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Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-19
Preaching and I.rao,,ce.

Rochester Democrat: He was'an old
and Notwithstanding gentleman, and
In company with several others he
stood on the platform of a South avenue
car one afternoon when ii was raining
and seats were Mt q premium. One OF
the men on the platform had been
caught in the rain without an umbrella
and he was wet. He was mad also, and
used his time in cursing the weather
and his luck and several other things
soto voce. The benevolent old gentle
man heard him and, tapping him on
the shoulder, said:
Dear friend, don't swear. It's a
wicked and useless habit. 1t does not
do a bit of good. Don't swear, L beg of
you"
The a door was open and the b. G.
stood with his hand on the casing of
the door. just at this juncture the
driver banged the door shut and the old
gentleman's hand was pinched. The
old gentleman howled with pain and
called that driver more names and said
more ''cuss words" in a minute than
could be writted in ten. The man who
was wet reached over and raped the
old gentleman on the shoulder and
said:
Dear friend, don't swear" but be-
fore he could say any more the old gen.
tleman jumped off into the rain fol-
lowed by the laughter OF the carful of
people.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-19
Not SO Bandy-Legerd as He Looked.

Not SO Bandy-Legg-d as He Looked.
San Francisco Chronicle: They sat
on the sofa. They had just come to a
mutual understanding and he had
measured her finger for the engage
ment ring, and they were in the first
throes OF tender "Reminiscences.
You do not remember" he said in a
trembling voice-'you do not remem-
Der when you first saw me-"
Yes, 1 do"
Ibid any little thrill or throb tell
your heart this happy moment would
~pected."
Yes; something did seem to whis-
per that we might become man and
wife,"
"My darling" he said, and he kissed
her fondly.
Yes, L remember l saw you from the
window leaving the house aud l thought
you were bandy-legged, and I thought
how awfnl it would be to marry q handy
legged man, but it was only the glass in
the window that was uneven and made
YOU look SOD
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Rest in tie Onen Air.

DR.. Oakman S. Paine IS a great be.
lever in rest, and thinks that, next to
sleep, the most beneficial kind of rest
may be taken in the open air. Talking
of rest recently, he said:
elbow rest should be taken depends
entirely upon the person who is wanting
the rest. If q busy man a sit still for
a few minutes at odd intervals during
the day and put away all thoughts of
business and just dream for a few min
utes, he will find that he would be great
ly refreshed by SO doing. There can be
no stated time to take rest. One should
never get SC tired as to be compelled to
take rest, and if the rest was taken ju-
diciously and at certain intervals, one
lever would get SO tired as to be COM
PEELED to go away for rest.
Literary men, or men who do a great
deal of brain work, require a great deal
more rest than manual aborers. Physi-
cal workers only get their muscles tired.
The muscles are much more easily rest
ed than the brain is. Brain workers
should take their rest in the open air.
Any change of thought is a rest to a
brain worker, and after he has been
studying hard and exercising his brain
to any great extent, a walk or ride in
the country will be the greatest possible
rest that he could have."-New York
Mail and Express.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
About Diamonds.

Colorless diamonds are usually the
most valuable. but a colored stone with
an exquisite tint fetches as high a price
as any. The famous Hope diamond,
which weighs about 144A troy grains,
and is said to be worth G25 900. is Of a
superb sapphire blue color. Large dia-
monds of the first water are very rare,
and in the whole of Europe at the pres
ent time there are only five of more than
100 carats weight. "a carat is 81 grains
troy.y The largest of these is the gem
Of tine imperial scepter of Russia. which
came from India.
The others are the Pitt or Regent dia-
mond belonging to the French govern
ment (this was the jewel Napoleon used
to wear in tho hilt of his sword); the
Tuscany diamond, which is now the
first crown jewel of the Emperor of
Austria; the "Kohinoor," in the possess
sion of Queen Victoria; and the "Star of
the South" which originally came from
Brazil, and is now lying in pawn in
some banking house in Paris. The dia-
mond, which can only be cut and pol
ished by its own powder, is either fash
toned into n ''rose" or a "brilliant." In
the former, one portion is made flat,
while the rest of the stone is carved into
a faceted dome. The latter, which is
always made about three times as thick
as the rose, is always cut into facets, but
so as to form a kind of double pyramid,
with a common central base or girdle.-
London Telegraph.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Revolution in Printing.

