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St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

1t Elects a Life Member and Re.
ceives an Explanation From Ex-
plOrer Brewer.
The historical society held regular
meeting last night at its rooms. Gen.
Sibley presided. A large number Of
valuable gifts were reported by the
librarian, and some interesting cOrre-
spondence read. g. O. Robertson, of
st. Paul. was elected a life member of
the society. The secretary reported the
death of Jacob w. Bass. one of the old
est life members. Two acts passed by
the recent legislature, relating to the
society, were read and considered. One
was regarding the distribution Of the
reports of the geological survey.
and the other concerning certi-
fed extracts from bound volumes
of newspapers, to be used as
legal evidence. 1t was agreed to ask
the opinion of the attorney general as
to the construction to be placed OH their
provisions. Prof. j. V. Brewer, who
was commissioned by the society few
weeks ago to make survey of the Itasca
basin, was present and gave some ex-
planation of what be had accomplished
in his investigations, exhibiting some
maps and photographs of the lakes in
which is found the head Of the MisSis-
sippi river. His talk was very interest
ing, and he was warmly thanked for
his valuable services in unraveling the
puzzle regarding the true source"
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14

We aim to sell only the
most reliable Boys Cloth
ing that can be made. Cot
ton and Shoddy we have no
use for.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14

Because we want to be on top in
this line, as we are in all our other
departments, and are willing to
make mighty low prices to do So
prices which will lay out cold the
so-called offerings of other dealers.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14

At Yesterdays session of the board of trade
Messrs. Heine, Potts and Grant were appoint
sive of the members sympathies to the rela-
tiyes of the late Frank F. Sterrett
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14
Schultz Puts Away the Grow :

] The joint court house commission met
yesterday morning and transacted a
small grist of unimpOrtant business.
Five members of the commission were
pr esent and Mayor Smith presided.
The applications OF the board Of con-
troll and the park commissioners for
offices in the building were disposed of
| by assigning them quarters in the base
ment. The custodian's bond of 5000
was presented for approval and referred
to the city attorney. The resignation
.of j. }. Schultz, who was appointed
second engineer. was accepted, and the
applications of Joseph Doer and John
Bergh for the position thus made va
cant we're received and filed for fur
ther consideration. Mr.. Schultz re-
| signed because he did not care to work
as second engineer when he now has a
iposition over which he presides, and
which affords him salary greater than
that offered by the commission: The
commission meets again next Monday
I'M Orning.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14
CROSS is OUsTED.

ASSISCanC H0dIIH COIHIHiSSIOHer
Hendrickson Elected to the Lu-
cratiye lnspectOrship.
Health Commissioner Hoyt, City At
torney Murray and Chief Clark. CON-
prising the board of health. held meet
ing yesterday afternoon at the health
Office. The object of the meeting was
to settle the dispute arising oyer Com
missioner Hoyt's appointment of Col.
Cross, OF Red Wing, rs iiye stock in
spector at Minnesota Transfer. DIR.
Hoyt admitted his error in appointing
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14

w e cannot sell you a $40
Suit of clothes for SIS, but
we will sell you a Suit of
clothes for IS that is worth
IS, and that's the best we
can do. In other words, veil
give you full value for every
cent you Unrest here, ana more
you cannot and ought not to
expect
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14
Callahan's Still Hunt.

