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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
Mankato Will Raise 5000.

MANKATo, Nov. 1?.-The board of
trade committee appointed to raise
Mankatos quota of the supplemental
state appropriation for the worlds fair
has LAID out its plans and will at once
proceed to raise the needed 5000. 1t has
been decided to have three notes for
$500 each, payable March. 1898, signed
by the business men. The remainder
of Blue Earth county will follow suit.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
The LonisvilIe franchise.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 1.-THE COM
pany which controlled the destinies of
base ball in this city last year is no
more, and the new company is now on
its feet. The property of the Louisville
Ball club was Yesterday sold at auction
tlr S6.35940. the amount of the mort
gage held by the Falls City bank, with
interest, the new company being the
purchaser
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
ONLY a Social Call.

WASHINGTON Nov. 17.-United States
Minister Albert G. Porter, the repre-
sentative of this government to Italy,
called on Secretary Blaine at the de-
Ilartmentof state today. Minister Porter
Stated that his visit had no significance
and that he simply called TO pay his re-
spects to the secretary before going 10
his home in InIiana.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
BREWERY BURNED.
Total Loss of the Sank Center
Plant.

SAUK CENTER, Nov. 17.-The Sank
Center Brewing cOmpany's plant burned
this forenoon, and the loss will be about
$4,000. A large quantity OF malt and
many barrels of beer were destroyed.
The building was built about twenty
five years ago, and at the present time
was owned by the BONNER estate, of
MelrOse, and managed by F. f. Min
no insurance on the building, plant or
Minnette's effects; hence it is total
loss. j. A. Dubois 81 Co.'s mill, across
the street, had a close call, and but for
the firemen and water works would
have been destroyed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
Scarlet Fever RACES.
Special to the Globe.

Special 70 the GIOpe-
MOoRHEAD, Mimi, Nov. 1.-THE
city schools. with the exception OF the
high and grammar schools, were closed
today on account of scarlet fever. The
disease is in thirty-fiye families in the
city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
FIGURING Mill Company.

Special to the Globe.
FoRMAN, n. D., Nov. IA stock
company has been organized and incor-
potated at this place tor the erection of
a Touring mill. The capital stock is
SI5,001, divided into shares of $50 each.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
Without a Home.

Special to the Globe.
FARIBAULT. Nov. 1S.-The house,
with most of its contents. belonging to
John Nisbles, of Watervilie, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $1,000:
insured for $500.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-18
Steamship Arrivals.

LoNDoN-Sighted: DANA, Wyoming and
Anchoria, NewsYork; Virginian, Boston.
New YoRK-Arriyed: Ethiopia and tate
of California, Glasgow.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-03-21
Pages In Congress.

Says a Washington corresp ondent
The place of page is eagerly sought
after, and if a member of Congress dies
and leaves his family destitute, it is moi
uncommon to provide one of his boy.
with pages place. The pay is S75 a
month, while Congress sits, and the work
is literally nothing but play to them.
This is, indeed, the great drawback Of it
A boy draws mans salary, and has nc
chance for regular wholesome work with
it. He cannot 60 to school, and learns
nothing in effect except the art Of wait
ing on his elders. They have comfort
able room down at the Capitol, and no
body is disposed to make life hard for
them. fla night session lasts into the
morning hours, the pages are always ex
cused by 10 o'clock. They pick up 4
good deal about the forms of legislation.
and one of their favorite games is playing
Congress. Some youngster is elscoes
Speaker and escorted to the Speaker s
chair by two defeated candidates, the
rival factions divide upon the foor-for
all pagss have politics and are ardent
Republicans or red hot Demecrats-and
business proceeds with grotesquely
accurate likeness to the business in Con
gress Some of the boys can initiate the
peculiarities of various members wonder.
fully well and the scene is really ex
tlemely comical. Senator Moody, oil
Dakota, made startling and very I'M
handsome innovation upon all custom
and precedent by getting his son appint
ed page in the Senate. This was con-
sidered rather too thrifty, and the Sena'
tor did not command the approval of bis
colleagues in this remarkable perfor-
nance.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-03-21
Ocean WOnd erS.

