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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-16
CITY NOTICE,
Sidewalk Assessment.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
CITY OF ST. PAUL. MINI, March 10, 1878.
The Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota
will meet at their office in said city on the Both
day of March, A. d. 1878. at 10 a. NJ. to make
an assessment of benefits, costs and ex-
penses arising from the construction Of side
walks under contract of Jacob Miller, awarded
November 7, and dated November Is, 1877 in
front of the following described property, lying
and being in said city, to-wit:
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-16
THE TREATMENT.

The Sisters say the method pursued is,
that when a patient enters no allusion is
made in any way to her past ife-the past
is completely buried and new life com
mences. Everything is done to keep the
mind from dwelling upon the reckless life
which led to suffering, but every effort is
made to lead to q hopeful future.
It is q rule for the Sisters never to diyulge
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-16
ON FORT STREET.

Ivine's Enlargement Of Rice d Ttioe's
iddifiOu
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-16

HeH tH6Ie IS HUCl1lHS HOl6 you WISH
to communicate about the matter?
Mr.. McK.-No. There is one point, how
ever, you may make, if you wish. You can
say that and those who are associated with
me in this task of reclamation do not wish
to drive these poor women into the streets.
Our institution is ready to receive them with
open arms. All we desire is their temporal
and spiritual reform and welfare.
RI will cheerfully do so. Thank you.
Good night, sir.
And thus, from the bagnio to the pulpit
The GLoRE missionary ended his inquiries
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

cellence, with any line in the Exposition
although, of course, there are many
works in the other galleries much finer
than any thing thut We have. Our col
lection is certainly superior to those of
several countries, and equal to some
others, and, whatever may have been
said to the contrary, shows good deal
of independence and originality, and
perhaps more variety than any other,
and altogether much frst-rate work.
In ON branch of art,-that of wooden
craving, although the number of exam
Piles shown by America is small, in quail
ity we equal,if We do not excel, most
others. 1t has been pronounced, by some
of the best artists and engravers here,
to be among the best work of the kind
in the Exposition. AS a whole. oul
gallery, viewed by any standard, is very
good, and no one, on seeing it, need be
otherwise than hopeful as to the future
of American art.-Scribner for Deem
ho,.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

The deserving poor are the last to be
found. Too modest and self-respectful
to beg, they remain hidden away in cor
ners and attics, in hunger and nakedness
until some village Nightingale searches
them out and provides for their necessi-
ties. Back-door begging is often brazen
and undeserving. Idleness and vice
brought the parties to want, and they
are more ready to apply to the benevo-
lent for relief than to take any measures
to help themselves. Chronic laziness
and shiftlessness can be cured only by
the pressure of hard necessity. But the
virtuous and worthy poor should be
sought out and cared for. The vagrant
you can leave to the public authorities,
but that unfortunate one, who, like a
stricken deer has fed to the secret place
to suffer and die alone, should be
searched out and made comfortable
Zion's Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

THE HEART.-The heart-the reser-
yoir of the blood and the great central
organ of the circulation-is hollow,
muscular organ, in the form of an irreg-
ular cone. 1t is enclosed in membra-
nous bag. but loosely, SO as to allow free
motion. Though forming one muscle,
there are two distinct hearts, each side
being divided from wall. 1t contains
four cavities. each of which holds between
two to three ounces of blood. The whole
quantity of blood in an adult man varies
from twenty to twenty-five pounds.
The heart contracts 1000 times in an
hour; there consequently passes through
the heart every hour 700 pounds of blood.
In other words, every drop of blood in
the system passes through the heart
twenty eight times an hour, or once every
two minutes. The human neart is deem
ed by poets and philosophers to be the
seat of moral life and character, of our
understanding and will, courage and
conscience, and by some men looked upon
as the root of life itself.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

