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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
HOME MATTERS,
Seasonable Sugs estions for Prac-
teal Housekeepers - Hints for
the Household,

Seasonable Sugg for Prac-
teal Housekeepers - Hints for
the Household.
Mushrooms are nearly If not quite
equal to meat in nourishment.
One hundred pounds Of flour yield 100
pounds of bread.
Many housekeepers claim that meal
made into broth will go much further
than when roasted.
To remove indplible ink, saturate the
spots with iodine. then wash with
amonia; the ink will be entirely re-
moved.
Before boiling a ham it should be
soaked twenty-four hours. After boil
ing draw off the skin, strew raSped
bread over it and boil again four or five
hours.
To Clean Dust From Wall Paper
Make a mop of single cotton yarn and
wipe the paper. This should be done
yearly.
There are many suggestions for re-
moving fruit stains. One of the sim
plest is to hold the stained article over a
tub and pour boiling water on the spots
until they disappear. The fabric should
not touch the water below.
In ironing ribbons it is best to turn
the hot iron on its side and draw the
wrong side of the ribbons over it, hold
ing them firmly to the iron. Ribbons
in the usual way of ironing always look
bad.
When the skin is bruised it may be
prevented from becoming diSeolored by
using little dry starch or arrow root
merely moistened with cold water and
placed on the injured part. This should
be done at once.
If black dresses have been stat ned
boil handful of fig leaves in quart of
water and reduce it to pint. A sponge
dipped in this liquid and rubbed upon
them will entirely remove stains from
grapes, bombaZines. etc.
Fruit Cake That Will Keep a Year
One pound sugar, one pound butter,
one pound -four, eight eggs, two pounds
raisins, one pound currants, quarter
pound citron, tablespoonful mOlasses,
one cup sour milk. teaspoonful soda,
spices of all kinds; bake two hours i'm
moderate oven.
Housekeepers will find the followin g
recipe for cleaning paint useful: To a
pound of soap and half pound of pum-
ice stone, add an equal quantity OF pearl
ash and mix with hot water into a thin
paste. With an ordinary paint brush
lay on this mixture over the paint, which
requires cleaning, and in five minutes
wath it off with boiling water.
A Dish of SnOw.-Seiect very juicy
apples: pare and core them; stew them
in clear water until soft; strain through
a sieve; sweater to taste with with
powdered sugar. Spread this when
cold in a deep glass dish. To every
apple allow the white of an egg; beat
the whites, with spoonful of sugar to
one egg, to stiff froth and pour it over
the apples. ANY flaYOring may be used.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
THESE oCCA ION REMARK.

County Commissioner Boyd's habit Of
wearing his pant legs in his boots.
Dick O'Connor's big diamonds and
French accent.
John w. Willis slouch hat and whisk-
ers.
Judge Egan's imitation of Pat
Rooney's stage walk.
j. q. Donnelly's version of listen to
My Tale of Woe"
Aid. Bickel's slim chances for re-elec-
ton.
James Dillon and Joe Spiel in an
argument on ancient history.
Landlord Capehart's midnight walk
in the rotunda of the Clifton.
The evening papers version OF the
Lake Johanna horror.
Henry Johns similarity to his
brother.
The staying powers of Uncle Sans
Democratic officeholders at the custom
house.
Aid. Cullen's quiet but substantial
boom for mayor.
Henry l.. Williams perpetual lisp.
Baz Armstrong; hilarity over the
result of the recent election in Ohio.
Harry Gonden's diamond emblaZoned
shirt front behind the Clifton desk.
C. Tyson Butchers retirement from
the field of notoriety seekers.
Oscar B. Hills periodical house
burglar stories.
The Arcade opera house foundation,
which is very substantial and pretty.
The smiling countenances OF the
local coal dealers.
Howard Ramaley's horns, which
sprouted about ten days ago. He is now
one of the ''Best People on Earth"
Mike Kain's judicious habit of keep
ing his mouth closed at the proper time.
1t makes votes.
Horace DUNES ''pink and yellow"
expressions.
III. d. Munn's faculty of rafting wit
nesses ON cross-eXaminatiOn.
J. j. McCafferty's ''slHggers" at the
Stensgaard trial.
The cement driveway through the
court house yard, which was evidently
laid for ornamental purposes and not for
use. Take down the barricade- at the
Cedar street end.
The rumor that Aid. Couley doesn't
want another term.
Gov. Merriam'S box parties at the
Harris
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

