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Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

The Brooklyn Union says that ''of all the downright murderous localities in New York, the territory bounded by Thirty fourth street, Tenth avenue, Forty fourth street and the North River is the worst. Two of the places in it are ''Hell's Kitchen" and "Sebas- topol on the Rocks" The inhabitants maim and murder each other, and every body who ventures into the ncighbor- hood unprotected will probably remem- Der it the rest of his lfe-if he escapes with his life. The police have pretty nearly as much as they can do to pre- serve their own lives, and it is not in- frequently the case that one is ''done up," to use the language at that quar- ter. It is madness for any one to go into the neighborhood at night. l tried it once in the early evening, and my expe- l1ence was sufficient. It seems as if it were storming bricks. An effort is to be made to evangelize the section, and the Church of St. Raphael the Arch angel is to be erected in the very centre of it. If the right person is not found to lead in the work, it will be hard to accomplish the object sought"
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
Booths Weapons.

I saw the other day, says writer in the Washington Herald, two of the most curious and interesting relics of the greatest tragedy in American history. They are the pistol with which John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln and the dagger he held in his hand when he leapedifron the box to the stage ot the theatre, crying "Sic semper tyrannis. 1" These relics are preserved in bureau oi one of the great departments of the gov. ernment, and with them is the bullet that struck MT. Lincoln down. The pis, tol is the most interesting of the lot. II is one of the kind known as the derrin. ger, made in Philadelphia, which was very famous all through the South and Southwest thirty years ago. The one in question is of beautiful workmanship. Its barrel is only two inches in length, and the bullet weighs about quarter oi an ounce. The entire length of the weapon is but four inches. Its mount ing is of silver, and the lock is one ol the finest and most perfect pieces oi workmanship l have ever seen, even in these weapons, which are very expensive and elaborate. The bullet is much bat. tered, and was evidently driven into the muzzle Qor the pistol is a muzzle-l loader) by the use of mallet and iron loading
 
 rod. Considering the heavy charge o1 powder under the bullet before it was fired, the latter must have been only hal1 an inch from the muzzle, and could easi. ly have been touched with ones little finger inserted into the barrel. The marks of the rifing in the barrel are clearly visible on the bullet, which was very much fattened from striking the skull. Altogether, more interesting and ghastly curio I have never seen. While handling the pistol I looked al the end of the breech. I found there { receptacle for percussion caps, which had evidently been overlooked, and or opening it found solitary cap, which Booth had evidently put there himself, intending, if by any chance. the one or the tube of the pistol exploded without firing it, to have another ready to his hand.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
The Excellence of Farm Life.

It is common complaint that the farm and farm life are not appreciated by ou, people. We long for the more elegant pursuits or the ways and fashions of the town. But the farmer has the most sane and natural occupation, and ought to find life sweeter, if less highly seasoned, than any other. He alone, strictly speaking, has home. How can a man take root and live without land2 He writes his history upon his field. How many ties 8 and resources he has; his friendships with his cattle, his team, his dog, his trees; the satisfaction in his growing crops, in his improved fields {; his intimacy with nature, with bird and beast, and with the quicl1ening elemen- tai forces. Cling to the farm, make much of it, bestow your heart, your brain upon it, so that it shall savor of you and radiate your virtues after your days work is done.- Century Magazine.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