A PLEASANT STORY OF ROBERT LIN
coLN.-It is told Of Robert Lincoln that
when he was boy-student at Phillips
academy-his father having just been
made president-he, with divers other
students, played some innocent but mis-
chievous pranks on the citizens of Exeter.
such as making amusing changes of gates
and signs in the night time. The citi-
zens naturally did not like it, and the
students, with the exception of Lincoln
were called to the Justices Office next
morning to answer for their mischief.
Then forth stepped young Lincoln. in a
manly way, and said: 81 see by the
reading of the warrant that many of my
school comrades are charged with COM
mitting offenses last evening against
good order and the peace and dignity of
this pleasant village. was in company
with many of the parties mentioned in
that warrant, and if they are guilty Of
the charges therein set forth, am equal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

"A dromedary is camel that has "got
his back up" twice.
Lighting fires with kerosene makes
every man his own cremationist.
He who wood rize in the world, says
Josh Billings, must pay for the yeazt
When mans upper story is without
tenants, his mouth will announce the
fact.
Artemus Ward said of the Mormons: !:
"Their religion is singular, but their
wives are plural"
Lawyers are never more earnest than
when they work with will-that is, if
the estate is valuable.
There are boys who will not follow a
circus procession or band wagon. They
are under the doctors care.
Evansville. Ind, burglars have no
more idea of the eternal fitness of things
than to rob an editors house.
A young lady rebukingly asks, Which
is the worst, to lace tight, or to get
tight? We give it up-we never laced.
1t takes the man who wants Office to
see the corruption there is in official cir
cles. The more he sees of it the more
anxious he seems to be to get into it.
"Did you think of me while you were
| gone p tenderly asked an up town wom-
an of her husband who had just got back
from Florida. He said he did once. 1t
was when he saw an aligator's jaw.
What is more aggravating than, when
starting out in heavy rain storm, tc
attempt to button your overcoat up to
your neck, and ascertain that the only
button on the coat is located down at its
equator?
A Boston man seeks a divorce from
his wife because she won't move oftener
than once year. He just dotes on put
ting down carpets and putting up stoves
and eating his supper on the head of {
-four barrel. 'F13S
Jack" said farmer one day to his
hired man, 'do you know how many
horns there are in dilemma" "Well
no, not 'zactly," said the man. ''but
know how many there are in quart o.
good old Medford."
The Troy Times observes: "Kissins
the baby may result in deforming it,
nose and bringing on near-sightedness
The safest plan is not to kiss baby O
the feminine persuasion until it attain
the age of l6 years. The cartilage O
the nose is much stronger then"
A little Portland girl recently testified
innocently to the life of drudgery exper
fenced by the average 'queen of tn
household who does her own housework
Somebody asked the child if her mother
hair was gray. 81 don't know" she said
"she is too tall for me to see the top O
her head and she never sits down."
Vermont is by all odds the most bar
barous State in the Union. Instead Q
hanging her murderers at once, she send
them to the penitentiary for two year
and then hangs them. The state {
mind of the wretches during the tw
years preceding the conclusion of thei
punishment may be imagined. Possibl
the object Of the State is to better pre-
pare them for the glorious future whic
the majority of slaughterers talk 50 muc
about on the eve of their departure, b,
the prospect must be appalling even
Christian murderers.-LouisviAe Cou
ier-.JOuTn0L.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

Precious METALs.-The amount of
the precious metals now in existence is
estimated to be SIS, 3,0O0.ooo,Ooo. Of
which gold furnishes S7,000,000.000
and silver the remainder. Or the amount
now in existance. $8,0O0.000,000 is
estimated to be in coin and bullion. $3,-
900, 100000 in watches, and the re-
mainder in plate, jewelry, and orna-
ments. Of the amount now in existence,
$7,Oo0.OOO,0o0 is estimated to have
been obtained from America, $3.O0O,-
100000 from Asia Gncluding Australia
and New Zealand). So, 900, 900. 900 from
Europe and the remainder from Africa.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02
ssTHE DINNER OF HERBS WHERE
LOVE 1877

