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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23

In the House.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The house met
ut O'Clock for debate upon the Pacific
telegraph bill. After considerable dis
cussion of the bill the house then at II
O'Clock adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Blair edu-
cational bill was laid before the house
and referred to the committee on educa-
ton.
The house then resumed consideration
of the urgency deficiency bill, the pend
ing question being upon the amendment
adopted in committee of the whole upon
motion of Mr.. O'Neil, of Missouri. in
structing the public printer to enforce
rigldly the provisions of the eight-hour
law. The amendment was adopted
yeas 1872, nays 53-and the bill. was
passed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-On motion OF
Mr.. Docke:y, of Missouri, resolution
was adopted making the Pacific railway
telegraph bill a special order for March 3.
Bills introduced and referred: A reso-
luton requesting the committee on rules
to report back the resolution directing
the committee on ways and means
to report dack a bill repeating the in
ternal revenue laws; also, a resolution
directing the committee on education to
report back the Blair educational bill be-
fore March 20; to amend the homestead
laws 80 as to provide that only eighty
acres can be entered instead of 100 acres
and to permit only citizens of the United
States to enter homesteads; providing
for the monthly payment of pensions; to
establish an industrial school at Bis
marck, Oak.
Mr.. Culbertson, of the committee on
judiciary, made motion to suspend the
rules and to pass the Hoar joint resolu.
ton changing the date of Inauguration
of the president from March to April 30.
Quite long debate ensued and vote
was taken. The motion was lost. The
house then adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-On motion of
Mr.. Nelson, of Minnesota, a bill was
passed authorizing the construction of q
bridge across the Red River of the North
by the North Dakota & Pacific Railroad
company.
Mr.. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, from the
committee on judiciary, reported back
senate bill to refund the direct tax.
Mr.. Culbertson, from the same COM
mittee, reported joint resolution propos-
ing constitutional amendment prohibit
ing and defining polygamy.
I. Mr.. Wilson, of Minnesota, from the
committee on commerce, reported a bill
providing for a collector of the port of st.
Paul. Committee of the whole.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23

There Il No Hope for the Crown Prince.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-German bankers
have received private cables informing
them that there is no hope for the recov-
cry of the crown prince.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
River steamers Sold.

ST. PAUL, Feb. 20-The Matt Clark
Transportation company's boats were
sold at the custom house here to-day.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
Minneapolis, Great steel Arcb nr,a,

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 2t.-Work on the
great steel arch bridge has begun and is
being pushed rapidly. The first span is
nearly completed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
Elected Grand Commander.

MILWAUKEE, Feb. ia. G. Weissert,
Of this city was Wednesday elected grand
commander by the state G. A. r. en-
campment
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
THREATEN VIOLENCE.
Star Wing Railway Employees on the Verge
of n Riot at Billings.

Starving Halfway Employees on the verge
Es Of Riot at Billings.
BILLINGS, Mont, Feb. 20.-Laborers
left destitute by the failure of the Rocky
Fork & Cooke City railroad to pay
wages due them, are causing trouble on
account of the county refusing to support
them any longer. BY threats of violence
they compelled one of the commissioners
to guarantee them support for two days
more until the return of the railway off :
cials. If relief is not given them a riot
is feared.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23

the outside, after which the annealing
process will be commenced. This will
take three weeks. The gun will then be
sent to Washington to be tested. The
wcrkmen claim that the steel is perfect.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
pn1itzer win Be Blind.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2t-The Commercial
Advertiser says: Joseph Pulitzer will
probably become totally blind. His
treatment at Santa Barbara has not been
successful.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23

Advertisements in double columns, double
he single column rates
Business cards, five lines, on Q year, IS 90. :.
rtisements' making more than five
ines and less than an inch will be charged as
one inch.
advance.
Advertisements in the local notice column
5 centsa line for each insertion.
Announcements OF marriages and deaths
published free; but obituary notices, except
in special cases, will he charged at advertis-
ing rates.
Legal notices Will be charged at 10 cents
per olio for The first insert lon, and SIT cents
for each subsequent insertion. All lie sal no
tlces must be upon the responsibility OF the
person ordering them published, and no affi-
davit uf publication will he given until the
publication fees are paid.
All accounts payable quarterly.
In connection with the PAPER, we have a
splendid assortment OF jobbing mai erial, and
are prepared to execute all kinds of printing
IL Sty lie unsurpaSSed.-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
CONGRESSIONAL.
General Summary Of Important
Proceedings in the Senate
and House.
Matters Of General Interest Gathered
Under the Dome Of the Ma
tons Capitol.
In the Senate.

