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The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
A SHREWD SOVEREIGN.
An Emperor Who Financiered to Some
 Purpose.


 Among other expedients to raise money, Ivan resigned the crown in favor of Tarter kahn, who was bap- tised under the name of Simeon. Ivan, says the Gentleman's Magazine. feigned to withdraw himself from public af- fairs, but in reality he held on to them, and made the new czar call in all the charters formerly granted to the mon- asteries and bishoprics, and all the charters were cancelled. This curious interregnum, or by whatever name it should be designated, lasted nearly a year, and then Ivan declared he did not like the new regime, and, dismissing the baptised heathen, again took up the scepter which, as matter of fact, he had never really discarded. He is sued fresh charters to the monasteries, but was careful to keep back several fine slices of the revenues, eXtorting from some of them fifty thousand and from some others one hundred thou sand rubles annually. We shall see, as Ivans character is unfOlded, that this spoilation of the mOnasteries was not the only thing in which he resem- bled our own merry monarch, Henry VIII. He would send his agents into the various provinces, there to buy up at low prices the whole of some par ticufar commodity for which the prov ince was noted. After retaining the monopoly for awhile he would sell for a high rate and even compel merchants to buy at the prices he named. He followed q similar course with foreign imports, creating a monopoly and for bidding others to sell their stocks un- til he had disposed of his own. By these means he cleared two hundred thousand ruhleS a Near
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
NAPOLEON AS A HoRsEmAN.
He Changed His Mount Frequently and
 Insisted on White Chargers.

He Changed His Mount Frequently and
 Insisted on White Chargers.
 Napoleon was most cruel horseman, and changed his mount frequently dur Ing battle At Waterloo, however, he rode only the famous ''Marengo." An other celebrated war horse of the great Corsican was ''Austerlitz. Napoleon always insisted that his horses should be white or gray. Twelve were killed under him. He was once carried quite within the enemy's lines. when he nar- rowly escaped capture, by a mad charger. Napoleon's runaway, it is only fair to confess, was caused by a terrible wound that goaded the poor steed to uncomfortable madness. Men lose their heads from pain; why may not a horse?
 For dumb combatant of unqualified savagery we must go to the camp of those masters of warfare-the French of Napoleon's day, says the Chicago Herald. Che of the emperor's aides, Capt. de Marbot, owned mare named ''Lizette," noted in peace or war for viciousness under certain provocation.
 Once, with her master on her back, she was surrounded by Russians. A huge grenadier made Q lunge at Marbot with his bayonet, but Lizette dis patched him with tigerish ferocity, using only her teeth. Afterward she backed off, clearing with her iron heels a space among the Russians pressing on her Hanks, then wheeled, dragging down to death beneath her hoofs an officer as she did so, and darting through the astonished crowd to a place of safety. In that brief encoun- ter she killed two Russians outright and crippled several others with her heels, and it all came from cruel bay onet thrust that aroused all the poor creatures latent frenzy.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
DANGERS IN. THE MINES.
Small Pay for Men Who Are Likely

Small Pay for Men Who Are Likely at
 Any Timc to Bo SGfTocatcd.
 Great and mystically dreadful Is the earth from a mines depth, says Me Cures Magazine. Man is in the i'm placable grasp of nature. It has only to tighten slightly and he is crushed like a bug. His loudest shriel1 of agony would be as potent as his final moan to bring help from that fair land that lies, like heaven, over his head There is an insidious silent enemy in the gas. If the huge fanwheel on the top of the earth should stop for brief period there is certain death, and a panic more terrible than any occurring where the sun has shone ensues down under the tons of rock. If a man may escape the gas, the floods, the ''squeezes" of falling rock, the ears shooting through little tunnels, the precarious elevators, the hundred perils, there usually comes to him an attack of miners asthma" that slowly racks and shakes him into the grave. Mean while, he gets three dollars day and his laborer one dollar.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
THE CONSCIENCE FUND.
Founded Early in This Century, It Now
 Amounts to About S27O,OO0.

