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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
SAVIOR FARE.
English People Are Surprised At the Ea,

English People Are Surprised ut the Ease
of American Schoolgirls.
"Where does the very young American
girl get her amazing n of SAVIOR ~faire?"
asked a titled Englishman the other day.
He had sat at dinner beside the youngest
daughter of the house, called in by her
mother to take a suddenly vacated seat at
q grand dinner party. The pretty miss
had volunteered to the amiable British
gentleman that she had never sat at a din
ner party before, and yet he observed her
manner showed all the quiet ease, the
lively self possession and pretty dignity
that would have done credit to a duchess.
"Ah, she attends a fashionable boarding
school, :" exclaimed a Newport belle, who
overheard the remark, land a fashionable
school in America gives q very different
sort of training from that girls get in
French converts and under English gov
ernesses. At our schools the girls are not
only taught their three R'sand some other
things, but after that are trained in the
path they must walk when they are ready
to become debutantes. 1t costs the parents
about So, 900 a year for every daughter
sent to one of these temples of polite edu-
cation, for, first of all, they live, while
they study, like princesses.
"Their school lodgings are divided into
most charming suits, they are regularly
attended by manicures and hairdressers,
and a teacher of physical culture drills
them twice weekly in the canons of grace
and ease, and there arc maids provided to
assist at every toilet, maids who speak
several languages. They dine in full toilet
every night at the fashionable hour, are
sent to an opera box twice a week to hear
the best music and are taught only those
accomplishments that are the fads of the
day.
"They are allowed to read such novels as
will give them a true insight into the So
ciety they are to enter, but will not hurt
their young minds. The highest class
daily papers are brought fresh to their
breakfast tables every morning, and the
parents are encouraged to afford their
daughters such liberal allowances as will
enable the girls to give generously to
charity. AS schoolgirls, then, they enjoy
all the luxury, the sense Of power their
money and position brings and are taught
to regard shy aw~kwardness of as
a greater fault han bad spelling Dem
orest's Magazine.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
BIG CHINA CLOSET.
The Imperial Treasures of the Winter
Palace at St, Petaraburg.

Ant 4L1IcE1hl 1EeaSuEsS III Iuc w L.
Palace at st. Petersburg.
Perhaps the largest residence in the
world is the winter palace at St. Peters,
burg. 1t has 700 rooms, many Of them of
enormou size and some SO large that the
White House at Washington could be erect
ed in them. portico and all. It is said that
s 1000 soldiers have at different times been
sheltered under its great roof. The store
rooms of the winter palace are filled with
the china of the Russian cars as far back
as Catherine the Great, and here a woman
collector was able to obtain samples by
purchasing them Of the attendants, who
brought the pieces to her hotel one at u
time for several days afterward and de-
mandcd only moderate prices-not more
than some plates would be worth at q shop
without considering tho value of associa.
ton.
The imperial china is all of Russian
manufacture and does not equal in quail
ty nor in lustcr the product of Austria Or
Germany or France. 1t is plain and coarse,
and the decorations are not very artistic,
although there is in the winter palace Il
world famous table service of solid silver
OVERLAND with gold that will furnish "a
banquet of 500 covers. 1t dates back to
tho time of the crazy Emperor Paul, who
was tho son of Catherine the Great.
The plates used by all the cars are
larger thar the ordinary size. Those of
Catherine were ornalnented with conven-
tional designs of blue and gold and bore
the imperial crest in tho center. Nicholas,
1.-THE Iron Gar" as he was called, used
enormous plates and cups and saucers of
the commonest china, heavy and coarse,
which were also decorated with blue, and
In the center bore his initial, with IL crown
and cross. The china of Alexander II,
who was assassinated by the nihilists, was
u little better in quality, but Of similar
designs, only it bore the initial A and an
eagle with outspread wings. That of his
successor is of the same pattern and bears
the same initial, with the distinctive III
under the A to Indicate that it belonged
to the third monarch of that name.
1t is said that the private china in the
smaller palaces is very different and of
much better quality. 1t was imported by
the empress from England, but strangers
are not allowed to visit them, and it is i'm
possible to obtain II salnple.-San Francis
co Chronicle.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
LINCOLN AS A LOVER.
How He and Miss Mary Todd Made Up
Their Little Tiff.

