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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-24

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Duluth Plumbing Co., Duluth, Mimi.
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-24

CARPENTERS wanted; call Monday
- evening. at o'clock. corner of Third
and Exchange sts., up stairs over hardware
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18

Like al Intelligent horses, 10 K6ss to be
amused and played with ussdsso play VITA
my horses great dsal, to kesp then from
becoming low spirited and honeGick- But I
haven't, for long while, now. Last time I
had any fun with hoxp he was . new enc.
noticed that he seemed out Of tune with his
environment. He wore his ears fat back on
his neck and had his eyes rolled back and held
in place with white folds of the same. He
looked about as cnmpaninnable and pleasant
as Unatiila cayuse. So / thought would
go IN and brisk hin up with a little game
He didn't seem to understand Halma or
Parchesi, nor Fox and Geese, as the story
book horses do, so I proposed game of
romps as something more suited to his I'M
cultured mind. I smote him 4 resounding
thwack under the bosom, after the manner
of horseman, and cried gaily: ''Cone up and
come overF
He did both at once. Igot down and went
under. My man, who was bedding strawber-
ries on the sunny side of the barn, said If
bad told him was going to come out Of that
window he would have left it open Still it
made no great difference. It was cheap
window, anyhow; don't suppose the whole
thing cost more than eighty-seven cents,
glass and all.
Eha You say ''some Of these wonderful
stories about horses are hard to believes"
Nonsense; you get horse or a dog of your
own. In six weeks you'll believe anything
you tell about either Of them. But will other
peoples Well, yes; that is, they viii believe
as much of your story as you believe Of
theirs; what more do you wants-Burdetse
in Brooklyn Eagle
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
A Tendency Painter.

What success has fallen to the lot Of Vas
sill Verestchagin born 1s49 is due to the
tendency of his work rather than to its purely
artistic merit. Verestchagin, SO far as he is
known to the public of both hemispheres is
above all things sensational painter who
never forgets that he is essentially humani-
tartan philosopher, would be solver of grave
political and social problems, a theorist and
polemist who expounds and combats with
paint in the place Of ink, a portentous st.
Michael who strives to kill the dragon of
war by plunging down its throat the lance
of humanity. The impression produced by
Verestchagin's pictures of the horrors and
realities of war has been immense wherever
he has exhibited them.
At Vienna the impotence Of the populace
to see them was even so great that horse
guards had to be placed round the doors OF
the Kunstlerhaus in order to preserve order.
But with all these fearful representations Of
the horrors of Plevna and Tashkend, Verest-
chagin has never achieved a purely artistic
success, for the simple reason that he is not
primarily an artist or a painter, but
traveller, an ethnographer, philosopher
of the ''nihilist" species. a victim of the abuse
of analysis. His pictures of the wars in
Central Asia and in Bulgaria, his souvenirs
of China, India and Palestine, his innuner-
able studies of human types, are curious and
valuable documents indeed, rich in facts OF
form and color, and in material for moral
and social deductions; but we look to them
in vain for aesthetic pleasure, such as we find
in contemplating simple portrait by Rem
brandt, suave vision of beauty by Botticelli,
or thick Tipped infanta by Velasque
In all Verestchagin's work, that which
gives US true aesthetic pleasure is here and
there a swift and delicate painted study Of
some Oriental horseman speeding across a
parched plain, or note of calm and fatalist
eastern types against the background of a
faience walled mosque. In these studies
Verestchagin gives proof of wonderful pre-
cision of eye.-Theodore Child in Harpers
Magazine.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
BURDETTE,S PHILOSOPHY.
A Few Entirely Original Stories Abont
Favorite Horse.

