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PEN PICTURES OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA. 1849—Crowding Events—The Oldest Priiiter—Nathaniel McLean—John P. Owens Mr. Owens Personally Champagne vs. Water—M. N. Kel- logg—The Man Himself—First Real Estate Dealer First Dagnerrean Artist—First Market Woman—First Burial Ground—The Very Oldest House in the City—St. Paul and Minneapolis One City—Lincoln. BY T. M. NEWSON. Article XV. CROWDING EVENTS. The events of 1849 crowd upon us rapidly, for some of the men most prominent in our past history, came to Saint Paul during this year, and some of the most stirring events transpired. Among other things, was the consolidation of the Chronicle, published by Mr. Hughes, and the Register, by McLean & Owens. These papers, jointly, ceased to ex- ist in 1851, and then came into life the Jtinneaotian, as a Whig organ. THE OI/DEST I'KINTEP.. Capt. E. Y. Shelly, probably the oldest printer now working ai bis trade in the state of Minnesota, was the foreman in the oflice of the Chromde and Register. Mr. Shelly has stuck to the "ease"' for thirty-five years. He has."locked" himself up iu his profession, and has nearly run off an "edition" of a purely printer's life. He is the "type" of an unrelenting "compositor." Has turned the "period" when he could not very con- veniently engage iu any other business, and as the oldest printer, he. has no "parallel" in the state. He has setup many a "para- graph," "revised his proof," and is nearly ready "to go to press." Mr. Shelly is a quiet, industrious gentleman, quite retiring in his disposition, yet social in bis nature. He plods on in the even tenor of his way. and has, we think, passed the mile stone of tifty- five years. MAJOR KATHAK—— M'_——'. Major McLean was born In New Jersey, in 1787: was a brother of Judge McLean, of the United States supreme court; learned the printer's trade at Cincinnati; in 1S07 pub- lished a paper at Lebanon; was a member of the Ohio legislature in 1810, for three ses- sions: an officer in the war of 1812; came to St. Paul in 1841), at tiie age of sixty years, to engage in the newspaper business; In No- vember, 1849, was appointed Sioux agent at Fort Snelling; held the office four years; elected commissioner of Ramsey county in the year 1855, and died of a cancer in 1871, Iged 84 years. McLean township was named tfter bim. He was a tall, slender gentle- man, a little lame, a rapid talker; a truthful, honest, good man. .mux p. OWENS was born in Ohio, 1818, of Welsh descent; worked on a farm in early life; attended college at Cincinnati for several years, and ther. learned the printing business: became a partner with Maj. McLean in the publication of the Chronicle and Register; came to St. Paul in 1S-U); was editor of the Minnesotian ior seven years; was appointed quartermaster of the Ninth Minnesota regiment In 1802; mustered out iu 1805: breveted colonel; ap- pointed register of the land office at Taylors Palls in 1869, which oflice he now holds, and has held ever since his appointment. Ml{. OWENS PERSONALLY. All the early settlers could easily recognize J. P. Owens in a crowd of men, for he was a man deeply interested in politics, and made this a speciality. He was au aggressive writer; a strong partizan; aud whenever a primary meeting was held, he was always there. He gravitated as naturally into poli- ties aa a duck does into water. He was among the first, Indeed we may say, he was the very first, Whig editor in the state, aud even alter the Whig party had been dead and buried, Owens held on to the corpse; but early drifted Into the Republican ranks, and after Fremont was nominated for President, did good service tor the party. The writer had occasion to measure editorial lances wit- Mr. Owens a great many times.but politically we agreed. He was a political tactitian, anil used his power to good advantage when he could. CHAMPAGNE VS. WATER. As an illustration of his peculiar methods to circumvent a political opponent, (as in one sense at that time we were), at a party given in honor of the legislature, at Mr. Rough's ice cream saloon on Third street, our empty glass standing at our plate, was filled with champagne three times, and was found empty three; times. As we repre- sented the temperance element in the legis- lature at this time, it. was charged upon us as Laving drank the liquor, wheu the fact was, we never touched it, but some of our polit- ical enemies did, and thus by tllis little trick, it was intended to injure our influence with that portion of the legislature which did uot approve of spirituous liquors, but it Jailed. honest; has always minded his own business, and in many respects has been, and is now, a model man. For many years he took pride in preserving, in a scrap book, impor- tant cvent6 which had transpired in this city, but when he sold out, this scrap book, with other important papers, were accidentally de- stroyed, very much to his regret and his sor- row. About two years ago his eye-sight be- gan to fail him, and now ho is almost entirely- blind, yet with this terrible affliction upon him, he is philosophical, cheerful, hopeful, manly. Allthe old settlers we know have, and we trust many new ones will have, a kindly feeling for M. N. Kellogg. FIRST REAL ESTATE DEALER. Charles R. Conway hung out bis shingle as a real estate dealer, in a little small white office, which stood on a hill, where Mr. Sehurmcicr's building now stands, on Third street, between Cedar and Minnesota, in tbe year 1850. He claims to be the first real es- tate dealer in the city. EIP.ST DAGTTERREAS AKTIST. George C. Nichols took daguerrean pictures in the old American house, in 1849, and was the first artist of this character in the city. He sold out to C. T. Whitney, who carried on a gallery for many years, corner of Third and Cedar streets. FIltST _ARE—T WOMAN. The hundreds of market women who now vend vegetables at our market and else were, will regret, as well as we do, that we can't just now recall the name of the first market woman, who came from Little Cana- da, twelve miles from St. Paul, with a single ox hitched to a cart, and who sold her pota- toes, cabbages, pumpkins and other vegeta- bles, in as approved style as do our market WO»_-en of to-day. This branch of business has grown to an enormous extent, and it is quite proper that the pioneer of this trade should have a place among tbe Pen Pictures of to-day. FIRST BURIAL GROUND. From all we can learn, the first burial ground was that owned by the Catholics, and occupied quite a space back of the Stees' fur- niture store, on Minnesota street. A small log stable ttood where the Pioneer Press office now -tends, and directly in the rear of this, on the bluff, was the first chapel, erected by Father Galtier. The burying ground belonged to the chapel, and is the same piece of prop- erty upon wh'rch Stees' building, after being erected twice, fell birth times. THE VERY OLDEST HOUSE IN TnE ClTT. It is now claimed by some of the most ancient and venerable gentlemen of the past, that tbe house on Fourth street, between Minnesota and Robert, which has the card on it of the Ramsey County Old Settlers' asso- ciation, as the oldest house in Saint Paul, is not correct, but the oldest bouse is that ou Sixth Btreet, now owned by Uri Lamprey. It stands just hack of the hoarding house of Mr. Brewster, on Sixth street, and was orig- inally the property of Louis Roberts. His first house was burned; this was his second. Itwould be well to have this question defi- nitely settled, so it could pass into history, for "when doctors disagree, what are we go- ing to do?" ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS ONE ClTT. Thirty-five years! Reader, stop thinking of business for a minute and ponder oyer the inarch of events! What will be the future of the country west of St. Paul in the next 35 years 1 What will be the status of this city! We will anticipate your reply by prophesying. that St. Paul aud Minneapolis will then be united as one city, with a population of 500,000 people, and these cities, thus united, will supply an empire beyond of 5.000,000 inhabitants. "Oh, but," you say, "this ean never be done." Not so fast, my friend! Look at the past! St. Anthony has been swallowed up on the one side and West St. Paul on the other, aud street cars and motor cars, and railroad cars and other appliances are now at work drawing together slowly but surely these two cities, aud when they come together, as they certainly will, it will be like the snapping jaws of the mud turtle— "LOVE AND FAME." BV LILLIAN' SYENCEK. Once I longed for idle praises: Vain ambition thrilled my soul; Life for me was filled with fancies, Of which honor was the goal, And I sickened with the longing And despairing of my soul! Years Itoiled: the golden ladder Slowly I began to climb; Far above in the ascendant Soon a star was seen to shine; Feeble, flickering, struggling ever, Still it shone with light divine. Guided by its light the pathway Wider grew with every hour. Once when footsore and disheartened Istooped and plucked a little flower, That by artless, sweet beguilings Lured me to its fairy bower. I wonld fain have stayed forever In the shelter of its cove: But the longing came upon me And I promised I would prove First unto the world my genius, Then return to find my love. At Inst. O triumph ! fame was mine. Stars in millions o'er my head Shone with mystic liirht divine. As the pathway smooth I tread To find this little flower of ;iine, And I found it cold and dead! Oh. then what wa<= my fame to me! What the plaw'its of the brave. Since naught, of all my lifeless llowei Had strength of power to save! I laid my crown of IanIC1 down And buried it in the grave! TIMELY TOPICS. RumO—3 are agin set afloat of the removal of Pope Leo aud the papal throne from Rome. He has held himself, as did his predecessor, Pio Nino, a prisoner in the Vatican, refuses to receive the stipend proffered by the Italian government and feels still further humiliated by the late decision of the Court of Cassatian, declaring tbatthe Propaganda property must be converted into Italian government bonds. The Pope regards this decision as threatening bis independence, and disturbed by the firm rejection of his claims to temporal power It is intimated that he seriously contemplates a removal to Malta, an island in the Meditarrean, so near Rome as to make its occupation not impracticable and seriously inconvenient. Tho inland >jf Malta is au English possession, aud the Pope's residence there would remove ! him from the lnu_Ui.atioii of being within the jurisdiction of the Italian government. All this is mere speculation, and as specious as it may appear, there is indeed no likeli- hood that the Pope will leave the Vatican. It has, indeed, been rumored since the loss of papal temporal power was so galling a result, that tiie papal throne and its occupant would be removed to America, a consum- mation quite as likely to occur, in the esti- mation of intellige.ut observers, as the Popes removal to Malta. It is not likely that the powerful ecclesiastical occupant ofthe Vatican, will throw away the prestige which has been enjoyed since the middle of the fourth century, when Con- stantino raise the church of Rome to world- wide supremacy Tho removal of the papal Sec from Rome, would mark the decadence of the church, and would be followed by a loss of ecclesiastical prestige, power and in- fluence that could never be regained. The Rev. Dr. Buckley, whom tbe Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman assailed in the recent Congre- gational Council as the "Methodist meddler" for whom he had no respect, has fully vindi- cated himself in the Christian Advocate for tills week. It would seem as if Dr. Newman, with the polittcal sagacity for which he is more distinguished than for the evangelical vir- tues, played fast and loose with the Rev. Wel- scy R. Davis and the Madison avenue church as well as with Congregationalism and Meth- odism. A rich rector in England when the Ecclesiastical commissioners asked him, '•How many souls have you in your parish and what is the value of your living?" re- plied in alarm, "You may do what yon like with the "souls, so long as you leave me the income." Dr. J. P. Newman's principle seems to have been of similar elasticity. He didn't care whether he was to be Methodist, Cougregationalist or Independent, so long as he kept his grip upon the finances of the Madison avenue church. As Dr. Buckley yery clearly points out, the result of this fast and loose liberty for ministers of one denom- ination to "bob up serenely" as settled pas- tors in tbe pulpits of another would demoral- ize the churches and prove as injurious to Congregationalism as to Methodism. ALL AT ONCE. Then thenewcapitol building, costingseveral millions of dollars, will be located on 100 acres of land midway of the one great city, and grand hotels will invite the world at large to partake of food unparalleled in sweetness and delicacy, and luxurious beds will beckou tired bodies to sweet repose. The superficial thinker, who never gets above his nose, may and no doubt will scoff at these ideas, but he can't change either the immu- table laws of nature or the immutable laws of God: and just as sure as the ears rumble to the Pacific ocean, just so sure will St. Paul and Minneapolis, not many years in the future, be united aud march to power aud to greatness under the banner of one city. The only objection to the union, is the name. Shall it be Minnc-Paul, or Paul-Opo- lis, or some name uot yet mentioned. A friend in Chicago, who formerly lived at Red Wing, (R. P. Nichols, Esq.,) writes us as follows: "Allow me to respectfully recom- mend the name of Lincoln for the con- solidated city. No candid man, cither in St. Paul or Minneapolis, will deny that the. name of Lincoln would honor the twin cities as one, far more than the city would honor the name. The name would be commensurate with the development, progress, prosperity, wealth, population, great- ness, and grandeur of a city destined to be one of the first aud foremost on the western contiuent. If at some future time after the two cities have been consolidated under the name of Lin- coln, our national capitol should bo trans- ferred from the city of Washington to the eity of Liucoln, in Minnesota, the people of the United States would then have the high and proud satisfaction of knowing that their capital had been removed to a city honored with a name as great and as grand as the name of Washington and like his—im- mortal." Lincoln, with a population of 500,000! Think of it! A Fair Offer. Detroit Free Press. A few days ago a farmer drove up to the door of a Springwells saloon and called out to several men standing around that a neigh- bor of his living about four miles away had fallen into the family well and probably killed himself. "Well, what of It?" a^ked one of the men. "Why, I want two or three of you to ride out with me and help get the body out." "For how much?" "You don't pretend to want pay for such an action as that?" gasped the farmer, but they said they did, and he entered the saloon to see if the owner was not more tender heart- ed. "Itells you how it was—" began the sa- loonist, but he was interrupted with: "Don't tell me that you won't lend a hand iu such a case as this!" "Ican't go my friendt, but I tells you how it yhas. I let you drink beer until you doan' care two cents for all dor farmers und all der wells in America, und den I hire a poy for two shillings to drive you home. Dot vhas der pest I can do to-day." Bismarck's Religion. In contrast with Goethe, the Chancellor has seldom uttered any confessions of reli- gious faith at variance with other utterances of his on the same subject, and any thoughts' on divine things directly opposed to former- ly pronounced views. Nevertheless, he passed through a rationalistic period—then an unbelieving time, a time, at least, in which religion was no felt want—then a period in which, as he decidedly affirmed, he took up a Christian and confessional stand- point. Lastly he has arrived at a time in which he may simply be defined as a deeply religious man who believes firmly in God, in a divine dispensation and iu a personal con- tinuance after death, who derives his sense of duty from his faith, but lays little stress on dogma, will hear nothing of intolerance, aud has no strong desire for priestly edifica- tion. His mother was a sens'ble, enlight- ened woman; his father a genial man, with- out auy propensities toward the supernatur- al ; no religious influences were brought to bear upon him, either at school or at the University. For all this, a time came when he was filied with disgust for the riotous days of his student life.