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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-04-07
Minneapolis Grain.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 4.
WHEAT-April closed at 69Hc; May,
691sc; July, Tic. On Track-No. hard,
7O5sc; No. l Northern, $3.50; No2 North
ern, 68Nc.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-04-07
DO YOU TRAVEL

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sexe e. EHSadashes, NsrvolsDess, Seaslck
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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-04-07
Chicago Grain and Provision

Chicago Grain and Provisions.
CHICAGO, April 4.
CLOSING PRICES.
WHEAT-May, 71N@7sc; July, 1870.
CORN--April, 337sc; May, $500; July.
i5Mc; September 1910.
OATS-April, 25aEc; May, 26Hc; July,
35%@25Mc w.. s.
PORK--April, 5000; May, 30; July.
!923&@925.
POULTRY-Dressed turkey, 11@13c;
chickens, 9%@10c; ducks, 1O@11c.
i BUTTER Creameries, 14@20Hc; dair-
les. 111a@lsc. -~. 49,. @&ss -
EGGS--Fresh, 1870. J., ~
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-04-07
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

: Chicag" Union Stock Yards.
CHICAGO, April 1.
HOGS-Market slow, shade lower.
Sales ranged at So S5@3. 9214 for mixed
and butchers; $3.80@395 for good
heavy; S365@3.75 rough heavy; $3.67H
for light.
CATTLE-Market steady.
Sales ranged at s4.O0@5.60 for beeves;
81, 9O@4. 80 for COWS and heifers; So 5O@5. 10
and feeders
SHEEP-Market steady
Sales ranged at s3.5o@3.00 for sheep:
g. 5O06.OO for lambs
Receipts: Hogs, $4,000; cattle, 5000;
sheep, 5000.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
DOG IN A DIVORCE COURT.
Bloodhound at Bucharest Picks Up q
Bit OF Evidence.

A Bloodhound at Bucharest Picks Up
Bit OF Evidence.
A certain well-known inhabitant Of
Bucharest is the director of a manu-
factory which, being situated in the
outskirts of the city, he goes to early
each morning returning late in the aft
ernoon. The director was some few,
years ago married to the daughter of
a rich merchant. He also possesses a:
splendid bloodhound, which had become
very clever in finding and bringing any
lost object of his master or mistress.
Little did the director, when teaching
his dog this trick, fancy to what pur-
pose he was doing it. Among his in
innate friends he reckoned a certain
banker, and visiting him one after
noon, accompanied by his dog, he no.
ticed it sniff around the waste paper
basket, and then bring out from among
the scraps Of paper green silk hand
kerchief, which seemed strangely ia
miliar to him. He seized it and pock-
eted it without the banker noticing,
and soon after took his leave. The
lady was packed off to her parents and
proceedings for divorce commenced.
She ultimately confessed to having
given the handkerchief as memento,
which the banker had thrown into his
waste paper basket to be found by the
intelligent bloodhound.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
NE WOMAN'S OCCUPATION.

She Has 10000 Frogs on Her Califor-
mia Ranch.
At Siege, little station about twen-
ty miles from San Francisco, frog
rancho is located, named after the first
owner of the land roundabout. The
Siege ranch extends from the bay shore
up to the ridge of the coast range Of
mount tains, which incloses both shores
of San Francisco bay. In the lower
portions of the ranch a great number
of springs gush out of the soil in CO.
pious volumes. It was the springs that
determined the first location of the
ranch. The site, overlooking an ex-
pansive view of the beautiful bay, was
capable Of vast improvement. A dozen
acres, >inclosing the springs, were sur
rounded with hedge of cypress. The
grounds were laid out with taste and
soon presented the rare beauty incl
dent to the profuse vegetation of a
semi-tropical Climate. Three ponds
were formed by combining the waters of
the flowing springs, some acres in ex-
LtuI, duu oCOChCu "4SA AAo6o. A ASASS
high enough to prevent the escape OF
the inmates surrounded each, and the
ponds were filled with aquatic plants
and MOSES. Then hundreds of frogs
were placed in the ponds, and from
the original stock the increase has been
so great that, though thousands are
sent to market yearly, the withdrawals
have no sensible effect upon the vast
numbers.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16