types of the genus dude. Each one was
putting vigorously at a vile cigarette.
and both appeared so fidgety as to at
tract notice. ''Those boys are killing
themselves with that poisonous mar
cOtic," remarked the doctor; land, I'M
less they discontinue Its use. blood poi
SOning will unquestI0nably intervene"
"What makes you think sop
81 know of nothing more disastrous to
the system. especially in the case of
young man of their age, who is just de-
velOping mentally and physically. The
inordinate use of the deadly cigarette
Is productive of numerous disorders, and
finally consumption. paralysis or some
kindred trouble. Tobacco, when taken
in small quantities, is a sedative. but
when in the form of cigarettes 1t is akin
to slow poison. Its first effect is 10
stimulate the action of the heart, and
gradually, by continued wholesale use,
il becomes type of opium. The de-
sire. or appetite, is increased, and while
1t may nauseate its victim, still the de-
sire for more is sharpened."
what is the general effect, after one
has used it greedily?'
The paper with which the cigarette is
EMBODIED contains poison, so slight in
one wrapper as to be almost impercept-
IDLE. yet in dozen wrappers there is
sufficient noxious influence to prove
effective on the blood, with which the
poison quickly assimiiates. | knew of
case where some of the pores exhuded
nicotine poison. where the patient was
absolutely saturated with it.
''You stated that it affected the men
tality Of cases; please explain"
'Yes, L knew of a case. and it was
sad one, in which a boy seventeen years
of age, the son of wealthy parents, and
who early in life gave great promise,
became semi-idi0tic, but after course
of medicated baths. and good treatment,
he succeeded in outgrOwing the terrible
effects of cigarette poison. The tend
ency of this vice is to benumb the fac
ulties, and to finally paralyze the brain.
Its use prepares the system for liquors,
and stupehes all that is pure and en-
nobiing in man or woman. OF course.
you understand, refer TO the abuse OF
the article"
What remedy would you suggest?'
''fhe sale of cigarettes should be
placed on a basis with the sale of
opium. A law should be passed to that
effect, and then. at least. the poorer
class of young men would be unable to
procure the great destroyer"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

Nj. de Lesseps will be eighty-fOur
years OF age on the 10Th of this month.
Secretary Blaine has moved into the
old Seward house in Washington.
Il Gen. StOckmarr, a Waterloo veteran.
is dead. He.was ninety-slx years OF
age.
Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks has been
pastor of Trinity church. Boston. for
twenty years. This is good score.
Emperor Williams visit to CONSTANT
nople cost the sultan over Sl,0J0,000.
The sick man of Europe is sicker than
ever.
Samuel j. Randall Is so Ill in Wash
ington that he is unable to leave his bed.
lie has not progressed towards recovery
as rapidly as his physicians thought he
would. He spends his tine in reading
and debating. His wife never leaves
his bedside.
The first statue erected in this country
to wOrkingman will soon be unveiled
in Sacramento. 1t Is in honor Of K. }.
Stevens, late master mechanic of the
Southern Pacific. who had for years
been in charge of immense railroad
shops in Sacramento. The funds for
the monument were contributed en-
tirely by wOrkingmen.
The king of Siam is about to send five
Siamese boys to the United States to be
educated at his own expense. The boys
are TO he placed in charge of an Ameri-
can missionary, and will probably be
sent to school in Pennsy lyania. 1t is
the kings custom to educate the sons of
the nOblemen and the princes of his do
main in various countries, and when
they return to Siam appoint them to
high governmental positions.
Sir Julian Pauncefote. British minis
ter at Washington, spends much of his
time i'm driving and walking with his
four daughters, Maud, Syb1, Lili,n
and Audrey. He is delighted with
Washington, and considers 1t one
of the pleaSantest cities in the
world. Lady Pauncefote is still suffer
ing from a severe indisposition, which
was caused by the stormy weather en-
cOuntered during her voyage from Eng
land to this country. She will have a
reception day for her friends as soon as
she has recovered.
Ex-President Cleveland has become a
rac0nteur. While in Washington re-
Gently he told story of a state dinner
at which certain well-kbown Demo-
cratic politician was present The poll
tician was gorgeOusly attired, and made
a sensation by his appearance. During
the repast chicken salad was passed to
him, and he helped himself literally.
Before the waiter had made the circuit
of the table the politician had devOured
the contents of his plate. He was
pleased. Here, waiter" he cried out,
''bring me some more of that hash"
MIR. Cleveland'S rendition of this anec-
dote is said to be very effective.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
They Did .>ot Advertise.

