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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-22
Statistical Reports.

To Correspondents and Newspapers, "a
well as all Persons interested in q Statisti-
cal report from Nebraska:
OFFICE OF THE STATISTICAL Re-
PORTER FOR THE U. S.,
PLATTsMOUTH, NEB., Nov. 12
We find from reports the following
as the summary and result of all reports
made to this Office up to this date:
Corn yield per acre............ Al bushels
Quaity...:.:................... 81 per cent
POTATOES (lrlsh) ................147 bushels
QUALITY. ..................... 100 per cent
POtatoes (SWeet) ...............I14 bushels
Hay, average tame and wild.... ? tons
Suanty. .'.::. -. per cent
Grapes, yield and quality. SO per cent
Apples, 6. 4" 8" ..... 81 Der cent
Pears Sc &C GO . 80 ner cent
First frost October 9Th.
Corn ready for market Dec. 1.
Condition of orchards. 100 per cant
Spring wheat threshed at date. 80 per cent
Grade OF spring wheat. No. 3.
DANIEL II. WHEELER.
Statistical Agent for Nebraska.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-22

FAIRFIELD. 1OwA.-Dr. j. l.. Myers Saws.
Browns Iron Bitters is the best iron
preparation have ever known in my thirty
years of practice.''
All those who know their mind do not
know their heart.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20

upright position as long as the man con- tinued to play. Afles repeating this sx- pertinent several times. he placed fo~l within his reach. which he instantly darsed at and bit The fowl screamed oa, the moment he vas struck. but ran of. and began picking among his com pan,ons as Il nothing had happened. pulled GU, my watch ,o see ho~ long the venom took 10 operate. h about half minute the comb and wastlcs of the fowl began 10 change from a red to a hvid hue, and were soon nearly black, but no other symptoms sere apparent. h two minutes It beAgan to s,Asger. was seised ~ssh strong ceasulsseas, fell to the ground, and continued to struggle violently till i, expired, exactly three minutes and hAif Atter 1t had been bitten. 0n plack,ng the k,wl. we found that he had merely been touched on the extreme point cf the p,n- ron. The wound, not larger than the puneture oi needle. vas surrounded by a lNid spe, ba, the remainder of the body. ~ith the exception of the comb and ~a,tles winch were ot dark lv,d hael. was et the natural color, and afterwards learned that the coachn,an. A HAf=s AstC, H1N eaten II. Inc CuatutCt nos offered t@ show us his method ot ea;,hlng snakes. and scl9ing the reptile about hsc feet long1 hy the po,n, of the tail ~ith his let, hand he slipped the uahi hand along the body with the swift ness ot hgh,n,ng, and grasp,nG hun by the throat with hs nnger and thumb. held hlm fast. and forced him to open hi' Avs ane display h,s po..onoas fangs- Having nov grained my curiosity pro posed that the snake should he destroyed. os. \, least. that his tangs m,gh, be extract ed. An operation easily performed wtth a pat ot mt,eps But the snake being re- markedly me one. the chafnci ~as tn. wiling Ia eAuact hls teeth. as he sad the operation sometimes proved fatal. and hegged so hatd to he allowed to keep him as he was. that a, last suffered h.m Ia put hsm ln basket and eair, h,m ott After ,his he frequently brought the snake to the house Ia exhibit hlfu. and &ull with ht> tangs ent,re. as ase er,ained hN pcf>onal inspection. hu, so tame that hr handled !, freely, md apparently sithoa, tcai ot danger
 he ,eS best proof that the snakes t,ngs were not renewed eslssed n ihe la, that he one day bi, the chatmct and killed him
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20
tEsv Tke Arka.ss. Tvsveity. LINES TO THE OWL.
py .IsxRy A. WHITMAN.

u.ha, dreary charm is ], that ihen eaast ind, S,yanre bird. where light and sound doth no;
 intrude
 ss ,hts inc palace Of thy silent mind. Thor dark lnhaol;aE; of solitude Has, thou companions in this p.aee to meet Nayhap 'us echo comes "a silence here cr mAsbe melancholy al thy teet. SIS do1a to shed an unEem emberet tear. What unrrcorded secret eansi ,hou hold W,ha, iegezd Of regret on thy mute tongue fs ,, some tale of ruins dim and old, O. seer-discoyered fortunes ei the young y,hy seekes, thou the naked tree a; night Behind the hili, 10 boot so dlsma!h, Doth darkness listen in her hollow flight. 0- ealest thou the rising moon 10 see Thou solitary pries, Of ancien, shade. leave thee and thy r.tes 10 me unknown, Tie burden of thy dismal tongue hath a4Rde The sleepy night thy strange dominion own.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20
THE sHAKE CHAkMER

