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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29
Confirmation Of Assessment for Grading
Valley Street.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, June 20, 1885.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, I
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, June %, 1885. (
The assessment of benefits, costs and ex-
penses arising from the grading of Valley
street, from Jackson street to Broadway, in
the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, having been
completed by the Board of Public Works in
and for said city, said Board will meet at their
office in said city at p. m. on the 18th day Of
July, A. D. 1885, to hear objections Gf any to
said assessment, at which time and place, I'M
less sufficient cause is shown to the contrary,
said assessment will be confirmed by said
Board.
The following is a list of the supposed own
ers' names, description of the property BEN
Gifted and the amounts assessed against the
same, tO-wit;
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29
Iron Troubles.

CINCINNATI, June 27.-The conference
Of iron manufacturers from Youngstown
and other points west of Pittsburg adopted
a resolution declaring the action of the
Pittsburg committee, in the settlement of
the recent differences between the manu-
facturers and workmen. ill-timed, unsatis-
factory and subyersive of their interests,
and protesting against the continuance OF
the Pittsburg dictatiOn. They agreed to
encourage the formation of an independent
organization for the purpose of adjusting
their own affairs. They adjourned subject
to a call by the chairman, Joseph KinSey
Of Cincinnati.
A SURPRISE.
PITTsBURG, June 27.-The Ohio iron
manufacturers having agreed to encourage
the formation of an organization, independ-
ent of the Western association, was sur
prise to local manufacturers. One manu-
facturer said it would give Ohio men de-
cided advantage, as work could be done
there 10 per cent. less than here and would
eventually result in benefit to Pittsburg
manufacturers, as workmen would be COM
PEELED to accept lower wages. Another
said the Ohio mills would run with nom
union men. Secretary Martin of the Anal
gamated association doubts their ability to
do so and predicts that none will run until
the scale is signed.
STRIKE SETTLED.
WHEELING, w. Va, June 27.-The
steel workers strike at the Bellaire steel
works has been settled by the management
agreeing to recognize the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION. The nail factory will probably
start up in few days. the scale in this de
partment having been signed some time
since.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29

All objections to said assessment must be
made in writing and fled with the Clerk OF
said Board at least one day prior to said meet
ing. JOHN HARRINGTON, President
Official:
R. L. GoRMAN, Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29
Ashton s. sherburne's Addition to St. Paul,
Supposed owner and

Bass Encouragement Of part of Blocks 10, 20
Fl and 20, Ashton & Sherburne's Ad-
dition to St. Paul.
Supposed owner and
description. Lot. Benefits
NJ D Bass. ................,...1 10 1926 90 Z
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29

A return game will be played at an early
date in Minneapolis when the millers ex-
pect to repeat their thrashing yesterday.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29
LOCAL MENTION.

Dinner 3OCs
Dinner, BIC; breakfast or supper SOC, at
Richardson's, 205 Nicollet.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29
Fine Weather Draws Crowds to the Lakes
and Picnios and Excursions
are Numerous.
A Galaxy of Legal Talent that Will be
Arguing the King-RemingtOn
Case To-Day.
Celebration of the Fiftfeth Anniver-
sary of Presbyterianism in
the Northwest.
The Tribune Denounced Aga1n--Th
Washburn Will--Numerous
Notes of Interest.
SUNDAY THE LAKE.
A Bright Day and Coed Grove