Their Little Tiff.
A writer in the Chicago Times Herald
says: G. c. Brown of Springfield tells the
following story, which he has every reason
to believe Is absolutely true: "Some time
in the autumn OF 1910, after Lincoln and
Mary Todd had been keeping company
and after it was understood they We're en-
gagged, some trouble arose between them,
and they became %estranged. Each was
anxious for a reconciliation, yet neither
would make the initial advance.
John J. Hardin of Jacksonville made
a party, and Il number of Springfield PEG.
pie were invited. Among them was Mary
Todd. Lincoln did not accompany them.
After dinner all the young men brought
around saddle horses and took the young
women for a gallop to the places of inter
est in the vicinity. So skillfully did MIR
Hardin and his wife manipulate the start
that tho whole party had arranged itself
into couples mounted and prepared to ride
before it was discovered that Miss Todd
had no escort. Deeply chagrined, but in
perfect control, she disclaimed having had
any intention of going with them, and,
rallying her woman's tact, speeded them
gayly.
"Then she sat down on the porch in no
very pleasant mood, and Hardin and his
wife were left alone. While she sat there
Lincoln arrived, entirely without a suspi-
cion of his coming SO far as she was CON
cerned. And it was there their differences
were arranged, and when the party return
ed they thought they understood why
Mary Todd had refused to go riding with
them.
SIN the following November Abraham
Lincoln and Mary Todd were married"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
A NAN OF CAUTION.
He Refused to Sign His Name Except In
Lead Pencil.

he Refused to Sign His Name Except In
Lead Pencil.
1t is All unwritten but rigidly enforced
law that no maj be allowed to write his
name on a hotel register with q lead pen
Gil. Those who patroniZe the hotels are
we'll acquainted with tho rule and always
observe it, but there are some whose ia
miliarity with hotel life is not in an ad-
vanced stage, and they are the ones who
cause trouble to the clerks by invariably
producing their ever ready pencil when
they essay to write their name upon the
annals of hotelology. A Cincinnati tray
cling man amused a select coterie of fellow
travellers with a narrative in which u pen
Gil and an unsophisticated would be guest
at a Louisville hotel played a prominent
part. The mai with the pencil struck the
office of the hotel during a rush, and he
had written his name on the register be-
fore the clerk noticed the implement he
used. The clerk was very polite about it,
but he erased the pencil signature and
handed the prospective guest a pen freshly
dipped in ink.
II wrote my lame once, - said the guest.
"If that don't suit you, write it yourself"
The clerk explained that it was necessary,
to preserve the register, and for that reason
they wished signatures in ink. The ex-
PLANTATION didn't suit the guest. He seemed
to think the clerk had designs upon him,
and he positively refused to write again on
the register.
"I'm from the country" he said, "but
I'm not as green as I look. I've had some
experience in signin things. Signed q
contract last fall to pay 50 for some fruit
trees, and three months later I had to pay
a note for 5000 that the Teller had switched
my name on to. You don't get me to
sign nothin more 'ceptin I do it with a
pencil, and then I write very light"
The fellow carried his point, too, and
the clerk was forced to write his name for
him.-Na shville American.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
Lowell s VIZ iRlAGE.
His Wife First Got Him Interested In the
Slavery Question,

