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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-17

tubes, burglar alarms, etc. French plate
glass is to be used throughout. Tailor &
| Craig, contractors, are to begin work to-
morrow. Estimated cost, ST., 500.
c. B. Thurston IS building on Summit
avenue St. Louis pressed brick with
Ohio stone trimmings. Estimated cost
$12 900.
EW. Winter is building frame house
on Summit avenue. Estimated cost,
$1,000.
J. B. Tarbox is building residence at
the corner of Summit and Nina avenues
Estimated cost $4,000
j. W. Jaggar is building residence on
harrington avenue near Summit avenue,
which will cost about $4,000.
Jos. Mickey is building a dwelling on
Summit avenue. Estimated cost $500
r. A. Lanpher is finishing three frame
dwellings on Western avenue. Estimated
cost $4,000.
| Gribben & Watson are finishing five
tenements on Western avenue. Estlmat-
ed cost SIC, 900.
John M. Bohrer is finishing three ten
ement houses on Lafayette avenue. Esti-
mated cost $4,000.
! Rev. H. Kittson IS building dwelling
at corner of Ashland avenue and Macku-
bin street which will cost about $4,000
The First Methodist church is building
a parsonage adjoining the church, on ST.
Anthony hill, which will cost about
So 500.
N. W. Kittson has begun delivering
materials for residence to be built on
the Selby place, between the junction of
Dayton and Summit avenues. The house
will occupy a ground space of 80 by 80
feet, will be two stories, wholly of Kasota
stone, with mansard and basement stories.
The plans, drawn by E. P. Bassford, ar
chitect, provide for an elaborate exterior
in the French Renaissance style, with
an elegant rich interior Estimated cost,
100000.
w. B. Dean is building at the corner of
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

temporary, the Times, reflects credit upon his
native State. lifelong, consistent, and some1
what Stalwart Republican, and withal one OF
Secretary Blaines most trusted friends, it is an
open secret that he might have occupied respon-
sibe place under the administration, but he pre-
fers TO stick close his journalistic desk, and his
clerkship win not interfere with this preference
Philadelphia Press
THE Hon. Benjamin F. Butler. after
stormy passage in his yacht, the America, reached
Nassau, n. p, on the 18th ultimo, and thence
cleared for Havana. When the City of Austin,
from New York, afterward entered the harbor,
passenger loosely inquired of the eolored pilot If
any of the old pirates and buccaneers still infested
the waters "No, sab not now" was the instant
reply; "Capen Ben Butler sail away in de Ameriky
yesterday"
JACK CRocKER went sailing on the
lakes, leaving his wife at Detroit, and she soon
told that he had been drowned. Frank Bradford
gave her money to live on, searched in vain for
her missing husband and at length married her.
The ceremony had not been long over when there
came a loud rap at the door. Are you Frank
Bradford?" asked the man who had raped
Yes, sir" DWELL, your wife is my wife, aud you'd
better just up and git.' Mrs. Crocker went obedi-
emily away with her first husband.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
POLITICAL POINTS.

