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Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23
City Lenses II Lighting Plant.

PLATTSMOUTH. Neb., Oct. 22.-tSpecal0
Tomorrow evening it is expected that this
city will enter into a contract to lease
and operate the Gas and Electric Light
company's plant for period of four years,
with the privilege of an extension of the
lease at that time for another ten years
and optional purchase The rental of the
plant has been placed at $500 per year
together with $l.S00 per year interest on
the $50 900 bonded Indebtedness of the con-
cern. A new schedule of rates will be in
augurated, and the city expects, with the
lowering Of the charges, to double the private
consumption, and thereby make a profit on
the investment. At the end of the four
years the lease will be renewed at a rental
of only s1,S00, just enough to pay the in
terest on the bonded indebtedness. The
contract does not meet with the unqualified
approval of the taxpayers but as only one
or two Of the heaviest taxpayers raised
a little objection the city council felt justi-
fed in making the deal. 1t is an experiment
in the theory of municipal ownership, and
the progress of the undertaking and its cut
come will be watched with considerable ia
tereSt.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

1t takes half ton of starch per month
to stiffen the shirts, collars and cuffs of the
Eagle laundry's patrons. Have you tried
them? 724 Broadway. Telephone 157.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

o. p. Groom returned yesterday morning
from st. Joseph, Mo, where he was called
TO be present while a delicate and dangerous
surgical operation was performed upon his
wife. Mrs Groom has been i'll for many
years, and the local physicians have given
her friends no hope of recovery. Four
months ago she was taken to St Joseph for
the purpose of becoming a patiei.r OF Dr.
Jacob GeiGer, who formerly resid ed In Coun.
Gil Bluffs The change greatly benefited
her. She rallied quickly from the surgical
operation. and her friends will be greatly
pleased to learn that she is In a fair way
toward recovery, and will soon be able to
return homo
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23
N. Y. Plumbing company. Tel. $50.
DIstrIct Court Notes.


The partition suit of Mrs. Mary A. Gorton
against w. II. Taylor and others, involving
the settlement OF the Pleasant Taylor es-
tate. was begun yesterday in the district
court The plaintiff Is daughter of the
deceased and she claims that her brothers
were given a large share OF the estate dur
ing the lifetime of her father, which she
now wants taken into consideration in the
partition OF the remaining property. w. II.
Taylor she claims, was given 240 acres OF
farm land by the father and the other de-
PENDANTS received smaller portions. The de-
PENDANTS set up that they purchased the land
and that they are entitled to their proper
tionate share OF the estate.
William Wray has brought foreclosure
suit against w, A. Mynster. trustee of the
Maria Mynster estate, on 81 900 note given
December Q. 1898.
Suit was begun yesterday by ]. ]. Stewart
executor of the estate OF A. Cochran. against
Frank w. Trude. to foreclose a mortgage for
81 100, given September IA, 1888.
Leonard Everett has sued Hiram Shoe
maker and other8 on note given January
"a, 1893.
b. NJ Winters has brought suit against
Anna Pralor and August Uihlein to fore
close a mortgage for $500, dated August 10,
1892
Suit was begun by Ed Thrush against
John Graybill, the road supervisor OF Nor
walk township. asking that the court order
him to open Fifth street, in the town OF
Underwood. The plaintiff states that he is
the owner of property on the street in ques-
ton and that he has repeatedly requested
the defendant to remove certain distractions
on the thoroughfare. which he has failed 10
do. He wants the court to compel the super
visor to remove the obstruction.
The motion OF the defendants in the case
of william j. Jameson against the United
States Masonic Benevolent association to
strike the petition Of the plaintiff was ar
gued and submitted yesterday before Judge
Macy.
Both the superior and district courts held
night sessions yesterday for the purpose OF
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

I indicates trace OF precipitation.
l.. A. WELSH. Local Forecast onicial
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23
Makes IA Mistake.

