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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-23

IL uW Texas delegation in Congress is
united, there viii be no great trouble in
securing a proper appropriation for the
purpose OF developing two good deep
water ports on the gulf coast Our sen
atoes and Representative are able
men, and they owe it to themselves and
this vast empire uf Texas To make an
earnest and united effort 10 secure this
end.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
Lungs Destroyed by Dust
[Chicago Herald frs"w

At late meeting of a microscopical
society in London was shown a section
of Sheffield saw grinders lung, the ir-
ritation from the steel dust inhaled hay
ing gradually obliterated the lung
structure and rendered it perfectly use
less for breathing purposes. Sections
OF lungs showing carbon deposit from
London smoke were also exhibited.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
The Years Roll On.

The world is every day advancing,
opening new fields of usefulness; the
rapid march of time has given us in
ventions that our fOrefathers never
dreamed of. Although pride or van
ity is running much good of itself, the
world is not wholly given over to
selfishness and the piling-up Of
wealth. We have our free schools,
our benevolent institutions, our libra
ries, and abundant avenues affording
educational advantages. Especially
is woman's sphere widening; she
contributes much to science and to
art; her talents are given more space;
her genius meets with greater en-
cOurrgement, and she need not face
the name "blue-stocking" or dread
of being called cold maid" For
marriage is not all to woman's life.
Let her marry if she can and will (;
but if providence marks out to her
some other path she may walk in it,
and perhaps be just as happy as
though she looked at life through her
husbands spectacles. What the
world needs is practical, earnest
working men and women. The days
of "auld lang syne" are gone, never
to return; the quaint old customs are
nomore adhered to. But life goesaus,
the same; people marry and die;
ages roll on. What is lost in some
respects. is Gained in Others 4; and the
same sun shines, the same air bleSseS
us, and the same beautiful stars look
down from heaven upon Us now as
then.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
The Zuni md the LeInon.
Frank II. Cushing in the Millstone.l

Frank II. Gushing In the Milestone
One feature of Zuni etiquette is
rather tax on the will-power and di-
gestion. 1t is the desirability of show
ing your appreciation of the skill and
the fare of your hostess by consuming
liberal and relatively equal amount of
every article she places in front of you.
Goaded on by both their liking for
American food and their sense of duty
toward class of hosts they held in
roycrent respect, five Of the six Indians
| brought east in the spring of 1882,
suffered literally, miseries untold, for
they rarely complained save to sadly de-
preciate their own abilities
"What is it, exclaimed one of them
after prolonged tussle with the courses
of Palmer house dinner, each one of
which he would persist in regarding as
separate meal and eat the desired
quota of each article composing it
condiments and all what is it in
American food, my son, that fills the
inside with so much fighting"
Would you have me cover my nation
with shameF Indignantly asked
another, as he reached his hand for a
lemon which a generous-m minded man
on board the train offered him. "What
though we be waited in this swift wagon
as on the wings of the wind2' contin-
ued he, taking and hourishing the
lemon, lis it not house with
many sitters" He was in the
dawn of his hundredth summer and had
never, during his long life, tasted a
spoonful of acid, save such mild sug-
gestions of it as might have lodged in a
green peach or resulted from the fer
mentation of meat stew. So pro-
tested, but in vain. He whipped out
his hunting knife and severed the lemon
1T must be some kind of little melon, "
Speculated the old man, as he bur-
led his toothless gums in the major
half of it-but the next instant the
lemon was rolling on the floor, and he
off his seat He seized his chops with
both hands; tears oozed from his close
shut eyes, he wriggled, groaned,
hawked, bent over the aisle, retched,
heaved--and one of his companions re-
marked:
well, he has covered his nation
with shame after ALL But the old
man did not hear.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
Small Savings.

