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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06
THE AREOFF KISS

Opera, ssPauI and Virginia."
The audience at the Grand was not very
large last night, but the opera, Paul and
Virginia" was exquisite. In appearance,
Miss Abbott is scarcely the ideal Virginia,
but her voice is singularly suited to the fire.
auent use of the upper register employed
In the scene. The bird song" fer in
stance, was sweet, clear and true, and was
raptureusly encered. Michilena was adj
nirably adapted to the role. as well as the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06
NO GENUINE GRANITE AT ALL


A Western Man on the Great Paw
Tag Stone and Hts Constituents.
Cincinnati Sun.
''There is no true granite in America as
biologists understand it," was the rather
surprising remark of Expert de Loss to a
little gathering on Change the other day.
He was asked to explain himself further,
and he went on thus:
swell, Mr.. Dana the celebrated geolo-
gist, says: True granite is composed of
quartz, feldspar and mica / believe
those are his exact words. Now, this is a
fact; then, repeat, there has never been a
block of true granite discovered on the
American continent nor anywhere else in
the world that have ever seen. All ac-
cepted granite has portion of hornblende
in it. This is admitted by the modern Ger
man lithologists as a natural component
part of the great paving stone. The more
hornblende that appears the harder is the
granite. In fact. all hard American gran
tie is called hornblende granite"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06

Merchant Traveller.
They were both sitting on the sofa, but
the sofa was tive yards wide. They had
been discussing the Darwinian theory, and
he remarked:
ut seems almost impossible that should
be descended from an ape, or tiger, or a
bear, Or
''Oh, Pm sure you are not descended from
BEAR" she said.
why not?"
Because bears are such horrid creatures
to hug. you knew"
He Immediately demonstrated that there
might have been bear branch somewhere
in his ancestral tree.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06
Enthusing the Union League.

The Union League is considered the
backbone of the Republican party in Min
neapolis. This organization, composed of
the enthusiastic element of the party, held
a meeting last Monday night for the par-
pose Of imbuing the partisans of that stripe
with a little hope and urging them on to
activity. The meeting was far more like a
funeral in its general aspects than the
stereetyped political Jubilee to be expected
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06
BATTLE Of ATLANTA
TIE GREAT VAR PANORAMA.

Fifth street, near Nicellet, Minneapolis. Open
daily from a. m. to 10 p. N. Sundays from
LEE. to 10 p. m.
Pronounced by competent critics the NEST
vivid, realistic and grandest War Panorama
yet produced. Adlzission-Adults, SO cents;
children under fifteen, 20 cents.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06

The particular girl at Ocean Grove who
will not permit herself to be Rugged any,
where but in the ocean.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06

VXFANTED-Agents at Ne. 21s Central av.. to
wv canvass for withers' Antizymotic, the best
preventative for diphtheria ever found; salary or
commission. 279
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-06
MINNEAPOLIS EVENTS.

Nobody Willing to Take the Financial
Responsibility of Starting Dem
ocratic Paper.
The Nuptials of Miss Matte LangdOn
and q. A. Truesdale-The
Orphans Fair
So,o+ F,ed Cofln Presented With a
Diamond Ring--Prof. Brad
ford's Talk.
8andcuffed Prisoners in Court NeA-
:can Band Concert--The Full
Blown Abbott Kiss.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-23

,aId nat IN Il box. one upon the otner,
Zach time they were used. the tiniest
Sole being mended almost before it had
lime to show itself. Bat the thing that
;mnressed me most WAS the care she be-
loved on her ribbons. When making
m bows she used to line the upper part
II the ribbon with white paper, and
his not only prevented the ribbon from
becoming limp and creased but kept it
oloau. 50 that when the bow was soiled
on one side she could turn the ribbon.
and the part that had been covered
came out looking new and fresh. That
cjrl married and brought up large
family. Her husband had TO fight his
way. aud did so brayely. and was I'M
usually successful, for he became
wealthy But his prosperity was due
quite as much to his wife's care and
economy in saving money as it was to
his in making it. 70 Cheer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-09-23
TAILORING!

