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Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-03
Iowa Items.

Ottumwa is working up q boom for the
coal palace.
Charter Oak and Denison want telephone
connections.
1t cost Sac county s3,177.41 to support her
poor last year. ,
The levy for bridges in O'Brien county
this year is over IS, 900.
A commercial club has been formed in OF
tumwa with l20 members.
The Iowa Valley Farmers club will hold
its annual meeting at Alden February 10, ID
and Is. rp
A jefferson county man furnishes free
lunches to all hunters who will shoot rabbits
on his farm.
Eating smutty cornstalks caused the death
OF thirteen head of cattle belonging to James
McMenaman, a Plymouth county farmer.
S. F.. Prouty Of Pella has shipped over
twelve hundred carloads OF walnut logs
during the past five years to England and
Germany.
john Dunaway, a ffty-two-year- old resi-
dent of Monroe, pleaded guilty to incest with
his daughter and was sentenced To eight
years IN the penitentiary.
A Warren county farmer has Just finished
digging potatoes. Out of 400 bushels taken
from the ground in the past few days only
five bushels were found to have been frost
bitten.
Rev. Albert M. Smalley of Ottumwa has
received a call to the pastorate OF the Con-
gregational church at Sixty fourth and
Howard streets, Chicago, at a salary Of
$4,000 q year.
AS a result of the Brooks Murphy scandal
at Lenox, 10 which Miss Ada Murphy was
accused OF improper intimacy with Banker
Brooks, the girls mother has become hope
lessly insane and is now an inmate of the
Mt. Pleasant asylum.
A youth named Lawless, living near Cher
okee, became so indignant when asked TO
bring In a bucket of water that he fired two
shots from a revolver at his father-just to
remind him that he wasn't to be trifed with.
The bullets missed their mark, but the duti-
full son warned his father That if he repeated
the offense better aim would be taken next
time.
The Coon Rapids Reporter has changed
hands, and the new management announces
that believing that the existing liquor pro-
hibition law as at present administered IN
tie state of iowa, has utterly failed in nc-
complishing the purpose for which IL was in
tended, this paper will advocate the system
OF high license as against that of prohibit
ton"
Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-03
The "Gentlemen's ASSOCIATION"

CUICuJO ITIDUIc.
The "Gentlemen's Association" is now
composed substantially of nine parts gentle
men and one part ASSOCIATION.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-03
State of Nebraska.

George b. TzschucK, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says that he is secretary of THE BEE
Publishing Company, that the actual average
daily circulation OF THE DAILY BEE for the
month of January. 1899. was 1854 copies; for
February, 1889. lS,g9s copies; for March, 1889,
May. 1859. II, 600 copies; for June. 1889. IL, s6S
copies: for July. 1882, Is, T)S copies; for August,
1880, 1851 copies: for September. 1889. 1871
yember. 1889, 1890 copies; for December, 1889,
.0,OfS copies. GEORGE b. TZSCnUCK.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence this 4th day of January. A. d.. 1890.
lSeal.l N. T.. FELL. Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-03
THE DAILY BEE.
Sworn statomen, OF Circulation


II, TISCHUCK.
Sworn to before me and subscribed to In my
lSeal.l N. 7. FELL.
Nntarv puhlic
Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-03

Donations for the South Dakota sufferers
are being received by Shaw & Shaw ia the
Potvin block. They must DO in by Tuesday
evening" as the relief train over the Elkhorn
willleave Lincoln Wednesday moraing.
The attorneys OF Rev. Father NJ. A. Ken
nedy, who was bound over to the district
court OF Fillmore county under the bastardy
act, recently began proceedings to abate the
action, the child in the case having died.
The prosecution opposed this move and a
hearing was had before Judge Morris in one
Of the state library rooms. The court has
taken the natter under a~dvisement.
The state university oratorical contest
was held last night. j. Is. Fogarty of
Gretna, q member of the Delian society, re-
ceived the highest marking, and will repre-
sent the institution at the state oratOrical
contest. His Grafton reviewed the life and
public services of Charles Stewart Parneil.
Edward Farmer won second place and will
be alternate at tho state contest.
The February term of the district court
will begin on the 10th. The docket has
eighteen criminal, 264 equity and 342 law
cases.
The state university will be twenty-one
years old February 10, and the charter day
exercises will include an address by Presi-
dent Chamberlin of tho university of Wis.
consin. Subject: ''The Coming of Age Of
State Universities"
The Womnn's Christian association will
hold a kirmyss at tue Exposition building
February 10 TO 10. A feature Of the affair
will be a daily supper by the ladies of the
various churches as follows; Monday even~
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
HallucinationS.

