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&W :r3r ip r- s, -r'^N -f:„ &$ *sst6* £.. THE WOBTHHIBTON ADVAH6E. Brant MCCUKK, Editor -and Publisher. WORTHINGTON, Noblea On., MINN IT is too bad when a girl that can write poetry marries an Indian, but if all the girls that think they can would only do it the people would be hippy. THEBS are nearly eight hundred thousand deaf mutes in the world, of whom sixty-three per cent, jvere born deaf and the others made deaf by va rious causes. MB. HEIOET, aged ninety-five years, recently finished an uninterrupted life of pauperism in the Gosport (Eng.) work-house. He was brought there when six years old in 1801. "RUSSELL SAGE makes it a rule never to loan more than $500,000 on any given day." There are a lot of fellows out West who limit themselves in the same way and never mention it. THE enormous number of 2,759 duels are said to have been fought in Italy during the last twelve months. Fifty of the combatants were killed, while 8,901 wounds, some of them serious, were inflicted. MRS. WILLIAM MORRIS, wife of the London artist, poet and Socialist, is said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She goes out but little, and is rarely seen by the multitude who visit her husband. SABA BERNHARDT is in the United States again with a wardrobe that fills 104 trunks. This is about 103£ more than the ancient Cleopatra took along when she traveled unless she has been greatly lied about. A FOREIGN physician has discovered that goats are not subject to consump tion. The general belief has been that they beat all known quadrupeds on con sumption, and took in every thing from a circus poster to an oyster can. RF.V. JOIIN JASPER, who gained celeb rity by his "sun-do-move" lecture, doesn't let his salary move. His con gregation has several times tendered him an increase, but he declares that fifty dollars a month is ample for his needs, and he declines to accept more. THE King of Siam will soon send six youths from his Kingdom to Pennsyl vania to be educated. They are all to become physicians. The young men are chosen from among the poorer classes, and the expense of their tuition, about five hundred dollars a year each, is to be borne by the Siamese Govern ment. __________ JUDGE THAYER at St. Louis dis missed a suit against Selwyn Edgar for violating the alien-contract labor law on the ground that, there was no contract, as Edgar in a letter asking two men in England to come over to work for him and inclosing tickets to St. Louis had said he could give them steady work, not that he would. IT is the inevitable outcome of any scientific discovery that numerous imi tations and delusions, besides actual counterfeits and humbugs, follow in its train. These must be sifted carefully, and the physician who does not thor oughly and frankly state all the details of his remedy can not complain if the public fails to have confidence in it. A GRAND total of 200 railroads in the United States, 153 of which make re turns for the full year and the rest for eleven months, shows aggregate gross earnings for 1390 of $922,738,282 on 140, 400 miles. This is again of more than 8 per cent, over the gross earnings of 1889. The favorable character of the business is pretty general, only 11 out of the 153 and 3 of the 47 exhibiting a decrease. MRS. KATE REYNOLDS, of Pittsburgh, Pa., went skating a few days ago with her husband, accompanied also by an old lover. The husband could not keep up with the wife and her old lover, and they skated away from him out of sight and into the dim somewhere. They have not yet returned. It is one of the very saddest ice stories on record. Absolute ly no'thing is known of the pair save the oertainty that they skated into a moral air-hole. IT seems that two hundred and eighty nine German school children committed suicide in the six years ended 1888. The suicides have been much more numer ous in the elementary than in the high schools. The most prolific cause of suicide in the elementary schools was the fear of punishment, to which the deaths of forty-five boys n-nd twenty-three girls are attributed. In the high schools disappointment at the results of examinations claimed the greatest number of victims. THE Census Bureau reports that the total consumption of all forms of dis tilled spirits in the arts, manufactures and medicine in the United States dur ing the year 1889 was 10,976,842 proof gallons. As the consumption for all purposes in 1888 was 75',S45,352 gallons, about fifteen per cent, is used in the manner above described. It is open to conjecture, therefore, that the remain ing 05,000,000gallons were drank, being considerably more than one gallon per head of the population of two years ago if the enumeration of last June be accepted as an accurate basis on which to calculate. THE Census Office has issued a bul letin on the area of States and coun ties in the United States and Terri tories. The largest county in the coun try is Yavapai, in Arizona, which em braces 29,236 square miles, and is larger than Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey com bined. The second largest county is 8an Bernardino, CaL.with 21,000 square miles. The smallest county is Alex andria, in Virginia, thirty-two square miles. There are twenty-one counties each of which is larger than Massa chusetts, while there are 314 counties larger than Rhode Island. THE so-called slang1 phrase "too thin," which, like many others which date back beyond Colonial days is very often cited as a Yankeeism by the Britishers, is English from "way back." In Smol lett's "Peregrine Pickle" the hero in forms Emilia that he is going abroad! This brings tears to her eyes, but she says that they are caused by the hot tea which she is pouring. Which leads the author to remark that the excuse is "too thin" to im pose on her lover. The phrase is also found in Shakespeare's "Henry VIII.," Act V., Scene 2, with the same meaning. Ik1888 there were four million bushels of oysters receive^ at Baltimore from the Chesapeake bay .beds, but this sea son the receipts to the same date have fallen below two million bushels, while packing houses throughout the State are closed, and from all parts of the bay comes the story of exhausted beds. The violation of the law and the consequent destruction of the young oyster is re sponsible for this condition of thingal The law is a dead letter, and a great Industry is being ruined. Ten years ago Professor Brooks uttered a warning against the wholesale depletion of the oyster beds but the work has continued. The Sews ®f the Week. BY TEUBORAPH AND MAIL. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. MOHDAY, Feb. 2. Senator Turpie (Ind.) introduced a joint resolution in the Senate proposing an amendmept to the constitution for the elec tion of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people. The fortifica tion bill was discussed. In the House a bill was passed extending the time of filling vacancies caused by death or res ignation to thirty days (the time was ten days). The-Senate bill providing for the erection of a public building at St. Paul, Minn., at a cost of 9800,000, was passed. TUESDAT. Feb. 8. -In the Senate bills were passed providing penalties for embezzlement of pensions by guardians of pensioners appropriating S800,000 for a public building at St. Paul. The fortification bill was dis cussed. In the House bills were passed prohibiting the sale of tobacco to boys under 10 years of age in the District of Columbia granting a pension to Mrs. E. F. Noyes, widow of the late General Noyes. The sundry civil bill (334,242, 970) and the agricultural appropriation bill (92,804,853) were reported. WEDNESDAY. Feb. 4.—Bills were re ported- in the Senate to provide for the inspection of vessels carrying ex port cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and to prevent adulterations of food and drugs. The fortification and Military Academy ap propriation bills were passed. In the House the diplomatic and consular ap propriation bill was passed and the conference report was adopted on a bill providing for an additional Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona. THURSDAY, Feb. 5.—Among the bills introduced in this Senate was one increasing the pension of General Custer's widow to $100 a month. The pension appropriation bill was passed. It appropriates for pensions for the year, $133,173,085 for fees and expenses of examining surgeons, $1,500,000 for salaries of eighteen pension agents, $72,000, and for clerk hire, $400,000. Other bills were passed to authorize the construction of a tun nel under New York bay for a survey of the interior of Alaska for the con struction of three Indian industrial schools in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, the cost not to exceed $30, 000 each. In the House the time was occupied in discussing the sundry civil appropriation bill, and an amendment was offered to the coinage paragraph providing for the free coinage of silver. FRIDAY, Feb. 6. In the Senate the naval appropriation bill was re ported and the House bill providing for the adjustment of accounts of la borers, workmen and mechanics aris ing out of the eight-hour law was dis cussed. In the House the bill amend ing the land-forfeiture act by extend ing the time wps passed, and the free silver coinage amendment to the sun dry civil appropriation bill was de feated by a vote of 134 to 127. FROM WASHINGTON. PRESIDENT HARRISON said in an inter view on the Indian problem that the red man was largely to blame himself for his discontent, owing to his improvi dence, and that the Indian had not been robbed under the present admin istration. DURING January the movement of cotton reached a total of 931,044 bales, exceeding the movement for January, 1890, by 194,875 bales. IN the United States the total coinage during January was' $2,720,000 in gold, $3,653,956 in silver and $134,800 in nick els. THE statement of the public debt is sued on the 8d showed the total debt to be $1,544,677,354 cash in the Treas ury, $627,201,764 debt less cash in the Treasury, $846,595,045. Decrease dur ing January, $15,835,49ft. Decrease since June 30, 1890, $51,672,900. THE report of Adjutant-General Kel ton of the militia forces says there are in the United States 8,312 commissioned officers, 97,957 non-commissioned offi cers and 7,695,242 men who are avail able for military purposes. &.