A Bright Day and Coed CroVos'
A cloudy, cherries morning, before the
trains left for the lake, had the tendency
yesterday to keep many people'at nome
who had arranged to spend the day at MIN
netonka and very few went out on the
trains before noon. During the afternoon
the sun appeared and chee:ed the hearts OF
visitors, impelling several hundred lake
ward The hotelkeepers were IN COM
paratively happy mood and met their guests
with cheerful cOuntenance and generous
hospitality. Elaborate dinners were served
ND at the leading hotels and the day was
proftably spent. The City of st. Louis
took about 300 on the Upper lake trip and
added another hundred to the list for the
Lower lake trip from Hotel Lafayette on
her. return,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
SAM PATCH,S LAST LEAP.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
nse,cial Gazette, who describes himself as
an eye witness of Sam Patch's last two
jumps, writes as follows "Sam Patch,
the famous cataract leaper, who asserted
that some things could be done as well as
others, took his Final, eternal and life's
fatal leap as local poet expressed it at
the time, on gloomy day in November in
the year 1929. He had jumped the Gen.
esee Falls at Rochester, their natural height,
one week before, and was induced by the
gamblers and roughs who were grooming
and managing and living off him to repeat
the feat on the fatal occasion. They erected
q sort of scaffold on the jutting rock whence
he had taken his departure on the previous
occasion, making it rs feet above the rock,
or 100 feet in all from the scaffold floor TO
the surface of the river at the foot OF tho
falls. Ascending TO the scaffold with some
difficulty, considerably inebriatod, aud by
a steep ladder, the unfortunate demonstra-
tor Strengthened up with jerk, bowed awk-
wardly on all sides TO the witnessing thou
sands, then pushed pet bear off he had
with him, and instantly leaped forward him.
self His person canted over on the left
side, and struck the water forcibly, nc
doubt bruising him and forcing the breath
from his body. Nothing more was seen of
him till the next March, when his corps,
was discovered among some bushes at the
mouth Of the river, seven miles below, very
much mutilated, but recognizable by a
handkerchief tied around the body Patch,
beginning on the schooner yard-arms at
Paterson, N. j., was special leaper for 20
years or more, jumped from amazing
heights at Niagara thrice before he tried
the Genesee rapids, and challenged the in
spection of admiring thousands to tho reali.
ties Of his feats. If yet living he would be
apout 80 years of age, but who knows if he
had not tackled John Alcohol, his bear, and
great leap at one and the same timo hs
might not be jumping YETI"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
DECEIVED THE SURGEON.

A good story is told as having occurred
in the North Of Scotland, where q bone-set-
ter had risen to great fame and no small for.
tune by his skill. A country lad residing q
few miles off had got his leg hurt at one of
the local factories, and had been treated
for some time by the local medical men
without any good result. His mother, who
had great faith in the neighboring bone.
setter, wanted the lad to 60 to him, which
he declined, preferring, as he said, the
"reglar faculty." Eventually, however,
his mothers persuasions prevailed, and he
agreed to allow himself to be taken to see
Daniel r., the bone-setter. A bed for the
invalid was extemporized on q cart, and 40
companied by his mother, he was, after q
rather painful journey, taken to the town
where the bone-setter resided. The leg was
duly examined, and it was found necessary
to haul II very severely, in order, as the
bone-setter said "to get the bone In" The
lad was liberal with HIS screams while this
was going on, but eventually the bone was
"got in" and he was told to go home and
in few days he would be all right and at
for his work. He was lifted up ON the cart
aanin. and. with hia n1nihay s~@s.a hasiaa
him, set off for home. Didn't Danny do
the thing well ?" said the Joyous old LADY.
eyes, he did, mother" said the lad, "but
was nae sic fool as gle him the sair leg 20
The "reglar faculty" will, we Have NJ
doubt, appreciate the stosg.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
uNDERBRusH in AFRICAN FORESTS.

