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The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16
Is Insanity Increasing?

In England in 1859, with population of IS, ,686, ,701, there were known 1S7 in- sane and idiotic persons to each 100000 inhabitants, or one in every 535. In 1875 the number had increased to 27l Tn every 100000, or one in each 365. In France the number of insane in The asv- lums nearly quadrupled between lS3o and 1870, and also increased from 3l.6 in each 100000 oi the population to l003 or very nearly three times. In Parit alone the admissions to insane asylumi increased more than skiold between 1900 and 1876, while in the same tim' the population was scarcely trebled. IT Massachusetts the number of insane II the asylums has increased in fifty-nin' years from 30 to 2,976, and the rate pro .portionately to the popslation has aug mented more than eighteen times. Th' number of insane in the State at presen who are not in asylums is also estimated to be between 1000 and 300.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16
LONDON BOARDING HOUSES.
A Graphic Description of Their Inner
 Workings.

A correspondent writing of London boarding-houses, says: The frs. thins that strikes one on entering one ol them for the first time is their utterly
 and irredeemably Philistine aspect, even
 in this country, where scarcely a gro.
 cer's wife does not read Eastlake, and
 every tailor's helpmeet has high ideals
 in the way of artistic tables and chairs.
 Summer or winter there is always gor-
 geously Japanned coal-box beside the
 grate in the drawing-room, evidently
 for decorative reasons. In summer the
 grate is invariably filled with a foamy
 mass of cut white paper, looking like a
 petrified cascade tumbling down the
 chimney; also is there invariably a
 small upright piano, almost invariably a
 dim, green Brussels carpet, stiff cen-
 ter-table in the middle of the room and
 dim-hued rep furniture ranged about,
 shrouded in antimacasser from the de- filing London atmosphere, which puts ever such blight upon every London
 aspiration for warmth and glow of color.
 One boon dear to London boarding housekeepers is the present cheas fash ion of paper curtains. They hang large, generous folds, like the remnants of an- tique statutes, although somewhat stiff1y. They are printed in all the artistic de- signs and colors that Morris & Mar shall's household decorative taste have made so popular, have every appear ance, to superficial eye, of rich tapes try or dainty chintz and may be bought for five dollars, large enough to drape the widest and highest windows. The bedrooms in London boarding house are invariably more shabblly furnished than those of the same price in Paris, Florence, Rome, Naples, or America. The climate, of course, has much to do with this shabbiness, but more to cause it is the English habit of never using bedrooms for other than sleeping places, and of spending all indoor time in the large public drawing-room. In a Lon don Clearinghouse the gentlemen read and write habitually in the dining room, while the ladies read, write, sit at their embroidery, practice their music and spin their gossips all day long in the drawing-room above. In the evening, after dinner, both ladies and gentlemen meet in the drawing-room. Card-tables are brought into acquisition, sometimes five or six of them, and at ten in the evening it would be perfectly safe to wager that there is not board ing. house within the circuit of two miles where half the inmates are not gathered about whist tables It seems to be the universal habit among English people, as among the French, to increase the interest of the game Of playing for a small stake of money. once knew an English heiress. of excellent social position, who always kept two purses, one ot which she called her spending purse," the other her gambling purse," and I have seen the two purses when one was full and the other empty. Which was which leave the curious to divine.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16
Reooatins St. Peters.

The London 7elegraph prints the fol- lowing in regard to the job of recoating the dome of St. Peters:
 In the spring of 1863 Pope Plus lX. gave orders to Cardinal Ricci that the cupola of St. Peters should be recoated with lead, upon the distinct understand ing that the work should be completed within four years from the date Of the commencement, as he earnt stly wished to see the renovation finished before his death. The plumber, however, had been occupied with the still unfinished tlsk for son fifteen years when the venerable pontif gained the majority, and would very likely have prolonged the gigantic job until the end of the present century had not Leo XII. ie.. gently issued positive orders that all possible expedition should be used in carrying out the undertaking commenc- ed by his immediate predecessor: It appears that in obedience to his holi- ness mandate extraordinary energy is being displayed in clothing the vast cupola with it's new leaden garments, which are being rapidly fitted to three of the si xteen sections into which the surface of the dome has been divided.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16
Why Are There Unmarried Women.
Cricket on the Hearth


