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The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-24
To The very Second.

I'VE are running very last now, amt
we?p said a drummer tohis companion
as the tram whiZzed along at a lively
rate. "At least 30 miles a hour" re-
piled the other. Thirty miles! We
amt going less than a mile a minute. y
You are away off. We are not going
a bit faster than 30 miles a houg at the
outside. I've been riding on trains for
twenty years, and you can't fool me on
fast we are running" "You can, eh?''
replied the first speaker: you bet you
have it down fine, Ell? Now, I'll just
bet you So l can guess closer to the
number of seconds it takes us to run
from II mile pest to another than you
can. Is it a go?" 1t was a go. The
money was put up in another drum
mer's hands, and he took out his watch
and stood up in the aisle so neither of
the wagerers could see his tickee. The
passengers who had overheard the con-
v%ersation gathered around to see how
the bet would come out. As a white
mile post whizzed past the window the
referee cried. "Nowlo
The contestants looked out of the
window at the line of wire fence and
procession of fast disappearing tele-
graph poles. ''Time!" cried the drum
mer in the aisle as the next mile post
showed himself one fieeting instant.
Every eye was turned to the makers of
the wager According to agreement
they were to write out the number of
seconds they guessed and hand the pa.
per to the referee. The man who had
it down fine" did this very promptly.
but the one who started the CONVERSE
ton was slow. He had some figuring
to do with his lead pencil.
There was considerable excitement
among the loOkerS-on, and several side
bets were made, In a few moments
the drummer had completed his calcu-
l%atiOns, and the referee announced:
Charley puts it at one minute and for
ty seconds. Bob makes it one minute
and twenty-five seconds. The actual
time by the watch was one minute
and tw~enty-fOur seconds. Bob
wins.' The man who ''had it done
fine" but missed it by fifteen seconds
and lost his money took his defeat in
good humor, but begged Bob totell him
how he had worked it.
81 hadn't ought to give it away" said
Bob, "'cause El've been MAXIM about
Sl5 with it all winter. | usually hit it
to the second, but THE time | forgot that
I'D had only II drink this morning."
What has drinks got to with it, I'd like
to know" ''Why, you see, it takes at
least ourdrinks to settle my pulse down
so can rely on it to the very second.n
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tion whatever. At last nearing the
spot where the road from S-crosses
fine road to P, we were indeed in
az solitary a place as can be imagined.
The house which abbutted on the
very angle of the roads, called IN Ia
miliar parlance the Cross Roads, was
the only one for some distance In either
direction, and certainly on such might
we were not likely to meet any travel
ers. Z,
All was quiet as the grave. We stood
unite still. In a moment Ben broke
out in one of his widest laughs.
"Well he said, Chow now? Will you
90 home now, and have another night
mare?"
But hardly had the words escaped his
Inns. when a shrek broke on the air,
and a woman's voice, plainly coming
from the interior of the cottage, cried:
"Helpl helpl help?"
'Ben," said l 1--WE are wanted at the
crossroads" and then understanding
each other, without more words we
made our way to the window, through
which Il light shone. y muslin curtain
draped the panes, but through it we
saw an awful sight
An old man lay on the floor, and
over him bent a ruffian. clutchlng his
| throat and holding a pistol to his ear,
while another man grasped the Shrek
ing girl by the arm-a girl IN floating
nightdress-with such long golden hair
as belonged to the girl of my vision.
Not a moment was to be wasted, Ben
flung his weight against the slender
lattices and crushed it in, and we Crap
pied the ruflians before they knew
whence the attack came or how many
foes were upon them.
| did not intend to describe the strug-
gle; indeed, | could not, if | would.
But we were strong men, and inspired
by the cries of the helpless old mar
and the terrified girl, we soon had one
of the Williams bound and the other ly-
| lug PROSTATE on the floor.
Then Ben started for assistance, and
before morning both were in jail. Ben
| admitted, as we shook each other by
the hand, "that we were wanted at the
CROSSROADS"
The old man vas not a miser but he
had saved some few thousand dollars
for his old age, and living more plainly
| than he need have done, had given rise
to the rumor, and so brought the burg
lars to the crossroads in the hope of
booty.
The girl, a beautiful creature of sew
enteen, was his granddaughter, and as
no story is acceptable to the lady read
ers without a flavor of romance, | will
tell them that she became in after years,
not my wife, but the wife, OF my dar-
ling brother Ben.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-24

