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The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
The PedO-MOtOr..

From the parlor or roller skate has been evolved curious device called pedo- motor. The apparatus is practically a sandal shod with wheels, and is designed to assist the lame and halt in walking and the ordinary walker in making good time. The sandal is provided with four wooden wheels bound with rubber, two on each side, and when strapped to the boot gives the wearer firm footing. From the toe projects a point or supple mentary toe, shod with rubber, and at the heel is a similar projection almost touching the ground and shod with leather. In using these wheeled sandals the ordinary walking step is taken, on foot giving the body a slight push with the pusher, or toe, while the other foot rests fiat on the four wheels. The result obtained is greatly heightened stride, as the sandal rolls forward under the in- fuence of the push, and the walker practically gets over much more ground and with less exertion than in ordinary shoes. The pedo-motor~i reported to give good walker speed of twelve miles an hour over good sidewalks, and while the apparatus may be regarded as mechanical curiosity, it is worthy some attention on account of it's promises for the future. The roller skate was the re- suit of innumerable inventions and patents before it was perfected, and,
 like manner. this wheeled sandal ma
 cad in time to something yalue.- Sc1.ihaaer
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
Printers and Printing.

Many who condescend to illuminate tn.s dark world with the fire of their genius through the columns of a news paper little think of the lot of the printer, who sits up at midnight to cor rect their false grammar and orthogra- phy and worse punctuation. We have seen the arguments of lawyers, in high repute as scholars, sent to the printer in their own handwriting, many words especially technical and foreign terms abbreviated, words misspelled and few or no points, and these few, if any, cer- tainly in the wrong places. We have seen the sermons of eminent "divines' sent to the press without points or capi- tals to designate t.ee divisions of the sen- tences; also the letters of the political and scientific correspondents. Suppose all these had been so printed-the printer would have been treated with scorn and contempt. No one would have believed that such gross and palpable faults were owing to the ignorance or carelessness of the author; and no one but the practical printer knows how many hours the com positor, and after him the proofreader, is compelled to spend in reducing to reada- ble condition manuscript that often writ CTS themselves would be puzzled to read. ' E1.
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
The Wonderful Alarm.CIOck,

There are no data which tell positively when that useful invention, the alarm clock, came into vogue. It is likely that there were no alarm-clocks in the last century. People were not in such a hurry those days as they are now. They were quite content to have their "news'' two months old, and make the same ex- tensive preparations for a journey of 300 miles that we would to make tour of tEe globe at present. The numbering and reliable old stagecoach came along at seasonable hours, and there was no ne- cessity of an alarm-clock to terrify people into catching a morning train. It is likely that the first alarm-clock was the offspring of the rage of the man who was as usual at seven o'clock. Early trains are to blame for the alarm-clock There has been little improvement in alarm clocks from the first one that rung in the startled ear of night until the present time. But lately desire has been ex- pressed for clock that will make a man get up or else make his life burden to him. Suppose man wants to catch that unearthly train that leaves the Central depot at four o'clock in the morning. He sets the alarm dial at three A. M and winds up the striker. He goes to bed with strong inward conviction that the thing won't go off, and that he will miss the train. He is ready to make oath that hc has not been to sleep five minutes when a frightful sound is heard. It seems as if all creation was breaking up. Then it roars like cataract, and after ward like a freight-train going over a bridge.
 As the amazed man begins to compre- bend things, it seems as if the whole fire bell system of the city was concentrated in that room, doing it's best to bring out the engines. At last he remembers it is the alarm, and he wonders if it is ever going to stop. It stops. Then he argues, I set it at three; bet dollar it went off ahead of time. Anyhow, can get to the depot in half an hour, and, besides, the train is likely late.r The train is a hundred miles away and rapidly increas- ing the distance when he awakes. This has caused the introduction of new alarm-clock. It will ring for six hours if the alarmed person does not get up and pull cord. The trouble is that the ex- asperated sleeper will rise in his might and in his night apparel to kick the clock up through the roof, after it has rung for an hour or two. Herr Hum mel, an inventor in Germany, is the con- structor of this new alarmer. Detroit Free Press
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
Directly to the Point.