AS oceans cover three-foUrths of the
earth's surface, 1t is interesting to know
certain facts regarding them. The water
at the bottom of the ocean is much colder
than at the surface, and in many places
the watee freezes below before it does
above. At the depth of $500 feet, waves
are not felt. The temperature is the
same, varying very little from the poles
to the equator. Waves are deceptive
water does not travel; it stays in the
same place, and the motion goes on.
Sometimes, in storms, waves are forty
feet high. The base of a wave-the dis
lance from valley to valley on either side
at the bottom-is reckoned fifteen times
the height. A wave twenty feet high,
for instance, has base extending over
300 feet. A mile down, the water has a
pressure of ton to every square inch.
Taking the average depth of the ocean
to be three miles, there would be layer
of salt $50 feet deep, if the water should
evaporate. The force of waves breaking
on the shores is said to be seventeen tons
to the square yard.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-03-21
Novel Tours TO the Pacific Coast via Penn
syIvania Railroad.

The early spring always attracts the
tourist, and of late years many travellers
who have neglected their own country
for European wanderings have been
brought to some sense Of realization OF
the wonders of their own country, and
have profited by visiting and informing
themselves of it. An ocean voyage has
it's many disadvantages, which do not
attach to the Pennsylvania Railroad s
personally conducted tours to the Golden
Gate. The magnificent Vestibule Pull
man Palace Trains are Iuxuriously equip
ped and manned by the most efficient
crews. The tourists are under the
charge of Tourist Agent and Chaperon,
and have at their call for ready service a
ladies maid, stenographer, and type
writer. The two remaining tours will
leave New York Thursday, March Goth,
and Tuesday, April 18th, and the round
trip rates will be $275 and $500 respec
lively. The later tour will be run via
Portland aud Tacoma returning. The
rate includes Pullman accommodations,
meals en- route going and returning, six
side trips, and several carriage rides.
For itineraries and space application
should be made without delay to Geo.
w. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Philadelphia, or to Tourist Agent
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1913
South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, or
$40 Broadway, N. Y.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-03-21

| tribunals, not even by the decision of
the highest courts of the other States of
the Union, but the opinion of eminent
judges in other countries and States Oh
similar questions are always received
and considered with respect.
Under the laws of New York gifts
made in anticipation of marriage, like
any other gifts, may be set aside at the
instance of the party injured or deceived
if they were procured or induced by
fraud, deception, force or palpable error.
If, however, at the time of the presenta-
ton and acceptance both parties were
acting in good faith and intended to con-
summate the marriage, but subsequence
occurrences broke the engagement, then
the gifts previously made are irrevocable
and cannot be recovered back.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-03-21
Legal Status of Engagement
Rings and Presents.

| The question is often asked by Tilted
lovers whether they can legally recover
back the presents they had made to their
| betrothed in anticipation of marriage.
There are very few adjudicated cases on
the subject in this country. In recent
case in England Judge Montague Will
Jams decided that wedding presents
| cannot be recovered by the giver from
the receiver in the event of the wedding
in view of which they were given, not
taking place. This may seem very hard
| in some cases, as where family jewels or
other heirlooms have been presented, or
| where the receiver breaks off the marri-
age without any cause whatever just be-
fore the day appointed for it.
But this is not law; at least not as
broadly as Judge Williams states it.
There are many exceptions to it. In one
of the earliest cases Lord Chancellor
Hardwicke decided that If a person has
made his addresses to lady for some
time upon view of marriage, and upon
reasonable expectation of success makes
presents to considerable value, and she
thinks proper to deceive him afterward,
it is very right that ths presents them.
selves should be returned, or the value
of them allowed to him; but where pre-.
sents are made only to introduce per-
son to woman's acquaintance, and by
means thereof to gain her favor, such
person is to be looked upon only in the
light of an adventurer, and like all other
adventures, if he will run risks and
losses by the attempt. he must take it
for his palms,
A decision on a somewhat similar
question was recently rendered in the
Mines Court in France. At the termina-
ton of divorce proceedings the wife claim
ed the jewellery presented to her nd
before their marriage. Among the arti-
les was her engagement ring. The Judges
after holding the matter under considera-
ton for a long time, decided in her favor
and appended to their judgment the
following opinion: The ring offered for
the purpose of recalling the engagement
of two persons constitutes the ost ire
vocable of all souvenirs given in view of
marriage.
Our New York courts, of course, are
not bound by the decisions of foreign
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-03-21
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III. III. MITCHELL, EIkton, Md
1891.
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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19

was $40 or an average of 20 per cent to the
whole number of prisoners. There is a
tabulated statement giving the name and
crime, when received and wherefrom. and
the conduct of every lite convict. The re-.
port is all cold statistics until we come to
the chaplain's report. where the ice is
melted little by the warm rays of Chris
tan sentiment. Chaplain Griffith believes
that all other influences are subordinate to
the power of the Christian religion in the
reformation of men. He strikes the key
note when he says: 1.-The reformation of
the criminal should be the prime end sought
for. and any people who think otherwise
ought to be in favor of life imprisonment
for all crimes"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19
As Others See Us.