A Few Entirely Original Stories Aboas 4
Favorite Horse.
a writer in Harper's Magazine says that
horse when tied in the stable should always
be kept with his head so that he may see the
passers by and the other horses, and thus
arnuse and occupy himself" That is good
plan, but think mine is still better. l own
one of these Intelligent horses myself l have
never noticed him politely passing hay" to
the other horses in the stable, but possibly
that is because there are no other horses.
/ have frequently observed him dividing his
oats with the hens, which is much the Same
thing. And he has the hay fever, just like
folks Yes, indeed But l was going to
speak about making provision for his hours
in the stable. When he is to be left alone
any length of time, we always place the
morning paper, a copy of The Nation and
late magazine or two in his feed box, and he
looks over them with great interest.
On one occasion he so plainly resented my
taking away late magazine, a number con-
tanning some wonderful stories about real
dogs which | wished to show to the terra
Gotta pug that looked to see what article so
deeply interested the noble animal. / found
he was in the midst of a bright sketch of
travel in the ''Feed-ye Islands" Don't ted
me horse hasn't human intelligence. The
fact is, the people who sheer at these stories
of the remarkable intelligence of animals SIRE
coarse and unintelhgent people, who know
nothing about animals The more people
study their brute companions, the more
clearly and correctly do they understand,
neigh, comprehend them. Look at the wild
Indian: what ne doesn't know about horses
isn't worth knowing And he believes his
horse win so TO heaven with him. Whether
the horse believes that the Indian viii 90 10
heaven or not, we have no means as yet OF
aScertAining.
This horse Of mine, an corfde0t. hiss
opinions on the subject, because enc OF ms
favorise books is Barns n Oats on Inn
oihy.n He is however, / grieve TO say,
heartless sort OF Srute; the sound Of wkos
never moves him Like all well bred herses,
ne has certain sense of hamor and one day,
when my little boy quoted, IL his presence,
the line, ''How tell was Alexander. par the
intelligent animal immediately replied, Box
STALL ana burst into a morse laugh.
Upon one occasion. when rytaing on tie
road bad passed Us, overheard arm SAYING
10 himself. softly, at pace TO 60 slow BE
is a horse ct content-d disposition afsscegh
sorrow has lefr her traces alesag his ribs.
hSi sSs.-es me reN Of TIRE sa-ness arssG
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
Paper I'm the Sick Room.

The usefulness Of paper, newspaper espe-
cially, in the sick room, is the subject of the
following from The Trained Nurse:
Placed between the sheet and bedspread
or another sheet it will keep out the cold,
thus making very light cover fer patients
unable to stand the weight of bedclothes,
and serving for a blanket to those who can
not afford one. One great objection to it in
this capacity is the noise it is likely to make.
If you want to keep ice for any length of
time, fill wine coolsr or any similarly
shaped vessel, and wrap several thicknesses
of paper close around it, standing it ON paper,
having blanket or something thick to cover
it, and your ice will keep for twelve hours or
longer. Often you are called on to pour
strong smelling medicine or some equally
obnoxious fluid into a narrow neck bottle A
piece of writing paper will make an excellent
funnel.
One more use Of paper: An old physician
once taught me how to do dry cupping, and
l find it works splendidfy, and think it quite
an Improvement ON the swab, and the putting
and blowing necessary to extinguish the
fame, which in many cases, unfortunately
for nurse and patient. has been forgotten.
Prepare several wads Of paper, small pieces,
say about an inch or inch and half square,
screw up one corner just enough to take hold
by, dip it in alcohol. ignite it, and having
previously prepared your glasses, clean and
dry, drop the lighted paper in one and i'm
mediately apply to the affected part. The
flame is at once extinguished, and all further
trouble Except when removing the cup do
not allow the scraps Of burnt paper to litter
the bed is saved
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18

Have you noticed HAT the gisl whose nani-
you know as Central no longer "a - Hello
to you'
She doesn't; and no matter how perSistaut-
~ you greet her with the familiar sAlutAtion,
she won't respond m kind. You nssda't worry
with the skonght that perhaps some NOR
duicettoned voice mas won tAess ntfls Annsn-
ities wtach helped make yoW ins~vtsws With
the invisible young woman PHEASANT fe@ss1rs
of the days business Thss ant 10. Tsie
picnic ethics hare o<nszSsd ias "hsso.n II
las got 10 90 Il has siroAAy gone frsrn one
end Of the wire but 1t va probably be a
long time di14ppsas,ng frsm the other. the
subscrlb-r's esd, You can ''hafio" yoar~S
hosrss at central without provoking any
greater variety Of reply than:
Number, pIeate."
We'll, don't Keep ringing Ia my ear
"OE, dear; can't You vaft minute I'll
get a chance TO answerf'
But never hello" And you can sit 10 the
central ofiee by :he hour without hsartns tas
bsn.<aed word, uslsx yos pat your ear 70 a
telephone with subscriber a. The other cod
Of The wire.
The rezs1n Tor TIE ehangsi Nobody knows.
New York Sun
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
A Coincidence.

