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Afro-independent. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1888-1???, 1888-09-22
RluMpHs OF TRADE.
Vow the Sea Has Been Subjected co the
Uses of Man.

Wow the Sea Has Been Subjected co the
Uses of Man.
me sea was to primitive man
dreadful and little known wilderness.
II seemed to disjoin men, to hinder
trade. to coop up the human race.
To-day it is the ring OF marriage
with all nations As upon the great
deserts merchants travelled in caravans
for safety and counsel, so they at first
Travelled upon the sea in fleets, as soon
as individual explorers had led the
way and commerce had any sort of
organization. Men were too timid to
venture alone with their goods.
The picturesque element was I'M
doubt. Take Venice as type not
too remote in time for the modern
mind. A green sea laves the foot of
Its white quays and palaces. Red
robed officials stand at the top of the
quay steps and the doors of mansions
and on the Rialto. The public square
Is alive with the sound of flies and
trumpets and professions of archers,
mariners and dignitaries pass along.
Venetian beauties smile on the
Young patricians who are about
to leave home for long jour-
ney. The air is heavy with flags
and pennants; it is a public holiday,
for the feet is going eastward on its
annual journey, and going in body,
under a Commodore elected by the
Grand Council, who has his own train
OF music men, his black-robed physi-
clans, his pilots, scribes and craftsmen
bearing their tools. Each ship has
been chartered by public auction, and
is directed by patrician. The fleet,
with the blessing of the DOge and the
good wishes-alas! also the tears-of
the people, will slowly maze its way
eastward, and when it has bought car
goes of silks, camlets, carpets, Persian
shawls and spices, sent by caravan to
the Syrian ports and to Egypt, it will
curve back toward the mouth of the
Mediterranean, distributing its riches
as it goes, and shipping others, until
it has reached Portugal and can creep
along to Antwerp, the center of Vest
ern trade, and thence to the Thames,
to assemble in state at southampton
for the homeward voyage, laden with
English kerseys and cloths.
Continental wine fleets came to En-
gland in this way in the early time.
Tossed into disorder, they reached the
Thames, and when they reached the
New Weir, the city boundary, they
dressed up, raised their ensigns and
then came up to London Bridge, the
marines singing all the way with lusty
voices, their kiriele, or song of thanks
giving and deliverance. Many En-
glishmen, in their river craft and
from their overhung doorways and
dormer windows, used to think these
foreigners made needless fuss about
a little toss on the German ocean or
hustle in the chops of the channel; but
then, as now, they had wicked wit
for men in strange garb, over curious
i n their eating and drinking and quick
in speech. ( asSelrs Family Magazine.
Afro-independent. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1888-1???, 1888-09-22
FRANCES DANGER.
Hes Continual Loss of Population FoFe-
shadows Her Decay.


shadows Her Decay.
II all European nations agreed to
limit population-just as II all nations
agreed to disarm-an epoch of marked
material prosperity would no doubt
ensue. At present, however, there
seems no chance whatever OF this, and
we are engaged In a general scramble
to oyerstoek our own countries, and
thence to oyerspread the earth. A ma
ton which falls out of this scramble
may gain In comfort for the time, but
1t will lose its status; its specific type
will become relatively unimportant;
Its thought and literature will lose
their power with mankind. Great and
powerful though France is now, such
countries as Holland and Belgium are
not without their warning for her in
the near future. In fifty years, II the
present rates Of increases are MAIN
tanned. she will rank sixth only among
European nations. In one hundred
and fifty years she will have sunk
almost beneath consideration in a
world OF Russians and Germans, Anglo
Saxons and Chinese. Without repro
ducing the elaborate computations by
which the relative decline OF France
has been exhibited by statisticians, it
is enough TO say that in the present
acute phase Of national competition
France can not afford TO forego the
motive power of the YER sacrum-of
yearly swarms OF young men pressing
forward to develop their country either
by colonization without her borders or
by novel and eager enterprise within.
At the same time ii is OF course desir-
able that multiplication should be COM
bined with providence-that the in
crease OF numbers should not proceed
from the lowest and most reckless
classes alone. Now, in comparing
the natality or rate OF increase
of different provinces in France, it
seems that the increase Is rapid in
two main quarters--frst Gas with our
selves) among the degraded inhabit-
ants of the poorer quarters OF great
cities, and secondly, in those provinces
where Catholicism Is still dominant
power. Between Catholic Brittany and
free-thinking Normandy the contrast
is striking. and the more so inasmuch
as the difference OF race between these
provinces seems all in favor OF the
Norman population, whose young
mothers, indeed, are in special request
for the benefit of infants other than
their own. Yet the annual births in
Brittany are thirty-three for each thou
sand OF population; in Normandy only
nineteen. Now, in the educated classes,
where rapidity OF increase is still more
important, the impulses in either direc-
tion, though less crudely defined, are
not therefore less potent. On one side
there are the wish for new objects of
affection and the satisfaction with the
lot upon which the children will enter;
on the other side, besides the obvious
economical reasons, there are the de-
cline in the value set upon existence
and the doubt whether II Is well to
summon new beings as sensitive as
ourselves into a world which to each
fresh generation seems TO loom more
awful in the obscurity of its meaning
and OF its end. Nineteenth Century.
Afro-independent. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1888-1???, 1888-09-22

