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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-02-26
Blanks.

We keep constantly on hand printed from new
type on tho hest paper, the following blanks:
+ ig.,.~:. . II qEEDs. ,.-..
Warranty, Mortgage,
! Quitclaim, Chattel Mortgage.
,. yea =, DISTRICT COURT.
Notices OF Trial, Executions,
Cerda's Of Comparison, Marriage Certificates.
Authsntication,
- w JUSTICE COURT.
Summons Writ of Replevin.
<ubpoenas, '@<' Ahidavit In Replevin,
Bond e; Attachment. Garnishee Summons,
- Writ for Attachment, AfidHt Of 0arnishment
Anidavit for Attachment Notice to Defendant In
Bond in Rsplsvin, 0arnishes Summons.
ga MISCELLANEOUS. T..
Power OF: Attorney, Leases.
Mail Proposals,
- 9. TOWN BLANKS. =
0tdsss, with stubs-loose or bound, in books Of 70
~ ~. .t.'s t<.,Ta :: s..r : - :.-c
Order Of Supervisors laying out . new road.
Rsiessssf DAmagss BY Owners Of Land. =. =
Afndavits 70 DO attached to bills for rownor Csuu
y. n%& .3ae:tG &4a. 50. go ah'}f
Bond OF Town Treasurer, 49,, ses .,.x,:. 3.
IL ""s Constable. = . : ~ '''
" .sesJuetics. OF the Peace ! = - ~ .;
NGsis: 70 District Clerk q Election Of Justice q
Netics Of Dsetion Of Constable. 49, -. :: W s.s
Alled at low prices 5ss s$sss - Esa% %IiEsn4se
- Bianksof any iiad printed to order On short
notice.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-02-26
SELLING THE STATE NORMAL
SCHOOLS.
Remarks OF Hon. d. C. n-A An tn'
senate-.o~-@sua February 10.

Remarks Of Hon. q. C. n-A IN tne
senato o~-ssuSy, February 10.
From the st. Paul Pioneer.
Mr.. PRESIDENT II desire to SAY
with reference to SEQ. 2 of this bill
that I think it entirely beyond the
reach Of these cities to purchase THU
property upon any such terms. Thi.
section provides that the property shall
bring Its original cost to the State.
What has this property cost the
State2
The State has invested in the
real estate Of tho Winons
l............................"$122,1l4 OF
Msnksto ohool................... $1,000 Oe
St. Cloud School....".-.........- $1,000 0e
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-02-26

Total.......... .........,,.....$222,1l4 w
Now, for example, l wish to show
you how the city of St. Cloud would
stand affected, if this bill should be.
come 4 law:
The real estate Of st. Cloud
Normal School cost the
st.te.....:......:. ...::...:... $45, 700 90
Tho interest on city bonds for
this amount ct per cent.
would Observation-Disclosures. $3.50 90
The running expenses of
this School asked for by the
Board are......... ................ 10000 90
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-02-26


for the st. Paul and Pacific branch
line, was 80 smended Is to provide that
all claimants shall begin suit within
sixsy days after the denial of the com.
pan,, and then passed.
The Senate bill appropristing $4,000
to carry the j. D. Blake & CO. suit
against the Winona l. St. Peter Rail.
road Company to tho U. s. Supreme
Court vas passed.
Also, the bill to abolish the use Of
the ball aud chain in public.
Fn1DAr.-Senate-Bills were pass.
ed:
Appropriating $400 to build a
bridge over spunk Brook and Two Riv-
ers, between Stearns and Morrison
counties. "
Also, 500 for laying out . State
road from Parker's Prairie IN Otter
:.
Tail county, to Wadsns. .:f ......
There vas . general discussion Of
railroad bills.
Il Rosss-Mr. Metcalf's bill granting
an extension. Of time for tho compilation
Of the branch lines Of tho st. Paul and
Poetic railroad Vas indefinitely post.
peped.
So Wa Mr.. Bcpz's bill repeating thu
law sxemptiug l.borers' wages to The
amvunt Of $50 from attachment.
Bills ~ere passed 70 establish The
county line between the counties o.
Stearns and Todd; establishing the
woman's estate 10 the property Of he'
deceased husband, and repeating oil
dover bills i; and. authorizing the O.
tsblishmeat Of town insurance com
panies. 49,. =: ...5 -.r
SATuRDAY.-Senate-Mr. Donnel
y called up the msmorial to Congress
70 renew the land grant to tho Sc. PAN
and Pacific raikosd, the State, however
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-02-26
Retail Business of st. Paul,


hand
wela stocks,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
An Ohio Giant.