"a census of hallucinations" is the
name that has been given to task
undertaken by the International Con-
gress of Experimental Psychology,
which, at its Paris meeting last year,
appointed committee in each country
to make scientific Investigations of all
cases of visions, warnings of the death
of people at distance, and other So
called hallucinations. The object of
the inquiry is to get mass of facts
about hallucinations which may serve
as a basis for scientific study of these
phenomena, and to ascertain approXi-
mately the proportion of persons who
have had such experiences. Until the
average frequency of hallucinations in
community is known, it can not be
decided whether the cases so often re-
ported are accidental condolences or
something more. Many persons in
England, France, and the United States
have answered the question which
heads the census-sheets sent out by the
society, rs follows: Have you ever,
when completely awake, had vivid
impression of seeing or being touched
by a living or inanimate object, or of
hearing voice, which impression, so
far as you could discover, was not due
to any external physical cause?" The
census in this country is superintended
by Prof. William James of Harvard
university, who will supply blanks to
all who make application for them. 1t
is expected that 60, 600 answers to the
questions will be in hand before the
next meeting of the congress.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
How Old Is She?

To tell woman's age is one of the
easiest things imaginable, despite the
fact that many brilliant ladies knock off
a few stories of their years without de-
lection.
Observe well her hair!
Her bangs? No; her black hair!
Now, don't say it is false. False or
real, you can count her years by the
threads time weaves. Every year adds
hair or two and, no doubt if a woman
lived long enough she would become
female Esau.
At twenty-five woman's back hair
begins to fall over her collar as a
pumpkin vine over a picket fence.
Note well the direction of the hair.
Hair slants, and at thirty it takes an
angle of 50,at thirty-five 60, and so on.
OF course you can't get near enough
to apply methematic tape measure.
But your practised eye will be enough.
Next note the quality. Hair at
twenty-five is moire, at thirty it is
sateen, lat thirty-tive it is passe satinette,
at forty it is rope fit to hang any
man that gets noosed in its meshes.
Anybody can tell false or store hair,
no matter who the previous owner
was. 1t has doesn't-belong-there
look. and all the pomades in the uni
verse cannot give it permanent ten
ure of Office.
So you may reasonably conclude if a
woman has false back hair her age is
beyond the interesting point. Never
believe her to be under forty-eight, un-
less Bill Jones or some equally reliable
person can prove it.-Boston Globe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
Care of the Ear.

In childhood the ear should be cared
for as much as the eye OF other delicate
features. All sharp, loud noises should
be avoided. as far as practicable, since
the organization is then tender. and
liable to permanent injury. Care
should also be taken that the outer ear
is not bent and disfigured, as often
happens through carelessness. Per-
manent deafness is often the result of
''cuffing the ears" and cases have
been known of abscess in the brain,
causing death. which resulted from a
fathers angry blows upon the ears of Il
child. 1t is sometimes the case that a
child may be suffering from deafness
either his birthright or the result of dis
ease, which is not suspected.-Good
HOusekeeDl310.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
Birmingham Baths.

The city supports four public SWIM
ming baths in buildings, and one OPEN
air swimming bath at Small Heath
Park. The lighthouses are imposing
buildings of better than mere tasteful
designing. They cost, variously, from
$50, 600 to 800. 600 (f12,000 to f2S.-
000), and offer larger swimming, facil-
tiles than the people of New York city
or private baths, along-shore or in
town. The tanks are lined with tiling,
and the water, clear as crystal, is OBJ
tanned from artesian wells. One of
these tanks, for instance, measures
eighty-one feet by thirty-two feet, and
the water has a depth of from four to
six feet. Two of the lighthouses con-
tain the rooms and appurtenances for
Turkish bathing; for which a shilling
(twenty-four cents) is charged if all
the routine of rubbing, needle, douche,
and plunge bathing. with the use OF
private dressing-rooms and lounge
rooms, is undergone. A simpler
Turkish bath, without rubbing. can be
had for sixpence Owelve cents). Each
bath-house has first-class and second
class swimming tanks. 1t costs six
pence to take frst-clasS swim, with
two towels and private dressing-room
free, and charge of an extra penny
for Il mans bathing dress, or three
pence for dress for woman. In the
second-class departments twopence
four cents) is charged for a bath with
out private dressing-room. An extra
penny procures that desirable luxury.
All these baths are set apart for women
at certain hours. Special rates are
made for schools and for swimming
clubs. Professional bathing-masters
are allowed to teach in them. The
swimming tanks are fitted with diving
platforms, trapezes, and showering ap
paratus. They are as clean and tidy
as Holland kitchens, and they are Sc
beautiful as to rank high among the
show-places of the city.-Jutian Ralph
iJL H1rDer'S M1O0zi3le
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
A SP5NDTHRlFT'S END.
John Eagan, Who SquanIercd S50O,0G
Dies in a Poor-HouSr.

