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National Republican., 1880-07-08
j. ADAMS SMITH,
Pay Inspector U. $. Navy
BUREAU OF Il

July /, is6O I
GEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing until Il
o'clock m. on THURSDAY, the 18th Inst, to furnish
one thousand tons OF run OF mine Georges Creek
Cumberland Coal, free from slate and Impurities OF
all kinds 10 bc furnished subject TO the conditions
REQUIRED by section S7li, Revised Statutes Of the
United states, viz; That the coal slRll weigh 22i0
pounds 10 the ION, aud shall be inspected aud weighed
on tle Bureau scales ana the quantity OF each load
certified at the time of delivery by the person np
pointed and qualified under the law for that purpose
aud that tue prescribed fee Of ~ cents for each ton Of
e'al Inspected and weighed shall be paid by the con-
tractor.
The coal to bc delivered ut such times and places
aud Ia such quantities rs may he required.
No INynontw II be mnde without the certificate OF
The Inspector that the coal Is such the cont rtct
calls for nor uut tho account has been rendered on
The proper form aud duly audited
The right TO wave defects and to reject AL or any
portion uf tho bids received Is reserved
Proposals must bc indoIsod proposals for Coal"
ana be addressed to
o. II. IRISH,
ju7.Jt Chief OF Bureau
National Republican., 1880-07-08

A SITUATION In an office to do general writing,
~ by q young man. who Is n line ppnnun aud
thorough accountant can keep set Of books; best OF
references given Address PENMAN, City T.. o. ju3
National Republican., 1880-07-08

-A,TEW safe, made by the celebrated manufacturers,
N hcssrs. MGsier. Haumann CO.. NlhclhnA1l'
ONO eau he seen A. this once,
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A YOU'VE man. eighteen years Of age, wants .
N place 10 work In store or to drive q wagons
best OF references. Address ADVANCE, Republican
office lus
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FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

VNAhlLY leaving the city will sell furniture and
II transfer lease fhousQ finely located, northwest
lOr curtains pa and table linen sIdebonrd and re-
irigeTNtor Will exactly suit hmily desiring 20 so
housekeeping mmediRlely pos esslon any time;
rent $ll, lowest price OF turniure tl7uU, all cah,
Address IGHLANDGR, Repnbican oltce lnlAts
IHOR SALE.-A ine piano at a rare bargain mlly
IL warranted, Call ~ IA sixth stnw. iui.8t
uNOR SAI.E-An oil stove IN perfect condition, with
IL patent top and oven, also valuable south Amcrl'
can bird Address BIRD, Republican Office. lu6atl
- A HORSE buggy and hRrneAsi n splendid
1&C~> stylish turnout; buggy new, Terms $50
NSS CASH CAMORS, CitS T.. o.
S--%-A~ MIST
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A WOMAN 10 cook. wash aud iron for q family o
IN two; wages n per month. Call Il2 Eleventh
~. ia
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10y respectable white woman, u situation Is an
ID experienced cook aud laundrcsS; Will so little
way In the country; best city references Apply at
Jlj2 TwcHty-firstst. iu3
National Republican., 1880-07-08

JlI young man. position US clerk in grocery
ID store, who furnish tho best of city refer.
eRce. Address Il X, Republican Office, JnS
National Republican., 1880-07-08

ID to take charge Of suIle public building or Will
work by the day easy terms. Address a * T., Re
publican Office. iuS
National Republican., 1880-07-08

10y young white girl. aged H. II situation as nurs
ID girl or TO do light houscwOrk. Apply at 10
Twentieth 81 w lu
National Republican., 1880-07-08

A SITUATION as clerk or bookkceper; has had no
IA teen years experience IN the grocery business
Address Bon a, Republican Office ju'
National Republican., 1880-07-08

A WOMAN wants place as iaundress or chamber
IN maid. Call at No 1873 Twelfth st W. wlin
TO go away ~
National Republican., 1880-07-08

10y q white woman. who is very much in need o
i , work. n few Bcntemens washing; terms mod
crate; mCndng neatly done. Cal on or address Nj
WARDI3ls Pa ave. ju
National Republican., 1880-07-08

ENHli art Of preserving NATURAL flowers by an en-
4 Urvly new and lasting process, Culor ami Vein
ins restored, taught and prUrtvcd ~ S)j Market
Space, hours, 90 lOL Vl
National Republican., 1880-07-08

vDI young man, n place OF some kind driver or
ID porter Address + u, Republican Office. Refer
enCe given. ju3
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Acknowledged the Corn.

