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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Gentlemen's Clothing.

Double breasted sack coats will be fashiona-
BILE for gentlemen's business suits this winter.
These are made of black broad-ribbed diago-
mails or black Thibet or Cheviot, with a vest Of
the same, and colored trousers, either in
checks or stripes. Business suits made all Of
one material are mostly of checked or striped
Cheviots or tweeds, with either the new double
breasted sack coat, the simpler single breasted
sack OF else the cutaway walking coat. Plain
slate gray worsteds are also used for entire
suits. Rough goods and the plain goods such
as dark blue OF black Cheviots, are especially
liked for the new double breasted sacks to be
worn with slate gray or dark blue striped
trousers that are cut straight and are Of fair
width The extremely wide trousers of last
year have given place to those of medium
width for all kinds of suits.
Frock coat suits are considered the correct
day dress SUITS and are usually worn by the
groom, best man and ushers at afternoon
weddings. The vest matches the coat, and
striped trousers are now worn Of quite light
lavender or blush gray shades.
Full dress suits, worn only in the evening,
are little changed in style. They are made
throughout of fine diagonals and Thibets,
and they may have an additional vest of
white worsted or Marseilles. A slight vine
of embroidery borders the white and the
black vests. The swallow tail dress coat re-
mains Of the usual length, and is rolled low,
with silk facing; the vest is also cut very low
and discloses three studs in the shirt bosom.
Single breasted sack overcoats, with fly
fronts, will be worn this winter Of medium
length and faced with silk. Occasionally
double sacks are preferred, and are made
quite loose in front and back, hanging straight
from the shoulders like the box coats used for
driving. Cape coats for evening overcoats
are made Of heavy Cheviots in broad double
diagonal with plaid lining, according to
Harper's Bazaar, authority for the foregoing
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Fashion Notes.

Black costumes are again considered stylish
and fashionable.
Astrakhall is favorite trimming for tailor
made coats and jackets.
Brocade is in favor for trains to dinner and
reception gowns.
Shoulder capes of cloth and of fur are
largely worn.
Some of our young ladies are reviv ing an
old fashion in hair dressing. Little curls are
clustered at each side Of the head, being kept
in place by side combs with fancy tops, the
rest of the hair being combed upwards, and
plated or coiled in o crown at the top of the
head.
Feather trimmings will be used the coming
winter In every imaginable way. Marabout
feathers and uncurled ostrich plumage will
be especially favored.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Tipping servants has reached its ex-
treme limit in England, and we may ex-
pect to hear Of reaction from it. In
some of the London restaurants walters
pay over dollar day for the privilege
of waiting on customers, instead of being
paid by the proprietors. A returned
American traveller says the only hired
person he found in all Europe who re-
fused to take a fee, was an Irishman.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Along with the description of the find
ing of the richest tin mines in the world
in the Black Hills comes another story
from the same locality. It is that the
farmers in South Dakota are starv-
ing. Their crops failed because of the
drought. Immediate relief is called for
to meet their pressing necessities Food,
clothing and fuel are all needed, and
needed at once. Millions are in the val
leys and hillsides all about them, but
they can neither eat tin nor wear it, nor
cook their food with it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Eight Hours a Dav.
ciOus.