| Saturday night Howard Estes, the
chief clerk who smiles; behind the Of
flee counter at the Windsor hotel and
receipts the bills Of the guests, ran short
of small change. He summoned Denny
Callahan, the Oldest bell boy in the
house and youth in whom there was
told him to go over to the Newmarket
theater and get.it changed. Denny Cal
iahan took the bill, felt it between his
fingers to see that it was genuine, and
started on his journey to the theater.
Mr.. Estes sat down and lighted cigar
cite. AS he threw the butt into
neighboring spittoon he said to him.
self, sit takes that boy long time to.
find the theater." and litanother. Time
elapsed. 1t is sort of a way time has.
He has got into a chronic habit of
elapsing. But this time he elapsed so
often and SO YEARLY that Howard Estes
began to fidget. Meanwhile Denny
Callahan was supposed to be searching
for the Newmarket theater. What the
$50 bill was doing, depoHent sayeth not.
But the sequel to the story is that
Denny Callahan has not yet found the
Newmarket theater! He. IS going to
run for the legislature two years hence.
4 Company G Passes Muster. s.
] The field staff, band and Company. C..
of the First regiment, were Inspected at
the armory last, evening at s; o'clock:
The company's. manual was much bet
ter than at any previous inspections and
marching was compact and. prompt
Tactics were closely adhered to and the
school of, the soldier rigidly OBJ;
served. The field staff made a good
showing, as it generally ydoes,.
The band was the happy surprise of the
evening. aud proved itself well worthy
of the election to the position formerly
held by STEMS band. Prof., WHIPS
band has every characteristic. of first
class military band, and its music and
efficiency in march and maneuyer is to
be commended. The band has an en-
tirelv new and becoming uniform, after
the style of that worn by the United
States regulars. 1t presents a fine ap-
spearance in line, and it's martial music
as rendered last evening and on pre-
viOus occasions is conclusive evidence
of its ability to lead the regiment. The
inspector general will make his report
to-day.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14

A novelty in a Kilt Suit
is called the "Continental"
Dark Blue Cutaway Jack
ct, imitation Buff Color
Vest with Buff Cuffs on
Jacket and Pleated Buff
Skirt. The material is one
of those Soft French Fab
RIGS. Price $40.
Dark Blue Velvet Kilt
Suits for $3.50.
ALL Wool Cadet Gray and
Seal Brown Kilt Suits,
$3.50.
Dark Blue Kilt Suit,
trimmed with Cardinal, for
$3.50.
Kilt Skirts, separatefrom
the Suits, for 50.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14

the Office. and anxious to practice econ
0my in his trust by employing his i'm
proved system OF clerk work, can we'll
dispense with the services of a squad of
his clerks. The majority of these clerks
owe their positions directly to the need
OF the office and indirectly to the efforts
of the county commissioners. These
are the ones that will have togo, that
the county may save about &, 900 year
in salaries. Several of the county COM
missiOners have axes to grind, and such
of their personal supporters as will be
decapitated under the new regime are
appealing to them for assistance. Con-
sequently, Mr.. Murnane is enjoying the
concerted and individual kicks Of the
politicians; and while he thinks the
county commissioners are an honorable
and judicious body, he will run his office
in such manner as will give to Ramsey
county the greatest revenue and best
service. The jealous efforts Of politi-
clans for self-aggrandizement will have
no effect upon him whatever.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-14
BOSTON
ONE-PR/cE CLOTHING
HOUSE,
THIRD STREET, Corner Robert, Of
81. PAW.

n R.-Out-of Town Orders
solicited Goods sent on ap-
proya/ to any part of the Vest
Price List and Easy Rules for
SeH-MeasUrement mailed free
upon application.
JOSEPH Mickey q Co.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11
MAILS BY ELECTRICITY.
Mails to be Transported from New Yori
to Boston in Sixty Minutes.