-"Cozey Bell, a handsome female
Skye-terrier, had been the household
pet of wealthy New York lady for
ten years. Recently "Cozeyn died OF
cardiac failure, as her physician was
pleased to call 1t. Her sorrowing mis-
tress purchased Woodlawn Cemetery
Lot. ordered velvet-covered. satin
lined burial casket, had an engraved
silver plate put upon it, stating the
name and age of the deceased, and, ac
companied by sympathetic friends, fol.
lowed ''Cozey's" remains TO their tinai
resting place.
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A lesson in Grammar.

Teacher Johnny. is the sentence
He sells me watermelon. correctP
Or should the form be: "Hc sells a
watermelon To megn
Johnny lwho has had some practical
experienee)-It depends on the melon.
II it's ripe he sells the melon. II it's
green he sells me, Mr.. Hoslinson. -
Chicago Tribune
Afro-independent. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1888-1???, 1888-09-22

"A new target, which indicates the
value OF the last shot without the
necessity OF marker, has been brought
out. When the shot strikes colorec
disc appears. which tells the value by
It's color. The target has been tried
successfully al indoor practice. and Il
is hoped that trial at long range will
ha afforded the inventor.
Afro-independent. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1888-1???, 1888-09-22

DIR. Richardson, the eminent Lon.
don physician, says that the death-ratt
is the smallest in European cities where
Sunday Is a day of rest. and the largest
where the day Is given up to drinking.
amusements and rioting.
Afro-independent. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1888-1???, 1888-09-22

So many muraercrs have escaped
arrest In Leaaon of late years the peo-
PIE are said to be losing faith in the
police as agents OF public safety.
Afro-independent. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1888-1???, 1888-09-22

"A beer gardenis a place where the
Wild thyme grows. -BlHghamtoa Re
pnhlfcaA.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
EUNICE GRAY,
Clermont Avenue,
Brooklyn.

walked Oh air that day and toll was
pleasure, and when it fell to my lot to
write something about a collision be-
tween an ice cart and a horse car, in
which an old lady was killed, the mat
ter-Of-fact editor said to me:
"Wbat'S the matter with you? Take
this cOnfOunded blank verse and make
Stickful of common sense of it.''
l came down out of the clouds and
did his bidding, and slept but little that
night after finding my pillow.
| kissed my dear old mother with un-
wonted tenderness that morning. She
was all l had in the world then. and I
was all she had, my father having died
ten years before, leaving her with a
slender fortune, and myself and an elder
sister to smooth as best we could her
path down the declining years of her life.
A little more than year before, my
sister had been taken with a severe
cold, which ended in fatal attack of
pneumonia, and she was lying by the
side of our father iin Greenwood, and
poor mother, like Rachael, would not
be comforted."
When | met Eunice that morning she
held out her hand, covered with the
same neatly darned gloves, and / could
not feel as if we were strangers l told
her so, and also what little of history
there was in my humdrum, uneventful
life. and asked her if she would allow
nc to call at her home that night and
6niSll my story.
Sac said: II have but poor home to
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
A STROKE OF GENIUS.
How Harry's Wife Received Her
Erring Husband When He Came
Home Full.

