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The Russellville Democrat., 1884-01-03
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Correspondence of the Democrat.
The first monthly examination of
the students Of the Gumlog public
school was held Friday, Dec. IA, 1888.
The average standing of the pu-
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COUNTY COURT

COUNTY COURT:
At Dover. on the 4th Monday in March and
lst Monday in January, July and October.
PROBATE COUNT:
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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
What q Good Bank Is.
B. B. Comegys In Bar Sers' Convention.

A bank may be said to be in good
condition when it has an adequate cap
ital (not too large); contingent fund
at least half as large (and no suspended
debt or overdue paper; when its de-
posts are free of interest and three or
four times the amount of its capital;
when its dealers supply it with bust
ness paper to the extent of its needs;
when liberal salaries are paid to its
officers and clerks; when there is a
trained man in reserve for every posi-
ton that may become vacant; when
there is a pension fund adequate to the
comfortable support of its WORKOUT
clerks; when it has board of direc-
tors who are not content to be mere
figure-heads, but who understand their
business and remember their qualifica-
ton oaths-directors who count the
cash frequently and without notice to
anybody; who insist that everybody
employed in the bank shall take a va
cation of at least two weeks every year,
at which time another shall do his work
and who believe in this dogma, that
nothing is good enough that can be
made BETTER
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Rome in the Last Century.

1t was a labyrinth of winding streets,
unlighted, unnamed and unnumbered.
Every trade kept to its special locality,
and, in lack of shop fronts, advertised
its wares by painted signs and en-
blems. Cattle were herded in the col
iseum and forum, and the arch of Con-
stantine was half buried in the earth.
Justice was administered with circum-
stances of barbaric ferocity. 1t was a
common sight to see unlucky coach
men publicly tortured in the Corso for
no worse guilt than that of driving
through the streets during the hours
reserved for carnival frolics; and the
erection of the gallows on the Piazza
del Popolo, the first Saturday in carni-
nal, was, intact, the signal of the open
ing of the season for public sports.
And, the condemned criminals dis
patched, the hangman's assistants
would presently join the gay crowd in
the Corso disguised as clowns and pam
falcons. Down to the first year of the
present century malefactors were quar-
tered and burned on the Campo del
Fiori, and for many years later the pill
lory and the wooden horse remained
familiar objects in other parts of Rome,
although both were temporarily abol-
ished during the Napoleonic rule.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28

We have heard it sal 1 that you can
do everything, however unpleasant it
may be to those around you, if you only
do it in the right way; and the instance
given to prove this assertion is taken
from humble life. A cat walks daintily
into room on a cold winters day, and
with benign glance at the company
and melodious purring sound she
walks leisurely around, selects for her.
self the warmest place in the room, per-
haps the only warm place, right in front
of the CRATE, curls herself up and goes
serenely to sleep, secure that no one
will be so unreasonable as to question
her right to sleep wherever inclination
prompts her. No one calls her selfish,
no one is annoyed, because she has
done it so prettily, so gracefully. In
deed, every one experiences an excess
of warmth and comfort in themselves
from beholding pussy's blissful repose.
Now, imagine the same thing done in a
different way and by a less self-posses-
sed individual-if it were done hurried
ly, or noisily, or efficiently even, or in
any way obtrusively, what storm of
indignation it would excite in the bo-
som of all beholders! How thought
less, how inconsiderate, how selfish!
No, it must be done as the cat does it.,
without sound or gesture to provoke
criticism, or it must not be done at all.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28

ter great deal of pressing she rises
and gives her husband kiss; her faith
er still pretends that his wine is bitter,
and it remains so until she has given
her husband three kisses; each kiss not
only sweetens his wine, but is accom-
panied with roars of laughter and
bursts of applause. After the dinner
comes the ball and ''the generals
walk" They lead him through all the
rooms once every half hour; everybody
salutes him as he passes along, and he
graciously replies by an inclination of
the head. At last, at 8 o'clock in the
morning, all the young girls and those
who dressed the bride take her away to
undress her and put her to rest; the
mem do the same by the husband. The
next morning the house of the newly
married couple is again filled with the
crowds of the evening before. The
young wife is seated in drawing-room
on sofa with a splendid tea service
before her. One after the other APP
proaches her and salutes her. She then
offers tea, coffee or chocolate, accord
ing to the taste of the visitor. She is
throned for the first time in all splen-
dor as the mistress of the house. The
most intimate friends remain to spend
the day with the young pair.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
A Russian Wedding Feast.

