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ALL wanting first-class teachers should apply
n at KELLOGG's Edu :ational Ullcc % iasl lith ST.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
Spelling Reform,

Spelling refOrmers can take consider
able encouragement from the success of
the movement in England. There are
in England forty six organizations, many
OF them made up of the best men in the
kingdom. A meeting Of the association
which leads the movement for the pro-
posed reform was held not long ago in
London, and all the schemes for new
spelling, having been duly tabulated and
classified, were presented for considera-
ton by the members. There appeared
to be an almost unanimous agreement
among the proposers of schemes as to
the sounds to be represented, and many
schemes were so nearly alike in principle
as to admit of being grouped and dealt
with together. The association began
the publication Of q journal in July, and
will present the various systems one after
another, for approval or disapproval.
One of the speakers at the meeting of the
association ventured to say that there
was not a single philologist Of the pres
ent generation in England or America
who was not with the spelling reformers
either nominally or in sympathy. This
Is, perhaps, nearly true. Hundreds of
Leading newspapers, both in America
and England, while they acknowledge
all the facts as claimed by the reformers,
feel constrained to wait for something
like unanimity of action. While the
Inter Ocean acknowledges that there are
important reasons for reform, it will con-
tinue In the established methods until a
settled system can be agreed upon.
Until this is done whimsical departure
only tends to confusion. Let the En-
glish and American associations unite in
recommendations for change, not too
revolutionary, but in full view of positive
demands, and we doubt not that multi
tudes will give the reform hearty coop
Grafton. Ocean.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
Patent Flour.

Almost everybody knows of patent
-four, but not everyone understands
what it is. Stripped of technicalities,
this is about the story Of its manufaet-
ure: The best -four used to be made of
winter wheat. Spring wheat yielded
either much less in quantity, or else so
much of the bran got into the -four in
its manufacture that its color was intol-
erably dark. The wheat would be
ground and then bolted. In the refuse
the bran and middlings- would be in
cluded large proportion of the spring
wheat, and this would sell more particu-
larry for feed for horses. Now the best
OF flour, and the most expensive, is made
of this very refuse Of the old-fashioned
process. It all came out Of the discov-
cry of way to draw out the bran. IN
der the new process the wheat is ground
about as before. The first result is an
ordinary flour soldfor expectation. Then
the remainder is taken and put upon
great horizontal sleeves, and while aigta-
ton is going on there an ingenious sys-
tenn of draf is rushing up through, and
carriesof the bran. What is left is the
glutinous portion of the wheat, the most
nutritious and most productive, and out
of this, purified now by the drawing off
OF the bran, we get our new-process
flour. The result of the discovery of the
process has been to make the poor spring
wheat Of Minnesota and upper Wiscon-
sin the most valuable Of grain.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
Clouds.

Nothing In nature is so immaterial
and delicately changing as the clouds.
1t Is worth while to spend day in OBJ
servation, to note what exhaustless pos
slbilities of change lie in a few hours
time: One of the commonest shows of
clouds evolution, and one which seems
to follow a certain law. begins with a
multitude of soft globular figures that
may cover the entire sky these dissolve
into host of finely-mottled fish scales,
then marshal themselves into ranks like
waves of the sea, emerging at last into a
thin, delicate Fabric, like crumpled
muslin.
On still summer day, when great
masses of soft vapor fill the heavens, the
procession OF figures IS a scene of en-
chantment. Stately animals stride past,
the like OF which are never seen again :;
broad-winged birds sail into the west,
never to return /; grand clouds move by
that are turned into mighty chariots on
the horizon fiocks of white sheep troop
leisurely along into other pasture fields
tall towers and castles rise out of shape
lessness into strong symmetry, to dis
solve like visions nameless forms rise,
glide past and vanish into space-until
change seems the law OF the world and
permanence only myth.
When the sun has set, and this dis
solving view OF vapors becomes painted
spectacle, the eye is feasted with color
as the fancy is with form. The slow
dawn of color, which first tints the
clouds edge, then grows into warm
effusion till the whole mass is irradiated,
the rich deepening Of hues, the endless
shades. the subtle fading away of light,
one cloud after another, gray and for
saken, until only golden glow fingers
IN the horizon, is like poem OF sym
phony of the old masters. The effect
stays in the memory long after the de-
tails Of the picture are forgotten.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
A Petrifled Body.