The phrase, Acknowledged the
corn" is variously accounted for, but
the following is true history of it's
origin: In 1928 Andrew Stewart, mem
Der of Congress, said in speech that
Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana sent their
hay stacks, corn fields, and fodder to
New York and Philadelphia for sale.
Wickhffe, of Kentucky, called him to
order, declaring those States did not
send their hay stacks or corn fields to
New York for sale. "Well. what do
you ssnd?" asked Stewart. why,
horses, mules, cattle and hogs "Well,
what makes your horses, mules, cattle
and hogs? You feed 500 worth OF
hay to a horse. You just animate and
get on top of your haystack and ride
off to market. How is it with your
cattle? You make one of them carry $50
worth of hay and grass to the Eastern
market. How much corn does it take
at 33 cents bushel to fatten a hog?"
"Why, thirty bushels" "Then you
put that thirty bushels in the shape of
hog and make it walk off to the East
ern market" Then Mr.. Wicklife
jumped up and said: "Mr. Speaker, !
acknowledge the corn"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
FiliaI Love.

There is not on ei1th a more lovely
siuht than the unwearied care and atten-
ton of children to their parents. Whe-:
filial love is found in the heart, we vii
answer for all the other virtues. No
Young man or woman will turn out base
", we sincerely believe, who has parents
respected and beloved; child, affection
ate and dutiful, will never bring the gray
hairs OF its parents to the grave. The
wretch who breaks forth from wholesome
restraint, and disregards the laws of his
country, must have first disobeyed his
parents, showing neither love nor respect
Tor them. 1t is seldom the case that a
dutiful son is found in the ranks OF
vice, among the wretched and degraded.
Filial love will keep men from SIN and
crime. There will come time while
your parents live, that you will not be
under obligations to them. The older
they grow, the more need will there be
for your assiduous care and attention to
thcir wants. The venerable brow and
frosty hair speak loudly to the love and
compassion of the child. Ifsickness and
inirmity make them at times tretful,
bear with them patiently. not forgetting
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
American OyerYOrk.

One need not dwell upon the desira-
bleness of calm and seciusion for the
production of the best literature. With
individuals, as with nations, stirring pc
RODS of action are not favorable to ide-
aistic art. There is much unfairness,
however, in the blame to which public
men in this country are subjected for
their overwork. This is rather matter
of necessity than of choice. People in
the Old World largely inherit their
means and methods from their forbears ;
new men, even there, often have the
habit of overwork fixed upon them by
the time their fcotholds are secured.
But the statesmen and thinkers of Eu-
rope start with assured incomes more
commonly than do our own, and are
not forced to earn their bread as they
go along. Our Wilson's, Evartses, Cur
tises have had to consider first the
means of living, and to be statesmen or
writer's in addition. Our Eastern Bran
Minis, happily, have had, for the most
part, resources which they have en-
larged by the help of such gentle, schol-
arly pursuits as the service of univer-
sity affords. They have shown them
selves quite willing to indulge a spirit
Of restfulness and calm. SO long as
Americans, who do not inherit estates,
have the Anglo-Saxon pride and do
mestlc tenderness, they will be tempted
to do work elsewhere than in O garnet,
and rarely be able to drive from their
minds the thought Of it's effect upon
an income-paying constituency-E. G..
Siednaafa. in Scrjbner's Monthly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Victor Hugo on the Future.

Victor Hugo, as Honorary President
OF O secular education congress in
France, addressed to that body rhap-
sody. in which he said: Youth is the
future. You teach the youth, you pre-
pare the future. This preparation is
useful, this teaching is necessary to
make the man of tomorrow. The man
of tomorrow is the universal republic.
The republic is union, unity, harmony,
light, industry, creating ccmfort, aboli-
ton of conflicts between man and man,
nation and nation. abolition of the law
OF death, and establishment Of the law
OF life. The time of sanglinary and
terrible revolutionary necessities is
past. For what remains to be done the
unconquerable law of progress sutfices.
Great battles we have still to fight
battles the evident necessity of which
does not disturb the sirenty of thinkers,
battles in which revolutionary energy
will equal monarchical obstinacy, bat
ties in which force joined with might
will overthrow violence allied with
usurpation-superb, glorious, enthusi
astic, decisive battles, the issue of
which is not doubtful, and which will
be the Hastings and the Austerlitz of
humanity. Citizens, the time of the
dissolution of the Old World has ar
rived. The old despotisms are con-
demned by the Providential law. Every
day Which passes buries them still
deeper in humiliation. The republic
is the future" -Socrame1ato Record.
N1lin1
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Improved Methods Of Execution.

