Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 17, 1890, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1800, IN THE MARTS OF COMMERCE Bubjeots That Oonoern the Producer and Consumer in the World of Trade. DECLINE IN AMERICAN WHEAT EXPORTS. Our Frport Figurcd Must Be Sus- tained by Manufactures—Trada with Central America—TRo« lations with Mexico. The imports of flour from the United States at o single Brazlian port (Suo Pedro) de- clined in a recent twelve montbs 4,300,000 pounds, says the New York Hard ware, The peoplo there have begun to import ‘wheat and make their own flour, and the next step will doubtless be the growth of enough native wheat to supply all demands, Indeed, nothing is more probable than that South Anevica will, at no distant day, cease to draw upon the outside world for breadstuffs, Mcanwhile Russia and India are threatening to displace American wheat in the markets of western Europe. All this need not alarm our farmners, however. It long has been the fashion to discuss our exportation of wheat as if upon that depended the pros- perity of the American farmer, whereas, in comparison with the immense aggregate of farm products, it peally cuts a small figure, There are even now well-informed author- ities who expect to see every bushel of wheat grown in this country needed for home con- sumption, just as the great state of Illinois, which once boasted of being *“‘the granary of the nation,” now falls short of supplying all herown population with b dstuffs, The farmers should welcome the change which dncreases on American soil the number of }mqnihle consumers of their surplus wheat, or the samo classes will also consume and make profitable the growing of many minor farm products which cannot be exported. It is a vain hope that ‘‘reciprocity” or any other legislation can make s market for *a single bushel of wheat” abroad. No country which can grow its own wheat will ever want ours, except to make up a deficiency now and tnen. Iorty-five years ago Rovert J. Walker, tary of the treasury, did much to get the policy adopted of trying to mako a market abroad for American wheat. The re- sult was to stop the building of furnaces and rolling mills and to close hundreds of those already existing, while the exportation of breadstuffs declined, during five vears, more than two-thirds, Tt isplain that our country has been more successful in making home markets than foreign markets for grain. The problem of the period is what shall be exported instead of wheat, More than lialf the world is just becoming fully the need of other manufa S knives and cotton goods, aad many new fields are fresh for the development of trade. This is understood by the manufacturers of Great Britain, who, a5 s00n 1s a new industry 15 es- tablished in the United States, begin at once to look about for a new market for their dis- laced surplus products. For instance, the ron and Coal Trades Review (London) is of the opinion that within a year this *‘valuable market” will have been lost to the British tin plate manufacturers, but it counsels them 10 keep up courage, because it may be possi- bleto create new demands for tin plate in China and India, The use of tin for tea chests has been suggested already, The American manufactiver may restas- sured that long after South America and Australia, and even Africa, have becomein- dependent of the rest of the world on the food question, they will remain buyers or foreipn factory products. The contest of the future for export trade will _not lie between the farm laborers of the Dakotas and the peasantry of Russia, but between our metal workers and textile manuficturers and their competitors in the old world. The makers of hardware—a term wonderfally far-reaching in its scope—have more reason than any other class to be interested in this contest, It will depend upon them to no small extent whether, avhen American wheat is no longer needed abroad, the columns of American ex- port, figures will continue to show an increase instead of falling off. Our Central Amnerican Trade. Senor Federico Mora of Costa Rica, - who was at the Sherman houso in Chicago the other day, isin this country making arrange- ments for the starting of & newspaper for the Spanish-American republics, touching the agricultural interests of those countries, says the Chicago Tribune. “One reason why American goods are not mora largely sold down there,” he said, “is that the people don'tknow what they are. They have neverseen any of your reapers and mowers and labor saving devices. They would buy if they had samples. The A meri- cans easily lead the world in agricultural im- s, and what is necessary to develop a with Central America is to the goods known. 