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18 FOR FAIR WOMEN'S EYES. Some of the Graces and Accomplish ments of ih3 Modern Girl as Sean by a Report Poet. Why Women Should Eo Careful Not to Choose Husbands Who Are In clined to Undue Haste. nlticIi-EIaligaed Wives' Relations Really Entitled to More Consideration Than Is Given Them. What Constitutes Bright Women, and Why They Are Generally Ex tremely Few. THE BOS AND THE BALLET. There's a lady In one of the boxes. She's dressed In a manner au fait. Which those who are posted on fashion Denominate decollete. There's another one there In the ballet. Whose attire is unite comnie i! t'.mt, Reversing the cut of the other, It's decollate down below . it you take the two dresses presented And combine thorn, wnen you are done You will liml that tin' new Combination Will result in your bavins but one. Now what shall we say of the puzzle? One gnnnent, with women for two. Ami both of them dressed In the fashion— We don't understand it. Do your — Washington Critic. \VAUX1XG TO WOMEN, rhey Should be Careful Not to \,\ oil Fidgety Husbands N ARTICLE by .James Payne has the following: I w o u 1 d solemnly warn all women about to marry to ascertain before hand that the con templated husband is not what is called a fidget. A leaning t o intemperance may be greatly mit igated in a husband by one keeping the cellar key and not allowing him anv pocket money: nut a fanaticism lor being always before the time it is diffi cult to repress and impossible to extirpate. Better that a bridegroom should not be at the church door until after the rubrical hour, and your marriage be postponed for a day, than that lie should prove himself a fidget by presenting himself at the altar before the clergyman or yourself is ready for him. Your self-love may suggest thai such haste is only there Milt of his eager devotion; but do not deceive yourselves. young women— would have been at the church equally early if it had been to bury you. Tompkins himself Is in many respects an excellent husband, and I do not believe he is very fond of me, but it is timeliness first ami feelings after ward with him, 1 know. When busi ness calls him on a. journey only one eye drops a tear at parting with his wife ami offspring. •< The other is fixed on the clock to see -that the cab is sent for in time to catch the train. That '•catching the train" is the thought that makes him thin and keeps him so. Much of his time is necessarily consumed in travel ing, but not nearly so much as is spent in preparing for his journeys. The. day previous to an expedition is mainly occupied in packing his carpet-bag and writ out his direction labels. He leaves over night, as in a will, the most elaborate directions for the proceedings of the next morning, with a codicil. appointing that he shall be called half an hour earlier than he at first considered soon enough. This last command is wholly superfluous, since he always wakes of* himself long before the appointed hour anil proceeds to ring the house up. Previous to this he has kept me from my rest since earli est dawn by perpetually getting out of bed to see whether it is going to be line. Upon this depends the momentous question: "Shall he take his waterproof coat or not'.'" If" he does, it should be strapped up at once with the other things already lying on the hall table ready for " depart use: not moment is to be lost. His toilet is hasty enough, but not speedy, for in his eager desire on retiring to rest to have everything ready for the morning he has generally packed up his brushes and comb or some other indis- | pensable thing which has to be disen tombed from the portmanteau. lie gen erally shaves over. night; but if not, I tremble for his throat, since I know with what imprudent rapidity lie is per; forming that operation in his dressing room. THE WIFE'S RELATIVES. Why the Husband Should Keep on Good Terms With Them. To be on friendly terms with one's wife's relatives should be the modest aim of every married man. says a writer in the Chicago Herald. 1 would extend this friendly sentiment even to mothers-in-law, than whom no class of human beings, male or female, has been more or less unjustly maligned, 1 speak not of the puny darts of the hum orous paragrapher, for he is to be for given much in. that he suffer! much, but of that unwholesome sentiment per vading all classes which has invested the mother-in-law with the form and semblance of a social dragon, to lie hated, despised, combated, driven out, but never loved. There is a great ileal to be said on her side. A mother, look you, rears her daughter with what ex penditure of care, money, heart-burn ing, anxiety she can.- She sees the young thing ripen into the fullness of her beauty, and is no mother at all, if, in her eyes at least, that beauty is not more beautiful than any other in the world. Thus, Dolly's complexion may not be good, but then she was sick so long, and. besides, look at those beautiful eyes and that shape. Were there ever such shape and eyes'.' And Polly. She has a hump to be sure, halts in her gait, and her eyes must be owned to be wat ery; but. Que voulez voiiz? Did she not mill hi dear eves in the pur suit of learning and the embellishment of that brilliant mind? Who so bright as my Polly? As lor Molly, who. it is owned, has neither shape, eves nor mind do not the roses bloom on her cheeks? Her complexion— is It not the pink of beauty? So, if then- be it fourth •sister, and she is blind, halting, pimply, crooked and a fool, is her mother, for sooth, of all mothers on earth, to point out these defects? No, indeed; mothers are not so constituted. Very well, then Molly or Polly grows