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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-26
One of the Chief Features of the
Nineteenth Century.

The nineteenth century which is rapidly
drawing to a close has marked a period
of great progression and marvellous pro-
auctions. Not least among the latter is
the Pioneer Limited of the Milwaukee
road--the only perfect train in the world
running daily between the Twin Cities,
Milwaukee and Chicago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-26
soAPLEss COUNTRY.
People of India Use Less Than an
Ounce Each Year.

In spite of British rule, India is vir-
tually a soapless country. Throughout
the villages Of Hindustan soap Is, indeed
regarded as a natural curiosity, and it
is rarely If ever kept by the native shop
keeper In the towns 1t is now sold to
a certain extent, but how small this is
may be gathered from the fact that the
yearly consumption of soap in India is
about 100000 hundred weight; that is to
say, every $500 persons use on an aver
age only liz pounds of soap among them;
or, in other words, considerably less than
an ounce is the average consumption Of
a person.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-26
OLD STORY RETOLD.
Careless Handling of Fire Arms Re-
suits In a Tragedy.

suits In Tragedy.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 25.-Maggie
Drayer, the fourteen-year- daughter of
John Drayer, was shot and instantly
killed, at o'clock this afternoon, by Mrs.
William Taylor. A number of children,
including Maggie Drayer, were at the
Taylor house, playing with pop guns,
when Mrs. Taylor, saying she had some
thing that would beat their pop guns
picked up an old musket. which she ac-
cidentally discharged. The entire load
of shot entered the girls breast. Death
resulted instantaneously. 1t is feared
Mrs. Taylor will lose her reason.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-26
VICTIMS OF MAINE.
Battleship Texas Brings Bodies
Home for Burial.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Dec 25-The
battleship Texas in command of Can't
Sigsbee, arrived here shortly before noon
today with the remains of, the men who
lost their lives by the destruction of the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor The
bodies of the Isl Maine heroes who were
brought up on the Texas will be trans
ferred to a Chesapeake & Ohio train to-
morrow at II o'clock. and will be taken
to Washington for interment in Arlington
cemetery next Thursday.
The Texas left Havana last Thursday.
She encountered gale off Hatteras, but
had good weather until she reached that
point She anchored in Lynn Haven bay
/ last night, and came up to Old Point
this morning. After the quarantine reg
ulations had been complied with she pro-
ceeded to this city.
The Rev. Father Chadwick, who was
| chaplain of the Maine is in charge of
the remains of the dead heroes. and will
accompany them to Washington Not
more than a score of the bodies on the
Texas were identified. The names of
these are inscribed on the collins which
enclose their mortal remains.
There We're no ceremonies here today in
honor of the arrival of the Names dead
but impressive exercises will take place
tomorrow. when the bodies are trans
ferred from the ship to the train. The
tomorrow at midnight.
WASHINGTON. sDec 25.-The remains
of the dead Of the cruiser Maine will ar
rive here tomorrow. and be inferred at
Arlington cemetery Thursday at II o'clock
In the presence of President Mckinley
most of the members of his cabinet and
a large contingent of army and navy
officers and others. The funeral rites
over the dead will be performed by
Chaplain Chadwick who was attached
to the cruiser when she was blown up
in Havana bay. The chaplain of the naval
academy will assist him. A pretty. grassy
knoll near where the Santiago dead rest
has been selected as the final abiding
place of the remains of the dead seamen.
Relatives and friends have claimed TWEEN
ty-two Of the bodies, and will give them
private interment under an arrangement
with the navy department. which has
taken charge of the burial of all the
bodies, either unidentified or unclaimed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-26
WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAILWAY.

Change of Passenger Station Mt
Chicago.
Patrons please take notice, on and after
Monday, December 18th, The Wisconsin
Central will use the Central Passenger
Station, Park Row and Twelfth ST., Chi
cago, for Passenger Terminals
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MANY MILLIONS LOST
SAD CHRISTMAS FOR THE PLUNG-
ERS IN THE MAELSTROM OF
WALL STREET
BIG sHRINKAGE IN STOCKS

Total VIII Foot Up In the Neighbour
hood of One Billion DOlIars-That
Is What Tends to Cast Gloom
Over the Close of an Otherwise
Prosperous Year-An Trusts Suf-
fered Alike and the Most.
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Boston, for example, one group of stocks
alone-copper mines-have declined on the
eve of Christmas approximately $500, OO0,-
600. Figures like these are easily cited,
not easily comprehended Ruin is their
significance to hosts
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CULTURE OF COFFEE
GOOD CHANCES ARE OPEN TO
SMALL FARMERS IN
BRAZIL
TREES GROW IN THREE YEARS
If Properly Placed, n Crop Each
Season for Twenty or Thirty
Years Can Be Depended Upon
The Average Yield Per Tree Is
From Three to Six Pounds
Names Are Confusing.

