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Stations. !"|\V'th'r Stations. eW'th'r L 3 Ft. P»ul os'cioudyj Yicksbunr .. > Fair La CrOBSO... 73Cloudy;Galve;iton... M Clear Bismarck... 65 Fair |N'w Orleansji*o;Clear Ft. Garry Shreveport..;So;Fair Miunedosa . ..j Cincinnati.. 78 Clear Moorhead... 66, Cloudy Memphis Cloudy Qu'Appelle.. .. Nashville BO Pair St.Vincent.. 57; Cloudy Cleveland ... 'T3!Clear Ft. Aesin'bn <o|Clear Chicago iVCCloudy Ft. Buford.. 6; Fair Dcs Moines . 68 HyU'n Ft. Caster... :sjClear St. Louis.... Clear Helena !71 ,Clear Montreal... <'•:. < Lear Huron ; Cloudy Quebec 01 .Clear Medic'eHat. 1. .| New York... 75Cloudy Duluth 57 Clear Boston COLt It n Albany. JGB Clear Washington. [72 Fair THE HOME REPOKT. Barometer, -'.'.'. -'.»: thermometer, 60.3: rel ative humidity, 76; wind, north; ■weather, cloudy; amount of rainfall, 90; maximum thermometer, 75. minimum thermometer, 05.2; daily range, 10.6. River— Observed height, 4.3 feet; fall in 24 hours, 0.1. Note—Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. P. F. Lyons, i Signal Corps, U. S. A. INDICATIONS. Washington", Aug. 2, 1 a. m.—For the up per lake region local rains in the southern portion; generally fulr weather in the north ern portion: slight rise In temperature: east erly winds, becoming: variable. For the upper Mississippi valley, local rains and local storms in the central portion, followed by fair ■weather and slight rise in temperature. For the Missouri valley, generally fair weather, except local rains in the southern portion: variable winds; nearly stationary tempera ture. SHORT STORIES. Frontier, Historical, Anecdo tal, Domestic, Dramatic, Romantic. Prizes For Original Stories to Be Paid by the St. Paul Globe. FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF YOUNG AUTHORS AND PLEASANT STORY TELLERS. Four Prizes of 550, $25, $15 and $10. Respectively, for Stories to Be Printed Exclusively In the Saturday and Weekly Globe. The St. Pay.l Globe desires to render en eoaragemi to young- and ambitious authors in this Gulden Nokthwest. To this end it invites, for publication la the columns of the Satcudav and Weekly contributions of short Stories, ranging in length from 1,500 to 4,000 words each. For the best story contributed prior to De cember 1, 1885, a CASH PRIZE OF {50. will be paid. For the story decided to be next best in merit, ■ CASH PRIZE OF $25. will be paid. For the story next in merit, a CASH PRIZE OF 513. will be paid, and for the story Bead in merit,n CASH PRIZE OF $10. will bo paid, making- $100 in all to be distrib uted. All stories submitted in competition for these prizes will become the property of the Globe for publication in its columns if deemed worthy. The manuscript of the several stories will be placed in the hands of a committee of three literary gentlemen of high character and attainments, without any name or mark to betray the authorship, and the prizes will be awarded impartially and without bias upon the merits of the products submitted. There is no limit placed upon the subject of the story or tho location of. the residence of tho author. TUE MARKETS.! Tho stock market yesterday did not have even the show of activity that It had on the preceding day. It was very dull and not a single stock on the list, Beared a business of a* much as 25.000 hares. In tho forenoon prices were weak. In the afternoon they were n liitle stronger, and finally closed dull and heavy. Nearly everything cm the list was lower. St. Paul was down ~i per cent., but the jFCfiknesa in this Block did not extend to the other Granger stocks. XL'U OF i in: NEWS. Korty-ei^rht deaths occurred In St. Paul last week. Louis Kiel has been sentenced to bang on Si ;.t. 18 tit Uog-ina. Milwaukee carshop officials from Minneap olis had a picnic at WaconiaJ The Northern Pacific land sales for July were 38,GC0 ocrea for $151,210. New Fork city is to have fable railroads. There win i..> twenty-nine routes. Home St. Paul plumbers and architects ob ject to features of the building ordinance. Masked men wont to the jail at Monticello, Gil, and tilled a prisoner lull of buckshot. It is reported that the damage to crops in tl-.-- Re . river valley an mints to 500,000 bush els. The cast-bound freight shipments from Chi cajro last week showed a decrease of 3,000 ton*. tThe Milwaukee & St. Paul and Minneapolis & St. Louis Lave reduced coal rates 15 per cent. The State Dental association in session at Minneapolis listened to several papers of in terest. • A report is current that work on tho Wi nona, Alma & Northern will be resumed Aug. 15. The Northern Pacific Express company has adopted the United States Express company's money order system. Superintendent of Public Instruction Kiehle has completed the list of teachers' institutes to be held la the autumn. The cattle lcinjs have had thinjrs their own way so long that they are bucking: desperately against Mr. Cleveland's order. Credence is given to the rumors that the . iron Pacific is making ©Sorts to secure ■ tho St. Paul's Omaha branch. Developments In the affairs of the Muneter bank show th it Karquharson,the Dublin man user, tcoi: between $50,000 and $75,000 with him when he absconded. Ho was engaged to bo married at the end of August. Gov. Hubbard has named many promincn citiztn? of Minnesota to reproseut the state at Gen. Grant's funeral In New York. Minneapolis men have appointed commit tees to carry out details and prepare a program for the Grant Memorial day. Thomas Daly was killed at Anoka by the fall of a heavy wheel, which was being un loaded at the Lincoln mill, gliding against him. Politics in England are in bad shape. The i Conservatives are in a quarrel, and the Lib ; erals sadly need a leader, Gladstone refusing | to take any part. A.B. Taylor 6; Co., a well-known Minneap olis commission firm, were suspended from the chamber of commerce for alleged viola tion of the rules. Julius Santos, a naturalized American, who returned to Ecuador and was imprisoned, has [ been released through the persuasive mi i lluence of tho United States gunboat Iro quois. .