Only once did he see .her shed tears. This was when, hoping to give her pleasure, he brought in the first wild roses of the season and held them before her. Suddenly spasm passed over her face, she gave gasp, turned aside, and struggled for composure. Stephen dropped the flowers as if they burned his fingers and hurried out of the room. A hot anger shot through him. ''He has ruined everything for her." he thought. ''Even rose reminds her ot him. Coward that he is. They hang a man for poisoning the water springs, why not hang him2 though hanging is too good for such villain as he.''
 Natures processes of cure are secret. It is in their depths that wounds begin to heal. Gradually, as months went by, the renovatlng principle worked in Milly. She resumed her place at home, the lit tie duties and pleasures, and took up again the burden of life. She was pale still, but the paleness infolded sweet serenity which was no less lovely than her glrlish bloom. 'tMilly Graves was real improved since her disappoint ment," certain severe old ladies asserted, and they were not far from right. Stephen adored her more than ever. Two years later he told her SO.
 To his surprise, she was neither aston- ished or shocked, but looked in his eyes with smile which was sad and tender and sweet all at once.
 ''Dear Stephen" she said, t'this is just like you. Do you recollect the day in Love lane, and the rose you pick ed up out of the dusta You are doing the same thing now, but I am not worth it, dear, not worth the picking up."
 "Milly," said Stephen, trembling with eagerness, "there never was day since I first saw you, and that was twenty one years ago, when l didn't love you be- yond any other living thing. Pick you up, indeed! You, my Rose of all the world! Can you not love me little bit in return9"
 "Oh, Stephen, dol" and the fair lit- tie fingers closed over his. 'There's nobody in the world like you. I always knew that. It's only-the others are so much fresher, you know-fresher and brighter, and-they might make you happier than can. You're quite sure you really want me? Then I'll do my best. Why, Stephen, how happy you look"
 "Happy! should think so, when rve got everything I ever wanted in my life," cried Stephen. Pitts6ur9 Leader.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
WhistIing BarOmeters.

In the village of Meyrin (canton of Geneva) Switzerland, some disused wells, it is said, have been dramatically sealed to serve as barometers to the people. An orifice about an inch in di- ameter is made in the cover of the we'll,
 by which the internal air is put in con- munication with the external. When the air pressure outside diminishes on the approach of storm, the air in the we'll escapes and blows whistle in con- nection with the orifce, and in this way notice of storms approach is given to the inhabitants. If, on the contrary, the pressure increases, different sound is produced by the entry of the air into the we'll, and the probability of fine weather is announced. d.-Scientyfc Ameri-
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
The Ubf0uitOus Thistle.

There is no weed weedier or more ubi. quitous than the common thistle. In paradise, it is true, if we may trust John Milton and the Sunday school books wise, as usual, beyond what is written there were no thorns or missiles: the cro- ation and introduction of the noxious tribe upon this once innocent and thorn1 less earth being direct consequence of the fall of man and stern retribution for Adams delinquency. But since then the thistle has managed so to diffuse it- self over the habitablc globe that there hardly now remains spot on earth without its own local representative of that cver-intrusive and conquering gen. us. Wherever civilized man goes, there the thistle accompanies him as matter of course in his various wanderings. It adapts itself to all earthly environments. Close up to the arctic circle you find it defying the indigenous reindeer with it's prickly wings. Under an equatorial sky, you may observe it accommodating 1t. self most complacently with sardonic smile to tropical existence, and battling with the prickly cactuses and the thorny acacias, to the manner born, for its fair share of the dry and arid uplands. Even ncttles are nowhere in competition with it; in spite of its valuable and irritating sting, the nettle has not tho pIasticity and adaptability of constitution that mark the stout and sturdy thistle tribe. [ Garnered and harvested yearly with the farmers corn, its seeds have been grat- uitously distributed by its enemy, man, in all climates; and when once it gains the slightest foothold, its winged down en- ables it to diffuse itself ad infinitum through the virgin soil of yet uncon- qucred and unthistly continents. -> Longman's Magasins.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
Easy Mathematics.

