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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-30
ST. PAUL HOSPITALITY
The City's Gates Thrown Open to
the Representatives of Three
Americas.
Oscar Stenberg in Butte Has Giant
Cartridge Exploded Under
His Pillow.

Nature was kinder to hosts than guests
IN ST Paul but our courteous and kindly
South American guests will forgive the lack
OF Mlnnesota's blue skies and invigorating
air when they appreciate that the clouds
may mean the difference between success
ana disaster to this Northwest Truly a
handsome. distinguished and altogether adj
lnlraDle party arrived in the Sanity City last
week, and their welcome was none the less
nearly that fuss, feathers and f1ummery had
peen dispensed with. AS all the world
knows, there would have been no lack of
ceremonial had the Pan-American represen-
tatlVes so desired. That they were charmed
Tboth with reception and receivers was
voiced by so many of the gentlemen and in
such multfarious and delicate ways that the
expression passed clear beyond the bounds
OF the perfunctory and showed itself heart
1elt More than one of the distinguished
gentlemen took occasion to say that
the further West and North they
came the heartler grew the hand
clasps, the more breezily delightful the wei
comes. 10 these citizens of the South,
with It's ruins and its memories, the New
Northwest, of which st. Paul stands as ex-
emplar and manifestation, is source of
Wonderment as well as of delight, and as one
of them said Thursday, eve will carry back
with us in the bodest outlines memory can
give the picture of this great city, which was
not even hamlet when was in my coun-
trys congress for the first time" Nothing of
moment marred the day. Every part of the
programme was carried out as far as was de-
sirable, and St. Paul has no reason to fear
that her guests will leave her with anything
but the pleasanuest recollection
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
Regularity of Habit,

One of the most difficult of all minor
habits to acquire, says an able writer, is
that of regularity. 1t ranks with that of
order. The natural inclination of most
persons is to defer until the last possible
moment, or put it off to another time,
where this can possibly be done. Yet
habits of regularity contribute largely to
the ease and comfort of life. A person can
multiply his efficiency by it. We know
persons who have multitude of duties,
and who perform vast amount of work
daily, who set apart certain hours for
given duties, and are there at the moment
and attend rigidly to what is in hand. This
done, and other engagements are met, each
in order, and vast deal is accomplished,
not by strained exertion, but by regularity.
The mind can be so trained to this that at
certain hours in the day it will turn to
particular line of duty, and at other hours
to other and different labors. The very
diversity is restful, when attended to in
regular order. But let these run together,
and the duties be mixed and what before
was easy is now annoying and oppressive,
and the exact difference between many is
at this point. There are those who con-
fuse and rush, and attempt to do several
things at once and accomplish little, while
another will quietly proceed from one duty
to another, and easily accomplish vast
amount of work. The difference is not in
the capacity of the two, but in the regular
methods of the one, as compared with the
irregular and confused habits of the other
Scientific american.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
Loss Of Life in India Though Wild
Beasts,

Sir Joseph Fayrer, in the Nineteenth
Century for August, in an article on 'tThe
Deadly Wild Beasts of India, gives start
ling figures. Notwithstanding all that has
been done toward diminishing the loss of
human life by wild animals, the evil is un-
abated, if not absolutely increasing. In
1880, 10, $50 deaths were reported as caused
by snakes, while In 1856 the number was
22,134. In 1887 there was slight decrease.
But the deaths fsom wild beasts, not
including snakes, in 1887, numbered 26lS,
besides 81 02l head of domestic cattle.
Tigers killed over 1000 of these 261S per-
sons, the others having been killed by
leopards, bears, wolves, hyenas, elephants
or other wild animals. The total loss of
life caused annually by four-footed beasts
and reptiles is placed at about $4,000 hu-
man beings and $4,000 head of domestic
animals. In some good degree, the reli-
gion of India is responsible for this fear,
full sacrifice of life. The doctrine of the
TRANSPORTATION of souls leads to the belief
entertained by the Hindus that these
deadly animals are but incarnations of
those who have before lived on the earth,
so that even snake found coiled up on
the roadside, ready to spring on passer-
by, is not killed, lest perhaps the spirit of
father or mother or near friend should
be within the beast. India needs the Cos
pei if for nothing else than to deliver it
from its deadly wild beasts. Missionary
Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
The Yellow River.