Mails to be Transported from New York
to Boston in Sixty Minutes.
Within twelvemonth from the present
date, says the Boston Herald, mails will be
carried from Boston to New York city in
sixty minutes. So say the capitalists who
are making arrangements for the estab-
lishment of transport line on the so-called
'post-electric system" for the convenience
Of letters and packages between the me-
tropolis and the modern Athens. Even the
least sanguine hackers are confident that if
the expected public support is given to the
scheme not more than two years will be
required at most for the establishment of
the necessary plant in running order to
bring the two centers ofpopulation within
an hours distance by post.
The said plant will resemble, as to its
most essential part, a little elevated rail
way supported on a single line of tall iron
uprights, and stretched from the postofiice
here to that on the Island of Manhattan.
Along the track on top runs a small car
laden with mail freight, which at certain
intervals during its transit is seen to go
under queer-looking box-shaped arches.
These box.like arrangements contain each
one coil of wire, passing beneath the rail
below and around over the arch, so that
the moving mail carriage runs, as it WERE
through succession of coiled wire hoops.
And these latter communicate the motive
power to the vehicle.
The speed to be attained by the car in
this manner is incalculable. As is recsg-
nized in mechanics, constant repelling
force is productive of nearly infinite We
locity, INSTRUCTED only by the resistance of
friction. In this system the only friction
comes from the air and the slight contact
of the car with the rails Two hundred
and fifty miles an hour is not thought to
be an overestimate of the speed easily so
compassed by the post-electric dispatch
At the starting point the wire coils will
have to be close together and on up-grades,
but elsewhere, and especially on down
grades, they may be few and far between,
the motive power needed being slight
Six stations, placed at intervals between
here and New York, will supply the re-
quisite currents from dynamos.
Many experts think that the system is
desti6ed to reyolutionize the postal service
in this country. For instance, it is ex-
pected that instead of mail hours apart
between Boston and New York, carriages
will be sent over the tracks from either
end of tie line at fve-minute intervals,
thus rendering unnecessary the waiting for
mails to close and giving people in one
city an opportunity to read their letters
two hours after they are written in the
other.
Once prove the notion a success here
and it will be quickly adopted elsewhere
BY applying it on larger scale, too, who
knows that it may not serve tor the trans
portation of passengers some day? At
the rate of $50 miles an hour one could
put girdle around the earth in four days.
Truly, it is wonderful century we live in.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11
The Desert of Sahara.

The Sahara as whole Is not below sea
level; it is not the dry bed of recent
ocean, and is not as fiat as the proverbial
pancake all over. Part of it, indeed, is
very mountainous, and all of it is more or
less varied in level. The Upper Sahara
consists of rocky plateau, rising at times
into considerable peaks; the lower, to
which it descends by a steep slope, is "a
vast depression of clay and sand" but still
for the most part standing high above the
sea level. Noportion of the Upper Sahara
is less than 1900 feet high-a good deal
higher than Dartmoor or Derbyshire
Most of the lower reaches from 200 to 800
feet-quite as elevated as Essex or Leices-
ter. The two spots below sea level consist
of the beds of ancient lakes, now much
shrunk by evaporation, owing to the pres
ent rainless condition of the country. The
soil around these is deep in gypsum, and the
water itself is considerably saltier than the
sea.
That, however, is always the case with
fresh water lakes in their last dotage, as
American biologists have amply proved in
the great Salt Lake of Utah. Moving
sand undoubtedly covers large space in
both divisions of the desert, but according
TO Sir Lambert Playfair, our best modern
authority on the subject, it occupies not
more than one-third part of the entire
Algerian Sahara. Elsewhere rock, clay
and muddy lakes are the prevailing feat
ures, interspersed with not infrequent date
groves and villages, the product of artesian
wells or excavated spaces or river GASES.
Even Sahara, in short, to give it its due, is
not by any means so black as it's painted
CornhM MAGAZINE.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11
Barry Wall on Dudes.

Barry Wall, referring to the much-used
word dude, said few days ago: don't
know how it arose, and it is so variously
used. that am at an utter loss to compre-
bend its meaning. So far as my observa-
ton goes, it appears to be most generally
applied to very young men who wear very
small hats and very loud clothing, and
who are never without canes as thick as
themselves. This class of youths are with
out exception the worst dressed persons
who disGgure Broadway. The Imaginable
negro swell of Sixth avenue is far better
dressed than they, because he simply gives
vent to his hereditary barbaric desire
for flashing colors, and according to the
views of his people, he has really reached
perfection in dress.
"But the Broadway youths to whom l
have referred, and who are chiefly clerks
in the large retail dry goods stores, are
only servile imitators, and they don't even
initiate what they attempt to. They seek
to pattern after the latest English styles,
but they are bllssfully ignorant of the fact
that the loud dress which they mimic is
not worn by English gentlemen, and only
by the English cockney.
aft we wish to borrow any excellence
possessed by our neighbor, we should be
able to do it intelligently, and use it in
diligently But do not blame the igno-
rance of the deiuded cockney imitators so
much when see both eoaehman and foot
man atop some of the most stylish car
riages on Fifth avenue wearing cockades
at one side of their hats. The custom is
borrowed from London, but how laugh
able it must seem to the Englishman who
knows that the cockade is only worn in
England by the servants of noblemen who
held positions in either the army or navy"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11
REMINISCENT.
The Original Yuba County-IncorporatiOn
of the City of IarysvilIe.

