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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-20
Unjustly Imprisoned.

PORT TAMPA, Fla, Sept 19.-John
Sewers, native of Virginia, and a
sugar planter, who was arrested in
Havana and thrown into prison, left
here tonight for Washington to enter
a protest against the action of the
Spanish authorities. He says he has
no idea as to the reason for his arrest
and declares himself perfectly innocent
of any violation of the laws. He de-
clares he will never return to Cuba
while the island is under the Spanish
flag, and hopes to make speedy ar
rangements for his wife and four chill
dren to follow him to this country.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-20

In the gardens around London there
are more specimens of the cedar of
Lebanon than on Mount Lebanon It.
self.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-20
TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 1882 thermometer, 80:
relative humidity, 62; wind, southeast;
weather, clear; maximum thermome-
ger. 20; minimum thermometer, 68;
paily range, q; amount of rainfall in
last twenty-four hours, 0.
RIVER ATS A NJ
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-20
RIVER AT 8 A. NJ,
Rise. Fall

Note. Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation.
p. F. LYONS,
Observer.
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There is nothing like little nerve, COM
bined with pleasing address and assurance,
to make a winning move in the world.
During a recent pleasant afternoon hand
some looking, well dressed man started
for stroll up Chestnut street. When OPP
posite the entrance to the Continental
hotel, the stroller met a party of friends,
and one of them playfully caught one end
of his faululessly adjusted necktie and
pulled the knot loose. Then came tug
, of war; for no one in the party could make
the knot again. After great many at
tempts the stroller brushed his friends
aside and stepped up to pleasant looking
girl who was looking into jewelers. win
dow. A few words were spoken, and with
bright smile the young woman deity
retied the knot, remarking with another
smile: "Oh, you are entirely welcomed
I've got big brothers Of my own. They
are just as clumsy as you arel'-Phila-
delphia Record.
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IN AN OLD BoOKSHoP.
The Men and Women Who Met In Hatch
ards Century Ago.

The Men and Women Who Met In Hatch
ards Century Ago.
In recent life of John Hatchard, an
old London publisher, some interesting
glimpscs are given of the men and women
who, century ago, were in the habit Of
lettering away the morning in the dingy
bookroom of the great publishing house in
Piccadilly.
Scott and Crabbc, Byron, Lamb and
Sydney Smith met there and gossiped over
new books or fingered rare editions of old
ones.
The Duke of Wellington was in the
habit Of riding up to the shop and leaving
list of books which he wished to buy,
the exact limit Of price always being care
fully stated to penny. On one occasion
an auction of old books was in progress,
and a pamphlet, the title of which attract
ed him, was started at 2 shillings. He
beckoned to the shopman.
"Buy it for me carte blanche" no said
and rode away.
A day or two later he called again, and
the pamphlet was handed to him. 1t had
cost nearly G25.
The duke, who was saving of money,
CuduSOu COunIcnhlCO anu ClCu ShIu Qul-
city:
"You were right. l am enough of
soldier to submit to my own orders"
An old lady, soberly clad, but with
merry, twinkling eyes, came often to tho
shop and was regarded with awe by the
clerks and customers 1t was Miss Han
nah More, who had lately written certain
weighty tragedies.
One day a little boy 6 years of age, fol-
lowed by his nurse, entered and brought "a
note from Miss More to the publisher, ask
ing him to credit her "young friend Tom"
for whatever books he might choose on her
account.
Two years later tho same Tom brought
another note, stating that he was to be
credited to the amount Of 2 guineas, and
that as he already owned and had read al
the great epics she would suggest prose
works, Johnson's or Izaak Walton's
Olives"
Many years later there was great field
day at Hatchard's. The third and fourth
volumes of Macaulay's History Of Eng
land" were in the press, and subscriptions
were pouring in from the royal famil.',
cabinet ministers and bishops, down to
poor clerks. The author came into tho
shop and was told how the book had
stirred the whole country. The publisher
had known him for many years, but a GER
tain pleased flash of the eye startled his
memory.
"Why, you are our little friend Toni"
he said
Macaulay laughed and confessed to be-
ing the prodigy whose infantilo wisdom
had long been tradition of the shop
Household Words.
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The Earliest Surnnmes.

