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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-06
THINGS WORTH KNOWING
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Bits Of Scrapbook Wisdom on Vari
Gus Household Topics.

Chop suey,: the nationals Chinese dish,
is growing in popularity in this country.
The "base,'' SO to speak, is Of pork ami
chicken livers and gizzards. 'ACelery.s
mushrooms, green peas, chopped string
beans and asparagus tips are placed in a
with a gravy Of peanut oil heavily spiced.
Parties are numerous to the leading
Chinese restaurant Sin Minneapolis where
several delicious varieties offs chop suey
are sold. The conserves although odd are
quite generally liked and the tea is unex-
celled. sA ,zs. 4! !. 4
It is now possible to find, in any Of the
foreign cities or towns famous for any
manufacture of china, tiny fac-similes OF.
vases, jugs, or cups, in which the ware
is usually seen, that are perfect reproduc-
lions in design and coloring OF the pot
terry. They are not expensive, and as
they may be brought home in the small Z
est possible space. an opportunity is at
forded to secure for a moderate sum ex-
amples of all the we11-known shapes and
wares. Collectors Of china to whim this
information is new will do we'll to treas
ure it and use it through their own trips
or those Of friends -
A trained nurse vouched for this simple
way Of dropping medicine without a
| dropper, says Good Housekeeping. Tip
the bottle up till the cork has been moist
l-ened. Reverse it again and let the fluid
| go down. Take the cork out, and in SO
doing run the cork along the rim of the
| bottle. Drop from the side you have
| moistened with the cork In taking: or adj
ministering medicine, always pour from
the side opposite the label. This will
keep the label loking clean and fresh. The
glass can be washed off from time to time
but "a drop win spoil your label beyond
remedy.
I A tasty breakfast dish may be made OF
Goldfish prepared after the following for
mula: One cupful salt fish, two cupfuls
! Of potatoes, two tablespoonful OF cream
| one tablespoonful, of melted butter, one
egg; pepper to taste. Wash and pick over
the fish, shredding it into small pieces
Peel the potatoes and cut into quarters
4 Put the fish and potatoes together in 6
q, saucepan, cover with boiling water ant
cook twenty-five minutes. or until the po
tatoes are tender. Watch them that the!
1 do not cook Until soggy. Drain thorough
~. mash and beat with a fork until light
Add the butter, mix, and cool slightly
n Add the egg, beaten without separating
and the cream, unless the mixture be to-
| soft, adding gradually. as the entire guam
tity given may not be required. Max
, into cakes cover with egg and brea
: crumbs. and fry in smoking-hot fat. !
> handled and fried carefully. these may b
E cooked, if desired, without the egg an
bread crumbs covering.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-06
ration may be condensed into few lines:
wife filled with ideals
Seldom to a man appeals.
He likes to feel
That some one real
int and b L.

1t is common complaint. this, from
bachelors, that the practical girl, the girl
who knows how to do things, cannot be
found among their acquaintance. Has
the complaint any foundation in fact?
What do our readers think about it?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-06

Miss Veda Loomis of the East Side. en-
tertained at dinner of ten covers last
evening for Miss Elsie Bertsch. Ping
pong and other games were played after
dinner. zg 4 ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-06

A quiet wedding took place Wednesday
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. a.
E. Nash at Minnehaha Falls when Miss
Beatrice Winnefred Sparrow and Charles
Edwin Achuff were married. Rev..1. Il.
Wood read the service, which was fol-
lowed by a wedding dinner. Gss
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17

grasshoppers along with the defects
enumerated, Gray had made rightful
tender in including the grasshopper-
eaten leaf along with the rest NJ ore
important still is the Interpretation or
construction of the phrase, free from
damage" According to the learned JUS
tice it has no meaning outside of the
specific ills recited in the memorandum.
AS matter of fact the latter were few
in number, and did not cover dozen
other things which might make the leaf
worthless commercially. II Justice Dun
wells decision is affirmed on appeal, it
will have the effect of checking, if not of
suppressing, the buying of standing
crops, or else a changing of the present
sales memorandum by including every
possible defect, fault or blernish which
may obtain in the leaf during growth,
curing and delivery.-N. Y. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17

