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Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28
Our New Loan and Improvement q

Our New Loan and Improvement 90
Investigation into the matter con.
vinces US that n of the most equita.
BILE, reasonable and feasible plans Of
building houses Is that proposed and
In operation by the Mercantile Loan,
Trust and Improvement company Of
this city. BY investing In shares In
this institution, which Is backed by
some of our best and most reliable
business men, it becomes possible and
comparatively easy for q man OF mod
crate means to secure q comfortable
homo for himself and family. In tax
ing a certain number of shares, ct a
certain monthly payment, In q few
years q man can W q mouse
of his own for about the sans a.
he pays monthly for rent. we
believe the Mercantile Loan and Trust
company, by organizing and opening
up for business, having filled q long
felt want In Council Bluffs. Their
plans and system of loans will bear
the most careful scrutiny and exam
nation, and we have no h~esitancy 1 n
pronouncing them reasonable and
equitable, and backed by gentlemen
of honor and integrity. AS the com
pany exists II becomes at nee an In.
stitution of value and credit to n
city and those who desire homes.
Their president is 7. A.. kirkland,
vice president, Judge Peake; SEQ
Rotary, I. r. Beery; treasurer, Col.
Beebe, and their Office Is In the base
ment of Shugart's and McMahon's
new block, oorner First avenue and
Pearl stree. isn27.ly
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28

he Is selling. Why those spoons won't
stand hot water, and there won't be
anything left of that gloss after that
castor has been rubbed q dozen timer.
You see that stamp7 Well, the
Rogers plate can't be beat, but bless
your soul there's lots of men by the
name Of Rogers and that % is deci.
dedly off.
I fear that the famous manufacturer
Of sllverwsre would not acknowledge
the paternity of this stuff.
Well, but how about those watches,
ain't they gold2
Oh! yes, but q "Boss" case is worth
a dozen of them. They are a very
low grade of gold-in fact there Ia
just enough of the metal to give them
Its name.
But the works-sre they not genu.
ine2
Oh!yes, they are the cheap grades
Of famous makers. At least some of
them are, while others are the worst
Of traoh. Just note that - he called
three bidn just now In quick succession
and yet no one spoke or moved.
He catches q good many suckers,
though, for money.
II suppose, but he don't catch me-"
aud We drifted out.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28
Swindles OF To-day


IL wan to show you something"
The speaker was a young man with q
disappointed countenance and ahapg-
dog expression. He beckoned the re-.
porter to q retired corner in a hallway,
and thrust q roll of glossy broadoloth
Into his hands.
"What do you wantY" queried the
pencil puuher.
"Oh, I want to get rid of this" he
said, pointing to the goods.
"Just so; but what do you want for
III"
"Oh, anything. I've got to sell 1t
or do something with II. There is ten
or twenty yards of it, and 1t Is worth
So or So a yard. Take it along with
you"
"All right-good morning." and
the itemizer vas walking off with the
goods, when the Y. m. objected and
wanted to know what we would give
him for the goods. sob, it's not
worth more than q dollar a yard. It's
miserable stuff. You can't play thief,
selling stolen goods on me. You're
not a professional thief; you're u pro.
fessional swindler. Good day to YOU"
Sol. Dlaenberry's auction! Great
closing out sale Of a bankrupt stock of
silverware and jswelry." We are
getting metropolitan, sure enough.
Poor paintings, imitation marble and
c~ast.otf trash Of the eastern auction
shops generally constitute the stock
OF our travelling auotioueers, but here
10 a really and truly" mock auction
after the style of the Bowery. This
was the mental soliloquy Of the knight
OF the pencil and he stepped inside
and commenced quiEzing q iewelsr
who was examining the goods.
Oh! yes, some Of that plate ID gen.
uins--in fact most Of the goods on
those shelves and In the oasss are A
No. I, but Just notice notice the tsash
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28
Shutting Down.

The @. B. & Q trains on the FL. &
S. were stopped Saturday evening be-
yond Shenandoah-that is the com'
pany has hauled off the trains to Ne.
brssks City because 1t didn't pay to
run them. They will run as usual
from Shenandoah to Charlton. =
Clarinda News.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28
And Still Another.

