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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
A BOGUS CONVENT.
How an Old Lady Was Inveigled
Out Of Her Money.

st. James Budget.
A sham convent has just been dis
covered in Paris. The case is attracting
great attention. 1t abOunds, a CORE
spondent says, in scandalous revela-
lions, and is simply amazing that the
police knew nothing about the place
until quite lately. The 'false con-
VENT was opened about SIX
years ago by two termagantS,
who originally had been expelled
from religious congregation of which
they were members. The ''MOther SUI
perior" called herself "Sister st. Adal-
best" and her artful assistant was
sSister Therese." They "sailed' under
Franciscan colors and wore the habit of
that order. Little difficulty was expert
enced in providing funds for the bogus
establishment. ''Sister st. Adalbert''
inveigled wealthy old Spinster, a Mile.
de st. Andre, to come and live in the
convent. She did so, and. being half
crazy, allowed the sO-called nuns to
do what they liked with herself and her
money,
They shut her up in damp room in
order to accelerate her death, and told
her that if she dared to leave it she
would be ''everlastingly damned"
FOOr Mile. OU. AllUTc UUOh CIliS cAbI CluCly
bad language for evangelical truth, and
lived on-balf starved. cold and com
fortless-in her miserable room. She had
a female friend, however, who came to
visit her and saw through the frauds of
the sham SISTERS" Nevertheless this
person fell victim to the wiles of the
female swindlers and was actually shut
up herself with Mile. st. Andre so, at
least. it appears from the particulars
furnished by the police; but the point
is still involved in little mystery.
AS to the 'sboarders' and "novices"
of the establishment they were girls
from six to sixteen. Some of them paid
for their support, while others were re-
ceived gratuitously into the strange
nunnery. All. however, had to work
like slaves with the needle. the sham
sisters" having succeeded in
obtaining orders from leading
linen diapers in Paris and !. the
provinces. ''Sister st. Adalbert"
had also retreat for old men in
her monastic Enclosure, and had been
very successful in obtaining funds for
the institution. The police have un-
earthed the scandal owing to the pro-
testations of the parents of some of
the '.boarders," who complained of the
way in which their children had been
treated by the pesudo nuns.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
BIG BUSINESS BLOCKS.
Inspector Johnson Says the Season Will
Be Ahead of ANY Other
IN THE MATTER OF BUILDING.
Some of the Mammoth Structures on
Which Work Has Been
Begun.

"This will be the best building season
we have ever had in st. Paul. said
Building Inspector Johnson yesterday,
and then he added, providing we do
not have labor troubles" Mr.. johnson
estimates that the carpenters strike in
st. Paul in April and May of last year
made di ference of S1,500,000 in the
amount of expenditures for buildin g
improvements. There is no prospect
of any trouble this year, however, and
everything seems to favor pr osperous
season. Scarcely day passes but per-
mits are issued for from twenty to
thirty new dwelling houses at costs
varying from $500 to $4,000. There
were $500 dwellings built last year, and
at the present rate there will be over
5000 this year. The business portions
are being built up even faster than the
residence streets.
Work has been begun on three fine
apartment houses, the Watson flats on
Harrington avenue, which is to be a
five-story building rivaling the Richie
lieu; a five-story apartment building on
the corner of Tenth and st. Peter, which
is to be built by syndicate represented
by j. r. McMurran, and fOur-StOry
apartment block on Fourth and St.
Peter, adjoining the Windsor hotel.
SOME BIG BUILDINGS.
Henry Hale will erect SiX-stOry fire.
proof brick block for stores and Offices,
with frontage of $50 feet on jackson
street between Sixth and Seventh.
William Dawson will build four
story brick block with frontage of 100
feet on Jackson street, between Eighth
and Ninth.
Excavations have been made for a
six-story brick business block with a
frontage of 100 feet on the southwest
corner of Seventh and Cedar streets
MaSOns are at work on the founda-
tons of the twelve-story building of the
New York Life Insurance company, on
Sixth and Minnesota.
The plans for ten-story building to
be erected Oh Fourth and Minnesota, by
the Germania Life Insurance company,
are in the hands of the architect Tor re-
vision, and work will begin shortly.
The Germania bank is contemplating
the construction of an eight-story fire
proof building, with frontage of 100
feet each way, on the southwest corner
of Fifth and Wabasha streets.
Work is progressing rapidly ON the
foundation for the Pioneer Press COM
pany'S new ten-story building on Fourth
and Robert streets.
Michael Defiel is erecting fOuI-stOry
brick block fronting on Seven corners,
between third and Fourth streets.
A four-story block of stores and dwell
ings is to be erected on Third street, be-
tween Oak street and Seven corners.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
1ooK1NG oyER THE FILES.

