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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17

she and her lover would be reunited in
that happy land where death, that cruel
separator of loving hearts, has no power
10 enter, was a sweet and comforting
one. 1t was this belief that made her
life worth the living. and heaven more
tangible, realistic thing than her former
visionary idea Of the hereafter.
Sorrow did not make Gladys selfish:
her time was spent in devotion to others.
How many weary, sick and poverty
stricken people were helped by her
gentle words of encouragement, tender
sympathy and substantial aid none will
ever know but God. Often when weary
with her la6orS of the day | would see
her reading and musing over an old
letter. noticed that there were curious
reddish stains upon the paper; then l
knew that Gladys was living over in
memory the happy and the sad times
before this unfinished letter had reached
her III the unexpected. sad way. They
mad found 1t on the bosom of her dead
lover, and these last penciled words
were words Of undying affection for her.
w later years | saw Gladys but rarely,
foE I had been removed to an attic
chamber, where, for want of commune
cation with the present and its happen
lDgs, was left TO ponder on the past.
AT last day came when l was rudely
awakened from my reverie, and l grad
ually realized that l was to leave the
old home forever.
Then l was carried down stairs into
the hall remembered of having passed
through when l was brought into the
nonSe years before-a handsome new
mirror then and very ornamental. As
the men were taking me out of the door
again saw my Gladys, and | rejoiced
greatly, for had feared | was never to
see her again. In that fleeting glimpse
OF her L saw that her beautiful, tender
eyes were still the same, but the dusky
tresses l remembered so we'll were
changed. Time had whitened them
with touch of his frosty fingers, but
the change had only enhanced her
beauty.
L thought l saw an expression of re-
greet pass over her face. Was she think
Ing OF the days of her youth and hap
plness, and how closely we had been
associated in that glad time?
love to think so and believe she was
sad to see me taken away. Well, they
brought me to this dusty shop. People
as they pass ME say: What an old
fashioned mirrorr' and do not hesitate
to remind me that my days of useful
ness are gone forever. But l do not
mind it, for, homely and old though
am, have been accorded great priv
llege in my time, one not often bestowed
upon these animate objects that pass
me by SO inditferently, and If bestown
the privilege is not appreciated. l have
upheld one of the rareSt attributes of
the human Soul-cOnstaDcy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17

certain the effect of the intense cold
which surrounded them. They kept
alive, and continued to swim in the
water until their confines were SO mar
rowed that they had no space in which
to move.
The ice in its freezing process begins
at the outside ana freezes toward the
center. SO the space in which the fish
had their liberty was gradually mar
rowed down until the fish were incaSed
and the water around them froZe, pin
ioning them tightly in its folds.
Each fish, wien the cake was CON-
pleted, was as natural as life, Its fins
and tail being spread as they were
while in the act of swimming. The
cake of ice containing the fish was
placed on exhibition, and numerous
bets involving several hundred dollars
were made as to the outcome OF the eX-
pertinent. The cake was left intact for
a day or so. and then was cut open and
the fish taken out and placed in water.
They were left for some time, and of
the five fish which were originally put
in the cake none OF them exhibited a
return to life so far as can be definitely
determined except one, and whether
this one was indeed alive is open to
conjecture.
After being placed in water this one
fish, it is asserted, moved from the po-
sition in which it was placed and as
sumed an entirely different position,
which, it is believed, the fish made
itself. However, as no one saw the
movement, it is taken that the death of
the remaining fish is proof positive that
this one fish was also dead, and that
the change of position was the result of
something else than life in the fish.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
LOVE L1GHrENs LABOR.

