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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
Portraits of Chief Justices.

Philadelphia Ledger.
In the robing room of the United
supreme court in Washington are por
traits of the first chief justice, John
Jay, in scarlet robe; and of John
Marshall. fancy and Chase, subsequent
chief justices, in black gowns after
wards adopted, or in plain clothes.
There are no portraits of Rutledge,
Ellsworth or the late Chief Justice
Waite. During the late session of con-
gress an appropriation Of $500 was
provided to obtain portraits of
the last three named. There are por-
traits extant of Chief Justice Waite, but it
is not yet ascertained whether there are
anywhere good portraits of the other
two. tits likely that selection will be
made from engrayingS or miniatures.
from which portraits will be painted.
One of the best ikenesses of Chief JUS
tice Waite is ON one Of the tobacco
stamps used by the government. The
provision for marble bust of the late
Mr.. Waite to fill out the circle of de-
ceased chief justices in the supreme
court room is in a bill that has passed
the senate and is pending before the
house. AS the intention is to have good
portraits of the chief justices named to
place in the r0bing rooms, it will prob
ably be some time before the purpose of
the bill is carried out.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
Secretary Endicott Is Quite
Nervous Over Uncle Sans
Coast Defenses,
And Wants a Speedy Resort to
Dynamite Guns and Ex-
plosive Gelatine.
Mr.. Diekinson's Department
Hasn't Sold Stamps Enough
to Pay Expenses.
He Discovers, However, That
Our Postal Service Is the
Best in the World.

Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. Secretary
Endicott, in his annual report. alludes
feelingly to the death of Gen. Sheridan,
which, he says, deprived the army of a
chief pre-eminently fitted for such COM
mand, whose wide experience, ready
resources and personal qualities made
him tower OF strength in council and
action. The secretary again invites
the attention of congress to the de-
fenseless condition of our sea coast and
lake frontiers. 1t appears more impor-
tant than ever that immediate and
liberal action in this direction should
be taken by the coming session of con-
gress, in view of the fact that the last
session gave appropriations for the con-
struction of heavy ordnance. For the
which to place these new guns an APP
preparation of $4,000 is asked for.
Torpedoes and submarine mines, the
secretary says, are now acknowledged
by all nations to be absolutely neceS-
sary to the
EFFICIENT DEFENSE
of harbors and supports, and for the
purchase of these and the necessary APP
planes for operating them, and for ex-
perimenting to ascertain the best of the
many torpedo inventions an appropria-
ton of S1.S90000 is recommended.
Under the provisions of the army bill
for the procurement of pneumatic dyna-
mite guns the necessary specifications
are now being prepared and advertise
ments for proposals will be issued early
this month for guns of fifteen inches
caliber to throw projectiles, carrying a
charge of about 500 pounds of eXplo-
sive gelatine. Secretary EndicOtt re-
news the recommendation made in pre-
vious reports for the appointments of
an assistant secretary of war. Such an
officer is imperativeiy needed, he says,
for the proper and efficient administra-
ton of the war department. The secre-
tary's estimate of appropriations to the
war department for the year ending
June 80, 1890, calls for 81, 652, 507. This
includes s25. 293, 372 for the military es-
adjustments and S13, 1924 for public
works and river and harbor improve
ments. The appropriations for the last
fiscal year amounted to Sal, l65, 107, and
for the current year $50, 679,934.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
STAMP COLLECTOR.
Three months ago he did not know

Three months ago he did not know
His lesson in geography;
Though he could spell and read quite well,
And cipher, too, he could not tell
The least thing in topography.
But what changed How passing strange
This stamp-colleeting passion
Has reused his zeal, for Wo Or veal,
And lists of names he now can reel
Off in amazing fashion.
hear him speak of Mozambique,
Heligoland, Bavaria,
Cashmere. Japan. Thibet. Soudan,
Sumatra, Spain. Waldeck, Kokan,
Kharkof. Siam, Bulgaria.
Sehleswig- Holstein: o boy of mine,
Genius, without a teacher
Wales. Panama. Scinde, Bolivar,
Jelalabad and Kandahar
Cabul, Deccan, Helyetia
And now he longs for more Hong Kongs,
A Rampoor, Mauritius,
Greece Borneo, Fernando Pc.
And how much else no one can know;
But be. kind fates propitious.
st, Nicholas.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
SECULAR SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
More Strange Notions Aired by
Anarchists.

CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-Three hundred
persons held meeting at Aurora
Turner hall this afternoon for the pur-
pose of effecting permanent organlza-
ton to support the so-called anarchist
Sunday schools" The object was ac-
complished, seventy of the people pres
ent signing the roll of membership OH
the spot. Another meeting is to be held
next Sunday to perfect the details of the
association and to afford an opportunity
for an expected increase in the number
of members. The feature of the meet
ing to-day was general denial that the
schools were anarchistic or socialistic.
1t was not denied that promoters of the
schools were anarchists and socialists,
but the plea was made that the
schools were simply anti-religious,
or as the speakers said, ''se-
cular." Karl Plum, leading light
among local German turner's, especially
the radical ones voiced this sentiment.
Said he: ''This is an attempt to re-
move our children from the demoraliz-
ing influences of the Christian Sunday
school and its baneful effect upon their
minds, making them stupid and lazy to
think instead of developing their in
tellect. Although we are of foreign
descent and many of us of foreign
birth, we claim to be better
Americans than those who denounce
us. We claim that we are the true de-
tenders of these institutions which were
left to the present generation by nobler
men, that were created by men who
held the principles that we. to-day adj
vocate. as father of children con-
slider it my duty to see that they are not
subjected to the brain-killing influence
of the churches, but brought up as in-
telligent men and women who shall be
capable to judge for themselves"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
REAssEMBLING OF CONGRESS.

After an unusually short vacation
congress will reassemble to-day to begin
its second session. This is a short ses-
sion, expiring by limitation on the 4th
of March; and as so little was done dur
ing the extraordinarily long session,
naturally enough, very little more is eX-
pected of this congress. In this, how
ever, public expectation may be dis
appointed. The last session was mainly
devoted to skirmishing for political
position, as is usually the case in every
session of congress Immediately pre-
eeding presidential election. But that
is all over now, and there ought
to be no politics in this session,
and the body ought to get down
to,a business basis. There are a great
many bills of general nature and of
general Importance hung up in the
committee rooms. These bills ought to
be taken from their pigeonholes,
busted, carefully assorted, and the
more important ones brought to the
immediate attention of the body, which
has doubtless lost sight of them. There
is an impression in certain quarters that
this session of congress is to be dis
tinguished mainly tor the success of
lobby schemes, and as a result Wash
ington will swarm with lobbyists
this winter. This impression seems
to be based upon the fact that
there is big surplus pile in sight, for
which the Republicans naturally have
hankering, and that the Democrats
will be so discouraged by their recent
defeat they will take no pains to check
raids on the public treasury. We are Of
opinion, however, that these lobby
schemes will miscarry. 1t behooves the
Democratic house to be more vigilant
than ever. Defeat in the late election
is no excuse for the Democratic party to
lose interest in public affairs, or for
Democratic congressman to relax their
endeavors to secure an honest and Geo.
nomical administration of the govern
ment. Up to the 4th of March next the
Democratic party will be responsible
for the administration Of public affairs,
and until that time every Democratic
official should be atthe post of duty and
vigorously at work in the performance
Of duty. When the Democratic party
goes out of power let it go out with
clean hands and pure heart.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
Silk Threads in Bank Notes.

RenODOtn S SUNDAY Herald.
The paper On which bank notes are
printed is called distinctive paper"
being used exclusively by the govern
ment for the printing of bonds and cur
rent notes. The mills where it is man
ufactured are at Glen Falls, Chester
county, Pennsylvania. An agent of the
treasury department receives the paper
direct from the hands of the manufact-
hrer, and every precaution is observed
in order to prevent any loss. Short
scraps of red silk are mixed with the
liquid pulp in an engine. The finished
material is conducted to wire cloth
without passing through any screens
which might retain the silken threads.
An arrangement above the wire cloth
scatters a shower of fine scraps of blue
silk thread, which falls upon the paper
while it is being formed. The side on
which the blue silk is deposited is used
for the back of notes, and the threads
are so deeply imbedded as to remain
permanently fixed. Each sheet is regis
tered as soon as it is made.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
Points About Ben Harrison.

