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Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07
A WHITE OWL AS GOOD ANGEL.
How a Bird of the Wilderness Saved
Sailor and was Gracefully STUFF

From the San Francisco Call
In tie cabin of a bark lying at Mission
street wharf is good sized glass case contain
ing the stuffed body of large white owl. 1t
is beautiful specimen of it's species and is
the property of the master of the bark, Cap
| tain Edmonds. 1t is fully two feet in height
and its snowy breast is very nearly nine inch
es across. What makes it indeed a rara
avis of its kind is the fact that it is perfectly
head. '.Three years ago." said the captain
''I was in command of schooner owned by
the Hudson Bay Fur company, plying be-
tween Ungara bay and other points along
Hudson straits and Newfoundland and Hal
flax. One day started on snow shoes from
the schooner to a trading post, but ter
rible storm came onI sought to return. 1
lost my bearings and wandered aimlessly
hopes of my cries being heard. Hours pass
ed in this way and it became pitch dark.
Benumbed and exhausted, I at last fell down
in the snow and gave up all hope of ever
seeing my schooner again. AS with people
freezing, 1 became semiconscious and my
extreme cold gave way to prickly heat,
which 1 knew preliminary to death.
''Suddenly I heard of the most un-
earthly noises near me. 1t raised me like
electric shock and I listened. A mournful
hoo! hoor at my feet caused me to stagger
up and look around. heard a hutter and
then I saw something white in the darkness.
My fears increased. 1 thought it must be a
spook. The futtering was repeated and the
object came nearer and then I saw my mis-
take. It was white OWL out in the storm
with myself. Then recalled the old Esqui-
maux superstition that a white owl always
appeared when one was in distress, and that
if followed the owl would conduct one to
place of safety. 1 approached the owl and it
receded. I staggered ahead and it still went
before me, but never got out of sight I
which at intervals emitted it's mournful hoo
hoo as though to encourage me. Thinking
mnst be near the ship 1 hallooed with all
myfeeble might, and was rejoiced to hear
response. Soon, through the falling snow,
1 saw lantern and knew that I was saved.
The owl seemed loath,,to leave me, and threw
it the remains of my provisions, which it
devoured greedily. 1t was not long before I
was once more on the schooner, and now you
know why think SO much of this OWL as it
is the one that saved my life"
"But how did you get it2' asked the re-
porter.
'sThat is the queer part of it," resumed
the captain; Gin the morning the owl was
seen Tapping around in the snow and one
of the men secured it without trouble. 1t
died soon after it was brought aboard. I
concluded that in its hungry condition it had
gorged itself with the food I threw it and its
death was the result. Being somewhat tax
idermist I stuffed it myself, and money
couldn't buy it now, although I have been
offered $3.50 for it,
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07
NO. 80.


This years record shows consumption of
III, ,439 pounds, or 81 pounds for each girl
Great Scott! is it any wonder Vassar girls
don't marry9 A man owning cattle ranch
might afford to support wife from this hun
cry institution, but most men have neither
The 300 girls drank during 1884 10000
quarts of milk, or 300 quarts apiece. For
tunately for the milkmen of Poughkeepsie
the Hudson river was near at hand. Up to
this point the statistics are doubtless correct,
IDENTIFY defective 1t is stated that the girls
ate during the year 104 pickles. AS this is
little more than third of a pickle apiece
there is apparently some mistake. 1t should
probably read "104 pickles per day" Even
this is small allowance, but the 300 redeem
themselves amply when apple-sauce comes
in. The figures show that each girl ate near
ly two gallons of apple-sauce during the
wear.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07
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Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07

On Monday evening, February 18th, in
Stamford, Mr.. Nate c. Clark, of Pennsylva.
mia, and Mr.. Jake Small will skate five-mile
race for purse of $780, and the champion
ship of the United States
Engineer Charles E. Sear1es, of Stamford
is recovering from the effects of a severe fall
on the ice which has disabled him for week
or ten days.
DR.. Griswold, one of the old physicians OF
Stamford, died about s o'clock Wednesday
evening.
Henry Peck. of Southington, foreman OF
hook and ladder company No. 1, who had
his leg broken while on duty at the burning
of the Wilcox block, is getting along favor
ably, but will not be able to be about before
the first of next month,
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07

