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St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-08
MINNEAPOLIS WANTS

COOK-Wanted. first-class woman pastry
~ cook; also girl to do dining-room and
chamber work at ST. James hotel, Mime
OF
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A TT Ilented Salesman.

Fair Custor ler-Is this real antique?
Furniture Oealer-A-er-modern re-
vival and-eli-evolution Of an ancient
court style. nadal.
Fair Gust omer (doubtfully) - What
kind of WOO j is it?
Dealer lin Ipressively)-Wood? Madam.
this is the Toot that poets have raved
over when ;llluding to the music of ma
ture. 1t Isl the wood that first greeted
the eyes of the weary Pilgrims at Plym-
outh Rock: as the mighty trees, rich in
verdure, bent beneath the snow. 1t is
the wood hat even now attracts invalids
to the fore SITS where it grows. It is pine.
madam - genuine pine. - New York
Weekly,
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A Slick Hotel Beat

The fellow had no baggage when he reg.
lstered flrst at the Markham house Satur-
day, but had very glib tongue and told
such plausible story that he was permit
ted TO register and given a room He was
well dressed and a very pleasant spoken
fellow, and his bill for extras soon assumed
startling proportions. The hotel people
became alarmed, and after ne had been
there several days party stopping there
told them he was beat. The clerk fixed
up scheme. and that evening be got into
TIE fellows room on some pretext after he
had retired and calmly gathering up the
Ieiiow's coat, vest and pants told him they
could be redeemed at the Office for the
amount of his bill
The fellows nerve did not desert him
even In this extremity. He borrowed a
macintosh coat from the clerk which
reached to his heels, which he put on over
ms underclothing, in order to go after
some money, and walked TO the kimhsu
house, where he boldly registered and was
SHOWN to a room, leaving word that when
ms baggage arrived il was TO be kent until
Ae got up IN the morning.
AT about o'clock on Sunday morning
he came jumping down stairs. making q
great noise of tale of robbery. in which
he Iad lost his clothes and SIS IN cash.
ne noNei management, without Stopping
10 investigate the fellow. got him a new
SUIT OF Clothes and paid him Ss5. rather
than nave sucn notoriety attached TO the
house Ihe fellow then walked back 20
the Markham house paid his bill, obtained
ms clothes and jumped out OF town.
Chattanooga TineA
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1
Who built the Washington monument,
| Funny creatures with shells made r. long
ages ago at the bottom Of the sea Some
OF them were little and some quite big. bos
all of them left their houses behind them
when they died, to furnish material for Q
| memorial to the father of his country
II you will go up to the top Of the hiH, at
the foot OF which are the fish ponds, and
viii examine closely some of the stones Of
which the monument is built, Won will find
| their surface smooth, with no visible trace
| of the individual shells that lent Their sub
| stance TO this mighty structure symbolicAl
OF eternity. This is because the shells in
the beds from which the marble came were
SO squeezed together by pressure and other
wise metamorphosed as to be reduced to q
simple mass of lime
In many marbles, however you viii dis
cover the shells quite visible. so that their
very form, preserved for goodness knows
how many centuries, lends beauty TO the
polished rock. Few things can be more IN
teresting than TO observe the trace of what
was once living organism in a formation
which so evidently dates back TO an es,och
long before the earliest possible appearance
OF man upon the globe
But the mere deposit OF such shells did
not make marble. 1t required geologic
action to effect the Transformation Of the
limestone into the material which com
poses the Washington monument. For
instance, when, by the cooling Of the
earth's crust, the latter was crumpied I'D
so rs to form mountains, great hea. was
developed, and limestone beds ia places
where such action took place went through
a process Of capitalization by the heat,
thus forming what is known as rnarbs.
Wherever traces Of the original shells
which compose the limestone are found
they are called fossil shells. II the rnonu-
mens contained snch shells. visible in their /
original shape. 1t would be most inter
esting memorial Of toe world before the 4
deluge, az well as Of the immortal George
.WashinQton Star
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or ruptured orphans over eighty years
OF age, may be permitted TO enlist under
the provisions of section l ,420 of the re-
vlsed statutes of the United States.
Applicants must be able TO read and
write, but, if well. strong and bright,
viii not be required to read Browning
and explain same while not under the
influence of liquor
Shipping articles consist of the con-
sent OF parent or guardian. together with
plug of bronze chewing tobacco. a New
Testament and marine glass holding
three pints.
Boys who have been convicted of q
capital otfense will not be accepted IN
less they can cancel their date of execu-
ton without loss to local managers.
Recruits are at once. upon their &C.
ceptance, made to battle and visit the
barber. Some have to do this before
they can be examined. After the bath.
new birth marks. Swiss sunsets in India
TX. tattooed Raphaels and gayly rornp-
ing scddesses of liberty emerge from the
mist of gathering years and reveal to
the astonished surgeon new and beauti-
fuI designs in dados and home decora-
tons.
The boys are questioned and sworn in
on the starboard side and examined phys
lcally on the port side-on the port side
OF the ship. If you do not know which
Is the port side, you may easily detect it
oy asking the ensign or the commanding
oincer. The wash room aud barber shop.
containing three chairs, are up one
Hight, abaft the foyer.
Dr' heeney said he had some odd ex-
pefences with color blind bows ON ex-
ANIMATION. One applicant was reject
Ell on account of color blindness wboi
turned out TO De an assorter of colors iuj
a SIX factory. After further investiga-
ton 1t was shown that his trouble wa,
IN distinguishing primary colors. After
that he would name the slightest change
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4 Sharp Woman.


