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Mr.. Rahilly introduced long bill speci
tying charges for transporting ON railroads
cfany kind of grain, hax-seed, potatoes,
dour, meal, beef, pork, or any other kind
Of meat, live stock sugar, in barrels or casks,
tea, coffee, and all either descriptions OF
merchandise now described as fourth class
rates, in the schedules OF charges for carry
ing freights on the railroads of this state,
and for transporting timber lumber, shing.
lee, lath, salt, coal and wood. Other bills
we're introduced for the taxation of dogs;
making it. misdcmeanor to appear
III any street in state OF intoxication; pro-
posing to amend the act relating to commit
ments to reform school; providing for the
general taxation Of railroad bonds; amend
ing the charter of the Duluth e. Iron Range
railway; making chattel mortgages lien on
growing corps; and amending the laws in re.
lation to nter-claims and Offsets.
Provision was made for the purchase OF
LOCO copies of the statutes, and the loan
made for the extraordinary expenses OF the
state were legallzed.
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Masonic Grand Lodge.

The annual convocation Of the Grand
Lodge Of Minnesota was held in st. Paul
asst week. The following officers were
:lected and installed:
c; H: Benton, Minneapolis G: NJ.
II. Z. Denny, Carver, D. G. NJ.
4. II. Cove. Rochester. G. 8. w.
I. T. Fitch, Glencoe, G. J. w.
J. II. Thompson, Minneapolis, G. Tres.
\. i. &. Person. St. Paul, G.. Sec.
The appointed officers were:
w. D. Cornish, St. Paul, c. 0.
Il. Forbes, Minneapolis, &C.
A. Marden, New Ulm. G. s. D.
]. f. Gettman. Carson, G. ]. ID.
c. NJ. Foote. Minneapolis G. MI.
J. Bathrick, Winnebago City. G. st. p
J. r. Carey, Duluth, G. Sd. Is.
4. 0. Adams, st. Charles, g. s. 3.
J. c. Hill -, g. IS.
W. A. Miller Minneapolis, g. P.
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ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.
Remarkable Instances Of the Sue
cessful Use OF Artificial Limbo.
C,~., %A> u>-ko~n

Remarkable Instances Of the Sue
cessful Use OF Artificial Limbo.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.
eve see some queer cases once in .
while," manufacturer said. ''Tho
other day a young Swede came in hero,
and had an artificial limb put on below
the knee his leg having been amputated
there. Without hesitation he walked
away, but returned in the afternoon,
saying that the leg hurt him. asked il
he had walked much, and he said that
he hadn't. He had only gone to T~en-
ty-second street, and carried trunk to
the Van Buren, Street depot, and then
tramped over to Lincoln Park. l told
him we'll mans good leg would have
needed rest after that tramp. The
youngest child to whom 1 ever fitted a
limb was school boy only five years
old, whose leg was cut off close to tho
hip He is the liveliest boy
in the school to-day uses
no cane or crutch and makes all
his playmates chary of getting within
range Of the wooden foot when he be-
comes angry. Another man had both
legs cut off ly a railroad train two years
ago, p when he came the other day to
have lis artificial legs repaired I found
that he had been skating. He said he
found no difficulty in doing 90. I have
frequently known my customers to have
become quite proficient as dancers. On
ly the other day a man came in here and
said he wanted to have an artificial leg
repaired. He began dancing, and asked
me to guess which leg was the artificial
one. watched him, and SAID it was the
right one. He said l was right, but
pulled up his trousers and showed me
that both his legs were artificial. Tho
| oldest man l ever treated was Y years
Of age. I fitted him with the left leg,
which was cut off above the knee.
There is 9 mistake made by the public,
who think that the bearing is on the end
of the stump. 1t is not. 1t is the sides
of the stump above the end"
| "Do you have much trade with wom-
en-"
every little. It is seldom that wom-
IN loses her leg. We have, however,
considerable trade with them in remedy.
ing shortened limbs. Not few women
are born with shortened limb, and We
! fix that by an artificial leg, the calf Of
which contains the deformed foot.
There was a Lolored woman hero
awhile ago to whom we fitted an arm
and leg. She is about 40 years old,
and does her own cooking and house.
work."
elbow about fingers and toes?"
1--WE do something in that line. A
post Office employee hasa artificial foot
I made, and q railroad conductor has .
wooden toe. There's one 1 made which
he wouldn't have. made aflesh-colored
rubber finger for piano player who had
a short finger. He puts it on only when
he plays"
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viii of a Partisan Journalist.

