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~-r*?Wf Wi Hi 111 JON THE BRIDGE. Perfection lies ^/-«?i *^i In sweetheart's eyes' Her cheeks .wotUd shame a I love her hair, tMlg'tvZ. But I can't bear The bridge on sweetheart's nose.V It indicates .' _^„/ ,•.%•»* Herndble traits, "-7 If I should feign A deep disdain 1 And strength of purpose shows, -. „•:, Bnt rivals scorn ,* ... ^_-./ And others mourn The bridge on sweetheart's nose. For her, do you suppose That tears of hate Would devastate The bridcre on sweetheart's nose? I think instead (You seo I dread To add to sweetheart's woes) 111 venture this: I'll fondly kiss The bridge on sweetheart's nose And warmly praise Her gracious ways And boast my scorn for ihoso Who worship not That beauty spot— The bridge on sweetheart's nose. New York Herald. THE LOS? WAS FOUND. he Mous N Strangi cause he a W as If any one had told him he was drunk, he would not have resented it, but would have made an effort to maintain his equilibrium and dignity long enough to explain that he was only a little oozy woozy. He realized that he lived at 206 Irvington street, and that his residence was on the right hand side as he wabbled along homeward. The un certain light of early dawn, combined with the blear in his eyes, rendered it necessary for him to stop in front of every house and gravely brace himself against the railings until he could focus his eyesight on the number. Finally he identified his house, but after arguing with himself for a couple of minutes he came to the conclusion that he was just woozy enough to make mistakes possible, so to be absolutely certain he balanced himself against the front fence and studied the number on the transom. Instead of 206 he saw 509. He rubbed his eyes and looked again, but the number had not changed. It was still 509. Then he wondered how it happened that he had got on the wrong side of the street and three blocks too far out, made a zigzag across the street and started back, but before he had walked three blocks he came to the end of the street. The weary pilgrim was bewildered. He couldn't understand it, but getting his directions shaped his course up the street on the right side and kept on un til he came to 509 again. He studied it from every possible point of view, even trying to stand on his head to read it, but it perversely remained 509. Utterly bewildered, he sat down on the steps and waited till a policeman came along. "I'm losht," he explained. "I want er go ter 206 Irvington street." "This is the place, right here," de clared the officer. "Can't be. Thishis509." "No, it ain't. It's 206, but the tran som is turned over.'' The lost was found.—San Francisco Post. Ben Wad on Davis. When Ben Wade of Ohio was the presiding officer of the senate, he used occasionally to call some senator to take the chair and relieve himself by walk ing up and down in the lobby which runs back of the senate ohamber. Once while thus walking he was overtaken by a certain carpetbag senator frora one of the southern states, who occupied the identical chair that Jefferson Davis had used while a member of the senate. Walking along by the side of Wade, he rubbed his back wearily and said: "Wade, these senate chairs are the most uncomfortable things I ever saw. My back is positively blistered from sitting in mine.'' Wade looked at him for a moment, and, as he turned away, mut tered, "Davis left enough brains in the seat of that chair to blister the backs of two or three such men as you are. San Francisco Argonaut. W They Began to Write It is astonishing the number of suc cessful writers who were well on in years before they even thought of adopt ing literature as a profession. Thomas Hardy was 81 before he began to turn his attention to story telling. George Eliot was 40 before she wrote a line of fiction, having no faith in her ^powers as a story teller. Barry Cornwall was 35 before he thought of writing verse. Jules Verne was 35 before he wrote his first story. Rider Haggard started at 26 Mr. Barrie and Conan Doyle at 27 Grant Allen at 29, and Sir Walter Be sant and Mr. G. Manville Fenn at SO. George Meredith was nearly 33 when he began to write stories in his own pe culiar style.—New York World. The Wanin Honeymoon. He—Why, we've got a cricket in the house. Isn't it cheerful? She—Yes. And so intelligent. Hear him talking about the furniture. How distinctly he says, "Cheap, cheap!" However, as she had been that day on. a visit to her sister, whose husband was getting $18 a week, while her own dear new hubby got but $14,*perhaps her discontent was excusable.