Joseph Dykes (Democrat) has been
elected supervisor of the town of Flushing, L. 1.
Men who are most prominent at
workingmen's-alia Socialists meetings are
those who do the least work and drink the most
beer.
The New York Herald editorially says
of Secretary Blaine that his career has passed
from the dream of ambition to the enjoyment of
revenge"
Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee,
gave the commissionership of agriculture to bis
brother, who appointed his son chief clerk, and
the people are complaining of nepotism.
Senators Voorhees,, of Indiana, and
Malone, of Virginia, are each receiving letters
from friends commencing their part in the recent
scene in the Senate in which they were partiei-
pants
Ithaca, the site of the Cornell Uni
versity, gives majority of so against license, max
ing it the largest no-eense village in the State
of New York. Every town in Tompkins County is
"no-license."
Was James A. Garfield elected Presi-
dent of the United States simply that he might be-
come willing instrument for the execution of
James G. Blaine's private Vengeance?-& Louis
Globe Democrat.
Now, if Means, the Democratic mayor
of Cincinnati, should make good his pledges in re-
gard to saloons, Sunday drinking, &C., won't there
be some tall swearing in the Democratic camp.
We should feel to murmurI
The debate in the Senate has shown
that the Democratic leaders, North and South, are
as ready ever to justify apologize for election
frauds, tissue ballots, and repudiation. That has
been made plain as pike-staf.
The South Carolina mountaineers in
the vicinity of Greenville vote without compunc-
ton for Andrew Jackson at every presidential
election, " and if any would undertake to no.
tify them of his death he would be regarded as a
political emissary sento deceive them and treated
accordingly" This specimen of Southern in
tellgence is recorded by the Charleston NelUS.
-Ex-Representative A. NJ. Waddell
has been giving in series of communications to
the Raleigh (N. c. Nelrs, an account of his
stumping tour in Vermont and Maine in the
last presidential campaign. He closes the series
with this sage remark: Whether those who work
in the same cause hereafter will ever find il other
than fruieSs seems to be doubtful, but after some
experience the rebel brigadier' very confidently
asserts that unless there shall be courage and
less selfishness in those who control its policy the
Democratic party will never gain the ascendancy
in national affairs. That it may profit by its long
experience of defeat and pursue such course
during the next four years as to command the sup
port of a large majority of the people in the next
presidential election is greatly to be desired but
hardly to be hoped for at present"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

P. T. BARNUM, the great Snowman, has
parlors at the Arlington.
HON. HAMILTON FISH, ex-Secretary of
State, is stopping at Wormley's.
HON. EMERY A. SToRRs, of Chicago, is in
town, stopping at the Riggs House.
JUDGE A. W. ToURGEE, author of "a
FOOLS Errand," is stopping at the Riggs House
REPRESENTATIVE d. WYATT AIKEN is Sc
rously i'll at his home in Cokesbury, 6. c.. but his
recovery is not Gespaired of.
MIR. JAMES E. MURDOCH, the veteran
actor, on Monday left Cincinnati, where he has re-
sided quarter Of a cSntury, for Massachusetts,
where he will hereafter make his home.
DAVID DAVIS says he would not live in
e State where one has to take out license to get
married. He thinks it is as much of blow at
personal independence as the whipping post.
BRIGNoLI says that he is not Emma
Abbott's off-night tenor, and that she does not
prefer Castle TO him. He is angry with Utica
critic who said that he ate garlic and that he could
not, as Romeo, climb to Julid's balcony without a
derrick.
CAPTAIN H. Booth, post-office inspector
of Alabama, arrived in Galveston, Texas, yester-
day morning, with T. King, the absconding post
master from Milton, Fla. King was turned
over to a United States marshal to be conveyed
back to Florida.
Dr. ROBERT S. IVES practiced medicine in
New Haven, Conn, more than one hundred years
ago, and his son, grandson, and great grandson,
nephew and granddaughter have all followed the
same profession in the same city, bringing the
record down TO the present day without Interrupt
ton.
Mrs. Brown, thewidow of John Brown
who was hung at Harper's Ferry. Va, is in the
city. She is not in very good circumstances, and
desires position under the Government She is a
middle-aged lady of fair complexion. She is
prepossessing in her manners and still dresses in
mourning.
SENATOR MITCHELL has appointed Fl. j.
Ramsden clerk of the Committee on Mississippi
River Improvement. 1t is an admirable appoint
ment. Mr.. Ramsdell is Pennsylvania by birth
and associations and, editor of the Republic and
Washington correspondent of our esteemed con-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Professor Gamgee's zero-Motor

