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St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
An Ostrich Playing Hooky,

Red Bluff (Cal.) Sentinel.
DIR. Sketchley informed us that one of
his Old male ostriches got out of the pen
on Tuesday and started at Maud S speed
in the direction of the Sacramento
River. He was tracked to the river.
which he swan, and disappeared in the
brush on the opposite shore. The
doctor and hired help went back to the
house to get horses to follow in pursuit
of the fleeing bird.
Meanwhile his lordship from Africa,
tired of roaming around in the brush
and chaparral. swan across the river to
Kraft's place, where he was seen by
parties on Fish & Jelley's ranch. and
was driven into the corral near the
dwell ngs. The doctor was notified that
the bird had been captured, went down
and drove his high mightiness to his old
quarters. He did not appear to be dis
turbed by the long run and two baths
the same day.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
WOMAN CHIT CHAT.

Mrs. Astor, at her recent ball in New
York city. was arrayed, in most
a train ana low bodice of leafgreen vel
vet. The front was of white satin and
was draped in white tulle. covered with
silver spangles and pearls. The angel
sleeves were of the embroidered tulle,
and most of her diamonds were worn.
Mrs. Browns New Ball Dress-Mr.
BroWn--It is very pretty dress, dear,
but should not think it was so heavy
that you would need suspenders to hold
the skirt up.
Mrs. Brown-Suspenders love! Why,
that is the waist Lies.
If report speaks truly London will
soon witness the debut of young lady
of fifteen summers whose talent lies in
playing with extraordinary deXterty on
the single string of a violin. She is the
daughter of a rich merchant, and al
most in her infancy began to develop q
remarkable taste for music. Her father
and perseverance surprised all who
knew her. She had her violin in her
hand eight or nine hours every day,
and then only rellnquiShed it at the
strict injunction of her parents, who
were afraid that her health might be-
come impaired. Recently the young
lady has developed taste for perform
ing extraordinary featS Oh one string,
and she is now desirous of displaying
hor accomplishments on the concert
platform. The only obstacle is her.
father. who is strongly averse to his
child appearing in public.
Some extraordinary things are done
in the way of society reporting, no
doubt, in Washington. But a prominent
Western paper, in its Washington soci-
ETY. dispatch of yesterday morning,
rather lays anything else in the shade,
says the Washington Post Here is a
sample: Mrs. Fuller wore begun
dress of gray frazzled and silver brocade.
Miss Fuller was in blue, and Miss Mary
in an umpire dress of ruStice wool.''
And then follows the surprising state
ment that ''in the dining room Mrs. Ma
thanlel Paige and Mrs. Ralston sat dos
a-dos at Widespread table.'
Great Scott!
"Gracious!'' exclaimed Cora. II can't
find ma anywhere. l wonder where she
can be?'
'Don't worry about her, my dear"
replied Mrs. knaberly, ''there's a new
family moving in across the way: so |
guess you'll find her looking out of the
window. Puck.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin Wallace, the once
famous and popular opera singer, is in
Indianapolis, the guest Of Mrs. John G.
New.
The violet season is at its height,
and woman's toilet is scarcely COM
plete without bunch of these fragrant
little blossoms nodding on her cOrsage.
nesting against the broad fur collar OF
her wrap, peaping out from the knot of
ribbon on her fanciful little muff,
or carried loosely in her hand. A
cluster Of artificial blossoms, so closely
initiating the real ones as to defy de-
lection, are tucked into the folds Of the
little black velvet turbaus pow SO much
affected by ladies in the street and at
the theater. Sometimes they orna-
ment the back of the turban and some
funds adorn the front or side.-New
York Sun.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
SHE SPIES HER BUSTLE.

