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The Evening critic., 1884-04-11
Delegates TO the National COnven-

The Republican Congressional Convention
vention favorable TO Blaine; the Seventeenth
Republican Congressional Convention OF Now
York elected Arthur delegates to the National
Convention; the Republican Congressional
Convention at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, elected b.
Plat Carpenter and Hamilton Fish, Ir., as UNI
pledged delegates to the National Convention;
the Republican Congressional conventions OF
the Fifth and Eleventh Illinois districts elect
cd Logan delegates to the National Convention.
The Evening critic., 1884-04-11
EAsrEn cards a. .,Gaghld,a, 42l oth 81.

The lady faBanagers Of The National
Homeopathic Hospital Association held their
annual Meeting yesterday, at the hospital,
LOO i street, The reports OF the recording
and financial secretaries showed that the
hospital was In an exceedingly nourlshing
condition. The election Of officers for the en-
suing year was next I'm order, and resulted as
follows: President, Mrs Charles NOrdhOfr;
vice-presidents, Mrs. HildruDp, Mrs. Springer,
Mrs. Chief Justice Waite, Mrs. Justice Field,
Mrs. Justice Woods, Mrs. Hit, Mrs. II. D.
Cooke and Mrs. culver and nine other ladies';
financial secretary, Mrs. DR.. Popei recording
secretary, Mrs. General Schenck, ana treas
urer, Mrs. Freeman. Preliminary arrange
ments were made 10 give concert In n low
weeks for the benefit OF the hospital. ,s3c
The Evening critic., 1884-04-11

EIEALTEI IS wEALTH.
DR.. e, O. wests Nerve and Brain Treatment, q
guaranteed specific Tor Hysteria, Dizziness, Con-
yulsions, Fits. Nervous Neuralgia, Headache,
Nervous Prostration caused by the use OF
preston Softening OF the Brain resulting in
insanity and leading to misery, decay and
death, Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of
power In either sex, Involuntary Losses and Sper-
materrhua caused by oyer.exertion OF the brain,
sefabuse or over.indulgence. Each box con-
tsins the months treatment. u a box, or six
boxes for IS, sent by mail prepaid on receipt OF
price. WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES to cure
any case. With each order received by us for six
boxes accompanied with IS, we will sond the pur-
chaser our written guarantee to refund the money
II the treatment does not effect n cure. Guaran-
tees Issued only by Stott II Cromwell Washing
ton. mi
The Evening critic., 1884-04-11
"AIderney Dairy wagOns,,,ss.

Fresh Attorney butter, cnurneaevery morn.
ing and delivered tnpta ID .skydfd" prints, Soc
per 10. Also, cottak aeheSso, buttermilk and
sweet milk, &c, peEtift. Cream 15c. per pint.
The Evening critic., 1884-04-11

Shiris, Collars S,e1dYChns Done Up,
equal alto, to new Laundry. Low
The Evening critic., 1884-04-11

"Saml OF Posen' continues the attraction at
the National Theatre. Grand matinee to.mor.
The Evening critic., 1884-04-11
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD

e =. - General Passenger Agent
CHAS. %. PUGH. General Manager
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
The Frequency Of Ocean Disasters.


More than 1000 lives a year are lost
by disasters to steamships, and that
fact, although little needed, is vastly
more appalling than the statement that
the steamer State of Florida and the
bark Pomona collided in mid-ocean
three weeks ago, and both vessels sank
almost instantly, carrying down to
death nearly $50 persons. There is an
average of one steamship disaster for
every week of the year, and no indica-
tions are visible that the rate will di-
minish. The people are Mortified by
ouch tragedies of the sea as the loss of
the State of Florida, the wreck of the
Steinmann off Sambro Light last
month and the destruction of the City
Of Columbus off Gay Head in January
but they are probably unaware that the
aggregate loss of life by steamship dis
asters is more than as great as the loss
of life by the greatest marine catas-
trophe of history, the laundering of
the British man-of-war Royal George,
in 1911, with 1000 men or board, or
they would not be so Indifferent to the
fatal carelessness of navigators. They
hiuSU ClOoCly UC-
tween steamship companies, bestowing
their patronage upon lines known to
excel in the construction of their ships,
the selection of their men, and the
vigilence of their superintendent. 1t
will pay steamship companies to deal
very severely with officers whose ships
suffer disaster, and to employ the best
methods science has devised for the
navigation of their vessels. If an
alarm loud enough to prevent collisions
cannot be sounded from the deck of q
ship during fogs and dark nights, per-
emptory orders to anchor until light
returns should be given and every
master should know that disaster will
cost him his position. Methods to pre-
vent disasters should be adopted by
steamship companies voluntarily, but
the law must also be made to increase
the safety of life at sea.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
Why Not Train WOrkmen.
Oemorest's Monthly for June.

