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Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08
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CHRIsTIANA, July THE United States
steamer Enterprise, which went ashore at
Drobak. has been hauled off by Norwegian
ironclad and arrived here yesterday. She
will probably be docked for examination.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08

New YORK, July Tho big fire on East
Eighteenth street carly this morning was in
the Century building. The loss is now csti-
mated at S3O0,00O. The damage to the build
ing was $4,000 and TO the Century Publish
ing company $4,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08
SmaI,pox on the Celtic,

New YORK, July w. d. Harper a pas
senger on the steamer Celtic, which arrived
to-day from Liverpool, was taken down with
smallpox during the passage. The ship will
be quarantincd until probably this after
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08
GcneroIDuane's Successor.

WASHINGTON, July 5.-TSpecial Telegram
to THE BEE 1t is understood that the pres
ident will appoint Colonel Thomas L. Casey
TO be brgadier general and chief of cngi-
neers, vice General Duane retired.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ", July "A
crowd of drunken roughs tried to force an
entrance TO saloon at 2 O'clock this morning
for the purpose Of getting liquor. The pro
prietor, in defense of his property. fired into
the crowd, killing one and fatally wounding
another.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08
Health is Wealth!

DR.. Z. G. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TREAr.
hENT, guaranteed specific for Hysteeria, DizzL
ueadache. Nervous Prostrstion. caused by tho
use OF alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness Mental
DEPRESSION, softenins Of tho Brain. resulting in
DEATH Premature Old Age Barrenness, Loss of
Power in either sex, Involuntary Losses and
Spermatorhna caused by over-exertion OF the
brain. selfaDuss or over.indulgsnce. Each boz
contains one months treatment, 500 box, or
cent Of price.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08
WE GUARANTEE SIX BoxEs

To cure any case. with each order received by
as for sig boxes, accompanied with 300 we
win send the purchaser our written guarantee
to refund the money II the treatment does not
effect a cure. Guarantees issued only by G. II.
GOODMAN, Druggist. Sole Agent, lilo Farnarn
Street Omaha. Nsb
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Many specfcs of Orchids

When Sir Trcvcr Lawrence addressed the
conference. little more than three years ago.
Ii" mentioned that 5,OO species We're known
and 1000 We're under cultivation. If the
figures were true at that time they are vastly
too moderate now. Eight thousand and :;,Mla
are the proportions accepted at this date. If
n grower care for the science Of his pursuit
he will find material for study, for intcllcct-
ual delight, also, in every one of these. Ii is
not the cultivated varieties which attract
him, chosen as they4are, Of course, for beauty
of flower, hut those dull in tint or micro
scopic, which offer such strange problems,
such amazing contrivanccs, such startling
anomalies, to employ his mind. But 5000
species worth a mere gardeners attention
give room enough MISUNDERSTANDING Re-
view.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
reet of American Women.

The feet of American women are small
compared with those of English women. as
everybody knows. Means are offered of
making notes of this fact in travelling in
England. AT .Abbotsford not long ago II
party of tourists, chiefly women, We're seated
III the waiting room till the guide should up.
pear to tako them on n tour of inspection.
An American, who had u place outside tho
partial circle made by the visitors, happened
to have his eyes attracted toward the fifteen
or twenty pairs of feet before him. Without
looking up he glanced from one pair to an
other. After the examination he decided
that all but two of the women were English.
When he turned his eyes upward to the faces
he found that the owner of one of the pairuf
shoes lie had picked out as American was his
own sister. The other, who soon aftcrtwanged
out her contempt for some article under i'll
spcction, could not he mistaken. in either ae-
cent or tone of voice for any than IL down
east country woman Of the most pronounced
type.-Ncw York Press "Every Day Talk"
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07

was committed, questions tho residents of the
%neighborhood in regard to all the particulars,
and even interrogates the police relative to
their plans for securing the murderer and
the secret evidence they have in their pos
session.
At last suspicion turns toward him and
eventually he is arrested. The accounts that
he has read in the newspaper and the gossip
he Il IS heard. that, regardless of his original
idea that no had pcrpetratcd the crime dur
ing an cpilcptic fit, and therefore in a state of
conscientiousncss, that forces him to make
atonement' he confesses that he pcrpctrated
the murder and gives II full and %circumstan-
tial account of the crime. Inquiry soon. how
ever, shows that he could not by any posi-
bility have been the perletrator, and he is,
therefore. after a few days, during which
the newspapers have given the most scns;,-
tlonaI accounts of his brutality and rcmorsc,
discharged from custody.-Dr. William K.
m
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Queer Dwelling Houscs.