Founded Early in This Century, It Now
 Amounts to About S27O,O
 The "Conscience Fund" has figured in the statements of tue treasury de- partment for over eighty years, says F. l.. Crisman in Lippincott's. It was opened by the register of the treasury department in 1911 and appears in the general fund of the government under the head of miscellaneous receipts. Like other assets of the treasury 1t can be used for any purpose that congress may deem proper. It's origin was due to the fact that away back in the be- ginning of the present century some unknown person began to feel the sharp thrustS of conscience. In some way he had defaulted the government, and could find relief only by returning the money to the treasury This was the beginning of the account showing the receipts of moneys by the government from unknown persons. Since then the fund has been accommodating in large and small sums, until at the present time it aggregates nearly S270,000. Re mittances are received nearly every week. During the prevalence of the hard times the receipts have fallen off considera bly,, and sometimes a fort night elapses before a communication is received, showing that even 8 mans conscience can feel the effect of tight money
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
SAVING WOOD.
The Old BTan Was Somewhat Posted on
 Human Nature.

The old 3Tan Was Somewhat Posted on
 Human Nature.
 '.MOrnin', boys" said Old Jack, who believed in judicious fattery, and whose doings are reported in Harper's Young People. As he spoke he laid down his saw. ''Feelin' well, I hope? Yes? Good. Nothin' like feelin' well to make a feller feel good. You don't look powerful strong though, Tommy; you're thin.
 What's that? You're wiry, be ye? I don't believe that. You couldn't saw one O them sticks through. You kin? Ho! Seein's believin'!
 ''Why, ye k3n saw purity well. Yer stronger'n ye look. l couldn't O done that better myself He beats you on sawin', guess, Bobby. Eh? He can't? Yes, he kin, believe. Beat ye all hol- Ter. What? You'll saw two sticks quiclsr'n he sawed that? Nonsuns!
 Hickey! ye went through that like lightnin'; but one stick ain't two sticks. No, sir. One ain't never two. Coin to do the other? Well, well! Tommy, he's goin' to do the other; whatever you goin' to do? You'll do two?
 Don't brag, Bobby. Amt braggin'? Yell do three? Waal, go ahead; don't let me interfere. Alters glad to see boys spunlSy. What! the hull lot sawed? Waal, I'm surprised. That bein, the case, 1 think I'll go indoors an rest. Sawin' alters did make ne tired"
 The old man walked into the house, and Bobby and Tommy went home, wondering if their friend hadn't put up g little game on them, after all
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
RUB THE OTHER EYE.
Good Advice of an Engineer Regarding
 the Removal Of Cinders.

Good Advice of an Engineer Regarding
 the Removal Of Cinders.
 Nine persons out of every ten with cinder or any foreign substance in the eye will instantly begin to rub the eye with one hand while hunting for their handkerchief with the other. They may and sometimes do remove the off, lending cinder, but more frequently they rub until the eye becomes in famed, bind a handkerchief around the head, and go to bed. This is all wrong. The better way is not to rub the eye with the cinder in it at all, but rub the other eye as vigorously as you like, according to writer in the Med ical Summary, who relates the follow ing experience:
 "A few years since l was riding on the engine of a fast express. The en- gineer threw open the front window, and I caught a cinder that gave me the most excruciating pain. I began to rub the eye with both hands. Let your eye alone and rub the other eye (this from the engineer). l thought he was chafhng me, and worked the harder. I know you doctors think you know it all, but if you will let that eye alone and rub the other one. the cinder will be cut in two minutes. per sisted the engineer. l began to rub the other eye; soon 1 felt the cinder down near the inner canthus, and made ready to take it out. Let it alone and keep at the well eye, shouted zI T T fy... ute longer, and looking in small glass he gave me found the offender on my cheek. Since then 1 have tried it many times, and have advised many others, and have never known it to fail in one instance, unless it was as sharp as a piece of steel or something that cut into the ball and required an eratiOu tO remove if :;
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
HE WANTED WORK.
And He Climbed to the Summit of Ben
 Nevis to Find It.


 Nevis to Find It.
 An early tourist has brought down a curious story from the top of Ben Nevis. It is thus told in Scotch pa per: One afternoon last winter the as sistants in the observatory were some what startled by knock at the door a most unusual occurrence at that sea- son of the year. The visitor turned out to be Q tramp from London. His clothes were frozen stiff and his beard was mass of ice. After having been warmed and fed he astonished the hospita ble winterers on the Ben by in forming them that he had come up in search of work. When at the foot of the mountain some one had advised him with rather grim humor-to try Ben Nevis observatory. Thus it was that he came to climb the four thousand and some hundred odd feet. The assist ants, after replenishing his wardrobe and supplying him with a good store of food, sent him off on his downward way, so that he had no cause to grum- ble at being the victim of 8 practical ke.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
HELPED THEM DIE EASY.
Farmer Leach's Endorsement of the Eos
 Cholera Cure.

