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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
AN EASTERN FICTION.

A Pittsburg paper evolves the novel
theory that the restitution in the Da-
kotaS is so startling and widespread
that the. real facts were suppressed
until after the election for some not
clearly indicated reason. As an illustra-
ton it states that in single district in
North Dakota there area thousand fami-
lies that will need relief to avert starva-
ton. If such statements stimulate the
benevolent in the East to make gen.
erOus contributions. they may not be
entirely perniciOuS, for there are prob
ably TWO or three hundred families in
the newer districts that should have aid.
But the paper explains that this destitu-
ton is chiefly due to the uSuri-
Gus rates of interest demanded
by money sharks, and says that
money is generally loaned at
D per cent a month"; The farmers are
reused almost to fury" over this, and
will demand of the legislature strict
usury law. Statehood was urgently
wanted in order to borrow of Eastern
companies at less rates. This will seem
quite amusing to the people out there.
who are generally getting along pretty
comfortably, But such impressions
ditfused over the country are very
harmful. They do great injustice TO the
country, and tend to divert emigration
and capital. IL would be well if there
could be precise statements sent out
by authorized parties conveying the
facts in the case. There is no occasion
to obscure the situation in the least.
The miSfortunes of a few localities
should have generous relief. but they
should not be allowed to mar the gen.
eral prosperity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.

A Foreground drumfsh caught at
Cape May couple of days since had
half dozen SOft-Shell crabs in its Stom-
ach.
The painting "L'Angelus." which has
arrived at New York, is 2114x251159
inches in size. The customs duties OH
it amount to S32, 500, which must be
paid or it will be returned to France.
A recent clever invention is the tax
anon, little lantern-like apparatus
which, ingenIOuSly placed at the back
OF a cab, measures the exact distance
traversed by it. 1t is now being tried
at Berlin, under police inspection, and
is said to answer exceedingly we'll.
In Russia the telegraphic system is
under government control. One of its
rules requires that no female telegra-
phiSt shall marry any one moi employed
as Geographic operator, and it also re-
QuireS that in case of sickness the wife
shall be the substitute of the man and
perform double service.
One of the married lady judges at the
FentOn. Mich, fair entered several arti
Giles under her maiden name in the
class of which she was judge, and then
awarded the articles first prize.
The deepest bore hole in the world is
at Schladebaeh near Leipsic. 1t meas
ures about 5,735 feet. The time ex-
pended in boring amounted to six years
at a cost of S52, 500.
The electric light on the Eiffel tower
can be seen at Orleans, seventy miles
distant.
Indiana. Tenn. is prohibition town.
The Messenger of that place contains
the following in recent issue: Fri
day night last there arrived here twenty
eight kegs of beer, one fiye-galIon keg
of whisky and five one-gallon packages.
This is repeated nearly every day in the
week."
At a California fair the other day a
Plumas county man ate forty-three eggs
for supper. The next morning, for an
appetizer, he partook of nine boxes of
SardineS,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
MONDAY CHATTER.

Some mention has recently been
made in the papers of the experience
and observations of Methodist clergy
man or Detroit in his tour through Ger
many this summer, as regards the
bibulous habits of that people. He says,
when l went away thought that the
Germans were a blOated, drunken peO-
pie, and that beer drinking was the
greatest sin of the age. | have changed
my mind" A distinguished doctor of
divinity of divinity of st. Paul. who has
been active in temperance movements,
is soon to deliver lecture upon his
impressions of Germany on very re-
cent visit, and it is believed he will
testify to the general sobriety of the
German people in the Fatherland.
Those who are familiar with German
life in this country, and have witnessed
their great musical and other eonvoca-
lions, have noted that with all the con-
sumption of beer, there is almost no in
ebriety. One addicted to excess be-
comes disreputable in German estima-
JiOn,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
To-nAY,s WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Oct ., s p. m.-FoIecast
fill : u. m. Monday: For Georgia, Alabama
audWestern Florida: Pair; stationary temper
at11re excert warmer in Atabama and North
ern Georgia; northeriy winds. For MlSsis-
sippi. Louisiana and Eastern Texas; talr'
warmer; southerly winds. For Western New
York. western Pennsylvania, West Nir
rinia and Ohio: Rain, except clearing
in Chic and West Virginia; slightly
cooler. except stationary temperature
in Ohio: northeEly winds. For AtAan-
sas. Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana
Illinois. Wisconsin, Upper Michigan. Lower
Michigan. Iowa ard Minnesota; Fair, slightly
warmer. southeas;erly winds. For DAKOTA
Nebraska and Kansas: Fair. stationary tenn
perature, southerly winds. For Color"doi
Fair. cooler, variable winds
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l do detest a man that's close,
And Furthermore, a day.

