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WHAT DO YOU WANT? A SITUATION? . Try the Globe's Want Columns. TAKE DOWN THAT PLACARD AND Tell the Public Through the GLOBE} ; that you want to Let Your House,: • Flat or Rooms, or want Boarders^ VOL. IX. THE JERSEY WAIST It Still Abides in New York and Clara Belle Dis courses Upon It. Some of the Uses to Which It is Put and Abuses Sub jected to. Pointers for Gentlemen Dan dies About Overcoats and Other Winter Garb. Don't Purchase the Same Goods for Your Own Wife and Another. New iokk, Oct. 5 ND the jersey is still here. The indica tions are that the jersey will be more large ly worn than ever, and ma ny new styles are be ing shown. Plain jerseys, with or with out vest fronts, it is thought, will be less popu lar than their braided or beaded rivals. Boucle and tufted seem to have lost their hold on the popular fancy, and plain cloths in solid colors seem to be superseding them. The jersey is in truth a shapely garment, if the human filling be shapely, I saw a fair huntress of the sort who use perfumed gun powder and fire at glass pigeons. She was on exhi bition at the Country club the other day, and was so handsome a figure that I sketched her on the spot. Tailor-made jerseys appear to be coining to the front; also, jerseys having reversed fronts covered with jet shells. Outside of black, tan and brown seem to be the favorite colors in jerseys. Corduroy for stylish walking costumes for autumn, in dark blue, dark green, bronze and steel gray colors bids fair to prove quite fashionable. THE STYLES OF THESE COSTUMES will be exceedingly simple from the fact of the fabric "being rather heavy and inflexible. The basque will be similar to that of a riding habit, and has a very high collar and tight sleeves. The only trimmings permissible will be the use of silver buttons, ornamented with fantastic devices. While the jer sey thus retains high favor, it is also abused by audacious girls. A creature in a white jersey, contrasting with long black gloves and hat, was an object that I saw posing on a bench in Central park, while beside her stood a scarcely less exaggerated girl. But these are exceptions. Sightly costumes are in a majority. Cashmeres are also going to be largely used in forming neat and dressy gowns for young ladies. The new goods of this description are very finely finished, and can be found in all the tints, the neutral shades, and the bright colors. They will be made up alone, or combined with surah, or other soft silks in either another tone of the same hue as the cashmere or in a con trasting color. Lace sacques and shawls are in requisition. Lace flounces are also in high demand. RIBBON IS THE FAVORITE OFFSET of these dresses. Cashmere shawls, with fringed ends, are still fashionable, also the Algerian, striped with tinsel and bourette. Then there are the In dia chuddah square shawls for greater warmth. Beautiful little wraps for warm days or evenings are also square shaped and of embroidered China crape with long, fringed ends, while close akin are embroidered China scarfs, also with long ends. What of the autumn dandy? He has just donned his fall overcoat, and you often see him in his best afternoon make up. Collars started on a vigorous growth several seasons ago, and they have not yet reached the limit. Two styles will be eminently correct this fall, and the choice may depend con siderably upon the taste of the wearer. In general, however, one style will be worn BY YOUNG MEN, and the other by elderly men. The first is high, with sharply turned points, leaving a triangular opening below the chin. This is like the last style, except that the points are longer and the open ing, therefore, larger. If collars will persist in growing, this opening and the turn-back points are necessary to stow away the extra ma terial. The other style looks higher, but that is the result of an illusion aris ing from the fact that the points are not turned back. They do not meet under the chin, there being about half an inch between the points. As to scarfs and ties, there is yet time for the introduction of many new designs; but it is certain that the popu lar style will be the Four-in-hand. But terfly ties will find favor, and are cor rect. One may wear the flat or the puffed scarf and not break any law of fashion, but he will not find himself in a numerous company if he does so. The rage for fancy colors and pronounced effects will find congenial expression in neckwear, and it will be difficult to over dress in this respect.. Autumn visiting and church toilets for women show the natural reaction from summer extrava gance of style. Smooth cloths will be used again for dressy suits, two colors in rather marked contrast appearing in one costume. For these combination cloth costumes the lighter color will