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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

rolled to and fro till I thought a dozen
times it would tip over, yet that fellow
stood up in his seat plying the silk
and shouting: Turn 'em loose, this
amt no hearsei' Don't put on the
brake" Give the ribbons to Charleyr"
and other expressions that we had
used.
Fortunately for his neck and ours
there was not a stick or stone, not a
rock, clod or rut in the whole valley,
or we would have struck something
and tipped over. About mile from
the other station, for the leaders kept
the road, there was a stretch of sand,
and here the horses had to stop from
their run. The moment they slowed
down into trot dozen of us sprang
Off the coach and caught up the lines,
thus stopping the team. AS we handed
him the lines he gathered them up as
coolly as you please and only said,
Gentlemen, did we ride fast enough %
There was no more attempt to try
Kinky Jims nerve
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

The Indian game Of lacrosse Is a novelty
mere The parachute leaps by Prof.
F'orsman are the latest sensations of
the kind. He rides bicycle down from
the clouds and gives performances on a
rope ladder from dizzy heights. The
review of the national guard on Thurs
day afternoon will be an inspiring sight
as thousand men will be In line
w W P, the great PAGER, who is expected
to lower Nancy Hanks. track record Of 2:07
OF the state fair, arrived yesterday as did
Marion Mills the Oshkosh wonder, a mare
that PAGES mile in 212A without any
driver. The Winnebago and Chippewa Indians
also arrived. Among them are Chiefs Black
hawk, who is nearly oney hundred years old,
Green Cloud, Crazy Horse, Standing Bear
who are all Indians of national reputation.
They are accompanied by their squaws and
there are number of cute papooses. The
Indians bring their tepees and will live on
the grounds in an Indian village just as they
do at home. Besdessthe two games Of la
crosse which they play, they are to give ex-
hibitions of horsemanships war dances, and to
go through their marriage and death cere-
nonials.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
TO ECLIPSE ElFFEL
CHICAGO DETERMINED TO HAVE
THE TALLEsT TOWER IN THE
WORLD.
WILL BE- 1,15O FEET HIGH.
IT WILL CONTAIN ROOM FOR 10000
PEOPLE IN IT'S AMUSEMENT
HALLS
LARGE FRAMEWORK OF STEEL.
The Structure to BE Completed
Early Next Summer and to Cost
100000.

Chicago Is determined to Wrest an
other superlative from the cities Of the
world. 1t has already some very tall
buildings, but now it proposes to have
the tallest. A steel tower 1,150 feet in
height is to be built, topping the cele
brated Eiffel tower Of Paris by a wide
margin 1t is to be known as the
city tower. The enterprise is well I'M
der way, land having been purchased
for site, and ten years lease hav-
ing been made by a syndicate of Chi
cago and New York capitalists.
The project originated with some pa
triotic Chicagoans, who wanted to see
the stars and stripes floating higher
than the flag Of any other nation on
earth; but, while this will be accom-
plished, the building Of the structure
will be strictly a business venture.
The base of the tower Is to occupy
whole city block, 1926 feet square. The
tower will rest on four mammoth cor
ner supports, each being fifty feet
square. From these will spring steel
arches, which will join 200 feet in the
air. They will support the first landing.
which will be the principal floor, MAX
ing a surface Of 10000 square feet, on
which 20, 900 persons can gather This
will be just 225 feet from the ground.
At an equal distance above this will
be the second platform, $50 feet square
and $50 feet in the air. This will be
about as high as the great pyramid of
Egypt and almost as lofty as the
Washington monument. The third
landing will be SIS feet from the
ground, far above any other building
in the country. At an elevation OF
1 900 feet will be the fourth landing
This will be q platform twenty five
feet square, but it will be as high as
the very tiptop of the Eiffel tower
yet above it, $50 feet higher, will tower
the apex of the structure.
There are to be many novelties In
the application Of electricity connected
with the Chicago city tower The thir-
ty-four elevators in the structure Will
all be run by electricity, and the un-
furling of the flags is to be done by
an electrical continuance. By simply
pressing q button thirteen large-sized
flags will be simultaneously unfurled
to the breeze, and by touching another
button they will be as quickly furled.
The various landings are to be given
up largely to amusements. but not
wholly. On the largest there will be
| q good sized continuous theater and
big assembly hall where people may
dance or attend meetings of various
kinds in midair. On another there is
to be a bicycle rink. 1t has been pro-
posed to devote the very topmost 1oor
70 the uses Of United States mete-
geological bureau The plan has been
discussed by the authorities at Wash
ington and has been favorably re-
ceived A signal station above the
clouds and yet in the midst Of the city,
would be a decided novelty.
Do-arful telescopes and searchhghts
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

