Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1890, Page 4

B BOBBWATEB Editor. !’l BLISHED l‘.\'hl(\’ MU“\IN(;. —— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. dny, One Yea 0 00 ; i months,. Bimday Hee, One 200 Weekly Bee, One Year 1% OFFICES. Omaha. The Roe Ruilding. 8. Omahn, Corner N and %ith Streets Councll Bluffs, 12 Pearl Streot. Shicago Office, 317 Chiamber of Commeres ew York,Kooma 13, 14and 15T ribune Bullding Washington, 513 Fourteonth street. CORRESPONDENCE 4 Al jeations relating to nows an o e oritd b6 addrossed 0 ‘the purtment. ISINESS LETTERS, Al hristness letters and_romittances shonld be addressed to The Beo Publishing Company, Omuha. Drafts, checks and : tobe ‘made Payable Lo the o Tne Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. 'l'lmlll-v"ll! Farnam and Seventoonth Sta. EWOIN_STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate f Nebraska, s, nty of Donglas. 8 George B, Trschuck, secratary ot The Bee Liishing Company. does solemnly swear that the actual cireulntion of Tur DAILY Ber for the week endjng June 21, 1500, was as fol- low: Editorial Average........ GRORGE B. T28CHUCK. Bworn to hature me and subscribed jn my . D., 1800. FIANK A, SMT1 R, Notary Public. Btuteof Nebraska, ¥ of Douglas fos B. Tzschuck, being daly sworn, do- oses and fiays that ho is secretary of The blishing Company, that tho ragedally elroulation of THE DAILY B month o Folyr T ples; fi U er, I 18,507 cop 10410 copies, tor D for January 1800, 1 1§00, 1 doples: for MKI" h 1 0. NKIW l‘n’” Tor April, 1800 ,564 copies; for May 1800, 20, 180 opies. - Tue destructive elements cannot be accused of slighting any particular sec- sion of the country. INCREASED vigilance and competency In the inspection of public works is due the property owners who foot the bills. No COLLECTION of ‘‘studies in still life” is complete without an oleograph of the Omaha combine in secret session. THE plunge of woman suffragists into politics in South Dakota insures a four- cornered eampaign and a vociferous do- mestic disturbance during the dog days. ALL accounts agreo that the national fish commission is a distinctive family affair with just enough federal coloring to enable the members to laugh and grow fat at public expense Tne enthusiasm evoked by refer- ence to Grover Cleveland in various democratic conventions north and south, envelopes the wigwams of Hill and Dana in a Greenlandish temperature. THE Lincoln business men are all poli- ticians and they are afraid of their shadows whenever a campaign is on. That explains why they did not allow their names to be printed on the anti- prohibition list. Mr. HAVEMEYER, king of the sugar trust, recently managed to pay over halfa million dollars premium on a life insurance policy. This is but a fragment of the saccharine extracted from the public by the combine last yoar. THERE i z and a gnashing of teeth in the Chicago railroad bureau. The report of the interstate commeree commission denouncing the present ox- 1t grain rates in the west struck a in orbi tender anatomy. chord the corporation WHEN railroads secretly and persist- ently quote rates lower than those recom- mended by the interstate commerce com- mission, they will find it dificult to convince intelligent men that they can- not afford to make the public and secret ratos correspond AsPALT, petroleum and graphite are among the latesy mineral discoveries in Utah. Gentile push and enterprise are rapidly opening tho hidden stores of wealth in the lato land of Mormonism. The tervitory is in the infancy of devel opment. Its future is the most promis- Ang in the west. of the anti-trust bill be- coming a law has already produced a commotion among the combines. The collapse of sugar trust certificates is a gratifying vosult of the measure. The country is to be congratulated on the prospect of depriving of a legal existence these combinations against the common good. Tne fishermen Newfoundland re- whisk the British the French invaders Now come the seal of cently threatened to lion’s tail unless were driven off. poachers of Victoria with dire mutter- ings against the United States for pro- tecting the Alaskan seal islands. Her majesty’s warlike subjects in the Domin- ion are peppering for a vigorous spank- ing at both ends. WHILE congress struggling to en- rich the bullionaires and furnish prov- ender for speculators, there is an almost total absence of serious effort to enact measuros of practical benefit to the pro- ducors of the west. The agricultural product of the state of Nebraska for last year equalled in value the total output of the silver mines of the west, yet con- gress devotes days to increase the stores of men already rich and sup- presses measures calculated to aid the struggling producers. SEre——————— PROFESSOR MEAD of Wyoming has conciuded un exhnustive examination of the water supply of the tervitory. He finds the volume capable of irrigating ten million acres of arid land. Soveral hundred thousand acres of land have been brought to a high state of cultivi tion by this means, but the avea of agri- oultural land far exceods the water sup- ply, consequently much of the land must forever remain in its present condition, The empire subject to irrigation, if cul- tivated, is amplo to supply the needs of thg surrounding population for genera tions. 