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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
Meals in India,

In India, the table-servants are men
of infinite resources; nothing daunts
them. A lady, writing in the Cornhitl
Magazine, says she once objected to the
way a vegetable morrow had been cook
ed. +" Your Majesty" said her servant,
" has but to give the order and tomor-
row it shall be made into French
beans"
Her servant announced that there was
beef steak for dinner, and she, as mat
ter Of course, asked: "What is it made
of ?"
"Of mutton as no beef could be
bought, he answered.
At a ceremonious dinner, given by a
native gentleman to the lady and TO her
husband, when the game course was
placed on the table, she saw something
unusual in the look of the cartridges.
Her head servant whispered TO her that
they were chickens dressed as partridges.
A game course was necessary to a
ceremonious dinner, and rs no partrid-
ges could be procured the chickens were
offered up on the altar o. custom.
The native who gave the dinner did
not sit at table with his English guests.
They dined by themselves, and only saw
him after the dinner was over. The
table was spread with the foreign gu. SITS
own linen, plate, and china, and they
we're waited on by their own servants,
who had cooked the dinner.
The explanation is that his caste
would not permit him to eat with his
guests. and the servants caste forbade
their cooking for them. He had no
table furniture such as English guesta
REQUIRE, and if he had possessed any
he could never have produced it, after
they POLLUTED 1t
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
A WALL OF WATER.
Two Explorers LoseTheir Lives in a
Wave Forty FEET High.

In March last two German officials
landed on the southwest coast OF the
big island of New Britain TO explore the
island. They had gone there from
Finchhaven, in neighboring New
Guinea, with a considerable force OF
natives. No tidings whatever have been
heard of them since. Search parties sent
out from Finchhaven have sought them
in vain, and there is no longer any doubt
that they fell victims to a remarkable
phenomenon that occurred two or three
days after they reached the island.
On the morning of March ID a sound.
was heard at Fmchhaven as OF distant
thunder. A few minutes later the sen
receded from the shore in an unheard OF
manner. and revealed to view, six feet
above its surface, reef at the harbor
entrance that had never been seen above
water before. Then the sea came back,
enormous waves dashing far up on the
land and deluging a part OF the little
settlement A while after fine ashes
began to slit over the coast, and the
German colonists knew there had been
q volcanic outburst northeast of them.
Two days after the little vessel Ot,ilie,
sent from Finchaven, reached the nth
coast of New Britain, eighty miles 'ay.
The Captain coald not at lrst recognise
the coast, though he had seen 1t often.
The respect OF Vulcan Island, off the
vest end of thu big island, had entirely
altered The top of it had disappeared,
and il is supp .sed that volcanic erup-
ton blew it into the sea, and that tins
was one of the cluses of the uighty
wave that spread ruin along the south
of New Britain.
This wave. Judging from It's effects, is
believe to have iieen about forty feet
high. All the villages that lined the
beach had entirely disappeared. For
ten or twelve miles along the coast a
belt of timber about three-qnar. ers OF a
mile wide had been swept away. Where
the force of the wave began 10 arate,
the bodies Of few natives wers ;ount
lodgel in the branches of trees twenty
to thirty feet from the ground. Here
and there on tie land we're helped
great fragments of coral rock and tr e.,
aud thousands of dea I tisa strewed the
ground. Mnuy of the natives were
kille :, aud Others La I their limbs
broken l,y he ng swept off their feet and
dashed alains. tres.
1t is noteworthy fat that the natives
Win saw tne wave approaching Thought
it was caused by the evil spirit ia thc
volcanoe of Akaie, and attacked it with
showers of stones and c.uns just beiors
it cngulfed them. The German ex-
plolsrs, it is su ipose,l, hnl not yet
starte inlaui, aud they were oyerwhelm-
ed by the common destruction. TIE
grea. wave which overwhelmed many
thousands of people after the eruption
at Krakataus is said to haze trtv.ll
sev.ral times around the world. 1t is
probable that this enormous va as
New Britain exteoded its elf Cts II y
slight measure to every Dean.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