Some interesting facts about coffee are
printed in the second number of little
magazine called the Brazilian Bulletin, the
organ of Mackenzie college in Brazil. The
writer of the article was able to learn little
OF the early history Of coffee, although 1t has
been in use at least 1,00O. years. The very
origin Of the name by which the little berry
is known is obscure. 1t has been said that
the word came from the Arabic kahwah but
this is a doubtful conclusion, as coffee did
not originate in Arabia A somewhat better
explanation is that it took its name from
Kaffa. a province in Abyssinia. where it Is
found growing in a wild state.
The coffee plant belongs to the genus coffea,
ard is an evergreen. 1t usually grows from a
single shaft, although sometimes six or eight
slender trunks form the plant. It's leaves
are smooth and dark green and the flowers
Of the plant are fragrant and white. The
berries themselves, the essential part OF the
plant. are formed in clusters Of from three
to twelve in number, and have very short
stems or more at all. In size the berries are
when ripe, about as large as the ordinary
cranberry. and they resemble that fruit
rather closely also in shape and color. In
each berry are two little seeds, each little
irregular half sphere, surrounded by a vel
lowish, sweet pulp that must be removed by
one process or another The berries must be
polished to put them in shape for the market
Those familiar with the produce market
may remember seeing the expression male
berry, or pea berry. Sometimes the berry
contains only one seed, which is almost
round, and this seed has taken the name
male" Much of the Mocha coffee is OF that
sort, and it is found in several places to some
extent. ~
In the several varieties Of coffee there is no
very great difference, and what there is may
be the result Of differences in climate and
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THINGS THAT HAPPEN.

Washington-Maj. Gen. Ludlow. of the
lieved of his duties and to go to the
Philippines.
Washington-The condition Of Senator
to his recovery. Ex-Gov. Fletcher, Of
Missouri, has improved slightly.
Santiago de Cuba-Maj. Gen Wood
skeleton found a few days ago west of
Ell MORO is that of Admiral Villamil.
London-An Anglo Egyptian expedition
finally dispose of the Khalifa Abdullah
and the other Dervish leaders in the
Soudan.
Calcutta-The Indian budget in almost
every department of revenue shows i'm
provement. 1t Is estimated there will be
a surplus of G3,0O0,0 900 ($15, ,000, ,000) for the
fiscal year 1889.
New York-The committee of the whole
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church DIR. John Halls church. decfd-
ed at a meeting today to recommend
that Rev. Alexander Connell, of London,
be called.
NEW YORK-The Third cavalry troop.
which is to take part in the military
games of the Military Athletic league,
which begin In Madison Square Garden
tomorrow, arrived at the. garden today
from Fort Ethan Allen.
Havana-The demonstration in honor
of Gen. Gomez today was a success,
some 400 or 500 men and women forming
on the Prado and marching to the resi-
dence of Gen. Gomez where they were
Joined by a similar deputation from
Guanajay.
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expense of production has been against them
as compared with planters in other countries.
This. 1t is hoped, will change in time for
coffee is a crop that the small farmer who
has not appeared to any great extent In Bra
zll, can most easily raise. One farmer can
easily take care Of from 2,0G0 to 10000 coffee
trees, while he is cultivating his corn, rice,
beans and other products and caring for his
cattle. While the price of coffee was high
the Brazilian planters almost invariably raised
that crop exclusively, and thus lessened their
income; when the price of coffee went down
the Brazilian planters were left in the lurch
and could not get their coffee to market with
out loss
When the coffee in Brazil was some
what limited the crop open to the dangers
Of excessive and sudden changes of the ell
matte conditions. Now the area devoted to
coffee is SO large that no purely local acct
dent or mishap can ruin the crop entirely,
and the range Of latitude in the area is so
great that when the coffee plants are BIOS
soming in one part of Brazil the ripe fruit is
gathered in another. Thus the market is sup
piled throughout the year.
"It Is a singular fact" the author says,
that while English and German capital has
been attracted to the coffee industry Of Bra
zil, and large sums have been invested, Amer
lean capital and enterprise have not seen this
hne opening, which Is particularly attractive
to the small farmer. but have been looking up
the same thing in the Sandwich islands and
Mexico, where the conditions are less favor
able"
The Inducements offered to the small farm
ers of coffee are attractive. The process of
laying out a coffee orchard is described as
very simple. The farmer first cleans the vir-
gin forest by cutting down the trees in his
way. When the trees are dry they are burned
and the land Is divided off into squares. This
can be done, it is said, at expense of
from s37 to $54 acre. The holes for the
plants are dug from eight to twelve feet apart
and from six to eight inches deep. The
process Of planting Is varied by the planters,
some preferring to plant young trees that have
been started in nurseries, others to plant the
seeds in the orchard. Two or three seeds are
put into each hole, which is covered with
roof Of bark or chips, and this is kept on un-
til the plants can bear the hot sun. Corn
and beans can be planted between these holes
for the frst two years. The coffee tree at
bearing age has cost the small farmer from
about q cents to "a cents. The small farmer
can give to his coffee degree of attention
not possible In large estate.
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FAMILY WIPED OUT.

