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Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15
Why We are Cut Off.

The Concord School of Philosophy having requested the assistance of the Lime Kiln Club in solving the conun- drum of why the people of this age do not live as long as those of early days, the matter was given to the Committee on Judiciary to investigate. They now expressed @ readiness to report, as follows:
 sDis committee had no trubble to find plenty of reasons barin' on the in- quiry. In de fust place, de taxes am so high dat no man kin afford to lib ober a hundred y'ars. In olden days Q man could tell his wife to git long away if she didn't please him. In dis aige he has to stick by her an fight it out. Dis has an influence to make him sigh fur a change to de evergreen shores. None of dose ole chaps had 8 second shirt to his back, an none dreamed of trying to put on style. Look about you in dis aige an see de coat tails, sleeve-buttons, diamond pins an odder gewgaws which bow down mans head in sorrow to de grave ! In de time of de prophets dar was no means of scootin' aroun' de ken try an takin' in de sights. In dis aige, arter man has bin to New York, Wash ington, Chicago an few odder places he am up stump fur a change of scenery, an he materially wants to be pushin' on to'rds de pearly gates. Dis committee am of the opinyun dat de modern man who reaches de aige of 100 y'ars ought to be perfectly satisfied to hand up his ticket to de conductor. He gifts more trottin' horse-more store clothes-more alligator butes-more picnics cs-more ice cream an oysters, an whateber else goes to make human natur' smile all ober in gloomy day ir dat little time dan Methusaler got in al his 900 y'ars of life. An we will ebel pray"
 The Secretary was instructed to pre- pare verbatim report and forward tht same to Concord, together with th' hope that the School and the Club would work together in the greatest harmon, during the long evening period Detroit Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15
The Tragedy at Niagara.

A poor fellow wounded unto death at the battle of Gettysburg whispered some pathetic and memorable things to the comrade who supported him, and among these, after he had spoken of home and children and "babbled of green fields, !" he gasped forth amid the tremendous cannonading the odd expression, "I don't find it hard to leave 8 world in which there is such frightful noise"
 It is not needful to suppose that such feeling as this prompts the acts of the unhappy persons who are constantly throwing themselves over the great cataract of Niagara. That man sick of the world should be moved to take leave of nature in the presence of one of her sublimest manifestations is not strange. We have only to conceive of certain amount of imagination, certain eye to dramatic effect, united to this weariness of life, to make the deed in telligible. That the poor man who on Tuesday made away with himself at the Falls was thus endowed is obvious. But his case is otherwise singular only in the coolness and steadfastness of it's reconciliation. A Addressed man, past middle life, G. W. Knapp, first called at the Western Union Telegraph office and asked if any message had come for him. He was answered in the nega- tive-perhaps had this been otherwise the terrible act that followed might have been deferred or never perpetrated. MT. Knapp passed from the telegraph office to the barroom of the International Hotel. Here he took glass of spirits, inviting the chief attendant, to whom he was known, to join him. Almost imme- diately afterward he appeared on Goat Island Bridge.
 A young lady was seated in 8 veranda on the banks of the rapids at the West End of Trigby's Bazaar, and she was a terrified and unwilling witness of the scene that ensued. Knapp walked to the end of the veranda furthest from her and calmly laid aside his hat, coat and waistcoat. She thought the action Ouu, puV ono Aoao "t'o oA'Aono onA on"' seemed to account for it. After this Knapp swiftly wrote note and pinned it to his coat. Then he stood up on the bench, drew a revolver, either fired at himself or in the air--the young lady is uncertain which-and plunged headlone into the awful abyss below. He was seen no more But number of valua. bles were found in the pockets of hi garments, including sum of five hun dred dollars in bills; and the note h, had written directed that the articles should be sent by express to certail address in Utica.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15
The American Mates.

