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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
Don't Waste Vital Energy.

The most vigorous persons do not have
too much vitality. People generally in
herit q lack; or, at least, find that much
vital energy has been permanently lost in
their childhood and youth through the
ignorance or the carelessuess of their pa
rents. Often it is impaired by wrong in
dulgences in early manhood. The en-
deavor with all persons should be to hus-
band what is left, be it much or little.
Therefore
1. Don't do anything in hurry.
3. Don't work too many hours day.
whether it be farm work, shop work,
or house work.
8. Don't abridge sleep Get the full
eight hours of it, and that, too, in a we'll,
ventilated and sun-puriied room.
4. Don't eat what is indigestible, nor
too much of anything, and let good cheer
rule the hour.
5. Don't fret at yourself OF anybody
else; nor indulge in the blues, nor burst
into fits of passion.
6. Don't be too much elated with
good luck, nor disheartened by bad.
Positively be sclf-controIled, calm
and brave. Let your brain have all the
rest it needs. Treat your stomach right.
Keep good conscience, and have a
cheerful trust in God for all thing and
for both worlds.-Youth's Companion.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
The Vraic Harvest.

Every child who lives in the country
knows something about s.haying" and
harvesting"
The sweet-scented nay, the golden
grain and corn, and the red-cheeked an
pies, all in their turn, as thew are ssoatlh.
cred 10" make nice times for children but
| want to tell you ofanother kind Of har-
vest that used to enjoy wonderfully we'll
when [ was little girl
\ Dig crop 1t was too although it was
raised and ripened without the labor Of
men, or horses, Or oxen. No blowing, or
narrowing, OF sowing seed.
On the bare rocks, away down under
the deep blue sea, with the waves dash
ing over it by day and by night, this
wonderful crop, that never fails from
drought, grows and ripens, and yields
such great crops that there are two s.cut
tlngs' every year; the first begins in Feb
ruary, and lasts five weeks; the second
lasts from June until the last dav Of An
gust
After that day not bit more yrnic
must be cut until the next February: but
that which is washed ashore by the
storms, and is called vrnic yennnt. NAV
be gathered by anybody at all times.
only it must be gathered between sunrise
and sunset, and these old laws or Gus
toms are very strictly enforced in JERSEY.
The first month of the summer yraic
or seaWeed harvest all the poor people of
the lsand, and only they have the priyi
legc OF cutting it from the rocks. but
then they must not takeu more then thew
can carry in their arms eyond the Line
OF the highest tides.
They have, Of course, to cut it while
the tide is driving out. and hurrying,
driving time it is! Men and women with
kind of sickle, crowding the rocks and
cutting Oft the heavy mats of black look
ing. Shiny seawsed that so thick'v covers
them h1owing ii down in heaps until the
tide turns. And then. how we who sat
on the beach watching them enjoyed the
fun! All was hurry and hustle
men and women. big boys and girls, and
little boys and girls, down to the mites of
toddlers that coul'i only just run alone,
all gathering the wet seaweed up in their
arms, rushing up the beach with their
precious crop to put 1t down again in
heaps beyond the reach Of the waves that
were already chasing them; then came
the harvest for we ,azy little folks, wno
had only been looking on. We used TO
run and turn over the heaps as they were
brought up, in search of shells and tiny
pebbles, and what beauties we used to
lind OF all shapes and colors for these
channel islands are noted for the hand
some shells aud s,aweeds that are found
on their shores.
Then it was a pretty sight to see the
poor people carrying off their uraic crop
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
Fighting With a Wild Cat.

