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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

WYOMING had jury in a recent case COM
posed of women entirely. and the verdict was
that the girls at hotel ought to have the
money due them. 1t is not reported that they
had any feeling against the hotelkeeper
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

had little more demand SO far than to
recompense the producer of Republican
campaign ornaments.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

IT IS not easy tor president to learn that
he has no chance for a second term, but it
ought to be good deal larger than a sus-
picion with the elder HARRISON. His best
role now is to saw wood till a Democrat
comes along on March 4, 1893, to receive his
adieuS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

REPUBLICAN papers remind Mr.. BLAINE
that he thought BRIsTow should go out of
GRANTS cabinet when his friends were nurs-
ing his little boom for president. But BLAINE
does not seem TO hear them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

Local forecast to a. m. Saturday, for st.
Paul. Minneapolis and vicinity: Sontherly.
veering to westerly winds; showers, followed
Saturday by clearing to fair weather and
lower temperature.
p f. LYONS, Local Forecast Official.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

AN IRRIGATION congress is to meet at Salt
Lake City the coming week. MELBOURNE is
to be there to fill contract to produce
rain. Let him deluge the body and his fort
uue is made
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

The women have been doing good deal
of voting at school elections in Michigan re-
Gently. 1t was probably novelty to them,
and not indicating that they want full rations
at the ballot box.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11
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(('IAII.E Els!

The dry goods stores
seem to be full of trash in
these articles. The ladies
say "there is no fit to them,
the Innings are poor" etc.
Necessarily they buy low
grade goods to quote prices
on. We try to give GOOD
HaIue at easy price in our
Capes, and see to it that I'll
and shabe are right. We
kn07O we have the Best
Stock, and we know 7Ohat
the furs are, and don't have
to call them fancy names to
sell them. Our prices start
at 81, and run $40, s14,
SIS, S18 and upward. Try
us. We have sold over 400
Capes in August.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

MINISTER at Danvers, Mass. has been
condemned to death for witchcraft. cele.
bration there the past week made the fact
prominent that it happened a good while
ago
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

Maj. C.. Boyd Barre tt. the fighting proprie-
tor OF the Aberdeen Republican, passed
through ST. Paul yesterday on his way to
Aberdeen. The major leased his paper
year ago and went back to his old Virginia
home, where he spent nearly all the time
since. On his way West he ran up to Albany
and had an interview with Gov. Hill, whose
ardent supporter and boomer tor the presi-
dency the major has been tor several years
past. Of course the Dakota editor. was de-
lighted with the New York chief magistrate,
and came back 4 stronger Hill man than
ever.
Gov. Hill did not deny that he would be
candidate" said the irrepressible major,
land rather talked as though he would.
When l asked him what he thought of the
farmers movement he said he anticipated no
danger to the Democracy from it, for the
reason that they wanted a man opposed to
monopolies and in favor of giving them the
right kind of money. And l can tell you
Gov. Hill is that man." said the major, en-
Enthusiastically. ''And he will be a candidate
too he went on, ''for the reason that his
friends will force him to be. New York will
be solid for him, and the Southern Demo
Gratis ferl kindly toward HIM, too. He will
be the nominee, mark my words.''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11
Tits impossible for man to get higher

st is impossible for a man to get higher
grade than No. hard for wheat hauled to
the Hastings d Dakota railroad" said Ham
lin V. Poore, the well-known Alliance leader
of Ienville county, last evening in the Mer-
chants lobby. Here is a sample he con-
tinued producing a small bag containing
about pint of thestaple cereal, ''of wheat
raised on my farm. am unable 10 get
higher grade than No. l northern at Bird
Island for the simple reason that no higher
grade is given, the elevator men saying that
they can get no higher grade at Minneapolis.
l showed it to Chief Grain Inspector Clausen
to-day and he pronounced it the best posi-
BILE quality of No. 1 hard. have not enough
for a carload, and will be obliged to haul it
to Atwater to get the grade l am entitled to.
1t does not amount to very much, but the
condition is a bad one for the country as it
tends TO encourage the growing of the softer
varieties Of wheat"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11
Prenarine for Trouble.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. lO.-Acting
under orders of Adjt. Gen. Norman,
twenty-five rifles belonging to local
military company at Knoxville have
been turned over to the superintendent
at Brceville, to be used III protecting
the convictS there. Several thousand.
rounds of ammunition will also be sent
there. There is much uneasiness all
through East Tennessee, AMI the miners
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