*£-r^|r^W'-^:i- THE President issued his proclama tion announcing a reciprocity agree ment with Brazil under the new tariff law, to go into effect April 1 next. THROUGHOUT the country business continued to exceed last year's on the whole, and was in character more healthy and conservative than usual. Money was easy and collections gener ally fair. THE business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 6th numbered 206, against 320 the preceding week and 321 the correspond ing week last year. THE EAST. THE death of George M. the first consumptive in this country inocu lated with Dr. Koch's lymph, occurred at New Haven. Conn. BY a railway accident near Corry, Pa., an engineer and his fireman were killed, and the same fate befell an en gineer and fireman at Rochester, N. Y. FLAMES destroyed the Hecla bronze and iron works at Williamsburgh, N. Y., causing a loss of $300,000. THREE miners were killed by an ex plosion of powder at the Neilson col liery in Shamokin, Pa. EIGHTEEN miners ..lost their lives by water breaking into a mine at Jeanes ville,'Pa. THE stable of Havelow & Bernstein at Boston was burned and sixty-five horses perished in the flames. IN Newark, N. J., Mrs. Msuy Rosen berg, 26 years of age, who lived in a basement of a house, was found dead from starvation, and her two little chil dren were nearly dead. ON the 5th the keel of the first iron ship ever built in Maine was laid, that of cruiser No. 5 at the Bath iron works. S. H. CHURCH'S soda-water factory at Green Point, N. Y., was burned, caus ing a loss of $200,000. FIRE ruined the bolt and nut manu facturing plant of J. Henry Sternbergh A Son at Reading, Pa., the largest of its kind in America. Loss, $275,000. IN Albany, N. Y., Francis R. Jugg, who fought with Napoleon at Waterloo, died at the age of 96 years. THE American Express Company was said to have secured control of the Na tional Express Company. WEST AND SOUTH. FLAMES at Rockville, Mo., destroyed thirteen business houses. DR. HENRY SEMPSELL, of Bloomville, O., informed his wife on the 3d that he was going to die in the afternoon, and after making all preparations he passed away quietly about 1 o'clock p. m. THE Legislature of Arkansas refused to make an appropriation for the world's fair owing to the large de ficiency in the State treasury caused by the peculations of the State Treasurer. HENRY BECHTOLD murdered his sister in-law at Smith ton, I1L, and then com mitted suicide. MAYOR WORD, of Palestine, Tex., attacked Sam Jones, the evangelist, with a cane. Jones wrested the from the mayor and gave him a beat ing. BUSINESS has been resumed by the Huron (S. D.) National Bank, which suspended payment a month ago. A FIREMAN was killed and abrakeman and two tramps were fatally hurt in a railway collision at Beach City, O. Wmu engaged in a fight with a party of Indians, Henry W. McNsmer and his son John were killed near Spokane Falls. Wash. CHARLES STBWABT and Ernest Brobsler, probably the most celebrated counterfeiters in this country, were captured at Louisville, Ky., while mak ing spurious money. AT Clarke, Neb., the wife of Banker Cowles was killed by burglars and Mr. Cowles was knocked senseless. THE discovery was made that W. McZimmerman, the store-keeper and agent of the Farmers' Alliance supply house at Spartansburg, 8. C., was short 930.000 in his accounts. A SENSATION was created at Spring field, O., by the alleged return to life of Mrs. Geo/ge Tyree, who had been pro nounced dead. An undertaker was summoned, but before his arrival the lady sat up and said she had come back to be baptized, and insisted so strenu ously that a clergyman was called and the rite administered. Mrs. Tyree was better than for some time, and said she would recover. IN St Louis dangerous two-dollar counterfeit bills were in circulation. THE death was announced of Charles H. Branscombe, the founder of Law rence, Kan., and prominent in the early struggles of that State. FIRE ruined Robert McElroy's retail dry-goods store in Detroit. Mich., caus ing a loss of $175,000 insurance, $130,000. AT Greenville, 111., afire destroyed all the business houses on the east side of the square. IT cost the Government in the In dian war in the Dakotas $2,000,000. IN a snow-slide near Ouray, Col., four miners perished. GOVERNMENT officials captured ten of the most desperate outlaws in the In dian Territory. THE First Arkansas Valley Bank of Wichita failed with liabilities of $120, 000. AT Amboy, 111., Miss Grace Gridlcy, who has been in a comatose condition for the past year, is now recovering. FIRE destroyed a large barn near Geneva, 111., and eleven horses and fifty saven head of choice cattle and a great amount of hay and grain were con sumed. RETURNS from the recent elections in Oklahoma showed that the Demo