-,"»■•. SAM JONES. The attention of all readers of the Globe who desire to become familiar with the quaint style of preaching of the most sin gular and most remarkable pulpit orator that this country has overproduced is called to the verbatim report of a sermon deliv ered by the Ecv. Sam Jones last Wednes day morning at the High Bridge camp meet ing near Lexington, Ky. Sam Junks, who is a sort of Davy CnocKETT in ministe rial garb, is said to resemble Mark Twain in personal appearance, and preaches like Twain lectures in the- most free and easy way imaginable. He takes the audience into his confidence, bullies them, badgers them, and pokes fun and satire at them in equal proportions. lie can drop humor for sarcasm in a moment. As tin illustration of how the reverend humorist can blend fun, truth and satire at ■ meeting where he thought that sufficient interest was not j being manifested, lie arose in the pulpit and exclaimed. "l"d as soon jro to a negro minsttolbhow as to a camp nu-ct- Ing where there nre no ouuvetsiona. The ODjO is the devil's SBOW and the oth. religions fraud. There are boo many ions frauds around here." When the Ist pastor in charge at the aondnakni <*f the morning sermon in his address to parents on the duty of giving their children relurious training, requested all who wislnnl to bring up their Children SS Christians to stand up. and only three responded, berasßarked thai the crowd was too hard for him and he would turn it over to S\ \i JOVKS. The great evangeUsi was equal to the occasion. Looking at the congretration in the most eontetttptOOttS way in the v.orl.i. he ex claimed: "Jksxts Cnaon atari in s mile of this crowd. Be hasn't been here, and he ami coiiiiii' iinU-ss jroachange Tonrways. You ought to be ■nlismod c»t yourself, every one of you. preochen and all. HeieV ■ bbj camp-mocUu 1 been goinl on nearly two weeks, and yonafarf done nothin'. Why. his is .iu-t v relitrious larce. The Loki> forgive us if we keep it up. Now. I tell you. we'll hold special service here at 6 o'clock in the BMOdn*, an' 1 want you all to come to it. [fyoa can't. Just pickup your ski'iets and rack out. Buy your tick ets, an" if you ai.r. got the BMOjej, come to HM an" I'll buy 'cm for you. If you don't |H>, 1 will, as siuvVmy name's Sam JdM -.'" When tin* 0 o'clock service came around everybody in reach of the eaasp ground was there. Notwithstanding his bad Krasasaar tiicre Us Eresbnoss shoot the Qeocgia rerhraUal which would captivate old Limh.kv Mii:- SIT himsnlf His solecisms lit LiaccJnlly into hi~ other originalities, lie is originality itself, and cannot i;iil to please either scholar or philosopher. Bis humor and 06- centric manner are not the result of affecta tion. A correspondent of the Courier- Joornal, who bis been to hear him preach, says that he baa a perpetual flow of spirits. The same correspondent says: "In the pulpit Sam Josi actsfas carelessly as he talks. But, mark you. he can throw oil this Indifference in an Instant tod become all lire ami eloquence. Then the thin face be comes transfigured, his Conn becomes grece fwl. and his words have the feeling and power of the peat actor. On the stage he would be wonderful; for hi- ordinary care lessness is an admirable foil to the earnest ness which he always assumes when he makes a telling point. He taiks slowiy;bol he is the hardest man I have ever tried to re port, on account of his peculiar phraseology. About every third sentence contains a curi ous idea in a whimsical setting. To change the wording takes out all the life, but no verbatim report would reproduce half the effect of the words as he delivers them." RIEL, CO\VHT!;i). The conviction of Riel and the prompt sentence of execution will be matters of surpri.se to a good many people, who be lieved that the jury would hang or that ho would be acquitted on the insanity pica. That Reel's offense was a capital crime in the eyes of the law is admitted. But there were so many extenuating circumstances connected with his rebellion that the belief had gained ground that the unstrained qual ity of mercy would enter as a determining factor in the decision of bis case. The un just treatment that the half-breeds had been subjected to, the impulsive nature of the rebel chieftain, the influences which had been brought to bear to se duce him into rebellion, the appar ently unbalanced condition of his mind —all these things were expected to be weighed in behalf of the prisoner and, if not to avert, they were expected to be at least sufficient to mitigate the sen tones of the law. But with characteristic British firmness and devotion to the forms of. law. the court and jury dealt out inflex ible justice untempered by sentimentality. It IS possible that Rikl is insane. It was just as possible that Gcitea.it was insane, but no one dared to raise a voice in his be half. His Insanity was of that kind which made his taking off desirable. The Cana dian people will be disposed to regard Kiel's lunacy in the same light. The insanity which leads to murder is the most to be dreaded, and when it takes the form of treason and levying war against the consti tuted authorities i! must be dealt with the same as sane criminality. If Kiel has been feigning insanity he would do credit to him self to throw the clonk aside and stand be fore the world as a martyr. Death is to be his portion and he ought to meet it like a hero. THE GIRL OF THE DAT. The givl of the period has found a de fender in the person of Dr. Swino. In the list number of the Current is an article from his pen in which it is claimed that the girls of to-day, as a class, average better than former days have known. The mod ern girl is treated as a new form of human nature because new influences have brought about in her new shapes of character. Her wit. her vivacity, her industry, her taste and her kindness are attributed to the full liberty of education and best form of Amer ican social and home lite enjoyed by her. The liberty and equality, which are the car dinal ideas of the country, says Dr. Swing, have helped the modern girl away from servitude just as truly as they have helped the slaves to escape the old yoke which they and their fathers have worn for centu ries. The daughter of 15 can con verso with her father and mother and mature friends. Fear has departed without taking away modesty, and without bringing in a reign of egotism and disre spect Terrorism is always a blemish in society, whether it exists between man and servant, husband and wife, or parent and child. If Dr. Swing is correct in bis be lief that the class of girls this age is pro ducing is better than any previous genera THE BT. PAUIi DAILY GLOBE. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 2, 1885 -.