IT HAS been observed that a crank is apt to
have either very long beard or none at all
Senator PETER runs to hlrsute drapery.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

THE price of bread has started up in Eu
rope. There is trouble when the people are
short on bread
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

Capt ". II. Harrles, the handsome, silver
haired congressman from the First district,
came up from Caledonia yesterday, and spent
last evening chatting with friends and ac-
quaintances in the. Merchants lobby He
first fell in with a number of prominent low
tariff men like Gen. j. II. Baker, of Blue
Earth, ex-Railroad Commissioner Murdoch
and Lysander Cook, of Blue Earth, and for
time the conversation was all one way
Finally the tall form of ex- Auditor W w.
Braden was discerned entering the front
door. and the party started for him, Gen.
Baker laughingly asserting that a man APP
preached who was strong enough Repub
lican To attribute the good crops of this year
to the Mckinley tariff act.
rs that true, 'Captain%" asked one of the
party
Certainly" answered the ex-auditor, smil
ing. land l will quote a little scripture to
prove it to you. You have all heard the
Biblical injunctions or statement that all
things work together for the gooo of the
faithful? :"
Hear Braden quote scripture!'' exclaimed
Gen. Baker. HE doesn't seem to do much
better at it than Gov. Ramsey"
''How can you expect him to do any bet
ter" said Mr.. Murdoch. "a man who
quotes scripture to sustain protective tariff
must be either Il poor student of the scrip
lures or bad man, and we all know that
Braden is not the latter
And so the conversation went on for at least.
an hour, Capt Braden .manfully defending
the tariff position of his party, while the
others assailed it from all points. The de-
bate was interesting and in perfect good
humor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

ect's 2:l1H is the fastest mile ever
patG oyer Washington Par; lrac.A
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

Col. j. D. Jones, ex-clerk of the supreme
court of this state, wandered into the Sanity
City yesterday accompanied by his fellow
townsman Hon. William E. Lee. The colonel
now wears shiny silk tile, and has brushed
every particle of hayseed off his clothes. He
is now settled down to the practice of his pro-
fession in Long Prairie and is satisfied to let
politics alone. The big crops in Todd county,
he says, will make business boom for the
next year as it never has doomed before.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-11

Senator Jay La Due, the level-headed sem
ator from Rock county, is in the city to at
tend the meeting of the worlds fair commits
sion to-day. Although the senator was in
favor of larger appropriation than S50,00O
for the states exhibit at the last session, he
never took any stock in the cry for an extra
session, believing it to be unadvisable from
any standpoint.
This talk about certain members OF the
commission resigning because of the failure
to secure more funds, is absurd said Mr.. La
Due to n GLOBE man last evening, land" he
continued. there is no basis for such action
Every member of the commission knew
when he accepted the appointment just
what money the legislature had voted, and
the time to resign was there and then. 1t is
the duty of the commission to go ahead and
make the best possible exhibit with the
$4,000 that has been appropriated, and be-
lieve this is what will be done at least this
is what shall advocate and work for
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10
The Origin of Seals.