/ "When was in New Orleans in the old Catspaw," says Kennebecker, in the Boston Journal, " one or two American mates went to the St. Charles Theatre one night, and as they did not look quite so delicate as the rest of the audience, a number of opera glasses were soon leveled at them. As they had in no way in fringed upon the rules of decorum, they determined to be revenged. Next night nearly every mate in port went dressed in long pilot cloth pea coats. As on the night before the opera glasses of the over-reined ones were brought to bear on them, while at given signal each mate drew ships spyglass from under his coat and took aim on his vis-a-vis of the opera glass. The sensation was in, stantaneous and Overwhelming Astorm of misses, cries of Put 'em out, and the like began the music. Then the the atrical force undertook to carry the put
 em out order in force. They might as well have attacked herd of buffalo The weakest had to go to the wall, ant | it was not the mates. The outraged sea dogs cleared everything before them and it will be long time before the ole inhabitants forget that night"
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15
The Cause of Perpetual Snow.

Dr. James Croll, in the current mum
 Der of the American Journal of Science and Arts, says the reason why snow al great elevations does not melt, but re. mains permanent, is owing to the fact that the heat received from the sun is thrown off into stellar space so rapidly by radiation and reflection that the sun fails to raise the temperature of the snow to the melting point; the snow evapo- rates, but it does not melt. The sum- mits of the Himalayas, for example, must receive more than ten times the amount of heat necessary to melt all the snow that falls on them, yet in spite of this the snow is not melted. Notwith- standing the strength of the sun and the dryness of the air at these attitudes, evaporation is insufficient to melt the snow. At low elevations, where the snowfall is probably greater, and the amount of heat received is even less, the snow melts and disappears. This, Dr. Croll believes, must be attributed to the influence of aqueous vapor. At high elevations the air is dry and allows the heat radiated from the snow to pass into space, but at low elevations very con- siderable amount of the heat radiated from the snow is absorbed by the aque- ous vapor in the atmosphere. A con- siderable portion of the heat thus ab- sorbed is radiated back on the snow, and, being of the same quality as that which the snow itself radiates, is for that reason absorbed by the latter. The consequence is that the heat thus ab- sorbed accumulates in the snow till this is melted. Were the amount of aqueous vapor possessed by the atmosphere suf- ficiently diminished, perpetual snow would cover our globe down to the sea shore. In like manner the dryness of the air will, in great measure, account for the present accumulation of snow and ice on Greenland and on the Ant arctic Continent. These regions are completely covered with snow and ice, not because the quantity of snow falling on them is great, but because the quan- 'tity melted is small. And the reason why the snow does not melt is not be- cause the amount of heat received during the year is not equal to the work of melting the ice, but mainly because of the dryness of the air, the snow is pre- vented from rising to the melting point. In places like Fuego and South Georgia, where the snowfall is considerable, per ennial snow and ice are produced by diametrically opposite means, namely, by the suns heat being cut off by clouds and dense fogs. In the first place, the upper surfaces of the clouds act as re- fectors, throwing back the suns rays into stellar space, and in the second place, of the heat which the clouds and fogs absorb, more than one-half is not radiated downward on the snow, but up- ward into space. And the comparative ly small portion of heat which manages to reach the ground and be available in melting the snow is insufficient to clear off the winters accumulation.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15
The Ute Indians.

The late chief Ouray related to 8 newspaper man the history of his life, as follows: "I was born in Taos, New Mexico, about fifty years ago; had three brothers and two sisters. One of them married Johnson, the White River Chief, and one married an Uncompah- gre Ute. I have been the head man of the Ute nation for many years. Was elected chief one year after Lincoln was killed, but I had been chief before that time. I first saw the city of Wash- ington then. I have made the follow ing Indian chiefs: Warow, Spapana- rari, Shavana and Billy, who are alive, and have made five other chiefs who are dead. recognize now as chiefs of the White River Indians Douglass, Johnson, Jack and Sagowich, though they belong to different bands; also Uayawnariz and Antelope. Of the Southern Utes recognize Ignacio and Pavisacht. There are other unrecog- nized chiefs. I have always fought the Arapahoes since can remember, but I never fought the whites. I have been in five big battles against some two hundred to six hundred warriors. The greatest battle of my life was fought in 1860 with the Sioux and Arapahoes, when only a few people were in Denver. It was terrible fight. I had only thirty men, but I formed them in hollow square and we fought all day. I saw the Sioux coming early in the morn ing. My wife, Chopeta, and my only son were with me. The little fellow slept so soundly that he did not wake easily, so I hid him in buffalo robe as the yelling Sioux rushed on our camp. Our braves knew it was fight for life, and they stood like stone and repulsed the foe. Some of our boys came run ming by the camp, which awakened my son; he crawled out of the buffalo robe and ran after them, but could not catch them, and have never seen him since
 The Sioux killed him,'' said the chief, mourpfully. "It was fearful battle. It began at daylight and ragged for four teen hours. We lost two men, two women, four children, and we killed thirty-seven of the enemy. I have been married twice, and had boy and girl by my first wife, but they are all dead. It was twenty-five years ago when I married my second wife, Chopeta, and I did not marry her until my first one died. The Utes have about nine hun dred full grown warriors. Many years ago our people died of small pox, but now more are born than die.' Ouray said that he lived at the Middle Agency twenty years. Before that he lived in New Mexico, where he learned Spanish, and he had never seen place so beau
 tiful as where he was born. The Uinttah Utes were not related to the Uncompah- gre Indians, but thoseof Salt Lake were relatives to those at White River. How ever, he did not recognize them.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15
THE OLD LOVE AND THE NE JY

