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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-29

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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-29

DOR RENT-Seyeral very nice rooms in the Nc
II Quillan Block, corner of Wabashaw and Third
Streets Suitable for Offices sleeping rooms. In.
quire OF MEAD THOMPSON, in the building.
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S~hrinkage of a MllllOn.D Dollar Estate.

The estate of the late James b. Tay.
lor, who died in New York in 1870, when
it was valued at So, coo, 600, has shared
the fate Of the Jarndyce estate, and been
swallowed up by the litigation hat has
been in progress eyer since the grave
closed over the body of tho millionaire.
On Thursday Henry W. Bentley, the re.
ceiver of the estate, made his report,
stating that the sale Of all the real estate
placed in his hands yielded $11, 780. 80,
and that his expenses in selling and col
Letting The proceeds amounted to $12,,
COO. This is a specimen OF the enor
nous expenses and fees that have been
charged against the estate. Mr.. Taylor
had 10 children living, and he left his
granddaughter, Mrs. Rowland, So, COO q
year and the rest of the estate to his
wife, Mrs. Rowland disputed the will,
contending it was a forgery. From this
step has proceeded all the disasters to
the estate. TIE suit prevented the
prompt settlement of the estate. Mr..
Tnylor's interest in the Transcript AS
sociation was valued at $3.50, coo, and
couli have been sold for that sum, but
during the d. ay the association went to
pieces, and the whole amount was lost.
A host of lawyers have been receiving
enormous fees, while the creditors Of the
estate have to be satisfied with twenty.
five per cent. The receiver, finding
that there is nothing left of the estate to
fight over, has asked to be discharged
from his trust, but there is a lawyer who
opposed The motion on the ground that
he has d claim of 1876, 900 for legal ser.
vices rendered TO Nj. Taylor in his life
time that is yet to be paid, The lega-
tees have the satisfaction of knowing
that the lawyers have taken the oyster,
leaving them the shells to divide be-
tween them.
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Anniversaries In October.

The Vine Month, as our Saxon fore.
fathers POLITICALLY called October, num-
bers among its countless anniversaries
several Of 30 much importance-includ
ing at least three of the worlds decisive
battles-as fairly to entitle it to the
foremost place in historical association
among the months of the year. On the
LIST began the fatal Afghan wal of 1898,
which ended in January, 1912, with the
most signal disaster hat ever befell the
British arms. 1t was also the birthday
of Lord BOIingbroke, the most bril-
liant and heartless OF all Queen Anne's
statesmen authors. On the ID died the
great Arago, L of the ablest scien-
fists and most singlehearted poll
ticians Of the modern times. On the 9th
occurred Bonaparte's sanguinary re.
pulse Of the Partisan Sections" in
1874, the last act of the Revolution and
the first of his own wonderful career.
The 7tb, by a strange coincidence, wit.
messed Gen. Burgoyne's surrender at
Sa ratoga-the turning point of the
War of independence and the death of
his con, Sir John Burgoyne, the famous
military engineer of the Crimean war.
The Chicago fire has immortalized the
8Eh and 9th, Arnold's naval action on
Lake Champlain the 18th. Upon the
18th Columbus first saw the shore Of
the New World. The 14th has the three.
fold renown of William the Conqueror's
victory at Hastings, Frederick the
Greats defeat at Hochkiroh by Marshal
Daun, and Napoleon's decisive over
throw of the Prussians at Jena. Mukh-
tar Pasha's GROWING defeat in Armenia
t1877) marks the 18th. Or the 10th
Harper's Ferry was seized by "Ossa-
watomie" Brown, who was wounded
and made prisoner on the following
morning by the Virginian militia.
The first bombardment of Sebastopol
took place on the 18th. as also Austria's
expulsion from Italy (179D by the campo
Formio treaty, The 18th saw the close
of the three days battle of Leipsic and
the repulse of Wellington before
Burgos. The fatal retreat from Moscow
began on the 10Th, the anniversary Of
Yorktown. The Goth witnessed Mack's
surrender at Ulm, in 1905. Balaklava
wal fought on the 25th, and Metz sur
rendered by Marshal Bazaine on the
9th. To this long list must be added
Turkeys declaration of war against
Russia in 1853, the Apglo.F French cap.
ture Of Pekin in 1860, Bismarck's sum-
mary dissolution of the Prussian cham
Der of deputies, and the birth of
Edward VI, of England, Jonathan
Edwards, Marshal SAKE the French
Territorist D%anton, and Sir Colin Camp
bell, afterward Lord Clyde.
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Some Faets Regardlng George ElIol.