be used for the lower skirt and vest, with a dark basque and drapery. Plaid and plain cloths will be seen together 1 IN AUTUMN GOWNS In the way so popular for summer ging bams, sateens, etc., with the basque of the plain, smooth-faced cloth, and the skirt with its long drapery of large plaided,' softer twilled , cloth, Tile draped and folded vests or Vest-coats so much 'ii favor at present will remain ft feature of autumn and winter gowns. All bodices will be elaborately trimmed THE GLOBE |||j||| PAGESI7TO2O. in front, with the exception of the tailor-made, and the * latter will have narrow flat garniture, in the shape of smooth vests and slender revere. I have already said that jerseys seem to be restored to all their old-time favor. They are not so plain as formerly, but are made with yokes, plaits and trim mings of various kinds, which keep them to shape and serve to conceal de fects of the figure which plain ones em phasized"^ strongly. Wraps are made of cashmeres, in dark shades, with loose sleeves, and lined throughout 3 itli bright satin, are very stylish. The trimming is Chantilly lace about three inches wide, gathered as fully as possi ble, and stitched on in four rows close together. This makes a pretty ruch ing that is very becoming. It encircles the throat, goes down the front and about the sleeves, and sometimes when the back is slashed up it is decorated with a row. A claret colored cashmere, lined with a satin of salmon-colored pink, a myrtle green laid with pistache, a granite gray lined with blue, or mulberry-colored garment showing here and there a crimson gleam of satin, are among the beautiful things offered. OLD SMITH HAS A LARGE HEART. After bestowing a proper share of af fection on his wife, lie found he was carrying more stock, which he went and unloaded at the feet of a miss of twenty, who was fond of balls, fast horses and other amusements which the staid wife of his bosom frowned upon. A certain store on Broadway imported a style of brocaded velvet robes, and the first lot of them was limited to a dozen, each of different color. It was Miss Lottie Russe's birthday (she was the Tootsie of of old Wootsie's affections), and Smith bought a lovely lavender for her. In a burst of remorseful generosity he pur chased the mulberry-adorned robe for Mrs. Smith. Both were sept to lis office. A messenger then conveyed the mulberry to the wife, and old Smith carried the lavender himself. Mrs. Smith's dress was greatly admired, and an old lady side-partner of hers was de sirous of getting something like it. The two went to the emporium and explained their errand to the gentlemanly clerk. He could duplicate the lavender but not the mulberry. Mrs. Smith was aghast. What had become of the lavender?, ;' : "Of course the dark robe was much the more desirable," discoursed the counter)"umper; "the lavender was only fit for a ball costume." MM - ' "1 have no use for such a costume, as 1 never go to balls," bristled Mrs. Smith. "I have certainly put my foot in it," thought the clerk." Mrs. Smith went home and kept her counsel, but kept a close watch on the old man. "I find I shall have to run down to the Branch if I want to catch Jones before he goes back to Europe," said Smith, a few days after, and he departed that afternoon. It was the last big ball of the season down there, and the boat was over crowded. M-iM THAT WAS THE REASON Mrs. Smith went by the train. The Smiths had a multitude of friends spending the early autumn at the Branch, and Smith is a Close, well-be haved man Miss Li tie was staying at a cottage with some people connected with the races at Monmouth, and Smith went on the strict q. t. to see her. "Your wife came down on the train with me," said a gentleman to Smith, on the avenue. %P8 "The deuce she did," said Smith to himself, as took a carriage and drove to the house of a friend, where, much to his good woman's annoyance, he found her. "I thought I'd give you a little sur prise," said she," and perhaps it will be a greater one. I've brought down my new dress, and am going to the hop to night." Smith put a good face on it. He sent a note to Lottie to say the wife had come, and there must be not even a speaking acquaintance between them that evening. She must go with the French Poole family. Mr. and Mrs. Smith made a fine appearance, and he was so devoted that she began to think she had suspected him unjustly, but all at once a lively party entered, and among them the sharp-eyed old lady spied a mauve dress brocaded in helio trope-colored velvet. From a distance it looked like her mulberry and black. When Smith was out of sight Mrs. Smith and another dowager took a bee-line for the corner where the lavender was ensconced. The pat tern was exactly the same) but executed in different colors. Mrs. Smith heard one of the party address the lavender-clothed young woman sis "Lottie," and with these bare and meager statistics she opened the cam paign. "Now, Smith," said she, "don't add any lies to your other crimes. 