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the assertion merely need refer to the records
of the lawsuit which has just taken place in
London between Mr.. De Beer and Mr. Gavin
The latter is company promoter, whereas
Mr. De Beer is member of the bar who sup
plements his receipts from the practice of
the law by acting as a peer broker for COM
pany promoters That is to say he under
takes for a consideration, 10 secure the SER
vices, and, above all, the names of the peers
of the realm to figure as directors on the
boards of joint stock companies of one kind
and another which would not commend them
selves TO the investing public were it not for
the presence of the hereditary Legislators on
the board of management
Mr. De Beer, who belongs to quite a large
number of clubs was applied to in the or
dinary course of business by Mr.. Gavin to
secure couple of titled directors for his
'House-to-House Cycle Cleaning and Insur-
ance company" which he had Just started
and MIR. De Beer undertook for the sum Of
$4,000 to obtain the human goods demanded.
In course Of time he secured and turned over
to Promoter Gavin the Earl Of Westmoreland
and another Titled gentleman or minor de-
gree. When, however, Mr.. De Beer came .G
ask for the money promised him Mr Gavin
attempted to waive payment. He did not
deny the contract |a:ilch he had made, or dis
pute that the goods were equal to the sample,
pl1ss ne pleaded that the delivery Of the goods
was not made until after the contract date.
Lord Westmoreland not having signifed his
consent to serving as a director until after
the date appointed.
The court of queens bench, presided over
by Justice Day, found that Gavin had no ex-
cuse for declining to pay the money since
he had accepted the delivery Of the earl.
He had got the goods and must pay the price.
Judgment, therefore, was given in favor of
the plaintiff, Mr.. De Beer, and the sanction
of one of the highest tribunals Of the land
thus was given to the barter and sale Of peers
of the realm.
1t is understood that Mr.. De Beer is merely
one of large number of club and society
men who act as dealers in titled personages,
of whom they dispose to company promoters
as directors. Earls, for instance, are sold at
figure baronets and knights at f20 or $40,
the highest prices being commanded for re-
tired judges and bishops. In fact the pres
ence of the bishop on the board Of directors
is sufficient to extract money from the pock-
cts even of non-conformist investors.
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IN SECTIONS
Bicycles are Supposed to be Bought
Nowadays.

