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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
Chinese Soldiers.

Capt. Gill, of the British army. in
his narrative of a journey through China
and Eastern Thibet, gives the following
estimate Of the military capacity OF the
Chinese
"With European officers, an under
Col. Gordon, we know how well the
Chinese have fought, while, unlike most
Orientals, they have not been utterly
demoralized by a check. Properly led,
they would make magnificent troops, for
by nature the Chinese arc singularly
obedient to authority, and would not
question the commands of those who
had once established an influence over
them. La this they are like other East
srns, but more than others their ma
tional character renders them particu-
larly incapable Of military combina-
tions. A Chinaman can learn anything,
but he can conceive nothing. He may
readily be taught any number of the
most complicated military msneuvers,
but place him in @ position slightly diff
ferent from what he hiss learned, and he
viii be found utterly incapable of con-
ceiving any modification to suit the al
tered circumstances. This national
characteristic is the growth OF centuries
of narrow education its roots are
deeply seated, and lie In the insane rev.
erence for antiquity, which is almost
the beginning and end Of a Chinaman's
belief. Prompt action, readiness of re-
source, ability to seize ON the smallest
advantage, or to neutralize misfortune,
and the power to evolve fresh combina-
tions-these are the qualities that make
@ soldier, and these are tho very quail
ties that cannot ooexist vita the Chi
nese want OF originality. This is no un-
important matter, for it proves that the
Chinese cannot be feared as military
nation, but that. with large number Of
European officers, their almost unlimited
number, their obedience to authority and
personal bravery, when properly led,
would make them almost irresistible. {"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

CRANBERRIEs, with their malic and
citric acids, are good food for those living
in malarious places Cranberry Jelly is
also recommended, as the seeds and skins
produce wholesome irritation to the
allmentary canal.
FLAxsEED tea, which is good for
cough and sore throat, is made as fol-
lows: Put two table-spoonfuls whole
faxseed in pint Of boiling water, and
boil fifteen minutes. Gut up one lemon
and put in % pitcher, with two table
spoonfuls of sugar. Strain the tea
boiling hot through q wire strainer into
the pitcher and stir together.
ALL medical writer's agree that shaded
streets are an essential element to public
health that trees absorb miasma, purify
the atmosphere, create currents of air,
and produce refreshing GOODNESS. A
tree is never at rest, even in dead calrs.
1t is always futtering its foliage and
stirring up the stagnant atmosphere
around it. A special fund ought to be
granted the department. of highways
for the planting of trees ON all new and
principal streets OF the city.
Ii person swallows any poison what,
ever, or has fallen into commissions frora
having overloaded the stomach, IN m
Simultaneous remedy, most efficient and
applicable in large number of cases, is
heaping teaspoonful Of common salt,
and as much ground mustard, stirred
rapidly in teacupful of wateE warm OF
cold, and swallowed instantly. 1t is
scarcely down before it begins to come
up, bringing with it the remaining con-
tents of the stomach; and, lest there be
any remnant of the poison, however
small, let the white of an egg or tea
spoonful of strong coffee beswallowed as
soon as the stomach is quiet, because
these very common articles nullify q
large number Of yirulent poisons.
DR. SYDNEY RINGER calls the atten-
ton OF the medical profession to the
value of glycerine as remedy in fatu-
lence, acidity of the stomach, and
pyrosis. He states that sometimes he
finds all of these gastric troubles COM
bined, but glycerine in nearly all cases
relieves them. In some cases, too, it
removes pain and vomiting, probably,
like charcoal, by preventing the forma-
ton of acrid acids, which irritate delicate
and irritable stomachs. Glycerine does
not prevent the digestive action of pep
sins and hydrochloric acid and hence,
while it prevents the formation of wind
and acidity, probably by checking the
fermentation, it in no way hinders di-
gestion. He administers drachm or
two either before, with or Immediately
after food. It may be given in water,
coffee, tea or lemon and soda water. In
tea and coffee it may replace sugar, q
substance which greatly favors tlatu-
lence, as indeed does tea in many cases.
In some cases q cure does not occur till
the lanse of ten DAYS or a fortnight.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
A Cheerful Wife.