DR., Skinner, of the Academy of
Natural Science, referring to the cir
cumstance that butterflies are in the
habit of depositing their eggs upon
such plants as afford the proper nourish-
ment to the larvae, i. e.. the plants upon
which the caterpillars of a certain
species feed; stated that he had observed
the female of a certain species drop her
eggs while in flight, a singular perform
ance which the speaker verified through
repeated observations. The eggs thus
distributed from a considerable distance
( above ground fell upon n mass Of grass
and violet leaves.
Cement for rubber: Powdered shell
lac IS softened in ten times its weight
OF strong water of ammonia, whereby
a transparent mass is obtained, which
becomes fluid after keeping some little
time without the use of hot water. In
three or foul weeks the mixture is
perfectly liquid, and. when applied, it
will be found to soften the rubber. AS
soon as the ammonia evaporates, 1t will
be found to harden a%gain--is is said
quite tirmIy-and thus becomes imper-
vious both to gases and to liquids. For
cementing sheet rubber or rubber mater
ial in any shape to metal, glass or other
smooth surfaces the cement Is highly
recommended.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-24
The Batter and the Maid.

At a clearinghouse on the east side
Of Rochester, at midnight, an elderly
gentlemen was proving around the
pantry for some edible, and, in coming
through the dark kitchen, overturned
a pan of batter which the landlady had
intended to convert into buckwheat
cakes for the matutinal meal. Instead
of striking a light and repairing his da-
mage, he quickly hied HIM back to the
privacy of his own room. As the hours
rolled on toward morning the deadly
batter got in its little work to perfec-
'tion. The viscid material spread itself
over the kitchen floor, and was waiting
patiently for the servant girl to come.
She came, carrying an unlighted
lamp. Striking the batter which lay
over the floor. her feet slipped from In
der her and she came down with a crash
which broke the lamp and diluted the
batter with kerosene. Cries of "Mur-
der ! Fire J Police ~ resounded through
the house, and the gentleman who had
caused all the trouble came running
out in robe dc nuit and bare feet, but
with his revolver in his hand.
Rushing into the kitchen he slipped,
rolled over a few times, and when quiet
was finally restored the twain stood
looking at each other IN mute chagrin,
both covered with kerosene and the
premonitory symptoms of buckwheat
cakes.
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False Hair.

THE hair of the Hamerican hatuos-
phere is injurious to the air of the
'ea :" said a cockney hairdresser to a
reporter, as he recommended a nostrum
for promoting the growth Of the hair
He was unable. however to fortify his
position by argument. He merely
knew that such was the fact because 1t
was. This startling proposition some
what unnerved the scribe, who for some
time previous had been anxious about
his thinning locks, and as he uncon-
sciously twlrled a favorite curl, several
hairs came ont, forcibly reminding him
of the truth OF the barberous state.
ment. An inquiry among some of the
leading dealers in hair goods led to the
revelation that this alarming fact was
generally recognized among those who
cater TO the demands of fashion in the
matter of false hair.
YES" said an extensive importer
'this weather Is s~natchmg us balGheaded
just as fast as it knows how, and / hate
to think of what will be the fate of the
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-24

"A reduction of 20 per cent. in their
charges is reported to have resulted
from a convention of Japanese inn
keepers, held some time ago, the de-
crease being based upon a fall IN the
prices of n-ecessaries of life.
New York contains more than 100
buildings each above so feet in height.
The police force of England and
Wales consists of 6S2 superintendent,
l4SS inspectors, 1882 sergants and 2S,'
3Sl constables, while the Scottish force
has 80 chief constables, no superin'
tendents, 176 inspectors, $50 sergantS
and 1867 c~onstables.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-05-24

The beet-rOot sugar manufacture
is being overdone in Germany.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
THE noRK AT cHrcAGo.

