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PEN PICTURES
OF
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA.
BY T. M. NEWSON.
Article XVIII.
First "White Female Ciiilri Bom in Minne
sota—Airs. Alexander liamsey—Mrs. H.
M. Kie< —Meeting of the First Court of
the Territory—A Mixed Population —
First Hardware Store—Lyman C. Dayton
- Ifis Personality—Lymau Dayton—
First Bank—First Masonic f^odge—First
Odd Fellows—St, Pan] Becomes a Town—
Dr. Thomas IJ. Potts —Personal—Charles
B. Conway—What Might Have Been—
Conway 1* tonally.
THE FIRST WHITE FEMALE CHILD BOBS IN"
MINNESOTA.
In one of our articles we spoke of Miss
Rosa Larpenteur, as being the first white fe
male child born in IS 17, but she was not the
first American female child born in the terri
tory—that honor belongs to Miss Cleopatra
Irvine, now the wife of Richard Gorman,
Esq., who was born in 1844. Mrs. Gorman
Is a splendid looking woman, and as good as
she looks—a fine type of a beautiful Minne
sota lady.
UBS. AI_5__II>EB RAMSET.
In 1854 we met Mrs. Ramsey for the first
time—a tall, well formed, queenly looking
woman; commanding in her manners, yet
gentle and loving in her nature. She had
been married only four years when the
Governor and herself took up their abode in
their crude gubernatorial residence on lower
Third street. St. Paul, and one can imagine
the cares and deprivations of her early
pioneer life, and the immense tax upon
ber disposition to maintain her equilibrium
amid the trying scenes of those early days;
and yet she was equal to the emergency.
Throughout a quarter of a century she not
only greatly aided by her diplomacy her
husband in his political career, but has
maintained the regard and esteem of the
public for her many private excellencies. The
autumnal tint of years only adds to her
graces, while in the social circle she still
maintains her supremacy, as she always has.
MRS. II. M. EICE.
A bright, beautiful countenance, with
black haJ_and black eyes, as we remember
her in early days, Mrs. Rice united southern
beauty with northern tact. Most of her
married years have been spent amid the
scenes of her husband's political battles, and
she, herself, has figured in the gay society of
Washington life, indeed, she has been an
important factor in the power behind the
throne, and though quiet and undemonstra
tive, her power has been none the less ef
fective. The early cares of years already
gone, only create a subdued mellowness
which adds to the charms of a gentle, loving
woman.
MEETING OF THE FIRST COUBT OF TIIE TER-
BITOBT.
This event took place in the city of St.
Paul, on the second of August, 1849. The
officers were Chief Justice Aaron Goodrich,
Judge Meeker. Judge Cooper, and James K.
Humphrey, clerk. It was a motley grouping
Of diversified humanity, antagonistic iu their
peculiar characteristics, yet in the whole
make up able and judicial. Here was Judge
Goodrich, with his angularity, story-telling
propensities, and positiveness of character;
here was Meeker, with his slow, plodding,
gross materiality; Cooper, with his ruffled
shirt bosom, and his precise, nice, punctil
ious methods; Humphrey, with his cautious,
careful, measured air; and thus the court
opened with twenty lawyers in attendance
and only one juryman with a pair of boots.
Chief Justice Goodrich was assisted by Coop
er, and although lie occasionally shocked
the delicate nerves of Cooper by a funny
story, yet the proceedings were conducted
with due decorum and dignity. This was
the first district court, aud the term lasted
six days. The second district court was held
by Judge Meeker on the west banks- of the
Mississippi, opposite the Falls of St. Anthony.
The third district court was held at Mendota,
Judge Cooper, presiding Only three ofthe
jurymen could understand- tne charge of the
judge, among whom was Gen. Sibley, fore
man, all the rest being French. And thus
were set in motion the wheels of the great
law car, which has been moving forward
With great velocity ever since.
A MIXED l'OITLATION.
In the latter part of 1849, St. Paul had
five ministers, fourteen lawyers, two land
agents, five doctors, sixteeu merchants,three
tailors, one shoemaker, or sole-saver, five
hotels, two painters, four blacksmiths, four
masons, sixteen carpenters, live bakers,.one
silversmith, one gunsmith, etc., etc., beside
a numerous retinue of half-breeds and In
dians. The trade that year was $181,000.
The trade of 1883, wholesale and retail, will
reach $100,000,000! This tells the story of
St. Paul's growth better thau anything else
could.
THE FIRST HARDWARE STORE.
The first exclusive hardware store in the
city, was established in 1849, by John Mc-
Cloud ct Brothers, and the building which
they built, is still standing, on the corner of
Third and Cedar streets, now occupied as the
United States Express oflice. Mr. John Mc-
Cloud, we believe, is at Bayfield, and
one of his brothers, Joe, after
trying fanning in Dakota, returned to Phila
delphia, from whence the McClouds origin
ally came. They were small, active, honest
men, but the population at that early day,
would not sustain their trade, and since then
the wave of emigration has washed them
almost out of memory. And so goes the
world: one is up while the other is down.
Teeter-taunter, teeter-taunter, teeter-tauntcr!
FIRST FUBN-TTJBE STOKE.
The first furniture store in 1849, stood on
the corner of Third and Minnesota streets,
known as the Stees old stand, kept by a man
by the name of J. W. Frost. He used to
make pine furniture and repair other articles
of household use. He sold out to Washing
ton Stees. in 1850, and from that small be
ginning has grown the large furniture estab
lishment which has recently passed out of the
old proprietors' hands into that of a new
firm.
LYMAN C. DAYTON.
Dayton's Bluff derives its name from this
fentlemaii, who was born in Connecticut in
1810. He was of English descent, aud wheu
i boy clerked in a dry goods house, and sub-
Sequeutly went into business for himself, in
Providence, Rhode Island. From 1840 to
1849, he did a large trade in New York,
when, in consequence of ill-health, he re
tired from active labor, aud that year came
to St. Paul, where he commenced purchasing
real estate, and did not stop until he had se
cured some 5,000 acres. A large number of
these acres are within the city limits, and
while they cost Mr. Dayton originally,$4,000,
they are now worth $4,000,000, as the
property lies iu'a central and valuable por
tion of 8t. Paul. Mr. Dayton founded the
»wn at the junction of the Crow river and
ibe Mississippi, which bears his name,
and where his widow now lives. He was
the proprietor and the first president of the
Lake Superior and Mississippi Railway com
pany, and continued so uutil his death, and
gave a great deal of his time and $10,000 in
money to promote its interests. He. neve;
asked or received any salary. He married
Miss Maria Bates, and died in 1805 ; aged
fifty-five years. His widow still survives
him.
niS PERSONALITY.
