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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-15
Odd RecOllectionS.

In her interesting volume of recollec.
tions, Miss Louisa Twining tells the fol-
lowing curious anecdote in connection
with her home for workhouse girls. One
Of the earliest inmates, received from the
Strand union, bore the name of Victoria
Queen, being a founding picked up on
the queens birthday. On leaving the home
she obtained situation at Twickenham,
and while there became engaged to car
penter with the appropriate name of AL
bert Edward, to whom she was happily
married.
Another long forgotten anecdote is re-
vived by Miss Twining in her record of the
year 1888. The Thames tunnel was then
in course of being constructed, but opera
tions had to be suspended more than once
owing to an unwelcome influx of water.
Whereat the French, always ready to be
amused at our expense, remarked, "The
English are making a tunnel pour passer
le Temps. London Globe
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-15
A Headache Cure.

A heavy dull headache situated over the
brow and accompanied by languor, chill
illness and feeling of general discomfort,
with distaste for food, which sometimes
approaches to nausea, can generally be
completely removed by two grain dose
of potassic salt dissolved in half wine
glassful of water, and quietly slipped, the
whole quantity being taken in about 10
minutes. In many cases the effect of these
small doses has been simply wonderful. A
person who quarter of an hour before
was feeling most miserable and refused all
food, wishing for quietness, would now
take good meal and resume his wonted
cheerfulness. The rapidity with which
the fodide acts in these cases constitutes
its great advantage.-Alienist and Neu-
rOlOpiSt
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-15
The Wine Fly.

It may be the invisible spirit of wine, I"
which Shakespeare speaks of, that mate
rializes in the worm and subsequent fly
called the bibio, or wine fly. These worms
are born in the sediment of wine, in emp
ty casks and in drippings from wine YES
sells and presses They grow for about
seven weeks and then enter into the nymph
state. After about 10 days their shell
breaks, and the fly comes out. The insect
is extremely small, when it's wings are not
extended not exceeding the size of pins
head. The breast and body are yellow
the reticulated eyes are red, and the wings
possess all the colors of the rainbow. They
prove very interesting to microscopes
and are found to have all the regular parts
of common flies. Their antennse are oval
and fat, and their legs and every other part
are perfectly formed.-Detroit Free Press
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-15
SOMETHING THAT CROWDED.
a Story Showing just What Should Be
Done With an ESCAPED Lion.

Done With an Escaped Lion.
A circus train had been smashed up at
the junction, many of the cages had bean
broken, and their occupants had had
chance to escape to the woods and fields.
While we were waiting for the wrecking
crew to clear the debris away, an old
darby with business look about him APP
preached the circus manager and asked:
'Boss, do git anythin if 1 cotch de gi-
raffee what got away last night?''
''No giraffe got away" was the reply.
''Waal, | cotched sunthin ober on my
place dat must heve got away from some
body. My ole woman dun says it's gi-
raffee, but mebbe it's elefant.''
"Our elephants are all here, but one of
the camels is gone"
'Mebbe it's camel. 1 nebber seed no
camel. He amt got no wings nor muffin"
''Does it look like horse or a cow"
"No, sab. My boy Henry say it's a
nosceros, but re a leetle suspishus dat it
hain't'
awe have no rhinoceros, but it may be
our sacred bull from India"
"Does yc'rsacred bull growl like dawg
an show his teef?'
"No."
"Does he walk around nigger's cabin
an take dog by the neck an shake de life
outer him an roar an roar?"
"No. 1t must be one of our lionsi You
don't mean to say you have captured
lion?''
Cant say, boss. It's sunthin dat
growls an roars an switches his tail. Him
didn't wanter cum along, but jest tied
a rope around his neck an made him.
He's tied up to dat tree ober dar, an
reckon yo' orter gimme bout two bits fur
my trubble."
About SO of us went up the road with
the old man, and "a quarter of a mile
away, tied to Il persimmon tree and look
ing nightly Disguised, was the biggest
lion of the menagerie.
''DunnO if it's an elefant, or nosceros,
or giraffee," said the old darkey as he
went up and began loosening the rope,
"but yere he am, an bein as he killed my
dawg, an bein as 1 had to drag him all de
way ober, mebbe yo' will make it fo' bits"
"Great Scott, man' gasped the man
ager as he gave the darky silver dollar,
didn't you know this was a lion and the
fercest one of the whole lot?''
"No. Nebber dun knowed what he
was. Jest got a rope an made him cum
along, an when he growled an roared
hammered him wild dis stick Much
obleeged, sab. Twill now go out an see
if l can't dun cotch sunthin wild wings on
itp'-New York Sun.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-15
A Business Proposition.

