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Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
STATE AND TERRIToRY.
Nebraska Jottin gs.

Nebraska JOttings.
There is prospect that Rulo will have an
elevator. -
A Chautauqua circle has been organized
at Plainview.
An effort ls being made to organize board
of trade at Table Rock.
The contract has been let for the construc-
tion of waterworks at Randolph.
The people of Broken Bow are again dis
cussing the question of electric lights.
A camp Of Modern Woodmen has been
organized at Crawford with fourteen charter
members.
The Methodists will try to reorganize their
ing services.
The Plattsmouth canning factory has
closed for the season, after putting up 1885,
200 cans OF goods.
The overcrowded condition Of the schools
at Norfolk has made the securing of addl-
tional room necessary.
In drunken row near Summerfeld one
man was nearly Drained with an axe and an
other was shot through the arm.
The Presbyterian churches of Republican
City ana Bloomington have pooled issues and
hired a pastor, Rev. T. A. Hamilton.
Thirteen steers jumped from a train be-
tween Clearwater and Neigh the other
night, and the section men hao a job Of herd
ing on their hands.
A York business man gave away 200 tin
Whistles the other day and was rewarded by
a serenade in the evening in which nothing
but the whistles were used.
Mrs. Martini, ,matron OF the Hastings hos
pital, has resigned in favor of Mrs. Sidney
Roberts, OF Juniata. The hospital has four
patients now and expects more during the
winter.
w. Il. Newhouse brought to our office one
day this week. says the Nance County Jour
nal, potato one foot in length. 1t was SO
long that it stuck out both ends of the hill,
both ends being sunburned. Nebraska is
beating the world on vegetables this year as
well as corn.
Get up and see the sun rise on these calm
autumnal mornings, says the Talmage Trib-
une Look down the valley of the Nemaha
golden tints of foliage, the fringe of silver
stubble, the distant yellow corn fields. and
then go home to breakfast and offer thanks
in silence.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
for which si2 Is charged, the eleventh
and last being tho pnuner's funeral md

for which si2 Is charged, the eleventh
and last being the pauper's funeral and
at government expense.
"The house occupied by the corpse ia
draped inside and outside, the friends
OF the dead having no power to control
in any particular these proceedings ex-
cept that the embalming OF tho corpse
is optional and costs $500.
"The friends of the deceased may be
rich or poor, and may desire either to
curtail the expense or give mora
costly burial, but their power is OF no
avail. Generally the caskets OF France
may be said to be ilimsy, usually being
covered with drapery. The casket used
for the poorest class is about as strong
rs cigar box. The 81 paid for this
ceremony gives the use of n hearso
which has compartment for the casket,
behind which there is room for about
four persons to ride.
"The undertakcrs are employed by
the government aud arc military Off
GERS who usually rank as q major or
captain, the rank. OF course. differing
for the various grades of funerals. They
are dressed in black velvet, wear cock
AIDES and swords, and have good deal
OF gold lace to their uniforms. The
funeral being over, n bill Is rendered,
and payment sought through a govern
ment officer OF the particular place in
which the death occurred. 1t must be
paid, or the goods OF the deceased are
attached. This bureau Is the source of
considerable revenue to the French
nation, and it is not permissible for any
one else to undertake to engage in tho
work OF buryiDg the dead.
I'm Italy the government also mo-
nopolizes this business, dividing the
business provided into eleven classes.
Iu the latter country the decorations
and everything used in the ceremony
are black. The custom is varied in
Italy only in the cases of children, for
whom white hearses are provided, the
corpse being followed by procession
of little girls dressed in white, carrying
candles and singing as they pass along
the streets. There are some elegant
funerals at Rome. but those styled first
class cost about 81, 900 or more.
"The country Of hired mourners is
England. There the heaviest drapery
prevails, while the funeral cars as
they are called, in which the caskets are
carried, are immense vehicles, exceed
ing in size our omnibuses. Many Of them
cost fully 1000, The mourners that are
hired follow the hearse, and are very
noisy in their pretended grief. The
hearse and the four horses drawing it
are black. A lantern is carried on each
corner of the funeral car
''Many Of the caskets of Russia are
the finest that are made. They are OF
metal, and one saw in st. Petersburg
cost $3, 500. The hearse OF Russia is
even larger than that OF England, the
floor on which the casket rests being
about seven feet from the ground.
There, also, the heaviest drapery pre-
walls. In England, Germany and Rus
sia the funeral of the dead is carried on
by private individuals, with tho excep-
tion that in Russia the worl, Of the en-
balmer is in the hands of the govern
ment. There, as generally throughout
Europe, it costs $500 to embalm body,
the process being, as is supposed, that
of the Egyptians, and is held secret.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

