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Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21
FORKED.

It doesn't satisfy hungry tramp to find only a fork in the road.-Yonkers States man.
 The reason why the ocean is so often called treacherous must be because it is full of craft.-Boston Post.
 "That young De We're is very promis- ing fellow"
 7'Ah! How much did you lend hima'- Baltimore American.
 The man who says he is "going to get there, and don't you forget it," makes more noise about it than the man who is actually there.-Atlanta Constitution.
 Pupil Gin class in punctuation, reading) T saw Alice charming girl. Teacher Well, what would you dol Pupil-Make a dash after Alice. Teacher-Right!-Puck.
 t'It gives me great pleasure to know that you are under my roof" said the sty- fish hostess affably to the poor relation when she assigned him to room in the at tic.-Baltimore American.
 Boggs-What is your idea about what the United States should do with it's ex- presidents! Foggs-Let lem alone. Hayes is raising chickens and Cleveland-well you read the papers don't you'-Brooklyn Life.
 Miss Dreamier-When you stood on the brink of Niagara and looked into the seeth- ing, surging, unfathomable depths below, | jump in? MT. Tourier-No, I hadn't re- ceived my hotel bill then."-New York Weekly.
 'Is your husband in?'
 "No, he has gone to the prayer meeting | this evening""
 'To the prayer meeting, Isn't that something unusualf
 "Yes, but he put down Q carpet for me this afternoon. ."-Cape Cod Item.
 Judge (to prisoner)-You say that you were driven by hunger to commit thit crime. Prisoner-Just so, your honor But Q hungry man is not likely to steal { | whole calf. I know that; but I didn't have my pocket knife with me, or I'd have only cut off few pounds.-TeIss Sift ings.
 l Uncle Ebony-rs trying to raise enough money ter git my wife new dress fol Christmas, sab. | Featherstone-I see, and you want me tc | give you some chores to do; eh, Uncle' l Uncle Ebony-Wen, no, sah, dat wasnt de ole lady job at washin', sah.-Closl Review.
 "What's become of the clerk you re | the bank president.
 "We had to let him go.'
 'Didn't he take enough interest in hi workr
 "T should say SO; that's where the trou ble was. When he got through with th' interest there wasn't any left for us."- Washington Star.
 Housekeeper-How long did you remain in your last placea Applicant-Sure lief in one day. There was no plazin' the led dy at all, at all. "Whimsical, was shei "Indade she was that. The first night sh complained because boiled the tay, an tn very next morning she complained be cause did not boil the coffee. Thin Jeff. ."-New York Weekly.
 Hattie-What was that horrid Mrs Burns saying about me2 Something hate full, I'll be bound.
 Mattie-She said you were a perfec fright, dear; but gave her rebuke sh won't forget in a hurry.
 Hattie-Why, what did you saya
 Mattie-I told her there was no sucI thing as perfection in this world.-Bosto Transcript.
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oHILDa sN DIAMOND FINDERS.
The Discovery of the Fields in Ssutl Africa Due 10 Their G Games with Peb bles.

Africa Due 10 Tn cir G ann es with Peb-
 bles.
 From the London GraphIcI
 The discovery of diamonds in South Africa was brought about by two Dutch children who tossed diamond in the air and caught it, thinking it was a pebble. They were playing the childish game one day in 1867 when John O'Rsilly, an interior trader, stopped at their fathers farm in Gri- qualsnd West, near the Vsal River, to trade for skins, and he was attracted by the pe- culiar clearness and transparency of the pebbles.
 He asked one of the children to show it to him and after he had examined it he was satisfied that it was 8 stone of some value. The father, Van Niekirk by name, laughed when O'Reilly offered to buy the stone and said that plenty of them could be found in the river O'Reilly accepted the stone as gift and promised if he succeeded in sell ling it he would give half of the proceeds to Van Niekirk toward the expenses of ed ucating his girl, which was the Dutch far mer's greatest desire.
 At Hope Town the stone was examined by many traders, but nobody supported O'Reilly in the belief that it was valuable, its size being too large. O'Reilly kept it carefully until he had time to send it to Dr. Atherstone,a capable authority in Grs- hamtown, who said it was diamond about | % carats. Some time afterwsrd Sir Philip Wodehouse, then governor of the cape, bought the diamond for g, 800. On his re- turn to the Vnal, O'Reilly gaveS1 ,250 to the little girl and asked her if she had any more pebbles. If the stone came from the river, as Van Niekirk had said, more must be there. O'Reilly argued, and he hired natives to collect for him all the transpar- ent stones they could find on the river banks. Sackful after sackful were exam ined, but O'Reilly found only one more | diamonds carat stone.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21
COMMUNICATIONS.
Assessors, Salaries, Again.