John Eagan, second 'Coal-Oil
Johnny" aud an individual of many
eccentricities, died at the Hillside
poor-house a few days ago, says Il
Wilkesbarre (Pa.) letter to the St.
Louis Gl0be-D Democrat. Eagan was the
only son of Patrick Ea@an, who located
in the Lackawanna valley forty years
ago. The father bought a forty-acre
farm, which afterward turned out to be
a mint. There was coal underneath
and one day Eagan received an offer of
$500, 900 for his land, which he accept
ed He did not live long to enjoy his
fortune. however. The next year he
died and his great wealth reverted 70
his son. The latter was brought up Il
hard-workin@ boy on the farm and his
sudden acquisition of fortune evi-
IDENTIFY turned his head, as he took TO
drinking and carousing and spending
money in a reckless manner. He
thought nothing of spending 5000 in
an evenings enjoyment among friends
and boon companions, which he had in
plenty at that time.
Many stories are told of his queer
escapades. One of them was his riding
down Lackawanna avenue, Scranton,
on horseback one summer night about
| ten years ago. He was going along
leisurely, playing on his violin, on
which he was an adept until he espied
the open door of saloon. He drove
his horse through the opening into the
bar-roOm, still playing on his favorite
instrument. He ordered drinks for the
whole crowd. wheeled about and drove
out again. This is only one of the
queer and amusing actions of this poor
unfortunate who squandered enough
money to keep himself and friends
living in afiluence for the remainder OF
their lives. One day he went out in
the country and gave farmer $4,000
to set fire to his barn. He said he
wanted to see the hay and straw burn.
On another occasion he gave 800 to
Ted McNulty to let him punch him in
the eyes until they We're black. One
Fourth of July he got tired waiting for
Il regular train to carry him twenty
eight miles. He paid the railroad
management 5000 for Il special train to
carry him to his destination.
When the Mollie McGuires were con-
demned to the gallows Ea@an went to
Harrisburg with Il certified check fer
800, 600 and offered it to Gov. Hart
ranft if he would pardon the Mollies.
He had two locomotives built at a
machine-shop and had them shipped tu
his farm. He built track 800 feet
long, and after both engines got up I.
good head of steam he caused the two
throttles to be opened. The two en-
gines came together with great crash.
Eagan said the sight of them coming
together was worth what they cost.
The locomotives were of no use after
| ward
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
WHO'LL co SWlMMING2
The Way the Boys Used to Do in the Olden
Time.

