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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
A Compost Heap.

Each farmers premises should have
recepticle for the refuse matter accumu-
lating during the summer, which, if left
about the buildings, gets wasted and pol
lutes the air. Instead, let it be put into
compost heap in some convenient place
not too near the dwelling, where decom-
position can 60 on without offense, form
ing thus not small amount IF rich ma
nure Of a general character applicable to
all crops, including the garden, grape
vines, shrubs and trees; the manure be-
ing handy to apply, and at all times
wanted; thus, by giving it an elongated
form, so as to afford chance for the
first deposit at the end to be used when
rotted, while the rest being extended, be-
ginning again as the ripened manure is
removed. Lay the foundation for 1t in
sod, several courses; this is to absorb the
juice. Clay below would be further
saving in wet season. Upon the sod
dump the material, the contents of the
earth closet, or the privy Of that nuisance
or waste were still continued), forming a
good beginning; that Of the privy
requiring earth to be mixed with 1t to
absorb and confne its odor. The night
soil of the family including especially
the urine, all of it will form d large part
Of the pile and of the richest character,
surpassed only py animal carcasses,
which find here an excellent receptacle.
To facilitate their decay they should be
cut up and covered with soil kept ready
at hand. This soil by all means should
lie road dust which itself is charged with
horse dung. Collect when dry and keep
under cover. It will readily absorb the
moisture Of the refuse and take in the
rains. The great variety and amount of
material to be collected will be surprise.
Leached ashes find an appropriate place
here to be distributed through the heap.
So does discarded brine, which changes
the nitrogen of the heap into forms of
plant food. Then there is the offal- par
ticularly the blood-of slaughtered ami
mails rich in nitrogen. Reduced bone
adds an important element. Here is the
the place to receive decaying vegetables
and fruit and rotten potatoes. The kitchen
contributes to the pile. There are the
weddings Of the garden and other vegeta-
BILE material which with little sprink-
ling of lime Followed by the road DUST
will hasten decay and improve the pile.
More still might be mentioned. AS to
the pig-pen and hen-roost, these afford
special manure and may be treated indie
pendently.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
MUCH MARRIED.
The Romantic Enoch Arden Case.

The romantic case Of John Morning
star, published in the Cincinnati En-
quirer lately, continues to be the sensa-
ton of the week, and has shaken the So
ciety of this town from center to circum-
ference. It is so extraordinary in its de-
tails and SO exceedingly novel and ro-
mantle that the people do not tire in dis
cussing it in all its phases. In addition
to what your reporter has already writ
ten he has learned the following. which
will bear repetition: Morningstar was
80 poor that he could not support him
self and family and he battled as best he
could against the incursion of the wolf
until, unable to Withstand the contest
longer, he enlisted in the regular army.
His little girl was scarcely able to speak
the parents title when he left. He had
repeatedly written to his wife, but re-
celved no reply, and by some means as
certalned that she no longer resided in
the little town in Illinois. He gave her
up as dead, and, too poor to follow and
seek her if she still lived, he Joined a
party Of emigrants to California, and
crossed the plains and snow-capped
mountains to the new Eldorado. Here
he encountered the vicissitudes of ear
~ mining, and his was indeed a
rough time. As he. struggled on,
day by day in almost abject poverty,
he grew old and gray. He was no
longer the young man who left his wife
and baby years before. His letters to his
wife remained unanswered. They never
reached her, and he was too poor to OBJ
tain money to enable him to return to
Illinois. Thus he worked until one day
recently he struck bonanza, sold out
and came back. ..
Mrs. Morningstar, after her husband
had left, worked hard to feed and clothe
herself and gill, and when she heard the
report that he had been killed in battle
she succumbed to. the inevitable, and
married Ben Scott, the drayman. He was
kind friend to her, and he had kind
heart and possessed many of the essen
tails that go to constitute good man.
At length they were married, and their
life has been struggle with poverty ever
since. Their union has brought five lit
tie children into the world, and these,
with Scott and wife-the poverty-strick-
en- home-greeted, Morningstar three
days ago, when be came home after an
absence of twenty years, to find his wife
and baby. His little girl baby, whom he
found working out as servant-girl, is a
modest young woman who, of course,
does not remember her father, knowing
none other than poor Scott. Her father
has removed her, and dressed her as be-
comes the daughter of wealthy retired
mine-owner, and there are preparations
in progress for trip to California.
What Mrs. Neutrality-suspicious. will do
is not known. The long absence of her
husband would entitle her to divorce,
and she might then legally marry Scott,
but her first love is alive and blessed with
abundance of worldly goods. 1t is a
question too intricate for solution by any
one save herself:
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Aud you have been 4 wauderer ever