The MIRROR, filled with pleasant news
items about the prison, criticism of wrong
and encouragement for those who desire to
do right, must ever be power for good
Pointers.
THE PRISON MIRROR, published by the
inmates of the state prison at Saltwater,
Minnesota. is always a welcome visitor at
this office. 1t is very we'll gotten up. both
editorially and geographically Emery
Echo.
If THE PRISON MIRROR was more widely
distributed it might be the cause of prOmOt-
ing many reforms, because its contributors
without exception have more advanced
ideas in regard to the causes and suppress
sion of crime than will elsewhere be found.
-Acamedan.
Our exchange table is graced this week
for the first time with THE PRISON MIR
ROR, a handsome little four column folio,
published in the Saltwater. Minnesota, pen
itentiary. geographically THE MIRROR is
a beauty, and edtorially it is bright. spicy
and timely. showing that there is intelli-
gence and education of high order in the
confines of those SOmbrOus prison walls.
and as we carefully peruse its pages we al
most unconsciOusly offer up silent prayer
sOr those misguided land we hope repent
anti inmates that some time in the future
they may walk out into the world as free
men, breathing heavens pure air and bask
in the sunshine of clear and unclouded
conscience, where their intelligence and
ability will be known far beyond the cir
culaton of THE MIRROR, and that too in an
honest and credible light. Washburn Item
iZer.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19
TO THE PUBLIC.

THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub
lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published In its columns is contributed by the
inmates. except that properly credited. Its sup
port must come from the outside as every inmate
is given a paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest of the prison library and after paying
for the printing outfit contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects are to en-.
courage individual intellectual effort, provide a
healthy journal for the inmates Of this and other
prisons, and above all, to acquaint the outside
world with the needs of the prison by rejecting
its inner life and thus aid the Of moral ad-
vsncement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19
SOUTHERN ILL. PENITENTiARY

We are indebted to Chaplain Thos. M.
Griffith. of the southern Illinois penitentiary,
for the biennial report of that institution.
1t is the most exhaustive report we have
thus far received. Everything from nee
die up to the most important thing about
the prison is accounted for. The statistical
tables are most complete. The daily num-
Der of prisoners on hand during 1890 was a
fraction over $50, SO less than the average
for the previous year. The average cost
per convict per day for 1890 was 4S.47
cents. There is large farm connected
with the prison on which is grown a full
supply of vegetables. The number of men
punished during the year ending in 1890
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19
LITER

The lover of good literature cannot help
feeling pang of regret at his inability to
even taste of all the many good things that
are coming from the press every day. Aside
from the books, newspapers, and periodic
ais devoted to specific interests but still of
interest to all men. there are hundreds of
monthly and quarterly magazines and re-
views published for the universal mind.
Each one of these contains in itself distinct
i've matter of sterling value. matter of the
memorable time speeds too fast to permit of
one pair OF human eyes detecting all the
priceless gems in the ever onward train of
literature. 1t has been sought to overcome
this difficulty, by cleaning the good from
the bad and the Indifferent, and after cut
ting away all but the very heart, compress
it into books called reviews. Men of &C.
knowledged abilities are assigned to their es-
pecial literary fields to CLEAN the best from all
the good they find growing therein, and the
various results are combined and put within
the range of one pair of eyes. But the re-
views of merit have so multiplied that it
has become necessary to establish The Re-
view of Reviews. a publication lying be-
fore us. Here we have view of the best
literary productions of tho contempOraneOus
writer's of the world of to day. The Re-
view of Reviews is published simultane-
uesly in London and New York, and what
will give special interest in the Review to
the people of Minnesota is the fact that DR..
Albert Shaw. formerly of the Minneapolis
Tribune, has charge of the American edi-
tiOn
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19
SORDID AMBITIONS.