A Cleveland paper relates a number
of anecdotes illustrative of the strength
and size of Abner McIlrath, whom it
dubs a giant. 1t appears that McIlrath
is sixty-one years of age, and is six feet
seven and half inches, standing in his
boots, fairly proportionedin form, without
a pound of waste flesh. He was and is a
giant in muscular strength as well as
physically. He has lifted 100 pounds
of iron, and blow with his massive fist
and long arm was so powerful that on
one occasion, when some twelve or fifteen
sailors went out to his place to raise a
muss," he thrashed the whole lot and
threw them one by one out of the door,
just as one could throw SO many babies,
and during that operation he dared not
double his fist for fear his blows might
prove fatal to some of the rowdies.
"Abe" formerly carried on the business
of cooper, and used to come to town
with his load of barrels. On one oc-
casion, while stopping at the Red Tavern,
lately known as the Jackson House, and
which is now torn down, a snob from
town, who was out there with his turn
out in the shape of livery horse and
buggy, got into a difficulty with Abe,
and having insulted him in some way or
another, Abe resented it by lifting the
buggy right up and straddling it across
the fence, and then got on his wagon and
drove off to town, whistling as though
nothing was the matter, and leaving the
luckless dandy to get his buggy off the
fence as best he was able.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
A Mexican Funeral.

A recent letter from Acapulco thus
describes the funeral of two sisters
beautiful girls of eighteen and twenty
years. They were carried to the grave
in the evening, side by side, in an open
funeral car, in elegant dresses, which they
had made with their own hands for the
Spanish ball which was to have taken
place on the evening of their burial.
The car in which the corpses lay was
splendidly decorated - rising above the
head of each beautifully gilded crown,
and at their feet gilded ornamental work,
representing three half moons. In their
hands, which were locked together in the
attitude of prayer, they had bouquets of
flowers, and their brows were encircled
with wreaths of roses The faces of the
young girls were uncovered; but partly
concealing their magnificent dresses, was
thrown over them q richly-worked lace
veil covered almost completely with
offerings of flowers, while their tiny feet,
encased in plum-colored silk stockings
and satin-laced shoes, were slightly ex-
posed to view.
The car was borne on the shoulders OF
negroes; following them, six others, with
the top of the burial case and following
the latter still, six others, with a table
upon which the car was set down in the
street at intervals. A band of music,
playing lively tune, preceded the cor
tege, and almost the whole city saw
them placed in the tomb, and chanting
over them the burial service of the Cath
ole Church.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18

some cold pressed ham, say about one
fourth of a pound, put it into basin
with tablespoonful Of chopped pickles,
and a teaspoonful of mustard, a little
pepper or cayenne; put about six ounces
Of butter in basin, and stir quickly
with spoon till it formsa kind of cream
add the ham and seasoning, mix all well;
have the sandwich bread cut in thin
slices; have already cut, thinly inter
mixed with fat, either cold roast beef,
veal, lamb, mutton, poultry, fowl, pleas.
ant, grouse, partridge, etc., either OF
which lay evenly, and not too thick, on
your bread. When your sandwich is
ready, cut in any shape you like, but
rather small and Hastily, and serve. You
may keep them in a cold place, if not
wanted, as they will keep good under
cover for twelve hours.
RAISED CONNECTICUT DOUGHNUTs.--
Heat pint of milk just lukewarm, and
stir into it small cup of sifted -four
and melted lard, till it is thick batter !;
add a small cup of domestic yeast, and
keep it warm till the batter is light !;
then work into it four beaten eggs, two
cups of sugar rolled free from Jumps, a
teaspoonful of salt, and two of cinnamon.
When the whole is well mixed, knead in
wheat -four until about as stiff as bis
cult dough. Set it where it will keep
warm, till of spongy ightness, then
roll the dough out half an inch thick,
and cut into cakes. Let them remain
until light, and then fry them in hot
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
A Sell. Not a Sale.

