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Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Klondike is said to be paradise
Tor sportsmen.
Three out of every 1875 English-speak-
ing people have red hair.
A certain Chinese flower 10 said to b
red In the sunlight and white in the
moonlight.
The huge guns of modern nayies can
be fired only about IS times. After that
they become worn out.
Some of our first-class cruisers carry
enough coal to take them 2O,OOO miles,
steaming at ten knots.
The total cordage required for first
rate man-of-war weighs about SO tons.
and exceeds e 1900 in value.
To keep q race horse in even moderate
condition in England, with proper st-
tendants. costs sS25 q year.
Boston claims to have the longest
paved street in the world-Washington
street, which is 17A miles in length.
Cigarette smoking is common prac-
tice among the colored washerwomen
of New Orleans. They lean over the
tub, and make quaint picture as the
smoke rolls from their lips.
Scientists have demonstrated that
the purest air in the cities is found
about 25 feet above the street surface.
This goes to prove that the healthiest
apartments are those on the third floor.
In announcing the union of "two in
nocent and trusting hearts" in Monroe
county, ILL.,, the reporter of a local pa
per closes his information in this ex-
pressive way: 1.-THE bride has been q
widow for five long weeks"
To populate the section of country
through which the new Siberian rail-
road runs, the Russian government Of
fers the cheapest railroad fares ever
announced. A through ticket for 1900
miles will be furnished for $3.50 or for
over 1000 miles, $500.
A centrifugal gun, discharging 3O,-
600 bullets minute, has been invented
by an English engineer. The bullets
are poured into a case from hopper
and guided into disk, three feet in
diameter. revolving in the case at the
rate of $4,000 revolutions minute.
They are discharged from the edge Of
the disk.
1t is said that lake sailors make tho
best scamen. A sailor may cross the
Atlantic without danger of running
into an island, and he may hardly see
more than two or three ships during the
entire voyage, but on the lakes it is Just
the other way. The lake sailor, there
fore, becomes more alert, watchful and
careful.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
TRADE REVIEW.
-C0nfilence in Good Fall Bust.
mesa Widespread.

New York. July 9.-Bradstreet's says:
while the tone of general business par.
takes Of the usual midsummer stock-tak.
ing Quietness, the number of favorable
features coming to hand has not material
~ lessened. and confidence in good fall
business is still widespread. Business in
the new war taxes have had an apprecia BILE
sales by so-called scalpers in grain and se-
for cereals. has shown slight improves
ment for the week. and detailed compari-
sons with recently preceding periods are
still quite favorable. Developments in the
iron trade are still patiently awaited, but
among the favorable features might be In
stanced an improved demand for pig iron
and increased inquiry at higher prices for
steel plates at some eastern points, while
the western accounts continue quite ia.
vorable. Rather more is doing on export
account In this line Of business and the
demand for our cereals abroad IL quite sat-
isfact0ry. The crop conditions are In the
main very favorable. although the tend.
ency now Is to discard early extreme esti-
mates Of yield Of wheat, and 675, 600 900 to
70O, WV, 900 bushels estimates are more popu-
lar. AS for some time past the west and
northwest send relatively the best reports,
A rather more cheerful tone Is noticeab BILE
at the south. In the eastern and middle
states the tone of trade is quiet. but ac-
tivity in iron has become feature at Phil.
adelphia. where. however. textile manufac.
turers are not very busy. Pittsburgh re.
ports trade seasonably dull. and Boston
gives 1t as quiet"
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
AN OLD WAR HORSE.

He gifts roun' now on Jest one peg
Ter beat the very lam!
Thank God, he's only got one leg
They won't take my Oh man.
Ole lost that leg in our last war.
But could never tell whut ferD
I sets an sees him hobblin' roun'-
They's sojers passin' through.
An "Dixie's" wakin' up the town;
An Yankee Doodle" too.
I hears him holler: Hip. hooray!"
<Thank God, they can't take him away0
He seen his aghtin' days: he went
With Jackson an with Lee:
An now he's come ter be content
Ter set roun' home with me.
He's lost one leg. That's gone fer shore
Thank God. he'll never lose no more!
But when the ban plays 'Dixie"-Myl
It sets him wild ag'in!
He cheers the boys a-trompin' by.
An wants ter j'ine in!
But IL seq: "Come, that'l do!
They don't want one-leg folks like you"
So. let 'em fight from left ter right
All over sea an lam;
I thank the Lord by day an night
They won't take my OIL man!
He's lost one leg. That's gone fer shore
Thank God, he'll never lose no more!
Atlanta Constitution.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


