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, 1891-07-21
A Pleasant Surprise Party.

A very ENJOYABLE party was gwen at
Keefe hall last evening in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. j. J. Jobst and Mrs. Richards
of Omaha, who are visiting the city as
the guests of Mr.. and Mr.. Henry Dill
man.
The party was an impromptu one but
was none the less ENJOYABLE. Dancing was
INDUCED in and a very palatable luncheon
was served. Those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. Buechner, Mrs. Haas, Mr..
and Mrs. Wasserman, MIR. and Mrs.
Henry Dillman, Mrs. Ohnhaus, Mrs. JOS
eph Dillman, Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson.
Mrs. Kimme and daughter, Miss Lena
Klinghammer, Mr.. and Mrs. Kabis, Prof.
and Mrs. Hutchinson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Towse, the Misses Blerman, Miss Elsie
Myers, Miss Mamie Buecner, Miss Mamie
Dillman, Miss Minnie Haas, Mrs. VIM.
Myers. and Messrs. p. j. Gauf, R. G.
Linton, Frank and Charles Bon, Hols-
man, Granger, Breckens. Savage, Idle
man, VIM. Walker, Daver, Idleman and
Killman.
, 1891-07-21
TRAINS COLLIDE.
Fortunately the Air Brakes Avert a
Great Disaster.

What might have been a serious wreck
with an appalling loss OF lives was happily
averted yesterday morning on the Nebras-
ka division of the Union Pacific by the
immediate application OF the air brakes,
which fortunately the colliding trains were
provided with.
A freight tram left here yesterday
morning with the engine in charge of
Howard Golf, bound for Sidney with
orders to pass the fast mail due here in
the morning, at Bushnell. Owing to
some trouble Golf was a little behind time
when nearing Bushnell and was running
at a pretty stiff speed and was getting
close to the switch when he was Mortified
to see the fast mail coming towards him
at a mile a minute speed. Both engi-
neers at once realizing their danger, whis-
tied down brakes. and turned on the air.
The air brakes on Goffs engine did not
work exactly right and he thought the
collision would be heavier than it was,
and just before the two engines struck
each other, with his fireman, he Jumped
to the ground and badly sprained his
ankle. Fred Post of the fast mail stayed
at his post and was uninjured.
The engines struck very lightly, no dam.
age being done excepting the smashing of
the pilot on Golf engine. COTS ankle
was SO badly sprained that he was unable
to resume his post on the engine. This is
the second time that Golf has been in
jured as he had the other ankle sprained
some time ago by jumping from an en-
CINE in the west end of the yards and was
laid up for some time.
, 1891-07-21

The facilities of the present day foz Il
production of everything that viii Get
duce to the material welfare and CONE,
of mankind are almost unlimited az.
when Syrup of Figs was first produce
the world was enriched with the oil
perfect laxative known, as it is the only
remedy which is truly pleasing and re
freshing to The taste and prompt and
eGectua1 to cleanse the system gently in
the Spring time or, in fact, at any time
and the better il is known ine more pop,
ular it becomes.
, 1891-07-21

During the fire at Hurd's lumber yard
Sunday morning six streams were playing
on the flames part of the time. The pres
sure was very light, and fearing that the
fire would spread, the Durant steamer
was brought out to be used in case of an
emergency. The engine furnishes sufi.
cient pressure for four streams, aud could
have been put to good advantage if the
fire had spread. The engine at the pump
house has always heretofore furnished
plenty Of pressure, and the only explana,
ton of the lack of 1t Sunday morning is
that the steam was low and the pump was
not pushed to its fullest capacity at the
beginning of the fire.
, 1891-07-21
STATE NEWS.


