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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03

his servants. It is estimated that Mr..
Stewart spends $4,000 a year alone on
the liveries of his servants.
Mr.. Stewards Jeems is not unlike the
others. 1t seems as if the New York
faShionables were bent upon settling
upon stereotyped uniform, the only
difference being in the variety of col
ors. Instad of black plush coat, Mr..
Stewards men wear a coat of very
dark blue and breeches of the same
hue. The plush waistcoat is a deep
red, while the hose are of white silk.
When John Jacob Astor opens his
new house, it is said that he will
establish a Jeems as bright in uniform
as a rainbow. The Aston servants are
now in wourning. So are those Of
number of other prominent families.
George Gould has not yet attached
himself to the full-fiedged Jeems, the
main reason being that, to avoid local
taxes, he has given up his New York
home, and has no need of such a
functionary.
For years past the reigning fam
lilies contented themselves with APP
propriating a certain color for their
liveries. The William Astors, Loril-
lards, Brokaws and the Countess de
Villars all use varying shades Of
green, each quite distinct from the
other. The buttons on the coats
twelve in front and six in the back
are invariably of silver, bearing the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03
Possibilities of Cuba.

March Lippincott.
The sugar production of Cuba, enor-
nous as it now is, can be increased
ten-fold. And by the aid of modern i'm
provementS in the method of manufac-
ture sugar can be produced so cheaply
there that no other country in the
world can fairly compete with it. Only
1.-THE of the lands adapted to sugar
is now under cultivation. Coffee-grow-
ing, which was once in the front rank
of its industries, has now fallen to a
matter of small Importance. With cap
ital, and confidence in the honesty and
good will Of the government, this in
dustry could again be put upon a profit
able footing. So near as it is to us,
and with the rapid Improvement in
means of transportation, it is the nat
ural winter garden for the United
States. There is no question about the
frost line" that bugbear of the fruit
and vegetable growers in our own
South, and with cheap labor, and the
encouragement that steamboat lines are
now giving, We could be supplied I'M
fa1lingly with tropical products from
this source. Bananas, cocoanuts, or
anges, lemons, pineapples, would all
pay well for careful and systematic
cultivation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03
Facts ==D6fuinQ Contradiction,

We refrain from Quoting remarks dwelling
authenticity the
other fellows ATINTEEsTs EXCLUSIVELY is the ovbemne
response and continuous from
FORTS that
confidence in the advertised
ania rock bottom evidence
Consider and inspect the following mathe
which challenge
BUSINESS Of ST. Paul
Worth or Money
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03

geously-appareled buffers are rap
idly appearing in the homes of fash
ion, and once the fad gets full swing
there is no limit to the extravaganza
to which it will be carried.
The bal foudre given by those
dashing young bachelors, Center
Hitchcock and Edward Buckley, at
the Hotel Waldorf recently, gave a
great boom to the fad of Disgusting
servants in all kinds of unique at
tire. The walters who officiated at
the banquet tables wore black satin
coats and satin knickerbockers,
white wigs, black silk hose and low
shoes, ornamented with large silver
buckles.
They made a most imposing sight
Hitting about the room, and quite took
the edge off the splenIof Of the few
men present who were attired in tine
conventional black evening clothes
Some men-thoSe who belonged to
the huntingset-appearedi in pink coats !;
but bright colors in evening wear for
men will never be popular, as the
ladies object to it. They claim that it
gowns, whereas the plain black forms
fine background for displaying them.
DIR. WEBB STARTS THE FAD.
DR.. w. Seward Webb was one of tho
first New Workers to adopt a fanciful
livery for his men servants. In his
town house they wear black coats with
gilt buttons and gold festoons. black
NH hf-nn
low plush waistcoats, with silk stock
ings, and low shoes, with large, plain
silver buckles. 1t is needless to say
that all of these men are foreign-born
and they are chosen in regard to their
form with as much care as the man
ager of a spectacular drama selects
the ladies of the first row. 1t would
never do to have man with spindle
ShankS attired in this costume or a
little, short, fat man with fudgey legs
and great rotunGity at the waist line
They are all in the neighborhood of six
feet, and close to two hundred pounds
in weight. Every additional inch and
a corresponding ten pounds more in
weight is worth from S. to SIS increase
in salary per month.
w. d. Sloane, who also married a
daughter of the late William H. Van
derbilt not 10 be outdone by his broth
er-in-law, DR.. Webb, possesses a
"Jeems in Plush.'' The Sloane Jeems
is very much like his brother-i -splen-
dor, the Webb Jeems, except that his
plush knee trousers are of very dark
shade of green, the silver buckles of
his shoes are engraved, and his silk
hose are a very pale lavender in color
Then his plush waistcoat is a golden
russell brown, and the bottoms of his
knickerbockers are fastened just be-
low the knee with golden silk ribbons.
MR.. STEWART HAS ONE, TOO.
Rhinelauder Stewart, one of the rich
est men in the city, and a brother-in-
law of Lispenard Stewart, who has
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03