And how can wife be cheerful if her
husband does not try to make and keep
her SO? He goes out, for instance, Just
to make business call In the evening,
and comes back at in the morning, Try
ing to bring all the lamp-posts III tide
block with him, sid in a maudlin stu
ter asserts that he only drank one glass
of milk. Or. when it has been decided
at breakfast to serve yesterdays coIi
meat for to-day's dinner in the shape 81
the succulent and nourishing hash, be
brings home three friends and tells them
that his wife can cook the beef of Ola
England to a turn. Or he has fit d
economy and can't take his wife to the
concert, but manages to take another
lady to the theater. He finds thou
sand reasons why he should be cross as
a bear, but not single reason why she
shouldn't be AZ clipper as squirrel WHIP
has just laid in his winter store of chest
nuts. If men would be more manly aud
not waste all their ill-temper on the
family circle they would have less %
complain of in their wives. Women
cannot endure everything.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
No Women.

We have no women nowadays they
are all ladies. An Englishwoman wish
ing to see the women wards in prison
in Tennessee, was answered by the War
den, eve have no ladies here at pres
ent, madam Now, 80 far as the ladies
were concerned, it was very well that
none of them were in prison; but then
it sounds little odd-1adies IN prison!
It would seem bad enough for a0onaera to
go to such place. A lecturer, discours-
ing upon the characteristics of women,
illustrated thus "Who were the last
at the cross? Ladies. Who were the
first at the sepulcher? Ladies'" On
this modern improvement we have heard
of but one thing that beats the above. ii
was the finishing touch to a marriage
ceremony, performed by an exquisite
divine up to all modern reinements.
When he had thrown the chain Of Hy-
men round the happy couple, he con-
cluded by saying, 81 now pronounce
you husband and lady,"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
NiIlS for S5arbIas.

Almost all the IL rbles with which
boys everywhere amhse themselves, In
season and out Of season, On sidewalks
and in shady spots, are made at Ober-
stein, Germany. There are large ACUTE
quarries and mills III that neighborhosd,
and the refuse is turned to good account
in providing the small stone balls for
experts to ''lnuckle" with. The stone
is broken into small cubes, by blows of
@ light hammer. These small blocks of
stone are thrown by the shovelful into
the hopper of small mill, formed Of
bedstone, having its surface grooYed
with concentrate burrows. Above this
Is the "runner, which is of some hard
wood, having a level face on its lower
surface. The upper block Is made to
revolve rapidly, water being delivered
upon the grooves of the bedstone where
the marbles are being rounded. IttaAes
about fifteen minutes to finish half q
bushel of good marbles, ready for the
boys knuckles. One mill Will turn ont
10000 marbles per week. The very
hardest crackers" as the boys call
them, are made by a slower process,
somewhat analogous to the other.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
The Open Sesame.

Col. Higginson, in the Woneon's Jotss-
nal. has this to say of crocheting: For
one, I have nothing to say against the
crochet needle. 1t not only trains hand
and eye and even intellect-and what
male mind could ever grapple with the
mystery OF Its stitches, found so simple by
every woman ?-but it is first an employ
ment and then freemasonry. In some
great hotel, where the newly-arriveA
groups of ladies look askance at each
other, each little afraid of making an
undesirable acquaintance, how are al
hearts opened and all distinctions broken
down, by the appearance of a shawl of a
new pattern softly uhrolled from its
white swathing by the lady who is work.
ing on it We hear of the "brother-
hood of toll" but this is sisterhood of
toll more delicate. do not suppose
that there is any conceivable barrier of
social pride in a ladies' drawirg-room
that would not be annihilated before q
new crochet stitch.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
Fixing Shoes to Horses Hoofs.