A Philadelphia paper wisely observes: The great end of education is not infor- nation, but personal vigor and char acter. What makes the practical man is not the well-informed man, but the alert, disciplined, self-commanded man. There have been highly trained and accom- plished men in days when knowledge of geography hardly went beyond the islands and mainland of the Levant. There were powerful English writers long before Lindley Murray wrote his Latinized English grammar. What should be thoroughly understood is. that examining is not education It is a mis- take to cover too much ground and to seek to make youth conversant simply with the largest number of studies Let them learn few things, and learn them well. Let the personal influence of the teacher be relied upon rather than book and elaborated methods.
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
The Dangerous Fishing Grounds.

Of Georges shoal, where in a recent gale fourteen vessels from Gloucester, Mass, with one hundred and fifty-five men were lost, the Boston Herdtd says: Georges shoal is situated about one hun- dred and twenty miles east-southwest of Cape Ann, on the edge of the Gulf stream, which runs past it with so strong a tide that vessels have been known to be carried eastward by it in the teeth of a strong opposing breeze. In some sections of this shoal there is little water-in one place, it is said, not over three feet-and old bankers say that they have seen it at times above water. At other places the shoal has only eight fathoms of water. It is at the outer edges of the shoal that the fish are found, in the warm waters of the Gulf stream or their vicinity, and the vessels, when they encounter them, drop their anchors and put out their lines with baited hooks, and find lively work in landing the fish on deck. When one vessel strikes a school of fish the others draw near and cast anchor close by. In this way number of vessels are often an chored together, which is dangerous situation if storm should arise and one of them part her cable. In such an event, to avoid collision and certain de- struction, the other vessels in her track would have to cut their cables, which is always dangerous resort in a storm, for ifthe vessel broaches-to, with her side to the coming wave, she is most likely to be crushed by its tremendous force. The cables used are made of the best hemp, from two to three and one-half inches in diameter, according to the size of the vessel. With each lifting bound of the vessel in a storm, with her head to the sea, these cables stretch and give, and then contract again for the next similar movement. The waves in a storm on Georges banks are short, chop ping, but sometimes irresistible. If a vessel, with flush deck and strong bull warks, ships one of those seas-three of those heavy waves, it is said, follow one another in quick succession - she is weighed down so as to be almost under water, and before she can discharge the body of water on her deck the other two seas are upon her, and she sinks to rise no more. with no trace of her or her crew to be seen again. Nobody has ever seen Georges vessel lost, but it is sup posed that she gets into what is called the wash on the shoals, and is turned over and tossed about till she breaks into pieces and her remains are covered by the sand or drawn into the volume of the Gulf stream and carried away to the unknown depths of the ocean,"
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
The Word That Bothered Them All.

The other day the office boy came up into the Ha,0keye sanctum with an ex- pression of grave concern on his face. He gazed thoughtfully around the room for a moment and then asked
 "How do you spell 'cud?'"
 "What kind of cudp" somebody ask ed, in careless. .uninterested manner.
 "Well," the boy replied, the kind that COW chews. Cud how do you spell it? 5
 The city editor looked up, paused, and glanced anxiously over toward the man. aging editor.
 "That isn't local, is it, Mir. Waite?" " he asked. ......-. >-
 "Yes," was the reply, and the city man after a little hesitation, remarked that he had never seen the word in print, but he believed it was spelled "cudd.' J
 A long silence ensued, and the manag- ing editor feeling that the question had faction, and feeling that all eyes were upon him, said that he believed that it was generally mispronounced, and that he believed that the proper orthography was "cood.n
 The congregation then looked toward the proofreader, who said he was quite confident that it was spelled "gwud."
 The manager was summoned from the counting-room, and said that he was oi the opinion that the word was of Latin derivation and was spelled "cuid."
 A telegram was sent to the funny man, who was up in Beloit, Wisconsin, but he thinly vailed his awful ignorance by re- plying that "you didn't spell it at all, you chewed it."
 The foreman was sent for, and on his arrival into the council-chamber, he said promptly that it was spelled " culd."
 In answer to the telegram sent him, the editor-in- chief replied from the cap- ital that it was spelled with lower case c.
 The pressman came up in response tc subpoena and said that his father kept a stock farm, and he knew he spelled il "kud."
 The investigation closed with the tes. timony of this last witness, and the office boy went down stairs and resumed the duties of his honorable and respon- sible office.
 But he couldn't clearly make out whether he had or had not learned how to spell "cud. ."-Burlimgtona Haackcye.
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
VOL. IT..
The Sugar Naples.