N
 !, is sell known that snakes arc. aa a tei- very s1ua oi muse. teeming io be charmed by it. Especially is ,h,s notice abie ID the cobra-e 4peiias the terrible hootic. sefprnts of India. t.eneral ( amp bel. fe airs an insiance of snake harm sag, which took place under his. .eyes and Wa4 sutfle ienily iemaksble 4 large CO., brA tad been dsscoyered ln the bottom of d dry veil. and had been frightened into iss hole in the bfitk~ofk by 'he sef .anis. who had pel,ed him wifh stones The snase-e hartpers were therefore sen, for To eni3ee hIm out
 Al nfsf ,he snake. who had been con- siderably 5s.lled before he took refuge in his hole sas deaf to the note of the charuiet, os, after half an hours constan, playing the spel. began to operate. and the sEAxe ~as heard 10 move Tn ic~ minutes more he thrust out his head hors@-haif moose was dex,rousiy sApped over |. and drawn tight. and ~e hostsd ID, the men dangling thelr snake in ui- umph. Having earned hin to An open space of ground they reseAsed hlm from the moose The enraxed snake immedi a,eiy made rilsh a, the bysiandess, put, iing ta fssgh, cso~d of native seryants ho had asscmksed to witness the sport. The snake-chArmer, tapping him on the ,ail with switch, induced him ID turn upon hssnsesf. a, inc same moment sound in2 hs p,pe The snake curied himself up. and raised his head. expanded hn hood and appeared abou, 10 strike bu, instead of dolng so, he rem mained n the same position, as if fascinated by the muse, dartlng ou, his slender fofked tongue, and follo~lng wi,h his head the notion of the mans knee, which he kept moving from side 10 side within a fe~ ine hes of hinn, as fl tempting him ,o.bise.
 No sooner did the music cease, than the snake darted forward with such fury tha, :, required greA, agility sn the par of the man to avoid him, and made ofi zs fas, as he eosld go. The sound of the pipe. however. invariably made him stop. and obliged him to remain in an
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20
How Heu Prank Hsu Leaned to spest
 English so Well
sHta1 sY stats loafesF

We'll. flank, how arc you getting along ~lsh your immense basinesas l dont see ho~ you can manage so great and arled A business as that the High land House calls Tor
 Oh. got along hrsdfade. hrsdrade. ! rioos' more ptsnesa hal as 1 can do 1 soi der higgest bIace in der world
 ~I wonder you don, have An agent"
 "heli. go, plenty mans under me i, Bnd l ,eils you II took life mana to Nateh 'em all ofer and s1e dot efery,inxs Va. e1egu,ed like giosk-~ork
 see you have improved wonderfully ;" .ss-.EzS English"
 Yell. you see my pisness dot ele~a,e me ID der bes,es, Americ at society what can be had, and to be eo9rse learn dose lang~tsch more faster ss oderyise yhcn don, do, high sociesy got aroandt
 fes. l sec you speak the language mus h better than you did ten year, ago when you vas in the N.ne-s,fees base men,
 ell. dere you see nefer go, obbor- iunu} 70 conserve mi, h.gh-up American ladies and don, make no ,ry-hard; dot lans~iseh ,o learn. Nov t yaa different. 1 efery day go, introduction ,o American Iadies of the most highes, rank. und to be oogfse der s where 1 catch dem bsx words on and grammar upd such dings Do, vas drr besses, edicsiion what a sherman mxns can haf got. ios see yourseief how ] got me imbsose.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20
ot.., Guns
S-~ -. &orssss saa

$~~ f4-s Hstasrs is-ts-
 General sherfR4rs lip. arc 2 A per peiuAl state O; pacscrlng
 $ !. Tildeu says ,he nrx -ofle; s the one of isi2 becauAe nc rem ern Der, seeing ,hz, ~hra he cas, hss urst vote.
 lay Gould doesn', wan: any aqeednc, running through hs and He hAs his hands Ells enough looking alter ~a,ered s,oeks.
 Mira Honey. of Montreal. has hair more thar sis feet long. ii she cu;s ]; o1 and sells |; the dealer ~lli abe t. swce, ,hing m s~i:ehes.
 Mss Ella Whee.er. the sweet singer of the Hes,. wsroies -Llse me, say. our own American. Step this gay, Ella, and take as fo, anything b.: oar face value.
 Ex-Governor Long. of nAssaohusetts. once crawIed into holio~ iog during ram storm. He should have preserved that log and used II for an umbrella cove.
 Leon.das Abbe,s. the %e~ Jersey demo- cratc nominee. will initiate has Iliu ssrioas prototype who once held the pass d, ThermopyAs, by holding all ,he passes ne can get
 Hs-coes's D saee ls tcHsss3. zs 2ore
 Her 1rsrx's tcs s Imp zse zsa%
 I.esn : arm ls stroeg 10 msrs.
 Butter eye is Fztaer game
 fsr ' thlF pretty pictgre
 Of Democrats. syFigfGr-
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20
Her Ears had Been Bored.
1 vsxs s!stlEga

