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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29
WISCONSIN CENTRAL ELECTIONS.
Directors Chosen for Two of the
subordinate Lines.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Oct. 28.-Annual meet
ings of the Chicago, Wisconsin & Min
nesota Railway company and of the Milwau-
kee & Lake Winnebago Railroad company
two corporations embraced in the Wisconsin
Central lines, were held here today. Three
vacancies in the directory Of the former road
were filled by the election of Fred T. Gates,
of New York city, and Joseph L.. Colby and
George R. Bracket, both Of Boston: Direc-
tors were elected to the latter road as fol-
lows: Edwin H. Abbott, Cambridge; Row.
land G. Hazard, Peace Deal; Costello C. Con-
vers, Josepr L. Colby and Henry Mitchell,
Boston, and Charles Ray and E. B. Green
leaf. Milwaukee. Henry F. Spencer. of Bos-
ton, was elected a director Of the Wisconsin
Central company, and also of the Wisconsin
Central Railroad company.
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LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, ,doct. 2S.=Wheat-Futures
steady; October. IS 9Ad. hd lower; Deem
Der. IS 21ad, I'D lower. January, SIS 21hd, I'D
lower: February, Is 2Kd, I'D lower. Maize
Spot dull; American mixed, per Genital. 3s I'd;
October nominal. November, So 1hd, I'D
lower; December IS I'D. I'D lower; January,
IS Id, I'D lower; February. 3s Id, I'D lower;
22s ed unchanged.
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bread Higher.

LONDON, Oct. 2S.-The price OF bread has
gone UP a half penny a loaf, and the in
crease is being acutely felt in the poorer
districts of London. where many families
have, in consequence, been obliged to re-
duce their supplies.
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Omaha.

OMAHA, Oct. 28.-Cattle-Receipts, 1900;
steady and easier; native beef steers. $500
4.80: Western steers. $363.65; Texas steers,
$2.25@3.10; cows and heifers, $2.40G3; Gamers,
$1.2592.30 stockers and feeders, $2.7503.50;
calves, $3@5.25; bulls, stays, ETC.. $1.75@3.25.
Hogs-Receipts, $500: market &c lower; heavy,
bulk OF sales, s3.O5@3.15. Sheep-Receipts,
$500; market steady; fair to choice natives.
$2.50@3; fair to choice Westerns, s2.25Q2.S0;
common and stock sheep, $2Q2.50; lambs. $50
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Milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE,, wis., Oct. 2s.-Flour un-
changed. @Wheat-No- 2 spring. &c; No.
northern, 70Hc; December, 7OMc. Corn
steady; No. 2, -23c. Oats dull; No. 2 white,
19Ac; No. 8 white, 18@181c. Barley steady;
No. L, 36c. Provisions weaker.
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Butter and Eggs.

NEW YORK, Oct. 28.-Butter steady: West
ern dairy, SG12Hc; creamery, 12h020c; Ell
gins, zoe; factory. lie. Eggs steady; state
and Pennsylvania, 19@21c; Western. 15G19c.
CHICAGO, Oct. 28.-Butter weak; cream
cry, 9G1Shc; dairy, 9017c. Eggs steady
fresh. I7kc.
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Chicago Money.

CHICAGO, Oct. 28.-Clearings, $14, 345, 494.
Money firm at Z per cent for call and time
loans. New York exchange SOC discount.
Foreign exchange steacy; demand &.84At
sixty days, $4.S1A.
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Minneapolis Horse Market.

Barrett & Zimmerman's report: Today's
receipts light. Stock on hand lower than
for some time. All class of horses repre-
scented among the offerings. Prices rule low.
Representative sales:
Weight. Price.
One pair bay mares, six years,
sound, choice ................ 900 500 90
One pair brown geldings five years,
service sound ............-... 2,4OO lO0 w
wind and work ...:...e:... $500 n 50
One gray mare, five years, serv-
ice sound, green..-......... LOO 35 90
One bay gelding, driver, seven
years, sound ................. 1,150 81 so
One pair geldings, five years,
broncos, well broke............ 1900 40 90
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One Tramp Killed.

