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STRANGE STORIES. A Woman Fatally Poisoned by Silk Thread in Her Ears. Singular Manner in Which a Man Recovered His Voice. ■ ■ ' One of the Most Remarkable Suicides Ever Re corded. Jaws Locked and Remain So — One Bird Nurses Another. Sacramento. Cal., Special to San Francisco Examiner. Miss Cyrena Alice Boyd, aged nine teen years, whose parents reside in Yolo county, died to-day under peculiar cir cumstances. A few weeks ago she was visiting friends in San Francisco, and while there had her ears pierced. She was veiy particular to urge that white silk be inserted in the puncture, but the thread used contained some coloring matter. A day or so after the opera tion Miss Boyd returned to her parents' home in Yolo. Within a few days she experienced soreness about the ears, but did not regard the mat ter as of much consequence. One day she and her sister happened to be out in a shower and Miss Boyd took cold. The effect of the exposure began to manifest itself in her ears, already swollen and sore. Then she became alarmed, and upon her father's advice, she came to this city to secure medical attention. Her ears swelled rapidly, the swelling extending to her face, and finally one of her eyes was closed completely. Erysip elas set in, blood-poisoning followed, and then it was evident that her life -was beyond the power of saving. A consultation of doctors was ordered, but death came finally, despite all efforts. A Remarkable Suicide. Isew York Sun. The wife of Samuel Punser, of Sag Harbor, committed suicide on Friday evening. She placed a noose about her neck, letting the rope run back over her shoulder and under her arm. This rope she fastened to her lifted knee. Then, bearing down on the rope with her knee, she tightened the noose about her neck. She died of strangulation. She was subject to fits of melancholy. Superfluous Fat Cut Out, London Daily New*. We are constantly hearing of extra ordinary surgical operations, but the most astounding that has been per formed, says our Paris correspondent, is that of degraissage, or the removal of fat from the body. Drs. Marx and De niars have carried out the operation upon a literary man, M. Hiroguelle. They raised the skin and cut away four and a half pounds of the adipose tissue. The patient was under chloroform while thus being pared away. The skin was then stitched up. More than a week has passed since the operation, and M. Iliroguelle feels quite well, and is overjoyed at the improvement in his figure. He says he only suffered from headache, the effect of the chloroform. It is arranged that ho is to undergo further parings of degraissages on other parts of the body. Love That Lingered Long. New York World. Rev. John Prince, a Methodist clergy man, aged eighty years, and Mrs. Cyn thia Wood, aged eighty-four years, were married recently in Montreal. They ■were lovers in childhood, and would have been married sixty years ago, but their parents prevented the match. Love lingers a long while in the human heart. An Urn for Hainan Ashes. Pall Mall Budget. When a man is bitten by the idea of cremation he becomes very strenuous in letting everybody know. Cremation seems to make people as enthusiastic as a new religion. A Holborn jewelei showed me a cinerary uru he had made for a customer, who was going to use it as an ornament to his side board till it was required for graver purposes. The urn is made of the finest crystal glass, mounted in carved and molded silver. There are swo shields on the silver cover, which is surmounted ■with a heraldic helmet. The urn itself will hold about as many ashes as will go into an ordinary-sized round felt hat, that being the approximate quantity yielded by a cremated man. It costs ?200. . Died Beside Her Friend's Coffin. A startling death occurred at New Burlington, a small town some miles south of Xenia. O. While attending the funeral of Mrs. Ann Weaver, and standing looking at her friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Haydock, aged seventy-two years, fell to the floor and expired from heart disease before any one reached her. One Bird Nurses Another. Buffalo Courier. In a certain family in Buffalo there is a caged robin which has been the house hold pet for ten years. • The robin is now aired. He has lost one eye and his plumage wouldn't be looked at twice by a milliner. His legs are weak and so are his toes, and he can no longer cling to his perch and warble hilarious ly. So he sits on the floor of his cage, and like the dove in the song, mourns and mourns and mourns. At any rate, he did until a few days ago, when a cardinal bird was put in the cage with him. The cardinal bird is in the hey day of youth, and from the first he cast a pitying eye on his aged companion. After observing him a while it occurred to him that he might fill up some of hi s spare time waiting on him. So he now takes the bread and things that are put into the cage and moistens them and rolls them into wads or pebbles and rams them down the robin's throat. An Atheist's Funeral. T\*ew York Sun. An odd funeral was that of Hiram ■Smith, the