Will of q Partisan JOURNALIST.
The will of the late William Galignani,
the Paris journalist, is worthy of the
private virtues which, since his death,
have been generally ascribed to him. He
left a considerable fortune, and l20, 000f.
of it he bequeathed to the hospital and a
like gum to the Orphanage of Corbier.
He formerly declared that having made
his fortune in q library and printing Of
fee, he gave 10000 metres of land in
Boulevard Bineau, together with rents
to the amount of 70, 000f and two houses
in Paris, of which the rents exceeded
100,0O0f. annually, for the establishment
OF 4 home for men Of letters and retired
librarians and printers over sixty years
of age. This building, he directs, shall
be constructed to accommodate 100 per-
sons, so of whom will nay an annual tee
of 500t., while the remaining SO will be
maintained free Of cost.
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Jefferson Davis mas sent his check for

Jefferson Davis mas sent his check for
500 to the Confederate army of Tennes-
see, as contribution to the fund for the
erection of q monument to the memory
of General Albert Sydney Johnston.
Mr.. Davis says the contribution is small
in comparison with his zeal for the good
work undertaken by his brethren of the
association, in memory of their "glori-
GUS commander who fell on the field of
Shiloh at the head of a victorious army"
but he declares that his ability to aid
does not keep pace with his wishes for
the proper fulfllment of the patriotic
object held in view.
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Latest Northern Patents.

The following were issued on the 10th:
Harvey Frazer, Nepenskeun, Wis, car
coupling; A. s. HANSON, Moofhead, Mimi,
traction engine; Edward J. Hoffman, assignor
of one-halfto D. P. and P. J. Wsgner, Sioux
City, Iowa, device for preventing incrusta-
ton; Frederick l.. Rowland, assignor OF one
half to J. H. Abbott, Blue Earth City, Mimi,
sorghum evaporator and rotary skinner;
Horace H. Hutchins, Maquoketa, Iowa,
roofing compound; James B. McLenan, o.
kosh. Wis, cord knotter. for grain binder;
Frank F. Neinitz. Winnebsgo agency, MIMI,
weighing apparatus for threshing machines;
J. w. Orn,sby, Milwaukee, lime bin;
Theodore G. Pelton, Lyons, Iowa, expand.
ing rose bit; Eugene L. Perry, Petersburg,
Iowa, straw stacker for threshing machines;
Henry F.. Humphrey, Fairfield, Iowa,
coupling of wires Of electric conductors;
Patrick Rooney, Charlton, Iowa, straddle
row cultivator; Charles Ruddocke Benson.
and N. Ruddocke, Granite Falls, Minn.,
bundle separating alta chme1t for self bind
ing harvesters; Ira w. Russell, Storm
Lake, Iowa, wind MILL; James P. Thomp-
son, Milwaukee, draft bars for sleighs;
John B. Woolsley, Bloomfield, Iowa, trace
buckles.
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NEyVS OF THE RAILROADS,

Mr.. Gould says that running all night
trains on the elevated roads rather tends to
encourage late hours and dissipation. A
near friend Of the great monopolist, with
sppareat seriousness gave this as one of the
reasons why the Manhattan company had,
at Mr.. Gould's diction, taken step back
ward and ineonvenienced the public by
withdrawing all the trains on the Sixth
Avenue between midnight and o'clock in
fho p,orIii;;6
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Professor F. L. y. Rhoerig, dean Of
the College Of Asiatic Languages at Cor
nell University, is said to speak fluently
more languages than any other person
in the world. Several official papers
received by the, State Department at
Washington, in languages that no one
there understood, have been sent to him
to translate, which he has done without
difficulty. 1t is reported that his
familiarity with the Persian tongue, as.
we'll as with nearly all the important
languages of Asia and Europe, has caused
his appointment as charge d'affaires in
Persia to be strongly recommended and
iavorably considered at Washington.
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Secretary of state Won Baumoach has 10
quested the various state officers to furnish
him, as speedily q may be, with . list, Civ
ing the style desired, OF furniture needed BY
them in their new quarters ut the capitol.
The style is to correspond with the csrpetP
already purchased, and the wainscotinE and
general finish Of the rooms. It IL hoped TIE
new furniture will be in place in les than ;,
month. 49,
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TIE CRL1IIN1L RECORD.

Some one with nihilistic propensities at
tempted to burn up the residence of Judge
Frank L. Woody, at Missoula, Mont, lately.
A bomb charged with powder, buckshot
and other explosives and missiles, was
thrown into the hallway Of the house, but
the explosion, fortunately, did not cause
much damage beyond breaking some win
dows. A German hamed Reuss has been ar
rested on suspicion.
Ex-Auditor Cyrenius johnson of Lafay-
cite Ind, has just paid into the county treas
ury 81, 054, SO that being the amount of ille-
gal fees collected by him in 1870. His con-
science he'd smitten him after there PEARS.
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ss.sss, F+sas,, ys,.,.ssy ~.

