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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
ARAD CASE DELIRIUM.

As long as st. Paul bonds are command
ing per cent. premium up in the Pine
Tree state and Maine capitalists are eager
to make investments in our securities we
fail to see why newspapers in other cities
should weep themselves TO death because of
some imaginary fear that the time might
come in the indefinite future when said in
weston in ST. Paul securities would not real
ize more than par on his investment. We
say this much for the benefit of the Mime
apoliS Journal. whose hySterieal condition
grows alarming. Our neighbor takes a
compton fit every other day because it is
fearful that St Paul's Indebtedness might
exceed 3 per cent of the assessed valuation
of property in the city, and thus impair the
value of some St. Paul securities held by
investors up in Maine. In the first place
ST. Paul has not asked Maine capitalists to
buy her bonds nor has she sold them any.
1t is not necessary 10 do so. rs St. Paul can
always sell her bonds at a premium without
going very far from home to do it. In the
second place if capitalists buy St. Paul secu-
rites on speculation, or as a solid IN
yeStment. it is their business and not ours,
nor is il of any consequence to the newSpa-
pers of other cities. In the third place St.
Paul has never created debt in excess Of 5
per cent. of the assessed value of her prop
erty, nor does she contemplate doing so.
An official statement of our financial condi-
ton shows that the city's indebtedness is
within the constitutional limit. and all eSti-
mates made by the municipal authorities As
to future Indebtedness are made upon safe
basis as to the prospective increase in val
uation of city property. One trouble with
our Minneapolis neighbor IS that it has no
conception of the growing condition Of our
prosperous city nor of the rapid increase in
the valuation of 81. Paul real estate.
Comptroller ROCHE. in his interview with
The GLOBE this morning. 50 completely I'M
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
MENTION OF MEN.

The Prince of Wales is at present the big
gest man in aud Ireland.
NJ. de Freycinet, the French minister of
foreign affairs, is Seine man.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago strokes his
beard and smiles complacently
Tawhiao, the Maori king, has recommended
his people to embrace Christianity.
President jackson used to smoke corn
cob pipe. Old Hickory knew what solid COM
fort was. g.
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin does not
weigh 125 pounds, and he is about feet six
inches in height.
Minister Phelps writes his signature in the
same manner a man steps on u banana peel
with decided backward movement.
President Cleveland isn't troubled with
malaria, but he shakes almost every day
when office-seekers grasp him by the hand.
Ex-President Hayes owns "a small brass
calendar which President Garfield used to
turn every morning and that now bears the
date Saturday July 2, 1881" never having
been changed since that fatal morning.
General Sherman is said to have recently
barganed for a kiss from pretty country
girl, who fatty refused Il first offer of 90
cents. This is high price for the general TO
pay considering that he raised his well-de-
yelOped lips gratis
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
THE song OF THE MUGwUMPs.
BIZ ONE OF THEM.

By ONE OF THEM.
New York World.
Oh, yes. we are Mugwumps, the chiefs of the
land,
The wisest in council. and always on hand
Yes, always on hand, you may count on US
sure,
When those in high station are vile and i'm
pure:
When parties thrust on Us unsuitable men
The bold Independents will do it again.
Oh, yes, we are Mugwurnps, and proud Of the
name.
All thankless for praise and all careless of
blame,
We think our owR thoughts and we go our
own way.
With none to command Us and none 10 obey,
And when we don't fancy your parties OF men,
The bold Independents viii do it again.
Our principles? Every man surely must know
That they are the best that the market can
show:
Domestic. imported, in colors or plain
lis stock you can never afford 10 disdain-
And when we can offer it freely TO men.
The bold Independents xiii do il again
so all the machines, siTs. whatever their
names.
May kick in their wrath till they shatter their
frames
While ve shall float gayly. nov here and R0T
there
As fearless and free az the birds Of the air.
And we gladly give notice 10 al sorts Of men
That the bold Independents viii do II agaIn-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16

horses the Journal in its uncalled for as
sault upon the credit of our city, that we
do not deem it necessary to consume space
with a repetition of the admirable points
and clear statement of facts made by st.
Paul's financial officer. The comptrollers
explanation of the true financial con-
dition of this city is, so plain that he who
runs may read, and the wayfaring man,
though he lives in Minneapolis, need not err
therein. He shows conclusively what the
GLOBE has already stated, that at no time
has the city exceeded the 5 per cent. limit
in the creation of a debt, and with equal
clearness he demonstrates that it will never
be necessary to do so, even to include the
bonded debt, which was authorized by the
last legislature. The insinuation that ST.
Paul ever obtained money under false pre-
lenses is an unwarranted SANDER upon the
good name of the city and is repealed not
only by the statement which Mr.. Roche has
submitted, but by the very fact that to-day
st. PaurS bonds for hundred thousand
dollars could be sold at premium and
Minneapolis capitalists be the first tOjump
at the chance to get them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
washington yyhisperings.