Demorests Monthly for June.
The Philadelphia board of education
is seriously considering whether the
time has not come when the boys, at
least, in the public schools should be
taught the use of their hands and eyes
in other words, whether the mass of
our population should not have a tech
meal training. American mechanics
and citizens are now at serious disad-
vantage when competing with foreign
ers in all the mechanic arts. Many of
the latter are trained from their youth
in artistic work, and of course become
the superintendent and chiefs of the
shops and manufactures of this coun-
try. The technical schools of Europe
are very numerous. A great industrial
college has just been completed at Ber-
lin, costing two million dollars, yet
Germany is very poor country COM
pared with the United States. We have
few scattered institutions, but they
are intended to graduate engineers,
not trained and artistic workingmen.
Our system of education, ON which we
pride ourselves, does not fit the boy or
girl to earn their livelihood. Nay, it IS
complained that our high schools and
colleges make the children of the very
poor disinclined to work with their
hands for their living. 1t is quite time
that our American educational system
was modified so as to train the youth OF
the country for Industrial employments
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22

along the row of blocks until he came
to the color called for, when he lifted
the block by leather strap on the top
of it and set it one side. In like man
ner Box correctly selected red, white,
yellow and black. The reporter OBJ
served that when making his choice Of
colors, and, later, of letters and fig
ures, the dog faced his owner. The
visitors therefore watched the latter to
ascertain if he gave Boz any signals,
but were unable to detect any commu-
nication between the two. Several
times when the dog was doing his
work Mr.. Williams turned his face
away from the blocks and looked opt of
a window.
"Boz, match this book, said Mr..
Williams, pointing to pink-covered
telephone list.
The dog promptly picked up the
block. Finally only dark-blue block
remained on the floor. Mr.. Williams
called for light-blue. Boz walked sew
eral times around the block and, with
out disturbing it, returned to his master
to signify by bark that there was no
light-blue block. Blocks with letters
on them were next placed on the floor,
and the reporter asked the dog to spell
Tan. Boz picked up I and then got A
and N. The other visitor called for
the first letter of the word white, and
dog presented w. Next he spelled his
own name, and then, being asked for
the first letter of what he is, picked up d.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
Clever Dog Boz.

A handsome Scotch colly dog in the
Office of J. G. Corliss, in Market and
Mulberry streets, Newark, has been
been trained by its owner, r. B. Will
liams, to do things which prove him to
be an animal of unusual intelligence.
He spells words, distinguishes colors
and performs arithmetical calculations
or else he and his owner are among the
most clever of living practicers of leg
erdemain. A reporter Of the Sun
called, with a friend, at DIR. Corliss'
office to see the dog. The friends mis-
sion was to assist the reporter in de-
tecting any possible collision between
Mr.. Williams and Boz. The latter was
found to be beautiful animal, with
white and tawny coat, large head,
and dark intelligent eyes. He is %
inches high and is 10 months old.
ssDr. Corliss gave Boz to me when he
was three weeks DID," said Mr.. Viii
liams. ssIt would take me a day to
tell you how I taught him to spell and
figure. 1t will be easier for me to
show you the results. Boz, get on the
sofa"
The colly jumped upon lounge and
remained there while his owner set
several blocks in row on the floor.
Each block was painted different
color.
CHOW call for colors," said Mr.. VIII
liams.
The reporter asked Boz to pick out
green, and the dog walked slowly
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
An Ohio Mans Invention.
Colcago Inter-Ocean.


