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The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11

to the blazing light, then looked in a
puzzled way from It to the owner. At
length he asked:
Colonel Gonzales, IL that were a dia-
mond, what would 1t be WORTH"
At least 300, 600 francs, or $50, 900, -
was the reply
The due examined the stone again
He felt that, he could get an unsur-
passed gem at much less than it's value
and, as unscrupulous as the Benaparte
family, to which he was allied In a left
hand way, he asked
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11
PACIFIC RATE WAR.
Cut Made by the New Steamship
Company.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1O.-The Japanese
Steamship Co.. which recently arranged to
run line Of steamers between Seattle and
the Orient. has opened Offices in this city and
begun an aggressive warfare against the Pa
cffc Mail and the Occidental and Oriental
steampship companies. The passenger rates
quoted show an average reduction OF 10 per
cent as compared with the Pacific Mail. The
first steamer will leave Tacoma on Sept s.
For the present, monthly trips will be made
but three more ships now building on the
Clyde, will be put on as soon as completed.
Besides cutting passenger rates, the company
intends to make strong bid for freight busi-
ness.
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SOILS ECLIPSE.

A Fine View of 1t Secured I'm
China.
YOKOHAMA, Aug. 10.-The suns eclipse
was clearly visible here and at Toxic. North
ward, however, in which direction the as
tronomers proceeded, the sky was cloudy and
observations were impossible.
BODOE, Norway Aug 10.-The weather
was clear and fine. and the eclipse Of the
sun was we'll observed
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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
sT. JOsEPH's ACADEMY!

HHNAH$ sGHHeA nay SCMOUI J
For young ladies and children. conducted by
the Sisters Of St Joseph, will reopen on Tues
day, Sept. 3, 1896. Address
The DIrectress, St Joseph's Academy.
st. Paul. Mimi
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
INSTRUCTION.

EVENING SCHOOL and writing class at St.
Paul Business College. Monday Wednesday
women invited to learn shorthand, book
keeping, telegraphy, business law and En-
gltsh branches SO East Sixth st.
TELEGRAPHY, bookkeeping, shorthand and
civil service examinations taught at Globe
Business College, Endicott building; stu
dents can earn board.
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HORSES AND CARRIAGES.

OUR GRAND combination sale takes place
Aug. IL to Sept 5; entries close Aug 20; a
large number of well-bred horses already
entered. Send for entry blanks, terms of
sale and catalogue to Barrett & Zimmerman,
20 Second st. north. Minneapolis.
HORSE AND BUGGY-Good Columbus full
leather top piano box top buggy; also young,
gentle horse, sound, good style, weighs about
1850 pounds. S97 Woodbridge ST.
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Returns Come III the Same Day You the Want Columns


MRS. ALICE AUSTIN-CIairvoyan and card
reader; ladies' 25 and so cents. 484 Cedar
| street. near Ninth.
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BOARD WANTED.

rooms. 81, Globe
BOARD-Wanted by man and wife, large
unfurnished room with board In private
family, near corner of Selby av and st.
Albans; references given. H "a. Globe.
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WANTS MAY BELEFT

AT the following locations for inser-
ton In the Daily and Sunday Globe,
at the same rates as are charged by
the main office.
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HOUSE-For rent 414 Ashland av., 10 rooms;
all modern improvements. Inquire at No.
412 Ashland.
The Saint Paul globe., 1896-08-11

THIRD ST, 257 WEST-Corner Smith Av.-
/ Furnished rooms en- suite or single for light
housekeeping
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HOUSE-For rent. nine-room house, 2O5 East
Tenth St; modern improvements. Apply at
Office adjoining.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21

For those who don evening dress
only infrcIuently, much darger turks.
as all know, in the removal of high
necked underwear, and the sudden ex-
posture OF unaccustomed neck and shout
ders to the winter temperature. In
such an event wise course TO pursue
is to begiL the day before the festal &C.
casion to battle the chest, neck and
shoulders profusely with alcohol, and
to continue the treatment throughout
the follo*ing day. There is no better
preventive of colds. and alcohol does
not. as in the case with SO many such
helps, leave an unpleasant odor behind.
For the last IL hours before putting
on the evening clothes it ia well TO
wear about the house lighter weight
bodice. or thinner 1annels, to accustom
ones SELF by degrees to the coming
change. Y. Times.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
osA9Ls FOUND IN SCOTIA.