His Wife First Got Him Interested In the
Slavery Question.
After Lowell s graduation he thought Of
entering the Divinity school, but he decid.
cd at last to study law. Although he was
on the very verge Of giving it up 30 times,
he persevered and received his degree Of
bachelor Of laws in 1870. He opened an
office in Boston, but it is doubtful whether
no ever had even that "frst CLIENT whom
ne was afterward to describe In a humor-
GUS sketch. Not liking the law as a means
OF livelihood, he finally abandoned it, as
Holmes had done only a few years earlier.
Lowell had become engaged to Miss
Maria White, who greatly Influenced his
life. In 1841 came the publication Of a
volume OF poems, some of which had been
printed already in the magazines, while
others We're hasty and crude rhymes which
he kept out Of later editions of his poems
just as Whittier rejected his. own early
verses. Lowell was barely % when his
book appeared, but there was more than
one poem in 1t which gave high promise OF
his future. In addition to his ability, he
q q deep love for letters, and this it was
which led him, a year later, to start a
monthly magazine. But the magazine
soon came to an end, leaving it's proprie-
tors in debt.
Until he met Miss White, Lowell's inter
ests and his ambitions were almost wholly
literary. Under her influence he came to
have a strong sympathy for the slaves. He
swiftly saw that in real life there we're
causes to be fought far better worth the
struggle than any mere craving for per-
sonal fame. His love for letters never less
ened, but it was linked thereafter to the
love for human freedom He was married
at last in 1874, in which year he brought
out a revised edition of his poems. A few
months later he gathered from the maya.
zines certain prose criticisms, chiefly about
the older English poets-criticisms which
he thought SO lightly of in later years that
he did not allow them to be included in
his collected works. And about this time
he was a frequent contributor to the Phil
adelphia Freeman, the antislavery journal
formerly edited by Whittier. flames
Russell Lowell" by Brander Matthews,
in St. Nicholas.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
MoUkralNEER INGENUITY.
A virginian Finds a New Field For On,
of Natures Gifts.

raEE.- --. -G ga.a.tHT.-N-
A virginian Finds a New Field For One
of Natures Gifts.
"Speakin of snakes reminds me-" be-
gan the man with the Loudon county
whiskers.
"What does it remind you OPP
"Well, I reckon it reminds me of some.
thin I saw once when I was stoppin over
night with a man Twin up in the noun
tain, about four miles to the south of
Ashby's gap"
"Something alive or dead?''
"Kinder betwixt and between. 1t was
stuffed"
what wa it?"
"Well, the chap was like a good many
other m~ountaineers. He wasn't a million
aire, but he had a tooth for good things,
and not havin money enough to provide
what he wanted he took to nature for his,
supplies. Fruit was plenty, wild and tame,
and fruit amt to be sneezed at in the way
of good eatin. But cans cost money, and
there wasn't any way of savin it that he
could see until, as I say, he took to nature
and got what he wanted. He had been
tellin me about it, and one night when /
went past his cabin, along about Christ
mas, he called me in to see what he had in
stock. 1t showed up as soon as I got in
side, and for u minute I was SO skeert l
didn't know whether was afoot or horse
back or had jimjams or what, for hangin
down all around the room in ~festoons was
the derndest lot of snakes I ever see. 1t
looked i k a regular snake den, and I
made a break for the door at first, but he
laughed and called me back and asked me
to inspect his m%enagerie. I was mighty
nervous, but I don what he said, and
then I found that the snakes were only
snakeskins stuffed with somethin or other.
"'What in thunder have you got into
emp says I.
Fruit, says he.
"'Fruit?' says l.
"'Yes, fruit, says he.
"'What kind?' says 1.
"'All kinds says he. 4 couldn't buy
fruit cans, so I jist went out in the noun
tain and picked up what mater put in my
way, which was snakeskins, and them l
made into fruit ms I've got enough
put up to last me all winter and sell off
enough in the spring to pay my taxes
WITH and, by gravy, it was so,' conclud-
ed the ma with the Loudon county whisE.
ers.
"What did his wife have to say about
living with a colony like that?' inquired
the writer, knowing something about a
woman's high esteem for the snake family.
MARY a word,' replied the story teller.
"What kind of a woma was she?'!'
"No kind. He was a bachelor" And the
man with the Loudon county whiskors
pulled at them refectively and winked.-
Washington Star.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
Fine RENTED.