A boy was driving load of horse bedding
down Trumbull avenue the other day,
when a woman called to him from the
steps and asked
How much for the loads"
"Twelve shillings."
"Well, l want it."
"Have you barn, ma ann"
"No; want it for the grass"
"But-, but"
UNLOAD it right there and I'll get some
body to scatter it over the lawn Grass
wants something to protect it this time of
year, and this will make good fertilizer
in the spring"
Its horse bedding. ma'am," protested
the boy.
Cant see that. Here's your money"
The boy grinned and backed up and I'M
loaded the huge bulk of dry chip shavings
on the lawn, and he had only finished when
the woman hired boy to mulch" the
grass. Outside of all the neighbors have
said and figured and outside of all the
smiles and grins of the passers by, it is es-
timated that it will take seventeen full
grown men three steady weeks of hard
work to get those shavings out of the grass
when spring comes.-Detroit Free Press.
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To Take Gutta Percha's Place.

Important, if true" must be the com
ment on the recently announced discovery
of substitute for gutta percha. The new
substance comes from plant growing wild
in Goa, and it is said to be insoluble in water,
to soften under heat and to harden in the
cold. 1t receives, moreover, and retains a
given nodded shape, can be cast into very
thin sheets and is capable of taking the
minutest impressions on its surface
Though white when it flows from the tree,
In its dried state it is of chocolate color,
closely resembling gutta percha
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Fresh Trouble for the Tom alto.

