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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
Going to the Circus.

For half an hour before the circus
opened an misunderstanding, middle aged
man was observed walking around nerv-
ously, as If he had free ticket and was
afraid the show was on the point of bust
ing up. When the ticker-wagon was
opened he made a rush for it and bought
a pasteOoard; but while on his way to the
tent, ticket in hand, woman lodged in
to the procession, seized his collar, and
for half minute the air seemed full of
heels.
"Going to the circus, eh!" exclaimed
the woman, as she slammed him around
''Sneakeo out of the back way and MADE
bee line for here, did you9"
'Let up on me-stop-for heaven s
sake stop this disgraceful conductr'
"Gentlemen," she said to the crowd, as
she held up one foot and then the other,
''see them shoes9 I've worn. 'em better
nor year, and there amt nothing left
but the heels and shoe strings. All the
children are just as bad of, and we don't
have half enough to eat. That explains
why I'm bouncing him-why I'll make
his good for-nothlng heels break his
good nothing neck!7
They fell over rope as she grasped
him, ana in the confusion be broke away,
leaving the ticket ON the ground. A boy
handed it to her, and, wiping the mud of
her nose with her apron, she said:
81 haih't seen no girafes, nor clowns,
nor snakes, nor hyenas for twenty-five
years, aud being this ere tickets bought,
I'll walk in and view the gorgeousness.
and the children shall come tonight, if
have to pawn the wash-tub to raise the
money"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
FARM AND HOUSE.
Facts worth Remember,ne.

One thousand shingles, laid four inches
to the weather, will cover one hundred
square feet of surface, and five pounds o.
single nails will fasten them on.
One Eth more siding and flooring is
needed than the number of square feet Of
surface to be covered, because of the LAP
In the siding and matching of the floor
One thousand laths will cover seventy
yards OF surface, and eleven pounds OF
lath nails will nail them on.
Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen
bushels of sand. and one bushel of hair
will make enough good mortar to plaster
one hundred square yards.
A cord of stone, three bushels of lime
and cubic yard OF sand will lay one
hundred cubic feet OF wall.
Five courses of brick will lay one foot
In height on chimney, six bricks in a
course will make fue four inches wide
and twelve inches long, and eight bricks
IN a course will make fue eight inches
wide and sixteen inches long.
The law assists those who are vigilant
and not those who sleep over their rights
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09

a shot striking the air chamber of {
Whitehead torpedo. The first shots were
fred from rifle, but beyond slightly in
denting the torpedo,no damage was done
The Calling gun was then tried at 8
range Of 100 to 900 yards, but it did lit
tie more injury than the rifle. 1t was
then fired at a point-blank range, when a
shot penetrated the chamber, letting the
confined air, which was at pressure OF
1000 pounds per squire inch, escape
harmlessly.
In the present state of the science OF
electricity, M. Fontaine maintains that it
is impossible to divide the electric light
economically. He thus states the best
practical results: A single light equal to
500 standard gas-burners has the ad-
vantage over gas, even if one-fourth
of tie light produced is only actual
ly realized. II the light is reduced to
q standard of SO burners the advantage
is still on the side of electricity
If it be diminished to 20 burners
there is an equilibrium bet veen gas and
electricity IN the matter of cost. If, how
ever, the electric light be only equal to
10 burners, the illumination is more
costly than it would be with gas. An
experiment in electric lighting has just
been tried at Billingsgate, London The
engine had two cylinders, each 10 IA
inches in diameter, with ID inches stroke
and using 80 pounds steam, and made
100 revolutions per minute. 1t impaired
motion to two Gramme machines, the
one producing continuous current and
connected by two wires to the other of
the alternating type and capable of sup
plying electricity to 30 Jablochkof can
dies. -Four circuits were employed with
tour lights in each. Nine of the electric
candles were placed equidistant from
each other in the body of the market
facing the river, two in the street front
on Thames street, ana one on the stair
case. The light did not apparently give
SO much satisfaction as the admirable
system of gas lighting with which the
market had been provided.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09

