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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-07

Nine Ma}vina Donais a vendu "a
residence, lot 6, block II, Cutters
addition, a NJ. j. B. Laheur pour
$1,000.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-07

Les recettes de Ia poste pendant
le mois d'octobre 1889 ont etc de
$4,000 dollars superieures a cellss
du meme mols de lannee prece-
dente.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-07

MN. Frank Lavalllera, Gaspard
ct Angastin Chouinard ont achete
nm Iot chacuu dams Camden Park,
a raison de $3.50 lie lot.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-07

A Duluth, MIMI, lie Ter Novem-
bre, Madame DR. J. II. Landry, une
crosse file.
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LIE DR. n. J. Pinault, d'Osseo,
ct professeur au college de mede-
cine, etait q Minneapolis, mardl.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-07

LIE Rev. Pere Dagnault, a vendu
Ia senaine dernlere z lots pour
$4,000.
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ARGENT A PREFER.

Sur vos montres, diamands, che
veaux, v%oitures, meubles GU toute
autre bonnie s6curit6, sans depla-
cement ct 3 des termes favorahles.
j. II. POTTLE
525--2nd Ave South.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-07

Les funerailles de MADAME Joho
Nash ont Gu lieu mardi au mllleu
dun grand concours de parents ct
d'amia.
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Echo DE- l'@n<at.
MINNEAPOLIS, Z Novembre 1889.

Samedl dernier une couche assez
6paisse de neige est tomb6e q Min
neapolis.
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M. n. B Leblond a vendu au DR.
Laliberte, IN lot ct une malson u
rAyenue Bryant, pour $3,5OO.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-07

NJ. S. II. Cyrier q achet6 lie lot
10, blk 8, Sibleys addition, avec
une maison pour $4,000.
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Les placements doivent Sc faire d'avance
au commencement de chaque semestre Oh
pour une absence de moins dun mois.
Les lettres d'argent on autres valeurs
s'adressent au P. rocureur du College, a
Saint-Boniface, Manitoba.
L'uniforme est de rigueur; on Sc le
procurera au College.
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PROSPECTUS
College de s%t.Boniface
MANITOBA.

lie College de Saint oniface, aggregea
rUniversite de Manitoba, est place sous lie
haut patronage de Sa Grandeur l'Arche-
vogue de Saint-Boniface, ct dirige par les
Peres de la Compagnie de Jesus.
LIE Cours d'Etudes comprend les Lam
CUES GREcQuE, LAT1NE, FRANCHISE Ell
ANGLA1sE, L'H1sToIRE ct LA GEOGRAPHIC,
LES SCIENCES NATuRELLEs, LES MATHE-
MAT1QUEs, LA P~H1LosoPH1E MENTALE Ell
LA T%HEOLOGIE.
II y a aussi I'm Cours preparatoire ct une
classe commercials Oh Pom enseigne la
Tenue des Livres.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1889-11-07

Corn 2 lbs cans per doz. 100
Oysters, g." 10y o
Chocolate, per lbs u.4o
Crackers, SIC to Z cts per box.
Prunes, 20 lbs for d.oo
DR. Apples, best, per lbs 0.d0
Jelly by pail, Best IVY
Syrup, 4 gal. kegs, *. 20
Pork, per bill, mess, 1S'o 0o
Lard, best, by so lbs can. OoS
Rice, nice and clean, 16 lbs for i;0
Sugar, graduated, WA
Coffee, Rio, 4 lbs for Ivy oO
Java, 311 lbs for Ivy
Java g. Mocha. "a lbs for l.CO
Teas, we have a very nice article,
sells for SOC in many places, O.55
Best, not colered, o.4o
Sill sc trouve des articles don't vous a.
te liste, nous vons garantissons de vous lie
! vovez nous vos ordres ct economiseZ 20 pc
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
The Engllshman was SHenced.