had been taught Columbus first landed
on San Salvador or Cat Island.
"Oh, my, no. You're all yron. o Its
been proved he first came ashore nf Wat
hngs. Why, | often, on fine mornings.
get John to drive me over to the south.
eastern point of the island where Il is
thought he came ashore. There's the
lovellest white beach there. and fine
broad blue ocean stretches out and away
before you as you look eastward. I make
John go away, for John isn't romantic
you know, and tlen sit down and close
my eyes and think intently for a mo-
ment. Then | open them and / see the
queer old-fashioned ships with their
worn sails, their high sterns and tbe
royal banners waving, tossing at anchor
beyond the reef; see the line of boats
with flashing oars advancing; see the
dusky Indian forms standing at the edge
of the wood, and just above where the
surf breaks on the beach / see the old
mariner kneel under the banner of Spain.
his sword uplifted and his eyes raised to
Heaven. Oh, it's glorious picture, and
l never tire of calling it forth. Life on
Watlings, you see, has its compensa-
tions."
AS the woman told this story, she un-
consciously acted it out, rose from her
chair and with flaming eyes and cheeks
a new and fair Columbus led a fancied
band. 1 had grown deeply interested
and l determined to know her history.
'Tell me about yourself" / said, "and
how it comes that you, with your evil
dent education aud accomplishments,
choose to live on place so remote and
lonely as Watlings Island"
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sJosirp a,th astisreIIaug.
THE SEAS TWO VOICES.

Two friends who wander by the shore
Look outupon the self-same seas,
Hearing two voices in the roar,
Because of different memories.
Far him whose love the sea hath drowned
1t means the music Of his wrong;
For him whose life with love is crowned
II breaks upon the beach in song.
-Harper's Bazar.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16
A FAIR COLUMBUS.

URING q visit
at Nassau, in
TIL g Bahamas,
writes James b.
T o W nsend in
the Journalist, L
S t rolled away
from my COM
pan ions, and
passing several
small scEooners
laden with spon-
ges, lying along
the wharf, each
with two or
{ hire o ragged
-. &.vl oA.l
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-01-16

FoUR members Of one family. in Wei.
lington county, Oniar o, have been
killed by falling trees in thu same p.scs
Of forest within three months
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
PRETTY MUCH AT SEA.

The Council Joint Committee
Cables.
The council joint committee on rail-
roads and ordinances is getting into
deep water on the franchise question.
There is evidently party of delay in the
committee and another party that does
At yesterday mornings meeting the
committee had an executive session
after hearing few parting words from
Judge Shaw and receiving amendments
to the original proposition the Anderson
81 Douglas company are willing to ac-
cept. These were revenue tax of S25
a car annually, an agreement to build
extensions ordered by the council and
to build sewers cabled on streets not
now severed. In the executive session
Chairman Warren asked for suggeS-
tons as to mode of procedure, but
Aid. Sterling declared this premature.
He thought the question of the coun
CLIPS right to grant franchise should
be first considered. Aid. Bradish moved
that subcommittee of five be APP
pointed to confer with the aldermen of
the different wards as to what street
railway lines it was necessary and ex-
pedient to build. The commit
tee was appointed, to consist
of Aid. Warren, Bradish, Van
dewarker, Meloy and Cole. Then
Aid. Meloy asked what this committee
was to do. He didn't think the council.
or committee of the council. ought to
go about seeking concessions from any
company. He wanted the new PROPOSE
q II E.. 4
to be given more time The new propo-
sitionS were read and referred. Aid.
Sterling wanted to begin at the begin
ming by determining the legality of
granting franchise, but this motion to
reconsider was lost and the committee
adjourned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
THE VETS WON.
The II O'Clock Closing Ordinance
Laid on the Table.


The liquor ordinance was read the
second time, and Aid. Brueshaber
moved to amend by striking out the
words and figures eleven where they
occur, and inserting the words and fig
ures IL for the closing hour for saloons.
Aid. Bradish got the floor, and ex-
planned that the ordinance was intro
duced merely to correct an error in the
former ordinance, and to make it con-
form with the sta tie law, which named
II o'clock as the closing hour. Aid.
MCGOWAN said that since there was no
other object in the ordinance than to
close the saloons at IL, which he did not
believe the council wished to do, he
moved to lay the whole ordinance on
the table. The yea and nav vote re-
suited in the ordinance being laid on
the table by vote of twenty-one to six
teen. Aid. MCGOWAN moved to recon-
slider and the motion was lost. The
vote on the motion to lay on the table
was as below:
YeaS-Barrows, Brueshaber, Brazie Brad
ish. Cole, Duman, Eustad, Ellingsen, Flaten,
Farnsworth, Gilman, Gray, Hunter, Ingen-
hutt, Lowell, MCGOWAN, Phillips, Rhode,
Reeves, Swanson. Woodward-21.
Nays-Adams, Burcell, Billings Blichfeldt,
Downs Fultz Grimes, Loye, Meloy, Potter,
Parry. Smith, Sterling, Vandewaker, Warren,
President Johnson IL.
Aid. Bradish gave notice that he
would reintroduce the ordinance at its
regular meeting, and said in converse
ton that the saloOnkeepers would not
escape the IL o'clock law, as they would
be ''jerked'' before the grand jury for
violation of the statute
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
THE MINNEAPOLIS IDEA.