" Don, you ,hink earrings would be- come you {" inquired kosciusko Marphy of Birdie AcGee. koseiusko had been paying Birdie very asssduous attention Of late
 "l don', kno~." replied Btsdie de- mufely.
 suppose the reason you don', wear them is because II will hurt % 10 have your eArs bored T
 "Oh, no, in the least" said birdie. with animation. I've had that done already, quite ofien, dimes, every evening in fact. for the last three veeks.''
 Then kosciusko reached round to the piano. dragged his hat of the cover and commenced to fade gradually rom the room. He fairly melsed away into ob- scunty, and now wide chAsm separates ,he gallant kosciusko and the charming Birdie.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20
r'ying to ralt QuaLss
Ts.haags

Ii ne easy matter tot aostee to ding a, sisket tidcutiy The tongue becomes enaiused wl,h its triple cholcr ot pra- noans,ani flaps l1s,lessl, around the pal ate
 l well reeollee' my clumsy efforts to engage in oonsersatloa with A farmer. whom met is Chester county. the maker sttonghs,ld ot rennsylvan,a When happened upon hlm he ~a. si,. rng upon a worm iense. val Antiy staring al a cream oioIed colt ,n the adia. ea, held 1 a, once disined han to he ucnd in and,ess. and determined to de. llgh, the old fellow and amase myself by earyina on skilltul dialogue m his own ldlom Thn IA hos 1 succeeded
 How do thee do. AT l. thA, .. ate thce mcd,atng
 Il hc was delighted, he controlled hls emotion almifaby Ali he d,d ~ts to gape and nqa,te
 Hey =
 :. he helds. he birds. the aowe,s" pleasantly pursued. are enough to bttnx thou dreAns mean dream. ,o thou
 He ~as looking al me nos. and cr,,,e. ally felt that my sSntas had been very tdio,i .ns.ead of iiiomA,i,. so o,~ipinx the sweat from m) brow and hat. 1 eyed h,m calmly and observed
 hose co~s, are thys or ,hees that i.. thou, dun Il ] mean thine's =
 l. ~ss very unfortunate. He efa~lcd down from the fence. nibbled at 4 plug oi nie kel-nu.get an ast of itself suffi- ( l~n' to un- taakrt hun and as he am. bed away. mattetcd indignantly
 "t.o a,c your pan,s I'm tramp, but a gin,leman
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20

'- No, bad b, ot work. sad Frank Resion. as he satehea Inc tram steam eg, of Inc lAdaci station. for ahn Audas ~o4id no, % by Foikestone a Do hiu, good Bfng him to hss senses Deuced enpfo.csAona iuck. though. Ha h. he .agghed A he u gar. ' If my urN uiie had been aifee ~on- der eh.' isck would say f he knes ~ho sen, hlrl that ;eicgraia
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-20

h wearers position n a court.
 Gcntlem an to see you. ST sad his clerk, entering the room.
 \ anne :" sad Frank. laconicaliy
 Wouldn't give no name. ST. Mus; see you directly. SIT"
 Hello, exclaimed the barris,er, as we.l-muf.ed up ,EaYelef forced his way in, bag and rus n hand.
 Hush on!y me send away your clerk"
 Frank Res,on nodded a; his wonder ing aid, who jeff the room.
 Why. my dear John. what is ,he mat ter: Lesby :"
 "oh, she's all right; God bless her = cried Audas, thro~ing himself into d chair and gazing wildly. with blank. cadaveroas face, a, his bro,her-in-lax '' Give me something, for heavens sake -brandy-wine- done up.T
 Resson opened a cupboard, brought, out his spiri,-ssand, and Audas hastily gulPed down glass of spirits, returning the glass to the table with trembling hand.
 Why, John, old fellow said Reston, :. wha, Is II
 IIl-l'li :ell you directly. hardly dare but, oh, Frank, swear 10 you l did i, in all innocence. Oa, my poor darling my poor darling Don, blame me, Frank swear 10 you believed |, an-
 Here. here. come come. old fello~. Don't give away like this. Why. hang II, man, what is II: You look as if you had committed crime
 Il have, Frank, have; and agains, the deareS:, the sweeses, girl tha, ever blessed man with her tender love.-
 Why, John Audas,- said Res.on
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-04
TIE PRESIDENT.