differs in some respects. The frame
work will be practically the same as is
used in every modern steel building,
the outside covering Of stone or brick
being dispensed with. OF course it will
be braced and strengthened in every
possible way. SO that it will not be
liable to be blown over by a cyclone or
collapsed by an earthquake. Engineers
say, however, that there is less danger
in such building, when properly con-
structed, from wind or earthquake, than
In many others of far less height
While the Eiffel tower. cost 81, 100000 to
build, 1t is estimated that the Chicago
tower can be put up for about 100000
which is less than the cost of many big
Office buildings.
It is said that work Is to be begun on
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
A Chastity snectacIe.

1t was announced that a man would be
hanged at the Westminster aquarium In Lon
don day recently, and a good many peo-
pie assembled to witness this elevating spec
tacle, which is understood to have been i'm
ported from Paris. They did not see the man
hanged, but when they were admitted to the
chamber Of horrors" they found him al.
ready hanging from the roof by rope which
passes through the ceiling. He was dressed
In French workingmans serge suit and
wore voluminous red scarf around his neck
which completely concealed the disposition
Of the rope. The official explanation Of the
performance is that the weight rests on the
Jaw, not on the soft parts of the neck IL
cessful a money making scheme that the
managers have since withdrawn the exhibit
ton.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
A USEFUL BARN.
Farmers Sons Getting Education
From It's Painted Sides

The bicyclist recently made a little
journey into the country. AS he
wheeled along the road he came to a.
farm house, the owner Of which he
knew slightly AS he drank a gourdful
OF water at the pump he noticed that
the farmers barn had an unusual look.
The last time he had seen it it had the
usual coating of silvery gray painted
by time and weather, says the Kansas
City Star.
Been fixing up the barn, haven't
your he asked the farmer.
Yes. It's all new painted" ans
wered the farmer, proudly. can I
reckon it's mighty pretty lookin', too.
Ye see, feller came along one day an
says he belongs to a paintin' syndicate
as was out to paint all the barns in the
country free, an said he would paint
mine If l wanted him to- So / saws.
Go ahead; if 1t don't cost nothin,.' 7
went to town with a load of hay an
when | got back the barn was painted
shore enough"
The barn had been painted a bright
yellow, as a good background for yari-
colored advertisements with letters a.
foot or two long. The advertisement
of a patent medicine covered both sides
OF the roof in letters of red, blue and
green against the yellow. Chewing
~ONS>~NOO, e'AAOSo, GOop, HALLS ana OCn6r
commodities were pictured and told
about on every available space.
When I got back continued the
farmer, the Teller that was paintin,
says to me: Il put few signs on the
barn, says he, but you won't mind
that none, an they're good readin'
matter when the paper don't come
Anyhow, it didn't cost nothin, RI
paint the barn, an I'll be darned If the
boys amt a-larnin' to read from II
which 1 consider pretty cheap edication
these hard times"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
MARION MILLS.

exhibitors is to have a brass band,
another. jubilee singers, and another,
an exhibit of wild animals
The poultry show is without doubt
the biggest ever held in Minnesota,
and that is saying a good deal. The
cattle department leaves all records
far behind. The sheep and swine
showing is bigger than ever, and even
the horses will make what is consid-
cred a big showing in these days of
electric cars and bicycles.
There are many other side attrac-
lions of an interesting character in
the exposition building, while the ana
matigraph and the x ray photograph
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

are to be part Of the equipment of the
upper part Of the tower On each land
ing there IS to be restaurant, and the
odd corners Of the tower will be uti1-
lied as barber shops, Photographic par
lors, bathrooms, telegraph and tele-
phone stations, cigar stands, etc. 1t is
estimated that in the entire structure
there will be accommodations for 40, 600
people at one time, which means that
1t will be the most capacIous as well as
the tallest structure on earth.
The plan of construction is very sim
liar to that of the Eiffel tower. but it
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
The Hot spen IN Bil1vaIle.