good wife stood by her easement brown,
And mused, through her falling tears,
OF the endless round of q work-a-day life
And its dun and wearying yeaIs;
And she sighed "Ah, me life's songs and flowers
Are never for such as 1;
But thro verdureless meads and moss-grown springs
My pathway must lie."
And 10 from over the brow of the hill,
Their sweet faces kissed by the sun,
To that low brown house by the tasseled pine
A troop of children run.
They cling to her neck, they climb on her knee,
They rehearse all the sports of the day;
And their childish troubles they pour in her ear,
Sure that mother" will charm them away.
All what are the songs and the blossoms of life
But its garlands of girls and boys?
And no hours are barren, no home is unblest.
That numbers these priceless joys.
Refreshed, she stopped for her burden again,
And 10 it had grown SO light.
| 1t rose like the lark that spurneth the earth,
And singing, scars from our sight.
She stood again by that easement brown,
| AS the setting sun gilded the caves,
And the farmer. a-weary came toilng home.
With his fragrant burdened sheaves
But in the glow of her radiant face,
Ali forgotten were hours of care;
For he said. ''To is sweet when those we love
The fruit of our abors share"
That night, when the children gathered round
The cheerful hearth, one read:
30, better the dinner Of herbs, and love,
Than wealth with strife. it is said"
/ And the mother smiled for the long, dun years
Seemed string Of glowing pearls;
And that small brown home was the golden clasp
That held fast her boys and girls.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

AMERICAN PICTURES AT THE EXPOSE
rIoN.-The American pictures are to
we'll known to need further particular
description. The impression on entering
the gallery is very good. The general
tone of color is rich, subdued, and much
more pleasing than in many Of the other
rooms. and the pictures on the line will
bear favorable comparison, in general ex-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

Some touching and beautiful supersti-
tions prevailed among the Indian tribes.
The Seneca tribe entertained one of sin
gular beauty. When maiden died
they imprisoned young bird until it
first began to sing, then loading it with
messages and caresses they liberated it
over her grave, with the belief that 1T
would not cease its flight nor close its
eyes until it had flown to the spirit-land
and delivered its precious burden of af-
fection to the loved and lost.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02
AT NIGHTFALL.

Coming along by the meadows.
just after the sun went down,
Watching the gathering shadows
Creep over the hIllsides brown;
Coming along in the cleaning,
With never star in the sky,
Ny thoughts went a-roaming. a-roamirg
Through days that are long gone by;
Days when desire said, Tomorrow,
Tomorrow, heart, wen be gayI'
Days ere the heart heard the sorrow
Which echoes through yesterday.
Life was goblet FURNISHED,
That with love for wine was filed;
The cup is bruised and tarnished.
And the precious wine is spilled.
But TO the traveller weary,
just coming in sight of home,
What does IL matter how dreary
The way whereby he has come? fHf
Coming along by the meadows.
And watching the fading day,
D,Aaissr-ttes, .aishes -,l-ei.y shadows
Fell shadows of yesterday.
In the northern sunsets glimmer,
The Great Bear opened his eyes;
Low in the east simmer
Showed where the full moon would rise
Lights in window were cleaning
And some one stood at gate,
Said. ''why do you stand there dreaming?
And why are you home SO late?"
Yesterdays shadow and sorrow
That moment all vanished away!
Here were to-day and tomorrow
What matter for yesterday?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02
WE NEVER DRINK.

On the stage were seven or eight SOL
diers from the Eigth Maine Regiment.
While at the stage house, in Lincoln,
there came into the Office a poor blind
man-stone blind-slowly feeling his
way with his cane. He approached the
soldiers and said in the gentIest tone !:
"Boys. hear you belong to the
Eighth Regiment. | have a son in that
regiment" F"
"What is his name %
John -"
''Oh, yes; we know him we'll. He
was sergeant in our company. We
always liked him.
"Where is he now p
ssHe is lieutenant in a colored regi-
ment, and prisoner in Charleston.
For moment the old man ventured
not to reply; but at last sadly and slow.
ly he said:
81 feared as much I have not heard
of him for a long time"
They did not wait for another word !;
but these soldiers took from their wal
lets a sum of money, nearly twenty dol
lars, and offered it to the old man, say
ing:
'If our whole company were here we
could give you hundred dollars
The old man replied:
"Boys, you must put it in my wallet,
for I am blind"
But mark what followed. Another
individual in the room, who had looked
on this scene with, as | had, with feel
ings of pride in our soldiers immediate
ly advanced and said:
"Boys. this is handsome thing, and
I want you to drink with me. [ stand
treat for the company"
I waited with interest for the reply.
1t came.
"No, sir; We thank you kindly; we
appreciate your offer-bvt a0e necer
drink"
The scene was perfect; the first was
noble and generous, the last was grand. u
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

