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Adulterated Teas.

The word pure as applied to teas
from Japan and China, appears to be
as necessary to their sale as the omis-
sion of the same word is to Indian teas,
from the simple fact that tea can only
be tea-as if it is not tea, ergo it is
something else and should be sold I'M
der another name. The cause need not
be sought for, as it is simply due to the
simplicity of "a too confding public.
The middleman and retail dealer unite
in full force, and the sapient housewife,
who would instanter reject ''oleomar-
garine" or 'butterine" for butter, will
most meekly accept a mixture Of will
low or other leaves, highly faced with
copperas and indigo or Prussian blue,
as pure green tea, and this when infus-
ion and slight knowledge of the tea
leaf would frequently place all in po-
sition to test the purity for themselves.
Further check is at hand in sediment
presenting an appearance like its adul-
terant. From most countries COM
plants are frequent that pure tea" is
Improbable at any price. Still, pure
tea is manufactured, but how much of
it reaches the consumer of China and
Japan teas, as such is a question. By
the time it has passed from the bush to
the factory, thence to middleman and
grocer, and finally into the cup of the
confding drinker, its original identity
would puzzle it's manufacturer to deter
mine its class, certainly as regards In
dian teas, whose frequent 'mixings''
and transformations often destroy all
trace of their origin. PHILADELPHIA
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Leaving the Old Farm.

A farmer near C1rcleV1lle, ONO, nunS
himself because he was compelled to
move off farm on which he had lived
since childhood Exchange. And still
there are people who will go on won
dering and inquiring how to keep the
boys on the farm Here is man who
had grown up with the old farm and be-
come so attached to it that to leave the
scenes of his boyhood broke his heart,
and he hid his grief in q suicides
grave. There is no sense in talking
about how the boys may be kept on the
farm. To be sure, farm life is not one
continual circus day, as in the city, nor
Fourth of July, and farmers can
make their sons hate the old farm home
by subjecting them to all manner of
drudgery, the same as they would q
mar of yearling steers, and expect them
to wear the yoke and never make a
kick. The man alluded to above had
grown up on the farm. He was some
body's son, and, no doubt, in his boy
hood days he often had a sort of a
warming to leave the old farm and go
away to the city, and put on boiled
shirt and smoke cigars, and amass a
fortune. But he stuck to the old farm,
and, when he was finally obliged to
leave it. the thought was too much, and
he took his own life rather than go. No
doubt when he thought of leaving the
old place, the scenes of his boyhood's
happiest hours would arise up before
him. and he could see, in looking back
DER b lifetime spent on the old farm,
the same narrow, winding lane
through which he trudged when
: boy, over the grass and stub
bic covered with the heavy dew
and frost of early morning, and the
thought Of how lie placed his bare foot
down on the early bunble-bee which
nestled among the clover blossoms and
sang it's morning song. came back to
him with old-time vigor. The thought
of leaving the dear old home, around
whose cheerful fireplace he had spent
many happy evening, and then went
to Il bed of feathers beneath rafters
laden with dried pumpkin and catnip,
aud seed-corn and cob-webs and dried
apples, was more than the poor man
could stand. There is no use talking
about keeping boys on the farm when
they get the roaming fever, but after a
man has been there lifetime he would
not exchange places with King, and
wear crown, and suffer with the govt
and the dyspepsia. There are thous-
ands who know just how that poor man
must have felt, and will pity him, as
they know that it is often better to own
q 300-acre farm, without mortgage on
it, and a good, sound constitution, than
to be the proprietor of millions, and a
brown-stone mansion, and the consump-
| ton. Perks SIN.
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The Ostrich Kick.

When a farmer goes into a savage
birds camp he takes with him thorn
pole, with branch or two of the thorny
bush left on the end. This is called a
stuck" and when the tuck is applied to
the ostrich's neck or head CHS tender
points, he is almost invariably subdued,
and, after one or two efforts to escape,
bolts furiously off to the other side of
the camp, where he races up and down
to vent his baffied rage. If, however,
the bird gets near enough to his oppo-
nent to give the so-called kick, he lifts
his bony leg as high as his body and
throws it forward with demoniac gro
tesqueness, and brings it down with ter
rible force. His object is to rip the
enemy down with his dangerous claw,
but in most cases it is the fat bottom
Of his foot which strikes, and the kick
is dangerous as much from its sheer
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-17

