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Morris tribune., 1889-01-30
Friday, January rs.
HOUSE

The house closed good weeks work
with four hour session, during which
the whole order of business from the in
PRODUCTION of petitions to the general
orders was gone over and the calendar
cleared up, so that a new score may be
begun next week.
The house went into committee of the
whole on general orders, with Frank
Searle in the chair. There were four
teen bills and the prison labor resolu-
tions on the calendar, and only few of
them caused any special debate. Mr..
Hompe's bill making slander a felony in
certain cases was one of these.
The bill was sent back to the judiciary
committee for further consideration.
The bill prohibiting clerks of the courts
from practicing in their own courts was
amended SO as to except the present in
cumbent and recommended to pass.
THE JURY sYSTEM.
Mr.. FL. T. Stevens made an eloquent
plea for his bill, making verdict of
three-fourths of a jury in civil case
sufficient. The bill was made special
order for Thursday.
BILLS INTRoDUcED.-By Scranton
To pay Marcellus s. Clough for services
rendered during the Sioux outbreak.
Claims.
By Thor-To require county commits
sioners to furnish and supply county Of
fcels with necessary supplies.
By Stebbins-To require uniform
policy or contract of fire insurance COM
panies in this state. Insurance.
BY Forbes-To amend the penal code
in relation to gambling. Judiciary.
By Davis-To provide for the mort
gaging of land by executors or admins
traitors. et.---.sSs'
By Davis-To authorize the city of st.
Peter to construct free pontoon wagon
bridge across the Minnesota river. Roads
and bridges.
By Davis--To appropriate money to
riprap the east bank of the Minnesota
river in LIE Sueur county. Roads and
bridges.
By Hoyt-To correct the description
of lands in conveyances. Judiciary.
By Williams-To allow poor persons
to prosecute civil cases. Judiciary.
BY Williams-Amendatory and sup
Elementary to chapter 81 of the General
Laws relating to corporations Judiciary.
By Underwood-To increase the sal
airy of the county attorney of Hennepin
county to $4,000. Hennepin delegation.
Dy I1duhC-lO plOFluC lOA tlAC OCbtCA
protection of life by providing for a
board of inspectors of all steam boilers
used in the state.
By McKusick-To regulate the rental
charge for telephones and fixing penalty
for it's violation. Corporations.
BY III. F. Stevens-To amend section
Il of chapter 16 of general statutes re-
lating to the sale of liquors to minors,
students and drunkards. Temperance.
BY Capser-To protect the bridges and
highways of the state from injuries by
steam eneines. Roads and bridges.
BILLS PASSED By HOUSE. TO change
the county commissioner districts Of
Hennepin county.
To amend section of chapter 254 OF
the statutes Of 1878 relating to compen.
sation of clerk Of the courts of Polk
county. .s..ss
BY Evergon, of Miller--To amend the
act Incorporating the village OF Litch-
field.
BY Dunn, Of Mile Lac Toprovide for
the term Of the district court OF the
county Of Todd.
SENATE BILLS PASSED. TO regulate
the catching of fish In Dean lake and
Lake Constance, Wright county.
To authorize the village of Delano tc
! issue bonds for the construction OF 9
Morris tribune., 1889-01-30
The Naval Appropriation Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The house
committte on naval affairs has completed
the naval appropriation bill for 1890. AS
reported to the house, it appropriates
SIS, 9,918,577. The total estimate for 1890
was $27, ,767, ,277, while the appropriation
for the current year was $l9 9,942, ,635.
Morris tribune., 1889-01-30
r,or,d.,. vo,. no..r,t T,o,rt

WASHINGTON, Jan. 90. The time for
the delivery of the electoral votes from
the various states expired at midnight.
No messenger from Florida has reached
the president pro tempore of the senate
with the vote of that state
Morris tribune., 1889-01-30
Fonr chiIdren Hnrnad. /.