 One of the greatest social problems of the day is to explain why there are so many marriageable women who never get married Some say it is owning to an excess in numbers of women over men, in consequence of which there are not husbands enough to go round. This. however, is disapproved by statistics. Take the world through and figures show that there are as many men in it as there are women. Others attribute it to the responsiveness of modern life. Men do not marry because, it is said, they cannot afford to. But the fact is that no man who truly loved woman ever hesitated to become engaged to her because of poverty. They are cold blooded men, with no idea of any feel ing for woman stronger than languid admiration, who may be deterred from assuming what they regard as burden in the shape of wife, unless assured oi liberal income, but most are not so calculating. Others, again, attribute the evil to women's fastidiousness. They expect too much in husband, and, while waiting for an impossible shadow, lel the possible substance slip through their fingers. This is libel on the sex. As a rule, they are no more fastidious than men are, and are just as suscepti- ble as men to that enchantment of love which invests it's object with every per lection and covers up every fault So far as men and women are concerned, they are as prone totmarriage now as in any period of the worlds history. New ertheless, there are women waiting for husbands and not getting them. They are pretty, they are accomplished, they are sensible, and, under proper training, they would make excellent wives and mothers, but they never get a chance What seems to be needed is a more thorough method of bringing men and women into social contact with each 1 other.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16
our Big wheat Crop.
Chicago Tribune

Our last crop of wheat was supposed to be somewhere about 450,000 900 bush
 els Git is ridiculous to attempt to foot 1t up to within 1000 bushels>. We had 360OO, 900 of the old crop left over q year ago, against 1O.O0o,OO0 bushels now, the old wheat being much more closely drained from the farm now than then
 That is, the people of the United States have within twelve months consumed and sold some 470,O00,000 bushels, and have practically none left to compete with the wheat of the new crop. It is exceedingly doubtful if that new croE will foot up more than 470,000,000 bush. els, and if it should, the overplus vii not be terrible burden to the people
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16
About Proverbs.

Proverbs have nationality. The dry humor of the Scotch, the airy grace of the French, the keen wit of the Italian, the sober practical sense of the English, are all represented. Richard Hilles gives an English version of well-known French proverb, and what it gains in vigor it loses in elegance. 'It is easy to walk if one leads ones horse by the bridle," say our neighbors; the English, "He can easily swim that is held by the chin" An Oriental pithlness distin- guishes the Italian "Traduttori tradi- tori" (transators, traitors); and the Spanish, "Who knows nothing doubts nothing" On one subject all nationali- ties agree--not one of them has a good word tor the female sex.
 Were all the authors of proverbs dis- appointed old bachelors or henpecked husbands? One would almost surmise this from the unfattering opinions they record of women. Whether they are condemned with faint praise, as in the English, "All women are good; if they are not good for something they are good for nothing" or sneered at as in the Scotch, Tt is as great a pity to see wo- man weep as to see goose go barefoot" or more openly attacked, as by Oriental maxims, all the proverbs take the same note. One of our oldest rhyming pro- verbs, said to date in the fifteenth cen tury, announces that
 Two women in one house,
 Two cats and one mouse,
 Two dogs and one bone,
 Never can agree in one"
 This, perhaps, is not wholly untrue. Even the Mormons found it expedient to erect separate mansions for each of their spouses, and the experiment of families Giving together" is not always productive of domestic harmony.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16

AN association has been recently or ganized iIf Rio de Janeiro under the title of "Empreza Colonisadora Brazileira," /" for the purpose of introducing immi- grants and supplying planters and others with laborers. Tn association will ac- cept orders for any industry, and will also undertake to supply servants for domestic service. Its support will come from commissions charged upon the ser, vice rendered. The old immigrants lodging-house in Rua da Boa Vista Saude, has been secured for the recep ton of the immigrants.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16
ROSALEE.

