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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-31

Leaves Union Depot for
Chicago, st. Louis and
down-river points, 1850
a. m. Arrives from Chi.
cago 2:3O p. m. Daily.
Leaves Union Depot for
Chicago and st. Louis,
7:40p. m. Arrives from
same points 7:45 u. Ii.
Daily.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-31
NOTED BILLIARDIST.
Career of Charles Capen, an Old
ST Paul Bow

Charles Capen, now conducting the
West hotel billiard room at Minneapolis,
began his career as billiard player in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-31

There is no tagging of interest in the
Foley billiard tournament, and every
game draws large crowd of spectators,
who are bound by the charm of the
worries. Thomas is at the fore and now
leads all the others. Thayer is still
favorlte, and Sampson has lost none of
his prestige. Charlie Glow is still a
hustler for points, Wilder stands well.
Wilmot is still genial and skillful and
Bunker has lost none of his good
nature. even though he stands low
down in the list or averages. The way
the players now stand is shown by the
following table:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-31
GOOD BILLIARD CONTEST.
INTEREST ~ The FOLEY TOURNEY
INCREASING.
WE WILL BE IN THE LEAGUE.

The Foley Billiard Tourney Is Al
most Anybody's Game at Pres
ent-John S. Barnes Says St.
in the Western Base Fall
League.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-31

a, daily; b. except sunday: sBuffet parlor
cars on trains to Duluth and w. Superior;
tBuffet sleepers +Dinins and Buffet cars
palace sleeperS tourist cars
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-31
Al OS1 > ALLIE :.

Diamonds-Frank Schmit, 10; jacob
Hebcr, lis: j. Wagner, 2O5; Z. Lippert,
l66; John Sherer, 1913; Philip Fisher.
1877; j. Tost, 2O1; Fred Weghorn, l55;
George Hensler. lis: +. Berkmann, 1856.
Juniors-C. Pomplun, 1874; A. Kirchoff,
1872; E. Gehrman. 1853: II. Gruetzman,
$50; A. Wagner, 1874; j. Slant, 14S.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29
DYNAMITE DEFENSE GUNS.
Will Soon Be Ready for New York
and San Francisco.

The long delayed dynamite defense
guns for the ports of New York and San
francisco are now nearing completion.
To a reporter, Mr.. s. D. Schuyler, Vice
President of the Pneumatic Dynamite
Gun Company, said the other day that
his company hoped to have the guns for
Sandy Hook ready for placing by Aug. /
next. The three guns for San Francisco,
he said, would be ready for mounting by
Jan. l, 1894.
The dynamite guns at present under
construction are being made by the
West Point Foundry, at Cold Spring, N.
y. The cost Of these guns approaches
close to $50, 600 apiece. The guns
which will be mounted at San Francisco
resemble in general makeup the fifteen
inch gun at present mounted in England
at Shoeburyncss. This gun is deemed
by the pneumatic dynamite gun people
the best aerial torpedo thrower ever DON
structed.
The guns for New York Harbor will
be mounted at Sandy Hook and at Will
let's Point. In addition to the three
new guns being built for this port, the
original cight-inch gun which sank the
coast survey schooner Siliman and the
ten-inch gun will be mounted here also.
This will give New York five dynamite
guns. OF the five guns, two fifteen-inch
guns and one eight-inch gun will be
mounted at Sandy Hook. The Willet's
Point battery will consist of one tf-
teen-inch gun and one tcn-inch gun.
The Dynamite Gun Company is under
contract with the United States Govern
ment to build three tiftecn-inch guns for
the defense system of Boston Harbor.
AS yet, however, work has not been be-
gun OH the latter set of guns.
The contract for the construction of
the above guns was originally siyrcd by
representatives. of the Ordnance Corps
of the United States Army and of the
Dynamite Gun Company over three years
ago. Owing to the failure of the Navy
Department to authorize the construc-
ton of a second dynamite cruiser, which
temporarily placed the gun company in
straitened circumstances, the latter
was unable to proceed with its contracts.
1t is now learned that the Pneumatic
Gun Company, which at one time ap-
peared to have wholly dissolved, is in
condition to push ahead its contracts,
and this it is at present endeavoring to
do
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29
Shakespeare's Anachronisrns.

