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St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
LOBBYING Is UNLAWFUL.
The Omaha Railroad Wins n Land
Suit Involving $1,000. 600.

MADISON, Wis.,, April 1O.-ln the cir
cult court here, the. case of the Chip
pewa Valley & Superior Railway Com
pany against the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad and the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
road has just been concluded. One
question was whether contract made
by the Chippewa Valley company, which
is identified with the ST. Paul, and the
st. Paul company with the Omaha, i'm
January, 1882, is valid. At that time
there was contest III the legislature
over land grant of 100000 acres from
VeaSie. Wis.,, to Superior, and it was
agreed that the st. Paul COM
pany should assist the Omaha
in obtaining the land grant
from the legislature and that If the
Omaha should succeed IN obtaining it,
the Chippewa Valley company should
have one-fonrth OF the land grant, and
the st. Paul should have the right, at its
option, to have a contract of lease to
run its trains over the Omaha road from
Chippewa Falls to Superior on certain
conditions. The Chippewa Valley COM
pany brought suit in the circuit court
here to enforce the contract, ard the
Omaha company demnrred. on the
ground that the contract i'm reality pro-
vided for 'lobby service" and was
therefore invalid. The demurrer was
Overruled, but the supreme court subse-
uuently ruled otherwise, and the circuit
court has acted in accordance with that
ruling. sustained the demurrer and dis
missed the complaint. The victory is
worth 81, 900, 900 to the Omaha company.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
MEN OF MARK.

Gen. BouIanger is said to be quite
skillful at sketching.
Prince Henry of Battenberg is very
much bored at Aix-les-Bains.
The cZar of Russia has lost nearly
all his teeth. He employs an American
dentist.
OF Zola's new novel, "La Belle HUI
maine," 45, 900 copies were sold On the
day of issue.
The defauIting treasurer of Maryland.
Stevenson Archer, never used alcohol
or tobacco.
President Harrison will have the Sc
lection of seven brigadier generals dur
ing his term of office.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, the new
sheriff of New York, is millionaire,
having been successful speculator in
Mexican mines.
"Blind Johnny" of Philadelphia, is
the richest mandieant in the country.
He is sixty years of age and is worth
$40, 200.
The Prince of Wales deafness is in
creasing ana is apparently incnrable.
1t has become source OF great annoy
ance to the royal family.
Gen. Alfred III. Terry now lives in re-
tirement in his beautiful home on Hill
house avenue. New Haven, Conn. His
health is very poor and he goes out
very little.
A meeting of the Authors club of
New York has been called for next
Tuesday evening to take action concern
ing Andrew Carnegie'S $4,000 gift to
the club for the encouragement of
literature
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
GEN. MILES, PROMOTION.

Although he was entitled to his pro-
motion by seniority of rank, it is said
that the appointment OF Gen. MILES to
the vacancy created by the death of
Gen. CROOK has produced q great deal
of dissatisfaction among the officers of
the regular army. He is referred to
slightingly in army circles as popin-
Jay officer, who attaches more impor-
tance to gilded uniform than to mill
tary discipline, while others assert that
he is lacking in the social quality which
should attach to department COM
mander. These are all, however, so
many indirect methods for giving
an expression to a hostile feeling
that rests upon an entirely diff
ferent basis. The animosity of
subordinate army officers is not excited
against Gen. MILES because of his par
tiality for dress. OF because of any sup
posed lack of social culture. 1t pro-
ceeds from another source altogether.
Gen MILES has military record to be
proud of. He has served the country in
many notable fields of aetion,~ and
always with credit to himself and to the
cause.
The secret of the feeling against him
is that he is not West Pointer. He
came from the civil walks of life, enter
ing the military service as private in
a Massachusetts regiment of volunteers
in 1861. He received his military edu-
cation in that academy which nurtured
SO many of our most famous soldiers
the civil war-going in as private and
coming out as major general. 1t was
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
THE ONE CENT RATE.