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 28. In Oglethrope
four small children, who were left in the
house by Mary Porter, colored, while
she went to work, were burned to death.
Morris tribune., 1889-01-30
a Treasurcr Far Maiue.

AUGUSTA, Me-, Jan. 29.-The legisla-
tnre in joint convention, has elected
George L. Beal, of Norway, state treas
urer, by vote of 112 to 3.
Morris tribune., 1889-01-30
Sudden Death az n Consul.

NEW York, Jan. 2S.--The Austrian
consul general, Hugo Fritsch, died sud-
denly Sunday night, at his residence In
this city.
Morris tribune., 1889-01-30
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

VIII be open as follows: Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons from to 6; Wednesday
evening, to g. and Saturday evening, Z 10 10.
J. D. GILLESPIE, Librarian.
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The Harmony of Home.

A home of discord may be visited by
acquaintance, but its doors are never
likely to be knocked at by friends. Sensi-
BILE people will give it a wide berth, and
prefer friendship and intimacy with those
who live at peace. Nobody finds wise
young man counting a girl in a family
who get on i'll among themselves. He
wants bird out of good nest, and
has no wish to be drawn in by marriage
to take one side or other of a lifelong
6reside feud. 1t is hard on girl, you say.
Sometimes. But about the young mans
sagacity there can be no question what
ever. If all homes were happy what a
pleasant world it would be and there is
no reason why happiness should not reign
everywhere if people would only make
wisdom, and not stupidity, the guide of
their lives.
What strikes one as an odd thing is that
many are able to exercise patience and
common sense abroad, but find it next to
an impossible task at home. With them
everything is done for the benefit of society
at large and at the expense of their own
circle. In other peoples houses they have
face like benediction, whilst in their
own it is disfgured with frowns. OF all
follies this is one of the greatest. As if it
were not their interest, let alone their
duty, to do exactly the reverse. If any
one has a mind to be cross, snappish, and
disagreeable, let her choose field for CIV
ing vent to her i'll humor, as far removed
from home as possible. Our best side
should be turned not to strangers, but to
those with whom we dwell, and, while it
is right to wish for the good opinion of
everybody, we should be anxious most of
all about the favorable impression we
make on our own folks at home.
If there is to be household harmony an
important point is to cultivate sweet tenn
per. We cannot do without that. Some
tempers are like violin strings out of
tune; with them who can expect either
melody or harmony from the family or
chestra? This is specially young wom-
ans subject; indeed, if our girls are not
amiable nobody else can be expected to
be. 1t is to their kind and gentle words
that we must look for an antidote to fret
ting and ill humor At home the keynote
of the days music is often struck by the
first word we hear in the morning, and
happy is the house where it is always
uttered by the smiling lips of good-tem-
pered girls.-Ho1sehold
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Dresden's Street Car Line.

A Baltimorean, writing from Dresden to
a friend in that city, says: a 1t was here
that saw the best managed street car
lines. The hill boys are men, and the
faded hill horse are fiery steeds' all
the companys employees are uniformed,
and such uniforms are not on our police I;
they look more like our military dress
The cars are spotless, double-decked, first
and second-class, roof cheaper; first-class
fare Is pfennings, or less than four cents
from end to end of the route, and 10 pfen-
nings for shorter distances. The horses
go like race horses, and are evidently not
overworked. There are waiting-rooms at
numerous crossings along the route, and
the morning papers are kept on the racks
two papers to each Chicago
Herald.
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Our Apples in England.