In view Of the announcement that
Marian O. Evans, who wrote under tho
nom de plume OF George Eliot, and il
sometimes spoken Of as the wi9owof The
learned George Leweg-although che
was never married 10 bim-Will not ia,
yor the world with any more Of her
matchless novels, a few facts connected
with her career will be read with in.
terest:
George liot'g writings have been very
profitable. Their value in the market
has rapidly increased. For Scenes Of
Clerical Life she received but G300
(S1, 500; for Adam Bede' she got, all
told, $4,000 (s15,OOO), but something
lefs, / fear. for Mill on the Floss.'-
fRomola, perhaps her most artistic and
one OF the most interesting Of her nov
els to cultured people, has neve been
fully appreciated. It's earnings have to
date, / am told, not been much over
5000. She has cleared from Middle
march, issued by the Blackwoods, in
eight divisions, the enormous sum Of
eS, 900, and for Daniel Deronda' about
the same. 'Silas Mariner one of her
strongest stories, was not very profit.
able, while Felix Holt not at all equal
TO it, gave her six times as much money.
Her poetry-she has issued six volumes
has not been liked, nor does it deserve
to be liked in any measure with her
novels. Still she prefers her poetry,
and would rather be ranked az a poet
than a ~ictionist. Her entire earnings
have been about $3.50, OG0, and she could
make a contract any day for a new story
for which she would be guaranteed
$40, DOC. Her money making power is
not excelled by that Of any writer in
Great Britain.
In her case genius has been rewarded.
George Eliot is one Of the most learned
authors Of her time. The amount of her
requirement is wonderful. She is mis-.
tress of French, German, italian, Span.
ish and Dutch, has a tolerable acquaint.
ance with Romaic and Russian, is up in
all the sciences, is a critical Latin and
Greek scholar, an admirable historian,
an cbaologist, understands music,
painting and statuRry, and is a brilliant
conversationalist. Beauty she has not,
and nothing like it. Some persons count
her very plain, even homely; others
hold that she has a very interesting face.
To me she is i'll no wise remarkable in
appearance; she does not look like a
genius-geniuses seldom do. She has
gray eyes, rather large features, abun
dant hair. streaked with white: q medi
UNI figure, neither stout nor slender,
and a pleasant, well ,modulated voice.
She has been extremely industrious in
her profession. She oomposes rapidly
often; but cOrrects with great care, and
frequently Injuries her health, net 10.
bust by any means, by herexcessive ap-
plication. She is a pronounced ration
alist in belief; in most respects a won.
derful woman, and surely a p~rodigious
intallept
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Travelling Stones,

The Virginia City New Enterprise
says: Many Of u readers have doubt
less heard of the famous travelling stones
of Australia. Similar curiosities have
recently been found in Nevada, which
are described as almost perfectly round,
the majority of them as largo as a wal.
nut and Of an irony nature. When dis
trinutod about upon the floor, table or
other level surface, within two or three
feet of each other, they immediately be-
gin travelling toward o common center,
and there lie huddled up in n bunch
like a lot Of eggs in a nest. A single
stone, removed TO a distance Of three and
a half feet, upon being released, at once
started off, with wonderful and some.
what comical CELEBRITY, to join ita fell
lows; taken away four or f~ive-feet, it re-
NAMED motionless. They are found in
a region that is comparatively level and
is nothing but bare rock. Scattered
overthis barren region are little basins,
from a few feet to a rod or two in diane.
ter, and it is in the bottom Of these that
the rolling stones are found. They arc
from tho size Of a pea to five or Elk
inches in diameter. The cause of these
stones rolling together is doubtless to
be found in the material Of which they
are composed, which appears to be lode
stone or magnetic iron ore.
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stick TO the Country,

