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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-26

One of the largest dealers in japanese
goods and bric-a-brac in New York has fitted
into the back Of his store a real japanese
house in miniature. Only two rooms, how
ever, are represented, corresponding to our
reception room aud parlor; but these are
complete and exact in detail. The house
was brought to America from Japan in sec
tons, and was put together by a japanese
artisan. after their custom, without nails,
glue forming the necessary substitute. The
material for the framework is of japanese
cedar and BAN boo; strong, trans paTent pa
per forms the little square Daues for the
windows, glass being only used by the lower
classes. The mOuldings of the rooms are of
lacquer of 4 very artistic and beautiful pat
tern, and the ceilings are of bamboo braided
in different designs aud colored in different
shades of brown.
The floors are especially curious. being
made very elastic, sort of split bamboo or
straw forming a padding underneath the
squares of mating, which are finished separa-
tely with neat binding. The rooms in q
Japanese house are designated by the num-
Der OF pieces of mating required for each, rs
the seven, six or five matted room. The re-
ception room is furnished with i sideboard
with a rounded front placed in one corner,
on which are richly ornAmented tea caddies,
a huge teapot and all the accessories of a
hospta5le cup of tea, which they offer to all
callers; and very elaborate lacquer and
bronze table near by holds a decorative jar
dinere 4 little sliding door OF paper, gayly
painted with japanese flowers, separates this
room from the inner one, or parlor. This is
the ''fye-matted room,n and has on the
floor q very curiously wrought artistic bronze
incense burner, and on one side of it is the
box holding the materials for burning the
incense. A lacquer reading desk stands
near, on which is book, scroll and 4 pair
Of exquisite candlestieks. Handsome raw
silk rugs, which serve for chairs, are laid on
the oor.-Correspondenee Of the Boston Her.
aid
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-26
Chan RE Ifltfe FoIks.

''Which would you rather have, little
brother or a little sisterP' asked Mrs. Simple
ton of her little boy Tommy.
ooh, ma, don't let US have either of them
children are such a nuisance about
house. Philadelphia Call.
Spa, what is this Bright's disease they talk
about-a Kind of dyspepsia"
''No, my SOM
s'But here's a book Observation-Disclosures
Digest. Amt that on the same subjecta''-
Chicago News.
At Sunday school in New York teacher
asked new scholar, little girl, what her
name was. She replied. ''Helen French"
An urchiu in an adjoining seat sang out:
''What is it in English!''-New York indie
pendent.
Young hopeful (who has been reprimanded
for not washing his face)--"Boo-h-oo! L wish
1 was niger boyl"
Mamma-'A negro boy! What for, Geor-
geyl''
Young hopeful-''Why, I-I-shouldn't
have to w-wash then, cause the d-d-dirt
wouldn't shows" New York Tid-Bits.
"Te, he, hel" he laughed, ''Mamma, 90
said fies was made des for fun eserday. didn'
oor'
Eyes, darling. But what are you laughing
at?''
II is lafin' at a fle. TIE, he, he!''
''Why, daring, what do you see about fly
that is so funny!''
''Te, he, help fy lickier my nose an
nose he is funny. TIE, he, he !n-Bloomington
Through Mail.
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4 Ronapnrte,. R.siasmce im PhnadeLphia.

