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St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
MURPHY AND THE SlINUET.

bad scran to it." said Murphy, as ne lit his
cigarette,
MAY old Mich las catch the man who intro
iuced the minuet
can paralyze the polka, trip the waltz with
out break,
But this minuet, it beats me-that it does! 1t
takes the cakei
Sure the muscles of me legs are cramped an
keep cOntractin yet,
Just from standin' stiff upon the floor to
dance the minuet
Did you say YOU never danced it? Sure it's
not a dance at all
You move of course-they keep you stru tin
up and down the hall;
The music plays in funeral time-yOu take
the lady's hand,
Then up you walk-and down you walk
then bow an scTape an stand.
The girls lift up their skirts as afraid they
might get wet,
And the men step out like ganders when they
walk the minuet.
OF course the dance is EnglIsh-yes, it's Eng
Hsh don't you knowi
II you didn't, you d surmise tits SO deuced
boomin slow;
But it's not because it's English | dislike it
If you please
It's the stitfness-sure you have no use for
hinges in your knees;
Yet the hdies sav it's lovely, and the whole
of them are set
On dancin nothin' else at all but the stately
minuet.
When the dance is half concluded. then tbev
let the music out
And then it is you get chance to sling your
self about;
It's polka that they may sandwich in 70
make the thing a go
Sure it only shows they know themselves the
first part is too slow
told them when we started in an keep
a-sayin yet
That they need more salaratus in their statue
mInuet.
start to walk the chalk,
IT'S the consciousness = the feeling that
you're posin' like a gawk;
And every time you raise the left an balance
on the right
Your feet walk on your conscience an YOU
wish them out OF sight;
l VIII not be Romeo to any Juliet
Who insists that ] shall crack me shane an
dance the minuet
NJ. f. Cary in Albany Press.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
He Tormented sIoss.

CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-Private James
Mcdonald, who was shot in the Fort
Sheridan barracks Saturday morning,
was buried today with military honors.
Private Amos Sloss, his assailant, was
held by cOrOner's jury for murder, and
tomorrow he will be taken to the jail at
Waukegan. Sentiment found some ex-
cuse for Sloss' act when the corOner's
jury discovered that the prisoner,
smaller man than Mcdonald, had been
for some time tantalized aud tormented
by the dead man.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
IN THE MAGAZINES.

The Christmas number of Harper's
Weekly. published Dec. 2, comprises
many new and attractive features. 1t
is included in a specially designed
cover, and is full of entertaining stories !
and beautiful pictures. The illustra-
tions, many of which are fuIl-paged.i I
are from drawings by A. b. Frost,
Frederic Remington and Rufus f. Zog-
baum. The fiction is by Rudyard Kip
ling, Richard Harding Davis, John Ken
drick Bangs and others. Mr.. Davis's
story contains another episode in the
he has so happily and successfully im-
mortalized.
Harper's Bazaar for the week contains
short story by Mrs. Oliphant, entitled
"a Chance Encounter" the continual
ton of Thomas Hardy's serial. "Tess of
tne ID UrbervllieS," and a double-page
illustration, ''Imogen," from the paint
ing by Herbert Schmalz. There is also
the usual attractive miscellany of short
articles, fashion papers, and illustra-
tions.
The Christmas number of the New
York Ledger appears in a beautiful
cover, depicting the Virgin and child
and Christmas emblemS in tones OF
blue. The contents of the number are
exceptionally interesting.
Any one not knowing just what books
to get for Christmas can easily find out
from Christmas Book News, a Philadei-
phia publication. A great deal of en-
Joyment can be had at the same time, for
this issue of 152 pages contains many
handsome illustrations from the impor-
tant holiday publications. More than
500 new bOOkS-Over 100 for children
are represented in the Descriptive Price
List, giving hit of the immense busi-
ness done by publishers and booksellers
at this time of year. After all. what
gift more suitable than a book at Christ
mas? Book News tells what books to
buy-and pr ices.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

The South Carolina planters may want
to keep their colOred hands from drink,
while the drug store will meet the
needs of white people. The bill, how
ever, may not become a law; but, if it
does, it Will hardly prove satisfactory
maoSuro
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
IDENTIFIED BY TWO.
The Bloomington, ILL.,, Mystery Is
Still UnSOiVed