do detest man that's close,
And Furthermore, a day.
But if d pretty girl is close
l feel the other way. Grip.
Mrs. Jason-Jehiel, do you think
man is the only being that reasons?
Mr.. Jason-NO, guess not. Woman
has been known to reason-once in a
great while-Terre Haute Express.
He Deserved It.-GueSt-YOu seem
musical. | always hear you Whistling.
What is your fayorite song?
Waiter-Remember me, SAIL
He got quarter.-New York Sun.
The Victim Testifes.-First Farmers
Boy-My fathers going to have some
men do thrashing at our house next
week!
Second Farmers Boy-That'S nothin''
My father does thraShin' at our house
every day.-Boston herald.
Hard Work to Think.-Elsie-What
did you say then?
AMY asked him calmly to think
over my proposition.
Elsie-Calin1y! Good gracious! 1t
nearly drives him into Mysteries to
think at all.-Boston Herald.
Susie's Other Beau.-Six- Year Old Ito
caller on her big sister)-Good evening.
MIR. Palmer.
THAT isn't my name, little girl, my
names Walker"
sob, you must be Susie's other BEAU"
Tableau-Boston Herald.
His OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ito hotel
proprietoT-Have you vacancy among
your walters?
Hotel PrOprietor-Well,I don't know.
suppose l might make place for
man of fine address like you. Have
you ever had any experience in. waiting?
Stranger-Well, l should say so. l
waited thirteen years to marry girl,
and last week she married another fell
low.-Judge.
d, A Chicago Municipal Digni-
tary Ito police officer Order the force
tohave everything in readiness for a
descent on the gambling houses to-
night.
Police Official Ito subordinate officer)
Tell the men to get ready for raid
on the gambling places tonight.
Subordinate Officerto squad of police
Boys, be around here about II o'clock.
We are ordered to make q haul Of the
gambling houses.
Policeman Ito gambler)-Jerry, we're
goin' to raid We about midnight. Tell
the byeS.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
Gotham's stingy Millfonaires.

The New York papers are finding
surprising lot of names in that city that
should be put on a subscription list for
the worlds fair alongside of robust fig
ures. There are 125 given that have an
income of qual ter OF a million dollars
year. and presumably are worth
S5,000,0 900. Those worth only one million
number more than 800, and are believed
to be nearer double that number. In
fact, millionaire is very ordinary
sort of an institution in New York.
There are, however, quite number of
citizens who are not worth more than
$4,000, or SO. The people with the
large figures do not spend much of their
time giving away things or signing sub
scription papers. The worlds fair will
never go there if dependence is had
upon them. Chicago may not have as
many milliOnaireS, but it can raise more
money for the fair.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
BRIEF AND BREEZY.

Every man who puts a nickel in the
Slot expects to get the drop on the ma
chine.-New Orleans Picayune.
The 1000 heirs to the immense but
mythical Baker estate find their cake
all dough.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Our devil has the conceit that a
'plunger'' is so called because he risks
his money OH divers horses.-Yonkers
Gazette.
The dignity of labor is all right, but
it Is the dig night and day of labor that
many people complain Of.-TeXas Sift-
ings.
The man who Is brimful of irrepres-
sible cOnundrumS is very frequently an
unwelcome guessed.-Merchant Trav-
eler.
Binks-B arlow says betting is not
against his principles?
Winks-Of course not; he hasn't any.
New York Sun.
A fireproof pocket book is one of the
latest inventions. 1t is probably in
tended to prevent money from burning
holes in the pockets of the owners
Boston Herald. .
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A town in Tulare county, California.
Is struggling along under the name OF
Tail Holt.
Joe Artman, a lad of Chester, ILL.,, re-
Gently shot squirrel that was per-
fectly white.
Settlers in the Big Bend country,
Washington, have to ride forty miles to
get their mail and to vote.
A recent number OF the Waitsburg
(WaSh.) Times had the following ad:
Wanted, saddle horse for woman
weighing 800 pounds"
The Englishwoman who opened a
professional spanking establishment in
New York has quit the business. The
mothers of that city seem to think they
can manage their own offspring.
At Wild Pond, near Caledonia, n. Y,
German trout, weighing six and half
pounds. was caught few days ago. 1t
is believed to be the largest fish of that
species ever caught in the United
States.
A lady'S gold ring was found in very
singular way at Trenton, Me-, the
other day. George w. Austin, after a
drive from Ellsworth, found the ring
pressed tightly around one of the calhS
of his horses shoe. The horse had
stepped into the ring and then taken it
along.
A chicken only a few DAYS old swan
across the Green river at North Adams,
Mass, Friday afternoon, and was picked
up by Samuel Davis and taken into the
house. Where it came from and what
caused it 80 swim the river Mr.. Davis
did not know. 1t was thoroughly
chilled when it came out OF the water,
though it seemed to swim almost as
easily as duck.
Officer Mack, of Macon, Ca, has a
canary bird. A day or two ago the bird
was making an unusual amount of
noise. Mrs. Mack went out to see about
it, and found large hawk on top of the
cage trying to get inside. The hawk
few away, but almost Immediately re-
turned and began its attack on the can
airy, and Lad to be beaten off with
club.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
NUGGETS OF NONSENSE.