Ten of Eleven Inmates of "a Single
House Killed.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. March 1s.-Addi-
tional details of last nights cyclone, near
Edwardsville. were received here tonight.
7 he following is a list of the dead and
wounded, so far as is known:
DEAD
LEWIS COFFEE, aged fiftyfve, tax
| assessor of Cleburne county. and the fol
lowing members of his family
MRS. COFFEE, aged forty-six
LEILA, aged twenty-five.
JAMES, aged twenty.
LULA, aged eighteen.
JACOB, aged thirteen.
| DEVORE, aged eight.
| DOLLIE, aged ten.
GROVER, aged six.
JOHN, aged six.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, near Hef1in.
THE WOUNDED.
Bessie Coffee. aged twelve, daughter
| of Lewis Coffee; will die.
Mrs. Runnells. aged seventy-five; will
die.
Myrlin stansell, aged five: will proba-
bly, die.
Mrs. ]. H. Cason
Tom Runnells.
Wood Stansell
Andrew Streipan; all seriously hurt
Mary Streipan.
| Lizzie Runnells.
j. II. CaSOn.
John NJ Stansell.
Gainesville Stansen
ToSh Stansell.
Coleman StanSell.
Several other people were more or less
seriously injured, but their names are
not known.
CONICAL CLOUD.
The path of the storm was about 200
yards wide and 1t traversed the country
for twelve miles. beginning in the north
ern part of Cleburne county, near Iron
City, and moving southwark Those who
saw it say that there was an immense
conical cloud, and that it bounded along
like a rubber ball, rising at intervals and
leaping. for several hundred yards with
out doing any damage. Then when 1t
descended it would pick up houses and
crush them to pieces, uproot trees OF
twist them off level with the ground and
sweep all with 1t. as'' s s5t, 81. a'
Lewis Coffee's residence, strong
double house. situated on a little hill was
in the path Of the storm. 1t was swept
away and the timbers scattered for Il
mile. Ten of it's eleven occupants were
instantly killed. Except the body of the
baby, which was found under the ruins
Of the chimney, the corpses of the victims
were carried half a mile and nine of them
were found heaped together. Every body
had been stripped of its clothing
In the same neighborhood the resi-
dences Of ]. Wilder J. H. Cason, Andrew
Streipan and Ben StanseH were wrecked
and all their occupants injured. Near
Halfin, a white woman, whose name can
not be learned, was instantly killed and
five persons In the same family hurt II
is estimated that about fifty buildings
were destroyed; between twenty and
| twenty-five persons were injured ano
| over a score of farms devastated.
| Several negroes are missing.
| Another cyclone struck in extreme
| Northeastern Alabama, blowing dowr
| several small houses at Hazel Green anj
| still another visited the southeastern par
| of the state demolishing the little towr
| of Sellers.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20

Children deprived of fats
and mineral foods have
weak bones, fabby flesh and
thin watery. blood.
The milk of nursing
mothers, enfeeblesd < by chron-
ic diseases, or long contin-
ued nursing, produces the
same results.
Scott's Emulsion is cod
liver oil partly dfgested and
with the hypophosphites,
forms a fat food which acts
ON the infant through the
mothers milk, giving rich
blood, strong nerves and
sound flesh and bones to both.
sec. and stoo, all druggists
SCOTT BOVINE, Chemists. New York
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
CROW HATCHERY.
The Singular Industry Established
by Man in Pennsylvania.

