Show THE omaha world kerald herald is out with a new complimentary term introduced trod into journalistic polemics it describes the lincoln nebraska journal as a tripe sandwich THE rapid course of empire westward is further signalized signalizes by tile the abandonment of three forts as military stations by the government one each in kansas wyoming and colorado the necessity for maintaining these posts to protect the country from the incursions of the noble red man is disappearing and it wont be long before it will entirely cease to exist THE geysers in yellowstone park are giving forth an unusual amount of gas and steam A slight earthquake has been felt in pennsylvania the atlantic coast has been suffering in the grasp of a heartless and persistent cyclone what is the matter with nature her erratic course since the great blizzard of 1888 has caused astonishment even among weather bureau officials who are seldom surprised at anything MR MB W H CROSS of maroa ill issues the following peculiar challenge under date of sept 10 ill challenge any man in the world to sleep with me hours for cash I 1 can sleep more hours in than any man in the world I 1 am the original nal rip bip van winkle and will sleep 81 p with debois or mackin any time they wish to sleep I 1 will put up 1500 and will sleep in chicago or in columbus 0 for the amount and gate money f NEW YORK herald it was a question with the administration whether noble or tanner should go the secretary after investigating ti tannery tanners recklessness gave the president to understand that he be could not remain in the cabinet if tanner continued at the head of the pension department the president was forced to choose and he gave his consent to tannery tanners suspension and removal because he be knew that with the facts in nobles hands Tan tannery nerIs position was in defensible THE chicago chicago meat says that president harrison had a peculiar experience peri ence near deer park recently he alighted from his carriage and entered a drugstore drug store with a bottle in his hand A pint of alcohol he said have you a doctors prescription asked the proprietor no I 1 want the stuff for an alcohol a lamp am returned the president who kad had not been recognized sorry sir returned the druggist but barrett county went local option and if you want to buy spirits without a prescription have to vote against prohibition the president walked thoughtfully to his carriage while a bystander informed the druggist who it was he had bluffed SAYS an exchange the judges of riga russia are likely to find themselves wearing convict clothes in siberia before long if they do not reform their ways the paternal government of the czar has found it necessary to arrest them all because they persisted in using the german language in their courts after they had been ordered to substitute russian for it if those judges are so unfortunate as to speak russian with a brogue or not at all they are still guilty of the high crime of disobeying an imperial ukase they are less jess wise than ihan the russian officer who is represented as replying when asked how it was possible for him to learn so many languages in so short a time the czar ordered I 1 it MONTHLY the italian parliament consists of two houses the senate and the chamber of deputies the senate is compo ed of princes of the royal house who are of age and of an u unlimited ri limited number of members above forty years old nominated by the king for life the lower house has members elected by ballot on a franchise comprising all male citizens over twenty one years of age who can read and write and who pay y taxes to the amount of nineteen arl lire per r annum neither senators nor deputies receive any salary but are allowed to travel free throughout italy by rail or from port to port A in the kingdom byr by steamer V the be duration of parliament is five years but they may be dissolved by the king at any time some BOMB of the most curious gambling establishments in the world are those which exist at calcutta and bombay which are kept open during the rainy raidy season of the year for the purpose of enabling those wh who 0 wish to bet on the amount of rainfall of any one shower whenever a crosses the sky a crowd of eager er an and elci excited men rush to the points which overlook the roof in question shouting and gesticulating to their friends while gazing anxiously at the sky it is said mid that this system t em of gambling has one advantage that the ral rain clouds cannot be mani manipulated ula ted there can be no DO loading 11 as in dice or 91 pulling as in horse racks races the owners of the gambling establishments a are re interested te simply to the estep extent 4 of their commissions and see that there is fair play between the gamblers THE cleveland leader remarks chicago is again suffering from an outbreak of the most offensive eign ism an attempt has been made to enforce the sunday closing law against the saloons and the personal rights bights league has seen fit to protest against the enforcement of the law one of the speakers at a meeting of the league said if they are going to close the saloons we insist that the churches shall also be closed and that they shall not be allowed tu to continue business at the old stands 1 