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The sun., 1886-08-26
FEW GOOD REASONS.
Married Men Toll Why
They Married.

Twenty-six Married Men Tell why
They Married.
We lately sent out postal cards to the
married men Of small town in west
ern New York. says 1Gd-Bits. with the
inquiry: ''Why did you marryp" We
give few of the responses:
That's what have been trying for
eleven years to find out X"
Married to get even with her moth
or. but never have. w."
"Because / was too lazy to
work. l. ""
because Sarah told me that five
other young men had proposed to
her. g."
1.-The old man thought eight years
'oortin' was almost long enough. S's
81 was lonesome and melancholy,
and wanted someone to make me live
ly. N. B.-She makes mo very
lively. II"
II was tired of buying ice-cream and
candies. and going to the theaters and
church, and wanted rest. Have
saved money. j. 4.
please don't stir me up. j."
because l thought she was one
among thousand; now l sometimes
think she is q thousand among one.
E."
Il think it was because | was cross
eyed; now l am afflicted with two pairs
of cross-eyes daily. "PETER.
because l did not have the expert
encc [ have now. u.
1.-The governor was gOnig to give
me his foot, SO 1 took his daug ghter's
hand. H."
II thought it would be cheaper than
a breach of promise suit. A. c."
''That's the same fool question that
nay friends and neighbors ask me.
C. H."
because l had more money than l
knew what to do with. Now l have
more to do than l have money with.
B. D."
Il wanted companion of the oppo-
site sex. P. S.-She is still opposite.
A."
..Don't mention il. F."
Had difficulty unlocking the door
at night, and wanted somebody to let
me IN. BOB"
IL was embarrassed, and gave my
wife the benefit of my name SO that
could take the benefit of her name sign
ed to u check. SCROGGS."
Because it is just my luck. P. j."
Il didn't intend to go to do it. S."
Il yearned for company. We now
have it all the time. KARL"
"Have exhausted all the figures in
the arithmetic to figure out an answer
to your question; between multiplica-
ton and division in the family, and dis
traction in addition, the answer is hard
to arrive at OLD MAN"
81 married to get the best wife in
the world. SIMON"
because / asked her if she'd have
me. She said she would. think she's
got me. BLIvINs."
The sun., 1886-08-26
The Sun.
Condensed General News.


The wind and rain torn OF Sunday night,
the 9TH inst. extended over - large portion
of Minnesota and northern Dakota anu
numerous casualties are reported. At Nor
ris, Minn. the roof OF the court house was
crushed by the falling of one OF the large
chimneys. The barns of DIR. Hulburd
and L. 5. Hall were moved from their ioun-
dations and other wild freaks were perform
ed in the village. In the country stacks
and shocks were destroyed and the house
OF Peter Straud was demoralized and Its
occupants badly bruised. At Lake Ben
ton, Mimi, numerous barns and grain
stacks were destroyed.
At Elkton the Burlington depot was un-
rooted and the Catholic church blown from
the foundation and badly racked. Tho
damage in this section will reach fully So
00O
In the neighborhood OF Dalton tho
barns of Taral Olson. Gunder Rever-
son, HI. II. Bergs and Emheald were blown
down. A new church was moved sixteen
feet. People hurriedly sought their
cellars At Browns Valley, Mimi,
Joseph Bangle were entirely destroyed.
The barn OF w. T. Heike was thrown down
and two horses killed. barn belong
ing to III. l.. Mills, containing five
horses, was torn to pieces and large
amount OF damage was caused to stacks
etc. At Larimore Oak, the Presbyterian
church, a high-steepled building and badly
braced, was blown down and is II total
wreck Loss, $4,000. Dwellings were
moved from their foundations, and chin
neys generally topped over. Newark, OAK,
50 miles northeast of Aberdeen on the ex-
tension of the Milwaukee road, suffer
ed the heaviest. Four persons were killed
and another fatally injured. Among the
victims were the wife and child OF John
Oakes and Mrs. Wait. The other names
are not known.
At Estelline, Oak, lightning struck a
large grain elevator owned by the Van Du-
sen company. 1t was entirely enveloped III
flames and rapidly consumed. Nothing
was saved. 1t contained 5000 bushels oil
wheat, beside flax, $500 worth OF Hour, al
900.
Near Wild Rice, ten miles south OF Fargo,
several buildings were blown down, and on
the w. c. Adams farm Mrs. 5. $. Williams
was struck by lightning. and all the cloth
ing stripped off her right side.
All the way down to Abercrombie the
Fargo Southern track was strewn with
debris, but the greatest damage seems to
have been done at the latter place.
The most serious damage done is the
complete destruction of the new Congrega-
tional church and the Fargo Southern de-
pot This building is nothing but IL mass
OF kindling wood, and parts OF it are scat
tered as far as McCauleyville, one mile
east.
At LaMoure the Presbyterian church was
blown down and totally wrecked, the loss
amounting to $3, 600.
The rain was general in Wisconsin but
did great deal OF good in extinguishing
the forest fires.
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Distressing circumstances,

