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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
LIVELY BAsKET.M MAKING.
Two Men Turn Out Over Ono
Hundred Thousand in Ona
Months Work.


Jamestown Sun.
The manufacture of grape baskets
has grown to be an industry second only
to the raising of the grape in many OF
the towns along the shore of Lake
Erie. A grape basket is con-
structed of bass wood, and is made up
of eight distinct pieces, minus the
handle. The handles are not put on as
the factories, but by the growers when
used. a good basket-maker can turn
out about fifty baskets an hour if he
moves lively. Formerly what was
known as the splint basket was used
IL was a cheaper grade and not near so
strong or durable, and containing but
four pieces, was, of course, easier made /
Many people while in the grape cOun~
try might be curious to know just how
many of these splint baskets could be-
made by one man working month. A
tilt that Perry Bigelow, now of North
East, and Charles Bennett, at Portland.
once had between them. illustrates the
possibilities of spIint basket-making.
Each man differed somewhat ae to the
capabilities of the other IN that direc-
ton, and 10 settle the matter they
started thirty-day match, without
gloves. catch-as-catch-can, no particular
rules to govern, and each to work as
many hours as he choose. So it was
not only a question of EXPERIENCES, but OF
endurance Both worked in the same
shop.
What a pounding. Up and down, lika
n fash, moved the hammers IN tho
hands of the two men; like flash the
splintS were bent into place and tha
nails sent flying into their sides with
the speed of SO many hornets, and
baskets rained on the floor in shower.
Did the boys begin to get tired in tho
course of week or two! Well, if they
did they didn't show it. The longer
they kept at it the faster they worked.
Their movements were almost auto
matte and as regular as cl0ckwork, and
so evenly matched were the men that on
the Goth of the month there wasn't
a difference in their piles of twenty.
Ever and anon Charley would stop tn
wipe his face, and Perry would gain on
him; then Perry, mayhap, would have
to brush fly away, and then 1t was that
Charley got in his fine work.
The night preceding the last day Perry
went to a dance, returning at o'clock.
The race was about even up, and he
thought that by slipping into the factory
at that hour and working until breakfast
at a good lively Jog he would have Ben.
nett demorslized and beaten. He mad
just picked up bis hammer and spat on
his hands when the door opened, and lot
there was Bennett.
Four hours till breakfast, five till din
ner, and then till O'clock-tap, tap,
tapl 1t was better than a bear dance
and lively enough to stir the most stolid
citizen. Neighbors gathered in a crowd
around the shop aud watched the fun.
At exactly o'clock Perry threw his
hammer out of the window. He was
Just five baskets behind. Score: Benz
nett, $1,000; Bigelow, 52,045.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
HAD THE BE ST OF 1T.
How a Woman Succeeded IN Non
Nnnd

How a Woman Succeeded IN Nom
pIusiug a Red-Nosed Conduc tor.
New York Recorder.
He was red-nosed, and exc cynical
conductor, and all the way some dozen
or more blocks he spoke Of the intense
delight that women take in humiliating
and troubling street car conductors in
general, himself in particular. He dwelt
on woman's proneness to pass bad coins
and otherwise defraud honest con-
ductors.
1t was while he was talking that a
pleasant-faced lady signaled the car and
got In. She handed the conductor one
dollar bill from which to take her fare,
and he came 10 the rear, where the re-
porter was, to make the change.
woman all over" he growled. HAS
the right change, but wants to make
trouble"
Then he carefully and thoughtfully
made up the lady's change i'll pennies
and fve-cent pieces. He put them in
her hand and came back to the rear.
"Wait till you see her KICK" he said
gleefully.
But she didn't "kick." She calmly
counted over the change, and then
beokOned to the conductor.
"Conductor!" she said simply. "You
have not given me the right change. l
have ten cents more than should have.
Here it is" and she handed it to him,
not in pen mics. as she might have done,
but in the shape of two five-cent pieces.
The conductor returned to his place,
his red nose positively pale.
II give you my solemn word, young
fellow" he said, shat Pve been long
time in this business, an / never saw
no woman do that sort of thing before.
l wouldn't have tho'tsuch thing could
happen,'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
The Produce Markets.