How Harry's Wife Received Her
Erring Husband When He Came
Home Full.
Detroit Free Press
She was woman of ready resource.
While the hour was late, two OF three
evening visitors yet tarried, and the
moment she heard her husband strike
the steps she knew that he was boozy,
and also grasped her line of conduct.
."Ha, hap she laughed, as she rose,
''he cometh. He has been out rehearS-
ing for amateur theatricals and it will
be just like him to try to show off. He
takes she part of Maj. Springer, who
comes home full.''
A hand was heard clawing over the
door; key was finally jabbed in the
lock and then the major entered. His
hat was tipped back, his knees wabbled,
and he hung to the door and muttered !:
"WlIaz zhis l shee fore me? Shay,
Emily, whaZZer doing, eh?"
'De-lightful! splendid!' cried the
wife as she clapped her hands. 'Why,
Harry, you are grand success in your
role''
"WhaZ That! WhaZZer laffin' bout?
First time been Zhrunk in two years.
Had lizzle time wiz zhe boys. you knOwE'
beautiful! Booth couldn't beat itr'
exclaimed the wife. 'sWhy, dear, you
are born actor. It's just as natural as
life"
who shays Pm a liar. Whoop. 1
can lick any man in 'troit! Been out
wiz 'er boys, you know! Shay, Em'ly?'
Isn't he natural, Thoughts replied
the wife. Run up stairs, Harry. and
change your clothes. You'll do. Moth
ing could be more perfect"
''Chaze (hic) closes! No, zur! Chaze
nozzing! Up stairs! Yes, go up shtairs.
Good (hic) niZe, Emily. Regular angel.
Been out wiz'er boys, you knOw!"
And the little woman clapped her
hands and laughed and praised, and got
rid of her company under the impress
. sion that no one had smelt mice. How
ever, the last one was hardly off the
step, when she bounced up stairs and
confronted the bedazed man with the
exclamation:
"Now, then, you old demijohn, pre-
pare to get the worst wolloping fool of
husband was ever treated top
And he got ii.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
CONTRACT WORK.
Paving Central Park Place East
and Central Park Place West.


OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WoRKs, !
CITY OF ST. PAUL. Mimi, June 16, 1888. {
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of St. Paul, Min
nesota. at their Office in, said city, until
12m. on the 29th day of June, A.. d.
1888, for paving Central Park Place
East and Central Park Place West,
from East Summit avenue to Central
avenue in said city, with cedar blocks
and curbing with granite, including
the: necessary sewer connections,
according to plans and specifications on
filein the office of said Board.
A bond with at leasttwo (2) sureties
in a sum of at least twenty (20) per cent
of the gross amount bid must accompany
each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
rejectany or all bids.
r. L. GORMAN, President. :.
Officials w. F. ERWIN,
170-1s0 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
CONTRACT WORK,
~
Paving Central Avenue.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, j une 16, 1883. {
Sealed bids will be received by The
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of St. Paul, Min
pesota, at their office in said city, until
IL m. on the 10Th day of June, A. D.
1888, for paving Central avenue Except
boulevards), from Wabasha to Robert
street, in said city, with cedar blocks
and curbing with granite, including the
necessary sewer connections, according
to plans and specifications on file in the
Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in a sum of at least twenty (2O) per
cent of the gross amount bid must
accompany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
K. l.. GORMAN. President.
Official: w. f. ERWIN,
170-1sO Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
CONTRACT WORK.
Grading Main Street


OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works.
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, June2 1888. {
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the City of st. Paul, Min
nesota, at their Office in said city. until
II IN. on the I'd day of July, A. d. 1883,
for grading Main street, from Plum
street to Clermont street, in said city,
according to plans and specifications
on file in the Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties i'm
a sum of at least twenty (20) per cent of
the gross amount bid must accompany
each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
r. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. f. ERWIN,
173-1S3 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
daughter, and that his real name was