Friend-"Your husbands death was
very sudden, was it not. Mrs. Brownp"
Mrs, Rrown-"Yes; poor John was
called without moments warming"
Friend with gentle sympathy
ssDeath is at all times sad and painful,
my dear Mrs. Brown, but under such
circumstances it becomes doubly So"
Mrs. Brown Yes; poor John died
on the goth and was buried the follow
ing day. You can appreciate how little
time had to prepare mourning cos
tune. All, me! / suppose must have
looked like fright. "
The sun., 1886-08-26
LAFAoAN's LOGIC.

Virtue is the handmade of holiness.
Ceremony is the criterian of affected
dignity.
Expressing thoughts intelligently is a
trade by itself.
A clear head and clear conscience
are the attributes of victory.
Wit that finds recreation in a friend s
discontinue is an insult.
Wisdom listens in confidence. but is
seldom confidential in return.
1t is preferable, young friend, to try,
and fail, than to be born in vain.
Reflection is the satisfaction of the
upright. the enemy of rogucs.
do not care what man thinks of
me if he will only keep it to himself.
The homage merited by virtue in life
is too often rendered by strewn flowers
at its tomb.
The man who is tenacious in his eff
forts requires no boasting to reach the
persimmons.
/ take notice that Christianity is
most generally belittled by those peo-
pie who haven't paid-up dividend
in it.
Honesty may not always win, but
generally lives respectfully and to be
respected. There is some solace in this
fact.
have just about arrived at the con-
clusiOn that most people lind every
thing in this world fully as good as
they merit.
In order to compete successfully one
must study the world as much as the
farmer does his almanac before he
plants his squash.
The man who would justify his past
misdeeds by shouldering the RESPONSE
bility upon this person or that circum-
stance, is feeble man yet.
1t may be possible to form an alliance
with the devil and realize upon the in
vestment, but more probable that you
will get swindled without regard to de-
cency.
1t certainly is discouraging to make
fool of ones self, but what makes it
grind worse is in knowing that you
have not only got to shoulder the re-
possibility but "grin and bear it.
we SnOulu nOnOr age IOr It's WelI-fun
race, but admire the happy face of and
sympathize with youth in its ant-hill
trials, stimulating it to meet the real
test with strong hearts.
Young men prate about the coquctry
of young women, yet I'll wager that if
some of these young men did not hold
out some inducements, coquettes would
be Outlawed in something like twelve
months.
We all like people to agree with our
views, yet those who can only say
Eyes or mo- acquiesce. generally. as
their only salvation, because knowledge
has opinions of it's own, and does not
echo the words of others.
In a trial speed the horse that starts
off with rush is often distanced in
the end by the horse that trots steadily
from first to last In your competition
for this worlds goods, young men, re-
member in this race, also, tbs the
steady advancement and not occasional
spurts that is successful.
l know man who made $50, 600 one
year out of potatoes alone, on a side
hill at that, and whose crops for three
seasons previous had been total fail
nre. He simply hung on, which would
seem to Indicate that it is not so much
what man undertakes as his ability to
rersevere and succeed Chicago Ledg-
The sun., 1886-08-26
THAT LovE-MATlNo DAY.

