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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
pm 3LOAEY POINTERS.
AWOfS1ed snow Cap--HanGy Hooks
and Eyes--COId Weather Waists.

A cloSe-fitting hat or bonnet is almost
necessity on a windy day; and very pretty
ones are crocheted of dark wool and orna-
mented with bow of ribbon or a cluster of
pom-pons. ANY close firm stitch is suit
able. what is known as the '.long
stitch" being one of the best. A
piece should be made about twelve
or fourteen inches long and eight or
nine wide, according to the size of the head
and the width for the length of the top OF
the head. When the crocheting is done,
take one side of the length and the two
short sides and fasten together with strong
thread They must be drawn together to
form rosette, which is the front part OF
the cap. A yard of ribbon made into
bow knot, or a few POM pons the same
color as the hat gives the finishing touch.
These hats or caps are much more becom-
ing and look more dreSSy than the usual
crochet ones.
A ward of pretty striped velvet or cloth
goods may be nicely utilized in trimming
one of the dresses now worn. The full
drapery may be faced at one side with
band to it, and it may form the collar and
cuffs and the vest if there be sufficient ma
terial.
All dresses of silk or satin should be
made with little flaps of strong silesia fast
ened in the bodice to the first or second seam
and supplied with hooks and eyes. These
are of course fastened before the bodice
proper and prevent too great strain upon
the press material. They are also an aid
in securing a more perfect fit.
Ladies' who object to f1annels or multi
plicity OF inside waists should supply them
selves with chamoiS waist made like
corset cover. About so cents worth of
chamois will be needed, and the high neck
and armlets should be bound with strong
white braid or silk This is the warmest
kind of waist and is especially recon-
mended to those VINO go out in the evening.
1t may be worn with decollete gown, and
there is then but little danger of pneumonia
and similar diseases.
Fur bands for trimming purposes are very
cheap this season, that is, if purchased I'M
lined. Black beaver at IS cents costs $3.50
when lined. With little care the tur may
be lined at home and over half the money
saved. Fine. thin silk at so cents yard
and soft cOtton-batting should be used for
the purpose.
Atwood dress goods of an excellent and
cheap quality are selling as low as so cents
yard in most of the large stores, and a
length of ten or twelve yards would be an
appropriate Christmas gift, even though
not needed for the winter. These same
goods Will be marked up again at the open
ing of spring.
A pretty necklet for evening wear is
made out of a band of black velvet an inch
wide. This is covered with white seed
pearls, and fastens with little silver clasp.
Another as effective and far cheaper is OF
garnet velvet covered with garnet cut beads.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
WHAT AND HOW TO GIVE.
Some Timely Sugg estiOns for Max.
ing Christmas Presents.


ing Christmas Presents.
Rules for giving Christmas presents, &C
cording to the San Francisco Chronicle:
Always give the girl who loves you some
thing cheap. Some other fellow who wants
to win her is sure to give her something
handsomer than you do anyway, and you
will suffer by comparison whatever you
give. She will estimate your gift by the
richness of your affection. She'll gauge
the other chap by the value of his present,
and it's two to one you er left in any case.
Always send the girl you want to secure
something she doesn't need. If you send
her anything useful it will never appeal to
her sent ment, and if she can use it every
day she will forget all about you on the
third de-, out. But if you give her some
thing she can only use on exceptional
occasions she'll make as many exceptional
occasions as she can and think kindly OF
you for years.
Give an old man a white satin scarf, or
a dude scarf-pn. He'll never wear it,
but he'll be tickled to death, and he'll leave
you something in his will. if he's got no
relations to prove him insane posthumously.
Give an old lady something. She only
enjoys the affection and feeling that goes
with it, and old ladies are the most easily
made happy and the most grateful. They
have no vanity about tn ngS like that,
and they have reached that stage where
they would give you back present that
you might sell it and have fun with the
money, but they will always cherish the
memory that you gave it to them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
Wholesale Produce.
The following prices are for round lc