The banquet is ordered at some fash
ionable confectioner's. Nothing is
wanting-silver, crystal, flowers and
lusters laden with candles of the purest
wax. The young married pair occupy
seats about the middle of the table, the
parents supporting them on both sides,
the rest of the company take seats &C
cording to the degree Of relationship or
rank. Ii they want grand dinner
they order a generals dinner, which
costs $50 more than an ordinary one.
At this dinner, so ordered, the master
of ceremonies invites a real old pen
stoned off general, who is received with
all the reverence due to his rank, and
seated in the place of honor. He is the
first to drink to the health of the young
couple, and is always helped before any
one else. He never speaks unless it is
absolutely necessary. He is there only
for show, and he does his best in re-
turn for the 500 paid him. He never
refuses a single dish of all the thirty or
more served on such occasions. AS the
last roast disappears from the table the
champagne corks fly, the glasses are
filled to the brim, the music strikes up,
and huzzas resound from all parts. But
here comes the brides father with glass
in hand, going up to her bowling and
making most woful face, saying that
his wine was SO bitter that he could not
drink it until she had sweetened it. At
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Man or Woman?
Whitehall Revue Y.

One of the most remarkable histor-
ical mysteries on record, rivalling that
of the identity of the man with the iron
mask, is that of the sex of the Cheva-
lier d'Eon, who was French envoy TO
England in 1851. He acted as private
agent to Louis XIV, and lived in Lon
don for fourteen years. He was hand
some man of rather effeminate ap-
pearance, and was noticed to be very
Shy of the ladies, and to avoid general
society. While he was there the story
got about that he was woman, and
the scandal thus aroused caused King
Louis to recall his ambassador and or
der him to assume his proper dress,
that OF woman. This she did, and
was always afterward known a Nine.
d'Eon. A life of this remarkable per-
sonage stated that she assumed the
dress of Il youth in order to secure
higher educational opportunities, and
thus entered the college Mazarin at
Paris, and afterwards became doctor
of laws, was the author of several
learned volumes, and was introduced
by Prince de Cont to the king. 1t was
said that the king knew the secret OF
her sex, but for her remarkable talents
selected her to undertake secret mis-
sion to Russia, which was so well per.
formed that she was afterwards sent to
London. During the French revolu.
ton Nine. d'Eon again went to Eng.
land, where she died in 1910. After
her death it was asserted that the char.
acter of woman was disguise, and
that Nine. d'Eon was man after all
But the facts in the case are not re.
garded as proven either way. This
curious parsonage, it might be re.
marked, never contracted a marriage
in the character of either sex.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
A Novel Duel.


That was memorable encounter
between the poet, Tom Moore, and the
critic, essayist and jurist, Francis jeff
rey. Both of them were of keen and
polished wit; both warm-hearted, GEN
erous, impulsive and more or less ca
PRECIOUS. In 1906 Jeffrey attacked
Moore's codes and Epist1es" in the
Edinburgh Review, denouncing them
on account of their immortality. This
was too much for the sensitive poet.
He felt thai blood alone could wash
away the stain of that abominable crit
icism. Accordingly he challenged the
traducer TO mortal combat.
jeffrey, though small of stature, was
great in courage, and he straightway
accepted the challenge and named pis-
tolls as the weapons. Seconds were Sc
lected and preliminaries arranged,
when Moore bethought him that it
would be necessary that he should
provide himself with pistols, and fur
ther, as the challenging party, it
would be proper for him to furnish
weapons for both.
Now, deadly weapons of any kind
Moore had never been partial to, and
pistols he never owned-at any rate,
proper dueling pistols-but he knew
that his dear friend. Sir Robert Will
liam Spencer; owned beautiful pistols,
and to him he applied, being obliged,
of course, to tell what he wanted them
for. Sir William cheerfully lent his
pistols, and then as soon as the mes
senger was gone from his sight he hur-
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Making q Mash.
Yopkers Gazette.