About thirty years since q steamboat
was sunk in one of the Alabama rivers.
and number of her passengers were
lost. On board were several persons,
residents of Kershaw county, South
Carolina-two of them belonging to Cam
den, lady and gentleman, whose bodies
were recovered and forwarded here.
That of the lady was inferred in the
family battle-ground, just outside Of the
town. Two other bodies had been bur-
led there, one of them ninety years ago.
Not long since the graves were opened
in order to renter the bodies in the
cemetery. On reaching the investments
of the lady's body, which had been in
closed in a burial-case, zinc and a box,
all were found partially destroyed but,
to the utter surprise of the workmen,
the body had not passed into corruption,
being nearly perfectly petrifed and as
"white as chalk" as the men said. The
hair on the head was preserved-a part
attached to the head and a portion be-
side it. The body was so heavy as to
require five or six men to remove it, and,
in doing SO, the head was broken off
The slippers on the feet when first seen
appeared perfect, but, in moment,
crumbled, while few of the patterns of
the dress were apparently unchanged.
On opening the other graves in the
same locality there was nothing but a
dark line of earth found of one, and a
few partially decayed bones of the other.
= Utica (N. " Observer,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
The Bloom of Age.

A woman never grows old. Years may
pass over her head, but, if benevolence
and virtue dwell in her heart, she is as
cheerful as when the spring of life first
opened to her view. When we look up
ON good woman we never think of her
age she looks as charming as when the
rose of youth first bloomed on her
cheek. That rose has not faded yet it
will never fade. In her neighborhood
she is the friend and benefactor. Who
does not love and respect the woman
who has passed her days in acts of kind
ness and mercy-who has been the
friend of man and God-whose whole
life has been scene of kindness and
love and devotion to truth? We re-
peat, such woman cannot grow old.
She will always be fresh and buoyant in
spirits, and active in humble deeds of
mercy and benevolence. If the young
ady desires to retain the bloom and
beauty of youth, let her no. yield to the
sway Of fashion and folly; let her love
truth and virtue; and to the close of life
she will retain those feelings which now
make life appear garden of sweets
ever fresh and ever new.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
Stealing AnOther's Comfort.

Any one who has stopped over night
at large hotel has been disturbed in the
small hours by persons walking in the
halls as heavily and carelessly as if it
were midday. Guests who are up late
seem thoughtless of the quiet of those
wrapped in slumber Such conduct is sell
fshness of which any sensible person
ought to bea shamed.
A grave gentleman at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel once complained of it to the genial
clerk. g [ am surprised" he said, " that
you harbor thieves in this house,
"Thieves, sir? Harbor thieves
What do you mean, sir? Explain, if
you please"
81 mean that I had something stolen
from me last night by one OF your
guests"
owe are all exposed to sneak thieves,
SIR"
"Bnt this was not sneak thief. 1t
was guest in the house, sir, and quar-
tered as comfortably as I was"
"This is very extraordinary, sir.
What was stolen from you, sir, and at
what hour?"
The gentleman answered with great
earnestness. cat 2 o'clock this morn
ing some most precious sleep was stolen
from me by one of your guests, and with
q pair Of boots"
Was not this guest one of the meanest
of sneak thieves?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
Andres Prophetic Poem.

During the years 1779 and 1880 Andre
was on duty in New York, and took a
leading part in the social life Of that
city. He accompanied Sir Henry Gin
ton at the capture of Stony Point, June
l, l779, and wrote as aid-de-camp upon
the glacis of Fort Lafayette the terms of
capitulation conceded to the garrison.
He kept a careful diary and frequently
wrote squibs in prose and verse for the
loyalist papers, and in August, 1850,
composed at Elizabethtown burlesque
poem entitled "The Cow Chase" in
three cantos, amounting to seventy
quatrains. The subject was the attack
made by Gen. Wayne upon block
house hear Bulls Ferry, two or three
miles below Fort Lee, in order to drive
In some cattle from Bergen Neck. By a
singular coincidence the last canto OF
this poem was printed in Rivington's
Gazette, Sept. %, 1850, the day of the
poets capture at Tarrytown. The last
stanza is as follows:
And now I've closed my epic strain;
tremble as show it.
Lest this same warrior drover, Wayne,
Should ever catch the poet.
1t happened, singularly enough, that
Gen. Wayne was the commander of the
post at Tappan at the time of Andres
execution. The original of the "Cow
Chase" in Andres autograph, is still
preserved, and underneath the above
quoted lines an American pen has added
the coarse commentary:
When the epic strain was sung.
The poet by the neck was hung.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
How Soon We Are Forgot.

