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Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
IMPIETIES.

The Duke of Cumberlain once astonshed q
congregation, when the minister prayed for
rain, by eXclaiming: mo use praying for
rain in northeast wind
a little New York girl while lisping her
childish prayer at her mothers knee before
retiring stopped in the middle of her deyo-
tions and said: oh. Lord, please wait a
until ] scratch my toe"
Pm, sorry | wasn't at your fathers fu-
neral, Miss Molle." Faith, and you didn't
miss much. 1t was very quiet, Beer at the
wake and only one band at the cemetery.
You know. father always detested any cere-
mOny like"
Sam Jones and Sam Small received $500
agiece for their recent evangelical services in
Boston. Small makes about as much money
in week by eyangelizing as he formerly lost
in the same period starting humorous papers
to fill long-telt want.
DIR. Adam Clarke, who had n strong aver
sion TO pork, was called upon to say grace at
dinner where the principle dish was roast
pig. He is reported 10 have said: 'Oh
Lord, If thou canst bless under the gospel
what Thou didst curse under the law, bless
this pig.'
While in London the reyvalist Moody
never neglected an opportunity in preach
ing. He went into the city to insure his life (;
having done so he said: 81 have insured my
wretched body, but who is to insured my
wretched SOUL % A matter-of-tact clerk an
swered; Our Mr.. Thompson, of the lire
department will see after that"
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
A Sony of Summer.

Emma c. Dytrd IN 81. Nicholas for July.
The lowers are trnging the swift meadow
brooks,
The songsters are nesting in shadowy ncots;
The birds and the blossumng are thronging
TO meet us,
with loveliness, perfume and music they
For summer, the beautiful regnsl
The bobolink tilts on the tall, nodding clover,
And sings his gay song to us over and over;
The wild roses beckOn, with deepening
bushes,
And sweet from the wood. sounds the warble
OF thruSheS-
For summer, the beautiful, regnsl
The white lilies sway with the breeze of the
morning,
In rament more fair than a menarch's
adjoining;
The bright tEroated humming bird, marvel
of tlectneSs,
Comes questing for honey blooms, draining
their sweetness
For summer, the beautiful, reigns!
High up in.the limbs is the oriole counting,
A new suit of velvet and gOlt he is sporting:
With gay bits of carolling, tuncful and mel
low,
He woos his fair lady love clad in plain yell
For summer, the beautiful, regns!
The blossoms and birds bring Us, yearly,
sweet token
That natures glad promises rever are
broken.
Then sing, happy birdlings, nor ever grow
Laugh on. merry children, It's time to be
CHEEKY
For summer, the beautiful, reigns
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
The Parsor Got Mad.

San Francisco POST My relations
with the CLERGY have been courteous, but
cold, ever since ~" remarked Mr.. Alf
Doten in the office of the Palace, ad.
dressing some brother Comstockers. DR..
Doten was formerly the publisher of the
Baptist preacher in the gulch was MI.
McJawkins, venerable man of great
piety but hollow -chested physically and
intellectually" sad Mr.. Doten. ''He had
no business snap about him, and the con-
gregation took advantage of him: They
paid him only $50 month, and let him
collect it if he could. He roasted in the
rear of the sacred ediiice and did his own
cooking. One day in '12 it was showing
pretty hard in the gulch, and met Par.
son McJ Jawkins plowing along The old
man looked blue and frozen, and l took
him into the News Office to warm himself.
'Parson, says /, speaking low so the
printers couldn't hear don't you think n
thimblcful of whisky would do you good?'
"'Mr Doten,' says he, I'm not q drink
ing man, but think it would
Mr.. McJawkins, says /, in loud
voice, come down to the cellar and see
our new power press The cellar was
where l kept the editorial Jug.
when I'd thrown couple of bolts
into the parson, he warmed up and said
it was remarkably good liquor. He re.
peateQ tnlS SeVeral tlneS anu tOOk no IN
terest in the press.
"HYes says l; 1T is good liquor,
Won't you take little of it home with
you, parson?
~ am not drinking man, Brother
Doten, says he, but since you're so kind,
i will thank God and take courage. The
congregation might object, but there is
no necessity for their knowing anything
about it
"'Correct, says I, and reached for a
bottle on the shelf. held it under the
faucet and gave it rinse, and filled her
up for the parson, who went off happy.
But he never spoke to me again, and
stopped his paper, though he was dead
head"
"Why% asked the surprised group of
Comstockers.
"Wcll," said Mr. Doten, sit seems it
was an ink bottle gave the parson, with
lot of dried ink in it, and the rinse
didn t move it. But the whisky did. The
parson was nearly killed with the gripes
suppose he mentioned the business to
the rest of the preachers on the quiet, for
ever since the ministers have always
veered off when hovein sight. lido not
eXaggerate, therefore, when | say that
my relations with the clergy are cour-
teous, but cold. Is there Il bar-room
within pistol-shot of this tavern?"
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
EDUCATIONAL.