wonder what sign the boys who
ing one another to 90 in swimming?
says Hdrper's Young People.
The boys in the boys town used to
make the motion of swimming with
both arms; or they held up the fore
finger and middle finger in the form of
a swallow-tail; they did this when it
was necessary to be secret about it, as
in school, and when they did not want
the whole crowd of boys to come
along; and often when they just pre-
tended they did not want some one to
know.
They really had to be secret at times,
for some of the boys were not allowed
to go in at all; others were forbidden to
go in more than once or twice day;
and as they all had to go in at least
three or four times a day, some sort of
sign had to be used that was understood
among themselves alone.
Since this is true history, l had
better own that they nearly all, at one
time or other must have told lies about
it. either before or after the fact, some
habitually, some only in great extrem-
ity. Here and there boy. like my
boys elder brother. would not tell
lies at all. even about going in SWIM
ming; but by far the greater number
bowed to their hard fate and told
them.
They promised that they would not
90 in, and then they said that they
had not been in; but fate, for which
they had made this sacrifice, was apt
to betray them. Either they got their
shirts on wrong side out in dressing,
OF else while they were in some enemy
came upon them and tied their shirts.
There are few crueltics which public
opinion in the boys world condemns,
but am glad to remember to their
honor that there were not many in that
boys town who would tie shirts. and 1
fervently hope that there is no boy
now living who would do it. AS the
crime is probably extinct l will say
that in those wicked days if you were
such miscreant. and there was some
boy you hated, you stole up and tied
the hardest kind of knot in one arm
or both arms of his shirt. Then, if the
.evil one put it into your heart, you
soaked the knot in water and pounded
it with a stone.
am glad to know that in the days
when he was thoughtless and senseless
enough my boy never was guilty of any
degree of this meanness.
1t was his brother, l suppose, who
taught him to abhor it, and perhaps it
was his own suffering from it in part
for he, too. sometimes she'd bitter tears
over such a knot as | have seen hap
less little wretches do, tearing ut it
with their nails and gnawing at it with
their tee tn, knowing that the time was
passing when they could hope to hide
the fact that they had been in swim
ming, and foreseeing no remedy but to
cut off the sleeve above the knot, or
else to put ON their clothes without the
shirt and trust to untying the knot
when it got dry.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
THE BEAUTIFUL DOG STAR.

1t is difficult to conceive that this
beautiful star is globe much larger
than our own sun. says Chambers
Journal, yet it is fact that Sirius is a
sun many times more mighty than
our own. That splended star, which
even to our most powerful telescopes
appears as mere point of light, is in
reality globe emitting so enormous a
quantity of light and heat that were it
to take the place of our sun every
creature on this earth would be con-
sumed by its burning rays.
Sirius shining, with far greater luster
than any other star. it was natural that
astronomers should have regarded this
as being the nearest of all the ''lixed''
stars, but recent investigation on the
distances of the stars has shown that
the nearest to us is Alpha Centauri, Il
star belonging to the southern ATTITUDES,
though it is probable that Sirius is about
fourth on the list in order of distance.
For though there are about fifteen
or twenty stars whose distances have
been conjectured the astronomer knows
that in reality all of them save three or
four lie at distances too great to be
measured by any instruments we have
at present.
Astronomers agree in fixing the dis
tance of the nearest star at q, 900, 900,
900, 600 miles, and it is certain that the
distance of Sirius is more than three,
and less than six times taat of Alpha
Centauri, most likely shout five times;
80 that we are probably not far from
the truth if we set the distance of Sirius
at about 100. 000 900, 900, 900 of miles.
What vast distance is this which sep
arates us from that bright star! Words
and figures of themselves fail to con-
vey to our minds any adequate idea
of its true character.
To take q common example of illus
trating such enormous distances: 1t
is calculated that the ball from an Arm
strong 100-pounder quits the gun with
the speed of about 400 yards per sec
ond. Now, if this velocity could be
kept up it would require no fewer than
100, 600, 600 years before the ball could
reach Sirius. Again, take the swiftest
form of velocity of which we have any
knowledge, light. which travels at the
rate of nearly 200, 900 miles per second,
or about II, 900, 600 miles minute, yet
the distance of Sirius is so vast that it
would take nearly twenty years for its
light to reach US; so that if Sirius was
suddenly to become extinct we should
no be acquainted with the fact till
twenty years hence.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
A Valuable Baby.

A jeweler at Lawrenceburg. Ohio.
missed several valuable stones early the
other morning and couldn't account
for their disappearance, for he had
only opened the safe few moments
before. He searched in vain for them,
and then, turned to his 3-year-old
baby, who had been running about
asked: Where are those little things?'
ME eat 'em ALL" was the baby's an
swer. A physician was at once sum-
moned. He did not think any serious
result would follow the costly feast.
An examination of the tray showed
that fourteen pearls and five diamonds
had been swallowed by the child.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
MISSING LINKS.

