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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
MEN OF MARK.

Four sons of the king of Siam are be-
ing educated in England.
Bishop J. P. Newman denies that he
is believer in Christian science.
Hadje Hassin Ghooli Khan met with,
very cold reception frcm tie shah.
Professional rat-catchers rrceiv . sal
airy of $500 year. There re II tell
in the country.
Dion Boucicault's y.iengnr son, Au-
brey,Eis now appearing Iii lie Shaugh-
raun" at the Standard theater, London.
In sixteen months the Duke of Port
land has won 100000 on the English
turf, and with horses all of his own
breeding.
Chairman Cooley. of the interstate
commerce commission pays his own
railroad fare, and thinks that every body
else ought to follow his example.
L. q. Letter, the Chicago millionaire,
has offered $4,000 for the Gardner
Brewer property at Newport. The es-
tate, which contains thirteen acres, has
a water front, but the house is less mod
ern and beautiful than those by which
it is flanked.
The Austrian archbishops are the
most highly paid in the world. The
cardinal archbishop Of Vienna has only
about $4,000 a year, but the cardinal
archbishop Of Olmutz has e40, 600, the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
COMIC PICKUP.

Heoffer-What are you engaged in
now?
Pfelffer-I'm in Omaha manufacturing
Indian relics to sell at church fairs for
the benefit of the heathen.-Omaha
World-Herald.
Mrs. Fogg-The trouble with you men
is that you won't hear to reason. If
you would be guided by your wife, now,
you'd get along good deal better.
Fogg-You forget, my dear, that
Adam was guided by his wife, and see
what fix il got him in.-BoSton Tran
script.
She-Do you dance, Mr. Yale?
Freshman-Only for the Sophs.-
Epoch.
Mrs. Podmore always gets mixed over
politics. She wants to know what
parliament wants recess for, and
whether it is to put the cabinet ill.,
London Tit Bits.
A young lady tainted when told that
over 200, 900 men died last year, but was
revived by the information that there
were 1O,00O,00O left.-LOndon Tit Bits.
5YOungwed-Ive been married only a
month, but | tell you my wife is an
angel and my home is heaven.
Oldtime-Oh yes, they are apt to be
until you clean house or moye.-Omaha
World-Herald.
Mrs. .Fondwife-Yes, l have a secret
for making my husband happy. | add
something TO his cares and that dimin-
iSheS them.
Mrs. GiggIe-Oh, do tell me what
it is.
Mrs. Fondwife-I add an ''s."-De-
trOit journal.
Mamma-And how did my darling
like being at church?
Maud (who had been at church for the
first time. and put penny in the col
lection pIate)-Very much. mamma, and
it wasn't dear.-Pick Me Up.
Tourist No. What do you want to
look at the bill of fare for? You know
what is coming 'rosbif," as they call
it over here.
Tourist No. 2-I am putting the carte
before the horse.-Pick Me Up.
The complete constitution which was
lately submitted to the convention of
North Dakota is said to have been the
product of Senator Evarts' brain. No
body recognized it as his work, how
ever. as he disguised his literary style
by breaking his words up into SEN
tences.-Chicago News.
She (ardentl)-And you really think
you love me? Now. from the bottom of
your heart, tell me, do you really know
what loveis?
Hell should just think do! Why,
have been engaged to three girls al
ready Liverpool Post.
''Do you see that man walking
down the street yonder? Well, he is
the meanest man in the state of Con-
necticut. He wore his wife's sun UNI
brella out in the rain the past week and
refuses to buy her another because he
affects to believe the sun will never
shine again for two successive days.
Hartford Post.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
DEEEATED MORMONs.

The defeat of the Mormons in the
Salt Lake City election will unques-
tionably stimulate migration to that
territory and greatly expedite the solu-
ton of the political problem as to the
disposition of Utah. 1t will not secure
present consideration of any state
movement in that territory, but it may
give new Importance to the project to
attach Utah to Nevada. The latter is
becoming too small in numbers and re-
sources to sustain state government,
and there is neither precedent nor
theory for the abolition of a state and
returning it to the dependent terri
toriaI condition. Utah is growing
region and has resources FOR permanent
communities. Salt Lake City is the
citadel of the Mormon church, and if
it passes under alien control the Nor
mon disposition to migrate will be apt
to grow. The Gentiles in Nevada and
Utah combined will probably be strong
enough to outvote the Saints, and, per-
haps, solve the troublesome questions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
NEBRASKA UNDER WATER.
Rivers in the Antelope State Con-
verified Into Torrents.

LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 13.-The most
disastrous floods the southeastern part
of the state has experienced for ten
years are now in progress. The Nema-
ha river, the Blue, the Salt and dozens
of other small streams have overlooked
their banks, and the waters have shown
no signs of abatement. Much property
has been destroyed, and the damage to
railroads is great. The Burlington &
Missouri, between Lincoln and Atchi-
son.i is badly washed out The Lincoln and
Northwestern near the city, is under
water and the tracks are gone. The
Union Pacific is in precarious cOndi-
ton. The waters have risen to Sixth
street in this city, and about 500 people
have been driven from their homes.
The water extends over the bottom
lands to the salt basins, but unless it
rises several feet more will not cause
great amount of damage. The people
who have been driven out of their
homes are being cared for by the city.
Only two out of ten railroads were to-
tally blocked to-day, but all will have
serious trouble probably before morn
ing. At midnight the water is still riS
ing. Rumors come in of a loss of life in
one or two places, but it is impossible to
verify them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14

noticeable that Secretary MATHEWS,
who is in charge of the home Office,
evlnces no sign OF weakening, nor does
he manifest any prejudice either for or
against the unfortunate woman. He is
evidently studying the case in the light
of duty, and to this end has fortified
himself against sentimental influences.
Mrs. MAYBRIcK's sex will not influence
the home Office in determining the Ques-
ton of her guilt. If upon careful re-
view of the testimony the secretary is of
opinion that the element of doubt was
strong enough to have justified the jury
in finding verdict in her favor, he will
grant the reprieve. Otherwise she will
swing from the ropes end, just as muir
derer should do.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
NEVADA,S HELPLEsSNEss.

Everybody knows how new state
can be admitted into the Union, but
who is there that can tell how state is
to be taken out of the Union? This per-
picking problem is likely to be pre-
scented for a solution at an early day.
The state of Nevada has grown weary
of the burthen of statehood, and is sigh
ing for an opportunity to relapse into
territorial condition. With popula-
ton scarcely numbering $4,000, with
sterile soil, an uninviting climate and
almost without resources of wealth,
there is no probability that Nevada's
condition will ever be improved. On
the contrary, the chances are that it
will grow worse, and the state will soon
sink into condition of pauperiSm. The
federal constitution has made no pro-
vision for the maintenance of pauper
states; nor is there any provision by
which congress can divest state of its
sovereignty, and relegate it to terri
torial condition. 1t therefore becomes
an exceedingly nice question to deter
mine Neyada'S future.
1t is possible that, on the principle
sovereign has a right to abdicate, the
people of Nevada may have the right in
their sovereign capacity to relinquiSh all
claim to statehood. And yet to permit
such course would be an admission on
the part of the federal government that
the Union is destructible. The indie
structibility of the Federal Union is now
the most firmly established of all princi-
pies in our national polity. The four
years of carnage in vindication of that
principle would count for nothing if
now the government should turn around
and admit the right of the people of any
state to voluntarily surrender state
hood. 1t would be dangerous prece-
dent to establish, for in time it might
result in the utter destruction OF the
Union, and resolve this nation into one
vast territory, to be ultimately converted
| into monarchy.
Under the circumstances the best
that can be done with Nevada is to
| annex it to California or to carve out of
| California and the surrounding states
enough territory to be annexed to
Nevada to make self-supporting state
of it. The admission of Nevada into the
Union in the first place was an outrage.
1t was done for no other purpose than
to make seats in the senate for two of
California's millionaires. 1t was done
under the pressure of political neees-
sity which required two additional SEN
ators to maintain Republican supremacy
in the upper branch of congress. And
now the nation has to suffer for this
folly by witnessing the helpIessness of
poverty-stricken member of the fed
eral family, and yet powerless to render
| aid.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
Why Bill Didn't Go.

