Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1890, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, WUGUST 31, 1896--TWENT BROWNELL OF OTHER DAVS. The Original Hall Obliterated from the Face of the Earth. P ORIGIN OF THE FAMOUS ACADEMY. How It Attained to Its Present Stand- ing with a List of Scme of the Noble Women Whom It Graduated. A single rickety chimney, pierced here and there by rusty thimbles, marking the stove- pipe holes of days gone by,is all that rears i unsightly head above where, twenty years g0, 5t00d the proudest as well as one of the most noted institutions of learning in the city, On the east side of Seventeenth street, be- tween Jackson and Jones, has stood for o brownish-red, threc story frame structure, with brick basement, which was the alma mater of many of the wost prominent women of Nebraska, Althoughof 's its walls have not echoed with the sounds familiar to thestudy hall and class-room, and though they have been for some time devoted en tirely to temement purposes, it once rang with girlish laughter as the leaders of today's upper tendom and the mothers of many of the present promising “buds” romped through its classic halls, It was the Brownell hall of the old days, and though far from being as pretentiou: structure as the Brownell hall of tod nawe and fame were not of which it was the pri Brownell hall w founde Bishiop Talbot as a seminary for under the auspices of the ¥ il ent h street st its primary location, however, as it was first stablished outside of what was then the city limits, the old Saratoga Springs hotel being purposes, and it w hat Brownell's first class began their academic studies At that time Bishop Talbot presided over what was known as the jurisdiction of the northwest, including the vast territo of the Kansas line between the Missouri river and the tern ocean, The - in 1883 by oung ladies, pal chu cture was not fumish comfortable quarters for two doz pupils So unsatisfactory were the accommodations that within a few years it was decided to build a new hall, and the enteenth street site was selected as the most suitable location for the new buildin, A lot was purchased of Mr. Herman Kountze for §1,500, and that gentleman pre- sented the college with the adjoining lot, which furnished all the ground that was ‘then deemed necessary for the purpose in view That w in i8S, and the new building costing $10,000, was erccted under the direc- tion of Bishop Clarkson. It may here be ed that real estate at that time was much higher than it became years afterward, and as recently 1880, twelve years later, adjoining lots that wi fully as desirable in way could readily be purchased for £1,00," and two of the cor tiguous lots were offered for $1,5 }rrh © that hud been paid for ore, and one tuat time fol ot years be- these lots was sold about red a consid ng upon ts exter carter of usefulnes: stitution w corporated, and of the original incorpora Colonel Champion S. Chase, Henry W. Yates, Hon. J. M. Woolworth and Judge G. W. Doane still retain the places on the board ees thut they have held for the pas ty-two years, building wus 50x60 feet in five room: For a few years the structure was found sufficiently ample in size and appointments to ~mecet the” demands made upou it, but the ruthless march of time soon outstyipped n., aud its accommodations were found to be wholly inadequate. The institution was nnmby growing in public !avnr, and to meet the demands made upon it it was found necessary in 185 to make another change Whereby the present magnificent buildin acious grounds and beautiful chapel on »ut Tenth street were prepared to curey on_tho work that had beea 50 auspiciously begu This building ia m "the shape of an H and i 200 feet long and 100 fectdeep. Ithas three full stories, basement and sub-base- ment, and cost i&r,llx!, exclusive of the fur- niture, which cost $20,000 more, The south t completed, but it is believed it will be necessary to col“plcw it at once to provide necessary necommodations. 