Yesterday every train that ran into Chi
cago brought some hundreds or thousands
more delegates and visitors, and this morn
ing the garden city is probably place with
nearly million people. The crowd is said to
be terrific in all the principal hotels and APP
proaches, and a most extraordinary interest
is being manifested on all HANDS as the can
wasting of the delegations progresses.
The situation seems to have materially
changed in the course of yesterday. In the
morning everybody was more or less at a
loss to,know what to do and what would be
likely 10 be the outcome of the eeasless eau
cussing, consultations aud endeavors at
trading which were in operation in every d.
recfion. Much was believed to depend on
the action which might be taken by the New
York delegation. Tor it was thought that in
case the delegation favored Cleveland his
nomination WIS a foregoue conclusion.
As will be seen by our copious specials
from Chicago, the New York delegation voted
ia act as a unit, and this is thought by most
people 10 give the nomination to Gov. Cleve-
land. In fact, so great appears to be the en-
thusissm Of this candidates supporters that
they fee certain that 'he will be nominated
by reclamation. The GLOBE has already ex-
pressed it, opinion of Cleveland as candi-
date for the tirst place on the ticket. If he
sllouiE be- nominated, and with the nomina-
ton ss,uid come guarantee from the war
ring Democratic factions in New York that
they will unitelly work aud vote for his cleo
ton, then there would be a reasonable GER
taiuty thSt he would carry thAt state, and
secure hiS election.
W.,iie the country is to be congratulated
tia, 5-e convention is not likely to be en-
barras=ed in the choice of candidate by the
rivslr,S Of The New York democracy, and
while ibis may he considered long step
towards paeiic ending. there yet remains
likelihood Of trouble ON the tariff question
:, is on This point that the convention may
meet with It's greatest difficulty There are
some extremists who viii demand extreme
action, aud tbis is precisely what is not de-
nanded by the interests Of the party.
Il iswcll enough 10 depreciate Blaine, but
any one who sCpposes that this race is going
to be walk-away fer the Dem ocrSts, or that
any Sind Of man or platform is GOOD
enough to heat Blaine with, Is fool There
never was time in which victo,y depended
so much on unity. on hard work, on good
can iidats, ard good platform, as at the
present tine. There are good many peo-
/ PIE who have an ises that figure head
nominated in chicsso is all
that is necessary and the in
I dependent Republican vote viii
10 the rest of the business. This
is fatal errar. Tie man must he nomi-
nstea. the platform Hlaic ana the fight csr-
risd on as Il every Republican in the land
xe.e ioyal 90 B.Aiue aud meant 70 work FOR
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

him to the last moment. The necessity of
this united action, of hard and persevering
effort, makes it all the more essential that
there should be no embarrassment in the
candidate or the platform. 1t may be adj
mitted that Cleveland answers the definition
of good candidate, but there remains the
delicate question of the platform.
If the Randallites on the one hand, and
the free trade cranks on the other, insist on
the adoption of their ideas, there will be
crash, and "a most dangerous one. The
party cannot afford the least division of its
strength. What is needed is that these ex-
tremists should for the time be willing to
sink their views and meet somewhere on
middle ground and agree on something
which will best answer the average demands
of the country. Anything that will do this,
win suit the Democratic party and is good
enough platform to go before the country
with, F ..,
On such a platform, any man who has
brains, a fair record, a knowledge of political
and state affairs, and is conservative in
temperament can be elected by the Demo
cratic party. The contest as to men having
been as is believed settled, it remains to be
seen whether an ism will be forced into the
convention which will ruin its present fair
prospects
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
SHRINE4GES.