noted atheist of this city, at his home on the West side one beauti ful afternoon this week. Hiram was a great inventor, a local poet, a curious genius, a great marrying man, having ■wedded altogether seven wives, but his views on religion did not please this Congregational town. He owned the house in which he died, but occupied only a small part of it, a family named Orcntt having leased the biggest portion. The part the in ventor retained was too small for the congregation that gathered at his funeral, and the Orcutts were asked to let the obsequies take place in their tenement, but they firmly declined to have the body buried from their home. So the funeral had to be held in the back yard of the dwelling. The casket 1 was mounted on a temporary catafalque in the yard, the company gathered about it, a brief funeral address was recited by the master of ceremonies, and then the dead atheist was borne away to the burial ground, a train of mouyners following afoot or in country vehicles. A Pumpkin Within a Pumpkin. Kew York Sun. Mrs. John Shimp, of Alloway Creek, Salem county, New Jersey, cut a pump kin to make a pumpkin pie Tuesday. When she opened it she found several of the seeds had sprouted, and there was a vine several inches long and as large around as a lead pen cil. There were numerous blossoms on it, and a young pumpkin nearly as large as an orange. It is supposed the warm weather during the winter had some thing to do with starting the sprouts. His Lost Voice Recovered. Birmingham (Couu.) Special to N. Y. Sun. Friends of Fred li. Couch have re ceived a letter from him saying that his voice has been restored, and that he can now talk as well as ever. Couch is in ( Great Barrington, Mass. The accident i which resulted in the man's voice be coming totally dumb is very peculiar. About two weeks ago he fell, striking his throat against the sharp corner of a table at the Osbornc & Cheeseman mill in Ansonia. A short time after Couch . was unable to utter a word, and the . doctors were greatly puzzled. Medi cal men here said they had never heard of such a case. Couch became greatly discouraged, and a tew days after the accident started for Great Bar rington with bis family. On the train he became troubled with an itching sen sation in his throat. So intense did the sensation become that it almost drove him to distraction. As the train neared Great Barrington Couch looked out of the window, and, turning to his wife, exclaimed : "Mother—used—to—go by—that!" Mrs. Couch was overcome with joy. These were the first words her husband had spoken since the acci dent. For some time after regaining his .voice Couch spoke rather slowly, but now his articulation is as perfect as ever. A Curious Medical Case. New York Times. Dr. Reginald H. Say re had a curi ously afflicted patient to show at the meeting of the Society of the Alumni of Bellevue Hospital at the Brunswick hotel Wednesday night. The patient was a five-year-old boy, whose lower jaw was locked in a way that made eat ing in the ordinary fashion out of the question. In fact, the youngster kept himself alive and apparently fairly com fortable by poking food into his mouth rough a hole caused by the loss of two teeth. The boy's relatives appear rather ig norant of the duration of bis trouble. They think they first noticed 't when he came into the house one day com plaining that his playmates had plagued him on account of his way of eating. The doctors took a good look at the boy and at the apparatus which .is being used in his case. — — SOLUTION OF SERVA.NTGALISM Mrs. Logan's Plan for the Relic f of Womankind. And now for the solution of Servant galism! It is rumored that Mrs. Gen. Logan, weary of chaperoning giggling girls about and across the continents, has set tled down to the study of domestic econ omy and familiar philosophy and with a capital of £50,000 and a stock company, with Miss Frances Willard, Mrs. Ellen Foster and Miss Kate Sanborn as chief directors, is organizing a normal school for domestics. * These ladies intend to brine about by intelligent study and efficient training the long and much needed kitchen re form. The days of the dish cracker are numbered and' the grenadier steak toughener and potato soaker has out lived her occupation. Forward, march! the light-fingered, soft-coal, clean-frock ed brigade of undresses and maids of the pantry, parlor, scullery and nursery. The main school will be located, in this city and foreign and domestic help will be received without question or credential. A graded course of study will be pro vided, consisting of practical lessons in cooking, cleaning, sweeping, washing and ironing, nursing, and miscellany, by which scouring, dusting, window and glass polishing, table service and like duties are meant. Only the more in telligent applicants will be taken through the course, skill in any one line or class being sufficient recommendation for a position that will make a girl self supporting. This diploma or card of merit will be accepled as a "character" or reference all over the country. A girl showing aptness and possessed of sufficient mental