He was a good sized, puscey man, full of
activity, and had unbounded faith in the
growth of St. Paul. He possessed great
energy; was kind-hearted; liberal; public
spirited, and had he lived and held on to his
property,bis real estate would have made him
immensely rich.
LYMAN DAYTON,
His only son, used to keep a real estate of
fice in a small wooden building where Inger
soll's block now stands. Later, and after
the death of his father, he devoted his time
almost exclusively to the estate, although he
was educated a lawyer, and is a gentleman
of a good deal of intelligence and sharp
business tact. Latterly he has been invest
ing in Dakota, aud bids fair to be a very rich
man. He is about 50 years of age.
FIRST BANK —FIRST MASONIC LODGE—FIRST
ODD FELLOWS.
A man by the name of Young has the
honor of issuiug the first bauk bills, signed
by a confederate by the name of Sawyer.
They read—"Bank of St. Croix, St. Paul,
Minnesota." These bills were quoted in Wall
street at one per cent, discount, and of
course were a fraud. Young disappeared,
and the affair collapsed.
The first Masonic lodge was instituted in
1849, and the first Mason made in the terri
tory that year, was a man by the name of
Scott.
This year also witnessed the organization
of the Odd Fellows, and the Sons of Tem
perance. Indeed, we may say that 1849 was
a "boss year" for Minnesota.
ST. PAUL BECOMES A TOWN.
Up to November, 1849, St. Paul was legal
ly nothing but a "place." This year the
legislature passed a bill, which was approved
by the governor, making the "place" the
"Town of St. Paul." Ramsey county was
created, and St. Paul was made the county
seat. Provisions were effected for the ap
pointment of officers, and the resi
dents of the little hamlet be
came as proud as the citizens of
any big town could be, over the prospective
growth aud greatness of "our city." Aud
from that day to this, St. Faul has been
stretching, growing, spreading out. uutil she
has reached the magnificent proportions of
125.000 people! Truly, "great oaks from
little acoins grow."
DR. THOMAS B. POTTS.
Dr. Potts was born in Philadelphia in 1810;
graduated at the medical department of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1831; resided
at Natchez, Mississippi, ten years; in 1841
removed to Galena, Illinois; came to St.
Faul iu 1840, where he practiced medicine
for twenty-six years; was at one time con
tract surgeon at Fort Snelling; pension sur
geon ; medical purveyor of the district; physi
cian to the Sioux, etc.; in 1850 was president
of the town board; in 1886 city physi
cian; health officer in 1873: was married
at Fort Snelling, in 1847, to Miss Abbey
Steele, died suddenty in the city of Saint
Faul, October, 1874, aged 04 years.
PBBSONiX.
Dr. Potts was an "institution" ofthe city,
having practiced here for over a quarter of a
century, and was well known among all the
old settlers. He was a decided allopath; be
lieved In heavy doses, aud ridiculed the
efficacy of small pills. At the time ot his
death he was the oldest practicing physician
in Saint Faul. He was a man of strong pre
dictions: full of fun and humor; social in
his nature and kind-hearted in his practice.
He resided for many years in a sman, white
house on Robert street, and though having a
large practice and a number of offices, yet
he had only a slight appreciation of money,
and Left but little property
to his widow, who is still
living and residing in the family of Gen.
Sibley. One looking upon her tall and grace
ful form and pleasant countenance, though
saddened by care and sorrow, is forcibly re
m in d-d of the old, old times, which have
gone, never to return.
CHARLES B. CONWAY.
Among the old and original characters of
the past, is Charlie Conway, an old editor
and an old printer, a man of considerable
ability, but unable to show it. He was born
in Indiana iu 1822; removed to Michigan in
1831; to Illinois in 1837, where he attended
the university at Rattle Creek and also at Rock
ford in 183s. He began bis apprenticeship at
the printing trade iu Detroit; in 1844 started
and edited the Rockford Forum; sold out and
returned to Madison, Wisconsin, and in the
fall of 1840 enlisted, in the Mexican war,
where he remained nearly two years;
returned again to Madison lh 1848,
and purchased what is now the present Dem
ocrat: ran it about one year and then sold
out; married Miss Jane E. Nichols, and in
1840 moved to St.Paul; was the Iirst fore
man of James M. Goodhue, of the Pioneer,
and superintended the public printing, and
iu 1850 formed a copartnership—Lambert,
Conway & Nichols—to carry on the real es
tate business; in 1851 firm dissolved bythe
death of Nichols, and Conway left for Cali
fornia, where he started the Los Angeles
News, which he ran six years during the re
bellion; sold out and returned to St. Paul in
1867, and in 1800 went to Rochester, Min
nesota, and founded the Ventral "Record, and
took an active part against the $5,000,000
railroad bonds; left the paper and went on a
farm ; removed to LaCrosse to give his children
au education, and from thence to Dres'oach,
Minnesota, where he now resides, and where
he has discovered certain ingredients that
make an elegant brick.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
Ile once owned 200 acres on Goose lake,
adjoining White Bear, for which he paid
$1.25 per acre, or §250; worth now §00,000.
His house and oflice formerly stood on Third
street, near Cedar, and the SO feet which cost
him then $250, are now worth close to
$80,000. Lots iu Patterson's addition, which
he sold for $25 and $30 per lot, are now
worth #4,000 per lot. He owned ten acres just
north of the Manitoba shops, for which ho
paid $10 per acre; and sold for $25 acre;
now worth $2,000 per acre.
