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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
USEFUL IMPORTATION.

10 VENTILATE RooM.-To ventilate
room without draught, make a hole
through the room to. the outer air, in a
corner OF the room just above the skirt
ing. Through the hole put one arm of
tube three inches in diameter, and
bent at right angles. The arm of the
tube reaching to the outer air should
be in length equal to the thickness of
the wall, and the other arm should be
two feet long, standing vertically in the
corner of the room; if desired, it can
be covered with paper of the same pat
tern as that on the wall. A tube of the
diameter given above is sufficient to
ventilate room of moderate size.
A SIMPLE Rat AND MICE ExTER-
M1NAToR. "A German newspaper gives
the following simple method for exter-
minating rats and mice, which, it states,
has been successfully tried by one
Baron Won Backhofen and others for
some time past: "a mixture of two
parts of well-bruised common squills
and three parts of fnely-chopped bacon
is made into stiff mass, with as much
meal as may be required, and then
baked into small cakes, which are put
around for the rats to eat" Several
correspondents of the paper write to
confirm the experience of the noble
Baron and his neighbors in the extirpa-
ton of rats and mice by this sim pie
remedy.
CRows.-Crows may be kept from
corn by first pouring hot water on
half bushel of the seed, and then a pint
of tar, stirring it quickly. Every grain
will become coated with delicate var
nish of tar, and, if then rolled in air
Stacked lime before planting, no crow
will touch it. But, should this remedy
come too late in the season, another
equally efficacious may be used, and
this is the common one of stringing the
field. No crow will enter an angle
formed by two suspended strings
stretched on poles. A curious illustra-
ton occurred some years ago, on a long
strip of soWed corn (for fodder which
was protected by zigzag string running
from one end to the other. Within the
ang les formed by the string not a bundle
was touched, but close without them,
at each end, the whole crop was de-
molished. A crow is remarkably wise
fool, and this is complete mode of cir
cumventing him.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
The Dog and the Picture.

There is story told of al old Greek
artist, to the effect that he once painted
a cluster of grapes which so deceived
the birds that they pecked at the paint
ing. The story has been doubted, be-
cause, it is said, birds have no percep-
ton of artistic effects. But writer in
Nature tells of a dog which appreciated
picture:
In 1913, young and self-taught
artist asked me to allow him to paint
my likeness in oil-colors, and I con-
sented. His studio was in the next
town, three miles distant, and, as often
as required, I went over; I, however,
did not take my dog with me.
1t was done in kit-cat size, and he
succeeded so well in the likeness and
artistic work that, when exhibited at the
annual meeting of the Polytechnic So
ciety at Falmouth, medal was awarded
to it, and, as well, it was "highly COM
mended." Not only this, it brought
MIN into notice, and gained him lots of
employ ment. The artist was so CRATE
full for my attention that he presented
me with the painting, and I still have it.
my old dog was present with the family
at the "unveiling;' nothing was said to
him, nor invitation given to him to
notice it,
We saw that his gaze was steadily
fixed on it, and he soon became excited,
and whined, and tried to lick and
scratch it, and was SO much taken up
with it that we-although knowing so
well his intelligence-were all quite
surprised; in fact, could scarcely be-
lieve that he should know it was my
likeness.
We, however, had sufficient proof
after it was hung up in our parlor; the
room was rather low, and under the
picture stood chair. The door was
left open without any thought about the
dog; he, however, soon found it out,
when low whining and scratching was
heard by the family, and, on search
being made, he was in the chair trying
to get at the picture.
After this, [ put it up higher, SO as
to prevent it being injured by him.
This did not prevent him from paying
attention to it; for, whenever I was
away from home, whether for a short or
long time-somc5imes for several days
he spent most Of his time gazing on
it, and, as it appeared to give him ccm-
fort, the door was always left open for
him.
When I was long away, he made
low whining, as if to draw attention to
it. This lasted for years, in fact, as
long as he lived and was able to see it..
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
ALL SORTS.