Atlanta Constitution.
at seems to me- saiduthe book agent as
he tugged at the windlass that your well
buckets mighty heavy?"g
reckon hit u.s. replied the farmer, 'fer
hits got the twins in it."
1.-THE twins?''
Yes; lowered EN- down to cool off bout a
half-hour ago. This here weather mighty bad
on babies!
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

this cloud piercing structure very soon,
and that by next summer Chicagoans
may show to their visiting friends a
sky parlor worthy Of the name.
s. P. Schenck.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
Special Prison for Youths.

Special accommodation is to be provide,
at Wormwood Scrubs prison, England, TO
the offender under the age Of eighteen
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
Coneyn Island the Original Ma,

Coney Island. the famous New York water
Ing place, was originally called Coneyn OF
Rabbit Island.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

Heavily Insured,
The Prince Of Wales has his life ins,-aa
for sum equal to 5000, 900, GU
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-03
NO MORE POSTAGE STAMPS.
A German Method of Simplifying Post Office
Business.

A novel system of paying postage on
letters, a so-called postage Adder"
has been accepted by the German
postal authorities. The new apparatus
is intended to save labor and time to
such firms or i'm .ividuals, who have a
very large business correspondence.
1t will do away with their using post.
age stamps and enable them to pay for
their postage according to the figures
registered by the little apparatus.
This apparatus, in the shape of box,
is not very large, and bears in the front
several dials arranged like those of a
gas meter, showing units, tens, hum
dreds, etc.; underneath the dials there
are six push buttons, each of which
bears figure corresponding with the
values of the German postage stamps,
principally in use, viZ.:3 5, 10, 20, Is
and so pfennig. A long narrow slot is
provided, which will admit the letters
to be stamped. Within the box and
just over the slot there is steel die,
representing a characteristic symbol;
i'm this case the arms of Germany with
the inscription ''Deutsche ReichspOst, !"
as well as an Interchangeable number,
which is the registered number of the
apparatus. Below this is a stamp Civ
ing the date and hour, and wheel con-
tanning dies for various values, fastened
i'm such way that the six push-buttOns
control the wheel bearing the figure dies
while the clock work, regulating the
day and time, is accessible only to the
postal clerk, who comes to inspect the
apparatus once a week. If the number
of letters are to be postmarked, they are
placed one by one into the slot, and a
pressure upon the knob on top of the
apparatus will stamp the necessary
amount upon the envelope with indel-
ible ink. The stamping of an envelope
takes less than two seconds, so that
with some practice il is possible to post
mark about 1000 letters per hour with
this little apparatus.
A further advantage of this system is
that it is not necessary to cancel this
post-mark at the postoffice, which will
save considerable work there. Another
advantage is the possibility of paying
for the postage, say, once month,
which is there regarded as of consider
able benefit to both the public and the
postal authorities. Since the apparatus
registers automatically the entire
amount of postage used by firm, and
since the mail matter placed into a
postoffice can be revised and counted
up without much trouble by the postal
clerk i'm charge at the receiving window
for mail thus stamped, it will always
be possible to compare the figures of the
postal department, without entailing
much labor upon the clerk receiving
the matter. The new apparatus has
been natented bV Munich engineer
and bids fair to revolutionize to great
extent the present system of selling
stamps.-Leader.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-03
MISSING LINKS.