There was an odd little episode of the
great hustle war in New York when
Mrs. Harrison stopped Oh Union square
the other day to gaze on the proud pro-
portions of her own blue satin dress i'm
proven. An enterprising hustle seller
has particularly gorgeous hustle OH
exhibition in his window. According
to the placard displayed under it, this
hustle is duplicate in every respect OF
the one worn by the wife of the coming
president. If this fond tale can be
trusted, Mrs. Harris0n'S hustle is very
like a ehild'S sunbOnnet, but somewhat
rounder, piumper and more winning in
its outlines. 1t is love of hustle,
blue as aforementioned. and puckered
and shirred till the lines of its construe-
ton are as mysterious as all esoteric
Browning poem. 1t has trimmings of
lace and the likeness to glOrified sun
bonnet is completed by satin curtain
which falls down behind. Mrs. Harri
son paused to look at it. So did Mrs.
Mckee. Three or four young girls who
had been chasing the presidential shop
ping party for a full block to get view
of its component numbers, came up
breathless and gaZed likewise.
The hustle would have bluShed if it
had been pink hustle, to find itself the
focus of SO many eyes. The young girls
cast looks at the bouffant portion of
Mrs. HarriSon>S dark blue walking
cloak as if making mental estimate of
its correspondence or non-correSpond-
ence with the inflater behind the plate
glass windows. Mrs. Harrison caught
their glances, bit her lip, hesitated, then
turned to the talleSt of them with a
spark of humor kindling in her eye:
Young ladies, blue is a bad color for a
bustle." Then she seized Mrs. Mekee's
arm and walked with very quick step
away. How does Mrs. Harrison really
stand Oh the hustle issue is what those
young girls are still asking. They say
She has fine eyes and will make presi-
dents wife TO be proud Of anyway.
PhiladaI nhia Times
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
HER PROPOSED REFORMS.

New York World
The wife of a naval officer, whose
name is expected to come before the
public shortly, thanks to recommen-
dation of Gen. Harrison, says that the
good lady from indianapolis is going to
shock the fashionable stagnation of
Washington form in more ways than
one. Mrs. Harrison told me few days
SINCE" said she, ''that she didn't pro-
pose to be bound down by the formali-
ties that have been established at Wash
ington as presidential etiquette. Her
refusal to bare her breast and shoulders
for evening dress is an instance of the
independence she will show in IN any
ways. She says it is not considered
etiquette for the presidents wife to re-
turn calls, or, indeed, to make calls.
But if she wants to go to see anybody
in Washington, she is going, and that's
the end of it. Should Mrs. Harrison
meet Mrs. Cleveland they would quickly
become good friends, am sure. Their
ideas Oh many such topics are very sim
liar, except that while Mrs. Harrison's
are now perhaps more strict, they are
no stricter than Mrs. Cleyeiand's s will be
twenty-five years from now, when she
is Mrs. Harrison's age.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
THE SNAKES CHARM.
Has 1t Really the Power to Fas.
cinate Its Victims?


Concerning the power of a snake to
charm birds and fowls, and even human
beings, there has always been doubt
and discussion. The Popular Science
Monthly recently printed some curious
anecdotes oh this subject. Here is one
of them: A gentleman from Iowa says
that one day while going through his
poultry yard he noticed turkey-hen
with neck stretched to the utmost, eyes
distended and wings slightly raised.
gazing most intently upon some OBJ
ject on the ground three or four
feet from where it stood. Watching
it for some moments he found that the
turkey moved slowly around the attract
ing object in circle, without with
drawing its gaze for moment. After
it had made full circle he approached
to learn the cause OF its extraordinary
behavior and found that the attrae ting
object was small striped snake par
TALLY concealed by some small weeds;
and not until he touched it did the
turkey notice his presence, though ordi-
narily it would not permit him to ap-
proath within two or three yards. Even
when driven away the turkey persisted
in returning and working around in a
circle.
Other fowls were then driven in the
direction of the snake. and all on catch
ing a glimpse of it were strangely
affected. Finally, satisfied that the
condition of the fowls on seeing the
reptile was purely an objective one, the
writer took stick and approached the
snake to kill it. 1t was dead already,
and-most noteworthy point of alI-its
head was crushed out OF all semblance
to its original shape, and covered with
dirt.
The conclusion the writer reached
was that small animals passed into a
subjective or hypnotic condition Oh
being suddenly brought in view of SER
pents, of which all animals, great and
small, appear to stand in dread. Ac-
cepting this, he says, we have the fas-
cination of birds and small beasts ,by
snakes as scientific fact Al
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
GRAY Eagle Caught.

