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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

DIDN'T KNOW HIS CAPACITY.
Blow, or how many inches of snow are
piled upon the steel tracks and rOadbed.
These are some of the diScOmfOrtS Of
living in the country in winter;
but when summer comes all is
forgotten and forgiven, when the
air is redOlent with the perfume
of thousand flowers and vibrates with
the melody from the Threats of feath-
cred warblers-inhabitant of every tree
and bush that will afford a resting
place.
Clear, bracing air. fresh milk, eggs
and vegetables are pitted against smoke,
dust, brick and mortar limits, and a
taste for suburban living is generated
which ever increases, and this fact is
pretty clearly manifested by the pains
which the railroads take in catering to
Out-of-t0wn traffic. Communication tick
cts are sold so low as to make it an OBJ
ject for those who receive small salaries
to go into the suburbs rather than to en-
dure the ills of crowded tenement in
the city, and many business men also
find the short trips pleasant relaxa-
ton from the cares of business, as well
as an opportunity to see more of their
neighbors than if they were poked away
in their dingy counting rooms all
day and forced to sOlace themselves
in the evening with ride in
crowded street cars, and with jaded or
else balky horses as the means of trans
portatiOn. Many who cannot 90 out
from the city every day to their coun-
try seats look forward with pleaSurable
evenings, when they take a train and
go home over Sunday, away from the
busting, crowded pathways Of COM
MERGE and professional life.
There is a growing disposition, how
ever, with part of the business men of
st. Paul to take advantage of the Oppor-
tunity afforded to enjoy a short ride
into the charming and picturesque
suburbs of the Sanity City, and some
of the residences at Merriam and Union
Parks, Lake Minnetonka, Gladstone
and White Bear lake will not suffer
by comparison with those which line
both sides of Summit auenue to the end
of the concrete pavement.
Judge l.. W. Collins, the successor of
the late Judge Berry, has lovely resi-
dence at st. Cloud, and every Friday, or
as soon as his duties ON the bench will
| permit, he boards train for home, and
returns to st. Paul the following Mon
| day morning. Hon. Michael DOron also
| takes delight in weekly trip to his
home in lie Sueur, and watch could be
| SCI ny MS movements Fridays at 5
| O'Clock. Ex-GOv. Hubbard finds time
hang heavy on his hands in st. Paul
| after Thursday. and he usually varies
the monotony by trip to Red Wing,
although this winter he has stuck pretty
close to the Merchants hotel, where
he has a suite of apartments.
| FariDault is the objective point of
Hon. Gordon E.. Cole just as soon as he
| can get the opportunity, and Monday
| mornings he is on hand fresh and in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
MUSHROOM SEED IN DEMAND.
Amateur Gardeners Buy Two Tons
of 1t From One Dealer.

e. of 1t From One Dealer.
''PeOple who own lighthouses and con-
servatories have new fad,' said an
employe in a large seed establishment
the other day. "They have taken to
raising mushrooms for their own tables,
and some, suppose, go for the tables
of less fortunate friends. Twas up to
IrvingtOn the other day and saw Jay
GOuld'S mushroom bed. 1t was like a
snOwbank with its covering of fringe,
and you couldn't stick a pin in it any
where without piercing an Agaric.
growth" says the New York World.
: There has been great demand for
the seed this season." the man con-
tinued. $50 great has it been that we
have been unable to supply the trade as
usual. We've sold more than two tons
of it to these amateur cultivatOrs of the
delicacy."
A sample of mushroom seed was
SlrsWn the reporter. 1t was large cake
or parallelopipedon of dark brown
color with dimensions 8x5X115 inches.
The young man of seeds went on :
''The seed, or rather spawn, of the
mushroom is little white thread that
looks like silk fiber. This is gathered
from the bed under the fungi where it
falls. 1t is thoroughly mixed with the
eXcrement of cattle, which is selected
for its preservation because it is perfect
ly cold and lifeless. The spawn is
pressed into these cakes, and there the
mushroom lies inert and lifeless until it
is needed.
The mushroom bed is made in a
darkened rOom-a cellar, if possible. 1t
is built of heat-DrOducing manurpS and
straw, with a slight coating of mold.
Bits Of the seed-cake, an inch and one
half square, are placed in it at intervals
of few inches. The temperature of
the surrounding air may be as low as so
deg, but the fermenting mass of the bed
keeps the heat about the germs in the
neighborhood of 70 deg.
Sin eight weeks time the entire mass,
in every conceivable direction, is per-
feet spiders web of silken fibers. Two
weeks more and the white heads of the
fungi begin to peep through the surface
only to be snatched from their resting
place to please an epicure's palate"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
THE TRAIN NINS