The singular Industry Established
by n Man in PennsyIvania.
New York Press.
Mr.. Billings. of Brookdale has taken a
contract to furnish a New York millinery
manufacturer with crow heads for 25
cents apiece. 1t costs something to get a
dead crow. Alive it is an elusive bird,
and ammunition is expensive Billings,
however, is an enterprising Speculator.
He has devised a scheme by which a
maximum number of crows heads can
be got with a minimum of expense He
has set up chicken incubator, In which
is placed as fast as laid the eggs of about
100 hen crows that have been trapped and
confined with perhaps a dozen cock
crows. Within fifteen days the little
creatures are Matched and a fortnight
later they are ready to be beheaded II
Is understood that the head of a crow
chick is worth just as much as that OF
the adult of the same species. At the
uniform rate of four for 81, dead, they
will pay the producer. Billings has the
only crow hatchery in the world, and he
is proud of his achievement.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
vIpER's BITE.
Overcome by the Use of Mushroom
Juice In Vaccination.

Overcome by the Use of Mushroom
Juice In Vaccination.
New York Tribune.
1t does not yet appear that steak and
mushrooms, taken in the ordinary way,
will cure the well known disorder which
makes man see snakes; but it is re-
ported from France that incubation with
preparation of mushroom Juice will
overcome the effects of vipers bite. M
Thesalix describes a number of experi-
ments which he has conducted with this
fluid. obtained by macerating the fungi.
in an equal weight of chloroform water.
After "a hours the solution is drawn Off
and filtered AT first it is of a brownish
hue, but it soon turns to an inly black
ness. Subcutaneous injections Of the ex-
tract produce in rabbits the same symp-
toms as the venom of a viper The ac-
count at hand does not, however. specify
that the new serum has been effectively
employed to restore an animal that has
first been bitten by a snake or had been
inoculated artificially with viper venom.
AS the case stands, therefore, the alleged
discovery needs to be developed further
before its practical value can be looked
upon as fully demonstrated.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
Same Over There.

London Cor. New York Mail and E,xuress
Piccadflly, one of the greatest thor
oughfares in London. receives its only
light at night from antiquated lamp
posts. which were originally designed to
hold oil lamps, and when gas came ir,
vogue We're rearranged for their present
use. The committees of every club i'm
q joint communication to the vestrv of
St Georges, Hanover square. on Dec.
70 last, requesting that this great thor
with electricity or otherwise. The rata
Die value of the combined clubs amounts
to about $3.50 100000. Evidently municipal
Dooles are as arlstocratic in London as
they are in America, for up to date M
action has been taken in the matter by
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
SHOT OF GOLD
Used by Indians, According to
story of a. New EI Dorado

Used by Indians, According to q
story of New EI Dorado.
San Francisco Chronicle.
A strange tale concerning the Indians
of the northern part of this continent
using gold for shot in their guns Is told
by John Piche. an old trapper and pros
pector who has pursued the wilds of the
Hudson Bay country for the last quar-
ter of century. He is now at Van
couver. where he Is waiting to get grub
stake to go to this golden ''shot MILL
Piche claims that he has made two
trips to the Hudson straits He says that
this mysterious gold land is somewhere
in the Barrow archipelago, as Piche was
told by a priest who has been in that icy
region, principally northeast Of the
mouth Of the Mackenzie river for the
last twenty-one years.. The tale was first
got by native Indian of the Barrow
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20

country. who drifted on an ice foe on the
south coast of the barren lands. He was
suffering with wound in his shoulder.
and when the missionary doctored him
he was astounded to find a piece of gold
In the red mans shoulder. The priest
showed the nugget to Piche and produced
several others that he got from the In
CLANS that tnhabit the borders of the bar
rem lands when they returned from their
annual trip to the coast for their supply
OF golden nuggets to use for shot
Il have other information that cor
roborates the priests story" writes the
trapper. that was related to me by
native of the islands. l met him In Hud-
son straits about twenty-five years ago"
Fiche claims TO have navigated the
head waters of the Saskatchewan river
when the old steamer Northcott was yet
new there, and says that he knows where
to find this unknown Ell Dorado.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20

are going to school to learn the primitive
art. They say 1t is easy enough to droop
the eyes and affect bashfulness, but to
call up mantling color is as difficult as
pulling eye teeth.
How the crimsoning flow of red blood to
the palifd cheek is accomplished in these
I'm de steele schools OF department 1t IL
hard to imagine, unless it is that they
nave taken a page out of Du Maurier' s
joke book and emulate the society girl
who surprised her friend by always blush
ing at the right time. How can you
manage ft?' asked the other girl envious-
ly. oh. it is very easy the expert
blusher replied. "I simply think Of some-
thing that makes me blush"
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
DEATHS OF A DAY.