Mr.. PORTER, the man who is to take
the census. in his New York paper,
strongly demands that the Republican
party shall keep its pledges. This
would be rash innovation upon the
customs of the party, and will bring Mr..
PORTER into disfavor if he insists upon
such rule. He calls attention to the
resolution of the national convention of
1888, that we-demand the reduction of
letter postage to one cent per ounce"
II that is not party law there can be
none. Yet Mr.. WANAMAKER rises
above the national convention and says
there must be no reduction. 1t is quite
immaterial to the country what that
platform demanded, but reduction of
one-half in postal rates is of very con-
siderable interest. Mr.. PORTER asserts
that "the time is thoroughly ripe for
this improvement" The fact that the
postal revenues are not quite equal to
the expenses is not material incident.
They never are. There has been no
reduction in postal rates that was not
expected to add to the deficiency, but
they have proved to increase business
so as to make the deficit small and have
always proved to be timely.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
A FEW MINUTES.

Here is how one Maine minister
spends his spare time this winter:
Elder Bowie, of Phipsburg, is running
the steam holster of the Parker's Head
Ice company at present, while still
performing his pastoral duties. On
Sunday he walks up from the Center,
holds his services at the two churches
under his charge, takes whatever the
congregations feel like giving, and
helps himself out in various ways.
The general opinion of him entertained
by the people is pretty clearly shown
by the remark of one of his parishion-
ers: ''He comes the nearest of being
one of the old apostles of any man |
ever See.-LewiSton Journal.
A church which desired to get rid of
an aged pastor who had long served it
held meeting to consider the matter.
After considerable discussion, one of
the deacons who had hitherto said moth
ing, getting impatient, arose and said:
"Mr. Cheermaii, move that Mr.. H--'s
usefulness in this ere field come to an
eend arter tonight" The motion was
carried. Churches sometimes bring a
pastors usefulness to an end'' without
a formal vote. 1t is easily done when a
few people set themselves to it.-ChriS-
tian Inquirer.
run, rabbit, rum" cried man to an
old hare dog was chasing. The rabbit
turned and said: Il do not need any
encouraging to do my best, but if you
will discourage that dog you will do me
a SERVICE" Is not too much of our
preaching mere praise of things that
are good, while we forget to speak out
against wrOng-doerS and evil doing? OF
course, it is easy enough to denouuce
Mormonism and the MormonS, but it
may be better to speak out about thing S
nearer home.--RichmOnd Religious Her.
aid.
Heeler-How much dye ak, sor, ter
taich me frind ter read jiSt three
wurruds? Professor-Why only three
words? Heeler-Well. We see, sOr, If
they're goin' to wurruk this Owstralian
ballit-reform racket l want ME frind
here to be dead sure of three wurruds.
Dem., Rep. and Prohib. It's mesilf as
kin attlnd to the rest av the taichin.-
Harper's Weekly.
The minister was a great hand shaker
shutting down like wise. One day
he shook boys hand, and, forgetting.
gave it an awful squeeze as he said:
''My little fellow, hope you are pretty
we'll to-day" With tears in his eyes
the boy answered: II was till you
shook hands with me."-Christian Ad-
vocate.
The most sublime spectacle of modern
times is the petition of the citizens of
Massachusetts that congress will pro-
hibit their sending any more Medford
rum to Africa Philadelphia Inquirer.
No person who is saved from drown
ing is pulled from the water before he
has gone down twice. The reporter at
tends to that important PARTICULAR
Milwaukee WISCONSIN.
The man who is able to travel eX-
tensively can generally learn enough in
year to make bore of himself all the
rest of his life.-Somerville Journal.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
SPEAKER REED DISCOUNTED.

Tom REEDS parliamentary absurdity
of constructing a quorum out of ab-
sentees has taken root in Rhode Island.
The speaker of the Rhode Island legis-
lature expanded the REED idea yes
terday by counting all the absent mem
bers as voting in the negative. This
looks to be ridiculously absurd propo-
sitiOn, yet it is the logical outgrowtb of
the principle established by the Repub-
licanS in congress, and is equally as ap-
plicable to state legislature as to the
national congress. If it is to be the busi-
ness of the presiding officer of par
liamentary body to play the role of au-
tocrat, the more vigorously he performs
the part the better it will be. 1t will be
all the better because 1t will shorten the
reign of the autocrat. When the people
come to understand that the legitimate
result of putting the REED idea into
force will be to place the whole power
of legislation into the hands of one
man, and that representative govern
ment is virtually abolished, the reaction
will come and autocracy will be over
thrown. A few more instances like the
one at Providence yesterday will bring
this fact home to the people, and by OBJ
serving a practical application of the
REED idea they will discover how
thoroughly inconsistent it is with all
popular notions of free government.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
AN ELECTRIFIED TREE.
A New Wrinkle In the Working of
the Ail-Pervading Fluid.

