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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
FIRST NATIoNALBANK, OF ST. PAUL.
CORNER JACKSON AND FOURTH sTREETs-CAP-
ITAL 81, 0G0, 900.

CORNER JACKSON AND FOURTH STREETS-CAP
IrAL 81, OG0, 900.
This institution is the Oldest banking
house now in existence in st. Paul, and also
in Minnesota. 1t was first established under
the banking laws of the state in 1889, by the
Thompson Brothers, J. E. and Horace
Thompson, with capital of $50, 900, and
their bank was located in the two story brick
building on the corner of Third and Mime
sofa streets, where the large Manufacturer
block now stands. They renamed in that
building until 1863. In the meantime the
brothers erected what is known as the
Thompson block, q three-story editee nearly
opposite to their old bank on Third street
Within few weeks after the passage of the
national banking law in 1864, the First Ma
tional bank was organized, with 4 capital of
$3.50, coo, of which j. E. Thompson was
president and Horace Thompson cashier.
Here the bank remained for twenty-one
years, and only removed q few weeks
ago, to the new and magnificent building
erected by the bank on the northwest corner
of jackson and Fourth streets. This build
ing is one of the finest in st. Paul or the
Northwest, of great architectural beauty and
immense solidity. 1t has frontage of so
feet on Jackson by 100 on Fourth street, and
is four stories above a high basement. 1t is
built of red pressed brick with ornate trim
mings of terra Gotta and pink stone, and is as
absolutely fire proof as it is possible to make
building. The inside finish is on a mas
sive and elegant plan, that of the rooms oc-
cupicd by the bank being especially rich and
tasty. Perhaps the reader can form some
idea of it upon learning the fact that it was
erected at cost OF $40, 900. The contrast
between it and the little brick building in
which the bank started is scarcely greater
than the difference between the amount of
its first capital stock of $50, 600 and its pres
emit capital of 81 900, 900. The business of
the bank when it started was limited to a
few hundred thouss nd dollars annually, and
now it handles over 500, 600, 900. At the
close of business on June 20, 1854, the Off
GERS and directors issued the following state
ment of its resources and liabilities:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
WARD, HILL & MCCLELLAN.
Stationery. Toys md Druggist S"ndries

Stationery, Toys and Druggist SundrieS.
NO. 407 sIBLEY STREET.
This extensive establishment is peculiar in
some respects, principally because it carries
three separate and distinct lines Of goods
and is prepared to furnish dealers in either
of the lines with as complete stocks in their
specialties as any single house could. Their
great stock occupies store No. 407 Sibley
street, which has five stories, each twenty
five by one hundred and thirty-five feet, all
crowded with the innumerable variety OF
goods they deal in. The stock is admirably
displayed and the various stories comprise a
perfect museum of elegant useful and
necessary articles. The partners, Eugene
Ward James A. Hill and j. g. Mcclellan,
have all had long experience in the business,
and Mr.. Ward who has followed the same
lines for twenty-five years, has for the last
fourteen years been identified with the trade
Of the northwest, thus fully understanding
the requirements Of the people Throughout
the vast territory.
One department of this house is staple and
fancy stationery, including great variety
dihpuS WHICH arc duGnOSIdpu anu pHOIO-
graph albums; diaries for 1885; Tuck's, De
La Rue q Co.'s, Prang's and Had's Christ
mas cards and souvenirs; blank books
scrap books; Cranes papers Gopher papers,
envelopes; papeteries; McLoughlin's toy
books; games of all kinds; A, B, G and
building blocks; ladies shopping bags; bill
books, wallets and purses.
The firm are direct importers Of goods from
the factories Of Europe, and st. Paul being
boath port of entry and appraisal, they are
enabled to lay goods down here at as low
prices as New York jobbers can supply them.
They have received and are constantly re-
ceiving toys brought directly from the max
ers In France and Germany and including
the very latest and most attractive, in numer-
Gus assortments from the cheapest to the
best.
The druggists sundries department its
more than ever full and complete, contain
ing an immense variety of novelties and
elegancies, the utmost discretion having
been exercised in the selection. No more
complete stock can be asked for, and from
the great display of goods, every dealer is
-ssrtsin 70 6p4 just what he may require,
whether he desires to replenish, or to select u
full new stock. Goods bearing their trade
mark Gopher are becoming decidedly
popular throughout the entire northwest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
THE MERCHANTS HOTEL.

