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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21
TrcfTic Demoralfxed.

BOISE, Idaho, April 20-Trafflc on the
Oregon Railway & Navigation company's line
is badly demoralized There has been no
train from Portland since Saturday and
there is immediate prospect Of resump-
ton. number Of bridges are reported
washed out between Huntington and Baker
City.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21
SMALL CHILD DROWNED.
Fell OF a Snow Bank Into "a Pool of
Water,

Special to the Globe.
ABERDEEN, S. D., April 2O-The
infant daughter of ]. c. Kinney was
drowned by falling off the edge of
snow drift, near the house, into
eighteen inches Of water.
o. B. Heath, treasurer of the Portage
school district, this county, is said to be
missing with $500 of funds. His family
received a letter from him today dated
Minneapolis, in which he threatened to
commit suicide.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

Easter dinners in the land of the
AeIlenes and the Noslem changed
tn ir usual meats this year. Greece
forsook lamb TO dine on Turkey, while
the Mohammedan overcame his tradi-
uoEal aversion to pork and sopped his
bread in Greece.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21
BULLETIN OF
TIE ST. PRUI GLOBE.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 81, 1897.
Weather for Today
Showers Warmer.

PAGE l.
Fighting Between Greeks and Turks
Greeks Win Some Victories,
But the Turks Most Successful.
Holder of the Key to Europe.
Great Flood Loss in North Dakota.
Row Over the Attorney General.
EIectrOcutiOns In Ohio.
PAGE 2.
DycIe Ordinance Goes to Committee.
BchOOIhOuse Building to Stop.
One Thing Taken Out of Politics.
Mystery in "a Girls Death.
PAGE q.
G0odnOw Case Almost Over.
Hotel Clerk Commits Suicide.
Results of Northwestern Elections.
Mr.. Nelson's Bill Before Senate.
PAGE A.
Editorial.
Many Bills Pass the Senate.
PAGE 8.
Closing Work of the House.
Bill Stolen by a Senator.
Roast by Public Accounts Committee
PAGE o.
bar Silver, 624c.
Cash Wheat in Chicago, 73 Use.
Stocks Strong and Higher.
PAGE z.
COrbett Challenges FitzsimmOns.
KentucIxy's Legislative TangIe.
Wants of the People.
PAGE 8.
Judge Kelly Refuses n Writ.
One Mans Disgust With Alaska.
New Passenger Agreement.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS.

NEW YORK-Arrived: Manitoba, London
Caprivi. Hamburg; Nomadic, Liverpool. Sail
ed Patria, Hamburg; Spree Bremen; Cevlc
Liverpool.
PHiLADELPHIA-Sail Pennsylvania
Antwerp.
LIVERPOOL-Sailed: Servia, New York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

DR. Hunters trouble is the same as
that Of the famous parrot. He talks
q great deal too much.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

The powder magazine of Europe"
the countries just north of Turkey,
may explode when Abdul Hamid isn't
looking.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

What a splendid array of sibilant
cities the Greeks and Turks have. Just
pronounce Elassona and Larissa if you
don't believe it,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

Picker ought to be able to get
something to do in the national mu-
scum where they pickle bugs and
things.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

After the first of May real estate
east of State street will be sold at so
much per front foot instead of SO much
per front gallon"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

Weyler isn't in it any more The
whoppers of the century are now
coming from Turkey and Greece.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

The score of the opening game of
the season between Turkey and Greece
seems to be about to in favor of
Turkey.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

The legislature adjourns today. For
the next twenty-one months it's mem
bers will tackle something they know
more about.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

Secretary Wilson will not capture the
English butter market until the cows
come home.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

The love of President Mckinley for
Queen Liliuokalani just about equals
that of ex-President Cleveland
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

The president took occasion to over
look Minnesota again yesterday He is
getting used to it. SO is Minnesota.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

The fireworks on the Turkish Dor
der mean just what they say.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

John l. Sullivan talks and talks
again, but nobody hears him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

Beginning tomorrow Capt. Arson will
have to prove it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21

A Lima, O., couple got married by
Judge Gas. That pair is liable to go
ballOoning.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-21
TODAY'S EVENTS.

