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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
FAMILY RESEMBLANCES.
There Is Likeness In Many
Ways Between Brothers and

Sisters.
Popular Science Monthly.
1t is just the same, be sure, in mental
matters. There are family characters
and family intelligences as there are
family faces and family ngures. Each
individual member of the brood has it's
own variety of this typical character,
but in all its basis is more or less per-
sistent, though any one particular trait,
even the most marked, may be wanting
or actually replaced by its exact
opposite.
Still, viewing the family idiosyncra-
sizes as a whole, each member is pretty
sure to possess very considerable num-
Der of peculiaritieS more or less in COM
mon with all the remainder. True,
Jane may be passionate, while Emily is
sulky; Dick may be a Spendthrift, while
Thomas is a miser. But Jane and Dick
are both humorous, Emily and Thomas
are both musical, Thomas and Dick
both sensitive, Emily and Jane both
sentimental, and all four of them alike
vindictive, alike intelligent, alike
satirical, and alike fond of pets and
animals.
Look at the persistent Tennysonian
tone in Charles and Alfred TennySOn;
look at the parodying power of the two
Smiths in Rejected Addresses" look
at the Caracci, the ROsettis, the Hersch-
els, and then say whether even minuta
touches of taste and sentiment do not
come out alike in brothers and sisters.
Almost everybody who meets brothers
or sisters or cousins of his own after
long separation (when use has not dulled
his apprehension of the facts must have
noticed. with mingled amusement and
dissatisfaction, in ten thousand little
ways and sayings, how very closely he
and they resemble one another.
Sometimes the very catchwords and
phrases they use, their pet ayersions
and their pet sympathieS, turn out at
every twist of life to be absurdly identi-
cal. One may even be made aware of
ones own unsupported and unobtrusive
failings by observing them, as in mir
ror, in the minds of ones relatives, like
King Georges MILDLY in Mr.. Gilbert's
story. who meets himself on an en-
chanted island, and considers his double
the most disagreeable fellow he ever
came across.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
WHAT'S THE USE

What's the use of a wearisome and
tedious continuation of the tariff debate
in congress for two more weeks, any
how? The question has been gone over
so frequently and so eXhaustively by the
press of the country in recent years that
if the people do not now understand it
in all its lights there is small hope of
their receiving the lacking instruction
by means of the tariff debate, the
speeches of which will be comparatively
few, and by these will quite likely be
disregarded. The people have made up
their minds in the matter, pro and con.
They need no further instruction.
And as for the congressman them
selves, surely no one of them is so fatu-
Gus as to fancy that he can convince a
single member who now holds the OPP
posite belief to that which he maintains.
The chances are, if poll had been
taken before the debate began, it would
not vary single vote from that which
will be reached at the conclusion of
the discussion. Though apparently COM
plicated. the question is really simple.
1t resolves itself into the plain PROPOSE
ton: To vote for continuance of
excessive taxes, which benefit only a
few, OF to vote for the removal of
onerous and needless taxes which are
burdensome to the entire people.
Few intelligent men, in or out of con-
gress, will favor the first phase OF the
proposition from conviction and prin-
ciple. Their allegiance to it in most
cases is based solely upon seif-interest,
and, of course, no amount of pure
argument will move them, Democrats
or Republicans. Therefore, what is the
use of wasting two weeks time, for
which the people pay dearly, in profit
less discussion? NO amount Uf scphiSt-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
PIGEONS AS NEWS BEARERS
A Chicago Editors Scheme to Facilitate
News Gathering
OR ADVERTISE HIS PAPER.
How Clinton A. Snowden Will Corral
Buffalos and Tell Of His
Success.