'l'he United States senate has ap- poinged & committee to take into con- sideration the state of the administra- tive service of that body and report what moensures should be adopted in respoct to the greatest efficiency and economy of the service” Last week, when it was proposed to amend the- legislative, ex- ecutive and judicial approprintion bill so a8 to make the pay of clerks to commit- tees eighteen hundred doilars a year ther was, some discus- sion of the administrative service of tho senate, in the course of whi several senators, and particularly Sena- tor Ingalls, showed that there was ur- gont demand for a readjustment of the whole committee and clerical force of the senate. Mr. Ingalls sfated that there arcat least twenty of the standing and select committecs that are absolutely supor- fluous and unnecessary. It has ‘been difficult to find names and invent func- tions for them. They have been created and established, said the Kansas senator, merely for the purpose of assign- ing some senator to a chairmanship, giv- ing him a room and providing for him a clerk. He gave it as his judgment that the committees of the senate should be largely reduced, that they ought to be brought down to the proportions of the business that is to be transacted, and that the clerks assigned to committees ought to do committee work and nothing else, instead of practically being, as at present, private retaries to the sena- tors. Senator Cockrell stated that there are forty-two standing committees and eleven known as select com- mittees, these latter being of the superfluous cluss, and he, t0o, thought it wus necessary to reorganize and reduce the committees to such point as the bus ness capacities of the- senate require. It is with a view to doiag this that the committee on the administrative service of the senate has been appointed. There was thus disclosed a condition of uffairs thut has long prevailed which is anything but creditable to the senate, and which undoubtedly would have been continued had not the ques- tion of rearranging and equaliz- ing the pay of clerks arisen. The fact developed is that for years the senate has been wasting thousands of dollars of the public monoy upon the clerical employes of superfluous commit- tees, such employes really performing no other service than that of private scerotaries to the chairmen of th committees, Horein the country i afforded one very interesting example of the way in which the higher logislative body manages to provide comfortable positions for the personal or political friends of senators at public ex- pense, and a thorough investiga- tion would discloss other examples of senatorial wuaste and extrava- gance, Senator Male, in referring to this question of clerical salaries, said: “The tendency all the while is toin- crease the force of the senate and to in- crease its pay, and some day or other the result of it will be thut public atten- tion will be called to the expenditures of the body, and if a seandal is not creatoed at any rate great public censure will be visited on this body.” The Maine sena- tor said further that the best-paid places in the whole range of the government are the subordinate places about the senate, For the same work, for the sume time, for the same responsibility, they are better paid than any other om- ployes of the government in any depart- ment, The United Stateés senate, with a mem- bership of eighty-four, costs the people / nearly as much as the house of rep- Jnta th a membership of three hundred and thirty, and if the increase of the force in the senate now proposed is allowed the expanditures of that body will be greater than those of the house of representatives, Senator Allison stat- ing the figures for the respeetive houses at four hundred and eight thousand dol- la nd three hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars, a difference of sixteen thousand dollars in favor of the house. Obviously the time has come for a readjustment, and while the senate committee is engaged in that task the house will perform a duty to the people by refusing to allow the increased ex- penditure asked for by tho senate. Under existing civeumstances the pro- posal to largely incrense the already extravagant expenditures of the senate indicates an indifference to the genel welfare which it is the imperative duty of the representatives of the people in the house to rebuke. IS NOT THIS GENEROUS? A sSHORT time ago Congressman Hen- derson submitted in the house an esti- mate of one hundred and sixty-seven million dollars as the amount of the ap- propriations made by the present con- 55 for the benefit of the old soldiers. This was u conservative estimate made by a reprosentative most friendly to the men who defended the government, and is more likely to fall below than to ox- 1 the expenditure of the government o on pension account for some y For example, Mr. Henderson - esti- mated tho cost of the dependent pension bill at thirty-five million dol- lnvs, while Senator Davis, chairman of the senate committee, thought the cost of t measure would not bo less than forty-two million dollurs per annum. But granting that the estimate of Mr, Henderson will not be exceeded, is not the amount generous? 