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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

drying room at temperature of about
$50. The sections of the pressing ma
chine mark the bands which are seen
on the finished pail. After it il dry the
pail is ironed, or calendered, as it is
called. The pail is drawn, like glove,
over steel forming roll, which is heat
ed, and is ironed by another revolving
calendar, with steam thrown on the
pail to keep it moist, as If it were shirt
bosom. The pail, or rather its frame,
is pared at each end, punched with
four holes to fasten on the handle, and
corrugated, or channeled, for the put
ting on of the iron hoops. A wooden
plate large enough to spring the pail so
that the bottom can be put in, is in
serted and the paper bottom held under
a weight which drops and knocks the
bottom where it belongs. The hoops
are then put on.
The factory has a machine of its own
invention for the bending of the hoops
into shape. After it has been cut to
the proper length and width the straight
strip of iron is run over semi-circular
edge of steel, on which it is firmly held,
and drops on the floor a rounded hoop
with fold in the middle to catch the
top and bottom edges of the pail.
After waterproof composition is put
on, the pail is baked in kiln for about
forty-eight hours at a temperature of
between two hundred and three hun
dred degrees. 1t is dried after its first
coat of paint and sandpapered, and
then takes two more coats of paints,
with drying between, and coat of
varnish W. ich is baked on, before
with its wooden handle and brass
clamps-the pail is ready for the hand
of the dairy maid, hostler or cook.
The advocates of paper pals claim
that they are lighter, cheaper and more
durable thar those of tin or wood.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
POPULAR SCIENCE.

One of the plans to make Paris sea-
port is to convert the river Seine into
canal ninety-eight feet wide. The
cost of dredging, ETC., is estimated at
S2O,O0O,OOO.
The brain of the celebrated Russian
author Turgeneff has been found to
have the extraordinary weight of 2,012
grammes. 1t was exceedingly symme-
trical, and the great amplitude of the
convolutlons was remarkable.
Commenting on boiler insurance,
The Engineer says it is noteworthy
fact that none of the companies has
ever put forward any statistics to prove
that the practice of insurance has de-
creased the number of boiler explos-
IONS.
Professor Dieulafait, occurring re-
Gently at the Sorbonne, contended that
metalfiferious minerals have been ex-
tracted by sea water from the older
rocks, but admitted that it is by no
means certain they are all of sedimen-
tary origin.
1t is reported that at one of the Geth-
in coal mine explosions a caller was
able to traverse the whole of the work
ing in making an exploration while the
pit was full OF gas, his cap, saturated
with cold tea and held to the mouth and
nostrils, proving an efficient safeguard.
M. F. Dupont in a paper on certain
carboniferous limestones explains the
formation of the older marine rocks of
organic origin by causes still in opera
ton, and from this deduces fresh
proof the value of the comparative
method applied to the study of the past
geology of the globe.
To ebonize mahogany, apply acetate
of iron, French stain, with q brush be-
fore polishing, when it will be seen that
it strikes we'll into the wood and takes
fine finish. Unless large quantity
of the stain is required it is cheaper to
purchase it. Several good recipes for
its preparation are to be had in the
books.
This is how corn pops: When pop
corn is gradually heated, and so hot
that the Oil inside the kernels turns to
gas, this gas cannot escape through the
hull of the kernels, but when the inte-
rior pressure gets strong enough it
bursts the grain, and the explosion is
so violent that it skaters it in the most
curious manner.
One of the most remarkable storms
which ever passed diagonally over the
British Isles was that which began at
noon of January 26th and ended on the
next day at O'Clock in the afternoon.
Never before was there so low a barcm-
eter reading as 27.32 inches recorded,
a fact which was verified by Mr.. w.
Marriott.
A recent calculation shows that a
man weighing 140 pounds, and running
q mile in six minutes performs work
about equal to that of a half-horse en-
CINE, while a walker sustaining five
miles an hour for a long day does work
equal to that of quarter-horse engine
and consumes only one-twentieth OF the
weight OF food or fuel.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
His Honor, Judge Lynch.


