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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Mr.. Frees Unsuperstitious Hen,

Mr. William ]. Free, of $40 Four and
a-half street, has a hen which is almost
too proud to acknowledge the acquaint-
ance of the proprietor of the house. This
has only been the case for short time.
This hen formerly was meek enough, but
to be the mother of chicken the like of
which no other hen in Baltimore or any
other place could produce, overturned
her ideas of modest stiffness and humil
ity.
This hen, the property of Mr.. Free, al
though she now holds herself aloof from
most hens, has among a newly Matched
brood little chicken which has the let
tiers 80 *" plainly marked in black
on the top Of its head in down, with a
distinct space between them. The chick.
en- is what is called part game;;" the
balance is just plain chicken. 1t is
brown, with light colored wings.
The mother sat for three weeks on thir-
teen eggs, triumphantly Matched out ev-
cry one, and, of course, feels that liberal
principles have been abundantly reward
ed in having chicken with its head all
20 K."-Baltimore Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Pie Timber Is Scarce.

Every lover of pie-and almost every
person, either secretly or openly, does
love pie-will be interested in the fateful
fact that "pie timber" under which gen.
eric term is comprehended dried apples,
peaches, plums, squash, pumpkins, etc.,
is scarce. Evaporated apples have gone
up % or 30 per cent. since the beginning
of the year. Canned apples, pie peaches,
and the product of the golden skinned
pumpkin and the sober squash are all
higher, and have an upward tendency.
The raw material for an important and
adult American industry may not be in
the bony clutch of famine, but it is in a
condition which every thoughtful lover
of pie must regard with serious concern.
New York Commercial Bulletin.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Changing the Oxus' Course.

According to private information from
Merv the construction of the large dam
changing the course of the Oxus, known
under the ancient name Of Sultan Bend,
is being pushed forward with great en-
ergy. Among the people there great ex-
element prevails, as there seems to be no
doubt that large tracts of country will be
ruined as soon as the waters of the Amoo
Daria are diverted to the large territories
which have now for three years belonged
to the car himself. The water of the
river will not be sufficient for the terri
tories now cultivated by the natives and
for the large imperial estates.-Cor. Lon
don Naws
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Harvesting Niagara.

1t is proposed to utilize the power of
Niagara Falls by constructing a raceway
and tunnel, the construction of the latter
to be on the basis of a probable capacity
of 10000 horse power. The plan is
practically the same as the one suggested
by the late Augustus Porter in 1S47. The
contract was signed Tuesday between
the Niagara Falls Power company and
the Cataract Construction company OF
New York. The Niagara Falls Power
company is capitalized at So, 900, 900. The
contract calls for completion of the
work by Jan. 1, 1892, and involves an
expenditure of $500, 0OO.-New York
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

The returns of the fatalities by the re-
cent group of tornadoes are not yet all In.
It rs probable, indeed, that some persons
were killed in the thiniy settled regions
Of northwestern Kentucky whose names
win never be known. 1t is possible, how.
erer, 10 make pretty accurate estimate
Of the loss Of life. In Louisville the bum.
Der Of those killed outright and receiving
fatal injuries will not be far from 100.
In other parts of Kentucky 207 persons
were killed, the largest fatalities being
as follows: Clay, 30; Glasgow, 80; Black
ford, 30; Pooltown, II; Kuttawa, H.;
Eddyville, IL; Dixon, 8; Sebree, s; Ma
hon, 7. and Bremen, 6. In twelve other
towns 81 persons were killed, the total
for Kentucky being 1877.
In Illinois SO persons were killed, the
largest fatalities being as follows: Shiloh,
Is; Little Prairie, o: Grand Tower, z;
Mount Vernon. s; Vienna, 4; Poplar
Ridge, 4; Metropolis, 8, and Carbondale,
{. In Indiana 20 were killed, 10 at Green
River and at Evansville. In Tennessee
. were killed, 8 at Gallatin and at Ro-
xsna. The total is Ala, but it is probable
that In round numbers 500 lives were
host. 1t is almost impossible to make an
accurate estimate of the value of proper
= destroyed, but it may. be generally
stated as follows: Kentucky, 81, 200, 900;
Illinois, $500, ZOO; Indiana, $685., 900; Ten
1essee, $50, 000.-Chicago Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
The Amateur FlOrists.