CORNER THIRD AND JACKSON STREETS.
Col, A. Allen, the portly, handsome and
dignited landlord of that st. Paul tavern at
the corner of jackson and Third streets, in
sists upon it that he is jobber, and hence
entitled to notice among the rest of the
''houses." Everybody that has ever visited
the city and inspected or abided at the afore-
said hostelry can conscientiously affirm that
Col. Allen does wholesale business and
that he does it well. He is the landlord par
excellence, and he has built up home which is
priced by and is worthy of the immense pat
ronage bestowed upon it by the merchants of
the golden northwest. His trade has kept
pace with his popularity, and the goods he
dispenses are so thoroughly appreciated that
almost every year he is forced to enlarge his
quarters. The Merchants is the equal of any
house in the land in table, sleeping apart
ments and service, and with the colonel,
John Dodge and the son, Ehle Allen, it will
be kept up to its high mark of excellence.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
BRISTOL, SMITH g. MACARTHUR.
Stationery, Office Supplies aud Holiday
Goods.


The trade of the Northwest will find In the
finely selected stock of this enterprsing firm,
several lines of goods distinctive and special
with them and which are of the utmost i'm
portance in the formation of general and
complete stock. The members of the house
have all had long experience in catering to
the wants of the classes of trade they serve,
and ALTHOUGH comparatively newcomers
they have already attained an enviable repu-
tation In mercantile circles.
Messrs. Bristol, Smith ~ Macarthur desire
the trade generally to know that they job the
most desirable makes of commercial and
Society" stationery, and that they are pre-
pared to show styles and to name prices in
which they fear no competition. They are
special northwestern agents for several lines
OF staple goods, which they supply at factory
prices, among them being Levison Il Blythe's
champion inks They also carry full line
OF Office supplies of all grades and makes,
and every description of blank books for all
kinds OF business. The stock of
writing papers and material contains
everything required by any class of CON
sumcrs, and architects and engineers sup
plies they make particular aud important
branch OF their business. The peculiar goods
needed for the use of bankers and county
officers receive their closest attention, and
the attention of such trade is invited to the
provision made for serving them. In the
mechanical lines, binding, printing and
lithographing are made specialties, the finest
and most artistic work In these departments
is guaranteed. This house supplies a want
long experienced among the trade of the
northwest, and their success is already GER
tain. This house is connected with that of
Bristol " Smith, Utica, n. Y, an establish
ment that is one of the oldest AMI largest in
the country, and which enjoys a high ma
tional reputation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
ing ruin on his friends in France, who had
risLnd InInh In aosiStir, hi i'm ascanp

riskcd so much in assisting him to escape.
1t was currently reported that, after the over
throw of Napolen, Ney,wh WASH supposed to
have been shot for treason on December Z,
1915, really only feigned death and was
saved by the collision of his old soldiers,
who had been detailed to shoot him; that
they fired blank cartridges and afterwards
assisted him to escape to America, where he
arrived in January, 1916.
There are some papers now in the posses
sion OF a professor of note in this state, writ
ten by the veritable Ney, and others by T. ).
Ney, OF Davie. These have been compared
by experts, who declare that the same hand
pcnned both.
When this poor schoolmaster heard OF the
death of the duke of Reichstadt, Napoleon s
son, he burned great many papers and en-
deavored to destroy his sword, which he mad
always kept with him. He did break it, and
it is probable that the hilt of that sword, which
added so much to the victories of Napoleon
in the hands of the greatest cavalry leader
the world has ever seen, is now in the Pos-
session of North Carolina farmer.
The great Ney had received ag hastily saber
cut on his forehead and his lower limbs were
wounded, having been run over by a troop
OF cavalry; thus Peter Stewart Ney always
combed lock of hair over an unsightly scar
on his forehead and it is known from reliable
witnesses that his lower limbs were terribly
mashed and Scared
Many statements, traditions and written
evidences might be brought forward to prove
the identity of these two persons, as well as
the fact that while intoxicated he frequently
declared himself to be Napoleon's marshal.
He also had miniatures of Napoleon and OF
his son, the Duke of Reichstadt. His cor
respondence was chiefly carried on through
the French consul at Norfolk. Peter Stewart
Ney came to America in January, 1916, and
died at the house of Mr.. Osborne Ford liz the
latter part of 1916. He was buried in Third
Creek Churchyard, in Rowan County, and a
neat stone placed over his grave.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
PERKINS, LYONS g. co,
Importers and Dealers in Wines, Liquors
md Cigars.