Grand-VaudeviII 2.3O, S.15.
gapitOI-LegisIatu 10.
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Continued on Fifth Page.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-20
A ROy With a CraW,

"Do know anything out of the
ordinary?" replied P. D. Johnston, OF
Omaha, at the Regent, to the Star re:
porter's query. 81 think I do. 1
know a cousin of mine who is certainly
out of the ordinary. When he was q
baby there did not seem to be any
thing about him to distinguish him
from other babies, but as the months
passed no signs of teeth appeared.
He grew to be a good.sized boy OF six
years, and still no teeth. He lived
entirely on liquids, and was taken to
dentist, who attempted to. fit arti-
fetal teeth in his mouth, but it was
impossible he grew in stature, but
not in strength, and an eminent sur
geon was called in to make O thorough
examination of the boy. fte reported
that there was no way to fit teeth into
him or induce any to grow, and that
he must have solid food. After study
ing tho case thoroughly and finding
no parallel, he adjusted sort of ar
tifclal craw into the boy, and ever
since that time he has partaken OF
solid food, cutting it into small pieces
and disestiug it upon precisely the
same principle thata chicken does. -
Washington Star.
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AN OSTRICH FARM IN CAPE COLONY.

young chicks one must be prepared.
but her manner of charging and whole
demeanor is a very mild affair COM
pared to the males
Collecting b1r ds for plucking is al
ways great day on the farm. Orders
are given overnight to the Kaffirs and
Hottentots to catch every available
riding horse and have them saddled up
and ready next morning at sunrise.
This is done, and every "boy" on the
farm who can find horse is mounted,
and regular cavalcade enters the
camp, under the superiutendence of
''De Boss van de Plaats"-the master
of the farm. They split up into par
ties of two each, and start off in diff
ferent directions to drive up the birds
from the remote spots to which they
have wandered. Warfare, of course,
is freely indulged in. 1t Is imnateri-
al to gu ostrich if there be one or fifty
against him, he fights just as lnerrily.
There exists travellers tale at home
that, as soon as an ostrich catches
sight of human being, he turns tail
and bolts in an opposite direction to
hide his head in the sand. Another
fallacy, equally devoid of foundation,
is the belief that the female leaves her
eggs in the sand to be Matched out IN
the sun. This is not 80. The male
and female sit alternately for forty
four days: the male at night, the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-20

Of the islands of the Santa Barbara
Channel these fishes are very common
in midsummer, lying at the surface in
the choppy sea and apparently expos.
ing their sides to the hot semitropic
sun. When lying in this position, the
sea washing over them, they resemble
q piece of wreckage, and are, without
doubt, 80 considered by numbers OF
birds, especially the shags, which,
when weary from long flight and pre-
ferring dry roost, alight on them
and retain their position without
alarming the fish. Several birds have
been observed resting on a single
sunGsh, AMI some of the fishermen
assume that The fish, being infested
with parasites, take this position
either TO allow the sun to destroy them
or thinking that the birds will devour
them. In all probability the
matter of parasites does not enter into
the question as an explanation. The
fish enjoys floating at the surface where
IL water is warm and the birds alight
upon it simply as rest, just as they
would up IN any floating object.
Sunflsh could be caught in numbers
off the islands mentioned, but no use
having been discovered for them,
they have no market value. Their
muscles are so hard and elastic that
when cut into small pieces and thrown
,ooo tba oronp5 tbau ;rnhound Tn
one small seaport the writer found
that the elastic tissue was used by the
fshermen's boys in the m manufacture OF
baseballs.
The young of sunfsh is singular
looking little creature, Matching from
eggs deposited on the high seas, float.
ing at the surface. They were sup
posed for many years to be q differ
ent species, so unlike were they in
general appearance to the adult sun
fish.
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An ostrich, like most other animals,
in it's wild state is terribly afraid of
man or of any unfamiliar sight, and
fees at the appearance of anything
new to its ken. When domestlcated
it becomes docile, and after time
assumes a position Of authority and
becomes master of the situation.
From June up to September, or, in
fact. till Christmas, thousands OF
chicks are reared every year, and
thousands meet with death every year
from some form of accident. Chicks
up to twelve months old die from
various maladies, out seldom after
they are full grown are they the vic
Tins of any sickness, death usually
resulting from broken leg, killed
fighting, or from scarcity of food in
times OF drought.
The nest Of the ostrich is a very
crude affair, consisting simply of q
round hollow carved out IN the sandy
ground. Sometimes the female bird
may be seen scratching il the ground
preparatory to laying her first egg
but this is not often the case, the hol-
low generally being made by the con-
tinuous sitting of the birds on the one
spot. One pair of birds will lay from
ten to twenty eggs; but, as Is often
the case, three or four birds will lay
in the one nest, thus making the num-
ber OF eggs up to seventy or eighty.
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CLOTH GOWN TRIMMED WITH VELVET.