Another great candy sale at the Purity
Candy Kitchen Saturday. Taffy, sc a pound
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

Every man, woman and child who has
once tried that specific Dr. Bulls Cough
Syrup, cannot say enough in It's praise.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

Hoffmayr's fancy patent -four makes the
test and most bread. Ask your grocer for f.
Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick, Betting.
Wholesale and retail ]. c. Bixhy. 202
Main street
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

c. b. Vlavi Co., female remedy. Medical
consultation free Wednesdays Health book
furnished 300 Merriam block.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

Lundgard. the Tailor. 1870 s. Main street.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

Harp music at Purity Candy Kitchen Sat-
urday night. Yankee peanut tafy. 10c 2
pound
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23

Both the superior and district courts held
night sessions yesterday for the purpose OF
naturallZing voters.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23
ST. BERNARD'S HOSPITAL
And RETREAT FOR
THE INSANE.
In charge Of tbs
SISTERS Of MERCY

This widely known institution has been
doubled in size during the past summer and
made one Of the moss m;dern and model
The new additions will be ready for occu-
pancy by the first of the year. When fully
completed. accommodations will be afforded
for 300 patients. 1t is beautifully situated,
overlooking the city OF Council Bluffs.
full stan OF eminent physicians and trained
nurses minister to the comfort Of the pa.
tients.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-23
RcnI Estntc Transfers.

The following real estate transfers are re-
ported by ]. w. Squire as having been filed
October 22:
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
The Frenchman on America.

An exchange notes that French writ
ers sometimes make curious mistakes in
regard to American matters. Victor HUI
go once spoke of General Grant as "the
executioner of John Brown" A Paris
newspaper recently spoke Of Senator
John Sherman as 1.-The brother of the
slayer of the Colorado Indians" Paul
Bourget, after his tour in this country
and his more or less profound studies
for his book about US. informed his read.
ers that the Pilgrim fathers fed to
America in order to escape "the fury
and edicts of Cromwell!" Miss Cooper,
the daughter Of the novelist. has related
that. when in Paris, she saw French
translation of "The Spy" In which
man is represented as tying his horse to
locust. Notwithstanding that the lc-
Gust tree was meant, the intelligent
Frenchman translated the word as sau-
terelle, and feeling that some explana-
ton was due, he gravely explained in
note that grasshoppers grew to an enor.
nous size in America, and that one of
them, dead and stuffed. was placed at
the door of the mansion for the conven-
fence Of visitors on horseback.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
SPEED OF LIGHT.

Often when we desire to make neat
little comparison. and consider the ex-
preston with the speed of the wind" a
little tame. we heighten the effect by
declaring that it went with the speed
of light" Although that expression lie
often used, there is probably not man
or woman alive that has the faintest
conception of what the speed of light
really is. Let US see: Light travels
10000 miles a second! Isn't that
rather bewildering to start on?
Can your keen perceptive faculties
and your unclouded imagination grasp a
faint conception of such tremendous
speed? Comparisons are"-well. we
will not mention it only to say that they
are quite useful sometimes when plain
facts and figures stagger our under
standings.
Let US make little comparison any
way. The average speed of the express
trains on the best roads is only forty
miles an hour. Think of it!
Only forty miles an hour, whereas
light cleaves atmosphere and space with
speed of 10000 miles a second! A
beam Of light can fit from the sun to
the earth and back to the sun again in
sixteen minutes, space of time which
the express train would have occupied
in crossing single Missouri township.
If the train could make the trip to the
sun and return, how long do you suppose
it would take it? Don't figure on it. but
make a rough guess. Could it start now
and get back in time for the Columbian
Exposition and Worlds Fair in st.
Louis in 1892? Hardly.
In round numbers it would take such
a train-a first class limited express
$40 years to make the trip without stop.
ing at way stations or to take on coal
and water. Verify, it is plain that when
a thing travels with the speed of light"
it is humping along at a pretty good
gait
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05

COLLINS. Odd as it may seem. to the end
of his life he was afraid to enter dark
room alone, and .disliked being left alone.
Under ordinary circumstances rarely did
he enjoy being left by himself. To the
day Of his death he had the heart and
impulses of boy, and loved animate,
gorgeous colors. perfumes, and those
mechanical toys which wind up and go
with clickety noise, just as child
loves them. His home was a small toy
shop, the toys being of all kinds and.
descriptions, but be loved the mechani-
cal toys the best. Every Saturday
morning Eugene Field went home laden
with toys-not alone for his own babies,
Roswell and Ruth, but for a number OF
child friends living at Buena Park, Chi
cago. For the girls he bought dolls by
the dozen, and his little boy Roswell
whom he nicknamed "Posey." had more
elephants than were ever shot by Afri-
can travellers. Shortly before he died
Mr.. Field bought big elephant and
big brown bear for Posey. Every time
any one called upon him lit made no diff
ference who it was) the elephant and the
big brown bear we're wound up, and
away they would go, their heads nodding
back and forth as if they were alive
Eugene Field" in st. Nicholas.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05