—^-Indian apolis Journal. An Indication. If a chicken is served with dumplings, I that settles it. It is at least a year old. No chicken can lay claim to having died young if it is served on the table with dumplings. Youth in a chicken is sufficient garnishment, as it is with a £irl. —Atchison, Globe. A caveat is a notice given to the pat ent office under the caveator's claim that he believes himself entitled to the credit of an invention for which a pat ent has not yet been applied for. The Ppancess ionise draws frc tba, -British treasury t£e Modest aflowa^^." .of £6,000 per year. 1 RUSSIAN LODGING HOUSES. Wtocmfe :Xfc*T Pfj^pteom^ T»o«« ofl|| lodgings which open: on the couilyanl sent for a lower price, says a writer? a Lippincott's, because the entrance is through a porte cochere, or, at night, through a wicket therein. This is an unobjectionable, rather an aristocratic arrangement in a private house, but elsewhere the courtyard may contain too many stables, workshops or even a large number of cows to supply dairy shops, which profess to deal in Finnish —that is to say, in pure country—but ter, cream and milk. In this case also the winter's supply of wood for the great house is sure to be stacked in piles a couple of stories high so close to the less desirable lodgings that, the prefect of the town was obliged to issue an or der protecting the poorer inhabitants and regulating the position of the wood piles at a proper distance from the building for light and air. Our researches revealed the fact that very few' 'furnished" lodgings provided either towels, bed linen, coverlets or pillows, or anything, in fact, beyond the bare bedsteads and furniture. Of course we were aware theoretically that this is a reminiscence of the days when every landed proprietor traveled accom panied by an entire housekeeping outfit and staff of servants when he under took those long carriage journeys which preceded the days of railways and which are still compulsory in some parts of the empire. Nevertheless, in practice, we were not prepared to accept this be yond towels, and we protested that no traveler should be obliged to drag such bulky objects about with him in these days of improved transit facilities. The logic of this argument was not very strong on our side, it is true, but most travelers will agree with us neverthe less. The Russian lodging house people, in return, seemed to regard us with amazement and pity because we did not possess these things and declined to pur chase them. Their idea must have been that we were accustomed to sleep in our clothes, like their ownjeasants. In some cases they were willing to provide the bed furnishings for a con sideration, but they regarded one towel a week and one change of linen a month as ample. ART IN ST. PETER'S. re A re or I he Grea Cathedral Nothing perhaps is more striking as one becomes better acquainted with St. Peter's than the constant variety of de tail. The vast building produces at first sight an impression of harmony, and there appears to be a remarkable uni formity of style in all the objects one sees. There are no oil paintings to speak of in the church and but few frescoes. The great altar pieces are almost' exclusively fine mosaic copies of famous pictures which are preserved elsewhere. Of these reproductions the best is generally con sidered to be that of Guercino's "S Petronilla" at the end of the right aisle of the tribune. Desbrosses praises these mosaic altar pieces extravagantly, and even expresses the opinion that they are probably superior in point of color to the originals, from which they are cop ied. In execution they are certainly wonderful, and many a stranger looks at them and passes on believing them to be oil paintings. They possess the quality of being im perishable and beyond all influence of climate or dampness, and they are mas terpieces Of mechanical workmanship. But many will think them hard and unsympathetic in outline and decidedly crude in color. Much wit has be^n man ufactured by the critics at the expense of Guido Reni's "Michael," for in stance, and as many sharp things could be said about a good many other works of the same kind in the church. Yet, on the whole, they do not destroy the general harmony. Big as they are, when they are seen from a little distance, they sink into mere insignificant patches of color, all but lost in the deep richness of the whole.—Marion Crawford in Century. The Glacier of the Dead Plain. The finest scenery in this part of our journey, at the west end of the famous Bernese oberland, was that "of the gla cier of the great Dead plain. We did not see it until we were on its edge and the white expanse spread before us. It fills a kind of elliptical hollow, some! two miles long by a mile wide. Once on its smooth, large surface the external world is shut out by a ring of low mountain wall. Not a trace of human activity can be seen in any direction. The largeness, simplicity and seclusion of this strange snowfield make it unique. We traversed its longest diameter.- The snow fortunately remained hard throughout the hour of our passage, thanks to a cool breeze and a veiled sun. The surface was beautifully rip pled and perfectly clean.