Virgil made Hneas land at port
which had no existence until couple of
hundred years after the poets own time,
and in three separate places revives char
acters killed earlier in the poem. The
anachronisms of Shakespeare are legion.
In the "Winter's Tale, The speaks Of the
coast of Bohemia, an inland country,
and in "Coriolanus" calls Delphi an
island, whereas it is city of Greece.
The "beetling cliffs of Elsinore' are
mentioned, but Elsinore has no cliffs,
while although the Danes were in Ham
let's time, pagans, the Ghost in "Ham-
let' speaks OF absolution and purgatory.
In "Twelfth Night" the Clown in Illyria
speaks of St. Benefits Church in Lon
don. In "Julius Caesar" Brutus tells
Cassius, Peace, count the clock" and
Cassius answers, "The clock has stricken
g." when striking clocks were not
invented for 1, 400 years after that time.
Hamlet is said to be educated at a
school which, in his time, had no exist
ence, and Menenius, in Coriolanus,"
mentions Galen over 500 years before the
latter was born. In the play of Henry
w., turkeys are spoken of 100 years
before the discovery of America, whence
they came. Hector is made to quote
Aristotle; Cleopatra's palace is fitted
out with billiard table, and Tunis
and Naples are spoken of as though at
an immeasurable distance from each
other-[St Louis Globe Democrat.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

gion of his heart, fell to the ground
bathed in blood. The wife was sent for
and threw herself Oh the young mans
body, kissing him on both checks and
swearing she would never leave him.
Whcreupon the husband rose to his
feet, Wipfd the blood off his knife and
said to his wife: "That's all right; then
we will 90 home.' 1t turned out that
the sham suicide had a bladder of blood
concealed beneath his clothes and had
enacted this comedy in order to regain
his wife's affection.
IN the present publication of the I'm
periAl Geographical Society of Russia is
the surprising announcement that the
Chewsurcs-a race Of 1000 pcople-in
the Department Of Tco,lst, Government
OF lliiIs, know nothing of the use of
money as medium of exchange. The
unit OF valuation among the primitive
people Is the COW. A horse is valued at
three COWS and a stallion at six. fa
Chewsure becomes cnrayed and cracks
his neighbours skull he is obliued TO nav
sixteen cows. If he break Il bone of his
ncighbor's arm five COWS will rehabilitate
him IN the eyes of society. A wound in
the forehead calls for three calves. If
one cuts another in the part of the face
usually covered by the beard the punish
mcnt IS comparatively severe. The
"doctor' places as many grains of wheat
along the cut as possible. For each
grain of wheat so used the criminal must
give up COW. Wounds in the bcardless
part of the face call for one-third as
many COWS only. The man who Injuries
neighbours hand surrendcrs sixteen
COWS. Thirty COWS even will pay for
the loss of an eye. The people are said
to be happy and contcnted. No misers
exist AMONG thcmI
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

Says the New York Press: The OBJ
staole to the general substitution of
aluminium for iron and steel in the arts
has been the high cost of extracting it
from the native clay. This has been
partially overcome by progressive i'm
provements in the process of manufac-
ture, but still aluminium remains too
costly to be thought of as substitute
for the baser metals, notwithstanding
its advantages in other respects. The
reported discovery of extraordinarily
rich deposits Of aluminium clay in Ala
bama and Georgia indicates a long step
forward for the white metal. Six coun- '
ties in these two States are said to be
underlaid with bauxite ore, some of
which has yielded as high as forty-eight
per cent. of pure aluminium. If the
reports from these counties are reliable
the alu'ainum age 10 approaching.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

The New York Herald thinks that
the danger of contracting disease from
microbe-laden bank notes is very much
underestimate in this country. It
suggests that, as most people who are
taken with contagious diseases are not
able to tell how they are contracted !;
perhaps in many cases the malady has
been contracted by handling microbe-
laden currency. It may be SO, COM
ments the New Orleans Picayune, but
80 long as this same currency is legal
tender, and one cannot refuse it with
out FORGETTING his claim to payment,
what is poor fellow to do? It is a
case of neck or nothing.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29
Hypnosis in an Egg.