The metropolis of Nebraska takes
pleasure in welcoming President Arthur
to this city and state. General Arthur is
the third president who has ever visited
Omaha while in Office. His predecessors
were General Grant and MI. Hayes. But
General Arthur is the first president who
has ever been a resident of Omaha, and
his visit on that account attended with
all the more interest. Twenty-Five years
ago the president came here rs a young
lawyer in search of a location. For
~tunately for him, he returned to a
field more fitted for a man of his
dimensions. While Mr.. Arthur has
grown up with the country Omaha has
also advanced in size and population since
the time when he used to take his daily
horseback ride from the village of Omaha
to the then flourishing city of Florence.
Nebraska is a republican state and
Omaha on national issues is a republican
city, but our people will bid
the president welcome without re-
gard to partisan ties. They recognize
in him an able, honest, clear-headed and
clean-handed executive who has won his
way into popular favor against the force
of adverse circumstance and who to-day
is the most prominently mentioned can
didate for denomination at tho hands of
his party.
Although he stops with us but a few
hours our citizens bid him a warm wei
come and give himtheir hearty bestwishes
for a pleasant trip to the most beautiful
pleasure garden in the Western world.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-04
EDUCATIONAL.

Iowa spends five millions a year for educa,
ton.
General Armstrong says every girl in his
colored school at Hampton wants to study
Greek.
DIR. McCosh, the president of Princeton
college, is seventy-tive years of age. Although
somewhat bowed, he is well preserved.
Although not more than one-tenth of the
students ut Cornell university are women, out
of nine recent elections to the Phi Beta
Knappa, three were of women.
Miss Ethel Ellis, of Franklin, for a number
of years connected with Oxford college, Ohio,
recently received notice of her appointment as
teacher in a institute of learning in the Ar
gentine Republic, South America.
One of the teachers in a Philadelphia semi
nary reprdxsd a young lady for using the word
Sweat" in the following manner: my dear,
bear in mind that horses sweat, men p~erspire,
and young ladies get in a glow"
A young graduate of the Massachusetts
Institute OF Technology, and son of a promi
nent manufacturer in Massachusetts, has been
learning the woollen manufacturing business.
and has been promoted from the wool-room to
the cording-room in enc of Lewiston's woollen
mills.
The colored teachers association. which has
been holding its meetings at Frankfort, KY,
compares favorably in its discussions with
other associations. The sessions were said to
be lively and interesting. Compulsory edu-
cation, y Hygiene in the school room, " ''The
parent, teacher and pupil, :" were some of the
subjects treated. Upon the Elements of
success" a colored clergyman spoke of success
in teaching as consisting first. self-mas-
terry; second, love for the work; third, a thor
ongh knowledge of what he expects to teach;
fourth, a knowledge of the pupils to be
taught; fifth, aptness to teach; sixth, personal
magnetism; seventh, "a progressive spirit.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-04

ONE of the most striking cartoons that
has ever appeared in print is produced in
the latest issue of Puck. The subject of
this cartoon is the tournament between
labor and monopoly. The former is the
haggard workman Labor, mounted on
the spawned nag Poverty, and armed
with the wooden mallet Strike. Monop.
oily is a mailed knight, armed cap-a-pie,
and mounted on a mailed animal with
the head of a horse and the wheels and
COW catcher of a locomotive. His shield
is corruption of the Legislature, his
plume is arrogance, and his spear is the
subsidized press. The contest is wit
messed by Vanderbilt, Gould, Field, Sid
ney Dillon, Russell Sage, and others,
seated in reserved seats for capitalists,
and by the populace behind the fence.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-04