A BREACH IN THE BANKS OF THE STREAM
CAUSES A GREAT oVERFLOW-10, 0uO, 900
PEOPLE SUFFERING.
The Mississippi River Commission has
| been furnished through the War DrDart-
| men, by the DEpa: t,uent of State, with a
copy of dispatch from Minister D.nbv
| upon the latest breach in the bank of the
Yellow river, China, together with some
| observations OF the ravages of that stream.
The dispatch is dated Pekin, Aug. 81, and
states that the river has broken it's banks
again, this time at Change Chin Hsien.
BY this new breach the damage done in
the province OF shantung, the dispatch
says, is enormous and lrreparaole The
inundated country will be rendered useless
| for agricultural purposes by the deposit of
silt. 1t is said that fifty years must elapse
before the lands SO inundated can be cuiti-
waited again.
Much has been written about the raw
ages. says Minister Denly, caused by the
0veltOws of this river, and it seems likely
that China can never adopt radical s,s
TEN of prevention. S1cn system wonld
| cost at least so, 900 600 taels. The Yellow
river is $500 miles long. Year by wear it's
bed rises, owing TO deposts from tie water
This ben would have to be d-epened me-
chanically, and the banks would have to
be raised on both sides for It's entire length.
and prooigious works would be necessary
at the sea outlet. Other measures might
be adopted of diverting the water by dams
and canals. The old bed, which has been
dry since 1882, might be utilized, but ow
ing to the absence of engineering skill in
China and the fear OF contracting a great
debt, it seems likely that no efficient remedy
will ever be put IL operation. Floods may
be expected each year.
Ho Nan, one of the most prosperous
provinces, is ruined Anhui has suffered
terrib y, and now SLantung is Submerged
The sufferings of 10000 900 people pro-
duced great distress. continues the dis
patch, which the means of the government
are inadequate to provide for. Foreigners
residing in China and foreign communities
the world over have poured out their
money literally to leviate present dis
tress. In conclusion the dispatch says:
st is probable thai the Yellow river
will by overflow form great lakes in Ho
Nan and Shantung, and perhaps in Chi
Lii. The people will have to be removed
to Manchuria or to some other province
For 900 years the system of patching the
banks has been followed, and the raising
of the bed by silt continues and makes q
permaLent improvement impossible. To
repair the present break wi | cost -, 000,-
900 taels, and next year similar works at
other places will doub tless have to be done
again.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
A Cotton Picking Machine.
A dispatch from Aurora, ILL.,, says

A dispatch from Aurora, ILL.,, says !;
T. Il. Ball has just returned from Mis-
sissippi where he went few days ago to
test a new cotton picker, an invention in
which he is interested. A company was
formed in Chicago some months ago to
experiment with and manufacture this
picker. The capital stock was placed at
$1,000 900. The report of Mr.. Ball con-
corning the test of the machine in the cot
ton fields is such as to make visions of
wealth float before the mental gaze of the
now enthusiastic stockholders. The ma
chine, while some defects are to be rene
died, demonstrated the possibility of what
has heretofore been considered impossible,
namely, picking cotton successfully by
machinery. The machine was driven up
and down the rows rapidly, and took up
the cotton SO clean that not double hand
full was left, doing the work of 100 negroes.
A machine is now being made which will
be finished in two weeks and will again be
taken to Mississippi for another test upon
the present crop of cottonG
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
Famine in the Dakotas.
A PITIABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS AMONG THE
PEOi LE-APPEALs FOR AID.