A telephone company of Philadelphia
1t is said that it charges subscribers from
$100 to $120 year, and thereby earns a
yearly dividend of 1929, 900 on a capital of
only $56O,OO0, being an annual profit of Al
per cent.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07

The "civil damages" act of Massachusetts
works well sometimes. Thus poor woman
has just recovered $500 from a dealer who
had continued to supply her husband with
liquor while she and her children were suf-
fering for food and clothing.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07

A New Orleans doctor calls attention to a
simple fact which merits attention from med
icine takers. If the medicine is mixed with
very cold water, and few swallows of the
water be taken as preparatory dose, the
nerves of the organ of taste become suffi-
GENTLY benumbed to make the medicine
nearly tasteless. The method will not dis
guise bitter tastes, but acts well in oils and
salines.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07
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1t is by the judcous of such articles OF diet that
constitution may be gradually built up until strong
enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hum
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to attack wherever there is weak point. We may
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Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07

The Rev. DIR. S. 81. Virgin, of New York,
is not hearty believer in ''The Faith Cure
In an address he strongly commended the
secular press for its able work in endeavor-
ing to stamp out the evil He declared it to
be the duty of the Board of Health to visit
and report upon the wicked Faith Cure hos
pitfalls; that it was the duty of the Board of
Police to order the arrest of the supervisors
of them, as they were guilty of no less
crime than murder, and that it was the duty
of the press to instruct the public as to the
wickedness practised in them, when they
would soon become institutions of the past
He said that if there should be visitation
of cholera in New York and one or more cases
should be removed to Faith Cure hospital,
it would become the worst kind of pest
house for the spread of the epidemic.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-07

The high license bill intro 1uced in the
Pennsylvania house of representatives places
the tax at $500 per annum upon licenses in
cities of the first and second class, at $3.50 in
cities.e the third, fourth and fifth class,
and at $3.50 in all other cities, boroughs
and villages, to be paid into the county
treasures for the use of the counties, in ad-
dition to the tax now provided for by law to
be paid, which goes into the State treasury.
A bill for a secret ballot by the envelope
system has been introduced in the house at
Hartford. 1t provides that the Secretary of
State shall furnish the town clerks electors
envelopes,of prescribed size, uniform in
color and stamped with the seal of the State.
The selectmen of each town are to provids a
suitable room or rooms for the voters to seal
their ballots in the official envelopes, and no
ballot is to be received unless SO sealed On
ly one slector is to be admitted at time to
the room, only one ballot box is to be used
at one polling place, and the system of vot-
ing is surrounded with the same safeguards
as at present. A. secret ballot is a good
thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21
IMPIETIES,