1t was his first bicycle, and of course
he was proud Of it. He had first taken
q few lessons in a riding school and
then had devoted a week to studying
the advertisements of various bicycles
so that he might be sure to get the
pest In the market, says the Chicago
Evening Post.
cat last" he said, as he exhibited
his purchase to a friend who had been
riding bicycle for several years. II
have bought my wheel and feel that
am now in position to save money,
for, OF course, man with a bicycle
saves great deal in the way of car
fare and all that sort Of thing"
"Of course" returned the friend.
The expense is rather heavy at tbe
start, persisted the man with the new
wheel, "but when you have finally
bought your bicycle that ends it,
Well" said the friend hesitatingIy,
of course there are a number Of little
things about any wheel that can be
improved upon. 1t is all right for
one who is willing to take things as
they come and make the best Of them,
but the true bicyclist wouldn't think
OF sticking to the regulation tire that
comes with wheel"
''No?"
"Oh, no. A man who wants to be in
the front rank must have a choice in
the matter Of tires. Now, [ would ad-
wise you to take your machine out
and have it fitted with one of the
famous Bully-Best Duplex tres
IF that's the proper thing" said the
man with the new wheel, with a sigh,
of course I'll do it, But 1 thought
when you bought a wheel you bought
it all
You do, after a fashion, admitted
the friend, 'and if you are not at all
particular it's all right, I suppose: but
II you want to be anybody at all in
the bicycle world I'd advise you to
throw that saddle away and get q
Double-Action Twister. And the ham
dle-bars are not at all the correct
thing, either. If you have any respect
for yourself as bicyclist you'll get the
DOuble-DrOp wooden handle-b bars. and
have your pedals changed, too. There's
much better pedal on the market
than the one they've given you with
this wheel. [ see you have a lantern
with it, too. That ought to be re-
placed with "a"
Nov. look here" interrupted the
beginner, 'if it's necessary to buy a
bicycle in sections in order to be any
body, why didn't you give me a tip
to begin that way, and [ could have
saved a lot of money"
But the man who had been riding
several years simply became disgusted
with the others lack of enthusiasm
and walked away, muttering that some
people never would be able to under
stand the theory of the bicycle busi-
ness
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OlUtiOn. The gratitude of a French
woman is nothing if not demonstra-
tive, and nuns though they were, they
felt that they must express their thank
fulness in song.
The priOry Of PrincethOrpe, which the
Benedictine nuns have occupied for
centuries, is one of the oldest and
quaintest in all England. It's ivy-clad
walls and towers nestle in among the
green capped hills and look down upon
as pretty a stretch Of field and meadow
as the eye cares to dwell upon. The
nuns, always noted for their industry
and frugality, occupy the peculiar pO
sition Of being dear alike to the Protes-
tant and Roman Catholic heart. Per-
haps this state of affairs is brought
about no more by their works than by
the anthem, for, say the yeomen and
their wives, as well as the gentry,
there surely can be no harm in COM
munity Of nuns where they sing God
Save the Queen" albeit it is in Latin.
The anthem is sung at the end of
what is known as cOnVentual mass;
that is, the mass in which the convent
as a whole, represented by all the sis
ters, sings its praises and it's hopes,
us prayers anu us ueSlT6S-du IIOIU the
community standpoint. The nuns are
robed in black, and, as a rule, are Of
exceedingly spirituelle appearance, for
the Benedictine order is one of the
most austere in existence. 1t is one of
the most thoroughly ascetic of all Ro-
man Catholic bodies, and the petitions
TO the Almighty which proceed there
from are believed by every true Cdtho-
lie to be more efficaceous than if they
came from nuns nearer to worldly
matters.
The anthem for the queen is of course
largely in the nature of a chant, con-
forming to the usual custom of the
church. 1t possesses a sweetness, how
ever, that causes it to linger in ones
ears long after the echoes have died
away in the chapel Of the oconvent. 1t
is sung by no choir, but by the nuns in
q body, as they gather to worship. The
Princethorpe priory contains several
singers whose voices are Of more than
ordinary range and beauty. Those who
have heard them sing Domino Salvam
Fac Reginam Nostram" say that the
sweetness Of it all is enhancing. Any
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COUNT WEALTH BY MILLIONS.
Massachusetts Congress;nen Have
No Need to Worry Over Money
NaffaPS

Matters.
The Massachusetts delegation in the house
probably contains more millionaires than are
sent to Washington by any other two states
says the Washington Post. 1t is not very far
cut of the way to state that every representa-
tive in the last congress and the present
will measure UP to that financial standard
although there are two or three exceptions.
Of the representatives from the Bay state
who retired March from congress- there
was Gen. Draper, of Hopedale, whose fam
lily practically owns that little bit of a town
and pays all the taxes there. He is many
times a millionaire. Elijah Morse is prob
ably worth 600. He IS said to receive an
income of $1C0GG0 annually from his stove
polish Mr.. Apsey was very rich, being
president of a great rubber works, a shoe
last factory and at the same time interested
in numerous other enterprises.
The present delegation is headed in the
financial column by Mr. Sprague, Gen. Drap-
ers successor, whose wife came into a
heritage of $15,000,000. S. w. Mccall began
life a poor man, but when his wife came
into possession of a large estate he is said
to have given up his law practice for the
purpose of attending TO her large financial
interests. However, he is very unostentatious
and would not be taken for rich man from
his style of living. Joseph H. Walker of
Worcester, is a large real estate owner in
that city and Chicago and has achieved
great success in business enterprises Mr..
! Lowering, of Taunton, really lives in Boston,
on Beacon street, and is a very wealthy
manufacturer. w. S. Knox is a bank presi-
man.
John Simpkins is one of the richest men in
the delegation, having inherited fortune in
Calumet and Hecla mining stock. Fitzgerald,
the only Democrat from New England, was
engaged in the real estate business with his
brother and is probably worth under 500, ,000.
Samuel ]. Barrows is a clergyman and editor
of the Christian Register. He is understood
to have reaped the ordinary reward that fol-
lows pious and frugal life. Representative
Moody, Gen. Cogswell's successor, began life
as poor man. but has built up a very Iucra-
tive law practice that pays ovre $25 900 year.
He yields his time from this practice very
reluctantly and probably will not serve long
in congress on that account. w. E. Barrett
is reported to be worth $500, 600. He made
lots of money out of the capitalization Of
the Boston Advertiser, and his Boston Record
is very valuable paper. Mr.. Gillett is a
good lawyer, practicing in the middle part
of the state, and is credited with having a
fortune of 100000. Ashley B. Wright is a
thrifty merchant in the small city of North
Adams but Is said to owe his success in
reaching congress to rich Democrat, Albert
C. Houghton, who had personal grudge to
satisfy and lavished his efforts to secure Mr.
Wright's election. G. w. Weymouth, of
Fitchburg is another very wealthy man who
Is interested in numerous enterprises.
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THE HYPNOTIST
Helped the Old Man to Dispose Of
Some Land at a Good Figure.