A PITIABIE STATE Of Ar AI"S AhAONS IA
| PEOi LE-APPEALS FOR AID.
A dispatch from St. Paul says the relief
| committee of the Chamber of CONNIE ce
has presented startling report on the
restitution existing in the Dakotas. In
substance it says suffering and restitution
| is much greater than has yet been reported.
The report continues Ramsey county has
a population of 1000 people. Of these
about 600 are engaged in farming. The
| frosts of last year cut off the crops gener-
| ally, and the farmres were obliged to
mortgage their farms for food. provisions,
etc. to cary them through last winter
This spring personal property, such as
stock, machinery, ETC., was mortgaged for
seed and funds to put in the crop. There
has been continual drouth throughout the
O. tire season, and the crops have been
almost total failure. The borrowed funds
are entirely exhausted, as well as the credit
of a large number of these people, and we
ind that in Ramsey county there are from
200 to 500 families, farmers generally, that
are entirely destitute. In Nelson and Walsh
counties there is also great restitution and
suffering, and there is probably in that di J.
trict of North Dakota not less than 1000
families who are nearly or entirely desti-
tute.
We find also that there is district in
South Dakota that is in like condition. This
district is embraced within Miner, Lake
Sanborn and Budd counties, but it is sur
rounded by populous towns and cities like
Sioux Falls, Yankton, Huron WATERFOWL,
Pierre, etc and it is thought that if appli-
cation is made to these cities by the proper
authorities in the several counties sufficient
relief or assistance can be realized to
take care of the district for the present at
least.
The devastated district in North Dakota is
entirely dependent upon the twin cities,
Duluth and the larger towns on the line of
the Northern Pacific Railway in Dakota
for assistance. 1t is imperative that this
devasted region should receive some assist
ance Immediately.
A dispatch from Argyle, MINI says wo
years ago the farmers of Marshall county
were unfortunate en-. ugh to lose almost
their entire crops, owing to an ageravation
of the causes which produced poor har-
vest throughout the entire State. Since
that time they have been struggling to re
leve themselves from the burden of fnan-
cial embarrassment which they then incur
red, but fate has been against them.
During the last year the prospects for
good crop in the county were encouraging,
but devastating storms of unusal violence
prevailed in the eastern part of the county,
and practically everything was ruined
disaster has reduced many of the farmers
to verge of starvation, and unless some
thing is done to relieve them there will be
much suffering this winter. Gov. Norman
has appointed committee to investigate
and report on the existing distress.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
Behring Sea Fisheries.
THE SUBJECT NOT YET UNDER DIPLOMATIC
CONsIDERATION-THE POPE SPOKEN OF
AS AN ARBITRATOR.

THE SUBJECT NOT YET UNDER DIPLOMATIC
CONsIDERATION-THE POPE SPOKEN OF
AS AN ARBITRATOR.
Inquiry at the State Department and the
British legation reveals the fact that no
communications on Behring sea matters,
or any others, have passed between the
Secretary of State and British minister
since the latter's return to Washington.
Mr.. Blaine expects an early discussion on
the Behrng sea question, not specially by
itself, but as part of the budget of unset
tied business coming over from his pre-
decessor.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, in conversing
upon the subject, remarked that the long
delay which had unavoidably occurred in
considering the Behring sea question was
regretable matter, and that the interests
OF all parties concerned in it required the
earliest discue sion and advancement of it
that was now practicable. l learn that
there is every probability that few days
hence will see the opening of the negotia-
tions on this branch of the general case be-
tween Great Britain and the United States.
The officials of the Treasury Department
feel great interest in having the Behring
sea question brought to solution as soon
as possible, for the reason that the depart
ment will shortly be required to find, if
possible, some good party to take long
lease of the seal islands at the bess price
that can be obtained for the concession
The prospects of doing this are reported
to be poor by the department off Gals be-
cause of the uncertainty that the United
States will be able to maintain their claim
OF jurisdiction in Behring sea and the i'm
possibility of any lessees being able to pay
price for the lease of the islands if the
seals are decimated and frightened away.
1t is admitted that Mr.. Blaine may be
found readily disposed to refer the ques-
ton of jurisdiction to the arbitration of
some disinterested, friendly sovereign, be-
fore whom the admissions, or supposed
admissions, of either party would have no
effect, as the arbitrator would go down
much deeper for the foundation of his
award.
Whenever the question becomes ad-
vanced to the arbitration stage it is certain
that the matter of jointly soliciting his
holiness the Pope to serve as arbitrator
will be seriously considered. He would
almost certainly be the preferred choice of
The high parties if they could be sure that
the request would be agreeable to him If
by re ason of uncertainty on this point it
should be decided not to ask the Pope to
serve, the choice is expected to be among
the Kings of Belgium, Sweden and Den
mark, and the President of the Swiss Con-
federation, with a good lead in favor of
the latter. The health of the Emperor of
Brazil is deemed to preclude resort to
him otherwise he would doubtless be the
first choice of the parties before considera-
ton of any other name whatsoever
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
Minnesota's SuHerines
BY DROUTH, FIRE AND sICKNEss-FROsT
FEARED BEFORE RAIN COMEs.

