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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-02
In the
FANCY GOODS
DEPARTMENT.,
In the

Every forenoon this week
a complete Stamping and
Fancy Work Outfit will
be gI0em to each customer
whose purchase amounts
to soc or more. The out
fit contains:
A large assortment of
Perforated Stamping
Patterns, such as Ro-
man embroidery pat
terms, sprays, vines, etc.,
some containing full
alphabets; others pill
low sham patterns,
splashers, ETC., etc.
Some of the patterns
are large sizes that re-
tail at 25c to 4oc each.
A box of stamping
powder, a distributor,
full Instructions for
stamping and a large
Illustrated instruction
book for embroidery,
fancy work, ETC., is in
Guided in each outfit.
Each outfit also con-
tains:
skeins Arrasene,
skeins Flo Floss,
skein Wash Embroidery Silk,
! skein Embroidery Chenille,
l Embroidery Needle.
l Steel or Bone Crochet Hook
Remember, this offer is
to encourage morning
shopping, and is for the
fo1emo0ms of this week
only.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26
stenlthx.

An Eastern traveller who has had many
and varied encounters with wild animals
in the heart of Africa and has walked
through many jungles says that he con-
ours in the opinion commonly held by the
natives of the countries he has visited. that
the leopard is more dangerous than either
the lion or the tiger. Its noiseless approach
may be imagined, he says from an incident
which occurred to him in Abyssinia.
was watching pool by moonlight in a
deep bend of the river Royan during the
dry season. Hours passed, but nothing
larger than an antelope appeared.
We were sitting beneath large tree,
completely denuded of leaves, and the
moon was shining brightly, throwing into
sharp outline every Dough. Suddenly my
wife pulled my sleeve and directed my at
tention to large animal croucbed upon
the branches exactly above us.
/ might have taken splendid shot, but
at first imagined it to be dogfaced bah
con that had been asleep in the tree.
stood erect to obtain II clearer view, and al
once the creature sprang to the ground
within few feet of us and bounded into
the jungle.
It was a leopard, which had probably
reached the tree by means of some neigh
boring branch, and so nOiselessly that we
had not discovered its presence. The ami
NAL had evidently winded us and was de
termined to reconnoiter our position
Youths Companion.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

II can tell you something amusing about
a case Of ambition o'ervaulting ITSELF"
said Mime. S., who has just returned
from a tour abroad. 1--WE were travelling
in Germany and wanted the compartment
to ourselves. At station where we
stopped there was party with a crying
baby ready to come aboard, and told our
youngest little girl, who is great mimic,
that if she would roll herself up in q rug
and cry they would probably pass on and
leave us alone"
"And did it work?"
"You shall see. Sadie rolled herself up
head and all, and when they looked in she
screamed at the top of her voice exactly
like peevish infant. The mother and fa-
Their thrust their heads in while their in
FAINT roared also. 1t was scene fit for
bedlam. And to complete it the father,
who was an Englishman, said;
"'Ere you hare, Mary. There's another
'owler in there, and they won't mind
'aving us" and in they got, the whole
family of them, and our cat was out of the
bag. "-Detroit Free Press.
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A Lourney to the sam.

Stop and think moment what the SEN
tence "A journey to the sun" implies. A
cannon ball could hardly complete the trip
in fifteen years going Mt the rate such mis-
siles are known to travel. Take the fast
est express train as another illustration of
that unthinkable distance. Had one of
these trains left the earth at the same mo-
ment the Mayfower sailed for America,
and had it travelled at the rate of mile u
minute day and night since that time, it
would still be several miles from its celes
tial destination! The fare, at the custom
airy rate, would be 81, $4,000.
Again, it has been found that sensation
is not absolutely instantaneous, but that a
very minute time elapses as it travels along
the nerves. Therefore if Il person put his
finger to a heated iron on in the blaze of 4
candle there is certain almost inconceiv-
ably small space of time, say the one-thou-
sandth part of second, before the brain
knows of the burn. Now suppose man
with an arm long enough to reach the sun.
From the known rate of sensatory trans
mission that man would have to live more
than 100 years after touching the great
luminary before he would know that his
fingers had been scorched!-St. Louis Re
public.
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He was Quite Hungry.