Importers and Dealers in Wines, Liquors
md Ci9ars.
NO. 319 ROBERT STREET, ST. PAUL.
This firm, who are importers and dealers in
wines, liquors and cigars are located at No.
3l9, (old No. 81, Robert street, between
Third and Fourth streets, are the proprietors
of the oldest house in their line of business
in the entire northwest, it having been estab-
lished in 1859 They occupy a five story
building 25x125 feet, and every inch of
space is needed in carrying on their extern
sive business. Their long experience in the
business, their uniformly honorable method
of dealing with their customers, and their
extensive acquaintance throughout the entire
northwest, has made the name of the firm
household word from Minnesota to Califor-
mia, and has built up one of the leading
wholesale houses in st. Paul. They make a
specially of fine Kentucky WHISTLES, of which
they always have an immense stock in bond,
thus giving certain guarantee both of the
age and quality of the brands they deal in.
They are also large importers of all kinds of
wines, brandies, gin, bottled porter
ale, etc. In addition they are also heavy
dealers in California wines, one member OF
the firm having been once resident of that
state and familiar with all its leading vim
tages, He still continues to make periodical
visits to his former home and thus avails
himself and the firm and securing the best
and purest wines to be had in that land of
grapes. While the bulk of their business is
in the wholesale line, they pay particular at
tention to supplying what is called the family
trade, and large portion of their immense
stock is selected for that object Having
ample capital, a thorough knowledge OF their
business and being known far and wide as
honorable, upright men, it can scarcely be
wondered at that their already extensive bust
ness is on the increase year by year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
rom the following, jotted down in hurried

from the following, jotted down in hurried
inspection of the wareroolns: Cordage,
twines, wrapping paper, baskets, wooden
ware of all staple varieties, hollow wooden
ware, Boss churns Of all kinds, dowel ware,
measures, step ladders, brooms, brushes
shovels, refrigerators, ice cream freezers,
willow ware, baskets. demijohns, scales, paper
bags. Office stationery, coal hods, shipping
cans of all kinds, wire goods, matches, cut
lery, soaps, notions, pocket books, pipes, and
a thousand other articles in daily demand in
general stores. Every merchant in the
northwest should make himself familiar with
the stock of Colbert, Hill d Co., as they will
find the establishment of great convenience
to them, and it is the only concern of the
kind west of Chicago or north of st. Louis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
THE PEOPLES BANK OF ST. PAUL.
CORNER OF SEVENTH AND SHELLEY STREETS

CORNER OF SEVENTH AND SHELLEY STREETS.
This responsible institution was founded
about two years since with the following Off
GERS, who still preside: W. J. Macauley,
president; George r. Finch, vice PRESIDENT
G. E. Rittenhouse, cashier. Its paid in cap
ital is 10000 The strength of the institu-
ton can be understood from the following
list of its directors: j. P. Gribben, A. G..
Foster, George Il. Finch H. IIabighorst, f.
Albrect, J. II. Schurmicr, w. Constans, A.
Croonquist, Dennis Ryan, w. j. Macaulay,
G.. L. Rttenhouse
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
HOTELS.
METROPOLITAN HOTEL.
CORNERS OF THIRD, WASHINGTON AND FOURTH
STREETS.