Aud you have been wauderer ever
since?"
"Ever since!' -
The feeble pulse was fluttering Sthe
glazing eyes sheathed under waxen lids,
and the shattered form was growing rigid
momentarilY.
evil you tell me no more?" whispered
the physician.
at is all have to tell.''
The next moment the man was dead.
He had kept his secret and sacrificed his
life in keeping 1t.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
A Child's Wonderful Escape.

A pleasure party started from the JOS
sey House, in Decatur, Ca, to visit Stone
mountain. Among the party was Mrs.
w. G. Jones, of Augusta, and her daugh-
ter Emmie, about nine years old, and
three or four small children Emmie and
the little daughter of Mrs. Cunningham,
Of Savannah, wandered from the grown
people and were soon lost. They rambled
through the thick under growth, calling
for their parents, but had gotten too far
to be heard. The children were moving
rapidly, when, without any warning,
Emmie slipped from the steep and almost
perpendicular side Of the mountain, fall
ling about three hundred feet, when, by
great presence of mind, she managed to
catch little shrub and cling to the mos
sy SIDE Of the mountain, her feet resting
on space Of about fifteen inches of iut-
ting rock. Had she again slipped, she
would have been hurled one thousand
feet further, and been dashed to pieces
am ong the sharp rocks below. Her little
companion missed her, but did not
know that, she had fallen, and finally
she found the grown people from whom
she had been separated The
entire party went in search IF Emmie,
and were about to give up the hunt when
some parties passing the base on that
side of the mountain looked up and saw
the child suspended in mld-air, as it were.
Information was quickly carried to the
anxious mother, and the question arose
How could she be rescued2 She had been
in that position for two hours and no
time was to be lost. A brave and gallant
young gentleman named George H. Gold
smith, about nineteen years of age, volun-
teered to descend the treacherous noun
tain side and rescue the child from i'm
pending DEATH. The child below was
urging them to be quick-that she
was growing very cold. "A swift, strong
wind was sweeping the mountain sides
and it was growing quite late. No time
was lost, and in few minutes a cell of
rope was brought, hastily adjusted around
the brave young man, and assisted by
Mr.. J. T. Willingham, he was lowered to
where the child was clinging to the scaly
walls. Reaching the child, he gathered
her in his arms and brought her safely
to her mothers arms. The child clutched
young Goldsmith with such force that
she left the imprint of her blue fingers
deeply imbedded in his arm.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
An aesthetic Tramp.

lie walked into the sample room and
took his stand directly in front of the
free lunch table, from whieh he lifted
the alleged edibles in manner which
caused the bartender to yell at him:
Say, there, lot upn'
saint this intended to be eaten2" in
quired the tramp, as he crammed hand
full of potato Said into his coat pocket.
eyes; but we amt feeding grist'
mill. or an eight-cylinder press like
YOU" 80,
"Ain't this sausage" ..
EYES," ~.. -5:E
81 thought so; the flavor is quite fa-
miliar. Now, my dear sir, are you
aware of the fact that sausage con-
tainS-''
"Cheese it!' yelled the dispenser of po-
litical cordial.
slave you ever read Charles Lambs
essay ON roast pig?"
"No."
"Well, 1 am very sorry, am sure. Now,
if you we're well up in Charles Lamb, I
should take great pleasure in discussing
him critically with YOU"
Here he crammed a handful of
smoked beef into his mouth, and con-
tinued:
II suppose y you have heard Of the Ia
did he write political hogwash for
the BIadders''
"The what?"
"The New York Sum-
"No, sir, he wrote the Lines on a
Grecian Urn,' and st. Anges' Eve Now,
if you'll say beer, I'll give you criti-
cal"
'Let up on that cheese.
II don't want your cheese, sir; I want,
one Of them tube roses to put in my but
tonhole. The tube rose, my dear sir, is
simply one of the most exquisite Of our
floral gems; from an aesthetic point of
view it is charming; but the proper way
to enjoy tube rose is to have It on
piece of pumpkin pie. May I have a
tube rose?''
"No, sir"
"Not even as souvenir?''
mo, sir!' .......... .......
''Then good morning. l was just 60
ing to tell you about poor Shelly, but
shan't now. Any man who is mean
enough to refuse stranger tube rose
is not fit to hear the name of man of
genius. My lord high generalissimo,
addois." The Film Flamity Film Film
meandereth on his dig.
And he shot out.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
A Remarkable Recovery.