In travelling through the great forests Of
the Rocky Mountains or Of the Western
States the broken branches and fallen trunks
strewing the ground breast high with oil
sorts of decaying litter frequently make
locomotion impossible. To attempt to ride
through these Western forests, with their
meshwork Of interlocked branches and de-
caying trunks, is often out of the question,
and one has to dismount and drag his horse
after him as If he were clambering through
a wood yard. But in an African forest not
q fallen branch is seen. One is struck Of
first at certain clean look about the great
forests OF the interior, novel and unac-
countable cleanness, as IL the forest bed was
carefully swept and busted daily by unseen
elves. And so, indeed, it is. Scayengers
of hundred kinds remove decaying animal
matter-from the carcase of the fallen ele-
plant to the broken wing of a gnat-eating
it, or carrying it out of sight, and burying
IL in the deodorizing earth. And these
countless millions of termites perform O
similar function for the vegetable world,
making away with all plants and trees, all
stems, twigs and tissues, the moment the
finger Of decay strikes the signal. Con-
stantly in these woods one comes acrosl
what appear to be sticks and branches and
bundles Of faggots, but whom closely exam
med they are seen 70 be mere casts In mud.
- Coed Words.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
RUNNING BIRDS.
Where the Tiny Creatures Bald Their
Curious Nests.

Cozily sitting in the very tiniest little
nest, SO soft and elastic that even her deli.
cate plumage is unrufled by contact with
its moss-covered sides, we find our hum
ming bird. High on the guarded and twist
ed branch of a dogwood she has built this
fairy home, and therein, with the overhang-
ing leaves for canopy, the little sylph is
brooding. How shall l describe the cum
ming little structure A. few weeks ago the
building was commenced, but on such a
small scale that the foundation was laid ere
the site was discovered by us. Soft puffs
from the blossoms of oak and chestnut, bits
of the softest brown fungus and scraps of
gray moses, that grow in secret places
known only to these little fairies were
worked into the walls, and gradually the
little cup-like house approached completion.
Little fakes Of iohen and bark, veritable
iiminutive clapboards, were next added,
aud the task was finished. There ii rests
its NOISY covering harmonizing SO we'll
with the tree bark as to conceal 1t from all
but the closest observer, and often, though
knowing its location so well, have missed
it for an instant, SO cunningly is il placed.
A dead twig projects from the branch few
inches to one side, and here the little wood
sprites frequently perch. There is the
male now, his ruby throat all ablaze as q
sunbeam covers him for an instant with
gold.
And now as he snugg' es close beside his
mate he is evidently telling her where her
breakfast is waiting in the trumpet flower
he tapped for her last night, and which is
half filed with nectar this morning, accum.
ulated drop by drop during the cool hour
of darkness. Like flash she is of, and he
takes her place, to keep the chill from the
tiny eggs. These frail little creatures have
gradually become accustomed to my pres
ence. AT first they were nervous, and would
cease work, while one or the other would
dart down to within FIVE or six feet of me,
and there, poised on his whirring wings,
closely inspectHthe intruder, uttering the
while sundry peeps and curious little cries.
Now that they are convinced that no harm
Is intended, they do not even leave the nest
~ my hpptOhcu. Wuub u urehiu llIe IL theirs.
Gliding in zigzag lines over the flower beds
now suspended almost motionless over lily
bloom, now racing with the bumble-bees
for honeyed prize, or dashing at the spar
rows or robins, and speedily putting them
to fight with the fury of their onset. What
they do or where they go when it storms l
do not know; but at the first returning
CLEAN of sunshine they are back again, with
the rapidity of thought, slipping the rain
drops from the flowers. And when bed
time comes whit wonderful stories of the
sunlight the little things must tell each
other, as cuddling close up there in the
dark they listen to the croon Groom
croonl croonl of the insects and watch
hrefies guiding the moths among the trees
by the light of their torches. -Foyest and
Stream.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
OPIUM SMOKERS IN SAN FRANCISCO.

