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Show OMAHA'S WINTER EXPEDITION. EXPE-DITION. For the past two months, says the Omaha Herald, a party of young gentlemen from the best families in the city, have been quietly perfecting u expedition to mako an exploring tour through the Black Hills. They have bent all their energies towards the accomplishment of their design and their efforts have been so far successful that the party, consisting of eight picked fellows, loaded up their supplies at sunrise Friday morning and quietly moved westward west-ward on their perilous journey in the midst of winter. The outfit consists of three spans of the best mulea that money could buy, three new wagons, which are all loaded with the choicest provisions that could be transported, and in such quantity that they will have food for eight months or a year. The wagons are covered with tho heaviest ducking, and one of them is fitted up with a Btovo. They 1 are provided with a magnificent tent of double thickness twelve by sixteen feet, which was made especially to order in Chicago, A tent suitable for stabling the mules was also taken. The boys are provided with an abundance of buffalo robes and blankets, and have each had heavy clothing made especially for the trip. The expedition is armed with the best and most approved patterns of fire-arms and revolvers, and as each of them has fired about a thousand rounds at targets for practice ia the last few weeks they know their guns and will leave with the accorded paim oi ueing me ueat martsmen in Omaha, Taking all things into con-1 sideration, they aro undoubtedly the best outfitted expedition that has ever left Omaha for the Biack Hills, and if that country contains a treasure for anybody, their pluck and determination will win it. Their route lies up the Elkhoru valley, until they reach the Niobrara river, when they will follow it up until they come to Red Cloud agency, and will then proceed to the Hills by the route usually taken from that point. Our First Parents in Eden. Little Lit-tle Agues H , aged three years, was one day looking over a "Children's "Chil-dren's Bible," and came across a picture of Adam and Eve in tho Garden Gar-den of Eden. She asked me who they were, and, when I told her, turned again to her book, studying the picture intently for some minutes and striving to reconcile the partial nudity of the figures with the present style of dreBs. At laat she arrived at some (conclusion, and looking up in my face, with big, serious oyes, remarked: re-marked: "I dcrii they are doin' bathin'." Evening Post. |