Al q meeting of the Central Trades
Assembly yesterday afternoon a call
was issued for a general mass meeting
at the court house Friday night at 8
O'Clock to nominate candidates for the
various tfices to be elected at tho
coming city election.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28
CITY

Whs5 Was Done About Paving
" hisky Selling and Railroads.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28

We notice the Marriage Fund. Mutual
Trust Association, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
highly spoken of in many of the leading
papers of the state. "Money for the I'm.
married" heads their advertisement in
another column Of this paper. flSm
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28

The most brilliant shades possible,
on all fabrics, ars made By the Ola
mond Dyes. Unequalled for brillian-
o. and durability. 10 cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28

Young man or woman, IL you want big
money for q small amount, insure In the
Marriage Fund and Mutual Trust Associ.
ation, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. fS.3m.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28

"A young fellow about town. who has
been on q big drunk for eighteen days,
was seen pawning his only best suit yes.
terdsy.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28

If you are not married, write the Mar.
rage Fund and Mutual Trust Associa.
tio., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for circulars
explaining the plan, f5-3m.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-28

For SALE-At o bargain, two cheese
watts and fixtures. Address 1904,
Council Bluffs, Iowa. feb27-t If
Daily globe., 1883-07-01

at almost any moment to listen favor
ably to an advantageous proposition.
But you should exercise the utmost
caution in approaching a young lady
who has been bereft of lover by death.
Such subjects are, for the time being,
invulnerable, as the digestive organs are
deranged and the blood not only de-
pleted, but active in an effort to restore
the system. In cases of this kind the
mental faculties should be appealed to
by sympathy, together with warm en-
comiums on the virtues of the deceased.
You do well to speak of the exalted af-
lection you entertained for the departed,
and refuse to be comforted even by the
subject. Recognizing the only mathe-
matical formula in the female system
that things loving the same thing love
each other excepting where two women
love the same man," she will gradually
learn to place you for the defunct.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01

Pages of details might be written re-
garding the business management. The
chief of that department, Mr.. A. L. Pat
terson, although yet comparatively a
young man, has been with Mr.. Storey
for quarter of a century. The business
department is to newspaper what the
stomach is to the human body-the great
working center. The stomach of the
Times digests some $4,000 per day, in
the way of expenses, Or 100000 yearly.
A part goes to the credit of the IT'S en-
ployes in the building; part to the tel
egraph companies; part to the paper
manufacturers of fourteen carloads of
white paper per month; and so on. Of
course the receipts, which are principal
ly derived from advertising, must be
enormous to meet these demands. The
average daily circulation is said to be
$4,000. The city circulation is in the
hands of two men, while the country
circulation is controlled by the Western
News Company.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
GERM4NYS NEWSPAPER THUN-
DERER.

The well-known German newspaper,
the Allgen1ei1le Zejtat,1g, was originally
started at Tubingen, in the year 1898,
by the great publisher, Gotta, and two
of its earliest contributors were Goethe
and Schiller. About a twelvemonth
later it removed to Stuttgart, where it
got into trouble with the Wurtemberg
press censors, and was consequently
transferred by its proprietors, in 1903,
to Ulm, at that time Bavarian town.
When Ulm, however, was ceded to
WTtemberg, the AUgemejae withdrew
to Augsburg, where it has remained
domiciled for more than three-quarters
of century. Among its foreign CORE
spondents have figured some of the
most gifted and eminent Germans of
our age. Heinrich Heine, for instance,
was for several years its representative
il Paris. During the period habitually
spoken Of in Germany as "the thirties
the precursor Of the "Sturm and
Drang epoch-the AUgemei1ae was
political power in the Fatherland itself
and its utterances with respect to Austri-
an and German affairs were regarded
throughout Europe as authoritative.
kolb, its chief editor at that time and
for many years after the wave of revo-
luton had swept over Germany, lived
and died in the conviction that the his
tory of Europe was manufactured in his
Office.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
4 D1sAPPorNrED CROWD.