Springfield Republican.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was
white as snow; it stfayed away one
summer day where lamb should never
go. Then Mary sat her down and tears
streamed from her eyes; she never
found the lamb because she did no adver-
tise. And Mary had a brother John,
who kept village store: he sat down
andosmoked his pipe and watched the
open door. And as the people passed
along and did not stop buy. John
still sat d Wn and smok his Pc and
b.inked his sleepy eye. And 50 the
sheriff closed him out. but still he lin
gered near''and Mary came to drop with
him sympathIzins tear. How is it,
sister. can you tell Why-and other mer-
chants here, sell all their goods and
thrive from year to year?'' Remember
ing now her own bad luck, the little
maid replied: ''These other fellows get
there, John, because they advertise"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

a majority of the readers of fiction in
st, Paul are inqnring for novels of tine
character mentioned. Of course we
have several complete editions OF the
works of the great nOvelists. Dickens
and Sir Walter Scott are probably the
most widely read, and it is very seldom
that the books we have by these authors
are not in use. OF the American novel
lists probably the most III de-
mand are r. p. Roe, A. Clev-
ering Gunther, Blanche Howard
Mary Jane Holmes and writers their
class. Poe's works find favor with all
classes of readers, with those who Orji-
narily condemn novel from the name
II bears, because religious vein per-
meates all his works; and with those
who condemn what they are pleased to
fern the goOdy-goOdy sort of thing in
literature. because the spice of romance
and adventure all the stories contain is
sufficiently strong to outweigh their
prejudiees. Charlotte Braeme has also
a large contingent Of devoted admirers.
The works of George Eliot are
much in favor, as they al
ways certainly have been. since
the hrst book was published. Laboring
men are not TO any extent patrons Ofthe
library-probably from the fact that the
low of their enjoying a book after the
completion of days work. Mechanics
are different. They want but little fic-
ton and almost invariably ask for works
treating on their various occupations
The machinist may be seen every even
ing in the week bent over table in the
reading room, deeply engrossed ia
the Scientific American. The car
penteT may also be seen there, and
indeed it may be said that there are
works Oh every mechanical subject
kept in supply, and that the representa-
tives of the different trades are the most
apprecialiye patrons of the library. The
business done by the library has in
creased Dhenomenally during the past
year. and especially since the change
was made from the Old building. 1t is
a matter of regret that the ladies'
reading room is little used. 1t is very
seldom any one is seen there, probably
from the fact that it is public institu-
ton. The room is as comfortable and
we'll arranged in every way as any in
the country, aid it is hoped that a
change of sentiment will be gradually
worked in this direction of making the
place one of popular resort for young
ladies generally
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
THE LOVES, ~ BOOKS
And the Taste They Display in
Selecting Fayorite Authors.

SetecGAHS
"Have you Ben Hur' on your list?"
asked falr-skinned. sunny-faced seven
teen-year-old fairy, as she stepped up TO
the distributing window of the public
library yesterday. 'Oh, I'm so glad"
she said, as the clerk assured her that
the book was to be had for the asking.
''DO you KNOW" continued the eager
young applicant for reading matter,
s'l've been told by such number of
my friends who have read it, that Ben
Hur is quite the most interesting book
TO be had Just now. and this makes my
fifth application for it"
Tine coveted fiction was handed over
and the maiden departed in possession
of the treasure. The next applicant was
to all appearance mailen lady. evil
IDENTIFY on the shady side of forty.
81 want Ben Hur,' if you please"
she said. as she laid down her member
ship ticket To be viseed.
''Fne last copy of Ben Hur' has just
been taken," replied the ever polite at
tendant. "WiIl anything else dop"
The maiden lady compromised on MIR.
Barnes of New York." aud departed
content.
There appears to be run on Ben
Hur, remarked member OF the
GLOBE staff, who stood near, to the dis
penser of literature.
''Oh, yes, there is almost always run
on some particular book" replied the
lady. "Onee it was Robert EIlsmere,'
then MIR. Barnes of New York. Now
it's Ben Hur.' There is great inquiry
for The Romance of Hanson Cab
which, however, we don't keep at all.
There is also demand for such fiction
as the works by Ouida. Mrs. Henry
Wood, The Duchess, William Black,
and writer's of that class of fiction gen.
orally. We have none of them. Great
care has been exercised in the selection
of our stock of fiction, and those writer's
mentioned have no place on the shelves
of this institution"
1t must not be thought, however, that
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