has been up since daylight getting the
masters breakfast ready and an appe-
tiZing OdOr permeates the atmosphere,
liver and bacon. beefSteak and onions,
fresh baked bread and coffee being its
cOmponents. At the last minute of grace
the head of the house russeS himself is
Mortified to find that he has but few
minutes in which to dress, eat break
fast and catch the train for the city land
he proceeds to make things very lively
and interesting for the other inmates.
Somebody has been derelict i'll not ca IL
ing him sooner, and while button
ing on his collar and arranging
his. necktie he bolts mouth
full or two of beefsteak
and biscuit, blisters his tongue with
steaming hot coffee, and then grabs his
oyercoat and starts to beat the train
Just rounding the curve hundred yards
distant to the railroad station. His tot
lette is generally completed after secur-
ing a seat in the cars. or in these days
of snow blockades and other obstacles
to travel he may have the felicity of
kicking his heels for several hours in
the waiting room at the station. Then
the phials of his wrath are uncOrked
and he proceeds to unbosom himself
concerning the niggardly policy of the
railroad company in not taking precau-
lions to insure transportation for its
patrons no matter how many billiards
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
Publishing Names.

Some time since a lady said: Il
would like very much to use DIR. Nc
COy's treatment, but am afraid to con-
suit him for fear he would publish nv
name" Now, to all such persons let
the writer here say that DR.. Mccoy
does not publish any persons name
without first asking and obtaining the
persons consent. Again, he does not
publish One-tenth or One-hundredth
part of his cases, nor the letters from
his grateful patients whom he has
treated. DIR. Mccoy publishes few
statements of cases treated by him. He
lets his work speak for itself. No one
need be afraid of the doctors publish
ing his name without first asking and
obtaining his consent.
That DR.. Mccoy and his associates
are permanently located at No. 10 West
Third street, st. Paul, and the West
hotel, Minneapolis, is assured from the
facts that their leases and contracts are
made by the year. During this cold
weather persons are more or less
troubled with colds which should be
promptly attended to. Consultation at
the oiiice'or an opinion by mail is ONLY
81. The doctor furnishes all medicine
to his patients, thus avoiding the ex-
pense OF having prescriptions filled at
the drug stores.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

is alert. A man enjoys himself just now
with impending disaster hanging over
his poor head. Plays and paragraphs
have made the women familiar with the
racketS of january and February. You
can detect the OdOr of diStruSt in the
home circle as early as Christmas, when
the balls begin to be advertised. The
season is usually inaugurated mildly
with an orderly dance for charity: it
eventuated the 9Th of this month. and
though success in numbers and gen
eral appearance, the flavor of the first
families was wanting. Probably the
deaths of several fashionable peopIe
this year, largely connected throughout
the city, has much to do with this.
Almost every expensive ball dress one
sees this year in New York has diapha-
nous drapery, embroidered crepe, chen
lille spotted lace, grenadines with tiny
velvet flowers occurring at far intervals,
filmy materials barred with satin stripes.
Melted foundations on which lovely
raised embroidery is eXecuted-alI these
fabrics are used in draping ball dresses.
The most distinguished novelties, as
usual, are those all black or all white.
beautiful. WOMAN.
whom no one seemed to know, sat in
box with an elderly lady at the charity
I'eAA' hSliS w 90 CIObuCtt III bldCh ldCC, IlOl
figured lace, but plain black Brussels
net. She must have had as many as
half dozen petticOatS of the lace. over
one very clinging one of black silk, and
to this was fastened overlapping folds
of the lace. When she walked she
was a picture. The lace floated
away and showed the contour of
her form from the hips down. Cleans
of the white back and bosom came drift
ing like snow through the cOrSage, and
the men followed her breathlessly as
she moved,and stood around her speech
less as she laid off in her box. There
were strings of pearls with diamond
clasps Oh her arms over her long black
gloves, and several close about her
throat over band of black velvet.
The lady had hair like MIS-. Brown
Potter (the only great beauty that lady
possesscs), a reddish brown, with ripples
i'll it as you see it grow on the back of
some fine setter dog. She has large and
handsome hazel eyes and an ivOry-white
complexion. An old silver-haired man
took her around the floor on his arm.
and every couple that passed paused
and looked after her to see what re-
manned behind.
Three men about town summed her
up as she passed:
''She's sumner" said the oldest.
''She's daisy" said the second.
''She'S pOem," said the younger, who
had not yet got to picking daisies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

