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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-20

By Aid. Dowlan-
ResotUed, That the Board Of Public Works
cause sidewalk TO be laid on the north
side of Thirteenth street from Canada
street to Broadway.
Yeas-Ald. O'Connor, Robert, Fischer.
Otis, Smith, Johnson, Van Slyke, Starzey.
Mccarthy, Mr.. Presidential.
Approved April 10. 1888.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-20

By Aid. OCOnnOr-
AesoIUed, That the Board of Public
), ork5 cause crosswalks to be laid upon
both sides of Fifth street across Cedar
street.
Yeas-Ald. O'Connor, Robert, Fischer.
Otis, Smith, johnson, Van Slyke, Starkey,
Mccarthy, Mr.. President-1O.
Approved April 10, 1888.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-20

(COntinred on Fiith Page.l
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A Race or Sailors.

Talking of ships, it is wonderful TO
see how the hereditary proclivity to get
into boat and sail somewhere II de-
veloped among the Norwegian youth
and at what an early age. You see
parties of small boys in boats that are
miniature reproductions of the old vi
king ship. rowing and sailing about and
managing oars and sails like veteran
tars. A little fellow, apparently 8 or
10 years old, will sit in the stern sheets
and handle his tiller and order
about his crew, consisting of
three or four urchins of the same
age or year or two younger than
himself, with all the sang-froid and self
possession of an old pilot. Sometimes
they come to grief and get drowned,
though it is wonderfully seldom, con-
sidering the number of almost infant
lie sailors, that accidents occur. As
for attempting to keep them away
from the water, I am sure timid
mother would have as hopeless task
in trying to keep her offspring of the
male sex on dry land as an old hen to
warn her brood of duck chicks from a
neighboring pond. Seeing the juyen-
lie population padding about one
ceases to wonder that little Norway
should boast a commercial navy Of
sailing ships second only to that OF
Great Britain.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
How Londoners Dress.

The streets generally were thronged
with people, principally gentlemen.
English ladies seem to walk but little
in the streets. The London gentlemen
are fine looking set of men. They
dress remarkably well, wholly in Prince
Albert coats and white vests and ties.
They wear the glossiest, most shining
hats. what we call "stovepipes," which
make them look taller and better
dressed than the 'sbeanpots" of America.
Nearly every gentleman has either a
rose, jasmine or atuberose in his button
hole. It may be their dress or their hats
that give the impression, but English
gentlemen look taller than Americans.
Their physical development is good !;
their faces handsome; their features
clearly cut. Most of them are clean
shaven, except small mustache and
neat side-boards. There are very few
boards to be seen among the better class
of young Englishmen.
The streets of London are enlivened
with relocated soldiers. They are a
fine looking class; their dress very
bright in color and we'll cut. On the
streets they usually wear cap, re-
sembling a smoking cap, which they
jauntily perch on one side of the head
and in their hands carry 1.-the or slen-
der walking cane. Their walk is very
regular and their bearing military; and
on account of the number one sees
they contribute quite a feature among
the city sights.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
The Tall Man at the Dining Table.

There is nothing more melancholy
than tall man standing at a dining
table on an occasion of solemn feast,
like that closely following marriage
ceremony. Eating is solemn; it is Sc
rious, and the tall man who stands and
looks down at the table, which strikes
him just above the knees, envies his
short neighbor, who seems to have been
fashioned expressly for such work. The
tall man reaches down and takes up a
piece of bread, and as he lifts it to his
mouth, he feels that the distance is
very great, and that the action of Lift
ing bread to such height must present
picture extremely ludicrous, not to
say distressing. He chews the bread
and looks around. awhile to note the eff
feet he is having on the company. Then
he takes piece of pickle and another
piece of bread, and looks around.
ssHave some more of the ham," says
the hostess, and he passes his plate.
The work of cutting the meat is pain
full. He humps himself over like q
buffalo, and feels like fool. The other
guests are enjoying themselves, and the
short man has told a story that amuses
the ladies very much. He takes a
spoonful of mashed potatoes and when
he lifts up forkful, he lets the mass
fall. In his embarrassment he upsets O
cup of coffee, which the hostess tells
him makes no difference whatever, but
which he knows does make difference.
He finishes the meal in such an unsat-
isfactory manner that he suffers from
indigestion during the entire evening.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
John swlnton's journalism.