Its wealth been The subject of story ane
chat.
But the theme propose has no 'chestnutty"
flavor,
Oh. here's the charms that Providence
give her.
Those dear little darlings-the girls of st.
Paul.
Chicago can boast of her big eonfagration
That threatened disaster, destruction and
death:
She can howl of her river. whose chief oeeu
palon
Is charging the air with poisonous breath
The feet of her women may challenge atteR
Their size may our sensitive natures appall
But chicago must take back seat whenl
Those fresh blooming beauiies-the girh
of ST. Paul.
New York. with It's Broadway and transi;
quite rapid,
Has reason to crow of its standing and sizei
Butts dears, when you sound them.are empty
and yapid,
Tho Innocence turks in their large, liquid
McAiister's blue-blooded, noble four hun.
dred,
Who once danced reel at the Presidents
Contained many sWells, but none such as are
numbered
In the ranks of the fairest-ihe girls of St
Paul.
Old Baltimore's bellies for their beauty an
famous,
The blood in their veins courses freely aud
pure:
We love their sweet faces, and why should
you blame uss
Their presence for blues is ne'er failing
cure
Their beauty, however, at best is but feet
ing,
And blooms in the summer to die in the
fall;
Their charms fade away when in casual
We take in the grace of the girls of St. Paul
The girls of st. Louis are tall, straight and
slender.
mar;
'Twere dificult. surely, to find in that gem
der.
AS fresh, sweet and pretty as these ladies
are.
Their hair is Skinner of silken confusion,
Their eyes, quite bewitching; their feet
cute and small;
But they can't hold a candle-excuse the al
lusion-
To those meek, modest maidens-the girls
of ST. Paul
There's Julia and Stasia and Mas gle and
Frances,
And Bessie and Lille and Annie and Kit;
And think that the author is "fbbing' a
We say to ourselves, as we glance DER the
pages,
This man is possessed of unlimited gall"
But no: nowadays among writers the rage is
To pick heroines from The girls of ST Paul.
M. }. Donnelly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

not women, the manly instincts would
rise ND in hot wrath at her designation
of those of her sex who demand an
equal share in the ballot box as "hyster-
zeal sentimentalists." She thinks their
influence in politics has not been bene-
fetal. This. in connection with the
protest of 1000 female teachers in New
York against the retention of women
on the educational board, is alarming.
The disposition OF the age to give wider
scope to w0man's thought and more
varied activity to her hands is COM
mendable; but, whether she should
come into the political field or not.
it is evident that tn lse who insist upon
it do not represent large constituencies
of the female persuasion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

PEOPLE who see BUFFALO BILL parad-
ing the Paris bOuleyards in the highest
style of fashion are said to find it diff
cult to believe that he had ever been a
scout on the Western plains" Many of
the frontiersmen in the range of his ex-
ploits find equal difficulty. They
think he did most of his scouting with
his mouth
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

THE presidents pretty typewriter
is to make the only copies of the mes
sage to be had until its delivery to
congress, and she will be the only Gus
todian of its points. The eager report
ers will no doubt find her as imper-
turbable as the Sphinx on that topic, and
that keeping secrets is not an unknown
female art.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

THE Wisconsin judge insisted that
the college boys should give away their
fellows engaged in hazing or go to Jail.
There is apt TO be more brutality than
pleasantly in this college haZing, and
when the law is invoked no sense of
honor should stand in the way of justice.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

THE young emperor of China seems
needIessly fastidious if he rebels
against the authority of his mother and
refuses to marry the wife she has Sc
lected for. him. Maternal law is the
highest there in these matters, and
unless the girl is ugly, or he has other
arrangements. he should be placed
across the old lady's knee.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