VisltOr-JOhnny. what are you going
to be when you grow up?
Johnny (aged fOur)-Pm goin' to be a
doctor-see me kill toad now.-Epoch.
Mrs. Hinton (recently married)--Did
you know my husband was very i'll?
Miss CarringtOn-l supposed he must
be, my dear. Before he married you he
told me | had broken his heart.-Epoch.
A paper states that man named Ne
vile is in custody for taking "a drop
too much''-namely for marrying Miss
Amelia Drop while he had another wife
living. London Tit-Bits.
She-And you will always love me?
All the live-lOng day?
He-Y-e-e-s, | think so. You'll give
me a chance to stop for meals. sup
pose?
Reeder-A penny for your thoughts.
De Ruyter-It's go. That is more
than the editors will glve-Puck.
A little boy, hearing some one remark
that nothing was quicker than thought,
said he knew better than that: whiStling
was quicker than thought and he had
some marks Oh his legs to show for it.
Beng asked to explain, he said: ''In
school, the other day, whistled before
thought and got licking for it,
Texas Siftings.
A man with pinchbeek watch called
it Faith, because it was without works
and therefore dead.-Texas Siftings.
An apron trust is threatened and all
the young men want to ''sit down on 1t"
-YOnker'S Statesman.
When msidens greet
Upon the street.
Exchanging love and kisses too,
You must admit
At sight of it.
Now "Here's Il pretty howdye-do."
-Philadelphia Press.
Sign of the Maltese Cross-When the
kitten scratches you.-Cleveland Sun.
The man with cork leg is more
noted as a stopper than a gOer.-Glens
Falls Republican.
Stranger-Did a pedestrian pass this
way a few minutes ago? Granger-No,
sor. Pve been right outer this later
patch fer more'n a mower, an hotter
blamed thing has passed 'cept one soil
tary man,an' he was trampin' erlong on
fOot.-Time.
About the only time the small boy
thinks of travelling for the benefit of his
health is when he is in farmers ap-
pie orchard and sees the owner and
cross dog approaching. Then he trav-
els. He would find it very unhealthy if
he didn't.-N 0rristown Herald.
There's big blunderbuss at the window;
There's cat on the back yard fence;
There's a shot; there's a sQuall,
A long caterwaul,
And then-theTe is silence intense.
Washington Capital.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
The Story Of How Pauper
Children Are Cared For
at FaZakePley.
Eighteen Neat Cottages Di.
vided Into Boys and
Girls Home.
Interesting Report Regarding
the Carpet Weavers Of
Austria-Hungary.
Senator Pettigrew in Wash
ington, but Doesn't Know
Any Politics.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The state de-
partment will shortly publish a report
from United States Consul Thomas S.
Sbearman. at Liverpool. giving descrip-
ton of the cottage homes recently
opened for pauper children at Fazaker-
ley. Consul Shearman recently visited
the settlement and was impressed with
its completeness and Importance. The
cottage homes are located in West
Derby Union, consisting of twenty-five
townships not including LIVERPOOL
with population of 100000 and prop
erty valuation of $3.50, 100000. The rata
bic value of the union for this year is
fixed by the guardians at s1O,O00,0OO,
and on this sum 6 per cent is levied,
and every penny collected is for
the support of the poor. The
workhouse is located on Walton
on-the-Hill. has accommodations
for 5000 paupers, and is said to be the
finest and best conducted establishment
of the kind in the kingdom. The chill
dren'S cottages are located several miles
from the WOrkhOuSe. and consist of eight
cen cottages, superintendent resi-
dence, porters lodge, probationary house
an infirmatory, school house, SWIM
ming bath, public hall, store house
and work shop-all handsome and
substantial buildings of brick and stone.
The cottages are divided into boys and
girls homes, each one accommodating
thirty children. The "girl families"
are presided over by mothers"
ALL WIDOWS,
who receives an annual salary of $lGo
and ratiOns If she have children they.
form part of the family. All the work
is done by the children and the ''mOth-
en-" The inmates have no badge or
uniform. but are neatly clad in dresses
such as the children of respectable
working people wear. Every arrange
ment is made for the health, comfort
they are happy in their cosy homes. A
man and his wife manage each family
of boys, whose homes are similar to-
those of the girls. The man must have
a trade and be able to impart know
ledge of it to the boys. who are in this
way taught some useful occupation,
The combined salaries of the father
and ''mother" of boys home is 1923
and rations. Before child is assigned
TO FAMILY he Is detained
IN the probationary house fourteen
days, or until if is found that lie is fit to
associate with the other children. There
are now 800 children in the homes,
ranging from eighteen months to four
teen years of age. The full comple-
ment of 900 will soon be admitted and
provision made for enlarging the es-
Enlistment. Consul Sherman says
the institution described is believed to
be the only one of the kind in existence,
at least on a scale so liberal and compre-
hensive. The scheme has been thor
oughly well planned and thus far adj
mirably executed The foundation.
stone was laid Aug. 8, 1887 Accom-
panying the description are photographs
of the buildings and plans of their de-
tails and construction. engraving of
which will be inserted in the forthcom-
ing publication.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-28
MONEY KINGS TO OWN Us ALL.
A Statistician Figures That So
900 of Them Will Win in Thirty