Like vision clysian,
A golden-haircd grace,
With beauty and duty
Aflame in her face,
Glides ever before me-
A light in my way
Since she swung In the hammock
That love-mating day.
All sadness to gladness,
AllEuds to full flower,
An wooings to cooings
Were changed in an hour:
All nature grew radiant;
Work seems to be play
Since she swung in the hammock
That love-mating day.
AS story of glory
Enkindles the SOUL
Subduing and wooing
To lofty control,
So she hath inspired me,
That spirit SO gay,
Since she swung in the hammocY
That iove-mating day.
Like vision elysian,
A golden-haircd grace,
With beauty aud duty
Atlamc in her face,
Glldes ever before me
A light In my way
Since she swung in the hammock
That love-mating day.
w. De Wit Wallace, IN the Current
The sun., 1886-08-26
Not to he Won UnWOOed.

A bright little 6 year-old girl living
at Dorchester was baptized one Sunday
recently. After the ceremony she was
taken back to the family pew, where
her aunt gave her dime to put in the
After receiving it
she changed her position to the other
end of the pew, away from the aisle,
and whispered to her aunt: "If he
don't come real near I shall keep the
mony myself" 1t is needless to say that
the contribution-box did not come near
enough.-B Boston Courier.
The sun., 1886-08-26

Ono Of the bridegrooms Of tho week
complained Of the clergymsn'a fee.
"A widowsr whQm you married at
Easter, said he, sstells me that you
charged him very much less. =
i.Truo, said Rev. DR.. H 'sbut he
was q regular customer. - Br0Sklyn
Elssine 4 u vnsS IS ~ -
The sun., 1886-08-26
Americans Buying French Horses.

London Cable: The yearly purchasing OF
horses by Americans is just finished. Much
concern Is manifested at the large increase
Of this trade, which is fast carrying off the
best stock in France. Petersonof Minnesota
and Bowles ofWisconsin are among the most
enterprising dealers and largest buyers.
France is also much alarmed at the popu-
lar spread Of American fresh fruit and
Banned articles, which are now household
necessities, end II il spgedieted that in g
lew years peaches, pears and apples will be
undersold here, to the ruin OF the home
market.
The sun., 1886-08-26

A terrific wind, rain and hailstorm swept
over Henry county, ILL.,, doing a damage OF
$4,000 to SIS, 900 at Cambridge, the
county seat, demolishing three churches
and checking the progress OF arrangements
lor the county fair.
The president has deposited in the de-
par 5ment OF state bills which remained in
his hands unsigned at the time Of the ad-
journment OF congress- with the following
explanatory memorandum among. them:
The joint resolution directing the payment
OF the surplus in the treasury on the public
debt, received Aug. g., 1886. Memoran-
dunn. This resolution involves SO much
and is of SUCH serious import thatI do not
leemit.best to discuss it at this time. 1t
Ib not approved because believe it to be
unnecessary, and because l am by no
means convinced that its mere passage and
approval at this time may not endanger
and embarrass the successful and useful
operations Of the treasury department. and
impair confidence in the management OF the
financial affairs Of the government.
An imbecile widow named Lebol, living
In Eelles, st. Dennis, Jerome, has met with.
Z horrible death. Her sons endeavored to
obtain admission for her in madhouse,
but failed They did not want to support
her, and 30 they tied her to stake. built
fire around her and burned her to death.
When the woman was suffering her sons
The sun., 1886-08-26
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS


The Democratic State Central Committee
of Minnesota, met in st. Paul and fixed
upon Tuesday Sept. IA, as the day and st.
Paul tho place oi the Democratic State con-
vention. The apportionment for tho dele
gates to the state convention was fixed at
one delegate for each county; one for each
$50 votes for Cley ela nd and one for each ma
ior fraction thereof. This makes the repre-
sentation as $50, necessary to choice,
1SO. The following resolution WAS
adopted, Mr.. C. f. Berch ofWinona alone
dissenting
Resolved, that the cordial thanks Of the
committee are rendered to Messrs. Kelly
and Doran for their untiring efforts in tho
discharge OF the most onerous and delicate
duties imposed upon them.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-08
BRA vol GLADSTONE.

