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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28
FINANCE & COMMERCE.
Board Of Trade.


l. ST.. PAUL, Dec. 28.-The board of trade
is without material change and quotations
are merely nominal with no change of inn
portance to note from the preceding day:
WHEAT-No. hard, $50 bid; No. l, $50
bid, CSC asked; No. hard, $40 bid,
800 asked; No. 2, SIC bid, soc asked; No.
3, 90 to SOC.
CoRN-No. old Coo bid; new Kansas,
52c asked; new Iowa, 48 asked.
OATs-No. mixed, $500 bid; No. 8
mixed, 35c asked; No. white, $40 asked;
rejected "a asked.
BA9LEY-N1. 2, CO.. >oid; No. oxtr.,
SOC bid; No. 3, 42c bid.
RYE-No. 2, 45c bid.
GROUND FEED-$23 to$25.
Com MEAL-$l9.5O.
BRAN-$8@9.
BALED HAY-$8.5O.
DRESSED Hoas-S7 to 1925.
FLAX SEED-$1.
SALEs-5, 900 bushels No. 2 mixed oats,
p. t.; 5000 bushels No. wheat, p. II car
choice A. 1 feed, $25; cars No. 2
mixed oats, 36c; cars dressed hogs, $7.1O;
1 car baled hay, 1925; car dressed hogs,
$7.25; car new Iowa corn 1902 cars
dressed hogs, $7.25.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28
Water Wcrks Yn,prorcnaents.

Water Works Improvements.
The committee on construction and ex-
tension from the board of water works
commissioners have made the following
report:
The committee on construction and ex-
tension have made a careful examination
of the requirements for the next two years
of that part of the water works assigned
to this committee, and have had the engin-
eer make careful estimates thereon, and
which we herewith present and recommend
its adoption:
Rebuilding old pump house and put
ting in two boilers Of 100-horse
power each. three 100000
pumps, and two 6ve-horse power
wheels ................... .s1OS, SOS IS
For purchase of site for pump
ing station on the East side,
the building of pump house, to-
gether with the wheels and ma
chinery OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 61,56s 50
For 8 ESQ ineal feet of 16-inch sup
ply main Observation-Disclosures. 12,16O 90
For II, 900 lineal feet of 24-inch sup
ply main s5,1OS 90
Total ....................... .$267, 6S5 IS
The board recommended the provision
Of means for these improvements.
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Honest andLiberal.

When the Hops in each bottle Of Hop Bitters
Eat the present price. $l.25 per lb..) cost more
thana bottle is sold for, besides the other costly
medicines, and the quality and price are kept
the same, we think it is honest and liberal in the
proprietors, and no one should complain, or buy
OF use worthless stuff, or cheating bogus imita-
tions because the price is less.
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New York produce Market.

NEW YORK, Dec 27.-Flour dull; unchan yed;
receipts AZ, 49D; exports $500; superfne state
and western s0@3.75; common to good ex-
ira S70@z.35; good to choice 4 .40@7 %; white
wheat extra 6.25@ rs; extra Ohio S.80@6.75;
st. Louis 3.80@7,00; Minnesota patent pro-
cess 5.60@7.40. Wheat, cash lots firm at a
slight advance; options opened shade better
but afterwards declined 1890. closing dali;
receipts $1,000 bushels; exports 12l, GOO; No. 2
spring nominal; ungra led winter red 89@1. l011a;
steamer No. do 99c; No. red 1.07@1.071a;
steamer No. red LOS; No. red 1.09%@
1.111a; No. l red 1.1419@1.l5; steamer mixed
winter 90c; ungraded white 98@1.1214;
steamer No. 2 do 81 A@S711ac; No. do nominal
No. red December sales 81, 900 bushels at
se0, eco bushels at 1.Osas@i: JOS, closing ct
l.19a5; February sales 49,, GOO bushels at 1.1156
@1.12H. closing at 1.l19s; March sales
264, 900 bush. at 1.13%@1.llL, closing at
l 1875; May sales 104, 900 bushels at 1.14%@
l.15N. Corn unsettled; 15@11c lower; receipts
100, 600 bushels; exports 1900; ungraded COG
CSC; No. 8 5614c; steamer 64@6414c; No. 6751
January 651@66Hc, closing at 65asc; February
63% @64Hc,. closing at 6S5sc; March 63%@641H6,
closing at $40; May 625s@62Nc, closing at
623sc. Oats Z@1sc lower; receipts 1900
bushels; exports 70; mixed western 44@47c;
white western 46@50c. Coffee quiet and nm
changed; his cargoes quoted at 7094c.
Sugar dull and easier; fair to good refining
quoted at 6%@7H. Molasses dull and
weak; New Orleans 4 @59c. Rice quiet and
steady. Petroleum dull and lower; united
76c; crude 65s@7%c; refined 77s@7Xc. Tai
low quiet but steady; 7X@8c. Resin dull and
easier; 1.6211@i.72I. Turpentine quiet but
steady; Sig Eggs, western firm; for fresh
good to prime 27@28c. Pork, demand active;
new mess 18.371X@18.75. Beef quiet but
steady. Cut meats dull and nominal; long
clear middles 9.621S@9.75. Lard lower;
prime steam 1O.75@10.8O. Butter dull and
weak; 17@44c. Cheese, demand fair and market
firm; western fat 6@1Se.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28
Riches In Hop Farming.