to more or less graceful maturity, her mother's darling and her father's pride, when lo! there crosses her path a shock headed youth, or a smooth-headed youth: a tall youth or it short, a fat or a thin and— v'la! Polly or Molly is at his feet (figuratively, of course.) There after, madame, these young ladies, your daughters, are no longer yours, but' the bounilen slaves of that voting fellow there, who may live to be hanged, for all you know. You wish he might, don't you. as you reflect that your obedient daughter, whom you loved and cherished, whom you nursed through the fever, whose thoughts were your thoughts and whose heart was yours till this gawky Apollo appeared upon the scene, ami with a nod of his head conjured your child away. AH the loyalty and obedience of years gone for a pair of thin shanks and a promi nent nose, or some other valuable consideration. By heaven! if ever a daughter of mine grows to that age when she becomes the target for such tricks as these, and if a lantern-jawed mile imbecile conies to drag her away. I vow by all the gods of paternity that I'll — . PIT do what? Take him by the hand, i suppose, and say "God bless you. my children!" That is what a certain old gentleman said to mo on a similar occa sion some years ago, and that is what no end of lathers have said and will con tinue to say, 1 suppose, since the earth must be peopled and sinners bred to the end of lime. HEALLY' BRIGHT WOMEN. As Scarce in Boston as They Are in Any Other Place. Boston women are intelligently acute; they are mostly born with brains, or, if they haven't brains, they affect them and play they have. They are wide awake, keen of perception, appreciative to excess; they believe in education and mental improvement; they are morally unhappy and depressed, owing to cli matic causes.and they are narrow ill their views of the world outside of . Boston. But their brightness, where does it .conic in? The scintillations, the nimble wit, the sens," of humor, which are in cluded in this genial quality, belong to a very few. Perhaps there are half a score of really bright women In Boston. can only recall two or three whose mots have any social currency, although it has been impossible to go anywhere this winter without meet ing many interesting cultivated women. This small ' .proportion seems strange to admirers of the gentler sex. We are drawn and attracted to certain people, and we at once Invest litem with those certain qualities which please us, for nothing is more natural than to see the best in those we like. It is unconscious self-flattering. < hie of the most brilliant liosionians.or, rather, cosmopolitans, after living all over the world. returned here not long ago. and, . in course of _ time, met numerous leading society women who have been accounted worth knowing. He was not struck by the mental or physical charms of any of them. At. last a quiet, unobtrusive little person, whose husband carried this citi zen of the world .home to dinner one day, became suddenly elevated to the rank ol "the brightest woman in Boston." Her sayings were quoted far and wide; j whenever any one else managed to let tall a pearl it was snatched up, and fastened to her newly acquired rep utation for making droll, exaggerated speeches. By and by this citizen of the world couldn't endure his native land longer, and he Hew back to more con genial Europe, leaving the brightest i woman to light out this battle of wit by herself. The consequence was obvious. She ceased to say smart things. Her inspiration had down. The mind that had acted on others like Hint on steel disported itself in other circles, and drew sparks from quick : witted Parisians instead. 1 have always i surmised this temporary cleverness of I -Mrs. Humdrum was in reality the witty reflections of this throughly witty fel low. He thought she said the brightest things, while he was the perpretrator. At all events, it was one of the curious psychological studies which now and then creep in among and enliven the commonplace facts and issues of the day. SELF-MADE WOMEN; The Lowly Beginning From Which Some Women Have Risen. .We hear a great deal about self-made men. and now Celia Logan, herself a self-made woman, has compiled some : interesting, facts concerning some women who are well known at the present time, from which it appears that some of the most noted began life very humbly. Lucy I.areom was a mill hand. Pretty Maud Granger, with the. gold brown eyes and shapely form, first earned her livelihood by running a sewing machine. Sarah Bernhardt was a dress-maker's apprentice; so was Matilda Heron. Adelaide Nilson began life as a child's nurse. Miss Braddon, the novelist, was a utility actress in the English provinces. Anna Dickinson began life as a school teacher. Charlotte Cushinan was the daughter of poor people. • ' .Nell Gwynn sold oranges in the streets and theaters. From the pit, while vend ing her wares, she took a fancy for the stage. Mrs. Langtry is the daughter of a country parson of small means, but the old proverb of her face being- her for tune proved true in her ease. Edmoilia Lewis, the sculptress, is col ored. Overcoming the prejudice against her sex and color, and self-educated, Miss Lewis is now successfully pursu ing her profession in Italy. ' The great French actress, : Rachel, had as hard a childhood as ever fell to the lot of a genius. Bagged, barefoot and hungry, she played the tambourine in the streets, and sang and begged for a dole. Naturally, she was illiterate and vulgar. Christine Nilsson was a poor Swedish peasant, and ran barefoot In childhood. .Jenny Lind, also a Swede, was the ; daughter of a principal of a young ladies' boarding