BY DRoUTH, FIRE AND sICKNEss-FROsT
FEARED BEFORE RAIN CONES.
A dispatch from Waterville, Mimi.
says: 1t is impossible to state the severity
of the drouth in this region, and it's evil
effects if it should freeze without rain.
All the creeks and rivers are dry and have
been for some time, and the lakes were
never SO low in the history of the country.
Only the best of wells furnish any water,
and many think it is unfit for use. Ger
tain it is that there is much sickness. but
whether this is the cause or not. it is i'm
possible to say. Farmers southeast Of
here, in Blooming Grove, have been haul
ing water for some time for domestic use
and for watering stock from distance of
over six miles. Deep wells are being sunk
by those who can afford it, and these will
be the only sources of supply this winter,
in all probability, as it would take weeks
of rain to put the ground in ordinary con-
ditlon. Recent excavations in the villages
show perfectly dry earth at depth of
seven feet.
A dispatch from Fergus Falls, Mimi.
says: Serious prairie fires are raging in
the neighborhood of Mettona, Douglas
county, which have devastated the farms
of many settlers. A dozen or fifteen have
lost all their hay, and some have lost
buildings.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
Pauer From Bagasse.

Attention is attracted elsewhere to ths
manufacture of paper from bagasse, a.
appears by the following from La Sucreras
! Indigene:
| M VilIiers Hart has recently given 8
| lecture at the Chamber of Agriculture
Port Louis (Mau1itius), on the employment
| of cane bagasse for the manufacture OF
| paper. Although this subject isn't new tc
our readers we will give short resume
of this lecture, of which detailed account
appears in the Cerneen
M. Hart despatched some parcels OF
bagasse to France for manufacture into
paper, and M. de Montgolfer, of Boulien-
les-Annonay, carried out the experiments.
From the trials of this manufacturer, six
of bagasse are necessary to produce one of
paper, or 600 kilos of raw material to LOG
kilos 'of product of utility in the paper
mill" The value of the paper obtained
at Boulin is about 80 francs per 100 kios,
according to letter from M. de Mont
golfer.
By means of these figures, M. Hart
demonstrates to his fellow Mauritians,
first. that the erection of a paper mill in
Mauritius for workin principally with
bagasse would be at once useful to the
consumer of paper and lucrative enter
prise for the capitalists engaged ; secondly,
that the sugar planters would have more
Interest in selling the bagasse than burn
ing it, when the product of the sale would
permit them to buy its equivalent in coal,
and especially if diffusion replaces the
cane mill.
The lecturer exhibited several samples
of bagasse paper to his audience. He has
. for 4 nj ot1r of mn no
and while declaring the processes of treat
ing and bleaching the bagasse very simple.
he gives the report of A. Deros, expert of
the French government, of which here is
the text
ssThe following is the treatment to which
| have submitted the bagasse The hagasse
is beaten by pestle in water, continually
renewed till it is free from taste and color
less. The matter thus finely divided is
stepped in caustic soda I've containing soda
equal to tenth part of the matter en-
ployed. After an hour of maceration in
the cold, the I've is boiled for another
hour. Care must be taken to add boiling
water from time to time to replace that
lost by evaporation. After this treatment,
the matter icing disintegrated, is washed
with much water, and as completely as
possible. On me s6lV6 Lien u Is pldc6u
in bath of chloride of lime Us kilos Of
chloride titrating 10 per 100 kilos of
bagssse) till completely bleached. The
pulp is then washed with great care, the
chloride removed, and again washed and
refined for the manufacture of paper.
commercially, the process to be en-
ployed appears to me to be the following
ssThe bagasse, carefully picked, should
be submitted to the action of q disinte-
grating pestle, where it is washed and
crushed at the same time. Next, 1t should
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09

be treated under pressure three atmos-
pheres will probably suffice, with 10 per
cent of caustic soda, dissolved in a sufh-
Gent quantity of water. After washing
and being passed under the pestle second
time, the pulp should be treated with
chloride of lime, rewashed, then refined
and treated as other paper pulps.
"To sum up, it is fact that bagasse
can be bleached by hot treatment with
soda lye, followed by further treatment
with Chloride of lime y
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
Typhoid Fever.
IN MICHIG AN.