Garments well made, well trimmed,
of good material, at lowest prices.
We warrant as good fitting, and
as stylish outfits as any that are
made in the larger cities, and at
prices from % to IS per cent. better.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27
Five Cent Restaurants.

The very newest thing In New York is
The Cleveland Restaurant on Chatham
street. It is on the same block with
three lively rivals First came the Boss
Tweed Restaurant, with an oIfer of beef
steak for ten cents; then was established
the Jim Fisk, which Sc Is a Hamburger
steak for eight cents or coffee or pie for
seven cents. This was left in the dis
lance by the Gladstone, which offered
The public corn-beef hash for FIVE cents,
and now the newest one is the Cleveland
Restaurant, with flaming announcements
81 flour crullers and cup Of coffee for
Eve cents. " With such opportunities one
must be very poor to be obliged to go
hungry.
Two Of these establishments arc large
and busy places wherein two good dishes
ran be had for q dime It is said that the
walters are all athletics and skilled
bouncers, who are moro respected BY the
public than any walters ever were before.
It is like tIitiing with dynamite to try
and beat one Of these places out Of q din
ner, and the hummer who does SO is de-
scribed as looking and feeling as if he
had been through aTolling mill when bis
waiter has tired Of toying with him.
There Isl i general boom in the New
York restaurant business. An enter
prising man in Fourteenth street has
started an eating house Of immense di-
mansions which he calls dairy
kitchen. 4 It is in the heart Of the shop
ping district and to attract the ladies he
employs q string band to play inthe front
of It oil day while cooks prepare bon bons
and pastry, IN the big front window. But
the biggest restaurants in America are
two that face Washington Market. One
feeds ten thousand persons 4 dap and the
other serves eight thousand The aver
age cost Of meal in one Of these mann
moth dining rooms is twenty-five cents.
~ PHILADELPHIA Times.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27
MARTINsBURG, W. VA, NOVEMBER u, 1886.

Thanksgiving turkey. Four weeks
slipped By and they came not. OF
course, such valuable fowls, like the
goose or swan, advanced slowly and re-
quired full month of thirty-one days to
hatch. And still they came not. Like
the night-haunting owl, or the eagle Of
the cliff, they deferred their arrival for
forty-two days. In the meantime the
hens sat on, like Patience on a mouu-
ment, hoping for the best, until six
weeks wore away. Then an egg was
carefully broken, and it was discovered
that The agent of the Pottawattamie
Chicken Company could have safely con-
tracted to pay $500 each for all the
chickens Matched. Every egg was hard
boiled. 81 Cincinnati EnquSrsr.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A good cause fears no judge.
Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy.
No man is good unless he is good unto
all.
It's difficult to combine patience with
grief.
Creditors have better memories than
debtors
A good man even in death makes no
mistake.
Real merit Of any kind cannot long be
concealed.
When your superior entreats you you
partly rule.
IN this world . man must be either anvil
Or hammer
When the judge is merciful the law is
disregarded.
Never trouble trouble, till trouble
troubles you.
Give what you have. To some one it
may be better than you dare to think
The best characters have mixture of
infrmities, and the worst have some re-
deeming virtues.
It is happy thing for us that this is
really all we have to concern ourselves
about what to do next.
Go not for every grief to the physician
for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for
every thirst to the pot.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27
Al Big Hop Country.