— Dr. Jioritz Busch. Carry the News. In your days of biliousness, when your liver is torpid and your skin yellow, remember you have a never-failing friend in Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic, which is unequaled in purity and efiicaci ousness. In cases of dyspepsia, costiveness, ague and malarial diseases, and diseases of the blood and kidneys, its action is prompt and cure speedy. Price 50 cents. P. J. Dre1'- «orner _wntu and St. Peter streets, St. Paul. < The clergy, as well as the people of the country, seem to be waking up to a sense of the need of special efforts to meet the rising tide of crime and immorality, especially in our cities. The following despatch was re- ceived last week from Rochester, N. Y., but the state of things there is probably no worse than in other cities of the land: "A sermon preached by tho Rev. C. W. Cushing last Sunday, on the present alarming condi- tion of crime in this city, is attracting much attention. He referred to the fact that Ro- chester had become a paradise for gamblers and that gambling dens abounded on every principal street. Liquor shops aud faro banks are kept open on Sunday, and a num- ber of pool aud billiard rooms are allowed open in direct violation of the city ordinan- ances and state laws. The Rev. Mr. Cushing had evidently been well informed, and no one has attempted to refute any of his charges." Owens gloated oVcr the act, and if we re- member correctly, charged us of disposing of the sparkling wine, in his paper the next morning. We don't say that he drank the champagne, which rightfully belonged to us, but we do say, he was a party to the joke. Those were days ofpersonal epithets, in- r'-ul of argument, and as the Times, which was edited by the writer, and the Minnesotian, edited by Owens, were rivals, of course some very hot words were used, aud the public had come to believe that we were personal and deadly enemies. Meeting in an ice cream saloon one evening, we took a seat at the same table with Mr. Owens, and were quiet- ly disposing of our cooling "beverage," when a mutual friend popped in upou us,and exclaimed: "Why, my God! what are you .doing here?" '*Only cooling off," wc replied. "The d—1 you are; why, I supposed you never spoke to each other, and would smash each other's faces the moment you met, and yet here you are munching ice cream to- gether." Mr. Owens is a man about GG years old. He is tall \u25a0 aud slender; stoops a little, and walks a little lame. He looks like a battle scarred veteran, who, having fought many a good tight, as he has, now rests upon his laurels. Some years ago he wrote a "Political History of Minnesota," but for jome reason the manuscript was never pub- lished. He is now quietly enjoying the re- pose of rural life on the St. Croix. M. N. KELLOGG. Mr. Kellogg was born iu New York state, in 1 s-22; enli;-ted in the army in 1S45; went to Mexico in 1847; was in the war one year, or until 1S48; removed to Jefferson barracks that winter, aud in the spring of 1849 came lo Fort Snelling, and from thence, the same year, moved to St. Paul, where he has re- sided ever since, or 35 years. He was in the Sixth regiment band as a clarionet player; was in the army five years, and discharged in 1850. Engaged iu the drug business with Mr. Hitchcock iu 1S50, aud the firm built a brick store corner of Cedar and Third streets. The seventy-eight foot lot upon which this store stood, cost §500; now worth about $40,000. In 1853 he entered into a partnership with J. W. Bond: ran the busiuess up to 1857, when he sold to Bond, and in 1858 bought uutthe stock of toys and notions owned by B. Presley. He continued that business un- til 1 SS2, when he was obliged to relinquish it In consequence of the failure of his eye- sight. He purchased a lot in Rice & Irvine's ad'dition, on Sixth street, in 1854, for §150; sold tiie same in 18S3, for about $8,000 This property was sold again in less than a year after, for $12,000, $16,500, and §20,000. "Mr. Kellogg was married in 1855. THE MAN HIMSELF. Mr. Kellogg is a rather small gentleman, Gl an active, nervous temperament, and has b.icn a very industrious citizen. Although burnt out twice, losing nearly all he had, yet he plunged in again, and soon obtained his footing. He has toiled, almost uninterrupt- edlv for thirty odd years, and very few men have been more assiduous to business than \u25a0\f. N. Kellogg. He has an active brain, ni«ves with celerity, arrives at conclusions quickly,andnobody cansaythathe evercheat- ed him out of a cent. He is a very temperate man never drinks, chews or smokes. He is also frugal, economical and strictly Nearly all the recent Premiers of England have enjoyed the advantage of having had wives of great devotion and considerable ability, to whose tender care and sympathy in their ambition they have been largely in- debted. The devotion of the Countess of Russell, who is still living, and the Countess of Beaconstield, had something of romance. Mrs. Gladstone, who is nearly the same age as the Premier, accompanies her husband, as did Lady Beaconsiield, everywhere, and fre quently remains in the ladies' gallery to the close of the night's sitting. Lord Palmers- ton, more than, perhaps, any other first min- ister, however, was indebted for his position and its maintenance to his wife, who was physically and mentally a remarkable woman. Up to her death in 2.8(59 at 85, four years af,- tcr her husband, she could read without glas- ses, and talked with all the fire and energy of a youug woman of 20. At the stated meeting of the Board of Man- agers of the American Bible Sociely on Thursday, March 6, Frederick S. Winston, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair, on the announcement of the death of the Hon. S. Wells Williams, L. L. D., late president of the society, remarks were made by Mr. Win- ston and Mr. Tracy, who had known him in his early youth, and also by Mr. Randolph and Secretary Gilman. A set of Dr. Wil- liam's published works was also exhibited, including his great dictionaries of the Chi- nese language, the "MiddleKingdom," in its earlier and later editions, his "Commer- cial Guide," and "Easy Lessons in Chinese," and twenty volumes of the "Chinese Reposi- tory," of which for many years he was pub- lisher and co-editor. An appropriate com- memorative minute was adopted by the Board. Rev. JrosoN Smith, D. D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Oberlin Theological Seminary, has accepted the appointment of Corresponding Secretary- of the American Board. Professor Smith was graduated with highest honors at Amherst, in the class of 1859, and he will bring tothe dischaige of his new and responsible trust powers of mind and heart which give promise of great usefulness and success. His able paper up- on "China aud Christian Missions," read at the annual meeting of the Board at St. Louis in 1881, will be well remembered. The last rail of the main line of the Mexi- I can Central Railroad was laid ou Saturday, THE ST. PAUL SUNDAY GLOBE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 80. 1884. March 8. The completion of this road, thus making a continuous line from the United States border at El Paso, Texas, to the City of Mexico, is an event of great importance to both Republics. That it may be the means of infusing light and good influences into Mexico is to be ardently desired. Is Austria the Archduke John has pub- lished a pamphlet on spiritualism, in which he recounts his recent unmasking of the spiritualist Bastian. The Archduke says that .spiritualism is cherished in huts and palaces, and that its adherents number two millions. He bas learned that it is charla- tanism, imposture and credulity, and we hope that he will succeed in opening the eyes of the people. He might also be useful as a lecturer in this country if he would make a tour and tell us how he caught a ghost and found him a stout, healthy scoun- drel. Suicides have been very frequent this sea son at Monte Carlo, the great gambling den of Europe. The latest case is that of a Ger- man who had lost heavily at play. This makes the nineteenth victim since the 1st of January-. Influential journals on the contin- ent are calling upon the French Govern- ment to suppress the scandal. It is high time that something was done to wipe out this stain upon the civilization of Europe. A Washington paper reports Senator Dawes as saying in an address at the recent anndal meeting of the Congressional Tem- p-ranee Society, that he had never known "so much" drinking among members of Congress as at the present time. What he did say was, that he had never known "so little." Quite a difference. The city of Nashville, Tenn., passed an ordinance several months ago, prohibiting the sale of liquor, cigars and newspapers on Sunday. Local dealers appealed to the State Supreme Court to test the measure, and a de- cision was rendered last week sustaining the city and the Sunday law. His Eminence Cardinal Simeoni, Prefect of the Propaganda, has sent 10,000 francs to Mgr. Puginier, Vicar-Apostolic of Western Tonquin, ou receipt of a telegram from that missionary announcing a massacre of the i Christians of his mission and asking for as- sistance. AN IXT-RESTING.CASE. A Wife's Suit Against her Husband for Slander. London Standard. Mrs. Georgina Weldon appeared in per- son in support of her motion against an ord- er made by Mr. Justice Mathcw at chambers, affirming an order made by Master France staying an action which she had brought against her husband, Mr. Henry William Weldon, for slander. Mr. Wood Hill ap- peared on behalf of Mr. Weldon. Mrs. Wel- don began by reading her statement of claim in the action, in which she alleges that the defendant (her husband) had at di- vers times uttered words slanderous to her. Firstly these. Mrs. Weldon is the best pur- est, chastest woman alive; but she is hope- lessly insane in consequence of quarrels in her family." Secondly: "Mrs. Weldon, against my wish introduced into my house a pack of dirty children, whom she cruelly ill- treated, and she has driven me out of my house by their screaming and crying." Thirdly: "I am glad to see that in spite of her immoral conduct all her friends have not deserted her." "Fourthly: "Georgina has committed adultry with Sir and another person, and I intend to bring charges of adul- tery against her." And again: "Georgina is a hopeless lunatic." Mrs. Weldon ti eu went on to say that Master France had held that under the act fo 1892 she could not maintain the action agaiust her husband as she did not allege special damage, and on which she asked leave to amend her statement of claim, on the ground that her husband had deserted her for thjree years and had deprived her of Her property. TLe "barrister who was against her when she made this application laughed at her ought right just as if he was at a theater —[laughter] and so did a number of clerks then present, although in her opin- ion it was no laughing matter that a husband should desert his wife and rob her ofthe prop- erty she had brought to him. He had de- prived her of an income of £500 a year and her house; and it was to be said that because of some informality she could not bring her case into court. The lord chief justice said he must remind Mrs. Weldon there was a difference between written and spoken words. Mrs. Weldon said she knew that; but she was told that under the new rules she could not put libel in her statement of claim. The Lord Chief Justice —But this is not » I DREAMED OF YOU, Last night, dear one, Idreamed that you were dead; I saw your white hands folded on yonr breast Your dear eyes"closed, their light forever fled Yonr heart at rest. I gazed npon yonr face, so white and cold. Peacefully beyond my power to under- stand ; I kissed yonr lip? as in the days of old;_ I clasped your hand. And oh: the world with all it held forme, Grew dark as night, and every hope seemed fled; No joy in all the earth my soul conld see, For you were dead. I thonght the morning sunlight filled the sky; With early dew the opening flowers were wet: Bnt all seemed darkness to my weary eyes; My sun had set. I tried to wake you from that awful sleep; I could not realize that you were flown; I tried in vain; but your slumbers were too deep; I was alone. I awoke—themorningsky was brightwithday, The birds were singing sweetly overhead; The sweet June roses blossomed fresh and gay; You were not dead. And when we met you did not nnderstand That you were dearer tome, ten times o'er; That truer, warmer seemed yonr little haud Than e'er before. "Sot can you ever know how much Iprize The precious jewel trusted to my care, Nor that my heaven is in your tender eyes And sunny hair That dream was but an angel in disguise. That filled my soul with bitterest distress; For 'tis by loss we really learn to prize What we posssess. "Tis everthns; life's lessons are not learned; We do not know the blessings which we own, Until, bereft, the bleeding heart has yearned O'er ang_ls flown. SUNDAY 6—OB—X——& Homek: Too much rest itself beomes pain. John Bate: Laws are silent in the midst of wars. Willmot: Literature is the immortality of speech. South: No man's religion ever survives his morals. BULWFB Lttton: Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. Cowpebj Remorse is the fatal egg by pleasure laid. Heme: While we are reasouing concern- ing life, life is gone. Seneca: He that is sorry for having sin- ned Is almost innocent. Locke: The great art to learn much, is to undertake a little at a time. Coke: Reason is tbe life of the law. nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. Youxo: Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life. Goldsmith: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Colton: Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, tight for it, die for it: anything but live for it. Solox : To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates. Whately: Some men's reputation seems like seed wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance. Rivakol: Man spends his life in reason- ing on tiie past, complaining of the present and trembling for the future. Lamahtine: To love in order to be loved in return, is man; but to love for the pure sake of loving, is almost the characteristic of an angel. Shenstone: Reserve is no more essential- ly connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good nature. Bishop Hall: Garments that have once had one rent iu them, are subject to be torn on every nail; and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name, tainted with past reproach. Four churches in Montreal now use the electric light. An unsatisfactory church organ was found to hold a dead frog. Bob Ingersoll is said to have lost $100,000 in New Mexican Mines. A man who refuses to give his name ha9 given $50,000 to Yale college for a dormitory. The Prince of Wales regularly attends the sittings of the Royal Committee on housing the poor ofLondon. Danvers claims to have been the first town in Massachusettes to grant licenses to sell rum.This was done 51 years ago. Dr. Moran, Catholic Bishop of Ossory, Ireland, has received notice of his appoint- ment to the Metropolitan see of Sydney. The Rev. Dr. A. D. Earle, the Baptist evan- gelist, has preached 21,000 times during his services of more than 50 years in the pulpit. The Chattanooga Times says that city is now really but nineteen years old. The war left it a wreck. In ISO" it had not a whole- sale house. Iron mills and furnaces began in 1871. In 1872 the population was 0,000, now 24,000; manufacturing capital in 1880, $2,789,000, in 1884, $4,000,000. Several capitalists of Philadelphia are said to have lately established a "Goose Farm" at Wallop's Neck, Acomac county, Va. about two acres of land, inclosed by a firmly-built plank fence and containing 1,900 white geese. The nest are laid off into sections, with avenues running through parallel with each other. Acablegram received from London states that Catholic circles are excited by the re- port that Dr. Herbert Vaughau, Bishop of Salford, has been appointed coadjutor to Cardinal Manning, with right of succession. The appointment meets with general appro- val among the Catholic clergy of England aud Ireland. The venerable theological faculty of Vien- na is celebrating its five hundreth anniver- saay. On February 24th, 1384, Pope Urban VI., at the request of Albert III., Duke of Austria, erected this faculty, and united it to three faculties already existing. All kinds offestivitie are taklngplace to commemorate the interesting event. Kansas City looms up second in winter hog packing Chicago packers slaughtered and packed 2,025,000 head: Kansas City packed 425,000 head; Cincinnati, 370,000 head; St. Louis, 355,000 head, and Indiana- polis, 247,000 head; Milwaukee, 255,000 head and Louisville, 141,000 head. The total shortness at the points aggregate about 750,- 000. The venerable and apostolic Bishop O'Con- nell of Marysville, Cal., has been permitted bythe Holy Father to resign the administra- tion of his diocese to his coadjutor, Bishop Manogue. Bishop Brondell, of Vancouver's Island, recently administering the Vicaiate of Montana, has been appointed first bishop of the new see of Helena, M. T. He will continue to administer his old diocese. Three years ago Amherst College made a set of rules founded on the principle that each student was received as a gentleman aud would be expelled whenever his conduct proved that he was not. President Seelye says it is the unquestioned judgment of the faculty that there has been a great gain in regularity of attendance and standard of scholarship. No punishments are prescribed. The misbehaving student is not sent away nor even shut out of the recitation rooms, but no attention whatever is paid to him. Delawareans who live near the Maryland border line protest against the reduction of marriage license fees iu the State, on the ground of protection to home industry. The Wilmington Everg Evening 9ays: "If the pending Maryland bill goes through, and the -rice of a marriage license be reduced there- legal slander. Mrs. Weldon—Not legal slander to say that a yyoman is a hopeless lunatic ! I have seen it so laid down in a book. Then he says, "Mrs. Weldon is a dangeious lunatic," and so I am to anyone who annoys me. [Laugh- ter.] "Iwoufci give anyone £2,000 who will help me to catch her to-night—mind, it must be done to-night." But I have the writteu statement of Mr. Weldon, which he signed to au order of Sir Henry de Bathe, to com- mit me to a lunatic asylum, and although by law the person signing it must have seen the alleged lunatic within twelve hours, Mr. Weldon when he signed the certificate had not seen me for three years. In answer to the question, put in the form required, Mr. Weldon said these things: "What is her re- ligious persuasion '.' Answer. "So far as I know. Church of England.' [Laughter] "What her residence?" A Tavistock house, Tavistock square." "What agei" A. "About 40." "When did she have her first attack V A. "Twelve months since." "What was the cause V A. Hereditary in- sanity"—that is not true. "Is the insanity suicidal?" A. "Doubtful." [Laughter.] The Lord Chief Justice —Who appeared on the other side? Mrs, Weldon—Two or three barristers. [Laughter.]