Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1890, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, CAUGUST 81, 18%0—~TWENTY PAGE & MEN'S SUITS O. Handsome Well tailored All Wool Suits, in latest Fall styles and Souvenlr , fabrics, made for this market. In fit and finish equal to mer- FOR THE LADIES. chant tailor's work, at but a fraction of their prices, Business Benutiful Souvenirs for the gantlomen, and Dress Suits made at our factory at factory prices. See | Sieon i coen vicitor ot gur formal prices and garments in our windows. opening Wednesday, September 3d. 1 All the new Fall patterns and cuts just in. Stylish, proper, durable, and at prices to suit every purse, \ Trousers from $2 up All worth twice the money we ask. sell as leaders. We maufacture them to Browning. King & Co. than any other house west of modations when down town. Browning, King & Co. R — THE WEEK OF THE FAIR 1S THE TIME WE HAVE SELECTED TO ADVERTISE OUR NEW STORE TO THE PEOPLE OF OMAHA AND VICINITY. NO ADVERTISEMENT IS SO GOOD AND NO IMPRESSION 1S SO LAST- ING AS THAT MADE THROUGH THE MEDUM OF KXTRAORDINARY VALURS, THESE WE GIVE THIS WEEK IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. THE LOW PRICES ARE TOO NUMEROUS TO QUOTE, FOR THEY EXTEND TO EVERY GARMENT AND ARTICLE ON OUR THREE DOUBLE FLOORS. FORMAL OPENING ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, DAY AND EVENING. SOUVENIR TO EVERY PERSON VISITING US THAT DAY. STORE OPEN EVERY EVENING. BROWNING, KING & CO,, S. W. Cor, 15th and Douglas. A HANDSOME new safety elevator) is devoted to this department. e and ladies’ toilet room attached. I.adies are requested to utilize these accom- OUR SPECIAL PRIDE IS THE MAGNIFICENT CHILDRENS Department. where we have more goods, more room, and more variety in children's wear The entire second floor (reached by Handsome reception room New York. They are alvays welcome. SPECIAL SALE ON SCHOOL SUITS THIS WEEK. Silk Han Gents' Furnishings. An entirely new line of every article of Gents' Furnishings, Underwear, Collars, Cuffs, Shirts, dkerchiefs, etc. Gloves, We take great pride in this depart- WHEN YOU BUY OF THE MANUFACTURER YOU SAVE THE MIDDLEMEN'S PROFIT, BUT THAT IS NOT THE ONLY ADVANTAGE IN BUYING OF US. WE NOT ONLY MANUFACTURE OUR OWN CLOTHING, BUT WE MANUFACTURE (T TO SELLAT RETAIL IN OUR STORES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES. THE POSITION OF YOUR MERCHANT TAILOR IN REGARD TO TRIMMINGS, WORKMANSH| AND WEAR; FOR WE CANNOT THROW THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFERIORITY UPON mi ONE ELSE, AND TRUST TO OFFERING YOU ANOTHER MAKER'S GOODS THE NEXT TIM YOU WANT ASUIT, WE GUARANTER OWN GOOD JUDGMENT. Socks, Ties, ment, and greater pride in the low prices at which we sell the articles. Formal Opening! I Day WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3. and Evening, eryone Invited, Our Hat Department. Deserves a visit before you buy your Fall Hat. and winter styles are just in. that are new to the Omaka trade. sell us, OUR GARMENTS, QUESTION OF OUR CLAIM TO LOW KST PRICKS 1N OM AH A T0 YOUR Soft and Stiff Hats at prices THIS PLACES US IN AND LEAVE THE The Fall We allow no one to under- and in the hands of its women lieth salva- tion. ing than artistic. If the artist hasany feol- ing of tenderness toward his subject the pic- ture will be a positive failure; for his ‘desire to touch her foot, place each hand just so, to turn her face just as he thinks it ought to be —which requires an immense amount of labor —the vesult, is usually one where thereis & blurred lot of femininity and a lotof rufies shown. Butjusttakea jolly party who are in for a good time,and saucy Miss Pert—who between you and me, is a Yankee—leans against tall Tom Beverly, whose rebel father was killed in the last war, in the position of the Huguenot lovers, Because John Millais fellin love with his wife when he painted that picture, it goes without saying that be- fore a week's over the Beverleys will be re- garding Miss Pert as a ‘nico littlo thing,” Jack will be_adoring her, and the old story will be worked out with the photograph machine. Commonplace, isn’t it! Do you think it 151 Never while the world goes round! There is a saucy widow here who thought “RAB” IN