CANT extent all the fashionable fads
and idiosyncracies OF the English no.
bility, the New York society people,
now that they have exhausted that
domain, are turning their attention
to the servants Of the households.
A veritable reign of "Jeems in
Plush" is upon us. Where it will
cations it looks as if the pompous,
over-fed gentleman who opens the
door for you and says mot at home
or condescendingly bows you with
polite graciousness into the drawing
room, will soon represent a greater
annual expenditure in the matter of
clothes than his master.
New Workers have been hitherto
somewhat conservative in the mat
ter of liveries. They have adhered
to plain, well-made affairs, which
the wearers could don with becom-
ing pride. This conservatism, which
is now rapidly fading away, may
have been due to the traditions of
freedom, peace and happiness which
are supposed to be the heritage of
every American citizen. Certain it
is that the true American, no matter
how humble his birth and surround
1ngs, has always evinced a strong
disinclination to fetter his freedom
by wearing livery-the insignia of
his servitude and cringing obedience
to an overbearing master
E1rf oil 4
great families Of the city are now
English or foreign-born, the need of
this conservatism is gone. Cor
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03
De Gustibus.

Punch.
Little Binks-I only care to talk to
women who let me make love to them.
Big Bounderson-I only care to talk
to women who make love to me!
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03

monogram of the owners.
But it looks as if the day of these
quiet affairs We're over.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-03

inquired largely in state politics, is an
other man who has already adopted
the English custom of costuming
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
Australians Prolific Geld Fields.

Australian advices show that the
gold hunger continues to tempt men
to face the terrors of thirst and heat
in the attempt to cross the trackless
and waterless waste guarding the
treasures of the Coolgsrdie region.
Though several thousand persons have
gathered about Coolgardie, so i'm
mense is the auriferous area that only
the most cursory search has yet been
made. At points all over the terri
tory of $4,000 square miles gold has
been found, both alluvial and in reefs,
and it is only the fatal absence of
water which has prevented the estab-
lishment Of the greatest mining camp
of the world.
Reports of finds by some explorers
read like fairy tales. Almost the only
means Of separating the gold in the
drifts has been by blowing, yet Bay
ley, the discoverer OF Coolgsrdie, tells
how, in about month. his party col
lected nearly 200 ounces, and that at
last coming on the reef they collected
fifty ounces of gold in one evening. In
another two days they took 600 ounces
from the cap of reef, and in still an
other forty hours they gathered 52s
ounces, the only means for extracting
the gold being ''to knock the stuff out
and dolly it with pestle and mortar. :"
The want of water, however, sur
rounds the gold fields like wall of fire,
and efforts are being made by the
government of the colony to find sub
terranean reservoirs. ---San Francisco
Examiner.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
The Mexican Oh Horseback.

The Mexican lives on horseback.
Dismount him and he is as helpless as
a child. Mounted on his charger,
with an imnovable saddle, the strong
bit that will break a horses jaw if
pulled very tightly, and lariat, and
he is ready for either war, the chase,
the roundup of cattle or a bear
fight. Most of his work is done on
horseback. His headquarters are in
tins saddle. His neighborly visits are
made on horseback, no matter how
snort the distance.
The Mexican prides himself upon
the number Of his riding horses and
his ability to ''break'' them to the
saddle. Usually the horses run wild
on the large rancho until they are
wanted for use. The major-domo of
the rancho, with number ofvaqueros,
pursue and drive O number into a
dell, the entrance to which is immedi-
ately closed with branches or ropes.
Tie vaqueros each select horse and
he is noosed with the lariat and thrown
to the ground. In a second he is
bridled with the cruel Spanish bit in
his mouth, the Spanish immovable
saddle is dashed on him and vaquero
mounts him. For few moments the
scene is exciting and amusing, to the
spectators, who alternately shout,
Bravo, juan" or laugh in derision
at the alternate success Of rider or
beast. -Philadelphia Times.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
A Courageous C0bbler.

An old cobbler in the QUARTER Latin,
Paris, who was largely patronized by
the Students, once boosted that nothing
was capable of frightening him. Two
young men once determined to put his
courage to the test. One of them pre-
tended to be dead, while the other
went to the cobbler and asked him to
sit up all night with the corpse. The
old man, who had some pressing work
on hand which had to be delivered
next morning, took his leather and his
tools with him, sat down near the sup
posed dead body, and set about his
task. At midnight they brought him
a cup of cafe noir, to keep him awake,
which he gratefully partook of and
then Immediately resumed his work.
The coffee, however, put him into such
a happy frame of mind, that entirely
forgetting the presence of the corpse,
he struck up lively song, beating
time all the while with his hammer on
the lampstone. Suddenly the imagin-
ary corpse raised itself into sitting
posture and exclaimed, in a hollow
voice:
"People onght not to sing when
keeping watch over deathbed!'
The cobbler shook his head, and gave
the young man smart rap, and said:
''People shouldn't talk when they
are dead"
This was the last time anybody tried
to frighten the old cobbler.-L' indie
pendent Remois.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
A Medieval Strong Man.