The American apple has become such an
important item in English markets that
the British fruit-grower has been reused
and the British economist has been stirred
into speech, and action may follow. A
writer in the London Horticultural Times
sampson Morgan) furnishes a mass of
figures, from which it appears that, in
1888, 81, 4l0 barrels, containing 2,434, 230
bushels of apples, were imported into Eng
land from this country, in addition to
thousands OF tons brought from various
parts of the continent. England is pay
ing out over S40,000,000 year to foreign
fruit-growers, and more than $500, 000, 900
yearly for imported food products-more
than half of which, Mr.. Morgan contends,
could easily be raised at home. The value
of imported fruit was four times greater in
1865 than in 1S45, and has grown to be
nearly ten times as much in 1885, And
yet, with all this increase of supply, prices
have not fallen. As the Kent farmers
have realized handsome profits on apples,
and on the nearly related fruit, pears, the
further development of the industry is
urged.
The writer also insists on the superiority
of the English fruits over the same yarie-
ties raised abroad. On this point there is
opportunity for discussion, but every OBJ
serving man will echo the writer's appeal
that the great demand for fruit be utilized
by extending Its culture so that half of the
population, instead of being driven into the
already congested cities and towns, shall
find employment in fields and orchards.
1t is interesting TO note that the writer in
sists on the superiority of the home grown
fruit as reason for increasing the product,
and makes no appeal for protection"
against the fruit raised in countries where,
for various reasons, the cost of growing
and marketing is less. 1t is stated by the
same writer that grapes, as well as pears
and apples can also be produced in this
country for less money than in England.
The suggestion that Embarrassing be pushed
in order to give healthful employment to
thousands Of men who now pine in cities
is as pertinent in the new as in the old
England. Boston Transcript.
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Facts About Soil.

The soil is compound substance of
mineral, vegetable and animal particles
that form the upper stratum of the earth's
surface. In selecting the site for farm
there are many things to be considered in
addition to the character of the soil.
Among these is the importance of loca-
ton with regard to market facilities,
health, good neighborhood and prospect
classihcations, arising from their different
constituents. Rocks are the original basis
of soils, having by the long-continued
agency of the forces of nature, by air,
moisture, frost and heat, been resolved into
minute particles, taking on the form Of
earth. Soils are called stony, gravelly,
peaty, ETC., according as the substances
named constitute a leading feature in the
compound. A loan is a soil chiefly COM
posed of silicious sand, clay and other
mineral substances along with a large per-
centage of decayed vegetable and animal
matter, to which it principally owes its
fertility The pulverulent brown SUBJ
stance formed by the action of air on solid
animal or vegetable matter, is called hu-
mus, and is valuable constituent of soils.
1t renders stiff soils friable, absorbs and
retains moisture, and in large degree
supplies the mineral elements of decayed
matter in soluble forms for plant growth.
The capacity of sandy loan for retaining
moisture depends on the amount of de-
cayed vegetable matter which it contains
and without which it will be infertile.
Sandy and clay soils requires different
treatment Each will be benefited by an
admixture with the other, but the union
of pure sand and clay alone will be sterile
unless supplied with decomposed vegetable
matter Under draining is highly bene-
fetal to clay soils. A sandy loan is easily
worked and is among the most desirable
of all the soils.
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q Say. Roxser ~

"Say. Bowsr?"
eyes"
ave expect to be down early tonight"
"Glad of it."
But it may be that my mother-in-law
we can't come"
Mr.. Bowsei seemed dazed as he hung up
the trumpet and left the house. The last
blow came at in the evening. The
telephone rang and he crawled over to
answer.
Is this Bowser's?"
eyes"
"Where's the old man p
Il am Mr.. Bowser"
ooh so you are. Your voice seems
mighty weak tonight. Say, old man, the
three couples of us in this terrace were
coming down tonight, but we must disap-
point you at this late moment. We have
had free tickets sent us from the opera,
and, of course"
Mr.. Bowser walked to the front door,
locked it, mufiied the bell and turned out
the gas. Then he sat down and was very
looked up and said:
"Mrs. Bowser, some husbands would
murder wife for this"
''But what have | done?"
"What have you done Coaxed, bribed
and bulldozed me into giving progressive
euchre party, and where's the party? l
told you how it would come out, and here
we are. Mrs Bowser-I-I-"
But he was too full for further utterance,
and went TO bed.
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Prune-drying in France.