THE exports OF beef, hog and dairy
products for the eleven months ending
with September, amounted to n fraction
over ninety-one million dollars, an in
crease OF twenty millions over the same
period of 1888. The value of exported
dairy products for the last five months
was eight million dollars. These fig
ures show that the American farmer,
with labor saving appliances, is rapidly
overcoming the cheap labor and crude
methods of Europe, ana forcing a su-
perlor article of food on the consumers
OF the old world.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
State House Jottings.

The Bank of bennington filed articles of
incorporation in the office of the secretary of
state to-day. Authorized capital, $4,000.
lncorporators: Charles l.. Stratton, Charles
Il. Woolley and Samuel Stratton.
The advisory board Of the Industrial
home, Milford, met to-day in the Office Of the
commissioner of public lands aud buildings.
There was full attendance. Mrs. Angie r.
Newman presided.
Commissioner Steen returned home from
Kearney to-day, where he went to look into
the management of tho state industrial
school and to inspect the new buildings 60
ing up. He reports slow work on the engine
house and smokestack, otherwise everything
satisfactory.
Guy A. Brown, clerk of the supreme
court, is said to be dying.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
CONTROL oF FORESTS.

BY n practically unanimous vote, the
Forestry congress, in session at Phila-
delphia last week, expressed itself in
favor of legislation for the more thor
ough control and protection OF forests
by the government. Resolutions were
adopted petitioning congress to pass an
act withdrawing temporarily from sale
all distinctively forest lands belonging
to the United States, aud providing for
their protection, authorizing the en-
ployment of the army, il necessary,
for this purpose, until COM
mission to be appointed by the presi-
dent shall have made such examina-
tions OF the forests in the public domain
as shall be necessary for determining
what regions should be kept perma-
nently in forests, and shall have pre-
sented plan for permanent, syste-
matte national forest administration.
Legislation OF this kind was recon-
mended by the secretaries OF the inte-
rior under the last administrations and
proposed in the last and preceding
congresses, but SO little do
the Legislators in congress under
stand tho necessity OF protecting the
forests against devastation and destruc-
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
sunreme Court Proceedings.

Business transacted by the supreme court
to-day: Frank w. Mccoy, of Omaha, was
admitted to practice. Damon vs. Omaha,
continued. Cobbey VS. Wymore, dismissed.
The following cases were argued aud sub
mitted: Hunt VS. Lpp, notion; Union Pa
cifio Railway Company vs l5roderick; Mer-
Ger VS. Miles; Culver VS. Omaha 81 Republi-
cal Valley Railroad Company; Davis VS.
Soman; Hoagland VS. Van Etten, motion;
State ex rel Marsh VS. Coburn.
Court adjourned to Thursday, October "a.
1889, Mt 8 80 O'Clock a. m. The following is
the order of the call: 1893, 199, 200, pol, 203,
204, 201, POS, 210, 214, 2lS, etc
The following case was filed for trial:
Christian Rathman VS. Edmund Peycke ct
al. appeal from the district court of Douglas
county.
The following decisions were handed
down:
The c. B. & Q. r. r. Co. VS. Sullivan, er-
ror from the district court for Richardson
county, reversed and remanded; opinion by
Maxwell, justice; Reese, chief justice, dis
sents.
johnson VS. the state, error from the DIS
trict court for Burt county, reversed and re-
manded; Maxwell, justice.
Greenwood VS. Craig, motion to quash, mo-
ton sustained; opinion by Resse, chief JUS
tice.
Klosterman VS. Olcott, error from the dis
trict court for Lancaster county, reversed
and remanded; opinion by MAXWELL justice.
Koenig VS. c. b. & Q. r. Il. Co., appeal
from the district court for Lancaster county,
reversed and injunction made perpetual; /;
opinion by Maxwell, justice.
Fink VS. the II. V. Il. II. Co., error from the
district court for Gage county, affirmed;
opinion by Reese, chief justice.
State eX rel. Farmer vs the G. i. & w. r.
r. Co., mandamus, demurrer overruled and
leave given defendant to answer within
fifteen days; opinion by Maxwell, Justice
Lindsey VS. Heaton. error from the district
court for Lancaster county, affirmed; opin-
ion by Reese, chief Justice
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
Iowa Items.