A new idea for accomplishing this
without the use of nails is carried outas
follows The inventor takes a shdepf
ordinary construction, having, say, fGtr
holes therein, and through these he
passes bands or wires of metal, two en-
tending from or near the hinder exretn-
tiles OF the shoe, and the other two. at
short distances from either side of the
toe, the position being varied with tie
number Of bands employed. 10 fix the
shoe the hinder wires or bands are FIRST
drawn tightly round the front and upper
part or corona of the hoof, the ends
passing through buckle or ring, OF
they may be twisted together. The
ends of the other wires are also passed
through the ring or under the first
bands, and, being drawn tightly down
ward, the hinder wires or bands, owing
to the conformation of the hoof, are, as
it were, wedged tightly, thus fixing the
shoe firmly to the hoof. This invention
only receives provisional projections
LossdOs, Line SSock Journal.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
POPPING the Question in Tyrol.

Tyrolean maidens are by old custom
spared the necessity of giving tongue to
their "Aye" or emo" The first time a
young man pays a visit as an avowed
sutton he brings with him bottle of
wine, of which he pours out glass and
offers it to the object of his affections.
In any case she will not refuse it point
blank-that would be too gross an insult !;
but, should the wooer not be agreeable
TO herr his declaration come little too
prematurely, she declines the profered
wine, pleading that it looks sour, or that
wine disagrees with her, or any other
excuse the feminine ingenuity may sug-
gest. If she likes the lad and Is equal
to owning it, she empties the glass,
taking care not to spill any of the wine,
for, if she does, or the glass or bottle be
broken, it is an unhappy omen. "They
have split the wine between them," say
the peasants when a marriage turns out
badly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
travelling Etiquette.

The fashionable girl now lays her
head on the shoulder of her male COM
panion when travelling, according to q
Cincinnati Enquirer writer, who says =:
&c The incest girls do it, and they are SO
'demure, SO innocent, so unconscious in
their manner that nobody could deem
the practice harmful. They have the
unconcerned air of using pillow. This
would have been reprehensible q year
ago; now fashion and mothers permit
it. But the man must not so far forget
himself as to slyIy hug the girl. IF he
does. she pops bolt upright, and will
lean to him no more forever. That is
new but approved etiquette. !"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14

chants OF Canton, who would have Sc
Guided their wives with the utmost care
a decade or two ago, now permit themto
be seen, end, what is more, they allow
them to converse with other men. They
travel with them on the steamers that
navigate the Chinese rivers and waters
along the coast, and it Is said that some
OF them have gone so far as to allow
their wives to sit with them at the pub
lie tables. Similar progress is obsery-
able among the Siamese and other East
ern nations. The world still moves.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
TARE MESSENGERS.
By ETTIE NJ. HoLTON

By ETTE NJ. HoLToN.
A vhite-winged messenger came
And stood by my side one day.
It whispered, g never can como again"
Then silently few away.
But another came In its place,
And, seeing my sad surprise,
Low whispered I" / bear message from hse
To my home beyond the skies"
fain would have questioned more
ERE the wee, fair thing was gone,
But felt that message would speak FOR me
When the day OF accounts should come.
Another, and still they came;
Each had message for me
or work TO be done in the cause of right,
And conscience and work must agree.
But oft as they glided by,
So pure and white when they cane,
Methought could trace on their snowy wing
4 record of sin with its stain.
glad would have called them back,
Bot alas they could come no more,
And the message fam would obliterate
Is borne TO the other shore.
Thus the days and years sped ON
Fill tonight, my life most done,
The ghosts Of my White-winged messengers
Como back TO me one by one.
What meaneth their sad reproach?
Neglect, abuse, cen the death
Of their brightest ones is laid to my charge
As stand with bated breath.
"Who art thou ?" "We're ENJOYS OF peace
To note what you think, say and do.
We whisper of right-if thou heed'st it not
Our record must still be true"
Thy Father hath sent us in love;
We hsjl from fairer cline.
Thou cal'st us moments While we are here;
When gone, thou callst US time.
ANDoN, LII. ET-rIE Al. HoLTpN.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
ONE DAY.
By LYDIA r. HTNAfAN.