1f it could be arrangel so that atten- tion might be paid to the careful crating and cool storage of fruits the trade with the states would be immense. Now it is con- fined aimost exclusively to bananss. You people up here don’t know what bananas are. The bananas shipped here are cut beforethey aro ripe and the proper flavor is never had here. The oranges grown in Central America are as good as any Sicilian oranges and far superior to the Florida oranges. The pine ppies you get hereare from Cuba and are ur and woody. I have never bad a good pine apple hore. Down in any of theSouth Ameri- cau countrics they grow, only for local use, the sugar-loaf pine apple, which is white and bas a most dellcious flayor and ;l]cnty of juice. The sapodille is & ruit rarely seen except in New York or New Orleans. Itis perhaps, the finest fruit Iever ate. As for pineapples, they do not require cool storage. They shon'ld bé crated and given a free circulation of air. They would then keep for a long time, If anybody were to offer 2 cents apicce for pineapples at,any port of the Central American states he could get millions of them. He would make an im- mense profiton them at 25 cents apieco in this market,” “What do you think about reciprocity 1" ‘1 am afriid you haven't got the founda- tions laid for it. Coffee and sugar are the staplo exports of the states of Guatemala, Nicaragun, Honduras and Costa Rica. Costa Rica prodices bags of coffeo per an- num, with a total population of 200,000, 1 supposo the whole production of coffee in Central Awevica aumounts to $30,000,000 a year. Sugar is grown with even more case than in Jumaica, and the sugar of the world could easily como from Central America, But sugar and coffee are on thefreolist, and ifyou trade with Central America their staple goods already come in free, while you ask them to take off their duties on your'products, You have thrown away your sugarduties by whic you could have made the wade. By the way, he best coffeo never comes to the Unite States, Tt all goes to England. A small amount of No. 2 comes here and nearly all of No. 8 grade, the inferior, blackened, shriveled berry. The reason of it is that most of your dealers sell the coffee already roasted, and as the people can't tell the difference they give them the cheapest grades. The Amevicans won’t buy our best coffees,” Commercial Relations With Mexice. Mr. A. Parres of the City of Mexico spoke hopefully of the prospect of closer commer- clal relations between Mexico and the United States to a reporter to the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. “The railroads,” said Mr, Parres, ‘*solve tire problem, With their advent the mantle of exclusiveness falls, There are hundreds of Americans doing business and pushing manufactures in all portions of Mex- ico, and the day is certawly not far distant when the bulk of Mexico's business will come to the United States instead of going across the ocean. Scarcely a trace remains today of the old-time prejudice aguinst the American people, and “the idea that they are oup conquerors had been relegated to ancient his- tory. Under Presidont Diaz, who, by the way, will be roclected to another' term of four years, the entire country has flourished, #nd lusurrections and revolutions are becom- ing athing of the past. Diaz 1s essentially & man of peace, and as a result of his policy the views of our people have widened so that e ook upon our mear meighbors in the | United States in the lightof friends and brothors, There Is a steady railvy dovelop: ment, which is constantly opening up fields for tho capitalist. From what I have seen of St. Louls during my briof visit I must say that a most favorable impression has been mado. Mexico has about the same population, probably 475,000, although a half million is claimed, and the result of the cen- sus which is being taken is awaited with interest, rly Necessity of Importing Food. With a population of 04,000,000 and with an area in cereals, hay, potatoes and tobaceo os- timated at 3.01 acres per capita exclusive of the area in cotton—and, excluding 6 per cent as the proportion of such product ex ported— we find that domestic consumption equals the prodict of 2,84 acres per capita, and that the area devoted to the growth of such arti- cles for export would furnish subsistence for 4,100,000 people. In other