THE BALMY SOUTH, /A Glympse of the Belles Beyond the Mason and Dixon Line, TIER BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. In the first place, they are not ashamed to dohonest, womanly work, and in the next place, the neighbor who does not have to work recognizes the gentility (that's a good old-fashioned word!) of the worker, and the girl who saves the money to gether mull gown by selling the early strawberries or Taising a bed of violets and sending them to northern florists to be coined ivto gold, is not less respected because of it, but is applauded by having peoplo say, *‘What a clever girl Jim Gordon's Nannigis.” You can't but ad- mire this regard for the worker, and you can- not but Lhinfi that to work for womanly be- longings and ina womanly way is the best method of encouraging men to work, SUPPORTING WORTHLESS MEY, The best way to make a lazy man abusy one is to force him to realize that the women of the family have no idea whatever of carn- ing his trousers for him; but while things BRILLIANT ~ AND STATELY ~ WOMEN. Fair Damsels to Whom the Masculine Heart is Wax—Men With De- lirlum Tremens and Saints ‘With Slow Fever. Grerxsrier, Wit Sur.envr Serixos, W. V., August 25.—[Special to Tus Bre]—"But > fldon't think our men would likeit!” Two oft brown eyes are looking up into yours, ghd these words are coming out from two rosy lips, It's the belle of the White Sul- look dark are willing to do the best for them- Sh)‘l:;!ll‘ ::g;v J::fi t‘)‘fl%llll-iu;:i:}i) hrlxl\,v L“cysl::ul:lu;(; . ; | e, | when they o phur Springs giving you her oplnion as to | stlvesand the children, 1f he isa strong, | Wi B 00 il e boing in o drunken capable man ho can get his own bread and bis own belongings. But unfortunately the southern women who have male money have lavished it too many times on worthless, lazy men. A womansail to me the other day, “Did you ever know @ successful southern womon who did not have threo or four other peoplo to keep?' I had to confess I did not, and added as long as thore are old women and children it wasall right; but when it ‘what “‘our men like.” From her youth up her brother has been trained to wait on her: also from her youth up she has been trained 1o give you the pretty little thank you, tho affectionate little nod, the cavessing word that is so delightful to the heart of man, and which makes all the difference bevween the woman and the shirt-front. slumber with a French novel in her lap and a lot of empty bottles on the ground absut her feet—that photograph is equal to fifty tem- perance lectures, and it ought to_be bought up by the Women's Christian Temperance union’ (and the rost of the alphabet) and dis- seminated s a warning to the young women of the land, A woman who isa noted house- keeper didn't propose to be left out of tho photographic craze, so while the amateurs wora at work she sent out, borme by tho HMOW THE SOUTHERN BELLE LOOKS, Iis tho shirt-frnt that she Winka *oue | timos bir luuy, handsome mea Lwanted to | Sk *0f *iedih' 0ty oovered " wouldn't like much, T g rise up in my recently acquired Englishflesh | ity glasses of foamy oeg-nogg: this b @“:}::;ll:r’ S:;g;u;l_l;"ll;h:';\ff‘:f and knock down overy man_who wasn't old | Will ERsseS jof fortly (HEmORRS LR enough to putin an aged men's lome, who lot & woman take care of him. Invalids and drunkards would of course bo debarred from this combat, for women have been taking caro of drunkards ever sinco the world began, and probably will continue to do so as long as the world lasts. I really believo tho average woman would rather nurse a man through an attack of delivium tremens—a bad, human man, thin take cave of @ saint | gul’ yoathto photographic apparatus: bis throughh an attaclk of low feve opportunitics are many, and he has litle wit SRICEEND AN INBANTE, £} dovs not, kiow how to maka the best of But to return to what's going onhere. If | them, anything, the julepsare slightly sweeter, tho WOMAN THE CROWN OF CREATION, whisky used in them has o more olly taste—I | But hero everything retums to woman— mean this in a complimentary sense, for tho | sho issupreme. And I will tell you why men fake thx S ; co | like southern women, whisky that rasps the throat is not conducivo | Lke southem wemon, G to thojoyof a julep. It must go down ina f 1oi0™4n " opportunity to give & kiss, say o slow sort of tobboggan fashion aund all the | pleasant word, or todo akindly deed for the while you aro smelling the spiey flayor of man who uled theivhoarts, g mint and wondering who fivst discovered it, j Becuse they do not gossip very much, and who mado the first combination of | Rome,chitdron ind Busbands usually forming whisky, mint, and sugar, gave it its title, and | * }j made it one of the great seductions of tho se, whilo they aro intelligent women, they don’t quite like some of the latter-day south. You may go declaring you do not | books, they don't understand the mystery of like them; you may havean Engiish prefer- | Doriun Gray, and they adore a love story. ence for brandy and soda; you may announce It's love, love, love, that males the south- that the campagne cup seems to touch your | ern girl goround—every girl expects to geta heart in a facinating way, but once your foot is on the native heath of the southern girl husband aad to love nim, and she's seldom disappointed. Like Lady Amanda, she cries you meckly bow down to juleps, accept the one that 1s sent to you after the morning maculate. And to be alittle bit subtle, she is deploring in it the influence of the white linen. She stands up, and with her hands behind her, like the picture of Dorothy Ten- nact, says, “How would I look in a shirt and Jacket? ‘Well, it's a funny thing, but you dow't conjure ' up a picture of how ‘she ‘would look in a shirt and coat, but you seein- stend how she does look in a white mull frock, & broad sash about her waist, a bodice that is V shaped at the throat both back and front, and gives you o tantalizing glimpse of & white throat, & head crowned with soft brown hair, and a half French, halt Ameri- can face glowing at you. THE WAYS OF FAIR SOUTHERNERS, She has a happy time of it—this belle of the White Sulphur springs-—for iife here is a series of dances, mint juleps, and admiration, She can dance until her satin slipper Is worn threadbare and doesn’t tive, She does not 'wn 0 many juleps, but she manages to im- bilie them as a bird might, her pretty faco showing above the bunch of green like the flower that it is. She is adored by young and old, and the secret of her popularity lies in this fact, that she'll give up a dance with the man whose heart is all her own to hobblo through one with old Tom Gordon, who will porsist in dancing, though ho has & wooden of the girls wis auickly pppodinto tho hummock, and behind her stood the dusky servitor with her snowy beverages, It i necessary to say that this came out fully, and the effect of it wassuch that the work stopped, and the people had time to look at each other from some other than standpoiutof the camera, For pure outr: eous love-making I would commend the g “gracious heavens !" and throws herself into the arms of Lord Mortimer, and way down log, but who fought alongside of aud | dance, and wonder how you _ever | southin Dixie Lord Mortimer is always ready fonce saved him from being killed a\}"n"‘.‘g the thou,‘h anything elso worth drink- | to receive her. And ho ought to be, oufi'htn‘t war. She has a fominine interest in frills ana | W8, Next to the julep —comes tho | het AB, consumption of chicken, and though you et think chicken 8 good thing in its way, aud undoubtedly healthful, it does seem surpeis- Ing to see these southern women take it meal after meal and prefer it to the juciest steak, the most underdono roast beef that ever was served. Do they hope to becomo angels in this way! Are the feathers growingout of their shoulders, or do they think some special virtue lies in it that will make them young forever! If one wero honestly asked what is the chief industry of the south, one would hou- estly have to reply the infant oue, for no- body has less than four children, and most e m:‘ run thirteen anu fifteen. 