Amiable shopkeepers deserve to be
canonized. Here is an illustration OF
the trials to which they are constantly
subjected. One midsummer day, when
Eolus slept, and the thermometer stood
in the nineties, lady entered a store
not thousand miles off, and inquired
for parasols The obliging proprietor
spread out before her samples of a large
and varied stock.
"Have you any of this shade size
larger p said the lady.
The size was produced.
81 think on the whole / prefer the
size smaller"
The size smaller was presented.
Have you any of this size lighter
shade of blue~
The required shade was brought out.
" Haven't you any of this kind with a
crooked handleY'
The shade with the crooked handle APP
peared.
Have you any with the crooked
handle not quite SO heavyr said the
lady, and so continued her inquiries for
every conceivable size, shade and weight
possible in the line of parasols.
After nearly an hour had been con-
sumed, the fair shopper gathered up her
handkerchief and gloves, and moved for
the door.
"Can't sell you a parasol p inquired
the exhausted proprietor.
"Oh, dear, no." replied the lady, at
was merely inquiring the prices. 1 am
going into mourning myself, and have
one for SALE"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Good Night.

How tenderly and sweetly falls the
gentle "good night" into loving hearts,
as members of family separate and re-
tire for the night. What myriads of
hasty words and thoughtless acts, engen-
dered in the hurry and business of the
day, are forever blotted out by its
benign influence, Small token indeed !;
but it is the little courtesies that make
up the sum of happy home. 1t is only
the little courtesies that can 80 beauti-
fully round off the square corners in the
homes of laboring men and women. The
simple az thank you" for a favor re-
ceived, will fill with happiness the heart
of the giver. True wealth is not counted
by dollars and cents, but by the graft
tude and affection of the heart. If q
home be happy, it is of heaven the truest
earthly symbol. If home be happy,
whether the owner possess a patch of
ground of one or a thousand acres, they
are in the end wealthy beyond mathe-
matical calculations.
Then how much more lovingly are the
sable folds of night gathered around the
happy homes; how much more con-
fidingly do its members repose their
weary bodies i'm the care of Divine good
ness, soothing their overtaxed minds to
the realities of beautiful dreamland (;
awakened, refreshed and invigorated for
the coming days labor, by having bid
their loved ones an affectionate "good
night" And If, during this life we have
faithfully attended to all these little
courtesies, these little soul-needs, if we
have guarded carefully all Goods
hearts" placed in our keeping, at the
close of its brief, yet eventful day, how
much easier to bid all our dearly beloved
ones final "good night"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18

With a certain class of unthinking
people, Gladly" signifies that feminine
representative possessing weighty pock-
ct book first-class establishment; SER
wants at command; radiant in all the
paraphernalia of modern aristocracy.
Thus endowed, her modicum of superb.
ority is perfect to acceptance. Again, a
second remnant assume as basis that
miserable sacrifice of natural grace which
we term affectation resting their claims
to ladyism on dancing school bows, puck
cred 1ispings, and like disagreeables; a
third veil their vulgarity from their spec
ial circles but TO render IL the more odiOus
to general humanity-and so we might
enumerate indefinitely. But these AFRO
CANT danes, who seem to think that they
are made of superior clay, are not types
Of the true lady, whose strongest charac-
teristic is her equal demeanor toward all !;
neither disdaining her interiors, nor IA
voring them with that overwhelming
condescension so unnecessary and OBJ
noxious. Concerning this last, many
+" would-be ladies'" deem IL steadfast
base of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the
element seemingly animating
these feminine organizations. But kind
illness being the actuating power of all
genuine politeness, Is to the true lady an
instructive guide, equalizing all grades
of society impelling her to all goodly
graces, and rendering her, wherever she
goes, welcome and courted guest.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
An Expensive Kiss.

Here is new lesson for railway COM
panies. Juries are disposed to hold them
responsible for all manner of things, but
aWisconsin jury has mulcted the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway Company in
damages to the amount of one thousand
dollars, for the kissing of young lady
passenger by the conductor. A female
school teacher, young and pretty, was
riding from Milwaukee to Baraboo, and
it came to be that she was sole passenger
in the car before she reached her journeys
end. And it came to pass as the con-
ductor took up her check, he gave her a
kiss. She made complaint and the con-
ductor, very properly, was dismissed, be-
sides being fined twenty-five dollars for
the assault. The young lady was not
content with that punishment of the
offender but sued the company and re-
covered .one thousand dollars. Suppose
she had been travelling on pass" would
the conditions on the back Of the "pass"
have protected the company?
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Wedding Gifts.

