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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
Clara Belle Gossips a Little
About the Great Mas
querade Ball,
And, While Philosophizing
Somewhat About It's Ways
and It's Dress,
She Peeps Into the Future
and Sees the Coming
Spring Styles.
Ready-Made Garments to Be
a Spring Feature--Some
Contrasts.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-There was
funny trio at the Arion masquerade,
consisting of a father, son and q bur-
lesque chorus girl, says Clara Belle in
the Cincinnati Enquirer. The old man
and the young man were sweet on the
actress, and she was saccharine OH both.
She wore short skirts, no sleeves, little
bodice, and they could have seen her
heart had it been on the surface of her
body. / have pictured them as they
passed me. She had an arm of each adj
mirer, and in front there was no aspect
of preference, but from behind, as you
can see, the son was deftly caresSing
the arm of the enSlayer, quite unsus-
pe;ted by his venerable parental rival.
THE SEASON OF GRAND MAsK-BALLS
has been inaugurated by the annual
tear under the auspices of the Arion
club. 1t came off at the Metropolitan
opera house, as usual, and was an un-
commonly brilliant affair. The club has
recently inaugurated a splendid new
building on Park avenue, and its friends
rallied EN- maSse with sense of jubila-
ton. Many extra features were pro-
vided in the way of tableaux, panto-
mines and exhibition dancing, but all
these were very dull, save the work of
the regular ballet corps OF the opera
house, which is always firSt-rate, and
except, also, the display Of several model
young ladies, all amateurs, as ancient
goddesses. The Venus was plump
Gretchen in many-spangled costume
that even the famous goddess would
not have worn on visit to Greenland,
but its skirts were adequately rent, so
that a few thousand young men found
her walking interesting-"she revealed
herself goddess by her gait" as, l be-
lieye, old Virgil put it.
A noteworthy feature of the costum-
ing at the Arion bali was the general alb
sence of any effort to be original. Among
the many hundred ladies present there
were few score that attempted fancy
costume. Most of them, however, went
in ordinary full dress, tout EN- regle.
very decollete and expensive, like the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
EPHEMERON.

'Behold," she said. "a falling start"
followed where her vision led,
And saw NO meteor near nor far:
SO swiftly sank the luster, dead.
LII silvery moonlight stood she there,
Whittier than silver CLEANED her hand,
And cleaning shown her yellow hair,
While dusky shadows filed the land.
She seemed slender, Pickering shape,
Framed in the blackness of the porch,
How should child of night escaped
A foolish moth that loved the torch
Out of my dusk came to her;
Voices were stilled, anear, affair!
stood there lost, her worshiper,
What eye beheld that falling star?
Annie Fields in Scribners Magazine.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

A CORSET AID " ERIlSEMEN L EAS1 ~
FASTEN."
order. With the women of the United
States spending S15,000.000 year for
corsets, no wonder the inventors and
manufacturers have put bewildering
array of wares in the market. There
are fairy corsets, flexible hip" cor
sets, ''bonton," ''comfort-hip," "nurs-
ing" abdominal" crosse" "gloye-ft-
ting" ZEPHYR" oriental" 'sFrench,"
'sasthetic,'' ''ideal," duchess"
''watch spring." .'dermathistic," ny
gienique,'' spiral spring." .'esmer-
alda," "beauty' and q score
of others, says the Chicago Herald.
A collection of corset advertisements
from ladies' journals and magazines
from all parts OF the world would be
very interesting. 1t would be collec-
ton of pretty pictures such as these
which the Herald reproduces. The
claims made for the various wares would
also be worth reading. In behalf of the
corset with watch spring stays it is de-
clared thatit''yields to every movement
of the body, from the faintest breathing
to the most violent exercise in gym
nastics." A great many corsets are adj
vertised as being recommended by the
medical fraternity, and others are
claimed to be peculiarly adapted to the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