There was to be balloon ascension
in Connecticut town, says the New
York Sun, and the professor had of
the trip to the clouds who had the nerve
to go. A young farmer about twenty
years old stepped forward as eandi
date, but while the crowd was cheering
him voice called out:
''Hey, Bill. want to speak to you a
mint"
1t was his father, and leading him to
the outskirts of the crowd he halted and
asked:
BILL, dye know what We are doin'r''
'I'm a-goin' up in that balloon, dad"
expect to git down alive?"
II deu."
"Why?"
''When you left home this mornin'
you had 60 cents in cash. wanted We
to leave it home, but you wouldn't"
''Pve got it yit, dad, a-laekin' three
cents gone fur peanuts"
Eyes, S'pOse so, and that purfessor
knows it. That's why he's encouragin'
you to go. When you git up thar
''Shoo! dad! I'd have him took up
nHCl Il 6OV uOWhs
mot much, Bill. AFTER he robs We
he'll throw We overheard, and us who
ar lO0kin' up will see We come sailin'
down like an old gaDder skimmin' over
a boss pond. Yell strike somewhat
over in Sheppard's pastur lot. and yell
go into the sile about eighteen feet
afOre We bring up."
"Honest Injun, dad?"
"Bill, did ever lie to We? NAV be
able to fish up one o. yer shank bones
to take home, and when 1 hand it to
mother and tell her that's all that's left
of William Ackford Moses Schemer-
horn what's she gein' to say and how
she's goin' to feel?'
"Shall back water. dad?''
81 would, BILL sartinly would l
know it would be suthin' to brag of if
We got down alive, but We never would"
''If l back water kin l spend them 81
cents?"
swell, mostly, but not quite all.
S'posen We buy cokernut and cigar,
and PIl kinder help eat and smoke as
we jog along home, and save the rest
for rainy day. Times is goin' to be
awful hard this fall, Bill"
eyes, l guess. Wall, it's go, dad,
and you just don't worry no more. You
kin go back and watch the balloon, and
Pll kinder aige around lords a grocery.
I've been tastin' cokernut for the last
five minutes"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
WIZARDS NEW SCHEME.

He Wants to Plaster One Big
Mortgage on the Northern Pa,
cific.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-The finance
committee of the Northern Pacific rail-
road company was to have acted
to-day on the S15,O0O,OO0 collateral
trust loan plan and they were
generally thought to be favorably
inclined toward it. Henry Vii
lard yesterday surprised everybody by
sending, over his name, to all the di-
rectors, a detailed financial plan by
which he proposed that the company
shall issue a grand consolidated mort
gage of S160,000,000 for the purpose Of
retiring the whole of the outstanding
bonds of the company. The grand
total of the Northern Pacific's
present bonded indebtedness is $780,
100000. The excess of $40, 600, 900 in the
proposed new issue would presumably
be used in paying premiums to holders
of the present bonds, so that they
would surrender them for the new
issue, which would bear lower rate Of
interest,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
CONFUSION OF FRANCHISES.

CONFUSION OF FRANCHISES.
Our municipal congress seemed to
have been lost last night in the mass OF
franchise ordinances that flooded the
council chamber, and as result the
proceedings terminated in the lamest
and most impotent conclusion that ever
characterized the session of a legisla-
tive body which had assembled to con-
slider a question of the gravest i'm
portance to the constituency that the
members were supposed to represent.
1t is useless to inquire into the causes
which led to such an unsatisfactory re-
suit, nor is it scarcely worth while
to waste words in criticising the
action of a body which has so
completely demonstrated its incapac-
ity to deal with public question
of such vast Importance. In justice
to majority of the members of the
council we will say frankly that the inn
preston produced upon an impartial
spectator last evening was that their
failure to cope with the franchise queS-
ton was due more to their ineXperlence
and their inability to discern the designs
and purposes of those who wished to
bring about the state of confusion that
prevailed than to anyintentional wrong
doing. The two aldermen who are
recognized as the champions of the
street railway company succeeded in
throwing parliamentary dust into the
eyes of their associates so as to blind
them to the real objects in view, and
thus the session dragged its weary
length along until the council adjourned
from sheer exhaustion without having
accomplished anything. Mr.. LOWRY
frankly stated to the council that he
would not accept the ordinance proposed
by the committee on streets, and this
avowal seems to have been the impetus
needed by Aid. CULLEN and SANBORN
to lead the council into that condition of
confusion worse confounded" in
which it found itself when the hour for
adjournment was reached.
AS matter of fact, there was but one
question before the council last night
meriting its attention, and that was a
consideration of the ordinance reported
by the committee on streets granting to
the st. Paul Street Railway company
the right to construct, equip, maintain
and operate electric motor lines in this
city. All other questions were of sec
ondary Importance until this one was
disposed of, and they were pressed upon
the council for the purpose only OF con-
fusing that body and diverting its atten-
ton from the real question. The con-
sensus of public opinion in st. Paul is
embodied in the ordinance we have re-
ferred to, and until that is disposed Of
all other issues should be sidetracked
by council. 1t is to be hoped that the
members of council will yet view this
matter in the light that the people of
this city see it, and at their next regu-
lar meeting will face the issue squarely
by taking the bull by the horns and
knocking him off the bridge or by get
ting knocked off themselves. The peo-
pie want something decisive, and they
want it right away.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
The Goat Fitted.