The ancient Assyrians nearly 5000 years
ago put in moist clay their seals, en-
graved in intaglio upon precious stones,
on chests and doors, in order to prevent
their being opened. There were no
locks or keys in those days. II they
wished to send a private letter, they
would often seal it with a %hippogrif,
which fabulous winged horses was re-
garded as the emblem OF secrecy. Gen.
turtles later the Greeks and Romans
adopted similar devices for the same
purpose, and it is an historical fact that
curious women and other prying persons
with an itch to find out what was lone
of their business used to have skilled
workmen make forged seals for them, so
that they might investigate without de-
lection the private affairs of Their lords
or neighbors. It is curious to observe
at this day the complicated geometrical
patterns in which some of the ancient
Roman seals are designed, Enthusiastically
for the purpose of defeating the ingeni-
Gus counterfeiter, just as the engrayers
at the bureau Of engraving and printing
try by similar means to multiply the
forger's difficulties.
One of the most ancient aud beautiful
of engraved gems that have been dis
covered is a cameo representing the
pharaoh Ptolamg Phila lelphus and his
lovely Queen Arsinoe, who reigned In
Egypt $50 years before Christ was born.
Il is as perfect to-day as when it was first
carved, and a scarce imagine that
the portraits are not taken from persons
living at this moment, SO life-Iike are
they. A prettier woman than Arsinoe
must have been rare even among the
Greeks, to which race she and her hus-
band belonged, The Ptolamises were a
dynasty of Greek emperors, and Cleo
patra was no African beauty, as is COM
monty imagined. There were several
Gleopatras, all of whom were celebrated
for their comeliness, but that is neither
here nor there WASHINGTON Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10
NOT R

Not understood. We move along asunder,
Our paths grow wider as the seasons creep
Along the years, we marvel and we wonder
Why life IS life, and then we fall asleep,
Not understood.
Not understood. We gather false impress
sions,
And hug them closer as the years go by,
Till virtues often seem to us transgressions.
And thus men rise and fall, and live and
die,
Not understood.
Not understood. Poor souls with stunted
vision
Oft measure giants by their narrow
gauge;
The poisoned shafts of falsehood and deri-
Are oft impelled 'gainst those who mould
the age.
Not understood.
Not understood. The secret springs of ac-
ton,
Which lie beneath the surface and the
show,
Are disregarded; with dissatisfaction
We judge our neighbors, and they often
Not understood.
Not understood. How trifes often change
US!
The thoughtless sentence and the fancied
slight
Destroy long years of friendship and
estrange us,
And on our souls there falls a freezing
blight;
Not understood.
Not understood. How many hearts are
aching
For a lack of sympathy All. day by day;
How many cherries. lonely hearts are
breakingt
How many noble spirits pass away
Not understood.
Q God! that men would see a little clearer,
Or judge less harshly when they cannot
see!
God! that men would draw a little nearer
To one another. they'd be nearer Thee.
Andu understood.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10

He came downstairs with his eyes as BIZ
as onions and his face as red as paint
and as soon as he could get his breath hi
shouted:
"Your old carpet is down, Mrs. Bow.
ser-down out of the window"
"Didn't I tell you before you begun,
that"
HNo! You wanted it down.
"Didn.t | say you'd get mad and
Flame"
Never! Mrs. Bowser, this is the last
time I ever lift my hand to do anything
around this house! I've rubbed more'r
a yard of hide off my knees, skinned both
elbows and driven thirteen thousand
tacks into my feet, besides getting a crick
in my back which will lay me up the
rest of my life"
"But l told you in the very begin
ming that"
"Thaf you wanted the carpet down!
It is down I am down! Tat ends i'll
Ell nail the old room up 18th side
walk spikes, and if you even ask me IN
the future to sharpen a lead-pencil 1
won't be responsible for my actions! Mrs.
Bowser, good night"
And as he limped uptairs and threw
himself on the bed with a jar which
shook the house and stopped the kicthen
clock she heard him groan:
"And this from having a wife
who doesn't know anything about
managing a house "-New Yor6 World.
Composite Photograph of One Person
An excellent suggestion has been made
by an expert photographer. He says
that there is no real satisfaction in al
Photographic portrait. At the best it!
catches only one expression out of
the everchanging tones that make the,
face of one for whom we care charming
Why, he asks, should it not be possible
to accomplish a good result by taking a
composite photograph of n person;
that is, by photographing that person
repeatedly in the same pose; when he is
grave and when gay; when tired and
when fresh as a lark; when meditative
and when alert? This would be an I'M
teresting experiment. Another ingenious
photographer has devised a screen behind
which ladies may be photographed with
dummy feet. These peep out innocently
and naturally from under the dress, and
enable the sitter to triumph over any real
or fancied disadvantage in the size or
shape of her feet. A hand camera for
taking a series of photographs in quick
succession is frequently called into re-
QUESTION, aud an improved form of this
instrument has been devised by III. Lum-
iere, of Lyons. The framed plates nov
in grooves at the back of the camera,
being projected forward into position by
a spiral spring, as each one, after re-
ceiying its image, is released by a bolt
and falls down into the bottom of the
camera. The number of plates used is
indicated bya counter outside. - Chicago
Nems.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10
Au Electrical Voting Machine.

