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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
KISSING THE DEAD.

The danger from contagion and disease.
of the practice of kissing the dead is shown
by an occurrence at Mt. Vernon, New York.
where the inhabitants are congratulatins
themselves on having escaped the horrors
of an epidemic. 1t appears that young
lady named Carol, returned to her father S
house in that village, q short time since,
and died in day or two afterward. Dur
ing the wake which followed, large num-
Der of persons kissed the corpse. 1t has
now transpired that the girl died of small
pox in its worst and most malignant form.
None of Mr.. Carroll's other childred hav-
ing been vaccinated, the cantagion soon
spread among them, carrying off all but
two out of seven. Nothing could be done
to restrain the inmates of the pestilential
abode from going at large and informing
ling with the community while the dan
gerous infection existed.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
THE CONFEDERATE TREASURES.

A writer in the Atlanta Constitution
tells a curious story concerning the fate of
the money in the hands of Davis and the
high officials of the Confederacy after they
left Richmond. The fugitives halted in
Georgia, near the Savannah River, and it
was resolved to make an equal division of
the amount in the treasury, something over
100000 in gold and silver, which gave to
each officer and man $29.25. But there
had also been carried off from Richmond
100000 of funds belonging to the Vir-
ginia Bank, and this was an immense
temptation to the defeated and desperate
soldiers. 1t was in charge of some bank
officials, and was stored for few days at
Washington, Wilkes County, in Georgia.
After the country had become somewhat
quiet, the officials started to return North
with the money. Some of the ex-Confed-
crates who were idling around the neigh
borhood heard of the wealth and laid their
plans to capture it. About a dozen of
them, dressed in Federal uniforms, rode up
to the small guard accompanying the
treasure, and demanded its surrender in
the name of the United States Government,
claiming to be acting under orders from
General Stoneman. 1t was handed over to
them and they made off with it. But one
of the party was tempted to display some
Of the money in a town near by, and as the
fact of the robbery had become known, the
possessor of such rare thing as gold or
silver at that time was Immediately sus-
pected of being in the transaction. When
arrested, he confessed and disclosed the
names of the whole party. The greater
part of the money was recovered, but two
or three of the men could never be found,
and were supposed tie have gotten off sue
cessfully with their share Of the plumber.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
WHAT ILLINOIS WIVES CAN DO.

The married women of Illinois acquired
by the law of 1874 the right to do almost
everything. They can sue and be sued in
their own names. They can-blessed priv
lege-sue their own particular tyrants.
When husband deserts his wife, the latter
has the custody of her children. If the
husband stays out of the State a year and
does nothing to support the wife during
that time, or if he is imprisoned in the
penitentiary, the wife can, upon obtaining
an order from court of record, manage
his property absolutely. The wife is not
at all liable for the husbands debts in
Cured before marriage, and only in excep-
tional circumstances for those incurred
afterward. She can manage any business
independently, except in case Of part
nership, which she cannot enter without
her husbands consent. A wife's earnings
cannot be touched by her husband or his
creditors. A married woman can &C
quire, possess, and sell real and personal
property as freely as married man can.
This list of abilities is expected to be large
ly increased the present year-so as to
include suffrage and other incidentals.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
SLEEPING TOGETHER.

More quarrels occur between brothers,
between sisters, between servant girls, be-
tween clerks, between apprentices in me-
chanics' shops, between hired men, between
husbands and wives, owing to the electrical
changes through which their nervous sys-
TENS go by lodging together at night
under the same bed-clothes, than by any
other disturbing cause. There is nothing
that will so disarrange the nervous system
of person who is eliminative in nervous
force, as to lie all night in bed with another
person who is absorptive in nervous force.
The absorber will go to sleep and rest all
night,while the eliminator will be tumbling
and tossing, restless and nervous, and wake
up in the morning fretful, peevish, fault
finding, and discouraged. No two persons,
no matter who they are, should habitually
sleep together. One will thrive and the
other will lose. This is the law, and in
married life it is defined almost universally.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
WEDDINGS IN BORNEO.

