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The National tribune., 1881-10-08
WHAT A FRENCHMAN SAYS.

The average of human life is thirty three
years
One-fourth of the population dies at or before
the age of seven years onehalf at before seven
teen years
Among 10000 persons one arrives at the age of
one hundred years, one in 500 attain the age of
ninety years, and one in one hundred lives to the
age Of sixty years.
Married men live longer than single ones. In
1000 persons siXty-fve marry, and more mar
riages occur in June and December than any
other months in the year
One-eighth Of the whole population is military.
Professions exercise great influence on lon
gevity. In 1000 persons who arrive at the age
Of seventy years, forty-two are priests orators or
public speakers; forty are agriculturists, thirty
three are workmen, thirty-two soldiers Or mill
tary employees, twenty mine advocates OF engi-
neers, twenty-seven professors and twenty -four
doctors. Those who devote their lives to the
prolongation of others, die the soonest.
The National tribune., 1881-10-08
DESCENDANTS OF COUNT DE GRASSE

Count De Grasse, the commander of the French
fleet at rktown, was married three times and
had six children, all by his first wife. The two
sons died without issue. The four daughters fed
to America to save their lives at the time of the
French Revolution. Two died unmarried at
Charleston, in the year 1899. The third sister
died in New York, in 1914. The youngest of the
family, Sylvie, married in this country Monsieur
Francois Narcisse Depau, by which marriage
there were seven children, all American citizens
and they and their descendants are the only lneal
representatives of Admiral Count de Grasse The
eldest male representative and grandson of
Admiral de Grasse is TheodOsius A. Fowler, of
Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey, his daugh-
ter, the eldest granddaughter, bearing the
name (Sylvie de Grasse) of her grandmother.
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WHERE is HE?

NIKE LIPMAN, a pawnbrOker in Cincinnati
o., has in his possession a silver watch which
was left with him on small loan by soldier,
some fifteen years ago. The name Of Lieutenant
w. H. Tigney is inscribed in the back of the case,
and to it is attached guard of solid gold bearing
the names of the following battles which the
owner doubtless took part in: Bull Run, Fall
mouth, RappahannOck Station, Beverly Ford,
Sulphur Springs, Gainesville, Groveston, Bull
Run Second, South Mountain, Antietam and
Port Royal Lower down on the guard is in
scribed Lieutenant w Fl. Tigney, Quartermaster
of Fourteenth regiment n. Y. s. NJ
The National tribune., 1881-10-08
A POLITICAL BUT pRoFANE GOVERNOR

In looking over some old records yesterday a
Journal reporter ran across message that was
sent by Jonathan Jennings then Governor of In
diana to John c. Calhoun, Secretary of State
There was need here for some guns and ammu-
milton, and Governer Jennings sent requisition
for them to Mr. Calhoun in the following words ::
" Dear, good John c.,
send to thee
For three great guns and trimmings.
Pray send them to hand
Or you'll be damned
BY order of Jonathan Jennings
Governor of Indiana
-IndiGndpOlis Journal
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For THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
SLEEP BRINGETH REST.

Sleep bringeth rest to wearied forms
Worn down by labor's grinding heel,
Or buffetings of angry storms
Life sends to man for woe or veal
Sleep bringeth rest Sleep bringeth rest!
To tired forms, sweet sleep is blest.
Sleep bringeth rest to wearied eyes
Grown dim with looking on the past,
Or for some future Paradise
Where life may find repose at last
Sleep bringeth rest Sleep bringeth rest
To ewes grown dim, sweet sleep is blest.
Sleep bringeth rest to wearied hearts
O'erburdened by their weight of care,
Or pierced by sorrows cruel darts,
Or struggling with a grim despair
Sleep bringeth rest! Sleep bringeth rest
To wearied hearts. sweet sleep is blest
Sleep bringeth rest; but not to all.
Not all who WOO its soft embrace
May find repose within its thrall
From care and ev'ry sorrows trace
Sleep bringeth rest, and sleep is blest:
But not to all doth sleep bring rest.
Sleep bringeth rest and does the grave
Invite to dreamless slumbers sweet?
Shall we there find the rest we crave
From ev'ry care sure retreat?
Sleep brngeth rest; and il is best.
But will the grave bring sleep and rest?
God knows. Perhaps the wearied brain,
Transformed TO subtler essence yet,
May languish on, in ceaseless pain,
Ger hopeless struggles to forget
Sleep bringeth rest; and God knows best
Perhaps the weared brain may rest.
"Perhaps"o we know, if we know aught,
That those who walk where Christ hath trod
Shall leave their cares, lfes journey wrought
Outside the gate-the grave. That God
Hath ordered best. And they are blest
To whom the grave brings sleep and rest.
The National tribune., 1881-10-08
.Mdianapolis Journal.