In the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The bill ap-
propriating $500, 900 for q lighthouse on
Diamond shoals, off Cape Hatteras, was
taken up early in-the day and passed. &
The resolution providing for an fnvestf-
cation of the alleged deficiencies of the
postal service in the West was passed.
The following bills were introduced:
BY Sabin, authorizing the construction
of a railway bridge over the river at For
est City. By Henderson, to abolish the
Office of surveyor general of Nebraska.
One hundred and eight private pension
bills were passed, and after an executive
session, the senate adjourned till Mon
day. -
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-Among the Pc
titions presented in the senate Monday
morning was one by Mr.. Blair containg
Is. 600 signatures, praying tho passage Of
legislation for the better protection of
women and girls to prevent assaults and
rspes.
Mr.. Palmer, from the committee on
agriculture reported the bill for the es-
tablishment of a bureau of animal indus
try. Placed on the calendar. -"
The senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration of executive business and soon
adjourned.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
TWO THOUSAND LIVES LOST.

A Terrible Earthquake Sweeps Over a
Chinese Province.
SHANGHAI, Feb. ia terrific earth
quake has occurred in the province of
Yunnan. Two thousand lives. are re-
ported to have been lost.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
Little Falls e Dakota.
Minnesota & Northwestern R'y.

Leave Arrive
St, Paul. STATIONS. lSt. Paul.
1910 n st. Louis Kas City Exp 1850 NJ
7:05 p NJ . $50 A M
Chicago Waterloo & Du-
I 7:05 NJ buque express. II $50 A NJ
Randolph, NOrthf1eld Far
4:30 P NJ ibault Waterville acc. Itll:20 AM
Dodge Centre. Rochester,
4:30 p n Austin and Lyle acc. lfll:20 AM
Daily ex. Sunday. ex. Saturday. Exc
.sonday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
THE GREAT, GUN.

Cannon Finished Successfully.
+ PITTsBURG, Feb. 18.-The work of bor-
ing the great steel gun was completed
Friday. 1t will now be ''turned OFF, on
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23
NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Interesting Items Briefly Chronicled fcR
fs9stt EsGG7 Our Readers.

HE President an I
Mrs. CT eve la FG,''
accompanied by
several friends ;.
started for Florida
Tu esd ay. They
return Saturday. +.
The Supreme
court Of the Unit.
ed States has ad-,
journed until tina
/ 8 tn of next
month,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23

The 1iremen of Rochester, MIMI, will
give q ball at Library hall Feb %.
Two old settlers of Princeton, Mimi,
j. M. Black, a teamster, was CON-
pletely cut in two at Sullivan Lake,
Mum, by loaded sleigh passing ovet
him. u
The examination in the case of Rich
ard K. Fox, charged with participating
in prize fight, was held in the tombs
police court in New York. It was not
shown that Fox was present when the
arrangements were made, and he was
discharged.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-02-23

Mrs. Catherine L. Mccoy, wife CT
Lieut.. Mccoy, U. 8. A., and daughter CT
Gen. John Gibbon, died at Fort Vancoua
yer Friday evening after a brief illness.
County treasurers in Minnesota report
an easy collection of taxes among farm
, 1888-04-06

DIR. J.. Nick. Carroll has constructed
an ingenious apparatus, by which he
can determine with a considerable degree
of accuracy the time it takes to think,
and has experimental with many inter
esting results. Thus to see white light
took one-twentieth of a second; to see a
picture, one-tenth Of a second; to see a
letter, one-eighth of a second; TO see a
word, one-seventh of a second; to judge
between red and blue one-thirteenth of a
second. Some letters and words require
more time to see than others. The time
of remembering can also be measured.
The name of a familiar word takes less
time TO remember than the name of a
letter, though the letter can be seen in
less time. The name Of the next month
can be thought of in less time than that
of the last. Sensation travels by the
nerves 10 the brain at the rate of about a
mile n minute, which is slower than was
supposed. 1t would be interesting 10
test some of the numerous memory sys,
TENS now advertised by this method
Philadelphia Times.
, 1888-04-06