ANOTHER ADVERTISEMENT - COM
PORTABLE IN STOPPING"
wants of lawn tennis players, athletic
and romping ladies. Some are said to
be just the thing for fat women, and
others are great beautifiers of their
forms. One brand is said to "beautify
the figure beyond power to describe"
while in the advertisement of Paris
manufacturer little kitten is re-
leased from the bag. soft, patent
regulators" claims this ingenious
Frenchman, regulate any desired full
SIS and roundness of ideal beauty. so
perfect and natural as to defy detection.
This is impossible by any other corset,
OF by the unnatural pads, which are in
stantly detected. Thousands have worn
it for some years with perfect secrecy"
Another Frenchman, obviously a cold
blooded murderer, tells ladies how to
reduce their waists two or three inches.
Of course it is his corset that will do it,
and that without tight lacing, he claims,
and simply by frightening the bust.
This fend glibly tells his customers to
send him their waist measure an inch
smaller than usual, adding that the sec
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
An Inspiring Spectacle.

Alta California.
Senator Joe Brown pleading for con-
tinuance of war taxes on the ground of
solicitude for American labor is an in
spring spectacle. Senator Brown works
his coal mines with conyicts leased on
contract from the state of Georgia at 25
cents day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
FARM LANDS
WANTED IN EXCHANGE FOR ]
CITY PROPERTY

DOR sALE-Four lots, Turner < Warnock's Second
$3.50 Nine wooded lots Block II Remingons Fifth,
$500 each Eight lots Prospect Park $3.50 EACH exceed
iny cheap. Fifteen lots $3.50 EACH 70 at $3.50 This
has 625 feet business and 625 feet miles OF rail-
road trackage fine addition of pa lots at railroad sta
tion in factory and mill district for 100000 deferred
payments or before ten years at per cent. 49,
ENXCHANGE-Fine 520-acre farm at Sank Center. Fine
T. Groom new brick house. 100 lots in Mnneonka
Park for clear wilG land in Minnesota and Dakota
LoANs-Money 6, Z and per cent in sums to suit.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

IL of every style and kind
7eU In the list of wants you find.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

TIGHT. EASY. who had daughter
married not long ago, paid S65 for three
corsets in Paris, one for herself and two
for her two daughters. For those for the
two girls she had to pay 800 each, and for
her own S. more, because she is a
married woman, though the corsets
were all alike. No whalebone is used
in the store corsetS nowadays, while we
use nothing but the best whalebone,
shaving it down thin over the hips, and
leaving it stronger at the waist and
above, where support is needed"
do you measure ladies over their
street dresses?"
s'In some cases. In others we have to
be more particular. Come around here
in the afternoon and you will see sew
eral patient husbands waiting the other
side of that screen while their wives are
being measured. And why shouldn't
they be patient? The cost is not great,
compared with the comfort good health
and good humor to be gained by the
use of a first-cass article"
Still ninety-nine women out Of a hum
bred buy their corSets in the dry goods
stores, and there appears to be no
diminutiOn of the number of good,
motherly souls who live to be 'sover
hundred sir, and I've worn corset all
nv life."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

pay the price. A good
many ladies first learn
of the joys of corsets-
tO-order while visiting
Paris. French ladies
do not think of buying
corS e is ready-made,
breaking them in,' and
about the time they
have become fitted to
the form be compelled
to throw them away be-
cause of having become
soiled. Paris and Lon
don are full of corset
eires, and they do good
| york at rea sona b | e
,pric es, kept for
Americans. Mrs. H,
fOf Michigan avenue.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

LXTANTED-Improved and unimproved farms in South
w Minnesota i'll exchange for Minneapolis prop
erty.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

