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Book and Job Printing neatly executed
al the Dispatch Printing House.
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4 UCTION SALE OF FINE OAK

BY the Valentine Auction Company.
500 east Broad street.
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Remnants Linen Table
Damask, 25C. yard for the
4OC. grade.

Sl25 Linen Damask for 65c. yard.
pieces 2, 1-2-. and 23-i-yard lengths
Damasks are 45c. yard for the grade
that sold at Zoe.
Soiled Linen Bureau Scarfs for 1Oc.
each.
6 dozen odd Dinner Napkins, were 81
and $l25 dozen. any for DC. each.
Linen Towels, were 20 and Soc, these
1Sc
Linen Huck Towels. &c. for the 1Oc.
ones.
l2l-2c. Bleached Bath Towels for &c.
INDIA LINONS. &c. YARD FOR 6. s.
AND Toe. GRADES.
Heavy Welt White Piques, 25c. grade.
for " lie. yard.
Checked Nainsooks, lie. yard.
<O-inch India LinOns, Nainsooks, and
Long Cloths, i lie. grade. for &C.
1&S0.
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30 x 90 inch Smyrna
Hearth Rugs, sold at
$3.50, are $I.25.

27-inch Stair Carpet. Red and Green,
was 37i2c., to-day lsc. =
rolls of Fancy Jnlaid Linen-Warp Mat
ting. wrapper stained, 2lc, value, for
lie. "A ward.
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A Joint Session Called.

4 joint meeting Of the Board OF Alder
men and Common Council has beer called
for next Tuesday night for The purpose
of electng trustees 10 follow those whose
terms expire April Sd. There are three
vacancies TO be filled--namely:
First District-R. Edgar Shine.
Second District--R. Il. Briggs.
Third DISQUALIFICATION Burton.
The joint meeting will also elect sue
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lhered thousands scattered for loss To-day. ...
OVER forced them into tegeat furnace
nd Of them for
dollars loss has been agreed upon by the
narx-1own the odays selling
~NYH late will OF stu1s at
II I'M Every family Richmond IS
- to here for the occasion OF dsposg OIL
ftexru
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s2ss to $ was tho price. any for $50.
Navy = Blue Diagonal
Serge, worth 35c., for
I02C. a yard.

Wool Plaids this seasons new patterns,
sold for &c. at Joe. yard
All-Wool Dress Fancies. that sold for
4Sc., for 25c. a yard.
SILK and Wool Novelty Dress Goods
tho TIC. and 81 grades, for 4sc. yard
81 French Broadcloths, s.25 grades, for
zoe. yard.
Blk and Wool Dress Suitlngs for 15c.,
instead of CSC.
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6 p. d. Corsets. priced
SI.75 and 81, for SIPS.

Her Majesty's," 20, q. 26, and %, for
$780, from $3.50.
s Warmers Nursing, 5Oc., from 81.
An assorted lot priced 75c to 81, for SOC.
Young Ladies' COrsets, priced 75c., for
4Oc.: SOC. ones for Csc; Children's, 10c.,
instead of DC
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-24

The chairman ard sub-chairman OF the
Committee on Streets met with the CITY
Attorney city Engineer, and the cooiner
last night and went over the chapter on
streets in the newly-cOdified ordinances.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
Have No Use For Cents.

Pennies are not used by the banks of
New Orleans in the payment Of checks.
If check, for example, is drawn for
$62. 1S, the holder receives $62.20 If
the amount is $62.17, he gets $62. Is.
The split is made between the second
and third cent, and the system, which
has been in vogue for many years, is
very rarely the subject of any COM
plant 1t makes an exact balance Of
coppers at the end Of the days business
rather unlikely, but the doctrine Of av-
erages operates to even things up to
within few cents. In the long run
about as many checks break on one-half
of the nickel as on the other. New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
With the Fading of Beauty.

A 16-year7oh girl imagines that she
is an angel, and never gets over it.
After woman gets old she thinks Of
how she was admired and compliment
ed in her youth and feels that some
great wrong was done her because she
did not remain as pretty as she was at
16. If she is married, she is apt to lay
the blame on the brutality of her hus-
band; if she is an old maid, she lays it
on her father, who was poor and thus
forced her to work. which resulted in
a STOPPING figure and harsh features.
A man never has this experience. He
is at his worst at 16 and does not reach
his best until he is 26 to 80. By that
time he has acquired q little sense, and
never mistakes q compliment for the
truth. -Atchison Globe.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
Sunday School Gems,

Stories of strange and amusing an
swers given to examination questions
are frequently told, but we do not so
often see recorded the equally surpris-
ing answers given by children in Sun
day schools, and yet they are frequent
~ original enough.
A teacher, lately wishing to turn the
young idea toward the mission field,
asked, ."What are good men called who
leave their homes and go to foreign
lands to teach the heatheni'
! 'tProdigal sons. . was the prompt and
triumphant reply. +.
A class Of boys when asked, "What
were the ten plagues?' answered with
more fervor than gallantry, s"The ten
virgins, sir, w estminster Gazette.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
The O1nnipresent Rose.