SThe Gilbert Islander does not generally
care to have any sides to his dwelling. He
sets i'll four corner posts, about four feet
high, made from the trunks of screw palms.
cut off and inverted so as to stand alone on
the stumps of the branches. dashed from
one to the other of these are long. slender
trunks of cocoanut palms, and from these
again spring pairs of ~rafters, which, in their
turn, support the neatly thatched roof. The
gable ends are then closed, and the house is
complete. Not a nail or a pin of any kind is
used. All the beams, rafters and the thatch
are secured by ingenious lashings, made gem
orally from the palm leaf fiber, though some
times braided from the owners own hair.
The floor space is snloothcd off, and then
covered with a thick bed Of small, smooth
pebbles OF coral. On this are spread plenty
of soft, thick mats, made, of course, from
palm leaves, and then, with u supply Of
young cocoanuts at hand, with a string Of
shells filled with a good supply of 'toddy"
hanging outside the house, and the huge
fragment Of shark, baked in Il wide oven in
tho sand, the islander is content to eat and
sleep until hungry again.
III the middle Of every village is a Council
house." This is a largo hut. one that We
measured being 1o0 feet long. 60 feet wide
and 60 feet high at the ridgepolc, built on
the same plan as the dwellings, but intended
as a place of meeting, especially for the "old
men," who rule each community. These
'potent, grave aud reverend seignors' meet
daily, and hear and decide all complaints.
and issue all ordinances for the government
of the people. If their decisions and ordi-
nances happen to meet with the approval of
n majority of those interested they arc
adopted. If they don't, another lot are pro-
mulgated the next day, and SO on until the
matter is settled or dropped.-San Francisco
Examiner
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
John noyl. o.Rei,,v on uox;ur.

John Boyle O'Rcilly was once urging a
friend to join an athletic association some
what famous among the sports of tie town.
Doctor" he said, you want to go there
with your boy, You don't really know what
is in the lad until you've stood up with him
i'll the ring with tho gloves OH. And boxing
is such a splendid sport! Its SO manly 50
vigorous; and" he added, with twinkle in
his eye, and the humorcusly persuasive tone
no can so well give to the voice, %"tlirir's ~
tenderness about it only equalcd by making
love-" Mr.. OReilly has long been recognized
as an authority on many sports. 1t is re-
lated that upon one occasion Mr.. George W.
Gable, who was lunching with him. leaned
over to ask him, with the air of one vino pro-
pounds u great ethical %conundrum: Mr..
OReilly, can you tell mo what u sluseer is"
aquestion which, coming from Mr.. Gable, the
meekest of men in appearance, must have
been d~eliciously funny.-The Book Buyer.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
An soo-Year Old Family,

A family of mummies recently unearthed
i'll Mexico have just been brought to San
Francisco and placed in the state mining
bureau. They We're found in a stratum Of
lime several feet below the surface of tho
earth, not far from the Arizona border. The
group, consisting of a man, woman and two
children, We're close together. The two adult
figures have on Il scanty clothing of coarse
netting composed of grass and bark of trees,
while one of the children appears to have
been clad in fur.
They all have the knees drawn up to the
chins, while the hands clasp the heads, as if
they had died in great agony. The general
appearance, in this respect, is much like that
of the casts of the Pompeiian victims. The
woman has long black hair, and i'll the lobes
of her ears are small tubes for ornament.
The man has but little hair. His features
are Observation-Disclosures evidence of pain-but
are seen very distinctly, and his open mouth
shows his tongue. Near the bodies were also
found curiously formed beads, and the Der
feet form of a cat, which seems to have
shared their burial place. From the appear.
ance OF the bodies and their SURROUNDINGS If
is thought they must have been dead at Ieast
SUI years.-New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
MAKING A FALSE CONFESSION.
DR.. w. a.. hammond Talks About the
Self Accused Criminal.