1 know all about this Lottie business, and that's what brought me down. That hussy has confessed the whole—shown me your presents—even the last, the lavender robe you bought on the 20th at Plush & Cretonne's." Smith's memory failed— did not remember he had bought the dresses together. Smith could not see a . loop hole. He admitted . everything. He was skillfully led on to a full confes sion, and imagine his consternation then, after disgorging damaging facts for two consecutive hours, that . wily wife astonished him by telling him she had. only seen a dress like one she had heard he had. bought on the back of a woman, and had. heard that woman called Lottie. From these imperfect relics she. had constructed the ; whole story and caught him. Claba Belle. SAINT PAUL, MINN., SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1887.—TWENTY PAGES. FUN FOR THE WIND. Pen Pictures of Some of the Beards That Adorn St. Paul Faces. Congressman Rice Wears a Sable Silver Affair That is an Honor to Him. City Comptroller Roche's Au burn Chest Protector Excites Envy. Judg-e Flandrau's Mustache and Goatee Give Him a Dignified Air. As the hair of the head is the adorn ment of women, so the beard of men may be regarded as the glory of the sterner sex. This proposition, as a gen eral rule, is true, but at the same time it is liable to many exceptions. Every beard is not a glory. Some are thin, and spare, and scraggly, weak, consumptive and forlorn. Others are course, rough, backwoodsy and hard. Others are stiff, short-cropped, ugly and repulsive. These all lack that quality of beauty and symmetry, that glossy, silky rich ness, and voluptuousness that makes the beard of man .a glory and honor like the beard of Aaron. St. Paul is well supplied with the glory kind. Congressman Rice has a noble beard, a kind of a sable-silver beard that has for years been a glory and an honor to its owner. Judge Flandrau does not wear a full beard. He doesn't believe in being full. When he visited the fount of re newed youth in South America, the managers directed him never to wear a full beard and he has followed the in struction religiously. He sports only a moustache and goatee which give him a very aristocratic appearance. W. P. Murray wears nothing but a moustache after the style of Napoleon HI. The corporation attorney says he is not particularly proud of his French ancestry, but sometimes when he is talking with Capt. Berkey he is com pelled to talk French, in older to make the captain understand him, and it comes awkward to talk his native lang uage without a moustache. Capt. Berkey, like Daniel in the lions' den, wears a full beard and mustache, which well becomes his style of face. He says both ■ have grown gray in the great work which he has been engaged in for so many years of getting Murray into the paths of rectitude and virtue. John W. Roche, the city comptroller, is said to be exceedingly, proud and not a little vain of his beautiful auburn whiskers and mustache,which are heavy and massive. All the ladies in the city are striving with salaratus water to give their hair the beautiful auburn hue of Mr. Roche's whiskers and mustache, so lovely." The weight of business and the cares of life are causing the large, dark, flow ing beard of Thomas Cochran, Jr., to be come flecked with white. M When Col. Allen . was an. alderman, and before he went out of the hotel bus iness, he wore a magnificent heavy black beard ond would be wearing it now but for a little trick that he under took to play off on President Cleveland. A few months ago he made, a trip to. Alaska over the Northern Pacific road. On that occasion he wore his beard out as far as Glend-ve when he had it all shaved off, and from there on to Alaska he successfully passed himself off as the president, and was • feasted and honored as the chief magistrate at all the chief cities and lived all the way I n clover. Judge Chandler used to wear a full beard, but he says it gave him so much trouble with the ladies tl:at he sacrificed it a together. W. 11. Dixon formerly wore a beauti ful auburn beard upon his classic face, but he sacrificed it. He left his mus tache, though, because, as he says, a mustache is so much more distingue. A. T. 0. Pierson, the well-known Ma son, wears the most flowing drapery of' the face of any man in St. Paul. ' The beard that adorns Dr. Day's handsome face is the most philosophical one in town unless it be that of Dr. Murphy. The latter has rather the most robust one. J. W. McClung's wavy beard is kept in a condition that is altogether too democratic. It should go to the barber. - Maj. Brackett has one that