words, an addition of 4,100,000 to the population would, aside f rom the cotton exported, absorb the entire product of our farms, writes C. Wood Davis n the Forum, The product of the fields of America will, in 18505, be no more than sufficient to maintain the 72,000,000 who will then inhabit the land, Gratting that our estimates of the area now under cultivation, and of the pro- portion of products exported are correct, the probabilitics are that American agviculture, with acreage yields increasing slowly, will continue for years to supply the world with twofifths of its cotton; but that it cannot, after 1805, provide for home neads and fur- nish aught but cotton for export. Tho cessa- tion of the exportation of food will be im- mediately followed by imports of breadstuff, and in_the very improbable ovent that therd shall then exist supplies of grain sufficient to the urgent demands of Europe, of andof the tropies, such imports will augment, from year to year, in nearly the ratio of the fncréase of population. The Dia [ar The world's stock of diamonds has increased enormously in the last fifteen years, says th Jeweler's Weekly, In 1876 the output of the African mines was about 1,500,000 carats, last year it was nearly 4,000,000 carats, and the syndicate which controls all the principal mines asserts that it has 16,000,000 carats in si ght. Meantime the demand for diamonds has greatly i sed, and they are higher in price than they were a year ago. In one respect the digmond industry is dift- erent from almostall others, Its product is never consumed. Of gold and silver a much larger amount than most people would believe is literally consumed 1n the arts past vezovery, but a diamond once cut goes into the world’s great stock and is liable to come upon the market at any time. The world’sannual pur- chase of diamonds, which appears to besteadi- 1y increasing, even at advanced p ndex to the amount of its surplus earnings 1t can afford to expend in lux Lead and Zine in Missouri, Mr. John P. Conner of Cross Timber, Hick- ory county, Missouri, isin the city, the guest . W. Pitzpatrick, says the Kansas Yity Times. Mr. Conner is the superinten- dent of the Pomme de Terre mining com- Speaking of the development of the -al lands 100 miles fromKansas City and twenty miles south of Warsaw, Mr, Conner said: “We lave just discovered a bonanza in lead and zine. The vein of lead is eight inches across and it has come tostay, Prof. Sdmund Walters of this city says that the mines are the richest in the west. Dr. Stine of Kans y, the chumist, says that the veins produce in this v v 1,380 pounds of lead to_the ton and 1,260 pounds of zinc to the ton, We expect thlt our mines on this bank of the Pomme de Terre will pro- duce more and better zinc aud lead than any. other in the state.” i S — ART OF THE {SEAND. Picturesque Railroading 15,000 Feet Above the Sea. From Lake Titicaca to the sea is a railrond journey of 825 miles, all in Peru, over the Andes and across a desert, says a Poru letter inthe Phila- delphia Record. Starting at aneleva- tion of 12,500 feet, the road rises by gradual ascent to the extraordinary altitude of 14,666 feet, the highest that whoels turned by steam have ever at- tained, This is a point called Crucero Alto, ahout midway between Puno and Avequipa. A few miles from Crucero Alto is Vin- cocuya, the very loftiest village in all the world, unl t may be some of those in central Asia, 14,360 feet above the sea: It is higher than the colebrated mines of Cerro del Pasco, higher even than famous Potosi; higher than either Quito, Ecuador, Leadville, Colo.; nearly twice as high® as the Alpine Hospice of St. Beraard, and if one were to put another Mount Washington on top of the present one its summit would' still bealmost 2,000 feet lower down than Vincocaya. Tho Andean village is purely a creation of the railrond and hoasts of all the ad- juncts and a relay repairing station, as well as of a so-called American inn, Bl Hotel Empresa. Why “American” I do no know, as the landlord and his wife are rosy-checked, hardy-looking Ger- mans; and hardy indeed one needs to be to live so near the stars. Prof. Orton of Vaussar college was obliged to passn night here, and accustomed as ho was to the mountain air from his life in_ Quito wrote that he could not sleep at all, but spent the time panting for broath. Ttis always bitterly cold on the moun- tain tops, and at Vincocaya, we pick our way from the car to the Hotel Empresa for luncheon, in a driving storm of sleet and snow, we console