A large gray eagle was captured on
the farm of Peter Quinn, i'm Butler
township, Scott county, Iowa. recently.
The capture was made by Mr.. Quinn's
son Joseph. 1t was in the morning that
the eagle made its appearance in the
neighborhood, and the afternoon was
seen to alight on Mr.. Quinn's
farm. Arrangements were then
made for its capture. Mr.. Quinn's
son got wolf trap and set it on hill,
and fastened live chicken near enough
to it so that if the eagle made an effort
to get the chicken away it would spring
the trap. And this itdid; it sprung the
trap twice without being caught. The
trap was set the third time, and MIR.
Quinn's son stood off in the distance
and watched The eagle flew over the
the trap once more, and darted down to
catch the chicken. 1t futtered over the
trap moment, there was snap. and
chicken and eagle were flapping their
wings together.
The eagle was caught this time. Mr..
Quinn's son ran at once to the trap. The
eagle made a bold fight, but could not
get away. The trap held it by one toe.
Mr.. Quinn now had it Gagged. The bird
measures six feet four inches from tip
to tip. 1t is the first eagle ever seen in
that part of the country.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
HIS OWN DOG DOCTOR.
A Story to Be laken With a Bic
Grain OF Salt. = 81

Punk Spirit. fi;s
DR.. Boyer, of this place, has a very
fine Newfoundland dog, with kind, in
teiligent face, which accompanies him
on his visits to the sick. His name is
Rover. He seems to take deep inter
est in materia medica, and to Under
stand the treatment of ordinary ills.
Not long ago Christian Miller, who
thinks the only good CANNES are
the dead ones, gave Rover a dog
button. Rover, mistaking It for
mint iozenge. of which he is very fond,
and believing Christian to be his friend,
ate it. But he soon afterward discov-
cred that it was poison. So, running
home as fast as he could, he went to the
doctors dispensary, got down bottle
of tincture of lobeiia, pulled the cork
out with his teeth, drank copiously oft,
and by the use of this emetlc escaped
death by poisoning. Since then his de-
meanor toward Christian Miller has
been cold and distant.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
DOES 1T RAIN FISH?
A True and Very Simple Explana-
tion of This Apparent Phenom-

tion of This Apparent Phenom-
enon.
No doubt you have read stories of fish
and tadpoles coming down in the rain.
and perhaps you were puzzled about
such strange things. Isn't this very
reasonable explanation of the mystery?
A party of travellers once encamped
over a dried-up pond in Africa. which
gave little evidence of ever having held
water. Soon after a terrific rain-storm
came up. filling the place SO that they
were compelled to move to Il higher To-
cation. One of the men, returning,
however, fer some reason, in wading to
the site of the camp, found to his
amazcment that the water was alive
with fishes.
Opinion was divided asto their origin;
part of the men thought it was case of
spontaneous generation, while the ma
jiority felt positive that they had rained
down. The truth was that the rain had
soaked down to the imprisoned mud
fishes, releasing them from their baked
ellis and surrounding them once more
with water. The air bladders of these
fishes are divided into compartments,
and have all the requisites of true
lung, and they are as truly amphibious
as the frogs and toadS.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
THE DOG AND THE BEES.
A Little Fable Which Shows the
Folly OF 1ntemperate Zeal.


Dogs and other animals sometimes
serve as the mediums for giving lessons
to the wisest of us. Here is good bit
of philosophy in one of Mr.. Bierce's
fables: A dog. being annoyed by bees,
ran quite accidentally into an empty
barrell lying on the ground, and, look
ing out at the bung-hole, addressed his
tormentors thus:
Had you been temperate, singing
me only one at time, you might have
got good deal of fun out of me. AS it
is, you have driven me into secure re-
treat; for / can snap you up as fast as
you come in through the bung-hole.
Behold the folly of Incorporate zeal ~
When be had concluded he awaited a
reply. There wasn't any reply: for the
bees had never gone near the bung-hole; !;
they went in the same way as he did,
and made it very warm for him.
The lesson of this fable is that one
cannot stick to his pure reason while
quarreling with bees.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
The Grow and the. Owl in India.
Iondon Standard

The crow and the owl bear the same
reputation in India as in other countries.
The cry of the former thrice repeated is
believed to.be sure token of death.
But. in some parts, crow or raven
cawing only once on the left OF young
woman is held as sign that her lover is
coming to meet her,and il the crow hops
to another place, or flies away, when it
is addressed, it is an omen that the
expected lover, letter, ETC., will arrive
soon. The common owl is a bird of evil
portent, but a white species is held in
high esteem by the Hindoos. The white
owl is always supposed to bring good
luck, hence it is considered sacred to
the goddess OF prosperity, and people
are pleased when it builds its nest in
their houses. The Mehammedan
women believe that man Who eats the
flesh of an owl becomes the obedient
slave Of his wife.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
STORIES OF BIRDS.
Singular Freaks and Instincts OF
the Feathered Tribe.