A New Wrinkle In the Working of
the AiI-Pervading Fluid.
Wilmington News.
The residents of the vicinity of Tenth
aud Shipley streets are agitated over
the peculiar actions of an aged maple
tree which stands on Tenth street, just
in front of Kelly's saloon. Small boys
approach this tree with mingled feelings
of awe and fear. The colored people in
the vicinity are thoroughly alarmed and
look upon the staid old maple with
superstition. They declare that the tree
is s'conjured," and they warn all per-
sons to keep away from it.
The first man who discovered this
tree was acting strangely was Thomas
ii. Crisson, level-headed young
butcher, who holds forth at the Second
street market One night last week as
Crisson was walking out Tenth street
he chanced to stop in front of the tree
to engage in some conversation with a
friend. While talking he leaned
against the trunk and was surprised to
feel a tingling sensation all through his
back. He became alarmed and thought
that he had received a stroke of paraly-
sis, As he turned around and glanced
upward he saw numerous lights flicker
ing all through the branches of the
tree. This strange phenomenon caused
him to leave.
He notifid Mr.. Kelly that something
was the matter with the tree, and Kelly
Investigated the matter. As he placed
his hand upon the tree he felt sharp
sensation all through his body. He i'm
mediately concluded that the tree was
a very unpleasant neighbor, and it was
Immediately noised through The neigh
bOrhood.
A syndicate of small boys discussing
the mandamus case gathered near this
tree the other night. One of them
placed his hands against the bark and
he was almost knocked down. He
turned and fled, leaving the other boys
standing aghast in astonishment. A be-
lated traveller, who had imbided too
much, stumbled up against the tree last
night. He felt the sensation. and with
yell started off as fast as his legs
could carry him. A colored woman.
carrying a big basket of clothes. came
into contact with the tree yesterday
morning. She was so shocked and sur
prised that she started off. leaving her
clothes standing in front of Kelly's.
Deputy Coroner Barnhill visited the
tree last evening for the purpose of
holding an inquest on its dead branches
As he touched the body of the tree hi
hand was so shocked that he concluded
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11

for meritorious service during the war
that he was made a colonel in the regu-
lar army and has continued i'll the regu-
lar service ever since. His record IN
the Indian campaigns since the civil
war has been of an equally distin-
gushed character, so that there can
be really nc objection to his appoint
ment on the ground of merit.
1t so happens. however, that there are
now but two steps for Gen. MILES to
take to reach the head of the army, and
as they are comparatively short ones, he
will soon be in command of the
whole military force Of the ma
tion. Gen. HOWARD retires III 1894,
Gen. SCHoElELD In 1895, and then Gen.
MILES will be the commander of the
army. And it is here the shoe pinches
the West Pointer. The idea of having
q cOmmander-in-chiefi who never saw
inside the walls of the national military
academy is very distasteful to officers
of the regular line, and will be thor
oughly destructive of the West Point
aristocracy that has grown up in the
country. For these reasons. If for no
other, the people in civil walks hail
Gen. MILES promotion with a feeling
Of dalipht
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
A CANADIAN TARIFF.

A Canadian paper at hand gives some
of the chief features of the new customs
duties, or tariff, of that country. In
some points it seems to be prejudicial
to the interests of people this side of the
national line. 1t aims by increased
duties to Keep out United States meats
of various kinds, live stock. fruit and
fruit trees, flaxSeed, and -four. The
paper states that they have been largely
fed upon United States bread, ana now
propose to eat their own. As all aid to
manufactures all raw materials are put
on the free list, as we'll as articles par
TALLY manufactured. Also free steel,
free iron, free machinery are designed
to encourage mining and ship building.
AS rule, the rates are arranged to re-
lieve the poor man, and put the heavy
taxation on those who are able to pay
for the Iuxuries. Corn is free, and the
duties made low on molasses, common
glass, and the things most used by the
common people, while increased rates
are put Oh cut tobacco, ornamental and
plate glass, and all fancy and orna-
mental articles used by the rich.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
WOMEN OF THE WORLD.