The practice of offering presents to
those who are entering upon an agree
ment "for better or worse, for richer or
poorer, for sickness or in health" dates
back to the period when mutual. friends
offered articles that would go far toward
making the housekeeping of the newly
welded more comfortable than it could
otherwise have been.
This was doubtless the original object
of wedding gifts; but Grecian annals tell
us that, in their time, it had become an
occasion for gorgeous display; and we
read of vessels of gold and silver, precious
Jewels, vases, articles Of ornament ONT
ment boxes of pure gold, magnificent
wearing apparel, etc., being presented to
the newly-wedded, as well as couches,
tables, and household appurtenances.
Their customs much resembled ours,
for all these gifts were displayed for
show, and their intrinsic value was dis
cussed as among US, and the costly
elegance of one present serving but to
point out the mean ugliness of another
Aristides, the Just, no doubt would
have counselled better things, but Gre
clan human nature did not differ so very
widely from the human nature which is
now in existence.
We appreciate the sentiment which
enshrines the gift, and makes it costly.
And as far as wedding gifts are the
spontaneous offering of the heart, they
are to be highly praised; but where the
expense of silver, jewelry, pictures, ETC.,
can be lily afforded, they are but a
nuisance, and we desire to commend the
practice which is rapidly gaining favor
among the richest circles in American
cities of engraving the words, "No pres
ents received" upon the invitation to
the wedding ceremony.
Some of the most magnificent wed.
dings lately celebrated in New York and
its vicinity have been conducted in this
way. The principals had seen that the
custom had become an imposition, and
desired to be the first to put it away.
1t is a custom that we trust will be
largely followed by all classes; for there
are but few who have the courage to en-.
counter the suspicion that they can find
better use for their money than in buy
ing sets of silver spoons, forks, etc.
Undoubtedly there are weddings wheI
sentiment, affection and interest induces
C1c RlNeT W uldkc tlC CIV oohOehiht
permanent and of intrinsic value; but II
should be only considered acceptable
from those nearest and dearest to us
while others should content themselves
with sending flowers, which are always
sweet and lovely.
There is no sense in two young persons
expecting that there friends should
furnish their homes for them with lux
urious appurtenances; that they should
brighten their table with silver and
glass, hang pictures on their walls, place
bronzes upon their mantlepieces, or fill
their bookcases or portfolios with costly
books and engravings.
These expectations have reached such
a pass in our day that they have set
common decency at defiance; and people
have been told what articles they were
expected to present, because they them
selves, or their sons or daughters, had
received such and such gifts at the hands
of their friends.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
Sarcastic Romance.

Appearing in Nashville paper, is
tremendous romance of facts in Fayette-
vile, from which the appended chaste
descriptions of the lovers concerned may
be tastefully quoted:
He was young, he was fair, and he
parted his hair, like the average beau, i'm
the middle; he was proud, he was bold,
but the truth must be told, he played
like fend on the fiddle. But, aside
from this vice, he was everything nice,
and his heart was so loving and tender,
that he always turned pale when he trod
on the tail of the cat lying down by the
fender. He clerked in store, and the
way that he tore off calico, jeans and
brown sheeting, would have tickled
calf and made the brute laugh in the
face off quarterly meeting. He cut quite
dash with darling moustache, which
he learned to adore and to cherish; for
one girl had said, while she dropped her
proud head, that 'twould kill her to see
the thing perish. On Sunday he'd
search the straight road to the church,
unheeding the voice of the scOrner; and
demurely he sat, like a young tabby cat,
with the saints in the far amen corner.
He sang like bird, and his sweet voice
was heard fairly Juggling away at long
meter; and we speak but the truth when
we say that this youth could outsing a
hungry mosquito.
She was young, she was fair, and she
scrambled her hair like the average
belle of the city she was proud but not
bold, yet the truth must be told that the
way she chewed wax was a pity. But,
aside from this vice, she was everything
nice, and the world much applauded her
hustle; and the Fayetteville boys, being
Gained by the noise walked miles just to
hear the thing rustic. She cut quite
swell, did this wax-chewing belle, and
the men focked in armies to meet her;
but she gave them the shirk, for she
loved the young clerk who sang like
hungry mosquito. So she hemmed and
she hawed, and she sighed and she
chawed," till her heart and her jaws
were both broken; then she walked by
his store, while he stood at the door
awaiting some amative token. She
raised up her eyes with pretty surprise,
and tried to enact the proud scorner;
but, to tell the plain truth, she Just
grinned at the youth who loved the de-
vout amen corner.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
The Cutie Fish.