For all kinds of memoranda, notes and
references l use n uniform paper
namely, paper cut the size of a postal
card, common paper, such as one can get
in any quantity at a printing office for
almost nothing, and cut in the bargain.
a bunch of these papers, kept together
by n rubber band, is always lying at
hand ready for use. Whenever l am
reading a book l put one of these papers
as a mark between the leaves, and
it is the work of only n mo-
ment to note thereon the number of
the page, with n catchword or two as
guide to the character of the passage,
whenever l strike anything that l wish
to remember. This manner of referring
can be used with a borrowed book as
well as with ones own, as it leavas no
unsightly marks or understandings. When
the book is finished l thus have a list of
the parts that are of most significance
to me; and the list may be filed as it is,
or, in case of references of special i'm
portance, its topics may be drawn off and
kept in topical or alphabetical order.
On these same papers | keep also my
own notes and comments, and all ara
kept filed under the same alphabet. To
facilitate the finding of these afterward,
l always give a title to a note or refer
ence, like the side heading of a para
graph. Thus l bring all that 1 may
want to use again, whether lines of
thought that l myself have begun, or
thoughts that l have collected from
others, under one index, ready for use
together. - John F. Genung in The
Writer
, 1888-04-06
Tho Rcd Adam and Eve.

Intimately associated with Manitou's
Landing, Gate and Wigwam, in the leg
end of creation, stands one more of these
natural curiosities of Mackinac island.
1t is known as Lovers Leap" and has
been the subject of more r~omanciRg than
any other of the island celebrities. The
prettiest modern conception is that which
represents an Indian girl watching here
for the return of her lover from the war
path. His comrades appear without
him, saying that he was slain. His
faithful maiden sings her death song here
upon this pinnacle, and leaps into the
lake to overtake her lover in the land of
spirits.
But the ancient legend of creation has
the most natural IN complete explana-
ton aver given of the origin of Lovers
Leap. The red Adam was driven from
the island by an evil minded angel, who
was enamored of the red Eve, and she,
having denounced the angel as "devil,"
with whom she could not be compelled
to remain longer than to express her hate
of him, ''fled like wind as it wantons
down from far Waugoshanee," and
leaped from the cliff. Her banished
mate, who was padding sorrowfully
along the shore and saw her fall, urged
his canoe forward and saved her life; and
Manitou restored them to the island
and banished the angel from heaven.
He fell to the under world of bad spirits,
and there became a great leader and the
father of the white race of beings called
men, who, filled with the hatred of their
father toward the red Eve, lave never
ceased to work for the ruin of her de-
%scendants. This remarkable legend of
creation has made "the island a holy
land to me, and shows more plausibly
than anything / nave ever found, a re-
~lationship between the North American
Indians and the ancient inhabitants of
the eastern hemisphere; while Lovers
Leap stands as prehistoric evidence that
love is as old as the human heart
Charles Ellis in American Magazine.
, 1888-04-06
A Rich Mans Flower window.

The house in Philadelphia where the
widow of Matthew Baldwin now lives is
in the center of the business part of
Chestnut street, and is remarked upon
by many of the passers by because of the
peculiar arrangement of a conservatory
built on the level with the street. 1t is
like a good sized shop window, but as
there is no door visible it cannot be mis-
taken for one. Beautiful flowers bloom
there all the year round.
1t seems that when Mr.. Baldwin was a
lad, before he ever dreamed of fame as a
manufacturer of locomotives, he was
daily in the habit of passing on his way
to work a window filled with flowers.
AS he had a passionate love for them, he
invariably stopped and gaZed upon them
with delight for a moment or two. After
he became rich man and looked back
to his boyhood days, when he was strug
Cling for a livelihood and found so much
cheer and comfort from this glimpse of
natures l~oveliness, he resolved that he
would be the means of giving some other
boy a chance to look and admire in the
same way. He built his house with a
special regard to this window of flowers,
and it is unique both in conception and
construction. New York Press Every
Day Talk
, 1888-04-06