1t is a sum nearly three times the total yearly expendi- tures of the governmont just before the war, and without intending any invidious comparison, it is o larger amount than is expended by any of the great powers of Europe, oxcept Germany, for sustalning their immense military establishments. The army of Germany costs the people of that country about one hundred and ninety willion dollars a year, that of France one hundred and twenty million, Russia one hundrod and thirty-five mill- fon, Great Britain’s army and navy eighty-five million, and Italy’s military establishment sixty million dollars a year, Thero is of course & wide differ- ence in the character of these expendi- tures, but the money required for all of them must be obtained in practically the same way, by taxing the industry and enterprise of the whole people. But generous as the provisiolils which the government has made for the old soldiers owho have a just eclaim to its bounty, there contindes to be & demand for still further enlarging pension ex- penditure. Men whose controlling mo- tive is the desire to advance their polit- ical fortunes are still inciting the vet- erans to insist upon demands which it complied with would absorh the greater portion of the rev- enues of the government. Of such are the bills in congress providing for the repeal of the limitation clause of the pension arrearagesact of 1879, Commissioner Raum a short time ago furnishéd figures showing the number of applications filed and the number of certificates issued, together with the number of claims pending since 1879, and he estimated that to pay arrears to pensioners now on the roll would require two hundred and sixteen million dollars, and to pay arrears in cases still pending would requive twe hundred and fifty-five million dollars, making a total of four hundred and seventy-one million dol- lars that would be taken from the treasury by the repeal of the limits tion clause of the pension arrearage law. The statement of such figures ought to be conclusive with every representative of the paople against the proposed ve- peal, and yet it is believed that a bill for this purpose has a chance of passing the house. Pension legislation that would take this vast sum out of the treasury would des ny party responsible for it. The generosity of the nation toward the old soldiers has been most munificent, and it has reached a point beyond which it cannot be carried at present with a just regard for the interests of the whole peo- ple. MIssISSIPPI is about to hold a conven- tion to frame a new constitution. The present organic law is a remarkable one. It is of the flexible kind, designed to match the peculiar politics of the state. There is no provision requiring anew constitution to be submitted to a vote of the people. The work of the convention will therefore become a law without any action on the part of the voters. The importance of the law is apparent and is particularly convenient at the present time. The politicians in control of the state realize that they cannot safely continue the shotgun and tissue ballot and re! power. It is nec ¢ to adopt measu that will insure permanent control of the state without annually outraging public sentiment by brutal vote suppression. This they propose to accomplish by giv- ing every person ome vote, and one additional vote for cach forty or cighty acres of land held by himself ov wife. As comparatively few of the negroes are land owners it will be seen that this scheme will double if not treble the white vote and thus overcome the voting strength of the negroes without resorting to the persuasive foree of the shotgun. A NUMBER of western cities have taken from private control the matter of street sprinkling. The system adopted in St. Louis, and now under considera- tion in Kansas City and St. Joe, com- mends itself to the authorities of this city. The board of public works is in- vested with entive control of the busi- ness, and the cost is assessed equitably on the property abutting the streets sprinkled. The worlk, being let by con- tract, materially reduces the cost and makes all property benefitted bear an equal shave of the burden. The system in vogue in Omaha needs vemodelling. It imposes unjust burdens on enterprising merchants, while the penurious derive equal heno- fits for a trifle. By placing the work in charge of the board of public works, to be let to the lowest bidder, the cost will be reduced to a nominal figure and a larger area of strects sprinkled. The system presents