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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04

How A MOSQUITO B1TEs.-The bill of
a mosquito is complex institution. It
is admirably calculated to torment.
The bill has blunt fork at the head,
and is apparently grooved. Working
through the groove, and projecting from
the center of the angle of the fork, is
lance of perfect form, sharpened with
fine bevel. Beside it the most perfect
lance looks like handsaw. On either
side of this lance two saws are arranged
with the points sharp and the teeth
well-defned and keen. The backs of
these saws play against the lance.
When the mosquito aights with its pc
culiar hum, it thrusts with its keen
lance and then enlarges the aperture
with the two saws, which play beside
the lance until the forked bill with the
capillary arrangement for pumping
blood can be inserted. The saving
process is what CRATES upon the nerves
of the victim and causes him to strike
wildly at the saver. The irritation of
a mosquito bite is undoubtedly owing
to these saws.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CITIZENS of the District of Columbia
have no part in the election of Presi-
dent.
The first railway in the United States
was the Quincy and Boston, to convey
granite for Bunker Hill monument in
1927.
The greyhound is short lived. At
the age of 2 years he is full grown, and
at his 9Th or 9th year he is worth little
for the sport of coursing. He runs
himself out in three years.
Who will dare complain that books
nowadays are high? In 1920 Latin
Bible was valued at $3.50, and the wages
of laborer were so small that the earn
ings of fifteen years are said to have
been necessary to buy Bible, which,
being in Latin, was, after all, practically
useless to the common people.
The principle upon which a balloon
rises in the atmosphere is exactly the
same as that which causes the ascent of
a cork from the bottom of a vessel
filed with water. The weight of the
volume of air which it displaces must
exceed the weight of the balloon and all
it carries. It was not till 1776 that by
drogen was found to be lighter than
common air; and two brothers, Stephen
and Joseph Montgolfer, of Aunay,
France, have the honor of being the
first to prepare and send up a balloon
into the air. This was in 1888.
CHARLES LAMB tells us, in his sEs
says of Ella" that once upon time the
pig was the pampered pet of the Non
golian household, much as the puppy is
the fondling in the homes of the
present day. No one thought of killing
the pig for the cruel purpose of eating
it until an accidental occurrence re-
vealed its toothsome qualities. A
juvenile member OF a poor but pions
moon-eyed family was left in charge of
the house and the pet pig one day, the
father being obliged to go on long
journey. It so happened that the
house, which was primitive structure,
caught fire and burned to the ground.
The unhappy boy poked around among
the ashes, wringing his hands and every
now and then rubbing the tears from
his eyes. He soo2 got his fingers on
the scorched pig, from which delight
full odor arose, and, after a habit that
boys have, put his fingers into his
mouth. From that moment "reast pig"
became famous.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
Natures BarOmeters.

Certain movements on the part of the
animal creation before change of wealth
er appear to indicate reasoning faculty.
Such seems to be the case with the COM
mon garden spider, which, on the ap.
proach of rainy or windy weather, will
be found to shorten and strengthen the
guys of his web, frightening the same
when the storm is over. There is pop
ular superstition that it is unlxcky for
an angler to meet single magpie, but
two of the birds together are good
omen. The reason is that the birds fore
tell the coming of cold or stormy wealth
er, and at such times, instead of searching
for food for their young in pairs, one will
always remain on the nest. Sea-gulls
predict storms by assembling on the
land, as they know that the rain will
bring earth-worms and Larvae to the sur
face. Tits, however, is merely search
for food, and is due to the same in
stinct which teaches the swallow to fly
high in fine weather and skim along
the ground when four are coming. They
simply follow. the flies and gnats. which
remain in the warm strata of the air. The
different tribes OF wading birds always
migrate before rain, likewise to hunt for
food. Many birds foretell rain by warn
ing cries and uneasy actions, and swine
will carry hay and straw to hiding places,
oxen will lick themselves the wrong way
OF the hair, sheep will sleat and skip
about, hogs turned out in the woods will
come granting and squealing, colts will
rub their backs against the ground,
crows will gather in crowds, crickets will
sing more loudly, flies come into the
house, frogs croak and change color to
dingier hue, dogs eat grass and rocks
soar like hawks. 1t is probable that
many of these actions are due to actual
uneasiness, similar to that which all
who are troubled with corns or rheuma-
tism experience before storm, and are
caused both by the variation in baromet-
ric pressure and the changes in the cleo
trical condition of the atmosphere.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
A Little Mistake