the idea of comparing the whisky shop the nursery of crime and disorder with the churches is outrageous it ought to be enough to arouse public sentiment on the subject and to force sunday closing such offensive language is a disgrace to chicago and cannot be squelched too soon I NEW YORK world now that stanley seems certainly nearing the east coast of africa the interest in his latest expedition is greatly increased it is mainly a romantic interest such as attaches to every story of travel and adventure in strange lands of hardships endured dangers passed and difficulties ove overcome por for there was nothing in the objects of the expedition to com mand much sympathy this the pretense of relieving emin emid who did not need or desire relief was merely a cover for an essentially commercial enterprise undertaken in the interest of traders looking to future profits incidentally such a march however helps to open the road by which civilization will enter the fastnesses fast nesses of the dark continent and so in serving greed a man like stanley serves human progress also and what a fascinatingly interesting book the story of this last march across africa will make I 1 HERE HEBE is a passage f from rom the late samuel S coxs description of a sunset which gained for him the sobriquet with which nearly everybody is familiar what a sunset was that last night how glorious the storm and how splendid the setting of the surd sun the scene opened in the west with a whole horizon full of golden inter penetrating lustre which covered every into its own rich dyes the colors grew deeper and richer until the golden lustre was transferred into a storm cloud full of finest lightning which leaped in dazzling zigzags zigzag sall nil round the wind arose with fury the tender shrubs and giant trees made obeisance to its majesty agthe As the rain came and the pools formed thunder roared grandly and the fire bells caught the excitement cit and rang with hearty chorus the south and the east received the copious showers and the west all at once brightened up in a long polished belt of azure worthy of a sicilian sky MARY MABY martin a young woman who was wag sent to the kings king Is county new york penitentiary has been transferred to the hospital at flatbush where the doctors will endeavor to find out the source from which she has a remarkable power she is timid and extremely sensitive but possesses the strength of a saxon she is only 4 feet 8 inches in height small limbed and has the hands of a child of 10 years when arrested in brooklyn she had torn up a lamp post in the street ana required five officers to agriest wg she was locked up in an iron tb and an hour later surprised sed desk sergeant by appearing fore him having bent the of the door and crawled out 0 a the prison she was given the WOO IWO est eat cell but a tew few hours law iss ml so found in the prison yard 00 had snapped the bars of a her arf door as if they had been a wax warden hayes gave gaa fe W of the w for the confinement samson in one of the strongest strongest 0 7 in the womans comans prison quietly submitted to her US the dw and the following morning hadow 0 o she na covery was made that carried again she was a another cell and a awo special placed place dover over her theirl the girl from the cooler by using ber 4 gers as a wrench for the gulp arf removing the nuts from t tb e e the lock bolts afterwards tak the lock she re locked up so judge moore re her fine and she was disch di some famous suicides of the following are some cpr more noted suicides of which tion is made in history chesom U bat not savor much of iD insanity sanity rather of stoic philosophy ablo n cato stabbed himself rather 0 live under the despotic reign casar poisoned pois oneO ii self rather than lead the pe bo aft against his countrymen zeno he d 98 hung himself because ys aty of joint aoa and out put his finger c anibal and themselves to escape being ap prisoners when we sear p ture we find that saul baul r ther still A fall into the hands of the phill P bes bear bearers arto commanded his armor his sword that he might ight a upon it samson for the A on being upon his pulled down the hola house id J d they were reveling and them and judas iscariot iscah Isca 0 sellin selling g the savior savio r for tb ir yv 0 of silver was ove overcome e by jy 11 and went and h hanged a n ged hi bin fattening snails held in the vineyard snail is held t ie 10 esteem in southern europe europ in as by no means uncommon ue land at one time it was wall the ye 00 to have been imported br Y y w bw mans while another th abw aorl at 00 t abou aa IS I 1 introduced that it was fifteenth or sixteenth century ww a i is undeniably common in n th naj iby efcy of old roman canape camps obber d uw I 1 all chalk frequent also on va g now SOIS soils and the opinion t tha is ia vw r brally entertained native helix I 1 is a the hea ish species the rulers 0 of i were no nevertheless elew I 1 its 09 arons not content with I 1 tb stewed in every form they n it in or sty boiled in wine being r rw od 0 the food best f fitted tto di for r P large and juicy spool bpi mena ft alay successful they were wr it yr t berred from the fact if ia hies that some of the shells ol of hold a would now 1 snails in af of wine ones am a week |