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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Popular SCIENCE.

The Association of German Engineers
numbers 5, 100 members.
Citric acid has been ascertained by
DR.. Schultz TO possess powerful an
tiseptic properties.
According to the last annual report
the American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science had 2,01l men,
bers.
An English firm has began the man.
ufacture of casks and barrels of steel.
They are lighter than wood and more
durable.
Oil is now extraced from the seeds of
grapes in Italy. Young grapes yield
most, and black kinds more than the
white.
A statistician has calculated that
there are manufactured $4,000, 900 pins
every day, or about 20, 200, 900. 900 every
year.
A tricycle. postal delivery system is
to be tried by the postmaster general of
Victoria at Portland, Sale and Ararat,
with the view of extending it, if it
proves successful, to other districts of
the colony.
To detect cotton oil in olive oil, mix
the oil in question with solution of
basic lead acetate, and let it stand for
twelve or twenty-four hours. If cotton
oil is present it takes red color like
fresh-prepared tincture of myrrh.
Mons. Balland has found that the
average moisture of the flours of COM
merce is II per cent. 1t varies with
the hygrometic state of the air, and is
generally from 1 to 2 per cent. greater
in winter than in summer.
The making of large lenses is mat
ter of many difficulties, as may be in
ferred from the fact that there have
been nineteen failures to cast the thirty
six-inch glass for the great Lick tel
escOpe to be mounted in California.
A German paper trade journal says
that a waterproof paper which will
shine in the dark can be made of 40
parts paper stock, 10 parts phosphores-
cent powder, 10 parts water, l part
gelatine and 1 part bichromate of pot
ash.
Bronze is a mixture of copper and
tin, and sometimes lead, the proper
tons of which vary somewhat, but are
usually nine to one. 1t is often adul-
terated with zinc, but when this is the
case it's surface honeycombs on expos
ure.
In order to make plaster set quickly,
mix it with water into which a little
sulphate of potash has been dissolved;
to make it set slowly, mix it with fine
slaked lime The time of setting may
be regulated by changing the relative
quantities.
An establishment in the Hebrides
which treats seaweed for iodine, ac
cording to Mr.. Edward Stanford, F. c.
S., obtains an Illuminating gas as a by
product. The process also yields a
very light and porous charcoal, ammo
MIA and tar.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
American Art at Home.

An English traveller in this country.
who carefully observed the progress of
American art, was surprised that Ameri-
cans appeared to have no standard of
merit of their own. He observed that
the American artist, neither socially nor
financially, came near his brother in
London, and that he must leave his own
country and make a name in London.
Paris or Rome before his own people
will believe in him. The truth of this
is known to all men. Our collectors 90
abroad, expend great sums on foreign
artists, on works that undoubtedly are
worth the money given, but native art
lists are left to languish. The advance
made In wood engraving in this country,
to the encouragement of several pro-
gressive publishing houses, shows what
American art is capable Of. This is the
only field in which our artists have been
given any chance. On the other hand.
when forced to go abroad, the American
artist suffers under many disadvantages.
He Is poor, and in the struggle for posi-
ton his trials are many. When, after
years OF hard work, he wins a place.
even then the American patron of art is
rather coy.-Nea0 York Commercial
dQCertiSer.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
The Wrong Roll i'm the Right Place.


A gentleman at Darien who had been
on collecting tour returned home the
other night with about 81 200 in his
pocket. He locked every door, and was
SO nervous that he didn't know wheth-
er he was foot or horseback. After
he and his wife had undressed and got
into bed, he got up and put the roll of
money into his wife's stocking. In the
morning when he got up he found his
money in his pantaloons pocket, and
asked his wife if she wasn't astonished
when she found that roll of money in
her stocking. She said she didn't ind
any roll in her stocking. He told her
that he put it in her stocking the night
before. She insisted that if he did he
must have got up in his sleep and taken
it out. He insisted on examining her
stockings, to see if any of the roll had
remained there. She thought she felt
something kind of binding around her
toes. Finally she took off her shoe and
stocking, and found half-pound roll
Of fne-cut chewing tobacco nicely
jammed in about her toes. He said
that beat the deuce, and she said it had
taken the skin off her toes. That day
the man was very free with his tobacco,
giving anybody a chew who wanted it.
When the people of Darien, who accept
ed his Inequalities, read this, and know
that they helped chew that tobacco that
the lady had worn in her shoe for
couple of hours, they will say words
that they ought to be ashamed Of
Milwaukee SIN.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
RECEIVE THE WANDERERS BAcx.