An attempt was made in 1886, BY the
Federation of Trades and Labor unions,
to establish the eight hours working day
throughout the country. The effort was
successful among the cigar makers and
German printers. Furniture workers
compromised with their employers on
nine hours. Carpenters obtained also
important concessions. In eighty-four
cities their working day was reduced to
nine hours, while in seven cities they OBJ
tanned their full demand for eight hours.
These were the substantial results from
the effort of 1886.
The two organizations named have
since been merged into the Federation of
Labor, with membership of 100000. It
embraces all the most powerful trades
unions in the land. With this power be-
hind it the Federation proposes again to
take up the fight for the eight hours la
Dor day. As a beginning they have
asked Mr.. Powderly to present the sub
ject to the general assembly of the
Knights of Labor at Atlanta in Novem-
Der. It is expected this will be done.
Then. with the moral support of the
Knights, the Federation will make it's
fight The general adoption of the eight
hours working day is set for May 1, 1890.
Eight hour leagues will be formed
among working people throughout the
country, literature and statistics will be
scattered broadcast, and all means of
peaceful agitation taken to arouse the
labor element to the occasion. A national
day will be set apart to win adherents to
the cause. Strikes will only be resorted
to as last necessity.
The Federation of Labor believe that,
with wise management, the movement
will succeed this time. Mr.. Samuel
Gompers, president of the Federation, re-
minds doubters that not the first, or even
the second attempt of any movement for
improving the condition of a whole peo-
pie is successful, though it be carried at
last. Among arguments for the eight
hours labor day Mr.. Gompers adduces
these:
We find today that the working people of the
country are forced upon either one or the other
horn of dilemma. the acceptance Of low wages
or the going without employment by reason Of
the vast army Of unemployed It seems to me to
be not only consideration Of humanity to find
employment for those who are willing to work
and cannot find 1t, but a consideration OF the
most material Of our interests, that Of making
our employment more steady and rendering our
wages moro staple and less liable to reduction
These considerations demand of US that We re-
duce the hours Of labor to eight per day.
Certainly in this latter part Of the nineteenth
century, with all the implementaof machinery,
science and knowledge contributing toward the
production Of wealth, we have arrived at that
stage when eight hours per day Is more than
s,facient to produce all the necessaries and the
Injuries that any people can reasonably want.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

in the liquid to the
condition of nitrate
of iron. This ex-
pertinent is an easy
one to perform and
it gives an idea Of
the energy of GER
tain chemical ac-
tons. We b a v Q
endeavored to rep
resent its appear
ance in the annexed
cut.
Fuming nitric
acid does not act on
iron and prevents
its being attacked
by ordinary nitric
acid. This property
has given rise to a
remarkable expert
m G t on passive
iron. 1t consists in
placing some nails
in a G ! a S S into
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

venient one, and
finds favor again
this season. These
petticoats are made
in a variety Of
styles. Some are
especially designed
for warmth; a thin
layer of cotton
wad ding b cling
placed between the
outside and the lin
ing. This wadding
is held in place by
quilting.
In the cut is
shown a somewhat
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Hot Air InhaIations in Consumption.

Science states that from experiments in a
number of cases, DR.. E. L. Trudeau, of Sara
mac Lake, N. Y, concludes that ~ the thera-
peutic value of hot air inhalations in phthisis
is doubtful; and G the evidence obtained by
the meteorological study Of the cases pre-
sented does not confirm the assumption that
inhalations of heated air can either prevent
the growth of the tubercle bacillus in the
lungs of living individuals or diminish the
virulence of this micro5e when it has gained
access to them.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Chauncey M. Depew has been telling
the newspapers what he would do if he
were woman. One thing is, that he
would "strain every nerve, first and
last" to get an education. He would do
this because the area of self support to a
woman enlarges in proportion to the edu-
cation she has.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Cholera has appeared in Asia, and
someuneasiness is felt lest it reach Eu-
rope next summer. During the past
summer it was epidemic in Persia and
Mesopotamia. In August it attacked
Bagdad, and 200 persons a day died.
Cholera is always to be found in Asia to
some extent, but since 1881 it has not
been so fatal in Bagdad as it was last
summer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

eof'An s1hA Re elaborate affair, do
signed for show rather than for warmth.
This petticoat is made in alternate stripes of
surah silk and lace insertings. The plated
border around the bottom is edged with lace
houncing. The pointed belt is of silk, and
the ribbon bows and ties match the silk in
color. These petticoats are usually made in
cardinal, cherry, pink or one of the shades of
blue colored silk.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
American Congress of Doctors,

The election of officers for the next congress
of American physicians and surgeons, to be
held in September, 1891, resulted as follows:
Dr. Weir Mitchell. president; DR.. w. H.
Carmalt, of New Haven, secretary; DR.. j. S.
Billings, of Washington, treasurer; DR.. Will
liam Pepper, of Philadelphia, chairman of
the executive committee, and DR.. S. C. Busey,
Of Washington, chairman of the local COM
mittee of arrangements.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
lie Sueur Sentinel:

