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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
CURIOUS THINGS.

At the last town meeting at Hophinston,
n. H., Deacon Weeks and Deacon Currier
cast their sixty-frst and sixtieth annual bal
lots.
a live woodchuck jumped out of bale Of
hay recently opened at Meriden, Conn.
The hay was shipped from the west some
time ago.
Mary Chancey, little girl in Athens, Ga,
has no collar-bone, and can double her
shoulder blades together. Her mother is
similarly deformed.
One man testified before a committee Of
the New York legislature that the liquor that
runs from oleomargarine butter will eat
through pair of cowhide boots.
Michael Fitzgerald, a federal deserter,
recently gave himself up in Vicksburg, Miss.
He deserted fifteen years ago and surrender
because fis eyesight is falling and he can
no longer take care of himself
A tobacco man of Macon has agreed to pay
a candy merchant s12 for the candy he can,
eat in one mouth. The tobacconist believes
that he can eat much more than S12 worth,
while the candy-merchant holds the opposite
opinion.
Some fifteen years ago, when it looked as
if the cinchona trees of Bolivia were likely to
all be destroyed, the Jesuit fathers induced
the government to require the bark-gathers
to plant five seedlings for every tree de-
stroyed.
A contractor for furnishing uniforms to
the New York police department has discov-
cred that the cops keep their faded unifo rms
constantly dampened with salt water in order
to brighten their color, so they will not have
to buy new ones.
A Newburport man who was the owner of
a kicking COW suspended a sharp spade in
the rear of the stall and let her kick away all
night. In thelmorning he found the COW
lying dead on the floor of the barn. She had
cut into the cords of the legs and bled to
death.
bean grows in Mexico known as the
DEVILS bean, or jumping seed. 1t is small,
triangular body, and will jump several
inches off the ground or hand. When open
ed it is found to contain a lively beetle that
has been Matched inside the seed and is try
ing to jump out.
The probate court at Dover, Mass, recent
ly disallowed the will of Gen. Alfred Hoitt
because it was made twenty years ago.
Since then Hoitt's wife and son have died,
he has married again, and the property has
trebled in value. Of the twelve surviving
children eleven have fixed legacies, and the
son Charles, of Boston, would take the great
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
Predictions IN the oil Trade.
IPittsburg Special.

