Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-28
Sea|skin CIoaks and Furs
Stored and Insured During the Summer
Reasonable Charges.

Uncle Ira as he is Familiarity called,
had no difficulty In finding smokers
at his beck.
"This plan was not entirely satisfac-
tory to the old man either, and he
finally resolved to hire a man to accom-
pany him wherever he went, the man.
only duty being to smoke choice cigar
as often as one was furnished him and
to blow the smoke in his employers
face.
''His present smoker, the colored man
John, has been with Uncle Ira for sew
eral years and the artistic way in which
he manipulates his cigar smoke to the
best advantage of his employer, has
made him Indispensable to the ola gem
tleman."
A few days ago, while some men were
at work on the boom on the Benton side
OF the river, near Fairfield, Me-, they
discovered an old friend in the person
OF mud turtle which is now well known
in this town, and bids fair some day to
become the oldest lnhabitant. He first
made his appearance in these parts in
ls47. In that year John II. JOY dlscov-
cred him and marked him with his
initials. This was mile from the river.
In 1861, when the war broke out, he
again came to the front, and Benton
Brown caught him and marked him
with his initials. In 1868 he reappeared
and was again marked. He was seen
by the men at the Boom after that about
once in four years, and each time new
name and date were added to his shell.
Some Of the dates are faint now, but
most OF them, and all of the initials, can
be traced. He was due to arrive there
last year, but for some reason postponed
his visit till this spring. He was car.
ried about town and exhibited and then
liberated.
When there was coasting on Swan
sire ct, between Madison avenue and
Hamilton street, last winter, no one en-
ioyed the sport more, or indulged in it
to a greater extent than "JumbO," the
Scotch collie OF Moses Star. < says the
Albany Journal. The dog is six years
old, weighs fifty-seyen and one-half
pounds and is OF light brindle color.
He is good-natured and full OF pluck.
May Stark, in childish sport, put Jumbo
on hand sled one day and sent him
down the hill. This was sufficient, and
thereafter it was next to impossible to
keep him off sled when it was empty.
He would lie on all fours on the sled
with his fore paws over the front OF the
bottom board. or sit on his hind legs
with the string in his mouth, and ride
down the hill alone. He liked best to
lie on all tours with his sled attached
10 others in front containing children.
AT the bottom of the hill he would seize
the string between his teeth and drag
the children up the hill, when reason
able number were on the sled.
One would haGdly look for new indus
tries in the petTficd civilizations of the
east, but some of the Arabs have de-
veloped a genuine streak of Yankee
enterprise. Somewhere in Egypt they
have factory or laboratory from which
they can turn out mummies OF any
ancient period or rank desired. A fresh
corpse is taken, soaked in brine several
days, smoked like ham, filled with
drugs, and in two weeks can be made
equal to any mummy found in the cata-
combs. One of these was fitted up with
the signs of royalty and a parchment
giving an account OF his career over
four thousand years ago, and sold TO a
French scientific body for large sum.
That region may revive yet.
One OF the best-known drunkards and
bar-room loungers of Philadelphia Il
dead. He was u goat named "Billy,
| or, rather, he was half goat and nall
deer. He has not drawn u sober breath
| for seven years with the exception o
two months when he was laid up with