CONWAY PEBSOKAIIT-
He is a slender gentle man; deliberate in
his speech; comical aud original in his ex
pressions, but disconnected in his conversa
tion. Having seen a good deal of human
nature, he hasn't much confidence in that
com modify. He knows how to make money,
but he can't get it, because he won't lie and
steal. He has an inventive turn of mind,
and if he could only "hitch up" with some
supremely selfish specimen of humanity,
Conway might be a rich man. As it is, he
is a quiet, pleasant, honest, clever gentle
man, whose reward, if he gets any, will be
in another world, not this. And so, with
one more article, we hope to close the record
of 184'J.
A Cltallenge.
To the Editor of the Globe:
The fact is well understood by those who
are in the habit of glancing overthe columns
of the rioiwer Pre-** that for some time past
that paper has made itself the special herald
of all that could be gleaned, throughout the
country, which is of a peculiarly insulting
nature concerning woman suffrage by disap
pointed wire-pullers aud defeated politicians
in Wyoming Ter., has been sure to find its
way into its columns; and not only this, but
at regular intervals, and without the slight
est provocation, the managers of the Pioneer
Prexs have displayed their excessive uneasi
ness regarding the increasing freedom of
women by filling the whole columns of their
paper with their own "views" concerning
the propriety of allowing women to exercise
the right Of self-government.
Noticing the|almost unprecedented zeal re
garding this subject, evinced by the young
men connected with this not altogether un
worthy journal, I have become somewhat
desirous of ascertaining if there really are
any principles back of the imposing array of
prejudice, assertion and feeble attempts at
wit which frequently makes its appearance
in their columns, and have therefore decid
ed to announce through the medium of the
various city papers, that if any member of
the Pioneer Press staff wishes, or if all its
members combined wish to discuss the prin
ciples involved in the woman question I
shall hold myself fn readiness to meet them.
I am not unaware of the fact that not a
very longtime ago the managers of the Pio
aeer Press suddenly "decided" that the very
best thing to do in in relation to this question
was to "reduce comment to a minimum,"
but it does not seem possible that, at the
first blast of adverse criticism, a question
which evidently lies so near their hearts can
have been entirely abandoned
H opposition tothe self-government of
woman is based on anything beside that pe
culiar kind of prejudice which has its found
ation in the animal instincts, let us by all
means hear what it is.
The address of the writer can be obtained
by application at the Globe office.
On the subject of salarized Sunday School
superintendents the Sunday School World
says: "The advisability of paying a salary for
a Sunday school superintendent, who would
thus be enabled to devote his time to the ser
vice of the school, has frequently been urged.
The experiment was tried by a Congregation
al church iu New Britain, Conn., and met
with good success; the First Congregational
church of Oakland, Cal., has also arranged
to have a salaried superintendent. As
wealth increases, labor is divided, and the
advantage of specialists in all fields of work
is appreciated. It seems likely that the
practice of having paid superintenteuts for
the larger Sunday schools will become quite
common, if not general."
OTTOMAN POETRY.
[One rnle of Oriental poetry is that in some
poem "whatever word be«ins a verse, the same
word or a part thereof, -written reversely must
terminate the same verse." In an old copy of
the Dublin. UniverisUp Magazine a specimen of
this kind of rhyming appears.J
ADVICE.
Traverse not the globe for love! the sternest
Bnt the surest teacher is the heart.
Studying that and that alone, thou learnest
Best and soonest whence and what thou art,
Time, not travel, "tis which gives ns ready
Speech, experiecce, prudence, test and wit.
Far more light, the lamp that bideth steady,
Than the wandering lantern doth emit.
Moor, Chinese, Egyptain, Kussian, Homan,
Thread on common downhill path of doom;
Everywhere the names are Man and Woman,
Everywhere the old sad sins find room.
Elil angels tempt us in all places,
What but sands or snows hath earth to give?
Dream not, friend, of deserts and oases,
But look inward and begin to live.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The taxation of church property is attrac
ting some attention in New York just now.
Bills were recently passed by the legislature
authorizing the Young Men's Christian As
sociation and St. Francis' Monastery each
to hold real estate of the value of $500,000.
It having been disclosed that the bills
contained clauses which would exempt their
institutions from taxation, the Assembly re
called them for amendment. The Brooklyn
F.tvjlc com mentingupon this says: Earnest and
pious people get benevolence, religion, edu
cation and the law all so muddled up in their
brains that they cannot see why a eoucededly
good institution should not lie sustained by
tlnj public. They will not reflect upon the
consequences of sustaining any religious cor
poration or enterprise out of the public treas
ury. They decline to observe that wherever
this is done to any degree the whole theory
of a State church is in effect assented to, and
that wheu a citizen's money, gathered into
the public treasury for general purposes is
handed over to a religious body he is logical
ly in precisely the position of the Irish farm
er who, some years ago, had to support a
religious establishment which he detested.
Instead of recognizing these most obvious
truths, the frieuds of liberty who protest be
cause they wish every man to exercise his
full right of conscience, and not even in
money matters directly or indirectly to be
coerced, are denounced as atheists, infidels
and ever so many other disagreeable speci
mens of human character. The way out of trou
blejtbis kind is short and easy, if men can be
brought to realize that it is every man's duty
to help his own church and an outrage for
bim to saddle any of its burdens upon citi
zens who neither attend it nor believe in it.
The way is to stop State aid absolutely to any
and every religious institution and tax all
property, church, hospital, school, no matter
how directed, alike. When this is done ev
ery citizen will know just how much he is
contributing for education, for the relief of
distress, for the support of his church, if he
has one, and finally for the maintenance of
the Government proper. '
It appears that wherever there is a surp
lus moisture a large eucalyptus will prove of
great service, and a group of them will dis
pose of a vast amount of house sewerage.
But where there is water which is not desir
able to exhaust, as iu a good well, it will be
wise to put the eucalyptus very far away.
The owner of Bay Island Farm, Alameda
county, Cal., recently fouud a curious root
formation of the eucalyptus in the bottom of
his well, about sixteen feet below the surface.
The trees to which the roots belong stand
fifty feet from the well. Two shoots pierced
through the brick wall of the well, and send
ing off millions of fibres, formed a dense
mat that completely covered the bottom of
the well. Most of these fibres are no larger
than threads,'and are so woven and inter
twisted as to form a mat as impenetrable and
strong as though regularly woven in a loom.