cratic and Alliance tickets were suc cessful. PATSY DEVINE, of Alton, 111., who was hanged several years ago for the murder of Aaron Goodfellow, of Bloom ington, was discovered to be innocent^ of the crime. On the scaffold Devine declared that he was not guilty. A MOR lynched Green Jackson (col ored), the slayer of N. W. Ward, at Greenville, Miss. FLAMES destroyed the Pullman car shops and a row of dwellings -at St. Louis, involving a loss of $250,000. THE richest body of tin ore in the world was discovered forty-five miles southwest of Durango, Mex., by John Pershbaker, of San Francisco. BY the overflow of small streams in Alabama many farms were-under water, and much loss had been sustained by the drowning of live stock and the de struction of farm-houses and fencing. NEAR Shelby, Ala., a bridge gave way over the Coosa river, and four men were killed by falling timbers. WILLIAM YOUNG and John Anderson were blown to atoms by an explosion of giant powder in a mine near Koko mo, Col., and John Johnson, John Mc Leod and Will Crane were fatally hurt. IN California over 5,000 cases of the grip were reported. NEARLY the entire business portion of the village of Ellisville, 111., was de stroyed by fire. MRS. AMOS ROBERTS died at Grand Rapids, Mich., aged 100 years. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. IN Paris Michael Eyraud, the mur derer of Notary Gouffe, was guillotined. PIRATES attacked two war junks by mistake near Ningpo, China, and six were captured and beheaded. THE Canadian Governor General has dissolved the House of Commons. The new Parliament will assemble March 5 next. IN Vienna 10,000 shoemakers went on strike for an increase in wages. NEAR Schrieber, Ont., a sleeping-car was thrown from the track and fell a distance of sixty feet, severely injuring the nine passengers inside the car. DURING January 1,225 Italian emi grants left Trieste for America. AT afire in a Moscow (Russia) orphan asylum nine children were burned"R death and several fatally injured. TWENTY-TWO wood-cutters working on a mountain side in the province of Glarus, Switzerland, were buried by an avalanche. MITCHELL & SHEPARD, manufacturers of woolens at Bradford, Eng., failed for $415,000. THE death of P. H. Morse, United States Consul-General to London under President Lincoln, occurred at Surrey, Eng., where he had lived since his re tirement, aged 84 years. LATERT IN the United States Senate on the 7th it was decided to hold evening ses sions hereafter. The House bill for the adjustment of accounts of work men, laborers and mechanics under the eight-hour law was discussed. The death of Mr. Phelan, of Tennessee, was announced, and as a mark of re spect the Senate adjourned. In the House the amendment to the world's fair clause of the sundry civil appro priation bill was passed. It makes the salary of the director general, $7,500 president, $5,000 vice-president of the executive committee, $4,000 secretary, $3,000 clerks, etc., $8,000. THE McLaren lumber mills at Ot tawa, Ont., were burned, causing a less of 9150,000. PRESIDENT HARRISON has approved the act granting a pension to Major General Franz Sigel, and the act mak ing an apportionment of Representa tives in Congress among the several States under the new census. GOVERNOR PECK, of Wisconsin, has signed the bill passed by the Legisla ture repealing the Bennett school law. BY an explosion of gas in the new shaft at Simpson & Watkins' mine at Wyoming, Pa., two men were instantly killed and two fatally injured. MRS. ROSANNA HUGHES, aged 102, died at Louisville, Ky. She was tho oldest woman in the State. EDWARD PARK, who had been an in mate of the Westchester (N. Y.) poor house for thirty-six years, died at the age of 102 years. GEORGE SLAYBACK, of Cincinnati, shot his wife, who had left him because of abuse, and then killed himself. THE fruit steamer Simon Dumois, valued at $200,000, from Matanzas, Cuba, foundered near New York, and her crew of sixteen men were lost. THE explosion of a boiler in Giles' steam saw-mill near Reidsville, Ga., killed six men. TREADWAY'S livery stable at Huron, S. D., was destroyed by fire, and twenty-four horses perished in the flames. TDN THOUSAND DOLLARS, half of which was in bills and half in Govern ment bonds, was found in a Pullman car in Chicago by Henry Prentice, an employe of the company. FOUR incendiary fires were started in Sioux City, la., and as a result prop erty valued at 9250,000 was destroyed. THE steamer Chiswick, bound from Cardiff to St. Nazaire, struck a sand bank of the Sicily islands and sank, and the captain and ten were drowned. MINNESOTA STATE NEWS MINNESOTA COUNT! E3.„4 The Cmnu Department R«porU oa the' 81M tf UM Stotw lqr CoantlH. Atkln... Anoka Becker..... Beltrami.......... Benton ..i.... Big Stone Biue Earth Brown Carlton Carver Cass Chippewa Chisago Oiay Coon Cottonwood....'... Crow Wing Dakota Dodge Douglas Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue... Grant Hennepin......... Houston.... Hubbard Isanti -. Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi Kittson. Laosaui Parle.... Lake Le Sueur..., Lincoln Lyon McLeod Marshall MO 550 575 49) IS) ?•,« J. H. Stevens, Minneapolis, President Wm. Somerville, Eyota, First Vice-Presidsnt J. H. ker, Mankato, Second Vice-President J. M. Bowler, Bird Island, Third Vice-President S. M. Owen, Minneapolis, Fourth Vice-President F. C. Hansen, Ada. Fifth Vice-President J. O. Bar.ett, Brown's Valley, Secretary J. F. Will iams, St. Paul, Treasurer. Executive Commit tee—George L. Becker, Wm. R. Marshall and Herman Trott, St. Paul S. B. Greene, St* An thony Park, and L. Wilcox, Hastings. Slain by His Brat her. While in the timber a few miles north of Rochester, two brothers, aged 9 and 12 years, sons of Edward Blanchard, a prominent citizen, were at work chop ping down a tree, when the youngest boy was accidentally and fatally cut by the axe, in the hands of his brother. The little fellow was pushing on the tree, and when it fell he was thrown under the axe, which almost severed his leg just above the knee. The oldest boy immediately went to a neighbor for help, and on returning found his broth er dead. She Jilted Him. A. J. Terwilliger, a Methodist min ister stationed near Tracey, attempted suicide at a Winona hotel. After tak ing a sleeping powder he turned on all the gas in the room and lay down. He was discovered just in time to prevent death. A note to a girl who jilted him said she was the cause of his attempted suicide. The New* Itrielly Citronlele-1. Colonel William Liggett filed his bond as State Railroad Commissioner in the sum of $*20,000. John W. Griggs, an old resident of St. Paul, is dead. His age was 75 years, and he had lived in that city for twen ty-five years. Fire at Pipe Stone destroyed the Methodist church and a few outbuild ings. Loss, $4,000 insurance, §'2,000.. The oatmeal-mill and elevator at Ma zeppa, belonging to E. M. Johnson, of Minneapolis, was burned. The loss on the building was $00,000, and 50,000 bushels of grain were lost. The residence of Gus Anderson at Aitkin was burned to the ground, and $75 in cash was also burned. The First National Bank of Lake Benton has received its charter and is fully organized with Charles J. Weiser as president Carl Carlson, a Swede working in a lumber camp on Rice river, was killed by a falling tree. He was a single man 25 years of age. A post-office has been established at Breeze, Marshall County. John Fenska, of Duluth, a German 61 years of age, committed suicide while insane. Charles Church had an arm and leg smashed at the Milwaukee depot in Northfield. The Christian Church of Minnesota will establish a college at Duluth. Postmaster Rapp, of St. Hilaire, says the Red Lake Indians are suffering for lack of sufficient food. The State Treasurer's report for Jan uary showed the actual amount in the treasury to be $462,150.46. William Schulke, of Alexandria, 80 years of age, has been committed to the Fergus Falls asylum. William W. Bishop Was awarded $15, 000 at St. Paul for injuries sustained in the Selby avenue hill cable disaster of January 27. 1888. Dr. N. M. Bemis, one of the old set tlers in Minnesota, and a very promi nent business man of Faribault, died at the age of 70 years. He was the first physician of Faribault. The Duluth Dry-Goods Company opened its new wholesale establish ment the other evening, when an im mense crowd visited the building. This is the first wholesale dry-goods house established in the city. Owing to the prevalence of typhoid fever at Duluth the death-rate last month reached 18 per cent, of 1,000 on a basis of a year, the largest in the history of the city. The deaths by ty phoid fever were eighteen for January. An order went out at St. Paul that all saloons must close at midnight, and the police arrested all those who failed to comply. Many of the paintings in the Western Art Association Building at Omaha which collapsed were the property of the Minneapolis exposition. Fire damaged the Merchants' Hotel at Wabasha to the extent of $4,000 or $5,000. The St. Louis River 'Water Power Company of Duluth filed with the reg ister of deeds a mortgage trust deed for $1,000,000, running to the Manhattan Trust Company of New York. Bonney, the man arrested at Wadena charged with adultery, has been held ir. $000 bonds to the grand jury. He could not furnish bonds and would spend a few months in the Fergus Falls jaiL At a special school meeting at Prince ton bonds in the sum of $15,000 were voted for the purpose of building a new school-house. Rev. Neville D. Fanning of the Oak Park Congregational Church at Minne apolis was taken suddenly ill at the conclusion of his morning sermon and died soon after. Apoplexy was the cause. The subject of bis text was: "Is Life Worth Living?" .'-CSP MINNESOTA LAW 3 The Census Office has issued a bullet? in showing the area of the-counties tit Minnesota to be as follows: 1,930 Martin.........'.. 790 43JjMeeker 480 1,400-MUle Laos........ HO 5,0#) Morrison... ...... 910 880 Mower............ tTi 4*0 Murray.... ...s.... 7W Nicollet 4» 6H5 NobleS ........... 7JJ0 8fi0Norman.... ....... 