STRANGE STORIES.
A Woman Fatally Poisoned
by Silk Thread in Her
Ears.
Singular Manner in Which a
Man Recovered His
Voice.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. The trade can be promptly supplied
with assorted carloads of these goods by the Winona
Wagon Company.
ScoHeid Buggy Co.,
OVID, MICH.
A CARD.
Our friends and the carriage trade gen
erally are invited to watch these columns for
a few days and see how suddenly some of out
loud-talking competitors will cease advertis
ing DAISY BUGGIES,
They will drop that name like a red-hot;
coal. See if they don't !
In the meantime please bear in mind
the GENUINE IMPROVED DAISY "
BUGGIES are sold by us exclusively.
Our stock of vehicles of all styles,
grades, qualities and prices is immense, and
is not equaled in the Northwest. We sell
goods for just what they really are, and at
lowest prices always. pi
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