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An Elephant Story.

The elephant seemed to get tired first,
and, just as the first streak of dawn be-
gan to show itself in the sky, he turned
round and walked leisurely away. For
a minute or two [ heard him crashing
among the thickets, and then all was
quiet again, as if he'd gone right away.
Now" thought I, sis my time to
decamp, too" and down the tree
slipped as nimbly as an acrobat. But
soon found that I'd been reckoning
without my host, for I had hardly
touched the ground when there came a
crash like fifty mad bulls charging
throug h as many glass houses, and out
from the thicket, with his great white
tusks leveled at me like bayonets. came
my friend, the elephant, who had been
on the watch for me all the time
Whether I should have run, or stood
my ground, and how I should have
Jared in either case, can never be known
now, for just at that moment my foot
slipped, and down I came close to the
tree. The next moment there was a
smash as if two trains had run into each
other, and L made sure that I was
knocked into hundred pieces at least,
and that it was all up with me.
L soon became aware, however, that I
was still alive and sound, while shrill.
frightened cry overhead told me plainly
that it was the elephant who had got the
worst OF it this time. / scrambled to
my feet, gingerly enough, for the brute's
great fore legs were stamping and pound
ing like steam-hammers within arm s
length of me, and there I saw sight
which, scared as [ was, made me laugh
till I could hardly stand.
had fallen just in time to escape the
blow of the elephants tusks, which had
struck themselves so deep into the tree
that he couldn't pull them out again
and there he was, hard and fast, like a
ship run aground. The animals look of
disgust and bewilderment at finding
himself in such O. fix was as good as a
play to behold; but just then was in
no humor to stop and admire it, for I
knew that he might break loose yet, and
that if he did it would be all over with
me.
Ny first impulse was to take to nv
heels at once; but the next moment I
thought better Of it, and decided to set
tie Mr.. Elephant instead. I quietly
picked up and reloaded my gun (which
had luckily escaped his notice, or he'd
have trampled it to bits and, scrambling
up into the tree again, sent bullet into
his forehead, which did its business. and
left him standing bolt upright in very
picturesque attitude, indeed.-Iales OF
I7adio
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21
Betrayed by the Truth.

The very amiable and worthy occu-
pant of the position of British Vice
Consul at port in the far East had
often expressed to his American fellow
residents his great desire to visit their
some OF its institutions. His ideas of the
West had been formed from a perusal Of
the works of Cooper, and it is to be
feared that his interlocutors had pur-
posely abstained from disturbing his
somewhat highly-colored expectations.
Finally furlough came to him, and he
made ready to carry out his cherished
plan of p trip home by the way of the
Pacific ocean and the United States. In
Productions were given him to trylsty
practical jokers in San Francisco, which
he presented on arrival, with expressions
OF vehement desire to encounter Indians
and hunt buffaloes. This, he was told,
would be easy, as both abounded in the
neighborhood of the Cliff House, and in
the peaceful and prosaic suburb OF Oak
land. An expedition was planned and
carried out, and the British brother,
armed to the teeth, performed great
deeds in the encounter with "practica-
ble " Indians and buffaloes-furnished,
it was whispered, by theater and Cir
Gus or menagerie. Exulting in the
praise of his American friends, and COW
cred with glory, he departed for New
York and England. His fame stood him
in good stead at dinners and other So
cial gatherings during his entire vaca-
ton, preceded him on his return to his
pest, and made him quite hero among
his fellow-exiles. No American could
find it in his heart to disturb it, and
all might have gone well to this day had
he only confined himself to his character
of amateur Leatherstocking. One day,
however, countryman Of his came to
yankee and denounced this hero.
"Just think of that NJ" said he,
Crying to sell us. By Jove! I never
heard in all my life, you know, such
atrocious stories as he has been telling
us. What do you think he tried to
make us believe? It is all very fine to
have shot Indians and buffaloes. Of
course, you know, where there are so
many as there are in San Francisco, and
New Hampshire, and Niagara, and all
those places, a plucky fellow might do
I1dl. Dut 1o HAS tIISu W uIdho us De-
ieve the most extraordinary story that
you have ever heard about your coun-
try, you know. He says that he went
to a place called Chicago, and he went
to draw some money from bank, and
found that they had raised it up and
were moving it, with all the fellows in
side. you know, going on with their
work 4 say, just fancy the cheek of
the fellow supposing he could make us
believe thatl" Alas the one true story
which the poor Consul told had proved
his undoing. =Hurper's M0Q0ziae.
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The SOciahle Scorpion.

