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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
A SENSIBLE APPOINTMENT,

AS an illustration that the civil service
rules are not always the best test of fitness
for office, the case of FAULKNER, who was
few months ago appointed chief of the
record division of the pension Office is one
in point. When FAULKNER was ap-
pointed, the civil service commission raised
howl over it, because, as they alleged, the
Indiana gentleman could not spell correctly.
They even went so far as to allege that he
spelled Democrat with a SIX" But not
withstanding his deficient photography, Mr..
FAULKNER is making one of the most eff
cient officers that has ever been in the depart
meHt. He has developed wonderful organ
izing ability and in the work of reorganiz-
ing the demoralized pension Office has
brought complete order out of chaos. The
day cOnvinces him of the wisdom of
FAULKNER's selection. Notwithstanding
the fact that the civil service dudes have
been great sticklers for good spelling and
thorough knowledge of decimal fractions,
still it occurs now and then that man with
an honest heart and head chock full of
common sense, although he may be phonet-
ically inclined in his literary habits and
may never have progressed beyond common
fractions, knocks the stufing out of the
civil service curriculum when it really comes
down to real efficiency and capacity fol-
work. A man may be a bad speller and
still be good worker.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
St. PAUL Round to Room,

Chicago Herald: There is great deal of
interest centered in St. Paul stock just now,
and the Chicago speculative and investing
public is said to be heavily ''long" of it on
the New York stock exchange. The follow
ing statement gives the leading points in
its favor, and is from the pen Of W. c.
Budd, well-knOwn operator in this city:
Il am firmly of the belief that ST. Paul will
rank Northwest within few months,
barring the unforeseen, on a legitimate
basis, to-wit: January will find the float
ing debt discharged and surplus in the
treasury of $1,000, 900. 1t is now
showing earnings at the rate Of
nearly II per cent. on the COM
mon stock and Mr.. Eastman, after
thorough examination, reports that it will
continue to do so for the next nine months,
and on his report the order for 1000 addi-
tional cars with 1900 to follow was given.
Emigration to points along its lines shows a
large percentage over other Western roads.
There are no empty cars returned, as was
the case last year, owing to the fact that
farmers have received and are receiving
remunerative prices for wheat, flax, ETC.,
and are ordering literally in return staples,
ETC. Lumber figures as an important factor
and improvements and building are pro-
crossing at rapid rate, proving to me con-
clusively that the era of prosperity and adj
vancement of this property is thing no
longer OF doubt, and, with the valuable
acquisition Of Mr.. P. D. Armour to the
directory, our Western operators pin their
aith in its future,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
THE DEAD RISE.

That is a curious story which comes from
Maine of the burial of young man, his
subsequent resurrection and restoration to
life. Cases of suspended animation have
occurred before. and it is well authenticated
that persons have been buried alive under
the supposition that they were dead. But
this is the first time case has been re-
ported in this country where there has been
a genuine resurrection after the clods had
been piled upon the coffin in which
the supposed dead body was en-
cased. The Hindoo priests are the posses
sors of secret whereby death can be
counterfeited, and the body committed to
the tomb, and, after the lapse of months,
can be resurrected and animation restored.
No sort of inducement has been found
strong enough to extract from these priests
their marvellous secret. 1t would be singu-
lar that after centuries of fruitless investi-
CATION medical science should at last STUN
BILE upon the secret. The case which is
reported from Cape Elizabeth has sensa-
tional tinge about it, and the details are not
set forth with sufficient cIearness to bear
the impress of unquestioned truth, yet it
is not unreasonable that it might have hap
pened just as it is related in our dispatches.
At all events, further particulars will be
awaited with interest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12