'Ata wei- ng given near this plice not very lon, ) the great desire of the bride was 1o koep at old darkey, named Aunt Lizzie Howard,away from her,' becauso sho posscased a mystic power known as ‘the laying on of hauds," and which ensured the Lapgy couple s hand- some and healthy pairof babies before the year was over, A BOLD WIDOW'S SHOCKING PICTURE, Everybody—that is, everybody that is in the swim, is having her photograph taken by the amateur, the result being wmore interest- frivols, but, like her English cousin, rather inclines to cotton frocks and to wear her best BOWR on one occasion and the one that was new last summer on anothor, while the *‘real old one” frequently describes the limits of her wardrobe. Of” course there are women here who dress superbly, much more magnifi- cently than at many of the northern watering gm., but they are the wives either of to- cco kings or railroad capitalists. The soft southern speech and the Emuy southern gal- lantryis infectious, and hard-hearted, cross- Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg. i 2 lhd el Very Close to ft. I asked an old colored man who was rolling cotfon in a warehouse in Macon, says o writer in the New York Sun, whether many of his race didn'tspeculate more or less in the staple, and he prowptly replied: **Heaps of 'em, sah.” “Did you ever buy any futures your- self?” **N—not *zactly,sah, but I cum mighty clus to it once.” **What stopped you?” **De purleece, sah.” **But why¥" **Kuse I was gwine out of de yard at ll\)lgll:l.”wld 200 pounds of cotton on my uck, grained old brokers find themselves'saying polite nothings and making awlkward but to whoever may have at- ‘well-meant tracted their admiration. The northern man s as wax in the hands of the southern woman . and if she had fought the war she'd have won t, for she never would bave given up while there had been a man to compliment, She ’4 of doesn't fight her foe with the tierce weapons sarcasm and wit, but with the pit¥ul re- uest to be told all about something, becguse *'you know so much” and the coquettish in- quiry, “Now stop thinking about all the groat problems that arein your mind and tell e how you think I look ' Undoubtedly in Muesouth the feminine clement is the stronger, - AR Announcem nt. C. B. Moore & Co. have been appointed wholesale agents for the celebrated waters of Excelsior Springs, Missouri, - IT WAS A FULL VACATION. Experiences During o Two Weaks' Outing in Central New York. EXCITING SPORTS AND PASTIMES, Uncle Sk Goesto Church, Kills a Pole- cat, is Almost Caught for a Suckerand Enjoys Him- self Generally, The boys all knew me when I came back and took my seat at the old desk. Evidently I haven't changed much in appearance sinco Istarted on my summer vacation. And wha a vacation it was, Away less than two weels still somuch was crowded into that short space of time that it seemed as though months had elapsed since work was deserted for pleasure, * I have been to New York—not to the crowded city, but to the country in the cen- tral part of the state, Away from the rail- roads, surrounded by lakes and woods and glens, it was just the place for rest. And 1 rested, although retiring to sleep every night thoroughly fatigued. But it was a fatiguo which did s man good and made his rest the sweeter and his snove tho stronger. 1 **put up” with the **dominie” of a coun- try church and so was received into the “highost social circles” of the little vilage, 1 say little village because whilo1t has 2,700 1nbabitants, 1,700 of them are underground. The cometeries are crowded and new ones are being laid out, whilethe town itself has the appe: being in_the sear-and-yellow-leaf stage life.~ White heads and” gray bea nate, and everybody takes lite cas men are few and fa enterpriseure things past. ‘While the town has no railroad, it has the ghostof one—a grade. Seventeen jeurs g the road was begun, tho line .graded, iron bridges built, and then the projectors became discouraged and abandoned the enterpri walked along the roadbed, across the rotted timbers ofa bridge approach, and thought of the dead booms whict were lald away so tearfully when the railroad was abandoned, and the solid jron of tho bridge seemed a monumentto their memory. Sunday I wentto mecting with the preacher in the oid Yone hoss shay.”” Out in the coun- try, with no o’her structures in si the horsesieds and tho grave ston the churca, But on the road le; the four points of the eompa s predomi- Young between, and push and ot the aliost forgotten ing from s strings of ve- hicles