It is not surprising that from time to
time attention is recalled to the bar
barous nature of the mode of executing
the death penalty in this country.
Hanging by the neck till the criminal
is dead is obviously a relic of barbar-
ism; it is the most primitive, the most
various, the least prompt and uniform
and certain of the modes of execution
which have been or could be devised.
If the object of an execution nowadays
be to insure the rapid and certain death
of the criminal without any .probabil-
ity of intervening accident, delay or
torture, hanging by cord and trust
ing to the rough adjustment of
weight and fail which the "eye and
experience" of an ignorant hangman
can afford, is the most fallible of meth
DDS, and must of necessity from time to
time lead to painful scenes of torture.
The garotillo is, perhaps, of all exist
ing foreign methods of legal execution
the most rapid and certain; but with
out proposing any one substitute for
our own responsibility-whether the
carbonic acid chamber, the massive
electric discharge, or any other method
it is certain that any scientific man or
commission could very speedily devise
a prompt and bloodless certain mode of
execution which would be free from the
clumsiness and uncertainty of hanging.
The retention of this ancient relic Of
past barbarism is not creditable TO our
jurisprudence.-B Medical Jour-
nal.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Injurious.

Too much sleep blunts the nervous
system, impairs memory, enfeebles
muscular energy, and is apt to produce
inordinate fat. To sleep much is not
necessarily to be good sleeper.
Generally they are the poorest sleepers
who remain longest in bed that is, they
awaken less refreshed than if the time
of rising were earlier by an hour or two.
While it is true that children and
young people require more sleep than
their elders, yet it should be the care of
parents that over-indulgence be not
permitted. Where the habit is fo.
children to lie in bed until s or
9 in the morning, the last two hours,
at least, do not bring sound, dreamless
sleep, where the hour of retiring is
s or 9 in the evening, but are
spent in DOING" and, in fact, such
excess cannot fail to insure harmful
results, and establish habits of in
dolence which last through a lifetime.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Choice Sentences.

Faith.-Faith is the earnest pressing
of the soul toward God.
Tinkering.-A worldly man is man
not mended; a religious man is often a
man spoiled in mending.
Christ and Standardization Christ
spoke of Salvation He was Himself
the salvation of which He spake.
Forgetul1aess of Christie how
many houses must Christ invite him
self, if He is ever to be guest therein?
Need.-Sometimes what we have need
of from God we do not even wish for;
but sometimes what we greatly wish for
we dare not expect.
Bible Teaching-The Bible is not
prim, but it is powerful; and the nat
uralness and reality of its incidents
greatly contribute to its power.
Endeauor.-Taket trouble to win a
blessing harder for you to get than for
others, and you will have one bestowed
on you better than you sought for.
Publican and Pharisee.-The pub
ican knows that he is sinner; the
pharisee only knows that he was one,
and does not know that he is worse
one than even once he was.
Honesty of Purpose-People that
know what they want, and will take q
course that is plainly natural and right,
get allowance, and sometimes respect
and sometimes even help, from those
who, at first, were displeased with and
opposed them.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Teachers and TaSk.MasterS.

The public have not held teachers to
their true responsibility. We send a
young lad or young girl to school, and
find that, while we are paying out a
great deal of money for them, they are
gaining nothing. We complain, and
are informed that our children are not
industrious, that they do not seem
interested in their studies. that they
are absorbed in play, ETC., etc. In
ninety-nine cases in 100, cur dis
appointment is entirely the fault of the
teacher. He or she is simply incompe-
tent for the duty they have undertaken.
A frst-class teacher always has good
pupils. Lack of interest in study is
always the result Of poor teaching. We
send boy to college, and find that he
regards his studies as grind-that he
is only interested in getting good marks,
and that he is getting nc scholarly
tastes, and winning no scholarly de-
lights. We inquire, and find him in
the hands of young tutor, without
experience, who really pretends to be
no more than a task-master, and who
knows nothing, and seems to care
nothing, about the office of teaching
The placing of large masses of young
men in the hands of inexperienced
persons, who do not pretend to do more
than to set tasks and record the manner
in which they ere performed, without
guidance or assistance, is gross imposi-
ton of the college upon a trusting
public, and it is high time that an out
cry so determined and persistent is
raised against it that it shall procure a
reform.-Dr. j. G.. Holland, in Serb
o7er'S Monthly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Given in Love.

