The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-12-25
FACTS AND FANCIES.

complimentary to some OF them and we only
regret that the exigences of the times require
sheet so little in keeping with the merry max
ing of holiday period. But it cannot be
helped.
Or ADVERTISERS, one and all, are prepared,
it will be seen, to accommodate their customers
during the holidays. Owing TO the necessity
of giving this week an unusual quantity of
reading matter, we must beg the indulgence of
some of those who advertise.
THE ENTERTAINMENT given by the ladies of
the Baptist Church on board the Greke
Stare, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings
was well patronized by our citizens generally,
the entire proceeds of the sale amounting to
between three and four hundred dollars. The
ladies looked their best, worked their best, and
did their best and of course everything went
off entirely satisfactory.
DoAN, KING & Cove invite attention to
the advertisement of this old and highly re-
spectacle house.
The Poor 1E HAVE ALWAYS WITH YOU I'VE
hope our citizens who are enjoying themselves
these holiday tmes--who are feastng at
Thanksgiving dinners church suppcrs, ball
room banquets and New Years levces-will
not forget this gentle and meaning hint of the
Divine Master. We have the poor in our midst,
even in this new city. Many are here who
came the past season, and expended their all
in reaching our shores. As was appropriately
suggested by Elder Cressey, in his excellent
Thanksgiving discourse on wednesday, they
are to be found in rude and weather. searching
shanties along the back streets, and among the
surrounding hills of the city, perhaps suffering
for food, and shivering with the rude blasts of
this inclement season. We ourselves know of
such. Ladies of St Paul--ye angels of mercy
search them out, we beg ofyou! Forego the
purchase of church bells, and organs, and the
rearing of co.tly church edifccs. through spir-
it of rivalry, for little season, and administer
to your hungry, freezing, suffering sister.
SHAKESPEARE IN DEMANDING hunted all over
the office the other day for our copy of Shaks-
peare, and were compelled to give up the
search. When the Democrat came ont, we at
once could account for the missing volnmc-
Look at those glaring, staring quotations in
every column! Is it not clearly evident that
the editor has swallowed a copy of Shakespeare,
and may it not as probably have been our copy
as any other? Here's the editors opinion of
himself. as drawn from his late literary and
classic collation.:
s.There is no terror in your threats,
For am arm'd SO strong in honesty,
That they pass by me. as the idle winds,
Which respect not.'
Modest man, that neighbor Proteus of ours,
isn't he. Honesty, forsooth--honesty, and lend
his columns to carry on the personal quarrels
of such mere adventurers in trade and principle
as those who are now backing him, BAH,
MINNESOTA PRoDcrioSs.-A lady of foreign
nativity, Norwegian we believe, the wife of
farmer residing east of St. Anthony, has three
of the finest healthiest, rosy checked little
daughters, all of one birth. aged about nine
months, that were ever sent upon earth to
bless parents. They were born in the Terrific
ry; and We hope measures will be taken to
send them to the Worlds Fair at New York.
next summer as about the best specimen Of one
of the great staples Of Minnesota that can be
L" scared up anywhere.
GRiSDISc.-Thc grist mill at St. Anthony
has now one run Of stones in operation, and is
producing a most excellent article of corn
meal. In week or two they will be prepared
to grind wheat, of which, by the way, there is
sufficient in the country to keep the mill 60
ing till next spring. Persons who expect TO
get eight and ten dollars per barrel for -four
before the opening of navigation may as we'll
hang up their fddles.' That Isl piece of i'm
position what "can't be did"
Jrylus BRuTus BoorH.-We notice in our
outside columns to-day paragraph abiding
to some recent eNcentricities of this parsonage.
The last mail brings intelligence of his death.
He recently landed in New Orleans on his re-
turn from his professional visit to California,
which had proved highly successful, and died
on board a steamboat while coming up the
river. lie was man of genius and mark. and
when " Richards himself again. was the mas
ter of tragedy. The cup at times was his bane
and withcred the laurels otherwise worn so de-
servedly and well. Mr.. Booth has just closed
all c1lSdSeLlellt Il NEW OTlttuS, tuC
yune says his "Bcrtram was a masterpiece of
acting. From the commencement of the piece
to the close he unclaimed the attention of the
audience, and it was hard to say in which par
ticular scene he was the greatest though the
last was fcarfully grand
Our Hennepin county ncighbors, We learn.
are making preparations for opening school
on that side of the river. We believe they also
design establishing a Lyceum, and expect to
have series of lectures from prominent indi-
vduals in the Territory. Success to all such
laudable undertakings in our youthful sister
city.-St .fnthony Express.
Among other improvements which we no
ticed during recent visit to Hcnnepin, was
the laying out and establishment of straight
road from the line of the present Reserve at
Little Falls creek to Crystal Lake. The county
scat has been established about half a mile
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