"Assessors' Salaries' Again.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Allow me to say few words in reply to the article of Outsider" regarding ''asses- sors' salaries in your issue of yesterday morning. Perhaps 8 great many people are laboring under big delusion in be- lieving that, while the work of an asses- sor calls for men of good judgment and discrimination, still the birth is not very onerous one, and the pay is altogether too princely for the labor performed. Forty dollars per week, or $6. 66s per day, for each assessor, strikes most people as being @ pretty high figure for having valuations set on real estate in this city. And the belief prevails that if the pay of these as- sessors was reduced just fifty per cent. the salary would then be quite sufficient for the work done. There is no desrth of good, competent men in our midst who would be very glad to act as assessors on a salary of $1 ,000 per year, and they would consider it money very easily earned, as the time thus consumed by these officials is not that of an ordinary days labor by any means. The present exorbitant pay makes that berth too much of political snap" to suit the taxpayers of our city. Such salaries should not be allowed, es- pecially when brains are not so scarce as some people seem to imagine. P.
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THE VALUE OF GoeD ROADS.

The testimony concerning the value of Europe have sent to the State department is well worth attention. Consul Tanner of Liege, Belgium, says that Americans who
 find themselves in Europe are struck with astonishment at the enormous loads drawn by horses and dogs. One glance of the eye from the bulk just mentioned to the roads and half the wonder would be accounted for, because the roads have almost every thing to do with it. The public roads of Belgium enter into successful competition with the railroads, so much go that man who has his team does not by any means consider himself forced to send his prod ucts by rail. It is one of the commonest sights in Liege to see wagons laden with merchandise from Brussels, which is sixty, or from Antwerp, which is seventy-two miles distant. This fact does not possess anything astonishing till the enormous loads pulled that distance by one horse are considered, and there is nothing that SO astonishes the American as this. Some times the wagon itself looks like sufi- cent charge for two horses, while wagon, load and all are drawn by one with the greatest ease. Dog carts come to Liege, laden with beef and other products of the farm, a distance of twelve and fifteen miles, drawn by one dog. Two grown persons return in this wagon.
 Commercial Agent Loomis, at St. Etienne, France, says that the road system of France has been of greater value to the country as g means of raising the value of lands and of putting the small peasant proprietors in easy communication with their markets than have the railways. It is the opinion of well-informed Frenchmen who have | made practical study of economic prob
 lems that the superb roads of France have
 been one of the most steady and potent contributions to the material development | and marvellous financial elasticity of tht
 country. The far-reaching and splendidly
 maintained road system has distinctly ia
 vored the success of the small landed pro
 prietors. and in their prosperity, and tht l ensuing distribution of wealth, lies the key to the wonderful financial vitality and solit l prosperity of the French nation.
 And so forth and so on. Good road save time and money.
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THE LICORICE TREE.
Its Homo fin Asia Minor-The Black
 Licorfee Made in Spain.

Its Homo in Asia Minor-The Black
 Licortce Made in Spain.
 [From Harper's Poung People.l
 Most of 1t comes from Asia Minor, wherait is found growing in great abundance all along the flat, uncultivated and almost un- inhabited lands of the rivers Tigris and Euphrstes. It is small shrub not more than three feet high with light foliage, and is never found far from the water.
 The season for collecting the roots Is generally during the winter, although it is possible all the year round. When the root is first dug it h full of water and must be allowed to dry, long, tedious process, often taking year. It is then sent to Bag dad, where it is pressed into bales and shipped to London, and from there to America, quantities of it being used in this country in the manufacture of tobacco.
 The black icorice stick or rolls which we see in the confectionery and drug stores come mostly from Spain, and are made of pure juice mixed with little starch, which prevents it from melting in warm weather, and before packing each stick if wrapped in bay leaves.
 The word Hcorice means "sweet root, and is of Greek origin.
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There has been big boom in the egg export business from New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia to the United States this year. Prince Edward Island has shipped to Boston over $40, ,OO0' dozens by one steamship line alone, which is greatly in excess of the total shipments last year, and has also sent immense quantities by other steam ship routes and by rail to the United States. The Dominion as whole sends us very large quantities of eggs, but the Mckinley bill has acted against the indus try somewhat, and heavy shipments have been made to England from Ontario and Quebec. For some reason prices have run very high lately, and Prince Edward Island egg raisers have been making rnopau
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NEW HAVEN WINDOW SHADE COMFY, 6s, 70, 72 Orange Street.
District of New Haven, s. Probate Court, |