Good-by, dear day, good-byl
Ana let me wreathe with imInorteiles
The moments sweet, that fly
On wings of love, and mark with white
The hours wherein no clouds of pain
Have dimmed the dear sunlight.
Farewell, sweet day, FAREWELL
Fen now the evening curfew peals
From memory's tolling bell;
l sit and count them as they fall,
And grieve, and sigh, yet smile that they
Are ever past recall
Good-by, dear, day, good-byI
Like those fond ones I've loved and lost,
That in deaths clasp doth lie
With flowers abloom upon each brow
Each tender bloom precious hour,
Thou seennst unto me now.
Farewell, sweet day, FAREWELL
And go where sleep they that are gone,
For, after all, it's we'll;
l would not call back one dead face;
would not live thine hours again,
Nor cen thy joys retraee
DANVILL.E, Wis.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
Oriental Women.

AS time progresses, the condition of
the women of the Orient rapidly i'm
proves. Japan has taken the lead in
this respect, and to-day Japanese women
occupy position and exert an influence
that few OF them would have dared
dream of quarter of a century ago.
China is being taught the lesson, though
more slowly than Japan, and women are
entering to a. limited extent into the
world Of business and politics. Mer-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14
MN ADVICE.

Really, now, dear Den Brooaw,
1 don't want to pick Jaw
In the life you please to choose,
But think you do abuse
Poor, weak, egotistic man,
Now deny it if you can.
Really, don't mean to ve0,
But there's not one Of the seG
But would your affections shaze
Gladly, if they did but dare.
Surely you must naughty be,
Or you would with them agree.
Really, don't mean to Glide,
But you ought to be bride.
True, ali men have self-conceit,
But beneath those vests 30 neat
Often beats heart Of gold,
At least that's what I've been told.
Really, don't mean to find
Fault If you've made up your mind,
But you're missing quite slice
Of cake wei filed with spice.
All who'ye tried it know tits true,
But they like it Why can't you?
Really, would not reproach, Z
But think you do encroach
Upon MANS peculiar right,
When you calmly sleep at night,
Never walked by baby's cry
OF "Paregoric, ere die!"
Really, would not upbrafd,
But I'd make all enflade
Right straight through some fellows heart
You can borrow Cupid's dart,
And know it viii be fun,
If he happens not to run.
What! you say You do abhT
All things that pertain to war?
Surely am quite obtuse,
Else your meaning is abstruse.
Who said war, I'd like to know;
Does it with matrimony go?
Really, now, to objurgate,
see, full well, it is too late.
I meant to paint the joys, the bliss,
OF married life-and only this
Not thinking you would sneer, and seOff,
And smell the battle afar of.
Wei, have only this to say,
Should you grow eager for the fray,
A solemn things a marriage VOW
I hadn't thought of 1t til now
think your good sense will eschewit;
Still I would warn you not to do it.
DON, III. ETTIB ii. HoLTeN.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14

The Putnams are soon topublish Jap
anese romance, translated by Japanese
student of Harvard. The work has a
strongly dramatic plot, and is especially
valuable for the light it throws upon
Japanese life and modes of thought
There will be thirty-eight full-page ILL
ustrations by famous japanese artist.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14

The Standard Oil Company proposes
to change its large wooden-barrel manu-
factory at Pittsburgh into manufacto-
ry of paper barrels.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14