ourselves with the knowledge thata few hours more will bring us down into a region of perpetual summer time, to the ever-blooming roses and soft, warm sunshine of ol Arequipa, the Inea *‘Place of Rest.” Far as the oye can reach the soil of the higher altitudes looks like a vast bog covered with patches of snow and short, coarse grass growing in bunches. As he storm increases to a raging blizzard, whitening the landscape in & few mo- ments, the domesticated llamas and al- pacus run to their corrals for protection, while guanacos, vicunas, and other wild creatures huddie together to keep warm or skurry away to sheltered gorges known only to themselves, Un- doubtedly those ‘‘four sheep of the Andes” belong to the same family, the alpaca being @ cross between the llama and tho sheep, and the guanacos be- tween the vicuna and the llama. As we slowly descended to lesser heights the great mountain, “Misti,” which stands behind the Avrequipa, seems to come hospitably forth to meet us. Though only 18,650 feet high, this inactive voleano is one of the most baau- tifui inall Southern America, being a cone of perfect regularity, crowned with snow during most of the year, while eternal summer reigns atits foet. Closo by Misti, apparently, but in reality sep- arated from it about seventy miles by the plains of La Joya, is another snow ropped sentinel called Coropuna, n 23,000 feet high, Then there is Car- chuni, a little north of Misti, about 19,- 000 feet highj Pichpicha, to the south- ward, 17,800 feot, and El Ubinas, only 16,000 feet, whose latest eruption oc- curred late in the sixteenth century. . The Tanceas a Uavalry Arm. In treating of the great advances in the military armaments of . Europe it 1s customury to devoto all attention to the increase in the different militavy ostab- lishments of the greatpowers, the or- ganization and numerical strtngth of the various branches of the service and the measures adopted for the speedy - mobilization of vast troops,says the New Orleans Picayune, The maval equip- ment of the different countries has also absorbed a large shave of attention, and it must be admitted that the details of naval advancement, even down to the in the wminor matters of armament, have attracted mowve atten- tion than the equipwent of the armies of the powers, Nevertheless, the details of the land ' for more and more attention atthe hands of the general public, and the improvement in small arms andthe oquipment of the individual soldier are being more minutely dis- | cussed. One of the recentimprovements illl\a been the arming of the German cavalry with the lanc This fas been done presumably to meet the exigencies of a possible war with Russia, where the German cavalry would be compelled to contend against the Cossacl The lance is looked upon as a very formida- ble cavalry weapon, and its adoption by Germany will doubtless be soon followed y_France and Austria, The British army will also adopt it, as recent reports claim that arrange- ments are being made to change the ar- mament of cavalry regiments in the British service by giving 1o the front rank men of every squadron a lance in addition to the saber and carbine already ried. And thus the advancement of military science goes steadily on in Eu- rope, while with us things remain on a dead level The lance would be useless in a thickly wooded country like that cast of the Mississippi river, On the plaing of the west it could be made available, ¥ service are cal mF iD SULLIVAN, How John L. Expressed His Admira- tion of “Davy (rockett."” ““1 saw John L. Sullivan in his play at the Haymarket last week,” said Edwin Corbin, the syndicate lawyer, to a re- porter for the Chicago Times, “and that reminds me of something funny I saw John L. do in Pittsburg once. B hz\Ypl-lu-(l to drop into a perform- ance of ‘Davy Crocket’ one evening at a Pittsburg theaterwhile on a visit tothat town. Sullivan at that time was the ‘star’ of a traveling theatrical combina- tian, half variety and half athletic, and was on tho bills to appear at another house in a sparring act after the play. ““To advertise his presence all the mors thoroughly John L. sat in a pros- cenium box, dressed inevening clothes. Beside him'sat his then wife. [ saw by his face that Sullivan was completely disgusted with the play on the stage. Those scenes in which young Davy Crockett makes love to Eleanor seemed to bo especially obnoxious to the big pugilist, At tender passage he would turn to his wife and make certain motions with his head, which always ac- company