OOHOoo5 EV5d00S V0Ss1505Y ~.
Noon OF Tuesday was dxed upon o. the
time for ballotine for United States senator;
under suspension Of tho rules, . bill was
passed appropriating $75, 900 on account for
he completion and furnishing ofthe State
capitol.
Senator Traux introduced bill amending
the game Law, and Senator WEIGH another,
providing for the delegation Of power to dis
trict judges TO incorporate villages. Ad-
journed until II Q. m. Tuesday.
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STATE LEGISLATURES.
M01ada14. sInaaaa01.14 4

A~s~V> OtssssS"SV o.
Both houses met at s p. NJ, but there was
scarcely . quorum In either branch. The
house adjourned without transacting any
business; but in the senate bills
repeating tho dog license law,
amending the probate law relative to statue
of limitations in dover and minor heir
homestead interest, and making more flex.
ible tho Law pertaining to punishment 70,
larceny, were introduced.
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Friday, January ~

SENArE.-Mr. ingalls, introduced bill to
determine presidential disability.
A fruitless attempt was made to proceed
with the tariff bill.
The bill extending the jurisdiction of JUS
tices of the peace in Montana, Idaho and
Warrington Territories passed
The senate held a long executive ses-
sion, considering treaty with Mexico.
HoUsE.-A resolution was adopted calling
on the secretary Of the interior for infor-
nation as to whether land-grant railroads
have complied with the law respecting con-
struction and maintenance of telegraph lines
for the use of the government and public.
The shipping bill was debated Ut length
and finally passed, with the sections provid-
ing for free ships and free material stricken
out.
The vote on striking out these sections
was $50 to 81.
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BRIEF FOREIGN NEVIS.

The water is receding in Upper Hungary.
1t leaves fearful devastation. At Raab aud
Grau large volume of water is held back
III narrow rocky channels above the iron
gates. constituting great danger to the low
soldiers and workmen are employed on the
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Origin Of the Word HONEYMOON,
Laramie Boomerang.

Lily asks: "What is the origin Of the
term honeymoon" Well, Lily, We will
be teetotally amalgamated if we know
what the origin of the term was. What
the word honeymoon may have to do
with that period when the young hus-
band and wife are getting acquainted
ness We are free to say we do not at this
moment exactly know. Think ofwakine
IN the dead hour of the night during this
blessed time, called by poets and other
connubal savants the honeymoon, to End
that your noble Adolphus, whose who:o
being seems to you, Lily, to be the very
ne plus ultra. the ultima Thule and the
bono publico ofperlection-tTink of find
nature is hushed, that Adolphus SHORES
enough to crack tine eternal granite
foundations of univevna.
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10NSeS FTa00VS V0nW0TV II.
The regular hour Of meeting was made
$50 p. m.
Judge Brown offered . resolution asking
that the federal ofRceholders return to their
'uties, which was sent to the committee on
ederal relations.
Bills were introduced to allow the state
;rdinary expenses (passed under suspen-
>ion); to prevent unjust discrimination in
abroad rates and ON local subjects.
Adjourned until IL q. M. ON Tuesday.
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RECORD OF CASUALTIES.