A Rocky mountain wild cat belonging
to MIR. John Spencer, Of Bayonne, n. j.,
was allowed to escape On recent Sun.
day through the carelessness of some per
sons who were looking at it in it's cage.
Mr.. Spence returned on the preceding
Saturday from a hunting expedition in
the West, bringing the wild cat which,
he had wounded, with him. It ferceness
had not yet worn Of, and it no sooner re-
gained its freedom than il bounded away
to the woods. Men armed with guns
and accompanied by dogs, went in pur-
suit. The wild cat was tracked into Cad
mus woods. There it turned at bav, and
with all its natural ferocity attacked
dog that was chasing it. A fierce battle
followed. The fighting animals Crap
pied, rolled over and sprang at each
other with fierce barks and yells The
dog was terribly lacerated, and it came
running out of the woods bowling with
pain. The wild cat had scratched out
one of its eyes, and otherwise seriously
injured it.
A valuable hound was then put on the
trail, and it led the party to large hol-
The hound kept at a respectful distance
from the stump, III which the wild cat
was evidently crouchi~g. Mr.. Spencer
approached, and to scare the animal.
tired his gun into the stump. Instantly
the Wild cat sprang out with terrific
yell. 1t croucned, dashed its tail, and
prepared Tor spring at his pqrsuers
The battle with the dog had seemingly
Whetted its fury. Suddenly it sprang
with all its strength at Mr. Spencer, ITS
owner, who approached nearer than the
others, thinking the animal ought to rec
ognize its master. Mr.. Spencer luckily
escaped its claws by dashing aside. It
landed several feet behind Mr.. Spencer.
Before it could make another spring Mr..
Thos. Churchill, hotel proprietor, senta
ullet through its heart.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
Hunting with the Nizam's Cheetb.

We move forward, bound for some
knobs and rocks which command an I'M
interrupted view of the whole plain.
Herds Of deer are scattered about, .azllv
crouchlng under the tress, or feeding
upon the finer heritage on the margin of
the pools. Two cradle-like native carts
(hackerles,) made Of sticks and ropes,
each drawn by a small bullock, are hov-
efing about IN the distance, and each vas
lylng down on its floor q hunting cheetah,
hoooed, fastened and dinnerless The
chase begins. From our vantage ground
": see one cart slowly and cautiously
oflVeh toward herd Of antelopes, and
approaching them unseen and unnoticed,
When within some forty Or fifty wards
tie cart stops, keeper Jumps into It and
sips and unhoods the cheetah. who is
down On the turf in twinkline of an eve
He sees the grazing animals, and forth
with he begins to work toward them.
Step by step stealthily be advances, stalk
ing every inch with measured, cat-like
football and taking advantage of evcry
inequality Of the ground, every tuft Of
grass and every little bowl9er Of rock.
to cover his approach. Pace b7 pace
onwards-noW q dead stop and nearer.
behind granite bowlder of rock he
lays crouched for al instant, then on
to its crest he crawls, and now
with an overwhelming leap, a tremen-
dous bound, and he is flying through the
air, into the very midst of the herd. 4
large fat buck-the consort of many
does, the paterfamilias Of many fawns
and who has been browsing little apart
from his household, has attracted the
cheetah,s attention, but the buck has
seen his dread enemy just in time, and
HES tor dear life over the scrub, over the
turf among the palms. The cheetah fol-
lows close, now gaining, now losing
ground The chase is most exciting, and
from our elephants backs We see
every yard OF it.
No" It seems certain that the dear.
1eeter OF foot, will escape; his springs
and bounds are telling on the heavier
and slower cheetah. But 40; the ''stay'
OF that animal is greater. and his thirst
for blood Unsuitable. For some minutes
more the hunt continues; the deer doubles
oack from tope Of trees, and comes into
the open; "a fail In the lay Of the land
gives the cheetah momentary advan-
'age; he sees it--one, TWO leaps. and he is
on the deers back and pins him fastly
down. There is cry, a struggle, an en-
deavor TO bring the sharp horns into
action; but the weight and strength Of
"u6at0 is o7erpoVerinG. and i is all up
with the lord of the herd-:he binds are
widows, and the fawns fatherless. The
keepers come up, they cut the throat of
the dying stay, they feed with his Efe's
blood Jubata aforesaid, who now releases
his hold, and suffers himself to be detach-
ed from his quarry-St. Ja@:e's Nagasins.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
How Young People are Made Near
Sighted.

