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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
The Queen Of the German Court.

Interview in Atlantic Constitution.
The Countess Waldensee was Miss
Lea, of New York, and she has num-
Der of relatives in Kentucky. She is
now the first lady at the German court.
Her husband is nearly related to the
reigning emperor. and he and his young
wife are devoted to her. She lives ike
a queen in the palace adjoining Van
Moltke's. Though everything about
her is royal she herself follows the most
severe simplicity. From her fine fore
head her soft silver hair is brushed
smoothly back. Her complexion is as
fresh as a girls; her face, with its beau
tifully chiselled features, is full of ex-
preston, and her figure and carriage
cashmeres Of finest quality, but m de
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18

absolutely without trimming, while the
necks and sleeves have plain linen
collars and cuffs. Yet with all this SIM
plicity hers is the most magnetic pres
ence have known.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18

Grantham, is ashore near the Horse
Shoe Islands. She is fast going to pieces
and it is expected that all hands will be
lost before assistance arrives. 1t has
been blowing galesince early morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
Am Important Proxiso.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,''
II the Fates will only find us
Opportunities in time.
-Philadelphia Press
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
Movements of steamships.

QUEENsTowN-Arrived Umbria, from New
York. ~
LoNDoN-Passed Sicily, Wieland, from
New York, for Hamburg
New YoRK-Arrived: Italia, from Ham
burg,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18

Ex-Postmaster Paul Is Dying
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 17.-At mid
night the condition of ex-Postmaster
Paul, of Milwaukee, was unchanged.
The physicians anticipate his death
before morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18

convicted yesterday before Judge Zane
of the same offense. and given sentence
to the full extent of the law-six
months imprisonment and $500 fine and
COSTS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
POUNDED TO A JELLY.

A Haligoman sot Murders IA
Namesake.
HALIFAX, N. S., May 17.-At West
vile on Thursday night Daniel Robert
son, proprietor of a livery stable, on his.
way home at midnight with three COM.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18

i One Wife Not Enough.
SALT LAKE. Utah, May 17.-W.D.
Nelson, pardoned in 1888 by President
Cleveland for livinglain. polygamy, was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
Are Women Smarter Than Men?
Chicago Tribune.

are w omen smarter lnau MenC
Chicago Tribune.
From this place the writer went into
the office of man who has school OF
typewriters. That is, he instructs men
and women to operate typewriters and
assists them in getting work. asked
him for the result of his observations.
He replied:
"Women learn quicker than men.
They are more in demand than men.
They give better satisfaction, as d rule
mean, than men. And there is another
thing l want to tell YOU" he said.
"a few years ago, when women first
began learning now to operate the type
writer, and began getting work, a cry
went up among men about cheap female
labor
I'm the last twelve months | have
known of a number of cases in which
men have not only offered to do this
work for less than women. but have UNI
dertaken to get the places by means
that were not creditable.
IL am not woman'S rights man by
any means, but it is my observation
that the woman of to-day who is put on
her mettle surpaSses her brother"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
Pounding On the Rocks.

Pounding On the ROCKS.
KINGSTON, Ont, May lit is re-
ported that a three-masted schooner,
supposed to be the Jessie Breck, or the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18