. Mr. Wood Hill—And I am one of them, my lord. [Great laughter.] Mrs. Weldon—Yes, aud Mr. Wood Hill says that this action is not maintainable in tort, as it has no relation to properly; but I say that a woman's reputation is her prop- erty. The Lord Chief Justice —I am afraid that we can not construe the act in the sense you yvould wish—it does not relate to character. I dare say, Mrs. Weldon, you have read Shakspeare? Mrs. Weldon -I have, and I have got it here. I will read the passage: •'Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis some- thing, nothing: 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, Bat make? me poor indeed.'' The Lord Chief Justice—Yes —"that not enriches him." Mrs. Weldon —Yes! He took away my money and my house, which have made him very "rich. I only wish I could get rich so easily. [Laughter.] Tiie lord chief justice here reminded Mrs. Weldon of the provision of the act of 1S82, declaring that except as aforesaid "no hus- band or wife was entitled to sue one another in tort." Mrs. Weldon—It would be a very good thins if all the women in England knew that [Laughter.] Then I can not catch him in any way. [Great laughter.] The Lord Chief Justice—Certainly not in this way. [Renewed laughter.] Mrs. "\Veldon~So that a husband can libel his yvife, or do anything he likes. It is a very good thing that we are not told this be- fore we get married, or else the men would be very badly off. [Great laughter.] The Lord Chief Justice—Your appeal is dismissed. Mrs. Weldon—Very well; I don't see that the married women's property yet is.of much good. [Laughter.] Mr. Wood Hill—I suppose, my lord, the appeal is dismissed with costs. The Lord Chief Justice—Yes. Mrs. Weldon then retired. Everybody Knows It. When yon have Itch, Salt Rheum, Galls, or Skin eruptions of any kind, and the Piles, the you know without being told it, A, P. Wilkes, B. & E. Zimmerman andE. Stierle,the druggists, will sell you Dr. Bosanko's Pile remedy for fifty cents, which affords immediate reUe' A sure care. r> by to the nominal sum of sixty cents in that State, no Delaware clergyman, livine within ten miles of the Maryland line, will be able to depend on wedding fees to keep him in shoe blacking." The fee in Delaware is 12.50. The London Echo says: Enthusiastic church men are always ready to subscribe liberally toward the foundation of new bishoprics, of ecclesiastical luxuries of a like nature; but when a densely populated parish , in Northampton, with its one little church _lled to overflowing, modestly wants another place of worship, it is reduced in desperation to take the Non-conformist public into its confidence, and subscriptions from wherever it can. What makes it worse is, that there is neither endowment nor rector's house at- tached to what, by stretch of fancy, is termed the present "living." The most exciting leap year incident so far reported is that which comes from St. Elmo, 111. It appears that on Sunday last, while Rev. Mr. Pierce, a young divine, was occupying his pulpit in that city. Mrs. Mary Smith, a dashing young widow, left her seat in the body of the church and went up and stood beside him. To the astonishment of the congregation she announced that she was about to become Mrs. Pierce. She had, it is rumored, become infatuated with the young divine, and to this and the excite- ment of a religious revival, at which 6he was converted, her temporary insanity is attribu- ted. Gustave Dore's last large picture, The Vale of Tears, was intended to be a render- ing of the verse "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." The background represents a shadowy valley, flanked by an enormous crag, at the entrance to which Christ stands clothed in white, bearing a cross. His hand raised as If in invitation to the great num- ber of sorrowful figures who fill the fore- ground, representing almost every class of human sufferers—the aged, sick, maimed, halt and blind—all looking toward Christ with the spirit that animates the faces iu the foreground of Raphael's Transfiguration. CHIT-CHAT FOK LADIES. The wife of Prince Krapotkine, the social- ist is studying medicine iu Paris. Miss Lilian Bayard Taylor shares her fath- er's fondness for German, and has much of his fine feeling for poetry. Some Japanese women on seeing the corset for the first time asked " Whether it was worn as a protection from rude men or a peniten- tial garment to expiate sins." Of women who never marry there are more blondes than brunettes. In a majori- ty of cases where divorces are granted one of the parties has blue aud the other brown eyes. A San Francisco girl drove two Chinese burglars away from her house with an un- loaded pistol. The girl was wise. She knew that it is the uu loaded pistol that docs all the damage. The wife of President Gonzales of Mexico, left her husband recently and opened a mil- liner shop iu the capital city. It did not pay. though, because of gossip and scandal, and she was obliged to move into Texas, where she now resides. The re-engagement of Mme. Theo by Maurice Grau to come to the United States next season will refresh the lovers of opera- boutle, now somewhat jaded by people who can sing but cannot act. Theo can sing better without a voice than any woman alive, and she acts better than she sings. We are not prepared to believe the story that John Logan intends to write a book after the manner of Blaine. Mrs. Logan is very busy just now looking after the Presi- dency for her husband and she has no time to devote to literature. When she doesn't write the Senator doesn't write. Adelina Patti has created a phenomenal sensation in San Francisco. Amongst the floral tributes presented to her on the occa- sion of her first appearance In "La Travi- ata," last week, was a colossal ladder of fame, surmounted by a globe and an eagle, the whole measuring twelve feet in height. Miss Susan B. Anthony, who was in Hart- ford last week visiting and assisting her sis- ter female suffragists, has at least one pas- ioinate love and that is for a gray skye terrier given to her by Mrs. Cady Stanton. The an- imal sleeps in Susan's bed, feeds from her hand, accompanies her in her travels, and has a good time generally. Mrs. Carlisle's social exactions are said to be more onerous thau the duties of the Speaker himself. She has returned already 750 calls this season, and has several hundred more to pay. Besides, she has the housekeeping and marketing to attend to, while her husband has only the house to kepp in order aud to attentlto a little outside free-trade. Our Present Blessings. Our blessings are not appreciated until we are deprived of them. Must notable anion!; them la health, the lack of which magnifies onr other burdens. A hacking cough, a severe cold or any throat or lung disease is very troublesome; but all these may be quickly and permanently re- moved by l3r. Bigelow's Positive Cure. Trial bottles free, of P. J. Dreis, comer Ninth and St. Peter streets, St. Paul. Killing Gophers. A big gopher hunt is reported as having been participated in by die officials, passen- gers and hands of the Los Gatos train of the South Pacific Coast Railroad last Sunday, on the trip. A little this side of Hall's Station, in consequence of the storm, the track, with water, and the train had to make but slow progress for something like three miles. Fin- ally, reaching a certain point, Engineer Baldy could see but one rail above the water, and to insure the safety of the train he stop- ped his engine, put on a pair rubber boots and waded ahead to make certain that the track was all right. He noticed on the rail in sight numerous little animals, and a closer investigation showed them to be gophers that had been driven out of their holes by the high water, and their only places of refuge were on the higher ground on the rails and the fence alongside the road. One of the little animals, not liking the near approach of the engineer, revenged itself by biting him in the calf of the leg. The latter was not pleased aud got even by kicking tin- gophers into the water. The train hands and passengers, observing the peculiar antics of Baldy, sallied out, and with clubs, sticks pieces of coal and all manner of weapons, made it lively for the little aninals. Arriv- ing at Alvarado, the train hands informed the citizens of the fun they had had, and the latter went back and succeeded in killing from four to five hundred of gophers. At Newark the rain had driven out many of the animals, and some two hundred were killed. These gophers, with squirrels and field mice, are regular pests throughout the southern counties, and it is thought that the late storms have caused the death of millions of them. If this is true the storm may not prove so disastrous to the country as it was feared it might.—San Francisco Call. Lightships. The oldest station for a lightship is tbe far famed Nore, which was marked as far back as 1732. The vessel lies in the best position for entering the Thames and Med- way and to clear the Nore Sand. The light- ship riding in the greatest depth of water is that lying between the Land's End and the Scillv Isles, in forty-two fathoms, near the cluster of rocks known as the Seven Stones; while the one most distant from the land is that placed to mark the outer Dowsing Shoal in the North Sea, about thirty-three and a half miles from Spurn Point in Yorkshire. All lightships give direct warning in the event of a vessel approaching too closely to the shoals in their vicinity by firing a gun and hoisting the signal, "You are standing in danger." They also, In certain cases, by means of special call rockets of great brilli- ancy, fetch assistance from the shore to ves- sels'in distress. Chamber' Journal. The Arabs Hopelessly Handicapped. New Orleans Picayune. Having no wires and no control over the press dispatches, the Arabs found difficulty in winning a victory ou the iirst day. , TirtSOF WOMEN. Tiie Paris "Figaro" Giees la Belle AmerU eaine All the Glory. Translation by Philadelphia Press. Stylish and pretty independence personi- fied, but very honest and pure-minded, i3tLe American girl. She adores pleasure, dress, luxury; shows herself morally without con- cealment, such a3 she is, in a manner to de- ceive no one; knows she is attractive, and loves to attract without committing herself. Flirts all the winter with this one or that one, only to dismiss him in the spring, choosing immediately anothor. Her resources are cap- ital which never lies idle. She goes out alone, or when it suits her best, with a male friend, with a confidence without limit, and an in- timacy, in appearance, almost conjugal. The one thus elected is allowed to describe his feelings and to speak of his love from morning till night, but it is not permitted to him to kiss even the tips of her fingers. Af- ter marriage she passes all her days alone and her evenings in listening to talk of busi- ness, mechanical inventions, farming con- cerns or the lik-. She leaves her daughters to enjoy the lib- erty which she herself has enjoyed without grave abuse. Since nothing serioUs hap- pened to her. why should Mary, Fannie or Jennie be less strong or less able to meet any emergency. In one sense she has created the Paris fashions. Parisians detest her, provincials despise her, yet men of all nations are be- witched with her, though they do not marry her unless she has a large fortune. With reddish hair paler than golden, frank black eyes which neither droop nor quail, and a figure which it is Impossible to imitate, she lies back in a carriage as if it were a hammock: a natural aud easy pose, quite unconscious of its voluptuousness. < >u foot she steps along briskly aud unconcern- edly, her heels tapping the pavement as she walks. Attracting mauy glances she is yet much occupied with herself and little with others. A plant from the broad wilds, which put iu a narrow space and finding Itself hemmed in, stretches across the glass with- out disquieting itself with the thin frozen plants which vegetate around it. If under- stood belter and criticised less this young girl would be more truly estimated at her just value. TnE ENGLISH. An adorable face, which, in the full glare of day seems as though in moonlight, so pale and transparent lu its coloring. Large eyes frank yet modest, with long lashes. Little teeth which lengthen pereeptibly, growing like gra»s in the country, until at 25 they suggest a key-board. Delicate aud without pronounced figure when young, laterenor- mousrj stoat or dried up. Almost invariab- ly hideous at 40. Extremely etaet in small matters, a model of ncatne-s. Then is a prudish simplicity in the ar- rangement of the chamber, which is only a place for sleeping, and bathing. No oue may enter there. To allow even her best friend to see so mnch as the pillow on which she sleeps! Oh, uo! Shocking 1 Absolute mistress of her actions to the day of ber marriage, but the Slave of duty, she prepares herself from a child to be a good wife and mother. She choses her own husband; her parents are not occupied with nor trouble themselves about the matter, for In England the old maid is not an object of contempt. She lias her own place in society, and, if anything is lacking to her, she alone is aware of it. She hunts, rides horseback, and oc- cupies herself with music, literature and pol- itics. She always wishes to know all about a woman, but is not so critical in regard to men. Virtuous by principal aud tempera- meut, she docs not permit the thought of evil-doing to rest in her mind. Tho daughter of a peasant is guided by her con- science and follows a straight path. Her mind is serious aud sentimental. Sup awaits a younc lord who is traveling around the world or an ollicer who in in India. Stie will marry him on his return if he cornea baok without being married. If he be un- faithful she will regret him all her life. Under her white hairs passion willnever be extinguished, and the tears of love will still run behind the glasses of her specta- cles. The object of her regrets may be- come ugly, fat, commou, drink more than he ought, but she will always see him atj^ 20. When she eomes to Paris, she has her dresses made by our celebrated costu- mers; but the English sharpness of outline shows its angles through the softest of ma- terials, llattens plaits, puffs, etc., aud "Miss" is only a knife dressed up, surrounded by a veil of gauze, which floats above her head lik the flag of a ship at the summit bcr great matt. THE SPANI-1I. A perfect Creole. A child of nature. TLe sun which makes the orange trees blossom has developed her sensibilities before her mind was formed. There has been no time to breath to her a word of love, yet her eyes speak it already. She dances, sleeps and fans herself. Eats little, a cup of chocolate ami a cake smelling of roses suffice for her breakfast. She sups on a serenade. She wears short dresses, pretty stockings, and slippers or slices without heels; passes her days iu looking out of the window when the balcony fails or is forbidden her; is very- ignorant, never reads, and much .'ess writes. Desires to be married, not from calculation or ambition, but simply because a natural instinct makes her understand, even before she has ceased to jump rope, that a husband is an iudispeusible thing. THE OEIlMAN. Romantic and sensual. With her love enters first into the brain, then ascends to the heart. A pale blonde; she has the bsauty of youth with a spice of the wicked about it, and acts in araannerthat ought to please him. Her eyes look very modest, because she bides them under the lower lashes. Loves men iu general and always oue in particular. A rigid Lutheran, she is very severe on the sins of others, but settles her own direct- ly with heaven. She receives cordially in the morning friends of whom she bas spoken ill the night before. Has an air of being scandalized at this or that; itis a defence against others' severe judgments of her, Loves stndy and music and occupies herself with pleasure in the details of house-keeping. Whatever her origin, she is above all a born housewife. She has a beautiful face and form, which, however, quickly deteriorate. THB ITALIAN. Hate in heart; love in her eyes. The pride of a great lady with a sordid nature. Loves money and pleasure. Unsubmissive, idle, passionate. Ambitious, yet servile if her interests require it. She has an attructive person and knows how to dress herself in a material which perhaps is hardly cut out. Drapes or wraps herself in a scarf, arraiiL'fs her, hair with a pin and adorns herself with a pearl. Her voice, which has discord* when she speaks, becomes harmonious when she sings. She almost always marries an Italian and does not seek strangers until af- ter marriage. Credulous and superstitious, she believes in omens and bad signs, fearing the evil eye, two knives crossed End the point of a straw. She has a luxurious chamber, splendidly adorned with paintings, statues, mosaics and fine chandeliers. The bed is a work of art, the satin curtains are held up by little Cu- pids apparently at play. They would be hard to satisfy if they were not content with their surroundings. THE RUSSIAN. She Is beautiful, intelligent and indifferent to the opinion of the world. Promises her- self many admirers. Goes to the watering- places, and is a reigning belle. She plays for high stakes, and gets anirry when she loses. Wears Paris costumes in a way which makes them doubly charming. Her hair grows in luxuriant waves. She has a nature which casts aside all veils. Is facinating and good-natured. Talks better than a French woman ; in everything she is audacious. The habit of absolute command leaves its impress on her. She has never said to a servaut, "Please give me this or that." But at 12 years of age will order her nurse to be beat- en if vexed with her. Lrjyes dogs, truffles and champagne. Eats like a man. Has a luxurious room carpeted with fur rugs. A Feminine Vieie. [Philadelphia Call. | Maliel—Isn't Itawful the way those western cowboys carry on i Edith —Yes; but it is no wonder they are such desperate characters. Mabel —No wonder- Edith—No. they have to be as brave as lions, you know, in the first place. Mabel—True; I forgot they had to go near , cows.
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Page 1: THE ST. PAUL SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH PEN …chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059522/1884-03-30/ed-1/seq-10.pdfPEN PICTURES OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA. 1849—Crowding Events—The Oldest