ability to warrant such instruction will be given a Higher; training, including foods, hygienic cook ing, sanitation, and interior, decoration as applied to picture and curtain hang ing, carpet cleaning and the care of sleeping rooms. In the laundry prac tical lessons will be given in doing up lace, curtains, linen, flannel and cotton ■ clothes; the pupil being taught how to wash fine cambric handkerchiefs and delicate laces without rubbing or wring ing them. Chops and steak, toast, muf fins and pancakes will form the broiling lessons; joints, vegetables and pickled meats will go with the pots, and bread, rolls, roasts, poultry and pastry with the oven. Muddy coffee, leathery steak, sodden biscuit and sour bread will bo sufficient cause for suspension, and dur ing the training each pupil will be charged with the dishes she breaks or chips and the material, whether food, fuel or gas, wasted. Babies will be borrowed from indust rial schools and bathed, dressed, fed and cared for in class. Every girl will have the encouragment of a trial as a pupil, but no pupil will be retained or given a diploma who is not healty, honest, sober, industrious, clean and capable. Deserv ing, promising and painstaking women will be assisted by special training, wise counsel and personal influence, provid ed with good positions and permitted to make their home in the school when out of employment. It is the intention of these public spirited ladies to offer sufficient induce ment to bring from the country towns and tenements of the city those bright, young, intelligent girls who go to the factories and shops and waste their youth and energies at tasks that scarce ly yield a sufficiency to sustain life. ■ — : «> A THEATER TRAGEDY. Fright From a Panic Causes a Boy's Death. New York Sun. Twelve-year-old Thomas Guilfoyle. of 60 Columbia street, Brooklyn, died yesterday morning from the effects, as supposed, of his fright during the panic which occurred at the Gaiety theater on Tuesday night. The boy was in the gallery when some of the drapery on the stage caught fire, and rushed down stairs and into the street with the ex cited crowd. He was not injured, how ever, and returned to the theater when the panic was over and remained until the close of the performance. His companion, however, noticed that he was very pale and trembled with fright, even while on his way home. His parents noticed that he was excited over something, but when they asked him what was the matter, he said: "Nothing," and went to bed without informing them of what had taken place at the theater. During the night he frequently awoke and screamed so loud that he alarmed his parents. On Wednesday morning he was so weak that he could not leave his bed, and Dr. H. H. Morton was summoned, and on his arrival found the boy suffering from convulsions. The attacks succeeded each other so rapidly that young Guilfoyle died from exhaustion at an early hour yesterday morning. Dr." Morton refused to give a death certificate, and the case was referred to -Coroner Rooney, who in structed Dr. A. W. Shepard to make an autopsy. TOUT OD RIEN. Love, if you love me, love with heart and soul! I am not liberal, as some lovers are. Accepting small return, and scanty dole, Gratefully glad to worship from afar. Ah, love me passionately, or not at all ! For love that counts the cost I have small '■ needs ; - ■My fingers would with laughing scorn let fall That poor half love, so many lovers heed. ■ Then be mine wholly— body, soul and brain ! Your memory shall outlive kings. For time Forgets his cunning, and assails in vain - Her whose name rings along the poet's line. .. • —Charles G. D. Roberts, i { U/hu are your rooms vacant? An ad in the ''•'/ Globe will rent them. ■ . . THE: ISAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: StIKDA"? M6SNItfS, WAt 25, 1890.— TWENTY PA&E& THE WORLD_OF WORK Trades Assembly Nomina tions and Consideration of Local Affairs. Situation and Condition of the Several Trades of the Locality. Merchant Tailors Have a Word to Say on Home Patronage. Notes and Comments of St. Paul and Minneapolis on Labor Matters. A circular from the Union Building Trade League of Portland, Or., was for warded to the St. Paul Trade and Labor assembly, and requests its publication: "All mechanics in the building trades are warned to keep away from Portland, as all trades are out on a strike, and more men here now than needed to do the work. There is no chance : for em ployment. By order of U. B. T. League. The circular bears the seal of the or ganization, and is evidently genuine. It bears out tne statement recently made in this department in regard to the chances of employment in Port land. • • . * The gutter layers' union has raised wages from 18 to 30 cents per yard. There are only two scabs in the trade in St. Paul. They are working on Cortland street, and the contractor employing them is on record in the trade and labor assembly's blue book. . * *■ * A man who knows says that the rea son the eight-hour ordinance was shelved by the council committee on streets a few weeks ago, is that it was just before election, and