A good wife rose from her bed one morn
And thought, with a nervous dread,:.o
of the piles of clothes 10 be washed, and more
Than dozen mouths TO be fed;
The meals to get for the men in the field
The children to fix away
To school, and the milk to be skinned and
churned:
All to be done that day.
1t had rained in the night, and all the wood
Was wet as it could be;
There were puddings and pies to bake, be-
A loaf of cake for tea
And the day was hot. and her aching head
Tnrobbed YEARLY. as she said:
IF maidens but knew what good wives know
Ihey would be in no haste to we'd"
Jennie, what think you told Ben BROWNE
Called the farmer from the well;
And flush crept up to his bronzed brow,
And his eyes half bashfully fell.
1T was this he said, ana coming near
He smiled, and STOPPING down,
Kissed her cheek: "'Twas that you were the
best
And dearest woman in town.
The farmer went back to the field, and the
wife,
In a smiling, absent way,
sang snatcheS of tender little songs
she q not sung for many day.
And the pain i'll her head was forgot, and the
clothes
Were white as the foam of the sea;
Her bread was light and her butter was sweet
And as golden as IL could be-
Just think" the children all called in a
breath,
Tom Wood has run off to sea!
he wouldn't, we know, if he only had
AS happy home as We.''
The night came down, and the good wife
smiled
To herself as she softly said
Ills so sweet to labor for those we love,
It's not strange that maids will we'd
Building Association Record.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
CURIOUS CULPRITs,
The Church Illuminated 1t An
athemas Against Insect Pests.

The Church Illuminated 1t An
athemas Against Insect Pests.
Chicago Times.
History supplies many instances of
curious culprits. Vermin have in all
ages proved prolific devastators. 1t
was the custom in medieval times for
sufferers by their depredations to have
recourse to the church, which in due
time Illuminated anathemas against the
culprlts. The procedure in such cases
resembled that in vogue in the ordinary
legal tribunals. The plaintiff appointed
counsel, the court accorded one to rep
resent the defendants, and the &C.
clesiastical judge summed up and gave
sentence.
Bartholomew de ChasSeneuX. a noted
lawyer OF the sixteenth century, was
great authority In this department of
law and custom, being author of an eX-
haustive treatise on the subject, said to
combine remarkable skill with vast
erudition. He was also a successful
advocate in these peculiar trials. On
one occasion he was appointed counsel
Ior the defense in case where a hoard
OF rats were sued for devastatiOns
committed i'll the harvest fields of a large
portion of the province of Burgundy.
Cheeseman's defense in this important
trial was considered very clever, =
though to modern ears it sounds like a
tissue OF nonsense.
He showed that the rats had not re-
"eiYed formal notice. and obtained a
pronOuncement that the parsons of the
affiliated parishes should announce an
adjournment aud summon the defend
ants to appear on certain day. On
the adjourned trial he complained that
the delay accorded his clients had been
too short to allow of their appearance
in consequence of the road being in
tested with cats. He succeeded in OBJ
tanning second adjournment, and
finally no verdict was given. In early
times there was a superstition that
cocks laid eggs. and that from these
eggs sprang basilisks. or horrible
winged serpents. Gross relates that
in 1474 an abandoned cock of that town
was accused of having laid one of these
eggs, and was tried, convicted and
sentenced to death.
The culprit was delivered to the ex-
ecutioner, who burned it publicly, along
with its eggs,in place called Kohlen-
berger, amid large concOurse of people
assembled to witness such ludicrous
execution. Felix Malleolua relates
that proceedings were instituted at
Mayence in the thirteenth century
against some offending mosquitoes, and
states that the judges before whom
these unwelcome insects were tried
pronounced sentence of Punishment
against them. Snails were sentenced
in case at Macon in August, 1887,
while in 1855 plague of caterpilIars
suffered the penalties of eXcOmmunl-
cation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
MONKEY CURIOSITY.
The Animals Hold a Congress
and Decide on the inspection of
q SIaeninp Man

The Animals Hold Congress
and Decide on the Inspection of
Sleeping Man.
T. Gasser, civil engineer of Vienna,
Austria, who for two or three years has
been travelling constantly, told San
Francisco Examiner reporter of a Gu
rious experience he had with monkeys.
"a most singular thing befell me near
Pardena, Ceylon," he said. II had gone
with friend into the great botanical
garden there. This is probably the
greatest botanical garden in the world.
You hear many compliments about one
or two other gardens, but believe none
of them is SO large or so entirely unique
as this. In this great garden, oddly
enough, there were many wild animals.
AS a rule they are not supposed to be
savage, however.
well, one day it was extremely
warm-hot, you may say, even for Cey-
lon. l at length became tired and
stretched myself under some India rub
Der trees. My friend meantime left me.
and gazed for time up through the
leaves of the trees, catching a CLINT
once in while of the sun, till a relaxed
and lazy feeling overcame me and fen
asleep. l must have slept an hour,
when suddenly was awakened by a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
DREADED sTOWAWAYs,
TarantuIas, Scorpions and Cent?
pedes in Fruit Steamships.