P~IPESTCNE, Mimi. Oct. 2S.-In a freight
south OF here. this morning. an unknown
man, supposed to be a tramp, was killed
and fourteen cars Of way freight were
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29

LONDON. Oct. 2s.-The wheat market az
tho Baltic opened dull at Sd to Sd decline.
The Mark Lane opening was also dull, and
Cd to Is lower than yesterday.
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per cent. This made considerable impression
on the market and is believed to indicate the
banks desire to be in an exceptionally strong
condition next week for whatever happens.
The Paris bourse was fat and the Berlin
market quiet.
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BIG FOUR MEETING.
All of the Old Directors Were Given
n Re-EIectiOu.

CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 2S.-The annual
meeting of stockholders Of the Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago & st. Louis Big Four
railway was held here today. There were
6, AL shares of preferred stock and 166, or Of
common represented in the election of direc-
tors. By unanimous vote the following named
were reelected to serve the ensuing three
H. Nick. Twombly, of New York; John T.
Dye, of Indianapolis, and w. T. Anderson, of
Rhode Island. No other business was trans
acted. The board viii meet In New York for
election Of officers.
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Treasury Statement.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-Today's statement
of the condition of the treasury shows: Avail
able cash balance, 1921, 22o, 454; gold reserve,
S119, 523, 518.
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CATTLE-Stockers and feeders steady and
active; good fat cattle in good demand, but
scarce; medium butcher stuff slow and weak.
Good demand for feeders, oxen and bulls.
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LIVE STOCK
Steady and Active at South st. Paul
Yards.

Receipts-2,5O 500 hogs. 800 cattle, 25 calves,
GOO sheep.
HOGS-Market active, but SC lower, in SYM
pathy with the Eastern decline. Yards cleared
to packers and Eastern shippers.
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JAMESON. KEVENER Z CO..
Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Etc,

Northwestern Agents for PILLSBURY'S BEST
FLOUR.
State Agents for Griswold Broi' Hay Bal G
Ties. Write rs for prices.
III. ~ ard IS5 4 xAt 9Th SIS. Eau
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G. n. T.. SMITH & co,

yemha- New York Stock Exchanya
Chicago Board Of Trade.
Stocks, Bonds, Grain. Provisions and
Cotton. Private wires to New York and Chi.
cago. 2O2 Pioneer Press Bldg. st. Paul, Mimi
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29
NEW YORK
wheat Options Closed at a Material
Advance.

NEW YORK. Oct. 2S.-Flour-Receipts, Is,
900 bbls; exports, s,5Ss bbls; quiet, with buy
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29

Following are the closing quotations of
other stocks as reported by the Associated
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29
WALL STREET, s ,s2st. 0=psras 1on,

Quoted. MANUAL, Explaining Best Meth
dependence invited :, y. PECK & CO,
81 Broadway, NJ, ". Established 1878.
Members Consol. Stock Exchange.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29

The following table shows the fluctuations
in the leading railway and industrial stocks
yesterday:
The herald., 1896-12-30