IlIlSDuTS SpeCIdl.
A prominent member of the New York
Petroleum Exchange, also doing business in
the Pittsburg Exchange, has studied the stu
alton pretty closely and expresses himself in
substance as follows:
The condition of the trade just now is a
most peculiar one and l look for a shaking
up during the next twelve or eighteen months
that will astonish every one engaged or in
terested in producing, buying, selling or re-
fining petroleum. This will be the work of
the Standard. 1t is getting ready for big
move. They now hold the bulk of the oil.
You can't find a certificate in banks that car
ried hundreds a few months ago. Formerly
the trade was carrying this oil. Now the
Standard through the representatives does
this. / should place the number Of certi-
ficates held by the Standard at the present
time at from 10000 to $4,000. The aim Of
the Standard is to scoop millions out of the
trade within the next two years, to put oil to
80 and then put up the price of pipage,
as it will have the power. The development
of the Russian oil fields, district over which
the Standard has no control and which is a
menace to its European and Astatic trade, is
an important element and factor in the COM
ing upheaval.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A Gloucester, Mass, schooner has been
lost at sea, and five fishermen drowned.
The Elisha Graves house. at Northampton,
Mass, over two hundred years old, has
burned.
F. jackson, of the firm of Jackson 81 Me-
Coull, Black Ridge, Pa, machinist, has left
for parts unknown with 900 Of the funds
of the firm.
Yesterday morning fire at Pensacola,
Fla, destroyed 565, 900 worth of property.
At Philadelphia, George Hughes, who has
been separated from his wife for some time,
was arrested for threatening to kill her. Dur
ing the trial, while the wife was giving her
testimony, he stabbed her.
AT Beavers, Ohio, last night, the Pan Han
die express was wrecked. The fireman and
baggage master are reported killed.
At Huntingdon, Pa, mau named Hawn,
aged eighty-four years, died, who had been
insane tor sixty years His brothers kept him
and allowed him to see no one.
At Tucson, Gen. Geo. Dietsler, during a
free state war, was thrown from his buggy
and killed, yesterday.
On account of two of the strikers being
arrested for contempt of court, and delaying
the mails on the northern division Of the To-
other strikers agreed if the men were released
they would 90 to work, which being prom
ised they viii go to work tomorrow.
The Nova Scotia legislature has extended the
franchise in municipal elections to widows and
unmarried women.
In Mexico mail and passenger service to the
United States was inaugurated yesterday over the
Central r. r.
At Jewell Junction, Ia, the body Of J. p.
Stevens, hotel keeper, was found on the railroad
with his head cut Off and murder is expected.
An explosion of dynamite at the stone quar-.
ries, near Franklyn, n. c., killed two men and
wounded four, all colored.
At Pittsfeld Mass, owen Coogara & Son, tan
ners have suspended. Liabilities SIS, 900, with
small assets.
The Western Nail association met yesterday
again in Pittsburg, Pa. and an advance in prices
is anticipated.
stoddard, of Pittsburg, and DAILY, of New York,
are matched at Pittsburg, for a soft glove GghA
four rounds, for S1,000a side on the 21st inst.
The Erie & Pittsburg r. r. having paid the
claim of S475, for which it was advertised to he
sold, the sale will not come off.
The firm of Davis & Taylor flour and grain
dealers, Boston, have suspended, owing 10 the
death Of d member of the firm and lis financial
manager.
At Texarkana, Ark, Mike Berry, a barkeeper,
was shot and killed by deputy sheriff j. j Clark,
whom Berry threatened to shoot sight. After
fusilade when they met Berry fell dead and
Clark was arrested
Allyn s. Co.'S. wholesale grocery was destroyed
at Corsicana, Tex, yesterday. Loss on store and
| building $4,000, insurance, S37 ,000
At the sale of seats, with premiums, for the
Cincinnati dramatic festival, yesterday, there
was marked increased in the demand. There
will be no postponement of the festival
no of D.
forthe Ohio flood sufferers has arrived at Cincins
natl and will be sold to-day.
| At Bethany, La, John l.. Agurs, was shot and
| killed by ]. NJ Trosper, over an old feud.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
Il Prophecy..126 Years Old.
Hartford Times:

can Astronomical Diary; or, an Almanac
for the year of our Lord Christ, 1858. Be-
ing the second year after Bssextile or Leap
Year, in the 3lst Year of the Reign of King
George I1.' Wherein are contained divers
wonderful events, tidal and astronomical, all
calculated for themeridian of Boston, in new
England, latitude AZ degrees, 25 minutes
north" By Nathaniel Ames. This title of
an ancient almanac, now in possession of D.
G. Pond, of this city, does no convey the
whole of the character of this quaint old doc
ument The most remarkable part of it is
a concluding chapter on 'EAmerica''-s.its
past, present, and future state.'' In treating
of the future, Mr.. Ames (who never dreamed
that Cakes Ames, or the present lieutenant
governor of Massachusetts would be his de-
scendants) launched boldly out on a bound
less sea of prophecy. He sees, many years
before anybody creamed of revolution
against English authority over the American
colonies, a vast and magnificent future for
this country. He looks west beyond the then
unknown central parts of the continent, with
their Indians and butfaloes, and sees the
mineral and agricultural wealth to be devel-
oped-the California gold, the iron, practic-
ally more valuable than gold, and the immes-
urable development of great nation. He
concludes with this suggestive outburst
80 ye unborn inhabitants of America!
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
The Steed COuLdSee.
Detroit Free Press.