The earliest surnames were probably
those bestowed by the Romans and Greeks,
though it may be said that the Jews of a
still earlier date had surnames to some
extent. In most cases, however, the sur
names of the Hebrews were tribal and not
permanent as are those of today.
The very earliest surnames in the mod
ern sense of that term date from the mid
die ages, when mobiles were known by the
name of their domains and common peo-
pie by the name of their dwelling places.
A great many surnames were bestowed on
account of personal peculiarities, such as
Long, Short, Stout, Stoop, Small, etc;
others on account Of trade, such as Sad
dler, Smith, Baker, Weaver, Fowler, Gar
dener, etc. A third class took names from
the places where they resided. Examples
in this class are John Hill and John I'm
derhill, the first John living on the hill
and the second in the little valley under
the bluff.
There were few, If any, surnames In
England prior to the time of the Norman
conquest, and in Ireland they did not be-
come common until 1865. The German
Jews did not use surnames until about
1925, and in many countries of Asia they
are still unknown.-St. Louis Republic.
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HOsDitalitY.

Dumas, the elder, had a dog as hospita-
BILE as his master, and this dog once invit-
I'd ~ others to Monte Cristo, Dumas pal
ace, named after his famous novel. Du-
mas factotum in chief wished to drive off
the whole pack.
Michael" said the great romancer, 81
have a social position to sustain. 1t en-
tails fixed amount of trouble and ex-
pense. You say that have 10 dogs and
that they are eating me out of house and
home. Thirteen! What an unlucky num-
ber!'
"Monsieur-if you will permit-there is
but one thing left to do. must drive
them all away"
Never, Michael" replied Dumas.
Never Go at once and find me four
teenth dog. st. Louis Republic.
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GAVE A HALF MILLION.
Why a Protestant Endows a Roman Cath
Ollie Theological Seminary.

ole Theological Seminary.
At the opening of st. Paul's Roman
Catholic seminary near st. Paul the other
day Mr.. James j. Hill thus explained why
he gave $500, 900 to it: "Some of you may
wonder why l, who am not member of
your church, should have undertaken the
building and endowment of q Roman Cath
Ollie theological seminary, and you will
pardon me if will tell you plainly why.
For nearly 80 years 1 have lived in Ro-
man Catholic household and daily have
had before me and around me the earnest
devotion, watchful care and Christian ex-
ample of Roman Catholic wife, and of
whom it may be said, Blessed are the pure
in heart, for they shall see God and on
whose behalf tonight desire to present
and turn over to the illustrious archbishop
of this diocese the seminary and its en-
dowment, as provided in the deeds and ar
ticles of trust covering the same.
almost all other denominations have
In their various hocks those who are able
to help their church work in every ma
terial way but the Catholic church, with
its large number of working men and
women, coming from almost every nation
and cline, have little else than their faith
in God and the aid of those earnest, pious
and devoted men who have been placed in
charge of their spiritual welfare. They
have to provide places of worship, and
while the state provides schools for all,
their consclences call upon them to SEQ
that the education of their children goes
hand in hand with their spiritual train
ing, thus making for them an additional
burden. Having seen the efforts Of Arch
bishop Ireland in behalf of the church of
which he is so distinguished prelate, to
spread throughout this country the light
of religious truth, and show to all men
that there was no conflict between scien-
titic or physical truth and divine revola-
ton, felt called upon to devote portion
of this worlds goods with which had
been blessed to the work of educating for
the priesthood men who would be able to
preach down the spirit of unbelief and to
stand as shining lights along the pathway
that leads to heaven
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Sponging Houses.

Lord Beaconsfeld, in Henrietta Tenn
ple," as well as Thackeray, has portrayed
Slomans sponging house, the temporary
abode of the impecunious Colonel Craw-
ley, splendid with dirty old gilt cornices,
dingy yellow satin hangings," and the
like. "a quick eyed Jew boy locks and
unlocks the door for visitors, and dark
eyed maid in curling papers brings in the
tea"
Just opposite the sponging house in
Cursitor street, John Scott lived in lodg-
ings, with the pretty wife with whom he
had run away in the days before fame had
come to him as Lord Eldon. Rawdon
Crawley, it will DO remembered had for
society in duranoe vile Captain Ragg
and the Hon. Deuceace, who lived when
at home in the Temple" "There's doc
tor of divinity up stairs" continues Moss,
land five gents in the coffee room who
know good glass of wine when they see
it. There is a table d'hote mt half past
in the front parlor and cards and music
afterward. "-Temple Bar.
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HELEN GoULD'S FINE HOME.