On the wedding day the bride and bride
groom are brought from opposite ends of
the village to the spot where the ceremony
is to be performed. They are made to sit
on two bars of iron, that blessings as last
ing, and health as vigorous, may attend
the pair. A cigar and a betul leaf, pre-
pared with the areca nut, are next put in
to the hands of the bride and bridegroom.
One of the priests thenwaves two fowls over
the heads of the couple, and in a long adj
dress to the Supreme Being calls down
blessings upon the pair, and implores that
peace and happiness may attend the union.
After the heads of the af6anced have been
knocked against each other three or four
times, the bridegroom puts the prepared
leaf and cigar into the mouth of the bride,
while she does the same to him, whom she
thus acknowledges as her husband.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
GAMBLING.

No passion can lead to such extremities,
nor involve q man in such complicated
train of crimes and vices, and ruin whole
families so completely, as the baneful rage
for gambling. 1t produces and nourishes
all imaginable disgraceful sensations; 1t is
the most fertile nursery of covetousness,
envy, rage, malice, Discrimination, falsehood,
and foolish reliance on blind fortune; it
frequently leads to fraud, quarrels, murder,
forgery, meanness, and despair; and robs
us in the most objectionable manner of the
greatest and most recoverable treasure
time. Those that are rich act foolishly in
venturing their money in uncertain specu-
lation; and those that have not much to
risk, must play with timidity, and cannot
long continue play unless the fortune of the
game turn, as being obliged to quit the
field at the first heavy blow; or if they
stake everything to force the blind goddess
to smile upon them at last, madly hazard
their being reduced to instant beggary.
The gambler but rarely dies rich man;
those that have had the good fortune to re-
alize some property in this miserable way,
and continue playing, are guilty of two
fold folly. Trust no person of that de-
scription, Of whatever rank or character he
may be.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
ANIMALS IMMORTAL.

That they have thoughts, language, in
telligence. affection and gratitude is GER
tain. What is there to disprove their i'm
mortality Few stop to consider how much
like animals we are, how very slight the
distinction between their physical and
mental organisms and our own. Are they
not generated and nourished in the same
way !? Do they not die in the same way
Have they not the emotion of fear,
and the moral sentiments of maternal love
What inlets to knowledge have we, except
our senses? And do they not possess them
all |? Is not the decay of their bodies re-
paired by the circulation Of the blood
And is it not carried on by the mechanism
of the heart, arteries and veins Does not
the mysterious organ-the brain-seem to
be the point of contact, the connecting
link, between mind and matter, as with
us? In fact, it is not at all unreasonable
to believe that III that other life to which
this is but the gateway, through which
all animated nature must pass, we shall
there meet and welcome the animals we
have loved here; our old familiar friends,
the companions of our childhood and later
years.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
LOVE THE NIGHT.

I love the night, the starry night,
That comes when day has wing'd its fight;
/ love the weird and dreamy spell
That in those tranquil shadows dwell.
And if there's times when love best,
The vale or sea, tits when tits dressed
In sunsets gorgeous, beauteous light
That ushers in the starry night
I love the night, the gentle night,
Whose arms enfold our slumbers light,
Whose soothing powers assuage the soul
When yenom'd sorrows DER it roll;
Whose charms appease the aching breast,
And bid the weary mourner rest;
Then where's the heart so base as blight
One balmy breath of gentle night?
love the night, the silent night,
When streaming stars and poonbeams bright
Float DER each wood and summer sea,
And leave the world to dreams and me.
IT'S then with unbound soul soar,
And seek on high that happy shore,
Where all is bliss, where all is bright
Bless God for dreamy, silent night.
love the night, the solemn night,
Embalmed in soft and mystic light;
1t warns me of q time to come,
When all must seek that silent home
That home so stepped in loved ones tears,
Where rest, at last, life's hopes and fears:
That pathway dark, when life is done,
That every soul must tread alone.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
The Atlantic Waves.