the council did not think it "advisable" to put itself on record. * •• . *. The social and dance announced under the auspices of the retail clerks' union, Friday evening, proved to be a private social for Invited guests. The hall was engaged by the president of the clerks' union and'two other members at the re duced price given to labor organiza tions. Many people came to labor nead quarters expecting the usual monthly social of. the clerks. They went away disappointed, and many of the clerks feel sorry that the mistake occurred, but promise a pleasant social at Cretin hall Tuesday evening, June 3. TRADE AND LABOR. The trade and labor assembly met Friday evening with a good attendance from different unions. Delegates were admitted from the gutter layers', bar bers' and cigarmakers' unions. * ■» * The grievance committee stated that they had visited the firm of Lindekes, Warner & Schurmeier. The firm did not give a satisfactory answer in regard to the discharge of employes presenting an eight-hour petition. The committee was directed to visit the firm again next week before the assembly takes definite action. * * •> The matter or state federation was discussed, and the assembly recorded a unanimous vote favoring a call for a state federation as soon as may be ad visable. * a ■ ♦ .-^BHI A report of trades showed: Cigar makers, dull; pressmen, fair; carpenters, wages low and hard to get; plasterers, dull shoemakers, brisk printers, fair ; bakers, steady; stonemasons, work dull and low wages ; tailors, brisk. .' * * *' The delegate from the barbers' union stated the progress of the early closing movement. In order to aid the union all union men will patronize only those barber shops where union men are em ployed and have their cards. * * * Delegates reported that the waiters and barbers had organized unions within the last fortnight, and elected delegates to the trade and labor as sembly. The paper hangers and press feeders are also to organize. Messrs. Valesh, Banz and Casserly were ap pointed a committee on organization. The delegates from the tailors' union stated that the union scale of prices is being observed and union men hired in all shops, except those of Sandell. Schusler and Oakes. The statements made by Mr. Oakes in an evening paper were emphatically denied. The mem bers of organized labor will refuse to patronize the tailors not employing union men. Mathias Bang and T. M. Daggey were appointed delegates to the state eight-hour league, which meets in St. Paul June ( J. * * * The following nominations were made for officers for the next six months: President, Frank Valesh; vice presi dents, Simon Shieley. J. F. McNally and J. Meyers; recording secretary, W. F. Jones; financial secretary, Thomas Reese; statistician, C. Ives; sergeant-at arms, William Stevenson : trustees, J. West, F. Amos. J. Coughlin, P. Heiden reich. C. Ives and James Morrow were also nominated for president. They were absent, and other delegates stated that neither of the gentlemen would ac cept the nomination. The nominations are left open until the next meeting, when the election occurs. * * » The stonemasons' union sent In a communication stating that the masons working on the new opera house were paid last Tuesday, after working four weeks, and only received $2.50 per day. The poorest workmen received as good pay as experienced workmen. The men asked an increase of wages, but the contractor said he would rather hire a new gang, even if he had to give the advance asked. The stonemasons claim that the contractor prefers to hire new men, because he gets their work for at least a month. The assembly recom mended that the stonemasons perfect their organization as fast as possible. In this work they will receive the aid of all other unions. EVENTS OF THE WEEK. The plasterers' union held a meeting Monday evening and formed a plan to increase its membership, in order to ob tain a uniform rate of wages when the building season improves so t as to war rant the demand. Owing to lack of unity among the plasterers their wages have been steadily declining, until some now receive but twenty cents an hour. The initiation fee is now reduced so that all may avail themselves of the op portunity to become members. It is quite probable that a uniform scale of ■wages will be asked this fall. * « * The journeymen barbers met at labor headquarters Monday evening and or ganized a union with twenty-seven charter members. The following'officers were elected: President, J. 0. Meyers; vice-president, John Peterson; treas urer, August Velien; recording secre tary, C. G. Aamold; sergeant-at-arms, C. F. Clifton; delegate to trade and labor assembly, J. C. Meyers. The union will work under a charter from the journeymen barbers international union. The early closing agieement will at present receive special attention, and the assistance of other organized trades will be asked to have it enforced. Another meeting is announced for Mon day evening, May 26. The|lathers held a special meetiDg Tuesday evening to dißcuss the success ful outcome of their strike. The fact that the union waa thoroughly