Up Michigan avenue the other day butch
er was trying to purchase very fatr-looking
horse which farmer had driven before a
one-horse wagon. After good deal of talk
the butcher declared his belief that the horse
was blind.
''Try him" replied the owner ''Try him
in any way you desire, and if he's blind I'll
give him to you"
~ can tell by opening an umbrella before
him.
GAN right, bring on your umbrella"
One was brought out, and the butcher
stood in front of the horse and suddenly shot
it open. The animal wasn't blind. Every
body who noticed his conduct agreed that he
wasn't. He gave a sudden start of alarm,
wheeled short around, and the way that he
left pieces of that wagon on the next two
squares interested large floating pOpula-
ton. The owner was bounced out and re-
ceiyed scalp wound, but he was no sooner
picked up than he raised his voice as high as
the house tops and cried out.''
''You bet no butcher can bluff me on a
blind horse!''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
Is FORGERY HEREDITARYe
Tie Ballard Family Cited as an Instance
to SLO1r Tint 1t Is.

The Ballard Family Cited as an Instance
to Sho,c that 1T Is.
The Boston Traveller says: II wish to call
your attention to two curious facts, "says an
official of the secret service at Washington
recently to correspondent. Counterfeit
ing runs in families, and, without exception,
the men engaged in it are all poor. For IN
stance, take the Ballard family. Thomas,
Benjamin, George, and John, four brothers,
all in our clutches, together with an aunt.
There is one brother out of Jail, but we are
satisfied that he is anhonest man. Thomas
Ballard is a wonderful fellow. He is the only
person, SO far as we know, who has succeed
ed in initiating the fiber paper upon winch
the genuine notes and bonds are printed. AT
present he is serving thirty years sentence
as a reward for his discovery. he is chem
ist of no ordinary attainments, and he In
vented a process by which he was able to
take a genuine 81 or 81 bill and completely
remove all vestige of ink from its surface.
Then, with counterfeit plate OF higher
denomination, he would print upon the
genuine paper and thus raise the note.
Speaking about raising notes, here is check
on the Third national bank of New York
which was raised from S451 to S26, 1858, and
paid in 1876. The perpetrators worked OH
with chemicals all that was written in the
check except the signature, and L regret to
say that we have never been able to discover
who did it. Here are three steel plates which
were engraved by Ulrich for u 50 issue. The
engraving is done on soft steel, and when
completed the plate is hardened. To give
you some idea of the amount OF labor II takes
to engrave these plates can only say that
we have evidence that Ulrich was fifteen
months completing them. Perhaps the gSeat-
est curiosities in our entire collection are the
bills which made their appearance about
four years ago, executed with pen entirely
by hand. at first we thought that it must
take great amount of time for the rascal to
turn out one of those bills, but now we think
that he produced about one week. The
denominations are $50, $50, and SO, and
they are turned into the treasury for redemp-
ton from all parts of the union"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
DARK Picture of Cincia,,ati
Senator Vests Speech on Education.

ssBut when we come to Cincinnati, then,
sir the darkness, the appalling darkness that
overwhelms Chicago and st. Louis becomes
even as light as the MONDAY sun. l call tie
attention of the senator from Ohio to the
fact that he represents a city in which hu-
man life and human property, according to
these statistics, are not worth even the taxa
ton that is paid ON the property, or worth
the paper on which the laws are written or
printed that purport to give protection to per-
sonal security and life. The average attend
ance in Cincinnati is $4,000 less than one
third of the whole number, while 81, 900 are
not enrolled at all. 1t does not relieve the
dark picture to say, that these must be in
private schools, for out of the school popula-
ton of the entire state, numbering 1,043,-
800, only $3.50 are in private schools. OF
these probably not more than 10000 can be
found in Cincinnati. There are more than
10000 children, then, in that great city to-
day who are growing up in ignorance as
dense as the junges of Africa, while they
were subjected to the influence of the sharp
ened culture of civilized vice. Yet Cincin-
natl is one of the best of our great cities,
and Ohio is model state.''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13

er share of the estate as residuary legatee,
which was not the testator's intention.
Charles will appeal to the supreme court.
a year ago Mary Jane Baldwin, of Long
island. N. Y, village, allowed young man
to fall in love with her, who shot himself
soon after on her refusal to marry him. She
then took oath never to marry "during the
daye of her life'' Last week she was mar
ried at midnight, thus keeping her VOW after
q fashion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
Ennb,.uo I,.elian Finhters,