Speaking of condolences" said good ma
tured fat man yesterday. reminds me Of one
which / consider remarkably singular. An
old chum OF mine died not long ago We were
great friends He was a jolly dog, like me,
and we were together good deal He used
to say very often that when he died he want
ed to be laid away by my side This argued
that he thought would be the first one to
pass in my checks. but he died first His rela-
tives intended to take his remains south to his
old home for interment. bus later on they de
cided to bury him in Graeeland. The casket
was placed in the vault until the widow could
buy lot. She was ANXIOUS TO purchase & 10.
in that section known as the old Cemetery
but she was told these had all been sold
While she was il, the office man came in and
said that as be WIGS about to leave Chicago for
good be would like TO have his lot sold II
was desirable lot IN the cid cemetery. and
the widow of my old friend purchased it then
and there / went out 10 the InterInent not
long ago and was astonished TO dad that III.
lot adjoined that of nv own, N which mr.
parents are buried and In which expect some
DAY to be laid at rest TIE widow had never
heard Of her husbands Oft expressed desire to
be buried br my SIDE, and think the cc;nci-
dence very strange one. Chicago Herald
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Latest News by Telegraph in Condensed
Form.

No trains have passed between Alamosa
and Durango since last Friday. Snow
plows are at work and it Is expected the
road will be opened today.
Jay Westinghouse, president Of the
Westinghouse agricultural works, and
brother of George Westinghouse, died at
Schenectady, Pa, yesterday, aged So years
The trunk line presidents held a meet
Ing yesterday to discuss the question of
emigrant rates
The executive committee of the National
Trotting Breeders went in session behind
closed doors at the Fifth avenue hotel,
New York, yesterday, President H. w. L.
Malta, occupying the chair.
The results of the German-Czec con-
ference has succeeded in reconciling all
the differences between the Czechs and
Germans in Bohemia.
The editor of the newspaper Ell Progreso,
City of Mexico, has been sent to Jail for
defaming Adelina Patti.
The funeral of Field Marshal Lord
Napier, of Magdala, will take place at ST.
Paul's cathedral, London, on Tuesday. He
will be buried with military honors.
The Argentine Republic has formally
recognized the newly established republic
of Brazil.
AT liberal-unionist meeting at LIVER
pool T. w. Russell, member of the house
of commons, was Missed by some dissen-
zionist, which provoked a great uproar
and general fight.
Mobs of.workmen and sailors parade the
streets of Lisbon denouncing England.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18

There has been perhaps few examples Of
more delicate and ready tact than Lord
Wolseley's at the queens dinnertAblo at
Balmor ii on his return from Tel-el.Kebir
The queen drank his heaith--a compliment
of the most marked and uapsuaa kind What
was he to doa What did esiquetse permit or
require' There was no precedent, and the
solicitude Of the company was painful TO
propose neg majesty health in return seem
ed an assumption Of equality as between sub
ject and sovereign Lord Wolseiey rose, ms
face, imagine, a shade paser Than usual Il
beg your naiesty's p<zmissoun, he said. so
offer toest to the health 81 my gallant com
rade in arms, his royal highnsS the duke Of
Connaught, whose ssrvios and whose cour-
age have alike been Conspicuous IN Egypt :"
They say the queen was so dc,ishsed with thiE
compliment 10 her son that Lord Woise,ey's
place "a this favor Of his cou.rax nder IN chief
was higher sasn ever before, ard has ever
since been maintained Cor. New
York TrshuEa
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
WALKED lip EEFECTlIAtl

A lethargic, dormant condition of the
liver is hardly to be overcome with drastic
cathartics and naaseous catalogues. A
gentler, pleasanter and far more effective
means exists of arousing the organ when
somnolent. This is Hostetters Stomach
Bitters, vouched for by the medical fra
ternitY, tested by the public for many
years. A resumption by 6 hillary organ
of its secretiye function. with the activity
attendant upon health, a return to regu-
larity of the bowels, and a renewal of di-
gestion, are the no less happy and certain
results of using the Bitters Systematically.
Its laxative effect is never painful and
and dreuching, its tendency being rather
to perpetuate regularity than to produce
copious action. Malaria, nervousness, de-
bility, kidney troubles and neuralgia it
subdues effectually.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18

TIE Csc &C fine woft sxversss q dressing
for wounds END ss 8 vshlele for mselcaFnsuts
or sntse2ticz p soGEr~tsd IL Il s~3S tEs~s
fas dast, freed from sr.ssrssszs ard ssArp blts
Of wood bY sitting, wsan Essd ssoss asG dry,
make q clean and grateful dsesssaag. TAI 10
readily t&kss Up and belss tbs dss<sAygss
without psel1ag or sdhsr1sg. saa liza, IL 10
easily r-zoered snss~ytsc by any % sas
mestsods usod In preparing sSzsssepssc cotton
CT w,oL A v-l ksso.n n,~dlcai ausAor!sy
sho GgSotz tAxs CIR y~sssw pine ssvaszss.
r:ch ss II h h tz-pcn-sae. ~ozla prvys q
ifsesf 9 valuable snt<rpsse sppliczslcn-ss~
York Tszexran
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
THE COMMISSIONERS LOSE.