comes North in April. So a pretty
Scotch mixed material was selected,
made like the one depicted on this
page. The collar and front were made
of one of the new brocaded velvets and
the tiny buttons that completed the
trimming were of jet. Her hat was
also made of the lowered velvet and
trimmed with rather stiff Paradise
aigrette. The soft Tam O'Shanter-like
crown was banded by fold of glitter
ing passmenterie of jets, mock emer-
aids and gilt.
A chic model in a plain tailor made
suit is depicted in one of the accom-.
panying illustrations. I saw this gown
worn by stylish young miss on Fifth
Avenue last Sunday morning. 1t was
made of the new shade of green broad
cloth and the soft swish of the skirt
denoted at once the silk lining. The
tight fitting bodice was neatly trimmed
with military ornaments made OF silk
tubular braid. The skirt which was
in the latest Paris cut hung beautifully,
and altogether it was one of the pref
tiest costumes have seen this season.
Every article of physical adornment
that we moderns employ is bequest
from ancient Rome. Dame Fashion,
however, assumes to regulate their
popularity.
Necklaces are "comme il faut" dur
ing one decade and then bracelets have
their turn; sometime encircllng just
the wrist and again, as now, in Cleo
patra fashion, entwinlng the whole
upper arm but happily no longer as a
symbol of subsection. The up.to-
datest miss or matron wears from six
to twelve circlets of gold and inset
gems nestled in the folds of her nous.
quetaire gloves which are buttoned
with jewelled studs in lieu OF ordinary
fastenings. This style was noticeably
frequent at the first Patriarch ball of
the season, given in the new ball room
Of the Waldorf. The debutants took
most kindly to this pretty concelt,
while among the matrons Mrs. William
q. Whitney seemed ablaze with gems,
not only on her lett arm and on the
corsage of her black brocade gown but
her beautiful hair was crowned with
coronet fully six inches tall formed OF
smnll diamonds and of emeralds, some
of which were as large as almonds.
Fan chains fashioned of diamonds set
in platinum are also dainty, yet USE
full fad. The settings are so delicate
and the gems go close together that
even at short distance the effect is
that of q continuous string of diamonds
fastened together in some mysterious
manner.
The costumes illustrated herewith
were designed by the National Cloak
Co., of New York.
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Projects of a Queer Genius.