1t is unnecessary to speak at length of the clegantly furnished parlors and reception roowms; the spacious halls and cozy apart- ments, where the "rupila are provided with more than the ordinary comforts and con- veniences of home; the large study hall, with its beautiful stained-glass wluduws and desks for 140 ambitious students: score of class rooms; the dancing-room © music-room, with its dozen of adjucent tice rooms, eaoh with its music rack ana plano; the dining hall, the chen and laun- 5 ry, and so ou ad infinitum. They are all uu.m, and even more, and they ave the pride and delight of the student as well us of the visitor, It is hardly necessaryto see all of the rtmeats of this structure to imagine the d fference in the accommodations provided for the Brownell girl of twenty years ago and those furnished her younger sister of the present time, yet it is very doubtful if one of more recent graduates of (he institution takes a bit more pride in her alma mater than the one who walked forth from the pos tals of the recently demolished structure Seventeenth street to euter upon the great battle of life, The graduates of the new Brownell have but recently passed the won and come face to face with the stern realities of every-day life, while those who left the shelter of the older building in the e cars have long since learned to_appreciate he careful training there received, and value it accordingly But is there, after all, so much between the dear, old Brownell of yesterday and today, or of today and the future? We read of progress and advancing civilizatios but in these mutations of time is there any chaoge in human nature! A1 those old rafters and dusty corners could have spoken, and those sphinx-like walls of the new temple of learning could be induced to speak, don’t you supposc that there would be a remarkabie similarity in the tales un- folded into our willing ears? Weren't thera dear friends sworn to life long fealty, then as now ! Was it impossible to exchange the most derful and confidential secrets twenty - difference ago! ‘Were little jealousies and heartaches un- heard of in that former time ! Did not girls then consider themselves in duty bound to fall madly in love with some strange youth, good-looking or other- wise, just because some circumstance of the mecting suggested & tinge of romance! ‘Was some slight touch of sentiment ever then mistaken for the bursting of the mighty . post fon ¢ Were quarrels followed by the painful yet plenunl“nmklnu up” in sobs and tearst Perha jm not, yetold Brownell could surely have told us differently. What a pity that it "hes passed away, with 1ts countless harmless scerets unrevealed. In its latter days, when the mice scampered fearlessly across its attic floor, while the spider, Uhdistorbed, spun her silken mesh Reross the rafters, old Brownell may bave re- flected on the hapriness of earlier years, but Was 100 true a friend to betray any of its con- fidences. ‘The friendship and rivalry, the pleasure and pain, the joys and the heartaches that ! th rted themselves are not for the public knowledge, but they live aguin in many bearts when thoughts of the old hall arise. Old Browuell has gone, and in its place will shortly rise the walls of & comum which will be its monument, The e{:uph must be written, “It died ¥ictim 10 the progress and civilization that ~= At had fostered and encournged, to make room for llfl'h'ur not as it was, but as it desired o Among those who will subscribe to this sentiment are the following who ouce trod those classic halls, Whegp not otherwise sated are residents : Mrs, Burr, Mrs, Flemon Drake, —— Mms, F, Willis Yate Mellona But Chicago, M. Mrs. Tda Tilden, M. Miss Minnie R. Wilson, Miss jeld, Mrs, Joy Morton of D. Barkalow, Miss May heodore L, Ringwalt, Mrs y Dundy, Miss Mrs, » Miss ‘remont, Miss Jennie Wittem, Osie Abbot of \Iw~ Anna Nilsson of Fremont, Mrs, L uld wold, Miss Lulu Shears, Mrs, Will hambers, Miss Wiggenhorn of = Ash Miss Elizabeth G. Hal Blair, Mrs. 1iss Flora Castettor mith, Miss Mary C. | Thomas of Falls City, Miss Minnie Comfort of Logan. Ia, Miss Lucy E Burgessof Plattsmouth, Misses May and Carlotta Craw- ford of West Point, Miss Ethel Davenport of Nebraska, Miss Leola Carter. Dr. N - Birnev cures catarrh, Bee bldg | inifiinn. LITERARY NOTE) The Forum for September will contain i ¢ on ‘*Money Interests in 0 itor of the New York I vening Post, L. Godkin. Inthe same number, Ser nm' John T. Morgan of Alabama replies to Senator Chandle cent article on “The Federal Control of Elections.” Harper’s Young Peoyle for containe the last instalment Howells' juvenile seriul, *A Town.” Mrs, Custer's new hook, “Following the Guidon,” has just been published by Harper & Brothers. When the young TLord Dufferin reached his majority his mother, Helen, countess of Gifford, and granddavghter of Sheridan, pi snted him with a silver lamp and poem. He built a tower as shrine for the lamp and had the