671 ACRES adjoining the village Of Osseo; well il
C(2 proved. Price, $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL SHERIDAN is said to be i'm
proving.
HARvARD's graduating class numbered
234 men. Its scholarship vas not ex-
ceptionally high.
COLONEL INGERsoLL has prepared and
will shortly deliver lecture on "What
Has Christianity Done for Women?"
The seven monuments to Wisconsin
heroes at Gettysburg were dedicated
Saturday.
4 THREE FOOT vein of coal was struck
by the Diamond Drill Company at Month
cello, ILL.,, at depth of SAL feet.
The seventh convention of societies of
Christian Endeavor is in session at Chi
cago, four thousand delegate are ms at
tendance.
THE largest railway system in the world
is the Atchison, Topeka d Sante Fe, which
operates about eight thousand miles of
road.
THE superior court at Keokuk, Iowa,
has decided that liquor brought into that
state can only be sold in the original
packages.
GEN. BADEAU's suit to recover from Mrs.
Grant, $4,000, as compensation for
services rendered her husband goes over
TO October.
Gov. HILL has called an extra session of
| the New York legislature, for the purpose
OF ppropriating funds to provide work
for the convicts in the state prison.
Ex-Governor HoUsER, of Helena, Mon
tana, Gays this year territory will produce
god, silver and copper to the value of
$4O,OOO,OOO.
Two PHILADELPHIANs carry the greatest
aggregate life insurance known in this
country. John Wanamaker carries a
round 81 100000, and John B. Stetson,
the great manufacturer, $4,000.
THE imports of foreign dry goods at
New York for the fiscal year amounted to
$126, 23S, 972, compar ed with $118, 1866
for 1887, SHOT, ,919 for 1886, and $102,-
982,38 for 1885.
LoNGFELLow, the poet, was once mem
Der of the old Puritan Rifles, and parad-
ed in brilliant green uniform. But he
soon found his natural vocation was TO
sing rather than fight.
IT is said that Philadelphia capitalists
will this month send 100000 to Florida
to build a railroad through the sugar
region of that state. The line will be
branch of the south Florida Road.
PITTsBURG. = Recently Moorehead
Brothers, iron manufacturers, of
Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, signed the
amalgamated scale, making sixteen sig
natures thus far. The Republic iron
works, Oliver Bros. 81 Phillips and two of
Carnegie's mills started up to-day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12

engine, whereby he could not breathe
hence he choked to death"
A coroner's jury report in the back
woods of Missouri heard all the evidence
in the case of man killed by runaway
team, and brought in the following YER
dict:
"The jury finds the dead deceased to
have come to his death at the hands of a
runaway team, the horses thereof being
blameless, they being frightened by
dog"
1t is told of an old German that he sat
stolldly and stupidity on a coroner's Jury
and listened to all the evidence, after
which ne walked over toward the corpse
with some degree Of curiosity. Lifting
the cloth he started back, turned to the
other 1urymen IN amazement ank alright
and cried out:
Mine Colt, shentIemens dot man ish
dead"
\ jury In q Missouri rural community
dellberated three hours over the CORPS of
woman burned by the explosion of a
kerosene lamp. The following verdict
was then announced in writing:
ReSOIUed, That the diseased was burnt
to deth. The joory."
A man supposed to be tramp, was
found dead in the woods out west. 4 Jury
enquired into the cause of his death, and
reported as follows:
"The jury does not find that the man
has been foully dealt with, and is of the
opinion that he died simply because his
time had come and there was no getting
ont of it"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
DR.. Holmes Favorite Poems.