Cholera Cure.
 'In Nemaha county, southeastern Nebraska, said Representative Mercer, i of Omaha, there lives an old farmer named Rufus Leach. The hog cholera was raging in the county and Leach's $ hogs were dying fast, when along came smooth-tongued fakir with patent cholera cure for hogs. He showed Leach his goods, read him the direc- tions on the bottles, and sold him two or three bottles of the compound for five dollars.
 ''Three or four weeks later Farmer Leach was standing at his gate in the evening when a well-dresscd stranger who was driving by, hailed him. There was an air of desolation about the farm, a lull as of death, unrelieved by the musical bass grunts of lot of contented hogs.
 "'Good evening, Mir. Leach, called out the stranger, pulling up at the gate.
 "'Good evening" said Leach.
 "'You don't remember me, I see,' said the stranger.
 "'No, not exactly said the farmer.
 "I sold you some cholera cure for your hogs few weeks ago, the stran- ger explained.
 "'Oh, you're the man, are you? said Leach, quietly.
 "'Yes,' said the fakir, and, by the way, how did it work
 "'Well, said Leach, in his complacent style, T don't know that it done any good, except to make the hogs die little easier.''
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
WANTED TO USE PLATINUM.
Interesting Experiment in Coinage Made
 by the Russian Government.

Interesting Experiment in Coinage Made
 by the Russian Government.
 'Once upon a time" said Mir. c. O. Baker, Jr., of New York, who is con nected with the only platinum refining plant in the United States, Russia concluded to try the experiment ot using platinum as a money metal, says the Washington Post. There is really little of that article found anywhere else on the globe except in the Ural mountains, in the czar's dominions, anC having a monopoly of the precious stuff, the idea of using it as a coin seemed plausible. But it didn't prove glittering success, and have never seen any coin made of platinum by that government dated later than 1844.
 Here is one of the samples of the Russian experiment" said Mir. Baker, taking from his pocket a piece about the size of silver quarter. It bore the date 1890 and had some Russian characters on it signifying it to be ot the value of six rubles, or about $4. 75 in American money.
 ''I gave S11 for it, however" said Mr. Baker, ''and it's intrinsic value is worth nearly that amount. Of course, nc other nation would go in with Russia and take platinum for money, seeing that no other country produced any of it to speak of, which may be tip to some of our silver friends. Platinum is lower than it was two years ago, be ing worth now S1O.5O an ounce, though while back it was worth ST an ounce. At it's present price it is just about half as valuable as gold. It is the heaviest of metals, it's specific gray ity exceeding that of gold about per cent, and so ductile that it can De drawn into thread 1-1OO0 of an inch in diameter"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
LOST HIS RED BUTTON.
The Former Chinese Minister to This
 Country Degraded in Rank.

The Former Chinese Minister to This
 Country Degraded in Rank.
 Tn a telegram from Pekin, published by the Chinese Mail, it is said that an imperial edict has been issued an nouncing the degradation of Tsui Kwo Yui, the former Chinese minister to the United States, Spain and Peru, from the post of ''Tso Shu Tsze''- senior deputy supervisor of instruction ito that of Chung Wan"-under secre- taryship of the Hanlin college-as we'll as the deprivation of the red button of second rank, which he had been hon. orcd by the emperor on the Cccason of his being accredited to the courts of the United States, Spain and Peru.
 The issue of this edict has been the result of Yui's incompeteney in the dis charge of the duties of ''Tso Shu Tsze. '' as well as of his failure in passing the recent special examination for promo tion among the members of the Hanlin college. This special examination was instituted at the instance of the board of censors with view to classifying the members of the Hanlin college and to investigate their special conduct, and also for the purpose of recommend ing promotion. Consequently the per sons examined have, after due examin- ation, been divided into three classes. Those of the first two classes have either received their promotion or ap- propriate imperial rewards of silk pieces, but Tsui Kwo Yui, who stands first in the third class, has lost his red button, and has suffered the aforementioned degradation in his official rank
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
INDIAN SINGERS.
Their Vocaiization Is Crude, But Highly
 Appreciated by Their Fellows.