windows chiseled rough. 1t must be
remembered by the would-be fashion
able to make her entrance hall Individual
whether it be yard square or Of the
baronial order. If paper and paint are
used let it be unlike anything else in
the house.
There are rich red papers for this pur-
pose almost as beautiful and enduring
as fresco. If oak is used panels of dark
rose du Barri and dull gold paper can
be let in with fine effect and the floor
laid in hard wood, covered with wood
carpet, which is cheaper. or the boards
filled and stained and then dressed with
rug or two. The staircase must be
different and gay to the last degree. For
this there are French papers of brilliant
bizarre patterns which charm and de.
light the eye. One lovely style of
this wall paper is made of a simple
rose branch with bird on it, thrown
against a pale crimson cream back
ground At intervals of four feet pea
cock pears, almost life size, and as
grand as his colorS could be i'll any ele-
ment but sunshine. In all parts of the
modernZed house there is demand for
high colors, bright tints, and airy, deli
cate designs.
Fancy dining room done in crimson
and white with window drapery or
silver tissue and hangings of white
beads and bamboo, and you have an
idea of the turn taste has taken. JUST
now it is possible as we'll as pretty to
faSten open the folding doors of the
dining parlor and In the arch place
white cairene gate of open Mushara-
biyeh carving.
Nothing nowadays goes in twos but
wedding couples. Two vases. two chairs
and two pictures make the half dozen
horrors against which the artistic and
aesthetic worlds are screaming. Instead
of the stuffy plush and velour cover
ings. a steady aud growing preference
is shown tor those French and Turkish
linen cloths of pale green, blue and
ecru, with stamped magnOlias and roses
copied after and printed like the
impression tapestries. These Stuffs
are everlasting cool and clean, and any
stain or soil can be removed with soap
and water.
In lieu of the costly and perishable
lace curtains there are delicate hang
ings of batiste-like wave in cream and
atmospheric tInts, machine worked
with trellised vines and trailing plants
that against the daylight have tracery
as delicate as lace work.
There is wisdom in going about and
circulating among art shops and dra-
pers before buying anything.
The morning call., 1890-12-26
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The Rev. G. Ii. Sturgeon writes from the
South of France that he believes he is slowly
but surely recovering his health.
Aunt Patty Richardson of Bethel, VT. 81
years of age. is called the last survivor of
revolutionary widows and soldiers.
Mrs. Blaine is the ialest of the ladies of
the Cabinet and Mrs. Noble the shortest,
the latter being only feet in height.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has put the finishing
touches to his grand opera Ivanhoe and
in five weeks it will be produced at DOyley
Carte's new theatre.
For youthful vim in old age Benjamin Ca
pen OF PASSPORT, Me-, certainly stands with
out peer. In his seventy-seventh year he
is able to outskate any man, young or old, in
the town.
Ex-King Milan is to be allowed ESQ, 900 a
year by the Seryian regency. He has de-
cided to establish himself in Paris, and has
bought house there in the avenue du Bots
de Boulogne.
Senator Warren of Wyoming is six feet
tall and his form is straight as Rocky
Mountain pine. He is a blonde, is rather
good looking. and talks and dresses well.
He is As years old.
The will of General John c. Fremont
which he deposited in the Surrogate's office,
New York. for safe keeping two days after
he made it, in 1854, is to be taken to Los
Angeles for probating
Professor Roberts-Austen of the British
Mint estimates that the great smoke cloud
that overhangs London is 800 tons in weight
and contains carbon and carbonic acid gas OF
the yearly value OF S2,o0000o.
Queen Amelia of Portugal is now almost
restored to health. She is the prcttiest and
most fascinating of the sovereign ladies' OF
Europe. She is tall and has a graceful figure
and charmingiy expressive face.
The late Gilbert Ball of Philadelphia, the
Quay Of colored politicians" as he was
called, was fine-looking man with light
brown shin and big black mustache. He
was always in gotd humor and widely popu-
The morning call., 1890-12-26
POOR MAY DURFEE.
Henry Il. Dixey Talks About Her Lonely
Death In Montana.

Henry IL. Dixey Talks About Her Lonely
Death In Montana.
taken altogether, her youth and beauty,
her sad death, and the lonely grave, think
1t the most pathetic story l ever heard, -
says the st. Louis Star Sayings. The speak
er was Henry Z. Dixey. He was stand
ing in the rotunda of the Southern Hotel
Sunday night. There were W. T. Carleton,
Eddy Glrard, John Russell, Charlie Reed,
Henry Donnelly and one or two others in the
group, well-knowu professional people. The
conversation had drifted OH to the death of
May Durfee, the pretty young actress of
Nat Goodwln's company, who paid the pen
atty OF her frailty, and died in terrible agony
at the little Montana mining town of
Missoula, early last April.
had couple of days" continued Dixey,
and the story, as published, having made
great impression on my mind, decided to
stop over at Missoula and visit the grave
The sad event was still fresh in the minds of
the kindly jewellers of the mountain town,
and the first man asked pointed out the
place upon the hillside, and told me how to
find the trail that led TO it. AS was leav-
ing him he called out: Say, stranger, do
poor girls ruin? Because, if you do,
reckon there are enough of US left to go and
fetch him here and string him up
=" Missoula lies in a cliff of the Rockies,
ana away up on & barren hillside is the town
graveyard. A low picket fence marks out
the patch of ground, and the day | visited
it the first SHOWS of winter had begun to
whiten the ground, and lay in narrow drifts
wherever a sheltering rock jutted out
After looking over the graves found low
mound in one corner with little pine board
at one end of it, with the painted words:
MAY DuRFEE.
81 stood uncovered for some time. think
ing OF the sad fate that was hers. Young,
beautiful and clever, with loving husband
she dared not meet, that was what drove
the poor girl to the rash act that proved fatal
A death full of agony. far from home and
friends. A lonely grave on the mountain
side. The day was cold ana threatening
more snow, ard l buttoned my coat more
closely around me and stopped to pick up
one of my gloves. l noticed and shuddered
that the loose earth and stones had been
scratched away, the work, no doubt. of some
ghOulish coyote"
Poor ohild," said Charlie Reed, and &c
little party of mirrh-provokers broke up and
retired to their rooms
The morning call., 1890-12-26
AMONG AFFABLE CANNIBALS.

