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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03
DROPPED WITH A THUD.
Mercury Sinking Too Rapidly to
Be Followed.

wind storm has prevailed in Nebras-
ka since early this morning. The mer-
curry dropped 40 deg as compared with
yesterdays zero weather, which, to-
gether with a high wind, has made
outdoor employment very disagreea-
BILE. A slight snow is falling in West
ern Nebraska and the grain fields are
wholly unprotected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03
PILLsBURY WINS AGAIN.

Defeats TschiGOrin in a PetroR,
After Thirty Moves.
ST. PETERSBURG, JAM 2-The third sit
ting Of the third round in the international
chess tournament was played today, the re-
suit being as follows: Pillsbury beat Tschi-
gorin In Petroff, after 80 moves. Score:
Lasker, won So, lost 3D. Pillsbury won 61a.
lost 2h; Steinitz, won Az, lost "A; Tschigo-
rim won H. lost 7B
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03

TIE Chicago Great Hcgtarn Railway MA
Pie LIS: Ro.te) now gets tie PREFER 81. Lass
ei.ga- business to ard from 2es Moines b.
Cause OF is Gac.s ti3le AMI s,iDerior service
Ese2inG trains iea7e AT 77:2a daily
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03
Carnival Suits.

The Boston designs and manufactures
them. All work done in St. Paul Sixth
and Robert
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03

said he was going to beat his way to
Chicago. He always said he could get
plenty to do in Chicago and he was out
Of work lately. And then I went right
up to a place I heard Of on Banfil
street"
What was the NUMBER"
II don't know. A friend Of mine told
me about it, and I went to her house
and she took me over there and the
lady was very nice and wouldn't like
her to think she had any disreSpectful
people in her house and I may go back.
So don't want to give her name"
II didn't even know exactly where
Ethel was going" interrupted the elder
sister, "she didn't know the number
but I'm sure she was there. She went
away Saturday night and she came
back last night Saturday morning
Mrs. Berggren came down here and
blamed it all on my sister. Why, she
never even saw Ethel in her life, and
she was married herself when she was
only sixteen years oldr'
80, yes" resumed Miss Ethel, with
the pleasant impetuosity Of maiden
hood" nobody knows if Mr.. Berggren
really went to Chicago. Maybe he
stayed down town. He used to, some
times"
"WiIl the dramatic company appear
soon before the public?"
"Uh-uh," shaking her head sadly.
Don't think it will. It was to come off
every week. But mo and Mr.. Berggren
are gone, and the company's broke up.
Now. this is just all the truth
And who coUId doubt Matilda, the
heiress, especially when she reinforced
her statements with the following let
ter:
ST. Paul, Mimi, Jan. q 1896
To the Editor of tho Globe.
| am in town and have been and can prove
it, but as the people I have been working for
can only declare my own innocence regard
ing Mr.. Berggren. Respectfully,
Ethel Beckman.
A SALTWATER STORY.
Special to the Globe.
SALTWATER, Mimi, Jan. God
frey Berggren, who left his wife and
family in st. Paul last Saturday, is
now employed in the Union Shoe and
Leather company'S shops at the prison
in this city, having been stopping at
the st. Paul hotel since last Saturday
evening, when he stepped to the reg
lister with woman and registered as
Godfrey N. Dallis and wife. Land
lord Mellin did not suspect anything
wrong until Wednesday evening, when
Godfrey's brother Theodore came here
and tried to induce the former to re-
turn to his wife and children. A
G l o b e correspondent called on Mr..
Mellin yesterday and he was very much
exercised over the discovery that Berg
gren had been stopping there with
woman not his wife, and said he would
no longer allow them to remain there.
The young woman went to st. Paul
yesterday and Mr.. Mellin' thinks the
object of her trip was to deny the fact
that she had eloped with Berggren.
Being asked if he knew whether or not
Berggren intended to return to his fam
lily Mr.. MeIlin said he did not know,
but he thought Berggren was trying
to get his wife to come here and live
with him. He began working for the
shoe company at the prison today and
evidently intends to remain there.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03
Maple Leaf Route the ga.t,st