There is nothing religious about the hen,
but chs may not Improperly bs called a lay
sister.
Rev. Joseph Cooks Monday lectures are
largely attended. Monday Is wash-day and
anything is preferable to staying at home.
Talmage wants Ingersoll arrested for bias.
phemy. Ingersoll might retalliate by having
Tslmage arrested for bringing contempt upon
the Christian religion.
Three hundred wooden images of saints,
stolen from churches ny Mexicans, were among
the fuel purchases reported recently by a
Mexican railway manager, He bought them
for 20 cents apiece.
A Brooklyn preacher has threatened to
expel members of his church who visit the
skating rink. AMI vet nothing will bring o
man on his knees so quickly as a pair of roller
skates.
'Dr: Thomas you notice is preaching dead
against the doctrine of hell"
Just like the doctor, always putting his
foot in it. There's the thermometer twenty
below, and Thomas seeks to destroy the one
comfortable hope of ar erring Christian" -
EChicago Herald.
A Grand Rapids, Mich, dog ran into q
church during service and knocked ov ST the
had passed 1t around. The audience ad-
journed and killed the dog, easOn-there
was nothing in the contribution box.-[Bur.
lington Free Press.
"Why did Noah take into the ark q pair of
each kind" asked a Sunday school teacher of
her class.
"Cause 1t was all he needed" said a bright.
eyed boy.
why was a pair of each kind all he
needed"
Cause t'other Teller only had a bob-tailI
fueh!'-[Newman Independent.
Pious Mr.. Dobbs: II say Smith, it's a shame
that you don't do better and come join our
church. Have you no fear of hell?" Smith,
who lives In q house with modern convent
ences: Not q bit. ] want to go there, Sir. [
want to go. sir, where there are no water
pipes, "-lTroy Times.
The Presbyterian ministers of Pittsburgh
have united in a solemn and awful warning
against the frightful evils of roller skating.
They have contemplated the popularity of the
Kinks ia that city with horror, and now de
clare that roller skating undo unines the health
and Aebauches the morals of the young, and
leads rapidly down to that place where, owing
to the climate, there can be nothing but roller
skating if there ia any skating at al.
"You have heard the story of Casabianca2
said the Sunday.sGhool teacher to the new
tough who had besn brought IN by the, good
little boy. ''Wherdidolivey asked the n. t.
at one mouthfuA The boy stood On the
burning deck, +" Faid the teacher with q rising
Infection. "Oh, you mean Pat?" 'IEis name
wasn't Pat; it vas Cassabian a." Come
of. L heard my pap telling about is. He SEE
to me last nighs 'Whig's the old dsck, Jim
my!' and when l got it out from under the
burow, and he kind o'shuffled it oysr after II
while, he says to the bloke that wun visitin'
us, i stan pat In that the chestnut that
yer tryin' to Eork % me? l tot this wer a
place whir yen made mishunarys." Chicago
Herald,
Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21
UONNUBlALTTkE9.

The Sultan of Morocco has rust celebrated
his l,C00,h wedding.
A wealthy Jewish physician, aged seventy
five, and a beautiful young Jewess of twenty.
four years were married at New Rochelle
privately onFiday last.
They had recently been and got married
aud had just returned from their honeymoon.
He: II wonder why 80 many people stare at
us, my dear" She: mo doubt they are won
dering what l could have teen in YOU"
81 congratulate you, Julia, on your ap.
preaching marriage" said Mr.. Hyatt, a prom
neut New York merchant. to his daughter.
Marriage, pa! ] don't know any thing about
it,"
81 am telling you about it now" replied
Mr.. Hyatt,
'But who is the bridegroom, pa" asked
Julia.
'That's none Of your business. You must
not have So much curiosity. That is a bust,
ness secret that can not be divulged just now.
I'll let you know who he Is after the wedding
is over.-TTexas Siftings.
Wisconsin requires no marriage license aud
runaway young couples from other states flee
there as in New England they rush for the
New York line. The Badger legl, lature is try.
ing I stop the thing by a license law, but
leading papers Oppose the bill on the ground
| that Young fools who want to marry won't
stop at a little perjury, and that a law would
do more hurt than good.
A curious matrimonial case is reported from
the town of Poland. A farmer named New.
ton lost his wife by death two years ago. lie
became lonesome, and being unable to read OF
write induced a friend to advertise for a wife.
Fourteen responses were rtc;ived, but as each
asked for money to purchase a trousseau or to
paw the expenses of the journey to his home,
he rejected them all. A week ago Saturday
he was informed by his friend that a suitable
candidate would arrive by traiu the sam
evening. He met her at she train, drove with
her to The i%fquires Office and in thirty minutes
from the time they first met tuey were man
Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21