| ,-om Aberdeenshire Said to Form
on' Ono of the Queens Jewels.
o.o is so much accustomed to associ-
ate pearls with the eastern and gold
aw ;,h the southern and western coun-
,"os If the world, that the discovery of
urls in Scotland and gold in Wales
ssems somewhat opposed to the order
= things. That gold exists in Wales
i Of course, quite a recent discovery,
md the small and Improbable quaint
tss found have now resulted in the
.hondonment of the mining operations
commenced by Richard Morgan.
Rut the pearls of Scotland have quite
different history. For centuries
aoorls have been found in the river
ytbon. in Aberdeenshire, and only
,,st year an Aberdeen man made some
notable hauls, which he disposed of to
ievelers of the northern towns. 1t was
,ecently stated in London paper that
nearl taken from the river Ythan is
hsIpved to form one of the queens
crown Jewels. 1t is to be hoped that
The belief is well-founded, for in that
.ase il NAV be reasonably claimed that
tbe precious stone in question is the
oolv one contributed by the British
Islands, thought calculated to crafty
curnational pride, for Scotland might be
worse represented than by pearl in
the national regalia.
story is told of an Aberdeenshire
farmer who found a very large and per-
feet pearl in the shell OF mussel taken
from the Ythan. Happening to visit
london some time afterward, he dis
played his treasure to West End
iweler, who, struck with the size and
beauty of the gem, asked the price. The
farmer demanded what possibly he re-
garded as big price, viz, 6 100. Now,
this was in the days when Scotland had
her own coinage, and pound (Scots)
was equivalent to Is Sd, SO that the 6 100
be asked would only have represented
IS is Sd English money.
Hissurprise and delight may be mag
ned, therefore, when he received for
lis pearl G1oo sterling. 1t is doubtful,
however, whether the English jeweler
would have shared these feelings had he
nown the exact meaning of the "hun-
Ter pun" demanded by the owner of
he pearl. However, he had no occasion
0 complain, for he is said to have sold
be gem subsequently at a large profit.
Scottish American.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
DOGS WITH SENSE.
These Animals Have Shown Really More
Than Canine Instinct.

THESE Animals Have Shown Really Nor,
| Than Canine Instinct.
Two dogs are to-day much in the
public eye; the one because of his
travels and taste for adventure, and the
| other because of his record as life.
saver.
Owney is the name of the tourist dog
| lie is forever on the move, and has
Travelled round the earth. Owney is an
Irish terrier and makes an intimate
only OF the travelling companion who
carries his ring of tags describing his
various wanderings and adventures.
Owney arrived from Japan recently ON
the steamship Fort Phillip, on which
young Harry Flood, son of James Flood,
the San Francisco millionaire, was also
a passenger.
Mr.. Flood said that the second day
out from Kobe, Owney, in his rambles
about the ship, discovered the chicken
coop. He was not invited inside. Owney
waited till chicken stuck it's head be-
tween the Stats to get drink of water,
and then saved the cook the trouble of
killing the bird.
AT the end of the first week Owney
had wrung the necks of IA chickens,
and the cook entered protest to Capt.
Grey. In view of the service the ter
rier rendered in keeping the ship free
of rats, Owney was forgiven, and the
chickens at length learned better than
to thrust their heads out 70 drink when
Owney was around.
Owney left Tacoma the next day over
the Pennsylvania road. His friends, the
railway mail men, provided store of
food for him. including a portion of
turkey for his dinner.
The second dog to which attention
has been directed by the New York
World is Jack, the life-saver at the
barge Office. He is a bandy-legged
spaniel, brown and mottled white, with
ears that flap about. Thomas Nugent,
who was recently drowned,
picked mp Jack from the streets four
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
A DOLL SONG.

nave such pretty doll, such n very
pretty doll,
All over golden curls is her head hand
head; ''e''u
she has smiling big blue eyes, blue as sum.
mer's morning Skies
1hat shut up when darling dolly goes m
bed, bed. bed.
She Is such a pretty doll, such a darling
baby doll,
And she's got pretty jacket with a
hood. hood. hood;
And some pretty frllly frocks, and the
sweetest baby socks,
1hat L let her wear sometimes when she
Is good. good. good.
On love my darling doll. she's my dar-
ling baby doll,
DO you know that very soon she'll really
talk, talk, talk?
yesterday she said mamma" and to-day
she said papa"
When took her In the garden for
walk. walk. walk.
I have such pretty doll. such very pretty
All over golden curls is her head, head,
head
she has smiling big blue eyes. blue as sum-
mer's morning skies.
That shut up when darling dolly goes to
bed, bed, bed.
II. M. Burnside. In Leslie's Pleasant
Hours.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
The Old Dog stin Lives.

