Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-24
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Reports or the strange tninRS the recent
blizzard did have not been wanting, but it
remains for the Nuckolls County Herald,
published at Nelson, this state, to enrich
the department OF metcorology with the
rarest experience yet recorded. The Herald
says:
During the extreme cold weather of last
week the citizens of Nelson were privt-
legged to witness n phenomenon peculiar to
the arctic regions, viz, the parheltpn or
mock sun. a luminous circle surrounded
the sun. while directly to the right and left
and in a direct line with the sun appeared
what seemed to be two smaller suns. 1t was
n beautiful sight, but the citizens of this
latitude are not anxious that the conditions
be repeated that transform us for a time
to the polar regions.
II 1t were not that editors never drink
anything stronger than lemonade, and other
good citizens OF Nelson who are perhaps
not even that Incorporate said 1t, there
might be room for the inference that Ed
itor Dusenberry's imagination was at the
time overwrought by citric acid, but under
the circumstances 1t must be accepted as
n literal fact. However, we all agree with
him that irrespective of its beauty we do
not care to see 1t again produced by that
cause, but would rather prefer the old way
of conjuring up visions Of triple suns and
dual moons.
There is in course of establishment be-
tween Washington and Baltimore a unique
colony. 1t is to be composed of home
less boys and is to be regulated as a lit
tie republic. a tract of land of several
hundred acres has been secured and on
this cottages will be built capable of ac-
commodating from six to eight boys.
There will be a central dining station or
mess hall at which all members of the
republic will take their meals at regular
hours. The government of the colony will
be vested in a central council whose duty
It shall be to make laws for the govern
ment of the society and they will be en-
forced by the chief marshal. The attor-
ney general will prosecute all cases of
infractions of the laws and they will be
decided by a jury of twelve. All officers
are to be elected from the boys of the re-
public. One of the most stringent rules
of the republic will be directed against
idleness and when a boy is convicted on
that charge the punishment will be that
food of any kind shall be denied him until
he appears before the council and takes
a solemn pledge that he will in good faith
return to work. The labor of the colony
will be parceled out according to the ap-
titude of the boys for 1t. Those who want
to farm will be put to work in the gardens
and fields under a competent instructor,
while those who prefer carpentering, black
smithing or other labor will have an oppor-
tunity to do 1t under conditions that will
enable them to learn how to do 1t cor
rectly. All property and the proceeds of
the republic are to be held in common and
devoted first to the payment of actual ex-
penses, then to providing for needed i'm
provements, and finally, if a surplus should
remain, it is to be divided up equally
among all of the boys without reference to
their age or ability to work. Several emi-
nent philant1ropists are interested in the
new republic and it Is unnecessary to say
that its progress will be watched with the
keenest interest. -
That young Des Moines preacher who
was engaged to three women at the same
time ought to have had trouble enough on
his hands without counting a term of i'm
prisonment for robbing his landlady.
The Gretna News-Reporter in discussing
profitable crops for Nebraska says that chief
among these is celery. Nebraska can grow
as good celery as any district of the coun-
try and last year excelled the Michigan
product. 1t has a great advantage over CAL
ifornia as a celery producing country, for
lands can be had here from $40 to $25 per
acre that will produce just as fine a va
riety as will those of the Santa Anna, which
cost $500 per acre. The News-Reporter
then shows that if the grower could even
realize 10 cents per dozen, the price of the
California product in the field, celery grow
ing could be made to yield more money per
acre than any other variety of farming now
carried on in the state.
An exchange is authority for the follow
ing story: About two weeks ago two well
dressed men called at the South Dakota
asylum and both explained that they were
brothers and had brought each other to the
institution, hoping that a cure might be eff
fected. Each one seemed equally intelligent
and the warden found it impossible to de-
eide which was the crazy and which the
sane man. Adopting the ruse of drawing
them into general conversation he dis
covered that one of them was fond of dis
cussing questions about the inhabitants, ca
nails and railroads of Mars, while the other
talked continuously about the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio of Is
to l and the crime of 70. Finally deciding
that the man who was enamored Of Marian
progress must be the greater lunatic of the
two he proceeded to assign to him quarters,
Notwithstanding his strenuous objections.
The silver man was sent home, but the next
day returned in custody of the sheriff, who
informed him that he had the wrong man
locked up.
THE REBEL CHIEF.