1t is the unexpected that always happens
in politics, and English politics give no ex-
ception to the rule The greatest of all
innovations in modern English politics is
the pointment made by Mr.. GLADSTONE
OF Mr.. BRooDHURST as under home secre-
tary. This is the first time an English
workingman has ever found his way into
the ministry. Our cable dispatches say
that it is taken as an indication that GLAD
STONE intends to rely upon the masses
against the aristocracy. And as an evil
dence of the correctness of this view of it
the Wing ladies who were appointed to
places of honor in the queens household re-
fused TO accept. 1t is a bold move on
Mr.. Gladstones part. and is likely to create
a sensation in England. But Gladstone is
equal to the emergency. He has shown
himself a great leader and is capable of car
rying anything he undertakes to success. 1t
is his first movement in the direction of
giving England democratic form of gov
ernment. 1t is the lighting of torch in
England which can never be extinguished
until home rule is not only secured to Ire
land, but to England. OF course the fossil
aristocracy will kick against it and kick
hard. But kicking will avail nothing.
Revolutions never go backward, and this
one will never stop until England is a re-
ublic.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-08
THE STRIKING CIGARMAKERs.
They Want Better Pay and Nine
Hours n Day.

Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Feb. Everett hall was
full of cigarmakers and cigar smoke this
morning. Most of the cigarmakers were
members OF the Progressive union and they
met to decide whether to accept the offer
recently made by the manufacturers to a
joint committee of the Central Labor union
and the Progressive union. This offer was
to make a uniform scale of prices
for the fourteen shops of the association,
the prices TO be the average of the prices
paid in the shops before Jan. 1. In this
proposed bargain the International union.
TO which the majority of the locked-Out
cigarmakerS belong. had no part. The
meeting was noisy one. There was a
small sentiment in the body against
the compromise offered, and it
made so mnch noise that the
other side was compelled to howl
to keep it down. A resolution was adopted
which required the conference committee
to adopt no scale of prices which would re-
duce the wages paid in any of the shops
before Jan. 1. This was finally got out of
way by tabling il. Then a resolution
was adopted instructing the confer
ence committee TO settle with the
manufactures on a uniform scale. in
which the price for the lowest kind of
work should not be less than 81. This
was virtual acceptance of the manufac-
turers' offer, for a uniform scale made by
striking an average of the old prices would
bring the lowest price up to 81. The COM
mittee was further instructed that packers
shall be taken at their old pay. They will
also ask that nine hours be days work,
and after May eight hours.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-08
Mississippi shipping I'm Danger.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 7.-While the soft
weather of the past two days has produced
no marked effect upon the ice gorge in this
harbor and stretching for miles both above
and below the city, yet the prospect is that
with continuance of the mild temperature
and especially should it rain, the ice will
let go in from week to ten days and navi-
CATION will be resumed to Southern points.
With view to lessening the danger to
steamers and other craft in the haTbOr when
the gorge moves the ice along the river
bank from the bridge for the distance of
mile or so south was yesterday crushed with
dynamite, and that explosive was again
used to-day with good effect in opening a
passage through the gorge, which
when completed, will enable steam
ers at the landing to move
TO safer quarters behind dykes and land
projections in the lower part of the city.
The ice was found to be from one foot to
over three feet thick, and great efforts will
be made to remove enough to insure at least
comparative safety to property in the har-
Dor when the crush comes. Should the ice
start, on high rise from the Missouri river,
the result would in all likelihood be quite
destructive, but should it move out quietly
under the simple influence of mild weather
1t Is hoped but little damage will be done.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-08
workingman Minister.

LONDON. Feb. 7.-Mr. Redmond, Ma
tionaliSt member of parliament. in speech
at Monaghan to-day, urged Irishmen to re-
strain their violent reelings and not to ham
per the new government. which. he said.
would take immediate steps to stop evic-
tions. The appointment OF Mr.. Broad
hurst as under home secretary has caused a
sensation in political societies, that gentle
man being the first wOrkingman that has
ever risen to the ministry. The appoint
ment is taken as an indication that
il is Mr.. GladstOnes intention TO
rely upon the masses against the
influence of the aristOcracy. The Libera
clubs are divided in opinion on the subject.
the reform and Deyonshire wings diSap-
proving the appointment. and the National
lists enthusiastically approving it. The
hostility OF the Wings to Mr.. Gladstone is
intense. This is shown in the difficulty ex-
perienced by the premier in filling the
posts in the queens household. The
Duchesses of Bedford and Westminster
have refused appointments. and others will
follow their example.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-08
sNIDE ARIsToCRATs.