Great Care Taken by the Heiress In Main
tanning Lyndhurst's Surroundings.
At Helen Goulds home at Lyndhurst,
on the Hudson, the lawns and gardens
about the place are gay with flowers and
foliage plants each summer, about 20, 900
being set out every spring. Yellow and
white are the favOrite colors for the house.
Every morning a basket of greenhouse
treasures Is sent in to Miss Gould, who as
a rule, arrangCs them herself. She can
literally live in bower of roses If she
chooses. Although yellow and white are
the favorite colors for house decorations
for personal use Miss Gould prefers the
violet and it's royal sister hearts case. A
pot of mignonette always stands in her
boudoir, and these three flowers in their
fragrance and modesty seem the most fit
ting emblems to be associated with the fair
mistress of Lyndhurst.
In winter rs well as in summer Miss
Gould has made Lyndhurst her home al
most continuously since her fathers death.
Her companions are her youngest brother,
Frank, and her cousin, Miss Northrup.
Her brothers George and Edwin, both
married, have separate establishments, the
one at Lakewood, the other at Tarrytown.
The gates at Lyndhurst are always open,
Sunday alone excepted, and any one is at
liberty to enter and make tour of the
greenhouses, of which there are about 90
separate rooms, not counting the "hos-
pital, " as Miss Gould calls tho room where
delicate or dropping plants and seedlings
are cared for. The main greenhouse, the
center one, and from which the others ex-
tend on each side at right angles, is built
in the form of a mosque and is SO by 20
feet.-Cor. Minneapolis Tribune
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A ROUGH SHAVE.
The Natives of Jamaica Use Broken Bot
ties For Razors.

The Natives of Jamaica Use Broken Bot
ties For Razors.
The natives of Jamaica have no need to
buy soap, for the woods abound with
plants whose leaves and buds supply very
well the place of that Indispensable article.
Among these is the soap tree, so called,
though it is more q bush than q tree. It's
bulb, when rubbed on wet clothes, makes
a beautiful lather, which smells much like
common brown soap. The Jamaica ne
groes some of them, who are great handles
in their way, make soap out of cocoa
nut oil and homemade I've, and fine soap
1t is smooth and fragrant. This cocoanut
oil soap is used for shaving
When man wishes to shave, he starts
out with his cocoanut shell cup and his
donkey tail brush and bottle. 1t is never
any trouble to find an empty bottle in ia
Raica, even in the mountains At least
90 generations of thirsty people have lived
there and thrown away the empty bottles.
The man carries no mirror, because he has
none to carry. Not one negro cabin in a
dozen has cheap looking glass.
But nature supplies the mirror as we'll
as the soap. The man goes to a con-
venient pool in the mountain stream
where the water is still, and there is his
mirror. He breaks his bottle on a stone
and picks out good sharp piece Then
he fathers his face profusely and begins to
scrape away with his piece of glass, which
works almost as we'll as a sharp razor.
The men rarely cut themselves in this
operation. 'At first" says a writer, az
trembled for them, but afterward tried
the method for myself, and soon became
expert at it. Pearson Weekly.
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OWNING RODS.
Said to Be Only Silly Fraud Fit to Fool
Simpletons.


Simpletons.
A divining rod is simply forked piece
of wood generally witchhazeD which is
alleged to indicate the presence of mineral
in the ground when the party having it
walks over the surface The usual direc-
tions for its use arc to hold the forked end
of the rod in tho hands, and when over
the body of mineral the other end will
dip toward the ground.
1t is impossible to say what charlatan
first imposed the divining rod on credu-
lous people during the superstitious ages.
To attempt to sell such instruments in this
enlightened age is an insult to the general
intelligence.
There never was simple rod that could
exercise such power with the exception Of
the miraculous rod Of Moses which by q
divine miracle drew water from rock for
the relief of the suffering Israelites.
Tho only instrument that will indicate
the presence of q mineral is the miner S
compass, and it works in conformity to q
recognized law of nature. 1t will indicate
the presence of iron ore by the dipping of
a magnotized needle, when held over o
body of ore lying near the surface. We
have recently received several letters from
men in various parts Of the country, who
were not inclined to believe the claims
made for divining rods by party in a
small village who offered them for sale in
advertisements inserted in country news
papers, but who were anxious to possess
such an instrument if reliable. To these
we have invariably replied that the parties
Offering such instruments for sale were re.
lying on the credulity of superstitious
people to make their sales.
The man who buys divining rod is
more foolish than one who will throw the
price Of the rod away, for the one who
throws the money away loses only the
price of the rod. The one who buys the
rod loses both the money and the time he
spends in vain attempts to locate body
of mineral by use of the rod. If the min
eral does not crop to the surface, there is
but one way to find it, and that is by pros
pect shafts or drill holes.-Colliery Engi-
neer
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LECTURES
Something About Famous DIsUourses and
the Men Who Delivered Them.

