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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
VENEZUELA WANTS RECIPROCITY.
One of the States That Ignored the
Former Opportunity.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O-It Is said
that one of the purposes of the present
visit to Washington of the United
States minister OF Venezuela, Mr..
Loomis, is to start negotiations for
reciprocity treaty between Venezuela
and the United States. This is rather
an unexpected step. as Venezuela was
one of the few South American cOun-
tries which did not make a reciprocity
treaty under the former system. At
that time, however, Venezuela suffered
by having her coffee practically ex-
cluded from the United States because
Brazil and other coffee producing
countries had the reduced duties under
reciprocity treaties. This experience
makes Venezuela one of the first of
the southern republics to consider the
question of a reciprocity treaty under
the Dingley law.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

PAGE L.
Anti-Hanna Men Mt Work.
Europe Preparing for War.
KIOndike Relief Arranged.
Sir Henry Allen Missing.
Climax In December Deal Today.
GOWN Declines Cuban Premiership
PAGE 2.
Haas for Building Inspector.
Years Building Figures.
PAGE 3.
Minneapolis Matters.
Mgr. MartineIIi Entertained.
Cleveland of so Years Ago.
New Sealing Law I'm Effect.
PAGE 4.
Editorial.
Teachers Convention Ended.
PAGE 8.
COrbett Makes Challenge.
Sir Walter Retired.
Days Sporting Events.
Minnesota Politics.
PAGE @.
Bar Silver, 81 3-sc
Cash Wheat in Chicago, 94 1-4C.
Worlds Markets Reviewed.
PAGE z.
Social Events of 81 Day.
Flour Rates Go Up.
Railway Gossip.
TheatricaIs at BIenheim.
Wants of the People.
PAGE g.
Experts Called In Waters Case.
News of the Courts.
Anderson Says Let Salaries Stand.
Fire Wnrden's Latest Circular.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
ALL DENIALS
DISCREDITED.

at Hai-Phong about that date, when
the seizure of the island of Hai-Nan
was decided upon.''
LONDON, Dec 30-A news agency
announces that the British naval re-
serves will be mobilized. According to
recent estimates the reserves of the
British navy number about 2S 900 men,
Or this number it is calculated that
at least 10000 men would be required,
in case of war, to complete the man
ming of the warshipS of Great Britain,
which are understood to require
complement of 10000 men, whereas
only 100000 are actually in service. The
naval reserve problem has long been
discussed by British authorities, and
the general opinion appears to be that
the number of men available is far
short of the number that would be re-
quired in case of war.
PARIS, Dec. 30.-The officials of the
French ministry of marine regard the
report of the occupation of the island
of Mailman, off the south coast Of
China, by the French fleet in those
waters, as being an invention.
PEKIN, Dec. 30.-The suppression of
j. McLeavy Brown, the British super
intendent of the Corean customs, is at
present engaging the attention Of the
british government with the view of
upholding his rights. Four British war
vessels are understood to be off Che
mulpo.
LONDON, Dec 81. - The Daily
Graphic asserts ION authority" that
| the British squadron was definitely in
| structed to assemble off Chemulpo to
support strong British expOstulation
| with Corea on the dismissal of Nc
| Leavy Brown British superintendent of
| Corean customs), who, under the ad-
| vice of the British consul, has twice
returned the notice of dismissal served
| upon him. With regard to Port Arthur,
/ the Daily Graphic asserts that there is
| every reason to believe the Russians
will adhere to their pledge to evacuate
| at the end of the winter, and there is
| therefore no ground for complaint on
| the part of England. Neither does the
| government regard the occupation of
| Kiao-Cho as calling for action, be-
cause British interests are not threat
ened. According to the Daily Graphic
, both the foreign office and the ad-
miralty agreed upon this point
LONDON Dec. 31.-A special dis
patch from Shanghai says that COM
munications are constantly passing be-
| tween the British and Japanese of
! ficers and 1t is understood that the
japanese ministers are trying to effect
rapprOachment with England on the
basis of a joint guarantee of reform
| in Chinese administration.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
DYING DECEMBER DEAL.
Its Passing Will Probably Be With
out Sensation.