ihe sugar MapleS. Along the vale and OCT the hill l see blue and smoky haze; The afternoons are warm and still, And presage longer, warmer days. The bluejay, on the sumach bow, Is screaming with discordant note; The phnbe-bird arouses now
 The longing heart with trembling throat. The hills are peeping through the snow, And buried fences greet the view; On bare, brown l1nolls squaw- berries glow, Or tiny snow flowers Haunt in blue. The fresh, new earth now scents the gale, As, rising from her sepulchre, She casts aside her snowy veil,
 And greets her train Who wait for her The gathered odors of the flowers That turk within the naples veins, The golden light of summer hours, The hoarded wealth of summer rains, The garnered sweetness of the years That pulses through the mighty trees, Await wound to flow in tears Sweet as the hoard of shining bees. Now stands the drowsy team asleep Before the bucket-laden sleigh, While sinks the cruel Steel full deep To draw the crystal sap away. The steady drip from wooden lip Makes music in the soft spring air, And soon the laden buckets tip
 And waste the nectar rich and rare Anon the pungent smoke-wreaths rise Around the kettles tossing surge; Hale youths attend the sacrifice, And high the flames with faggots urge. An, transmutation wondrous sweet That steals the blood of bare, brown
 trees,
 And in the cracking flames and heat Has power those golden grains to seize /! Oh, vanished youth Oh balmy days The odors rise of early flowers. I see again through smoky haze The pictures of those 1eeting hours; hear again the wild halloo
 Of boys long silent in the tomb; The ftful campfire brings to view Glad faces from the outer gloom. They tell of an eternal spring
 Forever bright with springing flowers, Where morning is an endless ring, Existence knows not passing hours. It may be that the flames of strife Have stored tor us some sweets away, Or frozen drifts of earthly life
 May yield tor us brighter day.
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The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
ou will at hast marry me from sheer

you will at hast marry me from sheer pity"
 He bent suddenly and kissed her hand. The next moment he was gone.
 Helen stood for moment as though bewildered, with the memory of his words ringing in her ears, almost feeling the touch of his lips upon her hand.
 "They are all alike" she thought, bit terly, attracted by the last new face. Foolish is any one who puts faith in their vowsw
 A memory of past pain came surging up in her mind, and made her unjust to all because one had seemed faithless.
 Randall kept his word. He was not obtrusive in his attentions, but occasior- ally basket of hothouse flowers or some choice new book would come by express to the school for Helen. Her vacations were always partly spent with Alice, and Randall invariably put in an appearance, apparently quiet and cold, but following Helen with eyes whose wistful language she well understood.
 One evening he called, accompanied by a college acquaintance. Helen's heart gave one great throb as her eyes rested on the stranger. It was her old friend, Archie Marron. Randall North saw her agitation, and when he learned of their previous acquaintance he at once drew ais own inference, and, to Helen's great surprise, for the rest of the evening was so absent-minded and silent that she Ivy tJ,1 f0y ord him in mute inquiry; but for the first time in their acquaintance he hardly seemed to notice her. A strange new pain began to thrill at her heart-strings. She looked at him and then at Archie, who had changed but little. The same careless waves of brown hair swept back from his high, white forehead; the same pleasant, merry brown eyes laughed back an answer to her own.
 Mechanically listening, she mentally contrasted the two. Randall's firm lips and massive chin; his dark eyes, domi- nant forehead and close-cut black hair truly he was not Archie's equal in come Illness! But 9 sudden conviction came to her that she loved Randall! Not one l she could. The knowledge made her so quiet that Randall noticed it, and made an excuse to return after they had taken leave.
 Sore as was his heart at his imagined discovery, he was at once filled with anxiety lest her health was failing under the constant strain of teaching.
 You are looking pale," he said. Are you i'll? You know" and his deep voice trembled a little, I told you that I should watch over you until some one had better right. Helen, tell me truly, is Archie Marron to have that privilege?"
 Helen's beautiful eyes shone down upon him like twin stars as he said this. So this was the key to his strange cold ness and abstraction through the even ing But she would not prolong his misery; so she bent and whispered:
 "No one will ever have that right but yourself Randall"
 He turned and looked at her.
 Are you in earnest, Helen? Do you really love me at last?"
 "Yes, better than life itself!" was her answer.
 Under the influence of his enduring, unselfish love she felt that she could trust him fully and freely. Her faith had been born anew.
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
What is in the Bedroomg