3 Mrs. John G. Carlisle has become
an expert bicyclist.
Maine has sent to market 1000 900
Holsters this season.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is said to
have saved 100000 from the receipts of
her novels.
Four generations of family are
being taken care of at the poor farm at
Biddeford, Me.
Dignitaries of the Catholic church
in Mexico, it is said, are working for
the annexation of that country to the
United States.
A priest was recently poisoned at
the alter at Friedheim, in the Prussian
province of Posen, by poison put in the
wine in the chalice.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling attends to
all of her husbands correspondence
and carefully guards him against
would-be intruders.
3 Charles H. Lamson of Portland,
Me-, who has been working Oh flying
machine for some time, is at last sure
that he has achieved success.
IA sea trout recently caught at Ler-
wick, Shetland, is said to have measur-
ed 41l inches in length, % inches in
girth and weighed % pounds.
3 The largest bell in Japan, is that in
the temple at Kioto, is twenty-four
feet high and sixteen feet i'm diameter
across the rim.-Scientfic American.
There is Maine town where the
teacher sits all day long in her glory
and draws her pay. The scholars keep
away because they "don't like her."
Z President Diaz of Mexico at 65 pos
sesses the bodily and mental activity of
man of 20, due, he says, to the fact
that he has been great eater and good
sleeper.
, While having tooth filled in the
office of DIR. S. b. Devire i'm Milwaukee
last week, William Casper, 10 years of
age, dropped dead. He was subject to
heart disease.
The thew women" are coming to
the front i'm Finland, too. They have
formed voulenteer fire brigades in Hell
singfOrs and other towns and have done
first rate work.
The taking of the census i'm Japan
is simple, but the figures are utterly
unreliable. The houses are counted
and an average of five persons Is al
lowed for each house.
The married women of China wear
there hair i'm coil at the back of the
head; the unmarried women have the
coil at the side of the head, and stick n
white flower i'm it.
Eugene Ysaye, the violinist, has
bought for S., 065 the Stradivarius violin
known as Hercules. 1t is dated 1882,
is one of the most perfect of its family
and is beautifully preserved.
The surface of any given quantity
of gold may be extended 3l0,S14 times
by being properly beaten with the
hammer. A gold dollar If beaten until
its surface was enlarged 310,Sl4 times
would become a golden film not more
than the 1850, O2Oth part Of an inch in
thickness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-03
The Iowa State Library's Books.

The Iowa State Library takes vast
quantity of magazines, law reports and
other books which must be bound each
year. The Library has just awarded a
two years. contract to Ham d Carver's
book bindery at Dubuque to do this
work. A couple of years ago the same
bindery did it. Then it was given to
another firm in the state. 1t is now
restored to the Dubuque firm because
of the excellence and cheapness of
their work. Anyone having maya
zines and books to bind should send
them to Ham & Carver; or write them
for estimates.
The same firm also make many
blank books for banks, merchants,
county officers and others throughout
Iowa. If needing blank books write
for their estimates. They make a
speciality of flat openers. 42-3
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-03
STARS & STRIPES.
An American Citizen HOisted the Flag
of His Country.
THEN A GENERAL FIGHT FOLLOWED.
The Scene Occurred in Canada at Veterinary
Colege--It was Miniature War.

TORONTO, ONT, Nov. 2S.-The glo-
rious stars and stripes caused mimic
war here to-day, but as on former Occa-
sions, those who Haunted the starry
emblem came out the winners.
The early days of the present century
We're renewed at the Ontario Veterin-
airy college when number of American
students, headed by New York boy
named Shaw, produced an American
flag and hoisted it in the main assem-
bly, hall just after DR.. Smith had fin
ished his lecture. The flag was raised
in honor of Thanksgiving day. No
sooner was the emblem hung when a
tall Canadian named Lindsay seized it
tore it from its fastenings and threw it
on the floor. In second Shaw sprung
at him and with weil-directed blow
stretched him on the floor. Lindsay
was up in a jitfy and he and Shaw
clinched. The American was thrown
against desk and had his face badly
cut. Then the boys took sides and a
hot American and British battle fol-
lowed. For twenty minutes bloody
and brutal scrimmage ragged, one of the
most exciting features being around the
black board, where couple of Ameri-
can boys were trying to mark out flag
with chalk.
Here w. w. Richards, big Califor-
MAN, who claimed Jim Corbet as a
pugilistic mentor, and Ben Agnew, a
burly fellow from Huron county, On
tario, championed their respective
nations, and fought for the cause,
while few of the smaller fellows
looked on. When it was seen that the
Californian was being worsted, America
came to his rescue and the fight grew
general again. The boys fought in
pairs and I'm squads all over the lecture
room and blood flowed freely. Faces
were badly gashed and eyes blackened.
School friendships were forgotten i'm
hOt-bloOded boyish patriotic row and
classmates pounded each other vigor-
Ously for the honor of the flags under
tiles finally quelled the riot, but only
with considerable difficulty, for fully
$50 boys and young men were engaged,
about eighty of them being Americans.
DIR. Smith, with the assistance of the
faculty and number of older students,
finally succeeded in quieting the dis
turbance and when the contestants had
washed off the blood the days lectures
were resumed.
An effort is now being made by the
faculty to keep the affair secret and
belittle it as much as possible, but it is
more than probable that severe steps
will be taken with the leaders.-At-
lanta Constitution.
This Is the College from which b. A.
Harmon, of this city, graduated, and
Barney says that on more than one
occasion while he was there he saw the
boys take sides and fight for their
respective flags. And we don't believe
that Barney would stand around and
see the stars and stripes abused without
taking hand himself.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-03