Some Land at a Good Figure.
after the war they had a land fever
down in West Virginia, and I was there
speculator says the Detroit Free Press.
There was old fellow there from South
Carolina, plodding around in the same busl-
ness as myself, but, being Yankee hustler
figure in the plots and counterplots of the
boomers. There was a story current that he
knew of a certain place in the mountains
where there was plenty of gold and was trying
to make enough money to acquire the title
without having to pay anything for the
denying the report that made me believe 1t.
l exhausted all my ingenuity in trying to
get his secret and two or three others united
their efforts with mine.
when a professional hypnotist came
through there 1 was seized with the idea
that he might help US out He saw the old
man and expressed the belief that he was
good subject One night we had him at
our room in the hotel, and after some re-
freshments we called on the professor for
an exhibition of his powers. Soon he had
the South Carolinian doing just what he was
told to do and then asked him about the
gold deposit. He told everything with de-
tail that left no room for doubt and when
restored to himself asked in a dazed way what
had happened
Next morning on going to the place de-
scribed we found q few men on guard, keep
ing of trespaSsers. | hurried to New York.
had a company formed and was soon back
with authority to buy inside of some very
generous figures. We were eager to deal be-
fore the old man got next to our scheme. We
paid LOCO times what the tract worth,
and then dug it all to pieces to find that
there wasn't a trace Of gold The man we
bought from was the partner Of the old
Carolina fox. He was no more hypnotiZed
than I am this minute
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the tragedy by John T. Ford, the manager of
the theater. He found it on the floor of the
box where it had fallen from the president S
hand when the bullet of Assassin Booth pierced
his head. 1t lay beneath the chair in which
the citizen-hero received his death wound.
There was a tiny spot of blood, still red and
warm as it came from the great heart OF
Lincoln, on the edge
Mr.. Ford, who was also manager of the
Holiday Street theater, Baltimore and the
Academy of Music, in this city, carried the
precious paper home, and only parted with
1t at the request of the late A. X. Browne
of Washington, who was a warm personal
friend of the manager. 1t came into Mr..
Brownies possession while the nation was
still mourning for its IDOL and soon after his
assassin had met justly merited fate at the
hands of Sergeant Boston Corbett.
The play bill is somewhat yellow from age,
but otherwise in an excellent state of preser-
vation. The bloodstain is now a dark brown.
The programme is of Our American Cousin, -
which was being given fore the benefit Of
Laura Keene. The bloodstsin} is nearly half
way down the programme, opposite the names
OF John Dyott and Harry Hawk, Miss Keene's
leading support. - 'i'a -''y'
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BRITISH CHESS
The Queen Occupies the Place Where
the King Used to Be Found.