-SIXTEEN PAGES. tion it is explained by the fact that th« ' home life is a constant flow of companion ship aud affection rather than the eternal rehjn of authority. The ironical and often mean sarcasm which pictures the woman of the present as good for little except for accompanying a Saratoga trunk on its wanderings in the summer and for filling fashionable engage ments in the winter is met with the state ment that the girl of to-day, with rare ex ceptions, is industrious and with a breadth of invention and execution. There are thou sands of girls in the cities and villages and in the country who can go gracefully from the silk dress and piano to a plain garb and to work among plants, or to tho kitchen or to a mission school class. Lan guor has ceased to be fashionable, and sleep in the daytime not to be endured. There are exceptions in girls who are pleased with nothing or nobody, who are always just dead with the headache, who are as averse as a mummy to any kind of conversation or activity, or of girls who are disobedient to ward parents, whose hearts are cold and po—Eoa none of the milk of human kiud ne>>: girls who prefer gossip to work; girls who talk irrationally and are alwa, - gling; silly girls. After referring to eir!s of this kind, who are the exception and not the average of condition, Dr. Swixg says: "Why should a few girls of marked vanity and of gieg!ing tendencies cast into reproach that multitude whose hearts are as innocent as the June llowers and June bir.l>? Much of the ruin of character comes in the later years of woman, when the imprudence of late dancing, late suppers, and the mentiil anxi ety aud perhaps sorrows which come from the vain efforts of the heart to create a par adise of pleasure away from duty, nuke the cheeks fad€ early and the eye lose its luster in the morning like a sun th;r behind clouds before noon. As for noble pirls Of 10, the Western continent is full of them. They are in the cities, in the vil in the farmhouses. We meet them on ;;11 streets, along all paths, in the lonely and lovely country. They are ready for all duty and happiness, and constitute to all 113 oMac and lading hearts t!ie iuo^ U-authal and divine scene on earth." THE LESSOX OF A WAITED LIFE. One of the last literary productions of the late Dr. Prime was a critical review of the life of Edgar Allen Poe. The only time thai Dr. Prime came in contact with the poet whose works are filled with such weird, grotesque imagery was forty years ago, when they served together on a committee to examine essays of the young ladies in Rutgers institute. Of that meeting Dr. Prime said: "Although the platform on which we stood was filled with invited fnestft, the face of no one of them, excep Poi remains an image in my memory. His figure, his stature, the expression on his lip, his eyes, hair, even his dram are distinct impressions, while I could not now certify to the presence of the elegant presi dent, Dr. Ferris, or any other individual." Dr. Prime's estimate of Pol is that he would have been great if he had been good, lie regarded him as the most brilliant, fasc inating and remarkable writer of his age, although his conception of the nature and value of beauty was wrong and his analysis often far from being clear. Yet. in spite of his genius, Pok's life was worse than wasted. And all this waste and ruin and failure came from a want of moral character. Fob's fondness for drink and gambling and his craze for opium were ruinous vices, but the worst of all was his disregard for truth. In his memoirs of the poet Mr. Woon iiKunv says, at the outset "It may as well be confessed at once that any unsupported assertion by Poe regarding himself is to bo received with great caution." This habit of untruthf ulness It repeatedly illustrated by examples in his life. The love of truth, which is essential to a firm, sound charac ter, was essentially lacking in Poe's na ture, lie married his cousin ; before she was 14 years old. getting a too easy friend to make oath before a magistrate that she was 21. His protestations of love for this child-wife are as strong as his great csai maud of vigorous speech can produce; he works it into tales and poems, raves about it in every form and figure of rhetoric, but he never cared enough for her to spend his pittance for bread when she was starring for want of it, and he wanted whisky. His affections were the crea- ires of his inflamed Imagination. Ills de votion was lip service. It is not known that he ever loved anybody except ou paper. His biographer says of him: "Except the wife who idolized hint and the (her) mother who cared for him. BO one touched his heart in the years of his manhood, and at BO time was love so strong in him as to rule his life, as he was .self-indulgent, as was self-absorbed, am! outside of his family no kind act, no nobie affectluu, no generous sacrifice is recorded of him." I'm:: slid' was full of poverty and wretoh edness, btodays n n indeed few and evil. for lie died i worn- nit old man at ; . • The lesson that Dr. Pmn d tram the w a| Aiiie. pool i- expressed as follows: "Let .- man who is tred with ssmbM :i a literary can-cr remember that ■1 anthorsof great lenusju aw en with tiie remark that "literature is wry well for a cane, but not for a crutch.' It is not to be depende ! on Her one's whole 11|> port. It will do for a help-live. Have some honest and useful calling by which daily bread may be ea.iu'l. and to your getting* a ii the ehana of ettsn if you can. Reaius. learni!!--. taste or talent wi.l a~-,-:t if you have that peace of mind and Calm content which come only when one's bras i an*! water aie reasonab i A literary man will do his best work when iiis nerves are onhft, in the BJOflllllf;, af:<-r sound sleep and without artificial stimulus. Every etemen! of ■neesni in Willing is more lively and abundant in tli^ise conditions than in any other. There sre diversities of gifts and various i tutions of mind and body. But the man is nt his l»^t when his f:wultie- | their normal state, or ;.