Butter-Creamery, LIST, 15@16c; creamery,
I'd, 1s0l4c; dairy, LIST, 1"Ql3c; dairy. 20, leo
12c; packing stock, s09c.
Cheese , Fgl cS cream twins wins '%9Se
America, 0l2@lOc; Swiss, 12e; brick, lOc;
Limberger G@l0c.
CIder-Choice Michigan, 16gallon kegs,
81 per key; choice refined, 32-gallon kegs.
S6.75; choice refined, 32-gallOn bbls $3.50 per
bbl; Ohio cider, 81 per half Dbl; 81 per full
Dbl: orange cider per half bbl $3.50; peach,
per half bbl. So 50; pear, per half Dbl, $3.50.
Dressed Poultry-Turkeys 1l@12c; chick
ems, 1O012c: ducks and geese, 10QlIc.
Eggs-Fresh, 12@13c.
Honey-tine white new clover, 1SQ2Oe;
buckwheat, l2ll4c.
Maple Sugar-lOGl1c.
Fruits-Oranges- Riversides 3.75G1i; Mes
sinas. S2.50Gl350. Lemons-S6.50; fancy,
S6.5o@7. Dates-Persian, cobb boxes, 20
Bl2c; fards, 10-lb boxes, ll@l2c; golden, 10
ID boxes 10c. Figs-Fancy, 2CG2lc; choice,
1G@1sc; new, 2lal2c. Bananas = Fancy,
S1.7502.50 Apples-Fancy, S6.AC(17 per Dbl;
choice. 1918 per bbl. Strawberries-S3.50
per 24-quart cases. Aprieots-California, s.
s. sgBBl Gz. in boxes ''9'O'' Colorado peaches
Live Poultry-Turkeys, 1i@12e; chickens,
s@10c; ROSTERS, 7QSc; ducks and geese, s
Q10c.
Nuts-Pecans. Texas polished medium, Ice
per ID: algre l31l4c: almonds, Terragonas,
iSc; California softshelied. Use; flbcrts,
Sicily, 12c; walnuts new California, 120l5c;
eocoanuts $L506D5 per 100; hickory nuts,
large, SIPS per bu; shell-barks, small, SLIGO
1.S5 per bu; BraZils, lee; peanuts, Virginia
hand picked, &c; roasted SC.
acknowledgements, 4C650c per bu. Gel
cry, 4Oc per doz. Beans. hand-picked. medi-
UNI, Sl.75; hand-plcked navies, S2@2.25.
Minnesota cabbage, 40c per doz. Potatoes
651s5c per bu; Jersey sweet potatoes, 81: %.
Carrots 45c per blu. Turnips. 25e per Blu.
Parsnips, 65c per bu. Squash, Sl.75 per doz.
New Bermuda onions, S2.7503 per crate.
New asparagus, 69Q75c per doz. Onions,
punches, 15c per dOZ. Lettuce, punches, l5c
per dOz Radishes, lunches 15c per doz
Spinach, 40@50c. Pie plant 75e for 80
Id boxes New potatoes, Sl.25. New beets,
40650c per doZ punches; new carrots, 4J@5Oc
per doz punches; caulihOwer, Sl.25GJl50 per
doz; asparagus. 6'@75c per doz; tomatoes,
s. 5C6o3 per crate, four baskets; string beans,
81 per bu; wax beans, Sl.50 per bu; peas
minnesota, Si.50 per bu
Game-Pheasants, S4.5c@5; ducks. teal;
Sl50; mixed, S21a.25; mallard. s.; red
heads, S.; canvassbacks, s. per dos venison,
saddles 9110c; quail, Sl.5CQ2.5O; prairie
chickens, $3.50
Hides-Green, steer. 6i4c per lb; cows, 6i2c;
veal. calf, Sc; veal, kip, &c; cured steers.
heavy, Sc: light steers and cows, SC; calf
skins, &c; kip, sc; deacons 35c.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
Scar city of Butter.

The New Dairy, commenting on the
scarcity of butter, says:
"All the way from New Orleans to
New York the papers are complaining
of scarcity of butter in the market. In
New Orleans there is nothing to be had,
good, bad or indifferent, while the New
York merchants are ransacking the
cellars of Montreal to get even their old
est goods All of this is owing to a very
late spring, so far as the growth of grass
is concerned.
"Those who pack butter systemati-
calIy may crow little over this state of
the market, but unless they are vastly
overloaded with this kind of but
ter to begin with, the chances
are that they had neither the
pluck nor wit to hold it until the pres
ent rise in prices for such an article.
In nine cases out of ten the weather
alone would have worked their ruin if
they had efused to sell month ago, so
that there is nothing in the way of con-
illusions to argue from this state of the
market. unless it is that all the probable
tiles are that next year there will not be
the same conditions. 1t seems too bad
to argue against mans using his judg-
lnent about the market, and yet, taking
it year in and year out, the man who
sells when his crop is ready for the
market, be it butter, wheat or corn, gen
orally makes the most money.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
Cream as a Cure.