SIN my own opinion, The Chambered
Nautilus is my most finished piece of
work, and I think it is my favorite. But
there are also The Voiceless,' My Aviary,'
written at my window there, The Battle
of Bunker Hill' and Dorothy o. written
to the portrait of my great-grandmother,
which you see on the wall there. All
these I have a liking for, and when I
speak of the poems 1 like best there are
TWO others that ought to be included
The Silent Melody and The Last Leaf
1 think these are among my best What
is the history of The Chambered Nauti
lus'? It has none-it wrote itself. So,
too, did The One Hoss Shay That was
one of those random conceptions that
gallop through the brain and that you
catch by the bride. | caught it and
reigned it. All my poems are written
while am in a sort of spasmodic mental
condition that almost takes me out of
my own self, and I write only when under
such influence. 1t is for this reason, [
think, that can never remember a poem
a short time after it is written any more
than the subject of double consciousness
can recall the idea of his other state" y
DR.. o. ". Holmes in Book Buyer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FOREST fires are raging in the vicinity
of Charlevoix, Mich.
The business portion of Lake City,
Michigan, has been burned. Loss, $780,
600.
The saw and planning mills of David
Joyce, at Lyons, Iowa, were destroyed by
fire. Loss, $150,000.
A VIOLENT storm passed over western
ana central Minnesota and eastern Da-
kota Friday night.
DISPATCHES from Kansas report fierce
rain and wind storms within the past few
days, doing great damage to the growing
crops. One man was killed by lightning.
OCCUPANTS of balloon, ascending from
Boston, were dragged through the ocean
for over three hours, and narrowly es-
capped death.
A FIRE in the large six-story building
occupied by the Century company and
other tenants in New York city, early Sat
urday morning, caused loss of about
$250,00O.
HELENA, Mont-A Northern Pacific
train ran off the track about fifty miles
from Helena, Sunday night, and three
cdEo WeEe ultcneu' A"O PeoPlo wore DC
riousIy hurt and about % received slight
injuries.
NEW YoRK.-Seligman Mayce, whole
sale dealer in boys clothing, GAS Broad
way, made an assignment recently. The
liabilities are reported to be from So, 000,-
600 to $5,OoO,0OO, and the assets large.
FIRE at Brainerd, Mimi, destroyed the
best part of two blocks in the heart of
the city. 1t started il the Bacon planning
mill. Among the buildings destroyed are
The LumbeIman's Exchange Hotel, Sand
be-g's jewelry store, Ireland's notion
store, Gray's livery stable, and others
twenty-five in all. A fierce wind blew
from the start. The loss is 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
IN GENERAL.
Ireland's Pathetic Figures.

The steady determination of Ireland's
population is the most impressive COM
ment upon the effect of England's rale
that could be offered. During last year,
the emigration amounted to 80,000,000,
an increase of 10000 over the year pre-
ceding. Of this number 60 per cent.
were between Is and 25 years of age.
That young element is the one which
nation can least afford to lose. It repre-
sents the strength of the present and the
hope of the future, and to take out in
one year $4,000 of the Irish youth is to
inhict g loss upon the country which is
irreparable. A few years ago Ireland had
100000 population; now it has dwindled
down to 100000, with the number con-
stantly decreasing. So much fer the
cruel and unjust treatment ireland has
received from England. The Tory Gov
eminent may Cypress and maltreat those
who remain behind, but it cannot pre-
vent the Irish people from leaving their
misruled island and seeking homes in
some land where they will be treated with
the Justice due to common humanity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
WASHINGTON.

WORD from General Sheridan is any
thing but fattering.
PRoF. DE BAUssEr has been refused q
patent for his air-ships. The commits
sioner says the professor is a crank.
LArHRoP, United States minister to
Russia, in a speech at London, declared
the action of Emperor William, in sac
cepting the crown from God alone" a
denial of popular liberty.
The bill appropriating 100000 for i'm
proving the mail service between the
United States and South America has
been acted upon adversely.
The latest news from General Sheridan
is ute unfavorabie. The cause which
threatens his life is probably one that de-
fies human skill.
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS is reported
somewhat better, but his condition Is
quite serious yet. He is so much improv-
ed that he removed from his quarters to
the adjoining house.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has
decided to report the nomination of Hon.
Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, for Chief
Justice without any recommendation as
to confirmation or rejection. The prob
ability is that the Sedate will confirm the
appointment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
FOREIGN.