school. Minnie Hank's father was a German and a shoemaker, in the most straitened circumstances. Her voice early at tracted the attention of one of New ; York's richest men, who had it culti vated. Adelaide Phillips, the singer, now dead, was a very poor girl, and so was Sarah Jewett, the actress. : : .. The mother of Clara Louise Kellogg strained every nerve to give Clara a musical education, and at one time was a professional spiritual medium. Miss Kellogg failed three times. Miss Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, was the daughter of a small farmer in Nantucket, who was obliged to eke out his income by teaching school at &2 a week. Maria' was constantly occupied with household duties:. The. most renowned woman who sprang from the lowliest estate was Jeanne d'Arc, who fed swine. BELLES OF THE BALLET. The Ankle Always a Sure Index to the Log. Philadelphia Item. "I always hate to strike Detroit." the ballet master said, as lit; mopped his head with his handkerchief. "Why'.' Girls there are so odd— is, of course, those who come under my supervision. It's funny what a difference there is in towns.- Now. in Chicago, these people are as bright as a dollar. 1 would rather drill a ballet of Chicago girls than those in any other city outside of Philadelphia. The girls are also bright in Cincinnati and SI. Louis. The Indianapolis girls are very, very . bad. So are Louisville maidens. In Cleve land the girls simper, and here in De troit is that giggle. The Detroit giggle drives me wild. Just ask the Ilanlon's ballet master what the ballet girls of Detroit are remark able for. J have told you his answer. Tim prettiest ballet girls are to be found in Brooklyn. Nice, plump figures and rosy cheeks there". Boston is a good place for looks, and Montreal is a gem. You get clear com plexions up in St. Paul and Minneapo lis, but poor constitutions. Detroit girls have bad complexions and are usu ally of bad figure. Perhaps you won der why 1 go so strong on complexions. 1 will tell you. In the first place. it is hard to paint a half hundred women for the ballet. When you get it done they invariably smirch the colors and look like frights. If you allow them to dress their own faces, they put on the colors too heavy and have the appearance of candy statuary early in the holiday season. Good; strong complexions need little or no touching up. I can tell just how a woman will look in tights by one glance at her figure. it isn't any. particular feature, but the general appearance and carriage that indicates the qualifications for my business. The shoulders should be round and convex, the. bust full and the back straight. Some people have a theory that a well-formed arm certifies to nicely molded legs. : This is all wrong. The index to the leg is the ankle. I never saw a poor ankle and a well-shaped leg, or vice versa. We. use no 'fats' in these improvised ballets. That custom has t gone out long ago. The trouble, in making up a girl was too great and the returns too tuiaii." ■ '■»nwTni 1111111111 II III II II THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1887.— TWENTY PAGES MEMORY AND REALITY. The .Nino Years' Devotion of a West Point Graduate. A Manly Heart Under an: Army Uniform of Blue. ... KllY reluctantly it is =^that l confess that 1 7 am a lieutenant in ' the United States army. 1 graduated from the academy at West Point some' ten years ago. and the fact that I have seen > no active service is , not a fault of mine, but is due to the peaceful circum stances that have, sur rounded me since that time. 1 am a i bachelor, also, and ) my knowledge, con \ sequent ly, even of I domestic warfare is but small. Perhaps there is no excuse for my thus obtrud- ing myself upon the public no tice other than a desire for sym pathy; a wish to tell my troubles. 1 nave friends among my brother officers; but while 1 could confide to them the history of some little escapade.the story of some adventure tinged with rose leaves and with moonlight, they do not invite the more serious confession that 1 am about to make thus anonymously to a dispassionate public. It was in '?."> that I came to Fort Leav enworth, a boy at that time. 1 may say, for I am now but 31. It all was very real in the first flush of my duties at the post and my command of the regulars bronzed and bearded. The future was bright with its promise. Perhaps 1 saw myself through the romantic vision of those about us. The little town of Leaven worth lays two miles south, a com munity of residents; a little intellectual aristocracy making a feeble pretense at business but really living an ideal life of rural ease, in which the adjacent military garrison and its buttons and shoulder-straps played no unimportant part. I met her there. Can I tell her name? Perhaps it is wiser to conceal it. 1 will call her Fan, just as 1 called her then. There are many Fannies in the world. 