any man should be proud of. It is dark and flow ing and is very much admired by the ladies of Minneapolis. D. W. Ingersoll has always worn a full beard, and probably always will. He won't tolerate a mustache though. Dr. Murphy pretends not to be proud, but it is understood that he devotes all his leisure moments to cultivating his mustache and whiskers, and at night he puts them up in papers with as much care as a society belle devotes to her raven locks. R. C- Jucison cultivates a heavy, flow ing, dark brown beard, which glistens like burnished gold. John Summers of the Windsor hotel, boasts, with excusable pride, of his ele gant, heavy, brown beard and mus tache. A. B. Stickney has too much business to attend to, and therefore cannot; do * justice to one of the most lovely auburn beards in St. Paul. • Occasionally, when he goes to New York he gets the Fifth Avenue hotel barber to put it in shape. At all other times it is wholly neglected. H. R. Bigelow, the nestor of the legal fraternity of Ramsey county, and Capt. Blakeley are both very indifferent to their beards and allowed them to run wild like an unweeded garden. J. M. Hannaford lives in the hope of one day blooming forth with a beard that will be the envy of all men. As it is he now sports a beautiful mustache to which he devotes a great deal of at tention.; " It is a number of years since H. J. Strouse wore a beard. He has never, though, been known to be without a heavy mustache. - He ■ lias now. com menced the cultivation, in the . most in dustrious ; manner, of ; a large, heavy: . beard,. something after the style of the one worn by Maj. Brackett. :He claims* that in the course of a week he will have as big a beard as the best of them* Col. Crooks wears a noble.dark brown beard, of the antique Koman order such as Pliny and Augustus wore, "in the palmy days of Kome a little ere the mighty Julius fell." ."'/,..;; 'i I >T. W. Teasuale, general passenger agent of the Omaha, went out to Alaska this summer and put in three or four months cultivating one of the most fero cious" beards in the business. He says there is place in the United States where a beard will grow so fast as in Alaska. ; Major Pond wears a beautiful mus tache and'goatee, which he continually fondles. •--.'-v:: ' . H. C. Burbank sports a mustache and goatee of the color of Mrs. Langtry's hair. • . ■ - ■'-... Webster Smith doesn't say much about it, but at the same time "he sports a gor geously heavy beard. v • '■'■ ' Ex-Alderman Mitsch is a second edi tion of Horace Greeley. He studiously avoids having a sign of hair seen upon his chin, but from far beneath that chin creeps out a full round beard up nearly to his ears on both sides of his face, "j ■-. J. M. Bohrer, president of the board of trade, wears a Koscoe Conkling beard and mustache. H. EL Burbank sports a mustache and goatee of the Queen Aim style. ..Capt. J. D. Wood takes great satisfac tion in smoothing down his mustache and goatee. ':",'-;*--. When Jupiter shook his ambrosial locks some of them got loose and drop ped down. S.S.Eaton was the fortu nate man that happened to be where they fell, and now he discounts Mai. Brackett and all the rest of the boys on the beard question. •"= : v Capt. Starkey wears a Gen. Grant beard.. . ■...', ■••. ~ y. M - ":":'-.'v~ -Building.lnspector Johnson wears a beard o£ Vandyke pattern. >.* This list would be very incomplete if the' well-known and universally admit ed beard of George W. Lamson were omit ted. It is of the Marquis of Queenbury style, and is as full of beauty "as the m'ilkv way in a frozen night is full of stars*." S. B. W. "^" ■'-:■ '- '■■ *i' '■ Preachers and White Horses. Cincinnati Telegram. .'.'■■:■-:_ "Talk about a red-headed girl and a white horse, Ob, that's nothing." said Capt. Bohon this morning. "There's no point about it; it's only a coinci dence. There are no afterclaps of either good or bad luck attending the seeing a woman with hair the color of 5-cent brown sugar and a white horse, but when a steam boatman sees a -minister and a white horse get on board then he knows there's going to be an accident. It's a sure, thing, .too.. Why, there ain't an old steam boatman from Pitts burg to New Orleans that would go aboard of a boat with a preacher and a white horse. The boiler would burst, the smokestack fall or some other acci dent would be bound to happen about the boat."., ~ ._ '• g . - An ..Optical Illusion. .' .- "f >. Judged. =.'-:> '-..-'-'. ..*•"» 1 sb (Miss Selden's fiance is approaching them across the lawn.) Judge Si—Who is that coming across the. lawn, daughter? Miss S.—Why, papa, don't you see? That's Teddy. He said he intended coming over this evening. Judge S.