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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-12
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Fer Bows ana Young Msn-Countrv.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-12
TMPR0yENENT OF yoLUSM BAR,

UNITED ~TAiLs ENGNEFR OFtI'E
ARlN BUILDING. NcW-l Ork, Angus .. i--'1
SEALED PROPOSALS. IN duplls4e. addressed to tie IN
dr,igned Viii his Office until l.. - A IT, ~
he 3Is dsy Aueust 5O. which time place" t!ey
will he 0pcu prcseace %; bidders for mpro>ins NoAs
Bar. FiOida.
Specifications distractions Ia Bidders and Bank r TO
pOsls may obtained this Office applcatO ty IN
tending bidder.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
A Laughable Scare.

"Burleigh" writes from the City to the
Boston Journal that one of our railroads
runs by the County Buildings. Prisoners,
paupers, and diseased are transported often
on the street cars to save expense. This
practice creates great Indignation. So far,
all protests have been in vain. The other
day the conductor was collecting fares from
crowded load A foreign person, poorly
dressed, and with an eruptive face, handed
up his money. In answer to the question,
''Do you go through?' which means do
you go beyond the City line? he said, 81
have got de smallpox do'' "Have you got
the small-pox?' said the astonished con-
ductor. eyes,, | have got the smallpox
do" The passengers came to their feet ;
women screamed, and the excitement was
intense. "Come, get out,of this car; you
can't ride here" said the official. The I'M
fortunate made for the front platform He
was hustled out of the car, and nearly pitched
headlong into the street. He recovered him.
self and started for the front of the car.
The driver took the car-hook and threatened
to brain him if he got on, The poor fellow
kept up with the horses, shouting; "rll
go, give me my smallpox, give me my poz,
give me my pox," pointing to a small two
foot square chest standing on end behind
the driver. The mystery was explained:
Theghonest German wanted to pay for his
small box on the car as well as his own fare.
The conductor apologized, and seat was
offered to the man. But he had had enough
of that company. He refused all invitations
to ride, shouldered his $ smallpox, !" and
trudged on foot to the Aims House.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
RISEN FROM THE DEAD.

An event occurred recently at the house
of August Sink, the well-known hotel pro-
prietor at the Grand Trunk junction, which
created an intense excitement. a little
child of Edward Dwyer, an engineer in the.
employof the Michigan Central Railroad
Company, died, apparently, and the funeral
arrangements were made. The body was
laid out in the usual manner A shroud
was made for it and all other preparations
for the funeral, even to the engaging of
carriages were completed. Just before the
time for the funeral services to commence,
the attendants were suddenly startled by a
sharp cry, AM t. their nomenary horror
and coastern lt:on, the babe for whose death
they had sorrowed two days, was seen to
move. Instantly al was excitement in the
house. Grief w.s; Oh eA.i'.,. To rejoicing for
one risen, us it Were, iIoln the dead, and tn
news of the strange event went abroad as
on the wings Of lightning. The neighbors
focked to see the child thus proyiient.ally
returned. from the grave, and All thlt day
the wondrous titiinga were Carried from
house to house. The JOY OF lie father and
mota4r canAot ~ to.. Ire Il Ass OF
their hearts VIII be ncasaf i. aul-r,.ool
by the f.;tA =. .4rd Wo - @lo hive
put away their little ones in the earth for
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
Vanilla.

Little is generally known about this plant
except that its long slender pods are used to
favor cakes and liquors. 1t is an orchide
that grows wild in tropical America, where
it will climb along for hundreds of feet, so
long as it finds support. The flowers are
clustered together fifteen or twenty at time,
and are greenish white the pistil of each
is protected by membrane, which prevents
the pollen from penetrating inside, unless
some insect or other accidental agent happen
to tear it open, a circumstance which renders
it somewhat difficult to get pods without
artificial means, consisting in tearing open
the membrane with a needle and bringing
the anthera close to the stigma By this
patient operation the plant soon becomes
laden with the covered pods; these are green
at first, they then become yellow, and lastly
chocolate colored when ripe. The seeds
they contain are innumerable, but most
frequently barren in cultivated vanilla,
which is therefore best propagated by cut
tings, a method rendered peculiarly easy by
the circumstance that the plant produces a
vast number of aerial radicals or shoots.
Two species of vanilla are grown in the
Island of La Reunion, whittier they were
imported from America some twenty years
ago. In 1851 the quantity of pods gathered
were not more than 80 kilogms, at so francs
each in 1861 it had risen to 1879 kilos,
at ll9 francs, and in 1872 the production
was IL 900 kilos, at 16O francs. A single
hectare 1.-TWO and half acres) will yield a
crop worth 10000 francs, and there are
some that produce double that quantity.
To this, however, there is serious draw
back; vanilla growing exhausts the soil
very rapidly, since it will absorb from ii
more than double the proportion of active
principles potash, phosphorus lime, and
magnesia) that the sugar-cane does.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
A Creditable Incident.