4 BOndpGrfe's RssiGeHce iw Philadelphia.
When the conqueror placed his hand on
the name Of one of the two colossal lions
that flank the magnificent white and black
marble staircase of the Piazza del ORIENT, in
Madrid, and turning to the brother whom
he had made King of Spain, said: ''Thou
wilt be better lodged than L. he scarcely
anticipated that the words would also hold
good of Joseph Bonaparte's quiet Philadelphia
residence on Ninth street. while the founder
of the family fortunes was eating his heart
out at St. Helena.
The house on Ninth street was built about
the year 1900 by wealthy lrishman, John
Meeny, who owned the property between Lo-
Gust street and the alley. 1t was then sup
posed to be on Spruce street, but when
Spruce street was surveyed, the.line was run
100 feet further south. This is the reason
the house fronts on the alley.
Not long after the house was built it was
purchased by Chandler Price, great ship
ping merchant of those days. After the bat
tie of Waterloo Joseph Bonaparte babe his
unfortunate brother sorrowfnl farewell aud
sailed for the New World. Before doing sc
he offered himself as substitute for i'm
prisonmeut at st. Helena. ave do not care
TO cage the eat when we have captured the
royal tiger" was the sarcastic comment oi
an English officer.
Joseph Bonaparte arrived in Philadelphia
some time in 1915. Few residences in Phila-
delphia were fitted for king, even an exiied
one, who, through his wife, Mademoiselle
Clary. daughter OF an enormously wealthy
merchant of Marseilles, was still possessed
of ample means. After some dickering
Chandler Price gave up his house for hand
some consideration to toe exile.
The beautiful daughter Of Frenehmau, in
humble circumstances, touched, no doubt,
by the noble exileS misfortunes. listened "a
his tale of love. The little intrigue was dis
covered. The irate father removed his
daughter to another city, aud Bouaparte. in
digust, purchased residence at BOrdentcwn,
and, after a residence there of some years.
diversified by shooting excursions TO the
Adirondacks, returned to Europe. He tool
up his residence in Florence. where, after
number Of Years wasted in intrigue against
the Bourbons that came to nothing, he eud
ell his varied and adventurous life in 1854
PHILADELPHIA Press.
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DEATilFUL REALTY.
Ttoo United States Odiccrs d, Alaska Die
For q WOmaR.

The captain and lieutenant of one of the
companies stationed at Sitka in the first
year of United States possession fell desper-
ately in love with the same beautiful Rus
sian. She was a most charming woman,
with soft, mysterious eyes, a pale, delicate
face and a slow, dreamy smile that set the
two warriors wild. AL the garrison knew OF
their fierce rivalry, so marvelled not a little
when their old friendship appeared to be re-
stored, and the two suitors started off on
hunting expedition together. One haggard
man returned two days later and told that
his com panion had been attacked and gored
to death by an enraged buck in the forest
He was gloomy and strange in his manner,
and at nightfall went to the house of the
Russian lady to break the news of his rivals
death.
The friends of the lost officer talked the
thing over, and suspecting that duel had
been fought decided to go out the next day
and search for the body. In the morning
the surviving rival was found dead in bed,
with a look of agony and horror on his face.
One story was that his victim had appeared
to him, and he had died of fright and terror;
the Otner was lhaL some unknown ana
subtle poison had been administered TO him
in a cup of tea and the official report as
cribed his death to heart disease. The body
of his lost rival was found at the foot of a
steep bank on the shore of the Indian river,
where tangle of ferns, bushes and
grasses shaded and almost covered the
clear, still pool in which he lay. His rife
lay near him and bullet hole in the heart
told the sad truth that his friends had sus-
pected. His death was officially attributed TO
the accidental discharge of his own rifle
while hunting, and under these two verdicts
the real truth was concealed. The family Of
the Russian beauty disappeared from Sitlla
/ in a few months, and the story had been
half forgotten until the recent opening of a
path along Indian river recalled it to some Of
those who lived here at the time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-26
1nrfft that Seemed En.,..

From the ''Recollections of Private" in
the November Century, We quote the follow
ing: ''After enlistibg didn't seem Of SO
much consequence as 1 expected. There
was net so much excitement on account Of
my military appearance as I deemed justly
my due. was taught my fscings, and at
the time I thoughsthe drill master needless
" fussY about shouIdeTing, ordering. and
presenting arms. The musket after \
hours drill, seemed heavier aud less orna-
mental than it had looked to be. The first
day had went out TO drill, getting tired Of
doing the same thing over and over. / said
10 the drill-sergeant: LET US stop this fool
ing and go over to the grocery" His only
eeply was addressed TO a corporal: 'CorpO-
raj take this man out and drill him like h--l;'
snd the corporal did. found that snggees-
tons were not as well appreciated in he ar
nv as in private life, and that no wisdom
was equal to a driil-master's Right face
Left wheel. and Right obligue, march It
takes raw recruit some time TO learn that
he Is not 10 think or suggest but obey
Some never do learn / acquired It at last.
in humility and mud, but If vas tough
Yet l doubt Il my patriotism during nv first
three weeks drill, IVES quite knee high. Drill
ing looks easy to q spectator, but il isn't
OLD soldiers who read this VIII remember
their green recruithOod and smile assent.
After . time had cut Gown nv uniform SO
thai could see out Of il, and had conquered
The dri1 sufficiently TO see through it. Then
The word came: On to Washing ton.''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-26