Receive the wanderer back, love,
For life is in its wane,
Let us as in the days of yore,
Enjoy loves dream again.
For they indeed were pleasant times,
Those happy, happy hours,
When love lay pure in our young hearts
AS dew in folded flowers.
Though wavering fancy caused my heart
On other scenes to dwell,
Yet have kept thy image locked
In memory's deepest cell.
Like him who tossed upon the waves
or tempestuous sea,
My every thought is that may
A refuge find in thee.
looked upon the past, love,
With feelings of regret,
And pray that you my waywardness
From this time may forget.
For IL devotion deep and wild
My misdeeds can erase,
Henceforth 1t is forever thine
Whilst time proceeds apace.
For, dearest love, forgiveness is
A truly blessed thing;
1t causes oft within the heart
A gushing fount to spring;
A fOunt whose waters are as pure
AS those of heaven above,
And they who quaf forever sing
The glorious theme of love.
Then, o receive the wanderer back,
Give him thy love again,
For sweet 1t is when years have fed
To dream loves dream again.
Give me thy love, ere beauty is
Within LIES lowest things,
And hours will fly like angel troops
With glory on their wings.
Finley Johnson
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Why They Ran StO,c.

eve made singular discovery the
other day." remarked an official of a
road running into Council Bluffs.
'About three miles beyond certain
station on our line there is farm house
by the side of the track. Just beyond
the farm house is a little creek, ovel
which there is small bridge. About
four years ago some repairs were being
made to that little bridge, and of course
the bridge gang put up sign board
Run Slow on either side, during the
day or so the bridge was weakened.
When they had finished their work they
went off and forgot the signs. The fact
is the boards had disappeared, and they
didn't take the trouble to hunt them
up. Some weeks afterward, no one
knows just when, the signs reappeared
in their former places. Nobody knew
who put them there, or what for. No
body cared. If the section men noticed
them at all they thought the bridge
men had done it. 1t was none of the
engineers business why they were
there-it was their duty to
observe the regulations, which re-
Qulreu IneIn To SLOW GOWN III all Sucn
signs. Observe regulations they did.
For about four years not train has
passed over the little bridge without
slowing almost to stand-still. The
culvert, for that's all it is, has been as
safe as any part of the road bed. and
yet stopping and starting trains there
has cost the company thousands of
dollars. You know it costs money to
start and stop trains. You are won
dering how it all comes about of course.
Well, that farmer stole those boards
and put them up again at leisure. For
four years he has been going into
town or coming from it on our trains,
getting on or off right at his own door.
1t was a slick scheme, and how he must
have laughed at us and enjoyed it all
the while. But his game is up now,
and the engineers are having their re-
venge by keeping up an internal
screeching of their whistles at all hours
of the day and night whenever they
pass the farm house."
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09

is dearer than in the southern states.
The Bengalese coolie may be cheap in
Bengal, but he has to be imported into
Assam to gather the tea crop, and costs
about $50 per head before he does a
days work. The writer makes the as
sertion that one southern negro is worth
three Hindu coolies. The naturaliza-
ton of the tea plant is an object worthy
the expenditure of some little time and
capital, and Mr.. Hollingsworth's argu-
ments seem to prove that a good return
NAV be looked for.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09