1 had flirted at West Point, yes, and before I went there, but 1 had remained heart whole. It was only a flirtation when 1 first talked low and earnestly to her; only a flirtation, 1 think, when "sit ting at the piano she looked up into my lace between the andante touches with those exquisite eyes. 1 can't remember just when it ceased to be a pastime and became a passion. The transition was very gradual, and yet a weak lad done it all. • ■ ONLY A FLIRTATION. I am not a poetical thinker. The wild violets bloom by the roadway ami tell to me no tale of modesty. The tinkle of a cow-bell coining on the evening breeze heavy with the smell of new-mown hay promotes no dreaming, and yet in those years ago, as we stood on the bluff and 1 saw the moonlight shimmer on ' the muddy Missouri and bathe with trans cendental sweetness her Southern face, I thought 1 knew why the great river bent from its direct, course to kiss the hills made lovely by her presence. Never before in my life had I told a woman that I loved her; never had 1 even lied about it without some indica tion that it would be a welcome. But 1 told her so; and telling her 1 said it was confession uninvited, but a tribute 1 was proud to pay her imperial worth. Were there tears in the brown eyes that • made them lustrous as she looked so steadily, so earnestly in my face? Deaf little woman. My regiment was ordered away next day for Montana. And there was that look again upon her face when I called to say good-bye. She held a rosebud in her hand and had torn one leaf from it and was mechanically brushing it across her lips. 1 took it from her. "Why?" she asked. For reply 1 put it in my pocket-book. ••You are only a schoolboy still,*' she said, and stepping to the conservatory she returned with the. leaf of a rose geranium, which she gave me. I took her hand and pressed it. unresisted, to my lips. Dared I do more? I drew it toward me so Imperceptibly that 1 feared she might not feel • the invitation I was giving, yet disguising. .Just a moment of keenest doubt, and then 1 am waiting for words to describe my sensa tions. It seems so feeble only to say I kissed her, but that was it. Along the river road, as I ata^rl* .ent ered back to the fort, i was living li over again, feeling once more, in imagi nation, the first trembling response to my indicated wish; again the upturned and half-frightened face was, with moist lips, coming near my own, and 1 felt that thrilling contact. In these intervening years how often 1 have re-lived that moment. 1 have frequently thought that a more forward man would have taken advant age of that instant, would have folded her in his arms and kissed her again and again, have told her of his love ami asked her to be true and honest in his absence; but 1 did not. Could I make her my wife? Would she be happy in the hum-drum life of an army post? Would 1 be content to have her there? These were questions that I asked my self; questions that 1 never answered. This life makes dreamers of us. What other man would have expected nine years to pass with no communication between himself and a woman whom he loved or fancied upon his return to find her waiting for him. What other would have deserved it. It. was with a strange elation that I dressed myself on the evening of my return to Fort Leavenworth nine year's 0 after leaving it. 'Was 1 she living still? Would P^^m,. "he be glad to see me? never doubted it. In j^j^^^^Tg^'iiy buttonhole I wore *^§^2*||f^«g^the leaf of arose geran ,£g*||p^||M? niin and one leaf torn Z0gP(%fflw from a rosebud in sweet *&&& Jgffla significance of that part ing. Tin- mementoes of that even ing were in my pocket, dried and withered. but the- memory- of of their giver was as green and fragrant as the younger souvenirs upon my coat. 1 rode into the town. ' The town? I should have said the city. Rip Van Winkle return ing to the village of Falling Water saw no greater change. 1 was looking for tin; hotel 1 had known. It was gone. So were the sleepy boys that used to stand upon the corner. The. streets were paved and full of business. The town which had lived and overlooked the river now stretched to the west ami climbed the distant hill. Everything had changed. For the first time Doubt laid its palsied hand on Hope. Where, where was she? I inquired for the prin cipal hotel and -dismounted at it. The office was full of men of business talk ing trade and samples and corner lots. I wanted to speak to the proprietor, but not there. 1 would go the parlor and ring for him, and when we were alone 1 would ask him about her. Yes, that was best. Great God! I stood transfixed upon the threshold. There, there at the win dow she was sitting. "Miss Fannie." "Why, Lieutenant!" She was coming towards me with that same old smile and her hand extended to greet inc. Thank heaven she lived. I stammered something— the- pretty speech 1 had arranged. 1 thought the color came into her face a bit as her eyes rested on my bouloiiniere. Perhaps I was mistaken. Then she turned to a gentleman in the room: "Henry, this is Lieut. Howard, of whom you have heard me speak. My husband; lieutenant, Mr. Chambers. We saw you were coming, lieutenant, by the Army anil Navy Journal." "Ah! indeed. I didn't know that it anlicipatdd events." The rest was small talk. Old 1 re member her drive over Mr. Sheridan's ride? The picnic at such a place'.' The dunce at another? And her Henry took a hand. Wouldn't 1 take a drive with him the next day anil see the improvements in the place? "Yes 1 would." 1 answered so because of the hope that she would be of the party. That hope bouyed mo up through the sleep less night. The morning came and with it Henry. No one could have been more attentive, more polite, but it was i the refinement of torture to be bored by him and he showing the courtesy. be cause of my past regard for her. That smoke-stack in the distance, he ; explained as we drove towards the city from the fort, was at the coalshaf t. Leavenworth, it had been found, was above one of the most productive coal fields in the country. Fuel at 7 cents per bushel was furnished the year round to families and factories. Three mines were running and all railroads in the j state were getting their supply there. The development of this coal supply alone would soon give employment to 25,000 men. >•£ ; i It was all one to me. The place where '• the coal shaft was had a value In mny eyes.because it was upon the river bank where we had once gone