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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
His Recommendation.

Some time since Detroit merchant
was IN want of clerk, and he advertised
the fact. Among the numerous applicants
who sent in recommendation was a
young man who had shortly before re-
ceived a letter from the old man to the eff
feet that any further visits to his house
on the part of the young man could not
he permitted, and that :sMary s. future
husband was already selected. In his
haste and excitement he lora arded this
note in place of a recommendation from
a mercantile house, and upon discovering
his mistake he called upon the merchant
to secure his missive.
"Ah!" said the merchant as the young
man entered, you can begin here to-mor
row. was about to write to you.''
Chat that letter" began the
young man, bnt the merchant interrupted.
"Best recommend IN the world. Old
Blank and have oeen enemies for forty
six years. Any one he is down on 1 al
ways employ, in order to aggravate him.
Come right along. I'll give you position
in the front of the store where the old
curmudgeon must see you every time he
passes, and if you want to make up faces
at him I'll pay the costs!'
Thus we are able to furnish another
illustration that sunshine may come out
Of despair.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
Women's independence of Men.

"Perhans,' says the Boston Transcript,
S'it is because of the growing scarcity of
available men, perhaps it IS because of
the increasing independence of the fair
sex-n hatever the reason, it is fact
patent to all who frequent places Of
amusement that ladies venture abroad in
the evening without male escorts far
more frequently than they did ten years
ago, and it is greatly to the credit Of our
city that they can do SO with impunity
A lady would hardly go out alone of an
evening, but if accompanied by another
Of her sex, especially if one Of them be
tolerably along IN years-it is not neces-
sary to give exact fgures-both feel com
paratlvely safe. The result is that young
men are not quite SO much OF necessity
as they once were, and are made to feel
that they are no longer indispensable.
Time was when young man, simply be-
cause he was a man, was permitted to
feel that he was a very important crea-
ture, but now that male escort can with
propriety be dispensed with on occasion,
he has been obliged to descend from his
high horse. He was wont to impose his
cheap horse talk and slang on his lady
friends, and was permitted to parade his
conceit and ignorance, simply because he
was necessary evil; but times have
changed all that, and he often finds that
unless he can command respect by his
knowledge, his character or his gentle
manly department, his room is consider
ed more desirable than his company.
All of which is having an excellent effect
upon the average young men of the pc.
riod.''
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10

even if he could Chamber down that steep
rock. At last, Tab suggested that the
COW should hide herself, while he climbed
up into the nest and persuaded the old
man. So the COW hid, and puss scram-
bled up to the nest and carefully poked
his head in.
sAh, master!'' he whispered; ssclimb
down The rock tonight, and I'll show
you the way home.'' And he disap-
peared.
The visit braced up the old mans
courage, and when the mother-bird came
home he calmly told her he thought he'd
sleep at the foot Of the rock that night
and she unsuspectingly took him in he1
talons anu dropped him gently on the
ground.
AS soon as she had gone, the old man
looked all about him, and called "Tabby
Tabby," very softly. Tabby came out
from under the roots of tree and bound
ed on his shoulder, and told HIM hos,
sorry the COW was, and how she VAS wait
ing in t,icket ready to carry him
home, if he wanted to 90.
Of course he wanted to 90, and in less
than .jiffy the COW had come out from
her hiding place, had cried little, and
had taken the old man on her back, and
started full speed down the mountain
with the cat tearing after her.
1t was long way to the old mans
house, and they reached it just tired out
Of course, they got something to eat, and
then they went to bed, and slept right
through two days; but on the morning Of
the third day they got up as merry as
crickets, and, after hearty breakfast,
they agreed to live together for the rest
Of their lives. And they have lived ever
since in perfect harmony Nicholas
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
Medicinal Effects Of Onions.

A mother writes to an English agricul-
tural journal as follows: "Twice week
and it was generally wnen we had cold
meat Minced gave the children din
ner which was looked forward to and
hailed with delight. This was a dish of
boiled onions. The little things knew
not that they were taking the best of
medicine for expelling what most chill
dren suffer from-worms. Mine were
kept free by this remedy alone. 1t was
a medical man who taught me to eat
boiled onions as a specific for cold in
the chest. He did not know at the time,
till / told him, that they were good for
anything else.'' The editor of the Jour
mai adds: "a case is now under our own
observation in which,a rheumatic patient,
an extreme sufferer, finds great relief
from eating onions freely, either cooked
or raw. He asserts that it is byno means
a fancy, and he says SO after having per-
sistently tried Turkish baths, galvanism,
and nearly all the potions and plasters
that are advertised as certain Alternatives
or cures"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
English Agriculture.