vigorated for his duties at the bar-f0r
the courts do not sit Saturdays. Mid
way is the temporary abid-
ing place of hosts of st.
Paul business men, and among
those who have elegant houses in this
beautiful suberb are AID E. G. Long,
whose house at Hamline is noted far
and wide; John q. Hinkel, who despite
his ayOirdupOis and pr0neness to miss
trains, prefers Union Park to the busy
town; A. j. Trumbell fOrgets insurance
matters when he reaches Merriam Park;
IL. w. Topping, tall and stately, finds
the same locality haven of refuge; G.
IL. Hazard, throws off real estate cares
while en- route to Hamline: Messrs.
Craig and Taylor put aside thoughts of
contracts when Manchester is called
by the brakeman; ID. NJ. Rob
bins looks pleasant when Merriam
Park is reached; Charles Halves is
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
OF INTEREST TO THE READER
If You Are Troubled With Any
Of These Symptoms Attend to
Them at Once.

III 4 GU Are troubled With ANY
Of These Symptoms Attend to
Them at Once.
Some of the symptoms of catarrh are
a dull. heavy headache through the
temples and over the eyes. lack of am
bitiOn-Or energy with indifference to
business, and difficulty of thinking or
to concentrate the thoughts or mind on
any one subject, always tired and indis-
posed to exercise, nasal passages always
more or less stopped up making it diff
cult to breathe through them, voluntary
discharges falling into the throat, caus-
ing hawking and splitting of a tena-
clouS and thick mucuOuS, which is
sometimes Streaked with blood, putrid
and offensive. Sometimes the throat is
dry,aS are also the nasal passages. The
eyes are intiamed, weak and watery.
There is ringing and buZzing noise in
the ears, with occasional partial deaf
ness, and frequently the ear discharges.
There Is constant desire to clear the
throat and nose; from the latter dry
ScabS are often forced out. The voice
has decided nasal tWang. the breath is
offensive and the sense of taste seriously
impaired, as is also the sense of smell:
frequent dizzy spells followed by men {
tai depression, loss of appetite, morning
sickness, indigestion and frequently
general debility follows, which if left
alone goes from bad to worse until fin
ally the sufferer finds that the disease is
grown to catarrhal phthisis. which leads
to all early grave.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

There are many horses With records
which would do credit 70 the American
turf which were never given an OppOr-
tunity to speed on dirt course. They
have run on ice and through the princi-
pal streets of the city, and can be seen
i'll the races without Inconvenience. The
main streets are yeritable racecOurseS
during the winter months, there being
no laws to prevent horSeracing any
where. the drivers simply assuming the
responsibility of danger. All men of
social standing own fast horses, and on
Christmas day they drive them. The
scene is brilliant. The sleighs are beau
tiful, and are driven by women as we'll
as men. Often three, four, and five
horse Sleighs are in the race, and the
daring displayed is witnessed nowhere
else.
In some of the baZarS at the churches
and winter gardens the girls who are in
quest of husbands go to enter the COM
petition of wife-hunterS. They are
dressed most brilliantly, and the young
men who are in search of wives are &C
companied by their fathers. More in
terest centers in the girls and their cos
tunes than the bazaar. When young
man sees a girl he likes he makes a
memorandum, and the next day his ne
gOtiatOr visits her mother or guardian
and negotiations begin. 1t may not be
till match is made that the two see
each other face to face.
The holidays are not alone celebrated
by the elder persons. The children
have their sports. AS soon as they APP
pear on the streets in the morning they
begin to pelt each other with rice,
beans, bOnbonS and preserved fruits.
IT Is A KIND OF FREE TREAT
in which the parents frequently indulge
and make up what takes the form of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