To the Man About Town an old printer
remarked the other day: 1--WE are on the
eve of great revolution in the typo
graphical appearance of printed matter,
especially newspapers, that is, the use of
black paper printed in white letters, in
stead of white paper printed in black
letters, as now. The change is one to be
desired by the public, for the reason that
a white letter On a black ground pos
scsscs greater contrast and distinctness,
and is, consequently, easier on the eyes.
The change will give at first an odd
enough appearance to printed matter,
but the merit of it will eventually result
in its general adoption, and in time the
black letter will be as rare as the white
letter now is. Sign painters and show
card printers recognize tho superiority
of the white letter, and are rapidly
adopting it, as is evidenced by the nu-
merous white lettered signs now to be
seen on the streets and in the shops.
The change would be comparatively in.
expensive to publishers, and as black is
cheaper than white paper, a saving could
be effected. With our newspapers thus
printed reading on cars and in dimly
lighted places would be not only prac-
ticable, but casy."-St. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Spoiled His Programme,

A thug who was recently imprisoned
in India, having been caught almost in
the actual commission of a murder, COM
planned bitterly to an English officer at
having been deprived of the opportunity
to fulfill his ambition. He had begun
life with the fixed determination to kill
an even thousand human beings, and at
the time Of his capture was in a fair way
to carry out his design. He had already
killed 700 persons, and if the authorities
would have let him alone for quite a lit
tie while longer he would have reached
the 1000 mark. He was willing to agree
to give himself up again if he were al
lowed to go free long enough to bag the
additional 800 needed, and he thought ii
great hardship that SO reasonable a re.
quest should be refused.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Tho Turks and the Crescent.

The crescent was not originally an en-
blem of the Turk. 1t was first used by
the primitive Christians of Constantine
pie and the eastern provinces of the old
Roman Empire as an emblem of the
growing influence Of Christianity. 1t
was not until about the year 1853, after
the Turks had overrun Asia Minor and
parts of southeastern Europe, and had
captured Constantinople, that the Turks
adopted the crescent as their national
emblem. The Koran prohibits the use
of images and symbols in the religious
ceremonies of the strict Turk, or the in
ternal decorations of their temples and
mosques, the rule being so strict as not
to allow the martial or civic decoration
of their greatest generals or pashas, sue
cessful commanders or other distinguish
ed parsons. The adoption of the cres.
cent by the Turk as a national emblem
is an oddity which has, so far, remained
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Enropeans.I Brazil.

Certain observations of DR.. Alfredo 10
Luy, of Rio de Janeiro, arc not c
aging to intending immigrants from
comparatively cool ATTITUDES, Such in
habitants of Rio de Janeiro as are not
colored persons are generally pallid,
weak, of short stature, and of but little
muscular strength. Malarious infection
not usually fatal by itself-seems to
impoverish the blood and render the
children of Europeans frail and liable to
succumb early to disease. The children
of Portuguese and Italians suffer least,
but Germans, French, Belgians and other
persons from climates very different
from that Of Brazil are warned that
prosperous colonization a only be eff
fected by a crossing with races better
adapted to hot climates -Arkansaw
Traveller.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
We Become Digniaed Too Soon.

How soon peoples dancing days. are
over. Middle age doesn't dance. I was
at a Long Branch hotel last summer and
saw the evening chop" 1t was enjoyed
mostly by children. The elders looked
on, but did no dancing. Some of the
"elders" were quite young. I saw among
them those who, eight OF nine years be-
fore, used to be very active on the foot
in that same parlor. But they dance no
more. 1t is too puerile. They look on
a little while and walk about YEARLY.
They seemed to have entered on that
phase of life when everything bores
more or less. I saw ladies walking with
their husbands up and down the corri-
dor. Some waddled. Some were too
fat to dance. Some had lost entirely
the elastic muscle of childhood, though
not forty. These, of course, we're too
digniied to dance. At least they seemed
to consider this apparent inability tc
dance as dignity. Perhaps it is. 1 saw
even young men of twenty-five, who
danced nightly at eighteen, among the
ranks of those who had grown above
dancing. I think we enter on the heavy,
dignified, sit down phase of life much
too soon.-Prentice Milford.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
co,nnnsition of Coffee.