BLooNuNGToN, ILL.,. Dec. IS. - The
identity of the mysterious man found
near here is likely TO be cleared up soon.
Postmaster Neville. of this city, is
sure the man is Fred Bingley, of
Fort Recovery, o., who worked for
him last fall. especially as the shoes
worn by the dead man are like those
worn by BingIey. Meanwhile Mrs.
Margaret Kaehne. of Kankakee. ILL.,, is
sure the man is her husband, Godfrey
Kaehne, whom she last heard from at
Normal Oct. 6. Both these partial ex-
plantations are being traced down by
officers, and may lead to clue to the
murderer
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
THE FRENCH PRESS.
How 1t Sizes Up the Vote of Con-
fidenCe.

fidence.
PARIS, Dec. Recommending on the
resolution adopted by the chamber of
deputies yesterday expressing conf
dence in the government i'll connection
with the anti-clerical agitation, the con-
Servative journals express qualification
at the smallness of the majority
for the government; the Republican
papers hold that the majority
is compact and sufficient to defend the
country against both radicaliSm and re-
action, and the radical journals reproach
the government for dividing the Repub-
lican ranks. The Journal des Debats
and Figaro recommend policy of con-
ciliatiOn. The Temps says that sincere
Catholics must understand that the gov
ernment will not hesitate to resort 10
force should the action of the bishops
again imperil the tranquility of the
country.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
THE KNIFE SLIPPED.
An Old Man Kills His Grand,
daughter by Accident.

WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 13.-Lena Bron-
son, who was the teacher of country
school about thirty miles west of
here, was taken with the grippe
a short time ago. She lived
with her father and grandfather,
the latter nearly ninety years old, who
had practiced medicine in his youth i'm
some Eastern village. He tried all his
mild remedies on his granddaughter
without effect, and finally came to the
conclusion that bleeding was nessarv.
The girls father would not permit
the experiment, but while he was
away yesterday, the old man
persuaded the girl to let him try taking
a little blood from her arm. In his
feeble hands the knife slipped and the
bronchial artery was severed. The
grandfather tried to stop the flow of
blood, but without avail, and when the
father returned he found his daughter
dead and his father by her side in
swoon. The grandfather has since died
from the shock.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Books Received.

From Roberts Bros, Boston. "Pris'' by the
author of Miss Toosey's Mission"
From the Century company, New York, ''St
Nicholas for 1SJI.n century Magazine, -
Vol. ~.
From Charles Wells Mouiton. Buffalo, 1.-THE
Southern Cross and Other Poems.'' by Lillian
RoZeI Messenger.
From Stuart & Co. San Francisco THE
Junior Partner" by 4. NJ. Kawson.
s From A. c. McClurg d Co, Chicago. THE
co;tish Chiefs" by Jane Porter short
History of England" by E. S. Kirkland. y
Song of Lie, by Margaret Warner Morley
From BancroftWhitney company. San
Francisco, The American State reports. -
Vol. II, by a. e. Freeman.
From Estes * Laurias, Boston, Chatter
Lex"
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Barrios WiIIRun Again.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13. = Gen.
Ireno BarrlOs, the GuatemaIan exile,
sailed OIL the steamer City of Sydney
yesterday, for his native country. An
election will be held in Guatemala
shortly, and Gen. Barrios says he has
received plenty of encouragement from
his friends. He will go home face all
trouble, and battle for the control of
the government as presidential candio
date
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

PHILADELPHIA is not the place one
would look for a brass band TO afford
music at a Methodist church Sunday
evening, but thatis the way it isreported.
Itdrew the people, and the preacher said
there was a precedent for it in the well
come home to the prodigal son. The
fat calf and other incidents would help
out the attraction.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Yale Has 1.7s4 Students.

New HAVEN, Conn, Dee. I3.-The
Yale catalogue, just issued, places the
total number of students in college as
1.7S4. The total number of the MEM
bers of the faculty and instructors has
been increased from 147 to l54. The
number of elective courses open to the
upper classes have been Increased from
il9 10 123.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
BAD MAN ABROAD.
A Pittsbnrger Passing Forged
Checks in Missouri.