engraved on a gold tablet. Lord Tenny son, touched by this ideal deed, wa by the . August 26 of M. Boy's moved to write a poem, which was ulso engraved on vgold tablet, The story of iy told inthe Septem- ke, Already over six thousand copies of “Five Liitle Peppers Midwuy,” a sequel 0 Jade l‘l\x' Little Peppers and How Th Grew,” have been sold in the last t months, It is understood that Mr. Hopkinson Smith, the well known artist, who has 0 recently written some charming articles upon Mesican life, will appear as a novelist in the coming year of The Cen- tury. FHis first novel, a five-pag “Colonel Carter of Cartersville, begin in the November numbe “Pierre’s Soul,” Georges Ohne novel, bids fair tor ful story, ‘*Dr. Rameau.’ lished by The Wav Louis, The August number of the company, St. Jenness- Mill lly full of mat- ter, the physical eulture article leading, a8 "ustal, © Kate Kaoffman discisses 1g Ty pes of Beauty' ina particu- Mabel Hayden con- '|-|'ul »oem, while the edi- torials are timely «I|Id well considered. The Worthington company,New York, has just issued a strong dramatic story of French life entitled itherine’s Co- by Camille DeBaus, translated “The Pyat, a rival of Felix has ]uri ved from the pi Benj, R. Boston. *The mnovel combines m n{\h eare and the rea- son of Molie Heinrich Heine, Among the latest books issued by llumhnlul publishing company o says the great critic the York *Physiognomy and Exj sion h) Pablo Mantegozzy, *‘The Quin- tessence of Socialism” by Prof Schaffle, and **Du sm and Politics” by David G. Ritchie, M. The eleventh volume of the Library of American Litevature, just publis containg additional selections biographies of all authors whose W In rs are included in this collection, This olume completes the work,which covers thu entire field of American literature from the time of Captain John Smith to the presentday. It contains selections, in part or complete, from the best works of American authors, not only of those whose numes are known to fame, but also of many a forgotten favorite, whose works are thus preserved from oblivion, In this work is found the gleanings of the best American thought, embracing a period of almost 300 years and ranging in variety from the negro melody to the sermon, Dr. e 1 Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg ) L] Whatever feats of endurance men may accomplish they cannot live long withi- out sleeping, The vietim of the Chinese + ‘waking torture” seldom survives more than ten day Those condemned to die by the waking torture, which is infi- nitely worse than the death suffered by Kemmler two weeks ago, are given all they wished to eat and drinlk, but when- ever they close theireyes they ure jabbed with s} arp sticks until they awaken, says the St. Louis Republic. There is no torture more horrible, Men sleep under condition of bods ily and mental suffering. Those con- demned to die, even though they fear their fate, generally sleep the night be- fore execution, Soldiers have been kuown to sleep when ona long and wearisome maveh while walking in th vanks, or lying on a bed of stones or the mud and water, Noone knows just what sleep is. The prevailing theory as toits nature is thatof the physiologist, Preyer, who holds that refuse r atter ac- cumulates in the nervous centres in such quantity as to bring about insensibility. This Insensibility is sleep, which con- tinues until the brain has been relieved of this waste matter by its absorption into the circulation, 3 — - Dr. Birney cures hay fever, Bee bldg. e On Snake creek, a few miles above its mouth an cld man of the me of Chalker lives all alone who is so familiar with the t h snakes that by common eonse: d Suake Chalker, writes a Mc i o correspondent of the New York Sun. His WITH ITS CLITTERING EYE. The Snake Oharmed the Manager so that He Couldn't Mo, A STRANGE MONSTER OF HISTORY. Sixty-Eight People Carried Off by the Beast—Snakes Her Only Friends —Raising Rattlers for Food. If ever a man's hair stoodon end through fright that hair belongs to James E. Irwin,as- sistant manager of the electric light works of Plainticld, N, J. He had an experienco the other night which he will recollect until his dying day. Feeling tired he lay on the lounge in his oficeand was. justdozing off into a pleasant little sleep when hehieard a rustle among the waste paper in the baskot. Lookiug at the basket M. sransfixed, and the sight Irwin became he beheld Started & the cold perspivation from every pore in