Coffee is the seed of the coffee plant,
which is a shrub that will grow in any
part of the world where the minimum
yearly temperature never falls below IS
dogs. Fahrenheit. One pound of un-
roasted coffee beans OF seeds contains:
Of water, 1 OF. 407 grs.; of sugar, 1 OF.
II grs.; Of fat, / OF. 400 grs.; of caseine
(desh forming matter), Q OF. So grs.; of
gum, l OF. 1872 grs.; of woody matter, 8
d. 262 grs.; Of caffeine and caffeic acid
(or stimulating principles), 400 grs.; of
aromatic or odoriferous oil, about 2 grs.,
and of mineral matters, about 1 OF. 32a
grs. The caffeine of coffee is exactly the
same, both chemically and physically,
as theme, the stimulating principle of
tea. Both substances are alike COM
posed of 10 parts of hydrogen combined
with 16 parts of carbon, 4 parts of nitro
gen, 4 parts Of oxygen and 2 parts of
water.-Grocers' World.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Proposal Of q Mailman.

When Lee, the poet, was confined in
Bedlam, a friend went to visit him, and
finding he could converse reasonably,
imagined that he was cured of his mad
ness. The poet offered to show him Bed
lam. They went over this melancholy
prison, Lee moralizing philosophically
enough all the time, to keep his com
panion perfectly at ease. At length they
assembled to the top of the building, and
as they were both looking down from the
perilous height, Lee seized his friend
by the arm, and exclaimed: "Let us
immortalize ourselves! let us take this
leap. Well jump down together this
instant" "Any man could jump down
(said his friend coolly); we should not
immortalize ourselves by this leap; but
let us go down, and try if we can jump
up again" Tho mailman, struck with
the idea of a more astonishing leap than
that which he had himself proposed,
yielded to this new impulse, and his
friend rejoiced to see him run down
stairs full of a new project for securing
Immortality. 1t is needless to say they
didnot again ascend together.-Montreal
Star.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
IN FAR cATHAY.

1t daily meets my dreamy eyes,
That old world scene by farther seas,
And all Unchanged; the water signs
Still in that hay, and still tho breeza
Sings low. sweet songs amid the trees
Here stand a house quaint, Swallowed DER
BY clust'ring% branches; wavelets All
hi river whispering near the door;
That white path meets the threshold atin,
And birds chirp love with bill to bill.
That rude old bridge still spans the stream,
The passers few are passing vet;
The hoa IN thcreeit doth meseem
The sailors slcep-mayhap forget
For ne'cr was soil since furled or set
The bay spreads out-clear, placid, bright
A summer sea, fringed round with green:
Afar some isle, mayhap. In sight
Rising from out its breast is seen.
And houses mirror In its sheen.
And all Is still-uor voice, nor song,
Comes the enjoyment to abate
OF that foir scene-fair, though a wrong
1t tells-(of iovcr-father,s hate)-
Upon a willow pattern plate.
Detroit FREQ Press
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
way to EQUATORIAL, Provinces.

The routes are two. The quicker is
down the Red Sea to Suakim; thence by
caravan 240 miles to Berber; thence by
nuggar or steamer to Khartoum; thence
1,010 miles to Lado, also by water. A
very quick trip without delays would be
forty days. The other route is by river
500 miles to Assouan, six miles by rail
around the first cataract. 100 miles by
water to Korosko, nine days by caravan
to Abou Hammed, and thence by water
and caravan to Berber, and the rest of the
journey as before. The desert journey
from Korosko to Abou Hammed lisa hard
one, with water at but one place on the
route; but it is taken to cut off the great
bend of the Nile, which is full of rapids.
Col. II. G. Prout in Scribner.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
The New Waiter.