organ ized is conceded to be the main reason why their demand was granted. The lathers are now receiving $2.50 a day where previously they were paid only $2. ■» • • The waiters' union met Tuesday even ing, but as their charter fr om the A. F. of L. had not yet arrived nothing defi nite was done. An informal discussion showed that the union is regarded with considerable interest by the waiters employed in St. Paul. A large mem bership is expected when the union gets in working order, so as to show the ad vantages of organization for the pro tection and social advancement of its members. *. # • The pressmen's union met Monday evening with a full attendance. The committee having in charge the strike in Minneapolis reported the difficulty not yet adjusted, though an amicable settlement is expected in the near future. After some discussion, they ae cicled not to send a delegate to the At lanta convention. * * • A large number of painters attended the open meeting held under the au spices of the painters' union, at labor headquarters, Tuesday evening. Ad dresses were delivered by H. B. Martin and Eva McDonald urging the necessity of organization. Short speeches were also made by several members of the union, who stated that most of the work done last winter was performed by ap prentices, while the skilled painters were idle. A comparison of wages with those paid in cities where thorough organization prevails was shown to be unfavorable to St. Paul. The union in tends to establish an apprentice system, thus insuring steadier employment to members, and introducing some uni formity of prices for journeymen. ■ : ■•■ . * . -i » ;<-?: Wednesday evening the clerks' union held its regular business meeting and initiated several new members. A res olution was passed promising support to the barbers' union in its attempt to establish the early-closing agreement. Arrangements are being made to hold a . large mass meeting, where it ,is ex pected Archbishop Ireland will speak. * * * ' The shoemakers' assembly held a well attended open meeting at labor head quarters last evening. J. P. McGauhey and H. B. Martin made addresses which were well received. * * * The cigarmakers' union met Thurs day evening, and after transacting routine business relating to their trade adopted the following resolution: "Re solved, that the cigarmakers' union pledges its hearty approval to the re cently orgadized barbers' union, and urges its members to patronize only those shops that adhere to the early closing agreement and employ union barbers." COMING EVENTS. The paper hangers will meet at labor headquarters this afternoon at 2:30 to organize a union. The matter has been agitated for some time by the men em ployed in this business. Wages are lower this year than ever before, and a union would aid them in securing a higher scale of prices. The typographical union will meet Sunday 'afternoon, June 1. The ex ecutive committee will present a formal report of its correspondence with the Typothetoe regarding the reduction of working hours, when further action will be decided upon. At present it is not clear what steps will be taken to enforce the demand for a nine-hour day with no reduction in wages. But it is sur mised that the matter may be submitted to the International union for settle ment, when it meets in Atlanta, June 17. The carpenters' union holds its month ly onen meeting to-morrow evening at the hall on Exchange street' J. P. Mc- Gaughey will address the meeting. The general executive board lias granted a reduction in initiation fees until June 1, and many are availing themselves of the opportunity. From Merchant Tailors. Office St. Paul Merchant Tailors' Ex change, St. Paul, Minn., May 24,* 1800.— Editor Labor Department, Globe: Among your labor items last Sunday, you seem to misunderstand the recent resolutions passed by this exchange in regard to outside merchant tailors com ing into St. Paul for trade; and further, seem to confound the merchant tailors with the second-class tailors in the re cent strike among journeymen. Your article says: "The merchant tailors this week passed resolutions pro testiug against the patronage of outfcide tailors by St. Paul people. The jour neymen tailors' union and every other labor union in the city have for weeks been making a protest in the same direc tion. When the journeymen tailors asked for living wages, several mer chant tailors immediately sent their work to Chicago, where it was done by girls at starvation wages. Perhaps none or this class were present at the meet ing where the resolutions were passed, or if they were, perhaps they have had a change of heart, aud are willing to pay fair wages to. their journeymen if St. Paul will patronize homa tailors. No one doubts that a building up of any industry by home patrouage gives good results all around." If you have consulted the local col ums of the Globe for a few weeks past, you would have understood that the strike of the journeymen is against the second-class tailors of the city, who are not by any means connected with this institution. So far as my knowl edge extends not one dollar's