I will advocate Something with q
capital s. How often will it be issued?
Just as often as the public call for it.
You see this is anew departure in Jour-
nalism. am going to take ideas with
the people. They know John Swinton.
IL they want to hear what have to say
about my contemporaries, the news of
the day in the French style-light, not
too light, just light enough-they will
buy my paper. If they don't care fig
for my stale thinkings, they will give
me the cold shoulder, and I will go back
to the demnitlon quill again. But all
my readers shall feel that they are ac-
quainted with the power behind the
throne. I will divest journalism of its
judicial, owl-like attributes and func-
tions. If my paper pronounces SEN
tence they shall know that that is my
opinion, and attach only as much impor-
tance to it as it is worth in the market
place. No more.
What q tremendous sham q news
paper is, anyhow. It makes public
opinion. What a five-toed biped
whose trousers bag at the knees and
whose coat gapes at the elbows, who
sleeps in an attic, washes at public
fount sometimes, and gets the most of
his meals in basement in Beekman
street? He and his fellows make pub
lie opinion.
I've helped myself under such cir
cumstances. Now, let my utterances
be subject to a discount on the indi-
vidual. Let me see whether they will
pass in the currency of thought.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
After Nineteen Years.

On the 21st of June, 1864, young
lady residing in Frankfort Ky,
sent letter addressed to "Lieut. J.
K. P. South, Company D, Fifth Ken
tucky Infantry, Lewis Brigade, Whee-
ler's Division which was forwarded
but never received by Mr.. South. After
the war the letter came into the pos
session of Rev. E. G. Guerrant, of
Mount Sterling, who placed it in box
with o number of other mementoes of
his comrades of the 'lost cause" where
it was discovered by Mr.. w. F. Haven
editor of The Mount Sterling Sentinel,
who forwarded the long missing letter
to Mr.. South. who received it one day
last week. The fair writer at the time
she wrote the letter was the betrothed
of Mr.. South, but is long since married
to another man, and now resides in
Louisville. Lieut.. South is the happy
father of family residing in Reading,
Pa. Mr.. South intends to send the
long-sea1ed letter after he reads the
contents to the lady as reminder of
their former friendship.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Two Ways Of Doing II.

A celebrated singer told me this week
Parepa first came to this country she
called at the Bennett mansion and pre-
sented letter of introduction which
she brought from Europe. Mrs. Ben
nett, who was dressy and rather mag
nifcent society lady, received her In
the parlor, and, after welcoming her,
bore her to the library where her dis
tinguished husband was at his desk.
Father. said Mrs. Bennett, father |
here is Nine. Parepa, come to ask the
protection of our paper"
Mr. Bennett expressed his pleasure
at seeing her, but Parepa bridled per-
ceptibly and exclaimed earnestly:
NO! mol Pardon me! You surely
mistake. do not come to ask the pro-
lection of The Herald, but only to pre-
sent personal letter of introduction
| from your friends.
Constraint and embarrassment fol-
| lowed. Mrs. Bennett was angry. The
| call was short. And The Herald never
gave word of cordial praise to Parepa
till both her host and hostess were
dead.
Another: When Madame Gazzanigga,
the finest singer of her time, was in
this city, she called on Mrs. Bennett
one day and waited for her half an hour
in the drawing room, and then left. On
| letting her out, the servant asked:
.Who shall I tell her cal1ed?"
"Tell her." said the prima donna,
"that she will find my card on the
piano"
And there, sure enough. it was found
aGazzanigga, scrawled in the dust
that had blown in that summer morn
ing on the polished piano lid! Instead
of being offended, Mrs. Bennett was al
once pleased by the impudence and
liveliness of her caller, and thencefor.
ward the two were good friends, an6
The Herald could never say enough fol
i J.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Theatres Of IRON.

