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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02

By AID. SanbOTn-
Resolved. That the grade of alley in
block one o., Woodland Park addition
to st. Paul, between Kent street and
Mackubin street,as indicated by the red
and as recommended by the City Engi-
neer, be and the same is hereby adopted
as the established grade.
Yeas-Ald. Conley, O'COnnor, Cullen,
Ryan, Sanborn, Weber, Kahn, Bryant,
Long, Mr.. Vice PresideHt-10.
Approved May 80, 1888.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02
Ru A III 7 n,

ny hItI' IUIIS-
Resolved, That the City Oil Lamp
Contractor be and is hereby instructed
to place and maintain Oil lamps as fol
lows: One on the southeast corner of
Smelling and Grand avenues; one on
the southeast corner of Smelling and
Lincoln avenues; one on the southeast
corner OF Smelling and Goodrich ave
nues; also one on the west side of SneH-
ing avenue opposite the center of block
10; also one on the west side of Smelling
avenue opposite the center of block II;
also one on the west side of Smelling av
enae opposite the center of block II,
Rhey's addition
Yeas-Ald. Conley, O'Connor, Cullen,
Ryan, Sanborn, Weber, Kahn, Bryant,
Long, Mr.. Vice President-10.
Approved May so. 1888.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02
By Aid. Hamm-

by Ala. Hamm-
Resolved, That the grade of Reaney
street, from Duluth avenue to Book
street, as indicated by the red grade on
the accompanying profile, and as recon-
mended by the City Engineer, be and
the same is hereby adopted as the es-
tabliShed grade.
Yeas-Ald. Conley, O'Connor, Cullen,
Ryan, Sanborn, Weber, Kahn, Bryant,
Long, Mr.. Vice President-10.
Approved May so, 1883.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02

By AID. KAN
Resolved, That the grade of the alleys
in block thirty-four go Lyman Day
toms addition to st. Paul, as indicated
by the red grade lines on the accom-
panyiug profile, and as recommended by
the City Engineer. be and the same is
hereby adopted as the established grade.
Yeas-Ald. ConIey, O'Connor, Cullen,
Ryan, SanbOrn, Weber, Kahn, Bryant,
Long, Mr.. Vice PreSident-l0.
Approved May so, 1885.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02

By Aid. Weber
Resolved, That the City Engineer be
and is hereby instructed to cause to be
erected public pound at a cost not to
exceed 500, in Warrendale, at some
proper place, if the owners of said adj
dition furnish proper site for the same,
with the right of the city to occupy the
same for at least three years without
cost. This pound shall be used for
Warrendale, Como Park and vicinity.
Yeas-Ald. Conley, O'Connor, Cullen.
Ryan, Sanborn, Weber, Kahn, Bryant,
Long, Mr.. President-lO.
nnrOYed MAY 1898
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-02

by AIu. PetSch-
Resolved, That the st. Paul Gas
Light company be and they are hereby
instructed to cause a gas maintto be
laid on Aurora avenue, from Robert to
nue., from Cedar to Rice street, aud to
place one gas lamp in front of block 5
and block IL, BrewSter'S addition, at
such points as the Aldermen of the
ward may direct.
Yeas-Ald. Conley. O'Connor. Cullen,
Ryan. Sanborn, Weber, Kain, Bryant,
Long, Mir. Vice PreSident-1O.
Approved May 80, 1888.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

his free foot and lifting at it. Then,
with final blow. the byssus was
severed, and the buoyancy of the water
aiding us, we dragged the great moi
lusk-still fast to Browns ankle-back
to higher ground on the reef. Here
the water was waist deep, however. and
1 looked anxiously around for Mac in
the lakatoi. To my ineXpressible JOY
he was close at hand. and between us
we lifted Brown, with his now captured
'captor into the canoe. Even then we
could not-both of us together-pry
the valves Of the she'll apart enough TO
release Browns foot, till with knife
we had reached in and completely di-
vided the Misunderstanding asunder the
hinge-muscles at the base of the BIZ
valve. 1t was truly a gigantic clam;
and as poetic retribution upon it for
this attempt upon the life of one of our
party, we ate portion of its flesh for
our supper, but found it rather tough:
Browns ankle was severely bruised
and wrenched. and he suffered for
many day from the vise-lille grip of
the huge mollusk. San Francisco
1}WO12u3Li
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
A Literary Survival.