At the present prices, ten acres in Hops will
bring more money than five hundred acres in any
other farming; and, if there is consumer or
dealer who thinks the price of Hop Bitters high,
remember that Hops are SI.25 per h., and the
the price remains the same as formerly. Don't
buy or use worthless stuff OF limitations because
the price is leg
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JOHN w. RUMSEY & CO..
Commission Grain and Provisions,
126 Washington st., Rooms Is and l9,
CHICAGO, ILLS
Financial and Stock Markets.
MORNING IMPORT.

MORNING EXPORT.
NEW YORK, Dec. ~, IL a. m.-Ths stock
market opened irregular but in the main x@1
per cent. lower, the latter Nashville & Chatta-
nooga. Immediately. after opening an advance
of 1S@1 per cent. took place led by Denver &
Rio Grande. This was followed by reaction of
H@I per cent, after which there was another
advance Of 11s@X per cent, in which the Dem
yer & Rio Grande and Lackawanna & Western
were most conspicuous.
AFTERNOON REPORT.
Money per cent. Prime mercantile paper
6@8 per cent. Bar silver, $1.08H. Sterling
exchange steady; $4.Sl long, s4.s5 sight.
Governments-Dull; fours Is per cent.
lower.
State Securities-Neglected.
Bonds-Railroad bonds steady.
StOcks-Dul T@1 per cent. lower for Lacka-
wanna & Western and Denver & Rio Grande.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28
A DEIsIfITER.

Tucson, a. T., Dee. 27.Henry Chiesl,
city treasurer OF Tucson. snd agent for the
Budweiser Beer COR paay, OF St. Louis, has
gone to Mexico, a defanlss5 iii $500. The
City, Budweiser com ssng, snd several
other parties are loqsgrs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28
Ninety Days for a Vsle Miscreamt.

Joseph Krosr, an employe of Bardwell
& Robinson's planning mill in South Min
neapolis, was arrested yesterday upon the
charge of habitually making indecent ex-
posures of his person, frightening little
girls in that part of the city. The evidence
introduced before Judge Cooley was con-
elusive, and the miscreant was sent to jail
at hard labor for ninety days. It is pity
he could not have been sent to Saltwater
for life instead.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28
M. DoRAN's REPORTS

The following quotations giving the nngs to
the markets during the day were received by n.
DoRAN, Commission Merchant:
{lvERpooL, Dec. "a, 10 a. Unmarked
quiet and of holiday character. London firm
Paris steady. English country markets ul,.
changed. Weather in England mild.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS MARKETS