- nearly so a- be can pet them. Wine b> a mocker, strong drink a ptagna, and onhnn rain to all who would id brain work. "1 know that bad men have been great men, that very mean, selfish and vicious men have achieved wealth and fame. But that fact does not weaken the grand truth that virtue is the only basis of good charac ter, and be who would stand 1 up high in the world should bo rooted and grounded in truth. The paths of literature are white with the bones of young men who have perished by the way, victims of their own follies; men whose names might have been in scrilHHl among the world's benefactors,lights and guides but for their self-indulgence. And of this there is not a more melancholy ex ample than is left in the life of Edgar A. Poe." A COXFEDKRATE RELIC. The Chlcaeo Herald of yesterday sends out a unique supplement" to its regular edi tion. It is a fac simile reprint of the Vicks burg Daily Citizen of July 2, 1863. which was issued just two days before Grant captured the city. The paper Is a single four-column sheet printed on one side, and that side is the back of a highly-ornamented piece of common wall paper. As an Illus stration of the straitened condition of the beleaguered city we observe that the editor acknowledges his indebtedness to Ma]. Gil lespie for a steak of "Confederate beef' and adds, "it is sweet, savory and tender, and so long as we have a mule left we are satisfied our soldiers will be content to subsist on it." Mention is made of the fact that flour was selling at £5 per pound, molasses at $10 per gallon and corn at £10 per bushel, and a cry is raised against the extortioners who were taking advantage of the necessities of the people. They had heard in Wksburg of Lee's onward march toward Gettysburg, and the Citizen, in exultant tones,proclaims the news as follows: "The omnipresence of our troops and their throwing dust in the eyes, or rather on the heels of the panie-^tri.-kon federals in Maryland and Pennsylvania clearly prove that Lee just now is the right man in the rkht place. To-day Mar} land is ours, to morrow Pennsylvania will be. and the next day Ohio—now midway, like Mohammed's coffin, will fail. Success and glory to our arms! (Jon and the right are with us." In the local column is the following: "On Dit—That the great UlyNM—ttg Yankee generalissimo, suruamed Gkast— has expressed hi-; intention of dining in Vicksburgou Saturday next aud celebrating the Fourth of July by a grand dinner, and so forth. When a-ked if ha would invite Gen. Jo. Johnston to join, he said. 'No, for fear there will be a row at the table.' Ulyssks must get into the city before he dines in it. The way to cook a rabbit is first to catch the rabbit." Singular enough, while the Citizen was dated July 2, it was not ready for press until the morning of July 4, when the editor, learning that Grant's troops were entering the city, abandoned his post and left the unfinished paper on the press. It occurred to some printers in the Union ranks to put the paper to press and left the form unchanged except to put the follow ing facetious paragraph at the foot of the last column: SOTC July 4, 1803—Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union floats over Vicltsburg. ■ Gen. Grant has -caught the rabbit;" he dined in Vicksburg and he did bring his diu ncr with him. The Citizen lives to see it. For the last time it appears on "wall paper." No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule meat and fricasseed kitten— Southern warriors to eat such diet no more. This is tho last wall paper edition, as i*. excepting this no:e, from the types as we found them. It will be valuable hereafter as a copy. Wires a street car company is Involved the public feels that it has a perfect right to make any sort of a criticism, taking it for granted that every stray shot is bound to hit something- that ought to be hit. In thU way the street car companies are often made the victims of undeserved criticism. But so far as th? public grumbling in St. Paul is con cerned, there is good ground for it in one , particular at least. That Is In the failure of IMJ company to provide a sufficient numb«>rof cars on certain lines at certain hour* in the day to accommodate the travel. Take the hours between 5 and 6 in the afternoon on the St. Anthony hill line for instance. About tliut time tbo business men who live on the hill leave their stores and offices down town to go hump. About tho same time a number of railroad trains over the various railroads reach the city. The result is that the cars aie overcrowded an 1 many people are denied the opportunity of riding on them at all. . In view of the valuable franchises the com pany has received from tho city it is no more than Just on its part to furnish sufficient cars to meet the demands of the public TiiF.Oi.oßE commend* the mayor for the j display of backbone in enforcing the law against Suuday MIoOML The only way to havu good municipal government is to en force the municipal laws. There- is no ex cuse for any one class enjoying privileges in open violation of law while the laws are be-» ing enforced against other classes. All should fare ulike. Whatever religious or sec tarian views we nmy have, or whether we have any at all or not, the fact remains that the Christian Sabbath is a part of our Amer ican institutions and our laws make its ob servance a test of good citizenship. In this connection Tin- Globe takes the liberty to ex press its gratification upon the rwent evi dences of a determination on the part of the police department to crush out lawlessness and vice and to uphold the majesty of our municipal law. Tut New York Sun prints an attractive article citinir the laws which regulate the public packs, and also a decision of the mprcrae court or that state. In which it Is shown very conclusively that the park com missioners and board of aldermen have ii" leipU rijrht to set ..-Me ii part of HlrerslCe par* for the Interment of Gen. Chant's re mains. Nothing short of an act of the legis lature can make the burial ißgaL There is no doubt that the legislature next winter will pass au act in approval, bit there is some thing repulsive in the idea that the nation's hero mast now bo buried in violation of law. Those who aro assuming direction of tile funeral ar»* shouldering a fearful rcspon- ' sibillty. The people have a r^tht to demand lhat he -liuii be buried iv accordance with the national wi:;. la such a cm t!ie nation's honor rises superior to even family considera tions. The discussion about how the funds are to be raised to build m natlouttl monument to Gen. Grant i* altogether unnecessary and out of place. That is auk which belong to con?re<s. The general rovcrument should make the appropriation and it should bo munificent. Mn. Ksilet !s still Uj-irJlny at a first-class hotel in Paris and. . ■■> ho is disposed to hailtf ou to a . <*l tavern when he strikes one, peo ple in this country are bc^innin? to inquire whether the United States Is ousibio for the board bill or not. It Is estimated that 300.000 men will be In the line of Grant's funeral procession, making a line of march tin miles Ion?. Gen. Han cock snys that he is ore rburJenod with tbo duty of arranjfln? for the enormous proces sion. ■ nntBER of young clerk.