District of New Haven, s. Probate Court,
 Nov. 16th, 1891. UPSTATE of ARTHUR L. DONOVAN of New IL Haven, in said district, assigning debtor
 The Court of Probate for the district of New Haven hath limited and allowed three months from the date hereof for the creditors of said tate, represented insolvent, in which to exhibit Pond and Harry L. Elliott, both of New Haven, commissioners to receive and examine saidclaims; and has ordered that said commissioners meet at the office of said Harry l.. Elliott, at No. 792 Chapel street, Room 2, in said town and city of New Haven on the 18th days of January and Feb ruary 1899, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of each of said days for the purpose of attending on the business of said appointment. Certified from record. A. HEATON ROBERTSON, Judge.
 All persons indebted to said estate are re- ouestsd to make immediate payment to
 n2O St ADELBERT w. FLINT Trustee
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 2:08f on the regulation track"
 There are $40, ,625 miles of railroad on the earth, of which 13s,75O miles, or A per cent, are in the United States. Ger many, the leading railway country of Europe, has A A,S43 miles; France, 21.396; Great Britain and Ireland, 19,811; Russia, 17,823, and Austria, 15, 442 miles.
 Hurrah for educated Woman! Sir Will liam Gull of Great Britain says that the benefit derived from university educa- ton, such as girls get at Newnham and Girton, makes them and their children stronger and healthier. Also that the per centage of childless marriages is less with the educated women, and the percentage of children that survive infancy is larger. Ever the same. "China for the Chi nese" is the motto of the Ka-lo-ho society of China, the membership of which is num- bered by millions. The society is secret. | It has mysterious rites and symbols, and it issues decrees and inflicts punishments. One of it's main objects is to prevent for eigners from living in the Celestial empire, and another is to dethrone the present Tartar emperor and restore the ancient Ming dynasty.
 1 The oldest son of John Brown of Ossa. watomie, and the only living member oi the family east of the Rocky mountains bears his fathers name and resides on { farm on the Island of Put-in-Bay in Lake Erie. Mir. Brown raises fine crops of fruit and has had a good year. He says hii fathers grave at North Elba, in the inter for of NewYork, is visited every year b, thousands of people. Miss Ruth Brown his sister, lives in California and is prepar ing volume of sketches for publication At the time of the Harper's Ferry rait John Brown of Put-in-Bay was in Canad recruiting. .
 One great company has monopolyo Paris funerals, the idea that has led to it establishment being that enough none might be made out of the costly funeral to permit of great many for little o nothing. The funerals are divided int ten classes The first six only are remun erative. They vary from 5000 francs t 100, 900 francs. The eighth class costs
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into which prosaic mind may be thrown by the misunderstood and unappreciated fancies of @ little poetic soul to whom dreams are as realities. Jacob Hurd had punished his little son for telling lie and the mothers soul was in rebellion:
 "'Thou believest that Mother SewalI
 Rideth @ broom said I;
 But thy darling talks of his golden horse
 And thou smitest him for lie.
 And think of the two thou sinnest
 Against thy God the most,
 ForI judge thou chargest the Evil One
 With the work of the Holy Ghostl"
 A love of humbugging and false pre- tence comes next on the list. Pseudoma- nia it is called, and judging from the i'm mense number of grown people who are afflicted with it, the class of little pseudo maniacs must be astonishingly large. Lastly, the absurd and jesuitial excuses and palliatives which many children in vent, are mentioned. The will to tell the lie is strong, but the mind is unequal to the task of constructing one that will be plausible and sufficient. The result would be laughable if it were not so pain full.
 Now that these teachers have classified lies to their satisfaction will they not give us their ideas as to the proper treatment of each division of small story-tellers? The matter is g serious one, and much tact and wisdom is needed to deal with it. To stimulate honor, courage, generosity, imagination; to set Truth as first and highest of all duties; to prove to the mind of childhood that "every truth in the universe agrees with all others," and that it should be loved for its own sake, is task for which every one is not fitted, even though loving and patient and of excellent intentions" ''It is not enough that we swallow truth" said Coleridge, quaintly, "we must feed upon it as insects do on the leaf, till the whole heart be colored by its qualities, and show it's food in every fibre" When we elders have done this we may be able to prove by word and example, without which words are useless, how grand and exalted the truth is, and to teach these little ones to honor and to covet it as the most precious of possessions. HILARY.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21
Pure Rye Whisky