Her love is not of yesterday A new-found toy to charm and please; Twas sought and won in childish way Fer life was chilled by cares cold breeze And it has faithful been, till now. The sweet, sweet course of courtship run. Before Gods throne the hallowed VOW
 Has made two hearts but one And now new love claims her heart, love till now by her unknown; A holy joy it doth impart, joy that can be hers alone. The little form within her arms, The tiny fow'r but newly born, Hath OCT her spirits wrought it's charms,
 Those charms she ne'er will scorn. And shall the new love kill the old, And banish it from out her breast? Or shall it wither and wax cold, Neglected for the later guest? An, no! together they shall reign Within her heart in concord true, And each from each shall strength obtain,
 The old love and the new.
 -Tinsley's.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15
A Fable.

A codfish was one day sailing around in search of some one who might be in clined to religious dispute, when he came across Q Clam. That was in the days when Goldfish put on heap of airs over the Clam tribe, and this particular fish stuck up his nose at that particular Clam and began -..... ..-
 Here you are, grubbing away at this same old sand bank for 8 living, while have journeyed over thousand miles in the last four weeks.' ....
 T am quite content" replied the Clam, "I am rather near sighted, slow on foot, and nature did not intend me to travel far. Neither of us make more than living, and I am satisfied if you are."
 "Yes, but you have such an outland- ish shape" sneered the Cod. "Why, there's neither head, nor tail, nor legs, nor arms to you. Your eyes are scarce ly to be seen, and one little grin for a cent would split your face open"
 "My eyes are plenty large enough to see that no two fish in the ocean agree, , tartly replied the Clam, "and, seeing this, I have no cause to smile. What you say about my form is true, but make good chowder, for all that, and l have no bones to trouble the throats oi humanity"
 "Well, I'm thankful that I wasn't born to begin and end my days in sand. bank. I go everywhere. I take in all the free lunches. Small fish fear me, and big ones can't catch me. See how glide around"
 The Cod took a circle around to show of, stood on his head, founshed his tail, and then asked:
 "Can any of the clam family do hall of that2"
 "As I said before, quietly replied the Clam, "we were not cut out for either orators or acrobats. What can do try to do well. What can't do lei alone and don't worry over" ..
 At that 1nomet fish-hook nicely bait. ed dropped down between them. "Now, if you only had little more mouth you could get enough at one gull to last you all day." remarked the Coo as he eyed the bait. "As it is, you ma, stand by and see me take in that ban quet. Just see what mouth will do fol one in this world"
 He opened his mouth, made dive fo1 the bait, and was about to wink at th' Clam with his left eye when he was sud denly pulled out of the water and landed in boat.
 1T think" unused the Clam as h. closed his shell, "that it is a great dea nicer to be clam on a sand bank than cod in fish boat, but I'll be 'open' t' argument next flood time." | MORAL:
 It is everything in knowing when t. shut up.-M. Quad.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15

them to place the bust of his son before him. He then bade affecting farewells to his friends and to the French people whom he had loved so well. His arms then contracted with convulsiola, his eyes became fixed, while he gasped, France My son p Then all was silent. Napoleon had ceased to live.
 At these words the flowers which the young girl had brought dropped from her trembling hands; she fell on her knees by the bedside; then, making an effort, she seized and tried to press the hand of Napoleon to her lips-but inn mediately her head fell back, her mouth was discolored, her eyes fixed, and she sunk on the floor, buried in that sleep which knows no waking.
 Henriette was dead
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15