after q photograph. The head OF JET
erson, on the 10-cent stamp. in choco-
late, Is drawn from q life-sized statue
by Hiram Powers. The portrait of
Henry Clay, iii neutral purple, on the
12-cent stamp is after a bust by Hart.
The head Of Webster on the 15-cent
stamp, in orange, is after the Clevinger
bust The portrait Of Gen. Scott on
the 24-cent stamp, in purple, IS after a
bust by Coffee. The head CT Hamilton
on the 30-cent stamp, ii black, is after
the Cerrachi bust; and the portrait of
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, in
carmine, on the 90-cent stamp, is after
Wolcotts statue The new 5-cent
stamp has portrait of Garfield, from
the photograph of which the Queen had
copy, and which was approved by
Mrs. Garfeld.-BOstOu Traveller.
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The Man and the NoUsn.

A Man having caught Mouse in g
Trap held him at arms length and ex-
claimed:
"Ah! you Rogue! I have you at last !!
Only the other Night you ate the Hind
Pocket out Of my Pantsl"
"True, my Friend" replied the
Mouse, "but [ did You a good Turn at
the same time. I ate up Love Letter
which your Wife got up an hour before
Daylight to look for. But for me YOU
would now be Baldheaded old Coon"
"Shakel" said the Man, as he Drew
down his Left E we, and the Mouse shook
himself out of the Trap and into his
Hole.
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About Canary Birds,

The cost of keeping canary birds is
seldom thought of. The canary is the
pet bird of the rich and the poor; it is
everywhere, and its keeping involves an
immense amount of money in the aggre-
gate. A gentleman who has for several
Years been extensively engaged in the
trade of bird seed, and who is excellent
authority, informs us that he has the
statistics to prove that there are now
fully 100000 of these pets in this
country. Each bid will use twelve
pounds of seed per year, if not overfed,
and, unfortunately for them, they gen.
orally get too much. Thus it takes
1913, 100000 pounds of seed to feed
them through a year, worth at least
1000, 900. Beside this seed, as any
one knows, is the sugar, the crackers,
the eggs, and the thousand and one
things that different keepers supply
them with.
Again, we have a great expense in
cages. There are now twenty-five man
llfact0rics of bird cages in the United
States One Of the most extensive of
them turned out $1,000,000 worth of
cages last year, and will this year add
largely to the amount. The whole cost
CT cages made last year is estimated at
nearly 100000. This gives for the
two Items of seed and cages the snug
little sum Of ST, 100000.
Bat, after all, is the bird not worth
ali the people pay for its keeping
How it instills into the children love
Of music; and its example of cleanli-
ness as it takes its Regular morning
bath is beneficial in the extreme. 1t
thus adds beauty, music and instruc-
ton to ell our homes.
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4 Small NI0rY off TMn Nnns

"Lemme tell yer," exclaimed old Ma
than, arising at an educational meeting
and addressing the assemblage, "dar
amt half as much in obligation as a
man in a moment oh 'thusiasm mout
promulgate. I raised two sons. jim
went to school an got good eddyca-
ton, but Tom stayed at home an reber
looked inter book, but yit he made a
quicker shown dan jim"
"How?" asked chorus of voices.
"Why, he beat him inter de peniten.
tiary by two days." exclaimed the old
man as he sat down with the air of q
man who feels that the weight of evi.
dence is in his Observation-Disclosures TTaU.
eIc1'.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-17

Old Bob, who was close to the river,
caught sight of little colt which had
fallen into the water and was being
rapidly carried down stream in spite Of
its struggles. Old Bob trotted to 5he
edge of the river, and, with loud neigA,
plunged in, swan to the poor little
chap, seized him as dog would lab-
bit, and, after fight with the stream,
landed the little fellow safe and sound
not much the worse for his bath. [
think Old Bob is entitled to unlimited
freedom and grass as long as he lives
and the happy hunting-grounds here
after.-Londor1 Field.
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POStage-Stamp Portraits.

The portrait of Benjamin Franklin on
the 1-cent stamp, in the imperial ultra
marine blue, is after a profile bust of
Rubricht. The head of Jackson on the
2-cent stamp, in vermillion, is from a
bust OF Hiram Powers. The Washing
ton head on the green Scent stamp is
after Houden's celebrated bust The
head on the 5-cent blue stamp is that of
Zachary Taylor. The Lincoln profile,
in red, on the 3-cent stamp is after a
bust by Volk. The 7-cent stamp, in
vermillion. gives the head of Stanton,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-17
An Age of MOnOlOgue.