A good many years ago one OF the most
notorious thieves in the United States had a
confidential conversation with a gentleman
who is now one of our most efficient detectives
and expressed strong desire to reform.
'SWhy do you wish so much to live on the
square?'' asked the gentleman. Because"
replied the thief, 81 have wife and chill
dren to whom [ am very much attached !;
they have no idea of the mode in which /
make my living the children are growing
old, and are beginning to wonder why l
leave home SO often, and what do, and if
| am ever to reform now is the time" The
gentleman warmly approved the idea, and
to further it loaned the man several hundred
dollars with which to begin an honest bust
ness. The reformed man at once broke of
all his old associations, lived perfectly
honest life, would have no dishonest persons
call on him, devoted himself for years closely
to business, raised his family irespectably,
did great many acts of transformations
charity, and died not long since esteemed by
all who knew him. His children are doing
well, and are highly respectable. The money
advanced was long since repaid, and the
officer certainly has reason to feel satisfaction
at the result Of his helping man to reform
his life
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
ONLY THREE LEFT.

Mr.. John McIntire, Of East Fallowfeld
township, (Pa.) was member of Company
81, of the One Hundred and Thirty third
Regiment, Sixteenth Division, Pennsylvania
Militia, which was made up in Crawford
county during the year of 1872, with John
Mcdowell as captain. Colonel Samuel
equity commanded the regiment The
company numbered sixty-three men, and
all of these, save James Mcconnell, now
living near Sharon, Mercer county, James
D. McIntire, formerly of Crawford county,
but now residing in Iowa, and brother,
John McIntire, already mentioned, are the
only survivors. Mr.. Mcconnell is aged
ninety-nine years, James D. McIntire is in
his eighty third year, and John McIntire in
his eighty -frstyear. Thus, of all that band
of Crawford county patriots who went forth
to defend their country against foreign
foe, but three remain, and they too, in the
course of nature, Will soon be laid in their
graves
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
Value of Enthusiasm.

Life is an inconceivably beautiful thing,
SO soon as we reach that point whence we
can look out upon it, through clear con-
science and character well bufetted by
experience. The one difuses pure, heav-
emily light over all the strange and complex
mass which meets the eye, the other tones
down our enthusiasm without destroying
the vigor. Enthusiasm is to the character
what blood is to the the physical life with
out it lassitude, and finally death, would
ensue. Upon its quality, however, depends
the beauty or deformity Of the life it nour-
ishes. Jdeality is at the bottom of the true
enthusiasm the striving after perfection
makes the great artist, the noble philan-
thropist, the self-sacrifcing. The idealist
soon discovers how easy it is to appear
civil courteous, respectable, virtuous how
difficult to be truly benevolent, tolerant, and
charitable; but is never satisfied unless
earnestly engaged in acquiring the best he
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
AN ECCENTRIC STAR.

The most singular fact connected with
the proper motions of the stars is that one
or two stars are flying through space with
such enormous rapidity that the combined
attraction of all the stars visible with the
telescope could never stop them. This
seems to be especiallythe case with small
star, invisible to the naked eye, designated
inastronomical literature as ''Groombridge,
$780," from the name of the astronomer
who first recorded its position. The rate of
motion of the star is about seven seconds
per year-the greatest known. It was
hence concluded that it must be very near
US, and a number of astronomers have
sought to determine it's parallax, but have
found it to be only g tenth of second It's
apparent motion in year being seventy
times its parallax, it moves at least seventy
times the distance from the earth to the
sun in year, or eighteen millions of miles
every day; and more than two hundred
every second. From what we know of the
distribution, masses, and number of the
stars, it seems probable that the attraction
of all the bodies in the universe can never
stop this headlong speed, nor bring this
star into an orbit, and that consequently it
will pass through our universe, and leave it
entirely in its passage through infinite
space. If we had accurate observations of
the stars position three or four thousand
years ago, we could speak with more GER
tainty Of its destiny. We may expect that
our posterity Of few thousand years hence
will, by the aid of the observations and Ia
bles we shall transmit to them, be able to
come to,a definite conclusion respecting
the age and the structure of the universe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
The Training That Girls Need.