The recovery from wound generally
pronounced mortal, and the restoration
of the organ wounded to healthy action,
occurred in the Ouachlta country, in the
case of an eminent citizen who filled the
highest political Offices in the State, and
was always regarded as a leader of the
dominant political party. We refer to
General Solomon w. Downes, who once
represented louisiana in the United
States Senate. In duel between Gen
eral Downes and General Morgan the
weapons being rifles General Dewnee
was shot through the lungs. The balls
which penetrated his body carried With
it piece of cloth in which it was the
custom to wrap. the balls used in the
rifles. The ball was cx-
traeted, but the cloth remained and pro
duced Inflammation. which gave great
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
HOUSE AND FARM.
nts to Poultry Breeders.

4 correspondent of the Massachusetts,
Ploughman, WI with some good hints
about the management of poultry in ans
wer to an article on that subject:
"First, you say, if eggs in winter are
wanted, the light Brahma or white Co.
chin Is best for that purpose. An expert
cncc Of ten years with fowls of different
breeds has not brought about such con-
clusion with me. keep fowls for the
eggs-black Spanish, white and brown
Leghorns and have no trouble about
their laying in winter. I find as much
trouble in keeping fowls cold in summer
as 1 do in keeping them warm IN winter.
I keep Brahmas for Matching. They dis
count all other breeds in that line of bus
mess, and their motherly qualities are
without rival. I find the expense Of
food for twenty five black Spanish, white
and brown Leghorns to be the same us
that for fourteen Brahmas. There is no
question in my mind but what the Ply
mouth Rock excels all others when
brought upon the table as an article of
food. For eggs, the Plymouth Rock still
stands as second, which is saying much
in their praise, whom we consider the
number of good laying breeds with which
they have had to compete. A hen that
lays one hundred eggs year is not an
improbable one. Still she cannot be
classed as very profitable one. A hen
to bein favor with me, must produce from
one hundred and thirty to one hundred
and eli ghty eggs year. At the latter
figure can make them pay three hun
dred per centum on the investment, be-
side the cost OF the food.
III, it is desired to obtain stock of
hens for laying eggs to sell when they
bring the highest price, like the hatch
ing to take place the first week in May,
if Of the black Spanish, white or brown
Leghorn breed. They will lay as soon as
the tenth Of October From that time
until the first Of March is when I find it
4 good time to sell eggs. In the matter
Of feeding, feed so that your hens may be
healthy. The healthy hens are those
from whom We may expect eggs, and not
those that are extremely fat. When a
hen does not lay four months in success
sion, know no way by which she can
be made to make up for lost time, any
more than I can tell how farmer can be
made to make up the loss of two days
time per week in a grocery store discus
sing his neighbors' business. AS for a
hen not being profitable to keep for lay
ing after she is two years old, cannot
endorse 1t, as I have hens that arc four
years old and still continue to deposit
one dozen month. Still I prefer young
hens. In selecting hens to set, select
eggs from those hens in your flock that
you know are continually laying. Black
Spanish, white and brown Leghorns, are
not of much account for the table To
kill them for the markets. folly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
A Fathers Sacrifice.