Springfield, o. Lctter:-There are four
families in this city who are wild with anxi-
ETY. and grief over the flight of four boys who
left their homes for the wild West, where
they hope to fight Indians and buffalo. The
boys are Lee Gardner. Robbie Hansell, son
of Councilman Hansell; Willie Milford and
Tommy Harrington. They are between
thirteen and fifteen years old and their fami-
lies are well to do. When Mrs. Milford went
home last night she found mote from Willie,
stating that he would not be back for long
time, that the boys in his band had agreed
to 90 West, and that it would be useless TO
telegraph or try to find them. The police of
neighboring towns have been notified, but
the boys have not been found. The young
sters have been reading dime novels and
other cheap literature lately and have been
attending Jesse james, and other border
plays until their minds have been worked
up toa high tension on the subject The
quantity of sensational literature sold and
read here is prodigious, and the bad effects
are seen daily. Several bands Of small boys
who carried huge pistols and called each otE-
er by all sorts of sensational titles have been
broken up by the police
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
AYisitor,s Impression of the Pope.

Rome Correspondence OF TIC DaltlIuole SUM-
There is not ruler in all Christendom
that is as easily approached as Leo Kill. 10
be presented to his holiness a gentleman
must 90 in evening full dress, sans gloves.
A lady goes dressed in black, wearing
black lace veil over head and shoulders,
after the early Italian court style, or the
modern Spanish mode. The lady also goes
sans gloves. The presentations are of two
orders, public and private, and generally in
the morning. A public audience sometimes
embraces the papal mass and afterward the
personal introduction. l was presented by
Mgr Macchi, the chief chamberlain. The
pope was seated. He wore a cashmere alb,
made from the chosen lambs wool on each
st. Agnes day; fitting his body closely, it
presented the outlines of 1.-THE and some
what nervous figure. Around his waist was
a broad, richly-watered white silk sash, the
falling ends terminating with gold bullion
fringe. On his hands were white wooden knit
mittens. From and around his neck hung a
heavy gold chain, pendant to which was his
only decoration-the cross. ga bright gold
cross, that Jews might kiss and intidels
ADORE" Thrown partly around him, and for
ming strong Rubenistic background, was
a rich scarlet glowing cloak of wooden fabric.
This cloak was lined with purple and its cape
and edges trimmed with tiny border OF
gold bullion lace. On his head was little
white skull cap. His feet were incased in
red slippers, with cross embroidered in gold
thereon. These slippers are so made that
they are really ankle covering shoes, the up
per parts being of white Saline lined with
wool and fitting closely. Thus heavy ex-
preston is given to the feet. Approaching
his holiness, you kneel and kiss the ring on
his extended hand. He smilingly requests
you to rise, and then enters into an easy
style of conversation in the French Ian
guage. At first he dwells on your name, and
if he has heard it before he surely remem-
bers it, as memory of persons, names and
events is strong feature Of Pope Leo XIII.
Then comes your place of birth or resi-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
HIS ReUenge.

A lawyer on Walnut street was Tilted by a
young woman, two or three years ago, and
recently she was served the same way, and
came to the lawyer to see about bringing
suit for breach of promise.
$780," he said, ''you say the young man
stole your heart!'
eyes, he did, she sobbed, "and want
to make him suffer for it, and I'm going to
do it, too. L want $4,000 damages, at
least"
"Ah, indecds This is rather large
sum-
"Well, don't care; he will have to pay
it."
81 understood you, 1 believe, to say he
stole your heart. Is that all?'
''All? Amt that enoughs''
Hardly, 1 think, for $4,000. I'll tell
you what will do, though. I'll have him
arrested for petty larceny and have him sent
to the work-house for thirty days. guess
that's about a stand-off, amt it?''
The lawyer is still confined to his ROOM
Mercantile Ifaueler
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
A SAD BIRD.