PEN PICTURESOF

SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA.

1849—Crowding Events—The OldestPriiiter—Nathaniel McLean—John P.Owens — Mr. Owens Personally —Champagne vs. Water—M. N. Kel-logg—The Man Himself—First RealEstate Dealer — First DagnerreanArtist—First Market Woman—FirstBurial Ground—The Very OldestHouse in the City—St. Paul andMinneapolis One City—Lincoln.

BY T. M. NEWSON.

Article XV.

CROWDING EVENTS.

The events of 1849 crowd upon us rapidly,for some of the men most prominent in ourpast history, came to Saint Paul during thisyear, and some of the most stirring eventstranspired. Among other things, was the

consolidation of the Chronicle, published byMr. Hughes, and the Register, by McLean &Owens. These papers, jointly, ceased to ex-ist in 1851, and then came into life the

Jtinneaotian, as a Whig organ.THE OI/DEST I'KINTEP..

Capt. E. Y. Shelly, probably the oldestprinter now working ai bis trade in the state

of Minnesota, was the foreman in the ofliceof the Chromde and Register. Mr. Shelly has

stuck to the "ease"' for thirty-five years. Hehas."locked" himself up iu his profession,and has nearly run offan "edition" of apurely printer's life. He is the "type" ofan unrelenting "compositor." Has turnedthe "period" when he could not very con-veniently engage iu any other business, andas the oldest printer, he. has no "parallel"in the state. He has setup many a "para-graph," "revised his proof," and is nearlyready "to go to press." Mr. Shelly is a quiet,industrious gentleman, quite retiring in hisdisposition, yet social in bis nature. Heplods on in the even tenor of his way. andhas, we think, passed the mile stone of tifty-five years.