A $l5, 900 electric light plant will be put in
at Independence.
Ottumwa's electric street car system will
be completed within thirty days.
They still need jails in Iowa and the new
calaboose ut Pocahontas Is being rushed to
completion.
DIR. Murdy, indicted for the murder of
Silas Upton at Moulton, has been released
on 81, 600 bail.
A kernel of coffee lodged in the throat of
little daughter of Arthur Roberts, of Ute,
and caused her death.
Platt La Point, Canadian who came to
Iowa seventy-fve years ago, died at Lansing
recently at the extreme age of Ill years.
Mary Mulligan. of Davenport, while leav-
ing q ball, stubbed her toe aud fell down
stairs, receiving iniuries which may prove
fatal. III
The Iowa Jersey Cattle club will hold its
seventh annual meeting at Cedar Rapids,
October 30. Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin,
will address the meeting.
1t has been discovered, so it is reported,
that burnt corn is a sure cure for hog
cholera, and the farmers in the eastern part
OF the state are using the remedy with sue
cess. ns1
steam thresher outfit recently went
through a bridge in O'E3rien county. The
authorities are sueing for wrecked bridge
aud the ownericof the thresher has COM
meuced suit TO- recover for a wrecked
threSher. JIM
The badly deconposed remains of a man
from thIrty-fve 10 forty years of age was
found under corn shock on the farm of
George StratJon, near Rodney. 1t Is sup
posed that the man was a tramp and was
taken sick on the road and had crawled into
the shock and died, There was nothing
about his person by which he could be iden-
tlfed. He was buried in the county ceme-
terry.
James Shields, of Creston, arrived IN Kan
sas CITY the other evening with his bride Of
q week. Leaving his wife IN the ladies'
waiting room of the union depot he went
across the street to find a hotel When he
returned his wife was gone. He spent sew
oral hours looking for her, and finally re-
ported the matter TO the police. The missing
woman is eighteen years OF age. Shields.
there to reside.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

BETWEEN Arthur and Vroman for
chief the locomotive engineers OF the
west are unit for the latter. He
represents the progressive element OF
the order, and under his leadership the
brotherhood would be strengthened in
membership and become closely allied
with kindred labor societies.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
Shorthand 1000 Years old.

According to a paper read before the
recent meeting of the Library associa-
tion, shorthand has tlourished more or
less for 1900 years. Clcero's famous
writer, Tiro, is known to have had
rivals in his own time, and Caesars
feats in debating several letters stimuli
taneously while travelling still remain
unequalled. But shorthand, as now un-
derstood, is the product of the present
century. 1t is computed that the liter
ature relating to the subject would fill
no fewer than $4,000 volumes, and Eng
land alone has given birth to 3O7 differ
ont sVstemS.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
LINCOLN NEWS and GOSSIP.
John McAllister's Win on Contest
Before Judge Stewart.
INSANE OR NOT THE QUESTION.
Guy A. Browns Death Expected mt
Any Moment-Doings at the
Capitoi-Th Supreme
.Court-City Notes.
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The contest Of McAllister's will is on.
II promises TO be spirited from tho first. 1t
appears that tho 5000 contingent, willed TO
the homo for the friendless, rankles deep In
the hearts of the heirs proper. 1t goes rs
having been said by nephew Of the de-
ceased that not a dollar of his uncle's estate
should go to help sustain home for ille-
gitimate children.
The case was called before Judge Stewart
at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Several witnesses
were called. In the main the testimony ad-
duced tended to show that the testator was
insane and had been for several years past.
One witness, a physician, testified that he
had been acquainted with McAllister for
over dozen years, had waited on him pro-
fessionally and that he considered him hope
lcssly insane There was q sameness In
tho testimony introduced to-day. II
all went to establish one fact, insanity.
But few, II any, Lincoln people who knew
him doubt that no was of uusound mind, yet
lawyers say that the will cannot be success
fully ussailed.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