A company in London proposes to
build theatres of iron All the scenes
and curtains are lifted and lowered by
hydraulic machinery, so that only about
one-sixth of the number of men usually
required suffice to "work" everything,
and the scenes can be changed in sur
prisingly short time. The stage floor
is in number of rectangular sections,
each of which can be raised or lowered
Independently by hydraulic power. By
this means many remarkable and
picturesque effects may be produced,
which are impossible with ordinary
stage machinery. Thus the stage may
be made to slope backward and down
ward, SO that the audience may suddenly
find themselves at the top of noun
tain range, looking down into series
of deep valleys.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
One OF I4incoln's stories.

Secretary Lincoln has enough of his
fathers nature to enable him to make
good stories and to tell them well.
When he was in Chicago with Arthur,
he, with number of other gentlemen,
was enjoying an after-dinner chat, when
he told this story, illustrative of the
craze in Chicago for entering the
plea of self-defense: Three men quar-
relied in room above saloon, when
one of them fell dead from heart dis
ease. The others were fearful that they
would be charged with murder, so one
went to the saloon and enticed the bar
tender out, while the other carried the
corpse down and placed it in chair
with its head on a table as if sleeping
off drunk. When the bartender re-
turned the two men took a drink, saying
the drunken man in the chair would pay
for it, and went away. The bartender
soon shook his customer and demanded
his pay. The corpse fell over on the
floor, and as the bartender stood trem.
bling with fear, the two men returned
with an officer. The bartender, antici-
pating his arrest, quickly said: He
struck me first"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Thaddeus stevens Grave.

Stevens had purchased and paid for
lots in the Lancaster" cemetery before
he knew that its charter limited its ten
ants to those in whose veins ran no
African blood. He then negotiated for
ground in ''Woodward Hill'' cemetery,
but ascertaining that they, too, didn't
think black man good enough to
moulder to dust in their graveyard, he
exclaimed: rs it possible that they're
a set of fools, too" Mrs. Smith says
that the directors then offered to have
the obnoxious limitation stricken out of
Stevens deed, but the old man de-
clared he would have nothing to do
with them or their cemetery, and that
he would rather be buried in Potters'
Field. And so this consistent cham
pion of the oppressed turned to the less
pretentious burial ground, where he
now lies, beneath that craven tablet
whereof all the world knows and hon
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

First premium Mechanics Institute 1888,
d. S. Brown & Co., general agents for the
Pacific Coast, SO California street, San
Francisco. The following letter explains
itself:
J. N. Andrews, dealer in General Mer-
chandise, Postmaster and Agent for Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s Express.
Elk GROVE, Sacramento Co., CAL,
December s, 1888.
MEssRs. d. S. BROWN & Co.:
GENTLEMEN-Please send me another
six-gallon Harkness Fire Extinguisher as
soon as you can. had occasion to use the
one I bought of you a short time ago.
Last night the hotel adjoining my store
caught fire in the hallway to the second
story, from the explosion of a lamp, and
the building being cloth and paper was i'm
mediately on fire in several rooms, but in
less than two minutes after getting the
extinguisher to work the fire was out.
As soon as this one arrives / will send
the other one down and have it replenished.
Also please inform me if l cannot draw off
the fluid remaining in the tank and save it
for future use, or shall send it as it is.
Yours, ETC., lSigned) J. N. ANDREWS.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
a Brupe.1e Brlae,a aIastaehe.

Immense quantities OF laughing mat
ter, too, are kept from the public by
secrecy In divorce cases. Funnier facts
are hidden than the fancies of the
humorists Did Mark Twain ever write
q paragraph with more merriment In it
than could be evolved from set of
shaving apparatus offered as evidence
by husband in support of the allega-
ton that his wife was uncongenially
deceptive? It seems that he meant to
marry q gentle, refined, and entirely
feminine creature, and believed that he
had done so; but the honeymoon was
scarcely over before he found that his
wife had many coarse points that had
not been visible in her as maiden.
One specification was that she had
naturally considerable of mustache,
which he construed as an indication of
Objectionable mannishness. He did
not exactly allege that she was
to blame for the blemish, but
he regarded her concealment of it
before marriage as characteristic OF
her general dishonesty toward him.
She had kept her upper lip SO neatly
DAlhH6u bl1dt u0 ul0 uOV 6uoPCSt VIC AA
cipient mustache, so common among
brunettes, and, when he at length saw
her shaving like man, he was greatly
shocked. And yet the outfit, which he
had seized and brought to his lawyer,
along with the usual bundle of inter.
cepted letters, suggested pleasing
daintiness in the operation. The razor
was the smallest ] had ever seen, its
blade being hollow ground until little
was left of it, and the handle of pearl
was inlaid with gold. The strop had 9
case of embossed leather, and finely
carved handle. The cup was costly
specimen of japanese pottery, with an
ivory-handIed brush In it, and half
used cake of soap that had not only
yielded lather, but was delicately per-
fumed. Inasmuch as photograph oi
the accused wife showed an altogether
charming face, it did not seem to me
that the husbands revelation of hel
toilet processes was very damaging te
her character.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
THE WOMEN or BuRMAti.
Their Fashions and Personal Habits
1.-THE Burmese Glrls-