Is bottled by us, under the brand G. O. Taylor Pure Rye. Rock candy is pure sugar. The two in combination make 8 syrup that will relieve the most stubborn Cough or Lung trouble. Buy the candy and any leading druggist or grocer will supply the G. o. Taylor Pure Rye by the bottle or dozen. Our firm name should be on each liable and over each cork. CHESTER H, GRAVES & SONS, sole proprietors, Boston. Ma0.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21
Itch and Salt Rheum.

ITO all afflicted with the itch, salt rheum or and then scales again, etc., I make saive which is as harmless as butter, that will heal the dis eased parts in frem 2 to 10 weeks, no matter how long standing or what remedies you have tried, and build a new skin as healthy as new born babes, the disease never to return again. Not s116 S1 Tg M n,s De N Hao oo ony ,a rom '; Cor maiD Tor . os. 5ar. ty1s 1ys
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21

Commander Booth announces his pur- pose to give dinner to six thousand thieves in London. A very polite invita- tion
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21
WARM YOUR NOSE

The loss of flesh is a trihe. You think you need not mind it.
 But, if you go on losing for some time or lose a good deal in a short time, you are running down. Is that a trihe?
 Get back to your healthy weight and generally you get back to health.
 A book on CAREFUL L1v- ING will tell you what it is to get there, and when Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil is useful. Free.
 .scorr BOVINE, Chemists, rsa South sth Avenue, New York
 Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil-al druggists everywhere do. ST.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21

Robert Bonner does not regard records on the kite shape track as satisfactory. 'T do not," he says, "even consider Sunors 2:OS4 on that track as good as Maud S's 2.(SA on the regulation trackn
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A great educational test at Springfield to-day.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-21

The town of Dammit isn't in Siam, where Prince Damrong lives, but in Texas.
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francs; the ninth francs, and the tenth is free. There are about 35,0O0 annual free interments. There is talk, however, of abolishing the monopoly.
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9th Resolve.

To sell 10 dozen Ladies' Night Robes at 50c each. These robes have never been offered under 75c.
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9th Resolve.

To sell 500 pieces all silk Ribbons, Mo- 12 width, pure silk, at loo per yard, in al the leading staple shades.
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RESOLUTION
 SALE.
2d Resolve.

66 inches wide, actual measure on the yard stick, at 373c per yard.
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Sd Resolve.

To sell 30 pieces Columbia Dress Suit ings, 36 inches wide, in plaids and stripes, at 15c per yard.
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9t1J 8nnds.

Howe & StetsOn. RESOLUTION
 SALE. lst Resolve.
 To sell 2,1O0 yards double fold Plaid and Figured Dress Goods at 5c per yard. For sale on Wash Dress Goods Counter. 2d Resolve.
 To sell Cream Pure Linen Table Damask, 66 inches wide, actual measure on the yard stick, at 37ac per yard. Sd Resolve.
 To sell 30 pieces Columbia Dress Suit ings, 36 inches wide, in plaids and stripes, at 15c per yard. 4th Resolve.
 To sell 36 pieces Wool Homespun Mix lures at 39c per yard, reduced from soc. 5th Resolve.
 To sell 1O1 dozen Cents Camel's Hair and Natural Wool Undershirts and Draw CTS at $1.25 per garment, regular $1.75 quality.
 9th Resolve.
 To sell 600 pieces all silk Ribbons, No. 1s width, pure silk, at loo per yard, in all the leading staple shades. 7th Resolve.
 To sell 96 Bamboo Easels at 39c and 49c each. Look at them. 9th Resolve.
 To sell for one week limited quantity of Ladies' Black Cashmere Hose, high spliced heels and double soles, at 39c per pair; actually below mill cost. 9th Resolve.
 To sell 10 dozen Ladies' Night Robes at 58c each. These robes have never been offered under 75c.
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To sell for one week limited quantity of Ladies' Black Cashmere Hose, high spliced heels and double soles, at 39c per pair; actually below mill cost
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To sell 101 dozen Cents Cancels Hair and Natural Wool Undershirts and Draw CTS at $1.25 per garment, regular $1.75 uualitv
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uR. wAKEmAN,s JoURNEYINGs.