"This coffee is so poor I can't drink
it," said the guest.
"Just shut your eyes, put it out of
sight, and don't say anything about it"
was the reply of the new waiter, who
was a humorist.
The guest did not make any reply, but
when he came to pay he handed over to
the proprietor of the establishment a
solitary cent.
"Where's the rest of the money"
"Just shut your eyes, put it out of
sight, and don't say anything more about
it. That is what your new waiter told
me when I said the coffee was weak"
The new waiter rendered his resigna-
tion.-New York News.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
A Disrusted Cat,

In some way a cat found its way into
a cyclorama building a few days ago.
The man in charge attempted to chase
the t~respassing feline through the door,
but the cat evidently thought there was
a better way Of escaping the rising tenn
per of the irate man. 1t looked eau
tiously about, as if to avoid stepping on
the PROSTATE forms of heroes slain in
the battle. Finally its eyes caught sight
of a tree. A projecting limb hung
pretty low, and here the cat thought to
find a place of safety. 1t gave one leap,
and no doubt was the most disguised cat
in Portland when it learned. by sad ex.
p~erience, that the tree was on the can.
vas. 1t picked itself up and slowly skunk
through the door, down the stairs and
out of the building.-Portland Ore.
CONAN.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Oldest Newspaper in the World.

OIdest newspaper In the World.
The Oldest newspaper in the world is
The King Pau, or capital sheet, which is
published at Pekin, China. 1t first ap-
peared in the year Oil and since 1912 has
not missed a single issue. For the first
few hundred years all the work on The
King Pau vas done with brushes. AT
present it prints three editions daily and
has a circulation of $4,000 copies.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Teaching Dancing.

Tdiffer with the professor who thinks
that he Ear teach pupils the art of dane
ing by mail, using printed instructions.
No person will aver become q dancer by
that mode of instruction. You might as
well try to learn the shoemaking trade
in a similar way. Many pupils who wish
to acquire the art Of dancing are quite
shy at first, and the bashfulness can only
be overcome by going into company.
Good instruction and plenty of practice
is required to learn dancing, and no one
will ever become an adept in the art who
follows Instructions sent by mail.-Danc-
ing Master in St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Sure to Get Rich.

Jake-1 tell you what, Bob, Stevens
must be getting rich.
Bob-You don't say! What business
is he in?
Jake-He's in the trunk business. But
he has ten sons, and they're all baggage
men on the Crescent railroad .-Harper'A
Bazaar.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
More Money for Tobacco Than Flour.

A prominent contractor who does bus
mess all over the state has employed q
crew of 10 men for six months, and on
reckoning up matters preparatory to a
final settlement for the year the follow
ing figures were brought to light: Ten Of
the 10 use tobacco, and the bill for plug
tobacco for these 10 men was more than
the -four bill for the entire crew. The
men consumed $50 worth of tobacco out
side Ct ,igars, and got along with but
$51 worth of flour. The fact seems in
credible, and yet it is verify the truth
Tobacco,
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Jinks' Mistake.

Jlhk8' Mistake.
Blinks-What? Can't keep your en-
gagement with me?
-Jinks (sadly)-No, I can't. I was
drawn on a jury this week, and couldn't
get out of it.
"Did you try7"
Indeed I did. l did my best to make
myself out to be a hopeless ignoramus,
but they wouldn't let me CO."
"Great Scott, man! The way to escape
jury duty is to act as if you knew some
thing."-New York Weekly.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
111EGRAvEGErs TIRED YAwNrG

Seemingly, for certain wretchcd invalids who
toddle fecbly along, though always looking as if
They dry up, withcr, dwindle away finally. but
in the meantime never having robust health,
know nothing of the physical enjoyment, the
Zest of that existence to which they cling with
such remarkable tenacity. They are always to
be found trying to mend by tinkering at them
selves with some trashy remedy, tonic or .'pick
liver" If such misguided folks would resort
and adhere to Hostetter's Stomach Bittcrs it
would be well with them. This superb invigor-
ant supplies the stamina that the feeble require,
by permanently reinforcing digestion and assimi-
lation. 1t oyercomes nervousness. insomnia,
malaria, kidney complaints, biliousness, consti-
patton, rheumatism and neuralgia.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
An Incentive TO Pietv.