-—"A Thou sand Miles Through the Alps," by Sir W. M. Conway, in Scribner's. "Bulls" No Irish. Those who are not Irishmen some times trespass on Irish property. A French cure, preaching about sudden death, said, "Thus it is with us—we go to bed well and get up stone dead!" An old French lawyer, writing of an estate he had just bought, added, "There is a chapel upon it in which my wife and I wish to be buried, if God spares our lives." A merchant who died suddenly left in his bureau a letter to one of his cor respondents which he had not sealed. His clerk, seeing it necessary to send the letter, wrote at the bottom, "Since writing the above I have died." If oil is spilled upon a carpet, imme diately scatter oornmeal over it and the oil will be absorbed. Oil that has soak* ed into a carpet may be taken, out by laying a thick .pieee of bio&ing: paper ov«c it and pressing with a hot fiatiron. Repeat the operation, using a fresh piece of paper each time. POWDER GO&' CANNON. & ., :The. great .trooble with powder in cannon was soon found to be that it ex erted-all its force too suddenly, so that all the strain came on one end of the gun. "When gunpowder is set on fire, it turns suddenly into gas, and the gas needs about 800 tunes the space that the solid powder occupied. The explo sion of ordinary gunpowder is so sud den that for a moment that part of the gun around the powder charge has to hold the big volume of gas squeezed down under enormous pressure until the shot can make a start to get out of the gun and make room for the gas. If, therefore, gunpowder could be made which would burn a little slower, so that it would not all be burned until the shot reached the muzzle, the gas would be more gradually formed and the strain be distributed all along the gun. Such a powder was first made in Germany and was first called cocoa pow der, because it resembled in color and general appearance a oake of chocolate. Its method of manufacture was kept se cret, but other countries analyzed the grains and soon learned to.make it even better than Germany. It is made partly by changing the proportions of the in gredients, making them about 79 per oent saltpeter, 3 percent sulphur and 18 per cent charcoal," but mainly by using an underburned charcoal, thus giving the powder its peculiar color. Thus there arose a division of gunpow der into quick and slow burning pow ders. It was not alone necessary to make a powder which would burn more slowly, but if possible to make one burn so that more gas would be forming when the shot got near the muzzle than was forming when it started from the breech, because there is more room behind the shot when it nears the muzzle, and it therefore takes more gas to keep up the same pressure against its base. To accomplish this and to make the grains lie so that there should be spaces evenly distributed among them to al low the flame to reach every grain at once, causing all of them to begin run ning together, grains were made of reg ular shapes, and each shape was tried to see how nearly it gave the desired results. Thus there have been used round grains, square grains, sphero hexagonal grains, cylindrical grains and prismatic grains. Of course it is impossible to make a grain which will have more and more surface to burn the smaller it gets, so the best result which has thus far been obtained is only an approach to it, and this is obtained with a hexagonal prismatic grain about 1 inch high and 1% inches in diameter, with a hole or several holes through it. —Lieutenant John M. Ellicott in St. Nicholas. Surgery I the Middle Ages. In the middle of the twelfth century priests were the only doctors. By an edict of the council of Tours surgery was separated from medicine and the practice of the former forbidden to the tflergy. The latter then employed thejr barbers to perform surgical operations. This arose from the fact of tiie monks having their heads shaved frequently and observing the'dexterity acquired br the barbers in the use of edge took The knights of the razor, from cuppii and bleeding, passed on to tooth dra ing and finally to other operations re quiring skill and deftness, if not mu knowledge. They knew practically not] ing of anatomy. It is said surgery WJ denied to the clergy by a canon of church which forbade them to sh blood. This was considered the dark a] of medicine, and somber indeed it must 'have been to the worthy citoyej who, perhaps, placing himself in ti hands of his barber for relief, might, 4t the same time that he was getting of a tumor, also part company with his heid.—Exchange. The Pol of a Fish. 