1.-two persons are to occupy bedroom during night, let them step upon weighing scales as they retire and then again in the morning, and they will find their actual weight is at least pourd less in the morning. Frequently there will be loss of two or more pounds. and the average loss throughout the year will be more than one pound-that IS. during the night there is a loss of pound of matter which has gone of from their bodies, partly from the lungs and partly through the pores of the skin. The escaped material is carbonic acid, and decayed animal matter or poisonous exhalations. This is diffused through the air in part and in part absorbed by the bed clothes. If a single ounce of wool or cotton be burned in room, it will so completely saturate the air with smoke that one can hardly breathe, though there can only be an ounce of foreign matter in the air. If an ounce of cotton be burned every half hour during the night, the air will be kept continu- ally saturated with the smoke unless there be an open door or window for it to escape. Now the sixteen ounces of smoke thus formed is far less poisonous than the sixteen ounces of exhalations from the lungs and bodies of the two per sons who have lost pound in weight during the eight hours of sleeping, for while the dry smoke is mainly taken into the lungs, the damp odors from the body are absorbed into the lungs and into the pores of the whole body. Need more be said to show the importance of having bedrooms well ventilated. and thorough ly airing the sheets, coverlets and mat tresses in the morning, before packing them up in the form of neatly made l,ad
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ladies' sacques-Jilted lovers.

Ladies sacQuee-olA lANSo Ao'NiS-
 Beer fills many abottle, and the bottle many bier.
 The Paris exposition was visited by l6,S39, ,725 people.
 Few of the beautiful wild flowers of California are fragrant. New York Central Park has cost some thing like SI5,0oo.o0o.
 It requires more power to control for tune than to control kings
 In Venezuela they are making four from unripe dried bananas.
 Gallows executions may be called sus- pensions of public judgment.
 The Des Moines Ga. school board for. bids pupils to jump the rope.
 It is proper that a confusion of papers and books and manuscript should sur round literary person.
 Why is corner peanut-seller like an apothecary? Because he does business on small scale, P,1ck says.
 Two pedestrians in Chicago, who started to walk for belt, quarreled be- fore the tramp was finished and each one got believer the head.
 A doctor to his son" Johnny, wouldn't you like to be adoctor?" '' No, father" "Why not, my son?" Why father, could not even kill fly.
 Now doth the little busy bee
 Improve each shining hour,
 And gather honey all the day
 Forcakes of buckwheat -four.
 Now, grandpa" said the little girl. as she threw away her old hood, and tied bright new one under her chin, I'm almost as old as you are See, I've reached my second child hood"
 Why" asks the Wheeling Lender. "don't some one write song on the first fly of summer?" Because the fly won't hold still long enough for any one to write song on it.-NorriStOSUn Herald
 Mir. Standford, the California railroad capitalist, owns farm of2 900 acres near San Francisco. Upon it are sheds and stables stretching for mile, containing 300 thoroughbred horses, worth more than S200,OO0.
 The pedestrian fever has even extend ed to the most secluded precincts of the family circle. We hear of several young ladies of highly respectable parents who are in training to walk, and nearly all of them are under two years of age"
 The name or Lent is derived from a Saxon word signifying spring, the season of the year when it occurs The length of time of the observance has varied, | first having been forty hours and then thirty-six days. Four days were added in the ninth century, making as 3 present. forty days.
 Ton can never expect great deeds to yield,
 You can never perform an action kind, You can never blow round a farmers field, By turning it over in your mind. Two herdsmen quarreled on Ne brsska prairie, and each threatened 10 kill the other. Neither was armed, but there was a gun in their hut, a mile away Both started for the weapon, and it was race for life, for the man who got it was certain to shoot his com panion. They had several fights on the way, and were bruised and exhausted when they neared the goal; but they ran with desperation, and kept abreast until close to the house. Then one tripped and. fell, giving the other the other the lead The victor dashed into the build ing, pulled the gun down from its hooks, and mercilessly murdered his fallen foe.
The Newtown bee., 1879-04-15