Very few housekeepers know the
value of cream as food, and its superb
ority over butter or any other solid fat
by permitting the gastric juice to mix
with it in the most perfect manner,
and IN this way Fastening di-
gestion. 1t is invaluable in the case of
fnvalids. for it serves as nutriment in
the most readily available form. 1t is
superior TO butter because it contains
more volatile oils than butter made
from it. Persons consumptively in
clined, those with feeble digestion,
aged persons and those inclined to
cbilliness and cold extremitIes are espe-
cially benefited by liberal use of sweet
cream.
No other article of food or medicine
will give such satisfactory results. 1t
is far better than cod-liver oil, and a
nutritious food for any one at all times.
1t would probably be nsed very freely
were it not for the impression that it is
an expensive luxury; and for this rea-
son we restrict ourselves in the use of
cream, and use butter, still more eX-
pensive luxury. layishly. The impress
sion seems to be that the legitimate end
of cream is to make butter. while, i'll
fact, butter making is the least useful
purpose for which milk is employed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
THE DYING HUANACO.
An Animal Which, on Deaths AID.
prOach, Seeks Its Grave.

An Animal Which, on Deaths Ap-
prOach, Seeks Its Grave.
Longmau's Magazine.
1t is well known that at the southern
extre nifty of Patagonia the huanacos
have dying place-a spot to which all
the individuals inhabiting the surround
ing plains repair at the approach Of
death to deposit their bones.
Darwin and Fitzroy first recorded this
strange instinct in their personal mar
ratives. and their observations have
since been fully confirmed by others.
The best known of these dying or
burial places is on the banks of the
Santa Cruz and GallegOS rivers, where
the river valleys are covered with dense
primeval thickets of bushes and trees of
stunted growth. There the ground is
covered with bones of countless dead
generations.
''rhe animals" says Darwin, sin
most cases must have crawled. before
dying, beneath and among the bushes"
A strange instinct in a creature so
dweller all his life long ON the open,
barren plateaus and mountain sides.
What subject for painter! The
gray wilderness Of dwarf thorn trees,
aged and groteSque and scanty-leaved,
nOuriShed for thousand years on the
bones that whiten the stony ground at
their roots. the interior lit family with
the rays of the departing sun, chill aud
gray, and silent and motionleSS-the
huanacos' Golgotha.
In the long centuries, stretching back
into the dim Unreasonable past, so
many of this race have journeyed hither
from the mountains and the plain to
suffer the sharp pang of death, that, to
the imagination, something of it all
seems to have passed into that hushed
and mournful nature. And now, once
more. the latest pilgrim has come, all
his little strength spent in his struggles
to penetrate the close thicket, looking
old and gaUnt and ghOStly in the twi-
light. with long, ragged hair, staring
into the gloom out of death-dimmed,
sunken eyes.
One artist we have who might show
it to us on canvas, who would be able to
catch the feeling of such scene-Of
that mysterious, passionless tragedy of
nature-the painter. | mean, of THE
Prodigal" and THE Lioness Defending
Her Cubs"
To his account of the animals dying
place and instinct Darwin adds:
II do not at all understand the reason
of this, but l may observe that the
wounded huanacOs at the Santa Cruz
Invariably walked toward the river"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
DOG THAT COULD BITE.
Singular Exception to the Rule
Found in Real Cowboy.

singular Exception TO the RuIe
Found in a Real Cowboy.
Texas Siftings.
The cowboy left his cayuse at the
door and sauntered in his manly, open
way up to the bar.
"Gut the dust?" asked the barekeeper
suspiciously, without sign of fear.
Got the dust? Who be you in
sultin'? Guess yon don't know me;
Pm he chicken of the great hen bird
worms the gravel flies. Do you hear
me warbler"
"Yes, Pve heard coyotes"
but We never heard them in front
of We. Produce the icker."
''Lay out the sand" 1
"MusL the talonS of the noble chick
rend the soil while his pinions beat the
air, or will you produce the beverage?
Last CALL"
Come now-you git" said the bar
keeper, as he came from behind the bar
with brass faucet in his hand.
When the barkeeper got up off the
floor one sleeve of his coat was gone
and both boots were off, while the
loungers who had been in the room
were outside looking in through the
bar windows.
Say, neighbour" said the barkeeper,
as he limped back behind the bar,
we've got three kinds of red Ticker
The cowboy drank his firewater, and
after he left the barkeeper remarked to
one of his regular customers:
"Darned if that amt the first man l
ever struck that could blow and fight
both"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
THE PORK INDUSTRY.
Suggestions by the Swineherd as
to Its ENLARGEMENT.