No article of food has been the subject
OF more controversy than the tomato.
First it was classed as a poison. Then it
took rank among remedial agents, and
finally it secured an honored place at
table. Now it is the object of several as
saults. One physician says it is hurtful to
the system, another declares that it pro-
notes decay of the teeth, and to cap the
climax learned old lady of Boston holds
it responsible for moral decadeRce She
says it affects the brain in such way as
to obliterate the distinction between right
and wrong"
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of remarkably accurate predictions. Mr..
De Voc runs a saw mill at Kackensack,
n. j., and devo5es all his spare time to
meteorological studies He contends that
fixed laws control the wind and rain, the
sunshine and the thunder storm One of
my strongest conclusions is that the wealth
er is greatly Influenced by the moons shad-
ow. Another thing have learned is that
the area affected by storms, earthquakes
and atmospheric disturbances is always
elliptical in FORM
One result of Mr.. De Woes success az a
private investigator of natural phenomena
is big daily mail. A Texas man writes
that he took your weather tip" and
thereby saved his sheep from a norther
Similar faith profited grateful New York
iceman, and from hustling real estate
auctioneer an offer has been received to
give Mr.. De Voc so for each clear day for
future sales that he may name, On con-
dition that the prophet pay forfeit for
each failure of mis- predictions.
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in shade with great accuracy, like "plnf
No. 90" 'gre' IN No. Is, etc., clear down
to fraction. but he couldn't be relied
upon to tell p lain green from blue.
When first received on board the
training ship the boys receive an outfit
of clothing va lued at $45. This amount
has to be re- funded if the wearer does
not serve out the term of his enlistment,
as the clothil ag very rarely FITS the ad-
miral or hea. is of bureaus at Washing
ton, and so is prac tically worthless.
Apprentices. are gradually transferred
to seagoing essels as the.F become pro-
fcient in the course of pre- paration to be
laid down by the bureau OF navigation.
Upon the e; ,piration of his enlistment
the recruit Till, if reco: nmendsd, re-
ceive an homo rable dischs rge and con-
tinuous servit :e certificate. Upon re-en-
listment with in three mo Dths from the
date of discha rye he will be entitled to
three months pay and the freedom of
| the Atlantic ocean and an increase Of 81
per month, W hich iae Inay invest in gov
| eminent bonds or over into the United
! States treasury, ret Giving silver certii
! Gates for same; or ] le, can, through some
reliable broker in Jew York, negotiate
! for nice, large wa termelon.
The engineer cam {. on board before we
left, and after exami ming the place where
the engines used 3 be retired to his
apartments for nue. 4 needed rest. The
gunner was not on board, but by good
luck / did not know it while was there,
and so felt comparat lively secure. While
walking aft | thong htlessly ran my UNI
brella through one O { the timbers of the
ship, but fortunately did not spread it.
The Minnesota Is very old ship, and,
like the acting of ia mes Owen O'Conor,
somewhat rotten. Unlike his stage
work, however, it WI IS not always rotten.
Peace and gentle, eternal slumber to
the brave old Shipl She has won the
quiet dock and com Portable repose that
come in the twilight of AN honorable life.
Thanking the offio ers for the pleasure
and delightful hospi tally of the day,
got the ships carpeu ter to hammer out
the places where my high hat had
buckled to, and, shaking hands all
around, we take OF n lives in our hands
and start up Fifth eth street for home.
Here it was, along this street, that the
Minnesota's Japan csc steward was held
up by gang an d made to treat the
west side. thin things have come to
fine pass when our navy is forcibly
held up within + alf dozen blocks of
the cathedral am made to buy rum for
total stranger.
And yet that is West Fiftieth street, |
looking west as ven in the broad glare
of day. What must it be in the dark
ness? thought as I waded up through |
the opaque atm' ,sphere and the choppy
pavement that l would hate to leave
anything out o. 'er night in that neigh
borhood that | cared anything about.
Especially my II .otives, unless expected
to find them i'm ougned the next morn
ing.
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Was One of the Family.

c Of the queerest happenings of recent
date involves the editor of Missouri week
ly paper as its victim. The editor is a
Shakespearian student, and published
some time ago a rather savage criticism of
the long dead dramatist. 1t hardly seemed
possible that any one could object to the
article save on purely literary grounds, yet
few days after farmer named John
Shakespeare entered the sanctum and
thrashed the author ''fer insuItin' the fam
ilyn
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It Seemed Strange to Her

Wife You don't tell me that Professor
A has BEEN struck dumb?
Husbal ld-Yes, last night. And he
was master Of seven languages.
Wife-Is it possible? And was he
struck dnmb in all seven?-Texas Sift-
ings.
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How


How can a man on a dollar day
Charter a seat at a popular play,
and purchase cigars and tobacco, pray?
He can't.
How car he sport an elegant tile,
Ask his dear friends to step out for "a srnile,n
And stable a 2:40 animile?
He can't.
How can he frolic with better fed friends.
When. in cold perspiration, he's at his wits
ends
If his washwoman after her half dollar sends?
He can't.
How can he bear to be called poor cad,-
How oln he dress in big fancy plaid;
His credit won't kept is 'fragrantly" bad?
He can't.
How bny perfumery, handkerchiefs, too.
The edges all stamped with a red kangaroo,
And change linen cuffs every Sunday or two?
He can't.
How can he claim his dear girls slender hand.
And circle her finger with glittering band
When MS check books so weak ii scarcely can
stand?
He can't.
How ran he marry and furnish a wife
With the many small comforts which sweeten
this life?
We Eust state the cold truth. though 1t cuts
like knife
He can't.
Rochester Talisnau
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Two Western Women.