were drawing upand depositing their human freight on the front porch of the meef house, The people stoppe chatted, paid visits to the grave yard sur- rounding the church, ‘and then filed in and took their seats before she pulpit. ‘When Ientered the plain-looking building and was ushered into: the front pew, I was givena genuine -urg:‘o. Spacious, hand- somely unrfiuwd, eautifully decorated, overything harmouious, heatéd by steam. With pos;{bly one or two exceptions, there is not achurch” in Omaba which can compare with this “meetin’ house” in New York. Andstill it is located in the open country, away from all business and residences, and the congregation comes from o radius of soven miles, Evidently going to church is morea part of business there than in the rushing west, Death seems neaver in a “deal town and_the people are evidently prepuing for the ‘great change,’ Speaking of death reminds me of life in- surance agents, I met one while I was away who was s dandy. He was fishing and so was [, 'We were on the bauks of the beauti- ful Keuka lake at O-go-ya-go. The fish didn't bite very hard and the insurance ‘g-‘nl was disgusted, He walked over to me nd opened conversation. I kept on flshing. He sald he believed he had seen me before, I'shook my head. He thought 1 was mis- taken. 1'still nodded negativoly. Where did I come fromi The west] Did I carey life insurance! Al this time 1 kepton fi h- and ing, but when he spoke of insuranco I saw the'fish leave in shoals. I hauled in my line. Then my new-found friend began angling for me in earnest. He baited his hook with the dangers of railvoad travel, but didn't got abite. Then he changed tackle, referred to lake disasters, steamboat exlosions, drown- ings, ete. I was still shy, Hespoke of heart disease, apoplexy and typhoid fever. I nib- bled just to show him I was sorry he wus playing in hard luck. 1 will never repent of my rashness. He hoolced me. There was no more fishing for fish; he hada human on his hook and he played hardto land him. It was an exciting straggle, lasting all day in spite of my utmost efforts. When thé steamer was reddy to leave he was still bent on his nefarious work and continued it during the passage to Penn Yan. Thero ho reached for me with his landing net, but L escaped him. His parting words were! “I can take you tomy oMice and insure you in ten minutes and_yow!ll have five mintes to catch the train.? T caught the train, but uninsured. Imeta man from Denver. Ho told me about the great west, with Denver right in the center of it and the only prosperous city in tho whole region, Whei, he found I was from Omaba he got mad and wouldn’t talk. “The lady from Chicago was taking a trip and ran across my pathway. She didn't scem to be having @ good time, Once ina whileshe brightenad up when iuforming n new acquaintance of her placo of residence, “the city that's going to have the worll's fair, you know.” She advertisedthe Windy it comparing everything she saw with Chicayo sights, and the ouly timeshe mani- fosted real pledsure was in passing a pig when sue remarked that the ai lightful, so like Chicago.” T'he east is a great country, It's the place for sports. Think of two weeks shooting woodchucks, snaring frogs, eatching turtles, hunting hen's cgies, going pervy attend” ing a chureh pienic, fecding o threshing mo- chine, milking the' cows, killing a polecat, swimming in the mill pond. wading in mavshes for cattails, going to town for_ the mail and fighting ' mosquitoes at night. There's a full vacation for you. Uxcie St sl Dr, Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg. Yy ot PEPPERMINT DROPS. Very few] persons their Hirst sea voyage. Odd, isn't it, that a knight can beentitled to the degree of A. M. “Great cry and little wool” s birthis heralded in New Guinea, The professionai diver seldom fails in busi- ness, but he is continually zoing under. Crops are short this year,” remarked the convict as the barber took off the last hair, Spain has made Moroceo come_ 1o terms. Elhu emperor says there will be 1o Moor trou- o, The English have boughtall the American brewerics and are now going for tue Beering sea. About the first thing that strikes the man who runs aaway is the scarcity of places to run to. The