IT is absurd to vaccinate the police;
they never catch anything.
A SHOEMAKER has, perhaps, more in
terest in woman's rights-and lefts-
than anybody else.
The largest sum ever paid for horse
in England was $4,000, given for Don
caster by the Duke of Westminster.
A GOOD name is rather to be chosen
than great riches, as the bookkeeper re-
marked when he adopted his employers
autograph.
LITTLE boy at the opening of the
proposed speling-match-" Lets start
fair, grandmother; you take Nebuchad-
ezzar and I'll take cat" ...
AN old farmer, the first time he ate
an oyster stew, was asked how he liked
it. @Well," he answered, II like the
soup well enough, but I wish they'd left
out them pollywogs."
MY pleasure is two-fold," said q
heartless young man who was counting
two girls at once. Two fooled, he
meant.-Ci1aci'aaaati Saturday Night.
PEOPLE are sometimes apt to say that
they don't call any one relation who
is more remote than second cousin at
furthest, but when the present Earl of
Breadalbane succeeded his twelfth
cousin in the possession of plymouth
Castle, the finest seat in Scotland, with
100000 a year, he felt that relation
ship might be recognized even at that
distance.
BILLY THE BUTTER is Savannah ne
gro, SO called because of his butting
capabilities. His common feat is to
break an inch board by running his
head against it. Therefore, when he
charged angrily at Mr.. Howard with his
head down, Mr.. Howard naturally
thought his life was in danger, and
hastily fred with pistol. Probably
his fear was well founded, for the bullet
glanced off the negro's hard skull, sim
ply stunning him.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
Coast Waves.

Next to the action of rain and rivers
comes the gnaWing effect of coast
waves. The wave thunders against the
cliff, which mocks it's seemingly impo-
tent rage by dashing it backward in
cloud of foam and spray, but it returns
again and again to the charge, until
persistency wins the day. The east
coast of England, which has for centu-
ries been fast yielding to the attacks of
the German ocean, furnishes Sir @. Ly-
ell with a majority of his illustrations
in the interesting chapter upon the act
ions of tides and currents. That emf
nent geologist tells us how towns and
villages, marked by names in old maps,
now lie fathoms deep beneath the
waves. In one case, which came under
his notice, houses had within the mem
DRY of living men stood upon a cliff of
fifty feet high, but in less than half a
century houses and cliff were all in
quilted, and sea-water deep enough tc
float a frigate occupied their site. Az
many as twelve churches, each further
landward than the last, have been built
in one parish, and all but one have
been swallowed up by the sea. Church
yards have been consequently destroyed,
in many places the corpses and skele-
tons having been washed out of their
graves and foated away by the tide.
Sir G. Lyell himself saw human remains
protruding from the cliff at Receivers,
in Kent, in 1851. And he humorously
alludes to scene depicted by Bewick,
which, he says, numerous points on
that coast might have suggested; the
graveyard of ruined abbey under
mined and almost isolated by the sea,
with broken tombstone in the fore
ground serving as perch for the cor
morants and bearing the inscription,
$40 perpetuate the memory of -"
one " hose very name was obliterated
and whose monument was to fall in the
waves. And be aptly, though somewhat
sarcastically, suggests that such tomb
stone would have been fit tribute to
the memory of "some philosopher" who
had taught "the permanency Of exist
ing continents" the EZRA of repose," or
the impotence of modern causes"
BelgTGviG. @:.
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Treatment of Crime and Criminals in
the Future,

Basing his opinion on what he re-
CARDS lis the Legitimate teaching Of the
doctrine Of Incredibly, writer in the
journal of Science believes that the
criminal Legislation of the future-un-
less dominated by those who pander to
crime will do something like this
The lineage and connections of every
offender, especially of every habitual
criminal, will be carefully scrutinized,
and all surviving members will be sub
jected to an unobtrusive buj penetrat
ing scrutiny. The younger members
of the race will be, as far as possible.
surrounded by such moral and Religious
influences as will most efectually check
and counteract their probable inbred
tendency to crime. Courts of Justice.
he says, will have their criminal geneolo.
gists, whose records will shed a new
and most valuable light on not few
unsolved problems both of biology and
of mental science. It is to be hoped
that, when "the future" comes, it will
be able to use such power wisely and
without malice. But the author is
more radical still. Gas for the man."
he continues, "who has once formally
declared war against society, hosting,
so to speak, the black flag, care will be
taken that he shall neither repeat his
offense nor, after it's commission, be-
come q parent"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
A Parable of Mr.. Lincoln.