The Uinta and Sweetwater Press
Association has been organized with j. f.
Ludin as president and Fl. II. Eaton as
secretary.
In looking carefully over the work of
the board of equalization we find that the
total amount added to the assessors roll
is 1916, 600 OF which only %one-iourtb, or
$4,000, is in Evanston precinct and
1924, 600 outside including the Union
Pacific Railroad company's addition. The
grand total of the assessment roll will
be about three and one half millions.
, 1891-07-21

A special dispatch from Rawllns to the
Denver Netos gives details of a serious &C.
cident which occurred there yesterday.
Charles p. Dasch, a prominent young
sheep owner, in company with Minnie
Miller and Stella Jungquist, were out
drying in a two-wheeled road cart. The
horses became manageable in gong
down a hill and ran away, completely de-
mOlishing the cart and throwing all out.
Miss %Jungquist was cut on the elbow,
knee and face and badly scratched. Dasch
received severe injuries about his head
and back, and Miss Miller was badly
bruised and her right leg wa fractured
above the knee. Fortunately a hunting
party was near by, who saw the accident
and brought the injured parties to town.
All are resting well. Miss Miller was a
student in the Denver university last term.
, 1891-07-21
Judge Scott Coming.

Judge Scott has leased the residence on
Seventeenth street near House lately &C.
cupied by Judge Riner and will move into
it as soon as his family returns from the
East. This move has been rendered ne
cessary by the preponderance Of business
here over any other portion OF the dis
trict over which the judge presideJ.-
CHEYENNE LEADER.
The consolidation of the probate and
district courts increases the work of the
judge to such an extent that he is re-
quired to spend most of his time at the
capital. We are sorry hat this move Is
necessary, as we are satisfied the Judge
did not want to leave Sundance. The
best wishes of the people of Sundance and
Crook county will follow him and his fam,
lily to their new home.
, 1891-07-21

Have opered the Park stables on CAPT
tol avenue, opposite the opera house, with
a new outfit of phaetons and buggies and
will make a specially of saddle horses for
men and ladies. Elegant side and Eng
lish saddles. The best care taken of
boardern. Telephone No. l32.
, 1891-07-21
A SUMMER PARADISE.
The Beauties of Gold Hill De-
scribed.
Stacking Ore for Shipment From
Several of the Mines.
A Leader Correspondent at the
Placer Mines.

Special Correspondence.
SARATOGA, Wyo., July l6.-Gold Hill
in winter is the backbone of the irigid
zone; in summer the paradise OF nature.
Leaving the sultry valley of the Platte in
the morning, a little after noon, we find
ourselves Invigorated by cool breezes
ladened with the fragance of May flowers,
blue vIolets and honey suckles. As we
ride over the mountains through dense
forests of FIR trees every nov and then at
short distances we come abruptly upon
beautiful lakes of transparent water, sur
flowers, while in the background sombre
and dark is the dense forest. Sometimes
the lakes lie IN chains connected by brooks
of dancing water that are music to the ear
and beauty to the eye. Such is Gold Hill
in July.
We found W. II. Green actively en-
gagged preparing Acme" ore for ship.
ment. By looking over the dump Tree
gold quartz could be picked out in large
quantities. There is probably no richer
vein in camp than here. This part of the
camp Is familiar to all. But there is one
part of the camp about which less has
been said. Not because it is less worthy.
1t lies two or three miles farther away and
isolated from the more centrally located
mines where most visitors stop. Over by
the Marble range the formation is more
regular and the ore found in larger veins.
Many good prospects have been found
here, but the only ones on which any
work has been lone are the Blue Bell and
Pride of the Hills. Visiting the dumps
of either you find practically no waste mat
ter. All is quartz. 1t is claimed by the
owners of the Blue Bell hat most of the
ore will average 800 10 the ton. 1t shows
no free gold, but carries considerable sill
yer and shows a well defined vein. Mr..
Cassidy was sacking ore here for ship
ping. The Pride OF the Hills has as much
ore, and it is as rich looking as the other,
but it could not be learned how much it
assays.
Every prospect in the camp was visited
and examined. For surface indications
no camp ever promised more. Some
,tI.nosi,a - hn, :, o;,ho. oa.o 81 -
will be a success. There are such guam
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nolJ miIi -nroIr ho - ~, r. .,k.
s,an,;ato ,Lo ,hoorr Ia = 10; uo;ns
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e., ,hi.tn - 100 Co., .na:.onornn
-
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ia a;@or,t 10 i'd 100 80 u;,ho.,
ning ocross fonts and nrosnao,ora Tho
trocks NJ w,aons oan bo aoon whoro ,baro
arc M ro.ds W. mao, noo,1o 80
whoro no - III or,bo
,;ma
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doroIonmon, Laa hoon &c. IT, -
10 that monv ot ,boso ot Cola Hin orc TOO
Moor IN develon Tia, t.kos monor L,
10 an easv matter n GOT oomo ono ,o"orrb
stake" them so thew can nrosnoc, Henco
more prospecting is being done and less
develon;ng. Rnt tho hovs frTlv annro-
ciate the imnortance ot domons,ro,;na by
a "miII RIM, that thew b.vo wbot ia
claimed Great effort :. ho;no modo in
this direction and in n few doys ono v,ll
va,
, 1891-07-21
SutIs .Made for g