NJ. Horace Palletier has a story in La
Paix Universal about the property of
magnetism in eggs, of which he says:
Eggs do not serve only for nourish-
mcnt of man; they possess serious mag
netic properties. An egg has its positive
pole at its small end and its negative pole
at the larger end. 1t has, like magnet,
its neutral line at an equal distance from
the large and small ends
"Moreover, with an egg you may put
to sleep and awaken subject of hyp-
notism. You apply the small end to the
middle of the forehead of the subject at
the root of the hair and he goes to sleep.
When you arc assured that your subject
is we'll under influence, you turn the egg
and apply the large end, and the subject
awakes. This experiment is among the
easiest imaginable, and success always
guaranteed.
81 had given one day in the presence
of a number of persons a seancc at the
house of the teacher, NJ Caller. l did
not fail to luake an experiment with an
egg. My success was complete. A lady
who was among the visitors was very
much impressed by it. On the next day
she had nothing more pressing than to
try the application of the small end Of an
egg to the forehead of one of her ser
wants. The young maid did not wait
long before going into profound sleep.
After little while the mistress tried to
awaken her, but had forgotten the pro-
cess of applying the large end of the egg
to the same place where the small end
had been applied. The good lady shook
her servant, shouted into her ears,
pinched her, tortured her in a thousand
different ways. The poor thing went on
sleeping. She was as motlonless as if
dead, while her mistress was in despair.
cat the moment she was a prey to
such terrible anguish, fearing that she
had by her imp:udence involuntarly
caused the death of her servant, the
teacher, M. Caller, came along under
her windows. She called to him, and NJ. !
Caller, who had not forgotten the in
structions l had given him, applied the
large end of the egg to the forehead of
the patient, and at the end of five or six
minutes she was restored to conscious
ness. She looked like one who had just
left the empire of Pluto, and who is quite
astonished to find herself on earth"
Caters of tiger skin are among the
novelties promised.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

The complete Statistics show that the
production of beet sugar in the United
States has more than doubled during
the past year, although there has been
no increase in the number of factories.
The total production of the six factories
was n, 083, 322 pounds, against a total
of IL, 0o4, 1873 pounds last year. Ex-
periments in growing sugar beets have
been tried in number of the Western
States, and the success has been SO
great that the number of factories will
be increased.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

The New Orleans Picayune maintains
that American cotton mills, and more
particularly Southern mills, having the
supply of raw material close at hand,
and being equipped with the most per-
feet machinery, should be able to un.
dersel Lancashire in all the worlds
markets. We can raise cheaper cotton
than any other cotton-producing coun-
try, and, with the looms and spindles
located in close proximity to the cotton
fields, we. ought to be able to furnish
the world with cheaper cotton than any
other country. 1t is, therefore, very
evident that the near future must wit
ness wonderful development of our
cotton goods exports.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

The Bankers Monthly AYERS that
our banks on the frontiers of Canada,
have. at times, it is said, paid out, or
technically, put in circulation the bills
of Canada banks that float over for
border purchases and expenses of
travel, etc. On these they are liable
to pay ten per cent. tax to the Federal
Government. The only way our banks
can get rid of them and avoid the tax
is to ship them to Canada, and have re.
mittance made to New York for &C.
count of the American bank.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29
SUCH rs LIFE.

A little crib beside the bed,
A little face above the spread,
A little frock behind the door,
A little shoe upon the floor.
A little lad with dark brown hairs
A little blue-eyed face and fair,
A little lane that leads to school,
A little pencil, slate and rule.
A little blithesome, winsome malds
A little hand within it laid;
A little cottage, acres four,
A lit le old-time hous -hold store.
A little family gathered round!
A little turf-heaped, tear-dewed ground.
A little added to his soil,
A little rest from hardest toll.
A little silver In his hair,
A little stool and easy chair;
A little night of earth-lit gloom.
A little cortege to the tomb.
-[Rural Australian.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29
HE GOT HIS Congo.

Miss Blecker-I heard you shook Mr..
Backhay last night.
Miss Emerson (of Boston, - Yes, l
agitated him more or less energetically.
fudge.
u ODDS AND ENDS.
A saw generally means business when
its teeth are set Buffalo Courier.
Those who keep late hours have not
much use for carly hours. -LGalveston
News.
A man who will take umbrage without
cause would probably take most anything
clse.- Boston Courier.
1t is the escaped convict who COM
plains, when caught, of being run down
by inquisitive people. Philadelphia
Press
just when the coffee think it has good
grounds for complaint the egg drops
in and settles the whole business. - Troy
Press.
A pitcher that came over on the May
flower is owned by Michigan man.
That's old enough to be a confirmed
GROWER. - Chicago Mail.
Theirs is nothing that so increases
mans desire to work in the garden as
the discovery that his wife has misplaced
the rake.- Atchison Globe.
Yabsley-If l had hundred thousand
dollars | would 60 around the world.
Mudge-If | had hundred thousand
dollars, l would sit down and let the
world go round. Indiana polls journal
Miss Ricketts-Why don't you marry
Mr.. Mum? Are your parents opposed
to it? Miss Gid1y-No, but Mr. Mum
seems to be- Vogue.
No, Maud, dear, you are mistaken in
thinking that you can clear your vision
by straining your yes.-lPhiladclphia
Record.
Il shall demonstrate the caws and
effect said the crow, as he followed the
farmer who was dropping .-ICleve-
land Plain Dealer.
All the documents in the Behring
Sea dispute, of course, bear the legal
L. S., for that is what they are about
the place of the seal. Lowell Courier.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