Jne MEN VINO delivered Inems
1t appears that clever lyceum lecturer
may run a single lecture for q lifetime
and may make barrel of money by re-
peating it year after year before different
audiences. In book of "reminiscences by
the genial Bishop Clark of Rhode Island
he makes revelation of tho fact that he
has delivered one of his own lectures $50
times! Let us regret that he does not tell
the amount Of profit he has got from it.
Plenty Of lecturers have taken in from
800 to 81, 900 for u lecture, and, as the
bishop used to be platform star, well
worth 81, 900 time, he may have got a
pretty handsome annual income from his
lecture. Suppose no delivered it ten times
year at that price for 35 years, he could
live in clover on the proceeds. 1t is not
every man who would sneeze at $40, 900
year from the time he was, say, 40 years
old till he reached the age of 10, all earned
by rafting off the same old lecture once
month, with two months for vacation and
bracing up.
We never heard how many times the
once famous teetotal orator, John B.
Cough, delivered his lecture on '!The Bot
tie" but we would not wonder worth
cent if we were told l 1000 times. We do
not know how often that eloquent Amer
lean, Wendell Phillips, now deceased, re-
peated his lecture on "The Lost Arts, "
but we know that it served his purpose for
very many years. 1t was a masterpiece too.
If a man can get up lecture that will
go, the world is his peach. A street organ
which gives you the same tune all tho
time is nothing to it.
That satirical lecturer, the late David
R. Locke, better known as the "Rev. Pc
troleum Vcsuvius Nasty, had device by
which he saved time and brain. He him
self once confessed to us that when ly-
ceum committee from any place called
upon him to engage his services and
asked what he would lecture about he al
ways told them to take their choice,
"Cu."od 10 Canaan, Moses In the Bull
IT., IT,, Wisdom For Seekers and "Our
C,...i.':'s Hope" but" said Nasty con-
fidrurii;, Il had only one lecture all the
time, u"d whatever title they liked best
they gut i.c Same old thing. 1t suited any
title every place and all occasions"
We never had the happiness to hear the
lecture which Bishop Clark has repeated
$50 times, year in and year out. Its title
is "The Living Machine, and there could
not be better one. 1t is great thing
for lecture to have catching on title.
1t is a great thing also for a lecturer to be
as grand looking as the now aged Bishop
Clark was in the years of his lecturing.-
New York Sun.
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NO JOKE AFTER ALL.
Each Thought 1t Was One Until They Be-
gan to Compare Notes.

Each Thought 1t Was One Until They Be-
gan to Compare Notes.
81 went to my husbands Office yester-
day afternoon to get some money" said
tho little woman in the gray gown as she
settled back in her chair to tell her "dear-
est friend" the latest family joke IT was
down town shopping and had spent every
cent had"
"Of COURSE" said the dearest friend.
"That's tho way'I always do too. Did no
grumble about it,"
"No. He wasn't at his office. That's
where the joke comes in"
"JokeP exclaimed the dearest friend.
II should have thought you would have
been mad enough TOTO almost swear"
II was at first" admitted the little
woman in gray, "but when they told me
he had gone home early got over being
mad, because l knew he'd gone home to
have aquiet little chat with me before din
ner, and that he'd no as mad as a hornet
when he found l wasn't there. 1t made
me laugh to think of him standing around
the house swearing because l wasn't homo
after he'd left the office early to go to me.
l didn't hurry either. | took my time,
because, you know, it does a man good to
have these little disappointments once in
awhile. If he always found his wife at
home, he wouldn't half appreciate it,"
"Was he very madp" asked the friend,
with interest.
"No. That's the funny part of it.
II don't sec what there is funny about
that"
"Why, the servant told him I'd gone
down town, intending to go to his Office,
and no said it made him laugh to think
how mad I'd be when found h6-had gonU
home ohe had just sat there and chuc-
killed. all tho time until came home"
ut was all right then, suppose2" said
the dearest friend.
"No, indeed it wasn't"
"But you were both in good humorP'
''No, we weren't. That's the very fun
NEST part of the whole story. When wG
each found that the other thought it was
good joke, we were both so mad that we.
didn't speak for a whole evening. Chi
cago Times-Herald.
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A NEW ANARCHIST WEAPON.
Note Of Alarm In the Criminal Use o
BaCteriolORY.