to be acting as damper to business in
this line just at present but the old to-
bacco continues to move in moderate
way. Advance shipments of tobacco Sc
cured at the first sale arrived this week,
and are being examined with considera-
BILE curiosity by the trade. No adverse
criticisms of samples have been heard,
but neither will the inscription leopard
ize in any way the old tobaccos which
are still being offered. AS a matter of
fact, what little new tobacco there is to
be seen here as yet cannot he accepted
as criterion by which to Judge the new
crop.
Havana.-The run on Remedies de-
scribed in our last issue continues, and
about 500 bales more have been disposed
of at about the same price quoted last
week. Havana tobacco, both new and
old of nearly all available grades, is in
good demand, and is expected to con-
tinue so during the summer.-Leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS, April II, 100;

EDGERTON, WIS, April IL, l9O3.
The early purchases are now all re-
ceived and the closing up the season is
the principal business of the packing
points at present. More than half the
warehouses are already closed and each
day finds others finishing and help dis
charged A few packers, however, will
continue operations for some weeks yet.
Market movements are reduced to a very
few transactions and but few dealers are
making any efforts to increase their
holdings at present.
Ole Bringa delivered 64cs of '02 at n
SIC assorted to T. B. Earle this week.
Old leaf is receiving but light atten-
tion of late and sales are confined to
moderate sized lots entirely.
A week of wet co.d weather has de-
layed the laying of the plant beds and
up to date but small amount of seed
has been sown. The coming week how
ever will see most Of the beds sown for
another crop.
The shipments out of storage reach q
car loads, 1290cs, from this market to all
points for the week past.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
New York.
New YORK, April II, 1908


The chief incidents of the market this
week were some very large transactions
in Havana leaf. One consisted of 1000
bales which were sold by one downtown
house to another, and another of 1900
bales which were sold to an uptown cigar
factory. Such big transactions in an off
season can generally be taken as true
test of the situation as viewed by far
sighted business men. Those heavy pur-
chases were made in conformity with the
fact repeatedly published by our Havana
correspondent that there will be no rem
edios crop this year tit for the United
States. Consequently every factory that
is dependent on working remedies will
have to replenish its supply from the
previous crops, and if everybody waits
until the last moment to do it, it must
naturally result in tremendous jump
in the prices of the old stocB, just as
remedies doubled in price during the
short time of the Spanish Am brican war.
For total failure of the crop is equiya-
lent to an embargo in war.
The Sumatra market is likewise some
what impeded through the railroad
strike in Holland, which has stopped all
transportation and prevented shipments
from the purchases at the last two in
scriptions. But in this instance there is
luckily plenty of old stock on hand suit
able for present needs, and the use of
Sumatra is bound to increase this year
on account of the deficient supply of
our New England Havana seed wrapper
leaf.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
GAINESVILLE, WIS, A pril 10, 1903.

GAINESVILLE, WIS, n pfll 10, ISOo.
Bad weather for several days has dis
couraged riding and but little has been
done in the way of buying of the farm
ers. A few belated deliveries are made
and an even dozen of asserting rooms are
in operation in this city, several of which
will run for three or four weeks.
In old goods sales are confined to
small lots to manufacturers, although
one Or two large lots are about to change
hands
Capt Campbell, the state representa-
tive of j. Friedman & Co. of Chicago,
who has been in this market since last
October, during which time new ware
house has been erected and fair sized
packing of 1902 put up, closed up the
season and this morning left for his
home in Chicago. Mr.. A. B. Jones, ia
miliarly known as Lex, will have charge
of the local business of the firm during
the summer.
Stuart b. Heddles closed the asserting
season in GAINESVILLE this afternoon. M.
Ii. Soverhill finished the asserting sea-
son Saturday, as did H. S. McGiffin at
Milton Junction.
Harry Putnam has left the employ of
Dohan & TAFT and is now working for j.
B. Dearborn of this city.
W. G. Hockstein of Milwaukee was
in the city Monday.
James Earle, in the employ of the A..
G. Go. at Sparta, and Will Earle, in the
employ of the A. G. Co. at Watertown,
were in the city Saturday visiting with
friends.
J. L & N. F. Green are sampling 100
cases 1901 for the A. G. Co.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
NEW YORK. April 5. 1903.