the most practical solu- tion of the question. THE volume of business throughout the country continues very heavy and Omaha is no exception to the rule. Trade has been large in June to date and heavier during the past si IHUH(]H than for the same period in any previous year in the city’s history. Colleetions ure good. Report®on the crop situation in- dicate that this year's product will be greater than last, and while pr are not high there ome marginleft to the thrifty farmor after oxpenses arve paid, and undoubtedly should anticipations be realized the people of Nebraska will be in better financial condition than for many a year at the close of 1890, A SHOWER of challenges has been fired at the editor of THE Bre from all sections of the state to debate prohibi- tion. All these people ave respectiully advised to forward their suggestions in aboriginal packages to Prof. Samuel Dickie and Rev. Sam Small, who are to appear as champions of prohibition in the joint debate at the Beatrice Chau- tauqua July 5 to 7. m———— DENVER is still holding back her 5 returns so that her enumer: n every man, woman and child that passes through that city on the way to Manitou, Colorado Springs and other summer resorts, If they keep on with this work another month they may possibly catch up with Omal —_— THE loeal Tammany gang has a wholesome dread of Dr. Mercer’s polit- ical scalpel, Eroma mere matter of am- putation, it has become a question whether a sufficiont number of fragments of the combine can be collected after the contest to make a respectable post- mortem, ors THEoverhauling of the delinquent and cancelled tax rolls of the county will fur- nish an enlarged view of local tax shirk- ors. Too Much Pharisaism, San Franctsen Chronfele, One member of the temperance congress at New York told the assombled clergymen and prohibitionists that they must make an actual of the wants of the workingmen before an expoct to do any practical good in checking the liguor habit. This failure to understand the laborinug man is the chiof source of weakness in all charitable and tem- perance work. Pharisaism taints the whole, and there is nothing which s so repellant to tho man who needs aid and sympathy as this | spiritual pride that puts the ageut of mercy e d help on o pijge and inducos him to hand out alms in kid for foar that he may bo contaminated HY‘!P touch of & hand begrimed with labor. e A Solnlnq the fce Problem. Nork Herald, Tt fs more thg bable that in the ecourse of a fow y\slnem family will have its loo machine aid maks the day's supply before breakfast. Yanlkée genius has solved harder problems than thi. et Thayer'a Best Support. Nagfolk News. The Omaha World-Herald’s report that Governor Thayoer was to accept a government position and not by a candidate for the re- publican nomination for governor is making him lots of friends, and it may yet succoed in giving him a thivd term if it persoveres, P -l ot n with Mr, Oleveland. New York Sun. 1t seems to have become a recognized joke n the smaller colleges to hold mock conven- tions and nominate Mr. Cleveland for presi- dent. In fact there is a lamentable tendency in some of the colleges to uso Mr. Cleveland as a sort of a substitute for and successor of that celebrated academic lecturer and human universal dictionary, the late Hon. Daniel Pratt, G. A. T. Such a tendency ought to be checked atonce, It is downright unkindness to make a man of Mr. Cleveland’s waist meas- ure write letters in hot weather. plicfier it Pretty Liberal Treatment., Cincinnaté Commercial. Congress has dealt liberally with the veter- ans. The bill reported from the conference committee adds about 0,000,000 to the pres- ent pension roll, and the next annual peasion appropriation will be fully §150,000,000. De- pendent parents, the disabled, the widows of all soldiers and their orphans are included in the bill. The service pension feature is omitted. The classes named above should of course take precedenco in pension matters. With the contemplated decrease of fifty or sixty millions in the revenues and the heavy inerease in the ordinary expenses of the gov- ernment the time does not seem to have come for 4 general service pension. Having -— Beot Sugar and the Tariff. cess congress should hesitate before it takes off the duty on raw sugars, depriving the government of $60,000,000 of revenue and sad- dling it with the payment of bounties which may soon run up to $10,000,000 a year. If Louisiana could furnish all the raw sugar the country needed the duty would not be taken off. Why should it be if in America as in Germany beots are to supply all the sugart Congress should wait to see about the beet industry. Ifit is to be a failure it should not be bolstered by a bounty. If a success it will need no bounty. The Nebraska experiment will settle the question this ensuing fall. COUNTR - BREEZES. A Precauntionary Measura, Mead Advocate. Census Enumerator Primley has ordered a cast iron patch for his pants, as he finds some peopie who are not convicts, and