'What I want,'' said an angler, is a i'iggingof some sort to measure the pull of a fish. If a pound fish puils 3 pounds 3 ounces, I want to know it, and if a 8 pound fish pulls only 3 pounds 6 ounces I want to know that too. A joker wrote to a sportsman's paper the other day to tell of an invention to measure the size of the fish that sire lost. That is where this pull measure machine would be good too. It would have to be self regis tering, of course. "Everybody laughs when any one says he lost a big one. I've lost fish of a size I never dared tell of just because of the bad name a fellow gets for tell ing of such things. I could tell of 6 and 7 pound trout in Canochogola lake up in the Adirondacks, but what's the use? Why, say, I've seen a trout"— Just then he remembered himself and began to talk about a grizzly king fly with a yellow tail.—New York Sun. Controlled by Watches. Paul dn Chaillu, the African explor er, tells how he once controlled a race of savage cannibals while he was on the dark continent. He had a number of Waterbury watches, whose ticking com pletely nonplused the savages and caused them to regard him as a spirit. He made a practice of leaving one of these watches in a village where he had stopped. After awhile the watch, of course, ran down and stopped and the cannibals said that the spirits had gone to overtake their master. When Du Chaillu returned to these villages, he always got the watch that he had left behind him and, unobserved, wound it up again. The natives heard the ticking continue, swore again that the ex plorer was a spirit and did their utmost to please him. --*s Takins Two Weeks Off! 'f Teacher—How many weeks in the year, Tommy Timkins? -^b Tommy—Only 50 this year. ^Teacher—Yon know Tery vrelf thai there are 52. fig Tommy—No'm not this year. 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Kocb, Cash. P. H. Kroolf, Ass't. THE SHOWN COUNTY BANK OF NEW ULM, ot-rrj elReVieVv ST. PAUL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE, Dr. Graham at Dakota House, Friday June 5 th. The Doctor brings to your doors the skill and experience which long training under the most improved modern methods can give,—Eight Years' Hospital Training Twenty-five Years'Experience in Treating Chronic Diseases Diplomas from three of the most celebrated schools in America, besides numerous credentials from various scientific bodies. would especially call the attention of those who have failed to find relief or cure elsewhere to the ST. PAUL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE, which he has the hono to represent, as having earned the grateful recognition of thousands of sufferers who had repeatedly been pronounced incurable. I has the endorsement of the business and professional men of the Northwest. In its various departments it as every facility for the successful treatment of all forms of Chronic Disease. This is the only Institution in the Northwest where the N E W fiFRUAN E employed,—aVsystem of treatment which has changed the verv history of Chronic it ULniHftlf Hlkl Diseases. No expense has been spared to fit out this Institution with every Modern Appli ance along Medical and Surgical lines. I makes no promises it cannot fulfill. I employs the very highest Medical and Surgical talent, while the charges-are within the reach of all. to-day curable at five, years ago were absolutely incurable. UnnClimntinn Hundreds of cases have been cured by us but don't wait till the lungs are destroyed,—we llUllSUHipilUll cannot create new organs! We make a specialty of fiCRI to"08. PARALYSIS, EPILEP5Y AND NERVOUS DISEASES generally, curing case after case at IIHIII has resisted every other known method of treatment. of years' standing SCROFULA slow growth in children, and BLOOD DISEASES generally, which often end in Blight's Disease or Diabetes, are now subject to our control. uLevery PiloC anil RlllltlirO without pain or loss of time. I the treatment of Diseases of the Eye and Ear, Cross Eyes, TIIOO ailll nll|ltUI 6 Cataract, Deafness, etc., our Oculist has a national reputation. In all Surgical Cases involving Deformities, Tumors, Growths and Malformations on Institution furnishes you skill and experience which cannot be duplicated in the Northwest. All IlfcOSICOC ftf WnillOn treated -with wonderful success and in most cases without recourse to the old and disgusting fill UlOOaOCd VI If UIII6II methods of crude indelicacy. We cure all diseases of either sex involving Loss of Energy. Our method of treating this class of cases is modern and original, and our phenomenal success with these troubles enables us to say we can guarantee a perfect cure in every case undertaken. Bring in your so-called "incurable cases—the Doctor charges you nothing for consultation. Everything sacredly CON FIDENTIAL. Remember the day and date. Call early, as his parlors are always crowded. If unable to call onhitn, write for symptom blank. Address, ST. PAUL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE, Merrill Bldg., Cor. 5th and St. Peter Sts., St. Paul, Minn. ages BMWARBQ S of imitation trade marks and labels. t^BM^r Capital, $50,000. jef firifitiftj ffi •AVE T0U TRffiB BRDG S ftNB -FAABt *o VTSU A CUKE ron RHEUMATISM? LUMEAGO, iSClATIC .' .