THE vigorous comments of the state
press on Laws nomination for congress
in the Second district are mighty
interesting reading for the railroad
candidate. ahey furnish series of
pen picturess@ one who has sacrificed
manhood and gprinciple for place and
power, and ignored the vital interests
of the people to secure the favor of
corporations.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

A PURSE of ten thousand dollars is
offered for a copy Of the paper contain
ing description of Drowbough's talk
ing machine or telephone. printed be-
tween 1870 and 1876. The issue of the
suit to annuI the Bell telephone patent
will turn on the discovery of this paper
il it is found, one of the richest monop-
olies OF the country will receive stag
gering blow.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
The Demand For Tariff Revision.

Mr.. Blaine is reported as saying that 1t
would be the '.wiscst stroke of policy for the
republicans in both houses to unite, as soon
as congress convenes, upon bill designed to
meet the popular demand for tariff revision
without disturbing the welfare Of any es-
pecial industry" This is precisely what
ought to be done. 1t viii not be an easy
task to frame tariff bill that will satisfy
all interests, but the country will look to the
Fifty-irst congress for good and prompt
work in this connection.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
Underground Wires.
Ncp York World.

NcU YORK WOftu.
Gentlemen who are interested in the de-
livery of low-pressure electricity for lllumin-
ating purposes are predicting all sorts Of dis
asters when the wires go underground.
Meanwhile the wires under ground IN Chi.
cago are doing well aud nobody has been
disturbed. Don't forget this fact.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
Struggle Against an Ambushed Foe.
Netu York World

Chicago deserves the sympathy Of tho
whole country In her effort to punish the
murderers Of DR.. Cronin. The more the
matter is probed the more 1t becomes evil
dent that her officials are struggling against
a vast and almost invisible power that seems
to embrace many influential men with money
at their command. For-the credit of the ma
tion we hope the great city of the northwest
will succeed in crushing this conspiracy and
thus deal another blow to murder by COM
mlttee.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

banquet in the Empire state, and the
glittering generalities and political
epigrams in which he indulges catch
the bourbon ear. Unless there Is a
radical change OF sentiment between
now and 92 Cleveland will overwhelm
Hill in the contest for the state delega-
tiou
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

A NORTHERN Iowa genius comes out
with what he claims to be an original
contrivance for burning fircguards and
limiting the destructive force of prairie
fires. The idea is neither novel nor
original. 1t has been in use for years
on various western railroads to destroy
weeds and grass along the right-of-
utnu
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

TIE Pacific Short Line has been re-
vived with n porous plaster of eighty
thousand dollars. This sum will grade
and iron few miles aud possibly land
1t on the rugged shores of Pigeon
Creek
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

AN ADVANCE proof sheet OF the
grand jury report on county affairs
would be worth its weight in gold to
Mr.. COrrigan.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
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Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

THOSE who imagine that Hill over
shadows Cleveland in the affections OF
the New York democracy do not look
beneath the surface. 1t is a significant
fact that Gle eveland has been present at
nearly every conver tion, meeting or
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
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There is no excuse for failure to get THE BEE
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tify THE BEE.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

ONE result of the Pan-American ex.
cursion has been gained. 1t has brought
about an active trade in patriotic seuti-
ments and horid toasts.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

THE prospect of a slight haul OF local
political spoils has produced symptoms
of returning life among the Samosets.
The big chiefs are cheap hungry"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

THE Cronin jury has been secured.
We shall soon sec whether the prosecu-
tion has secured the real criminals.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
IL VIII Nor Down.
Chicago Tribune,

Somebody who does not like the word
elevator" suggests "gllde' or 'glider" as
substitute. That will never go down, in this
country.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

THE board OF inspection OF buildings
created by the city council is misno-
mer. 1t should be called board OF po-
litical sinecures.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
Pharming in Kansas.

