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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25

their grip on the handles and spin the
humping stones down the course. The
curler becomes deeply interested in this
game. They throw the heavy stones
for the goals with as much enthu-
siasm as base ball pitcher drives
the ball around the bases in some champion
ship game. But for spectators this game is
said to be not so exciting: it is too slow and
it is usually cold sport for an audience, that
has none of the exercise that comes from
throwing the stones. BY the original
scheme for the carnival those that own
fast horses will be given an opportunity to
spin them, as part of the regular carnival
sports. on the ice course. The man that
owns a fast horse and a cutter will not par
ticipate so largely in the tobogganing as
those that do not. 1t will seem somewhat
useless to him to spend three-fourths of the
time in walking back for fresh start when,
by exercising his horseflesh he may enjoy
one continued slide. The degree of feeling
in this line will depend largely on the
speed of his horse and how he holds the
others in the spins around the track. If he
can beat them all he will sheer at the to-
boggan as an invention fit only for boys; if
his horse falls bit behind. he will conclude
that at winter carnival in this bracing
atmosphere more exercise Is needeu IMAM
one can get in cutter, and will quietly buy
toboggan or pair of snow
shoes. the ladies will be out.
What would a carnival amount to if
they were not. If they consent to take hold
the toboggan rope on the walk up, no boys
will be needed; if they are tucked snugly in
the cutter, the sensible man will not care a
nickel whether his horse takes more than a
jog trot on the ice course, and if they were
to join the curling and showshOeing, those
would be the most popular of all the sports.
Many who will not join the sports will have
their coachman drive them to the scene of
gavety. where they will watch the sport
and themselves be the objects of the eyes of
the stalwart. young and old, in the blanket
coats and knickerbockers.
Winter has been little late in getting
around this year. He has given autumn
more of a chance than usual He has looked
more tenderly than is his wont on North
western cities. But he is coming. He has
never missed trip since first st. Paul was
Incorporated. and though somewhat slow,
he will be here in good time. Ard when
he comes there will be big procession and
brass band out to welcome him.
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The weather of Minnesota has many things
charged up to it on both sides of the &C
count. and not the least. ON the credit side
should be a big mark put down for that
chilling element that drives the ladies to
tho pleasant task Of wearing seal-skins. It
is not an uncommon thing to see sample
of young Americas mere kid, in other
words-dressed from top to toe in fur. A
youngster of 10 summers, full rugged in a
buffalo or beaver coat looks first off emf
nently dignified. The fact that men three
or five times his years are so much oftener
seen in such garb makes him seem little
old man. 1t doesn't seem natural to speak
of child in buffalo coat, but there are
several such to be seen on St. Pauls streets
this winter. But because it is cold here,
and fur coats are eminently the thing, does
not place them within the reach of all,
and though with less style there are
hundreds of men to be seen just as comfort
ably and nearly as bunglingly clad. A long
pair of red stockings pulled outside the
trousers, with how many pairs of ordinary
hose underneath them; thick, heavy trou-
sers. a fery-red jacket, with a strap for
belt; or. perhaps, variegated jacket. and
big red or blue peaked cap, with tassel,
makes up the winter garb of many of the
men that walk the streets of st. Paul.
Some Of them are lnmbermen
who have come down from the woods,
wearing the garb in which they fell the
giant trees; others are those that live in the
I city and 1Ahst be comfortable, regard
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course with stiff breeze behind it,
is wonderful, and they often speed
over a mile in much less time than a
minute. To the philosophical mind the
question naturally rises, Does an ice-boat
travel faster than the wind that propels it?''
and to this question the scientist answers
Yes" 1t does not seem possible or nat
ural, that. an object can escape
from an influence on which it
depends for advancement but in the case of
the ice-boat it is proven that it can, for it
will sail mile minute on forty-mile an
hour wind: a fact. which has been repeat
edly proven. But notwithstanding this
unnatural popularity of the boat. it as stub
bornly refuses to advance before the wind
blown into its sails from bellows in its
stem, as would an East Indian man-of-
war.
