1 separate dist in the city. The undersigned will furnish formation and show the property to all ingu . Office open from 3 to ¥ on week (uy cve ings. C. M. Ross, room 208 Merriam hlock, Wa Competent girl, family of two, nighest wages paid. Mrs, J, 1. 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Hoys, the prices in skates huve beei cub finest_und largest line in the city to’ select from, While the sk £00d come in and gt a bargain, He: every 3 purchaso entitles the person 1o a chauce in”the grand drawlng to tuke place January 15, "DRUCE & REVNOLDS fashionable Confectioners, private parties ates, buttercu candy a special rde '8 and grders promptly Councii Bluffs, T, J. D. BDMUNDSO B L. Suvianr, Pres, Vice Pres, Cuas. R. HANNAN, Cashier, ~ CITIZENS' STATE BANK, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, Pald up Capital $150,000.00 Surplus . . 35,000.00 Liabllity to Depositors....335,000.00 DirkcToRs—I. A. Miller, F. 0. G ;. Shugart, E. E. Hart, J. D." Edunds Hannan, Transact’ general banking b Largest capital and surplus of any Northwestern lowa, Interest on tiuis " F M, ELLIS & CO., ARCHITECTS AND BUILDING SUPERINTENDENTS Rooms 430 and 432 Bee Building, Omahu Neb., aud Rooms 244 and 246 Merriawn Block, Council Blufts. lowa. _Correspondence Solicite. THOS. OFFICER, W.H. M. 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