EMPRESS CHARLOTTE, of Mexico, widow
of Maximillian, is at the point of death.
KAISER WILLIAM II. spent two years in
learning to set type.
EMPEROR WILLIAM will be in st. Peters
burg on the czar's fete day, Aug. 8.
The expense of coercion in Ireland for
the constabulary alone last year amount
ed to S1,5OO,0O0.
EMPEROR FREDERICK died within thirty
feet OF where he was born, and at exactly
the same hour of the day.
The French and English governments
are to Jointly construct submarine cable
between the two countries.
The Theatre Des Bouffes, in the city of
Bordeaux France, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000 francs; no one hurt.
oeTHIRT1- ONE open air meetings were held
in London Saturday to protect against
the igid enforcement of the coercion
laws,
BERL1N-The speeches of Emperor
William opening the Reichstag and
Landstag are displayed on bulletin boards
in the streets Of Berlin.
THERE are rumors of an anarchist plot
i: Berlin against the life of the emperor.
*
of the emperor and Bismrck have been
taken.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are reported
raging between Ottawa and Montreal,
Canada, consuming farm houses, railroad
property, saw mills, lumber yards, etc., in
their course.
"A TRAIN has been put on the Great
Northern Railway, which will make the
journey from London to Edlnburg IN
eight and a half hours. This, 1t is be-
lieved, is the fastest train In the world.
Ex-PREs1DENT GkEvY, of France, is
working hard on his memoirs. The
rights of publication in England and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
Ploughing the Waves.

A storm at sea means inevitable sea-sickneSs
for ocean travellers. The vibration of a steamers
screw, even, is a trial to any but the strong
est stomach. Splicing the main brace, as the
inhibition Of a glass is jocularly termed by
sailors, is poor substitute for the swallowing OF
that Incompatible tranquilizer Of sea-sick stom-
achs, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which no
commercial traveller, tourist or invalid should be
without in crossing the briny,'' or making a
tedious land journey. No unmedicated stimUlant
OF commerce is comparable for efficacy to the
great invigorant. Emigrants to the West pro-
nounce it a reliable preventive of malarial infec-
ton, as well as other complaints to which hard
ship, impure water and miaSma-tai vaporS
give rise. 1t renders bracksh water drinkable
and harmless. and is fine remedy for disorders
of the stomach and bowels, and for kidney
trOutAaS and rheumatism.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12

VIENNA papers give the following par
ticulars of the expenses incurred at MilaH
by the Emperor of Brazil during his re-
cent illness. His Majesty's hotel bill
amounted to 1000 francs per day, but
in consequence of his illness other visit
ors had to leave, so that he should not
be disturbed. This, together with certain
items. doubled the hotel charges, and
made them amount to about 1000 francs
a day. The total sum was $1,000 francs
for thirty FIVE days. The Brazilian EN-
peror futher presented his host with a
gold snuff box and decoration. The ice
ordered for the imperial patient cost 100
francs a day. Telegraphing to Rio de
Janeiro, something to Che extent of 5000
francs or 1000 francs day, came to so,
600 francs. The Emperor's French ply
stefan received for two trips to Milan
10000 francs. His two Italian doctors
were paid 1900 francs day. Then Dom
Pedro had to give large number of fees
and contribute to numerous charities. 1t
is estimated at Milan that his stay there
must have cost him 100000 francs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12

EMPEROR WILLIAMS action in causing
the expulsion of two French journalists
who had written articles during his
fathers illness which reflected in some
measure upon his own conduct has nat
uralIy led 20 fresh outburst of irrita-
ton in Paris. Such step is quite in
accord with the traditions of the Ger
man government, but it is alike undig
nified and injudiclous. France Is hardly
likely to retort in kind, as some of the
Partisan journals suggest; but the Incl
dent will not make the relations of the
two countries any pleasanter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-12
CRIME.

G. c. NELSON, the head of a savings bank
of Atlanta, Ga, is missing, and that and
other banks are believed to be losers.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, L. A. Brock and his
wife were each sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary for forging will which
made them the heirs of Martha Hail Nc
Donald.
THREE boys named Ed. Fraley, 81. Hol-
liday and j. Marwood, of Springfield, ILL.,,
have been murdered at the north branch
of the Red river, in the Indian Territory.
They were accused of killing an Indian
half-breed named Evans, and his friends
murdered the lads for the supposed kill
ing.