A farmer spends SIS per year for to- bacco, and his wife spends $2 per year for shoes. How much more does her shoes cost than his tobacco2
 It is twenty-eight feet from certain kitchen door to wood-pile, and 235e from the same door to corner grocery. How much longer will it take a man to walk to the wood pile than to the grocery, estimating that he walks three feet pel second2
 If it takes sa boy twenty-five minutes to cutthree sticks of wood to get supper by, hsw long will it take him next morn. iny to walk three miles in the country tc meet circus coming to town2
 A cook hires out at $3 per week, and when Saturday comes she has broken $4.s0 worth of dishes. How much is due her, and how on earth did the mis. tress find out that she had broken any. thing2
 A young lady who is out with her beau drinks four glasses of soda water at five cents each; two glasses of ginger ale al five cents each; eats three dishes of ice cream at ten cents each; four pieces oi cake valued at thirty cents, and throws out hint for box of candy worth fifty cents. What does she cost him in all2
 A tramp tackles a farm house, and a dog tackles the tramp. The tramp passes over thirty-two rods of ground per min. ute, while the dog passes over forty eight rods. How long will it take the dog to overhaul him9 Four boys who are on visit to their aunt discover a cake of maple sugar weighing five pounds and eleven ounces. What will each boys share be if equita- ply divided2 If a saddle horse has caused the death of four different ladies who were adver- tised by their doctors to try the saddle for exercise, how many ladies could have been decently killed in half the time by riding over rail fences in buck -boardss
 John has an orange, and six boys lick their chops and want him to divide. He eats it'by himself, seeds, rind and all. How many pieces would he have had to divide the orange into, in case he had been flat, to give each boy piece2
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
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The Rose and the Fuchsla,

Professor Meehan, in his recent lec- ture before the Germantown Horticul- tural Society, gave some interesting and instructive facts, among them the fol- lowing:
 Speaking of the rose, he said that there was originally but one rose, the white variety. There are no two leaves on tree alike, no two blades of grass alike, no two peas alike, no two stones precisely alike, no two grains of sand the same, no two human beings alike.
 The Noisette rose was found growing in a garden in Charlestown by gentle men named Noisette. Noticing the ten- dency of the rose, saved the seed, which in time produced other seed, from which other varieties were obtained. During the disastrous War of the Roses, between the houses of York and Lancaster, which contended for thirty years, ono party took tho whito and the other the red rose. After ward the striped white and red rose came into existence, an1 when peace was declared, it was adopted as the en- blem of peace, being known as the York and Lancaster rose.
 The fuchsia has only been known about scventy-five years. It was first brought to the attention of florists in a very singular way. A ship, bound for England, stopped at Peru, where the flowers grew wild. A sailor on board, having friends at home, secured plant, which he petted and watered with the water given him to drink. He gave the flower to his mother upon arriving at home, which she planted in the yard adjoining her humble cottage. A florist, named Lee, happened so see it growing, and knowing that the old lady had a treasure, offered her $25 for it. She thought it was a fortune, and parted with her flower upon the condition that the purchaser should raise her another.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

A story has been "going the rounds" from the eastern shores of Maine to the western border of California to the effect that Mrs. Agassiz found one morning in one of her slippers cold, little, slimy snake, one of six sent the day before to her scientific spouse, and carefully set aside by him for safety under the bed. She screamed, "There is snake in my slipper!'' The savant leaped from his couch, crying. "A snaket Good heavens! Where are the other five2" This tale was first related of Thales, one of the earliest of the pre-socratic philos- ophers, and has been applied to every naturalist who has lived since, and will be applied to naturalists yet unborn. It has been translated into eighty-four languages and 2O3 dialects, and is a great favorite of the Dakota Indians, the Buddhist, Mahatmas and the Maori sav- ages of Australia,
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
Wonderful Anatomy.

There are some things familiar enough to the civilized man which the credulity of cannibal of the Pacific Islands re- fuses to take in. Evidently the refec- tion, "What piece of work is man!" has never been forced upon his mind, though he may often have dined, with much satisfaction, off a well-roasted specimen of humanity. Among the startling stories told of white men in the Pacific, there is one of an ''old hand" in Fiji, who had a cork leg and who once found himself in the hands of the na- tives, at time when they were appar- ently intent upon the preparation of a meal.
 He did not like their looks at all, and he was very much exercised in his mind at the sight of an oven, in an active state of preparation, outside the house he was in.
 However, his presence of mind did not desert him. He called for food, which was brought him, and, with a large crowd watching him, he began to eat heartily. Between every mouthful he struck his clasp-knife so firmly into his cork leg that it stood upright. The natives watched these proceedings with intense astonishment, and were evidently much bewildered.
 When he had finished his meal he very deliberately unscrewed his leg, and con- posed himself to slumber. But this was too much for them; they rushed out of the house, and allowed him clear pas sage to where his horse was.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