expressions of weariness when made by gentlemen of Sullivan’s temper- ament and characteristics, Finally he became so heartily sick of the le business that he turned his broad back squarely on the stage and gazed up at the galleries, **But a change came over John in the act where Davy and Eleanor nave taken shelter in thelog hut in the woods and are besicged by the wolvi The simu- lated howling of the savage animals first recalled Sullivan’s attention to the stago and the play. The supreme dan- ger and the heroic courage that must meel it as depicted in the scene touched the most susceptible chords of the fight- er’s nature. The wolves howled outside and thrust their blood-red fangs through the chinks of the hut. The bar thathad secured the door wasgone, In some way must Crockett fight the beasts. The prospective combat interested Sulli van, He leaned forward and peered into Frank Mayo’s face as keenly as he would have watched the features of an opponent in the prize ring. At inter- vals as the action progressed he would turn to his wife and make remarks, at the same time nodding his head ap- provingly. **When Crocket bared his right arm and heroically thrust it into the iron brackets which should have held the lost wooden bar Sullivan joined in the ap plause with all his mighty strength And when, in the next scene, Crocket took his arm, torn, bleeding, and froze from the door where it had been a 'l ing barrier’ and held it up, Sullivan leaned forward, and, in a voice that reachea the highest gallery god, said: ** ‘Now dat’s what I call actin’;so I do. Seet?’ SN Expressive it Not Grammailical, The life of a South Water street com- mission merchant contains more prose than poetry, says the Chicago Tribune. There is no particular inspiration about butter and eggs, cheese or potatoes. Dressed chickens and long-necked, serawny turkoys, -dangling from iron hooks ina dingy back room, do not ap- peal to one’s artistic sense. These things are the “familiars” of the Water street man, and it is not surprising that he is inclined to take an eminently practical view of life. Once in a while, however, a ray of humor shoots across the dreary tenor of the commission man’s existence and re- ves the hard, dry prose of the street. Once in a_ while, too, the South Water street dealers receive some ~humorous letters from country customers, Here are u few specimens: Meester ——: Plees send Me yure pris list of pordus sich as Butter, egges, Pourtry, an oblije, Another letter read as follows: Gents: They is alarge amount of Honny in This country. i hav 50 Coleneys of bes. the balluns of ‘my navers is about the sume. ostseript is added to the effect that cago will have to Pay well this Winter for Honny to Spred on Pan- calkes.”” Here’s a man who evidently knows more about geese than grammar. He says: Deer Gents: i hav sum good Gees. do yo want these Gees. what will you ziv for gees, ef you want thes Gees i will Send them by frate rite Away, N. B. let me know about these Gees rite away. Other equally humorous specimens are by no means rare. Life on the street may be on the whole prosy and monoto- nous, but it cannot be said that it is to- tally devoid df humor, e A Physician on Fasting. A physician who spends most of his ime in his office in Central Music hall thuilding, in _speaking to a_ select class which he is instructing, said to a reporter for the Chieago Tribune: *1f you gormandize one day and fast the next; if you sit up a S night stay in bed the next day if you can; if you dissipate in any manner let as many hours of rest and quiet follow as you give to the dissipation. I do not elaim any- thing original for this. I believe Napo- leon I. was the first man to I)rux'luim its officacy and to practice it. It was what he called restoring nature’s equilib- rium,” Speaking of the fast which the Italian has just begun in New York, the physi- cian lecturerrelated this: “Thave recently had my attention called to a statement made by a celebrat- ed doctor about fasting men. 