There should be fewer and better legislators.
The people do not want so many if they are only
of the RI ht kind Just as the man in the restau-
rant objected to the oysters, of which the waiter
gave him twice the usual quantity because they
were spoiled oysters Legislators, like women,
oysters, and eggs, should be above suspicion
Teras ,SDtings.
Although the peanut crop this year is reported
as short, the following estimated stock on hand
assures us that there will be no famine in pea
nuts: At Virginia, New York, Boston, and
Philadelphia, 1926 bags; same time in 1880,
1885 bags, and in 1879 74,874 bags.
The National tribune., 1881-10-08
WHAT WILL A PATENT COST ?

If you advised that your invention is patentable
send $50 to pay Government application fee of SIS and
50 for the drawings required by the Government This
amount is payable when the application is made This
is all of the expense, unless patent is allowed When
allowed the attorney fee S25 and the final Government
fee $50 is payable.
By these terms you sssow beforehand, for nothing
whether you going to get patent or not and no
attorney fee is charged unless you do get patent.
An attorney whose fee depends his success in obtain
ing the patent will not advise you that your invention
is paentable unless really patenable so
best judgment aid in determining the question;
hence rely the advice given after prelimi
nary examination is had.
DESIGN PATENTS and the REGISTRATION OF
LABELS and TRADEMARKS secured.
CAVEATS prepared and filed
Applications for the REISSUE OF PATENTS care
fully and skillfuy prepared and promptly prosecuted
Applications in revvor of rejected abandoned for
eited made. Very often valuable inventions are
saved in these classes of cases.
If You have undertaken to your own patent
and failed, skful handling of the may lead to
success. Send me written request addressed to the
Commissioner of Patents that he recognize GEORGE E.
Lemon, of Washington, D. c., your attorney in the
case giving the title of the invention and about the date
of filing your application. An examination will be made
of the case, and you will be informed whether
patent be obtained. This examination and report
tCW cost you nothing.
INTERFERENCE CONTESTS arising within the Patent
Office between two rival claimants the same
subJect-matter of invention, attended to.
APPEAL REMEDIES pursued III relief from adverse
office decisions
SEARCHES made for title to inventions.
COPIES PATENTS furnished at the regular Govern
ment rates, (25 cents EACH if subsequent Pre-
vous patents, not printed, at cost of making copies
COPIES OF OFFICIAL RECORDS furnished
OPINIONS rendered scope, validity and infringe
ment of Patents.
In fact, any information relating to Patents to
property rights in inventions promptly furnished the
most reasonable terms
Correspondence solicited.
Remember this office has been in successful operation
since 1865 and you therefore reap the benefits expert
ence.
Reference given actual clients in almost every coun-
ty in the United States
Address, with stamp for reply,
GEORGE E. LEMON,
WASHINGTON, ID. G..
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of threshing," remarked that the thresher
wasn't no count" Hapner killed the man and
left the State Shortly after the Leadville
boom" Hapner was recognized on the streets
of the raging" city by former enemy and
stabbed. He reeled, drew pistol, killed his old
enemy, and fell dead.-Clereland (Ohio) Leader.
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IRELAND'S
CHART OF THE REBELLION,

Size, eight feet CoOred Portraits of
Sherman. Contains two thousand events of the
war from beginning to close including military
val expeditions battles, raids skrmshes losses &c.
with date and place. Of special interest to ex-soder
Gives more information in ten minutes than ordinary his
tory IN as many hours. Single copy, by mail 45 cts.
Three copies, 81 GO. Agents wanted.
Address j. p. Ireland, Dexter Penobscot Co, Maine.
The National tribune., 1881-10-08
The Gentleman'S MONTHLY