There is room in the world for us all.
The briskest competition should engender
no feeling of qualification at the reverses
of rival. Therefore, it is a matter of re-
greet to notice the unsatisfactory, not to
say disastrous condition of English agri-
culture. English journals are filled with
complaints and forebodings of evil.
Agriculture was never in SO depressed
condition. Rents are unpaid; farms
go a-begging; the owners cannot work
them and tenants cannot MAKE enough
out OF them to pay for labor and for rent.
The English farmers are deluged under
flood OF American products. The cheap
lands of this great continent and our free
system of labor-ln which we include
the privilege to work without loosing caste
as a gentleman have borne the fruit
which has been so long a-ripening; and
our unfortunate rivals across the waters
are no longer able to compete with us.
The gates are now broken down. Our
exports are flowing abroad at the rate of
nearly one million day, over and above
the amount of imports. This result is
the inevitable effect of law, which no
man or nation can set aside. We could
not help it if we would. The best we
can do is to offer our rivals position by
our side where they can share our advan-
tages. Here is room for all. There the
balance is disturbed; here 1t is evenly
suspended and is not likely to he disturb
ed until our broad acres and plains are
fully occupied. And this cannot occur
for a century, perhaps for several Of
them, tocome.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
Hats.

How few of us have traced the history
Of the hat! The felt hat is as old as
Homer. The Greeks made them in skull
caps conical, truncated, narrow or broad
brimmed. The Phyrgian bonnet has
an elevated cap without brim, the apex
turned over infront. It is known as the
Cap of Liberty. An ancient figure of Ii
berty, in the time of Antonius Livy,
A. D. 145, holds the cap in his right hand
The Persians wore soft caps; plumed hats
were the head-dress Of the Syrian corus
Of Xerxes; t G broad brim was worn by
the Macedonian Kings. Castor means a
beaver. The American captive wore a
plug hat. The merchants of the four
teenth century wore a Flanders beaver
Charles VII, in 1869, wore felt hat
lined with red and plumed. The English
men and women in 1910 wore close wool
en- or knitted caps; two centuries ago hats
were worn in the house. Pepys in his
diary in 1864, wrote: September, 1864,
got a severe cold because took off my
hat at dinner and again, in January,
1865, he got another cold by sitting too
long with his head bare to allow his
wlfe's maid to comb his hair and wash
his ears. And Lord Clarendon, in his
essay, speaking of the decay of respect
due the aged, says s'that in younger days
he never kept his hat on BET, re those
older than himself except at dinner"
In the thirteenth century Pope Innocent
~. allowed the Cardinals the use of the
scarlet cloth hat. The hats now in use
are cloth hat, cork hat, embossed hat, felt
nat, fur hat, leather hat, paper hat and
straw hat.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
Strangely Kidnapped.
A yerv curious story is ooino

A very curious story is going the round
of the Paris papers. -Four years ago
tailor married the daughter of an artillery
colonel, and lived happy with her
twelve-month, at the end of which period
he went for q few days to Belgium on
business. On his return the wife was
nowhere to be found, but month later
the tailor and his friends recognized her,
as they imagined, iii the corpse of young
woman who had been picked up at Au-
teuil. Unable any longer to continue in
Paris, the tailor went to New York, where
two years afterward, he married again.
In the month Of January the new couple
came to Paris, and rented an apartment
in the Avenue Friedland. Last Wednes-
day as the tailor was walking in the
Champs Elysees, he saw a lady who look
ed marvellously like his first wife driving
in handsome cquipage, and, hiring a
cab, he followed her to hotel in the
Avenue D'Eylau. There an explanation
took place. It was indeed his first wife,
who declared that she had been kidnapped
and kept in ignoble seclusion for three
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10

Any dairyman may very easily demon
strate for himself that the amount Of 9th
er milk or cream is no criterion by which
to judge Of the dairy value Of the COW.
By the practical test Of manufacturing
butter it is fourd that the cream as well
as milk from different cows will vary to
an almost unlimited extent. The great
est mixer ever owned was worthless as
a butter COW. Although her milk pro-
duced considerable cream, the yield of
butter in proportion was small and the
butter was SO oily that it became rancid
in few days. My conclusions are that
the easiest and only reliable way to test
the merits Of a dairy COW is simply to set
her milk, and, without any regard to
quantity of milk Of cream, to ascertain
the amount and quality of butter pro-
duced. In this way with comparatively
little trouble we can know all that is Of
any practical value in regard to the merits
of dairy cows and the different feeds
given them. Name Farmer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
Bogus Coins.