Where summer reigns eternally,
And blue skies spread their azure wings,
A lone bird in budding tree,
Close by dusty roadside sings.
But whilst he sweetly MARBLES forth,
His throbbing breast is filed with woe,
For far away in the frozen North
His mate lies buried beneath the snow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13

Should this page escape its destined conha-
grafton at the years end, and these alphabet
ical letters remained legible, -when your
eyes behold the sun, after he has rolled the
seasons round for two or three centuries
more, you will know that in Ammo Domini
1858 we dreamed of YOUR timesr'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
Goes LOADED.
Albany Argus.


Retired book agent-"Why, howde do,
links? How spruce you are looking. What
business are sou in now!"
Jinks-''Same old business-selling
books.''
''What! still book agent?"
eyes"
land alive?''
II seem to be.'
''Well, can't understand it. Since I got
out of the hospital 1 have given up books"
II keep on and am making $50, coo a
year"
Chow do you manage to escape death?"
easy enough, l first introduce myself as
an agent of Mr.. O'Donovan Rosa and ask
for a subscription to the dynamite fund"
''People refuse of course?''
''Certainly. Then I take out Of my peck
ct can of brick dust, labelled in big letters
Dynamite and begin to expatiate on its
merits.''
ssYes.''
''They beg me to handle it carefully and
put it away. Then I place it in my coat tail
pocket.'
sob! ho''
''After that open my samples and talk
book to them until they buy, and they don't
dare kick me.'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
OIemargarii,e Goodfor 41authiug.
Philadelnhia Call.

"What is the price of this axle grease9''
asked a new clerk of a grocery dealer;
there is no mark on it,
''It depends on your customer. If he asks
for axle grease charge him Is cents pound,
but if he wants butter make it 3S cents.n
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13

Kaiser Wilhelm wears civilian dress only
while at Ems. AS soon as he leaves it he
puts on his uniform, and ne always appears
before his people in brass buttons and mill
tary cap. Even at home in Berlin he dresses
in uniform. and his palace is filed military
relics. The portraits on the walls are those
of princes in uniform, and in the reception
salon there is a series of shelves covered with
models of cannons, rifles, shells and little
wooden figures in the different military cos
tunes all over the world
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
No Riot Could Stop Them.
Cincinnati Fnouirer

1t is chilly wind that does not blow
somebody good, and the riot in this city has
swelled the financial condition of the County
Clerks in Covington and Newport. The
Probate Clerk was not able to issue marriage
license yesterday, and the three COUPLES were
granted splicing papers in Kentucky. Sew
eral record books that were taken from the
Court House fire in this city, Saturday, were
found in Covington and Newport yesterday.
One of the books recovered by Chief ofPolice
Lock of Newport contained the marriages
from 1859 up to the present time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
CONVICT MORTALITY.

The Death Rate in State Prisons Through
ont the Country.
The following figures shows the death rate
per one thousand convicts per annum in
thirty state prisons in the United States.
The table is compiled from official reports,
mostly relating to the fiscal year 1882:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13

The Buffalo gnat is worrying cattle in
western Mississippi.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13

All these cattle, nearly 100000 head, are
tributary to Miles City, town on the North
ern Pacific railroad at the mouth of Tongue
river, and 769 miles west of St Paul. The
sheep interests in the Yellowstone valley are
not so large, of course. The following per-
sons are the herd owners:
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Total value of sheep and cattle in ter


rltOry at the end OF 1851. ....... .954,U5o,UUU
This is a very fair showing for new terri
tory. have taken no account of the horses,
fine stock, of which there is a great deal,
and which is annually increasing. One
man, Nelson Story, has on the Yellowstone a
horse herd of 200 head, and there are many
herds of 200 and 800 head. 1t may be inter
esting to learn who are some of The large cat
tie and sheep owners in Montana. Daniel
Flowree has 10000 head, Nelson Story 49,
600, Thomas Power 5000, Samuel T. Hauser
10000, and many other gentlemen 5000,
5000 and 5000. OF the cattle on the yell
lowstone and its tributaries, near Miles City,
tl,n fnllo,,-i1,cr is n tnlnrn hl1, cnrrnct Let.