CHICAGO, April 29.-To Clinton A.
Snowden, editor of the Chicago Times,
must be yielded the credit for conceiv-
ing a modus operandi for obtaining
news which at first sight appears almost
startling. 1t had been supposed that
when the telegraph and the locomotive
had been brought into use the acme Of
rapid and faithful gathering of news
events had been reached, and this still
holds good where these facilities are
easy of access. But when news centers
are hundreds of miles distant from tele-
graph or railway stations the question
OF transmitting events rapidly and re-
lably becomes matter of some con-
Germ. Relays of horses have been
brought into use, and even balloons
have been pressed into service. Both,
however, have elements of uncertainty,
and in the latter case great danger. 1t
Is now proposed to utilize
THE WINGED SPEED,
and the almost human intelligence of
the carrier pigeon as news messengers.
and not less novel and interesting is
the occasion for which these birds are to
be used. An expedition has been
organized, the object of which will be to
save to the world what numbers remain
OF the once numerous bison family Of
the great plains. 1t has been de-
TRIMMED that of the millions which
once roamed on the prairies of the far
West, only rs or 100 remain,
and these are located in the extreme
southwestern portion of Texas, hun
dreds of miles from the near
est habitatiOn of man. This ex-
pedition, which is to start in a few days,
will be under the leadership of G.. J.
Jones, or Buffalo Jones, as he is
called, from his earlier habits in connec-
ton with the big monarch OF the plains.
The remainder of this band will be
composed of six experienced plainsmen
and cowboys. Shepherd dogs and sew
eral bloodhoundS will accompany the
party. whose business it will be to keep
vigilant watch on the buffalo after
they have been rounded up"
THE LEADING PURPOSE
of the expedition is to perpetuate q
species of animals which is thoroughly
typical of American animal life, one of
the controlling ideas of the trip being to
kill none of the animals while cOrralling
them, or after their capture. A repre-
sentative of the Times will accompany
the expedition, and his duties will be to
reduce the latest occurrences to writing
on the thinnest of manifold paper. at
tach it to the feathery messenger and
bid it an affectionate goodbye and a
safe and speedy journey. The
pigeons will have been homed
at telegraph station nearest
the ''seat of war;" and, owing to their
instincts. they will at once make a
correct flight for this point, no matter
where they are freed. Arriving at the
station, the birds will be relieved Of
their burden by the telegraph operator
and the news thus brought will be
wired to the Chicago Times. and
through the medium of the Associated
Press to all quarters of the globe, tell
ing the sad story of the last of the wild
butfaloes, and describing the last hunt
that will ever be made.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
AMONG THE EsoUIMAUx.
Peculiar Festivities Celebrated
By Our Northern Neighbors.

Peculiar Festivities Celebrated
BY Our Northern Neighbors.
Chambers Journal
All the Esquimaux are snperstitious
about death, and, although they hold
festivals in memory of departed friends,
they will generally carry a dying per-
son to some abandoned hut to drag out
his days in hunger and neglect. After
the death of husband or wife the sur
vivor-among the coast tribes, at any
rate-cutS the front hair and faStS for
twenty days. The festivals are often
held in sort of common hall called the
kashga, which is built of the same pat
tern as the semi-subterranean winter
houses, but is often as large as sixty
feet square and twenty or thirty, feet
high. 1t is used for the public bath; for
the deliberations of the council of elders
on communal questions; for the prepa--
ration of skins and the manufacture of
sleds; for the reception of visitors and
for the sleeping place for males who
have not hutS of their own. The festi-
walls consist of singing and dancing of
a primitive character and then gorging
with fish blubber, with the additional
luxury of melted reindeer fat when it
can be procured. All the food, both
flesh and fish, goes through some proc
esS of cooking before being eaten, al
though the ''higher" it is, the it is
appreciated.
The tribes of Norton sound hold
festival every year III October or Novem-
Der in memory of deceased kinsmen, and
Petroff thus describes the perform
the kashga, and after ahurried bath, Or
nament each other by tracing various
figures ON the naked back with
a mixture of oil and charcoal.
Two boys, who for his occas-
sion are respectively named the raven
and the hawk, are in attendance mixing
the pain, etc. Finally, the faces also
are thickly smeared; and then the fe-
males are summoned into the kaShga.
After brief lapse of time noise is
heard, shrieks and yells, snorting and
roaring; and the disguised men, emerg-
ing from the fire hole, show their heads
above the floor, blowing and puffing
like seals. 1t is impossible to distin-
guish any complete human figure, as
some are crawling with their feet fore
most, others running on their hands
and feet, while the head of another is
seen protruding between the legs of
companion. They all cling together
and move in concert like one immense
snake. A number of men wear masks
representing the heads of animals, and
the unsightly beings advance upon the
spectators, but chiefly to brighten the
women, who have no means of escaping
molestation except by buying off the
actors with presents. Knowing what
was before them, they have brought the
kantags, or wooden bowls, full of deli
cious morsels-beluga blubber, walrus
meat, whale-oiled berries and other
dainties. When each of the maSkers
has eaten and filled bowl or two with
delicacies to take home, they indulge in
a pantomime and gesture play of a
highly grotesque character.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
An Unexpected Question.