Cleveland would provoke retaliatory attacks
upon his own. But he could
meet these attacks with libel
suits against Democratic papers and
challenge their proofs if evidence of either
of these two dates was destroyed. The wit
nesses to the Pittsburg marriage were both
living and both Democrats. Besides. Mr..
Blaine, as he admits, had given the Pittsburg
marriage to Conwell who had published it in
his life of Blaine, past recall, past ohlitera-
ton. He then thought he was chained to
that date, March 30, 1851. But after the
date of the child's birth, that was evidenced
only by the inscription upon the tombstone,
the only accessible record in existence
With the little figure "1'' oblterated, care
fully chiseled away, Mr.. Blaine would be freed
from his dilemma and able boldly to de-
nounce all charges against his domestic life
as utterly and abominably false in every
statement and every implication. Did not
Mr.. Blaine therefore have the strongest in
terest soliciting the human breast in having
the record of his chid's birth altered so as to
read: Born June IS, 1922 Then ii
1852 were set up as the true date what could
disprove it? 1t did not occur TO him that he
could be put to his purgation by bills of dis
covery. 1t did not occur to him that the dis
covery of the mutilation would fix upon the
public mind the true date of the child's
birth, and hence he would be forced to in
vent prior marriage, the Kentucky sacred
one, whatever that may have been.
BLAINE's REMARKABLE STATEMENT.
Mr.. Blaine in his answer to the libel suit
makes this remarkable statement: 81 have
not myself seen the stone since the firstweek
in july" What an admission for father
to make respecting the mutilated tombstone
Of beloved child! Living within one mile
of the cemetery lot, and yet this father, at
the end Of six weeks after the act of desc
Grafton was known to him, confesses that he
had not visited the little gravel But without
the slightest investigation, without so much
as visit to the stone, Mr.. Blaine is swift to
impute the indecent and infamous act to a
Democrat whose name is known-one of the
publishers of the NeoO Age. Yes, Mr.. Blaine
visited the grave of his child, afoot and alone,
the first week in July, on hot summer day,
! at the dead hour of noon, when tears
would be unObserved. retiring as he entered
| by the back way, and said he, have notmy
self seen the stone since. True it is that
! guilt bedarkens and confounds the mind
| of men, and the human will God abandoned
| in its web Of snares strangles its own intent
for it is not in the order Divine Providence
! that a man, however smart, engaged in a
! course of indecent and Infamous conduct
should retain full possession of those faculties
which were given him to be used in the
! works and ways of virtue.''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-26
THE BLAINE TOMBSTONE.
Was Blaine, Himself, the Infamous
Perpetrator of the Deed?'
The "New Age,'' of Augusta, Asks Mr.. Blaine
Few Pertinent QuestiOns-Who Had
Motive to MutiIate the Tombstone
Of Blaine's First Child?

AUGUSTA, Me-, special (Oct. 16) to the n.
Y. Word.-Amonc the sensations of this
campaign, the charge of Mr.. Blaine that the
tombstone of his child had been defaced by
some vandal hand, has perhaps touched the
deep sensibilities of more people than any oil
them all. The Republican press throughout
the country have united in the attempt to
fasten the sacreligious act upon the Demo
, Gratis of Augusta, and especially upon one OF
the proprietors of the NeD Age, Democratic
paper published in Augusta. These strict
ures the Ne,o Age has RETAINED from
noticing, but latterly the assaults have
been so bitter that this week the pub
fishers take the question up and in a very
exhaustive argument proceed to show that
Mr. Blaine himself was the person who did
the deed. After quoting Mr.. Blaine's version
of the affair in his replies to the Indianapolis
Sentinel and making a statement Of the vari-
Gus charges made by the Blaine papers, and
especially of Blaine's home organ, the NeD
Age says:
But we cannot stand everything any more
than a stone drag. Blaine's organs in this
state and over the country sustain Mr.
Blaine's lying accusations against one OF the
publishers Of this paper, and impute our 81
lence under it to us as 4 confession of guilt
Not willing to allow the record as made up
by Blaine and his organs to be taken as
confessed by us, we propose TO let the grave
yard yawn, even if the Plumed Knight shall
appear to have desecrated the grave Of
his own child to cover up his own
shamel What are the facts! In what
respect was the stone mutilated! In true
sense the stone was not mutiiated at all
only record inscribed upon it. Before mu-
tilation the inscription upon the memorial,
in raised block letters, read, We believe, as
follows:
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CLAIRvoYANCE AFRAUD-
HO,o Intelligent People are systematically
HttI,Jugqed.
Labouchere in London Truth. /