Dir. w. A.. hammond Talks About the
Self Accused Criminal.
proposed to show that no uncommon cir
cumstance for persons to confess to having
perpetrated crimes of which they were either
certainly Oh probably innocent, and that
there are forces in operation in the human
mind which may prompt to the making of n
false confession, even though by SO doing
life, liberty or property be put in danger.
Thus there is q difficulty in the minds of
some persons who exhibit no other evidence
of mental alteration to discriminate between
their thoughts or their dreams and absolute
facts. They brood over some real or imagi-
nary circumstance until they bring them
selves to believe in its reality.
Such n person, for instance, reads in the
daily press of some shocking murder that
has been committed, the perpetrator of
which Las escaped u~nrecognized. He reads
1t i'll one newspaper, and in another and au-
other hears it talked up among his COM
panions and begins by wondering whether or
not the murderer will ever be discovered.
he knows that murders have been committed
by persons who at the time We're in q state of
somnambulism or who We're suffering from
an erileptic paroxysm. Perhaps he has HIM
self i'll his youth walkcd. in his sleep or has
mad a CONFUSION, as his mother has told him.
Suddenly the idea strikes him that he may
DE The guilty man. AT first the notion is hor-
rlbie to him, but its very horror renders it
attractive. He goes to the Academy of Med
aCine ana reads up On the subject of epilepsy.
1hefe IS scarcely a disease, especially of the
nervous system, Of which any person at some
time or other of his life has not had ono o.
moro symptoms. The quack medicine adver.
tisers are fully aware of this fact and make
full use of it to brighten the ignorant into the
purchase OF their trash. Our ~incipient self
accuser has, therefore, no trouble in finding
what he is looking after, and he goes home
fully convinced that he has had an epileptic
paro1ysm, during which he may have been a
murderer. The transition from a possibility
to a reality presents no difficulties to his
mind, and he ends by fully believing himself
to be the murderer for whom the police are
seeking. He visits the place where the crime
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Wanted n Glass of Water.

After Il stay of some months in Vienna I
want up to Nuremberg, and from there to
the Strciburs Wheycure, where | hoped to
%recuperate from the effects of the cholera
which | had in Vichna. AT this place you
get nothing to drink but whey, except in tho
morning, when they let you have coffee and
rolls. No water or milk or anything but
whey is allowed, and | could not drink it.
Every time | did it seemed as If | should die
for an hour, and tho worst thing was that you
were always thirsty.
could not speak a word of German, and
even if | could have done so q Bavarian could
not have understood it. Tho vice consul's
daughter, who had come up with me from
Nuremberg, had been my translator, but she
went Oh a long walk, and when the man from
the "Curhaus" brought the fatal glasses Of
whey | determined to have q drink of water,
and so by showing him n form, talking and
by dumb show | made him, as | fondly
hoped, understand that ovcry time | even
saw n glass of whey itcreatcd u revolution i'll
my internal economy and | wanted a drink
of water. AT last he frightened and ! felt
that had for once succeeded in Introducing
III idea into IL Dutch head; but he sat down
tho glass of whey and disappeared, nodding
his head reassurinsly. waited patiently
FOR Il long time, when ho at last appeared,
bringing with him, not Il glass of water, hut
II carpenters brace and bit! Thus he had in
tcrprcted my intelligent pantomine.-Olivo
Harper i'll Philadelphia Times.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07

Perhaps the customs connected with the
habit of smoking and u,ingtol,arvo in Amer
ica and in E...laud ar" as interestingly char
actrri>tic "t Tia" two natinnalities as any
other traits. There is nothing unidentified
about smoking Il short ''!riar' or mecrsclnmn
along the streets Of London, Birmingham.
Manchester or any of tlngreat English cities.
\ gentleman is none the less Il gentleman he
cause he does This. Indeed, to smoke n cigar
in preference toa pip, argues either rxl,cn-
sivc tastes NJ the pcrulii;trr ability to CRAFTY
them. What would our ladies think of a
we'll dressed Young man comm. down Broad
way about ! i'll the afternoon with IL n~irntin"
blnckenc'i lilm in his mouth: Horrible >,lg-
gestion! VT in this Cnu;,!ry man consider,
it in perfectly good taste to walk into ;ti-
others Office with Il cigar stump stuck firmly
in one corner of his mouth. Moreover. he
does not take it out even to talk. Such be-
havior in London would give dircst "tfcnsc
and would he construed into un intentional
insult. New York Press every Day Talk. "
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
An Extraordinary Offer to all Wanting
Employment.