If we work upon marble it will per-
ish; if we work upon brass time will
efface it; if we rear temples they will
crumble into dust; but if we work upon
immortal minds-if we Undue them with
correct principles, and with proper
reverence for the Creator and an affec-
ton for their fcllowmen-we engrave on
these tablets something which shall
brighten in all time to come.-Edacard
Everett.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02
CHEAP MONEY.
Prof Sumner has an article IN Sc,i6-
qey for December on aThe National Bank

Prof. Sumner has an article In Scrub
,aer for December on s.The National Bank
Circulation" from which we quote:
We have reached another period of
outcry against banks and clamor against
the "money power" The national banks
have certainly no sins to answer for, such
as those which have been above referred
to on the part of banks in former times.
Neither have they made offensive exhi-
billions of the power of wealth. 1t may
be doubted whether they care very much
for the threat to deprive them Of the
power to issue notes. With the resump-
tion of specie payments, that power would
lose much of its value which it has had.
THE proposition to retire the national
bank notes, and replace them by green
| backs $ question of public policy. in
which banks are especially interested
only as they are financial institutions.
IF the proposition is discussed at all, it
must be discussed as question of pub
lie policy.
The issue of notes to circulate as SUBJ
sttutes for money is monopoly. TAX
Ing the supply and demand Of the prec-
lois metals as they stand at any moment,
| L, Tr,sSoJ H. L..
ofgrains of gold to do its business with.
W. put so and so many grains into a
siigle piece and call it a dollar; then
W, need so many dollars. The total
AMOUNT of dollars for which we can issue
ndes is thus fixed by the requirement
fol money. The notes displace gold to
the extent to which they are issued, and
if this is less than the requirement, the
remainder will be specie. If the notes
exceed the requirement, specie will be
ata premium. It's immaterial whether
there be one issuer or two thousand.
The gain of the issuer comes from the
fac that he, in effect. gains possession
of the coin which his note displaces
with the coin he buys capital and earns
interest. He has, therefore, printed a
premise to pay, for which he gets inter-
es;. If he keeps dollar in gold in his
vaults for every dollar he issues, he loses
an equivalent interest, and the note only
saves wear of coin and serves convenience.
Therefore, the proportion Of gold which
he keeps goes just SO far to Offset the in
terest obtained for his notes, and, if he
has ne gold at all, and is issuing pure
ly irr.deemable note, he is winning in
terest on the product of the printing.
pres, as if it were capital. An irredeem.
abe bank-note is therefore pure swim
die. On the other hand, the public is
often told about the economy and profit
o. paper currency, convertible, but
only partially protected by reserve. II
should not be forgotten, however, that
this gain is not won by the public, but
by the note.issuer. In any case, the
public pays for value currency to the
amount of its requirement, and, if il
gives up any part of it, and makes use
of asabstitute, it makes gift of just
that amount to the issuer of the substi
lutte. Cheap money is never cheap tt
ANYBODY but the issuer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

G4
THE LAST OF THE KEELY MoToR.-
The Philadelphia Times sums up, in
few words, the final winding up Of the
affairs of that most audacious humbug,
the "Keely motor" The inventor, SO
called, claimed that he could develop
power in connection with small keg of
water that would drive a large sized
steamship across the Atlantic at cost
of few cents a day, and that all our
methods of river and land locomotion
were to be changed by his wonderful
discovery. Thousands of persons be-
lieved his extravagant assertions, and,
as "the fools are not all dead" many
took stock in the company formed for its
development, of course with total loss
of their investments Now that the final
collapse has come, the facts elicted are
that the liabilities of the concern are less
than $500, but $4,000 of the money
of the stockholders has been subscribed
and paid out for useless machinery, and
over a million and half has changed
hands in the rise and fall of its stocks.
There were 10000 shares of a par value
of 500 each issued. These sold at first
for $50 per share. but the scheme was
SO skilfully manipulated that they fire.
quently changed hands at $500 per
share. Now they are without value. and
could not be sold for a cent, even if
offered in lots to suit customers of small
| means
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02