THE Helena Independent reproduces
and indorses the GLOBE article upon
the attempt TO steal the legisla ure from
the Democrats in Montana, The facts.
as detailed by the Montana paper. give
additional emphasis to the position
nrrah
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
THE MISSING MEMRER

Miss KATE FIELD was not member
of any of the reform gatherings at Chi
cago the past week. She was not even
in sentimental accord with them, as
may be inferred from her article Oh
"WOmen as Politicians" If she we're
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

IT IS not surprising that there should
have been secession of ladies from
the w. G. T. u. at Chicago. The ladies
are not apt to be harmonious in organi-
cations that have no men in them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

SOME immature scientist finds in the
recent surprising cold snap and big
snowfall i'm New Mexico some support
to the theory that the earth is gradually
shifting its center of gravity. and that
after awhile the north pole will be the
hot place, while the equator will be the
ice region. There will be the satisfac-
ton then of knowing where the north
pole is,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

WORK seems to be inaugurated in
the faith of final success on the Mica
ragua canal, and town called America
is to be established at the Atlantic end.
1t will not be completed before the
worlds fair.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

ONE of the DREXEL family the other
day enlisted at Milwaukee, as a private
soldier in order to find a living. His
uncle was multiplied millionaire. and
his cousin. who took the white veil at a
Pittsburg convent recently, is able to
give the church s5.000.00O. A st. Paul
party the other day traced her ancestry
back to ERIC the Dane. and yet begged
a nickel to buy chewing gum with.
Things are considerably mixed i'll this
WOrid
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

In THE convention hail where the
W. G. T. U. met in Chicago there were
upon the walls such notices as Goods
Curse Upon High License" Whether
there was exact theological propriety in
the malediction is not for the secularist
to decide. but it indicates vigorous dis
sent from the opinions of a good many
very reputable people. Some higher
on the sacerdotal line than even the good
ladies of the w. c. T. U. do not call for
lust that sort of curses.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17
mn-nAY.S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 16,-For Wisconsin
Fair; warmer; southeasterly winds. FOR MIN
nesota and Iowa: Fair; warmer; soitheriS
winds. For North Dakota and South DaAo'a'
Fair, followed by rain or snow III western
portions; warmer: sOutheriy winds,
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

u.VEFk1Y-tDa4ly Monday. wednesday
and Friday
Iyr in advance. 81 60 e mos. in adv " w
:months, in advance. 81 w.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

Phineas Fogg Last Thursday the
New York World
in Petticoats. started its well known
correspondent, MEL
LIE BLY,. to make an unequaled rapid
transit record. She sailed from New York
on the steamer Augusta Victoria with
instructions to girdle the globe and to
report back to the World Office On the
27th of January. This would give Miss
BLY, just seventy-five days in which to
make circuit of the wOrid-and. if ac-
complished, will beat JULES VERNE's
imaginary record by FIVE days. The
itinerary Of the trip makes Miss BLY,
due at Southampton next Thursday,
thence three hours by rail to London.
Friday evening, the 22d, she leaves Lon
don on the India mail, passing through
Paris, Calais, Turin, and arriving at
Brindisi Nov. "a, whence she sails
the next day on the steamship
Cathay. reaching Singapore Dec. 49,
Christmas day she is booked to be in
Hong Kong. Three days later she is to
leave for Yokohama. On the 9TH of
January she is to sail via the Pacific
Mail steamship line for San Francisco.
where she is to arrive Jan. %, and five
days afterwards TO report to the World
office i'm New York. This will give Miss
BLY, very little time to linger at the
lunch counters en- route. nor will she
have much opportunity to inform her.
self concerning the customs of the old
world. She will also have to break the
woman's record of being late for trains.
The World estimates that Miss BLY's
trip will cost that establishment 1900,
and the notifying part of it to Ameri-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

THE North Dakota parties in st. Paul
of late. who favor any sort of irrigation,
generally spoke hopefully of the project
of canal from high point on the Mis-
souri,, running southeast across the
state. They say there would be fall of
600 or 800 feet in the distance. 1t is
doubted that sufficient water can be had
from artesian wells. The attempt to Sc
cure one in the valley of the Red at
Moorhead is pronounced costly failure.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-17

cans is that she has to carry British
gold. as that is the only coin current in
all parts of the world.