Janish will support Herr Sonnenthal dur
ing his engagement at the Thalis theatre in
New York.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett will open his en-.
gagement at the Boston theatre on the I'D
inst. with Francesca da Rimini.'
Mary Anderson and Margaret Masher are
to be pitted against each other at rival
theatres in New York next season.
The tenor Rsfeale Nitrate has positively
left the stage. He ranked with the greatest
of the worlds tenors. Verdi wrote "Riso-
letto' for him.
The interests of German opera in this
country have suffered a severe blow IN the
death Of DIR. DAmrosch. 1t will be hard to
fill his place.
Edwin Booth has written a letter in which
he extends a heartfelt welcome" to the
great German actor, Herr Sonnenthal,
who is abut to play an engagement in New
York.
Gn March II Miss Palmer and Miss Lolita
will both appear in Chicago, the former, it is
stated, having cancelled dates in order to re-
turn to that city and give battle TO the older
~favorite on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Handel's ora.orio,, "Bs lshazzar" and
saul, u will be given in London this month.
These splendid works have not been given
very frequently of years, but they are well
worthy of study and performance by any
choral society.
Nine. Essipoff has been playing at the
: Monday Popular Concerts in London. She
interpreted concertos of Rubinstein and Che.
pin, winning that great appreciation 80
greatly her due. 1t may be q long time be.
fore anyspianiste will be able to interpret the
classical composers with that delicate and po-
etc grace thai marks the artistic playing of
Nine. Essipoh.
"Glance at this constellation for next sea-
sonl' exclaims au eastern writer in a burst of
enthusiasm: "NIary Anderson, Modieska,
Rhea, lananschek, Margaret Mather, Gene.
We've Ward, Rose Eytinge, Lapgtry, Fanny
Davenport Janish, Rose Uoghlan, Helene
Dauvray,. Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett,
Salvini, Dion Boucicault, Osmond Teatle,
Joe Murphy, j. X. Emmet, John T. Ray.
mond, the F~lorenceg, George G. Min, Thomas
keene, Roland Reed, Annie Pixley, Jacques
Kruger, Nat Goodwin, Ned Thorne. Louis
Aldrich, Minnie Madden, Jennie Yeamans
But my eyes a e SO dazzled by this accu.
mulated briIliancy l can see no more. Still,
as l rub my suffering optics, | can't help feel
ing that somebody may be left"
Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21
Tho Mahdi's Battle Song.

Yes, | am the boss of the sandy Soudan,
And l hardly think a more competent man
Could % ound between Tennessee and Japan
To bouncs the bold Turkish invader.
I'm a twelve-fngered, bow.legged son of a
gun,
I'm a prophet from way.back-a child of the
sun;
I'm a dandy, a lol-lah, a darlin', a hun,
I'm a red.handed ripper and raider.
My followers number two millions or moro,
Aud every man of ems equal to four.
They re not much for style but thty'e handles
for gore
They're bad men from Keshir el-Kadir.
III Gordon I've captured, L happy TO state;
Ell Stuart has met his well-merited fate;
I'll butcher FL Wolseley if he'll only wait,
And Queen Vic will think luck has be.
trayed her.
So strike, shirtless sors of The shimmering
sand,
One more blow for your prophet CHATS me,
understard),
the insolent, infdel band!
Nivisect IT, Internal invader.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21

has accepted the pastorate OF the newly organ.
lied Temperance church in P~lttsburg.
DIR. Lotimer, Of the Emmanuel Baptist
church, Chicago, has received a unaulmous
call from the First Baptist church, Of Denver,
TO be their pastor.
Rev. j. Walter Louvre. Presbyterian mis-.
siouary in China, has the only four.wheeled
vehicle In fekins-an ungraceful but useful
covered depot-wagon built in Ohio.
Rev. DIR. o. II. Tiffany, In lately review
ing the centenary OF Methodism, sald he be.
lieved that old fashioned singing of old-fash-
Toned revival hymas has brought more people
into the church than all the prayers and ser.
mons,
A large Buddhist temple is now in course Of
erection at kioto, Japan. All its timbers and
pillars are put in place by ropes made of hui
man hair. The deyotees of the god they wor-
ship offer their hair on its shrine. The hair Is
then cut off and Is twisted by the priests into
church ropes.
An appeal from the Jews of Jerusalem the
Sultan has annulled the sale of a part of the
Mount Of Olives. which contains the graves of
the Prophets Haggai, Iachariiah and Mala-
chi. The purchasers were the Russian priest.
hood. The burial place Of the prophets had
been secured to the Jews in perpetuity.
In the exploration of the old temple area
in Jerusalem, one of the stones placed round
about the low parspet dividing the court of
the Israelites from the court of the Gentiles,
has been dug up, with the inscription in
Greek still legible, forbidding a Gentle under
pain of death to enter the paraptt.
Following the example of Austria, the
Swiss government has to take the Mormon
missionaries in hand Strict repressive laws
have been passed to prevent the ignorant
and unsuspectlDg from being duped by the
emIssariel of the church of the Latter Day
Saints. Two Mormon apostles were recently
arrested at Auran in accordance with the new
law and sentenced to pay q fine of 100 francs
each, and to spend twenty five days iii the
communal Jail.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21