A queer story, one which the Italians
have characterized as being "well found
ed" if not true, reaches US from St. Pet
ersburg. Lady Duferin went to court to
be presented to the Czarina. On arriving
at the Winter Palace she was shown into
an ante-room, as she thought, where an
aged lady, whom she took to be a
mistress of ceremonies, was seated on an
ottoman. The lady motioned her to a
place beside her, and entered into con-
versation, but IN a frigid Russian style.
The handsome Irlshwoman with the
Hamilton blood in her veins has a little
pride of her own, and thinking the Nos
covite walting-woman was rather patro-
nizing to the wife OF an ambassador, as
sumed ''stand off, air on her side. The
tremendous dame became more ceremo-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
A jolly Postmaster.

The Postmaster at Red Lake, Mimi,
in answer to an official circular from
this division of the railway mail service,
directing the return of a complete list
of all local names, to which mail matter
is sometimes addressed, and which are
enrolled within his Jurisdiction, re-
spends in the following happy strain:
One hundred miles of mud and food
just now doth intervene
Between our happy hunting ground
And where the "keers" are seen.
We hsve no locals"
But the lake doth stretch both far and wide,
And when the wind is on its
In comes the rolling tide;
We have no rail,
But then we have the "Injins" all the same,
And wheE the whitefish they can't take
They seek for other game.
JONATHAN TAYLOR, Postmaster.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
Mutual Surprise.

Many romantic stories are related of
marriages resulting from correspond
ence between strangers. Here is a
story of a pair who, after exchanging
letters, met by appointment: @The
surprise with which she discovered that
he, instead of being tall, dark, and
aristocratic, was 46, Sunny, red-head-
ed, fat, and bow-legged, was only
equaled by the rapturous amazement
with which he discovered that she, in
stead Of being willewy of figure, just
IS, with warm golden hair, an opalescent
complexion, and blue eyes like impid
lakes, was 6 feet if she was an inch, 81
ifshe was day, weighing 800 pounds if
she did an ounce, and with no warm
yellow or any other hair of her own"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
his old place because everybody knows

his old place because everybody knows
that he is an ex-conuict, and everybody
shuns the ex- .onvict, your honor. If he
finds employment Yin a new place the
police are apt to give hint that he ls
an ex-convict, and out he goes. HIS
money goes and he has no friends to 90
to- haven't friend in all the world,
judge-for more, and SO he turns in
desperation back to the old life and
steals again" What sad and pitiful
commentary upon modern charity and
philanthropy !-Ne,o York Erpress.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
A Dinner as Peter the Great Gave it

At one OF the grand dinners given by
the car, huge pie was placed in the
center of the gentlemen's table, out of
which when the startled carver broke
the crust, beautiful dwarf lady, Gin
puris naturalibus," all except a mead
dress, stepped, proposed in set speech
and drank in glass OF wine the health
of the company, and then retired into
her snug retreat and was carried from
the table. Did not Peter say he could
not reform his people, but not himself2
A dinner party at the cars must indeed
have been sight conceivable out of
Bedlam, and could only have been planned
in the maddest brain on earth, if a manu-
uscript among the Sloan papers In the
British museum is believable. Such
practical jokes! such wild, grotesque
gamboling! the frolics of leviathan! the
laughter of Titan, as frightful in his fun
as in his fury! There was accommodation
at the cars table for about hundred
but the grim humorist always issued in
vltations to twice or thrice that number,
and left his guests to elbow, jostle, and
fight for chairs and places, and retain
them against all corners and claimants
if they could. Not frequently a
free fight was extemporized,
and noses tapped, and even the
sacred persons of ambassadors have been
profanely touched and trifed with. The
car sat at the head of the table, broad
grin on his face, rolling the spectacle like
sweet morsel under his tongue. The
guests are so closely packed that feeding
room is not to be thought of, and ribs
are often blackened and almost driven
in by active and vigorous elbows, pro-
voking fierce recrimination and quarrels.
The kitchen is so near to the dining hall
that there floats through the latter fra
GRANGE of onions, garlic, and train. oil,
mellowed and tempered by the more de-
liclous aroma of the roast. The more
knowing and initiated guests wave away
soups and such like edibles, and mani
fest special appetite for tongues, hams.
and viands that cannot be tempered with
or made the vehicle Of practical joking,
for as often as not it happens that bunch
OF dead mice will be drawn out of the
soup or discovered snugly imbedded III
a dish OF green peas; and, sometimes,
when his guests have we'll partaken of
certain pastries, the car will courteous
ly inquire if the cat, wolf. raven, er 9TH
er unclean animal proved a savory or de-
licious morsel, with what result let the
imaginative guess. The approach to a
regular Donnybrook was fastened on by
liberal supplies Of brandies, strong ales,
and wines so adroitly served out as to ex-
pediate the grand climacteric of drunk
enness
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
MNorried." or MMarried.O