A lot of men were playing poker at Del
monico's the other night The party got a
little hungry and ordered some sandwiches.
They came, small but appetizing plate;
also the bill, s14. Shortly afterward quiet
gentleman asked the waiter to pass him
another sandwich. "All gone, sir" was
the reply. The quiet gentleman becloned
to the waiter and said in confidential
way:
'All gomez"
"Yes, sir.
GLOW many, STRIP
"Well," said the gentleman, thought
fully glancing at the bill and tie empty
plate, las Pm quite hungry / should say
about $1,000 worth. - Blakely Hall in
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

If there is one thing more than another
which needs correction in the ranks of
what pass for cultivated people, it is the
more common about the dinner hour than
to see knots of men gathered in front of
hotels and boarding houses, standing on
street corners, riding in public conveyances
or elsewhere, with Il toothpick ostenta-
tiously protruding from the mouth, or
with the said wooden splinter in diligent
use as an excavator If we 90 farther back
toward the dining table we shall find that
the disgusting habit grows even more pro
nounced, and that the table itself is often
n witness of the indicate proceeding. It
is n matter Of congratulation therefore
that better habit is asserting itself
Good Housekeeping.
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and John Sergeant were nominated by Il
unanimous vote in the same city, Dec H.
1881. The Democratic national convention
met in Baltimore in 1882 and nominated
General jackson for president and Martin
Van Bnren for vice president. Preceding
the vote for the latter, it was resolved
that two-thirds of the whole number of
votes IN the convention shall be necessary
to constitute choice" This was the ORR
gin of the famous two-thirds rule.
II was not until just before the war that
nominating conventions began to attract
the large audiences that they now do
During the exciting period that preceded
the election of 1880, Bell and Everett were
nominated by the Constitutional Unionists
in the Front Street theater, Baltimore, ON
the 9th of May. The Democrats met May
%, in Institute hall, Charleston, hut being
unable to agree on a candidate adjourned
to meet in Baltimore, June rs, where
Douglas and johnson were nominated. A
seeding wing assembled at the Maryland
institute, June %, and chose as candidates
John Z. Breckenridge and Joseph Lane.
The Republicans assembled at Chicago,
May 10, and nominated Abraham Lincoln
and Hannibal Hamlin. This convention
was held in "A monster ''wigwam," us it
was called, built for the occasion by the
Chicago Republican club. 1t was $50 feet
long by 100 feet wide, with gallery ex-
tending on three sides, and it is estimated
could accommodate $4,000 spectators. The
decorations in flags flowers, paintings and
sculpture were profuse and elaborate and
the subject of columns of description by
reason of their novelty and beauty.
In 1864 the opposing candidates were
Lincoln and johnson, and Mcclellan and
Pendleton, the two former being nomi-
mated in Baltimore and the latter in Chi
cago. Mr. Lincoln was elected by 81
electoral votes to q for Mcclellan, but in
the previous election he lacked nearly d
million Of votes of receiving popular ma
jority.
The year 1868 witnessed gathering Of
Democrats in national convention, such rs
had not been seen before, Ga the United
States. The body met IN Tammany hall
New York, on July 4, and was monster
demonstration. the contest being made al
most wholly upon issues growing out O.
the war aHd the reconstruction policy o
congress The nominees were Horatit
Seymour and Francis p. Blair. The great
! Democratic wigwam never looked mor'
| radiant than on this occasion
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cites, were congregateu the REPRESENTATIVES,
OF the respective states The coup l'Uil
was superb. Nearly the whole of every
side Of the hall was of glass. there being
seventy two grand windows draped with
crimson curtains, while three great panels
in the ceiling were magniiicently frescoed
In 1880, June ,, Garfield and Arthur
were nominated ut Chicago The conyen
ton was held in the Exposition building,
ina great hall $50 feet long and $50 feet
wide. 1t had a seating capacity OF from
10000 to $4,000 persons Running around
the building were commodious galleries,
while the auditorium itself was easily
adapted for the accommodation of both del
egates and alternates and the members of
the press and Geographic corps
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she - tx..oier.
SPOKANE, Washington,
May IS, 1892.