oats, and the Zoo mouse are all well
Known grades of the town mouse. The
Zoo mice are the tamest and the least
nocturnal of any. If it were desired to
write monograph on their habits there
could be no better place to do SO than
at the Zoo. There their parasitism, or
commensalsm, to use the word most
in favor for describing unbidden guests
of this kind. is not directly dependent
on man. but on other animals. They alb
solutely disregard the keepers and the
public, ard only seek to keep on terms
with the animal whose cage they haunt
1t Is him that they reconnoiter to see f
he is asleep. his meals they desire to
share. his bed, which they want to steal
little Of, and in the case of some of the
birds. such as the emus, his feathers
which they want to bite off and take TO
their nests. They are bold or careful
according to the character Of the ami
mal-prisoner they live with.
In the gulls' and herons' cages. for
instance. the Zoo mouse is quick and
wary. For all that the herons often
spike one on their bills. and. after wash
ing 1t well. swallow it.. Many of the
monkeys will catch and kill a mouse,
and SO will the storks and cranes. The
antelope house, on the other hand, is
a paradise for tic mice. 1t is warm
dry and quiet, and the antelopes do nos
mind them. and have plenty of oats
which the mice share. They will run
over the Glands when lying down. and
seem to know that no one can enter the
stalls to disturb them. They also know
that animals which would hurt them are
unable to get out Six weeks ago q
mouse trotted deliberately down the
center of the small cats house at the
Zoo. The poor cats, especially the Egyp-
tlan wild cats, were wild with excite
ment and sprang about in their cages
But the mouse knew he was safe, and
strolled down the room and out of the
door. stopping at intervals with the
utmost assurance and nonchalanoe.
The writer has never seen mouse in the
a'sphant house, and is therefore unable
tn give an opinion as to the alleged ner-
vousnesS which elephants are said to feel
When mouse runs over their foot. but
all mahouts affirm the fact.-London
Spectator
The herald., 1896-12-30
ABOUT MICE.

There are social distinctions among
mice The ole division into country
mice and town mice is far from exhaust
i've 1t indicates a difference of habit
and habitat, but not one OF worldly po-
sition. Church mice have been long and
Justly considered to be the poorest of
any. Their focd IS mainly dead flies,
bran frCn the footstooie, and in country
districts the remains Of corn samples
which the farmers show one another
at vestry meetings. 1t Is wonder that
they ever succeed in bringing up their
families. which, ii may he noted, are
usually born In nests made of bits OF
green and red baize taken from the
hass1ehs or pew Innings. The most
prc7percus-the exact opposite Of the
ecclesiastical mcuae--is the collegiate
mousa. which lives on or near the but
terry staircase. in the precincts of the
kitchen of Christ church the mice look
as fat as ortolans; and in the lobby out
side ''hall'' these epicures have been
observed TO sit ard warm themselves
by the hot chests holding plates OF
roast meat. enjoying al once tho sense
OF warmth and that saver Of burnt Of
ferirgs 50 grateful to Olymp.ou rcstrls.
These sleek and well-hkirg buttery
mice are quite distinct from the schol-
ar's mouse. The scholars mouse, like
the scholar. lives plainly but we'll oa
Guist staircases, and loves late hours
and lamp and the company Of a.Gtudl-
Gus man with "A book. Like the scholar,
he lives long ard becomes an ornaine ut
to his college. and looks forward. re
doubt, to the days when the urdersradu-
ate whose ruoms he shares will become
a fellow and tutor of his college and
have larger and better rooms, and
hare the biscuit which he eatr with his
glass of port with his old friend VITO
kept him company when reading for the
schools. The Magdalen mice are kept
in check by one of the finest cats in the
university. According to undergraduate
belief this cat is on the foundation. ard
its inaittsrarce provided for by endow-
ment 1t has n sense of it's responsible
ties. for 1t keeps watch or sleeps out
side the doors Of the "hlll.' thus safe
guarding the alinentary center of the
college
TIE market mouse which haunts
Leaderall and the Baltic the railway
mouse. modern variety living II
Spiers & Ponds refreshment rooms. ana
occasionally travelling ard bringing Up
its family in well-stuffed carriages. the
cabman 's-sheltcr mouse, existing main
~ on bits Of mashed potato and crushs d
The herald., 1896-12-30
INGENIOUS RATS
How They Got Basket of Grapes
Through Hole in the WALL

