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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-20
Mr.. KrOeger's Hand Organ.

After the grinder had tortured ':Spring,
Gentle Spring" to close, and had shout
dered his organ to go in quest of further
pecuniary triumphs, Mr.. Kroeger spoke
up, and said:
'Did you ever hear Of the hand organ
got up, not many years ago?'
'Never; let's hear about it."
"Well, it was a phonetic hand organ
I had heard celebrated vioiinists draw
such simple words as yes and, mamma
out of their instruments, and thought
would try and get up something which
would say ubiquitous santithess.' and
'almoner' and other respectable words.
At first wasn'd very successful, but l
persevered and success crowned nv ef-
forts. l had the words set to music, and
all I had to do was just to grind them
out. By pushing in one stop and pulling
out another, the whole thing would be
changed. used to go around and play
Mark Twain's Jumping Frog to airs from
Lucia and one Of Evarts' long speeches
to the tune OF Old Hundred. I also re.
produced the songs of birds, and fire.
QuCulAy3 WAOu L wac PSAAOA AAAA{E9f oil
oriole would fly down and try to mate
| with the hand-organ.
~ gotup special hand-organs, too. Fol
instance, had one loaded with Black.
stone, and when young law students were
too lazy to read they would parchase an
| organ and hire bootblack to grind i,
out to them while they would lie back
in their chairs and smoke cigarettes
They used to be enabled to hear 'Nixon's
Digest Gritty on Contracts and the
Revised Statutes, set to the tripping airs
of sPinafore' and Belle Helene"
"Wasn't your idea something in tn,
monograph line2'
mot at all--not at all!' responded
Mr.. Kroeger, coloring lp as though hs
had been accused of apyrepriating SOM
lone else's thunder; ':the photograph re
produces; nv organ produces sound
over as long as it is properly creased.
used to collect uncollectable bills toe
There was an old man named Cup, VIII
borrowed S. from me once, and coul'
never make him shekel out to me; so
got mad, wrote song about him an
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-20
Little Johnny's Fables.

One time boy he cot frog, and luke
and put him in his fathers bed and jest
fore bedtime the boy sed to his father:
cts been nifty wet wether lately,
and the frogs has all been drowned out of
the pond, and mebby some of them big
green tellers has cum in the house and
gone to bed like foxes"
Then the boys father he luked up from
his newspaper and he sed
''Charlie," cos that was the boys name,
II guess you had better 60 to bed your
ownself cos vure iutieck is wanderin'
wild agin, and you might do yure sellef
an injury by swollerin' the cole SHUTTLE,
or buttin' your brains out aginst the sofy
piller.'
So Charley he went to bed, but after a
vile he was woke up and see his father
standin' there with candle, and his
father he sed:
"Charley dident pay much attention
to wot you was a sayn bowt frogs, but
after I had gone to bed, and seen things
was beginnin' for to turn OUT Jest like
you had sed, WY hollered rite out, cos l
was so dlighted for to think l had sech a
smart boy. Dident you hear me boiler,
Charley, dident you hear yure old fathers
xcamations of satisfy, and feel the house
shake wen he arose for to cum and fondle
you2"
Then Charley, he said wot did his
father have in the hand which was be.
Lind his fathers back, and the ole mar
he sed:
cob, that's the fondler.''
But my sisters young man, which tolt
me the story, he said that the fondlel
bore fanci6le resemblance to black
snake wip.
But the rattlesnake, with the castanet!
on to his tail, is the feller for me; yes, il
deed, wen he don't bite. One day Missy
that's my sister, she sees a little snak,
but six inches long in the garden, an sh,
hollered like pirates.
| Snakes is serpents, and eels is fish, bu
| the lion he is the king of beasts and hi
roar is ofae!
! Once there was opery man, wich hire,
foxes for to sing. He was goin' thr1
the woods and lion come along ant
Iuked at him, and Wiped itsellef witt
its tail, and stocked its name up, an
opened its mouth, and roared fritefle; =
never seen sech bellerin! The opery ma
, he sed:
+ That's OF rite, that's oil rite, conside
, yure selluf engaged for the season s
) yure own terms, but got to be excuse
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-20
had it set to an alluring tune. The last
verse went something like this