Wealth in railroad stocks is uncertain
wealth. The millionaire of to-day may be
far less than millionaire tomorrow. VAL
| ues are often ictions, inflated by watering"
till the real substance is quite obscure.
This is due largely to Wall street operations,
in which the gambling element prevails.
Of course an unhealthy condition of affairs
is produced and all legitimate business is in
juriously effected and depressed.
During the last few months, Wall street
stock values have been struck with a fear
full blight, disastrous shrinkage. The stock
gambling house, Of Gen. Grant, Sons and
Ward went down before the blast One of
the sons rated himself at 81, 700, 900; anoth-
er considered himself worth between two
and three millions; the General himself
thought himself enthroned on a colossal
pile, and Ward laid claim to fabulous wealth.
If these parties had really possessed the
amounts to which they laid claim, were their
gains really honestly acquired, i'm alegitimate
business? On an invested capital of $780,
600, could they legitimately roll up millions
in honest gains in few months! Did not
Gen. Grant and his sons know, that if they
hadactually gained what, they claimed, that
others lost that amount, and were made poor
by their becoming enricheds
And the house of Grant is but type of
others of that class. The gains are not the
gains of Legitimate, productive business, but
it is the emptying of other pockets into the
pockets of the gamblers. 1t is simple
transfer of wealth, by sharp practice, from
the hands Of one party to the hands of an
other. One party is enriched, the other is
made poor, the productive wealth of the
country is not increased, but trade is de-
pressed, and uncertainty, doubt and fear
pervade all lines Of business. When specu-
lative reaction sets in the business commun-
ity suffers.
The shrinkage of railroad stocks in Wall
street is something marvellous, and ought to
operate not only as instruction but warn
ing. Within the last three or four months the
stock known as the ''Vanderbilts' on
the Wall street market is said to have under
gone a shrinkage of $50 900, 900; the
"Goulds'', S6O, 200, 900; the ''Huntingdons"
$40, 600, 600. In view of these shrinkages, a
contemporary well says: ''When through
the decreased value of securities S400, 600, 900
are wiped out of existence, as it were; when
New York central depreciates SIS, 200, 000
Western Union $50, 900, 900; Union Pacific,
S17 900, 900 and Lake shore SIS, 900, 900, we
may well say the rich men are not so rich as
they were.
The lofty mountains of these Wanted Sc
curities sink to the level of the plain. This
shrinkage is not confined to rail wood stocks
alone. There is correlation in all bust
ness interests, and when one branch suffers, all
feel a corresponding depression. When such
vast shrinkages prevail is there absolute bust
ness health and prosperityi Is 1t not wise,
with this beacon light before us, to take in
sail, and to ''stand from under in timer"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

omparatvely few travel at any other hour
The trains during these hours are heightened
by additional cars and run more frequently.
The jam is absolutely immense, SO much SO
that in my occasional visits to New York
have always endeavored to time my up and
down town trips for some other hours, as
prefer to pay ten cents and secure seat
than to ride standing for five cents. There
are always a sufficient number of ladies to
fill all of the seats, so that if a man is fortu-
nate enough to secure one, he must be chur-
lish enough to see scores of ladies standing
if he continues to occupy it, 1t is true that
the regular New Workers do not vacate seats
in elevated or in other cars for ladies', but
having come from the wild parties of the
west and feeling that had more physical
ability to stand than a shop girl who had
been on her feet all day, have always pre-
ferred, if upon the cars during those hours,
to usurp a standing position rather than
reserve d seat which some weary female
worker would gladly occupy
1t is evident to my mind that this hue and
cry on behalf Of the laboring people of New
lOih hHU WALL w hut III NV CCuIS OAiSuo
more among the politicians who desire the
spoils OF New York City than among the
absolute laborers. If law was passed re-
quirlng the elevated roads to furnish a suffi-
cient numper OF cars to enable the working
people to have seats during their rides there
would be more justice and more legality in
it than in the attempt to violate the consti
tuition of the state of New York by making
the fare five cents for twenty-four hours
through
The real fact is that Tammany hall cares
great deal more for the control of public
affairs in New York city than it does for the
control Of the country If there was Dem
ocratic administration, New York, while an
'empire state,'' in fact as well as in name,
would be but one in a multitude of hungry
states which would be clamoring for public
position. In New York city alone the ex-
penditures exceed $50, 600 per year, and
the division of this great sum extends vastly
further than all New York could hope
to secure if the national administration
was Democratic. Hence we have been
treated to the spectacle of Republicans delib-
erately aiding the Democrats in New York
city for the purpose of controlling national
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
FoEEWARNED FoREARmED.