LIE Sueur SentlnGI:
There was a sudden uprising in the
little empire of Brazil lately, which
came with the suddnness of a cyclone
and almost in twinkling a Repub.
lie was given the place of the EN-
pire.
Brudder Green, dat ar empwire wuz
not so little az yud make out. Desc
Younighted Stats am a trifle dc
largist-by countin in wun half Nv
Alaskay but not udder waz.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Capt. Zalinski is satisfied that his
pneumatic dynamite torpedo gun will
throw, every two minutes, a 200 pound
shot which will travel mile. This gun
is part of the armament of the cruiser
Vesuvius.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Scientific Gleanings.

Electricity promises to be the coming me-
dunn for transmission of power not only for
street railways, but also for mining indus
tries.
Locomotive engineers are inclined, it is
said, to obesity.
Gum chewers' paralysis is the latestform of
professional neurosis recorded in medical lit
erature.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
100 l,reat Vibration in Watches.

A very troublesome fault with some Of the
best class of Swiss watches is a too great vi
bration, causing the balance to strike the
bankings. 1t is most often found in watches
having large wheel teeth with straight in
clines. The more modern practice is to curve
the acting face of the teeth, and a slight al
teration Of the tooth diminishing the incline
at the heel of the tooth will always diminish
the amount of vibration.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Even the heather tribes of Africa
progress. The sultan of Zanzibar has
given to the British consul in his do
minions written pledge that all chill
dren born in his country after Jan. /
shall be free.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Experimeuts with Iron.

Iron is acted upon in powerful manner
by most acids If some nitric acid is poured
on iron nails, a stream of red nitrous vapor
is let loose and the oxidized iron is dissolved
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Colman's Rural World (St.
Louis, No. prints the following,
to which we say amen:
Let the thieves and plunderers
go on, under cover of uhrighteous
laws, in the formation of their
trusts and combines to increase
the price Of all that the people
eat and wear, until the pressure
wears through to the quick, and
the masses will 60 to the polls
in a solid body and mash them
into smithereens. The quicker
the better.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Dakota. Ruralist.

A recent dispatch from Atlanta,
Ca, says that a federation of the
Knights of Labor and the Farm
ers' Alliance is a foregone conclu-
sion.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
Silk PetticOatS.

The fashion which prevailed to a consider
able extent last winter of wearing silk petit
coats under walking dresses in place of white
muslin skirts. is a very sensible and con-
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
WHAT SHALL WE WEARY
FASHIONS FOR MEN, WOMEN AND
CHILDREN.

School Dresses for Large Girls and Dresses
and Slips for Small Girls-Pleasing Styles
in Petticoats-Hints to Men ON the Sub
ject of Clothing.
.
Scotch and French plaids in dark colors,
made with plated waists and skirts, form de-
years Of age. These dresses are usually fin
ished with velvet plastron, collar, etc. For
more dressy occasions young girls gowns are
made of cashmere, light weight cloth or other
wool fabric, and trimmed with braiding, pas
sementerie, embroidery or velvet ribbon. A
favorite mode is an Empire waist and gath
cred skirt
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

+ The tenth international medical con-
gress will be held at Berlin in 1890. Doc
tors, get ready your papers going for tho
Quacks,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

The New York Sun says Of Hon. John
Sherman that, in the course of a long
public life, 'sthe senator from Ohio has
never been known to go off at half cock.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
What The Sharks Have Done
In Dakota.