DR.. Wolfram, a reputable physician
IN Augsburg, Germany, claims to have
under his surveillance the "most nota-
BILE and extraordinary example of an
electrical girl, embodying in her small
frame the elements of powerful mag
net and of a first-class thunder
storm" The doctor says that medical
science never before had the good for
tune to take cognizance of a case pre-
senting such marvellous phenomena,
but adds that, despite the apparently
unprecedented nature of the thing, all
can be satisfactorily explained. The
electrical girls name is Barbara
Roschlau; she is IA years of age, well
built and enjoys good health. She is
a, servant in the employ of well-to-do
farmer, George Hoffman, in Kupe,
Franconia; is thoroughly unsophisti-
Gated, unromantic, and unlearned in.
the art of deception. The doctor lays
stress on the fact that his patient does.
not incline to hysteria and that she.
was most unwilling witness, declar-.
Ing over and over again that cts moth
ing, and that the spell will pass of. y
Here are the Doctors observations: On:
July rs, says Wolfram, I happened to;
call at the farm and was talking to
Mrs. Hoffman in the kitchen, when my
attention was attracted by a knife fly
ing through the air over Barbara's
head. The knife struck the floor close
to my foot. was about to say some
thing on the habit of firing knives
about, when the woman began to cry
and Barbara ran from the room. Then
I was told that every once in a while
things like that happen in the house
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
Agreement with Reluctance.

Lord Justice Romer of England has
swept away venerable precedent and
established a greatly improved one in
it's place. The old one was in a case
where two judges had delivered oppo-
site judgments, and third observed,
oracularly: IT agree with my brother
A for the reasons given by my brother
b. This is, of course, we'll known,
but the new one is much finer. Lord
Justice A. l.. Smith had delivered judg-
ment, dismissing an appeal. Lord JUS
tice Collins said: 81 agree" '"I also
agree" said Romer, L. J. cone mo-
ment,'' said Collins; IT haven't fin
ished yet," and he proceeded to give his
reasons. Then there was a solemn
pause, and everybody looked anxiously
at Romer. Firmly, if somewhat sadly,
he spoke: II still agree" Detroit Free
Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
Clever Way to Catch q Thief.

From the Philadelphia Record: A.
lady in Paris is reported to have lost
her purse in dressmaker's establish
ment She had all the young ladies Of
the establishment called in, so it is Sc
riously reported, and demanded from
each one a lock of her hair. The tok-
ems were then pinned to pieces Of pa
per bearing the owners names, and as
the customer left the establishment
she remarked: "My purse has been
stolen, but as do not wish to subject
innocent girls to the humiliation Of
being searched, intend early tomor-
row morning to subject your hair and
handwritings to a somnambulist and
clairvoyant, who will tell me which
of you is the thief" In the course OF
the evening the lady received an
anonymous parcel containing intact
her purse with its contents.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16

such as Bulwer-Lytton has described in
his famous book. To make her case
plain to the layman, it is but necessary
to point out that in electricity unlike
charges attract each other, while SIM
llarly charged bodies repel each other.
So it comes to pass that a piece of
bread or rag, which this human
Leyden jar holds in her hand for some
time, becomes so charged with elec-
tricity of the kind that pervades Bar
Ibara's body that it tears itself loose
and falls down upon the ground. This
paper states that Barbara combines
the elements of thunderstorm in her
body. I will explain: When storm
occurs the clouds overhead are full of
positive electricity, which attracts the
negative electricity in the earth. Thus
lightning is generated. On the days
when our experiments were conducted
ihe air in the sneighborhood was over
charged with ctricity-eiectricity of
another kind than that pervading Bar
Fbara's system. Hence the violent con-
lcussions when the two dissimilar
Icharges col1ided. The fact that objects
! " toward Barbara is explained by the
principle that one electric body causes
others to be oppositely charged by
induction. That accomplished, the
positive and negative electric forces
attract each other and ''go for each
other" But that does not explain why
these manifest tations occur in a certain
locality and do not show in another.
1t puzzled me greatly, but an investi-
cation Of the scene of action explained
all. I found that the Hoffman home
stead is built on sandy ground, full Of
CLASSY ingredients, and therefore al
most a complete insulator, preventing
electric discharges from escaping.
& ss.5i DIR. WOLFRAM
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16