Gold pens are now usually tipped
with iridium. The bits of this metal
are laid in notches at the point of the
pen, then fastened on with the fluX, be-
ing afterward ground and polished for
use.
An Italian baroness sues her hus-
band, Wilcox, the Hawaiian revolu-
ZIONIST, for divorce. claiming she mar
ried him on his false representation
that he was heir to the throne of Ha-
wall.
3 According to Chief Khama, the
Bechuanas do not believe that Queen
Victoria is living; they have mixed up
what the missionaries have told them
and "think that the queen is like God
and the prince of Wales like Jesus
Christ"
In dredging the harbor of Swine
nude, on the island of Usedom,
church bell weighing five hundred
pounds was fished out whole, with the
broken half of another bell. From the
Inscriptions they are believed to have
been stolen during the thirty years
war and to have been sunk with the
vessel that bore them.
The skeleton of an Indian warrior
at least six feet six inches tall was
found in Muscongus, Me-, a few days
ago by two men who were digging
cellar. The body had been buried i'm
sitting posture, facing east, and about
it were found iron implements and
spear and arrow heads, while around
the arm bones were copper bands COW
cred with curious carvings.
Instances of old people only now
taking their first ride in steam railroad
cars are not particularly uncommon.
but fact that makes interesting the
case of Daniel Clifford, 20 years old, of
Bethel, Mich, who last week took his
first ride i'm the cars, is that he helped
to lay the track of the first railroad
built i'm that state. For some reason
he has never rode over the road.
William T.. Gladstone receives
more requests for his autograph than
any other man i'm the world. In one
day recently twenty-five letters reached
Hawarden from various parts of the
world politely asking for specimens of
the grand old man S chirography. Mr..
Gladstone is too busy to crafty the
wishes of autograph collectors, and his
secretary so informs correspondents.
A cargo of nearly three million feet
of lumber was loaded ut Fort Town
send, WASH, week ago for Delagor
bay, South Africa. 1t was destined
for use in the mines i'm the interior
One usually thinks of Africa as having
no scarcity of timber. But it is most
probably the means of cutting it that
are lacking. American lumber finds O.
good market in most of the forest COW
cred islands of the West Indies for the
same reason.
4 Death is at all times terrible when
it falls remorselessly and violently on a
| child, and its terrOrs are not softened
though snothered by the odor ola rose.
1t is difficult to account for the strange
fancy of the poetical assassin of an in
FAINT, who was found near Lower Suy-
denham road in England by laborer
named Parr Instead of using blows
or simple neglect leading to starvation
the person placed a rose in the child's
mouth, and the helpless one lost its
breath in the fragrance of the sweetest
flower of summer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-03
Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern.

Train No. SO passenger leaves DEBORAH at
1886 p. NJ, and No. "a (Freight) at $3.50 A. NJ.
No. 81 (Passenger) arrives at 2l0 p. M, and
No So (FreighD at 500 p. NJ.
The 1886 passenger makes close connection at
Cedar Rapids with through trains to Chicago,
st. Louis. Kansas City, Omaha, st. Paul and
points beyond. All trains daily except Sun
day G. 5. RICE, Agent.
j. MORTON, Gen. Ticket & Pass. Ag't.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-01-03

HENRY CLEws, the financier, struck
the BULBS eye when he said the Gov
eminent revenue should be increased
so as to furnish a surplus, instead of, as
now, leaving deficit. That's the
whole business in nut shell. With
plenty of revenue the gold reserve will
take care Of itself