Nothing can be more superb than the
green of the Atlantic waves when the cir
culnstances are favorable to the exhibition
of the color AS long as wave remains
unbroken no color appears but when the
foam just doubles over the crest, like an Al
pine snow cornice, we see display of ex-
quisite green. It is metallic in its brilliancy.
But the foam is necessary to its production.
The foam is first illuminated, and it scatters
the light in all directions; the light which
passes through the higher portion of the
wave alone reaches the eye, and gives to
that portion its matchless color. The fold
ing of the wave, producing as it does, SER
les of longitudinal protuberances and fur
rows, which act like cylindrical lenses, in
PRODUCES variations in the intensity of the
light, and materially enhances its beauty.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
CURE FOR LOCK-JAw.

In the course of the Cantor lectures, re-
Gently delivered before the British Society
of Arts by DIR. Benjamin Richardson, the
following deeply important remarks were
made upon nitric of Amyl: One Of these
specimens, mean the nitric Of Amyl, has
within these last few years obtained re-
markable Importance, owing to its extra
ordinary action upon the body. A distin-
guished chemist, Professor Guthrie, while
distilling over nitric of amyl from amyhc
alcohol, observed that the yapor, when
inhaled, quickened his circulation, and
made him feel as if he had been running.
There was flushing of his face, rapid action
of his heart, and breathlessness. In 1861
81 made careful and prolonged study of
the action of this singular body, and dis
covered that it produced its effect by caus-
ing an extreme relaxation, first of the
blood vessels, and afterward of the muscu-
lar fbres of the body. To such an extent
did this agent thus relax, I found it would
even overcome the tetanic spasm produced
by strychnia, and having thus discovered
its action, ventured to propose its use for
removing the spasm in some of the ex-
tremest spasmodic diseases. The results
have more than realized my expectations.
Under the influence Of this agent, one of
the most agonizing of known human mala-
dies, called angina pectoris, has been
brought under such control that the par
oxysns have been regularly prevented, and
in one instance, at least, altogether re-
moved. Even tetanus, or lock-jaw, has
been subdued by it, and in two instances,
of an extreme kind, so effectively as to
warrant the credit of what may be truly
called cure.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
INTREPID JEWS.
sea-.

Since the time of Daniel Drawing the den
of lions to which despotism had doomed
him for his religion, and his three friends
fearlessly encountering theseven-fold heat
ed furnace, conscientious Jews have ever
been noted for their invincible intrepidity
and perseverance, though not for similar
manifestations of divine favor and protec-
ton. On late occasion the Emperor of
Russia was reviewing his feet, when two
sailors particularly attracted his attention,
both by the precision with which they per-
formed several difficult maneuvres, and by
the agility and daring which they display
ed. The Emperor was so much pleased
that he Immediately promoted one to be
captain, the other he appointed lieutenant
on the spot. The men, however, were
Jews, and there is ukase forbidding Jews
to wear an epaulet. The admiral of the
feet, who stood by, knowing that theywere
Jews, stated the difficulty to mis- imperial
Majesty. "Pshaw," cried the Emperor,
s'that does not signify in the least-they
shall Immediately embrace the Greek re-
igion, of course" When this determine
ton was communicated to the two young
men, knowing that remonstrance would be
in vain, they requested the Emperor's per-
mission to exhibit still more of their man.
ouvres, as he had not seen all they could
do. This being granted, they assembled the
topmast, embraced, and, locked in each
others arms, threw themselves into the
sea, and disappeared for ever.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
Life-Saving Invention.

Paris, the mother of novelties, has just
sent out a new life-saving invention which,
1t is said, will render drowning inexcusable.
It consists of double shirt-like garment,
that reaches from the knees to the throat,
and is fastened in front by double row of
buttons. Inside of this rubber tube il
cooled sufficient number of times to contain
air enough, when inflated, to support the
body when in the water. The tube termin.
ates at the neck with a mouth-piece, which
is closed by metallic button. 1t is expect.
ed that when a person goes near the water
.he will wear this garment; and then, if by
ill-luck he should happen to tumble in, al
the will have to do will be to blow up hi:
Jacket and calmly float around until helr
comes.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
TOBACCO IN ALGERIA.