nickel-in-the-slot m itself, niclkel. T'he poet is an idyl fellow, and t prob- mn,\; \hy the publle stanza Yorse Lo beings odo by ‘him. A love letter is never so interesting to other people as it is to the lovers themselyes, but itis a good deal more amusing. ason why they kill spring chickens ey are of no earthly use except ial way after mufl quit laying. Timid Wooer—Gladys, I've been calling on youfor a long time. = Gladys (yawning)— Yes, longer than you can imagine, Why, that clock is at least half an hour slow. ** Parker,” cried his lordship to his valet, “listen; there is & band approiching to ser- enado us, Can you catch the tune?’ *You are wrong, me lud,” returned Parker; ‘“that is not & vand;-it is a mosquito.” A fashion writer says that a person who is well shod, well gloved, and whose headges is what it should be is always certain of con- sideration. It mne’ be remarked with still greater truth that the person whois *well heeled ” has a mortgage on the ertire visible supply of that article, hold their own on the way a chine never robs When it is nov working it keeps the S Dr. Birney cures catarch, Bee Bldg, —— Drinlk Exe Isior Springs Missouri waters. THE LOVES OF THE OTOES. An Aforetime Drama With All the Embel~ O ishment of a Modern Setting, HOW EAGLE EYE WOOED WILD GOOSE. An Indian Story of Real Life That Rivals Shakespeare's Romeo and Julict—The Tragedy * of Greggsport Hill. Nesraska City, Neb,, August 30. —[Special to Tue Ber|—Away back in the timo when Nebraska City and the surrounding country was yet in its swaddling clothes, and the white man was astranger here, a real drama of lite was cnacted upon a rude stage, the scenic effects of which, being furnished by nature, The actors in this real drama of life, which was witnessed by your correspondent’s in- formant, who was at that time an attache of old I"ort Kearney, were untutored in the fine art of the mimic stage, for they were abori- gines, who claimed tri relations with the Otoes and Pawnces, and in those days had their abode comfortably, and sometimes un- comfortably near Nebraska City. The drama was a rough imitation of the parts of Romeo and Juliet, and its tragic ending not unlike the last scene at the tomb of the Capulets. this real drama was t so euphonious, but for she proved oose’”’ of the chase, as well as the of the Pawnees, and her Romeo Jodthirsty Otoe Indian, known to the natives round about as Hog Mouth. His Indian title was more rvefined and harder to pronounce, but was abbreviated by the settlers to plain Hog Mouth for con- venie: sake, because his strikingly hau some features suggested the porcine patro- nymic. 16 tbex stax actar of {his star company was one Eagle Eyo, a Paw rave,who wus known as the laziest Indian in the territor and yet the smoothest thief in all the settie- ment. While Eagle Eye loved the Wild Goose of nistribe with alithe fervor, a lazy, thieving apable of, ' was 10 stance when compared with his hatred for 1 ndsome Hog Mouth of the Otoe The latter gentleman owed his facial de- rmity to a wmidnight attack at some carlier period, and he possessed a scerct pelieve that L e should be held re- spousible for ity, It was apparent that while they were both in love with Wild Goose, th ad no love for each other, and it occ little talk in the villuge wheu Eagle Eye crawled into the settlement oue fine morning with his body punctured with holes, for it was known that Log Mouth carried a wicked knife, Nor was ita surprise after Bagle eye vered, to learn that Hog Mouth's ugl ness had increased and that he was minus one eye, But theseskirmishes were only the advance agents of a great three-ring circus perform- ich was about to take pl se was partial to the and her Pawnee adm reven One night in the early 50's, Wild € tents of her people to meet her plcturesgue Otoe loyer. wandered along the towering bluffs that skirt the murky Missouri on Greggsport hill, unconscious of the fact that ;-n')und them deuth lurked in the person of dag 3 The attack must have been quick and de- cisive, for when the dead bodies of H Mouth and Wild Goose were found the ne; morning there was 1o evidence of a strugglo. They had met aswift and sudden death at the hands of the murderer. 