New YORK, Nov. 1.-THE general con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church
continued it's session here to-day. The fol-
lowing yearly appropriations were made:
Five hundred dollars for the French work
of the Louisiana conferences; 81, 900, Chi
nese work, 50. 900 Of which is for repairs to
the Chinese church in San Francisco:
50, 900 for japanese work in California;
Puget sound, $500; Wisconsin, $500: Ala
bama, 50, $50: Arkansas, $1,000; Custer,
Sc, 500; Baltimore, So, 500; Blue Ridge,
So, 900; California, $500; Central Ala
bama, $500; Central Tennessee, 50, 600;
Colorado, S. 600; Columbia river, 1850;
Delaware, $1,000; Detroit, SO. 500; East
Maine, $1,000; East Tennessee, So, 600;
Florida, 81, 900, and Georgia, So, 500.
The appropriations for domestic work
were completed this evening, the total
amount being 80, 1850, 900. South America,
for the Anglo-Japanese university, $12, 900,
SIS. 600 of which is given by John f.
Goutcher of Baltimore, Md. An appropri-
alton of S1S5, 900 by the Woman's Foreign
Missionary society and another of S606
by the Woman's Home Mission society for
missionary work were approved by the con-
ference. Twenty-Five thousand dollars
were voted to the contingent fund; S32, 500
for incidental expenses; $4,000 for Office
expenses and IS, $40 for publication expen-
SEES The grand total of appropriations by
the conference this year is 81, $50. 900. On
Dec. II grand missionary meeting will be
held in the Academy of Music here. Bishop
Hams will preside and Bishops Hurst and
Fowler and RevS. DR.. Reed and Buckley
will deliver addresses. Three hundred sing
erS have been engaged.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
WHAT CONGRESS WILL DO.

While it is as unsafe to predict in adj
will enact as it is to foretell the verdict of
the average petit jury. it is reasonably
safe to make calculation upon the basis
presented in the responses of the 100 mem
bers of congress who replied to the ques-
tions propounded by the Washington cor
respondent of the Courier-J Journal and pub
lished in yesterdays GLOBE. There seems
to be very little difference between the
Democratic and Republican members
as to the wisdom of changing the
house rules so as to provide that the
general appropriation bills, except the
legislative, sundry civil and deficiency bills,
shall be prepared and controlled hereafter
by the appropriate standing committees on
the several branches of public service. An
analysis of the replies on this proposition
shows that of the sixty Democratic members
who give an expression only four are in op-
position and of the ninety-one Republicans
only nine put themselves on the record as
opposed to it. Consequently it may be as
sumed that the rules will be changed in this
respect. When this matter was discussed
few weeks ago it was given cut by the
Washington correspondents that it was a
movement on the part of the CARLISLE
Democrats to clip the wings of Mr.. RAN
DALI SO as to prevent him from using his
position as chairman of the house committee
on appropriations to retard legislation on
the tariff. There was no foundation
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
JACK THE GIANT killer.

King THEEBAw is an amusing little fell
low. While we are not disposed to COM
mend his Judgment, we are forced to
concede his admirable pluck. When the
ruler of little one-horse kingdom in the
back jungles of India dares the whole
British empire to fight him, there is dis
play of the quality known as sand-in-the-
craw which eXcites the admiration of
Americans While his formal declaration
of war has about it the ridiculous humor
of challenge to mortal combat from a
lilliputian to giant, it is still possible
that THEEBAw's audacity is the spark
which will kindle flame that will ulti-
mately involve all Europe in confagra-
ton. Great results have often followed
from smaller beginnings than. THEEBAw's
war pronunciamento. Europe is in just
that condition to be convulSed in general
war by the slightest shock. Each one of
the great nations of Europe is watching its
neighbors with suspicious and jealous eyes.
There are such vast complications and con-
ficting interests that the slightest derange
ment of any part of the system of interna-
tional unity is liable to disarrange the whole.
And thus it is that, while we are disposed
to laugh at THEEBAw and his apparently
puny efforts to maintain the rights and vim
dictate the honor of his kingdom, we
are disposed to watch with the deepest
anxiety the consequences which are liable
to follow from his temerity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12