II. HeIIn,a an is bound 10
close OHt hss Custom de-
parfntent and offers the
regular $40 and $50 lime
at from $SS TO S35. N;oU
Is your chance 10 SaUe
money on HrSf-cIaSs DOrk
and goods. Pants from,
SstO SI3. Only a short
tinne nOiU until thai de-
partnaent is closed. Come
at once.
, 1891-07-21

Why we teach all branches needed by
any ordinary man or woman. We are
not satisfied for students to pass an ex'
animation upon a subject. but insist that
they shall know something about it-thal
they shall go into a subject rather than &c
through a book upon that subject. See.
ing is believing. Call and see. Business
College.
, 1891-07-21

Go to Germania Hall if you want a
good. pure and undulterated 5 year-old
S~tonewall whiskey, 81. 90 per quart.
, 1891-07-21

Go to Abney & Johnston's for saddle
horses for men or ladies'.
, 1891-07-21

There is n way of being abso-
lutely sure that the shoes you buy
are worth at least as much as you
pay for them. You may not be
able to tell good leather from bad;
you may not know the difference
between a high grade shoe and
an article of rougher make, and
yet it is your own fault if you are
imposed upon. You cannot be
expected to detect those diff
ferences in material which make
such a material difference, but
you ear at least take the pre-
caution of making your purchases
where misrepresentation are
never for a moment tolerated.
You will be more than pleased
with the immense assortment and
low prices on high grade goods
to be seen only at
, 1891-07-21

Wisdom's Robertine Is the only thing
now used by fashionable women to per-
pctuate a beautiful complexion.
The record-union., 1891-04-26
CURRENT NEWSPAPER WIT