The culture of tobacco may now be look
ed upon as one of the principal pursuits Of
Algeria. The tobacco crops of 1874 have
been exceedingly abundant, and the returns
are double that of the previous year
namely, 3,53O,607f. Since the year 1S47 it
has been calculated that the cultivation of
tobacco has realized 54,000,OOOf. The
Government is doing its best to encourage
this source of industry, and the planters
are zealously striving to improve their
fields, and methods of cultivation, so as to
compete on a larger scale with other coun-
tries. Public attention is also being drawn
to the mineral wealth of the country.
Throughout last year several French, Eng
Esh, and American companies have been
exploring various regions of the three prov
inces with view to future enterprise; but
capital, roads, and means of transportation
arewanted. In Constantine, mining opera
ations are actively carried on. In 1873 the
total amount of mineral exports of Algeria
reached 420,662 tons, two-thirds Of which
were supplied by Constantine. Last year
this quantity was exceeded; 1T is expected
that the returns will be 100000 tons. The
colony demands of the Government an ex-
tended survey Of the mining districts, with
a view to promote branch Of industry so
important alike to Algeria and France. At
present the number of miners is only $500,
the greater part of these being employed
In Constantine alone.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
a 10000 POUND LEAD BOULDER.

The Greenfield (Mo,) Gdsette says: "On
Saturday last Joseph and William Burnett,
Jr., who were engaged in taking up zinc
for the Dade Company, struck, at dis
lance of only four feet from the surface, a
chunk of lead which has not yet been taken
up, but has been uncovered sufficiently to
show that it is six feet in width, about two
feet in thickness, and, so far, about nine
feet in length. Parties who have examin-
ed it estimate its weight at from $4,000 to
$4,000 pounds. The discovery of this man.
moth mass of mineral was the occasion for
intense excitement among the miners in
that vicinity. Some sixty or seventy have
applied for lots on which to prospect for
lead, and quite number have already COM
menced prospecting without the formahty
of lease or of any writing whatsoever. 1t
is reported that the zinc mines at Engle-
mans Mills are almost deserted, every min
er being anxious to make an early trial of
his luck in digging for lead. There are
number of experienced Joplin miners pres
ent, all of whom unite in the opinion that
the prospect for lead in immense quantities
is excellent. The company has determined
to survey ffty-fve acres more of this tract
into lots. These lots are 99xl9S feet, and
it is proposed for the present to let each
alternate lot to miners. A large number
of prospectors will therefore soon be at
work, and there is goodreason for believing
that the mines of Dade county will soon be
exporting lead in nearly as large quantities
as zinc
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
BRIGHAM YoUNGs OLD AGE.

Age and persecution are gradually sour
ing the mild and gentle temper of Brig
ham Young, of Salt Lake City. Instead
of mellowing it, they are running it. Ad-
versity is not softening his views of life,
nor reducing the asperity of his language.
Perhaps It is Ann Eliza who has done this;
perhaps it is the ladies of the harem. Ac-
cording to the Salt Lake Tribune, a dis
agreeable scene occurred not long since.
One of the prophets many sons. President
of the order of Enoch, and a vagabond of
spendthrift reputation, ran short of money
and called on the old gentleman to give
him some. Brigham referred young hope
full to George A. Smith, trustee-in- trust of
the church. Smith gave the younger
Young bit of his mind, called him a
spendthrift, squanderer, vagabond, and
wound up by telling him that the treasury
of Jesus Christ would never furnish him a
penny. According to the Tribune, Brigham
threw his hat in Smiths face. ''Take that
d-n you" said the prophet: "things have
come to a pretty pass when my sons can
not get the money earned" The hat
was restored to him, and the old gentle
mans ire was soothed with check given
to the young one. The same paper charges
Brigham with combining his aged wife, his
only lawful one, in an old school-house be-
hind the seragio, and slowly starving her
to death. Take it altogether, Mr.. Young
must be getting to be a very disagreeable
sort Of prophet.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
HEARTLEss JOKE.