—Ah, yes; I see now; I thought at first it was a man. ■» — MA German "Gretna Green.", St. James Gazette. The latest German grievance against Heligoland is that it is a kind of North Sea Gretna , Green, responsible for all kinds of. scandalous elopements from the fatherland. The Kblnische Zeitung calculates that about forty runaway couples were married at Heligoland in 1880, and that up to the end of June of the present year another score have availed themselves of the matrimonial facilities affoided by the perfidious island. This state, of things does not arise from any theoretical laxity of the law in relation to marriages. On paper everything is as it should be; but it appears that when any of the numerous documents that would be- re quired in Germany are missing the leligolanders, according to an old Fris ian practice,accept the word of the bride groom that everything is in order and that the document has either been" mis laid or forgotten. In addition to this absurd artlessness, only one public no tice of marriage is required; and so couples arriving on the Saturday may be.married on . the following Monday. What,- however, excites most indigna tion in Germany is that the clergyman who solemnizes these marriages is him seif a German, and that he manages to turn a pretty penny through the laxity of Frisian custom and the unfriendly negligence of the British. So the: Co logne newspaper states, and the matter might be worth the attention of the - au thorities.^. ' ■*-- '.-■• "--.: .No Wonder he Was Dismayed. Tid-Bits:,;;. Wife (to sick prohibitionist)— The* doc tor says my dear, that you must"*, take whisky to tone up yOur system". "•/■*.■ {■■..••■ Sick prohibitionist—Well, if I must; why of course" that settles it; but whisky is an awful curse. How much am I to take? .^-*;. - • ; ,..... .■; '. Wife—A teaspoon twice a day.. M., Sick prohibitionist—Great heavclis!- is that all? ":-W t •£ i Mrs. Mack ay's Wonderful Cloak. It is said Mrs. MacKav is about dis play a gorgeous toilet piece in the shape of a cloak made ■ entirely out of the 1 feathers of Paradise birds at Parts. The price of a single bird is about 40 francs, and 500 birds .would' be necessary -to form this strange garment, which, when' finished by-the dressmaker, will cost over ; 25,000 francs. Two famous shots have started for New Guinea to - collect the birds. M • HIS OWN SEAMSTRESS The Trouble a Bachelor Has J in Sewing Buttons oh His Clothes. It Requires Profanity and Perseverance to Thread a Needle. -———OfifA-/. ... The Air Gets Sulphurous When He Finds He Has Sewed His Sleeve Up. Finally a Woman Comes Along and Casts Oil on the Troubled Waters. >?""""X —— T'S nice to .-be. a bach to lAV^fli elor. He has everything '^.-^U^fiL. ■ his own way,' doesn't wSIK "£Hr- - have to move or pay \r^&%WTr- rent' Bor *m- l--'ler r^TTrja**—^ down flannel dresses / -^^S"H * swan's down hoods / '/"">/} fe for the musical baby, \£ffil m aud when things don't \Jy rM & / please him why he Can /j\OT«*.-' just say words that ap //vfflim*o '-' pear in print like' this: "Blank blank blanketty blank," and he doesn't say blank or dash either. V '■• ''•" When he gets up in the morning all he has to do is to wash', dress, fasten on his collars and cuffs with a modern Beau Brummel precision, go to the restaurant and swallow his breakfast at leisure, buy a cigar and dream of the great en viable future, a very, very far off future. But, after all, he has his troubles. Being a bachelor he must dress well, for his bachelorhood may be a state preliminary to marriage, or it may be a settled confirmed condi tion of life selected after a long and serious fit of mistaken love; 'and in either case his carefulness in dress will be strongly marked. So in the early morn it comes rather disagreeable to find a pair of pants with one of the rear buttons missing. Dear reader, did you ever see a man with a pair of trousers on that lacked one or two rear buttons? If you haven't it may be plain to tell you that his pants have a baggy lop-sided appearance, something like a distracted bustle. And of all things in the.world a bachelor is most particular about it is his-panta loons. . \ ; . ' V:.:' 1 The first thought that strikes a bach elor in such a predicament 16—Well it's impossible to do it justice in polite En glish. After he calms down he perhaps thinks he would like to have somebody sew the buttons on for him. : Unfortu nately the time is Dying with tQgment ing rapidity is. -necessary, to get those trousers on 'to" keep his engage ments; for he has appointments at the club at 9 a. m., and he expects some friends to arrive at the hotel soon after, and there are numerous unavoidable duties to attend to which only a bache lor knows anything about. Therefore he concludes that he'd better try to sew that button on himself—no, not on him- self, but on the pants The - very first thing to do is to thread the needle. All well regulated bachelors should have a needle