davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
Mountains of Bacilli.

Prodigious as must have been the
number of organisms whose remains
form the great chalk deposits found all
over the world, yet these are only as a
single grain of sand on the seashore
when compared with the vast accumu-
lation of fossil infusoria. In spite of
the extreme minuteness of these invisi-
BILE forms, the stratified rocks, forming
a large portion of the crust of the earth,
are made up almost entirely from their
shells and skeletons. They form great
mountain ranges in different portions
of the globe.
Even the silicious rocks, called trip
oil, are shown by the microscope to be
composed of the carapaces of tiny ami
malcule, that secreted silica from its
solution in water in the same way that
the carbonate of lime was secreted by
the organisms whose remains composed
the strata of chalk. These silicious an
finals belonged principally to the fami-
ly bacillaria, and their skeletons are so
perfectly preserved that they can be
identified and compared with the bac-
terium of the present day.-Macon Tel
eeraph.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
The Ways of Women.

A richly but not overdressed woman
day or two ago entered a well filed
Fourth avenue car, and without SO
much as look dropped into seat va
Gated for her by a man who on rising
had politely raised his hat.
The woman's behavior was SO mark
eddy ungracious that the other occu-
pants of the car smiled broadly at the
victim of misplaced politeness, who did
not fail to notice that he was being
laughed at
Turning to the lady and once more
raising his hat, he said, pardon me,
madam, but did leave my gloves on
the seat2"
The woman stood up to look for the
missing handgear and the man slid
himself edgewise into the seat. The
laughter which followed was not par
ticipated in by the woman, and she
left the car at the next block.
''Take my seat, madam" said man
to a woman on another occasion under
similar circumstances.
Thanks, no. saw the car was
more than full when stopped it to get
on and expected to stand. l have no
right to deprive you of your seat, and
I won't do it."
This little speech was followed by a
look of blank amazement on the part
of the other passengers. New York
Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
AN Editor in Trouble.

A downey editor is in trouble from
having published the following, f'Miss
Jones, who came here before the flood,
is still the guest of her brother" He
found it difficult to convince the lady
that he meant no reference to her age.
-SaN Francisco Call.
Governor Merriam has informed the
principal oil companies deing business
in st. Paul and Minneapolis that no
further oil inspection will be had until
some satisfactory arrangement has been
made regarding the matter pending the
meeting of the next legislature and the
passage of a law on the subject.
st. Paul and Minneapolis capitalists
have been negotiating with the Winni-
peg city council for some time for
franchise for an electric street
railway, but they are not likely to
obtain it. as citizens have petitioned the
council to refuse all offers and to retain
the franchise.
The Duluth board of trade voted in
favor of an amendment to the rules gov
erning the sale of wheat for future de-
livery, providing that g all contracts for
the purchase and sale of wheat unless
otherwise specifed) for delivery after
September, 1891, shall be for No. / north
ern wheat. There was only one dis
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
The Slang shocked Him.

A dignified bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal denomination came to this
city from western state few days
ago and put up at hotel near Madison
square. After he had eaten breakfast
on the morning after his arrival he
went to the Office of the hotel and
asked to be directed to the Young Mems
Christian association building at TWEEN
ty-third street and Fourth avenue. The
clerk told him that the green cars going
down Broadway and through Twenty
third street would take him right there.
The bishop, however, said that he
wanted to walk, and he had been in
formed that the Christian association
building was 'just across the park"
''Yes, that is So" answered the clerk,
briskly. 'You cross the park diago-
nally, and any of the 'sparrows' over
there will point out the building to
you"
'The what?" asked the bishop.
''The sparrows, the sparrows," re-
peated the clerk.
do you mean to say that they have
trained birds over there?" said the bish-
op, in an incredulous tone.
1t took the hotel clerk five minutes
to convince the dignifed bishop that
the term sparrow" was commonly ap-
piled to a park policeman, and it took
another five minutes to explain to the
good man that the vulgar New York
gamins had originated the appellation
to express their conviction that the
park policeman's chief occupation was
the chasing of sparrows.-New York
Times,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
The News Editors Nemesis.