bows took the heavy end of the farm
work, allowing fathers shoulders to
straighten up and the limp to pass
from his step.
cit has been the most delightful
summer we ever spent" was the de-
cision of all, when the autumn winds
reminded them it was time to seek
the shelter of friendly roof. "We
must pack our tent now; but next
summer we'll be out with the apple
blossoms. The Dickey underline
tree outing proved so charming that
many of their farmer-neighbors will
try the experiment next year, and
thus, as it should be, the hardwork-
ing country people will mingle work
and rest in such way as to delight
the boys and girls whose homes are
there; and who knows but that it may
be the inAowing of tide destined in
the end to keep the boys on the farm
and the girls out of the crowded
city,
Virginia did not win the prize, but
she won what was far better-the
love of the dear ones in the home,
who needed her much worse than she
needed trip to Europe.-North
aCestern Advocate.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
THE ELEPHANTS CHANGE OF
TEMPER.

Do you suppose that when an ele.
plant has toothache the ache is in pro.
portion to his size? If SO, it must be
terrible for an elephant to have the
toothache. A dentist tells this story Of
an elephant that belonged to circus:
He was very good-natured, but one day
when his keeper went near him he made
a vicious switch at him with his trunk.
The keeper knew the elephant so we'll
that he said at once the elephant was
sick; something was the matter with
him. He sat at a safe distance from the
elephant and watched him. The ele.
plant trumpeted loudly and acted as
though he was very angry, but no one
could decide what was the cause of the
change in this good elephants DISPOSE
ton. This continued for three days.
At the end of that time one of the men
said, why. when Jack THAT was the
elephants name) lies down. he keeps
rubbing one side of his head; think
he has got the toothache;" and every body
Immediately said, Eyes, that's what's the
matter" The elephant was chained
safely to posts and iron rings, so that
he could not move, and the dentist was
sent for. The dentist looked in his
mouth and saw that one tooth was badly
decayed. He touched it, and the eleph-
ant trumpeted as though in great pain;
then the dentist went to work and filed
the tooth. After time the elephant
seemed to understand that the dentist
was trying to do something for his pain,
and he gave every evidence of apprecist-
ing the attention. Some weeks later the
dentist visited the winter quarters of the
elephant and the elephant recognized
him. 1t was rather an expensive opera.
ton, for it cost one hundred dollars to
fill that one tooth. Doubtless, then, the
elephants toothache is a larger ache
than either you or ever know when our
teeth ache.-Selected.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
Wonderful Vitality of Toads.

We have all read of the discovery of
toads sin solid stratas of stone"
where food and air sufficient to sustain
life could not have possibly been had.
We have not only road these stories, but
the majority of US have put them down
as Mulhatton yarns, which were written
by someone who did not expect them to
be believed. Now comes the scientist,
NJ. Victor Lagroche, who says that he has
imprisoned toads in masses of mixed
plaster of paris and found them "well,
fat and hearty after a lapse of eight
years." He argues that if such Great
ures can live for years without air. food
or light, they lean continue to live on
indefinitely"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
On the Farm.

Now and then some one signs for the
good old times" and there is no ques-
ton that some of the ways of our grand
fathers were better than we practice
now. Still. upon the whole, it appears
to me we are doing things easier and
better than ever before, hence getting
more. out of life for ourselves and able
to do more for others. and that the new
times are better than the old. A lot Of
newspaper men in Boston two weeks
ago at club were talking of early days
on the farm long ago, and they brought
to mind such unpleasant. disagreeable
duties of life at that time as not to i'm
press one favorably-heavy, back-aching
work, poor living and little chance for
amusement.
had little taste Of it myself twenty
seven or twenty-eight years ago as
hired boy on New Britain farm, work
ing from 80 A. NJ. till to at night.
yet have ever regretted the exper-
fence. Modern farm implements and
more intelligent methods Of the present
day have entirely changed life and work
on the farm. Here on the farm to-day
one nan and pair of horses and SYRIA
cuse gang pillow. turning three burrows
at a time, are doing three times the work
of an old time plowman; while in an adj
joining field another man and team with
cutaway harrow are mellowing up the
soil faster, better, and at one quarter the
cost of old-time methods and the seven
teen-year old boy and the old thirty-dol-
lar horse and Breed weeder are sweeping
over the fields and doing more good hoe
ing than could half dozen men for
most cultivated crops. Sulky plows,
moving machines. hay tedders and rakes
all tend to easier and better work on the
farm, and the farmer who takes advan
tage OF the rest from hard labor that all
these improvements give him and de.
votes his leisure time to the intelligent
study of his business and for the Gull
ture of his mind and heart, certainly has
opportunities of life opened up to him
such as we're never dreamed OF in "the
good old times" of hard cider and harder
work.-Hartord Courant.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
A Poet and His Toys.