Some old-time chess players, who stroIled
into the judiciary committee room yesterday,
where the games were reproduced, were puz-
zled to see that on every board the king
stood where the queen ought to stand, and
vice versa. This was readily explained, how
ever by the statement that this had been
done for many years by British players, in
honor of Queen Victoria, the piece bearing the
crown now representing the queen instead of
the king as in the days where the royal
game had its origin, says the Washington
Post
This has been done in England, it is said,
ever since the time of Henry Stanton,
famous chess player, who first changed the
pieces out Of compliment to the then young
and beautiful queen, Victoria. However, while
the pieces have thus been changed the play
has not. The crowned head representing
the queen, does not stay at home near her
castles for self-protection, but skins with
rapid movements the whole field of war just
queens were wont to do, while the quon-
dam queen, now the king, trembles of old
at the constantly threatening danger Of check
mate.
Older players, who obtained their knowledge
of chess in their youth from Hoyle. could
not reconcile themselves to the change, and
were a living proof of the fact that, while
times continually changing, we are not
always changed with them.
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deltas are built up at the mouths Of
rivers, when the sea floods into the val
leys. Some time this depression con-
tinueS to such a degree that mountains
becomes islands, sinking as it were, to
their knees in the water. Greece is
such mountainous region up to its
knees in the sea.
From Puget sound to Bering sea
we have a depressed coast. The shore
from the Straits of Fuca to Cape Men
docino shows evidence of uplift and
also slight depression afterWard. From
Cape MendOcino to Russian river there
has been a constant uplift. But from
this point to the Bay of Monterey the
region after having been elevated has
been marked by a great sag. 1t is to
that sag that we owe the Bay of San
Francisco, Bolinas bay, brakes bay
and Tomales bay. They are stream
valleys invaded by the waters Of the
ocean. This fact is very noticeable in
Lake Merced. 1t is clearly a valley
formed by juncture of several streams.
The lake has been invaded by the sea
and now it's bottom is ten feet below
sea level.
THE phenomena Of depression are
also seen in Richardson's bay and at
San Rafael and Napa. The river val
leys are filed up and making tidal
marshes. More positive evidence is
found in the swamp material in the
Oakland estuary, taken twenty feet
below the tide. The bay has been in
vaded by the sea and flooded the river
valleys.
''All Of this subsistence is of compar-
atively recent geological change and
may go deeper. l am not sure of the
downward movement at the present
time. 1t is hard to catch it on the
move. Probably the whole of the San
Francisco peninsula in going down as
the maximum effect of the great sag
that made the Golden Gate at San
Francisco
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Buffalo, New York, Boston

And New England points are reached
in the most comfortable manner via
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Ry. The summer train service via
this line affords morning, afternoon
and evening trains from Chicago at
convenient hours, a complete schedule
of which will be furnished on applica-
ton. Tourist tickets to the many cool
and delightful resorts of the East. in
Guiding Chautauqua lake, are now on
sale. A handsome illustrated Tourist
Book, showing routes and rates to
these points. will be sent free on re-
quest. If you contemplate an Eastern
trip this summer the printed matter
referred to will be of interest. Ad-
dress J. z. Hull, T. P A, 13l East
Sixth street, st. Paul, Mimi, or c. K.
Milber, A. G. P. A. Chicago.
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Red Rock Camp Meeting Special sun
(fry Trains

On Sundays,t June 20, June q, and
July 4, the Burlington Suburban trains
will run on the following schedule:
South-bound9-Leave st. Paul 1910 a.
H., l p. M, $50 pl M, and 1910 p. m.
Arrive Red Rodk 1928 a. M, 1:1S D. M,
$50 p. m. and 1890 p. m; arrive Pullman
avenue 10:40 a. M, 1:90 p. m., Z p. m.
and 10:40 p: m.
North -bound-ALeave Pullman avenue
$50 a. M, 1920 p. M, $3.50 p. M and
9:30 p. m. Leave Red Rock 9:40 a. M.
1890 o. m, 6 p. m. and $40 D. m. Ar
rive ST. Paul 10 a. m., 1850 p. M, $40
d. M and 10 p. m.
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8isp,arcI,,s Re, Mot

Gen and Mrs Grant. while at Berlin. were
shown by Bismarck the great chamber where
the commission to settle the terms of the
Russo-TurkiSh peace was then sitting Mrs.
Grant asked him what it was all for and ne
looked very much surprised ct her apparent
ignorance. She hastened to answer that she
knew it was to settle the terms of the war
between the Russians and the Turks, but she
could not see what the Germans had to do
with it. Prince Bismarck Strengthened him.
self up. His face at first was quite sober,
but his mounth soon softened into a smile,
aid he replied:
''To tell you the truth, madam Russia has
taken too much Turkey, and we are helping
her to digest it,
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