rowing, his wife and 1, but 1 would not tell him that. Seven lines of railroad. Henry said, already were required to do the carry ing business of the booming city, and two new ones were building now as rapidly as money and men could con struct them. All the leading roads of the West, he said, were buying coal lands in and about the town on which' to locate shops, and the moneyed men of Kansas City were securing sites along the river for suburban homes. The twin cities were but twenty miles apart. And so he rattled on. There were fifty manufacturing establishments al ready in the city. In one of them the colossal pumps that gave the city water had been made. Ami see those, bods of stone. What inexhaustible supplies of building material were there, and with it all, the property, the real estate, was held at less than one-fourth the money asked by smaller towns in the state, with no such stable foundation for per manent expectation. WUEKE tot: BI VKB seeds. .Dear me, dear me! and 1 was dying for some ward of her. Why did he not tell me of. Ins wife? Or, better yet, why was he hotjftiiet, that I might think of her? Through one little rife in his com mercial talk 1 injected a digressing question. Was there not about there a peak called Pilot's Knob, an eminence commanding a view of the surrounding country? i knew there - was, for 1 had ridden there with her. 1 remembered her figure In her robe of gray. .Oh, yes! It was 192 feet higher than the next highest point about .there.-' ; J * • Heavens! Had they measured itjin their commercial commonplace? Yes; the city reservoir was there. It gave such a magnificent fall to the water that fire engines were not needed in the town. They had' only to lay the hose, and a stream could be thrown over the highest building in the city. That less ened insurance . rates. Then he drove me through the residence portion of the city. In that house Judge Brewer, of the United Statmiistrictfhad his home. There was the 'dwelling of Lucien Ba ker; this -thoiplaee of Col. Gilpatrick.-fe ■ Yes. yes; but* where did peace and .contentment-dwell for me? t [ He showed iiie the probable terminal point of the 'dummy railway that was building, and would soon connect Kan sas City and. Leavenworth with hourly train-, and .a hundred other places wire pointed "out. At* last 1 asked him to take me to the river, and he left me there, just where it bends to meet the city, as he explained, a roadway for the. wealth of the North and South. 1 was standing in the shadow of a great grain elevator. Ten .years before a pretty Clump of trees had filled that site, anil she and I had spent one happy after noon beneath their shade. But all was business now. Even as i looked at the bending river the smoke of a puffing steamboat blurred the summer sky, and 1 turned away sick at heart. Young Love himself is staking corner lots, and 1 have written to the depart ment at Washington requesting that I be sent to Gibson, where the happy Creeks and Cherokees live in the sun, and think not of the morrow. G. T. V ♦ MINNESOTA COOK BOOK" ■ - Original Recipes From Western Ladies. [Every Contributor Entitled to a Copy.] To the Ladies of the Northwest: There are many good housewives in Minnesota, and, indeed, throughout the Northwest, who have gained rich stores of practical knowledge in the conduct of their domestic duties. To each one of these ladies this request is personally addressed; that is to say, we desire each lady under whose eye this may fall, to consider herself as being personally ad dressed—not housewives alone, but the practical daughters as well. You are, each and every one of you, respectfully requested and cordially invited to con tribute at least one recipe to a collection: to-be printed in the Globe of the 22d day of May. These recipes may cover the widest possible range of domestic prac tice or duty, embracing everything that gives substance to the stomach or tickles the palate; care of the sick; dressing children, or training and educating them; arranging the table or decorat ing the home. Original recipes solicited: but well tested and approved recipes, whether original or not, will be welcome. i Each lady contributor will receive a copy of the entire collection as soon as printed, for the interest she takes in the enterprise. y • Lady, please take the first ten minutes you have, and write out and mail to the Globe your contribution. Send along your name that we may send you the collection when completed. Address^ Editob Globe, ;a St Paul, Minim ■♦- . .. A VAIN PASSION. * She sat before nic in the pew, ' Half listening to the sermon prosy. Unit' shading from my eager view A rounded cheek, fresh, plump and rosy? , Her figure trim, in stylish mode, Her prayer-book, with her name upon it. '• W ell pleased her, but she plainly showed, She most admired her Easter bonnet. And I sat idly near her there, Half wondering nt, and bait admiring The soft confusion of her hair - But never to her hand aspiring; For well I knew all hopes were vain— . Her father is too rich and thrifty— And I am poor, and then again— ' She is but five, while 1 am fifty. — W. II. Hills in Journal of Educ»> ! -»i. NO IMPROPER CHARACTERS ADMITTED. Sackett „ Wiggins' Ceaseless Toilers for the People's Amusement! LOCATED AT 94 TO 96 EAST SEVENTH STREET, ST. PAUL. WEEK OF 1 ____"_" IB. P*t Bed is as large as an ordinary room. An enormous Box Car transports her. A huge truck and 4 horses to draw her through the street! thIwrS£_* fe * Lockcom P« u, y mo veher to p tinny of the Confederates, and was _RK.__* - -* - "- £>s_/ S_f___]__??-« are personified, she is so very BIG yon can't i X^C^lil!, -^^^""^ »l<; WINNIE «-7i-VurV-ii V !» 