When Their Good Qualities Are Under
stood All Prejudice yanishes.
Discussing cannibalism. writer in the
English Illustrated Magazine says: & dare
say to outsiders the idea of cannibal is in
expressible shocking and revolving. but after
living among them and discovering in them
the same traits of honesty, honor, even chiv-
airy, as might have been found in the beef
and mutton eating knight of old, this feeling
of horror dies away, and We can understand
how people may be cannibal through
long custom and tradition without
being innately more ferocious than
the peaceful citizen who buys his
steak or chou of the humane-looking good
tempered butcher round the corner. Per-
sonally, although out of purely disnterested
friendship, have been offered piece of
human broil. L never tasted il, but this l
regarded as a prejudice bred from custom
which will not be overcome, / do not know
of any more reasonable objections which
can be set up against a good, simple living,
moral and healthy fed savage. or even an
opium favored Cbinaman (Which they tell
me is very sweet. than can be set up by
vegetarians against the flesh of the OK,
sheep or pig. OF course when it comes To-
the taking Of life then the same objection
applies all around, and that is about the
only philosophical objection which we can
raise on the subject. The New Guinea native
In his hour of peace and friendship is al that
can be desired-faithful, humane. courteous.
Ii he is forced into battle his will fight bold
ly and fercely; there is no giving away or
surrender. the termination of the battle
meaning that he either will have food or be
food: his poisoned spears or arrows are not
used here; the hunting weapons are or
binary arrows, clubs, axes, spears and man
traps, and both sides fight on equal terms
and with similar intentions. After man
has lived among them for time he begins
to think it rather compliment to he consid-
cred good enough to eat. / did not feel very
highly flattered when, after asking q native
who was leisurely feeling my muscles if
was good ki-ki food, he replied, with
rather wry face: No, no; too salt; no
good Chinaman very good"
The morning call., 1890-12-26

the motion of the machine Of circulation and
respiration, not the cause of its motion The
Temporary. death Of the brain does not.
therefore, instantly stop the working ma
chine of life. Neither does the temporary
death OF the lungs stop the machine, as may
be seen In strangulation and lung apopieXy.
10 stop the heart beat is instant death.
Now, If the criminal is to be legally killed
by electricity by way of experiment for
the benefit of electrical science, let the
current be passed through the heart
direct or via the blood channels from
the extremities Of the body and not by ex-
pertinent through the brain and spinal
chord to see how long the heart will beat
after the nervs functions have been tempo
rarily abolished, or how soon the lungs Will
resume normal action after the cause OF
temporary nerve paralysis has been re-
moved; again, the doctors should have
known that the knowledge of an oucoming
shock prepares one for resistance. Had
kemmler not known that he was TO be killed
by electricity, and in SoE:e way and I'M
awares had received one-half the current he
did, and even by the route he did, he wOald
undoubtedly have been instantly killed.
Sudden and unexpected exposure t. violence
causes great fright, heart failure and sudden
death; whereas IL the violence had been
anticipated the mental part Of the shock
might be resisted, for if We say we will live
We can live for some time after death says
we shall not. Mental shock has undoubt-
eddy much to do in the sudden deaths, from
comparatively feeble currents of electricity,
OF employees regulating live electric wires.
The morning call., 1890-12-26
KILLING BY ELECTRICITY.
A Skilled Physician Says It Should ]
Applied to the Heart.