That mat when first taken out of the well
was water soaked and covered with mud, and
nearly all that man could lift, but when dry
it was nearly as soft to touch as wool, and
weighed only a few ounces. This is au ex
cellent illustration ofthe way in which the
eucalyptus absorbs moisture, its roots going
so far to find water, pushing themselves
through a brick wall and then developing
enormously after the water is reached. It is
thought that one of the causes of the drying
up of wells is the insatiable thirst of these
vegetable monsters.
Mrs. Ottexdorfer, wife of Oswald Otten
dorfer, proprietor of the N.Y. Stoats Zcitwig,diml
at her residence, in East Seventeenth street,
on the 1st inst. She was a woman of rare
business ability and has long been distin
guished by her unobtrusive charity. She
came here with her husband, Jacob Uhl,
from Bavaria in 1844, and became a widow
soon after her husbaud had bought the titaats
Zeitimg, then a small weekly sheet. She as
sumed the chief management of the paper
until 1859, when she married Mr. Ottendorf
er, oue of the editors. The prosperity of the
journal is largely due to her energy and ca
pacity. In 1875 she built the Isabella Home
for Aged Women iu Astoria at a cost of over
$ 100,000. In 1881 she gave about §50,000
toward the support of the German Teacher's
Seminary in Milwaukee, and to secure the
teaching of German in the public schools.
The following year she built and furnished a
wing of the German Hospital at a cost of
about $100,000, calling it the Woman's Pa
villion. She paid out 8150,000 for the Ger
man Dispensary and Free Heading-rooms in
Second avenue, near Ninth street. She also
contributed very liberally to other charities,
and was for a number of years President of
the German Ladies'' Society for the Relief of
Aged Widows. Last year she received a
medal from the Empress of Germany in rec
ognition of her many charities to her coun
trymen.
A writer in the New York Herald in dis
cussing typhus and typhoid fevers, presents
some interesting facts and valuable informa
tion, and sensible hints and suggestions,
which all having due regard to sanitary con
ditions will do well to carefully heed. He
says that typhus feyer comes from over
crowding or crowd-poison ing. The crowding
of dirty people into tenement houses, the ne
glect of drainage and other sanitary matters
are the leading causes- Typhoid has no re
lation totyphus fever. Like scarlet fever it
may strikeanywhere, among the lowest as well
as the highest classes. Typhoid frequently
arises from small obstructed underground
drains where decomposition goes on and
there is darkness and want of free ventila
tion, and where virulent gases are devel
oped. The germs of the disease may be
taken into the stomach with food or water.
Large cities may be made very healthy pla
ces and kept free from these pests and scour
ges by having a proper sewerage system, and
by due attention to cleanliness.
Father McNulty, of St. John's Roman
Catholic church, at Patterson, is a.practical
and energetic temperance worker, and a
terror to Sunday rum-sellers and rum drink
ers. He frequently make unannounced vis
its to grog-shops, and if any members of his
flock happen to be there he has no hesitation
in ejecting them forcibly. Such zeal (with
out physical violence) is greatly to be com
mended, and if the Romau clergy of any city
would set themselves against the habits of
their church members in good and regular
standing, they might be wonderfully useful.
The latest important news from the Congo
country is that of an attack by the natives
on the station at Nokki, in which a number
on both sides were killed and wounded.
The trouble arose out of dispute between the
commercial houses of the Lower Congo and
the natives of the villages around Nokki.
Order was restored through the Intervention
of members of the International Associa
tion. Their urompt action it is said has
augmented the prestige and influence of tbe
Association, not alone in the eyes of the na
tives but of tbe resident Europeans also.
The natives have agreed to give ihe Interna
tional Association possession of the coast
from latitude 2 degrees south to latitude 4
degrees, 40 minutes south, or about 175
miles. This is an important concession and
and will greatly encourage the Association
in the good work which they are pushing
forward.
One of the fools that '-didn't know it was
loaded," fired a pistol at, and instanth killed
a young lady, Miss Renny, of Brooklyn, N.
Y. He has just had his trial for the crime,
and has been convicted of manslaughter in
the second degree, the penalty for which is
from one to 15 years in the penitentiary. The
verdict is a just one, and the senteuce ought
to be exemplary. It is time to treat these
murderous fools with just severity. The ex
cuse "I didn't know it was loaded" should
avail Dothing when a loaded fire arm is
pointed at another and loaded, or not loaded
the pointing of a pistol or gun at another
"in fun," ought to be treated as a criminal
offense.
In the state of New Jersey last year there
were recorded 0.100 marriages, 34,430 births
and 23,310 deaths. Of the deaths there were
of children, unuer one year, 5,378; from one
to five years, 3,412. The population of the
state in 1880 was 1,131,117, which gives an
I average death rate of 29.60. The largest
death rate is shown in the cities, that of Ne
wark being 25.48, Jersey City 25.74, Hobok
en 35.90, Trenton 20.79, Paterson 27.73,
,Morristown 28.96, New Brunswick 27.70,
Camden 20.01, Gloucester 21.88, Burlington
18.51, Atlantic City 26.29, Elizabeth 24.20.
Rev. John MeC'ullagh, the venerable mis
sionary and superintendent of the American
Sunday School Union, for Kentucky, who
has been personally instrumental in es
tablishing one thousand Sunday-schools in
that state, has been succeeded in the super
intendency by his son Rev. Johu MeC'ullagh,
of Henderson Ky. He is said to possess tne
same rare qualifications for the position and
work which his father has displayed in a ser
vice of more than fifty years.
Hon. George Bancroft, the historian,
writes to Rev. Dr. Buckley, Editor of the
( Ttrittian Advocate in a recent letter:
"Certainly our great united common
wealth is the child of Christianity; it may
with equal truth be asserted that modern
civilization sprung into life with our religion,
and faith in its principles is the life-boat on
which humanity has at divers times escaped
the most threatening perils."
The church at Sabine Pass, Texas, was
totally demolished by a cyclone March 23,
It was the only place of worship iu the town,
and was nsed by all denominations. An ap
peal is made to Christian benevolence to
send aid to rebuild.
DO3IKSTI0 HINTS.
Buttermilk is always safe when craved.