worth of work from members of this exchange is sent out of the city, but is placed in the hands of first-class journeymen (not those now on a strike), aud they are paid the same bill of prices as was adopted in ISSI. which is un doubtedly equal to any bill paid in the United States. The resolutions re ferred to were the unanimous sentiment of all the members of the exchange present at the meeting at which they were adopted. I honestly believe, how ever, that were the people who are ac customed to patronize out<>f-town tai lors to spend their money in the city, not only the members of our exchange, but the second-class tailors, would be benefited thereby, while I am sure the journeymen would feel the beneficial effects of the circulation of this money in the city. MINNEAPOLIS COMM Bi T. A member of the Typothetae yester day, in speaking of the situation among the printers, deplored the fact that the Minneapolis section of the Typothetse are inclined to be weak-kneed, and fears that the union printers are so well organized that perhaps it will be well to concede the measures asked. He says that St. Paul employers are getting ready for a strike. They will not con cede the reduction of hours, but close their establishments for a while. The difference of feeling among employers in the two cities seem to arise from the idea that the printers' union is not as storong in St. Paul as in Minneapolis. None of the employers seem to question the justice of a reduction of hours, but some ihink the movement should be national among the trade,so that all em ployers could figure on the samo rate of wages. On the other hand,the print ers in both cities are quietly awaiting the outcome and seem confident of suc cess. Tom Haggerty, the well-known labor agitator from the Pacific coast, spent two days of the past week in Minneapo lis. His magnetic manner and brilliant conversational powers charmed many who ordinarily have very little sym pathy with such people or the doctrines they advocate. His theory of "passive resistance" was specially admired, and it is quite probable that the people who praise it are not aware from what a "dangerous" school of thought it comes. They should investigate before commit ting themselves]in so unguarded a man ner. COMING X \TS. A special committee from the trade and labor assembly has Issued the fol lowing circular for an open meeting, to be held at their council chamber of the city hall to-morrow evening:. May 26: Owing to the discussion that has recently taken place upon the policy of the health de partment of this city, and the great import ance to citizens of proper regulations to pro tect the public health, the trade and labor assembly appointed a committee to arrange for a public meeting of all citizens who are interested in the matter of regulations for the improvement of sanitary conditions. Ar rangements hare been made to hold snch a meeting in the council chamber of the city hall Monday evening, May 20, at 8 p. m. Dr. Kilvington, commissioner of health, has consented to read a paper, and several other gentlemen who have made a study of sani tary science will be present. Believing that you are interested in this question, which so nearly concerns the vital interests of the people, you tire cordially invited to attend. The committee have had this meeting under consideration for several weeks. and it promises to be interesting in itself and probably productive of good, by calling attention to many needed sanitary improvements. The trade and labor assembly meets Friday evening, June 6. The commit tee appointed to investigate several matters of importance to the commun ity will present interesting reports. It is probable that some further action will also be taken in regard to state fed eration. The plumbers, steam and gasfitters' association gives a social hop and ice cream festival at Labor Temple Thurs day evening, May 29. The committee of arrangements is preparing for a pleasant entertainment, which will doubtless be as largely attended as for mer socials given by the same uuion. The typographical union holds its monthly meeting Sunday afternoon, June 1. This meeting will be of special importance, because the printers will then know the position of all employers in regard to the proposed reduction of hours and change in price per 1,000 ems. If there is any objection on the part of employers and the matter can not be settled by arbitration, then the decision would be made as to whether a strike would be advisable. The matter is creating intest among those not di rectly affected, and an impression pre vails that the matter will be amicably adjusted. * * * Next Wednesday evening Miss Amy Barnes and other ladies wiil give the first of a course of free lectureson cook ing. These are to be given at the La bor Temple and for the benefit of work ing women. The course will be spe cially adapted to their needs, and will probably piove instructive. A large class is already assured, and many more are likely to take advantage of the op portunity offered as soon as possible. EVENTS OF THE WEEK. The tin. sheetiron and cornice work ers met