years ago." said news editor, 81
used to have on my list correspondent
at Valparaiso. He would send reports
of church socials by wire, and we
couldn't shut him off. One day store
down in his place burned. The loss
proved to be about SIS, 900. He began
sending bulletins as soon as the fire
broke out, and kept it up every ten
minutes till the last spark of the con-
fagration was out. We tried to choke
him off, but he couldn't be suppressed.
There are two persons on earth whom
I would like to meet some time when I
am feeling real well and strong. They
are that correspondent and the man
who sold me fountain pen. Indian
apolis Sentinel.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

The great storehouse of the worlds
water is the ocean, which covers four
fifths of the globes surface. In some
places the ocean has never been sound
ed, even by line more than five miles
in length. 1t is supposed these great
depths are without plants, because all
plants require some light, and though
light is said to penetrate sea water
farther than fresh, yet we can scarcely
imagine there is ray of light at the
depth of five miles. Some of the sea
plants have stems at least 300 feet in
length. In some parts of the sea we
are told that the eye can discern the
bottom at four or five hundred feet.
1t is very pretty sight to look down
and view forest beneath the waves.
1t is sometimes a blaze of gold, scarlet
and green. In one part of the Atlantic
is space which the Spaniards call the
Sargasso sea, because its surface is COW
cred there for miles and miles with
great mass of seaweed, which Columbus
spoke of as FLOATING meadows.
Montreal Star.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
MOB HILLS USELESS PALACES.
Five Enormous Buildings Intended 70

Five Enormous Buildings Intended for
Private Residences, but Unfit.
A morning contemporary announces
as matter of news that Mrs. Hopkins
Searles offers her residence on Califor-
MIA street for sale. 1t might have add
ed, as companion item, that the Pill
grim Fathers had landed on Plymouth
Rock. There has been no time for
many years that the Hopkins mansion
on California street has not been for
sale, though, if public rumor be be-
lieved, the owner has not been distract
ed by many offers to purchase. 1t is,
in fact, difficult to conceive who could
want to become its possessor at any
price.
The spectacle of Mob Hill, with pala-
tial piles browning its ridge, fills the
stranger who visits California with mild
amazement. There are five big build
ings there which were built as private
residences, and are as unfit for that use
as could be conceived. They were APP
parently modelled on the plan of the
palaces of the Old World, which were
erected to be the homes of feudal
barons and all their retainers. In the
middle ages every nobleman supported
e swarm of dependents. He had to
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
NO HEMP FOR THESE.

sentences of Holden and Lentz, Two Min
nesota Murderers, COMMITTED.
ST. PAUL, May Gov. Merriam has
COMMITTED the sentences of Clifton
Holden, who was to have been hung
for the murder of Frank Dodge Friday
next, and William Lentz, the Blue
Earth county murderer, who stands
convicted of the murder of a man
named Schulz. The Communication is to
imprisonment for life in each case. The
afidavits made by six of the jurors on
the last trial of the Holden case that
they would not have agreed to the
verdict of murder in the first degree
had they been aware that the death
penalty would be inflicted, together
with the strong plea and argument
made by Hon. Albert Scheffer, are re-
sponsible for the governors action in
the Holden case. In the case of Lutz
the evidence was not considered strong
enough to justify the death penalty.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