and some thread. lie takes the end of the thread from the "spool," moistens it' with his mouth, and proceeds to stiffen it with his finger and thumb. Then he takes the thread in his right hand and holds up the needle "Din a camei.get with his left. The through there?" subsequent proceedings are best de scribed this way:'". ' - Looks through the eye of the needle takes deadly aim with the stiffened end of the thread—misses—swears—trys tgain—stiffens the thread again—first aking the precaution to wet it—another aim—another another swear more> ■ wetting J and ' • stiffening of the thread —more aiming—more missing more - swearing so f±\ '-«,-. until ''' of tllQ Kill) Ulllll *' O.M nil/ lapse of an hour the thread is finally through the i needle's eye. He is just com mencing to think that he'd rattier be rich and have servants than be a camel and have to squeeze through the eye of that needle when the thread comes out, and the tedious job working over of getting it back has hours. to be done all over again, with progress and results similar to the previous undertaking. He ties a knot in the thread this time, however, to secure it. A button is found after much difficulty and more swearing and this is put to the place on the pants to see if it will fit. There is a big lump of knotted, tangled thread where the but ton aught to go. Our bachelor friend proceeds . to pick the thread out with his finger nails, if he has any nails long enough. Fifteen minutes of valuable time is wasted in the effort, when he concludes ito sew the button on at one side ,of "" the.' old place. The needle and thread, are .run through the Eants and passed through a hole in the utton. It is very easy to get it back, through another hole of the button, but the following ; strange * complication of events ensues:"".''"- W-:'-*".' - Can't find the hole in the button takes out the needle—tries again—pricks his finger—swears—tries again—breaks the point off the swears—tries to get the blanketty blunt-ended needle through anyhow—the other end goes deep into his finger owing to his mighty effort to force the needle through the cloth and a solid part of the button swears fearfully, in fact, most un- Christian-like—tries again—more blood and anity—hasn't got another needle goes at it again—succeeds in getting a stitch through— as if relieved of great distress— the needle .an c thread backthrougl another hole in tin button with tolera ble ease—tries. t< get another stitch throu gh—mor ( blood and more un gentlemanly lan • ig ua g c—c h a mber maid is cleaning ur an adjoining room she hears a noise— and comes to find out what "it's al! about—he: tells be he is "only" sewing on a button—she says she will •do it for him—he says: "Oh, no;: nevermind;! guess -I: can ; get along.—she says: .'.'You'd better let .me do ■; it. 1 for you"— her voice is winning— concludes he will let her take the job in hand—so he opens the door a little bit—takes good . care to keep clean out of sight behind it—hands the pantaloons out— closes the door with maidenly modesty- sits down and waits smilesl istens to sweet,' soft, musical hum mi n g—the fem inine voice has a pe culiar charm about it smiles some more— hears a little knock on the dooropens it a little bit again— ceives his pants—sees (the button sewed on nicely and solidly — smiles again—again— the blessing, and again. Such is the way a bachelor sews on his buttons.. It's all the same if he has a shirt to mend. Bother, fretting, blood and profanity. Finally a sweet, con siderate woman comes along and takes the job off his hands entirely and he is happy. Why don't he get married? May be he'll answer the question after awhile in the way of the world. _ C.F.I. CATHOLICS IN SCANDINAVIA. The Church of Rome - Making Great Strides. . The church of Rome continues to make great strides in Scandinavia. Many Lutherns have been converted at Stockholm, and there is so much good will towards Catholics that at a recent. fancy fair held for a Catholic hospital the sum of 28,000 francs was obtained, mostly from non-Catholics. The new prefect-apostolic of the North, Mgr. Fallize, -has been- on a visit to Christiana,' where he was received by the government authorities. Though Catholic emancipation in Den mark dates only from 1848,. there are now 4,000 Catholics in the country, served by some thirty priests, with schools taught by sisters of religious communities. The Jesuit fathers have a college ill Copenhagen witli over forty students. In Norway, before 1845, Cat holic priests were forbidden the country under pain of death. Twenty years ago there were only 130 Catholics, now there are over 810, with 20priests; while sisters of charity have the management of two hospitals and eight schools. The" sparseness of the population and;,the; great distances which separate one town