IhbhOuDVe0s
lLabouchere in London Truth
am overwhelmed with indignant protests
of spiritualists. clairvoyants, table-turners
and ghost seers, who are unable to under
stand how l can refuse to be convinced of
the existence Of phenomena which, accord
ing to them occur every day. When clair
yoy ance was the rage,a Dublin physician -
Sir Philip Cram ton, if 1 remember rightly
inclosed bank note in an envelope at the
Bank of Ireland, and offered il to any clair
voyant who would tell him the number. No
clalrvoyant could. When table-turning was
the rage, Faraday invited any table-turner to
come to the Royal Institute and TO turn a
table there which was so arranged that phys
zeal pressure would count for nothing. No
table-tnrner came. AS for spiritualsts their
tricks have been again and again exposed.
Shade had esprit who wrote on a slate I'M
der the table. The trickery was proved In q
police court; yet now we are told that we
ought to believe in spiritual slate writing be-
cause the late Duke of Albany believed in it
and owned a slate on which spirits were in
the habit of writing! We are asked to ac-
eept the gospel truth that in India an adept
of Buddhist spiritualism often writes a letter
it is addressed comes in the spirit from Thib-
it, or some such distant spot, and indites a
reply. There are, l believe, a considerable
number of persons in England, who absolute
" believe in this letter-writing trash.
Only the other day ghost story was pub
lished for the details of which it was said that
! Sir f. Hornby youched. He had himself
seen the ghost. 1t appeared to him in China
| and he at once informed his wife of the fact.
According TO recent information, however,
| from China, it would seem that the ghost had
| forgotten to die when he appeared, for he
was still alive, and that Sir E. Horribly was
| not married when he confided the details of
the ghostly narrative TO his wife. I am ut
! terly disguised with the credulity of persons
! otherwise sensible They seem unable to
understand by what sort of evidence q de-
parture from the known laws of nature ought
to be believed.
Take, for instance, the ltrick OF finding d
| pin the whereabouts Of which is known to
| the Subject The trick is generally per-
! formed in a room full of people, who also
! know where the pin is concealed. Collision
therefore, is possible. This, however, is not
necessary, for the performer be adroit he
knows where to go, owing to the unconscious
indications given by the subject. Nothing
is more easy than to prove this. Let the
subject be blindfolded instead of the per-
former, and the latter will never find the pin
/ asked Mr.. Stuart Cum berland whether he
| could find pin under these conditions. Be
ing an honest man, and making no pretense
to do more than closely follow indications,
he replied that he could not
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-26
The Je,rs of Rou,nnnfa.

There is once more crisis in the position
of.the Jews Of ROumania. The effects Of the
maleyolent ingenuity of the authorities are
likely far TO exceed in ultimate effect the
Russian outrages Of two years ago, which
aroused the indignation Of civilized Europe
and excited the generous sympathy Of Eng
land. The Jews of Roumania, are, It is true.
not maltreated by misguided peasants. But
thousands of them have been deprived Of
their livelihood by crafty legislative trick,
and have no resource but to become wander
ers upon the face Of the earth. Once more
western Jews have to face the problem how
70 assist these victims Of persecution Al
ready the tide Of emigration has begun 10
flow through Germany. The desired destin-
alton OF tue emigrants Is America. but thew
can not fulfil the conditions of the immigra-
ton LAWS OF the United States. and thev find
their advance stayed The experiences at
Briody in 1852 are likely 70 be repeated. not
in Galicia. but nearer Berlin. The wretebed
wanderers can neither advance nor retire
The condition Of their having obtained emmi-
grafton passports Is that they shall not return
to Roapania. Germany and Austria can
dot and viii not retsiu them. Whittier are
they 70 20, aud what is 20 be their fates
Pri.ce Bismarck has given several proofs
that be insists upon the Berlin treaty being
observed ~ the contracting poTers. Is there
auv Just reason why be should not give a
timely hint tn Roumania that she must low
ally observe 20 the letter the explicit pruvis-
ioas embodied in the fOTfy-iouTth clause Of
the treatyi Germany has much influence in
Roumaui@- King Charles IS HchenzeIIern.
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Golden Fruit.