tO1ntS ABOUT ben HARRISON.
The encyclopedia editor of the Phila-
delphia News says of the president
elect:
He wears No. u hat.
He wears a 81 shoe and can wear a 6.
He has one bunion on the right foot and
no cOrllS.
His neck measure is 161S.
BE wears Open-frOnt shirts and pays
$27 a dozen for them.
2 He seldom carries silk handkerchief
usually carries common linen.
: He keeps one horse.
small cigars-a clear Havana. He does
not smoke to excess, however.
His wbiSkerS are getting gray. He
uses bay rum on his hair, and does not
use oil.
He is fond of base ball.
His chest measure is thirty-seyen and
his waist forty-tWo. He has good deal
of stomach" He weighs about 1870
pounds and appears to be five feet seven
and a half inches in height.
He does not fancy jeWelry.
He usually wears high-buttOned,
dOuble-breasted frock coat, and seldom
has suit all off the same piece.
He reads for recreation. He is fond
of Scott. Eliot and Thackeray.
He goes to bed at 10 and gets up be-
tween 6 and7.
/ The family cooking is done by an old
negro ''aunty."
He is a Presbyterian deacon.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03

difficulties in the way are the great cost
of present methods and the absence of
safeguards which, according to the histo-
ry of the present mail service, should pro-
tect the privacy of correspondence. Ihave
given the subject much consideration,
and believe that the inventive genius
of this country has reached a stage in
discovery in electrical science when
these problems may be solved. The
subject is of such great Importance to
the people that believe an opportunity
should be given for the presentation
and examination of inventions which
have been informally presented to the
committees of congress, the department
and the public, and that a stimulous
should be given to Investors to turn
their attention to the improvement of
old methods recommend the appoint
ment of commission of competent and
disinterested men learned in the
science, who may examine inventions
and invite others, who shall be author
lied to erect short experimental lines,
and who shall report to the president or
congress the result of their inyestiga-
tiOnSD ~
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
About the WORLDS Population.

The number of men capable of bear
ing arms is calculated at one-fourth Of
the population.
Those born in spring are generally of
a more robust constitution than others.
Births are more frequent by night than
by day; also deaths.
There are on earth LOCO, 100000 in
habitants; of these. SO, 033, 033 die every
year. 1884 every day, 3. $50 every hour.
and 60 every minute, or one every
second.
The married are longer-lived than the
single, and, above all. those who OBJ
serve sober and industrious conduct.
Tall men live longer than short ones.
Women have more chances of life in
their favor previous to fifty years of
age than men have, but fewer after
ward.
The number of men is about equal to
the number of women. The average of
life is about thirtY-three years. One
quarter die previous to the age of sew
evteen. To every LOCO persons only one
reaches 100 years of life. To every 100
only six reach the age of sixty-five, and
not more than one in 500 lives to eighty
years of age.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03

will end. but it is quite probable the biggest
dog will secure the bone.-New Orleans Pic
ayune.
First Clubman--Whats the matter with
your hat? 1t looks badly punished. Sec
ond Clubman-Dnnno, unless it's because it
is on the rack SO much.-Life.
German Student docking through the win
dow at the RAIN this beastly weather a
man can't employ himself nationally! sup
pose shall have to study!-Fliegende
Batter.
T.amp-Where did ye come from? Ia.
borer-Smith's Corners. left because there
was no work there. "Eh? How far is it?
That's just the sort of place I've been look
ing for. Philadelphia Record.
Tramp-Can you advance me the amount
OF drink? Gent-Certainiy, here's dime.
Tramp with dignity)-I beg your pardon,
sir This is only dime. never drink TO-
cent whisky.-Washingto Post.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
Mark Twain's Clever Daughter.