How soon human glory becomes only
a fleeting shadow. But so goes the
world. 1t is a story verified by many
generations. A Chinaman, student of
Confucius, once took it into his head to
travel in Europe. He arrived at Amster-
dam, and at booksellers shop he asked
for the works of the immortal nixiofou.
The bookseller assured him that he had
never heard of the author. "What 4"
said the Chinaman, "have you never
heard of that immortal poet, that light
of the eyes, tnat favorite of Kings, that
rose of perfection? suppose that you
know nothing of the immortal Fifsihihi,
second cousin to the moon?" "Noth-
ing at all said the bookseller. It is an
obvious moral. The world is the book
seller. Alas, the vanity of human fame
I" How few" says Jeremy Taylor, "have
heard of the name of Venepatadino
Regium! He imagined that there was
no man in the world that knew him not {:
how many men can now tell me that he
was the King of Narsinga?"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
An Interesting Puzzle.

Perhaps some of our readers are not
familiar with the following puzzle A
young man asked an old man for his
daughter in marriage. The answer
was:
eco into the orchard and bring in a
parcel of apples. Give me one-half of
the whole number, and the mother one
half of the balance and half an apple
over, and the daughter one-half of the
remainder and half an apple over. and
have one left for yourself, without cut
ting the apple, and then, if she is will
ing, you can have her."
He solved the question and how
many did he bring? Fourteen, as you
can easily prove. The old woman was
to have one-half of the balance. which
would be three and half, and half an
apple over, which would make four ap-
pies for her. There would be three
apples left, of which the daughter was
to have one-half and half an apple over.
which would give her two, and leave the
lover his own, without cutting the
apple"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
The Dinner Hour.

Edward King says in one of his recent
letters that theater-going is becoming
less and less common in Paris, the mod
ern dinner hour, which has pushed its
way along from hour to hour. coming
now at or s p. M, too late for frequent
attendance at the theater, except when
first night makes society sacrifice its
dinner to see and still more to be seen.
AS the received dinner hour grows later
with every generation, it would be inter-
esting to knowwhen thenextcentury will
dine. Perhaps it will take pill of con-
centrated food instead of dinner In order
to leave time for its hourly paper. A
century and half ago in France the
Grand Monarch himself dined at 2 p.
M, and Queer. Elizabeth dined the cent
ury before even earlier. Since then
dinner has passed through each hour,
crossing and p. m. in the last cent
ury. It has already reached 8 p. m.
Probably the twentieth century will take
its pill at midnight.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
MatrimOny i'm Russia.