A gentle man owning watch valued at
1925 missed his time-piece when he wanted
to consult it yesterday while walking along
the street. He knew that he he had it when
he dressed himself in the morning, and as
he had not changed mis- clothes during the
day the unwelcoms conclusion was arrived
at that some pick pocket had appropriated
it. Later in the day be resumed the task Of
picking pears from tree which he had be-
gun to stripin the morning, and about the
first thing he saw when he assembled the lad
der was his missing watch aud chain dang
ling from a branch of the ree.-Ithaca
Journal.
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The CUR u Mesico a,.d its Stream.

At the American Science association in
Philadelphia, Prof. j. z. Hilgard read a
paper on the ''Relative Level of the Atlantic
Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico" He ex-
hibited a relief model, showing the western
part of the North Atlantic ocean, the Gulf of
Mexico, and the United States, east OF the
Mississippi river. The principal features to
which he directed attention were the fact
that the actual continental outline does not
correspond to the present accidental limits
of land and water, but to the one hundred
fathom curve, SO that the continental limit
is far out under the sea. Florida and Yucca
tan have. more than twice their geographical
limits, while the West Indies and the Antilles
appear as a vast submarine continuation of
the Florida peninsula, the mountain sum-
mits Of which only appear above the sea.
This submarine plateau, extending TO the
southeast, forms, with the coast line of the
United States, a great blight nearly as large
again as the Gulf of Mexico, which Prof.
Hilgard designated the Great Bay of North
America Whatever the causes which pro-
duced the gulf stream, they must give rise
to an elevation Of the gulf above the Atlantic
IN order TO occasion the stream physical
fact demonstrated by the most accurate
measurements. The explanation of the
stream was that the North Atlantic trade
winds set the water of the Caribbean sea
against the spanish Main'' Central
America, DETECTED northward along the
coast Of Yucatan and Cuba, and thence
through the Bemini channel into the Allan
tic ocean, thus forming what is known as
the ''Gulf Stream" The part which the
Gulf of Mexico has in this is mainly that of
q reservoir or accumulation, " maintaining
the outflow at more uniform rate than the
assigned cause would admit Of without such
I reservoir.
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A FLORAL OFFERING.

send thee. friend, this morning fair,
A fresh and fragrant Dor 'onniere,
Whose yoiceless beauty speaks for me
The greeting would send to thee.
This pansy of modest grace
And perfumed heliotrope find place,
press them TO my lips, and bless
The one they seek-in loneliness.
Some mignonette, pink, and, friend,
Sweet rose-geranium send
A tuberose on whose petals white
The due-kiss fingers over night.
The last pluck and offer thee
Is small and shy, yet fair to see,
And speaks to thee from lowly lot
II love thee well, forget
n. NJ. 3.
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"ONLY ME"

A little figure glided through the hall;
sis that you, Pet?''-the words came tenderly
A sob-suppressed TO let the answer fall
at isn't Pet, mammal it's only me-"
The quivering baby lips they had not meant
To utter any word could plant sting;
But to that mothers heart a strange pang went I;
She heard, and stood like convicted thingl
One instant and happy little face
Thrilled meath unwonted kisses raineS above /;
And from that moment ''Only Me" had Ilace
And part with pet in tender motheEIove
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Johns First Share

When Chinese boy is one month old his
head il shaved and bladderis drawn over IT.,
and as his head grows the bladder bursts and
thecue sprouts forth. The first shave is made
the occasion Of magnificent banquet, and
the guests are expected to make the host a
handsome present in coin for the newly
shaven baby, with which a bank account is
started TO his credit. This is the most pleas
ant feature Of tue affair for the baby, as the
razor always pulls and he cannot take part
in the feast Portland Oregonian.
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TuE HrRREw ner rear -

The HEBREW new year began on Friday,
September 18th, the first day OF Fishri Of the
year 5645 according TO the Hebrew Calendar.
The Hebrew custom is TO have al places Of
worship open at this time. and to follow
short services in place OF worship with family
festivals, on the morning following the shofar
is sounded in the orthodox synagogues.
This Is three blasts on the rams boFn &C
corning 70 the direction in Numbers 1910.
The Hebrews, also, observe the day as a
memorial Sabbath according 10 the 18th
chapter Of LeTiticus, the 241h and 18th YER
ses-