Minced Olives are relished by many, and
are considered a decletable addition to salads
of auy kind.
The wash-boiler should always be carefully
dried, and if their is the least tendency to
rust rub the inside with a little lard.
If the stairrods are dingy, their appearance
may be improved by washing them with
sweet milk; polish them with a flannel cloth.
Rice dissolved in water and finished as
white soup is excellent for a kind of astrin
gent diet. Custard, seasoned with a little
butter and salt. Savory herbs are often ac
ceptable.
Tea-cups are now made to represent roses,
petals, aud all very natural, and the accom
pauing saucers imitate the leaves. Tea-pot,
sugar-bowl and pitchers are carried out in
the same style
Bread, biscuit, rolls, and the crust of pies
are all greatly improved in flavor aud color
if the are lightly brushed over with milk just
before they ..re pat—if?: tbe oveft. A little
sugar dissolved in the milk is an addition
also.
An ordinary pail may be lined with silk or
satin and painted upon the outside with
pretty selection of vines and flowers, and
used as a paper receptacle or scrap receiver.
The handle should be replaced by a shows
cord .
Kerosene oil will remove spots from old
furniture and clean it better than anything I
have ever tried. Very often on your side
board and mahogany tables you will find
white spots; by rubbing these with kerosene
oil they will all disappear.
To provide endless subject of study for
your childreu, take a one-quart glass fruit
can, get it nearly full of pond water; then
let them observe the forms of life, both of
plants and of insects, which flourish there.
Small magnifying glasses are luxuries that
will be appreeuited.
Upon a cracked looking glass itis permit
ted to paint a bamboo stalk, or a crooked
pear or apple branch, covered with blossoms,
so as to hide the unsightly crack aud retain
the glass for use. Upon a perfect glass
flower painting is not considered aristic,
but the blossoms and birds are to be kept
within the frame.
Japanese bottles with long necks are
made into hand-screens by ingenious girls,
and the manner in which it is done is by
placing in the necks of each bottle an open
fan. The bottle and neck and handle may
be covered with silk, thus concealing the
joining point. The screen may placed be
neath a lamp to shield the eyes from the
light.
Excellent soft gingerbread is made of one
cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of
sour cream, oue cup of New Orleans molas
ses, four cups of sifted flour, one tablespoon
ful of soda dissolved in a little hot water, one
tablespoonful of ginger, three well-beaten
eggs, the rind grated of one lemon. Raisins
may be added, if you please.
To use pieces of cold boiled ham that are
too small for the table, chop them fine, line
a salad dish with lettuce leaves, season the
chopped ham with pepper, a little mustard,
and then make a tomato dressing; take one
pint of tomato juice, strain it, thicken it oy
adding one tablespoonful of arrowroot, mix
ed with a little of the cold juice; then stir it
into the other and let it boil for two or three
minutes; add a little butter and pepper, and
pour overthe ham. Serve hot or cold.
Poultices. —On a teacup of tine crumbs of
good, light bread, or Indian meal, or ground
flaxseed, or slippery elm, pour enough boil
ing water to work up into a smooth mass;
spread it evenly on a thick piece of cloth. If
you need a mustard or pepper poultice just
sprinkle a light bread poultice thickly with
mustard or cayenne. If an active counter
irritant is wanted the poultice must have
pepper or musfard mixed one to two parts of
flour and s'irred with strong vinegar.. For
more durable irritation croton oil mixed with
tartar emetic is used as prescribed by your
doctor.
Suppose that you have some pieces of cold
roast beef that you do not know how to use
to good advantage, also some bits of cold
bam, try this way of disposing of them: Chop
them very fine, removing all gristle or any
thing that is not appetizing, to one cup and a
half of this chopped meat add a teaspoonful
of salt, a quarter of a small onion, half a tea
spoonful of black pepper, a pinch of sage,
and a little dried parsley rubbed fine. Beat
one egg, and add to bind the bits together;
add also a little soup stock to moisten them;
roll in shape of flat cakes, dip in egg and
very fine cracker or bread crumbs, and fry
in hot lard. Have the lard boiling when the
croquetts are dropped into it, then they will
keep their shape, as they become crisp on
the outside at once.
One of the Limitations of Genius.
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Herr Zukertot may kuow all about chess,
but he can't give the plural of Daddy Long
legs.
Sun-Kissed Reauty Spots.
Buffalo Courier.
Girls with freckles on sheir pretty little
noses are quite the rage in fashionable socie
ty-
A Good Deal of Truth in Two Lines.
Buffalo Courier.
It looks as if the "better element" hadSul
1 ivanized "Chet" in the first round.
THE TRODDEN VIOLET.
A violet in the morning dew,
With sunshine melting in its spheres,
Whose honey all the wild bees knew,
And bird? and breezes, happy crew—
A violet in the morning dew
Was like her in the early years.
A violet trodden under foot,
Its breath with pier-ins; perfume rife,
The birds and bees and breezes mate,
And only tears about the root—
A violet trodden under foot
Was like her in her later life.
Sweetnc--* past telling did she shed,
When day by day brought darker dole;
And sorrows with a heavy tread
(.'rushed her and bruised her lovely head—
Sweetness past telling did she shed,
As the bruised violet sheds its sonl.
So was the spikenard brnised and crashed,
And mj the precious ointment tilled
With odor that about it gushed
As if, within, wbok gardens Washed—
So was the spikenard brnised and crushed
That over the Lord's feet was spilled.
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SUNDAY GI.OIJELETS.
Koran : Haste is of the Devil.
Btron: Alas! there is no instinct like the
heart.
Philip Henry: Holiness is the symme
try of the soul.
•Yocng; If wrong your hearts, your heads
are right in vain.
Solon: No oue can be said to be happy
until he is dead.
Brainard: Hate no one; hate their vices
but not themselves.
Seneca: Even felicity unless it moder
ates itself, oppresses.
Hood: There is even a happiness that
makes the heart afraid.
La Fontaine : Habit is that to which all
of us are more or less slaves.
La Fontaine: Itis of no U3e running;
to set out betimes is the main point.
Rocseac: To try to conceal our own heart
is a bail means to read that of others.