II obdttSttCtstl In AHCS bat OOi
900 of Them Will Win in Thirty
Years.
In spite of the rapid increase in the
number of millionaires in the United
States in recent years. the popular no.
ton is that wealth is yet much more
evenly distributed in this country than
in England. Thomas g. Sherman, the
well-known New York statistician. has
been engaged for some time in collect
ing facts to show as precisely as posi-
Bile the proportion of the wealth
of the country held by few rich
men and families; and he finds greater
concentration of wealth here than in
any other country. The results of his
investigation will appear in the Forum
for November, from advance sheets of
which the following facts are taken.
Mr.. Sherman makes the following
enumeration of owners OF more than
$40, 000 900 each:
$50, COO, ooo-J. ]. Astor, Trinity
church.
slOO, 900, OO0-C. Vanderbilt, W. K.
Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Leland Stan
ford, J. D. Rockefeller.
Sc SIC. 000, O00-Estate of A. Packer.
100000, 000-John l. Blair, estate Of
Charles Croker.
$50, 600, -WilliamA stor, WV .Astor,
Russell Sage, E. A. Stevens, estate of
Moses Taylor. estgte of Brown & Ives.
$40, GOO, COOP. d. Armour, f. L..
Ames, William Rockefeller. III. N.
Flagler, Powers & Weightman, estate
of P. Goelet.
$50, oOO, OOO-C. P. Huntington, D. o.
Mills. estates of t. A. Scott, j. w. Gar
rett.
O.OOO, OOO-G. B. Roberts, Charles
Pratt, Ross Winans, E. B. Coke, Claus
Spreckels, A. Belmont, r. j. Livingston,
Fred Weyerhauser, Mrs. Mark Hop
kins, Mrs. Hetty Green, estates of S. V.
Hardness. r. w. Coleman. l. NJ. Singer.
S25, 000, 0G0-A. j. Drexel, J. s. Nor
gan, j. P. Morgan, Marshall Field, Da-
vid Bows, j. e. Fair, E. L. Gerry, es-
A. Schermerhorn.
1928. SOC, OoO-O. II. Payne. estates of F.
A. Drexel, 1. V. Williamson, w. F.
Field.
$50. GOO, OOo-F. w. Vanderbilt, Theo-
dore Havemeyer, Fl. o. Havemeyer. v.
G. Warden, ". P. Thompson, Mrs.
Schenley, J. B. Haggin, H.A. Hutchins,
estates of W. Sloane, E. S. Higgins, G.
Tower, William Thaw. DR.. Hostetter,
William Sharon, Peter DonOhue.
~
These seventy names represent an
aggregate wealth of s2.700, 900, 900. an
average of more than $4,000, 900 each.
Although Mr. Shearman, in making this
estimate, did not look for less than
enty-millionaires, he discovered in
cidentally fifty others worth more than
$4,000, 900 each: and he says that list
of ten persons can be made whose
wealth averages 500, 100000 each, and
another list of 100 persons whose wealth
averages So. OOO,0 600. No such lists can
be made up in any other country. 1.-THE
richest dukes of England" he says,
.'fall below the average wealth Of
dozen American citizens; while the
greatest bankers, merchants and rail-
way magnates of England cannot COM
pare in wealth with many Americans"
The average animal income of the
richest 100 EngliShmen is about S450,000
but the average annual income of the
richest 100 Americans cannot be less
than s1.2O0.00 and probably exceeds
Sl,50o,000. The richest of the Roth.
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schilds, and the world-renowned banker.
Baron Overstone, each left about ST.
100000. Earl Dudley, the owner
of the richest iron mines, left $780,,
100000. The Duke of Buccleuch land
the Duke Of Buccleuch carries half of
Scotland in his pocket left about $780,
100000. The Marquis of Butte was
worth. in 1872, about $2S, COO. 900 in land;
he may now be worth $40.0O0,0O0 In all.
The Duke of Norfolk may be worth s4O,-
100000, and the Duke of Westminster
perhaps S50,0o0,000.
Mr.. Shearman's conclusion is that
$4,000 persons own one-half the wealth
of the United States; and that the
whole wealth of the country is practi-
cally owned by 100000 persons, or one
in sixty of the adult male population:
and he predicts, from the recent rapid
concentration of wealth, that under
present conditions $4,000 persons will
practically own all the wealth of the
country in thirty yearS-or less than
one in five hundred of the adult male
population.
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AWFUL ovERCRowDING.
Eight to Twelve Families in q
HOuSe in Hungary