The police estimate that In this city, with
its population of about 100000, there are
not less than 5000 habitual opium, smokers.
From rather extended study of the class,
In and out of Chinatown, I should say that
this estimate is not exaggerated. There are
certain corners in this city which are the
favorite haunts Of the opium smokers. Here
ON any pleasant afternoon one may see the
victims of the vice in oil its stages. Most
of them are young men, decently dressed,
but giving unmistakable signs of their vic
ious life by their pallid faces, CHASTITY look
and emaciated forms. Their skin ia like
that of convicts long shut out from sun and
air; their cheek-bones protruding above deep
bellows, while the akin is drawn about the
mouth in way which is disagreeably sug-
yestive of a grinning skeleton. All smoke
cigarettes and all drink, for that the big vice
brushes out the little ones is paradox which
cannot be proved by experience. Most of
these young men have been brought to this
condition inside of three years. The living
skeletons among them, who are SO weak and
nerveless that they brace themselves for
support against cellar railing of the side
of house, have been smoking for years.
In eight or ten years OF the outside they will
give up the ghost, dying death by inches,
like the consumptive, ever deluded by false
hopes of recovery, and suffering the tor.
ments of the damned for the violation Of
natures laws.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
EXTINCTION OF THE BuFFALoHS.

The buffaloes we're all right until about
seven years ago, when the Icdians were
conquered, which opened up the country
and let the hide hunters in. 1t took about
seven years, beginning with 1870, to ex-
terminate the buffalo along the line of the
Union Pacific Railroad, which in the good
old times could have been seen blackening
the Platte River bottom for miles. These
poor silly beasts were so easily killed, and,
from their abundance, offered 50 rich re-
ward to the hide hunter, that every idle fell
low IN that part of the country could make
good wages butchering them. The Union
Pacific Railroad split the herds in half, and
left moiety to the north and moiety to
the south. Those in Texas were soon used
up by sportsmen and professional hunters;
but the great northern herd fled to Wyom.
ing and Montana, where Sitting Bull and
his followers took charge of and protected
hem until Uncle Sans soldiers began chas.
ing him around the country as well MS the
bison. From 1875 to 1880 fully 100000
of these brutes were killed by soldiers and
other white men.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
BUTTER AT ANY PRICE.

Coils p. Huntington, the railway mag.
nate, years ago kept general store in Sac.
ramento. One day trader came in from a
mining camp to buy stores, and among
other things he wanted butter. Huntington
had several tubs brought from Orange coun-
ty, the famous producing region of
New York. The miners had all the good
things that money would buy, and the store
keeper from the mining camp was bound to
take back the best he could find.
81 want some bang-up butter" was the
way the storekeeper from the camp signified
his desire.
Well" said Huntington, here is some
all the way from York State, the real genu.
inc Orange county article" Huntington
ran the trier down to the bottom of the tub,
and the storekeeper ran his nose along il
when it was pulled out
" What's the tax ON that grease ?" be ask.
ed.
" That's thirty-fve cents a pound" re-
piled Huntington.
Hain't You got something q leetle bet
ter ?" asked the storekeeper.
Yes" said Huntington, going to an
other tub Of the very same kind of butter.
He knew the storekeeper would not be sat-
is6ed if he did not show something better,
and he was equal to the occasion. +" Here's
some for fifty cents" said Huntington as he
drew the trier out, and the storekeeper's
nose followed it from one end to the other.
"Now, that's little like it," said the
storekeeper, but" he added with wink,
"come now, hain't you got something that
the flies won't settle on, that's fur-lined and
hair-topped? There's nothing too good for
us, and we've got the dust to pay for it,"
Yes" again said Huntington. Here's
something that we don't often bring OUT
The trier went down into the third tub of
the same lot, and the storekoeper's nose
followed the line OF butter for the third
lime.
low much is this assessed at ?" asked
the stcrekeeper. as no looked affootionately
ON the butter.
"Sixty-five cents pound"
You hain't got too much for me-" said
the storekeeper.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
Picturesque MEXICO.

