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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
A Wonderful Cun.

Baron Charles de Rothschild, OF
Frankfort-on-the-Main, purchased, not
long ago, for the enormous sum OF
100000 francs (S16O,OOO) a silver-gilt
cup by the celebrated Jammitzer, which
is said to be marvellous work Of art.
This sum, according to the ChrOniqAe
des Artes, is, as far as it knows, the
largest price ever paid in modern times
for single object of art. The work is
the center piece of table service. The
foot is composed Of a rock entirely COW
cred with grasses and field flowers, on
which desport themselves beetles, little
lizards, locusts and snails. From this
rises the figure of a woman, emblemat-
ling the earth, and bending in eloquent
pose as she supports on her head and
her hands tall chalice, decorated with
grotesques and topped by cover, which
terminates in vase in the form of
baluster, from which springs bunch of
leaves and flowers. The silver gilt of
which the cup is made has ornaments in
Opaque and translucent enamels. The
goldsnithery of the sixteenth century is
said to offer nothing more finished in
execution, and which, though open to
criticism, possibly forms the standpoints
both of taste and style, has its weak
nesses counterbalanced by the wonder
full perfection of all it's details.
The story of Baron Rothschild's &C
QUESTION of the work is quite curious.
It formed part of the estate of the late
Nuremberg banker, Merkel, who died in
1878, and whose heirs, by common &C
cord, agreed to loan it, together with
Albert Durer's portrait of Holchucher,
to the German Museum at Nuremberg,
of which Jammitzer's chef doeuvre be-
came one of the greatest treasures. In
deed the public, during the years it was
on exhibition, thought it belonged to
the museum. It was so arranged that
the work could not be taken away with
out, Joint consent Of the heirs and Min
isterial authorization. Some months
ago the celebrated art work disappeared
from the galleries, to the great astonish-
ment and CONSERVATION of the Nurem-
bergers and the country in general.
After while it leaked out that Frank
fort dealer in art objects, the agent of
Baron Rothschild, had appeared with
the necessary papers from the family
and the Director of the Museum had
been obliged to deliver to him the cup.
The whole affair was conducted with
great secrecy, and it is certain that had
It been known that the object was for
sale the Directors of the Nuremberg
Museum, as well as many 9TH
ers, would have competed with the pres
ent purchaser for its possession.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09


red. white and blue yarn.E The meat
portion was half of chicken fried in
flour. Then there was number of
pieces of fried wheat bread, a generous
slice of cold hoe cake and a large piece
of plain cake"
B,ood heat is set down on Faharn-
heit thermometer at ninety-eight de-
grees, but more careful investigation
has shown that the temperature of a
healthy person is between 1O2 and 1O3.
One-half degree either way indicates
an abnormal condition, while one de-
gree below would make doctor shake
his head ominously. When a fever
sends the temperature up to 1O6 or 107
it depends entirely on the amount of
fuel on hand how long the fire will con-
tinue to burn.
The largest dredging machine in the
world has been finished and will be used
on the Sacramento and San Joaquin
swamp lands in California. 1t has been
named Thor, and modelled after the
best dredges now in use on the Isthmus
canal, cutting out channel and build
ing levee at the same time. The
Thor is 101 feet long and 81 feet wide,
and has 81 iron buckets, with capacity
of one and a half cubic yards each,
which can be filled and emptied four
teen times per minute.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
The Woman of the Future.