Some of the Peculiar Featu res Of
So-Called Temperance Legisla-
ton
The council committee on licenses
yesterday ordered license issued to
Charles Love for the Shades saloon at
223 Third street south. 1t was found
that he had never violated the provis-
ions of the great Republican saloon Or
dinance. although the police charged
that the place was the resort of i'm
moral women, and offered to produce
witnesses to prove it. Lambert Hays
was granted a license for a saloon
adjoining the Peoples theater. His
application had been refused because
there was door opening from the sa-
loon into the lobby of the theater. Mr..
Hays gave the assurance that the door
has been closed, which will necessitate
people walking about twenty feet fur
Their when they go out for drink or a
cigar between the acts, and was granted
license. 1t doesn't matter much to
the proprietor of the saloon whether the
door is open or clOsed-but it seemed to
be great point with the committee.
Thomas Moore asked rebate of $500
on license he took out January last,
for the bar room of the Brunswick
hotel. The city attorney instructed the
committee, however. that license can
only be taken out for one year from
July l to July l, and no reduction can be
made for a fractional part of year.
This is done in Washington county,
and in Ramsey county saloonkeepers
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
THE PEOPLE WANT IT,
Strong Petitions to the Coun-
ell for the Cable Fran
ehise.
The Eleven O'Clock Ordinance
Is DoWned--The Saloon
License.
A System of Wholesale Rob-
berry Is Diseovered--An
Afternoon Blaze.
Peculiar Phases Of Republi-
can Saloon Laws Illus
trated.

The rivals of the street railway CO m
pany are pursuing their campaign in
lively manner now that the contest has
fairly opened. A pile of papers three
inches thick lay on the clerks desk
when the session of the council opened
last evening. They were petitions pray
ing that honorable body to grant the
cable franchise and contained S970 names
Anderson & Douglass accompanied this
with a letter to the council, reciting
that their proposed ordinance had met
with criticism, as they expected, and
begged leave to submit the following
suggestions for its amendment:
First-After the lapse of ten years
from date of the passage of the ordi-
nance the company will pay an annual
tax into the city treasury of S25 per car
for each car in daily use,
Second-UfferS to extend lines when
ever petitioned for by people and Or
dered by the council.
Third-The company desires to add to
the system of street railway pro-
posed in the ordinance the following
named streets and avenues: COmmenc-
ing at the intersection of Twenty-eighth
street with Tenth avenue south; thence
on Tenth avenue south to Thlrty-elghth
street.
Commencing at the intersection of
Twenty-eightb street with Fifth avenue
south; thence on Fifth avenue south to
Thirty-eighth street.
Commencing at the intersection of
Twenty-second street with Pleasant
avenue; thence on Pleasant avenue TO
Twenty-eighth street.
Commencing at the intersection of
Fourth street with Twentieth avenue
north, thence along Twentieth avenue
north to Thirteenth avenue northeast,
thence on Seventeenth avenue north
east to Sixth street, thence on Sixth
street to Twenty-second avenue north
east, thence OH TWenty-secOnd avenue
northeast to Seventh street, thence on
Seventh street to Twenty-fourth avenue
northeast, thence on Twenty-fourth
avenue to Jackson street northeast.
Anderson IL Douglass accompanied
this letter with draft of an ordinance
amended to include the above prOporSl-
tons. The whole was again referred to
the joint committee on railroads and or
dinances. Later the joint asked for
more time, and were granted until the
regular meeting of July 10 to report on
the ordinance. Aid. Hunter moved
that the city attorney examine and re-
port on the Anderson & Douglass Or
dinance at the next regular meeting,
and Aid. Gray moved that when the
council adjourn it be to July II, when
the cable franchise should be made a
special order, but by agreement the
meeting was set back to July 10, at 8
O'Clock %, IN,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
TROUBLE is BREWING.
The Wabash Joins With the Alton
In an I'M ,,era tive Demand
in an Imperat;'