The Gothic or Runic, alphabet was
called the "Futhorc," from the first six
letters,-F, [, TIL, o, X, c. The third
rune (TH), which somewhat resembles y
and came from the Greek d. survived in
English literature until the last century.
and is occasionally used to-day when
people wish to write in an old-fashionel
style. And they are apt to make q
curious mistake in its pronunciation.
This rune remained in Irish and ANGLO
Saxon for the sound TIL, and in England
it was preserved longest in the word
THE, because that word occurs very
often, and it was easier to write one
letter than two. But in the course of
time it came to be mistaken for Y; and,
although our ancestors knew better than
to pronounce it like Y, their descend
ants do not, but usually give this appar
ent the sound of the real Y, making
YES out Of all the THE's. They do not
know that this is survival of a rune
almost to the present generation
Henry Ech.foad, IN ST. Nicholas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
De Ouincey on the Brontes.

We do not find that De Quincy has
anywhere printed any deliberate opin-
ion on the Bronte family-a circle pre-
senting such remarkable contrasts of
type and such remarkable mixture
OF strength and morbidity, that it is evil
dent they must have proved source Of
wonder, curiosity, and speculation to
him as he read and listened to accounts
of the impressions which their works
and lives had produced upon others
Here is the manner in which he dcs-
cants on the memoir by Mrs. Gaskell
in letter to a friend, apparently never
sent:
"NIrs. Gaskell, to say the least,
though a clever writer in her own walk.
is not very safe biographer. Twice
already she has been threatened with
actions at law for libelous and dcfama-
tory statements. Now, sometimes such
things escape in the hurry of compost
ton, OF through various mistakes: but,
really. hers were malicious, though in
case OF Mr.. Carus Wilson, whom have
always had a pleasure III believing a
finished specimen Of certain
religious party. she may have
had some grounds. Think of this
man, when grimly lecturing the little.
trembling child, c. b., upon hesitating
in beautiful sincerity of heart to win
his favor by saying that she loved the
Psalms, yelling ont: How? not love
King David's Psalms Why, I have q
young son who prizes them beyond
gingerbread nuts And it appears that
he was not without some excuse for
making this pretense: since always on
rejecting with distlain the gingerbread
that sought to seduce him from his al
legience tothe psalmist, he knew bvre-
peated experience that he should re-
ceive a triple ration of nuts. In Char
lotte Bronte's preternatural timiditv.
shyness, and a shrinking from notice,
surely there was a morbid basis of self
esteem, nourished almost to insanity bv
solitude. AS to Emily Bronte, how
unamiable does her reserve, carried
actually up to her dying moments, an
pear! And in the story of the bulldog
she is shown in a repulsivc character
brute against brute. Little did she or
her sisters know the extent of the risk
they ran in the savage boxing contest
with him, and he really possessed that
demoniac obstinacy and pluck which
many bulldogs have, but--luckilv for
them-he had not. The brother Bran
well, evidently with some traits of
genius, is left, too, unexplained. And
the papa seems to me a strange en-
bodiment Of seltislness. -GenUeD,0,1'S
1InUnzi11o
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
A Fishy Swimming Story,