CUT TO THE QUICK FoR TIE
QUICK.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03

VIM. Miller G. Co., 263 West Seventh ar
Mcclure Mulrooney, ESQ E. Sixth ST.
4. Z. Cobb. 294-29S East Sixth st.
z. c. Emerson, 251-255 E. Sixth st.
Geo. Thuet, "a West Third ST.
q. McNamee & Co., 249 East Sixth st
Schierman & Co.. 31s Robert ST.
De camp q Boyer, 12e East Third st.
r. L. Parshall. Is West Third ST.
n; y. Hemenway Co., corner Third and
Dore d Redpath, 70 East Third ST.
knauft Grain and Produce Company. 33S East
Seventh street Tel 574
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03
Commission Merchnnt,.

Ransom & Horton. s9-1Ol East Sixth.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03

Horets Bros, 46s and 1165 West Seventh St
10 East Seventh st. and 1888 West University
avenue.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-03
Caterer.

Casey Norris, cor 7th and Willis SITS.
5. Brand, corner Wabasha and Park avenue
Tel. 1893.
Q. G.. Wilson. corner Sth and Broadway.
Independent Coal Co., 156 East Sd st.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
OLD CUSTOMS AT THE CAPITAL.
Hospitality Was One of the Chief Charac-
tcristics of tho Residents.

Said q gentleman who has been fro
quent sojourner mt Washington during the
last 40 years: 'People nowadays have q
distorted idea of the hospitality of ante
bellum times. The truth Is that the Gus
tomary hospitality of the national capital
WAS southern hospitality, and it was vastly
different from the society and social Gus
toms of the present day. At that timo If
any man had expended $500 or 81, 600 or
So, 600 upon an entertainment of ono even
ing he would have been regarded rs unfit
for association with leading men and
women of that day. The mere expenditure
of large sums of money would have savored
too much of the shop and of the salesman.
Senator Douglas was one of tho most
charming entertainers l have ever known.
In common with other prominent men of
the day he had his regular servants, and
they served refreshments such as were in
those days to be found in the homes of tho
plain people and of tho leading people of
tho country. No one ever heard of set din
ners with regular decorations in stilted
manner such as prevail mt tho present
time. The entertainments were of q prim-
tive nature-that is to say, they were of
homelike nature.
Another thing that appears to me as
remarkable Is the change which has oc-
CURED in official life in tho national CAPT
tai. In the days before the war 1t was
customary for gentlemen from tho south
who came to Washington as members of
tho house Of representatives or as senators
each to bring with him young man, who
was to act as private secretary, for the
purpose of being trained in politics, be-
cause politics was the gentlemanly profes-
sion OF the southern people at that time
Tho private secretary of IA representative
or of n senator was regarded as a student
OF politics, and his standing was such as
a student of Yale or Harvard might obtain
in the cities where those institutions arc.
According to his family history and ances-
try and his own personal merit, tho private
secretary of q senator or representative was
received III society, and he was regarded
as highly favored gentleman. Nearly
oil OF these young men attained or achieved
distinction as officers or soldiers in the
Confederate army during the civil war,
and number Of them have become men,
bcrs of congress since tho conflict closed :"
Washington Letter in Philadelphia
Times
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
His Answer.

A good hotel clerk must know every
thing He must be able to read the inner
most thoughts of every guest that comes
to his house. He must be ready to answer
every question that is asked, whether con-
corning railroad trains, predestinarianism,
politics, law, science, geography, astron-
omy or theology
Houston has ono of the brightest hotel
clerks in the world. He is always affable,
ready with any kind of information what
ever, and never has to be asked twice for
anything.
Two drummers were sitting in the lobby
of this hotel n few nights ago, and one of
them was telling the other about the clerk
readiness and said:
IN bet you the drinks that if you open
that newspaper that you have in your
hand, select the first phrase that meets
your eye, and then walk over to the clerk
and say 1t over to him no will respond in
some way without a moment S hesitation
The drummer opened the paper by
chance at a political article, and the first
words he saw Were 1.-The greatest good to
the greatest number" He walked over
to the clerk 5 desk leaned his elbow on 1t
and said seriously, The greatest good to
the greatest number
Tho clerk smiled pleasantly, tapped a
bell and said to tho bellboy:
Take u bottle of whisky up TO room o."
Houston Post
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
QUICKER THAN LIGHTNING.
The Action of the Human Body Outstrips
Everything In Motion.