Sailing before the wind with clear
course, there is 10 danger to be appre-
hended in the ice-boat, but if put on the
wind and it is blowing at more than an Or
binary rate if the sailor is not an expert,
the probabilities are that he will capsize the
outfit before he has made a dozen tacks,
and when an ice-boat goes over there is al
most invariably total wreck. for the long
outriggers acting on either side as levers,
throw the boat and its occupants into the
air, and when they come down they strike
with more emphasis than gracefulness.
And yet with the attending danger sailing
on the wind is much more ENJOYABLE
than slipping away before it, the possibility
of broken limb or neck lending a SAVIOR Of
excitement to the situation, and then greater
speed can be gained on the wind than sail
ing straight away before it, another poser
to the man of ordinary reasoning calibre.
The river at this point offers splendid
facilities for the cultivation of this sport,
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ton here this winter. and the prominence
in the community of many who will use
the toboggan. the fact still remains that the
toboggan must be drawn up the hill before
another slide can be had. 1t has been sug-
gested that this fact will furnish
a good number of boys
fat field for speculation in
a moderate way. Sometimes great wrecks
occur with the toboggan. Two of them
collide as they try to cross each others
paths; possibly some one gets frightened at
the swift speed, and losing a grip on the
rails, rolls headlong in the snow. For
tunately, in falling from seat in the tobOg-
gan. one has not far to go, and it is gener-
ally acknowledged that half the fun comes
from being spilled out occasionally. The
sport is new in st. Paul and the interest
that will center in the first ride will be
great. Of course some of the ladies
will hesitate at first. They go so
fast and seem such frail sheIl-like
things: and on the quiet it is
safe to bet that some OF the great big men
who have made the enthusiastic speeches
booming the carnival will hang back little
if the course is very icy and the slide steep.
But the boys; just give them a toboggan
and tell them they are in danger of losing
their lives if they slide down. A dozen of
them will pile in at once heads and legs re-
gardless, and with yell that will wake the
echoes. go scooting down the incline the
faster the better, to the bottom of the hill;
while their fathers. seeing them safe. will
remember how they used to slide "belly
bump" when they were boys and wore cop
per- toed boots. aud will fall in for the gen.
eral fun.
The curling stone has been brought to ST.
Paul, too, and the brawny Scots will set
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WHO'LL BUY?

My neighbor wears cotton dress
She comes with marigold and cress
All dripping, coiled together,
The willow basket in her hand
Is bright with water and with sand,
This happy, happy weather!
who'll buy?" Who would not buy2
They grew beside an April stream,
Beneath an April sky!
Again meet her, flushed and brown,
With braid and bonnet slipping down;
She looks upon me gayly.
She knows the grassy upland farm
Where berries ripen high and warm.
And redden deeper daily!
who'll buy?' Who would not buy?
She found them in the summer fields,
Beneath summer skyI
To-day she enters at my gate;
She steps inside the sill to wait;
And so once more I find her.
Alack! the whirling leaves are brown
And he who shook the chestnuts down
Is standing there behind heri
'sWho'n buy?' Who would not buyI
They found them in the autumn woods
Beneath frosty sky!
Dora Read Goodale in st. Nicholas.
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BOLD AS SAMSON.
How q Highwavmam Tied Seven
teen Men and Robbed Them.
n IoI


teen Men and Robbed Them.
Pall-Mall Gazette.
Among many well-planned robberies,
with the skillful execution of which Henry
Garrett. the famous highwayman, dis
tinguished himself. chiefly CONSPICUOUS was
the feat he accomplished of sticking up"
seventeen men, not far from Dunedin, and
relieving them of their valuables. The
process of sticking up" is charmingiy
simple, The operator pounces out from
his ambush upon an unsuspecting party of
travellers, and, with loaded. revolver raised
he cries out, ''Bail upp whereupon-every.
body knowing what it meant-an the men
instantly throw their hands in the air.
Anyone making an effort to get at his arms
is shot. If requires a certain amount OF
courage to do this trick well.
Mr.. Garrett, as usual single-handed. man
aged his seventeen men himself. In a
short time he had them all tied to trees and
then at his own convenience he emptied
their pockets. With the kindness of
heart which was so pleasing characters
tic of our amiable bushranger. he made a
g ,od fire, boiled billy of water and gave
them all tea. Moreover knowing the solace
of tobacco, he filled-from their own
pouches-the pipes Of such of the party
who smoked and lighted them. Then
wishing them kindly Good night, good
night" Mr.. Garrett vamoosed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
TAKEN THROUGH ICE
Are Numerous of the the Sportive Finny
Tribe at This Particular Season
of the Year.