A ffjghtful boiler explosion occurred
Tuesday ct No. blast furnace Of the Beth
chem, Pa, Iron company resulting in the
death of four men and woman and the
serious injury of several others. One boil
er was thrown through the roof, Of an old
mill and hurled 300 feet and fell among
about 100 workmen.
The latest estimate ofthe loss by the New
hall house catastrov he is Ill., an appalling
death TOLL. The narrowing details are
graphically portrayed by eye witnesses.
Even the English papers elitorially discuss
the calamity. condemning the lack of me-
chanical appliances for the escape Of guests.
The British ship Empire from Shields for
Bombay burned at sea. Ten persons were
saved. but two boats containing the captain,
mate and fourteen hands are missing.
The Portland News reports disastrou
fire in the New Tacoma mills, on Puget
sound. There were also destroyed eighty
casks and three 100 gallon tanks of Oil.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Walter Mann, late vice president of the
Merchants National bank of St. Paul, is to
pool his subscribed stock for the Third Ma
tional bank, he proposed to start with
million more, large share of which will
be furnished by the German-American, to
start business Under its new name May of
the present year. Waiter Mann is to be
president; b. c. Howes. president of the
Farmers and Traders bank, Hastings, vice
president and Gustav Willius, cashier the
latter to rank next to the president in pow
er and importance.
At New Haven, Conn, Father Fitzpatrick
connselled the congregation not to buy,
read or advertise in the New Haven Union
because that paper has, the priest alleges,
published exaggerated accounts of the PAN
ic in that church on Saturday morning,
caused by the altar decorations catching
fire from lighted candle.
The legislature of New Jersey organized
Tuesday afternoon, with J. J. Gardener
president of the senate, and Maj. Thomas
O'Connor speaker Of the house. The COVER
nor's message was read. 1t is q lengthy doc
ument, covering the question ofstate finance
in all departments.
The special election of the Ninth Indiana
congressional district, to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death of Congressman Orth,
resulted in the election of c. T. Doxie IRE
publican) by from 1000 to 1900 majority.
James B. Grant, (dem.) governor of Colo
RADIO, was inaugurated with impressive cere-
monies Tuesday. His address was we'll re-
ceived. At the November election Gov.
Grant was the only democrat elected on the
state ticket. -s..
The failure of William Damer, wholesale
boots and shoes, of Toronto, yesterday,
caused much surprise. The liabilities are
SIS, 600, and the assets So, 600.
The Massachusetts, commissioners of in
land fisheries have just laid down in tai
Matching house at Winchester 10000 Laeh
Superior trout.
The Union Steamboat company. Boston;
capital 500 900, has failed. Angry credi.
! tors claim that the whole business is aswin-
| die.
Postofices have been established at Well
ington. Minnehaha county, OAK, and Tren-
ton, Pierce county, Wis. 49,
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House. Wedneae1nu .Tnssnnr,. ~

House, Wednestlay, January 10.
Mr.. Barker introduced bill relating to
The laying out of roads lying in counties
in separate judicial districts; Mr. Rahilly
Dill fixing the legal rate of interest at per
cent; Mr.. Cole presented petition for the
protection Of fish in Lake Roberts, Rice
county; the bill providing for the borrow
ing ot$25, 600 for extraordinary expenditures
was passed. Mr.. Hicks introduced q bill
*sns the time for holding district GO urts.
THE HOUSE cos1M1rTEEs
Speaker Fletcher announced the house stand
ing committees az follows:
,Fuanee-Collins. Merriam. Crawford. Eude,
Judiciary-Hick., Cole. Collins, Smith, Jr..
Barker. Boardman. Childs, J. E., Cornish, Nc.
kqsict. Ihaser. Thompson: Brown Gregory.
Nelson: johnson. NJ. Ande rson, H.. Sadley. Dyar,
,spauldiue. Moore, Potter. Buck, Child. E. A.,
Public Accounts and observation-disclosures
I1rrel. Hagren, Dyar, Wells. Rahilly, Stigeman.
Public Lands Groetcsh. Linneli, Torgersop,
Finch: Seymour, Baarnaas. Blackman, Paulson. T..
Fsrrar. ~ 49, 1'e' "A'''' A'en1'
Federal Relations-Nelsen, Thompson. Seymour.
sidener, Lena. Stt0eman. Chisholm.
Education-Cole, Lydiard, Carson. Baker, Peter
Towns ,nd Counties Parksrs. sadley. 1yd.ard,
f' %,! Bell Tis saSx 6oSk p.t.,.on
10 ~.
Baarnaas, Farrar. Patterson, Jacklin.
incorporations- Smith. j.. u. Anderson, H.,
saein, Nelson! Nelson, Strong; Potter. Frank;
TIorgerson' Peterson. J. Batchelder, McNamara.
State ,Pr'son.Moore. Parker. johnson. M,
C!aims--Turrel, Grimshaw. VanDyke, W.y.
Peulson. H.. Blackmau. Stahlmann
ln.uranee- Haleren. Daniels, Hicks, Bean. Sid
Immigration Peterson. !
a!Ss,.e5; Bolcks Beekes: White, Franz. Co.,
Hospital Tor Insane Cids, j. Piummer Dan.
iels, Smith. J.. Strong. Bohleter. Randall
Deaf, Dumb and Blind-Buck. P!ummer. Frahn,
state Reform schooI--Gotzian, Lnnell. Carson.
Rods: Bridge: and N.yie.b,e stre.m.-petsr.ou,
p! B.soi%:-Dautels. Merriam. Wells. Paulson. H.,
,Print;n,e1Peter.on. J. A.. Boblettor. Parker,
Electtous-Frahme. Eude, sweuson, sabiu,
Gom%srse1;smith. J.. Huleb.ct. Hicks, Dem
Rules aud JOINT Rules-Boardman, Dy.r. Paul.
stn. T., Jacklin. Becker.
State LLibrary-Bohland, Barker. Holstrom.
Mine. n and MG!nera,.-Potter. Sampson. Bur-
Eosro;Ssment.aastley. Ho'strom. johnson, H.,
Enrollment-0eer. Miller. Morse, Richardsen.
Demeules.
Grain Inspection and wa,ehouse-way, Smith,
J., Peterson, OLE. johnson, NJ, Rahily. Cool.
Temperance Leeisatton-Coliius, Child, ]. f..
Miller. Bean. Smith. J.. Jr, Childs, e. A., Hill
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES.
IT To- sno de1 uo,,: -coFn'h Barker crsw'
Univelty and University Lauds-arimshsw
COrnisb. Way, Porter, johnson, w. H.
Foress.y-o.ay; Peterson. O.. Morse. Baker.
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Mathew Franklin Whittier, only brother
ofJohn g. Whittier, the poet, died Monday.
He was the author Of the famous Ethan
Spike letters
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PERSONAL PARAGR1PHS.