The New York Sanitary Engineer in speak
ing of the appearance of cholera at Toulon,
in France, which was introduced there by a
transport ship, thinks it will without doubt,
reach our shore for all attempts to limit it
by inland quarantine measures of isolation
have heretofore been useless. Its arrival here
is only question of time-it may be this
year or not till next. When it does come says
theSanitary Engineer referred to- it will probably
not flourish in our large cities so well as in the
small towns, where the water supply is from
wells, and sewerage is disposed Of in lakes,
vaults and cesspools. All such places have
now had an ample warning, but we fear few
will profit by it.
The apathy and Indifference, not only of
individuals, but of the general public to the
adoption Of timely and proper measures to
personal health and ward off disease and
DEATH is really one of the most prevalent
vices of the present day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
Dakota Republican Central Committee.

SpecIaI ItIeTTan 20 Ine dIUUt 7
JAMESTOWN, Oak, July 8.-The following no.
tice is given out by Hon. r. P. Wells, chairman
of the territorial committee: Rooms of the Re-
publican Central committee of Dakota-James-
town, OAK, July 3 1t having been urged by
several members of the central committee that a
meeting be had to determine the time and place
of converting our next territorial convention, and
in order to avoid in part the tedious journey be-
tween north and south Dakota by dixiding the
same equally, you are hereby advised that the
Republican central committee will meet at 80
p. m, Saturday, July II, 1884, at Lake Park
hotel, Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, for the above
purpose and for any other business that may
properly come before the said committee.
[signedl E, p WELL,
Chairman Republican Central Committee.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

party has the offices and the other party
wants 'em. That is rather vital issue, /
admit, to the pocket books of a great many
people, but fortunately the result is not
likely to be fatal to the republic in any
event.
In Iowa it Is quite confidently asserted by
strong Republicans that the state is liable to
go Democratic this fall. Iowa stands in the
ranks as good for sixty thousand Republican
majority. The child is not living so young
that he can hope to survive until Iowa be-
comes a Democratic state by regular APP
proaches-that is by argument and by ap-
pealing to the reason of the voters. For in
Iowa there are so many Republicans that
they don't have any reason and are impervi-
GUS to argument. But it happens that
gang of fanatical cranks secured temporary
to wipe whisky and beer off from the face
of the earth, or at least from that portion of
the face of the earth comprised within the
boundaries of Iowa. This caused a great re-
vulsion. Residents in that state, regardless
of politics, do not want to be obliged to go to
Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois or Wisconsin
to get drink. They desire to get drunk at
home where they can get bail when they
get into trouble. AS a consequence there
are mutterings of an uprising which bodies
no good to the Republican party. They will
not formally go over to the Democratic party;
they wont absolutely be Democrats, but they
desire to revolutioniZe that state. As the Re-
publican party is in power there, it is held
responsible for this crank legislation and the
remedy lies in, temporarily at least, wiping
out the Republican organization. I write
this not with any view of encouraging the
Democrats to count upon the electoral vote
of Iowa in electing their president, but to
enforce the point ] am making that the
grand old party'' has no more solid claim
for morality and temperance than has the
Democracy, and the pending revolution in
Iowa is as good evidence as can be found
upon this point. OF course Iowa cannot de-
feat the Republican ticket by Democratic votes
and if it is defeated or the majority very
materially reduced, as one or the other is
certain to be, it viii be Republican revolu-
ton in behalf of whisky.
AS everything works by contrasts, one of
my first points on arriving in Chicago was to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
A Clever Horse Thief.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.


FARGO July "A Lisbon dispatch to the dr.
gus relates a somewhat ludicrous turning Of the
tables by horse thief Sheriff Moore. of Ran
son. by the sheriff Of Day that he had the thief
who had recently stolen n horse near Lisbon,
Moore sent his son and small boy to bring the
thief back On the return the prisoner secured
permission from Deputy Moore TO alight from the
wagon for a moment. On getting down he
seized Moore's pistol and compelled the officer to
hold up his hands, forced the boy to take the
key to his handouts out of the officers pocket
and release his hands. He then hurried the
team with his guards to u lonely spot five miles
away, stole one of the horses and galloped off,
escaping The officer and boy returned crest
fallen with the other horse.