An African traveller, speaking of the
scorpions there, says: As during three
or four months they haunted our tents,
so they did our thoughts. Their bod
les were as broad and almost as full as a
finger; their fangs as broad and plump
as those of small crawfshes, and usually
measured, with their snake of tail,
from three to five inches. They found
out almost every camp, and we found
them usually, when starting in the
morning, under the packages, saddles
and tent carpets. One was detected by
q colleague In a pocket. Another stung
the same man before lunch in his tent.
One was caught during meal on the
back of a chair, crawling toward the sit
ter's neck, while he was just scanning
the ground to see whether any were
about. Ny servant more than once
turned them out of my bed, usually be-
fore turned in, but once at least from
under my pillow Immediately after I had
risen. A special short pair of tongs,
however, was at these times always with
my ready servant, and he used grimly to
exhibit to us, with grin, while we were
at table, any remarkable specimen which
he happened to catch, secured in these
tongs. The smaller and slender species
with narrow fangs of gall and bile yell
low-whlch warns us when seen in the
ribs OF deleterious mushrooms and in the
flowers of poisonous plants-I found to
be more numerous on the main stream
and In the Delta of the Nile. These
crawl with tail curled up in all
seasons. When we asked our Nubian
friends about the manslaughtering power
OF the dark, hard ones, we got the indi-
rect answer that they will kill camel.
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CHAPTER III.

When suddenly the scene changed.
Four young men are seated around q
table, in Southern California town,
whose features bear the stamp of intel
lect. They were playing poker. The
reckless manner in which they won and
lost thousands proclaimed their calling.
They were newspaper men.
Grasping handful of gold from the
table, the youngest, tossing it toward
an authenticated maiden hard by, muir
INJURED, "Three beers and a straight. p"
As the elder dealt out three cards round
the younger began TO sing in 4 low,
plaintive voice:
This is the pair long have sought,
And mourned bekase drew it not.
The elder seemed to tumble to his lay,
for he refused to straddle the blind and
stayed out, but the man with the long
hair doubled his ante, and made it steep
to come in; but the young one saw him,
and was on the point of raising him out
of his boots, when
Capt. Smith!
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THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.

SORE THRoAT.-Gargle for sore throat
Tincture myrrh, two drachms common
water, four ounces vinegar, half an
ounce. Mix.
For BURNS OR ScALDs.- Varnish the
wound with the white of an egg. The
application Of the egg is more soothing
than sweet oil and cotton, the common
remedy for burns.
Tonic APERIENT. EPSON salts, one
ounce diluted sulphulic acid, one
drachm; infusion of quassia chips, half
an imperial pint compound tincture of
rhubarb, two drachms. Half a wine
glassful for dose twice each day.
DIARRHEA. is said the small plant,
commonly known by the name Of rup-
turewort, made into tea and drunk fire.
quently, is sure cure for diarrhea.
Rupturewort grows in nearly every open
lot and along the roads. It is small
plant, throwing out number of shoots
in horizontal direction, and lying close
to the ground, something similar to the
manner of the parsleyweed, and bears a
small dark green leaf with an oblong
purple spot in the center. When the
stem is broken, white milky substance
will Ooze from the wound. It is very
palatable and infants take it as readily
as any drink. This is an old Indian
cure, and may be relied on. The botani-
cal name of this plant is EuphOrJio
Maculatd.
How TO KILL A TAPEwoRM IN AN
HoUR.-Kousso and kamela are expen-
slve drugs, nauseous to the taste, not
always effectual, and requiring several
days to effect the death of the worm.
DR.. Karl Bethlehem, of Vienna, mar
rates in the Deutches drchiv, a heroic
method and nearly sure cure in the
short space of time of three-quarters of
an hour to two hours. It is this: He
inserts tube in the esophagus, to the
stomach, and pours down from 200 to
400 grammes of very concentrated de-
coction of pomegranate root, having pre-
viously had his patient fast for twenty
four hours. The worm is stupefed end
passed, head and all, to certainty; the
patient has no sickness of the stomach
and no nauseous swallowing to do, and
the drug is cheap.
How TO CURE A COUPON the first
day OF taking cold there is very un-
pleasant sensation of chilliness. The
moment you observe this go to your
room and stay there; keep it at such a
temperature as will prevent this chilly
feeling, even if it requires 100 degrees Of
Fahrenheit. In addition, put your feet
In water, half-leg deep, as hot as you
can bear it, adding hotter water from
time to time for quarter of an hour, so
that the water shall be hotter when YOU
take your feet out than when you put
them in; then dry them thoroughly,
and put on warm, thick wooden stock
ings, even if it be in summer, for sum-
mer colds are the most dangerous and
for twenty-four hours eat not an atom of
food, but drink as largely as you like OF
any kind of warm teas, and at the end of
that time, if not sooner, the cold will be
etfectually broken without any medicine
whatever.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21
Bears and Hornets.