One wintry eve, as by the sea
 sat and heard It's melody,
 And q teamed of happier days to be, A lovely maiden came to me- She was my dsriug, Rosalee. With strange, sad eyes upon nc set, With eyes that told of wild regret, Tn words that can ne'er forget she said, Would God we had not metr knew uot why, know not yet. She Ged from me in mad despair, he saore was rugged, bleak and bare. l saw her long. soft yellow hair Blown loose by the unkind, wintry air.- could not find her anywhere, And all the long, long, lonely night, By the pale, shivering, quivering light Of moon and stars, in haste of flight, Dazed in brain and dim of sight, Stroyc co climb some dizzy height. The morning comes, the wild winds blow Tho clouds. like shadows, come and go, The cruel waters ebb and flow; Men take my hand and to me show A maiden's footprints in the snow
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16

TIE French opinion on Dr. Tanners experiment is summed up in Frdnce, Girardin's paper: This prodigious fast, !" it says. twill not fill the stomachs of the starving. There is no need to be a great doctor to make such experiments. All the wretched make them each winter. Dr. Tanner has done the poor a great deal of harm. The familiar appeal, My God, sir. pity me; I've eaten nothing for two days, will never more have any effect on us,
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16

MAJOR DoSN, of the United States Coast Survey, is engaged in making a survey of the beaches and marshes on the south side of Long Island, from which maps are to be made for the use of navigatOrs.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16

IT is stated that landslip at Passo Martino, near Catania, has brought to hght a lage number of ancient tombs and artistic objects believed to belong to the cemetery of Simeatus, town on the River Simaethus, mentioned by pliuv
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-09-16

AN uncorked vial of oil of pennyroyal left on the ledge of your window. or on a table at the head of your bed, will drive away mosquitoes.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05

chanics and fifteen horse seam power. The.
have fourishing business and first class
reputation as machinists, millwrights and
blacksmiths.
Frank Morand, boiler maker, employing
at this time nine men, gives employment to
thirteen to seventeen men most of the year.
His sales during 1879 amounted to over
$4,000. The boilers at the Reform School
shops, the big tanks in the Minnesota Soap
company's factory and eleven boilers last
year for the st. Paul Foundry and Manufac-
turing company are among the jobs he has
executed.
L. F. Osborne, mechanical engineer.
steam filter and contractor, employs ten to
twenty-five mechanics, residents of this ci ty,
on both town and country jobs.
James Rothwell makes mill picks, tools
for stone cutters, moulders and blacksmithe,
springs, etc., and is prepared for all varie-
ties of smith work in steel or iron, including
bridge and building work. Two hands.
H. P. Rugg, in connection with the sale
of mill supplies, employs two mechanics as
filters.
NJ. Walter, who employs seven hands,
makes speciality of wheat heaters and soda
water, brewery and distillery work, bat at
tends to all orders in his line-brass and
copner work
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
FURRIERS.

Work in this line IF business is limited
mostly to the season ct preparation for the
fall and holiday trade. at which time about
12O persons are emploEed here in making up
furs. The employers IRE:
E. Albrecht l. Bro, 81 Il. Third.
Albrecht, Lanpher & Finch, lOS and ITO East
Third.
Gordon & Ferguson, l3a E. Third.
Merrell Ryder. IS jackson.
Raymond Patschovsky, 81 W. Third.
Louis Schmidt, ITS Exchange.
Albrecht & Bro. gave employment last
season to IA hands.
Albrecht, Lanpher & Finch, in connection
with their wholesale trade in hats, caps, furs
and gloves employ so hands in the season in
making up heavy fur goods, ladies' furs and
fur gloves and mittens.
Messrs. Gordon & Ferguson, in connec-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
MILLINERS AND MANTUA-MAK-
Frs.

As the GLOBES collector of statistics did
not feel authorized to extend bis inquiries
into private houses and as but few of the
ladies' engaged in trades seek to make their
occupations public by signs or other adver-
tisements, it is not pretended that the lists
below are either full or wholly correct. But
It is believed they approximate correctness
and furnish basis for estimating the num-
Der of women employed at these occupa-
tons in st. Paul at not less than 400. Some
of the ladies named below 60 out to work
ct their trade in families; others receive
work at their homes and employ two to
twelve assistants; and others carry on their
business at shops on business streets in con-
nectien with the sale of trimmings and no
tons appertaining to their occupation.
MANTUA MAKERS.
Miss NJ. A. Andrews, liz West Third.
Bassett & Reeve, 148 Robert.
Lena Boelter, 263 East Seventh.
Mrs Caroline Bork, 1877 Exchange
Annie Bowser, III Fort.
Mrs. E. Brinley, 12a11 East Seventh, second
floor.
Ella N. Cady, l56 Jackson.
Mrs. E. Cartnel 20 West Tenth.
Misses Casey, Oak and Ninth.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
FOUNDERS, MACMINIsTs, Etc.