SOME BEER FIGURES. is calculated that the 10,O00,OOO barrels of beer re- ported by the Brewers Congress as having been sold last year would have filled canal five feet deep and twenty one feet wide, extending from New Yorl, to Philadelphia, and that it would take a pump throwing thirty gallons minute twenty one years to pump it dry.
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15

"BuT why do they call it crooked whisky?" asked Susan Jane. "Be- cause," answered Jimkins, gravely, al- though it is generally taken straight those who consume much of it are near ly always on bender ,"
Connecticut western news., 1880-09-15
TERMS:

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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-11
St. Paul Medical College.

The GLOBE is in receipt of neat pamph-
let entitled the ''Annual announcement of
the st. Paul Medical College, medical de-
partment of Hamline University of Mime
sota." The pamphlet contains list of the
board of trustees of Hamline university, of
which Judge 81. Il. Brill is president, the
names of the faculty of the college, of which
DR.. Alex..J. Stone is president; the matricu-
lants in the preparatory school for 1879-S0,
together with the course of instruction;
courses of lectures; list of text books, etc.;
and also brief description of HamIire uni
versity, its location, grounds, patronage, or
ganization, faculty, government, and ex-
penses of students. In speaking OF the To-
cation of the Medical college, the pamphlet
justly states that it sis located in ST. Paul,
Minnesota, city numbering upwards of
$4,000 inhabitants and growing rapidly. The
city is easily accessible from all parts of the
United States by thirteen lines of railroad
that center here, or by steamboat on the
Mississippi. 1t is the commercial and man
ufacturing centre of the Northwest and
consequently presents superior clinical adj
vantages to those students far enough ad-
vanced to benefit by them. The fact that
st. Paul is recognized as one of the most
popular of the Sanitaria of the United States
is in its advantage as offering delightful
and healthful place of recreation and enjoy
ment during the summer months"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-11
THE DIOCESAN oouNo1z.
Closing Proceedings of the Diocesan Con-
vention of the State of Minnesota.

Closing Proceedings of the Diocesan Con-
vention of the State of Minnesota.
After morning prayer by Bishop Whipple,
assisted by Rev. Messrs. Kittson, Jefferson
and A. B. Liyermore, the council re-assem-
bled at 9:45, Bishop Whipple in the chair.
The roll was called, and the minutes of
yesterdays session were approved.
The election of delegates to the general
convention, which meets in New York in
October next, resulted as follows:
Clerical-Revs. DIR. Knickerbacker, E. s.
Thomas; G. w. Watson and E. s. Liver
more.
Lay-Messrs. E. L. Wilder, Isaac Atwater,
Gordon E. Cole and Capt. e. b. Gibbs.
Several committees made their reports,
which were disposed of as usual.
The thanks of the convention were extern
ded to Hon. Geo. H. Hamilton, late treasurer
of the Diocese.
The bishop appointed Rev. Drs. Knicker-
hacker, Livermore and Watson, deans of sthe
convocation, and Revs. Thomas, Tanner,
Hawley, Chaplin, Watson and Miller, chap
lains.
The committee on the state of the church
were instructed to present some suitable
mention of the celebration of Sunday schools
now SO universally being observed in the
church.
The bishop made an earnest and feeling
appeal to the council on the alarming growth
of intemperance in the country, and request
ed that notice be taken of the same by the
committee on the state of the church.
| Hon. Gordon E. Cole was appointed to
:, arrange the matter of Indebtedness to the
bishop of the diocese, and report at the next
council.
The committee on unfinished business re-
ported through Rev. w. G. Pope.
Supplemental delegates to the general
convention were elected as follows
CIericals -Messrs. Riley, Whipple, Bell
and Chaplin.
Lay-Messrs Ames, Paine, Daniels and
| Wheeler.
The following resolutions were adopted by
a rising vote:
| ResoEved, That this council, when it ad journs,
| adjourn to meet a committee of the whole,
this evening at 7:30 P. NJ.
| RESOLVED, That the bishop request each of the
kclergy under his jurisdiction to send to his
congregation, one Sunday in each month, the
churches homilyson 'gluttony and drunken
nes," and to impress the churches teaching
| therein as he shall deem best.
The thanks of the council were extended
| to the citizens of Faribault, and six hundred
copies of the Journal ordered printed. On
motion adjourned to 1880.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-11
Attamnted Suicide.