The late Judge Smell was very fond of
croquet playing, and when not busy with
his official duties could most always be
found, with mallet in hand, engaged in
his favorite galne One morning while
presiding over the police court a young
boy was brought before him charged with
playing ball Oh the street. The policeman
who arrested the boy swore he had caught
the boy in the act.
"Fine the boy 49," said the judge.
"This ball playing on the street must be
stopped"
The boys father was present and sug-
gested to the judge that he would like to
question the policeman a little before the
fine was imposed. So Judge Smell ordered
the policeman into the witness box again.
After a little close questioning the officer
finally admitted that the boys were playing
ball on a vacant lot, and this boy had
knocked the bail out into the street.
MAKE that fine So, Mr.. Clerk" said
Judge Smell. "The case is not quite so
bad as l thought it was"
"But, your honor" said the boys ia
ther, ''not long g up on Twelfth street
I saw a game of croquet in which a high
court official was engaged, and I saw that
official s%pitefully knock his opponents
ball clear across the street, and"-
"Take off that other 80, Mr.. Clerk. I
don't believe this boy was doing wrong,
after ILL.," And the judge lay back in his
chair and laughed heartily as he remem-
bered what a whack he gave his oppo-
nent's ball in the game referred to.-Wash-
ington Star.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
JUST BEYOND THE DOOR.

On the threshold baby stancs
Holding out her little hands
To the,great world just beyond,
just beyond the door.
All, that door! It shuts hcr in
From the pleasures she would win,
And within her baby heart
She is saying DER and DER
That some day she'll ope it wide
And step forth to sGe in pride
That great world she longs to see
More and more.
All, my baby, in your eyes
I can see the longing rise
That l i'll my heart have seen
Once before
Only this: To step outside,
Join the hurrying humantide
That goes marching daily by
just beyond the door.
May you find it just as grand
When with them you really stand
As you think it is, my child, 4
Looking DER. ...
May you never wish to be
just Il little child to see,
Not to do: just to gaze with longing eyes
just beyond the door.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
The Donkeys of Bonifacio.

One of the features of Bonifacio, in Cor
sica, is the extraordinary number Of don
keys congregated within it's narrow limits.
At first I am somewhat puzzled on the
subject Of stabling, but the mystery is soon
explained when I observe several of the
pretty little animals to disappear within
the dark doorways of dwelling houses in
the lower quarters. Like the Irish pig, the
Bonifacian donkey is Zone Of the family"
1t may interest the reader to know that
q donkey can be purchased here for II
francs, a mule for 100 francs and a good
pony for 200 francs.
It is said Of some dogs, also of many
persons, that "their bark Is worse than
their bite" OF the Bonifacian donkey it
may be remarked with perfect v~eracity
that his bray is worse than all his other
faults combined. I have a painful expert
ence of this on the evening Of my arrival.
Feeling a little fatigued, I retired to rest
at a comparatively early hour, but I no
sooner lay my head on the pillow than I
am startled by q most unearthly sound
in the street below. It is a weird, mourn
full note something between a Scotch bag
pipe and q double bass. BY and by q
chorus of similar sounds awakens the
echoes, and sleep being now banished I
spring up and proceed to investigate mat
ters. Immediately below my window an
asinine orchestra has taken up it's stand,
discoursing sweet music to the twinkling
stars. The gray dawn oreeps over the top
Of the lofty houses opposite-my horizon
Is somewhat circumscribed-and still the
ear splitting performance continues. At
length, with the advent of daylight, I drop
into a troubled slumber.
My advice to a stranger In Bonifaoio de.
string a good nights rest Is, take a sleep,
ing draft.-Gentleman's Magazine.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
Ghastly Trophies,

Hanging beneath the mantel in the prt
vate ofnce in Magistrate Jermon's courl
are ten pistols which have been the weap.
ons used in various murders for years back.
The pistols are Of all makes, and range
from q single barrel woman's pistol to a
British bulldog. The most prominent
among them is a big funnel shaped weap-
on, containing seven barrels. which has a
history of killing five men. This was car
ried by a old city Waterman hDfore c%onsoli-
dation. Magistrate Jermon = proud of his
collection, Which is a present from the dis,
triot Observation-Disclosures Call.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
No Desire to Proceed.

A prisoner wa in the dock OF a serious
charge of stealing, and the case having
been presented to the court by the prose-
outing solicitor he was ordered to stand
up.
"Have you a lawyer?' asked the court.
"No, SIR"
"Are you able to employ oneY'
"No, sill"
edo you want a lawyer to defend,tho
oase?'
"Not partickler, sir"
swell, what do you propose to do about
the casef'
"We-n-ll," with a yawn, as if wearied
Of the thing, "I'm willin to drop the case,
FAIRS I'm concerned London Tit Bits.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
A Clerical Referee.