The cry goes up over the country, in
the fierce light of the bale fire of the
Cincinnati mob, that we need harsher
laws for criminals, and there is q de-
mand that such additional laws shall
be enacted. Public sentiment goes
wrong in this. We have laws enough,
and severe laws enough, but thev are
not enforced. 1t is not the mere stat
ute penalties for crime that is demand
ed. But it is certainty in the enforce
ment of the laws and penalties that we
have. Here is the wide-open gate of
trouble. The average court is too su-
pine in action or too cowardly to en-
force the penalties. No more severe
law and penalty can be enacted for
murder than death. Ohio has that.
Iowa has it. Every state in the union
but one has it. When Iowa was with
out it, for four years, and murder still
went on, it was said that The exit of the
gallows had made crime fearless and
murder common, and popular clamor
recalled the gibbet. 1t was urged that
that would stop the prevalence of
crime. But it did not, for the real
trouble continued still-the courts were
weak, juries were weak, the law was
not enforced and its penalties not ap-
piled. 1t was the old trouble-plenty
of law, severe enough penalties, but
unfaithful, timid, or corrupt courts.
As consequence murder has ever
since gone on, and the restored gallows
has had no work to do, although more
murders have been committed annual
ly since its return than were during the
years of its absence.
Now murder is one of the safest of
crimes to commit in Iowa. There have
been over two hundred murders in Iowa
since 1864, and not a murderer has
been hanged. Very few have had life
sentences; the most have had light sem
fences, and many have been acquitted.
In Des Moines alone two of the cold
est-blooded murderers known in the
history of the state were acquitted last
year, aud turned loose to kill others.
For men who have once put their
hands in human blood, and are turned
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
IN TIE FIELD.

4sa 4
The skies are clear,
The boys all cheer, &
For base ball season now Is here. -
With bat in hand,
The bawling band !,
Perambulate throughout the land. {
The sides installed,
3 Then "time, Is called "A
And battle orders loudly bawled !
With ringing shout
The players rout
And try to put each other out.
The pitcher he,
With savage glee,
Throws wildly, with celebrity
The catcher stands,
As he expands,
Behind the bat with yawning hands.
The umpire by,
With watchful eye,
Looks out for balls that foulIy fly.
He doth preserve =.
An iron nerve,
And from his duty ne 'er will swerye.
The game is DER;
They count the score,
And one sides very sick and sore.
The doctor comes,
And blithely huns
While fixing up their broken thumbs.
-GKrys, In N. Y. journal.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
Picking Out Wife Among the Immi.
grants.

New York Herald.
81 want a wife; can you get me
oneP''
This was the question asked of Supt.
Jackson at Castle Garden by we'll
dressed, prosperous-l looking man, with
an intelligent German face. He de-
scribed himself as William Mock, a
widower, aged Sc years, and resident
of Mount Vernon, Westminster county.
Mock said he was florist, with a COM
Portable business, and could give good
references as to his character for in
dustry and sobriety. He wanted wife
and helpmate in his household, took
an extremely practical and business
like view of the matter, had neither
time nor inclination for love-making
ssand such foolishness," and, therefore,
he said, he went to Castle Garden in the
hope that the superintendent would
pick out strong, good-tempered and
sensible young German girl for him.
Mr.. Jackson turned the case over to
Detective Peter Groden, who, it is said,
has been instrumental in bringing
about more marriages than any other
man in New York. Groden and Mock
walked about the rotunda inspecting
all the German girls on hand. Only
two of them seemed to please the I'M
sentimental florist. One buxom frau
leiu, he said, might do, but she, when
approached, said she wouldn't marry
stranger. The other maiden smiled
amiably and said she was willing, but
Mock withdrew his proposal upon
learning that she was not in very good
health.
81 am coming again. said Mock,
when he left Castle Garden; 81 may
be more fortunate next time"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
Why Eyes Shine.

