The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22

was painted by Alexander Fournier from
photograph taken by ]. G. Whitney. in
1857. Beside it is the portrait of Father
LCcian Gauthier,a fine-looking priest with
long, dark hair, firm lips, and large kind
ly eyes.
WHERE BOOKS ARE KEPT.
In the fireproof room there are kept
over 1850 bound volumes of newspapers.
Th1s department is in charge of Mr.. J.
b. Chaney, who has been here fourteen
years. Here will be found all the dailv.
weekly and monthly papers that have
been published in the state since 1849.
These papers make complete history
of the state. Here is to be found =
copy of THE Minnesota Pioneer for
April e, 1S49, the first copy of a newspa-
per ever published in this state There
are complete files of the ST. Paul and
minneapolis papers, and in al about
twenty-five daily papers are received
regularly.
In other cases are kept the government
publications. The library is one-sixth
made up of these. Here will be found
the complete series of reports of the
United States patent office, which I'LL
six cases. The library is strong in town
snip histories and family genealogies of
the United States and Canada There
are five cases of Minnesota books alone.
Among them will be found the journal
OF the Senate and House, all state re-
ports and many thousands of pamphlets
care1uiiy catalogued, and the history of
twenty counties. Mr. D. l.. Kingsburv
has for eight years had the care of these
DOCKS. In one of these Minnesota cases
are many interesting works of travel in
the early days. Among them will be
found description of Louisiana bv
Rev Father Louis Hennepin, the old
Recollect missionary whom Francis Park
man has immortalized and who was the
nrst white man to look upon the tail
hills where now stands the city of ST.
Paul. The work is translated from the
French edition of 1853 by John Culinary
Shea. Besides this work, there are
Dr. Neill's famous history of Minnesota.
and /. V. D. Heard'S account of the
Great Sioux War;" ''Beltrami's Pilgrim
age" "Carver's Travels "Lorgi Expe
dition" and dozens of other equally in
teTesting books. J. C. Beltrami. ESQ.
was formerly judge in the ex-kingdom
OF Italy, who came to explore this coun-
try in the early days of the century
just gone. There is a picture of him in
his book which shows him standing erect
upon the top of hill, one hand resting
on his rifle and the other reaching toward
sword at his belt. A bow and culver
full of arrows are slung over his Shout
ders and he is dressed in buckskin and
velvet. In the valley below some In
dams are killing a number of white
people.
In the museum are over 5000 stone and
copper implements of aboriginal handf-
work that MIR. ]. v. Brewer has been
collecting for the last twelve years Here,
however, We see Indian bead work, old
guns, stone axe found in a mound,
flint arrow heads from the st. Croix
valley, Sioux medicine charm, a beauti-
full Indian pipe Ratchet, charm of
twisted buffalo's hair. the scalp and arm
bones of Little Crow" together with
his skill, with the dents in it.
Standing right beside it is a piece OF
wood from the house of the first VIC
tim of the war which he started. There
are also ''Mocauks' OF maple sugar from
the White Earth Agency, and large,
black polished cane made from the wood