AS the consumption of pork products
are increased, In the same ratio are pork
raisers benefited. This growing de-
mand for the flesh of swine is largely
an educated one, induced and fostered
by the superior methods of preparing
and rendering palatable the various
parts of the hog. Nor firm has done
more towards cultivating, extending
and increasing this demand than the
we'll and widely known house of
Armour q Co., whose business as pack
ers and dealers is international.
The fame of their various brands
of meats is established in every
market in the world. They are untir-
ing in their efforts, sparing neither
time nor money in endeavors to i'm
prove what is already conceded the very
cream of excellence. They have met
with complete success in striving to
please and satisfy the taste of all
classes, from the most refined and fas-
tldious to that of the heavy and less
exactimg. The present great popularity
of pork products, and In hold upon the
public taste, is very largely owing to
the achievements of the firm of Armour
IL Co., whose business is the largest
one of the kind in the world. 1t has
not been many years since bacon had
very meager market in the cities of
the north, depending almost entirely
upon the South, where 1t was consumed
by the plantation hands. The increase
in the number Of hogs required more
bacon eaters, consequently breakfast
bacon was introduced; nicely trimmed
from the lean side of medium sized
hog, sweetly cured with choicest flavor,
smoked 10 delicate nut brown tint,
and quite naturally made favorable
impression upon the palates of that class
who we're occupied with-mental or very
light physical labor. 1t thus secured an
entrance as an edible into the house
holds of the highest refinement, where
IT is highly appreciated and continues
to grow in its prefelment.
OF late years the curing of hams has
been made special study, and the inn
prOvement in flavor and general palat-
ablenesS is as marked in them as it is in
breakfast bacan.
This mode of increasing consump-
ton, by creating demand through ed
ucating the taste by articles that win
through their superior excellence and
palatableness, is great aid and benefit
to pork raisers. OF course, it is not con-
tended that the unwearying enterprise,
this expenditure of talent or outlay Of
money is done solely to advance the in
terestS of the pork raiserS. We have
not reached that unnatural state Of dis
regard of self interest in business mat
tiers at least. The very fact, when one
becomes a lavish prodigal, is consid-
cred an evidence of unsoundness of
mind. Nevertheless. the pork produc-
ers have reaped benefit from these
efforts, and the curers are entitled to
the applause of the beneficlarleS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
Queer Way to Drink Wine.

Scribner's Magazine.
The mountaineers drink in curious
fashion. Throwing back their heads,
they raise the wineskin in the air with
both hands and allow the thin stream
which flows from the pinhOle in the
horn nozzle to fall into their open
mouths from distance of several
inches. With a bottle they manage to
do the same by narrowing the mouth
with the thumb and forefnger. The
motive of this procedure is economy.
In these regions of high air, intense
fatigue and snow water, wine is at once
the most refreshing and the heaviest
thing among the provisions. And they
assert that, drank in this manner, one
litre gees as far in the way of refresh
ment as three drank in mouthfuls from
a cup. 1t is true, but the first efforts of
the duffer are apt to end in landing the
red stream in his eye or OH his chin
which impairs the economy of the pro-
ceeding.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
HERE'S A MERRY ROW.
A ST. Louis MiIIionaire's Wife's
Quarrel With Her Dressmaker.