WASHINGTON. April 15.-The official
announcement of the appointment of Capt.
George W. Davis as aide-de-canp to the
Lieut.. Gen. Vice Maj. William j. Volkmar,
was make to-day.
Permission has been granted the colored
employees of the war department to be alb
sent tomorrow to participate in the enamel
patton celebration. The day will be de-
Quoted from their thirty days leave of
absence.
Secretary Whitney received the following
telegram from Admiral Jouett: ~ crossed
the isthmus yesterday. Good order con-
tinues Our men are all sound and com
Portable"
Ex-GOv. Hubbard of Texas and Mr..
Rufus Magee Of Indiana, the newly APP
pointed United States ministers to Japan
and Norway and Sweden. were at the state
department to-day and received their in
structiOns. The former viii leave for his
post of duty the early part Of May. The
attorney general has given an opinion to
the president sustaining the eligibility Of
Mr. Lawton Of Georgia for appointment as
minister TO Russia. William II. Keep of
Chicago and W. J.. O'Nei1 Of Galveston,
Tex, were to-day admitted to practice in
the supreme court.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
HOW THE CHOLERA COMES.

The recent scare which the people of
Cleveland had, from what was supposed to
be two cases of Asiatic cholera in their
midst, might have been avoided if they had
checked their excitement long enough to as
certain whether or not Cleveland had had
communication with any seaport town in
which cholera had recently existed. The
true Asiatic cholera always originates in
Hindostan, and has never been known to
exist elsewhere except it was carried from
the far East directly or Indirectly. The
Pittsburg Times gives an account of how
cholera was first introduced to America in
its virulent form. In the spring of 1882
ten or twelve emigrant ships brought chol-
era to Quebec from the British
islands, which islands choleraic in
vasions that included in turn had
been afflicted in turn over line of
Hamburg, Berlin, Posen, Warsaw, thence
waterways of that continent from HindOs-
tan, where it appeared in 1926. 1t was six
years injecting its way some ten thous-
and miles. From Quebec it followed
the water to Detroit and met the
United States troops going to the Black
Hawk war, and in short time the entire
force that went by the lakes was unfit for
duty. 1t was ecided that the soldiers
were infected when being transported by
the boats which had been previously used
in conveying West the emigrants who had
arrived at Quebec in the ships to which
reference has been made. From the mill
tary post at Detroit the infection spread I'M
til it reached other posts on the headwaters
of the Mississippi and thence to New Or
leans. No case of cholera had occurred in
that city until after the arrival of steamers
with the infection on board, and after a
number of passengers had died of it.
Within few months thereafter 5000 of
population of 55, 900 succumbed.
The only instance of cholera in the
United States this year was the case ON
board ship which arrived at Newbury
port, Mass, two or three weeks ago. This
vessel was promptly and effectively quar-
antined and no bad result has yet been
noted. 1t is the habit whenever cholera
is expected to visit the country
to herald severe cases of cholera
morbus as the genuine HindOstan article.
While the peculiarities of the East Indian
climate originate cholera, yet, when once
imported, local facilities in the way of pro-
fusion of filth to work on are an important
auxiliary. Sanitary science says that the
cause of individual attack is the drinking
of cholera water, that is, water into which
cholera bacteria have found their way. Of
course there must be first an importation of
the disease before the water can be con-
taminated. Where the water is originally
pure and is conveyed through close and
clean pipes there is very little danger of an
extensive outbreak. But for the wells
scattered here and there throughout the
city st. Paul would be comparatively safe
from a cholera visitation. However it is
well enough to be on the safe side by having
the city in perfect sanitary condition and
keeping it so.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS.
Strange Phenomena of the Death-Bed.
From the PHILADELPHIA North American.