A machine for shearing sheep is said be in successful operation in Australia. It is made of brass, in the shape of a small trowell, and is actuated by tur- bine wheel about three inches in diame- ter, geared into wheel on which is fixed cutter. A comb serves as guard against cutting the skin. The steam is conveyed from the boiler by an India rubber tube, which is double, having one inside the other. The inner one is the injection, and the space between the two the election. When this machine is fitted with an attachment by which it will pursue and catch the sheep, the honest farmer will be enabled to do con- siderably more loa6ng than he does at present
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
The ShRd and the Fisher.

A Shad, which had been Hooked by a Fisherman, claimed that an Unfair Ad- vantage had been taken of him, Inas- much as he had Never seen a Hook before.
 "That may be True," replied the Fisher, "but if I sat here to Teach you Wisdom I should dine on Bean Soup in Place of Shad"
 Moral-Don't Expect Gambler to Post you on his Game. Detroit Free Press
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

A.London firm of importers has sub- mitted to Queen Victoria, with a view to a sale, magnificent diamond, weighing in it's present perfect shape 18o carats, of the finest water, free from flaws and inn perfectlons, and of great brilliancy. It is said that it surpasses in weight and quality all the historical diamonds on record. Some idea of it's value can be
 gathered from the fact that little piece sliced off the end to improve its shape, producing a brilliant of nineteen carats,
 was at once sold for about 4000 pounds to a merchant -...
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
In lIarbor.

think it is over, over 1 think it is over at last; Voices of foemen and lover, The sweet and the bitter have passed; Life, like tempest of ocean. Hath blown its ultimate blast. There's but faint sobbing seaward, While the calm of the tide deepens leeward, And behold! like the welcoming quivert Of heart pulses throbbed through the liver, Those lights in the Harbor at last The heavenly Harbor at last. I feel it is over, over The winds and the water surcease; How few were the days of the Roses That smiled n the beauty of peacel And distant and dim was the omen That hinted redress or release, From the ravage of life and its riot, What marvel Iyearn for the quiet Which bides in this Harbor at lastl For the lights with their welcoming quiver, That throbs through the sacrificed river Which girdles the Harbor at last That heavenly Harbor at last.
 know it is over, over
 know it is over at last; Down sail, the sheathod anchor uncover, For the stress of the voyage has passedi Life, like the tempest of ocean,
 Hath outbiown its ultimate blast, There's but faint sobbing seaward, While the calm of the tide deepens leeward And beholdl like the welcoming quiver, Of heart-pulses throbbed through the river, Those lights in the Harbor at last The heavenly Harbor at lastl -Pdul Humilton Huyae.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
A Chance to Save Money.

Patient-Then you think my finger will have to be amputated, doctor?
 Surgeon-Yes, it will have to come off.
 Patient-How much will the job costi
 Surgeon-Fifteen dollars.
 Patient-Is that the best you can do, doctor9 Pm poor man.
 Surgeon--Ye fifteen dollars is the best can do for one finger, but I will cut two Of lem off for twenty-five dollars. -Neso YvrE ISmes.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