-* in Canadian cit ies, who went out to light Kiel, became so ♦•namored with tho Northwestern country they are jro'.n.,' to return t j make their hornet half-breeds. Tire Grand Army post la Philadelphia which Is kicking against the position assigned It In the Grant funeral would do wel^o re member poor Bexd's fate. THE FAIB SEX. "When a chief dies at Sltka his wires pass to his next heir. The Princess of Wales has become a vice patron of the Girls' Friendly society. The most eecentrio belle at Whit© Sulphur Springs decks her pony with roses from mane to tail. Nineteen thousand fire hundred and twelve widows of the war of ISI2 still survive. Could all the t-ol have been Mormons? Mrs. Moses Fraley of St. Louis is regarded as the handsomest dressed lady at Long- Branch. She has a hundred now dresses this season. A college professor claims that a woman is not capable of effort. He has never seen a woman driving a hen out of a garden. Mrs. A. T. Stewart has a suit of eight rooms at the Grand Union hotel. Saratoga. At dinner the table is aiways set for eighteen in her private dining room in anticipation of possible company. Eliza McCarthy, who has been an inmate of the Insane department of the Baltimore alms house for thiny years, died at Bayvtew Thursday. The poor creature never had any !o say except to repeat the words "doll babies" and "Fourth of July." An Ohio farmer, the other day, met in a lonely country locality a youn* woman at tired in a night-gown. Naturally, ho asked her who she was, when sho replied: "No body. I died this morning-" The farmer waited to hoar no more, but made tracks for the nearest settlement at a pace rivaling the speed of Bonner's fustest trotter. Mrs. Curtis of New York city is engaged to be married to Don Manuello. Prince Uupeoli of Rjme. Her sister, the Marquise de Tal leyrand, was deserted by her husband under circumstances of unusual baseness. The marquis, leaving- his wife in Paris with sev eral youug children, akme and unprotected, eloped with Mrs. Frederick W. Stevens, with whom he is at present. Mrs. Frederick Stevens built the beautiful Fifth avenue house, dace purchased by Secretary Whitney. She occupied also a magnificent villa at New port and entertained with lavish hospitality. MEN OF NOTE. Pignor Ristori, brother of the famous trage dienne, is a man of much ability. He Is a pro fessor in a Parisian college. The king of Dahomey, with some assistance, is about to eat 1.000 young men. His majesty never eats anything that is uot fresh. Baron Wodianer has bequeathed 25.000 flor ins to the poor of Vienna, and has left direc tions in his will that his banking firm shall be dissolved. When Mr. Cleveland wants a man he sends for him. Those persons who go out from the aters to see a man should study Mr. Cleve land's scheme. A subscription is being made in England for the purpose of presenting a free-will offering to Walt Whitman. W. M. Bosetti is treasurer of the fund. It is given out that the proper way to pro noiince^ir Stafford Northcotes new title. Eurl of Iddesleigh, is "Idsley," and cut quite as short as possible as that. For forty-flve years the venerable William Percival has been tho unmoved postmaster at Weeks Mills, Me., which must be the much mentioned mills of the gods that grind slowly. A recent visitor to Whittier's home at Amcsbury says that in general appearanco Whittier has changed but little in the last ten yean. He is slightly deaf, but his full, dark eve is as bright as ever, the tali form is as straight and the mind is as alert. Ex-Senator G. H. Van Wytk of Nebraska takes a sensible view of sublunary affairs, and is now on his farm in Otoe county putting up canned fruit and drying pumpkius for winter use and for market. To comprehend the intensity of the recent heat It is only necessary to reflect that a base ball player Is among 1 those who have been overcome by it. A season that gets a young man's mind off base ball long enough to make him understand that he is too warm is always a scorcher. THE TOWN TATTLES. To a young man in search, not only of food for the body, but of rich and Inspiring pabu lum for the mind, our boarding house offers attractions not to be surpassed anywhere. If he is looking: solely for bodily sustenance, and is not inordinately fond of veal, he might as well Inquire elsewhere, but if his longings are like unto those of the young man who wrote to Mark Twain about brain food, and he cannot afford to buy the whales, let him hie himself to the Hotel Puree. Six months of training in that establishment will make an intellectual John L. Sulliran out of Adju tant General MacCartby or Col. Bond. At breakfast and lunch the conversation sometimes flairs, but at dinner (besides yeal— on Sundays, chicken) we enjoy "a feast of reason and flow of soul," the very crumbs and dress of which would "minister to a mind diseased." The other day, between the pie and tho toothpicks, it was settled that Sir Isaac Xew ton wrote the first arithmetic and that before he was ennobled his MOBS was Euclid. Tapes, a gentle :nan whose face is familiar to ladies patronizing a leading dry-goods house in St. Paul, and h bookkeeper conducted the argu ment with great credit to their learning. V Our Fat Boarder bad an adventure Tuesday night which he recounted tho following day at dinar. "Along about 2 o'clock last uigUt." ho said, "I thought the world was coming to an end— any rate that it might Just as well wind up its affairs and quit busi ness, for I was certain I had no further use for it. lam a very light sleeper"—his snor ing can be beard at Bridge square on a still night, so this remark called forth a chorus of howls which bade fair to nip the story in Its bud. "Well, you may laugh if you will, but noises 1 am not used to always disturb my peaceful slumbers, and about 2 o'clock last niKlit I heard my bedroom door open. My well-known wealth would naturally tempt the enterprising burglar, and I could utmost see the bloodthirsty vil lain tlourish his knife preparatory to cutting the only throat 1 have. The room was darker than it had ever been before or ever will be ii-uin. I hopo, and I was afraid the midnight marauder would bear my knotted and com bined locks part and each particular hair grate against the other as it slowly rose to the perpendicular. I did not want to get up. Two o'clock a. m. is an unseemly hour to get up at even In summer, and I did not want the burglar to think that I was departing from my usual habits on his account or that his visit disturbed me in the least. I could hear the villain breathe, and the bed