his skin, Ahuge snake was slowly gliding over the top. When its tail reached the floor it coiled its body and swayed its head, black eyes being fixed on Mr. That gentleman s its glistening Irwin, s he uppeared 1o lose ail control overhis arms, legs and body. He could not rise from thelounge and he shouted for help, but the noise of the machinery inthe big room adjoining drowned his cries. The snake then uncoiled itself, and, witha sinu- ous motion, started for the lounge. The spell over Mr. Lrwin scemed {0 be broken, and seeing a big wrench on a shelf the wentleman jumped off the louneeand mude for it. The snake saw theact, and then ensued an awful batle. blow nd missed it, but hit the reptile ¢ Chree successive times did Mr. Tvwi ! the fatal blow, but each tin Withits body crushed wher had fallen, the reptile writhed and twisted avain endeavor o reach its enemy, who w now dodging around the room, keeping cle The ofticeis a sr ith one ol and as the sna door Irwin w A prisoner. rashed Watching his 1 in to close quar rell-directed blow erushed the and ended the fi | snake’s he: Mr. Irwin then and together they me It was seven feet one in thick cally i long and th aman’s arm, Those who ts spucies, was as In March, 1 Picrre Despaire bear and wild atire, which 'S was a mixture of man, made its appearance he St. Louis several prov- boa: near Gevaudan in Franc Republic. During the summe inces were terrorized by t (ho unc v lllll\' which, <].mmx| 1o hay frightful % tor, the t the b; \ the body ofan 4 il of a lion, the claws of 4 wolf and horrid, mocking lavugh of a famishing ng to this woman's stor head of maa, 1y drawn over it of & death-heac suuks in but was disl ing, Wl ew it was Is and @ boy, BONC 1O @ pasture b soue g In theafter- noon of the ¢ day the head of the boy was found in a ravine. No other trace of their whercabout discoverea. The peop stricken, and they \\n\'l 15 ture ouly in squaids of tvzely %! to separate lest the brute would devour them, The legislature of Languedoe offered 3,000 livres for the animal's heud, actually sending out u detachment of mounted soldiers in search of it. In January, 1765, only about three weeks after the boy and the two littie girls were killed by the thing, it attuckel some children who were herding sheep in the mountains, but ull escped, per hllps by, the brute taking a feast of mutton instead, T day but one following it sppeared aguiv, this time careying off one of the childr 1t was next heard of in the vicivity of Mezel, where it several vied off one woman and children, besides, an old account aking the heade cleane uv a man,” iazette de ance publisied u full ac- count of these rav in { "ebruary, 176, and the king offered 6,000 livees to the p lersons that would capture it l)uhmlu el of the di hunt, dressing his men as women, and v hem attended by chiidren. The hunt wasa lure and the desolator kept up his es during the spring and sumuer of 107 13 September 20 of that yo killed by Siear Iteintardt, 5 allowed to see the creature except the xll(mlllml prunrds lmdfl the d\llu-n’ Orle; ans, ith- standing’ two reports, one of W i was a black lion, the other that it was a Rus- sian wolfneither of which seemn 1 it is known that it killed carried off not less than sixty- nuhl dren from December, men, woren aud chil- to Septem ber, 1343, A singular character, by name Martha Ann Tillson, and who was known as “the snake woman,” died near here Salem, V. al to the Pittsburg livea in a little cabin at the of Twelve O'clock Knob und led a_ hormil's life, having no one to share her \Ilr(lJ(' o snakes. By th to the inte abin it is said to have literally swarmed with her strange c panions, with which she which were to be seen ly te and slept, 1 in Ber bosom and coiled about her neck, body and limbs when ever she was caught Sight of. Her extraordinary predilection for these unpleasant creatures is ed to arisen from a morbid feel like them, hated of men, formed, she 1 th fectly sound in mind, of 80 sensitive a nature as to render her miscrable and une in the presence of uny but her was observed to steal away eve can of milk and on being followed w: to be ssing a dozes or so hideous r es, while they drank from the v ch she held her lup, Horrified, h ents tried to reason with her, then to punish, and finally to confine her, in an en- deavor to break her of her fondness for the , butshe jinedso for her pets that nml she would die if kept from them. she naturall for, ived in addition an i ific