Washington has a number of bright
Wyoming women, among whom is Mrs.
Senator Carey. She is an enthusiastic be-
lever in the benefits conferred by female
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The acreage of the geological gardens in
Europe ranges from about half dozen to
half a hundred acres, but hardly one Of
them has room enough for its animals
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No Inducement.

A man at the postoffice gave newsboy
twenty-five cents yesterday to go and get
him paper. and when the lad returned he
was handed an extra nickel with the re-
marx:
That is for your honesty, my boy"
"But-but"- stammered the boy as he
looked from the coin to the man and back
again.
"Well?"
why, sir, it's only five cents, and
could have run away with the whole quar-
terfs-Detroit Free Press
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FIGS AND THlSTlES.

Lore Is always the gamer By being tested
A good nazy people would say more II
they didn't talk 50 much.
II l. wasn't for lis light nobody would
ever Ind cut that the sun has spots on L.
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MRS. JOSEPH NJ. CAREY.

stsS. JOShPH NJ. CAREY.
suffrage, in which belief her stalwart hus-
band gallantly seconds her. Tall and
graceful, the center of large circle Of &C.
quaintances formed during q long resi-
dence at the capital, Mrs. Carey is some
thing more than the ordinary woman of
society. She is familiar with all the great
political issues. Politicians like to talk
to her, and more than once have her ideas
been incorporated in telling speeches in
congress.
The lovely representative Of Oregon is
Che wife of Senator Mitchell. The hight
of youth is still strong in her face, al
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Missed q Lunch.

The Rev. E. A Horton told good story
at the Claiming club ON Tuesday evening.
A special service was being held at which
programmes were distributed. On them
was printed. Sermon ut 1890, collection
at 1880" The word collection W ss a mis-
print for collation., and many people missed
q good lunch.-Boston Traveller.
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Wertn2n-I dent think much Of your
poetry, Tenner
Tepner Coiium-Eos / don't think
nacli when ] wEise i,--Americxn Gro
ceT
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u MINI
Clicago. Rock Island B Pacific RV.

Including Lines Esst and Wsst Of sns Missourf
River The Direct Route % saad fsn IA CHICAGO
RoCK 16LAED. DAVENPORT, Dss MofNEn
COUNCIL BLUFFe. WATXRTOWH. sioux
FALLS. MINNEAPOLIS. e.. PAUL. 81 yCe.
EPH, ATCHIsoS, LEAvKE WORTH RAraAB
CITY, TOPEKA. DEEVEH. COLORADO So nos
and PUEBLO. Free Reclining CT air Cars 20 an8
rom CHICAGO. CALDWELL. HUTCHINSON
and DOD0x CITY. sad Palace eies p4Es Cars be-
tween CHICAGO. WICHITA and uuTcfIEs og.
Daily Trains 20 and troTn EiE0YIsHEa. IN ia
rrS. Ter
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BILL NYES NAVY NOTES
ne PIRATES OF THE GOOD SHIP
MINNESOTA AND HER MISSION.
The Sprightly Young American Who En-
tiers the Navy With or Without Parents.
Adorned With Ornamental Illustrations
Cleaned from Many Sources.
Copyright By Edgar W. Nye.

copyright by Edgar w. Nye.I
At the time of this writing the United
States steamship Minnesota lies at the
foot of Fiftieth street, North river. She
is housed over for the winter, and looks
like the trim little craft in which Noah
defed the long wet spell and saved his
allied show to delight and astonish ma
tions yet unborn. She is one of the
United States training ships designated
by the secretary Of the navy for the pur-
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How can man on a dollar day
Charter a seat at popular play,
and purchase cigars and tobacco, pray?
He can't.
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SOLID VEsTIEUlE ExPREss TalIHs