And then by the time the president has
talked for half an hour with the applicant
for official honors he has been
enabled to gauge his intelligence and deter
mine in his own mind the standard Of his
moral fitness. 1t is said that the president
has theory that natures mould has good
deal to do with fixing mans character
that the physical proportions indicate the
moral and mental qualities of the individ-
ual. 1t is said that Mr.. CLEVELAND takes
himself as the standard of man who pos
sesses the natural qualifications for official
life, and the applicant who most resembles
the president in person and manners is the
one who is favored. 1t is probable, how
ever, that injustice is done the presi-
dent in this respect. for it is alto
gether likely that this impression has
been created upon the public mind by the
fact that, with but very few exceptions
the presidents appointees have been we'll
favored fine-looking men of genial natures
and with easy manners. But however
true or false this impression may be-
the fact remains that the president
regards personal interview with
an applicant for office a more infallible test
OF his fitness than all the civil service rules
that could be adopted from now until
doomsday. And, after all, when we come
10 take common-senSe view of it, we are
bound to admit that the president is right
about it. All of us agree that when we have
seen person, we form in our own minds a
more satisfactory estimate of that person
than We can from reading about him or
from hearing other people talk OF him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
Brighton Beach Races

New YORK, Nov. 1.-THE attendance
at Brighton Beach was large and tha
weather fine.
First Race-Welter weights, selling race
mile-and-a-half, over six hurdles; starters
Will Davis, Gilead, Elaxor, Buckra. yelling,
ton, Tilford, Bally and Bricabrac; won by
Wellington by three lengths, Iilford second.
Bally third. Time, 2:4S$4.
pSecond Race-Selling race, seven-eights of
annie; starters, Diamond, Sir Garnet, Joe S,
Change Retort, Marsh Redon, Joe Howell
Montaak, Ballot Freida, Joe Shelby, King Ar
thur, Paradox, Joe Murray, May, Waerto,
Seafoam; won by Marsh Redon by two
lengths, King Arthur second, Joe third.
Time, 1907.
Third Race - neutrality-suspicious.
handicap; starters, King Fan, Sovereign Pat,
Pericles, High Flight, Kiohka, Miss Brewster,
brunswick, Regret, Mineral, Bonaretta; won
by Pericles by two lengths, Miss Brewster
second, King Fan third. Time, 2:1G1a.
Fourth Race-Four-year-old one mile;
starters Florence NJ, Cratic, Longview,
Punka, Charlie Russell, Waukesha, Miller,
heokuk, Bonanza; it was won by Bonanza by
straight heat Waukesha second, Charlie
Russell third. Time, 1 As.
Fifth Race-Non-winners three-fourths of
a mile; starters. Thunderbolt Anne Martin,
Cathiart, Prosper, Manitoba, Miss Dolly, Flor
ent1ne, Theodorus, Chill, Terry Barton, Adeie,
Genkeifer. Sc PIANO. Little Sam; it was won
by Manitoba by a neck, Cathiart second, Pros
per third. Time, l:17$4,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
WILL Re Sold.

CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-Judge Gresham to-
day passed DEGREES for the foreclosure and
separate sales of the two divisions of the
Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis railroad.
The Eastern division extends firm Toledo
to Kokomo, and the Western from Kokomo
to East st. Louis. The mortgage on the
Eastern division is about S24, 600, 900 and
the upset price $500, 900. the cash paid on
the bid being $35, 000 On the Western di-
vision the incumbrance is some So, 900, 900
and the upset price 5000. 900, and the cash
to be paid on the bids $4,000. The debts
incurred by the three receivers, Dwight,
Craig and McNulta, are estimated anywhere
from SS00,0 to 81, 400,0 900, besides the
costs of the suit and sale, which are first to
be paid. The sales will take place on the
same day at indianapolis, Master in Chan
Gerry William P. Fishbach and Gen. Nc
Nulta, receiver of the road, being appointed
commissioners to conduct the sale, which
will take place in from forty-fve to fifty
DAYS from this date
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12