ma quarters for them, and OF course
his lodgings had to be large. In our
day rich men do not maintain much
larger households than their neighbors.
Individually they cannot occupy
more than dozen rooms, and as many
will lodge all the servants they can en-
ploy. More rooms than this are of no
possible USE Conceived in ostentation,
their destiny is to become lumber clos
cts. In the old feudal castles of Europe
the modern possessor is lost; it gives
him a nightmare to wander through a
maze of rooms which are never occu-
pied save by mice and spiders, and he
fees to take refuge in bedroom and
parlor at club or hotel 1t must be
much the same in the mansions of Mob
Hill.
If they have any destiny it must be
to become some day public buildings
museums or hospitals. Even for that
use they would have to be donated by
their owners, for the city could build
suitable edifices for less money than
they would cost if they were bought.
1t seems odd that men with the sa-
gacity required to build transconti-
mental railroad and to acquire vast
fortunes should not have understood
that a house that is too big may be as
inconvenient as a house that is too
small. A very small quantity of shell
ter is all that the richest and greatest
of us can want. A bedroom, dress
ing room, a reception room, parIor, a
dining room, a library, and perhaps a
billiard room-what more than this can
Cresus occupy, though he counts his
riches by the hundreds of millions.
Yet rich men go on piling stone upon
stone and bricks upon mortar until
they have exchanged what might have
been snug home for barrack; and
in the doing of it they generate mass
of envy and grudging which follows
them to their grave.-San Francisco
Call.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
Zeno's Paradox.

Many persons will recall the famous
paradox of Zeno, by which he sought
to prove that all motion is impossible.
"a body" he argued, 'tmust move
either in a place where it is or in a
place where it is not. Now, a body in
the place where it is is stationary. and
cannot be in motion, nor, obviously,
can it be in motion in the place where
it is not. Therefore it cannot move at
ALL"
Bodies do move, however, and that
is a sufficient answer to the ingenious
philosopher.-New York Tribune.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
Anoka Depots Burned.

ANoKA, Mimi, May 4.-The Northern
Pacific and Great Northern depots were
totally destroyed by fire. All the furni-
ture, books, etc., in the Great Northern
depot were destroyed, but those in the
Northern Pacific were saved. The loss
is about $4,000. The fire started in the
Great Northern depot from defective
fue or sparks from locomotive, and
communicated to the Northern Pacific
building across the track. 1t is possible
that union depot will now be built.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
A Queer Court Decision.

A peculiar case disposed of at Cald-
well court was that of a man who had
been tried by the mayor of Lenoir for
violation of town ordinance and had
pleaded guilty. The mayor fined him
more than he wanted to pay, and he
appealed, and in the superior court the
jury acquitted him of the charge to
which he had pleaded guilty in the
mayors court. This strikes us as some
thing new under the sun in the way of
criminal procedure. Marion On. c.
Free lance.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
One Indian Company Organized.

CHICAGO, May Capt. Higgins, in
charge of army headquarters here in the
absence of Gen. Miles, has received a
dispatch from Fort Washak, Wyo., to
the effect that Company of the Eighth
infantry had just been organized as an
Indian company. The company is COM
posed of twenty-eight Shoshones and
twenty-seven Arapahoe's, and they will
be subjected to the same regulations
and discipline as the white soldiers.
w hite officers will command them.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

Complaint was made in the house of
commons that some publicans were in
the habit of oblging their customers
by selling postage stamps after the post
offices are closed. 1t was stated on be-
half of the government that no one is
entitled to sell stamps without first TAX
ing out license.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
The NUMBER rive Is convenient.

Five is a number but little employed
in the Scriptures, but it is number of
great convenience and utility. Man
was created with five natural senses,
and with five fingers on each hand and
five toes on each foot. The earth's
surface is divided into five zones, and
the rose has five leaves, or some null
tiple of five. -Chicago Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
THE OLD BOAT.

A worn out boat upon the shore,
The children's playground is it now,
The troubled deep it tempts no more.
1t lies at rest like rusty pillow.
And yet it basks in bright noontide,
1t echoes gladly childish voices;
A sailors wife leans here, and wide
Her outlook till her heart rejoices.
Here lovers meet when dusk draws near,
Their voyages have scarce begun;
ALL may they keep vows true and dear,
Until their resting days are won.
For tits not every craft that lies
So calmly on a kindly shore;
And tits not every heart is wise
To cherish love when youth is DER.
-Beatrix l.. Tollemache in Academy.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

The production of electrically welded
steel chains will soon become an import
ant industry in this country. The
steel chain will be one-third lighter
than the present chain, with as great a
tensile strength, and can be produced
at considerable less cost.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

