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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
PURELY PERSONAL.

w. B. Turner, of this city, who for
some time past has been studying at
Leipzig, Germany, sailed from Ham
burg Sunday. He is in ill health. AS
soon as he has sufficiently recovered he
will probably renew his studies at Johns
Hopkins university.
G. II. Wood, of the Nicollet house,
left for Chicago Friday evening with his
daughter, Miss Helen. She will 90 to a
seminary in Washington, where she will
graduate this winter. He will spend
some time in Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. harrington have
gone to New Orleans. They expect to
go from there to Cuba, Florida and
Washington. returning to Minneapolis
early in May.
Rev. G. n. Showers. pastor of the For
est Heights Methodist church, has Just
found it necessary to resign, owing to
Ill health. He will go South as soon as
he can.
Frank B. Paquin, editor of Footprints,
Browns Valley. Mimi, was in town
Tuesday. calling on friends and attend
ing to business matters.
DR.. and Mrs. Alexander Jones re-
turned home Tuesday from a pleasant
trip to New York state Of several weeks
duration.
Mrs. o. NJ. Humphrey has gone to
Boston to attend the marriage of her
son, Otis L. Humphrey, and Miss Grace
Lamson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Pease, of Oswego.
n. Z, are visiting their daughter, Mrs.
K. L. Boardman, at 2413 Portland ave-
hue.
R. Fl. Pickering, manager of the
Seattle Spectator, was visitor among
old friends in Minneapolis last week.
Rev. and Mrs. o. A. Weenolsen left
Wednesday night for st. Augustin, Fla,
to be absent several months.
Miss Anna Winstern left Sunday night
to visit three or four weeks with friends
and relatives in New York.
Miss Ella Sebrit. of CrookSton, Mimi,
is visiting MI. and Mrs. j. e. Turner,
sos Oak street southeast.
Mrs. William TrimbIe, of Philadel-
pbia, is visiting her parents, DR.. and
Mrs. B. l.. Taylor.
Mrs. S. A. Reed Is recovering from an
attack of the grip from which she had
been sufferer.
Miss Hospes, of Saltwater, is the
guest of Miss Nellie Armstrong, 1900
Linden avenue.
Mrs. Fred A. Chesebro, of Boston,
Mass. is visiting Mrs. r. A. Boyer, at
Hotel Berkeley,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Wall are to make
their home at Chicago in the future
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
An American Girl.

Philadelphia Press.
"a Renaissance comes to my mind, y
writes Justin Mccarthy in volume Of
"Recollections of Parliament" about
American visitors to the house of COM
mons. 1.-THE American girl has no re-
spect for musty traditions. Some years
ago we used to be permitted to take
ladies Into the library, but the rule was
strict that they must not be allowed to
sit down there. l was once escorting a
young American married EwOman
through the various rooms of the library,
and mentioned to her, as matter Of
more or less interesting fact, thatit was
again st the rules for a woman to sit
down there
lis that really law of the placer
she asked, with wide opened and inno-
cent eyes.
"srhe very law answered.
"'Then,' said she, calmly, Just see me
break itP and she drew a chair and
resolutely sat down at the table.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
A GAMBLERS DEATH.
Pathetic Incident of Life in q
Western Mining Town.

Pathetic Incident of Life in a.
Western Mining Town.
"Pop?"
a little boy stood beside a gambling
table long ago in an Idaho mining town
and addressed this trembling word to-
one of the players, says the Detroit Free
Press.
The father was a rough man. with
great, sideway hands, a griZZled face
and thin. merciless lips.
But his eyes--how vicious and utterly
lost the light that flashed from their red
dish ballsI
Say, pop, when you goin' homer"
Again the fimid voice came to the
rough man and he laid down his cards
deliberately and turned around. The
boy knew the light that blazed from
back and huddled himself together in a
piteouS but mute appeal for mercy.
whats that to you, you young
wheIp? Git out o. here, now, an don't
you waste mint or I'll be the death o.
you. Are you goin'?"
Slowly. sadly, the little fellow turned
and walked to the saloon door. Then
he paused to look back. and found those
vicious red eyes still fixed upon him,
and the voice came to his ears:
What you stoppin' fur? Gitp'
And gulping down sob that was ris-
ing in his throat the boy passed through
the door.
For another hour the players silently
played their cards, and the rough man
said as he took the pack in his hands:
How many cards, Pete?"
But before Pete could reply there
came the OIIiyering words:
Pop, hain't you mos done9"
The rough man cried out an oath and
turned. He did not say word, but he
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