from another are, of course, unfa vorable conditions for the propagation of religion in Ultima Thule. The . Two Babies in the Hospital. Another painful story comes from Paris. Two children in a hospital, it is said, were mistaken for each other, one child which died being buried by the wrong parents and the surviving one being ottered to a mother who found it was not her own. The children were suffering from scarlatina, and no visitors were allowed to see them. Mme. Duha mel, a concierge, sent her boy, four years old, to the hospital, and after two months had noticed that he was conva lescent, and might be taken home. She sent a neighbor, who, however, did not recognize the child and declined to take him." Three days later a nurse took the child to Mme. Duhamel, but there was a mutual absence of recognition. Ulti mately the hospital authorities admitted that the tickets must have been mis placed, and that Mme. Duhamel's. child had died twelve days after admission. Meanwhile the other parents, named Molera, believed their child to be dead, had borne the expense of the funeral. The two children, who were of the same age, but differed in color of the eyes and hair, at first .occupied adjoin ing beds. After some days the doctor ordered both to be trans ferred to another ward. The nurse who transferred them placed the ticket.of one child on the other's bed-head. When, therefore, the Duhamel child died, notice was sent to M. Molera, the father of the other child, and he saw the corpse. He now states that he failed to identify it, but it does not appear that he then expressed any doubts. When informed seven weeks later that his child was possibly still alive, and asked whether he could identify it by any mark, he stated that there was a mole spot on the back. There was, however, no need for any external sign, for on his going to the hospital the child sprang into his arms. The nurse who misplaced* the tickets has been dismissed. ; '-^'-'(/.A -^ — -'■:«.*.f".'*r'j Making Suicide Profitable. The latest dodge for extracting coin from the pockets of sympathetic Paris ians is the suicide game. One man threw himself into the river, a brave bystander rescued him, and, touched by his tale of poverty and despair, gave him all the coin in his pockets. The sympathizing crowd followed suit with francs, half francs and lesser but ac ceptable change. A police inspector, who did not trust human nature too im plicitly, followed rescuer and rescued man as the walked off, and tracked them to a wine shop, where the suicide set up drinks for the crowd which was, evi dently, impatiently awaiting his arrival, and related the tale in a manner which convulsed his . auditors with delight. The two rogues were deposited in the nearest police station, and there are said to be many such impostors in Paris. Cause of "-'motion. Omaha World. MM M Omaha Man— riper says seven brides in different parts of the country have died of excitement and emotion at the altar. . Shouldn't wonder. It is re markable; that so many women live through the ceremony. "I don't see why they shouldn't." "Humph! That shows all you know about dresses." * - LATE TO CHURCH. Did you ever see them coming into church a little late, . ..*.,,. j .' And attempt to read their temper by the na ture of their gait? 'Tis a very pleasing study, and you'll find it worth your while To observe these people walking up the car pet covered aisle. First there comes, perhaps, an aged, bent and sober-featured man, Whose uncertain shuffling indicates as plainly as it can .*:■ : A,-..*^~-t That he's weary, weary, weary, and is haunt - :edby a dread That the next time he'll be carried, carried up the church aisle dead. Next behind him comes a lady, : cheeks a lit tle sunken now. - : Streaks of white in hair and age's tell-tale wrinkles on her brow; But her walk is slow and stately and it . plainly seems to say, "0, we toiled and saved when younger; we're enjoying it to-day." Then there is a married daughter, and her languid step betrays Her uneasiness beneath the craning concen trated gaze, - While her far-out-swinging dress skirts are declaring it a shame To come into church so tardily, but she Is not to blame. She has children and they follow, clinging one to either hand, And they stumble, looking choirward, asking "Ma, is that the band?" But she holds them up. and, stooping, softly tells them to be still, Thinking, "I'll not bo so late again—con twisted ii I will 1" Then there comes a younger sister tripping - . lightly down the aisle,'•-' Resting on her proudly-tossing head a hat of latest style; . And the meaning of her manner is, "I wish :--".. that father's pew Was a little further forward; then I'd longer ■ ,■-;., vbe in view 1" •— ■ - 0. C. Hooper, in Columbus Sunday Newt. 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