Tuesday evening with a good attendance. Several new members we re received and much business transacted of special interest to the trade. The Nationalist club met Tuesday evening. A large number of visitors were present and a general debate en sued on the "Relation of Nationalism and Christianity," many of the Nation alists claiming that the church is and will be a powerful agent in bringing about industrial reforms, while others thought the reforms would come regard less of religious influences and because they must be an outgrowth of natural forces which will gradually evolve a system of industrial freedom by volun tary association rather than govern mental regulations. A Queer Connecticut Spring. Special to New YorK Sun. Not far from the lovely little country village of Abington is the most singular spring in Connecticut, whose waters sur charged with chemicals convert wood that is immersed in them into flint. The water, clear and cold, bubbles out of the ground at the foot of a kno 11 on the farm of Colonel Rabbitt, and ripplea away to join a trout stream. The peculiar prop erties of the spring are well known to the old people of the neighborhood, aud there is a reasonable ti#idition that the Indians used the water for temper ing their arrow-heads. They whittled the arrow heads out ot wood, dropped the m into the wonderful spring, and many days later came aud recovered them, and they were as hard and sharp as the nnest Hint ones. A party of trout fisher men who recently visited the spring found its bottom littered with arrow heads, and all about the place the ground was strewn with arrow-tips, on whose hard surface was plainly visi ble the marks of Indian chipping tools. An old Abington fannar said the coun try boys had ofcen successfully tested the power of the water to petrify wood, and verified the tradition. But Seems to Fear Others May. Atchisoii Globe. A man never forgets how good he is to oth-'r*. NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA, W 6AS, HEARTBURN AND STOMACH PAINS, xl © — o WE are a nervous people, and are becoming more so every day ; hence the great increase of Nervous Dyspepsia, Digestion is the corner stone of nutrition, and on nutrition depends life itself. It has been truly said that nine-tenths of all diseases originate in the stomach ; people are com plaining every day of different diseases that are due wholly and entirely to indigestion. Sallow faces, dull eyes and emaciated bodies seen on every side, are the certain indications of dyspep sia. To these sufferers we say make a test of ROGERS 5 ROYAL NERVINE, the greatest of all nerve and brain. tonics; it overcomes that con dition of extreme exhaustion accompanied by loss of flesh, hectic fever, night sweats and hacking cough, which is often mistaken by physicians for consumption, when really the whole fault lies in the stomach and the nervous system. Thousands of such persons die every year when their lives might have been easily saved by the use of ROGERS' ROYAL NERVINE; it has been tested in case after case of this kind, and the results are simply magical. Gentlemen: — ! am using Rogers' Royal Nervine for nervous prostration and mental depression, and I wish to say to you. and In fact every one, that Its value cannot be estimated. It easily tides me over my weak spells, and that, too, without any apparent reac tion, which I cannot say of any other of the many medicines that I have used for this purpose, and from the fact that I feel no reac tion, I can see that It Is gradually toning up my general system. Gratefully yours, Mrs. MARY FRAZIER. 2O Liberty St.. Brooklyn, N.Y* It is sold by Druggists generally. Price, $1.00 per bottle, and is manufactured solely by Rogers Royal Remedies Co., Boston, Mass. Beware of imitations and so-called substitutes; look for_our trade mark and signature on each bottle. Send for Free Book on Nerve and Brain Diseases} , I DRIFTING I* THE SEA. Tbe Vessel Was Dismasted, hut He Was Stubborn, and His Wife and Cr,pw Remained With Him. New York Tribune. The captain of the steamer Aguan, which arrived at this port on Saturday, tells a story of the sea which sounds like that old tale of the Flying Dutch man who swore he would beat around the Cape of Good Hope if he beat for all eternity, and is still beating, accord ing to the affidavits of seafaring men. The Aguan is one of the steamers of the Honduras and Central American line. When she was about 300 miles off Fernandina, iv a southeast direction, she sighted an American schooner, dis masted and drivinff at the rate of four knots an hour, with the current of the gulf stream, toward the northeast. The steamer bore down on the wreck and hailed her. She proved to be the schooner Mary J. Castner, which had been dismasted in a cyclone. She left this port on March 22 for Cuba, and was on her return trip. The captain, five sailors and the captain's wife were ou board. Capt. S. R. Thtir ber was her master. The captain of the Aguan offered to take the distressed off, as he considered that the schooner was drifting to certain destruction, but Capt. Thurber replied that he would not aban