Checks in Missouri.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-. Dec. ia
stranger giving the name of George NJ.
Laughlin, of PittSburg, Pa, and
describing himself as a capitalist ana
owner of large iron works at Pittsburg
in search of site for plant to employ
not less than 1.50O men. spent
yesterday in looking up locations
here shown by land owners. Last night
he attempted to pass a check for S55,
indOrsed by the cashier of the First
National Bank of Sedala. Telegraphic
inquiries revealed that the check was
spurious, and today the fellow was put
i'll jail. On HIM was found similar
check for $500, also on the SedaIia
bank. He is believed to be the man who
has worked several Missouri towns in
the same way under the name of Cava-
naugh.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

IN THE old times people who had
early dates fixed for the conclusion of
mundane affairs often gave away their
property, but the Kansas woman who is
operating with Christmas as the date
has persuaded her 500 followers to fix up
a magnificent residence for her. She
means to be prepared for mistakes in
dates
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Periodicals Received.

The Graphic, The Graphic company Chi
cagO.
The New York Ledger, Robert Bonner's
Sons. New York
Babyhood the Babyhood Publishing COM
pany. New York
The Youths Companion. Boston.
Harpers Young People Harper & Bros,
New York
Harper's Weekly, Harper d Bros, New
York
Book News, John Wanamaker, PhiIadel-
Dhia
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Crushed his skull

BosToN, Pa, Dec. 13.-At a social
dance here last night John Law and his
friend, j. W. McCracken, quarreled
over who should dance with a young
lady. They renewed the quarrel on the
street, and Law crushed McCracken's
skull with cobblestOne. Both men are
we'll connected.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

BosToN papers need hardly exercise
their sympathies over the sufferings of
the Northwest from the bowling biz
yards and frigid conditions. 1t would
be relief if the zephyrs were not quite
SO balmy and the thermometers would
keep down nearer the freezing point.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

SENATOR CULLoM, OF Illinois, is a
very obliglng gentleman. He was will
ing to be candidate for president. but,
as his boom would not fill, he consents to
take the second place. He will have to
step down again when st. Paul's stall
wart son looms up at Minneapolis.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

NOTICE was given in the churches
yesterday that the gOvernordesired con-
tributions for the destitute in Russia.
There is no question of the need. but
who knows how the right parties are to
be reached?
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
The Bear Seized Nothing.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13.-The Unit
ed States revenue cutter Bear arrived
last night from the Arctic The Bear
left here last June fol the Behring sea
to protect seals from pirates, but did not
make any seizures. The cutter. Rnsh
is expected in few days, having left
the north shortly after the Bear.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

IN LONDON parties want to have re-
freshmentS served in the boxes at
theaters. Perhaps they do not have the
American custom of going out between
acts for liquid consolation.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

For ST. Paul, Minneapolis and vicinitY:
Forecast to 8 a. IN. Tuesday: Colder; south
to west winds; rain, followed Monday even
ing or night by fair weather.
Z. Z. LYONS, Local Forecast Official.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

The attempt to establish chaperone
bureau for the use of young women in
New York has proved failure. The
only escort the young women want is
the Young man.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
PARNELL WAS IN DEBT.
His Friends Want NationaIists to
Pay the Bills.

Pay the Bills.
LONDON, Dec. 13.-Mrs. Della Stewart
Parnell. mother of the ate Irish leader,
left Liverpool at midnight for Dublin,
accompanied by her son John. She
spoke hopefully of the Parnellite cause
and said that she believed her presence
in Ireland gave an impetus to the Par
nellite movement and denounced the
anti-Parnellites. Developments show
that Mr.. Parnell, although far from
bankrupt, was considerably in debt at
the time of his death, and his friends
claim that these debts we're chiefly in
Cured i'll expenses that ought to be met
from Nationalist SOnrcns
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

THE election of Democrat for mayor
of the largest city in Rhode Island, for
the first time in thirty-seyen years, looks
as if that state were to be in the band
wagon next year.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
By the Fall of a Building.

LONDON, Dec. 13.-By the fall of
building in Newport today, two adja-
cent cottages were completely crushed.
ten persons being severely injured.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

If CYRUS w. FIELD is recovering his
health and has a million or so left out
of the debris, he may still get some
good out of life.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Spain Raising Millions.

MADRID, Dec, 13.-The Epoca con-
firms the announcement that loan of
S50,000,000 has been arranged to be is
sued on the 30th inst.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

ONE r.two persons in town claim
that they have the genuine grippe.
They ought to have more local pride.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

If SMALL doses of free trade disguised
as reciprocity are good with Germany.
why not with other parts of Europe?
There is trouble TO explain.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Won BuIoIy Very Low.