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. l7.-Judge Foster.
in the United States district court today
granted a temporary writ of mandamus
compelling the commissioners of Cherokee
countyto pay the sum of St go, claimed by
{. c. Wenzel. James T. Thornton's as
signee, as due on certain bonds of the
county held by him. Costs in the sum of
S.s224 p are also TO be paid by the county.
Deputy Marshal McAlurray departed for
Columbus today 70 serve the writ on the
commissioners. The final hearing of the
case is set for June ,
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
AFeeBLe-MlNDED BOYS PLIGHT.

LAWRENCE, Kan, Jan. 17.-Mr. NJ. S.
Fox, of Olathe, arrived in the city today
and returned to his home this afternoon,
taking with him his predetermined son,
aged Is years. The boy was found near
Eudora day or two ago and taken to the
county poor farm. He could not be man.
aged and was brought to the county jail in
this city yesterday. Mr.. Fox said his son
had left home one week ago. Upon being
missed search of the town was made, and
from that time until he received Il tele-
gram from here yesterday a dozen men
on horseback had been searching the coun-
try for miles around Olathe.
The boy must have been exposed to all
the severe weather between last Thursday
and the day he was found in Eudora. He
is badly bruised, his clothing torn, and he
is completely exhausted. Although easily
managed at home, he had never been con-
fined before and was very troublesome to
the officials at the Jail here.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
A Pocket Mirror Free to Smokers Of
&7sIS|: N


According 10 Popular Science News, there
are two ways Of splitting a psece Of papar.
One Is to lay the saset Of payer on a pseos Of
glass, soak 81 thoroughly ,'ith water. and
then press it smoothly over tbs ghm With
a little care the upper half Of tho sheet can
be peeled OF, leaving tAs unsier knR on this
glass easily; Of course the gtass m&ns b. PEI
fectly clean The second wsy b g bcfses
one, but 1t requires sosse good practice Paste
Of the sheet TO be split. When n has thor
oughly dried, pull the two pisces Of eio,h
apart suddcuiy and violently. The paste can
then be softsned with water, and the two
halves Of the sheet easily taken OF the eloths
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
Greatest Artesian Basin in the World.

In the upper San Joaquin valley, or what
is more commonly termed the Tulare valley,
is to be found the greatest artesian basin in
California, if not in the United States. 1t
covers territory about sixty miles in length
and from fifteen to twenty miles in breadth,
and is gradually extending. Many of these
wells discharge over 1000, 900 gallons of wa
ter every twenty-four hours, and there is one
in the Smith colony in Kern county which
flows 5000, 900 gallons every twenty-four
hours. Such well is said to be capable of
irrigating two sections of land, and good
sized canal is required to carry the water.
Another well spouts water to the height Of
thirty feet whenever the well is uncapped.
Just south of Tulare lake, and within q
radius OF ten miles, there are about three
dozen of these wells, averaging a flow of
nearly 2,000, 600 gallons to the well for every
twenty-four hours Someof these wells send
up considerable natural inAammable gas; and
there is well near Tulare lake where, it is
said, coffee can be made from the heat fur
nished by the gas as it comes up out of the
we'll
A short time ago the well borers working
on the farm of Charles Henderson, near
Tulare Lake, brought up pieces of petrified
wood with their augers when at depth OF
1000 feet. How it came there is matter for
conjecture. During the summer gentleman
living in Kern county was surprised one day
by finding several small fishes in a trough
where the water ran out of an artesian well
located on his ranch. At first he supposed
that some one was trying to play joke on
him. He took the fishes out of the trough,
but his surprise knew no bounds when next
morning he found quite number of the finnv
tribe swimming around. There was but one
way to account for their being there. They
had come up out of the artesian well. An
examination Of the fishes by different persons
resulted in their being pronounced species
that is to be found in the Owens river country,
situated almost directly on the opposite side
of the Sierra Nevada range. One of the wells
lying near the northern shore Of Tulare lake
gave indisputable signs of a subterranean dis
turbsnce The water suddenly fell in the
well, and as suddenly rose again, but in that
short time the color it assumed was an ashy
white. 1t also became tepid and remained in
that condition for several hours, when it re-
sumed its usual condition. San Fran
cisco Examiner.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.