Ii we may judge from an anecdote III
the Snaolenske'' BOte, says London pa
per, there are parts of the Russian
empire In which it is no easy matter to
get married, owing to the autocratic
willfulness of the Russian clergy. A
schoolmaster in the district of lucknow
was engaged to we'd the daughter of a
landowner in the neighborhood, whose
wealth was not at all prcportionate to
his acres. The bridegroom, bride, and
the parents of the latter called on the
priest of the ladys village, in order to
settle the amount of the wedding fee.
The clergyman fixed it at twenty-five
rubles. Unhappily the brides father
was determined to make show more in
accordance with his ancestral dignity
than with his impoverished condition,
and invited all his kinsfolk and acuuaint-
ance from far and near to attend the GER
emony. The result was that the pro-
cession to the church included no fewer
than eleven carriages, all full of wedding
guests.
When the priest saw this magnificent
preparation he hurried to the bridegroom
and informed him that the fee for a mar
IldSe vi SUCH preGeuSIOHS WOulQ nOb De
twenty-five but 100 rubles. When the
man pleaded his poverty as a school
master, the pastor replied by pointing
to the signs of his father-in-l laws wealth.
The wedding party held consultation,
and, indignant at the priests conduct,
resolved that the whole procession
should drive off to the next village. The
priest outwitted, them, however. His
messenger arrived at his brother cleric's
door long before the numbering coaches,
so that when they reached the church
and asked the price of the sacerdotal
function the parish priest was ready
with the reply-"One hundred rubles p
The procession started again for q
further village, but the messenger had
got there before them, and the priest of
the place could not marry them for less
than 100 rubles. They experienced
similar discontinue, according to the
reports, at no less than four village
churches, and it was only after long
drive across the country that they sue
ceeded in finding a little father who
readily consented to bestow the sacra-
mental benediction of matrimony for the
fee which the lady's own pastor had
originally asked.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
Two Patriarchal AppIe Trees.

In Skowhegan, Me-, are two russell
apple trees; the Oldest was planted in
1852. The tree is seven feet from the
ground to the branches, five in number,
all of which are very large and average
thirty-fve feet in length, covering a
space of ground sixty-three feet in
diameter. In these branches a play
house for children has been built for
half century or more. Anywhere from
the ground to the branches it measures
thirteen and half feet. The tree is
more than four and half feet in diane
ter, and it has been good bearer from
twenty-five to thirty-fve bushels of ap-
pies have been picked from it each year.
But the frost and rain have made a seam
in the branches, and recently one of
them has broken, but the other four are
green and bring forth their fruit in due
season. The other tree, forty-eight
years younger, is sprout of the old
tree. It stands thirty-two feet from the
old tree, and bears the same kind of
apples, is three feet in diameter, and
perfect in every way.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
A Father Who Melted.

A fond father beckoned to his twelve
year-old son to follow him to the wood
shed, and when they had arrived there
he began:
Now, young man, you have been
lighting again! How many times have
l told you that it is disgraceful to
fight ?"
"Oh, father, this wasn't about mar.
bles or anything of the kind" replied
the boy.
81 can't help it. As Christian man
it Is my duty to bring up my children to
fear the Lord. Take off your coat.
g, But, father, the boy I was fighting
with called me Names"
Cant help it. Calling names don't
hurt anyone. Off with that coat %
He said 1 was the son of wire
puller."
'What what's that?''
And he said you was an office
hunter"
"What! what loafer dared make that
assertion %
1t made me awful mad, but I didn't
say anything. Then he called you a
hireling."
Called me a hireling Why, I'd
like to get my hands on him !'' pulled
the old gent.
Yes, and he said you was political
ickspittle.
"Land O gracious ! but wouldn't I
like to have the training of that boy for
about five minutes p wheezed the old
man, as he hoped around.
81 put up with that" continued the
boy, "and then he said you laid your
pipes for Office and got left by large
majority. couldn't stand that, father,
and SO sailed over the fence and licked
him bald-headed in less'n two minutes
Thrash me if you must, father, but I
couldn't stand it to hear you abused by
one of the malignant opposition
"My son." said the father, as he felt
for half dollar with the one hand and
wiped his eyes with the other, "you
may go out and buy you two pounds of
candy. The Bible says it is wrong to
fight, but the Bible must make allow
ancei Oh political campaigns and the vile
ISLANDERS of the other party. I only
brought you out here to talk to you, and
now you can put on your coatsand run
along"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
Romance of q Violin.