Or. Swan n. Burnett in Popular Science Monthly
Place child (because the pupils of
children are large), and by preference
blonde, at distance of zen or fifteen
feet from a lamp which is the only
source of light in a room, and cause it
10 look at some object in the direction
of the lamp, turning the eye you wish
to look at slightly inward toward the
nose. Now, put your own eye close
behind the lamp flame, with a card be-
tween it and the flame. If you will
then look close by the edge of the
flame covered by the card into the eye
of the child, you will see, inst -sd of
perfectly black pupil, reddish-yellow
circle. If the eye happens to be hyper
metropic, you will be able to see the
red reflex when your own eye is at some
distance to one side of the flame. This
is the true explanation Of the luminous
appearance of the eyes of some animals
when they are in comparative obscur-
ity. 1t is simply the light reflected
from the bottom of their eyes, which is
generally of reddish tinge on account
of the red blood in the vascular layer
Of the choroid back of the semi-trans-
parent retini, and not light that is gen.
Grated there at all. This reelection is
most apparent when the animal is in
obscurity, but the observer must be in
the light, and somewhat in the relative
position indicated in tie above-de-
scribed experiment-tha is, the eye Of
the observer must be on the same line
with the light and the observed eye
The eyes of nearly all animals are
hypermetropic, most Of them very
highly so, so that they send out out the
rays of light which have entered them
in very diverging manner.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
Making Paper Pals.

There is paperware factory in Syr-
acuse, New York, that is intended to
turn out 500 paper pals per day. The
Syracuse Herald describes the process
of making them as follows: Rags and
paper waste are steamed in watts for a
few hours and then thrown into beating
troughs, which are partly filled with
water. The cheating" is done by a
revolving cylinder with fifty knives, set
at different angles. The knives reduce
the rags to a dirty purple pulp and
change the newspaper wrappers to a
soft mass. About 400 pounds of mate
rial are put under each beaten. When
paper and rags are each reduced to
pulp the opening of a trap lets it run
into the stuff chest in the cellar. One
part of a rag pulp to three of paper is
run into chest. When pumped from
the stuff chest into the trough of the
winding machine the future pail looks
like thin water Cruel. A hollow cylin-
der covered with brass wire splashes
around in the trough and the pulp
clings fast to the wire. After the cyl
inder has performed half revolution
it comes in contact with another cylin-
der, covered with felt, that takes off
the pulp. AS the cylinder goes down
on the return trip, and just before dip
ping into the trough again, all little
particles of pulp sticking to the wire
are washed off by streams of water
from sieve. On the inside of the cyl
inder is fan-pump that discharges the
waste liouid. From the felt covered
cylinder the pulp is payed on to the
forming cylinder, so-called. 1t is about
the shape of the paper-cone caps
worn by bakers and cooks, but
made of solid wood and covered
with zinc with the small end, or bot
tom part of the pail, toward the work
man. The forming roll drops auto
matically when pulp of the required
thickness is wound around it. From
here the now promising pail is put in
the pressing machine, which looks
something like silk hat block, in six
sections, with perforated brass wire
upper faces. The sections move from
and to common center, and the frame
is the exact size of the pail wanted.
The workman dropped his damp skel-
eton of pail into the frame, touched
lever, and the sections moved to their
center and squeezed the moisture out
of the pail. The pail is still a little
damp, and spends q few hours in the
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
THE OMAHA LANDS.
Secretary Teller's Order Regarding the
Sale.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
WASHINGTON, ID. C. March 90, 1884. (
Pursuant to act of congress approved
August z, 1882, (22nd statutes, page
S41) lands within the Omaha Indian
reset walton in Nebraska, embraced in
townships "a and 25 north, of ranges 5,
6 and east, will be thrown open to
settlement on Wednesday,, April 80,
1884, at IL O'Clock, noon, under the
following rules and regulations:
Within thirty days from date of set
element the party must file his declara-
tory statement, the same as in pre-
emption cases, paying fee of so there
for, accompanying said filing by an az
fidavit (corroborated) setting forth the
character of settlement, which affidavit
may be made before the district land
officers at Neigh, Neb., or the clerk of
the court of the county in which the
land is situated, or before a United
States commissioner at Bancroft or
Wisner, Neb. At any time after six
months from date of filing and within
one year from April 30, 1884, the set
tier must make actual entry of the land,
submit final proof, and make the first
payment therefor. Within one year
from such actual entry he shall make
the second payment, and make final
payment within two years, with inter-
est on deferred payments at the rate of
FIVE per centum per annum.
Full payment may be made at the
date of entry if so desired. In default
of either of such payments for period
of sixty days, the party forfeits all right
to the land, and any payments he may
have made. In no case shall any lands
be disposed of at less than the appraised
value thereof. The right of settlement
and purchase is restricted to persons
who have arrived at the age of twenty
one years, or are the heads of families,
and who are citizens iofthe United States
or have declared their intention to be-
come such; and no person can pur-
chase unless he is a bona. fide settler,
actually occupying the land, and hay
ing valuable. improvements thereon.
Six months residence and cultivation
must be shown as evidence of good
faith. Entries can be made only of
one quarter section, or 160 acres, ex-
cept as provided in said act.
A descriptive list of the lands subject
to settlement, with appraisement there
of, has been furnished the district land
officers at Neigh.
None of the tracts lying east of the
right of way of the Sioux City and Ne
braska railroad are subject to settle
ment or entry as above. (See section
Of the act referred TO \
H. NJ. TELLER,
Secretary.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
Cheating Old Age.
New York Hour.