seemed to be full of electricity. I could not stay where I was. so, giving a yawn, I remarked in a voice that sounded to me as though it belonged to another man. -I guess I'll go and get a drink,' and. stepping out of bed, walked to the door. You might have heard my coat tails crack as I shot out when I had reached the opening— for the fact that 1 dM not have any coat-tails on. Arming myself with a lamp and an umbrella, which I cap tured in Mozart's room, I came back to inter view my visitor and make him divide if be found anything worth dividing. I would have raised an alarm had it not been for the consequences of a false . !:•-. which it would have been, for here was no burglar in the room. There was a dog, though, and I believe that I had rather found a burglar. I could have ar gued with a burglar and perhaps converted him, but there was no chance for talk with that cur. He evidently had come to stay. He liked my company better than I did his—and IdM rot dare to touch the brute. I was afraid be might bite my what I occasionally wear socks on. so I stood there looking at him, and perhaps would have stood there yet if Mozart here had not come in." ••He was the funniest-looking object I ever saw." oaid the latter. "He waa wared to death, and stood there with his nijrht shirt folded tight aix.ut him, poking at a little puppy with the end of an uinbrHla. liko a nervou* old lady. •Co:nc out uf thi*.* 'come out of this,' he wa« saying, like a man in a dream. I couH hardly hear him, he talked so low, while the unhappy puppy was crouch ing in a corner almost as frightened as Fatty. 'Don't touch tho brjite.' 'throw him out of the window.' 'kill him.' 'he's m.il." Tatty said, bat I rescued the harmless little thing and. rarryiiiH- it into the l>ath-room, loft Fatty to resume his slumbers at his leisure." V Some one told a irhost story on the heel 9of this, which It old enough to have renewed its youth. A farmer was anxious to test his little son's courage, and. with a view of giv ing him a wholesome lesson, sent him after the cattle about dark one cvenintr. The path ran tbrounh a stretch of woodland, and tho futher,covering himself with a sheet, took up a position which the boy must pasa on his way home. A i>ot monkr y l.elonging to the family noticed the m&nruvers of the j>ater familiiis, and grabbing-a towel accompaiiit-<i him (un discovered) in his expedition; and. wbeu tho old frentleman took up his position, did like wise in the shadow of a neighboring' tree, covering himself with th<.' towel. The boy came along pretty goon but lai!»-a to scare. "Them's ghosts," he said, and eooQjr ciiaieou hi-, way as though he was rather fond of such company. Just then the monkey in his dis guise appeared in the path. "Holy smoke," yelled the original spook in very unghostly accents, "the devil's out to-night, sure," and forsrettins the great moral lesson he was to iustil into the mind of his son. made the fast est time on record across the meadow, en couraged by the shrill shouts of "Go it, big devil, little devil catch you," from the appre ciative hopeful. ••• Business Is dull In real estate circles at present, and the saying that "Satan for idle hands finds mischief still to do" is illustrated now and then by the restless dealers* this summer. Going up Third street the other day I saw a promiuent ami successful member of the fraternity buying tea. It looked as though he intended to rival the Northern Pa cific importation, only he was buying his stock In single packages at $1 each. Besides tea he bought a collection of something that provoked a great many profane expressions from his lips. I think be called them blanks. After the accommodating clerk had set down two or three dozen packages and opened them, he remarked with evident satis faction, "You have drawn a diamond stud, air," and the real estate man was declared to be the lawful owner of a piece of glaas with something that glittered and ended in a screw about it, being "a prize" which would come high at a cent a-piece in bushel lots. It cost the speculator something like $20 over and above the proceeds of the tea, which he re sold to his vendors at greatly reduced figures. The jewel may be seen on exhibition at the i fortunate winner's office, not a thousand : miles from West St. Paul. *♦* The representative of a leading: publishing house, dealing largely in books "sold by sub scription only," unbosomed himself to me the other day concerning the habits of can vassers. "They are a peculiar tribe of peo ple," he said, "and, as generally speaking, unreliable as a Waterbury watch. We keep advertisements for canvassers standing nearly all the time, and of course a (treat, many ap plicants for work call on us. At this season of the year we can secure the services of good professional canvassers without diffi culty. They come North at the beginning of warm weather and stay until about the first snowfall, when they go South for the winter. They make all the way from $12 to 839 a week by steady work with a popular publication, more making $12 than do $30, of course. Women sell the greater number of book 3in a given time, but they rarely stay at tho busi ness long, and when they do remain at it they soon limit their exertions to their necessities. We prefer men who make a business of can vassing and are striving to accumulate a little money for other purposes— to go info busi ness or support themselves with until they can get some steady employment on a salary. "Another class of canvassers, and a very troublesome one, too, is made up of people who are financially stranded, and turn to can vassing as a last resort. Many of the appli cants who belong to this elm do not have enough iuone.t to leave as security for the samples they are obliged to take, and we never see them again. Others take the samples, and that is the last we know of them. They send in no orders, and perhaps tome of them are frauds. We sell the samples at the market price, less the amount of the commission on their sale, and one old gentleman has a full lino of our publications which he obtained at a discount by represent ing himself to be a canvasser. There may be others like him. The majority of tho amateurs, hundreds of them in the course of a year, do nothing at all. They have the samples out a day or two and then reclaim their money without having made a sale. Come in some day and look over the gang. You may find a dozen heroes of unwritten romances among the crowd—to say nothing of tramps and would-be skins." T. T. ■ Public Debt Statement. Washington*, Aug. I.