Chicago Herald.
Mr.. Blank, as he had better be called,
for he was defeated candidate in
Tuesdays election, and that certainly
is sufficient reason for concealing his
identity, tells this on himself: ITO
oblige a friend / took his place as
teacher in a mission class last Sunday.
He was compelled to be absent, and |
wish | had been. My duties were easy,
though my Sunday school pupils were
hard little lot. to tell the truth. l had
finished with the regular lesson, and
then, addressing the younger cubs, l
said with considerable dignity: Now,
children, if there is any question you
would like to ask me, shall endeayor
to answer to the best of my ability A
little. freckle-faced, red-headed mis-
creant of about eight years took me at
my word, and, raising his hand, asked:
Say, mister, amt OH one of DENY
wer toughs OTIS runnin'fer alderman?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
The Earliest Dude.
The Haberdasher.

TIC HaDeTudSHer.
Thus the dude, the dandy, the maca-
roni, the blood, are modern inventions
in literature, although not in real life.
Although they have blOssOmed luxu-
riantly in all ages, they have left but
slight impress upon the literature of
the day, and such CLEANS as we get are
but side lights. Perhaps the earliest
dudes of whom we have record are the
Egyptian and Assyrian kings, who were
prodigiously found of carving their own
portraits upon the walls, dressed in the
most elaborate man millinery of the
period, and although the cuneiform
and hieroglyphic records are scarcely
literature, they serve to show how eX-
ceedingly fond Assurbanipal. Thoth
mes and their congeners were of swell
ing themselves up in the public eye.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
FRAUDULENT TICKETS.

Scrutinize your tickets carefully to-
morrow. The Republicans are circu-
lating fraudulent ballots with Demo-
cratic headlines and the names of Re-
publican candidates on them. 1t is an
old trick, but will be none the less sue
cessful unless you are careful to read
over the names on your ticket before
you vote.
Be sure that the names on your ballot
correspond with the names OH the ticket
at the head of the first column on this
mage,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
THE BLAINE MANIA.

The BLAINE mania seems to have
broken out afresh among Minnesota
Republicans, as was evinced in the Min
neapolis primaries. Despite the asser-
ton of Boss FLETCHER that Minnesota
had taken BLAINE at his word and now
considered him entirely out of the race,
it looks very much as though the IA
nous wirepuller were not a very re-
liable spokesman for his party. 1t also
looks as though there were some prom
Use of success for the Republican State
leagues boosted scheme to send a
BLAINE delegation to Chicago.
While the devotion of the Minnesota
Republicans to the man from Maine is
not discreditable, the propriety of their
not doing him the honor to believe his
word may well be doubted, as well as
their Judgment in insisting upon
having as candidate man
who has once led them to defeat,
when the people have declared, and are
ready to declare again, they will not
have as president one who is the
worst enemy of the tariff reform senti-
ment which the state league members,
in common with other Minnesotians,
profess to entertain.
1t looks very much like proitless
waste of energy. But then it may be
that the Minnesota Blainiacs have
read the signs of the times so well that
they recognize fact, becoming every
day more evident, that the choice of
Republican candidate is quite imma-
terial; that, whoever.he may be, the peo-
pie who choose the president have
already decided upon continuance of
the best administration they have en-
joyed for quarter of century.
From that standpoint the purposeleSs
devotion to the vain championship of
Mr.. BLAINE is entirely applicable.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
A Topsy-Turyy World.