Not great while since a prominent
physician in Denver, Co.., was called to
attend a patient in the last stages of what
appeared to be consumption, but which,
upon examination, proved to be simply
the wearing away Of lifc-a decay of the
energies Of mind and body. Although
well supplied with money, the stranger
was seemingly without friends or relatives.
he wrote no letters and received none.
An alien to the tenderness and charities
which sanctify the affections, he seemed
to be drifting out of the world, in which,
for him, all the flowers of the heart had
perished--a bleak and desolate old man,
fastening out of the sunshine into the
winter Of the grave. After making a
thorough examination Of cases, the doc
tor told him that although he could find
no organized disease, yet he was dying.
81 know it" replied the patient.
"But have you no idea of what brought
you to this plight2" inquired the interest
ed man of science.
sit is curious phenomena. You have
heard great deal about cases like mine
more as visionary exaggeration of
VIC AoASy IuoA % Oh oCGOoA OSCuIIcuCc-
but, strange as it may appear, I am dy-
ing, as you say, Of a broken heart
"You surprise mel"
eyes, I surprise myself, l did not
come to your health-glving climate as
others do = in search of longer lease of
ite-but to die in peace and alone"
"But have you no friends?" asked
the doctor.
'None that can claim. My past Is
sealed with the shadow of crime, and
over my nameless grave, not even men,
DRY must hover. I am already dead to
all who knew my name"
"You say you are criminal?" pursued
the doctor.
"No, am none. But I assume the
stigma to shield another"
''And that other?"
"Was my son!' ."... r.
"What was the nature of his crime?'
The physicians curiosity had got the
better Of his prudence. The shadows Of
twilight were falling around them.
Through the open window streamed the
soft brillance of the dying day. Clouds
of amethyst and purple foated laz1ly on
the far-of hills. But in the chamber
where the fevered breath was drawn
quick and short there was hushed still
ness which seemed in keeping with the
ghostly shadows.
ssIt was murder!'
ssAnd was fixed on you?'
On mel assumed it and then escaped
but not to evade the vengeance of the
law, but to spare to him loved the stig-
ma of felon's DEATH"
"How long ago was this?"
Twelve wears.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
An Erratic Sympathizer.

Three weeks ago Mr.. GilfHan's most
amiable little wife was taken suddenly
SICK, and her case grew worse and more
alarming so rapidly that her life was de-
SPARED OF. One day she would be at the
point of death, and the next day she
would be able to sit up in bed at inter-
walls. She kept on in this uncertain state
for some time. Last Thursday night she
died, and, on the following morning, an
eccentric neighbor, entitled johnson, rang
the bell, and was met by Mr.. Gilfillan,
who asked him into the parlor and
showed HIM to seat. -,..~ g..
II am sorry" began Mr.. johnson, Ito
know of your amiable lady's death, but
I thought I'd drop around and tell you
the condition of my feelings on the sub
ject. I know just the kind of racket it
IS myself. When Maria died thought
was struck with gas bill. Maria had
points. Oh! couldn't she everlastingly
sling things and she died so calm and
peaceful that it was chrome. Did Mrs.
Gilfillan slide off the hooks GRACEFUL"
"She was calm to the last"
"Well, Maria wasn't; she died an orig
NAL death; she talked to the last, and af-
ter she fumed we inserted tube and
drew lot of embryo lingo out of her, so
she would tit into her coffin. The coffin
was size too small for her, but l got il
cheap, as it was little old-fashioned in
cut, and was the last one the man had.
Are you going to fire the late into an ice
box, or are you going to try the new fash
ion Of"
81, ali, I must request"
eyes, yes, make any request you like.
shall be only too happy to comply. I
should like to know the exact minute at
which she died."
2:27."
"Good enough; now don't you think
the doctor may have poisoned herr"
II never thought Of that"
"Well, it may not he so. In fact I am
sure she died q natural death, but if you
could kick up fuss about it, and get the
matter noised around in the newspapers,
it would build up the doctors business
and give you a reputation upon which
you could lecture. I know it's kind of
mean for man to make an advertising
medium Of his wife's remains, but bust
ness is business
81, ah-"
"Hoop la!" shouted Mr.. johnson as he
got out on the stoop; "won't you come
and take beer?"
Mr.. Gilfllan snid nothing, and while
watching his eccentric friend the latter
said: ri have won $40 on your wife.
bet she'd kerf1ummix before 8 a. M
Now, if there Is any dispute about the
record, will you back me up with :27?'
But by this sine the bereaved widower
had vanished within the melancholy
shades Of his home.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
The History of Petroleum.