The following prices are for round lots only:
Pork, Bacon, Lard. Etc.-Pork, mess,
S11; hams, 10%c: dry salt. long clear, 6Ac;
smoked long clears, 6$4c; breakfast bacon,
keg lard 65sc; 3 % tin pail, 71sc; % tin pail.
&c; 10 % tin Rail, 67sc; 20 ID wood pa,7c; 10 ID
wood pail, TEIc
Flour-Patents, Si0t.25: straight, S3.75@4;
bakers, S3.25D5 so; rye, S3@3.50.
Beans-Common, 50075c; MEDIUMS, coca
81; hand picked medium, $1.2501.40; hand
picked navy, Sl.6591.90.
Dressed Meats-Prices are nominal at the
following quotations: Fancy dressed steers
from sou to 600 fbs 6D7c; choice dressed beef,
51a@5S4c: COWS and heifers, ranging from 450
to 600 lbs, 419951ac; bulls, 31a@tc; country
dressed beef. 315c; hind quarters. 607c fore
quarters, 2%03%c; veal 608%c; extra
heavy mutton, SOS nc: mutton, ranging from
80 TO 40 lbs. lose; country dressed mutton,
2041ac; pigs feet and tripe, kit, ST. 40; keg,
S2.40.
Fish-Black bass. 15c: halibut, zoe; smoked
halibut and smoked salmon, 15c; sturgeon,
12%c; salt mackerel, 15c per Id; fresh mack
erel, from 15020c each; founders, 121ac:
white fish, 121ac; trout, 10c; Lake Superior, A
No. l, &c; wall-eyed pike, &c; herring, salt and
fresh water, &c: perch and sea bass skinned, &c;
fresh steak cod fish. 12%c: pickerel. extra
choice. sc salmon, Oregon fresh, Csc; red snap
pers, 15c;b ue fish, 15c; extra bloaters. IS,
per b. zoe; mackerel, per kit, 75c@S1; smelts,
loo per pound; striped sea bass, zoe per
Id; finnan haddies, 15c per Id.
Hops-Washington Territory, 35036c new;
old, zS@30c; choice New York, new, 32@35c;
old 2T@D2Sc; Wisconsin, Csc.
Linseed Oil-Raw. single obi. 45c, 5 Dbl.
lots 44c. 80 Dbl lots, 43c; boiled oil, &c more
all around; improved oil meal, St. Paul Lin
seed Oil company, S2G@21.
Hides, Pelts and Skins-Green hides, &c;
green salt hides, 7A@84c; calf skins, &c;
salt 10; dry flint hides, l3@14c: dry salt hides.
10011c; tallow, No. l. 393%c; sheep pelts,
wool estimated per ID, 25927c; deer SKINS
per ID. dry, 10000; lamb skins. 4OG65c:
shearling, 40050c.
Raw Furs-Bear, black, S10@14; cub, black,
S4@5; nix, S504; otter. S501; coon, 5C@90c;
mink, 46@65c; beaver, per h., Western, fall 81.
winter So, spring 81; badger. 75c0S1; fox,
cross, 81 33; fox red, S1.1t01.25: fox, kit,
4O@5Oc; martin, Sl92; muskrat, winter
1859, fall 405c; kits 1@2c; skunk, black 75c.
striped 40G50c; prairie wolf, $10l.10.
These prices are for No. I skins, Nos. 2, 8
and in proportion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
New York Produce.

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-Flour - Receipts,
1880 bbls; exports, 232 bbls. 74,291 sacks;
market less active and rather weak, prices,
however, show no decided change; sales, A.
400 bbls. Wheat-Receipts, sc, 900 blu; ex-
ports, 1888 bu; cash barely steady, with
more doing for export; options heavy: sales,
I.O4S, 600 blu futures and 274.000 blu spot; No.
spring. 90@c; ungraded spring, S712c: un-
graded red, S4991c; No. red. nominal: No.
2 red. S914@S93sc elevator, 9U5sc afoat, 1920
f. o. b.; No. l red, 92c: No. l white, S91ac;
No. 2 red, December, SS5sc, closing at sSIc;
February, 9l@911sc, closing at 917sc; March,
:9c: May, 95 5-16G95Ac, closing at
$500 ugust. 97ss@97hc. closing at 973sc.
Corn-Cash dull and rather weak: options
lower, closing heavy; receipts. 26,40O bu;
exports, 50, 755 bu; sales $4,000 bu futures
and $4,000 Blu spot; ungraded, 4604SAc
steamer, 465404Sc elevator; No. 2. 471ac
elevator, 4S5a04S54c afioat; No. 2 December,
nominal; January, 1870 48c, closing at47s4c;
February, Acc, closing at 49c; May, oil a
@515sc, closing at size. Oats moderately
active; receipts, $500 bu; exports, none;
mixed Western. 34c; white Western, 37G41c
Coffee fair; Rio nominal at 14Hc; options
active and lower, closing steady: sales. 100000
bags; December, sl2.20; January. $11.s5@
II. 10; February, Sl2012.10; March, S12.05
@l2.20; April, Sl20l2.25; May, Sl2.O5G12.3O;
June. S12.1001235: July, 2.1O9l2.15. Sugar
dull and more or less nominal; refined dull
and easier; Standard A, 7-lo9
SIC; powdered, 6@614c. Molasses
quiet and steady; so test, 20H.
Rice firm. Petroleum steady: United closed
at 691sc. Tallow steady at 41sc. Turpentine
steady at $3.50. Eggs steady and in fair in
quiry; receipts, LIT packages; Western. "a
@2Tc. Pork quiet and firm. Lard moderately
active: Western steam, spot $685. %06 90;
December, $3.50: January. s6:b506.56R;
February, s6.62@6.65; March, S6.72G6. IA:
April, S6.s1@6.s4; May, s6.s9%G6.9s. But
ter irmer, with tair inquiry; Western, 29@
Doc; Egin creamery, 31@3lHc. Cheese firm,
but rather quiet Lard dull; common, 4Hc.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
THE CAIuDk us LIGHT.
How to Trim the Christmas Free in
Both a Cheap and Costly manner.