MAJOR KATHAK—— M'_——'.

Major McLean was born In New Jersey, in

1787: was a brother of Judge McLean, ofthe United States supreme court; learned theprinter's trade at Cincinnati; in 1S07 pub-lished a paper at Lebanon; was a member ofthe Ohio legislature in 1810, for three ses-sions: an officer in the war of 1812; came toSt. Paul in 1841), at tiie age of sixty years, toengage in the newspaper business; In No-vember, 1849, was appointed Sioux agent atFort Snelling; held the office four years;elected commissioner of Ramsey county inthe year 1855, and died ofa cancer in 1871,Iged 84 years. McLean township was namedtfter bim. He was a tall, slender gentle-man, a little lame, a rapid talker; a truthful,honest, good man.

.mux p. OWENS

was born in Ohio, 1818, of Welsh descent;worked on a farm in early life; attendedcollege at Cincinnati for several years, and

ther. learned the printing business: became apartner with Maj. McLean in the publicationof the Chronicle and Register; came to St. Paulin 1S-U); was editor of the Minnesotian iorseven years; was appointed quartermaster ofthe Ninth Minnesota regiment In 1802;mustered out iu 1805: breveted colonel; ap-pointed register of the land office at TaylorsPalls in 1869, which oflice he now holds, andhas held ever since his appointment.

Ml{. OWENS PERSONALLY.

All the early settlers could easily recognizeJ. P. Owens in a crowd of men, for he was aman deeply interested in politics, and madethis a speciality. He was au aggressivewriter; a strong partizan; aud whenever aprimary meeting was held, he was alwaysthere. He gravitated as naturally into poli-ties aa a duck does into water. He wasamong the first, Indeed we may say, he wasthe very first, Whig editor in the state, audeven alter the Whig party had been deadand buried, Owens held on to the corpse; butearly drifted Into the Republican ranks, andafter Fremont was nominated for President,did good service tor the party. The writerhad occasion to measure editorial lances wit-Mr. Owens a great many times.but politicallywe agreed. He was a political tactitian, anilused his power to good advantage when hecould.

CHAMPAGNE VS. WATER.As an illustration of his peculiar methods

to circumvent a political opponent, (as inone sense at that time we were), at a partygiven in honor of the legislature, at Mr.Rough's ice cream saloon on Third street,our empty glass standing at our plate, wasfilled with champagne three times, and wasfound empty three; times. As we repre-sented the temperance element in the legis-lature at this time, it. was charged upon us asLaving drank the liquor, wheu the fact was,we never touched it, but some of our polit-ical enemies did, and thus by tllis littletrick, it was intended to injure our influencewith that portion of the legislature whichdid uot approve of spirituous liquors, but itJailed.

honest; has always minded his own business,and in many respects has been, and is now,a model man. For many years he tookpride in preserving, in a scrap book, impor-tant cvent6 which had transpired in this city,but when he sold out, this scrap book, withother important papers, were accidentally de-stroyed, very much to his regret and his sor-row. About two years ago his eye-sight be-gan to fail him, and now ho is almost entirely-blind, yet with this terrible affliction uponhim, he is philosophical, cheerful, hopeful,manly. Allthe old settlers we know have,and we trust many new ones will have, akindly feeling for M. N. Kellogg.

FIRST REAL ESTATE DEALER.

Charles R. Conway hung out bis shingle asa real estate dealer, in a little small whiteoffice, which stood on a hill, where Mr.Sehurmcicr's building now stands, on Thirdstreet, between Cedar and Minnesota, in tbeyear 1850. He claims to be the first real es-tate dealer in the city.

EIP.ST DAGTTERREAS AKTIST.George C. Nichols took daguerrean pictures

in the old American house, in 1849, and wasthe first artist of this character in the city.He sold out to C. T. Whitney, who carried ona gallery for many years, corner of Thirdand Cedar streets.

FIltST _ARE—T WOMAN.

The hundreds of market women who nowvend vegetables at our market and elsewere, will regret, as well as we do, that wecan't just now recall the name of the firstmarket woman, who came from Little Cana-da, twelve miles from St. Paul, with a singleox hitched to a cart, and who sold her pota-toes, cabbages, pumpkins and other vegeta-bles, in as approved style as do our marketWO»_-en of to-day. This branch of businesshas grown to an enormous extent, and it isquite proper that the pioneer of this tradeshould have a place among tbe Pen Picturesof to-day.

FIRST BURIAL GROUND.From all we can learn, the first burial

ground was that owned by the Catholics, andoccupied quite a space back of the Stees' fur-niture store, on Minnesota street. A smalllog stable ttood where the Pioneer Press officenow -tends, and directly in the rear of this,on the bluff, was the first chapel, erected byFather Galtier. The burying ground belongedto the chapel, and is the same piece of prop-erty upon wh'rch Stees' building, after beingerected twice, fell birth times.

THE VERY OLDEST HOUSE IN TnE ClTT.

It is now claimed by some of the mostancient and venerable gentlemen of the past,that tbe house on Fourth street, betweenMinnesota and Robert, which has the card onit of the Ramsey County Old Settlers' asso-ciation, as the oldest house in Saint Paul, isnot correct, but the oldest bouse is that ouSixth Btreet, now owned by Uri Lamprey.It stands just hack ofthe hoarding house ofMr. Brewster, on Sixth street, and was orig-inally the property of Louis Roberts. Hisfirst house was burned; this was his second.Itwould be well to have this question defi-nitely settled, so it could pass into history,for "when doctors disagree, what are we go-ing to do?"

ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS ONE ClTT.

Thirty-five years! Reader, stop thinking ofbusiness for a minute and ponder oyer theinarch of events! What will be the future ofthe country west of St. Paul in the next 35years 1 What will be the status of this city!We will anticipate your reply by prophesying.that St. Paul aud Minneapolis will then beunited as one city, with a population of500,000 people, and these cities, thus united,will supply an empire beyond of 5.000,000inhabitants. "Oh, but," you say, "this eannever be done." Not so fast, my friend!Look at the past! St. Anthony has beenswallowed up on the one side and West St.Paul on the other, aud street cars and motorcars, and railroad cars and other appliancesare now at work drawing together slowly butsurely these two cities, aud when they cometogether, as they certainly will, it will be likethe snapping jaws of the mud turtle—

"LOVE AND FAME."

BV LILLIAN' SYENCEK.

Once Ilonged for idle praises:Vain ambition thrilled my soul;

Life for me was filled with fancies,Of which honor was the goal,

And Isickened with the longingAnd despairing of my soul!

Years Itoiled: the golden ladderSlowly Ibegan to climb;

Far above in the ascendantSoon a star was seen to shine;

Feeble, flickering, struggling ever,Still it shone with light divine.

Guided by its light the pathwayWider grew with every hour.

Once when footsore and disheartenedIstooped and plucked a little flower,

That by artless, sweet beguilingsLured me to its fairy bower.

Iwonld fain have stayed foreverIn the shelter of its cove:

But the longing came upon meAnd Ipromised Iwould prove

First unto the world my genius,Then return to find my love.

At Inst. O triumph ! fame was mine.Stars in millions o'er my head

Shone with mystic liirht divine.As the pathway smooth I tread

To find this little flower of ;iine,And I found it cold and dead!

Oh. then what wa<= my fame to me!What the plaw'its of the brave.

Since naught, of all my lifeless lloweiHad strength of power to save!

Ilaid my crown of IanIC1 downAnd buried it in the grave!

TIMELYTOPICS.RumO—3 are agin set afloat of the removal of

Pope Leo aud the papal throne from Rome.He has held himself, as did his predecessor,Pio Nino, a prisoner in the Vatican, refusesto receive the stipend proffered by theItalian government and feels still furtherhumiliated by the late decision of the Courtof Cassatian, declaring tbatthe Propagandaproperty must be converted into Italiangovernment bonds. The Pope regards this

decision as threatening bis independence,and disturbed by the firm rejection of hisclaims to temporal power It is intimated thathe seriously contemplates a removal toMalta, an island in the Meditarrean, sonear Rome as to make its occupation notimpracticable and seriously inconvenient.Tho inland >jf Malta is au English possession,aud the Pope's residence there would remove !

him from the lnu_Ui.atioii of being withinthe jurisdiction of the Italian government.All this is mere speculation, and as speciousas it may appear, there is indeed no likeli-hood that the Pope will leave the Vatican. Ithas, indeed, been rumored since the loss ofpapal temporal power was so galling a result,that tiie papal throne and its occupantwould be removed to America, a consum-mation quite as likely to occur, in the esti-mation of intellige.ut observers, asthe Popes removal to Malta. Itis not likely that the powerful ecclesiasticaloccupant ofthe Vatican, will throw away theprestige which has been enjoyed since

the middle of the fourth century, when Con-stantino raise the church of Rome to world-

wide supremacy Tho removal of the papalSec from Rome, would mark the decadenceof the church, and would be followed by aloss of ecclesiastical prestige, power and in-fluence that could never be regained.

The Rev. Dr. Buckley, whom tbe Rev. Dr.J. P. Newman assailed in the recent Congre-gational Council as the "Methodist meddler"for whom he had no respect, has fully vindi-

cated himself in the Christian Advocate fortills week. Itwould seem as if Dr. Newman,with the polittcal sagacity forwhich he is moredistinguished than for the evangelical vir-tues, played fast and loose with the Rev. Wel-scy R. Davis and the Madison avenue churchas well as with Congregationalism and Meth-odism. A rich rector in England when theEcclesiastical commissioners asked him,'•How many souls have you in your parishand what is the value of your living?" re-plied in alarm, "You may do what yon likewith the "souls, so long as you leave me theincome." Dr. J. P. Newman's principleseems to have been of similar elasticity. Hedidn't care whether he was to be Methodist,Cougregationalist or Independent, so longas he kept his grip upon the finances of theMadison avenue church. As Dr. Buckleyyery clearly points out, the result of this fastand loose liberty for ministers of one denom-ination to "bob up serenely" as settled pas-tors in tbe pulpits of another would demoral-ize the churches and prove as injurious toCongregationalism as to Methodism.

ALL AT ONCE.

Then thenewcapitol building, costingseveralmillions of dollars, will be located on 100acres of land midway of the one great city,and grand hotels will invite the world atlarge to partake of food unparalleled insweetness and delicacy, and luxurious bedswill beckou tired bodies to sweet repose.The superficial thinker, who never gets abovehis nose, may and no doubt will scoff at theseideas, but he can't change either the immu-table laws of nature or the immutable laws ofGod: and just as sure as the ears rumble tothe Pacific ocean, just so sure will St. Pauland Minneapolis, not many years in thefuture, be united aud march to power aud togreatness under the banner of one city.

The only objection to the union, is thename. Shall it be Minnc-Paul, or Paul-Opo-lis, or some name uot yet mentioned. Afriend in Chicago, who formerly lived at RedWing, (R. P. Nichols, Esq.,) writes us asfollows: "Allowme to respectfully recom-mend the name of Lincoln for the con-solidated city. No candid man, cither in St.Paul or Minneapolis, will deny that the. nameof Lincoln would honor the twin cities as one,far more than the city would honor thename. The name would be commensuratewith the development, progress,prosperity, wealth, population, great-ness, and grandeur of a citydestined to be one of the firstaud foremost on the western contiuent. Ifat some future time after the two cities havebeen consolidated under the name of Lin-coln, our national capitol should bo trans-ferred from the city of Washington to theeity of Liucoln, in Minnesota, the people ofthe United States would then have the highand proud satisfaction of knowing that theircapital had been removed to a city honoredwith a name as great and as grand as thename of Washington and like his—im-mortal."

Lincoln, with a population of 500,000!Think of it!

A Fair Offer.Detroit Free Press.