| luxury on the bill of fare, the diamond
on his little finger flashing like small
sun, obsequious walters bobbing about
behind them. He looked kindly at her,
and asked if she liked this or that. He
was as simple as an old baby; as kind
as an old lady, and he was nice,
pleasant-looking man.
"All over! All over!' she said to her.
self. 81 might have known what a
wicked world this is, and how ill it
thinks of innocent things. Why might
not 90 on teaching him forever with
out harm?'
People were coming in from concerts,
from the theaters; tables were filling;
| but theirs, between two columns beyond
the fountain, was very quiet.
The walters were gone to execute Mr..
Sliger's behests. Suddenly he turned
to her, and took letter from his
pocket.
s.Miss Piper he said, "read that. "
Pandora opened the missive and
perused it.
1t was from firm of lawyers, speak
ing in plain terms of Mr.. st. Leger as a
gentleman and man of honor and for
| tune.
81 got 'em to give it to me- he said,
':.to show YOU"
81 do not need it indeed said Pan
dora, sadly. ''And this is the way your
name is really spelt? st. Leger! It's
beautiful name.''
at sounds a little curious to me" he
said. mother wrote it Sliger. L never
knew, but you'll see I'm all right. They
never took me without a character
when 1 went for place in the poor
times, and couldn't expect you to take
me without a character, either-l-l
don't know whether you despise me for
nv ignorance or not, but if you don't,
why l want you to take me for your
pupil for Iife-to marry me, Pandora
Will you?''
1t was dreadful thing to do in such
public place, but Pandora Piper felt
that she was going to faint-the room
grew black.
She held out her hand for the glass Of
water. Most of it was split upon the
front breadth of her new black silk, but
that which passed her lips revived her.
Then a soft, sweet sense that there was
no more trouble for her in this world
crept into her heart and she smiled up
at him. .
.sIt was in my mind the first day l
came" he said. 81 had seen you often
through the window when you gave
lessons to that little girl at Bells. l
used to watch you with my opera glass.
] felt sure that you were just the
woman for me and every lesson you
eave me proved it. shall learn every
thing from you-goodness as well as
spelling. Oh, say, 'Yes' 1 want you!
| want you.
She said Eyes"
Mrs. Grimm was sitting up for her,
pale with wrath, when she returned;
but Pandora took her by both hands
and said:
s'You won't turn me out until after
my wedding day, will you, dear? You'll
let me be married here. It's next
week. Mr.. St. Leger won wait. You
see, we will have to 60 to England to
live on the estate. And after all a
poor teacher needs no great prepare
tom
Servants and diamonds and coun-
try house and city house, and every
thing heart can WISH" Mrs. Grimm
saws in telling the story. ''Areal grand
lady now. It's like romance"
And Pandora, happy with her good,
simple husband in her new surround
ings, often thinks so herself.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09

An agricultural paper asserts that
well-selected grade cows are more pro-
fitable in the dairy than those OF pure
breeding, at the same price. This may
be so, but it is no argument against
thorough breeding. You can't have
grades without thoroughbreds.
Partisan feeling is the chief of crime.
George W. Curtis.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09

Joseph Harris says one may feed fat
ting cattle or sheep all the cottonseed
cake they will eat without harm, but it
will not do to so feed linseed oil cake or
cornmeal. Cottonseed cake makes the
richest of manure.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09

KIEG LOUIS of Bavaria has contraaf5
mania OF fondness for Bismarck. his
former luminosity having passed away ::
but the other German sovereigns hate
the IRON Chancellor as much as ever for
having wiped out their petty courts.
The White House is going to have q
tie floor, imported from Stoke-on-Trent
England.
Cool rain-water and soda will remova
machine grease from washable fabrics
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22

Our respected neighbor of the Dem
ocrat is probably man of ideas, but as
a prudent, frugal man he keeps them
safely stored away out of sight, where
they may not be wasted upon the public.
This is simply our assumption, and We
confess we have no evidence to sustain
it. We NAV therefore be mistaken.
Still in the charitableness of our nature
we prefer to give him the benefit of the
doubt. To preserve whatever ideas he
may possess from the PROCLAMATION of
public use, he has adopted two phrases,
for all occasions of public disputation.
He invariably meets an antagonists ar
gument with the rejoinder, at is lie,'
occasionally varied to you are a liar"
These are his trump cards with which
he wins every trick, and confounds
every opponent. Some are unkind
enough to believe that all this is the re-
suit of imbecility, poverty of ideas, an
utter lack of knowledge, but We think
these do our friend injustice. We be-
lieve he could if he would, but he won't
lay bare the treasures of his mind to an
discriminating public. And he is
right.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22
A Heroine.
lJohn Swinton's Paper.