The eye is an organ which is soft, as it
were, when the child is born; it is Dla..
tic-it is in condition to be chanead in
It's shape, and its tissues are in condition
to be moved, that is, the tissues which 60
to make up the organ can be nodded ie
various Shapes on pressure. Ordinarily the
child goes on until it has reached the age
OF eight Or ten years, Or perhaps littI
Older, when it Is observed that it is
obliged to hold the object at which it is
looking little nearer thsn before An
examination reveals the fact that the
child is near-sighted. This condition
usually progresses more rapidly between
the ages Of ten and twenty six. But we
know Dy means of the opthalmoscope,
and by an examination of the BODY after
death, that the near-sig hted eve is
chnged IN shape from the spherical to an
elliptical Or ovoid form, and that pro-
gressive near ghtedness is always
marked by a change in the shape OF the
eye. As the eye is made up Of healthy
tissue, and is constantly undergoing waste
and repair in its use, you readily per-
ceive that the quality of its repair IS 60
ing TO be determined very much By the
tissue-b binding quality of the particular
child, and by the way in which
that child uses is eyes. Parents
at home are very often at fault
IN not teaching their children
how to use their eyes. I have often en-
tered the dwellings of many people and
seen little girls curled up on a sofa or in
q chair, with the head down in the lap,
the vessels Of the forehead tursid with
blood, remaining in that situation for a
greater Or less time: and often, before the
child can read, some object, like doll
with its wealth of intricate clothing, or
some other plaything, the Child holding
the object near its .yes--using her &C
commodation and focalizing her ewes:
and all the time waste and repair are go
ing On, because there can be no use of the
eye without alterations Of tissue, and the
child will go blind because the proper
nourishment of the eve is interfered with.
and the tissues cannot be reproduced as
the wasting progresses. 1t che child
uses the eye for long time or too close
ly to any particular form of work, the
tissue cannot be reproduced or nourished
as 1t should be, and the pressure OF the
muscles upon the eyeball and the diff
cult act OF the child in focalizing, means
that the tissue of the soft and pliable eye
is undergoing alteration. which will
lead to lamentable form of the disease.
Then the child goes into the school, and
there is put into forms and classes, and
is made to do work on states
and copy-boeks which, perhaps, might be
better done On the black board, and thus
the eye is strained until the mischief is
perceived in its effects-Dr. Aonsso.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
Keeping Things Lively,

Two women caught sight of each other in
one or our drygoods stores the other CAV,
and rushing TO rward simultaneously with
oltspread arms, nearly dislocated one an
others noses in trying to find each other S
mouths.
why, la! bless you, Miss Huxley, Pm
so glad 10 see you said one, with q
quick, nervous voice, as she fell back a
little after the scrimmage, and furIed
her feathers into a lock of satisfied ioy,
warm enough to soften ice. ..You re
looking so splendidly we'll too; it's won
der | knew you. I wouldn't though. 7
don't think, If you hadn't smiled first.
But, dear me, what dreadful long tine
It's been since | saw you--it seems sn
age. You live in Midoletown yet, sup.
pose?"
"Oh mercy, move left there three
months ago and moved to, Hamilton
"Yon don't say?"
"Yes--but you2 I was remarkine TO
Xix the other day that I'd lost all track
of you"
SWe're in Lawrenceburg now, and I
90 so wish you could come and see us.
I've got so much to tell you. You
wouldn't believe how times have changeo
with us. Got a nice home now. and
everything nice--three bedrooms un
STAIRS, large hall, elegant Darlor, lovely
slctlng room, splendid dining room.
pantry and kitchen, big yard and galden
and the sweetest lot of plants you ever
saw--and what dye Think Alex. has
really got to like fowers-anvhoy he
don't upset 'em any more and erowI all
the time about their always being in the
way"
''But Louise?n
what! hadn't you heard it? We sent
you a paper with the notice. Why,
she's been married six months, nearlv.''
"You don't tell me! But how die sha
do?"
s'Splendid! A widower with q farm
and three children,an g church member,
too. He's not SC much for looks, but he's
an awful good man, and stands high in
the neighhorhood. She couldn't a. done
better.;'
"rhat is nice: but is he good to herr"
"Oh, yes-too good, I tell him some
times. But they do get along Just the
incest klnd-as happy as larks all the
time. It almost brings tie tears to hear
her call him an old fool and bald-head
ed idiot as soon as he steps into the house.
She always was SO lively you know"
what? Do they quarrel a'readv?" in
CURED the 'Middletown lady, with pain
ed look of anxiety.
'Why, no--certainly not, never-7ou
couldn't hire 'em too.n
"But you said she called him horrid
names, and threw up his looks"
"Oh, yes. OF course, anu she may even
spank the children right before his eyes,
and tell him they are pack Of good for
nothing thick-headed little beggars; but
then it's only her way, you know, and
she don't mean anything by it, of course.
It's only way she has of being cheerful
and keeping things livened u around
the house. tell you Louise amt going
to let the dust settle around her much, no
matter where she is.
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to their homes, some to spread on their
small helds Tor manure, and some to be
used as fuel on their kitchen hear1hs.
and even the ashes Of this sea-coal. after
it has boiled their tea-kettle and soup-
pot, are valuable, for they are either sold
or put on their own little gardens or
fields to make their tall cabbages and
rich lucern grow still taller and richer:
but as sad, it is pretty sight to see
this curious but valuable harvest carried
OFT the great sandy or pebblv beach.
Those who do not own a horse or don
key Can generally borrow one, and if thew
can't get cart, they pack up the yrajc
on the donkey's back, and he trudges
along under the pile of wet blankets.
while his mistress walks along at his side,
the clicking of her bright kni,ting-nee-
dies making music that donkey's lone
ears have often heard, for the JERSEY
Womeh are great knitters, and often knit
q mans stocking in day!
The first day Of the 0raic harvest is a
general holiday throughout the island
closing at some house of reireshm emf
with dance and drinking of cider in
abundance.-YoutA's Componion.
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The Dangers Of Chemistry.
London Observer.