L
Mark Twain, if he is in the mood, will
tell the story of his own courtship in a
manner worthy of the greatest of living
hu.norists. When he first met the lady
who afterwards became his wife, he was
not so distinguished as now. his origin
was humble, and for some years of his
life he had been pilot on the Missis-
sippi river. The future Mrs. Clemens
was woman of position and fortune;
her father was a judge, and, doubtless,
expected family, and social import
ance in his son-in-laW. Clemens, how
ever, became interested in his daughter
and after while proposed, but was
rejected.
SWELL" he said to the lady, IL didn't
much believe you'd have me, but l
thought I'd try"
After while he tried again, with the
same result. and then remarked with
his celebrated bawl, 81 think a great
deal more of you than if you'd said
Yes" but it's hard to BEAR" A third
time he met with better fortune, and
then came the most difficult part of his
task-to address the old gentleman.
Judge" he said to the dignified
millionaire, '.haye you seen anything
going ON between Miss Lizzie and
me?''
"What! Whatw exclaimed the judge,
rather sharply, apparently not under
standing the situation. yet doubtless
getting a glimpse of it from the inquiry.
s'Haye you seen anything going on
between Miss Lizzie and me?"
s'No, no, indeed!" replied the mag
nate, sternly. mo, sir, L have not"
well, look sharp and you WILL" said
the author of ''Inn0cents Abroad" and
that's the way he asked the judicial
luminary for his daughters hand.
Mark has child who inherits some
of her fathers brightness. She kept a
diary at one time i'll which she noted
the occurrences in the family, and,
among other things, the sayings of her
parents. On one page she wrote that
father sometimes used stronger words
when mother wasn't by and he thought
1--WE" didn't hear. Mrs. Clemens
found the diary and showed it to her
husband, probably thinking the partic-
ular page worth his notice, After this
Clemens did and said several things
that were intended to attract the child's
attention, and found them duly noted
afterward. But one day the following
entry occurred:
Il don't think I'll put down anything
more about father, for l think he does
things to have me notice him, and l be-
lieve he reads this diary" She was
Mark own child.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
Mime. Hading's heal Name.

Chicago News.
1t remains for me to speak of Nine.
Jane Hading. whose real name, it may
interestyour readers to know, is Jeanne
Alfredine Trefourer. One thing that
surprised her on the American stage
was to see an actor kiss an actresses
lips, "a thing that would not be toler-
ated on the French boards" she said.
Actresses should never marry, ''for
theatrical jealousy is of the most rabid
kind. Myhusband was even jealous of
the notices I got in the press; his eX-
pectation was that he should be spoken
Of" Nine. Hading gives her age as
twenty-eight, and VOWS she is telling
the truth in so declaring it, although
she sarcastically adds: when ac-
tresses give their age you may safely
add the years, not the months, as
formerly, that they have spent in the
nursery" ''Monsieur my eX-husband"
is the manner in which she refers to her
divorced husband. This information
may be useful as settling a point OF di-
vorce etiquette. 1t sounds well.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
Prize Questions for the Multi
tudeS.
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
Is the lineage of the Goldfish aristoc-
racy fish line?
Which end of, the city street is the
blOck-head?
Why do people complain that it is a
cold day when they have been sub
jeeted to summary treatment?
Did the Prohibition party call out
full vote?
When one is cowed does he become
as timld as calf?
Is buttermilk the product of the goat?
Does the dying dog fancier always
struggle to keep pup?
Did the Iberia go down because de-
prived of her stern necessity?
Why do they call the anarchists "the
reds" when universal dissatisfaction
invariably breeds the blues?
Is the period the inebriate of the
punctuation family because it is the
full stop?
Is the saloon where Old Crow is sold
necessarily crow-bar?
Ii the crow is caucus what kind OF
q cuSS is the crOcuS?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
Visiting Card Etiquette.
Boston Courier.

Boston courier.
The question of the proprietY of turn
ing down the corners of visiting cards
is debated now and then; and most per-
sons, whatever they think of the Gus
tom, at least regard the trick as COM
paratiYeIy recent one. In a book on
etiquette published in this country
about half century ago the author re-
marks:
..Ladies have fashion of pinching
down ore corner of card to denote that
the visit is to only one Of two parties in
a house. and two corners, or one side of
the card, when the visit is to both; but
this is a transient mode, and OF dubious
responsibility"
Tue significance of turning the cor
ners is different to-day, except that the
end is doubled to denote that a call is
for all the members of family; but
who had supposed the custom to be ''of
dubious respectability!"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
TOO LATE FOR WAR.

