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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1886
Page
3
The Duluth street railway has been sold to a capitalists group with Hon. G. G. Hartley as a member. In St Paul a grand palace is proposed while Minneapolis contemplates turning ice into a frozen cream.
On Tuesday President Grevy was re-elected president of France by joint ballot of the senate and chamber of deputies. His entire majority was 153.
The Duluth Herald reports thirty two railroads will run into Duluth soon and suggests there is no objection to raising the total to one hundred, implying a rapid growth in rail traffic and regional connectivity.
The secretary of the treasury issues a call for ten million dollars of 3 percent bonds with principal and accrued interest due February 1, 1886 and interest ceasing on that date. This marks the first bond call in almost a year.
Report claims General Butler is about a quarter of a million short in his account with the soldiers’ home. The piece warns against a potential scandal like New Orleans spoons, noting Butler cannot afford to become a defaulter despite his faults.
The St Paul Daily Globe issued a twenty four page boom holiday edition on pink paper. It reviews progress and improvements in the dual cities over the past year and includes substantial Christmas reading. The Glebe is praised as an enterprising journal needing support from St Paul citizens and merchants and the democracy of the Northwest.
Tank Kee, a Chinese lecturer, made bitter remarks about the American government during a Friday lecture. The Dispatch condemns coast violence and Rock Springs offenses but argues Congress must protect American labor by restricting Chinese emigration and preventing cheaper Chinese labor from undercutting wages.
The Wisconsin pineries face a grim outlook as editor notes during visits to Stevens Point and other pinery towns. Minimal snow, recent rains, and expected cold weather threaten a weak season. Laborers risk reduced work, while dealers may gain from tighter stocks. Minnesota crews continue, though hampered, with cuts near 90 percent of estimates.
Readers are urged to choose the Ft. Wayne and Pennsylvania line from Chicago to New York for speed and luxury. The railroad advertises upgraded equipment, dining and sleeping cars, and a daylight run along Allegheny and Susquehanna valleys. A through Union Passenger Station at Canal and Madison is promoted to avoid transfers by omnibus.
In a Southern Confederacy tale from Kentucky, Parson Morgan's cavalry stubbornly condemns horse pressing as a national sin, while Dan Ray defends necessity. After a chance swap, the Parson seizes control of a fine horse, only to remark that the trade was compelled by wartime conditions and admit the point later.
A London expert notes ancient diamond supply estimates around 250 000 dollars yearly. South Africa adds 28 million annually for a decade, driving prices from 15 to 3 75 per carat. Indian and Golconda gems shine in prestige, while Ismail Pasha holds a famed collection. Ex Queen Isabella owns famed pearls. Spanish crown jewels inspire chatter. King Alfonso muses on his mother’s absence as a priceless pearl.
Dr. R J Gatling of Hartford who invented the Gatling gun is described as a stout man with a chubby face and stubby gray beard. His small squinty eyes require strong lenses. He is an enthusiast on strengthening America's defenses.
A Mahwah correspondent describes possum abundance near the New York state line, with darkies hunting in woods and mountains. They use traps and deadfalls, often parboil and roast the meat, and prepare guns and stoves for the season.
Pineapples, called ananas in Europe, are biennial plants with a two foot central stem and conical flower cluster. Botanically they are leaf clusters rather than fruit, expanding leaves to enclose the stem as they ripen. The first English pineapples reached Cromwell, and Nassau hosts the largest pineapple canning factory.
The Caterer relates Beau Brummell's humorous dining dispute over a three pounds ten shilling bill. Brummell accepts a shilling as payment and jokes about the misfortune. He offers to clear the matter with a dinner trick at rival lodgings and hands his card to the landlord.
The article recounts Eli Whitney an Massachusetts born inventor who, after teaching in the South, developed the cotton gin to ease seed removal. Georgia residents stole his models and copied his design leading to lawsuits and little financial reward. He later turned to arm making for the government with modest personal gain despite a pivotal invention.
The Museum of St. Petersburg displays a bank note likely the oldest known. It is an Imperial Bank of China issue, dated to a year before Christ, attributed to ancient Chinese issuance.
O B de Morat recalls how sitters, especially women, resist natural expressions and chase flattering looks. He notes a philanthropist’s strained face, laughs at a sextet of examiners, and recounts a country girl frightened by her upside down image. He laments the difficulty of pleasing clients and the humorous distortions of portraiture.
Four gypsies toured Poplar street entertaining with sweet singing and fortune telling. A young man spotted them and, after a chase into a house, identified three visiting young ladies and a home girl. They confessed it was all a lark, enjoyed the fun, and forced the man to swear secrecy.
In Western Washington the timber belt covers about 20 million acres, comparable to the combined sizes of Connecticut Massachusetts Vermont and New Hampshire. It would yield 500 billion feet of lumber at 25 thousand feet per acre, dwarfing current Puget Sound mill capacity of 500 million feet per year, which would require 1,000 years to harvest. Fir trees reach 250 feet with mills producing planks up to 100 feet long.
South Carolina remains the sole state enforcing a no divorce policy, maintaining a unique legal stance that restricts dissolution of marriage. The historic rule shapes family law in the state, affecting couples seeking separation and influencing related legal debates.
A New York Sun report describes a second floor Italian macaroni shop on One Hundred Twelfth Street with fifteen workers. The Nepolitan owner shows dough kneading on a wagon-wheel lever system, vertical cylinders, and air-dried frames for eight days. He notes variations by region and the dish’s popularity among Italians, with vivid detail of preparation and local characters.
John Henry, given only a ten percent chance of recovery, travels to see his fiancée in a New England town. She urges him to rest and faces the heartbreak of an impending death and the proposed dissolution of their engagement. He finally agrees to grant her wish, choosing to spare her future sorrow.
A German cobbler rents a car as a combined workshop and home on a vacant lot at Nineteenth Street near Diamond. For three months he has fixed shoes in a shabby cabin with minimal furnishings, charging about one dollar monthly rent, and tolerates occasional jewelry and watch repairs amid sparse trade.
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