A desperate attempt at suicide was made
in this city about noon yesterday, which
would have been successful had it not been
for the timely interference of bystander.
At the hour named tall, heavily set and
we'll dressed Swede entered Bonds saloon on
East Third street and called for glass of
beer. He was given the beer, and laid down
nickel to pay for the beverage.
Nothing further was thought of the affair
until few minutes afterwards, when the bar
tender observed the stranger draw paper
from his pocket and empty the contents
into the beer. His eyes happened to catch
sight of the label which bore the inscriptions:
"Strychnine = "Poison," Approaching the
motive in view the barkeeper
seized the glass just as the would-be
suicide was about to swallow its contents.
Perceiving that he has failed, the man left
the place in apparent disgust. He is sup
posed to be drummer and is said to have
been drinking hard for several days.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-11
PERSONAL.

Hon. c. G. Stevenson, of Nevada, is at the
| Metropolitan.
s. G. Dalrymple of Carsselton was at the
Merchants yesterday.
@. 81. Pines, of Princeton, and Marcus John
son. of Atwater, at the Merchants last evening.
81. l.. Moss, Esq, returned home yesterday
| from a business visit to Chicago and Gin
| cinnati.
Hon. E. II. Wilder, of Red Wing, going home
| from the Diocesan Council at Faribault,
stopped at the Merchants last night.
FL. II. Porter, president of the consolidated
Chicago, st. Paul and Omaha lines, and G. W.
billiard of Chicago are at the Metropolitan.
Mr.. George FL. Schleigh, one of the solid
Toys at the Northern Pacific junction, arrived
in st. Paul yesterday, and is visiting friends in
this city.
james d. Bailey and G. D. Post, of Lake
City; 81. W. Stone and wife, of Benson, and G.
O. Dickinson, of Red Wing, were at the Mer-
chants last night.
| Col. 9. A. Morton left for Chicago by the
noon train yesterday and not the day before
| as the unreliable u. p. had it. The colonel
will be absent about a week.
| Rev. e. Bryce and wife, and Miss Mclean,
| Winnipeg, and the bishop of Saskatchewan,
from Prince Arthur, Northwest Territory, were
registered at the Merchants yesterday.
| N McAfee and p. w. Scott started last even
| ing, by the Northern Pacific train, to visit the
Judith Basin and the extreme Upper Missouri
Valley, searching location for a stock ranch.
81. W. Pratt. ESQ, of Faribault, one of the
heaviest wheat buyers in the State, paid St.
Paul short visit yesterday. Mr.. Pratt ex-
presses grave fears for the wheat crop in cOnse-
quence of the heavy and continuous rains.
| Gen. George Stark, of New York, formerly
| vice president and director of the Northern
Pacific, was at the Metropolitan yesterday
en- route west to look after his farming and
other investments in the Northern Pacific
country.
| W. s. Hughes, ESQ.,, for some time past a
heavy lumber dealer at Faribault, has removed
with his family to this city and will at once
| open lumber yard on the corner of Eighth and
| Wacouta streets. Mr.. Hughes is an active, en-
ergetic and reliable business man, and the
| GLOBE welcomes him to the metropolis of the
| northwest.
| Mrs. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, wife of the great
Indian fighter, accompanied by Mrs. George p.
Borden, Miss Reynolds, hieut. Charles P. Roe
| and family, DR.. r. G.. Redd and Lieut.. Fred.
w. Kingsbury, arrived in this city from Fort
Keogh yesterday, en- route for the East. They
stopped for a short time at the Merchants, and
left for their destinations by the train yester-
! day..
| Sioux City Journal: J. F. Arlington, of st.
Paul, has just returned from a cattle round up
of 20, GOO head on the Nlobrara river, It's miles
from its mouth. The cattle are in fine order
Mr.. Arlington purchased 1000 head to fill out
| his contracts with the government. Eighteen
| thousand head of cattle are used yearly at
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud agencies, and
| 600 head at the river agencies from Santee
| to Buford.