Every continent on the globe, with.
the exception of Australia, produces
wild roses. There can be little doubt that
the rose is enc of the oldest flowers in the
world and, perhaps, grown from the.
wind blown seeds in Paradise.
In Egypt it is depicted on numbers Of
early bas-reliefs, dating from 5000 to.
$500 r. g. Rosewater or the essence Of.
roses, is mentioned by Homer in the
aIliad, and the flower is spoken of in
the Proverbs Of Solomon.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
WAR AND MATRlMONY.
Cupid Is Much the Busiest In Time
of Peace and Prosperity.

Cupid Is Much the Busiest In Times
of Peace and Prosperity.
There is a close connection between
marriage and the price of wheat, beef.
pork, beans, corn and other things
which go to make up the main portion
of human food, writes Professor D. r.
McAnally of ''The American Girls
Chances Of Marriage, = in The Ladies
Home Journal. '.As the prices Of these
commod ities 60 up the number of mar
riages goes down. From 1851 to 1854
times were good, food was cheap, and
the marriage rate in Massachusetts
went up to 26 per 1000. Between 1856
and 1859 there was great depression of
trade. and in 1853 the marriage rate
went down to II per 1000 The years
from 1878 to 1879 form another period
OF depression. Factories were closed and
manufacturers of every kind suffered
severely. In one year, at least, crops
were short and the prices of food were
high. The result was Immediately seen
In matrimony, for in 1874 the number
of marriages went down from Fl per
1000 of the population to 18, and in
1876 and the following two years de-
clined to is per 1,000-a tremendous
falling off from 26 per ], 1000, the figure
attained in 1854. which was the banner
year in the state of Massachusetts for
znatrimony.
"Almost as unfaxorable as that of
hard times is the influence of war upon
,matrimony. Whenever Mars is in the
ascendant Cupid's stock goes down
During the civil war the number of
marriages in this country fell off from
20 per 1000 of population to II per
/, 900. and Immediately after the civil
war was ended, in 1866, the number
rose ~ per 1000, declining in 1869
to q. The woman who is looking for
husband has better chance of getting
one just before or just after war than
at any other time. - s
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
Money Making Indians.

The Menominee Indians in north
western Wisconsin, are making as much
money in lumber operations as are the
Osages at farming. By the sale Of pine
logs in. years past the 1900 men, wom-
en- and. children have accumulated a
tribal fund aggregating $1,000, 900,
which is still growing. The tribe ex-
ponds about $75, 900 year in logging
operations and clears from $4,000 to
100000 annually.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
"A TWO HOUR BREAKFAST.
IL = one % 4he last II stions 81 new
Orleans.

-
= = e, e 1ae u s. = = -
= - - ISL
Inere ls g place 70 New. Arleans that
strangers are e always glad 20 nave point.
eu ouI--'egeuy ., over n tne french
quart e.. kept py NINE hegeuy lpro-2
nounceo hlgaay, VIII the accent on Ine
last syllable ana famous Ior the preak
iasfs y serves at s 8 CLOCK every morn
ing
orlslnaily tnls orea kIast was lnlend-
go Ior the tnutc hers ana Iney contrl Dnt-
ed TO IT the tdalntlest meats that the
.splendld FRENCH marKet s IN new orleans
provided from day TO day adualiy
on tslders began to come IN, and now
one must engagea seat at brea kfast two
days ahead. Ihe morning the writer
was there distln gulshed Judge OF the
supreme courtWas the principal visitor,
and ne, With his family and several
guests from boston. sal at the head OF
tne liable.
One long banle occupies the little
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
A GRIM CEREMONY.
An EmperOr's Death Hastened by
Rehearsing His Own Funeral.