while an infant, and, tho found ttle- large farm lhies along the creek, extending up ir woman of ubaut forty - on cither side to the very top of the hills, On abundant_ and one occasion, whilo passing that way, the | long, which shé wore in & pumberof tieht writer hitchied his horse at his gate and 'went | plats, which, combined with her Jeformity T to seo Bim. Hanging up il around the | And the odd, misccllancons style. of dress) old-fashioned riruplaco T observed what up- | tho result of her refusal o' hold commm peared to be dressed eels, preparing for the ble. They were exceptionally large of their kind. aud T usked where he caught such lurge ecl ols 1 said he. uukes.” “And what are you them 1" “Iat them. They are much finer than eel.”” Passing toward his back door, he said : “Come out and see what I have yavd.” In the yard were snakes by the score; all kinds, but blacksnakes and rattle great numbers. How he caught t “Those are my rattle- going to do with in the . served to make In- 3 She wi tion with a_fellow-being @ most remarkable looking object. looked a witeh by the negre d of theeyil eye, and bated and feared her accordingly, though her life wes a most harmless, quiet one. She had beon dead some dags when discovered, aud her dead body was literlly covered by @ writhing mass of snakes, whic | had to be Jilled before it could be remo | forthe veptiles turned viciously on all ap | proaching the romains, Ou ber heartwus | found colled & huge rattlesnake dead, Jesse Jomes, a farmer living near Cola Springs, ten miles west of Lawrenceburg, Im}mlnh n where they were, e explained ollows : 3 Cou sco these tubs,as I call them, in which 1 keep them. These are hollow logs sawed off about ten foet long, burned outand made smooth inside, so the snakes can't get out. I place one eud of the log, or tub, about five feet in the ground. I then put the suakes down—about tweuty or thirty in each tub, aud keep them, feeding them every day until Twant to use them. Snakes, you kuor out of their dens on warm, pléasant d: lie on the rocks to sun_themselves, small stick with a croteh at one end. proach them quietly, and placing 1 ap- the crotch on the snake's veck, hold it firmly down until I'put a stout pin |hmulh his lips. Then, twisting it about 50 he can’t open his mouth or bite, I ill wy pockets or a basket and take lh»m home and replenish my tubs, When nake to eat or sell I'shp & noose over hll h\nd aud bring him up.” o B4 AT Dr, Birney cures hay fever, Bee bldg. Ind., passed through a most thrilling e Tpor: ience the other evening while at work bind- ing wheat on his farm, says the Ciucinnati Enquire He had stooped to gather a sheaf of wheat in his arms to bind it, and while holding the bundle to his breast for that purpose a lar, black snake glided from the ~sheafof gra ana As ho felt its o lammy body tightening its folds around histhroai he dropped the bundleof wheat and excitedly clutched the | rapidly enfolding reptile with both ¢ strove to tear it from his neck. T . creased the ruge of the suake and twice it bit him—ouce on the armand once on the hand, at the same time throwing a coil of its body arouud the arm and with its strong folds pinioning the timb and drawing it close 0 his _neck, rendering it uscless. Jones, fully realizing the terrors of his uation and unable to scream in & loud voice, n.ruefl;d with the uurestrained arm o P furi- oled his neck. d, Drs. Betts & Bells 1409 Douglas Street, OMAHA, NEB. 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W / ( ‘gu (///-’ /\K\ W RN \W“‘ ( NO! e Jy ety L nextdayor lese Lranches, Penm ¢ Practical Department, b, The others w ushp, Shor inthes ate ddress, ull unor RA] HBUN, him to death by ‘ r 1l N Iding the reptile ent, it from biting him agai its power of squeezing the b condi- his | The hur his He started toran in that r pare of the field where l\“fl\'fl]l)" were working. young fellow coming . und, divining from strange actions it sornething was wi hastened tomeet him. Nor did th him any to 1, for with the heat, e ment and galo he w. poor fellow's strength him, and to h upon the squivming twisting Rnsie® would have enabled it to have exerted its full strength s tightened its powerful k, choking hiin to death. had it entwined its body about the n's throat that the two men could | uncoil its stroug folds. The father knife aud cut the hving released the un- that be could and had' 10 be assisted to the Hishand and @rm were bitten and swelled to an immoderate size, but