A prominent family residing in the
business portion Of Waynepor., N. Y,
owns a dog which, having reached old
age, they decided to put an end 20. They
procured quantity of chloroform, and
the wife proceeded TO administer it.
The handkerchief saturated with the
fluid was held to Tor near) the dogs
nostrils. but the applicant, watching
closely to hear the dog draw his last
breath inhaled the chloroform in much
larger quantities than the dog, and
promptly went of into an afternoon
nap. which was awakened by the dogs
quite lively voice. The dog still lives,
end the family has decided to let him
die q natural death.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21

ton during eight months of The year,
and has the privilege of leaving the
station for "a hours every two weeks
but in lonely stations they generally re-
main for the active season, which be-
gins September 1, ending May L; when
a man leaves in May, he goes where he
pleases, and if he does not return in Sep
tember the keeper gets another man in
his place for the next winter season.
The keeper is held responsible for the
condition of everything connected with
the station; he must drill the men in
their duties, divide the work evenly, and
see that the men are orderly. No liquor
is allowed on the premises; drunken
ness or neglect of duty is punished by
instant dismissal from the service; the
man who is detailed to cook must keep
the kitchen in perfect order; and each
has his share of the homework to per-
form, for no women live at the stations.
The crew are numbered by the keeper
from one to six, and at midnight proceed
ing September the station goes into
commission; at that hour the keeper
gives patrol equipments to two of the
surfmen, and they start out on the first
patrol, and the active season has fairly
begun; everything runs like clockwork
after that, and as strict discipline is
maintained as on board man-of-war.-
1.-THE Story of Life-Saving Station" by
Teresa A. Brown, in st. Nicholas.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
LIFE-sAvING STATIONS.
Row They Are Arranged and the DutI
OF tho Keepers.

1
How They Are Arranged and the Dutiss
| OF tho Keepers.
The station itself is two-story house
built securely and solidly upon some
good site along the beach; it is com
fcrtable and roomy. furnished by the
government, and has the boatrrom and
kitchen on the lower floor; large bed
room for the keeper, another for the
surfmen. and storeroom occupy the
second story.
The boatroom is large, and opens by
great double doors upon the beach. It
contains the life-boat and all the life
saving apparatus-always in perfect
order and readiness.
The crew consists Of keeper and six
surfmen, though some stations number
seven surfmen; these men are gradu-
ates from no naval college, hut have
served their apprenticeship with old
ocean as their master; they must be
able to handle a boat in the toughest
weather, and to face all the dangers of
the deep.
Each man must undergo a strict med
lcal examination. and must bring to the
station his certificate of good health;
and he is also obliged to sign an
agreement to faithfully perform all du-
ties.
The keeper receives a salary of 5000
year (up to 1892 it was $7OO); he must
be at the station all the year round, but
is allowed months leave of absence in
summer if he gives up his pay. A surf
man receives SOS month, is at the sta
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
or GENERAL INTEREST.

The assessed valuation os Sayan-
nah is S33, 1888. 1888, and its debt is com
paratnely heavy, being, IN all, $3,4o4.-
400.
1t mas been computed by geograph-
ers thar if the sea We're emptied OF it's
water and all the rivers of the earth
were - pour their present Hoods into
the va ant space, allowing nothing for
evaporation, 10000 years would be re-
quired o bring the water of tie ocean
up to It's sresent level.
Some 20 tons OF silk spinning and
weaving machinery was shipped from
Stonington, Conn, to Moscow, Russia,
recently Sixty tons more is ordered
for the same place and parties. The
machinery is for use in big silk mill
recently built in the old capital of Rus
STA.
Brass plates bearing appropriate
inscriptions now mark the sites of the
pews in old Christ church, PhiladeI-
phia, once occupied by Betsy Ross,
maker OF the first American flag; Fran
els Hopkinson and his son, Joseph Hop
kinson, author of the national hymn,
Hail Columbian" the Penn family,
Benjai.1n Franklin and George and
Martha Washington.
AT the head waters of the Orinoco
the Spanish traditions located the land
of Ell dorado, THE Gilded Man."
potcntaie whose country was so rich
in gold dust that he had his body
anoint"d with oil and sprinkled with
gold every morning, so that lie shone
in the sun as though gilded. 1t is i
curious fact that the country in which
tradition located this marvellous being
has never been explored by a white
man.
of he 229, $40 alien steerage passen-
gers who arrived at the port of New
York .ast year, 42,942 above IA years
of age could not read and write. About
149,500 Of the steeragc arrivals were
over Ii years of age, and only 20 1887 of
these brought with them $40 and over.
No less than 1872 900 of the whole num-
Der of Steerage immigrants had some
point in the north Atlantic states for
destinatioE,wh only 2,451 were bound
for the south central states
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
MARY GREEN'S TRAVELS.
She Has Visited Every Part of the North
American Continent.