The city of Salt Lake is practically
without debt. Its bonds, to the amount
of $3.50, 900, to aid in the construction of
a canal, over twenty miles long, to bring
an adequate supply of fresh water from
Utah lake, have already been largely re-
deemed, though the term of the loan has
but half expired.
A people who have by patient endeavor
and community converted a sterile region
into a garden spot, by irrigation, natur-
ally become imbued with notions of thrift
and economy-public as well as private.
This natural tendency is encouraged by
an e%minently practical religion. The
emblem adopted by the founders of Utah
is the beehive. The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints seeks to make
its followers honest, industrious and
economical.-Delegate John T. Gaines
Letter.
, 1888-04-06

The yelk of an egg has in its middle q
little jelly like speck or germ, from which
the young bird is Matched. The yelk is
70 made that this germ Is always upper
most, no matter in which position the
egg lies; so that when the hen is sitting
the germ is always nearest to the
warmth. The yelk and the albumen (or
white) furnish food to the bird while il
Is in the shell. AT the larger end of the
egg, between tie skin and the shell, is q
space filled with air for the young one
TO breathe.-Milton Argus.
, 1888-04-06

In Russia every conceivable act of man
is regulated by law. No private enter
prise can be established, no corporation
formed, no business entered into without
the consent of the state. This law is not
the act of a Legislative body, but the de-
cree of the car. Some DEGREES read:
Il forbid;' others: at is permitted. "
In other countries what is not forbidden
by law is allowed. In Russia everything
is forbidden which the law does not cx-
pressly permit or the spirit of the eXecu-
tive power tolerate. 1t is not the good of
the people that is studied, but the well
fare of the despot. There can be no mis-
take; it is impossible for the cZar or his
agents to do wrong. They have an ex-
preston in Russia: 'He has offended. F"
What2 That is nobody's business. He
has offended the police, who accept no
apologies and seldom forgive. He may
II o have violated written law, or even
custom; he has simply ~''offended. " and
that is enough. He goes to prison, per-
haps to Siberia, as the tyrants dictate,
for no court interferes, and no habeas
corpus is known. There is very little for
the lawyers to do but bride the police
William Eleroy Curtis.
, 1888-04-06

And all around, look which way I
will, the interchangeable east" asserts it
self prominently on every side. Hump
necked Brahmin Ike Craze drowsily
beneathdthe shade of broad leaved ba-
nanas. Dusky youngsters, whose entire
clothing seems to consist of two brass
rings and a broad grin, stare at you
across the spiky bosses of n formidable
mass of prickly pear. Through the
clustering leaves n large eyed Cingalese
beauty, whose hereditary taste has
turned four yards of white cotton into q
toilet which the most gifted milliner in
Paris might despair of initiating, comes
gliding as noiselessly as a shadow, carry
ing her earthen pitcher poised on her
graceful head, just as the mother of the
Hebrew race carried hers to the far off
Mesopotamian well 4, 900 years ago. And
yonder, in front of a tiny hut matched
with palm leaves, a shriveled old woman,
lean as a bayonet and hideous as a plate
of the fashions, with a ring through her
nose like a pig, is powdering some grain
in n rude wooden trough, and keeping
time to her work with a low monoton-
GUS song, which has peer handed down
unchanged from the days when Abraham
was still an unknown shepherd lad upon
the steppes of the E~uphrates. David
Ker in New York Times.
, 1888-04-06
The Dog. Remarkable Power.

OF all the feats common to hunting life
md woodcraft none seems to me half so
wonderful as tracking or trailing. AS
practiced by man tracking is wonderful
enough, but far more marvellous is the
power by which a dog or fox can follow
its prey at full speed, guided only by
scent, without erring or being led astray.
To us the word scent has but little
meaning. 1t is the name of a power
with which man is comparatively almost
u~nendowed. We go into the woods and
see nothing but leaf strewn ground,
thinly scattered over with herbs and
thickly planted with trees; we see no
quadruped and find no sign of any, per-
haps, save the far away chatter of a squir-
rel. But our dog, merrily %careering about,
is possessed of a superior power. At
every momen of his course he is gather
ing facts and reading a wonderful record
of the past, the present and ever of the
future. Here" says his unseen guide,
lis where a deer passed a minute ago."
or IAN hour ago." this was the course
of a fox n week ago. ''that was the
direction in which a rabbit flew by a few
minutes ngo, and, ohol there was a
weasel after himl'
Such is the curious record of scent, re-
vealed to the dog, but hidden from the
man, and even ineNplicable to him, for
though we have a theoretical knowledge
of the subject it is too imperfect to make
us fully understand that not only has
every kind of animal, but each individual
animal, its own peculiar scent. Thus the
dog can distinguish not only the bucks,
does and fawns of the deer tribe. but can
pick out of a dozen the track of the par
ticular buck that he is following and
never leave it or lose it. Moreover, he
a tell by the scent which way the ami
NAL is going and he is never known to
run backward on a trail.-St. Nicholas.
, 1888-04-06