fore ask those who play, or may
be induced to trust their money in the
hands OF scoundrels who prey upon the
credulity of the public for the purpose
OF play. to weigh well the following ir-
REPUTABLE facts. Let us suppose you are
playing maximums of $4,000 at trente-
et-quarante. You pay each deal, which
lasts about minute and half. 2 per
cent insurance against the "refait," !.
e.. 1907. Many people play all their
lives and never realize the fact that, as
their loss is limited by the ''refalt'' to
one-baif their stakes, the insurance is
2 per cent, and not, as they suppose,
per cent. There are about
Fifty Deals an Hour;
thus in two hours play the punter will
have paid TO the bank one maximum,
or $4,000 francs, fee-whether he has
won or whether he has lost. Now. to
bring this fact more strikingly home,
l will put it differently. You, l,
and every other person who passes
the sacred portals Of the temple
OF the Gaddess of Fortune at Monte
Carlo, pay like sum in proportion to
cur stakes each and every time we enter
the rooms. Suppose that you are suf-
hciently known, like, say, Sam Lewis
and that as you enter the rooms with
the avowed intention of playing maxi
NUNS for couple of hours, you are
confronted by an official who politely
informs you that there rs no
''refait" today, but that you must
pay fee of u 1900 francs
before you can enter. l doubt much
whether Lewis himself could be brought
to pay the same beforehand. These re-
marks refer to trente-et-quarante only,
as the percentage at roulette is much
larger. Hence all great gamblers prefer
the former game. L challenge the whole
world to dispute the above figures and
facts. There is a very old proverb in
Egypt, which says, "If you have ever
tasted the water of the Nile, you are
compelled to return" 1t is absolutely
certain that whenever man or woman
has won money at the tables. he or she
is irresistibly drawn back to the same
place; they Invariably leave all their
winnings, and very often lose all they
have in the world.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

The former takes the management of
the Wrought Iron Bridge company for
the Northwest.
Mrs. Harry Il. Willard, OF Brattleboro.
VT. is visiting Mrs. j. ID. Blake, 1r24
Mount Curve. ."
Mrs. Louis p. Fay returned home
Tuesday from visit with Chicago
friends.
John Cooper and wife left Tuesday
night for San Francisco and the coast
cities.
Mrs. Edith Allison, OF this city. left
for Beaver Dam, Wis, Monday evening.
Mrs. Howard Pew, of New York. Is
stopping at 1922 Longfellow avenue.
Mrs. E. p. French and daughter left
Saturday evening for Galveston, Tex.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Whitmore started
Thursday night for San Francisco.
Mrs. George l.. Caldwell left Wednes-
day night for Jacksonville, Fla.
Charles R. Chute is one of the latest
OF the grip victims to recover.
Mrs. Thomas Lowry and Mrs. N. G.
lreys have gone to Florida.
Mrs. J. Il. Moore left Monday even
ing for Thomasville, Ga.
DIR. B. L. Alien has quite recovered
from his recent illness. (,
Mrs. c. E. Case left Thursday night
for San Francisco.
Miss Mamie heller has returned home
from st. Joe.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
Seeiety's Worshipers Con-
tinue to Dance in Spite Of
La Grippe's Terrors.
Leap Year Parties Are Becom-
ing the Fashionable Fad
in Minneapolis.
This Week There Will Be One
on a Large Scale at the
West. :
What Has Been Done and
What Will Be Done in
Society.

That imported disease, which is not
rendered less unpleasant by sailing
under a French name, still enchains
many of society'S deyotees, but the un-
afflicted keep right on dancing as if de-
termined to friShten it away. Leap year
parties become more numerous every
day. The ladies are becoming more
deeply imbued with the selt-reliaht
spirit, and when the opportunity is of
fered of. taking the place of the men,.
without oversIepping the bounds
Of prcpriety, they are not
Slow to take advantage of it..
Last week they did the honors of sew
eral gatherings, and they have many
more on the list for the coming week.
One of the leap year events of the flu
ture Is the ball the young ladies of the
West will give the gentlemen. Every
week brings a few marriages. They
are expected to become more numerous
now, during the ante-Lenten season.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
drew back his great sinewg6st to strike