"Parson," said Poker Jack, dofing his
SLOUGH hat respectfully, "would We mind
tellin me who it wuz tibet wrote Let dogs
delight to bark an bite?'"
Certainly not, +" replied the new pastor
of the little church at Rattlesnake Dig
gins. ~ am delighted to see the people
of our settlement begin to take an interest
in such things. 1t was DR.. Watts"
"Then I've lost, " said Poker Jack dis
oonsolately. II bet the drinks fur the
crowd it was Shakespeare. Mornin, par
son .'-Chicago Tribune.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
stuart After ~Fitzsimmons

Ell PAso, Tex, Nov. 2O.-Dan Stuart
has left here for Dallas to have Etzsim.
mons sign for a fight with either Cor
bett or Maher in the Juarez bull ring,
which will be enlarged to 10 times its
present size.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
The Largest Sailing Shin.

The largest sailing ship now navigating
the waters Of this planet is La France, a
vessel Of the French merchant marine,
which was completed in the spring Of 1890.
It's dimensions are 800 feet by 48 feet 8
inches. Its carrying capacity is about
$3.50 tons and it's depth about 80 feet. Its
sails are said to have an area Of exactly
5000 square feet. The vessel is used
principally in the trade between France
and South America. st. Louis Republic.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
The Whole Thing.

"No," said the prosperous gentleman
with the leo g diamond and both feet on
the car seat, ''you can hunt a seat in an
other car. l am not going to bother my
self for a ham actor
"Sir," said Mr.. Barnes former, with
fine courtesy, II would rather be a ham
actor than act the hog ."-Indianapolis
Journal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
A Half Dozen Epitaphs.
On a retired sea captain in the cemetery
at Manchester b y-the-Sea:

80 0AAS AAASOS
at Observation-Disclosures
Through Boreas' blast
And Neptune's wave
I anchor here at last.
Another:
IF you want to know what kind OF a
man I was, wait till the day of retribu-
ton, and you shall be satisfied"
On q hosier:
he left his hose, his Hannah and his love
To sing HoSannahs in the land above.
Another:
"Died by a stroke of casualty"
One on an aged couple:
"Their warfare is ended"
And still another:
Here lies the body of Samuel Proctor,
Who lived and died without a doctor.
Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
a LAWYER to defend tho
Marine Information,

"Do you ever catch any whales, cap
rtain?" asked the fair passenger on the
ocean liner.
GOTTEN, ma'am,' answered the digni-
fed captain.
show very wonderful Please tell me
how you catch them?"
"We drop a few Of the old salts on their
tails, ma'am. Chicago Tribune.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
A Pretty Figure.

SIS she very lovelyp'
"Ah! I can give you no idea how very
lovely, except that it is between 90, O0O,0 900
and 50, 900, 600. ''-Detroit Tribune.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22

Those only who live with a man can
write his life with any genuine exactness
and discrimination, and few people who
have lived with q mar know what to re-
mark about. him.-Johnson. !.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22

A sycophant was once a person who
watched the frontiers Of Attica to see that
no figs were brought in or carried out
without the payment Of the proper duty.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22

4b gallons Of water for every mile that it
ms
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
The Tables Turned.

"shall you keep a latchkey, my dearP"
asked Mr.. Newlywed Of his up to date
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-11-22
Radical Changes.

In addition to the various session laws incorpo-
rated, the codes themselves contain many new and
radical changes, which will be published to the world
for the first time in this volume. The probate and JUS
tees code have been completely revised. New gar
nishnent, bankruptcy and revenue laws have been
Incorporated. Attorneys will find very important
changes in procedure in civil and criminal actions
Under this code the manner of beginning civil actions
has. been radically changed. No old form of summons
will be good in the future. The jury law has been
amended and all attorneys are very much interested.
Attachment has been materially changed. Liens must
be looked after by the careful practitioner. Ifyou want
to foreclose a mortgage by advertisement it will be
well to first consult the new code.