Philadelphia Press.
This is from an old-fashioned old lady.
'What topsy-turvy world this seems.
Nothing now as it was-nothing then as
now. From infancy to old age series
of dissolving views. Every thing new
nothing lasting. | remember defer
ence to age and station of our parents,
modesty of speech and action i'll the
Young girl, quiet, respectful attitude
of mind and manners in the lad, society
governed by courtesy and culture and
breeding, living ruled within ones
means and station-dignity, the usual
possession of ladies and gentlemen, and
a decent observance of religious duty
part of the habit of men and women Of
whatever class.
Now, | see-bad manners and vul-
gar pushing for precedence and social
recognition, disregard of early training,
no duty to parents, girls forward and
ignorant and defiant of prOprfetors,
though ehaperOned in society and self
reliant in the masses, and with all snOb-
Dish toadyism to the rich. Girls know
more and do more and see more than is
conducive to high moral tone. read
books that l, a grandmother, would feel
shame to see among my books, while
their lives are empty of duty and their
minds Of real knowledge"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
GRANDLY EQUIPPED.
Trains Begin Running on the
Santa Fe & California.

CHICAGO, April 29.-The Chicago,
Santa Fe & California railroad was
opened for passenger traffic between
Chicago and Kansas City to-day, and
great crowd assembled at the COM
pany's Polk street depot here to witness
the departure of the first train over the
new line. The officials of the Santa Fe
and those of many other roads in
spected the train as it stood in the
depOt,a land admired its system of electric
lights and the-.method of heating by
steam from the locomotive. The train
was of the handSOmeSt and most elabOr
ate vestibule pattern, seven coaches in
all, and the first of the kind to run reg
ularly west from Chicago. A similar
train left Kansas City this evening. The
road will commence to handle freight
tomorrow, an event which introduces a
new feature in the railroad situation in
the West.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
FREDERICK IMPROVING.
The German Emperor Getting
Better Quite Rapidly.

BERLIN, April 29.-The emperor has
a slight cough, but passed an excellent
day. There was no return of fever. He
was in the best of spirits. During the
day he left his bed for a short time, and
engaged in reading for the first time in
a fortnight. The emperor will proba-
bly, go to Potsdam when he becomes
stronger. A bulletin issued at O'Clock
this morning said that the emperor was
free from fever; that he had had fair
amount of sleep, and that his general
condition was fairly satisfactory.
The emperor takes breakfast at $3.50
a. M, dinner at p. m. and supper at 8
p. m. His digestion is unimpeded and
he is allowed to eat anything he likes
except fish. He has lost flesh during
the last fortnight, but his face does not
show it. The bed reading apparatus
ordered by the empress from London
has greatly pleased the emperor. who
now has no aversion to tablet writing.
The first samples of gold coin bearing
the emperor's effigy have just been
issued at the mint. The emperor has
presented one of the coins to Dr.. Mac
EnnZie
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT., ST.
PAUL, Mimi, April so, 1888. 1915 a. H.
Indications for twenty-four hours commend
ing at Z a. m. to-day: For St. Paul, Mime
apolis and vicinity: Warmer, clearing and
fair weather; light to fresh easterly winds,
shifting to southerly. For Minnesota:
Warmer, fair weather; light to fresh south
erly winds. For Eastern and Southwestern
Dakota: Warmer, fair weather, followed by
local rains; light to fresh southerly winds,
becoming variable.
NoTE.-The official indications issued Mon
day night at midnight will be the last from
this Office this season. Commencing May 1,
they will be sent from Washington city.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. ~
ST. PAUL, April 29-The following obser-
vations were made at 8 AS p. NJ, local time:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
ScheRer Second.

The INDUSTRIAL Age.
The chances for Mr.. Merriam are hap
PLY growing less, though occasional
bursts of forced enthusiasm attest the
efficiency and prodigality of his bank
account. What turn affairs may take
between now and convention time of
course it is impossible more than to
guess, but at this date Gov. McGill leads
the st. Paul trio, with Mr.. Scheffer
fair second and Mr.. Merriam very
DOOR third.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
Samuel Reems, of Wright County.
Perhaps the Oldest Man in Min