drew back his great sinewgfst to strike
the shivering child. ~ ~
-'.Hold up. Ike Bakerp' cried Pete,
leaning across the table and catching
the raised arm. Don't you hit i'm"
There was deviIshness in the red
eyes, and had he struck it would have
been blow to kill. an,
For moment not sound was heard,
and then came the noise of scuffie from
an adjoining table. -
'Ole Copper is havin' it out with Big
jerry" volunteered bystander.
A moment later "A pistol shot was
heard-one shot was ALA shot that laid
the little boy with the trembling voice
low on the saloon floor A higher power
had made of Big Jerry an instrument in
consummating a merciful deed.
Good God, Iker' cried Pete, "Big
Jerry has killed yer boyp'
Not the culver of muscle, not
shadow of expression crossed the rough
mans Stolid face. He cast one glance
of his vicious red eye towards the little,
lifeless heap on the floor, then, drawing a
revolver, he turned it upon Big Jerry
and shot him dead where he was stand
ing.
BLOOD for blood" he muttered, catch
ing up the pack once more with his
sinewy hands. "How many cards did
you say, Peter"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

full dance in Churchill Friday evening. over
thirty couple were present. and dancing was
kept up until late hour
The dime social held at Central hall by the
Church of our Father last Friday evening,
was fully up to the enjoyable entertainment is
this churchsalways gives.
Prot. John f. Downey. of the state uni
versity. will speak at Central hail this after
noonat O'Clock. Miss Williams will sing
several solos. 3 - ~
The many friends of Mriand Mrs. e. II.
Bancroft will be pleased to know that they
have returned-from Tacoma, Wash.
The hop to be given In Central hall this
Feb e.
The Saturday Night club, this week wilt
listen TO paper on Free Trade by II. o.
Hall.
srRYKER NOTES.
Miss Olivia Clark returned to the seminary
"Wednesday alter an absence of four days
She has nearly recovered from ia grippe"
Miss Helen Foster, of Saltwater, who went
home for few days. has returned to the SEM
mary.
Miss Dixon, Of Saltwater. took luncheon at
the seminary on Wednesday,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
sleeper Roberts Wakine II,

VIRGINIA, ILL.,, Jan. %. After an
eleven-day nap John Roberts, the
sleeper confined in the county jail is
beginning to wake up. Yesterday he
was able to sit up, and by signs made
known that he understood what was
going on about him. He is yet too weak
TO talk,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
Ex.Goy. Hall Dead.

WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 2S.-Ex-
Gov. hall died at his home at Frederick.
Del, at Gas o'clock this evening of
heart disease, aged seventy-fiye years.
He was governor from 1875 to 1885, and
was one of the largest land and vessel
owners In the state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

The Minnesota Loan and Trust Co.
Allows per cent interest on six months
deposits.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
NERVE, BRAIN, STOMACH
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d.. E.G. VESTS ssIs5Ts!sd Es5say

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resulting in insanity and leading to misery
decay and death Premature Old Age, Barrennes
Loss OF Power In either sex, Involuntary Losses
and spermat orrhoes caused by over-exertion the
brain, selI-abuse or over-indulgence. Each box
contains one months treatment. q q box or six
ior 70, sent by mail prepaid. With each order Tor
six boxes, will send purchaser guarantee to re-
Jund money IL Entertainment ;ails to cure Guar
antees issued and genuine sold only by JOS. r
LoFFL1N Druggist, Cor. I'd Street aud ist AY
cutb. Minneapolis. Mimi.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14

The American is informed that the
defeat OF Bon. Mike Savage to rep
resent the counties of Montgomery
and Robertson in the State Senate,
and Hon. G. A. Shesfe, of Ruther-
ford, for The Lower House, are not
only not assured, but are not possible.
Both of these gentlemen, true and
pre- enincntly able Democrats, will
have the seats to which they were
nominated, The irregularities prac-
ticed by the opposition are so fragrant
and widespread that these gentle
men and their friends feel confident
that their contests will result favor
ably to Democracy. The latter asks
no favors at the hands OF the General
Assembly - only exact justice. -
American
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14