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July Sit is an
nounced tonight that the Wabash has
joined with the Alton in the demand
that the through lines from the West
to Chicago break bulk on their through
business as per the Interstate Com
merce Railway association agreement.
Both of these roads threaten to
solicit business on the through lines,
pay the full local rate over them to
Kansas City and carry it from here to
Chicago at any rate that, added to the
local, will bring the total down to the
through rate on the through lines. The
Rock Island refuses to break bulk, and
announced that it would make any rate
between here and Chicago that the
Alton wanted to make. Unless some
agreement should be reached lively
rate was is expected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
The Chamber OF Commerce Title.

1t is alleged that fee of $1,000 was
paid for examination of the title to the
land on which the Minneapolis chamber
of commerce stands. Years afterWard
deeds of this and other land from one
who owned the land in the SOS are
given to one who has heretofore been
unknown in the title. So far as the
public records are evidence the interest
acquired by these new deeds is SEEM
ingly of 10 more consequence than
other claims based upon apparently
similar deeds; but if the new party in
the claim of title thinks he has any
title the present occupants will be put
to the pains and expense of litigation to
clear their tites-which would have
been borne by the Title Insurance Com
pany for premium much less than the
alleged fee paid for an examination
which offered no indemnity. The pub,
lie records are far from conclusive proof
of title. They may show the title per-
feet when it is doubtful, defective or
wholly void.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
The $500 Short Line,

Has more than fulfilled the greatest ex-
pectations of its warmest friends. The
elegant through Boston sleeping cars
via Ottawa and Montreal; the superb
dining cars furnishing meals equal to
the best hotels: the smooth and perfect
track, combined with the fact that there
are no transfers nor ferries, make the
trip one of comfort and pleasure. Pas
sengers ell route to New York have but
one change and one hours delay in
Montreal. TO Portland, Halifax and
st. John. the only change of cars is in
union depot, Montreal. Trains leave
union depot, Minneapolis, at 7:2o p. IN.
every day, and run through. Ticket
offices corner First and Washington
avenues and union DEPOT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mrs. Robert Holley has returned from
weeks visit to LIE Sueur.
Senator Washburn and family left for the
East yesterday. They will sail for Europe
next Wednesday.
/ Mrs. S. S. Kilvington is quite i'll from the
effects of a congestive chill taken while out
riding on the Fourth.
Gerhard Gjertsen returned yesterday from
Washington, quite confident Of being ap-
pointed to the consulate at Calcutta.
j. S: johnson, formerly of the Swedish
American bank, has accepted a position as
cashier in the bank of Sandstone, MINI.
Prof. William Peterson, of Augsburg semi
nary, has gone to North Dakota. where he will
spend plumber of weeks Of the summer
lecturing on prohibition.
Miss Fanny Mcintyre, who has been sing
ing the leading contraltO role in Midnight
her vacation with her father, Col. W. T. B.
Mcintyre, of Minneapolis. S he will spend
the summer here.
Mr.. Gregory, the new principal of Bennett
seminary, met the trustees of the school at
DR.. Burrell's studio yesterday. Various
means of raising the standard of work at the
seminary were discussed. DR.. Gregory pur-
poses to form of the school the nucleus of
college for the culture of women.
AT THE HOTELS.
E. P. Peterson, Litchfeld, is guest at the
Holmes hotel.
H. q. SOmerVllIe, Oh New 1Ork, is at the
Windsor house.
Miss Eliza Boot, Evans Mills, is guest at
the Holmes hotel.
M. j. Peppard and wife, Camplin, are
guests at the Windsor hotel.
Mr. and Mrs c. B. Wells registered at the
West hotel from the Hawaiian.
r. P. Herrick, Montivideo; c. E. Page. Fer
gus Falls, are at the Hotel Ardmore.
William Osgood. Mankato, and J. d. Gill,
Duluth. are late arrivals at the ArdmOre.
Newton Edwards Mankato; B. B. Whiting,
Duluth; Charles Adams, st. Cloud, are at the
Brunswick.
A. Y. Merrill, prominent lawyer of Aitkin,
and G. W. Knox, commission man of the
same place, are guests at the Nlcollet house.
c. ". Babcock and II. S. Wilcox, KasOta;
Mary Armstrong, Albert Lea and vii liam
O'Brien, Hlnckley, are Northwestern people
at the Nicollet.
H. c. Bull, Cokato; W. H. Lindsay, Mitch
eel, S. D.; B. Olson and G. Rosing, Red Wing;
Harvey Thomas, Huron, are Northwestern
guests at the Windsor house.
Misses Lottie Stanley, New York: Jessie
Woods, Philadelphia: Louise Armando, Mon
treal, and r. a. Nelson, Boston. and s.
Goodno, Hartford. the bicy clists, are at the
Nicollet house, where they will make head
quarters during their stay i'll Minneapolis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
PULL DOWN THE SIGN.
Last" and First Chance" Places
Winked At by the Council.