for this statement as the propriety
of making this change has been dis
cuSSed before, and the unanimlty with
which the members of both par
ties express themselves in favor OF it in
dicates that the change commends itself
solely upon the merit there is in it, 1t is
not certain that Mr.. RANDALL is to be the
chairman of the committee on appropria-
tons in the next house. although the prob
abilities are that he will be. Still, it makes
DO difference whether he is chairman or not,
the change in the rules which will be made
and the wisdom of the change are so apparent
that there will be no complaint from any
quarter.
In the next place it is clear from fur
Their analysis of the replies of the congress-
men that the Democrats in the house will
oppose any legislation on the silver question
and the Republicans will favor it. The Re-
publican senate will probably pass bill re-
pealing the law authorizing the coinage of
silver and the Democratic house will refuse
to concur in the passage of the bill. This
will leave the present law in force. Again
it is apparent that the Democratic house
will pass tariff modification bill and the
Republican senate will probably de-
feat it. When congress adjourns
the two parties will have made their records
and upon the issues joined will go
before the country. The Democrats will
be the advocates of tariff modification and
the friends of silver coinage. The Repub-
licans will pose as the champions of
gold as the single standard and as opponents
of tariff reform. OF course no one can
predict what influences may be brought to
bear to produce changes in the future, but
as near as the sentiment of the two parties
can now be formulated this is the status
they will respectively occupy at the OPEN
ing of congress, with all the chances that
their respective positions will be strength
ened and the lines drawn more sharply
by the proceedings OF the next congress.
1t is altogether probable that the Democrats
in congress will find themselves antagoniZed
on the silver question by the president and
his cabinet at the outset. But there is al
ways a way to effect compromises and pro-
duce harmony between two coordinate
branches of the government. AT the same
time the Republican majority will find it
self antagOnized by respectable minority of
the same party, who will fight hard, but
without avail, to bring the party in line
with the interests of the masses of the peo-
pie. Taking it altogether, the next session
of congress promises to be a most interest
ing one.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
YyiIlPreyent Rate Wars.

In the text of the agreement recently en-
tered into between the Eastern trunk lines,
and by the aid of which in the future it is
proposed to govern and control all the
through business originating at or destined
to the seaboard states, is clause which
will have the effect of stopping the cutting
of passenger rates. Rate cutting on passen-
ger business invariably originates with the
commissions that are paid by the Eastern
trunk lines to the agents of their Western
connections, and in many cases to scalpers.
The clause reads thus:
The trunk lines hereby further agree that
after Jan. 1856, they will not in reference to
any passenger traffic covered by this agree
ment pay or be parties to the payment of
commissions to any agent or any other rail-
road company for selling tickets or securing
passenger business over their respective
roads, and they will not permit any of their
agents to receive commissions for such pur-
poses, and all systems of paying commissions
for sale of passenger tickets or securing pas
senger traffic shall, as soon as practicable, be
absolutely abolished. This contract shall GO
into effect the 7th day of November, 1885, and
continue in full force and effect until Dec. 81,
1856, and from year to year thereafter. 1t
may be terminated on the 31st day of Decem-
Der of any year by any party hereto giving
three months prior notice, in writing, OF their
desire to withdraw therefrom.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
Butter and Egg Association.

CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-THE second days
proceedings of the National Butter and
Cheese association was called to order by
President John J. Macdonald of Philadel-
phia in Battery d armory. Six hundred
and thirty-Seven delegates reported from
twenty-nine states. B. F. Van Valkens-
burg, chairman of the statistical committee
of New York, then made report on re-
ceipts of the dairy products of the state,
which showed decrease in value over
that of last year. This he attributed to
butterine manufacturers. Mr.. Warner, of
the Philadelphia produce exchange, fol-
lowed with a report on the receipts IN
Philadelphia, which compared favorably
with those last year. Further reading of
reports was postponed until the after
noon session. United States Commits
sioner of Agriculture Coleman followed with
an exhaustive address on the deleterious
effects of the manufacture of imitation
dairy products on the business of honest
producers and dealers. He condemned it
and recommended that resolutions be
drafted to induce congress to adopt ma
tional law prohibiting the sale and manu-
facture of these products. He was loudly
applauded in his remarks. Patents have
been granted for the manufacture of butter
inc, which contains ingredients positively
injurious to the system. Curtis of New
York offered resolutions which were re-
ferred. These declared imitation of dairy
products injurious, and asked congress to
pass law prohibiting their sale and manu-
facture. The dairy commissioner of New
York, j. K. Brown, made a short address.
The succeeding session was principally
long wrangle between opponents of the
oleomargarine interest and its representa-
tives. a resolution was finally agreed to
calling on congress to pass law prohibit
ing the use of coloring in the manufacture
of oleomargarine and forbidding the sale of
that article as butter
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
WOMEN OF TERE WORLD.