She Has Visited Every Part of the North
American Continent.
"Aliss Mary Green" is q rubber doll
who appeared one day late last fall
in the post office of Winchester, Mass,
On her dress was fastened slip of
paper which read: "The climate of
New England is too severe for this
child; please pass her to the Pacific
coast for the winter" Some friendly
clerk put stamp on her dress and sent
her to Montana. From there she went
to California, then to British Column
bia and from there to Ottawa. Each
post office clerk seems to have enjoyed
her society as long as he pleased, then
pasted a stamp to her gown and sent
her on.
At Denver. Col. she evidently at
tended banquet of the mailing clerks
and had some new travelling garments
given her. Her dress is said to be cov-
cred over with postage stamps from
various offices in the United States.
and around her neck are tied several
poems" written in her honor. She
also wears newspaper badges from
many different states. showing the
honor with which she was received at
the various literary banquets which she
attended. From Ottawa she brought
back tag which proved to be pass to |
The gallery of the house of commons.-l
pansu
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
BRITISH GUNS.
They Are Capable of Raining Steel Upon
Coast Town.

They Are Capable of Raining Steel Upor
Coast Town.
The following startling statements
were made recently by one of the mos
important military officers in New
York city:
Zone British warship, which isamong
those which Great Britain would put
in service in case of war, could throw
more than $4,000 shells into the forti-
fcations of her foes in four minutes.
The public in general imagines that
rapid-hre guns are Gatlings or Max
Inns, or other forms of very small cali
per automatic guns. These are really
machine guns. Rapid-tire guns carry
pFoectiles varying in weight from
three pounds to the 2sO-pound shell,
carried by the six-inch breech loading
flhe' They are designated as rapid
iie on account of the facility with
winch they may be handled.
AS to the destructive power of the
properties, it needs only to be stated
'nat the six-inch guns will penetrate IA
'nches OF armor, and the three-pound-
FRS lour inches. These rifles throw all
Explosive shells, and such a rain of de-
uuctlve missiles as one of these ships
oula hurl upon a fortress or a city
Could render it impossible for garri-
OnS 10 work their guns, unless they
Cere thoroughly well protected, which
purs are not.
WIN 12-inch, Aston rifle on board
nc colossus four shots were fred
r.'iin three minutes during recent tri-
. ana three hits out OF four shots
L'e,e scored. On the Thunderer a ten
p.n rihe was used, loaded and fired by
auu' without the use of the hydraulic
H. s;eninery which usually facilitates
- .,s work. 1t was found that one pro-
Ia r'i.e could be fired every two minutes
|ao ten seconds.
lhe Trafalgar's great 1s-inch, Ct
~ rlne discharged four perfectly di-
0u smells in nine minutes and seven
h. Mus, and the monster 161s, 11O-ton
! o0 VI board the same ship presented
tss s,Umpliments in the shape Of ton of
!. az unce In every two minutes. These
uings worth thinking about."-N.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21

| years ago and taught him to swim.
Jack has lived at the barge Office ever
since.
One night a drunken man fell be-
tween the racks, and Jack ran to his
master and notified him by barking
that something was wrong. The man
was pulled out more scared than hurt
On another occasion when Nugent
had jumped into the bay to save life
Jack plunged in too. Somebody pushed
Jack off the seawall once, and Nugent
lad to jump into the bay and swim
around the wall into boatmen's slip
because the pier is SO steep that no
man or dog can climb it. Recently Jack
ran and brought the night Waterman
when homeless man had been pushed
overheard.
Jack catches the heaving lines for the
Shackamaxon between his teeth, and
helps haul ashore the hawscrs.
His playmates arc Paddy, a barge
Office terrier of superior intelligence
and no tail, and Jewel, of the revenue
cutter Manhattan. Jewel is a setter,
and carries the cutters flag to and from
the staff at sunrise and sunset guns.
The World also tells of that almost |
dog Jack, the pet of hook and |
ladder company Q, quartered on Eliza
beth street, near Spring. Jack is car
rage dog. He attends all fires with his
company. He lsnows the code Of gong
strokes so well that the firemen declare
be can tell the location of blaze when
The alarm comes in. He saved James
Hogan. the Bowery Wonder. from be-
ng suffocated at q FIRE in old Military
AL few days ago
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
A TON OF PIG IRON.
What Labor Can Produce from That
Amount of the Metal.