Yopkers Gazette.
"Henrico!''
"Andromedar'
''The gods forfend, but this, though
form and speech attest it, is surely
not the classic face whereunto me
| lips do sometimes move with am'rous
purposer'
"Nay, but it is, sweet houri, and
though there may be here and there a
lineamcnt disarranged, or features
missing from it's wonted place, yet do
swear thee tits the old, the oft-kissed
cOuntenance."
"Now, be me sire's crest, thou'rt
dazing me. Why this, thy dial's front,
belikes the pattern of some crazy quilt,
or semblance the focns of some blasted
sweetmeat mine where jellies multiple
had met in mixed carouse."
81 like thy smiles, fair maid, exceed
ing well. They dove-tail nicely with
results that do attest me mild indul-
gence in that fistic realm whose patron
was the Duke of Huckleberry. Twas
but friendly joust; match where
at
''Aye, surely 'twere a match! The
lurid lightning of thy frontispiece doth
that proclaim.
"'Tush thee, thou prattler! 'Twere
a match, say, whereat both friend
ly rivalry and manly culture did meet
-
''That something's met, thy counten-
ance gives ample proof, and that they
met as meet two topping towers, cen
SO it testifes.''
"Why, girl, soft as thy downy pillow
were the gloves we wore-''
''And softer yet this wreck of facial
pulp wherewith thou greetest me.
Had'st thou been bathing in an abba
toir thou couldst not glimmer with
such bright veneer
"And yet me every feature answers
to the roll. But, had'st thou seen me
rival, gentle one, ali! there were ruin
worth thy stu.lious gaze. One ear hung
pendant by filmy thread, his dental
parts macadamized his throat, on either
cheek his nasal wings tapped i the
CORY air, and through the other facial
rim peered bones that did of deXterous
fracture hint. All! 'twere dainty pic
ture, dame, and breathed sweet tribute
to the manly art. p"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28

ried away to the Bow street office ana
engaged two officers of his acquaint-
anee TO hold themselves in readiness to
prevent the two little peppery men
from risking mortal damage TO one
another.
The duel was to be fought at Chalk
farm early in the morning. Dr. Joseph
Hume was Moore's second, while Fran
els Homer, of the Edinburgh Review,
was second for JEFFREY, but others were
on the ground, though not in sight, for
both men had many friends who were
deeply anxious. And there, on that
ground chosen for deadly strife, Thom-
as Moore and Francis jeffrey met, face
to face, for the first time. They dld
offer to shake hands, but jeffrey (he
and his antagonist were now alone TO-
gether, the others of the party being
engaged in the solemn duty OF loading
the pistols) said: What a beautiful
morning it is!' ;,
To this Moore answered: Eyes,
and then added, with smile, "a morn
ing made for better purposes. :"
Jeffreys response to this was sigh.
They passed each other and turned,
and when they met again Moore re-
lated to his antagonist comical story
about an Irish barrister, Billy Egan,
who had gone out on bright morning,
as they were out then, for the purpose
of fighting duel. Jefreys was still
smiling at this story when the seconds
came out from an adjoining thicket and
announced ''all ready"
The men were placed twelve PAGES
apart and the pistols given into their
hands.
Now" said Hume, remember the
word. Raise your pistols at the word
ready Then One-two-and at three
you will fire."
"Readyr' Nobody can say where
Moore's heart was, but his pistol was
raised, and so was Jefffey's. They
waited for the fatal signal.
That signal, however, was not given.
Instead thereof two Bow street officers
emerged from the thicket, one of whom
advanced jeffrey and ruck his pis-
tol down with his staff, while his COM
panion went up and cOllared Moore.
The belligerents were marched off to
their respective carriages and conveyed
to Bow street, where, as no blood had
been spilled, they were let of lightly.
And from that office Tom Moore and
Francis Jeffrey went forth friends, and
their friendship grew and strengthened
while they lived.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Walk 1g -ound a Point.