The lesson of making small savings
and of avoiding small extravagances
will never be learned until human
nature is essentially changed; and
that is why it is necessary to repeat
and enforce the lesson so often. When
we remember that the whole earn
ings Ofthe people of the United States,
rich and poor, old and young, male
and female, amount to an average of
less than fifty cents a day, the impor-
lance of a cent is increased. An ex-
change puts the case of little extrava-
gances thus:
Five cents each morning. A mere
trifie. Thirty-fve cents week. Not
much, yet it would buy coffee or
sugar for a whole family. Eighteen
dollars and twenty-five cents year.
And this amount invested in saw
ings bank at the end of every year,
and the interest computed dHS7uoPfS,
would in twelve years amount to
more than six hundred and fifty dol
lars. Enough to buy good farm in
the West.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
The Cattle in the Country.

lDetrot FREE Press.
Iowa ranks the highest of all the
states in the number of cattle to the
square mile. She has 2,014,4 head
or 35.9 head per square mile. Illinois
has 1,471, 131 head, or 26 head pei
square mile. Ohio has /, Oh, $50 head, OF
PAS head per square mile. Pennsyl
vania has 815, 1894 head, or 1913 head
per square mile. New York has 81, 1871
head, or Is head per square mile Texas
has the surprising number of 4,294,92S
head or 1873 head per square mile. This
is the lowest ratio per square mile, al
though the largest number of cattle Of
any state in the Union-about as many
as all France possesses. For all the
states and territories the cattle popula-
ton is AZ, 547, SO7 head, or head per
square mile.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
SOUTHERN STANDARD McMINNVILLE TENNESSEE II
Five cents before breakfast, dinner

Five cents before breakfast, dinner
and supper; you'd hardly miss it
yet it's fifteen cents day; one dollar
and five cents week. Sufficient to
buya wife ordaughtera dress. Fifty
four dollars and sixty cents year.
Enough to buy a small library of
books. Invest this as before, and in
twenty years you would have over
two thousand dollars. Quite enough
to buy good house and lot.
Ten cents each morning; hardly
worth thought, yet with it you can
buy paper of pins or spool of thread.
Seventy cents a week; 'twould buy
several yards of muslin. Thirty-six
dollars and fifty cents in one year.
Deposit this amount as before, and
you have one thousand three hun
dred dollars in twenty years.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08

"Ouida" in London Times.
Will you allow me to speak of other
beautiful works of nature that are
martyred in Naples with that hideous
~barbarity common to the city, but which
your correspondent never mentions or
alludes to, being unwilling, suppose,
to spoil the rose light of the pictures
which he sends your refer to the
frightful fact that all animals whose
skins are worth a centime are skinned
alive in this fair city of the sea.
Old horses, young kids and lambs, all
dogs, cats and rats are all skinned alive,
because the skin when removed from
the living creature is considered
more supple and sells for a
somewhat higher price. Dogs are
seized by legalized municipal dog.
stealers twice a day; are thrust pei
nell into court; kept two days with
out food, and then half stunned with a
stick, and while living fayed from head
to tail. Horses in the knockers yards
there are allowed to drop from hunger
as being less trouble than killing them,
and when utterly exhausted are nailed
on planks and tiayed.
The CamOrra is so strong which pro.
tects all these wretches that no one dares
move against them; while in the matter
of the dogs the municipal authorities
are the first offenders and wholly with.
out excuse At a moment when Italy
is invited into Africa as "civilizing
power" think these facts may as vel
be known. Meanwhile l hope your cor
respondent will sometimes remember
that there are other things in Naples
besides flowers, song and sunshine.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
OF all sad words from tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, lit might have been.
-InexperieDced Poet

OF all sad words from tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, "it might have been"
inexperienced Poet
Nonsense! How much does poet
who can sit in his sumptuOus parlor
and write pretty things at a dollar
line, know about sad words?
Wonder if he has never been struck
by the melancholy cadence of the
following sad words:
"Unless we hear from you sooner
we shall make a sight draft on you
for the amount of your account on the
10th inst"
Then think of the sad sadness con-
tanned in these few words:
"Your note in favor of this bank
becomes due August Is, 1885"
And again what two words in the
English language contain as much
pathos as the brief, but very sugges-
tive appeal, "Please remit !"
A poet is good enough in his place
but when he attempts to enlighten
people on the subject Of sad words, he
is out of his sphere. He simply does
not know what he is talking about
Western Plowman.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
A New Domestic Animal.
Planter and Farmer