This is the season Of the year when in the maga-
zine we
The florists nicely worded advertisement may be
seen.
They tell of wondrous flowers and of strangely
gorgeous plants
They'll ill our homes with beauty II we'll give
them half chance.
Each startling bloomer has a name we cannot un-
derstand,
But yet the spelling indicates it must be some
thing grand;
And so we hasten to remit the very fancy price
For plants to turn our house and lot into a para
disc
We buy a dozen garden tools and formulate plan
10 beautify the lawn, and then employ a hired
man.
We purchase fertilizers and lot Of fancy things,
and lay tho dooryard out IN pretty crescents,
stars and rings.
Put utter all 1t happens that the Is too dry,
Foo wet, too hot. too cold, or something else, aud
chat Is why
The gorgeous plants which were to yield won-
dcrful display,
Have never blooms enough 10 make buttonhole
bouquet Chicago Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
After Nearly Thirty Years.

The Georgia papers are fertile in won
derful stories. Ono of the latest is to tho
effect that early in 1861 young farmer
Of Bullock erected a house for himself
srd bride. The kitchen was a log one,
with one of the old fashioned hard clay
floors. He had built over gopher hole,
and of course the hole was filled up and
the owner was forgotten. The farmer
went off to the war, and when he came
back he found some charred timbers
which Sherman had left. The house WAS
rebuilt and the dirt floor was still feat
ure. Last week the wife was sitting by
q window, and happening to look down
upon the kitchen floor was astonished
to see signs Of disturbance underneath
The other members Of the family were
called, and they witnessed his gophership
emerging from his long sleep of twenty
nfno years.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Order to Examine Account.
STATE OF MINNESOTA.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, L.
County of SteaTns.
In Probate Court, special Term. February
18th, 1880. -
In the matter of the estate OF Charles l..
Merry, deceased. -
Letters documentary on the estate of said
.tecea 4 being this day granted unto A.
; IT is ORDERED that all claims and dc.
tnands OF all persons against said estate be
presented to this court Tor examinations and
allowance at the Probate Office In the City of
st. Cloud on the following day, viz. On Sat-
urday the Goth day OF August A. D., 1880. ~
o'clock .. m: OF that day.
1T Is FURTHER ORDERED, That six
months from the date hereof be allowed to
creditors to present their claims against said
estate, al tie expiration of which time all
claims not presented to said court or not
proven to its satisfaction, shall be forever
barred. unless for cause showed further time
be allowed.
ORDERED FURTHER. That notice of the
time and place OF the L caring and examine
ton of said claims aud demands shall be
given by publishing this order once in each
week for three successive weeks prior TO the
day appointed for such examination, in the
SAUK CENTRE HERALD, weekly newspaper
printed and published at the city of Sank
Dated at St: Cloud, Mimi, the 18th day Of
February A. D., 1890.
By the Court,
THEO. BRUENER,
lis Judge of Probate.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Given by Eight Hundred Cabbies.

Nobody can accuse the Glasgow 'scab-
bies' of ingratitude. Mr. John Burns has
worked indefatigably for thirty years to
promote their welfare, and 800 of them
have Joined forces to present him with
an Illuminated address inclosed in a sill
yer gilt casket. The movement was
quite spontaneous On the part of the do
nors, and the chairman of the Cunard
company was not let into the secret till
the last moment.-London World.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins is New
York writer who is well known by her
books for children. Her "All Sorts of
Children" was SO popular that fifteen
hundred copies were sold the first month.
A serial by her is entitled Through the
Yellowstone Park" Mrs. Rollins is a
delicate looking woman with dark eyes
and hair and low, sweet voice. She
lives in one of the sumptuous apartment
houses facing Central Park, and is kept
constantly busy by work for leading pub
1ishera
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Berlin newspaper correspondents were
not allowed to send out the news of Bis
marck's resignation on the night when
it first became public. They rewrots
their dispatches so as to make them say
that it was rumored that Bismarck had
resigned, and the authorities let them
go in that shape. Then the correspond
ents filed second dispatch saying,
"The rumor is fact" and the authori-
ties could find no excuse for refusing to
send it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