Paddy Ryan. who is spending q week in
Omaha, says that he proposes to challenge
the winner of the fight between Sullivan and
Slade as soon as match il made. He says
he is in better condition now than he ever
was in his life, and he is anxious to meet
Sullivan in the ring again some time this
ability is that Sullivan will find Slade q
hard man to whip. ..
John Cody died at Manistee, Mich, after
fast of 103 days. aged sixty. He served
during the wsr in the Sixteenth Wisconsin
regiment. He leaves wife and five children
all married. During the fast his weight was
reduced from 100 pounds to 10z. His habits
were temperate. The supposed cause OF his
fasting was liberation of the stomach.
Gen. James tongstreet contributes, in a
letter to Gen. Grant some valuable lnforma-
ton on the Fitz John Porter case, showing
from his standpoint the relation of Porter to
the enemy in the field about which there
has been so much controversy. It is de-
cidedly favorable to Porter.
William Buckncll, Of Philadelphia re-
Gently handed the board of trustees of the
university of Lewisburg, Pa, Baptist theo-
lOSlC6A SEMINARY, u4S ClJcCA IOE @1VV,UUU III
Guiding his own subscription of $50, 900,
made OH condition that $4,000 more be Sc
cured.
E1-Treasurer Polk of Tennessee is report
ed as being in the best of spirits, which is
further elucidated by the statement that he
is drinking heavily and threatens to tell all
he knows and make other hearts ache.
Arthur Thomas has been elected treasurer
in his stead.
Dr. William A. Mcdonald of lynn, Mass,
has brought suit, claimin, $40, 900 damages,
against Rev. Patrick Strain. of the Roman
Catholic church, who charged that the ply
sician was unskillful and advised people not
to employ him.
Mollie Maeder Steele, formerly q variety
actress in Minneapolis theater, was d.
vorced from Levi G. Steele in Cincinnati.
Clara Morris is to appear in New York
with Salvini, in Ia Morte Civelle. She
will receive $3.50 night.
Clark Mills, the well-known sculptor, is
dangerously sick with affection of the
heart.
Lieut.. Samuel J. Clarkson, us. A., died
at Nice, France.
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Sarah Bernhardt is said to have signed
contract to play an engagement Of
twenty-five weeks in the V:,ited S, sAes
next season.
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dams. Their labors are much impeded BY
frost, which, however, checks the flow Of
water into the tributaries Of the river Theiss.
The evidence shows completely tnat the
murder Of Prof. Palmer and party was COM
mitted by order Of the governor OF Nahli, =
sympathizer with Arab Pasha and now
prisoner ut Suez. A Bedouin shiek, who
undertook to escort Prof. Palmer and be-
trayed the party, has died III the hospital at
Suez. ..5
Duncan Macarthur, manager Of the Mer.
chants bank in Winnipeg for the past ten
years, has resigned and will be succeeded
by D. Miller, formerly assistant manager.
A. Wickson, formerly manager in Chicago,
assumes the position OF assistant manager.
Official reports show the depreciation of
crops ii: Ireland to be $5c, 1l8, 1877. The bulk
of this loss was in potatoes, which fill off
$50, 317 ,687. This record would tend strong.
~ to establish the verify Of the statements
that great suffering is imminent in the ill
lated lsle.'G,l.. ..f.,rs5.5: ~ n,-
The social circles Of Ottawa are still 49,
itated over the publication Of the stories
about the Princes Louise and Lady Mac
Donald, and their mutual dislike for each
other. 49,. ....ats ..
Official returns show that during the year
ending the 3lst of September last, LIS, 41s
persons arrived in Canada, of whom 76, 72S
went on to the United States.