lease of the farm on the Martoun estate.
called Whitehouse. The wizard was to
manage the farm, the devil managed the
capital. The produce was to be divided
as follows: The first year Sir Michael was
TO nave all that grew above ground, and
his partner all that grew below: the
second year the shares were to be the
opposite way. His satanic majesty, as is
usual in such cases, was fairly over
reached IN his bargain, for the wizard
cunningly sowed all the land in the fist
year with wheat, and planted it with
potatoes the second, so that the devil got
nothing Tor his share but wheat stubble
and potato tops And this scourging ro-
tation Sir Michael continued until he had
not only beggared his partner, but ex-
hausted the soil. In spite OF this legend,
however, we must continue to give credit
to Sir Walter Raleigh for havin been the
lntroducer of potatoes into that country.
The first that tried them, we are told, fell
into the very natural mistake of eating
the apples and disragarding the roots.
Every farmer should save ali the fer
tlllzlng material that the farm affords, so
far as possible. One source of fertility
is found in the Stops from the chamber,
which in many cases are thrown careless
ly where 70 benefit will come, for the
reason th-t just a little trouble is nccas-
sary for their saving. a very simple
method for sayirg chamber slop, is to
put quantity of dry earth, chip dirt,
charcoal dust, dry peat, or something of
the kind III some sheltered place, either
in pile or in barrels, upon which the
Stops are thrown anti thoroughly satu-
rated. This makes an exceedingly rich
fertilizer, as experience has attested.
About half pint of saturated charcoal
dust was used in the hill for corn. but,
not being properly covered with soil,
was too strong for the corn which was
killed by it, but being planted over, the
corn came up quickly and made vigar-
GUS growth which continued through the
season, caring heavily. In an ordinary
sized family, by saving the chamber
Stops in the manner indicated, several
barrels of material may be made tnat is
almost as reliable as guano
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
Health MINIS for Farmers.

Danger comes from suddenIstrs lining of
one muscle, or set of muscles, 80 as to
lnjure their tissue and cause lameness.
Few escape this. Then add to this the
injury of overwork. Overworking is
simply working after the strength has
been reduced 80 low that it is painful or
wearing to move. 1t is working after the
noarishment in the blood has been mostly
used up. 1t is like keeping a mill go
lng when the steam is low, or when the
water in the dam is nearly out. In such
caseses not only the muscles stuff r, but
all the organs of the body Overwork at
last, no matter what kind it is, produces
bankruptcy OF the body, which is worse
than any kind Of bankruptcy. bad as thew
ali are. In the care Ct the muscles
avoid colds and rhcsmatism. They
make people stiff and::lame They take
away the natural elasticity which gives
50 much pleasure, and substitute worn
out, tired, exhausted feeling, which bord-
ers on pain, and is often more difficult to
bear. How very careful the owner of a
fine horse IS that he shall not take cold
He knows if he does it will founder, and
after this it will never be a good stopper
Our whole country is full of foundered
men and women, who are stiff, lame
rheumatic, old in feeling, inelastic. Most
of them might have preserved their elias
ITCHY to old age if they mad taken proper
care Of themselves.
AS rule, farmers do not battle as much
as they should. The daily bath to them
IS quite as important as to any class. II
requires but few moments to take it.
and when followed Dy friction it fortifes
the skin agaist colds.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
A Hero Martyr.

"What are you doing there?" said
kind-hearted stranger to half-frozen
plumber. who was leaning back in re-
cumbent position against the board fence
near service-pipe he had been engaged
In repairing. 1t was one OF those cold
days, and the mechanic was with difficult
ty aroused from that DELIGHTFULLY."- fatal
stupor that precedes death by freezing.
"What are you doing there, I say2" he
repeated, with another vigorous shake.
Intending that pipe" replied the half
daZed lumber.
"But it's done, ain'tit?"
Eyes"
"Why don't you go home, then?"
"Sir." he replied, AMI there was in his
face that exalted look which the MARTYR
who dies for his fellows always wears;
"sir, our shops in the Union, and a man
who'd make less than day out O. that
job conldn't stay in the P. and G.. F.
Union forty minutes. No, sir; I'll die at
my post"
The good, hearted stranger went away,
saying to himself, ''That's true hero.
What City Councilman he'd make"--
PhSzG. Sunday Trans.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
Something n evy la rem ces.


