Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-11
Sense and Nonsense.
Morning rappers-s1ilkmen.
Steal works-Sayings banks.

Steal works-Savings banks.
A two-foot rule-keep your feet dry.
Love, fire and cough cannot be hid.
Many will give advice; few will give help.
Measure ten times, you can cut only once.
A worm on the hook is worth Two in the
mud.
Our actions are our own; their consequences
belong to Heaven.
There is boy in Chicago so bright that
his mother looks at him through smoked
glass.
Iwould not live Away, 7 care not to stay,
it cost too much for washing, wearing three
shirts day
Who is powerful? He who can control his
passions Who is rich? He who is contented
with what he has.
A granger observed lady kick up her
skirts yesterday, and exclaimed: LORI, Pve
COW that can do thatn
One of Jaspcr's converts is frank enough
to reply; - doan know wheddcr Fze got re-
ligion or notify me wild chickun.h
what is patience:" asked a teacher of
class of children 'sWait wee, and dinna
weary" answered a little Scotch girl.
A shopkeeper of great experience says that
however talkative clerks may be during the
day, they arc always ready to shut up at
night.
'tlGni oOscl'allous W lHc Worcester
Press: "'Ihe pen is lnightier than the sword,
but the humble paste-pot is greater than he
that taketh a city"
The closest shave in the way OF joke re-
Gently, is the observation that the grass is so
short in Colorado, that it has to be lathered
before it can be moved.
One extra strong minded woman has re-
marked that an old bachelor IS u man who,
through selfish motives, has rcfrained from
making some woman wretched.
The Detroit free Press asks: Are water
dropsical, and never attain a ripe old age"
seldom living over six months.
A Maiden school teacher kept a youth Is
minutes after school, and the boy asked her
to make it half an hour, as he thought she
was the prettiest teacher in town.
"Bcg pardon for stepping on your train,"
said fop at ball then added, you ought to
have cow-catcher on it," "And would have
caught calf said the young lady.
A MIR. Post, of Ohio, aged one hundred
years, is missing from home His friends
where he is probrbly held for Post age.
Thought I'd leave my measure on your
floor" said man who fell down in barroom
No necessity for that" said the barkceper;
1--WE know exactly how much you hod'
The Russians give their dogs the powdered
larvae of the rosc-beetle as preventive for
hydrophobia. The same remedy is given to
human beings who have been bitten by dogs
Success in life is very apt to make us forget
the time when we weren't much. 1t is just
so with the frog on jump; he can't remem-
Der when he was q tadpole--but other folks
can.
These are days Of progress. 1t took Moses
forty years to travel through the Wilderness
The average bank cashier of to-day would
cover the ground in about twentv-four
hours.
The following sentiment is attributed to
Napoleon Bonaparte: ga handsome woman
pleascs the eye, but good woman pleases the
heart. The one is a jewel, the other
treasure"
Angels in the grave viii not question thee
as to the amount Of wealth thou has left be-
hind thee, but of good deeds thou hast done
in the world, to entitle thee to seat among
the blessed.
81 wonder where those clouds arc going"
sighed Flora, pensively, as she pointed, with
delicate finger, to the heavy masses floating
in the sky, 81 think they are going to thund-
err" said her brother.
Women are not very proud of their ances-
try; not nearly so much as men. You will
find thousand men named Adam where you
will find one woman named after her ilIustri-
Gus grandmother, Eve
The ruling passion cropped out in a barber,
who While shaving the face OF dead man gave
the corpse the whole history of the European
war, the rise and fall of gold, and the pro-
gress of the rapid transit railroads.
A man in Illinois committed suicide by
drowning, lately, in six inches of water He
couldn't have done it alone, but his wife, with
the self-sacrificing devotion and helpfulness
so characteristic Of the sex, sat on his head
Sarah Ann, Oh, amt my brother a clever
boy, Eliza Jane? He's on'y bin to school
two months, an he's got the catechism Eliza:
Wot's that? Why my brothers. only bin to
school two weeks an he's got the measles.
As a note Of traycl-on toot-the remark of
a tramp who was begging something to eat is
he said, that when he had pain he couldn't
tell whether it was a stomach-ache or & back
ache.
The photograph may bottle up the voice
and pass 1t down to future ages; but the
smile that twists the face of Il man as he
seeks solitude and gazes upon his name in
print for the first time, will always have to be
guessed at.
A Germantown gentleman has a dog that
will not permit him to enter the house if his
wife his out of temper. The animal foresees
a time" between his master and mistress,
and out of consideration for the latter prevents
his entrance.
"And now, young gentlemen, which of you
can tell the name of the greatest of the plan
ets-the champion planet, SO to speak-of our
solar system?" ! can sir. "Its Saturn"
And ID, how vi is that pray? why, because he
whats that ?" he asked his landlady, as she
set his cup by his plate. Coffee was the
"Ah" innocently remarked the
boarder, with an air of interest, land what is it
made of?' And there was silence around the
table for the space of half an hour.
= One of the great and lamentable mistakes Of
many pastors is in not weaving in' some.
thing for the children at every public Sunday
service. As a rule, every part cfevery service
is beyond their reach, whether it be the pray
ing, reading, singing or preaching.
Mrs. Dennison, says an exchange, has made
money enough out of "That Husband of
Mine" to purchase a Washington residence.
1t is not strange; many woman has made
enough money out of that husband of hers to
so into all sorts of extrayagances.
Sunday at home-Mamma: -sNow Jack,
there are ten commandments you have to
keep. If you took a thing that wasn't yours
you would break a commandment Jack
remembering something about some little
darkies): "And then thered be nine"
s'Ten dimes make one dollar" said the
schOOlnlaSter. "NOw 90 on. Sir. Ten dol1nrs