Hartford Courant.
Herbert Smith. of Bridgeport, has a
quail that flew in through his window
about a year ago, and which he has
tanned so successfully that it eats from
his hand and seems entirely domeSti-
Gated. 1t is left at liberty in the house,
where it is very apt to sit in the lap of
some member of the family, and when
taken out of doors never tries to escape.
Cases of such complete domestication
of a full-groWn quail are believed to be
very rare,
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
ANTS AS DESSERT.
A Lumberman Who Considers the
Wood Ant a Delicious Morsei.

A Mr.. Clarke, who was formerly a
lumberman in Northern Maine, has
been telling San Francisco paper what
delicate and juicy dish the wood ant
is. Hear what he says: ''For almost
year saw my fellow workmen eating
ants as dessert after our meals in lunl-
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
STATE OF MINNESOTA, ! =

County of Hennepin.
Be it remen bered. that on the 2Sth day OF
January, A. d. 1889. before me. the under
signed. a notary public IN and for said coun-
ty, personally appeared Thomas Lowry, Clin-
ton Morrison. f. b. Ames, Dorilus Morrison.
to me personally known to be the identical
individuals who executed the foregoing Ar
ticles of Incorporation, and each OF them
duly acknowledged that he executed the
same freely and voluntarily for the uses and
purposes therein expressed
HIRAM C. TRUESDALE.
( Notarial Seal, :, Notary Public,
I Hennepin Co.. Hennerin County,
Mimi. Minnesota.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17

ber tents were over. One day became
seized with a desire to eat an ant
myself, SO | wrapped two or three up
i'll paper and stole away behind
a tree, somewhat as boy would do to
smoke his fast cigar, so that if | got
sick nobody would get the laugh on me.
| shut my eyes and ate one ant. He
was delicions-flayored like lemon
drop, juicy, rich as walnut.
;. :. Nov, y the flesh ct an ni ant is refined
sect with highly nervous organiza-
ton, and his meat is wholesome. They
eat the soft meats of other insects
bodies, and plenty of fruit also. 1 be-
lieye the day will come when ants will
be considered more delicate dish than
frogs legs. [ have been to dinner just
now; | had ice cream for dessert;
would have preferred ants raw"
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17

IN preScnte OF HIrNm z. TruesdaIe, WHITES.
as to all signatures: j. Ii. Randall, witness
as to signatures of Thomas Lowry Cavour s.
Langd0n. Z. b. Ames, Clinton Morrison. W.
r. Merriam. Robert Mannhemer and Arnold
Kalman: Benz. Brack, VIM. Banholzer, wit
nesscs as 10 William Blckel and Thomas Z.
Wilson; W. i. Jordan, witness as to Patrick
II. Kelly; Benz. Brack, witness as to Theo-
dore l.. Schufmeier. II. Vanderwagen, wit
ness as TO Joseph Lockey; III. F.. Smith, wit
ness as to E. n. Saunders; Benj Brack, wit
ness as to IN. Lindeke; Hay Sehlener. wit
ness as to Albert Scheffer; james II. Weed,
witness as to Gustav Wiilius; Gustav vii.
lius, witness as to James II. Weed; p. ".
Parker witness as to Frederick Driscoll; ".
H. Mcdonald. witness as to Lewis Baker; G.
j McConyille witness as to George L. Finch,
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
STATE OF MINNESOTA, | :,

Be it remembered that on this Goth day OF
signed, Notary Public in and for said
County of Hennepin, personally appeared
William Bickel, P. II. Kelly, William Lin
deke, Robert Mannheimer, George r. Finch,
". X. Merriam. Arnold Kalman, Theodore l..
Schumacher Albert Scheffer. James ii. Weed,
Gustav Willlus, Frederick Driscoll, Lewis
Baker, Joseph Lockey. f. n. Saunders,
Thomas p. Wilson. to me personally known
to be the identical individuals who executed
the foregoing Articles of Incorporation, and
each for himself duly acknowledged that he
executed the same freely ana voluntarily, for
the uses and purposes therein expressed.
HIRAM G. TRUESDALE.
Notary Public, Hennepin County, MINI.
I Notarial Seal.
/ Hennepin Co.. MINI.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
HARRISON, BEARE go.
ii EAST THIRD STREET.
important Sale Of First Quality
5|[K5AND DRESS GOODS.
For Monday and Tuesday Only.