verse went something hkv this.
There is man named Andrew Clup
To creditors says, mo, sir"
He always fails to shekel up
His butcher and his grocer.
His ignorance ofdebts is gay;
All! nothing could be wagner;
Now, Mr.. Clup, you'd better pay
That you owe to KrOeger.
II played this in all the fashionable
thoroug fares, and right in front of his
house, one summer evening, when all the
windows were open, and his dwelling
was full of company. I was paid on the
spot. I believe I could have taken up a
church collection with that organ, if I
only had a chance"
"Did you ever do anything else whit
your musical machine?"
II fancy I did. When Bob Burdette
was here lecturing on the Rise and Fall
of the Moustache,' Ind shorthand re-
porter take the whole thing down for me.
Then I had it put into an organ. Yes, I
had everything, including the lecturers
awe-inspirlng monotone. Then I went
round delivering it for $40 night and
expenses. Everybody roared when I
came out, patted the organ fondly on the
back, and introduced it as the Hawkeye
humor1st. When Bob heard of it he was
wild. He swore vengenoe, and every
time he comes East am obliged to visit
my uncle in Quebec.
II once got up talking piano; every
time you'd strike a key a word would ty
up IN your face. 1t was regular una
brldged musical dictionary. I taught
every one in the house to play on it, and
it made terrible noise. On Sunday
morning my mother would sit down be-
fore it and play such a tune as this
Hey, there, folks! It's time to get up;
breakfast is getting cold" It used to
save her lungs. And then bashful lovers
used to play things to each other that
they were too bashful to utter. I used
to make uprishts and all kinds of pianos,
and, had fiowery certificates from all the
leading artists and artistes Of the day.
It was grand thing. I think I have a
map Of it somewhere around the house.
I'll just step up and look for it.''
Then he weht up stairs and his auditor
opened the window, jumped out and ran
for his life.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-20

complied with. sit goes right straight
along,-just them ere words, without any
"lt cant be Jerry, athen. 1t can't be Jer
ry," he mused. ''Jerry couldn't say that
many words without stutterin' all to
pieces, to save his life. Some fellows
tryin' to fool me; but I'm too smart for
him, am.''
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-20
Too Smart for Him.

s'Would you mind readin' this for me,
sir? | can't read myself It was snow
shoveller on Walnut Street that spoke, as
he handed over an envelope enclosing a
telegram, which read: s'Nashville, Janu-
.ry 8, 1879. will arrive at Louisville
bv the three o'clock train this evening
Jerry A Taft" will you read it again,
sir2" asked the snow -shoveller. 1t was
read again. You say it's signed Jerry
A. Taft" THAT was the name" Please
read it once more" His request was
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-20

now, cos seventeen barry tones is waitin
for me to hear them"
And the opery man he walked away
nifty ifely, like he was Trade the barry
tones wuld bust theirselfs hollerin in
the sing fore he cude git there.-San
Francisco Ar00ndut.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
REsrECTAuLE PROPORTIONS.

The Spalding defalcation, which was
supposed, at first, 70 amount to but few
hundred dollsrs-not a deliberate appro-
priation of public funds, but temporary
"shortage"-hss assumed the proportions OF
avery respectable" defalcation, aud those
who could not imagine why the ,ung man
should have run away, becaue of such a
small discrepancy, now begin to see that
there was much more reason for his conduct
than people were AT first aware.
Since the first discrepancy was discovered
Mayor Fortescue has been busily at work,
with q committee of the council, examining
the books Of the Clerks ofiice, and has dis
covered, up to this time, deficiencies
amounting TO sbout six thousand dollars.
This much the books showed. How much
has been taken in at various times, and ap-
propristed b. the Clerk, without any &C
count being msde of it, will probably never
be known, for il, when license or tax was
paid to him, he made no record Of il in
'iS '"ohS, 'nSic is ~ Po-sipse way W uis-
cover it but to fad the party who paid
the money, sni have him produce his re-
ceipt. This, of course, is impracticable,
and in many cases impossible
since it is well known that only a few people,
comparatively, preserve their receipts. The
total amount OF the deficiency, as shown BY
the books, will probably be ascertained by
Tomorrow evening, but it is fair to suppose
that what the books show constitutes less
than half cf what has been actually taken,
tor if he really intended to s.eal-and the
evidence shows very clearly that he did
he would undoubtedly do his work, as far
as possible, where it would not be SO readily
discovered.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
New York Tenement Houses.
christian Union.l