At Crtck, England-Cipsy Tent and
 Van Dwellera-Mr. George Smith's Efforts in Behalf of Another Class of British Outcasts-Various Phases of Outcast-Life-Onlya a Few Able to
 Read and Write-An Eyesore to
 Good People-Movable Dwellings
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4th Resolve.
9th Resolve.

To sell 36 pieces Wool Homespun Mix lures at 39c per yard, reduced from soc.
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7th Resolve.
9th Resolve.

To sell 96 Bamboo Easels at 3Sc and 4Sc | aaob Took at {bapo
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CALIFORNIA. TEThS AND MEXICO,

Semi-monthly Srties, personally conducted, combining comfort, low rates, oIIick time, Pull RIER New England Agent Southern Pacific Company, IQ2 wsshingtnn str~~t- PnStnn- MAsk.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-17
Who Are They?

What are they? Where are they, and
what are they doing? bold on, then,
not so many at time; bat here you
have it all i'll string: They are Brown
Brothers, the leading wide-awake Dry
Goods and Notion men of 67 and 50 East
Seventh Street, and they are giving the
best goods at the lowest prices ever
offered i'll st. Paul. and for price value
they cannot be equaIed. During the
alteration of their premises they are
Offering special lines at such ridicu-
lousy low prices that you cannot afford
to pass them. Now is the time. Theirs
is the place, and for you to look is to
buy. Remember who, what and where
they are and what they are doing.
Brown Bros, Dry Goods and Notions,
67 and 90 East Seventh Street.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-17

been given to similar preparations or
late in the majority of our city papers
could not do justice to this growing-in-
favor cleanser. 1t is put up in cakes, and
in reality is Indispensable as moth eX-
terminator, or cleaner and renvvator
OF carpets, rugs. lace and silk curtains,
gentlemen's clothing and fabrics of all
kinds except cotton goods. The state
agency of this meritorious purifier is at
271 West Fifth street, where the writer
was shown hundreds of unsolicited teSti-
monials, including such well known st.
Paul residents as Finch, Van Slyck &
Co., }. Ii. Sleeper. proprietor Sherman
House. and Sammers d Monfort, of
the Windsor.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-17
New Carriages

OF every description. Kings, corner of
Fourth and Minnesota streets. have the
largest, cheapest and best assortment in
ST. Paul. All styles and colors for city
and country at lowest prices. Inspect
our stock before purchasing. We have
several jobs of secondhand Carriages
but little used, equal to new. Whole
outfits for sale-Horses, Carriages and
Harness. Special bargain in sx-seated
and four-seated Coupe Rockaways. An
elegant light Victoria at bargain. Our
prices can't be beat.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-17
Glass. CIliGlaware and Furniture
Packers,
At Kent's, 191 West Seventh street.
The Artistic Eye of woman.

AT this season of the year, when
every one is overhauling herhome for
the summer. the good housewife goes
the rounds of the various carpet. drapery
and wall paper houses to find beautiful
and useful goods to ornament her par
lor or cottage. To close observer it is
noticeable fact that the majority re-
turn to the ST. Paul Carpet Company,
800 Wabasha, and make their purchases;
but that is not to be wondered at, for
this establishment has this season a rich
and varied assortment of everything
pertaining to the above goods that are
simply inyincible.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-17
One Hundred and One Iadies.

Prominent in the highest social circles
in st. Paul and all the principal cities
and towns of the Northwest, could easily
be named who would join in the rec
ommendation that those who desire the
best productions of the Milliner's art--in
design, in effectiveness, in elegance. in
fitness aud adaptation to the (individ-
uality of the wearer-shouId place their
orders with Mrs. Vose, 522 Nicollet ave-
nue.. MinneanOIis.