Having secured large lot of the above goods
at a tremendous sacrifice from the cost of manu-
facture, at forced sale in New York Last Tues
day. we are enabled to give our patrons, while the
goods last, some bargains that are simply aston
ishing.
Remember, these prices are for Monday and
Tuesday only, as we cannot possibly duplicate the
goods at these prices, viz:
11OO yards good quality China Silk full IS inches
wide and would be very cheap at 75c per
yard but for this sale our price only 43c.
1850 yards beautiful pain-eolored China Silk full
% inches wide, nice line Of colors and well
worth 89c per yard; for tomorrow and Tues
day only soc per yard.
$50 yards good quality Black Surah Silk, and reg
ular 75c quality; for this sale our price only
55c per yard.
1900 yards good quality Colored Satin magnif-
cent line Of colors; these goods are cheap at
soc per yard, but for tomorrow and Tuesday
only 33e per yard.
1900 yards Moire Franchise Silk, in new shades;
worth 75c per yard, but for tomorrow and
Tuesday only Bic per yard.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
STATE OF MINNESOTA. I

hereby certify that the within instrument
was filed for record in this office on the 1ss
day of February, a. D. 1889. at 4:30 o'clock
p. In., and was duly recorded in Book W OF
interpretations, On page.
III. MATTSON,
Secretary of State.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
STATE OF MINNESOTA, ..

County OF Hennepln,
Be it remembered. that on this 2Sth day Of
January A. ID. 1889. before me, the under
signed q notary public in and for said coun-
ty personally appeared &. S. Langdon, to me
personally known to be the attorney in fact
for r. B. Langdon, who executed the fore
going Articles of Incorporation, for and on
behalf of said II. b. Laugdon, and acknowl-
edged that he executed the same freely and
voluntarily for the uses and purposes therein
expressed and as the free act and deed of his
said principal.
HIRAM C. TRUESDALE,
{ Notaria, Seal, Notary Public,
! uennepin Co., Henuepin County
Mum. Minnesota.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-17
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STATE OLE MINNEts93j,GTya4l t9jGy4

STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County OF Ramsey, %.
Office of the Register of Deeds.
This is to certify that the within instrument
was filed for record in this Office. at ST. Paul.
on the list day of February, A d. 1889, al
4:J5 o'clock p. H. and that the same wai
duly recorded in Book E of Interpretations
page 3G6, etc. M. j. BELL,
Register Of Deeds.
Bye. WILLIAMS, Deputy
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-29

rously advocated. That policy, however,
has long ago been so modified as practically
10 amount to its repeal. The reservation
embraced IN section 1893 of our Code ~
not now protected by our laws. even on
natural rocks. The right Of the State to
title III the beds of bays. rivers. and
creeks within her boundaries is denied
only by claimants under the charter
TO Culpeper. All the water-coyered
land suitable for planting and pro-
paeating oysters has for some time
been open to rental, though theoretically
held By the State for the use of all her citi-
zens. This policy rests upon the idea that
the great body of citizens will receive
greater benefit from the rents paid than
from the privilege to oyster. Small help
financially comes from this farming of these
beds now occupied by lossees. Why not sell
these bottoms? In the opinion of those IA
miliar with the subject the oyster freedom
Of Chesapeake Bay and thervers flowing TO
it within our boundaries will easily COM
mand from eight 10 ten millions of dollars.
For whose benefit Is this value drowned:
For the riparian landowner Not one III
ten Of the citizens o! Underwater ~ q ripa-
rian owner, and not one in ten Of the ripa-
rian owners. perhaps. ever catches an
oyster. For the labofing tongsmcn who
do catch them This class IN many see
tions, I admit, is large. Some few
make the catching Of oysters profitable.
A. class though, laboring from year to
year. they DO not accumulate anything,
whilst trucking and farming. lighter and
more remuncrative, are eschcwcd wholly.
No class Of men in the oyster sections,
save it may be lessocs and owners II
vessels. derive any profit from this right 20
oyster in hay or river.
! know in this day OF autOcratic pluto
cracy 10 offer for sale the finest bottoms
for raising oysters, over which waters flow,
may place this mine Of wealth in tho
hands Of foreign syndicalee. Yet, 4 so,
the supply Of oysters VIII be double
large percentage of the state deb; paid.
even the riparian owners huy oysters
cheaper. and REGULAR and profitable cn-
ployment be given to large proportion of
torg-meu.
Tidcwator cannot move in this direction
in legislative hall. "Io enact the oyster"
is political suicide. They DO not grow in
the mountains: and q statesman without
fear of fish on the TANKS may safely mcdl-
tate upon this humble suggestion. and
weigh IL I'm the light of the experience Of
other States lcgislating upon this subject.
Il.