Is the Only Magazine in the United States devoted to the
Manly Sports All the Best Writers contribute its
pages. Articles on the Game Birds and Game Fishes
Sketches of Dongs by Flood and Field; Interesting
Stories. The number for October will be exceedingly
interesting one Influence ofSire and DAM TmelyTop-
les Matters of Moment; good billiard articles Visit
to the Museum; fine continued story &c, &c. Send
Stamp for Sample Copy. So year. Six months, 81
Address-THE GENTLEMAN'S MONTHLY
Box 81, Washington D. c.
The National tribune., 1881-10-08

There are 3642 languages spoken, and 1000
different religions.
The National tribune., 1881-10-08

Each pulsation OF the heart marks the decease
Of some human creature.
The National tribune., 1881-10-08

Miss Charlotte Mckenzie McDough
Was fond of the Maccaboy snuff;
She took it to please,
But whenever she'd sneeze
Shed say, that last pinch was enough"
The National tribune., 1881-10-08
CAN OBTAIN A PATENT?

Send rough sketch or (if you cam model of your
invention to GEORGE E. LEMON, Washington D. c.,
and a PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION Will be made of all
United States Patents of the class of inventions,
and you will be advised whether patent be
obtained.
For this Preliminary Examination No Charqe is Made
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-11
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The Industrious Board of Public Work,
Presents Grist.

The Industrious Board of Public Works
| Presents Grist.
A regular meeting of the board of pub
lie works was held yesterday afternoon,
President Harrington in the chair.
The assessment for the unfinished sew
er on Exchange street was confirmed.
The matter of sewer on Iglehart
street was laid over.
The order relative to sewer on Fort
street was returned to the council.
The assessment for opening and eX-
! tending Iglehart street was confirmed.
Also the assessment for opening and ex-
tending Carroll street.
The assessments for grading University
avenue, from Rice to Dale streets, and
| for a sewer on Pleasant avenue, were
completed, and the clerk directed to give
| the notices.
| The following assessments were con-
firmed: For sewers on Oak, st. Peter
and Spruce streets, and for grading North
and Rice streets and Holly avenue.
Objections were read to the assessment
for sewer on st. Peter street from Oscar
Stephenson, John Metzdorf and Rose
Donahue, and placed on file.
Consideration of the assessments for
| extending Minnesota, Tilton and Thir-
| teenth and Fourteenth streets was laid
over A number of council orders rel
| ative to new sidewalks and crosswalks
were referred to the engineer to carry out
| orders.
The matter Of opening Drake street was
referred to the attorney and engineer for
| a report.
The matter of grading an alley in block
Is, Whitney 81 Smiths addition, was re-
ferred to the clerk to advertise for bids.
Also for new sewers on Neil, Eighth,
Ninth, Grove, Monroe, Madison, Part
ridge and Westminster streets, Waiver
ly Pla ce and Lafayette avenues
The council order for cistern at the
corner of Fort street and Western ave-
nue. for fire purposes was referred to the
clerk to advertise for bids.
The matter of grading jackson street
from Pearl to Minnehaha street was re-
ferred to the engineer for plans and esti-
mates of cost.
| In the matter of grading Burr street
the clerk IS to advertise for bids on re-
ceipt of plans and specifications.
The matter of opening street or levee
200 feet wide along the west side of the
| river was referred to Mr. Peters, the
| Sixth ward member.
The matter of grading the driveways
in Park place and for grading Granite
street were referred to the clerk to adver-
tise for bids.
The alto ,ney was directed to draw con-
tracts with p. F. Flynn for sewer on
Ramsey street, and Gus Moline for a
sewer on Pleasant avenue.
The specifications for grading Genesee
street were approved. Several prclimin-
airy estimates were approved. The first
notice was ordered for the grading of
Maria avenue; also for grading Arundel
street.
Plans were approved for system of
sewers in Bass addition, KittsOn's adj
dition and Bass outlets at an estimated
cost of $4,000.
The first notice was ordered fer the
grading of Marshall avenue.
The petition of 7. Cochran for the
opening of Ravoux street was sent to the
council with an adverse report.
After minor matters were disposed of
the meeting adjourned.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-11
Claims to Have Paid 1t