"There is no comfort in talking now
adays, "sighed nice old lady, recently;
"even the best-bred people interrupt so
that one can never finish anything.
Everybody wants to talk, but nobody
is willing to listen" Perhaps the mat
tention of her hearers to some pet story
had rufIled the speakers usually placid
humor, and undoubtedly she stated the
case somewhat strongly, but there is
unfortunately far too much truth in her
remark that in these days everybody
wants to talk and nobody to listen. It
is partly because it is an age of prolific,
II not always profound thought, and the
simplest Of our acquaintance are seeth-
ing with ideas that iostle each other in
their eagerness to come to utterance.
For the most part these ideas, like DR..
Holmes moral, run at large, and are
caught from the air, but none the less
do they compel speech, and the result
that conversation has we'll nigh become
lost art. and We live in an age of
ni0nologue. Two or more people sit
down together, and each utters his
monologue, more or less brilliant, as the
case may be, paying no especial heed
to the words Of his companion, and only
in the faintest degree modified by them.
Epigram, anecdote, smile and wise OBJ
servations are poured out to unheeding
ears, not for the sake of being heard,
but for the sake Of utterance. We have
become like SO many Cassandras, and
bear about the burden of prophecy with
al inward necessity of declaring it
which is mightier than we. We read,
we talk, but how seldom do we LISTEN
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-17

CLARA had been practicing one piece
for at least month, until mamma de-
clared she was perfect. When she was
asked to play for the company, soon
after, she had to be pressed little be-
fore going to the piano, and OF course
after playing her piece she had to ex-
cuse herself, because she Hint read
music very fast and she Ia nver tried
it before; but she wasn't Il Dlt pleased
when Professor Fugue remarked in a
sympathetic way: $50 perceive"
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Old Bob,

That white-faced bay horse you see
looking at us from among that bunch
of mares and colts is quite a celebrated
character in the neighborhood, and If
the Royal Humane Society gave gold
medals to dumb animals 1 am sure Old
Bob deserves one. One rough, stormy
day, after a succession of rainy days,
which had swollen the Little Laramie
river till it became a raging torrent run
ming level with the top of it's banks.
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A Medical Opinion on kissing.

Promiscuous kissing has been inf
fnitely more productive of disease or
various kinds than the public eve
dream of, and tits practice that should
be discountenanced. The people should
confine their kissing propensities to
members of their own families, and
even then it IS not always fe.--Medi-
cal and SltTgicQl Reporter.
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BILL NYE is not Mormon. He gives
ont as his platform, Zone country, one
flag and one wife" Bill says he "has
never pined to make the marriage regis
tee Of his family Bible look like hotel
register"
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A Considerable Grandson.

Pete, the grandfather of Mashesh,
the Basuto chief, had the misfortune to
be eaten by one of his friends, or enc
mics, the story does not say which. The
cannibal was captured and brought be-
fore Mashesh, who was urged to kill
him. NO." said Mahesh, "why should
disturb my grandfather's grave?"
Letter from South africa.
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Central American Women.