The world here-the novel, picturesque
world which seems to belong to some Other
solar system than ourselves such an i'm.
preston of absolute difference on the mind
that even familiar objects put on an unusual
expression. You see French bonnets and
dresses as Enthusiastically Partisan as Il
Worth's monogram were embroidered on
the panel, but the olive cheeks, flashing
eyes and slender figures they adorn change
the well-lrnown costumes as II they were
DISCUSSES at masquerade. You see gentle.
men in the ugly attire which tickle fashion
has made the exponent Of modern civiliza-
ton, but they look as unlike manner.of-fact
English or business-built Americans as the
water carrier in his leather harness or tha
Mozoin serape and sandals. Is that com.
monplace horse-car dashing around the sharp
corner yonder, with two mules on jing-
ling galiop, swarthly Indian women smok.
ing at the windows and bronze triton of
conductor blowing his tin fish horn like
mailman? What is this time annihilating
telephone doing in the corner of the drowsy
courtyard under the gray quiet of arches
that shadow the unbroken rest of centuries,
in this land of procrastination and delay !?
And Of oil conceivable anachronisms, what
brings nineteenth century steam-roller
into these fifteenth century streets, where
paving stones are still brought in from the
quarries on mems backs, and the gravel
carried from the pits in sacks on men's
shoulders? Even the electric lights al
night have an eerie look. They were always
unnatural with their cold white glare and
frozen sparkle; but they are thousand
times more unnatural here, glittering above
a people and country as primitive as il
the world were thousand years younger.
Those pale candles, like farthing rushlights,
that disturb the dark no more than 90 many
glow-worms-they are the Lights q Mexico
for the present.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
RISE AND PROGRESS OF CANDY.
XmerIcu beats tne worIa IN nIaRIng the
Best.

1t is easy to see how the art of confec-
tionery arose. In former days the doctor
prepared his own medicines. The doctor
who compounded the most toothsome pills,
and sweetest pasteles got the largest prac-
tice. When he had too much to do, he had
a boy prepare his workmanship drug clerk,
as it were. Whence arose separate branch
of the profession. In time the confectioner
became independent Of his master, for
whether we'll or i'll the people continued the
delicious medicines. The competition be.
tween the drug clerks rivalled the discord
among the doctors, and out of it arose mod.
ern candy and oil that the term implies.
But the evolution of candy beyond the
medical point of view has been great. In
England candy still has medicinal flavor,
but in France it has been carried to great
perfection. French candyi Bons-bons
What visions of delight arise at the sound.
The Genius Of France, however, has been
toward chocolate CONNECTIONS and candied
fruits. Poor Siraudin obtained renown by
his candied violets rather than by his plays.
But the highest development of candy
proper has been reached in this country, and
goes on from day to day. New candies arise
like new fashions, and pale and are heard
of no more Ms newer candies appear. A
well-known confectioner here, rs another
artist, composes his candies. These are no
fortuitous combination of ingredients, but
are conceived in silence and thought in his
laboratory. In his work lady of decern-
ment, n connoisseur in candy, says she al
ways discerns motif Perhaps it is a bit
of candied orange peel, morsel of pistache,
n succulent nut 1t is this character which
makes them come 80 dear.
" Madam" says the astonished husband
to the milliner, as he goes to pay the bill,
twenty-five dollars for those scraps of lace
and ribbon !"
" But, my dear sir, laids awake three
whole nights to conceive it,"
1t is the brains we pay for even in candy,
and no public like tho American public
shows greater appreciation. Paris has moth
ing like Broadway candy store, for Paris
hos no such candy. An American candy
shop on the Boulevard des Capucines would
electrify the town.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-01
"a
A Mountain Railroad.

The great tunnel of Galera, by which the
pinnacle of the Andes is pierced, will be,
when completed, $500 feet long, and will
be the highest elevation on the earths sur
face where any such work has been UNDER
taken. Besides boring the mountains OF
granite and blasting clefts along their sides
to rest the track upon, steep cuttings and
superb bridges, the system Of reverse tan
gents had to be adopted in canons that were
too narrow for curve. So the track zig
gags up the mountain side, on the switch
and back-up principle, the train taking one
leap forward, and after being switched on to
another track another leap backward, until
the summit is won SO that often there are
four and five lines of track parallel to each
other, one above the other, on the noun
tain side.