Louis dc Bouflers, who lived in the
sixteenth century, could break bar
of iron with his hands. The strongest
man could not take from him ball
which he held between his thumb and
first finger. While standing up, with
no support whatever, four strong SOL
diers could not move him. He re-
NAMED as firm as a rock. Sometimes
he amused himself by taking on his
shoulders his own horse, fully
harnessed, and with that heavy load
he promenaded the public square, to
the great delight of the inhabitants.
At about the same time there lived a
Spaniard named Pedro who could
break the strongest handouts that
could be put around his wrists. He
folded his arms on his chest and ten
men pulling in different directions
with ropes could not unfold them.
Augustus H., elector OF Saxony, was a
man of great strength. He could carry
a man in his open hand. One night
he quietly threw ont of Il window q
monk who paraded his palace, pretend
ing to be ghost. Chicago Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
Nationality Shown in Tillase.

For half hundred miles about New
York the country is region of small
farms. Nearly all are carefully titled,
but the manner in which each is con-
Quoted comes close to indicating the
nationality of the owner. The native
American likes lawn in front of his
house and leaves uncultivated strips
near the fences of his fields. Also his
preference in the way of crops is for
grain.
The Englishman and the German
devote much space to berries and vege-
tables, and both delight in displays of
flowers before their houses. The
Frenchman is sure to be a grape
grower. He, too, revels in flowers,
but he fosters those that, cut or as
ported plants, will find city market.
The Irishman is a raiser Of potatoes,
cabbages and corn. His home dis
plays little outside adornment, but
almost always there is about it an air
of solid comfort, and one may be sure
to see a pigpen not far from the cot
tage.
Abroad :'land is land" and those
who have been tenants of holdings
that cost them an annual rental of
$40 per acre retain their habit of close
cultivation when farming il the
United States.
Here, again, the difference between
the American and the foreigner crops
out. The former is prodigal of soil
and lets the difficult spots alone; the
latter utilities every inch of dirt clear
to the roadway and uses fertilizers
with skill and advantage to himself
New York Herald
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Progress, the highest lesson o. state
craft,
Men at some times are masters OF
their fate.
The simple heart that freely asks in
love obtains.
The society of women is the element
of good manners.
Better little Gliding than a great
deal of heartbreak.
A man in earnest finds means, or if
he cannot find, creates them.
Some men weave their sophistIy till
their own reason is entangled.
Moderation is commonly firm, and
frmness is commonly successful.
Oh, how portentous is prosperity |!
How, cometEke, it threatens while it
shines.
No woman is educated who is not
equal to the successful management OF
family.
The memory has as many moods as
the temper, and shifts it's scenery like
a diorama.
There are few Wild beasts more to
be dreaded than talking man having
nothing to say.
He that knows the world will not be
bashful; he who knows himself will
not be impudent.
Conceit is vanity driven from all
other shifts, and forced to appeal to
itself for admiration.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
Baby AlligatOrs.

Steve Melton showed to his friends
a score of baby alligators. which came
out of the egg two days ago. Henry
Christopher, who has an alligator
farm on Hannibal Greek, brought them
to the city to be sold. Christopher
has several large gators which net him
more in the course of a year than a
dozen hens. The advantage the ga
tor has over the hen is in the matter
OF feed. The hen has to be fed every
day, and the gator takes his meal
about once every three months.
When first hatched, the gators are
about three to four inches long In
day or two, however. they double
their size, and don't need any food to
do it on, either. They just seem to
grow fat on wind. If some naturalist
could find out the secret of their liv-
ing he would have regular Ecaanza.
Florida Times Union.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
Philadelphia's Colossal Structure.