Pretty we'll down on the South Side
there lives a man who has reputation
for being quiet vera cious and sober but
he tells story about colony of rats in
his house which goes far ahead of any
egg stealing performance ever before
accredited to the clever rodents.
This truthful man lives in Bowen av-
enue in a house which IS in the middle
of a red brick block. For some time he
has suspected the presence of rat or
two about the premises. but had never
been able to get a glimpse of the willy
little creatures One night last week,
however. his wish was gratified. 1t fell
out as follows:
On the night in question, this sober
and veracious man took up to his bed
room with him large basket of luEcious
grapes He had determined to follow
out his usual Gus tom of reading himself
to sleep, but as it was early he thought
he would first try the flavor of his
grapes. Some time after miGnight he
began to grow so sleepy that he deciced
to give up his usual recreation. He was
still awake enough, he states, to reflect
that if he left the basket of grapes on the
edge of the bed where 1t was reposing g
the chances were good that 1t would be
overturned before morning. So his last
slumber was to lift down the basket of
grapes to the floor The basket still
weighed four or five pounds. The man
was started fairly on his nights repose.
Then the rats came into the story
1t was in the first gray dawn of the
morning that the truthful man awoke.
He had a vague idea that fometillns un-
usual had aroused him. but die not pay
much attention until startled by the
~ S.f.tI~
floor of his room. accompanied by Sc
rles, of regular aqueaks proceeding from
me bathroom door. Then he became
wide awake at once, and by the most
careful maneuvers saw the fplloWlhs
performance going on:
on it's side lay the basket of grapes.
II was emptied. except for the presence
of a bunch or two of the fruit. The truth
full man could hardly believe his eyes,
until a large rat hurried out lron the
bathroom and seized bunch and snow :
ed him the causc. While he still stared
in astonishment the rat dragged the
fruit into the bathroom and returned
for another load. repeating the same
ne,rormance. All along the floor was a
trail of single grapes dropped from the
etems and neglected in the press OF pusl-
ness. -.
On seeing his last bunch of grapes dls-
appear the NefHciOus liiH Soi.ei ~
with ipfirfte trouble to move to the foot
of his bed. where he could view the pro-
ceedings in the bath room.
In front of rough. Irregular hole un-
der the bath tub stood the father of all
rats with grape in his mouth. Just as
the truthful man looked this first of the
rodent tribe gave curious little squeal
and with quick motion of his head
tossed the grape into the hole. Shortly
o,,J he arnt Htr similar
squeak inside, followed by another and
another as the grape Travelled into the
interior Of the walls. But without watt
irg for the following signals the big rat
Immediately took up another fruit out of
a group on the floor which ar understood
animal was shipping of from the bunchcs
as fast as they came In. and rept ated the
The herald., 1896-12-30

performance. Right under the propri-
etor's eyes the last bunch of grapes ar
rived in a gallop from the basket was
separated into its component fruits and
pitched into the hole. going, apparently,
judging from the series of squeaks like
a box of goods down line of porters
into a warehouse and ending in some
hidden rendezvous in the depths of the
building.
1t was too much for the truthful man.
Gathering his startled faculties together,
he made a rush toward the bathroom.
The rats disappeared with a salvo of
terrified squeaks, leaving a few grapes
and hole in the wall The man went
back to bed determined to do his best to
keep his reason.
Next morning the truthful man made
a careful examination of the premises
There were the basket. the scattered
grapes and the hole. To satisfy himself.
the veracious individual tore off board
from under the bath tub and examined
the place inside. There was a gap of
four or five inches between the edge of
the hole and the nearest beam, then
beyond second beam and passageway
down the inside of the wall to the floor
below
The truthful man scratched his head.
rubbed his eyes and looked again. He
took measurements, made computations
and then went back and tried it all over
again. Then he went out and told his
friends about the occurrence.
The herald., 1896-12-30

