Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-11
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

Mr.. SETH GEEEN, the fsh-culturist,
thinks that trout can hold conversation
with each other. "If this be So" asks
an old colored fisherman on our docks,
"why am it, honey, dat de fishes don't
understand de hidden meanin' OBJ de
bate?"
A MEAN man put sixteen hornets in
whisky bottle and gave it to Texas
man, in the dark, to take drink out of,
and though the hornets got in their
work as they went down, the Texan re-
marked that it wasn't real Texas whisky,
as it lacked fire.
"WHAT a beautiful sightl" exclaimed
Mrs. Jones. rapturously, as she looked
over the beautiful scenery from Penn
sylvania railroad car. "Yes," replied
Jones, without raising his eyes from his
paper, anthracite"
A LITTLE boy, just beginning to talk,
had been given piece of candy by his
father, and was enjoying it. His moth
er, who sat by, pretending to feel badly,
said, Give it to mammal" Turning
slowly away, there came back from be-
tween the nearly-elosed teeth, "Mam-
mall choke"
SWINE that are fattening will do bet
ter with soaked corn than with dry.
Corn stepped in water twelve hours has
been found more economical to feed
than when ground into meal. The ami
mails are sooner filed, the food digests
better, and, consequently, the feeding
is finished more expeditiously, and feed
which is money-is saved.
A LITTLE boy went with his father to
see a colt. He patted the colts head
and made quite fuss over it, until
finally the stable-man told him to be
careful that the colt did not turn round
and kick him. When the little chap
went home his mother asked him what
he thought about the colt. II like him
pretty WELL" was the reply. "He's real
tame in the front, but he's awful wild
behind"
The DANIPOSCoPE.-Thi is the name
given by it's inventor, Prof. Forbes, of
Anderson's College, Glasgow, to an in
strument designed to detect the pres
ence of fre-damp in mines. The prin-
ciple embodied in it is that when tun
ing-fork is sounded and brought near
tube of certain length full of air, the
tube will resound to the note produced
by the fork. By this machine the fire.
damp in a mine can be estimated to the
amount of 0.5 per cent. 1t has already
been adopted in some of the mines in
Lanarkshire, Scotland.
ANCIENT MoUND.-An ancient mound
resembling the Aztec mounds of the
Mississippi valley has been discovered
in Japan. A scientific examination of
the remains that have been dug up
from it furnishes reason for believing
that cannibalism was practiced by the
Japanese in prehistoric times. The
human bones that were found among
the bones of beasts gave evidence that
the flesh upon them had been cooked,
and the marks still left upon the joints
are such as could have been made only
by human teeth.
SOME little things of value: If your
coal fire is low, throw in tablespoon
full of salt, and it will help it very much.
A little ginger put into sausage meat
improves the flavor. In icing cakes dip
the knife into cold water. In boiling
meat for soup, use cold water to extract
the juices. If the meat is wanted for
itself alone, plunge it into the boiling
water at once. You can get bottle or
barrel of oil off any carpet or wooden
stuff by applying buckwheat plentiful
ly. Never put water to such grease
spot, nor liquid of any kind. Broil
steak without sailing. Salt draws the
Juices in cooking; it is desirable to
keep these if possible. Cook over a
hot fire, turning frequently, soaring
both sides; place on platter, salt and
pepper to taste. Beef havinga tenden-
cy to be tough can be made very palat-
able by stewing gently for two hours
with salt and pepper, taking about
pint of the liquor when half done, and
letting the rest boil into the meat.
Brown the meat in the pot. After tax
ing up, make gravy of the pint of
liquor saved. A small piece of char
coal in the pot with boiling cabbage re-
moves the smell. Clean oilclothes
with milk and water; brush and soap
will ruin them. Tumblers that have
milk in them should never be put in
hot water. 4 spoonful of stewed toma-
toes in the gravy Of either roasted or
fried meats is an Improvement. The
skin of boiled egg is the most efica-
eious remedy that can be applied to
boil. Peel it carefully, wet and apply
to the part affected. 1t will draw out
The matter and relieve the soreness in a
few hours.
MAN AND HIS PRESENT COSTUME
Sight and hearing are the two senses
which the natural man, in common with
the lower animals, possesses in great
perfection, and it is evident that, in ad-
dition to its usefulness to him as mere
animal, the eye affords him interest and
delight long before his other senses be-
come intellectually developed. In the
very earliest stages of his existence we
have proof in scratched outlines of nj
mails that he observes with curiosity and
pleasure the varieties of animal form
which surround him. In his progress
toward modern civilization he rejoices
in beautiful combinations of line and
gorgeous arrangements of color. All
through the long ages till the seven
teenth century this is distinctly visi-
BILE, but growing fainter from the six
teenth, and it is when modern discov-
cries and appliances in the nineteenth
have placed almost unlimited means in