daughter, and that his real name was
Robert Gray.
Ibis will reads that after the payment
of his just debts the property reverts to
the mother for natural life and at her
death to go solely to her daughter. Mr..
Graydon, or rather Gray, had just sold
half interest in his mine to st. Louis
syndicate for S2SD, 200, and the transfer
of the deeds was to have taken place
next Saturday."
gave myself my own assignment for
that and many succeeding days. Eunice
and made the trip to Gunnison armed
with the proper proof of her identity.
and carried out the terms of her fathers
contract. The mine pays her about
$4,000 monthly; the firm of which Mr..
Gray was a member has been paid in
full with interest, and no longer fear
the frown of the city editor, but rather
patronize him when drop in on him
and take him over to the Astor house
for luncheon
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
CONTRACT work.
Grading Alley in Block I, Wool
land Park addition.


OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works, |
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, june 16, 1883. I
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
nesOta, at their office in said city, until
~ m. on the 29th day of June. A. D.
1883, for grading alley in block |, Wood
land Park addition to ST. Paul, from
Mackubin street to Kent street, in said
city, according to plans and specifica-
tiOns on file in the Office of said Board.
a bond with at least two (2) sureties
in a sum of at least twenty (20) per cent
of the gross amount bid must accompany
each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
X. l.. GORMAN. President.
Official: W. f. ERWIN,
170-1s0 Clerk Board ofPublic Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
Assessment for Paving Laure.
Avenue.


OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, !
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, June D., 1888.
The Board of Public Works in and for
the corporation of the city of st. Paul,
Minnesota, will, meet at their office in
said city at p. m. on the I'd day of
July, A. ID. 1888, to make all assessment
of benefits, costs and expenses arising
from paving Laurel avenue, from Nina
avenue to Dale street, with pine blocks
and curbing with granite, including the
necessary sewer, connections to the prop
erty lines, in said city, on the prop
erty on the line of said improvement,
and deemed benefited thereby amount
ing in the, aggregate to $40 9,575.95.
All persons interested are hereby noti-
fed to be present at said time and place
of making said assessment, and will be
heard.
RI. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. f. ERWIN,
176-177 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
Notice to Bidders.
COUNTY AUDITORS OFFICE,
ST. PAUL. Mimi. June 2l 1883.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, June 21, 1888.
Bids Will be received at the Office of the
Auditor of Ramsey County, in the city of ST.
Paul, Minnesota. until the I'd day of July,
A. d. 1888. at 9 o'clock p. M, for all the ma
terial and work required to build and con-
Struct an
Engine house, including aH required ex-
cavaton therefor and alterations in
and rebuilding and reconstruction of
the easterIy end and walls and Chin
ney ofthe existing jail building, on the
n0rtheasteriy corner of Court House
Square, at the Intersection of Fifth and
Cedar streets, in said city; and also to
build and construct tunnel from said
engine house to rear wall of Court
House and city Hall building, and there
make connection with existing tunnel,
all according to the plans and specifications
by e. P: Bassford, architect, on file and for
inspection at the rooms of said architect, No.
% Giltillan block, i'll said city, Bids to be
addressed to NJ. f. Kain. Secretary of Court
House and City Hall Special Commission, at
said Auditors office, and bids must state the
shortest time in which the bidder will COM
plete the work, and the price and amount bid
in gross or Jumped sum. and must be ac-
companied by the bond of the bidder in the
penal sum of 81 900, with responsible sure
tles, residents OF SAID city, conditioned that If
the contract shall be awarded to the bidder
he (or they will enter into such contract
and give the required bond for its execution,
or in lieu of such bond, bids may be accom-
panied by the certified check of the bidder
for 1,000 on some bank in the city of st.
Paul, payable to the order of Robert A. Smith,
chairman. The right to reject all unreason-
able bids and all bids of incompetent or ir-
responsible persons, is reserved
BY order of the Court House and City Hall
Special Commission NJ F. KAHN
Secretary of Commission.
st. Paul. June 81. 1885
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
Assessment for Paving Arundel
Street.
OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, I
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi. june %, 1883. {

