The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-20
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post tern examination determined
| that she had taken a large dose OF
I strychnine, which she had obtained the
day before. Temporary insanity was
the cause assigned.
TIE man Who pretended he was rob-
bed not long ago near Austin Of five or
six Thousand dollars is denounced by
Iowa acquaintance as q scalawag whose
assertion that he was robbed is un-
worthy Of belief.
| The Steele county fair is to be at
0watonna on Friday and Saturday, the
18th and Goth Of September.
JOSEPH KERN has returned to his
friends at Delano, cured of insanity by
several months treatment at the State
Asylum. ~ = = Es.:a..et - a. :,
| LAKE Madison, ten miles from Man
! kato, is becoming favorite place Of re-
sort theipedple Of Maakato and Wis
itors:to that place.
! By the St. Cloud Press we see that
Rice and Others trustees, have filed
| notice. of the pendencY. of their suit for
4Sretlsteuf b. das t. the ,St:sPaule and
Pacific company, which is probably de-
signed to prevent the company selling
any Of its lands until the suit is decided.
The Ghost i'm Hamlet.
| The ghost of the elder Hamlet in
/ marble-this is the audacious work OF
| Thomas r. Gould, the Boston sculptor,
! and the Advertiser thus wildly de-
| scribes it:
1t is called-or rather we should say
/ it is-the "Ghost in Hamlet and it
| consists of head, bearded, helmeted
and plumed, chiselled in high relief on
a sunk oval set into square. To rep
| resent spirit in marble-the idea
seems at first preposterous. And il
-one could stop to analyze his impress
sions of this ghost, the first would
probably be one of quick appreciation
of the artistic instinct which suggested
the form of Mr.. Gould's work, form
which, when thus suggested, the mind
At once perceives to be the only one
possible to the sculptor's success with
sach subject.
But such o thought will come, if at
all late and not early. The first feeling
will be mixture of awe and wonder.
Here is shadow in marble, yet dis
tinct personality of keen and varied ex-
preston. 1t is a spirit striving to be-
come an apparition and showing the
strain of the endeavor. The eyes not
only transfix the attention-terr
far-away eyes, which have looked upon
the unntterable secrets of the ''prison-
house" Of souls; eyes full of the name
less anguish of expiration, yet terrible
in their demand for Vengeance upon the
living. :
AS one looks longer the piteousnes
of the whole expression grows, especi-
ely again in the wonderful eyes; the
oountenance, grim and ''perturbed." as
it is, is seen to be s'more in sorrow than
in anger" and even the dread frown
seems tempered by the love and longing
which led the father to seek his only
son. In every line and aspect the head
is most majestic and kingly, and by
some subtle skill, the effect of paleness,
as required by the text Of Shakespeare,
seems to be impaired to the wasted
cheeks. Viewed from different points
these various expressions become by
turns conspicuous.
With his right side in shadow the
face is more grievous and wasted, be-
traying the seattle of purgatorial fire.
With his left side in shadow the brows
bend in menace, the eyes are troubled,
the diaphanous and palpitating nostrils
''scent the morning air. the beard
shuts down over portentous secret,
while undulations and points Of shadow
in the cheek that takes the light, be-
trayiAg the action of the concealed
mouth, manifest fathers yearning.
Now let him face the light and instantly
''the aparition comes' right through
the oval toward you; the eyes are keen
and clear, the beard and plumes vanish
into the oval and the face becomes that
Of a living spirit, pure and cold as
"now thrice-sifted by the frozen wind"
Rolling q Cure for Potato Disease.
Having read about the advantages
Of rolling potato fields on the recur-
renee Of disease, it may be worth no.
tice that the experiment has been tried
at Bicton with the most satisfactory
results Potato disease madp tic an