The season is too far advanced for
any of the warlike speculations in Eu-
rope to materialize. The learned news
paper philosophers who know all about
old world politics and government poll
cies are not as numerous as in some
times past in demonstrating just how
and when grand melee of nations will
be entered upon. The winter will evil
IDENTIFY be peaceful one. Viewed from
this side of the water, it is rather desir-
able, on the whole, that there should be
no big war at present, as there is little
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
REIGN OF TERROR
Among the Ladies' of New Bed
ford. Mass,

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Dec. 2.-For
two weeks all unknown man has
frequented the center of the city
after dark and assaulted ladies
who were without escort, striking
them in the stomach and knock
ing them down. On Thursday even
ing Mrs. John Robbins was twice
knocked down by the man and she is con-
fined to bed with nervous prostration.
Last evening Mrs. Annie soule was
seized by the miscreant, but she struck
him in the face and screamed so loudly
that he was frightened away. The
police have no clue to the assailant aud
reign of terror prevails among the
ladies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
A ROSE SONG.
nv are the roses white?

Why are the roses white?
Because in its wingless flight
A mothers tear on petal fell.
Entombed it lay in the fairies dell,
Bleaching the bud by its mystic spell;
Shining acew, in the morning light,
That made the roses white.
WHY are the roses red?
Because one day. twas said
Love, with dash of his magic brush,
Tinted n maiden's cheek with blush.
Covering the pearl with crimson flush,
And the rose at her breast i'll Its beloved
- bed
Blushed, too, with dropping head.
Why are the roses sweets
Because from the golden street
An angel of light to earth came down,
With dews of heaven on her robe and
crown,
With the odorous perfume besprinkled the
mound
Where the roses grew in secure retreat;
That made the roses sweet.
Il &C. p Brown.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
DAKOTA DIsGRUNTLED.

There is a great deal of kicking in
South Dakota among the Republicans
over the prospective admission under
the PLATT bill, which has passed the
senate and was put in the Republican
platform. The bill is identical, save
the changes required by time, with the
one HARRISON reported favorably to
the senate, and on which he made one
of the longest speeches of his sena-
torial life. Is it not treading upon the
perilous edge of disloyalty to the powers
that are to be to oppose this measure?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
RIoTING PERUvIANs.
One Hundred and Forty People
Killed at La Para.
Special to the Globe.

opecldl 10 the GioDe.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. BY the
Panama steamer. which arrived at this
port to-day, advices come from Peru
that the Indians in the interior of that
country are committing dreadful out.
RACES. A priest has been killed, hav-
ing been stoned to death, and his
mother, who came to his assist
ance, was killed and her head cut off.
Another woman, who tried to save her,
was stabbed to death. The three bodies
were then thrown into the river. At
La Para an attempt to lead movement
for Comancho, the reyolutionist leader,
precipitated riot resulting in the kill
ing of 140 men, women and children,
besides wounding fifty others. {,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
THE ECLIPSE.

The astronomers in the East are get
ting ready to come West to take obser-
vations of the eclipse of the sun that is
to inaugurate the year 1889. 1t will be-
gin at sunrise the first Gay of the year
in the Aleutian Islands, and pass over
Northern California, Nevada, Idaho
and Montana, and end up in the Hud-
son bay region. That will be the line
of totality. 1t will be seen as a partial
eclipse as far south as st. Paul. 1t will
be viewed by the scientists with great
deal of interest. and its partiality for
Canada furnishes another reason for
annexation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03

age compelled his retirement from active
ministry. He had chosen a calling in
which financial prizes are scarce, and
especially had he gone into denOmina-
ton in which high salaries are unknown.
Within hundred feet of him was the
Rev. DR.. Ormiston. He had gotpast the
age for active pulpit service, too, but
see how differently fortune had dealt
with him. He receives $1,000 a year in
his comfortable idleness, besides the
free use of a fine residence. This was
because chance had led him, when
Dutch Reformed church in this CITY,