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Address, Send Check, Post-office Order, or Registered Letter at our risk. hera flower. “Why not do it like this?” said the lady. “Yes, that is very well,” ho replied, **but, you see, I shail bet here—pointing to a ‘spot about five feet off on the stage—and how shall T get to where you are?” “Take a hun- som,” his instructress jocosely replied, thinking he was in fun,” “It was a long time,” she adds, ‘‘before I came to re- alize that it was a serious matter to him to stir five feet on the stage unless he had planned out his movements before- hand.” As to gifts, the first, we are told, is a good heart, *“‘without which no man or woman can act well.” Beauty, it is admitted, may greatlyaid; but, like a favorable criticism, though it can at- tract people, it ‘‘cannot make them stay.” In brief, an actress may get on without beauty; but she is warned that it will be impossible to achieve dis- tinction without the three great requi- siets: “Imagination, individuality and industry.” —_— THE PICKFOCKET'S ART. A Devotee of 1t Dilates upon the Beuu- ties He Sees in it. “There is no class of artists,” said a renowned thief to a reporter for the Kansas City Star, **who in theiv calling are as dexterous as pickpockets, This is due to a double incentive, Not only does your pickpocket find a bait for effort and exertion in success, but has the added spur of a fear of failure, Suc- cess means as_much to a pickpocket as to any man. and failure means a great deal more. A vocation in which the slightest slip means loss of liberty and perhaps of life, will ever beapt to have a degree of expertness in its followers not present in more reyutable and safer avenues of trade. “Pickpockets, like' poets, are born, not made. Their nerves must be iron, and yet as sensitive as instinct, Their hnmfs must be as complete in make-up and accomplishment a5 Hermann’s and as strong as steel, while light as down. Out of 1%\0 vast army: of humanity who are soldiers of the shadows onfy one- fourth of 1 per cent ean or do become pickpockets, These form the nobility of thieves, and are réverenced by the burglar, footpad, the sneak, and the ‘con’ mun as of higher class than they. The practice of a pickpocket while not really at work is as constant as that of some famed professor of the viol or harp. He keeps pace with the proces- sion. No sooner does some jeweler in- vent a new fastening for diamond pins or studs than these men of finest touch de- viso the motion which eveades its pur- 50, po“A pickpocket consults his own ner- vous condition constantly, No fine lady ever has such a time with her nerves as this aristocrat of the outlaws. If he does not feel right he won't ‘work.” When he does, I've known one on the impluse to take a caron some well dressed and wealthy street, and, seating himself side to the window, survey the shirt front of every would-be passenger as the car came up, The moment one showed a diamond in his linen or cravat the thief would hurry to the platform to get offt. He would time his maneuvers 0 8s to meet the man on the step of the car, They would collide, The thief’s hat—a stiff’ silk or Derby—is in his left han and covers his dexterous right, which is put forward to protect its owner in the collision, It touches the newcomer right where the diamond sparkles, and is still covered by the hat in the other hand, With an apology the thief steps out of the way. The whole affuir is the tenth part of a second, but as he bows his regrets he has the dinmond inthat mysterious hand of his, and, as I have said, he could no detail the moves by which he attained it even if he should try.” A EE s syrup of Figs, Produced from the laxative and nutritions juiceof California figs, combined with the cinal virtues of plants known to be most bes alto the buman system, acts g on the kidueys, liver and bowels, effectually . cleansing the system, dispelling colds and headaches, and curing habitual constipation e FOUND HER LIFELESS, A Husband After Long Search Discov- ers His Wife in the Morgue. The remains of a young woman who committed suicide by drowning the other night in the Allegheny river, Pittsburg, were identified by her hi band as being those of Mus. Louisa Schon, wife of Hubert Schon, of No. 60 Second street, Allegheny,, and daughter of Adam Trey, a well-to-do farmer of Butler county. She was demented and has been missing from her home since August 31, 1889, The story of her dlsappearance and the manner in which she avoided her friends who have been searching for her ever since is remarkable s o Pitts- burg dispatch to the New York Morn- ing Journal. Tis story was this: “Tam thirvty years of age and the dead woman was my wife. 1 have not seen her for fourteen months. I was marvied to the deceased some three years ago and we resided in Alle- gheny up to the time of her disuppenr- ance. Shortly aiter our marriage her strauge actions indicated that she was demented, and I made arrangements to have her committed to the Allegheny City insane asylum, The neighbors in- sisted that she