CHICAGO, March 1s-Dr. Oliver Marcy,
dean of Northwestern university and
professor of natural history in that in
stitution, died today at his home In
Evanston, afte ra long Illness, aged sew
enty-nine. He had been connected with
Northwestern university since 1862 DR.
Marcy was a member of a number OF
scientific societies and was considered an
authority on all the natural sciences.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
VEGETABLE BATTERY.
German Scientists Discover nm
"EIectricity Tree"

A German authority has recently an
nounced the discovery of a tree In the
forests of Central India which has most
curious characteristics. The leaves of
the tree are of highly sensitive nature,
and so full of electricity that whoever
touches one of them receives an electric
shock 1t has a very singular effect upon
a magntfc needle, and will influence it
at distance of even seventy feet. The
electrical strength of the tree varies ac-
cording to the time of day, it being
strongest at midday. and weakest at mid
night. In wet weather its powers dis
appear altogether. Birds never approach
the tree nor have insects ever been seen
t,poY,
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
RUSSIA BACKS CHINA.
VIII Aid the OrientaIs In RESISTING
the Demands of Italy.

VIII Aid the Orfentals In Resistinr .,
the Demands of Italy.
LONDON. March 20.-The st. Peters,
burg correspondent of the Daily Mail
says:
1t is asserted here that negotiations
are almost concluded by which the
treaty port New Chwang, province of
Leao Tong, on the river Liaou near the
CUR OF Pc Chi Ii, will become a Rus
sian possession, Russia undertaking in
return to support China in resisting the
demands of Italy
The Pekin correspondent of the Times
says: Sir Claude Macdonald British
minister) has been urging the tsung II
yamen to grant the Belgian demand
Tor concession at Hankow, but China
declines, and the British advocacy OF
belplum's proposal is regarded as un-
reasonable and inconsistent.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
MEANEsT MAN ON RECORD.

His Reason for Not Keeping an En-
Eagement With a Girl.
Chicago Chronicle
A mean man on the South side agreed
early in the week to meet girl at lunch
con down town last Saturday, and after
luncheon they were going to the matinee.
The girl kept her part of the contract.
She dressed in new silk waist and a
violet bonnet, and was in the lunch room
as the clock struck 1. After she had
waited about five minutes there came a
note from the mean man. 1t said:
The enclosed cards will show you why
/ can't keep my engagement"
The enclosed cards announced that
he had been married to a chum of hers
that morning.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
SCHOOL FOR BLUsHING.
Paris Institute for Teaching Swee1
EN- Embarrassment

EN- mbarrassment.
One of the late novelties of Paris. that
city of novelties. Is school where blush
ing is taught If there is any place where
blushing has become a lost art, one would
certainly think it was Paris. but the Par
isians. on the other hand. declare that 1t
is result of Anglomania and the influ-
ence of the American girl. The young
woman who plays golf or rides a bicycle
in nationals" in the freest camaraderie
with her male friends is likely to ACQUIRE
self-poise which will make the flush of
embarrassment stranger to her cheeks.
and the city where women are bicycling
on the boulevard with their bare knees
exposed has felt the necessity of a reac-
tion. The classic grace and simplicity of
the early years of the century. with their
accompanying downcast eyes and sirnp-
ers. are now In vogue again, and the
maidens who have forgotten how to blush
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
Coat Hangers.

Grotesque coat hangers, particularly
effective in a college room or some man s
den, are made in the form of grinning,
distorted dwarfs of curious bird heads,
whose elongated beaks serve as support
for the coat or hat. They are of Japanese
design and make, and are found more
often in the San Francisco shops than in
the Japanese stores of the East, although
they are occasionally seen here.
The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-20
EmperOr's Dignity.

Offenses against Kaiser Wilhelm's dig
nifty in the one year 1898 were punished
taken altogether. with $500 years of i'm
prisonment, according to the Nurnberger
Zeitung, q Social-Democratic newspaper