MILWAUKEE. Dec. 27.-Flour dull and I'M.
changed; light demand. Wheat easier; No. 2
hard 99c; No. 2 941zc; December 941Sc; Janu-
airy CSC; February $3.50; year 9411zc; No. 8 70;
No. Csc. Corn dull and neglected; rejected
46c. Oats easier; No. 2 35Zc. Rye in
better demand; No. 571ac; No. 2 54111c. Bar
ley higher; in fair demand; No. 74c; extla
No. 51%c. Provisions frmer; mess pork
ITO cash and December; 1920 January. La ],
prime steam 1910 cash and December;
1915 January. Live hogs frmer; 5.75@6.15..
Butter quiet; creameries 28@36c. Cheese firm.
Eggs dull inactive. Receipts 43 0l0 bbls of -four;
IL, $40 bushels of wheat; 55,252 bushels
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28
THE COURTS.
District Court

Before Judge Lochren.
Thomas Gilbert VS.. Andrew j. Finnegan;
settled.
Henry Kruger VS.. Martin Ferrant; YER
dict for $1,000. Thirty days stay of pr o.
ceedings.
Hiram Birmingham vs.. the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway company; on
trial.
Before Judge Shaw.
Arthur A. Pond vs.. Alfred 81. Knowles;
continued to Jan. 3.
II. L. Hoagland vs.. J. Christian; dis
missed.
Northwestern Telephone company vs.. F.
W. Pratt; continued to Jan. 6.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28
Probate Court.

Probate Court.
Before Judge LELAND.
In the matter of the estate Thomas
Davis, deceased; order for letters.
In the matter of the estate Of Laura G.
Snow, deceased; will admitted to probate.
In the matter of the estate of Amanda
Z. Dean, deceased; will admitted to pro-
bate.
In the matter of the estate of VIM.
J. Long, deceased; will admitted to pro-
bate.
In the matter of the estate of Geo. W.
Reed, deceased; order for letters.
In the matter of the estate of John G..
Mather, deceased; order for letters.
In the matter of the estate of Johan
o. Jorenson, deceased; order for letters.
In the matter of the estate of Geo. B.
Cole, deceased; order for letters.
In the matter of the estate of @. G.
Washburn, deceased; order to show cause
made on petition Of executors to have re-
nunciation of Jennette Washburn, by her
guardian, declared paid; hearing Janu-
airy 1.
In the matter of the estate of Michael
and Barbara Preison, deceased; petition
for distribution made; hearing Jan. %.
In the matter of the Partridge minors;
letters of guardianship issued to Melissa
Fifeld.
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The Three Cold Days Of April.
'ew weather phenomena In

sew weather phenomena in this
country are more remarkable; and seem
at present less easily explained, than the
borrowing days" as they are called.
between the 10th and 18th Of April.
when usually the temperature falls com
siderably below that due to the time OF
the year. The cold at this time is, at
any rate, sufficiently marked first, to
have attracted long since general atten-
ton; and, secondly, to affect ina very
obvious manner the average tempera-
ture for these days during the last eighty
years. We find these three cold days Of
April, which, before the change of style.
were the first three days of the month.
thus described in doggerel lines in the
North Of England:
March borrows from April
Three days. and they are i'll;
The first of them is wan and weet,
The second it is shaw an sleet,
The third Of them is q pee,-a bane.
And freezes the wee birds neb Lac stane.
The following lines are given in the
"Glossary of Scotch Words and Phras-
es :"
Said March to April,
Gle me three hoggs upon yon hill;
And in the space Of days three
IN find place to gar them die.
The hrst . bitter blast did biaw,
The second it was eleet and shaw,
The third 1t came sac full freeze
The birds nebs they stack to the trees;
But when the days was past and game
The three puir hogs came hirpln hame.
This is manifestly an imperfect version
of the lines in the poem called the
Complaint Of Scotland" where the
borrowing of three April days is much
clearer lin the above account March
borrows hogs not days.:
March said to Aperin
see three hogs upon hill;
But lend your first three days to me,
And III be bound to gar them Gee
The first it shall be wind and weet,
The next it shall be shaw and sleet
The third it shall be sic freeze,
Shall gar the birds stick to the trees,
p" But when the borrowed days were game,
The three silly hogs cam hirplin hame.
This is, believe, the oldest version
of the doggerel. It belongs to time
when the three cold days of April really
were the first three days OF April. The
other was modified to correspond with
the new style, according to which the
cold days fall In the heart Of the month.
and cannot be very well imagined to be-
borrowed from March. It is worthy of
observation how correctly common OBJ
servation has indicated the true position
Of these cold days, for in the tampera-
ture curve derived from three quarters
of c.ntufy of accurate observation at
Greenwich the depression corresponds
exactly with the days which before the
change of style wera he 1st, 2d. and Sd
of April. 4. Proctor, az Hs.osotelge.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28