An Enghshman was being enter
tanned in a Beacon street parlor one
evening, when the conversation turned
upon the difference between English
and American cities.
zone thing is very shocking to US, 3"
the Englishman observed, sand that is
in the many cases of violence in the
streets here. That, you know, is so
different in the English city"
Different! % exclaimed one of the
young ladies who was entertaining the
guest; "I never saw half the violence
in the streets here that I have in Eng
land. Why, when we were Liverpool
last summer we started out one day to
take a walk, and we had only got across
the street from the hotel when hOr-
ribIe great drunken fishwife came up
to me without any PrOvOcatiOn and
offered to fight me for sixpence.
never was so frightened in all my life"
What did you do? Call the police p"
she was asked.
Call the police ?" she echoed, "there
were no police in sight to call. 1 don't
know what I should have done if a
cOal-heaYer hadn't come along and
volunteered to take the quarrel off my
hands by fighting the horrible creature
for nothing"
''And you got away without harm q"
eyes; but I never had anything like
that happen to me on the streets of an
American city.
mo" the visitor responded dryly,
'it couldn't, you know. An American
coaI-heaver would have charged you at
least double for taking the affair off
your hands"
every likely" coolly put in a young
lady who had not yet spoken, ''fOr the
truth is that only in England are even
coa1-heavers fond Of fighting with
women"
The conversation was found to be
taking a turn that would on the whole
not prove conductive to social harmony,
and the subject was therefore dropped.
- RI cfna1 CnaLa.iea.
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Through the whole 81 their innprIs-
onment they were in total darkness,
For nearly three weeks ene growing of
the cock enabled them to distinguish
night from day; but at the end Of this
term chanticleer died, and his compan-
ions followed him one by one Then
they literally took "nO note of time. :"
The donkey and the goats were rest
less for some time, but at length they
fell prey to hunger and exhaustion.
The milk Of the first goat gradually
diminished, but the kidding of the sec
ond increased the supply, and as they
killed the kid, though with great re-
luctance, the supply held out until the
day Of their deliverance. The poor
goat became a great solace to them, as
it was so tame as to lick their hands
and face. The poor creature was ever
afterward an object of great affection
In the family.
We need only add one or two inter
esting facts. During their five weeks
imprisonment they suffered very little
uneasiness from hunger after the first
week. The ef1uYia from the dead ami
mails was far more disagreeable, as also
the Vermin which infested the place,
and the great cOIdness of the snow
water which trickled over them. The
constrained position was also a source
of great misery. During the whole of
the time, Mrs. Roccia had no sleep, but
her daughter and sister had intervals
Of repose equal to their nightly rest.
Their -deiverance was a matter Of
great thankfulness to all concerned;
and many a winters evening was spent
in relating around their humble hearth
the sufferings, the mercies, and deliY.
erance of that eventfuI time.
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Petra is another of these wonders of ex-
cavation. 1t is approached through an
awful chasm cut by the Wady Mousa,
just wide enough for the passage of two
hOrsemen abreast, with perpendicular
sides rising from 400 to 700 feet on each
side. This chasm opens to an amphithe-
alter Of rock cut in cOlOnnades, pediments,
and ranges of corridors. The amphithe-
ater is between two and three miles in
circumference, encompassed on all sides
by rugged mountains 500 or 600 feet high
The sides of the mountains are cut
smooth in perpendicular direction, and
are filed with long and continued ranges
of dwelling-houses, temples and tOmbs,
excavated with vast labor out of the solid
rock, and while their SUBMITS present
nature in her widest and most savage
forms, their bases are adorned with all
the beauty Of architecture and art.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16