Louisville Colrier-Journdt
A Kansas pharmacy pays much better than
a Kansas farm. 1t is better to be pharmer
than farmer.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24

REGISTRATION will continue every
day Of next week.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-24
The Two Dakntaa.

At the November election, 1888, the county
OF Hughes, in which Pierre is located, east
764 votes for the several candidates for con-
gress. AT the late election for choice for
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-27
VULGARITY IN LONDON.
Servants Put Into Mourning Liveries
When q Family Death Occurs.

The innate vulgarity OF mind which
leads to people putting their servants
into mourning is point of some inter-
est; for it is simply means given by
wealth of -glorifcation, says Oscar
Wilde. There Is no reciprocity about
1t. No one would dream of noticing
in this manner the death OF any number
of their servants relations. The sun
shines on many flowers. but the flowers
see but one sun, would appear to be
their motto. The employer is to be the
one great object on the horizon of the en-
ployed, and though unlike the sum he
Is in truth TO the full as dependent on
them as they are on him, this little fact
is not admitted, but they are TO abase
themselves and pretend 20 a sympathy
and grief which IL $ improbable more
than an infnitesimal number of them
can feel in the least, as the custom is
not even confined to the one household
where the death occurs, but extends to
those of the Immediate relations. 1t is
a survival probably of the old idea of a
clan or tribe bewailing the loss Of its
chief. but there could hardly be any
thing less suited 20 the purely CONNER
cial relations of modern servants and
their employers.
1t is one Of many causes by which en-
ployers. inasmuch as they refuse to un.
derstand the feelings of those employed
in this particular occupation. help &C
make domestic service the most undfy.
nified and unattractive Of occupations
True, each individual servant may not
fully perceive 1t, and may even like &c
get new clothes given them; but IL
tends, maybe uncOnsciousiy. 10 lower
them in the estimation of their equals.
Which Of us would not feel insulted al
being asked 70 mourn IN this way for
some other mans relation To no other
class OF workers would employers even
dare 20 suggest such a thing: and in
view of the ever-increasing dislike
which is felt for this occupation, il is
worth while 10 note all the reasons
which tend to mako IL so unpopular.
Telegram-herald., 1889-10-27
TAIBETAN CUSTOMS.
Strange Practices of the Subjects of the
lama.

Strange Practices OF the subjects OF the
lama.
All Thibetans slain in battle are hon
ored by the people with offerings OF
sweer-scented flowers. They salute
their superiors by taking OF their hats
and thrusting out their tongues three
times. The people say the climate
differs every few miles The punish
ments are very severe. No matter
whether the crime be grave or trivial,
the matter great or small, all offenders,
when caught. are tied up in a dark
room with all their limbs bound, and
kept there until dragged out for trial.
Sentences of death are carried out by
binding the criminal 10 a pillar and
shooting at him with muskets and bows
in contest for drink. by taking him to
a cave swarming with scorpions and
allowing the latter 20 sting him, or by
handing him over 70 be divided and
eaten up by the savages of the U
country.
They pat their dead in bags made of
hides, which they suspend for seven
days from the ridge poles Of their dwell
ings, while Lama priests chant the lit
urgy, and afterwards they are carried
20 mountain peaks, where the flesh IS
cut into thin slices and thrown 10 the
dogs TO eat; this is called the earth in
terment The bones are pulverized,
made into pills about the size of beans
and given to the eagles 10 eat; this Is
called sky interment. The sick do not
take medicine, but are placed in the
scorching heat of the sun with their
bodies daubed ali over with butter,