1T is not only in novels that you find
plucky women. said my friend RI the
other day. A short time since l was
stopping at hotel in an Alpine valley
the highest inhabited valley in the world.
My daughter, who is about II, and her
friend, a Miss Grey, from Australia. were
out on walk. They reached, ii appears,
a point in the road from which there was
steep slope of 800 feet or more As my
daughter reached out TO pick an edelweiss
her foot slipped. I'm a goner, Alicel'
she cried. and rolled over and over out of
sight. Her friend at once lay upon her
back, and, kick king her heels into the ground
aud grasping hold of grass and stone,
followed her down the hill She found her
lying on level rock six feet wide, sense
less, her scalp ripped open from spine to
nose On the off side of this rock was a
sheer descent of 400 feet. Miss Grey tore
off strips from her dress. and bound I'D
the poor girls wounds But how could
they escape? Miss Grey could not ascend
would heed her call, for every one is
shouting among the hills in mere wanton-
ness of windpipe. Fortunately, she pos
sessed an Australian yell-a new, strange
and terrific vocal agency. This she en-
ployed. and succeeded in bringing six men.
who were at work at a great distance, to
the spot. My daughter, when Miss Grey
found her, still held the edelweiss which
she had picked. IN her left hand. When
they brought her to the hotel thought
thai she was dead, but she was soon on her
feet again
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22
Nose knowledge.
American Queen.l


Some philosopher has said that he never
wanted to look into persons eyes to
judge his or her character, because the ex-
preston can be changed. and is deceptive.
be preferred to study the nose while the
eyes belonging to it were closed, because
the nose can not be changed and gives the
truest index of character There are kind
noses and cruel noses, severe noses and
merry noses, moral noses and dissipated
noses, reserved noses and jolly noses
If any one doubts the importance of a
nose to the human face, let him expert
ment on that feature. Let him elevate the
tip of his own nose with his finger or with
a string and see whether he does not add
amiability To his countenance. Let him
depress the tip close to his face and &C.
knowledge whether his favorite child
would not hide from him in terror. Let
him take the portrait of friend, shorten
the nose by folding it across the bridge,
and then see if he could recognize the face
What countenance, however beautiful,
could afford to have the eighth of an inch
taken from the nose and hope to retain its
comeliness2
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22
The stove Trade.
New York Sum-

INt" ouI
= The United States use more stoves
than all the rest of the world put TO
gether," said an old manufacturer the
other day. There are s, 200, 600 of them
in use here, costing the, possessors perhaps
$50, 600, 900. They range in size from
little toy affairs, which could be carried up
stairs, one under each arm, by an ordinary
man. up TO colossal stoves intended for
summer hotels and wood burning districts
which will do the cooking for hundred
persons. Their price is calculated by their
weight. The founders sell them at rates
ranging from 5 to cents pound and the
retailers at about 80 per cent advance on
these figures. One stove lasts on an aver
age about five years. Some large founders
show nearly 500 kinds. Many also make
stationary and Baltimore heaters, wrought
iron and stationary ranges and gas and
vapor stoves, but these are not considered
as parts of the trade. The chief produc-
ing places are Troy, Albany, Cincinnati
and Cleveland. The largest foundries are
two in Albany, one in Troy, one in Buffalo
and one in st. Louis. Each of them makes
from $500, 900 to $3.50, 600 worth of stoves
annually.
mo man can be good drummer for a
stove firm unless he knows how to make
good bread. He must be able to show how
his stove will cook. Moreover, he must
be able to produce far better results with
his stove than the ordinary housewife can
with hers, and this can only be accom-
plished by learning every detail himself
1t will not do to trust to getting women
for this labor, for few American house
keepers know how to make good bread.
The stoves come from all parts of the
east. They are no longer simple masses of
iron fastened together. The aesthetic craze
has reached them. The terra Gotta and
tile manufactures is called upon to put on
ornamental plaques; then there are brass
ornaments on top, and nickel is used pro
fusely. Even the boards on which a stove
stands are ornamented ="
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22