In the ttBfaisserie Flanaude" at Brus-
sells there is exhibited an election ma
chine, invented by NJ. Moreau, a Belgian
engineer. The remarkable apparatus
looks like a grand piano. In place of
the keyboard there are two rows of but
tons, similar to those used for electric
doorhells. If an elector wishes to vote,
all he has to do is to press one of the
buttons. above the buttons the names
of the candidates are seen, for each but
ton one name. As there are many cleo
tors, especially in Belgium, who cannot
read, Mr.. Moreau has constructed his ma
chine in such way that a photograph
(picture) can eventually appear along
with the names of the candidates. Below
the button rows a box is found contain
ing the electrical numbering or counting
machine. Every button registers the
names by ones, tens, hundreds and
thousands. The electrical current is un-
der the box. As soon as the eiector steps
on the platform, which is part of the APP
paratus, the electrical current begins to
play. Against fraud and repeating the
inventor has also guarded in making it
impossible for n elector to press twice
at the same button without the intermis-
sion Of several seconds. To vote again
he must step from the platform, then
wait a few seconds, after which pause
he again can ascend tiff the officers al
low it. The secrecy of the ballot IS
guarded by a screen which shields the
whole apparatus. After election time is
over the box is taken out of the machine
and the result is found as the votes were
already (added) counted by the machine.
-NeD Yor5 Recorder.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10

The disposition of the $3.50, 900 accu.
mulated from the bequest Of Benjamin
Franklin, continues to be a fruitful topic
OF discussion in Boston. Instead OF ap-
plying it to the extinction of the debt
incurred in purchasing the land for
Franklin Park, it is now thoughttbest by
tbs Park Commissioners to use it in con-
sfructing those parts OF the Park known
IL ssThe Greeting, 2 stThe Music Court, z
and ssIhe Little Folks Fair" The first
named will form a grand avenue of par
allel drives, rides, and walks under rows
Of trees, making a promenade or meeting
ground half q mile long, similar to the
alameda Of Spanish and Spanish-Ameri-
can cities. The second will be d sylvan
amphitheater suitable for concerts. The
third will be devoted to entertainments
for children. Such a disposition Of the
fund, it is believed, would be more than
any other in accordance with the wishes
Of Franklin, who was d believer ia rec
reation.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10

According to the Washington CORES.
pondent Of the St. Louis Globe Democrat
1.-THE suppositloa that there is a large
emigration from Japan to the United
States il without foundation. Instead of
90, 900 Japanese being here, as is often
stated, the number is probably less than
1000. For the decade beginning with
1861, when q solitary subject Of the
Mikado ventured to come to the New
World, the immigrants numbered 21s.
For the two decades ending June SO,
1890, the figures indicate an immigration
saa9I. During the eleven months end
ing May 81 of this year, col Japanese
landed on our shores. The increase from
gear to year has been but slight, and il
no greater for the years that remain Of
the century, there is little danger of the
presence Of . horde of japanese, so
much feared by some labor agitators.
The Immigrants in 1885 numbered 1885,
IN 1887, 800, Id 1888, 4o4; 1859, 6o4,
and ID 1890, s91.p
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