BERLIN, Dec. 13.-VOn Bulow, the
famous German pianist, is critically ill
with influenza. He will be sixty-one
years old on Jan. s.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

THE Chinese rebellion is crushed, but
it may be like truth-not that that IS a
Chinese characteristic, however.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

TRI-WEEKLY- DAILY Monday, "Wednesday
ard Friday.)
yr in advance 81 90 6 mos. in adv..S2 90
months in advance 81 90.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
AMONG THE BOOKS.

Ii is rare that pleasure and profit are
so nicely combined as in "a Song of
Life" 1t is Juvenile book telling in
an Interesting and simple way how
plants and animals grow. The Illus
tratiOnS are exquisite pen and ink
sketches along the margins, and the
whole book is JOY to the eye and
food to the mind.
"The Junior Partner Is strong
and uncOmprOmising temperance les
son. The story fails in many respects
to satisfy the demands of literary excel
Ience but the lesson is never forgotten,
and the tale, were it little less long
drawn out, t,would be very readable. Ad-
vOcateS of the temperance cause will
ind much to commend in the book.
1t would be hard to find among all
the holiday books any more full of
pleasure TO girls and boys than the
bound volumes of ST. Nicholas. No
other juvenile publication compares
with the magazine, and the binding
adds greatly TO the book.
"The Southern Cross is a very ambi-
4iOus effort i'll blank verse. ItpoSseSses
some literary merit, but is occasionally
utterly inc0mprehensible. Other poems
in the same volume are more worthy of
giving title to the book.
Chatterbox,a a household word i'm every
home in the land. has become endeared
in the hearts of two generations. and
the readers of the early volumes are now
men and women, who know that no
books Will delight their children more,
or instruct them to a greater extent,
4 Ill
whose sales have long since mounted
above the million mark. Nearly a hun
dTed tons OF paper are used each year
in the production of this king of juve-
niles. and month after month the presses
turn into the bindery great loads OF the
printed material, the whole process re-
Quiring a legion of workers, who are
kept busy supplying the holiday de-
mand. This year, to add to the enOr-
Gus sales, the publishers have spared
no expense or trouble in securing
paper that would do entire justice to
this royal juvenile, and make the illus
trations appear to their best advantage,
and, if possible. bring the book nearer
the zenith OF juvenile perfection.
Harper & Brothers latest announce
ments include the Life of Gen. Thomas
J. JACKSON tOtOneNall JdcKSOn)," by MS
wife, Mary Anna Jackson, with an in
PRODUCTION by Rev. Henry NJ. Field, ID.
D.; George du MauTier's novel, peter
lbbetsOn," with characteristic llustra-
lt1Ons by the author; Letters of Charles
Dickens to Wilkie Collins" edited by
Laurence Hutton; a biography of Jas
min, Barber, Poet and Philanthro-
pist." by Samuel Smiles, and volume
of ESSAYS by George William Curtis, en-
titled From the Easy Chair" being
selections from papers which originally
appeared in the Easy Chair of the Har-
per'S Magazine.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

SUNDAY ALONE.
1 VT in advance. So 90 mos in adv. SOC.
4 m. in advance. 90 l m. in adVance.2Oc
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Duke of Devonshire Dying.

LONDON, Dec. 13.-1he Duke-of Dew
onshire is growing weaker, and may d1
at any moment.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

not to the nomination of the Mime
apolis convention may be regarded as
rood
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
CHIPS.

The St Paul curriers' are now in active
training for The winter down in the Raspberry
island club house. The brawny Scots of st.
Paul are adopts in the sport, and there are
great many enthusiastic yotaries here. They
play nightly, and often during afternoons
the cry ''SwOop 'er oop, JamieI'' is heard
from the rinks.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

Rejected communications cannot be pre-
served. Address all letters and teiegrams to
TILE CLONE. ST. Paul. Minn.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

Mr.. BLAINE is to talk to the Mer-
chants club IN Boston Jan.7. Wagers
that he viii allude to reciprocity and
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14
Eastern Advertising 0ifica-Room 81
TriI,une RuildiuU, New York.