Few farmers in the country can tell Of
such wonderful crops as are raised in
Washington Territory. It would open
the eyes of some of the Eastern farmers
to know that with but little labor the
owner of small farm can clear $500 per
acre every year, and more than this when
the weather conditions hold good. In a
talk with hop farmer of the White
River valley yesterday, hesaid 4 raised
from / 600 to 1000 pounds Of hops per
acre, on five acres of my land this year,
for which received thirty-five cents a
pound There is big boom for Wash
ington Territory hops this year. The
California crop is failure, and the East
ern people have come to Puget Sound to
get their hops. The crops in the Puyal-
lup and White River valleys have been
larger at times than this year, but the
quality has never been equalel hereto,
fore. There appears to be more gum in
the hops this year than ever before. The
cost of raising hops is about seven cents
pound on the average. This includes
the curing and the packing. We got 81
per pound for hops in 1882
The farmer then enthusiastically said
that he believed the White River valley
to be the finest piece Of land on Gods
footstool. He had lived there twenty
years and the conditions Of farming were
so superior to the country in the East
and South that it wasa wonder to him
that people didnot fairly swarm into the
territory.
Look at it. he continued. There
are no fierce storms here to sweep over
our land and drown out or blow down
our crops. There is no thunder and
lightning, no great snowstorms and no:
insects to eat up our crops. The winter
is short, the summer long and mild, and
the intervening seasons pleasant. Why.
/ would not 60 back to farming again Ia
Missouri for any consid Grafton. Taco
ma II 10 Telegraph.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27
An Egg SMindle.

Some fellow went through Logan
County selling Pottawatomie chicken
.ggs at iS3 4 dozen, giving each buyer q
written agreement to come around later
and purchase air the chickens Matched
from them at $3 each as soon as taey
:eached the age of six weeks. He dis
posed Of enormous quantities Of eggs at
this price, and the farmers wives and
daughters set every moth,rly inclined
hen on the premises in joyful anticipa
ZION of new dresses and loves of bonnets
and other things SO dear to the female
heart.
The obedient hens went to work with
i will and incubated the allotted twenty
one days. Then plump and tender
hands with taper fingers gently lifted up
the cIucking mothers in expectancy to
look at the beautiful So 'cheepers. 4
Bnt they had not broken through the
ihell. Then it was considered that it
look longer to hatch IS chicken than
Dne Of the ascent kind twenty eight
Lays, for instance, as in the case Of the
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

There are 40, 600 women belonging to-
granfes in the United States.
Ocesn steamers burn from fifty to 800
ions Of coal per day, according to their
Bize and speed.
Mark Lane in London was originally
called Mart Lane. from the privileges
Of fare accorded by Edward /. to Sir
Thomas Ross, of Hamlake.
Out Of the 792, 444 words composing
the revised Bible, 72l, 672 are the same
found in the received edition issued in
1911. Only nine per cent, 10, 772, have
been changed; 65,50S have been ex-
cluded
The Mary Rose, British man war,
was sunk off the coast Of France in 1915,
owing to the weight of the armament
The carried. It is said that breech- load
ing cannon have been recovered from
I The wreck
The oldest merchant vessel af1oat is
laid to be the bark True Love, which was
built in Philadelphia in 1764, and is
therefore 122 y ars old. She is still In
active service, and is owned by j. s.
Ward, of London.
The real Scots were in fact Irish. In
The olden time Ireland or part Of Ire
land was called Scotia, and the Irish
people were called Scots. A great
many of these had crossed over the mar
row sea which divides the two countries,
and had settled In the nothern part Of
what we now call Scotland
The Chinese celebrate the festival Of
the MOON with peculiar sort Of edible
rallied moon cakes. The cake is in imi-
tation Of the sha of the moon, or of a
beast or fish waiting for the moon to app
pear Almonds, sweet spices and minced
pork form the contents of the cake,
which is covered with crust Of finest
paste.
MI. Lessenne claims that certain sign
Of death is the permanent gaping of the
wound made i'm the skin by puncturing
it with needle. If the person be liv-
ing, blood will usually follow the with
arawal of the needle: but whether it does
or not, the wound will close at once.
The puncture made in the skin Of dead
person will remain open, as if made ia
leather.
a Paper published in Mexico AYERS
that it is customary among the Indians
Of the Jonacatepec districtof that coun-
try to exchange wives. Occasionally
these trades are permanent, but more Of
ten they are for stipulated length Of
time, at the expirat on of which each
woman returns to her former husband,
and the event is celebrated in each fam
lily by feast, ut which the pulque flows
freely. Where the wives cannot be
traded even dog, cat or pig is added
on one side tc make the barter fair. In
the district Of Tenango, at Tescaliacac,
che still more novel custom exists of
ceiling OF trading off mothers in-law. A
.cry fair article of mother-in-law can be
bought for lamb Or sucking pig.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27
"A Mongolian Prayer.