The Secretary of the Navy has received
a report from Chief Engineer B. F. Isher-
wood, which unfolds a prospect exceed
ing in interest and extent anything
promised mankind since James Watts
invention of the steam engine. We are
plainly told that the possibility of new
motor is established which dispenses
with the intense heat produced by coal or
the active combustion of fuel. It's steam
is produced by the genial warmth of the
earth's atmosphere or the more available
store in ocean and river waters. The
banks of the Potomac and of the Missis-
sippi may soon be crowded with factories
drawing from the swift currents, even
beneath their winter ice, steady supply
of energy made available by a wonderful
invention. Chief Engineer sherwood
says: "The plan proposed is far from Chi
merical. 1t is based on well-demonstrated
thermo-dynamical principles. The whole
is definite and precise, both in theory and
in mechanical detail" He points to the
likelihood of propelling ships unpro-
yided with coal and coal-bunkers, and
says the steam-engine may, in the near
future, be certainly superseded by the
zero-motor." A diminishing supply of
coal will then not trouble us, and the
United States navy, independent of coal
ing stations, may penetrate the remotest
seas without requiring land and stores of
fuel as base of supplies. "The enor-
nous Importance of motor capable of
superseding the steam-engine," he says,
and furnishing power without the COM
bustion of coal can be estimated from the
fact that it would produce an industrial
and consequently social and political
revolution equal to what was effected by
the introduction of the steam engine"
There is one aspect of this question
which the admirable report before us
does not consider. The surcharge of the
atmosphere of cities with carbonic acid,
sulphurous acid, coal-dust, &C., tends to
shorten human life, to the production, at
certain seasons, of poisonous fogs, to the
deterioration of public buildings and
monuments, and to an exclusion of light,
which predisposes to melancholy and
worse. But for the boiler-furnaces many
a asmoky city would epurifed. The cost of
water-supply must sink into insignifcance
when less than tenth of every million
gallons pumped aloft for the use of man
supplies heat enough to do the work.
That water, raised sufficiently, will give
a high pressure-service, whereby water
motors can be used for family service,
elevators: sewing-machines, and the
lathes Of poor mechanics The boiler of
thezeso-motor, submergedin the Potomac,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Another Whitaker Case.

Jim Webster is much given to making
fun of Uncle Moses bow legs, much to the disgust
ofthe old man. Yesterday they met on Ga weston
avenue, and Jim, who has very large mouth,
of having the earache. remarking he
did not know what caused it. AZ can tell you
what's de matter wild your ears; yer bit yer ears
when yer opened yer mouth so wide laughing at
my bow legs" responded the old man."
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
ABoU BEN BOURBON AND THE ANGEL,
AFTER Leigh Hunt.

Abou Ben Bourbon may his moutbings ceaseD
Awoke one night from dreams of aught but peace,
And saw, within the gaslight burning dim,
Making il seem phantom dark and grim,
An angel, writing in the Book of Fate;
Exceeding cheek had made Ben Bourbon great,
And to the presence in the room he said:
"Dost write of me ?' The vision shook its head,
And with look that made Ben Bourbon groan,
Answered: write of him they call Malone"
"Why not of me?' said Bourbon. Thou dost
know
Replied the angel Abou spoke more low,
But hopeful still and snid: " Take up thy pen,
And write me down as king of Bourbon men"
The angel wrote and vanished. The next morn,
When Ben had nerved his courage with horn,
He read these words that trembled from his mouth
Ben Bourbon perished with the Solid South
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

A MEETING was held in Boston recently
for the purpose of offering sympathy and
support to the movement providing for
the education of Indian girls. A new
building for their use is to be added to
the Institute at Hampton, Va, and when
finished, which will be this summer, a
number of Indian girls will be sent there
to be educated.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
a EnFFRkffv-

In Obion County, Tennessee, there is a
large lake, which came into existence in singu-
lar manner. About the year 1870 there was heavy
earthquake shock in that region, and the ground
where the lake now Is was depressed to great
depth and Immediately filed with pure, limpid
water The lake is now well stocked with splen-
did fish, and hundreds of anglers visit It every year
for the superb sport to be found in fishing in this
curiouslv- formed lake
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

TAFFY FOR Ten THoUsAND.-Now that
the circus is gone We do not mind saying
that the money should have been divided
up at the rate of dollar apiece among
Washington girls.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Judge TourEee Not an Omee-seeker.