DR.. Sold, Jewish rabbi, recently de-
livcred a lecture in Baltimore on Abra-
ham Lincoln. Among other things he
said that Mr.. Lincoln had most remark
able faculty for dissolving difficult prob
lens by telling simple little stories or
parallels. He compared him to Alexan-
der the Great, cutting the Gordian knot,
for he would unravel the most intricate
question by the sword of his sharp, keen
and incisive wit It was not Mr.. Lincoln's
nature, he said, to argue a point; but
when persons would come to him with
complaints. he often would give them his
views on the subject in a short and COM
prehensive parable. AS, for instance,
some gentlemen from the West had call
ed at the White House, and had been
haranguing Mr.. Lincoln in an excited
manner ABOUT the omissions and commits
sions Of the Government He heard them
patiently tor while and finally said:
"Gentlemen, suppose all the property
you were worth was in gold, and you had
put it IN the hands of Blondin to carry
across the Niagara Falls on tight rope,
would you shake the rope while he was
passing over it, or keep shouting, 'Blon-
din, stoop little more; go little faster?'
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
> Socialism in Germany.

It has been thought strange that in
docile Germany, where order and SUBJ
mission have keen proverbial, Social
ism, with which in the ordinary mind
the excuses of the French Revolution
are most Intimately associated, could
ever rise to the height of strong party,
and assume proportions which for solid
ity and the prospect of continuation
and growth have been. equaled in no
other country. There are two main
causes of this strength first, the con-
dition of the German laborer is, on &C
count of natural and social causes, one
of hardship; and, next, the German
nature is made up of feeling to great
er degree than any other European
character-of feeling deep and solid
which, when reused in philanthropy or
from convictions of personal injustice,
is not turned to this side or that by
some slight accident, as is the case in
French character, but carries the phil
anthropist to the end in his plans for
assistance; and the heavy, stold, deep
nature of the laborer keeps him con-
sistent in his opposition to condition
of society which his leaders tell him is
the cause of his misfortunes. The
German laborer, then, is discontinued,
and educated philanthropists, in SYM
pathy with him, think that in Socialism
they have found cure for his hard
conditional condition depending pri-
marily on backwardness in industries
and the poverty of the German soil,
which, though fertile in the south, is
generally hard, unyielding and sterile.
Any one who has travelled through
thenortheastern part of Germany knows
well the hard condition of the peasants
knows that they are ill-fed, hard.
worked, and that their novels, many of
them with one window, some lacking
even one, are hardly fit for the fowls
which share them with the family.
There are many huts containing only
one room, with damp earth as floor,
and not more than fifteen feet square,
where two families dwell; where sons
bring their wives; where young and old
of both sexes are thrown together:
where modesty can furnish no barrier
to vice, and fine feelings, if any could
arise, are crushed by hard surround.
ings. There is a look of detection on
most faces, while the women especially
seem utterly downcast. One feels that
here are the descendants of those who
for hundreds OF years have been under
ings, in whom habits of submission
and obedience have been so thoroughly
grounded that all will be borne to the
last. But there is also stolid strength
here, that, when once reused, knows
no retreat.-Willard Bro1C11, IN At-
Zd22tic.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