late in the afternoon for the news of the
morning. There is so much of hard
work connected with reading in
public library that a lazy nat
ure bows reverentially and admir-
ingly before the soul jealous
enough in it's search after truth to sit
for any length of time bolt upright ON a
-bOttomed chair, or blister ones
elbows planting them on hard table,
to bend over the dog-eared, thumbed
over volume that the table holds. There
is one young man who has not been
long out of school. He sits as straight
as the path of virtue, with one hand
behind him. and the other holding his
book. 1t is Leila, or the Siege of
Granada" He is deeply interested.
Ten to one he finishes the book before
quitting the room. A couple of fair
maidens are buzzing in hushed tones
over some old fashion plates. There is
a fancy dress ball on the carpet, and
they will have something new to this
generation, no matter if the sun and
Solomon do cry ''chestnuts'' on what
they produce. A modiste lately re-
turned from the East, and who knows
the fad of artistic dress that is sweep
ing towards st. Paul, is studying the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15

be picked up hastily and alphabetically
when the old man shall awaken In one
corner, bent double over work on civil
engineering. possibly an embryonic De
Lesseps sits studying the subject of
canals. He has very bad cold in the
head, but out of respect to the hushed
atmosphere of the place he puts the soft
pedal on every sniffle he shifts. Before
the files on the shelf in the rear of the
room stand several men reading the
daily papers. How stern the necessity
that cOmpels man to stand up while he
reads his paper-an act one commonly
associates with cup of hot coffee and
seat in a comfortable breakfast
room, or pair of slippers and an easy
chair before the fire; and what sorry
triumph of hard times over journalistic
enterprise that brings man around
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
PREACHERS PLUMS.
Not Their Salaries, But Their
Wedding Fees in Camden.

" Cos XII SctAhuOhs
Philadelphia Record.
The most desirable appointment now
in the New jersey Methodist Episcopal
conference is undoubtedly the Taber-
nacle church at Third and Pearl streets,
Camden. Although there are other
churches in the conference which pay
salary exceeding the $500 which
it gives, yet there is not one that
leads it in the number of marriages
which its pastor has performed since
the Pennsylvania marriage license law
went into effect. There is no doubt
that the marriage fees of Tabernacle
church exceed its salary. Rev. John
Y. Dobbins has for the past three years
enjoyed this ministerial plum. Some
of of his friends claim that the
fact that he has led the Camden clergy
men in the marriage record has been
due to his personal popularity, but this
is hardly true as the bulk of his mar
riages have been Pennsylvania couples,
who have had no personal acquaintance
with him. The real reason is that the
parsonage of Tabernacle church is the
nearest to the ferries.
The Rev. Mr.. DobbIns' term having
expired, there was considerable specula-
ton as to who would be appointed at
the late conference in Camden as his
successor. While there were dozen
of the more prominent members who
glanced generously at the place,
yet the congregation of this church in
sisted upon having some voice in the
matter. The result was that Rev. Mr..
Sooy, of State street church, Trenton
and Rev. j. Y. Dobbins exchanged pull
Nil hn lot ho1 fra fafa
Street, Trenton, to Tabernacle, Camden.
The latter church is not the only de-
sirable Camden pulpit for marriages,
and two others were vacated at the late
CONFERENCE.-THE of Centenary and
KaIghn avenue, and new ministers were
assigned to each. All the churches in
the cities and towns along the Delaware
river are now considered desirable on
account of their increased opportunities
for marriages which their proximity to
Pennsylvania affords.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
RATS AND SINKING SHIPS.
The Vermin Don't Always Leave a
Sinking Craft.
Baltimore Herald.