The Long Branch correspondent OF
the Albany Journal writes There are
two facts which strike one with immense
force this season ON first arriving at the
most popular of our watering places,
and these are: First, the number of
tall, well-grown young women that the
present age has developed; and, second,
the size of hats they wear. Usually
they are fair as we'll as large, and they
look like revival of the Scandinavian
goddesses-as if all at once our earth
was being peopled again by mighty
Brunhelds and lovely Sidurthas instead
Of the slim, sallow type we have been
accustomed to associate with the born
American.
The immense hats, which have wide,
indented or turned-up brims, enhance
this blooming style of beauty, and rem
ders it all the more conspicuous. A lit
tie more Of dignity, little more of re-
pose, and they could quite realize the
poets ideal of daughters of the gods
divinely tall and most divinely fair.
But their too abrupt movements and the
loud talking-the silly talking and So tit
tering" in which nearly all the girls in
dulge-destroy the illusion. These
young women come from good, well-to-
DO families they are the representatives
of the present. and particularly of the
incoming generation of the women of
America. and as such are to be congrat
ulated on being a great improvement,
physically, on those that have gone be-
fore them. Their fine development
speaks well for what improved methods
more air. better and more nutritious
food, and more intelligent aims-are do
ing for them. No more slate pencils, no
more theories in regard to food, no more
moonlight reveries and morbid longings
the healthy modern girl is the most
practical, the most unromantic of NOR
tails, and her dinner is as important
fact to her as it is to any Alderman on
Lord Mayors day. She is not ashamed
to eat, and she shows the results of good
living and exercise, both of mind and
body. From such young women as
these in the present day it is easy to tell
what the women of the future will be
perfect realizations of the ideals of the
poets and romancers-no mere bundle
of nerves, but gorgeous creatures, capa-
ble of ruling the kingdom that is pre-
pairing for them.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
A Merry Heart.

"Td rather be poor and merry says
q writer, ethan inherit the wealth Of
the Indies with discontinued spirit.
A merry heart, cheerful spirit, from
which laughter wells up as naturally as
bubble the springs of Saratoga, are worth
all the money-bags and mortgages in
the city. The man who laughs is doc
tor with diploma indorsed by the
school of nature; his face does more
good in sick-room than a pound of pow
ders OF a gallon of bitter draughts. If
things go right he laughs because he is
pleased if they go wrong he laughs be
cause it is better and cheaper than cry
ing. People are always glad to see him,
and their hands instinctively go half
way to meet his grasp, while they turn
involuntarily from the clammy dyspep-
tic who speaks on the grooming. He
laughs you out of your faults, while you
never dream of being offended with him,
and you never know what pleasant
world you are living in until he points
out the sunny streaks on its pathway.
Who can help loving the whole-souled,
genial Laughter? Not the buffoon, nor
the man who classes noise with mirth,
but the CHEEKY, contented man of sense
and mind ! A good-natured laugh is the
key to all breasts. The truth is that
the people like to be laughed at in a
genial sort of way. If you are making
yourself ridiculous you want to be told
of it in pleasing manner, not sneered
at. And it is astonishing how frankly
the laughing population can talk without
treading ON the toes Of their neighbors.
Why will the people put on long faces,
when it is so much easier and pleasanter
to laugh? Tears come to us unsought
and unbidden. The wisest art in life
is to cultivate smiles, and to find the
flowers where others shrink away for
fear of thorns.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Patience Greater Than Jobs.

suppose Jobs patience was wonder
full for a man; but it was nothing to
that of women. What would Job have
done had he been compelled to sit in
the house and sew, and knit, and nurse
the children, and see that hundreds OF
different things were attended to during
the day, and hear children cry, and fret,
and complain Or how would he have
stood it if, like some poor woman, he
had been obliged to rear family of ten
or twelve children without any help,
spending months, years-all the prime OF
life-in washing, securing, scrubbing,
mending, cooking, and nursing children;
fastened to the house and his offspring
from morning till night, and from night
till morning sick or well, in storm or
sunshine, his nights often rendered mis-
cradle by watching over his children
How could he have stood all this, and in
addition to all other troubles the curses
and even violence of drunken COM
panion? He would soon have tired of
unrewarded labor and undeserved blame.
For, after all, though Job endured his
boils and losses very well for short
time, they did not endure long enough
to test the strength of his patience.
Woman tests her patience by whole
life of trials, and she does not grumble
at her burdens. We are honestly of the
opinion that woman has more patience
than Job; and instead of saying, "The
patience of job" we should say, "The
patience of woman. "-Erchange.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Eggs as Food.