Emperor Charles V of Spain brought
about his death by rehearsing his own
funeral For the last two years Of his
life, after resigning the scepter Of Spain
and the Netherlands to his son Philip,
in 1866, Charles retired to the monas-
terry of Yuste. in ,Estremadura, and
there lived cloister life in close inter-
course with the monks, devoting much
time to religious exercises. During this
period, prompted it may be by the ex-
ample of Cardinal de la Marck, who
for several years before his death, in
1923, had annually rehearsed his own
obsequies. the emperor. in the summer
of 1868, formed the resolution to cele-
brate his own funeral before he died.
Accordingly, on Aug 80 Of that year,
the grim farce was carried out with the
most elaborate ceremonial The imperial
domestics marched with black tapers in
their hands, and the emperor, clad in
sable weeds, himself followed, wearing
his shroud. While the solemn mass for
the dead was sung before the high altar
in the cathedral Charles gave up his .ta-
per to the priest, IMPLYING thereby his
resignation Of life, and was solemnly
laid in his coffin. The ceremony closed
with sprinkling holy water on his body
then, all the attendants retiring, the
doors were shut, and Charles rose from
his narrow bed and withdrew to his pri-
vate apartment
The damping Of the graveclothes in
duced chill, which, aided no doubt by
the mental depression caused by the
grewsome ceremony, induced fever
which ended in his death three weeks
later. on the 91st of septembe 1888
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
A Missing Link.

1t will doubtless surprise many who
have never even heard Of the brute that
there still exists on the island Of Java
an animal, or rather reptile, which
seems to be the missing link between
the ichthy osauri Of prehistoric days and
the well known saurians of modern
times.
This animal is known to the Javanese
as "linguin. y It fell to the luck Of
Baron Alfonso Pereira, consul general
of Austria Hungary, to shoot one Of
these beasts some years ago. Its length
was between nine and ten feet, and it
looked cross between snake and a
crocodile. Though the beast was cut
and wounded in its encounter with
Baron Pereira it did not bleed.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22

There are in the German empire
about 400, 900 persons belonging to 9TH
er countries
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
g. BIRD FLIGHT.

They hock upon the hazy air,
Silent Of note and purposeful Of wing,
Nor gossip of the nesting time
Disturbs their rhy thmic, air born swing.
Across the dying fields light shadows fall
That, for moments space, obscure thesun;
Then sWift-a graceful troop-they wing their
way,
Pursued in haste by some belated one.
Now all the stubble land turns twilight gray
Album with mystic runes and harvest rills.
Above the watching world a tiny speck
Grows pale and fades against the southern
hills.
Elizabeth Alden Curtis in Phiiistine
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
LambIike Resis.natiOn.

Charles Lamb, when reminded BY his
sisters Of the days when they were poor
and capable of enjoying the smallest
treat with the keenest relish, SO differ
ent from the days when they were rich
and surfeited. said. Well, Mary. since
We#are in easy circumstances we must
endeayor to put up with it.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
PennsyIyania~ sand Mines.

There are all kinds Of mines in Penn
sylvania The greatest are Of course the
iron and coal mines, but few people.
would guess that the next extensive
mining industry is the sand mines in
western Pennsylvania. These mines are
rarely underground, however, and many
Of them are viewed with wonder by
passengers on the Pennsyl vania, app.
preaching Pittsburg. Whole mountains
are being dug away, and the granular,
rocks forming them are being reduced
to sand for the manufacture of glass III
and about Pittsburg Philadelphia
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
An Undertakings.

Isabel, does your husband get angry
when he tells you to wake him early
and you dent do it p
.sNo, dear He knows that 4 know he
doesn t mean ii. - Chicago Record
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22

Action repeated becomes habit. Habit
long continued becomes second nature.
We are today what we were accus-
toned to do yesterday and the day be-
fore. Lyman Abbott
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
Zoe, 25c II G. c. c. fail, druggists refund money.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-03-22
Detectlng Flaws In Metal.

To detect hidden cracks opening from
the surface of metals the surface is first
moistened with kerosene and is then
dried off with cloth. It is then coated
with chalk. After little while the oil
works out of the little cracks and stains
the chalk. "A sort Of diagram of the hid
den assures and defects is thus pro-
duced.
Professor G. Lloyd Morgan has in his
book on Habit and Instinct advanced
the theory that, while the calls and
alarm notes uttered by birds are prob
ably due to simple instinct, their songs
may be traditional that is. handed
down from generation to generation
and perpetuated through the faculty Of
imitation.
The evening times., 1899-03-24
New York Cotton Market.
The Retired Burglar.