Colonel Longhorn--How much do you
charge to take me through Central park?
Cabby-One dollar and half for the
first hour and 81 an hour for the rest of
the time.
Colonel Longhorn-I tell you what, it
will take me about an hour to get through
dinner. Come around at the beginning of
the second hour.-Texas Siftings.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-15
Insurance AGAINST Blindness.

Insurance against blindness is, in Eng
land, at least, an actual fact. A company
there will insure persons between the ages
of 16 and 40 at a rate of shillings year.
In the event of losing their sight this sum
entities them to sum of $3.50 year,
payable in quarterly installments, for so
long period as the blindness continues.
New York Times.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-15
The wonderful Grass Eating Turtle.

Paradoxical as it may seem, the only
known species of grass eating turtle in the
world (Xerebates agassiziD lives and
thrives on that all but barren waste the
Mohave desert, in San Bernardino county,
CAL This queer creature grazes after the
fashion of an OK or horse, and notwith-
standing the natural scarcity of grass
seems to keep moderately fat and happy.
He is about 20 inches in length when full
grown and is sold at SIS by west coast Gu
riosity dealers Louis Republic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-15
An Ingenious Decoration.

One of the most ingenious and orna-
mental schemes of ballroom decoration
that has appeared is the idea of London
iceman of freezing incandescent lamps into
large and prettily nodded pieces of ice.
Such decorations serve the double pur-
pose of giving forth both GOODNESS and
light.-Exchange
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
HEAD BLOCKS.

At recent meeting held at Louis
vile. KY, of the executive committee
of the American Ticket Brokers' as
ISOLATION, a resolution was adopted set
ting aside 81 600 to be used by the IL
linois members of the committee in de-
tectiug the perpetrators of certain al
le forgeries of railroad tickets Oh
sone of the lines between Chicago and
New York.
The excessive cold last night initiated
somewhat against the usual good time
of the trains OIL the Chicago-St. Paul
lines, and nearly all were late yesterday
morning.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Conley, of the Milwaukee, is expected
home from an extended Western trip
about Monday. He has been absent a
month.
William Silt. Winnipeg, chief clerk
to Robert Kerr, of the Canadian Pacific,
passed through the city yesterday, with
his wife, on their way to Chicago.
The Great Northern city ticket Office
has received its supply of clergymen's
blank applications for half-tare per-
mits.
Travelling Passenger Agent Jaffrey, of
the Grand Trunk, has returned from a
trip through the Dakotas and Manitoba
Charles II. Holdridge, of the Chicago
Great Western passenger department,
has gone East.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
A CUT IN GRAIl RATES,
THE ERIE GIVES NOTICE THAT 1T
WILL SLASH BATES.
TFEE CUT WILL BE MET

Rock Island Feels Hot Over the
Fine, and Proposes to Stand
Out on the Emi&rant Clearing
House Scheme-NOt Likely
That Other Roads Will Insist
on the Fine Going.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The Erie today
gave three days notice of cut i'll grain
rates from Chicago TO the Atlantic sea-
board. The new rate will Oe 20 cents.
and will apply Oh grain. flour and all
cereal products. The rate OIL prOvis-
ions has not been touched, but there is
little DOUBT that 1t will soon be pulled
down in the same proportion as the
grain rate, which suffered 20 per cent
reduction, the old rate having been 25
cents. The action of the Erie was an
nounced too late III The day for its COM
petitors to meet the reduction, but they
will lose no time about it tomorrow.
A meeting of the Western Passenger
association Will be held tomorrow to
co slider the stand taken by the Rock
4oAoiiu III uSNIUliiIS 1hoe hhlSoS 40 INV
of $50 Is RENTED it will not join the
proposed emigrant clearing house
scheme. There Is SO much at stake in
the emigrant scheme, and it has been
evolved alter so much trouble that it is
not likely the other lines will allow the
question OF $50 to upset 1t.
The advisory committee of the emf
grant clearing house has not yet select
York Office. The entire com mittee will
cave Sunday for New York. and may
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
MERGED WITH SOUTH SHORE.
The Duluth & Winnipeg Absorbed
by Another Line.