A careless telegrapher, of New York,
caused panic recently in domestic
circle of that city. A young woman
telegraphed from Philadelphia to her
mother in this wise: "Have received no
letter. Am worried" The message re-
ceived by her mother was: "Have re-
ceived no letter. Am married" The
mother was surprised at this sudden
announcement, and she gave the daugh-
ter large piece of her mind. The OPP
orator had mistaken worried for amar-
ried," no doubt thinking the meaning
was the same, and had wired the mother
the surprising intelligence.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
Sensations After an Opium Smoke.

De Quincey's Confessions of an
Opium Eater" do not describe those of
an opium smoker, although the feeling
must be somewhat similar. The
strangest dreams overtake the uncon-
scious sleeper, the pipe falls from his
hands, his face becomes ivid, and the
visions that pass before his drugged
fancy are simply delicious. No dream
of pleasure, no fancied beauty, cen
equal the scenes and forms called up in
the visions of the opium smoker. After
half an hour of perfect content and rest
the victim wakes to find that with the
dawn of reason comes the waking, rack
ing brain. The head feels about ten
times its usual size. and the feeling
about the heart is most painful.-ET-
tract from a California letter.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04

'sDon't you know" said the man after
blank silence, ''that you'll have to fight
all three of us?'
"Yah, 'spose l Will l shall now
fight nit you two, and dake der odder
one to morrow"
He thereupon changed his pistol for a
club, danced around the bar, and the
way he rushed EN- was painful to see.
The belligerent was waiting on the cor
ner,, and as the pair came busting out he
called:
"Dld he set EN- up?"
"Set EN- up" shrleked one of the
limpers as he came to halt; as knock
ing man over two becr,kegs and a table
setting 'em up?"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
Miscellaneous Items.

PRINCESS LOUISE will return to Can.
ada in January.
LET a man who is without shins
throw the first stone.
TwENTY-Two-PoUND sweet potatoes
are raised in California.
The man whose head was turned does
not know who to lathe blame to.
No USE trying to rouse any enthusi-
asm in a carpenter; he always keeps his
spirit level.
CLEVELAND is to have pipeline laid
to the oil regions at cost of half a
million dollars.
SUICIDES should remember that rush.
ing into the next world before being
invited is not only sin, but also
breach of good manners.
IT always makes the immortal gods
laugh when they see twelve-inch man
trying to fire a fifteen-inch shot. And
there are just several of that kind of
men in the world.
AN embarrassed actor bounded on
the stage of San Francisco theater, in
a scene depicting robbery in hotel
Office, and shouted: Gag the safe,
while I blow open the night clerk"
How READY some men are to go to
law. So empty thing as banana skin
has caused many one to bring his suit
against the pavement. And what did
he recover? Not even his equanimity.
"AH, ladies'" said an old epicure as
he opened a bottle of wine, "what is
more delightful than the popping of
champagne cork?" "The popping of
the question" unanimously cried the
ladies'.
A GOOD woman, after the death of
her husband, had married the brother
of the departed. She preserved, nev-
ertheless, in her dining-room, picture
of her first spouse. One day, guest
at the table, noticing the portrait, asked
her if it was a member of her family,
eyes," replied the lady, frankly, cit is a
portrait of my poor brother-in-law."
WE must consult the gentlest manner
and softest reason of address in our adj
monishment; our advice must not fall
like a violent storm, bearing down and
making those to droop whom it is
meant to cherish and refresh. It must
descend as the dew upon the tender
herb, or like melting fakes of snow
the softer it falls the longer it dwells
upon, and the deeper it sinks into the
MINI.
Mrs. LEWIS was alone at night in a
house at Air Line, Ohio. She was
awakened by the dropping of the key
from the lock of the front door. Guess
ing Alright that a burglar had pushed
1t out, she armed herself with pistol,
and, when he intruded his head, fred
at it. His dead body was taken away,
by companion, in the wagon that was
to have carried the plumber.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
A Sore Point.