A little girl years old died in the
city of Philadelphia Pa. When the
doctor told her that she could not live
she babe her mother send for the pas,
tor of the church, and gavo him hex
little savings bank.
open it," she said.
There were in it 81 and few cents.
"Take them," said the child, "and
build a church for poor people. Poor
people, mind, who sit in the back seats
of our church. They must not pay
anything. I want all the seats to be
Free"
The clergyman took the money. my
child" he said, solemnly, cit shall be
done, with Gods help"
When the child was dead he placed
her little bank and the pittance it con-
tanned on the pulpit, and told her story.
Tears were in every eye. One wealthy
man after another came forward with
his offering. Children came, women
also, and the poor with their mites.
And in due time, the completed
church ready for its poor occupants was
dedicated to the service of that God
who willed that the widows mite and
the poor little baby's Offering should
not fail of their errand.
A somewhat similar case occurred in
Milwaukee, Wis. A poor woman, dying
in an infrmary under the charge of the
good DIR. Passayant in Pittsburgh,
gave him gold dollar.
II have always tried to give some
thing to those poorer than myself" she
said. "When I am dead give this in
charity. and give it, if possible, in Mil
waukee, my old home"
A year passed, and DR.. Passavant still
kept the coin, when he was called to
Milwaukee to establish an infrmary
similar to his own.
The story of the dollar was told, and
awakened sympathy. Subscriptions
poured in, and the subscribers, with one
voice, agreed that the great building,
when finished, should bear the name of
the poor widow.
Surely no good word is spoken in
vain. We may not, as in these cases,
be able to have the echoes widespread,
but God hears them.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Exact Justice,

There is famous case on the books
of a Norman hotel-keeper and the Gus
TONER who ordered six-egg omelette
prepared, but went away in hurry
without paying for it, and, when he re-
turned, fifteen years later, offered the
landlord francs, being for the original
cost of the eggs and the interest thereon
compounded. The landlord claimed a
fabulous sum, alleging that the six eggs
would have produced so many chicks,
from which would have issued so many
hens; that, with the product of these
innumerable fowls, he would have
bought farm, which, in SO many years,
would have yielded SO much money,
which, being invested, ETC., etc. The
court, however, non-suited the landlord
because the eggs had been broken for
he omelette, and SO could not have been
Matched.
This case has been outdone in an In
dian court. A, B, G and D buy cotton
in partnership, and store it in ware
house which is infested with rats. To
discourage these vermin they buy a
cat, of which each is to own a leg. The
cat breaks that one of her legs which is
owned by A, who binds it up with cot
ton soaked in oil. The wrappings take
fire, the cat takes refuge in the midst
of the cotton bales, and the whole prop
erty is destroyed; whereupon B, G and
D sue A, alleging that it was his leg
which caused the confagration. The
court promptly decides against them
with costs, and orders them to pay A
for his cotton, and bear their own
losses, on the ground that the cat
couldn't walk on the broken leg, SO that
it was the three sound legs which car
ried her into the cotton.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
WIT AND HUMOR.