enough in the morning to catch the
proper train, and when he retires at
night it is to dream of brilliant engines,
stations and time tables hopelessly
mixed. Unlike his more fortunate bust
ness associate: who, at this season of the
year, remains in the city. the train
haunted suburban citizen cannot unroll
himself from his blankets, take sur
vey of the clock, come to the conclusion
that he will wait for another car
and refresh himself with another forty,
wiukS; not he. Somewhere in the base
ment of his house, which is delightful,
it must be confessed in summer; Cook.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

Christmas trees in America. The child
rem form in groups and march Though
the streets and from house to house.
singing carols, and are given sweets
wherever they go. They are happy
lot, even though they have not the adj
Vantages OF school and training the
white children of many other countries
enjoy.
At night there are grand balls at the
balls and the mansions of the nobility.
These are very gay affairs, and when at
the private residences there are the most
sumptuous repasts, the higher grades of
wine flowing like water. The Russians
are the most liberal in their entertain
nlents of any people In the world. Din
ners are often spread at private houses
which cost 300 roubles, or almost $50, a
plate. The menu is the finest that
French caterers can produce, and the
cards aEd lionors are OF gold and dia-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

There are, however, certain influences
which, unless guarded against, will
often lead one eStray as to the real size
of an object. The presence of series
of lines upon an object has a great in
f1uence upon the appearance as regards
size. To illustrate this fact is given the
cut showing square space divided hor-
iZOntally by a series of lines. The
height and width of this space are ex-
actly equal, as may, be proven by meas
very llneOual
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
ASHLAND. WISCONSIN.

Situated on Chequamegon bay; finest harbor
Ill the world; four trunk lines of railroads
terminating here, and will have four more
this year; at the gateway TO the Gogebic, Pen
okee, Mesembra and West iron ranges; in
the heart of the best numbering district in
the L nlted States. As q wholesale manu-
featuring or numbering center, II has nc
equal has jumped from small numbering
town, in 1856, to city Of IA 900, with blast
furnace, smelters, machine shops and manu-
factories OF all kinds. No city offers as good
Inducements to good, live men as this Mace
Inquiries cheerfully answered.
J. NJ. HAGERTY,
Shores Block, Ashland, Wis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
REST AFTER TOLL.

And all night long we lie in sleep
Too sweet to sigh in or to dream,
Not caring how the wild winds sweep
Or snow-clouds through the darkness:
stream
Above the trees that moan and cry,
And clutch with naked hands the sky.
Beneath our checkered Counterpart
We sleep the soundlier for the storm;
Its wrath is only lullaby,
"A far-of, dim and vast refrain.
-Hamlin Garland, in American Magazine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
He Fixed 1t.

Chicago Tribune.
1St. Louis Man Gin his room at Chicago
hotel preparing to retire)-What's this
sign? Don't blow out the gas" All
right. If the landlord wants 'er to burn
all night, it's nothin' to me. What's
this tackled onto the door? "Rules of
the house," Jesse. ''All gas burned
after ~ o'clock p. IN. will be charged
for" So. That's the game, is it?
Daren't blow it out, and yet got to pay
for it if it burns after midnight, have L?
Not by gosh blamed sight! I'd like to
get ahead of me that way! Empties
water pitcher on gas jet and crawls
into bed
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