Just wHhin the courtyard of a white
marble palace, in the leafy shade of a
mango grove, hangs silken hammock
liped with the brilliant plumage of
tropical birds. In it reclines a Great
IRE whom to call divine would be base
fiattery 20 the gods Note the classical
features, the delicate, very light olive
tint Of her skin; see the long black
siii;e2 tresses, in which an immense
dimond-headed pin holds a rose; see
the long lashes, half shading those
lustrous orbs, which give forth all the
varieties Of expression of refined
thought as she listens to her maids
reading from Espronceda's poems.
Her shoulders, arms and bust are
covered, but not concealed, by the
finest OF lace, and long white skirt
trails the ground, but allows one micro
aco9ical foot to peer forth, just enough
to show tie point of a gold-embroidered
slipper. The gentle breeze gives ever
50 slight a motion to the hammock,
ami each little movement of its ravish-
ingly beautiful occupant reveals
thousands of new charms. What
wonder that men, especially those
possessed by tropically infammable
'emrerament, become inspired with the
divine afliatus-sing of her, rave about
her aye, kill for her?
Ine traveller from the cold North
VINO has visited the tropics, upon read,
jng the preceding lines, will continue
the pernsal of this sketch, to ascertain
how outTageouslyI can disregard truth,
fo- the foregoing imagery can be found
only IN ideal descriptions Of Central
american women; the real ones are Of
far different type.-Fred C. Valet1-
inc IN the Continent.
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A MAN ought to keep his friendship
In constant repair. look upon day
as lost in which [ do not make new
acQuaintance.-Dr. Johnson.
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THERE are Generals in the German
army who have as high as thirty-six
medals of honor, and yet find it hard
to keep out of debt When you desire
to honor man, give him the cash.
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SOME of the London hosiers are sell
ing "digitated stockings, " or foot gloves,
bat not even the Endorsement of ny
CHEMISTS has made them popular.
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PHYSICIANS are the only professional
men for whose exclusive use the Gov
eminent provides at Washington q free
r"Hiating library, supported u the
nalll.,. o-1laLSn
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INFINITE toll would not enable you to
sweep away a mist, but by ascending a
little you may often look over it alto
Gether.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-19
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
RSONA

-
George l.. Draper, of Sidney, arrived at the
Ogden yesterday.
w. T.. Richards, of Red Oak, was in the city
yesterday.
S. f. Perry, of K~earney, Neb,, was looking
at the Bluffs yesterday.
Judges Beck, Rothbrock and Adams, of the
Supreme Court, arrived yesterday and took
rooms at the Ogden.
Attorney Smith Mcpherson, of Red Oak, is
in the city, attending to his duties in the SUI
preme Court.
Doc. BaCgs, whose name at least is familiar
to nearly everybody in this part of the coun'
try, reached this city yesterday from Denver.
T. w. Ivory, of Glenwood, was in the city
yesterday, and at the Pacific.
fremont Benjamin and II. j. Chambers,
representing the Avoca bar, were in the city
yesterday on legal business.
T.. w. Davis, of Avoca, who is said to be
one of the Republican representatives from
this county in the next Assembly, was in the
city yesterday,
Mr.. O. c. Coiner, who for II long time ha,
been travelling salesman for james Brewster,
left yesterday for Denver, where he expects tt
locate.
City Editor Woodbridge, of the Omah'
Herald, took a peep at the city yesterday ant
gathered up pointers on the contest for thu
boss girlship, intending, it is whispered, t,
write a book, with Clark as the hero.
Mrs. NJ. FINLEY has gone to Leadville, be
ing called thither by this illness of her grand
daughter, Miss Bertha Mueller, who is quit,
sick. That young lady's many friends her
will await with much anxiety for further and
it is to be hoped, better tidings concerning
Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-19
Tin Iges Case.

Washington Special Telegram.
At the request of the President Score
tary Lincoln sent to Adjutant-G General
Drum for the proceedings in the case OF
Lieut.. Col. Guido llges, Eighteenth In
fantry, and received the papers this
morning. Secretary Lincoln had an in
terview with President Arthur, and was
asked, as he was leaving the department,
as to the present status of the case. He
said:
| have the papers in the case and will
examine them carefully, as ! do all
cases requiring the Presidents action. l
will not be ready to submit the case to
the President, at the cabinet meeting,
but will some time this week.
A legal question is raised with refer
ence to the Ilges court-martial, which ia
thought in some quarters to be fatal to the
verdict. Two of the members of the
court, having been on the previous trial,
were objected to by Col. Ilges, and in
such cases it has been the invariable Gus
tom for the officers thus challenged to
either state that they had no prejudice
against the defendant, or to be excused
by their own request from service. In
this case one of the officers asked to be
excused, but his request was not granted
as usual by the court, and the other said
nothing, thereby in~ferentially admitting
he did entertain prejudice against thu
defendant. 1t is regarded by good mil
itary lawyers as being an objection of
character which would disqualify a Juror
and thus vitiate the verdict; on this &C
count it would not cause surprise if thu
sentence of the court, which, it is un
derstood, was dismissal from the army
would be set aside.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-19
The Streets Of Jerusalem.