CORNERS OF THIRD, WASHINGTON AND FOURTH
STREETS.
This well-known and, deseryedly popular,
house has long been looked upon as the
leading hotel of Minnesota. 1t has always
been kept up in every detail in a strictly first
class style, and not only among the people of
the northwest wEo have frequent occasion
to visit this metropolis, but with the thous-
ands of tourists and travellers from all
parts of the world, it is favorite and eager
ly sought home, 1t is one of the most COM
Portable and handsomely furnished hotels in
the country, and is arranged in manner
that ensures the perfection of ventilation, ele-
gence and convenience. 1t is pstronized by the
best classes of people, and is the resort Of
gentlemen with their wives and families and
the most distinguished visitors and officers
of the army make it their headquarters.
Under the management of Mr.. c. We Nc
lntyre 1t more than maintains its high rep
utation and the service and the table are all
that could be desired The hotel is noted
far and wide for the excellence
Of its table and few hotels in the
whole country serve more elaborate and de-
iciousiy prepared viands, and of this depart
ment the proprietors may well feel proud.
The Metropolitan is delightfully."- located away
from the noise and confusion of the bust
ness part of the city, while being conven-
lent to all public places, postofice, public
buildings and opera house. The horse cars
pass on two sides Of if and in an adjacent
square is located the most beautiful park in
St Paul, while the Third street front over
looks the river and the fine bluffs beyond.
Mr.. Mcintyre is also the manager of Lake
Park hotel at Lake Minnetcnka. and this is
one Of the most elegant. spacious and at
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
WILLOW AND WOODEN WARE.
COLBERT. HILL & CO.
Wnlo,r aud m-oo6en Eare. Etc.

UttoW ana W OOUen Ware. Etc.
Nos. 403 & 405 sIBLEY STREET.
The editor detailed to prepare some of the
business editorials which win be found in this
issue has for more than fifteen years been a
sort of historian among the business men of
st. Paul, and yet, even he was surprised
when, in the course of his investigations. he
found himself IN the ware rooms of Colbert,
Hin & Co, at Nos, 40S and 405 Sibley street,
for their lines aud stock are so distinctiyely
new and still so important, that he wondered
that the extensive field had not been covered
by some enterprising house before. The
stock includes a wonderful variety of goods
in constant demand in grocery aud general
try, aud the details of this stock have
even proved revelation 10 many of the rep
rcSentative merchants of St Paul who have
called upon their young contemporaries. It is
imrossible for anybody to understand the
full scope of the business OF this house, or 10
have an idea of the muititudes of kindred
lines carried without personal inspection.
The house has been established somewhat
over a year, the partners coming from
the east where they have had
a long experience, attracted by the
extraordinary development of the northwest,
The tine store occupied BY the firm is 50x1a5
e. with four stories and basement, and
ers Ye warerocns better arranged and
Utmost system, order and neatness
" every department 1t is indeed
:, u inspect so admirably conduct
i,ution. II would be impossible to
these columns fraction of the diff
slcles which aid in making the
n idea may, however, be gained
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
CAPITAL BANK OF ST. PAUL.
NO. 1877 EAST THIRD STREET.

The Capital bank was incorporated under
the state laws few years since by some of
the most solid and sagacious business men
of st. Paul and is under the direction of
officers who have grown upin the commun-
ity and devoted their lives to the banking
business. Mr. L. E. Reed, one of the oldest
financiers in St. Paul, for many years with
the First National bank, is president; Mr.. w.
D. Kirk, the cashier, was also with the same
institution. Mr.. j. w. Wait is the assistant
cashier. The banking rooms are light and
pleasant the finisl4g being in polished oak.
The bank has capital Of 100000 and a
surplus of $35, 900.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
BANKING HOUSES.

There are fourteen banking houses in ST.
Paul, including six national banks, (the ag-
gregate capital and surplus of which exceeds
all other national banks in Minnesota, or all
in Wisconsin, and amounts to eighty per
cent. of all in Iowa., six state banks and two
private banks. Their aggregate capital, sur
plus and undivided profits, on the first of
this month amounted to eight millions and
fifty thousand dollars. Representatives of
all these banks are among the guests of the
Jobbers' union on their excursion of this
week.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