A correspondent says: "a post and
rail fence, better than anything I have
ever seen, patented or unpatented, is
made as follows. Set the posts nine feet
apart, or two feet less than the rails used
Bo,e one and a quarter inch hole
through the posts one foot from the
ground, and at right angles with the d.
rection of the fence. Bore three holes
above this, nine inches apart, one above
the other, and drive in wooden pins in
all four holes to project four inches on
each side Of the post. Lay your rails on
these pins. close to the post on each side
Bore a three-eight inch hole above the
top rail, and another one one and half
inches below the bottom pin: Take a
piece of wire tel or eleven feet long, and
pass halt its length through the top hole,
and cross it I'm Ter the top rail; cross it
again under the second rail from the top
cross it again under the third rail, and
finally cross it under the bottom rail by
slipping the ends Of the wire through the
small hole, and bring them around in
front OF the post and twist them together
This makes a cheap strong fence, that
will turn horses and cattle; but, if sheep
are kept, q board should be placed at the
bottom, or fifth rail added.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
Disadvantages IN Life.
Cultivf.t ting a beard.

Cultivfting beard.
Sitting at the foot of clearinghouse
table.
Wearing tight boots with big wad of
cotton-darning in the heel.
Walking through crowded ferry-boat
with year old baby in your arms
Passing the club or billiard room with
out "dropping in to see who's there"
Having bad cold in the head and no
handkerchief within haiIing distance.
Being asked what time it is when your
uncle is keeping your watch to suit his
time.
Endeavoring to persuade tailor that
the longer your bill goes over, the sooner
will the sun of resumption rise like 8 for
ty-cent sky-rocket.
Carrying a scuttle of coal up stairs
while the partner Of your joys stands in
the hall and yells, ooh, Henry, what a
dirt you're making on my new carpet!"
For the first time in ones life asking
girl if she wouldn't like to so out some
evening next week." and have her coldly
say. mo you mustn't keep late hours!'
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
The Little Sweep.

Several years ago an effort was made to
collect all the chimney sweepers in the
city of Dublin for the purpose of educa-
ton. Among the others came little
fellow, who was asked if he knew his let
tiers.
20, yes, sir" was the reply.
"Do you spe'l9"
80, yes, SIR was again the answer.
''Do you read?"
80, yes, sir"
"And what book did you learn fromg"
80, never had book in nv life, sir"
"And who was your schoolmaster2''
80, never was at school9"
Here was singular case; boy could
read Or spell without book or master.
But what was the fact2 Why, another
little sweep, a little older than himself,
had taught him to read by showing him
the letters over the shop-door, which they
passed as they went through the city.
His teacher, then, wasanother little sweep
like himself, and hisbook the sign-boards
on the houses. What may not be done
by trying?- 'CAizd's World.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
An Essay in Quantity

Lo! the day, dawning with rosy brightness,
Leaps to each mountain over all the valleys,
While the gray twilight, vanishing before 1t,
Clings to the lowlands
Where the hoarse tumult of an angry torrent,
Lonely ia silence as of old eternal.
Roars rough nocturne, even in the darkness
laundering onward -
Like forlorn soul that gloomy passion
Urges, and dark mists gather all around him.
But the high mountains, if he gazed upon
them
Glow with the sunlight
Tile Spectator
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
Dream, My Baby.
BY EBRN E. RENFORD l..

BY BBEN E. REXFoRD.
Mothers baby rock and rest,
Little birds are fast asleep.
Close beneath her mother breast.
Safe the bird her brood will keep.
Oh! my nesting, mother sings,
Close within the mother-arms,
Fold thy little, unfedged wings,
Safe from any rude alarms.
Sweet, my baby, en- my breast
Dream your happy dreams and rest.
Rest, oh! rest.
All! my baby, from the nest
Little birds will some day fly
To the east and to the west,
Wild their pretty wings to try,
But, fly they fast, my bird, or far,
Never can they fluid the spot,
Under sun or any star,
Where the mother-ove is not.
Sweet, my baby, on my breast
Dream your happy dreams and rest
Rest, Oh! rest.
Oh! my baby, mother prays,
As she clasps you closer still,
All sweet things for coming days,
And not any earthly i'll.
Always, child, remember this:
Mothers neart is warm and true,
Ard she tells you with kiss,
There'll be always room for YOU
Sweet, my taby, on my breast
Dream your happy drcs ms and rest
Rest CHI rest.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
A Good Liquid Manure,