We want live, energetic, agents in every county
in the United States and Canada to sell a patent
article of great merit, ON ITS MERITS. An article
having n large sale paying over 100 per cent.
profit, ha:ing no competition, and OIL which the
agent is protected i'll the exclusive sale by a deed
given for each and every county he may secure
from MS. With all these advantages to our agents,
and the fact that it is an article that can b. sold
to every house owner, it might not be necessary
to make IAN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER" to secure
good agents at once, but we have concluded to
make it to show. not only our confidence in the
merits of our invention. but in its saleability by
any agent that will handle it with energy. Our
agents now at work are making from $50 to $500
amonth clear, and this fact makes it safe for us
to make our offer to all who are ont of employ
ment. Any agent that will give our business Il
thrifty days trial and fail to clear ut least 500 in
this time, ABOVE ALL ENrENsEs. can return all
goods unsold TO us and we will refund the money
paid for them. No such employer of agents ever
dared TO make such offers, nor would wei if we did
not know that we have agents now making more
than double this amount. Our large descriptive
circulars explain our offer fully. and these VIC
wish TO send to every one out of employment who
will send lis three onc-cent stamps for postage.
Send al once and secure the agency in time for
the boom, and 80 to work on the terms named in
our extraordinary offer. Address at once,
NATIONAL NOVELTY Co..
apr 2l-:m. Sill Smithdield ST., Pirsbuyg, Pa,
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Work of tho Nihilists.

A correspondent of The London Standard
says that the Russian Nihilists. having r;nlrd
to make the desired impression upon tao
peasants, have for the past few years devoted
their attention chiefly to the army and navy,
and with startling SUCCESS. 1t is SUSPECTED
that if Russia becomes engaged in another
war the rcvolutionists will not permit her
triumph. "lf our armies emerge virtnr;ors
from n coming war;" says the liberals. .thc
abomination of desolation will be i%nnuguratpd
in our country, and will last indefinitely
New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Dig two graves before cursing a neighbor.
Proyerb.
why Gentlemen Wear Bl,ck.

Bulwer's "Pelham" became SO popular I'M.
mediately after its publication US to change
the fashion Of gentlenen's coats In those
days gentlemen wore, for evening dress,
coats of brown, or green, or blue, according
to their fancy. In the novel, Lady Frances
Pelham says in n letter to her son: "Apropos
of the complexion, l did not like that blue
coat you wore when l last saw you. You
look best in black. which is q great compli.
ment, for people must be very distinguished
i'll appearance to do So" Every gentleman
who read "Pelham" took to himself the
great compliment" and from that day
black has been the color of gentlemen's full
drcss.-The Argonaut.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Use of the NIusuuito.

The Use of the %musquito has been at last
discovered. Professor Webster says that
"injurious organic matter i'll tho water, i'll
stead of dccomposing and poisoning people,
is changed into 'wiggle-tails,' which, in due
time become mosquitoes, and the winged
matter flies away, leaving the water purified
to the extent of their ability to remove the
impurities. If fish are kept in the water
they eat the 'wigglc-tails,' and grow large
enough to serve as food for man. Thus the
poisonous ingredient of impure water be-
comes llealthful food. Without mosquitoes
most marshy OF swampy land would be dan
gerously insalubrious. boston Budget.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Bctter Than u Pen Wiper.

On the sergeant's desk in the Twenty-third
sub-precinct police station, at the Grand
Central station, an excessively inky potato
is always to be found.
ut makes n new pen as good as old and an
old one as good as new" says Sergt. Haradon,
and when his pen troubles him in any way
as ho tries tc write he jabs it into the tuber.
He claims that it is the sovereign remedy.
1t takes of a brand new steel gloss In a jiffy,
and in an equally satisfactory way it eats IF
the rusted and corroded surface If \ pen
long in usa-New York Evening World.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
A Group of 11indoo Pilgrims.

The railway from Calcutta enters Bcnarcs
over Il magnificent iron bridge Just COM
pleted across the tianscs. 1t springs 10y noble
Spals along great stone piers, the fuun,la-
tions of some of which, am told, are sunlicn
80 feet below the bed of the river. We
paused at its northern end to let out several
hundred pilgrims. =. strange sight they pre-
scntcd i'll their valious conditions. There
Were old women, almost bent double with in
iirlnities of nse: there We're young women,
with half naked babies s%traddlcl OH their
hips and leading others hut Il few years older:
there were proud men. of noble. manly hrnr-
ing, and poor mon, rrinsi,iy and ~srrvilr in
their poverty: there was opiIlcnt comfort,
with servants bearing its bedding and its
fine gear: there We're others So weak that
they staggered under the weight of n single
basket or bundle which contained their
worldly wealth. All, when stepping from
the crowded cars, turned wi>ifully toward
the holy city, their eyes lctrayinS the tie.
light felt that now at last they were about 4"
lathe in this hottest spot of the hottest of
rivcrS.-t'artrr limrison's Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
THE COMING OF LOVE.