Mother swans Worm Syrup.
Infallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic: for
fevr ishress, restlessness, worms, constipation
52c
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Trough on Rats,

Enough on Rats" Clears out rats, mice,
reaches, bed-bugs, fies, ants, moles, chipmunks,
:,ophers, 15c.
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Municipal Court.

Before Judge Cooleyl
Nellie Goodrich, keeper of house Of ILL
fame; paid a fine of $50 and costs.
Annie Thompson, Lilly Eberts, May
Wood and Sadie Livingstone, occupying
apartments in a house of ill-fame; paid
fines of SO and costs each.
Edward James, drunkenness; paid fine
of 81.
Philip Blakely, drunkenness; sentence
suspended.
James Saunders, drunkenness; committe d
ten days.
John Ealpin, drunkenness; discharged.
William McGregor, noise and improper
diversion of the peace; paid fine of $40
and costs.
John F. Runger, noise and improper di-
version; discharged.
81. Emuch and J. G. Hanson, drunken
ness; paid fines of 81 each.
M. Matteson, assault and battery upon
G. Dahl; continued until Jan. 4, in the sum
of 800 bonds.
John F. Garrigan, murder; continued
until Friday morning.
Joseph Krauger, indecent exposure; COM
mitted ninety days.
Market Prices.
The following are the uling prices in
Minneapolis at the present time:
| Butter-Prime creamery, per h., 35@
SIC; dairy, 1924 roll, 2O@ 22c; grease,
11@14c. Eggs, 2O@3Oc per doz. Cheese,
1O@l2c per Id, for full cream. Apples,
choice Michigan, $4.50@4.75; Southern,
$3.50@4.50. Oranges, Valencia, So per
bog, Florida, $3.50 per box of 42O. Pears
$4.75 per box. Cranberries, $14.5O@ Is
per Dbl. Beans $2.5O@2.D per bushel.
Honey, 1920 per Id. by the case. Cider,
1920 per gallon. Pop corn, $1.25@
1.50 per bushel. Onions, 45c per bushel.
Potatoes, 4O@55c per bushel. Hides,
green, SC per ID; sailed, 1890. Hams,
15c per Id. Shoulders, 1Oc per Id. Bacon,
breakfast, 15c per lb. Lard. bulk, 13c per
h.; pail, 15c. Pork, mess, $19@21; clear
$22.50@23. Chickens, dressed, 1O@11c
per Id. Turkeys, dressed, 12@13c per lb.
Vension, 1870 per lb. Prairie chickens
81 per'doz. Quails, 50 per doz. Geese,
Sc per doz. Ducks, mallard, $3@5.50 per
doz. Small, $1@2 per doz.
LIVE Stock AND DRESSED MEATs-Cattle
choice, quoted at $4@5; common, $3.5O@
:! 4; veal calves, $7@8; dressed beef, $4,000
"a; common, S5.5O@6; veal, 1915 lie
Hogs, live live selling at $5.5O@6; dressed.
$7@725. Sheep, steady at $4,000
dressed, $7.5O@S.
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Commission Dealers.

The following are the quotations of sales from
by commission men yesterday and are subject
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Dry Goods Market.

New YORK, Dec. 27.-Exports of domee-
tic cottons for the past week S,678 packages, for
the expired portion of the year 59,813 pack
ages. The general demand Of an Indifferent
character, and for such small assortments as are
necessary to meet current requirements.
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WHEAT.
11WAUKH.
cH1oaao.