CHICAGO, Dec. 30 = The clos
ing scenes of the Letter deal in De-
cember wheat will have been enacted
by 2 o'clock tomorrow and the curtain
rung down on everything of a specula-
tive nature pertaining to the huge af-
fair By that time, too, there will have
been delivered about 100000 bushels
of wheat, if anything like the recent
rate of increase in stocks of contract
wheat holds good tomorrow Today's
action of the market and the enormous
purchases of December by the Letter
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS.

NEW YORK-Arrived: Anchoria, Glasgow;
Werra, Naples Sailed Kaiser Wilhelm H.,
Genoa; Stuttgart, Bremen; Obdam, Rotter-
dam. :.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Trave New
York
OWEENSTOWN-Sailed: Teutonic, New
Observation-Disclosures: Cu1c, New York.
BREMEN-Arrived: Saale, New York via
Southampton.
BROWHEAD-Passed: Lucania, New York
for Queenstown and Liverpool.
NAPLES-Arrived: Ems, New York.
LONDON-Arrived: Massachusetts, New
York.
COPENHAG GEN-Saled: Norge, New York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
Durrant Suit.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 9O.-Mrs. Isabella
NJ Durrant and William A. Durrant mother
and father OF Theodore Durrant. have brought
suit for slander against ex-Juror Smyth, and
demand $50 coo damages from him. The COM
plaint was sworn to by Mr.. Durrant. Gen.
John II Dickinson and w W. FOote are the
attorneys representing the Durrants in the
litigation The suit grew out Of remarks
made by Smyth about Durrant. whom he
accused OF being a moral monster.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

Worsted company, in 1896, assumed the la
bilities of the concern, Is today anticipating
the second payment to creditors, which was
secured by fourteen months notes repre-
senting 80 per cent Of claims. He is also
paying a portion of the three-year notes,
not due for nearly two years Today's pay
ments will aggregate about $500 600 and will
make the total payments over 10 per cent
of the liabilities. The trust Is discharged by
these payments, and Mr.. Hall will take
nossession of the property.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
Agreement Between the Gov
ernments of Canada and the
United States on the SUBJ
ject.

tober last. He stated that the govern
ment would be very glad to grant our
expedition the use of their posts on the
route and grant all other facilities to
the movement of our expedition over
their territory.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The long distance telephone is getting
In it's deadly work. Railway men, in
curing into the falling off in passenger
traffic have found that a large number
of business men are doing their swear
ing at one another over the long-dis-
tance telephone instead of travelling
over great stretches of country and los
ing their time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The habit Of borrowing gets lots Of
people into trouble. Sir Edwin Arnold,
the poet and author has been socially
ostracized in Japan because he borrow
ed whole pages of "Japonica."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

Five men and one horse earned $2O4,-
600 the past season. Fitzsimmons, $685.
600; Tod Sloan, $4,000; Amos Rusie, S.
500; Hamburg, $3S,5CO Several people
will try to do as well talking through
their hats in 1898, but they won't
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

There was abundant food in Dawson
City on Thanksgiving day, according to
the Associated Press. People were
starving at Dawson City on that day
according to certain special corre-
spondents writing stories at Skaguay
and dating them Dawson City. Some
of these fellows ought to resolve to be-
gin telling the truth Jan. l.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

HAVANA. Dec. 3O.-Gen. Gomez re-
fused the overtures, basing his refusal
on the conviction that Spain could not
hold out two years longer. Gen. Gomez
expressed himself as well satisfied with
the present condition of affairs. He
said also that he was grateful for Presi-
dent McKinley's invitation to Ameri-
can citizens to render relief to helpless
Cllbans. Mr. Scovel and Senor Mad
rigal were sometimes in considerable
danger, owing TO the fact that the
American flag they carried looks at a
distant like the insurgent nag. Gen.
Gomez had an escort of from 400 to GOO
cavalry.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

A Minneapolis man failed and did not
leave a cent to his creditors. 1t cannot
be said of him that he did not do some
nice figuring.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