When Queen Victoria is travelling by
rail in her special train she exercises no
deadhead rights. She pays at the rate
of $1.92 mile, whatever the distance,
in addition to first class fares for all the
party, servants included. Her saloon
carriage cost $4,000
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
Ba SURE and Observe Ihsss Conditions

Ey and iont forget either the postage the proof.
Nearly every bride send copy of some newspaper
giving notice of her marriage, the notice itself
clipped in such way show the date of the paper,
or statement from the clergyman or justice who per-
master acquainted with the facts, other rea.
sonable evidence. BIT do not send us names OF
parents" other actresses who are strangers to u.s.
nor "refer" us to dny6ody-we have no time to hunt
up the evidence-the party making the application
must do that. Marriage certificates, other evi.
dence will be returned to the senders, desired and
additional postage is enclosed for the purpose.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
THE FIGURE 49,"

THE FIGURE 49,"
The figure Q in our dates will make a hong stsx
No man or woman now living win ever date 8
document without using the figure 9. It stands
In the third place in 1890 whereof will remain ten
years and then move up to second place in 1900.
where it will rest for one hundred years.
There Is another SO" which has also come to stay.
It Is unlike the figure in dates in the respeos
that it has already moved up to first place. where,
1t will permanently remain. 1t is called the MO
0" High Arm Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Mecaiass
The mo. o" was endorsed for first place by thu
experts Of Europe at the Paris Exposition OF 1854
where, after severe contest with the leading ma-
chimes Of the world, it was awarded ths onsS
Grand Prize given to family sewing machines, 40
others on exhibit having received lower awards
Of gold medals, otc. The French Governncns
also recognized its superiority by the decora,scs ~
MT. Observation-Disclosures President of the con pao q
with the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The "No. g. is not an old machine improvet.
upon, but Is an entirely new machine, AMI he
Grand Prize at Paris was awarded it as the sc,E1.
est advance in sewing machine mechanism 81 .hs
age. Those who buy 1t can rest assured, here,
fore, Of having the very latest and best.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

At one time in the worlds history ice
was considered great luxury, and only
the rich could enjoy what is now looked
upon as an absolute necessity. In an
cient days snow was used as a substi-
tute
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
Spring Medicine

For expelling the humors which rankle IN
the system at this season Of the year. II
tones the stomach, creates an appetite, pro.
notes healthy digestion, regulates the bow.
els. renews and enriches the blood and
builds up the system while it eradicates
disease. Bludbilder cures Dyspepsia, Indi.
gestion, Costiveness, Heartburn, Sick Head.
ache. Catarrh, Rheumatism, Boils, Scrofula.
and diseases Of the blood. liver and kidneys.
Pleasant to take and the dose is small.
Price 81; Six for s.. Prepared only by J.
". Cole q Co., Black River Falls Wis.
Sold by Druggists and Dealers In Medicine
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
Ofnithologic2l.

'They say asparrow has been known
to hatch out king birds eggs"
eyes; but what of that3 I've known
many an Eagle to father Lark
Puck.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

A Rockport man has a cat which was
brought from Iceland which has per-
fectly white fur and deep blue eyes.
The most interesting thing about it is
that it is deaf and dumb. Boston Her.
aid.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

Way back in Morse's Geography the
rising generation is informed that GER
tain town contained 400 houses and
1000 inhabitants, all standing with
their gable ends to the street,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
ITO HlII XH BRIDE

has proved very acceptable gift in many
thousands oI homes during the past few
years, and we will continue the offer for 1890,
This offer amounts practically to years
subscription to THE HOUSEHOLD to every
newly married couple in the United States
and Canada, the only conditions being that
the parties Tor their friends) apply for the
present within one year from the date of their
marriages enclosing ten cents for postage,
and such evidence as viii amount to reason
able proof that they are entitled to the mag
azine up6er this offer
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
Famine in MADEIRA.

CALCUTTA, May 5.-The famine in
Madeira continues, and it is feared that
the monsoon will fail, thereby intensity
ing distress.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
LATEST MARKET PRICES.
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.