How much money does it take to trim
Christmas tree?" asks the economical lit
tie housewife. ''Well it all depends oil
how much money you have to spe nd on it. y
says her very wise friend. i've seen
quite a pretty little tree for 81, and I've
seen homely ones that cost S50;' and for
the cheap tree, to cost not more than 81 or
So, she gave the following rules:
First get a nice little tree, one that is full
of branches, and. after it is proppee up be-
tween two cross sticks, or in a box, set to
work to trim it. The tree itself should cost
between 25 and IS cents. Get about 10
cents worth of soft cotton batting and the
same amount of silver dust to sprinkle over
little bits of it, that must be dropped here
and there on the branches to look like snow
Buy box of candles for 10 or Is cents, and
make little holders out of stiff cardboard
with strong pins; then pop a quantity of
popcorn and put it on strong thread with a
needle to make feStoons from branch to
branch.
Buy yard or so of some kind of gauZe
or tarletan. cut it out into stockings, boots.
hats and other fanciful shapes. and make
them into bags. with little bright wOrsted
edging. Fill them with candy. and hang
on the tree by little loops. There should
be one for each member of the family.
Balls of colored popcorn, few jumping
Jacks and some bright ribbons will add to
the pretty effect. and will not cost much.
If all the presents are tied to the branches
the tree. of course. will look better trimmed
Such a tree is sufficiently beautiful to please
the children.
But if you want a real ly handsome and
snowy tree. one that will delight the old as
well as the young. purchase fine evergreen
from the market have it placed in box
covered with white or silver; put a tiny
Santa Claus at the top with his pack and
lighted candle; use yards of strung popcorn
in both pink and white, and plenty of cot
ton batting sprinkled with silver dust Get
couple of hundred candles in red. blue.
yellow and white. and place them on the
tips of every branch. Use dozens of colored
glass balls, long candy canes. and little
pink and blue baskets filled with notices
and bon bons; white candy angels to hang
from the widest branches. little white
churches that will hold candle inside.
dolls dressed in gala attire. the old woman
who lived in shoe, and all her numerous
family. In fact. collect everything that is
bright and pretty. and put it on the tree
AS wise precaution keep pail of water
near the tree. and watch the little candles
carefully and see that they do not burn too
long and set all the precious fruit blazing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
ToTrain the Trotters.

Messrs. DOud & Harshberger have OPEN
ed what is getting to be quite fashionable
in ST. Paul, training stable, at No. 419
Carroll street. Mr. Doud is a horseman
that is well known in st. Paul. hav-
ing driven for years for T. B. Marrett
while Mr.. Harshberger has had a deal of
experience in buying. selling and training
horses. These gentlemen propose to board.
take care of and train gentlemen's horses.
They have at their stables Mr.. Marrett's well
known colt NutWOOd. a three year-old OF
great promise, also the FLY Meander, 2
years of age, Mays Hambletonia1 by
Everett. dam by McCranys Clark Chef.
A black mare belonging to Marrett is also
there, and the grand stallion st. Leon. by
Belmont. dam Mother Hubbard, besides
many others. Quite a number OF this
kind of stables have recently been opened
in St. Paul and it is very gratifying to be
able to say that they all seem to be doing
well. The success of these und ertakingS
shows that good deal of attention is being
paid to the trotting horse in this commun-
ity. The result will be that st. Paul in a
few years will contain large number OF
valuable horses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
miscellaneous Notes.