wasn’t crazy and advised TLouisa not to go to the im, “1n spite of this opposition T secured the necessary papers from the court and took them home. On the day we were to take her to theasylum I found that the papers were missing. Louisa laughed when I told her of my loss, and then in- formed me that she had got hold of the commitment papers and destroyed them. “This was on August 31 and we were at the railroad station on our way to Allegheny City hame. After telling me this she left the depot and disappeared and I have never laid eyes on her until this moment. I blame the neighbors for this whole trouble, as thoy advised Louisa not to go to the home, as she wasn’t crazy. “I have searched everwhere ever since and failed to find any trace of my wife, No, I donotthink she committed suiciae, as she wasn’t that kind of a woman. She was twenty-seven years of age and is a native of Geruany, There was no doubt that her mind was unbalanced, as her brother was willing that she should be sent to the asylum.” Clerk Miller of the morgue then asked Schon why he was 80 anxious to leave the room without disclosing his identity after he had recognized his wife’s remains, He refused to explain his reasons, but said it was his intention to return again in the morning and claim the body. Schon did not advance any theory as to how it was possible for a woman so badly demented as he claimed his wife was to have wandered about for over a year without attracting the attention of the police authorities, = At the time of ler death ‘she was neatly attived and had evidently earned her ‘living provi- ous to that unfortunate event, AR s ik back, with a weary aching lame- the hips, is a sign of diseased kid- Use the best kidney curative known; 1 is Burdock blood bitters, AT Blind, but He Can Shoot. William T, Buschick, totally blind, runs a cigar stove and is'a wonder, says " the Chicago Tribune. He makes change, shows his goods, can hand out any brand of ¢ r, and even goes down town alone to replenish _his stock. He can hand out any ticular kind of chewing gum from his case, and las some reputati as o fine candy maker. His son hearing is remarkable and his ability to locato objects by sound is wonderful. This was demonstrated one night re- cently when a burglar broke into his store, The robber left hastily with a leaden bullet in his anatomy, as spots on the floor proved next morning, The blind man handles a revolver cleverly and shoots accurately for one so heavily handicapped,. locating the object to be shot at by sound. e A Lighvin Byvery Berth, To the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway bolongs the credit of baing tho first in the country to reduce the matter of electric lighting of trains to scientific perfection, One of the novel features introduced in the sleeping cars i patent electric reading lamp in eacl tion,, With this luxurious provision, reading at night before and after retir- ing bocomes as comfortable as by day, and when retiving the toilet may be made in comfort and seclusion. The berth reading lamp in the Pullman slebping cars run_on the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul railway, between Omaha and Chicago, is patented and cannot be used by any other railway company. 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St.Clair Office, Hotel, Cor. 1 tani occupying the rest of the spu The tank is below the tide level, and high tide the salt water runs the marsh toa depth of four fe tank is all perfo! d with holes, and the owner, digging down with his fingers, unearthed some baby terraping an inch or two long, < ——— Tickets at lowest rates and su periop accommodations via the great Rocl Island voute Ticket office, 1602—Sixs teenth and Farnam streets Omaha. u.i in from 'he / A French engineer proposos to pen up the tide water at Havre, and by runnin turbines from this sixteen foot™ rise an fall of the water level. to create and transmit to Puris 42,000 electrical horses power. The Bay of Fundy may yet be harnessed down ~ to the wooden nutmeg of New England. e The new offices of the Great Rock Island route, 1602 Sixteenth and Farnam streets, Omaha, are the finest in the city, Calland see them. Tickets to all pointg east at lowest rates, e A Magunificent Facade, The wood and iron model of the archis tect Brentano’s designfor the fucade of the Milan cathedral is nearly completed, The model will cost 20,000 frances, an will be one twentioth of the size of the contemplated facade, so that eritics will be given every opportunity of making, suggestions,