new administration exerted every atom
of its power to defeat him. but Platt had
the machine and Roscoe Conkling at his
back and he won.
THE FAMOUS RESIGNATION.
Garfield had no love for Conkibg or
Patt, ard he saw to it that none of the
federal patronage passed through the
hands of the two New York sanaturs. n
machine without patronage is like an en-
eine without foul and Conkling and
Plat were at their wits end. Conkiing
and Pla,tt talked it ovsi and agreed to re
sign. Their designations were hand III
in, and Co,tkling made his famous speech
dcnunciatory of Garfield Piott was new
er a good speaker, ard, moreover he
was regarded as the vassal of Conklns
1t was this that led t. the name ME
Too being attached to Platt. In those
days Platt was supposed to do every
thing that Cohkling did. but. as matter
Of cold fact. it was Platt who first suc-
gested to Conkling the advisability of
their resigndng from the senate. Their
resignation occurred on Monday, May
l6. 1881.
Platt's aggressiveness is remarkable,
aud he does not fear to arouse antagon-
ism in the highest quarters. When he
was small power in Republican poll
tics, away back in 1878. he attacked thu
administration of President Hayes. He
was the ere,'1ly of Garfield of Arthur. of
Harrison, and his feeling for Mckinley
IS not of the terderest. He fought Blaine
The herald., 1896-12-30
ARE WE TURNING INTO INDIANSf

One of the recent suggestiCrs of scien-
tiiic writer's is that. physically the Amer
leans are slowly developing likenesses
to the Indians. The tendency of revei-
sion to the type indigenous to the soil
is matter Of dscussien among the
learned, and American anthropolug;sts
have been slow to concede that we are
8 owing like the red lner. Falsan sa-
wants. however. taking unpre JUDGED
views. ate more favorable to the theory.
ard assume to have fourd antbropologi-
cal statistics that support it. 1t is mat
ter of common obserYationtha Aneri-'
can descendants of natives of other con-
tinerts who come here are modified,
physically as well as Intellectually, by
their environment. but tire changes from
various irtstmarriages ard from differ
onces of food and manner of life are so
rapid. compared with the gradual
changes that come from soil and climate,
that these latter are apt to be pterlooked.
Let us watch the southern negrnes THEY
inteimarry among themselves nown-
Gays, and are rot Sc much affected as
Trey used to be by admixtures Of wi1fta
blood. IT m the course of faw centuries
they chow a tendency to grow copper
colored and straight haired. 1t Will be an
argument in the new thcory's favor. and
we may look to our own cheekboreF and
roses.-E. :. Martin in Hafper's Week.
The herald., 1896-12-30

them this year. including the tiny Miss
katherine, whose first birthday is sev
eral fnunths in the future. .SecretaiA
and Miss Herbert have with them I'll
other daughter OF the house, Mrs. Nj
ecu and her husband and children, ar
will "waas heal' in the good old souta
erh fashion. Attorney General and MI
Harmon also have a family reunion,
their daughter, Mrs. Wright. with her
husband and son, having come from
Philadelphia for protracted visit.
Postmaster General Wilson and, his
wife are happy, too in a re-
united family. Secretary and Miss
Morton appear to be the only
exceptions-not in happiness but,
in hope deferred. They will spend
Christmas alone in their apartments IN
the Portland, for something has pre-
vented the Secretary's sons from COM
ing to Washington with their families
as was expected, until later in the sea-
The herald., 1896-12-30

World, and in the light of almost twen-
tieth century knowledge, some affection-
ate couples still stand on opposite sides
of the stone and surreptitiously grasp
hands-David Boyle
This new information has become an
object of the most decided interest to
residents of and visitors to Toronto.
Think of plghting troth with your
sweetheart where perhaps Robert Bruce
himself once performed the same ac-
tion.-Kansas City Star
The herald., 1896-12-30

when the latter was in power but in the
convention of 1892 he worked his hardest
to win the nomina ton for the Maine
man. Today he is the truest political
friend that Tom Reed has, and II the
Fates land him in the senate, he will
leave no stone unturned to secure the
nomination for the Maine statesman in
the national convention of 1900.
The herald., 1896-12-30
J.H. 'H9A1E and I.C.PLAl
Two lnique Personalities in a
oenat0rship Struggle
MACHINE AGAINST FAME
They Are Nearly the Same Age bat Very
Dtt rent
New York's Greatest Lawyer and Her
Greatest Political General Promise
Red Hot Conflict