The Burmese women before they be-
come mothers are noted for their we'll
proportioned though small figures. To
one accustomed to seeing the regular
features SO prevalent among the many
pretty Indian girls, the Mongol-like
features of their Burmese sisters look
ugly and repellant, but after while
this impression wears off; the
women of the country have many
pretty little ways and they are
very cleanly. Their hands and
feet are small and well shaped, arms
symmetrical, the head well put on the
neck; their carriage is erect; they al
low no hair to grow anywhere except
on their heads, where it is most
luxuriant, and is taken the greatest care
of, tied up La chinoise, with wreath
or garland of flowers entWined; they
disfgure their ears which are naturally
small and pretty, by boring huge holes
in the lobes, and wear In them either
gold or amber cylindrical-shaped ear
rings; they cover themselves over with
necklets, bracelets, rings, etc, and the
Burmese gold and silversmiths are
nearly as good as those In Cuttack.
Trichinopoli, or Delhi.
A Burmese girl who wishes to kiss
presses her nose up against face and
sniffs! She is born coquette, and will
spend hours in adorning her person.
Their dress consists of tight under
jaqkAz q support the bust, and loose
Al ing jacket over for show; q
Ga arf hangs down over the shoul-
defs, from the waist they wear either
q many-colored silk thamine, which ex.
poses the inside of one leg
half way up to the thigh, or a
ssloongie." which is more decent,
being asort of petticoat fastened round
the waist and exposing no part of the
person. All the women smoke and
chew betel nut, but have nice white
even teeth; they can swim as rule
and delight in dabbling in water, and
invariably bathe once, perhaps oftener,
during the day.
The Burmese seldom have more than
one wife, and she reigns supreme in the
house, and conducts the purchase OF
sale of all necessaries. A girls great
ambition is to keep stah in bazar il
is her introduction into society, and is
equivalent to our own girls being
brought out. They are merry, pleas
ant race, and many of the fodrth seikhs
when they returned to the Punjab
took back with them Burmese girls
preferring them as wives to their owI
far comelier women.
Every Burmese girl is born actress
and delights in taking part in a poey
or national DRAMA There is no stigmt
| attached to women who take part il
these performances, as there is to dane
ing girls in India, and they are invari
ably well conducted, modest girls. Lik,
/ the men, the women are inveterat'
gamblers; at boat or pony race thu
men and women bet together freely
and often girl, after losing all she pos
sesses, will stake herself against wha
she considers her value, and if she los
she follows the winner, and becomes hi
wife or concubine, for the two are nearl,
synonymous in Burmah. On the slight
est provocation woman will commi
suicide, generally by means of opium
which, thanks to paternal govern
ment, can be purchased without restric
ton in every baZar.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

So have given the Life Essence in
cases representing many phases of dis
termine term me- al III ifs @ action lon So far ~ as % tried II I
have found it a heart tonic, sedative, and
a tonic to the nervous system in cases of
exhaustion from overwork or nervous
strain. 1t is more prompt than other
remedies, and it's effects are better sus-
tanned. 1t improves the force of the circu-
lation to that extent that have found it a
remedy for coldness of the extremities.
Patients have remarked the refreshing
sleep obtained after its use by them. ]
will try it further in wider range of cases.
Very truly, JAMES BERGHEN, M. D.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
sawdust to BE Made Useful.