Hornets build their nests high up in
the branches of trees, or fasten them to
rocks out of reach of harm. But, cum
ming as these insects are, they are no
match for the bear. A bear discovers a
hornets nest far out on limb too small
to bear his weight OR high up on the
breast of a rock. If the former, he
climbs the tree, breaks off the longest
branch he can get, and, holding it in his
fore paws. thrashes the nest until it
drops to the ground. Sometimes he
dances or stamps on the limb until the
nest is shaken off. IF the nest is on a
rock, the bear goes up to the top of the
ledge above it. Then he gathers large
stones and pieces of wood and rolls
them down the side of the rock until
one strikes the nest and sends it tum-
bling to the ground below. The hor-
nets seem to know what has caused
their ruin, and not one of them deserts
the fallen nest, but all seem to await the
appearance of the bear, when they at
tack him at once. GA hornet sting, /"
says the old hunter, is equal to blow
from sledge hammer every time, and
one hornet'n knock bull down. But
their bite won't raise lump as big as
buckshot on bar, and the shaggy
creature seems to think it's heap O.
fun. He'll stand up on his hind legs
and square off with his fore paws at the
hornets, jest as if he was boxin' with
somebody, only he's durn careful to keep
his eyes shet. Then he'll lay down and
roll all over the nest, as if he wanted to
show the hornets how he didn't care no
more for 'em than as if they was gnats.
Once I see big she bar, which had
knocked hornets nest as big as peck
measure of'n tree, take it under her
arm and walk off with it as coolly as if
it was one of her cubs"
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A PitifuI Death.

DR.. Wins, the late distinguished
German surgeon, came to his death by
pitiful road. Just as he completed an
operation, his assistant accidentally
pricked him with a needle under the
thumb-nail DR.. Wins treated the
tiny wound as all surgeons know how to
do-yet in attending afterward upon an
other patient, particle of poisonous
matter found its way to the wound.
About an hour later fierce burning set
in, and the experienced operator, who
knew every phenomenon of the human
organization so exactly, told his col
leagues that blood-poisoning had set in.
His friends believed that the means
which he used had expelled the poison :;
but DR.. Wins himself was less san
guine. He had just reached his 5Sth
year.
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Whipping Children to Make Them
Proud,

We are inclined to think that for chill
dren between 7 and IA or Whereabouts
corporal punishment, neither of Excess
sive severity nor of excessive mildness,
is about the most equal of punishments,
and we feel certain that all qualified
schoolmasters who have not been bitten
with the ridiculous mania about personal
dignity will bear us out. As for that
mania, it is enough to say that the
proudest classes of the very proudest
nation that ever walked on the face of
this earth have for centuries been accus-
toned to such punishment in youth. =
Saturday ReuieU.
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CHAPTER VII.

The scene changes. Pacing up and
down in the cell of the prison might be
seen q man about forty years of age,
more or less. Fifteen years have
elapsed since the stormy night we left
him perched on a rock in the middle
of mountain torrent.
evil she never come ?" he murmurs,
as he glances toward the door.
She enters with sob she throws
herself on the prisoners shoulder.
cts no use, Philander," she cries
they'll bring in a verdict of murder.
The jury's bin playin' poker all night to
get the hang of the evidence, and some
internal moke run in a cold hand O fours
on the foreman, an he is in fur hangin'
We now"
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Without an E.