Wheat receipts in Chicago 90,974 bushels
shipments 1,O29 bushels.
Wheat receipts in Milwaukee 1859 bushels
shipments 1915 bushels.
May wheat closed in Chicago at $3.50.
May corn closed in Chicago at $3.50.
May oats closed in Chicago at $3.50.
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EVENING REPORT

EVENING BEPOkTs
Money 6@7 Per cent; closed 4@5 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 6@8 per cent Sterling.
exchange, bankers bills weak at e4.s0N; do.
Ok. demand, $4.84%.
Governments-4perc e1 t. lower. for 6vee; Il
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-28

Th0msps0ss's Bail.

The board recommended the provision
of means for these improvements.
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The council committee Oh fire depart;
ment held meeting yesterday and pre-
pared report upon the matter Of buildings
which are not freproof now III course OF
erection within the fire limits out which
we're begun before the fire limits were so
extended as TO take IN the property IN
question. The official report will be made
next Wednesday evening.
Yesterday afternoon John cardigan, the
youth under arrest for the mGrder Of JOSEPH
MARI on Sunday night, was brought into
the municipal court. Me.srs. wilson anl
Lawrence appear for ms 3efense. Tn,
preliminary examination was fixed to oc
cur on Friday morning. ant
the boy was renanded bach
to Jail to await the same. se prisoner
seems very despondent ana s,x1ef is trickep
In fact he spends the greater portion o.
his time in shedding tears Of grief. To
friend he stated that h. vas sorry Mar
was killed.
It seems quite likely that me firema,
Matthew Gates will baye 20 60. The evi
dence introduced at Tie aeroner's inques
showed that in a meaSure Gates was re
spcnsible for the death Of Joseph Marz
The three men-MarZ, Gates and Hurle-
had passed on, leaving he boys behind,
when Gates started back calling upol
MARI to "Come and see about IT," and un
fortunately MARI did go back 10 see abou
it. 1t is certain that CARES was under tn,
influence of liquor. 10 fireman shouls
have been. 1t is the puhilc opinion the
he should meet with oerarnptory dis
missal.
The Osceola times., 1882-10-14
II Wasn't I1y-Screens.
Detroit Free Press.


She knew he was the hy-screen man
by the samples under his arm, but she
held the door open and permitted him TO
say:
MADAM, | notice that you haven't a
fly-screen at any door or window"
"Not a one" she answered.
"You must be overrun with flies"
"We are"
"Flies are terrible nuisance ?"
"Yes. indeed"
"And this seems to be good locality
for mosquitoes
"Oh, yes, sir"
~ presume they bother you nights? ?''
every much"
"And great deal of dust blows into a
house not protected by screens"
"A great deal, sir"
"And how many windows have you in
the house"
sixteen"
Each one ought to have half size.'
"Yes, sir"
"And can make them cheaper to you
than any other man in the business"
81 think you can"
"Do You prefer plain green or fignred?"
"Well, | always did like plain green"
Very well; will measure the windows
and take your order
you needn't trouble yourself any far
ther," she quietly replied.
What Don't you want screensW
NO. sic The other day the woman
across the street had ten minutes conver-
sation with a tin peddcr and she's had
her nose in the air over me ever since.
4 hy-acreen man is about three times as
hiah as a potato man, and I've been talk
ing with YOU to let her see that she isn't
the only lady in town who can put on
airs. She's mad as a hen by this time,
and now you get up and dust or I'll have
my dog run YOU clear to the river.
The Osceola times., 1882-10-14
BEYOND The BLUE.
General Information on Mat
ters and Things. in the
Old World.
Church and state Doings that Now Agitatc
society In Europe.