Railways never would have been per-
mitted to exist in England, writes
William M. Acworth, had they been as
reckless of human life and as careless
of the inconvenience they inflicted on
individuals as American railways have
been and to great extent still are.
can Englishman can only stare with
establishment when he sees for the first
time trains running through crowded
streets of cities such as New York and
Chicago"
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

The Duke of Argyll has been making
special study of the ''seven centuries
of English misrule" in Ireland, and has
just completed work in which are to
be brought to light many new and I'M
noticed facts bearing on this subject.
The work is to be called "Irish Nation
alism; An Appeal to History"
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

Matte Vance had just come home from
a long, wet walk over slushy February
sidewalks, under the gray drizzle of s
lcaden sky.
Her roommate, Leda Hall, was pa
tiently mending an old serge gown by
the light of kerosene lamp. Gas was
too expensive luxury for these girls to
indulge in. Every cent counted in their
small household.
"Well," said Leda, glanciug up, "did
you get the money!
"They paid me three dollars" Matte
answered, in spiritless way.
"Three dollars? But it ought to have
been five!" cried Miss Hall.
''They deducted two for that flaw in
the material. They said we never should
have gone on beading it," explained
Matte.
"Then why did they give us the dam
aged matcrial?" said Leda, clasping her
hands, despairingly. ooh, the work 1
put on that silk"
"But that is't the worst of It'll" added
Matte, carefully rolling up her worn
worsted gloves, in order that they might
present their best appearance on the next
occasion. s'They have cut down their
hands. The market is dull; there is no
more work for us!'
Leda looked a moment at her friend.
"And that means"
"Starvation~ said Matte, with a
mirthless laugh. 'For we've tried every
thing, Leda. haven't we? Unless we go
to the variety stage, or report at the
almshouses!"
"Nonscnse!' said Leda. "Girls are
wanted at the umbrella factory round the
corner. I saw the notice pasted on the
window to day."
"But do you know what prices they
pay, Leda?"
Miss Hall shrugged her shoulders.
sits not fortune, I grant you," said
she, "but it'll tide us over shadows I'M
til something else turns up"
"What is there to turn up?'
'Mattie," said Leda, biting off nee
dleful of thread with her strong white
teeth, "what goose you were to decline
the offer. of that far-away cousin of
yours!" .....
"Of home and a husband-neithe
of whom have ever seen9 No, Leda, 1
havn't fallen so low as that!'
eyes, but" ...
There was an apologize knock at the
door. A little old man in a gray suit
came siding in, looking this way and
that.
''Miss Vance," said he-ssMartha Me-
LISA Vance2 Excuse me, but I was di-
rected here" &c.,.
Matte rose up with unconscious dig
nifty.
II am Miss Vance," said she, secretly
wondering if this old man were the head
of jet embroidery establishment, or in
search of book agents to diffuse abroad
some new publication.
''The daughter of John Vance, of
Briggleford? And grand daughter of
Peter Holman Vance? The same, Ell?
Well, I am pleased to inform you that
by the demise of your distant relative,
Hczekiah Vance, of Straitley, you have
become possessed of the old farm"
"But," gasped Maggie" Cousin Heze-
kiah didn't own that farm! He only
rented it of some one else"
"Didn't own it," repeated Mr.. CHS
Icy, in voice 90 disproportionate to bis
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

The nadon Times calls Captain A.
T. Mahan, of the United States Navy,
''the most distinguished living writer
on naval strategy and the originator
and first exponent of what may be
called the philosophy of naval his
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

United States Consul Newson, at
Malaga, reports that it is possible for
very poor man to live there on five
cents day, while q very respectable
dinner may be had for dime.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

The salary of the Mayor of Abilene,
Kan, is dollar year. For this rea-
son it is thought by the New York Tri-
bune that next year the Office will seek
the woman, since there is nothing in it
for q man,
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29
Live MastOdOnS in Alaska?