PRINCE GoRTscHAKoFF, of Russia, will
pass the winter at Nice, Italy.
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her presence-but as for Drusilla her
self, she should be so sheltered by his
devotion, SO hedged about by his atten-
lions and tenderness that she could love
no one else.
He would not visit her tomorrow nor
for many days. He would wait until
her mood had changed and she was sub
dued by desire to see him. He had
some power over her that he knew. But
his own will was weakest. He must see
her. He must hold her in his arms, if
| only for moment It was evening,
| two weeks from his last visit. That very
| afternoon Roy Sebert had returned from
a fishing excursion, and at o'clock he
| found Drusilla alone In the brilliantly
lighted parlor. Never had he
seen her SO well dressed, she
was careless about her attire in general.
she had put on her one rich dress, q
myrtle green silk, bought, I think, to
match her emerald ring and necklace,
| Drusilla had persuaded herself that Max
| well would visit her that evening. Oh,
| could she but have known on what q
| fatal errand, she would never have let
| Roy lift her hand to examine the quaint
prevent it, Roy had pressed her hand to
his lips. She snatched it angrily away,
and at that instant the words flashed
through her brain, "God help him who
comes between u.s."
| At Drusilla's command Roy instantly
left the room. He had been gone but &,
moment when she heard the report of a
pistol, and, fearing she knew not what,
she rushed into the hall only to find her
worst fears confirmed. Roy Sebert lay
there upon the floor in last agony, the
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THE SUN FOR 1881.

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be had bni one purpose, and he m5ae q
accomplishing II was unimportaDt. Wiih
Southern ssssionalisraH eliminated fsn
politics, The eouairy 81 oace becomes
Democratic. This must be ayoidsd Not
eesssnt Nth he services Of blatant orators,
without eenseienees, upon tho stump, the
chief executive officer ef the government
must play the partisan in an ofhciai doeu-
meut. to further party supremacy.
There is another point in Mr.. Hayes
message-upon edScaiion--io which We
viii refer al another time. IN recon.
mending universal education, be recon
menas governmental aid. shieh would
soon lead, if rot at The beginping, to ths
OvershadOviog If DOT annihilasion Of The
State systems. This step 10 GENERALIZATION
shoala h rebuked At once.
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The Esw England Divorce Mill.

The Methodisis of Fall River held a union
service on Thanksgiving Day, the Rev. Jas.
H. Nutting, A. NJ, the pastor, preaching
the sermon. Alter pleasantly referring to
Thanksgiving, its origin and observance, he
SAID ! regard all these blessings to which |
have referred as emanating from and attribu.
table TO the home. Whatever strikes at the
home strikes ai the church and through thai
al the government, peEtFey those and there
y no government FeW Of rs realize to what
extent ting divorce buslaess has grown in this
country, particularly when we remember The
fact thnt Roman Catholics and foreigners
generally but rarely secure divorces After
making allowance fur Roman Catholic mar
Flages, the ratio Of divorces to marriages, In
Massachusetts In lses was to 10; Vermont,
! TO Ia; Rhode Island, To Q; aud Connec.
tout, to- The Western Reserve counties
OF Ohio, which are more purely New England
as to their population than aay other section
Of the country, New England not excepted,
make even worse exhibition, the ratio being
here double that Of the rest Of the State. Lake
county being worst Of all, furnishing divorce
for every marriages, the same co0nty being
more thoroughly Yankee than any other IN
Ohio. CoshOcton has only to AZ, aud Gal.
LA to so, the population being foreign aud
Southern with hardly Q Yankee. He then
proceeded 70 charge the Yankee people,
wherever located, with the offense Of seeking
TO destroy the American family through al.
YoTee and worse crimes, and yisdieaied The
tore!ga element among us, saying "Diyorees
are ofrare occurrence among our foreign non
plaiion. During The past twenty five years
the birth rate has decreased about as fsst As
The divorce rslo has increased, and where the
birth rate is lowest-which Il whe Yankees
mott abound the divorce rate Is highest,
There 10 o close connection between a low
birth rate aud high divorce rate, - express.
ing bis belief that "the relation between the
two Is that Of cause and effect, the former be.
ing the cause aud the latter the effect. In
the history II nalions there never has but
three times occurred such breaking 10 Of
the family a. Is nov taxing place among Aha
people Of New England Ilaod -whsa Iie
Greek and Homan empires we're about u
fall. and during The French Revelation of The
last century, when 10000 divorces we're ob.
tained in France IN one and a half years
Bad as this is, when population Is compared
il is not equal TO what is true Of Rhode Island
and Connections Of late years.