We have all been taught to believe
that the ocean, after allowing for tide
waves and wind waves, has a level sur
face; that there are no hills or valleys
on the waters. NJ Bouquet de Ia Grye
has disputed this; has, in fact, demon
strated its fallacy If we take a u
shaped tube with distilled water of
equal temperature on both sides, the
two surfaces will be perfectly level;
but if one side contains q liquid that Is
denser than on the other, more of the
lighter liquid is required to balance the
heavier, and therefore the lighter viii
stand at a higher level If fresh wa
ter is on one side and salt on the other,
equilibrium can only be established by
the fresh water standing,a little higher
than the salt. The like must happen
if we have a uniform liquid, as regards
composition, but of unequal tempera-
ture. Such variations occur in the
oceans. Where rivers are pouring
large quantities of fresh water into the
sea- and where icebergs are rapidly
melting, the sainity is prOpOrtiOnateIy
lower than the other parts. The tenn
perature also varies, and, therefore,
an equilibrium can only be attained by
variations of level; the lighter water
must stand higher than the denssr,
whether the difference be due to tenn
perature or sa1inity. Thus in cross
ing the warm Gulf Stream, a ship sails
uphill on entering, proceeds thus to
somewhere about the middle, and then
descends In this respect it resem-
bles flowing river, which is similarly
crested toward the middle of the
stream; it is also like a river in being
higher at its source than st It's embOu-
!. chure, as its temperature gradually de
DrO0reSS.
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san is IN the horizon. Leghorn is visible
in the distance, the ArnO shows its wind
ings here and there, and rich plain in
full cultivation reaches far inland TO the
lofty Apennines In the vicinity of Lucca.
1t is said that in clear weather Corsica is
visible. it was in this tower that Calico
made his decisive experiments upon the
law of the descent of falling bodies and
lpon the vibration Of the pendulum.
The leaning tower Of Pisa is not the
only edifice which is somewhat "Off its
BASE" There are two leaning towers in
The ancient city OF Bologna, called re-
5psctiyely Asinelli and Zarisends towers.
They were built in the twelfth century
and are situated quite near each other.
The former, which is 272 feet high, devi-
aLes FIVE feet from the perpendicular,
while the latter has a height of 1873 feet
and divergence of nine.
The same controversy has been carried
on over the leaning towers OF Bologna
and Of Pisa, concerning the cause of
their inclination, and there are equally
diverse opinions concerning that other
architectural peculiarly, j ohm O'Groat' s
house. This place has achieved world
wide reputation as the most nOrtherly
about 8 mile and a half from the little
village OF Reiss and right on the rugged
shores of the Pentland firth, in the ex-
treme north of Scotland. At present it
might do very we'll for q picnic party, as
it consists solely of some grass-cOvered
mounds, and it is surprising that some
canny Scot never thought Of keeping the
house up and making a fortune out Of its
notOTlety as a house OF entertainment
during the season.
There are numerous answers given tC
the queries Who was John O'Groat} and
Whence the name? Some say he was
poor ferTyman who, for q grost. conveyed
/ passengers to the island Of StrOma, just
OF the coast In the firth. The groat was
a coin, issued In the time Of Edward III.
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RES since, settled In this vicinity, and that
yearly he, with eight Of his cousins, cele-
brated the memory of some ancestor, and
that on each occasion quarrels arose as to
who should take precedence, until finally
John invented method of settling the
difficulty. He constructed a house with
nine sides, with a door in each side.
These doors, in turn, led to a nine-sided
room, in which was set a nonagOnal table,
so that all the nine kinsmen presided in
common.
[7Natural obstacles are sometimes the
cause of what looks like an architectural
freak. This is, for instance, the little
church of GunwallOe, away of in the
west of Cornwall. 1t was built by pious
Spaniard who was there saved from be-
ing drowned. He insisted on building q
vOtive church on the exact spot where the
waves cast him up, and so 1t was done,
but when the church was completed it
filed the little angle in the rocks and
there was no place left for the tower. So
they built the tower on the other side of
the rocks, where there was another little
sandy angle.
In the quaint old town of Rennes,
once the capital of Brittany, there is to
be seen the still more curious sight of
church tower with no church at all be-
longing to it. There was q church, but it
was burned down in the great fire of 1920,
which lasted seven days, and which con-
sumed nearly every building ia the town.
The tower, a piece of massive masonry
was preserved, and it stands to-day as a
monument of the confagratiOn.
Coming across the British channel and
steaming up the lovely Avon toward Bris-
toll the traveller will have the opportunity
of seeing a house known as Cooks Folly.
It is a solitary tower set up on an almost
Inaccessible hill and is remarkable for
having but one opening, serving as door
and window combined, and that set fully
sixty feet from the ground. The story of
its Construction is as follows: 4 wealthy
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branches Of the trees are supported b
torked poles, which are notohed SO as "a
form a means OF ascent. The huts ara
con1cals are large enough to contain ten
persons conveniently, and look Like g
collection of gigantic birds nests. Then
there are the FOck-dWelIers, the platform
men-ln fact, the list of strange homes is
illimitabIe.
just as an article on architectural Pc
cu1iarities would be imperfect without e
reference to the leaning tower of Pisa,
so 1t would be deficient without some
mention Of the rock temples of Elephsn-
ia. The island or which these temples
are situated lies about two leagues from
Bombay. It contains rows of massive
columns cut out Of the solid rock, cOlOs-
sal heads, thousands OF gigantic figures
OF men and women, all hsWn inch by inch
out of a mountain of solid rock. On
the island of Salsette, also contiguous
to Bombay, there is another excaYated
mountain The great temple chiseled
out of the rock is upward of ninety feet
long, thirty-eight feet wide, and of pro
pCrtiOnate height, with huted, concave
roof. The lofty pillars and roof of the
principal temple of Salsette are even
gTander in appearance than the largest
excavation at Elephanta, while the porti-
CO, of the same height and breadth as
the temple, is richly decorated. Besides
the temple there are indications that the
whole mountain was eXcaYated so as to
form a city capable Of containing many
thousands OF inhabitants. The city OF
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squire named Cook found one day an old
woman picking up sticks in his woods,
and, according to the custom of the times,
had her logged. The dame cursed the
squire and screamed between the lashes
that his son, then q child, should die by
the bite of q viper before he was q years
of age. SuperstitiOus as well as cruel,
Cook ordered q tower built in the fashion
described, and in it immured his son.
All his food, clothing and comforts were
drawn up into the single opening by
means of Windlass and pulley. The
years passed and the squire was
he had outWitted the witch when his Mem
esis struck him on the very eve of the
young mans majority. 1t was cold
weather and a bundle Of fireWoOd was
sent up for the youth fire. He put out
his hand to draw in the fagot when a viper
lifted its head from between the sticks and
struck him. Next day the father mount
ed the tower to release the young squire
and found him dead.
A contractor adds a contribution to this
list Of architectural oddities. When in
Nuremberg his attention was attracted by
the magnificent facade Of the Town Hall.
This facade is supported by row of
arches on a line with the edge Of the side
walk, while on the inner side of the side
walk are a number OF stores, the space
between them forming a sort of cIOister.
What particularly struck him was the
fact that one Of the supporting pillars
was missing. The capital was there, but
the column was gone, and the spring of
the arch rested, like B1ohammed's coffin
on nothing. There seemed to be no SUI
periOF arch to take the weight of the
superimpOsed wall. and how the support
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COOkeY's Awful vengeance.