1t is somewhat singular that while the
great GLADSTONE is inaugurating move
ment TO rid Great Britain of the tomfoOl-
cries Of aristocracy, that American senators
and cabinet ministers should be making
themselves ridiculous by attempting to in
troduce these same tomfooleries into Amer
lean society. Our Washington correspond
ents are telling US good deal about the
different kind of crests that the different
senators are adopting. Senator LOGAN
has one design for a crest, Senator Ed
MUNDs another. and now we are told that
Secretary MANNING has adopted a very
unique one. What do these poplnjay states
men want with a crest when half of them
have no idea what a crest is or what il is
Intended for. Just because lit is English.
you know" they have some some sort of an
idea that they must have something. There
is only one crest that is suitable to the
American oficeholder. He gets it from the
people and the motto is. ''Well done, good
and faithful servant" The senator or cab
met officer who possesses that crest is in
possession of more valuable thing than all
the snob productions of royalty or aristoc-
racy that the world ever witnessed.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-08
LINGERING DIVORCE SUIT, =
In " hich N Detroit Pair Fail to Gel
Unhitched.
Special to the Clone.

Special TO the Clone.
DETROIT. Mich. Feb. IA remarkable
divorce case has just been revived in the
Wayne circuit court. Way back among the
first of the fifties, Samuel Z. Peters mar
ried Mary f. Case. They had two sons,
who had just about grown up when Mrs.
Peters began TO get jealous of her husband.
She brought a divorce suit sOr alleged
cruelty. and insinuated other things. Later
she discontinued this suit, and all might
have been ended happily had Peters not
broken his leg. When he finally recovered
ne filed bill for divorce, in which he charged
his wife with cutting his broken leg with a
butcher-knife, refusing 10 take care of him.
and with having deserted him while
sick abed. This was Jan. 6, 1871. At the
time the divorce was started Mrs. Peters
could not be found. and the customary legal
forms were gone through with in her alb
sence. The case was ready and the day set
for final hearing before the court, when
Mrs. Peters suddenly reappeared and set
tied down at the old stand. She engaged a
lawyer to contest the divorce and started an
opposition action. When each of the con-
testants had done this they
CEASED FROM LEGAL LABoRs,
and after six months waiting and no trial,
Peters lawyer got disgusted and withdrew.
and Peters hired another attorney. Still
nothing was done. Peters and Mrs.
Peters continued to live in the same house
at 739 Third avenue. and Mrs. Peters con-
tracted bills for Peters to pay, and when
ever bill came in he would rush down
town and have a notice OF
trial served and when the time
would roll around nothing was done.
In 1875 Mrs. Peters lawyer got tired of this
child's-play and withdrew from the case.
and the wife hired fresh legal talent, Civ
ing him a retainer from her husbands
purse. Thus, for fifteen years, this couple
made farce of life and the marriage state,
the lawyers becoming thoroughly disgusted
The other day Peters and his sSife had a
birthday. He was 20 and she 60 years old.
1t occurred to Peters that if he was ever
going to get that divorce it was time he did
it, or he would soon die without it. Ac-
cordingly he returned to his original lawyer
and put up another retainer, and the case
was put on the docket for call this term.
The parties 10 this lOng-drawn-out divorce
case are well known and well of, and,
with the exception of their conduct in this
case, are generally respected. 1t is the
longest divorce case in the history of the
Detroit courts. The opinion prevails that
the decree of divorce will be denied by the
court.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-02-08
Land Frauds.

A good deal of feeling has been developed
in the West over the rulings of Land Com
missioner Sparks in cases of land entries.
and it is said strong efforts are being made
at Washington to effect his removal. 1t is
probable that the main opposition to him
comes from those whose crookedness has
been interfered with by his rulings. So far
as they bear hardly on honest bona fide set
tiers they should of course be modified.
But there is no escaping the fact that for
years land thieves have had their own way,
their frauds being eonnived at by those
charged with the administration of the pub
lie domain, and the most energetic meas
lIres are needed to put an end to the plumber
OF the public domain. In doing this it is
not unlikely that some bona fide settlers
should be inconvenienced. but that incon-
venience should be made as light as possi-
ble.-Farmers' Review.