Colonel D. W. Hughes is queer
genius who lives in Audrain County,
Missouri. He has invented many con-
trivances of one sort or another in the
course of his wandering career, the
most important of which is corn
planting machine. Out of this he
made considerable money, but his
hopes of fortune are now founded on
an instrument which, by means of x
rays, perhaps, will not only reveal the
culinary value of egg, but also the
gender of their embryonic occupants.
Both these things, the colonel says,
his invention will do with speed and
certainty, and he expects to sell one
of the new machines TO every raiser OF
poultry and every dealer i'll eggs in
the country.
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always selected as being the best piece
of grazing ground on the farm, and
capable of holding more stock in pro-
portion than any other part of the
farm. Here the bird remain year in
and year out, and are only collected
and brought together, on the average,
once every four months.
These occasions are, let US say, in
June, to pluck prime feathers. By
q hese we mean the long whites, mum.
bering from eighteen to twenty in each
wing, eight or nine fancy feathers,
and few long blacks, all taken at the
same time. Four months later the
stumps of these feathers sre drawn
out, and two months later again that
is, six months after the primes-the
short blacks and tail feathers are
taken. Of these it is impossible to
give any accurate number. As s.rule,
you pluck as many as possible with
out inaicting pain on the bird, and at
the same time leaving enough to keep
out the cold.
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lavorite garniture is bunch of bushy
tails from which peers bright-eyed
head whose expression implies total
Indifference to the sacrifice of itself or
fellow beasts. Another popular style
of the moment is to wear boa or
short fur collarette over neat cloth
jacket. Both garments are worn in
extreme weather, either one or the
other being left off on warmer days.
The favorite model for such coat is
on the order of the one pictured on
this page and is called double
breasted box.coat. To be in strictly
good style it must be innocent OF
trimming save for several rich buttons
and neatly stitched edges. A charm
ing bit of head gear to wear with this
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birds are all huddled together in a
kraal-~when every bird becomes as
meek as lamb-and are caught one
by one; bag or stocking. is placed
over the head and neck, while two ex-
perienced natives clip the feathers.
During winter the birds must be at
tended to and carefully watched, as
sometimes the weather is very in.
clement for weeks together-the ther-
mometer often registering ten degrees
of frost and birds are apt to fall off
in condition. If bird once begins
to sink in condition, the greatest diff
ficulty is experienced in getting him
right again, and often no amount of
extra feeding will pull him through. -
Strand Magazine.
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another almost exactly. When the

another almost exactly. When the
birds are properly savage they become
q great source of amusement-or, as
some think, Of danger. Certainly, to
be overtaken all on sudden without
time for preparation by cheeky bird
is one OF the greatest ills flesh is heir
to, and might result disastrously to
the uninitiated; but old hands are al
ways all there on IN emergency.
Undoubtedly the best weapon-bar.
ring a wire fence-is a good stout
stick or blunt pitchfork. As a
rule, if bird means to have your life
or die in the attempt, he charges from
about thirty yards, when you receive
him at the bayonet's point. He rushes
ct you with flashing eye, looking the
very embodiment of fury. Drawing
himself up to height of ten feet or
more, with wings outstretched and
Kissing like cobra, he makes four or
five strikes. You retreat pace or
two, so as to avoid the fork piercing
through his neck, and hold him off at
arms length till he learns that his
efforts are useless. Drawing the fork
sharply away, you strike him blow
on the neck, rendering him insensible
and taking away his breath. This
qulets him for while, till he RECEIVERS
from his bewilderment ind makes a
fresh charge, when the fork is again
presented.
have seen a bird so savage as to
charge seven times in fifteen minutes,
twice receiving the prongs OF the fork
through his neck. On horseback one
is even more obnoxious to an ostrich
than on foot, but, so long as the horse
is not afraid and will stand up to the
bird, there is no fear of an accident.
As he charges take care to have your
horse we'll in hand, and as the bird
makes his first strike, catch him by
the neck and hold on for all you're
worth, till the bird becomes exhausted
from want of breath and falls.
The female bird is seldom vicious.
When she has nest or brood of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-20
WHAT o Gilded Dome Costs.