A Skilled Physician Says 1t Should Be
Applied to the Heart.
William A. Palmer, until few DAYS ago
principal medical examiner in Rhode Island.
gives the New York World the following
interview on Reminders execution. DR..
Palmer was for years the police surgeon for
Providence, and has invariably been called
by the Government as an expert witness in
murder trials held in the State, and is freely
acknowledged to be high in medical juris-
prudence:
The doctors and electricians thought to
kill Kemmler instantly by paralyzing the
brain and spinal cord. Did they not know
that vigorous lite, conscious or unconscious,
may continue for some time after paralysis
or even death OF the brain, as in the con-
WILSON'S and heavy heart-beating after con-
cussion, compression and even apoplexy OF
the brain? Did they not know that tenn
p0raTy death OF the brain only liberateS
greater nerve energy to the heart lungs and
the rest OF the body? Did they never kill
fowl by deeapitation and observe the diff
Guilty to restrain by manual effort the con-
vulsions that followed? They must have
known that the heart will beat and the
lungs VIII breathe for n time after the brain
and spinal cord have become paralyzed or
killed. Remove the cause of brain paraly-
Sis. renew the brain life and the life ma
chine, not having stopped, will regain nor
NAL motion. or having stopped, but not too
long. may be set In motion again, The
brain and spinal cord are the regulator Of
The morning call., 1890-12-26

win many kind, hearty wishes for their
future happiness and prosperity the com.
pany dispersed.
among those present were: Mr.. N. F.
haViim, VINO otfictated as minister; Mr. and
Mrs. w. n. Cook, the brides parents: MT.
and Mrs Daniel Smith of Ocean View, Mr..
ana Mrs. Kendall of San Francisco, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sherman of San Francisco. MIR. and
MRS: Ambrose of Sacramento, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. a. ouliy OF Ocean View, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mrs. voorhees,, Mrs. Starr, Mrs. E. Kendall,
Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Steward, Mrs. Hewson,
Mrs. ). b. Cook, Miss Grace Sully, Miss
Nellie Steward. Miss NJ. Green, Miss Ida
Wadham.
Party on Bryant Street.
On Saturday evening last surprise party
was rendered Mr.. and Mrs. Lang at their
new residence, 1000 Bryant street The par
lors were tastefully decorated and innumer-
able Chinese lanterns were strung about the
lawn.
An impromptu programme was arranged,
and the portrayal of several characters was
execut, with considerable cleverneSS by
the amateur talent present AT midnight
the assembled guests sat down to supper,
after which dancing took place, and it was
In the early morning hours that the merry
throng dispersed.
Among those who were present and par
ticlpated in the festivities were: MIR. and
Mrs Lang. Mr.. and Mrs. Knowenberg. Mr..
and Mrs. Reilly, Mr.. and Mrs. William j.
Condrin, Miss Eloise Smith, Miss May
Reilly. Mrs. Sarah Laws (nee Kelly; Messrs.
Thomas +. Graham, III. Butler, Professor
Mingo, James Dunning, William II. Al
mon, d; G. Sullivan, W. Mcclellan, I; Jas
per, b. McNulty, James w. Cotfroth, w. J.
Blatiner, Hon. Frank j. Grady and B. f.
Jones.
Society Personals.
Mr. Walter Coggeshall, son of the New
York State Senator. and Mrs. Coggeshall
will winter in California.
Judge Ward McAllister is spending his
winter season at the Hotel Rafael.
DR., Mary hitney of East Oakland, who
has been visiting friends in the East for the
last three months, returned home on Mon
day evening last.
Mr.. Theodore Winters and Miss Clara
Winters have returned to their home in
Washoe Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Kennedy of Oakland
have been visiting Del Monte.
MIR. w. G. Norris of Seattle has come on
two weeks visit to this city.
Mr.. Fred Macondray has come down from
Port Townsend and is registered at the Pal
ace Hotel.
Mrs. Gardner and her son, Mr.. Harry
Gardner, have come up from Los Angeles
to spend the holidays with friends.
Mrs. Luther Fillmore Of Oakland and her
daughter, Mrs. NJ. d. Dawson, child and
nurse, of Laramie. are visiting Mrs. J. NJ
Fillmore at the Ramona, San Luis Obispo,
where they will spend the holidays
Ensign Theodore VogelSang of the
Charleston has gone to spend the holidays
with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Ralston will spend the
winter with Mrs. Ralston's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George w. Grayson.
Miss Juiia Peyon has returned to Santa
Cruz from this city
Miss Ethel Nourse has gone to Fresno to
spend the holidays with Mrs. j. c. Shepard
and Mrs. Judge North.
MIR. ard Mrs. Jesse Ives have returned
from their wedding trip and are keeping
mousse on San Jose avenue. Alameda.
The morning call., 1890-12-26
WAR IN ESSEX STREET.
Tenth Ward Gamins Go Forth to Do Bat
tie as Wild Indians.