From the Philadelphia North American.
"Many people," writes lady correspond
ent from Newark ''are deceived by optical
illusions On a recent morning l looked
into my brothers. room, and saw him stand
ing at his dressingcase. Then l remembered
that had heard him go down stairs, and
said to myself, This is an optical illusion.
Knowing that it was such, looked at the
figure until it slowly faded away. Let me
add that l am in good bodily health, cheerful
and, | believe, sound in mind. A friend
who died lately said in her last hours, when
apparently she was rational, that she saw her
dead parents and brother in her room. She
exclaimed, addressing the friends who stood
at her bedside, There they are, right there.
Can't you see theme repeat that as far as
any one could Judge, she was thoroughly con-
scious. But we will pass over her case, for it
is not exceptional, and while we can not say
she was deirious, neither can we affirm posi-
lively that she had her senses
''But here, think, is an unusual form of
optical illusion, if it was an illusion at all.
A few days ago well-known business man
of New York passed away His widow is a
clear-minded and educated lady, without
ture, or any belief in spirituaism. While
bending over her husband shortly before his
death she observed that the expression of his
face was changing, and the Lext moment
saw there, instead, the dead face of her
brother The two men were entirely unlike
in appearance, one being light and having a
blonde beard and the other very dark.
Shortly afterward the lady saw on her hus-
bands face the expression of another de-
ceased friend, and little later that of a
third. Her morbid and overweight fancy
deceived her, some one says. Could two
persons be deceived at the same time and in
the same wayl | asked this because three
years ago this lady and her sister watched
beside the dying child of the latter. The lit
tie girls face suddenly changed. One of the
ladies saw that the other observed this, and
said:
Emily, who was itr'
Adelaide was the answer.
" yes, Adelaide
''The two ladies have told me that they saw
Enthusiastically the face of their dead cousin, a
woman, shining out through the face Of the
dying child. / offer no explanation of these
phenomena, and present them only because
TO me they seem very interesting"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
LIFE ON THE IsTHMUs.
The Bioodstained Shores of AspfnwaU and
the Route to Panama.

the Route to Panama.
New York Times.
Manzanilla island. upon which Aspinwall
stands, lies SO low that the great white ribs
of the Skeleton lighthouse" are visible long
before the little town is seen floating like a
gay-colored leaf upon the shining waters.
The railway to Panama, runnisg like tram
line down the mainAstreet, passes two and a
half miles from the town the wooded slope
of Monkey Ill., the local cemetery, alread '
sown thick with graves. This endless maze
of swamp aud thicket, through which (as
deserving sailors know 10 their cost the
rough railway track forms the sole footpath,
is the chosen home Of the terrible ''Chagres
fever" which is said TO have taken life for
every sleeper" on this forty-seven-mile
railroad.
The dark red pathways, fecking the rank
greenness like trickling blood; the foul black
pools half hidden by snaky mangroyes that
strike their fbrous roots deep into the spongy
rotter ness below; the matted thickets from
which wreaths Of white mist sink sulIenly
away like detected murderers, form CHASTITY
picture. 1t is quite relief when the train
creeps at1ength over the swift, brown stream
Of the broad Cbagres upon long iron bridge,
the breaking Of which by the rebels, had it
been possible. would have effeetually checked
the advance Of the government troops from
Panama. few alligators peer out with
horny eyes from the thick, greasy water. but
the two or three log cabins amid the wall Of
leaves on the further shore are the sole token
Of mans presence.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
"BE CONTENT, POOR HEART"


Mr.. CoRooRAN, the Washington banker,
who, at his own expense, had the body of
the author of "HOme, Sweet Home" ex-
humed and brought to Washington for in
tement, has recently put beautiful memo
rial over the empty tomb of the author in
Tunis 1t will be remembered that Mr.
PAYNE died at Tunis in 1859, where he was
in the consulate service of the United States
and where his remains hay buried for thirty
years. The old slab, that had covered the
grave for so many years, by mistake was
removed when the poets body was ex-
humed and was broken in transit, having
been badly packed. The removal of the
slab was disappointment to the friends of
PAYNE In Tunis, as they had intended to
add statement of the diSinterment to the
inscription on the slab and to keep the spot
of his first burial sacred still. as they had
done for so many years. When Mr.. Cor
CoRAN heard of their disappointment he
commissioned the American consul NJ Malta
TO have made a suitable and substantial
monument and place it over the Tunis
grave.
The monument is composed of close
grained, hard stone known as ''zoAcor. y
which is found in the Maltese islands of
Coco. Its color is a yellowish drab. the
prevailing tone being soft gray. ItStands
seven feet high on 4 base four feet square.
The shaft curves gently as it rises from the
base. and then curves out to the cap piece.
being SlendereSt in the center 1t is sur
mounted by a symbolical decoration in
snowy marble. in quiet but effective lines.
The decoration combines the symbol of the
poet with that Of the writer. The laurel
Is Loose 50 as to express the crown of
genius broken by death. The Tyre reclines
against book and a scroll. while marble
ribboR-shat may have escaped from the
bOok-hears the musical notes of the first
strain OF Home Sweet Home This simple
and appropriate design tells half the story Of
PANNE'S life and accomplishment without
a word. There is something az touching
pathoS in the life and death of JOHN How
ARD PAYNE. that he who sang 50 Sweetly
OF home should never have had one and
should have died among strangers in for
eign land 1t was graceful act Of Mr..
CoRcoRAN to devote part of his great
wealth 10 bring the remains of the poet back
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
Unmarried Wfdo,cs of Presidents.