At present the moon is 100000 miles
away from our globe; but there was a time
when it was only one-siXth part Of that
distance away, or, say about 10000 miles
away. That time must Of a necessity have
correspondent to Some great terrestrial geo
logical epoch; probably it was at the time
when the cocoon lived.
At the present time the average height
of the tides the world over is only about
three feet; in the faraway time alluded to
(when the moon was only 10000 miles
away they were 216 times as high as at
present, or 648 feet in height. Such tide
as that would wash st. Louis off the face
of the earth, throw a flood of sea water
sixty-one feet high on the Chicago water
works tower and drown out almost every
place of Importance in the United States
Three-quarter tide would leave but few
of the tallest chimneys and spires in St.
Louis above water, and a full tide would
run well up into the pineries of Canada.
But this would only last for n few hours at
time in less than five hours the whole of
this vast food would have retreated.
Not only would it leave Missouri and all
of the remainder of the United States high
and dry, but would probably drain the
Gulf of Mexico and leave gravel and
shell paved path from the mouth of the
Mississippi to Cuba and Jamaica. A few
"dry" hours would pass and then the
whole land would again be inundated,
only to soon be abandoned.
These mighty tides are the gifts which
modern astronomers have made to the
working machinery of the geologist. Who
can doubt that they constituted terrific
power while aiding in the work of stratifi-
cationP-St. Louis Republic.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14

Col. Chas. III. sJones, Of the ST..
Louis Republic, makes the following
eloquent plea for place in the Pres
ident Cleveland's Cabinet:
"The Cabinet il the official family,
and the appointment OF its members
is the one exercise OF power in which
by law he is absolutely untrammeled
save by personal preferences. 1t has
come to be sort of accepted etiquet
in politics that the President elect
shall not be bothered with recon-
mendations and pleas concerning his
Cabinet appointments, whatever
may be done in relation to the filling
of other offices.
'There is less excuse for viO-
lating this etiquet in Mr.. Cleveland's
case, because he stands in very diff
felent relation to the politics and
public men OF the country from that
in which he stood when first elected,
in 1884. Then he WAS almost a
stranger to his own party. Now he
Is personally acquainted with nearly
all the prominent Democrats Of the
country, and is perfectly competent
to select representative men, person
ally agreeable to him, for the various
places in his Cabinet"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14

knowledge how the present one cent. piece
came into circulation. Prior to the civil
war the coin which represented one cent
weighed exactly half an ounce There
were plenty in circulation for the popula-
ton of the time, but when the war broke
out it seemed as if coins of all denomina-
tions had been swallowed up. Tokens of
various kinds were made first Of cardboard,
then Of metal.
A small coin about the size of the present
one cent piece was produced, having upon
it various devices, such as mot one cent"
Good enough for defense" "Our country
forever" From 800 to 1000 varieties of
these tokens were made and issued. As
they were taken to represent a cent by ev-
erybody, those who had copper enough on
hand and could make or procure molds or
dies, realized good profit from the max.
ing and issuing of these tokens. The size
and weight were convenient, and the
United States government saw that the
people were better pleased with the small
er piece, although mparatively valueless,
than with the old half ounce coin.
AS the object was to keep the subsidiary
coins in the country, and as the people
were content to use the smaller pieces, the
experiment was tried in the issue of the
turkey buzzard' mixed nickel cent. They
were larger, thicker and heavier than the
present cent, and did not please as we'll as
the tokens had pleased. After trying two
or three issues of the nickel coin, some
with the aying eagle and others with the
Indians head, the United States govern
ment decided upon the present style ,of
coin.-Yankee Blade.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14
WHITNEY FOR 1890.
Why the Ex-eecretnry of the Navy Will
No: Take Office.

CHICAGO, Nov. IA "A Washington
special comes here very directly and
through a reliable channel that Mr..
Whitney will probably accept no
Off e under the new administration.
Mir. Whitney prefers to he the heir to
the throne, and he believes that he
can do great deal more to promote
his presidential aspirations III private
life than in Office.
History has shown that Cabinet
officers stand very poor chance Of
becoming Presidents The Secretary
of State would give MIR. Whitney
very little opportunity to work TO
this end. The Treasury would involve
altogether too much work. TO be
Minister in London for four years
would remove him entirely from the
field Of political management, and it
is there that Mr.. Whitney is strong.
Besides, the American Minister 10
England generallygets the Irish vote
down on him. Nearly every one Of
our ministers have suffered from il.
Mr.. Phelps really executei fine
piece Of strategy on TIE British Gov
eminent in the eXtraditiOn treaty
negotiations 10 the interest of Irish
political refugees, but it WIS a
matter that the. general public could
know little aboui, and the Irish
antagonism to him prevented his
appointment as Chief Justice of the
United States. Nj Cleveland had
decided to appoint him, and so told
Senators on both sides Of the Cham
Der, and the frantic appeals of the
leading Democrats not to make an
appointment that would ALLEVIATE the
Irish vote at the last moment dis
suaded him.
MIR. Whitney, ii is said, has no
notion OF EXPOSING himself to any
such hostility, and he recognizes the
fact that even as Secretary Of State he
would have to incur some enmities
and do something that would arouse
opposition, while in private lie he
would be hand loose and foot loose to
manage things with view to 1896.
The lever that controls New York
machinery il now in his hands
and he is not going TO let go Of it.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14
The Wind Among the TreetOps.