There are sixteen negro jockeys in
the country who are paid from 81, 500
to s.. 600 year.
The Indians at Syracuse, N. Y, have
started good templars' lodge with
eighty-five members.
A Japanese princess is in Berlin
studying the management of hospitals
and charitable institutions.
The Queen of the Belgians is one of
the best equestrians in that country, and
can drive six-in-hand with grace and
safety.
There DIR. Wickan of Manchester,
VT, claims to be the oldest living grad
uate of Yale. He is SO and received
his diploma in 1915.
Justice Lamar is said to look ten
years older than he did two years ago,
and he has slept so much on the bench
that he has become stoop-shouldered.
George Augustus Sala is paid $40, 900
year by the London Telegraph for
writing four editorials week. The
salary seems big, but English editorials
are large and heavy.
Miss Belle Smith, recently appointed
prison in Sherborn, Mass, is but %
years old. She has been practicing
medicine for two years.
Tiffany, the millionaire jeweler of
New York, never wears diamond,
although he has thousands of the finest
gems in the world to select from. His
favorite gem is the opal.
At recent meeting of committee
of the Royal Horticultural Society. a
plant was exhibited proving that a dis
tinct step has been made in the cultiva-
ton of the deep-blue primrose.
The Czar of Russia wears the largest
ruby in the world, valued at 100000,
in his crown, which is miter-shaped
and has on its crest a cross composed
of five big diamonds supporting the
ruby.
Prof. Boone of Indiana University
says that of 6, 500 theological students
in the United States less than one
fourth are college graduates. All the
other graduates make break for
journalism.
Springfield. Vt, is the largest town
to claim gold mine worth operating.
The story goes that one citizen of the
town amassed fortune from the gold
which he washed out of the sands OF
Gold Brook.
Some years ago European dress be-
gan to come into vogue in Japan for
women as well as for men, but reac-
ton has set in. The Japanese women
are not satisfied with the ordinary
dress styles of civilization, but they are
unwilling to return to their old dress,
and hence they have been making a
study of rational Dress advocated by
the various feminine dress reformers.
The Empress Frederick is occupying
at Hamburg the somewhat ramshackle
old Schloss, which stands at the upper
end of the town. Its old tower OF
white plaster can be seen for miles
around. 1t is light and airy, but poor
lv decorated, and will not bear COM
parison with even the smallest royal
residence in England. Yet it was the
favorite summer resort of the late EN-
peror Frederick. who delighted in the
view from its windows over the fields
toward Frankfort.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
TOROllt) iBDiLLlH. 1868,

by Toro,.o 5673, By Toronto Cfief, 81. 2:2t,<;
iSt dom Feggy by Abda'lHh ',the size OF Rys-
dicks HfmBletonian. 10 the grand sire of
George likes 5i9 2:s2; 2i dan. by Lillian, by
Engineer I'd Torcnto 4567 lst dam by Fly
ing Cloud 1S4; 2'i dam by Abdalah /.
TORONTO ABilALL ii is fine locker; has
trGttpd full mile ir 2:2<A Le is the sire hf
foily IL 2:ES4 trial 2:s2. and others.
If yoT hiuk am rot We Il bi cd horse. .icome
and see me. and will show you am locker
and a trotier-trot without boots or weight.
6m 1s4 hands hi5h, weigh 100 lbs am STAN
dard by breeding. o is my sire and dam.
Mambrlno N NOhawk and Tor ntO Abiallah
VIII make the season at my residence in Roots
town. commencing a riI lst, closing December
1st. 1880; eXcept on Fridays ill be at Ruggle's
stable. Suffeld; Saturdays at Yials stable,
MogSdNre. TER
TORONTO ABDALLAH TO insure, $9a 90
NJ kMBRINO ii OHAwK fUU0
TO be pail as soon as maze is known to be with
foal. PERSONS failing 10 attend regular or part
ing with mares before they are known to be
with 1oal, VIII forfeit the Insurance. will not
be res ponsible for accidents.
113j-s IN S. n. andrews.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
A Russian Dinner Feature.

At Paris dinner-tables the latest fea-
ture for dessert is the practice OF put
ting on the table small receptacles,
called marmites. or "pots, in which
are inclosed nuts, bonbons and any
other triiies that the hostess pleases.
Each guest takes pot, aud before
opening it trades for that of some one
else. The fun comes in which the re-
suits of the trades are known and some
are found to have snapped a pot filled
with candy for one containing some
thing of value.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-09
New Rome,

Fifty-fve million dollars of capital
have been invested in the building of
''new Rome" during the last six years.
The largest part of this amount was
supplied by mortgage banks on the Sc
curitv of the lands and houses. Be-
tween 1882 and 1887, when the build
ing fever was at its height, rents in
creased enormously and are now much
higher than in any other Italian city
oypcnt NaDipS