Fer she Week Enaing Jsly N.
BY the capsixing of boat In Portland
(Me.) harbor five young men lost their
lives.
Tho republicans of the Third Iowa
district have renominatcd ID. B. Hen.
derson for congress. 81
James Albright was hanged at
Charleston, No., for the murder Of Pros.
ecuting Attorney Elliott.
The town Of Steeleville. Mo-. was al.
most wiped out by q waterspout and
13 persons lost their lives.
Miss Nevins, q wcll-known aeronaut.
was fatally injured aat East St. Louis,
ILL.,, by falling from IL balloon.
James ]. Corbett and kid" Mccoy
will fight IS rounds at Buffalo, N. Y,
August %, for q purse Of $4,000.
The National Educational lassociation
in session at Washington, elected as
president 60. Lyte, of Millersville, Pa.
A. H. Mendenhall, one of the proprie.
tors of the State Journal. was drowned
in cistern at his home in Lincoln,
Neb.
The first party of gold seekers direct
from the Klondikc since last summer
reached San Francisco with $4,000, ,OOO
in gold.
A food at Stanberry. Mo-, wrecked
several houses and drowned four per.
sons and at Maryville two persons lost
their lives.
The Hotel st. Joseph was burned at
st. Joseph, Mich, the loss being $780,.
600, and A. p. Baldwin, an employe, per.
ished in the flames.
Howard F. Brewer broke the worlds
swimming record for half mile, max
ing the distance in San Francisco in IL
minutes AZ 2-5 seconds.
Lieut.. Peary arrived at Sydney
B. c., on his way to the Arctic regions
and expressed himself MS confident o
reaching the north pole.
The building occupied by the Brittor
Printing company in Cleveland wa.
burned. the loss being 100000, ant
three persons lost their lives.
George Mclaughlin, Jack Carriga,
and Otto Brender, all of Peoria, iii.
were killed at Marshalltown, Ia, b,
the giving way of scaffold..
While the Schm!d brothers wer,
watching show parade in Newcastle
Pa. thieves entered their store ant
stole 100000 worth of diamonds an,
jewelry.
Parker Pillsbury, the associate o
William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell
Phillips and others of the great anti
slavery movement, died at his hom'
ut Concord, N. H.. ut the age Of s
years.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
evitable financial ruin a. conse.
quence Of such policy.
Modern Chivalry.

Sir Walter Raleigh's cloak has been
symbol OF. chivalry for many years,
but the little street boys cap in the
following story, from the Sunday Mag
azine. deserves an equally honorable
place. the best story l know of an
Edinburgh street boy was told me by a
lady who witnessed the incident. There
was a Christmas treat given to poor
children at mission hall, and hum
dreds of little ones were assembled at
the doors in advance of the hour Of
admittance, many of them barefoot.
Among the number was sweet-faced
little girl, who seemed less hardened
than most to the cold. for she shivered
in her poor jacket and danced from one
foot to the other on the cold, hard
stones. A boy not much older watched
this performance for few minutes.
and then, with sudden impulse of pro-
lection, took off his cap, put it down be-
fore her and said: "Ye maun stand
on that"
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15

could contain in the event of his en-.
listment.
The effect of this stimulus to the
hagging pulse of the public was elec.
trical. and the enrolment of $4,000
men followed within 4s hours. The
volunteers thus came into existence
with their chiefs in the majority. But
the ruined merchants O; :l,e city of
Havana soon found out and objected
to the newly risen power. This oppo-
sition increased upon the arrival in
Cuba of the new governor-general
Dulce, who came in 1860 as representa-
tive of the revolutionary government
i'll Spain. He was man of good faith,
empowered by the government to
grant Cuba all the reform she coveted
and that has lately been offered. He
would undoubtedly have put term to
the revolution, averting all the ruin
and devastation which followed. But
such IN easy and magnanimous course
did not suit that class which faced in
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
-Doo SAVES A BIG LINER.
rAe raathe.l Astu.ai warn, the c.,.
tala Jusa la Tt0e @ Av0ia
Q Collision.