Charlie Kugle, an ingenious fellow in
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has constructed a
sheet-iron hen that promises to lay him
agolden egg. 1t is finished up to life,
full size, cackles, clucks, and looks
with one eye at time so naturally
that it will deceive the Oldest hen-hswk
in the country. 1t is so arranged that
when hawk, mink or polecat pounces
on to it the back springs open and the
wings fly up and forces the assailant
on to a ravenous buzz-saw that makes
LOO revolutions a minute. After
moving half minute the saw stops,
the hen closes up, folds its wings and
begins tie cackle as if it had laid an egg.
One winding-up will answer for three
massacres, providing the rather deli
cate machinery does not get clogged up
with too much blood, bones and feath-
ers. He set freshly painted one out
in the sun to dry last Wednesday which
attracted the attention of a fine old cat
belonging to doctor who had been
poking a great deal of fun at the fool
thing. The hen is there, but the cat ia
hence.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
FRILL'S AND FASHIONS.
New York Mail.

New York Mail.
Little girls dresses are ungracefully
short.
Feather fans take precedence of all
others.
High collars and high coiffures are
all the rage.
Visite mantelets are worn by ladies
of all ages.
Giace silks are effectively trimmed
with velvet.
Grass bonnets appear among Easter
novelties.
The favorite red is coquelIcot or wild
poppy.
Capes and pelerines are excessively
fashionable.
Lace and heads on dresses and man
ties still hold their own.
Flowers and feathers will again be
worn on The same hat or bonnet.
Chenille gauze enters into the COM
position of many rich ball dresses.
Embroidered tulle holds its place
among light materials for ball dresses.
Cords and tassels again form parts
of the decorations of dressy costumes.
Rows of very narrow velvet ribbon
are seen upon new French parasols.'
Gold and silver gossamer-like tissues
appear among millinery materials.
Few walking or visiting costumes are
composed of wooden stuff only.
Bustles as big as small balloon de-
II l.
spring.
Slate gray and copper color combine
admirably in brocades and in millin-
cry.
Lawn tennis and archery will be the
pet outdoor sports at Newport this
season.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Lake Chaubunagungamaug (Maino
papers please copy hasn't been so full
In five years as it is now. The lake
(not the name) forms part of the
boundary line between Massachusetts
and Connecticut, and is in the town OF
Webster.
Public story-tellers earn gOoI live
lihood in Japan. In Toxic alone over
600 of these street improvisators ply
their trade, provided with a small
table, ran, and a paper-rapper to
illustrate and emphasize the points Of
their tales.
Travellers rave about the soft purple
light which fills Italian skies and gives
a peculiar beauty to Italian mountains.
This light has now been discovered on
the mountains of Southern California,
and tourists are so informed by the
railroads companies interested.
The craze for painting houses all
sorts of fancy colOrs in Atlanta has re-
ceived q setback. A demented citizen
had painter initiate the pattern and
colors of a crazy quilt on his house.
After the first coat was finished the
citizens rose as man aud compelled
him to whitewash it over on pain of
death. This was more than even a
Georgia populace could stand.
There is man in Berrien county,
Georgia, who has not slept in house
since the war. He carries his entire
wardrobe with him wherever he go' s,
as well as his pantry and kitchen uten-
sils, and spends the night wherever
dark may overtake him. He is YER
liable curiosity. He never reads news
papers, claiming that to read the Bible
as it should be read occupies all of his
time. Several days since he inquired
of the editor of paper if Germany
and France were still at war, referring
to the war Of 1870.
The soda deposits discovered in
Wyoming are unique. One series is on
the old Laramie Plains, fourteen miles
from Laramie City, where there is a
chain of so-called lakes five to twenty
five miles in area, averaging fifteen
feet in depth. These deposits are sui
phate of soda. 1t cuts out in chunks
like ice. When wells are dug the wa
ter is SO impregnated with soda that
they are filled up in few days. In
the Sweetwater valley, near Independ-
ence Rock, are thirty-four deposits, va
rying in size from three and four acres
up to thirty-two acres. A few of these
are simply bodies of water highly
charged with sulphate of soda.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
German View of American Pork.
Berliner Tageblatt.