The history of musicians and singers
is often a romance and a dizzy ascent
from the depths of poverty to the heights
OF wealth and luxury. One of these mu-
sicians, already on the first rounds of
the golden ladder, is Theresa Tua, a
young Italian girl. She is ID years old,
and yet has already taken the first prize
for the violin at the Paris Conservatory.
She had twenty-four competitors from Is
to % years of age, but received the prize
by the unanimous consent of nine of the
best masters in Paris. The success of
this musical prodigy is due chiefly to her
father, bricklayer of Turin. He earned
30 cents day, but out of this sum, by
laying aside l cent daily, saved 81 and
bought an old violin Without in
struction, and with only his natural
love of music to guide him, he finally
succeeded In playing 1t number of tunes.
The long evenings after his daily toll
were passed thus In digging, as it were,
from the violin the melodies that he re-
membered. At last, music mad, he
placed the violin and the bow in the
hands OF his little daughter 6 years
old. and said: "Do as I do" The
child obeyed, and was soon able to play
far better than her father. The indie
fatigable bricklayer then said to his
wife, "You must learn the guitar"
"But I have no guitar, and I cannot
play" These objections were useless,
and the mother, urged on by her mex
orable and music-loving husband, could
at last play a discreet accompani-
ment to the violin of Theresa. The
three then went from city to city
playing in the cafes and hotels, and
the father saved money enough to take
them to Paris. A lady of Nice gave
him letter to Monsieur Massart, Di-
rector of the Conservatory, who immedi-
ately perceived the astonishing talents
of the child. Here begins the romance
of the story, for the father had no more
money, and how was the little family to
live during the four years necessary for
Theresa's instruction? Monsieur Mas
sart, like Aladdin in the story, rubbed
his golden lamp, and ten obedient gen.
tlemen responded by giving him each
Sc monthly for his proteges. The re-
suit of their iberality and of Monsieur
Massart's instruction is that the ex-
bricklayer Tua has been offered by an
enterprising American the expenses of
himself, his wife and the young violinist,
for period of five years, and 10000
beside. He, however, thinks it is not
enough, and hesitates to accept the
offer.-Lettey from Rome.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-24
PITH AND POINT,

EVEN the LATEST boy can catch lick
ing.
The iron horse has but one ear-the
engineer.
HANDS wanted on boys pants" is
the daily advertisement in the newspa-
pers. Twas always thus from childhood's
hour.
You never saw my hands as dirty as
that" said petulant mother to her lit
tie girl. "No, but your ma did," was
the reply.
AN old farmer said of his clergyman,
whose sermons lacked point, "He's a
good man. but he will rake with the
teeth upward! |"
HE farmer understands human ma
ture who said: eff you want your
boy to stay at home, don't bear too hard
on the grindstone when he turns the
crank"
The jewel of servant girl is the one
who hangs all her mistress embroidered
underwear on that portion of the line
most conspicuous to the neighbors'
eyes.
''CAN dogs find their way home from
a long distance?" says an exchange.
It's according to the dog. IF it's one
you want to get rid of, he can find his
way home from California. IF it's good
one, he's apt to get lost if he goes
around the corner.
CARE animals color blind?" asks
scientific journal. Well, our opinion is,
If that querist were to put on red shirt
and undertake to go across lot contain
ing bull, he could most satisfactorily
answer that question without submitting
it to the press Waterloo Observer.
''I CAN'T tell for the life of me-" said
an old farmer at the White mountains
to a party Of city visitors, "what We fell
lers see up here to draw We. For my
part, these alfred hills have been the
worst things we've had to contend with.
Still, it's all right if We like it, we're glad
to see ye; only it's mighty funny"
ROWLAND, aged 8 (noticing scar on
the hand Of 1oateaJamilias, from a per-
cussion-cap splinter) elbow did you
hurt your hand, papa?" Pr was
shooting yesterday" R." What did
you shoot?" P.-"Well, I shot and hit
a target" R." And did the target bite
your fnger?"
"WHY, Bridget" said her mistress.
who wished to rally the girl, for the
amusement of her company, upon the
fantastic ornamenting of plate of but
ter. "Why, Bridget, did you do this
You're quite an artist; how did you do
it?" "Indade, mum, it was myself that
did it, " replied Bridget. "Isn't it prit-
ty, mum? I did it with your fne-tooth
comb, num-"
A TALL, slab-sided Yankee, who
strolled down Manhattan beach last
Monday, on seeing the bevy of beauties
disporting in the waves, burst into fit
OF enthusiasm. 'Je-ru-sa-lem (! if that
don't jest remind me Of something good
we have to hum" "What is that p re-
marked friend, who heard him.
"What is it?" said Jonathan, smacking
his lips :; sc 'lasses in WATER