Tenth Ward Gamins Go Forth to Do Bat
tie Wild Indians.
The New York Sun gets off the following
moroccan anent the indian uprising:
The officer had interfered and broken up
a row among lot Of boys in Essex street,
and he then called to one and said
Now, then, tell me what this ruction
was about"
"Well," replied the boy, ''me and
Wounded Knee were coming along here,
and we met Man-Afraid- Of His Horse He
struck US for 10 cents. just then Man-on-a-
Buffalo came mp and give us"
"What on earth do you mean?" inter-
rupted the officer.
"And then Mud-on-His-B Back. Man-Who-
Talks and Fire-on-a- Hill cum alsng and put
in their CAB, and"
"WlIo are all these boys?" demanded the
officer, in great ast0nishment
"And the first thing l knew Walk-Down-
a-HiIl he hauled off and hit White Crow on
de chin, and den Little Antelope he guy il
to Bear-in-the- Night on the eye. and we was
retreating to the Rosebud when you cum up
and skeert the life out of every Sioux and
Cheyenne in the pack. It's all over now,
aEI men Horse Who-Limps and Sore-on-
His-Nose is going UP to Pine Ridge Agency
to train fur wrestling match"
The morning call., 1890-12-26

The residents Of Dolores street are much
elated at the work of building bridge at
The railroad crossing on Dolores street and
the excavating of the ground so as to open
the street. This Improvement has been adj
yocated Tor many years. When it is CON-
pleted the street will he clear its entlre
length 1t Is very wide thoroughfare and
will become great driveway
The morning call., 1890-12-26
Fire in a Japanese store.

Fire was discovered last night few min
utes after o'clock in the store Al Sutter
street. occupied by George Brothers, who
conducts a ladies' underwear and japanese
fancy goods business. An alarm was turned
in from Station 40, and the blaze was extin-
Of the fire could not be ascertafued. The
damage was about $780,
The morning call., 1890-12-26
DISAPPOINTED CANCERS.
For Want of a Breeze the Races wer
Abandoned.

For Want of Breeze the Races Were
Abandoned.
The excellent programme of races and
aquatic amusement prepared by the Oakland
ana Alameda canoe clubs for yesterday had
to be abandoned for want of breeze.
Though few feel like objecting to beautiful
weather, particularly at this season of the
year, it seems that there can be an occasion
where too much of a fine thing is not desir-
able either.
The races were to have commenced at 9
O'Clock in the afternoon, but when the hour
arrived and the anxious participants were
ready to cut loose, the surface OF the water
was as smooth as mirror over tile entire
course, and its only movement was in re-
Spouse to the tide.
The disappointed cauoemen hardly knew
what to do. They looked the picture of dis
gust as they fioated around waiting for the
usual afternoon breeze But they waited in
vain, aud finally, when the day was far spent
and the ebb tide left their barks stranded
on MID flats. they folded their white wings
and went home.
The morning call., 1890-12-26

A young woman at Fall River, relates the
Boston Herald, in going over some old let
tiers ran across one from Honolulu bearing
q stamp of rare issue of 1882 A New
York firm heard of her discovery, ard after
examining the stamp. pa id her $i35 for it.
The morning call., 1890-12-26

BEkTEL1SG has the only reliable methods to
I'll detective sight. 427 Kearny street.
The morning call., 1890-12-26

TEMPERANCE tlpple = Armour's yigoral. Hot.
strengthening aud sustaining.
The morning call., 1890-12-26

If your blood is impure regulate your liver with
Simmons Liver Regulator.
The morning call., 1890-12-26
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