never were, but they are aw) rulk kers. Setting a Brother Itight. Norfollc Nej “The town of Bradshaw this state was lit- erarily wiped out of cxistence Tuesday night,” is the way the last Battle Creck Twin Frealk reported & recent calamity. The same thingawill happen to Battle Creek one of these days if the chimp: keeps on. T he Kditorial Mouth. ‘ecping Water Republican. We heard a ludy who attended the . picnic at Wabash on last Friday discussing the de- ious dinner she had, and it made our mouth water, so we concluded to announce that we were ready for all such engagements while our better half is away. Ladies, in planning picnic dinners in the future, we hope you won't forget u This Muse Needs Mending. NSeotia Herald, He who fishes and fishes and gets no bite, May fish again some other night; Aud if he would the finnies dead sure seels Let him go 'way down to Davis creek. Why We Are Sad. Long Pine Journal, Wearesad. Almost heart-broken. When we publish something that puts a strong man on his car and causes him to champ the bit and paw the carth with rage, we only smile. But when two or three of carth’s angels who have passed the “pullet’” age and may now be properly classed as “old hens” with Roman beaks come forth i their dignity and declare war because of something we did not say, then it becomes entirely a different matter, oS GREAT MEN. The kifg of Siam has a private fortune of &'MMM 2,000, with an anuual income of $10,000,- 4\|1|)I|\|| Busch, the St. Louis beer king, 15 at the head of an cstablishment which cmploys i,000 men, and he receives o salary of 50,000 & year. Senator Quay, itis rumored in Washing- ized surprise in stove for the ‘pepublicans in the shape of ieneral Wanamaker as a can- overnor. azed in solemn_awe one day last peetacle of the chief justice of United States supreme court going shop- ping with bis wife and carrylng her parcels for her. A histori ompiling the letters, etc,. of President Lincoln has finished a search of the records of the executive ofice of Ohio. But one autograph letter was found. 1t is dated April 23, 1364, and accepts the offer of the governors of Indiana, Ilinois, Towa and Wisconsin to furnish 83 100 Postaste \lhl.llv for 000 troops for The due d'Orloans, when ho loft his recent prison, addressed a letter “To the Conscripts of My 'Class,” saying that he was still bound to be a soldid and, “Keep me the place in the vanks which I dramed of—in jour midst, near the flag, T shall come and take i The Rev. John Atkinson of Benton Harbor, Mich., is_tio oldest living preacher in the United S » world., chur ‘Theodore Tilton is discri by a lady who ntly saw him in the new Salon in Paris. He has grown stout, and his long, White hair was pushed behind hi ud his face had o restful look poculiar to of leisure. He was sauntering around, y uncon- cerned about people or pictures and only caring to while away a moment of ennui. Wordsworth's cottage and gards which remain almost thesame as when he lived, ave to be purchased Jund put under a trust, like the birthplace of Shakespeare, s a permanent memorial of the pogt. e Poisening in India. The Bengal police have |u|hli~lwd the followinggextraordinary wurning to pas- sengers at all the stations on the Eastern Bengal Railway: ‘‘Passengers are here- by eautioned against taking anything to eat or drink from unknown porsons, as there are many whao live by poisoning travelers, They first of all court acquaintance with passenger in a sarai or some other placo and then gain their confidence on the plea of being fel- low-tra s going to the same place, When they roach a place convenient for the purpose they poison the water or food of the passongers, who become insensible, and then they decamp with all their property. They also at times poison ‘the passengers water when being drawn out of wells, or sweetmeats brought from the bazaar, or food when being cooked.” s e sy AUV STATE JOTTINGS, Nebraska. Elsie noeds alumber yard to accommodate the builders, who are now rushed with work. Isaac Krats, residing near Hobron, was found dead In bed the Other morning, = Heart disease. Prof. C. A. Dean of vatmr goes to Oakdale to assume the principalship of the seminary at that place, Dodge connty spent nearly $5,000 to find out that an ex-treasurer owed the county $101, which will never be eollected. ‘The fifteen-year-old son of H. Herman- sen of Howard county, was taken with hom- orrhage of the nose one day last woek and bled to death, The Strang Reporter complains that some person or persons entered the office, pied the and otherwise destroyed the goods, and ers $50 reward for their conviction. A number of wind mills in_the vicinity of Hardy were blown down during a recent l.v storm, and a stone school house, an old land mark, seven miies north of town, was de- molished. ‘iewunl has. c:r!mdt‘d £30,000 in an attempt to lupx,ly the city with fire protection and water for household use, The prospect at present for an adequate supply<s not very cheering. Rev. W. J. Oliver, pastor of the Presby- terian