as the bite not polsonous no serious apprehension is felt on 'that account. With home remedies freely applied the wounds are expectad Lo cause no inconvenience after a out of him. tion to anoth father and Mr. men spied the riedly toward t 80 mwl\ st l.ul house. tile and its stub- born, aggressive fight azainst the man was considered unusual, but ‘several old farmers acquainted with tne peealiarities of this strange snake s that hot weather, and thirst make that specids of reptile fiercely savage, and that it is not ffifrequent for them toattack nun and beast. Often they will coil themselves about the legs of a cow and hold the animal in place until they have ex- tracted from her udder all the milk their ap- pepite craves, Afterseeing Jones to his home and caring for him, the men returned to the field and ctures do nct represont our faculty, measurcd the dead snake, and found its iength to be G feet and 1 inch, Jones declaves that mo money could ever induce him to undergo again the torture he endured during twenty minutes he was almost helpless in the embrace of his snake- ship, and says that at timesit seemed as it his eyeballs would burst from their sockets. Ouly by keeping his presence of mind was he able to resist the dizzy feeling that preceded unconsciousness, which he kuew would allow the snake to unresistingly choke the life out of him, There may not beanyof the big sea ser- pents that ‘sailors tell about but Captain ireen, who commands the three-masted schooner, Abby H. Grem, knows there are mall ones, for he has caught and eaten two of them, says a Philadelphia special to the St. Loul.luepubuo. He brought ANt et his book Penmimship faction Tuiranteed or nioney refunde dn fron Green, to all who are sk The one with pa on in another fssue nbstantiate his statements, invites pical to come aboard aminethe skin and head aving the troublad look, isthe hook-keeper of Rat nd it worrleshim, as he must have bis work rady itht by Actual Business Practic 2 free to Shorthand scholurs. Our sehool s topa fous, Ibun & for the Fnzlish is the oldust Tho e entering in September will recdve 10 per cent dlscount. EWING & CO. Georgetown with a cargo of lumber f The poison of the snukunnmcd Mrs. Rootso and anchored off Kaign Pownt. When s seriously that for il days she was not 1| came ashore he told his stor: Captain | expected to live, being mostof the time delir- The venom finally succumbed 1o treat- ment and Mrs. Root gradually recovered, being able to get out of the house for the first She bad her which he hus presery greater por- | time 1ast week. Yesterduy she went into tion of their flesh w by Captain | the yard to hang up clothes. Green and his crew, 1all agree thatit was | clotiespus ina muslin bag. She the skipper were seen | ptain Green got sooner were the lines than one of the peculiar fish bogan to gnawat iu less the bait. 1t was take to tell the tale t and hy efforts of the wh was landed on side of wond kit other, eral minutes it kicked After this one was tried his luck again smooth and not & breath of and fthe water was took the bait and pulled Captain G een sang out for help and sey came to help him bau fougght like & tarpon, sometines and then divir ssel's bottom. n Gree overpower this strange animal of the se of the wal neath the v minutes Capt at last the line parted Soon after e caug first and ate it. in parts clos on amuch la mous head y resem tost meat thiey had ever tasted, just off Cape Hatteras , baited the hooks and went fishing. lod on bourdtho ship by le crew. strength. chopped its head off, and even then for se Bav ptain Groen des serpent as being eight feet long anc about one hundred and fifty pounds. 1 o scale, bat it had_an enor- The eyes were like those of a Light on id, “when strange laying around the ves- was seized shock of exci finger to her shoulder, her finger from the bag by some very heavy cod No 1the hag on the ground until she was ready to useit. When she thrust her hand into the bag to take out some clothes pins ler middle finger omething, and instantly a ating pain flashed from ler She quickly drew nddropped the g over the vessel’s stern {on the ground. The lustant it st ruck the ground o copperhead snake ram out ie than it woul and hurried away in the grass. Mrs. at the fish was caugl Root's cries brought aid to her, hut she the combined | became blind and delirious befare could When the catch jumped about from one It was possessed Captain_Green be taken to the house. precarious