The following swimming story is told
10y Lieutenant i'll the navy: 81 kept
my eyes fixed on my companion Brown,
who was acting in singular manner.
After every few seconds his head
would disappear beneath the water in
which he STOOD then it would appear
again. lie seemed to be struggling
violently. AS / approached him he
cried out, in accents that haunt me
still: For heavens sake, Lieutenant,
quick and help mc!' / dashed out to
him through water to my waist. what
is it What has hold of you?' ex-
claimed. Itsa big oyster, or a big clam
he sroaned. Il was wading here and
stepped into it, / expect. It's shell
closed, gripped my ankle. and to save
my life ] can't get away. and the tide
will soon be over our heads here he
added with something like sob.
He had been struggling here for fifteen
OF twenty minutes. J. had heard of the
tTldocna gigas, OF monster clam of this
coast. and instantly realized the
danger. Courage. old fellow said,
I'll stick by you. Here, hold this
paddle and the latchct.' l then
duclled down under the water, and with
my hands felt about the foot. The
huge mollusk hod what might be
termed deatl-grip on him. The crea-
lures shell was several feet long. and
OF proportionate breadth. and the
weight Of the shell must have been at
least 800 pounds. The creature was at
tached to the coral rock by grisly
hysus as thick as my arm. Raising
myself, / got breath, then securing a
paddle, thrust the shaft of it in between
the coverging edges of the two valves
OF the shell, and using it as a lever, at
tempted to pry the shell apart. But 1
could not open it. Brown, too, duck
ing down, Selling hold with his hands
pulled with ali his strength, but, exert
ing all our power, we could not release
the monsters hold. Again and again
threw my whole weight on the shaft of
the paddle, and at length broke it.
by this time the water was up to my
shoulders when l stood up. Fully
realizing that whatever I did must be
done in few minutes more, or else the
poor fellow would drown, I snatched
the Ratchet from Browns hand, and,
diving, tried to cut under the shell. to
break the creatures anchorage on the
rock. With might and main cut and
hacked-then rose an instant for breath
then down at it again. But it seemed
as though 1 could not cut through the
tough muscle. -Four times / dived,
and, with frantic haste, cut at those
tough byssl. ut stirs," at length
Brown cried, bracing his weight upon
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
e. WATERS REGULAR FEE.
Rich Men Give Only Twenty-Five Gents AL"
Find it Pays to be Generous.
.y.:,,,J

New York Mail and EXpress.j
att has long been a question with me
what was maximum tip or tee TO
walters" remarked wcll-Inown clup
man to a reporter.
Glow did you settle it -
'The thing settled itself. / called
upon California gentleman stopping
at a hotel who is worth over SO, DOC, 0oV'
His experience has been extensive. iof
he has not only travelled all over Europe
but thoroughly done his native country.
l found him at breakfast, and by lnvita'
ton sat down with him. He was beng
served on the European plan, la carte
l noticed that the waiter was very at
tentive and knew the wealth behind the
man he was serving. The breakfast
was plain and amounted to SO cents
The millionaire ran his hand down III
his pocket and brought out several COINS,
among them two $40 gold pieces. The
waiter turned aside somewhat noncha-
lantlv, as if not Watching the process.
but as quarter of a dollar was tishcd
out and handed to him his face
wreathed in smiles and he said, Thank
YOU in low voice. 1 was astonished;
I thought so cents would be his lowest
tip, and that a dollar was otinfrequent
with millionaires of his well-known
generous nature.
Gle said that 25 cents was the highest
tip on any and all occasions. But they
knew it was coming and never neglected
him. He argued that it was not the
great amount but the assurance that Il
tip was coming that had the magical
effect. He tipped nearly everybody in
the hotel; the baggage man, the hall
boy, the chambermaid, and the man
who called the carriages, not to men,
ton the bootblack, the barber, the boy
who brushed his clothes, and the news
boy, who somehow knew his customer.
A quarter all around to this small army
amounted to several dollars. He as
serted that he preferred to be taken for
a very poor man, so as not to be bored
by attention. Well, since then have
tried the quarter of a dollar limit and l
find it works. A half dollar will pro-
duce no better results. The waiter
knows that half dollar tip is out Of
proportion, and that it is only a sporadic
case of generosity. 1t is the average
certainty find, more than the amount.
give my barber 10 cents every time.
He says that a certain millionaire gives
him ST and makes it do for six months.
In the long run / give ten times as
much as that millionaire, but it is in
broken doses, and brings good attention
and service"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

AT private parties in Paris little
trick is now very commonly performed
which conjuror has lately brought
into vogue. A lady in the company is
requested to seat herself in q bamboo
chair, when she is covered with large
shawl, under which the general out
line of her figure is distinctly visible.
The performer then claps his hands
thrice, lifts up the shawl, and the lady
has disappeared. A few days ago Wis
count T., who had learned the trick,
invited numerous company to his
house in order to experiment on his
wife. Everything passed off success
fully. The beautiful Countess sat
down on the chair; she disappeared on
the third clap Cries of "Bravo!" re-
sounded through the room. and the
noble host, after reveling awhile in the
general establishment, said to bis guests:
"Now, ladies and gentlemen, shall
have the honor of bringing the vanished
one back to the company" He then re-
tired into the next apartment, but as he
did not come back for a long time
search was made, and the poor Wis
count was found lying in his bedroom,
in swoon. Her ladyship had disap.
peared-for good and all In letter
which was found she stated that she
could not live with him any longer, and
had taken that opportunity to leave his
house and return to her friends.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
Pr0mptness and Unanimity.