me Comparative Safety OF Chloroform md
Ether Is Anms&heties.
Awriter in The Lancet has compiled a list.
taken from cases reported in the medical
journals during the last ten years, of 100, If
not more, deaths under chloroform. In at
least forty-nine cases the patients were in
good general health at the time OF admins
tration, and required an aaasshetic merely
for the performance OF some minor operation;
G. e., extraction of teeth televen cases of
deetb), reduction of dislocations mine cases.,
eye operations, fstuia, and 50 on. In some
ffty-nine cases death occurred before the
commencement Of the operation, and so was
clearly due to chloroform aloha In about
twenty of the cases it is noted that chloro-
form had been successfully given ON previous
occasions, in one as many as eight different
times before the fatal administration
Commenting on the foregoing, Science re-
CARDS it as evident that chloroform is uncer-
tain in its action; that not only do people die
while under chioroform but also from it;
frequently, too, even when it is used by skill
full hands. OF course, it is possible to retort
that sit was not properly given" which may
be correct. This viii not alter the fact that
these accidents prove chloroform TO be q
powerful agent, very difficult to administer
properly; indeed so difficult and dangerous
that it is scarcely suitable for routine an
aesthetic, when drug less powerful for evil
can replace it.
The nauseous flavor and the sense of suffo-
cation from ether can be entirely done away
with by the use of nitrous oxide, and its in
halation made more agreeable than even that
of chloroform, while the patient quickly be-
comes unconscious without the struggling so
common with chloroform. The writer goes
on to say: 81 have not yet found q single
patient who has once inhaled ether preceded
by nitrous oxide complain of suffocation, or
object to take it again on the ground Of its
unpleasantness.
1.-THE readiness with which chloroform af-
fects the heart, the smallness of fatal dose,
and especially the ease and suddenness with
which such dose can be inhaled, almost by
a couple of deep inspirations, will make its
safe exhibition always a difficult task to in
variably accomplish. Having had many
years experience, l have gradually come 70
believe chloroform to be a less safe anes-
thetic than ether"
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
TWO HANGED FOR MURDER.

CLINTON. La, Jan. 17.-At 100 this after
noon Isaiah and Charles Dent paid the full
penalty of the law by being hanged by the
neck until dead for the murder Of Mr..
Pratterous, near Ethel, La, whom they
waylaid and shot to death on the first day
OF last July.
The condemned men assembled the gal
lows with bold, firm step and took their
places on the trap door. The sheriff then
read the death warrant, after which they
were given an opportunity to address their
friends. Isaiah advised his colored friends
20 be good citizens He had no fault TO
find in the execution of the law as he was
guilty and had no doubt done wrong.
Charles Dent said he acquiesed in all
that Isaiah had said, but was not as guilty
as Isaiah was, because he did not shoot Mr..
Patterous, but was present.
At l:30 the drop fell The neChs of both
were broken by the fall.
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
WEATHER BULLETIN.

SIGNAL OFFICE, WICHITA, Kan, JAN
H. The highest temperature was Ale,
the lowest was 30 up to p. M, and the
mean 32o, with lower followed by rising
barometer. fresh south winds shifting at
night to north; cloudless, warmer weather
followed by falling temperature.
Last year on January II the highest tenn
perature was SO ., the lowest q c and the
mean go.
FRED L. JOHNSON, Observer.
WAR DEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON. ID. c.,
Jan. IL, p. H. Forecast until p. m.
Saturday:
For Kansas-Gcnerally fair, northerly
winds, colder in eastern, warmer in west
ern portion,
Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
A Wonderful Achievement

r. A Payter, Etenographer Of New
York, has undertakes the most difficult task
which ever feb 20 The iss Of shorthand ex-
pert. The languages used .. the sessions a
the martins censrs&2. washineton, are
English and French When speech u de-
hvered in Engiish II is Dir. PlAyser's dzsy to
rise and tranzisse tas speech orAly tsts
French from ss~sograFnsc notes He 70
verses this process whsn speech II first d.
Evered IL French The nsgufSuae Of this
acaisvenent c&n be fssiy appreciated only
OF stezczra panrs- San PSaAclscc ATgoazzt.