4 ST. Louis MiliiOnaire'S Wires
Quarrel With Her Dressmaker.
NEW YORK, July 3.-Suit has just
been brought in the supreme court here
by Mrs. Anna GRANGER, fashionable
mcdiste of No. S33 West Forty -ifth
street, against Mrs. Richard c. Kerens,
leader of st. Louis society, whose hus-
band is president of the st. Louis, Ar
kansas d Texas railway, and secretary
of the st. Louis Worlds Fair commits
sion. In February last Mrs. Kerens.
who has been patroniZing Nine. Gran
gier for three years, sent material for
several dresses to be made up after the
latest Partisan fashion. Madame claims
that the material was composed
of old dresses which had to be
made over, and that she had
to cut and rip them up, difficult task
and one requiring great patience. In
April the costumes were completed and
were sent by express to Mrs. kerens,
and after the arrival of the dresses she
wrote the madame, returning bonnet
and q paraSol and asking that reduc-
tons be made in the bill. After this
was done the bill amounted to Sl43.1 IL,
and, although Nine. Granger repeat
eddy sent for it, she did not receive the
desired cD6ck. i lie Jurisprudence
preceding the suit is amusing. For in
stance, Mrs. Kerens writes to the
dressmaker's lawyer asking him wheth-
er it is his habit to tell ladies for the
benefit of his clients that the matter
would be brought before their husbands
and assuring him that the threat did
not frighten her, since she had an in
dependent bank account.
The modSte wrote as follows:
CIt may seem amusing to you 10 rip up.
clean, patch and make over old dresses, but
/ assure you IT did not amuse me much while
doing it. and which you seem to think
should have done without charging you.
Mrs. KehrenS wrote May 10:
Your abusive letter has reached ne. ] will
ONLY say my Verac!ty has never been ques-
toned. and you might find it difficult if re-
quired to demonstrate your Interpretation of
q lady. Remarks Of the kind are better when
not made. much less written. What l have
said in my letter l will testify to. At the
limit gave you l expected my dresses 10 be
handsome and brought from Paris Do you
think the custom house officers could tell
how much duty you paid on the dressesf II
to be disagreeable is to be truthful, then am
disagreeable, but am not dishonest.
Lawyer Hollister says his client has
an establishment in Paris as we'll as
here, and it is customary to use
the Paris tag on all dresses, whether
made here ar there. He says his client
did not contract to make the dresses in
Paris, and the principal cause for dis
pute is that the dresses were not made
in Paris. That, he says, is what Mrs.
KerenS objects to. Mrs. Kerens threat
ems a criminal action OH account of ac-
cuSatIons made by Nine. Granger in
letters to her.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
SALTWATER NEWS.
CoweIl's Case Postponed Until
Some Time Next Week.

6OEHC w CChs
Judgd Nethaway and the county
attorney were present in the municipal
court room yesterday to proceed with
the Cowell libel suit, brought against
him by the state on complaint of large
number of influential residents of st.
Paul Park. Cowell or his attorney
failed to put in an appearance, and the
case was continued until some day next
week. 1t is unde rstood that the de-
fendant's attorney will move to dismiss
the case OH technical grounds. If the
motion is denied, the case will come up
for trial Immediately, probably next
Wednesday.
The streets of this city were crowded
yesterday, and it was almost impossible
10 pass on the sidewalk. Nearly ali of
the farmers, with their families, residing
in Washington county, were in the city
I'd attend the two performances given
by the Forepaugh circus on the old ba Sc
ball grounds.
independence day will be celebrated
by the convicts at the prison to-day
with appropriate exercises in the prison
chapel. An extra fine dinner will also
be served.
Considerable interest is conferred in
! lllO OubICNu laws, OSSNA OIi AohN
st. CroiX to-day, and considerable bet
ting has been done. Two Of the crews
who take part in the four-oared race are
we'll known, and they will make a good
contest for superiority.
During the circus parade yesterday bur-
glars entered the residence of Charles
Bordwell, at Oak Park, stealing
quantity of solid Silyerware. There is
no clew to the burglars, but the police
are satisfied that it was the work of par
ties who usually follow circus. A
large number of tramps and suspicious
looking characters were driven out of
the city by the police.
The Menomonie left Yesterday with
half raft of lumber for East Dubuque
and half raft of logs for the LIE Sueur
Lumber company, Dubuque.
The st. Croix boom shut down at noon
yesterday and will not resume opera
tions until Monday. There is large
supply of logs on hand and there will
probably be enough come in to the
Nevers dam during the next two weeks
to keep the boom running during the
remainder of the season.
Secretary Mccarthy. of the Lily Lake
Driving Park association, stated yester-
day that on the first day of the coming
races ladies will be admitted free. The
prospects for successful meeting are
becoming more encouraging daily. Good
races are promised, as each class has
been filled.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-04
CATHCART & CO.,
Bank of Minnesota Bldg. First Floor.
LIVE STOCK.
Union StOckyards.

Official receipts South St. Paul: 631 hogs,
S4 cattle, calves, 2s0 sheep.
Hogs-Strong. Good stock; fully sc higher.
Straight loads sold at S4.35014.45; stays. s.;
small common lots at S4.15.
Cattle-All sold; steady; trading light so
near the Fourth. Yards cleared this after
noon.
Ouotations-Good to choice steers $3.50
s.; good cows, S2.50GB3; common to fair
cows, SlG1S2. 50; bulls, stays and oxen, S1.2561
3d. stoekers, S2G2.75; feeders, S?.5OQy3i
veals, S2.7564.
Sales-Cows at Sl.7502.50; calves at SEA
3.75; feeders at S2.5C6D2.55; Gamers at $40
100
Sheep-Steady unchanged.
observation-disclosures, So .50G14.25; feeder 5,
S3QI3.40; stockers and common, S2.5O03;
mixed, S3.5OQ4; lambs, S4Gj