What The Sharks Have Done
In Dakota.
The St. Paul Daily News gives
the following as the views OF
Hon. w. P. Murray, who has
just visited Dakota:
En- route home, Mr.. Murray
stopped at DEVILS Lake, where
he made a Investigation
of the reports of restitution and
suffering among the farmers.
'"The situation" said he "has-
not been overdrawn, and there is
great want and suffering and
need for immediate relief. There
is not a farm that has not been
mortgaged to death. The coun-
try is in the hands of money, ele-
vator and machine sharks, whose
depredations are ahundred times
worse than the drought. A great
mistake has been made in the
false inducements held out to
settlers, and immigrants have
been deceived in locatingin a new
country without the necessary
means to start in life aud tide
them over a bad season. Why,
the suffering caused by the lack OF
bare necessities of life is terrible.
The farmers and their families
are in need of for, shoes. under
wear and clothing of all descrip-
tions. Then there is a scarcity
of fuel. Thegoverment issued an
order permitting each settler to
have five cords of wood from the
military reservation. This went
into effect last Thursday, and all
OF Wednesday night farmers could
be seen comingto preservation.
Some OF them drove thirty miles,
and their horses are so miserable
that they can haul back only a
half cord of green wood"
Continuing, Mr.. Murray stated
that he had met a number OF
members OF the Dakota legisla-
ture on the train and had dis
cussed the necessity of an approp-
priation for erelief Of the suffer-
ers, which, in his opinion, should
be granted, the trouble beingthat
the officials are not inclined to
admit the situation and are
opposed to it's discussion.
The Jehersonian (of Topeka,
Kan. says:
Statistics will show that more
than one-fourth of the proceeds
OF all the wealth produced by Ia
Dor in Kansas goes to England
and Europe to pay rent, interest
and dividends: If thepeople had
voted with any sense or intelli-
gence, during the past thirty
years, this vast sum would have
been kept at home and would
have made us a prosperous people
instead of apovertv stricken one.
Labor's Tribune Carthage,
Mo- correctly gives us some
more:
While the sheriffs are evicting
thousands of farmers from their
homes in the West, hundreds of
farms are being abandoned in the
East, because their owners have
been starved out! Shades of
Washington! Jefferson! jackson!
Lincoln! Is it possible that this
is the Government you founded
and helped perpetuate! To what
neither depths must we descend
before we awaken to the dangers
lying before us as a Nation?
The Age Of Greed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

1t took the court at Chicago until the
tenth week of it's session to complete the
Jury in the Cronin murder case.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
MankatO Journal:

Some OF our state exchanges
rldlcule the idea advanced in the
Journal of having a representa-
tive farmer the occupant of the
gubernatorial chair. But we
have failed to notice one reason
able objection. The farming in
terest of the state is greater than
any other, and it certainly should
be recognized by choosing guber-
material timber from it's ranks
The people of this state are so
used to selecting some rich banker
Or lawyer for the position that
they seem to have lost sight of
the idea that brains can he found
outside OF these two professions.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

Ii any Oh ouI subscribers do not
get their papers we hope they will
send word. 1t is difficult to organize
SO large a list without errors.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
NOTES AND NEWS OF GENERAL IN
TEREST TO THE AVERAGE READER.

Direction and Velocity Of Winds-How
the Velocity Il Measured by Means OF
the Anemometer-An Anemometer II
Illustrated and Described.
Winds are currents moving in the atmos-
phere with variable directions and veloci-
ties. There are eight principal directions in
which they blow: North, northeast, east.
southeast, south, southwest, west and north
west. Mariners further divide each Of the
distances between these eight directions into
four others, making in all thirty-two direc-
lions, which are called points or rhumbs. A
figure Of these thirty-two rhumbs on circle,
in the form Of star, is known as the mari
uer's card.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-03
Press Notes.