don his vessel, nor should the crew. He wanted to be towed into port. The captain of the Aguan offered to tow the dismasted schooner in for §2,000. To tnis proposals Capt. Thurber replied : "I will drift with the current of the Gulf Stream until I drift to before 1 will pay $2,000." The captain of the Aeuan then asked to be allowed to take the captaiu's wife off the Castner, but that offer was also refused, aDd the Aguan steamed away, leaving the schooner drifting rapidly out across the Atlantic. Capt. Adair said yesterday that he supposed the captain of the Castner expected to- be able to rig up a jury-mast and make some port in the United States, out he thought it impossible. The spectacle of the wife refusing to leave her husband in his peril, and the husband's stern re solve to make the crew stand by the ship, as well as his weird, hoarse reply to the proposition for towage, that he would drift to the infernal regions be fore he would accept the proffered terms, made a deep impression on Capt. Adair, and he was at the maritime ex change yesterday anxiously seeking for information of the Castner. A partially dismasted schooner was reported on Sunday from the quaran tine at Savannah, which was at first thought to be the Castner, but the re port has not been confirmed, and Capt. Adair thinks that the schooner is still drifting toward the .final destination spoken of by her captain. The Mary J. Castner is a three-masted schooner, built in Bath, Me., in 1877, and registered 412 tons. She hails from Philadelphia, and was consigned to B. E. Metcalf, of this city. POWDER IN THE NAVY. The Grains Look Like Iron Nuts — How They Are Packed. San Francisco Chrouicle. The six-inch breech-loading rifle cart ridges are composed of powder whose grains look like iron nuts, and are made up by piling: the grains one on top of the other, so that the hole in the center will be in the same line all the way through, in order to allow the flame to go from the ignited grains at the base all the way through the charge and start the ignition at all points of the cartridge at the same time. The grains are built up on forms, a wire running through the grains keeping them in place. A bag is then drawn over the grains and the wires removed. The bag is strengthened by means of "Hercules braid;" if it , was notthe weight would burst the cloth. This bag is enveloped in a copper cylinder and hermetically sealed. The cylinder has a lid on each end and a ball to carry it by. When the cylinder comes on deck from the magazine the lid on the tie-end of the bag is removed and the case in serted in the gun; the other end is then pulled off and a ramrod shoves the charge home and out of the cylinder. The weight of the cartridge is fifty pounds and consists of about GOO grains of powder. The grains are of an octagonal form one and a quarter inches ill length and one inch in diameter. The Editor Must Eat. The Waltsburg (Wash.) Times. When we returned from dinner on Tuesday we found a piece of paper sticking into the keyhole of our office tioor,on which was written these words: "Been here twice to subscribe for the Times, but failed to find yon in. Send it to me and I will hand you the $2 the next time I am In town." W<s very much regret being absent when the writer called, but Great Scott! we can't lake money all the time. We've got to take time to eat. ANNOUNCEMENT ! TO THE TRADE AM) THE PUBLIC: The Scofield Buggy Company, of Ovid, Mich., finds it necessary to publicly announce that the " Daisy Buggy " was first manufactured in the fac tory of the Scofield Buggy Comparand that no other person or company is justified in using the name Daisy buggy." By reason of the success with, which the sale of the Daisy buggy has been at tended, certain manufacturers and dealers in other and inferior buggies have endeavored to gain for themselves, by the use of the name " Daisy buggy," an advantage to which they are not entitled. The unlawful and fraudulent use of the term " Daisy buggy" by the said persons has caused damage to the Scofield Buggy Company and to the trade and the public. The Scofield Buggy Company, of Ovid, Mich., gives notice that any person using the name " Im proved Daisy Buggy," or any other modification ol the name " Daisy Buggy," commits thereby a fraud upon the public and the Scofield Buggy Company, ol Ovid, Mich., and that such person will be held to a legal account for the said violation of the rights of the Scofield Buggy Company. The Scofield Buggy Company will protect the public and the trade against such deception. The Scofield Buggy Company, of Ovid, Mich., has appointed as its general agent in the states oi Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana and Northern lowa, the Winona Wagon Company, of Wi« nona, Minn. No other person or company has any right to sell, within said territory, the Daisy buggy, or any other buggy designated by the term " Daisy." The Winona Wagon Company has on hand a full as sortment at the lowest terms and most favorable prices of the "Daisy Buggy," and also of the Rush ford Wagon. 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