Texas Siftings.
Col. McSpilkins has a hayward boy
name Tom, who is much given to visit
ing beer saloons. A few days ago the
old man was walking through the hall,
when he saw Toms coat on the hat
rack, so he went up and shifted it. The
result of the investigating committee
seemed convincing, for he bawled out
in an angry tone of voice:
''Tom, you young scoundrel, you have
been in saloon again. l can smell the
fumes of liquor and tobacco on your
coat. There can be no mistake about
it."
why, father, that coat on the hat
rack is your own coat that you wore to
the lodge last night" replied Tom.
If you ever insult me that way
again." said old McSpilkins, putting on
the coat, which fitted him perfectly,
ON break every bone in your body"
Verdict for Tom, and no appeal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
,EmmOns BIaine's Engagement.
Deer Park LETTER IN PhiIadeInhia Press.


Emmons Blaine's friends here verify
the announcement of his engagement to
Miss Anita Mccormick, of Chicago.
The young lady is cousin of S. Elk
ms, and Mrs. Elkins expresses the
greatest satisfaction at the engagement.
She said that Mr.. Blaine has been
very much in love with Miss
Mccormick for three years, and that
she thought the marriage would
take place very soon, since Miss Nc
Cormick had at last permitted the en-
gagement to be announced. The secre
tary's second son is considered an adj
mirable man all through this section,
where his business relations have been
for several years, and many claim he
has inherited his fathers clear judg-
ment. Miss Mccormick is described by
those who know her here as cultured.
lovely American girl" Wha praise
could be higher?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
TOUGHEST FISH STORY YET
An American Sailor Who Was
Within Whales Mouth.

Philadelphia Press.
J.W. Kiesler, late commanders clerk
United States navy, now resident of
Honesdale, Pa, tells the following story
of remarkable experience of an Amer
can sailor with whale. He says:
George Leonard, an acting master In
the United States navy during the civil
war, and stationed ON board the gun.
boat Katahdin, West Gulf bloekading
squadron, in 1868, told story of hero
ism and exhibited marks on his
body that corroborated his words. The
year 1850 found Leonard as one of the
crew of the ship Enterprise, a whalerin
the North Pacific. One day he was sta
toned in the bow of a whale boat long
distance from the ship with brave
crew, who had sighted whale and
made for the monster with all possible
dispatch. When within proper distance
Leonard threw his harpOon, striking the
fish hard and deep. In some manner
the line, as ii was running ont, caught
the body of one of the men in such
way as to throw him overheard. The
man suddenly sank, whereupon Leon
ard transferred his line to a boatmate
and Sprang into the ocean in aid of the
drowning sailor.
The whale, now maddened by his faSt-
flowing blood, made rush for The boat.
Remarkable and horrible to relate, Leon
ards friend had managed to regain the
boat, while he himself was caught by
the whale between his jaws, with moth
ing protruding but one of his arms. In
this manner the man was in reality
within the jaws of death itself. The
whale instantly plunged down into the
deep, and, in the words of Leonard him
self, "rhe fish seemed to be going down,
down into eternity itself"
The imprisoned man after all this had
not lost his presence of mind. He mus
tered his entire bodily strengthened he
was a powerful man-actually bracing
himself in such position as to com
pei the fish to spread his jaw; at the
same time, with his arm that was free,
he grabbed the sheath knife out of its
socket. SlaShing right and left. No
sooner was there sufficient opening
made than Leonard forced his body out
side.
Up to the surface he swan, when,
most strange to say, he found himself
within an arms length Of his boat. He
was saved. The marks of the whales
violence and the dents of his teeth were
plainly visible on LeOnard's arms, and
he was always pointed out by his
brother naval officers as ''The Second
Jonah"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
ALI TRAINS DELAYED.
Washouts On Every Road Leading
Into COwboyville