Planter and Farmer
An animal is found in great album
dance in South America, of the aver
age size of pig; this is the Cabiai.
DIR. Saec proposed to dOmesticate the
Cabiai, and shows the advantages
which could be drawn from it. This
animal can be tanned very easily; it
quickly recognizes its master, whom
it follows everywhere, and, when
carressed, eagerly seeks for. 1t
especially likes to be scratched, and
to attract attention extends itself full
length on one side. 1t is very clean
in its habits. In shape the Cabiai
realizes the type of the meat produc-
ing animal, as its body is an almost
perfect cylinder, were it not for its
neck with its limbs short and slen-
der; tail and ears very short; the
head alone is large. Its apathetic
character makes all nOurishment
available which it consumes, so that
it is not necessary to fatten it; and it
can be kept in a limited space. 1t is
kept in dry stable, where it is fed
on all kinds of vegetables, herbs and
roots; it likes clean water and a soft
| littpr II aotc ramarkahly Iittln for
its size. at will be-" remarks DR..
Saec, IAN excellent acquisition for
farms and country houses, where
without requiring more care than a
rabbit, it will supply as much meat
as sheep. 1 believe the Cabiai will
take place between the sheep and
the pig in Europe, and that in many
ways it can be substituted for this
last named domestic animal"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
No Spurious Reputation in journalism.
London Cor. Philadelphia Press.l

No Spurious Reputation in Journ AliSm.
London Cor. Philadelphia Press.l
No such thing as spurious reputa.
ton exists in journalism. Books may
occasionally be pulled into notoriety by
friendly critics, and in that case the
laurels of literary triumph wit5er as
quickly as they are gathered. But nc
friends, however powerful and loyal,
no hackers, however energetic or un.
scrupulous; no letters of Communication,
however unqualified; no conversational
advertisements, however loud and sys.
tematic, can establish the writer for the
periodical press in a position that is
worth five minutes purchase.
An impostor in journalism is con.
tradiction in terms. His whole exist.
ence is an ordeal of search-a series Of
competitive examinations, or, to vary
the metaphor, of addresses delivered to
the jury of his countrymen, who, though
they may not always be quick to dis
criminate between niceties of thought
and nuances of style, have the eye OF 6
hawk for blunders or fallacies and are
stoutly intolerant of anything approach
ing to nonsense
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
The Queer Sex.
IRed Bluff (Cal.) News.

Call girl a chick, and she smiles;
call a woman a hen, and she bowls;
call a young woman witch, and she is
pleased call an old woman a witch,
and she is indignant. Call a girl kit
ten, and she rather likes it; call a
woman a cat, and she'll hate you.
Queer sex, isn't it2
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-08-08
rong.treer. Opinion of unoOln.

Gen. Long street, in his article on THE
Seven Days Fighting About Richmond, .
in The Century, after discussing the
Confederate leaders: says, Without
doubt the greatest man of rebellion
times, the one matchless among 40, 000,.
600 for the peculiar difficulties of the
period, was Abraham Lincoln. "
The cost of maintaining a first-class
base ball club is about S65, 600 a year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. IL, 1885.
Sealed bids will be received by the Board Of
Public Works in and for the corporation Of
the City of st. Paul, Minnesota, at their office
in said city, until II m. on the Esd day OF
November, A. D. 1885, for the grading of
Reaney street, from Payne Avenue east to
Serenth (7th) street. in saids ity, according
to plans and specifications on file in the Office
of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties in q
sum of at least twenty (20) per cent. Of the
gross amount bid must accompany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
WILLIAM BARRETT, President.
Official:
RL.GoRMAN, Clerk Board of Public Works.
316-526
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
Seventh to Frank street,, T. D. Mccarthy
contraction amount dna XQkA :. !. -. -