1,443 8*0 Oimsted .. S,09O Otter Tail......... S.2J0 573 435 1,0QJ Pine... 1,400 Pipestone 400 Polk... .. 3,030 Pope.............. 730 Runsey 199 ttedwood 870 Renville 900 Rlee Soft Rock 470 Saint Louis 6,860 KUSott 790 Sherburne... 766 Sibley 570 Stearns.. bSi Steele.... MiVStevens........... 575Swift 450 Todd. 5,43.) Traverse. 780 Wabasha 53^ Wadena.... fcb) SH 434 588 1,384 430 578 653 078 '658 640 6tt 430 400 43) ?35 6 0 694 0U Waseca 8,845 Washington...... 60 Watonwan 2.380 Wilnln 760 Winona coo Wright 78 Yellow Medicine. no4 1,810 Total ..79,906 SAVE THE TREES. 80 Pleads the State Forestry Association —The Ann al Meeting. The annual meeting of the State For* estry Association was held in St. Paul yesterday afternoon. S. M. Owen was one of the leading speakers. He main tained that the National management of forestry affairs was a blot upon our civilization and that greed for timber destruction had been fostered and no provision made for replanting or pres ervation. Secretary Smith urged timber plant ing. General Becker said that unless we plant trees on our prairies and pre serve the existing forests of the Sta+e they will soon become unfit for habita tion. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: is MAKERS. ST. PAUi/Feb. 8.—When the Senate assembled yesterday afternoon^S^na tor Sanbornmoved a suspension of the ralM in order to perndft the joint eou mittee appo|nted to prepare resolutions*, upon thedeath ofSecretary Windom«to present its report. An attempt to take up the resolution whereby the prison board appointments were laid over was without avail. The agricultural -com mittee was autfibrized to find out what relation the state agricultural oollege sustained to the state university. Sen ator March's bill, relating, to taxea, pro vides-that (hey shall be payable anie half on April 1 and-one-half on Oct. 1, instead of all on June 1, as at present. The Senate passed Senate Files 89,48,50, 57 and 60. The most important of these was No. 43, which allows liquor dealers to take* out l^enses at any time during the year, and'to pay a proportion ofthe yearly license according to^ the portion of the year covered by the license. The House was called to order at 8:8Q p. m., with a large showing of empty seats, there being but few more than a quorum present. The Windom resolu tions were adopted. A number of biUa were introduced, most them of local. Mr. Gildea, introduced a bill to prohibit any member of the legislature or publie officers, state, county, or municipal, from receiving or accepting any free pass or passes or ticket or gift from any railroad under a penalty. Referred to the judiciary by Mr. Doyle, a bill pro viding for thaAppraisal and sale of pub lic lands granted to the state by con gress for completing public buildings also one to indemnify for loss occasioned by a m6b or riot. ST. PAUL, Feb. 4.—The Senate yes terday was occupied nearly all day in consideration of the Mayo resolution to appoint a committee to inquire into and investigate the cost, condition and management of the railroads. After discussion the resolution was passed. Senator Stockton introduced a bill re pealing the law requiring the publica tion of tax sales. In the House, notwithstanding the Durant-Daley contest was brought up and the mass of testimony read, a large number of bills were introduced, among which were the following: regulating liability of employers amending the pharmacy law to regulate actions for personal injury to abolish mileage of members to provide for the equipment of the national guard to prohibit ped lers selling goods without license. The House in committee of the whole passed upon several bills, but took no definite action. ST. PAUL, Feb. 5.—The Senate had its working clothes on yesterday and was busy all day after Senators Smith and Donnelly exchanged compliments. Bills were introduced for purifying elections regulating co-operative insurance changing the law under which the board of equalization works providing for the certification of the payment of taxes regulating common carriers providing for aboard of railroad com missioners amending the corporation act and suspending heavy charges in the case of manufacturing establish ments. Resolutions were introduced proposing a committee to investigate prison management. The House was occupied all day with the Durant-Daley contest and a vote was reached late in the afternoon. By a vote of 56 to 38 the House decided in favor of Daley. ST. PAUL, Feb. 6 —The Senate was filled with petitions yesterday endors ing and asking for the passage of the law raising the age of consent. Then Senators Smith and Donnelly had a talk. In the committee of the whole the fol lowing bills were recommended to pass: extending the banking privileges to trust companies prohibiting prize fighting to tax incomes authorizing county commissioners to aid in con structing roads and bridges authorizing officers of town insurance companies to adjust small losses: making the willful injury of property a misdemeanor. The bill exempting real estate mortgages from taxation was killed. The House was busy all day. Among the bills introduced are the following to provide for text books for protection of animals to protect the safety of em ployes to prevent employers exercising political influence over employes to tax the stock of corporations to pro hibit contract labor at the St. Cloud Reformatory. ST. PAUL, Feb. 9.