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 13.-Reports
of the effects of this mornings heavy
rain and wind storm are being received.
The tracks of every road, except the
Union Pacific, running into Kansas City
were damaged in some manner by the
storm, so that all trains were DELAYED.
Many bridges on the Santa Fe and
Southern Kansas roads were destroyed
and the heavy iron bridge on the former
road at Olathe was washed away. Sew
eral trains on these two roads were
abandoned. Almost every foot of cOun-
try between Kansas City and Topeka is
covered with water and the corn crop in
that territory is badly damaged At
Atchison several buildings were blown
down. At Falls City, Kansas, j. M.
Boomis' barn was struck by lightning
and burned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
A Juvenile Philosopher.

LHWTGuCe AmGrICdu.
Mrs. Dumpsey-For shame, Williel
You've been fighting again. Your
clothes are torn and your face is
scratched. Dear me, what trial You
are! l wish you were girl-girls don't
fight.
Willie Dumpsey-Yes, ma: but don't
you think it's better to have a good.
square fight and get all the mad out of
you. than to carry it around, the way
girls do, for months.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
CHOOSING.

She sat by his side in the corner nook,
In the bloom and blush ofToath,
And the maiden frankness of her open brow
Was lit by the light of truth.
Can the world condemn if her heart beat
fast,
As the words she longed to hear,
With sound like the sweep OF Loves silken
wing,
Broke softly on her carr
But why in her eyes is that far-away glaneel
And why is that catch in her voice?
All, who can tell all that may be hid
All that lies in woman's choicef
Then her face is raised, with look, to his,
And smile Like the Graces wore:
"Why, of coure will. Vanillar" she said;
So he ordered two plates more.
Philadelphia Times.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14

ST. LOUIS judges do not often sug-
gest special endowments of the SOLO
MON kind; but one the other day, who
had heard of the ancient wise man, set
tied dog case in way that Indicated
confidence IN the Scriptural plan. A
man and woman were in court. each
claiming ownership of one of the little
CANNES that are SO often an attachment
of fashionable people. The judge did
not cut the dog in two, but he had the
animal placed at a distance from the
parties and allowed them to call him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14

THE organization of residents of
Charleston into G. A. r. post the past
week, with Fort Sumter as the place of
meeting, is pretty fair evidence that
sectional and war feeling is not so un-
comfortably active in the South as the
FoRAKERs and other romantic political
people suppose at times.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14

TUE Massachusetts mind becomes
sensitive and heightened when spoons
are involved. Some burglars recently
took a lot with other things from the
house of ex-Gov. LONG, but when they
learned that three of them were valued
for family asso citations, they at once re-
turned them. Still, there are legends
that don't quite run on this line.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
A Horse Protects a Goat.

Phi1adeIphla Record
A man named Nathan Gilbey, a coal
dealer and hauler, rents a field on the
Gillett road, in which a horse and goat
have been in the habit of grazing. Re
Gently gang of roughs from the lex
nield Port road have amused themselves
by throwing stones at the goat, and
some of the more cowordly of the ruff
fans beat it with stick. Whenever
the goat has been attacked in this way
cue, and few days ago he seized one
young rascal by the coat collar and flung
him clean over the hedge into the road.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-14
High and Dry.

ALTON, ILL.,, Aug. 19.-The steamer
st. Paul ran hard aground Sunday
morning twelve miles above Alton, and
is sti Il high and dry. She has heavy
freight and full passenger list. The
towboat Eagle left here for her relief
Yesterday, and is now engaged in trans
ferring her freight.