About the first of July a Chicago
fruit buyer went over to st. Joseph, on
the Michigan shore, to view the peach
crop prospects, and he found one ORCH
ard owner who was feeling so very blue
that he said to him: ''NOw, then, I'll
give you a check for thousand dollars
for your fruit as it stands" mo, l
couldn't do it, replied TIE grower, af-
ter some hesitat ion. ''it would seem to
be doubling he Lord"
Two weeks after that, when the pros
poets were still poorer, he appeared in
Chicago, and said he guessed he would
take the thousand dollars. "But it will
be doubling the Lord" observed the
buyer. Yes, it probably will; but I've
concluded to doubt Him on peaches,
and make up for it by hanging on to
taters and cabbage"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
A Story of Wildcat Down in
Georgia.
JQSnSrT imoa


Buck Bohanan and John Jordan were
out dipping turpentine the other day
and saw wildcat and gave it chase.
When they found they were out of caps
and had freed the ''critter," Buck told
John if he would watch he would run
home and get caps. So he ran mile
and, finding neither caps nor matches,
he got an old flint, ran back and telling
John to hold dead aim on the cat, he
struck his finder over the tube of the
gun, when bang! went the fuse and off
jumped the cat, whipped dog and ran
about fifty yards before it fell dead.
Only one shot struck it and that went
through the heart.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
TWO FOR so CENTS.

The st. Louis SATURDAY SAYINGS and
the st. Louis PRINTERS JOURNAL will he
mailed to any address four months for the
sum OF 90 cents, and each subscriber pres.
ented with % cent book called the Lsiies,
Guide TO Fancy Work. 10O, 200 copies Of this
SAYINGS Is great paper. The PRINrppss
JOURNAL is the handsomest paper in thu
West. Do not miss this opportunity.
THE SAYINGS COMPANY.
6l3 Elm Street,
st. Louis, Mo.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
The British Grain Trade.

The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly re-
view of the corn trade, says: Intense dry
tropical heat has prevailed since August 1.
Harvest work proceeded rapidly. Graz ma
tured In exceptionally good form. All the
earliest wheat is now in perfect milling con-
tricts they are excellent and in others poor.
Beans appear to be an absolute failure The
potato crop is unlikely to prove large, but
VIII be freer from disease than for many
years. Throughout the past week new whe 1t
has made It's appearance in various marke; {;
in condition described as somewhat phe-
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
ODD FACTS AND FANc1Es.

Comely girls of manageable age are
sold in Yokohama for $16 each.
Berlin ladies carry waterproof cloaks
with them when they 60 in bathing.
An insane woman in Castle Garden
Sunday mounted a box and tried to
auction off her baby.
The London courts have decided
that man is not at liberty to keep in
his back yard dog that barks and
bowls.
The latest novelty in the show bust
ness is an exhibition of noses, which
has recently been held in Austria.
Eighty persons competed for the prize.
Boston Old North church, in which
Robert Newman displayed the two
lights to Paul Revere, showing that
the British came by sea, is going to be
restored.
A San Francisco lawyer has written
and copyrighted sensational comic
drama founded on the incidents of the
Sharon divorce trial. Its title is;
''Wife or Mistress. or, Althea' s
Dream"
England is shipping to Egypt the
rolling stock of an eighteen-inch guage
railway. The line will be laid from
the Red Sea to Berber, and the road
will be used for the shipment of SOL
diers and military stores.
A famous veterinary surgeon was
summoned by telegram to Scotland a
few days ago by well known lady, to
meet the local adviser in consultation
on the case of her favorite pug. He
had to travel nearly 500 miles to reach
his destination.
A new dish with which epicures
tempt fate and give an impetous to
stomach anodx mes is composed of
sliced oranges, sliced pineapples, sliced
bananas, sliced hard-boiled eggs, sliced
cucumbers, vinegar and sugar. 1t. is
called fruit salad.
There has been some discussion as to
whether lady should recognize gen.
tleman while he is having his shoes
BACKED on the street corner. Gentle
men have taken off their hats under
such circumstances and have received
the cut direct.
The acreage power of Niagara Falls
is estimated at seven million horse
power, and the cost of a plant neces-
sary to utilize this power, transfo m it
into electricity, and transmit it any
where within radius of 500 miles, at
S5,O0O,OOO,O0O.
If you want to have a letter to the
pope surely reach its destination, in
close it in three envelopes, all three
sealed and each one bearing this super
scription:
To His Holiness Pope Leo I'LL,
Project of the Congregation of the Holy
Office at the Vatican,
PersonaD
The prelate in charge opens the first
envelope, then the second, but at the
third he is obliged under penalty of
accommodation, not to open it and
hand it to the holy father.
The amount of absinthe drinking
which takes place at Marseilles, where
the cholera still fingers, is abnormal.
The great street is the Rue Gamma
biere, which is the boulevard Mont
martre of Paris, raised in intensity.
The shady side is an almost unbroken
series of cafes, and from early morn
till late at night usually the tables in
front are occupied by Marseillaise, with
little decanter full of syrup of gum
and two or three bottles containing
absinthe, from which they help them
selves. Since the advent of the chol-
era these tables have been wholly de-
serted.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