4 good many persons have been
growing lately about the appearance
of Boston's chief pride, the gilded
State House dome, which used to
crown the city before so many high
buildings were put up, and which still
reigns in somewhat diminished ma.
jesty on the summit of Beacon Hill.
The dome is looking quite dingy, and
has been so for some time, but there
is no likelihood that it will be regilded
before the work on the interior has
been finished. This probably will be
in less than year, although it has not
been definitely decided. Sergeant.at-
Arms Adams is of the opinion that the
dome will be regilded as soon as this
work is finished.
According to precedent, the dome is
not due for regilding for a nnmber
of years to come. The last regilding
was done in 1888, eight years ago, and
from that time back 10 the renovation
before 1t>was much longer period,
as the latter took place in 1874, four
teen years before. The average time
between regildings is about twelve
years, and has never been less than
ten, under ordinary circumstances, SO
that in the natural course, of things
nothing would be done to the dome
for at least four years. The work
going on, however, and the fire which
occurred under the dome awhile ago
have made 1t look so bad that it pro-
badly will be regilded as soon as this
can be done safely.
The work is one of good deal OF
expense, costing usually about $4,000.
Of this the goldleaf is the principal
item, as this usually costs more than
$4,000. In the last regilding 392 pack.
ages of the finest leaf were used.
Twenty gallons OF gold sizing were
-sed in putting it on, and there were
375 days labor in the regilding alone.
Another considerable item is the put
ting up ana taking down again of the
staging which the men must have to
work upon. This costs nearly 5000,
and in the last regilding there were
used 1912 feet of spruce and 295
pounds of nails, while ninety.eight
days skilled carpentry and sixty-three
days ordinary labor were used on the
staging alone. The work has to be
done with the greatest care, and the
workmsn ali have to be surrounded
with canvas screen to keep the wind
from blowing the goldleat away.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
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&N OSTRICH CAMP.
9NE OF SOUTH AFRICA'S LIT
TLE-KNOWN INDUSTRIES.
Bearing the Ungainly Birds For
Their Beautiful Feathers-They
Are Quite Savage at Times
Clipping an Ostrich.

lTHE rearing of ostriches for
the sake of their beautiful
feathers is an industry of
which little is known. An
attempt has lately been made to i'm
port the birds into the United States
for breeding purposes, but it has not
yet - usly interfered with the In
d1/ South Africa, where the os-
= Il home.
he give you some sort of an
the country IN which the
a lives. 1t is country unlike
ther on the globe. The general
kcter is fiat and sandy, relieved
y by long, low, rocky slerras.
2ese mountain ranges are the saliva
lon of the landscape. Their craggy
outlines are carved into thousand
abrupt and striking forms, their heads
are constantly haunted by low lying
clouds of vapor. which the contend
ing sun and wind draw together and
disperse. Their sides are followed
into ravines, or "kloofs, and painted
Z by the clear distance into perfect
argosy of changing ,hues. The ap-
parently parched and sandy flats are
covered by different varieties of
dwarf bush, which are nibbled at by
the sheep.
A dry and arid prospect, and it is
hard to conceive every inch of it is
>toaded below with vegetable life ready
to shoot after the rains of spring into.
q wealth of verdant grasses. Here and
there dotted about on these flats can
be seen the white farm buildings nest
ling among the trees an oasis in the
desert, in fact. These green spots can
be seen for miles away, with the white
washed buildings glittering in the sun.
Foliage is only to be seen around the
homesteads and occasionally at an iso-
lated fountain. The veldt all round is
cheerless and naked, without so much
as a rag of vegetation to cover it, and
the eye hungers for tree; the bones
or stones stick painfully out, sight
for the geologist, not the artist.
You arrive at the homestead,
square. red-brick building, with
sigh of relief, and glad to be out OF
the binding glare and sandy plain.
On every homestead the same familiar
sights meet the eye. On the one side
of the house stand the kraals; on the
other, the shed and wagon-house. In
front stands the dam, adjoining the
vegetable garden and lands, with far
ther away the camp. Behind the
house are the chaff. ff.house, tramp-foor,
and butchers shop, where the natives
are rationed. In the camp run the
large stock, cattle, ostriches, and
horses; and on the flats and noun
tsips the sheep and goats.
"A we'll fenced and secureinclosure is a
luxury in the colony, and is only to
be met with on the wealthier farms,
the owners of which can afford to keep
them in repair, and to place them in
stock of the more expensive kinds.
Every ostrich farmer has his camp,
which varies in size considerably,
from 5000 to 5000 acres, and in it he
keeps his 800 or 500 birds, as we'll as
a few cattle and horses. A camp Is