The disturbed relations between
church and state in France-a matter
now Of 100 wears existence-haye fresh
manifestations every once in while. In
the Southern proeinces, for instance,
there have been Of late outbreaks of
violence against efforts Of the Radicals to
get all crucifxes and other symbols of
religion removed from the court-rooms
and public hospitals. At Mines the head
of a hospital removed picture with a
sacred subject, and thereby almost
brought on a riot. His act was inexcus
able, since the attendants in that very
hospital were then, and are still, sisters
of the Roman Church. Through their
energetic action the painting was restored.
At Paris, too, where the Cardinal Arch
bishop has sought to erect church on
the summit of Montmartre, bill has
been proposed in the Chamber of Depu-
ties forbidding the scheme. The prelaie
calls on all good Christians TO condemn
the irreligious practices of the Deputies,
but the radicals among them in turn re-
tort that this special church edifice was
intended rs memorial of the regret of
all Frenchman of the Roman faith for
the establishment and maintenance OF
the republic; and they accordingly ad-
vised him to keep his mouth shut. These
various acts are quite significant of the
prevailing spirit of the different factions
in France.
The Osceola times., 1882-10-14
The Readers of Novels.
New York star.

"What, in your opinion, is the proper
ton of novel readers 10 the entire read
ing population of the United States :"
Removing his cigarette from his lips,
the Young New York publisher to whom
to Star reprcs entative bad addressed The
foregoing question, answered, with the
sort Of positivencss which inhers in the
tone of a man who gives you the time OF
day from his pet watch:
"Well, pretty nearly 100 per cent
THAT sweeps in everybody"
almost; why, the taste for fiction
grows every year; not in this country
alone, but throughout the educated
world"
But does not the public taste for fic-
ton change almost as it grows Are
people rcadmg-not the same novels, but
the same kind Of novels, that were the
rage twenty, or even ten years ago z"
Changes, of course" said the publish
er. The stories that our fathers and
mothers laughed at and cried over are,
most of them dead as door-nais. Stars
once OF the first magnitude in the firina-
ment Of fiction have waned to third
places or paled together into invisibility.
Scarcely anybody reads Bulwer now. His
stilted style sounds scrio-comical to-day.
"Phclhem," and the rest of his long
winded tales are about a. dead as Mrs.
Edgworth's novels, or as Thaddeus of
Warsaw. The age is full Of literary in
conoclast in the shape of critical readers,
who are made up doubtless Of equal parts
ofconccit and a kind ofinhdel pessimism,
but they rule the roo st, nevertheless, and
auditors are compelled 10 cater to it,"
The Osceola times., 1882-10-14

A recent English statistical publication
illustrates some of the curiositics of the
pension system which prevails in that
country. During the year which ended
July eleven persons were put on the
list by special acts, the sum total of the
grants to them being about $4,000. Most
of these pensioners received the award
as sort of prize for literary achieve
ments, very much as one might draw
prize from book publishers on the best
essay, or from the managers of an agri-
cultural fair for a superior pig. Charles
p. O'Connor gets $3.50 because he is a
poet, and poor Prof Watson Jones gets
$3.50 for his medical works; Rev. John
Jones receives $3.50 "for literary services
in Wales"-probably persuading Welsh
boys and girls to learn the English Ian
g,iage and Mrs. Katherine Burton is
awarded S400 because her husband wrote
a history of Scotland. In this country
the widows of Presidents are pensioned,
and the same principle is observed in
England, where the widow of the late
Governor of the Bahamas has been given
$3.50, and Miss Burke, the sister of the
Dublin victim, $1,000.
The Osceola times., 1882-10-14

Paris expects some day to become a
seaport, even though it is far inland.
The Seine is tortuous and shallow
stream. which may be deepened and
strengthened, il necessary, by cxpendi-
ture of money enough. Now and then,
though rarely, tourists make the trip up
the river from Havre TO Rouen. Ii is a
most delightful journey, occupying about
seven hours. The steamcrs-little cookie
shells, almost-depart on the tide. The
valley is bordered by hills, which ap-
proach the river now on one side then
on the other, but seldom on both. Above
Rouen there is little navigation, but it is
proposed TO dredge the channel deep
enough for ocean steamers at its mouth
all the way from Havre up to Poissy
making thus tidal basin $50 feet wide
and over 100 miles long. At Poissy the
bottom of the river will then be fifty
feet below its present level, that being
the amount of fall between that point and
the sea. From Poissy series of locks
will bring vessels up TO the walls of Paris
The cost of the enterprise is estimated at
$4,000.