IT will hardly pay TO get nervous
over the amount of gold that is being
shipped to Europe. There are still
500, 200, 900 of it left in this country to
squeeze through the summer on.-BOs-
ton Evening Record.
PRESIDENT HARRISON never will
surpass the beauty of his utterance on
the Johnstown calamity: GIVE can do
nothing better than to put around the
dark picture the golden border of love
and sympathy ."-Zion's Herald.
THE report that the friends of pro-
hibition in Kansas are willing to resub-
NIT the question is probably incorrect.
They are not at all anxious to risk
that small majority of 5000 in total
vote of 10000, and will fight any
measure looking to a reconsidera-
tion.-BoSton Evening Record.
ALL the counties of Pennsylvania on
the northern and western borders, eX-
cept Erie and Greene, gave majorities in
favor of prohibition last week Tuesday.
Of the counties which gave republican
pluralities in the general election last
fall twenty-five supported the amend
ment. Only five democratic counties
voted that way.
Mr.. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS little
essay upon Arbor day in Harper'S
Monthly for July is an exQuisitely fin.
ished piece of composition. Mr., Cur
tbs, in this vein of writing, is hardly
complimented by being called the Ad-
olson of America. Addison never
wrote as well as his successor on this
continent in the present century,
| Boston Herald.
Mr.. THEODORE ROOSEVELT is illus
trating truly independent and consci
entious politics in manner that leave;
nothing to be desired. If the repub
lican party would fill its high places
generally with such men the mission
of the mugwump would be brought
quickly to an end. We tremble fol
Mr. Roosevelt constantly. Any day ht
is liable to be pronounced in inhuen
tional quarters to be no better than {
mugwump; but, in the meantime, he
courageously keeps on in his gooC
work, and a highly encouraging feature
is the aid he is receiving in it from re
publican quarters. boston Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-03

Undoubtedly the results of prohibition
in other states during these same
years have strongly influenced the
minds of voters also. Nor can it be
denied that the conduct of prohibition
leaders in nearly all the states has been
such as to arouse intense opposition on
the part of many who sincerely sup
ported prohibition a few years ago.
When Mr.. st. John became the paid
tool of the democratic party in 1884 it
was by many honest prohibitionists
supposed that he did not represent the
leading and influential men of that
party, and that his bitter assaults upon
the republican cause were ebulitions
of private feeling, because of the false
position in which he had been placed
But since that time the conduct of other
prohibition leaders in great number
and in many states has been calculated
to convince sincere voters that these
professional prohibitionists are in fact
seeking not the promotion of the
cause of temperance, but personal ends
or the qualification of personal ami.
mostly. For instance, when these lead
ers deliberately conspired to throw the
control of the state of New jersey into
the hands of the democrats and the sa-
loon-keepers, directly after most ju-
dicious and benefcent temperance law
had been adopted by republican votes in
the legislature, and had enabled several
counties of the state to get rid of the
liquor traffic entirely, it was felt by
honest prohibition voters wherever the
facts were known that the so-called
prohibitionists in New Jersey were
more anxious, for reasons of their own,
to help the democratic party than to
promote the cause of temperance. The
results in Pennsylvania and Rhode
Island are natural fruits from such seed.
Having taken great pains to insult and
offend large majority of the voters
who sincerely care for the temperance
cause, the prohibition leaders find this
year that those voters have concluded
to let them alone severely. One result
will be that the so-called third party
will cut less significant figure in pub
lie affairs hereafter. Another and
more important result is that the most
intelligent and conscientious friends of
temperance will be the better able to
concentrate their efforts upon a wise
and judicious policy.-Ne,o York 7ri-
bme (Repubhcan).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-03
Thoughts on International
Relations.

The Grafton of ex-Minister Phelps
upon "Our International Relations
before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of
Harvard College, last week, was schol-
arly, thoughtful and very suggestive.
At the outset he criticised the use of
the term international law" show
ing that the intercourse of nations may
be policy or custom, but by no means
law. He suggested the term "inter-
national usage" He showed the fall
lacy of Lord Lytton's proposition that
the principles of morality have no
control in the intercourse of nations.
The differences between the
moral rights and duties of nations and
those of individuals is only in degree
and not in kind. 1t may be declared
as fundamental principle in all law
that finds assent and support among
the race to which we belong that it is
based upon and exists for the princi
pal purpose of applying to the course
of personal and national conduct thu
acknowledged principles of moral jus
tice, so far as, through general rules
and established methods of procedure
they can be made practically effectual.
The time has come, Mr.. Phelps thinks
when we need to have estab lished