Harvard graduates class of 235, the largest
in her history.
The total income Of Yale College last year
was Sls7 $40; expenses, Sl60,a3J.
The National Educational ASSOCIATION
holds its annual meeting at Topeka, Kas.
July 10Th.
The Harvard annex has two graduates this
year, Miss Lucy Ann Bushee, of WOOn-
socket X l., and Miss Kate Bird Runkle, OF
Brighton.
Probably the youngest state superintend-
ent of public instruction is Oscar II. Cooper,
of Texas. He is twenty-three years old, and
graduate of Yale.
Eighteen of the fify-seyen surviving NOM
bers of President Dwights Yale class of
lS49 were present at his Inauguration. The
class numbered ninety-four at graduation.
Col. William Preston johnson, president of
the Tulane university. has added to that in
stitution what are 10 be known as the Tulane
Home Reading circles, 10 be conducted some
what upon the well known plans of Miss
TlcknOr and DIR. j. ii. Vincent OF Chautau-
qua. Members of the faculty of Tulane will
constitute the principal Instructors.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
PEPPERMINT DROPS.

a young man asks; How can / gain
copi0us flow OF language?' We would sug-
gest that he should try sitting down on a
tack.
A sound slceper-one who snores.
The man who raised grapes in grapery
didn't succeed when he tried TO raise apes In
an apiary.
Mrs. frankie Cleveland Is learning the
wife business rapidly. Already size never
goes TO bed without asking Grover ii he
wound the eloei.
A Chicago ieweler is said TO have invented
q self winding watch. Nov let the same
genius apply himself TO the invention of a
self-linding watch key.
A New York exchange says: say Gould
has left the street." II was probably too
heavy for him to carry of. There is a reason
for almost everything.
A man in New York recently committed
suicide by pushing a handkerchief down his
throat. Ancient history informs us that
Cleopatra. the dusky beauty, also committed
suicide with wiper"
"Why does marriage make men thought.
fu!9' asked young lady OF old bachelor.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
Love.

r. II. Bacon in Democratic RerietU
Like the still stars that glow with fadeless
light,
Unchanging ever in their holy ray,
Unseen, perchance, in the full glare of day,
Yet with mild glory shining through the
night.
SO love- whate'er the time, is ever bright;
And though unnoticed while the sunbeams
play
Around prosperity, has its holiest sway
When dark Affections come the soul to blight.
The loftiest and the lowlest bosom feels
Its empire sweet and brightens in its glow;
The prOudest spirit TO its scepter kneels,
Aud the gentleSt hearts its sweetest influ-
ence know.
Soft to the couch of death it gently steals
And, even through its tears, eternal joy re-
yeals!
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10

Boston 7Tunscript-
Test to thy pillow, testl
| watch beside thee;
No care shall wiring thy bre.! ,
No Ill betide thee.
Love guards thy pillow,
Love, the unrepining.
Heavens 5 moon is bright ahoy.
Heavens stars are shining.
Peace, peace! forget, forgive
And be forgiven,
That all who love and live
May wake in heaven.
Dream of thy dear ones, dream,
The past rctracing;
Thy native valleys stream,
Thy loves embracing.
No sound shall mar thy sleep,
No fear perpleX thee;
Angels thy vigils keep,
Thy God protects thee,
Peace, peace! ! forget, forgive,
And I've forgiven.
That oil who love and live
May wake in heaven.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
SINGULARITIES.

A strawberry was grown at NJ arlborough,
n. y, that measured nine inches in circum-
ference.
A Mexican died the other day who was
followed to the grave by eighty-seyen sons
and daughters ana had buried thirteen.
A sturgeon eight feet long and weighing
2S7 pounds was caught In the river near
North Cromwell, Conn.,, on Wednesday.
child Was horn IN sharon Pa last week
ounces. 1t is healthy and perfectly formed.
The bald eagles on San Miguel Island, CAL,
are very destructive to sheep and lambs, and
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
Where the Plaster Was.