We find the following in the Country
Gentleman, taking from an English paper,
describing the process of drying prunes
observed in France by traveller: All the
apparatus required consists of trays and
two or more ovens. The trays are made
either Of wickerwork or wood, are round
or triangular, and deep enough to carry a
single layer of plums, and allow of their
being placed upon each other without
crushing the fruit. Every morning the
trees are looked over, and the fruit that is
ripe picked Just before the flesh begins to
soften. The plums are placed in the trays,
put for an hour or two in the sun, and
then laid on the floor of the oven These
ovens are made just like the ordinary
bread ovens; they are usually built in
pairs, each one about ten feet long and
four feet wide inside, and are heated
by burning a certain quantity of wood
inside of them. When the fruit is put in
the temperature should be about 100 de-
grees Fahrenheit. In the course of few
hours the plums assume curious, puffy
appearance; and if the heat is too great,
they will burst, a result most carefully to
be avoided. They are taken out of the
oven, cooled, and again put in with tenn
pera ure at about 1872 degrees; again with
drawn and cooled, and this time the fruit
is turned by placing an empty tray upside
down over a full one, and turning them
over together. They are again put in the
oven, this time the heat being raised to
10 degrees.
The operation is repeated until the
plums are completely pressed. Some dry
mo npIncly than n borc ar,A bod
out and placed in other trays as they are
ready. The more slowly the whole opera
ton is performed the better, and the
oftener the piums are put into the oven,
the higher the quality of the produce.
When ready, the plums are sorted into
various grades.
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not discover some reason for it. soon
got the desired opportunity and found
that after each tattoo he (ft was invariably
male bird) would cock his head to one
side and listen attentively for the reply,
which was sure to be heard very soon
after. He would fly off at once in the d.
rection from which the answer came, re-
turning shortly to tree about fifty feet
from the leader. As it was the mating
season | take this to have been sort Of
challenge to the ''other fellow" so it is
pretty certain from this that the wood
pecker pecks for other reasons than a
search of food. l never saw his mate join
him on any of these occasions. possibly be-
cause he had not yet quite succeeded in
getting one to his liking, as it we're
Forest and Stream.
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rHE WHIsrLER.

school boy leaned on the garden gate
And whistled merry roundelay;
And as he whistled, before ones eyes
Rose the joys of his earthly paradise,
His games and ball and play.
To be the winner in races run,
To be the leader in games and fun
The hero of the day.
A lover strolled through a moon-lit night
And whistled love song-soit and bright;
And as he whistled, before ones eyes
Rose the joys of his earthly paradise,
His sweethesrt's eyes and lips.
To win that form of fairest mold
Those eyes of blue, that hair of gold
AL other joys eclipse.
statesman hOmeward turned his way
And whistled sober tune;
And as he whistled before ones eyes
Rose the joys of his earthly paradise,
Renown, applause and fame.
To have his words through the country iung,
To have his praise on every tongue
On every tongue, his name.
An old man sat by dying fire
And family whistled bygone air;
And as he whistled, before ones eyes
Rose the joys of his earthly paradise,
Now past and gone for aye.
The smile on his face is no worldly light;
His soul turned now from earthly night
LoLgs for eternal day.
-BriQn WelleSll- Ennis
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A LENrEN LIrANY.

On. thou, dear Lord. my sins forgive
Hump, There comes dowdy Ditts /
And make me humble while live
How i'll her clothing fits i
Oh. take me from all worldly pride
dark-brown trimmed with blue
And keep me ever by thy side
Her last years bonnet, too
Make me to put my trust in thee
The Ban Dervilts, Such taste
Protect me from all vanity
Nice pattern for waist,l
On. bless me with thy biding love
Spring nat and winter sptig
And when die take me above
II know her hairs wig
Oh. teach me not to enylous be-
wish 1 owned that silk y
But keep me lneek's my lnwly plea
She looks like soui' Il skim milk 4
Teach me forgiveness day by day
Oh, how hate that thing
And lead me in the hallowed way
My knees begin to sting
Please cleanse my heart of wrong desires
Il wonder if he'll flirt?]
With love for thee, my soul inspire
IL keep one eye alert
And hold me in the narrow path
think caught his eye
That may 'scape thy Christening wrath
Gould he have heard me sigh?1
And when temptation neareth me
thought he looked again
Blind thou my eyes that nsyn't see
lOh, dear, those horrid men
O'erlook my faults and make me SHINE
Hes smiling surely then
power on earth. the credit thine
80 brazen, tool Amen.
-7o1n Topics.
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ClYtemnestrA.