lSui.>tiaH lHlon.
The examination Of the twenty-five We thou
sand tenement houses i'll this city is going
slowly on. 1t will occupy, probably, at
least three months. The inspectors who
are about equally divided between the two
professions Of medicine and civil engineer
ing, are doing the work with, perhaps, not
absolute, but certainly hopeful thorough
ress. There are very few tenement houses,
apparently, which have fully complied
with the reasonable provisions Of the Law
lack of light ard ventilation. ard OF
adequate escape of sewer-gas, being the
most notable omissions. 1t would be i'm
possible 10 condeuse into one paragraph the
monotonous account Of csilars filed with
garbage-in one instance even with liquid
manure from an adj Dining static; of cess-
pools unemptied; OF broken waste and
drain pipes, filling the yard or
under basement, and suffusing the house
with Doisome odors of central rooms with
out light or possibility Of ventilation OF
bedrooms 50 foul of air that, in more than
one instance, the wretched inhabitants take
refuge on the pavement of the yard. What
the remedy is 10 be is 70, so clear. London
radically attempted TO cure the evil by pull
ing down the old rookeries 10 make room
or model tenement houses, and The Metro.
politan Board of Works Of tina; city is con.
ssquently involved in little debt Of thir.
ty millions of dollars. The American con.
science will need to be much more stimu.
lated than it is at present before it will pay
4 similar price for the sake Of humanity
The inspectors are generally cordially re.
ceiyed by the tenants, and the uniform tes
timony OF the reports beies the public opin,
ion-which has been, perhaps, due to land
lords and their agents-that tenants prefer
foul rooms and nolsome air 10 cleanliness:
and ventilation.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
THE SslsOAT BOON.

Col. Groat's camp-meetipg boom is a
or.st SUCCESS. Ii Is estimated that not less
than twelve thousand persons were on the
grounds at Bismarck Grove last Sunday and
yet the meetings have but just commenced.
TIE success of Bismarck Grove as per-
manent place OF resort for all kinds OF
grove meetings may now be regarded as
settled. The friends of religion, temper
ance, or any other cause to be protited by a
camp meeting, will hereafter look to Bis
msrck Grove as the proper gathering place
for the people OF all this portion of the
West. Naturally one Of the most beautiful
places in the country, it has been improved
and ornsmented by liberal expenditure OF
money, and now offers every possible ad.
vantage and convenience for outdoor meet
ines. 1t is bound to grow in popularity
year after year, and will annually attract
thousands of visitors, mot only from all psrts
of Kansas, but from all Of our neighborlng
Stftes
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
THE ARCTIC REGIONS.

The letters from Professor Nordenskj jold
the Arctic explorer, received at Stockholm
were written last October and forwarded by
Tschu;sch chiet, who paid the Vega a
stste visit in sleigh drawn by two dwarfs
The vessel was, on the 2s!h of September
unable to proceed on account of new-formed
ice. and anchored just east Of Kolyuschir
Bay, half mile from the beech, where il
was visited by the Indians, who carried the
letters towsrd Yakutsh. Nordensk jold ther
expected (Oct. 81 to pass through Bherins
Strait July l, and to reach japan about
August 18th. He was, at the date of writ
ing the letter, in the vicinity of the Strait
or at point visited every year by whaler'
rom the Pacific.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
CAIAR nl.aNn q

An examination of the eyes Of the en-
ployes of Massachusetts, railroad has dis
closed some curious facts. 1t has been
found that a station agent of one Of the
large towns has one glass eye; popular
engineer on fast mail train hss wholly
lost the sight of one eye; a freight yard
switch tender cannot detect . green light
a bridge tender has the use of only one eye
and is color blind in the good one, and two
fremen canzot read a grade crossing sign
one hundred feet away. It cannot be
doubted that railway accidents are fire.
quently due to defective eyesight, and if
the eyes OF all railway employees were care
fully tested, ard men who are near-sighted
or color blind removed or given less re-
sponsible positions, many lives might be
saved.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
Beecher On Coffee ana Tea.