o Cupid. thou mad, irresistible elf
Let my sleeping heart be, leave my Thoughts to
myself;
Icrave not thy fever Of rapture and pain,
o let me 80 back to my dreaming againl
What is this vision that makes my heart beat
With n passionate longing, SO subtle and sweets
OCupid, thou madcap. see what thou hast done,
What rare woman thoughts in my heart have
begun
Breathe forth, dainty wild rose, your perfume so
sweet.
Look up. little pansy. my lover to greet;
Ring sweet. bonny bluebell, to rapture give
tongue.
For Low. is our life. and our life ever young!
Florence Evelyn Pratt in Home Journal
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Annual Cost of Shaving.

AN eastern statician has estimated that
S,ooo,Wo men i'll this country get shaved at a
Darocr shop three times n week. He says that
TINS means an expenditure of thirty cents a
week. or Slo.Oa Year for each man. or for
the ",oW,WN Sl5,tOO,O0O annually. To this
he should add a considerable sum to account
Tor the numerous fifteen rent shaves-the
ruling price i'll the west.-Chicayo Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Utility of lightning Rods.

Noted Electrician-I see you still have that
Old notion that a lightning rod is Il protec-
ton.
Nebraska Farmer-I have.
"Well, of course, you don't keep up with
tho electrical progress of the age and can't be
expected"
~ take half a dozen newspapers aud three
magazines, including The Electrical Review,
SIR"
"You dot Well. we'll! Now, sir. if that is
the case, will you be kind enough to tell me
what you think a lightning rod on your
house protects you fromp
Lightning rod agents. "-Omuha World,
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Hn. Proof Eences.

a Kansas man told inc recently that an in
g%cnious individual in southern Kansas had
invented a fence to keep out ctiinch hugs.
lie takes a strip of flooring and sets it on The
ground with the groove side up In The
groove he puts candle wick and satuIates it
with coal oil. The chinch bug, when it
crawls up tho side of the board and erts q
sniff of the kerosene, retreats in disg,ist-
Lima Republican.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Wood Displaced by lr,n.

In the manufacture of casks, carriages,
carts. packing cases, furniture, sheds. tcle-
graph poles, and many other things, manu-.
tacturcl's of France Il England are dis.
placing wood by steel and iron, and with
satisfactory results. Light doors and hol-
low window frames are in use, and, of course,
last far longer than wooden ones would
Public Opinion.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Tho Latest Egg Problem

Country readers are puzzling themselves
over the following egg problem:
If a hen and a half lay an egg and a half
in a day and a half. how many eggs will six
hens lay in seven days4
The solutions are divided pretty evenly
between 2s an H.. but both these figures
happen to be wrong.-New York Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
A Case.

Physician-Want treatment for YOURSELF
You look hearty enough Pm sure.
Caller-This fairness which you notice is
not natural, doctor. 1t came very rapidly.
"Your flesh looks all right. Don worry
over n little %plumpness. Avoid rich food and
highly seasoned dishes of all kings and"-
81 board"
'Great Galena! Dropsy."-Omaha World.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Familiarity Not Attempted.

A Washingtonian, who enjoyed tho friend
ship of the late Mr.. Conkling. saw that
among all the friends and acquaintance ,hat
the ex-senator formed after he reached man
hood not one ever addressed him as "lsos-
coe.n-New York World.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Killed by Competition.

Friend Ito young poet,-How is your book
of poems going Off, Charleya
Young Poet Observation-Disclosures very
fast.
Friend-What seems to DO the trouhlea
Young ~Poet-Hangcd if | know. unless its
competition. Pm afraid there's too many of
us in the business.-The Epoch.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
a Well Deserxed Fate.

Countryman Ito d~entist-The tooth next
to that 'un aches too. doc.
Dentist-Yes: it aches in sympathy.
Countryman-Yank it out, durn sech
sympathyl-New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07

There are about seventy k~indergartens in
Philadelphia, fourteen of which are free.
being supported by charity; twenty. sin are
under the public school system. aud thirty
are private,
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07

a French savant. NJ. de Bee. says that tho
nose IS losing its function among civilized
people. When the sense of smell vanishes
che nose will have to go, too.
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
Victoria us n COLLECTOR.

Queen Victoria is all autograph collector,
and she has recently added to her American
department an autograph OF Andrew Jack
sou-Chiraro News.