What Labor Can Produce from That
Amount of the Metal.
At the recent meeting of the South
Staffordshire Institute of Iron and
Steel Works Managers Thomas Nor
ris presented some interesting facts
about the remarkable achievements
| that have been reached in the manu-
| facturc Of fine wire. Of the antiquity
| of wire, Mr.. Morris said, there could
| not be the slightest doubt. That used
in the dress of Aaron. the high priest,
was stated to have been cut from thin
plates of gold, and wire had been dis
covered that was made as far back
! as 1900 B. c. 1t was not. however, until
about the middle of the 14th century
that wire drawing was first practiced,
and then in Germany. Wire-drawing
was practiced in France at the end of
the 18th century, and it was nearly 100
years later before the industry was in
troduced into England, during the
reign of Elizabeth.
The Forest of Dean was long the seat
of the wire-drawing trade. In 1868
the first mechanical wire mill proper
was erected at Sheen, near Richmond.
birmingham appeared to have taken up
the manufacture of wire in the 18th
century with characteristic energy,
but early in the present century Lam
cashire began to take the lead, both
as regards quantity and quality.
Mr. Morris gave an interesting de-
scription of the various articles that
illustrated his paper, especially the va
rious wires, and pointed out that the
Warrington wire manufactures who
presented him with many of the speci-
mems got S4.32 per pound. or over
$500 per ton, for the specimen of
drawn wire, which was largely used in
the construction of pianos and other
musical and mechanical Instruments.
For the pinion wire he got $2l.6O per
pound, or $4,000 per ton. 1t took
754 hair springs to weigh an ounce
Of 1917 grains. 1t took 27,O0o,0eO of
them to weigh ton, and, taking one
to be worth a cent and half, the value
Of ton of these apparently cheap little
things ran up to over 100000. The
harbed instrument used by dentists
for extracting nerves from teeth was
even more expensive, representing a
rate of S2,150,OOO per ton. A milo
ength of No. 10 size wire only weighed
II pounds, and many of the ingots
we're IL to ii hundred weight each, and
after allowing for all waste, they could
ret so miles of wire from one iuCet
= st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
A Decadence of Sentiment.

at makes me tired" said Meanderine-
Mike, ter see de way some people tries
ter go back on de good old customs
of iule tide an things"
me. too, said Flooding Pete. 'Swet's
your trouble?"
wy. We know dat wen We saws
Merry Christmas fus de udder fefIy
has ter Civ ye a present"
yes"
well, I met young felly dis MORN
In dat had a watch an $50 in his clos.
1 says Merry Christmas all right. but
would We b'lieve it, I ackchually had
ter use threats afore he'd give up d.
Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
Curious Fact About Tn. I'VE.

a Ne
\ ~ curious fact is the impossible
\. ~ moving your eye while examining
!. INJECTION of that organ in a mirror.
1. tan eaiiy the most movable part of
|I.d yet II you hold your head
[s,a. ana try to move your eye while
ooo o,lng 1t you cannot do it-even the
'v WI Of an inch.
a. oOurse' II you look at the reflection
~ =. nose, or any other part of your
|. your eye must move to see II. But
m Ia sngc thing is that the moment
!, !. aeavor to perceive the motion the
~ nAeu. This is one of the reasons
~, PERSONS expression as seen by
ON =, IN a glass is quite different
Y maj Il is when seen by otherx-
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
Java Spiders.

In the forests of Java Il species of
spider has been discovered which pro-
duces webs of such extraordinary
strength that a knife is required to
sever them.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
A Cheap Duke.

In her impotent rage her grace could
only scowl at the duke, her husband.
This" she bitterly exclaimed. lis what
woman gets by buying what she
doesn't want just because it's Cheap
Detroit Tribune.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-02-21
Precocity.

-Jabber's son, they say. could talk
when only two weeks DID,"
That's nothing. The Bible ssysJ JOB
cursed the day he was born. Judge.