There is scarcely city, town or village
in the upper peninsula where there l is not
an unusual large amount OF typhoid fever
and in many cases the disease is epidemic.
At Ironwood there have been as high as
six deaths in one day, while at Negannsee
there are over 100 cases and many deaths
daily. The efforts of local physicians,
aided by the State board of health to cnecA
the disease have been unavalllhg.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
The value of our manufactures in 1850

The value of our manufactures in 1850
was 81, 600, employing 95s, OO4
operatives, with gross product of $11O5
each, against $5, 585. 200, 600 in 1880, with
2, 733, 000, 600 operatives, with a gross pro-
duct each of $2045, supporting and educa-
ting IL, 665, 900 of our population. or more
than one quarter of the whole. The wages
of these operators in 1850 aggregated $685.
100000, averaging 1925 each, against,
1880, 1890, 000,000 wages paid to 2, 733, OOO
operatives, or an average Of $3.50 each, an
increase of $1O5 per capita. The domestic
consumption of domestic manufactured
articles in 1880 was more than five thou
sand million dollars; the wages for manu-
featuring supported more than one quar-
ter of the population.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09

The Northeastern branch OF the
Women's Foreign Missionary socle'y
elected the following officers at ur ran.
Rapids, Mich: President, Mrs. / l K. a,.,'
Evanston, Ill; Corresponding, secreIars'
Mrs. T. P. Crandon. Evanston, IL; treas.
urer. Miss Minnie Preston, Detroit 6 MlSn,'
Recording Secretary, Mrs. L. a. , Calder,
Chicago. An invitation from the h ae5ld asa
Street Church, of indianapolis, to nolo s sas
annual meeting of 1890 in that Guy was
unanimously accepted.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09

Says a famous Englishman: ssYou
Americans are getting SO that you have no
interest for any time but the present.
Years ago we used to think that we were
pretty wide awake when we coined the
phrase men of the day. But bless me,
You have no use for men of the day you
only care to know about men of the hour.
And | expect you will soon ignore every
body but men of the minute. The Ameri-
can people live on the sharp point of the
passing moment, and seem to enjoy it,
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
IN NEW HAVEN.

Two Yale students have died during INC
past two or three days of typhold lever;
Three others, including Marx bord L5 %
Chicago, are ill with the disease nef0
are hopes of their recovery.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09

The Chicago Luns6ermaan says: "some
of the timber to be foand in the South
will compare very favorably with the giant
product of California forests. Lutcher &
Moore of Orange, Tex, recently felled a
tree in their pine forests in Calcasieu par
ish, La, which measured 1G6 feet to the
first limb, was "a inches at the butt, II
inches at the top, and scaled 1869 feet by
the Doyle scale. They got from this four
logs, respectively SO feet, "a feet, 20 feet
and Is feet long.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09

The following officers were elected at
the Y. M. C. A. State Convention, held at
Peoria: President, Oliver J. Bailey, OF
Peoria first vice president, the Rev. II.
E. Slower, of Bslvidere; second vice pres
ident, the Rev. W. Fl. Schureman, OF Chi
cago secretary, w. H. Clark, Of Chicago;
first assistant secretary, M. G. Gouterman,
of Galesburg; second assistant secretary,
A. v. Sturgeon, Of Monmouth
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09

What makes land valuable9 Railroads
and manufactures.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09

Elk Governor Perry of Florida died Tues
day at Kerrville, Tex.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
Our Sugar Industry.

Representative Peters, of Kansas, in q
recent interview telegraphsd from Wash
ington to the New York EoenSag Post,
says:
81 wish you would say, by the way, that
/ found something in Louisiana more inter.
esting than politics-namely, the sugar
industry. 1t is simply immense! I saw
enough to convince me that Louisiana has
only to cultivate this native resource. with
such help as Kansas can offer with her
sorghum crops, to supply the home mark
cts so richly that there will be no call for
the importation of sugar from abroad. |
give the thing five years to expand, and
then we shall hear no more of the surplus
in the treasury from sugar duties, for
there will be no import on which to levy
tax.
At the session of the National Board of
Trade at Louisville, resolutions were
adopted declaring that rivers and harbors
should be improved !; that no bridges, I'M
less of ample width and height, should be
built over navigable streams, and that
Congress should organize naval reserve
force, and foster merchant marine by
every legitimate means. The Torrey bank
rupt bill was also approved.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

Gen. John .Hartranft, Ex-Governor of
Pennsylvania, died at Norristown.
John Hanks, of Hillsboro, ILL.,, while
walling a fifty-f well was buried by q