Special to The Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. l. General
Manager Fitch and Auditor Robert
ToOmbs, of the South Shore, are here
preparatory to closing up the affairs of
the Duluth & Winnipeg, which will be
merged with the former line Jan. l.
General Manager W. Ii. Fisher. OF the
Duluth q Winnipeg. confirmed the re-
port of his retirement, but could not
say what would follow the ABSORPTION.
His interest has been purchased by
Canadian Pacific people, and he
has fastened the consolidation.
1t is announced that the
South Shores operating department
will follow its general freight Office to
this city with the new year; further
more, that the Duluth & Winnipeg will
be at once extended to Winnipeg to
furnish the Canadian Pacific line east
and west 100 miles shorter than the
north shore route. and that the Canadian
Pacific's wheat and steamer business
will be transferred here. Mr.. Fitch
would not confirm these predictions,
though he admitted their logical Sc
quence. He. however, admitted the
consolidation, and that the Duluth &
Winnipeg would compete for Mesaba
range business. Messrs. Fitch and
Toombs will go over the Duluth & Win
nipeg today, and the latter will at once
provide Office facilities here for the rest
of the general offices.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
SALTWATER NEWS,
Doings in the District Court
other Events.


Judge Crosby returned from Hastings
yesterday, and the hearing of the case
OF Charles Boo VS.. c. p. Holcombe was
resumed when court reconvened. The
jury returned verdict for the defend
AM. The case of Otis Staples VS..
O'Neal Bros, was next taken up, and
when this case is finished today court
will adjourn until the third Tuesday in
January. Judge Crosby will hold a
term of court in Chisago county, Begin
ming next Tuesday, and Judge Willis
ton has not recovered sufficiently from
his recent indispositiOn to finish hearing
cases here. The case of Staples VS..
O'Neal Bros. is for the recovery of dam
ages on certain log contract. A large
number of prominent loggers and lum-
bermen were present yesterday as wit
nesses, some of them from doWn-river
points.
Dr.. Lemuel 2. Weatherbee died yes
terday at the homo of his son-in-law,
Christ Book, Of paralysis. Deceased
was elgbty-seven years of age, and
came here few years ago from New
York state. The funeral will be held
this afternoon.
Fur coats and hot fires were very
comfortable yesterday morning, the
mercury having dropped to twenty de-
grees below zero during the night.
F. H. Shedd, for several years the
popular agent of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railroad company in this
city. has been transferred to Lacrosse,
Wis, TO assume the position of travel
ing freight and passenger agent of four
of the Milwaukee divisions.
Rufus Golf returned day or two ago
from Partridge, Mnn,, and reports COLI
ditions for logging good. Roads have
been broken. and many have begun
hauling.
The prison earnings for the month of
November were s16,099.4l, from all
sources.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
History
Repeats Itself

Il know of no way of Judging
the future but by the past
This remark was made by
the greatest of American ora
tors. His words were ringing;
and what he said is true. Let
us see:
The history of the lives of
most men and women shows
that they have some happiness,
some misery and much disap-
pointment.
1t shows that the majority of
men and women break down
during their lives, and that
few, very few, die of old age.
1t shows that care1essness
and neglect have been the
causes of this breaking down,
and that care, watchfulness
and intelligence prevent it.
1t shows that the chief cause
of breaking down is due to some
form of kidney, liver or bladder
trouble, and to the innumerab1e
complaints common to women.
The history of this country
for the past ten years, however,
shows that these troubles can
be and are being decreased, and
that they can at all times be
controlled.
1t shows that the means by
which this may be done is with
in the reach of all, and that it
is a purely scientific prepare
ton Endorsed by the doctors
and used universally. In fact,
no other than Warmers Safe
Cure.
II you wish to judge the fut-
ure Ill your own life,
If you desire to part the veil
which may separate you from
the. great unknown before you,
If you are interested to know
what your future life may be,
whether health or happiness,
sickness or misery, look at the
past. You will see that care
and the use of the right remedy
has kept, has preserved, has
sustained people, and that the
neglect of these things has
brought sickness and untinely
death.
If you are a wise man OF
woman, you will ponder over
these thirOS and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
VJufOu Backwards.