A good story of an elephant is told in
the March 81. Nicholas. A circus travel
ing through the country parts of England
STOPPED one day at a little town called
Hythe. That night when everything was
quiet in the tent, animals and employees
all being sound asleep, Clytie, one of the
elephants, deliberately and without any
uproar, broke the chain that fastened her
foot, and leaving the tent started toward
the center of the town. Nobody was astir,
and SO she had the way all to herself.
She proceeded without delay or hesita-
tion to little shop that stood on the main
street of the village, and finding it closed,
of course, she Immediately forced an en-
trance with her enormous head, and was
soon as busy an elephant as you ever saw,
examining candy and cakes down her capa-
cious throat. The man who owned the
shop came running in from the back room,
but Clytie did not pause in her lunch on
that account, nor did she paw any more
attention when he ran out again crying
SOW ! Oww In fact she totally disre-
garded the entire neighborhood when they
took up that cry of COW! Oww
But prettwsoon little man came up,
who cried out in sharp voice:
"Hi, there, Clytiel What dye mean :?
Come out O that now, dye hear"
And Clytie did come out, and in great
hurry, too, for the little man was her
keeper, and she not only had great deal
of respect for him, but she was afraid of
him, as well. But, after all, she didn't
care much about it, for she had filled her.
self with candy and cakes, and that was all
she was after.
The most puzzling question was-how
did she distinguish candy-shop from any
other shop in the village? The shopman
gave the answer to this himself-he had
fed an elephant candy at that very shop
twelve years before, and inquiry devel-
oped the fact that Clytie was that ele-
plant. She had remembered the shop
that was ALL
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SOME RAILROAD FACTS.
Presented In Short Catechism Form and
Astounding in Information.

Presented In Short Catechism Form and
Astounding in Information.
Frank Leslie's has the following: elbow
many miles of railway in the United
States? 10000 miles-about half the
mileage of the world. How much have
they cost? S9,000,00000 How many
people are employed by them? More than
million. How long does a steel rail last
with average wear? About eighteen years.
What is the cost of palace sleeping car
About SIS, 900 or ST. 900, if "vestibuled."
What is the cost of high-class eight
wheel passenger locomotive? About S.
500. What is the longest American rail
way tunnel Housac tunnel, on the Fitch
burg Railway -four and three-quarter
miles,. What is the highest railroad in
the United States? Denver and Rio
Grande, Marshall pass 10S52 feet. What
is the highest railroad bridge in the United
States? Kinzua Viaduct, on the Erie
Road, 305 feet high. What is the longest
railway bridge span in the United States :?
Cantilever span in Poughkeepsie bridge,
54S feet. What is the longest mileage
operated by single system? Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe system, about 5000
w nat line vi railway extends 1urtneSt east
and west? Canadian Pacific Railway,
running from Quebec to the Pacific ocean.
What road carries the largest number of
passengers? Manhattan Elevated Rail
road, New York, $4,000 a day, or 49,
625,000 yearly. What is the fastest time
made by train? Ninety-two miles in SO
minutes, one mile being made in As sec
onds on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad. What is the fastest time made
between Jersey City and San Francisco :?
Three days seven hours thirty-nine min
utes and sixteen seconds-special theatre
cal train, 1886. What are the chances of
fatal accidents in railway travel? One
killed in 100000. Statistics show that
more are killed by falling out of windows
than in railway accidents"