Eggs are an article of cheap and nu-
tritious food which we do not find on
farmers tables in the quantity economy
demands. They are very convenient to
take to market, and this is the dispo-
sition which too many farmers make of
them. They probably do not fully COM
prehend how valuable eggs are as food;
that, like milk, an egg is complete
food in itself, containing everything
necessary for the development of per-
feet animal, as is manifest from the fact
that chick is formed from it. 1t seems
a mystery how muscles, bones, feathers,
and everything that q chick requires for
its perfect development are made from
the yelk and white of an egg but such
is the fact, and it shows how complete
food an egg is. 1t is also easily digest
ed, if not damaged in cooking. A raw
or soft-boiled egg is always as easily as
simulated as is milk, and can be eaten
with impunity by children and invalids.
The average egg weighs thousand
grains, and is worth more as food than
so much beefsteak. Indeed there is no
more concentrated and nourishing food
than eggs. The albumen, oil and saline
matter are, as in milk, in the right pro-
portion for sustaining animal life. When
eggs bring no more than 90 cents
per dozen, it is much better economy to
find a market for them in the family
than at the store. Two or three boiled
eggs, with the addition of O slice or two
of toast, will make breakfast sufficient
for man and good enough for King.
An ordinary hens egg weighs from one
and half to two ounces, Il ducks egg
from two to three ounces, the egg of a
sea-gull and the turkey from three to
four ounces, and the egg of q goose from
four to six ounces. The solid matter
and the oil in the ducks egg exceed
those in hens egg by about one-fourth
According to DR.. Edward Smith, in his
treatise on Goods" an egg weighing
an ounce and three-quarters consists of
100 grains of carbon and 49, grains of
nitrogen, or 1925 per cent. OF carbon
and u nitrogen. A writer in the Sci
entifc Farmer estimates that the value
of one pound OF eggs, as food for sus-
tanning the active forces of the body, is
to the value OF one pound of lean beef as
1854 is to 900. AS Il flesh producer one
pound OF eggs is about equal to one
pound of beef. A hen may be calcu-
lated to consume one bushel of corn
yearly, and to lay ten dozen, or fifteen
pounds of eggs. This is equivalent to
saying that three and one-tenth pounds
of corn will produce, when fed to a hen,
tive-sixths of pound of eggs. But five
sixths of pound of pork requires about
five pounds of corn for its production.
When eggs are one shilling per dozen
and pork tive-pence per pound we have
a bushel Of corn fed, producing ten shill-
ings' worth of eggs and four shillings,
worth Of pork. Judging from these
facts eggs must be economical in their
production and in their eating, and es-
pecially tit for the laboring man in re-
placing meat.-PrOUisioner.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
SMALLER PARAGRAPHS.

The old question of a speedier means
of official killing than the blade or the
moose is again discussed in England.
The Lancet not only thinks that de-
capitation does not cause instant death,
and that hanging is torturingly slow,
but that neither prussic acid nor cleo
tricity would be quick enough in fatal
effect.
Higher literary circles in London are
much amused by the controversy be-
tween Herbert Spencer and Fred
erick Harrison. The latter de-
MES the originality of Spencer's
system of philosophy, and de-
scribes it as drawn from Comte. 1t is
singular to observe that a philosopher
of Spencer's standing declares himself
ignorant of Comte.
A western paper recently made ex-
cuses for the shortcomings of a particu-
lar issue by claiming that part of it's
editorial corpse" was necessarily alb
sent. The mistake was pointed out by
a friend and the next week the follow
ing appeared: 1.-The error was simply
typographical one. Of course anyone
with spoonful of brains would know
that we meant editorial CORE"
Aparty or artists who have been trav-
cling in Alaska declare the Greek
church at Sitka to be the most beautiful
house of worship in America. 1t is
built on the plan of Greek cross, and
the interior is mass of gold and silver
of the magnificence of which writer
says he can give no idea. The walls
are hung with pictures of royalty and
the priesthood, sent by Russian prin-
cess who took this temple under her
patronage.
''Snack," the luncheon that colored
''aunties'' in Virginia sell through car
windows while the train is stopping at
a station, is thus described: "a nom
descript looking package of meat, cake
and bread tied together with. strings of
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
A Wonderful Resurrection.