church at Fairbury, has returned from his vacation with a bride whom he secured in Pennsylvania, The newly married~coupls were tendered a grand reception upon their arrival at Fairbury. Bert Shellenberger, a young farmer near Beaver City, had his skull crushed by the kick of a horse. He remained unconscious for some hours, but finally revived and has good prospects of recovery. J. N. Young, residing about six miles south- west of Hebron, while attempting to take a curbing out of an old well, was smothered by the dirt caving in on him. When the rescuers re noved the dirt the man was dead. Mr. Young was an influential farmer. Captain C. M. Copp of Wahoo was recently martied b Salt Lake. Utah, to Clymena iss of the latter city. ’l he newly married pair returned to Wahoo last week to be present at the wedding of Captain Copp's daughter to LeRoy Mayne, formerly of Omaha but now of Ogden. William Hines of Lawn Ridge, Cedar county, was arrested last week and fined $100 for brutally assaulting a thirteen-year-old boy named John Johnson whom he had taken from the Kearney reform school. Hines chastised the boy with a cattle whip, cutting a deep gash in his face and lu%iuaopun one thigh several inches, The gash looks as though it had been inflicted with a_sharp instrument, but the boy insists that Hines kicked him. Towa Items. Sac City is over $10,000 in debt. Boone and Carroll are after houses. A Swaodish syndicate has pllr( hased a 1,300 acro stock favm near Dow City. A Scranton butcher found a purse contain- ing §20 in gold in a cow’s stomuch. Whisky cansed H. Lippett of Fairfield to commit suicide last week by shooting bimself through the head. Work has commenced on the Creston blue palace and the structure will be com- «d in a few weeks, Miss Lucy Smith of Toledo is suffering from a fractured collar bone, caused by fall ing out of a hammock. In the past six months $193 horses, cattle and hogs have been shipped by farmers in the vicinity of Morning Sun. One of the largest cornfields in the stateYis near Modale. It contains 500 acres and sev- enteen cultivators are kept busy turning the weeds down. O'Brien county proposes to build a 5,000 jail building. Heretofore the county has been paying out about $500 annually to neigh- boring counties for keepiug its prisoners. Towa City has raised $25,000 towards the erection of a Young Men's Christian asso- ciation building, Mrs. C. D. Close, widow of the linseed oil manufacturer, giving $10,000 of the amount. Frivz Dracr, a farmer living near Gray, Audubon county, while digging a well a few days ago found small quantities of gold at a depth of forty feet. He refused to sell out at a good round price aud intends to thoroughly investigate his find. The Cedar Rapids police found Charlie Ross the other ~they found him ina beastly stats of intoxication. While thoy were taking him to the station in a patrol wagon he assaulted his finders, jumped from the wagon and succeeded in losing himself again, The marriage of George W. Catt and Mrs, Carrie Lane-Chapmun occurred at Seattle, ‘Wash., recently. Mrs. Chapman _was for a number of years principal of the Muson City schools, and during the past year gained quite an extensive reputation as general lec- turer of the Woman's suffra, ociety. _During the storm at Sibley the other ('I'w ck the chimney of jos residence, entored the itchen, up the contents, then entered the bed-room and struck near a bed wherein wero three oceupants, passed around to the head of the bed, knocking the plastering off the walls and a picce of the bed post. The foot board was set on fire. After burning up two dresses it made its exit into the cel- packing p! e msatiis Biouder . Cole, assisted by the p trict and others. G e D. “ark, Ills., leads the singing. ston, IHs., ucts the bible reading, { and Rev. G. W. L. Brown of Rock Rapids, has charge of the young people's mass meetin, The Two Dakotas. ¢ shipped a large nment of butter to Boston lust week, Yankton girl refused to be married after lover had procured the necessarry mar- fage license, A company with a capital stock of $100,000 is being organized to establish a linen factory at Sioux Falls. William Noylty ing a poud on’ horscbaci, the dle and drowned. Grub worms are doing some damage to flax and corn in small portions of Brown, Spink, Clard, Hamilton and Codington of Highmore, while cross- was thrown out of i tle, 600 hl)r-w:l and now owns 2,000 heaa of thirty-two buffalo and "There are at present ninety-one convicts in the Sioux Ialls penitentiary, ffty-four boys u the reform school at Plankington inmates in the insane asylum at Yaukton. The committee h: ving in charge tho selec- location of the North Dakota college will moet at Grand Forks August 12, when_ final ac ill be taken, “The highest bid thus far is from T rles Juden of Sanborn county | to paint the city of Mitchell a deep lion hue and dashed avound on horsel oft revolvers and yelling. the hilarious young man and B was fined §20 ana costs, A Chinaman in this city has a_ garden ten foet wide at