There are said to be nearly six tnot
sand pieces in a modern locomotive.
Paris is soon to be lighted, as to is
streets, almost entirely by electricity.
A cubic foot of aluminium weighs 157
pounds. A cubic foot OF copper weighs
556 pounds.
The most recent steel rails have a
higher percentage of carbon and the steel
produced is harder.
Some remarkable experiments in talk
ing with monkeys by aid of a phono-
graph are made public.
At Wilkesbarse, Penn, the electric
lights and long days have reduced the
price of gas from $3.50 to S1.6O per
thousand.
Pennsylvania makes fifty-two out of
every 100 tons of rolled iron in the
United States, and sixty-nine out Of every
100 tons of steel rails.
Professor Gardner has decided to go
to Africa to engage in the uncongenial
but scientific study of the language of
monkeys in their native state.
In the Island of Cuba great progress
has been made in establishing electric
light plants. This is notably the case
in Havana, where the central station has
a capacity Of 5000 lights.
A military force on the march seems
to suffer less from what is popularity
known as sun-stroke than civilians walk
ing our crowded streets or engaged in
mercantile and mechanical pursuits.
Some plants appear to be able to grow
and develop in total darkness. A com
mittee of the Royal Horticultural Society
has been told of hyacinths that developed
colored flowers, although prevented by
some accident from coming above the
ground.
One of the London street car compan-
lee has in use an automatic 'sstarter."
Two powerful spiral springs, fastened to
the front axle, are wound up through
being applied to the cars stoppage, so
that when it is desired to go on again
they are capable of starting it.
The great Homestake Mine at Lead
City, South Dakota, uses powder to
blast the ore. When the ore is crushed,
it is then stamped into powder and
washed over a quicksilver plate to catch
the gold. More mar 1900 men are en-
ployed, with a pay roll of $780, 90 4
month.
The Chinese Government is about to
begin the manufacture of steel, and blast
furnaces ON the Cleveland principal, Ca
pable Of turning out 100 ton per day,
are being erected at Han-Kow. Besse-
mer and Siemens-Martin plant, bar
rolling mills, ETC., will also be put up
at the same place.
A pneumatic chisel has beea intro
duced into a stone-cutting establishment
in Germany. 1t resembles in appearance
q syringe, which the operator holds with
both hands, and as he lets it slide over
the surface of the stone or metal the
chisel chips off splinters and particles.
Compressed air, acting on a piston, i'm.
parts a rotation of from 10000 TO IL, 600
revolutions a minute.
An ingenious apparatus has been intro
duced to prevent the wheels of electric
and other street cars from slipping. it
consists of a revolving brush connected
with the forward axle by a belt. As tae
axle revolves it sets the brushes in mo-
ton, clearing a path for the wheeis.
There is also operated in connection
with the device a box which allows the
escape of a sufficient amount of sand or
salt without the slightest waste.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10

In 1885 there were three electric rail
ways in operation with thirteen cars; in
1886, five with thirty cars; in 1887,
seven with eighty-one cars; in 1888,
thirty-tw with 265 cars; in 1889, Io4
with 965 cars; in 1890, 126 with over
1000 cars, and there are now in opera
ton and under contract in this country,
England, Germany, Italy, Australia and
Japan not less than 325 roads, requiring
over 1000 cars and 1000 motors, with
1000 miles Of track, making d daily mile.
age Of not less than 400, OOo miles, aud
carrying three quarters of a billion of
passengers. Public Opinion estimates
that one-fourth of the street railways in
the United States are being operated
wholly Or in part By electricity; two
thirds BY horses; q sixteenth BY dummy
engines, and a twentieth by cable.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10
4 New Insect Pest.

Montgomery and Clinton Counties,
Ind, recently suffered under a visitation
of d strange insect. Tt comes In swarms
so thick as to form clouds that darken
the daylight a. they pass, and people
getting among them cannot avoid taking
them into their lungs. They are de-
scribed az being about the size Of gnat.
Their method Of locomotion Is d cross
between q hop and a fy, and is took the
swarm three days to pass q given point.
They are travelling IN an easterly direc-
ton. The insects harmed none Of the
growing crops, and their strange APP
pearance has caused much wonder. "A
local scientist has asserted that the III
sect's name Is sstripadas foIlen.n-Pica-
ystne.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-10-10
An English bridegroom has been fine

An English bridegroom has been fined
for disorderly conduct during the mar
rage ceremony. He vas very shy and
nervous, relates the New York Tribune,
and in order to screw his courage up to
the sticking point he quietly TOOK out a
flask while the clergyman was reading
the exhortation and INDUCED in a nip.
The church was pretty dark, and he
thought no one san him, but in this he
was mistaken, for the clergyman knew
the service by heart, and instead of look
ing at the book was looking at him, and
of course san the unrubrical act. The
result was a fine Of So and costs.