Capt. Granlain, of big lake liner.
boasts of q drst-class seaman that
never leaves the vessel or demands
money for his services. This peculiar
tar 10 known a. Bert" He has no
surname, as far rs his fellow sailors
are nble to ascertain. Beyond an oc-
casional report to the ''old man." as
the captain 10 called, he rarely opens
his mouth. says the Chicago Chronicle.
Bert" will have the everlasting
gratitude Of the stockholders of the
transportation corporation for being
instrumental in avoiding collision
recently. The steamer was proceed
ing slowly along Lake Huron in q
dense fog with every eye directed
ahead In search Of strange light.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15

The deep-mouthcd whistle was below
ing out warming every moment ana
an answering toot was occasionally
heard on the starboard side.
Suddenly "Bert" was full of activity.
He had been looking through the
gloom rs earnestly as the others with
his paws on the bulwarks. He bound
cd to the captain and barked with all
his might. Capt. Granlain rushed to
the engineer signal and ordered "re-
verse;" The helm was thrown to port
just in time to avoid a towering pas
senger boat whose PROV loomed up
suddenly in the fog. If the freighter
had proceeded along her course both
vessels would probably have gone to
the bottom.
'That dog is the greatest sailor on
the lakes" said the captain. HE al
ways keeps my watch with me and
cannot be induced to leave the deck
forward or the bridge where I may
chance to be. His eyes are far superior
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
VOLUNTEERS OF HAVANA
new they Were Wos over N lvoD
With . Pocket AanakeeoAle9
Promise.

In 1868, when the revolution OF ten
yeara in Cuba began. no volunteers
existed IN Havana worthy of being
called such. There was only one old
regiment, says the San Francisco
Chronicle. and when Gov. Gen. Ler-
sundi. then of the island. tried to com,
plete this regiment he found the task
difficult of accomplishment ON &C,
count of the prevailing unwillingness
to enlist. But just Mt this time, most
providentially for the relief of hid
dilemma, some unknown hands cor.
cred the walls of Matanzas, near Ha.
vana, with huge posters promising
each Spaniard his passage home and
the privilege of carrying away with
him whatever his pocket handkerchief
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
STRATEGY BOARDS AT HONE.
How the cav,, war w.s Fs.sAs with
Chess and Checker - q
Western Town.

I'VE had two strategy boards in our
town when Grant and Sherman were in
the south. and Mcclellan, Burnside,
Hooker and Meade on one side and Lee
on the other, were in Virginia. We did
not call them strategy boards. but !
know now that is what they were. One
board played chess. and the other
played checkers. The chess board was
composed of the lawyers and doctors,
who had their offices huddled in one
part of the town. The checker board
was composed Of the justice Of the
peace, q preacher, the superintendent Of
the Sunday school and some of the
clerks in the stores. There were no
bulletins then. There was no after
noon newspaper. WheE there was big
fight the morning newspapers got out
an extra on slip of paper, the width
of the papers column. and long accord
ing to the news, not to exceed one col
umn. The extra sold for five cents; if
the purchaser did not have the exact
price he could not get the extra. Change
was that scarce.
"After the issue of the extra the peo-
pie in what had been the business cen
ter doubted the news or accepted it ac-
cording to their wishes, and then went
to the chess players, who were south
erners. The extra was read, and the
players, never raising their eyes from
the board, would speak and move in
about this way:
"'Grant couldn't get into. Vicksburg
as that dispatch says he did. Here's
Vicksburg- pointing to a king or
castle, or some other titular dignitary-
and here's Grant. He could no more
take Nicksburg than l can take that
castle with this bishop until l have an
open sweep across the board
probably at that the adversary would
knock off a pawn with knight, which
would cause the first player momentary
surprise, but as the latter captured the
knight Immediately he remarked: And
if Grant cid undertake to do what that
extra says he did he would make just
such a mistake as Doc Brown made
when he captured that pawn This
pleased the men who had brought in
the extra, until the adversary, knocking
out another pawn witt, his bishop, an
nounced check Then there was a
pause, and Judge Jones twisted his
goatee until it looked as if it never
would come out straight, but in few
minutes he had 'interposed,' or trans
posed or moved his king one square.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15