Never kick an electric light wire when
it is down.
"Talk isn't so cheap after all, )" remarked
the orator when ne came to settle the
stenographer's bill.
Teacher Freddy, how is the earth di-
vided?" Between them that's
| got 1t and them that wants it."
Clara "And that's your new hat?
| Well, it's simply stunning" Laura
That's exactly what papa said when he
saw the bill"
Il can't change my mind" said Chap
| pie. Il might have known that" Gre
torted his exasperated partner ''There is
no lower denomination in minds ithan
! yours"
Mrs. Oldfdget is much worried about
| her daughter. The other night she kissed
| her, and the young lady murmured in
her sleep: oh, Charlie. you've shaved
off your mustache"
Drummer-"Have you fire-escape in
| this hotel?" Boniface-"We have ten OF
them" Drummer-''Thought So The
fire all escaped from my room last night
| and | almost froZe.''
but, doctor, you said, you know, that
I must avoid all excitement" Ger
tainly, it hurts you. 1 have always told
you so.n why, then, did you send me
your bill yesterday"
Old gentleman (at head of stairs) =
"Sally, amt it time to go to bed?'' Sally
-"Yes, father, dear, don't put it off fan an
other minute. Your health, you know,
is not robust."-Ljfe.
THAT was fine coat you made Buster,
Mr.. Snip. What did he pay for that?''
Nothing" returned Snip, sadly. "So?n
said Binks. "Pu take two at the same
price. ."-HaTper's BGzdr.
Shelf I were not girl 1 should like
to be Lieutenant of Hussars." ''It is
quite unnecessary for you to be as much
as that my dear young lady, for YOU are
irresistible even as you are"
''My father gave me fits this morning.
said Jimpsey. II wish mine would give
me some," said George, who wears trou-
sers made from the paternal sleeves. "All
1 get is misfits."-Horper's Bazdr.
Sam Johnsing-"I's all right now. Use
gwinter to git up" Mrs. Johnsing-
Fool, niggah. Jess you stay in bed un-
til you has tuck de rest ob de medicine
in dat bottle what paid dollar for.'
Irate customer-''You said this cloth
was a fast color. yet it faded out in two
weeks after it was made up. Dealer
"Well, don't think you ought to expect
it to fade any faster than that" Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Tommy-"My sister thinks purity well
of YOU" Mr.. Bingum (sweet on Tom
> NOW, WHAT QOoS
she say about me, Tommy" Tommy
well, heard her tell ma yesterday that
you knocked the spots off nothing"
Fay-'I feel like a new man to-day.n -
Bright-"Do you? Glad to hear it. Per-
haps you can see your way clear to pay
that little bill" Gay-"rm new man.
told you. You can't expect me to as
sumo the liabilities of the old concern"
Prof. Bohn-"Do you know I like to
study young women?' Miss Sharpe
"And have you studied me out?' Pro-
fessor-"Not quite; but I shall find you
out very soon.n Miss Sharpe-"Yes, I
think you will the next time you cali"
HarpeT's Bazdr.
One of the best double puns we have
ever heard was perpetrated by minister
who had just united in marriage couple,
whose Christian names were respectively
Benjamin and Ann. "How did they APP
pear during the ceremony" he was
asked. "They appeared both Anni-mated
and Bennie-fited,n - was the clever reply.
The record-union., 1891-04-26
DIVISION OF TIME.
Why Our Hour is Divided Into sixty
Minutes.

Minutes.
Why is our hour divided into sixty
minutes, each minute into sixty seconds,
ETC.? Simply and solely because in Baby
lonia there existed, by the side of the
decimal system of nations, another sys-
tenn, the sexagesimal, which counted by
sixties. Why that number should have
been chosen is clear enough, and it speaks
well for the practical sense of those an
cient Babylonian merchants. There is no
number which has so many divisors as
sixty. The Babylonians divided the SUMS
daily journey into twenty-four paraSangs
or 720 stadia. Each parasang or hour was
subdivided into sixty minutes. A para
sang is about a German mile, and the
Babylonlan astronomers compared the
progress made by the sun during one
hour at the time of the equinox to the
progress made by good walker during
the same time, both accomplishing one
parasang. The whole course of the sun
during the twenty-four equinoctial hours
was fixed at twenty-four parasangs, or
720 stadia, or 360o. This system was
handed on to the Greeks, and Hipparchus,
the Greek philosopher, who lived about
loo b. c., introduced the Babylonian
hour in Europe. Ptolemy, who wrote
about $50 A. D., and whose name still
lives in that of the Ptolemaic system of
astronomy, gave still wider currency to
the Babylonian way of reckoning time.
1t was carried along on the quiet stream
of traditional knowledge through the
Middle Ages, and, strange to say, it sailed
down safely over the Niagara of the
French revolution. For the French,
when revolutionizing weights, measures,
coins and dates, and subjecting all to the
decimal system of reckoning, were in
duced by some unexplained motive to
respect our clocks and watches, and
allow our dials to remain sexagesimal,
that is Babylonian, each hour consisting
OF sixty minutes. Here you see again
the wonderful Conference of the world
and now what we call knowledge is the
result of an unbroken tradition of teach
ing descending from father to son. Not
more than about 100 arms would reach
from us to the builders of the palaces Of
Babylon, and enable JUS to shake hands
with the founders of the Oldest pyramids
and to thank them for what they have
done for us.-NdtionaE Builder.
The record-union., 1891-04-26