—It was a morning for resolutions iu the Senate on Satur day. Donnelly's resolution for a com mittee to confer with committees from other states upon the subject of inter est was defeated. The resolution to print the report of the Senatorial in vestigating committee of two years ago was adopted. Donnelly had two bills1 upon prison management one regard ing binding twine, the other providing for the election of the prison board by vote of the people. A large number of bills were passed all of them local. The House held its first Saturday ses sion and for the first time reached the calendar and several bills were passed, none of them very important. Mr. Bell of Ramsey, presented a bill to for feit unearned land grants. Mr. Tripp of Hennepin, introduced a measure pro viding for the control of primaries, caucuses and conventions. Mr. Lock wood's bill is to prohibit the formation of trusts and combinations. Other bills introduced are: Amending the divorce law establishment and vacation of highways relating to title insurance companies defining the duties of state superintendent of public instruction and one to regulate the formation of mutual insurance companies. QUEER PEOPLE AND THINGS. A NEW YORK clothing sign is Taylor, Cutting & Co. A NEW YOBK doctor, startled by a proposal of marriage from a spinster, called in the police and had her ar rested. Two CITIZENS of Palmyra, Me., have had so many quarrels that a few days ago a contract was drawn up between them- that in future they would have nothing-to do with cach other. A won AN of Iliawatha, Kan., hired a poor woman to wash for her at fifteen cents an hour, and while the washer woman was at work turned the clock back an hour and a half. ONE of the latest things in church fairs is a bazar held in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the purpose of raising funds to provide accommodations for ladies who faint during church services. W. E. GBEGOKY was sent to jail in Kansas City, Mo., the other day for stealing a "red-hot stove," the oven of which was filled with biscuits. He sold the stove at a second-hand store, bis cuits and all, for three dollars. A NUMBER of New York hotels have special cages for their telephones. It is a room filled with patent double doors and double walls, GO that not a sound uttered by tho sender of a mes sage can be heard outside the cago. Ay old colored woman living in Atchison used to prepare herself every night for death by dressing in a blue gown, and she was always sur prised to find herself alive tho next morning. She kept this up until she wore out three or four blue dresses and then she quit. STAMP-COLLECTINQ and stamp dealing are growing to such an extent that good stamp businesses in London now fetch very high prices, and an old established business has just been sold for ao teas tban isrspertsd PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. —Fairtiptheej^yetlg^asa heart stone—th» peaciP-Ihws Magazine. th^jop.-*MI» she a "Gwat? that,woman 'diamonds."—ST. Y. —"I don't believe In allowing |ic8 to get th" upper hand. I make servant keep her place?" "You ar lucky. Ours never does fo more tha: threC weeks."—American Grocer. —"YVhen I asked her to marry mesh began to shrink like—like a finnne shirt," "That's an odd comparison What do you-mean?" "Well/ it's 'true She got upall aroundmy necic."-dDem. orest Monthly. —Pedestrian—"Well, sonney, I gues' I'll have -my boots blacked, »re yo' ready?" Small Bootblack—"No sor to lose he I'm Reddy's brother, but I kin shine 'etc up fer yej just the same."—BingfeStaton Republican. 1 —"I haveJlhoughtoi .pneror twoclever things in my lifetinSe, saidWillWWish ington, "but|l d&Sn't sa^ theon." "Why not?" "It would baye been such a dis appointment whenever I opened my mouth afterwaicdUT—Washington Post. —"Why, I haven't been able to'make afire in the -stove here all winter. It doesn't draw/' Landlord—"So? Then it must bav» sa%d about $50 for you in fuel. In such •cafee I'm afraid I'll have to raise the rent on you?"—Fliegende Blatter. —Couldn't Help Himself.—The two men had talked for a time on the train. "Are.you going to he|r Barkins' lecture to-night?'* said one.- "Yes," returned the other. "Talce my advice and don't. I hear it's an awfnl bore." "I must go," said the"other, "I'm Barkins."—N. Y. Sun. —Butcher—"Come| John, be lively now break the bone Mr. Williamson's chops, and put Mr. Smith's ribs in the basket for him." John (briskly)—"All right, sir, just as soon as I've sawed off Mr. Murphy's leg."—London Tid-Bits. —Mary had a little lamb, 'Twas served upon a piste. And of that dainty morsel she Without a shudder ate. —N. Y. Journal. —A little Rebuff.