HOGS-Steady, 81. 6l@465.
CATTLE-Ste ady but slow. Good steers
$4Q5 good COWS, S3G4 %; feeders. S3.Q3.75
stockers, $}.50Qg3.2j; common and mixed, 81 &c
@3.50.
SHEEP-Steady. Muttons. $40O0550
lambs, So. 0006.0 O; feeders, So 75l1459, stock.
els and common, $50 G42j: mixed, So. 756
5.25.
Receipts: 20o hogs, 300 cattle. III calves, No
sheep.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

Drs. Starkey & Palen have the liberty to
persons who have tried their treatment
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
THE TRIBUNE
OF MINNEAPOLIS,
TRY:THE CURE.

OF MINNEAPOLIS,
Makes the foZz5mk ots7 to all
persons DESTROYS Of 0ecom-
ing patrons Of that paper:
l. The Tribune Company will
mail to any subscriber in the North
west the Sunday edition for So a
year; 6 months, ST..
2. Its daily edition for S. per an
mum, or SITS for months.
3. Its v.lin5 edition for soc. a
month, or months for ST..
4. The Farmers Minneapolis
Tribune will be mailed to any sub
scriber for 81 year, or Coo. for E
months.
When ono considers that the Trib-
une Company's publications, either
the Sunday, the Daily or the evening
editions are equal In every respect to
any other publication in the North
west, it will at once he apparent that
any person who pays at the rate of
IS year or 81 a month for his
morning paper, orS5 year or soc. a
month tor an evening paper, Is fool
ing away his money.
All communications should be ad.
dressed to
THE TRIBUNE,
minneapOIis, MINI,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
What is

Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
and Children. contains neither Opium, Morphine
other Narcotic substance. 1t is harmless substitute
Paregorc, Drops Soothing Syrups and Castor Oil.
1t Pleasant. guarantee is thirty years. by
Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feversness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhaa and Wind Collie. Castora relieves
teethng troubles, constipation and hatulency:
Castora assimates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural Sleep Gas.
toria is the Childrens Panaceathe Mothers Friend.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

Hon. VIM. D. Kelley, Member Of Congress
Philadelphia.
Rev. Victor L. Conrad, Ed. Luth'n Ohserv.
er, Philadelphia.
Rev. Charles w. Cushing, D. D., Rochester,
N.Y.
Hon. VIM. Penn Nixon, Ed. Inter-ocean
Chicago. III.
w. II. Worthington, Editor New South
New York.
Jadge II, P. vreoman, Quenemo, Kansas
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. Melrose, Massa
chusetts.
Mr. E. @ Knight, Philadelphia.
j. Moore. supt. Police. Blandford, Dorset
shire, Bng.
Jacob Ward, BowraI, New South Vale
And thousands of others in every part o 1.-THE
United States.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
st. Paul Grain.

WHEAT-No. l hard, $.USLa sLO9; No. l
Northern, $l,0j01.G6 No. Northern, SlO3
@l.G4.
CORN-No 3. 63166c.
OATS-No. 2 mixed. 49d5lc; No. 2 white,
52a5}c Nor white, 80 85l1Ic.
BARLEY-No. 2, 7!c; No. 3, 65@70c.
RYE-No. =, S2IS3c.
GROUND FEED-No. !, SIT. OO027. 80: No
2, $24. 50125.00.
BRAN-Bulk. Sl4. O0914.50.
BALED HAY-No. | upland, $500; No. 2
$500, No. wild, 81. 50@S.CO. No. 2 wild, $3.50
100.
FLAX SEED-S1. 10Q1.11.
TIMOTHY HAY-No. l. s.. 100000; No 2,
1881
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07

Drs Starkey & Palens Office records show
over SO, 900 cases in which their original land
ynly genuine) compound Oxygen Treatment
has been used by physicians in, their prac-
] 900 physicians and more thai $4,000 inval-
Ids,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-05-07
Bludbilder

The new vegetable Tonic Alternative and
Blood Purifier acts upon the blood and
through that upon all the organs and
tissues, and its vitalizing and enriching
effect reaches every part Of the body and
imparts healthy life and yigor to all its