(From the New York SUM-
.'It is the unexpected" said the retired
burglar that upsets us. man who
would walk straight into battle with per-
feet readiness and calmness might be
greatly startled by the explosion OF toy
pistol close by when he wasn't looking for
il. man who was looking for ugsrs
might walk up to a tiger without tremoT
and vet be scared half to death by cat.
| was once myself not scared exactly, but
certainly thrown clean of my balance By
so simple thing as an ordinary domestic
cat, met under unusual circumstances.
Il was prospecting the interior OF a
house in the usual way and at the usual
hour of my profession, and in due course
had reached an upper chamber, In whlch
| set my lamp down upon the bureau pre-
paratory to work. There was a man asleep
in the bed at my back in this room, but
he was to all appearances sound asleep.
and / apprehended no trouble from him.
There were in the top drawer of this bu-
reau a few trinkets worth removing, and
when / had got them into my bag l shut
that drawer and started TO open the mex.
1t was a good bureau, drawers wo- king
slick and smooth, and / pulled the second
drawer out as far as | wanted it at touch.
AS looked down into ii l saw SOMETHING
cleaning there in a dim sort of way IN
the dark and the next minute | heard a
sort of a zoop, in the atmosphere, or
thought / did, and something leaped out
of that drawer and went up over my
shoulder, Just touching my face as 1t pass
ed.
1T was a cat That's all. Just cat. !
suppose it had been around the room there
in the afternoon, and that drawer had been
left open and the cat had jumped into it
and gone to sleep there. and had been shut
in there still asleep when the drawer was
closed, after dusk, maybe, and the cat was
not noticed. All those things l realized as
the cat went over my shoulder, which was
only fraction of a second after the time
when / had seen its eyes-as l now know
them to have been-shining in the dra "
er But in that very brief period had in
voluntarily started back: / don't suppo e
any man is absolutely proof against sur
prise. But, even SO, ! should have been
all right in half second and nothing
would have happened if / hadn't caught
my heel in rug in stepping back.
couldn't recover myself, though i had
completely recovered my mental self-eon-
troll before / had fallen.
Il went down with a crash that just
made the house rattle, falling with my
head on the floor close up by the side OF
the bed. The man in the bed was light
ming. He woke up, turned over, and
swung his arm in a sweep down from tie
side of the bed while / was turning over
on the floor His hand just. ticked my
head as / turned away from it-oniy q
touch, but it was the touch of man that
wasn't shy, and in one instant l heard ths
spring of the bed crash under him as be
The evening times., 1899-03-24
A Bull Fight in Mexico.

H.
According to the almost unanimous re-
port OF travellers the ancient art of bull
hghting Is sadly deteriorating on this side
of the world, particularly in Mexico. Mr..
Z. T.. Jones, journalist of New Haven
Conn.,, who has been spending a few days
In New Orleans after protracted visit to
the sister republic, tells an interesting sto-
ry OF a late experience at the national
arena at the City of Mexico. II saw sew
eral fights there he said. "and was tre-
mendously disappointed. They were sup
posed to be notable affairs, and the chief
mstador was the star performer of Madrid
brought over on special engagement at an
enormous salary. Nevertheless, the snort
struck me as being wofully tame, and lack
ing excitement its brutality was doubly re-
voting. In no instance did the matador
succeed in killing the bull with the one
clean stroke that had read so much about
but which old-timers assured me was very
seldom seen. On the contrary, he stabbed
and prodded the wretched animals until
turned from the scene in sheer disgust. He
made five lunges at one animal, and finally
stuck it in the throat and let it die slowly
OF internal hemorrhage. In another fight
the bull, which was splendid brute. drove
his horns up to the roots in the body of one
of the horses. The poor creature kept his
feet and twice his rider managed to urge
him right up to his assailant. Both times
the bull looked at the wounded brute, low
cred his head irresolutely and then walked
away. 1t was as much as to say: No, that
fellow has had enough And for one ap-
plauded involuntarily. Taken all in all, the
fights were indescribably dreary and unin-
teresting. One would get exactly the same
kind OF fun by visiting Chicago slaughter
house and taking a seat over the killing
pen. The native spectators. however, were
very enthusiastic, and so for that matter
were the newspapers, but l went away con-
vinced that the destinations of the arena
had seither been grossly exaggerated or had
materially waned-pTobably little Of
both.''
The evening times., 1899-03-24
,Possum in New York state.
u. Alden Loring. in sciencel


During the present year several Virginia
opossums CDidelphis Virginiana) have been
killed near Owego, Tioga county. " Y.
Some twelve years ago farmer residing
near here told me ne had killed one. Last
fall large female was killed on noun
tain side two miles east Of this village. and
while myself hunting a mile further east,
on December g. / met hunter who had
just caught two. He had tracked them q
mile or so through the snow, and finally
dug them out ,Hf woodchuck's hole. They
were both dead when found, probably hav-
ing starved, as their stonachs were empty.
Their skulls are in my possession. Several
days later he secured another, an old one.
the sex do not know. Ii was taken four
miles west of where the two young ones
were captured. The animal is alive and in
his possession. This man is an oId-time
hunter and trapper. and considered truth
full He told me he had seen their tracks
several times before. / have f-i-e ed 10 learn
of any one who has liberated a pair of
these ANIMALS, or even had pair in cap
tivity. Word of the capture of two early
in the fall has come to me, but / cannot
say if ii is authentic