In this group we have employed in St.
Paul 233 men and S0-horse steam power.
The list ia Gs follows:
w. F. Bailey, brass founder and fnisher, G7
East Sixth.
Martin Burkley, machinist, Ninth, between
Cedar and Minnesota.
Justus Kahlert, machinist, West SIKH, corner
of Franklin.
Depew Burns, machinists, 12O East Fifth.
Howson & Mutually, iron founders, Franklin
and Third.
Matthias Item, pump filter, Items Block, Bridge
street.
Kenney Bros, boiler makers, Third, corner OF
Wacouta.
Lafferty & Co., windmill makers, ETC., Sixth
and Sibley, second story.
q. J. McAffee & Co.. machinists, etc., Sibley
between Sixth and Seventh.
Frank Morand, boiler maker, Fourth and Neill.
E. F. Osborne, mechanical engineer, Wann'a
Block.
Jos. Rothwell, steel and iron worker, Sixth and
Robert.
d. P. Rugg, machine filter, II Jackson.
st. Paul Foundry and Manufacturing company,
Arkwright near east terminus of street rail.
way.
NJ. Walter, brass and copper worker, SO jackson.
Martin Burnley does general blacksmith
work, including machinery repairs. Four
hands.
Justus Kahlert repairs machinery of al
kinds, makes brewers implements and works
sheet iron. Two hands.
Kenny Bros. boiler makers, who employ
twenty-five men, report their business in
creasing rapidly, with constantly extend
ing area of the country from which orders
are received.
Matthias Item employs two hands in finish
Ing and fitting wood pumps.
McAfee 4 Go. employ ten to twelve me-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05

on account of lack of capital, and has not
until lately been able to offer clear induce
ments to capitalists to engage in the manu-
facture. He has, however, fully established
his right, which was disputed, to the inven-
ton and patent, and, through the iberality
of Mr.. Jesse Hitchcock, can apply the limit
ed means at his disposal to great advantage.
Mr.. Hitchcock gives to Mrs. Leyde, wife Of
the inventor, the free use of new building,
24x40, two and half stories, erected for
carriage factory, but well adapted to Mr..
Leyde's business, and also gives outright,
on condition of Improvements making and
to be made, about one acre of ground. Near
by the building mentioned, and fronting
with 1t on Sixth street, Mr.. Leyde is erecting
q three-story bu;lding, On which, at this
time, only three men are employed, but
which Will be pushed to a completion
when the weather is more favorable, thu in
.ention being to put the works in operation
about April 1st. In rear of this building
will be an engine room, 3Ox15 feet, in which
will be placed 20-horse power steam en-
CINE. On the Seventh street front of the
property are to be erected blacksmith shop
and foundry. Besides the manufacture of
threshers, plows will DO made, and for the
present season the Hitchcock building will
be used for working lumber for buildings as
well as for the threshers, contracts having
been already made to dress and finish the
coming summer in the vicinity of the shops.
While the extent and character of the works,
for the year at least, are partially dependent
upon negotiations now pending, under favor
able auspices, with Eastern capitalists and
manufacturers, yet there is certainty that
the Leyde works will have substantial back
ing and be made an extensive establishment,
giving employment the year round to q large
force of mechanics.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
HARNESS AND COLLARS.