Minister Ito bad boy)-Johnny, you
should be good-like my little Tommy.
Johnny-He don'tda be anything else
you've got 80 many slippers.-Epoch.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11
Artificial Teeth.

The finest artificial teeth are made of
the best ivory, but the great majority of
false masticators now in use are simply
pieces of specially prepared hard por-
celain. The following is one of the pro-
cesses adopted for their manufacture:
Fine calcined or roasted quartz powder,
well ground auorspar, china clay, and a
very little oxide of tin are very intimate.
ly mixed and ground together, and af-
forwards made into a soft paste with
water. This paste is poured into molds
of various kinds and sizes of teeth, and
allowed to set. The plastic grinders are
then transferred to a furnace, where
they are "cured"-that is, half baked or
hardened. When this has been done
they are covered with an enamel made
of paste of spar and quartz, and finally
subjected to IN intense heat, until they
are sufficiently baked, when they are
ready for the dentist. Reporter.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11

A Private Adviser for those contem.
plating marriage and for men suffering
from Private, Nervous or Chronic Dis
eases. Sent prepaid by express only, Oh
-. receipt of 10 cents.
The Dickinson press., 1890-01-11

Of the SYSTEM, EXHAUSTED VITAL
TO SOCIETY, LOSS OF ENERGY, Pr
1COCEI.E AND lMPOTENCY-all resultfn
fal errors and excuses: You may be IN, the
tending md 70 your agoonizing ailments. Many a brtHi
lcCt and death claimed ita Yictim. For rememher. q
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-07-24
Nude Photographs.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: i wish 10 call
the attention of pension claimants to the value
of nude photographs in the prosecution of their
claims. Ia a large per cent. of the cases which
the old comrades never will forget to call rheu-
matte, there is marked atrOphy (wastingl of
portions of the muscular system that could be
shown to the Pension Bureau in "A photograph.
or even ia good tintype. Varicose veins
could DO demonstrated in the same way and
tho photograph should be taken when the en-
largemeut OF the veins is most pronounced, for
in other way could the Pension Bureau ex-
perts DO SO correctly impressed with the extent
of tho disability. The genuinencss of the
photos could DO certified to by Pension Rx-
aiming Surgeon. or by the local Postmaster,
or by any other Government officer that the
claimant could conveniently reach MANY
claimants suffer from delormities that cannot
be accurately described in words, aud in these
cases the value of the photograph cannot be-
overestimatsd The fact that the eicatrix of
a pensiOnable wound is retraeted could be- often
shown in this way. A retracted cieatrix is pre-
sumptive evidence that wOud be of value when
resulting straumatic neuritis is alleged. 4
photograph would be of service in all claims
based upon dementia. When the countenanre
loses its highest expression the camera will
record the fact.-HORACE p. PORTER, M. d.,
Surgeon. General, GA. r. Foster, Mo.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-07-24
Our wealthy Women.

list Of the y BeaIthiest women in the
United States is published. in which the first
place is given to Mrs. Hstty Green, Of New York,
who is credited with fortune Of $4,000, 600
in her own right; Miss Elizabeth Carrots
comes next with $4,000, 900; Mrs. Terry, with
10000 900; Mrs. Mark Hopkins, $40 600 600 Z
Mrs. Edwin Stevens. $4,000, 900; Mrs. John @.
Green. $I000O.OO0; Mrs. Cyrus II. Mccormick,
of Chicago, s10OO0OOO; Mrs. John Jacob AstoE,
100000; Mrs. John Ray Barton, Of Phila-
delphia, 100000; Mrs. Thomas A. Scotia
widow Of the railroad president, 5000. OO0 !;
Mrs. William Armour, Of Chicago, daughter o.
Silas Cobb, $5.0O0,OO0; while Mrs. Joseph Har-
rison, Mrs. Josephine Aver Mrs. Jane Brown,
Mrs. w. f. Dodge. and the daughters Of Francis
A. Drexel, Of Philadelphia, are worth "a, 900 coo
each. Mrs. Robert G0elet and Mrs. Jaye pay
taxes on $3.OO0O00 apiece. It remains. how
ever, for Mrs Terry's baby daughter. not over
three years old, to distance all competitors with
wealth in her own right valued at $4,000. 900.