An original method Of wreakiDg ven
geance on an unfaithfuI lover has been
adopted by q deceived damseI. The
man was a tailor and the woman a
cook, who, when she heard that the gay
deceiver had given her up for a spruce
dressmaker, armed herself with a pair
of big scissors and a bottle of vitrioI
and proceeded to the lodging of the
false-hearted swain. What she would
have done had she met the tailor in the
flesh can only be cOnjectured in a vague
and speculative manner, but it hap
pened that he was out, so she set to
work on his Sunday clothes. These
she pulled out of the wardrobe wherein
they lay, strewed them on table and
cut them into ribbons with her scissors.
She next sprinzIed vitriol over the lot
and treated the tailor's socks, shirts,
and pocket handkerchiefs to vicious
touches of the same corrosive sub
stance. Then she went away satisfied,
but was arrested the next morning, ac-
eording to a legal phrase rather appro-
pirate to the circumstances, at the
suit" of the tailOr.-LoudOg TeIe-
graph
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the top, which is $50 feet in height, it
falls sixteen feet from the base. The
thickness of the wall is 10 feet, and its
diameter so feet at the base, gradually
diminishing in size toward the summit.
It is assembled by $50 very easy steps,
very we'll lighted, and with a landing at
each round. There are seven bells in this
grand belfry, the sound being very soft
and musical, especially that of the great
bell, which weighs II, 900 pounds, and
which is placed upon the side Of the
tower opposite to that which Oyerhangs.
1t was this bell which was formerly used
to give notice of public executions.
Whether the inclination of the tower was
accidental or Intentional it is evident that
the architect endeaVored to counteract it
by balancing his materials. After par
ticular height the columns are higher on
the leaning side, and, of course, shorter
on the other. Notwiths landing its de-
parture from the vertical. the center of
gravity still falls within the base, and
the blocks of stone, now being firmly
united by cement can not slide upon
each other; they, in fact, form one mass.
The walls are, moreover, fortified by iron
bars, and It is not now probable, seven
centuries after the erection, that anything
short of an earthquake can produce its
downfall
The view from the summit of the tower
Is most splendid. The beautiful city of
Pisa is at it's feet, and the spectator seems
in the very midst of it. The Mediterran-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-16
She Got the Needle After All.