Their Focaiization Is Crude, But Highly
 Appreciated by Their Fellows.
 In an address delivered in Washing ton, D. C., upon Indian Music" Miss Alice Fletcher stated that the music of the Indians is solely and simply vocal. Their songs are compositions which have in them nothing borrowed from instruments, nothing of artificial instigation.
 An Indian melody never serves two sets of words; there is no instance where the people have custom like our own of singing the different stan gas of a ballad to the same tune.
 A large proportion of Indian songs are entirely without words, syllables being used to carry the tones. Per haps the most striking peculiarity of Indian music is the lack of definite pitch, for there is no such thing as a standard pitch among the Indians.
 The Indian starts his song where the natural quality of his voice and his present mood renders it easiest for him to sing it. A tenor will naturally sing upon a higher pitch than a bass; a soprano will differ from a contralto. The pitch of song depends upon the individual.
 With the Indian there has never been anything we should call vocal training any drill as to pitch. Some Indians, like some white people, always sing fiat; while some Indians, like some of us, have what we call natural musical ears, and they sing in tones surprising ly near to our standards.
 Such Indians are recognized by their fellows as musical leaders. They are considered the best singers, men whose services are sought and paid for on oc- casions of festivity.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
SHE WAS PENuR!OUs.
The PoDy's Shoes Were Just as Good as
 New SO She Saved Them.


 New SO She Saved Them.
 Lord Chancellor Eldon was ener- getically aided in his parsimonious habits by his wife. of whom it was said that she and her daughter had but one bonnet between them. Rev. E. H. Barham, author of ''The Ingolds- by Legends" recorded in his diary an amusing story of Lady Eldon's penuri- ousness.
 June 1, 1922. The chancellor is very fond of shooting. One morning last year his lordship, intending to enjoy a few hours sport after a rainy night, ordered Bob the pony, to be sad died. Lady EIdon told him he could not have it, but company being in the room, gave no reason. In a few min utes, however, the servant opened the door and announced that Bob" was ready.
 ''Why, bless mel" cried her ladyship, ''you can't ride him, Lord Eldon, he has got no shoes on."
 ''Oh, yes! my lady" said the servant; he was shod last week"
 ''Shameful!'' exclaimed her ladyship. ''How dared you, sir, or anybody have that pony shod without orders? John" continued she, addressing her husband, you know you only rode him out shooting four times last year, so had his shoes taken off, and have kept them in my bureau ever since They are as good as new, and these people have shod him again; we shall be ruined at this rater'
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
Guarded by Soldiers.

The Bank of Germany, like most other German public buildings, has a military guard to protect it. In very strongly-fortifcd military fortress at Spandau is kept the great war treasure of the imperial government, part of the French indemnity, amounting to sev- aral million pounds.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
Taxes in Germany.

Instead of paying taxes as ordinary mortals the citizens of Elingenberg-on-
 oe-Main, Germany, received each ulree hundred marks from the income from several factories owned by the town. The division was made after the expenses of administration had been paid by money from the same source. That's one place where the politicians don't get it all.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
To ". F. WHITE,
Passenger Traffic Manager, A., T. & S. F. R.
 Or, HENRY F. GRIERSON,

Immigration Agent, A., T. x S F. R. R.
 623 Rialto Building, Chicago, III. This railway passes through twelve states and territories, and having no lands of its own O sell has no object in advancing the interests of any speci al locality or in giving any other than ab- sOlut ely reliable information. It realizes that the prosperity of the farmers of the great south west means pros perity to itself also, and is thus naturally willing to aid the immigrant as much as possible,
The St. Johns herald., 1894-10-04
Apply for Information About THE GREAT
 SOUTHWEST

Where Sst ySer 3STS net59d SGG to 9 can be duplicated today for so per acre. Where Te Gas %as G sroWn o oI hf nG 5a P % which can be bought for $l5 per acre. Where %anE ehe5 RT9dgea sgG6 S as syss bles netted as large and larger profits than fruit lAEaovo o the summers are cool, the winters EVisO' . warm. cyclones unknown and mala- ria uuheard of.
 sEsho s-o thereis the best Openingin the world esliCi v for honest industry.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-20
SALE OF VILLAGE BONDS.