FbedkeU—- Bremer: The human heart is
like heaven; the more angela the more room.
Buddha; Hatred does not cease by hatred:
hatred ceases by love: this is the eternal
rale.
RociiF.roFi afld: Preserving the health
by too strict a regimen is a wearisome mal
ady.
PASCAL: Happiness is neither within us
nor without us, it is the uniou of ourselves
with God,
Baileal": Hasten slowly and without
losing heart. Put your work twenty times
upon the anvil.
Bruvere; To be deprived of the person
we love is a happiness in comparison of liv
ing with oue we hate.
Plutarch: That state of life is most hap
py where superfluities are not required and
necessaries are not wanting.
Edwards: A sound mind in a sound body;
if the former have the glory of the latter the
latter is indispensable to the former.
Bickf.rst.uf; Health is the greatest of all
possessions, and it is a maxim with me that
a hale cobbler is better than a Bick king,
Chestebpteld: Whoever is in a hurry
shows that the thing he is about is too big
for him. Haste and hurry are very different
things.
U_9. L. M. Child; A human heart can
never grow old if it takes a lively interest in
the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flow
en, aud the changing tints of autumn
leaves.
Chalmers : If it be characteristic of a world
ly man that he desecrates what is holy, it
should be of the christian to consecrate what
is secular, and to recognize a presftnt and
presiding divinity in all things.
Mrs. Jameson: Blessed is the memory of
those who have k;-pt themselves unspotted
from the world,yet more blessed and more dear
the memory of those who have kept them
selves unspotted in the world.
Last year 4,732 new books iverc published
in England.
Bangor, Maine, has again voted down
"Standard" time.
Last year 4.340,000 boxes of "sardines"
were packed iti Lubec, Me.
No state or county official in Missississippi
can now ride on a free pass.
During the past year 18,000 homesteads
have been entered in Florida.
A medical journal states that the average
Chinese baby weighs but live pounds.
Loudon has 28 daily journals, 524 week
lies, and over 600 monthly magazines.
An ocean pier to cost $60,000 is to be built
atCape May this spring. It is to be 1,000
feet ioug, and 50 feet wide.
A recent report from the minister of pub
lic Instruction shows that then; arc 100,000
public school teachers in France.
IniToledo, Ohio, all the newspapers are
combining to do their work withooi any au
thority from the typographical l'nion.
The breaking ofthe levee al 'Robert- Island,
near Stockton Cal., has destroyed 27,000
acres of wheat worth half a million of dol
lars.
A New Haven, Conn., undertaker is un
der arrest charged with hurrying two bodies
in oue coffin while having permit for only
one.
In conversation humor is more than wit,
easiness more than knowledge; few desire
to learu, or to think they need it; all de
sire to be pleased, or, if not, easy.
That was a triumphant appeal of the lover
of antiquity, who, in arguing the superiority
of the old architecture over the new, said:
"Where will you find any modern building
that lias lasted so long as the ancient?"
Arizonia has been a large importer of Cali
fornia lumber, but she is now becoming an
exporter of the home product. The Atlantic
& Pacific has tapped the timber region of
the territory, and lumber is being skipped to
Los Angeles.
It is proposed to tunnel the Sierra on the
line of the Central Pacific Railroad from
Truckce to Blue Canon, and do away with
the snow-sheds, many of which are getting
old and rotten, and break down easily uudcr
a heavy weight of sn ow.
A Boston woman has hired orators for a
series of lectures to boys and girls, in the
Old South Church, haviug for their object
nothing else than tb "excite in the minds of
the young the proper love of freedom of their
country and their city."
A sea-serpent is reported to have been
seen off Mendocino harbor, Cal., on March
12. It had somewhat the appearance of a
flock of albatrosses skimming slong the
surface of the ocean, and, and was swiftly
making its way northward.
Sheridan one day descanting on the pedi
gree of his family, regretted that they were
no longer styled O'Sheridan as formerly.
"Indeed, father," replied the son, "I think
we have more right to the 'O' than any one
else, for we owe everybody."
Paterfamilias —What is included in your
curriculum? Young Hopeful—Our what, pa.?
Paterfamilias —The curriculum of your col
lege. Young Hopeful—Well, to tell the
truth I don't know. You see, being the
stroke oar and the picked nine captain, I
have not much time for botany.
Colonel Barre was blind of one eye and the
other was far from strong. Lord North had
been blind for some time. The Colonel paid
his Lordship a visit, who received him kind
ly, saying: "Colonel Barre, nobody will sus
pect us of insincerity, if we say that we should
always be overjoyed to see each other."
A return of the lives lost by drowning, or
other accidents in British merchant ships
registered in the United Kingdom during
the twelve years from 1871 to 1882 inclusive
places the total at :38,722, of whom 35,600
were crew and 3,002 passengers. Of the sea
men 32,130 were drowned, and 3,530 lost by
other accidents.
(Two women iu train from London to
Glasgow.) 1st Woman—"I do declare they
English eat naething bit cabbage an' pork."
2d Woman—"It's real awfu'. I'm sick o'
their meals." \-i Woman—"Well, I'm gled
' hame tap parritch an' saut herriu'.
2d Woman—"Sae am I. I havenn't had a
decent meal for this hale month!"
An English prelate at the last Convocation
was having a discussion with a clergyman of
the Rituralistic party. The clergyman said:
"I suppose my lord, yon would have noth
ing to bring against us provided we keep
within the covers of the Prayer Book i" "Oh,
certainly not," said the Bishop; "but the
worst of it is, you do not consider them as
binding.
A curious amendment to the defeated
Wife Beating bill was proposed in the Mass
achusetts House of Representatives a few
days ago. It provided that if the man was
drunk when he beat his wife, the liquor sel
ler who sold him the liquor and the man
who owned the premises where the liquor
was sold, should also be publicly whipped in
the same manner as the wife-beater.
The late Rev. Richard O'Connor provided
in his will that a weekly allowance of $10
should be paid to his housekeeper for the.
care of his favorite black and tan dog. An
agreement has been effected whereby the
housekeeper Is to receive from the estate $2.
900 in full settlement of her as the dog's
guardian. This figure was fixed on the basis
of the average duration of life of black and
tan dogs.