Samuel Reems, of Wright County.
Perhaps the Oldest Man in Min
nesota.
Special to the Globe.
FRANKFORT, April 29.-Samuel Reems
is undoubtedly the oldest man in Min
nesota. having been born March IL, 1888,
of German ancestry,in Lebanon, Pa. He
comes of very long-lived family. His
father, George Reeems, died at the age
of ninety-eight, while his mother lived
to the exceptional age of 1O2. His father
fought the British under George Wash
ingtOn, and the Indians under old An
thony Wayne, while his wife worked
his farm, holding the pillow with her own
hands. When Samuel was about TWEEN
ty-three years old he married Nancy
Dossy, and has raised family of eleven
children, seven boys and four girls, only
two of whom are dead. Catherine was
the eldest, then came Virginia .(de-
ceaSed), Samuel (deceaSed), George,
Mary, James, John, William, Stockton,
Joseph and Sarah Elizabeth Twins.
The children are all married except
John. Sarah lives at Seattle, W. r.;
George is in Alaska; Stockton lives at
Princeton; Mary married Albert Lewis,
of st. Paul; James lives at Milbank,
Dak.: William at Champlin, and Joseph
lives on the old homestead with his
father, in the town of Frankfort, Wright
county, one mile west of the village of
Dayton. The old gentleman moved
from the place of his birth to Fayette-
vile, West Virginia, where he learned
the carpenter trade, and was keeper
of the jail in that place for some time.
He owned a farm and also worked that.
Came to Minnesota in "a and took up
a homestead in Wright county, eight
miles north of Anoka, where he
still resides. In the severe win
ter of ~ and '73 they had
the house, furniture and provisions
burned, which was hard trial, coming
as it did at night in midwinter; but they
soon had another roof over their heads,
and, with pioneers indomitable zeal,
in short time no effects of the fire
were observable. He secured the con-
tract and built the first ferry boat that
crossed the river above st. Anthony
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
Ical rhetoric will blind the eyes of the

ical rhetoric will blind the eyes of the
people to the true state of affairs.
Taxes are too high; there is no need
of them for any purpose whatever; they
can only be lowered and relief afforded
to the people by tariff reform; there
fore, any congressman who votes against
tariff reform is an enemy of the peoples
interests. That's the way the people
rightly reason, and members of congress
will do well to govern themselves ac-
cordingly, despite the interminable
tariff debate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
should Be Mt Pierre.

BlSmarCk IIIDuIIt.
If new land office is to be created, it
should be located at Pierre--the present
city-tllat has gone through such
sweating during the past two years.
Those who have stood by the ship dur
ing the storm Of depression should have
some of the benefits of clear sailing.
That vest side land deal sounds bad.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
Clifford Doing Harm.
Northwest News.

NORTHWEST news.
Clifford evidently is doing Dakota
more harm than good. AS an excuse
for his own Incidence and inattention to
duty, he charges delays and difficulties
to the Democrats, imagining that this
will aid him in some way to get back to
congress again. Now. if Clifford is so
much afraid of sBilF' Springer, why
don't he get the senate which he doubt
less (?) controls to pass all our bills and
thus steal march on ''Bill'' Springer?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
An Insane Robber.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 29.-John
B. Swinney, who is now in Jail here
awaiting transportation to Jefferson
CITY to serve a twelve-years term for
attempting to rob Wabash passenger
train at Missouri City last January, has
shown strong Symphonic of insanity
during the past few days and will prob
ably be examined before being taken to
the nnpitentiarV
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
The Globes Suggestion.

Casselton Blizzard.
The ST. Paul GLOBE takes SO much
credit to itself for having given advice
latter the event. that we expect some
day to read in it's columns paragraph
to tie effect that, sin accordance with
the suggestion Of the GLOBE. Divine
Providence has favored the people OF
the Northwest with .e:y bountiful
harvest this year."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
Done in a Delirium.

COLUMBUS, O., April 29.-Rev. Charles
F. King, pastor of Miller M. E. church,
while in fit of delirium tonight, cut
his throat from ear to ear, and died:in-
stantly. He had been sick with typhoid
fever for some weeks past, and during
the temporary absence of his nurse he
secured razor and and accomplished
the act of Self-destructi0n.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-30
Its Candidates.

Duluth Paragrapher.
Grover Cleveland will be nominated
by reclamation at st. Louis. Eugene
M. Wilson is being prominently men
toned for governor and seems to be the
choice of the Democracy of Minnesota,
while Mr.. Macdonald is recognized as
the ablest and most prominent Demo-
crat in the district.