"See here" called out the barkeepel
you haven't paid for that drink
"True," replied the gentleman, VIII
was modestly retiring through the doc
edgewise; true, I did not; it is hab
into which I have fallen in my advan,
ing years; it is the last infirmity OF nobl
and acquisitive minds to absorb NOR
than they give out" So saying, h
gently but hastily closed the door Jus
IN time to receive upon it's roundln
panels bung-starter, lemon-squeezel
lce-pick, two beer glasses and decal
ter. what promptness and wins
unanimity!" said the gentleman, pan
ing to dry his lips with an absent cut
That bartender must be q human go
ling. "--Burdette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
The Judge and the LAWYER.

An attorney came into Judge Cotfey's
court guiding very unsteady client.
The room was a trihe small for him.
but he managed to get into a chair
somewhere. When the case was called
the chippy attorney got up and said:
Your honor, 1 don't see the attorney
on the opposite side present, but Tn on
deck. +"
"Yes," said Judge Coffey, looking
over to the client who had fallen off his
chair, land your client seems to be
overheard. San Francisco Chro7e-
inIc-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
Burdette on Bows.

What an uncertain element is thai
noble animal. the boy! One sunny day
last week little party of us climbed
Mount Iaccheus. We call it Noun
Zaccheus because tits short of staturd
just as we have named it's rocky neigh
Dor Mount Elisha because it is bald
While We loitered on the mountain sid|
we saw six or seven or eight boys filing
across the meadow down below
"Merry. light-hearted, happy boys, VI
said. "What care-free, honest littl(
troop it was! Everybody's heart warm|
toward boy" SO in spirit of condo
scending good fellowship we lifted ou|
voices i'll 81 CHEEKY hail. sending on
light "hoo hoo" echoing down the val
ley. The boys halted, looked up and
in an instant their bright eyes caugh
sight Of us half hidden in the leaf
bushes on the mountain side. "Thej
see us, we said; "now for the merry
ringing, boyish shouts in answer to ou1
hail" A moment of waiting. expectal1
silence, then the red lips, rcdder still
kissed by strawberries on the hi !
parted, and Il volley of profanity, vcio'4
abuse, haunting threats, vile epithet1
howled and shrieked in seven or cigll]
different keys, came shrilly up from
the peaceful valley with fury thai
made the bark on the birches curl and
cringe. Atfrighted, indignant, Mortified
we shrank out Of sight, and with
parting shot of profanity the urchn
disappeared. There are various mean
by which you may secure REASONABLY
courteous response to pleasant SALUTE
from party of strange boys. One wal
is to kill all the boys except one, the
smallest and weakest, and then stanC
over him with an iron club while yo'
speak to him. There are other ways
but none quite so certainly efficaciou
IS this One-BOb R1Lrdette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
CalllpllOl'.

The Laurel camphor tree, the one best
known, is of considerable magnitude,
and is sometimes 800 feet high and 100
feet in circumference. 1t is a native O,
China, Formosa, and Japan. The
leaves are evergreen. its flowers are
yellow-white, and the fruit not much
unlike half-ripe black currant. Every
part of the tree, but especially the
flower, smells strongly OF camphor,
which is extracted from the stem and
branches by distillation. In Borneo
there is camphor tree, which, upon
being cut down and split, is found to
contain small quantities of camphor in
natural cavities Of the wood. This is
highly priced by the Chinese, who are
willing to pay fifty times as much as
they pay for the ordinary kind. This
expensive camphor they principally use
for embalming the dead. Besides yield
ing this valuable ingredient, the
camphor-tree is greatly valued for the
excellent quality Of it's light and dur
able wood, which is used, not only in
building, but for various articles of
furniture.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

y5s related that an Ohio widow
owned a large gravel bank which a GER
s,a's railroad company was very anxious
fe secure. Several propositions were
made and rejected, and the President
hnally sent his private secretary down
with instructions to offer up to $4,000.
The Yoaang man returned after couple
,f days. and, when asked how the bust
ness had turned out, replied: 81 will
accept your Offer" "You?" "Exactly,
married the widow and own the
hank
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