History Silent as to Whether Sir Ike Wal
ton Gathered Them in This
Way or Not.
Through the Ice, Where Mosquitoes
Never Come, is the True Phi
losopher's Method.
Camping on the Lake--A Sinner for
Bait..A Cold But Pleasant
Sport.

History does not say whether or not Sir
Ike Walton, the apostle of fishing, was
wont to try for his favorite game with any
other allurement than the rod and reel with
fly attachment. If he did not; if he refused
to relax from the strict ruling that
insists upon the artistic method of
catching fish; if he were an
aesthetic in that which has mate
him famous, he lost much of the fun that
is always to be had in cold ATTITUDES where
fish and ice are to be found in the same
lakes, where many OF the minor ills that
attend the manipulations of the rod and
reel can never make their way. Many and
fine are the bass, or if not the bass the
pickerel, that is looked upon with a feeling
of disdain by the true sportsman in such
localities as the finer grained speci-
mems abound. that breathes for
the first time the thin air
through his stringy gills, that pant idly for
the water, as he is drawn through hole in
a foot of ice by a fur-clad fisherman, who
had lain his deadly hook beneath the back
fin of minn0w and waited patiently until
the signal came that his bait had proved
alluring.
Sometimes when the holes are made a
half hundred in row, and in each hole a
line, the winter fisherman will build for
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army of the little animals have ten
dered me their skins that 1 may
put on little style this winter.
My coat is finer than the ordinary coonskin
and know it; don't let the lighted end of
Your cigar touch my garment as you pass
ME, for even spark might SINCE dozen of
the glossy hairs and leave a blenlish that
furrier's art could hardly heal" and he
goes down the street, comfortable and the
object of mild envy on the part of some less
lucky than himself. The buffalo is less fire.
quently seen than few years ago, and the
dealers say that it will not be long before
it will rank with the more costly of furs. so
rapidly have the animals been thinned off
by the sportsmen and the fur dealers. The
Russian dog and lamb. the coon and the
bear skin are nearly as often noticed as the
buffalo, that only short time ago had
things all his own way comparatively
in this section of the country. But net
much less noticeable than the shaggy or
shiny coats of the men are the soft seal
skins of the ladies. If there is any thing
in the old saws of the paragraphers on the
relationship that seal-skin sacQue bears to
general peace and good-nature between
husband and wife, then there are more con-
tented heads of families in St.
of its size in the country
and at any rate more than in Southern
ATTITUDES. That the weather is so cold here
as to make the wearing of seal skins a
thing of necessity, in possible cases does
much to add to the general attractiveness
of the streets. 1t is not safe to loan any
money to the man that will not admit the
general attractiveness Of a lady of any age
in a seal-skin sacque and cap to match.
They are attractive and they know
| it. It is said that, so far IS comfort is con-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
IN OLD WINTERS TOLLS
The ow-0lad Season in the Gold North
west to be the Gayest of the
Year.
a Royal Welcome Waiting for Winters
Coming in This Particular
Locality.
Sports That VIII be Inaugurated In
st. Paul When the n ew Year
Has Come.
Snowshoes and Toboggans---Ine
Curriers' and the Skaters
A Carnival.

Hail, winter! Hail the snow-crowned
season when black earth puts on her shining
garb. when Boreas pants great gusts that
bite the cheek and whistle right merrily
past the whitened fields, when King Frost
scatters his diamonds with reckless hand
and bids his gnomes and fairies paint fam
rastlt pictures on the windowpane! Poets
may sing of spring, and the May pole twined
with wreaths of roses, but the spring is
child, weakling, the pet of lords, that
sheds tears if but cloud float across the
sky. And the summer, she is but the
spring grown up, passionate and fitful, at
times pouting and surly, and again burning
and whitening with her fiery glances. Art
lists have painted autumn, in russell garb
maid demure, that knows not her own mind.