pedes in Fruit Steamships.
New York Advertiser.
Those who loiter about the East
river docks and other landings of
steamships engaged in the Southern
fruit trade and watch the gangs of
wOrkmen bnsily unloading the immense
punches of bananas, whose yellow lus-
ter is later to gladden. many a house
hold, are seldom aware of the
danger these workmen are con-
stantly in from various venom
Gus and unwelcOme stoWaways fire.
quently found hiding amidst the great
punches of tropical fruit. Scarcely a
wagon load of the fruit is taken from
ship that some sort of deadly poisonous
reptile, spider or insect is not hidden
away beneath the LAYERS. The animal
life which takes free passage from for
eign countries by. storing itself away in
the punches of bananas would furnish
food for an Interesting volume On nat
ural history.
So accustomed have the handlers of
this fruit become to seeing big, hairy
tarantulas crawl out of the punches and
up the legs of their trousers that they
whiSk them to the floor and step upon
with no more concern than if they were
harmless bugs or caterpillars, instead of
the VenomouS insects that they are. The
bite of Il South American tarantula Is
in all cases poisonous. and III many in
stances deadly, yet their presence Gre
ates among banana handlers no more
terror than if they were the most harm
less of spiders.
They are more frequently found in
bananas than any other reptiles. and
they come from every place from which
bananas are shipped. They are black
and fuzzy, with long, hairy legs and little
beadlike eyes, which twinkle and snap
like electric sparks, and their very APP
pearance would strike terror to the
hearts of those who are not accustomed
to seeiug them. AS rule the bodies of
these little spiders are about the size of
the end of mans thumb, but some
times "Gulliver" craWlS out into day
light, and he is Immediately captured
amp Gagged.
Those of the tarantulas which are
not aroused by the joltlng of the punches
in handling and keep in hiding are
slowed away in the hot cellars OF the
dealers, where they become warmed up,
and then crawl out and spend the re-
mainder of their days in the cracks of
the ripening rooms with the domestic
rats and other small animals with which
these cellars abound.
Snakes are not infrequently found
coiled around the stalk of a bunch Of
bananas, and they are seldom killed.
AS rule the variety is peculiar, and
ready market is always found where
they can be disposed of at reasonable
price.
They rarely escape after the bananas
have been lifted from the hold Of a
vessel. If the snake becomes curious
when the air and light strike him and
sticks his head out for survey of the
surroundings, he is Immediately
pounced upon and imprisoned. If ne
remains to be slowed away Ill the ripen-
ing room the heat invariably wakes him
up, and he uncoils himself and craWls
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
THE FUNNY POSTMASTER.
He Has Few Words on Sen ding
Things by Mail.

He Has a Few Words on Sen ding
Things by Mail.
New York Telegram.
A funny postmaster recently set to
the postoffice department new set of
postoffice rules. They were:
A pair of onions will go for two scents.
Ink bottles must be c0rked when sent
by mail.
1t is unsafe to mail apple or fruit
trees with the fruit on them.
AlligatorS over tel feet in length are
not allowed to be transmitted by mail.
As all pOstmasters are expert lin
gusts, the addresses may be written i'll
Chinese or Choctaw.
Persons are compelled to lick their
own postage stamp and envelopes; the
postmaster cannot be compelled to do
this.
Persons are earnestly requested not
to send postal cards with money orders
inclosed, as large sums are lost in that
way.
John Smith gets his mail from GA, 279
postofficeS; hence letter directed to
John Smith, United States" will reach
him.
Ducks cannot be sept through the
mail when alive. The quacking would
disturb the slumbers of the clerk on the
po3tal cars.
It IS earnestly requested that lovers
writing TO their girls will please cOnfine
their gushing rhapsodies to the inside
of the envelope
Nitro-glycerine must be forwarded at
the risk of the sender. 1t it should
blow up in the postmaster's hand he
cannot be held responsible.
When watches are sent trough the
mail, if the sender will put notice on
the outside, the postmasters will wind
and keep in running order.
When you send money order in a
letter always write full and explicit
directions in the same letter, so that
any person getting the letter can draw
the money.
When letters are received bearing no
| directions, the persons for whom they
are intended will please signify the
fact to the postmaster mat they may at
! once be forwarded.
The placing of stamps upside down
on letters is prohibited. Several post
| masters have recently been seriously
! Injured while trying to stand Oh their
! beads to cancel stamps placed in this
! manner.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
queer. uncanny feeling and opened INV