New YORK Hour.
Old age, which used to come grad
ually and be in no particular haste to
begin its visible progress, has recently
caught the spirit of the time and ad-
vanced upon some people at a gallop-
ing pace. The fault is with the victims
themselves. The life endurance of any
given person is fixed by nature, and
the man who draws most largely and
steadily upon his physical capital must
be the first 10 display gray hairs and
discover chronic bodily weaknesses.
Any one can find scores of men who at
35 have whitening heads and nerves
that need "braeing" at short intervals
every day. Whether they reach this
condition by too much work or too
much play (of the kind that unchari-
table persons call dissipation), the in
dications of Fastening age are equally
significant. How is the progress of
the destroyer to be arrestedp
Many physicians are devoting them
selves to prolonging the lives of per-
sons who are not i'll, yet they have be-
gun to wear away too rapidly. Among
the practitioners who study the subject
CareIully bnoTe SeeulS 10 Do Out l1CIlc
difference of method. Their first and
hardest work is to convince their pa
tients that it is dangerous to live "fast"
"a word which has special signifi-
canoe which makes it absolutely insult
ing to many eminently respectable trans
gressors of the laws of health. 1t seems
impossible to persuade merchant who
does more work in one hour than his
best clerk can do in three that he is
guilty of fast living and dissipation,
even if he never drinks a drop and re-
Trains from all improper pleasures.
The lawyer or broker who accomplishes
wonders in the morning, but feels a
sense of '.goneness" early in the after
noon, cannot be made to believe that
part of him is literally gone, and that
If he urges himself beyond that point,
without first taking a little rest, he ex-
ponds vitality with frightful rapidity.
Ladies who, between household cares,
religious duties and social responsible
tiles, are steadily active from 8 in the
morning until midnight, sometimes
wonder why they lose the freshness OF
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

Jumbo is the suggestive name Of q
town recently incorporated in Texas.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

A foul delivery-The poultry deal
er's
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-08-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

In another column will be found
the account of the formation of
the new management of the RUGBY
GAZETTE. The work begun and
continued by the late Editor, Mr..
Thos. Pardon, has not been without
its fruit in making the RUGBY GA
zETTE a necessity to the place and
vicinity. Very few localities of
equal population can boast of a pa
per that contained so much origi-
nal well-edited matter and from
week to week supplied its readers
with such varied information with
out the aid of patent padding. The
aim OF the Rugby Publishing Com
pany will be to MAINTAIN the reputa-
tion so conscientiously won, to in
crease its value as an advertising
medium by a wider circulation; to
openits columns to information from
all sources especially, all matters of
interest in the 9Th civil district and
to produce from week to week a
sheet of lively interesting reading
upon all that concern the well-being
of the people and the neighborhood;
to advocate the legitimate claims of
Rugby and the Plateau generally,
and to develop an interest in the
capabilities Of the locality in those
lines of industry for which it is es-
pecially fitted.
The interest in the paper, by its
numerous well-wishers is clearly
shown by the fact, that already
one-hay of the capital stock is sub
scribed. But the good work must
not stop here, we want our sheets
filled with advertisements, our sub
scribers increased ten-fold, oul
friends anywhere and everywhere to
talk us up. By doing this, theil
own interests as citizens, merchants
and property holders will be
maintained and the bonds of oul
friendship extended. We want
long pull, a strong pull and a pull
altogether and we shall win.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-08-16