| have no trouble in gettin. drst-rate cup
of coffee. l generally get the best Java and
! the best Mocha, and mix them in the proper
| ton of one-third Mocha to two-thirds Java
After IT is burned-and l prefer having an
honest man do 1t to burning 1t myself-and
ground take one of these coffee pots with a
top TO II and strainer. The first rule is TO get
good coffee, well burned and ground and the
second, that you cannot make coffee without
using coffee. The man who undertakes to
make quart of coffee out of teaspOOnful
of grounds viii. find out his mistake. Put in
enough, and when you pour in the water
take care to have II boiling, not scalding. IL
makes aIIthe difference in the world whether
IL has Just boiled or stood on the range all
d ty having little added 10 IL now anu then.
You cannJt make good coffee in an ordinary
famiIy, where they keep their Kettle going
ali day long. The water is sure To TASTE
smoky. The water is stale, 10 has been b He'd
to death. Have fresh water put on. But
then IL is not enough thai IL should be scald-
ing not: it NUT be buboling, boiling hot. l
put my coffee into the top, an pour in jus
as much boiling water will run down
through and begin to drip at the bottom. /
then walt haf a minute to let the coffee
swell and get moist all the way through;
then pour in slowly all the rest oG the water
that am going TO, I'LL have got right up 10
the nd, and let 1t run through. 1 get then
coffee that would make king danes 10
drink. don't know much of the Vienna
coffee pot. lhe simpler II Is, the better.
never touch an e-g. In both tea and coffee
thsre IL "A second taste, ana the second taste
of C flee is bitter and acid. IL you desire,
therefore, supreme cof-e or tea you have 10
Use enough tO get tho first TASTE, which Is
fragrant and delicious r suit. II you let this
stand a wniIe, you get the second, which Is
more or less bitter and sstringent.
Ny rule tor tea Is this: / have a little tea
pot and "A little hot water set rig At before me.
and when / want il 1 make IL yseif at tn.
table, using just as much as my experience
teaches me 1 want Use the black-the ofd
EugIisn breakfast souchong. All tue oolongs
the green tess-need To be drank soon after
ilfuSIng them.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
NEw YORK PRODUCE uaRxsr
NEW YnRK 40

FLoUR-More active but still fiyorIng buy
erS; SupeTnne western and StaI ss3 % "a 90
common 70 good 81 tUai 40, good to choice,
~ JI.D 25 white wheat 81 75g5 p; St
Louis 81 80 40 Is.
wHEA winter more actiYe spring shade
iirmer; No. spring al u. xugraded red vim
ter s5 81 VS.; No. do 81 O61.; No. do. 81 GsIs
al Uo54; uuxrsded white :. o5sl 10; No.
81 o.. 81 Uy-
klE--tesdy; No. western, Gi-
BAKLEY-Dull and nominal.
toSN- 'emand active, uugraded ijIz9ist1;
No. iG5, ai5i4.
GA .s-MDre active. mixed western 2,1;2Jz;;
white do Sia3g
CoFrEE-Q 1T and unchanged.
SUGAR-Strady
NoLAsSEs-Quiet.
RICs-Fair demand.
BArLEY-Active
EGGS -Firmer; Western at l3gl4 u
Pork Moderately active; new mess IS 81
etg -, latter tor choice.
6EEF-Steady.
Cur MEATs-S,eady; long clear middIss
50 ll1a; short clear S. S7L-
LAkD-Shade easier; prime steam g. 90
bUTrER-Qulet and unchanged.
tHEEsE-steady western $685.
WHIsKY-Dull at 81 Vi.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
COMING HOME TO EUOsT,

So long as the Southern shotgun policy
merely endangered the lives of white and
colored Republicans livirg in the
South, not already murdered, the
Northern Democratic papers conten.ed
themselves with asserting that all The re-
ports OF Southern outrages were the ''Inver.
items OF the Radicals, but now that the "a
zoo plan" includes white Democratic boilers
among the victims, our Democratic con-
telnporalies have changed their tune, and
several have called on the Governor of Mis-
sisippi to put stop to these bulldoziDg
proceedings The regularity with which
Bourbon chickens come home TO roost con-
tipues to surprise and disconcert the Bour
boa leaders
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
New York Herald |
SUMMARY.

In the French elections for the bureau1
of Council General, the Republicans have
gained four seats and lost one.
The members of the Irish and French
societies of Quebec, with priests and others
nave appointed committee to arrange 8
peace.
1t il stated that King Alfonzo will &c
to Bsrrin DeArcschon Gironde, France
Thursday next, to visit the Arch Duchess
Maria, OF Austria.
The London T,mes says that Honorable
John Welch, United States Minister to Eng-
land, who left London yesterday, will be
generally regretted.
The Khedive has informed the English
and French Consuls that he viii! not answer
for the consequences if Rivers and Wilson
and Debliguieres return to Egypt.
BY the ca-eles.ness of employees yes
terday, a train on the Pennsvlvanis Central
railroad was thrown from the track and the
tender, baggage and four other cars.
1t is said that General Igatieff will
will shortly replace General Todleben as
Governor Generals of Odessa, and General
Todleben will become the Governor General
of Poland.
BY fail of rotten bridge over the
Housatonic, at Stockbridge, Mas = dozen
and six occupants went into the river Som.
ers Benjamin, age %, was killed, Agile
Ronald and Fanny Millard, seriously
wounded. The remainder were eighty
hurt,
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
The Usual Revolution.