The streets are narrow, badly paved,
and crooked as a corkscrew; the princi-
pal being the street of David, leading
from the Jatfa gate to the Haram; the
street of the Gate of the Columns, run
ming from the Damacus gate to the street
of the Gate of the Prophet David, under
which name it continues to Zion gate
Christian street, running from the street
of David to the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre, and the Via D%olorosa, run
ming from the Church Of the Holy Sepul-
chre to st. Stephens gate. There are
very few open spaces, and not one street
in which a carriage can be driven; the
bazaars are poor and not to be compared
for a moment with those of Cairo or
Damacus; they are in narrow
over, and exhibit the usual articles
to be found in eastern bazaars-shoes,
pipes, tobacco, hardware, jewelry, cutlery
and so forth-each stall being under the
superintendent of a man in flowing robes
and turban, who sits cross-legged and
smokes while the crowd buzzes unceasing.
ly around him. There are two good
hotels, the Mediterranean and the
Damascus; and several hospices,-the
Cass Nova of the Franciscans, the
Austrian Hospice of st. John,-but the
majority of travellers who are making the
tour of Palestine camp outside the city,
as indeed do many of the inhabitants in
the summer time for the sake of the purer
air. Almost every house in Jerusalem
has a cupola, with a fiat space on the
roof to allow a stroll round it, and all the
houses are of stone. Very few of them,
exhibit any traces of architectural beauty
in fact, the dwelling-houses generally
suggest poverty and dirt.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-19
ARMY MATTElsS.
Retirement of Gen. Hunt and the
Promotions Which Follow.

Washington, September 14-Goneral
Ii. j. Hunt, commanding tho Department.
of the South was placed upon the retired
list of the army to-day, having reached
"a years of age, and was instructed to
turn over his command to Gen. Hancock,
who will assume command temporarily.
Gen. Hunts retirement promotes Lieut. =
Col. James Hamilton to be Colonel;
Major Ii. ". Closson to be Lieutenant
Colonel; Capt. Marcus p. Miller to be
Major; First Lieut.. John p. Story to be
Captain, and Second Lieut.. Clarence
Deems to be First Lieutenant. First
Lieut.. Henry w. Hubbell, Jr., First
Artillery, has been detailed as Professor
or Military Science and Tactics at the
| Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. First
Lieut.. Walter S. Schuyler, Fifth Cavalry
has been detailed rs Professor of Military
Science and Tactics Mt Cornell University,
Ithaca, Patten, Eighteenth Infantry, has
been relieved from duty at the Riverview
Academy, Poughkeepsie.
Leave of absence for four months, to
take effect rs soon rs his services can be
spared by his department commander, has
been granted Second Lieutenant Charles
M. Truitt, Twenty first infantry.
Second Lieut.. Robert ID. Walsh, Tween
ty-second infantry, has, on his W ap'
plication, been transferred to the Fourth
cavalry, with rank as second Lieutenant
of cavalry, to date from June ID, 1883
He will join his proper troop (B, Fer'
Stanton, N. N.Y. on the expiration of his
graduating leave of absence.
Second Lieut.. George w. Reed, Six
teenth Infantry, has, on his own applica
ton, beeX transferred to Fifth cavalry
with rank as second lieutenant of cavalry
to date from June 10, 1883. He will
Join his proper troop CA, Fort Washable
Wyoming Territory on the expiration o
his graduating leave of absence.
First Lieut.. Samuel l.. Woodward
Tenth cavalry, has been relieved from
duty at Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, and a!
n member of the general court martial mp
pointed to meet at that post by special
orders Aug. 81, 1883, and will join hi
troop in the department of Texas.
Col. Benjamin III. Grierson, Tenth
Cavalry, has been assigned to the tempo
rary command of the Department Of
Texas during the absence of Brig Gen,
Christopher. AuBur, Unltedo tates army
on leave of absence.
The following transfers in the Fourth
Artillery have been made: First Lieut.
John p. Stovey from Battery A to BaF
terry G; First Lieut.. Samuel II. Jonei
from Battery G to Battery A; Capt
George II. Olmsted, Jr., United States
Army, has been relieved from duty in the
service.
The leave of absence granted Capt,
George II. Olmsted, Jr., United States
Army, Aug. %, 1883, has been extended
three months
Second Lieut.. Clarence II. Edwards
Twenty-third Infantry, has been trans
ferred to the Tenth Cavalry, with rank
as Second Lieutenant Of Cavalry, to date
from June Is, 1883. He will join hi
proper troop (L. Fort Stockton, Texas.
on the expiration of his graduating leave
of absence.