It is stated that German-American was forbidden to lecture in the city of Berlin on the prosperous condition of the United States, lest it should promote emigration to this country.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
AtCsriSOr1 AZ Nebraska.
The vote Oh the proposition last
Saturday stood as follows:
Total number of votes ........
Majority for bonds. .......

! Total number of votes s........... liOl
| Majority for bonds. ............. ll6J
1t will be seen that the only pre-
cincts which gave a majority against
the bonds were Granville and
Humphrey, the former 3, the latter
10. Bismark and Sherman make
the record without a scratch. Mon
roe does herself "proud" with only
one 'ffay.--W WoodTilI6 uEdeSstands
her interests well, when the U. p.
has but two adherents. Shell Greek
made a record that will be remem-
bered many a day. Monopoly has
no safe foothold among the indepen-
dent Irishmen Of Shell Creek
Creston, in the far-off corner of the
county, will never regret the day
she helped to gain the victory for
lower rates and independence
Looking Glass held her face towards
her sisters with nine-tenths of it
wreath2d in happy smiles. Walker
stepped quickly into the front ranks.
Lost Creek made herself visible
with eighty-seven of her brave sons
against Shelby and his Is u. p.
voters. The friends. of progress.
competition and independence in
Burrows, Stearns, Pleasant Valley,
Granville and Humphrey did honor
to themselves and the cause by
storming the fortress of the enemy
and capturing no inconsiderable
portion Of their strongest workers,
fair, right-minded men, who only
needed 10 have the facts and figures
presented TO them, to see their true
interests, and right-about face.
Eight to one and a fraction over
was tolerably fair record for the U.
p. II. r. Co., in Columbus precinct,
when all the open workers were
North, Meagher and Speice; Love-
land, Wells and Kinney; Reynolds
and Critics. But Butler,a ,all things con-
sidered, is the banner precinct of
the county. The very stronghold
of the enemy, the place counted
upon as invincible, the bulwark, fell
before the stout blows of the boys
who went in TO win a solid victory.
Where there were so many workers
and all doing so well, it would seem
almost like discrimination to speak
of individuals, but on all hands we
hear OfGeo. Birney, whose influence
took thirty-one solid votes to the
polls, the cavalcade stretching from
the Bluffs clear to the polling
place.
The Columbus journal., 1879-06-18
st. Bernard.
JUNE 4th. 1879.

JUNE 4th, 1879.
Mr.. EDITOR Il will drop you a
line from our part Of Platte county.
All kinds of growing grain are
looking well and everybody is busy
breaking prairie and cultivating
corn, which seems to be the order
of the day. The country around
here is improving very fast and so
is st. Bernard. There have been at
least twenty houses put up in sight
of here this spring. In Glasgow's
school district (No. 56) they have
built fine frame school house
lSx24 feet. They voted their bonds
the 7th day of May and on the 4lh
day of June Miss Bell Lisco, who
has been teaching at Mr.. Acton's
three weeks and then at A. Glas-
COWS three weeks, removed to the
new school house with her devoted
followers. The children all like her
and are all learning very fast. Mr..
Barrett got us 80 cents on the dollar
for our bonds when we were offered
but 30 cents on the dollar in Colum-
bus. They have negotiated outside
of Nebraska.
Adam Walkinshaw and james
MilSlagle each set out about $1,000
young forest trees this spring.
We have beel having some ex-
cellent preaching the past few weeks
by young man by the name of
Allen. lie is Reformed Presby-
terian minister.
We are having no grasshoppers
this spring.
st. Bernard is having q new COM
bined saloon and hotel finished.
will quit for this time. EAGLE.