Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-10


And before he could finish the sentance
the veteran duelist was dead.-N. Y.
World.
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.
Rome Sentinel: The difference be-
tween a boy and barn is that shingles
are applied to the roof on the barn.
Hackensack Republican,: 1t was a
darkey who exclaimed as he rose from
his knees at a camp meeting, sHere
raise my cbon-knees, sir!''
A true interviewer is man who put his
own views in the mouth of the interview
ed and trusts in God and good luck to es.
cape dealh.-Donn Piatt
A young lady sent 25 cents and post
age stamp in reply to an advertisement
OF show to make an impression and re-
ceived for an answer, ''sit down in pan
of dough-
1t doesnt seem exactly right that a
man should be obliged to walk through
life on two bow-legs just because he in
dulged in the innocent diversion of suck
ing bis toes in babyhood.
tits stated as solemn truth that In.
diaDs never kiss their wives. All, human
nature is the same. whether under a
white or copper-colored complexion. Blu,
whose wives do they kiss?
II have lost my appetite" said a gen
tleman well known for his able perform
ance on the trencher. II hope,' said a
friend, ''that no poor man has found it.
for it would ruin him in week"
"My dear" said wife to her husband
II really think it is time we had green
house" SWELL, my love, paint it any
color you please; red, white, or green will
suit me" responded the husband.
They were at a dinner party, and he
remarked that he supposed she was fond
of ethnology. She said she was, but she
was not very we'll, and the doctor had
told her not 10 eat anything for dessert
except oranges.
MIR. Sutton, a we'll known professional
base ball player, was converted at revi-
val meeting in Philadelphia not long ago.
He arose to address the meeting, and
said: II have made the first base, and by
the help Of the Lord will make home
run"
They cling to an old and curious Ger.
emory in royal burials, in Saxony. AT
the funeral of the Queen Dowager Amelia
Augusta, short time since, the coffin
vas carried to the royal vault, when the
Bishop knocked at the innermost door
A sepulchral voice from within an.
swered: "Who shall trouble the silence OF
the dead?" The Bishop replied, "A Queen
will enter" ''Is she worthy2" asked the
voice, and the Bishop replied, 'She is wor
thy" and the door is swung back, disclos.
ing no visible agent, only an empty vault
Danbury Neus: The manufacture OF
paper from wood has reached the altitude
of perfection in Canada The superin-
tendent OF mill up there says a tree is
cut down and showed into one end of the
mill and five minutes later there is q
neignbor at the other end to borrow the
paper.
Mamma" asked New Jersey four
yearolder, with a tall father and di-
minutive maternal relative-'sm
how big will I be in-in-eight years?''
"Oh," said mamma thinking a moment,
''let me see: Well, you'll be as big as
me, | guess, by that time" evil II" re-
piled the youngster, looking disappoint-
ed. "Then that isn't worth growing for,
Who was the member of the Agassiz
Clob yictimized with Christmas present
of a I" Norway Sensitive Plant!"-a liftls
brown thing stuck in an old flower pot
leafless, but promising " sweet perfume
it kept in warm place and watered
carefully, "but which after weeks Of
watching and waiting was found to be &
derd mouse buried head foremost with
it's tail in the air-Lqfayette (Ind.,
Courier.
Clean hands in matters of money among
the certainly ought to be the indispens.
able condition of gentlemanliness. Nc
man who borrows and does not pay, and
does not care whether he pays or not, is q
gentleman, no matter how witty, or CAV,
or fine he may be. To speak in good plain
English, the man who dresses himself 1T
another's expense, not knowing how to
pay, not caring whether he pays, is a gen.
teel scoundrel And yet such things are
done by good-natured folk, by kind-heart-
ed people, by persons who never prove
them morally to ascertain what their ten
dency is, and what they lead to.
There is a mad quarrel going on in the
West between some Methodists and Uni
versalists over practical joke played on
somebody-we will not say whom-who
had taken part in one of the public dis
cussions. Suspicion was raised that his
scholarship was mythical, and one of the
other side brought to him the word bac-ka-
che (back-ache), and asked him if he could
tell the meaning of it. To complete the
story, we must quote from the record:
With an air OF Importance, he said, 81
am quite familiar with the word. NV
son called my attention to it year on
two ago. 1t is Hebrew word. Hebrew
scholars differ as to its pronunciation. It
means My God!'"
Words may seem but little things to
us, but they possess power beyond cal
They swiftly fly from us to
others, and though we scarcely give them
q passing thought, their spirit lives.
Though they are as fleeing as the breath
that bore them, their influence is as endur-
ing as the heart they reach. We should
guard our lips so that none grieve in 81
lence over words that we have carelessly
dropped. Right words are indeed pre-