DON L KNOW 1HE CONDUCTOR.
Obliv:Oas to business worry at Hamline;
c. F. Ward finds Gladstone panacea
for railroad complications and problems
in engineering; f.. A. HendricksOn
thinks Hamline far preferable as place
of residence to st. Paul; l.. IL. Mead at
Shell Lake is safe from the intrusion
of those who would like to
invest his money for him; G.. +.
Norris, although it is cold
and cherries apparently at Minnetonka
SOlaceS himself with good rest near the
lake after Office hours; William Torrens
calls Manchester home; B. f. Kuhles
never tires talking of the beauties that
surround Union Park; G.. II. Robinson
can always be depended upon to champ
piOn the cause of Hamline; ID. d. Nc
Donald takes it easy at Merriam Park {;
Charles A. Mcnamara thinks Hamline
the dearest spot OH earth Isaac Staples,
the capitalist, does not remain long
away from his beloved Saltwater, hilly
though it may be; E. B. NOrthrup
smokes his post prandlal cigar in his
comfortable sitting room at Merriam
Park, and the same is true of MesSrs.
r. M. Ball and II. J. Hunt; M. l.. Beav-
ans can look into the fair grounds in
closure from the roof of his house at
Hamline, and he counts among his
neighbOrs MesSrs. S. B. Warner, r. j.
DOugan, Frank w. Doe, G. e. Westing-
house, William II. Libbey and Frank
Mccain. These are some of the bust
ness men of st. Paul who think that
God made. the country and man made
the town.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

on's signature from the obscure time of
an artillery lieutenancy to the victory
of AusterlitZ, the retreat from Waterloo
ard cap ivity on that "lone, barren isle
in the midst of the ocean," We may not
agree with the deductions made from
the specimens given, but curiosity will
be provoked and gratified in a peculiar
way, if nothing else.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

1IOU1Io Wtth SIJtTIUS WICII a
brush aud palette. Her easel is set up
in room of her residence, and there
she receives some of her intimateS
while painting. She costumes herself
very picturesQuely for these occasions
and delights to have her visitors put on
easy, Bohemian airs of artistic life.
The gentlemen smoke and the ladies'
lounge, writes Clara Belle. in the Gin
cinnati Enquirer. Well, the other day
she was found in black Jacket of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
LESSONS FROM AUTOGRAPHS.
Tracing a Mans Character by His
Writing--Deceptiv Work.


Recent statements about the economic
and wise mother of Napoleon show that
he, while always speaking to her in
Italian, wrote to her in French. How
she ever contrived to deci pher his man.
uscript, if that also developed CORE
spending contortions of his signature,
we cannot divine, unless, indeed, $
often happens, there is way of re ad-
ing with the understanding heart
as well as the affectiOnate eve.
says the Baltimore American.
VIGOROUSLY bad writers like Choate.
Greedy and Balzac have always some
body contemporaneous who can readily
interpret their hieroglyphics, aud when
a noted Western editor furnished COPY
that any printer might suppose to be
ancient Egyptian, there was born into
the world cOmpOsitOr in that town who
preferred it to cOpper-plate Inscriptions
and set it up with celebrity and accuracy.
Tracing mans character by his
handwriting is deceptive, unless we
know a mans career by heart and then
we divine what is not hidden. At the
same time it is not little curious
to follow the convultions of Napole-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
She Contends That the Artistic
Sense Is Very Keen in
Some Women.
Valuable Pointers as to How
to Wear Mourning Clothes
Exactly Right.
Sorrowing Widows and Be-
reaved SWeethearts Should
Absorb the Information.
Fanciful Freaks That Tend to
Make Fair Female Toilets
Interesting.

HE feminine sense
of prOpriety is keen,
but erratic. There
is in town a delicious
young widow, rich
and independent
enough to indulge
herself in whimS.
She is an amateur
artist, and two fore
clio rnnIn LII a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
The Eve as a Measure.

All the Year Round.
There is a wonderful difference in the
power w hich different persons possess
of estimating sizes and distances by the
eye alone. 1t is very valuable accom-
pliShment when one wants to pick out
quickly an article of proper size.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22
HO FOR THE SUBURBS.
Incidents That Illumine the
Lives Of DwellerS in the
Suburbs.
He Now and Then Takes a
Breakneck Run After
a Train.
In the Summer He Holds
Away Over the Inside
DWeller.
Some st. Paul Citizens Who
Have Built Houses In
the Suburbs.


IFE in a great city
consists in the main of
"a break-neck chase
after business, while
in the suburbs it is a
pursuit of trains to go
to business. From the
time a resident of the
suburbs leaves the
! busy martS of trade for
This comfortable home
his mind is diStraught
with the idea that he
will not rise early
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-22

the SNOW and
ice covered
thOroughfares
clean and lev
lie that sleihg-
in g is h e
most delight
full am Il S e.
nent. All of
the racing is