To CLEAN SPoNGE.-Rinse two or
three times in sea-water.
FLEAs.-If you will take r-slacked
lime, place in colander and sift over
the places infested by feas, you will
find yourselves free of the pests.
OATMEAL CRACKERS Take one pint
OF milk, one teaspoonful of salt, and
stir in sufficient meal to make thir
batter; drop in buttered tins and bake
hard. ..
GREEN-CoRN OMELET.-Take twelve
ears of green corn, five eggs, salt and
pepper to suit the taste; split the mid
die OF each row of corn, and then scrape
from the cobs. ..s ..
To DRIVE AWAY RED ANrs.-One
pint OF tar in two quarts of hot water,
put in ,earthen vessels in closets, or
sprinkle sea-sand, or strew oyster shells
or red-cedar shavings.
To RENEW GILT FRAMES YOU
will take sufficient -four of sulphur to
give golden tinge to one and one-half
pints of water, and boil in it five onions,
strain, and when cool apply to the parts
that require restoring, with soft brush,
it will come out good as new, when dry.
CHICKEN SALAD.--Two chickens
weighing six pounds, two punches of
celery. 30 Sac chickens in very little
water; cut in large pieces; dry the
celery without washing; take two yelks
of hard-boiled eggs, the yelk Of one
raw egg, and mix them to- ether, with
one teaspoonfu] of dry mustard; add
slowly half of large bottle of oil, the
juice OF one lemon, two tablespoonful
OF vinegar, teaspoonful of salt, little red
pepper; put in cold place just before
using; mix it through the chicken; also,
two hard-boiled eggs cut fine, one table
spoonful of capers, and six olives, cut
fine; save little dressing for the top.
BAKED F1sH.-Take any nice fish.
boil it, remove The bones and chop con-
siderable parsley very fine, with one
small onion. Have about as much bread
crumbs as fish. Take a pudding-dish
and butter it, then lay in layer of
bread crumbs, then layer of fish, end
ing with the bread crumbs. Mix YOUR
parsley and onion, with salt and pep
PC1s IIuOuBu yOuI UIeau CRUMBS. HuG
Jumps of butter over the top, very
slight grating of nutmeg, and pour over
it all sweet cream, CT very rich milk,
till it rises nearly to the top. Bake in
quick oven till it has a nice, rich
brown crust.
SPARKLING BROTH, OR BEAN SoUp.-
Procure one quart of small black beans
or white ones will do, and soak them in
boiling water over night. In the morn
ing put the beans in six quarts of
water in large boiler, adding some
beef or mutton, or any kind of cold
meat that you may have in the house,
first cracking the bones and cutting off
the fat from the meat. Put to it on
large onion, some nutmeg, and whole
peppers. Set it on the fire where it will
simmer nine hours. Then strain it,
rubbing all the mealy parts of the
beans through the sieve. Wash the
boiler and return the soup to it to heat
up. When served, cut up half lemon
in very thin slices and lay in the bot
tom of the tureen, pouring the soup,
boiling, over them. A wine-glass of
claret is great improvement.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
. True SelEResnect.

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States, had a sublime sense of Justice.
He would far rather suffer wrong than
do wrong, and was reluctant to plead
for clients when he knew that the law
and right were against them.
On one o.Nasion, in great political
struggle, he thought member of q
committee had acted in an underhand
way: Though it was designed for the
good of the party to which Mr.. Jay be-
longed, yet such was his sense of JUS
tice that he procured a vote of censure
against the man. He angrily vindicat-
ed himself, and called Mr.. Jay some
hard names. g...
On further inquiry, Mr.. Jay found
that, Judging too hastily, he had mis-
unprecedented the mans action. He
went to him promptly, and said, "You
were right, and I was wrong. I ask
your pardon" He felt that true self
respect demanded such an apology.
The man, overwhelmed with surprise at
this unexpected humility, said, I" I have
often heard that John Jay was great
man, now I know it,"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
A Shot at an Incoming Duck.

10 stop an incomer," raise the gun
carefully in the line of his flight: move
quickly ahead of the duck, when YOU
judge him to be in range; and, when
you lose sight of head and bill over
your gun, pull instantly. The fight of
a duck is ordinarily at the rate of about
sixty miles an hour; but, when acceler-
ated by fear, or brisk wind, or both,
it is nearly double, and must be expert
mented upon to be fully appreciated.
To become good "pass shot," some of
the requisites are: to be able to Judge
distances quickly and accurately; to be
able to cover well the moving bird, and
not to check the motion of the gun at
the moment of discharge. Because it
is necessary for most men to hold some
distance ahead of swiftlyfying game in
close range, it does not follow that this
is the best thing to do; it shows,
rather, that such one is in the habit of
checking or arresting entirely the mo-
ton of his piece as his finger presses
the trigger. Most sportsmen finch
at that supreme moment, and, unless
the habit is entirely overcome, they
cannot expect ever to become good
wing shots. The "choke boring" of
guns, in limited use long ago, has only
very recently, come into favor and
rather more general use. Upon the
pass or elsewhere, it adds at least one
fourth more distance to the killing
range of the gun. This is done by the
effect it has upon the "pattern made
by the shot, causing the gun to throw
greater number of shot pellets into a
given circle than can be done by the
cylinder, or straight bore. One barrel
of the duck-hunter's gun should surely
be bored in this manner.-C Il Zin1n1er-
man IN Scrjb7aer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30
A Beehive in an Attic Room.