A few days ago a farmer drove up to thedoor of a Springwells saloon and called outto several men standing around that a neigh-bor ofhis living about four miles away hadfallen into the family well and probablykilled himself.

"Well, what of It?" a^ked one of the men."Why, Iwant two or three of you to ride

out with me and help get the body out.""For how much?""You don't pretend to want pay for such

an action as that?" gasped the farmer, butthey said they did, and he entered the saloonto see if the owner was not more tender heart-ed.

"Itells you how it was—" began the sa-loonist, but he was interrupted with:

"Don't tell me that you won't lend a handiu such a case as this!"

"Ican't go my friendt, but I tells youhow it yhas. I let you drink beer until youdoan' care two cents for all dor farmers undall der wells in America, und den I hire apoy for two shillings to drive you home. Dotvhas der pest Ican do to-day."

Bismarck's Religion.

In contrast with Goethe, the Chancellorhas seldom uttered any confessions of reli-gious faith at variance with other utterancesof his on the same subject, and any thoughts'on divine things directly opposed to former-ly pronounced views. Nevertheless, hepassed through a rationalistic period—thenan unbelieving time, a time, at least, in

which religion was no felt want—then aperiod in which, as he decidedly affirmed, hetook up a Christian and confessional stand-point. Lastly he has arrived at a time inwhich he may simply be defined as a deeplyreligious man who believes firmly in God, ina divine dispensation and iu a personal con-tinuance after death, who derives his senseof duty from his faith, but lays little stresson dogma, will hear nothing of intolerance,aud has no strong desire for priestly edifica-tion. His mother was a sens'ble, enlight-ened woman; his father a genial man, with-out auy propensities toward the supernatur-al ; no religious influences were brought tobear upon him, either at school or at theUniversity. For all this, a time came whenhe was filied with disgust for the riotous daysof his student life.—Dr. Jioritz Busch.

Carry the News.In your days of biliousness, when your liver is

torpid and your skin yellow, remember you havea never-failing friend in Dr. Jones' Red CloverTonic, which is unequaled in purity and efiicaciousness. In cases of dyspepsia, costiveness,ague and malarial diseases, and diseases of theblood and kidneys, its action is prompt and curespeedy. Price 50 cents. P. J. Dre1'- «orner_wntu and St. Peter streets, St. Paul. <

The clergy, as well as the people of thecountry, seem to be waking up to a sense ofthe need of special efforts to meet the risingtide of crime and immorality, especially inour cities. The following despatch was re-ceived last week from Rochester, N. Y., butthe state of things there is probably noworse than in other cities of the land: "Asermon preached by tho Rev. C. W. Cushinglast Sunday, on the present alarming condi-tion of crime in this city, is attracting muchattention. He referred to the fact that Ro-chester had become a paradise for gamblersand that gambling dens abounded on everyprincipal street. Liquor shops aud farobanks are kept open on Sunday, and a num-ber of pool aud billiard rooms are allowedopen in direct violation of the city ordinan-ances and state laws. The Rev. Mr. Cushinghad evidently been well informed, and noone has attempted to refute any of hischarges."

Owens gloated oVcr the act, and if we re-member correctly, charged us of disposing ofthe sparkling wine, in his paper the nextmorning. We don't say that he drank thechampagne, which rightfully belonged to us,but we do say, he was a party to the joke.

Those were days ofpersonal epithets, in-r'-ul of argument, and as the Times, whichwas edited by the writer, and the Minnesotian,edited by Owens, were rivals, of course somevery hot words were used, aud the public hadcome to believe that we were personal anddeadly enemies. Meeting in an ice creamsaloon one evening, we took a seat at thesame table with Mr. Owens, and were quiet-ly disposing of our cooling "beverage,"when a mutual friend popped in upou us,andexclaimed:

"Why, my God! what are you .doing here?"'*Only cooling off," wc replied."The d—1 you are; why, I supposed you

never spoke to each other, and would smasheach other's faces the moment you met, andyet here you are munching ice cream to-gether."

Mr. Owens is a man about GG years old.He is tall \u25a0 aud slender; stoops a little, andwalks a little lame. He looks like abattle scarred veteran, who, having foughtmany a good tight, as he has, now rests uponhis laurels. Some years ago he wrote a"Political History of Minnesota," but forjome reason the manuscript was never pub-lished. He is now quietly enjoying the re-pose of rural life on the St. Croix.

M. N. KELLOGG.

Mr. Kellogg was born iu New York state,in 1 s-22; enli;-ted in the army in 1S45; wentto Mexico in 1847; was in the war one year,or until 1S48; removed to Jefferson barracksthat winter, aud in the spring of 1849 camelo Fort Snelling, and from thence, the sameyear, moved to St. Paul, where he has re-sided ever since, or 35 years. He was in theSixth regiment band as a clarionet player;was in the army five years, and dischargedin 1850. Engaged iu the drug business withMr. Hitchcock iu 1S50, aud the firm built abrick store corner of Cedar and Third streets.The seventy-eight foot lot upon which thisstore stood, cost §500; now worth about$40,000.

In 1853 he entered into a partnership withJ. W. Bond: ran the busiuess up to 1857,when he sold to Bond, and in 1858 boughtuutthe stock of toys and notions owned byB. Presley. He continued that business un-til 1SS2, when he was obliged to relinquish itIn consequence of the failure of his eye-sight. He purchased a lot in Rice & Irvine'sad'dition, on Sixth street, in 1854, for §150;sold tiie same in 18S3, for about $8,000 Thisproperty was sold again in less than a yearafter, for$12,000, $16,500, and §20,000. "Mr.Kellogg was married in 1855.

THE MAN HIMSELF.

Mr. Kellogg is a rather small gentleman,Gl an active, nervous temperament, and hasb.icn a very industrious citizen. Althoughburnt out twice, losing nearly all he had, yethe plunged in again, and soon obtained hisfooting. He has toiled, almost uninterrupt-edlv for thirty odd years, and very few menhave been more assiduous to business than

\u25a0\f. N. Kellogg. He has an active brain,ni«ves with celerity, arrives at conclusionsquickly,andnobody cansaythathe evercheat-

ed him out of a cent. He is a very temperateman never drinks, chews or smokes.

He is also frugal, economical and strictly

Nearly all the recent Premiers of Englandhave enjoyed the advantage of having hadwives of great devotion and considerableability, to whose tender care and sympathyin their ambition they have been largely in-debted. The devotion of the Countess ofRussell, who is still living, and the Countessof Beaconstield, had something of romance.

Mrs. Gladstone, who is nearly the same ageas the Premier, accompanies her husband, asdid Lady Beaconsiield, everywhere, and frequently remains in the ladies' gallery to theclose of the night's sitting. Lord Palmers-

ton, more than, perhaps, any other first min-ister, however, was indebted for his positionand its maintenance to his wife, who wasphysically and mentally a remarkable woman.Up to her death in 2.8(59 at 85, four years af,-

tcr her husband, she could read without glas-ses, and talked with all the fire and energyofa youug woman of 20.

At the stated meeting of the Board of Man-agers of the American Bible Sociely onThursday, March 6, Frederick S. Winston,Esq., Vice-President, in the chair, on theannouncement of the death of the Hon. S.Wells Williams, L. L. D., late president ofthe society, remarks were made by Mr. Win-ston and Mr. Tracy, who had known him inhis early youth, and also by Mr. Randolphand Secretary Gilman. A set of Dr. Wil-liam's published works was also exhibited,including his great dictionaries of the Chi-nese language, the "MiddleKingdom," inits earlier and later editions, his "Commer-cial Guide," and "Easy Lessons in Chinese,"and twenty volumes of the "Chinese Reposi-tory," of which for many years he was pub-lisher and co-editor. An appropriate com-memorative minute was adopted by theBoard.

Rev. JrosoN Smith, D. D., Professor ofEcclesiastical History in Oberlin TheologicalSeminary, has accepted the appointment ofCorresponding Secretary- of the AmericanBoard. Professor Smith was graduated withhighest honors at Amherst, in the class of1859, and he will bring tothe dischaige ofhis new and responsible trust powers ofmind and heart which give promise of greatusefulness and success. His able paper up-on "China aud Christian Missions," read atthe annual meeting of the Board at St. Louisin 1881, will be well remembered.

The last rail ofthe main line ofthe Mexi-I can Central Railroad was laid ou Saturday,

THE ST. PAUL SUNDAY GLOBE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 80. 1884.

March 8. The completion of this road, thusmaking a continuous line from the UnitedStates border at ElPaso, Texas, to the Cityof Mexico, is an event of great importanceto both Republics. That it may be themeans ofinfusing light and good influencesinto Mexico is to be ardently desired.

Is Austria the Archduke John has pub-lished a pamphlet on spiritualism, in whichhe recounts his recent unmasking of thespiritualist Bastian. The Archduke saysthat .spiritualism is cherished in huts andpalaces, and that its adherents number twomillions. He bas learned that it is charla-tanism, imposture and credulity, and wehope that he will succeed in opening theeyes of the people. He might also be usefulas a lecturer in this country ifhe wouldmake a tour and tell us how he caught aghost and found him a stout, healthy scoun-drel.

Suicides have been very frequent this season at Monte Carlo, the great gambling denof Europe. The latest case is that of a Ger-man who had lost heavily at play. Thismakes the nineteenth victim since the 1st ofJanuary-. Influential journals on the contin-ent are calling upon the French Govern-ment to suppress the scandal. It is hightime that something was done to wipe outthis stain upon the civilization of Europe.

A Washington paper reports SenatorDawes as saying in an address at the recentanndal meeting of the Congressional Tem-p-ranee Society, that he had never known"so much" drinking among members ofCongress as at the present time. What hedid say was, that he had never known "solittle." Quite a difference.

The city of Nashville, Tenn., passed anordinance several months ago, prohibitingthe sale of liquor, cigars and newspapers onSunday. Local dealers appealed to the StateSupreme Court to test the measure, and a de-cision was rendered last week sustaining thecity and the Sunday law.

His Eminence Cardinal Simeoni, Prefectof the Propaganda, has sent 10,000 francs toMgr. Puginier, Vicar-Apostolic of WesternTonquin, ou receipt of a telegram from thatmissionary announcing a massacre of the

i Christians of his mission and asking for as-sistance.

ANIXT-RESTING.CASE.

A Wife's Suit Against her Husband forSlander.

London Standard.

Mrs. Georgina Weldon appeared in per-son in support of her motion against an ord-er made by Mr.Justice Mathcw at chambers,affirming an order made by Master Francestaying an action which she had broughtagainst her husband, Mr. Henry WilliamWeldon, for slander. Mr. Wood Hill ap-peared on behalf of Mr. Weldon. Mrs. Wel-don began by reading her statement ofclaim in the action, in which she allegesthat the defendant (her husband) had at di-vers times uttered words slanderous to her.Firstly these. Mrs. Weldon is the best pur-est, chastest woman alive; but she is hope-lessly insane in consequence of quarrels inher family." Secondly: "Mrs. Weldon,against my wish introduced into my house apack of dirty children, whom she cruelly ill-treated, and she has driven me out of myhouse by their screaming and crying."Thirdly: "Iam glad to see that in spite ofher immoral conduct all her friends have notdeserted her." "Fourthly: "Georgina hascommitted adultry with Sir and anotherperson, and Iintend to bring charges of adul-tery against her." And again: "Georginais a hopeless lunatic." Mrs. Weldon ti euwent on to say that Master France had heldthat under the act fo 1892 she could notmaintain the action agaiust her husband asshe did not allege special damage, and onwhich she asked leave to amend her statementofclaim, on the ground that her husband haddeserted her for thjree years and had deprivedher of Her property. TLe "barrister who wasagainst her when she made this applicationlaughed at her ought right just as if he was ata theater —[laughter] and so did a numberof clerks then present, although in her opin-ion it was no laughing matter that a husbandshould desert his wifeand rob her ofthe prop-erty she had brought to him. He had de-prived her of an income of £500 a year andher house; and it was to be said that becauseof some informality she could not bring hercase into court.

The lord chief justice said he must remindMrs. Weldon there was a difference betweenwritten and spoken words.