A Paris florist hangs out the sign conveying
the highly important information that he is
florist to mime. Mackay by autographs ap-
pointment.''
Mrs. Mast, the TALL beautiful wife of Thomas
Mast, is said to be the original of the Column
bian figure so frequently portrayed by that
successful artist.
President Eliot, of Harvard University,
was widower when he heard Grace Osgood
sing at private concert. He fell in love at
sight, was introduced next day, engaged the
next week, and married in the next month.
The Princess Beatrice andJher husband will
probably always maintain an incognito when
travelling in Europe, as the Courts of Berlin
and Vienna, certainly, will not recognize
Prince Henry as a Royal Highness,' or grant
him any precedence.
The three daughters of Lord Carnarvon
will inherit about $500, 900 each under the will
Of their grandmother, lady Chesterfield, a
descendant of the famous Lord who tried to
make priggish snob out of his son through
a series of Letters
A young man in Colusa county, California,
shot himself a year ago because young
woman refused to marry him. The girl said
he was fool, but the boy recovered. The
other day the girl committed suicide because
the boy refused to marry her.
Mrs. John Kelly, the wife of the Tammany
chief, has a mind and will of her own. When
the politicians call to see her husband she de-
MES them admittance, and she opens his mail
to see what letters on political topics reach
him.
The gift of Mrs. Benjamin Pomeroy of
Southport, Conn.,, TO her daughter, Miss Mary
F. Pomeroy, on the occasion of her marriage
on Wednesday in Trinity church to DR.. Hugh
Wells of New York. was check for $780, 600.
An old lady recently told Margery Deane
that she was once invited to lunch at Windsor
castle by Queen Victoria. She, with the other
guests, was on arrival placed at a sumptuous
table, but there was no queen in the room.
When the meal was half over the queen en-
tered. walked the length of the table, spoke
to each and passed out.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12
MEN OF MAR "a.

Devoe, the New Jersey weather prophet, is
fair, forty and thin.
Horatio Alger, the story writer has started
several penniless boys in business.
Admirers of Dr. Nachtigal, the African
traveller, are to erect handsome monument
over his grave at Cape Palmas.
The meeting of the czar and the Kaiser
Franz Josef at Kremser lasted only thirty
hours, but it cost the austrian court treasury
1925, 900.
The face mask of P. 7. Barnum has been
placed in the Smithsonian, owing to his serv-
ices to natural history in importing many ami
mails rich and rare.
Count Won Moltke is in very poor health.
He will not live till winter, it is said. Bis
marck, who was dangerously i'll last summer,
is dangerously well again.
Col. Murat Hastead. the Ohio fire-eater, is
raising fund to send the daughter of a late
distinguished statesman. abroad to be edu-
Gated for the lyric stage.
Signor Lamperti, the great maestro, is to es-
tabl1sh conservatory of music at Washing
ton He thinks the capital ought to be the
musical center of the nation.
Not the least pleasant episode in the life of
quest of $4,000 from Col. Hunt, a rich Diichi-
gan lumberman, of whom the recipient never
had heard.
Silas Goble of Ocean county, N. j., who has
been married tifty-one years, is the proud
father OF twenty-three children, the oldest be-
ing 40 and the youngest 10. He has spent a
small fortune for shoes.
Kaiser Wilhelm is not only the Oldest officer
in the German army in point of age, but in
point of service as well. His commission as
major-general bears date of Marh 80, 1885,
and he Joined the army as an ensign March
%, 1907.
During the recent races at Doncaster, the
duke OF Portland entertained twenty-five
bachelors in his rented house in regular bach
elor style. The duke has only about $3.50, 600 a
year to spend, and gossips say that he is max
ing desperate efforts to spend it.
Appropos of Ben Perley Poore's recent
severe illness, the New York Star recalls that
once, threatened with Bright's disease, his
only chance for life, he was told was dieting.
He accepted it and, bon vivant though he is,
lived for nearly two years on stale bread and
skim milk, after which time he was pro-
nOunced cura