The Rev. DR.. Deems, who is editor Of
the Sunday Magazine, pastor of the
Church of the Strangers, in New York,
and a great f~avorite of Southerners Wis
iting that city, has as much experience
with strangers coming to the city as any
man can possibly desire. He is o
practical man of business as well as an
eloquent and scholarly preacher, and
never fails to give the most sensible adj
vice to those who seek it. He warns the
aspiring countryman concerning the
golden representation so frequently
made As to city life; and urges him not
to crowd into the metropolis unless he
has q prospect OF remunerative work.
In the Sunday Magazine for October
he says: The fact is, there is no place
like agreat city in whichto achieve great
success, but unless q man have some
money or much brain and great tact,
the city will crush him to death. The
vast city is attractive. People flock
from all quarters. There are ten appli-
cants for every place. There are at least
$1,000 adults in New York between
whom and starvation there intervenes
only the helping hand Of public and
private charity. These peopl Q can af-
fordto work for almost nothing. There
are boys Mere whose parents must sup.
port them, and are willing that they
shall work for q dollar a week rather
than do nothing. Strangers must com
pete with them. Advertise that you
want clerk for $40 a week, and the pc.
lice will be compelled to guard your
door from the throng that will come
sweeping up at the hour. Advertise for
a boy, and men will come in platoons,
sometimes grayheaded men. If you can
get the use of a blind mule and two
acres of land, do not come to New York.
Do not come without money to bring
you and carry you home, and keep you
until you go home. II then you have
a trade or profession, you may succeed.
1t is no joke to be thrown penniless on
a vast city,
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The Fashions.

Watches, with black dials and white
minerals, are a transient novelty.
One charm Of an Indian shawl is that
it h%armouizes with most anything.
Shirring, or to use an old word TO-
yived 10y French modistes. gaugiDg, is
probably the most conspicuous feature
Of Partisan costumes for the fall and
winter.
A good black silk, trimmed with satin
and with fringe is the best selection for
a suit that 10 10 be worn spring, fall and
winter. A basque with trimmed skirt is
the appropriate design.
A small round. crown Derby felt hat is
the fayorite hat this autumn for young
ladies to wear with wraps, and with the
dark cloth or flannel suits that are more
in vogue than at any previous season.
Fringes, p~assementerie, separate or
naments shaped TO the figure, brande-
bourgs, cords, tassels and painted orna.
mcnts for Gaping tassels are shown in
great variety for dress and cloak trim
mingg.
One of the most fashionable ways Of
holding the full breadths that are added
to the back of trains to make them flow
ing is to shirr the top in many rows at
least two fingers deep, yetdrawn togeth-
er in very narrow breadth.
For cloth wraps and for solid.colored
cloth and camels' hair dresses there are
vegetable ivory buttons, and those OF
notified buffalo horn in different sizes.
Two sizes Of buttons are used for most
suits, those on the waist, both front and
back, being nearly twice as large Os
those on the sleeves.
The pocket handkerchief for nice uso
is of fine linen lawn with h~emstitching
to match that of the linen. crayat or
necktie. Sometimes there is an inch.
wide border of the drawn work above
the hem all around the square, while
others have triangular bits OF this lntrl'
cate work in each corner.
One of the novelties for trimmings
this season is lace painted by hand in
cashmere colors and designs. II is
shown in both black and white; the
black is in Breton patterns, and the
thick figure is painted Japanese blue, or
else old gold, with red, olive or pale
blue. The white lace is woven in Mech
lin patterns, and is most delicately tint
ed by the brush.
The surtout is the new wrap for rainy
days and for travelling. 1t is far more
trim and shapely looking than the belt.
cd u~lsters, and is cut precisely like a
gentleman's oyercoat, with the Tapped
seam open down the middle OF the back
below the waist, two great buttons de-
fning the waist behind, short side
forms, pocket flaps on the hips, coat col
lar, and either double or single breasted.
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Shells Thickcr than Trees.

During the battle Of Autietam n regi-
mept was performing the very Disagree
able duty Of supporting q battery. The
location, ueor tho little church in the
edge OF the WOOD, was q prominent one,
and the steady roll Of our guns was as
sharply replied to by the enemy, and
the air seemed filled with soreeching
shot AMI shells. The regiment was ~
ing down, and just in rear Of them was
a rather open piece Of timber, and wher-
ever the chance allowed the officers
sheltered themselves behind the tsess,~
Behind asmall-sizcd hickory stood Lieu
tenant W, and covered by a big oak,
a few PAGES away, was his colonel. This
was VS. FIRST battle, and he could
not avoid duoking his head whenever ii
seemed to him q shell came uncomfort-
ably near, observing which the colonel
said, cheeriully, Hold mp your head,
lieutenant don't dodge To which
W grimly answered: i could do
better behind a big tree like yours; but
the shells are a good sight thicker here
than the trees 7 A fact no palpable that
his future lodging accustomed no eau.
ton from his superior.
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stoneNaIl J%ackson,s CharacterIstIcs.