—The debt state ment issued to-day shows: Decrease of the public debt during the month of July.... $8,662,759 96 Cosh in the treasury 488,418,791 43 Gold certificates outstanding .. 110.011.3-0 00 Silver certificates outstanding. 139,213,0^6 00 Certificates of deposit outstand ing 31,680,000 00 Refunding certificates out standing 233,200 00 Legal tenders outstanding 346,t>51,01tS 00 Fractional currency (not in cluding amount estimated as lost or destroyed) 15,337,126 S3 Net cash balance on hand .. $44,052,929 35 IX DETAIL. Washington, Aug. I.—Tho following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued to-daj- (new form): PRESENT DEBT. Bonds at 4}^ percent. $250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,728.900 Bonds at 3 pat cent 194,190,500 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent 233,200 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. 14,000,000 Pacific K. K. bonds at C per cent. 64,623,512 Principal 51.260,776,112 Interest. 8,557,003 Total 81,269.333,115 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity is as follows: Principal; 14,014,480 20 Interest 225,856 19 Total $1,240,341 45 Debt bearing no interest— Old demand and legal tender notes $316,738,931 00 Certificates of deposit. 31,420,000 00 Gold certificates 123,289,000 00 Silver certificates 98,672,106 00 Fractional currency, lessSS, --375.934 estimated as lost or destroyed 6,061,192 76 Principal 607,251,229 83 Total debt— Principal $1,878,072,827 14 Interest 8,782,853 73 Total 51.850.554,6t>6 S7 Less cash Item available for reduction of debt $2(50.230,397 83 Less reserve held for redemp tion of United States notes. 100,000,000 00 Total $300,230,397 83 Total debt, less available cash items $1,520,C24,259 04 Net cash >n the treasury 41,002,929 35 Debt,less*cash in the treasury onAuy.l, 1881 1,476,571,359 00 Debt»teM cn»h in the treasury on July 1. ISSo 1.485.234,149 88 Decrease of debt during the month as ■■own by this statement 8,082.789 96 Cash in the treasury available for reduction of ti.e debt— Gold hold lor gold certificates actually outstanding: $12:5,289,000 00 Silver held for silver certifi cates actually outstanding.. 93,872,106 00 Uuili., States notes held lor ccrtifleutes ot deposit ac tually outstanding 31,420,000 00 Cash held lor matured debt Land interest unpaid 647.92.") 02 Fractional currency I,3'i'J 81 Total available lor reduction of the debt 200,230,397 84 Reserve fund held for redemp tion of United States notes, October to July 12, 1881 100,000,000 00 Unavailable for reduction of debt— Fractional sliver coin £25,3.">,020 23 Minor coin 857,072 02 Total $26,212,092 25 Certificates held .as cash, is- MMi but not outstanding... $57,923,300 00 Net cash balance on hand.... 44,052,929 35 Total cash in tho treasury ad shown by treasurer gen eral's account 1 ... $488,413,719 43 Cold Day (or Cattle King*. Special to the Globe. Washington. Aug. 1. —There i 3 great danger of grass growing in the great polit ical highway between the great Northwest and the capital of the nation. It seems to be pretty well understood that the presi dent has put down the brakes, preparatory to his departure on his sad errand to New York, whence he will not return until after his tour in the woods in the Northern part of the state. Ilence the visits of the Northwestern politicians are like the visits of the angels, and the food of those who were here is little else but bread and water. Indeed, if it was not for the advent of the cattle kings, bent on hav ing it out with the administration on the subject of Indian land leases, Washington might be said to be free from all Western delegations. These inonarchs of the cattle trail arrived this morning. They announce it to be their intention to interview the president and Mr. Lunar, and to do their level best to secure a modification of the recent order for the transfer of cattle from the Indian lands. Their plea is to be that the expense of immediate removal will be greater than they can bear and their cry will be for more time. The first thing they encountered on their arrival was the decision made public to-day, declaring all Indian land leases in valid unless sanctioned by congress. This opinion was made public to-day. All the comfort the cattle kings pretend to get from it is the satisfaction of knowing that the question of Indian lands is fresh in the minds of the admistration, and that they will not, therefore, be open ing an entirely new line of thought Post master General V Has says he will return to Washington directly after the Grant funeral, but that he will stay here only a few days, as he hopes to be at his home on Aug. 20. The story that Gen. Vilas is to be asked to be the orator of the day on the occasion of the Grant memorial day in con gress next winter, can be set down as with out foundation. If the persuasion of a multitude can bring it about, Koscoe Conkling will be that orator. » Miners Stop Work. . Massellox, 0., Aug. I.—All the miners, about 1,200 in number, employed at the thirteen mines in the Massellon district, Tuseara valley, stopped work to-day on ac count of the demand of the operators that they accept a reduction from 75 to CO cents per ton in the price of mining. President Me Bride of the Ohio Miners' association has issued a call for a mass meeting of miners to be held in this city next Tuesday. The general sentiment is that the meeting will decide to refuse to accept the proposed re duction. - ■ ■ ■; ALWAYS TRYING TO PLEASE, The Jobbers Photographed with th* Ladles of Cinnabar. When they Present a Pretty Badge to the Best Equestrienne. Special to the Globe. Cixxabar, Mont., Aug. I.