about the place, the family
consisting of himself and wife,
Barbara and an old cook. The cook
I found to be an easily frightened, very
religious woman, from whose mind
nothing could be farther than any sort
of deception liable to upset the usual
order of things. Old Maria is, more
over, the young girls devoted friend.
AS to Hoffman and his wife, they are
thoroughly reliable people, whom I
have known for lifetime. They re-
lated numerous happenings similar to
that witnessed. The phenomena, they
said, had manifested themselves at
di1erent occasions during the past
year or so.> All this made me extreme
ly anxious to investigates; still I felt
that any evidence I might gather
should be oorroborated in order to meet
the opposition it was sure of provok-
ing. Conseque emily, called on several
people in the neighborhood to assist
me-, and the school teacher, Herr Opt
tiz, baker named Carl Fischer and
two other men responded. Barbara re-
turned to the kitchen after she had a
good cry, as she said, and did not take
my eyes off her. We hadn't been
watching long when a securing rag
Barbara was handling tore itself loose
from her fist with sudden jerk and
fell hard upon the floor At the same
time the tin pan she was using to wash
dishes began to sway to and fro, and
the dish would have fallen if the teach
er, being nearest to it, had not grabbed
it. The girl now became frightened
and would not touch the vessel again.
. Calling next day, learned that Bar
bara had passed a good night, and that
when she entered the kitchen in the
morning porcelain match bowl, rest
ing on a shelf near the daor. came tly-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
REASONS WHY HORSES SHY.
Humorous Explanation Of Their Fear OF
Newspapers,

The mortal terror of newspapers to
which even the most intelligent horse
is prey is certainly a mystery. If a
horse meets torn newspaper lying
in the middle of the road he is seized
with a conviction that it Is on the
point of tearing him to pieces, and
accordingly he falls into a spasm Of
terror. I presume that the scientific
explanation of this fact is that the
prehistoric horse was severely abused
by the newspapers Of the time, and
that his descendants have thus inher-
tied horror of newspapers. But, like
most scientific explanations of familiar
mysteries, this would not be worth no.
ticing. Why should the prehistoric
newspapers have insuited the horse?
Did the cave men lose their money on
horse races and then write abusive let
ters to the newspapers, pointing out
the untrustworthy character of the
horse? 1t is very doubtful if they did
anything of the sort, chiefly for the
reason that newspapers did not exist
1E prehistoric times. To come back to
the horse and his fear of newspapers.
It may be said that the newspaper ter
rifles him because it moves in the wind
and he thinks it is alive. But the
leaves Of trees move in the wind and
the human boy moves with or without
wind under the very hoofs Of the horse,
yet the horse is not afraid Of these
things. Clearly he is not afraid of a
stray newspaper because 1t may be
blown across his path. Moreover, he
is as much afraid of a newspaper that
does not move as he is OF one which Is
in motion. The true exhibition of
horses fear of a newspaper is that in
the code of equine etiquette it is con-
sidered good form to appear to be
afraid of newspapers. All animals have
their ideas as to what is good form
and cling tenaciously to them. The dog
does not bark at very young children,
because it is contrary to canine eti-
infexible stickler for good form, plays
with a half-dead mouse merely because
playing with half-dead mice is consid-
cred among all cats of good breeding
to be the correct thing to do. The
horse, knowing that if he did not pre-
tend to be frightened nearly out of his
life by a newspaper he would be re-
garded by all other horses as an ignor-
ant and ill-bred beast, SHES whenever
newspaper flutters into his path
Pearson's Magazine.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
DANGER IN THE STAMP BOX
Why She Is Not Going to Give Him
One.