The New York Express says that Judge
Tourgee, at Washington in quest of ofice, is on
another FOOLS errand." We have not heard that
Judge Tourgee was in quest of any Office. He GER
tainIy has never thrust himself forward as an as
pirant. Many people believe that if 1t had not
been for the quarter of q million copies of his
works which the American public bought and
read before the election General Garfield's
candidacy might have been a FOOLS errand.
We hope the Judge does not want an Office. The
country needs him just where he is-in private
life, enjoying well-earned leisure. He should be
untrammeled by any Official relations, and wait
pen in hand, ready for new literary work He is
too valuable man to be fettered with the cares of
office. II, however, for any reason Judge Tourgee
desires recognition at the hands OF the admins
tration, none has any better right TO it. Repubi-
cans from every State would gladly second his
claim, and there is no man whom the Democrats
would 50 willingly Danish to the silence of Of
fetal life
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Never Never!

L shall never wear false teeth-no,,
never!' remarked young Smitherini, tenor robusto
employed in the choir of the Church of the Holy
Shillelah. why nOt?' asked the organist 1" Be-
cause do not wish my voice to become falsetto''
His legs were discovered next morning sticking
out of an organ pipe.-NtW York Commercial Adrer-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Colonel RockwelI's Suggestion.
To the Editor Of The Republican:


Colonel Rockwell's suggestion to the
District Commissioners for the improvement of H
street north of Lafayette Square should be at once
adopted; and in order to the further improvement
of that and all the beautiful squares in Washing
ton Colonel r. should see that authority be OBJ
tanned from Congress- if necessary, for the removal
of the unsightly fences which Unnecessarily In
close them LUKE MARSH.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
The Democrats are ready enough to C,

THE Democrats are ready enough to cry
reputation at Senator Malone, but they
make no provision for paying the public
debt of Virginia, and suggest no feasible
plan to that end. A writer says that if
taxes were laid with the same judgment
for revenue as they are to reduce the Re-
publican vote the State debt would rap
idlY disappear.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
A wire Pence Refrain.

The farmers in various parts of the
West are threatening to rise up in body aud boy
colt the Supreme Court of the United States on ac-
count of decision it recently made in regard 10
patents for barbed- wire fences. They want to try
to make the court sit of the fences with the
barbs up. However, David Davis their old COM
rade, would soon show them how to get down off
of that or any other fence
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

WHENEVER an attempt is made to create
a prejudice againsta a person in particulars
it is the easiest thing in the world to hurl
generalities at his head. This is the pol
icy of the New York Tribune toward Sem
ator Conkling.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Greatest Shows on Earth,

A careful reading of the big advertise
ments in exchanges reveals the fact that there
are thirty-one greatest shows in the world in
this country at this time. This is too bad there
ought to be at least one for every State.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
The Virginia Creeper.

An Illinois correspondent of Senator
VOORHEES, Hkens General Malone to a Virginia
ereeper. But the Virginia creeper cannot be kept
down. it will keep climbing; it is bound to get on
top; and the idea that it dashes itself to pieces
against rock (even so barren one as Voorhees,
of Illinois is ridiculous as its manner is to bury
all such rubbish out of sight and flourish in peren-
NAL yigor-PichDloRd Whig
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Feminine Forbearaucc.

I" 1 see that Mr.. Forepaugh offers prize
of $4,000 for the handsomest woman in America
to travel with his show. This might be better than
writing books-but, no. will not keep some poor
girl out of chance to get rich. ."-Olire Logan
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

BAYARD says Malone should vote with
the Bourbons, and that if he don't his
vote will disgrace any party that receives
it because of his Readiuster principles
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Oysters and Beer.

Washington barkeepers give q fried
oyster with every glass of beer sold. Ifthey would
give glass of beer with each fried oyster sold
they would be more largely patronized by visiting
Observation-Disclosures Herald
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Divine Amnfus.