Mrs. Weldon said she knew that; but shewas told that under the new rules she couldnot put libel in her statement of claim.

The Lord Chief Justice —But this is not

» IDREAMED OF YOU,

Last night, dear one, Idreamed that you weredead;

I saw your white hands folded on yonr breastYour dear eyes"closed, their light forever fled

Yonr heart at rest.

Igazed npon yonr face, so white and cold.Peacefully beyond my power to under-

stand ;Ikissed yonr lip? as in the days of old;_

Iclasped your hand.

And oh: the world with all itheld forme,Grew dark as night, and every hope

seemed fled;No joy in all the earth my soul conld see,

For you were dead.Ithonght the morning sunlight filled the sky;

With early dew the opening flowers werewet:

Bnt all seemed darkness to my weary eyes;My sun had set.

Itried to wake you from that awful sleep;I could not realize that you were flown;

Itried in vain; but your slumbers were toodeep;

Iwas alone.

Iawoke—themorningsky was brightwithday,The birds were singing sweetly overhead;

The sweet June roses blossomed fresh and gay;You were not dead.

And when we met you did not nnderstandThat you were dearer tome, ten times o'er;

That truer, warmer seemed yonr little haudThan e'er before.

"Sot can you ever know how much IprizeThe precious jewel trusted to my care,

Nor that my heaven is in your tender eyesAnd sunny hair

That dream was but an angel in disguise.That filled my soul with bitterest distress;

For 'tis by loss we really learn to prizeWhat we posssess.

"Tis everthns; life's lessons are not learned;We do not know the blessings which we own,Until, bereft, the bleeding heart has yearned

O'er ang_ls flown.

SUNDAY 6—OB—X——&

Homek: Too much rest itself beomespain.

John Bate: Laws are silent in the midstof wars.

Willmot: Literature is the immortalityof speech.

South: No man's religion ever surviveshis morals.

BULWFB Lttton: Remorse is the echo ofa lost virtue.

Cowpebj Remorse is the fatal egg bypleasure laid.

Heme: While we are reasouing concern-ing life, life is gone.

Seneca: He that is sorry for having sin-ned Is almost innocent.

Locke: The great art to learn much, isto undertake a little at a time.

Coke: Reason is tbe life of the law. nay,the common law itself is nothing else butreason.

Youxo: Leisure is pain; takes off ourchariot wheels; how heavily we drag the loadof life.

Goldsmith: Our greatest glory consistsnot in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall.

Colton: Men will wrangle for religion,write for it, tight for it, die for it: anythingbut live for it.

Solox : To make an empire durable, themagistrates must obey the laws, and thepeople the magistrates.

Whately: Some men's reputation seemslike seed wheat, which thrives best whenbrought from a distance.

Rivakol: Man spends his life in reason-ing on tiie past, complaining of the presentand trembling for the future.

Lamahtine: To love in order to be lovedin return, is man; but to love for the puresake of loving, is almost the characteristic ofan angel.

Shenstone: Reserve is no more essential-ly connected with understanding than achurch organ with devotion, or wine withgood nature.

Bishop Hall: Garments that have oncehad one rent iu them, are subject to be tornon every nail; and glasses that are oncecracked are soon broken; such is man's goodname, tainted with past reproach.

Four churches in Montreal now use theelectric light.

An unsatisfactory church organ was foundto hold a dead frog.

Bob Ingersoll is said to have lost $100,000in New Mexican Mines.

A man who refuses to give his name ha9given $50,000 to Yale college for a dormitory.

The Prince of Wales regularly attends thesittings of the Royal Committee on housingthe poor ofLondon.

Danvers claims to have been the first townin Massachusettes to grant licenses to sellrum.This was done 51 years ago.

Dr. Moran, Catholic Bishop of Ossory,Ireland, has received notice of his appoint-ment to the Metropolitan see of Sydney.

The Rev. Dr. A. D. Earle, the Baptist evan-gelist, has preached 21,000 times during hisservices of more than 50 years in the pulpit.

The Chattanooga Times says that city isnow really but nineteen years old. The warleft it a wreck. In ISO" it had not a whole-sale house. Iron mills and furnaces beganin 1871. In 1872 the population was 0,000,now 24,000; manufacturing capital in 1880,$2,789,000, in 1884, $4,000,000.

Several capitalists of Philadelphia are saidto have lately established a "Goose Farm"at Wallop's Neck, Acomac county, Va. abouttwo acres ofland, inclosed by a firmly-builtplank fence and containing 1,900 whitegeese. The nest are laid offinto sections,with avenues running through parallel with

each other.Acablegram received from London states

that Catholic circles are excited by the re-port that Dr. Herbert Vaughau, Bishop ofSalford, has been appointed coadjutor toCardinal Manning, with right of succession.The appointment meets with general appro-val among the Catholic clergy of Englandaud Ireland.

The venerable theological faculty of Vien-na is celebrating its five hundreth anniver-saay. On February 24th, 1384, Pope UrbanVI., at the request of Albert III.,Duke ofAustria, erected this faculty, and united itto three faculties already existing. Allkindsoffestivitie are taklngplace tocommemorate

the interesting event.Kansas City looms up second in winter

hog packing Chicago packers slaughteredand packed 2,025,000 head: Kansas Citypacked 425,000 head; Cincinnati, 370,000head; St. Louis, 355,000 head, and Indiana-polis, 247,000 head; Milwaukee, 255,000 headand Louisville, 141,000 head. The total

shortness at the points aggregate about 750,-000.

The venerable and apostolic Bishop O'Con-nell ofMarysville, Cal., has been permittedbythe Holy Father to resign the administra-tion of his diocese to his coadjutor, BishopManogue. Bishop Brondell, of Vancouver'sIsland, recently administering the Vicaiateof Montana, has been appointed first bishopof the new see of Helena, M. T. He willcontinue to administer his old diocese.

Three years ago Amherst College made aset of rules founded on the principle that

each student was received as a gentlemanaud would be expelled whenever his conductproved that he was not. President Seelyesays it is the unquestioned judgment of thefaculty that there has been a great gain inregularity of attendance and standard ofscholarship. No punishments are prescribed.The misbehaving student is not sent awaynor even shut out of the recitation rooms,

but no attention whatever is paid to him.Delawareans who live near the Maryland

border line protest against the reduction ofmarriage license fees iu the State, on theground of protection to home industry. TheWilmington Everg Evening 9ays: "If thepending Maryland bill goes through, and the-rice of a marriage license be reduced there-

legal slander.Mrs. Weldon—Not legal slander to say that

a yyoman is a hopeless lunatic ! I have seenit so laid down in a book. Then he says,"Mrs. Weldon is a dangeious lunatic," andso Iam to anyone who annoys me. [Laugh-ter.] "Iwoufci give anyone £2,000 who willhelp me to catch her to-night—mind, it mustbe done to-night." But I have the writteustatement of Mr. Weldon, which he signedto au order of Sir Henry de Bathe, to com-mit me to a lunatic asylum, and although bylaw the person signing it must have seen thealleged lunatic within twelve hours, Mr.Weldon when he signed the certificate hadnot seen me for three years. In answer tothe question, put in the form required, Mr.Weldon said these things: "What is her re-ligious persuasion '.' Answer. "So far as Iknow. Church of England.' [Laughter]"What her residence?" A Tavistock house,Tavistock square." "What agei" A."About 40." "When did she have her firstattack V A. "Twelve months since.""What was the cause V A. Hereditary in-sanity"—that is not true. "Is the insanitysuicidal?" A. "Doubtful." [Laughter.]

The Lord Chief Justice —Who appeared onthe other side?

Mrs, Weldon—Two or three barristers.[Laughter.].

Mr. Wood Hill—And I am one of them,my lord. [Great laughter.]

Mrs. Weldon—Yes, aud Mr. WoodHill says that this action is not maintainablein tort, as it has no relation to properly; butIsay that a woman's reputation is her prop-erty.

The Lord Chief Justice —I am afraid thatwe can not construe the act in the sense youyvould wish—it does not relate to character.Idare say, Mrs. Weldon, you have readShakspeare?

Mrs. Weldon -I have, and I have got ithere. Iwillread the passage:•'Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis some-

thing, nothing:'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to

thousands.But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him,Bat make? me poor indeed.''

The Lord Chief Justice—Yes —"that notenriches him."

Mrs. Weldon —Yes! He took away mymoney and my house, which have made himvery "rich. I only wish I could get rich soeasily. [Laughter.]

Tiie lord chief justice here reminded Mrs.Weldon of the provision of the act of 1S82,declaring that except as aforesaid "no hus-band or wife was entitled to sue one anotherin tort."

Mrs. Weldon—It would be a very goodthins if all the women in England knewthat [Laughter.] Then Ican not catch himin any way. [Great laughter.]

The Lord Chief Justice—Certainly not inthis way. [Renewed laughter.]

Mrs. "\Veldon~So that a husband can libelhis yvife, or do anything he likes. It is avery good thing that we are not told this be-

fore we get married, or else the men wouldbe very badly off. [Great laughter.]

The Lord Chief Justice—Your appeal is

dismissed.Mrs. Weldon—Very well; Idon't see that

the married women's property yet is.of muchgood. [Laughter.]

Mr. Wood Hill—I suppose, my lord, theappeal is dismissed with costs.

The Lord Chief Justice—Yes.Mrs. Weldon then retired.

Everybody Knows It.When yon have Itch, Salt Rheum, Galls, or

Skin eruptions of any kind, and the Piles, theyou know without being told o£ it, A, P. Wilkes,B. &E. Zimmerman andE. Stierle,the druggists,will sell you Dr. Bosanko's Pile remedy for fifty

cents, which affords immediate reUe' A surecare.

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by to the nominal sum of sixty cents in thatState, no Delaware clergyman, livine withinten miles of the Maryland line, will be ableto depend on wedding fees tokeep him inshoe blacking." The fee in Delaware is12.50.

The London Echo says: Enthusiasticchurch men are always ready to subscribeliberally toward the foundation of newbishoprics, of ecclesiastical luxuries of a likenature; but when a densely populated parish ,in Northampton, with its one little church_lled to overflowing, modestly wants anotherplace ofworship, it is reduced in desperationto take the Non-conformist public into itsconfidence, and subscriptions from whereverit can. What makes it worse is, that thereis neither endowment nor rector's house at-tached to what, by stretch of fancy, is termedthe present "living."

The most exciting leap year incident sofar reported is that which comes from St.Elmo, 111. It appears that on Sunday last,while Rev. Mr. Pierce, a young divine, wasoccupying his pulpit in that city. Mrs. MarySmith, a dashing young widow, left her seatin the body of the church and went up andstood beside him. To the astonishment ofthe congregation she announced that shewas about to become Mrs. Pierce. She had,it is rumored, become infatuated with theyoung divine, and to this and the excite-ment of a religious revival, at which 6he wasconverted, her temporary insanity is attribu-ted.

Gustave Dore's last large picture, TheVale ofTears, was intended to be a render-ing of the verse "Come unto Me all ye that

labor and are heavy laden, and I will giveyou rest." The background represents ashadowy valley, flanked by an enormouscrag, at the entrance to which Christ standsclothed in white, bearing a cross. His hand

raised as If in invitation to the great num-ber of sorrowful figures who fill the fore-ground, representing almost every class ofhuman sufferers—the aged, sick, maimed,

halt and blind—all looking toward Christwith the spirit that animates the faces iu theforeground of Raphael's Transfiguration.

CHIT-CHAT FOK LADIES.

The wife of Prince Krapotkine, the social-ist is studying medicine iuParis.

Miss Lilian Bayard Taylor shares her fath-er's fondness for German, and has much ofhis fine feeling for poetry.

Some Japanese women on seeing the corset

for the first time asked " Whether itwas wornas a protection from rude men or a peniten-tial garment to expiate sins."

Of women who never marry there aremore blondes than brunettes. In a majori-ty ofcases where divorces are granted one of

the parties has blue aud the other browneyes.