LONDON observer.
A most unfortunate accident which has
occurred at Prague recalls in many of it's
details and circumstances the quaint
traditions that were once prevalent in re-
gard to the medieval alchcmists. Profess
Or Fischer, Of the Prague Gymnasium, a
young man, only twenty-five years Of age,
and OF the highest eminence in his pro-
tession, that of chemistry, has come to an
untimely end under the most melancholy
circumstances. No one needs to be told
that cyanide of potassium, drug largely
used in photography, is 81 poison of the
most deadly character. Its active in
gredient is prussic acid. Prussic acid in
its pure, or, as chemists would term it.
"anhydrous" form, is substance too dan
gerous to be kept or even manufactured.
If a glass capsule containing wineglass-
full of pure prussic acid were broken in
the pit of theater, those among the
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19

yet his power, vast as it is, is limited.
He can more easily destroy than con
struct. He can take life, but he cannot
give it. He can level the city with the
plain, but he cannot build it again. He
can create prusslc acid, but he is ignorant
OF its antldote. He is like the fisherman
who rashly opened the vessel sealed with
the ring OF Suleiman Ben Daoud. The
forces at his control are beyond this COM
mand; the powers he can evoke he can
not lay 1t is the old story of Cornelius
Agrlppa-those who trifle with natures
secrets do so at their peril.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19
Economy in Youth.

I While sensible people put no faith in
fortune telling, we may on general prin
clples predict from boys habits wheth-
er ne IS likely to succeed or fail in life.
When money burns in his pocket, and he
IS impatient to spend all that comes into
his possession-when he spends everv
cent OF his salary, and even falls into
cebt-Wher he prefers to invest mis- earn
1ngs IN cigars. handsome clothes and
amusements, to putting them at interest.
we may safely predict that he will prob
ably never attain wealth without a de-
cided change of habits. Fifty cents a.
week, saved in youth, IS often the nucleus
OF large fortune. It is not so much the
amount saved as the habit Of saving that
IS Important A wealthy banker began
life at seventeen on salary of $500 q
year. This was forty years ago, when q
dollar would go great way, and he
saved half his salary. Had he spent it
all, as he might have done without ex
travagance, he would probably have been
clerk to-day.
The story of Dick Wilmington may
be table, but it teacues valuable les
son. He won the interest and help of
his employer by his habit of picking up
stray pins aud carefully saving them,
Picking up pins MAY not always make a
man Mayor in the end, but such bows
seldom die III the poor-house.
SO far as cur own observation goes,
there are more extravaganza than econom-
lcal boys. Thirty years hence we shall
see the natural result. Few of them will
be rich and prosperous. Wealth is moi
to be despised, for in the right hands, it
may do great good. That economy .eads
to wealth in the case of nations NAV be
illustrated by the prosperous condition
of France TO-DAY. No people understand
better how to live comfortably on littles
1t 1s fashionable to save. The peasant
out of his small income saves a few francs
every month. So it happens that the
small farmers are the 'bloated bond
holders OF France. The Germans were
once frugal, but the war indemnity and
war times have made them extravaganza.
and the victors are far less prosperous
than the vanquished.
Some of our thousand of young readers.
we hope, will read this article and heed
our advice. To them we say, if you spare
to day, you will be IN condition to
spend tomorrow. Many a carc-worn man
not knowing where to turn for the means
TO meet his moderate expenses, might
have been in 81 position to retire on a
competence had he as boy and young
man avoided extravagant living. Il IS
source of satisfaction to reflect that
economy among Americans is much more
common than it was five years ago. If
this be kept up, we shall not have LONG
to wait tor good times--N. Y. WeeEzu.
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We'll, goodbye, chump' I took her hand, for
the time had come to go.
MY gong meant our parting, when to meet
we did not know.
mad fingered long, and said farewell with
very heavy h cart,
For, though we were but friends, it's hard for
honest friends to part.
"dood,bye, old fellow; don't forget your friend
beyond the sea,
AND some day when you've lots of time lust
drop line to me'
The words came lightly, gayly but great
sob just behind
Welled upward with story of quite differ
ent kind,
And then she raised her eyes to mine-great
liquid eyes of blue,
Filled to the brim and running DER like
violet cups of due,
one long, long look, and then did what new
er did before
Perhaps the tears meant friendship, but Pm
sure the kiss meant more.
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PlatOllic.