queer, uncanny feeling and opened my
eyes.
Judge of my surprise when I saw
perched upon my feet, body. and even
upon my shoulders, lot of little mon
Keys. while all about me and beaming
down upon me from the trees were
monkeys OF all sizes and ages. 1t
seemed to me there were myriads of
them. l was frightened, for | knew
these monkeys were wild, and in their
wild state did not know what so MANY
of them might do.
II gave one leg a twitch, however.
and then the other, and bounded TO nv
feet, throwing off all that were gam
boiling over and about me. In a second
The monkeys vanished, and only peer
ing from the tops of tall bamboo and
rubber trees could l see any at all.
Even these did not remain long. In a
few minutes they were all gone. l was
much alarmed. for the appearance of so
many OF them was entirely unexpected.
1t was week before l got over my
fright.
ut appears, however, that the queer
animals had meant no harm to me. The
congress had been called, and their eX-
animation of me as | lay upon the
ground was merely out of curiosity to
divine what kind of an object 1 was. l
suppose II | had been addicted to intOx-
icantS | might have received such
shock from the cloud of monkeys that l
might never have recovered from it,
las it was, l voted myself in luck,
and vowed never to go to sleep again in
a wild tropical forest, even if it were
called botanical garden"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
PROPOSALS.

THIEF RIVER FALLS Minn, July 10. 1897.
Sealed bids will be received by the Village
Council of The Village of Thief River Falls,
Polk County, Mimi, until - O'Clock noon of
the 25th day of July, 1893. for the construc
ton of water works. laying mains, building
power house. furnishing water power pump,
hook and ladder trucks, hose and hose carts.
and all material complete, according TO plans
ana Specifications on file in the Recorders
office of Thief River Falls, MinQ.; said work
and maleriafto he paid for III : per cent viii
council reserves the right TO reject any aud
all bids. ADAM ZEH, Recorder.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
Worlds Fair Excursions.

The Chicago, burlington It Northern
Railroad Will sell tickets to Chicago and
return at the rate Of Sl3.7 rs for the round
trip. or The following dates: July IT,
good 10 return July 81 or rs; July "a,
GOOD 70 retUrn july Is or Aug. 4; July
81, good 10 return Aug. or II; Aug. z,
good ~ return Aug. il or Is. For tickets
and fuf.he- information apply at City
Ticket Ottica 400 RcheT: street, Hotel
&Kan.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
DR.. TELLER,
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without the use of mercury or findrauca
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of the kidneys and bladder are cured for
hfe. Men of all ages who are suffering from
the result of youthful indiscretion or exA
cesses of mature years, producing nervous
nses. indigestion, cousu patton, loss of mem.
ory, ETC., are thoroughly and permanently
pured.
Dr.. Feller. who has had many years of ex,
one of the leading medical colleges of the
country. He has never failed in curing any
cases that he has undertaken. Cases and
correspondence sacredly confidential Call
by nailan express everywhere free from
risk and exposure.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17

The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway will sell round-trip excursion
tickets from st. Paul to Chicago and re-
turn at S13.75 on July nth. Oath, 91st, and
Aug. 18th. These tickets will be good to
return from Chicago on the fourth and
eleventh days from date of sale, and
will be good for passage in coaches and
reclining chair cars. Don't miss this
opportunity to see what can never be
seen again under such favorable cir
cumstances. City Ticket Office, 365
Robert street, corner Fifth.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
Eaokitn.s arrica saIre.

