Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-10

pOrtant Item IN American exports TO france.
The refrigerating chambers for fresh meat
recently fitted in the steamships Amerique
and Labrador of the French line, have in
creased the demand for this article materially.
The first shipment reached Havre last No
vember on board of the Labrador, and up to
the close of February 373,68O pounds of
fresh beer and mutton had been shipped to
Havre on the two steamers from the United
States, mostly destined for consumption in
Paris. The Amerique having been with
South America for the Paris exposition,
leaves the Labrador as the only vessel to
transport fresh beef to France. In the last
two trips she has taken 283 quarters of beef
and IS carcasses of sheep, equal to lO4 1928
pounds, making an aggregate since Novem-
Der last of ~ 1898 pounds of fresh meat. Be-
sides the above principal articles of export,
hams and hoofs are coming in demand, and
American shippers are looking in that direc-
ton for growing trade.
The Smokers Car.
Reader, have you ever, either by accident
or design, been in the smoking car of rail-
road train we'll under way? 1t not, we beg
of you to improve the first opportunity to do
so. 1t will enable you to see life in new
phase, and you may possibly learn lesson
from it.
We think we are safe in saying there is no
life, either animal or vegetable, less tenacious
than that of man, which could continue
long within its smoky precincts. Thirty,
forty, and sometimes as many as fifty pipes
and cigars of all kinds and conditions, in
full blast, are giving off their clouds of
poisonous smoke, which fills the entire capa-
city of the car.
Fumigation 50 thorough would soon clear
an infested ship of rats and other vermin.
Plants subjected to its influence would be
poisoned to death in short time. A child
would be soon suffocated, and strong men,
who have not been accustomed to such an
atmosphere, would succumb to its poisonous
influence.
The human physical organization is of
wonderful endurance. We have only to
notice the vast amount or poisons, admins
tered by medical advisers in their daily prac-
tice, which the system rejects, always with
more or less injury, to be convinced of that
fact. Without going to extremes for illustra-
tions, we see how tea, coffee, pepper, spices,
and other things not natural to mans ap-
petite, or beneficial to his system are, after
constant and moderate use, not only received
by the system without opposition, but finally
hunger is induced which they alone can
satisfy, or which at least it is difficult to over
come. The same may be said of the use of
spirituous liquors, arsenic tobacco in it's
various forms, opium, and many other forms
of poisons. Perhaps man was so constituted,
expressly to enable him to Withstand the
poisonous atmosphere of the smoking-car.
The smoking-car may be taken as an il
lustration of mans moral as we'll as his
physical nature and tendencies. If the doc
trine of total depravity, once taught, was
true, we might suppose ourselves born in a
spiritual smoking car, whose cloudy con
tents were in exact consonance with our un-
holy condition, and amid which we should
revel with the highest enjoyment.
But in these days of more liberal views
we are taught that men are only naturally in.
clined to evil ways, and readily believe that
in our individual cases the inclination is sc
very little from the perpendicular that there
il no danger of fall. Our neighbor, who
INDUCES in awhole pipefull of sin, may be in
danger, but our little cigarette can work nc
harm. In fact, we see no reason why We
should not be allowed to smoke it if VT
choose.
The little sins are but blossoms of which
the larger ones are the fruit, and the season
of growth is sometimes exceedingly short
One wrong thought or action is followed by
another as readily and inevitably as is thu
cigarette by the cigar.
The confirmed sot had his first glass Of
wine, and he who stands lowest in the mora
scale, his first departure from the paths O.
righteousness.
We are all journeying on life's railway
and on each train there is a smoking-car
Those who enter it do so from choice. The,
may be urged or Influenced by others, bu
the decision, the yes or the no, is with them
More or less of the dust of the road will b.
found on each one of US. We shall not ru1
into the terminal station with our appare
fresh and clean, let US do the best we may
but we can show that we have striyen K
avoid contamination, and that we have a
least kept clear of the denominations of the
smoking car.
/ Movements of Steamships.
New YORK, June 8.-The steamship Ger
mania arrived to-day from Europe. Sh,
brought $4,000 specie.
BALTIMORE, June 8.-Arrived STEAMSHIP,
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