Coin countelfeiters direct their atten.
ton chiefly to the quarter and half dol
lar silver pieces, though they by no means
contine themselves thereto. The outfit for
the work consists Of a few genuine coins,
some antlmony, lead, type metal, pulver-
lied glass, small galvanic battery, a
crude milling machine and moderate
supply Of plaster of Paris. With the
plaster of Paris they make models
perfect ones of the coin. Sometimes in
one mould there will be cavities exactly
the size of all the silver coins, with the
impression of one side on onc-half the
mould and the other bearing the fac-sim-
lie of the r,verse. T base metal, an
timony, lead, type metal and pulverlzed
glass-though tin is sometimes used-is
melted and poured into the mould. When
sufficiently cooled the metal is taken out.
The coin has dingy, rough and not at
all deceiving look. It is smoothed with
knife as far as possible, the rough edges
being cut off. It is next run edgewise
through small milling machine, which
generally consists Of two small cogged
wheels. This makes the notches around
the edges. All that is now left to give
the coin the appearance Of genuine money
is coating of silver. This the counter
feiter secures from genuine coin. The
genuine coin, subjected to the action of
the battery, soon loses some of the silver
Before it is sufficiently dissolved to total
ly deface it the coin is taken out. Enough
genuine silver is in this way procured
from a single coin to plate dozen eoun-
terfeits, and the original LOOKS, after the
operatian, as if it were but little worn,
and can be readily passed. This process
is called sweating" The work is very
simple A good hand at the business can
make his moulds from plaster Of Paris and
begin turning out spurious peices all in
two or three hours. In counterfeiting
gold coin the same met cd is pursued, a
genuine gold coin substituted for the sill
yer one in the sweating process being the
only change. It's much more difficult,
however, to get a decent gold counterfeit
than it is one of silver; therefore there is
not much doing in that line of business
The use of pulverized glass in the COM
position Of counterfeit coin IS for the pur.
pose of giving them a sring' something
ike that possessed by the genuine metal
They can always be detected, however
by their weight, never being as heavy as
the genuine,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Mad Itch in Cattle.

x +
The mad itch, as it is termed by breed
ers and farmers, is caused by cattle fol-
lowing hogs that are fed upon green corn
and stalks cut up and thrown to them
when the corn ears are in the roasting.
state. This is not an unusual way Of
feeding in the Western States. The hogs
will chew the stalks as well as the corn
ears, and extract all the juice or sap from
them, and then drop the sapless stalk out
of their mouths. These woody fbres
thus discarded or thrown out by the
swine with all the sap extracted, cattle
will eat vOraciously. Such refuse con-
tains no nutriment whatever 1t is total
y indlgestible; in consequence of which
the animal is unable to ruminate, and in
this condition the refuse mass finds its
way into the maniplies, and there lies
dormant and inactive in the manifold
portions OF the stomach, causing irrita-
ton anal acute inflammation in the part,
and no medicinal agents will serve even
to allay it. leaving eradication out OF the
question. The result is the death Of the
animal in great agony. The first symp-
toms developed in cattle that are de-
stroyed by eating the woody fibres and
sapless corn-stalks, are wild stare Of
the eyes, the animal is very irritable and
cross, and will attack everything in the
the shape Of a person or animal that
chances to come in its way. The afflicted
animal in very short time subsequent
to the attack will begin to rub its nose
and head against fence, tree or post un-
til the skin or flesh is torn and lacera-
ted in severe manner, and will continue
the rubbing until death ends its suffer-
ing. The eficacious treatment is to pre-
vent your animals from eating this and
other indigestible food
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10

he having been wounded IN a skirmish.
Between the captain and the nurse, whom
he detected in the ranks of his company,
a strong affection formed. At the close
of the war they We're married, the cap
tain, meantime, having been promoted
to the rank Of major. Major Hopkins
family was one of the best in Ohio, and
it refused to recognize his wife. She
had 5000, which she had saved from Ter
earnings on the steamers. This was in a
Cincinnati bank. She drew it out, and,
with her husband went to Cuba. There
they prospered and were found by Colo
mel Wilson In 1876. Word has been re-
ceived from Mrs. Hopkins that she and
her husband and children will sail for
New York in August, and visit the home
she so mysteriously left nearly a quarter
of a century ago
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
Fashion Vagaries.

Light blue IS the popular color for lit.
tie girls.
Reductions rule the market in all dress
fabrics.
Fancy stockings are now selling a
greatly reduced prices.
Invisible nets are very useful Tor both
the front and the back hair.
Fanciful parasols are more fashionable
this season than ever before.
New sashes are of rich brocaded rib
bons, of Persian colors and designs.
There is great variety and individuality
of tastes shown in the styles of hair
dressing.
Very full ruchings and plaitings Of
Breton lace are used to garnish summer
costumes.
Dainty Swiss ties for ladies are finish
ed on the ends with colored guipure
embroidery.
Among the imported carpets, the fav-
orite design is the black ground strcwn
with daisies.
Plain and sprigged muslin dresses are
garnished tn dropping bows Of white
satin ribbon.
Fancy draperies Of Spanish lace are Sc
lected by ladies for outdoor use at the
watering places.
New picture frames are very narrow,
and are Of highly polished Venetian
wood without carving.
Florida beans are brightly polished,
and ire made into sleeve buttons, lockets,
pins and pendants.
The Princess of Wales wears red rose
just below her left car, looking as if it
had fallen on her white ruche.
Boston women of fashion and means
are having dress patterns made by a
home Worth or their exclusive use.
White embroidered null muslin ties,
and lace tipped muslin ties, are univer-
sally worn in the demi-toilette.
After the white muslin and CAV Pom
padonr dresses, those of very pale blue
are most used by young ladies.
Many fashionable dresses are made
with t fan waist in favor many years
ago and SO becoming to slender figures.
The injury to the last crop of silk in
Europe will causcan increase in the price
of manufactured silks in the autumn.
inexpensive fans are made Of mummy
cloth, and hay Ill the effect of the satin
Pompadour fans. ithout the cost.
High .olored embroidered satin and
satin ribbons will be the trimming the
coming season for rich silks and other
heavy fabrics.
The white and black striped silks have
black velvet facings edged with black
Breton lace Of heavy pattern IN a striped
design that pleats effectively.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10