All boys and girls who really enjoy
Eugene Fields Love Songs of Child
hood and his with Trumpet and
Drum" find that these poems seem to
introduce them to much that is charm.
ing in home life, 1t is as if in walking
down a dark alley they lost their way.
Suddenly little light is seen flashing
through keyhole. In a moment they
find themselves in a room full of sun
shine and happy little children. In this
magical room furnished by Eugene
Fields imagination, Santa Claus, the
Good Fairy Godmothers, Fairyland and
the Land of Nod are real persons and
places. Like Edmund Spencer or Sir
Walter Scott. Eugene Field lived in an
atmosphere of enchantment. and more
than half believed in witches and hob
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05

"A scheme is on foot at London to
erect gigantic model of the globe. sur
rounded by staircases, twice the size of
the proposed globe for the Paris exhibit
ton. The scale will be one fve-hun-
dredth of nature. London will be about
the size of an English penny.
"A French engineer has conceived the
interesting idea of reproducing the house
in which Napoleon lived at ST. Helena
as an attraction during the Paris exhi-
bition in 1890. The house will be an
exact copy of the original, with pano.
ramic canvases representing the natural
surroundings.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-05
TOMMY'S ALPHABET.

Now this Is A." m ANNA would say;
"'And this is q, and this Is U.
And this is /.
Now say them-try."
Obi Tommy was youngster yet
To learn to say his alphabet;
But, bless his hearth though he was small.
Heknew his letters-nearly ALL
So mother pointed, and her son
Began to name them one by one.
"This one?" "It's B." "And this?" "Its c.
land this?" ITS l.; know it well.'
may. try again!"
1T must be NJ
"And this one?"-pointing to an L
"That's YUU?" was Tommy's quick reply
Mamma, the error to undo,
Now pointed to the letter u
Small Tommy pondered; then quoth he.
His face aglow with smiles. "Thats NET
st. Nicholas.
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ever paid so large sum to its inventor or
owner as has the invention Of a single
appliance OF warfare. The receipts OF the
telegraph and telephone combined are
dwarfed into insignificance by the kingly
revenue reaped by the owners OF the
Whitehead torpedo. Colossal sums are
cheerfully paid by ambitious Governments
for some new improvements in gun or
rifle. Each warlike nation is constantly
expanding immense amounts in construct
ing cannon and armor.
Millions are spent annually in testing
new guns and defenses. Nor is the full
desire ever reached. For time an armor
plate exists that will Withstand the impact
OF huge projectie, but FOR brief period
only. for soon there is produced a larger
and more powerful gun capable of pierc-
ing the armor plate; and then the costly
but now inefficient armor is cast aside
and at further enormous expense new and
heavier armor is contracted for. Each
nation strives to be The possessor of the
most powerful ordnance, the mighty
cannon capable OF hurting the heaviest
proiectile to the farthest possible distance.
England has a breech-loading ritled cannon
that weighs Ill tons. 1t has bore of
seventeen inches in diameter This can
non is forty-seven feet in length and uses
$50 pounds of powder at single charge.
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find marvels fade away as 1 approach
them"
Mr.. Stevens then goes on to relate that
no one can hazard safe estimation of the
extent of the Palenquean ruins, but that
SO far as can be ascertained at the time
they cover an area only sufficiently ex-
tensiye to accommodate perhaps a hun
dred buildings more or less. Indeed, these
mysterious remnants of some former un-
known eras in the history OF mans evo-
luton are marvellous enough in them
selves to be thoughtful. without need of
sensational exaggerations. Consider any
one of these ruins by itself. There is not
one of them but what furnishes material
enough to the imaginative to weave a
thousand fantastic theories about what
might have been, or was, in these prehis-
toric American ages. Glance for m oment
at the grand old castle in Palenque, with
its mystic memories of an indiscernible
past. 1t stands on an artificial elevation
of an obong form forty feet high. 80 feet III
front and rear and eco teet on each
side. The elevation was formerly faced
with stone. which has been thrown down
by the growth of trees. and now its form is
but dimly perceptibIe. The building stands
with its face to the east, and measures 228
feet front by 108 feet deep. Its height is
about % feet, and all around it is a broad
projecting cornice of stone. The front
contains IA doorways, each about 8 feet