The Woman's Journal is of opinion
that it has buried Mr.. Grant Allen out of
sight by citing him to France. France
does not go in for the higher education
of women at all. The French women
are still in the swaddling bands of old
fogyism and non-emancipation. Accord
ing to Mr.. Aliens argument, therefore,
that the higher education of women
tends to check the growth of population,
France ought to increase far more rap
idly in population than either England
or America. But the population of
France Is not even holding its own, a
fact to which the w. j. points in triumph.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Bishop Ridley, who recently arrived in
London from his district in Vancouver's
island, brought to the queen gift Of
500 from the chief of the tribe among
whom he had been at work. The chief
offered 1t in such a way that the bishop
could not refuse it without giving him
dire offense, but he is as afraid to offer it
to the queen as lie would have been to re-
fuse to take it from the chief, and can't
make up his MUD what to do with it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

The Austrian police at Ala. in the Ty-
rol, discovered in a railway carriage COM
ing from Italy five little boys who were
crying bitterly. The man who accom-
panied them confessed to having received
the boys from their parents in exchange
for olive oil and s. apiece. He intended
taking them to Hamburg, where they
wore to be shipped with plaster of Paris
figures to different parts of the world.
The italian police were informed and
sent the boys back to Lucca, whence they
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

There is displayed in the window Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Express com-
pany at Rome, Ga, faille franchise silk
dress that is, or was, valued at $500. The
dress was expressed to New Orleans and
was to be worn by bride at fashion,
able marriage. The express messenger
through some oversight allowed it TO be
damaged slightly, and was compelled by
the company to pay for it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

"Now I didn't really see these with my
own eyes and touch them with my own
fingers" said charming woman, "but
the some one who did told me. 1t was
at dove luncheon, the last course had
disappeared, and the ladies sat over their
coffee. Then the walters brought the
tiniest packages you ever saw of Turkish
cigarettes. The cigarettes were of the
finest Turkish leaf, perfumed, and the
outer wrapping of each one was Of pale
rose colored satin. They were altogether
too pretty to smoke. But did they
smoke themY Twas not there, you re-
member; but don't half the women in
New York smoke cigarette once In a
while, and do you suppose they could re-
sist the particular temptation of these
dear little rose colored things? / don't."
--NAw Xnrk Enaninn Sum,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
LEGAL ADy'rMEN rs.
Order to Examine Accounts.


nn of 81 s.espns In Probate Court
Special term Jan. 3d. 1880.
In; the matter OF the estate Of Elizabeth A.
Saxbury deceased.
On reading and fling the petition ofGeorgs
Saxbury, Elk ecutor of the estate Of Elizabeth
A. Saxbury deceased, representing among
other things, that he has fully administered
SAID estate. and praying thAt time and place
be fixed for examining and allowing his &C.
count Of his administration, and for the as
signment of the residue of said estate in
accordance with the term OF the will Of de-
ceased:
II As ordered. that said account be exam.
lined. and petition heard, by the Judge of
=this Court, on Wednesday tho 30th day Of
April, A ID 1880 at o'clock 4. n, at his tfiieo
In the City of St. Cloud in said County.
And is is further ordered that notice be
.iyen thereof to all persons Interested. by
.,ubltshing this order once in each week
i6r three successi weeks prior to 81, ID day
II hearing. In the Sank Centre HERALD,
weekly newspaper printed and published
atthe city Of Sank Centre. Ia said county.
Dated at ST. Cloud, Mimi, the 18th day
of March A. D., 1890.
By the Court.
LIS. THEO BRUENER,
Judge Of Probate.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Faribault. Gruber and Joseph
Sheridan have been drilling well on the
farm of Joseph Rennick, near the village
of Shieldsville, and at the depth of 200
feet the drill passed through several
inches of coal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Trials of the latest express compound
locomotive in England, with a special
train of eighteen carriages, developed the
unparalleled speed of about ninety miles
an hour. The highest speed, as meas
ured by stop watch, was just over ten
seconds per quarter mile run.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Maryland's new cigarette law requires
the seller to pay an extra tax Of $50, and
to make affidavit that the cigarettes he
sells contain no injurious drug.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Work has been resumed on the STAN
ford university at Palo Alto, CAL, after
four months of idleness. The main rea-
sons for the delay were the excessively
wet weather and failure to secure build
ing material.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