Note OF Alarm In the Criminal Use Of
BaCteriolOgy.
DR.. Paul Gibier's address before the
Medico Legal congress has attracted public
attention to the science of baCteriology
with more than perfunctOry interest.
He divided the province of baoteriology
into two parts-the civil and the criminal.
Concerning the criminal phase he said
that he was asked by n certain man rs to
the resultant traces If bacteria were Inject
ed into person. The person was told that
certain effects might result from such an
injection which could lead to the discovery
of tho cause
81 am not an alarmist, said he, land
the remarks made before the Medico Legal
congress were just enough to direct some
attention toward the possibilities of which
spoke. This is a scientific age and some
men even pursue scientific research as u
pastimo, some for the mere love of science
and humanity and Others with more SIMS
ter purposes.
1.-Two anarchists were talking together
one evening. Both were educated men
and perfectly sound and brilliant on any
other subject except the 'selfishness and
degcnGracy of tho world.
"'Why use dynamite, said one, when
a bacillus or two well placed would serve
the purpose just rs well?'
"Ah, but you must first secure your
bacilli, said the other. How are you 60
ing to do that?
"Study bactoriology,' was the answer.
'Bacilli placed in the water supply of u
great city would put dynamite to shame
Yes, asserted the other, and the doc
tor will tell you that thousands of poor
persons must die.
IL admitted that in such case the NOR
tally among those whom the anarchists
declare they desire to aid most would be
something appalling; that tho rich whom
they sought to reach were better safe
guarded, better prepared to fight and check
disease, than the abiect poor.
"'Well, said the more determined of the
anarchists, let the poor die-let them all
die. 1t is better to be dead than in suffer
ing 1t will at least cause the onward,
needless world to think, to become serious
for moment and to know of the misery
and anguish it makes while it laughs and
assures itself that it is the best place in
the universe
Granted that all of the anarchists wer1
made up of such men," said DR.. Gibier,
"the possibility of danger in this new field
Is not at all ovcrdrawn. 1t was this Incl
dent first and then others that set me to
thinking. l do not consider my conclu-
sions overdrawn. New York Herald.
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The Mount Lebanon Shakers have re-
Gently perfected an ingenious cure for
dyspepsia. Their Digestive Cordial con-
sists of food already digested and a di.
gester of foods happily combined.
The importance of this invention will
be appreciated when we realize what a
proportion of the community are vic
tins of some sort of stomach trouble.
Thousands of pale, thin people have lit
tie inclination to eat, and what they do
eat causes them pain and distress,
The Digestive Cordial of the Shakers
corrects any stomach arrangement at
once. 1t makes thin people plump.
Every one will be greatly interested to
read the little book which has been
placed in the hands of druggists for free
distribution.
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Whv NOT You2

When thousands of people are taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla to overcome the
weakness and languor which are so COM
mon at this season, why are you not do
ing the same? When you know that
Hoods Sarsaparilla has power to cure
rheumatism, dyspepsia and all diseases
caused by impure blood, why do you
continue to suffer? Hoods cures others,
why not you?
0Hood's Pills are prompt and efficient.
25 cents.
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A Great Drought.

In the year B. c. 1876 there was drought
extending all over Europe All the croI
failed, and whole districts were depopu-
lated. At Rome thousands of peop I,
drowned themselves in the Tiber, and :
pestilence ensued from tho dead bodies III
the river and on the banks.
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An Estrangement.

Maude-How is your friend, Miss
Flaunter, nowY
Ethel-She is no friend of mine. Tn
not on speaking terms with her now; we
only kiss when we meet-Boston Tran
script