Those Dawson City fellows who are
living in tents with the temperature
go degrees below zero must be fond of
the ozone in it's nude state.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The Minnetonka and White Bear
yacht clubs might get together by sub
stituting a bicycle race for the trouble
some catboat race.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
Postmasters Named.

appointed today as follows: Minnesota
Emerald, Faribault county James F. Barnes,
vice Hans Underdahl, resigned; Stark. Chi
sago county Erick Johnson vice Jacob Chris
tenson, removed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

Some parts of New York state are
still rather thinly settled Somebody
stole an express wagon full Of goods at
Larchmont.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The year closes with a determined
effort to secure more general use of
corn and a less general use of corn
Juice.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The food in the Hennepin county Jail
must be pretty bad. A prisoner has
threatened to kill himself rather than
eat it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
EVENTS TODAY.

Met-The wedding Day, S-15.
Grand-A Black Sheep, S.I5.
Masonic HaII-Charity Ball, $50.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The anti-liquor feeling in North Da-
kota is reported very strong. This is
probably merely an ante-New Years
bluff.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

China may have to get introduced to
itself after having been on the chopplng
block for a few months.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

DR.. Hepworth finds everything love-
ly in Armenia, except the tieas. They
are pestiferously industrious.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

Several people will have their skates
on tomorrow who won't know now TO
handle them.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The man who named the village op-
posite Dawson City, Louise Town must
have wanted the place to live-nit.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

Wait till tomorrow and read the pat
ent medicine almanacs if you want TO
know what to do next year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

Mayor Strong will drink just as
much tea out of the mayors chair as
In it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The Californians seem inclined to
start the new year right by striking
Theodore Durrant out of the directory.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

Those Charleston women may be the
making of Miss Charlotte Crane.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

The biscuit trust has crackers to
burn.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
Big Payment.

BOSTON, Mass, Doc. 30.-George F. Hill,
who, upon the failure Of the Nonantum
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31
BULLETIN OF
THE ST. PFUI GLOBE
FRIDAY, DEC. 81, 1897.

Weather for Today
Fair and Colder.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

PARIS, Dec 3O-The officials of the
French ministry of marine regard the
report of the occupation of the island
of Nathan, off the south coast Of
China, by the French fleet in those
waters, as being an invention.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

at Hai-Phong about that date. when
the seizure of the island of Hai-Nan
was decided upon"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-31

HAVANA, Dec. SO.-sylvester scovel
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-05
LONOON'S PAST PLEASURES.
How ATS Inhabitants Amused Themselves
Century OF Iwu Ago.

How ats Inhabitants Amused Themselves
a Century or Iwu Ago.
The Londoner III the long past might
retire to Bagnlege Wells, near the pres
emit Kings Cross. OF Florida gardens,
Brompton tBrompton was noted 100
years ago for its "salubrious air., or
the Marylebone gardens and Bowling
Green. mentioned by Pepys as "a pretty
place" 50 long ago as 1868, or the
Bayswater Tea gardens. which flour
isbed till after the middle of the pres
ent century. there to sit in summer
house overgrown with honeysuckle and
sweetbrier drinking tea then held in
much esteem as fashionable beverage
and eating cheese cakes heart
cakes " Chelsea buns syllabus, jellies,
creams. hot loaves. rolls and butter
while band performed a concerto by
Corelli or the last new composition by
Mr. Handel. The Master of Musick, "
or singer gave the lastzMew song by
DIR Arne. Afterward his visitors might
enjoy the privilege of drinking new
milk from the COW and picking flowers
and fruit, fresh every hour in the
day, a great attraction, doubtless for
Londoners at period when fruit and
flowers were neither so cheap nor so
abundant in the metropolis as they are
at present. Nor were more artificial
amusements lacking. In addition to
Examinations, fireworks and masquer-
AIDES. attended by the world of fashion
miscellaneous entertainments of every
sort
A high scaffolding was erected in
Maryle gardens in 1876 for pred
ecessor of Blondin called "the flying
man." who was advertised to fly down
on rope pushing wheelbarrow before
him. In May. 1885. Lunardi, the first
aeronaut who went up in balloon in
England and was quantity called "the
first aerial traveller i'll English atmos-
phere" by contemporary prints, de-
scended Unexpectedly one afternoon in
the Adam and Eve Tea gardens in the
neighborhood of Tottenham Court road,
then a resort Of fashion, and was up
roariously welcomed by the populace
In acknowledgment of his flight Later
on aeronautic flights became special
feature of all these pleasure gardens
Ponds containing goldfsh-a novelty
in the middle of the eighteenth century
were reckoned as another of their
special attractions and were advertised
as 'gold and silver fish, which afford
pleasing ideas to every spectator. -
Temple Bar
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-05
Resting at Unyanyembe.