The original Yuba county embraced the
territory now included III the Sierra and
Nevada counties, but as the legal and
county business increased, it was found
that the distances from the county seat
were too great to accom- modate the inhab-
itants. Ga April %, 1851, al Act, entitled
Gan AC: dividing the State into counties,
and establishing seats of justice therein"
was passed, which made the new county
of Nevada, taking away portion of Yuba
county. Previous to this, on February 8,
1851, the Legislature passed q bill incorpor-
ating the City of Marysville,' dividing it
into four parts, and fixing the fret Monday
of March for the election OF city officers.
In the latter part of 1851, the matter of
another division of the county was
preached, and resulted in the segregation of
Sierra county by Act of the Legislature,
approved April l6 1852. Sierra county be-
ing taken away, it became necessary to re-
divide the county into townships, which
was done by the Court of Sessions, October
Z, 1852. making ten subdivisions.
In 1852 a census of the inhabitants in the
county showed the population TO be 22,005.
The eighth United States census, 1860,
credits the county with q population of
Is ,6SS, and the ninth census in 1870 fixes it
at 1851, it thus ranking twelfth in Zoe
State, while the estimated population in
1877 was II 600.
The recent history of our city and county
is familiar to all II the population of the
city of MaTysville is not as large as in
former years, our prosperity seems to in
crease. TIE miners have made up their
minds that the cultivation of fruit, if not
at first profitable, will eventually turn
them in more honorable means of iiveli-
hood, and as profitable. No injunction
can be levied on the foothills where the
olive and apricot grow.
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SAN DIEGO.
Laying the Cornerstone of the New

Laying the Cornerstone of the New
Court-House-The Honey Crop.
SAN DIEGO, August 10th.-The corner
stone of the new county Court house was
laid to-day by San Diego Lodge Free and
Accepted Masons. The first regular meet
ing of the new lodge of Free aud Accepted
Masons was held in Masonic Hall under a
dispensation. The new lodge has taken its
being under happy auspices, a number of
the best and most respected citizens having
united in its formation or signiied thsir
intention of becoming members
Fifteen tons of extracted and extra white
comb honey from the back country was
shipped north this morning. Everyone OF
the steamship company's vessels csrries
from five to fifteen tons out, and fully 800
cases will be ready for the next To days
shipment came from Captain, Grande
Mesa Canyon, near Oceanside, and Campo.
Three women of the Salvation Army
were arrested last night on charge of 90
structng the streets snd'taken to the city
Jail. They were Captain May Hansen and
Misses Bigney and Bineam. They were
marching down Fifth street between and
8 o'clock. One of them was thumping a
big bass drum which she carried, and the
others sang gospel hymns and carried
torches. They we're proceeding thus when
they were stopped by officer Alvord, who
will explain how they were o5structing
the streets on Wednesday morning in the
Police Court. The women did not stay
long in jail, for the Secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Association and several
ladies hunted up a magistrate at his resi-
dence and secured their release on bail.
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BE WANTED VENGEANCE.
But it Took Him Good While to Collect
HE ThpuoIttS