Why She Is Not Going to Give Him
girl know is betrothed to a Young
officer in the navy, and as his birthday
is near at hand she has bought pretty
little stamp box in silver to give to
him, but she is not going to give it to
him, after all, says the Washington
Post. "Daughter," her father said to
her, "if you wish that young man we'll,
never give him stamp box. You
couldn't give him anything more dan
gerous. A man would better carry dy-
Mantle than stamps. One of the bray
est officers in the navy has been for
twenty years paying the penalty of his
folly in carrying stamps. Everybody
knows who he is. Years ago he re-
ceived an order from the department
which displeased him very much. He
knew to whom he owed it, and he sat
himself down that same night and ex-
pressed himself frankly on paper to
the man he blamed for the obnoxious
order. He had stamp, and so he sent
the letter off in that nights mail. If
he hadn't had a stamp he would not
have mailed the letter till morning, and
if he had kept it till morning he'd never
have sent it at all, and he would not
have paid the penalty of .sassing' the
department. Don't send the young
man a stamp box. The officer I've been
telling you about says that his expe-.
,rience taught him never to: carry
stamps, but the trouble about the wis
dom experience brings is that it usu-
ally comes too late to be Of any use.
Don't encourage the young man to
carry stamps. It isn't safe. Z .59s 5&..ss. i I.#
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
TYPE 0FbU[WfR LYTT0N'S POWER MAN
A TURKISH WEDDING.
The Ceremony Occurs at Night and Oc-
cupies Four Hours.

The Ceremony Occurs at Night and Oc-
cupies Four Hours.
A wedding day is always an inter-
esting event, even to those who are not
directly concerned in it. Whereas the
ceremony Of tying the knot only
takes few minutes in Christian coun-
tries, it lasts in Cairo from Z o'clock
in the evening until II, and is like en-
acting a chapter in the "Arabian
Nights" With difficulty we made our
way to the gate of the large garden
in front of the pasha's palace, the en-
tire facade of which was brilliantly il
Illuminated and within which the we'd
ding ceremony was about to take place.
The ladies were Immediately taken
away from us and conducted to the
harem, our men being shown into a
room beside another reserved for the
natives-men everywhere, but not a
woman. After while we were invited
into the large dining hall, where we
were rejoined by the ladies, but only
/ the ladies of our own party, and all
sat down to dinner. And such a din
ner! I cannot give the menu. What
took place in the harem is best told by
one of the ladies. She said: II was
ushered through a long, narrow stone
passage, lighted by torches held by ne
groes, and suddenly found myself in a
large room, the harem, brilliantly
lighted by electricity, with number of
beautiful women, with penciled eye
'brows and red-stained finger nails,
lightly clad and unveiled, sitting on
richly covered divans. Their costumes
were of costly fabrics, and they were
covered with diamonds and pearls. In
the middle Of the room was bower of
roses for the bride, and on all sides
were rare Oriental carpets and en-
broideries. After waiting an hour in
the harem the bride appeared, walked
to the bower and sat down in it. After
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
RETURNED AFTER MANY YEARS

New York Man Gets His Reward for
Stalking a Klondike Adventurer.
From the New York Press: If ever
a man cast his bread upon the waters,
not even expecting it to return to him,
it was John F. Reilly, the proprietor Of
the Bon Ton music hall. Reilly grub
staked" man who worked for him to
go to the Klondike last spring and
today he is richer by $4,000. Arnold
Mcpherson, a, relative of Senator Nc
Pherson of New Jersey, was the man
he assisted. Mcpherson died in Daw-
son City several months ago, leaving
all his earnings to his benefactor.
recently. Mcpherson was a ne'er do
we'll, who loafed around the barrooms
in Eighth avenue. In the early part
of 1898 Reilly took pity on him and put
him to work. Mcpherson did odd joos,
receiving in return his board, clothing
and little spending money. McPher-
son had the Klondike fever badly. Day
and night he importuned his employer
to fit him out for an expedition. Fin
ally Reilly consented. He grub stalk
ed" Mcpherson with clothing, tools
and food, and then bought him ticket
to Dawson City. Mcpherson started
away, vowing eternal gratitude, and
that was the last Reilly saw of him.
Months rolled by and Reilly thought
Mcpherson was dead. In his morning
mail a few days ago Reilly found a
letter bearing the postmark Of Dawson
City. "News from Mcpherson at
last" said Reilly. And truly there was
news-of a kind that made Reilly's
eyes bulge out. The letter was from
P. J. Conway, a Dawson City lawyer.
It said that Mcpherson had died there
in last May. Before he died he made
will leaving all his earnings to his
benefactor. The amount was about
$4,000. Mcpherson, Mr.. Conway said,
had located on several good claims op
the Yukon, which had panned out un,
usually WELL Mcpherson saved 5000
and when he became i'll he thought of
Reilly and left the money to him.
Reilly's attorney will communicate
with the Dawson City lawyer .>as to
obtaining the money, as well as pos
session of the claims left by Mcpherson
on the Yukon.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16