New YORK sun
In the London Lancet, of September
9th, is recorded a case of resuscitation
after apparent death by hanging, so re-
markable as to be worthy of notice and
discussion outside of purely professional
circles.
The case is reported by DR.. Ernest w.
White, senior assistant medical officer
to the Kent lunatic asylum at Chart
ham, near Canterbury. The patient
was woman, SO years old, afflicted
with that form of insanity known as
melancholia. She had tried to kill her
self before admission into the asylum,
and made several attempts to take her
life after being received into the insti-
tuition. Finally she succeeded in escap-
ing the watchfulness of the attendants
who had frustrated her previous efforts
at self-destruction, and hid herself in a
bathroom, where she was found hang
ing to a ladder by cord formed of
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Productive Dakota.
st. Paul Herald.

st. Paul Herald
"Speakin' of productive SOIL said
the man from Dakota, '.the half has
never been told. A few weeks ago my
wife said: why, John, L b'lieve you've
took to CROWN agin.' measured my
self, an hope Gabriel'll miss me at
the final roundup if | hadn't grown six
inches in two weeks. l couldn't ac-
count for it for some time, till at last l
tumbled to the fact that thar war holes
in my boots, an the internal soil got in
there an done its work. Did You see
that boy that was with me on the street
this mornin'? Looks like ne war about
Is years old. Wal, about six months
ago my wife sot our 6-months-old kid
down in the plowed ground to play, an
gents, I'll be billy be doggone if -
But you wouldn't believe that if l told
it. Yes, it's a wonderful country,
gents! l could sit here for a year re-
latin actual facts, but | must rush out
an do some tradin'. I've got to buy a
Ratchet to single my barn with. left
my old Ratchet out over night last
week, an in the mornin' it was full
grown az Good-by."
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Good Imperishable.

Saws recent writer 81 remember,
not long ago, seeing some larkspur and
lady's slipper in the midst OF sterile
looking field. Upon inquiring how these
garden flowers came there, 1 heard that
many years ago there was an old house
there, but it had been gone more than
sixty years. Yet, Notwithstanding that
field had been reaped and sowed, plowed
and pastured, season after season, for so
many years, these simple little flowers
lived on, a memento of innocent child
hood, blooming out of the most squalid
poverty. Evil has the same immortal
ity. If the children's hands had sown
thistles, they would have remained as
long.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
THE REASON WHY.

"No more the girls
! try to mash,
No more | gam
Bile with my cash;
No more ] dress
Up fit to kill;'
No more / run
A livery bill;
No more j smoke
High-priced cigars;
No more my ease
Take I'm street cars;
No more | drink
The sweet benzine;'
No more / paint
The town carmine;
No more / see
Those ballet shows
No more sit down
In 'bald-head' rows!
eyes, Pm not now
"A fast young man.
But have prop
Err life began.
Beg pardon, there.-
What's that you say?
Religion got.'
oh, dear, nay, nay!
The reason |
Have changed my mode
F, Of living, and
4 My wild oats sowed,
is simply this:
I'm married now
Unto a wife
Who'd raise a row
In case ] should
Get frolicsome-
And So Pm kept
Beneath her thumb"
JEFF Joslyn, in New York Journal
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09

Flowers and fruit are always fit
presents; flowers, because they are
proud assertion that ray of beauty
outvalues all the utilities of the world.
These gay natures contrast with the
sombre countenance of ordinary nature;
they are like music heard out of a work
house.-Berz
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09

Osborn, Neb. Range: Red Willow creek,
in southwest corner Of Frontier county, cat
tie branded go l. o. on right side. Also,
an over crop on right ear and under crop on
left. Horses branded 1919 on right shoulder.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
The Origin Of the POstOffice.