The domestic cigar leaf market has
been very quiet during the past week.
inquiries are coming in for the new to-
baccos, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that prospective buyers are not
overstocked with leaf. The money mar
ket is not particularly easy just now, and
cigar manufacturers show tendency to
refrain from stocking up until it becomes
absolutely necessary. There were few
sales of 1901 Pennsylvania Broad leaf,
light force-sweated Connecticut wrap
pers and 1901 thinner Spanish, but no
large transactions were put through.
Sumatra. The early Inscriptions seem
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
Connecticut valley Tobacco Market.

The sales of tobacco, as cleaned from
our correspondents and from the local
papers, are few and far between, al
though some are reported at from to
10c. The lots are small and hardly worth
quoting.
The chief topic among the growers is
the new organization, and whether it
will pay, for if grower subscribes for
one or more acres, he feels that he will
be compelled to place his crop in the
the corporation.
If, as has been stated, the growers are
slow to subscribe for stock, later on
many of them would undoubtedly have
desire to place their crops to be assorted
and packed and perhaps sold, if they can
be persuaded that the organization is
officered by capable, honest set of men.
Our correspondents report as follows,
Conway, Mass: II have no sales to ra~
port. The few remaining crops Wll be
assorted rather than sell at prices less.
than they are worth. Ell. j. Newhali has
finished asserting his crop, and 1T shows
better than he expected. The seed for
the new crop is sown, but Oh account of
the cold, wet weather the plants are not,
up much" North Hatfield: mot many.
have gone into the corporation and very
few are talking of doing SO. 0. Belden
& Sons, E. w. Field & Son have plants
with four leaves. They say: How is
this for the 4th of April?' We should
like to know just the how of it Sunday
and Monday mornings when the ther-
u.ometer stood at 20 degrees above zero.
l.-Cultivator,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
BaIdwinsvilIe, N. Y.

There is some tobacco buying going on
here, but not of any great volume. The
up, and what remains is of quality
that evidently does not attract buyers
Quite naturally at this time most OF the
growers are thinking of their new crops.
The roads are rather bad for deliveries,
and this is more or less of a detriment,
but the calendar is advancing SO rapidly
that farmers must begin preparations
for the next seasons yield if they expect
to do any tobacco business next year.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
M1AMIsBURG, O., April 6, 1903.

Some packers have resumed operations
in the country and are buying moder-
ately. The weather is seasonable, and
tobacco is warming up in the cases. Re
handling is progressing satisfactorily,
although in early packed crops of new
thinner small percentage of black-rot
is occasionally seen. The custom of re-
ceiving tobacco from farmers before it
has been allowed to remain in bulk for
while is wrong and should be discon-
tinued
The 1901 thinner is being shipped in
carload lots from local storage to Gus
toners.
Farmers have begun to break soil and
prepare seed beds for the coming crop.
A few of the more anxious ones have
already sown portion of their seeds.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
Lancaster.
Lancaster.
LANCASTER New ERA, April 7, 1903.


More was doing in the local market
during the past week than for some time
past, in cased goods. Dealers report
sales, but the activity is by no means
general. The transactions that have
been brought to our notice were 182cs
sold by I. III. Weaver, 400cs sold by NJ
M. Fry, Goes sold by Walter S. Bare, and
Aces sold by NJ Meiskey & Heiland; ia all,
692cs.
There appears to be very little let-up'
in the delivery of last years crop on
Monday morning we noticed large quar-
titles were being delivered at the ware
houses; these latter report that the de-
liyeries continue large, and they have
their hands full in getting enough out of
the way to make room for what comes in
from day to day.
There was a severe frost on Saturday
night and Sunday morning. We have
not heard at this writing how much
damage has been done to the seed beds.
Where they were covered with glass or
canvas, perhaps, none at all, and we take
it for granted that every wide-awake to-
bacco grower took hint on Saturday
evening of what was coming and covered
the exposed beds and the young plants
that were above ground.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
Attention Farmers.