Baltimore Herald.
Capt. Powell, late master of the bark
Gray Eagle, in speaking yesterday to
Herald representative, turned some of
the Sailors superstitiOns bottom up
ward. Capt. Powell said that the inn
preston that rats would leave sinking
ship was altogether fallaciOus, if the
ship was in the ocean, as an ordinary
rat had sense enough not to try to swim
to shore hundreds of miles distant.
THAT sort of thing" he said, s'might
work in Bear creek or somewhere up
the head of the Potomac, but it's burned
fOolishness to tell me that anything
livin' is goin' to leave thing that is
supposed to be sinkin' before the thing
is actually sunk"
Capt. Powell also stated that it was
mistaken idea that a shark always
turned On his back before he opened his
mouth wide enough to swallow man.
He said the mate of vessel which he
once commanded accidentally fell over
board near the mouth of the Amazon
river, and that shark swallowed
him without even making any effort to
turn over. The captain said the shark
was caught a few hours later, and upon
dissecting its anatomy the mate was
found in the fsh's stomach. The mate
was cut through In the middle, but his
leather boots were entirely intact.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
Not Afraid of the Rings.

Red Wing Republican.
How did the alliance come to think of
Scheffer? Four years ago, remember,
he dared to be candidate for congress
against Loren Fletcher. Minneapolis
had almost half of the convention in her
own delegates, but Schetfer was strong
enough in the outer counties to tie and
defeat Mr.. Fletcher. This proved Schef-
fer to be man of popularity and not
afraid of the rings. We may mention
that Scheffer is personally known to a
great many of the Oldest farmers in the
west and northwest of the state, where
he has been in the habit of going for a
fortnight at a time twice year for
twelve or fifteen years, with other
friends hunting and fishing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
HAUNTS OF THE DEER.
A Traveller in Colorado Tells of
Vast Herds of Game in Snow
Fields.

Vast Herds of Game in Snow
Fields.
Terre Haute Gazette.
The trip was a business one, or /
should not have made it this season of
the year, the snow Oh the divide between
the Grand and White rivers being from
four to twenty feet deep, owing to loca-
ton, and the presence or absence Of
drifts. / had companion, and we
found the sunlight on the divide so in
tense that it burnt our faces and would
have put out our eyes had we not been
provided with smoked glasses.
The trail for some fifteen miles was
mere packed crust on top of the snow,
and whenever horse got off it he went
into the loose snow up to his belly and
sometimes fell down and rolled over.
Mine only fell down five or six times,
but my companion got several rolls in
the snow when we were going pretty
fast, and had rather more fun in that
way than had.
Of course in the valleys of both the
rivers there was but little snow, and it
was not cold anywhere, but it was awful
hard on the horses, as In the afternoon
the trail got soft, and they would often
break through. which made it laboriOus.
On my return | came down Rife
creek, which enters the Grand from the
north about forty miles below here, and
short distance below Divide creek
(where we hunted last faiD, and from
4 to in the evening / saw more than
sone thousand black-tailed deer, mostly
does and last summers fawns. They
were generally in herds of a dozen to
one hundred or more, and at one time 1
had five herds in view, containing 1
should think at least 800 deer. Toby
run himself down so at last he would
only look and bark at them from the
trail as they stood looking al us, often
not more than sixty yards away, and
never more than 100 or 200. think
you and your fifty Winchester could
have killed car load in an hour. 1
had no gun, didn't want one, as could
not have taken care of deer had l
killed one.
That is the winter range of the deer
from the White river plateau and the
Trapper's lake region, and they are
working back again to their summer
range at these places. All l saw were
passing east toward the plateau, and as
| only saw two hours run for one day
you eau imagine how many will pass in
the next month to come. j saw no elk,
but they are often seen at this crossing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
BLAINE'S HEALTH.

One day Mr.. Blaine's all right,
Next he aches q powerful sight,
But the next he's chipper'n' spry,
s IN could jump bout six foot high.
I Chiilsl m don't know 'em jest?
Quinine some folks sez is best,
: But the boosters where growed
All had chills, sir, m they knowed
sPlentyfer to soak 'em In.
IN 'ud drink the stuff awhile,
It'd knock them chills q mile.
Nj. Blaine nd shorely win
" he'd drink burdock juice m gin.
Chicago News
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
Simple Enough.
n Francisco Chronicle.

Cdu lduClcCO SnlOHlClS.
He had engaged model, and when
the model entered the studio the first
thing that struck the artists eye was the
peculiar tint of his skin. Herushed for
his palette.
what striking shade of red your
skin has" Hold on: let me get that.
That's great"
And he was hard at work on it when
another artist came in,
"Just look there! Don't disturb me.
! must get that skin into my picture.
Isn't it superb?"
''What? Oh, the skin! That's simple
enough. Your model had been wearing
red underclothing. That's ALL"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
Driven from Home.