state, she will surv perhead venom into her sysi still affected by the first ¢ head and 1ts mate w grass not far from where Mus, bitten, and both were killed, Two cows und a horse and Dr a whilo up a great disturbanc dressed Captain ( n. The on sea was quite wis 10 be had <l found dead and days of last week. The owner beli they had been poisoned bya hired hud discharged, and over the traffeail. lh- alof the crew The fish f\nnpin;: out d 1 in the fish. the ful ture v ne) n und crew struggled to , but across he was st and discovered in him the deadly coil marsh rattiesnake, reptile and went no further, massassauqua and ot killed his cows and horse. S — and it escaped. ht another fish like the ribed the weighing of & massuss bled that of & rock fish, Sheis now lying in a Ball donbts that this second injection of cop- it was The copjer- e foind in_the high Roor running in pasture on a farm adjoining the Root place were much swollen on differnt. ved that an he he started for the jus- tice's ofice 0 swear out a warrant for the man's arrest. On his way to the justine's took ashort cutthrogh the pas- iere the cattle had died. When half artled by ashril rattle, bunch of ‘gnss shead of g, or He killed the poisonous Ho knew that the hired man bhad human being, and some of the sailors Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Beebldy, believed they had hacked the head A e of the devil till convinced such European Navies, could mot be the case. Caplain (ireen says the voyage just completed wus a remarkable one, He ever; uch parliament, has harpooed quantitics of ville-Reache, an offical reporter caleu- large dolphins and brought them on board, lated that between 1571 and 1800 Eng- Those who know Captain Green place | land spent on her navy 4,335,916,526 ) onfidence in his story, and while many | franes; France, 8,63,054776 " Gorman disbelieve in the existence of the seaserpent, | 1,000,724, 404; Austria, 470, 115,67 T they think it extremely probablo that e bas | 17701, 105,568, ~ Russla, 197 lkm Ly discovered a new species of fish. the whole amount ux;wndui by her Mrs. Mary Root of Mamsbury, the day be- | France devoted 85 per cent to the con- forethe Fourth of July wis ,bitten on her forehead by a copperhead snake while she was putting @ pie on the swingshelf inher cellar, the snake havi in some way and Iyl Lis vessel to- | Galion, 0., dispatch struction 9l new ship cent; England, 41 per cent; ng climbed to the shelf ng there coiled, says & % the New York Sun. Russia, 39 per Auslria, 44} per cent; Germuny, 574 per cent, ——e Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Beo bldg. WATCHES, Ete. Our sales on both DIANONDS and WATCHES have been UNUS- UALLY LARGE of late, ovingto our CUT' PRICES, Our stock of MOUNTED DIAMONDS was got- ting prettylow,so ve hive justset a large " number of CHOICE STON o OUR OWN IMPPOR~- TATION, and we offer them at a SNALL ADVANCE ABOVE COST, The settings comprise a large varioty of Sl)l.l'FAIRE and CLUSIER RINGS, SINGLE STU DS, EAR-RINGS, BROACHES LACE PINS, l"lul\l)A\'Ti HAIR ORN AMENT , SLEEVE BUT- TON'S, COLLAR BUITTONS, BRACPLEIS, NECK LLACES, LOCKETS, ete. SPECIAL DE- SIGNS OF SETTINGS mude and LOOSE STONES of all sizes MOUNTED TO ORDER. Rubies, Sapphires, Eneralds. Pearls, snd all other precious svones, mounted and loose. OUR GREAT SIAUGHTER SALE of WATCIHES is still in progress . SOLID GOLD WATCHES for Lt 815, 820, 325, 830, 835, 40, and unward. "LEMEN'S SOLID GOLD 1ES of all kinds, ap tu the (nmstgrndus(hlgm Wal- tlam, Howard, etc). LADIES md GENTS FINE GOL.D FILLED WATCHES, American movements, wirraited from 15 to 2 yewrs, only $1475; worth $25-anid upward, OLID SILVER WATCHES 75,88, 810, £12, §15 and up. NICKISL WATCH 18, $250, .75 and SOLID GOLD CHAINS AND LOCKET ROLLED PLATE CHAINS AND CHARMS sold at REDUCED PRICES to purchasers of Watches during this salo, 5000 FINE SOLID GOLD FIN- R RINGS from$1 10 10 cach, %% \Valch Repairing a Specitlty. NOTMCE—Strangers vising the aity wre respectfully invited tocall and take alook through our estab- lishment, whether wishing topur- chase gools or not, MAX MEYER & BRO, Sixteenth and Yarnam Strcets, 5, INGANDESCENT ELECTRIC LICHTING, Are Lights and Motors, Enall Fleetrle Tight plaits fir stores, fioe torles, hotels ote, u pocilty. d= ence sollcited. H H. 1TUMPHKE ingand in 1 Bullding, Ousha Bonc s tivs and Forelns Comirien, Write %“‘%mwmwxmr recnmending |t 1O Il W fere: . 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