or by feeling of loyal friendship, or by
a generous indisposition to seem to strike
another, from Vindicating himself and
even from defining his own position.
Thus. the wrong done to the man may
result in more important wrong to the
truth.
81 should do more than it is in my
mind to do if / were to enter into dis
cussion of your irenicon in all its parts i;
and yet you will pardon me, surely, for
saying that, in all its parts, do not en-
tirely agree with you. But to its spirit,
as an irenicon. let me say that respond
heartily to that part of it in which you
urge that the present is good time for
earnest men to be prudent and self-deny-
ing, even in the use OF what they hold to
be their lawful liberty, rather than to
ieopardize that large measure of Christian
unity which our Bishops have formu-
lated.n
The record-union., 1891-04-26

the quality of the butter was improved or
not.
Speaking of the commons of the last
century, DR.. Il. a. Holyoke, 1746, says
Breakfast was two sizings of bread and
cue OF beer" Evening commons were
a pye. Judge Paine Wingate, 1859, says:
AS to commons, there were in the morn
ing none while was in college. At dim
ner we had, of rather ordinary quality,
q Sufhclency of meat of some kind, either
baked or boiled; and at supper we had
either pint of milk and half a biscuit,
or meat pye, or some other kind. Such
were the commons in the hall in my day"
EACH WITH A BOWL AND SPOON.
AS we have seen, breakfast and supper
were obtained by application at the but
terry window. When the hours came and
the bell rang, the students would issue
forth from their rooms like bees from q
hive, each with his bowl and spoon.
Then would ensue great rush and riot
and the buttery windowSlswould be be-
sieged in form. There was a great push
ing and sprawling, and generally the
system was well calculated to awaken
the latent hoggishness of the human dis
position. Sometimes men would be clad
in their dress suits preparatory to some
festiyity. They would frequently get
spattered and would hurry away to their
rooms, using very strong language. If
the yard were slippery men would fall,
and others coming up quickly behind
would trip over the fallen man and often
an indiscriminate mass of men, bowls,
spoons and spilled food would result.
They would pick themselves up and
laughingly return to the buttery for
fresh supply. This system lasted late
into the last century.
The following is the blank of one of the
buffers bills for board in commons dur
ing the revolution (Which, by the way,
there was great difficulty in providing
for the students):
Mr.. to -, College Butler, DR..
Credit is not given by law for more than
forty Shillings.
To his bill for - quarter ending -
For wines and other permitted liquors
For other permitted articles
Thus we have seen how the college
commons developed down to the time of
the revolution. With that event came q
break in the college life, and the first pc
riod of the commons came to an end.-G.
p ". iR Boston I5'dUeLler.
The record-union., 1891-04-26
UNCLE sETH's SPRING POEM.

Early every spring l must
Either poetiZe or bust.
Poetry biles in all my natur',
AS hot water biles tater;
go of alone awhile
By myself and let her bile.
'Tain't spring bitters that need
Or more sulphur with my feed,
Or some OF quack's stomach filler,
Sassafras or sasparilla;
But it's just a chance to sling
Poetry out a-ting-a-ling.
All the hills and mountains high
Are a f1iPtin' with the sky,
An it pelts the hills 18th showers,
An they giggle back 18th flowers;
Natur' gigg1es an must
Either poetize or bust.
Meath the lather of the snow
Natur' shows her face aglow,
Waiting for the grass permiscus
To come sproutin' up like whiskers.
Poetry's bilin'; for awhile
III go off and let her bile.
Now all natures in q rush,
'Tain't no sin for me to gush;
NatuF' wiggles on in meter,
An catch the general teeter,
An a child of natur' must
Either poetiZe or bust.
-NetO York Blade
The record-union., 1891-04-26