We are giving away to each subscriber Of
the SATURDAY SAYINGS an elegant litho.
graphic picture, size 4x36 inches, of either
of the candidates for President, TO each
party sending us Is cents for the paper untl
after the November election. The SAYINGS
know. It is the great newspaper success
about which 30 much has been said, Ad.
dress all orders to
THE SAYINGS COMPANY,
513 Elm street,
st. Louis, Mo.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Pa ..IieH H. ca

Lincoln dll) dispatch: The last chapter in
the Fora Burns case is at hand. Yesterday
Grim A. Carpenter packed his traps and shin
ped them to Chicago. His destination is Blunt.
ID. T., but to conceal it he has billed his goods
to On 'cago, where he " II make the transfer
Ana,'empt was made to interview aim as "a
laSS send oh but twas without avail. A riend
asked him il he did not tn nix Dakota vas a
co!d country TO go to. Carpenter Immediately
repl ed: Il nave been in a of a hot one for
tne last eight months, and think the change
will be a1reeable' NAA'ti-SS
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
Suicide at Hdsti,1s.

Captain ]. E. Wicks, a prominent citizan an,
business man of Hastings, committed suicida
by shooting himself in the head. The hall
entered the left temple, going entirely tbronot
the head and frightfulIy manolino :. &C.,
killing him Instantly. He has suffered mnch
from consumption lately, the effect of which
was wearing out his constitution He leaves
speed and well thought of in the com.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
G.tasshoppers il, Merico.

Late advices from Vera Cruz say that my
RAIDS of lucusts have appeared in that state,
and Notwithstanding that immense quantities
of them have been killed, great destruction to
crops has resulted in Yucatan and South Mex
leo; a hundred square miles of country are
covered with the pests, and corn, grass and
other crops are utterly destroyed. 1t is said
that thousands of families dependent upon
small crops, will have to be supported by the
government during the next six months.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-03-21

tCurrcnt Newspaper Story.l
"Well, Ebenezer," said good citizen Of
Putney to his son. who had lately emigrated
to the great state Of Illinois, and had now
come home to try and induce the old gentle
man to move out there and settle, well,
Ebenezer, how's the land 2"
First rate, father-rich as mud. Grain
grows so fast you can feel it tickling your
hand"
"How's the olimatei'
Lovely as a summers eve. Neither too
hot nor too cold. People are so healthy out
there that they don't have but one graveyard
in county"
Good religious privileges p
First rate, If you take EN- with you"
as living cheap-food and clothing and
so forth p
eyes stree It's cheaper to live in ILL
nois than it is to die in Vermont"
well, Ebenezer, how's tho water out
thereg ?"
bod blast it, dad :" exclaimed the young
man, jumping up and slapping his thigh, III
didn't go and forget to taste it, sure as you
live :"