A most remarkable woman is Mary
Mills. Of No 9l6 Mulberry street. roof
er, plumber and tinSnith. who can wipe
joint of pipe a. neatly as any man on
Manhattan island Mrs Mills is a
slight. dark haired modest, wideawake
little woman OF 40 who does not know
that she ~ germs In 1870 she mar
Eied Roofer James Mills. and went to
live with INN AT No. PIC Mulberry street.
There We're rooms back of the little shop
which the young wife converted into d
home and where her six children were
born While the husband was out
roofing some one had to watch the shop.
Disabled clothes wringers. treacherous
boilers and exhausted kettles. dippers
and skillets came IN for repairs. and mo
nopoized the space that was needed for
her sewing tables and cradle.
Mrs Mills found that the quickest
way to get rid Of these neighborly tins
was TO mend them herself And so the
cradle was pulled over to the bench,
where the little woman rocked it with
her foot, and while her hands were en-
gagged with the soldering pot she crooned
the lullaby that peopled haby's dreams
with sunny, bonny creatures. One baby
followed another; the sewing was put
ont, so was the family washing, and the
CHEEKY little tinker cut and hammered
and soldered away, pocketing the bright
bits of silver that enabled her to run the
house and feed and clothe her little ones.
Business in those days was brisk. II
meant dime minute TO her, and she
soon learned to Join pipe in two min
utes Men and women focked to the
Mills shop with urgency jobs just to see
her work. Everybody comes on business
though, for the neighbors know her aver
sion to gossips and busybodies. New
| York World
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A Terrifio Brain Worker.

Murat Halstead IL "a shining type of
the working journalist. He lives at the
Brevoort house Every morning he is at
The Standard Union office in Brooklyn
by o'clock, and sometimes earlier. A
dozen pencils have been sharpened for
him, and he throws off his coat and
plunges into work without any fussy
preliminaries. He writes steadily until
l 30 p. III The result is over half page
of strong, yet graceful, expression of
editorial opinions Then Mr.. Halstead
writes "A cOlumn-often two-column-
letter to his Cincinnati paper This he
sends every day Sundays included. His
associates in Brooklyn look upon him
with wondering eyes But Mr.. Halstead
says that he has found some difficulty in
filling in his spare time. For that reason
he has now taken up some outside" lit
erary work
Some little time before he left Cincin-
matt Mr.. Halstead employed stenog-
rapher But he filled the stenographer's
notebook IN no time Then, having SO
much more time than he needed, he
would take up his pencil and busy him
self again. The consequence was that
he did aboEt two mems work, and he
was pretty well tired out when his day
was over With all his capacity for
work he is invariably in good spirits. He
reads the thrusts of political opponents
with amusement-the sharper they are
the more he is amused Then he takes
his pencil and responds. New York
Times.
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A Petrified Monster.

The long continued drought in central
and southern iowa has brought to light
the petTiied remains of some antedilu-
Wan monster, over which the waters of
the Des Moines river have rolled for
centuries The resting place of this
original first settler is in the bed of the
river near the little village of Percy,
in Marion county. During the great
drought of three years ago. when the
river was lower than it had ever been
within the memory of white men. S. r.
Dawson, a gentleman living near Percy,
claimed that he had found queer
thing" in the river near town. The
Apresent dry spell proves that Dawson
was right, and that his queer thing" is
an extinct monster of gigantic propor-
tons. The head has become detached
and lies forty or fifty feet from the body,
which is now about fifteen yards in
length, Notwithstanding the fact that
several joints are missing. AT a distance
of thirteen feet from the tip of the tail
the stony monster is four feet nine inches
in breadth.-St. Louis Republic.
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cH1cAGo AuDIToRIuM nuILDINa.