A San Francisco girl drove two Chineseburglars away from her house with an un-loaded pistol. The girl was wise. She knewthat it is the uu loaded pistol that docs all thedamage.

The wife of President Gonzales of Mexico,left her husband recently and opened a mil-

liner shop iu the capital city. It did notpay. though, because of gossip and scandal,and she was obliged to move into Texas,where she now resides.

The re-engagement of Mme. Theo byMaurice Grau to come to the United Statesnext season willrefresh the lovers of opera-boutle, now somewhat jaded by people whocan sing but cannot act. Theo can singbetter without a voice than any woman alive,and she acts better than she sings.

We are not prepared to believe the storythat John Logan intends to write a bookafter the manner of Blaine. Mrs. Logan isvery busy just now looking after the Presi-dency forher husband and she has no time

to devote to literature. When she doesn'twrite the Senator doesn't write.

Adelina Patti has created a phenomenalsensation in San Francisco. Amongst thefloral tributes presented to her on the occa-sion of her first appearance In "La Travi-ata," last week, was a colossal ladder offame, surmounted by a globe and an eagle,the whole measuring twelve feet in height.

Miss Susan B. Anthony, who was in Hart-ford last week visiting and assisting her sis-ter female suffragists, has at least one pas-ioinate love and that is for a gray skye terriergiven to her by Mrs. Cady Stanton. The an-imal sleeps in Susan's bed, feeds from herhand, accompanies her in her travels, andhas a good time generally.

Mrs. Carlisle's social exactions are said to bemore onerous thau the duties ofthe Speakerhimself. She has returned already 750 callsthis season, and has several hundred more topay. Besides, she has the housekeeping andmarketing to attend to, while her husbandhas only the house to kepp in order aud to

attentlto a little outside free-trade.

Our Present Blessings.

Our blessings are not appreciated until we aredeprived of them. Must notable anion!; them lahealth, the lack of which magnifies onr otherburdens. A hacking cough, a severe cold or anythroat or lung disease is very troublesome; butall these may be quickly and permanently re-moved by l3r. Bigelow's Positive Cure. Trialbottles free, of P. J. Dreis, comer Ninth and St.Peter streets, St. Paul.

KillingGophers.

A big gopher hunt is reported as havingbeen participated in by die officials, passen-gers and hands of the Los Gatos train of the

South Pacific Coast Railroad last Sunday, onthe trip. A little this side of Hall's Station,in consequence of the storm, the track, withwater, and the train had to make but slowprogress for something like three miles. Fin-ally, reaching a certain point, EngineerBaldy could see but one rail above the water,and to insure the safety of the train he stop-ped his engine, put on a pair rubber boots andwaded ahead to make certain that the trackwas all right. He noticed on the rail insight numerous little animals, and a closerinvestigation showed them to be gophers thathad been driven out of their holes by thehigh water, and their only places of refugewere on the higher ground on the rails andthe fence alongside the road. One of thelittle animals, not liking the near approachof the engineer, revenged itself by bitinghim in the calf of the leg. The latter wasnot pleased aud got even by kicking tin-gophers into the water. The train hands andpassengers, observing the peculiar antics ofBaldy, sallied out, and with clubs, stickspieces of coal and all manner of weapons,made it lively for the little aninals. Arriv-ing at Alvarado, the train hands informedthe citizens of the fun they had had, and thelatter went back and succeeded in killingfrom four to five hundred of gophers. AtNewark the rain had driven out many of theanimals, and some two hundred were killed.These gophers, with squirrels and field mice,are regular pests throughout the southerncounties, and it is thought that the latestorms have caused the death ofmillions ofthem. Ifthis is true the storm may notprove so disastrous to the country as it wasfeared it might.—San Francisco Call.

Lightships.

The oldest station for a lightship is tbefar famed Nore, which was marked as far

back as 1732. The vessel lies in the bestposition for entering the Thames and Med-way and to clear the Nore Sand. The light-ship riding in the greatest depth of water is

that lying between the Land's End and theScillv Isles, in forty-two fathoms, near thecluster of rocks known as the Seven Stones;while the one most distant from the land isthat placed to mark the outer Dowsing Shoalin the North Sea, about thirty-three and ahalf miles from Spurn Point in Yorkshire.All lightships give direct warning in the

event of a vessel approaching too closely to

the shoals in their vicinity by firing a gunand hoisting the signal, "You are standingin danger." They also, In certain cases, bymeans of special call rockets of great brilli-ancy, fetch assistance from the shore to ves-sels'in distress. —Chamber' Journal.

The Arabs Hopelessly Handicapped.

New Orleans Picayune.

Having no wires and no control over thepress dispatches, the Arabs found difficultyin winning a victory ou the iirst day. ,

TirtSOF WOMEN.

Tiie Paris "Figaro" Giees la Belle AmerUeaine All the Glory.

Translation by Philadelphia Press.Stylish and pretty independence personi-

fied, but very honest and pure-minded, i3tLeAmerican girl. She adores pleasure, dress,luxury; shows herself morally without con-cealment, such a3 she is, in a manner to de-ceive no one; knows she is attractive, andloves to attract without committing herself.Flirts all the winter with this one or that one,only to dismiss him in the spring, choosingimmediately anothor. Her resources are cap-ital which never lies idle. She goes out alone,or when it suits her best, with a male friend,with a confidence without limit, and an in-timacy, in appearance, almost conjugal.

The one thus elected is allowed to describehis feelings and to speak of his love frommorning tillnight, but it is not permitted tohim to kiss even the tips ofher fingers. Af-ter marriage she passes all her days aloneand her evenings in listening to talk ofbusi-ness, mechanical inventions, farming con-cerns or the lik-.

She leaves her daughters to enjoy the lib-erty which she herself has enjoyed withoutgrave abuse. Since nothing serioUs hap-pened to her. why should Mary, Fannie orJennie be less strong or less able to meet anyemergency.

In one sense she has created the Parisfashions. Parisians detest her, provincialsdespise her, yet men of all nations are be-witched with her, though they do not marryher unless she has a large fortune.

With reddish hair paler than golden,frank black eyes which neither droop norquail, and a figure which it is Impossible toimitate, she lies back in a carriage as if itwere a hammock: a natural aud easy pose,quite unconscious of its voluptuousness. < >ufoot she steps along briskly aud unconcern-edly, her heels tapping the pavement as shewalks. Attracting mauy glances she is yetmuch occupied with herself and little withothers. A plant from the broad wilds, whichput iu a narrow space and finding Itselfhemmed in, stretches across the glass with-out disquieting itself with the thin frozenplants which vegetate around it. Ifunder-stood belter and criticised less this younggirl would be more truly estimated at herjust value.

TnE ENGLISH.

An adorable face, which, in the full glareof day seems as though in moonlight, so paleand transparent lu its coloring. Large eyesfrank yet modest, with long lashes. Littleteeth which lengthen pereeptibly, growinglike gra»s in the country, until at 25 theysuggest a key-board. Delicate aud withoutpronounced figure when young, laterenor-mousrj stoat or dried up. Almost invariab-ly hideous at 40. Extremely etaet in smallmatters, a model of ncatne-s.

Then is a prudish simplicity in the ar-rangement of the chamber, which is only aplace for sleeping, and bathing. No ouemay enter there. To allow even her bestfriend to see so mnch as the pillow on whichshe sleeps! Oh, uo! Shocking 1 Absolutemistress of her actions to the day of bermarriage, but the Slave of duty, she preparesherself from a child to be a good wife andmother. She choses her own husband; herparents are not occupied with nor troublethemselves about the matter, for In Englandthe old maid is not an object of contempt.She lias her own place in society, and, ifanything is lacking to her, she alone is awareof it. She hunts, rides horseback, and oc-cupies herself with music, literature and pol-itics.

She always wishes to know all about awoman, but is not so critical in regard tomen. Virtuous by principal aud tempera-meut, she docs not permit the thought ofevil-doing to rest in her mind. Thodaughter of a peasant is guided by her con-science and follows a straight path.

Her mind is serious aud sentimental. Supawaits a younc lord who is traveling aroundthe world or an ollicer who in in India. Stiewill marry him on his return if he corneabaok without being married. If he be un-faithful she will regret him all her life.Under her white hairs passion willnever beextinguished, and the tears of love willstill run behind the glasses of her specta-cles. The object of her regrets may be-come ugly, fat, commou, drink more thanhe ought, but she will always see him atj^20. When she eomes to Paris, she hasher dresses made by our celebrated costu-mers; but the English sharpness of outlineshows its angles through the softest of ma-terials, llattens plaits, puffs, etc., aud "Miss"is only a knife dressed up, surrounded bya veil of gauze, which floats above herhead lik the flag of a ship at the summit o£bcr great matt.

THE SPANI-1I.

A perfect Creole. A child of nature. TLesun which makes the orange trees blossom

has developed her sensibilities before hermind was formed. There has been no timeto breath to her a word of love, yet her eyesspeak it already. She dances, sleeps andfans herself. Eats little, a cup of chocolateami a cake smelling of roses suffice for herbreakfast. She sups on a serenade.

She wears short dresses, pretty stockings,

and slippers or slices without heels; passesher days iu looking out of the window whenthe balcony fails or is forbidden her; is very-ignorant, never reads, and much .'ess writes.Desires to be married, not from calculationor ambition, but simply because a naturalinstinct makes her understand, even beforeshe has ceased to jump rope, that a husbandis an iudispeusible thing.

THE OEIlMAN.Romantic and sensual. With her love

enters first into the brain, then ascends tothe heart. A pale blonde; she has the bsautyof youth with a spice of the wicked about it,and acts in araannerthat ought to please him.Her eyes look very modest, because she bidesthem under the lower lashes. Loves men iugeneral and always oue in particular.

A rigid Lutheran, she is very severe onthe sins of others, but settles her own direct-lywith heaven. She receives cordially in themorning friends of whom she bas spokenill the night before. Has an air of beingscandalized at this or that; itis a defenceagainst others' severe judgments of her,Loves stndy and music and occupies herselfwith pleasure in the details of house-keeping.Whatever her origin, she is above all a bornhousewife. She has a beautiful face andform, which, however, quickly deteriorate.

THB ITALIAN.

Hate in heart; love in her eyes. The prideofa great lady with a sordid nature. Lovesmoney and pleasure. Unsubmissive, idle,passionate. Ambitious, yet servile ifherinterests require it. She has an attructiveperson and knows how to dress herself in amaterial which perhaps is hardly cut out.Drapes or wraps herself in a scarf, arraiiL'fs

her, hair with a pin and adorns herself with

a pearl. Her voice, which has discord*

when she speaks, becomes harmonious when

she sings. She almost always marries anItalian and does not seek strangers until af-ter marriage. Credulous and superstitious,she believes in omens and bad signs, fearingthe evil eye, two knives crossed End thepoint of a straw.

She has a luxurious chamber, splendidlyadorned with paintings, statues, mosaics andfine chandeliers. The bed is a work of art,the satin curtains are held up by little Cu-pids apparently at play. They would be hardto satisfy if they were not content with theirsurroundings.

THE RUSSIAN.

She Is beautiful, intelligent and indifferentto the opinion of the world. Promises her-self many admirers. Goes to the watering-places, and is a reigning belle. She playsforhigh stakes, and gets anirry when sheloses. Wears Paris costumes in a way whichmakes them doubly charming. Her hairgrows in luxuriant waves. She has a naturewhich casts aside all veils. Is facinating andgood-natured. Talks better than a Frenchwoman ; in everything she is audacious. Thehabit of absolute command leaves its impresson her. She has never said to a servaut,"Please give me this or that." But at 12years of age will order her nurse to be beat-en if vexed with her. Lrjyes dogs, trufflesand champagne. Eats like a man. Has aluxurious room carpeted with fur rugs.

A Feminine Vieie.[Philadelphia Call. |

Maliel—Isn't Itawful the way those westerncowboys carry on i

Edith—Yes; but it is no wonder they aresuch desperate characters.

Mabel—No wonder-Edith—No. they have to be as brave as

lions, you know, in the first place.Mabel—True; Iforgot they had to go near, cows.

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