—"Ah! Miss Martha, 1 admire your housekeeping so! It is very sad for a man to have to sit down alone in his room evenings!" "My dear sir, you can't impose on .me. You know well enough that you never do that!"— Fliegende Blatter. .—He Kicked.—The mother and aunt of a Chicago five-year-old had spent the greater part of their time at the stores down-town for several days, and he had got tired of it. "Well," he said yester day morning, in the tone of a deeply disgusted young man, "I suppose you two are going shop-lifting again to-day." —Chicago Tribune. eassnring.—"O, it frightens me, John, to think how terrible it would be if that great lion should get out of his eage." "That's why I took aback seat. Now if he were to get out, he would be quite satisfied, you see. before he could reach us."—Fliegende Blatter. —A Tender-hearted Man.—Secretary of the Belief Society—"Are yon the wife of the laborer Mnller? The rich Mr. Knicke has just called on me to represent your destitution and to ask that we should do swuicnMng for you. He says that you are to be turned out if you do not pay your rent within a week." "That is true." "And who is your landlord?" "The rich Mr. Knicke."—Fliegende Blatter. A TURKISH DIOGENES. A Laborer Who Preferred the Cesspool to Public Office. There is reason to believe, writes Dr. Buckley, that, except in the supernat ural elements, the story of "Arabian Nights' Entertainment" has been paral lelled over and over again in the history of Constantinople. One of the Sultans not so very long ago was in the habit of going about like the famous Caliph IIaroun-al- Raschid in disguise. On one occasion, passing a place where a man was excavating a cesspool, he heard him say to himself in a loud voice: "Persevere, my soul, or I will plunge thee into deeper filth than this." A ew hours afterward an officer ap proached the unfortunate man, and said to him, "Come with me." Horror took possession of the laborer, who, when found by the officer, was dressed like a gentleman, and was taking his ease a cafe. He tried to ascertain from the person who had him in charge why he was wanted for some went into the se cret place under the control of the gov ernment and never came out, no satisfactory answer could be given. After being detained for a long- time in fearful suspense, he was at last brought into the presence of a very high official, and detained there. Finally he was taken into the very presence of the Sul tan. The Sultan was astonished to see the -man, who had been covered with filth a short time before, so well dressed and intelligent in appearance. He said to him: "Are vou the man whom I saw at work in a cesspool?" "I am." "How is it that I find you dressed in this way?" "I am well paid for my work, which is very filthy and disagreeable, and af terward I cleanse myself and take mine ease." "But what did you mean when you said: Persevere, my soul, or I will plunge thee into deeper filth than this!" The man trembled, knowing that at a word his head might be smitten from his shoulders. Speak! said the Sultan. He answered that a man often says in anger what his heart will not acknoweldge. "But what dost thou mean?" He hesitated, and the Sultan reiterated his command: "What dost thou mean? What deeper filth is there than that in which thou dost work?" He still hesitated. The Sultan assured him that no harm should come to him, and the man then replied: "My work was disagreeable, and I was almost tempted to leave it when I thought, 'I am still free, I am .obliged to flatter no-one if I give up this work I may be compelled to take service under the government,- to live by flat tery and falsehood,' and so I said to my Auul: 'Persevere, or I will plunge thee into deeper filth than this.'" The Sultan, according to the story, was so pleased with this answer that he gave him a handsome present and al lowed him to go away ummolested.— Christian Advocate. Bank Note Eagtavcn, The best paid trade is that of the bank note engravers, who earn all the way from $20 to $200 a week. They have never had a trade union. Their protection oonsists in the fact that their trade requires a great deal of artistic ability and a good many years of prac tice. When they become expert they have no difficulty in getting employ ment, because there is always a sharp competition among employers to secure the best workmen. During the war, and for years after, there were not enough of them to be had in the world, and many engravers were brought in from other businesses to aid 1 some part of the work. The bank note printers, known as plate printers, also had things all their own way for a num ber of years. They had a flourishing union and got all the prices they asked, and then there were not half enough to do thework. They earned from $20 tt $70 a week. Since the new paper cur rency was nearly completed and the u» of many Government stamps ha stopped,' the plate printers have los work iuid many ha re gone out of busi •-^Straight Tiya Bold by all Druggists. r£rVMJ8NM'S Your health ij a citadeL T%e winter's storms are the coming enemy. 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