Mrs. Abba Gould Woolson has been
giving Boston some common-sense no
lions about "The Training that Girls
Need" In a paper read before the
Moral Education Society, she pro-
nounced ill-health luxury which enor-
mously increased the cost of living.
She advised mothers to keep their girls
from their own fate, and she asserted
that girls should be made to lead q
quiet life on simple diet until they
are fully grown; that they should exer-
else freely in the open air; that house
work should be done by them in care
fully-ventilated rooms; that their dress
should be radically changed, SO that no
longer shall their vital organs be COM
pressed or their hips weighed down
with mass of cloth that no man would
willingly carry. Compliance with these
rules, she believed, would give to the
world nobler, healthier race of women.
The object of girls mental training
should be, she said, to enable her to
reason, not to fill her brain with super
fetal ideas. The processes applied to
women's minds that are now devoted to
the education of men, she considered,
would bring the same results. She adj
vised that girls pursue with thorough
ness the disciplinary studies. Next to
this she would place the perceptive fac
ulties, in which woman is now much
more proficient than man. Women
should also be acquainted more or less
intimately with physiology, natura
philosophy, the laws of mechanics,
chemistry, political economy, the char
acteristics of a republican form of gov
eminent, rhetoric and natural sciences.
all of which are far more important to
the girl than the modern languages.
First of all parental duties, Mrs. Wool
son placed that of fitting children, and
especially girls, to earn an honorable
living, no matter how wealthy their
family may be, since no one is beyond
the reach of possible poverty.-PotteTs
Magazine.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
An Accommodating Editor.

A local editor in Pekin, ILL.,, introduced
himself to the public a few days ago, as
follows: Sensational, distressing details OF
revolving murders and shocking suicides.
respectfully solicited. Bible class presenta-
lions and ministerial donation parties viii!
be done with promptness and despatch.
Keno banks and their operations made a
speciality. Accurate reports of Sunday
School anniversaries guaranteed. The local
will cheerfully walk seventeen miles after
Sunday School to see and report prize
fight. Funerals and all other melancholy
occasions written up in manner to chal.
lenge admiration. Horse-races reported ir
the highest style of the reportorial art. Do
mestic broils and conjugal, infelicities sought
for with untiring avidity. Police couri
proceedings and sermons reported in man.
ner well calculated to astonish the prisoner.
magistrate, and preacher. Prompt-paying
subscribers and good advertisers, when
stricken with mortal illness, will be cheer
fully interviewed, when lying at deaths
door, with view to obtaining obituary
items, and the greatest pleasure will be
taken III exposing your private affairs to the
critical gaze of an interested public
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
LEARNING YANKEE TRICKS

A letter from Jacksonville, Fla, has the
following:
called on q lady the other day who had
some grasshoppers for sale. These pests
grow very large during the Summer, when
the natives catch them in large numbers,
dry them in the sun and sell them in the
Winter to strangers as ornaments for la
dies hair. picked out from this lady
stock several specimens that pleased me,
and asked her how much they were.
With gushing smile she said, 'sSeven-
ty-fve cents apiece, but if you take half
dozen I'll let you have them for four dol
lars and twenty cents" L begged she
would repeat her generous offer, and when
she had done so told her she must have
mistaken me for a very good-natured man,
one who would stand a good deal. I am
not the owner of those grasshoppers.
On another occasion l requested GER
tain tiller of the soil to collect for me some
rare Florida bugs and insects. After
about weeks absence, this worthy Cincin-
natus returned with big box in which
there were haf-dozen large, equity ticks,
moving around as stately as bond-holders !;
several "tumble-bugs, rolling over each
other; a few half-starved cockroaches, q
melancholy beetle, and several other I'M
happy plebeians from the insect world.
1t was collection that would have made
sad the heart of any entomologist. look
ed at them, smiled a sickly smile, and
asked him what he thought they were
worth. He looked at me, he looked at the
box, and putting his hands into his capa-
cious pockets, said: "Well I Just don't
know what you Northern folks will stand"
It was the last straw that broke the cameps
back. I handed him back his box and as
sured him I did not think he could find
any Northerner who would stand &C
cepting such collection, even as present.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
FRIGHTFUL MISTAKE.

An interesting case of death, from care
less use of poison, lately occurred in Elmira.
A blacksmith, named Wilder, aftera season
of drinking, went into a drug store and
called for an ounce of hydrate choral, which
was properly labelled and given him. He
went home, put the entire ounce in glass
of water, and drank it down, with q view
to have good sleep and recovering from
the effects of his drinking Hardly had he
touched the bed ere his wife noticed a
strange look upon his face and fastened to
his side. Said he:
s'Sally, it's no use, I've made mistake,
and am dead man.
In twenty minutes from the time he took
the mixture he was a corpse. Five grains
of hydrate choral is safe dose for per-
son wishing sleep, but this man took an
ounce, four hundred and eighty grains at
once, and paid the penalty.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
The Terrors of Want.