A scientific paper undertakes the
question which all readers of books on
natural history are familiar with, whether
there is any ground for the stories of
gigantic cutie fish which are everywhere
floating about the world. Mr.. Saville
Kent comes to the conclusion that there
is. He accepts the monster encountered
by the French ship AlectOn, in 1861, and
gives us the sketch made by one of the
officers on board; and he tells wonder
full, and, apparently, well-authenticated
tale of still more formidable creature
that almost devoured two fishermen off
New Foundland so lately as last October.
Two of the tentacles which grappled
with their boat were chopped off with
Ratchet, and the longer fragment is still
preserved in the Museum of st. Johns.
1t measures no less than nineteen feet.
Oddly enough, very soon afterward cap
ture was made in the same locality of
another of these monsters by fisher
mans net. 1t was dragged ashore, pho
tographed, and measured. "The body
of this specimen measures eight feet in
length, with girth of FIVE feet, the two
longest tentacles twenty-four feet, and
the eight short arms each six feet in
length"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
A DOuble Brain.

In one of his lectures before the Lowell
Institute, Boston, DR.. Brown-Sequard
observes that the study of the facts re-
lating to the brain has led him to believe
that "each half of the brain-paradoxical
as it may SCENTS whole BRAIN" each
globe being normally competent to per-
form all the functions of both, not so
vigorously, of course, as the two acting
together, yet with apparent complete
ness. Unfortunately, however, most of
us are single-brained as we are single
handed, and for the same reason. We
fail to do what is really needed to give us
two working brains. "There is no ques-
tion," concludes this skillful observer,
that it is our habit of making use of
only one side of the body that consigns
to One-half of the brain-the right side
the faculty of expressing ideas by speech.
If we develope both sides of our body
equally, not only would there be the
benefit that we could write or work with
the left hand as well as with the right,
but we should have two brains instead of
one, and would not be deprived of the
power af speech through disease of one
side of the BRAIN"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-18
The. Matrimonial Knot.

A japanese couple are fortunate or un-
fortunate enough to have a manageable
daughter, and the latter is acquainted
with fine young fellow who would be a
capital match, if only he possessed the
necessary means OF making his lady-love
and her parents the indispensable wedding
presents, and keeping open house for a
week. One fine evening, the father and
mother returning from the bath, find the
house empty the daughter is gone.
They make inquiries in the neighbor-
hood; no one has seen her, but the neigh
bors hasten to offer their services in seek
ing her, together with her distracted
parents. They accept the offer and head
a solemn procession, which goes from
street to street, to the lovers door. In
vain does he, hidden behind his panels,
turn a deaf ear; he is at length obliged
to yield to the opportunities of the be-
sieging crowd; he opens the door; and
the young girl, bathed in tears, throws
herself at the feet of her parents, who
threaten to curse her. Then comes the
intervention of charitable friends, deeply
moved by this spectacle; the softening of
the mother; the proud and memorable
attitude of the father; the combined
eloquence of the multitude employed to
soften his heart; the lovers endless pro-
testations of his resolution to become the
best of sOns-in-law. At length the father
yields, his resistance is overcome he
raises his kneeling daughter, pardons her
lover, and calls him son-in-law. Then,
almost as if by enchantment, cups of
saki IAN intoxicating liquor made from
rice) circulate through the assembly;
everybody sits down upon mats, the two
culprits are placed in the centre of the
circle, large bowls of saki are handed to
them, and, when emptied, the marriage
is recognized, and declared to be validity
contracted in the presence of sufficient
number of witnesses, and is registered
next day by the proper officer without
any difficulty.