"You, John Wesley, if you don't take
that brat out of here while am writing this poem
on a Mothers Love- I'll cuff the side of his head
off,, said fashionable Galveston lady of literary
turn of mind TO her husband the other day
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

When the angry passion gathering in my mothers
face see,
And she leads me to the bed room-gently laws
me on her knee;
Then know that viii catch it, and my hesh in
fancy itches.
As listen for the patter of the shingle on my
brooches
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
EnnfinnnI

A Kansas poet, the author of the favor
ite ballad:
al used TO scratch him where he itched"
has just produced a new romantic poem, COM
mencing:
"I cannot love today
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
The Sua IN Move.

The Rev. John Jasper, RichmOnd's we'll
known colored preacher, repeated his celebrated
lecture in Richmond Sunday evening before
large audience.
The renowned " sun" orator preached from the
book OF Exodus: The Lord is Man of War; the
Lord is His Name" In very graphic manner the
preacher carried his large and very attentive audi
ence over the times when Israel was in Egypt, and
across the Red Sea, the wilderness, the Jordan,
passed Jericho and down to the wars of Joshua,
and at this point proved to the satisfaction of
large class of his hearers that Joshua did command
the sun to stand still" The preacher referred to
many passages alluding to the rising and going
down of the sun. His logic about the distance OF
the sun from the earth was very fine, when, with
contempt, he said some wise men, called, stated
the distance TO be forty millions, others fifty mill
ions, and one as much as one hundred and four
millions of miles.
"Whar could you get tape-line long enough to
measure such distance? And how could man
get up close enough to the sun 70 hitch it on so as
to measure? The railroads can't get thar. The bal
looms come nearer than anything else; but who
can go up? Now, in August it is so hot here that
folks want an umbrella, q fan, and plenty of ice
water and yet these wise men say we are 104,-
100000 of miles from the 1t is too foolish to
believe such stuff" And, turning around, he
looked into the faces of one of the most accom-
plished divines in Virginia and one of the best
civil engineers in this country Mr. Jasper treated
all such figures as the work of wicked, foolish
mind, who was not satisfied with the plain word Of
God but must go outside to teach such things that
no man can learn.
To his mind the idea of the earth being round is
so foolish that he would not insult his hearers with
any argument on this subject. The Scriptures say
the earth has four eorners-and that was proof to
him that it is not round. " How could men be
under their feet? How would they stick to the
earth7 Dey must belize flies, that can walk on
the walls. don't believe any such stuff"
Mr. Jasper is most earnest man. He fully be-
lieves all he says and wields a powerful sway
over his people, who regard him as the most pow
erful preacher of their coIor.-NorfoM Eirainian.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

WASHINGTON is city of magnificent
distances, drives, dead-beats, and disap-
pointments.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
nor RENT-BY B. II. WARNER,

OFFICE ROOMS ia Nos. S28 and SO Foursnd-a-
half 81. n. W. also n45S Louisiana avenue n. v.
Call for Weekly Rent-List
ErOR RENT-CALL AND SEE OUR LIST OF
II property for rent. JOHN SHERMAN & co,
fe3u St ClOnd Building
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
Sosf an0 SounS.


INOUSD-A PAIR OF SPECTACLES-WIuCH
Il the owner can have by pCOying property and
paying FOR This advertisement. r. ). HOLMES, l-5'
Massachusetts, avenue northwest. VI5jt7
Il OST-A DoG-LAST SATURDAY NIGHT :
IL small White Dog; collar answers to On"
name of roOdles liberal reward paid IL returned CT
shown where TO be found. At sle street Suul he.S
aPt-E7
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07

DERSONAL-AN EXPERIENCED JOURNAL
Il iSt wishes 10 meet parties having in view ne
starting Of paper or the strengtbening 1t ono
already established. Address EIsPGBLiCAN, he-
publican Office. Gp6-5t-
DERSONAI-A PHYSICIAN, WHO DESIRES
Il 10 enter At once with geod practice in small
Village surrounded by a well-tpGO farming com1nu-
uty I'm Eastern Kansas. and no VIII purchase the
residence of the resident physician. who desires TO T
tire will nd il to his interest to call upon address
ID. ]. E, zoo street northwest. Washington, a. e..
anS-l
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-07
PERSONALITIES,

VANCE, of North Carolina, who speaks
to-day, is not related to Ad.