1 ► i * 1 are personified. 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IJ,r „ mountain of human flesh; she is so massivcso —^ J$ .*• , ///flffll] Ifl U HI * none Mm* «V l7l^» iK nin e Im i Be ? 1 " ponderous, so topoatagand overwhelming in .he ,^3^$^ Wl HlRUS IMHHV — ' cus and ffljfeSKTX C ; immensity of her almost incomnrehensible pro- ■- — _=>. /^^^Jw£_V " lwI l >U_Ll ___--*» was the fir*t hi- -how l.«,i i » ai1 portions that a Indcscrilwble. vet pleas- «^1E^V%^1 WllCra' &£ : s___^w__ ha '/''" iiiu sensation ..f mingled wonder, nrnazement T®^ &S& WL *i&XSs£*\ &P' tbeme utsdrew^l t h. wn2 fm, ?r V( ' r ' nm nwe J lib e ,he astonished hehohler while Sl^ . jMV' frfw^W^^^^ „, „ ' ■ sZ' \ I 1 ' .ri^^-— 3*~f£5iJ5ri2sB? T^PtfuM V(/P&\t\ ■ I J* Jl *" WINMfcSnamcd Nicholas Norton who The Story of the Life of the Biggest of Riq ce^:_====^^^3^ w^^bt-iS^ V fJP&L Wy^Lo' Li MX/_visited the side show, where there was a fat fie/^s 77iaf We flare an, Record of. , " 3i^_SI V lIB^Sl8nr^r_l^_£_^___-ir hffit L™J[ ifrinW 1° be M £ is if ? ot I wF»l*V3s35? i *£S5*v/ //j vs//*? 1 { ¥.#a\//x£3l iMmC-Si — -- -— 1™» iiie oiggesi woman nvinjj. >orton pooh-poohed l!us Behemoth of women before whose im- uf^-_t?i^^s^^^^a^g r^Mff^_71^^ C—---^ ? he idea, mid remarked to the showman 'There mcnsity till oiler big people arc dwarfs, was '■ JS^^^^W^^^YsyJ^^J^^^!^--^'^ — ' A is an old slave up in the mountains where I live born in Moeksville, D.ivey county, North "i ''Y'/ t^^^^^^^Si^X^f- • "V "&? who is as bis as a dozen of your bis woman" Carolina, on the plantation of Col. Abraham V^i^'^&vCvS*— SsSS W^^^PMi^HC^^— 1 ' — X _U_#£—- This excited the euriosity of 'the showman and" Nail. At birth she wns'the talk of that region. | /Mwii//ff y%L*^\>^>--i F^ — V <_? " £M he made arrangements to visit Norton's "home for she weighed SO' bounds. Her mother _'^ f/'Wuff-M /Y\n "^J__3i , 'A _J \ If ffa- "'"J inspect this huge, human Blfi-WIWIF died in - giving her birth. '♦ She grew very ran- ; | 4$f//g/jr $ <r. _ J f—^^fovftvtf^i __— , , iilidVrtTrTT_ ||][1| fif Hi The outcome of that visit was that Norton and idly and at six years.of.4fce she weighed 380 \ [fflfl Ml Iff- Wf^h AUWin^ // fTllllfi I if »l l # lA ,hc l " huwra,ln entered into a partnership made pounds, so wonderful vfe'she that people came : : N?. - 0 /// if 1 V i\W « nW { / K 1 " ,! II ■ f » contract with BIO .WINNIE toaUowheiSf from all directions to seVufls.i slave child of en-, $ V\[ Ml " A *S 1 ' ll ' I ' M\ |l _ f/M\\ ">beshown to the world once more!^toI^M ormous proportions. Aiooiig^the visitors was I I , __ __fe»>»_JaL M '_■ -<*~^- ,1 '«l l ■ \ B m ■ i cabin was torn down to get her out and aeain Mr. Joseph P. Smith, or WhitesvJlle, Columbus , , l_^* «-^^S_!*^ts_«__^__=3 • \ IB » ■ " the m « sl^e Babe flashed on the show "world a county, in the same state, who. at a glance, saw ■ — ; ;~^rr~^- J^rr*- -----^=^f—^^^ n > 0 n fl OV^ \ ii! /V^TI I J 'he no longer, but the largest won ever the financial possibilities of her as an invest- fik M 'I ' II ' N'T* r^ M ' -ft ■Cf^ia' Zi" 3 J Nil // ffl / knovvu or shown. Johnson & Norton exhibited ment. He consulted with Col. Nail, a bargain-" & * a—* M y> II M, /A I// I / B,r * WI>'>'iK from >7'J until the »S was struck and WINttlKthe Big Babe, was vW - j| 1^91 ft/ ■Ffl/L V sMr\y\fv/ A. CI I /P. I - ' of "^. when both being hame i-sel • rich 1 .'her sold for 87,500. Smith placed her on public ex- • t>?_=r^ = fpi=___l /ftCV M^£^ltVr^V /fi^W'^K W dissolved their business relations ]„",,,• ,„/ hibition in the city of" .Charleston. South Carp- Wrr? == — ™«-^U£.y > lilVtJ/ n^ftl l !_ tag Norton's interest in the contract with «tr Una, at Hibernian Hall. wJiare she attracted the, ... j-^V 1 ' i«fi»_ ~ — 1/Ar^r^/==^^S*/>C £ r'\l WJXNIK. Norton has retired and now Hvm attention and astonish..! t\i\ entire population "" o-^F j . /irvL ' ' // 11 If i 'III t^^wW^—.'" - ** ln 1,lxl ""ious ease at IMf. Clemens MiehiMn of that city. From Charleston they visited ' 4jiifM — -— ) =-—^.//g IB ' ■ -/Li«jL,Jf i l U Wlwi^\ while Johnson, who invested his gains i^l^rf Savannah and various cirtea/of -the South, at last //ill — *T7t~ r^SfcJy 111 ' ' :^^.'^i^ — »L fj ffJ-»Ljyfll W ness at Louisville, met witli disaster and ,»„!„ arriving in New ()rlean.Vr_heTe she was exhib- /If I If —SS-g— - s i > ', ~ */&_« V presents to the world bis mascot In Chic«4> in ited for over one year.- V While in that City the yf II i ■*&*~^2- — !___ Vi"^^ tix weeks over 700,000 people 'paid nrtrni^tn,, second sale of BIG WINNIE, the slnve, was T_i3fcJL^p^ ' . 3* . ' '° see this ENORMOUS 1 .v't* In Detroit consummated. Smith having made a fortune .-, . 7*^ ; . t Michigan, in two weeks. 160 000 attended mr from her exhibitions bad her sold at auction "*' - WINNIE'S receptions. munotauu, from the block. Christopher B. Brestle, the then ' Un,., Tl- _•/ Unlet a.%- i»4-^ « ■«. JUMBO WINNIE is nowclom en ,•«»«, ~« well known showman, paid $28,000 in gold for HOW Ti.ey "OlSt Her Into the Museum. age, but she does not look that old CTctnTin her;'He visited Cuba and nil the adjacent islands, that her hair is gray; she is bright smart Sflh? returning to the South just before the breaking . . lelligent as far as it is possible for one who h«« on of the rebellion.. On BIO WINNIE'S sec- , ■ _ • _, not received am- education. She likes to tnn> .olid visit to the city of Charleston, Sumter was \n the GOlTieaV T heatfir In thp Hu Xh_o+«^ with visitors about her eventful life andisemwi nretl on. war was declared, and her master, fear- ,M «■"" WUlllCUJf MiCaiCI. Ill liltf OpeCiaiTy I neater, ramrod. BIG WINNIE bids fair' "ton™ f^S fill for her safety, and thinking that the war 100 years of age. uur.iomctoto would be of short duration had her transported WILLETT-THORNE T W TffpAWnDUuT'O .BIO WINNIE is rich; she own* ih««i,„„ by ox teams from Branehville, S. C, (then the " inuiu,fi J. W. McANDREW S lion of her old master, Smith in V_m«-?ift" railroad terminus), to the mountains near Ashe- Columbus county, North Carolina she" com' yille, N. C. Therein a. lonely canyon, isolated r*»_~ % ,_ J . . 