Saving his capital—"You're a goose!" an
grily exclaimed an Austrian man to his wife
who continually chided him about his exces
sive extravagance. "You do nothing but
cackle, cackle, cackle, all the time." ••Yes
dear," she sweetly replied; "but you must
not forget that the cackling of geese once
saved the capitol of Rome, and if cackling
can save your capital, I'm going to keep it
up." And she did.
The dwarf trees of China are curiosities of
forestry. Every child knows how the Chi
nese cramp their women's feet by ban
daging them when they were infants, and
thus render it impossible for them to waik.
It is, however, wonderful to see miniature
oaks, chestnuts, pines and cedars growing
in tlower pots, fifty years old aud yet not a
foot high. To do this take a young plant,
cut oil it- tap rout, aid place it in a basin in
which there is good soil kept well watered. If
it grows too rapidly, dig down and shorten In
several roots. Every year the leaves grow
smaller, and the little dwarf trees make in
teresting pets.
KELIGIOlIS MENTION.
A colored Salvation army has just been or
gan i/.ed in (lharlotte, S. C.
Bishop Simpson has been confined to his
house in Philadelphia by sickness.
The First Baptist church at Boston has re
cently paid off an Indebtedness ot
The Soudan i.- tin- Ethiopia of the bible,
precisely, according to an Englisn author
ity.
The Florida Methodist south conference
raised recently sU,U00 for the mission at
Havana, Cuba.
Tin- erection ofthe new Catholic church of
St. Charles liorromeo, in Baltimore, has been
commenced.
Rev. Thomas Harrison, the boy preacher,
is still at St. Louis, and his converts are said
to exceed 1.000
Queen Victoria once suggested to her
Chaplain that he make bis prayers not more
thau three minutes long.
Bev. E. Payson Hammond, the evangelist,
Is holding a meeting at Hornellsville, N. Y.,
and has made about 250 converts.
A copy of Elliot's translation of the Bible
in the Indian language, published in 1085,
sold in New York recently for 8050.
At Gloucester, England, a new Episcopal
church has been erected as a memorial to
Bobert Saikcs, of Sunday school fame.
Rev. Dr. Calloway, of the New Orleans
Ckriftfat Advocate, h is been appointed a del
egate to the Evangelical Ailianc-: which will
meet at Stockholm.
iii-hop Doane, of Albany, has licensed the
Quackeress Sarah Smally to read and ex
plain the Scriptures "in such parishes as she
is invited to teach in by the rectors."
An old bible brings a good di al more than
anew one at a book auction. Few bibles get
to looking worn, and this makes realy old
and well-thumbed specimens a rarity.
QThe Churchman thinks a genuine bric
a-brac craze in the Lord's honor is threat ned
and Instances a $50,000 ceiling in a church
devoid of even a hint at sacred things.
A Vermont paper, titled th" Landmark, in
forms its readers, in a burst of indignant
righteousness, that no lady or gentleman,
however costly or fashionable their raiment
Will .-it in church and eat peanut-.
A new Baptist church has been completed
Ball Lake City, and a layman of that de
nomination has made himself responsible
for the support of the pastor, Rev. Dr. II. (I.
DeWittthe well-known evangelist
The collection in New York on hospital
Sunday amounted to $13,000 in the Episcopal
churches, -^o.TOO in the Presbyterian, and
$1,156 in th.- Methodist (hist year but $350),
making a total of $27,000, which outsiders
increased to *:<2.80;{.
A religious paper says: "Few things tend
more surely to keep people from church than
superficial, pointless preaching," and adds,
"any man who is given to careless prepara
tion for the pulpit may profit by carefully
pondering this caustic but true remark of a
very successful bishop: "Tin-sermon which
has cost little is worth just what it cost."
Thse erviees of the Rev. W. A. Kincaid,
A. M., of Pittsburg, have been secured as an
assistant to Dr. DePuy in the editorial man
agement ofthe DaSy Christian Advocate, which
is to be issued by the New York book ag< nt
during the approaching session of the Metho
dist Episcopal general conference in Phila
delphia. Mr. Kincaid held a similar posi
tion during the general conferences of 1872,
1870 and 1880.
A religious paper of Baltimore notices A
report in a Washington morning paper, iu
which an essayist is made to say, as to Sun
day schools, "the object most generally in
view is to add names to the Sunday school reg
ister instead of to the Army of Lambs." when
he said "to the list recorded in the Lamb's
Book of Life." The paper suggests "that, as
a man of most marvelously inventive genius,
this reporter have the name 'Army of Lamb's
copyrighted, and demand royalty from Sun
day schools for its use.'There are many who
prefer some other name to that of 'Sunday
school.' Perhaps Army of Lambs would
suit some of that class."
Rev. Dr. J. B. McCullough, of Philadel
phia, who is one ofthe delegates to the gen
eral conference of the M. E. church, and
was a member of the general conference of
1872, expresses his gratificaiion at his elec
tion, which he regards as an expression of
appreciation of past services, and states that
he was, in the conference of 1S72 buried
with tbe committee to investigate the alleged
frauds in the New York book concern—a
work that so thoroughly disgusted him with
the revelations it maje of the designs of in
terested parties to break up the publishing
interests of our church that he has never
been able scarcely to think of that conference
without a conscious sense of indignation.
On a recent Sunday eveuing a Waterbury
minister astonished his congregation when
the fire-alarm rang by saying he "hoped the
gentlemen would not disturb the meeting by
going to the fire, as there would be a greater
fire some time, which they would want to get
away from."
A racy 6tory, is told of an old lady who re
fused to be comforted by her pastor's as
surance that when he left she would have a
better pastor as his successor. "Na, na,"
she said. "I have seen fourteen changes in
the ministers since I attended the kirk, and
every ane has been waur than anither."
SHOICT STOKIES AliOlT SNi
A reporter of the America
whlle In Magnoll
fierce bstti _ .: I »
■
about twenty minntea. Si
■i in, but _
snakes apart. When the I
thing could be -
red body of tho kirn: snake wa -
be seen as he pn
Prof. Bell found i c «] I • of t
whip snakes whi;
BO in a neat pa
1 aid them on a stump. On 0
which was warm
■
pack:.
lady untied tbe -. - I
out Ufa
boggy on one r,
while the bone
A •.'.» moi I in Gran!;
while standing tn th
wee charmed bj .
itself in front of bim. it i
away, end was gentlj i
ward and forward, and looking
with eyes like two Bam
13 yean of age, polled her lit
away, wh i. '.:••. |
siurht. T'a
time afterward.