tractive summer hotels of the country. 1t
is located on beautiful peninsula in the
midst of an immense grove-covered park,
beautifully laid out The bright waters of the
splendid lake are near by and at the spa
cious wharf the great steamers that ply the
lake make almost hourly visits. Nothing is
wanting in this magnificent establishment
to insure the greatest comfort and pleasure
OF guests, and the pastimes and delights of
this marvelously attractive resort are many
and varied
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-23
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-Camphor trees are being successful
ly grown in Florida.
Mr.. Plympton has made large
fortune by his invention of the roller
skate.-Boston Herald.
The search for pearls in the mus
sells of Ohio has been a considerable in
dustry for years. Pearl hunting has
lately been reported in Tennessee with
favorable results, Ctereiand Lea3er.
Another man-this time citizen of
Denyer-has invented street-car with
spring, which is wound up by the
stopping of the car, and helps the horses
by giving the car a shove ahead as it
unwinds. -Denrer Tribune
All the scholars who graduated
from the Yorkshire school Of cookery
last spring have found places at salaries
ranging from $3.50 to $50, and the En-
glish papers begin to think that new
industry for women has been discoy-
cred.
The nearest approach to perpetual
motion is found IN some modern clocks,
which are made self-winding by an in
genious arrangement The idea has
been utilized in some watches, which,
by the motion Of the wearer in walking
are made to wind themselves up as they
run down.-N Y. Herald.
"A patent granted this year to Grun-
zseig and Hartman, in Ludwigshafen
on the Rhine, covers a process of max
ing artificial cork by thoroughly incol-
porating sixty-three parts of ground OF
powdered cork chips with eighty parts
OF boiling starch paste. The resulting
paste mass is pressed into forms and
| then dried in hot rooms.
-Ripening and purifying wines and
strong liquors is done by the Electric
Liquor Company, of California, by
means of an electric current. BY this
process the liquor is freed from all its
poisonous essential oils, and the work
OF from three to six years is done in q
few hours. Light clarets are treated in
three to six hours; brandy requires
Eixty.-San Francisco Call
A French meteorologist has, in the
exposed court of his house, two bars Of
iron planted in the earth, to each o.
| " A4SAi ID HAUL Vi COilCG
wire, terminating in a telephone re
ceiyer. His practice is to consult TIE
/ apparatus twice or thrice every day
and it never fails, through its indica
tons of earth currents, to give notice O
the approach of storm twelve TO fif
teen hours ahead.
No other industry IN this country
has increased as RAPIDLY in the past a
sheep and wool growing. TO fully I'M
derstand the great rate of increase it !:
only necessary to remember the fac
that in 1880 there were only about 3D.
100000 sheep in the United States. VI
now have nearly 100000. In 1884
the wool clipped amounted to only GO,
O00,000 pounds; to-day it is nearl,
! 100000, 900 pounds-an increase within
this period ofover two-fold Of sheep an,
live-fold in production OF WOOL Chjca
90 Tribune.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-23

"A couple of vassar girls were found
by a professor fencing with broomsticks
in a gymnasium. He reminded the
young girls that such an accomplish
ment would not aid them in securing
husbands. ut will help us to keep
them in,'' replied one of the girls
Exchange.
-"'Hev l seen Paddy O'Brien,' SEE
you? No, hev not; but the ither day
on the sthrate, thinks to myself, that s
Paddy O'Brien beyant that sees. And
Paddy thinks as how it's me he sees
a-comin'; but, fax, when we come up
wild each ither, we find that it's nayther
of us. y Chicago Herald.
-"Ah, Aristophanes, l don't see Miss
Aresthusa on the street any more y
mop" Il used to see her with you a
great DEAL ''Yes?'' is she wellp'
"She has gone into a decline" mo,
you don't say?" YES" "How?"
Declined to have anything more to do
with me. '-Merchaat TraUeler.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-23
The Aath0r Of the Song of the Shirt.

We have but to read the story of his
life to wonder that, stricken as he was,
he should have written anything at all.
At his happiest he had the gift of laugh
ter; at his deepest and truest, the far
greater and more precious gift of tears.
But for him there were innumerable
hours when the best he could effect was
the testers professional motley; when
his fun and pathos alike ran strained
and thin; when the unique poet and wit
became mere comic rhymester. Il
must jump" saws he, in one of Thack-
eray's ''Roundabouts. Il must grin,
l must tumble, l must turn language
head over heels, and leap through
grammar and he did so easily enough,
sending off manuscripts to the pub
fishers faster than they could acknowl-
edge the receipt thereof. 1t is Just to
his memory that it should be burdened
with such mass of what is already an
tiqusted? To the questions there can
be, we think, but one answer. The i'm
mortal part of Hood might be expressed
into single volume. The Athenguns.
Providence, R. l., proposes to over
come the obstacles to travel in that city
presented by College and Prospect Hills,
by tunneling. The tunnel will be thirty.
two feet wide, seventeen feet high and
1000 feet long, and will cost $500, 600
Work will be begun early in the spring,
and the tunnel will be finished within
eighteen months. The tunnel will run
under Brown University,