Lieutenant Greely with his five
heroic associates in the Lady Frank
lin Bay Expedition, touched their
fatherland once more, after period
of three years distinguished by great
achievement and dreadful suffering.
Nothing can be more affecting than
the simple story of their rescue,
from the perils of the paleo-cristic
sea. Their reception by the Ameri-
can people at Portsmouth N. H.,
was worthy of a great nation who is
proud of her sons. Never was any
thing so glorious, and hearty, SC
sympathetic and genuine. This re-
joicing that the dead are alive again
the lost are found though local, il
not limited to the narrow confines
of a single town, it is National an(
representative. 1t conveys the
strong throbbing pulse of the nation
whose anxieties had been wrought
to an unbearable pitch of excite
ment. The only dark bar across
the escutcheon of the day is pun.
gent sorrow for Greely's brave com.
panions who have been. brough
home dead. f1
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-08-16

. Mr.. W. B. Mckinney, formerly
of Fayetteville, Tenn, but now
editor of the Salida, Col, DAILY Neacs,
was assaulted by a police officer in
that city last Monday. The police
man struck Mckinney without
warning with brass-knuckles and
severely injured him. Mr.. Nc
Kinney is worthy gentleman, whe
has many friends and relatives in
this State. His offeHse was his ex-
posure of the corrupt ring which
rules Salida, an exposure which he
proposes to continue to prosecute
vigorously.-Ban0er.
Mr.. Mckinney has our sympathy
as every man has, who seeks b,
legitimate means to expose briber,
! and corruption. We wish him well
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-08-16

The Worlds Exposition that is to
be opened at New Orleans, is so far
perfected in all its departments
that it is now in order to state that
1T will be the largest worlds fair
ever held. The buildings are lar
ger than those erected for the
Philadelphia centennial. The ex-
hibits out-number those of any pre-
vious exposition. Each of the
States, except possibly one or two,
will be represented by an exhibit.
Congress has made loan of ST.
100000 in favor of this centennial
exposition. Tine United States
government will make special ex-
hibit, the largest it has ever at
tempted, costing hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, and to that end a
mammoth building is being erected
IN the group Of exposition buildings.
The Mexican government has ap-
propriated 100000, and will erect
aspecial building for its unique
display. The Central American re-
publics have been aroused from
their long slumber and will be fully
represented for the first time among
the great nations of the earth. At
the exposition one may learn more
about the natural resources of those
regions than by an ordinary visit to
Mexico or Central America. TO
lovers Of music visit to the Ex-
position will be highly gratifying as
there is music hall capable of
seating 1000 persons and stage
large enough to hold 600 musicians.
Grand concerts will be given during
the season. Besides this the fact
ought to be known that New Or
leans is the only city in the Union
that has had an established opera
during half a century. Nor is this
all. Strangers think themselves
we'll paid by making a visit of
pleasure to the quaint old city at
any time. During the carnival sea-
son tens of thousands of visitors
flock to the Crescent city to see the
gorgeous pageants prepared annual
ly at an expense to the citizens of
from 100000 to 100000. This
lavish expenditure of money is for
the qualification of strangers and
home folks, and the displays are
absolutely free. The citizens of the
Southern metropolis who do such
large things, in such large way,
have pledged their word to make
their Worlds Fair the crowning
event of the century and they will
do it.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-08-16

The Illinois Agricultural Society
calls attention to the fact that Ma
son fruit jars have been sent to that
State, packed in straw foul with
Canada thistle, and advises that the
stufing be burnt. Should any of
these Jars find their way here, we
advise the canning factory to be
careful; verb. sap you know.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-08-16

Stanley the great African explor-
er is in London, and is of opinion
that General Gordon can take care
of himself.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-08-16

Is there not something wrong in
the State Of Denmark when the
locomotive beats the telegraph, and
travellers reached their destination
before their kilograms?