The worship of ancestors at graves IS
not seen here, as the bod les are sent back
to China; but there every April, on a
certain day, the family tombs are visited
and offerings made. The Chinese think
that we do the same on Decoration Day !;
at least this is the impression of many
The prayers offered. at the tomb Of an
ancestor are ready made and printed, and
are not recited, as the bearer very natur-
ally argues that the soul Of the ancestor
if it knows anything is aware of what IS
wanted, SO it is simply burned at the
tomb. The following is literal trans
lation Of prayer offered copied from
one of the slips:
TANGKWANG,
18th month, Sd moon, 1st day.
|, Lin Kwang, the second son Of the third
generation, presume to come before the
grave Of my ancestor, LIN Kung. Revolv-
ing wears have brought again the season of
spring Cherishing sentiments of generation,
Il look up and sweep your tomb. Prostrats
pray that you will come and be present, and
that you will grant to your posterity that
they may be prosperous and illustrions. At
this season Of general showers and gentle
breezes desire to recompense theroot Of my
existence and exert myself sincerely. Al
WAYS grant your safe protection. Most
reverently present the hy6-fold sacffHce Of
a pig, fowl, duck, goose, and fish,
also an Offering Of five plates OF fruit, with
libatious Of spirituous liquors, earnestly en-
treating that you will come and view them.
With the most attentive respect this an
nouncefnent is presented on high.
The religion Of the Chinaman and Of
Chinatown is bounded by no narrow
limits. tt is boundless fitted for all
stations, and is tumble Of tradition,
superstition and ignorance, incompre-
hensible to ninestenths of its so called
adherents. San Francisco Cau.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27

A physician says: when teaspoon
full Of warm honey is taken every fif-
teen, twenty or thirty minutes, il has
a surprising effect on catarrh. Every
family should have glass Of pure honey
IN the house. iii order at once, after
catching cold, to be able to use some.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27

Italy has twenty-one universities one
more than Germany.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27

II is hard 10 refuse when superior
asks : favor:
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-11-27

The Great Progre Of Education.
.sWeli, sir, education is making won.
derful strides Just now" observed Ebe-
Meier Jones.
'Ahr replied Zebcdee Smith.
Yes, sir; it is. The Yale Freshmen
have run the S6phom res against tarred
fence, the new men at Dartmouth have
won ii the tug of war, and the Fresh
man class at Columbia were victorious
ii the care rush, after tearing tho clothes
from their opponents backs, backing
numbers Of eyes, and breaking several
noses. y
You call such occurrences wonderful
strides III education, do your
ssCndoubtcdly. Why, heretofore the
Sophomore have uniformly been sue,
cessful ii these contests. - itf,1eNH
Chronicle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-02-05
4 RrSIIEL OF cnRN