Receipts = Hogs, 800; cattle, 700;
calves, 5.
Hogs-5@1Oc higher. A light run and
yards cleared early at the advance, be
fore the weak closing at Chicago. All
sold at s5@5.20.
Cattle-Steady, moderate run and fair
demand. The supply of butcher stuff
was mostly medium. Spectators were
liberal purchasers of all grades, and
several outside buyers took stockers
and feeders. Quotations-Prlme steers,
s3.25@5.50; good steers, S2.75@3. % ;
prime cows. 50 .50@2. rs; good cows. s2@
$50; common to fair cows, s1@2;
light veal calves. S3.50@4.25: heavy
calves, S1.75@3; stockers, 81. 25@2. %
feeders, S2.25@3; bulls, Sl.50@2.25.
Sheep-Steady on good killing grades
and good feeders. Medium to fair NUT
tons sold at S2@2.5O. Quotations =
Muttons, S2@3; lambs, S2.50@3. 25;
stockerS and feeders. S1.25@2.50.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
IN GOOD CONDITION.
Western Railroads in Excellent
shape.

shape.
New YORK, Dec. 1.-The Evening
Post says: The railway statements
issued today merit careful study. All
of them corroborate the differences
drawn earlier in the week from the
first granger reports for October. In
two of today's statements-those of the
Atchison and of the Big Four-the saw
ing i'll operating expenses has been con-
siderably larger than the decrease in
gross. In Atchison these October econ
omies were quite as astonishing as were
those reported by the Louisville for Sep
ember; SO heavy, in fact, that in the
face of $4,000 Shrinkage in gross
revenue, the net receipts actually i'll
creased $1l5.SS5. The Louisville rail-
road did not do well, and its statement
suggests that some expenditures legitl-
mately belonging in September were
carried over 10 October on the books.
Yet this leaves the Shrinkage in net
revenue for the two months combined
far less than might have been antici-
pated. These huge reductions In oper-
ating charges certainly mean one OF TWO
facts-either that the arrangements
have been needlessly extravagant in
the past, or else that really necessary
outlay OH the roads now is being re-
fused. As a rule, happily, the panic of
1898 found the Western railways in eX-
cellent physical condition.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02

Case Is General Manager of the
Entire Great Northern System
Bryan Is General superin-
tendent of All the System Ex-
cept of the Eastern Minnesota
and Montana Central.
Yesterday there were issued from the
respective offices of James j. Hill, of the
Great Northern. and President Samuel
Hill. of III, Montana Central, two circu-
lars which are official combinations of
what the GLOBE announced some time
ago. These, in effect. state that Q. w.
Case is appointed general manager,
vice A. l.. Mohler. resigned" and are
signed, respectively, flames j. Hill,
presidents" Samuel Hill, president"
From the office of General Manager
&. w. Case there was also issued yes
terday circular which also confirms
the announcement previously made by
the GLOBE. This names r. w. Bryan
as general snperintendent, vice z. w.
Case, resigned"
In order to make the full effect of the
above circulars understood, it is well to
state that Mr.. Bryan's jurisdiction eX-
tends over the entire Great Northern
line, though not including the Montana
Central and Eastern Minnesota. Of
course, the two circulars issued from
the separate offices of President j. j.
Hill and President Samuel Hill show
thatGeneral Manager Cases jurisdiction
extends over both the Great Northern
and Montana Central railways.
In regard to the retiring general man
ager, Mr.. Mohler, the GLOBE can add
but little. if anything, to what it has
already said. He has been successful
manager i'll every sense OF the word.
Mr.. Mohler has made an enyia-
BILE record. He has seen the
Great Northern grow, under his
able management, into magnif-
icent ranS-continental line, with
valuable terminals, the Western one OF
which, at Everett, brings st. Paul into
contact. practically, with that point.
To be sure the country to the far west
through which the Great Northern
runs would, were it not for mastery
minds and indomitaDle zeal, have been
now virgin wilderness. But Mr.. Hill
carried theory into practice, and was
ably supported by the genius of just
such men as MoDler and others. His
railroad has opened up country of un-
told wealth. more practical in worth and
real value than were ever the tabled
mines of Golconda, had they been real.
All this is tributary to st. Paul. Mr..
Mothers part in this colossal undertake
ing has made for HIM monument that
should prove lasting in the minds of all
North western people.
MIR. Mohler, it is understood, is now
making Ills preparations to 90 to North
Carolina, where he will remain for sew
eral months, devoting himself to recrea-
ton and needed rest.
General Manager Case assumed the
duties of his new position Yesterday, as
did also MIR. Bryan, the new general
superintendent of the Great Northern.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
Kansas Cify.