The conductor runs up the loose side
walk and knocks at the station house door.
The wind booms solemnly in the black
treetops and from the waiting engine
comes the steady clank, clank of the air
pump.
The half clat section boss appears ct the
door
Broken rail half mile west of Owl
creek trestle, must be fixed fore No. 3 can
pass"
Without awaiting reply the conductor
has gone, and the train labors onward up
the grade.
The "gang" is reused the handcar
carries them quickly down to Owl creek,
the broken rail is repaired, and all is ready
for the toilsome return journey.
Slowly the car is forced up the winding
grade. The men work silently-now cow
ering as If to avoid blow as the car
now shrinking involuntarily from the
verge of chasms heaped up with vapory
blackness. Occasionally against the starry
pail of the sky wan simmer reveals the
Sierra's snowy shroud, and a cold wind
pouring down from those dead heights
sways the sable plumes of fir and tamarack
and booms in the tall pine tops.
Unnoticed by the men on the car Il
rumble, heavier than the murmur Of the
wind, comes down the canyon. A shudder
runs along the heavy steel rails as, with
the roar of an avalanche, locomotive
sweeps round the point just ahead.
For a second, like picture thrown upon
a screen. the handcar, with its freight of
terror stricken men, stands out in the glare
of the headlight against the surrounding
darkness, and death was upon them.
With brake shoes splitting fire the train
rushes past, the red lights of the caboose
swing round the curve below, and a sudden
hush falls upon the scene. Below the
grade fragments of rocks and loosened
earth bound and rebound amid treetops
and jutting ledges-down, down. All is
still at last, and up from the depths wells
the sound of brawling waters, softened by
distance to a murmur.
The wind from the height once more
sways the sable plumes Of fir and tama-
rack and booms in the tail pine tops.-E.
Munson in Short Stories.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14
THE LEersLATURE DEMoCRATIo.
How It Will Stand on Joint Ballet on
cial Returns.

There i8 no longer any doubt 8buut
the complexion ofthe Legislature IN
Tennessee. The official returns show
that the Democrats VIII have AL they
want, or could desire, consequently
McDoWelps hope OF getting to the
United States Senate has gone gIim-
mer,Dg. In the Senate there win be
only one P0pulite, and this is no'
certain by any means. Squire
Slaughter Of this county is the only
PopuIite candidate for Senator who
has received anything like good
vote. He counts that he hes been
elected, but Mike Savage viii contest
the election and there is little doubt
that he will be seated If Squire
Slaughter does not get in there will
not he Populite iS the Senate, In
the lower house the count shows
six Populites. The joint ballot Of
both hous will show Sc Democrats,
30 Republicans, 6 Popuiites, and it
will be seen that the Tennessee Legis-
lature is all right,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14
ThackerRY,s London.

Pail Mall, the "sweet, shady side" of
which was the favorite haunt of the beaus
and handles of the regency, was familiar
to Thackeray, who began and finished
1.-THE Luck of Barry Lyndon" while stay
ing in St. James street. No more congen-
ial district could have been found for the
worldly minded old majer, who loved to
station himself in the great window of
Bays club-the bow window of Whites
with half score of old bucks similarly
recreating themselves-old fogies who, Pen
unkindly suggested, should be set up in
wax at Nine. Tussaud's in chamber of
horrors by themselves. The humorous side
of club life is admirably portrayed in the
Book Of Snobs."
A member Of the AthenHum and the Re
form, Thackeray was particularly partial
to the smoking room Of the Garrick club,
then situated in King street, Covent Gar
den. 1t was here, at the annual dinner
held on Shatespeares birthday, that he
said: "Wo-the happy initiated-never
speak of it as the Garrck; to us it is the
G., the little g., the dearest place in the
world. "-Chambers' journal.