y farmer. was steering with friend
for n saloon where the drinks sold for
fifteen cents straight Said s.atIsti-
elan standing by: That man has sweat
and worked 20 produce a bushel of corn
, that will sell for 80 cents. He is going
IN there now to spend the 80 cents for
two drinks. Therefore. the farmer and
the corn have parted. Now. let me tell
YOU what has become of the corn. y
bushel Of corn makes seventeen quarts
Of wEisky--four and a quarter gallons.
The distillcry gets its first prolific
cents 4 gallon. There you are: - for
that bushel of corn. Now the govern
ment comes in. 90 cents a gallon-SS.S 81
added 10 the 81, makes S5.s5. That
brings the product of tine bushel of corn
down TO the jobber and the wholesaler
and, finally by several, stages To the re-
taller. b the time it reaches the latter
the bushel Of corn or its product of -four
and quarter gallons has been reduced
one half, which means eight and a half
gallons. There are sixty drinks TO the
gdllon-that is the average-eight and
a half gallons mean go drinks at Is
cents cach--ihere We have 1865 as the
consumers price for bushel of corn
which the farmer raises and sells for sc
cents. Who says there is no industry in
this country? But the farmer we saw
just now spent his whole bushel of corn
in the price of two drinks, and the peo-
pie who do not till the soilget away with
SiG.OJ.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-02-05
FLORID.l.

These columns have lately contained
items about the cold weather in
Florida, and now we want those per-
sons WHO are anxious 10 leave Barber
county for that oyer-rated region, to
read what Jacksonville correspond
ent has to say:
"Of course il viii be denied by the
interested parties that fruits, grains,
and vegetables are not and can not be
raised in Florida, and my statements
TO that effect will be pronounced ma
liciously false, etc. The names OF
scores of tmythicaN successful truck
farmers will be given, and lots OF
mythical localities where immense
yields of everything eatahle is the rule
will be mentioned. But this is all
CANNON for gudgeons. If there are, or
could be, any dairy or truck farms in
Florida they would be located about
Jacksonville SO as to supply this actu-
ally yawning market with the milk and
vegetables it imports from the north.
Here is 4 city that has for twenty years
now been doomed rs a winter resort.
until it boasts fifty or more hotels, all
Of which are filled to overlooking dur
ing the season with the most eXacting
of guests; and what do these guests get
to eat of native production? | will 20
through to-day's bill of fare of the best
hotel in Jacksonville as an answer to
ftnN
brought from Massachusetts,. Fish
salmOn--brOugbt from Maine on ice.
"ROast:' beef, lamb, mutton. ham.
turkey--the first three from New York.
the ham from Cincinnati, and the
turkey from Georgia. Entrees: | will
not quote in detail, but just say they
consisted of various cooked dishes of
canned stuff bought from firm i'm New
York. Every vegetable-except po-
tatocs, and they came from Georgia
was of the canned kind. The butter
came from the same food purveyOr
above mentioned, and so did the lcon-
densedl milk. Apropos to the milk
item must digress to note that GER
tain first class Jacksonville hotel adver
tises rs follows: No condensed milk
served here unless preferred This is
good as it stands, but the real humor of
it lies in the fact that unless You do
prefer condensed milk you must go
without any. There was but one thing
on the bin of fare under consideration
that was of home production and that
was the inevitable orange Ny infor-
nation came from the hotel steward
himself, so ii is reliable.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-02-05
FROZEN.

y correspondent. writing from SYRIA
cuse, Hamilton county, Kansas. thus
graphically pictures n case under his
observation during the January biz
zard: Riding Yesterday in the face Of
keen northwest wind that secured the
prairies bare in some places. and in
others polished the heaped up masses
OF snow until they looked like brightest
silver. rescuing party came upon a lit
tie plain board shanty about twenty
miles west of here that told plain enough
that death was within. On one side of
the building the hard earth was swept
clean, while on the other side the gilt
tering and hard crusted snow was piled
from five to ten feet high. Against the
door Of the shanty the snow had beaten
until it scarcely could be distinguished
from the side OF the house. while all
about the place were the evidences of
recent settlement and the hard begin
nings Of a pioneer life in the wilderness.
One of the horsemen dismounted at
the cabin door, and, kicking the snow
and ice away, finally forced his way in
20 the wretched abode. Not stick of
furniture remained. The one stove
was cold, and the floor and sides of the
house were covered with frost. In
some places on the north and west cx-