The Best ssive In the world for Cuie
Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheuui, Fever Sores.
letter. Chapped HANDS. Chilblains,
CoTns, and all skin Eruplions, aud pos.
It Is EuaVsntecG 20 give ptrfeot satisfac.
sion. or money refunded. Price % cent
per box. For asle by J. Y. Allen, drugs
let, corner oaYcEth aud Jackson.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17

nEPOT QUARTERMASTER's OFFICE.
II Washington, d. C., July II, 1se3-Sealed
Proposals, in triplicate. will be received at
this Office until IL o'clock, noon, on Tuesday,
August 10Th, 1893, for the erection of super
intendent's lodge of brick, at the Custer
Battlefield, Montana, National Cemetery in
accordance with plans and specifications to
be seen or had at this office and at the Offices
of Major j. NJ. Marshall, Quartermaster,
Helena Montana: the Post Quartermaster,
Ft. custer. Montana, and Major j. V. FureY,
Chief Quartefmaster Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Proposals will also be entertained for the
plans. The Government reserves the right
to reject anv or all proposals. Envelopes
containing proposals should be plainly
marked "Proposals for superintendent
Lodge" and addressed to George H. Weeks,
1t. Col. and Deputy Quartermaster General,
L S. a, Depot Quartermaster.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
DIED.

CONN ERS-In St. Paul Mimi, Irene Com
ners died at their residence, AL East Ninth
street, daughter of j. W. and Alice Con-
ners, aged four months and sixteen days
Funeral will take place from residence
Tuesday, the 18th, Q a. m. Friends invited.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
The Pyramid Pile Cure

Is new discovery for the prompt. per-
manent cure of piles i'll every form.
Every druggist has it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
DOES FREEZING KILL FISH {?

An Experiment. Which Shows Con-
Ciasiveiy Iha: it Does.
New Haven Register.
70 test Il iaOoted question, Il number
Of live perch were recently scared and
placed in water az the ice nlanufactory,
and the water was pu; In the process OF
cryste Ilization. it!cQuired about sixty
hours 10 freezs cake OF ce,and during
this time the :isli were watched to as
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.
For Sale
Low Rates to the Worlds Fair.

One fine brougham and T cart cheap.
Address X %, Globe.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-17
PATENT SYSTEM OF
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Positively painless and harmless
Twenty-Five years successful use in thou
sands of cases. Endorsed by all the lead
ing physicians as the Surgeon Dentist of
the Northwest
All the latest improvements for the re-
lief of pain in Filling and Growing
Teeth and the Insertion of Bridge Work
Get the best teeth cheapest IN the end.
DR.. Hurd is conceded TO have the finest
laboratory in ST. Paul for making teeth,
and employs four experienced and skill
ful plate workmen. Guarantees salts
faction and perfect fits. Office largest,
best lighted and most elegantly fur
nished in the Northwest. DR.. Hurd's
reputation is established, and he has the
largest practice and does by far the most
satisfactory dentistry in the Twin Cities.
Hours 8 to 5.
The Forrest City times., 1893-06-30
New Postmasters.
The following new postmasters have

The following new postmasters have been appointed in Arkansas:
 Money, Logan county, T. J. Gambetel. vice G. w. Chapman resigned
 Myrtle Boone county W. E. Lankford, vice w. E. Marshall. resigned.
 Salem, Fulton county, L. E. Davis vice $. B. Richmond, resigned.
 Scotland. Van Buren county Mark Lindsey, vice J. w. Reynolds, resigned.
 Surrounded Hill, Prairie county, J. W. Stew art. vice J. A. Roper, resigned.
 Wooster Faulkner county, w. H. Lindsay, vice J. w. Cantrell. resigned.
 Hunter, Woodruff county, J. H. Freeman, ST., vice K. L. Griffin resigned.
 Jamestown, Independence county, M. C. Long, vice T. L. Cole, resigned
 Lloyd, Pope county, E. A. Kline, vice C. J. Gates. resigned.
 Rudy, Crawford county, J. R. Stockburger. vice w. s. Land, dead.
 Sandtown, Independence county, D. s. Ward, vice D. w Laurence, resigned.
 Cascade Faulkner county, J. C. Naylor, vice J. E.. Stanley. resigned.
 Eros, Marion county, R. B. Garrett, vice W. H. Couch, resigned.
 Fletcher Pulaski county, A. M Thomas, vice H. :. Coleman, resigned. ], Hickory Valley, Independence county, J. B. Gray. vice J. D. Grisham. resigned.
 Rheas Mills, Washington county, w. c. Rhea, vice Clifford Boles, resigned.
 Wesson, Union county, J. Stewart, vice A. R. Griffin, resigned