Ny march is nearly over I have
got back into we'll beaten tracks and
am even occupying house where near
ly every Englishman who has entered
this region of Africa has lain and
groaned over his fevers, his delays and
the thousand and one troubles inciden-
tai to African travel. Livingstone wait
ed here with patient resignation for
months, Eliminating no doubt now Oh
the great lake, anon on the great open
sore of the world" Stanley barricaded
and loopholed it's walls in the war with
Mlrambo. Here Cameron groaned over
his fevers and his delays, and before me
rises the picture of Murphy, stout and
burly, sinking with a groan to the
ground, and Dillon, blind and helpless,
lying YEARLY on his couch. In later
times Captain Carter of elephant fame
had to flee from the house as from q
house infected, and but few days ago
his Scotch assistant and two BeIgians
were on the point of shooting each
other with their revolvers, and, last of
all, to close this strange, eventful his
tory, " here lies yours truly, resting from
his long and lonely march and feeling
as if his work was DER.
am at the present moment a prey
to that horrible scourge, prickly heat,
making me feel as if needles were ooz-
ing out of every pore of my corpus.
Mosquitoes by the million buzz about
my ears, but sing no pleasant love song
to my maddening brain. am also a
martyr to certain volcanic eruptions
vulgarly known as boils, which prevent
me from sitting, lying, walking or
standing with any degree of comfort.
Then the temperature is so high that
at midday have not got out of my
pyjamas, while to get breath of air
have continually to resort to the fan.
Biography of Joseph Thompson, Afri-
can Explorer.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-05
A Miraculous Draft of Fishes.

The jewellers On the banks Of the
Neckar, near the good old German town
of Heilbronn, had an experience the
other day which must have reminded
them Of the miraculous draft of
fishes. A few days ago, toward evening,
the worthy Heilbronners perceived that
the Neokar was toward both its banks
one moving mass of ali sorts and con-
ditions of fish, thronging landward in
seeming anxiety to be caught. Nor was
this tacit appeal at all disregarded, for
every man, woman and child of the
vicinity ran out with pots and pans,
with spades and rakes, and pals and
baskets to help himself or herself to a
share of fish. The explanation of the
miracle, which perchance might prove
a hint to fisher folk, was that the river
had become SO muddy after recent heavy
rains that the fish found it difficult to
breathe in the "thick" water and had
approached the banks for more air.
Westminster Gazette.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-05
SHE WAS WRONG.
The Original Poem Wasn't by Cowper at
All, but by Some One Else.