LAS quick as lightning is n phrase col
loquially used to express tho maximum of
rapidity, but according to q we'll known
scientist, electricity itself is outstripped by
that old fashioned machine the human
body, by which it appears powers can so
to speak, be generated in the brain, trans
mitted through tho nerves and developed
in tho muscles in an inflnitesimal fraction
of q second.
1t Is stated that pianist, in playing a
presto OF Mendelssohn, played 5, 500 notes
In four minutes and three seconds. The
striking of each of these, 1t has been esti-
mated, involved two movements of tho
finger and possibly moro.
Again, the movements of tho wrist, ell
bows and arms can scarcely be less than
ono movement for each note. AS "a notes
We're played each second, and each involves
three movements, we would have 72 vol
untnry movements per second.
Again, the place, the forco, the time
md tho duration OF each of these move
ments We're controlled. All these motor
reactions were conditioned upon knowl-
edge of the position Of each finger of each
hand before it was moved, while moving
1t, rs well as OF the auditory effect TO force
and pitch, all of which involves equally
rapid sensory transmissions.
Ii we ADD TO this tho work OF the men,
ory in placing the notes in their proper
position as we'll rs the fact that the per-
former Mt tho same time participates in
tho emotion tho selection describes and
feels the strength and weaknesses of the
performance, we arrive at truly bewil-
dering network of impulses, coursing
along at inconceivably rapid rates.
Such estimates show, too, that we are
capable Of doing many things at once.
The mind Is not unit, but is composed
OF higher and lower ccnters, the available
fund of attention being distributed among
them. Weekly
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
Moscow From the Krcmlin.

The journal of Miss Mary Grace Thorn
ton, daughter of the British ambassador,
describing tho coronation of the late czar
of Russia, is printed In Tho Century. Miss
Thornton writes: We saw beautiful
stretch of this picturesque town yesterday
from the terrace of the Kremlin, the river
below running between its white qnays
and beyond lines and lines of green rooted
houses, broken continually by the darker
clumps of trees in some charming Moscow
garden or by the shining cupolas and
spires of the famous Moscow churches
And yet, with its charm of an existence
of centuries Moscow seems to me to DOS
scss very little of the quiet of age In tho
churches, for instance, some of tho art Is
SO barbaric as to carry one straight back
to dark days. 1t is impossible to escape
from historical associations Of ignorance
and cruelty rs ono might in some western
town, and begin to think that 1t is be-
cause the Russians themselves arc not en-
tirely removed from the superstition and
despotism OF that time. The contrast Is
less, the association easier to call up. till
every bit of the Moscow of today is strik-
ing by what it suggests. Even from the
beautiful krcmlin terrace one sees tho rush
OF wild Tartars up the slopes, tho quiet
summer day is full of noise, and where
ones foot now presses tho soft green grass
the ground Is red with blood
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
Chinese Treatment of Children.

However little liked the Chinaman
may be by his white ncighbors, 1 have
at all times found that the Chinese had
at least one good and praiseworthy quail
ity-the kindness shown by all Of them
toward their children. The poorest
parents always seem able to save enough
money to array their little ones in gay
garments ON New Years day or other
holidays. The children in turn seem to
be remarkably we'll behaved and respect
full toward their elders, and rarely if
ever receive corporal punishment. They
seem very happy. and apparently enjoy
their childhood more than most Ameri-
can children. On almost any sunny day
the fond and proud father may be seen
at every turn i'll Chinatown carrying his
brightly attired youngster in his arms.
Other little tots, hardly old enough to
feel quite steady on their legs toddle
about with infants strapped on their
backs. They do not appear to mind this,
and it does not seem to interfere with
their childish pastimes. About the time
of the Chinese New Year Chinese chill
dren are particularly favored, and the
fond fathers deny them nothing. The
little ones always appear to be we'll pro-
vided with pocket money to buy toys
and candies. Theodore Wores in St
Nicholas.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
His Musical Choice,