On the Goth of May, 1868, the Republican
national convention assembled in Chicago
and nominated Grant and ColfaX, the scene
of the meeting being the Crosby opern
house. They were elected by pa electoral
votes to so for Seymour and Blair
The national Republican convention of
1872 was held June 5, in Philadelphia, and
resulted in the nomination of General
Grant and Henry Wilson. The Liberal
Republicans and Democrats met in Gin
cinnati May of this year and chose for
their candidates Horace Greeley and g.
Gratz Brown, Grant receiving 2SG electoral
votes TO 66 OF which AZ were given to
Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, Mr.
Greeley having died between the time of
the popular election and that of the cleo
toral college.
In 1876 Cincinnati was the scene of the
national Republican convention. Hayes
and Wheeler were nominated and declared
elected, an electoral commission deciding
disputed points in the contest. The con
vention was held in the Exposition hall,
the architectural features of which mt the
time were likened to "a gigantic railway
station with the cars run out and tempo
rary seats put in their places" The plat.
form was not far from the central space.
Behind the presiding officer were rows of
seats mounting nearly to the roof, all of
which commanded splendid view Every
person present was visible from every
other part Of the edifice. Galleries ran the
whole length of the building. The press,
telegraphers and ali connected with the
distribution of news were amply provided
for There were five entrances for the
public and separate entrances for the dele
gates. The latter were seated in such a
manner that those from every state could
be easily recognized by the chairman.
The Democratic national convention,
which assembled in St. Louis June 81,
nominated Tilden and Hendricks. This
was likewise n notable gathering, and the
place of meeting, also an exposition hall,
was distinguished for it's architectural
beauty. 1t was 200 feet long, so feet wide
and 60 feet high. The arrangement OF
E>ats was such that every delegate could
distinctly hear all that was spoken On
one side of the hall, and about the mid
die of its length, was the rostrum, and
around this point, indicated by banner
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Hotel Expenses In summer.

sour receipts are about $500 day
in busy times" said clerk of the best
known hotel in New York on the Amer
lean plan, but at very dull seasons. such
as the last week in July and the first
two in August usually are, this amount
falls to about $1,000 per day Now, as
our expenses are only about 10 per cent.
less in dull than at busy times, the in
ference as to the comparative profit of
keeping an American hotel in midsum-
mer and in midwinter is irresistible.
For we actually employ more help in
midsummer. owing to painting, house
cleaning, etc. The difference in the
receipts of leading hotel on the Euro
pean plan in its dull and lively seasons
is about as great, but the difference in
the necessary expenditures is enormous
ly greater. -New York Letter
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Products Of the Imagination.

Stranger lat restaurant reading from bill
of fare)-Give me some chicken croquettes.
Waiter-Very sorry, sir, but there amt
none.
Stranger-Then give me some oyster
patties
Enthusiastically sorry, sir, but we
have only roast beef, corned beef and stew
ed beef today.
Stranger-But where are all these things
that see on the bill Of fare?
Waiter-They're on the bill of fare, sir.
Brooklyn Life
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Chappie - You know we invited Col.
Plunkett, who used to be n blacksmith, to
hear.our class give the anvil Chorus the
other night. The fellows were got up in
red shirts and the stage was turned into
real forge.
His Friend-You don't sayl Moved tho
old colonel to tears, suppose9
Chappie-Not exactly He simply said
traits "-American Grocer.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26
Would re Enonrh.

Mrs. Yeast (who always makes her own
bread)-l declare, John, it is too bad; you
have come home without that strychnine
for the ratsl
Mr.. Yeast-How were you going TO use
it, dearS
''Put it on bread
"Well, why not try the bread alone,
dearly onkers Statesman
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26
A ret Porker.

The ship Richmond had at one time "a
hog for mascot. He used to take bath
every morning and always presented an at
tractive exterior. His faVorite amusement
was to pace the deck half the night with
the precision of an officer of the watch.
When he got almost too fat to move he
was allowed to die natural death. His
shipmates would have regarded it as can
nibalism to send him to the cooks copperS
New York News.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

Parrott (wrathfully)-I can't see why
Gabby takes so much time in coming to
the point. He keeps saying the same thing
over and over.
Wiggins-He can't help it, poor fellow.
He has had telephone in his Office for the
past four ycars.-Munsey's Weekly.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

Shelley's centenary. Aug 4, 1899, is to
be celebrated by the publication of Mr.
F. S. Ellis "Lexical Concordance" to
his poems, which is to be printed at the
University Press of Oxford. 1t will he
remembered that Shelley was an ex-
PEELED Oxford student, and thus time
brings about an odd amends The con-
cordance is said to be rs large as Mrs.
Mary Cowden-Clarke's Shakespeare con-
cordance.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