The Breeders Gazette says that S. E. Lara
bic and E. F. Nash have sold TO NJ. L. Grattan
the Montana bred three year-old BAY gelding,
Michael, by Herod, dam Queen of the Ware
colt; second dam, Rosedale by Bankers Edwin
Forrest; third dam by Hannibal, son of
Shakespeare. Queen has q record of 1855,
and has son that can trot in 2:40. Rosedale
is the dam OF Glendale, 2:2O15. The Ware
colt was got by American Clay, dam by
Ericsson, son of Mambrino Chief. Michael,
with little driving, has trotted a ha If mile
in SOL, but is so large and growthy that he
will not be asked to go much until matured.
Like his sire, Herod. he is fearless, level
headed and pure gated. Good Judges pro-
pounce him the making of race horse.
A few days ago Joseph Bryan sold to WILL
lam Rockefeller. of New York. the three-year-
old trottipg colt, Wild Rake. record 2;22Z,
by Hambletonlan Mambrino; dam Merry
Bitch, by John billiard The p rice paid was
$1,000. 1t is understood that Wild Rake will
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
A Li.tIe Surprise Party.

Mr.. Hills enjoyedsa little surprise party
on Summit avenue few days ago. The
avenue was in magnificent shape for fast
driving, and Mr.. Hills being out behind his
recentIy-purchased PAGER was driving along
at a quiet easy gait. with no idea of rae
ing. when up behind him came a magnif-
cent. high-heade6 bay. belonging to we'll
known citizen of st. Paul. The new conner
started to go by the strawberry roam. By a
good deal of noise and yelling he succeeded
in coming along side. but that was as far as
he got The little roam moved along little
faster and was soon out of the way
of the big fellow. and the farther they
went the greater was the distance between
them. The gentleman was quite angry,
and afterwards offered to bet several hum
dred dollars that his horse could beat the
id little roam. but he was informed by
Mr. Hills that he had mistaken his man:
that he was driving out for little pleasure;
that he was not betting or racing man,
and that he did not observe while he was
on the avenue that any one was trying to
race with him. Here is where the matter
rests for the present.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
WHY SANTA CLAUS CHUCKLE

Santa Claus rides upon the cold wave
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
Jolly old Santa Claus isn't a bad fellow.
after all. Would there were more like HIM
Philadelphia Times.
Ornithological Santa Claus-the chimney
swallow.-Hartford Sunday Journal.
No wonder people sigh for the good old
times. The modern stove is great hind
rance to the entrance Of Santa Claus.-Lowell
Citizen.
A hint to young men-One reason why
Santa Claus is so popular is because he has
been known to part his b air in the middle
PHILADELPHIA Herald.
We are just selfish enough to hope that
Brother Claus will circulate in this vicinity
before making himself known in the presence
of any Chicago observation-disclosures States
man.
In Chicago they haven't seen Santa Claus
for years. 1t Is said that he did visit the
place once, but he bushed fearfully at the
size of the stockings he saw, and his face be-
came so red that it melted all the snow and
he had to 90 home on wheels.-Rochester
Post-Express.
The man that is to ''make up
AS Santa Claus should know
Enough to drop his sleigh and deer
And trimming made of snow,
Or else he'll fino in giving
His gifts this Christmas Day,
He's felt almost too generous
And "given himself away"
-Yonkers Statesman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
TOUCHED WITH A MAGIC WAND.
A Christmas of Nectar and imbrosta.
Blossoms. Bells and Sports.