KANSAS CITY. Dec. 1.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, $500: shipments. 1900; market
strong to 1Oc higher; Texas steers, 81 10
as. IS; shipping steers, s4@5.50; Texas
and native cows, S1.40@3.25; butcher
stock, s3@4.15; stockers and feeders.
81 1O@9.60. Hogs-Receipts, 4.S00; ship
ments, 900; market 5@1Oc higher; bulk,
S5.15@5 80; heavy packing and mixed.
S5.05@5.35; light Workers and pigs, $500
@5.4O. Sheep-Receipts, 800; ship
ments, 1900; market steady and slow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
IMPORTANT MEETING
To Be Held Which Is to Be Far
Reaching.

OMAHA, Dec. ]. President Clark,
General Traffic Manager Munro, Gen
eral Passenger Agent Lomax and Gen
eral Manager Dickinson, of the Union
Pacific, leave for the East this evening.
and the result Of their trip is expected
to be far-reaching. Messrs. Dickinson
and Lomax expect to attend a confer
ence of the officers Of the roads which
have been cutting transcontinental
rates, with the object of restoring tar
ifs. The roads to be represented at the
conference, which has been called TO
meet either In Chicago or st. Paul, are
the Canadian Pacific, Northern Pacific,
Great Northern and the Union Pacific.
The meeting has been called at the in
stance of General Manager Finley, of
the Great Northern. President Clark
goes East to attend the semi-annual
meeting of the board of directors Dec.
5. after which the first full meeting of
the receivers will be held, and policy
outlined to assist the reorganization
committee in its efforts to place the
road Oh sound foundation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
MONEY MADE OF ICE.
Yancey Tells a Tale of Belated
ESQuimauX

A. Il. Yancey, travelling passenger
agent of the Burlington. arrived in the
city yesterday morning from Winnipeg.
He said he had with him party Of
Esquimaux from the polar circle who
had started out to attend the world S
fair. They got left because they missed
their connections with the dog train at
Saskatchewan. He declared that Amer
lean ideas have penetrated even the
frozen North, for the coin they had
with them consisted of thin pieces of
ice, bearing on the one side the impress
of the head of Columbia, and the ad-
ministration building on the other.
The only trouble" said Yancey, with
the money was that they found it so I'M
comfortably warm Eere that the prob
bilities are that when they reach Chi
q ago they will be panniless, as their
cash will have melted in their pockets
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
DR.. TELLER.
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Dr.. Feller, who has had many years Of ex.
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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 mail and express everywhere free from
risk ana exposure.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-02
"A Large Order.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1.-The Bald
win Locomotive works have received an
order for seventy-one engines from the
Atchison. Topeka IL Santa Fe system.
This is one of the largest orders the
Baldwin works has ever received from
a single railroad company. Forty-two
of the engines are 10 be built immedi-
ately, and the remaining twenty-nine
during 1894.