A clergyman thoroughly acquainted
with StoDewall Jackson, in a long sketch
Of the military career Of that great chief
tain, gives this Incident in connection
with him:
With tue exception Of his military &C.
MUS the most prominent trait Of Jack.
sons character Was bis piety. No one
who ever knew him ever doubted that
lac was a sincerely and profoundly re.
ligious mau. His piety was strongly
marked with humility, prayerfulness,
conscientiousness aud faith, aud per
fectly free from cant, bigotry or fanati.
cism. He was naturally quiet and re-
firing in disposition, and had a great
repugnance to taking a public part in
religious exercises, yet he never shra Tx
from his duty, wherever il led him.
He contributed literally, systemati-
cally and punctiliously to the support OF
the church and to all worthy religious
objects. His habit in this respect was
amazingly illustrated in Lexington a day
or two after the frat battle of Bull Run,
called at the South the first battle OF
Manassas. This wa the first consider
able battle of the war, and the FIRST
tidings OF it threw Lexington, in COM
mon with the rest Of the country, into a
spasm Of excitement. The villagers
could not sleep, but crowded around the
stage stand, awaiting the arrival OF the
mail, and discussing the probable re-
suits Of the engagement.
AT last the mail arrived. 1t was open
oil on the spot, and it wal announced
that DR.. White had a letter fron Jack
SOL. The good doctor was in the crowd,
and the anxiety TO learn the particulars
of the battle from such a reliable in
formnnt as Jackson, who was known to
have taken part in the engagement, was
so intense that the old minister was COM
PEELED to mount the stage stand and
read his letter aloud to the crazy throhg.
The letter was as follows:
Dear Pastor: We had q battle yes
terday. Enclosed please find check for
500, being the amount of my annual
subscription to foreign missions, nov
DUE
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Effect Of Exile on Mankind.

0ne0& the Communists who has Just
been restored to his liberty by the
French government after several years
Of Punishment in New Caledonia, has
written an account of his experience in
that country, in which he says: Men
herding together, and removed from all
feminine influence, become snarling mis-
anthropes. They do not 60 TO the trou-
bic to hide their native roughness, and
become objects of mutual disgust and
aversion, In long sea voyages naval
officers of gentlemanly breeding fall out
and snap at one another. AT Pine Tree
island the male convict's greatest hap
piness was TO be alone. When rainy
weather forced the chums TO remain I'M
der the insufficient shelter of their huts,
they sat with their arms folded and their
heads on their chests, trying to evoke
Images Of bygone scenes in France, or
specializing on what might next happen.
The man who broke the silence brought
upon himself a stream Of abuse, His in
terruption produced the effect which is
experienced when one is awakened out
of q pleasant dream to an unpleasant
reality, Not every one who wishel was
able to command happy remembrances
OF the past, Memory had become en-.
feebled, and wanted coaxing and goad-
ing to operate. When it was stimula
ted into working order, it was Pickering
and uncertain. One fine season the
proscripts attempted to form c%ercIeS,
whore they were TO meet and recount
episodes Of interest in their lives and
amusing anecdotes. But this was o
given up. When the story-teller did
not break down for>want Of memory, he
was discouraged by the inattention of
his brother %oxiles, who were brcoding
over their own unfortunate adventures.
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An instance Of heridity in crime is
furnished by E las Phillips, of Free
town, Mass, who recently appeared as
a witness in a burglary trial, having
turned States evidence. lie is a great.
grandson of Malone Briggs, a notori-
u criminal, who was in the State pris,
on with seven Of his sons at one time.
Briggs ancestry is traced back to a no
TED pirate in the time of Earl Bellamont,
and his branch of the family has, for
yer a century, furnished noted crimi.
nails in every generation.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-11-06
STORING Potatoes.