The only daughter of Victor Hugo is
now an old woman, confined in luna
tic asylum.
The German empress is forming a
"League for the Preservation of Good
Habits" among PruSSian ladies.
Princess Wilhelmina, the future queen
of Holland, is fair-haired. slender, in
conspicuous maid of nine years.
One-third of the women registered in
Leavenworth voted, and less than one
tenth of the women of Leayenworth
registered.
Phoebe Earl Gibbons denies that the
Friends are dying out. She says that
there are to-day $4,000 HIcksiteS and
$1,000 Orthodox Friends.
Princess Beatrice is at AiX-Ies-Bains
taking a course of twenty-one baths,
with the view of reducing her surplus.
She weighs about 30 pounds.
Princess Stephanie, widow of the late
Crown Prince Rudolph, will shortly
make her appearance as an authoress.
She is preparing a selection from her
journal OF travels for publication.
Miss Susan Hale once played 1.-The
Seven Ages" at an entertainment given
for charity. She reversed the order
of the scenes, appearing first as an old
woman and last as a babe in the arms
of her brother, Rev. DR.. E. E. Hale.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
Borders on CamePs Hair.

New York Times.
On lightweight camePs hair lovely
broche borders are made by weaving
white threads in flower patterns on
plain gray or green lead-color and other
ground shades, then vivifying the whole
by bouquets of scarlet or some bright,
strong color, or Persian threads will be
inwoven with one color strongly accent
uated, and flowers in matching shade
scattered over the plain goods. Cash
mereS embroidered in deep color in pat
terms for S10.95 and s12. The silk-tringed
cashmeres are entirely new, as are those
with braiding woven in the goods.
Cashmere ombre are new goods with a
broeade finish, and run in brocade pat
terms of fine flowers and figures. Some
have flower stripes, others sailor knots !:
the block patterns, looking as though
designed from the nursery block-hOuses,
are odd.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
THE STEELE VERDICT.

The finding in the STEELE court mar
tial is about as farcical as it could be !;
and yet it is vindication of all the
GLOBE has said and done in bringing
the WILD case to public attention. The
GLOBES position is sustained in the
verdict of guilty that was rendered, still
the light punishment inflicted is trav-
esty on justice. We congratulate Lieut..
STEELE upon his easy escape; for rep
rimand and ninety days confinement
within the limits of an army post is no
great hardship. But it does speak badly
for the standard of army ethics when a
court martial treats the offenses of
which it found Lieut.. STEELE guilty in
so light manner as to prescribe pen
atty that school boy would laugh at.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
Cutting a Skirt Properly;

Skirts at present require great skill
in cutting, as they are fitted almost as
closely and smoothly as a bodice. They
are arranged plainly in front, and often
on each side to make them very wide
about the feet, with considerable full
ness. gathered in at the neck, and must
be cut to touch the ground for outdoor
wear. They are either plain or severe
ly draped and little trimmed, though
sometimes three or five encircling rows
of velvet are used about the bottom,
and occasionally they are arranged with
overlapping seams having the selvedge
exposed and finished with feather
stitching.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11

Perhaps this consumption may have to
do with the late proclamation of the
governor, calling attention to the fact
that they had prohibition law. Mas
sachusetts made 1,017.19l barrels of
beer, but it is explained that it had to
furnish most Of the supply for Maine
and Vermont, which have prohibition
as we'll as beer. The general fact OF
note is that prohibition does not ma
terially reduce the consumption of beer
in any state, and that the country uses
more than three barrels to one fifteen
years ago. That is an increase of 100
per cent every five years. AT this ratio.
in few decades, there would seem to
be little chance for whisky or water as
beverages. Prohibition would sweep
all the states if it would exempt beer
and wines,
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
THE STORY OF A DAY,