One of the most heartles5 things ever
done was trick once played on Pope, the
epicurean actor. \ wicked friend asked
him to dine off small turbot, and boiled
aitchbone Of beef, apologsng for the hum
bic fare with the usual feigned humility of
friends. why, it's the very thing like"
said Pope, in his reply, referring to the
aitchbone. II will come, my son, with all
the pleasure in life.' He came, he saw, he
ate; ate till he grew nearer the table, and
could eat no more. He had just laid down
his knife, and fork, like a solder tired of
wars alarm, when bell was rung, and in
came a smoking haunch Of venison. Pope
saw the trick at once; he cast look of
bitter reproach upon his friend, trihed with
a large slice, then again dropped his now
utterly useless weapons, and burst into
hysterical and understandable tears. ga
friend of twenty years standing" he sob
bed, land to be deceived in this heartless
manner ~
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
An Unnatural Mother.

"SOme COWS are so FESTIVE and di1icHlt to
milk, that the herdsman has to give them
calf to lick meanwhile. But for this device,
not a single drop Of milk could be obtained
from them. One day Lama herdsman,
who lived in the same house with ourselves,
came with long, dismal face, to announce
that his cow had calyed during the night,
and that, unfortunately, the calf was dying.
1t died in the course of the day. The Lama
forthwith skinned the poor beast, and stuffed
it with hay. When the operation was COM
plete, the hay-calf had neither feet nor head.
The next morning, when the herllsman
issued forth to milk his COWS, he had his
pail under one arm and the hay-calf under
the other. His first proceeding was 10 put
the hay-calf down before the COW. He then
turned to milk the cow herself. The mamma
at first opened enormous eyes at her beloved
infant by degrees she stopped her head to-
ward it, then smelt at it, sneezed three or
four times, and at last proceeded to lick it
with the most delightful tenderness. \ few
days afterward, an absurd incident occurred:
By dint of caressing and licking her little
calf, the tender parent one fine morning un-
ripped it the hay issued from within, and
the COW, manifesting not the slightest sur
prise nor agitation, proceeded TRANQUILITY to
deyour the unexpected proyender." The
asst touch entirely paints the brute She
has recognized her offspring by the smell
chiefly, and, never having heard of anatomy,
is not surprised when the internal organs
are found to consist simply of hay. And
whv not nat tho hav2
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
PETROLEUM.

Petroleum is so abundant 1.-THE Penn
sylvania oil region that the more wells a
man has the poorer he is likely to be.
Wells that once would have brought $780,
900, are slow at $4,000, and one man at
Titusville, who lately had an income of
100000, is hardly worth his hat. The ex-
seeding superabundance of the oil renders
1T almost valueless, and it has declined from
Sc to sixty cents per barrel.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02

the specimen seen by DR.. Rath was s
inches, its width S, and its greatest thick
ness l.6 inches. 1t fins were 0.S inch in
width. The mouth had two lips, and two
'holes next the nose, beside that extending
into the beak, and from the bottom of the
nose proceeded kind of thin snout, mus
cular and flexible. 1t had no teeth. The
back was of dark color, shading away
along the throat into whitish. The DOR
sal spines resembled the shields of the
crocodile. At first sight it looks like a
bat, and the boatmen call it the sea-bat.
They are afraid to touch it. 1t is found
among rocks constantly washed by the
sea.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02

1t is estimated that of the 10000 clergy
nen belonging to the Church of England
10000 are High Churchmen, and 500 Low
ghurchmen, 1000 Broad Churchmen, and
5000 colorless or nondescript Churchmen.
In the American Episcopal Church the
High Churchmen considerably outnumber
the Low Churchmen, and there is also
large body of nondescript clergy; but
the Broad Church party has a very small
following.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02

A PRESIDENT Of college, in a horse
car, noticed one of the Freshmen curled
up in front of him, and exhibiting OBJ
Eious signs of vinous exhilaration. For
a few moments the President surveyed
the Undergraduate, and finally he ex-
claimed, "Been on a drunk?" The half
conscious student rallied, and, with a
CLEAN of good-fellowship in his eye,
calculated, "So-hic-ha7e 7"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02

Ar funeral at Madison, Me-, lately, the
man who was buried was placed beside
two of his dead wives, while two living
ones attended the funeral.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02

A PARTY of German professors under the
lead of Prof. Christ, of the University of
Munich, will undertake scientific expedi-
ton into Greece and Asia Minor thisspring.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02

lake your motner-n-law on steamboat
excursions-this is the time when boilers
most do burst.