Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-15

copy and using a typewriter, but 1t IS quite
the reverse. In fact, he Is an expert type
writer and as handler of press matter mas
no superior in the Office The ofhcials OF the
telegraph company consider him a good
operator and those who have witnessed ms
manipulation of a typewriter consider 1t
wonderful work.
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what has become of the Southern Bust
ness Mems Association" asked r. L. Flasil-
ders OF Athens, Tenn. at the Metropolitan.
81 have been looking for it in vain. Two
or three years ago meeting was held in
New York, ard a committee consisting of
very prominent men was appointed Then
a short time later big convention was
held in Washington, and committee ap-
pointed here. The design, as l Endelstooa
it, was to have a sort of exchanSe. where
southern men could meet and mInSle with
northern, and there was to be permanent
exposition of southern resources. 1t was
hcraided throughout the country, and the
Test men nCrth and south favored 1t anu
expected much good to result.
''Since [ have been here l have tried to
find the headquarters ard the exhibit, but
SO far without success"
Zone of the most beautiful and unique
sights l ever witnessed was in Buenos
Ayres," said A. p. Wheatley of New Or
leans, a travelling man, at the Metropoii-
tan. Il was selling goods through South
America, and was invited to a reception at
the home CT a customer of mine man OF
great wealth. His house was elegantly fur
nished, bat what impressed me most great
ly was a large candeiabra. which, instead
of candles, had great many tiny glass
globes, each with q soft, mellow light unlike
anything l had ever seen. Combined, these
globes gave out about as much light as an
ordinary lamp. but the effect was very dif~
,.1n s1a
/ learned that each of the small globes con
taired a glow worm, an insect that grows
larger in South America than in this cour-
try, and which has a stronger light. They
We're kept alive, the lower part OF the globe
being filed with earth, and the insects he
ing fed regularly. l do rot know how
many there were. but 1 should judge about
one hundred, and while the phosphorescent
glow they produced did not light the room
brilliantly, it did so sufficiently
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1.-THE town CT Valentine, Nebraska, is sit
uated in the northern part of the state,
near the South Dakota line said T. B.
Sweet at the Normandie. 1T was started
before any railroad was built, and Fremont
was the nearest town of any size, taking
two days to complete the "Trip there from
Valentine. Soon after the town was start
ed the wife of man named Norcross died
and the bereayed husband went to Fremont
LOT CONN. Even tnat town was small
and bat one coffin for a full-grown person
was left in stock. This he purchased and
took it home. When he reached Valentine
he learned that grown son had been &C.
cidentally killed while hunting. There was
a small lumber yard in Valentine, and a
carpenter, but the lumber was only very
rough pine. Enough was purchased tc
make another coffin, and the carpenter con-
structed a very rude-looking box out of it.
Mr. Norcross, after studying the matter
over. concluded to lower the box into his
wife's grave, take her remains TO the GENE
terry in the coffin ard change them to the
box, taking the coffin home in which tt
| bury the son. This arrangement was car
ried out, and before the second funera
reached the cemetery word came that
neighbor had died. Another pine box wa.
/ made. the friends of the deceased neighbo
| bC.4owed the coffin, and it was returned
! During the next two years the coffin wa
/ kept for the purpose of being loaned a
/ funerals. Finally, railroad was built, tn
| present prosperous progressive town wa
| started, an undertaking establishment wa
/ opened, and upon the death of Mr.. Norcros
| the coffin was buried with his remains"