In storing potatoes several methods
are adopted, yet they are all practically
the same, the object being to protect
them against freezing. whether buried
in pits or stored in cellars. The first
consideration is TO keep them in perfect
darkness; the ue1t is, the bins should
not be too deep-not over three feet
TO produce warmth and cause them to
sprout. When stored in the field,
straight trenches ara dug, say twenty
feet in length and four or five wide,
which are filled 10 the depth OF three
feet with potatoes, then ~well-covered
with straw, on top of which put eighteen
or twenty inches Of earth. In a pit
twenty feet long there should DO about
three gas escapes or ventilating open
ings, which should be plugged with
straw and covered with a board set at au
angle to turn the rain. II in cellars,
barn or otherwise, the bins should DO
covered with rugs, old carpetings or
straw. Those intended to be kept for
late spring sales should be frequently
examined and all sprouts removed; ioI
as soon as a potato begins to sprout il
loses its solidity, dryness and quality.
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Care Of Infants,

A learned professor in featuring his
pupils remarked: Here is another case
Of disease Of the cornea. This baby is
twenty months old. There is a white
spot over the center of this little girls
pupil. 1t is soft looking, and / there
fore know that it is recent. The child
has nasal catarrh. 1t was weaned when
six months old, and it is now Just cut.
ting its eye teeth. The mother says it
is being fed with whatever there is
upon the table; that it receives q little
tea and coffee, and that it is allowed to
suck pieces OF meat, all of which s
wrong. Do not allow il among your
patients, gentlemen. If the good Lord
had wished us to eat meat at the age OF
twenty months he would have given us
a full set Of teeth ready for use at that
time.
v DIR. Leaning has for some years had
charge of an asylum in which large
numbers of children are received and
cared for, and he does not allow one of
them to have anything except milk, and
substances which con be dissolved in
milk, until they are seven years of age.
l think your professor of materia medi-
ca lie equally emphatic upon this ques.
ton, and now your professor of oph-
Technology IN to you and beseeches
of you to use all possible influence in
the direction of having children reared
upon milk alone. Not upon tea, not
upon coffee, not upon meat, not upon
sweet cake and buildings, but upon
milk. Every physician will, under rare
circumstances, prescribe beef juice for
infants, very much as brandy is pre-
scribed upon rare occasions for small
children, and I shall not quarrel with
them upon that point. But l have a
decided opinion that, under ordinary
circumstances. no child should have any.
thing except milk and farinaceous food
until it has been provided with teeth with
which to prepare other articles Of diet
for the stomach. Follow nature in your
practice in ophthalmic as we'll as in
every other kind of disease. l will N
gage, if this mother, who is anxious for
her child, will listen to what I say about
feeding it hereafter with milk, barley,
%farina, corn starch, hominy, with per-
haps a small quantity of sugar, that the
teething will be easier, the bowels will
be more regular, and diseases of the
cornea will be less liable to OCCUR.
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Heavens Messengers.

The editor Of the Charleston, s. c.,
Beacon relates this affecting incident
Leaving home this morning for the of
fee, W. kissed our little four-year- old
good-by, saying to him, BE a good boy
to-day He somewhat surprised us by
saying, Il will. Be a good man, papa.
Sure enough, we thought, we need the
exhortation more than he. And who
could give it more effectually than this
guileless prattlerl The words of the lit.
tie preacher have been ringing in our
ears all day: and, whether we wrote let
ters or editorials, paeifed an irate cor-
respondent whose effusion we could not
publish, or pruned a too lengthy report,
we seemed to hear the sweet child voice
saying; BE a good man, papa.
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Gbe turfkIp Grralo,


-Sa1oh p4lui
M - q, IN the mountain stAirs;-
The best things any mortal hath
Are those which every mortal shares.
The air we breathe-the sky-the breeze
The light without us and within
Life, with its unlocked treasures
Gods riches-are for all to win.
The grass is softer to my head
For rect it yields unnumbered feet;
Bweeter 10 me the wild-rose red,
Because shemAkes the whole world sweet
Into your heavenly loneliness
Ye welcomed me, oh solemn peaksl
And me in every guest you bless
Who reverently your mystery seeks.
And up the radiant peopled way
That opens into worlds unknown,
II will be life's delight TO say,
Heaven is not heaven for me alone
Rich through my brethren'a poverty!
Such wealth were hideousl am blest
Only in what they share with me,
In what l share With all the rest.
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Madame Grevy, the wife Of the French
president, travels in the simplest man.
ner. She takes great pains to pass I'm,
perceived, Notwithstanding the trouble
taken TO do her homage. The honors
which have fallen TO her lot do not seem
to affect her in the least. Many Of her
critics think that France ought to be
represented with elegance, and that her
genius is opposed to such simplicity.