The morning sun steals in with rudy fame
And gilds the Arabesques upon the wall;
| rise-and hail with notes Of loud acclaim
The pure white curtain trailing over all.
For all night !opg the feathery flakes have
dropp'd
From ebon clouds upon a silent world;
l see the distant mountain peak, snow topp'd-
Beneath lie drifts by winds fantastic whirl'd.
The trees, each fairy twig divinely swat ed
In radiant whiteness-pure as cloistei ed nun
Seem in a cleaning sea of diamonds bAthed,
A million gems, transmitted by the sun,
Yet naught, alas! to wretched me ls this
This understandable alabaster - chalk;
Fain must ] quit the scene of ravishipg bliss,
I've got TO go and shovel off the walk.
-Boston journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21
He Was + bsulutc Finality.
"Nininp CAmps"-ChaTles Scribne

From Mining Camps"-Charles Sctibner's
Sons.
There was a school teacher in Northern
California, a man of mighty frame and
great energy, Whose youth was spent in
the plsccrs and in adventurous wander
ings along the ftontlets. When the late
war began he went east TO join a regi-
ment, returning to the mountain wilder
mesa in 1865, a crippled and ba tered vet
eran. He had always been a close reader
and hard student, aud as q teacher soon
won SUCCESS and reputation. Ii. uo,
called upon to take charge. of on y ""'
worst schools In Northern California.
The mail rider throw off the letter at
the DOR cf the summer cabin on a pine
clad height of the Sierra; trout
stream within n ttone's.throw; grouse,
bear and dser in the woods; his
gun and rod in the corners; his
Marcus Aurelius ard Noc'es AmbrosiarH
on the rustic shelf. He saddled his horse
next morning and reached the village,
once q mining camp, by 8 o'clock. When
school was called to order he found that
efficient work demanded a re.classifca-
ton, becauIe the previous teacher had
tried to gain favor by advancing grades
without reason and skipping the hard
placer, That previous teacher lad come
to grief by trying to persuade q large boy
not to smoke a cigarette durirg school
hours, for the playful innocent, had
ducked him In the adjacent stream,
sousing him until he waded to the farther
bank and sought other fields. But the
new teacher was n man of a different
stamp. 81 must u you back in your
grsdes," he said. An ominous murmur of
rebellion followed, and several boys rose
aud announced that their Ia'cuts would
see about that" The teacher took a
book from the table and made his first
and last speech to the rebels. 900 you
keow what this isl" ''Yer, sir-the
school law" ''And it defines the grades,
and you think that last year you passed
an examination, and that | cannot SO be-
hind the law?"
Eyes, SIR"
Every we'll you are quite mistaken. l
am the a'calde, Of this school! l am alb
solute finally here!" With this compre
hensive statement he threw the school
law out of the open window, and began
to break up and consolidate class after
class,
Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-21
Served Him Right.

Old Birch, who taught the village school,
Welded u maid of homespun habit;
He was as stubborn as a mule,
And she as playful as a rabbit,
Poor Kate had sc Arce become a wife
Before her husband trieG to make her
The pink of country polished life,
And pIim and formal as a Quaker,
One day the tutor went abroad,
And simple katy sadly missed him;
When he returned, behind her lord
She shyly stole and fondly kissed him.
The husbands anger rose, and red
And white his face alternate grew.
'Less freedom, ma'am." Kate sighed and
said:
ooh. dear, l didn't know twas you"
-[AnOn,