Nineteen years ago this month a
woman residing here accidentally
pushed a needle into her breast. She
had been sewing on fine muslin and
she pushed the point of the needle
through the lapel Of her basque while
she inquired the cause of a quarrel be-
tween TWO children who were playing
near by. In parOxysm of tears the
younger child threw herself into the
arms Of the lady, and as she did so the
needle was pushed 80 far out OF sight
that only the eye was visible. A quick
mOyeme' { to rescue it resulted in an
entire disappearance Of the fine bit Of
steel No Inconvenience was expert
enced and the incident was entirely
forgotten. A few evenings ago the
woman, Who had carried the needle
about Ter for so many years, was
awakened out of a sound sleep by a
peculiar pricking sensation In the
throat. Rising up in bed she began to
cough. The pricking became more
severe, but the sharp substance ap-
peared to be rising in her throat.
ThFusting her fingers down as far as
possible, she caught hold Of an object
and drew it out, 1t was the needle
that had been jc-lrneying about under
the surface for nineteen years.-K699gs -
ton az. r Freeman.
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right, but which lacks that subtle es-
sence so readily felt, yet so hard to
describe.
The true fisherman is a whole
souled fellow. When his favOrite pur-
suit is under discussion light springs
to his eyes and ring comes to his
voice, which prOclaims to the listener
that here is natures handiwOrk.
It is not necessary that a man shall
catch fish to be a fisherman. Many a
hard days tramp has been taken and
streams whipped without the slightest
success, yet he has watched the shad-
Ows chase each other across the meadow
and listened to the signing breeze
among the pines and the hemlOcks
the birds song has been his, from the
dark-green of the cedars to the gentle
lap-lap of the Wind-kissed waves that
beat against the pebbly shore; all has
told him in natures harmony that this
worlds greatest success does not al
ways consist in being successful.
When the angler has been rewarded
for his trouble and skill, with what Joy
he exhibits the spoil of his rod. Let
us take a day when the sun is overcast.
A slight breeze starts from the head of
the lake, just sufficient to ripple the
water. Take your seat in the stern of
the boat. The eight-ounce bass rod
lightly lies across your knees. One
hundred feet of iIa3 is on the reel. We
viii bate with a live minnow to-day.
There, cast over the side; now we viii
slowly drift to the foot of the lake. AS
we watch the receding willows on the
shore memory flows back to other days
like this; the faces of old friends come
before US across a gulf of years that we
hardly care to look upon. The mirror
of retrospectiOn holds up many views
for our reminiscent thoughts. All the
line goes out with a whirr from the
reel as the tautened silk swishes
through the water, which at once
brings us from the past to the eager
present. How the tOughened lance
wood tip springs under the dash of the
fish. See what a graceful arc it de-
scribes as we put on the drag. Care
full, now, he heads toward US don't let
him saw off the leader against the keel.
Snub him Snub him That's right
turn him-run Now he turns across
the lake, and for the first time, as with
a mighty rush he springs clear Of the
water, we see our prize. Heated imagi-
nation pictures him as weighing some
thing near a ton; later we shall know,
if we have luck, how much he viii pull
down. Keep him taut; take up the
slack, quick; steady, nowhere he
comes, get the landing-net ready; now
bring him alongside. That's it-hardly
yet-he is not quite exhausted, but
this dash for liberty is the last he viii
make" Now he comes slowly toward
the quiyering tip, and as we get the net
under and lift him into the boat, mer
cifulIy striking the back of his head
against the reel-plate to put him out
of pain, we realize that we have IN
! dergone considerable tension of the
nerves, but his two pounds of hesl
fully repays US for all the menta
strain, and as we glOat over the victim
of our cunning we can fully under
stand that Man was given dominion
/ over the beasts of the field, the fowls
1 of the air, and the fish that inhabi
/ the waters of the earth.