A large trade is done in exporting timber from America to Australia, which gets most of her wood from other coun- tries. In 1885 there were imported into New South Wales nearly 67, 900, 900 feel of timber, valued at $2,291, 900. OI this amount 23, 900, 900 feet were from the United States, a larger quantity than from any other country. New Zealand comes next in the amount and value oi the import, and British America third. Norway furnishes the largest share of dressed timber, and our Consul at Syd- ney, MT. Griffin, thinks that this is occa- stoned by the low pric, of labor in that country. The imports from the United States consist principally of pine and redwood from the States and Territories on the Pacific slope. The sawmills of California, Oregon and Washington Ter ritory rank among the foremost in the world, and are equipped with the best and latest improvements in milling machinery. The sawed timber of the Pacific slope is often 15O feet in length. Preparations are being made for it's ship. mentin larger quantities than ever rot only to Australia, but Japan and other coun' tries. The men who own timber land in Australia are very jealous of the popu larity of the American woods, and strong efforts are being made to have the gov. ernment increase the tax upon the tim Der imports. They want the present duty of 4s cents per hundred foot increased te $1.25. The excuse they make for want ing this protection is that the American wood takes fire too easily. It is likely that this effort will be successful, ant we will thus lose another very importan market.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

According to a Chinese paper, instead of taking dog out to walk, Chinaman carries cage, imprisoned in which is a bird, and when he sits down to rest he hangs the cage upon tree in order to enjoy the melody which the bird pours cut. This is certainly as sensible and
 much more poetic than the American girls fashion of carrying 8 dog about
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

A farmer of Paris, Illinois, has little grain corner of his own that has proved rather expensive. He has 1900 bushels of corn in crib on his farm, near Tus- cola, wh: ch he has held for a high price since 1880. In 1881 he was offered cighty-two cents bushel for it, but he wanted more. The corn is now nearly worthless
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
Environment.

GuYITOumeu.s Can the wild swan harried by hawks,
 And hunted and chased from rest Over deserts and bleak fields driven
 From the quiet of his nest Where he never may pause wing Where life hath no clear, cool spring. Can he fee, think'st thou and sing,
 With broken wing! But give him his reedy haunts,
 His mate, and his silent pool, And his shadowy lakes that run
 To the heart of the forest cool, And, though his wing be broken, He will suffer and give no token, Yet leave not note unspoken,
 But low in the reeds will sing.
 Charles J. OMaHey in Literary Life.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08

By new French method of diagnosis the condition Of the eye is accurately es- timated in sounds sent through sort ot phone placed against the eyeball.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-08
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-26
Confirmation Assessment for Opening Widening and Extending Street ZOO
Feet Wide Along Upper Leyee,
OFFICE or TIE BOARD or PUBLIC WORKS,
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CITY NOTICE.
Notice for Judgment
OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER, !

OFFICE OF THE CITY TREASURER. I
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug, %, 1886.
Twill make application to the District Court
in and for the Comfy of Ramsey and State of
Minnesota, at the special term to be held Sat-
nrday, September IL. 1885, at the Court House
in st. Paul, Minnesota, for judgment against
the several lots and real estate embraced in
@ warrant in my hands for the collection of
unpain assessments, with interest and costs
thereon, for the hereinafter named special
assessments.
All in the City OF St. Paul, County of Ram
sey and State of Minnesota. when and where
all persons interested may attend and be
heard
The owners and description of real estate
are as follows:
Assessment for Construction Of
Sewer On Bluff Street. Between Rice
Street and st. Peter Street,
Ramsey's Addition to St. Paul.
Supposed owner and IAm't of
description. Lot. Block. Assm't
Alex Ramsey. $40 70
Same... 10 iU.UU
Ewing g. Chute's Addition to St. Paul.
Supposed owner and Amt of
description. Lot. Block. Assm't
FFahey (S'ly of St. Peter
street. .......... 10
Game, (S'iy of St Peter
street,. ................. ID ego IN
Same, SLY of st. Peter SoS''o
street,. ................. Ii
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P Bowling and J Ruse,
Except WHY 60 ft) 9,16&11 IL 1926
Peter Bowling and John
Ruse WHY 80 #. .......
of.............9,10& l1 IL los. 90
All in the City of St. Paul, County of Ram
sey and State of Minnesota.
GEORGE REFS. City Treasurer.
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