another long wait the bridegroom
came. He went directly to the bower,
raised the veil of the bride, who was
beautiful and whom he saw for the
first time, placed a magnificent dia-
mond necklace over her head and led
her away. After this ceremony a pro-
cesslon formed in the garden and
marched around it to the sound of mu-
sic. Then the bridegroom's best man
came out and made speech on his be-
half, which was replied to by one
chosen for the purpose. After this the
crowd began to disperse, and all was
over."-Paris Herald.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
A Leyden Jar Girl Who Attracts All Manner Of
Things.

ing after her, while at the same time
small tin sieve hanging on a shelf
ixed~to the opposite wall fell down, at
taching to the folds of her dress. My
investigation committee thereupon
went on watch at once, and this is
what we observed during the day: A
keg OF beer, holding twenty litres, and
standing upon the flooring in the hall,
began to waver about and shake vio-
lent when Barbara's skirt touched it
as the girl passed by quickly; a fodder
trough, weighing at least one hun
dred pounds, showed similar tenden-
cies; tin pan filled with water
jumped suddenly from the stove upon
the floor, flooding it. Barbara was
standing about three feet from the
vessel at the time, while the witnesses
followed her everywhere. There were
none but Barbara, the Hoffmans, and
the witnesses in and about the house,
and the outside was watched as we'll as
the inner rooms. In the afternoon,
when Barbara was cleaning the hall
with an iron scraper, she came near be-
Ing killed by peculiar accident
namely, child's sledge, standing be-
hind the staircase, suddenly raised up
in the air and alighted upon Barbara's
back, hurting her severely. 1 took the
sledge and put it in another part of the
hall, where we could closely observe
it. 1t remained for about ten minutes
then commenced to totter about for
perhaps fifteen second. Then, with
bound, it jumped up in the air, strik-
ing the handle of Barbara's hoe and
knocking it out of her hand. Barbara
is simply Leyden jar in human shape.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16

from that time to this. It's cold
night when. Daddy doesn't have his
block of wood out, repeating some
such an occurrence as I've tried to pic
ture. It never fails to make a great
hit with my guests when the cook
"goes swimmin' at night
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
Spearing with 'sBobs."

Did you ever take a cork, stick
through it a horseshoe nail, put on, the
top of the cork two or three feathers,
tie a long string around the cork and
then spear for apples or potatoes !? Just
try it some time, and see how pro-
fciently and how. straight you can
learn to throw the bob in short time,
The cork keeps the horseshoe nail in
without slipping and the feathers serve
to gxide the bob through the air.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16

when the little
maid is around.
Once or twice the
girl was slightly
injured about the
head and hands by
things that sud-
denly, by some I'M
known motive
power, SHE'D at
her-things coming
off the walls or fly
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16

ing up from the
ground. AS the
story seemed we'll
nigh incredible, I
concluded to find
out whether per-
haps somebody
was fooling Bar
bara and the
other inmates of
the house. Farmer
Hoffman said he
had no children,
and that there were
no you n e S t ers
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16
who Ever Does?

she-"I wonder IL it is hard to
write dialect stories?' He'I should
think it might be. know it's hard to
read them. = sSomerville Journal.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-12-16

Wild Animals Killed In India.
]. In 1897, ,596 tigers were killed In
India, 1908 leopards, 2,o53 bears, 3,142
wolves and 105 900 snakes.