4 rather modest young doctor was
called in TO see a lady who had been
taken suddenly i'll. The doctor found
the application of pitch plaster ncces-
sary and accordingly went TO work and
made one and laid it carefully by to pre-
pare the lady for its application Every
thing was ready and the doctor sought
the plaster; but strange to say it had dis.
appeared. The doctor and the negro
nurse searched high and low, in every
probable place, for the missing plaster,
but it was in vain; IT was gone, no one
could tell where. The nurse had not
seen it since the doctor had laid it on the
chair. There was no alternative but to
go to work and make another, which was
accordingly done. But still the question
would present itself to all, what had be-
come of the plaster2 The circumstance
of its having been spirited away began
to tell unfavorably on the sick ladys
nervous sensibility, but the doctor could
not help it, he could not explain the mys-
terry. The doctor in deeD brown study
prepared 10 leave and stood up before
the fire TO warm himself before encoun-
tering the cold without. Through the
force of a vulgar habit he parted his coat
tails behind, when the nurse, displaying
about four inches of ivory said;
u found de plaster, massa Doctor"
"Where?" eagerly asked the doctor;
where Is itg'
"You have got II ahind," said the
nurse, still grnning.
The doctor clapped his hand behind
and there it vas, sticking fast TO the seat
of his breeches, where he had sat down
on it when 1t was lying on the chair
This was too much for the modest doc
tor. He seized his hat and stood not up.
on the order OF his going, but went ut
once.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
Pres. Louisiana National Bank.
j. w. KILBRETH.
Pres. State National Bank. : :
A. BALDWIN,
Pres. New Orleans National Bank.

Incorporated in 1858 for 25 years by tho legls
lature tor Educational and Charitable purposes
with capital of Sl,0O0O0O-to which reserve
fund of over S55OOOO has since been added.
BY an overwhelming popular voto its franchise
was made part of the present State Constitution
adopted December 3D. A. ID. 1917
The only lottery over voted and endorsed
by the people of any state.
IT tnevor scales or postpones.
Its grand single number drawings take place
monthly and the extraordinary drawings regu-
lary every three months instead of sC.ni-annu
nlly as heretofore. beginning March. 1886
SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN FORTUNE.
9Th Grand Drawing, Class @, In the Academy of
Music, Now Orleans, Tuesday, July l3th 1885
1nIIh Monthly nrnMlnn
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10

The Harvey Peak Tin company has
just paid $4,000 for group OF inines
near Custer. ....
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10

The combination, proportion, and pro-
cess in preparing Hood's Sarsaparlila,
are peculiar to this medicine, and un-
known to others.
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10

The people will insist on having ST.
Jacobs Oil and no other. They know its
n,aritc
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10

Red, Rich, Reviving--Red Star Cough
Cure. 1t leaves no depressing effects.
81 cents
Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-10
CAPITAL PRIZE $4,000.
100 600 Tickets at Five Dollars Each. Fractions
in Fifths, in Proportion.

1867 Prizes, amounting S265,50o
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to tho Office of the company in New Or
leans.
full address POSTAL NOTES Express Money
Orders, or New York Exchange IN ordinary let
ter, currency by express at our expense I'D
NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
Now Orleans. La.
Or NJ A. .DAUPHIN,
Washington, d. @.
Make P. o. Money Orders payable and address
NRw ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
The Primrose House.

A society, whose object is to befrienc
working girls, has been organized ir
this city, and recently it opened the
"Primrose House. at $50 West Thirty.
third street, where there will be accom-.
modation for the care of forty girls. A
matron will be in charge of it.
"We want this building to be q
friends house." one of the directors said
to a Sun reporter; ''to which any girl
may come for advice and sympathy and
assistance If she is i'll we have skilled
physicians to attend her. If she wants
to increase her earning powers by learn.
ing housekeeping. or dressmaking, OF
stenography, or bookkeeping, or almost
any other occupation for which women
are fitted, she can come and learn. If
she wants shelter we will give it to
her. If she wants resting spell in the
country, we will try and get it for her.
A pleasant, CHEEKY evening, our rooms
are open for her. We will give when
giving is necessity, but what we chiefly
want to do is to help. Charity, in the
ordinary sense of the word pauperizcs
but friendship is an aid to independence.
Our society will be n friend, but never a
patron"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
A HURRICANE IN SPAIN.
More than 100 Persons Killed and
Hundreds Injured.