0«.w»«^«^,.» T T/"\\I7 A <-»-r- a i-» «. * mauds more salary than any livine cnrindS* from all except the illicit, whisky distillers,. .the OOmeCly LOlTipany I IOWA STARS I Loelyr.fa the museum that can « fher__£ desperados and escaped icp'niinal-. he caused to * ** * lv^ * price. sv »*«. i ll ™' b e erecteda cabin, wherein he confined his BIG FRIDAY-Ladies remembered by having an unique gfft presented to them THK , ST °BY Is FINISHED, dig up the ten pl.A\ E. Leaving her m the care of another „.„,.„„.., r.. -i.*„ , ... /. . h , — "que gin presentea to them. cent piece and go and see her it is f>-». nt .k» gave and his ; wife ""Brestle" joined the SATL RD AY -Children admitted to seats free. events of a litetime. * ne of the CONTRA^ WORKA contract^ work. Builders Take Notice! notice"tc3 ; Semr on Jackson Street. Pmin Tenth and Rice Streets. \ Water Consumers! •>* '; _ Sealed proposals for the erection of • - 1 Office Boaud of Pcnrlic Works;') n Office Boabd of Public Works, ) the new Winsted school house will be City of St. Paw., Minn., May 5,1887., ClTV ( , )F , St-1 AuuMiim., Mayb, 1887. ; received until 5 o'clock p. m., June 6, The attention of water consumers is Scaled bids will bel'feived ! by the « *1? M tV" W w b , e received by : the , 1887, at the office of the secretary of the called to the following rule retrardiue Board of Public Works 'in and for' he SS^S fte nfv^ofSt pSJnPkSf fi^"ftw?"^^ Sdl001 District the Use of hose: The ™ of hos, tor corporation of the City of St. Paul, Min- Sffi^t thafr^lSYn Jm of& Si '^piS.^J 1 ?^ M « nn ' , any purpose, except at livery stables, nesota,at their office Iff, said city, until J?!™ on the iQth flav '1?'" a^&ft{i.» 1 «m ifica # ,on - 8 i can be ex- and a f those places only for washing 13 m. on the Kith day of May, A. D }i2 1 ' J tl * v . »S ay «. 01 6 ? Ill -V _ D< '2 r l «.«il^» tll( }offlc « of l a -V d secretary, or I vehicles, and at blacksmith shops for 1887, for constructing a sewer on Jack- 1 & stree\ to *%& S streH nn fllrM^f^ S.°i a , r , chlte f ct ' , Kmii W. setting tires only, is prohibited between son street, from Eleventh street to Grove RfcTsS from • Tenth^SL tJ P- i \ni l aml Robert street ' St m"' h i , V r8 f » 7 a " m^ mi 6 p. '»• from street, in said city, together with the S, „ Avenue ' « r-ih tit h %™ nc oi ., May 1 to Oct. 1, and • between the hours necessary catch-basins, mid manholes ac- S? blocks 'and cud v i iV ,'r- bvle£t ffi!f b - c accompanied of 8 a.m. and 4 p. m. from Oct. 1 to cording to plans and specifications on I C £^Sr with -«.« "J ...^f.! S S,n„^Sf ft^ f °™ 5 IH ', r -i 10 ! 1^- of , ay l , : 'I 1 ! 1 no hose to I "' ust '<J except file in the office of said Board. j So_Scti__ accordfnil to^SSn Tnd amount of bid, to be returned if bid is when held in the hand ; the placing of A bond with at least two (-2) sureties in sn, cih<. tims on fib h^l, ?,,fc % _M Tl,,. i,V,i a , in i „ . V« «• uo se by use of frames, sticks, crotches a sum of at least twenty (20) per. cent of Ki 1 catlous on hie m the omce of said lie bids will be opened a the office of of ties or otherwise is prohibited. Par the gross amount bid must accompany " a bond with at wt™ iw.i,«h« , IS ,?V' on r ,lltU ' t : at Winsted, at ties using hose without first obtain- Bach bid • A l>oml with at least two (2) sureties lo clock p. in., June 8, 1887, and the permission of the Water Board and -Thesaid Board reserves the right-to i^^i^BB^JS^SSS& sefved- ***** & " or M bidsiS re " paying therefor .will b^ha^Id'luNe reject any or all bids. or tne gross amount bid must accompany served- , , ,, -ate. t lor a violation of this rule a pen- PL GORMAN President o>i • id , ..... . , A11 . llds are to be properly marked for alty of f3 will be exacted. Official- VFEr v 1 he said Board reserves the right to Identification, and are to be addressed _1 g| Clerk Board of! Works. *&* N Presi.lent lee of M <»f.tlte building n.m.nit- B^-~ B^,™ cm,!, i. K « L " faOKBl^«_ President. tee of School District No. 84, at WInsted, a, ■ inii_ mi pi mi __ — — _ ' . Official: W.F.Erwin, Minn. ' i^v g jr\ """B™* I Jr% rata m CONTRACT WORK. 137 - 137 Cte * B0Mi °"* 1 * teW ° rto - w_S;_?SST^ rettI]f - l^w I IOi_,S — ' CONTRACT WORK. 0wne fP — ,, Sewer on Mackubm Street. CONTRACT WORK. earnestly requested toceasesanJ tfratf/ryr Erie Street. bUN I NHL I WURK. ing by mail or messenger, to the Office Board of Public Works, ) Assessor L/*f<t /if thai* o«»„„_ / Pity of St. Pact., Minn M May 5, 1837. f assessor, Lists of • their Personal Sealed bids will be received by the Office Board of Public Works, } Property for Taxation, NOT VERI SSoration U of" ae^cF^orS^u^Mn? city of st. Paul, Minn., May 10, 1887. ' Grading Frances Street. FIEDBYOATH. . Such returns have nesota, at their office in said" city,' until Sealed bids will be received by the no more legal significance than so 12 m.