0 brave, er sought for bloody the fall of & year in ose stolo from the mont, but it was had met his desor own people. Hog Mcuth and Wild Goose we y 1 that he d fate at the hands of his buried together where they were found, with a come lete outfit to stirt housekecping in the happy hunting grounds, and their bones re- mained undisturbed until a short time ago when their burial place was needed for mod- ern improvements, and it is believed that the skeletons recently unearthed at that spot were those of the murdered Indian brave aud his dusky flancee, g RS Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg el SINGULARLIYLES, Mrs, Jacob Yerick. of Jackson, Mich., hasa sunflower sixteen feet high aud still growing, A fifteen pound pumpkin has grown in a tree in ox-Sherifft Moore's garden at May's Landing, N. J. Texas hos a_double-headed cat. Tt is per- fect in form except the two heads. It has four eyes, four ears and two mouths. Georgia beats the world in babies, Tha wife of Will Leunon, a_painter, in Macon, has given birth to a chila weighing forty pounds. A large chestnut tree, mensuring eighteon feet in circumference at the base, was struck by lightning in Mr. Mercer's pasturo field, near Frederick, Mo, and split in the censer from top to bottom. There was no storm ut the time. A drake owned by a Neversink,Berks coun- ty, Now York, man, killed and dévoured four- toen chicks in'one day. During the summer ty young chickens and ducks have been 1 , and 1t is sufe to say that they were gobbled by his drakeshi Abuer Dorsett, anegro living in Hickory Mountain township, North Carolina, hus the lavgest head of any person in thé United States so far as heard from. It is thirty-two inches in diameter and gives Abuer a décided Stop heavy'” appearanca, Mrs. McGill of Salt Lake City went to market and bought a cockerel for her Sunday dinner. She found in its crop a nugget of gin gold that sold for £. Besides fruits and vegetables, Florida raises ratilespakes in great abundance, A farmer who lives near Tampa says he has killed thirty large rattlesnakes in his neigh- borhood within a fow months. The last one wis 7 feet 4 inches in length. The Tampa Tribune vouches for the veracity of the farmer, A gamehen died on W, R. Gamblo's place at Cuthbert, Ga., a fow duys ago, This hen had reached the ago of fourteen years, lack- ing only a fow weeks. She continued to lay egis until a year before sho died, For sove cral months she had been totally blind, The skeleton of a large amplhibious animal was unearthed ut Shellville,Cal. It measured twelve feet from the cranium to the tip of the tail. The jawbones are four feet long. The fore legs are five fect in length, but the lind logs measure but ef are jointed only at the hip. The toes inches long. Sl'wo strong tusks project from the upper juw, and on the skull are two horns of three branches each. The skeleton was found in a stratum of clay twenty feet below the surface. It was impossible to preserve it entive. A remarkable vegotable or horticultural curiosity is tobo exhibited at the noxt state tair in” Californis. Several woeks ago a grapevine growiog in close proximity to sn applo tree was found to have a bloom similar to those on the tree. Finally o handsome applo has developed, which will be exhibited 48 ubove mentioned as proof of an abnormal growth which seems to bo natural grafting. Henry Wies, the clerk at the natural gas well at Fort Wayne, Ind., is the possessor of a remarkable cat, which he keeps at his home on wost Main strect. The other evening the cat gave birth to five kittens, all alive. One peculiarity about the litter 1s the fact that ulthough thero are five kittens, they are all togother from the middle of the back to their tails, There seems to be a union of flesh and vital organs, which are united in a peculinr manner, The kitten or kittens has, oc havo, five distinct_heads, aud ten front foet, well developed, There ‘are but five hind ' feet, cach kitten ha he feline Siamese quintetteseem to be heulthy, - A Notable Report, ‘“For disordered mensturation, anarmia sterility, it may properly be termed a « from Dr. W, . Mason's report on the waters of Excelsior Springs, Missouti. rsaniibulalisy Dr. Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg,