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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23
Tobacco in the Hen.Ro0st.

A French gentleman has developed
a theory that the inhalation of tobacco
smoke by fowls causes their flesh to as
sumo wonderfully white color and be-
come very tender at the same time. He
accordingly shut up chicken in his
fowl-house, and set fire to q store OF
"caporal," which he left burning in the
place. Tie young fowl, so far from
being averse to the odor of the narcotic,
was inclined to try its taste as we'll as
its smell, and had in a few days. time
consumed so much "caporal" that it's
flesh was not only whitened, but abso-
lutely "nicotinized" with poison. To it
as it stood-probably in rather stupid
state-upon its perch entered one night
an adventurer. The precious bird was
carried off, plucked, cooked and eaten,
and a short time after breakfast the
thief was seized with violent and intol-
cradle pains. He rushed to the doctor,
needless of the necessity which would
arise of disclosing his nocturnal esca-
pade. He was found to have been poi
soned by the nicotine contained in the
flesh of the fowl, and was with some
difficulty saved from death.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23
Glass Beads.

Among the most curious examples of
persistence in art are the well-known
Aggry beads, which occur everywhere
IN Africa and in many parts Of Asia.
Similar beads are still made for the
purpose of barter by glass-makers in
England and Italy; yet they appear
among the oldest remains in many
widety-separated places. Mr.. Nesbitt
considers them Phenician, and sup
poses they were made for the purposes
OF barter with uncivilized nations, such
as the ancient Britons. Glass beads of
extreme hardness have been found in
British graves, and on analysis were
found to be composed and colored in
the same manner as those of undoubted
Egyptian origin. The usual type is
large-not round, but spindle-shaped,
and marked with alternate indented
bands OF red and blue, the colors being
separated by q narrow white line.
These beads are found in England, on
the Gold Coast, in India and Germany.
in Italy and Egypt. They are partic1-
'ariy common III the cities along the
course Of the Rhine. The oldest speci-
ntns must be Egyptian, but in all prob
ability the pattern was continued in
many distinct manufactures at many
different enthusiastically Reuie,C.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23
THE TWO BURDENS,

Over the deep sea love came flying;
Over the salt sea love flew signing
Alas. o Love, for thy journeying wingsi
Through turbid light and sound Of thunder,
When one wave lifts and one falls under,
Love flew bird flies straight for warm
springs.
Love reached the northland, and found his own:
With budding roses, and roses blown,
And wonderful lilies he wove their wreath
his voice was sweet as q tune that wells,
Gathers and thunders, and throbs and swells.
And fails and lapses in rapturous death.
His hands divided the tangled boughs,
They sat and loved in a moist greenhouse,
With bird-songs and sunbeams faltering throng''
One note Of wind to each least light leaf;
o Love. those days they were sweet but brief
Sweet as the rose is, and fleet as the dew.
Over the deep sea death came flying;
Over the salt sea death flew signing,
Love heard from afar the rush of his wings,
Felt the blast of them over the sea.
And turned his face where the shadows be,
And went for a sound of disastra6s things.
Death reached the northland, and claimed his own
With pa'r sweet flowers by wet winds blown
He for the forehead of one a wreath;
His voice was sad as the wind that signs
Through cypress-trces under rainy skies.
When the dead leaves drift on the paths beneath
His hands divided the tangled boughs:
One love he bore to q dark deep house.
Where never bridegroom may clasp his BRIDE
place OF silence. of dust, and sleep;
What vigil there shall the loved one keep,
Or what cry of longing the lips divide?
--fhiIp Bour6e MnSton, IN Halpers Ndgasine.
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4 .
fond Of swimming and diving. One day,
on taking him to the pond at the bottom
OF my compound, he jumped off my
shoulder and Owed like man in the wa
ter, which was three or four feet deep:
he had his chain on at the time, and
when he dived in, the chain caught in
some grass or root at the bottom and
kept the monkey down; he was just able
to come to the top of the water. Feel
ing his chain had caught, he dived down,
undid the chain, and continued to swim
with the chain in his hand. He swan
just like man, as far as I could see from
the motion of his arms. Several of my
brother officers came to see him swim
ming, of which he was very fond, swim
ming very quietly, and cunningly trying
to catch the frogs that lay floating on the
top Of the water
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23
New FAngs in the Rattlesnake.

On Aug. 2, two very lively mice gave
him much trouble, so much that he
struck at random a good deal. In MAX
ing thrust overhead, after a mouse
clambering along the wire screen, his
fangs got caught in the meshes and
were both broken off. I found one
afterward on the floor of the case, and
the other stuck fast in the skin of the
mouse, whence I removed and secured
it with hook before the prey was swal-
lowed. On the 9th of August, lust
three days after the fangs were lost, I
placed very small mouse in the case
and watched attentively. It was IL
O'Clock, noon. The crotalus struck and
got the little fellow entangled in his
prehensile teeth Or reserve fangs pos
terror to the new ones in exact position
and doing good execution. Five min
utes elapsed, in which the mouse hid !;
then, when opportunity offered, the
ophidian struck tremendous blow,
after which the victim fell, CAPPED, con-
v..lsed, and died in just 10 seconds after
the infection of the wound. I think
that the first blow was struck too far be-
yond the victim, and was not effective.
The new fangs had taken the place of
the last weapons and becomeserviceable
in less than three days. I found that
the animal lost both fangs, also, at the
time of changing the old for new skin.
On both occasions I have picked up
the fangs from the floor afterward. Is
this always the case? I have noticed
,o4 ~-1 L.
or two from an act of violence the alive
olus became tender or sore, as was
shown in the subsequent difficulty of
swallowing prey. It is claimed by DR..
Mitchell that if a fang has been dis.
placed from any but natural causes an
other reserve fang cannot perform pro-
visional duties in less than several
weeks from the time of violence to the
gums. I failed to make this observa
tiOn.-Scie71ce NeaUs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23
Lincoln on Sumner,

The following is from the interesting
''Diary of Public Man," published in
the North american Revie,u.
AS I rose to leave, Mr.. Lincoln
picked up and handed me a note to
look at. I recognized Senator Sum-
ner's handwriting as I took it, and was
not, therefore, particularly surprised to
find it alarmish and mysterious in tone,
bidding Mr.. Lincoln, for particular
reasons, to be very careful how he went
out alone at night. I saw that MIR.
Lincoln watched me while Z read the
note, and I perhaps may have expressed
in my countenance an opinion of the
communication which I did not think
it civil to put into words, merely reiter-
ating, as laid it back on the table, my
own conviction that there was nothing
to fear in Washington, and no occasion
for measures likely to influence the
public unfavorably in other parts of the
country. AS I arose to go, Mr.. Lincoln
pulled himself together up out of the
rocking-chair in which he had packed
himself, and, scanning me good-na-
turedly for moment, said very abrupt
1y: "You never put backs with Sum
ner, did your suppose I looked as
much surprised as felt; but laughed
and said that I did not think I ever had
done SO. swell, I suppose not" he
said; and then, hesitating a moment,
went on: "When he was in here 1
asked him to measure with me, and do
you know he made little speech about
it." I tried to look civilly curious, and
Mr.. Lincoln, with an indescribable
glimmer all over his face, continued:
eyes," he said, " he told me he thought
this was time for uniting our fronts
and not our backs before the enemies
of the country or something like that.
It was very fine. But I reckon the
truth was" and at this point was COM
PEELED against my will to laugh aloud,
Il reckon the truth was, he was-afraid
to measured" And with this he looked
down with some complacency on his
own really indescribable length of limb.
"He is good piece of man, though
Sumner" he added, half quizzically,
half apologetically, " and a good man.
I have never had much to do with Bish-
ops down where we live; but, do you
know, Sumner is just my idea of a
Bishop?"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23
Explaining a Joke.

He came into the Office, modestly and
shyly, as was BETTING, and asked to
see the man who put jokes in the Adver-
tlser. The joker was engaged in read
ing some very exciting tables of trade
and navigation returns, in order to in
form An Old Subscriber" how many
gallons of beeswax had been exported
from the province of Prince Edwards
Island in the year of 1871, and was con-
sequently in very hilarious mood. The
visitor took off his hat, mopped his
manly brow with a dirty handkerchief
and placed before the newspaper man a
scrap of paper on which was written;
When Sir Joseph Porter dies the
company will be treated to half-and-half
Porter and bier"
The newspaper man read it, looked
up and exclaimed, @Whut is it
about?"
1T is just little joke, you see."
All! didn't notice. will read it
again"
He reperused, and then asked,
Where is the joke ?"
Why, the play on words-apun, you
know-Po rter and bier"
Oh, ali, yes. Porter and bier. Well,
did you ask Mr.. Porter about this?
Will he be pleased to see his name in
the paper in that connecticut"
Why, there is no such person. Sir
Joseph Porter is character in Pima
FORE"
Well" unused the newspaper man,
if there is no such person I don't see
how he can die. A person who don't
exist can't die very successfully. Any
attempt to kill a man who don't live
must necessarily prove a failure"
But you don't understand" .ex
planned the amateur joker. "You see
the whole point is in the play on the
two words-porter and bier. Porter and
beer mixed is called half-and-half. Now
you catch the idea, don't you?"
Well, I understand it so far. But
where's the joke?"
Why, explained"
Yes, Iknow that you explained. You
said porter and beer mixed is called
half-and-haf. But that kind of porter
is not a man-it is a liquor, and any
how you don't spell beer right"
But that's the point. You notice
there the words have different meanings
and the same sound. It is to bring out
different idea that the word itself con-
veys that I have tried, and I fatter my
self
No, no" interrupted the newspaper
man, "not hatter. Your grammar is at
fault. The joke is fiat, not fatter."
At this point some of the people in
the sanctum interfered, and the enemy
beat a graceful retreat without any
asualties.-L071do71 Advertiser.
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Memory in Old Persons.

The brain is the instrument of the
mind. Every thought and feeling is
dependent on certain changes that take
place between it and the blood. Men,
tai activity may be quickened or re-
tarded, exalted or depressed, by the &C.
ton of drugs upon the brain. Singular
effects are produced by cerebral disease.
Age works permanent changes in the
brain; it shrinks it's bulk and hardens
its substance. In consequence of this
there is change of mental manifesta-
tions. This mind acts more slowly in
old persons. It does not turn readily
to new subjects, and is not capable of
as protracted or as lofty efforts. The
feelings, too, are much lessened in
susceptibility.
But in the memory the most marked
changes occur. Some persons who
have been more than ordinarily gifted
in this respect in old age become Pc
cuiarly deficient in memory. With
the aged recent facts and events are not
so readily taken up into the mental
storehouse. and what is learned is
sooner forgotten.
At the same time the past stands out
in vivid contrast with the present.
Early habits return again. For in
stance, the pronunciation or thespelling
of youth often reappears, to the sur
prise of friends. Sins, early repented
Of and forsaken, obtrude themselves
painfully on the memory.
From this we see how important it is
that the associations and habits of youth
are such as shall give only pleasure in
old age.
Ii one would not sink into imbecility
when the brain begins to sink, let him
cultivate all his powers right along
through life.
The aged should take special pains
10 keep up their mental activity.
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the new mistress where she had 80 long
reigned supreme. And when year later
she received letter from her brother
Joel, announcing the birth of son to
this last and happy wedlock, she ex-
claimed:
There's no fool like an old fool"
She consigned the missive to the
flames with the words. But peace and
prosperity smiled upon her brother as
the happy husband and father and the
''ittle woman" blessed the day she &C
cepted the rough diamond for lite
Partner-all of her days being those of
thanksgiving.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23
AN OLD MANS DREAMS.
By ELIZA NJ. SHERMAN.
It was tho tW light hour:

-..-.. IL was tho twilight hour;
Behind tho western hill the sun had sunk
Leaving the evening sky aglow with crimson light
The air is filed with fragrance and with sound;
High in the tops of shadowy vine-wreathed trees,
Grave parent birds were twittering goodnight
10 still their restless brood
Across the way ~
noisy little brook made pleasant
Music on the summer air,
And further on the sweet faint sound
OF Whippoorwi1l falls rose on the air and fell,
Like some sweet chant at vespers.
The air is heavy
With the scent Of mignonette and rose,
And from the beds of flowers the tall
White lilies point like angel fingers upward,
Casting on the air an incense sweet,
That brings to mind the DID, old story
Of the alabaster box. that loving Mary
Broke upon the Masters feet.
Upon his Vine wreathed porch
An old white-headed man sits dreaming
Happy, happy dreams of days that are no more
And listening to the quaint old song
With which his daughter lulied her child to rest.
@Abide with me-" she says;
"Fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens-
Lord, with me abide.'
And as he listens to the sounds that fill the
Summer air, sweet, dreamy thoughts
OF his "lost youth" come crowding thicky up;
and Tor awhile he seems a boy again.
With feet all bare e
He wades the ripping brook, and with boyish
shout
Gathers the violets blue and nodding ferns
That wave welcome from the other side.
With those he Wreathes
The sunny head of little Nell neighbours child,
companion of his sorrows and his joys.
Sweet, dainty Nell, whose baby life
Seemed early linked with his,
And whom he loved with all boys devotion.
Long years have flown.
nd DIR INIT and 10Y,
They stand again beside the brook, that murmurs
Ever in its course, nor stays for time nor man.
And tell the old. old story,
And promise to be true till life for them shall enc
Again the years roll on,
And they are old. The frost of age
Has touched the once-brown hair
And left it white are the chaliced lilies.
children. whose rosy lips once claimed
fathers blessing and mothers love,
Have grown to mans estate, save two
Whom God called early home, to wait
For them in heaven.
And then the old man thinks
How night like this, when faint
And sweet as Aforementioned dreams
Old Whppoorwill falls did murmur soft
Its evening psalms, when fragrant lilies
Pointed up the way her Christ had gone,
Sod called the wife and mother home,
And bid him wait.
Oh! why is it so hard for
Man to wait? To sit with folded hands
Apart amid the busy throng,
And hear the buzz and hum of toll around,
To see men reap and bind the golden sheaves
Of earthly fruits, which he looks idly on
And knows be may not Join,
But only wait till God has said, "Enoughl
And calls him home?
And thus the old man dreams,
And then awakes-awakes to hear
lhe SWEET old song just dying
On the pulsing evening air:
"When other helpers fail,
And comforts fee,
Lord of the helpless,
Oh abide with me-"
DRoDHEAD, Wis.
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New Remedy for Rattlesnake Bite.

Henry Benson, of Fairfield, was bit
ten on his foot in South mountain by a
rattlesnake. In returning home, a dis
lance of three miles, his foot was great
~ swollen, and fears were entertained
OF serious consequences. A poultice of
camphor and tobacco was applied to the
bite, and in a few hours the foot was
reduced to its usual size, removing all
poisonous matter. Mr.. Benson is now
doing we'll, and has thus given to the
country an antidote for the poison of
the snake.-LeGington (Va.) Gazette.
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Do Monkeys Swim?

A correspondent of Land and Water,
in reply to the question whether m onkeys
swim, says: II was always under the
impression that they did not like wetting
their fur or hair: but at Sangur. Central
India, when I was stationed there, 1 had
little monkey that was exceedingly
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-23

A New YORK man was made Jealous
by the receipt of perfumed letter adj
dressed to his wife. He tore his hair
and raved around until it occurred to
him to tear open the missive. This he
did and discovered miliner's bill for
a new fall bonnet! Which same he i'm
mediate1y took pains to settle.
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"A DIss1PATED and unmannerly noble
man, presuming upon his nobility
once asked Sir Walter Scott, who sat
opposite to him at dinner, what was
the difference between Scott and sot
just the breadth of the table," retort-
ed Sir Walter.
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IT is beauty's privilege to kill time
and times privilege to kill beauty.
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a BROKEN perseverance suggests the
Chinese language, because it is a jar
gone.
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Behind the western hill the sun had sunk,
Leaving the evening sky aglow with crimson light
The air is filed with fragrance and with sound;
High in the tops of shadowy vine-wreathed trees,
Grave parent birds were twittering goodnight
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
.eTHE PATRON IN TEXAS.


Where THE PATRON is best known it
is best liked. The following resolutions
were adopted by Shiloh Grange, No. 400,
Bell county, Texas, at its December meet
ing:
Whereas, The interests of the Order of
Patrons of Husbandry demand that a
newspaper honestly and exclusively de-
voted to the principles and the attain
ments of the objects of the Order be read
by every Patron in the land, therefore,
Resolved, That we, the members of this
Grange, consider 'sTHE PATRON OF HUs-
BANDRY," published by Brother w. H.
w orthington, at Columbus, Miss, Just
such a paper, and recommend it to the
Patrons and farmers generally in prefer
ence to such mediums for advertisements
as the proprietors of them are pleased to
designate as agricultural Journals"
Resolved, That we recommend our del
egates from Bell county to the State
Grange to meet in Austin in January in
1880. to use their entire influence to make
the ssPATRoN OF HUsBANDRY" published
by Brother w. H. Worthington at Colum.
bus, Miss, as the official organ of the State
Grange of Texas.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27

The Atlanta Phonoevabh, speaking of
the Clement Attachment, says that "a
committee of practical men have examined
the thing, who pronounce it an old and
very ordinary invention, and that the glow
ing description of its advantages was
written by a man in the pay of the in
ventor.'
IF any such committee reported that the
Clement Attachment does not convert
seed cotton into superior yarns and do all
that is claimed for it, they made false
statement. That invention has been in
successful operation several years, and is
exceedingly simple in its working. The
committee doubtless are opposed to the
establishment of "new process factories
from interested motives. That system
dispenses with the gin, press, ETC., and all
the middlemen that now make fortunes
by handling cotton bales, and they will
denounce and oppose any nyinnovation upon
a system that pays them SO we'll
The intimaton that the Clement Attach
ment is a failure, is simply ridiculous.
Any one of ordinary sense has but to see
it in operation to be convinced of its sue
cess. We know that the Clement Attach
ment does all that is claimed for it. We
have seen it in successful operation time
and again since 1876, and we have recon-
mended it to the farmers of the Cotton
States fro,n our personal knowledge of its
capacity.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, DECEMBER 81, 1870

Sand-lot Kearney, the demagogue is on
his way to attend Greenback conference
at Washington, to make arrangements for
Presidential nomination. He says he is
for Thurman. What has Thurman done ?
-1Nembhis Appeal
What has Thurman done? Senator
Thurman secured the adoption of law
by Congress to compel the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad company to pay its debts
to the Government. Probably that is one
reason why Denins kearney is in favor of
Judge Thurman. The Appeal, which
used its influence to depreciate Tennessee
bonds for the benefit of the railroads and
actually received fee from the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad Company for
its service, probably has no sympathy
for Senator Thurman in his efforts to pro-
tect the people from the rapacity of rail
way companies, and permits no opportu
nifty to pass to denounce and vilify kear-
ney. The political papers can see nothing
but demagogueism when poor laboring
man, incensed by the expressions of heart
less railway corporations and equally cor
rupt politicians, raises his voice in oppo-
sition to their rule, and discusses the po-
litical issues of the day. And if such a
man thinks that bank president who
defrauds his depositors, a railroad presi-
dent who amasses millions by corrupt
practices or an offieehoider W flo steals the
public money is no better than he who
steals hog, and calls him a theft, and
says that he ought to be sent to the peni-
tentiary, these newspapers denounce him
as blackguard.
Kearney was drayman in San Fran
cisco, without money. But he has brains
and has won his way to leading posi-
ton; he is uneducated, and speaks in
coarse terms sometimes, but he has never
been charged with being the tool of cor
rupt railway companies in their schemes
to defraud the people.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
Number ~.

Oranges. 1t requires ratification by three
fourths of all the State Oranges to become
law. What the result will be remains to
be seen.
The season is now at hand for Patrons
to commence active operations; prepare
then for earnest work, delays are waste
ful, and you will accomplish nothing
while you are waiting. Much of the sue
cess for the present year depends upon
your own eXertion during the next three
months; then work while it is a favorable
season.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-27
The Patron of Husbandrv.
WI. WORTHINGToN, ED1roR.
COLUMBUS, MISS, DEC. -, 1870.
Tie able, patriotic and statesmanlike

Tie able, patriotic and statesmanlike
ddress of Worthy Master Darden, de-
yered before the Mississippi State
range at its recent session and which
ge publish in full, will elevate him still
pore in the confidence and affection of
be members of our Order. 1t will be read
" the thousands of readers of THE PA
RON with pride and delight, for it is the
tterance of one of our ablest, truest and
lost devoted leaders, and we feel sure it
bill stimulate the true men of the OrGer
vet greater efforts and inspire the de-
bonding with renewed hope and spirit,