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.--With Joseph
Hodges Choate, the foremost lawyer
of the country. on one side of the strug-
gle, and Thomas Collier Platt, one of the
shrewdest political leaders of the nation,
on the other eide. the fight for the sena-
torlal berth occupied by David B. Hill
The herald., 1896-12-30

A Spirited Intsrview.-"Andy you ask.
ed her father for her hand - "Yes."
WAS he vlolentf' VERY. 1fe said Z
must he an idiot to think or such y
thing What did you reply?" II told
him that of coiirs ts knew hi.sown fam
ing to take my tIanc as."--W ashinston'
Star.
The Irish standard., 1896-12-05
ABsINTHE r1ADE HERE. 4
The Habit Of Drinking 1t Has Led
e. If nj ianH

The Habit OF Dr1nk king lt Has Led
to Fts NInnnfactlrr.
.s The gradual Introduction Of absinthe as
q drink. In this country has led to it's man.
ufacture on a scale commensurate with the
growing demand, and nine-tenths Of the
famous beverage consumed here never
crossed the ocean, although it may have q
fancy French or Swiss label to- indicate its
foreign extraction. The pure, genuine abb.
81 1lthe. however, while mad in this ,colln- Y
try. owes its chief flavor and characteristic
to d foreig gn herb which is.impo orted il con
siderable quantitie from switzerland.
There; rs an inferior and harmful absinthe
II nufactured in this country that depends
entirely upon drugs and chemical Oils Tor.
its ingredients, and u is this stuff that
causes 50 much insid dIous trouble to those.
Wno indulge too freely in it, h. 8 VI
WAY the genuine absinthe sho,lld be In,
furious TO drinkers is not. generally exs;
planned, unless it is. summed s,lp IA the one
Wor axeess.. There is an insid di0,1s craY-
tirlg for st e1oped be-;
enIn Alaye to IL. and oubIe
ioWs list the same sag hen one over.
dri1iksS 4 or DYER eats An sofa strong.
r,tature .If little absila is each daY
jllsta before dinner Il not
slI(,tiiti prove bene eftcl ia o1ie
from q E.sS sls sls
hs 8ennin i,ail
The Irish standard., 1896-12-05
HE WAS SARCASTIC.

Excuse me- the small, indignant
looking man said to a Washington Star
reporter, but would you mind telling me
what that instrument is which was used
by your office on Tuesday night to an
Eounce the election returns?'
'..You mean the thing that magnifed the
solind?'
ssExactly.'' '>- s..4s: ss::,: :s,.s:
& - That is.a megaphone.' : SSs%%S !: 4
" s1Are there more of them, to be had:''
q suppose so. You might buy one
somewhere
'Thank you If you tell me where to
apply I'll attend to it at once" ~
care you going to give public exhibi
ton Of any kind?''
ssIt's a personal matter, merely want
it as testimonial to a friend of mine.
He is one of these people VINO argue; who
stand by the hour while your wife is try
ing to keep dinner warm, and wearing
the edge off her affection for you, in or
der to venti.ate his views. The topic
isn't of any consequence to him. He just
Just likes to let his vocal chords CULVER
and listen to the sound as if it percolates
into space. / am one of those people who
enjoy seeing their fellow men having a
good time, and when I think how much
bigger his voice would sound if he could
only project it into one of those things,
J. can't restrain my generous impulses.
He can point it toward a stone wall,
where the echo will strike him full and
fair, and yell and listen till he's overcome
by the ecstacy of his own music. 1t may
annoy the enighbors some, but it'll keep
him home of nights oftener and afford
him more innocent enjoy nent than any
thing else that this age Of invention has
produced"