Sometimes she would turn back
and join the summer in her passion freaks,
and yet again she lists to winters wooing
and almost welcomes him to her buXom
arms. She is a fit subject for the praise of
those whose minds. mellowed with age,
turn now to memory, now to future JOYS,
and in an idle, dreamy mood, allow the
days to slip away, unconicious that they go.
But winter is a man, kingly one. He
strides over the earth like a monarch. or
with his bounding horses dashes across
whole continents and spreads his ermine
cloak for the silvery mOonbeams to dance
on. He touches the lakes and they stiffen.
He spits out great billiards. that sweep over
the prairie and batter and bruise the forests.
Then he relents He weeps. and when his
tears fall on the trees he turns them to
diamonds and rubies and the sunshine
paints them like rainbows. He is playful,
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and kisses the cheek of maiden that
bushes red at his boldness. He is saucy.
and he shoots a frOSt-tipped arrow
through the nose of those who
would brave him. leaving a sting that
is painful. He hangs great icicles on the
roofs of the houses and whsks the white
folds of his cloak through the doors and the
windows.
~
Right merrily will St. Paul meet old
King Winter in this year of our Lord.
Never before such an ovation has he re-
ceived in the Northwest. The city has
been waiting for his coming for weeks.
Prominent citizens will turn out on snow
shoes to meet him. Others will pack them
selves IN toboggans and scoOt down the
slides, while the winds play with their tas-
seled tuques and put healthy glow on
their muffled faces. Skaters will welcome
old winter most warmly and skim grace
fully over the rivers and Kinks that he has
kindly offered them as a substitute for the
brick floors were the rollers revolve.
Those who have cutters will dash
more swiftly than ever over the
solid snow. and the sleigh-bells will
jingle rhymic anthem in winters praise.
The curling stones will bound over the ice,
striking the deep notes in the general song
that goes up. A palace will be built
wherein Jack Frost himself will hold court
and receive all those who welcome the days
of his rule The announcement that win
ter is coming undisguised through this realm
peculiarly his own at this season of the
year, has gone forth and everybody is wait
ing to catch a glimpse of him and doff their
hat as he passes bye Heretofore the chief
business of st. Paul people on the arrival of
winter has been to keep warm, to wear
fur coats and burn anthracite in a vain at
tempt to ignore the fact that the thermom-
eter drops down to the forties below and
tnat winds whistle the snow everywhere,
some three or four months of the year.
This year it is different. The people will
meet winter on its ground and let him cry
''hold, enough!" that gets tired first. A
whole army OF snowshoers will smile genial
satisfied smile when all predictions of an
open winter have failed. Hundreds have
joined the club and bought their shoes
ready for the semi-weekly run that the
constitution of the club prescribes. Sew
eral practice runs have been had and all
that is lacking to the success of the club is
snow. The sport is new in st. Paul. but
those that are in for it expect to make great
records on the shoes before the winter is
over. For the first time in st. Paul the skis
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New debutanta last winter. says the Bos-
ton Globe. In the sweet confusion of
maidenly bashfullness she walked out upon
the polished floor for the first waltz, the
initial revolutions of which disclosed to the
view of the astoriished spectators not the
tiny. satin clad feet but two furry. big.
blunt extremetes like the paws of a bear.
She made the entire round of the room be-
fore anybody volunteered to stop her, and
her modification over the mishap was such
that she is said narrowly to have escaped
an attack of brain fever,
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A perplexed puss in Boots.

To keep the feet warm while one4is on
the way to party or ball with these fair
but fl all foot covering there are the most
d iightfully comfortable party boots. +"
made of heavy cloth, beaver, matelasse or
velvet, and lined with soft, long white fur
finished around the edge with gray or
brown. They open in front, and have a
wide tongue, over which the sides of the
boet fasten intosplace with three ties Of
ri,bol. You mustn't forget to take these
off, however, in the dressing room, as did a
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THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW.

The snow is beautiful to see,
And TO the poet gives delight,
When over lawn and over lea
1t lies, a mantle pure and white.
But when six inches deep, or so,
It lies, at morn, beside his door,
And must be shoveled OF, the snow
The poet deems blasted bore.