TOMBSTONE, Arizona, has secret
society composed of young men who
call themselves the "Astonishers
Their existence as a body is known to
only few select mortals aside from
their own number and those select
ones are chiefly those who have been
considered by them as proper subjects
for the reception of their solemn rites.
Whenever man visits the community
and renders himself unduly conspicuous
or is believed by the Astonishers to be
a superfuous party. they hold meet
ing and decide to paralyze him. He
is inveigled into their den at night on
some pretext, and finds himself sur
rounded by eight muscular young men,
who toss him i'll a horseblanket until
he kicks the ceiling, after which they
swab his mouth out with kerosene, hold
a bottle Of bi-sulphide OF carbon under
his nose, compel him to take dose of
castor oil, stand him UP in corner and
pelt him with eggs, and slide him down
ladder on his Lack into Il cellar half
full of water. He is then given two
hours to leave town, is blindfolded and
taken into a dark alley, where the
bandage is removed and he is told to
"git." He usually gifts
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

4 PHILADELPHIA clergyman says he
ssas received from 5000 to a pair Of juicy
spring chickens for marrying couple.
anothcc received as much as $500 for
performing marriage ceremony, and
tells OF one time marrying young
couple and giving them several hum
.slresf dollars TO go to housekeeping.
Inc bride was his daughter. There is
ssne Philadelphia minister, however,
who WAS once paid $1,000 for tying the
knot,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
In Il Restaurant.

"Look here, waiter, this piece of
cheese is mouldy."
The waiter looked at the piece of
cheese and perceived that it really was
green and blue on top, and did not look
nice. Taking it in his hand he turned
it upside down on the plate, so that the
good side was uppermost and remarked:
There! that's the way it belongs.
There is nothing the matter with it now,
is there ?"-Teras Sifti1lqs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

srng ex-Communist Gen. Dubisson,
WAS encountered by Potapo1x, one of
his former aides-dc-camp, in small
town in Italy. "How do you manage
80 live?" inquired Potapoux. cit is
s1uite simple, answered Dubisson; Give
sun across a beggar who is both blind
and dumb T follow him about, and as
he can't see the pennies that people
throw to him, l stoop and pick them
IN"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20
Ia,lll1 be.

WaAT surprised an Englishman who
e>tbrne TO America is that at the bars the
whisky bottle is handed across the
s,enntcr with the request to help your
self. He says Americans must be a
ssolser class OF people, for if that sort of
thing was allowed in England the
streets would be full of drunkards.
There are, however, two sides to the
question. The English must not think
that Americans do not pay for this
liberty In England, it is true, the
ia'ror is measured, but the price of a
giasss of whisky in England is only from
4 TO 6 cents, while in America it is 10.
H., and 20 cents. The glasses for it in
shls country are so small that even if
filled to the brim the quantity taken
heaves N,e saloonist very handsome
nrofiI.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

I4' lis amazing that after all that has
seea written of the absurdity of GER
daSfa class of obituary poetry, there
should still appear specimens of the
worst sort in genuine death notices.
The following is no worse than many
other specimens, perhaps, but every
fresh instance of this sort of thing con-
seys 8 new sense of the absoluteness
with which many people lack the sense
.s,f ifunaor. The subject of this touch
aas poem was boy Of three years:
yi,e one we loved
Has passed away.
We tried all we could to save him.
But God, it seems.
Wanted him tho worst
And now he is safe in Heaven.
9'hs Is far funnier than any imitation
y.oul3 he.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

.AEv5ss ADAMS, when the express bust
1css vas in its infancy, had an Office
ssssd two horses in New York. One of
ihasc horses was fine, fast animal and
shss other an old broken-down nag.
Packages that were to be delivered i'm
o,eaistcly he sent out behind the fast
horse OF goods that didn't have to be
rss:,',ed he would say: "Leave them
se> the old boss" In every express
office to this day there is an boss"
room. where undelivered and unclaimed
packages are kept
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-01-20

THIs richest Governors of New York
we're Samuel j., Tilden and Edwin D.
Morgan. Each remembered his early
as'tne, the one devising library at New
Lebanon, and the other by adding q
s8i0o, 600 building to Williams College,