1t is we'll known that the letter "e"
is used more than any other letter in
the English alphabet. Each of the fol-
lowing verses contains every letter of
the alphabet except the letter ''e:''
A jovial swain should not complain
OF any buxom fair
Who mocks his pain and thinks it gain
To quiz his awkward air.
Qui1otic boys who look for joys,
Quixotic hazards run;
A lass annoys with trivial TOYS
Opposing man for fun.
A jovial swain may rack his brain
And tax his fancys might:
To quiz is vain, for it's most plain
That what say Is right
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CHAPTER II.
Mr.. Sickembull next /!

We draw nearer to our hero, and by
the electric light read the legend in
scribed upon the shining thing that he
holds in horizontal position to his
face tits hop bitters-here dozen men,
bers jumped to their feet, protesting
against any advertisements being rung
in on this novel without seeing the pro-
prietors first. Carried.
Far above the roaring Of the Alpine
storm our hero hears what appears to
be the voice of a female in distress.
Plunging the spurs into his noble steed,
he plunges madly down the mountain
side, when, suddenly
Maj. Jones, next
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CHAPTER vi.
When suddenly the old man said. {

When suddenly the old man said, ''I
see your twenty and raise you fve."
&c | call you: What have you got?"
1.-TWO pair"
"No good" said the old man, gath
ering in the pot, until he saw that
it was two pair of aces the young one
had accumulated. There would be moth
ing strange in that, but the old man
had three aces himself, and had begun
to manifest desire to go behind the
returns, when loud crash was heard,
and with shrek the fair maid with
the auburn hair entered, crying, " Fire I"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

SPEAKING of missions among the freed
men, the Rev. DR.. Allen, of Philadelphia,
in an address on the subject in the Pres
byterian Synod of Baltimore, said that
the Catholics last year spent $40O, 900 in
that work, while the Presbyterians gave
only about one-eighth Of that sum. A
colored minister added that the former
church is expanding more in that direc-
ton than all the Protestant churches
combined.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21
CHAPTER ".

When the cries grew louder and loud
er, until our hero, coming suddenly to
the foot of the canyon, beheld female
form perched upon rock in the middle
of a roaring river.
Needless of danger, he plunged his
horse into the seething waters, and, as
he grasped her around her slender waist,
the horse broke away, and left him alone
upon the rock with the maiden. The
waters, with exultant gurgles, rose and
rose until it was chin-deep around there,
when suddenly
Mr. Snodgrass next
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

A SAVAGE black wolf has captured
Montgomery county, Pa. He escaped
from an exhibitors cage and took to the
woods. He energies at night and feeds
himself on hens, having stolen altogeth-
er $50 from one farmer. He has whipped
a great number of dogs, notably most
ferocious and powerful bulldog, which
had been confidently set on him.
Hunters go out to Stay him, but are too
nervous to aim well. and he has not
been hit.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21
CHAPTER X.

In time to get run over by the 9:15
express. A simple cross marks their
last resting place-United in life, united
in death.
This novel may be little jerky, but
it has enough raw material in it for a
dozen ordinary yarns. And, if it is jerky,
you must remember that no two writer's
view things from the same standpoint.
To the hands of our countrymen we
commit ourselves. Officially,
JACK HoMEsPUN.
P. ST any trouble grows out of
this, want it distinctly understood that
I'm not implicated in the above, only as
amanuensis. u. H.
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Light.

It is the health, not the eyesight,
which parents with studious children
should ever protect, though they should
be most merciless in insisting on a suf-
ficiency of light, and light which actu-
ally reaches the object of attention.
You may sit in room full of light, but
have all the while only twilight, or even
deep shadow falling on the work in
hand. Light, full light, but light with
out glare, is the grand preservative of
the ewes.
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CHAPTER Y.