- on the 16th day of May, A.D. 1887, Board of Public Works in and for the ~" " much blank paper and are not re for constructing a sewer on Mackubin corporation of the City of St. Paul, ■ „ nnrdarf In mnl,; nn -««« * a street, from Holly Avenue to Ashland Minnesota, at their office in said city, Office Board of Public Works, 1 v"™ 0 ? '" . mailing assessments. venue, in said city, together with the until 12 m. on the 23d day of May, A.D. City of St. Paul, Minn., May 10, 1887. ) he intention of the law is, that necessary catch-basins and manholes, 1887, for grading Erie street, from Ban- c , . ... ... , * owners of Pnrvnnni A«u_«#. \u~u wording to plans and specifications on HI street (if extended) to Randolph .Sealed bids will be received by the ™ *'*<» rersona ' Property shall !ile in the office of said Board. street, in said city, accord- Boar « l of Public Works . in and : for the make their returns to the assessor A bond with at least two (2) sureties, ing to plans and specifications on , corporation of thej City of St. Paul,' Min- in person, and make nnth in //,. n a sum of at least twenty (20) per cent file in the office of said Board. . I nesota, at then* office in said city, until -***"' , ™. , °° to the >f the gross amount bid must accom- A bond with at least two (2) sureties, I J " , - <>" the 23d day of May. A. I). 1887, correctness Of their statements be ?any each bid. In a sum of at least (20) per cent, of the i for grading Frances street," from Arcade fore that officer, or one of hi? n* The said Board reserves the right to gross amount bid must accompany each Street to Hope street, in said city, ac- */«/„»*----.._„„ °" •eject any or all bids. bid. cording to plans ami specifications on slsianT assessors. R.L. GORMAN. President The said Board reserves the right to ~e in the office of. said Board. / / DCAiiisr,M-r Official: " W. V. Ebwie, to reject any or all bids. . A bond with at least two (2) sureties d - '• tSLRUNlUNT, 126-18B Clerk Board of Public Works. R. L. GORMAN, President "'. a , SU1U of at ' :lsl twenty (20) percent. Assessor of Ramsey County Minn _ = Official: W. F. Knwix, of the gross amount bill must accom- May 12 1RX7 ■■■"/' wn ' CONTRACT WORK. '"-'" c "' " fB " anl ''""" " lta - S3laRar- - -** - ' Tur ' ,, ' .• -^ ' reject any or an bids, /s?\ TUC "Pi nnnmi nm%# p- ,77, ?( , CONTRACT WORK, «_.: I!:L;U0I^vSS' t <^ THE globe's" baby Paying East Ninth Street. win*. 130.143 Olerk Board of PubUc Works I^jT r rr u 11 a i_ -■ f - V BENEFIT IS Office Board of public Works,) Grading Howell Avenue. "^ PRIMTFRQ )J :ity of St. Paul, Minn.. May 7. 1887. f ' U rnllN I _lTO. (k# nnrn rn -run ...«».« Sealed bids will be received by the n „ t^ OPEN TO THE WORLD 3oar.lof Public Works in and for the i," Office i Board of Public Works, j. THE OUTFIT OF THE GLOBE FOR SALE. — IIUI>LU ' :orporatlon of the City of St. Paul, Min- City of St. Paul, Minn., May 10, 1887. j • nc UU I n I ur I nc ULUBC TUrl oALt- i>r«»iw» M iiiu «•.».. a..... „ tesota, at their office in said city until « ,,,.,.„ , . ,, , Proposals for Army Transport* 2 m. on the 19th day of May, A. D. 1887, „ S „ ea i e( l b , ,d f will die received by the tion. or paving East Ninth street, from Board of Public oiks in and .for the " e entire outfit of the DAILY Gl.ODE, 11ru>Qt>AOTErs , )Kt . tPTMFVTnp ni Jrotulway to Monroe place, in said city, corporation of the City of St. Paul, which includes a complete equipment "ffi"^ S«J Z"^ 0^ villi cedar blocks and curb with granite^ Minnesota, at their office hi said city, for the issuing of a large newspaper, is St.: Pivt MT « m v' 7 1SS7 ogether with the necessary sewer con- nt V }' m, on , the 2..d , l , v ot May, A. l) - offered for sale, either as a whole or in S 1 '^ 1 '' n PROPOSALS, in t [pi , ate, sub lections,-according to plans and speeifi- 1887, for grading Howell avenue, from parcels. Delivery can be mule , ' ,-. ,^ lv ; , ' , , , , ,'" lsi:: ' 1 , ' 0, , ,,,i,i,,,ls - ' *»' '"" "c jations on file in the office of said Board. St. Anthony avenue to Iglehart street \,. IV coSesnoiMlei ei J M _w_^™_iP 0,ock a- "»" A bond with «t least two c-> sureties in said city, according to plans and J>,,, -:' w>rre8pomtence with parties pro- ,''*=» '- 'V." 1 <h time ,l '" 1 ptace they will ill sum tat least Ywentv \„)^Sit specifications on file in the office of said P-tag to start new offices or replenish- SSSSSJ&u^^Sn °of BBSS fe , the if the gross amount bid must accom- Board... ,.,,,, . ,„, nig those they.: :now have solicited. Ad- within thr .ufiui oflhe city^of^L P°Sf •any each bill. . A bond with at least two (2) sureties dress Gi.om:, St. Paul. Minn.. »nd between st. p,u",i in,,; .;" | The said Hoard reserves the right to '" a s,, m ot at least twenty (20) per _ — J™ 1 !? , .l ', M ■ i ,l , iS »*» '" "i' year •eject any or all bids. cent, '" the gross amount bid must ac- — - commencing July l. 1887, and ending June It I fJflltAIA'V Preqidenf company each bid. . __. , .„,r**Wi, ■ • ,,: i • ' „, . Official : " L ' W. F. &S™? L "W2w Board | .reserves the right to =| ' BnWa^ 0^^^^ •*-".s Clerk Roanl of Public Works. reject any oral l"OPM\N P e " 1 t Lw m 6S "rJ^te ' *"*** Vo, d iSnoW " ' ■ II. .L. GO IIMAN, President. /^^^^^^S^^^^^S\ IT1 s-orved, terms of contract, etc will i„ r!H Q YRIIR BABY'S I llplf Official: tb'r.'n.L,,!;^,!;;,^^: rfT^^^^@«^^ LI « '"i, 10 ' 1 °" 'M'l'Hcatlon m'Ai .jIm- r?H vJ lUUn D.HDI 0 LUON 132-142 Clerk Board of Public Works. VI I r V^fF^§P\r>T^y§ ~i H wc , n ' Q'"»i"tern,astcr, u. s. A., st PiuiLMmn /M ; •.. — - . — . — - . t^^^ fT IS JUST AS GOOD DR. MAGRAW • Cullom' Painless Method " of '^^^^^^SSSSi^itC / 10 JUOI riO UUUU Beg leave to |nfo _ hja fr . (nds and Tooth Extraction. V-my.iu„./a,ul addled & the llll,ier //\{^ '--■--". patrons that he will Remove his Dental! -r^TT.T_,rNr<T- cj-; tt_ ' , JAMKSM. moors. U \i/AQ AMVQnnV'C QADV Parlors to the Corner of Seventh and! . j-j-j-'-'aj.n y, **» UF. i Deputy tcrmaslcr Ueneral u S A ti-^-_ ftO Aft I I 0 DAD I > Minnesota streets May 10. COR. SENENTH and WABASHA ST PAUL ' *••* ou.irtermr.ster. " "' A * " ,v *" iii.-Ul-juno5<feU . \.