Seventh to Frank street,, T. D. Mccarthy,
contractor. amount due $3.50.
Estimate No. Q, Robert street sewer (110
feet north of Seventh street to Sixth street),
p. DOherty, contractor amount due 1896.
Estimate No. 8 and final, ST.. Peter street
grading Martin street to University Ave-
nue., P. FL. Thornton, contractor, amount
due $261.8O. -
Estimate No. 8, Bradley street sewer
North to Fifth street,, j. j. Palmer, con-
tractor, amount due $3.50. * ~
Estimate No. 8 and final, Rondo street
grading (Louis street to Western Avenue),
NJ. Lux, contractor, amount due $7S5.75.
Estimate No 3, supplementary to No2
and final. Oak street sewer Fifth to Sixth
street,, P. DOherty, contractor, amount
due $50.
Estimate No. 5, supplementary to No. 4
and final, Tenth street sewer (Wabasha to
st. Peter street,, Tantholt q Hanson, con-
tractors amount due $25.
Estimate No. 5 and supplementary to No.
2 and final. Western Avenue Seventh to
Won Minden street,, j. w. Doherty, con-
tractor, amount due So
Estimate No. 3, supplementary to No. Q
and final Norris street sewer Canada to
Cooper street,, j. w. Doherty, contractor,
amount due 5000.
Estimate No. l and final, Iglehart street
sewer (St. Peter to Wabasha street,, D..
Mullen, Jr., contractor, amount due S723.
Estimate No. 8, supplementary to No. 2
and final, Summit Avenue sewer (St. Peter
to Wabasha street,, j. W. DOhertY, con-
tractor amount due $50.
Estimate No. 3. supplementary to No. 2
and final, Mt Airy street sewer (Missis-
sipp to Torrent street,, j. w. DOherty,
contractor, amount due $25.
Adjourned.
JOHN F. HoYT. President pro TEN.
Il. l.. GoRMAN, Clerk Board Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13

Knives and forks per set S1.75 combined
So. so at Strouse Bros, 176 West Seventh
street, Seven corners.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
OFFICIAL.
Proceedings Of The Board Of Public Works.
Regular Meeting.

81. AOL, Ctpl. 81. 1000.
Board met at . p. M
Present: Messrs. Barrett, Becker, Hoyt
and Koch.
Absent: Messrs. Peters and Mr.. Presi-
dent (eXcused)-
On motion Mr.. Hoyt took the chair.
Reading the minutes of the 14th inst. dis
pensed with.
A communication was received from Jos.
r. Weide in the matter of the assessment
for grading Jessamine street. Considered
and placed on tie.
A communication was received from A.
81. Hornsby, agent tor Maria A. Hornsby.
in the matter OF the assessments against
south 10 feet OF lot ]. block So, West st.
Paul Proper, for the spriakling and con-
structi0n of sidewalks on Dakota Avenue.
Referred to Engineer for report of facts.
4 communication was received from II
B. Farweli. in the matter of the proposed
change Of grade on Selby Avenue. Referred
to Engineer for report.
A communication was received from
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13

Silver Wa7tham Stem. Wind
Watches at SO at Strouse Bros, l76 West
Seventh street, Seven corners.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
ARTICLES 0F COMPREHENSIVE

Have been fled between Daniel Cox of the
city of st. Paul and VIM. G. Potts of Du-
buque, Iowa, for the purpose of carrying on
Brokerage and Commission Business in the
city of St. Paul, under tue style Of cox &
POTTS, the same heretofore conducted by
Daniel Cox, at No. 425 Robert street.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
Borrow Money

diamonds watches and all articles of value.
Property left in your possession. Terms easy.
Your own time. All business strictly con
hdential. Mackey's loan agency, room {, First
National bank building, corner jackson and
Fourth streets, St. Paul, or room Z, Mackey-
Legg block. Minneapolis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
CONTRACT WORK.
Grading and Bridging Arcade Street.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. IL, 1885. (

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, !
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov IL, 1885. (
Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works in and for the corporation of
the City of st. Paul, Minnesota, at their Office
in said city, until IL m. ON the Esd day of No
vember, A. D. 1885, for grading and bridging
Arcade street, from Seventh (7th) street to
Maryland street, in said city, according to
plans and specifications on file in the Office OF
said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties in
sum of at least twenty (2O) per cent. OF the
gross amount bid must accompany each oid.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
WILLIAM BARRETT, President.
Official:
R. L.GoRMAN, Clerk Board of Public Works
316-326
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
borrow Money

On your household goods. See fina ncial col
umn, pager. R. Deming s. Co., 1852 jackson,
corner Fifth street.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
WORK.
Grading Reaney Street.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. II, 1885.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13

1t is stated that the sale of tickets at the
Fargo station on the Northern Pacific for Oc-
tobcr was $4,000 greater than for the same
month last year. That indicates quite an in
crease of travel and activity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
LOCAL MENTION.