A Baltimore florist sends the Boston
Journal of Chemistry the following form
ula for liquid manure for flowers. The
materials may be had at any blacksmith
shop:
Put one bushel of the clippings from
horses hoofs into barrel and fill it up
with water. Let it stand for week,
when it is ready for use. Apply it with
watering pot. All bedding plants can
be watered with this liquid every other
day, If shey are not pot bound; repotted
plants should be wattered ouce a week
until they have plenty Of working roofs
to take up the manure. It will also be
found excellent for hard wooded plants
it used once or twice week. Two or
three weeks after the plants have be IN
Watered with the manure, the foliage gen
orally changes from green to a golden
yellow, moving from the stem down to q
point of the leaf which however, lasts
only for few weeks, when it chsng es to
dark glossy green. Plants under this
watering grow very strong; the flowers
are very large and brig ht in color.
Plants thus treated can be kept in
very small pots for long time with
out being transplanted. This is es-
pecially advantageous to the market gard
ener, who can sell his plants in three or
four inch pots, while he would have to
shift them into FIVE and six inch if he
used rich soil alone. Flowers watered
with this liquid manure will bring TWEEN
ty-tve per cent more than otherwise; be-
sides using in small pots, they are Ii ghter
can be packed closer, and are easier to be
| handled. The fertilizer is not stimu-
liant, but plant food, and plants that are
watered with it, if planted out, will con-
tlnue growing and keep in good growth
which cannot be said of guano. 1t is as
| powerful as guano, as quick in action,
and more lasting.
1t Will not do the slightest harm to the
foliage; most other liquid manures spoil
the follage when they come in contact
with it. 1t forms nc crust on the pots or
soil. 1t is cheaper than any other good
fertilizer which is used in liquid form.
The chips need be renewed or replaced
only twice year, while the water can be
Withdrawn every day. When liquid gu
ano is used too strong it will cause the
plant to drop all their leaves. This H.
quid will not, even if used once or twice
a day for short time.
Potatoes were first introduced at Mos
COW by Mr.. Rowland, eighty or ninety
years ago. At first the people would
neither plant nor touch them saying they
were the devils fruit, given to HIM on his
complaining to God that he had no
fruit, when he was told to search in the
earth for some, which he did, and found
potatoes. A curious Berwickshire legend,
which, however, is palpably anachronical,
attributes the introduction of potatoes
into Scotland to that famous wizard of
the North, Sir Michael Scott. The wizard
! and the devil, being in partnership, took
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
A Boys First Effort.

A lady gave her young "hopeful' the
Task Of writing composition He went
10 work with great enthusiasm, ana the
outcome is thus related.
He re appeared, after the lapse Of an
hour Or SO, inky from head 70 foot. be ar
ing fooscap sheet, on which was in
scribed in hieroglyphic, somewhat re-
sembling the Runic characters used by
our Teutonic ancestors, the fe flowing
effusion:
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
THE SENTIMENTAL.

The Sentennael is the birthday of our
Country. Our Country was born in 1912.
1t was discovered by G. Coium bus 1 pity
Columbus because he was Forcnor. But
then he could not be born hear cause he
mad to discover it first. Our country is
the largest, biggest, strongest Country in
the whole world. Hllrrah for the u. S.
of America.
Yours truly, WILLIE.
P.S. 1T can lick any other country.
As he handed this to me, quite flushed
and tired out with his arduous labors, he
said, with soothing sympathy for me,
mingled with profound contempt for all
literary work:
II don't wonder it makes your head
ache! Poor little mammal Just YOU
wait till I'm man! Then I'm going to
hire servant on purpose to write our
books for u.s."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09
Winter Amusements.