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, ,J June %, 1883.
The Board of Public Works in and for
corporation of the city OF st. Paul,
Minnesota, will meet at their office in
said city at p. m. on the I'd day of July,
A. d. 1888, to make an assessment of
benefits, costs and expenses arising from
paving Arundel street thirty-two
feet wide, from Summit avenue to Holly
avenue, with asphalt and curbing with
granite, including the necessary sewer
connections to the property lines, in said
city, on the property on the line of said
improvements, and deemed benefited
thereby amounting in the aggregate to
S7,30S.5O.
All persons Interested are hereby no
titled to be present at said time and
place of making said assessment, and
will be heard. -
r. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. f. ERWIN,
176-177 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
CONTACT WORK.
Grading Alley in Block s, Wood
land Park addition.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works, !
CITY OF ST. PAUL. MINI. June 16, 1888. (
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
nesota, at their Office in said city, until
12 m. on the Goth day of June, a. ID.
1888. for grading alley in block 6, Wood
Kent street to Dale street, i'm said
city, according to plans and speci-
tications on file in the office of said
Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in a sum of at least twenty (2O) per cent
of the gross amount bid must accom-
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
Il. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: W. f. ERWIN,
17e-1S0 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
Notice to Bidders.
COUNTY AUDIToR's OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 81, 1883.


ST. PAUL, Minn., June 81, 1888.
Bids will be received at the office of the
Auditor of Ramsey county, in the city of St.
Paul, Minnesota, until the I'd day of July,
A. ID. 1888, at O'Clock p. m., for all the fol-
lowing material and work required in the
construction OF the court house and city hall
building i'll Court House square, in said city,
that is to say:
For grouting basement floor and for
grouting jury room in third story or
tower; for laying terra Gotta floor in
jury room in third story; for Ening up
with brick in cement mortar aH the
drains for steam pipes and other pipes
in tie basement, and covering same
with fagstones:; forfiiing in the brick
work in cement mortar of the dormars
of the clock tower; for laying up in ce-
ment mortar the brick walls under
Easement stairs; and for door in base
ment. leading to tunnel,
all according to the plans and specifications
therefor, by E. P. Bassford, architect, on file
and for inspection at the rooms of said archl-
tect. No, % Gilfillan block, in said city,
Bids to be addressed M. F. Kain, secretary of
the Court House and City Hall Special COM
mission at said auditors Office, and bids must
state the shortest time in which the bidder
will complete the work, and the price and
amount bid in gross or lump" sum, and
must be accompanied by the bond of the bid
der in the penal sum of 81 900, with respon-
sible sureties residing in said city, condi-
toned that if the contract shall be awarded
to the bidder he (or they will enter into
such contract and give the required bond
for its execution, Or in lieu of such bond bids
may be accompanied by the certified check
of the bidder for ST, 600 on some bank of
SAID city. payable to the order of Robert A.
Smith, chairman. The right to reject all un-
reasonable bids and all bids of incom pete MT
and irresponsible persons is reserved.
By order of the Court House and CITY Hall
Special commission.
M. F. KAHN,
Secret,iry of the Commission.
st. Paul, June 81, 1888.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
Assessment for Paving Kent
Street.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST.PAUL, Minn., June %, 1888.
The Board of Public Works in and for
the corporation of the city of st. Paul,
Minnesota, will meet at their office in
said city at 2 p. M. on the I'd day of
July, A. d. 1888. to make an assess
ment Of benefits, costs and expenses
arising from paving Kent street, from
Ashland avenue to Summit avenue,
with asphalt, and curbing with granite.
including the necessary sewer cOnnec-
tions to the property lines.in said city, ,on
the property on the line of said improve
ment. and deemed benefited thereby
amounting in the aggregate to s11,-
643.6O.
All persons interested are hereby no
tilted to be present at said time and
place of making said assessment, and
will be heard.
r. l.. GoRMAN, President.
Official: W.. F. ERWIN.
176-177 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
CONTRACT work.
:.
Paving East Summit Avenue.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works, |
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, June IL. 1883.
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
nesota, at their office in said city, until
II m. on the 29th day of June, A. d.
1888, for paving East Summit avenue,
from Wabasha street to Robert street,
in said city, with cedar blocks and
curbing with granite. including the
necessary sewer connections, according
to plans and specifications Oh file in the
Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2( sureties
in a sum of at least twenty (2O) per cent
of the gross amount bid must accom-
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
r. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. F. ERWIN,
17O-lsO Clerk Board of Public Works.