Mr.. James Emerson, resident on
the Mutt road, some four miles south of
Manchester, has swarm of bees which
has been in his house forty years. Hav.
ing no use for one of the attic rooms
in his two-story house, he took the hive
of bees and placed it there, boring
holes through the side of the building
facing the hive, so that the bees might
60 in and out. During all these years
Mr.. Emerson has used the honey freely
and the bees have built comb on
either side of the hive two feet in
thickness and several feet in height.
The comb next to the hive is filed with
honey, while there is nothing in that on
the other side.-Co1acord IN. ~ Mo,e-
ltOr.
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What 1t Cost President Lincoln to Be
Severe.

Mr.. Lincoln did not always give way
to his natural feelings of pity and ten.
derness. In his high position as ruler
and executive, he could not. But the
frmness in him thai sent fellow-be-
ing to death ever caused him bitter
struggle. Judge Cromwell, of Denver.
who visited him in March, 1866: reports
Mr.. Lincoln's own words. Mr.. Seward
and several other gentlemen were also
present, and the President gradually
came to talk on decisions of life and
death. All other matters submitted to
him, he declared, were as nothing in
comparison to these, and he added:
Il reckon there never was man
raised in the country on farm, where
they are always butchering cattle and
hogs, and think nothing of it, that even
grew up with such aversion to blood
shed as I have, and yet I have had
more questions of life and death to set
tie in four years than all the men who
ever sat in this chair put together. But
I've managed to get along and do my
duty, as I believe, and still save the
most of them, and there's no man knows
the distress of my mind. But there
have been some of them I couldn't save
there are some cases where the law
must be executed. There was that
man -, who was sentenced for piracy
and slave-trading on the higE seas.
That was a case where there must be
an example, and you don't know how
they followed and pressed to get him
pardoned, or his sentence committed
but there was no use of talking.
"And then there was the case of Beal,
on the lakes. That was case where
there must be an example. They tried
me every way. They wouldn't give up,
but I had to stand firm on that, and
even had to turn away his poor sister
when she came and begged for his life,
and let him be executed, and he was
executed, and I can't get the distress
out of my mind yet" s.4l " ..<
AS the kindly man uttered these
words the tears ran down his cheeks,
and the eyes of the men surrounding
him moistened in sympathy. There
was profound silence, in which they
rose to depart. Three weeks after, the
President was killed.
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Presence of Mind.

Scene in Edinburgh:I slept in.the same
room with my mother. One morning l
called out much alarmed, "There IS
ightning" but my mother said, after a
moment, ''No, 1t is fre!' and on opening
the window shutters I found the flakes Of
fire flying past had made the glsss quite
hot. The next house but one was on fire,
and burning fiercely, and the people next
door were throwing every thing they pos
sessed-even china and glass out of the
windows into the street. We dressed
quickly, and my mother sent immediate
~ to Trotter, the upholsterer, for 4 men.
We then put our family papers, our sill
yer, &C., &C., into trunks, then my mo-
Their said, SHOW let us breakfast; it is
time enough for us to move our things
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-30

MRS. JAMES BRYANT, of Loundes
county, Ala, until last year, possessed
the finest head of natural black hair in
the State. In the summer of 1878 she
cut off her locks, donating them for the
yellow-fever sufferers. She was soon
enabled to send several hundred dollars
to Memphis. A few days ago the hair
was returned to the original owner by
the kindness of a Boston merchant, and
is about to be rafded for in Montgomery
for the benefit of Gen. Hoods children.
BLACKBERRY CoRD1AL.-Ripest Der
ries; mash; put in linen bag; squeeze
out juice; pound of best loaf SUI gar to
every quart of juice; put in preserving
saucepan, and when melted set on the
fire, and boil to thin jelly; when cold, to
every quart of juice allow quart of
brandy; stir well and bottle. Ready for
use at once.
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The Kind-Hearted Creditor

A saloon-keeper went down to the train
last night to overhaul a man who owed
him sixteen dollars. He announced his
intention of wiping the platform with the
man, IT he once got hold of him. He
found the man, and the two had talk
about the debt. The debtor told pitt
Jul story about his hard luck, and said
he had only just enough money to get to
Elko. The saloon-keeper is kind-heart-
ed German, and after hearing the story
of the fellows misfortunes the tears stood
in his eyes and he remarked, "Mlne Got,
Pill, ish dot 500 Veil, here's two tollars
and half for you to get grub on de vay,"
and thrustng the money into the mans