Young America does not understand
why he should be called boy at II,
when his sister, more than year
younger, is recognized young lady,"
and treated with Difference by the very
people. who combine to snub him. But
he should cherish no jealous feelings
because he finds his sister addressed as
Miss long before he enjoys the satisfac-
ton of being called Mr. The girls are
not onl y older in development than he
at the same age, but also gallantry and
a natural regard for her sex lead people
to pay girl who has reached budding
womanhood Difference and consider
alton he must not expect to get at any
age. If he lives he is bound to become
a man in due time, and his business is
to set himself to work 10 see that he
shall be a man in other respects than
outward and physical appearance mere
ly. He can get along very well without
the conventional title of Mr.. until peo-
pie give it to him because they find by
knowing him that he possesses the solid
qualities of manly character. He
does not realize now that it is wonder
full thing to be boy. When he gets
old he can never be young again, while
now he has chance of getting cid.
There is no better age than IS. Most
men of so would prefer it to their own
years, and, though crusty and incon-
siderate age may snub youth. it can't
run as fast, or sleep as soundly, or eat
with as much relish, or look forward so
hopefully to the time when it can take
captive the hearts OF the young women
who assume airs of patronage toward
them in their youth.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
A COnYict's Story.

It was not a pleasant, bat unfortunate
ly true story of the experiences of an
ex-convict that was told by burglar in
the general sessions yesterday. When
asked why he pursued his vicious mode
Of life, he said he could do nothing else,
and explained as follows: ga msn comes
out Of State prison with s. note in his
packet. He almost always wants to lead
better life. He comes here and begins
to look for work. He can't go back 70
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
A Poor Memory.

A painter of celebrity in Paris, when
his first wife-he has now married
another-was sick unto death, was in
formed by her of her great fear Of be-
ing buried alive, and thereupon prom
Used to make an incision in her neck
when he thought her dead. He, how
ever, failed to reco]lect it. Some
months after he was dining with a
friend and paying court to the one he
wished to make successor to the de-
ceased one. Out OF brown study, he
suddenly exclaimed, "By Jove! I forgot
to cut my wife's throat" It needed
long explanations before the other took
him.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
Made Board and Lodging of It.

An English paper relates that in a
farmhouse at Kirkcaldy a tempting
ham hung from one of the rafters, and
a rat with rare instinct gnaweda hole in
the woodwork directly over it, and, de-
scending, ate its way into the interior
of the sweet morsel. One day the
housewife started to take the ham down,
when out bolted the depredator and into
the hole. The ham was perfect shell,
skin and bone only remaining to show
its form, while the rat had begun to
build q nest in it,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04

NOUS and almost naughty. At length she
asked:
"Have you seen my daughter lately2"
pardon me Madame" said Lady
Dufferin, 81 fancy we do not move in
the same circle. Pray, who may your
daughter bc2'
The answer led up to tableau.
"The Duchess of Edlnburg." said
the stately old female, who was no 9TH
er than the Empress of Russia herself.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
An Old Puzzle Revived.

It is said that gentleman in Paris
has offered a prize of 10000 francs to
anyone who will draw the annexed
figure with pencil or pen without lift
ing either from the paper or interfering
with any line or portion of line, pre-
viously made. The thing can be
DONE, and the doer has only to go to
France, prove his ability to conquer the
puzzle, and take the reward:
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
Strangles in Horses.

Most persons conversant with horses
must be aware that certain glands lie
Just under the angles of the two jaws,
and run up in the direction of the ear.
They are the seat of the affection pecul-
lar to young animals, known under the
name of strangles. Now, it is by no
means infrequent, especially among the
commoner kind of horses, to find these
glands large and fabby in their text
ures. With well-bred and well-formed
animals it is often very difficult to find
them at all under the skin. Sometimes
the abnormal size of these glands is
evidently constitutional, sometimes 1t
is consequence of disease strangles,
for instance-and sometimes it arises
wholly from the pressure of the angles
of the jaws, especially when these lie
too close together, and the rider or
driver has attempted to force certain
position, either by the use of severe
bits, or, what is still worse, combina-
ton of these with the bearing rein in
harness. If such Il state of things be
overlooked or neglected very serious
consequences may arise. The forced
pressure of the jaw-bones on these
glands Is sometimes perfectly excruci-
ating to the animal, and it has recourse,
to the great establishment gifts ignorant
rider or driver, to all sorts Of expedients
to ger rid OF the intolerable pain. 1t
will refuse its work, or run away, or
throw itself down, or rear up, Or do
anything or everything in its despera-
ton, and the brute ON its back or in the
coach-box knows no other remedy for
it than 10 "hog the sulk out OF him.
whereas the whole thing is probably
the result of bad biting and bridling.
-Dr3iar, IN Seats G2ld Saddles.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
Sweet and Low.

A gentleman in New York was re-
Gently descanting to friend on the soft
notes of linnet which he had heard
few days before.
Why" said he, it sang SO softly at
times that you couldn't hear it at ALL"
3S-h-h-h!" said the other. placing
his hand to his ear, perhaps there is
one singing now."-Scribner's "Bric-
a.Broc,"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
An Inyeterate Halter OF Frogs.

A dog likes company, and, when ex-
lied from canine society, will often find
amusement in foreign partnerships.
Recently a Montville man carried home
a young terrier dog. There were no
other dogs in the neighborhood, so he
broke the monotony of the place by
playing with toads. He actually be-
came an adept in discovering their
haunts, and when they hoped he
would hop, and when they were at rest
he rested. He showed every symptom
of delight over the fact he could leap
further than the toad could, not recog-
nizing the disparity in length of body
and limbs in his favor. One day he
nosed out bull-frog in the wet grass
that proved to be the prince of tremen-
dous leapers, and, trying his jumping
powers with it, ne was defeated. AS
tonished, he looked at the frog as it
leaped away, but before it had got off
the premises, as if in fit of jealousy,
he ran after it and killed it. He still
noses out toads, and playfully touches
them with his feet to make them jump
with him, but from the day he was beat
en- by the frog at leaping he has insist
cd on killing every frog he meets in his
trnyels-NOT1rich Bulletin.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04

OVER S4,5O0,0OO has already been
spent by the Government in the pur,
chase of the lot and erection of the
Philadelphia postofice, and another
$1,500,000 will completeit.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
4 Narrow Escape.

John Laefarr, of Montana, at the
age of 10 years, was one of seven pack
ers who left Fort Lincoln in 1875 to
ride with Gen. Custer along the Little
Big Horn. When the fight of that
bright but disastrous summer morning
opened, Laefarr, with his companions,
happened to be three miles away from
the command. In a few moments after
the sound of the combat reached him,
band OF Sioux sprung from the grass
within a few feet of them. Laefarr
noosed rope. placed it in the mouth of
the nearest horse, and, leaping upon
the animals back, hinged his spurs into
the flank. AS he Rugged his horse. he
saw his companions go down, one after
the other. One bullet out of the hun
dred that followed him tore through his
neck, another cut deep furrow across
bis cheek, third imbedded itself in his
thigh, and fourth killed his horse.
The desperate boy shot an approaching
Indian, and ran for belt of timber
half d mile distant. Barefooted, weak
and faint from the loss of blood, he out
ran his pursuers, and reached the
woods, where he hid for three days.
He was at last found by three friendly
Grow Indians, and taken by them to
Fort Lincoln, where he told of the
massacre. 1t was not until he had
reached the fort that he knew that
his hair, which, before his terrible
suffering, was as black as ravens wing,
had changed to snowy whiteness.