months by man whose name she had
never been able to ascertain. When free
she had learned to her sorrow that her
husband had gone to America, and, not
daring to return to her relatives, she had
entered dress makers establishment,
and so on. Inquiries are now being set
on foot in order to discover, if possible,
who the kidnapper was.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
THE EVERLASTING MEMORIAL.


Up and away like the dew of the morning,
That scars from the earth to its home in the
So let me steal away, gently, and lovingly.
Only remembered by what have done.
My name, and my place, and my tomb all for
gotten,
The brief race of time well and patiently run,
So let me pass away, peacefully, silently,
Only remembered by what have done
Gladly away from this toll would hasten
Up to the crown that for me has been won;
Unthought of by man in rewards or in praises,
Only remembered by what have done.
Up and away like the odors of sunset
That sweeten the twilight as evening comes
So be my lfe-a thing felt but not noticed
And but remembered by what have done.
Yes, like the fragrance that wanders in fresh
When the flowers that it came from are
closed up and gone,
So would be to this worlds weary dwellers
Only remembered by what have done.
need not be missed, if my life has been bear
CAS- its summers and autumns move silently
The bloom, and the fruit and the seed of its
shall still be remembered by what have
done.
Needs there the praise of the love-wrtten rec
Ords,
The name, and the epitaph graved on the
stone?
The thing we have lived for--let them be our
story
We ourselves but remembered by what we
have done.
l need not be missed if another succeed me
To reap down the fields which in spring
have sown,
He who plowed and who sowed is not missed
by the reaper,
He is only remembered by what he has
DONE
Not myself but the truth that in life I have
spoken,
Not myself but the seed that in life have
SOwn,
Shall pass on to ages-ail about me forgotten
Save the truth have spoken, the things
have Done.
So let my living be-so be my dying;
So let my name lie, unblazoned unknown
Unpraised and unmssed, l shall still be re-
membered; ..
Yes but remembered by what have done
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10

If love and affection could be won
with gifts and jewels, then indeed love
would have its price; but it is not so.
Affection springs from the heart only;
no gifts can produce it. A child s love
is won more truly by q parent fond en-
brace and kiss than with glittcring toys.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10

Roman sashes and the Scotch ribbons
are preferred to brighten up the solid
colored costumes, especially those Of
white muslin or black silk.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-03-27
QartetY.
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Business makes man as we'll as tries him.
Hypocrites are beings Of darkness disguised in
garments Of light.
Luxury increases the luggage of life, and there
| by imp pedes the march.
Death and sorrow are never here they are Ell
ther not come or gone.
Its not easy to straighten in the oak the crook
that grew in the sapling,
He only is independent who can maintain him
| self by his own exertions.
The silent eye is often more powerful con.
queror than the noisy tongue.
No man can avoid his own company-sohe he had
best make 1t as good as possible.
He who cannot keep his own secret ought not
| to complain If another tells it,
Ink Is causdc which sometimes burns the fin.
gers of those who make use Of 1t.
Age is surrounded by a cold mist, in which the
| flame Of hope will hardly burn.
A mans own good breeding is the best security
against other peoples ill manners,
Religion and medicine are not responsible for
the faults and mistakes of their doctors.
1t is with our good intentions as with our days;
tomorrow is but too often the hash of to-day,
Well may every act and silent thought deep
hidden though it be, tend to the great hereafter,
"TOo late" and mo more" are the mournful
sisters, children of sire whose age they never
console.
Wild flowers are the alphabet of angels-Where
by they write on hills and fields mysterious
truths.
Many goodly leg is lost in battle: thousands
of brave fellows walk proudly into the war and
hop out Of 1t.
sudden elevation in life like mounting into a
rarer atmosphere swells us out, and often pernic-
iOusly,
True beauty is but virtue made visible in out.
ward grace, peauty and vice are disjoined by