Then he looked around for the box Of
sand on the floor, and said to the COM
mittee with the extra:
".Grant can't get Pemberton by any
such tactics. Might as well say that
Sheridan could catch Stonewall Jack
son. You fellows on Fourth street don't
understand war. War is science. All
right to have plenty of soldiers, but SOL
diers are not everything. Strategy is
the winning piece. You know when
somebody told Napoleon, when he was
talking about invading another coun-
try, that he couldn't do it on account of
the Alps, he says to his critic, he says:
There amt no Alps or 'the Alps be
blowcd,' or something-did you move,
Doc?'
'.Doc had moved. While Judge Jones
was explaining the strategy of war Doc
Brown had showed in a bishop, which
was supported by a knight, and again
called check
"'Say, Doc Judge Jones would re-
mark, 'dawgon if didn't lose sight of
that knight. surmised you were go
ing to attack with your bishop, and
thought could get your knight in the
angle, but see your knight is bearin'
on that very square,
"The next move only delayed the in
evitable. For when Doc Brown fol-
lowed he announced mate and the
committee with the extra vert away,
the southcrner confessing that if Penn
berton didn't know anything more
about war than Judge Jones knew about
chess the game was up. And the re-
suit of that game of chess was talked
about in connection with the news from
Vicksburg the remainder Of the day.
And in every game that followed the
finish of the war was demonstrated by
a player, to his own satisfaction at least.
''The checker board strategists in the
Office of the Justice OF the peace con-
fined themselves to the movements Of
the militia at home and the home guard.
The justice was jolly soul who weighed
about 400 pounds the year round, and
every time he got into the king row he
would chuckle:'
"'Pawson, tha's no use talkin', yo'
can't keep Joe Shelby out o Missoury
any mon yo' kin keep me from jumpin'
into that king row.
"But the parson would explain, after
the game, to his admirers that the
squire moved some. of his men both
ways before they were crowned. And
his admirers were fonG of telling what
the parson would have done if the
squire had played fair. IN. Y. Sur
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
Fighting Phil.

When an Ohio congressman went to
Phil Sheridan's father to look over the
boy for West Point, he was inclined to
favor another brother. The father
said: Don't take him; he is full of
peace. Take Phil; he is full of fight.
He fights all of the boys about here."-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
prc.,dcn. Get. Hi. Diploma.

Washington, July 8. = President Nc
Kinley, upon whom Yale university re-
Gently conferred the degree of doctor
of laws. has received from President
Dwight end the members of the cor
poration the usual diploma. printed
on parchment. The roll was wrapped
in Yale blue silk and encased in an oak
h0x
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
Call Mistress BY Her First Name.

1t is said that the native servants in
Hawaii used to call their mistresses by
their first names. An Englishwoman
of strong will determined on her ar
rival in Honolulu that her servants
should never call her Mary. One day
when she had visitors her cook put his
head in at the drawing-room door and
politely inquired: What vegetables
for dinner to-day, my love?" He had
heard her called that, and seemed
proud of remembering not to say
Mare
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
A Talking Crow.

Henry LiebranGt. of Seymour, Ind,
has talking crow. The bird has often
hearG the mother of the children say to
them: ''Now be right good and come
home as soon as school is out" Every;
Cay, as the children are starting for
school, the crow quotes this sentence
te them.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
OltcEke.

Make medium-sized oatmeal into
stiff paste with boiling water, roll i, out
thin, and bake in slow oven, but do
not ie. i, get brown. When cooled, dry
before the fire. Keep in tin and
heat before serying.-Cincinnati En-
n,l:rer.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
New Tops.

Tops are being manufactured which
are spun by current of air directed by
a blowpipe into the curved channels ex-
tending, outward from central open.
ing in the top.-N. Y. Sun.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
infectious disease in Holland.

In Holland it is customary when
there is infectious disease in the house
to notify the fact to intending visitors
and the public generally by tying a
piece of white rag round the bell
handle.
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15

in power Of vision than human optics.
Next summer when get time I'm 60
ing to teach him the compass, and
then may be able to utilize him at the
wheel. 1 think he would make an cx-
cellent pilot @ '
Griggs courier., 1898-07-15


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Griggs courier., 1898-07-15
Ate Ten Leaves.