The Original Poem Wasn't by Cowper at
All, but by Some One Else.
There is woman's literary club on
the South Side which is having the
hardest imaginable time to keep togeth-
er. Unlike most similar organizations,
it is not from want of money that this
association of fair students is constant
ly threatened with DISARMAMENT. A
spirit of discomfort and rivalry stalks
through the meetings
The original purpose of the club was
thorough criticism of the works of
Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton,
Spenser and Sir Edwin Arnold. But
although this laudable intention was
adhered to for several months, after
awhile some of them got to writing es.
says and other papers to be read before
the society The book trade may not
have noticed it, but at that time there
was considerable run on concordances
glossaries. books of synonyms and liter
airy dictionaries. Ever since then things
have gone from bad to worse. It seems
impossible to maintain harmony.
The vice president of the organiza.
ton, a charming young lady, whether
considered mentally Or from her photo
graph, recently wrote a rather extend
ed poem in a very lofty strain. She read
it to the club. Amid the general APP
plause which followed there came from
several remote corners of the room
something like murmurs. A couple Of
her auditors were heard to say that she
had never written anything like that
before; that they didn't believe any
one in the club was capable of it; that.
in fact, several passages sounded
strangely familiar
Finally one member with glasses and
a very penetrating expression. address
ing the author of the poem, said:
Didn't you get some Of that from
Cowperf I'm sure you did. j."
II did nothing of the kind cetorted
the vice president. flushing at tho 40
cusatiou.
Oh, but remember almost the ex.
act linesP' persisted her acouser
How dare you say sor' returned the
poet hotly.
But well get the book and look,
persisted the other
You re a mean, mean thing" said
the vice president, bursting into tears
81 didn't get this from Cowper at all
And now that you re SO smart I'll not
tell you whore did get it. "-Chicago
Tribune.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-05
Clean Shirts In Germany.

The Berlin Boersen- Courier tells
about Germans invention of paper
shirt front which is intended to APP
peal to the large number of continental
Germans who wear dickies. The shirt
front has a paper collar polish and is in
seven layers. AS each layer is torn off
it reveals another white, glistening
front. Thus from one paper dicky the
wearer may evolve clean paper shirt
front for every day in the week. The
dicky is made to button to any kind of
shirt. 1t costs but 30 pfennig, or about
Z cents; consequently the expense Of a
clean front is but a cent day. In view
of the prevalence of the dicky habit in
Germany the inventor has taken steps
to manufacture his compound shirt
fronts in large quantities.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-05
BLACK ROCKS.
A Story of the Early Days of the Con-
nellsville Coal Region.

A Story of the Early Days of the Con-
nellsville Coal Region.
A writer in Forest and Stream says
that Elias Blank, one of the early set
tiers Of what is now the great Oonnells-
Vile coal region, In western Pennsylva-
MIA, was among the first Americans to
burn soft coal. How the thing came
about is thus described
One nigh Mr.. Blank was aroused by
rapping at his door Opening it, he
admitted famous Indian fighter, Lewis
Whetzell, and companion. Jonathan
Gates. commonly known as Long
Arms
Friend Lewis. said Blank, where
have thee and our friend been and
where bound?"
II want to get out of here at once"
said Whetzell, land Long Arms is of
the same opinion. This oountry's be-
witohed. anc Long Arms and are
nearly scared to death. "
Friend Lewis, thee must not tell
such stories to me. said old Elias
'Thee knows l am thy friend. and
have saved thee when u price was on
thy head know thou art a man Of
courage. and friend Jonathan Gates,
! whom some call Long Arms. fears
nothing on earth. and I'm fearful 10th
i ing anywhere else. and yet thou tellest
me that he aud thee are scared even al.
most unto death. Shame on thee SO to-
declare before thy friend, who loves ye
both as be were thy fatherP'
mo. no. Elias. said WhetzeIl. drop.
ping into the Quaker speech. II tell
thee no lie. We are scared. Yesterday
afternoon we were In hiding about a
mile from Dunkard creek. and in thu
evening we built a fire under the bank
very carefully. and We got some black
rocks to prop up little kettle and put
them beside the fire rather than in it,
and the black rocks took fire and burned
fiercely, with filthy smoke and a
bright light. and Long Arms said the
| devil would come if we staid, and we
grabbed our kettle and poured out the
water and made our way here, leaving
| the black rocks to burn. -
Elias Blank was much interested He
did not tell Whetzell what the black
rocks Were but he found out exactly
where the men had made their fire, and
when they went away be gave them
each a new Ezra Engle rife. knife
and tomahawk, with four pounds Of
powder and supply of lead.
Then he hunted up their camping
ground, found the BLACK rocks and
opened coal bank into one of the river
hills, and this coal bank is still in ex-
istence in IL foot vein of coal that is
absolutely free from slate and burns
like pitch