A Chicago woman, to punish her hus-
band for grumbling during house clean
ing, decoyed him on the roof of the
house and locked him out. He told his
friends, who stopped and called out,
"What-cher doin' up there?" that he
had invented flying machine, and was
about to test its merits. In less than
an hour about 1,5OO persons had con-
gregated on the sidewalk and in the
street, waiting to see him fly; and, just
as he had concluded to kill two or three
of the crowd by jumping upon them, his
wife's red head popped through the
trap-door and exclaimed in stentorian
tones: "Come right in here now, you
old fool, or I'll knock you fat with the
fire-shoyel.' He went in, and the dis
appointed crowd went away.-Ths
Judge.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
INVENTORS OF REAPERS md
MOWERS.

Pliny the Elder, the great Roman
naturalist and historian, born A. D. %.
describes a reaping machine used by
Lowland Gauls; consisting of wagon
with a row of sharp, comb-like teeth
projecting outward from the rear of the
wagon-box. This was pushed against
the grain by an OK hitched in the shafts
with its head toward the wheels. A
somewhat similar rude contrivance was
used with little success in England
about 100 years ago. Both these
machines are clumsy headers. The first
English patent for a reaping machine
was issued to Mr.. Boyce in 1899, and
between that time and 1923 at least
seven individuals OF firms experimental
IN this direction, one of the inventors
being the present Prime Minister of
Great Britain, Mr.. Gladstone, who took
out a patent in 1906. In America
French & Hawkins took out patent
in 1903, Mr.. Comfort in 1911, Mr.. Ten
Eyck in 1926, and Cope & Hooper the
same year. A Rev. Patrick Bell, of
Scotland, invented a rude harvester in
1629-29 so imperfect that it failed to
command public attention, or gain the
confidence of farmers even of the i'm
mediate neighborhood. Beyond any
reasonable question the first successful
moving machines were those of the
Manning patent, 1881, and the Ketchum
patent of a little later date, and the
first successful harvesters were those
patented by Obed Hussey, of Cincinnati,
and G. Fl. Mccormick, of Chicago. Of
these, the Hussey machine was made in
1888, and the Mccormick in 1884,
Inter Ocean.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
4 CONSPIRACY TO RUIN A NEWS
PAPER,

A Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, Justice of the Peace, several
lawyers, and a considerable number of
business men in the town of Red Bank,
n. j., have entered into an agreement
to withdraw all patronage from the
local newspaper there which recently
published the fact that there were few
cases of typhoid fever and malaria in
the place and recommended an i'm
provement in the sewerage system.
This agreement is in writing, and those
who circulated it for signature declared
that the editor had ruined their busi-
ness by his statements concerning the
unhealthiness Of the town, and they
meant now to ruin him.
If the publication was true-and it
appears to have been made on the au-
thority of two reputable physicians
the paper has nothing to fear from any
combination of this sort. Ten new sub.
scribers will spring up by reason of the
attack, for one who cancels his SUBJ
scription. Nor will the advertising
suffer permanently. A newspaper can
not be punished in this country for
honestly telling the public what they
are entitled to know.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
QUEER FACTS ABOUT WIRES.

More than 200 telegraph wires cross
Broadway at Fulton street, roofing over
the great thoroughfare as giant cob
web. There is in New York constantly
growing host of corporations whose
wires form networks of this sort, in
most places upheld by rough-hewn
poles. Among these are ten telegraph
companies, and a score of electric light
ing, telephone and burglar alarm COM
panies. Very many big business estab-
lishments own private wires. Of all
the concerns who use the streets in this
way only the police and fire telegraph
systems are public establishments. The
almost innumerable wires belonging to
all these companies neeessitate frequent
attention. Frequent changes in the sys-
tens produce wires that, though left
standing, are disused. These are called
dead wires. Each company keeps
chart of its wires, and whenever the use
VI ally M1I0 10 O1SCOuGI1uGNl UUG 1ttcl Is
noted on the chart, so that when occa-
sion requires it the wire may be used
again. When old wires are replaced by
new the old wire is collected and sold.
One thoughtful member of the Farmers
Club has bought hundreds of miles of
these old wires, which he uses for train
ing grapevjnes. The line men Of the
different telegraph companies are on the
alert not only for dead wires, but for
what are called skin wires, that is, wires
that are put up without authority
Whenever these are discovered they are
unceremoniously cut down. Where they
come from or who puts them up it is
sometimes impossible to tell. They
make their appearance frequently, and
It is no small part of the line mems duty
to look out for them.-Ne,y York
pGUer.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
SELF-CONTROL.