^,5 KIDNEY, LIVER md'BLA'DDEL=2 COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPS2A, LAME-B&* O MT 2 0 0 pajro ok I E E A S S E O EIEJf," shouM bere&d uu- a id and clJ rean, sent sealed, free. Xr. S an E!ectr: Bre experiment as we hare restored iho«s.in'Jnt'j robust health and viaor, after ail other treainunxsii'l^rt. scan be shown by hundreds of cases throughout this and oilier States,who wcsM t-ladly ter: v. ,vu iro JLI :aar.y of whom we have strong letters bearing testimony to their recovery after using our it v/s JSAvli"cya5D TA\ I*ASIE HACK—striisrrj'ir SISISAS'E.. Delano, Mi^nwftB. Aw.' -b 1'-' 91. Dr. A. T. Sanden, Uear Sir.--I lasi it my UTI yf* vnrte to you and lot you know thatjour wonderful Electric belt htas done you said it would. 1 feellike another man, snd I most earnestly recomiaMul you csit ony one who is suffering from lame back and icwaey is ease for many years. Yours truly, JACOB DICK. 6EXESAL vxsBzx.rr'sr, ETC. Humboldt, Minnesota, Augu let,' £2. Dr. A. T. Sanden. Dear Sir^As yon rem-Eiber, -o sent me a No. 4Electric belt las:eutnmer. and I worn it thenforthroaor four months, and XamnowgUdto gay that I am cured of disease. I have not written you before because I wanted to sea if the cure was per manent, and I can now gladly recommend it- t» eyeryone. Tours ye:y truly, A. G. AND.ERSOH. toiDr. inquiry would Etrsttmfc ibhveu JHUKSi O E A W CLAISXiKR Stanleg. Minn. April E, 92. Dr. A. T. Sanden. Dear Sir.-1 wish tossy ihst-tt:. Eleotrio belt I bought of yon ome two naonihs aso .-iS dons m* lots of good,'and I am well satisfied with it. In fact the longer I have ih 5 belt the hotter 1 luse it. IthasdoneallyouBaidand morotoo. Yours tra.?, B. PEKEY. THE DRa SAKDSSH SLSOTHIC BSLT ia a complete calTanic battery, made into a belt so as to bo easily worn during work or atsest, and tfc ves soothing, prolonged current* which ars instant iv felt throufthont all weak parts, or ws forfeit It has an Improved Electric fcjn&penaory, the faeatest boon ever given weak men, ana warrant it to cure any of the above weaknesses, and to enlarge shrunken limbs, or parts, or Money Refunded. They are graded in strength to meet all stages of weakness in youn?, middle-aged or old men, and will cure the worst casesin two or three wionthn. Address for fell information^ *SMDEII ELECTRIC CO., Cor. 2d An. & 3rd St., MilHEsPOUS, Miss. DOCTOR GRAHAM SPECIALIST, President of and Senior Consulting Physician to the quickly to our system of treatment. case undertaken. CATARRH, at hydra-headed monster we absolutely eradicate from the "system by the "New -"*f &« if--' 4 W •with E QlK.7aet.ic Si:r.jas« Tnd corti a at &i««>sine v'Mbf,,. aHofth^aboiretToasJss. TL.--»wfco. ^iisMi- ssSev from IS+ATO-^9 it-b:! .-y, ^tdZ. JLccses, J*os. :"5f ar.fioorf, N a S S-RsejiiFsisness, BfejPoar a Fc"*:.Se Vam- 1 3 Plaint*, and a Hi henitfe. The btfects of abuses, excess?*, i=rorr crcxw'.snre.Tnllflnc!rt:l!e£sn TT* nipt «:ro in oar saarve)on.« inventios, vj--.i»UTPQuires fact a I7»i 13 coimnce tr.eiaos s&epticxj. in.oi.'.-rruj:po'ef. fs-.is yon may have na u«r tlrciaed y«..- rpy«teiuof nerve r.r*-*.-.j!d v:t.isiiy —whic is ele tr^^i:-.-—?.aa tlras caased yonnreukiicEsoi :KW, or iorco.. If yoo replnco lino your sj-sicin the elementstims diK nf.3, T.-pt'i'i ate re-j quirea for vigorous at: er-_ a. "-on -will iesaf»verberaa?ei .vj js..-f.. -irenjnh and "ig-.i'c iti.'. io "j".r ?t once. This is onr fclsn EHU urcc-.T^cn*. en 3 we guarantee &. c:jre r-*'-i... inoney SSH-W €3AK CURE YC* S S S S A S A O Soraood, Misi-e-c fxt-csr 7*. 92. Er. A.T. SanelBii. Dear Sir-iiS.3t w.r.ltr Fnilared Brent.ytvi a rheumatism andlumbt.gc. I sad dif fer ntdt.c.e73 i-ud medicines withou- ranch success, WCC5 Iwasadvi&odtotryoneof yocr te ts. I didnot beiievein them, though I »oul* try or.e asrwey. loan honestly eaynowthatnoih-UMS has dona me es much goodas the No. ibelt I bcusii cf you, and I w' not be w: thout on •. I aia sow ceils cared and believe it is due to the belt: in isct a a sure of it- You-s vary trniy. ALBEE? 512 YES, "ropiie -*.- union Hotel S A W CETEEB 5 N «M 33 "W 52SS.. liiaxifKipciiB, M'nnssota. Jirj&a 15.' 02. A.T Sandeu DearSixt-inamn^rto nrl tter 11- l'v':t razn lariy :inoe,7M-inri!. ou remember. I ooiajUains of severe craisc-s I :ry 1 sti side, mcch so teat I was atile to do bor, liwla work. I had W"«\ :o J-r three uionthe, but »fior a. weok'a upe of yosii* itits I -rea'.iy pleased lo have the cramr-a «Tvti.ely ci^appa a^d th-'-y hoT'j net reu»rnedsinoe, and^l cc-asii'er that. I udent rely r?- of them. EeKpectfil'.y, G£0. H-lMilOKQ, 6i3 Fllmorw gtreos, K. E... -.••'«assffiafc. I 1^8- Quality of Groods. 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