chicago Herald.
Mrs. James K. Polk, whose husband was
president forty years ago, continues to reside
at Nashville, the recipient of much quiet at
tention, supplemented every second year by
formal call from the general assembly Of
the state.
For more than ten years Mary Lincoln sur
yiyed her husband, wearing her weeds TO the
asst Of an unhappy widowhood, during which
she fell into melancholia and feared a vista
ion Of the poverty that never came upon
her, for, like Mrs. Garfield, she was pen
stoned abundantly
Mrs. Fillmore died in Buffalo some years
ago.
Buchanan was bachelor.
Johnson's wife did not survive him.
The widow Of President Tyler, bride OF
the White house, still is bearing his name.
She is none too fortunate in this worlds
goods. Washington's widow, older when
she married than Mrs. Garfield is now, was
content TO bear his honored name TO the
tomb
Jefferson survived his wife.
Both Adsmses reached green old age.
The rule has been that the widows Of
presidents, as Of most distinguished Ameri-
cans, have cherished the memory OF their
husbands and have formed no new alliances.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
IT is enough to make a dog lang

IT is enough to make dog laugh to hear
Governor General LOUIS RIEL complain that
the United States is not preserving n proper
neutrality in the war between himself and the
Canadian government. The burthen of his
complaint is that Canada has been buying
Calling guns from the United States. If there
is anything in the world that Mr.. RIEL is
afraid of it is Calling gun. 1t shoots right
through a tree and that dsarranges RIEL's
whole military plan. 1t may not be aniss to
inform the provisional governor of the Sas-
katchewan republic that the United States
keeps Calling guns for sale and good stock
always on hand. The reason the Canadians
got the guns was because they had the money
to get them with. If Governor General REL
has the money he can get all the Calling guns
he wants.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
THE MARKETS.

The stock market yesterday opened more
quiet, owing to the more peaceful news from
Europe and prices were fractionally lower
than they closed the evening before. This
was followed by a reaction and the market be-
came strong and active. The declaration of
the payment of the usual dividend by the Pa
ciic Mail Steamship company brought that
stock up, and the rest seemed to follow. A
good many reports were circulated in regard
to Union Pdcific's floating debt andsPresident
AdamS made a statement as to its condition,
which had the effect Of advancing it. Wheat
weakened slightly all around and closed lower.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
DECLINE IN EUROPEAN TRAVEL

DECLINE IN EUROPEAN TRAVEL.
The European travel Juror has about ex-
pended itself. The steamship lines report
wonderful falling Off and their books do
not show the applications for passage dur
ing the coming summer which are usually
shown at this season. In fact the falling
off is so marked the steamship companies
are discouraged and express hope that the
anticipated European war may give en-
pIoyment to their vessels. OF course some
of this decline may be attributed to fear
of cholera and something to the hard times.
But the chief cause for it is found in the
fact that our people are beginning to realize
the Importance of studying their own coun-
try before going abroad to study foreign
lands. There was something ridiculous in
the craze which seized our American people
for tour of Europe without any previous
preparations for it by the necessary reading
and study and without even fair amount
of knowledge of their own country. For
lack of this intelligent direction the effect
of foreign travel upon our general culture
has hardly been commensurate with the
outlay of time and money. And then the
facilities for summer enjoyment in our own
country have been SO greatly improved
within the last few years there is not the
same inducement to go abroad as existed
few years ago. Our people are finding out
that they can visit our lakes and seaside and
mountain resorts and enjoy themselves by
spending their leisure in restful way
quite as well as by running over Europe at
a break-neck speed, obtaining very little of
knowledge and nothing OF the rest they are
in search of. We have picturesque spots in
our own country far surprising in beauty
the stock scenery along the beaten lines of
European travel.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16

THE Boston Transcript says: Mr.. HEN
DRICKs,we are told,i man who is devoted to-
his friends. and he will serve them, vice presi-
dency or no vice presidency. Which reminds
us of young man who had experienced reli-
gion. He was employed in an estab-
lishment where there were several
clerks, each and all of whom took
particular delight in roughing the
young convert. One day after an unusually
severe rasping the young man remarked to a
friend, his flushed face showing that his
heart was in his words: ''These fellows think
they can play it on me, just because I'm
Christian; but if they don't let up pretty
quick some of 'em II get hurt, religion or no
eligion."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
VARIETIES OF CoURTsHIP.
The tailor presses his suit.

The tailor presses his suit.
The shoemaker lays his awl at her 1cr.
The wood-chopper offers himself as her
Teller.
The carpenter says her society adj JOY ia
his existence.
The poet woos her with sonnet, and her
big brother starts out In search Of him with
shotgun.
Finally. the champion roller-skater rolls
into her good graces, and she elopes with
and marries him.
The funny man" approaches her with
jokes and puns, and has the dog set on him
and loses the skirts Of his swallow-tail.
The furniture dealer "a 80 much in love
with her that he Is willing 70 accept her af-
lection on installments, one-tenth down.
The mason believes his chances rest on q
good foundation when be informs her that
refusal would be mortar-fying TO him.