New York Sun.
Brown was surprised to see you
and yonr wife at the Caffay restaurant
last night, Jinks. thought you were
keeping house.
Jinks-We are. We got nice little
top fiat in Harlem, but every Monday
night we dine out.
BrOwn-Why is that?
Jinks-It's the first flats night for
c0rned beef and cabbage.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
sTRoNG-AIINDED.

as justifable for me to pry into your
life, professor. as into Goethe's if were
animated by no other purpose than de-
sire to satisfy idle curiosity" The ma
jority of women have no conscientious
scruples about doing both, and hence
their delight in biographical works.
Ten girls are in line, waiting to draw
books. Every last one OF them marches
off with a novel. Well, why shouldn't
they? There is no room in the world
for woman with opinions, and any eff
fort like reading trash that is calculated
to keep a woman light-headed ought in
all reason to be approved.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15

colored plates in old-lettered books,
preparatory to conscienticusly striving to
convert the rational tailor-made st. Paul
belle into guy with the stamp of an
tiqulty upon her. Wedged in between
two men, strong-minded female sits
with the "Life of George Elliott in her
less endeavoring to find how many
points of similarity there are in her
genius and Georges. Literary-wome
who get above fiction generally develop
a taste for biography. 1t satisfies their
love of gossip while maintaining their
claim to love OF knowledge. "'Ma-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15

accomplished his
e nd by gossiping
about kings and
high dignitaries,
and so still re-
t al S his hold
upon tn femi-
nine mind. A fe-
male teacher in
one of the schools
here said to a pro-
fessor the other
day: T" 1 would
feel that it, was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
He Had Nerve.

Washington Critic.
Young Man I came to ask, sir, the
hand of your daughter in marriage.
Old Man-Have you any visible means
of support?
Young Man. looking at the old gent
Yes, sir.
Old Man-What is it?
Young Man-Your daughters father,
cir
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15

caulay's History of England is the ia
vorite history among wOmen,'' said the
librarian the other day. Mr.. Macaulay's
aim. as confessed by himself when
writing this work, was to pro-
duce history that would take
the place of the latest French
novel on my lady's dressing table. He
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15

sets in. "She," shriveling in the last
act of her marvellous career, is only an
exaggerated picture of common occur
renee in the dressing rooms of certain
society girls. Yes, dear; the world is
hollow, and our dolls are stuffed with
air. PAULINE PRY.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15

tire to the stairway when it becomes
necessary to create the disturbance of
breathing. The old man over there by
the window has chosen the place wisely
for his after-dinner nap. At the begin
ming he sought to justify his presence
by holding a bound volume of the
Forum up before him. Soon his head
nodded and his hold upon the book be-
came unsteady. Finally his fingers
unloosened and the book slid gently to
the floor, where it now lies, waiting to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
A Threatening Quiet Which
Prevails in the st. Paul
Public Library.
Aged Gentlemen Take Occa-
sion to Get a Quiet Aft
ernoon Nap There.
The Strong-Minded Woman
and the Student Of the
Fashion Plates.
Mac aulay the Favorite Histo-
rian With the LADIES'
Drawing Books.

XCUSE me
for living,
will y GU ;"
rises invol-
unfairly to a
persons lips
on entering
the st. Paul
p ublic Ii
brary. There
is a q u l e I
a bout tn e
place that is
a | m O S t
threaten ing
in its inten-
sity, and one
feels as if he
ought to re-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
LOW PRICES IN NEWSPAPERS
ARE NOT HALF so INTERESTING
Low Prices in the Store !!
The Great Manhattan S

Great Spring Stock of Clothing, Hats and
Furnishing Goods, on which they have laid
so much care and thought is ready. We in
vite you to come and see it. Stand not on
the order Of your coming, but come at once
Weare ready for you, to show you handsomer
goods at lower prices than we ever did before.
Remember, we only ask you to call, examine
goods with the greatest care and should you
be favorably impressed with our offerings, we
would be highly pleased to serve you. Bear
in mind you can find here everything at prices
that will satisfy the closest buyer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
What a st. Paul Physician Has to Say
on the Subject---Take Regular
Exercise.