IT is beginning to be suspected that
the attack on Mrs Blaine by the In
dianapolis Sentinel is but a part of a
scheme coneocted by the desperate
Democratic leaders to destroy Blaine,
and that the Sentinel was simply Sc
lected by the party leaders to do that
portion of the work, with the guarantee
of protection from damages. When it
is remembered that the same men have
charge of the Democratic canvass now
who We're the managers when the Morey
letter forgery was connected and exc
cuted four years ago, no one win be as !
tonfshed at anything that may be done
to defeat Blaine. The Democrats feel
that this is their last desperate fight for
power. that if defeated now their party
will be defeated for all time, and that
therefore everything must be done, mir
and unfair, to secure success. There Is
prospect then of acts of desperate vii
lainy never before attempted by any po-
itical organisation. But they will be
watched with greater vigilance than
ever before.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22
ALVIN f.. CROGKER.

paid for chiefly out of funds collected in
small sums from freedmen.
The Washington circle, on Pennsyl
vania avenue, west of the President s
house, contains the equestrian statue of
General Washington, which cost $50,
900.
The Thomas circle, northeast of the
Presidents house, contains the bronze
statue of General Thomas, unveiled in
1879. 1t was contracted for by the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland, at
cost of $4,000
There are several other squares, cir
cles and triangles, some of which have
been finely improved, but cannot take
space to notice them. L. s. DRAKE.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22
a Building NIonomanfac.
lChicago Tribune. ]


Arsene Houssaye has a mania fol
building chateaus. He~now has seven a,
Beaujon, and is building an eighth. The
seven were named respectively the
houses of YOUTH" Love" 'sKnowl-
edge, y Family" 'Renown," wealth
and Wisdom" They are appropri-
ately furnished; the first looks like a
museum of toys, the second is adorned
with paintings and the statues of We
nus and Cupid, the third is a mere
library, the fourth is the temple of his
Larcs and Penates, the fifth contains the
gifts and written compliments of adj
mlrers, the sixth is rich with treasures
and gems, and the seventh is dedicated
to Plato and Socrates. The eighth.
which he is now building, is the house
of Death. and will be the mauso1eum in
which its authors dust will be placed.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22

it he'd, but it has not retracted the
charge.
The Sentinel charged that Major Cal
kins had defrauded the school fund out
of 500. 1t knew the charge was false,
but not one word of retraction has it
published.
The Sentinel accused Major Calkins
of having a widow removed from Office
because she would not pay a political
assessment. 1t knew also that that
charge was false, but no retraction has
yet appeared in its columns These are
but samples of the method of political
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22

A PHILADELPHIA special says Mr..
Samuel j. Randall was both surprised
and Disguised at Cleveland's letter of ac-
eeptance. Cleveland had promised to
take a position on the tariff question and
then failed to keep his promise. But
Randall was requiring too much of the
Democratic candidate for the presiden-
cy when he required him to define his
position on subject Of which he was
profoundly ignorant.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22

Tue Democratic papers are getting
to quote the Scriptures. They do it to
defend Mr.. Cleveland, and Dan Voor-
hees did it the other day to defend the
Democratic party. The great difficulty
is that they quote from memory, and it
has been so long since they have read
them they invariably get things mixed
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22

The thing that hurts our neighbor
of the Democrat the most is any refer
ence to Mr.. Hendricks record. This
would imply that he is a friend of Mr..
Hendricks and solicitous to preserve
his good name. Mr. Hendricks record
is not a credit to him.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22

IT is thought that Dan Voorhees, OPP
poses new constitution for this State
mainly because Governor Gray is in
favor of one. Gray is being generally
snubbed by the leaders of his party
and his views treated with contempt.
But Gray has had his revenge on all of
them long ago, when he called them
copperheads and such endearing cpl
th,tS
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-22
Looking TO the Future.
fkentzacky State Journal

She hadn't made up her mind about
1t, and they were widely, oh, so widely
separated-ln the parler from each other,
maybe as much as three feet There
was pensive smile fringed with doub,
between them. She was engaged in
deep meditation with herself and was
looking on the floor, when he said:
Matilda, why not give an answer "a
my proposall''
Why. l was just thinking how you
VIII look when you get old, " she thought
fally replied.