A colossal statue of William Penn,
standing 537 feet in the air. is to over
look from the tower of the Philadel-
phia City Hall, that city's great area
of red brick.
The enormous structure that the
founders statue is to cap and complete
is the largest and by far the costliest
City Hall in the United States. The
first official steps looking to the cree
ton of a new municipal building for
Philadelphia were taken by the City
Councils nearly quarter of century
ago. John Macarthur, Jr.. was ap-
pointed architect year later, and the
first contracts for the work were award
ed in January, 1870.
The first intent to erect the build
ing in Independence Square aroused
so much opposition that the question
of a site was submitted to popular vote,
and Penn Square, at Broad and Market
streets, was chosen by large major
ity. Ground was formally broken by
the President of the Building Com
mission August 16, 1871, and the first
stone was laid almost exactly one year
later. The cornerstone, at the north
east angle of the tower, was formally
laid July I, 1874, and the last block of
marble on the tower was put in place
at height of nearly $40 feet thirteen
years later.
The appropriations for the still IN
completed building had reached, at the
opening of the present fiscal year, less
S3o,0OO short of SIS, 100000. Archi-
tect Macarthur died in 1890, when about
s13, 900, 900 had been spent upon the
building, and when part of the struc-
5ure had been several years in use.
The Philadelphia municipal build
ing is classified as nearly as may be as
Of the Renaissance style, and its de
sign is essentially in the spirit o.
French architecture. Its ugliest fea
ture is its series of black slated man
sard roofs Gaping structure of white
marble, it's most beautiful the slender
white tower, the highest in the world
save the obelisk that forms the Wash
ington Monument. The structure is
built about central court, 200 feet
square. The north and south fronts
1864 feet each, and the building, ex
elusive of the courtyard, covers ar
area of ~ acres. The floor space is 14A
acres, and there are in the building
$50 rooms. The clock dial, 361 feet
above the pavement, is twenty feet in
diameter. The browning statue Of
William Penn is thirty-seven feet high.
Detroit Free Press.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
How to Cure Poverty.

1t is doubtful whether any man on
either side of the Atlantic knows more
directly and personally concerning the
problem of the roor than the Rev.
Samuel A. Barnett, the founder of
Toynbee Hall; and Mr.. Barnett thus
closes recent article in the Fort
nightly Review on 1.-The Unemployed:
If tomorrow everyone who cares tor
the poor would become the friend of
one poor person-forsaking all others
there would next week be no insolu-
bic problem of the unemployed, and
London would be in measurable dis
lance of becoming q city Of happy
homes" | am not so sanguine as Mr..
Barnett; think there are other social
and industrial remedies to be applied;
but this personal friendship of the
vell-to-do for the poor is fundamental.
Out of it all other remedies would
GROW; without it all other remedies
will be in vain. A basket of coal &C.
co,npanied by grip of the hand will
carry more warmth than two baskets
OF coal sent by an impersonal ticket. -
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, in the
Forum.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
How London's Expenses are Borne.

In England and France the injustice
of compelling the inhabitants of the
capital, where the seat of Government
is located, to bear its entire expense,
is clearly recognized, and substantial
aid given. To ascertain the full amount
of the cost of governing the city Of
London is difficult. The division of
the expense between the municipality
and the Government is so interviewer
as to make separation we'll nigh impos
sible. We may, however, reach an ap-
,proximate idea of the amount by stat
ing the several things which are cared
for by the State and paid for out Of
the National treasury. The metropol-
itan police supported by the Govern
ment music 49, 35 officers and men,
and is divided into twenty-five divis.
ions, of which one division does duty
on the river Thames, and five divisions
care for the dock yards; the pay of
the six divisions thus assigned being
paid out of the appropriation for the
navy. The chief receives the sum of
$40, 500 per annum, more than the
general commanding the United States
Army, and as much as the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. He has several assistants, two
of whom receive $4,000 apiece; tbs
men receive about $500 per annum.
There are fifteen police court stations
supported by the Government. The
Lord Mayor holds court in one. The
judges in each of the others receive
about $500 per annum. The fire bri-
gade is largely supported by the State,
and cost, in 1892, e155, $50, equal to
about $3.50, 900. of which amount the
insurance companies contributed e32,
0G3. There are a great many fine
parks in London, some kept by the
city and others by the State. The
Royal Park cost Ego, CAB. The Govern.
ment collects from the people tax
known as the local rate Ia large part
OF which goes to London). In '92 it
amounted to 81, 597, sos, nearly $4O,.
100000 The cost of governing the
city of London is about EDS. 900, 900
a year. OF this amount the Govern.
ment subvention, as it is called,
amounted to about 100000, al
though the British Government does
not own one-half Of the land in Lon
don, as is the case with the Federal
Government in Washington. Wash.
ipcton Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-08-23
Mystery of the SunflOwer.

"While Kansas is preparing to cele-
brate her thirtythird birthday there
is one fact about that State that is
mystery said A. c. Caperton at
Hurst's. 81 refer to sunfowers--
something that sprinkles spots of gold
all over Kansas, and has given it the
name of the Sunhower State. The
mystery is that nobody knows where
the Kansas sunhower came from.
Uncle John Thorpe, who was in charge
of the Horticultural Department of the
Worlds Fair, says that these sunlow-
ers have grown wild in Kansas for $50
wears, but the most careful research
by floriculturists has failed to find
out who brought them there. The
original home of the sunhower is il
Asia, but NJ W fingers arouns
the Kansas Variety st. Louis Re-
public. ----