When suddenly they both rolled over
and was drowned, and
Here the club was in a general uproar
of protest against the willful murder Of
the hero right at the start.
Snodgrass was ruled out,
Mr.. Simpson next!
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

Ii is the opinion of A. Bronson Alcott
g that the man who cannot govern chill
dren, or men either, by moral means, by
the power of his eye, the charm of his
manners, the resources Of his intelli-
gence, Is not worthy to control his fell
low-creatnres. ;" If A. Bronson Alcott
will only come and govern boy who
stands on his head on the roof adjacent
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

to our winter palace, and gets up cam
paign professions by means of broom
lighted with kerosene the power of
his eye, we offer him free board and q
new suit of clothes.-NeaD York Com
1lgacinL ADVERTISER
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

A SOUTH CAROLINA Baptist church
contains in its old records the mention
of woman being excluded from the
church for "doing too much talk
ing in the neighborhood." AS no such
case is recorded of late years, it is sup
posed that the race of such women is
extinct.
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MODERN FIDELITY.
= BY W. F. WATSON.

From the stormy coast of her native land
She gazed far DER the blue,
Where the waves dashed up in splendor grand
Her garments on the cold sea sand
We're damp with oceans dew.
She loved to come at the close of day
And hear the pillows roar,
And watch the foaming, seething spray
Where her sailor lover had sailed away
To India's distant shore.
And now a memory surged her mind;
One standing, fair and tall,
Where erst the howery jessamine
Had draped in happy days langsyne
cottage garden wall.
They stood when day was but begun
Beside the wall of stone;
But when the west-the dipping sun
Betokened that the day was done
She rested there alone.
She wondered if he thought tonight
OF loving friends III home;
Did he keep the curl so brown and bright
That he severed from its mates the night
He left that cottage home.
The chill winds swept the rocky height
She fingered by the sea
And watched till the somber wings of night
Had borne away the fading light
On the waves of eternity.
On India's distant shore was he,
Mt fondiing her auburn curl,
Nor thinking of loved ones over the sea,
But kissing beneath banyan tree
4 cyoss-eyed Hindoo girl.
She YEARLY waited and sadly prayed
For : glimpse of his azure blouse,
Ia hoo. apoA rat lar h1T hl q
She married peddler Of decent grade,
And went to keeping house.
Twas little cottage she had 10 keep;
Il stood beside the main;
And eft she watched the troubled deep,
When night winds Graded the waves asleep,
And thought of her love again.
e. 1t might have BEEN" she murmured low,
Tear nists her blue eyes dim;
And the sea birds sweeping to and fro,
The ftful shadows that come and go,
Too oft remind of him.
lis ever thus. Friends change apart;
Stern absence gives weary pain,
And gossip wings the fatal dart,
To rend the sinking, hopeless heart
OF one who waits in vain.
And loves 4 sacred thing that few,
All, very few may share!
And lovers to-day are not so true
As romance pictures them out to you,
On. maiden with golden HAIR!
And your Jimmy or Sammy, John or Carl,
So noble. kind and true,
Keeps one wistful eye upon the girl
With golden papa or brighter curl,
The while they cherish you.
But let not this dishearten you;
Accent the trust that's given:
For love that's truly pure and true
Can never, never be for you
This SIDE the ports of heaven.
CARLETON COUNTY, y. B.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

AN Oregon preacher had one of his
horses stolen, and he went to his study
and prayed that quickened conscience
might oblige the thief to return it. That
very night the fellow returned and
stole the other. Detroit Free Press.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

EVERY woman cannot be beautiful,
but can be sweet-tempered ana sweet
temper gives loneliness to the face
more attractive, in the long run, than
even beauty. Have smile and kind
word for all, and you will be soon
more admired-nay, loved-than any
mere beauty, A sweet temper is to the
household what sunshine is to trees and
flowers.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

A NEW Baptist convert wished very
much to be baptized by one minister
and to join the church of another. She
went to the first and asked if it could
be done. eyes," he replied; "I could
do it, but I don't take in washing"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

SURELY the ways of theatrical men are
peculiar. When lot of tramps congre-
gate about the entrance to hear the
music, and the policemen drive them
away, the manager telegraphs all
over the country that his play is an i'm
mense success, and that people are
turned away from the doors.-OH city
Derrick
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CHAPTER TX.

A tremendous roaring noise is heard
and an earthquake strikes the place,
tearing the jail asunder, and the pris-
oner (who, the reader knows. is our
hero) and the maiden fly to the railroad
in time to-
Mr.. Peters next