Complete files of the GLOBE always kept on
hand for reference. Patrons and friends are
cordially invited 10 visit and avail themselves
of the fSciiilies of our Eastern Ohce while
in New York.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

DAILY AND SUNDAY.
I VT in advance $40 90 mos. in adv..S2 90
M in advance 5 90 5 weeks in adv. 90
One month. .S5c.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

How many are there in st. Paul who really
appreciate the importance of the course of
domestic economy taught i'll the public
schools? There are possibly none who do
not realize that great deal of practical good
must result however. Many of the little
school girls are taught the rudiments of sew
ing at their homes. it is true, but when one
takes comprehensive survey of the thou
sands OF homes III the city, and becomes fa-
mlliar with the domestic regulations. it will
be discovered that there is a vast number of
them where the girls are either neglected e n
tirely in sewing, or they are merely shown
how to do certain things in an Indifferent
way. When you find the girl that has been
well taught at home, and who has been en-
couraged in industrious occupation until she
has cultivated liking for needlework, you
are liable to find an exception to the ordinary
cases.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

WEEKLY ST. PAUL GLOBE.
One year 81 six mo-, Csc Three mo-, SIC
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

1t would be hard to find among all
the holiday books any more full of
pleasure TO girls and boys than the
bound volumes of ST. Nicholas. No
other juvenile publication compares
with the magazine, and the binding
adds greatly to the book.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

1t is often remarked by mothers that Gertie
or Alice has an innate distaste for the needle.
The mother has, perhaps, given the girl some
little thing 10 sew, and the childs inability
TO do the work skillfully visits discourage
ment upon her at once. and too often it ends
there, and the girl grows into wOmanhood
with only the more crude ideas of sewing,
and, more is the pity, with pronounced dis
like for it.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

BY instructing plain sewing in the public
schools, the girls are taught co-ordinately
with their book learning. Sewing becomes
a diversion or recreation that is not only ac-
ceptable bnt a real pleasure. And so all the
girls of a whole city cultivate taste for
needlework and acquire a skill that in after
years will be invaluable, especially to girls
who are unable to hire everything done in
this line. They will become neat, tidy and
dressy, no matter what their station in life,
and it is such girls that make thrifty house
wives and will grace happy and prosperous
homes
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

So New York is talking of 1000, 900 ap-
preparation for an exhibit at the worlds fair
The prospect is that New York Will be ex-
tremely hoarse before the appropriation is
wrung from its reluctant pocketbook.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-12-14

"The Southern Cross is very ambi-
4iOus effort i'll blank verse. ItpoSseSses
some literary merit, but is occasionally
utterly incOmprehenSible. Other poems
in the same volume are more worthy Of
giving title to the book.
, 1891-03-26
curlou. Lore About Mapdraks.

Perhaps the most extraordinary of the
properties attributed to mandrake are
those which it shared in common with the
rastrivtrava OF Russia, Of enabling house
breakers to pick locks, which is certainly
one Of the most amusing developments Of
the solar theory. Love, " it is said, laughs
at locksmiths, " but the connection between
the mandrake and "burgling" seems a lit
tie forced. There is a tradition that the
moOnwort will unshoe horses if they step
upon the plant, and similar powers have
been attributed to the vervain and the
mandrake.
1t is, on the other hand. still part Of the
rural lore Of OXfordshire. Buckingham
shire and Hampshire that the root will
improve a horses condition; but this seems
to be founded upon the Identification of
the mandrake with the bryony, which
played such a great part in old English
herbalism. 1t is, however, more thar
doubtful whether the plants belong to the
anne class. But both are alike In the curl
Gus wealth Of legend which surrounds
them. East and west meet In their folk
and flower lore.-ChHmbers' journal.
, 1891-03-26

We have lust received a copy Of the
text OF the speech delivered by Senator
Carey at the Woman Suffrage couvru-
ton held in Washington. In it occurs
this paragraph:
When the rebellion, which was to de-
stroy the last vcsticc Of slavery in this
country, was In progress. Mr.. Lincoln
conceived the idea of providing for the
more rapid creation OF new states in the
west, but without the blot of slavery and
injustice upon their names; and this idea
became one of the great principles Of the
political party with which he was asso
cIatsd.
The impression generally prevails that
this idea originated soon after the adop-
ton OF the national constitution. Slavery
as an institution became a subject OF o n
tention when the invention Of the cotton
gin IN 1898 demonstrated the value Of
slave labor, and this idea was distinctly
introduced in congress as early as 1919.
when the admission Of Missouri as free
state divided congress not on political but
on sectional lines, the free states against
the slave states. From the adoption Of
the Missouri compromise of 1920 until
the breaking out Of the war it was the
settled policy Of the sections to offset the
admission Of a slave state by the admis
sion Of a free state.