L mad sworn to be bachelor; she had vowed
to be a maid,
For we quite agreed IN doubling whether
matrimony paid
Besides, we had our higher loves; fair science
ruled my heart,
Ana she said her young affections were all
bound up in art
80 we laughed at those wise men that say
-, that friendship cannot live
'IWlxt man and woman unless each has some
thing more to give.
We would be friends, and friends as true as
e'er We're man and man
Ia -, be second David and she Miss Jonathan.
we scOrned all sentimental trash-yOWs kiss
es, tears and signs;
High friendship, such as ours, might well
sucn childish arts despise,
we liked each other-that was all, quite all
so we just shook hands upon it in a sort of
business way.
we shared our secrets and our Joys, together
hoped and feared
WIN a common purpose sought the goal that
young ambition reared
we dreamed together of the days-the dream
bright days to come;
We were strictly confidential, and we called
each other "chum."
And many day we wandered together DER
seeking bugs and butterflies, and she the
ruined mills
And rustic bridges, and the like, that picture
makers prize
10 run in with their waterfalls, and groves
and summer skies,
And many quiet evening, in hours of full re-
lease,
We foated down the river, or loafed beneath
the trees,
And talked in long gradations, from the poet to
the weather,
While the western skies and my cigar burned
slowly out together.
Yet, through it all no whispered word, no tell
tale glance or sigh
Told aught of warmer feeling than friendly
sympathy;
We talked Of love as coldly as we talked of
nebul4,
And thought no more of being one than we did
OF being three.
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tennial year, 1876, has been the only one
within the period covered by the eleven
annual issues of the Directory in which
the number Of publications has not in
creased
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-19

George T: Roweh & Cos American
Newspaper Directory, for January, 1879,
has made Its appearance. The total num-
Der OF periodical publications in the
United States is s, 703 against S,275 one
year ago. There are % more daily and
5S5 more weekly newspapers than were
reported IN the edition for January, 1878.
The total Increase of all sorts is Ago, the
largest in any year since 1873. The Cen
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THE FARM AND HOUSE,
Agricultural Notes.

C There has been no increase in the
a ieage or production of wheat in Great
Ii IRAN during the past ten years, and,
tile in that of meat.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-03

The California constitutional convention
: certainly takes long time to do its work.
The Legislature, in calling 1t, restricted It's
session to two months and its expenditures to
$150,0OO. These two months have passed, and
many others also, yet the convention shows
no signs of adiourning. As to that $4,000
It disappeared months ago. and another SINH
lar, II not larger, amount will be necessary.
The convention has devoted itself principally
to the Chinese question, and has issued va
rious memorials to Congress concerning the
Chinese, and framed anti Chinese laws clear
ly unconstitutional and as barbarous az the
heathens against whom they are directed
The leading San Francisco papers predict
that the new constitution will be voted down
by the people This comes Of entrusting to o
rabble Of Kearney's followers the great task
of framing the organic law Of State. The
so-called "Workingmen" constituted half the
convention, and their incapacity has been
ably demonstrated In the convention.