uDerI68epiatt.
In the last number of "The Maya
zine of Pathological Anatomy and
Physiology" Professor Virchow pub
fishes the result of the Investigations
which he made concerning the pretend
ed cases of trichinosis produced through
eating American pork. AS is well
known, some interested parties assert
ed that numerous cases of the disease
were known to have occurred owing to
the use of American ham and bacon in
the North German ports of Bremen,
Hamburg, Lubec, Rostock and Koe-
nigsberg. In the course of the debate
in the imperial assembly (January 9,
1889 on the measure prohibiting the
importation of the articles in question,
member of the federal counsel had
also named Dusseldorf as one of the
infested cities. Prof. Virchow promptly
set to work to make inquiries of the
prominent experts, the result of which
showed that no cases of trichinosis in
any way traceable to American ham or
bacon had occurred at Hamburg, Lu-
bee, Rostock and Koenigsberg.
Moreover, in not a single instance
was it proved beyond doubt that the
trichin@ found were still alive, except
at Bremen, where, as DR.. Focke, ply
stefan since deceased, reported, several
cases of trichinosis had been discov-
cred, without, however, causing death.
According to Professor Virchow, the
cases thus reported have not been pub
lished or described in strictly scien-
tific form, and hence are by him con-
sidered liable to serious criticism. The
material thus furnished is, therefore,
far too meagre, and cannot serve as d
basis for the prohibitive measure. cit
is CERTAIN" concludes Professor Vlr-
chow, ssthat no trichinous epidemic has
been produced in Germany through
American meat product. Aside from
Bremen, no cases of disease have been
observed that can be attributed to
American meat, still less to American
bacon. Wherever, in the heat of the
discussion, the opposite has been as
serted, it has-always excepting Bre-
men-remained uuconfrmed." This
shows how little foundation there is for
the prohibitive measure, according to
the most careful Investigations of sci
enlist whose authority on the subject
cannot well be questioned. Untortun-
ately, this is all to no purpose. The
importation is and remains prohibited,
for whenever certain interests are at
stake neither morality nor science stand
q chance of being heard.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
ShinbOnes Addresses His Neighbors In
Court.

New York Times.
"Jedge," remarked Shinbones, "dis
hyar am pretty tough on old man.
tThe law requires it," was the re-
ply.
"Wal, cud I be lowed ter speak ter
this hyar gadderin' OBJ cullud pus-
sons?'
The permission was granted, and the
ex-president of the Anti-C Chicken Steal
ing Society turned about to the assem-
blage.
"Breddern and sistern," said he,
else gwine way fur ter leah yo' now
fur some time. Dey am gwine ter send
me whar de wicked cease from troub-
lin an de weary git a res. 1 mean
dose dat am weary OBJ losin DER pOul
try. Now, breddern, all Use got ter
say to yo' on dis hyar painful 'cashin ,
is, eff you don't want ter git inter de
place whar I'm a-goin'-'
The speaker paused to add force to
his words. The Judge leaned forward
to hear the wise admonition about to
fall from the old mans lips, and the
crowd of mourning colored men and
women held their breath.
s.Ef yo' don't want ter 60 whar Use
goin," he repeated, ''make blame
shuah dat de boss am dead or gone ter
a picnic 'foah yo' tackle hen-roost. "
And they led him away to prison.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A prize of %, 900 has been offered by
the Italian government for the most
practical process for the transmission
OF electrical energy.
Experimental researches on rabies
conducted by NJ. P. Gibier 60 to prove
that birds may contract the disease and
that they recover spontaneously.
Coal workings belong to the Assam
Railway and Trading Company in
Assam have been formally opened by
MIR. Elliott, the chief commissioner OF
that province.
Glass is becoming fashionable as
protection to oil paintings, and as
safeguard against moths and damp the
backs of valuable pictures are covered
with rubber cloth.
Although i. would seem that no sali-
cylic acid exists in the flowers Of the
pansy, Messrs. Griffiths and +. G. Con-
rad have extracted that acid from pam
sy leaves, stems and roots.
A paper chimney fifty feet high has
lately been put up at Breslau. Com
pressed paper pulp is stated to be one
of the least infammable of substances
and to make an excellent material for
fire-proof doors.
DIR. Wilson, in the Medical News,
claims to have obtained much better
results from the use of the internal
membrane of hens eggs for healing
large surfaces in wounds than from
either human or rabbit skin.
Richard A. Proctor calls attention to
the fact that the late Professor Draper
succeeded in producing Photographic
plates showing stars which cannot be
seen through the telescope by which
tkese photographs were taken.
At Bourke, New South Wales, the
average temperature of the hottest part
of the day for the first fifteen days Of
the present year was 1860 Fshren-
heit, and the highest temperature re-
corded during that period was 1929
Fahrenheit.
Since the year 1881 the number yof
original papers read before the Chemi-
cal Society of London has steadily de-
creased, although the membership is
larger than ever before and the facili-
ties for the study of chemistry were
never greater than they are at present.
Two cases have been reported to an
English medical society in which tie
electromagnetic has been successfully
used for removing pieces of iron from
the eye. Without the magnet it is
thought that the sight of the injured eye
must have been lost in each case.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
IN THE BRrDLE-rArH.