4 Claims are laid to the discovery of the
method of raising sugar cane from seed
instead Of from cuttings. The seeds were
discovered by means Of microscope in
the fowery head of the cane.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria
When she was . Child, she cried for Caator;a
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
Whsn she ha' Children, she CAV . them G ,stou
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
A Big Minnesota Wooden Mill.

Duluth. The Holmes wooden mill, at
Grassy Point, will be larger institution
than has been announced, and instead
of employing GO people will employ $50.
The main building will be of brick,
42xl04 feet and two stories high. The
second will be s5x50 and the same
height.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
BUTTER AND EGGS.

Butter-Creamery LIST 1711Sc, creamery 81
s@l0e asked, dairy list 120l4c asked, dairy u
6@1Oc asked, roll and prints 638c packlns
stock 3G4c.
ERRs-Fresh i275M3.3 80.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Must Die After Four Months Pass.

Mankato.-In the case of William
LEM, for the murder of John Schwartz
last July, a motion for new trial was
overruled, and Judge Severance
sentenced him to be hanged after
four calendar months. The defense will
appeal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Want Some Things Admitted Free Of Duty

Washington. A big petition from
Minnesota and other Western states has
been presented in the senate asking that
sugar, lumber, salt, binding Irvine and
the materials entering into it be admitted
free of tariff duties, and that cut of at
least so per cent be made on all wooden,
cotton and linen fabrics.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Duluth.

wheat-Opened weak at S'1sc May, decline
of NC, and closed at S734c asked. Cash wheat
quiet closing at S61ac No. hard; s44c No. l
Northern. Receipts, including Sunday, 12 cars.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

King George of Greece is suffering
from dyspepsia, and has sent an envoy
to King Humbert of Italy to find out
how a monarch should treat indigestion.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Pardoned by the King of Norway.

Minneapolis years ago O..
J. Anderson came to this city from Nor
way. Two years ago he returned to his
native land on a visit. He was arrested
on arrival, charged with burning an old
building about twenty years previous.
A sentence of four years in prison was
imposed. Anderson's attorneys in this
city have just secured pardon for him
direct from the king of Norway, and he
will be released April 80.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
St. Paul.

Wheat-No. hard So Gs7c, No. Northsri
84085c No. 2 Northern 83Osic.
Corn-No 301S082c.
No. white PC,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Minneapolis Milling Output Last Week

0H'"''o"P011" D"111I"S OUVPuI Aab1 "o6K'
Minneapolis.-Eleven mills were rum
ming last week, says The Northwestern
Miller, and the aggregate -four output
was ia, 100 Understanding 1907
barrels daily-against Ill $40 barrels for
the week before, and lO0,5 500 barrels for
the corresponding time in 1889. Two
more mills are running this week. and
more would be were they not prevented
by the improvements to the water power
now in progress.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

The increasing and apparently incur
able deafness of the Prince of Wales has
become a source of great annoyance to
the royal family.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Tho Wood Of the Cross.