Tradition undoubtedly touches Christmas,
as it touches all things. with a wand of
magic says George William Curtis. Under
that spell we are apt to think that we are
belated in time, and lag behind the process
sion which has already passed on. There
is a vaguely regretful feeling that our
Christmas is only pleasant Renaissance,
and with natural Sef-deception we imag-
inc the Christmas that Irving describes to
have been universal in an earlier and hap
pier day. The ballad OF the ''Old and
Young Courtier'' portrays the hearty GUS
toms of time which always seems COL
den age to latter time
But was the old courtier, then, so much
nobler than the new? Is it the grandfather
who is the paragon and the grandson the
scapegrace? Alas, melancholy moralist,
was not the grandsire himself grandson?
1t Is the distance that enchants. The pur-
pie is upon the hills of the horizon. not upon
the roadside bank. In the tender backward
vista of what might have been the judge
sees Maud Muller raking hay. But had he
married her would heaven have come down
to earth?
The young courtier need not lose heart
because
With good old fashion, when Christmas was
come,
To call in his neighbor with bagpipe and
drum,
With good cheer enough to furnish every old
room
And liquor enough to make cat speak and
man dumb.
Like an old courtier of the queens
And the queens old courtier.
The old courtier still lives, and this is the
Christmas spirit and practice Which still sur
vive. Other great days have their becoming
observance, and we have already limited at
the particular form of good cheer that
belongs to other festivals of the church,
and here are the kindred rites of palms on
Palm Sunday and flowers on Easter.
But Christmas includes all theSe-the
nectar and ambrOsia, the blossoms and green
branches the music of bells and cEors. the
sports by the fireside and under the mistle-
toe-and adds to them all the interchange
of gifts. The giving of New Years day
is but a reflected light The true glory of
gift-giving belongs to Christmas.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20

be used by Mr.. Rackfelow as roadster.
Last year, at the Breeders meeting at Lex
ington, he wen the three-year-old stakes,
beating Bermuda, Sphynx and Nutbreaker,
W. n. Wilson, of Abdallah Park, Cynthiana,
KY, has sold to I. c. Jefferson, of Lexington,
KY, for other parties, the bay mare, Nettie,
foaed 1868, bred by John Killing, Rushville,
Ind. sire Gray Tom Hal. dam Mary, by
Shawhan's Tom Hal. Nettie has a pacing
record of 2:33, is the dam Of Jerome Turner,
record 2;151z. and is in foal to Alcyone,
record 2:29, sire of George Wilkes, 2:22.
Kingcraft, recently purchased by D. d.
Swigert. of Kentuck,, makes the twelfth
EPSON Derby winner imported to America.
Diomed, the first winner of the Derby. came
here In 1719. Saltram came in 1900. The
others were John Bull, Spread Eagle, Sir
Harry, Archduke, Lapdog, Priam, st. Giles,
Blue Gown and st. Blaise.
1t is quite probable that John E. Green will
take up his residence at Glenview. stock
company, of which Messrs Case and Wheeler
will be active members. will manage the
farm, with Mr.. Green to supervise it. II is
the intention to re-stock the farm in a very
complete manner.
NJ. T. Grattan, the special champion of the
Morgan horse, will be gratifled to know that
Gen. w. II. Jackson. of Nashville, Tenn, has
purchased in Vermont twenty-four horses OF
the Morgan family, and shipped them to
Tennessee where they will be used for breed
ing purposes.
Cherry Wood, by Nutwood, that brought
S. O25 at the Glenview sale, is reported to be
doing finely in his new nome in Indiana. He
is the highest priced weanling ever sold
under the hammer in America.
The Montana trotter, Carrie Bell, 2:2S14,
has been sent to Kentucky for further
developm mt. She is years old, was broken
at 4, and at raised Il colt.
hO frie hnd in
in the recent great race at San Francisco.
won by Harry Wilkes, was timed separately
in 2:I6. 2:l6H, 2:1S.
William Aston has announced his retire
ment from the running turf. and all the
horses in the Fercclife stable are to be sold.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20

steady and unchanged. The call for oats was
somewhat active, on the strength Of which
quotations advanced 3ac. with no offerings.
Barley and rye were unchanged. Millstuffs
were quiet and generally unchanged. Hay
in good demand at present prices. Seeds
steady. The call!
wheat-No hard, 751Sc bid; No. North
ern. 73c bid; No. 2 Northern, Tic bid.
Corn-No. 2, 39c bid, Ale asked; December,
sec bid; January, 38c bid.
Oats-No. 2 mixed, &c bid; December. 27c
bid; January, &c bid: MAY, Sic bid; No. 2
white, 2Sc bid; No. 8 white, &c bid.
Barley-No. 2, 47c bio.
Rye-No g 45c bid.
Ground Feed-No. 1, SIG asked; No. 2,
SIS asked.
Corn Meal-Coarse. SIS. so bid.
Bran-S10 bid.
Hay-No. 1, $3.50 asked; No. 2, S. asked;
timothy, S1O.25 bid.
Dressed Hogs-S4.35 asked.
Flax Seed-S3c bid
Timothy Seed-S1.60 bid.
Clover Seeds bid.
Eggs-23c asked.