I i>.„) Story.
To the Editor of the Gloi-.e.
Susan B. Anthon
sal 1 about her w_i
a woman suffrage i
a prominent ;>art. H n
rying a poodle-dog to thi
ami holding it in bi r
-he rose I
•■and never did. .
This is a damaging adrais ■ : n, and
to the sceptical in accounting for the
sueet st oi Miss Anthonj 'a U
'•Never: .
iment of courage, fidelit
and yet this horn
knavish, sordl 1. abomin .'•' •
.
this sort of chron
I
"Bul did the Presidi i
'•l mast tell yon
■
that he believed in.- women on ;
■ ■
• Mr. Pn -'ah nt.' and h
held it while be was making :
only n i> :
"Bnt didn't . it!"
"He • teeze it a bit Tha
I as to it."'
iwing this edifying tub rvi
.: dog Btory which wll
i is whollj worth]
rapheras Dr. John Brown th
of the
called "Rab and EU I
M ra.
died, at 8 o'clock on Tuesday mon
week. A Scotcn terrii i, !■' d .
her pet for twelve — are. Dui •
of le-r iiln, s j I- ido rem dm ■'. I • I ■ ■ ;
After he r death be persisted In lying
coffin. He followed ll to the h ar.-. .
to jump inside the hi irse. When the •
I the /i-.ive i ill), wa- there,
the funeral he took np his former i
side the bed lately occupied bj I
- i to eat. Ti he found a |
- that formerly belo II, but
had been thrown ont doors. The e he took op
in \\\< month ami carried to hi.
near ti the stn.es on 11.■ -
laid bis fore paws and head aero
w\,''- h posllIon hi ren aim ■• • •
Daring Mondav night he mused the household
by his mournful cries. Al •". o'clock onT
morning, i ractly one week to an hour after Mrs.
oil.•!!'.- death, Fiilo died beside the bed, his
head and paws resting on the shoes.
It may be shocking t.. aver t'. i1 there
thousands of people, men as well . ■ women
in this goodly land who an: bei '
enough to value the grief and (•.•-, itoncy
onto death of thai faithful creature, beyond
any "politest manner possible," hand shak
ing or Bqut <-/ii. mporary l
leney Chester A. Arthur, who is ash
to such qualities. * # *
-fanlight And Human Ue/ith.
[Londi n Observer.]
For some co-sidi xs\
tronomer Royal and his assistant
weekly reporting the ■':.■ Iflcant fact that tho
recorded sunshine daring lhe ■ vev days
has been, up >n an average, nil. Prima facia
it is only ph win. need
by this intelligence. Whal can it possible
r to tin world al large if then is not
sunshine < nough aboul
sensiti As a matter of fa» t, bo* -
ever, nsitivized
is bul i ne "i the man;, processe due '
chcml tinlight.
prolonged i b'senci ol sun
serious math r. [i • ,, upon health tiro
dirccl and perceptible. W< .one,
■:ll and list!
been sitting
:
delicc.it ill that vita! :
othi rwise enable us to shake off an
ailment. Nor I1 lip's all. Al
li_ht for any a i -:<; rable pt i I
Invariably followed by epidemic i
When the Ban I
purifii s as 11 co lects. When tl
.-,:nshine the filth coll
masses and ferments. Tl
accumulations are a source of
• soon as the ron resumes II
Decomposition under a brij
paratlvely harmless. Slow ' on In
the dark is especially hostile to health. We
ti-iu no chemist to tell as all this; but at
the same time, it
chemistry of common life in mind. When
the Astronomer Royal reports a tot
sence of sunlight we ought to bi
careful, and, i; mav be added, children
Buffer more from the absence ol the sun's rays
than do aduil . Ad dt bai
alive; childr n b alive and
which entails a double amount of chemical
work. Now, if there be no sum Ine,
can best su] plemi treise.
And yet, strange enough, tbe absence of
sunshine is regarded by m as -i
sufficient ground for keeping children within
doors. Itis, on the contrary, V...-: ry rea
son they should be sent out and kept out as
much as possible.
i. ti imnei/s.
In the year 1200 chimneys wei
known in England; and one only ■■
lowed in a religous house, one in a i
house, and one in the great hall of
lord's honse; but in other houses '
found its way out as best it could.
writers of the fourteenth century b
have considered them as the i
tion of luxury. In Ei n
the University of Oxford had no ti---- allow
ir it is mentioned,that alter tl
had sapped, having no lire in winter,
were obliged to take a good run for half au
hower, to get heat in t!n-;r
tiring for the night. Hollrnshead, in the
reign of Elizabeth, di
of the preceding generation in the art
life: "There were," -aid he, t-very
chimneys; even in tie
was laid to the wall, and the sm
out of the door. ro-..'. or win
houses Were v- died ..
clay, and ail tin- furnil a were
of wood." In 1689 a tax o! two shilinga
was iaid on chimneys.
After Twenty Yean -.
A father and daughter Beparal i :
war of the Rebellion and reunited after a
separation of twenty years. >
narrative comes from Lawn di
A reunion has just occured at I
tween father and daughter,
tion of over twenty i -ing
Dr. H. N. Howe, of ti. S \.i<- daugh
ter Miss Mary Howe, whom -< en
since the beginning i
war Dr. Howe married the dan
aristocratic southern family. Th
this union was a young girl named 5
When war was declared Dr. Howe was com
pelled to leave the south, hissympatbi
ing with tin; north, ami i In the
Union army, his family remaining in the
south. During his absence in the ar:
wife was urged by her fii are a
divorce which she did. Mr. Howe, learning
of this step, also obtained a divorce, lu a
few years he was again married and C_
Lawrence ten j here be has jlnce
resided, lie received :i;' tt rfrom bisi
ter, who was then at Par=uu_, and at once
went there to claim her.
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