When the angry passion gathering in my mothers
face see,
And She leads me to the bedrooni-gently lays me
on her knee
Then know that will catch it, and my flesh in
fancy itchos.
As listen for the patter of the single on my
breeches.
Every tnkle of the shingle has an echo and sting
And u Thousand burning fancies into active being
spring.
And thousand bees and hornets meath my coat
tail seem to swarm.
AS listen the patter of the shingle Oh SO warm
In splutter comes my father, whom 1 thought
away had gone,
10 survey the situation and to make her lay it OIL
10 see her bending DER LIE / listen to the
strain
Played by her and by the single to avid and
weird refrain.
In sudden intermiss;on winch appears nv only
chance,
I say. ~St,lte gently, mother, or you'll split my
Sunday pants"
She stops moment, draws her breath, the single
holds aloft.
And says, II lad not thought of that, nv son-iust
tahe them Cff."
Holy Moses! and the angels! cast your pitying
glances down.
And thou, family doctor! put good soft poul-
And may with fools and ounces everIastingly com
mingle
If ever say another word when my mother wields
the shingle.
THE French horn-A glass of alb
sinthe.
WOMEN are archers by nature. Their
inclinations are to bend the beaux.
The high price of cotton may affect
the batting OF the base ball clubs next
season.
DR. HOLLAND says mans character
may be judged by his cravat. If he
wears no cravat we suppose ne hasn't
any.-Butalo EGpresS.
The common picture of st. George
on horseback, trying to ram stomach
bitters down the throat of a dragon, is
one full of historical beauty.
A VERMONT pet lamb swallowed sew
eral balls of yarn, and it was not long
before his life became such tangled
skein that he could not unravel it, and
had to give it up and shuttle off the
mortal coil.
VIsIToR-"Ah! how have you been
all this time?" well, not quite so well
lately. I fancy somehow I've got a
touch of the govt" Visitor-"Fancy,
my boy? HIM! If you had a touch Of
the govt you wouldn't fancy; you'd
know"
THE boy stood on the second base.
With cotton cloth his thumb
Was bandaged, till it really looked
Like a miniature Krupp gun.
Two men went out. he would not str;
The Captain grew quite hoarse.
He loudly yelled at tnat small boy,
Who never stirred, of course.
But bark! What fearful sound is that?
The boy, where is he?
Quite easily he reaches home
On a hit for bases three.
A CERTAIN Freshman was once, odd
ly enough, overtaken by brain fever.
His friends feared to break the news
suddenly to his beloved parents. To
their establishment, however, the par
ents, when informed, set up, not a dirge,
but paan. The young fellows friends
were amazed, but the secret leaked out.
This was the first evidence that their
SON had any brainsi
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Nature and the Poets.

The poetic Interpretation of nature,
which has come to be convenient
phrase, and about which the Oxford
professor of poetry has written book,
is, of course, a myth, or is to be read
the other way. It is the soul the poet
interprets, not nature. There is moth
ing in nature but what the beholder
supplies. Does the sculptor interpret
the marble or his own ideal? Is the
music in the instrument, or in the soul
of the performer? Nature is dead
clod until you have breathed upon it
with your genius. You commune with
your own soul. not with woods or wa
tiers; they furnish the conditions, and
are what you make them. Did Shelley
interpret the song of the sky-lark, or
Keats that of the nightingale? They
interpreted their own wild, yearning
hearts. The trick OF the poet is always
to idealize nature-to see it subjective
ly. You cannot find what the poets
find in the woods until you take the
poets heart to the woods. He sees ma
ture through a colored glass it
truthfully, but with an Undesirable
charm added, the aureole of the spirit.
A tree, cloud, bird, sunset, have
no hidden meaning that the art of the
poet is to unlock for us. Every poet
shall interpret them differently, and in
terpret them rightly, because the soul
is infinite. Milton's nightingale is not
Coleridge's; Burns daisy is not Words
worth's; Emerson's humble-bee is not
another's; nor does Turner see in ma
ture what Tintoretto does, nor Vero.
nese what Correggio does. Nature is
all things to all men.-Joh11 Bur
roughs, IN Scrib1ae,'s Monthly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
Wanted to See the Editor.

A man on the cars was offered q
newspaper. He took it, looked at the
heading, and then threw it aside with
disgust, and remarked:
q don't want any news from that
paper"
u supposed everybody read it in
these parts" l answered. Has it been
pitching into you? ?"
Pitching INTO me? Great Cesar!
I should think it had. But you just LEI
me meet the editor Of that paper"
You never make anything by strik-
ing en editor" / say; better grim and
bear it.
Eyes" that's all right for you to say
but Just let NE meet that man! I'll
show him how to run q newspaper"
what did he do?"
80? He did deal. Here's how it !;
I often so to Springfield on the even
ING and come home on the first train
in the morning. Well, one night l met
an old crony, and we went to Music
Hall and the theater. When We came
out we met some friends. Of course 1
could not get right out, so treated; in
fact, We were having pretty good time,
when some fellow came in and began
to raise row. In less than no time
the police we're in and had us. The
next morning was hauled before the
court and fined $40. I did not care
much, because 1 gave a false name, and
I knew my wife couldn't find it out
but the next morning I'll be eternally
confused if that very paper didn't have
it all in, and my name, too"
Did your wife see it?"
Il should say she did"
"Did she make fuss?"
"Fussl Godfrey Eihu! Are you
married? "-SprinNield (MassD Re
D1yDlicG3,