We have limited quantity of the Gel
brated Banner" seed oats. This seed is
very heavy and of excellent quality. Our
seed corn is all Minnesota grown and has
been thoroughly tested. We also have
all varieties of field and garden seeds.
WHITTET Bros.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
TIE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

The practice of selling mortgaged to-
bacco and neglect to notify the purchas-
er of the incumbrance is destined to
make trouble to growers who do not in
form themselves regarding the law relat-
ing to the transfer of mortgaged prop
erty. Every receiving season cases OF
this character come to the surface and
buyers frequently pocket loss because
of the crookedness of the parties with
whom they deal. Nearly every contract
which the farmers sign for the delivery
of their tobacco crop in this state con-
tains clause which reads "there is no
incumbrance on this CROP placing the
burden of notifying the purchaser, if the
crop is mortgaged, uEon the seller, SO
that il settlement is made in full with
the grower whose tobacco is mortgaged,
a fraud is practiced which the courts
will take notice of. A case in point has
just been closed at Madison in which
the American Cigar Co. brought the par
ties who attempted the fraud to settle
ment in short order. A large crop was
purchas I'd of Windsor farmer and his
shareman under contract. Both parties
were present at the delivery, and the
money was divided in the settlement.
Later business firm in Madison claimed
a mortgage on the tobacco and demand
ed settlement which was refused. Suit
| was then brought against the American
Cigar Co., who in turn notified the
farmer and his shareman that they must
defend the suit or subject themselves to
! prosecution for fraud. The Windsor
J parties then lost no time in satisfying
| the claim of the mortgage. The Ameri-
| can Cigar Co. is determined hereafter to
prosecute all parties who attempt decep-
tion in the sale of mortgaged tobacco to
| them
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
For Sale.

offer for sale my residence property,
large house, nearly new, acre of land,
with good orchard, situated in the End
ward. ALBERT TEUBERT.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-17
For Sale.

A black, Percheron draft mare, weight,
14OO pounds, guaranteed right Also 80
or more young spring pigs Enquire of
Henry Krause on the Whitaker farm,
Indian Ford, or G. L. Culton, city.
, 1903-10-01
Magnet Finds Needles.

John, buy IA magnet while you're
out. Ruth has lost the old one said
the head of a big dressmaking estab-
Lshment TO her errand boy.
what do you do with magnets
here?" a woman who was being fitted
asked.
I'VE find needles with them
How do you mean"
Every day 1t naturally happens that
my forty-five assistants drop n great
many needles on the tioor. To stop and
ook for these needles would take time.
They are all left lying, therefore. till
h days end, when II cleaner goes owe
h o with a magnet, holding it
close TO the foo Every lost needle in
stantly, then. jumps up on the steel
and In That way all are recovered in n
few minutes. To recover them by any
other meal would take at least an
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Record.
, 1903-10-01
Saratoga, WyemiRg


The unique botanical knowledge Of
Sir George Birdwood. one of the most
erudite men in the India service, once
enabled him TO perform almost uncon-
sciously a neat bit of detective work.
He was In Bombay when he was
asked to investigate the case of a
young noblcman who In applying to
the governor for nm appointment repre-
sented that he was just out from Eng
land and that his letters of introduce
ton had been lost on the voyage.
A few days after DIR. Blrdwood. as he
then was. had undertaken he investi-
CATION he met the young nobleman at
dinner at the governors house. The ia
BILE decorations Of orchids suggested n
conversational opening. aud DIR. Bird
woods praise drew from the young no.
bleman standing opposite:
You should see the Amherstia nobI-
lis In its native woods. sir"
1t was II fatal remark.
"You come from Rangoon. them in
stantly exclaimed DIR. Birdwood.
The pale face. the silence that could
be felt. the request of the young man
that he might leave the table. all pre-
pared the governor and the company
for the subsequent discovery that he
had absconded from Itnngoon with
some public funds.
, 1903-10-01

The principal Palace Of Waters is an
immense hall which stretches In mys-
FERROUS grandeur far beneath the city
of Constantinople. Its roof is formed
of wide Spawned arches supported on
massive marbls columns. These stand
some ten feet apart. and their capitals
are deliberately wrought.
This marvellous building springs
from an expanse of waters which I'M
derlies the foundations of the city for
miles. Its origin and extent have been
shrouded in mystery eve since Its dis
covery about seventy years ago. when
some of the arches gave way. All at
tempts to explore by boat this marvel
of construction have been either fatal
or fruitless.
Another palace of waters was the
stately Palace of Ice which was built
I'm 1139 at the command of Anne, EN-
press of Russia, to honor the nuptials
of the Prince GallitZln and n simple
peasant girl. In this novel palace
bride and bridegroom were housed. in
rooms of which the walls and furni-
ture and bed were constructed wholly
OF frozen water.
, 1903-10-01