The Rev. DR.. r. Heber Newton makes
statement in the following letter to the
Cburchmdn:
Your irenicon in this weeks Church-
man seems TO me to require and deserve
a frank and cordial response; and al
though you have had the courteous dis
cretion TO make no personal references,
trust you will find space to admit brief
personal answer.
"Tou have very fairly stated the broad
ground on which, for years past, have
felt free to have special services in my
church, at which Christian divines not in
the orders of our church have been in
vlted TO deliver addresses. Something
might indeed add to your statement, if
my present purpose were argumentative.
Since, however, l am responding to an
irenicon, l will only add, in this connec-
ton, that no one who has spoken in nv
church on such an occasion has ever
uttered one word that might not have
been spoken by yourself on any occasion
or in any presence. / may say further
that, if it had occurred to me that serious
disquiet would be caused by any special
use which / have made of the large
liberty which / hold that the church
allows, and wisely allows, in matters of
this kind, | would gladly have subordi-
mated any personal preferences as to
means and methods of expressing and
promoting Christian unity to the calm
consideration of those larger measures of
reunion in which our church is now
happily leading the way, and to which
other churches are inclining so gra-
ciously.
Serious misapprehensions do certainly
seem to have arisen, and l regret to learn
that others have been supposed to be in
part responsible for arrangements which
were mine alone, and of which no one but
mySelf had any KNOWLEDGE / regret this
sincerely. 1t involves a sort of injustice
to which / have been not infrequently
subjected, and to which would not will
ingly subject another. No man ought to
be held responsible for any word or act
which he himselfhas not spoken, or done,
or freely consented to; and perhaps the
greatest wrong ofan injustice ofthis kind
Is this, that the injured party may be re-
strained by sense of personal dignity.
The record-union., 1891-04-26

Elm this way, if the college happened to
be paid in provisions OF good quality and
to considerable extent, the boys in COM
mons lived high. But if the provisions
were of poor quality, or We're not pro-
visions at all, but perversely insisted on
being chairs, or tomahawks, the natural
inference is that starvation must have
been imminent. The students of those
days must have blessed President Dun
ster 1850, who succeeded in Ievying a
sort OF tax In KIND on al New England
of food was bestowed upon the college.
Connecticut was particularly forward.
We must attribute this peculiar generos-
The record-union., 1891-04-26

The Nashville Christian AdUOcate
(Meth.) says: "Bishop McTyeire used to
say: "A decent ritual is the best defence
against ritualism.' The remark is pro-
foundly true. In a church that has no
forms of any sort, the ministers are at
is surer than that some of them will
please to do very fantastic things. By
the law of reaction, others will protest
against this individualism, and will in
sist on going to the opposite extreme OF a
fixed, mechanical routine"
The record-union., 1891-04-26
Zoological Discussion

Watts-'Since Biggars made that little
wheat deal he is beginning to think HIM
self financier. i should not be sur
prised to see him try to ape Jay Could"
Potts-'Well, If he confines himself to
aping Gould and does not undertake to
monkey with him he may be all right."
The record-union., 1891-04-26

Mr.. Figg-"Tommy, my son, do you
know that it gives me as much pain as il
does you when punish your"
Tommy-"Well, there's some satisfac-
tion in that, anyhow
The record-union., 1891-04-26

The Central Christian Advocate says:
''The Methodist movement has pot ex-
hausted itself. The only question is, can
we carry it on into the next century on
the high plane of spiritual life and per-
sonal righteous living that has made it
what it is? Can we continue to make as
successful fight against worldliness and
selfishness as the first Methodists did :?
This we believe to be the problem for the
years to come, and there must be quite
definite answer to it before the closing
year of this century,"