"Eothen" Kinglake was a great friend
of Nine. Olga de Novikof during her
sojourn in England, where one feature
of her entertainments was afternoon
musicals to which mono but dilcttanti
were invited. On one occasion Kinglake
presented himself, and rs an intimate of
the house was admitted. He retired to a
corner and listened attentively. Madame
was surprised, but pleased, and ap-
preaching him said: (Which order of
music do you prefer, my friend-classic,
Italian or the Wagnerian school? fancy
you do not know our great Glinka?'
II assuredly am fond of music" he an
swercd, "but my taste is perhaps pc
culiar. AS an instrument prefer the
drum Madame took measures to pre-
vent his being admitted to these assem-
blies again.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
a warning to the Gents.

The annual ball of tho Occidental Ly-
ceum and Sporting society was ut its
height, when the master of ceremonies, a
gentleman in full dress vest and trousers
and sack coat and four breastpins in his
shirt front, vaulted airily into tho middle
of tho ballroom floor and said, with an
ominous glitter In his eye:
II am informed by some of tho ladies
present that some Of tho gents from over
Dead Mans Gulch way air Jest little bit
too exubcrant In carrying out the figgers
Of the dances, and that when l sing out,
Swing yer ducksy daddlesi these gents
swing their ladies clear off'n their feet.
Now wo want things to go off happy and
harmonious hero tonight, but II any more
complaint o. this sort arc made some o.
tho Dead Mans Gulch gonts'll be likely to
go homo on shutter, ye hear mo? Choose
yer pardners fer the next kadrille an all
set a'standin" and they all "sct" to the
tune of Granny, Will Yer Dog BiteP"-
Detroit Free Press
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
Americans at stratford.

"Of COURSE" says the English host to
his American visitor, you will run down
to Stratford to drop tear at the tomb of
Shakespeare. All Americans do that. ;"
Though weeping Americans are seldom
seen in Stratford, the other kind are so
numerous there that their presence and
patronage give the tranquil, dreamy old
town q boom every summer that keeps its
innholders happy all winter. The town
lives on Shakespeare and Americans.
"Who do you suppose ever buys these
thingsS" an Englishman was heard asking
his lady companion as they peered into the
window of u kniokknaok shop. "Oh,
Americans" was the reply They'll buy
anything at Stratford. ''-Bostcn Tran
script.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03

A brilliant complexion Is beauty In Il.
6elf 1t pleasCs the eyes of thoughtless
people and the minds of thinking people.
They know that really good complexion
Is sign of health and created by Nature.
There are different ways of initiating fine
compile xion cosmetics, which deceive no.
body, but ruin the skin and make the user
look silly and prematurely old stimulants
which only give temporary flush danger
Gus drugs which drive pimply disorders
from the face back into the blood. All
these counterfeit" compilations are un-
safe and easily detected But the genuine
unnistakeable, much admired color and
clearness of health can only be obtained
by clearing all bilious matters and humors
out of the blood.
The first step towards creating good
complexion by Natures own method is to
get the blood clear and the circulation free
and active. There is no complexion so sal
low, muddy or pinply but it will be cleared
and frightened by DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t is the best natural
compile ion- maker on earth. 1t sends the
fresh glow of real health to the checks by
thoroughly clearing all bilious and eruptive
humors out of the blood. 1t Strengthens
the digestion and regulates the bowels in
mild, natural way. 1t gives brighter color
to the blood, and not only beauties the
complexion but makes the eyes brighter
and the breath swceter.
If the bowels be very III UGH constipated,
II will be advisab BILE to tax e small doses of
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, conformity
with the use Of the Golden Medical Dis
covery." One or two each day-just suf-
6cicnt to get their laxative and Alternative,
or blood cleansing, effect will be sufficient
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
New Source of Cochineal.