More than 100 Persons Killed and
Hundreds Injured.
A terrible hurricane has just swept across
the middle of Spain. In Madrid seventy
persons are known to have been Instantly
killed, and 200 Others have been seriously in
jured. The wind struck the city with the sud-
denness of lightning. Tram cars and cabs were
overturned and broken into splinters, roofs
were dislodged. and telegraph wires every
where torn from their poles. The parks IN
and about the city were devastated, and IN
some cases entirel denuded. One church
tower was blown down A number
of houses in the suburbs were
entirely wrecked, and of the many cottages
on the outskirts Of the capital which were
blown from their foundations and wrecked,
some were so completely and quickly broken
up and scattered by the wind that they may
be said to have simply vanished before the
storm.
Farm crops and villages were distresslngly
ravaged in the country districts, the working
classes suffering the heaviest losses; MANY
washerwomen were blown into the River
Manzanares. and twentv-eight were drowned
The largest tree in Madrid, which stood in
front of the Parliament Building, was blown
down. The hospitals are crowded with sur,
ferers. The storm was preceded by several
days of extremely hot weather. =,
The Queen visited various points IN the
city and suburbs where the damage wrought
by the hurricane was most marked. She eX-
pressed profound sorrow at the loss OF life
and much sympathy with those whose homes
had been wrecked by the storm. The dam
age will exceed 81, ,25O,0OI
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
Pig.Skins in Book. Binding.

A correspondent to the Scottish Leather
Trader writes about Pekin firm which
found new field for pig-skins, as fol-
lows: "These pelts have, until recent
ly, been principally utilized in the manu-
facture of saddlery goods. This firm had
their attention directed some time ago to
the Importance of opening up trade in
importing the pig skins to supplement the
native supply of the raw material. This
has proved great success, and the result
is that the quantity of pig-skins which
are now available for tanning purposes
may be said to be illimitable. Conse-
quently it has been found necessary to
look about for other purposes to which to
put the tanned and prepared skin. Ex
periments in dyeing were then resorted
to, also in printing the hides with several
designs, which from their nature they are
peculiarly suitable for, and for some time
these skins have been largely in use
among upholsterers and bookbinders for
the leather portions of their respective
trades. The style and appearance of the
skin have caused it to be we'll received on
all hands. With view still further to
extend its usefulness. the firm have had
some epared in a levantcd state for the
book trade, and in this department they
have been so successful that the old
fashioned levant sealskin has now for
midable competitor to contend with. 1t
was perfect treat to look over some OF
the finished hides and handle them"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
The japanese Capital.

Toxic covers an area of 100 square
miles, but not until 1904 did it begin to
be city. From that time to this, how
ever, it has grown constantly. 1t is a
charming place, says a correspondent,
and I would enjoy telling of the bean
ties to be found within its boundaries
parks and temples, the one rich in colors
of flowers, the wonderful chrysanthe-
NUNS (the Mikado's crest) and camel
lias fair and faultless as those brought to
us over the sea, the dwarf and grotesque
cypress growths and the ponds of bril-
liant goldfish (sone two feet long,
swimming in summer time beneath the
broad, blue-gree leaves and pink fow-
ers of the lotus. The temples are as rich
in color as the gardens, and sparkling in
gold and jewels, with carvings as intri-
cate and ever different as the very foliage
of the parks. Here are statues to Buddha
of colossal proportions, and here the
Shinto temples almost devoid of orna-
ment. In a garden near the great temple
of the Asaksa, where the countless white
doves live, are several cocks with tail
feathers twelve feet in length. The
Shiba, with its wonderful Zojoji temple,
where all is golden and elaborate work
in arabesque designs. It is useless, how
ever, to describe these places, for the
long lines of glowing admiration points
become tiresome, and it is very disap-
pointing work to try to see with the ears.
I ascend the steep, long flight of steps
to the summit of the Atago Yama, and,
seating myself before one of the open
booths and receiving from the pretty at
tendant cup of cherry-blossom tea, I
look below me and far away. The city,
with its tile roofs inte spersed with green
trees. lies at my feet. Here and there a
foreign flag before the buildings of the
Legations for moment carries away my
thoughts to other lands. The mountains
of Hakone, blue and hazy, and in the
distance above all Fuji-no-yama. To the
west are gray-stone castles with their
towers, the roofs of which look airy and
inappropriate as covering for such solid,
time-defying structures. Perhaps, how
ever, even castle does not want to wear
the same hat forever. There are the
trees of the Ueno Park full of noisy
crows, which perch upon the head of Dai
Butsu and cav at all who pass. I have
luncheon or tiffln as it is called in the
East. Sitting shoeless upon the floor a
picked salad is brought me, which does
not suit my palate, then rice eaten with
chopsticks and washed down with warm
sake. Most deliciously boiled eels, fresh
from the water, cut up with the chop
sticks and put into my mouth by the
pretty waitress, who is teaching me how
to eat a la Japonaise. More vegetables
and then sweet-scented cigarettes, little
more sake and a most delicious cup of
tea, and tiffin is over.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-26
Another New Death Dealer.