Stanley arrives at BrlndlSl.
Ives beats Slossom at billiards.
Sixteen Arkansans are poisoned.
Congressman Randall is sinking.
The Illinois wheat cropis ruined.
The Southern floods are subsiding.
Salisbury is snubbed at Monte Carlo.
St Paul stonecutters issue manifesto.
Lieut.. Steele is practically whitewashed.
The North Cambria sinks the Avoca OFF
Dover.
N. Poulin is killed by motor at South
Park.
A Chicago cyprian is Drained with bill
lard cue.
The Omaha road wins land suit involving
S1,O00,O0O.
A Minneapolis burglar is ;nortally wounded
at Des Moines.
The senate continues the discussion Of the
Montana cases.
An attempt is being made to save Clifton
Holden's neck
Iowa's legislature is not likely to disturb
the prohibition law.
The naval appropriation bill is sreported
favorably in the house.
A disastrous wreck occurs on the North
western road at Racine.
Attorney General Martin. of Manitoba,
withdraws his resignation.
HThe Minneapolis grand jury is about to
make its report OH Doodle.
Anti -Carlists attack the Marquis Cerralbo
onhis entry into Valencia.
The Burlington and Wisconsin Central
lines object to advancing rates.
The Pan American congress fayors reel.
procity between the several Iepublics
Senator Washburn says the big syndicate
doesn't want the c. G.. Washburn plant
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11


the tree was possessed by demon.
Capt. E. l.. Rice, Jr., of Troop b, last
evening gave the tree a military inves-
tlgation, and he claims that it is charged
with electricity. City Solicitor Turner
daily passes the tree, but he says ne is
not alarmed and bears no evil from it.
Through the branches of the tree and
touching some of them are fifteen iDsul-
ated electric light wires. The insul-
alton has probably become saturated
with water, and the tree being also wet
the electricity has been carried down
AS soon as the tree dries the wood will
become non-conductor again.
The current which passes down the
tree is, of course, not enough to inlure
person, as the current from the wires
themselves would not do that The
continuous wet weather has saturated
the tree, otherwise the shocks would not
have occurred.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
A Belle of the Four Hundred.

New York Letter in Chicago Herald.
other day, Miss Sallie HargOus. She is
one of the bellies of the Four Hundred.
No ball or assembly is complete without
her. She has an income of $4,000, is
accomplished and charming. She is of
the Spanish type. lustrOus eyes and
marvellous eoloring. She lives with a
married sister. and her brother Robert
is devoted to her. The ball whicn he
gave on her coming out is yet talked of.
On the street she dresses plainly, as all
the swell New York girls do. She wore
brown cloth gown and sable cape, and
carried muff to match. Her evening
gowns are always tasteful and fresh,
and her complexion is so faultiess that
she can wear almost any color.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
INTRODUCING KIEFER.

HE (KIEFER) will run better tn an if
he were better known"
That is what the Pioneer Press had
to say of its party candidate for mayor.
With the assistance of the Pioneer
Press. the Democrats are introducing
Col. KIEFER to the public. in order that
he may be better known.
From this time on Col. KIEFER will
have down-hill run, and when he is
quietly sleeping at the bottom, kind
friends will rear monument over his
grave, on which they can inscribe an
epitaph pointing out the danger to a
politician of being introduced to the
public by his own party organ.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
AtchisOn AXioms.
Atchison Globe.

Atchison Globe.
If one is to be very thin or very fat it
is better to be woman. Nothing looks
thinner than thin man or fatter than
fat one.
What has become of the old-fashIoned
mother who made her children'S clothes
large, so that they would have room left
to grow in?
1t is being remarked that men with
good impulses are generally lazy.
When girl is in love she thinks she
knows more than her mother; when she
is married she finds out that she knows
less.
A woman never admits that man
knows what he is talking about unless
he happens to be talking about her
charms.
Before he is married he invites her
first and finds out the cost afterward; !;
after marriage he finds out the cost first.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-04-11
Whoa, Minnesota!

Hello, Minnesota, who ever expected
to see rebellion raise its head in your
cool latitudes? Your farmers evidently
suffer from the lack this winter of that
zero weather which usually serves to
keep them in good. sound health.
You will have little sympathy in the
ill-tempered protest of your farmers,
uttered through the executive commit
tee of the state alliance against the
"synod of lawyers" the august supreme
court, in regard to state control OF rail-
roads.
1t may be inconvenient for you to be
prevented from consulting your own in
terest in regard to the capital of citizens
of other states invested in your rail-
roads and the welfare of passengers
and property passing through your ter
ritery, but you are only one of forty-two
states, and notification is out of fash
ion.
The protest of your farmers only
proves how necessary to the continued
existence of this glorious union is that
very supreme court.