In some people passion and emotion
are never checked, but are allowed to
burst out in blaze whenever
they come. Others suppress them
by main force, and preserve a callous
exterior when there are raging fires
within. Others are never excited over
anything. Some govern themselves on
some subjects, but not on others. Very
much can be done by culture to give the
will control over the feelings.
One of the very best means of culture
is the persistent Withdrawing of the
mind from the subject which produces
the emotion and concentrating it else
where The man or woman who per-
sistently permits the mind to dwell on
disagreeable themes only spites him or
herself. Children, of course, have less
control, and parents and teachers must
help them to turn their attention from
that which excites them to something
else; but adults, when they act like
children, ought to be ashamed of them
selves. The value of self-control as a
hygienic agent is very great. It pre-
vents great waste of vitality in feeling,
emotion and passion. 1t helps to give
one mastery over pain and distress,
rather than it over us.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
HEALTH AND PLEASURE.

L know men," says London T3Ytth,
who Will never understand that two
glasses of wine help their digestion,
while six disturb it,. that heavy lunch
destroys afternoon brainwork, or
heavy dinner sleep; that coffee is better
to sit up upon than brandy; that milk
and tea are better to walk or play
cricket on than beer; or that the va
rloUs and elegant pranks of five-and-
twenty simply mean exhaustion, dis
ease and death at five and-ffty or sixty.
In word, [ believe the question of
health generally is not What can safely
be done? but Who can safely do it p
L remember, in years gone by, trying
again and again to go through my sup
per-parties in decent form; it always
ended in the same way. After the first
glass or two got no real pleasure, and
always had headache next morning;
and there was MacGorman, who would
go off at II, after drinking hard all the
evening, tie wet towel round his head,
work till 2, and turn up smiling at the
next morning. Of course, he wa5 4
Scotchman; they are all like that. But
you are different, and yet you are always
trying these silly experiments. Others
are smoking, so you smoke, and soon
become unfit for conversation. Others
sit up at night or travel by night, or
bathe in all weathers, with impunity.
1t does not much matter what it is, your
constitution rebels, and you still go on,
for years perhaps, tempting head,
stomach and Providence - until, of
course, at last you get hit"
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
GAMBLING.

Time out of mind there have been
gamblers, and world without end they
will probably endure It is not by at
tacking the immortality of gambling
that the gaming instinct will be cured
or the practice ended. The one sure
way to put an end to it is to reveal the
exhaustion of pocket and the enervation
of brain that it must inevitably result
in. No mere array of probabilities will
ever suffice to turn gambler from his
fate; he will always feel that this time
luck, chance, fortune, whatever he may
call it, will yield to his necessities. Not
though he may have been disappointed
a thousand times Will he admit that his
success is hopeless. So strange, indeed,
is the infatuation, that even a knowledge
Of dishonesty in the game Will not al
ways deter him from venturing, though
doubtless this knowledge would exer-
else a greater restraint than any other
reason. There have been many in
stances where men of excellent reason
ing powers have admitted that they
were convinced as to the mathematical
impossibility of winning in a gambling
game; and yet they have acknowledged
that their hope was stronger than their
reason, and that they could not over
come the fancy that they might win
Boston StdT.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01

water from fire engine, which took
him in the face, and heard the front
door being opened by the fire depart
ment axes, while the parlor windows
stepped out to admit the ladders. Turn
ing to fly he met his wife with grid
iron and an almanac in one hand, while
the other was occupied with a baby and
a glass of wooden toothpicks, and at the
same instant there was a deafening
crash, which proved to be two mirrors
and the parlor stove tied together,
reaching the ground, while fireman,
ak in hand, inquired: where is the
fire?"
Daily globe., 1883-07-01

blood, and it is often felt by persons
whose blood is thin and watery. Strong
and healthy people suffer from it some
times because they use improper diet,
either too much in quantity or bad in
quality; or they eat when they are ex-
hausted by work or worry. It may also
be caused by disturbed condition of
the digestive organs generally.
1t is plain what the treatment should
be In the less-grave cases attention to
diet, and such medicines or tonics as a
judicious physician would prescribe for
each individual case.-Youth's CON-
pa71i0n.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TINES