A correspondent OF the Phiiadelpllia
Times, writing from Oil City, Penn; :;
thus briefly sketches the history of, the
now universally used petroleum ~ i'm
1914 petroleum was used as medicine.
At thar time, and up to 1853, It. was
known as 'senaca Oil' probably =. on 'ac-
count of its having been found on the sur
face of Senaca Lake, and having first
been used by the Senaca IndiahS IDS a
medicine. The mode of obtaining, this
oil, at that period of its history, was by
throwing blankets on the surface; of still
water whore the oil was wont to aGcumu-
late, and after they had become saturated
to remove them and extract the, oil by
wringing the blankets. From this print
tive beginning has grown one of the lead
ing industries in this state. It was not,
however, until the years of 1853 4 that
petroleum began to be valued as an 1llu-
minator, and this only in limited way,
for it was then burned in its crude state
in old lard-oil lamps, which were liable
to explode at any time.
Between 1854 and 1857 it became
known that the explosive qualities of this
product conld be removed by subjecting
it to process of distilation, ana from
that time its value began to be recognize
ee. Here difficulty arose. The oil
could not be gathered in sufficient guam
titles to supply the demand and some
thing must be done or the new industry
would fall through. Accordingly in the
year 1858 a joint stock company was or
ganized for the purpose of boring into the
rock IN quest of the now valuable oil,
and Colonel E. L. Drake was put at the
head of this company, with full power
to push the enterprise. The work proved
to be full of difficulties. The facilities
fer probing the hard rock at that time
were exceedingly limited. The derricks
used were only thirty feet high and the
drilling tools only weighed in the neigh
borhood Of two hundred and fifty pounds,
and the old horsepower waa used for
running the machinery. With all these
difficulties to contend with the work pro-
crossed slowly, and it was net until Au-
gust So, 1859, that the drill struck the
shale rock at the depth of seventy one
feet, and the we'll Immediately filled up
to within five inches Of the surface. A
small pump was inserted, and the pro-
duction was found to be about forty bar
rels per diem, at which rate it kept up
1or several months This we'll was To-
Gated in Cherry Tree township, Venango
county, about two miles from what is
now the city of Titusville, on the banks
OF Oil Creek. Other wells soon followed,
and people began to flock to this new
field of excitement, ready to tap the
veins from which the liquid wealth pour
ed in such profusion."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
Benedict ArnOld's Services.
From the n. Y, Herald Oct

From the n. Y. Herald Oct
A State meeting of the New York His
torical society was held last evening at
the library in Second avenue, corner of
Eleventh street. The president, Mr.. VIM.
Depeyster, called the meeting to order,
and the secretary, Mr.. Andrew Warner,
read the minutes of the previous meeting.
he read paper entitled, "The Campaign
Against Burgoyne in 1777, and who led
the American troops to victory He
spoke of Benedict Arnold s career as SOL
der, his courage and boldness, and the
many battles he had fought IN the Amer
lean service, and how the Continental
Congress, sitting at Philadelphia, refused
to promote him, although advised to do
so by General Washington himself. He
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26

A cOlored man was once asked why he
did not get married. "Why, you see,
sah,' said he, II got an old mudder, an
| hab to do TO her, ye see, sab, an if
don't buy her shoes an stockins an
bread an butter, she wouldn't get none.
Now, If l was to get married, I would
hab to buy dem tings tor my wife, an
dat would be takin' de shoes an stockin's
an bread an butter right out o my mud
der's mOuf."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26

A man from New Jersey, recently on
visit to this country, while strelllng
through the Governments ground at
West Point, was attracted by humble
cf cannon, the muzzle ends of which were
embedded in the earth. "What are these
guns placed in this position for?'' in
quired he ola cadet, who CHANGED to pass.
I'm case Of war with China?" was the
young soldiers prompt reply. The for
eigner lapsed into deep meditation
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26

For tall slender woman, the prettiest
kind of a short costume has the skirt
composed entirely of horizontal puffs,
with one deep founce at the bottom, over
which is worn panier polonaise Of dit
ferent material The waistcoat is formed
of puttings to correspond with the skirt.