There is in Philadelphia a blind news
dealer whose sense of touch is SO acute
that he not only makes change accurately
and rapidly, but can detect a counterfeit
note or coin at once. His stand has been
for many years near the corner of Sixth
and Chestnut streets. In nine years, he
says, only So. so in counterfeit money
has been successfully passed on him. His
sense Of hearing is also remarkable, and
after he hears the voice of a regular Gus
toner he can always call him by name.
New York World.
, 1888-04-06
Silver Plated Ribbons.

"Rather neat, chr"
A Broadway dealer in fancy goods
was showing a reporter a handsome pur-
pie ribbon on which his initials were
written in silver letters.
you want to know how that was
done2 Well, I'll tell you. Make a solu-
ton of nitrate of silver, and add a little
gum to it 81 that the liquid will not run.
Then, with a camel's hair pencil or n
quill pen, draw any sort of ornamental
figure on the silk. After the drawing is
dry, hold the ribbon over a vessel con.
tanning water, zinc and a little sui
phuric acid. In a short time the silver
will be reduced and adhere quite strongly
to the fabric. By this plan almost any
thing can be written on silk. A picture
could be painted in silver and there is no
end to the fanciful designs that might be
made. New York Mail and Express.
, 1888-04-06

Erlenmeyer. in his work on the opium
habit, records a case In which fatal tuber.
cular poisoning was believed to have been
produced by the hypordermic needle.
A physician, aged SO, who had been &C
customed TO use the same needle for him
self and a t%uberculous patient, died sud
denly, and at the autopsy a tuberculosis,
strictly localized to the %peritoneum, wa
found. Chicago Times.
, 1888-04-06

Family affection is, perhaps, the noblest
characteristic of the Greek character.
Nowhere else, / think, does one see fra
ternal love so strongly developed, nor the
women of the family 80 tenderly cared
for. Should the father die the brothers
take his place, and SO long as a sister of
manageable age remains unportioned
and unwed they will not think of taking
a wife Observation-Disclosures Budget,
, 1888-04-06
A Great Battle

Is continually going on in the human sys-
tenn. The demon of impure blood strives
to gain victory over the constitution, to
ruin health, to drag victims to the grave.
d good reliable medicine Ike Hoods Sar,
sarparilla is the weapon with which to
defend ones self, drive the desperate
-saemy from the field, and restore peace
il. bodily health for years. Try this
medicine.
, 1888-04-06

A 16-year-c,d boy knows more physical
facts, understands better the laws govern
ing the universe of matter than did Arts.
totle, Euclid, Pythagoras, Ptolemy or any
ancient philosopher. Strange assertion,
yet true so swiftly has the present period
been signalized by scientific triumphs.-
The Coronado.
, 1888-04-06

Having once possessed knowledge, we
can never lose it; the power to use it
may be temporarily lost, but there is nc
knowing when the proper chord may not
be struck, and the old fact of memory or
the old problem long worked out may
not be regained. All our experiences
may fade away into the realm OF uncon.
seriousness. yet they are not lost; they
are only dormant and biding their time.
Francis Speir in Popular Science
Monthly.
, 1888-04-06
An Cure.

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is only put up in large two.ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old
sores, burns, wounds. chapped hands and
all skin e~ruptions. viii positively cure all
kinds of piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold by DR..
w. N. Hunt, at 25 cents per box-by mail
80 cents.
, 1888-04-06

A plaster cast of a fossil egg, found in
the tertiary strata of the island.of NADIA
gascar, the original of which is in the
Paris Academy of Sciences, belongs to
the National museum at Washington. 1t
is "a 1-2 inches n way by 30 inches the
other. The original is supposed to have
been the egg of & bird three times as
large as the ostrich.--New Orleans Times
Democrat.