1t is hard to account for some of the Pc
culiar longings that find dwelling place in
the human breast. We may find young
men, with sufficient intelligence to see the
impracticability of such a course, ambitious
to become noted as burglars, highwaymen,
pickpockets or confidence men. These
same fellows may have pleasant homes,
enough Of this worlds goods to satisfy their
social wants. and they may have never been
guilty of any serious breach of the law, yet
the only thing that holds them from launch
ing forth as criminals is the lack of self
confidence, or the know how" They do
not regard the moral aspect of the matter
at all. 1t is evident that such persons are
deficient in moral perception. Akin to this
ambition is that of becoming a detective
We have but to watch the newspapers to
learn that the would-be detective class is
very large. 1t is fact that numerous
spurious detective agencies do thrifty bus
mess in this country by taking in these
would be sleuths at so much cash per capita.
Many of this class work independently.
Nearly every community has one or more
self constituted detectives who may be
found as witnesses in nearly every impor-
tant criminal trial in the community. They
are dangerous class to justice. but not so
dangerous as class mentioned further on.
just few days ago young man threw up
good situation, left a pleasant home, took
his inheritance and went to New York
City. He invested portion of his funds
in purchasing big revolver, "black jack
and pair of polceman's nippers; and thus
we'll equipped. began a search after the
skulking criminals of the metropolis. He
was caught in the act of shadowing one OF
the city's philanthropic ladies as she went
from place to place administering to the
wants of suffering humanity. He did
not like her actions. neither did shallow.
pated" common policeman like the shadows
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19

movements. so he took him in out of harms
way. 1t cost that Jealous young mans old
mother trip to New York and $500 to save
Mr.. Detective from term in prison. Now
if these fellows we're impeled to take up
this line of work by desire to protect So
considered as benefactOrs of their fellow
beings. But they are not actuated by any
such motives. They go about wishing that
some one would commit some desperate
deed in such way that they might hold
the clews in their own keeping until the
world could be dumbtounded by the mar
velousness of their detective powers. They
do not actually wish any one harm, but they
are burning with an ambition for notoriety.
They want to be objects of public attention.
and to satisfy that want they would not
throw an obstruction in the way of any
crime. This unnatural ambition to be no.
Women are more given to freaks of
such nature as will attract public SYM
pathy to themselves. The New York Sun
of recent date recounts number of au-
thenticated cases of women having mutt
lated themselves. starved themselves to
death. committed suicide. and practiced
many receptions for the purpose of making
themselves the objects of sympathy and
compassion. There are men and women in
every community who will 90 into court
and swear to falsehOods just to satisfy a
morbid desire to have attention attracted to
themselves. Nearly every person who has
gone through the ordeal Of trial in GRIM
inal case of notoriety knows this to be true.
Many man on trial for his life has had to
sit and grind his teeth while one of these
unnatural persons, an entire stranger per-
haps, was coldly swearing to the most dam
aging falsehoOds. The only reward that
these perjurers hope for is that they may be
looked upon as having played an important
part in the legal tragedy. Many man is
wearing out his life in penal servitude. and
many another is Wondering in felon's
grave the victims of these peculiarly
constituted men and women. Too little &C.
count is taken by the courts of this morbid
ambition which so often prompts people to
bear false witness in noted criminal cases.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-19

A new law has been made in Missouri
providing for and designating the manner
of selecting petit jurors, and prescribing
their qualifications in counties or cities of
more than SO. OJO inhabitants The law re.
quires the courts to make complete lists of
all qualified jurors in their respective cOun-
ties and from these the jurors are drawn by
lot. The following persons are not per-
mitted to serve as jurors: Members of
militia or fire companies; any person under
the age of 81 years or over the age of 65;
any person who is not sufficiently &C.
quainted with the English language to read
and write the same. and to understand
thoroughly the proceedings ordinarily had
in courts of justice; any person actually ex-
ercising the functions of clergyman; prac-
titiOner of medicine; druggist or apothecary;
attorney at law or any professor; teacher of
any school or institution of learning; any
person of bad reputation or without visible
means of support: any person who has
served on regular panel as juror in any
court of record in the county within one
year last past; any person who has been
convicted of felony; any person not drawn
or selected according to the provisions OF
this law.