There is good reason to believe that
Bawdust will eventually be found of
some better service than that of chok-
ing up and polluting the waters of our
rivers. It has already been applied to
several purposes In compressed form,
and we now learn of still new use to
which it has been put. An exchange
says: Pine sawdust, highly compressed,
has been successfully used to make up
centre frames of carriage wheels. It
is said to be SO solid that it will bear q
pressure equal to twenty-three tons per
square inch. AS sawdust has also been
used for partitions and bricks, its appli-
cation to the production of complex
carvings and holdings dcss not seem to
be far of.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
Progress i'm Medication.

Since the time OF our fathers great
changes have taken place, all in the di-
rection of the diminution of the volume
and number of drugs administered.
Doses are getting smaller, pills are
dwindling in size, and powders are
growing so beautifully less as to suggest
at no distant period their final and
blessed extinction without hope of res
direction. Drops are substituted for
tablespoonfuls, and effervescing salts for
the black draught of still b1acker men,
ory. The whilom bolus, monstrous in
size and nastiness, is an extinct type of
physic, and what pills still survive in
dwarfed form cover their nakedness in
coats of varied hue, or present them
selves in the seductive guise of bona
fide sugar plums. Numberless are the
ways and forms in which nowadays the
horrors of physic contriyes to hide
itself.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
PRAY FOR ME-

More things are wrought by prayer
4aan this world dreams Of. Wherefore, let
thy voice
Rise like q fountain for ms night and day;
For what are men better than sheep or goats,
That nourish q blind life within the brain,
II, knowing God, they lift not hands of
prayer
Both for themselves and those who cali them
friend?
For so the whole round world is every way
Bound by gold chains about the fest Of God,
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

For coughs, colds, sore throat, bronehi-
tis, laryngitis, and consumption in its
early stages, nothing equals DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery Tt is also a
great blood purifier and strength restorer
or tonic, and for liver complaints and cos
tive conditions of the bowels, it has no
equal. Sold by druggists.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

The secret of the universal success of
Browns Iron EBitters is owing to the fact
that it IS the very best iron preparation
made. BY thorough and rapid assimila-
the body, giving health, strength and en-
durance to every portion. Thus beginning
at the foundation, it builds up and restores
lost health. 1t does not contain whisky or
alcohol. 1t will not blacken the teeth. It
does not constipate or cause headache. It
viii cure dyspepsia, indigestion, heartburn,
sleeplessness, dizziness, nervous debility,
weakness, etc.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
A NY as quotation.

An eminent living person, in lecture
at Exeter hall. spoke of "that special
invention of the devil-a double lie In
the shape of half truth" He told me
that the next day he found, to his con-
sternation, thathe was reported to have
said: "A double eye in the shape of
half tooth. But he added, philo-
sophically, the phrase was printed IN
inverted commas, and my readers mis-
took it for quotation fraught with
some recondite and mysterious mean
ing"
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
WHATS SAVED Is GAINED.

Workingmen will economize by employ
ing DR.. Pierce's Medicines. His PLEASANT
Purgative Pellets" and Golden Medical
Discovery" cleanse the blood and system,
thus preventing feyers and other serious
diseases, and curing all scrofuluos and
other humors. Sold by druggists.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22
One Cent a Kiss.

Miss Mary Ann Miller, having sued
Stephen Beck in Northampton county
for breach of promise, testified that the
defendant had kissed her "a little more
than one hundred thousand times"
Thereupon the jury gave her verdict
for $1,008.33 assessed, according to the
foreman, at the rate of cent kiss.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

SAN Francisco, May 1, 1882. Dear Sir:
For the past two months l have been suf-
fering from a severe cough and cold. A
friend advised me to use Ammen's Cough
Syrup. Ibid SO, and was greatly benefited.
/ have now taken two large bottles and am
enaey ay6n eIred ed1 to- f6 You a tor placing
yours truly, M. j. MURPHY,
With Langley & Michaels, Wholesale
Druggists.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

81 have been afflicted with an affection
of the throat from childhood, caused by
diptheria, and have used various remedies,
but have never found anything equal to
Browns Bronchial Troches." Rev. G. M.
E. Hampton, Piketon, Ky. Sold only in
b0xnS
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-22

Young, middle-aged or old men, suffer
ing from nervous debility or kindred af-
fections, should address with two stamps,
for large treatise, Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.