—The sixtl day of the Jobbers' excursion opened brightly as the train pulled into Livingston at Ba. in. Breakfast being over a delay oi one hour was made, allowing the boys to leave the car and sniff the cool breezes from snow-capped mountains in sight Ladies of the town were at the station on horses. After music by theGreatWestern the special artist photographed the ladies and our jolly jobbers. The next exhibition was a race oi a mile stretch between the ladies for a badge entitling the winner to a compli mentary membership of the Jobbers' union excursion. The race was an exciting one. The winner was Mrs. George Green who was greeted with applause. A song by Harry Drake closed the program. The train then made a quick run to Cinnabar, where the party left in stages for the Yel lowstone. Nothing will be heard from us till Sunnday night, on our return to this point. Every member found the Globe in his berth this morning and read it before rising. The ac commodations furnished by the enterprising railroad officials who accompanied the jobbers is a matter of frequent remark and arouse a feeling of great gratitude on the part of the jobbers. The trip is conceded by all to be the finest ever made by the jobbers, and in fact superior to any ever taken in the Northwest, including the great Villard ex cursion. There has not been a jar of any kind, all passing as smoothly as a marriage ceremony. This afternoon and Sunday will be spent in the park,' Monday between Billings and Glendive, Tuesday between Bismarck and Detroit and Wednesday will see the jobbers safely home, unless soina unfortunate accident occurs. CBOP PROSPECTS. Harvesting Progressing. Special to the Globe. Yanktox, Dak., Aug. Extensive rains prevailed here last night and to-day, but thus far no damage to crops is reported. Grain will all be harvested in this and ad joining counties by Aug. 10. Not a parti cle of blight or rust has appeared, although flax has been slightly injured in some local ities. Com will rapidly mature under this warm weather, and will be a large crop. On the whole the condition in this part of the territory is excellent, and the yield will be the largest ever harvested in this sec tion. Lous-continued and excessive rains are the only causes which could now in jure the crop. Harvesting is already well advanced, and a large part is already se cured. Crops Near Brainerd. Special to the Globe. BBAnncBD, Minn., Aug. I.—There is some little apprehension in this vicinity concerning the safety of the crops, owing to the recent frequent heavy rains, accom panied by extremely hot and sultry weather. However, the most reliable reports to be obtained from the farmers indicate that a3 ; yet no serious damage has been done and good average yields are counted on in every direction. Crow Wing county and vicinity is troubled very little by the storms which caused such havoc further west. The light* sandy character of the soil, too, is a decidm advantage in a wet season. Grain gener ally is in excellent condition and the pros pect for a good yield is good. Rriglit Crop Prospects. Special to the Globe. BTBKAXCK, Dak., Aug. I.—All fears re garding crops are now passed. The weather has been quite cool for two days, and wheat is tilling out plump, and the heads are long. But few fields show evidences of smut. The yield average expected is from eighteen to twenty-two bushels to the acre. All vegetables look well, and corn is excellent. More was planted this year than previously. Good Yield Expected. Special to the Globe. Maxkato, Aug. 1. —Talks with a num ber of prominent farmers in different parts of the county bespeak a good crop for this year. A short trip over Leroy shows a number of fields in which the harvest is quite far advanced. Oats are mostly cut and wheat about ready for the sickle, lie ports from Nicollet county, on the west of the Minnesota, are all also very favorable, corn being unusually fine. . Hail Damage. Special to the Globe. Fergus Falls, Minn., Aug. I.—Hail insurance agents here report the following losses by the late storm: Hennessy, Leaf- Lake and Clotherall, Otter Tail county, 8; Grand Forks and vicinity, 85; Ada and vicinity, 12; Glyndon and vicinity 12. A number have also been reported from the neighborhood of Sauk Centre. The loss ranges from 5 per cent, to total loss. Damage* to tliu Crops. Special to the Globe. Gkand Forks, Dak.. Aug. I.—Reports from various parts of the country from fanners show that during the intense heat of the last few days wheat has suffered a general shrinkage of from 6 to 10 per cent. Some locations report 25 per cent, injury. The total destruction by hail is summed up at 500.000_bushels in this valley. The Whisky Outlook. New York, Aug. I—The1 —The following in terview with Charles E. Chase, a promi nent whisky man of Louisville, appears to day: "There will be no further efforts to • obtain an extension of the bond period from the government, for a large percentage of dealers and distillers are satisfied with the present laws, and are thoroughly convinced that to ask congress for relief will result only in depressing trade, and making the market lower and feverish. Then, too, if the bonded period should be extended, distillers would be put to heavy expenses in order to erect the required warehouses to hold the bonded goods. I think all dis tillers are growing satisfied with the three years now allowed them by the revenue de partment, for in that length of time we find that whisky now matures sufficiently to be marketable. I sincerely hope the extension cranks among us may not again inflict congress with our woes." Mr. Chase stated that $:;,000 would cover all the failures in the trade, and that the Newcomb-Buchanan concern was responsible for two-thirds of this amount. "The past two years' de pression," he continued, "has proved the solidity of the liquor trade in general, for very few failures have taken place, although the losses have been heavy. The demand for consumption, coupled with the large amount of whisky exported, has decreased very greatly the over production of 1831-2, and at present the amount in this country is not as large as held in many previous yeafs. Throughout the country, operatives in all lines of business who consume whisky - are more or less idle, from the closing of mills and other suspensions of business, so they have not money to buy liquors. The whisky business will not revive until there is a general change for the better." The larger vart of the distillers believe the worst is over and say they see signs of higher prices at an early date. Discharging Children. Siiamokix, Pa., Aug. L— in accordance witn the act of the legislature prohibiting the employment of boys under 12 years ol age in the coal breakers and under 14 in the mines, about rive hundred minors were dis charged from the collieries in this vicinity to-day. ;-.-f Still murchine On. Lanesboro Journal. The "wonderful strides to the front" made by the St. Paul Globe seems to bo still main tained. In clearness of arrangement and in a judicious condensation of news, as welt as In obtaining early reports of all leading events, it ha* no superior iv the state. He Will be Here in Time. Duluth Herald.. We are really afraid that St. Paul is becom ing a very wicked city to judge from the ex posures in yesterday's Globe. Mayor Rice had better send for Sam Jones before the city becomes as bad as Minneapolis.