CrTY OF MEXICo, Aug IL, via Havana.
Aug. I9.-The State of Vera Cruz is in a
very revolutionary condition. The Gov
ernment troops are rapidly concentrating
in Vera Cruz. The Spsni-h element il &C
cnsed Of mitigating disorders, the cause Of
their Dissatisfaction being the laws against
smuggling.
A prominent Federal senator was prepar-
ing On the night Of June -, to 60 TO Vera
Cruz, with the intention Of taking part In
the uprising, when he was summoned before
Pre.ident Disz, who warned the senator
that he knew all the plans Of the revolt
iionis:s and advised the senator to remain
in the capital. The latter remained, and is
now the faithful friend of the President.
1t is alleged that Disz is having bill OF
impeachment prepared against Senor Val
late, president Of the supreme court and
vice president Of the republic.
Senior Vallste, according to the present
Law, will hold Office two years after the eH-
piratiou of his present presidential term.
His Impeachment would favor the candi-
dacy of Justo Benitz-
A maiority Of the cabinet have resolved
tha, the constitutional amendment against
the reelection of the President
should be repealed, In order to
save tie country from anarchy.
The movement for the repeal Of this amend
ment hss slre. dy been made in the leaisla-
lures Of Of Merchancs, Pubic and Msrelss.
The opposition papers say that the cabi-
net is paving the road to dictatorship.i
President Disz continues to declare his
unNillingnees to serve another term,
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21

Mrs. SPrsgue is out with another state
ment. This time che zen, for Sun reporter
to interview her, for the purpose of getting
her side of the case more fully before the
public. ltisquite lengthy, b 1t contains moth
ipg new; it reiters:es the assertions of her
former statement in regard to Mr.. Sprague's 3
habits, but its maia object seems to be to
emphasize her former declaration that her
relations with Senator Conkling have never
been improper.
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
COMING I'D SEE g..

Three expert European economists and
practical scientists-one each from Eng
lsrd, Russia and Hungary-and perhaps
Others, are now in this country investigating
our systems of industry and other interest.
Of production, commerce, etc, in order to
lay the fEcts before their respective coun
tries for their profit; and now the cable an
.lounces that Mr.. Pell, 8 member of Par
lament from Jeicestershire, and Mr.. Read
member from York, both eminent Eug.
liah agriculturists, have been appointed q
paid subcommittee, with orders TO visit the
United States to collect evidence for the
royal commission on agricultural. distress in
Great Britain. Messrs. Pell and Read, will
sail for the United States this week. The
Chicago Joaraol, referring to these facts,
saye:
Il is q very remarkable and significant
fAot from which the general public Will draw
It's own Inference, that the old countries of
Europe are seeking information and knowl
edge in this comparatively new country OF
Ours, on matters OF labor and economy, for
their own profit and guidance. Is il not q
virtual confession on their part that their in
dustrtal sy stems and their notions of politi-
cal snd commercial economy are a failure,
0pt ours q success
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
ONE MORE FOH SAMMY.

Tilden "scooped" Boss Kelley at the Nj
az ara meeting, and thus secured another
sisnal victory over Tammany. The "old
m,n" isn't dead yet, and those enthusiastic
Democrats who have been counting upon
getting away with him 20 easily begin to
realize, in the language Of the late William
Allen, of Ohio, that they bit off more than
fh.v c.p chawu
The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-08-21
Purslane for Table Use.

"Puseley," In the older parts of the coun-
try at least, is regarded as the representative
weed. To be ..as mean as pussley," is a
common adage. ale lets pussley get ahead
of him." is applied to a slack, inefficier.t gar
dener, for in these hot July and August days
one must be smart if he keeps his garden
free of "pussley." In midsummer days,
when peas have gone, and the fiush of sweet
corn, Lima beans, and other late garden
products has not come, "try Pussley
tuJdcd, If the Latin name sounds better, oil
POurpier If the French is preferable. We
have passed months and months when
"puss, ey" gathered upon the far western
plains was the only accompaniment to oui
sa [ pork and seemed then the best green
thing we had ever eaten. We have tried II
since, and can assure those who do not know
IL as table vegetable, that IT Ii most nc
ceptable- For ourselves, did IL not grow o
itself, we snould follow the example OF the
French. and cultivate 1t; they consume II ~
a saIid and in soups, besides cooking II aftel
the manner of spinach or green's.
should be taken wnen growing rapidly anC
its fat stems snap short and tender, anC
treated like other grass. In looking at III
article on its culture in French work on
gardening, We find IL ends thus: I'VE know
Of no ipjuIi iOus insect that attacks the Four
pisy.n-Neilher do we've wish We did.