His Thoughts.
had been riding III the srme seat with
a very plain sort of man for the last twenty
miles, says new York Sun writer, when
couple boarded our car at a junction, and
he suddenly uttered a cuss word as long as
my arm, / saw that he was excited by
their advent, and naturally inquired if he
knew them.
'Know EN-? Why, that woman is my
wifem he Kissed.
"And who's the mau?'
"Its a Teller she's clipping with"
"They haven't seen you yet, and they
are nicely caught. How long ago did she
leave %
''Three days. FL have terrible re-
venge."
Are you armed%
'No. I'm too dangerous when I'm armed,
and l left my revolver at home"
"Then you'll swoop down on the man and
break him in two|
81 orter. suppose, but when begin to
swoop l don't know where to stop. /
might damage a dozen Others My revenge
must be swift and terrible, however,
How do you propose to do ~
81 dunno. How would you do%
81 should go for the man without de-
lay"
Eyes that is the proper way, suppose,
but if / get wild, who's to hold me? l
ouce started in to lick man, broke loose,
and finally cleaned out a whole town meet
ing. | must take bloody vengeance, how
ever"
"Perhaps if you would show yourself
the man would stink off and the wife re-
--z,,.. le,o,,>
81 dunno. If he would it would be all
right; but suppose he tried to bluff me?
That would make fend of me in a mo-
ment, and l should probably kill every
body in this car. | must have blood, how
ever"
"Perhaps you could buy him off" 1
said, meaning it for stab.
eyes, might; but l guess he'd want
more'n I'ye got"
"Well, do you propose to sit here and
let another man walk off with your wife 2"
"No! By the canopy of heaven, no! l
demand his hearts blood! Let me think.
He's purity solid, isn't hep
ayes"
"Would probably fght?"
az think So"
"Don't look as if he would let go for
S12W
"No."
"Well, must plan for deep and last
ing vengeance Let me collect my
thoughts"
At that moment the woman turned and
saw him, and she at once arose and came
back to the seat lie looked at her with
open mouth, and she pointed her finger at
him and said:
"Thomas Jefferson Baily, you open your
yawp on this kyar and I'll make you wish
you'd never been born! At the next stop
YOU git off, or my Teller will make your
heels break your neck I've gone and left
you, and that's all there is to it, and faint
no use to bother u.s. Mind, now, or you'll
hear from mep
And she went back to her seat, and
Thomas Jefferson rode nine miles without
another word, and as a stop was reached
he dropped off as humbly as you please.
He stood beside the open window until
the train moved, and then whispered to
me:
az got off to collect my thoughts. Look
out for me when l turn loose for ven
geance."
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ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST.
George Fraser Drowned in the saera-
msntO at Knights Landing.
TIE CLOSE OF THE lone FAIR.
Thapsin Wins q Good Race-Sonoma
County Fire-Breezes from
the Bay Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE nrooRD-usuos.l
lone FAIR.
The Closing Races Incidents at the
Track-The Meeting Success.

The Closing Races Incidents at the
Track-rhe Meeting Success.
LONE. A,,s.st 10th.-The races closed to-
day .ri,h light attendance. An I'M
fo-.unate start spoiled the first race, mile
dash, Ito pounds up, and rendered unin-
interesting what would otherwise have
been magnificent contest. A scratch was
drawn across the track some thirty yards
above the wire, and Jonathan dropped the
flag 10 fair start at that line, but the flag
down the stretch failing to fall the horses
all pulled mp. The crowd yelled at the
boys telling them it was "a 60" and Mar
vice on Nerva, catching on" to the situa-
ton first lii out around the turn, followed
by Forester and Kildare several rods back,
finishing in that order in 1:454.
The second event was a seven eighths
dash, 100 pounds up, with five starters.
The entries were Storms Fannie F., Bar
toms Painkiller, Boots Nabeau, Harrison's
Hello aud Reavy's Jim Duffy.
Frank Dupoister handled the flag this
time to splendid send off, and the horses
run punched up the back stretch and
around the turn to the seven-eighths pole,
when Nabeau and Hello pulled out for the
wire under a driving finish, the former
winning by half a length, the last three
punched four lengths back. Time, 1:29.
The last was free-fcr-all trotting race,
in which Franklin was favorite in the pools
at SO. Thapsin at IS, and Eva w. s..
Chris Green, the veteran stand man from
Sacramento, tapped them off on the second
trial. Jonathan behind Franklin had the
pole, but lost it to Thapsin, driven by Will
Der Smith, on the first turn, who took ad-
vantage of an opportunity to select the best
track, and that little piece of Strategy virtu-
ally won him the race. From there to the
finish Thapsin led, crossing the score three
lengths in the lead, Franklin second, Eva
W. close up.
Thapsin won the next two heats straight,
trotting the three without skip, and in
the last one making the fastest time during
the fair. The time was 2:25-2:27t-2:243I
The meeting is considered to have been a
most satisfactory one, the races as rule
having a goodly number of starters and the
prizes all being well contested for