An aged farmer named Chauncy D.
futile, residing near Langdon, was
brought to St. Paul by deputy United
States marshal yesterday, on an attach
ment issued by Judge Nelson. His arrest
was made under peculiar circumstances,
the offense being refusal to turn over a
sum of money, amounting to So, 400, as
trustee. In 1876 the prisoner was appointed
the trustee of the bankrupt estate of
Walter G. Coles. In 1880, the affairs
having been adjusted, Judge Nelson is
sued an order requiring Tuttle to turn
over the residue of the assets, amounting
to s3,4e0. He paid no attention to the
order and has treated with silence all the
demands of the court, which directed his
Imprisonment until the money has been
paid. A GLOBE reporter visited Tuttle
in jail yesterday afternoon and in reply
to query he said that he had paid the
money once and that he had nothing else
TO say. He is confident of getting out at
the expiration of thirty days.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-11
A Bl,tmderer Corrected.

10 the tulUOT Vi Gllc OlOoC.
Permit me through the columns of the
GLOBE to correct big mistrake which APP
peared in this mornings issue of the daily
Pioneer Press. am surprised that such a
well Informed journal as the Press should be
so misleading In its statements. In referring
to the Quebec fire, it tells its readers that 1t
has been the most disastrous Canada has ever
seen; in fact, the greatest on this continent
save the great fires of Chicago and Boston. 1t
would appear from this statement that the
Press is not very well posted on what
is going on on this continent,
or what has transpired within the past five
wears, or it wou Id remember something about
the great fire in st. John, N. B., on the goth
day of June, 1877. If it has never heard about
that fire might inform its readers that on
that day, June 20, 1877, there were in ST. John,
N. B., one thousand, six hundred and tive I've
houses leveled to the earth in the incredibly
short space of nine hours, twenty thousand
people were made homeless, six hundred and
fifteen business houses were destroyed aud
over forty millions of dollars worth of prop
erty. Four months later, following this great
calamity, was the destruction of two-thirds
of the town of Portland, (which forms part
of the city of St. John" Nearly all of those
burnt out in the latter fire, were sufferers of the
great fire. In this POI tland fire there was
owe four hundred houses bnrnt to the ground,
and over three thousand persons rendered
homeless. AS great and calamitous as has
been the Quebec fire, it has been surpassed
by that other Canadian fire.
Trusting the Press will be more careful in
giving correct statements in the future, L am
respectfully, READER.
st. Paul, June 10, 1881.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-11

engaged in robbing the government be
sent to the penitentiary. Any interfer-
ence with the progress of the investiga-
ton would be resented, and bring upon
the heads of those who interposed the Sc
verest condemnation of the whole Ameri-
can people.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that the
scandal will not result as Its predecessors
have resulted, in the escape of those
guilty and the shame of justice. The
time has come for making an exam
pie of people who rob the government
and bring disgrace upon our civil system
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-11
THE STIR ROUTE THIEVERY.

The inquiry into the star route jobbery
has now reached a stage that gives the
public reason to believe that the admins
tration is IN earnest in its avowed inten-
ton of hunting the rascals down, and to
hope for the speedy conviction of all the
parties who may be implicated, whether
they be of high or low condition. We
have heretofore had good reason to sus-
pect want of sincerity in the prosecution
of offenders against the government
None of those concerned in the credit
mobllier scandal, were ever adequately
punished; none of the ringsters in the
District of Columbia received their just
desserts; none of the whisky thieves re-
celved more than nominal punishment,
though in each of these cases great
many professions were made of a desire
to do justice and bring all concerned to
condign punishment.
The star route case has now been given
to the grand jury, and the attorney gen.
eral has employed special counsel to con-
duct the prosecution. In addition, the
person employed by Mr.. Tilden to ferret
out this same cro6kedness, mas been en-
gagged to look up the evidence against the
contractors and officials, and those who
know him, declare that he will make a
thorough job of it. He has long been in
possession of facts that have not yet been
given to the public, which, it is asserted
on good authority, makes the case much
stronger for the government than has
heretofore been supposed. Another
fact that leads to the conviction
that the administration is in earnest is
the employment of Bradley and Dorsey
of brilliant galaxy of legal luminaries
to conduct the defense-the most eminent
men in the profession East and West.
The fact that so much energy is being
displayed in the prosecution of these cases
happily sets at rest the rumors that have
from time to time obtained currency that
the President and Secretary Blaine are in
any way implicated in the frauds. Had
either of them been connected with the
they would have contrived some means
to put stop to the investigation. 1t has
now gone so far, however, as to be be-
yond their control The case is now in
the hands of the people, who will demand
that full inquiry shall be made, and the
rascals of every degree who have been
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Eastern and European Markets.