one end, twenty ut tho other and forty feet long, that hus produced wory . den truck this and will produce tion of th Methodi “han any whité man’s track pateh of an > of ground, says the Rapid City Republican White men could get pointers onugriculture from these same heathion Chinese, as it has been their study for centurios to' know how to_utilize cvery square foot of the land they cultivate, On the farm of E. county @ well was sunk placed in it, suy 5 There is one thing, however, that is puzzling Mr. Marston, He' says that'a flow of natural gus issues from the pipe and lifts the valves of the pump so that no water ean bo obtained. He, however, is elated over tne find of gus, which burns rapidly, giving a cloar light and foels confident that 'gas in paying qualitios for heating and lighting purposes is to be found in the »hmu., Marston in {Sully ently and a i -— TENN\'SI}N'H HABITS. He Shuns the Crowd, but is Nelther Gri Gloomy. Like most all authors, Tennyson does the greator part of his literary work in | the morning hours, between breakfast | and luncheon, and sometimes breaks the back of his work bofore brealkfast, writes Goorge Makepeace Towle in Frank Les- |lie's Muu'hl) His invariable habit is I to take a long walk L fore luncheon, ac- companied often by a friend, and always by two of his dogs. Thae afternoon and evening are given up to rest and social recroations. The poet is seldom, as we have said, scen in the streets of the metropolis; but oceasionally his tall, stuedy form, his bréad soft hat and inevitablo cloak, his nhuxm{ grizzled gshocks of hair, his deep dark cyes beneath heavy brows, and heavy gray beard, may be seen threading” the region round about St. ‘Paul’s. Although shunning the “‘maddening crowd,” it must not SL, in- ferred that Tvnn}mn is in a social sense ;irim and gloomy. When with a fow evoted friends, Iw delights in conversa- tion, and often takes F himself the thread of talk in fascinating monologue; deseribing, sometimes, the days of his own youth, and sometimes talking foel- ingly of the eminent people he has scen and known throughout his long life. Especially fond is Tennyson of reading extracts from his own poems to appre- ciative listeners. ““Reading, is it?" says Miss Thackoray. “‘One can hardly describeit. It is a sort of mystical incantation, a chant in which every note rises and falls and re- verberates As we sit around the room at Farringford, its great oriel- window looking the ;Irmdun, sowed daffodils toward the sea, where the waves wash aguinst the rock, wo s carried by a tide not unlike the ocean’s sound; it fills tho room, it ebbs and flows away; and when we leave, it is with strange music in the ears, feeling that we have for the first time, perhaps, heard what we may have read a hun® dred times before.” SOUVDS Ml\l) VISIBLE. The Curious Process of of Producing Pic- tures of Musical Notes. ‘When our fathors were told tha sun could be made to turnartist they told the early photographist to carry such stories to the muvines. Now, when we are told that pictures can be made by notes of music we ave equally in- credulous. But it is true, and Mr. Row- botham, in Cassell’s Family Magazine, tells us all about it as follows: A lady, Mrs. Watts Hughes, who orig- inally intended to devote herself to the art profosssionally, through failure of health renounced w public career and un- dertook instead delicate investigations into the nature of sound. The experi- ments are conducted as follos A hol- ver is procuved, over the mouth is stretched an elastic mem- The surface of the membrane is ed with a semi-fluid paste of consisteney that very light impre: can ho easily received. The singer then approaching the apparatus, sings on to the surface of the membrane exe greatest care that his notes are to across fields of hyacinth and sel t the sin- frularly stoady and perfoctly aceurate in the intonation of the given sound. At once the musical note mirrors itself on the paste, and in the wmost unexpected forms. The forms of flowers, Rs perfect as if they were drawn, occur among the rest, and, indeed, contribute the major- ity uf Lhc hvur«,a. Daisies, with every potal exactly shaped, ave common; lilies, as symmetrically made, are not rare. A change of note, or of timbre, will pro- duce a miniature tree on the paste. By some slight vaviation impossible to esti- mate the tigure of a starfish will appear on the surfuce of the membrane; an- other imperceptible difference of sound will lay, sido by side with the starfish, an ane- mone. Oceasionally the vibra- tions—presumably owing to an uneon- scious augmentation of force on the part of the singer—will imprint themselves in the form of shells, beautifully voluted, the wrinkles of the scroll being i ively indented that when photog they appear as if creases in tho pic Suddenly deserting these marine forms as capr sly us it took them up, the sound will croate forms, suspend bunches of fruit and othe adorn with similar emblems the sur When the sound is producing tlowers on the paste the