Ten establishments in st. Paul, of which
four are in the wholesale trade, employ eighty.
four mechanics. They are as follows:
@. G. Albrecht, 17S East Seventh, hands.
Barrett & Sayers, Bircher's block, Fourth and
Bridge, 2.
W. Il. & r. Brewnson & Co., CO Robert, second
and third floors, 16.
Chas. Friend, SO jackson, 20 to Is.
Fritz & Birkholz. IT'D West Third, +.
A. Hammer, liz West Thiid,4.
Jacob Hammer, lis Jackson, 5.
G. Sauer, &c Minnesota, 2.
Schmidt & Miller, &c Sibley, 20.
Smith & Schmiz, &c Robert, 0.
c. G. Albrecht, Barrett & Sayers, Fritz &
Birkholz, A. Hammer, Jacob Hammer and
G. Sauer, besides harnesses of their own
make, carry retail stocks of saddles, har-
nesses, collars, whips, nets, etc., and execute
repair work and special orders.
Brownsons & Co. are manufacturers of
collars, exclusively, for the wholesale trade.
Charles Friend began business here in
1862 on Robert street. Besides his city re-
tail trade he has considerable wholesale
trade in supplying country dealers in har-
nesses and saddles.
Jacob Hammer is one of the early settlers
of st. Paul, having first learned his trade
here and, after some years residence in Fari
bault, been twelve years in business here.
Schmidt & Miller, who carry on manufac.
turing in connection with their jobbing trade
in saddles, sadd!ery hardware, blsnkets,
whips, etc., employ the year round twenty
men in making collars, nets and halters.
The business was started in 1868 by Schmidt
& Hammer and was recently removed from
Robert street to the large building now Co.
cupied on Sibley street.
Smith & Schmitz of Robert street are
manufacturers of collars, in connection with
their Wholesale trade in saddlery hardware.
They began business here about four years
ago, and, notwithstanding the adverse in
fuences of two or three years of hard times,
have built up profitable trade and sre well
prepared to increase their business with the
advent of coed times.
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ton with their wholesale trade, employ from
five to forty hands, according to the season
and the supply of material and skilled labor,
in lining buffalo robes and making buffalo
and fur coats, gloves, etc.
Mr.. Ryder employs three to twelve hands,
according to season, and in the busy season
sends out considerable work to be done by
practiced hands at their residences.
Mr.. Patschovsky has employed eight to
ten hands IN the season, but latterly has con.
fined himself to repairing and the prepara-
ton of furs for summer keeping.
Mr.. Schmidt is a fur dresser, prepared to
execute any orders in his line.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-05
MEDICINES, ETC.

Excluding the preparations, of which each
of the old druggists has several, which have
local reputation only and the preparation
of which is is not a distinctive branch of
business. We have four establishments which
are engaged in compromising or manufactur-
ing remedial agents.
Mr.. ]. P. Allen, druggist, corner of Jack
son and seventh streets, manufactures four
proprietary remedies, which are sold by
agents and druggists in all parts of the
United States. These are Aliens Tonic Bit
tors, Aliens Ulccrine Salve, Aliens Com
pound Mandrake Pills and Aliens Cough
Balsam.
Mr.. S. Blackford, LAG w. Third street,
compounds and bottles the Blood Purifier
and other proprietary medicines, formulated
by DR.. e. B. Halliday, and which are sold
largely throughout the Northwest. They
are mostly handled through Noyes Bros. &
Cutters wholesale drug house, but IN
orders which camo by mail IN re-
spouse mainly to advertisements
iE the GLOBE and through the Newspaper
Union of St. Paul, Mr.. Blackford sent out
on individual orders last year over eighty
gross of the Blood Purifier alone. The busi-
ness was started here four years ago by Dr..
Halliday personally and, under Mr.. Black
ford's management, is increasing to very
large proportions.
Messrs. Noyes Bros. & Cutler, &C and 70
Sibley street, are illustrating the tendency of
the wholesale trade to build up associated
industries. Finding that it was important
that they should themselves prepare certain
standard pharmaceutical preparations for
their trade, they have in the large buildings
they now occupy fitted up the finest chemi-
cal labratory in the Northwest and have five
men employed in it. This beginning has
shown a need of facilities for having q
larger working force in the laboratory and
the firm is now considering the matter of
providing sufficient room for the employ
msnt of ten times az many men in the max
Jag of standard preparations and specialties
of their trade.
Mr.. Thorp prepares an insect and vermin
destroyer, with apparatus for using it, which
is sold by travelling and local agents.
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Other localities.

For industrial establishments which need
not have immediate access to the levee and
the railroads, and for which the nearby
location of employees is not essential, there
is abundant room in various parts of the
city-along Fourth and Fifth streets, from
Washington to Wacouta streets, in the val
Toys of Trout Brook and Phalen's Greek; on
lower Fourth and Fifth streets, near the rail-
ways; under Dayton's Bluff, just beyond the
railways, and in all the eastern suburbs Of
the city. In most of these localities proper
ty can be obtained at reasonable rates and
'he easy grades of streets, the nearness to
business centres and other considerations
will probably recommend them to many who
contemplate engaging in manufacturing bus
mess.