More than with any other flower does
the color of the rose have special sig
n%ificance. Red is love, white Is silence.
yellow speaks jealousy, says n. Hud-
son Moore in the Delineator. One of
the legends connected with the rose
tells that 1t became white through be-
ing bathed with the tears of mourners
who sought the sweetest flower to lay
in the hands OF their dead. A prcttier
concei declares that all roses were
white until one day young Cupid.
dancing amo them, upset in his mer-
ry sport n glass of wine, which dyed
the roses upon which it fell red. its q N
color. Another legend tells the story Of
a holy little maid of bethlehem who
was doomed to death. When the stakes
were heaped around her the fire would
not burn. but the brands which had
been flaming turned to red roses and
those which had not caught to white.
From this time forth roses. red and
white. We're martyrs flowers. The
Turks say that red roses sprang from
the blood of Mohammed.
, 1903-10-01
A Lake of Many wonders.

Lake Chad. in Africa. is 1856 miles
long and 80 miles wide. or somewhat
larger in area than Lake Erie, yet it is
only twenty-five feet deep in its deep
est part and only five feet in Its eastern
side.
1t has eighty islands, some barren.
others only pasture land and some Gov
cred with forests and millet plantations
and having u total population of about
$4,000.
Storms arise with surprising quick
ness On the lake. and the shallowness
Of the water forces up big waves at
short notice. while treacherous gusts
and puffs of wind about the islands
make navigation dangerous.
, 1903-10-01

In 1889 a hunter lii the northwest of
New South Wales wounded n kanga-
roo. The animal vent Off through the
mulga and the salt bush ut II pace too
fast for the hunter to follow and was
soon out of sight. The hunter was II
bushman and did not despair. He fol
lowed the blood trail. hopeful of a
short search and n speedy bag. At one
point of the pursuit 1t may he that the
trail grew faint and necessitate1 a
closer inspection. Anyway the hunter
stopped and picked up Il piece of tone.
This he examined. The red spot was
not on 1t. 1t was in it. 1t was not
blood that he saw; 1t was opal. Such
was the beginning Of the White Cliffs
opal fields.
, 1903-10-01

What IS perhaps the largest hanging
bell in the world is to be seen in Man
dalay. This is the Mingun bell. on the
right bank OF the Irawadi. almost
opposite the city of Mandalay. This
immense bell measures as follows:
Height to crown, IL feet; diameter at
the lip, 1G feet 3 inches; thickness Of
metal, from q to II inches. 1t weighs
about eighty ton and is suspended on
three massive round beams of teak
placed horizontally he one over the
other. their ends resting on two pillars
Of enormous size, composed of mason
ry and large upright teak posts. This
bell was cast at the end of the eight
zenith century under the superintend-
ence of the reigning king.
, 1903-10-01

Railway officials differ in the de
grees of liberality with which they de-
fin the word family" when used on
a pass. An American copied the In
struct!ons OF the Parls-Lyons Mediter-
ranean railway bearing upon the sub
ject as II lesson In liberality. On that
o "A pass for II and family Is good
for father. mother, children. GRANDPA
ther. grandmother. mother-in-law. ia
ther-in-law. brother, sister, b%rother-ln-
law. sister-in-law. uncle. aunt. nephew.
family.
, 1903-10-01

The stodgy faced boy ut the last ia
BILE in the public library reading room
is having a struggle most serious. He
has covered both sides of a foolscap
sheet with Il vague smudge over which
he still labors. His twisted mouth fol-
lows the motion of his creaking pencil.
Before him Greene's "Shorter History
of the English People, lies open at the
year 1858. OF all the i've pages only
so much is decipherable; THE Abdica-
sion of Jams IL. The english people
had born IL crate deel from james End
but when at last he gave birth to Il
son they said this thing must end
Adele Marie Shaw In Worlds Work.