StrOuse Bros, jewelers.,
At 176 West Seventh street, Seven corners,
sell nickel alarm clocks warranted to keep
good time at Sl.35, SYI
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13

Globe Job Printing Office.
D. Ramaley & Son, book ana job printers,
Globe building, IA West Fourth street.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-05-19
WHEAT PROSPECTS.
Indications of u Slight Yield Of the
Lite-Sustaining Cereal All Over
g.. the Country.

Secretary Chsmberlin is receisIog
from various sources confrmatioas Of
the correctness Of his reports pro4sos
ticating q small wheat crop this year. L
W. Murray OF Chicago in . circular jus'
received. based on reports from oil the
wbeatgrowiog sta,es, states that the
damage TO wheat has not been exagQe-
rated, or even owe, estimated. He says
,hst srge areas of Rbest have been
plowed up and oats or corn p1suted, and
thst 10 Csliforpis there will he . scant
wheat crop. He estimates that In the
fourteen winter wheat growing s,ates,
which last year had crop OF 3Io,914,-
500 bushels. there will, with the mos,
favorahie weather, be . yield Of hui
1871 boshels tbis year, sud IN the
Ave sptine whest growing states there
will be- q shortage OF eighteen million
hushels this year ss compsred with las
vesr, mskirg totuf shortage Ia ths
nineteen states Of about one hundred
and seventy milion bushels j.. W
Piersonsof Bavaria, Kse., writes that tht
K ,nsas wheat crop will be almost tots
Isilure': ahat in Saline county, heretofore
one OF the hest yielding sec.ions, th,
Weld wis not he over four bu.hels &,
itbe scrs This iutlicstes that OHIO ~il
not hp AIouein furnishing . small suppl,
OF wheat TO. the markets Of the so,lr
this season. Ohio Stale Journal, l4ss
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-05-19
BELMONT COUNTY ITEMS,

Bellaire fndcpendest l4tk inst Mr.
Samuel Glover, OF Delaware, Ohio, for
merly OF York township. this countv
has purchased thirty one sections Of iant
in LaMoure county. Dakota, paying
therefor ss0, 900. and will make his home
at LaMoure
s Mr.. J. ". Maring last week walked
with the aid Of two canes, the length o
the haH in the Carroll building, where
he has rooms. The many friends o.
Mad" throughout tbe city and count,
will be glad to hear OF this evidence o
improvement
The notorious Mrs Warren, who live,
In the vicinity of Powhatan. and who
was recently pardoned out Of the peni.
.tentiary, sgsin shows mp In unenviabl.
colors. A report comes from Mounds.
vile, Of her being at that place, begging
money on the streets, getting intoxica
ted and being directed out OF town hy
the police.
or the eight flint glass factories OF
this side of the river nov lille, not ont
OF them has paid q dividend within th,
two years last past, Wheeling factories
have Jared little better than this, bu
the glass business has not paid fai
percentage on the money invested fc'
two years in the Ohio Valley, except il
isolated instances A stronger demand
and hettpr rricea will he like apf,lea n
gold in pictures OF silver TO the mel
whose money isinvested when the works
do start.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-05-19
True Even Unto Death.

That was q touching story told by
Mr. Gladstone when announcing the
death of the Princess Alice in Parlia-
ment. She had been cautioned by the
physician not to inhsle the breath Of her
li.tle boy, who was i'll with diphtheria.-
The little fellow was tossing in his bed
In the delirium of lever. The Princess
stood by the side Of her child and laid
her hand upon his brow and beean'to
caress him. The touch cooled the fe.
vered brain and brought the wandering
soul hack from its wild delirium to mes.
tie for moment in the lap Of mothers
love. Then throwing his arms around
her neck, he whispered. "Mamma. kiss
me-" The instinct of mothers love
was stronger than science, and she press.
ed her lips to those OF her child. And
vet there is not a woman in all the world
but would say she would not have had 9
mothers heart if she bad not kissed hel
bairn. And so 1t will be to the end ol
time. The mother will kiss her child
the wife her husband, and the lover bis
sweetheart, though death ia q thousand
forms Law concealed beneath the vermill,
ion coloring OF the pouting lips.