In our large cities, really deserving peo-
pie frequently suffer great deal from actual
want. Yet, thanks to private charity, a case
of absolute starvation, when man or
woman is thoroughly healthy, is almost i'm
possible. There may be phases of misery
quite as terrible as death at the time they
occur. to sensitive natures, which may help
to kill the individual but death, at least
among men. from hamilton caused by want
offood, seldom happens in busy cities. Men
may be i'll and feeble, so that they cannot
work, and then they perish. An unfor-
tunate foreigner not along ago gave his sad
experience of want. 81 fell i'll when came
to this country two months ago; have been
in hospital six weeks; thought 1 was better,
but am i'll again; tried to get to the hospital,
butsomehow the people there would not take
me back. I have been sleeping in stable
where an Irishman let me have an empty
stall. | have been starving for the last week.
am too weak to work, and too proud to
beg. | have lived mostly only on what
could find in the wash-tubs of the markets,
and occasional crusts of cast-away bread.
Yesterday, being Sunday l most like to have
persisted" American people have kind
hearts; the man was well cared for when
his condition was known, and he now fills
worthily an independent position. See to
it that kindly charity does not die in your
hearts, that the poor we have always with
us may not die of want and misery.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
PREPARING FOR IT.

A cashier of bank in Cincinnati has
read so many accounts in the papers of
late, of robbers entering, a cashiers house
at night. gagging and binding the in
mates, and obliging the cashier to go and
open the banks safe, that he is very ner-
vous on the subject. He is satisfied that
he will yet have a visit of that kind, do
what he may to avoid it, and he thinks
the next best thing his family can do is to
learn to go through the ordeal with as
much composure as possible. According
ly, he has been putting them through a
rehearsal every night for week or so past,
greatly to their terror aud inconvenience.
He acts the part Of bank robber himself.
In the dead of night he awakes his wife,
and, pressing vinegar cruet against her
head, demands her in low, gruff tones to
get up and make no noise, on pain of hav-
ing her brains instantly blown out with the
vinegar cruet. Then he binds he to the
bed-post, and gags her with the baby's gut
ta-pereha rattle The children and servants
he gags and locks up in convenient closets
and then, stufing Hat-iron holder into his
own mouth, and pressing a bologna sau-
sage against each temple, he marches him
self off to unlock the bank. As the wealth
er is cold now, it is not altogether comfort
able, and the family think they prefer the
risk of the robbers.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
Anti-Tea.

In 1743 there was quite an anti-tea
agitation in Scotland, where it was pro-
nounced by the famous Duncan Forbes
to be sin many respects an improper
diet, expensive, wasteful of time, and
calculated to render the population
weakly and efeminate." During that
time there was a vigorous movement all
over Scotland for abolishing the use of
tea. Resolutions were passed by Town
Councils and the inhabitants Of villages
condemning it, and advocating beer.
Sir William Fullerton's tenants in Ayr
shire entered into the following bond:
"We, being farmers by profession,
think it needless to restrain ourselves
formally from indulging in that foreign
and consumptive luxury called tea; for,
when we consider the slender constitu-
tions of many of higher rank among
whom it is used, we conclude that it
would be but an improper diet to quail
fy us for the more robust and manly
part of our business; and therefore we
shall only give our testimony against it,
and leave the enjoyment Of it altogether
to those who can afford to be weak, in
dolent, and useless"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
Care of the Voice.

The Imperative requirements of the sing
ing voice in the way Of rest, from time to
time, are such as to lessen very materially
the physical fatigue consequent upon follow
ing the vocalist's profession. The singer
must rest or the voice will fail. This does
not apply to the less favored voice-workers
who seek their profit through acting or
public speaking. A soprano who should
attempt to sing in public for two hours
every night throughout the season, would
surely become voiceless after few weeks !;
but players and lecturers are less exposed to
this danger Says wel.-known lecturer =
SIT has been my own experience to lee
ture without a single interruption Except
Sundays every night for an unbroken period
Of three months. In one season | lectured
one hundred and ninty-eight nights. be-
tween October LIST and June 3Oth, without
harm to my voice; but the general bodily
fatigue was terrible, and the injury to
health severe"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16
A HARD MAN TO LYNCH.

A hard man to lynch is Gibbs of Helena,
Col. He is murderer who has escaped
conviction through legal bubble. Thirty
vigilantes surrounded his house in the
night and commanded him to come out to
be hung. He refused. Theyset fire to the
house. When the flames had grown too
close for longer stay inside, Gibbs sprang
suddenly out Of window with revolver
in each hand and began firing rapidly at