Ct Through Coaches. ElsrDers. ard DfEtzx Cars
daily between CHICAGO. DIES NogEEs COEs:e
GIL BLUFFS asd OMAHA snd Free rscliufaR
Chair Cara between CHICAGO sud UERyHA
COLORADO sPEIro9 and PUEBLO. via s. Jos
spk. Kansas City and Top<ks- Gscl1Yxisas
5afty. with Choice Sf Routes 20 and freEa saH
Lake, Portland. Los Angeles and 1ss YyEneisuo.
The Direct Li1s 20 and hsD r7a&'s Pear NsEs-
to1- osyasE Of -. oods the aazltsxsz3s szd
bcsEfa C-azdkurp cf Coloxaaa
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Via The Albert Lea Route.
esHs Irprsss Trains daily between chiesss .as
EtzDsspeiss asd 81 Pal, VITA THRoUaH IA
citrlns cnslx Cars fyEGxl 20 saa f,ssa tAes.
ro1nS sze KaEsss csty. Thrvzsh Caasr Car "a
sissp~r sstvssn Peoria. srict Lac ssd sisss
Tany via Aoek fslsst Ts3 ysvsrft~ La =
TIE ssSrt Lsns via ssssos soa xsskAkss s<srs
fsc4lLss 20 travel - as1 fozz Lz1fsEsz<ls. ca
c1azfaa sEf s<Ssr esufssrs rS<1ts.
Far Ilsksts, Mas. yca6srs. 90 1ssfrs< ieszr-EsS
t.sz- syply q. y CssSoz Tsekss o6os. car ss1ysss
e. ST. JOHN, JOHN SEBASTIAN
ossI Manager. o<E1 To . Pas. Ar
CHICAGO. L.
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How can he frolic with better fed friends,
When. in cold perspiration, he's at his wits
ends
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How car he sport an elegant tile,
Ask his dear friends to step out for "a smile.
And stable 240 animile?
10
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-01-06

adequate protection against the cupidlty
and dishonesty of those who are engaged
in foisting on the public impure and IN
healthy food products and drugs.
The Paddock Pure Food Bill is general
and national in its scope and effect, pro-
tecting and fostering the farming interests
of every State and Territory in the Union.
1t does not invoke the power of the
government for the purpose of taxing or
restricting any legitimate industry or
business enterprise, and would operate
equally and Justly in every section of the
country, and would not, therefore, in
juriously affect any interest or industry.
Therefore, fsvoring the doctrine of
Equal Rights for all and Special Privi-
leges for none" and being opposed to the
abuse and prostitution of t1e taxing power
Of the government and the enactment of
class legislation, by which 4 industry
is fostered and built up at the expense Of
another, we protest against the passage
of the Conger Lard Bill; while, in the
interest of public health and morals, and
to secure pure food and pure drugs, we
favor and pray for the passage of the Pad
dock Pure Food Bill.
And we remain respectfully,
j. s. JACKSON, of Alabama,
President.
J. 81. NICHOLS, of Miss, Sec'y.
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vigorous and noble manhood. He that
cares for the sparrows when they fall,
VII make all things work together for
good to them thai love God.
Resolved, That in the death of brother
Griffin, our Alliance has lost one of its
most useful members, the church an hum
bic Christian, the State a fai.hful citizen
and hu nanity a tried and true friend.
ResOlvet |, That our sympathies be en-
dered hi bereaved wife and child in this
their true of grief and desolstion, and
that We Wear the usual badge of mourn
ing for '.'f:tY days.
ResoI0 ii, That a copy of these resolu-
tons be placed upon our minutes n token
of respect to HIM, and a copy of these
resoIutIo..> be sent to his family; also to
The PIOiREssIvE FARMER and Franklin
Times with request that they be pub
lished in I'D papers.
Re- ,ectfully submitted,
W. q. BYRUM,
J. P. STROLLER,
T. 81. CoNYERs,
Committee.