time ago, resulted successfully. The ground
trembled perceptibly from the effects of the
explosion, windows and doors ratified, and
several thick panes of glass in the lighthouse
were shattered. -Four rounds were fired, the
projectiles being all of the same weight, 700
pounds-but the charges of powder varying
from 225 pounds to 450 pounds, the latter being
a full charge. The projectiles struck the
water at distances varying from $50 yards to
four miles, according to the elevation, and the
recoil varied from four to seven feet. The
carriages and aiming apparatus worked ad-
mirably.
On Lookout mountain, near Fort Payne,
Ala there is said to be one of the most won.
derful subterranean caverns ever discovered in
that country, and which bids fair to o~utrival
the famous Kentucky Mammoth cave. The
spersed throughout this cave furnish miniature
cascades, whose falling spray is wonderfully
beautiful, while its lofty domes, studded with
stalactites, surpass the c~erulean hues of the
heavens, dotted with its sparkling gems. The
passageways in the cave are so large that q
person can explore all its parts without stoop-
ing. There are also several fine springs in the
cave.
A beautifully -carved, match.safe made of
fine white sandstone was recently found in the
Nevada state prison quarry. The safe was
carved by M. Pritchard, a convict, and is an
elaborate affair some ten inches in height and
the same in width, with an arch over all. On
the arch is a gilt cannon, and on the base, in
panel, is a bas.relief representation of an eagle
holding spears in his talons and restiag in the
angle formed by the crossing of two American
flags. This is also gilded. On the ends, which
are nearly four inches through, is the repre-
sentation of the stars and stripes, surmounted
by the monogram -. +. c." The ends OF the
box are also handsomely carved.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-04

GOOD morning, Mr. y. fine day. Eyes, fine day.
Think itTl rain to.dayY' "well, hardly think il will
rain to-day; still It may; hope not"
"Howdy do, Mr.. c., cold, isntitH' "well, yes, I
should SOY 1t was cold Have some snow I reckon
Wouldn't wonder at all; still il doesn't look like
snow"
"IIello H., going to get a freeze, chr "No think
not; thisis going 10 blow up a thaw." There's where
you're wrong, I tell you its going TO freeze"
The above are some OF the empty whims and spec.
ulations so often on the tongues Of the people. Ques.
tions Of vital Importance and which they arc init.
matoly concerned such as health, modes Of living,
and treatment Of disease, are passed upon little, II at
all. How much more sensible would be q query say
like this:
"well, Mr.. b., how is your case Of dyspepsia com.
ing onl Have you found a remedy for IT. Or like
this: "My liver and kidneys flag in their work. Is
there amedicine that will assist them In meeting ma.
lures requirementsT'
II Mr.. b., or the other party sccostcd had used
Burdock Blood Bitters he would reply: eyes, I have
found a remedy true and good, one that has merit and
Is honest"
Let us add that the reputation Of Burdock Blood
Bitters IL ( founded upon the solid floor OF Fact, nailed
down and clinched by sincere Conviction. For all
disorders arising from or associated with the blood
and stomach, this mcdcineis peculiarly adapted, and
gives unvarying satisfaction.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-04
ouABA,s NEW 1NygRpRJSr.

The assurance of new stock yards on
the largest scale of any outside of Chi
cago and of mammoth beef packing and
refrigerating houses, backed by capital
which is practically unlimited, is good
news for Omaha which THE BEE was en-
abled by superior enterprise to spread
before its readers in advance of all con.
temporaries. Several weeks age this
paper gave the skeleton of the scheme
then undeveloped but the details
surpass the expectations of all
but those who were in the
secret from the beginning.
These details briefly stated are:
Stock yards in which 10000 head
of Nebraska and Wyoming cattle
are to be fed this winter, supplied
with water from our own water
works, and furnished with admirable
shelter and shade from the beautiful
farms in which they are laid out. The
location, directly adjoining our city
limits, is all that could be desired
Stretching along the Union Pacific track
for q distance of over four miles and
extending southwark to the Missouri
river, tho Omaha stock yards will
have the advantage of two through lines
of railroad to bring in their cattle from
the far west and transport the manufac-
tured product to eastern
But what will be perhaps of more in
terest to our citizens is the erection in
the neal future of beef packing, canning
and refrigerator works, which with the
stock yards, will furnish employment to
5000 men. This means an addition of
10000 population within three
years to this city. 1t means the estab-
lishment of a great industry and a new
market. 1t means a cheapening of meat
in Omaha, and the extension of its facili-
ties as a wholesale center.
For all these reasons the BEE congratu-
lates our citizens on this new enterprise,
1t also co%ngratulates Mr.. G. b. Schaller,
to whose untiring energy the result is so
largely due.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-04
O7HER LANps THAN OURS,

Within a week Mr.. Gladstone has won
two successive victories in parliament,
However apparent the weakness and in
decision of the ministerial policy may be,
the greater weakness Of the conservative
leadership is still more manifest. The
first occasion referred to was on Friday
of last week when Onslow, a conserva-
tive member, made a motion expressing
regrets that part Of the cost of the
Egyptian war had been charged
to India. This was a direct at
tempt TO call out a vote of a