hOW oiu yOu SCo eA''e Wy 49,
asked.
.By drinking bcer," he replied.
"Well, quit"
81 did, but it does no good"
The conversation aroused the re-
porter's interest and he called on lead
ing physician and asked how beer
causes the deposit of fat.
''The ALCOHOL" he said, practically
pickles the food in the stomach and it is
not properly digested. The fatty parti-
cles of food which have not been
digested properly are deposited instead
/ I / J ! !: !: ] |
of the material LSW
for the cells of Z
fiber n the NJ N
growth of adj (HS7AJN
pose tissue is WI Il \
kept up SO long + 2 ~ \
as the drinker/ JSTN ~ \
persists in pour- y I\@S%
ing beer into hisA I\ " /
stomach. Il h m
Starchy and w. MNN i
sweet foods are (N- W.
all transformed X AN
into fat and the I'm AV
beer drinker I'M I'm n
AGNES he is IA> n
healthy because = ~ A
he gets fat. Why, v
man, it is almost Nj u
impossible to =W4 \
cure cut Or -1wMa
scratch on the 4@ N1y
cl-in nf 0On- TOO FAT
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15

firmed beer drinker and pneumonia is
especially fatal to them. They have no
vitality. Everything goes to fat instead
of muscle, bone and sinew. An habitual
beer drinker may have wonderful APP
petite but what he eats does him less
good than the same food would do a
non-drinker.
"The deposit of fat, my friend, is not
confined to the body, but frequently
clogs the brain. You have probably
noticed how often Germans commit
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
The TOUCH OF WOMAN
Be 1t in Curing Corns or Bath
ing the Aching Head,
Catches Mankind.
While Womankind Would
Have It's Pulse Felt by
Manly Fingers.
a Few Men in St. Paul Who
Are Regular Visitors to
a Manicure.
Men Are "Made Up" as Much
as Women in This Sinful
Generation.

HERE is no use
talking, it is the
n a ture of til e
beast that women
find personal SER
vices rendered by
a man more to be
desired than those
rendered by a
woman, and vice
versa. My dear
Prudy Prim, stop
sh a king your
head. You know
,rn,, DON'T Ooaon
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-01-03
A Mariners Tale of Fifty Years Ago.
Dedicated to the friends of the Opium Bill
and of Chinese immigration.)

Arriving at Oahu, the beautiful isle,
Where mountains and valleys abound,
Where nature delights and man Only is vile,
l stood on the magical ground.
As pensive l strayed, now and then in the
shade,
And now on the beautiful strand,
An SIN there met with crown on his head
And "a smile that was childlike and bland"
l met him with awe, as he held out his paw,
And twisted his queue on his head,
When he said with a leer, How dare you
come here?
For the race that once lived here is dead"
Don't you know that I, prince and regent re-
nowned,
Preside in these islands of palms,
Whose fame and renown have encircled
around
The whole ocean of storms and of Gains.
Get away in your bark, on the foam of the
To perdition, bid you, repair
We need not your gin, for 1t maddens the
brain,
Our opium banishes care.
'And where does it grow" answered, "and
DlQ SucQ cnhQpeS come over tue pam
Quoth he: no more English, no Mclean
men
Makee money in planting him cane"
Fifty year, ebbly year, Chinaman he come
here,
Sell him cheap, work him cheap, ebbly day;
Kanaka no work; get him land ebbly year;
BY and by follin debbils go way"
LEARN him song; l sing him."
Then sang this All Sin:
Eating the lotus day by day,
We watch the crisping rippes on the
beach,
And tender curving lines of tender spray;
We lend our hearts and spirits wholly
10 the influence of mild-eyed melancholy,
And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs
in sleep"
Aloha oe aloha oe hiki mai
He told of traditions of wrangles and strife,
OF robbery, murder and gore;
How kings, queens and presidents sickened
of life,
And were waited to Hades' far shore.
Then said this All Sin, blandly smiling GU
"For the sake of your coming so far,
! have told you the story, and now you must
What comes of political war.
with our Opium Band, from the fiowery
land,
We hushed them to peace and repose;
And here is my hand, you may now leave the
strand
1t is time for my opium doZe.
" No rivals have we in this insular waste,
Alone do we govern these isles;
We eat, and we sleep, and we smoke to our
taste,
And all in Celestial styles.
Now co. There's change in the order of
things,
Don't ask for the iClIyS and the hours.
For sugar plantations, legislatures and kings
Went long ago to the bow-wows."