Thav r,da. tbev r,da NTH s,a.r.r.a rain
Facing the sinking sun,
And he Is telling her over again
The tale that never 10 done
The tale that's as old ~ the bending blue,
And as old as the singing sea-
And II never has happened that one Of two
Marvelled what 1t could be.
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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
Practical Education.

By Professor Goodwin Smith.
Perhaps, in order frankly to define
his position, the observer ought to con.
fess that, whether in the case Of men OF
women, he is not an unlimited believer
in the benefits of long general educa-
ton apart from any practical object.
If a young man is destined by taste and
circumstance for learned or scientific
profession, to university of course he
must go. The heirs of wealth will also
embrace the first chance of escaping its
corrupting influence and become some
thing higher than mere consumers Of
the fruits of the earth, by giving them
selves university education; though
the advantage is apt to be greater to
them than their fellow-students. But
of these there are not many here.
In other cases, when once ayouth
has received practical education, the
sooner he enters some honest calling by
which he can make his break and en-
able himself to marry and maintain a
family, the greater probably his chances
of usefulness, virtue and happiness will
he. In highly civilized community
his education does not end with his
schooling; he continues daily to imbibe
ideas and information at every pore.
His calling itself, if it is above mere
routine, sharpens his faculties as well
as mathematics; domestic affection re-
fines his feelings as much as poets, and
his character is elevated by honorable
industry and the sense of self-support.
1t is perfectly true, and has been
proved in signal instances, that the
highly-trained intellect, when it brings
itself to apply to business details,
shows superiority and rapidity and
method; but how often does it bring
itself to apply? Even the students in
the agricultural colleges too often,
with knowledge of scientific farming,
acquire distaste for the farm. It is
one of the objections to the system Of
small universities that, by bidding
against each other in facility of gradu.
alton, they tempt into literary calling
men who would be better engaged in
practical pursuits. A sing Mrs.
Somerville is insufficient to assure us
that when we have turned our own
women into university graduates we
shall not have to look abroad for house.
keepers and mothers.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-22
Bell and Horn in Old Virginia.
Clarksville Vir2inian.

tlaIkbNNIe
On many plantations now we hear
the sound of the farmers bell for
twelve o'clock. Between here and Buff
falo we heard several recently. This
is an innovation upon the old-fashioned
horn, which sstooted" from nearly
every farmer s house in days gone by.
1t was the regulator for rising and for
meals. Each neighbor could distin-
guish the sound of his horn from the
"ther and dit it could be heard a great dis
o'clock was unmistakable. Clear or
C oudy it never varied. The old mule
and the old darkey, when it echoed over
the hills, felt that rest was at hand and
dinner to be eaten, and
'Woe to the man, wherever he was born,
Who dared stop work before he heard the
horp.'