"Military and naval officers of all
countries" said General Berdan, "have
long been endeavoring to devise some
scheme by which torpedo can surmount
the difficulty presented by an arrange
ment Of network. If the ordinary tor
pedo meets this obstruction it either gets
fouled in the net or its direction is
averted. In the one case it fails to ad-
vance to the ship; in the other it speeds
away at an angle past the ship. In either
its explosion, if it explode at all, is
equally abortive. Now, in my system,
the net actually aids the torpedo to do
its destructive work. I discharge two
torpedoes, one attached to the other by a
line of some thirty or forty feet. The
first one explodes on touching the net
and makes a hole through which the
second cntels and strikes the ship. But
to do this successfully the vessel must be
at anchor. When it is in motion I have
better scheme. The first torpedo is
non-explosive. It strikes the net, and
then by an ingenious contrivance the tor
pedo following it is made to dive under
the net. AS it rises it strikes the ship
at the bottom, where it is the least pro-
tected by its plates"
"And what is your torpedo like, Gen.
eral?"
"Well, it is thirty-one feet in length
and twenty-one inches wide at mid-sec-
ton; its depth is thirty-one inches and
its displacement 2,SOO pounds. The ex-
| plosive substance is gun cotton to the
amount of 100 Kilograms. This explo-
sive is fired by new apparatus, by a
small copper pin being cut off when the
impact takes place against the ship. A
very slight shock is enough to effect this,
far slighter than that required in the
hitherto invented machines. Upon this
pin being cut it liberates a bolt which
shoots against the cap of an ordinary rifle
cartridge, and the explosion follows" "
-Nelo York Herald
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MUSICAL AND DRAM ATTIC.

Sol SMITH RUSSELL and his manager are
said to have cleared $50, 700 on their country
editor play.
RUB1NsrE1N, the celebrated pianist, tainted
one night recently in Paris while playing
at a concert.
A TEN-cENT circus called the Hippolym.
piad is exhibiting in the rural districts Of
North Carolina.
NINE. JANAUSCHE4 is the latest of the
foreign celebrities now in this country to an
nounce farewell tour.
NINE. R1sToRI is going to make her final
appearance on the stage this season at Her
Majestys Theatre in London.
NINE. SZARvADY, favorite pupil OF
Schumann, is visiting London, where she
has achieved great success as pianist.
In the private car that Mime. Modjeska
travels in is quite an extensive library and
piano. The car is called the David Gar
rick.
The condition of Miss Van Zandt, the
singer, who is i'll at Cannes, is growing worse
instead Of better, ant her recovery is said to
be very doubtful
NINE. LUCIA has been quite content in her
recent engagement in Nieuna t. sing for $500
night, or about one-hfth of what she re.
ceiyed in New York.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to establish auxil
larry branches OF the American Opera In all
the leading cities Of the United States. Bos-
ton wants an opera of its own.
ITALIAN opera will be reSuscicated and ex-
hibitei for season Of six or eight weeks in
London. Patti, Albani. Faure and Gayarre
are announced as consultations.
THERE are &C the present time %, 000 school
libraries in the United States containing 49,
OOO, 900 books, or l., wv, ,Oo0 more than all the
public libraries in Europe combined
MASTER CARROLL HAMILTON FITzHUGH,
of Pittsburg, though only twelve years old,
has written drama, which his friends pro-
nounce an extraordinary production.
The Able La Ponte, who wrote the
libretto for "Don Giovanni" got only about
$50 for his work, while Mozart, the composer
of the opera, received only Sl:0 for his mas
terpiece.
AN asylum is to be built at Auteuil for
aged French and Italian opera singers, ac-
cording to be4uest of the widow of Rossini.
There will be three houses, to maintain
ffty-one persons.
SILAS GURNEY, proprietor Of the fremont
House, Boston, says that he gave Dixey, the
actor, the money with which he bought his
first suit Of stage clothes. Now Dixey is
making $25, 5000 year. This leap from pow
erty to atluence has been within few years.