Woman Ito d-Ig store clas,-}-Have you
an article called q two cent postage stamp
on s2le2
Drug Clerk (meohanically)-Wc some
times keep it, bat | think we aro out of 10
just now. There is very little demand for
it. Quite inferior, assure you. Now. we
make an article of our own that-oh, it was
postage stamp you wantl Certainly; here
Is one. Have it charged2-Texas Siftings.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

Mr.. Cooley with strong musical fervor,
Perhaps you'd like to have me give you
a rendering of my last ballad? It's called
No sleep comes to my fevered BRAIN"
His New Landlady-Mr. Cooley, il you
are aware that that is a piano bedstead 1
think you are very unkind to make fun OF
Ii -.Inhna
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one Of Cervantes' Eccentric countrymen.

One of Cervantes' Eccentric Countrymen.
mo Englishman goes ever to bed. :"
says a Spanish proverb, without hav-
ing committed some eccentricity," but
it seems that the same saying might
justly be applied tosome of Don Quixote's
countrymen, AT all events the old gen
tleman Of the name Of Senior Don Juan
Bantista de Guznany Caballero, duke
de Najera. whose will has just been
proved, certainly belonged to the zee
centres. In his deliberately worded
will. and after giving "A great many par
ticulars as to how his funeral is to be
conducted, he goes on to say that no no.
tice whatever is to be published of his
4@eath. and that it will be "wearisome'
to him if on his journey to his last rest
ing place he will be followed by friendly
funeral coaches. Another of the old
dukes "eccentricities" consisted of keep
ing his money, amounting to G40.000,
safely hidden away in his Golfers, whence
it will now be removed by his usufruct
heirs.-Pall Mall Gazette.
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Nonadio Ants.

Besides the tillers of the soil there are
other species of ants, like the Peruvian ca
zadores, which lead a nomadic life, having
no permanent homes, but wandering from
place to place, entering the houses of the
natives by millions, killing rats, mice,
snakes and all sorts of vermin, devouring
offal and performing in general the useful
functions of itinerant cavengers.-Atlan-
tic Monthly.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

"Where are You off tor"
ITO apply for the hand of one of the
bankers daughters"
(Which oneE"
"That depends. If he looks pleasant I'll
take the youngest; but if he's cross. the
oldest. "-Humoristische Blaetter
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A Sensitive soul.

"Open you eyes, George What's the
matter with your" said the occupant Of a
corner seat in 4 crowded car.
mind your business. I'm going to keep
'em shut. hate to see women stand in
horse cars" replied George, settling down
in his own seGt.-Puck.
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Condensation in steam Pipes.

From many experiments made on the
condensation OF steam in wrought iron
pipes, when exposed TO the open air, it is
found that one pound and six ounces of
steam per square foot Of pipes surface is
condensed per hour when the difference in
temperature between the steam and air is
200 dogs Philadelphia Ledger.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

HE fact is not
generally known
that the first ma
tional political
convention ever
assembled in the
United States was
held in Baltimore.
September, 1881,
W b e n William
Writ and Amos
Ellmaker were
nominated as the
candidates of the
anti-Masonic par
ty. Henry CLAY
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Childish Innncence.

Maggie Ito her stepfather, who is very
popular with the children)-Oh, l wish you
had been here when our papa was alive.
You would have liked each other so much.
-Moonshine.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

First Italian Brigand-Is our victim in
HghtS
Second Briga=d-Yes; but he is still
hong way off
First Italian Brigand-Tben we have
time to say our prayers at this wayside
grotto.-Iight.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

j. Frank Sweeney. of Omaha. fell in
love with the photograph of Mrs. Anna
Tapley, handsome young widow of
Louisville. KY, and carried it about
with him for several months. He met
the original of the picture for the first
time on Friday of last week and was
married to her on Monday
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-08-26

Irritable Major-Look here, my girls, I'm
certain I'm right about that III bet my
ears on it.
Sharp Daughter-Oh, papa, you shouldns
carry betting to such extreme lengths
pick-Me-UJD