singer can at pleasure increase the num- ber of petals by gradually making the tone ascend. At each fraction of a tone on which his voice rises, a new petal is added to the flower. -He can thus by a careful management of his voice increase a pigmy daisy that lies first imprinted on the paste to a gigantic sunflower, oceupying ¢ the whole surface. In the other form 2., the shells—this addition of piece by picce does not appear, and the scroll once fashioned remains. The forms thus produced on the paste are photographed whilst the membrane is_im sonorous vibration; or water color impressions are taken, which are transferred on to glass im- mediately after being produced. The advantage of the latter method is that the minute beauty and delic the forms can be i by s colors for diffevent HBY. Caipah. A Cosmopolitan Poet. The life of a poet us of a prose author most often uneventful. It ravely is abounds in startling cpisodos or dramatic situntions, writes George Makepeace Towle in I'rank Leslie’s Monthly. The history of the triumphs of intellect and imagination is unsually quict, and often monotonous. Throughout his sixty years of labor as a medical professor and is an author of prose and verse, Holmes has lived in the midst of men, cither in Cambridge ov in Boston, with busy streots and many human b as familar sights. While Whitt been secluded in depths of the ¢ and has sung under the quiet insp! of the lovely pastoral country Essex, “Holmes has alwuys chosen to dwell with the compact multitude in the metropolis. Of brisk and genial socinl temper, and with eminently social tastes, Holmes has boen in his person the he; known und most easily recognized of Bos- ton poets. Throughout all these yer and today almost as much as eve small, well-formed figure, his ov with its snapping eyes, its fringe of hair, its long, |u|unl beardless chi sant, smiling mouth, ha ' to the passers to and fro orbokied ! strebts,. Pooplo s the physical activity, the spring in the stop, aud nervous gait, which tells ved vitali “Holmes, too, h men on public and effectiv as he has made himself Bostonian on the str aftor-dinner son and fancy has he graced! How muny neat speeches in honor of this or that broth. man of letters or brother man of med as he made! How often has the pectant company around the board seen him t ke from his ot @ sheet of paper, written over his dainty and delicate chi- rography and read therefrom, with cloar and well-modulated voice, some gem of his latest fancy, some tribute to a great man dead, or some good-humored atire on the foible of the day! Up to within a rocent period Holmes always, for many years, attonded those brilliant symposin of the Saturday elub, composed of the ereme de la erome of the Boston literati, where the best, the wisest, the wittiest thing was said on every possible subject. Like] Browning, Holmes fims Wlways boen # thorough mun of the world, enjoying society, liking contact with humankind and gfml to amuse and teach young and old, y mingled with s cheerily in them, 21l known How many IN THE ROTUNY Dr. Morrison Munford, editor and proprie- tor of the Kansas City Times, made his first visit to Omaha yestorday. That he was sur prised to find on his arrival here such a well built, attructive apoearing town hardly ex- presses it. “I had formed a general idea," » said the doctor, *‘that Omana was quite an fmportant place, but hardly expected to sos 80 many fine buildings, handsomely p«vul/ stroets and large public improvements," Aftor looking through Tur Ber buildin, he declured it to be the finest, bosd oquipped and most conveniently arranged newspaper office in this country, | he continued, “I Lave scen nearly all tho new ones.” The doctor has been in New York recently. Speaking of Kansas City, Dy, Munford sald that the census matter had been attenct- ing more attention there recently than any- thing else. While the enumeration gives the city 150,000 population, ho thought tha enumerators had overlooked at least 25,000 people. Replying to an inquiry regarding tho polit- ical outlook beyond Nebraska's southern bor- der, the doctor declared that matters were taking an intevesting turn in Kansas. “The # farmer’s allfance of that state is attracting wide-spread attention. It proposes to put a full ticket, state and congressional, in the field mext fall and leading men are mnfldentofm‘r‘ssu tho polls. They are going to give some of the congressional districts a great stieving up. I beliove the alliance will elect its candidate in the Sixth, because Webb M. Hall, who has been nomin- ated by the republicans, is very unpopular, While the district is republican by 25,000 majority the prospects ave that this will be overcome. Kelloy of the Third is probably safe, but I am told that the others have great fears. Peters and Morrill have withdrawn, but Funston and Judge #Perks hope to be ro- clected. ““I'he important qyestion with many of us is to determine what course the democrats are going to pursue. 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