In pursuance of a resolution passed and
adopted by the Village Council of the Village
of Adrian, Mobiles County, Minnesota, on the
goth day of February, 1894 designating and
fixing the 20th day Of March, 1894. at two (2)
o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the
Office of the Village Recorder in and for said
Village, as the time and place that SAID Vii
lage Council would receive and consider
bids for the sale OF said bonds;
That notice of the receiving of said bios be
given by publication for three (3) consecu-
tive weeks previous TO the date fixed for re-
ceiving said bids and designating the Adrian
Guardian and the Mobiles County Democrat
weekly newspapers printed and published at
Adrian, Mobiles County. Minnesota, and the
St Paul GLOBE, a newspaper printed and
published at st. Paul, Ramsey County, Mil
nesots. as newspapers in which said notice
shall be published;
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that
the Village Council of the said Village of
Adrian, Mobiles County Minnesota, will re-
ceive and consider bids Tor the sale of The
bonds of said Village on The Goth day of
March, 1894, at two % O'Clock in the after
noon of said day, at the Office Of the Village
Recorder in and for said Village. in said VII
lage; bs-
Said bonds to be in the sum Of Thirteen
Thousand Dollars (SI3 000) in denominations
of One Thousand Dollars $1,000 EACH paw
able in twenty (20) years from the date there
of. and bearing III terest at the rate of six 90
per cent per annum, interest payable annu-
ally, on the teuth (1o) day OF June, at the
office of the Village Treasurer. i'll the Village
of Adrian. Said bonds TO be dated May /. 1894
The Village Council reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
Dated at Adrian, Minnesota, this Goth day
of February, 1894. o. 5. AELICK,f!l
c. a. SANDS, President
Recorder :fs
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-20
II Qfinl. Chief nisSo Of Sui

DROPOsALS-2-16 - FOR ARMY SUP
i phes.-Ofice Chief Commissary of Sub
sistance, Army Building, St Paul, Mimi.
March 90, 1SD4.-SE ALED PROPOS AIS, in
triplicate. subject to the usual conditions,
will be received at this Office and at tn e
ONCE Of the Acting Commissary of Sub
sistence at each post in the Department of
Dakota, until II O'Clock A. NJ, April 20. 1894,
at which time and places they will be opened
in presence of bidders, for supplying the
military posts in this department with fresh
beef aud mutton, from July l, 1894. to June
80. 1895, or such less time as the Commissary
General of Subsistence may direct. For
further information apply at this Office. or to
any of the post commissaries for his re-
spective post. Preference will be given to
articles of domestic production or manufact-
ure, conditions of quality and price lin
Guiding in the price of foreign productions
or manufacture the duty thereon,) being
equal. With the consent of the bidder to
whom award is made, an increased quantity
may be accepted at time of award. The gov
eminent reserves the right 10 reject any or
all bids. Proposals should be enclosed in
sealed envelopes, and marked Proposals for
fresh beef and mutton" JNO. J. CLAGUE,
Captain and c. s., Chief G. g., Dept. of Da-
kota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-20
WANTS CAN BE LEFT

at the Following Locations for
Insertion liz Daily aud sunday
Globe.
N. D. Merrill " Broadway.
s.H. Reeves. druggist, Moore block. Seven
Itlners.
c. It. Heller druSeist tss St Peter street
stIaight Bros, druggists, corner of Rondo
fLd GIotto.
William X Collier druggist, 10 East Sew
enth street.
A. T. Guernsey, druggist III Dale street
Va. HirsrLor, druggist, -: RonGo street
Sever Westby, druggist To East Third
tIeet.
E. McCrudden. confectionery z0J Rice
street
W A. Frost & Co.. or, ggistS corner selby
ard Western avenues.
B. J. Wife. druggist 500 Market corner
Filth.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-20

F,E tie boy WHO sells tFfe papers
end lie ufiI tell You more abou.
circulation titan all tlse afeidavits
IL at can be pt bIished. JUSTIFY ii
and YOU vii, be convinced tiiaI tiie
Globe lead. ss!I.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-20
AUCTION SALES.
k;'Vanssgis az Johnson. Auction
ocrS,


piAN0, FURNITURE. ETC, AT PUB
4 lie Ailction-We will sell at public auc-
ton, at the residence No. 5l9 Marshall av
on Wednesday. March 2Ist, at 10 a. M, ali
the furniture, consisting of a Steinway square
piano, parior suit, Turkish sofa easy
chairs, center tables. very fine cheyal mirror,
sIdeboard. extension table and chairs, one
Hayiland china dinner set, beds bureaus
commodeS, two French clocks. tverv fiTie).
all the carpets, one brand new; Monarch steel
range, cooking utensils etc. attend the sale
II you want bargains Kavanagh q John-
son, Auctioneers, 1S6. iSS and l90 East
Sixth ST