One of the most curious agricultural
products known, If 1t can be placed in such
q category, Is cochineal, the chief scot of
which industry has for many years boon
tho Canary islands. The story of the estab.
lishment OF cochincal culture in the islands
Is curious one. In 1885 native gontle-
man became acquainted with the methods
pursued for producing this dye in Hondu-
res, and brought with him from that place
specimens of the cochineal Insect and the
cactus upon which it thrives. AT that
timo the wine growers at the Canaries
were lourishing, and no other kind of in
dustry WAS believed In
The culture of the cochineal WINS regard.
ed as mad freak, and its introduccr met
with opposition on all sides. Then the
dreaded phylloxera made Its appearance in
the vineyards, and ruin faced tho wine
growers. They were glad, indeed to take
up tho despscd cochincal, and the old
vineyards were given up to the new indus.
try with such success that in one year the
value OF the exported dye reached not far
short Of E1 900, 600. The introduction of
aniline dyes changed all this, and it is
feared that tho cochineal industry can
never regain its former position in the
Canary islands. chambers Journal.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
Should Plays he Printedp

Moliere objected TO the printing of his
plays on the ground that they were
meant to be acted on the stage, with the
costumes, scenery and illusions per-
tanning thereto, and not to be read in
the closet. 1t was also inferred that
Shakespeare entertained the same notion
as Moliere, seeing how indifferent he
was us to the fate of his plays so long as
they were popular on the stage. There
is also the explicit declaration of Hey
wood i'll the following terms:
1T hath been no custom in me of all
other men courteous readers) to COM
NIT my plays TO the press. The reason,
though some may attribute to my own
insufficiency, had rather subscribe in
that to their severe censurc than by
seeking to avoid the imputation of weak
ness to incur greater suspicion of hon
esty, for, though some have used dou-
bic sale Of their labOrs first to the stage
and after to the press, here proclaim
myself ever faithful to the first and
never guilty of the last"
The author of the most successful
comedy Of modern times exhibited the
same indifference to, or rather dislike
of, the printer. When 1.-The School For
Scandal" met with so brilliant n recep-
ton, from its first appearance on May
s, 1777, Ridgway, the publisher, agreed
with Sheridan as to its publication, but
he never succeeded in getting the manu-
script He applied to the author in vain,
and at length got an answer Sheridan
said that he had been 10 years ondeavor-
ing TO satisfy himself with the style of
the play, but had not yet succeeded
The printing of the play was done in
dcpendently Of the author. He presented
a manuscript copy of it to his married
sister, Mrs. Lefanu, at Dublin, to be
disposed of for her own advantage to the
managers of the Dublin thcater. This
brought her 100 guineas and free admis-
sions to the theater, and it was from the
manuscript thus procured that the Dub
lin edition was printed. Notes and
Queries
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-03
What the Two Read.

l have in my minds eye two old per-
sons, the best l ever knew, the best l ever
hope to know. No one would perhaps &C
tually call them readers" They never see
even the outside of "a novel. l have indeed
heard them quote "Lothair," and think
"Pickwick" to mo is evidence of
the tremendous rage there must once have
been for these two works of fiction. Once
and again, too, n line from Shakespeare
may fall from their lips But, on the
whole, they are not what the world would
call readers" Probably they could not
distinguish the "ThanAtopsis' from tho
'Thanatophidia." If ono mentioned "Do-
do" in their presence, their minds would
In all likelihood revert to archaeological
ornithology. If one spoke of THE Heav-
emily Twins" they would correct him and
politely ask IL it was not Tho Hebrew
Twins that was meant, recent work.
which, believe. deals with Jacob and
Esau Yet these two dear old persons read
as few people read.
They read chiefly but ono book, and this
Is tho Bible, but they have made that book
their own as not even, venture to say,
has Mr.. Gladstone mado Homer his own.
think 1 speak the simple truth when
say they rarely have need to consult con-
oordanoe. So extreme q degree of special
ism is not suited, Of course, to the gen
era" merely cite this as an example of
the efficacy of following the rule to make
ones own that which one reads. And for
tunately this rule Is elastic, since It per-
mits-nay, neccssitatos-a choice of what
Is at once within ones capacities and con-
sonant with ones inclinations. -Blach-
woods Magazine.