Winked At by the Council.
The license committee reported the
toll owing lists of persons who are rec
commended not to have liquor license
during the coming year.
Carl Peterson, 1920 Seventh street
south; August Leasing, 245 Plymouth
avenue; Charles Danneger, 119 Wash
ington avenue north; Charles Zellmann,
1928 Washington avenue south: A. G.
Green, All Washington avenue south;
Frank Wachata, 1913 Washington avenue
north; A. Olsen, 14l9 Washington ave-
nue. south; d. B. Franklin, 229 Second
street south; James Sheridan, SIG
Fourth street south; w. II. Harris, 259
Third avenue south; Frank P. Gluck,
401 Washington avenue south; THAN
Asbjornson, 1913 Second street north:
Charles Smith, 277 Cedar avenue;
Anton SchOn, II First street south;
Charles Tabberman, 1920 Washington
avenue south; Patrick Lyons, 6 First
street south; G. S. Bracket & Co., "a
and 26 Fifth street south. H. P. Brown,
104 Washington avenue south; Murphy
& Martin, 81 Nicollet avenue; Bumb Il
Sundby, 300 Sixteenth avenue sou tn.
The report was adopted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
TO REGULATE sCAVENGERs.

UO pIVSVCuUCUs ITO oOOIOH PIOPOIUy ID
being identified by the owners.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
CASUAL REMARKS.

City Clerk Haney-Ald. Bradish made
no such motion at the joint committee
meeting as the journal reported him as
making. The paper was requested to
correct the error, and declined to do so.
City Attorney RUSSELL am ready to
report on the cable ordinance now.
A. c. Brown think l have a good
claim on the chamber of commerce site.
| propose to begin proceedings by
bringing an ejectment suit against the
holder of one of the vacant lots on the
block, probably in the United States
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
THEY ARE NOT OUT.

The North Minneapolis w. c. T. u,
which has been trying hard of late to
create a sentiment in the organization
in favor of nOn-partisan work, thought
it had kicked itself out of the state Or
ganization, but discovers now that the
State constitution does notrequire men,
bers to swear fealty to the Pinkham,
j. p, and Wells, G. F., school of poll
tics. So the ladies find themselves
in the position of the Frenchman who
jumped into the water and shouted: II
will drown. Nobody shall help me-"
They wanted to withdraw i'll order to
organize a non-partiSan temperance So
ciety, but find they have no cause.
They may be as non-partisan as they
please until the next state convention.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
Scraps of Legislation.

The Eighth ward grading claims are
at last settled. Last night the council
ordered warrants drawn in favor of
Charles Filteau. Roche e Nelson and
w. j. Bowen tor the amounts of their
several claims. The whole sum is about
$4,000.
The Minneapolis Union Railway COM
pany was ordered to build a bridge over
it's tracks at Fifteenth avenue south
east. between Fourth and Fifth streets
southeast, in accordance with plans APP
nrnVed hV the council.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06

with her. says she was leaning back in
the stern of the boat dipping her
hands into the water, and had just re.
marked ''how warm the water u.s."
when She fell out. In trying to save
her he capsized the boat. He could not
swim, ard lost hold of her in lis efforts
to cling to the boat himself. The de-
ceased was employed as second cook at
the Pauly house, and her only relative
in this country is brother, who resides
at Fergus Falls.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-06
have been allowed to date their licenses

have been allowed to date their licenses
from Jan. 1, but in Minneapolis
it appears to be the policy
of the administration to gobbie
everything in sight, in the
interest of "reform and retrenchment;"
so MIR. Moore Will pay $500 year for
the privilege of running the saloon.
The council has some twenty-five appli-
cations for licenses to act upon yet; 21S
have been granted up to date, and 10
have been refused.