And now the summer is over and the
harvest is ended. The tools are put
away; the cattle are housed and fed ;
the evenings are getting long; look over
the work of the past year and see what
could have been better done. Look for
the losses and see what was most profit
able. Write up the books; read the
valuable particulars about the different
cattle. sheep and swine, that they may
not be left to memory alone. Straight
en- up all old accounts look over the
list Of papers; send for sample copies of
those you see advertised and begin to
make a good selection for the coming
year. Buy some useful books each year j;
and do dot forget to consult the tastes
of your wife and the tastes of the family.
Join the Grange or Farmers Club if you
have not done so, or start club. Work
and learn; study, plan and recruit for
another summer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

Mr.. Billings IN HIS ALMANAC FOR
1879.-A man with very small he'd on
him IL like pin without emmy, very.apt
to git into things beyond hiz depth.
An Enthuziast IL party who beleaves
about 4 times az mutch az he kan prove,
and who kan prove sabout 4 times az
mutch az ennybody else behaves.
How kan you expekt to find two peo-
pie in this world who are alike when yu
kant even find one who IL alike haff the
time.
Thare amt nothing that man will
thrive so we'll on az abuse that amt mer-
tied.
Whenever yu cum akrost man who
distrusts everybody, yu hav found one
whom it is safe for everybody to dis
trust.
The man who never makes emmy blum
ders il very nice piece ov masheenery
that's all.
Thare IL 2 things in this world for
which We are never fully prepared, and
that iz-twins.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

ly amenable before the law. I therefore
ask, before proceedings commence, that
this warrant shall be amended by having
nv name inserted with the rest of my
comrades, for | do not desire any person
to shoulder any responsibility belonging
to myself No objection being made,
the warrant was amended. also the cer-
ti6cate of summons, and all the students,
including the presidents son, were fined.
THE HABIT OF READING.
81 have no time to read,'' is the COM
mon complaint, and especially of women,
whose occupation are such as to prevent
continuous book perusal. They seem to
think. because they cannot devote as
much time to their books as they, are
compelled to devote to their ayocations,
that they cannot read anything. But
this is great mistake. It isn't the
books we finish at sitting that always
does the most good. Those We devour
in the odd moments, half dozen pages
at time, often gives us more satisfac-
tion, and are more thoroughly digested
than those we make q particular eff
fort to read The men who have made
their mark in the world have generally
|
been the men who in boyhood formed
the habit of reading at every available
moment, whether for FIVE minutes or
five hours.
| It is the habit of reading rather than
the time at our command that helps US
on the road to learning. Many of the
most cultivated persons, whose names
have been famous as students, have CIV
en- only two or thee hours day to their
books. If we make use of spare mo-
ments in the midst of our work, and
read a little, if but page or a para
graph, we shall find our brains quick
ened and our tolls lightened by just SO
much increased satisfaction as our book
gave US. Nothing helps along the mo-
notonous daily round SO much as fresh
and striking thoughts. to be considered
while the hands are busy. A new idea
from a new volume is like oil which re-
duces the friction of the machinery Of
life. What we remember from brief
glimpses into books often serves us as a
stimulus to action, and becomes one of
the most precious deposits in the treas
ury of our recollection. ALI knowledge
is made of small parts, which would
seem insignificant in themselves, but
which. taken together, are valuable
weapons for the mind and substantial
armor for the soul. sRead anything
continuously" says DIR. johnson, 'and
you will be learned" The odd minutes
that we are inclined to waste, if care
fully availed of for instruction, will. in
the long run, make golden hours and
golden days that we shall be ever thank
full for.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

A lady being asked on the witness
stand her age, replied that she did not
remember when she was born. and all
she knew of it was hearsay. This being
hcarsay evidence it was notadmissable
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-02

ssGive me some headache and a family
fight is the Ohio call for a glass Of
whiskey and bitters.