The Stickcen Indians (Alaska) posi-
lively asserts that within the last five
years they have frequently seen animals
which, from the descriptions given, must
be mastodons. Last spring while out
hunting one of these Indians came across
a series of large tracks, each the size of
the bottom of a salt barrel, sunk deep in
the moss He followed the curious trail
for some miles, finally coming out in full
view of his game. As class these In
dams are the bravcst of hunters, but the
proportions of this new species of game
filled the hunter with terror, and he took
to swift and immediate flight. He
described the creature as being as large
as a post traders store, with great, shin
ing yellowish white tusks and q mouth
large enough to swallow a man at single
gulp. He further says that the animal
was undoubtedly one of the same species
as those whose bones and tusks lie all
over that section of the country. The
fact that other hunters have told of see
ing these monsters browsing on the
herbs up along the river gives certain
probability to the story. Over on Forty
mile Creek bones of mastodons are quite
plentiful. One ivory tIlsll nine feet long
projected from one OF the sand dunes on
that creek, and single teeth have been
found that were SO large that they would
be a good load for one man to carry. |
believe that the mulefootcd hog still ex-
lists; also thatslivc mlstodOns play tag
with the aurora every night on Forty
mile Creek in Alaska Juneau Free
Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

Hardup-The amount of your bill,
doctor, has made me feel quite ill.
Doctor (gleefplIy)-Has it, sir ? Then I
suppose you will want me- to attend you
professionally again 2--lEd-bits.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29
st. Lanetry Democrat.
BIZ L. L. SAND0z.
0Desousas, g Louisiana.

Notwithstanding modern improve
ments. the Yankee Blade AYERS, that
it costs more per 1000 feet to manu-
facture lumber to-day than it did forty
wears ago.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

Georgia ranks as our first State in
the production of watermelons, second
in that Of rice and third in that of cot
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

There seems to be almost a rage for
violets as hat trimmings, and they are
frequently used so profusely as to COM
pose nearly the whole hat. Violcts and
mimosa is favorite combination.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29
CAUGHT IN A TRAP.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

81 hain't no idee what sort of a gal
she is" said Jonas Jaffray, slowly rub
bling his toil-hardened palms together.
as he sat in his cushioned rocker, staring
meditatively at the fire. "But her
mother was A, Number One. And her
father was the best friend I had in the
world"
Mrs. Jaffray said nothing. She only
piled fresh logs on the rusted old and
irons, and watched the blaze leap up,
carrying fragments of gray moss and
well-dried bark half way up the chimney,
in its fiery fingers.
Will Halyard, her adopted son, smiled.
He was dark-eyed and handsome, with
rather grave face, and square, we'll
modelled shoulders.
"Anyhow," said he, "she's got very
decided mind of her own"
"That's her mother over again." said
old Jaffray. "And John Vance, we'll,
he always knowed what he wanted. All
the same, though, I don't know what
harm it was to propose the plan to the
girl. She's poorer n Jobs turkey, they
say. Workin' for a livin' in York city;
and here, when offer her home and
husband, she flares up as if it was an
insult"
81 don't blame her," said Mrs. Jaff-
"Well, I amt one to handle folks
with gloves" observed Jonas, with some
acerbity, "Wilps our own folks, as
good as gold, and would make q first
class husband for any girl"
"Provided," interpolated Halyard,
quietly, "she liked him."
"And Matte Vance is alone in the
world, and for her folkses sake I'd be
glad to see her provided for. But if she
don't like it, she can do t'other thing.
I amt patickler.'
II saw her once" said Halyard-at
old Grandfather Vance's funeral at
Straitley. John jasper pointed her out
"a tall. straight girl, with very black
hair and big, soft eyes"
Mrs. Jaffray said nothing, but in her
heart Of hearts she longed, with an ex-
ceeding great longing, to see Martha
Vance's daughter safe under the agis of
real protecting love.
1t was so like man. she told her
self, TO put the question blunt and
square to sensitive young girl, whether
she would barter herself in exchange for
home and support. Why, of course
she would say no. What else could she
say ?"
And when old Jonas Jaffray and Will
HaIyard had discussed the question in all
its bearings, and iually subsidized into
silence, she said, very quietly:
Il think could arrange matters"
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

A pretty trimming for an evening
skirt is deep dounce of lace, headed
with two or three narrow puifs.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

Miss Blecker-I heard you shook Mr..
Backhay last night.
Miss Emerson (of BOSTON, - Yes, |
agitated him more or less energetically.
-EJuIoo
St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-29

Caters of tiger skin are among the
novelties promised.