When tea was first brought to Eng
land the leaves were eaten.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-16
ENGINEERS TOOTS ENDED.
Reform Secured by the Residents of
Burr Street.

Reform Secured by the Residents of
Burr Street.
The Burr Street Improvement society held
an adjourned meeting last night at the Burr
Street Baptist church. Most of the discussion
related to the work already under way A
vote Of thanks was sent to Supt Stewart,
of the Omaha, for stopping the whistling of
the engines in the yards. The engine crews
had been in the habit Of going through the
yards with their whistles screeching out a
Goodbye" or 81 come home to supper"
from the engineer to his family. This greatly
disturbed the residents Of that district, who
were not interested in the movements Of the
locomotives. and the society took the matter
up with the result that now q whistle Is
seldom heard With the vote of thanks was
coupled request that the superintendent do
The engines come up into the shade of the
Burr street bridge to fire up and the smoke
that attends the operation greatly dstres-es
the citizens. 2
Robert Laux, NJ. Mulane and A. A. N.eu-
hauser were appointed to see the city
engineer with view of having the street
repaired with gravel, instead of soft dirt.
Another committee, consisting of President
Griggs and II. Stocking, was appointed 10
ting In the street lights along Burr stieet.
The street car committee was instructed to
obtain, If possible, better service on the
Lafayette avenue line.
President ]. w. Grigss presided and T.
E. White acted as secretary pro tenn lag.
evening. The meeting adjourned until Oct J.
The society is highly pleased with the result
Of its labors for the past year. ten-foot
boulevard. with plank curbing, II being laid
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-16
TO SPLIT ST. LOUIS.
State Commission to Consider tb,
Proposed Division Tomorrow

State Commission to Consider the
Proposed Division Tomorrow.
A meeting Of the state county bound
ary commission will be held in the
governors office tomorrow to pass
upon the. propositions coming from the
citizens of Polk and ST. Louis coun
ties for "a division of the counties.
The commission is composed of tq1a
governor, secretary of state and the
state auditor, and will merely pass
upon the legality Of the proposition.
After which a joint proclamation
Will be issued by the members of the
board calling the attention of the peo-
pie Of the counties interested and au-
therizing the county officials to give
the question a place on the ticket.
In the city of Duluth the sentiment
seems to be that the proposition to di-
vide st. Louis county is purely politi-
cad. and originated by the Democrat
Popultsts. anxious to cut off the large
Republican range vote which in the
past has controlled the political destiny
OF this county. There are a number or
other questions involved, but the polit-
tcaa aspect seems to be upper1nost.
The Herald, the organ Of the Dem
ocrats and the Populists, has taken I'm
the cudge1 for division. and the Trib-
une, the morning Republican paper
charges that at least those advocates
Of division living i'm Duluth are actuat-
ed by political motives.
The Saint Paul globe., 1898-08-16
DEATHS.

%~~~~SN~>S~<~<~c~~~r~r~c(
at his late residence, $40
German avenue. Sunday. Aug IA, aged
s,sr seventy,sx Years years. Funeral from above
S;4s O'Clock; Service at St. Matthews
church at O'Clock. Please omit flowers.
Belle Plaipe, LIE Sueur, Good Thunder.
Mimi. and Branham, Tex. papers please
copy.
st. Paul, Sunday, Aug. II.
Albert W. Lownsbury, aged 81 years Fu-
neral from family residence Tuesday, Aug.
l6, at 8 O'clock p. m. Remains will be
taken to Sheron, Wis, for interment.
ASH-Carl Ash. corner Hope and Fifth
streets, aged Y years. Funeral from above
residence Tuesday at 2 D. m.
MARKOE-At the family home. White Bear
lake, on Aug. 15, 1898, Maria D. beloved
wife Of William Markoe Sr., aged "a years.
Funeral on Wednesday; Aug. Il, 10 a. M,
at st. Mary's of the Lake. 1nterment in
Catholic cemetery. White Bear.
M'DoNNoUGH-I1na St Paul: a. $50 Brewster
Mary McDonnough, aged ninety y-fve years,
mother of Messrs. James and John McDon-
nough, OF Rosemount. Notice of funeral
hereafter