Boston Courier
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boy being merely nominal. When caught
they are soon transferred to huge tanks
with ever changing water, and
fattened for the winter. In an average
year they retail in lots of fifty Or one hum
bred at from one to five cents each. The
sport has single drawback, 1t is cold
W TX.
Pile high the wood on the hearth, scat
tering the chill. and bring out keg Of the
old Falerufan, if you please, as Horace once
remarked.
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less of style. 1t is said that three or four
suits Of Undertaking and suit like the
above are as warm as the most costly fur.
Many who have studied the question from
a practical standpoint assert that fur is no
good anyhow, and if any one would dispel
the chilling blasts Of winter inquire peril
nently: whats the matter with a Tom
and Jerry and an extra heavy suit Of under
clothing2n
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which could be enjoyed for at least two
months in the year, and the bluffs and high
points along the banks on either side offer
fine opportunities to spectators, who could
watch the flying boats for a distance Of
three miles, and races could be made ex-
ceedingly interesting.
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ashwood toboggan, half dozen at load,
perhaps, have an advantage over those who
have gone down the same slide on an ordi-
nary sled. or double runner, to-wlt, 1t
isn't so much work to pull the tOboggan
back for fresh start The toboggan is
light. its under Side. worn smooth by the
first few slides, may have an ornamental
cord attached that lady may loop on one
arm and easily draw up the hill again. For,
in spite of the fact of the general celebra-
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cerned, fur garment can be used to best
advantage with the fur inside; but do not
suggest this to any lady who owns seal
skin IT you care to remain ON even speak
ing terms with her. OF course she would
resent 1t, for it is direct blow at one Of
the chief ends of wearing sealskin at all
lit would detract from her charms as she
glides along over the sidewalks or sits be-
hind her liveried driver when out for
shopping expedition on crisp afternoon.
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IN GARME NTS OF FUR.
The Merry Multitude Shaggy Like the
Bison at Midwinter.
Encased in Fur, the Cold Winds Are
Given the Laugh.

The Count Borenta, the Polish exile, on
his last visit to ST. Paul, said that the gen.
eral appearance of the men and women on
the approach of cold reminded him of his
native country. Here more than in almost
any other city that he visited, as his wife
Modjeska appeared in the cities of the
Union, people seemed given to wearing
furs. That this is true is to be gained FROM
the casual remarks of visitors at any time
between the middle of November and the
middle OF March or later. Furs furs. fuis
Fur coats and caps on the street; fur clOaks
at the theaters and churches; fur on the
policeman and the car driver, and fur on
the rounded form of the belle. Nothing is
more comfortable in both cases, and
nothing adds more to natural
charms in the latter. Dwellers in
St. Paul, who are perhaps clad in fur them
selves, or at any rate see fur-clad figures on
every street and at every hour of the day do
not notice this as does the stranger. Some
time when you happen to think of it stand
at corner OF Third street, anywhere be-
tween Wabasha and Sibley, and watch the
figures as they pass. See if the shaggy,
bundled-up appearance of the pedestrians
is not. calculated to impress one
who has cone from a more southern
city, where a coon skin is curiosity, and
Where Seal-skin sacques are seldom or never
needed. Nothing is more
uncomely than man full
rugged in fur. The broad
collar of his shaggy coat
upturned until it meets
the hairy cap that buries
his head; his hands in
gloves of fur, and simplya
pair of feet and six inches.
or so, of shin, about the
only thing that stamps him
as human being. His
gait seems awkward; his
movements bungling, and
as for his shape-all are
just alike and with no
more style or beauty than
a bag of straw. A tall
| man looks short and a short
man looks absolutely like
\ little sawed-of that would
roll one way about as well
as another. A shaggy
beard that is poked out
- side the coat collar and
covered with icicles on a
* frosty morning but adds to
- the effect. But such coats
- $780, are not worn for style. and
sNS\ they are mighty comforta-
fn>A,. bic. Following this man
sasg 80 Twill be the man with the
mink skin or an otter, per-
c/>z&lM I hapS stately in his walk
N2ell and with an air about him
uII TaV that says: ''.Just watch
sTT my smoke while I go
II 10y. In the making of my
coat a hundred of the sly
animals have yielded up
their shiny pelts. A whole