Honse in Hungary.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-Julius Gold.
schmidt, eonsul-general of the United
States at Vienna, has furnished to the
department of state report upon the
carpet industry of Austria-Hungary.
He says there are eight establishments
in his district operating 756 hand looms
and 33S power looms. There are 2.44l
laborers in all employed, who produce
annually 3,227,0O0 forms worth of
carpets. THE men in Bohemia earn
from $40 to $3.50 per week; the women
from SLIGO to 81, and children from S1.1O
to 50. In Austria the wages are: Men
$40 to $3.50; women, $1.90 to 1856;
children, S1.33 to S2.15. A days work
comprises eleven hours with half an
hour for dinner. Consul GOldSchmidt
says: "Wages in Austria in this par
ticular branch Of business are Suffi-
GENTLY moderate, but those paid in BO-
hemla are starvation wages. Workmen
as rule in this monarchy are usually
steady and methodical in their labor,
but do not work as theoretically as the
American workman. They are indus
triOuS, but fond OF amusement, and are
too often interrupted by the numerous
holidays observed here. Their homes
are far from comfortable. There are
few houses inhabited by single family;
generally one house shelters from
eight to twelve families. Overcrowd-
ing is great in these dwellings, and
morality is affected by it. On account
of the dearness of the land there is a
scarcity of small houses suitable for a
single family. The dress of the work.
men is tolerably good. Much wine and
beer are consumed by the lower classes,
though drunkenness does not prevail to
a great extent. Since the great battle
between capital and labor has begun
the condition of the labering classes of
this monarchy has been visibly, and |
trust permanently improved, though
there is great room for Improvement in
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That furnishes the only gap in the
thousand mile sweep southwark from
the Canadian boundary. and they pro-
pose to make such struggle for its pos
session as they have never made in any
other field. In spite of the confidence
Of the high license politicians, it does
not appear why there is not as much
chance for them to carry Nebraska as
there is to hold Iowa and Kansas. The
population is much the same, and the
cities do not comprise any considerable
per cent more of the voters. If Ne
6raska is plucked from the burning or
drowning, the next step will be toward
Minnesota. 1t does not look very hope
full for them, but they like missionary
fialdS
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Pettigrew in Washington.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Oct. Ex-senator Pet
tigrew arrived at the Riggs tonight. He
says: 81 stopped here to rest few
hours: am on my way to Boston and
Portland on business, but have an en-
gagement with the Portland club on
Wednesday evening for big feed.
They say am to make speech on DO
litical questions at the banquet, but [
am not yet ready to talk politics. have
been so busy all summer building rail-
roads, street railways, WOODEN mills,
soap factories. and looking after other
business interests that / almost forgot
there was anything political going on
until the legislature elected me to the
senate. That is all l know about poll
tics, and can't make much of speech
for them"