NEW YORK, June 10.-Money easy at so
81 per cent. Prime mercantile paper 3@41z
per cent. Sterling exchange, bankers bills
| weak at 1881. SighG exchange on New
York $4.S5H.
| Dry goods imports for the week, 81 1874 900.
Governments irregular; IS coupons rose e
per cent. and As registered and coupon declined
Is per cent.
Bonds-Railroad bonds irregular.
State securities inactive.
Stocks-The stock market was irregular
prices declined X to per cent. Toward noon
speculation assumed frmer tone and quota
| tions took an upward turn. The market con-
| tinued strong during the afternoon and became
quite buoyant at the second board, when the
| improvement from the lowest point of the
day ranged from X to 81 per cent, the latter
in Western Union Telegraph, ex. certificate.
Indiana, Bloomington & Western, Central Pa
cifc, Norfolk & Western preferred, Union Pa
cifc and Texas Pacific were also prominent in
the advance In the final sales there was a
slight reaction in some cases, but the general
| market closed firmer.
The transactions aggregated $4,000 shares:
| Canada Southern $500; Central Pacific $500;
| Chicago, Columbus & Indiana Central 1000;
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western $4,000; Della
ware & Hudson 1,700; Denver & Rio Grande
1900; Erie 10000; Hannibal & st. Joe $500;
Missouri, Kansas s. Texas 5000; Lake Shore
q, 1000; Louisville & Nashville 1,10O; Michi-
gan Central $500; New Jersey Central 5000;
New York Central $4,000; Northern Pacific
2,4OO; Ohio & Mississippi 1,7OO; Ontario &
Western LOO; Ohio Central 1,7OO; Pacific
Mail 5000; Peoria, Decatur & Evansville
5,70O; Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul $500;
st. Paul & Omaha 5000; Texas Pacific 36,000
Wabash, st. Louis q Pacific 5000; Western
Union Telegraph $4,000; Indiana, Blooming
ton & Western $500; st. Louis d San Fran
cisco 3,OOO Norfolk & Western preferred
5000; Metropolitan Elevated 5000; Mem
phis & Charleston $500.
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Available Publication.

"Battles for the Union" is the title of an in
tensely interesting work written by Capt.
Willard Glazier Without assuming to be a
complete history of the war 1t con-
tains description of every prom
inent battle, and is in reality of greater
interest than voluminous details covering
p,inor events. Capt. Glazer is a most enter
tanning descriptive writer, and his book once
opened by the reader will not be
closed until the last page has been
scanned. He is about to make a canal
voyage from Lake Itaska to the Gulf of Mex
leo, and will lecture in st. Paul upon what he
eeeS upon the trip.
A lady is now engaged in presenting his
book, BATTLES for the Union,' to the st. Paul
public, and no purchaser will regret having
Secured cODy
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-11

UNHAPPILY bribery at Senatorial cleo
tions is by no means an uncommon
thing. There are men in every State who
procure their election to the legislature
with the sole object in view of making
money out of their position. They will
sell their votes on any question, and the
time Senator is to be chosen is generally
their harvest. The developments of
shameless bribery in New York in the
contest of Conkling's opponets creates no
surprise. The only thing about it at all
wonderful is the fact that a member has
been found who refused TO accepta hand
some sum of money for turning traitor
to friend. If the truth was known it
would be found that majority of the
Republican Senators owe their seats to a
liberal use of money.
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Aid Desired,

The Hebrew congregation of Sons of
Jacob having been compelled to purchase
a lot upon which to move their place of
worship, and yet lacking several hundred
dollars to meet the necessary expenses,
now for the first time appeal to the iber-
al spirited citizens of st. Paul to aid
them in this undertaking, having ex-
hausted all of their own resources. The
amount needed may seem small, but it is
large for this congregation, composed as
it is principally of poor and needy mem
bers, and any donation will be thankfully
received by the undersigned committee.
L. ABRAHAMsoN, Chairman.
E. n. BLUMENTHAL, Pres't.
S. MOSES.
K RUBENsTEN.
S. JACOBS, Sec'y.
d. GRINBLAT.
r. RTTTMAsTER
S. AUNSHUNsHY