The English Illustrated Magazine says
that the postoffice is an example of the
mode in which things change while
names remains. 1t was originally the
office which arranged the posts or places
at which, on the great roads, relays of
horses and men could be obtained for
the rapid forwarding of government dis
patches. There was chief postmaster
of England many years before any sys-
tenn of conveyance of private letters by
the crown was established. Such letters
were conveyed either by carriers, who
used the same horses throughout their
whole journey, or by relays of horses
maintained by private individuals, that
is by private post. The scheme of car
rying the correspondence of the public
by means of crown messengers originated
in connection with foreign trade A
postoffice for letters to foreign parts was
established ''for the benefit of the Eng
fish merchants in the reign of James l.,
but the extension of the system to in
land letters was left to the succeeding
reign. James l., by a proclamation is
sued in 1875, may be A., said to have
founded the present postotiice. By this
proclamation he commanded his post
master of England for foreign parts to
settle a running post or two, to run night
and day between Edinburgh and Lon
don, to go thither and come back again
in six days, and to take with
them all such letters as shall be directed
to any post town in or near that road. :"
Ncighboring towns such as Lincoln and
Hull, were to be linked on to this main
route, and posts on similar principles were
directed to be established on other great
high roads, such as those to Chester and
Holyhead, to Exeter and Plymouth. So
far no monopoly was claimed, but two
years afterward a second proclamation
forbade the carriage of letters by any
messengers except those of the kings
postmaster-general, and thus the present
system was inaugurated. The monopoly
thus claimed, though no doubt devised
by the king to enhance the royal power
and to bring money into the cXchequer,
was adopted by Cromwell and his parlia-
ment, one main advantage in their eyes
being that the carriage of correspondence
by the government would afford ''the
best means to discover and prevent any
dangerous and wicked designs against
the commonwealth" The opportunity
of an extensive violation of letters, cspc-
cially if they proceeded from suspected
royalists, was no doubt an attractive bait;
and it is rather amusing to notice how
the tables were thus turned on the mon
archial party by means of one of the SOW
crcign's own acts of aggression. How
ever, from one motive or another royalists
and parliamentarans agreed in the estab-
lishment of a state post, and the institu-
ton has come down without a break
from the day of Charles l. to our own.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Doctor @. II. Yelvington asserts that
the copperhead never bites when coiled
up, but will throw the middle of his
body into long, almost rectangular,
curves, and with his head and an inch or
so of the neck slightly elevated above the
ground is ready to defend himself.
A notable invention is self-register-
ing ships compass, so contrived as to
keep a continuous record of the steered
course of the vessel, the length of time
during which she has remained on each
course, and changes in the course, and
the exact time of every change. The
record is automatically traced on paper.
s. N. Rhoads has given evidence which
proves that turkey-vultures are directed
to their prey from great distances by their
sense of smell, and not by sight alone.
He partly uncovered spot where horse
and COW had been buried some years
before, and in few hours buzzards were
attracted to the place in great numbers.
The brilliancy in the eyes of cats is
caused by carpet of glittering fibers
called the topeum, which lies behind the
retina, and is a powerful reflector. In
perfect darkness no light is observed in
their eyes, fact which has been estab-
lished by very careful experiments.
Nevertheless very small amount of
light is sufficient to produce the luminous
appearance in them.
A remarkable feature OF the two satel-
lites of Mars, which were discovered
about six years ago by Professor Asaph
Hall, is the proximity of the inner one to
the planet, its distance from the center
of the latter body being about 5000
miles, and from the surface less than
1000. off, says Professor Newcomb,
"there are any astronomers on Mars with
telescopes, and eyes like ours, they can
readily find out whether this satellite is
inhabited, the distance being less than
one-sixtieth that of the moon from u.s."
A new form Of window is being intro
duced in London, for preventing acct
dents in cleaning, and securing good ven
tilation. The two side-bars of each of a
pair of ordinary sash frames are divided
into two parts vertically, and the part
carrying the glass is swiveled or pivoted
in the side pieces at point central to It's
height. The frame with the glass is
held in position by two small bolts IN
the top rail- which shoot into the side
strips. When the latter fastening is eff
fected the two sashes may slide up and
down in the ordinary way. 1t will be
seen that to clean this kind of window
there is no necessity for servants to &c
outside.