The cross of Christ was discovered in
A. ID. 500 by the Empress Helena and
Macarius, patriarch Of Jerusalem-an
event which convulsed Christendom,
and which is still commemorated by the
Christian church on May 8, the feast of
''The Invention of the Cross" as it is
called in the calendar of our "Book of
Common Prayer" 49,
The Holy Rood remained entire until
A. D. 636, when, to provide against the
possible calamity Of its total destruction
by the infidels, it was decided to divide it
into nineteen portions. This was done,
and the parts were distributed in the fol-
lowing proportions:
Constantinople. .......8 Jerusalem commenced
Cyprus ................2 Georgia.
Antioch ...............3 Alexandria ............1
Crete ................1 Ascalon ..............1
Odessa ................1 Damascus .............1
Rohault de Fleury calculates that the
total volume of the wood of the cross
was somewhere about 17s, 000, 900 cubic
millimeters. He has made careful list
Of all the relics Of the true cross known
to exist In Christendom at the present
day, with their measurements, and finds
the volume to be about 8, 842, 900 cubic
millimeters, SO that, as might have been
expected, the greater part of the holy
rood has disappeared. He also had the
opportunity of making a microscopical
examination of different relics, and
comes to the conclusion that the wood
was either pine or something closely al
lied to it.
OF places where relics of the holy cross
have accumulated, Mount Athos stands
pre-eminent, with a total volume of $751;
800 cubic millimeters; then Rome, with
587, 5S7; Brussels, $4,000; Venice, 49,
$50; Client, 436, 450; Paris, with 2s7 ,731.
Hardly anything is left in England, and
nearly all of what exists among us is
in the possession of members of the Ro-
man STANDARDIZATION Riley.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
THE FIGURE &C."

THE FIGURE &C."
The figure in our dates will make long stay.
No man or woman now living will ever date .
document without using the figure Q. It stands
In the third place in $780, where it will remain ten
years and then move up to second place in 100,
where it will rest for one hundred years.
There is another 20" which has also come to stay.
It is unlike the figure in our dates in the respect
that it has already moved up to FIRST place, whore
1t will permanently remain. 1t is called the mo.
g. High Arm Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine.
The mo. o. was endorsed for first place by the
experts OF Europe at the Paris Exposition Of 1889,
where, after severe contest with the leading mn.
chimes OF the world, it was awarded the only
Grand Prize given to family sewing machines, ell
others on exhibit having received lower awards
Of gold medals, etc. The French Government
also recognized its superiority by the Of
Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler, President Of the company,
with the Cross of the Legion Of Honor. ~
The mo. 9" is not an old machine improved
upon, but Is an entirely new machine, and the
Grand Prize at Paris was awarded it a. the grand
est advance in sewing machine mechanism Of tho
age. Those who buy 1t can rest assured, there.
fore. Of having the very latest and best. -z
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Large Purses for the Regatta at Duluth.
Duluth.-The Duluth Regatta associa-
ton has raised $4,000 for prizes, med
ais, cups, etc., to be contested for by
amateur and professional oarsmen at the
regatta in July. The exact dates have
not been decided upon.
,Ea AAM4S
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

wheat-Cash ssc, May ssN, July s71kc.
Corn-Cash Sc, May $3.50 3aNc, July $50
sszse.
Oats-Cash 2411Sc, May 24sssc, July 24c.
Prime Timothy-$1.S001.32.
Barley-Ouiet
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
Cigarettes in Society.

Amember of the Philadelphia ice syndi-
cate isquoted as saying that ice will go
to $50 ton before the summer is over.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24
THE GRAIN MARKETS.
Minneapolis.

Minneapolis.
Whsat-No 1 hard April 8S1sc, May $3.50, July
e91Sc, on track s9Gs91sc. No. Northern April
s71sc, May s71sc July ssc; on track S71S0ssc,
No. Northern, April Sc, May s31xc, July $40
on track S3@S41so.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

compound Oxygen-it Mode Of Ac
and Results" wi! be mailed free to any
dress on application, Read the Brochur
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-04-24

Hon. VIM. D. Kelley, Member Of Congress
Rev. Victor L. Conrad. Ed. Luth'n observ-
or, Philadelphia.
( Rev. Charles W. Cushing, u. DIV hochester,
I Hon. VIM. Penn Nixon, Ed. Inter-ocean
Chicago. Ill:
JSdee II. p, vreoman, Quenemo, Ka
Mrs Mary A. Livermore. Melrose, NJ
Mr.. E. C. Knight, Philadelphia.
J, Moore. Gupt. Police. Blandford,
shire, BnR.
Jacob Ward, Bowral, New South Wa
And thousands of others in every part
United States.