THE EDIIOR OF THE LONDON TIMES,
Thomas Chenery, the editor -in-chief
of the Londo& Times, was born in the
West Indies, He is learned man of
retired habits, thus presenting a marked
contrast to his predecessor, Mr.. Delane,
who was learned only in knowledge of
the world and went very much into
society. Mr.. Chenery has lately moved
into Mr.. Delane's old house in
Serjeant's Inn, from his dusty, frowsy
lodgings in Bayswater. Never did the
editor of great newspaper live in such
a place as Mr.. Chenery's den in Norfolk
Square. It was like an English sea-
side lodging house, with its hideous
carpet, its dreadful woolly table-covers.
The occupant for many years of this
house was a short, stout, elderly man,
with gray hair, gray stubby beard and
mustache, and gray suit. Out OF the
wilderness of grey stubbiness looked a
pair of bright, good-humored eyes, and
when the cigar left his mouth and words
issued therefrom there was no doubt
that the speaker was a cultivated gentle
man of great knowledge and pleasing
conversation. In Paris such a man
would have lived in a marble palace.
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
SOMETHING ABOUT THE CRIC6GO
TIMES.

The editorial writer's are expected to
furnish about column of well-digested
opinions each per day, in the absence of
special assignments selecting their own
subjects, and treating them from their
own standpoint, which, from long expe-
rience, they have brought en- rapport
with the policy of the paper. The edi-
torial writer gives opinions; the reporter
furnishes facts. The editorial writer is
supposed to be man of thought; the
reporter man of action. The editorial
writer has no executive authority over
anybody, but is independent in his own
-s'ahA'sA salzA as tp the s11nervisinn of the
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
VERTIGO.

This name is from Latin word that
means to turn, and marks the dizzy
feeling that characterizes the disease.
Vertigo is frequently thought to be a
very dangerous symptom, especially if
the person falls who is suffering from it.
1t is true, it may be a dangerous symp-
tom. 1t may be caused by serious af-
fection of the brain, and prove the pre-
cursor of fatal paralysis. It is this
fact which excites alarm in particular
cases.
Vertigo, however, is far from being
necessarily an alarming symptom, and
this should be generally known. Where
there is one case in which it is a grave
indication of serious disturbance, there
are many in which it indicates only a
slight and temporary arrangement of
some of the organs of the body.
A violent attack of coughing may
bring it on in a weak person. Tobacco
may cause it by its action on the nerve
centers. The staggering of the tipsy
man is due to it. It comes to some per-
sons when they are in elevated posi-
tions. The imagination alone can give
rise to it.
Some very nervous people suffer
greatly, being unable to raise their
heads from their pillows for days at a
time without extreme dizziness; and yet
they neither have nor are threatened
with any organic disease, or any ailment
that may shorten their life.
Vertigo may be caused by loss OF
Daily globe., 1883-07-01
IN AM4TEUR SALTAGE COMPANH.

IN AM4TEUR SALVAGE COMPANY:
Much disturbed by fires occurring in
the neighborhood, Detroit man decid-
ed to organize a fire company in his
family, realizing that little precaution
might save him considerable In time of
danger He accordingly thoroughly
drilled the different members in their
respective duties and waited, but as no
opportunity for action offered he select
ed morning to give false alarm and
test their efficiency. Leaning from the
back-parlor window he shouted Fire"
at the top of his lungs.
The echo of his voice had not died
away when sofa and two chairs grazed
his ear on their way downward, four oil
paintings swept down the ladder, a
washstand and two trunks slid past
him, two bed Stats and a mattress
struck him on the head, and in an up
ward glance seeing the legs of the libra
~ table appear at the second-story win
dow he withdrew and started up stairs.
Half wa up he met the round marble
slab from the center table, which glided
between his feet without word and
struck the servant girl behind him, who
was carrying the china up stairs for
safety, and she and her burden landed
in t..e hall.
Gaining the second floor he was in
time to see his eldest daughter carefully
remove the bureau drawers one by one,
Daily globe., 1883-07-01

HAY fever, like malaria, is gradually
extending its habitat and driving its
victims out of some of their most trusted
refugees. During the last two years
scores of sufferers, whom the White
mountains has ceased to relieve, have
found their way up Mt. Killington, the
highest peak of the Green mountains,
1880 feet above the sea, and there bid
defiance to sneezes and snufies.