The play called ~ no Wears the Rine?"
is an elegant application of the princi pies
involved in discovering a number fixed
upon, and is splendid way in which to
pass an evening. The number of persons
partici pating in the game should not ex-
coed nine. One of them puts ring on
one of his fingers, and it is your object
to discover, first, the wearer of the ring j;
second, the hand; third, the finger; fourth
the joint.
The company being seated in order,
the persons must be numbered /, Q, 8,
etc.; the thumb must be termed the first
finger, the fore finger being the second;
the joint nearest the extremity must be
called the first joint; the right hand is
one, and the left hand two.
These preliminar1es having been ar
ranged, leave the room in order that the
ring may be placed unobserved by YOU.
We will suppose that the third person
has the ring on the right hand, third fin
ger, and free joint; your object is to dis
cover the figures 1881.
Desire one Of the company to perform.
secretly the following arithmetical ope-
ration:
| 1. Double the number of the per
sons who has the ring; in the
case supposed, this will produce
| 3. Add5 II
3. Multiply by five s.
| 4. Add 10 6
| 5. Add the number denoting the
hand &C
| 6. Multiply by 10 CSC
| 7. Add the number Of the finger 665
| 8. Multiply by 10 663
.. Add the number OF the joint 663l
| 10. Add IS SOC
He must apprise you Of the figures now
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09

He must apprise you of the figures now
produced, 6,666; you will then in all cases
substract from it 1885; IN the present in
stance there will remain 3,l31, denoting
the person No. 8, the hand No. /, the fin
ger No. 3, and the joint No. 1.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-09

mOfSN1Nd CAfS.
Daily these are growing more stylish
and dressy. A very snowy specimen is
made of white tulle, lace and wine coored
velvet ribbon. The high Normandy
crown is made of the tulle, but has the
front half trimmed with trills et the lace
passing over it from side to side and sep
arated from each other by bands of the
velvet. At the base of the
back Of the crown are two folds of the
tulle, aud attached to these is a four
inch cape of plated lace. At the base
Of the front OF the crown is band of the
velvet, and to it is attached narrow lace
frili- From underneath the cape at the
back falls loops and ends Of the velvet.
NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON.
''Lace Shoes are Of satin, over which
appears to be lace. The designs of ap-
pique and guipure are carefully initiated
and superposed to all appearance on the
msin fabric. The shoe is finished with
the smallest heel yet worn. 1t is narrow
and so high that it requires practice to
venture upon it. Some designs of these
shoes initiate velvet with everything lace
S me LADIES having worn shoes upou
which was set lace the fancy was taken
up, and hence this really beautiful shoe.
Gold silk tissue is new fabric, ex-
tremely elegant. 1t looks like water run
ning over geld leaf. 1t decelves and en-
chants the eye and appears to be double
fabric and you turn it. over and think
that you will find eithr the repplrs OF
the gold leaf, but cannot find either. This
costly material is intended for ball
dresses, aud r1tania herself might wea,
1T. Snort sleeves with high bodies have
been revived for evening wear.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-02-01
MENpELssoHN PIANO

STANDS WITHOUT AN EQUAL.
These Pianos made one Of the finest dis
plays at the Centennial Exhibition, and were
unanimously recommended for the Highest
Honors.
Professor o. II. Newell, the celebrated pi-
anist. who received the distingshed honor Of
a Gold Medal and Badge from the Centennial
Commits sioners for highest excellence In
piano playing at the great Exhibition, says of
these Pianos: 81 must say that they equal the
best Pianos made by any firm in this city.
For evenness and pure singing quality Of
tone they have NO SUPERIOR ANYWHERE.
The continuation of sound after striking
note is something wonderful in art of scale
drawing"
Pianos sent on trial. and sold on install.
ments Don't fail to w:i2e for Illustrated and
Descriptive Catalogue-mailed free.
CAUTIoN.-The Mendelssohn is a regularly
incorporated manufacturing company, and the
only house which makes the entire piano, and
sells direct to the purchaser at factory price.
Beware of "bogus" pianos offered by dealers
who pretend to be manufacturers. We refer
You to the New York Commercial Agencies,
which will give you reliable information in
regard to them, a. well as to our integrity,
character and responsibility
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-08-07

which she has lust purchased In New York and
Baltimose oTske most fashiOHable styts ard pt
tie loeest New York prices. FIN MIX
Ladies and ChiIdren's HATS and B0NNETS
Of the latest styles. Flowers, RbbOms, etc.
Beautiful NeckITiea, Ruehing, Vailing sad
Ornaments Of alI kinds for the head and neck.
eT Splendid assortment Of JeWelry.
Real hair bgaids At Baltimore prices. The SER
vices OF an experienced MiiliheF has been Engaged
20 trim hats and bonnets 70 Osder, 10 re-shape
and bleach Old hats aud bonness.. ,s--.t
Nay %, 1879. ...--. = --t-.....l
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-08-07
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