NOTICE-THE TRUSTEES OF THE STATE
Savings Bank, Germania Life Ins. Bldg, cor.
Fourth and MINI. sts., have declared
semi-annual dividend at the rate of per
cent per annum for the period ending July
1, 1897. Depositors entitled to interest will
present their pass books at the bank for en-
try on or after July 20 1897. The new inter
made on or before July 8, 1897, will be en-
titled to six months interest Jan. l. 1898.
j NJ. Goldsmith. Treas.
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rus) has them ALL This is the largest fresh
water tsh found in the rivers of Europe ex-
cept the sturgeon; it often reaches five or six
feet in length. 1t destroys many aquatic
birds, and we are assured that it does not
spare the human species. On the Sd of July
IIOe, peasant took one near Thorn that had
an infant entire in its stomach They tell
in Hungary of children and young girls being
devoured on going to draw water; and they
even relate that on the frontiers of Turkey a
poor fisherman took one that had in it's stom-
ach the body of woman, her purse full of
gold, and ring. The fish is even reputed
to have been taken sixteefr feet long.-Har-
per's Round Table. lR
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tion of hundreds to the subject, have yet
to hear the first one say that they have ever
heard a negro man or woman sneeze. BY
negro, I mean black man or woman; De,
Iieye that mulattoes sneeze occasionally, and
the nearer they are to white the more fire.
ouently they sneeze, but even they are less
sensitive to influences which produce sneezlng
than the people of the white race. 1t has
been observed also that Indians sneeze very
seldom, while Chinese sneeze ten times as
much. even, as the white race"
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SAN FRANCISCO IS SINKING.
CaIifOrnia's Chief City Will Soon
Reach the Sea Level and Disap-

''The whole peninsula on which San
Francisco stands has been and is grad
ually sinking down to the sea level"
said Prof. Andrew G. Lawson, the re-
firing president of the University of
California Scientific association, while
delivering his farewell address before
that body recently at Berkeley. The
subject of the lecture was 1.-The Flood
ing of the Golden Gate.''
Nearly all parts Of the earth's sur
face show the phenomena of uplift or
depression said Prof Lawson.
Movements of this kind are either
continental or orogenic. 1t is necessary
to have in mind the criteria Of thescs
two, movements. The criteria Of tna
uplift' are found in the presence Of ter
races ana Sharply shaped canyons. The
criteria Of depression are shown when
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DIED..

Lake Josephine June 19. 1897,
Robinson, aged ffteen Years. T Funeral from
family residence, No. 1888 Wynne avenue,
Tuesday, the 22d, at o'clock p. m.
l have equipped one OF the best undertake
ing rooms in the city, and will give better
service at lower prices than any undertaken.
50. Carriages. $3.50. F.. w. Shirk,
S22 Wabasha Tel sos
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Special to the Globe.

son Of any individual action Of hers,
but as a tribute to the hospitality of
old England. Every day in the year
a the Benedictine priory Of Prince
thorpe the nuns sing Domino, Sal
vam Fac Reginam Nostram," known as
the anthem for the queen. Since the
days the nuns first CAME to England
this custom has never been omitted.
While the fact has never been kept
particularly secret, neither has it been
Generally known, and therefore it will
be a surprise to the majority OF per-
sons in England and to nearly all of
those who dwell elsewhere than on the
tight little isle. 1t is, as matter of
fact. a religious custom which is with
out parallel in the Roman Catholic
church 1t is not the result Of pOntifical
decree or papal bull, but the natural
thankfulness of a community of nuns
for the cordial welcome and hospitality
extended them by the English govern
ment when they fed to this country
from MOntargis during the French rev.
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LINCOLN'S BLOOD
Preserved Oh Play BiII He Held
when Assassinated.

An interesting and valuable relic, which
brings vividly to the mind the historic scene
ir Fords theater, Washington, on the night
of April IA, 1865, is owned by Col. James S.
Case, at time a resident of Philadelphia,
but whose home is now in Brooklyn, says the
Philadelphia Times.
1t is only play bill. but upon it is dis
coloraton made by tiny drop of President
Lincoln's blood. 1t was picked up just after
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NOBLEMEN

Who Sell Their Names to Trades
men and Company Prom mOters.
It is somewhat startling to hear of citizens
being bought and sold in Great Britain, and
these citizens not paupers, but peers of the
realm, possessed Of landed estates and with
ancestries that go back in an unbroken line
to the days of the crusades, says the Philadel-
phia Press. Any one who doubts the truth Of
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4 Wonderful Fish.
The BOhemans have a proverb, Every
fish has another for prey" the wells (slu-
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DESERVED HER.
But He Started on the Wrong Track
to Get Her.

1--WE had an endless variety of cases to
spice my professional life, but none of them
left more lasting impression than that of
young Boggs." After the doctor had thus
committed himself there was nothing to do
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June q.

June q.
UEEN Victoria is
the only Protestant
woman in the
world p u b Ii C l y
praised by the Ro-
man c a t h o Ii C
church. This is not
because she is a
woman, nor by rea-